The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - It Takes a Village... Idiot ( The Adam and Dr. Drew Show Classics)

Episode Date: June 10, 2023

Adam and Dr. Drew open the show discussing the idea of happiness and some of the reasons behind a recent study Adam heard leaving him to posit that the vast levels of loneliness & unhappiness may be directly linked to the opioid epidemic. They also highlight the importance of family and the ways that 'community' are essential in raising children. They then transition into talk of the Caitlyn Jenner transformation and how they view her journey including an old Loveline clip from '98. Finally, Adam is joined by Dr. Bruce as he talks about how life is harder when you don't have money, before Bruce reminds him of the time Adam learned about 10 speed Camaros.

Welcome back to the Adam and Dr. Drew Show Classics. First up for today, episode 1091, released June 10th, 2019, titled It Takes a Village. Adam and Dr. Drew discussed the idea of happiness and how a study Adam heard led him to hypothesize the ongoing opioid epidemic may be directly linked to increased levels of loneliness. All right, Drew, let's talk about happiness. Happiness. I know a bit about it. Well, I was listening to Dennis Prager, as I'm apt to do, and he was kind of reading a report. I think it was done by an insurance company or something. There's a lot of loneliness. Oh, yeah. And a lot of unhappiness.

And I'll paraphrase, but a lot of what the young, lonely, there's lots, you know, the number one killer for like 40-year-old white guys is this ODing on. Oh, yeah. That's been going on for a while. Yeah, it's been going on. ODing on, you know, on. That's been going on for a while. Yeah, it's been going on. And they say, and you're the right guy to ask, and I was sort of shaving while the radio was on in the bathroom, but I'll paraphrase, but that these drugs, these painkillers and

these things you've been railing about and it's been all over the news, sort of affect the same part of your brain as love, a relationship. Yes. And for some people, cannabis does that, too. Right. So the fact that you got a 40-year-old guy, he's single, there's no love, there's no companionship, there's no touch, there's no anything in his life. Right.

It would seem to make sense that that guy would get on a pill that helped to sort of synthesize that. Right. It does a little bit of two things. It does a little bit of what the stronger opiates, the addicts will – but again, people are prone to addiction especially have this feeling of like warm embrace of mom. That's literally what they'll say, like wrapped in a warm blanket and being held. They will describe it as that.

Then the other thing is it takes away pain of all types, including emotional pain. So if you're in – forget if you're having loneliness or dread or whatever, well, that goes away when you take this and you're wrapped in that warm blanket. And then it's all amplified when you try to come off. So speaking of the warm embrace of mom. Cannabis really does that for some people too. In 1960, in this country, there was one single family household for every 20. Now there's eight for 20.

So we're marching toward half. You're talking single parent household. Single parent. It's overwhelmingly dad's gone, but single parent. My, and it's overwhelmingly dad's gone, but single parent. My concern is all the things we don't like, like school shootings and shootings and mass shootings and drug addiction and mental disorders and addiction. All the stuff in life where homelessness, all the stuff we're trying to avoid to say we don't like or schools failing or kids failing or whatever, it all emanates from that one nest. And the further we go in that direction – Especially the no dad, which is then I'm pissed at society because dad represents society oftentimes symbolically to kids. Oh, yeah.

And so I hate society now. They're abandoning neglectfully to understand me. Now, a single solid relationship outside the home that's sustained for years will correct some of that. Well, it'll certainly put a little salve on it, but it's not going to reset the bone. You know what I mean? It's just going to make them walk with a limp. But they can get around. They're walking, yeah.

Yeah. With that in mind, what can we do? We're getting further and further away from it. And each day there's a little less stigma in it. And I do believe that, you know, you think about this, Drew. Yeah. People, when they're married, get divorced at almost 50 percent but people when they're married do not break up neat nearly as easily as couples are just cohabitating together of course so you can go well are you in love are

they in love are they well everyone's in love or everyone's not in love but there's a lot of other things there's a lot over the moving pieces here that That contract serves the needs of children, safety, stability, tax advantages. What I'm basically saying is if you took the exact same couple and said you have a kid, you live together, in one instance, if you decide to go your separate ways, we're going to have to get some attorneys involved. We're going to start whacking up stuff. There's going to be payments made. The people then have to go, do I really want this? At least take a beat. Hesitate.

