The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - Memory Loss, Counter Culture and 70's Hair Styles (The Adam and Dr. Drew Show Classics)

Episode Date: August 3, 2024

Adam and Dr. Drew talk about how cigarettes are a major cause of memory loss, how generations have talked about counter culture and it's impact in society and the styles of the 70's and their thoughts....

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Welcome back to the Adam and Dr. Drew Show Classics. I am your host, Big Brother Jake, aka Jake Warner. My government name. Let's get to it. First up is episode 1519 that took place on January 12, 2022. It's titled, Once You Pick A Side, You Go Haul. Take that as you will. Adam had a huge disagreement with some members of the crew. He wasn't happy about how it was handled. And it all ended up being funny at the end. So check it out.
Starting point is 00:00:40 All right. So what show do you want to do, Ruzabay? I've got tickets to the Thursday podcast and the stand-up after 23rd. Oh, there you go. So I Thursday night stand-up show. Yeah, so is that the one where you want to do early Thursday? So the screen says are my looking at that? I'm you guys got me all day. I'll do whatever you need because we're the only show works for you Yeah, but doesn't don't
Starting point is 00:01:09 but we're still doing ball pulling after the Yeah, I think I don't know why it's early we haven't on stage that much in the line I know that's my memory, but we're still gonna carve out 20 minutes at the end for the ball pulling still going to carve out 20 minutes at the end for the ball pulling on the on this on the pods oh that I'm then I'm wrong I rarely say this but Chris please chime in I thought that was gonna be in the second show so I'm wrong well I think we've been doing it in both haven't we or am I making now don't ask Brian and I crazy no only ball pulling in the Late Show. Oh, really? He has tickets to both. Just be in the audience.
Starting point is 00:01:49 The screen says he wants to pull balls for the early show. That's the podcast. So I'm going, oh, well, do it for the... So Gina goes, well, the Late Show, right? And I go, no, he wants to do the early show. They're like, there's no ball pulling in the early show. Well, Gina at least went, I don't know, please don't ask me. But then when Dawson comes in, you can see, OK, now we're in.
Starting point is 00:02:09 Yeah, now I don't know what Brian wanted. He didn't want to make me write, did he? What did he want? I think from an outside perspective here, and I hadn't seen this clip before today, I believe this is the first time ever where they will be on stage with you physically, and then you will dismiss them
Starting point is 00:02:26 Is that? We'll grab you when we need you early show should not be up there that's confusing Because you'll be pulling balls at the late show Do we pull balls in the live pod Brian I have never been a part of that no And the one San Diego show I was at, Adam Ray was there. Yeah, you did with Adam. But that's a live pod, right? No, that was Adam Carolla's unprepared.
Starting point is 00:02:53 We pull balls in both the podcast and the standup. We've been doing that for two years. Haven't I been saying that? What? You have done it, but we have not been there. You dismissed... We've done it in Jam of the Band, and we did it at Belly. And then you did it. We've done it, but we have not been there. You dismissed Janice and we did it at Belly and then you did it. This time you're doing two shows.
Starting point is 00:03:10 Thanks, Chris. I know. Well, so might be. All right. Why am I feel like I'm taking crazy pills? I do feel that way. When we do shows with Adam, Brian, are we part of a segment where somebody comes up on stage and pulls balls?
Starting point is 00:03:23 No, what happens is Adam dismisses us, but we're on Zoom from here typically. That's why we have no one. Thank you. Okay. That's why you would have a recollection of the podcast segueing into balls. Yeah, but to be fair to you guys in slight insanity, we cut it off at like an hour or something and I go, all right, now you guys can go to pull the balls. That's why I was confused.
Starting point is 00:03:44 It's not what we're on stage for. And the last times that you guys have been on stage with Adam was Jam the Van and Belly Up. All those times we've done balls as well. It's been consistent. I wasn't at Belly Up. Now Brian was at Belly Up. Jam the Van?
Starting point is 00:03:59 Ball pulling? No, I left and Adam Ray stayed. It's getting tedious. It doesn't matter, I guess. All right, Dawson, where are you getting your info? You know, I don't remember, I remember Adam Ray pulling balls for the second show. You know, Woody pulled the balls on Jam in the Van, I think. Right.
