The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - The Subjectivity of Success (The Adam and Dr. Drew Show Classics)

Episode Date: June 17, 2023

Adam and Dr Drew start off by talking about Dr. Bruce having filled in while Dr. Drew was in New York city. Adam talks about how much time people lose trying to keep up a style or trend. Dr. Drew talk...s about his Covid diagnosis and some complications that had arisen. They also discuss the overwhelming feeling that there is no way to be immune from Covid even if you have been sick and recovered. Finally, they turn to the phones and take a question from a caller wanting their thoughts on success, leading to an in depth examination of how that word's meaning has changed in today's digital world.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Welcome back to the Adam and Dr. Drew Show Classics. First up for today, episode 456, released November 14th, 2016, titled Douche Shoes. Adam and Drew kick things off talking about Dr. Bruce filling in for Dr. Drew during his visit to New York City, which leads Adam to explain how he is able to keep more time for himself by staying out of the trappings of style. Get it on. Get it on, man. What's with the beard, Grandpa?
Starting point is 00:00:32 Oh, it's too lazy. Really? Well, no, you've shaved it around your neck, clearly. Oh, yeah, but it's easier to... It's easier? I don't know. I just grow a beard once every two years now, I realize. It's fun.
Starting point is 00:00:46 Wish I could do that. It's good times. Party. Oh, you can't grow a beard, too. I can grow too much of a beard. I don't get the big, long ones, though. This is uncomfortable enough. You know what else?
Starting point is 00:00:57 Those are Warby Parker glasses, too. I recognize them. Thank you. Yeah, they're good. I dig them. Yeah. Yeah. I have disorder of mind.
Starting point is 00:01:04 All right. So, Drew. Yeah. Let's see. I've just ordered mine. All right, so Drew, let's see. Election stuff, crazy times. Yeah, well, first, before we get on to the current day, how did it go with Spaz? Dr. Spaz? Yeah. Dr. Spaz was remarkably good. Good. For him.
Starting point is 00:01:20 Been working on him. He and I do that podcast together now. He's getting a sense of what podcasts are all about. Yes, he didn't seem, he wasn't his usual crap on every point self. And he did a decent job. It's as I suspected. It was his anxiety doing all that. I know. No, I get it. I mean, I know you tap in especially to that anxiety and sort of how it's this sort of like evil drug. Well, it makes you sort of jump.
Starting point is 00:01:52 It makes you that way. So you're on alert. You're jumping in. You're not using good judgment. You're not thinking carefully. Yeah. Yeah, no, that's him. But he does seem, and maybe it's under your knowing tutelage.
Starting point is 00:02:06 Tutelage, maybe. That he's gotten smoothed out. Good. Quite a bit. In short order, too. He's a quick study. Somebody who's not just paying attention to him, taking him under their wing, being kind to him. Well, it wasn't fantastic.
Starting point is 00:02:20 He's still Dr. Spass. I know. Well, he's got to be, right? But I mean, he's slid in and did a... You were not missed. Let's put it that way. That's good. Good to know. You were not missed at all. Thank you for that. Now I feel extra good. Now, where were you? In New York? New York, yeah.
Starting point is 00:02:36 What was going on for that week? Wendy Williams, Dr. Oz, all that kind of stuff. See my daughter, who's now like Brooklyn. She lives in Brooklyn. Oh, yeah. Think about that. It's so funny.
Starting point is 00:02:48 It's weird. Actually, it's kind of an obligation. I was trying to think about that. I've always said like I could never go rockabilly because it's too big a calorie burner. Oh, yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like people say to me,
Starting point is 00:03:04 why do you wear a baseball hat all the time and i go because i'm i don't want to put hair goo in my hair no really what you're saying is for you to have a style too many calories well look uh there's there's probably one good physical trait i possess as a 52 year old man which is a big fat healthy head of hair but i wear ball caps like i'm a bald guy all the time. And the reason I do it is because I would have to put product in my hair. My hair is just sort of dry and puby. And if I put product in it, it'll look nice.
