0:54
Voiceover
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1:08
Adam
Dr. Drew, board certified physician, addiction medicine specialist. Tonight, an interesting show. Dr. Bruce Hensel's here tonight. He's a medical journalist for NBC, and also for many, many, many years. Well, I don't mean that in a bad way, but you know what I'm saying. I know you're from the TV is what I'm trying to say.
1:28
Guest
Strikers already put me up there with the Staples, not Staples Center, but the Staples with Hal Fishman, I think I'm on.
1:34
Adam
Oh yeah.
1:35
Guest
Been around that long.
1:35
Adam
Hell, I toss you in with Dumphy too.
1:38
Guest
His name did come up, by the way.
1:41
Drew
Oh yeah, yeah.
1:41
Adam
He's been dead for a few years now, that's the problem.
1:43
Drew
We went and talked about Staples and then no Staples. Oh, those Lakers.
1:48
Adam
Oh, Staples Center, yeah. Yeah, by the way, well, all right, I was driving in. I saw the big go Lakers thing on the Staples Center thing, which is, look, they lost two hours ago. Someone's got to hop on that sign.
2:01
Drew
They just love it.
2:02
Adam
Let's go, people.
2:03
Drew
It wasn't a cliffhanger either.
2:05
Adam
No, 25 points. Also, Rene is in here now. Rene is the subject of a documentary called The Opposite Sex, Rene's Story. A very interesting story.
2:20
Drew
Drew, tell it. Well, I meant Rene, tell it.
2:23
Adam
All right, Rene, you tell it. By the way, it's on Showtime. It's currently airing on Showtime, and you can go to www.show, I should say, sho.com to find out airing times. Yes.
2:37
Drew
This is a topic that comes up on the show periodically. We've been wanting to dig in.
2:39
Adam
Gender reassignment.
2:40
Drew
Yeah, and so Rene has had this experience, so you're on.
2:45
Guest
Okay, what is it that you're?
2:46
Drew
Your story.
2:49
Guest
Well, since I was three years old, about three, well, actually at three, I told my mother that I was a boy and we kind of argued and I said to her that if I wasn't physically on the outside, that my, that God would make me one. And pretty much in my life have not ever turned back from that statement.
3:12
Adam
So where'd you grow up, by the way?
3:14
Guest
I grew up in Fort Worth, Texas.
3:16
Adam
And you started off, just for the sake of clarity, you started off a female. I mean, when you were three, you had female genitalia.
3:25
Guest
Yeah, I would never say I started off female.
3:27
Adam
I know, but here's the problem. If we get into semantics, it's gonna get confusing for people that are listening. So just for the sake of the people listening at home, a lot of them stoned, quite frankly, and drunk behind the wheel.
3:42
Drew
Makes it that much worse.
3:43
Adam
Which is our key demographic, the drunk driver. We'll just say started off as, currently, and that kind of stuff. It'll get confusing otherwise. So started off a female, told your mom at three, you were not one, you were male, and sorry, continue.
4:01
Guest
Correct. And just by the time I was 11, just started beginning to step into the role of what it was I felt inside, and pretty much I've lived that way my entire life.
4:16
Drew
So at 11, let's say now you're adolescent, are you attracted to males or females?
4:21
Guest
At this particular time, I'm not really attracted to anyone.
4:24
Drew
At the point at which you start getting attracted to other people, males or females?
4:28
Guest
Females.
4:28
Drew
Attracted to females. And do people, do you have a problem with that at that point? Do people start calling you lesbian? Do you start feeling like there's some confusion, or do you still think to yourself, I'm just a male, and people don't, were you dressing as a male at that point? Yes. Did people think you were male?
4:45
Guest
Pretty much for the most part.
4:47
Drew
So when you would go, would you go out with girls in high school?
4:51
Guest
Yes.
4:52
Drew
And they didn't know you had female genitalia?
4:54
Guest
No.
4:55
Adam
Same with me, actually.
4:57
Drew
They didn't know you had female genitalia?
4:58
Adam
Yeah, they had a suspicion.
5:00
Guest
Or you went out with females.
5:01
Guest
There was one episode, actually, when Rene's mom took him over to his girlfriend's house and pulled his shirt up to prove that he was female to her. Biologically female, even though he had a girlfriend and felt like he was a male. His mom exposed him to his girlfriend.
5:19
Adam
Yeah, you should have seen that one coming, by the way. You never, when the mom or dad says, let's head over to the girlfriend's house.
5:27
Drew
How old were you when that happened?
5:28
Adam
Yeah, when did that happen?
5:29
Guest
About 14.
5:30
Drew
Was your mom abusive, generally?
5:32
Guest
No.
5:32
Drew
That's a pretty abusive thing to do. Not pretty abusive, profoundly abusive.
5:37
Adam
Well, maybe she was looking for a little shock therapy or something, thought she was gonna snap him out of it or something like that. I mean, but people, people, their ways are loving, but crude oftentimes, you know? Do you have brothers and sisters?
5:51
Guest
I do, I'm the baby of four. I have one brother and two sisters.
5:54
Adam
How do they do with the whole thing?
5:59
Guest
Okay, I guess. I mean, now, it's been pretty rough road traveling, probably as much for them as me, and I've-
6:08
Adam
And what about your father? Is he around?
6:10
Guest
No.
6:10
Adam
So he's out of the picture.
6:12
Guest
Yeah, he was a loser from the beginning.
6:13
Adam
So your mom is, your mom's a working mother, and you have two siblings. You're the youngest. And now you're in high school, you're dressing as a male, you're passing yourself as a male, but what happens for like gym class and stuff like that?
6:32
Guest
I just hit it well. That's pretty much all I can say.
6:36
Adam
There's nothing, they don't mark anything down on your, you know, card or your file. There's nothing in the file. Do you know what I mean? I mean-
6:43
Drew
You know, well, listen, public high school?
6:45
Guest
Public high school.
6:46
Drew
Public high school.
6:47
Adam
There we go. I went to North Hollywood High, they didn't even care what you were.
6:53
Guest
Well, I got kicked out of a couple of them, you know. Really? I was born and raised in Texas and Texasers, you know.
7:00
Adam
So you would go to gym, you would go to the gym and stuff, you just wouldn't shower. That kind of stuff, right?
7:06
Guest
Yeah, I got by with it. It's not really hard to hide yourself and, you know.
7:12
Drew
And why'd you get kicked out of high schools?
7:15
Guest
Somehow it always got brought up, the situation always got brought up.
7:19
Drew
And that got you kicked out?
7:20
Guest
Got me kicked out, yeah. In the 80s, it wasn't real liberal and...
7:24
Adam
Weird. Now, did you have people that knew you as a female from the past? I mean, like guys you went to grade school with who followed you into high school, who ratted you out?
7:35
Guest
No. No, we probably moved around too much for that. I like, my early years were in Denton and then my later years were in Fort Worth.
7:44
Drew
Why are you moving so much?
7:46
Guest
Just my mom was a mover. Pretty much like a waitressy and that kind of thing.
7:55
Drew
Did you feel yourself to be her caretaker early on? No.
8:00
Guest
No, no, but there was a certain point where she probably, I didn't feel she was my caretaker either.
8:06
Drew
She parentalized you?
8:08
Adam
Yeah. So just pushing the hoop ahead here. So now you're in high school, you're having a little trouble, but you're fooling 95% of the people, right? You're doing a decent job, by the way.
8:22
Guest
Pretty much.
8:22
Adam
And now you meet a woman. Is it you meet your girlfriend soon to be wife or eventually to become wife in high school?
8:33
Guest
No.
8:34
Adam
No, you meet her out after high school.
8:35
Guest
I met her while she was in high school, but I was already out of high school.
8:38
Adam
Smart, that's what I'm gonna do in about 10 years. I forget about 10 years on my wife and then pow, I go back to high school as a woman, Drew. And meet the next Mrs. Corolla. Good job. Yeah, I'm gonna need a note from you, by the way. Oh, we'll get into this off the air. I got all work out, Bruce. Hang out, we need to talk too. This will work from you. All right, so you get out of high school, now you're just taking jobs. What, do you have a profession or are you just floating around?
9:05
Guest
Just kind of at that point floating around, not really knowing what I want to do.
9:09
Adam
Right, and now how old are you when you meet your girlfriend?
9:13
Guest
20.
9:14
Adam
You're 20, she's in high school and you guys have a relationship for 12 years.
9:20
Guest
14.
9:20
Adam
14 years, all right.
9:22
Drew
That brings us up to today? So you have had for 14 years.
9:26
Adam
All right, maybe this is, the bio's a little old or something. So you have a 14 year relationship. She doesn't know you're biologically a woman?
9:36
Guest
Not true, she knew. She knew. She knew that I had breast three days into the relationship. She knew that I was transsexual. I mean, she was the actual first person that I ever said, hey, I was born this way.
9:48
Adam
Right, and she considers herself heterosexual.
9:51
Guest
Correct.
9:52
Drew
How did she deal with the original reveal?
9:55
Guest
How'd that go?
9:58
Guest
Well, originally, how she dealt with it was pretty good. How she dealt with it 12 years later was-
10:03
Guest
Really?
10:04
Guest
What was the shocking. Really?
10:05
Drew
How later it got bad?
10:06
Guest
Yeah, well, it got bad. After the church kicked this out, it got pretty.
10:13
Adam
By the way, that's one of my things in my list. I don't have that list of having my hands registered.
10:18
Drew
You want to kick it out of the church?
10:19
Adam
And then, yeah, and jumping into a body water with a knife in my mouth.
10:22
Drew
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
10:22
Adam
I want to be tossed out of a church.
10:24
Drew
Not from the congregation. Physically church.
10:26
Adam
Physically, like a bar.
10:27
Drew
Yeah, yeah, thrown out by big guys.
10:29
Adam
Thrown out onto the street. Yeah, and then have them do this with their hands as they head back in. Yeah, all right, so you're, okay. So now, let's see, you've been together for a long time. Now you're looking to get the gender reassignment, right? I mean, you're looking to get the surgery.
10:47
Drew
Before you go on this real quick, I just want to say for callers, but we like to kind of stay close to this topic not as much as possible. We'll take the usual Loveline calls too.
10:53
Adam
Really?
10:54
Drew
Yeah, all right. But just, you know, the call in with, if you have questions about these kinds of things, if you've had issues yourself, Rene and Bruce know a lot about this topic and they can answer your questions or if you have questions for them, because I know we've had a million.
11:05
Adam
Yeah.
11:05
Drew
And it was just never ending.
11:06
Adam
Well, we had Dr. Alter on here, which is somebody you guys must have come across at some point.
11:12
Guest
Actually, in the other movie we, Gary Alter is the doctor in the male to female that we did, which is Jamie's story. He was not the doctor for Rene, but he was the doctor for Jamie's story, which is the other movie.
11:27
Adam
Yeah, well, the male to female seems like a much more common procedure than the female to male.
