0:57
Voiceover
Loveline is meant for an adult audience. Loveline may contain sexually-oriented content. Listener discretion is advised. This is Loveline with Adam Carolla and Dr. Drew.
1:20
Adam
Hey everybody, it's Loveline. I'm Adam. That's who?
1:24
Dr. Bruce
Dr. Bruce.
1:25
Adam
Dr. Bruce. How many goddamn days has Dr. Drew missed since we came back from Christmas?
1:32
Dr. Bruce
I know, those nickels are rolling around somewhere.
1:35
Adam
Yes. Are we into the 50s? I mean, we got to be in like the mid 50s.
1:40
Dr. Bruce
No, I don't think so.
1:41
Adam
I don't think Drew has made it two weeks being in this studio.
1:46
Dr. Bruce
Yeah, and then he does the remotes because I was supposed to come in one day and suddenly he appeared out of Washington, DC somewhere.
1:52
Adam
Nice. What's happening, Bruce?
1:54
Dr. Bruce
I'm just happy to be here. Two intimate hours with the virtual millionaire, the household name Adam.
2:00
Adam
Not virtual.
2:01
Dr. Bruce
Adam.
2:01
Adam
Literal.
2:02
Dr. Bruce
Corolla.
2:03
Adam
God love you, Bruce. I love Dr. Bruce. I like Bruce because he knows things except for last time he was here, he didn't know the Magic Mountain guy, the little bald note with the crazy, I've seen that guy 20 times.
2:19
Dr. Bruce
The glasses, they're disturbing and then he's flipping, he's doing flips and...
2:23
Adam
Oh, it's annoying. Yeah.
2:26
Dr. Bruce
It's annoying.
2:27
Adam
Bruce, were you here, Lauren, were you here when Bruce was here last time? Never, and this is a week ago, never heard of that Magic Mountain guy, the bald guy.
2:38
I heard the conversation.
2:39
Adam
Yeah, one week ago, one week ago, never heard of him, never seen him, never heard of him.
2:45
Dr. Bruce
In my defense, I don't watch pedestrian television. Let me say this, you ever seen him on C-SPAN?
2:49
Adam
Let me say this, Weisenheimer, every time somebody doesn't know something you know, they go ahead and play that card. Well, excuse me, I enjoy reading and playing the flute. Which means I'm perched in front of Nick at Night masturbating every night and drinking Mountain Dew.
3:07
Dr. Bruce
You are.
3:07
Adam
How dare you? How dare you turn it on me? You should be apologizing. That's true. All right, I think the best defense is a good offense. But anyway, Dr. Bruce, basically what you said. Dr. Bruce is a board certified physician. I used to have to explain who he was. Now I have to explain who Drew is on rare, on the rare occasion, he actually shows his puss around the studio. Dr. Bruce is a board certified. He knows how to handle a laser. He can remove a tattoo. He knows emergency medicine. He knows addiction medicine. He is a better doctor than Dr. Drew and smarter as well.
3:45
Dr. Bruce
I don't think so. Dr. Drew is a doctor's doctor.
3:48
Adam
No, he's always wrong. All right, you ready to rock? You're picking the calls. Remember Honey Bunch?
3:53
Dr. Bruce
There was a call there that just dropped out.
3:54
Adam
There was a call, now it's gone. Well, let me give that phone number out. 1-800-LOVE-191. And tonight might be a good chance for you guys to call with questions regarding lasers. Because Dr. Bruce has a laser. How do I know? I co-sign for it. That's how I know.
4:14
Dr. Bruce
That's not supposed to be public.
4:15
Adam
Okay. All right, let's forget about that.
4:17
Dr. Bruce
So you're my partner there.
4:19
Adam
I'm his partner. The point is, is he does the Tant removal. People have questions about Tant removal. They don't know how many sessions it takes or how long it takes or what the difference between Tants, colored ink, black ink, blue ink, all that stuff. Bruce will answer that and any cosmetic procedures done with a laser as well, he can address. Nick? Yeah. You're 19?
4:42
Caller
I am 19.
4:43
Adam
What's up?
4:45
Caller
Well, about, well, almost a year and a half ago now, I started trying to lose some weight. I was about 325, 330 at the time when I made that decision. And I'm down to about 205 now, 210. Great. I lost over 100 pounds. And recently I've been having some problems with my girlfriend, just real lack of sex drive with her. And it's kind of been going on ever since I lost the weight. And just kind of frustrating because I've put so much work into what I've done with myself. And I don't know, just kind of confused because you'd think it'd be the other way, you know?
5:22
Adam
Yeah. How's her weight?
5:25
Caller
She's, I'd say average, maybe a little bit heavier than average, but nothing like, you know, not big.
5:32
Adam
Mm-hmm. And so you lose the weight, you lose the desire.
5:37
Caller
Yeah.
5:38
Adam
I have no idea because...
5:40
Dr. Bruce
There's a balance in relationships. Sometimes you'll, you know, situations that I find more commonly, somebody has a behavioral problem or an addiction, they get better and the relationship falls apart and it's like, seemingly...
5:50
Adam
And the eating could be an addiction.
5:52
Dr. Bruce
And well, you know, the body image is, is, Jay, maybe she's threatened by your new svelte look.
5:57
Adam
Well, this is his, this is his motivation. Is it not, Nick, or is it hers?
6:04
Caller
It's her motivation.
6:06
Adam
She doesn't want to have sex.
6:08
Caller
Yeah, she doesn't want to do anything.
6:09
Adam
Oh, I thought his libido fell off.
6:12
Dr. Bruce
No, hers did and he's lost weight.
6:14
Adam
Okay.
6:14
Dr. Bruce
So now maybe she's threatened. There's, when something changes in a relationship, something changes in your life, it creates stress even if it's something good.
6:22
Adam
Well, here's the thing, too. She signed up for a porker and now she's got a husky. She's got a husky guy. Yeah. And that's not what she signed up for.
6:31
Dr. Bruce
Right. And some people like, you know, they like the weight, they like a heavyset individual and that's what sexually attracts them.
6:38
Adam
Were you 300 pounds when you met her?
6:41
Caller
When I met her, I was probably, yeah, probably right at 300 and I probably.
6:45
Adam
All right. Here's the thing. She probably talked to her about this. But if you're attracted to someone who's whatever they are, if they're 150 pounds and they go up to 250, that's going to hurt things. And everyone just does this sort of math. Well, if you're attracted to someone at 300 pounds, you're going to be that much more attracted to them at 200 pounds. That's not really the way women work. There was something about you being 300 pounds that initially drew her in. And after talking to you, it's not your personality.
7:14
Dr. Bruce
Right. I've had patients where more commonly the woman loses weight and it creates a problem in the relationship. And there are men that like women that are a little heavier.
7:22
Adam
Also, there's a couple of things people are looking for in a relationship. Some people want to go out with the best looking example of the opposite sex that can possibly get their grubby mitts on. That's my plan. Some folks go out with people that they just don't have to worry about.
7:40
Dr. Bruce
Right.
7:41
Adam
It's like, you know, there's some rich people that drive crappy cars like me. Yeah, except for the rich part. And it's your sister's car. Other than that, spot on, brother.
7:53
Dr. Bruce
Thank you.
7:53
Adam
Dead nuts on.
7:54
Dr. Bruce
All right.
7:54
Adam
No. Yeah, some people, there's some people that are like, I got a ton of money and I drive this crappy Camry. And how come? I just, I don't want to hassle. I don't want to worry about where it's parked. I don't want to worry. I want to throw the keys to the valet and not think about what he's doing in it. I don't want to think about. And they're not in the cars that much. They just, they want to get from point A to point B, but they don't want to think about it, even though I got enough money for a Mercedes. Right. There's some people that do relationships this way. I don't want to worry about one of my friends trying to get with them. I don't want to worry about what they're doing when they're on vacation in Mexico and I'm over, you know, you get a big fat guy. You just, it's safe. So now maybe he's not so safe. Maybe he's feeling good about himself.
8:39
Dr. Bruce
I wonder if the guy's giving off the vibe that he's now more marketable and he's hanging out at the gym and...
8:45
Adam
He's wearing that unitard around.
8:47
Caller
Well, I mean, we talked about, I thought about that and I asked her about that. And she, it just doesn't really add up because she's been, she's had jealousy issues since we started dating. We've been dating for three years.
9:02
Adam
So now it's kicked into overdrive.
9:05
Dr. Bruce
And you use the term, it doesn't add up. Now you're a male and you're thinking. Now that's a problem when you're talking about understanding your significant other there. So not to insult the female mind, but it's just the male and female mind are not.
9:19
Adam
Listen, Nick, here's the thing. You're going to have, you can put up with this for a, for a little while longer and you can talk to her. But if this is going to keep up, you keep going down. Her libido keeps going down. Eventually you get to about 187 and it's time to part ways.
9:35
Dr. Bruce
Yep.
9:36
Adam
All right. And, and, and you're 19. This thing's been going on for three years. It's probably time to wrap it up. Just wrap it up.
9:45
Dr. Bruce
Or see a therapist.
9:46
Adam
He's 19. Who wants to see a therapist? He lost a hundred pounds. He's feeling good about himself. He's 19. Date, date around, check it out. You know how much traffic was out tonight driving here?
9:58
Dr. Bruce
Yeah. Well, I, I have to, I'm 85 miles away. So I've got the traffic report on.
10:02
Adam
Oh, you do?
10:03
Dr. Bruce
I was lucky. 10 was backed up, cut over to the 60, blazed in. Oh, otherwise I had the wrath of the girl.
10:08
Adam
Bruce thought I was going to make a point about the traffic report. So he thought he'd just come in and cut my nuts off early on in the conversation. Great instincts. That's not what I was going to talk about, but the great instincts, always great, always good instincts to undermine. That's right. Figure out where he's going, get there first and take a dump.
10:26
Dr. Bruce
No, I know.
10:27
Adam
Awesome.
10:28
Dr. Bruce
Yeah, you're going to brag about your ex-sus then.
10:29
Adam
Improvisational instincts.
10:30
Dr. Bruce
Navigational.
10:31
Adam
Just shut up and listen. By the way, can I just say, have you noticed there's a lot of traffic out there tonight? And you go, yeah. Can you do that? Can you just move me along?
10:40
Dr. Bruce
Okay. I'm a thinking man. I'm just thinking, thinking ahead.
10:44
Adam
Yeah.
10:44
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
10:45
Adam
Start thinking about being asked back here again.
10:47
Dr. Bruce
Okay.
10:48
Adam
Okay.
10:48
Dr. Bruce
I'll do that.
10:50
Adam
There is 30 percent more cars on the freeway tonight and it's really hot outside. And I realize I've been sort of doing these patterns. When it gets hot, especially, really hot in the evening, people just head out. And in the freeways, there's no accidents. It's just there's a whole bunch more cars on the freeway at 10 o'clock at night than there normally are. And it's always curious to me because I'm going to work. I don't know what everyone else's excuse is. Like, are they going out to the reservoir to go swimming? They're going out to the quarry to jump in the water? Like, where are they going because it's hot? Are you just driving in a circle with your air conditioning on? What do you decide to do because it gets warm? I don't even know if they know. I mean, do you think they're pacing around their house? It's like, ah, it's kind of hot in here. I'm going to get my car and go where? What are they all doing out there?
11:47
Dr. Bruce
Thursday night's early escape for the weekend.
11:49
Adam
No.
11:49
Dr. Bruce
I just read a New York Times article that said that.
11:51
Adam
Yeah, that's in New York, buddy. Last time I checked, we're out here in LA.
11:57
Dr. Bruce
I love LA where there are people driving around in warm weather with beautiful convertibles top up.
12:02
Adam
Oh, yeah.
12:03
Dr. Bruce
Can't have that top up.
12:04
Adam
You get cancer on your forehead. My point is, is I think people are sort of like roaches. You know, on hot summer nights, you walk down the street, you see the roaches sort of running. They just like when it gets hot, things start coming out.
12:17
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
12:18
Adam
Things, there's more movement. You come home, it's dark, it's at night, but it's real hot outside and you hear the crickets just going at it and frogs and stuff's moving around. I think people have that same thing. I think when it gets really hot people just get out and move around more.
12:35
Dr. Bruce
Well, they drive crazier.
12:36
Adam
They do.
12:37
Dr. Bruce
They do. They like the roaches and cars.
12:40
Adam
All right, Bruce.
12:41
Dr. Bruce
Okay.
12:41
Adam
Brandon?
12:42
Caller
Yeah, this is me.
12:44
Adam
Did you read an article about people driving crazier when it's hot?
12:48
Dr. Bruce
No, there's a paper I read about something similar.
12:51
Adam
Really? Do not share it with us. Go ahead, Brandon.
12:55
Caller
All right. Well, here's what's going on. I'm going to get married in about a month. And both my fiancee and I are virgins. She's 23 and 25 and we're just cool. We chose to do that because we want to save ourselves for each other and all that. The question I have is for Dr. Bruce, how can I make our first experience more comfortable for her?
