The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - John Lennon and Giant Guitars (The Adam and Dr. Drew Show Classics)

Episode Date: November 12, 2024

Adam & Drew discuss the recent passing of Huell Howser, John Lennon and giant Mexican guitars. They also take calls from listeners on depression, suboxone and dealing with a suicidal alcoholic parent.

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. Got to get it on. Doesn't that music just raise the serotonin levels in your head? I love classical music, always have. Just respond to it. And it's a good metaphor for life and sort of the way you'd like your kids to be raised, which is everybody does their part.

Everybody. You know, I love rock music, but rock music is about drum solos and guitar solos and playing together. But it's about, look at this guy, look at Jimmy Page doing his thing over here. This is 80 people Every every one of them having to know their part and some of their parts aren't that exciting as a matter of fact

When you take their parts and you break them down and you just isolated them. I Remember when I was in the band When I was in mr. Anasensio's band in the seventh grade somehow I got signed up for the trumpet and all we did was play songs like Grand Old Flag and stuff you know just stuff no seventh grader in the 70s wants to play but at a certain point he says we're gonna play Sweet Caroline and Neil Diamond and I was like oh good finally we get to play a song like a cool song, a pop song. And then I realized I got my sheet music for the trumpet section and my my bit went like this. Bump bump bump bump bump bump. I was like, oh, that's what I thought I'd be playing the song. I'm not playing the song.

You wouldn't know what song I was playing if you just heard what I was playing. And then I thought, well, that's what we love about football. It's what we love about symphonic music. It's the whole collected on the government supposed to work uh... but errors to work aristola believed that that was the way you create utopia but a proper society was you you raise children with proper habits you don't expose them to certain things and you do expose them to other things and expose them a lot of music and poetry of certain type

actions played out played a bit that's going to correct it i think it's a and uh... and one of certain type. Actually, it was Plato. Plato thought that. That was going to correct you. Yeah, thank you. Sorry. I didn't want to jump in and embarrass you in front of the kid here. All right. Well, that's the way it goes. And again, I've said it many times, the countries that produce the most classical music, they got the space programs. And then the ones that rely heavily on the accordion and oversized guitars. Not so much.

What about this theory? I had it, I can't remember, I think I was talking about it on stage but I was talking about it with my buddy Hench the other day. Guitar, very fickle in the pussy department. Yeah. Meaning, a guitar, nothing gets you laid better than a guitar. That is a great instrument to get you laid. Properly played. Just, I don't know, did anybody in the Sex Pistols know how to play the guitar properly? Not when they started. By proper I don't mean well necessarily, I mean in the right context, in the the right way. Yeah in front of the right audience. Yes understood

How right implications but the zero I just had another heavy thought Hope it's as heavy as this last one. It's heavy The then but you go to the miniature guitar the ukulele and you get no pussy That's heavy. No. No Prepare to have your mind blown. So some guy in Mexico went, you know what? If I play a giant guitar, I'll get tons of pussy. No pussy for him either.

Weird sweet spot of pussy with guitar size. Miniature guitar, zero pussy. Huge guitar, zero pussy. Huge guitar, zero pussy. And the guy in Mexico was probably like who invented the giant guitar. He was like, I see Robert Plant getting his cock sucked all day long. I am going to invent a giant guitar. And by the way, see that the little one doesn't work at all. No, no, no. Well, no, no. So he does the math.

He factors that in too. But at a certain point after he invents the giant guitar and that doesn't work out, he goes to the ukulele thinking this is going to fix everything. No, nothing. Also, you sitting down? Is it going to blow my mind? Going to be blown, mind blown. No smaller person than the person who plays the giant guitar. You cannot be over 5'7 and a half and get a license to play the giant. The guy can barely get his arms around the giant guitar. He's always the shortest, squatty-est guy in the mariachi band.

No bigger human being plays the ukulele. The big Hawaiian dudes, the huge... So we have 500 pound guys playing the ukulele and we have dwarves playing the giant guitar. Mind blown. Is it blown? Blown. Is it blown? And then regular sized guys play regular guitars.

And yet when you get into, just broadening this out to instruments generally, you get to brass and now your size matches up. That's right. The picolos are the cute chicks and the tubas are the husky dudes. And the trumpet's medium-sized guys. Yeah. Generally. Coronet's a little bigger.

The brass instruments are really like what baseball, positions for baseball. Am I going to get blown again? Husky kid behind the plate, that's the tuba dude. Second short stocky guy over on third base handle in the hot corner Ron say long lanky You know sort of long guy with the big stride out in center field You know I mean the guy first base big guy first base not real mobile But can reach his arm up 11 feet and snatch something look that's the guy little nimble guy over at short stop That's the piccolo guy. See what I'm saying?

Mind blown. Mind blown? So I got a ton of shit today. Do you have stuff? Really? No, I'm, look, there's a fat guy playing a miniature guitar. That's to you. Who tortured the whines by saying, here is this miniature guitar for your huge fat fingers

to try to get through. I wonder if it had something to do with it, like to really highlight their, you know what I mean? Maybe it was a sign of like prowess or, you know, like make them look even bigger because it was a sign of prosperity or something. You know, and these are, these are profitable societies. Yeah, like, hey, brada, this is a regular size guitar. I dwarf it, man.

Oh, and there's the little guy with the giant. What's that thing called? Giant guitar. Because I think a lot of people around the country don't know what we're talking about not everybody is We do no no they don't live in Mexico like we do, but they've seen enough bad Adam Sandler movies Every bad comedy has the mariachi scene where they come by the table and guess what because it's funny The tables never delighted that they're coming by They're annoyed you get that they're coming by. They're annoyed. They're trying to enjoy

their dinner. And these guys come by and they're real loud. Write that down. We've got to put that in a movie, man. Do you ever go to, do you spend time in Cabo? Probably. Do you ever go to Edith's down there? No. That's not fair. It's a place for mariachis mariachis like sort of mariachi torture zone. Yeah, it's like where they torture you with it Well, you tell listen a great restaurant by the way. I

Jesus Christ you want to talk I know you're cheap, but I went to Laurie's and Had myself some prime rib with the kids and stuff. It's all great and and had myself some prime rib with the kids and stuff. It was all great. And that's where they do the Super Bowl, the Rose Bowl team goes over there. And the carolers came by the table and it was nice. But when they were done caroling,

it sort of struck me, geez, I should give them a tip, I guess. They go, would you like to request a song? And you can request a song. And so, and I reached my wallet and against the age of the ATM So I just had a whole bunch of 20s in there. So I gave him 20s. Well then Half hour later the carolers came back again Now I'm like do I got a fucking reach in and tip these guys again and I was thought to myself

Wow, no, I gave him 20 bucks that'll hold him over for two songs. I look up as a new group. Now I got it, but got to tip the new group. Yeah, between the Maederdine, the two Carolers out 60 bucks for My Ass Got Warm. All right. What were you talking about, Drew? So by the way, just think of Carol'sols. It's the end of the holiday season and stuff, but there are some really disturbing, unpleasant Christmas carols that people play over and over and over again.

