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Voiceover
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Voiceover
What are you insane?
1:54
Adam
I am not sure many adults out there really care.
1:57
Dr. Bruce
Thank you. No.
1:58
Adam
And how would you negotiate? What did you have to negotiate? He wouldn't negotiate with you?
2:02
Dr. Bruce
He wouldn't.
2:03
Adam
He did the only intelligence thing.
2:04
Dr. Bruce
I had been destroying the poor bastard so badly that at a certain point, he was not ready to negotiate anywhere. He was not willing to. And he pulled the car over and he said he will not drive and we can sit here all night. I tried to sort of smoke him out, but it didn't happen. And I had to get out of the car, but we compromised. I could ride on the outside of the car.
2:24
Adam
Well, I'm glad that with your celebrity status that you still appreciate gas.
2:29
Dr. Bruce
I forgot about that story. Someone reminded me just a half hour ago. Nicole?
2:33
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
2:33
Dr. Bruce
You're 13.
2:34
Dr. Bruce
Yes.
2:35
Dr. Bruce
What's going on?
2:38
Dr. Bruce
My, I've got boys that are like always looking at me because I'm big-breasted. Yeah.
2:44
Dr. Bruce
And I don't know what to do.
2:48
Dr. Bruce
How big-breasted are you?
2:49
Dr. Bruce
I'm a 36C. Yeah.
2:52
Dr. Bruce
That's pretty good size for a 13-year-old, right?
2:57
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
2:57
Dr. Bruce
But it's not grotesquely big.
3:00
Adam
It's not grotesquely big, but it's anything different than average when you're 13. Creates an opportunity for especially the boys to be boys. Right.
3:10
Dr. Bruce
Later on, it'll open other doors. But for now, it's a pain in the ass. So what are you doing about it?
3:17
Dr. Bruce
I'm just kind of ignoring them.
3:20
Dr. Bruce
Yeah. All right.
3:22
Dr. Bruce
Pretty much.
3:23
Adam
But it's pretty stressful, huh?
3:24
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
3:24
Adam
And then they're paying attention to you and you think it's because of that.
3:28
Dr. Bruce
Yeah. They're like always asking me out and all kinds of other stuff.
3:33
Dr. Bruce
Well, maybe there's other parts that they like about you too, though. May not only be the brass.
3:39
Adam
Maybe the immature boys are asking her out and it's more frustration.
3:44
Dr. Bruce
Well, I mean, give yourself a little more credit. I mean, maybe have a nice smile to boot.
3:52
Adam
Nicole, you know what? Do you talk to friends about it?
3:55
Dr. Bruce
I think it's her gift with the English language that attracts the boys.
4:01
Adam
She has that beautiful accent, though. I like that.
4:03
Dr. Bruce
She does?
4:04
Adam
Yeah. Where are you from?
4:06
Dr. Bruce
Austin, Texas.
4:07
Dr. Bruce
Well, that's quite an exotic locale, Bruce. You have a keen ear for dialects.
4:15
Adam
Nicole, do you have any friends that have the same problem or anybody you can talk to? Because sometimes, really, just talking it out. And boys aren't going to change. They tend to do that.
4:25
Dr. Bruce
And well, here's my point. Don't assume they're only asking you out because you have nice breasts. I mean, you're 13. I'm sure you're attractive. And there's other 13-year-old girls who are attractive, who don't have large breasts, who get asked out as well.
4:42
Adam
Well, I guess how old are the boys that are asking you out?
4:45
Dr. Bruce
14 and 15.
4:48
Adam
Adam makes a good point.
4:50
Dr. Bruce
I mean, why do you assume they don't like you? Why do you assume it's only your breasts?
4:56
Dr. Bruce
Because they ask me to do stuff.
4:59
Dr. Bruce
Like what?
5:06
Dr. Bruce
Like, go to bed with them and stuff.
5:09
Dr. Bruce
Oh, okay. Well, listen, they're not great guys and you're not going out with them, right?
5:16
Dr. Bruce
One I went out with.
5:17
Dr. Bruce
You did?
5:18
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
5:19
Dr. Bruce
How old was he?
5:20
Dr. Bruce
He was 14.
5:21
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
5:22
Adam
Did you do anything?
5:23
Dr. Bruce
No.
5:24
Dr. Bruce
Okay. Well, fine. All right. Listen, Nicole, everybody has a part on them they'd like to change when they're 13. Your parts are a little bit bigger, but don't worry. You'll be glad you have them one day. There may be a little bit of a pain in the ass, a little bit of a nuisance now, but don't worry. I mean, listen.
5:44
Adam
I just have one more thing to say.
5:45
Dr. Bruce
This is not even a question.
5:49
Adam
All right. Nicole.
5:50
Dr. Bruce
No, she's not talking back to you. All right.
5:53
Adam
I just want to tell you, you were one of those immature, breast-conscious 13, 14-year-old boys.
5:59
Dr. Bruce
Yes.
5:59
Adam
Even now, you have the insight to see that that behavior was, it wasn't a good idea, it wouldn't be a good idea for the girls to give into that kind of behavior.
6:08
Dr. Bruce
No, but-
6:08
Adam
There's a lot of pure pressure at that age.
6:11
Dr. Bruce
Sure.
6:12
Adam
Okay. Okay.
