The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - #1772 We All Get Old
Episode Date: September 25, 2023Adam and Dr. Drew talk about how Adam used to be nervous about flying and how he overcame that over the years. They also talk about aging, and how everyone feels a certain way in their youth and the ...natural, unavoidable aspects of aging that change our various perspectives. They also discuss the recent scandal with Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner. Please support our sponsors: Blindsgalore.com TryMiracle.com/ADS Simiplisafe.com/ADAM2
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Is it the air travel or the hotels?
I didn't like the air.
I didn't like flying that much.
I was a little bit of a nervous flyer, a little bit.
Really?
A little bit.
Oh, my God.
If that's you being nervous.
I was a little bit of a nervous flyer. I have an aversion to needless protocol.
A real aversion to needless protocol.
Airports are full of it.
And an aversion to sort of waste.
Yeah.
An aversion to policy that seems sort of weird and backwards.
policy that seems sort of weird and backwards.
The last time I flew, I flew back from Hawaii,
and I had a first-class ticket,
but of course we were turning right when we got on the plane, not left. But there's weird protocols,
and I would call them protocols versus sort of habits in life.
Like if you travel with most people, they'll go,
oh, we got a first class ticket.
We can get on right now.
We can get on that plane right now.
And then I go, to do what?
They go, well, we get to get on first.
I go, yeah, but so we just sit.
So you spend six hours as opposed to five and a half?
Yeah, we're going gonna sit on the plane for
44 minutes before the last person gets on the plane and they're like yeah we we got a first
class ticket we can board now and and i'm always like well if we're gonna turn left and have some
cocktails uh so be it but if we're just turning right and watching people banging their Samsonite into your knee
as they're going down the aisle and just stare at you,
then why wouldn't we just go over here to the Chili's and have a beer, get on in half an hour?
You know what I mean?
It's like, but we got a ticket.
We can get on now.
It's like, I don't think we've thought this through.
I don't think we've thought it through.
Well, you're going to get cognitive dissonance as soon as you say that,
because then they're going to go, well, I don't want to stand in the jetway,
something like that.
Or I don't want to stand in the aisle.
Or there won't be any overhead space.
There's a legitimate overhead space argument that can be made
because humanity has sunk to such a level that people who are getting into coach in the back of the plane are
now have a habit of throwing their shit above your head in first class if you in fact haven't
occupied that overhead cabin with your stuff yet when you turn right only when you turn right now
there's so the airport you know whether it's sort of you know the airport so the airport has things that drive me nuts.
It has waste and inconsistency.
Both.
And the waste is on many levels.
Wasting time, wasting money, wasting...
There are small things like you fly out of Burbank and you got your sweat jacket on and there's no problemo.
And then you're flying back out of Austin
and they tell you to take your sweat jacket off.
And you're like, is it on or is it off?
You know what I mean?
There really shouldn't be any variables
from any airport in the United States.
You know what I'm saying?
Rules are rules.
Regulations are regulations.
It shouldn't be sort of up to the whims of the and then there's
kind of bizarre shit like when i was coming out of god i don't know if i was in denver where i was
but i was traveling with sonny sonny's a minor he had a ticket i had clear you're supposed to be
able to go through with a minor but he wasn't and the guy just stopped us
and like sent us to the back of a huge huge line and then you talk to people later and they're like
he should be able to travel with you if he's a yeah i know but not according to this guy this
guy had a different plan yeah for for me and my 15 year old boy and and it's like and also of no
i don't know what they're gonna do do. Stop, shut down the airport.
If the 15 year old just goes through with his dad who has, you know,
he has a boarding pass and everything.
It's just like, it's just chock a block full of that mixed with an attitude.
Like my favorite,
my favorite was when I was traveling out of portland or seattle someplace
in that region i passed the aunt esther sort of seven-year-old black woman who was at the
aunt who was at the very beginning looking at the looking at the boarding pass checking the
boarding pass right and and she was down was down and the line didn't start
for another 80 feet
and then there was about
20 people in line or something
and I just bought myself
a Starbucks drink, you know.