Oh, well, that's good because Mike can look for one. I wasn't planning on bringing it up. But yeah, you can. John Lennon, who I just I don't like I just never have I just I think he's one of these guys who I Know I sound like a huge douchebag, but it's very easy to sit around and go War should be ended war should be over. We should end war That's fine And we should also have a way that gets me to New York City in less than five minutes. There, I've made my declaration.

And we should have cars that get 100 miles to the gallon. Run on air and run on air or or squirrel dropping. Now, that's my declaration. So there, I'm a hero. He's always like, war's bad. Let's end war. Good, tell that to all the guys in Darfur that are doing the ethnic cleansing. Or go do something about it.

The declaration that, hey, knock it off. Oh, by the way, there's two messages he had. His thing was like, end war. Fine, but I'll do it from bed. I'll do it from my hotel. I'll do it from a hotel room. And his other thing was how much he loved Yoko, but he'd do it from bed. I'll do it from my hotel room. And his other thing was how much he loved Yoko, but he'd just bang other chicks. And not really have a whole lot of contact with his first son.

But other than that, fucking hero. And I woke up on Christmas morning and this song was playing and I was like, I hate this song. It's depressing. It shouldn't... There should be no... Here's the thing about Christmas music. I don't want to be, I don't want to get lost in thought. You know what I mean? Like I don't want to go, wow man, there's a lot of, a lot of hunger out there. There's a lot of people struggling.

There's a lot of war. And he wants you to have a Christmas without any fear for black and for white. He's just such a jack-off. The people who are into John Lennon are such fucking intellectual lightweight jack-offs. Like, hey, he wanted equality for black and white. He wanted no war. He wanted daisies where guns should have been. He's such a fucking hero. He said war's over. He said no more war. Good. Tell that to people who waged a war. Where was he during World War II? We needed him.

Oh, by the way, he should have been singing it while fucking Hitler was bombing the shit out of his England. And we went, hey John, we got the message. We're not sending anybody over. We're going to hunger down here and we'll let your fucking island catch on fire. Good! Where was John in the 40s? Can't hear you, Mike.

He was angry at everything. And so it was a great thing to be angry at in the 60s. War. War, yeah. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, of course. Yeah, what else? You're gonna take a controversial stance against cholera? Yes, it's bad. Now what are you gonna do about it? And for blacken... Oh no, just honkies. Just the white people. He was just such a jack-off I swear to God I know I sound like a fucking heretic but George Harrison was

just so much better because it's so fucking easy it's like look my wife hates me because every every fucking Bruce Springsteen song is about you know oh he met Becky and oh let me guess was Becky's dad a big fan or what? No? Didn't want him taking Becky? What? They rode a, let me guess, a full-size car with air conditioning and all? What?

Hop on the back of the motorcycle, going to the edge of town? What? Dad, not please? What? This is ground that's never been covered before. Not a song. Shocking. Brand new.

Normally, the dads are delighted that you're dating their daughters, but evidently there's an issue here. So you're saying war's bad, and he's including black and white folk. War bad, love good. Let's make love. We should all make love to, you know, Yoko and some of her friends. She had some friends. They're pretty hot. Who are you to say that it's is this only can't judge. Yeah, you should be spread around I love is a good thing point is people shared with lots of people He was a hero and if there were more people like John Lennon, then they just be speaking German in England because

Germany would have fallen to the I mean England would have fallen to the Germans because they can't make they would have said hey no war and By the way, tell that to Hitler. Let's remind ourselves had that happened Then people with not such light skin would not have had the equality that he's singing about. In fact, they would not be alive You know what I'm saying? Interesting. Hitler was interested in ethnic cleansing. Yeah, I mean, oh. So the song I was talking about. You were talking about a song? I was talking about a song. A song that they apparently play in department stores and stuff to get people agitated.

So they'll buy things and run out of the store. Really? Yeah. You'll be shocked to hear the drummer boy song. Really? The David Bowie one? No, just like anything. The Bing Crosby one?

No, a little kid singing it. Oh, really? Get me, get us one of those. It's got to be something. It's eerie, weird, unsettling. Yeah, right. With a little kid singing it, it's actually... It got weird when Bowie was,

ah, nah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah. Yeah, I mean, Big Crosby with his pipe and his cardigan and Bowie with his like, unitard jumpsuit and his big star over one eye, you know. They told me That's Big Crosby, right? But give them what the kids' children's singing. Oh, Jesus Christ, give them a little heads up.

What the shit. As opposed to just yelling out for a John Lennon piece? No, I just started yelling about John Lennon. That's what I'm saying. Mike just tuned in and off. Anyway, that's the song. This gets them out. Gets what out? Gets people out of the store. Yeah, yeah. Interesting. Get some to go, oh shit, I gotta get out of here. Do you know this? Something's making me uncomfortable. I read an article.

I was just reading about it. They said they pump it in. And I noticed I was hearing it over and over because it really, I don't like it. It unsettles me. And they went, oh yeah, yeah. This article says, yeah, we intentionally, you know, this was stored. But at least it feels like old Christmas. Yeah, you identify it as Christmas.

Lenin's saying about war is over and without any fear and black and white and it's fucking depressing. Yes. Your point is more valid than mine. My penis is smaller. Thank you. Good to go. What about with?

