The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - Acne, Outdoor COVID Dining and Atheist Gypsy Travel (The Adam and Dr. Drew Show Classics)

Episode Date: July 26, 2024

In this classics episode, Adam talks about his battles with acne as a youth, they also touch on all the policies of dining during COVID in California and Adam take us on a journey when he and his mom traveled to Morocco as a youth.

Welcome back to the Adam and Dr. Drew Show Classics. I am your host, Big Brother Jake, aka Jake Warner, my government name. So let's get started. First up is episode 1756 that took place on August 8th, 2023, titled Adam's War on Zips. Adam takes us back to his childhood with the one thing he had a problem with, is acting like most of us. Check it out. All right. So much to get into. One of the subjects and we have a video to back it up.

Somebody tweeted me. Well, basically, my business is I make a lot of proclamations and then I sit around for 10 or 20 years and then people tweet me about being right from 20 years ago, right? But it's no good in the time. How come that didn't like happen in high school? Maybe it did. Did it happen to you like in high school? Where what? Where you it happen to you like in high school? Where what? Where you would declare things to your friends as good or bad ideas and it took them a long time to kind of get around to agreeing with you?

I mean I would say- When did this start I guess is the question? When did Crystal Brain become such? I was always pragmatic. I was densely pragmatic. I've always been kind of pragmatic. I get it. And very interested in motivation. You know what I mean? Maybe that's the unusual piece because most people don't even think about or understand

motivation. That's part of what you and I talk about all the time. People just don't seem to get that. And that's everything. It's literally what Freudian psychology was about, was about drives. Right. And then everyone is such a fucking dingbat now. Their brains are up there. First of all, everyone's brain, if you sleep on your side, your brain's just going to drain out of your fucking ear now. People are so fucking dumb You know they go do you see those high schoolers chase that pot of dolphins? They did not they did not they didn't they didn't why how do you know? I got how do I know because a human being the

Phelps can't swim any faster than six miles an hour. Yeah, and a fucking spinner dolphin can go 28 miles an hour. And a fucking spinner dolphin can go 28 miles an hour. That's how I know high schoolers did not run down a group of dolphins. You want to see the footage? I don't need to see the footage. I just told you. You haven't even heard of this. I just heard it. I'm telling you what happened. That's all. Yeah, but the newspaper says, yeah, okay. And they go around multiple times. Not listening. Yeah. So now somebody tweets me the story, some dermatologist that comes on to Today Show or Good Morning Whatever talks about shower, you're showering too much. You shouldn't shower every day. You shouldn't shower every day. You shouldn't. Is the video going to be the video? We're going to say yeah, okay. Yeah. How do I know? How did I know that?

How did you know that? I know that interrupting nature on a kind of daily basis can never be correct. Now, what about replacing a heart valve or something? That's not a daily, there's plenty of room for interrupting nature, but sort of going and, I always kind of knew, I never took any antibiotics and I'm not allergic to anything and I almost never get sick. So I had a little bit of that.

Did your parents vaccinate you? I never asked you this. Probably. Yeah, go all the vaccines. But I rolled around in the dirt. I literally made forts by digging holes. I played in dirt. I did too.

Dug dirt, made forts. Yeah, there's a lot of that back then. I rolled around in the dirt and I never got sick and I wasn't allergic anything And I didn't have any psoriasis or any of the stuff that everyone has. Yeah, and then I also started like kind of going Geez, I've never seen a hobo without a full head of hair. Mm-hmm And I thought these people shower the least the least they used the least And I thought these people shower the least. The least. They use, the least shampoo is used by a hobo

in terms of Americans. And they always have this big bushy head of hair. You know, I'm a 65 year old guy with a huge, it's the lawyer in the Beverly Hills office who has the big bald spot in the back. So then, and I started observing like friends and people like that who showered like twice a day and shampooed and lots of like things and just their hair seemed to be thinning out. It wasn't working.

