The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - You've Got to Fight, For Your Right, To Vape (The Adam and Dr. Drew Show Classics)
Episode Date: July 8, 2023Adam opens the show telling Drew about his experience the night before going to see Foo Fighters at The Forum. They have a discussion about masks and the lack of continuity when it comes to use method...s before Adam explains why the founding fathers and how they couldn't have possibly foreseen. The guys take a call about a vape lounge owner who's fighting an ordinance to change the restricted age to 21 instead of 18.
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Welcome to another installment of the Adam and Dr. Drew Show Classics.
First up this week, we have episode 275, released September 24th, 2015, titled Terrible Threes.
Adam opens the show telling Drew about having gone to see the Foo Fighters at the Forum the night before,
and explains the admiration he has for the band's work ethic.
Little horse, Dr. Drew.
Why? What's going on?
I was out at a Foo Fighters concert last night.
Oh, I saw the videos that Lynette was posting.
So, had a good time.
Went to the show.
The show was great.
Then, you know what what really uh what really
struck me or what really strikes you about uh the foo fighters is that the music's great um
it's the work ethic it's like how hard dave growl and the rest of the band work when they're
performing yeah well he has a broken foot right now,
and so he's in a boot.
So they built him a sort of a rock and roll throne,
and that's where he does the show.
The thing moves around.
I was going to say, it seemed like he was down front and stuff too a bit.
I mean, they had these huge screens behind him, which were awesome.
Where was this?
It was at the Fabulous Forum.
Wow.
But what I'm saying is he's not going to let a broken ankle cancel a tour where he has to be up on his feet playing the guitar and running all over the stage.
So what did they do?
Compensate.
They improvised.
Yeah.
And compensate.
And then came up with something better in its own way.
You know, so 30 years from now when people are talking, you know, Foo Fighters are dead or retired or whatever,
and everyone's sitting around going, I remember I've seen the band.
I saw the Foo Fighters.
I'm going to be the guy who goes, I saw them with the Rock and Roll Throne tour.
And not the whole tour, just the end of the tour.
So here you are, and you've sold out a bunch of venues like the Forum around the country, around the world.
I don't know, 17,000 seats or 15 or 19
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yeah yeah it's not full like it would be if it's more like 15 because they block off the back half yeah yeah
yeah it's not it's not full like it would be if it's just the lakers playing the celtics there
back in the day but all right so there's 15 000 tickets sold whatever it is um so you break your
ankle so now um the doctor says how'd you break your ankle? And you say, rocking. And then you sniff when you're done.
And then he says, well, like doctors always say, it's my favorite thing doctors do.
I can't wait.
You never told me this.
What's a favorite thing we do?
My favorite thing is when you explain to them how you injured yourself.
And sometimes it's football.
Sometimes it's skateboarding.
Sometimes it's riding a BMX bike.
But oftentimes it's doing something that is your passion.
I mean, usually it's never, well, I was temping and I broke my ankle.
Like it's never something you don't give a – or I was attending a class at junior college just for credits I didn't really care about.
Like you always bust your ankle shooting hoop in your league,
your pick of your weekend league or whatever it is.
Whatever it is you do to injure yourself,
it's done playing high school football or done whatever.
It's your passion.
You don't get injured pursuing your non-passions.
You're just waiting for a bus.
So what do we do?
Doctors always say whatever the activity is, well, no more of that.
No more of that, yeah.
And it's always like...
Well, no, there will be no more of that.
Yeah, and it's like...
But that's in the movies.
All right.
Come on.
I've seen it up in the movies.
When people flick their cigarettes, they do it in slow motion, right?
Right before something blows up?
That does happen, right?
Like, even if I just go out in the parking lot and flick a cigarette in slow motion... Well, only if it's heading for the gasoline. Yeah, but even if it just lands on the ground, it'll blow up, right? Like even if I just go out in the parking lot and flick a cigarette in slow motion.
Well, only if it's heading for the gasoline.
Yeah, but even if it just lands on the ground, it'll blow up, right?
Yeah, that's true.
No, I've talked to doctors and had shit happen.
