The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - #1703 Wethead is Dead

Episode Date: April 7, 2023

Adam and Drew get into Phil Silvers' appearance on 'The Love Boat' before checking out some classic commercials from Gillette and Maxwell House. Next, Adam shows Drew a clip of Sunny Hostin on 'The View'. Please Support Our Sponsors: ZipRecruiter.com/ADS

Recorded live at Corolla One Studios with Adam Corolla and board-certified physician and addiction medicine specialist, Dr. Drew Pinsky. You're listening to The Adam and Dr. Drew Show. Yeah, get it on. Got to get on. Got to get on. Doctors, board-certified physician, addiction medicine specialist. Well, I got to talk some Love Boat now, bro.

Oh, I was going to bring that up, too. Go ahead. Oh, man. Let's see. We had a good episode where there's the three ladies, and they're on the ship, and they're going to have sex with random men and then dump them when they get back to L.A. But love is found, Drew. But love is found, Drew.

There's also Phil Silvers played the captain's dad. Yeah. And he was running him around. They did a lot of things. They were like, Love Boat had a lot of sort of weird conceits. Oh, a lot. seats like oh yeah yeah i know but but stuff that as a writer oh i would have trouble with like they go the three women the three like single women one of them jane curtain from snl hysterical i know weird call well she was the one that that found love yes spoiler alert but she they said like okay the first three guys go to the bar and order a screwdriver we we're gonna bed them you know that'll be your your

fuck buddy for the next three days on this cruise you know and then like some good-looking guy comes up. I think even Doc did it. At some point, they're like, Isaac, give me an orange juice with some vodka in it. And they're like, ugh, he didn't say screwdriver. And it's like, the guy works on the cruise ship, and he's best friends with the bartender. He doesn't know the name of a drink. You know what I he like he wouldn't say martini he would say give me a ginny thingy with the twisty olive thingy in it you know so

it's like stupid like he would know that but at some point he said screwdriver and then uh immediately one of the women went to doc oh you said screwdriver you know here we are and he's like my cabin's right this way and they just this went off to make love in his cabin after ordering a cocktail in uniform yes you know what i mean by the middle of the day the physician in uniform ordering the cocktail and problem there and all a woman did to him is is essentially smile and ask him his name and he's like my cabin's right down on the lido deck and they just marched to his cabin yeah so he could have sex on duty presumably it weirdly was worse than what was what's the name of that convention of sex addicts in Jamaica? Oh, shit.

Have you ever heard about this? Yeah. Loveboat was weirdly worse than that. You're talking. Yeah. It's a word. It's a word like hedonism. Hedonism.

Right. Hedonism. The hedonism convention. Love Boat was worse than that. Yeah. Even the hedonist convention goers have a little bit of decorum, a little bit of like little evaluation process that goes on. No, not in the Love Boat. Love Boat was some sort of magical.

I think that was the conceit, right? Some magical potion is, you know, something's on that boat that just can't be reproduced and then the the plumber shows up because isaac's sink is clogged yeah and he goes uh plumber gets down underneath the sink drops his old-timey toolbox on top of the counter and then like shouts up to jane curtain hand me a screwdriver oh oh he said screwdriver now she's got to suck the plumber's dick but do you think that the maintenance guy on the on the cruise shouts at passengers to get stuff out of his box. There's nothing about anything that makes sense on that show, right? Right.

And then Phil Silvers shows up as the captain's dad. Right. Now, I had a big conversation with my son about Phil Silvers. I said, look at this guy. First of all, his wife looked like she was 75. And I really worked hard to try to figure out who that actress was. It wasn all his wife looked like she was 75 and i really worked hard to try to figure out who that actress was it wasn't his wife he met her on the ship okay whoever the older woman was that he was with um looked 75 and i'm sure she was 58 or 60 but i

could not find it to confirm that yeah so i had the conversation with my son about looking, dressing old or being old, whatever that was back then. People became old at 42. But the other thing I said, look at Phil Silver's hair. Everything about his hair said old and not cool. It was he was bald, but he was just bald. And the hair he did had was real cream, like slick down, like bro cream. Remember that? And I announced to him and I said, look at Doc, look at Gopher, look at Captain Steubing.