6:13
Dr. Bruce
But listen, I just want to say this one more time, as I said a few times on the show. Men are attracted to women's physicality, and especially at 13, 14, 15, whatever, they're attracted to the way the woman looks, and whether that's her legs, or her long blonde hair, or her big blue eyes, or her shapely ass, or her large breasts, it's just another physical attribute that men are attracted to, and women freak out that men are attracted to the breasts, but they wouldn't freak out, and they look at it as very normal when all the boys are attracted to a girl who has blonde hair and long tan legs. It's just another physical attribute that boys are attracted to. So I'm saying, if they're attracted to a part, whether it's your ass, your boobs, your legs, or your hair, it's still a part, enjoy. That's all. Thank you. Everyone makes a big deal over the breasts, but let me tell you, every 15-year-old is attracted to girls by the way they look. So maybe it's not their breasts, it's another part. Who cares? Why are you so mature? Because they got a nice ass, and you'd rather stare at their ass and their breasts? That makes you some sort of evolved creature? Please.
7:27
Dr. Bruce
Okay.
7:28
Dr. Bruce
I know, I got a little cathartic there for a second. Romero?
7:32
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
7:32
Dr. Bruce
You're 16.
7:34
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
7:35
Dr. Bruce
I got this hairy back, it's like, not hairy yet, but it's coming in. I don't know if I should shave it, but I actually heard that some girls thought it was sexy.
7:42
Adam
Cut it and save it, or?
7:44
Dr. Bruce
The hair on your back?
7:45
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
7:46
Dr. Bruce
Well, you're getting hair on your back at 16?
7:49
Dr. Bruce
Yeah, it's like starting to come in.
7:50
Adam
Well, you start cutting it a lot, you're going to need a lawn mower within a few years.
7:54
Dr. Bruce
Really?
7:55
Adam
No, I really thought that would be funny.
7:59
Dr. Bruce
If I expected a joke, it would have been, but I didn't know you kidded. Hey, does hair grow back thicker when you shave it off? Is that a wives' tale? I heard it was. Do you know anything about that?
8:12
Adam
I'm thinking, I'm thinking. I don't know anything about that. Back here, body here, it's just not going to do any good. But it's, the only way to get rid of the hair there, you have laser techniques today to permanently eliminate it. Most of the other methods are not really that effective.
8:29
Dr. Bruce
I got the laser on my neck.
8:32
Adam
It worked?
8:34
Dr. Bruce
That's what I love about Bruce. That's why you're such a horrible host. I make a comment like that and instead of, huh, what, let me see that, it's, uh-huh. All right, anyways, go to the next call. All right, listen.
8:46
Adam
Should he shave it? No, he shouldn't shave it, but he should be comfortable with it. This is an, again, he's an adolescent. Shave it, shave it.
8:52
Dr. Bruce
Chicks can't-
8:52
Dr. Bruce
Do girls find it sexy, though?
8:53
Dr. Bruce
No. What are you, nuts?
8:55
Adam
You know what they find sexy? A guy that's comfortable with himself the way he is.
8:58
Dr. Bruce
No, they don't find that sexy. They're like a nice bare guy without any hair on his back. Women do not like a hairy back.
9:07
Disqualified!
9:09
Dr. Bruce
That's right. They do not like it and the ones that say they do are lying. They just don't. I don't know what's wrong with them. Because a lot of guys have hair on their back, but women don't dig it.
9:19
Adam
So what's Romero going to do now that you gave him that great savior?
9:21
Dr. Bruce
He's going to shave his back.
9:23
Dr. Bruce
No, not shave.
9:23
Adam
Wax. Wax it, right?
9:25
Dr. Bruce
You can't shave your back.
9:27
Adam
Sure you can.
9:27
Dr. Bruce
Not by yourself.
9:29
Dr. Bruce
Well, it depends.
9:30
Dr. Bruce
You're going to have to get somebody to help you out.
9:34
Adam
But if you shave it, it's going to be like you got a beard on your back.
9:37
Dr. Bruce
And then it's going to come in stubbly.
9:38
Dr. Bruce
You don't see anything.
9:39
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
9:40
Dr. Bruce
He should just go get it waxed.
9:42
Dr. Bruce
All right.
9:43
Adam
So I take these tattoos off even a lot of the guys. And I talk to them about it. And lots of them are asking me, what about hair removal? So there are a lot of guys that are interested in hair removal on the backs.
9:54
Dr. Bruce
I had it done. I told you.
9:57
Adam
I wasn't using you as a representative individual for the human race.
10:01
Dr. Bruce
I like to throw that stuff out once in a while to Bruce, just to see how much bad radio we can do. Long pauses and then no follow up questions.
10:11
Adam
I'm not. I'm trying to irritate you.
10:12
Dr. Bruce
So I'm doing a fine job, Bruce. I'm telling you, it is playing handball against the Drapery with you. That is the kind of satisfaction I get. Mike. Yeah, you're 16.
10:25
Dr. Bruce
Yeah. Um, all right. Like I got this problem, right? Um, when I have my girlfriend, all right, usually when we first got like started like about two months ago, it would take like two, three minutes to get off like the first time, right?
10:38
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
10:39
Dr. Bruce
But like now it would take like 35 minutes to get off like the third or fourth time, right? But now it's like like 35 minutes to get off the first time.
10:48
Dr. Bruce
Hold on. Let me do some math here. You'd have your first orgasm in two minutes, two, three minutes. Two, three minutes. And then you skipped off to the fourth time. What about the second, third time?
11:00
Dr. Bruce
All right. Second time would be like five minutes later and like seven minutes later, something like that.
