The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - #1736 Bulkhead Blues

Episode Date: June 23, 2023

Adam gets into the problems with bulkhead seating on airplanes before explaining what Drew has in common with Enzo Ferrari. Next, Adam shares a story about a time he didn't do an assignment in high sc...hool and how he crowd funded his way into trucking school. Please Support Our Sponsors: Angi.com

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hi there, I am Johnny Lieberman, and I'm Ed Lowe, and we are coming to you from Motor Trend with our new podcast, The Inevitable, back for another season. We have a great group of guests for you this time out. Very special guests. Ed, who is it? Franz von Holzhausen, chief designer, creative director, man of myth and legend. What company does he work for? Tesla.
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Starting point is 00:01:19 That's it. All right. Drewski. I just saw a hysterical video with Marjorie Taylor Greene where she's interviewing Walensky and just goes, which pharmaceutical company are you going to after this job? Oh, really? It's just like, oh, my God. Oh, that's awesome.
Starting point is 00:01:35 Oh, my God. She's funny. She is funny. All right. All right. I will, apropos of nothing, but just a word to the wise. I'll probably look for Emmy on this one because he does all our travel plans. But something that I never thought much of, but now I have strong thoughts on it,
Starting point is 00:02:03 which is Mike August and I just circumnavigated the globe on 100 different flights. And we had first class for most of the flights. But every single one of them was row one bulkhead. Oh, boy. Who's doing your travel? Emmy. Oh, boy.
Starting point is 00:02:21 But I don't think Emmy... I don't think he understands. Well, I didn't know bulkhead was a bad day i the bulkhead is something you want when you're in coach yes but in first class it just means there's no place to put your feet no place put your feet your shit and there's no screen right right so the uh savvy travelers have travelers have figured this one out. We haven't, but I'm now anti-bulkhead, Emmy, because the thing that's kind of crazy about the bulkhead in first class
Starting point is 00:02:56 is when I fly southwest, middle of the airplane yeah i can stretch my legs out because 42 of my legs are going under the seat in front of you what what they don't really but they didn't work out with the bulkhead in first class is the bulkhead is physically a slightly further distance than the seat would be if you were in coach in front of you. Like you get a little more room, but that part where you can't slide it under the seat in front of you fucks your shit up. And what happens is people engage in complete asshole behavior and put their feet up on the wall. Right. Now, I'm 6'2", so I have nowhere to go with the feet.
Starting point is 00:03:47 And so you get an extra five inches of space, but you knock off 14 inches of stretching out and can't put your backpack. No place to put your shit. No screen. No screen. I have to admit, I've always been afraid of that when we've talked bulkhead, and I'm like, alright, I guess bulkhead. But I'm terrified of doing the bulkhead because of space.
Starting point is 00:04:13 He's had a bad feeling about you being in the bulkhead. That's why I wouldn't put you in bulkhead before, and then when we had the conversation about going up front, I started putting you up front for all your flights now. Here's where you can't put him up front. Wait a second. If he turns left when he enters the aircraft. No, no, no.
Starting point is 00:04:26 Don't even. That's a bygone era. That's a European flight. What was our bulkhead conversation as it pertained to first class, though? Well, it didn't pertain to first class, but I remember I had put you smack dab in the middle at one point, and you said, bulkhead, bulkhead. Yeah, bulkhead, when you're in the back of the... Unfortunately, I don't have the luxury to ride first class, so I don't know the space. He didnhead, bulkhead. Yeah, bulkhead, but you're in the back of the... Unfortunately, I don't have the luxury to ride first class,
Starting point is 00:04:47 so I don't know the space. He didn't know bulkhead. But I didn't realize that that was even shorter. Couldn't do the bulkhead math. I'll try my best to do the seat after. Do the seat back, because bulkhead is good at coach. In first class, it's almost you might as well be in coach, because you have a better shot of stretching your legs to fall asleep.