Pause. If you're just living together, then just pack up your socks and you leave. So there are things that push people in different directions. There are things that push people in different directions, and you have to sort of say then, as a society, what direction do we want to push people? That's the first thing. Agreed. You have to kind of go, what would you like? And if you answer, I don't want to push people in any direction, well, then you have no job weighing into a society. Because it's like saying, would you have no job weighing into a society because it's like

saying, would you like most people to be employed? I don't want to push people. What's better for society? Most people being employed? Better. Better. Most people being married? Better.

Better. Most families? I'll just say all. All families staying together? Better. Superior. Okay. Smaller number of kids, higher education for the mom and the dad, waiting to have children

until their education is done and their professional careers. Is it all better? Because if it's all better, then we should figure out ways to push everybody, regardless of any culture, that direction. Wasn't it Hillary Clinton that wrote that book, It Takes a Village? That was like 15, 20 years ago. When that came out, I thought, oh, man, we are in trouble. If that is what we think is going to be a way to raise kids, we are in big trouble.

I don't even really – I know what the gist of it was, but what did she say? Families don't raise kids. Communities do. Why is that attractive to her ilk? I don't raise kids. Communities do. Why is that attractive to her ilk? I don't know. What's that mean? Like the local firemen will come by and babysit? Yeah.

Well, first things first. Of course having a community is good. Of course. It's part of that good that you're talking about. But let me tell her something. As far as the village goes, Miss Clinton, there is no village when there's a bunch of single parents. See, if there's a village, and the village is a bunch of intact families and dads who stay home, and you're surrounded by that,

and then you are the only family that has the dad who slipped out for a pack of cigarettes and never came back, well, then that intact village can help your broken family. Yep. But the whole fucking village is busted. Yeah. And then it's Thunderdome. It's every fucking man for himself.

I told you. That's when gangs come up people looking for a family yeah that's a village of people without dads and there's where the gangs show up so i i know it takes a village but your premise is that there's a bunch of intact villagers i say it's quite the opposite yeah absolutely meaning i have a very intact neighborhood but ironically my kids don't need the village because they live in an intact family exactly that the families the neighborhoods where all the families are broken is where the village is needed and where it doesn't exist because it's a struggle to survive and it's every man for themselves and i've told you

that in the past when i was young my buddy ch, at a certain point when his dad got onto drugs and got into jail and got into everything and everything got all broken apart, he just ended up in one of these crappy row apartments. Those 70s, 60s, 70s valley. With the outdoor stairs and the outdoor hallway with the wrought iron little rail. Right. They all had the courtyard. You'd open the front door and the outdoor hallway with the wrought iron little rail. They all had the courtyard. You'd open the front door, and there was mailboxes. And there was a weird indoor-outdoor carpet there that smelled really dank. It had a weird mildewy apartment-y smell.

And then you'd walk into the courtyard. If you were lucky, there was a pool. But there was usually just a potter. There was just a planter. I would think there was a pool. It was just cement just a potter. There's just a plant. I would think there was a pool. It was just cement and like a round pool. Yeah, there was a planter that run down the middle of a couple plants that weren't really tended to. And then there was the outdoor stairs with the gangway and the railing and so-and-so's in that unit and so-and-so's in that unit.

It's just a row. And in the back's a parking lot. And these places were kind of shaped like a horseshoe. Yeah. And all that was was a bunch of moms, you know, single moms whose dads got divorced or took off or whatever it is. And that village was a free for all. Just moms had to work all day. There were no dads around. So moms had to work all day. There were no dads around, so

moms had to leave and go to work. And it wasn't like a welfare queen kind of thing. It's like the moms had jobs. So the moms had jobs, and they were gone from 8.15 in the morning until 6.30 at night. And now the lunatics had taken over the asylum because all the kids, all the 14

and 15-year-old boring girls were just there. And it was a free-year-old boy and girls were just there. And it was a free-for-all because there was no dads. There was no supervision. And everyone knew what mom's schedule was. And these kids would sporadically go to school. But even if they did, they'd come home at 3. No one was in the apartment building.

