The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - Jimmy Pardo (The Adam and Dr. Drew Show Classics)
Episode Date: March 4, 2025Adam and Drew are joined by podcasting pioneer and all around hilarious guy Jimmy Pardo for a discussion about podcasting, depression and the inability to waste. Jimmy and Adam also commiserate over ...their frustation at people not being able to do things the way they do them. Later they take calls on incompatible genitalia, complications from scoliosis and tonsil removal.
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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 on a choice begin a man good to see you Dr.
Drusky, Mr. And Jimmy Pardo hi good to see you wow that was high-pitched that was higher pitch than I anticipated that was
very
Hi, guy. Yeah, I'm not very unhappy with it. Let's try to go. I out i'll bring it go ahead well i'll roll into it by saying hi to drew first that
way we'll have a good
well i was kind of stumble into it
uh... good see you doctor drew an afternoon sir
and welcome to show jimmy part of a how you guys doing
still ahead of the line and i would know not unhappy
but not satisfied really
how i mean listen i'll tell Listen, I'll tell you why.
I'll tell you why.
Because the first one caught you off guard.
You were up a couple octaves.
And then the second one, I think you were up in your head.
Well, there's no question about it.
That's me at every audition in this town.
I'm on my head and I fail.
You put him there.
I don't even feel bad.
No, no.
But what I'm saying is, when you do-
All the notes just on his hello.
When you work, you know what I mean?
The hardest thing to do is when the guy just says, you're just walk the cameras is gonna be at your back, and you're just gonna walk
You just keep on a seat and all said that you're in your head. I don't know. How do I walk you wear my arms?
Yeah, yeah, what one arms folded the other one's up there ass creak crease. You know and you're like I don't know what okay
Oh, I'm saying that's probably me
But yeah, all of a sudden you you're up in your head about walking sure and the thing you do every day all day all of a
Sudden just becomes stilted and
awkward.
So let's just try it one more time.
You want to do it a third time.
All right.
I say one more.
You say a third.
That's...
Well, it would be the third, for keeping track.
Let's try it again.
Hey, welcome to the show.
Good to see you, Dr. Drew.
Hey, Adam.
I'm excited to see Jimmy Pardo on the show today.
How do?
Let's use the second one okay Jimmy
Pardo we're gonna cut that you're gonna use the second hello we're just fucking
around oh yeah has himself podcast it's been jeez I don't know. You've got to be one of the first guys. March 2006.
March 2006.
Wow.
There was a time I used to battle it out
at the top of iTunes.
It was the Onion, Me, and I think there was one more.
And we were like the top three.
We would circle around each other.
Now, I'm lucky if I make the top 100.
How many podcasts were
there to your knowledge or on iTunes or wherever I mean there's no way to really
know this but in 2000 March of 2006. Your radio show was it would be reissued as a
podcast every day if I'm not mistaken so you had one but for the most part it was
I don't know I'm gonna guess 72 that seem high seem low. Well there's 250,000 on iTunes now. There were 72 at the time. I'm
gonna stand by my number. No it's unbelievable never not funny. Yeah. I've
done it a few times. You did you were kind enough to join us in studio and
then you were part of our smile train charity show that we did back, uh, I believe you were on 2011's.
Jimmy, uh, is gonna be, well, Rooster Teeth Feathers, right?
That's, that's, that's, I hit rock bottom at Rooster Teeth Feathers.
June 7th through the 9th, Sunnyvale, California.
Yeah.
Um, now I do believe you, if you park yourself somewhere in, uh, San Francisco,
you have to take a bridge over there.
But maybe that was, oh maybe I was going from Berkeley to Sunnyvale.
I figure out what bridge you take to get there.
It wasn't the Golden Gate, but I don't know.
I just stay right down the street from there.
Oh, in the Stainton Sunnyvale.
I fly into San Jose.
Yeah.
And then I just drive in.
Yeah.
I, that place has been around for a million years it has it's got a lot of history
And then I go and muck it up once a year the the only
Show business connection I ever had was my grandmother somehow knew the woman that ran that club
I can't even recall her name the woman that owns it currently or the woman that used to own it
I well I'm gonna go used to okay. Yeah, do you remember her? She had she hated me. I used to do an opening line where I would say it's nice to be here
I'm gonna I'm gonna muck this up I haven't said it in ten years but I used
to say something about it. We'll get another take and just slug it in.
I used to say it's like this is it's gonna be I'm gonna be saying that quite a bit
tonight just to convince myself this is a shit gig who we can this is a shit gig
on comedy next to a tire shop. Right. And she called my agent the very next day if he says it again we're
firing them right we can't have we worked hard on this club you're still a
shithole next to a tire shop right and I do it every club I go to it's the
opening line it sets the character you're dumb right how do you want a
comedy club and be that dumb well it's funny it amazing. It's the San Mateo Bridge, you say Wes?
Yeah, that's right.
I literally wanted to drive off of that bridge as I was leaving that club.
You had a tough time?
It's the only time, I didn't even have a tough time.
I had like a non-time.
This is a long time ago, right?
Yeah, it's the only time I contemplated suicide.
No, I remember this story.
I didn't realize that's what you're talking about. That was all
20 years ago. Yes, I had somehow
Decided that I couldn't get any traction in LA
Doing stand-up because it was all just stand in line open mic
I needed a club, you know, like I need my own club to work out of you know, 20 years local
Yeah, more more than that. It was it was yeah, it was probably
1989 1990 and I I was like I was living with my
stripper girlfriend and
from Hounds to Hounds low Houndslow England yeah and in a little
crappy apartment in North Hollywood and I was I had this idea that I was going
to go to San Francisco and and like find some club and like make it my own you
know like work out every night
Like I just knew I need a repetition. I just three minutes every other week standing in line
You know to open mics I need I needed stage time, you know
And I always heard about these guys that had their own local clubs
They'd get up and work out all the time and stuff and that's what I was gonna do and I couldn't do it in LA
Mm-hmm, and I packed up my
the time and stuff and that's what I was going to do and I couldn't do it in LA. Then I packed up my Datsun mini pickup truck and I told my girlfriend.
With the bench, with the stool seats?
No, those were dinette seats.
This was the next one.
That was my Mazda.
I said, I'm going out there.
I'm going to crash over at my friend Zeb is renting a house in Berkeley with like four
dudes. Z was am Sam
No, that's um get um get I was saying I said how old the guy's ebb and where did he grow up?
Because I know what's ebb you can't be two Zeb's in the world. There are a couple. I know one
There's one he grew up in North Hollywood. That's not my guy. Yeah, see well
It's a biblical thing I think is that this guy was outside of Chicago
my guy. Yeah, see? It's a Biblical thing, I think. Is it? This guy was outside of Chicago.
Zeb. I don't know. Played guitar. He's got to play guitar, rhythm guitar. Couldn't do lead, wasn't good enough. No, no. Yeah, that's what I hear when I hear rhythm. You hear guys that's
not good enough to play lead? Then when I hear bass, I hear not good enough to play rhythm.