And as I'm passing through,
she goes,
you can throw that away right here.
And I said,
oh, I just got it.
I'll throw it away,
the trash can,
you know, before I go through the magnetometer or whatever and she's like or you can throw it away here and i go yeah i don't know
i'm just i'll just drink it in line and then i'll throw it away when i get to the front and she
she goes you should throw it away here and i go i'm just i'm i'm gonna throw it away here. And I go, I'm just, I'm going to throw it away for her. And then she goes, then go on, get.
She literally yelled get.
She yelled get at me.
And I'm like, this is totally, first off, it's wildly unnecessary.
Just wildly.
I don't even know what you're doing.
Do you do this to everybody?
Are you angry?
I always think people like that shouldn't be
dealing with the public no they shouldn't be dealing with the public because because it's
going to be a constant struggle and that's not gonna be pretty and also it's confusing like
am i breaking a rule by walking past you with my starbucks or isn't the rule that i can't go
through the security?
You're prompted to throw away drinks and liquids and whatever.
There's trash all over there.
There's trash cans everywhere there.
I know the regulation.
I don't know why I have to throw it away 80 feet in front of that trash can,
but she seems compelled to want me to do that.
How about the fact that you will have finished it by the time you get to the plane? Oh, I will chug that thing because it was $7.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, but you don't want to chug it in one gulp while you stand with her.
You want to wait in line while you finish it.
Yeah, it's early in the morning and I'll just wait in line.
So that's all this is.
So the airport is one big unnecessary.
that's all this is.
So the airport is one big unnecessary.
It's kind of everything I hate about the government,
you know, in one place.
Like, first things first.
You, me, and many, many millions of other Americans should not be even going through security.
They've tried to help with that with the TSA pre-thing.
A little bit, but what I'm saying is once they have our data, how many millions of miles we've flown, FBI background check or whatever, it shouldn't even be a fucking thing at this point.
But anyway, just mixed with just lots of that.
Just lots of that mixed with, I don't know, hotels and that kind of stuff.
But I've learned to kind of enjoy it more.
What's changed?
Well, I think what it is is my – first off, my world, because I'm getting divorced,
is just kind of discombobulated.
You know what I mean?
And there's sort of consistency on the road.
You can rest on the airplane.
Your phone doesn't work.
You can just go somewhere and just get lost.
It's like being in high school again or something.
In the sense that I'm just here in this town for two days.
I can't go anywhere.
Nobody really needs anything of me.
I have to work at night.
But during the day, I can walk around and just not be burdened with it
that I should be doing this or taking care of that.
You know what I mean?
So I've definitely learned to kind of embrace it
a little more which is nice would you travel for purely pleasure now would you go to europe would
you go to yeah i would i mean i usually try to connect something to it to get paid to just sort
of pay for the travel yeah it's nice when It's actually fun when that's the case.
You get to interact with people that are there and have a purpose to be there and everything.
It's nice.
Yeah, I agree.
That's what I did in Hawaii.
I don't know why.
I enjoy when the left eats its own.
That's something that I really find satisfying.
I don't know why.
You don't need to be much of a student of history to look at these so-called revolutionary movements, no matter how big or small, to know that it's a law.
It's a law of human behavior that when you demand purity, no one's ever pure enough and you will eat your own.
You'll eat your own.
And especially when it's built on narcissism and aggression.
Then it's on.
It's inevitable.
If you look just – I mean the ultimate expression was the French Revolution.
It's funny.
I was talking to somebody about it the other day and I become kind of obsessed with the french revolution because the the the behaviors are exactly the same circumstances different so it
went to extreme places behaviors thought the same and somebody he goes you know clarence thomas is
obsessed about this right now too for the same reason oh really oh that's interesting yeah that's
interesting but the point is that dude's a racist i know. The point is he's the black face of white supremacy, isn't he?