Shoulders?
Shoulders, whatever.
Whatever it is you do, they go, nah, no more of that for a while.
For a while.
Right.
And the thing, yeah, they won't tell you you can't play doubles tennis for the rest of your life.
They'll just tell you you've got to take some time off.
And all I'm saying is you can't say to Dave Grohl.
No more rocking.
No more rocking for a while.
I have a tour and I've sold thousands, tens of thousands of tickets in advance.
Did you talk to him afterwards?
No, I talked to Pat and I talked to Taylor.
There is no, oh, the drummer.
Dave was not around.
There's no nicer person than Dave Grohl.
Taylor's a great guy, too.
Taylor's a really nice guy.
And Pat's really nice.
I don't know Pat.
Super nice.
I literally run into Dave out in the world.
He'll just stop and have a conversation.
And he's interestingly, has that same kind of personability on stage.
I talked to his mom for a while.
Yeah.
Sorry.
No, but I'm interested.
Where'd that go?
Because often he'll have questions about his parents.
I had to, well, first thing I had to do was ask about his sister
because I didn't want to be one of those, you got two kids,
but I'm only talking about one of them people.
I mean, obviously, it's easy to.
We just got done with the concert, you know, but I wanted to see how the sister was doing.
It is weird when the parents of rock stars show up.
I was in a dressing room with a lead singer for the ska band.
Oh, Gwen Stefani.
Gwen Stefani.
And her dad's in there.
She's just rocked out oh right i'm staring
at him like and he's a he's like jovial you know guy really super nice guy yeah i've met him before
yeah and it's like it's so weird it's a talking to dave girl's mom it's a weird concept yeah
yeah we talked for a while well the reason we we she came up to me because I lived across the street from her daughter.
Pardon me.
I had a home.
Just North Hollywood home?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Ask.
What the hell was with that street?
You had Be Real on that street too, right?
I think I did.
Yeah.
It's more, it's not in North Hollywood technically, but I'll give them their privacy, Drew.
No, never stop with that.
You're not there anymore.
You're not there anymore.
No, but I think she may be there.
I'm just trying to, you know, respect that a little bit.
But in the Valley.
Lived across the street.
Didn't live across the street.
Had a party house across the street.
But the mom, mom was well aware of that.
Dave used to stay there when he came to L.A. to do shows.
Oh, I didn't know that.
That's nice.
Oh, stay with his sister.
I thought you meant stay with you.
No, what happened, that was a famous story where famous and at least our, you know, love line annals, which was I saw Dave at the K-Rock Acoustic Christmas.
And I, again, if memory serves, we had some sort of conversation, you know,
like where you live in.
And I don't know,
he was living in Seattle or something at the time. This is, you know, 15 years ago or something.
He was living somewhere. I said, well, when you come out to L.A., where do you stay?
And he said, I stay at my sister's place. She's out here. And then I said, oh, where's your
sister? She's out in the valley. And of course, I'm sort of like, oh, well, where? Turns out, or somehow, I don't know.
I don't know if he put a note on my mailbox or we were talking about,
but somehow gleaned that the sister lived across the street.
Yeah, crazy.
And I then, Saturday or something after the concert,
I went over to the party house to work in the garage or shoot some hoop or do something.
And I remember waiting until about noon or 1 o'clock.
And I thought, well, I'll just go across the street and knock on the door, see if he's there.
We want to shoot some hoop or something.
And I went over there and I knocked on the door.
It was afternoon.
But, you know, it is rock and roll after all.
And this fairly disheveled blonde chick answered the door.
Like, clearly she'd just been awakened.
And maybe he didn't hear the door.
Maybe she did or something.
And she just came down and uh
assumed she was a groupie made sense it felt like rock and roll to me
plus she was you know she was a a cute blonde whose hair was all messed up and you know looked
like they'd done some jaeger shots and i and then then i i got on loveline. I said, yeah, I knocked on the door.
Then one of his floozies answered the door.
Well, it turned out to be his wife or Jordan, I think, or later on turned out to be his wife.
I can't remember who it was.
He took a little umbrage.