Starting point is 00:05:08 You literally have to figure out what kind of aircraft, what time of day. Yes. And there's a whole science to it if you can pull it off. We rode every single bulkhead, every single flight, times like seven flights. No, he's not doing his job because we didn't have the first class we had a bulkhead conversation it's it's under understandable yeah bulkhead first class is fucking bullshit i mean there should be hefty refunds because you unless you turn left unless you turn left you cannot stretch your legs out yep it's impossible and a lot of
Starting point is 00:05:42 first class is like really nothing it's like it not even – it's really not worth the price. Some of those aircraft. You get a box with some chips in it or something. You get a little bit of a more cushiony chair, a little bit. That's about it. You get certain things which is like completely nonsensical, which is – And not worth it. Oh, did you see this one?
Starting point is 00:06:03 I've seen it a few times, but I saw it. It must be a Delta thing. The seatbelt has a big, thick leather pad on one side of it, but not the other side. So you're going to luxuriate with this big, thick leather belt pad. It's just like wearing a fanny pack on the flight and it's like it doesn't offer anything except for the illusion of some sort of like luxury like this a big padded seat belt you have to feel the seat belt against your waist yeah the reality is is any the seat belt is not the issue because you put the seatbelt on, then you loosen it up a scotch,
Starting point is 00:06:46 and then whatever. Who cares? But it's also funny that it's only on one side of the belt, too. It's only on the male side of the belt. So you don't get it on the other side. I don't know what you mean by male. The side of the belt that identifies as a male
Starting point is 00:07:02 is the padded side. But that bulkhead. Between the, we need your backpack before the flight. By the way, we need your backpack impactful more than you would think. Not having access to it while you're seated. For an hour. Yeah. It's like, you forget.
Starting point is 00:07:23 That backpack's got your shit in it. Yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? I know know and it's like ain't no and you can't unpack there's no place to put the stuff in the bulkhead right and yeah you see people with their feet riding up the bulkhead wall always it's i'm not i've been that guy but i swore i would not it's too obnoxious i don't't know. You keep your shoes on. It's not exactly people are eating off the carpet that's five foot above the thing. That's true. I don't have a big –
Starting point is 00:07:50 It's just sort of obnoxious. I don't have – it's sort of obnoxious, but it is kind of crazy on a five-hour flight. You're like, I don't know where I can put my feet. I can't push them forward. That's the bulkhead issue. I feel terrible. I'm sorry. Yes.
Starting point is 00:08:04 Thank you. Well, no. I'm sorry. Yes. Thank you. Well, no, it's not your fault. We had a bulkhead discussion, but it's only as it pertains to a coach. Susan Penske needs to put together like a coaching sheet because she is a wizard of this shit. That is the greatest gift she could ever give is that travel because, oh, my God. Oh, and by the way, she's extremely – if she's the one traveling, very picky. Oh, really? Yeah, which oftentimes she's traveling with me now.
Starting point is 00:08:35 I'm like, put me on a Southwest flight. I don't give a shit. Go to Austin. I don't care. Yeah, yeah. I'm the same way with the shorter stuff and who cares and Southwest and whatever. Oh, no, no, no. No, honestly, I'm now fantasizing about a Southwest flight where I can stretch my feet.
Starting point is 00:08:51 It's a weird. There's a wizardry to that, too. You can get in their wing windows, the escape hatch seats. Those are huge down on Southwest flights. All right. What else are you thinking about, Drew? Push down on Southwest flights. All right.
Starting point is 00:09:03 What else are you thinking about, Drew? I was mentioning when we got in here that I'm getting my car detailed, which I always think is really excessive. Like it just seems like an excess to me. I'm 100 percent, which is I spend thousands of dollars a month on nothing. thousands of dollars a month on nothing kids ordering grub hub or fucking god knows subscriptions the shit no one uses or whatever if somebody ever says to me uh well why don't you get the mobile detailer guy you're busy him just come over to the shop and bring the truck you'll be in the shop you'll be working he'll be outside i'll be like yeah no what do you mean weird no there's a car wash up the street it's 22 well this guy's 85 bucks he'll come do the whole thing i'm like not for me that that's weird but by the way that 85 bucks was spent on one
Starting point is 00:10:00 grub hub order for one lunch for lunch for Natalia and her friends yesterday. You know what I mean? But for me, it's like, no, no, no, no, no. That's not me. That's not me. I have the same thing. I don't have someone come over with their truck and clean my car. The only problem is I really want to give the guy business that is the guy.
