6:19
Voiceover
Listener discretion is advised.
6:25
Adam Corolla and Dr. Drew.
6:27
Voiceover
Love Line, Coast to Coast.
6:30
Adam
Hey, everybody, it's Loveline, I'm Adam Corolla, that's Dr. Drew, Dr. Drew, Board Certified Physician, Addiction Medicine Specialist, phone number 1-800-L-O-V-E-1-9-1. All right, go tell Clive Barker, he's got to come in in the second break now. Those idiots stopped him outside. Oh, jeez, I'll tell you, this show, there's not just an ounce of professionalism in this whole goddamn show, but here he is now. All right, too late, come on in, Clive. Clive Barker, everybody.
6:59
Drew
Hello.
7:00
Adam
Clive, of course, the maker of Candyman and Hellraiser and all those horribly disturbing movies. And Clive is now, has himself a new line of action figures called Tortured Souls.
7:16
Drew
Absolutely.
7:18
Adam
Clive, we haven't seen you in a while.
7:19
Drew
No, I see you all the time, you're on television smiling away. And the last time I was here, you were talking about doing the TV show.
7:28
Clive Barker
Oh, God.
7:29
Drew
Look at these things. There you go. So I'm going to sign these a meltdown on Saturday, so I want everybody to be there.
7:37
Clive Barker
Oh, my God.
7:38
Drew
Aren't they intense?
7:39
Adam
They are intense.
7:40
Drew
What's great is I am getting the complete unsensitive response here.
7:45
Adam
Yeah, this is crazy. Drew, why don't you give these to your kids and give them a gift certificate to therapy, too.
7:52
Drew
No, no, no, these go to the adult market.
7:56
Clive Barker
Well, this one could go. This is fine.
7:58
Adam
These are, this is really.
8:00
Drew
Yeah, I guess it's okay. But no, they're the intense, they're pretty intense toys.
8:05
Adam
This is as graphic a figurine I've ever seen in my life. Is it not?
8:10
Drew
Yeah.
8:11
Adam
Guts hanging out.
8:12
Drew
Is that Talisac? Yeah. Well, he has a little baby in his belly. Do you see that?
8:16
Adam
Oh, really? Yeah.
8:17
Drew
Yeah.
8:17
Adam
Well, it's more of a spawn.
8:18
Drew
Well, it is a spawn. You know, my partner in crime on this is-
8:25
Adam
McFarlane?
8:25
Drew
Todd McFarlane, of course, who made spawn. So these are all Todd. Todd and I work together. There you go. A little round of applause for Todd. Wow.
8:34
Adam
And Drew took one look at this one and he says, this is the spawn of gay men. This huge teeth in the crotch symbolizing the vagina. There's a lot of-
8:46
Drew
Vagina dentate.
8:47
Adam
A lot of symbolism here.
8:48
Clive Barker
What did I say?
8:49
Drew
I said vagina dentate.
8:50
Clive Barker
That's what I thought.
8:51
Adam
Well, hold on. Wait a second. Drew, you did not read that?
8:54
Clive Barker
No.
8:55
Adam
What is this one called?
8:57
Drew
It's called Mongroid.
8:58
Adam
Okay, good. Because if it's called vagina dentate, I would have gone insane. No, no, no.
9:03
Clive Barker
I said that.
9:05
Drew
We agree. It's got a certain- I think anything that has an imaginative element has got some kind of subtext to it.
9:14
Clive Barker
Yes.
9:14
Adam
Oh, yes.
9:15
Drew
Right? Yes.
9:17
Adam
This ain't really a subtext.
9:18
Drew
No, this is more like text. This is text.
9:20
Adam
Yeah. Yeah.
9:22
Drew
These are the most intense. I promise what I would do if I was going to go into the idea of figurines, I would make the most intense figurines I could make.
9:29
Clive Barker
You did it.
9:30
Adam
How big?
9:31
Clive Barker
You did it.
9:32
Drew
I can't believe the expression on-
9:35
Clive Barker
I didn't know they could do this with- You know what I mean? I figured that you need some special effects team to create one of these. It would cost $100,000 and that would be the one they'd use to make the film with.
9:45
Drew
You are a god. Thank you for saying that.
9:47
Adam
Well, yeah. They really do look magnificent.
9:49
Drew
The great thing is these were 11 bucks a piece.
9:51
Adam
Wow.
9:52
Drew
So all six of them and then I've written-
9:54
Clive Barker
So you can make your own films.
9:56
Drew
Yeah. That's the idea. Then I've written a story, a six-part story, which goes into- So each character gets a story to go with them. Then if you collect all six, you get this huge Clive Barker piece of fiction.
10:10
Adam
Wow. Yeah. They really are dramatic and spectacular looking. Thank you. I've never seen such details, such attention to detail.
10:17
Clive Barker
This is him in his full form, with hanging by the hooks into his eyes and cheeks, with the IV poles hanging in the blood.
10:25
Adam
Let me say this about Clive's figurines. Most of the figurines, now see, these ones come in a clear package.
10:32
Drew
Yeah.
10:32
Adam
I'm holding it up to the radio, but these come in a clear package, and most of these figurines come in a cardboard package with a picture of what the figurine would look like if you were really high.
10:43
Clive Barker
Right.
10:44
Adam
And then you pull it out of the box, and it looks nothing like the picture. Right. But it's sort of like, you know the picture of Superman on the front of the comic book, and then the guy who shows up at your kid's party with the spare tire around his gut holding a beer, hair falling out? That's what they're normally like, but this is in a clear package because clearly they have nothing to hide. This is really dramatic.
11:08
Clive Barker
See this thing stretched out here down the bottom?
11:09
Adam
Yeah.
11:10
Clive Barker
Yeah, that's his face that he's taken off.
11:13
Adam
Oh, I see.
11:14
Clive Barker
And he's going to stretch it on this apparatus here.
11:17
Drew
I'm just taking incredible pleasure in watching you two respond to all of this stuff.
11:22
Adam
Well, it really is. It's the only way we do things here on Loveline, which is these were all pulled out. We didn't examine them and work up a story.
11:30
Drew
No, I wanted to surprise you.
11:32
Adam
Certainly did.
11:33
Clive Barker
I had to sat down before I started yanking these things. I was like, what the hell is this?
11:37
Drew
You know what's weird? They're like candies. They're like these strange candies. They're beautifully detailed and they are beautiful things. I mean, the craftsmanship that goes into them is something else.
11:52
Adam
Vagina Ventata over here.
11:54
Drew
Dentata.
11:54
Adam
Dentata. Sorry, Scott.
11:55
Drew
It's got three. Is it Dentata or Dentate?
11:59
Clive Barker
I would swear. I thought it was Dentata.
12:01
Adam
Listen, our stone listeners don't even know what we're talking about. But the teeth in the male vagina here are three deep.
12:08
Drew
Yeah. When they're like shark's teeth, they regrow, you know.
12:11
Adam
Well, so let's talk about the process of doing one of these things. Obviously, one has to be sculpted.
12:19
Drew
Yeah.
12:20
Clive Barker
And high.
12:22
Clive Barker
No. No. No.
12:24
Adam
One has to make a prototype.
12:26
Drew
I do drawings. They do drawings. We exchange drawings. I say to Todd, look, this is the kind of thing we're looking to try and do. Here's a here's a story. Right. For me, story is always connected with doing anything. And so I said, I want to do, I want to do stuff that nobody's ever done before. I genuinely want to make a benchmark. Right. So these things are utterly unlike anything anybody's done before. I hear, hear.
12:58
Adam
And I'm guessing that there's some sort of technology that is fairly new that is able to do this kind of detailed work.
13:06
Drew
You're right. The technology is coming on by leaps and bounds. And what they do is they do incredibly detail. Actually, if you go to spawn.com, which is Todd's website, you can actually see they have a whole thing going on about, about how these things were sculpted. And then what they do is they reduce them in size. So you actually end up with an incredibly detailed sculpt on a much smaller figure.
13:33
Adam
Right. And they're able to pull that out.
13:35
Drew
And they're able to, and, and, you know, the technology is such now. I don't even think the Mongroid is the best of them. I think there's a lady called Lucidique.
13:44
Adam
Is that in there?
13:45
Drew
Yeah, they're all in there.
13:46
Adam
Now, where will these things be available?
13:49
Drew
Well, right now, there's only one place in the whole world. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Only one place in the entire world where you will be able to get them, and that is Meltdown on, on Sunset. On Saturday, which is where I'm going to sign. Right. But thereafter, they will be available at independent stores, and they won't be in Kmart.
14:15
Right.
14:17
Adam
Obviously not.
14:17
Drew
I think she's pretty cool actually.
14:19
Adam
Yeah.
14:19
Drew
She's pretty cool.
14:20
Adam
Crazy detail.
14:22
Drew
But Meltdown have been very supportive to the whole venture, and so we are going to have a mega signing when I will sign all that is available in the country right now, which is a limited number.
14:35
Adam
Now, where is Meltdown?
14:37
Drew
Sunset? Yeah. You guys, you should have a-
14:41
Adam
Yeah. Well, I'll have it.
14:42
Drew
I'll plug it.
14:43
Adam
Oh, here we go. Yes.
14:44
Clive Barker
7522 Sunset Boulevard.
14:46
Drew
There you go. Is there a telephone number for them?
14:48
Clive Barker
323-851-7223.
14:52
Adam
That's Meltdown Sunset, and that's at three o'clock, and Clive will be down there. Yeah, and you can get your sign.
15:00
Drew
And I will sign a couple of other things as well, but people have got to come in and want you to buy the toys. That's the key thing we're going for here. I don't even want to call them toys. They're something.
15:09
Adam
No.
15:10
Clive Barker
Sculptures.
15:10
Drew
Sculptures, aren't they?
15:12
Adam
Yeah.
15:12
Drew
They're almost like little pieces of art.
15:14
Adam
And it's nice to see you back to your roots here, Clive.
15:18
You know, that's true.
15:19
Adam
Last time we talked, you were writing a novel about a gay gnome, and I said, no, don't bother with that.
15:24
Drew
Don't be so rude.
15:26
Adam
I can't remember the name of it. That's all I seem to remember.
15:28
Drew
It wasn't a gay gnome.
15:29
Adam
It was. It was.
15:30
Drew
I've never written about a gay gnome in my life.
15:33
Adam
I remember it was a little elf who was gay and he was out slaying something.
15:37
Drew
I think this may be your own private fantasy.
15:39
Adam
Really? Didn't we have this discussion?
15:41
Clive Barker
I have no recollection of this.
15:42
Drew
Oh, Drew, don't leave me hanging.
15:44
Clive Barker
No, I swear to God, I have no recollection of this.
15:45
Drew
I think the whole gay gnome thing is happening in your head. Clive, seriously.
15:49
Adam
Clive, seriously.
15:50
Drew
And I think you should talk to a therapist about it immediately.
15:52
Clive Barker
You're that or?
15:53
Adam
You're actually right.
15:54
Drew
No, I wrote a movie about it and call it Shrek.
15:57
Adam
No, what was that?
15:58
Drew
What was that? I wrote a gay novel called Sacrament, but there were no gnomes in it.
16:04
Adam
But the main character was gay and it took place in sort of medieval times?
16:09
Drew
No, sir.
16:10
Clive Barker
Norway? In a fjord?
16:13
Drew
Actually, it took place in Scotland, but the gnomes. I've never written about a gnome.
16:18
Adam
Who was the guy?
16:19
Drew
He was a photographer.
16:20
Clive Barker
Named Gnomey.
16:22
All right.
16:23
Adam
Well, I was half right with the gay part.
16:25
Drew
Yeah, you were right. But I've now gone on. I'm doing some more stuff for kids and I'm just finished and publish in two months time a huge novel about Hollywood called Cold Heart Canyon, which is my tell-all novel about Hollywood.
16:41
Adam
Oh, really?
16:42
Clive Barker
Is Adam in it? Is Adam in it?
16:45
Drew
I said tell-all.
16:47
Clive Barker
Something to tell, again.
16:48
Adam
Is this not fiction?
16:50
Drew
It's a half fiction.
16:52
Adam
Oh, really?
16:52
Drew
Yeah. What I tried to do in Cold Heart Canyon is this canyon where actually the setup is really simple. A famous movie star, perhaps you would know who he was if you read the book, perhaps you'd guess who he was. He decides that his youth is fading and that he needs to have a facelift in order to get back, you know, at the heights and the facelift goes wrong. And his people, his managers and people say, you know what, we're going to hide you away till it's all good and you're looking good again and we've got this perfect place to hide you. And they take him off to a canyon called Cold Heart Canyon which is this hidden canyon in the midst of actually the canyon I live in.