Starting point is 00:03:38 It's not sort of puby. Very puby. I don't want to put product in it because I can feel it walking around. And number two, I'm going to have to take a shower that night and rinse it out. So I would much rather wear a ball cap and shower once or twice a week, which is essentially a rinsing process. That's the other thing you possess, your other bodily attribute that you possess. I was thinking about it strangely this morning as I showered. You don't need to shower and you don't get no funk. I don't get greasy hair
Starting point is 00:04:08 and I don't get funk if I don't shower. Which is not the customary attribute of a human being. I am blessed that way. So, now, what am I looking for out of life?
Starting point is 00:04:21 Well, I'm looking at... Brooklyn triggered this, yes? Yes. And the reason I'm saying it is when you say to somebody, hey, that guy's confined to a wheelchair. And then you start thinking to yourself, boy, leaving the house. Got to get in a special lift to go downstairs. Then there's a special van. He's got to get the thing to help him get out of the van.
Starting point is 00:04:44 The van's controlled, hand to brake. You operate with your hand. And you think to yourself, Jesus, I just bolt right out of my house, jump in my car, and I'm gone. That guy's going to take a little extra time. And there's a part of you that goes, that's a shame because it's not really useful time. Because he's trying to get into a van. You know what I mean? It's like, well, he's taking extra time, but he's composing music.
Starting point is 00:05:03 No, he's not. He's trying to get in a van. And you get to walk right to your car. Well, I have the same theory with like tattoos and rockabilly and stuff like that, which is all the time you're getting into your tight jeans or putting your lacing up your boots. I feel that way for the short guys who have to wear the lineman boots all the time. The stupid boots. It's a stupid. You know, people think cowboy boots are the dumbest poser guy boot. No, the lineman boots are the stupid boots it's a stupid you know people think cowboy boots are the dumbest poser
Starting point is 00:05:25 guy boot no the lineman boots are the stupid pose the guys the linemen who climb telephone poles oh my god the kind with the big heel yes on them in the steel toe and they lace all the way up hipster short guys wear them poser douchebags they're they're they're like douchebag they're the shoes to propel douche in a shoe yeah Yeah, they should be propelling douche bags for over 30 years. Douche shoes. They're douche shoes. Cowboy boots can be douche shoes, but they're also like guys who are cowboys wear them. Linemen don't wear these things unless they're working.
Starting point is 00:05:58 This is a douchey hipster. What was the douche thing we invented last time? Douche-a-rat. Douche-a-rat. That's right. Somebody gave me that. Somebody made up a mock box invented last time? Douche-a-rat. Douche-a-rat. That's right. Somebody gave me that. Somebody made up a mock box of that. A douche-a-rat.
Starting point is 00:06:09 Yeah, and here's what I'm saying. Well, you can give that guy some douche-a-rat. I don't wear douchey lineman boots so I can be an extra inch taller because you have to lace them all the way up, and then you have to unlace them. I wear tennis shoes that I tie and then slip on and slip off. You never untie them though. You just slip them. Yeah, I get it. So everything in my life is an attempt
Starting point is 00:06:32 to get out of the house faster. And if you embrace rockabilly, you're putting yourself in half a wheelchair. Because you've got to gel up and you've got to lace up the boots and you've got to get the jeans and you've got to get the belt and the big buckle and all that. How about the guys who put all the rings on?
Starting point is 00:06:50 How about just the guys who put all the rings on? Can you imagine that? How about the guys who put all the chains on? Maybe they don't take them on and off. I don't know. But the point is, is pull up some sweatpants and get the hell out of the house. That's for me. Get to work.
Starting point is 00:07:02 Right. Now, in a weird way, there's an element of a city can do that to you a little bit oh if you live depending on where you're coming from that's interesting i'm in la canada i got nothing i just leave i put on i put on a pair of shorts i walk out of the house but if you're young and you're hip and you're living in Brooklyn or you're living in Soho or where Hell's Kitchen or wherever it is, maybe there is an element of, I got to do this. I'm a citizen of this city. I need to fit in around here. And yet the other aspect, I think you're right on that, but the other aspect is that
Starting point is 00:07:41 you live generally in shitty quarters. And so the movement is always out anyway right so you're out in it all the time right but there is and nobody look this is why again the the the picking a theme in life whether you're you know there's a redneck version of this there's a biker version there's a hip-hop version just so many calories burnt on so much stuff that does so much needless stuff nothing for anybody it just does nothing i look at everything like i look at a tattoo i just go how much they pay you for that and pay me uh i paid them oh so they came to your house and did no i went to their shop and i laid down for an hour and then i didn't hurt anything then i paid them. Oh, so they came to your house and did? No, I went to their shop and I laid down for an hour. And then I paid them.