Starting point is 00:10:18 But they're right. They're 1,000% right. But first off, I'm not even driving my car. I'm driving natalia's car because she got a car before she got a license and i wasn't going to let it sit around so i'm now bugging around this little pea shooter and i haven't even watched it in six six months and yes that guy should come over and do my car i do want to give this guy business but i never do it because of this weird feeling i have the same as you but uh i nearly flipped my car on
Starting point is 00:10:45 a hillside i've told this story a couple months ago and i left it all scratched up and muddy and fucked up to remind myself every day what a fucking asshole i am i like to i like to keep things in front of me when i need to learn a lesson like i really like i still have a i still have a dent in the back of my car that i've left for i i got it post covid i backed into a pole i was sort of still out of it from covid and it was so stupid i thought i'm not fixing this i need to look at it for a long time you know to pay attention to learn to pay attention you and uh ferrari are like-minded. Ferrari.
Starting point is 00:11:26 Tell me about this. Enzo Ferrari had a, in his conference room, you know, where they would have their meetings, I don't know, their boardroom or whatever it was, at Ferrari, had a whole display of broken parts. Just parts that broke, that didn't work, that cost them the race, essentially. Have it on display. Which is kind of
Starting point is 00:11:51 interesting. You have to learn from your mistakes. And memory is an imperfect instrument. And you have to feel it. You have to feel it. You have to look at the car and go, I'm such an asshole. The problem with memory is most people's memories turn into a hired expert for their case.
Starting point is 00:12:16 Yes, they do. Where they completely let themselves off of any wrongdoing or anything. I mean, people have memories of things, the way they acted, the way they didn't act or reacted, way, way too forgiving to them. That is a feature of memory. It has cognitive biases built into it. And maybe that's why I do this to myself,
Starting point is 00:12:42 because I don't want to forget or I don't want to give myself a break and i want to feel the stupidity the the the ignorance i want to know that's what i did and just just sit and stare at it people's memories of like how what they did were basically you know al bundy talking about his high school playing days and I've been in the room where I was like I was fucking there when you were doing this shit. Nothing doesn't
Starting point is 00:13:11 resemble anything that you're saying. Especially in a courtroom. Oh God. Don't get me started. Then I have an actual, so I have low res, low self esteem memories,
Starting point is 00:13:29 which put me on the other side of the thing. Now look, I understand everyone listening and everyone who I think is a fucking line piece of shit out there who's saying whatever they're going to say all the time. They also think that that's what I'm engaging in. Right. I can tell you I have proof positive.
Starting point is 00:13:51 I had the time a decade ago when I said to the nanny, Olga, I was like, I'm going to sell my car. How much do you think I should sell my car for? I said, I don't know. What'd you pay for it? She goes, you bought it for me okay i have no memory of that i blocked out me doing a good good deed yeah because i could have said to her hey bitch you got to work sunday for free i bought you that camera you know but i
Starting point is 00:14:20 wouldn't i blocked it yeah complete moved on moved Now, my sister blocked the memory of me putting the down payment down on her silver lake house. She blocked that memory. See what I'm saying? Yes, I understand. I've got the same thing you've got. It's like this weird two-way street, which isn't always good for... It's how esteem affects memory or how your bias, your cognitive bias is what it is. I bought someone a car, and I had no idea I bought her a car.
Starting point is 00:14:49 The other memory that I know, I know it's low self-esteem is when a psychology teacher, Mr. Bernal, famously came in here after running to meet the Pasadena Ice House. Did you recognize him right away? I think he recognized, well, he recognized me because he's coming to see me at a show. I don't have any context for him. Did you tell any stories in that particular show? Yeah, he came in and said, oh, you know, it's my favorite
Starting point is 00:15:18 Adam Carolla story. About him? About him? No, I'm sorry. Did you tell any stories about him while you were up there on the stage? Any North Hollywood stories? Oh, no. I'm not polling the audience before I go to the stage. No, I understand.
Starting point is 00:15:32 You're missing my point. No, he came to the show. I get it. I don't do a set on North Hollywood High. Okay. That was my question. All right. No, I do not do a set on Mr. Bernal.