All the parents were gone. This was especially pervasive in the 70s. And, by the way, no sense, this is the part that got me, on the part of the parents that these kids were going to get into mischief. It was the weirdest thing. Like, they really didn't know what you were up to. Well, first off, mischief would have been an upgrade from what

they were, labeling what they were doing as mischief. I know. That's that's God, that's like a Dickens play. But so they would have longed for some mischief. Well, we haven't even got to the happiness part yet. Dickensian is what I was thinking.

So these kids grow up with an emptiness. They distrust society. They distrust marriage. It's just a piece of paper, man. It's no big deal because they've seen so many failures. They are apt to get pregnant out of wedlock for the reasons that we've just elucidated. And they don't understand how to build a family. Even though they long for it, they just don't really know how to do it.

Right. And there's a longing for it. There's a commitment never to let that happen to my kids, what happened to me, and yet they magically recreate it. So you're right. There's a place for some sort of force to bring things together, to urge them in the right way. That's number one. Number two, the happiness literature is very clear that the things that we think make us happy don't. That happiness really comes more from service and making a difference for other people

and being involved in productive and creative enterprises. And up next, we have episode 245, released June 11th, 2015, titled Thoughts on Caitlyn Jenner. Adam and Dr. Drew share their thoughts on the transition of Caitlyn Jenner, reminding Adam of a clip of himself from 1998 that ultimately proved prophetic. Well, you and I have not discussed the Caitlyn Jenner thing. Oh, we haven't? Yeah, which is kind of weird. You and I would be all over that shit.

All right. Your thoughts? Do you want to start? Somebody played me, super fan Giovanni, I think, played me a tape from 1998's Love Line where I was explaining that Bruce Jenner's turning into a chick. Wow. That was from 98. Well, that was like 15 years ago, 17 years ago.

Come on. Yeah. So I had, Gary's typed in 96. Now, I'm pretty sure it was 98. I'd like it to be 96. But so I had an inkling this was going on the whole time. Why? Why?

Well, I'm the guy who walks in the room and sees matt fondelier wearing tennis shoes and i have questions about where he got those tennis shoes so i tap into things no that goes without saying but what did you what were the cues what would include you in back then especially it was not that obvious i mean mean, a couple, three, four years ago, people started going, what's going on here? But 15, 18 years ago. Well, maybe we can summon the tape. I don't know, but we'll see. But I'm very sensitive to any change at all. Right.

And then when I see change, I want to know what's going on. Okay. I know a lot of guys, and I mean, I'm trying to think. Bruce is 65, 66. Sorry, 66. All right. So this would have been Bruce at 48, 49. Yeah.

I don't know many guys at age 49 that are making subtle. I know guys that, well, their hair is turning gray, so they're dying it black. Yeah. Or they got some new frames for their glasses. Or maybe they started working out a little bit more after the divorce. Yeah. But changes that were of a feminine nature to me that I was noticing at that age. See, I would have gone,

Oh, his wife's making him, you know what I mean? That's my head would have done that. Like, Oh, that's her thing. She's that's her preference.

She's the one talking to the surgeons, but you went right to, eh, cause something else, there must've been a feeling or something he did. It's probably hard to remember 18 years hence, but yeah, it is.

Um, I was picking up on what well here's the point i did not i didn't know the man i've never i i had not met him until uh you're not allowed to call him a man oh sorry how dare you well i you know as we speak is that her forever sorry as we speak of his former how dare you How dare you? But no. Her! Sorry. We're talking about a guy when he was a guy. Huh!

You know, let's... Glad is literally on the record saying you cannot ever refer... Glad can fucking fuck themselves with a bowling pin. I don't give a shit. My thing is, history's not going to be kind to that one. I don't give a fuck about Glad. By the way, their acronym, GLAD, is there a more miserable group of fucks on the planet than GLAAD. They're the opposite of GLAAD.

It would be like calling ISIS GLAAD. So fuck GLAAD, number one. But my thing with that is like we have to – come on, everybody. We have to be able to go when the predominant image of this individual and the individual's own sense of self was Bruce. We know what we're talking about when we say Bruce. He. Yes, I get it. It's a she, her now.

Again, it's fine. But we know. It's not like we can't understand what we're talking about. We'd say that was Bruce up on the podium. Right. I'm talking about a person that was a male named Bruce. They would literally. When I'm talking about them.