Starting point is 00:08:29 And it's like, what for? Yeah, what are we getting here? No. Why? You want a tattoo? No. Why not? Well, until they start paying you to get tattoos and showing up at your workplace and doing it, not interested.
Starting point is 00:08:40 Yeah. All right. So Drew in New York City. So New York City and. Oh,endy williams yeah she went on a tirade against me once against you yeah it's not like her what one it was it was just completely out of it was a bizarre sort of out of left field somebody misinterpreting you again shocking i think she may have apologized for it. I think I called her a cunt,
Starting point is 00:09:07 but then she may have apologized for it. I went on her show when I was in New York a few years ago, and I just did her show. Like, I just showed up in my sort of jeans, 5'4 club, you know, in a long-sleeve, you know, sort of dress shirt, you know. I wasn't wearing a suit, but it's like a daytime show, you know. And did my thing, you know, and nothing, no harm, no foul, no big deal, you know, audience.
Starting point is 00:09:36 I sometimes try to engage the audience when I do shows like that. I intentionally, whether it's her show or Jimmy Kimmel's show, I don't turn and talk at the host. I open it up to the audience because that's who's, they're the audience. And somehow,
Starting point is 00:09:54 just one, tore me a new asshole. For doing that? She said I showed up, you know, dressed like a bum and did a blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Starting point is 00:10:04 Based on, I don't know. You must, blah. Based on, I don't know. You must have reminded her of something. I don't know what it was based on. I have no idea what it was based on. And I was like, not dressed like a bum. I was dressed the same way I always dress. The shirt was dressed. No, I was wearing nice jeans and a nice shirt.
Starting point is 00:10:23 And that was it. And it was like this thing, and then later on she apologized, which is a weird thing. I did a show just wearing a dress shirt and jeans. Three and a half years ago. And there it was. All right. Anyway. She would be doing that show a long time.
Starting point is 00:10:45 Well, she'll be doing that show as long as there's unemployable people who have TV sets. That's for damn sure. I mean, come on. It's like good news and bad news. Yeah, it does well with people who have no money. So you can't buy anything.
Starting point is 00:11:02 I'd rather have my audience. They got disposable income. And they love you baby they love me and they got some disposable income and up next we have episode 1369 released jan January 11th, 2021, titled Dr. Drew in the Red Zone. As Dr. Drew continues to recuperate from COVID, he and Adam discuss the complications that have arisen during recovery and the limited window of immunity afterward. All right. So Drew's recovering. Yeah. But now's recovering. Yeah. But now you got slow, but sure.
Starting point is 00:11:47 Slow, but sure. Now you got something else. Yeah. Diverticulitis. Yes. And the thing about diverticulitis, because it's a deep-seated infection, and it's like a local peritonitis, it causes fatigue. Like, it really wipes you out.
Starting point is 00:12:02 And then I'm just emerging from the COVID fatigue. It's kind of a one-two punch today. It's going to take me the rest of the week to fully regain, but at least, like I said, I can see I'm nearly in the red zone. I feel like the red zone is ahead for me. I can get
Starting point is 00:12:20 there. This is a bit of a fumble, but I recovered the ball. Staying with the football analogies. I like it. How's everyone else in your home? Jordan had the flu syndrome and he's fully recovered.
Starting point is 00:12:35 He's fully recovered. He tries to have conversations with me and I can't handle it. I can't handle conversations with anybody. He's good. He's back at school and that's done with him. He's free to move out the cabin now. There is a weird and interesting phenomenon that you're not allowed, part of the mob right now is
Starting point is 00:12:59 you're not allowed to have immunity. You can't be immune from COVID. The move now is, oh, you can still pass it. And let me let me be really clear. There is not an infectious disease on the planet that you can have broad, intense immunity to and then pass it to other people. That does not exist. Well, so this idea that that's going to be a thing is uh no no yeah well let me give you my sort of psychological um let me get my kind of psychological thought on that because um yeah i think uh i think you'll find this an interesting thought experiment. I, um, so here's my little thought experiment. You say, um, you get COVID, you come out the other end, you have immunity, and then you turn on the
Starting point is 00:13:57 news and there's a bunch of people trying to talk you out of your immunity, which is something that is scientific and scientific. It exists and all other viruses. And so what are they doing? And I was thinking about this the other day. I always think, let's look at the data, but then let's also look at the action. So I was talking to my kids about when are you going back to school? And the answer is never or who knows. Okay.