Starting point is 00:04:14 All right, so anyway. Oh, yes, that's true. Yeah, just come to the show, Roosby. So, Roosby. Look what you've done, Roosby. You can do either show. All right, so how do they know something that they know or don't know? Where does that come from? And then imagine these people on a fucking witness stand.
Starting point is 00:04:29 I know. Well, this is the function of memory, right? Memory is reconstructed. And a lot of it is... But how does it pertain to the group? You know what I mean? It became sort of three and a half against one or something at a certain point. Why choose a side? I'm the one who's on stage. I would just say this is what I do. I don't know why. There was a couple moments there where I thought to myself, don't go around at a time, Gina.
Starting point is 00:04:54 Don't do it. Don't, just stop. Just stop. So I didn't know what that was all about. Well what it was about was an incorrect assumption and then a defense of it. Yeah. Jam in the Van was several months ago. then a defense of it. Jam in the Van was several months ago, wasn't several years ago. Gene was out with us and so was Brian.
Starting point is 00:05:11 Was this like a thing of like driving kind of thing? It was an outdoor event. But it doesn't matter. I think about the fact that we were doing that. I think how nutty this all is. It's an interesting concept, this thing. It happens to me frequently where I have Groups of people going now. Well, the memory is a spectrum, right?
Starting point is 00:05:35 Some people have screen memories of what happened and they're accurate some people can literally Open a book and read from a page out of memory other people Reconstruct memory on a whole cloth whole cloth. It's reconstructed. Well, the most injuring component is Dawson, because Dawson has been at many of these shows and sits there. And what's interesting is I, my whole life, have had screen memories that are very accurate. My son has the youthful version of that, which is extremely accurate.
Starting point is 00:06:02 And I just tell him, I roll the tape roll the tape what happened Here's the here's the concept. I'm I want to drill down on yeah Why do you know with certitude something that's the heart of truth why not look I'm the one who does it I've done this too quiet. I've done 250 of these shows. I was willing to entertain the thought that I didn't do it. I understand that that's virtuous It is yes. Thank you. I think being self questioning is virtuous I think hubris is something to watch out for and certain certitude is built on hubris and I understand it because I've done it I've been my whole you know, I wonder is from practicing medicine so long I had to have a lot of certitude in some of the decision making I was having.
Starting point is 00:06:47 But I see it in other people, and it's kind of unpleasant when it comes out, because it just doesn't lend itself to discourse, it doesn't lend itself to ideas, it just sort of stops something. What did Brian want Chris to do when he called for you to chime in? That's the question. By the way, Drew, I was at home with COVID. I'm over Zoom just yelling into my mic. Brian was hoping that I could clear things up for them.
Starting point is 00:07:13 He thought I was going to be on their side as well. He wouldn't have called me to shit on his point. Yes, I agree. But how did we get three people? This is insane too, because Drew, before every live show, I send a rundown to all of them. Here the plan you guys are on here after we let you go We're doing unprepared. Well you every single you see you seemed incredulous when you came in like How could you guys be thinking this right? That's what you were thinking. Yeah. Yeah, I was with Adam
Starting point is 00:07:39 I was this is so what do you I was yelling into my mic, but Dawson had me muted I would have chimed in way earlier. I'm like, Caitlin, get Dawson unmute me. Brian and Gina frequently disagree with me. I understand that. So when Gina put the offering out, Brian jumped on it and Dawson frequently disagreed. So he got this offering. Well, hey, would you like to disagree with Adam? And they went, oh yeah, we're in. And they do it with such conviction. That's what we're remarking about. Do you have any sense of what that is? No, I don't actually.