11:05
Dr. Bruce
Okay. Now, wait a minute. First orgasm took you two minutes. And then how long a break did you take?
11:14
Dr. Bruce
Between like having sex or like between like each orgasm.
11:19
Dr. Bruce
Okay. Between each orgasm.
11:22
Dr. Bruce
I don't know. It would be about seven minutes, eight minutes thing, something like that.
11:26
Dr. Bruce
And then another orgasm?
11:28
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
11:29
Dr. Bruce
Okay. So one at two minutes, then one would, the next one would be like at the nine minute mark, right?
11:35
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
11:36
Dr. Bruce
Because I added the two minutes to that.
11:38
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
11:38
Dr. Bruce
Okay. Then we got nine minutes. Then when's the third one?
11:43
Dr. Bruce
About seven minutes later.
11:45
Dr. Bruce
Seven minutes later. So that's at the 16 minute mark. And then the fourth orgasm.
11:51
Dr. Bruce
Would probably be about nine minutes later, but like, it happened at different times.
11:57
Dr. Bruce
Yeah. Let me do some math here. So that's at about the 20th.
12:00
Dr. Bruce
Like the time would be like a different time frame.
12:03
Dr. Bruce
Right. But this is a rough estimate. That's about the 25 minute mark.
12:06
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
12:07
Dr. Bruce
Okay. And then the fifth and sixth orgasm?
12:11
Dr. Bruce
I usually only have like five. I'm not like a ten guy.
12:14
Dr. Bruce
What kind of man are you?
12:16
Dr. Bruce
Oh, okay. Please.
12:18
Dr. Bruce
Four or five orgasms in what? 40 minutes?
12:22
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
12:22
Dr. Bruce
Please.
12:23
Adam
A bogus call. It must be.
12:24
Dr. Bruce
Please.
12:24
Dr. Bruce
No, I'm serious.
12:26
Dr. Bruce
And you can do this stuff when you're 16. Don't you remember that, Bruce?
12:30
Adam
I'd recommend abstinence, Mike. Yeah. How long have you been involved with the girl?
12:35
Dr. Bruce
About two months. Yeah. We actually, I've known her for about three, four years. But we got together about three months ago when we started starting having sex about two months ago.
12:48
Dr. Bruce
Jesus, this guy is amazing. You know what happens, Mike, when you get a little bit older? You get to my age and Bruce's age, you plan your multi-orgasms. It's like, baby, I'm going to have one, then five minutes later, I'm going to have another, then I'm going to tell myself off and I'm going for the hand trick. Then it's like, fast forward ten minutes. That's it for the month. You do not get three, four, and five off anymore. Your nuts would fly off, you ricochet, break a window, go into the neighbor's yard. You'd have to hang your head out, you know, a little help.
13:26
Adam
So you talk to your girlfriend about this. Does she have any thoughts? Is she concerned about it?
13:31
Dr. Bruce
Or just concerned about what? What's going on?
13:34
Adam
Well, he's concerned calling in. He's taking too long. This is this feedback from her.
13:38
Dr. Bruce
Is this? I don't know. I don't know if it's like normal or should I like get them like doctoring help or what?
13:44
Dr. Bruce
Well, now the first one takes how long to happen?
13:47
Adam
Three, five minutes.
13:48
Dr. Bruce
It takes a pretty long time.
13:50
Dr. Bruce
So all right. So you do one now, right?
13:52
Dr. Bruce
I do one or two. Yeah.
13:54
Dr. Bruce
Good. Join the club. That's fine. You're 16.
13:58
Dr. Bruce
But does it take that long usually?
14:00
Dr. Bruce
Yes.
14:01
Dr. Bruce
It does.
14:02
Dr. Bruce
Listen, it varies from penis to penis. All right, Mike?
14:06
Adam
How often are you having sex?
14:07
Dr. Bruce
I've been doing that like long, about one. Yeah.
14:12
Dr. Bruce
All right. I know. You got dealt a rough hand in life, you know, Mike? It's tough. All right. Don't masturbate for a week and see what happens.
14:21
Dr. Bruce
All right.
14:21
Dr. Bruce
All right.
14:22
Dr. Bruce
All right. Thanks a lot.
14:23
Dr. Bruce
All right. He didn't have a question.
14:27
Adam
And he's bragging.
14:28
Dr. Bruce
Yes, he's bragging. That was, we get those a couple of times a week. It is, I cannot ride a bicycle because my penis is too big, Cole. What do I do?
14:39
Adam
Aren't you concerned? I get a little bit concerned about the 16 year olds dating two months, having sex on a regular basis, starting to focus in on sex. Probably, like the guy last night, abstinence based relationships.
14:51
Dr. Bruce
No, I know. Bruce, I know your thing. You didn't get laid in high school, and now you're in a one man crusade for no one else to get laid in high school. I'm the same way. I'm with you, brother. It drives me nuts to hear what these 16 year olds are doing. These guys are having threesomes.
15:06
Adam
Seriously, they're really not mature enough to be involved in that kind of activity.
15:11
Dr. Bruce
Well, I don't know. Maybe they are. I mean, look at them.
15:14
Adam
They tend to get locked into the relationship because they're sexually active and it's a very intense experience and it becomes, you know, 16, there shouldn't be those kind of ties in a relationship.
15:23
Dr. Bruce
There shouldn't be, but what are you going to do?
15:25
Adam
Nothing. Just to hear you support my point of view a little bit because, you know, it's...
