The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - TV Dads Never Lying and Beating Up on Mr Rogers (The Adam and Dr Drew Show Classics)

Episode Date: February 1, 2025

Adam and Dr. Drew talk about TV dads never lying to their children and how they felt Mr. Rogers deserved to get beat up.

Welcome back to the Adam and Dr. Drew Show Classics. I'm your host Big Brother Jake and we got a great one for you once again. I mean every episode is great or else you wouldn't be listening. Anyways episode 509's first up titled I Got My Nanny that aired on February 2nd of 2017. Adam fits about how his dad is not like TV dads he grew up with and how it made him bitter and how he compared TV nannies to his own. Check it out. Thanks for tuning in. Thanks for telling a friend. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. What's going on, Drusker?

Let's see. I had the best night's sleep of my life last night. Really? Really, I've been, you know, I have this sort of bowel obstruction I get since my surgery. It's a prostate surgery, I get this weird thing. I thought it was diverticulitis, but I actually think it might be intermittent

bowel obstruction. And it just hits and it just wears me out for a few days. And I can't sleep, I have pain at night. It's just a weird, fitful kind of couple days. And then let's go. And then I sleep, last night was the night I have pain at night. It's just a weird fitful kind of couple days and then let's go And then I sleep by last night was a night I slept like a maniac like you know nights when you wake up and you and you think oh It's like glorious sleep is so good. Hmm. I don't remember experiencing that as a kid that came that came later in life

Well, it's funny. I was just having a nice Conversation with my nanny Olga about this. Your nanny? My nanny. She's now my nanny. Interesting. It's a change. We were staying in my kitchen. Lynette's out eating somewhere. The kids are playing video games. She's there for you.

She's there grinding up my sludge for the next day and working over the coffee pot. And she's my nanny. What'd she say? Well, I was talking to her. I was she said your dress. She was mr. Adam. Yeah, mr. Sonny's father Yeah, that was a miss Livingston from the courtship of Eddie's father. She's a nice old Japanese lady. I don't know where Livingston came in. I mean, I could understand it if it was a Toshimoto or something. Somebody's got to explain that she was married to Mr. Livingston or something.

Mrs. Livingston. Was Japanese. Was Japanese, very Japanese. She was the... I think if you looked on Google, why was Mrs. Livingston called Mrs. Livingston, there would be an explanation. but go ahead. She was Bill Bixby's nanny slash sort of butler because he was a single guy having to raise Eddie, I guess his kid. I think back then... People ought to tell you about my best friend.

He's a little boy. All right. We're pathetic. We're commercially pathetic. All those shows made me violently angry at my dad. Look at them. They're playing with a kite on the beach. My dad would never do that.

Everyone thinks all these things are great depictions. They really just sent me into a depression spiral because I would sit around. I like to watch Samford and Son because there's a poor old black guy like sitting on the beat up sofa and his, his rack of a house and I'd go that looks like relate to that. When the Brady's somehow it always hit home with me when the Brady's would have a meeting. I don't know why, but we found, we found, finally found the couch they had the meetings on. Yeah. Yeah trundle

Yeah, Mike would or something like it. Yeah trundle bad Mike Brady would call no. No, let's see great Great Peter. Yeah, Mike Mike Brady would call a Brady meeting We're having a Brady meeting. He would say Philly cheesesteak trying to come just busted. dead. Oh, he's uses his nose is like he's like a tank Yeah, he's like, you know the battling ram they use of the LAPD head battering ram. Oh my god, Darrell Gates incarnate now he the thing about Phil is Phil