13:24
Adam
You gotta cocker up, right? No. No?
13:28
Dr. Bruce
Okay, have you got a premarital counseling?
13:31
Caller
No, we haven't.
13:32
Adam
What do you do?
13:32
Caller
What?
13:33
Dr. Bruce
Well, you have to do that.
13:33
Adam
What goes on with that?
13:36
Dr. Bruce
It's virtually a requirement in most...
13:37
Adam
Are you Mormon?
13:39
Caller
Yes.
13:40
Adam
You are?
13:40
Dr. Bruce
Oh, then that has to happen.
13:42
Adam
Why? How's that? According to your church, you have to go to premarital counseling?
13:46
Dr. Bruce
Well, I don't know where the require...
13:48
Caller
What?
13:48
Adam
Let him answer.
13:50
Caller
No, we don't have to.
13:51
Adam
You don't? And what about premarital counseling? Did you go to premarital counseling?
13:55
Caller
Yeah. Yeah. Look where you're at.
13:58
Adam
You're divorced driving your sister's car. It's a good thing you want. Maybe you should.
14:03
Dr. Bruce
Yes, and Brandon, let's on that note discuss... Okay. The first sexual experience, you're both virgins, and I think talking about it beforehand and understanding that inherent in that situation is being a little bit uncomfortable. I think the problem a lot of couples have initially is they're both uncomfortable and they're both afraid to discuss it and bring up that topic.
14:26
Adam
Yeah, but what are you doing in premarital counseling?
14:28
Dr. Bruce
Oh, I should never have mentioned this.
14:29
Adam
No, I want to know. How does it go?
14:31
Dr. Bruce
Well, basically the idea is that you're seeing somebody that's discussing how serious this move in life is and you're talking about your values and your plans and how you're going to handle the relationship.
14:40
Adam
But you're seeing a guy who's been divorced three times and is making $13,000 a year.
14:45
Dr. Bruce
Not necessarily.
14:45
Adam
He's got a beat up maverick in the parking lot.
14:48
Dr. Bruce
It's not Dr. Phil you're talking about.
14:49
Adam
You know, I was thinking about it. You know, I was just thinking, it's always ironic that, you know, counselors, that guidance counselors are really, really haven't accomplished much in their life. Otherwise, it wouldn't be guidance counselor. But let me ask you this. Do you think any guidance counselor, when he or she was in high school, seeing their guidance counselor, said, you should be a guidance counselor? Answer, no. Therefore, everything that comes out of their mouth is worthless. You see what I'm saying?
15:24
Dr. Bruce
Well, they're actually aptitude tests.
15:25
Adam
They take an aptitude test. None of them says guidance counselor, but the guidance counselor gives you the aptitude test. And then it comes back with something else, but never guidance counselor. So my question to the guy who gave me the test is, what did you score and why didn't you do it? And how good can this test be?
15:40
Dr. Bruce
Yeah. And you didn't go, you never went to a guidance counselor, I'm sure.
15:43
Adam
Hell no.
15:44
Dr. Bruce
And you don't generally support psychotherapeutic.
15:48
Adam
Yes, I do.
15:49
Dr. Bruce
You do. Not guidance counselors or premarital counseling.
15:53
Adam
Well, I support tough love. I mean, if you're a crappy student, someone needs to yank you out of class and give you a welding rod and tell you to get busy because you ain't going to college.
16:03
Dr. Bruce
And you'd close all the community colleges.
16:05
Adam
Well, I wouldn't close them. I'd turn them into prisons.
16:07
Dr. Bruce
Okay.
16:08
Adam
I'd leave them open. And whoever's in there gets incarcerated.
16:13
Dr. Bruce
All right. The bottom line is that a lot of people don't take marriage that seriously or they're not mature enough to get married and... And how old is...
16:23
Adam
She's 25.
16:24
Dr. Bruce
She's 25.
16:25
Adam
And look, there's no magic anything. You two just, if you're in love, you just sort of let nature take its course. You find your way.
16:34
Caller
Right.
16:35
Dr. Bruce
Some of the people that... Yeah, go ahead.
16:38
Caller
I understand nature taking its course and all that and cool. We're responsible in making the decision. Let me restate my question. My understanding is that given that several, well, I would just say most virgins still have, as far as the female side, their hymen intact. That was the breaking of that causes pain. How can we lessen?
17:03
Adam
Yeah. Here's the thing. At age 23 or 24, she may not have it intact. You see, I don't know, Bruce. Do you know how and it might be a matter of percentage?
17:19
Dr. Bruce
Yeah. It's a partial membrane. There is some pain involved and you are having the consciousness.
17:24
Adam
Pain at 13, but what about 23?
17:28
Dr. Bruce
If she's a virgin and it's intact, there will be some pain, there will be some bleeding.
17:31
Adam
But is there a decent chance that it may not be intact that late in life?
17:36
Dr. Bruce
I don't know what the percentage is.
17:37
Adam
What if you're at 70? Would you have a hymen at 70?
17:40
Dr. Bruce
At 70, everything gets a little bit flaccid. Everything falls off. Right. Yeah.
17:45
Adam
That's what I'm saying.
17:46
Dr. Bruce
But there's not much lax. Okay. So listen, using a lubricant, being gentle, but inevitably there's going to be a little bit of pain and bleeding, but it's not.
17:54
Adam
And by the way, this guy's going to bust it up before he gets into the hymen anyway. Now look, I want to be just...
18:04
Dr. Bruce
Was that good? And now that you listen to that, he's got some performance anxiety and you've wrecked his marriage.
18:08
Adam
Way to go. All right.
18:10
Little lube. Little lube.
18:12
Adam
Little vino.
18:13
Dr. Bruce
Yeah, a little...
18:14
Adam
Loosen up. Right. Little wine. Maybe a sitz bath.
18:18
Dr. Bruce
Very good. Relax.
18:20
Adam
What about a woman dealing with her own hymen at that age?
18:26
Dr. Bruce
Dealing with her own hymen. In other words, breaking it herself before the...
18:30
Adam
Yeah. Like, you know, you got a loose tooth, you pop it out yourself.
18:34
Dr. Bruce
Well, you know, with tampons and with other things that may be used for pleasuring, there are some hymens that are broken in virgins prior to the event.
18:44
Adam
She's 23.
18:46
Dr. Bruce
Okay. So, I'm agreeing with you...
18:48
Adam
Here's what I'm asking you, Bruce. If... Let's just say you're 23, you're 24, you're gonna get married in a few months. You're a virgin. You're pretty sure your hymen's still intact. Now, you can get the tampon up in there though, right?
19:03
Dr. Bruce
Right.
19:03
Adam
You can.
19:04
Dr. Bruce
Well, it depends. If the hymen is an incomplete membrane, it can be more complete or less. So, in some individuals, when they're using a tampon, that will break it.
19:13
Adam
And what if it's totally intact? Does the tampon work?
19:17
Dr. Bruce
Well, it's not gonna be totally intact. Then you have an imperfect membrane there.
19:23
Adam
My point is, is do you want to go get yourself a vibrator or use your finger or something and kinda make sure there's no obstructions for the honeymoon?
19:32
Dr. Bruce
No, I wouldn't advise that.
19:34
Adam
Then just have the guy's dork run into it.
19:37
Dr. Bruce
Right.
19:38
Adam
Well, why risk that whole uncomfortable bloody, you know, lesson in humiliation?
19:46
Dr. Bruce
Well, it's just not a general principle to advise a woman before a marriage to address the honeymoon.
19:52
Adam
Why? What's up with you? Are you uptight? No. What's going on with you? Look, here's what I'm saying. There's an obstruction that is gonna make her first time painful.
20:03
Dr. Bruce
Okay.
20:04
Adam
Or it's not. Then if it's not, then say it's not.
20:07
Dr. Bruce
I'm saying a good percentage of the time, it's not a problem.
20:09
Adam
A good percentage, because it's not there, or because it just breaks, or why?
20:13
Dr. Bruce
Any of those reasons. It may not be there.
20:14
Adam
And at 23, it's not even there.
20:16
Dr. Bruce
Right.
20:17
Adam
Well, then agree with me when I said that 20 minutes ago.
20:19
Dr. Bruce
I just like to hear you rant on and yell at me.
20:22
Adam
Oh, quiet. I'm done with you. I said good day.
20:25
Caller
All right.
20:27
Adam
Kristen?
20:28
Yeah.
20:29
Adam
What's up, baby?
20:31
Hi.
20:31
Adam
Um, I've been on the second.
20:33
Dr. Bruce
Why am I picking the calls when you don't?
20:35
Adam
Why are you picking the calls? You it's a schlong fest here. You want to talk to your third dude? And we got a 32 double F chick who's 17 and hot. And we want to talk to your third dude.
20:46
Dr. Bruce
And she's been on hold for a minute. Who cares? There's no such thing as a double.
20:50
Adam
Use your brain, Kristen.
20:52
Yeah.
20:53
Adam
Double F?
20:54
Yeah.
20:55
Adam
There's no such thing as a double F.
20:57
Well, that's the bra size I am.
20:59
Adam
It is.
21:00
Dr. Bruce
Where do you get those bras?
21:01
Adam
Yeah, where do you get them?
21:02
I mean, specially made. Where, where? It's just a boutique in the town I live in.
21:09
Adam
All right.
21:10
Dr. Bruce
It's like your Asian friend, isn't it? All right.
21:12
Adam
Minka? Number one Asian big boob queen. Kristen?
21:16
Yeah.
21:17
Adam
You're 17?
21:18
Caller
Yeah.
21:19
Adam
Wow. All right. How 32 double F? What, what's, what size is the rest of you?
21:26
Caller
Um, I'm like five, six. I'm almost 130.
21:32
Adam
Oh, wow. That's quite a novelty body you must have.
21:36
Dr. Bruce
Adam's doing a breast math on a piece of paper here.
21:40
Adam
See, because you want to look for the low front number. You don't want that 38. You want that 32. That's a small back. So you're kind of slender except for the breast part, right?
21:50
Yeah.
21:52
Adam
Can you wear a bikini?
21:54
Caller
Uh, no.
21:56
Adam
What do you do?
21:57
Caller
Um, well, if I want to go to like a water park or something, I wear a bra and then a tank top with it.
22:03
Adam
Ah, I see. Frustrating, but still satisfying.
22:07
Dr. Bruce
You're trying to picture the body.
22:08
Adam
Trying to see what that looks like. Yeah. Wow. Do you have a boyfriend?
22:12
Dr. Bruce
No.
22:15
Adam
All right.
22:15
Dr. Bruce
All right. So, Kristen, do you have a problem?
22:17
Caller
Yeah. Um, I went to him a plastic surgeon to, because I'm going to get a breast reduction because of, you know, I don't like the way the guys look at me, because that's what they do. They just stare like they're going to jump or something. So, um, and I was looking at all the pictures that he's, um, done breast reductions on, and all the women have been like 40. He doesn't have any pictures of girls that are younger.
22:45
Adam
Yeah, that's because I took them.
22:47
Caller
I just wanted to know how-
22:48
Adam
I broke into the 18 to 22 file.
22:51
Caller
Yeah. I just wanted to know how bad the scarring would be for a younger person versus an older person.
22:57
Adam
I know you're talking to Dr. Bruce, but I've done extensive research in this department because every time Dr. Marcel comes in here and brings his cat along. I don't know that the scarring is that much different because I don't think the procedure is that much different.
23:13
Dr. Bruce
Right. You should have less scarring.
23:15
Adam
You should have less scarring. But there's going to be or there's the possibility of scarring. Yeah.
23:21
Dr. Bruce
There's also the genetic aspect of it. For instance, the extreme case are keloids, which are severe scars that seem to take on a life of their own. And you have growth of tissue, scar tissue. But if you don't have a family history or personal history of scarring problems and it's a qualified plastic surgeon, you're age, at 17, I mean, if you were 14, I'd say, well, you should wait. But you're at the right age and you're probably having some also back pain and some other problems along with it besides the gut.
23:47
Caller
Yeah. I know the chiropractor three times a week.
23:49
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
23:49
Adam
Three times a week. Are you a virgin?
23:52
Caller
No.
23:53
Adam
Okay.
23:54
Dr. Bruce
So this is a qualified board-certified plastic surgeon?
23:57
Caller
Yeah.
23:58
Dr. Bruce
Okay.
23:58
Adam
And what about the why no boyfriend?
24:02
Caller
I don't know. I just don't like the way. I haven't found a guy yet that will just judge me for me. Like he looks right at my body and is like, Oh, and then. Yeah.
24:14
Dr. Bruce
She's going out with age appropriate guys close to her age. Most of them are probably going to be fairly immature.
24:19
Adam
And yeah, good luck by the way, finding the guy who judges you for you. And let me just say this. Our society has a stick up its ass with this. I don't know. Is it me? Well, they're only into you because you do X, Y, or Z, or because you got 32 double F, or because this, or because that. Of course, that's how it works, everybody. What do you think? How do you think society works?