Play guitar, sure. And then when I hear drums, I hear not good enough to play bass. And then
at a certain point, we just keep going. Then you're the manager. Then you're manager. So I was going to crash there and get my shit together and my grandmother, this is the only
act of nepotism that the Corollas have ever partaken in.
My grandmother knew the old Dom that owned that club somehow.
I don't know how she knew her, but she literally called her and said hey my grandson's coming out your way like on a
Wednesday night could he do ten minutes or something and she's yeah, okay, right and I remember
so I built into this for
For weeks for months and then I went up
and I did ten minutes of sort of who cares comedy in front of a crowd that was like, who gives a shit? And it wasn't, you know, tepid response. It wasn't, it wouldn't make a good scene
in a movie. There was no booing or anything, but I just left the stage going, well, that,
that was a four and a half, maybe a five. So what was it? Was it the buildup that,
because then you say you contemplated suicide, was it the buildup that you thought it was going to
be better? Why, why? I was driving across the bridge on the way back and it was pouring rain.
I was in my pickup truck and I realized I'm just going to have to pack my shit and go back to LA.
And when I go back to LA, I'm going to have to move back in my crappy apartment and beg for my construction job.
My back, you know, and I've of my dreams of sort of San Francisco and me becoming the Robin Williams of the town and
toast of the city and all it just I just realized I wasn't any good and this wasn't gonna work out and I just
Gonna drive back to LA and I just remember just going this fucking sucks
I was right at the top of the bridge. It was just pouring rain
I just thought I just pull that wheel hard to the right
I don't have to deal with my girl the look on my girlfriend's face when I come back through the door.
And she's banging some other guy
because she's a snipper.
Well, he'd be banging her, but yeah.
Yeah, that's what.
You know what I meant.
I know what you meant, yeah.
I know exactly what you mean.
But thank God.
Thank heavens.
Thank heavens I did not pull on that wheel.
So Jimmy, you grew up where and started doing comedy.
South Side of Chicago.
Oh, the guy, yeah, playing rhythm guitar.
I was the lead singer of the rock and roll band.
Zeb didn't even make the band.
Didn't even let Zeb in that outfit.
And then I did stand up on the South Side of Chicago.
My first one was in Merrillville, Indiana.
It was my first time on stage.
You strike me as a guy who, if I was casting a comedian I would cast you.
Would you really?
Yeah.
I would go taller, maybe thinner, maybe a little less charactery.
No, no, no.
I'm saying that, that, no, no.
See, to me that's, you're a comedian.
You like this.
You're a comedian material, yeah.
You're taller.
Yeah.
Really.
You know what's funny is I made my living.
But everything about you, I'm not just, I'm not talking about, I'm not talking about like physicality per se.
Well I appreciate it. I'm going to spin this complimentary I guess.
Yeah, no it is.
You know in the early 2000s I made my living hosting game shows and game show pilots and I got a few on the air.
And so now when everybody wants to do like some sitcom on Disney, hey get a game show host.
They always go well, cast Jimmy Pardo.
Right. I don't look like a game show host. I am a game show host. They always go, well, cast Jimmy Pardo. Right.
And I don't look like a game show host.
I am a game show host, if that makes sense.
Yeah, no, no.
You know what I mean?
I'm not guy smiley.
You know what I mean?
No, but you do.
Look, you are, your cadence, your tone,
like you could do that.
It's in my bones.
It's in your bones.
And speaking about bones, Jimmy.
Really?
Yeah.
Dropped 30 pounds.
Really?
I did.
It's a big deal.
How tall are you?
Listen, I'm not comfortable talking about that on the air.
I'm 5 foot 4 and 1 half.
He's tall.
I may be tall in that, but first.
No, not.
I may be 5'5".
I may be, but I say 5'4 for humor.
Hold on.
What?
You're taller than that, aren't you?
No.
My personality makes you think I'm taller
No, I'm Chris Max Pat. How tall are you Mike five three? Oh, yeah, he's a circus freak. Oh really?
Yeah, I can't even listen you see that guy come in you're thinking you're gonna see a show
I'm taller than that. Are you five four? I think yeah, I'm like five three five four
I'm I stop measuring got too depressing. Oh, it said I did that my cock
I stopped measuring, it got too depressing. It's sad.
I did that in my cock.
How are you doing?
Wait a minute.
He kept measuring his balls.
Are you an inch taller than Chris Max Pat over there?
I'm 5'4.5", so I don't know.
Whatever he comes in at, I'll be taller then.
Wow, how do you present as so much taller?
Well, anyway, so to take 30 pounds off a 6-2 frame is a lot of weight in you
Who weren't fat in my mind?
I never thought of you as fat what where'd all the weight loss come in a lot of it was here a lot was
right on the neck and then I had a lot around the
A lot was right there, right in the neck. And then I had a lot around the, what's that, the spare tire they call it, I guess.
I put 10 pounds on.
I was 157.
The heaviest I ever was 167.
And I got down to 137.
This time I got down to 127.
And how, wow.
I looked, it was in my high school.
Drew was infuriated with this conversation.
No, I'm infuriated because H.O. Land is saying I have to come on the telephone on this very second.
Well, listen, Drew, first off, stop pouting on there.
I'm so pissed. That pisses me off so much.
You got to run H.O. Land right now?
Hey, Drew.
That's what they want.
Is there a Geordiarius controversy?
Who knows what?
Hold on a second. Let me say something. A couple things. Remember when we used to do
Love Line and producer Anne would come in on Thursday night when we're leaving for the car and go,
we got to get this liner for this affiliate station.
And I'd go, well, we'll do it Sunday when we come in.
And she'd go, no, no, they need it.
No, they need it.
Hold on, listen to me.
Yeah.
They need it tomorrow morning.
And I'd say, well, if they needed it for tomorrow morning And it was that important to them. They should have fucking sent it to you Monday not Thursday night
That's not on me. Mm-hmm. That's on them. I'm leaving and next time
We'll send the message that if you really need it for Friday morning, and it's super important
Then you get it to us on Monday and you have it but it's the same thing this could be Jamie Les Mittle
they need me they're waiting on the air
get the fuck out of here listen I got Jimmy Pardo he's a pro
it's a pleasure
don't complain
I hope to God
well don't be put upon and do it just don't do it or be all right
Drew likes these it's a drama
he likes the drama he's a drama who's he gonna talk to it that wolf blitzer
he's over there a headline on CNN proper he's HLN what Drew does is he does
everything that everyone tells him to do but then he goes to his room he's a lot
like he's a lot like a woman after being date raped.
When it's happening, she's had a couple of Zimas, she was formerly attracted to the guy,
but then there's a certain point when she gets back to her dorm room and just breaks
down to a heap of tears and then she starts beating the pillow and stuff like she realized
at the time didn't really feel victimized later on it like sinks in okay
And that's what happens with drew that's what happens with true
He's he's starting to do it more in real time now
But then later on he gets pissed off like someone else come up to us at an airport and go
What makes you think you're qualified to give all the answers?