Starting point is 00:08:09 But there is an interesting thing here, which is I never get to have other people to gang up on you with. And I imagine that is appealing. It's easier. I imagine it feels good. Well, it's three against one at a certain point. So I kind of get it, but I would certainly resist it. It's not a good, it's not a, it's not character. It's not good character. Well it's a little bit of a domino
Starting point is 00:08:30 effect. Gina floats it. Brian seizes an opportunity to disagree with me so he jumps on board and then Dawson... So there's a history here that's coming to bear is what you're saying. Well they disagree with me on lots of stuff. But this is interesting. It's interesting. Well, it shows the power of it because you can take something that is eminently knowable and doable and we've done a million times and turn it into something else. But here's the deal. Dawson, I think, is just the last dominant.
Starting point is 00:09:01 He's just going with the group at this point. Agreed. Riddle me this though. You wouldn't have much of a show if people were too scared to stand up to you. So at least they've got each other to make them feel like they can kind of question things. Yeah, but one would argue at a certain point it becomes too strong a theme. You're going too far in a certain direction. We're just simply trying to get through this guy pulling balls for the early show. Chris
Starting point is 00:09:24 signed him up to pull balls for the early show because we pull balls for the early show. We're just trying to get through it. That's all. It's sort of hysterical. Oh my God. The inner workings of the show. It's the inner workings of a mind.
Starting point is 00:09:37 Well it is. Well of a group and a mind, right? Because there's memory function and there's group dynamics here too. And there's history. The history part is what I wasn't thinking about. But it's an interesting, it's an interesting glimpse psychologically behind the curtain because Dawson, who's been to many of these shows, was certain that we didn't do this.
Starting point is 00:09:57 Oh yeah. And I, who performed this at every show, was willing to entertain the thought that I didn't. Which is virtuous. I'm gonna bet... I don't care about me. I'm more curious about Dawson Sertikin. I'm gonna bet he's one of these people that recreates memory out of a whole cloth. There are people that do that. How are you recreating a memory of something that takes place on every show? I'm telling you there are people that do that. That's how their brains work. I thought they couldn't train them. Otherwise, it's just how they work I here's what I think
Starting point is 00:10:28 Most people and I've learned this from Jimmy Kimmel Once you pick a side you go hard That's the scene out now. I'm going from you pay right you pick a side and you go hard You don't pick a side and then go with a question mark. That's sort of disgusting to me, frankly I don't like that quality in people most people do it. Hmm That's how people work because they want to win the argument. You're not gonna win it with question marks You got to pick a side and you got to go hard So weird that's like being the opposite of growth
Starting point is 00:10:58 You know, well, it's what kids do. Yeah, that's that's the phenomenon Yeah, I mean gene and bald were sort of what willing to go back and forth. Yeah, that's that's the phenomenon. Yeah, I mean Gene and bald were sort of what willing to go back and forth Yeah, yeah But it's an interesting dynamic. Hmm, and again, it's every show But again, they weren't there in person for many of them, but they were in person for Many of them and as Chris said they get a rundown on all of them. Yeah, well, we will also the show's 90 minutes.
Starting point is 00:11:28 If we end at 60, that means I'm continuing on. It's interesting. It's an interesting dynamic. It is interesting. All right. Let me hit Simply Safe. Want to make your home feel safer? No better time than now. Simply
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Starting point is 00:12:47 It's hard for me to, I was trying earlier to justify my mind, but I had forgotten about the in-person shows that they've done around town, Jam in the Van and such, that's hard to understand. I believe they don't read their rundowns. Sorry. Well, I don't read the rundown either. Or they don't read them properly.
Starting point is 00:13:02 What was transpiring there psychologically or emotionally? I mean, I think you called it with Gina and Brian like Gina just will say the thing that comes to her mind. If something's confusing to her, she's just going to jump on it and say it out loud. That's something that she does. And I think Brian, as you correctly pointed out, we'll see any opportunity to shit on a point and join in on the fun. What's blowing my mind is that you guys are all saying
Starting point is 00:13:27 that the final vote comes down to Dawson. You guys are all confused about why Dawson's confused. And I love Mike Dawson, but he smokes more weed than every single person in the city combined. Of course his memories are fucked up. There you go. I know. Drew, now see what you just did?