15:31
Dr. Bruce
Listen, I don't think people should get driver's licenses until they're one year younger than whatever year I am currently in. You know what I mean? I mean, listen, I don't think 16-year-olds should be driving cars. I would have been pissed if I was 16 and heard someone talking that way. You know what I'm saying? I'm for all that kind of stuff, but it's never going to happen. Elizabeth.
15:54
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
15:54
Dr. Bruce
You're 23.
15:56
Dr. Bruce
Yes.
15:57
Dr. Bruce
What's going on?
15:59
Dr. Bruce
First, let me say that I am not at all trying to advocate. I know the only, if you want to have.
16:09
Dr. Bruce
Hold on.
16:09
Dr. Bruce
Let me write this down.
16:10
Dr. Bruce
This is good. I'm not communicating very well. If you aren't wanting to get pregnant or getting STD from sex, obviously, protecting yourself. But my sister had told me the other day that if after, once you've ovulated, you cannot then get pregnant.
16:33
Dr. Bruce
Now, is that true?
16:34
Adam
Well, you ovulate. That's how you get pregnant.
16:36
Dr. Bruce
Well, no.
16:36
Adam
Pop the egg out and.
16:38
Dr. Bruce
If you have intercourse after you've ovulated, then she said, then you cannot get pregnant.
16:43
Dr. Bruce
That's when you get pregnant, right?
16:45
Dr. Bruce
That's what I was thinking. That's when it would make sense to me.
16:48
Dr. Bruce
Before you've ovulated.
16:52
Adam
These are not like missile launches where we have a timetable and they're there and then they're gone. The egg ovulates. It pops out and ovulates. And how do you know exactly when that happens, first of all? Secondly, when sperm are present, they have a certain lifespan. Things overlap, basically. So you can't. That made sense.
17:14
Dr. Bruce
I know. It's just always great when you articulate yourself. Hands start flapping around.
17:19
Adam
You like that, huh?
17:19
Dr. Bruce
Hands start spinning around.
17:21
Adam
If you're lucky this isn't TV, then you really have some problems.
17:24
Dr. Bruce
Oh, that really killed me.
17:26
Adam
So does that make sense? First of all, it sounds like she's giving advice. Don't worry about it. Once you've ovulated, you can't get pregnant.
17:32
Dr. Bruce
Well, explain.
17:33
Adam
How many kids does she have?
17:34
Dr. Bruce
She had had five miscarriages. So she was... Oh, sorry. Hello?
17:39
Adam
Maybe she thinks that's a form of birth control.
17:40
Dr. Bruce
She now has a child, but she had had five miscarriages.
17:44
Dr. Bruce
Jesus, five miscarriages.
17:46
Adam
Which means her theory wasn't very good.
17:49
Dr. Bruce
Well, maybe she was trying to get pregnant.
17:53
Dr. Bruce
But she just was making a joke to me because I know when I'm ovulating, I can feel it, and she was just making a funny comment to me, well, now if you're going to have sex, now's the time.
18:08
Adam
Right. Do you know what the opposite advice is you ever heard people say you can get pregnant anytime during your cycle? Well, you technically can't, but you just don't really know where you are.
18:16
Dr. Bruce
All right.
18:17
Dr. Bruce
All right.
18:18
Dr. Bruce
Let's go over the ovulation process for a second. Is ovulation when the egg drops, is that the process of that happening?
18:28
Adam
It pops out of the ovary, goes down the tube, and if there's sperm or there...
18:32
Dr. Bruce
Is it ovulating? Is that the act of it coming down the tube, or does it ovulate?
18:39
Adam
I know why you're doing this. You do this.
18:40
Dr. Bruce
No, no. Listen to me. Listen to me. These are...
18:44
Adam
You're gonna see me flail my arms and flap my lips.
18:46
Dr. Bruce
No, no. I'm asking you questions that the ninth grade biology students should know. So just stay with me here for a second.
18:53
Adam
You're doing it again, okay.
18:54
Dr. Bruce
Just stay with me. When you're ovulating, okay, that is the process of the egg dropping.
19:02
Adam
Right.
19:03
Dr. Bruce
Okay, so that's ovulation.
19:05
Adam
Right.
19:05
Dr. Bruce
And so the egg doesn't really ovulate, the egg just sort of drops. And ovulate means drop. Is that true?
19:14
Adam
I don't know what it means.
19:16
Dr. Bruce
Okay, well we can get into that later. But the egg drops.
19:19
Adam
It overexpels it, it goes down the tube. Right. And if the meat spur, the sperm along the way, then we have implantation.
19:26
Dr. Bruce
And if it doesn't, how long does it hang out?
19:30
Adam
I don't know. I don't know exactly how long it hangs out. I know the period of, the window of opportunity. I'm not sure exactly what that is.
19:37
Dr. Bruce
Couple days?
19:39
Adam
Less than that, I would say.
19:39
Dr. Bruce
Less than that. Well, what happens to the egg?
19:43
Adam
It's just expelled. It's not that easy.
19:45
Dr. Bruce
Expelled where?
19:47
Adam
It's not, this is not like you have a dozen eggs.
19:49
Dr. Bruce
Your menstrual cycle takes it out, right? But most women ovulate about, what, 15 days?
19:56
Adam
How big do you think this thing is? You're talking about microscopic stuff?
19:59
Dr. Bruce
Hold on a second, though. Here's what I'm saying. Most women ovulate like two weeks after they're done with their menstrual cycle, correct? Right. That's the average. So, the most likely time, the highest incidence of pregnancy is probably two weeks, or 15, 16 days, after you've finished your pregnancy, right?