17:45
Clive Barker
Well, part of this is not fiction so far.
17:48
Drew
Once he gets there, he finds it filled with old movie stars, real, real movie stars.
17:56
Clive Barker
All with facelifts gone bad?
17:58
Drew
I ain't tell them what their problems are. But then what I've tried to do is I've tried to fold into the novel everything I know about this town, good and bad. I mean, there are my experiences over the last, and you've had a lot of people sitting in this chair who've had bad experiences, I'm sure, in this town. I've had great experiences by and large.
18:18
Adam
Well, I don't want to correct you. They've had bad experiences on the show, but not so much the town. The town's been good to them. The show they could do without.
18:27
Drew
Okay.
18:27
Adam
But now what about movies?
18:29
Clive Barker
Let's be more specific, the hosts.
18:30
Adam
The hosts, right. What about movies?
18:32
What's going on with that?
18:33
Drew
For me, I'm doing a lot of stuff actually. A book that I'm producing called Abberat, which is a big fantasy book we took to Disney, and they bought for a large sum for movies and for theme parks.
18:51
Adam
Oh my God. Wow, theme park.
18:53
Drew
Yeah.
18:54
Adam
And what about like fourth Hellraiser? Was there three Hellraisers?
18:58
Drew
No, unfortunately there were actually six Hellraisers.
19:00
Adam
Holy Christ. I only saw the first three, I guess.
19:03
Drew
So did I. I kind of was out of the loop very early on that one. As I was on the Candyman movies, I was tied into the first two, but then there was a third which I wasn't invited to. I wasn't invited to.
19:17
Adam
That's when they went downhill, right?
19:18
Drew
Well, I think, yeah.
19:20
Adam
Yeah. Again, the first Hellraiser classic.
19:25
Drew
You know, it stood up. It stood up.
19:28
Adam
It does, yeah.
19:28
Drew
And the first Candyman looks pretty good. But, you know, I think by the time you get to number six of anything...
19:36
Adam
Well, it's a good point because you're pretty familiar. I always said that about Alien. The first Alien was great. The second Alien was pretty good, except for you kind of knew who the villain was. And knowing the villain sort of makes them less scary. It's like those guys, you know those guys that got those big biker drunken friends and everyone is scared of them, but the guys who they hang out with don't have a problem with them. And they're not too scared. I'm like, I have friends who everyone is terrified of, but I'm not, because I know them. They would still kill me, but just because I've seen them take a crap or something, it made them human. Oh, put Pinhead on the pot.
20:18
Drew
That would be good for number seven. I tell you what I am doing. I tell you what I am doing. I'm killing Pinhead on the page. I'm writing a novella because I am so fed up with Pinhead movies and so sick of him. I thought the only way I'm going to do this is if I just-
20:37
Clive Barker
Kill him off.
20:37
Drew
Kill him off. I can't do it in the movies because I don't have the rights to that character, but I can do it in literature.
20:45
Adam
On the page.
20:46
Drew
On the page. So I'm writing a story which will finish him off in a way that I think is noble and honorable.
20:55
Adam
On the pie, like Elvis, right?
20:56
Drew
Well, he might even get to the pot just because of this conversation.
20:59
Adam
I would really love to see Painthead really pushing one out. God knows what that stool looks like.
21:05
Drew
He's probably got pins in it, you know.
21:06
Adam
That's what I'm thinking.
21:07
Drew
It's really uncomfortable. Shredded poo. Oh.
21:09
Adam
Jeff? Please, Drew, how dare you. Hello? Jeff, you're 24. What's up?
21:14
Clive Barker
Play-Doh PlayStation?
21:15
Adam
Yes?
21:16
Clive Barker
I need some advice.
21:17
Adam
All right.
21:18
Clive Barker
Yeah. Well, I'm with this girl for, I guess, three years, and I want to make some porn with her.
21:29
Adam
Yeah.
21:29
Clive Barker
But I'm making porn with her and she doesn't know about it.
21:34
Adam
How do you do that?
21:36
Clive Barker
Well, I hide my camera. Where? Behind the CD, the hole in the CD.
21:42
Adam
The hole in an actual CD?
21:45
Clive Barker
Well, no. You know the hole in the CD?
21:49
Adam
Yes.
21:50
Clive Barker
Yeah. Well, I put the camera, I got a little digital camera, and I put it through that hole and I aim it down in my bed.
21:57
Adam
No, I just said the hole in an actual CD and you said no, and then went and re-explained it. How doesn't she see a CD standing up on edge?
22:06
Clive Barker
No, because she doesn't know about it. Actually, I take her to the mall.
22:10
Clive Barker
Hold on.
22:10
Adam
Hold on. Wow. I'll tell you, we plumb the depths of new retardism every night on this show. I want someone who's writing the DMS 5 or whatever that medical book is to use our callers as examples.
22:25
Clive Barker
Yeah. A diagnostic category.
22:27
Adam
Yes. A CD that's out of the packet and leaning up on its edge would be basically winking at you when you're having sex, wouldn't it?
22:37
Drew
Maybe in the moment of pleasure, you're not noticing.
22:40
Clive Barker
With Jeff?
22:40
Adam
Please. Jeff, please describe this.
22:44
Clive Barker
Okay. I guess the way I would take her to the mall and let her go shopping and I come home and I take my digital camera and put it on my entertainment center and aim it down on my bed.
22:58
Clive Barker
Still camera.
23:00
Drew
No.
23:00
Digital camera.
23:02
Drew
Oh, so this is stills, Jeff.
23:04
Clive Barker
Excuse me?
23:04
Drew
Are these stills or this is a movie you're making?
23:08
Clive Barker
I'm making a video of me and her. So it's a sex in my bed.
23:12
Drew
Okay.
23:13
Adam
Right.
23:13
Drew
And she doesn't know.
23:14
Clive Barker
She doesn't know.
23:15
Adam
So it's a-
23:15
Drew
And you feel bad about that.
23:18
Clive Barker
Say again?
23:18
Clive Barker
You feel bad about that?
23:20
Clive Barker
No. What I want to- What I need advice is she was a virgin at 20.
23:28
Adam
That's great.
23:29
Clive Barker
It's hard for her to do things like that. But I've been with a couple more than a couple of women. I just want advice as to how can I ask her to make a video with me?
23:46
Adam
Why? You're already making one.
23:48
Clive Barker
Well, no. I want her to be comfortable because I want to make it more showing her and me more like getting down to the-
23:59
Clive Barker
Oh, Jeff, you are some piece of work.
24:00
Adam
Jeff, can't you just kill yourself, please?
24:04
Clive Barker
Why do you say that?
24:05
Adam
Really, you're a horrible person. You're a horrid wretched- You're worse than one of Clive's dolls.
24:11
What am I doing so wrong?
24:12
Clive Barker
I'm just-
24:13
Drew
You should be- You should- You should be telling her.
24:18
Clive Barker
I'm 40 years old and I want to see me at this young age. Maybe if we're still together, then she might want to see it too and say, well, that's us at a young age.
24:26
Clive Barker
Yeah, but Jeff, it's all about, I want to see, I want her to do this, this is what I need to do.
24:31
Clive Barker
Well, no.
24:31
Clive Barker
You're talking about- What? No.
24:33
Clive Barker
Okay.
24:35
Clive Barker
That's all that's come out of your mouth. Listen, you're talking about somebody, an intimate contact with somebody, you're already deceiving her. It's an intense violation and you don't seem to-
24:45
Clive Barker
Actually, I already talked about it with her.
24:47
Adam
All right.
24:48
Clive Barker
But I haven't told her that I made videos.
24:50
Adam
All right. Well, don't tell her about the prior ones. And if she gives you her consent on the new ones, then go forth. And I'll see you in hell.
24:58
Clive Barker
No.
24:58
Adam
All right. Yeah, well.
25:00
Clive Barker
She's all happy about it.
25:01
Adam
All right. Well, then, hold on a second.
25:04
Clive Barker
Why is he calling then?
25:05
Adam
Because this is either a bogus call. Yeah, right. It still doesn't let Jeff off the retard hook. He's definitely an idiot. I mean, you know what I love about the show? It never tires me. You know, people are fascinated with the wonder, the beauty of life and the colors on a butterfly. For me, I'm fascinated by people's stupidity.
25:26
Drew
The colors of my stupidity.
25:28
Adam
Really, yes, the shades of black and gray, the spectrum of Jeff's stupidity. You know what they do on this show all the time? They bring up these hypotheticals that are out there and hard to picture. I'm shooting through a CD, and then you start questioning it, but you'll never get a satisfactory answer. You'll never get the answer. You'll never. We never got to it. We went to the mall, then we went to her. We start, she started talking about digital, then we got all confused with the still, and the digital and stuff. Still never get to the part about how the CD is balanced up on its edge, and is he shooting through the hole in it? Is there a bunch of CDs there? We'll never get that answer. I swear I have to try.
26:08
Clive Barker
But I don't even know why he's calling.
26:10
Adam
I don't know. This is bogey. So why are you calling us, Jeff?
26:12
Clive Barker
No, because my idea of shooting a digital camera through a CD was a good idea, I think.
26:19
Clive Barker
Is that why you're calling us?
26:20
Adam
Why are you calling us?
26:21
Clive Barker
Jeff?
26:22
Adam
Why are you calling us?
26:24
Clive Barker
Because I just want advice. Should I tell her or not?
26:27
Clive Barker
You told her. You told her you told us.
26:32
Clive Barker
I told her the idea that I was making a video.
26:36
He's an idiot.
26:38
Clive Barker
I don't know if I should tell her that I'm really making a video with her or not.
26:41
Clive Barker
Well, Jeff, you said she was happy about the idea of making a video with you.
26:44
Clive Barker
No, I don't know because she was a virgin.
26:46
Clive Barker
But she's happy about it. Wait, wait. You said she was happy about the idea of making a video. Happy.
26:50
Clive Barker
But I don't know for sure.
26:53
Clive Barker
Well, she said she was happier with it.
26:54
Clive Barker
But she was a virgin.
26:56
Clive Barker
Is she happier?
26:57
Clive Barker
No, because she might, if I try to make it, then she might not get on.
27:03
Adam
Listen, I've said this many a time. You know the problem with this country? There's two big problems. We need a war and a transcontinental railroad to get these guys out of here and get them to work. Just put them in some sweat camp in the middle of the Mojave, just pounding spikes all day or just send them overseas and let them get the brains blown out on some battlefield we never heard of. We need that. No, we need that. No, listen, listen. Darwin needs to drag his rake across this country. Really, you know, they talk about the weed and seed program. I just want the weeding. I don't even want any re-seeding. I want this guy, Jeff, just to go work on some railroad that just keeps going and once it circles the earth it just goes around again, just keeps going around. Like a string on a spool, just keeps going and going and it just die out there. Do we have any use for him as a country, as a planet?
27:54
Clive Barker
Is she happy about it?
27:55
Adam
Oh, I don't, he can't even answer.
27:57
Clive Barker
He can't answer.
27:58
Adam
I think it's just a bogus call. Jay?
28:01
Clive Barker
No, I'm afraid not. That's what Chimocho is.
28:02
Adam
All right. Jay, you're 15.
28:04
Caller
Yeah.
28:05
Adam
What's up?
28:06
Caller
I'm just going to get right into this. Well, about two years ago, my parents got depressed. I didn't really think so. But anyway, they said I was depressed. And supposedly, because of this, they're not allowing me to go on Accutane for my acne because they said that it could worsen my depression.
28:25
Clive Barker
Sure can, but it's usually only while you're taking the medicine. It isn't typically the case that it would cause your depression to sort of spill into some sort of chronic state.
28:34
Adam
Can you take Accutane and Welbutrin at the same time?
28:37
Clive Barker
Yeah, but the Accutane, yeah. I don't know what the literature on that is, whether or not that really worked.
28:42
Caller
I was on Zoloft.
28:43
Clive Barker
Yeah, but Accutane is well known to cause significant depressive symptoms.
28:49
Caller
Like horribly or...
28:52
Clive Barker
Potentially.
28:53
Adam
Well, you may not kill yourself, maybe just cut your foot off or something. That's what Drew is saying.
28:59
Drew
How bad is the acne problem? That's the other part of all of this.