Starting point is 00:13:43 Yeah. What'd I do? Cigarettes don't make you confused. No, but they go. Now see what you just did. Yeah What I do cigarettes don't make you confused No, but they fuck with memory function. They do cigarettes and pot they well pot Typically cigarettes over years create all kinds. Okay. All right. Well I Historically comedically. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you'd stick with the pot. Okay, fair enough angle fair enough, but Interesting. All right quick break right back after this. All right, up next we have episode 1542
Starting point is 00:14:18 that aired on March 7th, 2022. The fellas talk about counterculture and the discussion of counterculture from the 70s Now very interesting listen check it out Yeah, I'm interested in the counterculture that so basically what here's what happens if you if you want to know how all this stuff works Yeah they sit around and The counterculture sits around somebody back then or now no now no well
Starting point is 00:14:54 How this all got going? Yeah. Yeah They they sit around and they go I mean they do the same thing that the right, the religious right used to do. It's like you sit around and you go, those people are going to hell. Yeah. And then you sit around for a while longer and you go, they're still going to hell. And then at a certain point you go, I got to get involved. I got to save them.
Starting point is 00:15:17 I got to shut some shit down. You know what I mean? So behind it, there was like, God, I hate my dad. Yeah, it's always I hate my dad. But it's like, look, I'm going to sit here, I'm going to ride my bike to work if I even have a work, I'm going to grow my beard, I'm not going to do their fools errand that they call life. And let them eat their meat and drive their gas guzzlers and go to work for the man and
Starting point is 00:15:40 pray at their church and stuff. I don't need any of that. And then after a while, they went, well, I'd like to stop them from doing that. That's kind of where we're at. So it's kind of like, let those idiots on Fox say whatever they want, who cares, nobody's listening, they're racist or whatever. Then after a while it's like, well Fox is beating you in the ratings. Oh, okay, so we should stop them now. That's kind of what it turns into. Let Joe Rogan go talk about whatever he wants with any nut job UFO guy comes on show.
Starting point is 00:16:19 Then at certain points, he's beating you in the ratings. Okay, well we need to stop him. Then that's kind of what it is. Because remember it goes from, well I know everything about COVID, these nut jobs, fringe doctors, epidemiologists, let them go spew their nonsense and then at a certain point it's like,
Starting point is 00:16:41 ah we gotta shut them down. That's kind of how it all works. In a weird way there's another wrinkle to that. And listen carefully. So there are people that are exactly like you said, and they sit in judgment of other people. But when you hand them like a sledgehammer, then they wanna use it.
Starting point is 00:17:00 Right. And it's not even just, because back when I was on HLN, we get our ratings every day and here's how we look at our ratings. Fox News was at the top because it had the highest ratings. We'd fold the page over because Fox News was between five and ten times what everybody else was getting. So it's like, okay, we can't even like look at that. It's looking like MSNBC and CNN and see what else is going and CNN and CNN and CNN and CNN and CNN and CNN and CNN and CNN and CNN and CNN and CNN and CNN and CNN and CNN and CNN and CNN and CNN and CNN and CNN and CNN and CNN and CNN and CNN and CNN and CNN and CNN and CNN and CNN and CNN and CNN and CNN
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Starting point is 00:17:32 and CNN and CNN and CNN and CNN and CNN and CNN and CNN and it's kind of violence. It's kind of, you know, they would say, I know I'm peace, peace man. I want peace. I want people to be enlightened and understanding, man. Well, it's all Ellen Dancings. Like, why are you guys talking about good vibes so much? It is Ellen Dancings. Because see, to me, not being a racist, live and let live, I don't want to tell you who to worship or who to marry or you know I'm not interested in any of that. That requires silence. But it's essentially, like not saying anything. But it also falls under the heading of a default setting. Yes. I don't need to announce, right, I'm for you know equality
Starting point is 00:18:22 you know I'm anti-racist. What do you need to announce all that shit? It should be your default setting. It should be in your DNA, yes. Yeah. Yeah. But so what's with all the proclamations? Yes. Makes me wonder what you're thinking about.