Same with with? Same, sir. And listen, let me tell you something. Somebody tweeted me. They're not using their brain. I talked about on my podcast where I had a very bizarre dream the other day. I was kind of amusing myself. I was dreaming but I was also amusing myself while I was dreaming.

Like you were sort of awake a little bit? Yeah, I'm always kind of a little, not always, but sometimes I have this state where I'm just sort of laying there and my mind is turned on I had this idea of Taking all the males in this country not all but alright. Let's just say there's a hundred and fifty hundred and sixty whatever million males I don't know what percentage of them are past puberty, but let's just say a hundred million for the sake over 18 Okay, for the sake of argument Having them all become too messent.

Simultaneously? Well, no, we'd have to work this out. Lay down on a flat surface with a hole in it and put their honker in a graduated cylinder and see how much water was displaced. Okay? Then we would get windbreakers made up, and we would know like a graduating class. Would be color-coded? No, no, no. That could be. There could be a platinum club. Yeah, yeah. And a purple and a green. And with the number. Now the number's not the amount of water that's displaced. The

number's the ranking. Starting at number one, that's displaced, the number's the ranking. Starting at number one, most water displaced, going down to a hundred million. Oh, so each individual would get the ranking. So it wouldn't be groupings of ranking. No, no. It'd be one to one hundred million. And you'd have to go out with the... Forget the color coding.

You'd have to wear the windbreaker. Yeah, you don't need a color coding. You have a number on your record. Big number one is Evel Knievel size. Huge Harley Davidson number one. And then of course as you get into the millions, obviously they have to shrink the lettering. In fact we just switch it to 10 times 10 to the 6. I don't know if America could do that power math. I don't want long, just when you see that number that is like five or six lines deep, you know, it just keeps going. I like that. Now somebody tweeted

me and they were like, hey dude, what about girth? And I'm like, dude, water displacement. It's factoring in everything that you've got down there. Volume. Volume. That's right. I know people that understand volume. Sad. Sad that they may not. But the't know if people understand volume. Sad. Sad that they may not. But the point is, and then you're forced to wear that windbreaker three months out of the year. The question though becomes, does volume translate to sexual prowess?

I mean do women prefer bigger volume? No. It's just strictly for guys. This is for men. I speculated that women would stay out of the double digit and single digit club, that those guys, you know. Yeah, not so interested. Not in anyone probably in the top thousand. The research shows women like looking at those. They're actually looking at them, but they don't like receiving them. But number one would be the toast of the town and making every talk show circuit, including your own show, Drew. Oh yeah, he'd be on. You'd be happy to book number one would be the toast of the town and making every talk show circuit including your own show Drew

Oh, yeah, you'd be on you'd be happy to book number one. Of course It's got the windbreaker up there anywhere in that top ten anywhere in that top ten Getting getting getting the guests and there'd be one of those bookings war things where you'd be like I got number three Yeah, well, let him in Scott number one You know and then yeah, but nobody can get him. Next year we have to see if he keeps the windbreaker. Oh, because there's a new 18-year-old every year. That's what I'm saying.

Who knows how this stuff works. And maybe by billboarding this stuff, we start creating a little super race. Maybe there's some genetic component to this and we start breeding these guys. Well, that's an interesting direction. I hadn't thought of that. That happens spontaneously. We don't do it. I see.

Because the number is being warred, so women want to take that on just because. Right. Well, we take the guy with the huge phallus and hook him up with the clitoral megalo. No, no, you don't do that. I don't want to try to think of what to do there. Probably just somebody with big stature. So we've got a huge guy with a huge... Big woman.

Yeah. Uh-huh. That factor's on. Because then it wouldn't be so uncomfortable for her, too. I just think it'd be great to see if the guy held the windbreaker, you know, come January 2nd. And so, I just got a curiosity. Uh-huh.

Yeah. How did said dream end? How did you finally wake up? With me feverishly writing it down on an envelope that was next to my bed. I was like I cannot forget this Because this is a fucking bizarre dream Yeah, so you kind of woke yourself up to could write it down arguably the most Heterosexual dream and the least heterosexual dream probably of all time. Oh for sure. Mm-hmm The windbreaker thing would be a funny thing to have to walk around with wouldn't I think from now on

When we go out on stage, we need to have a windbreaker with a number on it. Oh, there needs to be our calling card Yeah, just just to encourage people to the problem is is we don't have a yardstick, pardon the pun, to sort of measure ourselves against. Maybe we should just measure just against everyone here, start here. Okay. Start a movement. I'm not sure, you know, if you made it mandatory, I think there could be a lawsuit. Not mandatory. And everyone just encourage volunteer, volunteers only, and we'll just, we'll wear jackets accordingly.

But then those who withheld or abstained from this, or were conscientious objectors like John Lennon, you know, there would be a certain stigma surrounding them. We would know it, but they won't have to wear it. See? Well, then, some, we have to fight, forgot a way to shame them. So I think they need a jacket with a question mark on the back of it. They're forced to walk around as the ones who would not participate.

Whatever happens with this, Michael Naira needs this footage that we've just gone through. Because I need to see this. All right, you have a question up there. What is? No no no no no no no no no no no I got a lot of stuff. Now while I know you're a man of letters you are not a man of the printed letter. You know what I'm saying? You don't read stuff but I'm stunned to know maybe you do know this but you didn't bring it up. This is the calendar section today in the LA Times

Hewl Hauser gone. Yeah, I know. Yeah, believe me. I got 200,000 tweets. Okay, I figured But wow, he's a big he's on the huge picture of him on the calendar section I know he not as I remember him this one just when he finished the Marine Corps or something Wait, not as I remember him. Just when he finished the Marine Corps or something. Nah, he was a hardy dude for quite some years. He was one of these guys that we all have to pretend like we liked, but nobody did. He didn't do anything.