11:33
Guest
Yeah, it's more common for a lot of reasons. First of all, the estrogen that they take at first is much weaker than testosterone. Second of all, the surgeries are very good, so a lot more go through with that surgery.
11:43
Drew
Yeah, another quick aside, Bruce and I had talked about how much we both agree that testosterone is a drug. And that when you take somebody and put the money in for testosterone, it changes them substantially.
11:55
Guest
When we first met Rene, one of the reasons I thought about not having him in the movie when we were first looking for our subject was he already looked so male, we were afraid we wouldn't have a visual arc. But once we heard he and Juana's story, it was a no-brainer because it was so deep, so profound.
12:10
Drew
And Juana's the wife.
12:11
Guest
Right. Juana's the wife.
12:12
Adam
Okay, so yeah, you could never tell Rene started as anything other than a male. But you, so now you're, well, I don't even, did you undergo the surgery?
12:25
Guest
Yes.
12:25
Adam
So you had the reassignment surgery, and that was how long ago?
12:29
Guest
About close to two and a half years ago.
12:31
Adam
And when did you get started on the hormone therapy?
12:35
Guest
When I was 22.
12:36
Adam
All right, and how does that work? Do you just go talk to a doctor? Do you have insurance coverage?
12:42
Do you save up money?
12:42
Adam
Is it expensive?
12:43
Yeah.
12:45
Guest
You mean for which part? For the testosterone?
12:47
Adam
Just getting started, yeah.
12:49
Drew
What other parts are there for testosterone?
12:51
Guest
Well, you know, for some people, before they even can start testosterone or estrogen, whichever is the case, they have to go through years of therapy. That wasn't the case for me. I met with a therapist for about 45 minutes and everything else kind of fell into place from that point.
13:13
Adam
And so then you go talk to a doctor that does this and you begin the therapy, you begin the estrogen therapy, or I'm sorry, testosterone therapy with like a note from the therapist. You have to get a stain stamp, yes, I'm sorry, stain stamp like on something. I need one of those too, by the way, Drew.
13:31
Drew
No possibility.
13:33
Guest
Yeah, you, they, I think that the many different people may want to put themselves into a category of transsexuality. I think that people have different reasons for it. Some people were actually like me, feel they were born in the wrong body and it starts at a very young age, but different people have different reasons for doing it. And so, because of that, some people are required to go through years and years and years of-
14:00
Adam
Right, but I mean, do you have to present something to the doctor who begins this therapy with you?
14:05
Guest
Well, yeah, sure, sure. I mean, the doctor that's going into it has to know that you know what you're doing.
14:12
Drew
It's just a communication from the therapist?
14:14
Guest
You know, it's a white-
14:15
Adam
Yeah, I'm talking about like a protocol here, an official protocol, not an emotional, not a state of mind.
14:21
Guest
The Harry Benjamin standards?
14:22
Guest
Yeah, you know, they're the Harry Benjamin standards for gender reassignment, but it's not a-
14:27
Adam
What is that?
14:27
Guest
Who is that?
14:28
Guest
Harry Benjamin is an association, was one of the therapists who treated Christine Jorgensen, who was the first transsexual to actually have surgery in 1954, who believe it or not had more print written about it than any UNV up till that point. But that's not a strict protocol. What you get is, I mean, let's talk about reality here. What you get, some people get to hormone specialists, endocrinologists, without ever going through therapy and the hormone therapists give them the hormones. Just like people can get other drugs. Some people go to a therapist, then get to the hormone therapist. But almost all of them need to go through what's called an RLT, real life transition, where they take the hormone for a certain period of time and dresses the opposite sex before the surgeon will consider them for the surgery.
15:10
Adam
So the big step is the surgery part, not the hormone part.
15:13
Guest
Well, some people think, you know, we do a panel after the movies to talk to other people because there are different paths from Rene. Some people stop short of the surgery. The surgery is not the answer for everything.
15:23
Drew
A lot of the males do, right?
15:24
Guest
A lot of the female to males do. They get such a physical change with the testosterone and the surgeries are so lousy in some cases that some people stop. And you know, there's something that came up before that I want to bring up to you and to the audience. Who you're attracted to and who you feel like inside. Gender and sex are two completely different things. I've met people who wanted to be women who were biologically male who were attracted to women, the same who were attracted to men. I've met women who were attracted to men but wanted to be biologically male. I met one man who wanted to be, I met a woman who wanted to become a man. It's hard to keep the pronoun straight sometimes.
15:59
Adam
I'm not sure if I should get a boner or not. I'm all over the map.
16:02
Guest
Well, that's a little worrisome overall.
16:04
Adam
Yeah, well, thankfully my reaction time isn't what it used to be. So we're cool as long as you keep moving fast.
16:09
Guest
This woman wanted to be a man, but wanted to be a gay man, so didn't want the surgery. So she was a woman biologically, but stayed a woman biologically to live with a man. So gender and sex. With a gay man.
16:21
Drew
When the patients I've treated, I've treated a lot of them, male to female transitions, about 80% of them did so to have lesbian relationships with females.
16:30
Guest
Absolutely. And in the male to female, the numbers are very different. They're almost reversed. But it's not a catch-all. It's very different for everybody. But what I learned in the course of making this movie over two years is that sex and gender are two different things. Who you feel like and who you're attracted to are not always something that's in concert.
16:50
Guest
Well, that's because we don't what people don't understand about transsexualities. I didn't change my body so that I could go out with a woman. If I was a lesbian, I would be like, hey, I'm a lesbian. I don't give a **** what you think. Right. But that's not the case. I was a man born inside of a woman's body, and that caused me problems. And I didn't change over into this body so that I could go out with women. I changed over into this body so that my outside and inside come together.
17:18
Adam
Well, let me ask you this. Your wife, who is not a lesbian, at least that wasn't her sexual proclivity, hadn't. Been with women before you and presumably had been with men before you. And now you guys engage in what would be, I guess, considered lesbian intercourse, right? I mean, before the surgery.
17:53
Guest
No.
17:54
Adam
No.
17:54
Guest
No.
17:56
Guest
Why would you consider lesbian intercourse? But some people might consider it that.
18:00
Drew
Well, I mean, the same action that a lesbian would go through, the same physical action.
18:04
Guest
But no, I mean, she never physically touched me.
18:09
Adam
No oral sex?
18:10
Guest
No.
18:10
Adam
It's a deal breaker.
18:11
Guest
Nobody did.
18:12
Adam
That's a deal breaker.
18:13
Guest
You also said that nobody had ever seen you naked.
18:15
Guest
Nobody had ever seen me naked, including my wife, until after the surgery. So I'm a very, like, rare case.
18:23
Adam
Well, what's going on with her? I mean, this seems like, I mean, you know, I'm sure she's in love with you, but at a certain point, you want to see your partner naked, don't you?
18:34
Drew
Yeah, but only she gets to oral sex. This is something you need to rig up in your life.
18:38
Adam
Oh, I see. All right. I'm slowly getting back on board with this.
18:43
Guest
As a man, you don't understand what a woman goes through sexually, just like as a woman. She doesn't understand what a man goes through.
18:52
Adam
I know there's a difference, but this is pretty far off the charts. You know what I mean? I mean, there's fluctuation and there's variability and everything, but this not seeing your partner in the nude for 14 years or 12 years before the surgery or whatever it is, is way, way off the charts.
19:11
Guest
Well, yeah. I mean, I can understand where you're coming from, but being in the relationship, I don't know that I agree with where you're coming from. I just can understand what you're saying.
19:21
Guest
Well, when we first met Rene and Juana, originally I was thinking we can't use Rene because he looks too male already. But when we heard their story, basically for Juana, this was a confusing, awakening time for her. She felt that up until the time that their church discovers that Rene is going to go ahead and have the surgery, she's able to live with it. Once the church finds out, throws them out, they start having trouble. Rene starts having issues, which Juana starts having issues, which Rene has one view of, which Juana has another view of. She starts feeling like she's not so sure. This is where she wants to be. Rene starts feeling like she's abandoning him, and that's part of what happens in front of the camera. It's an issue for both of them. For her, she's very young when she met Rene. She meets Rene. She lives with him. She's very much in love with him. And then when he has the surgery, things change. When he decides he's going to have the surgery, everything changes.
20:14
Adam
Who dropped the dime on you at church?
20:18
Guest
Actually, I dropped the dime on myself. Oh, really? It came out. Well, my wife's brother and his wife were kind of troublemakers and went to some people in the church that they knew were going to gossip and told them that I was really a woman. And from that point, it just kind of snowballed and I had somebody come to me. And when they come to me, I said, well, yeah, this is true. And let me explain to you. And so at this point, I went to the pastor of the church, which was a really close, I thought, friend of mine and say, here's what's going on and here's what's happening. And so he feeds me a load of crock when it's just me and him. So he was literally afraid I was going to be.
21:08
Adam
We can't say the S word. I know it seems like he should be able to on this show, but it'd be very, it'd be very bizarre. I'm just picturing Rene beating the ass out of me. Unacceptable. Being very confused. It's really, you know, it takes a while. It's like some sort of altitude you have to adjust to with the he or she or he started as and went back or female to male, male to male.
21:39
Drew
I want to pull a chalkboard always. I think this goes the other way.
21:43
Adam
I need some form of a graph. So you, so let's get to the surgery part. You had the surgery and it worked. I mean, it came out. You're satisfied with the product?
21:59
Guest
I don't know that I'm 100% satisfied, but I'm a whole lot better than where I was. I'm whole.
22:03
Drew
They make it on your forearm?
22:05
Guest
Oh no, no, no, no.
22:06
Guest
You know, there are two types of surgery. There's one called a phalloplasty where you take tissue from elsewhere. The problem with that is although it's large, it doesn't have sensation. Another one is where you build it up from inside. It's called a metoideplasty. Rene had a variation of that was an experimental procedure. The problem with the metoideplasty is you don't get very much tissue. With the phalloplasty, you don't get much sensation. The surgeries are weak and Rene got an experimental one, which is a little bit, you know, Rene not only wanted to be a spokesperson for transgenders, he obviously can express himself very well and is charismatic, but he was willing to be a guinea pig who really underwent an experimental procedure because he feels he wants to help others to reach out to people who don't know about it.
22:48
Adam
Well, so it wasn't a total success or there wasn't the satisfaction levels, not what it could be.
22:54
Guest
I think Rene.
22:55
Guest
Well, size-wise, satisfaction level is not what it could be. I mean, I'm like any other man, you know. Well, right now, probably about a little under three inches. But, you know, I'm whole, so I'm not complaining.
23:08
Adam
Do you get to have erections?
23:10
Guest
Yeah. Yeah.
23:12
Guest
You can say the U word then, huh?
23:14
Adam
Yeah, we can say everything but the S word and the F word. All right, so you get the erection. Does the penis function? Does things come out of it?
23:24
Guest
Yes.
23:25
Adam
Yeah.
23:26
Guest
Really?
23:26
Adam
Well, Drew's gonna need to see that demonstrated during the commercial break.