They're one of those?
No.
Oh, well, he's Uncle Tom.
I mean, but Larry Elder's the black face of white supremacy from South Central.
So –
Went to school in Crenshaw.
So the point being that if you study French Revolution for two minutes, you see immediately that first the aristocrats go on
the chopping block
on the guillotines
and then eventually
everybody goes on
the guillotine.
Everybody in the
party, everybody
in the next party,
everybody who is
all about the
purity and the
tolerance and the
equity, they all
end up on the
guillotine eventually.
Yeah.
It's like they
call it terror.
Yeah.
Until everyone's
gone, all the assholes are gone, all the narcissists are gone and then uh somebody goes hey we need to
re-establish sanity again let's bring the monarchy back in let's do it all over again yeah well
because the plan is chaos and that's what they never say i don't know if that's true i don't
know that they know it. That's what I'm
saying. Right. I think envy and- Well, here's what chaos is. Here's how you arrive at chaos.
You don't say, you don't say, I want chaos. Right. What you say is, I want to get rid of the police
and I want to stop oil production and i want to just give money to
americans so they don't so they can have things to buy and homeless people need to be treated
with dignity all right then what comes is chaos right so your plan is treating homeless people
with dignity that your plan isn't chaos or your plan is you know making these uh making these oil
producers pay their fair share you know by closing down refineries or whatever your plan is this your
plan is equitable treatment of black and brown people by the police by getting rid of the police
and freeing the black man who's in jail you know i mean that's the plan what then comes immediately thereafter is chaos so you go is your plan chaos no my plan
is not chaos my plan is to sleep at home with the doors wide open right but at some point there's a
family raccoons in the kitchen you know and go, that's not what I wanted. Right.
But no, you wanted to sleep with the doors wide open.
Well, then they'll go to the, well, our work's not done.
Right. Because we're not sleeping with doors open yet.
Our work's not done.
We've got to get there.
It's like, this way?
It's never worked before.
Yeah.
We don't want chaos at the border.
We want an open border where people can come here seeking freedom and
we'll take their word for it you know what i mean what what would you get is chaos yeah at the border
that's as you always say it's denial of human nature and human motivation everything else but
people we we want people to stop stealing catalytic converters we're just going to blame
toyota for making it too easy okay then you get chaos that's
so you don't ask for chaos you get chaos you ask for something under some you know
new york uh it's a sanctuary city we welcome all with open arms until they come and until they
show then tell chaos now chaos yeah. Yeah. Expands, too.
So your policies are chaos, but they're not labeled as chaos.
They're labeled as a sanctuary city where all are welcome.
But then a busload of 10,000 people gets dropped off in Manhattan, and you literally have chaos.
That's how it works.
Chick think, Drew.
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you get it's not what you ask for it's what you get and if you had a fucking cell in your brain
you would understand what this is going to be you know what i mean yeah well you're like i
we're going to defund the police and tell the cops to pull back like you don't you don't understand what that's how that's going to turn out you don't understand
that so it's really how old are you what is your position how old are you is what i've been
obsessing a little bit about lately because it's of course younger people that are the prime movers
in a lot of this stuff right and then the and then the do-gooders who are older come along with them.
They want to be included.
But there's an interesting – you've got to help me figure this out.
Embedded in that is this lack of understanding of historical sweep
and that they will age, like that they themselves will age.
And our generation was guilty of that too, especially the one right behind us.
They never were supposed to get older.
Remember all the articles about youth, what do they call it, like a youth movement or something?
And no sense that there would be a life course.
They would be young forever.
And this group is doing the same thing.
It's weird.
Yeah, it's like when you're 26 and you're saying,
don't trust anyone over 30, man.
Which is what we did.
That's what we did back then.
But you're 26, douche.
You don't have to be 30 real fast.