29:03
Caller
Yeah, I mean I've had my acne for a while.
29:07
Drew
And is it something that looks like it's just going to get better of its own accord or...?
29:11
Caller
No, we're not talking, you know, a few... I mean...
29:14
Drew
Yeah, okay.
29:15
Caller
It's not that bad on my face. It's pretty much all over my back.
29:18
Clive Barker
Accutane...
29:19
Adam
Yeah, what do you care about your back?
29:21
Clive Barker
I guess it would work for the back, but it's not specifically for the back.
29:24
Drew
Are there not other......less...
29:27
Clive Barker
There are. I mean, Accutane is magnificent. It's un-miraculous the way it works. But, yeah, there's antibiotics, there's creams, all kinds of stuff.
29:34
Caller
They put me on tetracycline, it did not work.
29:38
Adam
Well, what about being depressed because you have zits all over your back?
29:41
Caller
That's not why.
29:43
Adam
Well, I'm saying it can help.
29:45
Caller
I personally don't think I'm depressed.
29:49
Adam
Well, what about talking to your folks, your therapists, your doctors, about Accutane may be mixed with one of those. Right. And balance it out.
29:59
Clive Barker
And by the way, Jay, the fact that you have no insight into your depression doesn't exactly build your argument. You understand? People don't, 13, 14-year-olds typically don't know when they're depressed. It's part of the disease in that age. And so your continued lack of insight doesn't encourage them to go ahead and put you on something where you might get severely depressed.
30:18
Adam
All right. But it's like being in denial. And then you say, no, I'm not. And then they go, uh-huh. I mean, what are you supposed to do?
30:24
Clive Barker
No, it's built. I mean, there are signs and symptoms. And they just add them up. And that's depression.
30:29
Adam
All right. Remember when they used to just call it, when a 15-year-old was depressed, they just called it moping?
30:34
Clive Barker
Well, you stop moping.
30:35
Drew
No, that's right. I moped a lot.
30:36
Adam
Yeah, you did a lot of moping. And now your life's moping all the way to the bank.
30:41
Drew
But, you know, but all right. But in Jay's case, he has a, you know, I didn't have divorced parents. There are other things in Jay's life which are, you know, adding up to a miserable life.
30:52
Adam
You had that crazy grandma. I was telling you it was a black man trying to steal your genitalia.
30:56
Drew
I had a crazy grandmother who would, you remember that. Yeah.
31:00
Clive Barker
We tell this at least once a week.
31:01
Adam
Oh, she was on the show last month.
31:04
Drew
She's been dead a long time. So that's really problematic.
31:07
Adam
Tough booking.
31:07
Drew
Yeah, really, I would say so. Get a shovel.
31:10
Clive Barker
Oh, Clive Barker after all.
31:14
Adam
All right, listen, we got to take a little break. Clive Barker's our guest tonight. He's got these amazing figurines out here. It's too nice a word, the figurine. Death dolls or something. Statues. And he's going to be doing a signing this Saturday on Sunset over at Meltdown, and we'll tell you all about it after this.
31:34
Caller
Love Line with Adam Carolla and Dr. Drew.
31:36
1-800-LOVE-191 Phone number 1-800-LOVE-191.
32:08
Adam
Jimmy Kimmel, the great Jimmy Kimmel in here tomorrow night from The Fabulous Man Show, Comedy Central, 10 o'clock Sunday nights. And Clive Barker is here tonight. Clive, of course, the mastermind behind Candyman and Hellraiser. And really, how many books have you written, Clive?
32:25
Drew
And the new book, Cold Heart Canyon, is my twenty-first.
32:28
Clive Barker
I remember his favorite book was Moby Dick.
32:30
Drew
And still is.
32:32
Adam
And Clive?
32:32
Clive Barker
I wasn't got it because of that. I never read it. Did you?
32:34
Drew
Did you like it?
32:36
Clive Barker
I didn't finish it. Oh. I don't know why.
32:38
Drew
It's a big whale.
32:39
Clive Barker
It's a big whale. And I'm constantly intending to finish it, too. I mean, it stayed with me. It's not a book that you put down.
32:45
Adam
And Drew got it for me on cassette, because as you know.
32:48
Drew
Who reads it on cassette?
32:50
Adam
Wigwam? I don't know. What's the name of it? I don't know who reads it.
32:55
Drew
Patrick Stewart or something like that?
32:57
Clive Barker
I don't know.
32:58
Adam
Howie Mandel read this one.
32:59
Drew
Oh, there you go.
33:00
Adam
I think it was a bad call.
33:01
Drew
There you go. Robin Williams.
33:04
Adam
I believe reading poisons the mind. But I don't want to detract people from reading Clive Barker books. And let me give Clive a plug. This Saturday, three o'clock, you can go down to Meltdown Comics and Collectibles on Sunset Boulevard. And I'm guessing that's on the Sunset Strip somewhere.
33:23
Drew
It's beyond the Strip. It's east of the Strip.
33:25
Adam
East of the Strip in Hollywood. And that's 7522 Sunset Boulevard. Three o'clock this Saturday, he'll be down there with these amazing sculptures.
33:37
Drew
Can we give them the number so they can call ahead and ask for stuff?
33:42
Adam
Yeah, 323-851-7223. And if you didn't get that number, it's Meltdown Comics.
33:51
Drew
And they can bring books and stuff like that. I just want them to taste the toys. Yeah. Taste the toys.
34:00
Adam
They're salty tasting.
34:02
Drew
They're a whole new feel. They're a whole new feel.
34:05
Adam
And they're really just spectacular. And oh, their arms move and everything.
34:11
Drew
Well, I think that this one, no, every one of them has about nine different motions in it. You can make them do all kinds of strange things.
34:19
Adam
And it's crazy. And you know, the most surreal part of these toys is the thousands of immigrant workers who are in some sweat shop putting these things together. The surreal look of some woman from Guatemala who's 50 pounds overweight and her 40 is just standing there assembling the doll on the vagina.
34:35
Drew
Not even thinking about what it is.
34:37
Adam
No, listen, I've been to a dildo factory. I've been to a set. I've been, yes, yes.
34:44
Drew
And did you test out the merchandise?
34:47
Adam
Not on site. No. There's nothing more surreal than seeing just thousands of fake vaginas going down an assembly line and the women treating them looking like, you ever see that footage of women working like at a tuna cannery just pulling the guts out, sending it down, pulling, just the same look on the face, the same movement, except for these, they're putting hair on a fake vagina.
35:14
Drew
In passive about pussy.
35:15
Adam
That's right. That's the name of the 22nd book.
35:20
Kyle?
35:22
Hello, this is Kyle.
35:23
Adam
Hi, Kyle, you're 12. What's up?
35:27
Hi, Adam. Hi, Dr. Drew.
35:29
Clive Barker
Hey, Kyle, what's up?
35:30
Clive Barker
Um, I've had an erection.
35:33
Clive Barker
Random?
35:34
Clive Barker
Yep.
35:34
Clive Barker
That's healthy.
35:36
Clive Barker
Yeah, I know.
35:37
Clive Barker
Are they a problem?
35:38
Clive Barker
Yeah, because usually I get them in school.
35:40
Clive Barker
Yeah.
35:40
Adam
Yeah, that happens.
35:42
Clive Barker
Then you'll wish for that again someday in about 20 years.
35:45
Adam
Yeah. Your penis does not know when school's in session, when summer break's on, it knows no clock and no calendar. You just get that erection, and the only thing you can do is not wear sweats.
35:57
Drew
It seems to know math.
35:58
Clive Barker
In math, and when your teacher's going to ask you to come to the board to do a problem.
36:03
Drew
We all know this.
36:04
Clive Barker
It's almost some sort of divining rod for that, in fact.
36:06
Drew
Divining rod, I like that. Yeah.
36:10
Adam
Kyle, what do you wear to school? You can't wear sweatpants with no underwear.
36:15
Clive Barker
I wear short pants. Not real short pants, I wear regular boy short pants.
36:21
Clive Barker
Suddenly flashing a mic, it's calling me short pants.
36:23
Clive Barker
I'm passing your knees.
36:25
Adam
Yeah. But you need to wear denim.
36:27
Clive Barker
Something heavy.
36:28
Drew
Yeah.
36:29
Adam
Burlap even.
36:30
Drew
Yeah.
36:31
Clive Barker
Tell me so it's not obvious when that random event occurs.
36:34
Adam
All right, Kyle.
36:35
Drew
Don't be worried about it. It's fine.
36:38
Adam
Yes.
36:39
Hey, Adam.
36:40
Clive Barker
Mr. Adam, should I call you that?
36:42
Yeah.
36:43
I still remember your name is the great Shubini or something like that.
36:46
Adam
Oh, the great Spudini. Yes, my poor name.
36:48
Clive Barker
Spudini.
36:48
Adam
Yeah.
36:49
Clive Barker
How did we come up with that?
36:50
You know Alex who called yesterday?
36:52
Adam
Alex who called this show yesterday?
36:54
Yeah.
36:55
Adam
Listen, you're all nameless and faceless to me. You're just one number.
37:00
Clive Barker
Whose?
37:00
His girlfriend.
37:01
Clive Barker
Yeah.
37:01
He's talking about his girlfriend.
37:02
Adam
Right.
37:03
My brother.
37:04
Clive Barker
How's he doing?
37:05
Clive Barker
Good.
37:05
His girlfriend.
37:06
Clive Barker
I tried to tip the teacher yesterday. Whatever.
37:09
Adam
All right. Thanks, Kyle. You're welcome. Kyle, do you have a newsletter or something you could put out? Kyle's Life. Well, third period got a boner. Fourth period, friend, brother, his girlfriend. Tried to trip the teacher. Unsuccessfully, I might add.
37:26
That's riveting.
37:28
Adam
You know what's great about being 12, though, is whatever your world is, is the world.
37:32
Clive Barker
Everybody's world.
37:33
Adam
Like we're going to chime in. Oh, miss, he tried to trip Mrs. Parker?
37:37
Clive Barker
Oh, such a pain in the ass.
37:39
Adam
I would have done the same. I like to see that old bag hit the floor at least once a semester.
37:43
Drew
You know what this man said, which is so true, is that envy factor at a certain age, when we all look back at 12, and that thing about having an erection when the wind changed, sometimes when it didn't change, and now I'm 48 going on 49 and thinking, wow, how cool, good for that kid, good for that kid, and there'll be a time when he'll look back and he'll go, why doesn't that happen anymore?
38:10
Clive Barker
Adam, what was that time that happened to you, just spontaneously?
38:13
Adam
The good erection?
38:14
Clive Barker
Yeah, spontaneously, you're sitting.
38:16
Adam
Geez, it's tough.
38:17
Clive Barker
In the wood shop. Well, in the wood shop, you get it all the time, I'm sure.
38:20
Drew
I'll tell you, it happened to me yesterday.
38:23
Clive Barker
Really?
38:24
Drew
And it was like one of those moments.
38:25
Clive Barker
Were you thinking about something?
38:27
Drew
I'm just looking at my other horse, seeing if it's okay to say this, but we were driving along, and I said, oh my god, I have a Woody. And it was just one of those great moments. The wind was coming in, the car, it felt good, and my husband was sitting beside me and I thought, wow, this is okay.
38:47
Adam
Are you guys married?
38:49
Drew
We're as married as two guys can be after six years.
38:51
Clive Barker
In the state.
38:53
Drew
Yeah, in the state. And we have a little girl, she's not a little girl, she's a beautiful 13-year-old, who is Nicole, and she's a fantastic, she's a fantastic.
39:03
Adam
Oh, you adopted her? Well, did you make her?
39:06
Drew
Jamaica. No, she came of her own accord. What?
39:09
Adam
Did you make her some way?
39:11
Drew
No, no, no, no, no, no. They haven't got the technology that refined yet, but one of these days, two men will be able to provide it.
39:18
Clive Barker
No, but they can mix your sperm up and put it in somebody else.
39:20
Adam
You go get like Melissa Ethrich's egg or something.
39:23
Drew
No, I don't need to go there. All I need to do is love the child.
39:27
Adam
God bless you. I like that. I really do. I always think it's so narcissistic when people go, but it's not me.
39:34
Drew
No, stop that. No, she's an amazing young lady.
39:39
Adam
Ed?
39:40
Yes.
39:40
Adam
You're 27?
39:42
Caller
Okay.
39:42
Adam
What's up?