24:43
Dr. Bruce
How shallow.
24:44
Adam
Well, that's the way it works.
24:46
Dr. Bruce
But in relationships, you can meet someone that likes you for the person you are, the personality.
24:51
Adam
That's not what draws you in. That's not why you ask them out. You ask them out because you're attracted to them. And then hopefully you guys find some common ground and you can talk about something over dinner while you're waiting to jump on top of her. That's how it works when you're young at least. Look, okay, look. Here's all I want to say. Young men, and when I say young men, I mean men 14 to age 64, are attracted visually to women. They're visually attracted. And there's women that have beautiful eyes and that's fantastic. No problems there. And there's women that have beautiful legs, have beautiful hips, beautiful smile, beautiful face. No problem there. But if you have a big rack, and someone's attracted to you because you have a big rack, then we got a big problem. What's the difference between the ass and the rack in terms of the attraction? It's just a hand that God dealt you that is there to bring men in. I mean, a woman who has a beautiful face and beautiful tan legs will definitely get a ton of guys, and a chick that has a nice rack will get a ton of guys, too. Neither one of them has anything to do with your personality. Zero. As a matter of fact, you probably have a worse personality when you're really good looking because you just don't work on it. You just have a bad attitude. Chicks that are really hot, you know, athletes are sort of stupid and they're shallow and they don't know anything about world events or anything. You know why? They don't have to. That's why athletes are dumb and hot chicks are dumb for the same reasons. The doors just the doors open up, people leave them alone. No one comes down on them and they don't have to sit there and bust their ass focusing and cramming for chemistry finals because they ain't going anywhere. They're gonna marry some rich guy and the athletes not gonna do anything because he's gonna get a pass and he's just going on to college. It's the same principle. Why is it such a big deal that someone we be into her for something other than her boobs? At least someone's into her. And this whole part where you think you're gonna get a 17 year old guy is just really into your being and your aura. As long as you're hot, that's fine. Nobody's into any fat ugly chicks being her aura when they're 17.
27:06
Dr. Bruce
Right. But her breast size is problematic because she's bringing out...
27:11
Adam
It's problematic because she's self-conscious about it and because guys look. But when you're really, really beautiful, people look at you too. Believe me, I know. Believe me.
27:20
Dr. Bruce
Yeah. I believe you. It's your show.
27:23
Adam
All right. So here's what I would say. Go get your consultation. That's fine. No guarantees on the scars. There's going to be some scarring. You may want to wait. You may want to give it a little more time. Maybe wait till you're 18 or so. Make sure you stop growing. And all that good stuff. And then thirdly, find a guy you're attracted to. Find a guy you like. Doesn't mean a guy can't be physically attracted to you and like you because you're a nice person too. I mean, that's fine, right?
27:52
Dr. Bruce
That's absolutely fine. But double F's in the adolescent population. So she's to the point where she's assuming any guy that talks for a relationship.
28:00
Adam
I know. But any guy in high school that talks to any girl is because he is physically attracted to the girl. Whether it's to some level. The eyes, no, no, to almost all level.
28:16
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
28:17
Adam
That's what you do. Okay.
28:20
Dr. Bruce
I'm an adolescent medicine specialist.
28:21
Adam
What's the difference between an incredible smile and a beautiful rack? Neither one has anything to do with your personality. Right.
28:30
Dr. Bruce
To the average adolescent there's a certain insecurity.
28:32
Adam
How quiet. Let's take a break. You got to know the difference between the questions I want to answer and the ones where I want you to shut up.
28:40
Dr. Bruce
Why do you think I'm so quiet most of the time?
28:42
Adam
Take a quick break. We'll be right back after this.
28:50
Love Line.
28:51
Caller
1-800-LOVE-191.
28:53
Caller
Love Line will be right back.
28:54
Caller
The one and only, Live 105.
29:11
Adam
Hey, everybody. It's the Love Line, madam. That's Dr. Bruce. Dr. Bruce in tonight. Why?
29:21
Dr. Bruce
Dr. Drew's. Where's Dr. Drew?
29:23
Adam
Someone must have dropped the nickel in Wisconsin. Yeah, I don't know where Drew is tonight. I stopped listening to him. I'm just surprised when he's here. I just, I couldn't believe, I was scared to say anything. He was here four days in a row this week. Yeah, I don't know what's going on with that guy.
29:40
Dr. Bruce
I think I'm coming in Monday too.
29:42
Adam
Really?
29:43
Dr. Bruce
Just to make your night.
29:46
Caller
Oh my God.
29:47
Adam
Guy signs his contract and then never shows up again.
29:50
Dr. Bruce
He's a doctor.
29:51
Adam
He's a genius, that boy. So yeah, I don't know what the hell Drew's doing. It's like, Drew, in the last year, now make it six months, he decided to become like a professional ice skating coach and follow his daughter around from tournament to tournament. Then he got that TV show where he's going all over the place with that. He's still shilling for like a Trojan or something like that. Would you shut your phone? He's all over. He won't turn down a speaking engagement. So between his, you know, six or seven various other jobs and hobbies, never here anymore.
30:27
Dr. Bruce
But it's commendable that he's...
30:29
Adam
Yeah, it's awesome.
30:29
Dr. Bruce
He's involved with his daughter's skating.
30:30
Adam
Yeah, no, it's beautiful. I love his TV show. We should all do that with our jobs.
30:34
Dr. Bruce
Right, okay.
30:35
Adam
You just get a job, then you get three other jobs and you leave. It's awesome. You get paid the same. I come in here and do his job. It's beautiful. All right, enjoy. Enjoy. Josh?
30:47
Yeah, hi.
30:48
Adam
25?
30:49
Yeah, how you doing tonight, Adam?
30:51
Adam
Good, how you doing?
30:53
Pretty good. First of all, I want to say you're a brilliant man. You're going to be sorely missed if you leave.
30:58
Adam
Yeah, well, I'm going to.
31:00
Oh, that's terrible.
31:01
Adam
Enjoy me while you can, everybody.
31:05
Well, my question is-
31:06
Adam
I'm not kidding. Enjoy. I'm leaving.
31:09
Dr. Bruce
Leaving what?
31:10
Adam
This show.
31:11
Dr. Bruce
No.
31:12
Adam
Yeah.
31:12
Dr. Bruce
When?
31:14
Adam
Whenever Stern leaves. Yeah.
31:17
Dr. Bruce
So I get to go on the Stern show?
31:19
Adam
Hell no. We got to do a real radio show over there. Please.
31:23
Dr. Bruce
Is Drew going with you?
31:24
Adam
Hell no. He's going to stay here and drive this show to the ground. Well, I don't even know if he's going to be here. Maybe out doing other things.
31:32
Dr. Bruce
He'll have a network talk show. That's what I'm thinking. Yeah.
31:36
Adam
Go ahead, Josh.
31:38
All right. Well, my question is for Dr. Bruce.
31:40
Adam
All right.
31:41
What's the limitations on tattoos to be removed? Like I have a full half sleeve that's just fully wrapped around the arm from shoulder to elbow. And that's professionally done. So it's not single needle and light ink or anything. What's your limitations on something like that?
31:58
Dr. Bruce
Okay. There's no limitation on tattoo removal. And I've done sleeves before. It's just-
32:02
Adam
What do you mean limitation?
32:04
Dr. Bruce
Well, how much can you remove? In other words, if you have a whole arm covered.
32:08
Adam
As many sessions as you want to go to, so it will have as much you can remove, right?
32:12
What about the finished product? I mean, how is it going to look? Is there a lot of scarring, or what's the case?
32:17
Dr. Bruce
No, generally, again, unless you have a genetic tendency to scar or keloid, the processes- it results in your skin looking pretty much the way it did before you got the tattoo. The darker, the more native pigment you have, the greater the chance that the tattoo removal process will remove some of that pigment, and you might have a little bit lighter area or darker.
32:38
Adam
Why do these people skeloid? Why do they keloid? Why do blacks keloid or Latinos keloid? More than honkies?
32:47
Dr. Bruce
I don't know the reason for that, but it's more common. I don't know why that is.
32:51
Adam
It's much more common, right? What is that?
32:55
Dr. Bruce
I could research, but it's a genetic predisposition.
32:58
Adam
It's a genetic thing, but I thought there's no difference between anybody.
33:01
Dr. Bruce
No, anybody can have keloid formation, but keloid is a response to...
33:04
Adam
But it's much more commonplace in blacks than it is in whites.
33:09
Dr. Bruce
Yeah, but the reason for that, other than the genetics, I don't know.
33:12
Caller
All right.
33:13
Dr. Bruce
But anyway, so, you can have the procedure done. It takes more time.
33:16
Adam
I'm saying, having these people suffered enough, you know what I mean? What's God's plan with that? We'll make them slaves. Oh, and if they cut themselves shaving, I'll put a huge scar on them. They'll never go away. You know what I mean? What kind of plan is that? What plan did God have?
33:32
Dr. Bruce
You can't blame God for all of this.
33:33
Adam
Oh, yes.
33:34
Dr. Bruce
You can. So Josh, are you dark skinned to begin with, or light skinned?
33:38
Oh, light skinned. I'm Irish, so...
33:40
Dr. Bruce
Okay, so the laser tattoo removal process is very forgiving. It's slow. It's very much these days non-traumatic. You go to a qualified practitioner and you generally have no bleeding.
33:50
Adam
It's gonna take multiple sessions.
33:53
Dr. Bruce
Right. The average of eight to 12 sessions once a month. And the problem with tattoo removal with the laser is it does hurt. And the topical anesthetics that are used are not that effective at penetrating to the area where the nerves are. The nerves are fairly deep. And you have to be careful with any kind of anesthetic. You can inject xylocaine and do a tattoo removal. When you have a large area like that, injection is out. You have to be very careful with potent topicals.
34:17
Adam
Injection won't cover that large area.
34:19
Dr. Bruce
It's too much of an area. In other words, you have to calculate the amount of xylocaine. There's a limit to how much you can inject because of toxicity. You can overdose on it.
34:27
Adam
Yeah.
34:27
Dr. Bruce
And this has even happened. There have been some cases in the news this year of people dying from the cream on.
34:32
Adam
How big an area can you cover in a session? As much as you can tolerate?
34:36
Dr. Bruce
I've done people that are sleeved in a session.
34:39
Adam
Do the whole sleeve? I've done the whole arm in one session. All the way, wrist up to the armpit in one session. How long might that take?
34:44
Dr. Bruce
Probably an hour.
34:45
Adam
About an hour. And then they come back a month later?
34:48
Dr. Bruce
A month later.
34:49
Adam
And they do another hour?
34:50
Dr. Bruce
Do it again.
34:51
Adam
And then 10 months from there might be done?
34:53
Dr. Bruce
Be very light by 10 months. But it just depends. I mean, I've had one guy, 35 treatments. Really? Yeah, with non-professional tattoos.
35:04
Adam
Are those harder to get out?
35:06
Dr. Bruce
Well, it just depends. Again, a lot of... They're using guitar strings and various things. So this guy had pooled ink in his skin.
35:16
Adam
So a prison tat?
35:17
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
35:18
Adam
Jewish guy?
35:19
Dr. Bruce
Yeah. Okay. Half Jewish, half Asian. Yeah.
35:24
Adam
Half Japanese, half Jewish. Yeah.
35:26
Dr. Bruce
That's...
35:26
Adam
Look, I don't want to stereotype, but I think we're all thinking Jew when you're talking about prison tats and bullying and that kind of thing.
35:32
Dr. Bruce
Well, I could tell you that's a white supremacist tats.
35:34
Adam
F the LAPD. Yeah. Give me a good white supremacist story. Yeah. Give me a good one.
35:39
Dr. Bruce
When I was a trauma comes in, a guy with...
35:42
Adam
Now you're working the OR.?
35:43
Dr. Bruce
ER.
35:44
Adam
I mean ER.
35:44
Dr. Bruce
Right. Very nasty anti-Semitic tattoos. Yeah. And he was very violent and belligerent. So I told him. Oh, he was?
35:52
Adam
Because here's the thing, why you don't want to get the anti-Semitic tats, because all the doctors are Jews. Well, you know, you come, you get, you get a motorcycle accident. You got a bunch of Jews standing over you. And it says FU. Heime on there. And they just let you die on the table.
36:08
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
36:09
Adam
So this guy's on the backboard.
36:10
Dr. Bruce
He's fighting. And this is getting towards the end of my ER career when I was a little burnt outside.
36:14
Adam
What does tat say?
36:16
Dr. Bruce
Oh, you know, just the white supremacist stuff, F, the Jews, and you know, very simple.
36:23
Adam
Is it standard fare?
36:24
Dr. Bruce
I sort of failed my Hippocratic Oath and I said, you know, this is a Jewish hospital, buddy, in the floor you're going to.
36:31
Adam
Was it? Yeah, but anyway, but yeah.