Starting point is 00:15:43 Okay. Because I didn't know. But I wouldn't have done it. It would be a very low percentage. I've been in many situations where you have mentioned Mr. Bernal on North Hollywood High. It wasn't part of the set. It's not a stand-up show, though. That doesn't mean talking about something.
Starting point is 00:15:59 Fair enough. Fair enough. So I said, well, why don't you come in and do the show? It would be funny. You give your recollections of me. I have recollections of you. He goes, oh, my favorite Adam Carolla story is when the big girl, Debbie, this huge girl tried to gussy herself up, put some high heels on,
Starting point is 00:16:21 and show up at the class. And she couldn't walk right on him and twisted her ankle you know went down to the ground and um was laying on the floor crying and you know he was trying to tell her to get up and she wouldn't get up she was so distraught the class was laughing and she wouldn't go anywhere and she was just laying on the ground and she kept crying and and then adam you just got up you just got up, you picked her up, and you carried her to the nurse's office. I have no recollection of that.
Starting point is 00:16:51 Now, that's the kind of thing that many of the people we're talking about, other people, that would be in their hits list from high school. That would be most played, most discussed. Now, look, I got plenty of stories about getting slammed in the face with human fecal matter. hits list from high school that would be most played right most discussed now i looked i got plenty of stories about getting slammed in the face with human fecal matter but i've the ear to be fair yeah yeah the ear and part of the face but i okay that that i remember as if it was yesterday the picking up debbie collapsed with the thing i had no recollection of that. Yeah. Now, once Mr. Bernal told me, I had a, yeah, I was like, oh, yeah, yeah. It was sort of something.
Starting point is 00:17:32 Never thought about again. Wouldn't think about it. It's interesting that you could retrieve it, though. That's interesting. Well, it's not that. It's not that. I don't think it's that interesting because it's so specific. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:46 And it also sounds like something I would do not because I was a hero. I was super strong and I could just pick somebody up even if they were big and carry them. And so I was like, yeah, that sounds like – yeah. and carry them yeah and so i was like yeah that sounds like yeah and i was it was a very specific thing and i and i it has some vague inkling of yeah and also he's standing in front of the class telling me this is what happened yes it's pretty pretty good chance it happened yes you know it's not me going oh no that could have been somebody else you know he he remembers yeah yeah now in his mind uh 35 years later he remembers it vividly he sees he's seen 35 classes come through there since since me but he remembers it clearly i have no recollection so that's a low self-esteem memory right again a cognitive bias
Starting point is 00:18:42 built in the esteem realm how uh what he teach again? Was he the biology guy? He taught psychology. Psychology. Did he say business? Biology. Oh, biology. Who was that guy? Come on, Drew.
Starting point is 00:18:57 Who was the biology guy? Do you know nothing of my past? I remember you talking about- Mr. Delaverde. Delaverde, yeah. He failed me. Yes, yes. That's you talking about – Mr. Delaverde. Delaverde, yeah. He failed me. Yes, yes.
Starting point is 00:19:05 Okay. I wanted to place Bernal. Because there was Bernal, Delaverde, and then the driving guy. Smith. Smith. Yes. Those are the three. So Bernal was somebody you liked.
Starting point is 00:19:20 Oh, wait a minute. Smith? No. What it was is the Smith Smith no Mr. Gregory okay so what it was what it was is this and this is how you know that the early part of my childhood was snakebitten I would say not not a coin toss bad luck not no luck bad luck You know what I mean? Yes. We had two guys. You know, when you taught driver's ed, I think you taught something else first, and then that was kind of a side class for you. I don't remember, like, full-time driver's ed.
Starting point is 00:19:55 But Mr. Smith was the football coach on the B team and whatever, coach on the high school, coach on the varsity, the line or something, mustache, kind of a bumpkin-y kind of guy. I think we saw a picture of him at one point. Yeah, yeah. Loved me. Loved me. Oh, man.
Starting point is 00:20:10 He played football. He loved me. He said I was the best player, you know, whatever. Good dude. Joked around a lot. Mr. Gregory was this introverted, angry, weird guy. And when it came time to, you know got what teacher did you get for driver's ed which was it would be a coin toss i i got mr gregory and then mr gregory implemented his
Starting point is 00:20:33 something that wasn't part of the curriculum was there's just a mandatory 10 page report on you know seatbelts and it wasn't part of it you Driver's Ed was like, well, just go there. You do your time. You take your Scantron test and you leave. But he was like, I am implementing this 10-page report. And if you don't hand it in, you're going to fail this class. It was like I couldn't do a 10-page report. I wasn't capable of a 10-page report.