39:44
Caller
I've got a problem with her. No offense to Adam Corolla, but my girlfriend's obsessed with the show, and she's obsessed with, I mean, screen savers, the show. I mean, the show's good, but.
39:58
Adam
Well, it's not great. Why obsess over it?
40:01
Caller
But honestly, I mean, she, that's all she talks about, Adam Corolla this, Adam Corolla that.
40:06
Adam
Yeah.
40:06
Caller
We had an all-blowout fight, and I booted her out of the house.
40:10
Clive Barker
Tonight?
40:12
Caller
I just wonder if you might be able to kind of snap her in to check and.
40:16
Adam
Well, you want me to talk her down?
40:18
Caller
Yeah.
40:19
Adam
Well.
40:20
Caller
If you wouldn't mind.
40:22
Adam
Is she on the phone? Oh, she is? She's on line eight?
40:25
Clive Barker
Push the lower line.
40:26
Adam
Hold on a second. This has got to be bogus. Julie?
40:30
Clive Barker
Julie?
40:31
Clive Barker
Yes, this is Julie.
40:33
Adam
I already don't believe her. I know. Julie?
40:36
Clive Barker
Yes.
40:37
Adam
All right. Are you Ed's girlfriend?
40:40
Clive Barker
His ex-girlfriend.
40:41
Adam
I see. Were you guys living together?
40:44
Clive Barker
Um, yes, we were.
40:45
Adam
And he booted you out of the house?
40:48
Clive Barker
Yes, because I'm just so in love with Adam.
40:51
Caller
Really?
40:52
Clive Barker
Yes.
40:53
Adam
And why? What do you like about me? Take your time, dear.
40:57
Just everything.
41:00
Adam
See if you can put it into words without crying.
41:02
Clive Barker
How old are you, Julie?
41:04
Clive Barker
I'm eighteen.
41:06
Clive Barker
And you were living with a twenty-seven year old?
41:08
Clive Barker
Yes, I am.
41:08
Clive Barker
How long did you am or you were?
41:11
Clive Barker
I was.
41:12
Clive Barker
How long did you live with him for?
41:13
Clive Barker
Until he kicked me out.
41:14
Clive Barker
Where are you right now?
41:15
Clive Barker
Where am I?
41:16
Clive Barker
Yeah.
41:17
Clive Barker
I'm at a friend's house.
41:20
Adam
Yeah. Drew's got a little bogus look on his face, too. What's a friend's name?
41:25
Clive Barker
My friend's name is Tracy.
41:27
Adam
And you crashing out at her place until you patch things up with Ed?
41:32
Clive Barker
Yeah.
41:33
Adam
And what do you mean? What's, why is your obsession for me? And it's a natural obsession, by the way.
41:38
It's a healthy, right?
41:39
Adam
Healthy. Most women in Clive have it.
41:41
Drew
Stop.
41:42
Adam
But, but he just said he got a woody thinking of me driving around.
41:45
Drew
I did not. You had nothing to do with it.
41:47
Adam
You knew you're going to be on this show. You're chubbing up.
41:50
Drew
Stop.
41:51
Adam
But, but why, why is this come into the relationship? Why is it a factor?
41:59
Clive Barker
I don't know. He just doesn't like me talking about you all the time.
42:03
Clive Barker
But I'm just so in love with you.
42:05
Clive Barker
Well, don't you think it might upset your boyfriend when you're talking about being in love with someone else?
42:08
Clive Barker
Well, I don't know. It's just I have this big obsession with you and I just can't help it.
42:16
Adam
To be fair to Julie, I talked to my girlfriend about Ed quite a bit.
42:19
Clive Barker
Okay.
42:20
Adam
That's kind of even out. Yeah.
42:22
Drew
Quid pro quo.
42:23
What is that about?
42:25
Adam
Don't worry what it's about, Ed. That's between me and my gal pal. So, all right. So, I don't even know if I want these two back together. Ed, what do you do for a living?
42:35
I'm sorry?
42:36
Adam
What do you do for a living?
42:38
Who do I do for a living? Who do you do?
42:40
Adam
All right. I'm getting close to hanging up because I keep getting the repeated answer and it's stalling for time. Yes. What do you do for a living?
42:48
I work at Walmart.
42:50
Adam
All right. So you're King of the World at 27 over there at Walmart and you booted this beautiful young 18-year-old out of your place and you're not going to get too many women, Ed. This may be it for you.
43:04
Caller
I'm not a bad looking guy.
43:05
Adam
I know, but you work at Walmart and you're 27 and women are not beating a path to your door. You should take this Julie back. Julie.
43:13
Caller
Yes.
43:14
Adam
What do you know about me if you're so obsessed?
43:16
Clive Barker
I don't know.
43:17
Caller
You're just so cute.
43:19
Adam
Okay, but give me some data. Give me some facts. I want to test her because if she's obsessed, she should know something, right?
43:24
Clive Barker
Yeah. What does he say or do that you find particularly appealing?
43:30
Adam
Julie.
43:31
Caller
I don't know.
43:32
Clive Barker
What is he into? What's his favorite hobby?
43:35
Adam
Give me some hobbies.
43:37
Caller
Your hobbies?
43:37
Clive Barker
Yes.
43:39
Caller
I don't.
43:40
Clive Barker
If you're so obsessed with them. Yeah.
43:41
Adam
How can you be obsessed with me and not know anything about me?
43:43
Clive Barker
He only does talk about himself out endlessly every night.
43:46
Adam
That's why I got the radio show.
43:48
Caller
I know.
43:49
Adam
All right. So what about me do you know?
43:52
Clive Barker
I just know everything about you.
43:54
Adam
Okay. Liar whore. Liar whore. You know it. Drew, please. Tell me what my hobbies are. Tell me what I used to do before I got into radio. I'm testing you because I think this is bogus.
44:08
Drew
Silence, Julie.
44:10
Adam
Did she hang up? All right. Julie, I have to hang up on you because you're unable to communicate. What is your first language?
44:21
Clive Barker
Julie. It's the bottom one.
44:24
Adam
It is?
44:24
Caller
Okay.
44:25
Adam
All right, Julie. Bye bye.
44:27
Caller
All right.
44:29
Adam
Now, you see, again, is it bogus or is it stupid? The world may never know. I believe there was some truth in that. But again, you're dealing with people that are just so goddamned stupid that they can't form a thought. Yeah, they can't express themselves. All right, Clive, you're right.
44:48
Drew
I think you're being uncrewed. I think you're being uncrewed. Yeah, I think when people come on radio and they're talking to somebody they've seen on TV and whatever, they get a little tongue tied. I think that's understandable.
45:00
Adam
I agree.
45:01
Clive Barker
Part of the problem, we think so little of ourselves that we can't imagine. That doesn't affect our thinking at all.
45:05
Adam
Right.
45:05
Clive Barker
Wouldn't you say?
45:07
Adam
Absolutely not. Clive is right, but when you get to the fourth or fifth layer of the onion where you start going, okay, tell me what my hobby is or tell me something about myself and there's just dead air, at that point, you got to figure.
45:24
Drew
I wasn't talking about that specific point. I was just talking about that specific person. I was just saying it's understandable that people get. Listen, we live in a culture in a broader sense, we live in a culture which is celebrity driven. You are a celebrity. I can completely understand how somebody seeing you, I turn on the television that you are.
45:45
Adam
Well, I appreciate that Clive, but-
45:47
Drew
No, I'm trying to make a serious point about what-
45:50
Clive Barker
About the culture.
45:51
Drew
About the culture.
45:51
Clive Barker
Go ahead, go ahead.
45:52
Drew
Which is that unfortunately people are being sold other people as something to latch on to.
46:02
Clive Barker
As opposed to religious icons where we're placed-
46:03
Drew
You're right, exactly. You don't go to church on Sunday, you go to a certain place on MTV. And you can see how sophisticated the marketers have become in selling us people. And how the drama of Nicole and Tom has become our drama. We were having this conversation in the car coming over because lovely lady Sylvia who is my publicist or one of my publicists was talking about how much she doesn't want to be involved in having to deal with the dramas of people in the public eye because that's not what she wants to do. She wants to be able to help legitimate people.
46:45
Clive Barker
So, mango figurines.
46:47
Drew
Yes, exactly. Vast numbers of figurines. But the point I think, the point I was trying to make and it's not a big point but it does go to the conversation you just had that I think people are being sold a kind of weird vision of what you are, what I am that is full of false expectation.
47:13
Adam
Well, I'll agree with that and we're running late for break but I'll tell you one thing and we'll just finish this conversation off.
47:18
Clive Barker
We'll do the usual, continue the conversation during the break.
47:20
Adam
No, no. Oh yeah, we will but just so people can hear it on the air, one of the things I like about this show and I like about whatever celebrity I have and I think I can speak for Drew.
47:30
Clive Barker
It's you.
47:30
Adam
And this is me. When I see people on the street, they say, hey Adam, they don't call me by my character's name. I'm not playing doctor so and so on one day to live. And we sit here every night and we try real hard to say what's on our mind and what happened to us during the day. And hopefully people think of us, obviously they're going to think of us as somewhat of celebrities because we're on a radio show or on TV. But hopefully they think of us as Adam and Drew, the human beings. And I think for the most part our audience, the people who tune in nightly on this show, do. All right. Now Adam and Drew are going to take a leak. We'll be back with Clive Barker. Hey, everybody, it's Loveline. I'm Adam Corolla, it's Dr. Drew. Clive Barker is our guest tonight. We're going to tell you where you can find him after the break. I'll give him some plugs, but I want to see if I can power through a couple of calls before we got to go to break again. Divine?
49:00
Clive Barker
Divine.
49:02
Adam
You're 16? You lost your virginity July 4th? And now it burns when you urinate? Okay.
49:10
Clive Barker
Do you have any vaginal discharge? Any pelvic pain?
49:13
Uh, not really.
49:14
Clive Barker
Alright, we probably just have a urinary tract infection, but burning with urination is also a sign of a sexually transmitted disease, okay?
49:21
Clive Barker
Okay.
49:22
Clive Barker
And if it's just a urinary tract infection, those are usually very easy to clear out, but you must get it cleared up quickly because the bacteria can get up into your kidney and cause very serious infection if you don't get this taken care of.
49:33
Adam
Alright.
49:33
Clive Barker
Okay.
49:34
Adam
Alright, so go to, like, Planned Parenthood or your gynecologist or your doctor.
49:38
Clive Barker
Quickly.
49:39
Adam
Well, not tonight. The guy's sleeping. He's got a tea off time. It's six tomorrow morning. Leave him alone. Okay. Take care of it. Thank you. Oops. I screwed that up. Jason?
49:49
Yeah.
49:50
Adam
You're 22.
49:51
Caller
Right.
49:52
Adam
You're gay and you want to know if there's any type of medical procedure to change this?
49:55
Caller
Well, I wouldn't say a medical procedure. I'd say just research involved in any sort of treatment.
50:03
Drew
Leave this one for me.
50:04
Adam
Okay.
50:05
Clive Barker
But we're going to do it after the break, though, I think.
50:07
Caller
Right?
50:07
Adam
Yeah. Well, Clive, I'll tell you what. Clive can give his take on this for a minute and then we'll go to break and then we can finish up on it. Go ahead, Clive.
50:14
Drew
Jason, are you desperately unhappy? You're talking one gay man to another here. Are you desperately unhappy?
50:21
Caller
Yeah.
50:22
Drew
And do you really think the source of it is being gay or just your experiences recently? I mean...
50:29
Caller
No, it's being gay. I'm unhappy. You know, I want to have a natural, normal life. And I can do that in terms of what I've grown up in. I've grown up in traditional surroundings. And I want to have a natural, normal, happy life as I'm accustomed to, as I've grown up.
50:51
Drew
Well, I think, can I say, you're never going to have your parents' life because nobody has their parents' life. Whether you're straight or you're gay, nobody has their parents' life. I have a happy marriage to a man I love. And I know that may sound strange to you. And you may not even like to hear that. But the truth of the matter is that love and tenderness and all the wonderful values that go with having a relationship with somebody you adore for the rest of your life can be a part of being a gay man or a gay woman.
51:31
Adam
Hold on, Jason. Jason, we gotta go to a break.
51:34
Drew
But we'll catch you after the break.
51:36
Adam
All right. We'll make you feel good.
51:37
Drew
Promise.
51:38
Adam
And I'll explain the virtues of the gay life.
51:40
Drew
Good God.
51:41
Adam
As Drew knows, I've longed to be gay.
51:43
Clive Barker
It's true.