Starting point is 00:14:29 Oh, Jesus. Now, there's obviously no danger posed to going back to school. Certainly, there's no data that would suggest it's dangerous for kids to go back to school. Schools are open all over the world, all over the country and all over the world, but not in Los Angeles, not in California. So what are we talking about? Well, here's a question. Here's my thought experiment. Experiment.
Starting point is 00:14:56 What if the teachers wanted to go back? Interesting. Don't you think things would change? Yes, they would. Well, you look at it this way. There is no danger in going back. So what if they wanted to go back? What if you said to the folks at L.A. Unified that you got paid an extra 40 percent every day you're in the classroom? Do you do you not think things would change? Would they shift? I think they would shift. Well, you're right.
Starting point is 00:15:29 Then if that's the answer, then maybe there's something more foot here than just the science. And what if the people on MSNBC wanted to report happy news on COVID. Don't you think they would talk about immunity after being infected versus it's still dangerous? Right. I'm actually working with a group called Adatex where they are measuring the immunity. So I'm meeting with a guy this afternoon where I'm going to go over my antibody response. I'm meeting with a guy this afternoon where I'm going to go over my antibody response. He gave me a sort of preliminary read, which is that I have many proteins I'm reacting to, not just the spike protein. And I have an intense reaction above and beyond the vaccine levels, which is huge to me. It's like this is great news because when you hear about these novel viruses coming in and maybe, you know, the vaccine is going to maybe not catch all of them,
Starting point is 00:16:27 this is a big deal for people like me that have been through this. The idea of going through it again makes me want to jump off a building. By the way, did you hear that Kevin went through it again from Kevin and Bean? Yeah, you brought that up. I didn't hear about it other than from you. I called him, and he's had seven days of fever, man. The guy is sick. And I just,
Starting point is 00:16:47 it freaked me out. That's actually why I went ahead and got my immune scores done because I'm thinking I'm going to take the vaccine. If there's any evidence that my immunity, first, the humoral part, the antibody part can drop, which it normally does,
Starting point is 00:17:00 but you can then start to measure memory cells and helper cells that, that leave behind enough immune response that you can then start to measure memory cells and helper cells that leave behind enough immune response that you can muster a good response if you're re-exposed. But if that fails, then I got to get the vaccine. So I'm going to be monitored very carefully on this. Why did Kevin not get immunity? He had it, he said. So he was sick. He wasn't tested for COVID. He then was tested for the antibodies three times and was positive. And on the third or fourth time, he turned negative and then he got sick. And that's what I call a pretty good anecdote. It's a pretty good case for immunity
Starting point is 00:17:41 being temporary in some cases. So we should be measuring that. So that's what I'm going to do. How long did he have his immunity? Well, six months, which is about what you expect, right? So he had a span of six months between getting infected with COVID? Yes, that's what we thought was going on with him. Yes, absolutely. Six months in between infections. And that's about kind of what happens. I mean, we've sort of seen
Starting point is 00:18:12 you've heard out there in the press all the gloom and doom. Oh, antibody response goes away in six months. Yeah, yeah. And we can measure that and now we can vaccinate people for whom that happens. So there's a lot to be done. There's really a lot to be done. Yeah, this is your point about the gloom and doom stuff. for whom that happens. So there's a lot to be done. There's really a lot to be done. Yeah, this is your point about the gloom and doom stuff. I talked to a psychiatrist yesterday who felt that there is a mass delusional psychosis going on in our country and that it's been propagated by this, you know, this fear mongering. Yeah. You have to ask yourself, what is attractive about the fear? Why is that attractive? It wouldn't work if it wasn't attractive. I don't mean attractive, positive. I mean, just attractive. Why is it,
Starting point is 00:18:58 why is it attractive? Why is it alluring? You know, I don't get it. I don't get it. Well, I just it's mystifying to me. But you do get all of those, you know, TV shows about abductions and, which is what's attractive about fear was not traditionally the realm of the male brain. We were not attracted to fear. The females were attracted to the fear and the males were attracted to whatever, progress, adventure. I don't know. The point is, is this,
Starting point is 00:19:48 uh, I've said this many times. This is if, if, so let's, let's, um, let me, uh,
Starting point is 00:19:56 riddle you this drew. Can you hear me? There's something going on. I do hear you. Something with Drew's cameras kind of on and off. So there you go. I do hear you. Something with Drew's cameras kind of on and off. So there you go. I do hear you. I do.