They'll go I I don't feel like I'm qualified. I I to help him and I'm like, fuck off, cunt.
And the old lady will take her wheelchair and go the other direction.
But, or sometimes it's a stroke cane, it's not always a wheelchair.
But the point is this, then later on that night, Drew will be like, I can't believe
that woman came up to us and he starts getting retroactively angry and insulted.
And I'm like, well next time don't react to the time don't get nice
don't fuck off right then and there so
droves that he's a but he's a doctor he's got to have more bedside manner than
that you're a you're a jackass comic i mean complimentary i am that's how i'm
taking your lot of said what you want how how did you scrub off all that way
uh... i went i kinda went crazy. Here's what ended up happening.
I did a pilot.
When did it happen?
No, you know what?
We got to when the Conan we went to tonight show ended.
I kind of had nothing going on because I work over at Conan.
Right.
And I had nothing going on.
So I just sat on my here's the this the truth.
I said I spent an entire month and a half watching the box set of Miami Vice at night
depressed because you can't sleep when you're depressed. I'm not just staring at the box actually watching the box set of Miami Vice at night depressed because you can't sleep when you're
depressed.
Now not just staring at the box actually watching the content.
No, I'm staring at the box.
Oh wow.
Is that depressed?
You've got to see that packaging.
It is outstanding.
I would watch every night I would watch a couple episodes while eating grapes as if I
was you know King, I was going to say King Herod.
Right.
Or King Herod better.
But I was just basically I was just eating grapes and going, King Herod. But I was just basically eating grapes and going, well, it's fruit.
But literally just blowing.
It was my, instead of ice cream, I ate grapes like an asshole.
And so I just started just getting all bloated.
And then I would watch, I literally was the cliche, I would watch, what's that show, The
Biggest Loser.
I'd watch that while eating a pizza.
It's like, ah, look at these assholes.
Now, where was your wife at the time?
Well, during the Miami Vice, she was anywhere but there.
She was avoiding that scene.
Sure.
Probably, you know, she was asleep like a normal person.
And The Biggest Loser, she would be having dinner too,
but she would eat one slice, and I would eat the other 19.
It's got to be weird, though, like when she's, you know,
with her friends hashing things out,
and they're talking about, you know, with her friends, hashing things out and they're talking about,
you know, going on heroin binders and, and, and whoring and it's like Jimmy's taken to
watching Miami Vice and eating grapes.
Yes, it's, I stopped drinking in 99.
So that was, that was my first rock bottom and this was my second rock bottom, was the
great Miami Vice Don Johnson episode of 2010.
So yeah, so then I was watching Biggest Loser and admittedly went a little crazy and I started,
I was like, well you know what, again, cliched, if they could do it, I could do it.
So I then started running a mile in the morning and a mile at night.
And then at first it was just I was running a house length and then walking right right I had no stamina at all right and then you
know now I just you know now I ran you know three and a half miles yesterday
and I built up I enjoy it I've gotten to the point where I enjoy it yeah no
listen I every hmm every story that that that it mirrors yours is, you know, people just go, I go,
wow, man, what'd you do? And they go, I stopped drinking soda and I started moving.
Like, I just started moving. The notion that, you know, at last count there were
two billion diet books on Amazon and that if you ever check the top 10 on Amazon, four will be diet books, notion
that it is one of the biggest no duh.
It speaks to our narcissistic wiring, which is I do want to lose weight, but I still want
to watch Crockett and Tubbs and eat these grapes.
And it's like, well, that's not the way, that's not our deal.
If you would like to lose the weight, put the grapes down.
And get away from them as quickly as possible.
And run a mile around in a pack.
And take it easy on the soda, and take it easy on the junk, and start moving.
And we all know it. Everyone knows it.
We just won't do it, and thus another book is sold,
because we're trying to skirt it like it's the IRS.
For reasons that make no sense.
I mean, it's the easiest thing.
It costs nothing to run around your neighborhood for a half hour.
Well, it makes all the sense in the world if you are narcissistic and your society is
sort of out of problems and you've built a culture on trying to get around things.
Well, isn't that everything?
We always try to get around it.
You know, in fairness to me and to your listener, in 1998 I lost that first punt.
When I was 167, I got down to 137.
I was on what is now banned, metabolife.
I took those pills.
Right.
I remember those, yeah. And I didn't exercise at all.
I was like, well, exactly what you just said.
I'm gonna go around this.
I'm not gonna do the easy way of running or exercise.
I'm gonna take this magic pill.
And it worked.
Granted, I was on basically cocaine
for three months of my life.
Well, the hard way is running, and that's the tough part,
but that's the part that you need,
because the, you know, hey, this is chocolate, but it's dietetic.
It's like, no, you need to not eat chocolate.
Or just eat a little bit, run a little bit more.
Well, that's the problem. Eating a little bit is the magic.
Like, to this day, I can't eat one piece of pizza.
I'm going to eat the other nine, but I'm going to go and run,
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Yeah, I had, there's nothing worse than the taking in the calories and not enjoying the calories feeling like tell me if you've ever
done this this drives me insane i've had it happen a few times in my life you'll go all right i'm
gonna have a nice piece of apple pie i'm gonna put it in the microwave i'll drizzle a little water
on it with my finger a bit like the pope you know like i'll anoint this pie with a little shot. The other thing where I put my hand under the spigot, I get a little and I do that.
Yeah, I now dub thee Sir Warmth of Pippin'.
And I, you know, do that, and then, you know, microwave
22 seconds, because I'm efficient.
You know what I mean?
I don't go down for the zero.
And thing comes out, I take my first bite,
and the fucking phone rings.
And then I go, oh, that's my mom.
And I don't know about, you know, or whoever.
And I go, yeah, how you doing? And I'm looking at the pie. And I'm talking, yeah, and then I go that's my mom Or whoever and I go yeah, how you doing and I'm looking at the pie and I'm talking again
And then they draw you into something. I don't know what her problem is you can't listen
Yeah, all right. I'm gonna see if I can I'm gonna now she's blabbing
I'm gonna get a bite in you know and next you know you hang up the phone you're gonna
I'm gonna eat that pie you look and it's gone
And you know I ate the fucking pie
That was 12 minutes of my fucking life. I ate the fucking pie. Yeah, yeah. It was the worst.
It was the second of it.
Twelve minutes of my fucking life I have a pie in me now.
Yeah, yeah.
And I was just talking to my mom the whole time about her fucking friend Bertha.
And I'm fucking pissed.
I got nothing here.
That is wildly unsatisfying.
I did that.
I did a mangreia.
That's my signature drink. I did my mangria tasting, signing, bottle, whatever,
and I was racing a car and I was doing a show that night
and I was blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
and some guy brought some pizzas over.
But I didn't have any time to eat.
What I did was I stood up, I took pictures,
I signed mangria bottles and in between I'd lean over
and take a bite of pizza.