51:44
Adam
I really do. And I'll tell you why.
51:45
Drew
I'll show you. Yeah. OK. I'll listen.
51:49
Adam
After this.
51:51
Caller
1-800-LOVE-191.
52:35
Adam
Hey everyone, it is Loveline. I'm Adam, that's Drew, phone number 1-800-LOVE-1-9-1. Am I boring you, Drew?
52:43
Clive Barker
No more than usual.
52:44
Adam
All right, Drew just put out a huge yawn right in the middle.
52:47
Clive Barker
You know, it really is Pavlovian. I hear your voice. And it's not small yawns either.
52:52
Adam
No, no, that biggie's. And his nose was on the ceiling, and his jaw was on his balls. It was that big a yawn. Tonight, our guest, Clive Barker.
53:02
Clive Barker
I'm gonna be one of his figurines soon.
53:03
Drew
Yeah, really?
53:04
Clive Barker
If I can do that.
53:05
Drew
Yawn doctor. Thank you, thank you.
53:07
Adam
Hellraiser, Candyman amongst his credits. And now these amazing Tortured Souls figurines that he did with Todd McFarlane. And amazing, absolutely amazing. They must be seen to be believed. There we go. And they're 11 bucks.
53:28
Drew
Listen, yeah, is that right?
53:30
Clive Barker
It sounds like you're being facetious. You really mean that.
53:33
Adam
They need to see them.
53:34
Clive Barker
Yeah, these are unbelievable.
53:36
Drew
Thank you.
53:36
Adam
Yeah, they really are. And if you want to see them for yourself, you can head down to Meltdown Comics and Collectibles, which is on Sunset Boulevard. That is this Saturday at 3 o'clock. Clive will be there. He will be signing these. He will be signing other things you may bring, right, Clive?
53:51
Drew
Yeah.
53:52
Adam
Books and that sort of stuff.
53:53
Drew
Mainly the toys.
53:55
Adam
And again, phone number, 323-851-7223, Meltdown Comics. That is here in Los Angeles. Alright, 3 o'clock Saturday. Now, when we left off, we were speaking to Jason. Jason is 22. Jason is gay. He doesn't want to be gay. He wants to have the kind of traditional family that he grew up in and is worried about a life with an out-of-wife. Jason?
54:20
Caller
Alright.
54:22
Caller
Yeah. Well, first of all, let me say that. I have never had any gay experience. And I really only admitted to myself that I am gay in recent years. And I have kind of isolated myself socially lately because I don't really know how to deal with it.
54:37
Clive Barker
Do you have some religious orientation that would have you believe in this?
54:40
Caller
No. It's just myself. I feel like my... I'm characteristically straight in almost every other aspect except sexual attraction. I mean, you know, I hunt and fish with the guys. I go to the bars, you know, I watch... sit down and watch porn with them, all that. It's just in my... you know, within myself, I have these attractions and I feel if I could tweak that somehow...
55:05
Adam
Well, have you ever been with a woman?
55:07
Caller
Yes.
55:08
Adam
And you didn't enjoy it?
55:10
Caller
Yeah, I enjoyed it. But it's... the stronger attraction is...
55:15
Adam
Right.
55:16
Drew
Well, you feel guilty about the attraction? What I'm not getting is... What's the problem that you just feel you won't have a happy life if you're gay?
55:29
Caller
I just feel...
55:31
Caller
Right. I just don't feel... I feel like it's only a sexual attraction. I'm not a person that feels all these tender, you know, loving feelings.
55:41
Drew
You just think it's lust, in other words.
55:43
Caller
Right.
55:44
Caller
It would be purely lustful.
55:46
Drew
But if you were to meet the right guy, and I think it seems to me you're making a judgment on your own behalf, which may be unfair on yourself. If you spend some time with the right guy, and you spend some time meeting the right guy, not just going to the bar and sleeping with the first guy that you meet, um... And I know the gay culture can be very driven towards that, and it isn't good. But if you do take some time, in an old-fashioned way, looking for somebody who means something to you, spending some time courting, in the old sense of the word, you might surprise yourself. You might be... One thing that might surprise you is how ordinary gay life is. I don't know what you're imagining it might be. I think you may have, maybe, fearful that it's some elaborately strange ritual, which it isn't. Gay love is like straight love, only the parts are different. It's... There's nothing untoward about it. There's nothing, I really believe, unnatural. And I will say this, and Drew and I can have this debate. I don't know. I think you were born gay. I think I was born gay. I think, increasingly, the literature says that you are born gay. In other words, you don't have a whole heap of choice in your orientation. The fact that you hunt and you fish just makes you more attractive to a whole bunch of gay men.
57:13
Caller
And although that may be true, could it be a possibility that the whole gay thing is an anomaly?
57:21
Drew
In what sense, Jason?
57:22
Caller
It's not necessarily a mental illness that...
57:24
Drew
No, it is not... No, it is not...
57:27
Caller
.can be treated, possibly, by those that choose to be treated.
57:31
Adam
Well, it... no. And listen, I want to chime in with what Clive said about being born gay. We really get obsessed with this as a society, whether you... you know, to me, it's water under the bridge. I mean, it's neither here nor there. Either attracted to men or you're not.
57:49
Clive Barker
Yeah.
57:50
Adam
Don't care what happened or why.
57:52
Clive Barker
Adam equates this to the breast. Pardon. Clive didn't get this.
57:56
Adam
Well, what I'm saying is I like a big bosom.
57:59
Drew
Yes. I don't.
58:00
Clive Barker
Yeah.
58:00
Adam
Right.
58:00
Clive Barker
But nothing could... Oh, yeah.
58:02
Adam
That's obvious. But I enjoy a big bosom.
58:04
Clive Barker
And nothing could take that out of his system.
58:06
Drew
And I enjoy a big bosom.
58:08
Adam
Right.
58:08
Drew
You know, that's... and Jason does, too.
58:11
Adam
I enjoy a huge schlong on occasion.
58:13
Drew
Oh, okay, okay, okay. Now we're into a very difficult area.
58:18
Adam
No, here's what I'm saying. This is what I like. And I don't know the boob part. I don't know why. I don't know if this... I was born with this. I don't know if it was nature or nurture. I don't know where this was created, but it doesn't matter. It's there, and it ain't going away.
58:34
Drew
And the point is that it is you. It is an essential part of who you are. And Jason, your homosexuality, assuming that you are gay, and I think for the sake of argument, let's assume that your instincts are correct, and you are, that's part of who you are. And don't be afraid of something so essential. It isn't about lust. It may seem to be about lust from a distance, but it's about love in the end. It's about getting close to somebody and having a relationship. And it's sure you're not going to get married, and he's not going to get dressed in a white veil. I understand that. And I absolutely shared at a certain point in my life the disappointment that I think you feel about not being a part of regular society. But actually, you know what? At a certain point, where do you live?
59:31
Caller
I live in a rural...
59:33
Drew
Yeah.
59:33
Caller
Rural what? Rural...
59:35
Drew
but a rural community.
59:37
Caller
Right.
59:38
Drew
Yeah. So there's a problem there, I understand.
59:41
Adam
Doesn't say Manhattan Beach, by the way. How rural is that?
59:44
Caller
Oh, no. He misinterpreted me. I live in a small Kansas community.
59:51
Drew
So are you saying that it's hard for you to come out in the community in which you live?
59:58
Caller
If I would be willing to accept myself as homosexual, yes, it would be difficult to come out.
1:00:05
Adam
And part of that, by the way, and I got to put them on hold. You can hear us, but we got to move on with the calls. Part of that, I think is, and it's one of the, I guess, trials and tribulations of being gays, you may have to move.
1:00:18
Drew
Yeah.
1:00:19
Adam
I mean, if you're going to get, if they're going to burn a meata on your front lawn, you gotta move. Well, I'm just saying.
1:00:26
Clive Barker
If you're afraid, somebody's going to do that.
1:00:28
Adam
Yeah. We have said this to gay people who have called this show. Look, if you're 16 and you're going to a tough high school, don't get on the PA system and announce it. You might get your ass kicked. Yeah. Not that you should lie about it, but on the other hand, let's live in the real world here. We don't want to see you get hurt. Let me explain why I love the gay lifestyle. I really do. I think that gays are the best people because-
1:00:56
Clive Barker
If you could have a gay male with breasts, Adam, that would be it. We'd be game on.
1:01:01
Drew
Yeah.
1:01:02
Adam
We'd have to shave real close for the oral side. Here's why I love the gay lifestyle and I love the gays.
1:01:10
Drew
The gays.
1:01:10
Adam
I've known a few of the gays. It's supposed to be black.
1:01:12
Clive Barker
You won't stop. Let them go.
1:01:13
Adam
Or the China men or groups like that. I have some gay friends and this is what I like about them. First off, these people recycle. They take care of Mother Earth. They're very concerned with the Mother Earth. Certain cultures, they don't care. You see them driving down the freeway, they're dumping the McDonald's wrappers right out. Not the gays. They would never do this. Number two, they're very manicured people. They always look good.
1:01:37
Caller
Stop.
1:01:37
Drew
They don't look disheveled. Come on.
1:01:38
Caller
Look at you. Look at you.
1:01:39
Adam
You're 48. You're in better shape than you were at the 21. Look at you. Not a hair out of place. You exfoliate. You look like you've been tanning. You're very, very well groomed. And the houses and lawns. Very well groomed. They take over a community and they give it a facelift. You've seen the Boys Town here on Santa Monica. Not a weed grown in that place. No graffiti anywhere. There's no trash. There's no crime.
1:02:05
Caller
It's boom.
1:02:07
Adam
Everything taken care of.
1:02:08
Drew
Clean, good folks is what you're saying.
1:02:10
Adam
That's right. You work hard. You make lots of money and you don't pollute the world with tons of unwanted kids who you screw over. I would think we'd be in. And how much gay crime is there? I mean, gay men perpetrating crime. You know what I mean? How many gay murderers are there? How much gay gang violence is there? How much gay domestic abuse is there? There's not a lot of gay crime out there. And I believe that if a larger percentage of society was gay, that we would have safer, cleaner, better running neighborhoods, and I'd get more checks.
1:02:50
Drew
Yeah, they basically say that.
1:02:53
Adam
They're better people. They really are.
1:02:55
Clive Barker
Now, just to answer Jason's question, I don't happen, for sure, everyone would agree the jury is out on this. There is certain, like with all human behavior, there's always a biological component. How much biology is determined may differ for different individuals. Some people may be, in fact, I think everyone agrees some people are born that way. Some people have more of an environmental impact, yeah, influence, but still must have some sort of biological.
1:03:18
Drew
Jason doesn't sound like he's getting a lot of environmental.
1:03:20
Clive Barker
No, he doesn't. No, I agree with you. And there are still people that will monkey with aspects of self, whether it's sexual orientation or other aspects of self. So his question was, do people do that? Yes, they do, but they certainly wouldn't be considered part of the mainstream. I think most people would think in terms of treating mental health in somebody like Jason would be, what are your goals? And your goal would be to be happy, and changing your fundamental sense of self is probably not a realistic part of that.
1:03:46
Adam
All right. Hailey?
1:03:48
Yeah.
1:03:49
Adam
You're 15?
1:03:49
Caller
Yeah.
1:03:50
Adam
What's up?
1:03:52
Caller
Like when I have anal sex with my boyfriend, he sticks his dick up too far and it hurts. So I was just wondering if I could do any permanent damage.
1:03:59
Adam
Are you calling from finishing school? Where are you now?
1:04:02
Clive Barker
Nursery school, I think is where she is.
1:04:03
Caller
No, I'm in junior high.
1:04:05
Adam
Oh, I see.
1:04:05
Caller
I'm going into ninth grade.
1:04:07
Clive Barker
Are you still a virgin?
1:04:08
Caller
No.
1:04:09
Clive Barker
I wonder if she's on those technical virgins.
1:04:11
Adam
Going into the ninth grade.
1:04:13
Caller
Yeah, I got held back.
1:04:14
Adam
Oh, yeah. Too much anal sex, huh?
1:04:17
Drew
That'll do it.
1:04:18
Caller
I actually was in kindergarten.
1:04:19
Adam
I see.
1:04:21
Clive Barker
Why in kindergarten?
1:04:22
Caller
Well, because I'm kind of tiny and you know how they hold people back for being really small.
1:04:26
Clive Barker
No.
1:04:27
Adam
No. Never heard of that.
1:04:29
Caller
Oh, well.