She's also very nice, by the way.
She's very nice.
Yeah.
So it was, again, it just seemed like rock and roll to me, you know.
The music's all there.
There's plenty of bands where the music's there.
You know what I mean?
The Foo Fighters are a good band musically, but there are plenty of good bands musically.
He has a work ethic.
He's putting on a show, and he's not going to...
To be fair, Pat and Taylor come right along.
You know what I'm saying?
He doesn't have to drag them along.
They're quite there.
Well, yes and no.
What I want to say is Taylor's working his ass off singing behind the drum kit.
Pat's doing his thing.
Everyone in the band is doing their thing.
Here's the deal.
You ain't going to last if you.
What about Dave, you mean?
No, no.
You ain't going to last if you ain't coming along.
Oh, no. You ain't going to last if you ain't coming along. Oh, right. You won't keep doing that.
If you go backstage, if you have a situation where you've sold out a soccer stadium in Rio de Janeiro,
and at soundcheck you're telling David Boss, I'm not feeling it today.
I think I got a little something.
I don't know.
Maybe it's the bug.
I think it's the travel.
I'm going to sit this one out.
You're going to be out for good.
Yeah, yeah.
You don't tell a guy like that, I got a little tickle in my throat.
Although he is very supportive of his band members when they get in trouble.
He will see it through.
Thank you.
But what I'm saying is, if you're going to go.
It's not draconian is all I'm saying.
Yeah, no, no.
But I'm saying it's a little bit of, I got a little bit of that in me as well.
You're more draconian.
That's what I want to talk to you about.
No, I'm the wrong guy to say, hey, I'm feeling, that's not quite feeling myself today.
I think I'm just going to stay on the sofa because it's like, that doesn't mean anything to me.
I don't care if you're 40%.
Come in, you'll get through it. Like, he's out there with a boot, a walking boot on his fucking foot, sitting on a throne playing the guitar and rocking as hard as he can.
So he's the wrong guy to tell you're just not feeling it today.
Yep.
So he puts a show on, and I think his greatest fear, and I have a little bit of this, and he has a lot of it,
and this is why you got what you got with him.
He does not want anybody walking out of that huge venue and going,
eh, six and a half, and maybe just, maybe he's a little bit tired today.
He's a little bit off his game.
Never.
No, like every show, every place.
He doesn't want to go home and read a tweet that goes, I've been to five Foo Fighters
shows.
This one was probably fourth, I guess.
Not his best.
Maybe his foot's a little fucked up.
It slowed him down.
Anyway, you know what I'm saying?
That's his greatest fear, I think.
All right.
Sorry.
Go ahead.
Not because he gives a shit.
He just doesn't want to let anybody down you know what i mean yeah no i think it's a i think it's a healthy
combination of you guys paid a hundred bucks yeah i don't want to let you down right versus
some ego like i don't want people going maybe no it's it's both it's fine all right it's how it's
it's what keeps it that ego of not wanting
to go home and read a tweet that said not his best that ego keeps you out on stage and burning
a thousand calories and up next we have episode 1307, released August 3rd, 2020, titled Rules for Rules' Sake.
The guys discuss mask mandates and inconsistent messaging before Adam explains why the Founding Fathers could not possibly have foreseen our current political climate.
All right, Drew, what do you got?
So signaling.
All right, Drew, what do you got?
So signaling.
So you would expect that when people get an external threat, right?
Like what happened with 9-11?
It sort of brings everybody together, right? That's sort of like if aliens landed, we forget our differences and fight whatever we needed to do to survive.
Well, strangely, that didn't happen this time.
We have this invisible visitor.
And instead of gathering together, we splintered worse, right?
And some of it was because of the arbitrariness and the inconsistency and, frankly, the hypocrisy
of a lot of the messaging and the capricious demands and the back and the forth, right,
and the health messaging.
I mean, think about back in the day when we were doing Loveland trying to get people to wear a condom.
If you overstated the risk or didn't say it in a consistent way, they'd just go, F off.
Forget it.
I'm fine.
You know what I mean?