Well, now, I mean, they're waxing poetic about him. Of course, of course. I'm like, this guy created California. Of course. Look, he had a great gig because we paid him to do it. He was subsidized PBS Yeah, I mean obviously the show doesn't exist Well, it's I think around the country people don't even know this who he is and stuff. Do you think well he walked around? Here it basically he's a he's a big lovable fella

Yeah, he was the Simpsons met would use him every once in a while or use a guy like him. I would make fun of him. And he's a big lovable fella, had a show on PBS and he would walk around and interview people that ran tortilla factories and collected rocks and made menudo and other stuff no one's interested in and then do a super, like the world's most boring documentaries. But they kind of became comfort food for people, though no one's interested in and then do a super like the world's most boring documentaries but they kind of became comfort food for people though no one ever watched it no one ever appreciated it and as i said to my buddy kevin hench last night he said um quiet he said uh that guy was on the air for like 30 years and i said every coach in the NFL would never lose their job if they would just quit

keeping score. He was on the air for 30 years because he didn't, I would be on the air for 30 years too except for I had to get ratings and I didn't get enough ratings to be on the air for 30 years. Hewlett did not, Andy Reid would still have his job if at the end of the year they went to Andy Reid and Bill Belichick and they said, well Belichick you're 12 and 4 and Andy Reid you're 4 and 12. Oh, wait a minute, shake the etch a sketch. Turns out you're both either 16 and 0 or 0 and 16 or 8 and 8. Cannot judge. Well then Andy Reid would not have to leave Philadelphia and Bill Belichick would not get to stay and Is a beautiful New England and I?

Would argue that that's incentive. Oh What's this? What's this competition bill Belichick? What do you what are you talking about to put in extra hours? How dare you to work harder to put in more weekends and offseason work so that he could keep his job in New England because no matter how beloved Bill Belichick is, two seasons of under 500 and guess whose job's in jeopardy but you remove the threat of that whether you're Bill Belichick or your Hewell Hauser or your public school teacher and guess what you know what feel a little bit sick today I don't think I'll come in why do you think football coaches why do you think NFL football coaches all have the fucking

craziest hours why is the NFL football coaching game? He gets in, you know, they talk about these guys, oh, Herm Edwards would get in at 5 a.m. He would do, everyone would leave the building, he'd be the last person there. He'd have to sleep in his office, you know. Now granted, a great lifestyle, I don't know, but why? Because it's so fucking competitive the second you decide to turn your Blink Week into a four-day week or the day you decide to start coming home at 430 every day instead of 830 Guess who's out of a gig and if you want that gig then you show up early and often. All right

So you'll be missed, but not missed, missed. Not right. Not top of mind missed. Well, what I mean is like Phil Hartman will be missed because he had a product. Like, Phil Hartman and John Candy had things that we wanted them to do. Huell Hauser will be missed because he'll be missed like some aunt that lives in Philadelphia who you never see But you'd like knowing she's there nobody Nobody wants to see another tour of a tortilla factory We just like the fact that there's a big smiling giant man who was amongst us who did appreciate the shit out of that

And don't get me wrong. I like a nice guy and he was a nice guy, and what he did was quaint and everything, but let's not mistake it for quality, and let's also be honest, if he ever had to compete, he'd be out of a gig immediately. But you started making fun of him. You're gonna mad at me even for asking this of our gentleman through the mirror, through the glass here. Any Hewhalser drops or anything like that?

Just ask him, just for nice. Because you made fun of the way he spoke about things for a decade and a half. It wasn't just so much that it wasn't competitive or wasn't compelling television. It was a little bizarre. Well, it was all those things because he would go into the place that made tortillas and the guy he'd go uh hosay what what now what area is this that's the uh loading dock it's where we ship the tortillas loading dock that's that's right you know it's where we ship the ship tortillas so a ship actually comes in here one of those schooner types or are we talking about like a

Cutty, what are we talking about here? No, no the truck 18 wheeler pack 18 wheels Not 19, oh my goodness. Not 17. What are they? Oh, it's Hewlett the Menudo Factory. 18 wheels and then what? Hewlett the Menudo Factory. We load the tortillas.

You load them into the, that's a man. Yes, it's a loading dock. We load tortillas into yeah, this is a Heal then it was on with the hard hat and off on the minuto tour Where do we start? You want to know how minuto is made getting ready to be can It's gonna process the minuto cow stomach There it is that's a stomach right it's a stomach. Now when you say tripe, that's a stomach, right?

It's a stomach muscle of the cow. So we use an awful lot of it. We're told we're the largest single purchaser of beef tripe this side of the Mississippi. Because everyone else throws it away. No one else wants it. So this is... Seagulls are the second largest on consumer right after a call the tribe the trial

quality product well but but the right comes through here and i'm not all day all are normal they will be anywhere from uh... seventy five eighty thousand a lot of calcite so there you go hardening hardening interview That's a lot of cow stomach. A lot of cow stomach. So there you go. Again, hard-hitting interviews. That's the point. John Stewart, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, bring it up. Bring it on. Yeah, you bet. Bring it on. Bring it on. I'll crush all you guys.

Obviously, this doesn't exist in a world where there's competition because nobody wants to hear a guy repeat cow stomach five times to somebody. But he'll be missed. Ace, I figured out why you like Huell so much. It's because he's your opposite. Like if you guys actually ever met you'd like implode. He roams around Southern California finding things to be delighted with and talking to strangers.

Also, well, it's true. It's true because he's everything that my family isn't. I go to my family and go, yeah, I just go, how are you doing son? Well, I got a book on the New York Times bestseller list. I won the Long Beach Toyota celebrity race and our podcast was deemed number one podcast all of iTunes There you go All right, let's let you all blown away by cow stomach for long long long periods of time anyway, he'll be missed not Not his work. He will be missed. Nothing that he created will be missed. Right. There's not some episode I haven't watched.

If you do miss him, there's 700,000 hours of him wandering through places you never want to go to talking to people who've never spoken in into a microphone. So if you do miss him, you can have him just wander. There's literally thousands of hours. There's no editing, obviously, there's zero editing in this process. So there's just thousands of hours of him talking to old people about rocks or whatever you whatever you like, you'll find it. It's there, there's enough there. There's enough fuel to hold us all. Anyway, he'll be missed.

He'll be missed, a great man. So, okay, I'm all done. You're all done. I got a lot more, but I'm done. Okay, all right, I'll tell you what, let's take a quick break. What do you like up there? Recently diagnosed with?

I'm amongst the top two, those top two ones. Idiopathic, back to you. I'd rather we do number two first and Mike has a provocative question Oh, yeah, as a depressed mom what but keep going. Oh, oh, did I ever wish my mom died early? It's funny. I was having that thought today All right quick break right back after this Hey, it's Adam Corolla from the Adam Corolla Show. BetOnline is the world's most trusted betting platform and your number one source for everything sports betting.

