Welcome to the Adam and Dr. Drew Show Classics. Starting it off for this week, we have

Episode 1216, released January 17, 2020.

Tidled, are you allergic to wisdom? Drew's rekindled love for the love boat leads Adam

to divulge his process for ascertaining a society's values by analyzing popular media and commercials.

What's going on in your world, Drew? Just grunts, man. Just grunts.

Yeah, I think we've tapped into the zeitgeist with the whole love line thing. Love boat thing, though.

My wife and I have started watching on a regular basis. It's on the pop channel.

And then lobe a hole that showed up at the Golden Globes. I think we're on to something here, man.

I think Gavin McCloud would be proud. Well, I don't know why the hell it's having that kind of a weird...

Okay.

It's uncannily disturbing to watch it.

People need to study commercials, as I've always said.

And they need to study very popular TV shows, popular songs of the era, so they can understand the era.

Because the TV commercials represent that moment in time and the popular shows do.

Now, there's always some weird, deep-cut stuff that doesn't represent anything at any time.

But then there shows like the love boat, which really captured basically like a three-year period of this country in a sort of late 70s into the AIDS.

That's what we were. Those were the hairstyles. That was the dress. That was the music.

Those were all the stars. That was the tablet of colors. Those were the stars. This is how they reacted.

These were the rhythms of the jokes. Nobody mistook them for great jokes. Those were the rhythm of the jokes that they did.

The popular. This is basically the golden corral of food. This is the fine cuisine. This is what is popular.

And what I and I, I don't like to talk about myself.

But I've always understood this, had a fascination with it and studied it.

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