I get you. Listen, I feel you. But go ahead. Anyway. I'm just giving you shit because people have been giving me shit about you. I said I met the man. It was a man that I met. Shut up.

It was a man that I met. I understand. Who had a thing about being a woman that we didn't know about. But by the way, when I look at the old pictures of him now, it's kind of interesting. You kind of go, oh, okay. It's interesting. Here's what I do. And by the way, how many times have I told you that the left, and certainly the further the left you go, the more, want to correct.

Yeah. So. It feels very much like somebody with a weird spelling of their name who has to correct you about their name over and over. It's insanely narcissistic. Right? Does it feel like that? Yes. It's insanely.

Andrea. Andrea. First off, it's narcissistic. Right. Does it feel like that? Yes. It's insanely. Andrea. Andrea. It's first off, it's narcissistic. It's not. And secondly, it's about controlling you. So you're sitting there and you're talking and you go, well, if someone's a victim of rape, rape, rape, rape survivor, rape survivor. Okay. Well, I'm just saying there's a lot of people in Iran that are victims. It's Iran. It's Iran and it's rape survivors. Okay. See, you get to control the conversation

because you get to... That's control the conversation. Control you. Yes, because you get to correct all the time. And what happens is when you're correcting, when I can't fucking remember whether your name is Andrea or Andrea, then I get up on my head and I get back on my heels

and then you get to control the conversation. So what I'm saying and now they do it with everything. So Iran becomes Iran. All the pronunciations change of everything. All the stuff about the rape victim, rape survivor, incest victim, incest survivor. All the stuff starts changing. All the, you know, black, negro, African-American, Hispanic, illegal immigrants, undocumented, you know, workers. Suppression of voter rights. It goes on and on.

It goes on and on and on. And when I'm here to say, fuck you, I have a pirate ship. I don't give a fuck about this and your corrections. And by the way, the Bruce thing, the Caitlin thing, is one more big stage to correct on. You see what I'm saying? So that's what you're feeling. Yeah. It's weird about the right. The right has their own foiblesibles but they're not into correcting well

their thing is they'd rather bomb things than correct their fundamental thing is leave me alone right yeah i guess but i mean you you could figure out a lot of things about the right that you didn't like but i don't think one thing you could say is that they're constantly correcting people on how to pronounce things or what to title things. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, I do. They're not, it's not like they did, well, global warming. No, it's climate change now.

Like, nobody on the right does that. They just called Iraq. You know why? I tend to think. Why? It doesn't matter. Iraq, Iran, Iraq. Who gives a fuck? Yeah, yeah.

Moving forward. Yeah. Bruce Jenner, Tammy Jenner, whatever Jenner, Caitlyn Jenner. It doesn't... Rape victim, rape survivor. What are we doing here? What are we doing here? Let's try to cut down on rape.

Yeah. Not argue over what we're calling it. Yeah. It doesn't... Third-hand smoke. It's just inventing shit that doesn't make a difference. All right. I tapped in.

When a guy has that much going on inside of him, him at the time, and you're as sensitive as I am to what's going on, then I pick it up. I'm like a canary that goes into a coal mine. You wouldn't work with a buzzard or a hobo, but it works with a canary. They're sensitive that way. Right. So I'm sensitive that way. So thus, we have the clip from 1998.

Oh, awesome. The Goo Goo Dolls were with us. Oh, jeez. Yes. I'm going out with Bruce Jenner. Who's become a woman, by the way. Oh, yeah. If you've seen him lately, slowly becoming a woman.

It's very bizarre that the guy won the triathlon 20 years ago. Decathlon. Decathlon is becoming a woman. But he really is, if you've seen Bruce Jenner. Wow. He is becoming a woman. They take you literally in there. It is the most bizarre thing in the world that a guy,

Brett, do you know anything about this? That a guy who is considered the world's greatest athlete, I mean, that's what you are when you are the decathlete winner of the Olympics. And he set a record and everything. He's like been slowly becoming a woman. I don't know if you've seen him. He's had like a lot of

weird plastic surgery. And he's like plucked his eyebrows in a weird way. And he wears like a little rouge or something. And he's starting to look like Liberace's boyfriend. Oh. That's 1998. October 15th 1998 chris you weren't even born yet

and already you were predicted your what your little uh onesie nursing outfit your mom got you and and given that the the transgender conversation really was not part of the public discourse what were you thinking about him then? I don't know. I was just tapping into that. You, as per usual, the smart one, were like, huh? I had no idea what you were talking about. He's getting fat?

