The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - I Gave Up On Society 45 Minutes Ago (The Adam and Dr. Drew Show Classics)

Episode Date: January 2, 2025

Adam & Drew discuss the troubles Adam's been having with selling Mangria at his shows and take calls on topics including marijuana addiction & HPV.

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 Drew Show. Yeah, get it on. I told them put some classical music in there. We want to add to people's mental health. This will do it. This will uh, Drew, you can help me. Please help me. Don't turn it down. Keep it going. Yes. What? Speaking of music, I'm confused by adults and I bring this up a lot.

I don't know what's going on anymore. Anymore? You've been complaining for 20 years. Oh, maybe you're right. But I'm confused by not only the actions of adults, but just, I just went in and got my haircut. It's the $10 haircut place. All right, they left off some.

I left my beard on. I got a $10 haircut. Go for Santa Claus this year? The argument is it looks like $13 worth of haircut. So I got, by the way, found out while my dad was in the hospital he gets $80 haircuts. But he wants me to pay for his trips to Philadelphia.

Interesting. Interesting note. And the lease on his car. Yeah, you don't need to, there's just a little, what you call, tell. And if you play poker for a living, like I do, I play poker with life, I just look at little tells. So I went in there and it's the same thing every time.

It's a 53-year-old guy who is trying to sort of a 53-year-old guy who is trying to sort of recapture his youth with all the skull jewelry and the Just For Men and the riding the Harley and everything, cutting the hair. He's cutting the hair, but he's got that, hey man, I'm young at heart thing. And he's a nice guy. He's just, he's a guy, he looks like he's 55

and he's trying to, you know, trying to bang some 28-year-olds, you know what I mean? So he's got some skull jewelry. All right, got that guy. And then the rest of it is crazy Asian chicks like doing the nails. You know, there's the nail part with the weird fumes, and the crazy Asian women who,

I don't think speak a lick of anything. Yelling across the room. They don't even have their own language, I don't think. They're just yelling in Asian gibberish. And then you have the sort of road hard, put away wet, seen a lot in their 50 something years, Hispanic chicks who are cutting the hair. You know what I mean?

Loved and lost, had a few kids. Nalgus. Maybe buried a couple of them. You know what I mean? Like that kind of vibe. And then you sit there and you listen to pop music that my daughter listens to and she's six. They pump in the Katy Perry and the Britney Spears.

Justin Bieber and the. Yes, and it's that grating kind of electric kind of. And it's all just stupid like, you know you want me. You know, it's that grading kind of electric kind of And it's all just stupid like you know you want me you know it's also and then I always do the same thing I Look to the guy to my left who's in his 50s I look at the guy who's sitting down on the chair who's 63 I look at the Haggard Mexican chicks I looked the Asian chicks, and then I say to the person who's cutting my hair and this time this is an all-timer I just said to the chick Why are we listening to this music and she said oh, I don't know I don't I don't even pay attention to it and I said but

But this music this music it's for 12 year olds. Yeah, I guess I don't know I said well Don't you think people might want to hear I'm looking around I'm not seeing any 12 year olds getting their hair cut I got I've got it point out for the listeners This was all triggered by the classical music just so we could get a little insight into the Corolla brain Yeah, that's what triggered this diatribe. Okay, so I said Well, maybe we should put some other music on and she said, you know, I really don't care about the music. I don't pay attention to the music. I said, well, let me ask you this.

Oh, boy. I said, these folks who work here, do you think any of them listen to this music when they get home? No. She said no. She said no? Oh, she said yes?

First off, I feel like people scroll, they look at their quarterback wristband, and they try to figure out the least satisfying answer they can ever give me, and then that's what they give me. When I say to the 50-something-year-old woman, do you think any of these old people listen to this electronic 13- old girl music at home?

Her answer can't be no, because that would be satisfying. And it can't be yes, because that would be really? Let's talk, let's find the person who does and how do you know that? It'd be just flatly untrue. Right, I have to hear, here's the answer that I get and the answer I get in life. I don't know, maybe they do, I haven't asked.

So let's just break it down. The super unsatisfying. So I've had this conversation with you avogadro's number of times, like six million times. What do you think you did to contribute to her defensiveness and these unsatisfying answers? I asked questions. Do you think you made me with a,

put people on the defensive, they're like, what's he up to? Why is he, why is he probing so deep into me? Is he gonna judge me? Perhaps? I didn't, not tonally. Not intentionally. And you weren't actually doing that,

but maybe that's what they receive. Well, no, she said nobody's ever asked about the music. Right. No one's ever brought it up. And I said, right, but who's in charge of the music? And she said, well, we can all just, we can play whatever we want. And I said, but do you think any of the other people here

want to hear this or the customers want to hear it. And she said, I don't know. I feel your pain. And I said, well, why not then just play Christmas music? And she said, oh, we played Christmas music earlier. And then we switched it to retarded 12 year old music. And I said, why not just play Christmas music? Who's going to have a problem with that?