You're not allowed to see their ear. You can't see a man's ear, even when he's bald. And they had, this is the point I want to make. They all had the dry look. Do you remember that? Oh, yeah. The dry look. And they had to blow dry their hair dry every day and over their ear.

Remember their sideburns. Yeah. Do you remember the commercial for the dry look? Was that like Farrah Fawcett or something? No. What the saying was? No. The wet saying was? No. The wet head is dead.

Yes. The wet head is dead. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Now Ben's got to find a the wet head is dead dry look. I can't remember the hairspray. But here's my point. I also was watching this and I was like, Phil Silvers, who plays Captain Steubing's dad. Captain Steubing is presumably 55 in the thing, right?

He plays his father. Phil Silvers died in 85 at 74 years of age and this is from like 77 or something right so gosh yeah I think it was earlier I think I looked it up and it was a little earlier but no you're right

yep 77 okay never question numbers with me people this is why. All right, 77. Phil Silvers dies in 85 at 74. Phil Silvers was 66 in this thing or whatever. He was your age.

Yeah. That's the mind-blowing part. Like, I was sitting around going, he's Dr. Drew's age. I know. Oh, my God. Can you imagine? Can't imagine. Well, by the way, he's 10 years older than Captain Stubing and yet his father.

Well, by the way, he's 10 years older than Captain Steubing and yet his father. Well, I don't know how old Captain Steubing was in this episode. I mean, what he's supposed to be or Gavin McLeod's age. But yes, they hire an actor that's 12 years older than Captain Steubing to play his dad. Yeah. Yeah. Again, the wife, same thing or the girlfriend same thing i sure if you found her age she was 60 and she looked 75 64 64 yeah she played an old lady uh we have the wet head is dead uh for the gillette whatever the gillette company is delighted to announce the wet head is dead.

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Wow. Hairspray. You know. Wow. Drew. And remember how we admired those guys with the sort of, what was that guy's name? Davidson.

The big hair. The big, you know, combed over John Davidson, John Davidson. It wasn't combed over. It was just a big, big hair, big, big. Well, what would you call that? Part of big part on the side, but it wasn't a comb over. No, no.

Yeah. I understand. Yeah. Yeah. Right. So everybody in this building, every male has their own haircut yep back then that would not do no you were assigned the haircut yes by by society and you haven't talked about this a long time but you had to blow dry your brillo head dry too right right? Oh, yes.

Yeah. Listen, look at Sammy Davis Jr. in the 60s. Hair was parted, pomade, greased back. I mean, black men were ironing their hair out to look. He wanted the same hairdo Frank Sinatra had. Wow. So he had to do it. Sheesh. You know what I mean? Yes. It's crazy.

The other commercial that we should look up was that Maxwell House commercial that somebody tweeted me about the guy and his wife and she was helping build their new

home. But he needed her to focus on other things. Okay? Yes, this is a coffee commercial from the 60s. 66, I believe. That should be good.

His wife was helping out with the construction job. But he would have preferred that she focus a little more on coffee. And that's all I'm going to say, Drew. I think your mind will be blown when you see this. I was 68. My bad. Go back for a second.

Let's start again. And by the way, I just think of Don Draper. I can't do it. Go was 68. My bad. Go back for a second. Let's start again. And by the way, I just think of Don Draper. I can't do it. Go. Shut up, Drew. Here we go. Our first house nearly never got built. My wife was so bent on helping the builder.

Woman, I said, leave that poor man alone and make us some coffee. Not that kind you've been buying either. Instant Maxwell House coffee. Red jar. good to the last drop maxwell house the instant that tastes like like coffee be a good little maxwell housewife and we'll be happy here for a long time maxwell house coffee instant and ground wow wow hey bitch make me some coffee. Imagine me looking at these commercials as a young man thinking, man, marriage is going to be awesome one day.