What was I talking about? What was I talking about? Maybe he thought that's what women were, just fat people. What was I thinking? What was I thinking? I don't know, but I, look, whether it's Caitlyn Jenner or it's whatever's going on in the LA Unified School District. The school to prison pipeline. I will tell you what is going on.

You can listen or not. And that's why when people, you know, people say to me all the time, like, well, that's your opinion. I guess we'll agree to disagree. No, it's not my opinion. It's what? It's the truth. I don't's your opinion. I guess we'll agree to disagree. No, it's not my opinion. It's what? It's the truth. I don't say the opinion. It's your truth. I will tell you that.

Well, I knew about Bruce. I knew about Matt Fondelier's dad's tennis shoes he wore to work one day. And I'll tell you what's going on with the school-to-prison pipeline if you want to listen. But it shall happen. It shall happen it shall happen all the studies are out now on the hand sanitizer fucking everyone up okay people used to wrestle you if you they had a newborn or a child and you came into their house without bathing and hand sanitizer yeah you'd be wrestled they'd hit you with a fire hose of it when you're getting out

of your car walking across the lawn. And I was the one who was going, I don't get it. Yeah. And everything. Everything's easy. It's easy to figure out. If you keep it simple. Well, you figure everything out in life by not being religious, not watching the news, not listening to too many people, reading too much and just fucking sitting back

well the problem is go ahead and read Al Gore's book become a genius on global warming ok so let me riddle me this you're getting a guy's opinion so if you read, read a lot

read everything then think about it don't just read Al Gore's book you read, read a lot. Or read everything. Yeah, read everything, then think about it. Okay. Don't just read Al Gore's book and think about it. You want to watch a lot of news, watch a lot of... You become Tom, what's his name? The Mission Impossible actor. Oh, Tom Cruise.

You become Tom Cruise at that point, because he thinks he knows, because he reads. Oh, I didn't know. Well, he reads Dianetics. The point is, is read, if you're going to watch the news, watch CNBC and Fox and see if you can form an opinion. But, you know, it's interesting you said about the left one, about nomenclature and the left and stuff. The left loves theoretical and academic, you know? They like academic. Yeah, but theoretical. They detach things from reality.

Yes. And that's interesting. That's where it gets They detach things from reality. Yes. And that's interesting. That's where it gets kind of frustrating because reality begs no conversation. Yes. It's theoretically right, therefore. Right. We'll be right back with more of the Adam and Dr. Drew Show classics. Last up for today, we have episode 601, released June 13, 2017, titled Boxing a Dead Kangaroo.

Adam is joined by Dr. Bruce as he talks about how life is harder when you don't have money, before Bruce reminds him of the time Adam learned about 10-speed Camaros. When you're not making any money, everything's a pain in the ass. A parking ticket is devastating when you're not making any money, everything's a pain in the ass. A parking ticket is devastating when you're not making any money. Everything's a, you know, oh, gas went up 19 cents a gallon. Oh, God damn. You know? And you're not a trust fund kid.

You can remember the days when that would have been devastating. No, I had a pretty healthy trust fund left behind for me. I mean, I was sad. No, when you were... Yeah, right. Trying to think. Look, Max Apata has seen my social security statement. Oh, yeah. I look at it to make me feel better.

The 1980s ones. Do you get any poorer than I was? You can't get poorer unless you lose money in the year like you got there were some where it was zero like i had some zero months in there now you have to take that social security and then you have to match it against my parents inability to earn money or distribute money or care or care and now it's like you're really yeah i don't you know a lot of people talk about you know oh we slept eight to a bedroom and drank from a well and you know like i don't have that kind of like sharecropper poor but in terms of modern day poor not third

world poor and not turn of the century poor just modern day poor. I don't – I'll give – I'll have a poor off with anybody. I don't know who was – you can't really be – I mean, you could owe money, I guess. I didn't really – you know, I owed the IRS some money. I guess I owed on, like, a credit card. So I probably did owe money, but no one had less money than me. I remember the crappy car you had when I met you. Really? What was I driving?