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Mike? How's it going? Good, what's going on? Not much, I find myself in a pretty similar situation to you regarding mom. She's not like your mom, she was overly involved in our lives as a kid and now that we're all grown she doesn't have

much for her own life. So she's very depressed, she's not well, she's a lot of pain, you know, and I don't even know how much of it is real or if it's created by her. Or by the way the pills she's taking, is she taking a bunch of painkillers? Well, I mean she doesn't have insurance, I think if she did she probably would be on a lot of antidepressants and killers things like that but uh... make it tough so you know just every interaction you know it's everything is

woe is me everything is you know she's a very unhappy person i love my mom and i want the best for but there's only so much i can do i can't put her on my insurance i can't take care of her more than i already do. And it's just like, you know, it makes me feel like a horrible person, but from time to time I'm like, God, if she just went to sleep and didn't wake up, you know, would that be that bad for her?

I mean, I think she might be in a better place. She's curious if you ever had kind of those feelings about your mom and, you know, kind of her depression and things like that. My thing about my parents in terms of wishing they were dead, I never looked at them as alive. I never had to wish they were dead. It was always just a non-issue. It was like, I don't know, would you care if Drew's parents were dead or alive? I mean you might care for Drew, but in terms of

impacting your life for good or for bad. Wow. My parents were always just saying... To me that speaks of your shutdown. Yeah there were none... But not them, your shutdown. Yeah yeah I agree. They're non-factors. Well they started my shutdown. No I get it. Then I continued the process. You're right. They were like you know it's like getting back to the football analogy. What if some third string guy who got a little time in on the special teams, like just to kick off return, would you care if he couldn't make the game?

Like, well, I don't want anything bad to happen to him. I wouldn't hurt if he was there, but do we need him? Am I counting on him? Am I working out my game plan? Am I factoring him in it? No, I'm not factoring him in. So if he makes it, fine. And if he doesn't, he doesn't.

So I have no need to wish for my parents' demise. They never rose. So what Adam is saying, Mike, is you're better off. Well, no, I'm not. And there's two versions of that. One is no one suffered more than Adam. No, no. Let's all remember that. Let's all remember that.

No, no. No, no. Let's remember that. No. But number two, at least you have active engagement. Adam is neither sad nor anything. It's just shut down. You at least are ambivalent and wishing these things I feel bad about.

Well, you had some sort of relationship in the past that is created that has set the table for what you're going through now. I didn't really have that relationship in the past. I've been out since I was 12, so I don't have that. But they don't have it either, so we don't have to follow it up with anything. Arguably, she may be feeling something. She just couldn't experience it.

Yes, right, right. His mom was anxious when he was a child, probably not specifically depressed. They were intrusive and over-involved. That's kind of an anxiety thing. And it's a relative of depression, but isn't that interesting that through anxiety he takes on all of her stuff in depression, what you take on is the shutdown? Absolutely. I would say that's the biggest thing is that I take on all of her issues and whatever, I can handle it. It's not the big deal, but it does affect my relationship with my wife.

Well, that's what I was going to say. That's where this really rubber hits the road is who you choose as a spouse and how that relationship plays out. I'm going to bet you drive your wife a little crazy with this stuff. Absolutely. It's just a rock and a hard place. It's hard to cut your mom off. All right, Mike. So here I'm going to give you... So I'm going to tell you specifically I mean, it's just a rock and a hard place. I mean, it's hard to cut your mom off. You know, she was a good mom.

All right, Mike, so here I'm gonna give you, I'm, ha ha ha. So I'm gonna tell you specifically to navigate between the rock and the hard place, and that is that place of boundary, which is where you go, look, I love my mom, she's depressed, she drives me crazy, I have all these horrible thoughts about it,

but I'm whole, and I have a boundary with her, and by the way, my primary responsibility is the family I'm forming now with my wife. So I can't let her feelings fill me, overwhelm me, intrude upon me. I can just be present for her, come what may. Really hard when you've been taking on her feelings your entire life and managing her and making things okay for her. But you may need some therapy to be able to really actually do that. How much correcting can you really do or how impactful can you really be when somebody is depressed this way and the bones have just set? With her?

Yeah. Well, you'd think about meds with her. You'd sort of try to help her raise the brain chemistry so she then begin to take action to take care of her life, to try to do things that improved her mood and then hopefully get rid of the meds. Right. All right Mike, good luck to you. Thank you. The good news is you're 33, you live in San Diego and you're a good person. You turned out okay. And I think San Diego needs to woo you Adam. It's LA without all the garbage. Oh, San Diego's beautiful. Yeah it is nice. My son went down there yesterday and came back. I've done that quite a few times. All right Mike, take Sandy goes beautiful. Yeah, it is nice. My son was on there yesterday came back

I've done that quite a few times. All right, Mike. Take care of yourself No, we'll we'll pray that your mom has power pole land on her And what about by the way get her some help take her to mental health services or see if somebody can actually treat her And take her off your hands a little bit or God knows she's suffering. Let's let's help her with that I actually help you got something you like? That one's kind of weird. Your mom, let's see, your mom was pretty intrusive, was a pretty intrusive lady. More intrusive parents, yeah. Super, your mom was super intrusive, right? Super anxious. Anxious? Like something bad was gonna happen all the time? Mm-hmm. I don't know why this this thing of being super anxious in front of your kids is if you're doing them a favor because you're constantly put a sweater on

What what what good do you really wouldn't you rather your kid go out and play on a Coolish day without a parka on Then fill the kid with anxiety by screaming put a jacket on over and over again God forbid have them go. Geez. That was awful next time. I'm gonna wear a sweater Yeah, I know I get into this thing all the time That that thing all the time where you go, you know, my wife's like put a jacket on. I'm not cold put a jacket on I'm not cold. I've told Lynette 270 times,

them being cold doesn't get them sick, but it does not work. It does not. They cannot – That is a weird sort of thing people have. They cannot – if you're cold, because the word cold has cold in it, you're going to catch a cold because you are cold? And I'm like, it's not links. It's funny. I was thinking about this very issue in recent weeks, just kind of trying to figure out why.