And she said, I don't know. And then I just, I kept asking her questions and the answer was just a flat out, I don't know. I don't know, I don't hear the music that's being played. And I thought, I understand that out of it, but how far out of it are we getting? And by the way, we're pumping this music into every sports bar, every barbershop, every mall,

every place is getting the electronic 12 year old music. Steak, oh, I mean, Mike and I were at a steak house in Manhattan three weeks ago screaming at each other. I had my table. Because the music was so loud. It was so loud we couldn't. And it was the same shitty music. Steakhouse.

It's always the same shittier than the same shitty music. Always, this is us enjoying dinner. Go ahead and play. ["Sweet Home Alone"] Couldn't hear the specials. God, I hate that. Couldn't hear the specials. The waitress was apologizing.

She would scream the specials at me and because there were six people at the table, she had to then walk around to the other side of the table and scream them at her, at the other people at the same table, at our table. Her voice wouldn't carry the four feet to the person on the backside of the booth. And she said, I know, I'm going hoarse,

screaming the fucking, and I said, well tell him to turn it down. I cannot be done. Cannot be done. So I don't know what's going on, but she said, I don't hear the music, nobody ever asks about it.

And by the way, I have never seen a human being in that place that is under the age of 40. Not someone who works there, and none of their customers. It's never happened. but we must be punished with electronic shitty girl band music. Now, as I always say, just play classical.

Do you think there's gonna be a fight? Like who's gonna go, what is this? Who's this, fucking Bach? Oh, someone's gotta turn this shit off. Not cool. I don't know what's going on. I had this one today too, Drew, and then we'll go to your calls, although we don't have it.

Wait, wait, we got something else to visit here. Oh, we got something else to do. Couple things. Okay. Forget the calls, since when do we go to calls? Okay, I had this one, I had this one. You and I going to the Canyon Club. Yeah, tonight.

And. Tonight? Well, yeah, true, but this... We went to the Canyon Club. Right, got it. Never can figure out how no one can figure that one out. Yes. All right, this is being piped in directly.

They'll cut that out. Through every speaker and every ceiling. No, they won't. Now listen, I talked to Mike August, and I said how much mangrove we bring into the Canyon Club because I hope you're sitting down, but people like booze. Do you know that about people? Yeah.

You do? Yeah, I do. You have some experience in that? I do. Okay. It can get out of control too, but you might be shocked to find out. I had 400 people show up in Seattle

for a little mangria tasting. They poured two kegs. Each keg holds 30 liters. They poured four ounces at a time. 30 liters, two kegs gone, and 15 cases sold. And they ran out. And everywhere. Okay, and they ran out. And everywhere we go, they fucking run out. So we, the club says, we'll take a case.

And we go, there's gonna be 500 people there and a case is going like that. So you better buy more. And because everyone's a fucking idiot, they just go, no, we'll just buy the 1K. So I say to Mike today, what's going on? And he said, well, we're selling bottles. They can buy a bottle from the club of Mangria.

I said, okay, it's gonna be about 400 people there or so. I better bring some cases. Oh, they bought four cases. I said, well, that will not be nearly enough for everybody who wants a case. Everyone is showing up is gonna wanna leave with a bottle. And for every one person that doesn't buy a bottle, there's gonna be a person that wants three bottles.

So I'm doing the math, 400 people, you've gotten 44 bottles, that ain't gonna be enough. Let's just think 200 bottles, just round up. And I said, okay, what about the bar? He said, well, they're gonna be sampling. They're gonna be giving little samples before the show. I said, okay, and then how much do we have for the bar? And they said, they're not pouring it at the bar.

And I said, why not? And he said, well, they're scared they're gonna get stuck with bottles. And I said, but we'll buy back any bottles they don't sell. Yeah, but they don't wanna get stuck with open bottles. I said, how many bottles do they have to open? Well, they don't think they're gonna sell any at the bar. I said, wait a minute, you have 400 people coming in

to see me, you're gonna give them a sample of Mangria, and then they're gonna go to the bar and they're gonna order a Mangria, but you're not gonna them a sample of Mangria, and then they're gonna go to the bar and they're gonna order a Mangria, but you're not gonna have Mangria. No, they don't wanna get stuck with the open bottles. I said, well, how many bottles do they have to open if they're not gonna sell any? Like according to their math, out of the 400 people,

seven people buy a Mangria cocktail. So that's one bottle they open and it's $10 a bottle, their cost. I'll buy the bottle back then, or I'll bring it with me and drink it that night on the way home. Right. I don't get what, you're not going to have Mangria,

no they're not. They're gonna sell the bottles, they're gonna sample them, but they won't have it at the bar. I said, do they have some sort of exclusive agreement with Michelob or something? No, no, they're a full service bar. They have every brand under the sun. But they don't want to pour the Mangria, which is what the people are going to be ordering when they come into the bar. No, they don't wanna get stuck with the open bottles. Okay, how many bottles do you have to open? I don't get it.