The ones that were doing all the masks and the peels for the acne and stuff like that, nothing really working. Then I started realizing, what is all the moisturizing going on and the hand sanitizer? Can this be, can your body need this? And if it needed it, wouldn't it be a cruel joke if you needed it? To all who are born before us. Everyone who was born before Juergens or Nivea, they must have led a tortured life. There's no moisture. Right.

And then you started looking at the Madison Avenue component. That's where you got suspicious. I started seeing a lot of commercials for baby shampoo. The mom would be... Shirelle. La la la la la. And she's putting the moisture on the baby. She's lathering up the baby.

Well, then you saw your own wife doing it to the kids. Yeah, like they need it, you know. They don't need it. They're swaddled in a darkish room the entire day. They don't need it. It feels good, you know. It was like, all right. I realized this was all a scam and the people I knew who did the most rubbing and scrubbing had, and then I started noticing everyone's got an allergy. Where are all these allergies coming from? When did these allergies kick into overdrive? And I just sat and observed and then I was like, all right, this is no good. All right. But Purell is bad and all the anti whatever. so dermatologists, how often should you shower, I guess? I'm so happy.

All right. Let's start with the first one, you guys. How often to shower per week? Yes. How many times do you think you should shower per week according to dermatologists? I bet they're going to say C. Five seconds. I'm going to say every day even though I know it's C. Yeah. I don't care what they say. I'm going to say A. Well, you guys are all wrong. Every answers actually be two to three times per week.

What? There are seven days in the week. Yes, there are seven days in the week. Now, is that for kids or adults? Like adult smell. So the consensus is two to three times per week, but it does depend on the person. I'm looking at Al's face like what is this? It depends on the person, your lifestyle, your lifestyle your skin type your lifestyle your activity level as well

So if you're someone who has a laborous job, so you're a teacher or maybe you work in healthcare You probably are showering more often than the normal person Use teachers a labor job You know, there's construction workers and like people that are out road crews and stuff like out labor They need to shower. I I had to rinse myself off almost every day after Construction because I was literally covered with stucco dust. Yeah, I would do it with the hose at the house I was working at note during the summer. No, so no I would never Never soap never shampoo, you know, I would never, never soap, never shampoo.

You buy me a bottle of shampoo, that shit lasts seven years. But what's interesting to me is don't you think we should sort of parse out soap and shampoo versus water? Like rinsing every day, how bad could that be? Yeah, I agree. I get in the swimming pool every day. But anyway, all right, here we go. Who has a laborious job, so you're a teacher,

or maybe you work in health care, you probably are showering more often than a normal person. Again, if you work out, you're also showering more often. At the end of the day, it's all personal preference, and I think the reason why. Not if you come in contact with other people. No, but I actually believe it. Like, I think for the sake of our skin if we're

talking to dermatologists yeah, I got the other factors that worried about your skin health exactly so what they say is you have this natural bacteria that lives all over your skin is part of your part of your microbiome right you don't want to compromise that because it does help sort of protect you and then there's other people who have skin issues dry skin rosacea all these factors come into play and when you're you know scrubbing and using soap and harsh detergent I can't stop looking at Al

Twice a day good for him Listen by the way whenever one of these studies comes out, all the comments under is gross, gross. Well, you know what some of it... Here's all I want to say. Makers of Purell, Madison Avenue, in Big Pharma, fucking good job. You convinced a bunch of moms to vaccinate their young boys who do not need this vaccination. You did a fucking excellent, everyone on CNN, great, fantastic job.

You've convinced people to slather Purell all over their hands to prevent a disease that's not spread, that's airborne. You and Lysol, you wipe down everything. You have convinced most Americans to do something that is bad for them. That is harmful to them to do it in the name of love. Look, people smoke, people drink. They know it's bad for them. You've convinced them that essentially smoking is good for them

and they're giving their kids cigarettes. That's basically what you guys have done. And shame on all the dumb shit moms and their pussy whip cuckolded husbands who fucking went along with this. I've been saying this for 20 something years and all I get called is gross. Well, a couple things. I think what people... Fucking Al Roker.