36:35
Dr. Bruce
But you know, I just, it's just amazing what, if you want to look at stupid tattoos, and I'm going to probably get myself shot, but some of the white supremacist tattoos are just.
36:45
Adam
Oh yeah, top of the list. I would like to do a coffee table book called Stupid Tattoos.
36:53
Dr. Bruce
It's probably been done. There's a new tattoo show that's going to be on TV.
36:57
Adam
I know, but that's not a coffee table book called Stupid Tattoos.
37:00
Dr. Bruce
That's true, you're right.
37:01
Adam
I got a couple of coffee table books I want. Speaking of race, you know my idea, 80s black Florida prom is a coffee table book.
37:12
Dr. Bruce
That's exciting. Simon and Schuster.
37:15
Adam
Huge, gerrymammoth gerry curls and like orange top hats and chicks with parasols. You know what I'm talking about? 80s black Florida prom. That'd be an awesome coffee table book.
37:28
Dr. Bruce
BET will be on the line tomorrow morning.
37:31
Adam
Well, I'm just saying that's a good coffee table book. That's a page turner there. But then stupid white supremacist tats or just stupid tats. Or actually we could have a whole different category.
37:44
Dr. Bruce
Stupid tats, stupid white supremacist tats. LA County Hospital does a lecture on stupid tats. Things like game over on the eyelids so when you close the eyes. Oh really? Also some guy had tattooed instructions on being taken to LA County ER when he shot because it's the best trauma center. Tattooed into his leg.
38:02
Adam
Tat?
38:02
Dr. Bruce
She's got a great lecture on that.
38:03
Adam
Didn't they have a F the LAPD?
38:05
Dr. Bruce
I've taken off three of those.
38:07
Adam
Three F the LAPD? Let me tell you something. You should get some sort of certificate after you take off two F the LAPD tats where next time you get pulled over they'll let you go. You know what I mean? How about a little love?
38:22
Dr. Bruce
I don't think there's a lot of love there.
38:23
Adam
That's all I'm saying. All right, we got to take a break. Jessica, who's 26, has a mole on her eyelids that keep growing out of control. Jessica?
38:35
Yes?
38:35
Adam
What's up?
38:37
Hey, well, see, I went to the doctor, ophthalmologist, actually, and he said that I could have it removed, but what would happen is that the eye would actually close up even more because they had to cut it off and then sew the eye closer together, and it's on my lower eyelid, and of course, I have Asian eyes, so that helps a lot.
38:59
Adam
You have what kind of eyes?
39:01
Asian eyes.
39:02
Adam
Oh, that's cool if you're Asian, but it's weird if you're not.
39:07
Yeah.
39:08
Adam
You're Asian then. Well, hold on a second. Another prompt, another book, by the way, coffee table book, this is Bar Mitzvah's 76 through 83.
39:23
Dr. Bruce
That, what about Bar Mitzvah's?
39:25
Adam
I look, I have a couple of Jewish buddies who were Bar Mitzvah'd probably, 13, probably like 77, 78, 79. I've seen their pictures.
39:36
Dr. Bruce
There's blackmail material.
39:37
Adam
You've never seen anything funny. It's just mammoth Jew fro, all braces and schnoz, 120 pounds. Today, you're a man. You know what I mean? Wearing their dad's corduroy suit or maybe a tux or some ruffles. Maybe like a Star Wars theme or something. Just nothing better.
39:55
Dr. Bruce
That's nothing funnier.
39:57
Adam
That's a good one. No, my 80s black Florida prom is strong too. Yeah. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. You'd love to see those pictures. 1982, Tallahassee, Florida. Crazy Jerry Curls.
40:12
Dr. Bruce
I think anything 70s, 80s, you know, is cultural.
40:15
Adam
There's going to be two good coffee table books right there. I'll put them right next to each other so people think I'm even handed.
40:21
Dr. Bruce
I'll invest in the department's foot book, I think.
40:23
Adam
Please. We'll take a quick break, quite down. Dr. Bruce Filman for Dr. Drew will talk to Jessica with the mole on the island after this.
40:35
Caller
Loveline, we'll be right back.
40:37
Please hold.
40:39
Caller
The One and Only Live 105.
40:49
Adam
Hey, everybody, it's Loveline. I'm Adam. That's Dr. Bruce. Dr. Bruce filling in for Dr. Drew. Don't worry, everybody. He's board certified, or at least he was. He's an addiction medicine specialist. He's a whiz with the laser. He'll remove your tats and make you look 20 years younger. And what else? ER medicine. This kid's good. He knows what he's doing.
41:17
Dr. Bruce
You ready to rock? I'm going to finish with Jessica.
41:19
Adam
Oh, Jessica over here, yeah. Jessica's Asian. Yes, Jessica?
41:24
Yes.
41:25
Adam
And you have mole on your eye, and if they remove it, it makes your eye squintier? Really?
41:35
Yeah. On one side only.
41:39
Adam
That'll just make people think you don't trust them.
41:42
Like a woman or something.
41:43
Adam
Yeah, like, mm-mm.
41:44
Dr. Bruce
But that's not... Yeah, that shouldn't happen. First of all, if you have a mole and it's changed, you know, all other bets are off. You got to get the thing biopsied. And it's not something you burn off or that you scrape off.
41:55
Adam
If a mole grows or changes anyway, you have to have to get a biopsy.
41:59
Dr. Bruce
Yeah. You know, the rule is if it changes in color, in size, in shape, irregular edges, anything like it, you have to have that biopsy. Now, you know, one possibility is having a dermatologist. Anybody can do the biopsy. But I work with a dermatologist, and she works with a specific plastic surgeon, and when they have delicate areas or certain cancer surgeries, he does the closure, she does the Mohs surgery, whatever it is that they're doing. But anyway, the bottom line is you need to have a biopsy. A biopsy goes to a dermatopathologist. They look at it under a microscope to make sure it's not cancerous. And with a mole, you worry about melanoma, obviously. And without seeing you and looking at you, these kind of things generally have a very good cosmetic result.
42:45
Adam
All right. So you...
42:46
With laser, you're saying, right?
42:47
No, no, no, no.
42:50
Dr. Bruce
You can't laser a mole. A mole has to be removed, cut out, sent to a pathologist, sliced up and looked at.
42:57
Adam
You don't want to laser it because you want to have it sent to a pathologist, right? OK. Maybe she needs to leave Sacramento and go to like San Francisco or something.
43:08
Dr. Bruce
No, you see Dave's... I mean, she's probably going to a qualified ophthalmologist and maybe it's not truly a mole. Maybe it's something that he's looked at and determined is...
43:16
Adam
All right. But it shouldn't close her eye because they remove a mole. Maybe he was talking about some sort of temporary swelling or something like that.
43:23
Dr. Bruce
Go to a dermatologist, please.
43:25
Adam
OK. All right. All right. Don't yell at her. Sean?
43:29
Yeah.
43:30
Adam
26?
43:31
That's me.
43:32
Adam
You're considering laser hair removal. Yeah.
43:36
On my scalp.
43:37
Adam
On your scalp. Why?
43:39
Because since I was 17, my hair fell out and I shave it, you know, two, three times a week. And it's just a pain. And I know, like at one point in time, didn't you? What you're thinking about it, didn't you?
43:51
Adam
I did.
43:53
Right. And Bruce did it, right?
43:54
Adam
No, no.
43:55
Dr. Bruce
That was a comedy.
43:56
Adam
So I'm sure you know that saw bones. Dr. Marcel did it and charged me retail, by the way. We've got damn tail.
44:04
Dr. Bruce
I could take a lesson from that guy.
44:06
Adam
No kidding.
44:07
Dr. Bruce
Listen, nobody's nobody's going to laser your scalp.
44:10
Adam
They're not. No. Why not?
44:12
Dr. Bruce
Because you may eventually want your scalp to grow in, grow back normally when there's much left. Well, it doesn't matter.
44:20
Adam
He has male tanner involved in it.
44:21
Dr. Bruce
Everybody's going to sue you. He won't do it. You won't do a scalp. You never touch eyebrows.
44:26
Adam
Couldn't get a guy to do that.
44:27
Dr. Bruce
Well, hey, listen. This is capitalism. You can get a guy to do it.
44:31
Adam
Marcel, you give him an eight ball, he'll do it. You give that kid like a pinky ring, eight ball and some tanning cream. Yeah, he'll do it.
44:38
Dr. Bruce
Okay.
44:38
Adam
Sure.
44:39
Dr. Bruce
Okay. So Sean, probably most people are going to refuse to do that because you could alter the hair follicles and the way that ultimately your hair, what's left of it grows back.
44:49
Adam
Now, your hair was falling out at 17, right?
44:53
Caller
Yeah, I seriously have no hairline at all. It doesn't grow on top. I got the Gallagher look around the sides. If I let it grow out and that's never going to be in style. So I know.
45:04
Dr. Bruce
Okay.
45:04
Caller
Yeah.
45:04
Dr. Bruce
But 10 years from now, you go back and some moron goes ahead and does your laser and you want to have the hair transplant thing where they harvest from the sides and fill your scalp.
45:12
Adam
All right. Let me-
45:13
Dr. Bruce
You can't do it.
45:14
Adam
All right. Let me- Let me- Let me address the lad. First off, you think you're lucky stars. You are going bald in the 90s instead of, what would have happened if you'd done it in the 70s, in which case you would have had to look like Gallagher or Bozo or a-
45:32
Dr. Bruce
Mullet.
45:33
Adam
Or no, no mullet. You don't even got anything up top.
45:36
Dr. Bruce
Just that long thing.
45:37
Adam
Yeah. It looked like Crosby from Crosby, Stills and Nash. I mean, here's the thing. There was a time. Let me just preach a little from the mountaintop here, kiddies. There was a time where you had to wear your hair long, even if you only had four hairs. They had to be long. There was no such thing as shaving your head. There was no such thing as going with the style that best suited your hair. Now, here's the hair style. Whatever works best for your hair. If you have wavy hair, then you wear it a little more natural. If you have straight hair, you can wear it long. If you're going balding, shave it. Shave it straight on out. No problem. You don't think Vin Diesel can get laid. You don't think Michael Jordan gets a little tail on occasion. No problem. Now, back in the day, you had one way to wear your hair. That was long and sort of feathered back. Which was fine if your hair would do that. My hair wouldn't do that. And there are other people's hair wouldn't do that. So they just look like idiots.
46:40
Dr. Bruce
But you tried. Everybody had to try it. Mine would grow 90 degree angles from my school.
46:44
Adam
Right. And then, yeah, you look like a blockhead from from Gumby and Pokey. Remember them?
46:53
Dr. Bruce
Oh yeah.
46:53
Adam
Here's the thing. So if you were like, you know, if you were Crosby, David Crosby, and you're a rocker, and you're in a band, but you're going bald, but it was 1974, you just had to be bald up top and have this weird crazy mad scientist bushy hair hanging around your ears. You just look like Odd Job from the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Everyone just look like an idiot. See now you wear the best hair you have. You guys don't realize how lucky you have it. You just don't. You want to go bald? Go bald. You want to wear dreads? Go dreads. You want to go with a buzz cut? Go buzz. You want to go with a butch cut or flat top, feathered, long, ponytail, whatever you like, whatever you want, whatever works best for your head.
47:36
Dr. Bruce
So, what's your advice to Sean?
47:37
Adam
Huh?
47:38
Dr. Bruce
What should Sean do?
47:39
Adam
With his eye? No. Here's the thing. I got that laser on my neck because I would get ingrown hairs on my neck when I shaved and I decided to get them lasered off. I went in two times. All it did was grow back and grow back underneath the skin and get ingrown when they did come back. I went two times. It didn't really work.
48:00
Dr. Bruce
Well, it can take five to seven treatments.
48:01
Adam
That's all I'm saying. We're going to take a break, and I got to charge retail. We're going to take a quick break. And I'm literally a millionaire. I can't afford to be charged retail. We'll take a quick break. We'll be right back after this.
48:40
Caller
Yeah, everybody.
48:44
Caller
It's Loveline.
48:45
Adam
Madam, that's Dr. Bruce. Dr. Bruce. Frightened over there, everybody. Phone number, 1-800-LOVE-191. What's going on? Gary Busey coming in here on Sunday, oh.
49:03
Dr. Bruce
That could be an interesting show.
49:06
Adam
I mean, no talking with him in here.
49:08
Dr. Bruce
No, it's like Steve Walden.
49:10
Adam
No, proselytizing, waving that Bible around.
49:14
Dr. Bruce
I saw him with the guy from Corn. They're teamed up.
49:18
Adam
Steven Baldwin, Jonathan?
49:21
Dr. Bruce
The guy that became a Christian.
49:22
Adam
Monkey, face, peach, nut, head, what the hell?
49:26
Dr. Bruce
You got the dreadlocks.
49:28
Adam
Let's see, there was head. I'm trying to think of the corn guys. There was Jonathan, then there was Monkey, then there was Head, then there was Feely, and there's one guy named Brad.