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Starting point is 00:22:04 Visit Angie.com. That's A-N-G-I dot com. A-N-G-I dot com. That's Angie. Let them do all the heavy lifting. Yeah, so I did this thing, which was a big mistake, but it was calculated. I think it could have worked. I was like, he kept saying, you turn that report in like sort of last day kind of thing,
Starting point is 00:22:36 and you're not going to pass without it. But the report wasn't part of the curriculum. That was just him. And it was 10 pages, which bridged too far for me. I didn't own it. It's a typewriter. Oh, they want to typewritten. No, no. I didn't know what he cared. I was not capable. There was no word processing
Starting point is 00:22:56 back then, guys. No. Not in my head. Not as a device. Just wasn't going to happen. So I was like, look, I've been here every day. My attendance was decent, pretty good. I've participated.
Starting point is 00:23:15 I've taken the pop quizzes and stuff like that. I'm not going to turn this report in the last day. He's going to give me a D or D minus or something. He's going to push me along. And, um, and I don't care because I don't care about my GPA. Cause that was in the garbage from day one with Mr. Dilbert in his biology class. And I came right out. I was like, all right, I have no GPA to worry about, but I do need to just physically pass so I can go take driver's training. So I won't turn the report.
Starting point is 00:23:49 He'll feel sorry for me. He'll just give me a D minus and go, fuck it, moving on. He failed me. That was it. That was it. How did you get your license? I also should have taken driver's ed in the first semester because then you take driver's training in your second semester back in the day there was a classroom component and a driving component right yeah driver's training was actually in the vehicle if you're normal and smart or something, have some foresight or something.
Starting point is 00:24:25 You take driver's ed semester one. You take driver's training semester two. And my birthday is May 27th and school lets out June 6th or something. So I then turn 16 as I'm graduating driver's training. And now I'm 16 and I have driver's ed and driver's training under my belt. And I can go to the DMV and get a license. I took driver's ed second semester, failed driver's ed. There was no driver's training because now we're into the summer
Starting point is 00:25:06 now and i'm 16 with neither driver's ed or driver's train what'd you do i took the money for my 16th birthday which i always told you i i did a whole um goundMe for whatever shit I needed. Like stepdad, he was good for 10. Grandparents were good for 10. Mom was good for 10. Dad was good for 20. And I put it all together, and I had 85 bucks or 65 bucks or something like that. And?
Starting point is 00:25:43 Went to Dudeson's? I went to Dudeson's. No, really to Dutson's? I went to Dutson's. No, really to Dutson's? No, it's a truck driving school. No, they had a driving school too. No. I think they did. Tammy, Ben, Dutson's School of Trucking, Dutson's School of Driving.
Starting point is 00:25:57 What was the one that was the driving school? I went to some fly-by-night shit strip mall in Van Nuys, literally across the street. But now you've got to find out if there's a Dutson School of Driving. Is there a driving school?
Starting point is 00:26:12 I don't think so. Anyway, there's a shitty strip mall on the corner across from the DMV in Van Nuys, California, which is a shit part of town. And this was like a little fucking mall next to you know had a coin-op laundry on one side like a Korean donut shop and the other is a little class where you know 15 losers showed up uh some of the people are like new to this country some are other fuck-ups like me and I was a language issues or whatever and it was just it was like three days of driver's ed it was like four months of a
Starting point is 00:26:49 semester of driver's ed crammed into three days yeah three nine hour days which by the way more than you needed yeah so you put in three days or four days or whatever it was and you'd have to be there you know eight in the morning you'd leave at 5.30 in the afternoon, and by the time you're done. But that was $45 or something. And then you'd get your certificate. So I was able to sort of snatch that from the jaws of defeat. It was miserable.
Starting point is 00:27:18 Mind you, I'd already gone through driver's training. It's in driving school. Oh, see? How long has that been around? They had little things on the roof, as driving school. Oh, see? How long has that been around? They had little things on the roof, as I recall. Little things on the roof of the car. Drew, you may be right. You are.