I'll have a person who, you know, I'll pay for everything and then they'll just do exactly what I tell them to do. It's going to be awesome. They'll be making me coffee they'll be uh they'll be they'll they'll be sewing my they'll be darning my socks it's gonna be awesome i can't wait to get married that's gonna be great things are better in certain ways i must say certain ways but yes things got a little swung. Pendulum swung back a little too hard over the skis. I'm saying the pendulum swung back.

It went too far. It didn't stop in the middle. You know, because now we have to condemn all the white male husbands. They're all doof idiots. They're incompetent. They're right. Well, look,

my, as I've said many times my grandmother worked full-time my grandfather did not work at all it was understood very clearly that in order to make up for not working they were going to have rep they were going to have responsibilities around the house such as everything because why should the person that pays for everything also prepare the meal or clean

how could you do that it wouldn't work because there was no grub hub or anything like that why would you pay for a maid to come to the house when you work full-time and the other person didn't work what they would that the conceit was you've got to run the vacuum cleaner at some point during the day while i'm at work seemed you, like there was some reciprocity there. Seems like there was a balance there.

And people were happier when that was kind of the deal. Little Miss Maxwell House, it helped her to have a little guidance. Did you see her? She was flopping around the construction site out of control. Yeah, it's completely out of control. Then he gave her an assignment. It's an assignment or order. Listen, I know how everything works because I watched my grandfather clean and cook and do the laundry.

And there's no way he would farm any of that shit out because during the hours my grandmother was at the VA in Westwood working, those were the hours that he needed to be working on things that benefited both of them with cost in mind, right? Can't just tell the dry cleaners to pick up the shirts. You go down to the coin op, whatever. of dry cleaners to pick up the shirts. You go down to the coin op, whatever. And by the way, I understood my grandfather got kind of the winning end of this deal because he would spend, you know, she would spend lunch in a cafeteria.

He would spend lunch sitting in his office watching Hollywood squares and eating a sandwich he made for himself. You know what I mean? And he didn't. and he didn't, you know, it's not like he worked the entire time, you know, she was gone. He needed to have dinner ready when she came back. He needed to kind of tend to the laundry and tend to the food shopping, grocery shopping. And he needed to, you know, if a sprinkler busted,

he need to fix it. That's kind of it. They didn't really have to push the vacuum all day. Right, right. But he had duties. Yeah. And the reason he had duties is because the other fucking person worked and paid for everything. Now, obviously, if my grandfather chose not to work and chose to hire a cleaning crew and chose to farm everything out, then he would be considered a pariah, a loser.

And by the way, no woman would put up with that. Women would go, what the fuck's that guy doing? Sitting around watching TV all day where you're at work? That's bullshit. bullshit well i would argue then the exact same rules apply in both directions i just had a unique version of someone goes to work and someone stays home that was very unlike anyone else's situation because it was the it was the 70s and i had a grandfather who was a writer who ended up staying home and doing it.

But he was dutiful about it, and he did not have to be told who got up and went to work in the morning. He understood it. He was a good little Maxwell housewife. And your grandmother used to order him around. It, if,

if, if, if dinner was not ready, she worked for the VA. The VA was in Westwood. She punched out of that place at five o'clock. I don't think she ever worked a 505 in her fucking life she was she just got her fucking nine to five check from the veterans administration in westwood yeah that

commute on the 405 405 down open over the pass down to the 134 the 101 ventura Freeway, get off at the Coldwater exit, turn left. You could have timed that down to within 80 seconds one way or the other on any given day. He knew exactly when she was walking through the door. Exactly. There was no she stopped off to buy something. There was no, you know, maybe a little traffic this way or that way, but it averaged out to exactly the same time. If her dinner wasn't ready

when she walked through that door, he was panicking. He was running. He was frightened that she was going to walk through the door because she was loud. Yeah. going to walk through the door because she was loud. Yeah. She'd come through the door.

You, Lottie, let's have dinner. He'd be, hi, my dear. Whatever happened to you who? I mean, I don't mean the drink. I mean, people actually calling out you who? He would call her darling. Yes, darling. Yes.