49:43
Dr. Bruce
Brian?
49:43
Adam
Or something.
49:44
Dr. Bruce
Yeah, that's the guy.
49:44
Adam
The drummer just...
49:45
Dr. Bruce
The guitarist.
49:47
Adam
Brian. Yeah, I think his name is Head. Feely plays the bass.
49:55
Dr. Bruce
Got to look it up in the internet.
49:56
Adam
Monkey.
49:57
Dr. Bruce
You know, all the corn fans are going to call in now. Yeah, I can't rate you for not having intimate knowledge.
50:02
Adam
I got five out of the six guys.
50:04
Dr. Bruce
That's pretty good.
50:04
Adam
It's been a while.
50:05
Dr. Bruce
So anyway, Steve Baldwin, he were on.
50:08
Adam
Well, Steve Baldwin, last time I saw Steve Baldwin, I was doing Stern and I was out in New York and Gary, Stern's producer, called me and he's like, what's up? And I was like, who's on, who's on today? He's like, you're on and Stephen Baldwin's Stephen Baldwin's on. And I was like, that guy. I mean, I actually like Stephen Baldwin, but you don't just go in and talk with Stephen Baldwin.
50:35
Dr. Bruce
I was here last time he was here.
50:37
Adam
He thumps the Bible. Yeah. He's an intense guy.
50:40
Dr. Bruce
The most shocking thing was your lack of, I mean, you just, I've never seen you speechless before.
50:45
Adam
Yeah. Oh, it's hard because he's going. So I'm talking to Gary Stern's producer. I'm like, when's Baldwin out of there? He's like, well, Baldwin's out of here at eight. I said, good. I'll see you at eight or five. And I can plug my shows or do whatever. So he's like, what's the problem with Baldwin? I'm like, listen, he's thumping the Bible. He's speaking in tongues. It's just, I don't want to deal with that guy. Let him go into his thing. Let him blow blow hard about Jesus and then I'll come in. Is that fine? So I show up at about eight o'clock, you know, ready to go on. Where's Baldwin? He's not here yet. Where is he? He's running late. Oh, you want to go on? Yeah, I'll go on. Then I go on. As soon as my ass hits the sofa and I pull the mic up. Here comes Stephen Baldwin. Oh, and by the way, Howard should have heard Adam on the phone. Tell me what a blowhard he was. Sit on down there. Sit next to Adam, Steve. So what is this, Gary? What was he saying about Stephen? Yeah, it's awesome.
51:49
Dr. Bruce
Everything happens for a reason, Adam.
51:51
Adam
That's...
51:53
Dr. Bruce
You know they did that on purpose.
51:54
Adam
I know. I don't even know what the hell I'm doing. I don't know why I talk anymore. I should stop.
52:00
Before you get the corn fans talking, it's Jonathan Davis, Monkey Head, Fieldy and David.
52:05
Adam
David. David who? The point is, David's the drummer, right?
52:11
Dr. Bruce
Who's the guitarist?
52:13
David is the guitarist, I believe.
52:15
Adam
No, he's the drummer.
52:16
Dr. Bruce
Ryan or something.
52:17
Adam
The guitarist is Head or Monkey.
52:22
Dr. Bruce
Alright.
52:22
Adam
Monkey Head.
52:23
Dr. Bruce
Okay. I'm sure he's got a name.
52:26
Adam
Most parents can name him Head. We'll call him Monkey. Monkey Wittenberg. But he changed his last name when he got into show business.
52:39
Yes.
52:40
Adam
You're 29?
52:41
Caller
Yes.
52:42
Adam
What's up?
52:45
Caller
I've had a tattoo for, gosh, I got it when I was 13, so going on 14 years. The tattoo is really old. It was homemade, just a sewing needle and thread. It was real simple.
52:57
Adam
What a mess.
52:58
Caller
Yeah, tell me.
52:59
Adam
Why did you, did you give yourself a tat at 13?
53:03
No.
53:05
Adam
Friended or something? You must have been effed up at 13.
53:10
Caller
So anyways, as I was saying.
53:12
Adam
What was it of?
53:13
Caller
It was a real, it was just an outline of a heart. It wasn't a solid heart. It was just a thin line of a heart with an arrow through it. So, you know, I've carried this tattoo for a long time and kind of sat around and tossed it. Should I cover it? Should I get it removed? I'm not sure, blah, blah, blah. So I come down to LA and I finally decide, well, you know what, if I'm going to get my tattoo removed, this is the best place to get it done. You know, there's a mecca of plastic surgeons down here who are all, you know, someone's going to do some good work. So I meet a plastic surgeon who is down in Beverly Hills and he tells me that he can remove my tattoo. And he's very confident because I'm, you know, I'm Caucasian, blonde hair, blue eyes, real fair skinned.
53:55
Adam
All right.
53:56
Caller
So, you know, I think I'm thinking this is, this is a great idea for me to go ahead and do this. And he doesn't have his laser at his site. He, we have to go to Frederick Sakai to do this. So I was very, you know, I'm really good about this.
54:09
Adam
And he goes, is that the guy from Star Trek that died? No, who's Frederick Sakai?
54:14
Caller
It's a salon. So he tells me that it's going to take about four or five sessions before this is completely done. And he does tell me, you know, it really just, it's based upon your skin tone and, you know, your scarring.
54:30
Adam
All right, all right. Let's get to it. You must be good looking, Candace.
54:34
Caller
I go in, I get the scar, I get the tattoo removed and it's done within one session. And within one session, the whole tattoo is just obliterated. It's all right.
54:44
Adam
But then because you, did you bleed?
54:47
Caller
A little bit, I did bleed. And, but the thing was is that within, I don't know, about a week, you know, it really, when it, when he first initially did it, it almost looked like shrinky dink. You know, the things that you would put in the oven and it would kind of just shrink up. That's what it looked like, the tattoo had done. And then it got really infected. I mean, I wouldn't say pussy, but it was, I don't know, kind of like if you were to pull back a scab that it had been.
55:17
Adam
All right. Then now really, what's the question though, Candace?
55:21
Caller
Well, the thing, I have a keloid and it's really, it's a horrible scar now. And it's not even a scar of the outline of the tattoo. It's basically.
55:31
Dr. Bruce
Yeah, I'm surprised it took that long.
55:33
Adam
Whew, she talks more than I do.
55:36
Dr. Bruce
It's probably better.
55:37
Adam
Now, do you, oh, she's definitely hot.
55:40
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
55:41
Adam
Because the hotter you are, the more you talk because people don't tell you to shut up. But over the radio, it just sounds like someone who can't shut their vile.
55:47
Dr. Bruce
She has the ability to project that good looking. She does.
55:49
Adam
To her confidence. I'm turned on. So listen, Bruce.
55:53
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
55:54
Adam
Did the guy try to do too much too fast? Perhaps he should have done this over a number of sessions and tried to get it all in one session?
56:01
Dr. Bruce
No. I mean, there's no telling. It sounds like, well, I don't know what it sounds like. All right. Well, here's the deal, though.
56:06
Adam
Here's the problem. What do you think? Something good is going to come out?
56:09
Dr. Bruce
Let me tell you this, mister.
56:12
Adam
Nothing's coming out.
56:13
Dr. Bruce
Here's something interesting. Candice.
56:14
Adam
Yeah.
56:15
Dr. Bruce
Okay. The problem with tattoos, you don't know what's in the ink. And it sounds like, first of all, I don't know if you had a history of keloid scarring and you didn't tell them.
56:23
Adam
No.
56:23
Dr. Bruce
You didn't ask, whatever. But I have researched tattoo inks because I had nothing better to do. And they're actually, you never know what's in these inks. They're people putting acrylics, they're putting plastic compounds in the inks.
56:35
Adam
She did it herself as a ballpoint pen.
56:37
Caller
No, I wasn't listening.
56:39
Dr. Bruce
Oh, what ink did you, how'd you make the ink though?
56:41
Adam
I know, but what ink?
56:43
Caller
It was Indian ink, what I was told. It was a long time ago, though.
56:46
Dr. Bruce
India inks usually just, you know, a breeze. That comes out really.
56:49
Adam
What's in a ballpoint pen?
56:51
Dr. Bruce
Asking me?
56:52
Adam
Yeah.
56:53
Dr. Bruce
Ink?
56:54
Caller
So, would, if this was...
56:55
Dr. Bruce
Oh, no, I don't know what's in the tie in the ballpoint pen.
56:57
Caller
If the ink that they used to give me the tattoo, if it was something that was kind of, that shouldn't have been used, wouldn't I have noticed by now? I mean, would it have taken me getting the tattoo removed to notice, oh, maybe there was something really bad in the ink? No, no, no. For 15 years.
57:13
Dr. Bruce
Yeah, the problem is, there's nothing considered bad to, well, it's not.
57:17
Adam
There are various... Bruce, what is your field of expertise, by the way? Do you do transmissions, or what do you work on?
57:23
Dr. Bruce
Tattoo ink is unpredictable.
57:25
Adam
Well, don't give her some answers, would you? You're all over the goddamn place. Let's go, give her some answers.
57:31
Dr. Bruce
She has some scarring, she needs to see a lot of surgery.
57:33
Adam
Why, why?
57:34
Dr. Bruce
Because, first of all...
57:35
Adam
Because of the ink?
57:36
Dr. Bruce
No, because any trauma to the skin, if you have keloids...
57:39
Adam
She doesn't tend to keloid.
57:41
Dr. Bruce
Okay.
57:42
Adam
Why?
57:43
Dr. Bruce
Then it could be an overly...
57:45
Adam
Why did it all come out in one session?
57:48
Dr. Bruce
I have no idea.
57:49
Adam
Do you think he may have spent too much time in the one session and not spread it out?
57:54
Dr. Bruce
It could be, but the laser that's used, even if you go over and over and over, generally it doesn't penetrate that deeply.
58:02
Adam
Why not do less sessions and stay longer? It won't work that way?
58:09
Dr. Bruce
He was anticipating doing multiple sessions, but the problem...
58:14
Adam
All right, you have no answers. Okay, listen.
58:17
Dr. Bruce
If you're having a tattoo.
58:18
Adam
I'm apologizing for Bruce. He's having a tough night. He's just having a tough night.
58:22
Dr. Bruce
So you have scarring now? No, I do have it.
58:23
Adam
Yeah, she has scarring now. It got infected.
58:26
Dr. Bruce
Okay.
58:27
Adam
You have answers for her.
58:30
Dr. Bruce
How long ago was this?
58:31
Caller
This was, I'm gonna say about five months ago. And he just told me to put like aquaphor on it. And when I went back to him after about a week, two weeks, I said, does this still look like that? I should just be using aquaphor because it was really affected. And he was really apprehensive. He didn't want to tell me it was infected. He just said, oh, it looks really angry. I'm like, yeah, I can tell. You know, it is, it's upset.
58:56
Adam
Candace, where's your dad? You sound angry at men, baby. What's going on?
59:05
Caller
So my question is-
59:06
Adam
Where, where? My question is, where's your dad? What happened? When did he split?
59:10
Caller
He lives in Oregon.
59:11
Adam
Oh, when did he move?
59:14
Caller
Not that long ago. He retired there.
59:16
Adam
He retired to Oregon from Los Angeles?
59:19
Caller
No, from Monterey.
59:20
Adam
That, is that where you grew up?
59:22
Caller
Pretty much. Well, for the last 13 years.
59:24
Adam
Wow. And what happened? Where's the trauma? Why were you giving yourself a homemade tattoo at 13?
59:30
Caller
The trauma was when I got my tattoo removed.
59:32
Adam
Why were you giving yourself a tat at 13?
59:35
Caller
But that's not what this talk show is about.
59:37
Adam
I don't know. Contrary, baby. First off is about whatever I want to talk about. Number one, number two is exactly what it's about. So I want to know what happened to you. And then we'll tell you what to do with your tat.
59:50
Caller
Well, nothing happened.
59:51
Adam
Well, something happened. Come on.
59:54
Caller
Well, what are you looking for?
59:56
Adam
Well, you gave yourself a tattoo at 13 with a sewing needle. Something's up.
1:00:01
Caller
Well, I just said I didn't have a whole lot of supervision. But I grew out of that stage and now-
1:00:06
Adam
Monterey. Dad's in Oregon. Hippie. Hippie parents?
1:00:11
Caller
Kind of. He was a-
1:00:14
Adam
Yeah. Sold dope. Yeah. Yeah. Sold weed.
1:00:19
Caller
I can tell he was hippie. That's what he was.
1:00:21
Caller
He was a conservative, successful hippie.
1:00:24
Adam
Selfish, smoked pot, more into his business than into you. You're acting out. Yeah. Now-
1:00:30
Caller
I'm still broken hearted over it.
1:00:32
Adam
Little anger toward the fellas, though. You're angry, baby. I can hear it in you. Do you have a man?
1:00:37
Caller
I'm angry because of this tattoo because I've been away for so long and I like tattoos.
1:00:43
Adam
I think she dropped the S-bomb.