Fuck off, Al. No one wants to fuck you anyway. Cares what you smell like. Well, it's interesting that that's what immediately your mind goes, because I know I got to fucking bathe myself in order to have any physical closures in my mind. Yeah, I get it. You got to clean the junk before, you know. Before action.

I get it. That's understandable. And if action is something you're interested in on a regular basis, then you're showering on a regular basis. Yes, I get it. Okay, good. I got to pass. Is that a current Al Roker or old Al Roker that nobody wanted to fuck?

All versions of Al Roker. No one wants to fuck. So it doesn't matter what it smells like. Welcome back to the Adam and Dr. Drew Show Classics. Up next we have episode 1724 that aired on May 20th, 2023, and the fellows talk about California Governor Gavin Newsom's dining regulations during the pandemic and their effect, the effect it had on them, should I say. Not only was I troubled and you know didn't like seeing people suffer and stuff, the whole

thing depressed me. It was like depressing like when the whole world. I think I was angry. I was angry too. More than depressed. I'll tell you what I didn't, I'll tell you really what I think I was I was kind of tapping into I I realized that this whole thing was sort of needlessly politicized from Jump Street I thought you know Trump was riding a wave into a second term and that the Democrats grabbed this, seized it and

used it as an opportunity to make some political hay. And so I felt like it was like East Germany and West Germany, you know, and it's like every time West Germany opened a new cafe, East Germany got angry and locked people in their closets. You know what I mean? Like every time DeSantis would go, we're opening up, Gavin News will go, well then we're closing the beaches. You know what I mean? Like, I'll show you. And I'm like, I live in a fucking state where these guys are having a pissing match about, you know, it started to become clear. It's like Trump would be like, I'm going to send the hospital ship to LA Harbor. And Garcetti would be like I'm gonna send the hospital ship to LA Harbor and Garcia be like we don't want your hospital

It's like what do you mean? You don't want the hospital. Yeah. Yeah, I thought you're out of beds Yeah, yeah, no, absolutely. I remember we're gonna you know during during During the summer of love when all the cities were burning Trump would be like I'm so I'll send the National Guard. Like, we don't want your National Guard. But your city's burning, and we have to live in the city. I know you don't like this guy, and I know you're against, you know, Trump said open schools,

so no, now we're gonna close schools. And then they go, well, you should open business. Now we're closing the beaches. You wanna keep going? And I'm like, hold on a second here. You're making your horrible decisions based on your hatred for the current administration, but we have to live in your godforsaken state? Yes.

Fuck right off. I'm not part of your little pissing match experiment here. Yes. If businesses can be open, the businesses can be open. Also, way too much, way too much delineation and there's way too much mask up between bites, you know what I mean? Like churches, oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, can't be open. What about nail salons? No. What about liquor stores? Yeah, okay. What about pot dispensers? Yeah, okay. What about ball games? No, no.

What about Black Lives Matter march? Yeah, okay. Okay. By the way, you can't do that. You understand? It's either it's closed or it's not closed. It's either it's safe to fly commercially or it's not safe to fly commercially. Just sort of like, yeah, but no, no, but yeah, but no. Like, that's a wildly inconsistent

message. By the way, by the way, Capricious. It also seemed like all of the places that were getting closed would have been organizations that were a little more right wing and a little more right side of the aisle leaning. You know what I mean? A theme started to emerge that look, if you wanted to have a rally, a pro-life rally, Fauci wouldn't have been down with that. But if you want to have a Black Lives Matter rally, he would have been down with that. But certain themes were starting to emerge, is what I'm saying. Yes. And I remember I used to try to, I was always trying to equate it with Trump derangement.

Right? I kept saying, this party is all it with Trump derangement. I kept saying this is all kind of Trump derangement. I mean not to mention, you know, when people are like, oh, Gavin Newsom such a hypocrite going out to the French Laundry. I would say he's not a hypocrite. He doesn't believe this is dangerous. Andy's a hypocrite. When you believe something, has anyone seen Gavin Newsom riding a motorcycle with no helmet?