1:04:30
Adam
But an interesting angle for your parents to work.
1:04:35
Drew
Let's not even talk about angles here.
1:04:37
Adam
Oh, man.
1:04:38
Clive Barker
Yeah. Yes, you can't hurt yourself with anal sex. It's something that needs to be done carefully and gently. Even then, you can cause tearing and hemorrhoids and all kinds of good things.
1:04:48
Adam
How old is your boyfriend?
1:04:50
Caller
He's, like, I think he just turned 18 two days ago.
1:04:53
Adam
Now, wait a minute. You think?
1:04:56
Caller
He just turned 18 two days ago. I think two days ago. Or like three or something.
1:05:02
Adam
What 15-year-old girl who's having anal sex with her boyfriend does not know what his age is?
1:05:07
Caller
Well, I don't know if it was two or three days ago.
1:05:09
Adam
All right. And so now this guy's having anal sex with a minor.
1:05:16
Caller
Well, now. Right.
1:05:18
Adam
You're going into the ninth grade and he should have graduated high school had he had enough credits when last year?
1:05:26
Caller
Yeah.
1:05:27
Adam
And what's he doing now?
1:05:28
Caller
He's going to college.
1:05:29
Adam
Oh, no, no. Junior college, right?
1:05:32
Caller
Yeah.
1:05:32
Adam
That is not college. It just has the word college in it. Okay. It's like the electoral college. It's not an actual college. It has the college name in it. Confusing.
1:05:43
Caller
Yeah.
1:05:43
Adam
Like Dr. J is not really a doctor. Okay. So he, what did he do? Take the GED and get out of high school or something?
1:05:52
Caller
No.
1:05:52
Adam
He graduated.
1:05:53
Caller
Yeah.
1:05:53
Caller
He's old enough.
1:05:54
Adam
All right. And now he's having anal sex with a 15-year-old. I don't trust this guy, by the way. And what's up with you and your family?
1:06:04
Caller
What do you mean?
1:06:04
Adam
Where's your dad?
1:06:06
Caller
My dad, he lives in a different town than me.
1:06:10
Clive Barker
Shocking. Shocking.
1:06:11
Adam
Right.
1:06:12
Caller
My parents are divorced.
1:06:13
Adam
Is your dad nay-hold? Does he neglect you?
1:06:16
Caller
No.
1:06:17
Caller
I actually go with him, but I don't really like to.
1:06:20
Caller
Why not?
1:06:21
Caller
Just because he takes us to court a lot and stuff, so I really don't like to.
1:06:24
Clive Barker
For what?
1:06:25
Caller
Just for custody. Just like he wants to do stuff that we don't.
1:06:29
Clive Barker
Like what?
1:06:30
Caller
He wants to take us like, he likes going in the school year, he likes going week on with us and then week off, but then we don't want it. We want to like, you know, actually have time to be home because we've been raised by my mom, but he doesn't listen to what we want.
1:06:45
Clive Barker
And you prefer to be with your mom?
1:06:46
Caller
Yeah.
1:06:47
Adam
All right. Is she a good woman?
1:06:49
Caller
Yeah.
1:06:49
Adam
Does she know about this wretched sex you're having with your adult boyfriend?
1:06:54
Caller
No.
1:06:55
Adam
All right. Are you using any kind of protection when you do this?
1:06:59
Caller
Yeah.
1:07:00
Clive Barker
Condoms?
1:07:01
Caller
Yeah.
1:07:01
Adam
You're using condoms?
1:07:02
Caller
Yeah.
1:07:03
Adam
And are you on the birth control pill?
1:07:05
Caller
Yeah.
1:07:05
Adam
You are?
1:07:06
Clive Barker
Which pill are you taking?
1:07:07
Caller
What?
1:07:07
Clive Barker
Which pill are you taking?
1:07:10
Caller
I don't know.
1:07:12
Clive Barker
Does it have a name on it?
1:07:13
Caller
Does it have a name on it? Well, it's in my bathroom and I'm in my room.
1:07:18
Drew
Does your mother know about the boyfriend at all or not?
1:07:22
Caller
She knows about the boyfriend, but she doesn't know about the boyfriend.
1:07:25
Adam
All right. I don't trust this guy. I really don't. Are you in love with him?
1:07:32
Caller
I think. I'm not really sure.
1:07:34
Adam
You're not that into him, are you?
1:07:35
Caller
Well, I am, but I mean, you can't really say you love. I only met him like about a year ago and you can't really.
1:07:42
Clive Barker
Is he seeing other people? Hold on.
1:07:44
Adam
Hold on a second. What 14, 15 year old girl has been with a guy and been this intimate with a guy for a year, says the jury is still out on love.
1:07:52
Caller
Well, I don't know.
1:07:54
Clive Barker
The jury is stuck because he's going, hey, we're not having a relationship. Just remember.
1:07:58
Adam
Is he not into you? What's he doing?
1:08:02
Clive Barker
Yeah, that's him. Isn't it? Oh, we're just hanging out. We're just hanging out.
1:08:07
Caller
I don't think he's into anybody else or anything, but.
1:08:10
Adam
Well, does he call you his girlfriend?
1:08:12
Caller
Yeah.
1:08:13
Adam
Does he say he loves you?
1:08:14
Caller
Yeah.
1:08:15
Caller
Well, not like daily, constantly.
1:08:19
Adam
Would you like him to say he loves you?
1:08:22
Caller
Yeah, but.
1:08:23
Adam
Uh-oh. Okay. Haley, Drew's right. We've stumbled onto this thing. This guy's playing you a little bit. He's an older idiot who's basically cornholing some young 15-year-old girl and he's just playing you. He is. You know it too. You know if you ask him and corner him, you're going to get an answer that you may not want to hear.
1:08:47
Clive Barker
So you don't ask him?
1:08:48
Adam
Yeah.
1:08:48
Clive Barker
So you play along with him?
1:08:49
Adam
You play along with him.
1:08:50
Clive Barker
Well, he's not really my boyfriend.
1:08:51
Adam
Well, we've only been together for a year. We don't know.
1:08:54
Drew
Yeah. How are we going to know? Yeah.
1:08:56
Adam
You got to be more honest with yourself, Haley.
1:08:58
Drew
Yeah.
1:08:59
Adam
You know this guy's playing you a little bit. He's not into you as much as you're into him, and you're just going along with everything he asks, hoping he'll stay around. You got to have the courage to get away from this guy if he's not into you. All right? All right. All right. You're not going to do it. Don't get pregnant in the meantime.
1:09:18
Clive Barker
Please, stand up, Bill.
1:09:20
Adam
We've been together for a year. The jury is still out. After a year, that's the part when you're falling out a lot. At 15, you're most in love at like the three-week mark. A year. I'm going to give it another quarter of my life.
1:09:34
Clive Barker
You can't really say, you know. What is love?
1:09:37
Adam
You know what I love? I wish I could have done this to just one woman in my life. And these guys do it all the time. Another reason why I need to be gay. You got a big house, right? Yeah. I could shack up there. No. But I'm handy. And I know you gays need that.
1:09:57
Drew
We got a handy man.
1:09:58
Adam
Move on. You need me.
1:10:01
Drew
No stop him.
1:10:02
Adam
Okay listen. Here's what they do. It's very diabolical. They get with these women. They are a little bit older. This guy. Like what this guy did with Haley. He gets with, they get with these women and the women are in love with them. But the guys keep playing them and they keep kind of pushing them off and the women are scared to ask them for a commitment or demand anything or lay down any ground rules.
1:10:27
Clive Barker
Because they know the guy will be out.
1:10:28
Adam
Because the guy, they are going to scare the guy out. So they start talking themselves out of it. This is fun. I'm just having sex. This is great. The jury is still out. We've only been together for a year. I'll give him whatever he wants sexually. Hopefully I can keep him that way. And if I don't talk about the relationship or other people or anything like that, he'll stay. It's not what you want. You're not a man. Be honest with yourself. Thank you. Aaron.
1:10:57
Clive Barker
Oh, he's sleeping.
1:10:57
Adam
Oh, Aaron's asleep.
1:11:01
Drew
That's sweet. That is so cute.
1:11:06
Adam
I've said this many, many times. There's no greater tribute. You can pay a talk show host.
1:11:13
Drew
I tell you, we must be galvanizing tonight. We must be the best.
1:11:18
Clive Barker
Sintillating.
1:11:20
Drew
Where is Dick Cavett when you need him?
1:11:22
Adam
This is some of the best radio we've ever done.
1:11:24
Clive Barker
But let's compare it with different sleeping patterns. Now, we can age and size Aaron just on his sleep pattern.
1:11:31
Drew
Go then. Go what?
1:11:32
Clive Barker
Yeah. Pre-puberty. Virgin.
1:11:36
Drew
Stop.
1:11:37
Adam
Yeah.
1:11:38
Clive Barker
And we're going about 120, 130.
1:11:43
Drew
He's dreaming.
1:11:43
Clive Barker
What did you say?
1:11:44
Adam
Yeah.
1:11:45
Clive Barker
They want 40.
1:11:45
Adam
Yeah. With a birthmark on his rear end. Aaron had a question for Clive. Oh. Wants to know about what you put into making the video.
1:11:57
Clive Barker
How much time?
1:11:58
Adam
How much time?
1:11:59
Drew
Which video?
1:12:00
Adam
I don't know. He's asleep.
1:12:02
Drew
You know what? If he wakes up, he can ask me later.
1:12:04
Adam
All right. We'll put Aaron back on hold. And don't wake him up. We want to get back to him.
1:12:10
Drew
No, it's nice. It's really nice. You know, maybe he's hearing our voices in a dream state, you know?
1:12:17
Clive Barker
But I like that he could breathe patently through his nose without making a noise, just moving air.
1:12:26
Drew
It's like 2001, isn't it?
1:12:28
Adam
Logic would suggest that if we can hear him, he should be able to hear us.
1:12:32
Clive Barker
Yeah, but he's asleep.
1:12:33
Drew
Yeah, but even so, he can hear us.
1:12:36
Adam
Yeah, I know he's asleep, but you can hear voices. You work them in your dream.
1:12:40
Drew
But that's what I'm saying. Maybe he's just working.
1:12:42
Clive Barker
Maybe he's dreaming in the dreams. In the first hour of sleep, you can get pretty deep fast and not hear stuff.
1:12:47
Drew
Is this REM sleep now?
1:12:48
Clive Barker
Not REM sleep. No, it's a deeper phase.
1:12:50
Adam
All right. Oh, there's deeper than REM?
1:12:52
Clive Barker
REM is sort of a light phase, actually.
1:12:53
Drew
Is it really? I never knew that.
1:12:54
Clive Barker
Well, it's sort of a different phase.
1:12:56
Adam
You always hear about the object of sleep.
1:12:58
Clive Barker
It's restorative phase. It's restorative. It comes after the deep, if I remember right.
1:13:01
Adam
Oh, really? So, it's deeper and then the REM.
1:13:03
Drew
So, you go deep first and then you get REM sleep and then, wow.
1:13:07
Clive Barker
And then you cycle it out.
1:13:08
Adam
And there's more rest, more rejuvenation in the REM than there is in the deeper, perhaps.
1:13:14
Clive Barker
And the reason you and I get sleep-deprived and we feel like crap the next day is we spend all our time in deep sleep because we're so sleep-deprived.
1:13:20
Drew
You actually said something.
1:13:21
Clive Barker
We don't move around much.
1:13:23
Drew
You said sleep-deprived, which I like.
1:13:27
Adam
Well, that's sleep deprivation.
1:13:29
Drew
Do you get sleep-deprived seriously?
1:13:32
Adam
Yeah, it's all he does.
1:13:34
Drew
Really? And he was a doctor and you should know better.
1:13:37
Clive Barker
For years.
1:13:38
Adam
Well, he's a doctor. He gets up and goes to see his old Jew patients every morning.
1:13:42
Caller
Stop that now.
1:13:43
Adam
It's true.
1:13:43
Caller
It's true.
1:13:44
Adam
It's all he sees exclusively, old Jews. Alright, we're going to end the gaze. We'll take a break. Clive Barker is here and we'll be back after this.
1:13:54
Caller
Love Line, Love Line, 1-800-LOVE-191, we'll be right back.
1:14:32
Adam
Hey, everybody, Loveline. I'm Adam. That's my good partner over there, Dr. Drew, phone number 1-800-LOVE-191. Jimmy Kimmel, the man I wish I could be gay for, is coming in tomorrow night. My life partner.