Uses his paws like he stands outside you put him outside and he picks his paw up and he bang bang bangs he doesn't do a kind of nudge or a nuzzle or thing or bark or howl or any just lifts his big he has a big paw he has muscles in his forearms and shoulders and he just bangs his paw against like a sliding door that vibrates and you have no choice. You have to get up and you have to go let him in or he'll come around and bang. What do you want, Philly? And if you come around and you go to the next room, he'll walk outside the porch, come around, look through you, look through the glass at you and then bang on his thing. Okay. Now, hold on a second. The Brady, I don't know why the Brady meetings

made me as depressed as I was, but for some reason, them going camping and, you know, Marsha, Marsha, Marsha, or Alice making dinner and calling everyone to the table or something, well, that all seemed very fantastical to me. Like too much. I couldn't imagine it. I kind of got that, all right, families can go camping or something like that. But the Brady meeting, for some reason, it was probably about four episodes

where Mike would call a Brady meeting. And first off, it'd be him standing there. There's a whole bunch of things that were fantastic about it. First, the whole family would just show up in the one room., Carol would like put down her knitting like she'd be knitting something She put that aside Mike would still be dressed from work, but he had his jacket off Right, they still had the tie on course, you know sleeves cuffed up, you know, and you know Then Alice would come in and go like a coffee. Mr. Bray and she'd like pour the coffee. Thank you Alice Thank you things She'd kind of back out of the room, and then they do this thing that these problems were like

Marcia you're getting a B plus in history, and that's not acceptable and I was like my sister ran away I don't we don't know where she is We're living in a radon spewing shit box and I don't know what's going on here. Somebody got a B in algebra? We need to talk about it with everybody. And then they'd sit around and they're like Bobby I'm very disappointed in you. Your bike was left out in the driveway the other day. Now I'm gonna have to ground you. And I was like whoa! They left his bike. They have a driveway. This is awesome. And it all sounded insane to me because I

could never picture having a conversation with my dad that resembled anything that involved this Brady meeting. And then of course everyone just agreeing to get along and, you know, correct whatever was going on. And that was it. I don't know why. Where'd Miss Livingston, where did she get the name Mrs. Livingston? Do we know? It appears that it was to suggest that she had been a war bride, but she was- That's what I was thinking. Like she had married some guy, yeah. She was born and raised in Japan.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, Mr. Eddie's father. God, I wouldn't go over well that I don't think And hey man simpler times Yeah, and Now they couldn't have people get divorced back then people I was gonna die. Yeah. Yeah, so Brady's wife He was he must have been a widower hold on what do you want Phil little sitting and looking he must have been yep yeah you couldn't his wife Helen died of course everyone had to die back

then so the Brady's were a Carol Brady. You're 29. Yeah, you have three kids, right husband died Okay, and then you mr. Brady you got three kids. You're 33. What happened to your wife as she died She was you know, she was 31 and a half. So it wasn't unexpected What a chance everyone dies and also Family affair both parents died. Oh yeah. That's right. Buffy and Jodie's parents died. You want to talk about trauma.

I'm having this very strange experience with all the theme songs start playing in my head. And you want to talk about insane drama You are twins You're five years old Buffy and Jodie, they're like five four or five. They're twins Both their parents dying like a car crash. Yeah, and they get dropped off at the most surely alcoholic uncle Bill this guy was the actors name again

I've Brian Keith Brian Keith he was also the parrot trap the original parrot trap you know what happened to Brian Keith died of alcoholism killed himself oh well he's one of these guys who killed himself at like 73 yeah you don't hear I mean you want to talk about it I just hear alcohol and I eat some stuff. You know what his mr. French isn't Sebastian cavit. That's right. You get dropped off at two of the most surly Uptight dudes and it's not really clear what their situation was. You know what I mean? Little gay They both had a little bit of something something they clearly weren't together thing that was well the thing that was interesting is mr. sorry mr. French yes who was not French

Sebastian Cabot he was this is shitty and stuff well he was the guy's butler yes but the thing that's weird is the guy livediest stuff. Well, he was the guy's butler. Yes. But the thing that's weird is the guy lived alone. Why did he need a butler? He lived alone in Manhattan. In a tiny apartment. Not tiny. It was a confirmed bachelor.

Yeah. And he lived in this apartment in Manhattan and he had like a doorman and stuff like that. I guess something had to say super wealthy even though it's a small state. He was like a successful architect or something. And I don't know why he needed a full-time living dude. But like he'd come in like, French, give me some coffee. And a long night, I said, he'll be right here, mister. So that was a weird conceit.