And I remember my dad, who was a family practitioner, sort of weirdly said something to me once about not going out after I took a shower, which by the way, kids don't ever do anymore after football and stuff. Right. Weird. But anyway, I would go out in the cold, I'm trying, you're going to get sick. I was like, really? I'm going to get sick?

Then I started thinking, you know, when you're older, our age, and you get ill, you do need to stay warm. It can affect your airways and things. Once you're sick, once you're sick, there's sort of an issue there that exposure to the elements can take you down a little bit. But if you're healthy, you're not going to get sick from being cold, I don't think. Right. I've seen or I don't know if they've done studies

But I don't think there's any correlation and a healthy six-year-old in Southern, California When it's 67 degrees outside can go outside in a t-shirt and run around not gonna get sick from that But there's this crazed like put something on take the jacket and I'm like we're walking the dog The sons out take the jacket like well some of it is we're walking the dog, the sun's out, take the jacket. Like... Well, some of it is though, you don't want the kids to whine and complain. Yeah, yeah. I understand.

But it's also, and I don't know, I feel the same way with eating. Like look, when they're hungry, they're going to tell you they're hungry. They got to eat, you know? There's also this thing I get into with Lynette all the time, which is like... Hold on, sorry, you and Lynette conflict about things? Yeah. What is lunch? You on, hold on, sorry, you and Lynette conflict about things? Yeah. What is lunch? You know, what is lunch?

And I'll go, I'll give them an apple and give me some cashews and they're good and then her thing's like, they need spaghetti! And I'm like, look, the grilled cheese sandwich isn't any more to your body. They don't know what it is. It's hot, it's whatever. But it's just sustenance You know, I know apples and cashews sound sort of like a shitty lunch, but to your body same as a grilled cheese sandwich It doesn't doesn't doesn't make any never mind, you know, it's a lot of arguably better arguably better

But there's a lot of stuff that is just there and it's mom's job I get it like it's good better to have it's mom's job. I get it. Like, it's good. Better to have that mom than a who cares mom. Yeah. But things that are just there are often there because of traumas generations past. You know, when people were struggling with eating and having meals and war and whatever. I mean, my own theory is, by the way, that the flood is something that probably happened when an asteroid hit the planet, and now it gets just transferred down through mythology and things like that, because all civilizations had a flood myth.

Right. And so it stays with us. You prepare for the flood. The traumas stay in our socialization for generations. They get passed around. Yeah. All right. But cold doesn't have anything to do with getting a cold.

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Yeah, that's my left rhomboid, I guess. Yeah, that's a very weird diagnosis, I gotta say. Is this one of those made-up things? No, I mean, weird shit happens. Idiopathic? Well, I mean, idiopathic means we used to say it first year medical, so they go, it means the doctor's an idiot and the patient's pathetic. Idiopathic.

But meaning we don't know the cause. It means there's no specific diagnosis attached to it. This is your back is hurting, right? It feels like my back, but all my doctors keep saying it's my shoulder, so I'm not sure. Yeah. All right. Did you ever injure yourself? No.

The weird thing is that I got out of a car one day and then my whole left arm went numb, my left pinky went numb, and my left ring finger went numb. And then for about three months lying down, I couldn't really exercise and all my muscles in my body were just contracting and convulsing at different frequencies. All the muscles in your body? Yeah, my legs, my stomach, my chest. I mean, it wouldn't be all at once,

but it would just trickle everywhere. And you weren't coming off or on a medication at that point? No, nothing. I was in the best shape of my life, and it's really kind of affected the quality of my life since then. Wow. Do you have a seizure?

Is that what that is? No, that's not seizure. That's a fasciculation. All right, who should he see? Well, Sean, I would, man, I would really, idiopathic brachyleritis is more of, I mean, it is a diagnosis, but I would really, God, I would go to a university and go to department of neurology and really try to nail this down.

I'm not, there are many, you know, there's this whole category of undiagnosable conditions that is out there. And Sean really is in that category. I mean, it's a medical mystery. And you know, most, these days when you hear about that, it's usually a psychiatric thing or a medical, you know, drug addiction thing. Usually that's the common thing. That is not it with Sean. This is the real deal. Grab bag. We can't quite explain it. He's in good shape. He's not depressed. He's not coming off meds.

No. And something happened. And I would really, there's neurologists out there sometimes that are very skilled. This may be the diagnosis, but for me it doesn't explain all the other stuff you described. Alright, Sean. University. Please look at Crossback to figure, yeah, Department of Neurology, where is he? Anaheim. Go to UCLA or go to UC Irvine. Go to UC Irvine.

Irvine. Yeah. Do you see Irvine a good school? Yeah. The medical school. Mm-hmm. Better than UCLA? No.

You like UCLA. I like UCLA. But you went to USC. Yeah. What's better, USC or UCLA? For what? The medical stuff. For going to medical school? For going to medical school, I think USC is better because you get, if you want to be a clinician, because you get so much material. You see so much stuff. I remember I went over to UCLA. Well, you get people shot on campus. You get to go actually work on fresh cadavers. No, no, it's not just on campus. The medical school is in East LA. Oh, is it County USC?

Oh, boy. I've been down to County USC before. Yes, you've been to that outpatient clinic with thousands of people milling around. Yeah, I've been to the one that's just right in the middle of scary downtown and just waited for seven hours to get my ankle reset or something like that and it's just a fucking disaster. I've worked in an ortho clinic. They're lined up on the walls there.

Yeah, it's just, it's everything. It's unsavory, but it's good care. People get good care there. Well yeah, they're good physicians and it's a good facility. It's just you have so many fucking bums in there it's just fucking horrible. Alright. They've cleaned it up a bit. Yeah that's nice. Hey Mike. Hey guys how's it going? Calling from Connecticut. I have a question for you guys. Yeah 28. Yes go ahead. Yeah I just for the last three four years I've been um I've been addicted to Roxy cotton and it all started when I had my wisdom teeth pulled

I started taking um five milligram percocets, but anyways about six months ago. I had a friend who told me about a drug called suboxone and Ever since then I've been taking the suboxone every day, a quarter of a strip, and I felt great. I mean, I've honestly gotten some normalcy back in my life. And now I'm trying to quit, and I just, I can't do it. It's the same or worse than... Right, it's actually worse. It's worse.