Well, I think there's always been an overstating of the risk if you'd like to get people to put their seatbelts on or wear condoms
or whatever.
You have to be very careful with that because once they find out you're doing that, second
hand smoke is a first rate killer.
Then they go, I want to smoke.
It's a first hand killer.
Oh, first hand.
Everyone's got the word hand and hand, you know, super clever.
Yeah, no, I agree.
I agree with that.
It's the whole, it's my reefer madness thing.
It's reefer madness.
It's precisely what it is.
And everyone went, this ain't bad.
And now everyone smokes pot.
And by the way, for those who do smoke copious amounts of today's marijuana, they are greatly diminished and it slows them down a lot.
Right.
But it's still not reefer madness.
No.
Right, but it's still not Reefer Madness.
No. And here we are four generations later, and no one wants to hear anything about public health messaging around cannabis because of the excesses from the 70s.
Think about that.
So you get one time at the plate with the public when it comes to health messaging.
They hate inconsistency.
So when you say, excuse me, you can go over here and do something, but you can't go over here. They'll eventually do it everywhere.
So you can go to a demonstration and hang out, but you can't go to a church.
Right.
And then you're splitting the First Amendment by defending that.
Now people go, okay.
Now it's a signal.
Now it becomes a signal that people use to declare their tribe, right?
And so it's like I'm not going to let them control me, those people that want to take away my First Amendment privileges and government overreach and all these things they've asked us to do.
I'm pissed.
And now the mask becomes a symbol for what the government is doing to us, muzzling us, controlling us, right?
And that's – I've been saying this for weeks. It's the wrong place
for people to draw the line. That's please don't go there. Go somewhere else. Demand your rights
somewhere else because the mask does work. Distancing works as well. And if you want to
just do that, that's okay. And if you remember back in the early days, the CDC was emphasizing
distancing and not mask wearing because we didn't have the data yet on the mask wearing.
They did have the data on the distancing and it does work. But by and large,
wearing the mask, they used it in 1918 and they were convinced it would stop the entire epidemic
if they could get people to do it. And they got one city to do it and it squashed the epidemic.
So it's been around forever as an effective treatment. Don't stop with the signaling on the mask.
Unfortunately, it's become a signal to which
tribe you belong in and what your
relationship is to a government
that you perceive as either right
or overreaching. You get what I'm
saying? Yeah.
So it's true.
And
I leave the house and go for walks and stuff
without the mask.
I didn't bring a mask today, whatever.
I don't do it.
But for me –
For you, you're trying to restore sanity.
You're trying to do what's actually sensible objectively.
I feel like – I don't feel like you're trying to signal anything.
You're just like, this is bullshit, and I have a good sense of what the risks are.
I will adjust.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, I've been, again, I've been driving through return errors for 20-something years.
I'm not a big fan.
I just, you know, when the Department of Building and Safety tells me to put a breather in for the whatever,
I just have the guy sign off, and then when he leaves, I get rid of the breather and put a soap dispenser back into it.
Now, what is that?
You know what I mean?
Well, that guy just said you can't whatever.
And I said, okay.
Then you sign my completion certificate, and as soon as I see your fat ass hit the truck, I'm just going to switch it back.
Because I've decided – it's based on knowledge.
If I thought I was poisoning myself or putting sewage into my dishwasher, whatever the negative side of it was, I wouldn't do it, obviously.
Yeah.
The whole thing is when you do a project and the inspector has to come by and inspect it, there are 100 things they got to look at and sign off on and whatever.
And 80 of them are legitimate.
And then there's 20 that are bullshit and redundant and stupid and overreach and insane.
And so you do the 80 that they need to sign off on.
And then the 20 that they don't either do it or fucking fake it.
Because I have decided this is way
over engineered and then we're unnecessary right and so people i will and others or they're just
things they won't let you do that you want to do and so you go well it's my property i pay the taxes
but i don't want to tell them i'll just let them think he did and then i'll leave and then i'll do
it right you know but of course, that's that.
How could it go any other way?
So what would you live in a society where people are telling you what you can't do every every four feet?
OK.
And so what is another way of describing that restriction?
