Episode 1000754886735

14:51 Adam Hey everybody, it is Loveline. I'm Adam, that is not Dr. Drew, that's Dr. Bruce, who if you listen to the show with any regularity, you know him as Dr. Spans. He's filling in for Dr. Drew. Filling in for Dr. Drew tonight, who is God knows where, making what kind of money while he's getting paid for this show simultaneously. What a genius. Just signed our three-year contract, and the next day, signed it last night. The next day, he's off. Good business. Chasing a nickel in Poughkeepsie. While he's on the clock here, I think we should dock him, but be that as it may, Dr. Bruce is just as qualified as Dr. Drew. Do you want to go through my qualifications? Addiction medicine. You know that? Yes.

15:38 Dr. Bruce Oh, yeah.

15:39 Adam You know emergency medicine?

15:40 Dr. Bruce Oh, yeah.

15:41 Adam You remove tattoos from inmates? I, well, the laser is a... He knows the laser well... .of youth for all people. Can remove the teardrop tats from those of you who have done time and don't want to advertise that to the world. And F the LAPD from the forehead. That's a good... And F the LAPD from the forehead of some of the other good folks that have been incarcerated. Can I say hi to the guys at California Youth Authority in Chino? Only if they promise not to kill me if and when they're paroled. Hey, they're rehabilitating. All right. And what else do you do?

16:13 That's it, right?

16:14 Adam Emergency, addiction? Tattoos? Yeah. Laser? That's good. That's enough. And I have my boards in internal medicine, of course. Right. Which means qualified. All right. Tonight, we're talking a little bit of racing. It's the IRL series, right? Yes. That's correct. I'm good. Eddie Cheever Jr. is here. And Felipe Giaffone, it's Giaffone or Giaffoni? Giaffoni. Giaffoni. That's better. Giaffoni was the Rookie of the Year last year. And of course, Eddie Cheever Jr. is Eddie Cheever Jr. And I was reading on your chart here, Eddie, that you were...

16:52 That's not a medical chart, is it, that you're reading on?

16:54 Adam No. But we can pull that up via the Internet later on and really get into the ins and outs. But this guy, let's see, what's it say, 132, 132 Grand Prix races, more than Mario and Dredi, more than Dan Gurney. That's pretty good. Is that true?

17:19 If anything is written, it's true.

17:21 Adam Jesus Christ.

17:22 I had been racing for quite some time, though. The other day, some kid walked up and said, I saw your dad race in Monaco. Obviously, it wasn't my dad. It was me just a long time ago.

17:34 Adam Yeah, people do that with Drew. They go, we used to hear your dad on the radio show 15 years ago. No, my career stalled in 1984.

17:42 Unacceptable.

17:43 Adam No, it is. So the Indy, now, can we call it the Indy series or we call it the IRL series?

17:50 What are you more comfortable with? The Indy Racing League series. These are the cars that raced at Indy. These are the drivers that raced at Indy. Good thing about Indy, you never have to explain it to anybody. Right.

17:59 Adam And I know there was always some problem with, I don't know, CART and Formula One or CART and Indy many years ago. But I think most of the laypeople understand the Indy 500 and these are the cars that race in that competition. And the series is going to start on March 2nd, and it goes through September 15th with, of course, the Indianapolis 500 somewhere in the middle there, a little closer to the front. And what are you guys out here doing now? Are you testing?

18:26 We were just testing today in Fontana. It was the first day of, it's called, a test in the West. So we all got down to Fontana and tested. Now tomorrow we travel over to Phoenix and we have our second test in Phoenix.

18:40 Adam And how does that work? You obviously, your sponsors bring the cars out and you try to dial them in, essentially?

18:47 Yeah, well we, every team, every team in racing is sponsored or has corporates, corporations that push it because we are, we are obviously dressed in their colors. You go out, I mean, our car is the Red Bull Infinity car. And Felipe's car is a Hollywood car, which is a cigarette from Brazil and Pinsky has Marlboro. So we're all dressed in our different colors. We got there and we do battle and the fastest car wins. And it's a hell of a technical battle. At the end of the day, it's about people competing in the fastest racing cars in the world.

19:22 Adam What is the fastest track that you guys run on?

19:25 I think it's still Indy. I think we'll be qualifying in Indy this year in excess of 226 mile an hour average. That means you'll be about 234, 235 straight.

19:36 Adam On the straights? Yeah. It's incredible. And don't they, I mean, they have restrictions and things, right? I mean, there's certain little things. You could go faster if it was completely unlimited.

19:49 Is that true? They do put rules in. I think the rules are more put in place because there is no need to put drivers at silly risk.

20:00 Adam No, 230 something is fast enough. I'm just saying it's, it's, it's, it's, it's even possible to go faster if it was not for some, I don't know, they have rules for weight or displacement or some of the things involving aerodynamics or like some of the wings and scoops and that sort of stuff.

20:20 I could probably walk to the third floor of this building and jump off and maybe make it. I mean, you never, you got to try it once, but you never know. The thing with driving at Indy is that you are, you are participating in an incredibly difficult event and I think they have to put rules in place that are responsible. You can't be, you can't be. I actually have the record at Indy for 236 average, 236.1 average in the race and I remember turning into the corners at 250 miles an hour and thinking if, if so much as a fly hits the car in the wrong place, you're going to spin off and hit a wall. It's just, it's silly. So that's the good thing about the Indy Racing League is they've gone out of their way to make sure it's a good, safe show and the drivers aren't put at unnecessary risk.

21:00 Adam What are they, do you guys shift on the wheel or do you shift down below?

21:06 To a side.

21:07 Adam To a side. It's like a sequential, like a motorcycle?

21:10 Yeah, back is up a gear and forward is downshifting. If you're downshifting in an Indy car you're deep and they're going to be passing you really quickly.

21:21 Adam Wait a minute, do we just hear the S word there Anderson? All right, come on, this isn't the panel. That's the racing term Adam. Oh, I see. It almost sounded like shift.

21:30 I said you're deep and shift.

21:32 Adam Oh, deep and shift. That's right, deep and shift. Yeah, you're downshifting.

21:35 Downshifting.

21:37 Adam All right, and do you guys do, are there courses that are like kind of, are they all ovals or are there any like road courses?

21:44 We only race on ovals.

21:45 Adam No, no, that's all, is that all left?

21:49 All left. All right. If you go right, you're leaving the track.

21:54 Adam Yeah, it is an amazing, absolutely amazing event. How many people show up for that 500 just in person?

22:01 How many are there?

22:03 450, 500?

22:05 About a thousand, that is.

22:07 Yeah.

22:07 Adam Yeah.

22:07 Yeah.

22:09 Adam It's probably the biggest spectator event in the United States.

22:13 Not probably. It is. It is the largest spectator, how can I say, event.

22:19 Adam Well, now that since the XFL is folded, I think it is now officially taken over the number one slot. I remember when the Reno Gamblers were playing the Argonauts, they were the only one that remembers. Of Salem, Mass. That was a pretty big turnout. This is the guys who wanted to take this call. Oh, okay. Molly?

22:40 I was having sex with this guy in the shower the other day and he used the condom and I wanted to know if that was safe.

22:48 Adam Yeah. Well, as far as we know it is. Did he put a... I usually put a scoop of water in there to kind of help the cause. Did he do that?

22:59 I don't think so.

23:00 Adam No. And who is this guy?

23:03 My friend.

23:05 Adam Oh, I see. And do you like him? Yeah. All right. Well, maybe you guys may be boyfriend and girlfriend, right?

23:14 Probably not.

23:15 Adam Why not?

23:16 He has a girlfriend.

23:18 Adam Oh.

23:19 Don't!

23:20 Adam Yeah. What's going on with that?

23:23 I don't know. But I don't know.

23:26 Adam So it's a guy with healthy boundaries. Yeah. It's like, listen, I did not nail her on dry land. So why in the shower, by the way?

23:37 That's just where we were.

23:38 Adam I see. Boy, you really tell a fascinating story there, Molly.

23:44 Yeah.

23:44 Adam All right. So you're 17, right? Why do you sound older? Have you been through a lot? No. Okay.

23:52 Caller How old is the guy?

23:54 Caller I think 17 or 18.

23:57 Adam So, yeah, are you feeling a little guilty about being involved with somebody that already has a girlfriend? Yeah, I am.

24:04 Caller And so is he.

24:05 Adam All right. So they'll never do it again. No, just oral. That's just new. I made that proclamation last time I spoke. All right. Hey, Molly. Why don't you get a boyfriend for yourself?

24:17 Caller I'm working on that.

24:18 Adam All right. And I think the condom works okay in the shower, right? Condoms work in various bodies of water. And the issue being... Well, look, I remember smuggling almost a kilo of heroin into Mexico. And that was in a condom. And that was up my ass for like three days. And no problems at all.

24:36 Caller Well...

24:37 Adam So, I couldn't see why you couldn't use one in a shower.

24:41 Caller Yeah.

24:41 Adam There are probably condoms. Some studies have shown up to 26 percent. Eddie's going, why did I get beeped for saying the S-word five minutes ago?

24:50 Caller You have it down to the scientists. I can't, I can't say.

24:52 Adam I've had anal sex and I passed out a couple of times. Bruce, please, the mics are hot.

24:55 Caller Go ahead.

24:56 Adam Up to 26 percent of the time in some studies, condoms don't work mostly because of user inability to properly monitor their position. What do you guys do when you're traveling that far for long periods of time and you have to relieve yourself?

25:09 Caller I'm really glad we've actually changed Gio Get It On to a different question.

25:13 Dr. Bruce Because when you looked at me and started saying something, I thought, I don't know where to hide right now.

25:18 Caller When you have to relieve yourself?

25:20 Adam Yeah, can you get out of the car?

25:22 Caller No, once the race starts, you're in. You're in. I heard Felipe Giaffone relieves himself in the car, but I would never do something like that.

25:33 Adam No, that is word has it.

25:36 Caller Is that on his resume? It is about the third page.

25:39 Adam It alludes to it. It doesn't specifically outline it. But yeah, it drinks too much. Oh, no, wait, you don't drink the Red Bull. You smoke the Hollywood Cigarettes. That's right, that's right. RJ.? Yes? You're 18?

25:53 Caller Yeah.

25:54 Adam What's up?

25:56 Caller Yeah, my question was basically about Enemos and...

26:00 Adam Oh, please. Come on, let's clean this show up a little. We have continuing to line of comments before you. Let's take something for our guests. That's a medical question, actually. They don't want to talk about Enemos. We'll talk to them in two minutes. Dr. Keith, you're 30.

26:18 Caller I got a question for your guest.

26:19 Adam Yeah.

26:19 All right, Eddie, you say Red Bull is one of your sponsors?

26:22 Caller That's right.

