I listened to that every night as a teenager. Seemed like I was really learning something, but the amount of opinions and broscience that they threw around was awful in retrospect.
Adam did come up with good handyman tips now and again like:
If you have a door that seems warped and sticks or won’t close all the way, try tightening the screws on the hinges before you start shaving it with a plane.
Not sure what “broscience” you’re referencing, but there structure of the show was very transparent -Drew was an actual doctor, board certified addiction treatment specialist and got his start volunteering in hospitals during the aids crisis. That’s when he was told about loveline and he wanted the opotunity to spread awareness.
Adam was unapologetically an unqualified comic relief. But of course, his role was to represent the unqualified “everyman” with Drew there to moderate and correct back to empirical fact and best practice. But he also listened and learned over the years. With time he did better saying the actual right thing a lot of the time through shear repetition. But that was part of the problem.
Eventually, like the problem with smartphones in general, he started to think that simply because he HAD certain knowledge, that he had actually EARNED it. He got more popular than Drew, I think that ultimately crushed Drew’s spirit because, along with a lot of good, he was a BIG narcissist. Realized he couldn’t get the respect or pay that Adam did after 20 years of schooling, sacrifice and he just checked out and became a turbo grifter.
Adam gradually removed anyone from his life that would criticize or remind him that he wasn’t an expert (literally documented day by day in his radio show and podcasts) and he finally became a monster on an entirely different level. Genuinely think with him the change was so abrupt because of CTE. He played a lot of football in the valley in the 70s/80s where nobody carted about safety, and then he boxed in the same era. He just must have had so many head injuries. I hope they study his broken brain when he dies so there can be a little relief in framing his 180.
I used to listen them on long drives home at night when I was younger too, I honestly cannot remember anything about the show at all other than freaky callers with obviously made-up stories and Adam and Drew would sometimes stop the call to listen to the caller’s chirping smoke detector.
It was a simpler time, we didn’t build whole ideological movements around a couple of goofballs on the radio, most people didn’t take it seriously so the show was bad, but harmless. Like much of the media of the 80’s-90’s.
Somewhere along the line we started outsourcing this kind of entertainment to interactive forums and message boards and from there people started festering and ruminating on this shit because suddenly they had access to thousands of different voices to find someone to validate their feelings, and that just curdled all of society and turned the most innocuous bullshit into weapon’s grade social manipulation. Now everyone hates each other because everyone only looks at absurd exaggerations of reality and then isolates themselves from even proving themselves wrong.
I listened to that every night as a teenager. Seemed like I was really learning something, but the amount of opinions and broscience that they threw around was awful in retrospect.
Adam did come up with good handyman tips now and again like:
If you have a door that seems warped and sticks or won’t close all the way, try tightening the screws on the hinges before you start shaving it with a plane.
Not sure what “broscience” you’re referencing, but there structure of the show was very transparent -Drew was an actual doctor, board certified addiction treatment specialist and got his start volunteering in hospitals during the aids crisis. That’s when he was told about loveline and he wanted the opotunity to spread awareness.
Adam was unapologetically an unqualified comic relief. But of course, his role was to represent the unqualified “everyman” with Drew there to moderate and correct back to empirical fact and best practice. But he also listened and learned over the years. With time he did better saying the actual right thing a lot of the time through shear repetition. But that was part of the problem.
Eventually, like the problem with smartphones in general, he started to think that simply because he HAD certain knowledge, that he had actually EARNED it. He got more popular than Drew, I think that ultimately crushed Drew’s spirit because, along with a lot of good, he was a BIG narcissist. Realized he couldn’t get the respect or pay that Adam did after 20 years of schooling, sacrifice and he just checked out and became a turbo grifter.
Adam gradually removed anyone from his life that would criticize or remind him that he wasn’t an expert (literally documented day by day in his radio show and podcasts) and he finally became a monster on an entirely different level. Genuinely think with him the change was so abrupt because of CTE. He played a lot of football in the valley in the 70s/80s where nobody carted about safety, and then he boxed in the same era. He just must have had so many head injuries. I hope they study his broken brain when he dies so there can be a little relief in framing his 180.
I used to listen them on long drives home at night when I was younger too, I honestly cannot remember anything about the show at all other than freaky callers with obviously made-up stories and Adam and Drew would sometimes stop the call to listen to the caller’s chirping smoke detector.
It was a simpler time, we didn’t build whole ideological movements around a couple of goofballs on the radio, most people didn’t take it seriously so the show was bad, but harmless. Like much of the media of the 80’s-90’s.
Somewhere along the line we started outsourcing this kind of entertainment to interactive forums and message boards and from there people started festering and ruminating on this shit because suddenly they had access to thousands of different voices to find someone to validate their feelings, and that just curdled all of society and turned the most innocuous bullshit into weapon’s grade social manipulation. Now everyone hates each other because everyone only looks at absurd exaggerations of reality and then isolates themselves from even proving themselves wrong.