I don't know. Was it, like, a small Toyota of some sort? I had a Toyota that got totaled, and then I got a Honda that had like 150,000 miles on it or something like that. It's to drive the beaterest of pickup trucks. Yeah. And I think I got a Camaro at that time, and I asked, hey, you want to go for a ride? No. Even at that time, you were a car snob.

I wasn't a car snob. I had somebody ask me, somebody just, oh, I was just talking to him about you. He got the new Zio whatever. Zio One. Camaro with the 10 speed. Oh, the 10 speed. Ah. Would you like to revel in your glory for just a second?

Well, why don't you just recount the story? Okay. We were standing out on my porch enjoying, let's see, there's a fine selection of beers. It was either Corona, Corona, Corona, Corona, Corona, Corona, Corona, Corona, Corona, Corona. Oh, yes. All right. So we had, but don't worry, this wasn't free Corona. This is Corona.

You paid for. Right. So I got another case at the shop. This wasn't free Corona. This is Corona. You paid for it. Right. So I got another case at the shop. No one needs any Corona. But anyway, we're drinking a Corona or a Corona or a Corona. And I said, the comedy is I had two cases of Corona that have been gathering dust because I don't like Corona. And then I said to Lynette, before we throw this party, I was like, do not buy beer.

I got all the beer over at the other shop. And it's all back there. Just go get it. I got free beer. They give us free beer, a fine selection of beer. And then it was, that was like on a Tuesday and that smash cut to Friday. It's like Dylan's come back. I got all the beer.

You want me to put it in your car? I'm like, uh-oh. What beer? I just went and bought beer. And I'm like, uh-oh. What beer? I just went and bought beer. And they're like, what did you get? Corona? Got three cases of Corona. Where'd you get it?

I got it at the supermarket. I'm like, why did you buy Corona? I hate Corona. And I got a case of Corona. I don't know. I was told to get Corona. Okay. Okay. Anyway, there's always a miscommunication, but my profound instinct would be that the miscommunications go way down when it's your money and you don't have that much.

Remember my theory about being sick and missing work? As soon as you can't miss work boom uh the sickness goes down you uh when it's your money you get far fewer parking tickets if someone else is paying you get a lot like lynette gets a lot more parking tickets i get zero parking tickets because i look at it as my money, and I think she looks at it as my money, too, and thus she'll get many more tickets than I get. Well, I get zero. So it's an interesting thing. If it is your money, I do believe there's a little part of your brain that goes, oh, wait a minute. I already got a case of that beer.

I should go get it. Now, it is her money, which is the comedic part of it but it's not looked upon that way don't you think you're haunted by the specter of the ghost of screw-ups with such not people screw-up situations because when i heard that it was like you're the last person you know not that you're a celebrity to me or anything like that but you're not somebody it's like you want to i want to be on time i want to things right, because you don't suffer fools. You get a little bit testy. And in this situation, it's like, how could that happen? What happens with me is somebody says something, we're going to do this. And then I stop and I go, what is going to happen now? How is this going to

play out? And I start thinking about it. And I start thinking about the person and what might go wrong in this event. And then after I've profiled the person and profiled the event, I then look into what can happen in the profiling of this person, the profiling of the event. And I don't go't go oh man we're probably not going to have a birthday cake i don't do that because it doesn't it's not going to fit the person or the event we're not going to forget the birthday cake i don't i don't have i have no or we're probably going to get the wrong birthday no no no that's not my concern but my concern is the last event we went out and bought a bunch of beer and didn't use it up, and I've been tripping over cases of it at the other shop.

But the event before the event. So now I think to myself, how do I unload all this free beer I have? And since Dylan works here, that's going to be a no-brainer because he's going to be dispatched to get the beverages and bring them to the house, and he can simply load up his car here. So then I work on who's the individual and what's the event. And that's when I go in and announce. And I don't do it once.

I do it twice, which is do not buy any beer. I got a ton of beer. I'd like to get rid of the beer. So do it. And then I stop. So then I realize that's, I don't think that's enough. And then I double back and I go, there's beer at the other shop as well. The bow shops are filled with beer. This stuff's free beer. That stuff's beer we paid for. Use all that, please. And then I go, that's probably enough, but might not be.