26:23 I bet half of Canada will keep you going for the entire race.

26:27 Caller That's correct. Yeah, it is. I mean, I think it's great. They say it gives you wings and they ain't lying. I know one thing. When I drink Red Bull, I got to have something to do. If I have something to do, I'm going to be going crazy.

26:41 Adam So, you just pick at yourself, you know.

26:43 Caller You can do a million things. It's your choice.

26:46 Adam Dr. Drew's wife's drink is Red Bull and vodka, by the way, which I hear works out pretty good.

26:53 Caller I don't know.

26:53 Adam I've never had it. But apparently, people do this with the vodka and it's pretty good.

26:58 Caller I did it for my honeymoon. You did? Yeah.

27:00 Adam You did the Red Bull and vodka?

27:01 Caller Not bad? Oh, yeah.

27:03 Adam So, who's marketing your drink? Alcohol and Red Bull.

27:05 Caller Together?

27:06 Adam Yeah. Hey, Keith?

27:08 We just did like a 60-second commercial. Can I get a case of it or something?

27:11 Adam Yeah, but it's going to be open. What's your other question there, Keith?

27:15 I've been seeing a girl. I wouldn't say necessarily she's a girlfriend, but I've been dating her for about six months now, and yet I still continue to hook up with other girls. You know, make out, not necessarily like have sex with, but I still tend to have this selfish tendency to want to hook up with other girls. And I just want to know if that's a sign of addictive personality, if that's something that can ever be fixed. What's your comment on that?

27:38 Adam Well, how long have you been seeing her?

27:40 Like six months.

27:41 Adam And are you committed?

27:43 I think she thinks so more than I do. But I think we kind of just haven't talked enough about that kind of stuff.

27:50 Adam Well, I mean, she's just assuming through your actions because you're having sex with her, right?

27:54 Yes.

27:55 Adam And so she's just doing the math and assuming you guys are committed and you're not going to tell her otherwise.

28:03 Exactly.

28:04 Adam It doesn't sound like you're that into her. I'm very into her.

28:07 It's just that I have this, like I said, selfish part of me that wants to still hook up and have my cake and eat it too, basically.

28:14 Adam Well, I mean, do you think you're 30 years old and you think you want to get married to her?

28:19 Caller The thoughts crossed my mind.

28:20 Caller She's pretty good people.

28:22 Adam You know, it's interesting you use the word addictive because you've obviously made this self-observation that what you're doing is not totally within your control. It's probably a pattern you've had in other relationships. And, you know, one of the reasons when kids call in and they're fooling around and they're fooling around more than one person once even at a much younger age, a lot of these things turn into patterns. And what we know of addiction now is very interesting. Your brain actually changes. We call it plasticity. And we used to think that when you had an addictive problem or a behavior that you tended to pursue against your own will at times, you know, that it was just a bad habit. But it turns out your brain actually changes its connection so that it seems more normal when you're doing something like that eventually to continue to do it. And changing takes actually work and a lot of effort. And when we refer you to a therapist for something like this, two things. First of all, it's not just going and having them give you advice. They help you to work to overcome a problem like this. And secondly, they get into issues like what was your relationship with your mom or in your family of origin. So I wonder what was going on in your, what your parents' relationship was like, what you saw when you were growing up. Well, how was that?

29:35 Caller Good stuff. I mean, it is a pattern. And I had a great family life growing up, so I don't really think that that is a source of it.

29:43 Adam Maybe just an a-hole.

29:45 Caller True.

29:45 Adam I mean, some guys are selfish. Yeah, but he's calling in. It sounds like he's got a conscience and he doesn't want to continue that behavior. But it's not just going to go, you're not just going to wake up one day and say, hey, I'm not going to do this anymore. It's going to be something, just like with addictions, you can realize you have a problem to decide you want to quit, but there's a road you have to take that involves work. Well, listen, if you know what you're doing and you don't like what you're doing, or you at least know it's wrong, then feel free to stop.

30:10 Caller But Adam, let's be honest, I like it at the time it's happening. Right.

30:13 Adam Yeah, all right, but it's that way with everything that's bad for you.

30:16 Caller Right.

30:17 Adam Everything that's bad for you is good at the time. I don't know why. You're going to need some help with the problem and the fact that it does feel good. If you talk to anybody that does have another kind of addiction, and there is definitely a connection between this and any other kind of chemical addiction, what you're doing makes you feel good in a part of your brain that's the same part of the brain of cocaine or another chemical. Bruce, let's not save everybody. Can we save it? Okay, so I can tell I'm not going to get much further. Go to a therapist. No, you realize you have the problem. You got somebody that sounds like a good woman. If you want to save this relationship, you're either going to have a disaster that's going to make you depressed and lead you to a therapist or you're going to go on your own. I go on your own. He may end up in an SA meeting, Sex Holics Anonymous. Well, there's where you can get laid. I want to ask Eddie and Felipe something. I was just seeing, I don't know what I was watching, some TV show maybe. I was watching about 20 hours of Speed Vision.

31:14 Caller That's an addiction.

31:15 Adam Oh my God. It's more addictive than the actual speed is. The two things that have destroyed my life is the TiVo and then the Speed Vision because all of a sudden it's 430 in the morning and I'm watching motorcycle ice racing from Finland and I'm live and I'm standing up cheering and I'm making plans. I've got to get me an ice bike. It's a ridiculous channel. I can't sit down and watch all those ridiculous hot rod shows and all that dream car garage and all these. All I do is watch every commercial for wax. I don't care. I watch that. But they had some sort of like a round table. I think they were talking about Formula One at the time, but they were talking about putting essentially black boxes in cars, like what they have for airplanes so that they can monitor what goes wrong or what the impact was if there's an accident or even to the point where they're talking about doing adjustments while the car's in motion from the pit area. I don't know, maybe leaning it out or richening it up or something like that. Has there been any discussion with the Indy cars about that doing like a black box?

32:26 Caller We actually have a box like that in our cars that measures the impact. We've done a lot of work to make the car safer and a lot of money has been spent in time studying the accidents. The fastest way to learn how to make a car safer is to study and see what happens after it's had an accident. This box that we have measures what we call the G-Force loading. If you take a billiard ball and you throw it at a wall there's energy, kinetic energy that has to be dissipated someplace. The worst place to dissipate that energy is in the human body. Everything around you has got to break. The best accidents are the ones where you see the tires flying off, the car flipping. The worst ones are the ones where there's just a cold hard thud because it all goes into the driver. It is illegal to modify any action in the car from the pits. Otherwise, you might as well just put a monkey in it and they'll decide to go to the corner a little bit faster, a little bit slower. I remember discussions from a woman I would watch, by the way, if that was on Speed Vision Monkey Racing.

33:31 Adam I would watch that. Most of the ice motorcycle racing from Helsinki, I'd be up watching that too. What were you saying before I cut you off about years ago? You saw something or heard something?

33:44 Caller No, years ago that was a problem. In Formula One, it had gotten to the fact that it was so technical that the engine manufacturers wanted to modify some settings in the engine when they saw something was failing. I remember the FIA, the International Federation of Automobiles passed a rule saying that you couldn't do that. Whatever happens in the car is sent over in telemetry to the pits so they know what's going on. They have a screen where they can see that your engine is failing. I have a sensor in my tire that sends a signal every quarter of a second saying your tire still has good tire pressure, so I have a warning if something goes wrong. You really don't want to have that. You really want to stay away from that.

34:24 Adam Well, yeah, then they were speculating that guys from the other teams could pick up the signal and adjust the guy's engine and screw it up, and that the monkey would then crash into the wall. It was quite a debacle, but the thing that amazes me about racing and talking about the safety is just looking, watching the speed vision, watching these races from the 50s, 60s, even 70s. I mean, they barely had the notion of the crash helmet down in the 50s, you know, they had that sort of half thing that went on top at the leather earflaps and no roll bars and no seat belts. It just, I, you know, I talked about it on the show a million times. I think it had to be bravado as far as like the roll bar goes.

35:09 Caller I got a good story for you.

35:10 Adam Yeah, let's hear it.

35:11 Caller Sterling Moss. I'm sure you've seen him on Speed Vision. He was an Englishman. He was probably, I would say probably one of the top three drivers in the world. And I'm talking Fanjou, Senna, drivers of that category in Formula One.

35:25 Caller Right.

35:27 Caller He did not want to wear seat belts in the beginning because he thought it was safer if he had an accident that he'd get catapulted out of the car. Yeah, well. Looking back and thinking about that now, you'd think, well, what were you smoking? I mean, Jesus, why would you want to get catapulted out of a car going 120 miles an hour? So the good thing about racing is that a lot of this technology that we have developed, seat belts, disc brakes, all of that does get passed on in safety. So your point is well taken. I'm sure you're looking at the cars now. 20 years from now, you'll say, well, what's sort of, they're wearing a carbon fiber helmet. Were they crazy? They could have used some new polymer or something.

36:04 Adam Well, and also, though, I mean, he had a point about getting thrown out of the car because they couldn't figure out the goddamn roll bar. So, it was like you'd get your head taken off if you stayed in the car. But anyway, I've talked about that way too many times on this show for a non-racing show. Why don't we take ourselves a little break when we come back? We'll speak to it. You want to talk to the enema person when we come back? I'd be more than happy to. We'll let the racers pick a call.

36:32 Caller I think Felipe should really talk about the enema thing.

36:34 Adam Felipe, where are you from, Felipe? That's a way of life over there, right? It's all in the flag. That's in the flag? All right. We'll take ourselves a little break. We'll be right back. Oh, there you go. Hey, Anderson, I can't read your hands sometimes when you point it and you keep it in front of you because I lose it in your face. You know, I see that. Yeah, you do that big wave thing. I told you that's why I got in the radio, so I get that big arm, arm finger you give me. All right, it is Loveline. I'm Adam Corolla. That is Dr. Bruce over there filling in for Dr. Drew, who is off somewhere else, but will be back tomorrow. I'll also be here tomorrow, except for I won't be here. I'll be in Vegas and Drew will be somewhere else, but don't worry, we will deliver. Eddie Cheever Jr is here and Felipe Giaffone. Eddie Cheever has been racing cars since, well, since just a couple of years before the car was invented. Felipe was Rookie of the Year last year in the Indy Series, the IRL Series. So these guys have been around the track just a few times at speeds well over 200 miles an hour and Jesus, what a sport. And talk about, you know, the thing that's amazing about like the Indy 500 is that race goes on for some hours, right? Is it like three hours?

38:11 Caller Three hours? Three and a half.

38:12 Adam Three and a half hours. That's a, I mean, it's all focus. You know what I mean? I mean, you can't blink for three and a half hours. That's the part that's pretty incredible about the whole thing.