No, because he thinks it's dangerous. But 28 of his closest friends at the French Laundry, he goes to because he doesn't think it's dangerous. This is pre-vaccine. He bulldozes the skate park at the beach because it's dangerous, but he doesn't think it's dangerous. If he thought it was dangerous, he wouldn't go out to dinner with 30 of his closest friends. he's lying. He doesn't think that. Yeah, it's not. It's this thing is like, oh, he's a hypocrite.

He's throwing caution to the wind. He's not throwing caution to the wind. He knows the data and he's not going to get sick. Or if he does get sick, he's not gonna be fine. So what everyone else is the fucking dinner. So that and they all believe that too. Obviously, they wouldn't attend. Right. And now when we were in that position, the feeling that you get was... When was that? Sorry. When

was that? The date of that dinner? French Launder, it must have been August, right? And then did he shut down? He shut outdoor dining out down after that. Oh, is that right? I I remember that the French laundry incident was fairly early on I remember him trying to say that when we were outside then it turns if you've got pictures of the closed windows Well, okay. Let me explain two things with Gavin ism. Here's what that Go into the French Laundry shows a He doesn't care about cove. He's not scared of cove. It's not fearful of coven Otherwise, he wouldn't attend be

He's not fearful of being photographed Telling everyone to lock down either but let's remember he got he got nearly Taken out of office. At least an effort was made an effort but not nearly he but I'm just saying he knows he's in California with all the fucking dumb shits or gonna vote for him constantly so he can go do what he wants When he he's an apex Dumbo predator in California We'll try final states anyway go ahead true We'll try to find the states. Anyway, go ahead, Drew.

So when you're in that position looking at the things that you're describing, all these seemingly random, capricious, awful, consequential policies for no good reason that you can figure out, it makes you feel helpless, right? Isn't that the feeling? Or powerless? Yes, it makes most people feel... everyone feels I got a lot well, no Sadly way too many people get comfort from it. Oh, you may Powerless, but not the demo who your crate training. Well, maybe that's where this

Problem is so they're not just complacent but feel taken care of or something. And we felt powerless and at the whim of a capricious authority that was harming people. Are we too far one direction? Are we? Because that's what made me depressed. The helplessness made me depressed, I think. And then looking around at the fucking nuclear winter in this city. Let's see. And by the way-

Gavin Newsom went to the French Laundry on what date, Emmy? That'll be easy. November 17th of 2020. All right. So he went- So hey, that teacher's thing I'm thinking of may have went well before that, by the way. But go ahead. He closed down outdoor dining in December. Right after that. That was 2020?

Yeah. All right. So he went, and then said he was outdoors, so it was fine. Yeah. Except for he lied. Then he closed down outdoor dining the next month. So do you understand why I'm not listening to Gavin Newsom? Do people not remember what we were going?

Maybe it's just California got a huge dose of this. Because I go around the country and people are not that affected as we were here. Yeah. They're fucking dumb in this state. I guess that's it. Well, they know fucking dumb in this state. I guess that's it. Well, they're not dumb They're such ideologues that they don't they're they're if if

if if a person Says he's not for drag queen story hour. They go on them. We're not voting for you and we don't care how bad California becomes I don't know if San Francisco's rendered unusable. It's all worth it to have drag queens. They have no thoughts about what they've done to San Francisco? No. What they do is they sort of separate. I think we were talking about this on the phone the other day, but I think what

they do is they connect policy very closely to people they don't like. So if they don't like Trump, then they go, he's putting kids in cages at the border, you know, these policies, these policies, there's no Muslim ban on flights, you know, and these policies, you know, we don't like these policies. And then when it's the people they do vote for, it becomes a sort of cycle that that just sort of is the cycle of life like you know in new york has crime sometimes and then then it doesn't have crime and then right has nothing to do with the policy and now just sort of we're in a sort of homeless cycle now wouldn't really wouldn't really matter who was in charge were just this is just what's happening, you know what I mean, like

Test scores are down and black and brown kids are falling further behind and the economy's junk and you know Gas is five bucks a gallon and there's homeless everywhere, but it's just and businesses are leaving. Well, but there's always Of course. Yeah, it's just a sort of a cycle that we're passing through, and we'll just pass through it. But it's really got nothing to do. Look, the thing about there's only one yardstick to measure any society. The canary in the coal mine are just businesses.