I looked down, ate five pieces of pizza pizza I've no recollection of it right
fucking the worst calories I've ever received. The other day I had a piece of cheesecake and it was like
you know what I'm gonna have dessert today I'm gonna have a piece of cheesecake
and you know what it wasn't good cheesecake but I ate the entire thing so
like I was almost like I was chasing the dragon of trying to remember a time I
enjoyed cheesecake right right the whole goddamn thing, this will be good.
And then afterwards, like, I just ate an entire cheesecake and it wasn't satisfying.
Well, the thing, the portion thing, that is something that is, that is, along with some
form of exercise that you can tolerate.
But I will say this about the portion thing.
That is something that is sort of overlooked.
I mean, I know, you know, dietitians and stuff bring it up, but we get a lot into what you're eating and easy on the carbs and blah, blah, blah.
You can sort of eat whatever you want, but don't gorge, go small.
And if you think about it and do think about this, like.
When you order out and you get some
Chinese food you know you can taste it already you know and you're gonna get
the shrimp and the pork fried rice and all that kind of shit and you do
yourself up a plate of it and you'll always you always you're kind of your
little extra generous with it and you sit down and you eat it and then you go
alright and I'm gonna get a little more of that sesame chicken. But if you just stop at that point right there,
you go, you know what, I ate dinner.
That was dinner.
I'm full, I am.
But I want some more of that sesame chicken,
but that's the point, just stop then.
You did it, you ate, you piled it on, and now you're done.
And the sesame chicken's sitting over on the island
over there, four feet away, leave it alone.
Yeah, you know, I'm very guilty of that. If you if you whatever you put in front of me, I'm going
to eat it. If you give me a large popcorn, I will eat it till it's gone. But if you give
me a small, I'm happy with that. Right. And that's that finish whatever's there because
I'm addictive to whatever that's just well, did you grow up without or yeah, I think so.
I think a push came to shove. I would say that. I grew up desperate and thus I am, you know, the toughest thing for me, Drew, you go, we'll
talk about your HLN for a second.
I know they're going to pull me back out of here.
Oh, shut up.
Don't complain.
What's going on?
Is something breaking?
What's breaking?
Nothing's breaking.
That's why I'm here.
Of course nothing's breaking.
That's why I never-
There's something breaking, but I have nothing to say about it.
Can you get the city? Can you get the city that's breaking in?
Never show up.
What's breaking?
Is it Phoenix?
Is it Cleveland?
Is it Oklahoma?
Phoenix.
It's Phoenix.
So nothing.
Oh, it's a Jodie Arias thing?
Of course.
Oh, okay.
Listen, there's going to be a...
This should be a class action lawsuit against all men who she hasn't killed who said, look,
you've destroyed my life, you've ruined my marriage.
My wife, we used to have, we were partners, we weren't, and then she got tied up in your
thing and started eating grapes and watching Mammy Flies.
Hey, so what the fuck were we talking about?
I will address it with this answer.
I had a real brother and at the time I had three step brothers and the five of us would
go out and we would get a large pizza and then Basically you would have to fight for whatever pizza you were at
So now if I get a pizza, I'm eating the whole goddamn thing. Yeah, like so it is that it's as a kid
I could have three now. I'm gonna have it all I grew up
Desperate and desperate and deprived deprived
And you had to eat pine cones and I was super hungry
I was super hungry all time in a crazy appetite and ran around all eat pinecones. And I was super hungry. I was super hungry all the time. I had a crazy appetite and I ran around all the time.
But here's how I am.
You've done this.
You go, Drew, you tell me how you would do with this.
You go and you play Squanto's Retreat Connecticut.
You're doing Atlantic City.
You're doing one of these casinos.
And when you walk in, they give you casino bucks. And it's this,
it's comical because it's me, Mike August and Mike Lynch. And these are the three dudes on the planet
who can't throw away anything. And they're not hoarders, but they're like me. Now I got 300
bucks worth of casino bucks. And they each get 100 bucks as the guys to
travel with me.
Now we have 500 dollars worth of casino bucks but it's 6 in the evening, the show's at 9
at night and we're meeting at the lobby at 5 a.m. to go to the Philly airport and get
the hell out of there.
So now we got 500 bucks worth of casino bucks, cannot be used for tipping, cannot be used
for gambling.
And you can't just go buy
yourself a sweater at the golf shop. And with casino bucks, you have to use it. So now they
have a P.F. Chang's. So now we go in there. And we got in my mind, we have to order $500
worth of fucking food. I'm not leaving 250. Now, I don't if I could give our waitress
a $250 tip. never think about it again.
But the idea that this money's going back down the drain or whatever it is.
Then Mike orders a whole bunch of like, shrimp fried rice and noodles and stuff and I'm pissed.
Don't bulk up on the carbs.
You're fucking wasting money on the carbs.
Get stuff with lobster in it and stuff.
It's more expensive and it's protein, it's blah, blah, blah.
Then I go, look, you order a cocktail,
whatever comes in a pineapple,
I want it to come in a virgin.
That's how expensive I want that.
Then we're sitting there and a couple of drinks come over.
It's like, that's from the table over there.
They're big fans.
Like, no.
We don't want theirs.
We don't want theirs.
This is out of Curb Your Enthusiasm enthusiasm right like I don't want their
drinks in there like well sure it'd be insulting no no no you don't get it for
admission buying them a drink I'm buying there you go where there's a great move
because the are dim-witted waitress points at the guy in the red sweater and
says it's that couple but it's the other guy in the red sweater that's two feet away that's that couple and she just sort of vaguely points in that direction
doesn't say it's not them it's them too. Then that couple gets up and walks into the dining
room and I follow them but it's the wrong couple and I'm explaining I don't want their
drink and they have no idea what I'm talking about. Brutal. So so eventually I find the
couple and I'm like I'm sending you over a drink and and I do not want your drink
And they're like well we closed out our tab and we're leaving now. No, you know you're not you're sitting down drink this drink
We'll drink that get a fault do a butt funnel your butt chug this shit on you you're doing it
I don't care. I'm gonna your sobriety have sweetheart crying River
You're getting a Don Julio and and that's how I'm wired
Like I got to you guys wired that way a
Little bit. I'm that way with a lot of things though cuz I you know, I'm desperate for food
Well, I was you know, that was the screws were put to me on everything remember but food food not so much around
Yeah, it was around when you're a kid
Yeah, there wasn't that desperation for food
But I but there was that well if if we and if we have $100 to spend, you're going to spend and you're
going to eat it.
You would never leave anything on the table.
Oh, my God.
I mean, it's insane, right, when you see people just sort of leaving three ribs on a plate.
No, they're there.
What are you doing?
What are you doing?
Fitters those up.
Cow, pig gave its life for that thing.
Go get them.
I can't take the waste cosmically
It's not even the the financial part of it. I just it and in a weird way
I wish I wasn't the way I am on the other hand
I wish other people weren't the way they are like I I walked
It happens to me all the time. I I shot a TV pilot last week
I of course was the last person on the set because well, you know
Why shouldn't I be I ain't setting the shit up?
but I walked we're filming in a house and I walked into this house at noon everyone else had been there since 8 in the
morning and
Grips and tech guys and camera guys and there are 80 people buzzing around that place and I just walked into the the back door
And I looked up Porchlight was on and I just walked into the back door and I looked up and the porch light was on.