38:24 Caller The beauty about the Indy 500 is that there's 33 drivers that start when they've had to work their, what words can we use here?

38:30 Adam Can you word? Tokai.

38:32 Caller Their Tokai off to qualify for the race. And at the end of that afternoon, there will be a new Indianapolis 500 winner. And people all over the world will acknowledge that as having won the most important car race of the year.

38:45 Adam And you won in 98? That must have been nice, drinking the milk and doing that whole thing.

38:52 Caller The hard thing is that you race for three and a half hours. You're incredibly focused. You have eight pit stops to make. You can't make a screw up. And then you get down on those last ten laps and your crew is counting down nine, eight, seven, six, five, and this tension builds and you're breaking away from the pack and you're totally exhausted but you don't know it because you've been driving so hard. You finish, you cross the line and you realize it's like a big balloon, all this air goes out of it and you realize that you just won the most important race of your life. And then you drive into the pits and you've been by yourself for three and a half hours. You've been dodging bullets and hand grenades and ducking and weaving and almost bouncing off things. And you come into the pits and all of a sudden ABC will stick a microphone in your face and you're expected to say something intelligent. I mean you have all these people, all this quiet goes over the speedway and it's very hard. So you get the milk and I drank the milk in a hurry and I slobbered it all. So the whole afternoon is over and I call my young son and I'm always giving him a hard time because every time he eats half the food lands on the floor. He didn't say, I thought I was going to have this male bonding session with my son. I've just won the Indy 500 and my son is going to tell me what a great dad I am. And he said, Dad, you're a pig. You slobbered the milk everywhere. So that was my male bonding session with my son. But it is a great event. It's a great honor to win. It's a great honor to participate. And then you have great drivers like Felipe. He comes from Brazil. You have people coming from Chile, from France and all over the world.

40:22 Adam Brazil is sort of cutting me off, but a big racing place. I mean, I don't know why. I wouldn't normally think of Brazil as cranking out the champions. But they like the racing over there.

40:36 Caller Felipe is one of the brightest new drivers we've had in oval racing in the States. And his quality comes from Brazil. I mean, Brazil, that's a different country. I went there when I was 18 for the first Grand Prix that I tried to qualify for. They are different.

40:51 Adam And that is incredible. I would say the most glamorous of any sport would have to be the Grand Prix stuff, like over in Europe or Brazil and some place like that. I mean, in terms of the yachts and money, I mean, in terms of the average income of the guys who get the pit passes, when you say that Formula One is way up there, say above like, let's say, a tractor pole or maybe arena football.

41:20 Caller Or what was that motorcycle race from Finland you were talking about?

41:23 Adam Ice racing from Helsinki.

41:25 Caller Something like that.

41:26 Adam And then barrel jumping. Yeah. Well, you know what you got to do? I just thought about after you win the next Indy and they shove that mic in your face, you can do what athletes do to buy time, which is you thank Jesus Christ, which is really, they're not really that much into God, but they do it to kind of think, you know, they try to get their breath back. It's a nice time saver. No one will ever question it. So it kind of gets you straightened out. I'm going to Disney.

41:50 Caller I'm going to Disneyland.

41:51 Adam Well, they got to ask you to go, though. You don't want to just announce you're going to Disneyland. You thank your, say you love, send the love to the kids and thank Jesus Christ, and by the time you're done doing that, you'll get your bearings straight. So I always think about that with boxers, too. The guy just goes 12, 15 hard rounds of Tyson smacking him about the head, and they put the mic in his face, and they go, In round two, he caught you, and your legs got a little wobbly. Did it hurt you? It's like, you know, you hadn't been whacked in the head with a two-by-four repeatedly for the last hour. You know exactly what he's talking about. Hey, speaking of boxing, Ali? Yeah? You're, uh, is it Ali?

42:34 Caller Yes, Ali.

42:35 Adam Well, there you go. You're, uh, 17. What's up?

42:38 Dr. Bruce Yeah, um, I have a question.

42:40 Caller I've, I've watching, I've been watching, you know, races like a couple of times, but I don't watch it for very long each time I do.

42:46 Caller I've been wondering, um, can you guys, like, have like a spare car in the pit?

42:49 Caller So like, instead of, like, you know, like, when your tires run out or run out of gas or whatever, you can just, like, pull up to the pit or whatever, like, switch cars real quick instead of waiting for everyone to, like, you know, refill your car.

43:02 Adam Very funny.

43:03 Caller Ha!

43:04 Adam Yeah. You're a real genius there, Oli.

43:06 Caller I guess it's going to take, like, it takes a very long time for us to change cars and just to, to put the seat belts on, it takes like five minutes. We change tires in 15 seconds, so.

43:18 Adam But you, you can bring a couple of cars with you, but you got to qualify one of them and that's the car you got, right?

43:25 Caller Yeah. Usually we take two cars. We have the race car and a spare car, and whichever you qualify, you have to race with. So, but usually like the big teams are, they, we usually have two cars that you can like try different setups during the weekend. Right. And then, but then once you qualify with a car, then you have to race with.

43:48 Adam Right. And, and you're trying to set up the suspension or the, or the right tire combination or something like that, and you dial it in, and that's the one you go with. And the, the thing about, it seems the qualifications, I mean, how, first off, how many people, like for the Indy 500, how many people will try to qualify?

44:06 Caller Probably over 50. Probably 50, over 50, maybe 4, 55 qualifying attempts. I don't know, I don't know the number, but it's a very, it's a complicated procedure. You have pole weekend, which is the first weekend.

44:16 Adam Right.

44:17 Caller And then the people that don't make it, say you have the whole grid is filled, and that's something called bump day. And that is the most excruciating, horrible thing for any driver to be involved in, because you have 200,000 fans that are sitting there cheering for the guy who's going to get bumped off, and you go out and do, put four laps together, the best average of four laps, and you are hanging it out. I mean, when you're trying to get into the race, you'll often drive harder than you will trying to qualify for pole.

44:42 Adam Right, right. Yeah, I could see that. And it's just separated by hundreds of a second oftentimes, right?

44:51 Caller Even less. Even less.

44:53 Adam I don't know what would be the difference, thousands?

44:55 Caller Thousands. I actually lost pole last year for, I think it was four thousandths of a second or something. Really? It's probably, I don't know, a third of a foot.

45:04 Adam Jesus Christ. Is there any other sport where your life more depends on the other guy? It seems like you're competing with everybody, but if somebody else is too aggressive or they're not as coordinated, they could...

45:17 Caller Or if they're an idiot.

45:18 Adam Yeah.

45:19 Caller Sort of thing.

45:20 Adam Well, it seems like with stock car racing you can do some bumping and some shoving and stuff, but with open wheels, that's going to be trouble, right? You guys can't do that.

45:31 Caller No.

45:32 Adam No.

45:33 Caller It happens, though. I mean, you make...

45:34 Adam We...

45:36 Caller It happens too often and you can make a mistake. The worst thing that shouldn't happen and has happened in our past is the drivers will use their cars as trying to intimidate something, like to move them over the track. And you can't touch... You'll be sure of one thing. If you touch a car, I guarantee you, you're going to hit something. And going at those speeds and when you start spinning, you don't know what side's going to hit. I mean, but it's the most exhilarating racing I have ever been in. To come out to Fontana and see cars turning into the corners above 220 miles an hour, three abreast, four inches between them. And if any of them so much as blink, you're going to have a problem. And they're both trying, all three are trying to outdice each other. It's crazy.

46:19 Adam It's cool. And the thing about the open wheels is, I mean, if they touch in any way, it just sends things sailing. You guys have teams, right? And you can help the other guy. They can draft you. You might not let somebody else do that or? No. We do.

46:34 Caller But there's certain drivers. I will draft with Felipe because I know he will in turn return the favor. The car that's in front is like this.

46:42 Adam He told me he wouldn't during the commercial. You were taking a leak. He told me not to say anything.

46:48 Caller Okay, I want that Red Bull back then. Let's save the baby!

46:52 Adam All right, all right.

46:54 Caller It's a cool, it's a really great sport. It's really exciting. It's just neat. It's really cool to go out there.

47:00 Adam I'd like to go to, I'm going out to a race this year. I'm going to the drag races on Sunday. I'm trying to get to more motor related stuff. Yeah, you want to go?

47:09 Caller Yeah. All right.

47:10 Adam Ria?

47:11 Hey.

47:12 Adam You're 16. What's up?

47:13 Caller Yeah.

47:15 Caller I have this stupid habit that whenever I like a guy and we start dating, the second it starts to get serious, I find something wrong with them and just focus on it and then I break it off. And I was just wondering why I keep doing this with like every single guy.

47:30 Adam Well, where's your dad?

47:34 Caller He's still the same state but I don't see him.

47:38 Adam When did he cut out?

47:40 Caller Four years ago when my parents got divorced.

47:42 Adam Does he keep in touch?

47:45 Caller Well, yeah, he does but it's me that I don't want to see him.

47:48 Caller Why?

47:50 Caller Because he's bipolar.

47:52 Adam So he was kind of freaky growing up?

47:54 Caller Yeah.

47:54 Adam So he like scared you?

47:56 Caller Yeah, it's like totally my decision.

47:58 Adam Yeah. I mean this thing that you do is a real common thing. All women do it, you know, when they're younger but it usually goes away as they get less attractive. Yeah. You know, the years where on they get nicer about it. Stop nitpicking. But when your dad leaves and your dad's weird like that and everything, it usually means you're a little bit scared of intimacy. You don't want to get caught up in a relationship. So you start looking for reasons not to be in a relationship and then you end up getting out of the relationship. It's all about being sort of that fear of being connected.

48:35 Caller And once I break off with it, I end up like wanting him back and I realized like how stupid I was.

48:42 Adam Yeah. But it's not stupid and this is what Adam is saying. Well, it's just slightly dumb. Yeah. Makes sense to you?

48:47 Caller Yeah. Yeah. I understand it. It's just.

48:49 Adam It's going to continue.

48:50 Caller The way I could like stop doing it.

48:52 Adam Yeah. Did you ever have any family therapy when your dad was going through his bipolar stuff? And.

48:56 Caller Oh, yeah. Yeah.

48:58 Adam And you have access to. You're going through some stuff at this age especially. It's really chaotic and it's really a lot of unexpected stuff when you start dating. But when you have something like that thrown into it, it can be very confusing. And so to avoid making this a pattern of what you're going to go through as you get older and you really want to, you know, when you're 16, you go out with a guy for a while and you meet another guy, that's fine. But if you could go to a therapist, have somebody you can talk to about what's going on as you date somebody, because it's not something that you're intuition. There's nowhere in your brain that's going to tell you what to do and why this or that's okay. So you could really benefit from somebody helping you through some of this stuff with a guy. If you have a normal dad and you have a good relationship, then there's some things that are sort of programmed into your brain that make it easy for you to get close to somebody. You don't have that. It's not your fault. Well, hey, Ria, I mean, you know what you're doing, but that doesn't mean it's easy to stop. You know what I mean? Yeah. It's going to be a process. You work on it. You're not supposed to be any good at 16 anyway. I didn't know what I was doing at 16. Everyone's a horrible, you know, everyone's horrible at dating at 16, but you're a smart person. You understand what's going on. And the important thing is that you see yourself doing it as you're doing it. And then you do it a little less each time. And eventually, you know, you get numb and then you slip into a world, a dark world of masturbation and you shut yourself off.