23:34
Guest
That was one of the moments in the movie that was really a fulcrum because as Rene said, nobody had ever seen him naked when the doctor has to examine him because he looks so male. That was a very difficult time. At that point, Rene, we stopped the cameras and Rene said, do I have to do this? And I said, well, if we have to see the change, Rene was so willing to go someplace that he had never been before because nobody else had ever seen him naked. That was a big turning point in the movie and I think wanted, didn't want him to do it.
24:03
Adam
Well, let's, oh yeah, and then we got to talk about your wife and then you actually getting a junk reassignment at halfway or 12, 14 years into a relationship. It's an onion that just has many, many, many layers to it. Dr. Bruce Hensel is here tonight and along with Rene. The Opposite Sex, Rene's story is on Showtime Documentary. Go to www.sho.com, find out times for airing. We'll get back into this subject, which Drew and I think find infinitely fascinating, even if all Drew does is non-grunt. Yes, Drew?
24:46
Drew
Even that.
24:47
Adam
It would have been better if you just went, hmm.
24:48
Drew
I was thinking about that, but.
24:52
Adam
All right, well, we'll never get that back. All right, we'll take a quick break. We'll be right back.
24:56
Guest
Hello, this is your radio.
25:20
Adam
There, buddy, it's Loveline and Adam, that's Dr. Drew, David Alan Greer, or Dag, or possibly my main man, as we also know him. Coming in tomorrow night to lend his considerable hand to the radio show. That's great. Twinkie hole, baby, woo! Dag comes in once a year. I slide the chair back. I get in about four syllables an hour and let him carry the show, and then I get angry at Drew when we're done, because I realize that's what Drew does every night. Just non-breathe, buddy. But I feel like I haven't even done a radio show. Drew, when you're driving home, do you ever think, where was I? What was I doing? I must have some kind of nighttime gig. I wonder if I manage like a KFC or something. I'm gonna smell my cuticles. Maybe I'm in fast food. Oh, we get paid the same, too. Dr. Bruce Hensel here, everybody, from NBC all those years. One himself, a Emmy, yeah. He's a medical journalist. Also, he makes himself documentaries and the subject of his latest is a fella.
26:30
Guest
Yeah, I got that, yeah, right.
26:32
Adam
By the name of Rene, trying to, I'm scared to say and assign anyone a gender. Everyone, we're just us and we're all androgynous because I think I'm gonna screw it up. Rene is here. Rene was born with female genitalia, lived his life until what age, Rene?
26:56
Drew
With, before the gender reassignment surgery?
26:59
Adam
Yeah, what age?
27:00
Drew
What age was the surgery?
27:01
Adam
31. So 31 and then had the gender reassignment surgery. All right, and so the surgery was an experimental variety. Overall, you give it a five. I mean, it's not exact science, right?
27:26
Guest
Depends what your expectations are.
27:28
Drew
Is there more to go?
27:29
Guest
Well, Rene has had a couple of touch-ups already, right? And still more to go, right?
27:34
Drew
Something comes out during orgasm.
27:37
Guest
Mm-hmm.
27:37
Adam
Wow. That's going to be my new, you know, when they go, they can put a man on the moon, but I can't make a toaster. This is my new man on the moon.
27:48
Guest
It's not going to be semen and sperm. Because you're not going to make that unless you've got the apparatus to make that, right? And Rene's surgery, of course, required a hysterectomy. A hysterectomy as well, although he had been on testosterone for so long that his internal organs has pretty much shrunk.
28:05
Adam
What about, what? First off, you know, the charge, chicks get a break on like car insurance. There's a handful of reasons why you wouldn't mind going down as a lady. You get to live longer, you get an insurance break. What do you got? Like your car insurance, paying the male rate or the female rate?
28:24
Guest
I'm a male.
28:25
Adam
So you're paying the male rate?
28:27
Guest
Just, if that's what you pay, that's what I pay.
28:29
Guest
I'm not sure what I pay.
28:30
Drew
The female rate.
28:31
Adam
I may even pay like the a-hole. Are you angry, Rene? No?
28:36
Guest
For what?
28:37
Guest
I don't know.
28:38
Adam
You seem like you're PO'd or something.
28:40
Guest
You're cool?
28:40
Guest
No, yeah. I'm just trying to figure out where to come from.
28:44
Adam
Well, I'm just saying like the whole, you always considered yourself a male, but I don't know what the government, for instance, would do. Like if you wanted to join the army, I don't know that they would just let you join the army. I don't think they would.
29:00
Guest
Well, there's a lot of ignorance. I don't mean that.
29:05
Guest
Just the facts.
29:06
Adam
Right. They wouldn't let you do that.
29:09
Drew
What is this country doing?
29:10
Guest
In the facts, there's a lot of ignorance.
29:13
Drew
But what would the fact be? Would they allow you to join or not because you're female? That's just the question we're asking.
29:18
Adam
Right.
29:19
Guest
Probably not. They don't tolerate you being gay, so why would they tolerate you being a transsexual?
29:23
Drew
Well, they let you join the arm for gay.
29:26
Adam
Well, I think...
29:27
Drew
They let you join if you're female.
29:29
Adam
They got the don't ask, don't tell thing. I was trying to get your break on your car insurance. Get off your knees! All right. Okay, so the gender reassignment went okay. Something comes out, but it's not semen. What is it?
29:44
Guest
Well, it's natural fluid, bodily fluid.
29:46
Drew
From like, Bartholomew's glands or something?
29:48
Guest
Internally. I mean, women, you know, some women have orgasms with fluid. So it's just not that simple. You know, we're all born female. We are technically inside of our mother's female until we're three months of age inside the womb. And we all have, I don't know which words I can use here, but we all have female genitalia. Then if testosterone shows up in the bloodstream, that changes to male genitalia. If you don't have testosterone inside your mother, that never happens. So you can be X, Y and born with female genitalia. And then you don't find out until you're 13, you don't menstruate, they do a chromosome test, you find out you're X, Y, that's called a pseudo hermaphrodite. So it is, it's just chemical.
30:28
Drew
Isn't that testicular feminization?
30:29
Guest
No, that's a pseudo hermaphrodite. Testicular feminization is when you start out as a male, but you actually have the feminization. Right.
30:37
Adam
So that's when your wife confiscates your nutsack, didn't that happen to you?
30:41
Drew
That's, that's, yes.
30:43
Adam
I have it about 12 years ago. When did you get married?
30:47
Drew
91.
30:48
Adam
Honeymoon, 91.
30:49
Drew
Testicular feminization.
30:50
Guest
My point is that the apparatus starts out the same, so medically it's not as major as you think it is. To go from male to female, it's actually what they do is they invert the organs and they create the female out of it for female to male.
31:05
Adam
What about long-term medical effects, for lack of a better term, but I mean, the, do people know how this affects you down the road?
31:19
Guest
Well, we haven't had long-term studies, but we do know, for instance, there was another movie on called Southern Comfort where the arrogance of the doctors really failed the patient where even though it was a female to male transition, they did not take out the ovaries and the person ended up dying of ovarian cancer. But if you take testosterone-
31:37
Adam
Hold on, that was called Southern Comfort?
31:39
Guest
Yeah, the reason, I know it doesn't sound very comfortable.
31:41
Adam
No, but there was a movie where the Army Reserve guys were hiking through the bayou with Keith Carradine in it called Southern Comfort.
31:51
Guest
Yeah, well, Southern Comfort is also the name of a gender reassignment conference that occurs in the South. So that's where it got its name from.
31:59
Adam
Oh, really?
31:59
Guest
But that was the arrogance of the doctors. You know, any question about long-term effects? We don't know. We haven't studied them really well. But it's basically the long-term effects of Rene is on testosterone will be for life. So basically, he's more likely to have the longevity and the effects that a man would have and he considers himself a man and he's on testosterone.
32:18
Drew
Except we don't know the effect of XX cellular function under the chronic influence of testosterone.
32:23
Guest
We don't know that. We need better studies on that long-term.
32:26
Adam
All right. I volunteer Drew. Lisa?
32:30
Drew
Yes.
32:31
Adam
You're 42? I am.
32:33
Drew
Stesticular Feminization.
32:34
Adam
Oh, that's right. You're 42? Yes. Your ex-husband was transgendered?
32:41
Caller
He was in the process, yeah.
32:44
Adam
Okay, so he was becoming a female?
32:47
Caller
Yes.
32:48
Adam
And after you got married?
32:52
Caller
After our divorce.
32:53
Adam
Oh, after your divorce. Is this the reason you got divorced?
32:56
Caller
Excuse me?
32:57
Adam
Is this the reason you got divorced?
32:59
Guest
Oh, all right.
33:03
Adam
Couldn't get his clothes into the hamper? Was it a bigger issue?
33:06
Caller
He was a little bit of a cross-dresser during our marriage, but that wasn't any issue with us.
33:11
Drew
What happened with your marriage?
33:13
Caller
Cheating on me.
33:14
Drew
Cheating with?
33:15
Caller
Alcoholism.
33:16
Drew
He was alcohol?
33:17
Caller
Cheating with women.
33:18
Drew
Cheating with women? Yeah. And he's attracted to women, got reassigned as a woman, and is he carrying on with women still?
33:28
Caller
He actually committed suicide a couple months ago.
33:31
Drew
Fantastic.
33:31
Guest
Which is not unusual in the transgender population. There are a lot of suicides.
33:36
Caller
That's what I understand.
33:37
Drew
Particularly in the male to female.
33:40
Guest
I don't know that it's really particularly in the male to female. The numbers in that are so hard to judge because so many female to males never come out. You never hear about them because they don't go through with the surgery. So it's hard to really study that.
33:51
Guest
It's also easier to blend.
33:55
Adam
Female to male is easier to blend.
33:56
Guest
Yeah, because the testosterone is so strong.
33:59
Adam
Right. And the other guys with the Adam's apple and the crazy.
34:03
Guest
Well, you can shave the Adam's apple off now.
34:06
Adam
I know, but some of them don't. The physicality, too. It seems like they're, I think you would just say, Rene, you'd say, well, I don't know how tall you are, but there's a guy who's not a big guy. But when you have the big female, it really draws your attention to it. I think it just works better.
34:29
Drew
Liz, do you have any questions?
34:31
Caller
Yeah, my question, of course, it's a moot point in our case anymore. He and I were still best friends, and we have a 14-year-old son. And so the relationship was really tight. But one of the things that he had said that I was always curious about, and yes, I still call him he, although I know her as well, was that the male to female, at least, he was concerned that there wouldn't be the actual orgasms, that there would be not the sexual gratification, and he had said that he would rather be a chick with a dick than not have orgasms anymore. And I'm curious what that kind of success rate is. It's something I've always wondered about.
35:10
Guest
Well, from the male to females, it's hard to say again, because one of the problems with this is that it's so poorly studied. But of the male to females that I've spoken to, as well as Jamie, the subject of the other movie, many of them do report being able to have orgasm. But, you know, Drew may be able to answer this as well. I mean, it's hard to say, what is an orgasm? I mean, is it in a man, it's recognizable, it's visible, in a woman, it's not always visible.