Starting point is 00:20:06 Okay. So traditionally, half the society is women. Half the society is men. Half the society amongst the women are attracted to fear. I've not known any women that weren't attracted to that. They like watching those Nancy Grace abduction shows and it could happen to you and, you know, all that kind of stuff. It's it's fear based. It made it made for a balance because, you know, the guy was saying to the young boy,
Starting point is 00:20:40 climb up the ladder and clean the gutters. And then the mom was saying, what if you fall off the ladder? And then you'd have to kind of strike an agreement, right? There'd be a balance, right? So it'd be, well, the gutters need to be clean, but now we have to do it in such a way where mom will sign off on it because there's a safety issue, right? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:21:04 All right. on it because there's a safety issue, right? Yeah. All right. So now that we've coaxed a certain percentage of men over to the other side to essentially assume the role of the woman and be fear based, well, then, of course, society is going to shift as well. So now you have 50 percent of society being fear based. And now you're going to introduce another 25 percent, which is dudes wearing wooden bracelets over to that side as well.
Starting point is 00:21:32 And this is how this is where we land. But, you know, there's a couple of thoughts I have on that. One is you're really talking about hysteria. And I'm wondering why we find hysteria. I mean, most of history, hysteria wasn't'm wondering why we find hysteria i i mean most of history hysteria wasn't something appealing or satisfying you know what i mean you wouldn't you wouldn't like it in someone else and you wouldn't like it in yourself yes and somehow we have come to value hysteria which is interesting well and i i would say i don't i don't i'll go beyond value we celebrate it yeah yeah why it's celebrated
Starting point is 00:22:07 unappealing it's very unappealing it's unappealing to you and i but not to the pussies who fucking celebrate it all the pussies on twitter and all those all those people they fucking they're celebrated it's so weird it's so everything to me to, I mean, I, I, I, I feel like I'm not just in the upside down, but I'm in the inside out. Like I spent a lot of my days. And again, as I told you, I'm emotionally raw because of this infection and it sort of amplifies everything. But I spent a lot of my day just going, I don't, I don't, I can't understand it. I can't get it. I can't, I don't, I don't, what, what are we doing? Why is this appealing? I can't get it. I can't, I don't, I don't, what, what are we doing? Why is
Starting point is 00:22:45 this appealing? Why can't we, this is more appealing. Just get on with life and get working and have your relationships and keep your head down. Isn't that more appealing to people? Am I missing something? Yeah. I mean, let's, let's circle back to, uh, LA unified school teachers, right? Isn't it more appealing just to get back to life, to get back to work? What if you don't want to go back to work? What if you don't want to go back to life? But that's weird, though. That's not, I get that, but that's not, it's so unhealthy and so unappealing.
Starting point is 00:23:17 That's the part that's confusing to me. It's unhealthy, but is it unappealing to stay home and get paid? It's natural. It takes it unappealing to stay home and get paid? It's natural. It takes your legs out, right? Of course, that's human motivational systems. But again, as somebody who's stuck in bed for two weeks, I don't dig it. I want to go live. Well, you are wired a little differently than most, I will say.
Starting point is 00:23:44 We'll be right back with more of the adam and dr drew show classics last up for today we have episode 961 released november 6th 2018 titled was that a shotgun the guys turn to the phones and take a call from a listener wondering who among their staff is most likely to be successful, leading to an examination of what success means in the modern world. All right, let's talk to Mike, 48 Greensboro, North Carolina. Which of the lackeys will go on to have the greatest career success? That's his question. And it's an interesting question, right?