20:22
Adam
I finished your menses.
20:23
Dr. Bruce
Oh, your period, sorry. I'm very tired. So, let's just work on this count, and just stay with me. Don't start flailing around, Bruce, and jump in here because I know you're a new expert at this. You finished your menstrual cycle. It's now two weeks later, you ovulate. The egg drops down the fallopian tube there, and it gets down to the bottom of its run. Now it's there. Now, is it going to be? In your uterus. It's in your uterus. Is it going to be there for two weeks until you start the next menstrual cycle up again?
20:57
Adam
No.
20:58
Dr. Bruce
No. How big is this thing is? Well, just quiet down now. It'll be gone before that. Right. Right. It'll be it'll be schleffed off before or sleffed off before a day or two. And so really you can only get pregnant in that day or two when it's dropped down to the bottom. Right. Is that is that a safe statement? But the problem is, is you never know when that is. It's different for every woman. And if you're going at it five times a week without protection, you could you could come up snake eyes if you don't want to get pregnant. OK, there you go. Bruce, that was enlightening. Thank you very much. We're going to take ourselves a little break. Who are we going to talk to when we get back?
21:42
Adam
We are going to hear about. Lindsay and her brother, who is into watching horror movies and there is now violence in the family. So we're going to solve the problem of a violent family.
21:54
Dr. Bruce
Fascinating.
21:54
Adam
I am going to solve the problem.
21:56
Dr. Bruce
Try to work some Christianity into it. We'll be back after this.
22:00
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22:32
Dr. Bruce
The phone number is 1-800-LOVE-191.
22:34
Dr. Bruce
We'll be right back.
22:45
Dr. Bruce
Love Lines W E B M It is me, it is Loveline, I'm Adam. That is Bruce, Dr. Bruce to you. Dr. Bruce is filling in for Dr. Drew. Dr. Drew, I think is in New York, where he's on one of his infamous...
23:26
Adam
You know where.
23:27
Dr. Bruce
Is he, where is he?
23:27
Adam
Hawaii.
23:28
Dr. Bruce
He's in Hawaii? Son of a bitch, he's in Hawaii, is he? I thought he was working.
23:33
Adam
With sunscreen on.
23:34
Dr. Bruce
Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. And when Drew says Hawaii, it means sex tour of the Philippines. That's different.
23:45
Adam
That's what he always says. No matter where he is, that's what you say. He's either selling his children somewhere or he's on a sex tour.
23:52
Dr. Bruce
It is, it is true. It is absolutely true. He'll be back to tell us all about it. Come Sunday. Meanwhile, Dr. Bruce is doing a fantastic job. Lindsay.
24:05
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
24:05
Dr. Bruce
Hi.
24:06
Dr. Bruce
You're 17.
24:07
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
24:08
Dr. Bruce
What's going on?
24:08
Adam
Sounds scared.
24:09
Dr. Bruce
All right. I got my little brother hooked on horror movies. And now I completely screwed him over.
24:15
Adam
How old is he?
24:16
Dr. Bruce
He's 10.
24:19
Dr. Bruce
Yeah. What's it done to him?
24:20
Dr. Bruce
Well, he gets in a lot of fights now and he's just got out of elementary school. And he's been asking questions like whether or not it's legal to stab someone if it's in school and they hit you first.
24:32
Dr. Bruce
Perfectly healthy, perfectly normal.
24:35
Adam
Does he carry a knife?
24:37
Dr. Bruce
No, no. He has pocket knives and he has like his collection of it. But and it started like when I started letting him watch horror movies.
24:44
Adam
Yeah.
24:45
Dr. Bruce
But what's where's your dad?
24:46
Dr. Bruce
Yeah. My parents are both sleeping in the next room. I mean, we have a normal family.
24:51
Dr. Bruce
You do. All right. Why don't you tell your folks?
24:54
Dr. Bruce
I can't.
24:56
Dr. Bruce
What do you mean you can't?
24:57
Adam
What can't you tell them? What are you worried about telling them?
25:00
Dr. Bruce
They kill me. I mean, I let them watch because it's radar and they don't let them watch radar.
25:05
Adam
Well, what kind of movies? Name a few that he's been watching.
25:07
Dr. Bruce
Spring, Spring 2, I know what you watched last summer.
25:10
Dr. Bruce
I still know all those.
25:12
Dr. Bruce
Yeah. But listen, I don't know what Bruce's take on this stuff was, but there's always been horror movies around. I mean, there really has. Well, healthy people are able to be exposed to certain things without snapping.
25:30
Adam
But the intensity of those movies and a lot of them have elements that are...
25:35
Dr. Bruce
They're intense, but I mean, you know, when I was a kid, it was like, I watched really, you know, Dawn of the Dead and, you know, Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Carrie and...
25:50
Adam
Well, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, that was probably...
25:52
Dr. Bruce
The Exorcist.
25:53
Adam
Well...
25:54
Dr. Bruce
I mean, you know, these are pretty, were pretty heavy duty movies. It didn't make me want to go out and kill anybody, made me scared someone was going to kill me with a chainsaw, but I didn't want to kill anybody else with a chainsaw.
26:06
Adam
Right. But these are movies that are, that are judged to be really inappropriate for people older than 10 years old.
26:15
Dr. Bruce
Not great for a 10 year old, but if that information is coming into a 10 year old, being processed and being spat out with, if I want to stab someone at school, there's something wrong with that 10 year old.