So then later when Dylan tells me about the beer, I have to inquire where he got the beer. So that's how I work. But I'm a profiler. Are you haunted by, I mean, I know Ray, inconsistencies, Lynette, I've been in that boat, Drew. Is it just you're cursed by people that are more inconsistent than you? cursed by people that are more inconsistent than you? No, I think there's a handful of your Nick Santora's and Kevin Hench's and Jimmy Kimmel's out there, and then there's sort of everybody else. And I don't mind that they're who they are.

I don't like that they have as much pride about it as they do, but I understand that's the majority of the people the reason I get to be me is because of everyone else. I've always said to people I'm not that smart. It's everyone else. No, I know.

You know what I'm saying? Max Paddy, you're getting an idea of what goes on in this universe. I'm not exceptional it's everyone else you gotta beat ray anyone can beat ray in the work department of the smarts department of the accumulate things department or the anything department if raise your competition you're gonna win like if you're boxing a dead kangaroo you're gonna win so that's it that's it's it that is mo and then go look look abroad look look around the world

you want to hear what's going on around the world all you have to do is be smarter than that and you could be you could you could um um have a warehouse filled with exotic sports cars. Really? It's got to be better than you, Bruce. That's all. That's all. I think it's a very old joke, but it was Walter Payton. Oh, man.

Now we've got the 10-speed Camaro story. Yeah. Damn it. What was Matt Sui? Matt Sui was Walter Payton's fullback. He'd block for him. I think sort of the story was Matt Sui and, like, Walter Payton are camping or something, and a bear comes running at him, and, like, Walter Payton, like, starts running,

and Matt Sui says, how do you think you're going to outrun that bear? And Walter Payton says, I don't have to outrun the bear. I just have to outrun you. Now, go through, now, apply that to your life. You don't have to, I can't outrun a bear. Can I be smarter than Ray? Yes, I can. Can I have a better work ethic than Ray?

Of course. My dad or my mom, I'm not going to outrun a full-grown grizzly bear. I just have to outrun the drunken slow guys running with his pants around his ankles behind me. And I'm set. All right, so we're standing on the porch drinking a Corona, Corona, Corona, Corona. I'm set. Yeah. All right. So we're standing on the porch drinking a Corona, Corona, Corona, Corona.

And I just got done doing this race. Bruce and I like to talk racing and cars or whatever. And I said I was driving a new Corvette CR7R or something. Sequential shift. Whatever it is. And he said, what kind of shifting was it? And I said, it's sequential, which is not paddle shift in this case. It's a stick shift, but it just keeps going back and forward in order.

It's the same way a motorcycle. Motorcycle, one up, five down or whatever. Right. You click it up for first gear and then down, down, down, down. And if you want to go back up, it's up, up, up, up. You can't skip gears. So this car is weird. It had a, I think it was like first, trying to think.

It was like first gear was backwards. Neutral was first, second, third, third through fifth was backwards. Neutral was forward. And then it had a grip with a cable on it like a bicycle handbrake for reverse. Why? Why? You pull that thing and it'll lock reverse in. I don't know. I don't know.

That's how... That's not F1. No, but that's how the car was set up. Monster car. It was a monster car. It was 850 horsepower. And then Bruce said, did it have a 10-speed? And I said, 10-speed?

It's insane. No car has... It had a 4- speed for a million years, and we got up to 5, and then someone came out with 6, and maybe Porsche has a 7, but nobody has a 10 speed. Then I yelled at him. And maybe that was just through the haze of the Coronas, but I yelled

at him. No car has a 10 speed, Bruce. That's a bicycle, not a 10 speed. And then Bruce sent me an article, a link to an article talking about the new Chevy with a 10-speed. Ford and Chevy share the transmission. I was just talking to Matt, the motorator, DeAndrea, driving a Ford F-150 back from San Diego with a 10-speed in it. And I thought, wow, that's diabolical.

I said, you couldn't feel it shift. It was like always at the right rev peak and all that kind of stuff. And I thought, wow. So somebody is making a 10 speed and getting it out to Ford and NGM. And the thing that's insane about it is, you know, like Mercedes and whoever, like they're all getting like seven, eight speeds or something. But it's very unusual that America or America is on the vanguard of this technology. Well, the DCT transmission is sort of fading away from that a little bit. I think BMW is, as my understanding. What is that transmission? The double clutch.

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