Starting point is 00:18:38 Well, that's what I'm saying with the sledgehammer again. There really is sort of an aggression underneath it. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah., no that's the, look, look, if you want to know if there's an aggression underneath it, cross them. Go ask them a question, get in their face, disagree with them and see the craze, the craziness. Extreme aggression. Extreme aggression come out of them. All right right, when I try call up there I do let's try Sean on line two
Starting point is 00:19:09 Sean Hi guy, hi guy. Oh my god, I've been waiting so long to say that to you too What's going on? First time long time. Yeah, and I just want to start off by saying thank you to both of you. You make me feel sane hearing what you think about things. Oh, good. Got it. Uh, so question kind of for both of you, uh, last summer I got meningitis took,
Starting point is 00:19:39 can't believe it, but it took like five weeks. The first diagnosis I got was carpal tunnel. What? And it was a hot mess. Yeah. It was, it was crazy. Took five weeks. They couldn't figure out what was wrong with me.
Starting point is 00:19:53 And finally I found a neurologist that was like, gave the cementingitis and several weeks in the hospital. And by the time they figured out what was wrong with me, I lost like 25 pounds. And by the time they figured out what was wrong with me, I lost like 25 pounds. And by the time they figured it out, they were like, yeah, you've pretty much gotten through the worst of this on your own, so we're not even going to treat you for it. Never got steroids. They said like the standard treatment was steroids.
Starting point is 00:20:19 Was it meningitis or encephalitis? Okay, so Drew, you may understand this. I got to learn all about it. It was aseptic meningeal encephalitis. Okay, meningeal encephalitis, so it's both. Wow. Yes. Wow.
Starting point is 00:20:38 So it's essentially viral, probably. That's crazy. Yes, that's what they suspected. But they couldn't find like a pathogen or anything in my CSF to pin it down on like where it came from. But they did do a lumbar puncture and they did see evidence of meningitis or infection. They said, so I'd got two lumbar punctures. They said the first one by white blood cell count was 800.
Starting point is 00:21:00 Wow. And that was really high. And then the second one, it was down to like a hundred. And so based on that, they said, you know what, it seems like you're healing up on your own. Things are going back to normal. Never gave me any treatment. Yeah. Well, that far in, you're lucky though, man. Things can go bad. You can get seizures. You can have sort of brain swelling. I was hallucinating really bad.
Starting point is 00:21:27 And they said I was pretty close to going into a coma because of the, what was the level? There was one of those blood bubbles that went way off, I can't remember what it was. Probably the opening pressures, the pressures in your brain were probably really high. Wow, wow, wow, that's intense, man. I'm glad you're better.
Starting point is 00:21:44 Yeah, it was crazy. So the question piece of it, I buy into Adam's philosophy around like, don't use soap. I'll use it occasionally. But you know, I try to live that like, I'm trying to keep my immune system strengthened by using it. So my thought was, that's why I got through it on my own. My wife is like super pissed at me. She thinks that, you know, oh, it's because you don't wash your hands with soap all the time, blah, blah, blah. She wanted me to, you know, use hand sanitizer more. And I'm like, no, I think it's why, you know, got through it on my own because I have this strong immune system because I use it. Well, so most people do get through this sort of call on their own,
Starting point is 00:22:27 unless it's like a herpes virus causing it, in which case you have to take Zovrax, things like that. There are other antivirals these days that they might have used early on. Of course, they would have used steroids as well if they'd gotten you earlier, but most of it kind of does its own thing for the most part. You know, it's based on your cognitive bias, really. Either you got it because you didn't use soap or you got over it because you didn't use soap. I don't know which it is. That's why we have randomized control studies.
Starting point is 00:22:57 Can't tell. Yeah, I mean, it's not provable, but what is provable is we're hurting our immune system by not giving it a workout. Thank you very much, Sean. Well done, Sean. Thanks for the call. Appreciate it. All right.