I'm scurrying in from the kitchen. And then, you know, if that fucking pot roast had to be in the oven for an extra 20 minutes it was like oh boy oh shit he fucked up he shouldn't he should have put the pot roast in 20 minutes earlier wow he watched another episode of hollywood squares fuck that pot roast went on to the game the match game that's right with great haired burt convey yeah yeah they had it worked out but if you switch the roles and made my grandfather go to work and made my grandmother stay home all day and then brought it into the present day, then my grandfather would be considered an ogre for asking that she take care of the house stuff, cleaning,

cooking, you know, shopping, that kind of stuff. Yeah. Mm hmm. But it clearly would be. But the reality is, is people are happier when they have some purpose and they have a task. And structure. And structure and a schedule. And my grandfather liked contributing.

He wasn't lazy. He was proud that the meal was on the table when she came through the door. So let me ask you something, a totally other subject. I don't, I don't think I've really asked you specifically, but do you, do you see what China is up to these days? And does this worry you? Do you think about that? Do you have any thoughts? It's a huge topic, obviously, but I've just been watching lately. They seem to have accelerated some of their, you know they're getting cozier with russia on a number of fronts and they're bringing in brazil and north korea

and iran and all these other saudi arabia is even there with them in interesting ways interesting by i mean sort of nefarious i don't know it feels like we've sort of thrown in the towel on what China can do over the hell it wants. Well, I mean, they unleashed COVID on the world. You're a racist for saying that. Right. We couldn't say where it came from or call it the Chinese virus or whatever. We look, they're obviously laughing at us. They think we're weak and they think they think we're stupid because we we argue, you know, they're doing their belts and roads program as trying to take over the world. And we're arguing about transgender rights.

Which they have to find pretty hysterical. And then we call everyone a racist. I mean, now, Ben, you got to find the Sonny Hostin clip from earlier. I played on ACS, but it's perfect. They've staffed all the media. They're all useful idiots. They essentially defend China and attack the united states and china's just got to be sitting back and laughing like we don't have to drop bombs we

don't have to do anything we have a bunch of idiots on tv who are constantly attacking the united states and sort of looking the other way to whatever China's up to. And that we're doing it to ourselves. This is part of my argument was like, stop it. Stop all this fucking arguing about how racist we are. We're putting wind in the sails of China and Russia. And like I said, when their diplomats come over here, they go, you know, we go, what about the Uyghurs? You've turned a million Muslim Uyghurs.

And they go, look at you. You are a racist nation as well. It's like, okay, we're even. Yeah. When you find that idiot, Sonny Hostin. Was she defending China? No. What they, I mean,

you'll hear what she does, but, you know, they always start every, every fucking thing that comes out of her mouth is as a woman of color. By the way,

this is all the shit you sort of looked the other way on a deck, you know, for the last decade. It's all coming home now. It's all coming home.

All these, all the divisions, all the dividing up into every group, all the starting, every sentences as a woman of color. And I always said, don't do it. It's bad.

It's embarrassing. Now we're there. 100% there now. No, Ben, it's somewhere. Chris had it. I don't know.

It was from The View. She was talking about China. And no, what they do is they conflate everything. They go, yes, of course, I don't condone what China's doing. But you have to understand, we have our own problems here in the United States. We. And then they go on to spend all the time on on us right yeah it's a problem i was there's a there's a tiktok uh series out there that's extolling the virtues of north korean tourism this british woman going on

about how you don't see north korea it's so beautiful it's so great and i thought um wow you know when if uh michael um or shit no no no the uh anarchist uh shit i'm blanking on his name for a second but uh if if he's correct the united states you know the states divorce one another uh i started thinking, you know, this British woman may have a point. I mean, it looks a little better than California. And maybe California will become the next North Korea if there is a national divorce. It would fit the bill. Oh, yeah. All right.