50:25 Caller Adam's world is calling.

50:26 Adam You watch ice racing from Helsinki all night and you just sit around waiting for the Grim Reaper. All right? All right. Good time.

50:34 Caller Oh, good times.

50:35 Adam Good times. Yeah, she'll be fine. Yeah. You know, Eddie, you have a daughter, right? Yes. You got to be good to her.

50:43 Caller I have a 13 year old, about to be 13 year old daughter.

50:47 Adam Let me tell you.

50:47 Caller And I'm sitting here just thinking, what are my next three years going to be like?

50:51 Adam Oh, well, first off, I don't know.

50:54 Caller Three? How about five?

50:55 Adam You can have them frozen now until we've, and it's just to spend them. Yeah, that's not, that's not, I think you can do it in Florida. I don't think it's a criminal offense. Hopefully that technology will be in place when I have a 13 year old daughter. But here's the thing. This is the one thing I've learned from this show, besides all radio station coffee sucks. The other most important thing I've learned is, if you screw with your daughter, it will affect her. The relationship between the daughter and the daddy is a big deal. Boys, they're more durable. They just are. Their dad screws them over. He's an alcoholic. He leaves the family. They just end up taking their aggressions out on the football field or something like that. Or they join the Coast Guard or something. It ends up working out. They usually kill a handful of people, but it works out. But the women, they're more delicately wired. They really are. And if you screw with your daughters, it will come back to haunt you.

51:58 Caller Isn't that right?

51:59 Adam Isn't that right? Yeah?

52:02 Caller I remember being a child being a lot simpler than it is now. I mean, there's a lot of these questions they're asking. I mean, you're talking about probably, I'm what, I'm 44, so things are a bit different then. But I see my daughter as somebody who knows a lot more than I ever did and they're capable of thinking it through a lot better than I ever was.

52:26 Adam It's not even did, she knows more than you know now.

52:28 Caller Yeah, don't, some things absolutely.

52:30 Adam Well, I mean, look at this, I mean, of course, I was watching, you know, I had three stations to watch on TV. I didn't know, you know, I mean, just think about the internet, MTV and all this stuff, they had to be packed full of sin by the time.

52:46 Caller But it can also be packed full of great things. Yeah. If you, if they understand what is right and what is wrong, I think a parent really, the main job my parents did is this is wrong, that is right. And you're going to have to judge yourself because you can't have a parent there with you every two minutes saying, do this, don't do that.

53:02 Adam Adam has some confusion in those areas. And I don't think you can imagine your daughter calling in for advice from Adam Corolla.

53:07 Caller Oh, I...

53:08 Adam Now, Drew's here. I must admit that. All right. All right. We're going to take ourselves a little break while we come back. We'll speak to Andy. He's a big Eddie Cheever Jr. fan and let's know about the F1 car, Formula 1 car racing and all that after this.

53:35 Caller Hey, everybody, it's Loveline.

53:36 Adam I'm Adam. That is Dr. Bruce over there, filling in for Dr. Drew. Phone number 1-800-LOVE-191. Eddie Cheever Jr. is here, and Felipe Giaffone, both IndyCar racers. And the season starts up, what is it, March? Yeah, just real soon now. That's going to be in Miami at the Speedway, and then it's about every week after that, right? All the way through till September. Of course, the big one, the Indy 500, coming up on May 26th. What's the second biggest race you guys have on your schedule here?

54:23 Caller In attendance, it's probably been Texas. Texas has been a strong one for us, but last year, we had four. Hey, I gotta meet this guy who does all this. Is it a person?

54:37 Adam Yeah.

54:37 Caller What is he?

54:38 Adam You're mad at me. He's sitting right behind you.

54:41 Caller He's a squirreling kid with a bleached hair. Texas? Texas. We had a lot of sellouts last year about Kansas was a great race. I mean, it's a great event. It's not just a race. It's an event that the whole city gets behind it. People have, you know, barbecues in the parking lots and families bring their kids and we're open for autograph sessions and I've met more little kids that look up at you and I can see they're dreaming. You know, one day I'm going to be here. Monday I'm going to be driving. I think it's just cool. I like it because it's very open to family. So India is an event. It's a social event. The whole city goes crazy.

55:16 Adam Yeah, and they come out and they camp out, right? They bring their Winnebago's and park in the infield, all that stuff.

55:23 Caller I mean, I've been stopped for speeding in India probably five times, at least two in the last three years. And the cop will get out and he'll look at me and he'll give me... What's the word you can use for your backside that's out of here? Tokai? I can tell you something. Tokai just doesn't sell. No, okay, an asshole. Yeah, we'll get you a big serious ass chewing. And then he'll tell you, okay, all right, Eddie, go on.

55:47 Caller You can go.

55:48 Caller So I mean, India is just a marvelous place. I love it. I live there part of the year. It's a great event. There's just so much history. It's just, it's just so, it's just neat.

55:56 Adam Yeah. And they, you know what I like? I like that stripe of brick they have going across the old.

56:03 Caller And you can feel it. You, you. Oh, yeah. I mean, it's a, it's like a large, not like a shutter, but you can feel going over there. Can you imagine doing 500 miles? Was it 87 years ago? I think we've had 87, 500 and these guys had to have spare drivers. They had to get, get out of the car and somebody would leave them a little bit and go out again. I don't know how many hours it would take.

56:22 Adam One of these cars that were chain driven and yeah, they're just, oh my God. Yeah.

56:29 Caller Hard men. There's pictures of these guys in this unreal after the race.

56:32 Adam Yeah, the faces are black and black. All right. Let's talk to big Eddie Cheever fan, Andy.

56:42 Caller Hey, what's up, you guys?

56:43 Adam Hey, 22. What's up?

56:45 Caller I'm a big Eddie Cheever fan. I've seen you race in Phoenix. You're a hell of a wheelman. But recently I've gotten way into the F1. I don't know why. It's just, I guess, so high tech and glamorous. And I've gone to a few GPs. And I'm starting to, I have a good job. I'm starting to make some money, but I would drop it all just for the chance to join the F1 circus and get going with them. Do you know any way to get started?

57:11 Caller I agree with you. And I'll tell you the truth. The main reason why I started racing, why I was attracted to it, was A, the cars, and B, the women. When I was 13 years old, the Grand Prix race car drivers had the prettiest women. They traveled to all the really cool places, and they got to drive these really fast cars. And that is not a lie. So I was lucky to drive in it, but it is really interesting. And there's a thousand and one ways you can do that. You can be involved in marketing. You can be involved in the technical side of the company.

57:40 Adam What do you want to do, Andy?

57:43 Caller Well, I'm still in school. I was wondering if maybe a journalism degree or something like that. I'm probably too old to start thinking about ever driving for F1, but there are so many jobs probably in the whole circus. I don't know where I would even begin though.

57:58 Adam What about hooking up with some of the big sponsors or something like that?

58:07 Caller I guess I could do that.

58:09 Adam What do you want Eddie to do? Want to make a phone call?

58:12 Caller Yeah, I was hoping he would talk to some of the people who would get me in.

58:15 Adam He could probably get you about third or fourth on the grid, but I don't think he can get you a pole just from the phone call. You're going to have to turn a few laps. He doesn't have that much pole.

58:24 Caller Too bad there's not an American F1 team.

58:27 Adam There will be. There is an American F1 team.

58:31 Caller Jaguar? Jaguar. But it's kind of, and it's very tongue-in-cheap.

58:35 Caller Can I get a job with their wind tunnel?

58:37 Caller Isn't it in California?

58:39 Caller One of them is, I think, but they're also using one in England. Formula One is a multi-billion dollar business. They have interests all over the world. I think it's a circus. There's a lot of people that travel all over all these Grand Prix's. You start in one part of the world, you end up in another. One of the US Grand Prix's is now being held in Indianapolis. There's a million and one ways to do it. If you wanted to become a Grand Prix driver, you're talking to the wrong guy because I really couldn't tell you how to do that. That's where I spent most of my time.

59:08 Adam You drove for a Ferrari most of the time?

59:11 Caller I tested for a Ferrari when I was 18. I raced for Tiro, Renault, Alfa. When I was doing it, it really wasn't followed a lot in the States. It was a very European sport. It was great. I had a great time representing America in the US Grand Prix. For me, it was a lot of fun. It is very glamorous. It's very hard technically.

59:30 Adam It's ruthless.

59:32 Caller I mean, you so much as blink. You're out of a drive and not doing something. You can never give an inch to another race car driver. Racing on ovals is different than racing on a Grand Prix. You're always tethered to the car that you're driving in motorsports. But in Formula One, if you start off the season with a car that isn't good, you're screwed for the rest of the season. You'll be happy if you end up fourth or fifth in a race. It just wears on you after a while.

59:58 Adam What's the race you're always trying to get into? You can claim you never let your dream come true. The Helsinki.

1:00:03 Caller No, no.

1:00:04 Adam I'm trying the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. Yeah, I'm working on that this year, this year again. All right, we'll take ourselves a little break. We'll be back, talk a little more Indy driving and helping the kids after this. Yep, there we go, more Loveline. Eddie Cheever Jr is here along with the Felipe Giaffone, both racing Indy cars for a living. And yeah, what a life, what a life. Just sitting here talking cars with the guys. And I always find that race car drivers seem to drive the least glamorous street cars. Yes, I guess they don't have to compensate, like rock star drivers or radio show hosts or anything like that. But race car drivers, you know, like Tommy Lee came over here from Motley Crue about three years ago and his everyday driver is a very modified Ferrari Testarossa that he let me take for a little spin around the block. And I think they overcompensate race car drivers. These guys probably have a lot more fun in their cars than the track. Yeah, don't need to. Still seems like you should have a slightly cooler car.

1:01:39 Caller I think...

1:01:41 Caller What could be cooler than my Indy car? I mean, you should tell me one car that's the same as what I... It has 3,000 pounds of downforce, it goes 240 miles an hour, it's got a 7-horse power engine.

1:01:52 Adam 8-track?

1:01:53 Caller If I want it, I've got room for it. I mean, only... What could be better? That's the problem.

1:01:58 Adam Why...