And then I did the thing that I do now, 12 to 22 times a day. What the fuck is going on with adults? What's going on with adults? First off, what do you do for a living? What year do you come from? 1780. You come from 1780 and you're in the moccasin

manufacturing business or do you run a fucking bar in 2012? And is every human being who walks through the door for our show is going to be asking for manguea. But I don't know what your downside is since we're going to buy back every bottle that you buy that you don't sell. And the open bottle controversy, neither here nor there because don't open a bottle then if nobody orders it. All right. Let's use your retarded logic. Nobody wants mangria. Nobody's going to the bar and opening,

asking for a mangria. Fine, no open bottles. Or a lot of people ask for it and you open the according, the correct number of bottles depending in accordance with how many people order mangria. So Mike and I have a 25 minute argument on the phone. He's defending the club?

He is being the accomplice of the retarding, which is this. Now listen, I had the same, here's what I'm saying. There's two arguments I have. The first argument is what the fuck is wrong with the person. It's like when I wanted to do my second audio book and Crown and whatever they are. Publishing company.

Publishing company, right. They wouldn't, they, Random House, would not do it. What I'm saying is, I did it one audio book, I didn't cover all the topics, all the chapters in the book, so I come up with this great idea to make more money. Do another one. I'll do a second one and I'll hit all the chapters that we didn't hit before.

Right. And I'll hit all those and I'll record them here in this studio and I'll sell it to all the people online and we'll just split the money right down the middle and no go yeah no go for that production cost right so by the way your production cost no production cost yes or mine or whatever anyway anyway retards so there's two arguments I have the one is with the bar slash club who doesn't know what the fuck they're doing and then the other argument is with the publisher that doesn't know what the

fuck they're doing but then there's a third and fourth argument that's with my book agent who can't figure this out. Yeah he says to me well they'll offer you five grand and I I said, no, not five grand, split it down the middle. And he said, 15 grand is as good as they'll do. And I said, you don't understand. I will split the money with them and they will take the free money. And he said, they're never gonna go for it.

And I said, why wouldn't they go for free money? And he said, 15 is the best they'll ever do. And I said, I don't understand something. I'm going to do something that's not gonna cost them anything. Does he have an explanation? This is where the part gets fuzzy again, because the only explanation is they won't go above 15.

I've been doing this for 25 years. I happen to know that. And I tell them, all right, well, tell them to fuck off. Cause I'm not doing it for 15. And then a week later, guess who'll do it and split the money in half. So why am I arguing with the agent? And why am I arguing with Mike August?

So I'm saying to Mike August, I don't get it. What do you mean open bottles? And he says, well, they don't want to get stuck with open bottles. I go, what, but then say to them, if you're not going to sell any, how are you going to get stuck with open bottles. So I go, but then say to them, if you're not going to sell any, how are you going to get stuck with open bottles? Like you do your-

Well you said you'd buy them back, so they're not stuck with anything. Well then he does this thing with me, it's like, why are you yelling at me? Oh. And I'm like, But you see- Cause you're not able to push this ball

across the finish line. But in this is this weird defensiveness, why are you yelling at me? You're not yelling at him, but you're making him defensive by making your argument, which is what happens with the hairdresser too. Right. You have a way, madam, of delivering something rational in a way that makes people defensive. So they don't even hear you. Thank you.

Right? Yes. I shall cease telling the truth with gobs of logic packed up its ass. I shall cease that because everyone is too fucking weirdly wired to receive the truth with a fucking keg of logic shoved up the truce ass like a fucking turdock head. It's the delivery of the logical ass delivery. Let me explain how the delivery starts. Let me explain how it starts.

Hey, Random House, I got a great idea. I'm gonna do a second audio book and I'm gonna give you half the profits and you're not gonna have to do a thing. That's first, that's how it's delivered originally. Now, you know what the response to first delivery should be? Awesome, thank you. Let's do it

No, here's five thousand dollars. We'll take the rest of the money. Isn't it? That's where it starts everybody has become like a security officer at a concert venue Here's my pass. Yes, you know me, you know my place. Yes, I need to get on there No, this just happened right made the auto show. Right? Yes, it happens everywhere I go. Right, isn't that the same kind of vibe? The point is, yes, we would never,

it's my idea, so it can't be good, but we would never get to the point where I'm raising my voice and questioning whether you've suffered head trauma or not, if you would simply listen to my first offering, which I've thought out. But they're not listening. And it's the point.

And it made it more than fair. You understand, they're not listening. They're not hearing. Why are you not listening when you do this for a living? I'm just saying you gotta examine that. It's not even about me. It is about you. Hold on.

Well, the first offering came from Mike, to be real. People are- Mike couldn't get it across, and my book agent couldn't get it I said the real logic comes from you the real clarity comes from you because they don't have the same clarity the clarity is You pay no I can I know I hear it. Just hold on you pay ten dollars for a bottle of mangria Mangria because of its high alcohol content. I do I feel like we're gonna have a fight? Just listen. I'll hit you with this fucking bottle.

Out of this bottle, you can get seven, eight, nine pours. You allergic to common sense? This bottle cost the Canyon Club $10. They then get eight pours out I get it. This bottle. Just listen. At $5 a pour. That's $40 a bottle. Thus $30 profit per bottle. Now that's at $5 a cocktail. They want to charge seven. Now they're up to you know, 55, 60 bucks, whatever it is. Yeah please, let me give you the opportunity to make 300, 400% return on your investment in one night.