35:37
Drew
So what she's saying is he, as a male, wasn't willing to sacrifice his experience as a male to make the transition.
35:43
Adam
And the chance that he wouldn't have one.
35:45
Drew
Right.
35:45
Adam
And the question is, maybe Lisa, did you not have orgasms? Yeah.
35:51
Caller
Oh, yeah.
35:52
Adam
You had them.
35:55
Drew
How dare you, Adam? Just checking.
35:57
Caller
Well, since I met him.
36:00
Adam
How's that kid one, by the way?
36:02
Caller
He's doing okay. It was interesting to hear what you were saying about male to female and how it's not as with the Adam's apple and everything. And he'd only seen a picture of his father as Aaron. And as a girl or as a boy? Looks like dad in a dress.
36:17
Adam
Wait a minute. He had a name that works either way. Oh, it looks like, yeah.
36:21
Drew
He'd only seen a picture of dad as a woman.
36:23
Caller
Yeah, and said he looked like dad in a dress and yeah. But he was a little guy, so he could have pulled it off. He lived his...
36:31
Adam
Well, to me, it would be like one of those six foot and under basketball leagues. Like if you were six, five and you came in for gender reassignment, I'd toss you out. This is never going to work. I don't need this going down in my record, by the way, is a failure. You come in as a petite, like, you know, my buddy, the Wheeze?
36:48
Drew
Wheeze be a good woman.
36:50
Adam
Oh, he does.
36:50
Drew
Oh, Adam. What are you saying?
36:53
Adam
You share food time with a man for a year in a one bedroom apartment. Things happen.
36:57
Drew
I said a woman, not a bitch.
36:58
Adam
That's all. I'm a passionate man. That's all. All right. We got to take. We got to take a break. Oh, that's a fair amount of transgender stuff going on tonight. Dr. Bruce Hensel is here tonight along with Rene. The Opposite Sex, Rene's story is the name of the documentary. Is it an hour long? How long is it?
37:22
Guest
It's an hour and 15 minutes long, followed by a 20 minute panel with other transgenders.
37:28
Adam
I don't know that there's ever been a, I'm not sure there's ever been a movie, really, like a theatrical release. Not a documentary, but anyone really made a serious attempt at one of these movies? I mean.
37:39
Guest
Yeah, Boys Don't Cry is the Tina Brandon story. Oh, it is. Which is transgendered and she was murdered, of course. Actually Rene's hero, I believe. Am I right?
37:49
Guest
Nobody's my hero except for Jesus.
37:53
Guest
That's another side of it.
37:54
Adam
Don't try to put words in Rene's mouth.
37:56
Guest
But yeah, so it has been a theatrical release, but nobody has ever followed it from start or at least beginning somewhere in the middle to finish before through the person's eyes, which is what the opposite sex does.
38:06
Adam
Is this a tape, by the way?
38:08
Guest
Yes, it is.
38:09
Adam
Oh, well, watch this when I get home.
38:11
Guest
All right, we'll take a quick break.
38:13
Adam
We'll be right back. I have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. It's Adam.
38:23
Drew
And I'm Dr. Drew.
38:24
Adam
Here to talk about Axe Deodorant Body Spray.
38:27
Drew
Yes, sir.
38:28
Adam
You spray that on, you give stink the Axe. Hey, everybody.
38:42
Guest
It's Loveline.
38:43
Adam
I'm Adam, that's Dr. Drew, Dr. Bruce Hensel here tonight, along with Rene. Rene, subject of a documentary, Dr. Bruce Hensel produced, called The Opposite Sex, Rene Story. It's on Showtime. We go www.sho.com, and you find out all the listings. Let's talk to Eric down here on line four, who saw the documentary. Eric?
39:07
Guest
Eric?
39:08
Yeah.
39:08
Adam
You're 18? Yes. What's up? You saw the documentary?
39:12
Caller
Yeah.
39:12
Adam
Did you enjoy it?
39:13
Caller
Oh, it touched me very much, how a man like that can just keep God in his life, dealt a very, not good hand, but he can still keep God in his life and religion, and still love the world.
39:29
Adam
Did you have a question?
39:31
Caller
Yeah, I just had a question of how you felt after the surgery. I know you walked around showing yourself and you were proud of it, but you really feel good now, or do you just feel so-so, like you don't feel complete?
39:46
Guest
I know, I completely feel complete. It's just a totally different world. All the problems that I had prior to that movie are gone. I have new problems with dealing with penis size and things other men deal with normally every day, which really was never a problem before because I didn't have to directly deal with those things, whereas I have to directly deal with those things now, but hey, those are good things to deal with.
40:15
Drew
What were the problems before the operation that have gone away?
40:18
Guest
Just being whole, not dealing with a dildo and not a penis and those kinds of things.
40:24
Drew
I mean, you don't have to just say, now dealing with things that other men deal with every day.
40:29
Adam
I'm dealing with the dildo every night, every night, every night, except for the dildo gets paid the same as I do.
40:35
Guest
Exactly the same.
40:38
Adam
All right, so you would have an intercourse with your wife via some sort of strap-on apparatus or something in the past.
40:48
Guest
Correct.
40:48
Adam
And now you can have intercourse?
40:52
Guest
Not quite intercourse yet. Can do everything else but except for.
40:57
Adam
Ooh, is it getting close? It's been a couple of years since the surgery, did you say?
41:02
Guest
It's been two years, yeah.
41:03
Adam
Is that the goal, is intercourse a reasonable goal?
41:08
Guest
That's a goal for me. For me, it definitely is. To actually feel what you've felt your entire life, what you've taken for granted your entire life. I wanna feel.
41:19
Adam
Drew doesn't take it for granted, by the way. He's a passionate man.
41:22
Drew
No, very much appreciated.
41:24
Adam
Every day. Every day, yeah. Drops to his knees. When his wife drops to his knees, he appreciates it.
41:32
Guest
Ray, one of your major goals was feeling whole, right?
41:36
Guest
That's the only goal, is to feel body and soul.
41:39
Guest
For you to have your outsides and insides.
41:41
Guest
For me, yeah, for me. I can't speak for the entire transsexual community. I can just only speak for myself.
41:47
Adam
Speaking of transsexual community, Cindy. You're 19?
41:53
Caller
Yes, I am. My question is, my friend has sex with transsexuals and both women and he says he doesn't like men at all and he doesn't consider these transsexuals yet. They have penises.
42:11
Guest
Are they transsexuals or transvestites?
42:14
Adam
They're transvestites. That's a guy who just dresses as a woman, let's just say. Shut up. Then there, people, the reason I'm doing this, I'm putting it on hold because people get very confused about this. They call the wrong people transvestites and transsexual and it kind of comes interchangeable and all that kind of stuff. So stop me if I'm wrong. And we'll just do one gender here. So a guy who dresses like a woman that is transvestite. A guy who dresses a woman and takes the hormones can be a pre-op transsexual. That's what they would call them, a pre-op transsexual. And then after the operation, you're just a transsexual, right? Or you just are what you become.
43:04
Guest
You know, I think transsexual just refers to somebody who is one sex and wants to be the other. It's that simple. Somebody who just dresses. There are many men who get off as dressing as a woman, and that's a sexual turn on for them, but they have no desire to be a woman. Those are transvestites. You want to change sexes, whatever transition point you're at, you're a transsexual.
43:27
Adam
Fair enough. Cindy. All right. So now we're back, and your friend who's a male?
43:37
Drew
Is with men who present as women.
43:43
Guest
And women who present as men.
43:45
Adam
I know, but listen, goofball, can you make us more confused? You're calling about the fact that he has relations with...
43:52
Drew
People with penises.
43:53
Adam
People with penises.
43:54
Drew
Is that right? Exclusively.
43:57
Adam
No, he does both.
43:59
Drew
Well, I wanted both.
44:01
Adam
The ladies and the...
44:02
Drew
I thought you meant maybe both was female to male, transsexuals.
44:09
Adam
Right. Is one of them you?
44:14
Caller
No, no.
44:15
Adam
Do you like the guy?
44:18
Drew
No, I mean like-like.
44:19
Adam
Yeah, what are you so invested in the guy for?
44:23
Caller
Well, we've been friends ever since we were 14.
44:26
Adam
Okay, and you're not attracted to him?
44:28
Caller
No, no.
44:30
Adam
All right.
44:31
Caller
I kind of knew him as, I mean, I feel like he's denying his sexuality.
44:38
Adam
Well...
44:38
Drew
He doesn't seem to be.
44:40
Adam
It seems like he'll take on all commerce. Yeah, he's saying he's heterosexual. He may be confused. Well, he has gay sex with these people. And yet he passes himself off as heterosexual.
44:57
Drew
Was he sexually abused growing up? And maybe sexually too? Well, the kids that are physically abused are then good targets for sexual abuse. So I think you pretty much bank on that.
45:16
Adam
Either way, the guy's compass is spinning around like he's in the Devil's Triangle. Here's the thing, Cindy, I don't think it's your job to really explain to him what his sexual proclivity is or put a label on him. If you want to be friends with him, just be friends with him. And I would probably try to stay out of that whole side of his life because it's going to get ugly.
45:37
Drew
And if he's confused, get him some therapy so we can clarify things. All right?
45:42
Guest
Remember, this is about sexuality, not about gender. It's not necessarily what he feels like it's what he's attracted to.
45:47
Drew
Right, right, that's sexuality stuff. And that's what's spinning around for him.
45:50
Guest
Well, and he may be bisexual. Maybe he don't have the problem with who he is. She has a problem with who he is.
45:55
Guest
Yeah, maybe it just turns him on. I mean, whether that's right, wrong or ill or healthy, the point is it turns him on. That's not about gender.
46:04
Adam
I think it's the denial part was the part that she was focusing on. But anyway, all right. I'm tossing our guests out of the studio, and we're going to do a second hour as a regular Loveline type hour. I want to thank Dr. Bruce Hensel for coming in here and Rene and tell everyone to go watch The Opposite Sex, Rene's story, on Showtime, and it just airs at different times, so you can find it by going to www.sho.com and watching this documentary. Thanks, guys.
46:39
Guest
Thank you. It was a pleasure.
46:40
Guest
Thank you.
46:41
Adam
We'll be right back after this.
46:43
Guest
Here it is.
46:44
Guest
Bottom line, it sucks being single today.
46:46
Caller
Tons of lame people and no decent prospects.
46:49
Guest
Call the Dateline.
46:51
Guest
1-877-889-DATE.
46:57
Caller
Love Line will be right back.
46:58
Guest
So get your problems ready.
47:23
Adam
Phone number 1-800-L-V-E-1-9-1, David Allen Grier, in here tomorrow night for a vastly different show.
47:28
Guest
Who?
47:30
Adam
Dr. Bruce Hensel and his subject, Rene, have left the building. We're gonna keep him for longer. I just had an asshole agenda reassignment. And I'm ready to move on.