1:01:59 Caller Where's the excitement? I mean, I want to sit in a car and be comfortable and turn the music up and put the seat back.

1:02:04 Adam How much do those Indy cars weigh these days? A couple thousand pounds?

1:02:08 Caller I think it's 1,700.

1:02:10 Adam Oh, really? That's light.

1:02:11 Caller Carbon fiber? Highest technology you can think. It absorbs a lot of impact.

1:02:15 Adam Jesus. And they have, you guys have like sort of the crash seat too now, right? Where you're sitting in that bucket that's got some protective quality.

1:02:25 Caller It's better than that. It's special. Imagine sitting in a bag of little beads.

1:02:32 Adam Yeah.

1:02:33 Caller Yeah.

1:02:34 Adam Yeah.

1:02:35 Caller That's not warm. Oh, okay. They put you in your seat. This little thing of beads fills around the shape of your body and it absorbs all this energy if you have an accident. So it's supposed to be if you have an accident. When you have an accident, you have to try to destroy the car.

1:02:50 Adam Right.

1:02:50 Caller The seat has got to break. Right. The monocoque has got to fall off.

1:02:53 Adam Even if it means taking a bath to it.

1:02:56 Caller Whatever. You have to get rid of all that energy. So our cars are built for that. I mean, a car that's come done, ready to go, ready to race, ready to win is going to cost you probably close to about half a million dollars with computers, engines, frames, tires.

1:03:09 Caller Yeah.

1:03:10 Adam And you got to have extra everything. And what do you, like, you do, does the engine get torn down and rebuilt after every race?

1:03:19 Caller Every 600 miles it's taken apart.

1:03:21 Adam But now what if you got it so obviously after the Indy 500 it's coming apart, but if you have a race that's 250 miles, you'll let it, let it, if it checks out, go a couple races with it?

1:03:32 Caller You practice a little bit and then you change the engine. Oh, I see. You don't use the same engine for two races.

1:03:37 Adam Right. And they just tear it, just new bearings and new rings and put it back or the new pistons and everything. Jesus.

1:03:46 Caller Let's heal some babies.

1:03:48 Adam That's why they got to have sponsors.

1:03:51 Caller Jacob?

1:03:52 Caller Hello?

1:03:53 Adam You're 16?

1:03:54 Caller Yeah.

1:03:54 Adam What's up?

1:03:55 Caller I had a question for Felipe and Edward. I was wondering, like, nowadays you guys are pulling by 240 miles per hour. I was wondering, like, in 50 years, how fast do you think race cars are going to go?

1:04:08 Adam 243?

1:04:09 Caller 243? I think we're actually throwing down the speeds nowadays. I think it's very easy to make the cars go fast. That's why the rules are there, you know, just to kind of protect a little bit more the drivers and be a little safer. So I think the speed is going to be a little pretty close from what we have today. Basically, what they're going to do nowadays, we use like three liter and a half, you know, the engines. So then it's the engineers and all the mechanics, you know, the factories, they try to improve and make something to go faster and faster. So I think this is good for technology, you know, because it's going to get faster and then they're going to go, okay, now it's three liter and then 2.5. And that makes everybody thinks better and improve the street cars in the future as well.

1:05:08 Adam Right, so if it was just a sort of unlimited cylinders or unlimited displacement, you wouldn't have to be that smart to get more horsepower, you just add some more cylinders or some more displacement. They're figuring out ways, I mean, displacement means making the engine bigger, you idiots. But now what they're doing is they have to figure out a way to squeeze more horsepower out of smaller engines, which is why, for instance, you can buy street cars that are two liters with 200 horsepower now and, you know, 100 ponies a liter is naturally aspirated, no turbo, no supercharger, that's pretty good, and that's probably another benefit of racing.

1:05:52 Caller Efficiency, efficiency, we're always working for efficiency. The people that make the rules, they try to make the rules in such a manner so that you won't go over certain speed limits and it will remain safe. The problem is they're not as smart as the ones that are trying to beat them.

1:06:05 Adam Right.

1:06:05 Caller So when they give us a set of rules, I have a whole group of engineers, and it's more people than they have on their own board who try to decide the rules. But it's not just me, it's Felipe's team, and it's Pinsky's, and we're all doing everything we can to get as much speed out of these cars as we can. Every now and again, they're going to say, look, we've got to go from a four-liter to a 3.5-liter, to a three-liter, and so on and so forth.

1:06:24 Adam But it's about competition. It's not a drag race. I mean, like in baseball, they could use aluminum bats, and the ball would travel 30 feet further on a home run, but they don't have that. You know what I mean?

1:06:38 Caller They might not have it with bats, but those baseball players sure are getting big. If you were to check them out 20 years ago, they're a lot bigger now than they were then. That's because they're trying to do everything they can to get the most of the things.

1:06:47 Adam Within the rules.

1:06:47 Caller Within the rules.

1:06:48 Adam Right. And the rules are there to make it competitive.

1:06:52 Caller And it's exciting.

1:06:54 Adam Right. Right. Unlike something like, for instance, I was talking about going out to the drag races this week, you know, that's just one of those crazy things. But that's different.

1:07:02 Caller They've never been to one. Is it for you?

1:07:05 Adam It's scary. I'll tell you one thing they're going to do is, I know this drag race, I know it just sounds like I'm getting deeper and deeper into the white trash here with the, you know, going to the super cross races and stuff. But I'll go and check out anything that I will, I don't care if it's mud wrestling or drag racing, if it's impressive, it's impressive. The dragsters, here's the thing that's crazy about the dragsters. And the dragsters, first off, they can't, they don't know how many horsepower they have because there's no dyno for an engine that just blows up basically. But, you know, they got like 20,000 horsepower, something like a completely radically insane. And it doesn't sound like an engine, it sounds like an explosion. And the pits are open. You can walk up and down the pits and these things just burn nitro. And they have them up on these jack stands and they fire these blown, you know, hemi big block engines up that are running off all nitro. And it just sounds like an explosion is going off and they're spitting out nitro. I mean, you can't see, your eyes are burning, these things are spinning around, kids are trying to eat snow cones and walk around. One of those dragsters is coming off the jack stands and going right through a whole group of kids and that'll be the end of that. So my feeling is, is, I cherish what I try to do in life and I think you should too. You should look for the stuff that's gonna be shut down in a few years. And you know, the result, well, this is how, this is how everything eventually goes. Now I went to the Super Bowl this year. It took me two hours in line. They searched every cavity I had to walk through. You know, the metal detectors, the guy, they had me vomit into a bucket to make sure I wasn't smuggling any contraband in. And I was sitting next, standing next to a guy in line and I was saying, imagine what the Super Bowl was like in 1972. I mean, you could have walked in with a briefcase full of plastic explosives and a bazooka and no one would have, you know, and a pony keg and no one would have even slowed you down. You got to look for those things that exist now that someone's going to put an end to soon. For me, one of those things is drag racing.

1:09:17 Caller I respect those guys. They are, they are nuts.

1:09:22 Adam Yeah.

1:09:22 Caller I don't know how they do it.

1:09:23 Adam Well, they're nuts. That's how they do it.

1:09:25 Caller I was actually on an interview the day with Forrest. He's something else. I mean, these guys, they get in these cars and they can't see. They can't breathe. They explode every now and again. They're going. I mean, I think the record on a motorcycle is 243 miles an hour. Can you imagine how much skin you would go off on your body, would just burn off on your body to get the ground going 230 miles an hour?

1:09:49 Adam Yeah. And the guys in the funny cars and drinkers are doing like 325, 330. It's scary to sit in there. Yeah, it does. It sounds like an explosion going off. It doesn't sound like a souped up engine. It just sounds like someone threw a grenade. The first time you go, you're not like, is this the way it's supposed to be? You think the whole thing's a crap. That's why you got to get drunk. You have to numb yourself with booze. Otherwise, it's too much to process. That's what I do. I start right with the booze. I go right for the hospitality. Kayla, you're 15. What's up?

1:10:22 Caller I wanted to know if they allow girls into drag racing.

1:10:25 Adam Yeah, they're called pit girls. They run around in go-go boots and they hand out skull chewing tobacco. It's great. There's room for everybody. You mean you want to drag race? Yeah. Well, there's Shirley Cha-Cha Moldione. She's been around or was around 30 years ago.

1:10:46 Caller Women have become very successful in motor sports. In the IRL, there's a young woman called Sarah Fisher, who is very fast, incredibly popular with the fans, very committed to what she's doing. I think the world is changing. Before, you would think that girls would sit home and play with dolls. I mean, now, that just isn't the case. Sarah is one hell of a race car driver.

1:11:11 Adam And they're good. They're, well, first off, a lot of the reasons the teams like them is because their insurance is lower. Well, the women do get a break, even on the circuit. But, Kayla?

1:11:23 Caller Yeah?

1:11:23 Adam You want to drag race?

1:11:25 Caller Yeah.

1:11:26 Adam And why?

1:11:27 Caller Well, because my sister's boyfriend, he's into it, and I go most of all of his races, and I really like it. It's just fun.

1:11:34 Adam Well, you know, they have those drag racing schools. You can go there, get a feel for it.

1:11:40 Caller Yeah.

1:11:41 Adam Why don't you do that? I don't know if you're interested in it.

1:11:43 Caller I'll look into it.

1:11:44 Adam Yeah. All right.

1:11:46 Caller Thank you.

1:11:47 Adam Yeah. The women do fine with that, because their reaction time is fine, and they're a little bit lighter, and their endurance is probably a little better in guys sometimes.

1:11:57 Caller You don't need endurance in drag racing.

1:11:59 Adam No, not drag racing, but I mean like...

1:12:01 Caller You need to be certifiably crazy, I think. And then if you can do that, if you're willing to sit in over a keg of Nitro and just aim this thing down the straightaway, then...

1:12:10 Adam Oh my God. I love this show, because I end up talking about drag racing for two hours. But the craziest thing, you go to the drag racing museum over there in Pomona, and you see those cars that were running the 50s and the 60s. They're sitting right on top the pumpkin there. They got the differentials like between their legs. I mean, when they used to have the engine in front on the rails, you do the math. The engine is in front of you, the drive shaft is three feet long, and the differential is, meaning the axle for all the lay people, the rear axle, it's right between your legs.

1:12:44 Caller And they're not made, they're not designed to take, what did you say, 20,000 horsepower, so every now and again, something breaks in it.

1:12:50 Adam Yeah. That's like sitting on a grenade. So bad times, that drag racing. AJ? Hey, you're 17, what's up?

1:13:01 Dr. Bruce Hey, I was just wondering, Eddie, what happened to all the short track racers that would race in the N-D 500? Where are all the AJ Floyds and Mario Andrade's Pernille Jones? They'd win the N-D 500 next week, they'd show up at a quarter mile dirt track. What happened to all those guys?