I mean, think about it.
Think about if you were 1780s man and you saw this and you came in. How would you describe it to your –
Well, it's a liberty issue.
They're fucking with your liberty.
Right.
And the 1780s man would go, oh my god, we've got to come up with some constitutional qualities because we fucked up.
By the time we get to 2020, your liberties will be completely overtaken by local government, gentlemen.
Local government will absolutely make you have tyrannical authority over you and your property.
If they let you have property.
The founding fathers, I don't think they anticipated.
A lot of things.
Well, I'll tell you what they didn't anticipate.
of things well i'll tell you what they didn't anticipate um i don't think they anticipated power for power's sake and rules for rule's sake i've never really thought about this but i mean
what they were thinking of what they were picturing is we can't let some tyrannical
dictator take over monarchs they. They're really scared of.
Right.
But they weren't thinking about Garcetti.
And they weren't thinking about half these cities with these middle-aged house frowns
that don't fucking know what the fuck they're even.
They sound insane.
They weren't picturing Garcetti or Maxine Waters.
They weren't picturing Nancy Pelosi like insane.
They weren't picturing insane women telling you what to do because they said so.
That's not they thought they were going to enrich themselves and build some more chest
and power and might.
They didn't know.
They're just nutty idiots fucking with you.
And who are vindictive, by the way, who like you don't listen to them.
Now they're going to fuck your shit up.
You know, I mean, like you own a gym in New Jersey and you open it up.
They're going to fucking go down there and fuck your shit up because they know what I mean? Like, you own a gym in New Jersey and you open it up, they're going to fucking go down
there and fuck your shit up because they told you because they said so.
The Founding Fathers didn't anticipate idiots wanting to flex their power for no real gain.
Right.
They thought there were going to be Napoleon types and guys like that who were coming,
you know, with their armadas and shit.
They didn't.
No, it was a bunch of fucking dumb
broads who were just going, because I said
so.
Your mom. The noose on
the tree. We're moving
forward with our hate crimes team.
But why? It's nothing. Yeah, well, we're doing
it anyway. We're getting
the FBI in here. The
founding fathers didn't envision idiots
who fucking didn't know what they were doing
who were just fucking with citizens.
They didn't see that one coming
because it didn't make sense.
Why would it make sense to them?
They pictured guys with guns and big mustaches
rattling sabers and beefing up the naval ships at sea
and stuff like that. A bunch of fucking middle-aged
idiots who are pussies who are
just fucking with us?
Didn't see Gavin Newsom
coming or Garcetti or these fucking
retarded assholes who are here
just to fuck their shit up of people
who pay taxes?
They would be thinking, well... In the name of love.
It's out of love. They would think,
oh, Garcetti must have money and he must
be doing something and there must be something
that must be related to real estate somehow.
He's going to drive
everyone out of California.
He's going to tank the real estate market
and then him and his cronies are going to slide in.
There it is. No, he's just an asshole.
He's a fucking pussy.
He's just a pussy asshole who's fucking with everybody.
The founding fathers would be like, huh?
We did not.
By the way, good luck us anticipating this.
Right.
Bunch of fucking idiots.
First off, they're hysterics.
They're pussies and they're idiots.
First off, they're hysterics.
They're pussies and they're idiots.
You think the founding fathers, you know, California is the biggest state, right?
Yeah.
The biggest populace.
Yes.
Okay.
Did you think the founding fathers could anticipate Garcetti, the mayor of the biggest city? Go no further.
No.
Newsome or the nutty health director for our broad.
Do you think they and that they and that they were just doing it just because they're fucking dumb and scared?
Let me frame it this way.
In 1850, 70 years after the founding of the country, they argued, the professionals argued whether narcissism actually existed whether a true narcissistic disorder
actually existed because it was so unusual right so they did not and no one could and nor could
you write it in what would you write in a constitution no fucking idiots running no
pussies running states how would you look at some of these governors from around the country.
Look at some of these mayors.
Look at what they're doing to their cities.
Hey, man, it's why I thought about running for office.
I feel like I have to.