Here's this genius, Sonny Hansen. I'm playing here. This genius, Sonny Hansen. I'm playing here. And the notion of America and the American flag has been co-opted by the right as if they are true patriots. But when I listen to Christopher Wray, the head of the FBI, he said white supremacy is the biggest domestic threat to this country. biggest domestic threat to this country. And so as a woman of color with a six foot two black kid in college and a five foot seven, five foot eight black kid in high school, I don't see that part of American exceptionalism.

I'm sorry. I think this country has a lot of problems that could be solved. Yes, maybe they're putting Muslims in jail in Afghanistan, I think you mentioned, and China. They're putting a lot more black people in jail here. Can I ask, because we've had this conversation before. We'll try to figure it out without the homeowner. On the issue of race, what country on earth do you think would be better? Would you rather live in or feel like is more inclusive?

I don't think it's a minority. I feel real good about it. Okay, hold on. So we'll go back. We'll figure it out. But Whoopi's got to run interference because someone asked a real question, right? Yeah.

Yeah, we're on race. Where would you rather live? Yeah. Now, I can't... We had the real estate thing talk over the thing, but we'll figure it out. She went on to think that um trying to think of who she thought she thought the Uyghurs were in Afghanistan oh and they had had to be told there

was a it's the same thing what it took her 10 minutes that took her 10 seconds to call this country racist right yeah yeah that's all You have a kid who goes to Harvard. Yeah. You're in a high-paying, high-profile job. What are we talking about here? And why is her sons or her children being tall? Why was that an issue? If you're black and you're tall, you got a target, Drew.

It's easier for the cops to shoot i say yes when you when you stand up or stand out i don't know maybe ben can maybe ben can find that thing again i guess we'll see if we can find this uh clip she's we got the we got that we got the point i mean you know the point is made and it's it's it is an interesting question to her uh you know amy horowitz has that video out there where he went to castro street in san francisco famous source of gay rights that whole uh milk um i forget milk's first name but his harvey harvey milk his whole movement came out of that region and they went there and they said he essentially interviewed a bunch of gay men, Israel or Palestine.

And they're like, oh, fuck Israel, Palestine. They're abusive, terrible. So he. I mean, we know the story. I think I mean, the whole point is they're not incorrect. They're wrong. You know what I mean? It's like you.

You guys dislike Israel and you like Palestine and one group is harming gay people and the other aren't. It's not just you're sort of incorrect. You're wrong. You're doing harm. I don't know, Ben, maybe we can find that Sonny Haas clip. I think this country has a lot of problems that could be solved. Yes, maybe they're putting Muslims in jail in Afghanistan, I think you mentioned, and China. They're putting a lot of more black people in jail here. Can I ask, because we've had this cover report, what,

on the issue of race, what country on earth do you think would be better? Would you rather live in or feel like it's more inclusive? I'm not a minority. I felt good in Ghana. Felt good in Ghana. Hmm. Yeah. The Chinese

are putting Uyghurs in internment camps, but we have black people in prison here, so we're no better. Right, right. The general conceit is we're just locking up black men for the crime of being black. Right. It's like rounding up the Uyghurs for being Uyghurs.

Right. Yeah. The woman is a buffoon, obviously, but it's very dangerous, Drew. Yeah. If you think about it. that's that's so you're saying that's how racist this country is we're just by the way we don't just black men not we don't do it with the jews or the ironically the chinese or the japanese or hmm or or nigerian born men here who are pretty black.

It's just black men who were born in the U.S. to non-Nigerian families. Seems overly complicated to me. This is where Drew's scared to talk, so we'll move on. What's there to say? Your point is made. You never do that, though. You make your point on top of my point. Turlock, California, coming up tonight. Oh, man.

Maybe a couple tickets left. Turlock Community Theater. And then tomorrow night, heading off to the Tower Theater. That's a performing arts. That's in Fresno. And then you just go to Amcroll.com for all the live shows. What do you got, Drew? DrDrew.com for our pause after dark and the streaming show at DrDrew.tv.

So, until next time, Adam Crow for Dr. Drew saying, Mahalo.