Starting point is 00:23:13 We'll take a quick break. We'll be right back right after this. We'll be right back with more of the Adam and Dr. Drew Show classics. All right, last up for today we have episode 1529 titled, The Ones Who Care The Least Do The Best, which aired on January 27th, 2022. The followers once again talk about the styles of the 70s again, mainly TV and movie stars. Check it out. Somebody had a couple of people on Twitter were tagging me that they wanted us to talk
Starting point is 00:23:52 about more 70s stuff. Oh, good. And I know that you'd like to hear that. And I thought, well, love boats, not enough. That's not good enough for you guys hearing all the love boat talk. No, no, 70s specific stuff. Yeah. Well, I'll tell you what I stumbled on to the other day when I was doing my program. Hold on, am I gonna need assets for this?
Starting point is 00:24:12 You're gonna need that weird hair cutting tweet post picture somebody cooked and sent me. You might wanna look up the flow beat too while you're at it if you're going to go into haircuts. No, no, no. Well, go ahead. Okay. First off, I distilled down and I'll ask you.
Starting point is 00:24:38 Worst year, one year, not a range of years, one year. In the country's history? No, the categories are automobiles and architecture. If I said you must live in a house built in blank year for the rest of your life and drive a car built in blank year for the rest of your life. Now I'll give you a clue. Do they need to be the same? I'm going to help you.
Starting point is 00:25:10 They need to be the same year? Same year. It's the same year. Yeah. I know the zone. I definitely know the zone. I know you know the zone. Let me see if I can come up with it.
Starting point is 00:25:18 You have to pick the exact year. Okay. Can we hit? What hints? Oh, you said you were going to help me out. I'm helping you out by letting you think in silence. Oh. Uh.
Starting point is 00:25:29 I mean, one narrows it down already. Well, here's what my head goes, right? God, they tore down Pennsylvania Station in like 1972. That was an all-time low but they didn't build Madison Square Garden till like 73 or something and then the the Pacer and the Gremlin that's like 72 or 73. Yeah you all right I'll help you. You have to think early 70s but quiet when you you must realize that the end or the beginning of the decade still has a lot of residual from the decades before it with architecture wasn't as bad yeah weren't as bad yeah yeah yeah well they
Starting point is 00:26:18 were bad but too bad in a different way I was just thinking exactly that but then the Brady Bunch house now we're getting into the later 70s was the full flowering in the middle later. Yeah, not the later 70s It's Brady Bunch started. So it's 70 now like 74 or two so that we got a full flowering of all the avocado and burnt orange and I'm still I'm still gonna go, you know, I may be off and I'm willing to take my knocks But I'm gonna put 73 down there. All right. It's 1974.
Starting point is 00:26:48 74. Okay. Not bad for me. No, not bad. Yeah. Not bad. But this is in your wheelhouse. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:56 Well, you know what I'm not clear on are the exact dates that I was referencing. If you could give me the date that Gremlin came out, that would probably pretty much do it for me. It could have been 74. It could have been 76, 75. No, I don't think of 76. Well, the point is is the cars were a disaster. The architecture was a disaster.
Starting point is 00:27:19 Disaster? Do people not know this? And hairstyles. 1970 is when the Pacer came out? Gremlin. Sorry, I was doing Gremlin. Oh, I was picturing the Pacer. How about the Pacer?
Starting point is 00:27:32 Pacer was a couple years later. Gremlin was earlier. I did say Gremlin though. Yeah. Well, you said Gremlin and Pacer? I did say Gremlin and Pacer. Okay. But then I...
Starting point is 00:27:40 I was picturing the Pacer, sorry. February 75 for the Pacer. Oh, interesting. See, that makes me more right. Yeah. All right. Oh, interesting. See, that makes me more right. Yeah, yeah. All right, so then... By the way, the Pacer was the response to the Gremlin. The genius was the Gremlin.
Starting point is 00:27:53 Now... That they had to bring up something like it is so... Jesus. Now the other problem was it was all in the hairstyles. Yeah. So. Maybe that's the other thing I was thinking, what was the hairstyle? My hairstyle bottom was 73, 70.
Starting point is 00:28:13 Well, no, probably came a couple years later, yeah. Hairstyle bottoms were a little bit later. Yeah. Yeah. But the, so, but here was the problem. It wasn't the hairstyle. It wasn't the architecture style. It wasn't automotive style.