26:29
Adam
Right.
26:29
Dr. Bruce
Okay.
26:30
Adam
It's not just the movies.
26:31
Dr. Bruce
That's why she needs to talk to her parents.
26:33
Adam
Exactly.
26:34
Dr. Bruce
That's all.
26:34
Adam
But I think she is looking just to tell the parents that he's been watching those movies. I think it's his behavior.
26:39
Dr. Bruce
Well, listen, I'll tell you. Put it this way, Lindsay. If you let your parents know that he saw one of these movies because of you, you may get in a certain amount of trouble. If he stabs someone at school, and then it works into the movies and you show in the movies, you're going to be in a whole s-load of trouble.
26:57
Adam
Right. So let's ask her if she could just talk to the parents about his violent...
27:00
Dr. Bruce
No. Lisa.
27:02
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
27:02
Dr. Bruce
I just told her to go tell her parents. That's it. Lisa, you're 21.
27:08
Dr. Bruce
I don't know where to start. I've been dating this guy pretty much on and kind of off for the past two years. And before it would be, we would be having sex and he would have an orgasm and then he would just die and be done for like the rest of the day. And then after that it started becoming like before sex, like we couldn't even have sex. And then just recently, the past like five times, it's been during sex, he's gone limp. I don't know if it's because of me or because he's gay. I just... I don't know.
27:41
Dr. Bruce
Well, he's got to be gay.
27:42
Dr. Bruce
He's a friend and he thinks that he's gay.
27:44
Dr. Bruce
Sure, sure enough.
27:45
Adam
How's the relationship otherwise?
27:48
Dr. Bruce
I don't know. I don't know. It's been kind of... I don't know. I love him very much and he's a great guy, but...
27:57
Adam
I mean, your communication, spending time together, what's that like compared to the way it used to be? How long have you been going out? Two years.
28:03
Dr. Bruce
Pretty great. I mean, we're great friends. I mean, that's why we're still together.
28:06
Dr. Bruce
But the relationship's dying.
28:09
Dr. Bruce
Pretty much.
28:10
Dr. Bruce
Yeah, you guys are just friends now.
28:12
Dr. Bruce
Yeah, but we still have sex.
28:13
Dr. Bruce
Well, you try, but he's having difficulty.
28:16
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
28:17
Adam
I don't think that's a yardstick for being gay. I mean, how big is he?
28:20
Dr. Bruce
I'm sorry?
28:22
Dr. Bruce
No, it doesn't make him gay. It just means you guys are sort of at the end of your proverbial rope here with the relationship.
28:29
Dr. Bruce
I am not gay. You think so? But why would we get along so good? It's just like our sex life. He's pretty much all...
28:34
Dr. Bruce
Listen, Bruce and I get along pretty good, but our sex life, at least up until last night, has left something to be decided. Would you shut up? Shut up while I'm talking, would you?
28:43
Dr. Bruce
Okay.
28:44
Dr. Bruce
Jesus Christ. He doesn't masturbate?
28:47
Dr. Bruce
No, not really.
28:47
Dr. Bruce
Uh-oh, he's gay then.
28:49
Adam
Wait a second.
28:50
Dr. Bruce
Listen, who knows what the guy is, but I'm saying the relationship has run its course, okay?
28:56
Dr. Bruce
All right.
28:56
Dr. Bruce
You know that, right?
28:58
Dr. Bruce
I don't know.
28:58
Dr. Bruce
I mean, we get along really good.
29:01
Dr. Bruce
I get along good with my sister. That doesn't mean anything.
29:05
Adam
Yeah, did you know him while he was dating?
29:08
Dr. Bruce
We're done. We're done. This thing's done. Tiffany?
29:14
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
29:14
Dr. Bruce
You're 15.
29:15
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
29:15
Dr. Bruce
What's going on?
29:17
Dr. Bruce
Well, my mom has been recently dating this guy. Well, not really recently, but for almost two years. But we'll have talks and stuff, and she's trying to turn him into a father for a year. We'll have talks and stuff, and it will go into my self-esteem and help you look, well, at least you're not flat-chested, and you were camping. I wanted to go out to the pool, and I was in my bathing suit, and he's like, God, Ashley, if I was 16, 17, 18, 19, even 20, I'd take you out behind the shed. It's funny.
29:48
Dr. Bruce
Did he have to cover that many years? 15, 16, 17, 18?
29:53
Adam
How many beers had he had by then?
29:55
Dr. Bruce
What?
29:56
Adam
Had he been drinking?
29:57
Dr. Bruce
Me?
29:58
Adam
Him?
29:59
Dr. Bruce
No, we had just gotten there.
30:02
Dr. Bruce
Was he drinking on the drive over?
30:04
Dr. Bruce
No, he doesn't drink. He's diabetic. So it's not really great for him to drink.
30:09
Adam
Okay.
30:10
Dr. Bruce
Let's figure out something. Where's your biological dad?
30:16
Dr. Bruce
He lives in Montclair. And I see him on Tuesday and Thursday nights. We talk every night on the phone.
30:22
Dr. Bruce
Every night?
30:24
Dr. Bruce
What?
30:24
Dr. Bruce
Yeah, so your biological dad is a decent guy.
30:27
Dr. Bruce
Well, he's an alcoholic, but he's been sober for like 14 years now.
30:32
Dr. Bruce
Okay.
30:33
Dr. Bruce
And he's a decent guy.