1:00:45
Caller
Yeah.
1:00:46
Adam
Bruce, you're done tonight, buddy. You got nothing. You just got nothing. You know what it is? Let me explain what's going on.
1:00:54
Dr. Bruce
What's going on?
1:00:55
Adam
I am the skipper of the baseball team and I'm coming out to the mound and you're arguing with me. I'm giving I'm going to bullpen right now. He's starting warming up. I'm giving you the hook.
1:01:07
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
1:01:07
Adam
And you're saying skipper, I still know you're getting shelved.
1:01:11
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
1:01:11
Adam
And here's what I'm saying. Like any good skipper, you're not a bad pitcher. It's not your night.
1:01:17
Dr. Bruce
Yeah. I'm that guy in the Rangers. I'm going to kick your ass.
1:01:20
Adam
You're just you're just you're having a bad night. You're getting shelved. OK, listen, I'll take a look at your junk's not working. No, the sliders aren't sliding and breaking balls and breaking slide. No movement, no movement on the ball. Fastballs in the low 80s. I'm giving you the hook. Take that jacket, you know, do that thing with the windbreaker. We just put on one arm. You're too lazy to actually put on the analogy one step further. I'm just giving you the hook.
1:01:49
Dr. Bruce
And so I'm a, and then who's the doctor replacing me, you?
1:01:52
Adam
Well, that's the thing. There's nobody in the bullpen.
1:01:55
Dr. Bruce
You're screwed.
1:01:56
Adam
I'd rather just, I'd rather just forfeit, have the game called.
1:02:01
Dr. Bruce
Let me talk to Candace.
1:02:01
Adam
No.
1:02:03
Dr. Bruce
I'll look at her tattoo.
1:02:04
Adam
Candace.
1:02:05
Caller
Yeah.
1:02:06
Dr. Bruce
Here, I'll talk to you off the air and we'll, I'll check your tattoo next week.
1:02:09
Adam
Do you have a boyfriend?
1:02:11
Caller
Yes.
1:02:12
Adam
You do?
1:02:13
Caller
I do.
1:02:14
Adam
How's that going? Yeah? What's he into?
1:02:22
Caller
Acting.
1:02:23
Adam
Yeah.
1:02:24
Caller
Oh, boy. Oh, boy.
1:02:26
Dr. Bruce
Is he a waiter?
1:02:28
Caller
No.
1:02:29
Adam
What do you do? What do you do for a living?
1:02:30
Caller
I'm in the jewelry business.
1:02:32
Adam
Jewelry business?
1:02:33
Caller
Yes.
1:02:34
Caller
All right.
1:02:35
Adam
Nice. Is that good living?
1:02:37
Caller
It can be.
1:02:39
Adam
I'll get her number.
1:02:40
Dr. Bruce
Now, where was the tattoo?
1:02:41
Caller
On my breast.
1:02:42
Dr. Bruce
Oh, okay. Now.
1:02:44
Adam
Angry.
1:02:44
Dr. Bruce
Breast. And that is an area that's prone to scarring. And sometimes they'll mention that to you. Sometimes you'll do a little test spot first.
1:02:54
Caller
That would be nice. Cause then I wouldn't have had a tattoo put over it.
1:02:57
Adam
Right.
1:02:58
Caller
All right.
1:02:58
Adam
So now she has a keloid scar there.
1:03:00
Caller
So what can I do about the keloid? Is there any kind of cosmetic procedure that I can go through with that might make- All right.
1:03:08
Dr. Bruce
So you're sure it's a keloid?
1:03:09
Adam
Yes. Now what?
1:03:11
Dr. Bruce
Go. Oh, okay. You can use intralesional steroids. Okay. You can see a dermatologist.
1:03:16
Adam
Go see a dermatologist. Let's just leave it at that.
1:03:18
Dr. Bruce
Okay. And there also are laser and surgical procedures to address keloids.
1:03:23
Adam
All right. So go to a dermatologist. That's your next stop.
1:03:25
Dr. Bruce
Right.
1:03:26
Adam
Okay. Let's talk to, you got nothing tonight. Is this, you know, you don't have, that's all right.
1:03:33
Dr. Bruce
I'm in my Dr. Spaz persona.
1:03:35
Adam
You've had some good nights here. This, you know, this just isn't one of them. That's all.
1:03:39
Dr. Bruce
Oh, shaking my confidence for the rest of the.
1:03:41
Adam
What confidence? You have no confidence.
1:03:44
Did you put sugar in your coffee?
1:03:46
Adam
Did you put the 26 sugars in your coffees? That's normally what gives you your confidence.
1:03:50
Dr. Bruce
I only have six sugars.
1:03:52
Adam
And five sweet and lows. How many sweet and lows do you put in one coffee?
1:03:57
Dr. Bruce
Five sweet and lows or three sweet and lows and four sugars.
1:04:01
Adam
Some. Yeah, it's like most people have to put half a sweet and low in the coffee otherwise it tastes too bitter. He puts five of them in there. What happens? Someone take a soldering iron to the inside of your mouth.
1:04:10
Dr. Bruce
No.
1:04:11
Adam
What happened?
1:04:11
Dr. Bruce
Okay. You know, it's the same question I have and you blow it off all the time. You ever drink soda? How many teaspoons of sugar is it? Okay, why do people drink water?
1:04:22
Caller
You want to talk about that?
1:04:23
Dr. Bruce
You don't listen to anything.
1:04:25
Adam
You just, you're pig headed. Listen, when someone has something to say, that's when I'll listen.
1:04:31
Dr. Bruce
No. When someone has something to say, that you agree with, that's when you'll listen.
1:04:35
Adam
You, it's like I just backed over a cat or something. It's nothing. Nothing coming out. Justin?
1:04:42
Yeah.
1:04:43
Adam
You're 19?
1:04:45
Caller
Yes, sir. I was wondering if, first of all, I mean, I'm extremely, extremely fond of you and I admire you like crazy. I'm kind of nervous talking to you actually.
1:04:55
Adam
You talking about Bruce?
1:04:57
Caller
You talking about Bruce?
1:04:58
Caller
No, I'm a little nervous.
1:05:00
Adam
No, I just mean you're a big fan of Bruce?
1:05:02
Caller
No, I'm a big fan of you and Dr. Drew.
1:05:04
Adam
I was trying to build-
1:05:05
Caller
I was wondering since Bruce is having such a week night, if you could get Drew on the phone for me.
1:05:13
Dr. Bruce
How about where's Dr. Drew?
1:05:14
Adam
He can't come to the phone though. He's underneath a hooker at a Ramada in Omaha. He can't talk.
1:05:22
Dr. Bruce
Yeah. So you're stuck with me, Justin.
1:05:24
Adam
Yeah. Let me tell you something.
1:05:26
Caller
No, no, no. I'm not stuck with you. I'm more than happy to have just-
1:05:28
Adam
Yeah. Bruce is good. You just can't tell by talking to him. Well-
1:05:36
Dr. Bruce
A little insight, Justin. If you were sitting this close to Adam Corolla for two hours at a time, then you'd be off at the- Yeah, Dr. Drew is on tranquilizers now and it's-
1:05:45
Adam
Oh, please...
1:05:45
Dr. Bruce
.from years of dealing with Dr. Corolla. Please.
1:05:48
Adam
All right. Go ahead, Justin. What's your question?
1:05:51
Caller
All right. I was with my girlfriend for a while and she always had fever blisters. I had never had one and after I kissed her, I noticed that I did have a fever blister. I was wondering if in my next relationship, I kiss a girl and then she gives me oral, if she can put it down there on me.
1:06:12
Adam
What do you think, Bruce? Yeah.
1:06:14
Dr. Bruce
Herpes one and two can be exchanged in either direction.
1:06:16
Adam
They can?
1:06:17
Dr. Bruce
Yes.
1:06:17
Adam
They didn't always think that, did they? Or did they?
1:06:20
Dr. Bruce
Yes.
1:06:20
Adam
They did? Okay. Not a good spot to be in. I think Drew begged to differ. There's a couple of things I've learned from sitting next to Drew, the 2.3 times a week he averages being here over the last 10 years, which is any kind of cold sores herpes. Almost everything is herpes according to Drew, although I think he likes the idea that people have herpes. She just diagnoses everything as herpes. Cold sores are a form of herpes, and if you get them, then you can spread them and you can spread them even if there's nothing present or nothing visible. Eventually, you got to lead your life, you know what I mean? So if you're a guy like Justin and you have a new girlfriend, is it okay to make out with her if there's nothing present?
1:07:12
Dr. Bruce
Yes.
1:07:13
Adam
Okay. Well, then have at it, but wait till there's nothing present, and it can't be moments before something's coming. So you have to keep an eye on yourself.
1:07:23
Caller
Yeah. I haven't had a blood test or anything, and I do have pimples, so I wasn't absolutely sure, but there's a blood test to do any dermatologist.
1:07:32
Adam
They have to see it pretty much.
1:07:34
Dr. Bruce
You can scrape it.
1:07:36
Caller
Yeah.
1:07:36
Adam
But you have to wait till you have a herpes outbreak and then go in and have someone look at it.
1:07:42
Dr. Bruce
Yeah. But even the smear that you do to look for it under the microscope, people just don't do that. They'll look at it and they'll diagnose it that way and give you a face.
1:07:50
Adam
So they'll eyeball it, right?
1:07:51
Dr. Bruce
Eyeball it, right.
1:07:52
Adam
Yeah. They can train the eye to tell the difference between a zit and a herpe.
1:07:55
Dr. Bruce
Yes.
1:07:56
Adam
Yeah?
1:07:56
Dr. Bruce
Yes.
1:07:57
Adam
Okay.
1:07:57
Dr. Bruce
All right.
1:07:58
Adam
We're getting back on track. How about Amber? She's donating her eggs.
1:08:02
Dr. Bruce
Hmm? Hmm? To pay for school.
1:08:05
Adam
Amber?
1:08:05
Yes.
1:08:07
Adam
You're considering being a egg donor to pay for school?
1:08:12
I am considering it, yes.
1:08:14
Adam
Now, let's go ahead and put that in a different sentence. Like, we'll change the word egg for car. She's considering donating her car to pay for school.
1:08:28
Dr. Bruce
First of all, she's not donating anything.
1:08:30
Adam
That's what I'm saying. She's going to donate her old refrigerator to pay for school. Donate. Now, I haven't looked it up in the dictionary in a while, but once you look up donate, see how that's defined. I'm guessing there's no definition in donate, which suggests you get $5,500 when you donate something. I think it actually goes against the actual definition of donate to sell something, and we call it donate because it makes you feel better about yourself, just like we say it's pro-choice instead of pro-abortion.
1:09:05
Dr. Bruce
Right, but there's an association between the word donate and harvesting, I think. When you're talking about an egg coming out.
1:09:11
Adam
No, there's no, no, no. What do you think? What do you think? A farmer harvests his wheat and then donates it into a silo?
1:09:19
Dr. Bruce
That's a rather concrete analogy.
1:09:21
Adam
Thank you.
1:09:22
Dr. Bruce
Yes.
1:09:23
Adam
I take that as a compliment. Yeah. Amber?
1:09:26
Yes.
1:09:27
Adam
You're gonna sell your eggs?
1:09:28
Yes.
1:09:29
Adam
And how much?
1:09:31
$5,000 and you can do it up to three times.
1:09:34
Adam
Three times?
1:09:35
Dr. Bruce
Wow.
1:09:35
Adam
Jesus Christ. I would have sold a toe for $2,500 when I was 21 and I would have done it up to ten times.
1:09:42
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
1:09:43
Adam
Yeah.
1:09:43
Dr. Bruce
Kidneys, they're gone after all.
1:09:45
Adam
What do you look like?
1:09:47
I'm about 5'5, 150 pound, brown hair, green eyes.
1:09:53
Adam
What does that have to do with it? Why?
1:09:56
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
1:09:57
Adam
Because you get more if you're college educated, you get more if you're taller, you get more if you're blonde, you get more if you're blue eyed, if you're short, you get less.
1:10:05
Dr. Bruce
That's sperm donation. It floats around.
1:10:07
Adam
No, that's egg donation.
1:10:09
Dr. Bruce
I don't believe it.
1:10:10
Adam
What do you mean you don't believe it? It's the truth.
1:10:14
Dr. Bruce
OK. Yeah.
1:10:15
Adam
If you look like Cindy Crawford, you get more for your eggs. If you're, you know, if you're 4'4, and 220 pounds, you don't you don't get to donate an egg.
1:10:25
Caller
You have to give money.
1:10:26
Adam
You're stupid. There's those things. Yeah. It's like, hey, Tammy, how much for the egg? $8. That doesn't sound like much. It's all I could afford. Actually, I had to pay.
1:10:37
Dr. Bruce
So, Amber, what kind of screening process did you go through?
1:10:39
Adam
And they ask you like stuff about the education level, right?
1:10:43
Dr. Bruce
Right.