1:13:17 Caller Yeah, that's a really good question. And I think that really is the main reason why the N-D Racing League was created in the beginning. A lot of those drivers that came from short tracks were, like you said, the ones that became Indianapolis 500 champions and heroes of American racing. And I think with the event of cart going on road racing, it took the emphasis off those short tracks. Short tracks are really cool. You go to a short track, you see a mom and dad and they've got this 16 year old kid that has a great passion for racing and they work on the car together, they race it, this kid goes out there and kicks everybody's butt and all of a sudden he would be a very, he would have the opportunity and the talent to race but he couldn't go any higher because it wasn't possible. There was this big bridge that was missing from short tracks to the Indianapolis 500. Then you created the Indy 500, not the Indy 500, the IRL, and along comes a driver like Tony Stewart. I mean, I met Tony Stewart who now has become one of the NASCAR's best. I was at a race in Indianapolis and they told me to look at this kid. They said he's really good, very brave, and he was very good and very brave in this. I went and talked to him and he was all dirty and he had mud on his hands but he had a look in his eye like he wanted to go kick everybody's butt no matter what. He sat and he didn't care. There was no way for him to go into the 500. Then he did, came in, won the IRL's championship, then went on and raced the NASCAR but that's a really good question.

1:14:44 Adam Is short track always dirt or does it not have to be?

1:14:48 Caller It can be dirt, it can be pavement, it's your racing midget, silver crown, and these are cars that have been around forever. It's a really good series and there's a whole mountain of race car drivers that compete there but what's really neat about it is it is American racing. I mean, you don't get any more American than that. It's like football but there was no bridge. The bridge was caught off from those short tracks to the Indy 500. Now it's in place again and that really is the main reason why the IRL was created to give opportunity to people like this.

1:15:18 Adam Well thanks there AJ. Were you named after AJ Floyd?

1:15:24 Dr. Bruce No, not really but he's one of my heroes.

1:15:27 Adam Well let's just go ahead and say you were.

1:15:28 Dr. Bruce Okay yeah I was named after AJ Floyd.

1:15:31 Adam Well be a little more organic. I'll try it one more time. Were you named after AJ Floyd? Yep.

1:15:37 Caller But I'd want to meet him first before I'd say that. I drove for him. You might want to actually spend a few minutes with him before you say that.

1:15:42 Adam Pain in the ass.

1:15:44 Caller The most opinionated man I've ever met.

1:15:46 Adam Oh really?

1:15:46 Caller If he wasn't there you would have to invent it because he is quite unique.

1:15:50 Adam Oh boy. Who knew he was saying a big a-hole?

1:15:53 Caller I didn't say that.

1:15:55 Adam I did not say that. That's what I heard. Mandy? Mandy?

1:16:01 Caller Hey what's up?

1:16:01 Adam Hey you're 17. What's up?

1:16:03 Caller Well, I've been having a hard time with my boyfriend lately. I've known him for 8 and a half years and we've been going out for about a year and a half. And all of a sudden every time I call his house, his friends answer the phone and they're like hey what's up and everything.

1:16:19 Caller He's not home.

1:16:20 Caller I'm like where did he go? He went to his other friend's house. So I'm assuming that he's purposely avoiding me for some odd reason.

1:16:26 Caller Yeah.

1:16:27 Adam You've known him for 8 years?

1:16:29 Caller Yeah. I met him when I was like 9 and a half. I was little back then and I'm surprised he's not any better that long.

1:16:37 Caller How old is he?

1:16:39 Caller He just turned 19. And I'll be 18 this July.

1:16:44 Caller Alright.

1:16:44 Adam You guys have been going out for a year or so?

1:16:47 Caller Yeah.

1:16:47 Caller And all of a sudden he's starting to turn me down and like just give me the cold shoulder. And I keep asking like, hey, what's wrong with you? He's like, I'm mad at you. And he he told me he was jealous because I was talking to one of my old friends and stuff. And he thinks that my friend's going to take me away from him. So now he's giving me the cold shoulder.

1:17:06 Adam How long has he been giving you the cold shoulder?

1:17:08 Caller About two months now. And he just won't let me talk to him.

1:17:12 Adam Hold on. Two months. He broke up with you two months ago. That ain't cold shoulder. That's that's frozen nut. I don't know what that is. Were you planning on marrying this guy or what?

1:17:24 Caller He'd ask me every now and then. I'd say, you know what? No. I'm still going through school and stuff. And I mean, I've got my last year of school to finish.

1:17:38 Adam I think you guys broke up. Yeah. He just didn't tell you.

1:17:42 Caller Well, he thinks that I'm trying to break up with him and stuff. And he thinks that I'm trying to get rid of him.

1:17:48 Adam Oh, have you guys gone out on a date in two months?

1:17:52 Caller Yeah. We've like hung out and, you know, went and saw a movie and stuff.

1:17:57 Adam When's the last time you hung out with him?

1:18:02 Caller Last Wednesday.

1:18:04 Adam So it's been, Jesus Christ, I was in New Orleans for five days. I don't know what month it is.

1:18:11 Caller Go Pets!

1:18:13 Adam Seven days ago?

1:18:14 Caller Oh, Jesus Christ.

1:18:16 Adam I got to detox myself. All right. Do you sleep with the guy?

1:18:23 Caller No. I live in Buena Park. He lives in Santa Ana. And so like I have to take the public bus to go see him.

1:18:30 Adam So you're not sexually active with him?

1:18:32 Caller Oh, hell no.

1:18:32 Adam All right. For those of you who are listening, Buena Park and Santa Ana are, I don't know, 25 miles of, I don't know, they're just crap holes, both of them, right? You should move almost immediately. Don't date anyone from that part of the woods, even if you live there. So one of the luxuries about being 17 is you get to go out with somebody and then when you're tired of them, move on to somebody else, you're not hooked to the guy. And when the guy is 19, they change a lot from 17, 18 to 19, as you will. So it's a wonderful thing. You get to go out with somebody else. It sounds like your relationships run its course and maybe you should just get together and talk about that. I don't know what you're talking about last Wednesday. She can't find the guy, so how are they going to do that? Have your attorney arrange a meeting. Listen, this is over with, Mandy. That's fine. This is the way it's supposed to go.

1:19:23 Caller My mom and some of my friends are like, just kick them to the curb and get rid of them.

1:19:28 Adam Yeah. All right. Break up with them. Don't exert that much energy. Don't do that thing I've done many times when the guy breaks up with the chick and you're like, I didn't want to say anything but that fat whore. Thank God you cut her loose. She was a pain in the ass, ass the size of Texas. Then you talked to him three weeks and I was like, yeah, me and Diane got back together.

1:19:48 Caller We're getting married.

1:19:50 Adam You're like, oh, that fat whore. I was talking about someone else. Yeah, it's important to really make sure people have broken up before you start talking smack about the person because there's all those things you want to say while they're together and you never do and then they break up and it all comes spilling out over a few beers and they inevitably get back together at least for some period of time and then you look like a major a-hole. So, save all that stuff for at least six months after they've broken up. But every relationship when you're 16 or 17 goes on a year longer than it should. People just hold on and hold on and there's this thing where we've invested three years, I'm not going to give it up even if it's not working out. What kind of retarded thinking is that? You got something that's not working. I mean, I always say apply that to a job. You have a bad job, we don't get along with the boss, you've been there for three years. You don't want to be there for four years.

1:20:44 Caller What if it's your first job though? When you're a kid, that's your first love affair. That's the first lesson you've had and you're learning from it. So you don't know what is coming later.

1:20:52 Adam That's right, that's right. Eddie is absolutely right. Are we talking about work though now? We're talking about relationship.

1:20:59 Caller You were comparing it to that. No, you're right.

1:21:01 Adam I got confused.

1:21:02 Caller You don't know what's going to come later. That's the most important thing in your life.

1:21:06 Adam I was going to be like, well, are they going to hate OT or is there 401k? Yes, you're right.

1:21:12 Caller An analogy, I was making officially an analogy.

1:21:15 Adam Thank you. And you're right. Don't get too abstract here. No, but here's the deal, too. Yeah, when you've had a few relationships, you can then sniff out the ones that have gone south and get out of them at the four-month mark.

1:21:31 Caller My 12-year-old, my almost 13-year-old daughter called me the other day saying, she was angry. I couldn't tell what the problem was. She said, I broke up with my boyfriend. I had no idea that there was a boyfriend. I don't even know what the concept of a boyfriend she's talking about. And as she was explaining to me, I was having a hard time not laughing, which would have been the hardest, the most stupid thing I could have ever done. So we talked through all this. This is the first time and she's telling me that she knows she's on the school bus and he talked with her friend and there are some. I mean, it was a very convoluted thing. But the lesson that I think I learned from that is at that moment, that was the most important thing in her life because she was starting a whole brand new concept of something that she's seen adults and her parents and her friends and older friends do. So they build, at least I think my daughter is building like a layer on top of a layer every day of how to react with the opposite gender. Now, I'm 44 years old and I have no idea how to do it.

1:22:27 Adam Well, you're smart in that it's important not to laugh at your daughter when she's telling you her stories.

1:22:36 Caller I was laughing because it didn't seem that serious to me. Why are you so upset about this guy? Who cares? So what?

1:22:43 Adam It probably lasted three days, but it's so important for her to have a dad to be able to bounce it off. Yeah, but I know my girlfriend tells me stories about work. I start laughing. That's the other reason. You can't laugh at that one. You know Sharon McCloskey? Yeah. Oh, she comes in like she's the queen of Shiva. She's wearing the same sweater I told her I was going to wear. It's important to pull the phone away because otherwise you start laughing in the middle of it. Not big, no. Then you start working in the I got real problems line and that's when they go off. Bruce, you don't even talk to your wife, do you? No, I'm a sensitive guy. Yeah, I know.

1:23:26 Caller Not like you.

1:23:26 Adam That's called a puss.

1:23:28 Caller I've had anal sex on the cast out because of my wife.

1:23:30 Adam Bruce, we haven't gone to break yet.

1:23:31 Caller In racing, we have different words and it's even more aggressive than that.

1:23:35 Caller Oh, really?

1:23:37 Dr. Bruce What's that?

1:23:38 Caller I got in trouble for saying shifting. And you want me to say that?

1:23:41 Adam Anderson's there with his finger on the seven second delay. All right.

1:23:44 Caller Well, tell us. Tell us.

1:23:45 Adam All right. We're going to take another break. When we come back, we'll think we'll talk to Diana. She thinks her family is insane. Wants to know if it's OK to cut off all ties with them after this. Hey, everybody.

1:24:02 Caller It's Loveline.