And I just looked up and I went, why is this on?
And then I said, huh?
I said, why is the porch light on?
And it was like, you know, it was last week, it was 104 degrees and the sun was overhead.
It was like, no, no, no, I don't know.
I said, well, shut it off and shut the switch off.
And I realized 80 people walked in and out of that place.
Nobody went, why is that light? I used to show up last to the man show?
it was a two-story building there are a hundred people working in it the porch light would be on and
The receptionist would walk past it and open the place everyone who walked in would walk right past there's one door
And you have to walk past the light bulb that's lit up
While the sun's out and I would give long-winded speech and everyone's like, how do all of
you walk past this light that's a little bit, the switches, as soon as you walk in the door,
the switch is right there.
It's like walk in sitting right there.
How come?
And everyone's like, I don't know.
I didn't know it was on.
It's like, well you see it.
No, I didn't.
It's like it's literally a light bulb.
Listen, you're talking to a guy where, you know, I go to therapy every Tuesday and talk
about why can't people do everything the way I do it.
That's Adam's therapy.
Is it really?
Is that the same thing?
It's like, why do you leave your locker door open?
Close the locker door at the gym.
Why is it open, you animal?
Why are you parking next to my car when every other spot is available?
Why do you need to park right next to me?
Do things the way I do it!
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I saw a guy I have to demonstrate this I saw a guy when I was at Vegas at a nice
hotel going down used the gym went took a schritz spritz a schritz what took a
sauna took a took the steam room got, walked into the common bathroom area,
you know, the big, you know, where they have the eight sinks lined up and the giant mirror
and the barbersol and use their razors if you like.
Guy totally naked.
I just will demonstrate.
So he's shaving in front of the mirror.
He's nude.
He's nude.
No towel around.
No towel around.
The 40-something-year-old dude, completely naked.
He's going to shave.
He just took a steam bath or whatever.
And here's... I will use that stool over there as the countertop and tell you exactly
what he was doing.
You narrate.
You're correct.
All right.
Adam's walking over to the stool.
Mirror.
Mirror.
He got the mirror.
Countertop.
That's the countertop.
Oh, we're taking a picture of this.
Nude. No. No. Nude. Oh, we're taking a picture of this. No, no.
Oh, that's nice. He has one foot up on the countertop, shaving in front of the mirror, with his testicles dragging on the floor.
Dude, ball's hanging.
Testicles on the floor.
But perfect model for our new ball sack air freshener for the car.
Perfect model for that.
Just put in the middle sink.
Why is that allowed why would that I don't
know it's not only why is it allowed but I have two reactions for that guy and
it's the same reaction every time first is I want you put on a mountain and
eaten by crows I want your same yes good news is you don't have to change for
this one I'm gonna cover you with honey I I'm gonna put you on top of a mountain
I'll stake you down and I'll fucking have crows just peck you to there's nothing left of you like that's first is that
Second is I worship at your altar. I want one ounce of this. How do you?
Where does this come from?
I want to be you
Damn comfortable not range it where those from? Not a care in the world.
Strangely enough.
I'm the guy who was in the bathroom stall moments earlier taking a shit but putting
the seat back up so the next guy didn't think I took it.
Doesn't think it's me.
Damn it.
That's me every bath.
If I go to an airplane bathroom, same deal.
Wait, wait, wait.
There's something here about being a comedian.
Oh yeah.
Something in here.
I guess.
Something deep in this.
You're probably right.
Desperation for food, the feeling less than, the mom that's inattentive, and then the
people around them that seem not to comply with your version of the world.
The people that have the huevos, the huevos to act out the way you wish you could.
Not even think about it.
Leave the locker doors open.
The toilet seats down.
Don't leave the light on in the bathroom when it stinks.
Yeah.
Fan going.
Yeah.
What kind of world do we live in?
It's maniacs everywhere.
I think it's people are lost in their own narcissistic world.
And it's up to you guys to bring it out.
Just do not care.
To tell us about it.
You as a guy, with some sort of degree,
and I don't know exactly what it is.
Board certified physician, Dictionary Medicine Specialist. Again, I don't know exactly what it is board certified physician
Again I don't know what doesn't that mean for television I don't know so I bail on it and panic if you're at the gym drew
Yeah, and it's there's nobody in the gym. It's just me and you see me at a locker. Yeah, okay
I'm putting my stuff in that locker
I'm gonna say nine out of nine times the next person will come in the the entire locker room is empty, they will use the locker next to me.
Why is that?
Why is that?
As a guy that understands the brain, you don't know.
That is the one I...
Because I go the other way.
I go a million miles away.
Me too.
Right.
So why does that person come right next to you?
There's patterns to what humans do in group and it's just what they do.
It's just wired into our social souls.
The other one I don't...
A lot of things don't make sense, so we do.
That one I don't get.
There's this one, which just drives me absolutely insane.
Jimmy Pardo, I'm sure, is gonna drive you nuts too.
The guys who, you know, the ketchup has the snap top on it.
The mayonnaise has the snap top.
It literally, they went, look, people
are so pathetic and so lethargic that they will not,
and so uncaring of others, that they will literally
use the mayonnaise that's in the company fridge or whatever,
or the ketchup, and not put the lid back on it.
We're such animals, I'll tell you what, we'll do a snap lid. It'll
be attached to the ketchup bottle. It can never get set aside, lost or anything. And
with one flip of the thumb, it's going to snap shut. When the guy who invented that,
when the guy who invented that thought about it, he must have went, well, this is put an
end to dried ketchup forever. This will never, it's impossible. Escapies from mental
institutions will be the only people that can snap it shut. And now every fridge I open,
it's popped open and you realize, oh my God, we're animals. Hold on a second, I'll tell
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Yeah, so Jimmy, you're with me and us on this one
where you just, you cannot believe what human beings do.
I want everybody to do everything the way that I do it.
Well, I do.
Well, no, no, no, no, listen.
Wanting them to and then being incensed or weirded out by how they actually are two different
things.
You're more on the, I can't believe how people are.
No, I do.
I mean, I go to-
You wish they'd be more like you, but you don't need them to be like you the way Jimmy
does.
Well, it's not, but see, here's what I try to do, and Jimmy, you tell me if you get into
this sometimes with your wife, sometimes with coworkers and things like that, and then society.
There's a movement that's been afoot for a long time, which is, hey man, that's your
opinion.
Hey man, I have my way.
Hey man, that's your way.
No, no, it's not my way, it's the way.
It's the fucking way you're supposed to do it. Everybody, every endeavor is like,
hey, when you swing a golf club,
the golf pro says, keep your head down.
Don't pull your head out.
Hey man, I pull my head out.
No, that's not the way you correctly hit a golf ball.