Well, you have a nanny. I got kids. You got a nanny. And a wife. She's got to take care of everybody. And you got your nanny. Yeah, I got my nanny. Yeah. I need Mr. You got a nanny. And a wife. She's got to take care of everybody. And you got your nanny. Yeah, I got my nanny. Yeah.

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that are often a couple minutes away from who they actually are. What'd you say? Yeah, it's something that Drew and I have been talking about on the air and off the air and I've been very interested in people that, for instance, I've had a lot of people just announce that they are honest. Like one thing, like how dare you call me a liar, like I never lie, like I will not lie and then they they lie all the time well that's the first you know does some lying strangely but I don't know that they know that they're lying and then I've also realized that people look everybody let's be fair here, everybody has a version of themselves that's in their head that feels a certain way that may not comport, I think

that's the word, that word, comport? Yeah, yeah. Comport with exactly what other people are saying. I'm here's But you do you declare who you are? Do you ever do that? I don't think I've ever done that I'm the guy who's always I'm the guy who's never I don't think I I Gotta tell you there are two people that have been in this company Yeah over the over the years the only two people that have ever announced that they were the best they both got canned and they never got replaced with anybody I don't even think they got replaced there so they were that good they couldn't be replaced I've literally had people like sit down and

go you know nobody can do what I do and I'm thinking to myself I have no idea what you do and I assume either nobody will do it or I'll get Kalin to do it like like that's now I know so obviously whatever they think is going whatever's going on in their head is not what's going on in my head no and guess who's right more than they are right now part of being the boss. It's your job to be right. I'll tell you what you can't do have people go I'm the best, you know, no one can do what I do you think oh, please I'll get a $11 an hour kid to do what you do have that person leave and have the whole tent come down Mm-hmm as a boss that That's that you cannot even get

I mean right. Now that's your ultimate failure. I have... Or not be prepared to do it yourself. Which is part of being the boss too. But let's let's let's stick to the subject of your reality, what's in your head versus what's in the other person's head. So self-concept versus, well it's me versus I, as William James used to say. It's my sense of me versus I. I have probably 25 people at work for me. And I could go tell all of you, we could make three hats. We could make the, man, this guy can't go anywhere hat. We could make the, this guy could go, this

guy could not show up tomorrow and I wouldn't care. And then we got the, I wouldn't like this person to leave, but I think we could figure it out. Like we could get somebody else. And I put on all of them. And so would Jimmy Kimmel. Oh and he has 150 people and they'd never be wrong About any of them. There's a so whoever it is You got to know the boss the boss knows the boss needs to know now. Hold on hold the phone. Okay, slow your roll Would you want somebody to ask you which hat they wear? No, no, I would want you to show me which hat you wear. No, what I'm what I'm saying is we did a show called Love Line on MTV. Yeah. I had been in show

business for not even ten minutes when we started that show. Right. I went and did the show for I think two seasons maybe we did 180 episodes or 60 episodes or whatever the hell we did in all the whole run No in the first first two seasons. Yes, and then when we were done with the first two seasons I said I need a raise. I need you to double my money from nothing to like almost nothing, but I need a raise now I Had to know what was in their head i knew what was in my head what was in my head is no one else can do this job but what's in their head

you'd be to be fair for you uh... uh... on that's your self-assessment in terms of that kind of self-assessment is unusually accurate. Like I don't have the confidence even to think that kind of thing. You know what I mean? You don't say I'm confident, I'm not confident, you just say this is the fact. For me, my psychology gets the way of it. Well that's something to work on because for me what I have, I have the luxury of nothing in my head. It's an empty vessel. I have no preconceived thoughts about me. It's not even me we're talking about. I notice how your head works. I have no thoughts about it. I will stand by objectively and we will figure out who can do this job better than I and

Maybe Jerry Seinfeld can do this job better than I can you guys afford him? I don't think so not for 900 bucks an episode or whatever. They're paying us, right? Yeah, so I've I've I've worked in a couple of Assessments assessments and I'm coming back with I need you to double my pay. It's a certain clarity you're able to achieve that it's hard. It sounds easy to you. I can't do it. Well, it can be done, but you have to constantly be assessing. And what you can't do is go, I'm this person.