Like it's an obligation, like almost a spiritual obligation to get in there and start duking it out a little bit.
But here's the other – but to that same point, maybe it's also time for civil disobedience.
So that's what you're talking about with the building and safety, right?
Yeah, sort of.
Sort of.
It's just kind of lying to the government.
It's civil disobedience of a sort.
It's what people do with their taxes to some degree.
You know, they say they work from home and they don't.
The far left has taken over civil disobedience, right?
Yeah.
We'll be right back with more of the Adam and Dr. Drew show classics.
Finishing things off, we have episode 895, released August 17th, 2018, titled Living in a Chumbawamba World.
living in a chumba-wumba world.
A call about a vape lounge owner's fight over an ordinance increasing the age of restriction
leads Adam to denounce the empowerment movement.
All right, let's see.
Vape lounge.
Danny.
Danny?
Hey, Adam.
Oh, look at that.
Starion.
Mitsubishi Starion.
Looking good. That was more car than i could handle go ahead sorry danny
ace man been listening to you since week one of the podcast love you uh i have been fighting one
woman in a town where vaping is very popular.
And she puts out a bunch of propaganda, no facts to back it up.
And it's just unbelievable what's going on in this country.
Like, we're not transparent about the facts when it comes to vaping.
And I was just wondering what Drew thought of this.
I'm a vaping fan.
I think there's weird hysteria around it.
I recommend it to people that need to stop using tobacco cigarettes all the time.
It has no significant adverse effect. And if there are any significant effects, they are infinitesimally smaller than the guaranteed adverse effect of tobacco.
So I don't understand why health organizations aren't enthusiastically embracing this.
I've had a lot of people stop tobacco with vaping.
There is concerns about using it in adolescence.
That's a real concern.
Well, a lot of it is.
I yell at Drew all the time, but we started thinking like chicks,
which is not great because I talk to chicks about it.
And they go, I don't like it.
I don't like the message it sends.
And there's no way that can be good for you.
And I go, well, it's water vapor and nicotine isn't inherently bad for you.
I don't know.
I don't like it.
Right.
Next subject.
So we're going to find something to be.
Okay, Madam Scientist.
So we've checked that.
Can I have your clipboard and check some of your data?
Oh, it's just a big frowny face over all the data.
And by the way, I would argue in this health crisis of obesity, guess what's a great way to manage obesity?
Yeah, but I have no brains or data, but I know what I know.
And I don't know anything, but I know I don't like it.
So anyway, Danny, what's up?
So let's make it illegal because I got a gut feeling about this.
No, I was wondering if you guys were aware of the MSA agreement, the Master Settlement Agreement back in 1998.
What is this?
What is this?
So these were yearly payments from tobacco companies to the states.
Oh, yeah. Yes, yes. The truth.
In exchange of neglecting tobacco-related lawsuits.
And then those states spent money before they got it.
They sold bonds to Wall Street based on what money they were going to get from the tobacco companies.
And then tobacco sales started going down and the bonds broke.
So do they really give a shit about saving people's lives or do they just want the tax money by demonizing vaping
and trying to put tax on it and get billions of dollars of revenue?
You know, look, if you're in New Hampshire, if you're out here in Glendale, California.
From New York to New Hampshire.
If you're in Glendale, California, and you own a cigar store,
you're not allowed to smoke cigars in the cigar store.
Now, I don't know if everyone thinks of that as progress.
I absolutely do not think of that as fucking progress. I don't. I don't smoke cigars, but it's none of my business if someone
wants to start a business that sells cigars and clientele want to come in and sample cigars. I
don't have a problem. That's their business. As a matter of fact, I don't get a fucking vote.
It's the guy who sells cigars, the guy cigars the guys who buy cigars the guy who holds sales cigars guess who's not in this mix you me yeah i'm not in it i don't run a
fucking daycare on the roof of the guy who sells cigars so i don't really have any business in this
now i don't piss now i don't know what the fuck's going on where it's like,
we need to empower people. No, we don't. People are too fucking empowered. Shut the fuck up,
everybody. We got to empower this group. We got to empower that group. Oh, this whole fucking
nightmare is because everyone's fucking empowered. If a guy wants to open a lounge and it's a vape
lounge or a cigar store or whatever they want to do, then that'll be their business.