47:44
Guest
Yeah, it's too weird, it's too weird in here.
47:46
Adam
I couldn't take it anymore. Okay. Devon?
47:50
Drew
Yes?
47:51
I have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
47:54
Drew
You do.
47:54
Adam
What?
47:54
Drew
He's being challenged.
47:55
Adam
He's a great guy.
47:58
Drew
We're talking to Devon. What's up, dude?
47:59
Adam
And by the way- Cruel guy. God, if he's gonna mix people up that way. If you're talking about the ultimate practical joke is having a male born inside a female's body or vice versa. I mean, as the maker, you know what I mean? That's way bigger than putting the cellophane over the toilet.
48:26
Drew
Actually, if I wish that, now all of a sudden I wish my neighbor back is. I think I'm interesting his preoccupation with the penis. Like the penis was gonna make everything okay.
48:34
Adam
Yeah, believe me, it doesn't. No, Devon.
48:37
Yeah.
48:38
Adam
Sorry, baby doll. Go ahead. You're 21.
48:41
Caller
Yes, I'm 21.
48:43
I'm from Kansas City and I just had a question about last night's show. Nicole Richie was talking about how she could sit on cold floors and have orgasms and have multiple orgasms and with intercourse, I can have orgasms easily with other things like oral sex or with a mic.
49:11
Adam
That's the sound I make when I give oral.
49:13
Guest
Having them easy is different than having multiple orgasms, slightly different issue.
49:18
Drew
But what's the question? What is the question?
49:21
Oh, I already asked the question. I just wanted to know.
49:26
Adam
All right, Drew, let's get some more transgendered callers on here. What was her thing?
49:34
Drew
I didn't get the question.
49:37
Adam
Nicole Richie had an orgasm and I didn't.
49:39
Drew
No, she said she can. She says I can have them very easily.
49:42
Adam
Yeah, but she gets to do it just sitting on the floor putting her mascara on and I got to get some oral.
49:47
Drew
Yeah.
49:49
Adam
Do you think she had a question?
49:50
Drew
I don't know.
49:51
Adam
She's got to be cute. Devin?
49:53
I have a question.
49:54
Adam
All right, spit it out. Are you good looking?
49:57
Yes, very good looking. Yes.
49:59
Adam
Very good looking, yes? Yes. That's sexy. I know because I can, you're a pain in the ass.
50:05
Okay, well I just wanted to ask you, is there any way that you could have orgasm with intercourse if you haven't had one before?
50:17
Drew
Some people can, but most women can't.
50:19
Adam
Yeah.
50:20
Drew
And a woman that has it typically only with oral sex has great difficulty having with intercourse and many, if not most, never have it with intercourse. You don't cross over it.
50:30
Adam
But if you're sort of, if the orgasms come easily, you have a better chance of doing it.
50:38
Drew
But no, that is very different than what Nicole Richie was describing, which is someone who the moment intercourse begins starts having orgasms and continues to have them over and over and over again throughout intercourse, not one, not two or three, 40 or 50. Right. And then, but that person, the Nicole version, Nicole Richie version doesn't like oral sex. It's sort of like, eh, whatever.
51:03
Adam
Imagine, what a package. Doesn't like the oral, so you dodge that bullet and then just makes you feel like King Kong every time you unzip your fly. And that's great. All right, Devin, you're fine and you can, you know, you can try a little self-stimulation during the intercourse, but it usually becomes a little overwhelming for the ladies.
51:26
Drew
Yes.
51:27
Guest
Yeah.
51:28
Drew
No kidding, Adam.
51:29
Adam
Guys don't really have a version of that, by the way, like licking, rubbing your nipple while you're on top of a chick or like, I'm going to caress my sack while I'm on you. Give us a little bunghole pleasure while I'm on the woman, like, do we need anything extra?
51:45
Guest
That's the point.
51:45
Adam
And by the way, slap in the face to a woman if we did that, the equivalent to what they do when we're on them.
51:52
Drew
I need a little direct stimulation.
51:54
Adam
Yeah. Yeah. This is good. I give it a seven. I'm just going to push myself up into the nines and tens here. Let me just lick my finger, rub those small circles around my nipple. That would freak me out. You're freaking me out. Yeah. A little, a little sac stroke, you know, just like I'm thinking. Yeah. You know, like a professor scratches his chin. Yeah.
52:19
Drew
The Chinaman's beard.
52:20
Adam
Yeah. All right.
52:21
Drew
Oh my God.
52:23
Adam
Let's see.
52:26
Drew
Five.
52:27
Adam
Five. Oh, okay. Let's talk to Brianna. Brianna.
52:31
Caller
Hi, Brianna.
52:33
Adam
You're 17. What's up? Do a lot of people call you, do a lot of people call you Brianna?
52:40
Drew
Or Brianne?
52:41
Caller
No, maybe a lot of Briannas.
52:43
Adam
So but you're not Brianna, you're Brianna, right?
52:47
Yeah.
52:48
Drew
Do you correct people when they say Brianna?
52:51
What?
52:51
Drew
Do you correct people when they say Brianna? No. Okay. See, Adam likes you. He almost hung up on you, by the way.
52:59
Adam
My finger was right on the dump button. That's good. You don't correct people. No. All right, Brianna. What's going on? Let's get a hand in. Break it down now. Let's go. Let's get it going now, Drew. Hey, gentlemen. Now, use that term loosely. Helmet, not a chair. Let's go, Brianna.
53:18
Before my boyfriend officially started going out, like, I gave him a head a lot.
53:22
Guest
And I really like giving him a head, and it turns me on.
53:25
Caller
But now, like, he sort of begs for it and asks for it, like, every day.
53:29
Adam
Sure. How old is he?
53:31
He's 19.
53:33
Drew
And now that he likes it, you don't like giving it anymore?
53:35
I like it. It's just that I wish he didn't ask for it so much.
53:37
Guest
And I tell him, stop asking him. I told him to do things so I can't, you know, come on.
53:43
Drew
Yeah, but hang on. But think, before he started asking for it, how often did you like to do it?
53:48
Guest
Well, I met him two months before we officially started going out, and I get to him, I think, about 50 times.
53:55
Drew
Wow. So, every day?
53:57
Guest
Kind of, yeah.
53:58
Guest
Every time.
53:58
Drew
It was 10 days off, yeah, Sunday's off.
54:01
Guest
50 times. Okay, now, but here's the irony.
54:04
Adam
Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. You met him two months before you started going out.
54:10
Guest
Well, we were kind of dating, but it wasn't like an official thing. He was kind of getting over his ex-girlfriend.
54:14
Drew
They were seeing each other, but they weren't girlfriend boyfriend.
54:17
Adam
Yeah.
54:17
Drew
She was doing the...
54:18
Adam
Getting over the ex-girlfriend. Yeah, you may have tasted the little foreign lady on that Johnson, too, right?
54:28
Drew
But more importantly...
54:29
Adam
Hold on, hold on. Do the getting over math. Nineteen-year-old dude who gets copious amounts of oral sex. Yeah, I'm still working on getting over, emotionally getting over, dealing with the stress, coping, or still trying to patch it together and getting a little maintenance humping in. And by the way, yeah, no, we won't be having intercourse. You'll just be essentially squeegeeing her essence off my door via your mouth. Son of a bitch. All right, Brianna. I'm sorry about that unflattering portrait, but he was having sex with his ex while you were... Oh, what? No, no.
55:14
Drew
Oh, yeah. But be as amazed. She was sort of...
55:17
Adam
Well, who dumped him? It took him a while.
55:20
Drew
But again, this is the new broom sweeping clean. And it should be a version of that for this kind of a situation. All right.
55:28
Adam
Well, the point is, is you can tell him that this is not every day.
55:35
Guest
Well, I do. He just sort of, you know, like tugs the hair, pushes the head down a little bit.
55:42
Drew
Uh-oh.
55:43
Adam
Is this a...
55:43
Drew
I don't like that.
55:44
Adam
What about his ex-girlfriend? Did she dump him?
55:48
Guest
Yeah.
55:49
Adam
And they've gone out for a while and then she dumped him?
55:53
Guest
Um, I don't know for how long. I think it was just like over the summer.
56:02
Drew
But notice how... When he's still with someone else and he's not really available, Brianna's in.
56:08
Adam
Well, sure, because she's selling at that point.
56:10
Drew
And as soon as she lands him and now he wants to have a relationship and is interested in her on a daily basis, she's not interested.
56:18
Adam
Well, that's the interview part of the job. Now she's on the job. And she's still working at the post office. This is what you get. All right. So listen, Brianna, you tell him you'd have a much greater likelihood of getting a little BJ action if you didn't do the hair tugging and the kinds of haranguing. All right?
56:39
Drew
I'm not sure it's going to make any difference. She's just looking for it. Although that's certainly an unpleasant thing for him to do to her. She's just, she's only interested in the cannot haves.
56:50
Adam
Yeah. Yeah. And this guy basically, his story is he got dumped by a chick he was hot for. Mm-hmm. And was...
57:00
Drew
You're right. He must have been still seeing her. He was dancing. Otherwise, Brianna would not have been into it. Think about it. Dumped by another chick? She would have not been in.
57:07
Adam
He got dumped on. He was... Yeah. He got dumped on. He was trying to patch it up. He was trying to work on it, trying to scrape back into the relationship. Meanwhile, he was on a little maintenance, a little methadone maintenance with Brianna. Over here, a little methadone. And methadone maintenance. And then at a certain point, it became obvious that the thing was not going to work out and not be salvaged. Probably his ex probably started going out with somebody else. And then he just agreed to give it a go with Brianna. All right, let's talk to Jane, who's 22, Jane. What's up?
57:45
Guest
I'm, I just started, I'm on my second month of NuvaRing. And I'm wondering, well, what I was told was that the NuvaRing had less hormones, so it was directly in your vagina. So I'm wondering, well, doesn't that decrease the chances of decreasing your sex drive?
58:02
Drew
Yeah, that's right. Because it doesn't have so many systemic effects. That's correct.
58:06
Adam
How do they get that in there?
58:09
Guest
You make it skinny and just stick it up there and leave it in there. Yeah, taco.
58:18
Adam
You fold it over in half, right?
58:19
Drew
You make the circle into an eclipse kind of.
58:22
Guest
Kind of like that in Fed Cup, but without the cup.
58:25
Adam
Like what without the cup?
58:27
Guest
There's like a...
58:28
Drew
Diaphragm. Oh. Like the ring of a diamond.
58:33
Adam
All right, so you fold it out.
58:34
Drew
Yeah, like a cup, but not a cup.
58:36
Adam
What'd you say? Like a cup, but not a cup?
58:39
Guest
Oh, there's a... Like a... In Fed Cup, that's rubber and it has stuff for your period.
58:47
Adam
Oh, really?
58:49
Guest
I didn't like it.
58:51
Adam
It has stuff for your period? You mean like in Louvre using a tampon?