Starting point is 00:28:32 It was that everything needed to be that of the time. There's been nothing else. Right. So. You couldn't have anything else. If you had, you know, on the, on the west side here in Los Angeles, there's these little streets and there's all these like duplexes and quadplexes or what is a little Spanish Adobe kind of things built in the 20s.
Starting point is 00:29:00 Marilyn Monroe probably lived in one for a while, you know, it was that kind of stuff. And early on, you know, I'd have some friends from the Groundlings or whatever, and they had a couple of roommates, and they inevitably ended up in one of those units, you know. And you'd walk into the unit, and it had all the charm of the 20s Spanish-style hacienda duplex or whatever the hardwood floors and the coved ceilings and stuff but you'd go into the kitchen and remember the
Starting point is 00:29:31 kitchens were good for about 45 50 years so they all got blown out in 1975 and then they all got replaced with avocado and burnt orange and bad you know all the all the authentic tile got blown out and they put the laminates on there and everything was a disaster, right? And then you'd go into the living room and see the cottage cheese, acoustic cottage cheese sprayed onto the ceiling or sometimes a drop acoustic cardboard ceiling, you know, with lights, you know. Often they'd carpet these wood floors too.
Starting point is 00:30:03 Oh, often, all the time. Yeah. And so what it was, was that you had to conform. Yeah, because, but here's why I am so impatient with this. We've, the, the, some of the stuff that's going on today, it's like, we've now figured it out. We now we have figured out, now we know how people ought to be. That was the cry of the six from 68 to 76. That was it. Right. It's a new world order. It's peace. We figured it out. This is how it's going to go. And everything that's come before everything is shit. But here, here then lies the problem. That is delusional and horrible. No. I mean, look, anybody is free to wear their hair however they would like to wear their hair in these modern times. And then whatever suits
Starting point is 00:30:55 your hair is how you should wear your hair. Right, well, let's say it more clearly. Your hair, your face, your head, your hair should be optimized for its, how it looks, for its beauty effects, or whatever the word is. Aesthetic. Aesthetic, there you go. All right. But, much like the Spanish villa that was built in the 20s, you trying to 70 size it, that's not what it was built for. And so you get a little distance from it,
Starting point is 00:31:29 it looks like shit, right? Little time, just like you look at the old photographs of the hair. So the problem wasn't so much that the aesthetic was bad or wrong, it's that we forced everyone to comply. Right, if you had curly hair like Adam, we had to turn your hair into Leif Garrett's hair or Farrah Fawcett's hair somehow, no matter what.
Starting point is 00:31:55 That's how you had to look. If you were in the rock and roll band in the 70s, you had male pattern baldness. We had to grow your hair out and flop it over the side. Had to. Oh. Woo. Well, now.
Starting point is 00:32:09 Well, how about, I don't know if you noticed, well, this is the really interesting thing. In the 70s, it was considered, like, uncool isn't a strong enough word, to let your ears be shown. Right. Couldn't see your ears. So look at Captain Steuben's hair. Right.
Starting point is 00:32:24 He has a tiny rim of hair that grows over his ears. It's weird. So even he had to be 75'd. 70-ified. So now there would have been nothing as a Jason Statham or The Rock or someone who just shaved their head. No. I would think about what they had. For to do that captain stewing before the shooting every day somebody with a round brush and a handheld hell dryer had to had to Straighten his little rim of hair over his ear. You know, who's a forgotten comb over? Johnny Carson. Oh
Starting point is 00:32:59 Really? Gary that picture that I think Chris has about Carson and the comb over where you see the two big streaks of gray go through it is going to be eye opening to you, Drew. Interesting. He had a big time comb over toward the end. I mean he was Mr. 70s. He was the one, you know, yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:33:21 Would we call him a good thing from the 70s? Well, kind of, but the comb over was a little tough. That's all for this week. Thanks again for listening to the Adam and Dr. Drew Show classics. I've been your host, Big Brother Jake, host of the Big Brother Jake podcast here on the Podcast One Network. Remember to check back each week for new episodes. While you're at it, don't forget to like, subscribe and rate us five stars wherever you get your podcasts.
Starting point is 00:33:51 Deuces!

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