But here's, Adam, this is a really interesting situation. What do you do for a living? I'm a pizza delivery guy. I deliver pizza. OK. So this is really interesting. But listen to this. So listen.

So couldn't we teach raccoons to do that job? Like, I feel like. I mean, I could do it. I mean, it's just, you know, I got nothing else to do. Listen, I like the fact that the guy is an opiate addict and still has a job. That's a big deal. I like that too. Yeah. So here's the deal. How's Listen, I like the fact that the guy is an opiate addict and still has a job. That's a big deal.

I like that too. Yeah. So here's the deal. How's the tipping going with the delivering of the pizza? It's hit or miss. You know, sometimes it's good. I live in an upscale community, so I don't have to worry about getting robbed at least. And the tips are usually all right.

Do you do a thin crust? What kind of crust do you guys do? All different kinds. All different kinds. What's the biggest request? We do a lot of chicken bacon ranch. That's what everybody seems to like from us. Sounds disgusting.

You live in an upscale Puerto Rican community? Chicken bacon ranch? No, no, no. Oh, when you say upscale, you mean everyone has to be weighed because of their diabetes? They're up on a scale constantly? No, they're up the scale. They're heavy. Oh, they're up the scale.

You've up the scale. They used to average in the low twos, like an NFL line back in the 70s. Now it's up the scale. Chicken Bacon Ranch? Chicken Bacon Ranch. Fucking peak. What the fuck? Drew? Yeah, I know where you're going. Pineapple. This is pineapple. Ranch chicken bacon fucking peak

Drew yeah, I know I know somebody apple. This is pineapple. Let's know somebody tweeted me today Churro flavored yogurt, and I went it's over. It's over. It's fucking over I've been screaming about iced tea and passion fruit for a million years right yes It's passion fruit everything all the time 24-7. Drew what is this saying? Not a good thing. We, Drew, listen to this. Everyone listen to me. Mind can be blown? Blow my mind. Okay. Everything was just what it was for the first several thousand years of our existence. Look at the churro. Don't look at me. I don't possess...

There's a large screen that's illuminated. It has a picture of churro yogurt. There is such a thing. I thought it was something somebody was inventing. That's why... This is disgusting. Okay. The point is this, Drew. Listen to me. I'm listening. That's why this is disgusting. OK. The point is this, Drew, listen to me. Tell me what this means socially. For the last I'll just go back 200 years.

There were just iced tea was iced tea. Coffee was coffee. Lemonade was lemonade. Pizza was pizza and a steak was a steak. And that was it. But the good news is we had so much variety, it's just 20 years ago. It wasn't like, oh we have to eat lasagna for the 45th night in a row. No, no. You can get it. You know, Mexican food, you could go get Thai food, like you just get everything, whatever you wanted.

And if you went to the supermarket you could get orange juice or you just get everything whatever you wanted and if you went to the supermarket You could get orange juice or you could get cranberry juice something happened and there was There was something called Doritos and they just had Doritos and you know what Doritos tasted like Doritos. They tasted like Doritos Something happened and I don't mean five years ago. I mean five minutes ago where everything just got shoved into Every it's you cannot buy cranberry juice anymore because it's raspberry apple cran cherry Right, which by the way tastes like sugar water with weird color in it Like eventually, yeah, it tastes like nothing like if somebody said careful the mang If somebody said, hey man, you think you like goulash? Well, I got goulash mixed with Texas style chili, mixed with shepherd's pie, mixed

with just good old American stew. Now, you're going to love it. It's like, no, no, this tastes like a weird meat sauce, but it doesn't taste like you're gonna love it. It's like, no, no, this tastes like a weird meat sauce, but it doesn't taste like any one of the things. It tastes like everything. What happened? I'm gonna blow your mind back. Go ahead. Okay. Prepare to be blown? Okay. Your beloved competition. Your beloved competition creates opportunity for people finding little tiny niches in every market and trying to exploit those little niches to erode the lasagna into lasagna rito. We're gonna take some of that lasagna stuff and we're gonna get it over here because some of those kids are gonna like lasagna rito. Even though it sounds shitty and

awful, they somehow erode a piece of the money. I know, they're trying to make money. So maybe it's a sign of too much capital in the system that people feel sort of like they can to go explore the lasagna-rito. Like, let's just see how it is, let's go check it out. Too much capital. And I would argue that that's what's happening to television and media, too. That's why we have so much shitty television. We also have great television now. The same competition that's diluting it all

and creating all this shitty stuff, you got a mad man, you got a breaking bad. So it has probably two sides to it, right? Well, there's another component that we're not factoring in, which is the honey boo boo factor, which is you need enough dumb people to want to watch a fat Four-year-old eat mayonnaise, but that's our hands right that's the throwing the shit at the wall though some of the lasagna rito somebody It goes oh, this is the greatest thing ever yeah, and it's just come as it becomes novelty and then the point is is pizza

That had ranch and chicken and bacon on it would not appeal to anybody but the institutionalized 20 years ago. But your point is... Now it appeals to a new breed of moron. But this is why the Greeks, ancient Greeks, hated democracy. They didn't trust people to be able to be discriminating. And we say, no, no, eventually we'll find our way. We'll eat the lasagna, we'll eat the pizza with the ranch, because we'll find our way out. I think my way out is going to be Canada, because all I do is hear about pizza that

is covered with ranch dressing, and then every time I go into a sports bar, I got to listen to Katy Perry pumped in, and Lady Gaga, and I realized I'm living in the wrong society. Meaning, if you went and traveled and somebody said, oh, how do you like it in this African culture? You'd go, they eat with their hands, they take shit standing up, like not for me. Like not judging, but I'm just not into yak meat. You know what I mean? So I cannot live here. I'm not into their music, I'm not into their food. I'm starting to feel that way about our culture.