You should let me sell you these bottles so that you can then make a whole bunch of money. And Random House, please, let me make you a bunch of money through audiobook sales that you wouldn't have formerly had because there's no second audiobook. That's the first offering. And I gotta say, you gentlemen, I'm looking at your staff here, you've all learned this.

What's the proper response? The proper response is, yes sir, Mr. Krola. Right, isn't that the response? Right, yeah? All the groupers in there say yes. The proper response is, wow, I hadn't thought about that. Yes, sir, Mr. Krollhau. I'm going to make a shitload of money on this proposition.

It's not in as sycophant a way as Drew is putting it. It's not yes, sir, for the sake of yes, sir, but it is... I saw how you guys scattered when his... Just the reflection from his car drove up today. You guys took food out of your mouth and started running. Come on now. Mike, you've been traveling with me for a couple years. Is there any ideas that I've ever had

that did not benefit the person that I was attempting to pitch the idea to? None that I can recall. But do you know what I'm- Greatly benefit in this particular case. I have heard him complain like this for a long, long, long, long, long time. Do you understand what I'm getting at,

that people get defensive around him in a weird way? Absolutely. Yeah, but I've always said it's after round two or three. That's the thing. Well, that's when he's angry now. Right, right. But they get defensive- Because it's the tune out factor.

No, but the second Adam goes, I understand something explained, they get defensive, weirdly. the tune out factor. But the second Adam goes, I understand some explains. They get defensive, weirdly. I think it's weird, myself. Well, this is coming from Dan Strone, the super agent who does books, who has been doing book agents, being a book agent for 25 years. So this is not coming from me. The idea is coming from me.

And this is coming from Mike August The idea is coming from me, and this is coming from Mike August, the lawyer with the NBA, who's going to now do business at your club and try to make you a bunch of money. So the idea is coming from me, but it's not coming from me. Now this is not me and my wife in the kitchen, in a bathrobe. This is, here's a business opportunity

from two business people. One, as it pertained to Crown, involves nothing except for you pay Mike Lynch a thousand bucks and you pay Mike Dawson a thousand bucks. As the Canyon Club goes, it involves nothing as well because you won't buy back any bottles. As usual, because you always think outside the box, the ideas are different than the routine structure of everybody's thinking and deals and stuff.

Except for these clubs are nothing but bars. You propose something interesting and good, they just go, no, no, we're robots. We do it this way and this is how we do it. And you go, hold on robots, I got an idea for you. And now you're in trouble. Now you're in trouble. Well, ultimately they're in trouble. I, I. Because, well I don't like doing business with retarded robots.

Speaking of that, okay, I wonder, I don't think you've visited this story on your podcast. I mean, if you have, it's been a long time. All right, so, right, so, Drew, you should yell that right. Wow. How is it my tone when it's being delivered by other people? It's my idea.

It isn't, think of that how it really goes down. How it goes down, the robots respond like robots and then you start to try to argue with your people. Right. And they're now with the robots. They're robots too. I'm always smarter than the robot because I have common sense. This is same stuff we were talking about last time we podcast together. You see things with clarity that others don't. I told an agent who's been doing this for 30 years, I'm not taking 15 grand to do something

that might generate 300 grand when I do all the work. And he said, they'll never go for it. And I said, fine. And then a week later, they came back and said, we'll do it. What he hears. How did I know more than him? He does this for a living. Because he deals with people that aren't,

that are robots. Yes. That go, I'll take 15%, thank you, give me that upfront, and the publishers make the rest. And you go, no, I got a better idea. We'll cost you nothing, and I'll split it with you. And it wouldn't even be... And that's outside of their thinking

and comfort zone and their routine, and even the agents. Should that, now here's my question. They get suspicious. People get suspicious when you do stuff like that. Let me get back to my original question. Why is this outside of the regular thinking patterns of educated adults? Because they're robots.

So that's it? We're living in a fucking... I'm Tom Cruise? You don't know that? Well where's my super cool car? This is too much for Random House to wrap their mind around. This is too much for the Canyon Club

to wrap their mind around. I'm asking too much. Also you're asking for somebody to exert like authority and make a decision, and everyone's afraid to do that. Of course. You know, it's all in that in there. Okay, okay, listen everyone's afraid to do that. Of course. It's all in that in there. OK.

OK, listen. So here's a story about hairdressing. I don't think you've told them this. I mean, you guys may or may not have heard this. Back some, let's go back in time, maybe some 12. You can need a way back machine sound here. We'll visit the history going forward. Why?

Why is that funny? What's all the mic manipulation for? Talking I have an anxiety disorder have to move shit around crowd work. All right, where are you from? Hey How many people from Chicago shy town in the house two three? Are you looking back at your band leader and fuck it having a fucking martini. I pick at shit. You know that drives you crazy. What, we have to like talk about this again? Why don't you slide the mic up and slide it back?