When you drive on a racetrack, you go wide,
you hit the apex of the turn,
you exit without scrubbing off too much.
That's what they, that's how it's done.
It's not, hey man, this is how, we've turned this thing into
let that individual fuck up the way they fuck things up.
No, there's ketchup, other people use it,
you snap the lid down.
Now, if you purchase the ketchup
and you live in a bachelor apartment
with you and your ketchup,
then you're allowed to do whatever you like
with your ketchup.
I imagine because you're paying for it, you would snap the lid down.
But once the ketchup becomes public property, you have to snap the lid down.
It's not, oh, that's the way Jimmy likes it.
No, that's the way it's meant to be.
That's for the product.
You don't put fucking milk on the roof of your building.
You put it in the fucking refrigerator,
because then it doesn't spoil.
It's not, hey man, this is where I keep my milk.
No, this is it.
I like this Dennis Miller character you're doing
for this guy.
Hey man.
It's a little Sammy Davis.
It is Sammy too.
But I feel, we have a lot,
and I've talked to my therapists in the past
where they go, look, if you want the ketchup whatevered,
or if you do it yourself, and I'm like, well, that's the
day I get divorced. That's the day I fire the person. That's the day because if I'm
doing this, that and making sure the fucking ketchup is shut, I don't need then that person's
gone. That's my thing. It's not up to me. It's not as I will tell them this there's a there's an overarching theme here, which is
Marriage boils down to your utility see well, there's certain you're useful to me or you're not now. It's not useful to me. Oh
To the home are you saying useful to the home? Well, there is a there's a picture and
There's a you know, there's a picture which is it needs to be painted by many brushes
Turn into Maya Angelou over there too. Hey, man
No, there's a part where I'm gonna go hit the road every weekend and come home with a sack of money
He's a part of part
And then there's the part where I'm gonna buy the ketchup with that money and then part of your job is to make sure the
Ketchup doesn't go bad.
And it's a kind of circle of life here, you know.
But if the ketchup's going bad and I'm bringing home the money to buy the ketchup,
then we have a little problem in our chain, so to speak.
You know what I'm saying?
That's, you know, that's, we'll work it together.
We'll also vacation together and have fun together.
But there's this aspect of it that needs to be sort of taken care of I'm gonna rely on you for certain parts of that you'll rely on me
for other parts of it and that's the way we'll that's the way we're gonna roll
don't Drew you have that right yeah yeah your wife makes your travel plans yeah
no you need to be have a supportive well you you your wife does travel yeah she
does it well yeah and you travel a lot yep and if those plans involve you showing up at the Avis
counter and they're going, we have no record of your
reservation, sir, and you're going, I've got to be at the
theater in an hour to do it.
You would immediately start going, this fucking chain is
getting fucked up because I'm going out on the road and I'm
bringing home the money and I just found out that my flight,
I wasn't on this flight.
But you booked and blah, blah, blah.
Who wants your partner to be a participant to purchase a support a supportive player and then when you got home from said
trip you would be definitely within your whatever to say hey yeah I needed that rental car you
dropped the ball on that you'd wait till you got home you wouldn't make that phone call
from there well I'm just saying whenever I talked to one of my main Gria things fell
off the wall but we're ironing them on we're just tamping them up but one of my man, Gria, things fell off the wall, but we're ironing
them on. We're just tamping them up. But one of what I'm saying is whenever I bring this
topic up, Drew goes, Oh, everyone's got to do things your way. And it's some sort of
whatever. And I'm like, no, it's not. It's you make the travel plans, all do the roadwork
and it'll be symbiotic. But if you start fucking up, and by the way, if I start, start fucking
up the roadwork, we're gonna be in trouble too.
You're saying you're a team?
That's what I like.
Yeah. The team, yes.
You know, I've had more problems in the past
with roommates than with my wife and I.
Oh, roommates are.
Roommates are.
They're the fucking worst.
I was thinking about this today,
I don't know if it necessarily applies,
but it kind of fits in about wanting things your way.
I had roommates, I lived in Pasadena back in the mid 80s
and I had a couple of roommates
and I did this scene in front of,
one of their mothers was visiting.
I went and bought an entertainment center,
the shelving unit for television, that sort of thing.
And I bought it and I put it together
and it was like, you know, I'm 18, 19 years old
and I was so, you know, I spent 75 bucks,
I put it together and I wanted it on one wall.
And they were, listen, in retrospect, they were right,
it should have been on the wall
They all said but I remember I made this I bought the fucking thing it goes on a fucking wall
I want yeah as this little Asian woman's looking at me like why's this guy going effing crazy?
Yeah, and it was like but that was it's gonna be my way
It's gonna be I bought it you assholes, so I'm putting the shelf where I want it
Hmm and again worse than here we are 25 years ago
where I want it and again worse than here we are twenty nine years ago some will is the same same
well if the same same note no no no
couple things you would have built the shelf yourself
i or and i would put it on the right wall
but
that's
but
uh...
but i did no i do feel that well roommates are horrible you're right
I've had horrible ones and a roommate is where everyone kind of shows their true colors
You know I had the I had the roommate that got the master suite in the house
We were renting with the bathroom and the extra square footage
And I was in the you know
Hitler's bunker in the back with the no bathroom and you sharing the bathroom with the other roommate and stuff and the deal was it's $1,500 rent we're all
gonna pay 500 and your job is just to mow the lawn and skim the pool once a
week to get the master suite how fast did that lawn get up to here and that
pool turn into a swamp we're gonna have right that's right and and if you
reminded the person of it or you talked about it or you went and did it in front of them? You're the asshole. That's right. Is
that what you're going to say? All of a sudden I look at Adam. Shame me. He's got to shame
me. Right. Right. But no, do your job. Well, do whatever was agreed on to have this. I
used to think every time I would vacuum, this back in Pasadena, I had a roommate when I
moved out here in the 90s who was a great guy. But these guys I would vacuum and they
would, I was like, just vacuum you assholes.
Why am I the guy doing this every week?
The thing that would be great, the thing that I was insane about people and roommates and
stuff like that is I would be vacuuming and they'd be like, hey man, we're watching Miami
Vice actually, not the box set, it's actually on.
It was on.
But they'd be like, hey man, and it it's like really you're giving me the hey, man
Yes, I'm the asshole cuz I got the Hoover fired up, and you're just walking around and filled yes
fucking believable what people will do now
When you go to the gym mm-hmm you only have to deal with that asshole in a very part-time
Nominal basis you know but when you're living with that individual,
now we have a whole different kettle of fish here.
All right, should we take some phone calls?
Yes, I'm fascinated by line five.
He's in Romania.
Wow, line five in Romania.
Hey, Nick?
Yeah, get it on.
What's going on?
You're in the Peace Corps over there, huh?
Yeah, get it on what's going on you're in the Peace Corps over there, huh? Yeah, I have tell you guys um I will keep this short. I know some people like to rant, but um I've been listening to you guys
since like
These sixth grade listen to all the Corolla digital shows you guys keep me saying over here
Thank you, so I keep keep doing what you guys are doing we shall Nick
What do you...