Yeah, those are the people saying that back then.
Yeah.
And then what really is sort of weird and odd that, of course, nobody doesn't appreciate because they don't study history.
Where did those people, the really the drivers of that nonsense that your mom was so into back then, where did they all end up?
They sort of went two places is my recollection.
Yeah, they either went with my mom and hung out at Flophouse
or they went to Wall Street and started crushing it.
I wish my mom had taken that.
Well, the Flophouse group also died.
A lot of them died.
They died of all kinds of things, but they were not in the world,
and a lot of them were drug addicts, things like that. either flop house died depended on the government i guess uh and then
or went to wall street went into finance it's such a weird thing that's how it went and i would
have said exactly the same thing you just said all right i want to play this uh jan wenner who's the head of rolling stone i'll i'll tease it okay he's the guy behind
rolling stone magazine which like many many other publications and entities you know whatever whether
it's peter sierra club or whatever just turned hard left and just went kind of like militant woke
rolling stone started down that path some years
ago and is now just there like is that because that's cool is they were always the cool kids
i don't know i mean they're at they're at you know they jumped the shark a few years ago with
their whole ivermectin story when they're showing pictures of people waiting in line to go to a
hospital being turned
away gunshot victims turned away because the hospital is treating ivermectin patients journalists
so by the way journalists when you hear stories like gunshot victims turned away i i don't know
how the uh er works but i don't think people turn away and And by the way, when you show a picture, a stock picture of people waiting in line,
there's 71 gunshot victims standing in line in front of the hospital Rolling Stone.
You got to find that article, Nicole.
We did have a weird thing for a minute where ambulances were being sent all over the place
to deal with sort of ICU beds and ERs and in the sort of the very peak of
the COVID thing.
And then a lot of that, which was not reported, was because the staffing was short, not the
beds were short.
The staffing was short.
I know.
That's Sotomayor, all the kids.
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It's about two years old.
So Jan Wenner, the head of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, he's been booted now from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Why? Do we know?
He's got a book out, and he's interviewing rock and roll stars.
Yeah.
And I find myself in a weird position.
All these super wokesters who get bitten by their own snake.
I love it when they get tossed out of their own super woke organization
because it's so poetic.
On the other hand, I find myself intellectually wanting to defend them,
which I still do.
Yes, yes.
I'm still happy that they got tossed out but
i but i still want to intellectually defend them so he wrote a book i i guess i have kind of
skeleton uh view of this but and he interviewed bob dylan and pete townsend and, I don't know, Roger Daltrey. I'm trying to think of, you know, John Lennon.
He interviewed like seven, Bruce Springsteen,
you know, seven major songsters.
So this is Lennon, so this is over the years?
I guess so.
Okay.
I guess so.
And of course, he's doing an interview
with the New York Times,
which now it's like woke on woke crime.
I think it's the New York Times.
It's hysterical.
I don't know.
Some public, everyone's woke now.
And so they say, how come no black men and no women in this group?
It's all Bruce Springsteen and Pete Townsend and Bob Dylan.
And we'll play the clip.
I think we have the...
I mean,
it's not that they're not creative geniuses.
It's not that they're
inarticulate, although
go have a deep conversation with Grace Slick
or Janice, please be my guest.
Or Cass, Elliot, wonderful person.
You know, Joni was not
a philosopher of
rock and roll. She didn't, in my mind, meet that test.
Not by her work, not by other interviews.
She did.
The people I interviewed were the kind of philosophers of rock.
The black artists, I mean, Stevie Wonder, Crowley, they're genius writers.
These are genius artists.
I mean, I suppose when you use a word as broad as the masters, the fault
is using that word.
But
maybe Marvin Gaye.
I could cut Curtis Mayfield.
I mean, they just didn't articulate
at that level.
But how do you know if you didn't give them a chance to?
Because I read
interviews with them.
I listen to their music.