1:14:46
Drew
You said that was me.
1:14:48
Adam
Oh, yeah.
1:14:49
Drew
You just changed.
1:14:50
Clive Barker
No, Jimmy is his life partner though.
1:14:53
Adam
He wishes he could be gay for you, but here's what I'd like to do with Clive. Clive has himself a couple of houses. He's really built himself a small empire here. He's a genius because he works out of his house. You have an office, you do your writing and everything.
1:15:09
Clive Barker
Yeah.
1:15:10
Adam
He writes 1,500 pages every day. Then it's six hours on the treadmill. He's very disciplined.
1:15:17
Drew
I am very disciplined.
1:15:19
Adam
I know three houses take a lot of upkeep and I'm handy.
1:15:22
Drew
You keep going back to this handy thing, but you see, I think the handiest thing, you're the handy, you're handy with your mouth. Let's be honest, that's the thing you're handy with. You don't understand.
1:15:32
Clive Barker
Well, he could show you that too.
1:15:34
Adam
But Clive Barker, when he tells you you're handy with your mouth.
1:15:37
Drew
No, no, no, don't even go.
1:15:39
Adam
No, I see.
1:15:40
Clive Barker
No, no, he was way handier with his hands than he-
1:15:42
Adam
I'm a much better carpenter than I am a talk show host.
1:15:45
Drew
A talker, is that true?
1:15:46
Adam
Yes, absolutely.
1:15:47
Drew
Then you're basically doing the wrong thing. Is that what you're saying?
1:15:50
Adam
I am, except for one thing, you can be sort of mediocre at and make a million dollars at, right, and the other one you can be very good at and make $32,000 a year.
1:16:01
Drew
What do you build? What have you built of late?
1:16:04
Adam
Oh, cabinets, do a lot of cabinets lately.
1:16:07
Drew
You do a good cabinet for you?
1:16:08
Adam
Yeah.
1:16:08
Clive Barker
You build two houses?
1:16:10
Adam
Yeah, it's custom houses.
1:16:12
Drew
Wow, wow, seriously.
1:16:13
Adam
Yeah, yeah, you know.
1:16:15
Clive Barker
That was what he did before he did.
1:16:15
Adam
Baseboard and casing. I do rough stuff too, but mainly finish work, you know. Hang a door, make a little custom furniture.
1:16:24
Drew
And that gives you great pleasure, yeah?
1:16:26
Adam
Yes, I do enjoy that. It's tangible.
1:16:29
Drew
Yeah, you know, Harrison Ford does that, right? Harrison Ford's big thing when he gets out of the movie madness is to do carpentry. And apparently he's amazing, amazing with that.
1:16:43
Adam
Well, it is, like I said, it's tangible. Whereas this is just, to me, air, just words that go floating off into the space.
1:16:51
Drew
Well, yeah, except you're having all kinds of effects that you are not having if you hang a door.
1:16:57
Adam
Right, but I never get to really see them or experience them.
1:17:00
Drew
You know, but we're in a parallel situation. I write a book, I send it out into the world. Most of the people who read my book, I will never meet. I take it on faith that the things that I am saying in my book, hopefully good things, hopefully things which will make people feel better about their lives rather than worse, are genuinely affecting people. And you have to, both of you have to take it on faith that you are leaving the world a little better at the end of this two hours than worse, right?
1:17:33
Adam
Yeah, although we tend not to want to dwell on the positive aspects of our jobs, we would rather complain about the negative. Okay, but let me give, but I do appreciate you saying that. And let me give a plug for Clive. You can find him at Meltdown Comics and Collectibles. And that is this Saturday, 3 o'clock. It's on Sunset Boulevard and it's in Hollywood. And the number for that would be 323-851-7223. And Clive will be signing these marvelous figurines that he has gotten together with Todd McCormick.
1:18:08
Drew
My Tortured Souls, Todd McFarlane.
1:18:11
Adam
Oh, McFarlane. I'm sorry.
1:18:13
Drew
Yeah.
1:18:13
Adam
Don't worry. I don't know where McFarlane came out. Aaron? Aaron's sleeping. Oh, yeah. That's right. I'm going to check back with him now.
1:18:19
Drew
He's quiet though. He may have left.
1:18:23
Adam
Oh, he's back.
1:18:28
Clive Barker
Is it him a little snoring?
1:18:29
Adam
Aaron is 13. He's been snoring. Oh, there it is again. So we're going to do what we always do when someone falls asleep. We just check back with them periodically.
1:18:36
Drew
Just in case he wakes up.
1:18:38
Adam
Yeah, just we hope he doesn't. It's sort of entertaining. Tiffany, you're 15.
1:18:44
Clive Barker
Yeah.
1:18:44
Adam
What's up?
1:18:45
Clive Barker
Okay. I was with this guy for a really long time. He's older than I am. I was 13. He was 16 when we got together. He cheated on me.
1:18:56
Adam
Oh, did she hang up?
1:18:59
Clive Barker
Yeah.
1:19:00
Adam
Now, Drew, tell us how long Tiffany has been on hold.
1:19:04
Clive Barker
96 minutes.
1:19:05
Drew
Oh, man.
1:19:06
Adam
96 minutes. And Tiffany was on the air for 14 seconds.
1:19:13
Drew
13 seconds.
1:19:14
Adam
Yeah.
1:19:14
Clive Barker
Or mom walked in and said, What the hell are you doing here?
1:19:17
Adam
So here's what I love about life. She's sitting there. I'm sure mom never entered the room in the hour and a half she was on hold. But 14 seconds after she got going, mom walked in.
1:19:30
Drew
Oh, man. Life sucks sometimes. Yes. Yes, it can. Can we be any use to Tiffany in the abstract?
1:19:36
Clive Barker
Well, I don't want to spill too much in case Tiffany's mom is listening.
1:19:42
Clive Barker
Let's just say she's still in love with her first love. And he has sort of, the relationship was broken up, but she's agreed to continue in sort of some physical contact with him.
1:19:52
Adam
Sort of a maintenance type relationship.
1:19:54
Clive Barker
A service relationship.
1:19:55
Adam
Service agreement.
1:19:56
Clive Barker
And she doesn't understand that, as many of the young women don't, that guys can just do that, and they're very happy with that.
1:20:03
Adam
Right.
1:20:04
Clive Barker
But they are not in a relationship.
1:20:05
Adam
How can he not have feelings for me if he's coming over and being intimate with me?
1:20:09
Drew
Because men are pigs.
1:20:11
Adam
They certainly are able to do that.
1:20:13
Clive Barker
And you know what? It's not even that men are pigs. That's the way we're wired. We're just wired this way.
1:20:17
Drew
We're wired as pigs.
1:20:18
Clive Barker
Right. Without even putting a value judgment on it, just women have to accept that is in fact how they're wired without having feelings.
1:20:26
Drew
Do we really know that?
1:20:28
Clive Barker
Yes. We're so different.
1:20:31
Drew
Yes. Look, I grant you we're different, but if the wiring is like that and you've got, let's say, two guys in a relationship as you've got with David and myself, six years together, monogamous, why isn't all the wiring just going crazy?
1:20:53
Clive Barker
We're talking about young males.
1:20:57
Drew
Well, David is actually much younger than I am.
1:20:59
Clive Barker
But young males tend to have this, and not that men can't have in a relationship, they can.
1:21:04
Adam
I also, I got to say, I was looking through the glass when he said monogamous and David started laughing his ass off. That's maybe something for you guys to get into on the ride home, I don't know.
1:21:15
Drew
He is in so much trouble. I don't even know where to begin.
1:21:22
Adam
Yeah, he is really laughing it off.
1:21:24
Clive Barker
Listen, men are quite capable of being very involved in relationships, but when they are in a situation like the one that Tiffany finds herself, men are also quite capable of that.
1:21:34
Adam
Not at 17.
1:21:36
Clive Barker
Yeah.
1:21:36
Adam
You're 24, what's up?
1:21:39
Clive Barker
I am. My question is actually for Dr. Drew. I am currently on Prozac and I was wondering what your thoughts were about that compared to Wellbutrin or Zoloft.
1:21:51
Clive Barker
I don't understand why you'd be asking a question like that. You have somebody who's taken care of you, who's done an assessment, chosen this as an antidepressant for your syndrome. It's different medicines for different conditions. I don't understand what you're asking.
1:22:07
Clive Barker
Well, to be honest, I was on it when I was on high school and I could tell I was getting back into depression pretty deep. And so I suggested it to my doctor.
1:22:20
Clive Barker
Okay, well then you ought to see a psychiatrist to be evaluated to make sure you have an accurate diagnosis to make sure there isn't a bipolar condition here, to make sure this indeed is in fact a recurrent major depression. But all the antidepressants are equally efficacious, but the side effect profile of the kinds of symptoms that they tend to remit are different depending on which medicine you choose.
1:22:39
Adam
Well, what about this? If some people are involved with HMOs, and they might give out something that's a little cheaper, a little more readily available, may not be quite as effective.
1:22:49
Clive Barker
Prozac is an extremely powerful antidepressant. Side effects are different than Zoloft. Wellbutrin is very different. Wellbutrin doesn't have any of the sexual side effects that Prozac has.
1:22:57
Adam
Alright, so Ann?
1:22:59
Clive Barker
Yeah.
1:22:59
Adam
You got to get with the psychiatrist and see if you can hammer something out.
1:23:03
Clive Barker
Okay.
1:23:04
Adam
Alright, baby.
1:23:05
Clive Barker
Thank you.
1:23:06
Adam
Good times, though, right?
1:23:08
Clive Barker
Of course.
1:23:08
Adam
Alright, let's talk to... Oh, wait a minute here, Drew. You don't want to take a line for you?
1:23:16
Clive Barker
It's not up here. It's not on hold.
1:23:18
Adam
Alright, what do you want to go? Six. Sage?
1:23:22
Caller
Yes?
1:23:22
Adam
You're thirty?
1:23:23
Caller
Yes.
1:23:24
Adam
Did you call the show before?
1:23:25
Caller
Man, you remembered. My phone's dying, too. I just want to say that Clive Barker's books are great.
1:23:32
Drew
Well, thank you.
1:23:32
Caller
If you want to trip out on drugs, they should trip out on Clive's books.
1:23:35
Drew
Hey, I love that.
1:23:37
Caller
My phone's going to die, though. I wish I could talk to you guys longer.
1:23:40
Adam
Well, you ask your question and listen on the radio.
1:23:43
Caller
I just want to know what Clive's inspiration was for Damnation Game.
1:23:48
Drew
Okay.
1:23:49
Caller
And my phone will probably die, but I'll be listening.
1:23:51
Drew
Will you be listening?
1:23:52
Adam
Alright, I'm going to put you on hold and listen on the radio, alright? Okay, thank you.
1:23:56
Drew
Take care, Sage. Firstly, thank you for the enthusiasm. We're making a movie of Damnation Game over at Warner Brothers.
1:24:04
Adam
Oh, really?
1:24:06
Drew
But Damnation Game is a Faust story, and Faust is one of the great stories of literature. It's been told a thousand times because there's something essential about the idea that we have to make a deal with the devil to get the best out of life. I think we all have made deals. And I think the thing that touches me about the Faust story is listen, here's how you're making the deal with the devil. You guys need sleep.
1:24:48
Clive Barker
Funny, when Clive looks at me, he immediately thinks about that.
1:24:50
Drew
I do, I look at you and I think man this man is working so damn hard he can barely stay awake. And the deal with the devil is he is after fame and fame and whatever you're after. I don't know what you're after. How can I say? But there you are so dead on your feet. And I do the same thing. I mean what I'm saying is the devil is inside us all. It's what we desire and Lord knows it's the worst thing if we get it. Because actually all three of us sitting in this room have got something we desired and there is a payment for that, right? Yeah. Am I? A cost. A cost, a price and the price can be relationships, the price can be exhaustion, the price can be all kinds of things and one of the things that attracts me about stories is that good stories are universally applicable. You can take a story and it can apply in a different way to each one of us in this room. The Faust story is one of those stories.
1:26:03
Adam
When does this movie come out?
1:26:07
Drew
It's being written as we speak, so it will probably go before the cameras next year. A big movie.
1:26:14
Adam
How much work? I know it's hard to quantify this, but you write a book and then somebody turns it into a screenplay.
1:26:21
Drew
Yeah, I'm producing in this case, so I'm co-producing in this case. My company is producing the thing with Warner, so we've got a lot of controls. I love this book and I love the writer, John Heffernan, who's writing the thing. I have huge respect for him, so I'm feeling very comfortable about it.