1:10:43
Well, what I'm actually calling for is I wanted to ask you what they might disqualify me for.
1:10:50
Adam
Well, what have you been up to?
1:10:52
Up to their discretion that they'll disqualify you for.
1:10:56
Adam
Well, read us. Do you have any of the literature? Or can you tell us anything?
1:11:01
Yeah, I looked online. And they just they want you to submit like all this information to consider you and then they get back to you if they want. That's basically what I said.
1:11:13
Adam
Thanks for that specific example. Do you have any? They want you to give a bunch of information. Do you have anything in front of you that you could tell us?
1:11:23
No, not really. Not offhand. That's why I'm calling you guys. I want to know.
1:11:27
Adam
Well, here's the thing. I imagine if you were a former junkie or if you have some physical abnormality or something of that nature, they could hold that against you. If you got arrested for indecent exposure one time or your camp counselor found some pot on you or you said you were 5'5, but you're really only 5'4, or you said you graduated college, but you only went for three years, I don't think that stuff's going to be a problem.
1:12:00
Caller
Right. What I'm concerned about is that I've been pregnant before and twice actually, and I did take the RU-486 drugs.
1:12:08
Adam
Well, is there anything?
1:12:09
Dr. Bruce
I don't think that would be an exclusionary.
1:12:11
Adam
I don't think so either, but is there anything on the paperwork that suggests something different?
1:12:17
Caller
It says that you have to go through a physical and if you have any genetic disorders or like diseases in your family, then they won't consider you.
1:12:29
Adam
All right, well, that's not that though. You're probably fine. So you're 5'5, 150?
1:12:34
Caller
Yes.
1:12:36
Adam
A little bit heavy. And is it 5'000 straight across the board or do you think we could, like if you had a doctorate, could it be more than 5'000?
1:12:46
Caller
I doubt it.
1:12:47
Dr. Bruce
So you haven't been offered the 5'000?
1:12:49
Caller
Not yet, no. I haven't even gone through the screening process.
1:12:53
Adam
Does it say up to 5'000?
1:12:54
Caller
No, it says 5'000 per donation.
1:12:58
Dr. Bruce
Yeah, no, seriously, there are, there's an exhaustive process usually looking at evidence of genetic factors and I'd be surprised if they're not actually looking at it.
1:13:09
Adam
What's your degree of education?
1:13:12
Caller
I'm getting into the nursing program in January.
1:13:15
Adam
Uh-oh, junior college?
1:13:16
Caller
Yep.
1:13:19
Adam
I'm gonna have to deduct 1500.
1:13:20
Caller
But you know what, I have had to take organic chemistry and biological chemistry and general chemistry and anatomy and physiology and general microbiology, so.
1:13:31
Adam
At the junior college level, though.
1:13:33
Caller
Um, you know, actually, my professors teach at UC Davis as well.
1:13:38
Adam
Right, then they have a huge bong load and go to junior college and teach those non-scills.
1:13:44
Caller
No, I really don't agree with your dismay over junior college students.
1:13:49
Adam
Look, you know that the only exception I make for junior college is for nursing students.
1:13:54
Caller
I know.
1:13:55
I do know that.
1:13:56
Adam
You made it under the radar and you are not one of the people I'm worried about. You actually take your classes, you're moving toward a specific degree, and you're going to make a living in this field. I'm worried about the hessier you see in the quad, who's just hanging around eating a granola bar that will never get to the bottom to. He's 27 and he just doesn't want to move off his dad's sofa. That's the lion's share of the idiots you go to junior college with.
1:14:23
Caller
Trust me, I know all about it.
1:14:25
Adam
Yes, you are amongst the elite.
1:14:27
Dr. Bruce
Are you sure you're not reflecting back on 70s community college? I just take summer course. I'm in Nassau Community College. Great. Oh yeah, summer classes were great.
1:14:35
Adam
Great, because you had a lot of hot chicks, because hot chicks are dumb and they make it in the junior college.
1:14:40
Dr. Bruce
Well, and the professors were smoking so much pot back then.
1:14:42
Adam
I know.
1:14:43
Dr. Bruce
Classes for anthropology, abnormal psych, I had a great class.
1:14:46
Adam
Here's the deal, you're a crappy student in high school, that's why you end up in junior college. That's all. You're not a good student. You need to either go to work or go to the military. Yes, there are a handful of success stories, a handful, and a sea of idiots. It ain't worth the couple of... We got to play the odds in society. Do you know what I mean? I know people who have been going to junior college 17, 18 years. It just becomes some sort of purgatory for retards.
1:15:18
Dr. Bruce
I don't know if you could do it now. I knew guys...
1:15:20
Adam
Purgatard, I call it. Purgatardy.
1:15:23
Dr. Bruce
I knew guys that extended their high school by two years, somehow hid the transcript, then started regular college, got into med school.
1:15:30
Adam
No, please.
1:15:31
Dr. Bruce
Very devious guys.
1:15:32
Adam
No, you know one guy who did that.
1:15:33
Dr. Bruce
I do know one guy who did that. He had a great time.
1:15:35
Adam
One guy.
1:15:35
Dr. Bruce
Two extra years in high school.
1:15:37
Adam
One guy.
1:15:37
Dr. Bruce
Partied.
1:15:38
Adam
Yeah. Junior college is just some sort of... It's just some sort of treadmill for stupid people. Just killing time before they actually admit they're bad students and they get a job. Unless they're in the nursing program. Then they're doing something.
1:15:54
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
1:15:54
Adam
All right?
1:15:55
Dr. Bruce
Two year nursing degree is wonderful. All right.
1:15:57
Adam
We'll take a... Although they're all nuts. All nurses are nuts.
1:16:02
Dr. Bruce
Okay.
1:16:02
Adam
We know that. Take a quick break and when we come back we'll speak to Amanda. Lesbian who wants to get a boob job. Girlfriend is giving her an ultimatum. Doesn't want the boob job. Or wants her boob job.
1:16:17
Dr. Bruce
We can really help this person.
1:16:18
Adam
Does she want? Does a girlfriend not want you to have it, Amanda?
1:16:23
No. She doesn't want me to get him.
1:16:25
Adam
Alright. What size are you?
1:16:27
I'm a B.
1:16:31
Adam
Oh, boob job. Oh, I was thinking boob reduction. That's why I was turning off. I see. We're going up in boob size. Yeah. Yeah. I was thinking it all. Alright. Hang on a second, Amanda. Okay. Alright. Take a...
1:16:43
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
1:16:43
Adam
It's a little threatening.
1:16:44
Dr. Bruce
This is the sort of the reversal of the guy to call the lost weight.
1:16:47
Adam
Right. We'll take a quick break. Be right back after this.
1:16:54
Loveline will be right back.
1:16:55
Caller
So get your problems ready.
1:17:00
Caller
The one and only, Live 105.
1:17:13
Adam
Yeah, everybody. Yeah, gotta get it on. That's what I'm talking about. No choice but to get it on. Mandate to get it on. I'll tell you, number one at Get It On is Dr. Bruce. Board certified, kiddies. Enjoy him while he lasts, everybody. Dr. Drew will be back here with Gary Busey on Sunday. And I don't know who else is coming here. Did you look up donate? Did you look up the definition of donate? What does it say?
1:17:45
Caller
To present as a gift to a fund or cause, contribute.
1:17:49
Adam
To contribute, to present as a gift. Anything about getting five grand in return?
1:17:55
Caller
No.
1:17:56
Adam
No? Well, maybe read on and find that little passage. Donate.
1:18:00
Dr. Bruce
An organ donation.
1:18:01
Adam
Please. Yeah. And what about those who donate their organs? You know what I mean?
1:18:06
Dr. Bruce
How about those that wake up in a hotel without an organ?
1:18:08
Adam
Oh, it doesn't happen. It's a wives' tale. All right. Let's talk to Amanda. Amanda?
1:18:14
Yeah.
1:18:15
Adam
You're 18?
1:18:16
Caller
Yep.
1:18:17
Adam
All right. So you want to get a boob job?
1:18:19
Yeah.
1:18:19
Adam
You're a B cup right now.
1:18:21
Caller
Yeah. I'm a 34B.
1:18:25
Adam
Are you angry? Are you just having a bad night?
1:18:29
Caller
I have never really had great self-esteem. And I thought that, you know, now that I'm 18 and I'm pretty much make my own choices, I, you know, I was like, well, I should get a boob job. I mean, you know, I think it helped with my self-confidence up.
1:18:45
Adam
All right. Who molested you?
1:18:47
Caller
Nobody. I was just, when I was younger, I was overweight and didn't find myself very attractive.
1:18:56
Adam
Just bad self-esteem.
1:18:58
Caller
Yeah.
1:18:59
Adam
Nothing made you a lesbian. No weirdness.
1:19:02
Caller
I've actually, I dated guys until I was 17 and then I met this chick who just changed my whole sexuality.
1:19:13
Adam
Yeah. Chicks more pliable sexually. Imagine a guy with that story like, oh man, I was into chicks and then I met her. I don't know, man. I don't know. It's just the way he moved. What? Could you imagine a guy like-
1:19:31
Dr. Bruce
I've never heard that story.
1:19:32
Adam
I loved women. I worshiped them. I had relations with them. And then her drove into my life and I'll never forget it. And that's, you know, you know, I'm not into all dudes. I'm into her. Give him a nice BJ. Oh yeah.
1:19:50
Dr. Bruce
Well, you hear guys that say I was married for 20 years and then I'm real honest.
1:19:54
Adam
Yeah, but I was married because I was gay and I was trying to flush it out of my system. I was married to a beard because I was trying to keep my insurance job and I didn't want to deal with it. I was attempting to go straight, but women actually have that thing where it's like, yeah, I was into dudes and then I met this chick and I never met anyone like her.
1:20:15
Dr. Bruce
Yeah, but fast forward, what do you think a man will be doing in 10 years? I wouldn't guarantee she's going to be with a woman.
1:20:22
Adam
I wouldn't either, so Amanda's got something going on in her voice and engineer Michelle, who's our resident lesbian here, which is nice because we're top heavy in methadone addicts around here, but we only have one lesbian. And she, you're not feeling full lesbian, huh?
1:20:41
Caller
No, she sounds like my ex-girlfriend who was straight first and then.
1:20:45
Adam
Oh, a little flip flop.
1:20:47
Caller
Oh yeah.
1:20:47
Dr. Bruce
What about Amanda's girlfriend? You think she's.
1:20:49
Caller
She's probably real lesbian.
1:20:50
Dr. Bruce
OK.
1:20:51
Adam
All right. So Amanda.
1:20:52
Caller
Yeah.
1:20:53
Adam
Do you feel like you might head back toward the guys at some point?
1:20:59
Caller
I don't know. I mean, the girl I'm with right now, I'm in love with her and I can say that honestly, but she's giving me the ultimatum of my breast job or being with her. And so I don't know if.
1:21:12
Adam
Why is she so why is she so against you getting a boob job?
1:21:16
Caller
I don't know. She won't tell me. She just says that she likes me the way I am and she doesn't think that I need to change. But my self-confidence is so low that I think that I need it.
1:21:28
Adam
Right.
1:21:28
Dr. Bruce
Well, just do you think that she's assuming that you're going to flip-flop back to men after you get your boob job?
1:21:35
Caller
Possibly. I don't know.
1:21:37
Adam
All right. You sound like a delight, by the way. I don't see how she could do away with that personality.
1:21:42
Caller
Oh, thanks.
1:21:44
Adam
Yeah. What do you do for a living?
1:21:47
Caller
I'm a medical assistant.
1:21:51
Adam
What does that mean? What does that mean?
1:21:54
Caller
You know, when you go to the doctor and there's that person that takes your weight and your vital signs and everything. I'm that person.
1:22:01
Adam
Yeah. All right. It's always weird. You see, here it's always some strange nationality. Never quite sure what to talk about.
1:22:09
Dr. Bruce
The medical system.
1:22:10
Adam
Yeah. And there's always the fear they're going to tell you to take your pants off or do something weird. Never quite sure what the next request is going to be.
1:22:19
Dr. Bruce
Because of the language difficulty.
1:22:21
Adam
No. It's a crap shoot when you go to the doctor. Half the time you get to keep your pants on, half the time you got to take them off. You know?
1:22:28
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
1:22:28
Adam
Never know. You never know in advance. They could want your pants at any time. It's the way it works.
1:22:35
Dr. Bruce
Yeah. I prefer patients with their clothes on.
1:22:37
Adam
I do, too. That's my thing.
1:22:39
Dr. Bruce
I like to get my pants on.
1:22:41
Adam
Yeah. And so anyway, look, if you want to get the boob job, you got to get the boob job. That means you could lose the relationship. I think you ought to talk about it a little bit more. I mean, it's nice. She likes you the way you are. She doesn't think you should change. I understand what she's saying. She thinks you're beautiful. She's your partner. If she's satisfied with you, then why aren't you satisfied with you? But I think your answer of, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I think you need to hash it out with her a little more.