If people are packing up and leaving your city, that is a foreboding traveler from the apocalypse. Wake up and look at what the fuck is going on with these people leaving. We'll be right back with more of the Adam and Dr. Drew show classics. We'll be right back with more of the Adam and Dr. Drew show classics. All right, last up for today we have episode 1541 titled Crazy Atheist Gypsy People, which aired on February 25th, 2022. And Adam discusses how his mom went globetrotting in her youth on the cheap. It's a good listen, so check it out. I had a Fez. Really?

Yeah. When I was, I don't know, 10, my mom went to like Morocco. Really? Yeah, my mom started doing like crazy international, you know, super cheap, but traveling a lot. Wow. It doesn't like, I don't want to strike me me it seems too scary to her to out of control Like freak out what what what was happening that she was able to pull that off? She like had this period where She after

I'm like everything is just compensation for for else, right? So she had a decade of locking herself in a room and with a mattress on the floor. Could you guys imagine as an adult, you know, in your 40s, well in your 40s, your bed is a mattress on a hardwood floor that wasn't even really a hardwood floor, a plank. Look that was a farmhouse from a hundred years ago. It's on the ground Wow, it's on the floor. That's your that's how you sleep. Yeah You know in a house, but but she's the same woman that did international travel She had about it, you know, I'd say about a decade in the room you know packing on weight and

sleeping on the mattress on the floor. And then at some point, she woke up, she emerged. She was like, I got to go out to eat every other night. We have to go, we have to travel. You know, like there was an element of. When was that? Um, like what decade was element of when was that? Like what decade was I would what years were that I would say that would be from like

The late 70s to the late 80s. Yes, you know what's weird about that is that that the 80s were such a much more positive Decade it's interesting how weak people are affected by the. The 70s were a bummer. Totally a bummer. And the 80s were like village people and disco and cocaine and Rolls Royce, you know, and people were roller boogieing, you know, I mean that was the end of the 70s into the 80s.

I remember the moment it shifted. I literally was at a house party in 19, the fall of 1980 and Devo on, and people started just celebrating. I hadn't seen people celebrate in 10 years. It was weird. They were just jumping around and celebrating. I thought, what is going on? This is like a change.

Isn't that interesting? Yeah, you kind of wonder if some pattern is gonna repeat itself. I kind of think so. I just don't, I was expecting it soon, now I'm not so sure. Well, anyway, she, you know, on the cheap all the time, but her and my stepdad just started traveling. That's really interesting.

And she didn't have, you know, he... But the damage was already done to you and your sister by that point. Well, we were done, yeah, we were out of it. We weren't out. I wasn't out of the house. I was in another house. Oh, you were with the stepmom?

Yeah. I was being raised. At some point, going back and forth didn't seem like, I don't know what. I don't understand why, because your mom's house was such a Upbeat joyous place to hang out. It was such a whole Guy hated that place. Yeah, it was like it was really uncomfortable I didn't have heat and again is the fact that you two left and made her mood improve

So maybe there was some correlation there. Yeah. Yeah, so so she got me a fez Interesting. That's nice. Did she want you to wear it all the time? No. Just a novelty. It was just a novelty and people used to send postcards and stuff like that. My grandfather would always send a postcard. That is so interesting, these little glimmers of history that pop out that don't fit the

impression I have of that history. Well, my grandfather was, I mean, you have to understand that my family considered themselves Bohemian. European, I know. European. Your grandma, especially. Yeah, see, that was her thing. So they needed to go to Europe once a year.

And they had these kind of, she had this kind of job where she built up enough, you know, saved up enough sick days and federal government kind of, you know, your grandmother, my grandmother that she could get six weeks off at the end of the year, you know. And my stepdad had kind of the same type of job that he accrued a lot of vacation days and the whole kind of plan was scrimp and save and scrimp and save, save the days, save the money, live essentially for free in a house with no mortgage and no real expenses or anything, no car payments, and then at the end you could go away for four weeks, right?