1:24:04 Adam I'm Adam. That's Dr. Bruce. Dr. Bruce is filling in for Dr. Drew tonight. Dr. Drew is, I don't know where doing, I don't know what, but we don't care about him.

1:24:16 Caller Painful reaction that will not go away.

1:24:18 Adam But he still feel like he's with us in a way. Eddie Cheever Jr. is here along with Felipe Giaffone. Both great indie drivers, and they're involved with the IRL series, which is the Indie Racing League. And that starts up March in Miami, beginning of March and goes all the way through September 15th. And we're just talking about going out to the 24th. That's the California Speedway one. Yes, I would love to go to that. I really enjoy those events. And I think a lot of people do, because there seems... I don't know what the average attendance is at those races, but it seems to be well over 100,000 people.

1:25:08 Caller A lot of people, and the good thing about singing in Oval is that you can see the cars the whole way around the track. There's a lot of stuff going on. There will be battles in the front, battles in the back, and it's pretty busy.

1:25:20 Adam It's an event. And I went out there to do a... I think it was the California Speedway last year, to do a little bit with NASCAR. And those are some fans. Oh, yeah. Yeah. They even... even too white trashy for me, I must say. They infield the guys camped out in the Winnebago's there. They've been there for... actually since last year. They never leave. They drink a little too much, fall off the top. They put the Winnebago up on blocks. They get the... they take the 12-pack container and they take a piece of charcoal. They take a brick head and they write, they show us your boobs. They sit up there just getting stewed all day long.

1:26:04 Caller And that's a bad thing?

1:26:05 Adam No, it's really... it's not a bad thing. But when they then recognize you from basic cable after the 15th beer and start screaming at you and chasing you on their three wheels, it gets a little hairy. And us Yankees, we've seen deliverance. And we're quite frankly frightened by southern folk. Alright, let's talk to Diana. Who's 32, Diana? Diana? Oh, she's been on hold for 103 minutes. Jesus Christ. Diana? What's up? Well, listen, let me answer your question. You think your family is nuts. You want to know if it's okay to cut them off? I say yes. Let's talk to, I'll put her back on hold. Maybe she'll wake up. Dan?

1:26:52 Caller Yes.

1:26:53 Adam You're 31? Yes. What's up?

1:26:55 Caller Hey, Adam.

1:26:56 Adam Me?

1:26:57 Caller Longtime fan and Eddie in sleep. Longtime fan as well. My question is, I was wondering what your take is on the cart in the IRL getting back together again. Because it just seems like these days, instead of like the talks, they're always talking, but it just seems now that the cart teams are kind of migrating over to IRL.

1:27:22 Adam What's cart stand for?

1:27:25 Caller Championship Auto Racing teams.

1:27:26 Caller All right.

1:27:27 Adam Didn't know that. Well, what about it? These guys don't like each other, right? That the cart and the IRL are like the Hatfields and the McCoys, right?

1:27:36 Caller No. Oh, this is how we had so tired of answering this. But I'm happy. Thank you for the question. And I will do my best to answer it in the least political and unbiased manner that I'm capable of.

1:27:48 Caller Thank you. It just seems like the media just doesn't like, they take sides all the time.

1:27:53 Caller That is true. There was a definite, and I'll be as brief as I can, there's a definite difference in philosophy as to how motor racing should be run between CART and the Indy Racing League. I race in the Indy Racing League, so I'm better at explaining their point of view than I am CART's point of view. CART is eclectic. They do a little bit of this and a little bit of that, but they're not experts in anything. They try to compete in too many different fields. They have a great race here in Long Beach, which I'm very jealous of. I think it's one of the funnest events that I've ever participated in as a racing driver. But then they go in other places and they all race and it just doesn't really make sense and I believe that over time the public became very confused with what they stood for. The IRL on the other hand races on American oval tracks. They've copied a lot of what NASCAR has done. We race on a lot of NASCAR's events at their racetracks and it's a lot easier for the public to embrace it and to understand it. Another difference in this philosophy is that we have equal access to technology. What I mean by that is you can't have somebody like, just I'll choose a name and I have a lot of respect for Team Pinsky come in and outspend people by ten times and win every race just because they have a better financial backing. So you can't go do that. I can go buy the same equipment that Pinsky can. Whereas in CART that was impossible to do. So the races are a lot tighter. The competition is a lot more severe. And CART is a public company. It's run by a board and it's almost like having the lunatics control the asylum. And they've made a lot of mistakes and I think they put their drivers in jeopardy. They've made a lot of irresponsible decisions over time. They went to Texas for example. The race without testing and checking and the race car drivers are going too fast. They have to quit because they had vertigo. Oh really? So I mean I don't know who, they don't have any more feet to shoot off. So now all of the CART teams are coming over to the IRL because it makes good business sense. We are growing public. We race in great tracks and there's a lot of young drivers that are coming up through. So I'm not trying to sound political, but I believe that good business in the end made the decision for everybody. When a team like Pinsky comes to the IRL because it makes business sense. He's not a politician. He's a businessman.

1:30:05 Adam What is changing gears here slightly? What is your favorite year of Indy Carr? For me, I think about those ones from the early 70s, late 60s.

1:30:17 Caller I agree.

1:30:17 Adam Those AJ Floyd cars and stuff.

1:30:20 Caller He's American.

1:30:21 Adam Yeah. They're really cool looking ones. Well, I don't know who. Was it AJ Floyd had the blue one with this Thunderbolts on it?

1:30:27 Caller No, it was Uncertain.

1:30:28 Adam Oh, that was Uncertain.

1:30:29 Caller That's right.

1:30:30 Adam Yeah. That was the best. You know, I don't like the Grand Prix cars now because they got the scoop on the bottom of the nose.

1:30:39 Caller Looks lame.

1:30:40 Adam To me, it's all about what the car looks like. I don't like that funky shark nose there with the scoop down on the ground.

1:30:47 Caller Are you that picky with your women? I mean, you have certain things that have to be there.

1:30:51 Adam Yeah.

1:30:52 Caller Are you that picky?

1:30:53 Caller Yes, I am.

1:30:54 Adam Yes, it's all about what the cars look like. It's a cart-related question if you want to take that.

1:30:59 Caller Oh, no.

1:30:59 Adam Screw those carters. Wait, who do you got here? We'll get to them. They've been on 74 minutes. All right. Danny?

1:31:08 Caller Hey, Adam. How's it going?

1:31:09 Adam Good. What's up?

1:31:11 Caller Well, you know, actually, I just wanted to say that hi to Dr. Bruce, Felipe, and Eddie, you know, so nobody's saying hi, so I wanted to say hi. Well, my problem is, actually, I don't know if it's a problem or not, though. Well, I'm 19, and let's say I'm having sex with my girlfriend, and after I finish doing, you know, my thing, I actually do it protected, you know, the right way to do it. And when I'm actually finished, I just feel completely disgusted with her, and I mean, she's gorgeous, she's a great person, but I just feel like, I mean, I look at her, I'm like, wow, what am I doing with her? Just for that split second, and, you know, I want to call you guys and find out, maybe you have some sort of diagnosis for my problem.

1:31:58 Adam Well, why aren't you eating at this point? What are you doing still in the room? I mean, you should immediately be in front of the refrigerator. You should not be in the same room with her after you're done. You understand? That's where the problem is.

1:32:12 Caller Right, right. I understand what you're talking about, but I mean, is this a, I mean, is this normal? I mean, just...

1:32:18 Adam Well, you're disgusted with her, like, why would she have sex with someone like you or what is your angle there?

1:32:25 Caller More like, I, why would I have sex with her? Or just anybody else? Just women alone, just disgusting, just for that split, you know, five, ten... You're gay.

1:32:35 Dr. Bruce Right, yeah.

1:32:37 Caller You know, I'm not gay.

1:32:38 Adam Well, I, you know, I, I, I hate to, again, work the experience thing, but you have a lot of feelings when you're younger about sex that seem to go away as you get older. Do you know what I mean? And it's just sort of, it's through repetition. Here, your mind is racing or you have negative thoughts or you have crazy, you know, lustful thoughts or all, everything just gets turned down a couple of notches. And, you know, you're not, I mean, you're back in a few seconds. It's just a couple of seconds.

1:33:12 Caller It takes me, yeah, but it doesn't take very long, you know. It just takes, just right after the climax for about, you know, 10 to 15 seconds.

1:33:20 Adam Yeah, all right. Well, there's nothing, you're not going to stab her or anything, are you?

1:33:24 Caller No, definitely not, definitely not.

1:33:26 Adam All right, well, then just don't say anything stupid.

1:33:29 Caller Right.

1:33:29 Adam And you'll be fine.

1:33:30 Caller Okay.

1:33:31 Adam I don't know what goes on in your brain, what goes on in a brain after that, when during an orgasm in a male? I get hungry, you know. I wouldn't use the word disgust in anywhere near that experience.

1:33:42 Caller I don't think so.

1:33:43 Adam I think he's got some real sleepy. Yeah.

1:33:46 Caller Why are you talking afterwards anyways?

1:33:48 Adam Yeah, that's what I'm saying. You should be standing for the refrigerator. It sounds like he's got some real ambivalent feelings about something in the relationship. I wonder that he's not confused about whether he should be in the relationship at some level.

1:34:03 Caller How long have you been going out with this gal?

1:34:05 Adam I've been going out with her for about a year. A year? Yeah.

1:34:10 Caller I've actually confirmed to her about it and I've told her that what I feel, and I was being obviously smart about it and not saying anything stupid, but I told her that and she understands, but I just want to know what the problem or if it's a problem at all, but why does this happen? I love her to death, but that's just a problem that I keep having.

1:34:32 Adam What do you focus on? Is there a part of her that you don't like?

1:34:36 Caller No. I love everything about her. It's nothing physical. Just for that split second, I just get that feeling that it's not an attraction thing, but more like I just don't want to see her. I just want to leave. Maybe you're right about going and getting some food.

1:34:55 Caller That will help.

1:34:57 Adam It sounds like you have some ambivalence about the relationship. Maybe on some level you're not real conscious of at this point. Maybe the commitment. Are you thinking of marrying this gal?

1:35:08 Caller I haven't really thought about it. I'm still 19. I still have my education to look forward to.

1:35:13 Adam Is this your first girlfriend?

1:35:15 Caller No, it's not actually. It's my first girlfriend that I have sex with.