58:56
Guest
Yeah.
58:58
Adam
Oh, I mean, hold on a second. So it's like a rain barrel as opposed to a sponge.
59:05
Guest
Right. Yeah, kind of.
59:07
Adam
That... From what I remember.
59:09
Guest
No, it was actually more of a half of a condom with a little thing, with a little rubber thing. That's what it reminded me of.
59:17
Adam
So anyway, you got the Nuva ring up there.
59:22
Guest
And the three weeks that I have it in, I don't really... It seems to me like sex, I just don't care about it. And then the week that I have it out, I'm just... I'm back to my normal self, where I attack my boyfriend.
59:34
Drew
There you go.
59:36
Guest
So I'm wondering...
59:37
Drew
You gotta talk to the doctor about it. It may not be the right hormones for you.
59:41
Adam
Do they adjust the hormones in those Nuva rings?
59:45
Drew
Yeah, no, it's hard to do that.
59:47
Adam
So it's not like the pill.
59:48
Drew
Yeah, it's not all these different varieties.
59:50
Adam
The Nuva ring is just a Nuva ring.
59:52
Drew
I'll look at other, maybe a couple of doses, but it's much less choices.
59:56
Adam
And pardon the pun, but it's impregnated with hormones? The rubber and the like releases. Holy Christ. What is going on out there, Drew?
1:00:07
Drew
Good times.
1:00:08
Adam
Yeah. I got to get something.
1:00:11
Drew
What do you mean?
1:00:12
Adam
Just, you know, as a guy, on one hand, it's like, well, good, good rinse. We don't have to deal with any of this stuff. On the other hand, you know, women have about 700 million more products than we have. Like we got aftershave and toilet paper. I don't even know what we get as a guy, you know, what do we get product wise?
1:00:33
Drew
I mean, we get it all happens later. Yeah, but we neurologists and I'm just I'm talking catheters.
1:00:41
Adam
No, Drew, listen to me. Product wise.
1:00:44
Drew
I know. We get believe it. They're products. You've seen them on the show.
1:00:47
Adam
Look, I'm not talking about national brands, you know, just talking about products, you know, I'm not I'm not that you would do could would purchase it at a store, not not stuff you get a medical supply house.
1:00:58
Guest
I'm just just junk.
1:01:00
Adam
You know, I mean, women have 450 things that go in the coups alone. Yeah, we got nothing. We got a condom.
1:01:06
Drew
How about things that just goes on hair or goes on eyelids?
1:01:10
Adam
Oh, eyelids.
1:01:11
Drew
Think about it.
1:01:11
Adam
I didn't even know I had eyelids.
1:01:13
Drew
You don't.
1:01:13
Adam
Yeah, guys. And we got nothing that goes. Here's what we got for the eyes. We got sunglasses. And I got one of them big lovey shade things, a furry shade things I like to nap on the plane with. But that's it. And and yeah, OK, listen, if you're gay enough, you can use some of the exfoliating scrub or whatever. But and I guess, you know, you know, where we beat the chicks out on the acid reflux stuff. We get to eat more of that stuff. But nothing to say they can't do it either.
1:01:40
Drew
Not just for them.
1:01:41
Adam
Yeah, I know. But then they would say, well, you could put the ice stuff on. But no, that's for you.
1:01:46
Drew
And do we have anything that's used speculairly, uniquely for male?
1:01:53
Adam
Yeah, a C-Ring.
1:01:55
Drew
C-Rings, yeah, you're right.
1:01:56
Adam
You do the C-Math, by the way.
1:01:58
Drew
You're right. But there aren't that many product variations around the C-Ring.
1:02:01
Adam
So here's the thing, too. Like you sit around and watch TV, it's just everything, you know. Especially if you're looking at any chick-oriented whatever. It's all the commercials. You get nothing. We're left out. Ironically, who pays for it, Drew? That's right. Me and you. Me and you, my brother.
1:02:18
Drew
That's because you have all that, the mail has such an advantage in the salary department.
1:02:23
Adam
That's right. That's right. That's the only reason everything handed to us.
1:02:34
Guest
Oh my.
1:02:38
Drew
Novelty, sleepy.
1:02:39
Adam
B.J.'s been on hold for 94 minutes.
1:02:49
Guest
Wow.
1:02:51
Adam
We just struck gold. That is, that's what you call gold.
1:02:58
Drew
Luke, I am your son. I am your father.
1:03:12
Adam
If you wake him up, I'll kill you. Now here's a few, a couple of things. First off, BJ swears up and down to his buddies he doesn't snore when they're mad at him.
1:03:24
Drew
He's mad at them, but they bring it up.
1:03:25
Adam
Yeah, I like that too. I like that one. I really enjoy that one where you go camping with one of your buddies, you guys end up in the same hotel room, whatever the situation is. And the guy wakes up the next day and he's like, dude, you were sawing logs all last night. Hey, I don't snore. Yeah, I just, that's what I do. I make it up. I do that sometimes. I'll do it with my wife right in the middle of the night. She's, I don't even know if she's breathing. I knock her, quit it. I yell at her and give her earful the next morning. Yeah, like that's what you do.
1:03:55
Drew
It's a comical, funny, everyone does that, right?
1:03:58
Adam
That's one of those, and that's all you need to know about how horrible humans are. When somebody says, hey, you were snoring, I know I wasn't, really? What was I hearing? What's in it for me? That's what we have to ask ourselves. What's the motivation? So you made, no audible sound came out of your mouth. I just falsely accused you of it. And perhaps if you really were snoring, I would have let you slide. Is that the thing or would I say something for that?
1:04:26
Drew
Oh, dude, the motivation is you're trying to humiliate me, man.
1:04:28
Adam
Yeah, I know better. I know better.
1:04:31
Drew
By the way, if you're trying to humiliate, you're just fine at that without the snoring.
1:04:43
Caller
I got the sound turned way down, too.
1:04:47
Adam
And here's the thing, too. First off, I'm amazed that some people make it through the night every night.
1:04:52
Drew
Alive.
1:04:53
Adam
It's like, if your lung would collapse at some point, or they would just, they actually seem like it's such work to breathe for them that eventually their heart's just gonna stop.
1:05:02
Drew
There is sleep apnea, and that BJ, I think, may well have it.
1:05:05
Guest
Read BJ's Poor Bastard's Probe.
1:05:08
Adam
Premature ejaculation, only had sex with one girl.
1:05:12
Drew
21.
1:05:13
Adam
Happened all the time. Now, we've heard, and by the way, we've heard a lot of violence snoring in our day on the show. I look at it as the ultimate compliment as a talk show host at when we can go ahead and punch up line five, and three quarters of people are so unlawful. BJ has been waiting around for over an hour and a half, but this snoring that he does is really is really-
1:05:41
Drew
Medical.
1:05:42
Adam
Yeah, it's really, it's from the cockpit. It sounds like some of those early Apollo missions where they would talk to a shepherd or whoever the hell was circling the world's, the globe, BJ. Well, that's it for the show, Drew. This is the rest of the night. I-
1:06:15
Drew
And here's what's even scarier. Let it be for a second. I think we can do much better.
1:06:21
Adam
Oh, BJ? Yeah, oh no, this is him. He's sitting up. He hasn't hit rim yet.
1:06:25
Drew
Yeah, yeah, this is at his best. If he, head goes back on his back.
1:06:29
Adam
Oh yeah.
1:06:30
Guest
Yeah, yeah.
1:06:31
Drew
BJ is not a small boy.
1:06:37
Adam
Guys with initial names are usually, they go about 80 pounds more than your average guy. That's number one. And then guys who-
1:06:44
Drew
Obstruct when they breathe.
1:06:46
Adam
Yeah, but I'm picturing the curtains moving in the room.
1:06:49
Drew
It's like Franklin's time.
1:06:51
Adam
Oh, he almost died.
1:06:57
Drew
It's a phrase behind a Barbera cartoon.
1:06:59
Adam
I'm amazed at the guys who snore too on how much variation there is in even like a 30 second period. That, it's an all night. I mean, you're sawing away all night. You'd think you'd pretty much just put together a kind of a Three Stooges novelty snore and that would be, that would be it. But they're all over the map. Like you'll just see them like, they'll do an inhale and an exhale. They'll put together about five and then the sixth one's like, all of a sudden there's a huge deviation.
1:07:29
Drew
That's why the sleep is so disturbed. Cause it causes arousals all night long. And having to work against it. It's actually puts tremendous pressure on their heart, so when Fred inhales and the curtains come in, the curtains go out.
1:07:45
Guest
Right.
1:07:49
Adam
We have been at what we call nocturnal emission.
1:08:02
Guest
I really do have his potentiometer like half at a half mast right now.
1:08:05
Drew
Well, tell me what that means.
1:08:06
Guest
It's basically turning his mic.
1:08:07
Guest
Yeah, it's down to like from 10 to five.
1:08:09
Drew
We're at 10, and he's half our volume. And yet shaking the earth.
1:08:16
Adam
Geez, I hope he lives alone.
1:08:19
Guest
All right, all right, let's take a call.
1:08:23
Drew
I wonder if anything has anything to do with his premature ejaculation. Why? I don't know, if any of that physiology of his sleep and body habitus and stuff. Interesting.
1:08:33
Guest
Well, it may.
1:08:35
Adam
I have no idea. We're supposed to take a break. We will do that. Michael's 24, male exotic dancer. Sex is great, but can't get a girlfriend. Really? Male exotic dancer, can't get a girlfriend? Something's up with that. We gotta take a break, but hold on. Michael?
1:08:53
Drew
You're gay.
1:08:55
Caller
Yeah, whatever. No, I get-
1:08:58
Drew
Now you know why?
1:08:59
Adam
What? Yeah, horrible attitude.
1:09:02
Caller
Horrible attitude.
1:09:03
Drew
You're gay.
1:09:04
Caller
I'm gay. Please.
1:09:05
Adam
All right, so you can't get a girlfriend.
1:09:09
Caller
I've got plenty of women's lady friends, but no one that wants to actually date me seriously.
1:09:15
Guest
Shocking. And why do you think that is?
1:09:18
Adam
Because of your profession?
1:09:20
Caller
I'm thinking. I don't know if I should change my name and leave the state, you know, because, well, specifically the last girl I've tried to date seriously, seemed I had danced for one of her co-workers' bachelor parties, and as soon as she saw me with my friend...
1:09:44
Adam
She ratted you out?
1:09:45
Caller
Yeah.
1:09:46
Drew
I pretty much bet that it won't make any difference if people know his job or not.
1:09:50
Adam
What's that?
1:09:51
Drew
I pretty much could bet that it wouldn't make any difference if people knew his career or not.
1:09:55
Adam
If she was really into him?
1:09:56
Drew
No, that he would have trouble finding a girlfriend, whether or not the word was out about his career.