Starting point is 00:27:30 Same company? Same address. Same address. How long has the driving school been? Permanently closed. Drew's right. But it was not a part of my childhood. I did not see it.
Starting point is 00:27:44 Because it's Arcadia. It's near Pasadena. So I probably saw that. You saw it on the car. I remember there being a thing like the cabs have in New York on the top of the car. I should know. I'm Debbie Dootson. Right.
Starting point is 00:27:56 All right. Look for a picture of Dootson car. Yeah. I got my, then I got my permit. Then I went across the street to the DMV. I'd already done driver's education with Mr. Gregory. So I knew all the... I sat in a class for four months.
Starting point is 00:28:14 I kind of had most of the answers in my head. I'd already done it. I just failed at the end. But of course, the fucking three-day driving school, they didn't need a 10-page report because they weren't a maniacal asshole like Gregory was. So they just shoved you. They had a different business. There's results. Get money and get you out the fucking door.
Starting point is 00:28:37 Get you a driver's license. Go across the street, get my permit. Then I had to sign up for the other fly-by-night driver's training where the Armenian guy came and picked me up. Dudeson on the side of the car. It's hard to make out, but it says driving. Yeah. I remember it on top of the car. You must have seen it around.
Starting point is 00:28:54 Maybe on the tailgate or something. You know, that's funny because I'm sitting around going, I saw the Dudeson School of Trucking commercial a hundred times. I never saw Dudeson School of Driving. Well, it was never on TV. It was just in the road. I saw the Dudes in School of Trucking commercial a hundred times. I never saw Dudes in School of Driving. Well, it was never on TV. It was just in the road. I saw it. They were driving. And they didn't have a lot of range.
Starting point is 00:29:10 Right. They weren't coming to my neck of the woods. Probably not. So there they were. Then I got some crazy Armo guy for the driver's thing where now you needed three days of driver's training with him we went to like a 7-eleven in hollywood he picked up a porno mac oh shit i drove around while he did errands yeah he got hustler in 3d oh my god the glasses on while you were driving yeah oh my god that my God. That's fantastic.
Starting point is 00:29:47 Oh, I don't know if he put the glasses on. He did not hide it. No, yeah. He said, you know, he was, you know, turn right here. Yes. And go up there. Turn left into the park. Go into the 7-Eleven and park. Because everything fell under the heading of practicing driving.
Starting point is 00:30:00 Yes, yes. You know, let's see. You practice driving into a 7-Eleven. Practice parking in a spot. You know, whatever. then he just jumped out she went in there got like a slushie and a porno mac and it just came back out again it was like he was like sitting there he's like hey look what i got it's hustler 3d did he have pedals on his side no oh yeah no that that was school stuff yeah um it's hysterical oh my god that was school this is just the It's hysterical. Oh, my God. That was school.
Starting point is 00:30:29 This is just the dude's Nissan Sentra. They just drove around for two days or three days. It's up with California. Drove around. That's one of the stupid shit California does. He just gave me a piece of paper. I was like, there you go. Yeah. And that was it.
Starting point is 00:30:41 Dudes in debate, same address. Two companies, both permanently closed. But they're two different companies? I mean, I've got to assume they're run by the same people. But yeah, they do two separate brands. One was a driving school, one was a trucking school. Well, we've got to get Debbie Dudeson on the blower. She should know. Wouldn't that be funny?
Starting point is 00:31:00 Debbie Dudeson. Yeah. And then that's how I got my driver's license. So it was like everything in my life. It was a hassle. I'd spent my birthday money on sitting in some shit box in Van Nuys. It was during the summer. Just sitting there trying to – I got a ride or took the bus there or something in the morning.
Starting point is 00:31:24 Fucking sat there no phone the opposite feeling i get from watching arnold's documentary sat there got my license yeah took the test and my dad's VW Rabbit, four-speed. Hey, speaking of which, I was in Palm Springs this last weekend for Gay Pride. It was a bunch of gay friends of mine. And it's interesting. I had a little throwback experience. My parents used to drag me there in the early 60s.