Well, it's the Dunning-Kruger effect. Remember, I've talked about this a million times? Dunning-Kruger is also the imposter effect. The flip side of Dunning-Kruger is I feel like an imposter. I don't really know anything. Sort of low self-confidence. As opposed to Dunning-Kruger, which is the guy that gets up at American Idol

and says I'm a great singer and sounds like shit. That's also Dunning-Kruger. And I think this assessment, these declarations about identity, I'm the honest guy, is still that Dunning-Kruger phenomenon. Because they don't, again, they don't see the me. They feel the I, but they don't see the me. Does that make sense?

Yeah. So, what you need to do is always kind of be in a sort of buoyant position, always kind of assess yourself. It's hard. Stop saying that. Stop saying it's hard every time I ask anyone to do anything. First thing, first thing I would like you to do, stop saying that.

It's hard, it's hard. I'd like you to assess yourself and then every time you say it's hard. I know because you're letting people off the hook. Yeah, that's right. It's a job, but it's an important job. It's a very important job It's your your number one job is to know where you are With other people and then when you know where you are, you'll know what to ask or what not to ask

I've had people come in and ask me things where I've just went that's insane like why would you think I would ever do that and no and see you I don't know what they thought was going to happen because they weren't calibrated correctly you know what I mean I I did um... I wrote for the Oscars last year and I wrote for free and this year Jimmy asked me to come back,

and this year I'm gonna get paid. And it's based on performance from last year. I didn't come in this year, I didn't come in year one in demand to get paid. I said, let me do this for free, and then let me impress you with what I can contribute to this big machine here. And next year, I'll then let you decide whether you think I should get paid or not.

You and I have done a lot of that along the way. That's all I've done and that's all anyone needs to do. I didn't say pay me the first time. I didn't say don't pay me the second time. I didn't say pay me more the second time. I just said you just, you figure it out. The same is true of even podcasting. You started podcasting to see if you could find an audience and then you went to see if you could sell it. You didn't find sponsors first. It doesn't make sense

to me I am well calibrated in terms of I'm no good if it's your if it's an anniversary or birthday party no good for that but I am well calibrated when I go, I think what I'm offering is fair. I don't think I'm being greedy. I don't think I'm being dismissive or whatever. I think

my notion of how this apple should be whacked up and who should get the most pieces and how we're going to do this, because I'm very well calibrated, I think everything is very reasonable and very fair. And, furthermore, state your case. Let me hear all that you have to say, and we'll see, because of my buoyancy, I may move your direction or another direction, depending on how calibrated you are. But then, once we arrive on it, that'll be it. We'll be right back with more of the Adam and Dr. Drew show classics. Binge laugh out loud sitcoms like Frasier. And re-watch cult classics like Higher Learning. Whether you're in the mood to solve a little crime

before bedtime with NCIS or Tracker. Or curl up with a surefire hit like Forrest Gump. Run, Forrest! Pluto TV has thousands of movies and shows all for free. Pluto TV, stream now, pay never. Last up today we go to episode 1028 titled, They never. I, as a kid, wanted nothing to do. I wanted to watch Sesame Street and the Electric Company about as much as I wanted to trade baseball cards or look at comic books.

It had nothing for me. Yeah, there was nothing in any of that stuff for me either, which I actually always felt guilty about because I felt like I would have been more creative or something if I were somehow invested in that stuff, but I was not. But when Sesame Street hit, I was 10, 11. And it was way sort of more youthful kind of programming. And I would argue it was like for two and three-year-olds, really, like barely speaking.

I always feel sort of half whatever about like Mr. Rogers. I feel the same. Did you watch that documentary about him? Yeah, I did. I feel the same way about Mr. Rogers as I feel about Huel Hauser. Like on one hand, super nice guy who's just wasting everyone's time and money. Like well-meaning, super authentic, sincere guy. Authent authentic but with a little bit of a gloss of I don't know what that is didn't really want to have to compete in the real world

also not the guy you're going to go have a beer with no no no like I know we have to just go hey this guy's a hero man he'd love to talk to kids, but He didn't possess a lot I Don't know like if somebody says I know so he met him. I'm sure that somebody went that guy's got it No, but like when people describe like his greatest talent was for listening. Oh like how about Ben Verene? his grace talent is tapping his ass off like How about Ben Verene? His greatest talent is tapping his ass off like Playing the trumpet while he's tap dancing. How about a little more of that a little less listening?