1:10:02
Adam
Oh, I see. Well, that's a slap in the face. Well, hold on, Michael. I'd like to help out young Michael. First, we've got to see how BJ's doing. I'm scared to go to break because we've got lighting in a bottle there and BJ may just die on us or worse, wake up. Well, we'll get back and I would, Anderson, I would then like to put BJ under Michael's call because I don't want to go away from, you know what I mean?
1:10:37
Drew
You've got to monitor.
1:10:38
Adam
They've got the baby monitors.
1:10:39
Drew
Of course, it's that.
1:10:40
Caller
I don't know if Michael would like that though. He might be upset with that.
1:10:45
Adam
Oh, that's going to be a river we're going to have to cross after this. That's Dr. Drew. I just go ahead and eat those. Drew got himself some Mambanins. The thing came out, the machine did that thing where, yeah, Drew put his 50 cents in, the thing came to the very edge and then just stopped. And Drew then viciously attacked the machine, like the ape on the Samsonite commercial. He went after that. I've never seen such upper body strength. And you, Drew did a move. It was a clean and jerk move. He put his right, well, first he threw a quick form shiver to the machine to loosen it up. Then he threw his right foot back, put both his palms on the top edge of the machine and pressed it so that it actually tilted back at about 45 degrees. And it was really, you know, the equivalent, you know, they say, actually they never say it anymore, but they used to say, you know, when a mother sees her child trapped under a station wagon, she can, she's capable of states of amazing strength, superhuman strength, you know, lift the whole station wagon. Drew has that when somebody has 50 cents worth of his M&Ms and aren't giving it to them.
1:12:13
Drew
It's like being on PCP, really.
1:12:15
Adam
Yeah, yeah, you're like Rodney King.
1:12:17
Drew
Yeah, if I'd kept escalating, I would have been lifting the thing up with my forearm pretty soon.
1:12:21
Adam
Yeah, cops.
1:12:22
Drew
Curling.
1:12:22
Adam
Cops could have been shooting you with bean bags and tasers that would have stopped it. That's what you call priorities. So ladies and gentlemen, it's BJ. Oh, BJ. No, that's Anderson just potting him down because Anderson had it up.
1:12:42
Guest
Oh, I could use saying his name.
1:12:46
Drew
That was that was Sleep Apnea. That was him. I can hear some big ones.
1:12:51
Guest
Really?
1:12:52
Adam
We got a big set rolling. Oh, my God.
1:12:59
Guest
This guy, we got to be.
1:13:07
Drew
A little brass, little ones, and then watch my headphones.
1:13:12
Guest
Little, little.
1:13:15
Drew
Here comes.
1:13:16
Adam
No, I think he died.
1:13:19
Drew
That's coming outside.
1:13:22
Guest
Oh, really?
1:13:22
Guest
Really?
1:13:28
Adam
Oh, he's back, he's back to his rhythm.
1:13:40
Drew
It's gotta be followed up by some big ones. There we go.
1:13:43
Adam
Oh, there we go.
1:13:47
Drew
All right. We're due for some, we're due for some shadowing.
1:13:52
Adam
Well, that's why I'm scared to go away from it. That's why Anderson, you gotta punch up Michael over here, the male exotic dancer, and keep BJ potted up as well, because I'm scared something may happen to this kid. There we go.
1:14:08
Caller
There's just plenty of women to date, just none that I want to. The ones I do get screwed up real bad.
1:14:14
Drew
What do you mean get screwed up?
1:14:17
Caller
Well, like I was telling you earlier, with the one girl and her friend, getting caught through that, it just really, really irritating. And I'm...
1:14:29
Adam
Well, how many dates did you have with the girl?
1:14:33
Caller
Oh, well, we've... Let's see here. We went out several times. Then it got to the point where I... After she found out what I did, she got real interested in it for a while. We talked about it almost nonstop for like two weeks.
1:14:50
Drew
How about your job?
1:14:51
Caller
Suddenly we were too good of friends to date.
1:15:01
Adam
Yeah, BJ just weighed in on that one. Speaking of weighing in, when you figure BJ goes about three bells, four bells.
1:15:08
Drew
It's like a 350.
1:15:11
Adam
All right, Michael. Yeah.
1:15:16
Drew
I really don't think it's the work.
1:15:17
Adam
I really don't. I don't either.
1:15:21
Drew
He's gonna blame it, it's part of the problem.
1:15:23
Adam
Do you work at a club, or do you just do like bachelor at parties?
1:15:26
Caller
I have more money if I do private parties.
1:15:30
Drew
Let's put it this way. Do you find that all your peers that do this dancing cannot have girlfriends?
1:15:36
Caller
The women they date generally are not the women that I want to date.
1:15:40
Drew
But they have girlfriends.
1:15:41
Adam
Interesting. And how much do you make at a bachelorette party average?
1:15:46
Caller
Oh, out here, it's not too well. When I was out in the East Coast, I was doing five, $600 a night, but I'm back in New Mexico where I was born and raised and now I'm lucky to top two.
1:16:01
Adam
Although you can get a nice apartment in New Mexico for 400 bucks a month, right?
1:16:09
Caller
I'm moving as soon as I can.
1:16:10
Adam
Why?
1:16:11
Drew
What are you doing back there?
1:16:12
Adam
It needs some money.
1:16:13
Guest
Well, let me ask you this.
1:16:15
Adam
Do you ever have sex with any of the women in the bachelorette party?
1:16:19
Do you have a wife?
1:16:21
Caller
No, because I kind of stick to, I've got a few really good friends with the benefits going on. That's all I stick to. There's just too much stuff out there to take the chance.
1:16:37
Adam
Anderson, hang up on Michael, please.
1:16:42
Drew
Thank you, BJ.
1:16:44
Adam
Okay, so here's the thing. Something's a little up with Michael. Which is what I was thinking about. It's not the profession. And let me say this, by the way, ladies and gentlemen, all this stuff you attribute reasons as to why you're not getting some or getting too much or whatever, it's all just dust in the wind. If chicks are into you, they're into you. Oh, it's not the car you drive, it's not you giving them cocaine, it's not the money in your pockets, all that stuff. Sure, it helps, it helps if you pull up in something nice instead of a piece of ass, but either they're into you or they're not, and they really don't care so much what you do, and especially stripper, they go for that.
1:17:31
Drew
They would anyway.
1:17:37
Adam
All right, let's talk to Summer Anderson, and again, we have to keep BJ on line one, who's been on hold for now 106 minutes. Summer? Yeah, BJ is doing a little snoring for those of you who just tuned in.
1:17:53
Drew
Summer?
1:17:54
Adam
What's happening, baby doll? You're 25.
1:17:57
Caller
I'm 25, and me and my husband went to a social event this weekend.
1:18:04
Adam
Social event.
1:18:05
Caller
Yeah, I won't tell you what, but we lost each other there.
1:18:11
Adam
Wait a minute, was it some kind of swinger's party?
1:18:15
Caller
No, it was a concert.
1:18:18
Adam
Oh, you got a weenie roast?
1:18:22
Caller
I can't tell you that.
1:18:24
Adam
Why? All right, hang up on Summer, please, Anderson. Hang up, hang up, it's too late. Hang up on her. Thank you. See ya. And listen, everybody, there are things you don't want to tell us, that's fine, but if we ask and you don't tell us, hang up on you. That's it, there's policy. Let's talk to Lauren, who's 24. She's would be on line three there, Anderson.
1:18:51
Drew
I'm gonna take this one, it's been an hour and a half, two hours for them, no, too late.
1:18:55
Adam
Lauren?
1:18:56
Caller
Hello?
1:18:56
Adam
You're 24?
1:18:58
Caller
Yes.
1:18:59
Adam
What's happening?
1:19:02
I got a question actually about my boyfriend. We met through one of my ex-boyfriends, they've been friends since they were like five, and we dated for about two weeks, and we made plans to hang out this past Friday night. Well, he didn't end up calling me, and until about 11 or midnight, I ended up calling him, really loud with me on the phone, started swearing at me, calling me all kinds of names. Wow. He told me that it was over, he wanted nothing to do with me, but yet earlier in the day when we were talking, he told me how much he loved me and how much he wanted to stay with me. So we broke up, we went the whole weekend without speaking. I get to work on Monday, and he was sending me all kinds of messages about, I love you, I miss you, I'm sorry. He wants to go back out with me, and I'm just, I'm confused. I don't know what to do.
1:19:55
Drew
Was he on drugs or drinking or something?
1:19:58
No, like Friday when we were supposed to hang out, he had to go see his probation officer for something that happened two years ago. That was alcohol related. And when I called him, he was at the bar. And he told me pretty much, if you don't trust me, don't call me ever again.
1:20:17
Adam
What are you getting into trouble with the law for?
1:20:20
He got into trouble, it was two years ago, he got a DUI.
1:20:25
Adam
I see.
1:20:25
Drew
So he's an alcohol.
1:20:26
Adam
So now, Hold on a second, you don't get a probation officer because you get a DUI.
1:20:30
It was a minor offense, it wasn't anything major.
1:20:34
Drew
Yeah, why did he get a probation officer then?
1:20:36
I don't know, see, that's something I don't know.
1:20:38
Adam
Well, wait a second, when did he get the DUI?
1:20:42
Two years ago.
1:20:43
Adam
Two years ago. Yeah, you get a probation officer when you go in the joint, not when you get a DUI.
1:20:51
Well, he did tell me that he spent six months in jail because of the DUI.
1:20:56
Drew
Okay, that means it was his third DUI.
1:20:57
See, I don't know.
1:20:59
Drew
Yeah, you don't know how many he's had. The point is he's an alcoholic. Or he had other more serious offenses.
1:21:06
Adam
That's a best case scenario.
1:21:07
Drew
Yeah, right.
1:21:07
Adam
Three DUIs is a best case scenario for this idiot.
1:21:12
Well, he's not an alcoholic because we'd hang out all the time and he doesn't like to drink that much.
1:21:16
Guest
Where's my bourbon?
1:21:17
Adam
I know, but you know what's great is really, and only Loveline callers are capable of this kind of denial, which is, yeah, I called him, he was at the bar. Yeah, he was yelling at me. He was yelling at me, he got in a little trouble because he was talking to his probation officer over a DUI fence he had earlier.
1:21:39
Drew
How dare you ask him to go to the bar?
1:21:40
Adam
But no, he's not an alcoholic. He doesn't like alcohol. Really?
1:21:43
Well, he's not, to me, an alcoholic is someone that drinks every day and they're dependent on it.
1:21:50
Drew
Nope, that's the end stages of alcoholism, Laura.
1:21:55
Adam
Yeah, look, he was at a bar talking to his probation officer about his last DUI.
1:22:01
No, he went to the bar after he talked to his probation officer.
1:22:05
Adam
I'm sorry, listen, when you're wrong, you're wrong. I owe you an apology. I see, talk, talk to his PO and then went to the bar.
1:22:16
I'm just trying to figure out, like, if he wants to get back with me, and I'm just trying to figure out if that's the idea.
1:22:21
Adam
How old is he? How old is he?
1:22:22
He's 22.