Starting point is 00:24:29 Well, yes, I took it intentionally because I'm starting to have new theories about life. You're starting to have thoughts. I have thoughts. Uh-oh. Well, I don't in the digital world, in the sort of crypto digital world. Yes. I'm not sure what success is anymore. Well, I think millennials are struggling.
Starting point is 00:24:59 I think we're going to have to define it a little bit differently. I think it's a really interesting question. It used to be pretty definable. It's like, how big is your house? And do have a Cadillac and can you go to Hawaii? And as you're saying, so much, everyone has so much that's so good. Yes. Right? So why, everyone's already in success, sort of starting up. Yes.
Starting point is 00:25:23 Caller, Mike. Hello. I can't hear you guys. Can you hear us? Mike? No, hold on. All right. We're going to try to serve with that.
Starting point is 00:25:30 We don't need Mike. Yeah, we're having a conversation. Oh, there he is. Mike? Yeah, hi. I couldn't hear you guys. Sorry. Sorry about that.
Starting point is 00:25:38 It's okay. So who's going to have the most success? Yeah. You know, you guys brought a lot of people in. People have gone. It's fun to listen to you interact with Max Apata and, you know, give him the business. But, you know, which one do you see the most potential in? Well, that's a different – yeah, potential is another interesting question too, right?
Starting point is 00:26:01 So Adam was saying that we have to sort of define what success is now. And Gary, what's success for you? Seriously. Can you answer that? Being able to provide for my family and especially as it grows, which is not something I'd be able to probably – That's pretty vague. It's pretty vague. Do you mean have a house or a house of a certain size? Have a house, be able to provide – to be able to afford education and the kinds of things that my kid would need.
Starting point is 00:26:29 So that would be success? Yeah. Well, there's a couple of problems with a house. We're living in a bizarre land where it's a million dollars for a modest home. So it's like a weird part of the equation for SoCal. Sorry. Go ahead, Matt. I wouldn't mind six figures and time to travel.
Starting point is 00:26:50 Oh, okay. So a lot of millennials will say experiences. As long as I have lots of experiences, I'm successful. It's not about – I've never heard a millennial talk about sort of financial freedom. Well, time to travel. There's a part to do with that. Time to travel, but it's not as though I'll have enough funds to fund the travel indefinitely. Well, let's really just see if we can break this down.
Starting point is 00:27:17 Why is it folks in days of your wanted success, financial success. They wanted financial success for many reasons. Safety. Quiet. Thank you. But quiet. First, societal status. Right.
Starting point is 00:27:38 There's Mr. Johnson. He's a very successful man. You should listen to him, young son. That boy, that man knows he must be doing something right yeah oh the respect the reverence yep all right that's out the that part's kind of gone now don't get me wrong we dig celebrity but that part where you listen to him because that guy has taken care of business or done it right or started a business, he must know, or look up to him, looking up to him.
Starting point is 00:28:13 We're living in a time when we're busy tearing down statues and yelling at astronauts for quoting Winston Churchill. We're not looking in the past. We don't have a lot of reverence. It's all sort of disdained. Forget reverence. It's kind of disdained. Forget reverence. It's kind of disdained. Well, I don't think that – look, I have a whole building on the other side of the thing that was filled formerly with a bunch of early 20-something-year-old guys. They don't sit up when I walk into the room.
Starting point is 00:28:43 They don't stop eating lunch. They don't look up. They don't – there is no – none of that the boss is here kind of thing. There used to be a sort of element of the boss would pull up and you'd go, oh, shit, the boss is here. I'm going to clean up my desk or put down my soda or whatever, whatever you would do. I worked for a hospital administrator. So when he first became an administrator, he was – the absolute standard of all the administrators was when a doctor came in the room, you gave him or her your seat. Like, doctor, here, please sit down.
Starting point is 00:29:09 Yeah, all right. So the status part is gone. And the status part has been replaced with a why isn't he paying his fair share to some degree. So status is kind of neither here nor there. I'm not going to say it's a bad thing. It's not a bad thing, but it could be burdensome. It could be. It's scary, actually.
Starting point is 00:29:30 We certainly don't worship at the altar of it. And don't get me wrong. It's always great to be a sports star. It's always great to be a rock and roll star. But I'm just saying in terms of I've started this business and I built it up to 10 franchises or whatever, that's all gone. It's gone. Okay. So that's gone.