1:23:14
Dr. Bruce
Yeah, it's your body. And also ultimatums are usually not a product of a healthy relationship. So it sounds like there's some control there and being threatened about your procedure.
1:23:24
Adam
I think you can talk a little more with her about it. Ultimately, if you're hell-bent on it, then you do it. I don't think she's necessarily trying to control you. I think she's trying to say you're beautiful the way you are and I know you have self-esteem issues, but getting sacks planted under your nipples is probably not going to correct that, at least in the big picture.
1:23:44
Dr. Bruce
But she's saying, if you do, that's the end of the relationship. That's a little bit.
1:23:48
Adam
Yeah. But I wonder how often people make that threat that if you walk out or if you have another drink or if you get the implants, I'm done, how often it's actually done. You know what I mean? Remember when you're a kid and you're at Disneyland, and you'd be like, your parents would be like, we're going to leave now. And little Bruce would be like, I want to ride the pirate of Carribean. And they'd be like, well, we're leaving. And you're going, fine, leave. Okay, we're going for the car. I guess you'll have to just get a job at Disneyland. And we'll send your brothers and sisters to visit you. They never left though, did they?
1:24:26
Dr. Bruce
Is there Disneyland in Brooklyn?
1:24:29
Adam
Well, whatever Coney Island, Coney Island, whatever your equivalent was, they never left. They never left though. They said they were going to leave.
1:24:36
Dr. Bruce
They never left. Okay.
1:24:39
Adam
You know what I mean?
1:24:40
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
1:24:41
Adam
That's my point. But, but nothing.
1:24:44
Dr. Bruce
Okay.
1:24:45
Adam
Rob?
1:24:46
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
1:24:47
Adam
You're 17?
1:24:49
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
1:24:49
Adam
What's up?
1:24:51
Caller
Well, I, I've been dating this girl for two years now and pretty much, I didn't know she was a coke addict. And last week, my mom was, we were at my house and last week, she walked into my girlfriend in the bathroom, sniffing coke.
1:25:10
Adam
All right. And, and your mom is freaked out?
1:25:16
Caller
Yeah.
1:25:17
Adam
And she just walked into the bathroom. It wasn't, it wasn't a Saturday night or anything. It was just during the day.
1:25:22
Caller
It was like, she was, she was pretty much just looking through the clothes, like, you know, putting some laundry away, I guess, or getting some.
1:25:29
Caller
Yeah.
1:25:29
Caller
But what, what?
1:25:31
Adam
She saw her snorting cocaine.
1:25:33
Yeah.
1:25:34
Adam
Yeah. Here's the thing. And I know this sounds crazy, but I'm not into all this like, oh, you're a drug addict, you're a drug addict, or you're this, you're that. If you're doing some blow on a Saturday night when you're drinking, maybe you're not a drug addict.
1:25:47
Dr. Bruce
Maybe.
1:25:47
Adam
But if it's the middle of the week, the middle of the day, and you're doing a line, you got a problem.
1:25:53
Dr. Bruce
Right. How old's your girlfriend?
1:25:55
Caller
17-2.
1:25:56
Dr. Bruce
And how long has she been with her?
1:25:58
Caller
Two years.
1:25:59
Dr. Bruce
And you had no idea?
1:26:01
Caller
Well, I mean, I knew she did smoke some pot here and there, nothing too, like, you know, drank a little bit, nothing too big, but-
1:26:08
Adam
What did your mom say about it?
1:26:11
Caller
Well, she didn't really confront her on it, she just kind of like, oh, and just walked out.
1:26:15
Adam
Well, why don't you talk to her about it and give, you know, here's what I would say. You know, here's what I know. I'm not, I'm not coming at you in it to accuse you or persecute you. I'm trying to, I want to help you. It seems like you have a problem. What can you tell me about this? And see what she has to say. Because obviously this is somebody who may be on the brink of spinning out of control. I mean, she's 17, she's doing blow in the middle of the day. That's a problem.
1:26:46
Dr. Bruce
The chances are like 99.9% she has a problem.
1:26:49
Adam
Chances are.
1:26:50
Dr. Bruce
Right. And probably she had, mom or dad had a drug problem. I mean, 17 and doing coke is pretty hardcore.
1:26:56
Adam
Yeah, here's the well. Well, everyone, I would, I would, I would reckon that he he's calling from Studio City. I would reckon that 35 to 40 percent of the high schoolers in that family have done blow by 17 and change. No, I doubt and and blows coming back. I was at a bachelor party a couple of weeks back. Chicks came in. It's like, where's the coke? I was like, whoa. I wish I had some coke. The coke's coming back.
1:27:30
Dr. Bruce
Coke and speed, yeah.
1:27:31
Adam
Coke's back, baby. You know what I mean?
1:27:34
Dr. Bruce
Yeah, I see it in the drug treatment centers.
1:27:36
Adam
You do, but it seemed, it seemed, it was laying low for a while, a few years ago. Now it's back.
1:27:42
Dr. Bruce
Yeah, well, coke, any of the stimulants, they're bad drugs and they're bad in different ways, but coke scares me because it's potential to cause strokes, heart attacks, and to overdose, and also the rapidity with which people get hooked and they're really deep into an addiction in a very short period of time. So, all right.
1:28:02
Adam
Why don't you confront her? And you may have to also talk to your mom about it. And you may have to get a counselor involved.
1:28:10
Dr. Bruce
Yeah, because 17, and she's hiding it. She's probably very adept at explaining it away. And Rob's going to get a great story and believe it.
1:28:17
Adam
Good news is he's getting laid left and right.
1:28:19
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
1:28:19
Adam
She's doing blow at 17 in the middle of the day. You know, that's not all she's blowing. You know what I'm saying?
1:28:25
Dr. Bruce
Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Rob, the girl's got a serious problem, and she's probably...
1:28:28
Adam
Most likely.
1:28:30
Dr. Bruce
Right. He's probably pretty codependent.
1:28:31
Adam
We'll take ourselves a quick break. We'll be right back after this.
1:28:35
Caller
All right, guys.
1:28:36
Dr. Bruce
Here's...
1:28:41
Caller
Loveline will be right back, so get your problems ready. Ready.
1:28:57
Caller
The one and only Live 105.
1:29:10
Caller
Yeah.
1:29:12
Adam
The worm has turned, everybody. Yeah.
1:29:18
Dr. Bruce
Snake.
1:29:19
Adam
Get it on, baby. Dr. Bruce here checking this Rolex. Is that a Rolex? You got that at a pawn shop. What is that? What is it?
1:29:30
Dr. Bruce
Citizen.
1:29:30
Adam
Citizen?
1:29:31
Dr. Bruce
Yeah, but I like that blue face, you know.
1:29:33
Adam
It's nice. Chicks dig that. It's going to be worth something. You get it at the pawn shop? Yeah.
1:29:38
Dr. Bruce
My buddy's got it.
1:29:41
Adam
What else? I picture you getting like half tubes of toothpaste and dental floss at the pawn shop.
1:29:48
Dr. Bruce
No, I got a nice laptop this week.
1:29:50
Adam
But do you buy sundries, personal items, Q-tips?
1:29:53
Dr. Bruce
No, no.
1:29:54
Adam
Well, only one side of the Q-tip was used. Use the other side.
1:29:57
Dr. Bruce
No, no. Redlands Pawn, Tony and Joe, they seem for a great deal, but they only deal in high-quality merchandise, cars.
1:30:04
Adam
Let me say something about the Pawn Shop. I've tried.
1:30:06
Dr. Bruce
You had Tony. Great guy.
1:30:07
Adam
Great guy.
1:30:08
Dr. Bruce
Construction guy.
1:30:09
Adam
Construction guy.
1:30:10
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
1:30:11
Adam
No idea. I've tried the Pawn Shop a few times, and here's what my experience of the Pawn Shop is, because I only know tool prices. This is a Milwaukee Sawzall. It's a reciprocating saw. This is a two-speed, comes in the metal case. I can get a new one at Home Depot for $118.95. This one was in the trunk of a car that was in a lake. Was in Lake Huron for six winters. We pulled it out. It doesn't have the cord on it. Good news. I'll sell it to you for $1.15. What?
1:30:47
Caller
What?
1:30:48
Dr. Bruce
What?
1:30:51
Adam
If we're talking about $20, I might think about it, because I got to take it apart and rewire the armature. But for a $4 savings? That's not right. Not exactly a deal. And I've seen plenty of pond shops that way.
1:31:03
Dr. Bruce
It's disturbing.
1:31:05
Adam
It's more than disturbing. Charles?
1:31:09
Caller
Yes.
1:31:10
Adam
You're 20?
1:31:12
Caller
Yes, I am.
1:31:13
Adam
You had a tattoo lifted?
1:31:16
Caller
Yes. I got the tattoo probably six years ago from outside the US. And when I got it done, my skin basically lifted. So the tattoo, it was risen above the skin. I don't know if the ink was temporary or not, but when I grew older, it stretched and the ink started to fade. I don't know if it was a reaction or anything, but I retouched it. And the ink seems to be fine for now, but the skin is still risen. So I don't know if it would end up causing some kind of weird skin reaction later on or whatnot. Maybe it's the quality of my skin.
1:32:01
Dr. Bruce
No, it's unusual that you're going to have a problem in terms of reaction to the ink. I have seen individuals develop thickening of the skin and have long-term reactions, whether it's allergic or something else, but it's very unusual. If you have a concern, you can see a dermatologist, you can have a section of a biopsy. But as far as any serious problems such as a skin cancer or anything else like that, it's almost unheard of.
1:32:26
Adam
All right. So the plan is?
1:32:28
Dr. Bruce
Have a dermatologist take a look at it, see what the thickening is about, if it's a reaction to the ink or if it's some other disorder.
1:32:35
Adam
Alexandra, see short succinct to the point. Alexandra?
1:32:41
Hello?
1:32:41
Adam
Yeah, you're 18, your mom is in denial over stepdad abusing her.
1:32:47
Caller
Yes.
1:32:48
Adam
What kind? Physical abuse?
1:32:51
Caller
No. I'm sorry, I was molested by my stepfather for-
1:32:56
Adam
Over abusing you, your stepdad sexually molested you?
1:33:00
Caller
Yes.
1:33:00
Adam
How old were you?
1:33:02
Caller
I was 12 and a half when it first started.
1:33:04
Adam
It went on for how long?
1:33:07
Caller
Three years.
1:33:08
Adam
Three years?
1:33:09
Caller
Yes.
1:33:09
Adam
And your biological mother doesn't believe that that happened?
1:33:13
Caller
She, I can't say she doesn't believe it because I know that she, deep down, she believes it, but-
1:33:20
Adam
Yeah, she just doesn't want to acknowledge it. She doesn't want to deal with it.
1:33:24
Caller
Because she's in love and she has her life and it's-
1:33:27
Adam
Okay.
1:33:28
Dr. Bruce
No, it's more than that. I would suspect your mother was abused.
1:33:31
Adam
She was abused.
1:33:31
Dr. Bruce
She was abused. She has incredible boundary issues and denial, and you need to report it and you need to-
1:33:38
Caller
I did report it, actually. I had reported it and it actually, our relationship got really bad and it was constant fighting. My grades had gone down in school.
1:33:51
Adam
Alexandra, I'm sorry to cut you off, but we're really out of time. Let me just tell you this, you're not going to do a whole lot to change your mom.
1:33:59
Dr. Bruce
Exactly.
1:34:00
Adam
Your job is to get as far away from that place as you can. You're 18, you're smart.
1:34:05
Caller
I moved out when I was 16.
1:34:07
Adam
Good. Fine. You're going to have to put your mom up on dry dock and your relationship up on dry dock for a number of years until either she changes or you no longer care. I don't think that's going to happen for a while. Just move forward. It's your life.
1:34:22
Dr. Bruce
Or you'll start doing drugs or you'll have...
1:34:23
Adam
That's right.
1:34:24
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
1:34:24
Adam
All right. We'll take a quick break. Be right back after this. Hello everybody, that's The Week, Gary Busey. Oh, you do not want to miss Gary Busey on Sunday. I want to thank engineers, Michelle, for doing a fantabulous job all week. Engineer Chris for doing a great job. Engineer Vic. Rick. Engineer Vic. Rick for doing a great job. Anderson for doing a great job. Who's engineering tonight? Todd, my favorite.
1:35:22
Dr. Bruce
Yeah, I like Todd.
1:35:23
Adam
Nice job, Todd. Todd filling in for everyone. Bruce filling in. Michelle filling in. Junior, junior, junior, junior, junior, junior, junior, junior, junior, junior, junior, junior, junior producer, Lauren.
1:35:34
Dr. Bruce
She hates when you do that.
1:35:34
Adam
Yeah, she's like, how about just 11 juniors? I'm like, no, 122. So she did a great job all week. God bless her and God bless producer Ann. Until next time, this is Adam Corolla for Dr. Bruce, saying mahalo.
1:35:49
Caller
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