Because I have an anxiety disorder. It's a shit, it affects me. Your hairdresser, the Hispanic gentleman who bought a new car. This is a great story. You guys have heard the story? Oscar. Oscar, okay, please tell the story.

It warrants a retelling, don't you think? I'll stop moving the mic, Adam. Stop with the puss. If it didn't make a sound, I would let you do it all that you want. Do you hear this? Yes. No, they don't hear me moving the mic. Do you hear the gnat farting on the wall here?

No, I had the gnat removed before the show. Okay. All right, I hear the mic moving. Now, Oscar was my hairstylist. Sorry. And. Is it okay if I cough? Yes.

Okay. He's been doing a lot of it. I know, it's driving me crazy. Driving you crazy. Oscar was cutting my hair one day, many years ago, and he said he's thinking about a new car, and he's thinking about trading in his Bobo for Saab. And I said, it's Volvo, and it's Saab.

And he said, yes, that's what I said, Bobo and Saab. And I said, you're saying both the letters you're just putting them in the wrong place it's not that you can't say the V sound or the B sound because when you're asked to say the V sound you make you say Bobo but so so at first at first blush well he cannot pronounce the word the V sound. He just makes it a B. But then I heard you say, Sav.

So evidently you're pretty good with the V. So now you take that V sound from the end of Sav and start it with the Volvo. And he's like, Bobo. I was like, first off, here's the argument I have with people. Somewhere around the 28th time, I toggle back and forth where I go,

it's not Bobo, it's Volvo. You're saying Bobo, it's Volvo. And I go, wait a minute, I just did what I'm asking you to do as an example. And I just went back and forth. It's not Saab, it's Saab. See, you're saying Saab, but it's Saab. And then I go, it's sob. See, you're saying sob, but it's sob. And I go, wait, if I can do it, then why, I don't get, why can't you just, you know,

pair it back? Pretend it's B-O-L-B-O. Pretend. I say it, yeah, I say it the way you're saying it. You just say it the way I'm saying it. It's like sob. You went so far as to have a pencil in the gut. I said, listen, Oscar, put a pencil in her mouth. He put a pencil across his mouth like that. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

And he did it. Crawl, crawl, crawl. It was funny because I was looking at him in the mirror. He was standing behind me with the pencil in his mouth looking at doing it in the mirror. Did you point out to him, he got it, there it is, took the pencil out and? I got, he went right back to Bobo and Saab, but I just thought, what are the chances

someone's gonna trade their Volvo in for a Saab of all cars? You just gotta hate cars. I mean, I don't know what your deal. No one wants to step, no one steps up to a Saab. You can step over or down to a Saab. You know what I mean? There was a window there for about two years with that convertible.

It was cool. Yeah, it was cool, yeah. Anyway, the point is, yeah, that's Oscar and his Volvo and Saab. His Volvo and Saab. Oh my God, that's a great story. All right, we got your calls. We need to take a- Egypt. Someone's calling from Egypt.

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I'm your doctor. And I should also tell people, we'll be at the Hollywood Improv doing some live podcast coming up this Friday, the 14th all the way through Sunday the 16th and lots of good guests as well. And Love Line Tour, we already talked about that. Let's do it again.

Drew and I get back together. Santa Barbara, Denver, Redondo Beach. You can just go on my website and check that out. But me and Drew back on stage doing our thing. All right, Drew, should we go to the phone? Let's do. So you have anything you like up there? I like the first one and the second one.

The second one, because it's from Egypt. First one, because it's interesting. Well, I think we got an Egyptian call last time. That's what I thought too. One of us is the same guy. Same dude. Ali? Yeah hi. What's going on? Welcome back. Now let's see. 19 calling from Egypt. Yeah. So. I love you guys. Big fan. Are you out there marching with the opposition, or who are those people? The opposition are basically just people who oppose the power grab that the president did, just normal people. I heard somebody like a minister of communication or something last night on the BBC saying, these are all Mubarak people trying to come back in and retake control.

I was like, huh? I just thought people were just like, okay. All right. Thank you first Fair enough either way this whole thing will blow over in a matter of days if I know you're fine countrymen No problems. What's up, Ali? Well a friend of mine I think he's he's smoking weed or hash I'm not sure which one, but he's having some side effects, sleep disturbances, irritability, gastric problems. I'm kind of worried about him. It sounds like he's trying to stop smoking pot,

because that's kind of what people get when they- Sleep and irritability. Yeah, when they try stopping, those are very common symptoms. Stomach problems. You get a lot of... You get kind of crampy, I feel uncomfortable. He ate 2,000 sacks of turbans.

That's what they call bugles over there. Oh, is that right? Oh, interesting. Oh, the Fezzes. They call them Fezzes. They don't call them bugles. Do you guys have any snack items named after hats? No, we don't. Do you guys do the Fe items named after hats? No, we don't.

Do you guys do the Fez over there? No. I would, I would re-market bugles in Egypt and call them Fezes. I think that's Indian Fez. I think Egyptians might sport Raka Fez. Okay, they might. Yeah, yeah, Egyptians wore Fezes. Or we used to back in the 50s, anyways.