Yeah, yeah, I know who's listening right now me and my Nana. She's been dead for nine years like I get it and other people like Five-year-olds aren't really ever listened to it's yeah, actually not saying much Right, but he listened right and I also feel with Mr. Rogers speed up on mr. Rogers His that's a winning proposition well Everything was so insanely cathartic for him Everything was so insanely cathartic for him. Like he had this childhood where he was like a fat kid and people didn't listen to him.

And now he's just going to build this entire life around like listening to kids. It's fine. Here's what I'm saying. There's a like I whenever I look at performers, I kind of look at certain guys or girls and I go, I could never do that. And then you look at other people like Yoko Ono and Mr. Rogers and go, I don't want to do that. But I feel like I could put the sweater on and fake it if I in a pinch, but I don't really I don't want to Look I was bothered in that document by the way that that he was they were sort of offended by Eddie Murphy's

Comedic version they should have been they should have embraced it all the way They said he he liked it. I took out the feeling he was like like, oh no They all got me all wrong and no no, this is great. Yeah highest honor. Well, look Any I tip my cap to anyone? Who can figure out a way? To get paid to do something that they want to do for a living that didn't formally exist. Yeah like Sure, he'll house or made a living wasting everyone's time, but he still made a living wasting everyone's time. But you learned about tortilla factories.

Not really. You didn't learn anything when you watched. There's not much to know about tortilla. We got to drop a couple of Hewlhauser sort of Amazing. I love that you can find that Gary his You can't write Hewlhauser. All right, anyway, I mean when he went to the Baghdad Cafe, that was some of the greatest comedy I'd ever that I There's two times Like they go, we're comedian.

Who makes you laugh? Does David Tell make you laugh? Does Jimmy Kimmel make you laugh? And I go, no. Huel Hauser. Huel Hauser makes me laugh. And the great Deacon Jones. Oh, yeah.

The two hardest times I've ever laughed watching TV is when Hewell Houser's got the phone guy on the phone from the Baghdad Cafe and the timing you got to go to that one park Yeah, okay Burt Lancaster did what's the story you but behind Burt Lancaster? Did he eat here? Oh, you just like Burt Lancaster Eat here. Oh, you just like Burt Lancaster. Oh You hung the picture up. Okay It was like the greatest zero burger that that was like bigger than Al Capone's vault like nothing burgers Leave it on the show Didn't cut it here. Well, it's the greatest moment ever

I have it here too Just when he takes the phone they get into Lancaster fairly right that that part and when when Deacon Jones goes When you go upside a man or woman's head they tend to blink their eyes It's the greatest it's the funniest moment on TV It's better than any Seinfeld episode or woman. He's talking about NFL players exclusively. There are no women in the NFL. There'd be zero reason to include women.

Oh, wow. Let's hear it one more time. It makes me laugh every time. Atkins' flood of breaking arms was the reality of the Deacon Jones head slap. The head slap was to do two purposes. One was to give myself an initial head start on the fast rush. In other words, an extra step because anytime you go outside a man's head or a woman, they have a tendency to blink their eyes. That was all I needed. That's the greatest moment in TV. He's specifically asking about rushing the quarterback, not getting out of the entry hall. He's talking about rushing the quarterback, not getting out of the entry hall.

He's talking about rushing the quarterback. There's a context here. He sets the table by saying rushing the quarterback. He's not saying as human beings, we're all wired very delicately. No, he's saying, here's how I rush the quarterback. He's imagining hitting people inside the head. I love that he included women. And I love that the NFL network never caught it.

I swear to God, I yelled about, I laughed about it on the air doing the morning show like in 2008 or whatever. And it magically left the NFL network. Like somebody finally, what you're going, hey, do we have edit base here? Like, yeah yeah aren't we just putting this up against game footage yeah well why don't we just cut out a little early on Deacon talking about women all right that's all for this week thanks for listening to the Adam and dr. Drew

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