Now, what time is it over there?
It is 9.56 p.m.
Yeah, 10 o'clock.
All right.
And what is your question?
And what are you doing over there in the Peace Corps?
I am an English teacher.
I teach at a pretty low-level high school.
Low-level meaning what?
Meaning I'm in a
industrial city and I have a lot of pretty low-level students that
have parents that live abroad and a lot of really messed up family situations
from listening to Love Line for a whole lot of time.
I think Skype's getting weird. Can you guys riddle me this?
I was just watching TV last night drinking drinking my mangrove, eating some grapes, watching
Tubbs and Crockett.
And I just showed an image of a satellite just flying over the planet.
And I thought, yeah, man, that's amazing.
Things going 17,000 miles an hour and it's orbiting twice a day or whatever it is
and we're shooting stuff up to it
and it's beaming stuff over there, blah, blah, blah.
And then I thought, yeah, man, 2013.
And then I went and pictured like parts of Africa
and our foreign stuff like the Middle East,
the sectarian violence, stuff like that.
And I went, what year is it again?
Like, what, are we living in two different years? Like you know when you're a kid it was like the future you know like we will have devices that
can communicate. Like you know when you were in junior high someone said I'm going to hand you a
thing the size of your wallet you can talk into it it'll go up to something in outer space and then
beam it to another friend of your where are you in Chicago this guy could be in Boston or LA or Romania and then you could type in a
little see it you know same device bring a picture take a picture your
girlfriend's boobies and what's that satellite film do that was no no film
no but like you know like all right and then I'll show you some footage in the
Middle East like at the same time here like it just guys in bathrobes and
sandals like throwing rocks at each other. And you'd be like, hold on, I thought it was the future.
Like, now this is, but what time has this taken place?
Oh no, same time, same place.
And you're like, which is it?
Where are we?
I feel like it's getting worse.
Like certain things are actually either the same
or worse than they were.
And then meanwhile, I'm talking into my shoe and there's an app on my phone that's going
to tell me where the closest restaurant is that has the food that I want.
And then how mad do you get when that app doesn't load as quickly as you want it to?
It's been eight seconds.
What's going on?
Yes.
But I mean, the fucking technology, un-damn-believable, mixed with I'm gonna throw a rock.
Yeah, but the hard part to reconcile
is the guys that are wearing the robes
and throwing the rocks, also with the cell phone in hand,
and also using it in sophisticated ways.
That would be the part where you go,
well, if only we could get these guys that device.
We wouldn't know what to call it, Drew.
We wouldn't have a name for it back then.
Transporter, whatever.
Just called the device. The thing. You go, oh, well, if
they could take pictures of their girlfriends' boobies and then send them to their friends.
They'd be more relaxed. Yeah. Now, say, what's up? I want to know what's
going on because this is not, there's no, there's nobody who wrote about the future
that did both, which is, you know. 1100 AD and 2013 AD.
Right.
Logan's run was Logan's run was Logan's run.
Everywhere.
Everywhere.
The world.
The worldwide.
The year is 1999.
Yeah.
I saw that one.
And we're all looking at Farrah Fawkes.
At least 1981 now.
You really think this is going to?
We're going to get people to kill people over the age of 30?
34?
That fast? We? That fast?
We've been arguing over building a power plant for the last 20 years.
You think we're going to get this one passed through Congress?
All right.
I love that.
All right.
Where were we?
It is weird that this is simultaneously going on, right?
Yeah.
Nick?
Yeah?
Nick, you might experience Romanian people.
They tend to be very smart.
Is that true?
Is that your experience over there? At least the ones over here.
Well, I think your experience with Romanians might have been the ones that had the opportunity
to leave Romania and make a city and I just get to meet you.
We're cherry picking.
Yeah, I got it. Okay, so what's going on?
You've got the ones that are picking cherries.
What's your question? Strangely. Ironically.
Ironically. Those are the ones that step flat behind. Yeah. I wanted the, and then Dr. Drew's kind of take
on the juxtaposition between a relationship
that is really strong, the relationship wise,
emotionally and such.
I've been with my girlfriend for about two years now.
Really hit it off really well.
But physical aspect is not too great.
Don't want to get too into it, but you, but I'm a pretty big guy, let's
leave it at that, and she is not so big in the corresponding part. Thus, the physical
aspect is not too great. So I just wanted to get you guys to pay me on that.
Yeah, but plenty of people have anatomic mismatches, but sort of figure it out and work it out.
So there's got to be something kind of more going on here. Is that so painful for her or is it she's just not sort of willing
to work things out?
I just put it on hold because his phone is driving me nuts. But you know, lube, lube
and more lube. But Drew, there are such a thing as using sort of gradual size enlargement
whatever to work on a certain aspect of one's anatomy. But there are certain mismatches that are just painful.
And you ain't going to overcome that very well.
We get way more complaints about too big than too small.
And that sometimes, but usually you let her control things.
But he may have certain preferences.
And if she's not sort of willing to talk about it and work
on it, she's a type.
This is the kind of thing where you're talking about anatomy, but it's really about attitude.
Well it's about anatomy and sometimes that's just not over to be overcome, but you have
to work at it.
And if somebody's not willing to sort of-
But even if there's a gross mismatch there, which I wish I'd run into just once, just
to say, okay, why do we have to break up?
Tearing her apart.
Cock was a weapon.
Just physical. That was great. Deer, sweet Tearing her apart. Cock is a weapon.
That's great. Dear. Sweet.
Wish it could have worked. Love your parents.
Just one versus the
Are you in? I'm done.
But, you know,
between the lube that is
available now
and I'm sure
Romania is some form of lard, but either way
it's there.
And sort of positions and attitudes and stuff like that you can work on.
Yeah.
All right.
Let's see.
But if there's some preference, either attitude or preference that he has that she doesn't,
this can be important to deal breakers.
Not to be ignored.
Tawana, 42, from Florida.
Let's see. Hello? Hello. Yes. to want not to be ignored to one of forty two from florida
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hello
question about scoliosis
okay mark my son is twenty one and he was going to start a new system
chin hospital try to do surgery on him
and
they do a good job because he's
he's still he can't
he was walking it first
When they did the surgery now, he can't walk he can't eat
He have to use some kind of tool to put in his mouth
It's up the saliva out because we can have a lot of saliva in his mouth is all it's gonna choke him
He have to lay down to play his video game all the time. He can't eat. He can't walk nothing
Okay, so Again, what year is it? So he had surgery at what age?
At the age of 15. For scoliosis?
Yes, sir. And why aren't they helping him or getting physical therapy or working on this? I have no idea, sir.
Well, you're his mom, right?
Yes, sir.
When was he last seen by a doctor?
He go every month.
He goes up there to shins because he have his sight is bad,
too.
His eyesight is bad.
He has some sort of brain disorder?
No.
I mean, he's very smart.
I mean, every game, PlayStation game you have, he can play it.