Katie Perry is the yak meat of music, what you're saying. Thank you. Well, we haven't dealt with Mike yet. That's why I'm getting him back on the phone. So Mike. My back? Yeah, yeah, sorry about all that. But here's the deal. I've got a whole other thing we've got to get into here. Because hang on, stop with the pizza. Let's talk about Mike and his... It's actually great pizza, by the way, guys. You've asked it. It's actually great pizza. It says the 28-year-old drug addict was put on academic probation at the junior college. Yeah, your palate is pristine. What

are you doing delivering pizza? You should be in France getting a Michelin rating about now. Obviously you have an issue. You're fucking junkie who delivers pizza. You're knocking on 30 years of age. Okay, hold on. Please. So hold on. Of course it's delicious to you. So hold on.

Delicious to you and raccoons. Okay. So I want to defend Mike for a second. So Mike, listen carefully here. So suboxone is an excellent, a good treatment for opiate addiction these days. It's useful in helping people through withdrawal, and in some people they can stay on it exactly as Mike has described. They can stay on it and it sort of levels them out. They start to have feelings again.

They're not the ups and downs of being a heroin addict, and they can kind of get a job and work in the world, okay? Now, if you got opiate addiction, this would not be an option for you. Why not? Because it changes you. If I got it and I wanted to practice medicine, not an option for me because I couldn't out my checks by judgment and things, I'm on a drug. And so for, interestingly for physicians, for doctors, we don't treat them with Suboxone. We treat them with abstinence-based treatment,

which is something Mike's interested in. He wants to get off the Suboxone, but finds he can't. And the reality is for him to do it, he'd have to find a place to go and detox and be active in NA and dedicate his life to his recovery and be an abstinent person. He can do it, but it takes a lot of work for about a year.

So the question is, should he just stay on the Suboxone and keep delivering pizza? I say yes, for now, for society. For all those who need ranch dressing. Well, that's what the powers of bees say. The problem is Suboxone is overused and so the atoms are now getting put on it as well. As well as the mic. I agree, I think Mike should just stay on the damn Suboxone and overused and so the atoms are now getting put on it as well. As well as the mic.

I agree. I think Mike should just stay on the damn Suboxone and that's that. And work with somebody on getting off it someday but not now. Go get Mike Lynch. Mike, think of all the pizzas that I hate for a second. And now picture me working at the pizza joint in Connecticut that Mike works at. We'll just call it Tony's. I'll be answering the phone.

It'll be great bring uh... but i allowed tony's what i do for yes i want to get a pizza that what size a large okay we like that i wanted to get the veggie lover uh...

here with a about that call back in a few minutes now that this is what you know I'm having a party and I think people will want some some people like vegetables so like watery pizza so so they're gonna give people an option well yeah but there's so so when you're eating a pizza you're like man I wish there was this super bitter bell pepper flavor on top of this pizza look how about we do a meatball and onion for you? I think we could do that but but I want to give people some, you know, maybe we should put some tomatoes on there, some tomatoes. There's tomatoes in the sauce.

You want to just put more tomatoes on top of it and it's been weird slick of tomato, watery tomato on top. Let's just give them a plain cheese. I'll do one large plain cheese. That'd be for the vegetarians. Well, what do you want in the crust? Well, I definitely, we definitely need the extra cheese in the crust and then in the crust in the oh, yeah No, we like the cheese in the crust. There's cheese on the pizza

You don't need it in the crust. Then when you pull it apart is thin crust New York style large cheese. What else? Well, we were hoping to get like a Buffalo Ranch kind of thing. What on the pizza? Yeah Yeah you have the Buffalo style pizza. Right. Uh-huh. How about I come over there and smack you around a little bit. Listen, you get a meatball, here are your options. We'll give you the cheese, thin crust. You're gonna have sausage and onion or you can go with a meatball. Now which is it? Oh we definitely want a thick crust. Oh okay listen, this call's ended. You know what, might I suggest a establishment called Domino's. Perhaps you would prefer their product more, sir.

Thank you. Do you have crazy bread? I like the way you put them on hold, that way we're gonna go on hold. I put them on hold. I literally couldn't work at a pizza place, I realize. I could not take people's orders. What about when they then order the dessert

that the pizza place provides? You know how every question would be like, oh you went to Buffalo cheesy ranch, I'd be like, you know, it'd start off like this. You have kids over there? No, no, just me and the wife. Black couple are you? No, no, wife's ours. Okay, so let me get this straight. There'd be a lot of innocent questions. All right, let's hurry up. Let's get through this

last one. Let's see, line four. Chris. Hi. You're 28. Calling from DC. Father's an alcoholic. Physician. He's an alcoholic physician who tried to kill himself over the holidays. Yeah, hi, can you guys hear me? Yeah. Hi, first of all, thank you all for what you do. You know, Adam and Drew, you both help me out a lot, just I probably wouldn't be calling this number here in the past year until I realized, hey, it's probably okay to ask some of these questions.

Okay, Drew, what do you do here? Physicians are extra hard to treat, Chris. Is he a surgeon? No, he's a family practice doctor. Family practitioners get a lot of depression, and it's really difficult to practice family practice these days. It's just extremely difficult. So the work is overbearing. God knows what else is going on in his life stress-wise. But his depression is life-threatening. He also, you said he's an alcoholic too. So there's a great program in Oregon that treats a lot of physicians called Springbrook. If that were my dad, I would just airlift him there. I'd escort him on over there. If he wants to keep drinking, whatever, get

him to Springbrook. Get him in. Four physicians. Six months at Springbrook. Yeah, that's what I was doing. Can I ask you, here's kind of what I just found out a couple days ago I tried to call him over the holidays and no response and then I came to find out one of his One of his friends had basically he called one of his friends saying I'm gonna die I'm gonna die and the friend went over to the and he was, house was a mess, there's dog shit everywhere, he had beer cans and brought him to the hospital. I'm flying back there this weekend with my sister, still lives in Denver and I'm flying back there to try to do something and my biggest question is what is the first step, what do

I need to do? I don't want to screw this up and go about it the wrong way. You don't get involved in conversations with him. You don't talk about it. You need to go to a program called Alan On and or get a therapist yourself. That will help you in terms of how to deal with him going forward. But right now, no conversations. You just you plan a place for him to go, he goes. That's it. Don't waste your time talking. We set up Springbrook, you're gonna be there, we're taking you, and off we go Speaking of talking the love line tour coming to a town near you Santa Barbara Denver Redondo Beach Napa

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