1:35:21 Adam There's a bunch of weird feelings that go on. I remember when I first started having consistent sex at 32. A lot of ambivalent feelings. For some people, there's a feeling of permanence in a relationship when you're having sex. Maybe in your mind somewhere, the fact that you're having sex with her implies that this is a commitment that's more than just, well, I'm 19, I've got other things to do. There's some real conflict in your mind about you're sexually intimate with her and yet you really don't have that kind of a commitment to her. Oh, just listen. Is a 19 year old guy... I'm not saying what he should do. I'm saying it sounds like he's got some real ambivalence there because to have that disgusted feeling right after that kind of intimacy, that wanting, being hungry, stuff like that for even you. You know what? Everyone's always talking about trusting yourself and trusting your instincts and following your heart. At 19, don't listen to yourself at all. You've got a lot of horrible ideas. You can trust your instincts but not your impulses. A lot of crazy stuff runs through your head at 19. You've got a lot of hormones going on. There's a lot of weird ideas you have. I wouldn't be surprised if she's more, assuming this is more of a permanent thing than he is possibly. Yeah, he loves her. He just seems like a crazy Dr. Hyde kind of thought. Well, maybe she's okay with the fact that he's thinking, well, yeah, six months, we'll get off this ship, get on something else, try something else.

1:36:50 Caller I mean, for women, it's like, well, I'm going to marry this guy.

1:36:53 Adam It's perverse. Let me say this. You know Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde? Doesn't Dr. Jekyll sound worse than Mr. Hyde just as names go? Like if someone just said, hey, you want to hang out with Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde? You'd probably hang with Mr. Hyde, wouldn't you?

1:37:10 Caller Oh, boy.

1:37:11 Adam I'm just saying I think they should have come up with a nicer name for Dr. Jekyll and then a meaner name for Mr. Hyde. You see what I mean? Dr. Hyde and Mr. Jekyll. That would have worked, but it would have been more effective.

1:37:25 Caller Fifteen seconds. Why is that a big problem? Fifteen seconds. I mean, if you're disgusted.

1:37:33 Adam Listen, if we ask Danny about his girlfriend's intentions in the relationship, I would assume that she's probably got a little more permanence in mind than maybe stealing from that. He loves her.

1:37:45 Caller Who cares?

1:37:46 Caller Who cares?

1:37:48 Adam All right, let's take ourselves a break. We'll talk to Brian. His dad's a porno nut when we come back. Oh, good. Yeah? Yeah, that's a good one. All right, after this. She's my mom, too. All right. Oh, really? Oh, good. After this. Hey, everybody. Loveline. I'm Adam Corolla. That is Dr. Bruce over there doing an adequate job tonight filling in for Dr. Drew. I've had anal sex and I've passed out a couple times. Very, very rare. Can you make another recording? That was a revelation that Bruce thought he was telling me off the air last time he was in the show, but Anderson had the mics on. I've had oral sex and whatever. Anything else?

1:38:28 Caller Anything else in the menu of perversions and obscenities?

1:38:34 Adam We are talking about racing tonight, Indy car racing most specifically. There it is. That did sound like an Indy car going by. Oh, no, that sounded like a NASCAR going by. Don't you hate when you are watching a show and they always put the car sound in later and they put the wrong engine in for the car? You guys get pissed off at that? All right, let's see if we can... This is a good one. Yeah? All right. Well, wait a minute. I thought we were going to talk to Brian. A woman with a nitro question. I like that. All right, well, hold on a second though because we will go to that next. I sold Brian before we went to break. That's radio. Brian? Yeah? Hey, hold on. Well, we got to give this nitro question. Okay. No, go ahead. Your dad watches a lot of porno.

1:39:20 Caller Yeah, he's a porno freak, like completely. All he does is spend a lot of our money on porno.

1:39:27 Adam No, no, he does not.

1:39:29 Caller He does.

1:39:30 Adam How do you know?

1:39:31 Caller Because it's all over the house.

1:39:32 Adam No, it is not.

1:39:33 Caller I swear it is. He keeps it in the living room table, DVDs in the den by the computer, Playboy, penthouse, everything.

1:39:42 Adam And he spends a substantial portion of your income on this?

1:39:45 Caller Well, probably not.

1:39:46 Caller Brian, you're describing Adam's house and lifestyle, so it's going to be very difficult for him to be objective about this.

1:39:53 Adam How dare you attack my ways? And let's see, a taboo, too, so stop that or I'll begin masturbating. So listen, you are very pavlovian that way. Yeah, Brian, so what? Is he cheating on your mom?

1:40:10 Dr. Bruce Yeah, he's all for cheating.

1:40:11 Adam How do you know?

1:40:12 Caller Well, on the computer, he leaves pictures of himself naked at other people's houses and he doesn't know that we know about it. But I haven't told my mom yet and I'm wondering if I should because...

1:40:23 Adam What do you mean he leaves pictures of himself naked?

1:40:25 Caller He like has pictures of himself naked on the computer from other people's houses and I know it's like an escort service because if you look at his web page history, he's got a like porno escort services and stuff on there.

1:40:41 Adam I bet your mom knows about this.

1:40:42 Caller You think so?

1:40:44 Adam Yeah. I think she does. And do you hate him?

1:40:49 Caller Well yeah.

1:40:50 Caller My sister hates him too.

1:40:53 Adam Sounds like does he do drugs or booze or something?

1:40:56 Caller No.

1:40:57 Caller Really? He's New Yorker. What?

1:41:00 Adam He's from New York?

1:41:02 Caller Yeah. Yeah.

1:41:04 Adam He poured it on my house. Hey, does he have any in... Well, you're keeping the car, right? Yeah. Does he have any insight into his problem? Does he think he has a problem at all? Oh yeah. He's found out on G just three years ago.

1:41:16 Caller He seems comfortable with all the porn but...

1:41:18 Adam Hey, Brian?

1:41:19 Caller Yeah.

1:41:20 Adam Here's your move. I realized my parents were idiots when I was... Well, actually it was just after I was born. I was right about an umbilical cord was still attached. And here's what you have to do. You're 16, right? Yeah. You're not going to change your dad. He's not going to listen to you. You could get into boundaries and all that stuff. But he just sounds like a world class jackass. You need to do well in school and go far, far away to college. And try not to go gay. That'll be your first impulse to screw up your dad. But don't do it. Just go far away to college. Start your own family. And then eventually you'll start leaving porn around the house. Yeah. It will be one of those crazy things. Here's an alternate plan, Brian. What your dad's got is a progressive disorder. And as much as Adam might not like to agree with me on this, this type of behavior with sex is addictive. And addictive behaviors are progressive. And it's going to take more and more of this type of activity to get him to the same level of excitement. I agree with all that. Okay. It's destroying your family. And just as you do interventions with someone that's destroying a family with drugs and alcohol, you can do the same type of intervention with somebody like your dad. And what you're saying in an intervention is you're getting a professional to come in and help you say to him, look, we see what you're doing. You're destroying yourself. You're destroying our family. And we're not going to tolerate it. And a lot of times what the word tolerance is actually enabling you. Yeah, but what's he supposed to do? Well, get together with mom and sister. This guy's old enough. He's an adult basically at 16 and being exposed to this. What you're doing is you're saying we're not going to live in the same house with this. If you don't get help. Well, you know mom's a piece of work too. No, mom's an enabler. Mom's... That's what I'm saying.

1:43:00 Caller My sister's grew up too.

1:43:02 Adam Yeah, how's your mom doing?

1:43:04 Caller She is like the nicest person in the family.

1:43:06 Adam Can she muster some strength and set some boundaries up for this guy?

1:43:12 Caller I don't know. I'm beginning to think that she doesn't even care that he looks at all this porn because she's so used to it.

1:43:16 Adam Sure she cares. She's deeply hurting about all this. And what you need to do is... There's more to it.

1:43:24 Caller There's a lot more to it. Wait a second.

1:43:26 Adam What he needs to do is look in the phone book. You can find the same place you find alcoholics anonymous information, you find sexaholics anonymous or that type of a 12 step organization. And there are support groups or families with an idiot like this.

1:43:41 Caller The guy's sick and he needs help.

1:43:42 Adam I agree. I'm just a little more realistic. I know his mom's a mess. I know her dad was a world class jackass who probably abused her. Now she met an abusive idiot who's halfway to hell. This guy's practically graduated high school. Just get your grades up and get the hell out of there. I've seen people like this say when they get help, I wish somebody would have stepped up to the plate and told, you know, and said, I see you have a problem and there is, and offered them help. I see people thank the group that does the intervention. That's true for everybody. Everybody on death row wishes someone would have stepped in at a certain point and steered them a different direction. So if the family gets together and they get somebody to help them confront him in a loving way and say, look, there is help but we're not going to continue to live in the same house with us. Good luck getting a codependent mom to go in on that. Codependent mom needs support.

1:44:34 Caller And she needs to go to some...

1:44:35 Adam So you get an intervention for her to get on board with the intervention? No. If somebody knows the problem, sit down with a three-year-old. Denise? She'll want to do it. You're 27.

1:44:45 Caller Yes, I have.

1:44:46 Adam You drive a nitro truck?

1:44:47 Caller Yeah, I had just a couple of statements. Have you been in the pit race?

1:44:52 Adam In a drag race?

1:44:53 Caller Yes.

1:44:55 Caller And do you sign your waivers before you go in those pits?

1:44:59 Adam No, I didn't sign any waiver.

1:45:00 Caller Well, then something's wrong because you're supposed to sign a waiver before you go in those pits.

1:45:04 Caller You guys don't realize how many safety precautions that we have to take?

1:45:08 Caller Yeah.

1:45:09 Adam Oh, no, I saw it. There's a piece of orange yarn in between me and the 20,000 horsepower nitro-burning grenade that was 10 feet away from me. Very dangerous over there, very dangerous. Why is a waiver, why is that a safety precaution? That's just so I don't sue when the thing blows up and I get a blower belt up my ass.

1:45:34 Caller That's why you sign the waiver because you're assuming all liability for you to be down there.

1:45:39 Adam I know, but hold on there, Nitro Mama. I have to get a look at this one, by the way. You didn't tell me you had a thrush muffler tattoo on her boob. But listen, here's all I'm saying. You're arguing about how safe things are and then explaining the waiver part is not a great argument. You know what I mean? She was saying that it's safe in the pits and then saying you need to sign a waiver in case something exploded. That's all I'm saying. All right, we'll take a break. All right, well, that's the show. All you gear heads. I want to thank Eddie and Felipe for coming in here and plugging the great support of IRL Racing. And we're going to go out. I definitely and Bruce, I know you'll want to go to this too. Definitely going to go out in March 24th, go out to the California Speedway and watch these guys race. That is, of course, we get the first class treatment. I like to stuff my gullet with food and get good and loaded before I stagger out with the common people and watch the racers. So thanks a lot for coming in, guys. It was a pleasure. It was interesting talking to you guys. And until next time, it's Adam Corolla for Dr. Bruce. Say mahalo.

1:47:09 This has been Loveline. The opinions expressed on this show are not necessarily those of the staff and management sponsors who are this station. The producer for Loveline is Dan Wilkins Engel. Loveline is the presentation of Westwood One Entertainment.

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