What he said, well, you heard it.
They're like, why didn't you interview any women?
And then he goes on to say, you try talking to Grace Slick of Jefferson Starship and Jefferson Airplane and whatever.
Yeah.
I'm sure Grace Slick was high most of the time.
And or you talk to Curtis Mayfield or something.
We said good luck talking to Janice Chopin, who was trying on heroin most of the time.
Right.
Or Southern Comfort or both.
You know what I mean?
So I think he was making a pretty valid point, which is these people were geniuses,
but they couldn't articulate what they were doing.
And he was saying he had used the word philosophers.
He was looking for a certain thing, I think.
Yeah, what he was basically saying as like, here's the premise.
Nobody could play the guitar like Jimi Hendrix, but I don't know if Jimi Hendrix could describe playing the guitar like jimmy hendrix but i don't know if jimmy hendrix could describe
playing the guitar or if he had a philosophy about what he was doing right yeah yes he he was saying
the pete townsend's of the world these were the thinkers of the rock and rollers whereas the other
guys were the doers or the players. The musical geniuses.
Well, I mean, look, I don't know.
You would think that might even have a higher sort of ranking
in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame than the philosophers, right?
Well, but not when you're writing a book
and trying to have these people pontificate on what it is.
Although I thought the interviewer asked the right
question which was nice to hear a reporter ask a good question how do you know this give him a
chance and his his answer was fine which was uh he didn't he praised these people as being geniuses
but look i you know stevie ray vaughn was an amazing – first off, a lot of these people, especially the ones out here,
they've had ninth-grade education.
They were like playing clubs at 14 and on the road at 17.
They weren't – they're not wordsmiths.
But I don't know –
I don't know that Earl Campbell could have described
running the football
any better than somebody
who didn't do it as well as him.
You know what I mean? He was a
doer, not a
talker. It's sort of
but let's think about it this way. It's sort of a shame
that he was thinking about it that way.
Because I would have loved to have... Who was thinking about it that way?
This dude. What's his name? rolling stone winner yawn well no i because
if you're thinking about it because well i don't know what's in the book yet right well he's trying
to write a book because because i he i don't like you're getting at some psychology in me
i don't like these mfers idolizing rock stars i don don't either. I just don't like them. I hate it. It bothers me.
Fuck all of them.
What I'm saying is-
These are the people,
these are the rambling men, right?
These are the guys that just were,
the guys he talked to
are guys that abused women regularly.
Well, listen,
what I'm saying is
he was writing a book.
When you write a book,
you have to do 80,000 words.
If you're talking to Janis Joplin, who's high, and she's mumbling,
and talking about feeling the music and feeling the vibe or whatever it is,
it's just not going to be good on the page.
Which is a shame because I would love to have heard that interview.
Understood.
You're a great human.
By the way, that interview is probably around somewhere.
You know what I mean?
There are probably tons of interviews with her somewhere.
I'm sure.
He's just explaining that I did not meet.
I'm with you.
Joni Mitchell could sing and she could write, she could everything else,
but she couldn't describe what she was doing like Bruce Springsteen.
So I talked to Bruce Springsteen and put it in the book, and now he's out, which is funny.
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Yeah, so now he's gone.
So riddle me this.
Is my impulse self-destructive?
Because here's my impulse
when I see a story like this.
I immediately want to interview that guy.
As soon as somebody's canceled, I want to immediately know what's going on with them.
I want to dig in, find out what he's thinking, what he meant,
as opposed to making him radioactive, which seems the opposite of what you should do.
Well, here's the problem.
Here's the big problem.
The big problem is Matt Damon, just shut up.
That's the problem.
So what happens is he does a story like this.
You can agree, you can disagree, but there's context.
There's context to it.
Which they never include.
Right.
And then it ends up on TMZ the night, you know, the next night.
It's on TMZ and everyone in the room goes, oh boy, oh boy, that's a bad one.