1:22:23
Adam
Okay, do you have any kids?
1:22:25
I have a two-year-old son from my ex. All right.
1:22:31
Drew
Was your ex an alcoholic too?
1:22:33
My ex, he's not an alcoholic, but he's quite violent.
1:22:37
Drew
Was he a drug addict?
1:22:39
He's not a drug addict. He used to do a lot of drugs when he was younger, but now he's clean.
1:22:44
Drew
All right, listen, Lauren.
1:22:45
Adam
Lauren, here, okay, let me, Drew, I know you got stuff to say, but I got better stuff to say.
1:22:50
Drew
You a Mormon?
1:22:50
Adam
Here's a deal.
1:22:52
No, I'm not Mormon.
1:22:54
Adam
Here's a deal.
1:22:55
Drew
I don't expect PJ to answer too.
1:22:57
Adam
I know.
1:22:57
Drew
No, I'm not.
1:22:59
Adam
Two snorts for no, one for yes. Lauren, you got a kid, you got a little bit of a wide ass and you think your number's been lowered and you got to settle for 22 year old guy's parolees who verbally abuse you when they're in a blackout state.
1:23:16
Drew
Right.
1:23:16
Adam
Okay?
1:23:20
Drew
Just stop making excuses.
1:23:21
Adam
I know your dad was a world-class jackass.
1:23:23
Drew
And an alcoholic himself.
1:23:24
Adam
And that's all you know. But for Christ's sake, on behalf of your kid, huh, how about you just break up with this guy, you go on your own for a little while, you focus on your relationship with your child, you focus on your work, and your spirituality and your friendships, and then when a decent guy comes along, you have a boring relationship with him and not eff your kid up any more than you already have. All right? All right, hang up on her. It's great, it's great. And listen, you dads out there, you alcoholic dads who are physically abused, or maybe emotionally abused, or just neglected, or sexually abused, you just put a shotgun in your mouth, you pussies. You pussies. This is what you get. You end up, your daughter, then she goes up hooking up with felons and making apologies for them, you know, and excuses for the rest of her life. That's it. And effing up whatever kid she has. She's got a 20, she's got a two-year-old kid with another dude who was a mean guy, shocking. Shocking, and by the way.
1:24:31
Drew
Who used to be a drug addict, yeah.
1:24:33
Adam
Yeah, how do you, listen, what do you think, by the way, as a society, how many of these people can we support? I mean, we're talking about this kid. You know what I mean? We need a certain amount of scientists and doctors. We need a certain amount of people that are employable. We need people to pay taxes. We need people to build roads. We need people to drive buses. All you effed up people with your effed up offspring, we can't handle it. The prison is already full, remember?
1:25:01
Drew
Ask BJ for an opinion.
1:25:06
Adam
That's right. See, when you're right, you're right. All right, we gotta take a break.
1:25:12
Drew
He agrees with that too.
1:25:13
Adam
BJ's 21. He's been on hold for now 106 minutes.
1:25:18
Drew
I've been on hold all that time. He's been entertaining us for much longer.
1:25:22
Adam
All right, he's been on the air for about 40 minutes. He has narcolepsy problem.
1:25:27
Drew
That's sleep apnea.
1:25:28
Adam
Sleep apnea. That is snoring you're hearing everybody.
1:25:31
Guest
Yeah, that's the way in.
1:25:34
Drew
We're concerned that we may expire if we don't keep it monitored here.
1:25:37
Adam
Yeah, we'll take ourselves a break. Drew, he's calling from Nevada. Maybe she'd head out there with a crash cart. He's got a flat line any second now. All right, we'll take a quick break. They'll be right back.
1:25:58
Loveline. We'll be right back.
1:26:03
Guest
Hey, everybody, it's Loveline.
1:26:05
Adam
I'm Adam, that's Dr. Drew, David Alan Greer, Dag, also known as my main man, will be in here tomorrow night.
1:26:14
Guest
Ooh.
1:26:18
Adam
There's BJ. BJ's 21. BJ is a world-class snore and we'll just, I'm so intrigued with his violent snoring, his novelty snoring, that I've vowed to leave him on, not only for tonight, Drew, but until he wakes up. Yeah, yeah, all right, let's talk to John on line five, who weighs 408 pounds, Sean?
1:26:56
How you doing, Adam, Dr. Drew?
1:26:58
Adam
How are you doing, John?
1:26:59
I'm doing pretty good, you know.
1:27:01
Adam
Do you snore yourself, John?
1:27:03
Actually, I do have a mild sleep apnea. Actually, I'm having gastric bypass, the ruined wine.
1:27:18
Adam
And now, you're 408 pounds, how tall are you? Six-two. Six-two. And you're 19, which is relatively young for the gastric bypass surgery.
1:27:31
Drew
They're doing so much of this now. These bariatric procedures are just so common.
1:27:36
Adam
You know, let's just talk about this for a second because, and Drew, tell me if you disagree, but here's what it's starting to look like. If you're, Anderson, pod BJ down for just one second. I gotta quit.
1:27:50
Drew
Not too far down now.
1:27:50
Adam
Not too far. No, we'll pod him back up for a second, but John's got a serious call and deserves a good answer. I think we're starting to realize that if you make it up over 400 pounds by 19, you got a genetic problem here.
1:28:04
Drew
Oh, yes.
1:28:05
Adam
And people, people love to do that day, you slob or you're eating too much or have some self respect or pull it together. But look, everybody, every 19 year old dude eats like, like he's going to the chair the next day. I mean, they're slobs, you know what I mean? I mean, I, I knew guys just, they'd be driving through all night takeout places, you know, before in the morning, they'd get a big, big milkshakes and stuff like that. Guys eat like pigs when they're 19. And the fat ones are just fat because their body metabolizes it or doesn't metabolize it in a certain way. And the super skinny ones, well, why are they super skinny? We all knew the guy pounding away three cheeseburgers and never exercised, never seen him put on a pound. I mean, that's just all metabolism. So I think what they're trying to start, starting to figure out now is John's 19, he's 400 pounds instead of torturing the guy and having yo-yo for another 15 years and blowing his heart and his knees out, let's just give him the surgery now.
1:29:01
Drew
Oh, absolutely.
1:29:01
Actually, I just came back from college and I lost about 20, I went down like 380.
1:29:07
Adam
Right, but you're probably not going to see 300 just using discipline and willpower. You know what I mean?
1:29:18
Yeah.
1:29:18
Adam
So just get the surgery.
1:29:20
Drew
The idea is that you have to sort of compensate for the genetic problem by changing the way your gastrointestinal system operates.
1:29:27
Well, actually, that's the rule by, you know, by having the rule of why you can't have, you know, I won't be able to have any sugar, only, you know, splendor, can't drink anymore. So I think that's a big, you know, push for me in the future. But my question was is that, you know, I, you know, I smoke a little herb. That's one of those, you know, after my surgery a few months after my surgery, I'll be still able to smoke the weed.
1:29:49
Drew
Wow, I think that's how addictive pod is.
1:29:51
Well, in a way.
1:29:52
Guest
It likes the weed.
1:29:53
Drew
That's what I'm saying. Even though it's killing him and killing him, his wife's 400 pounds. So maybe the issue.
1:30:00
Guest
What?
1:30:01
What?
1:30:01
Adam
Oh, you get John. John, you get stoned and you eat.
1:30:05
Caller
No, actually, you know what? I don't eat. I just chill. Just watch my movies and just play down.
1:30:10
Guest
Yeah. Let me explain.
1:30:11
Adam
Let me explain something. John, are you your brother, man?
1:30:14
Caller
Yeah.
1:30:15
Adam
OK. Black guy don't have the munchy gene. That's a white guy thing. I we're over at Snoop Dogg's house. That's my main mayonnaise. Stone with the guy. Jimmy raped the refrigerator and then ate the entire basket of muffins. He got Snoop Dogg. Oh, he got. Not interested in food. And it really made me realize brothers get stone and play Xbox. Why do you get stone and eats?
1:30:41
Caller
I'm a veterinarian.
1:30:42
Adam
We got I mean, I mean, I'm serious. Someone's got to look into this. Snoop Dogg doesn't get the munchies. Do you see what I'm saying? John, ironically, 408 pounds gets stone. It doesn't get the munchies.
1:30:56
Drew
But you may want to look into it with the surge and the fact that you have marijuana addiction because you could develop full bone withdrawal. It could really be kind of a mess here in the post-operative period. It could significantly affect your post-operative course.
1:31:07
Adam
Really?
1:31:08
Drew
Marijuana withdrawal can be horrible.
1:31:10
Adam
Well, not withdrawal. He's going to keep doing it.
1:31:12
Drew
Yeah, but he's going to be recovering for a week or two. Well, you're getting a little little little. You know, you're getting opiates. It'll block the withdrawal.
1:31:18
Caller
Yeah, here's the quote, yeah, I was motivated thinking about a month, so I just, you know, I thought, oh, all right, then I'll worry about it.
1:31:24
Adam
But here's the thing. Thanks, John. Good luck to you. Call us back. Tell us how it goes. Yeah. Yeah, here's the. Yeah.
1:31:33
Caller
What's been the last two minutes trying to wake up BJ?
1:31:41
Adam
Trying to wake up BJ is like telling a chick her boob is hanging out of her bikini top. Why do it? Well, we got a nice eyeful right now. You know what I mean? I mean, this is a train. We got to ride. You see what I'm saying, Drew?
1:31:56
Drew
Let's just enjoy it for the last 10 seconds here.
1:31:58
Adam
To BJ's credit, normally they wake up and God knows where the earpiece is on the phone because I hope it actually sounds like he swallows the phone.
1:32:12
Drew
I hope that's where it is.
1:32:13
Adam
The mouthpiece is. The mouthpiece is near the mouth, right?
1:32:18
Drew
I hope so.
1:32:18
Adam
Where could the earpiece be? It must have slid down, right? Or could he hear us?
1:32:22
Drew
He could hear us, probably.
1:32:26
Caller
We've got to take a break.
1:32:28
Adam
We're going to get back. When we come back, before we wrap it up, we'll check in with BJ after this.
1:32:33
Guest
Okay, so I know there's nothing wrong with me. So what's up?
1:32:38
Guest
Why can't I meet anybody? I'm looking to 877-889-DATE.
1:32:52
Guest
1-800-LOVE-191.
1:32:54
Guest
You're listening to Live 105.
1:33:06
Adam
Well, that's the show, everybody. BJ potted up Anderson.
1:33:11
Guest
Yes, he is.
1:33:13
Guest
It's alive, it's good.
1:33:15
Drew
May I see a biped monsieur?
1:33:21
Guest
Force some oxygen into those lungs.
1:33:25
Adam
Yeah, David Alan Greer in here tomorrow night. I hope BJ makes it till tomorrow night, though. So, until next time, it's Adam Carolla for Dr. Drew saying, mahalo.
1:33:39
Guest
Nobody's my hero except for Jesus.
1:33:45
Guest
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