I understand, but he has some sort of brain disorder.
All right, let's stop bragging for a second.
Yeah, he just can't walk or eat.
And he said vision problems too?
Yes, he can't see.
I mean, he got like a, what do you call it, a god coma or whatever they call it.
Okay, there's something, there's something significant, overriding severe.
Wait, now hold on a second.
Scoliosis is not going to cause all of this.
No.
Scoliosis is the curvature of the spine.
Yeah, it's just a curve, but it can be severe where you have pulmonary problems and you
can't move around at all.
But this is much, much, this is like something way, way worse going on.
Muscular disrepair.
Is this bogus?
Is this a bogus call?
No, it's not bogus.
I think that's a racist thought.
It's just ridiculous.
I can't take it no more.
I can't just see him just laying there.
What is his, you haven't told me what his diagnosis is.
I'm saying this is bogus.
No, no way.
Excuse me?
No, no, no, no way.
Tawana, I don't get it.
Your mom, you take them to the doctor, you talk to her in the hospital, what do they
tell you is wrong other than scoliosis?
That's all they're telling me that's wrong with you.
What about the glaucoma part?
They say they don't know, they don't want to do surgery, they don't want to take him back under surgery or whatever.
I don't know what to do.
I really don't know what to do.
Just keep putting me around.
What are you doing?
What do you do for a living?
Just take care of my kids.
That's it?
How many kids you have?
I have two.
Is this one autistic or anything?
Is there anything else going on?
No.
No, sir.
Married?
Single?
Divorced?
No.
Single.
I'm single.
Just with my kids.
My girl was born with dislocated, just from a strange baby daddy.
They say our blood type didn't match, so don't have any more kids. born with dislocated, just from the same baby daddy.
They say our blood type didn't match,
so don't have any more kids.
We had two together, and she was, she's the oldest,
she's 23.
She was born with dislocated hips and cataracts on her eyes.
But she could walk, but she still has a bad nip,
and she get weak so fast, until I have to tow her. She could walk from she still has a bad nip and she get weak so fast until I have to told her
She go off from the front door to I take about 15 steps and then she have to sit down
All right
So Tawana, uh, are you a religious person?
No, sir. Yeah, I wouldn't be there
Sounds like no bad bad deal. All right. Listen, you have to take I'll tell you what I want you to do.
You speak to a doctor and bring something to write on.
Write down everything, all his diagnoses.
And then call us back.
I'll go look at all the diagnoses he has.
Or travel with a scribe.
And then also say, why can't I get some more services for him
to try to make him independent or something where we can
improve the home situation, even if it's just a social worker
to come in.
You guys picturing that satellite flying around?
What year was that call from?
And that's the next thing, too.
I hear that.
Oh, there's a lot of that.
No, no, no.
I see that.
I mean, it's like you see the satellite above,
and then you hear Tawana, it's like she's calling from 1941
Listen, my heart goes out. Yeah, I need Drew to answer me. Why does the guy take the locker next to me?
I got a real problems. I'm bitch about a guy that
What the F is the man that was horrible there's lots of people living like that poor Tawana, it's awful life, you know, it's heart breaking
Yes, that's right
Listen, we you know the four seasons on top of the mirage
We're saying the mirage you're kidding me. I'm interested in that
I find it a four-flow as they want to is a podcast that's her and that kind of thing. That's interesting
Well, the Sun knows technology we learned that yeah
It's smarting player every Xbox game. How does he do it without vision?
I don't. He's gotta do it laying down. There's a lot.
There's a lot missing there. Alright, Drew. Yeah. Do a do a
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else. All right. Last question. Line one, poor Michael's been on hold for a long time, 30 from Indianapolis. You're getting your daughter's tonsils removed.
She's only four.
Yeah, she, well first off, Craig Jimmy Pardo everybody. Glad to be joining the show.
Oh, thanks Ben. Nice to see you Mike.
So she's four years old like he said. She's had three strep-positive swabs in two and a half months. So we go to
visit the ENT and of course he says, take them out.
Wait, hold second. Why are you saying that in a very paranoid way? Four infections buys
you a tonsillectomy. That's it.
Is that what that does?
Yeah.
So that's just...
I'm sorry, say that again?
Four strep infections requires a tonsillectomy.
She's had three in two and a half months.
Yeah, maybe it's the speed at which they've happened, but four, you definitely get a tonsillectomy,
for sure.
Right.
You can get a second opinion.
Drew, are we finding out anything about tonsils?
I have my tonsils.
Me too.
I've had some horrific sore throats in my life, but now I seem to be impervious to disease.
I'm only affected
by abscess.
Tonsillitis, the kids are getting repeatedly, usually have very large tonsils that get super
infections in them. And it can be actually kind of dangerous. You get abscesses and it
can be a big mess. And the surgery is no big deal.
I had mine taken out when I was 30, and I wish I would have had them taken out when
I was four.
Wow, that's right.
Because it was a life of hell.
That's right. People that need them out.
Desperate to lose weight.
I wanted to eat jello for a week.
People that need them out, need them out.
And if it happens in adulthood, it's much easier in childhood, but I've certainly sent
many adults for this procedure, and are like Jimmy, very, very willing.
I wish I could have done it when I was four.
I'm not saying do it or not do it for your daughter.
I'm saying get a second opinion if you want, but follow direction.
They're not just randomly recommending surgery.
I'm happy to be the second opinion. I think, as you have it down.
I had this thought. What about, it just popped up, last thought of the day. Remember when
you're a kid and they do this on episodes of TV sitcoms and things like that, it's like
so and so has got their tonsils out, but they got to eat ice cream.
Yeah, yeah.
Remember they got to eat ice cream. Now, I feel like if I said to kids today, hey, you get to eat ice cream for two days
a year, they'd go, I got a fucking soft swirl machine in my bedroom.
So?
What the fuck?
Like, I said to my kids, you get to eat ice cream for three days in a row, they'd go,
what the fuck do we care, old man?
I'm eating ice cream right now.
You're going to turn it yourself, dad? You get to eat ice cream.
Now it's like who fucking cares, right?
I mean, this stuff that used to be a treat,
like hey, you get a Coke after the Pop Warner football games.
Now like I'm drinking one right now.
I have a soda machine in the house.
Like Jesus, God damn Christ, I hate these kids.
All right, Jimmy Pardo.
Pleasure.
The great Jimmy Pardo, gonna be at Rooster Teeth Feathers
June 7th through
the 9th. That's Sunnyvale, California. Never not funny. Name of the podcast. Available
on iTunes. True. I gotta go dude. I know. But you're not going until I say bye. That's
right. But you have to do something that makes noise at the end. You have to do your phone
down or mug or something. All right.
So, see this slows it down.
It's all part of your process.
True.
Why do you have to push the seat out?
I'm 14 seconds away from saying goodbye.
You were.
Now you're a couple of minutes away.
Right.
Because you had to stand up and move your thing and do your headphones.
All right.
Where was I?
Never not funny.
And you can website jimmypardo.com.
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