He's out.
Next story.
And so what you have is a very small group who actually are upset or care and then a much larger group of people who feign caring or being
upset or whatever and are essentially scared we just went through it with covid that's exactly
what we just went through a large populace of people going uh oh i care you know or i'm i look
i don't want to get in trouble but i don't want to
be the one person in tmz there's a peanut gallery there's 25 people you want to be the one person
that raises your hand and defends jan wenner aren't we the ones that are saying it's time for
courage it's time for freedom of expression i'll do it i'll do it if I'm not, not if I'm 27 and like my job at TMZ,
I totally understand that.
But my question was,
am I self-destructive by wanting to get into that battle?
No,
I think you're just being,
I,
I don't,
I had this thought on the way in.
I was hearing the story about the comedian who turns out fabricated a bunch of stories.
Indian guy?
Yeah.
And now there's a blowback or whatever.
And I initially was like.
Hasan Minhaj.
Hasan Minhaj.
I didn't really care.
And then I realized, oh, he's making up racist stories.
Police.
Police stories, too.
Yeah.
And then now that's kind of crossed into another region for me, which I hate those people.
I hate that they fan those flames.
But okay.
And then I had this thought, this fleeting thought, which is like, I should make up some stories.
I should say some stuff that's not true.
Or, you know, what if I was willing to kind of go along with the thing?
You know what I mean?
That everyone seems to do, you know?
And I was like, I can't, I couldn't.
Like, I just, I couldn't do it any more
than I could throw a kitten into a wood chipper.
You know, just physically not capable of doing it.
And sit back in wonderment at how many are capable of doing that kind of stuff.
Like Jussie Smollett, not in one million lifetimes could I even get close.
It's not even because i'm a decent virtuous
person i'm not even that i just can't i couldn't i couldn't pull it off couldn't pull it off i
couldn't do it like i'm amazed but here's what's interesting what would your what if you were to
go through the thought experiment what would your made-up story be about or how would you do it
think about it like what would you go after oh i'll talk about
being molested as a kid or something some shit like that or just do some stand-up where i was
uh attacked by a group or something you know outside of a club or something you know or
whatever just just some or there's a right-wing version of it where you know i go i'm up there
telling jokes about joe biden and then i walked out of this club in san francisco and there's a right-wing version of it where, you know, I go, I'm up there telling jokes about Joe Biden.
And then I walked out of this club in San Francisco and there's all these hippies and they attacked me for my jokes, you know, or whatever that, whatever you got to do.
Yeah.
Get some ink.
My problem is the opposite.
I keep telling people, ah, it's not, who cares?
Yeah.
Moving on.
Which I don't, it's not, who cares? I'm moving on.
Which I don't,
it's a bigger subject.
It's like,
I find myself having this,
you know,
the Spanish soccer coach guy who got thrown off
for the kiss.
And I find myself just going,
who cares?
Who cares?
And I was in here
with radio show host
Phil Hendry.
He's like,
that's a big deal.
And I'm like,
it's not a big deal.
Yes, it's a deal.
Like, it's not a deal. It's a deal like it's not a deal it's not a thing like what what is so different about my wiring it's like when gina grad was in here and it's like there were cops ram their cruiser into a
barrier filled with people it's like there's people jumping on the hood of the cop car and he moved forward of what it's not a thing yeah it's not it's nothing it's it's what the soccer federation
guy did to the female player was nothing it was just nothing what why you guys why do you guys
treat it as something and they're like well it's a deal it's a thing i was talking to a brazilian
yesterday and she said that if you look at somebody for too long they will kiss you in the mouth
that's hysterical all right we've got a lot more to get to oh yeah we'll take a uh extendo break
here i'm gonna be in uh irvine that's right adam kroll and friends Brad Williams going to be out there October 11th and then San Francisco
Cobbs
October 13th
four shows there
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adamkroll.com
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so
until next time
Adam Kroll
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