30:35
Dr. Bruce
He's a decent guy.
30:37
Dr. Bruce
He's pretty cool.
30:38
Dr. Bruce
Pretty cool. And why did your mom and he break up?
30:42
Dr. Bruce
I'm not well, I was saved the marriage baby. So I don't know if that has any effect anyway. But like, I'm not really sure why they broke up. I think it was mostly because of the alcoholic, alcoholism. And my dad was kind of tight. And my mom likes to go out and buy Armani shoes and don't like carrying suits and that kind of thing. So it was like financial. And my mom was really controlling.
31:05
Dr. Bruce
I got that she had joined the professional motocross circuit out of that. That's what I heard. Did you hear?
31:13
Dr. Bruce
No, she likes to go out and buy like Armani.
31:15
Dr. Bruce
She wanted to buy shoes. OK.
31:16
Dr. Bruce
I like to go out and buy 500 bucks at night.
31:19
Dr. Bruce
That's the beauty of women. Very pragmatic. Times are tight. The power has been shut off to the house. Let's buy our 350th pair of shoes.
31:30
Adam
All right.
31:30
Dr. Bruce
Listen, Tiffany, I'm trying to figure out what kind of person your mom is because I worry about this guy.
31:37
Adam
Right. This guy sounds like he's very odd.
31:41
Dr. Bruce
Very odd and a little creepy.
31:43
Adam
Right.
31:45
Dr. Bruce
And I'm surprised that he's not an alcoholic. I really am.
31:49
Adam
Yeah, he's got some sort of underlying problem that will only manifest itself fully after they get married, which hopefully won't happen.
31:57
Dr. Bruce
They're engaged right now. They're engaged. Can you talk to your mom?
32:01
Dr. Bruce
I have.
32:02
Dr. Bruce
And what did she say?
32:03
Dr. Bruce
He's just joking around. He doesn't mean anything sexual by it. And I've tried to talk to him and he's just like, well, what do you expect? You're hot. I'm like...
32:11
Adam
Okay. How old is this guy?
32:12
Dr. Bruce
Like 52.
32:13
Dr. Bruce
You tried to talk to him?
32:15
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
32:15
Dr. Bruce
You confronted him?
32:16
Dr. Bruce
Yeah. And then like my cousin, Lily, who's 27, tried to talk to him. And once my friends tried to talk to him, my boyfriend tried to talk to him.
32:25
Dr. Bruce
Well, hold on. How many people are talking to this guy?
32:30
Dr. Bruce
My grandparents have. They're like, you really need to stop making...
32:34
Dr. Bruce
Wait a minute. Your friends talked to him?
32:37
Dr. Bruce
Yeah. Well, a lot of my friends, my cousin used to live with us. A lot of my friends...
32:41
Dr. Bruce
So a lot of them said, hey, slow down a little. You're being inappropriate.
32:45
Dr. Bruce
They're like, you're making Ashley feel uncomfortable.
32:47
Dr. Bruce
Okay. Has he done anything since then?
32:52
Dr. Bruce
Since when? Since he's been made...
32:54
Adam
Since he's been talking by half the community.
32:56
Dr. Bruce
That's what I love about our listeners.
32:58
Dr. Bruce
By half of my friends and family and hasn't stopped.
33:00
Dr. Bruce
Okay. Hasn't stopped.
33:02
Dr. Bruce
Yeah. And I try to go up to my dad's every weekend.
33:05
Dr. Bruce
How about talking your dad about it?
33:07
Dr. Bruce
Oh, I have. My dad's talked to him. He was the first one I told.
33:11
Dr. Bruce
Does your dad and your mom have any kind of relationship still?
33:14
Dr. Bruce
Yeah, they talk about me.
33:15
Dr. Bruce
Okay.
33:15
Dr. Bruce
Like my great friends.
33:18
Dr. Bruce
Tell your dad to talk to your mom about this.
33:21
Dr. Bruce
He's, everybody's talked to my mom, like my family, my psychiatrist, everybody.
33:28
Adam
Okay. And what does your psychiatrist say?
33:30
Dr. Bruce
She says that I need to move in with my dad, which I've tried and my mom has legal custody of me and the cops came and got me.
33:38
Dr. Bruce
Okay. I think you need to talk to your dad again. And your dad needs to know how important this is to you. Okay.
33:52
Adam
But this is Loveline and there's a limit to Adam Corolla's wisdom. And I think that we've reached that.
33:59
Dr. Bruce
Listen, you got 75 years of school and I'm still smarter than you are. There's nobody, her mother's in bad shape by virtue of the fact that she picked this guy in the first place so we know she's got a problem. There's nobody else nearby who seems to be able to make a dent in this guy, but the biological dad who has a decent relationship with Tiffany and a decent relationship with his ex-wife should be able to intervene and he has the most at stake here anyway because it's his child and if I was in that position where I thought my young daughter was living under the same roof with a guy who could potentially stumble into a room on any evening and do God knows what to her, I wouldn't rest until I had full custody or until something was done to rectify the situation. If your dad says, Yeah, I called her, but what can you do? He's not doing his job. He is dropping the ball. Put yourself in that position, Bruce.
35:00
Adam
Absolutely. But the horror is that it's relying upon adults take action when there's a concern early on.
35:07
Dr. Bruce
And sometimes the cops aren't going to do anything.
35:10
Adam
No, not if the CPS wouldn't remove the...