Starting point is 00:29:44 But there is something. Prestige has something still somewhere, doesn't it? Yeah, yeah. There's still something to pulling up in a nicer car than a crappier car. But the prestige and the part where we look up to you and the part where we – the part where you say to your kid, you work hard and one day you're going to end up like Dr. Pinsky. Gone. That part's gone.
Starting point is 00:30:09 Okay. So that part's gone. Then there is the material stuff. There's literally the clothing. Are you able to wear a tailored suit, a finely tailored Italian suit, imported silks and their garment. Leather shoes. Leather shoes with a buckle on them and all that kind of stuff. And everyone's just sort of shopping at Old Navy and wearing cargo shorts and flip flops.
Starting point is 00:30:34 Inexpensive and disposable. And what are you wearing that's any different than anybody else in this building? Right. Or out of this building? And what am I wearing that's any different than anybody else who's in and out of this building either? All right. So there you go.
Starting point is 00:30:47 That part's gone. Now you then go to the mode of transportation. Could be cars, could have been a buggy with horses that was adorned with, you know, inlets and the fringe on top. Yes. Or the fringe on top. And I'm like, how much of that? Well...
Starting point is 00:31:06 That's going away fast. Well, not only is it going away, but there were things like, that car, he's got a leather interior. It's a real leather interior. Right. Nobody cares about a leather interior. Nobody cares about air conditioning. Nobody cares about anything. And, you know, Leonardo DiCaprio drives a Prius,
Starting point is 00:31:27 and so does Chris Maxipata. Right. And by the way, you get more prestige from a hydrogen fuel car than a Lamborghini. So you'd probably land, seeing as how we all land somewhere between Chris Maxipata and Leonardo DiCaprio, I'm not going to say which one's the successful one, but we're all laying somewhere in between those two. The spectrum, yeah. And they both drive a Prius. Yeah. What's the difference?
Starting point is 00:31:52 That's gone. Okay. Now you get into stuff like technology. And by the way, soon everything's going to be hopping in a driverless car. You don't even have a car or a drone or something. So you think about technology. Now it's like, well, Elvis and Bob Crane had a VCR deck in 1976. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:32:14 A Betamax. Well, the notion of you holding up something the size of a large wallet and going, you know what this is? It's Citizen Kane. We can just pop it in and you can watch it at home. That was a novelty whenever you want. I will tell you something. On the TV show The Deuce about the sort of the genesis of the porn industry and 42nd Street, what a catastrophe New York was in the 70s.
Starting point is 00:32:37 And they come up with the beta, the videotape recorder, and the guy comes in. He goes, watch this. He puts it in the machine, starts playing a porn. He goes, people are going to be able to have this in their house. Yeah. He goes, they'll pay a fucking fortune for this. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:32:52 They pay a fortune, $180 a film. They'll pay anything. Right. And they go to watch a porn in the privacy of your own house. Hell, yeah, they'll pay for that. Think about that. Yeah. It's crazy.
Starting point is 00:33:00 All right. So there was a technology thing. And there still is if you would like a 200-inch plasma TV in your home. But if you can get a 60-incher for $499 and you've got a smartphone. And what's the difference between – I'll just keep it to Maxipana. It'll be easier. What's the difference between his iPhone and Seth MacFarlane's iPhone or Richard Branson's iPhone? They all have an iPhone.
Starting point is 00:33:29 And no one has anything more. They don't need anything more than that. That's it. You've got the full Monty just with that. There was a time when obviously if you had a phone in your car, that was a big deal. Very expensive, what have you. So, all right, technology. a big deal. Very expensive. What have you. So alright. Technology. And again, there's
Starting point is 00:33:48 things you can, there's certain things you know. But for the most part, you got your iPhone, you got your 60 inch TV, you got your Bluetooth, you got as many songs as you want to listen to, you got the internet, and you got Netflix, and you're pretty much
Starting point is 00:34:03 the same thing. What does Seth McFarlane go home and watch, and what do you go home and watch're pretty much the same thing. What was the, what does Seth MacFarlane go home and watch and what do you go home and watch and what's the difference? He watches an IMAX and is grounded underneath his house to be fair, to be fair. That's all for this week. Thanks for listening to the Adam and Dr. Drew show classics. Remember to check back each week for new episodes.
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