Starting point is 00:31:59 Palm Springs. Yeah. Not for Gay Pride. Not for Gay Pride. There was no such thing then but it was uh they had this thing called the el mirador hotel look el mirador the marvelous or magnificent el mirador ben and uh it was a bizarre throwback kind of thinking about the 60s and what people would do and what they thought was a great time and what good hotels
Starting point is 00:32:25 were yeah there it is that tower they just go on vacation there it's like it's a weekend they'd go and they'd stay at that that was the hotel you're looking at with that tower you'd go there yeah yeah color tv oh interesting look at that yeah but you say they drag you there that's that sounds enjoyable why why nbc particular maybe they just one channel in color right the nbc was the first Yeah, but you say they drag you there. That sounds enjoyable. Why NBC? Maybe they had just one channel in color? Right. NBC was the first color channel. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:32:50 Remember? Isn't that interesting? Yeah, it's on the sign. Historically, it just threw me back. And there was nothing there then. Oh, my God. It was just empty desert. I bet you guys would be able to go out to eat and stuff, right?
Starting point is 00:33:03 No. Never. Oh, no. But why would you eat at the hotel? Eat at the hotel, yeah. But you ate at the hotel. Yeah. Well, that's out to eat.
Starting point is 00:33:11 Yeah, I guess. But it'd be the coffee shop. You weren't as miserable. Your childhood wasn't that miserable. You just hated your parents. But it wasn't that. Listen. You just hated your parents.
Starting point is 00:33:22 Me and Arnold, we got real beefs with our parents. Don't try to pitch your beef wagon to us. But I had the same I got to get out of here feeling. No, I get it. The bottom line is this. I interact with my kids. I talk to my kids. And I came off the road the other day. I talk to my kids and, you know, I,
Starting point is 00:33:45 I came off the road the other day. I went and talked in Italian for a little while. And he's like, where, where I was. Oh, I was in New York. And then we took a flight to Florida,
Starting point is 00:33:53 did a gig and then a corporate gig. I was in Nashville and whatever. And, and she's like, Oh man, that sounds fun. You know? And I go,
Starting point is 00:34:00 yeah, it is. It is. It's hard. It was a lot of travel and stuff, you know, but, uh, yeah,. It is. It's hard. There's a lot of travel and stuff. But yeah, it's interesting. It's fun. You get to be with people and stuff like that and entertainment or hear them laugh or whatever.
Starting point is 00:34:13 And then, yeah, we're going to go take Sunny this weekend. We're going to go watch football with the guys over at the shop with the cars and stuff. And I don't think that my kids – and then I'll take Sunny. We'll go to – She was in New York with us a couple weeks ago. Yeah. She took her to New York. That was a good experience for her?
Starting point is 00:34:32 Take Sunny. We'll go to Denver. We'll do some shows there. You work the merch table. Come to New York with us and fly. It was her first time seeing you perform, she said. Fly in Mark's private jet, blah, blah, blah. Right.
Starting point is 00:34:47 Yeah, so she's seen me perform. Okay. We'll take them to the set of Modern Family. They can take a picture. Or the Oscars. It's not all about taking them there. But what I mean is my kids aren't going to go when they're older. Like, oh, my fucking dad.
Starting point is 00:35:04 What the fuck was that guy thinking? Like, I don't even know who that guy is. Like, I got nothing. You know, like when you'd ask me about my mom, half my dad, you know, my grandma, like people in my circle would be like, I don't want to fucking have to get stuck having dinner with them. You know what I mean? Like, what the fuck are we going to talk about? I don't even know. What the fuck are we going to talk about? I want nothing having dinner with them you know what i mean like what the fuck we're gonna talk about yeah i don't know what the fuck we're gonna talk i want nothing to do with that my thing i just sit there my parents fought right like what would be the worst thing ever a worst thing ever would be going on a cruise with your family you know what i mean like fuck that like no way so
Starting point is 00:35:40 even if they took you places and did shit the the fact that you sort of fundamentally went like, I don't want to talk to those people like my kids, hopefully now and when they're adults would be like, oh, go out to dinner with dad and tell some funny stories. All right. Hopefully, hopefully they don't. Well, hopefully they don't play the he was never around when we were young. I really don't know. I got it in their head now that I'm gone because I'm working, and that's why you live in this house. Monterey, tonight, Golden State Theater.
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