Well, let's bring it back, man. Well, Lisa's through snack foods. Yeah. Yeah. So listen, what do you guys do over there for snacks? You got Cheetos and all that stuff? Yeah, Cheetos, Lay's, Pringles. Mm hmm. Now with. What you got now with extra Jew blood? Oh, no, no. Mm-hmm now with what you got now with extra Jew blood True you have to have your phone going on. What is it with that that part? What are you cool with the Jews?

Yeah, okay Okay, well just check. I don't care. Okay So so tell about your friend is your friend maybe how much does he smoke? Has he smoked less lately? What's going on? Well, it used to be an everyday thing because he has GIT problems, usually. He has the,

and he usually smokes to like, to calm his stomach and stuff. Upper GI? He used to do it everyday, and now he does it every other day. All right, so he's tried to reduce it, like I said. And when you go from smoking a lot to smoking none or a little, you get withdrawal. And the biggest complaint people have

is sleep disturbance, irritability, and even a little paranoia. I mean, you had to deal with that a little bit. How's the weed, thanks, how's the weed scene over there in Egypt, Ali? It's vibrant. Really? Most of the people hash though though you know they smoke a lot of hash and that's just a cultural thing right kind of yeah I don't know I never

smoked is it is it illegal yeah it's illegal What happens if you get busted with weed or hash? You go to prison. Oh, I mean, is it really tough? Well, yeah, because it's a major problem. A lot of the young people just smoke it and just do nothing. That's not the hash I know. This guy should usually go out and start small businesses. So they, but I mean they're tough, they're extra tough on folks that get caught with hash or pot. Yeah, yeah they are. Where's the pot come from in Egypt?

Where's your humble? They grow it, they grow it in Sinai and they sort of just smuggle it in Sinai. They sort of just smuggle it in into the capital and to the other side. Okay. All right. The Arab Bedouins who grow it. So now what, you were in school for dentistry? Yeah, I'm a second year dentistry student. Dental student? Hey, come on, Drew, how about a little love? I remember that. I like that. It's good. Well done. Now, tell me more about your questions about your friend. I mean, so he's got issues with cannabis addiction, and he's now trying to cut back, and he's having withdrawal. What do you want to do about him?

Well, can you do a need to? You can't really admit that you're smoking pot, can you? I think it's a culture that- Well, no. Yeah. He admitted it to me. I kind of busted on it. No, I mean, you don't have a 12-step program there

where people can step up and go, I go to Marijuana Anonymous. I'm trying to deal with this. I want to me. I kind of busted on. No, I mean, you don't have a 12-step program there where people can step up and go, I go to Marijuana Anonymous, I'm trying to deal with this, I want to stop. And you don't have that. I don't think we have 12-step, but we do have rehab. I'm pretty sure of that. Yeah, but rehab requires 12-step. That's sort of the foundation of good rehab.

Egypt doesn't have a 12-stepper? Why not? I'm not 100% sure about that. They must, they must. Why isn't this spread out all over the place? It is, it's everywhere. It must, yeah. Anyway, but for some people it's very addictive.

Your friend clearly is addicted. He's dependent and having withdrawal and it's a problem for some people. True, what's going on with your phone? Oh yeah, it's buzzing, huh? Sorry. I can't believe you heard that. Can't you put it in your pocket or something?

Sure. Well, why is it even in here? Because I'm a physician, I take texts. You're a love doctor, you're not a doctor. But here's my thing with the phones. You never really do anything with them while they're doing it, you just look at it. You see what I'm saying?

No. I've said this a million times. I leave my phone outside of the studio because I would see that my wife is calling or that Mike August is calling, but I wouldn't return it. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, but I get texts and emails

on things that I actually responded to like a few minutes ago that I have to respond to. So it goes off two times in three minutes. Yeah, and I had to respond to both. I did. Okay, put it in your pocket. It's in my pocket. Yeah, I had to respond to both. I did It'll come out again Yeah, just as it goes back. Okay. Where are we gonna go top? Yeah, go number one. That's good Mike. Hey Mike Yeah, 46 from Atlanta. Yeah. Mm-hmm. What's going on?

Well, I've already gotten cancer presumably presumably from human papilloma virus. Head and neck cancer? Whoa, whoa, hold on. That was about 10 years ago. Whoa, whoa, hold on. Now I'm wondering... Whoa, is it the phone system or people don't listen? What's wrong with adults?

Is that your question? I just started the show by talking to a 55-year-old woman who told me she didn't hear the music that was being pumped into the place that she worked at that's the size of, she works in a place the size of a Coleman cooler with fucking Britney Spears being pumped in through the ceiling all day and said she didn't know what it was. And then when I said, do you like this music? She said, I don't know. And I said, does anyone like this music?

He said, I don't know. And I said, do you think they listen to it when they get home? I don't know. That I said, do you think they listen to it when they get home? I don't know. That's where we're at. You're talking to people saying, hold on, whoa, hold on, whoa, hold on, whoa, and they're mowing forward. Mike?