And if you find it offensive in some way, shape or form, then simply don't attend.
I will treat it like a gay bar.
I want gay bars closed down.
No, I don't go to gay bars.
money at a gay bar, then more power to you.
As long as you're paying taxes and your hot wings don't have botulism, they don't have any problem with you.
Why would you have a problem with a vape bar?
It's got nothing.
You know what's going on, Drew?
Everyone's fucking empowered.
And what we need to do when we empower everyone is when you're empowered, how can we tell you that you don't have jurisdiction over those around you?
How can you be both?
I mean, look up the definition of empowered.
Empowered is I'm king of all I survey.
We need to stop empowering everyone.
Tell them to shut the fuck up and stay in their lane.
It's got nothing to do with you.
Go home.
I was just like I was just like, I was just talking.
I was like driving around with my realtor.
And I was like, we're talking about,
oh, there's properties and there's lots.
And then they bought this property and this.
And I remember, I remember just thinking,
I didn't even get in the nuts and bolts of it,
but it's like, well, there's a family
and they bought this property
and they also bought the property next door.
And then they were going to build a big house.
It's been about two years.
Problems with the neighbors.
And I'm like, oh, yeah.
Of course.
You don't get to build a house because some cunt lives next door and has decreed you don't get to build a house.
Even though she's retired, it's not going anywhere.
So she's home all is not going anywhere.
So she's home all day.
She's empowered.
She's empowered.
We make sure to empower the disenfranchised.
Guess who becomes a big pain in the ass really fast?
Everybody who didn't have power who now has power.
Now, listen, if you want to be Bill Belichick, then go be Bill Belichick.
But I can't just make everyone empowered.
Everyone's been empowered.
Everyone coached a team.
It's a fucking clusterfuck.
Part of what we're experiencing right now, this hell for all the sane
people, is
everyone being empowered. Chumbawamba
wanted it this way. And finding their truth.
Chumbawamba. Remember
that? Oh, I'll never forget that
pan. Well, here we are. You're living in the
Chumbawamba world. I'll never forget that, Pan. Well, here we are. You're living in the Chumbawamba world.
I've never been more elated over the lack of success of a pan than Chumbawamba.
Those guys were anarchists, socialist anarchists.
And they're angry Brits and, uh,
they just,
I can't,
their whole thing was just like,
as I started to try to drill down on their anarchy, I was like,
they're like,
why should somebody take out the garbage all the time?
Pick up the garbage.
Why,
why is that?
Why is that bloke have to pick up the garbage?
I was like,
well,
that's,
he's a garbage man. Well, why, why does he get through that? Another guy gets the garbage? I was like, well, he's a garbage man.
Why does he get to do that?
The other guy gets to fly airplanes.
I was like, well, because he's trained to fly in airplanes.
How do you want to do it?
They should rotate.
They should take turns.
They should wake up and decide what they want to do.
Remember, they should wake up and decide, today, I'm the garbage man.
Maybe the airline pilot, he picks up the garbage that day.
And then maybe at some point, the garbage man, he flies the airplane.
I was like, really? And you said, what about air traffic controllers? He picks up the garbage that day, and then maybe at some point the garbage man, he flies the airplane.
It's like, really?
And you said, what about air traffic controller?
What do they do?
No, I remember saying, well, what about your records you're selling, like your CDs?
Should people just take those?
Yes, they said.
Just take them.
There is – everyone is entitled to everything.
Or no one is entitled to nothing.
Whatever it was is if you're in a record store or CD store and you see a jewel case with a CD in it that you want, then you should be able to take it home and listen to it regardless of whether you pay or not.
It didn't make a whole lot of sense.
Yes, Drew?
It was the most bizarre conversation I'd ever heard.
I remember hating those guys, and I remember as the years wore on and nothing ever happened. Did one guy wear a big hat or something?
They were horrible.
God.
But they were really sanctimonious pricks.
That's what I remember.
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