1:26:44
Adam
When you do that, when you take a novel and you turn it into a screenplay, what's the process? Obviously, you first read the book and then you start breaking it down?
1:26:54
Drew
Well, you take stuff out. In the case of Damnation Game, you choose the threads of the story that you want to tell and you choose what you're going to throw out. It can be a heartbreaking business if the book is huge, but luckily, Damnation Game isn't. It's a modestly scaled book, so we haven't had to lose too much.
1:27:16
Adam
What is the translation between your average script is, let's say, a hundred and ten pages, or maybe a hundred and twenty pages?
1:27:26
Drew
Yeah, think a minute a page.
1:27:27
Adam
Right. So, when you have a book, it's obviously going to be more than a hundred and twenty pages, but what is a good translation to not cut out a bunch of stuff? Is it three hundred pages?
1:27:39
Drew
No, I think it's even shorter than that. I think when I did Thief of Always, which is probably a two hundred page book, you know, you don't have to cut anything out of that. So, a two hundred page book, you could probably turn into a movie with, you know, without losing anything. But once you get up to three hundred pages, four hundred pages, you've just got to know that a movie, movies and books are completely different things, and the way we experience them are different. I love movies, but nothing's ever going to change my or take my heart away from books. My real joy in terms of art is books and paintings. And movies, yes, sure, I enjoy them, but they go in one eye out the other. And you know, we don't get a great number of movies. I saw an amazing movie two nights ago, a movie called Bully, which Larry Clark directed. It's an amazing movie.
1:28:42
Adam
What is that? What is that about?
1:28:43
Drew
It's a movie based on True Story about a bunch of young kids in Florida who murdered a bully in the community and just didn't care to hoots about what they've done. And it's an intense movie.
1:29:03
Adam
It's a true story.
1:29:04
Drew
It's a true story. And I came out of it thinking, wow, feeling very protective towards my daughter and feeling like I needed to think really hard about the way our culture is going. Because this movie really impressed me because I felt as though I was in the world. You know?
1:29:24
Adam
Yeah. They can be impactful. It's just they're normally not.
1:29:28
Drew
No. Right.
1:29:29
Adam
They're about meteors impacting the planet. We'll take a little break. Clive Barker is our guest tonight and we'll be right back after this.
1:29:40
Caller
Hello, this is Loveline, one and every love one nine one.
1:29:44
Caller
Loveline will be right back.
1:30:06
Adam
Okay, it is Loveline, I'm Adam Carolla, that is Dr. Drew over there. Phone number, oh, forget about that phone number. Here's a phone number that you should check out if you're in the LA area, 323-851-7223, and that's where you can find Clive Barker this Saturday at 3 o'clock with these amazing Tortured Souls figurines. And look, I'm telling you, if you guys wanna go down and check these things out and give me a call back Sunday night, I dare you.
1:30:38
Caller
I really do.
1:30:40
Adam
And I really mean this is not hype. You will look at these things, you'll say they're incredible. I absolutely mean that. So again, this Saturday in Hollywood at Meltdown Comics. And let's see if we can get through a few more calls here. Heather?
1:30:57
Clive Barker
Hi.
1:30:57
Adam
You're 18?
1:30:58
Clive Barker
Yeah.
1:30:59
Caller
What's up?
1:31:00
Clive Barker
Well, actually, Adam, I first I wanted to say that I'm totally in love with you.
1:31:07
Adam
Oh, thanks.
1:31:08
Clive Barker
And-
1:31:11
Caller
Drew, please.
1:31:13
Clive Barker
And-
1:31:13
Clive Barker
I'm just looking at the figurines, I'm sorry.
1:31:15
Clive Barker
That one girl that called earlier who, you know, was a bogus call and she said she was totally in love with you also, but couldn't give you any answers on what you were into.
1:31:23
Clive Barker
Oh, you challenged, you want Adam to challenge you.
1:31:25
Drew
Love challenge.
1:31:27
Adam
Yeah. All right. You want me to give you an Adam quiz?
1:31:31
Clive Barker
Well, I'll just tell you like what your hobbies are.
1:31:33
Adam
All right. Go ahead.
1:31:35
Clive Barker
Right. Well, masturbating and napping, of course.
1:31:37
Adam
All right. That's done. Now, let's talk about, yeah, what other hobbies?
1:31:42
Clive Barker
You like to fly a model airplane.
1:31:43
Caller
Yeah.
1:31:45
Clive Barker
And-
1:31:46
Clive Barker
Aren't you embarrassed, ashamed of yourself?
1:31:48
Adam
It's more painful when you hear it back from somebody else.
1:31:50
Clive Barker
Yeah.
1:31:51
Adam
And what was I before I was a radio host?
1:31:55
Clive Barker
You were a carpenter.
1:31:57
Adam
And what else?
1:31:58
Clive Barker
You taught boxing.
1:31:59
Adam
There you go.
1:32:00
Clive Barker
You played carpet.
1:32:01
Adam
That's right. Well, Heather, you got it all right. All right. So now your problem and dilemma is?
1:32:08
Clive Barker
Well, actually, you say not to say this at the beginning, but I made it up.
1:32:13
Adam
Oh, really?
1:32:13
Clive Barker
I just wanted to challenge that girl.
1:32:15
Adam
Want to heap some praise on Adam? Well, that's fine.
1:32:17
Clive Barker
Yeah.
1:32:17
Adam
God bless you. Take care of you little liar.
1:32:20
Clive Barker
We have some else.
1:32:21
Clive Barker
And also, are you guys ever going to have Gunnar and Matthew Nelson back on there?
1:32:26
Clive Barker
Wow.
1:32:26
Adam
Yeah, Nelson. We had Nelson on about three, four years ago and I had a horribly humiliating experience when they came on. Do you remember that?
1:32:39
Clive Barker
Yeah, I do.
1:32:40
Drew
What happened?
1:32:41
Clive Barker
I remember hearing the show, but I can't remember anything about it.
1:32:44
Clive Barker
We played it. We played it for them.
1:32:46
Adam
Here's what happened. Nelson, the two blonde twins, Ricky Nelson's sons came in here. They came in here a couple of nights after a couple of crazy Playboy twins who came in here. For some reason, one of them had dated one of the Nelsons. We were saying, well, you should hear this clip of them talking about you. I used to, wait, watch the S word there.
1:33:16
Caller
Sorry, sorry. Oh, heck. Right, there you go.
1:33:19
Adam
She was saying I used to date one of the Nelsons and this and that and the other. We thought we'd play it back. But the part I forgot about when we were playing it back for Nelson, which was me saying, you're dating one of those losers?
1:33:35
Clive Barker
The last thing they did.
1:33:36
Adam
Yeah, they haven't been around since Stonewashed Jeans. What the hell are those two blonde F'ers up to?
1:33:44
Caller
I haven't even seen them.
1:33:45
Clive Barker
You said something even more dull. I can't remember what it was. It was something very dull.
1:33:48
Adam
Ah, their career is over. What are you doing with that dead weight? There's me and my voice being repeated back into my head while the two guys are sitting where you're sitting.
1:33:57
Drew
And what's the response?
1:33:59
Clive Barker
The total gentleman.
1:34:00
Adam
It wasn't violent, but they just sat there. I did a little quick back battling, but it was very humiliating.
1:34:07
Clive Barker
Their total gentleman made him more ashamed.
1:34:09
Drew
Yes. That's right.
1:34:11
Adam
They're very nice guys. Tom?
1:34:14
Caller
Yeah, I was wondering about online relationships, how you feel about meeting people online. And I'll say also that you do a really good job. There's a lot of white trash and a lot of people out there who are really messed up and you Tom?
1:34:30
Adam
That's our number one demo. Let's not make fun of that.
1:34:33
Clive Barker
Tom, random hooking up online or some of what you call a service that you apply to?
1:34:38
Caller
Random hooking up online.
1:34:39
Clive Barker
Yeah, that's usually a disaster. It's relationships built on fantasy and, you know, the per...
1:34:46
Adam
But isn't it a way, isn't it an easy way out for guys who aren't as socially skilled as a lot of other 19-year-old guys? And wouldn't you have taken that easy road had you had the opportunity at 19?
1:35:00
Caller
Oh, sure.
1:35:01
Adam
So, Tom? Yeah. It can work. But in a way, I think you kind of soften yourself, because it's an important thing to be able to go out and meet people, especially as a 19-year-old guy, and to sort of utilize this technology to sort of circumnavigate this, or circumvent this, it softens you.
1:35:24
Clive Barker
You don't develop the skills you need to accommodate normal social situations.
1:35:30
Caller
Yeah, I mean, we're going to see each other next summer, like we might live together and stuff, so I gotta make sure.
1:35:35
Adam
Oh, but see, that's the other thing.
1:35:36
Clive Barker
That's all, yeah.
1:35:37
Adam
You start talking about moving in, and when you're going to name your kids, and you haven't even met them.
1:35:41
Clive Barker
Yeah, that's nonsense.
1:35:42
Drew
Have you met the young lady in question?
1:35:45
Caller
Not yet. We're going to meet in September.
1:35:47
Clive Barker
That's total nonsense.
1:35:49
Drew
Yeah, you see, you can't talk about it. How can you talk about moving in with somebody when you haven't even, you know, there's lots of things that happen when you're with a human being that are chemical, there are things about stuff that's in the air between you, there's literally chemicals passing between two human beings when they're in a room together. Am I right?
1:36:11
Adam
Yeah, that's why what happened, that's how AIDS got started. All right, sorry.
1:36:16
Drew
Okay, go ahead.
1:36:17
Adam
Hepatitis, hepatitis.
1:36:18
Drew
No, I'm talking about pheromones, and I'm talking about the magic of attraction, and it can't happen through a mechanical means.
1:36:31
Adam
So the question for Tom is, does he want to live in reality, which is him home spanking it three times a day and crying himself to sleep, or does he want to have this fantasy person who's the light at the end of his tunnel, which isn't reality, but yet it's better than his reality?
1:36:45
Drew
Well, I think that's an extreme posture.
1:36:47
Adam
Well, that's my job.
1:36:49
Drew
Yeah, all right, so I'm going to offer you a counter posture. You know, you spank it twice and you go out at night.
1:36:56
Adam
All right. How about that? Tom? Yeah. I understand you feel good about this, but you cannot put all your eggs in this basket.
1:37:07
Clive Barker
You can't weave a fantasy.
1:37:09
Adam
Right.
1:37:10
Clive Barker
You've got to have a relationship in reality. You have to get those online relationships off the web into reality as quickly as possible.
1:37:15
Adam
And the reason there's so much energy for this mystery woman is because there's such a void in the everyday life of Tom. And that's what you need to focus on. And we're going to take a break.
1:37:28
Caller
Loveline, Loveline, 1-800-LOVE-191, back in a minute.
1:38:03
Adam
All right. Surreal now, because this doesn't feel like the real ending of the show. It's a long story. I want to thank Clive Barker for coming in here, and I want to give him one more plug.
1:38:15
Drew
Thank you.
1:38:16
Adam
Meltdown Comics, everybody.
1:38:18
Clive Barker
Clive is one of our favorite guests.
1:38:19
Adam
He is. And I wish we would not go so long in between visits.
1:38:24
Drew
Well, you know what? We won't in the future. I've got a new novel coming out in two months time. Do you want me back?
1:38:30
Clive Barker
Yeah, absolutely.
1:38:32
Drew
Sylvia, my publicist is out there. My publicist is out there.
1:38:35
Clive Barker
It's out there the whole show.
1:38:36
Drew
You know?
1:38:36
Adam
Yeah, you rarely see that. She's one of the few good publicists.
1:38:40
Clive Barker
I have to mention real quick, I'm going to be chatting at 5 p.m. at drdrew.com in the Sex Chat Room, 5 p.m. Pacific Time on Friday. So put that down if you want to get in touch with us if you couldn't get through on Loveline.
1:38:50
Adam
All right. And again, Clive can be found this Saturday, 3 o'clock at Meltdown Comics on Sunset Boulevard. Just call information, get Meltdown Comics. And until next time, this is Adam Corolla for Dr. Drew saying mahalo.
1:39:06
Caller
This has been Loveline. The opinions expressed on this show are not necessarily those of the staff, management, sponsors, or this station. The producer for Loveline is Ann Wilkins Engel. Loveline is a presentation of Westwood One Entertainment.