But only you know my grandmother had those books like Europe on nine dollars a day Fyodor's photo Fyodor's for forters I think of who that but but I remember just sort of looking at that Yeah, those were the cool. That's the way you got literally nine dollars a day. I Had no wonderlust. I wanted stuff. I wanted tools. You know what I mean? I wanted stuff to put stuff together. I didn't want to go anywhere. I want to stay here and build stuff. That was sort of my thing. I never didn't. It wasn't Arthur Fromer. Fromers, yeah. That's right. Yeah. That's what it was. You're up on $10 a day you could do it What here can you guys imagine my grandmother sitting around like we're going to Europe for $10 a day

I'm seeing something that says 73 and another thing that says 76. So and I'm seeing 75 So we're a mess. I think Amazon says 73 I think at some point they had to adjust you had to be Europe on $13. Yes Yes, right adjusting. Yes, how Gary? You know, I you know, I didn't read and I wasn't going to Europe so I never picked the book up But my grandmother was combing through it. I used your body You're upon ten dollars today must have been here's a restaurant to eat at I used it in 1980 How's it what's in it? It's a book it's very fine print and would go city by city and all over Europe everywhere and they would go you know here are the

hostels here are the cheap hotels here are the restaurants that are reasonable they give you the whole deal here's transportation and how you get around here's just how you doing. In. It went up to 25 bucks a day In 82 you could do it for 20 bucks Yeah, wow. Yeah. Yeah, ooh 93 Eastern Europe on $30 a day Wow As it say was it from her writing all of them. They're all under his banner I don't know if he's actually it was a big net It's a giant brand and then there was another one that followed like Fyodor They still don't have it now though. Do they?

Can't be now they have hostile things like like youth house youth but hostile guides like how to find good hostels Interesting. All right, so I got a fest. Let's talk to Brian 34 Columbus, Ohio Hi guy to Brian 34, Columbus, Ohio. Hey Adam, hey Drew, how you guys doing? Hi Guy. Hi Guy. Hey Guy. I had a thought the other day and thought about you guys. I was doing laundry and was thinking about people used to hang them on clothes lines outside to dry.

And you guys always talk about how it's good to have dogs in the house for young kids, cause they get all the stuff in the outside and bring it inside for the kids. They get exposure to everything I'm just thinking oh, yeah, I guess if we hung our clothes up outside probably the same thing So just thought you guys are taking calls and figure I call and get your thoughts on it. Well, thanks Ryan. I look I believe in as much exposure as you can have. I really believe in exposing yourself to, you know. Stuff, the environment.

Sun, ocean, I also, something I never tap on, but slathering on all the sunscreen, especially spraying it in everyone's face, spraying all the kids down and stuff, there shall be consequences as well. These are all crazy atheist gypsy people that are trying to bend nature their direction does not bend your direction. You can't do it. And I, so I do think all of the exposure, the better.

And this is incremental, it's a little bit, it's outside, there's a little pollen in the air, like whatever that is, good, it all adds up. It all ends up in the same place, which is better immunity. Thanks, Brian. There's also an article Gary may look for if he's having trouble translating the other article. I got it. I got the translation.

Oh, okay. So another thing to look for. Okay, just to button up the Fromer's thing, they still do basically a version of that. It's no longer a number. It's each city and then the subtext is day by day and it's like 12, you know, 35 smart ways to see Philadelphia. Yeah. It's like 35 smart ways to see Philadelphia. Yeah, yeah. Okay. So there's another article that Gary can look at that basically said the reason this thing wasn't hitting kids is because they have a sort of primary and a secondary immunity. I'm screwing up the terms, but-

B cell and T cell, you mean? I don't know if it was B cell and T cell but when you're young you have an immunity that reacts That's all for this week. Thanks for listening to the Adam and dr. Drew show classic I've been your host big brother Jake host of the big brother Jake podcast here on the podcast one network Remember to check back each week for new episodes and while you're at it Don't forget to like subscribe and rate us five star reviews wherever you get your podcasts. Deuces!