Yeah. Can you hear Drew when he tells you, hold on? No. OK. All right, hold on. It's kind of like a walkie talkie type of phone, so I can only hear my voice and then I have to stop so I can hear you guys. Okay.

Well, let Drew speak for one second. What kind of cancer? Head and neck cancer? It was tonsillar cancer. Okay, so head and neck cancer. So for everybody out there, head and neck cancer, this is throat, tonsil, tongue, base of the tongue, that kind of thing, is now known to be associated with the human papillomavirus, the wart virus.

So a lot of oral sex is transmitting the virus to the mouth. Any kind? I mean, male or female? It's any kind, but it's predominantly in the gay population. We've seen this. Why?

Because you can get a little more penetration Maybe I don't know maybe more exposure or something interesting question. I don't know the answer that well I mean, it's the difference between a patch and a syringe. Yes. It is that difference pubed patch versus cox syringe Thank you for that clarification. I never would have figured that out without that analogy. But yeah. I paint pictures with my tongue. And the patch people do the same thing, see? And that's not like a syringe. So yeah, maybe we see,

the point is maybe there's more sexual activity in that population. There's more contact, more, in particular those people who have HPV who smoke and drink, then you're gonna get this thing. Mike, did you get it from the Patch or the Syringe? Neither. How'd you get it?

I don't know, I presume from oral sex with a woman. That's the Patch. The Patch. What's wrong with adults? Well, the day of listening is done. Nobody hears, nobody listens, nobody knows. Everyone is completely, I mean look, it's seriously, it's earbuds, it's 500 channels. I was thinking about it

because people tweet me all day long. You know how many flavors of iced tea there are now? There are 275 flavors of iced tea. We're living in an age of so many choices that there's no choice other than to tune out. There's so much flying at you so fast that people have to go into airplane mode, into basically when a computer goes into sleep mode.

They have to go into sleep mode because there's so much coming at them. So many choices. How many fucking, do you know how many, look, you and I grew up, there was something called vodka. Yep. There wasn't 3,000 different flavors of infused vodka. I've been yelling about passion fruit since you know me. There's now passion fruit vodka. Oh that's got to be good for you. I'm sorry. So nobody listens. Everyone is

tuned out. And Mike didn't hear me. Well let me explain something. Didn't hear you. One of the most important things you can have as a human being or as a student is to listen. They don't have a class in listening. Well, the groundlings will teach you how to listen. Well, guess what? If somebody is getting properly educated, they have to listen. OK.

I think the educational system has something to do with this. Well, not here in California. It's never been better. We'll throw a little more money at it. We'll throw a little more money. It'll be better. We'll go from like, you know, low 30s out of 50 to maybe mid-pack. Just a little more tax money.

Mike? Yeah. All right. So now... you got it from oral sex, which is how people get it. And by the way, just a reminder for everybody else, there is a vaccine to prevent this. I gave it to my kids personally. Get the damn vaccine if you're sexually active.

It's been approved for certain age groups. Did you use the syringe? I did. Sweet. Yeah. And wow. And, uh, hard to ask. An enlightened physician might also

use it outside of that FDA approved age range. If somebody like Mike comes along, who's sexually active, who's in his 30s, whatever, you might still get that vaccine. It prevents the kind of virus that causes cancer. There is zero reason why some young person shouldn't get it. By the way, this controversy about, here's the controversy, I don't speak, I'm not listening.

Why are we giving this vaccine to 10-year-old girls? They're gonna run around and have sex. Is that what we're saying here? Give it to the 10-year-old girl so they can then go have sex? No, no. Guess why you give it to 10 year olds? That's when it's most effective.

That's when it's highest efficacy. Yeah, no one's interested in the truth. Yeah, by the way, we give hepatitis B vaccine, also a sexually transmitted disease. We give that age one. Right. One year old's gonna run around and have sex? That same logic?

Right. Come on now. Look, we're not interested in the truth, and you'd think the 500 extra news outlets would help us find the truth. They've been taking us further and further away from the truth. And I don't know reality on reality's terms,

as you always say, but yet something is going on. I don't know if it's worldwide. I don't know if it's just in America, as you always say, but yet something is going on. I don't know if it's worldwide, I don't know if it's just in America, or maybe it's just following me around. Like you know when you're walking by a lake and there's fucking gnats just over your head? Maybe that's what's going on with me.

No, I think it's pervasive. Okay. So, Mike, Mike, what is the, we haven't gotten to your question yet. What is your question? Well my question is, can I give it to my wife at this point? Presumably she has it. She's gotta have it.

Right, you've been having to. She's got it from me? Or you got it from her or whatever. Let's pretend it's from you. I mean she needs to, she should be, yeah. She couldn't have gotten it from me because I met her after I was cured. Yeah, you're cured of the cancer, not the HPV.

That stays with you. Well, right, that's why I asked. Are you getting confused, Adam? I'm gonna ask the appropriate question. I would have been confused had I not signed off on humanity 45 minutes ago. That's good. Are you having sex with your wife? Yes.. Are you having sex with your wife? Yes.

Are you having oral sex with your wife? Very little. Okay, well that is how you will transmit it to her. So if she doesn't already have it, which would be bizarre, she might not, maybe you're not producing virus for some reason, she's gotta talk to her gynecologist about getting that vaccine.

Got it? Got it? Because it really will increase her risk of cervical cancer, particularly. All right, let's see. That's tough, right? tonsils cancer's a big deal. But he beat it. Apparently.

And especially, I mean, it's one thing to have cancer of the tonsils and be an iron worker, but a professional auctioneer. Like him, like Mike? Someone who's been employed by Christie's for all these years moving this high-end Elizabethan furniture. That, I mean, that, it's ironic, number one,

and number two, that makes his living. From his instrument two that's his makes his living from his instrument That's his interest. We heard his instrument operating. That's his instrument. That's right. All right, Ryan All right, well, what what are you sick for I Think I have whooping cough. Oh, do you? Yeah, I do. I got sick a month ago and this damn cough will not go away. Susan had it too, my wife had it too,

and I treated both of us as though that's what we had. We got better, damn cough will go away. Really? Oh, it's awful. Is that what whooping cough? Have people called whooping cough or whooping cough? Whooping cough, yeah, W-H-O-O-P. You're able to get that as an adult?

Oh, it's been going around now. Wow. Yeah. It'll be one more thing that I don't get. I know. That everyone else gets. Blast you. Yeah, I refuse to get things.

Matt? Yeah. What's going on? Hey, not much, guys. I was a big fan of Love Line, and it's great talking to you. Thank you. Hey, hold on, guys. I was a big fan of Love Line, and it's great talking to you. Thank you. Hey, hold on.

Have assistant Matt call my mom and tell her whooping cough is going around. She may want to jump on that. She can get a vaccine. There's a vaccine for it. No, no, no, no. No. I'm not interested in avoiding whooping cough.

She'll just have it. Something to jump on. Yeah, you don't want to miss that. You don't miss the whooping cough train. You know what I mean? So when I call her, she can't say, I'm doing great. Can't say that, but you got whooping cough train. So when I call her she can't say I'm doing great. You can't say that when you got a whooping cough. Untrush cough. Go ahead Matt. So my question kind of relates to that guy from Aegis question. I've been smoking

weed for like five years now and it's getting kind of hard to stop and so I was wondering as you as weed becomes more potent and more concentrated, does it become more addictive? Yeah, I mean, like we now have Oxycontin and not just Tylenol with codeine. And so Oxycontin, when people get exposed to that, they're more intensely and more rapidly addictive. And so, as you amplify the pharmacology,

you increase the risk of the triggering of and the intensity of addiction. Sure. So would you like, you know how the federal government labeled it as like a class A drug or whatever, a class one drug? Do you think it's going to get to, do you think it's already at that point or do you think it's going to get to that point? I don't know quite what you mean by that, but I treat marijuana addiction all the time. It's not a big deal. It's just one of those things.

Didn't we talk last time about the legalization in Washington? Yeah, Drew's cool. Drew wants to check out and see how the experiment in Colorado goes. Colorado, Washington, yeah. Listen, I have no objection to any of that. I do too. Do people want to do that? That's fine with me.

I do always want to make this distinction, and I think it should be made and it's not made with marijuana it's made with alcohol okay it's made with other drugs there are doses and milligrams and things with prescription drugs there with alcohol it's I drink every day well what do you drink I drink every day. What do you drink? I drink two Michelob Ultras. Oh, okay, that's not a problem. I drink a fifth of Smirnoff. Okay, now we have an issue. One has a very high alcohol content, the other not much.

So there's a difference between drinking and drinking. Pot used to be a bunch of shake and leaves and you smoked it and then asked people if you looked high. Now it's filled with orange pubes that have crystals on them and it's fucking killer shit. I mean you I can't smoke pot I've been saying this for years it's too much. Yeah. So today's pot smoker is not yesterday's pot smoker and again what are you drinking? You drinking the Michelob Ultra

or you drinking the Smirnoff? And this is the Smirnoff. I mean, this is some fucking powerful shit. Now your body and brain have adjusted to the Smirnoff, but you taking a couple of bong loads with the stuff that's sticky with the pubes and the crystals and the super high THC content, that is not grandpa's weed.

Right. You mean yours? I mean my weed. You're really going for the grandpa look now, aren't you? I am. I am with the beard. All right. But there's another layer though that people should be aware of, and this pertains to addiction generally, not just pop, which let's use alcohol as the example. Let's say it's the one, two glass of wine purse. Let's use three Michelob. Three Michelob, stay with the beer.

I'm three Michelob a night. It's no big deal, I'm not having consequences. But, dad was an alcoholic. My wife says I'm not the same person when I have those three Michelob's. That's somebody who is, one day may have a problem. Who's sort of in the biology of addiction. It hasn't triggered it yet,

but that's somebody who should pay attention. And it's sort of a similar thing with pot too. Somebody who loves the pot, and is like taking half a hit every day, and screwing with his ability to finish his work at night, or be motivated, or his wife doesn't like it. It's not addiction yet, it's not. But that's somebody who needs to pay attention.

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