35:12
Dr. Bruce
I don't think social workers are going to do anything. The church is not going to do anything. I mean, to me, her only recourse is, you know, chaining herself to her dad's sink and telling him that I'm not leaving. I don't feel safe to go home.
35:27
Adam
Right. But the child's... her psychiatrist could indicate to the adults, this is really serious. You have to do something. You can't make them. But...
35:35
Dr. Bruce
OK, but let me paint another little scenario here.
35:40
Adam
You're going further with this. I'm in trouble.
35:41
Dr. Bruce
Tiffany is going to a psychiatrist. Psychiatrist, not a psychologist. Um, could Tiffany be exaggerating this just a little bit, creating just a little bit more drama here than actually exists? I mean, this guy's been around for two years. He hasn't done anything. He's made a few comments. But who knows what those comments really were?
36:05
Adam
Right.
36:06
Dr. Bruce
You know, hey, you're looking good does not always mean I'm going to rape you later. Sometimes it means, hey, you're looking good.
36:12
Adam
Right. You know, enlisting the help of an army of people about this problem and drawing up sides. Sometimes that's behavior.
36:21
Dr. Bruce
Well, and she's enlisted the help of everyone and still the situation remains the same. So if all those people saw the danger like Tiffany sees the danger, don't you think something would have happened? So maybe she's dramatizing just a little bit.
36:38
Adam
Right. We were more with the girl last night who had had sex with the boyfriend and afraid to tell anybody. Then you're...
36:45
Dr. Bruce
That's right. All right. So Tiffany, if you're that frightened about it, you have to deal with your dad. But I suspect the situation may not be quite as grave as you've described it.
36:56
Adam
Right. Have the psychiatrists have a meeting with all the adults and...
37:00
Dr. Bruce
Right. Okay. Bruce, I know it's still early in the show, but I'm going to give you the mic speech just one more time. I know I usually do it each evening about 11, but I'm going to jump in a little early tonight, the fifth night in a row. This here, that's the microphone. All right. Okay. You know the part I may have been screwing up here with the microphone discussion? I keep pointing out the microphone, but I rarely point out your mouth. Your mouth needs to go into the microphone, and that's my fault. I did drop the ball on that. I kept pointing at the microphone, but I never said put your mouth with your mouth. So it was confusing.
37:38
Adam
But you know you're the type person that you learn from your mistakes, so I appreciate that.
37:43
Dr. Bruce
Right. I do take responsibility for that. I never did tell you to put your mouth into the microphone. I just kept pointing at the microphone.
37:49
Adam
Have I given you my suggestions for what to do with your mouth?
37:51
Dr. Bruce
No.
37:52
Dr. Bruce
No.
37:53
Dr. Bruce
All right. When we come back, who are we going to talk to?
37:56
Adam
We're going to talk to... Here's somebody. Ruby is going to educate you on the realities of the menstrual cycle.
38:03
Dr. Bruce
Fantabulous. After this. Loveline, only on WABN. It is Loveline. I'm Adam Corolla. That is Dr. Bruce. Dr. Bruce is a board certified physician. Addiction medicine is a part of his game, as well as emergency medicine. Just as qualified is Dr. Drew. Phone number, 1-800-L-O-V-E-1-9-1. And it's back on the phones. We go Ruby.
38:57
Dr. Bruce
Hello.
38:58
Dr. Bruce
Near 24.
38:59
Dr. Bruce
Yes.
38:59
Dr. Bruce
What's going on?
39:00
Dr. Bruce
First, Adam, I wanted to tell you how impressed I am with your knowledge of the female reproductive system.
39:04
Dr. Bruce
Yes.
39:04
Dr. Bruce
That is so awesome.
39:05
Adam
Even places he can't reach.
39:07
Dr. Bruce
Two weeks? Geez, most people don't even know, you know, ovulation at two weeks. That was...
39:12
Dr. Bruce
Well, all right, to be...
39:14
Dr. Bruce
Your girlfriend must really fill you in.
39:17
Dr. Bruce
No, I have this job where I sit around and talk about vaginas all night and that's part of it.
39:25
Dr. Bruce
Well, anyway, I just wanted to let you know that you were totally right up until the very end. What happens is throughout the entire menstrual cycle, the 28 days, the uterus is... The lining of the uterus is kind of stocking up with, you know, nutrient fluid and blood and all that type of material and the egg drops down from the fallopian tubes into the uterus and if it hasn't been fertilized up until that point, it goes along and embeds itself into this tissue. If it hasn't been fertilized, it goes ahead and flushes out at the time of the period, along with everything else, and if it's been fertilized, then it starts using that nutrient to perform a little baby.
40:08
Dr. Bruce
Right, but here's the question, and therefore you miss your period because it's being eaten. Here's the question, then, how many days before it moves on if it's not been fertilized?
40:23
Dr. Bruce
It doesn't move on. From the time it's released from the fallopian tubes to the time that it drops down into the uterus is your window of opportunity. Obviously, it's going to be a little bit more difficult if it's further up in the tubes as opposed to if it's closer to the uterus, but I think it's about two weeks from the time that the egg is released from the ovaries.
40:45
Dr. Bruce
I mean, it's about two weeks that...
40:50
Dr. Bruce
Well, see, I don't know what your window of opportunity is. I think that depends on each as far as actual pregnancy. I would assume that would depend on your individual cycle, but I would think it would be more than like a day or two. Am I wrong, Dr. Bruce?
41:03
Dr. Bruce
Hold on. Let me yell at Bruce for a second. Hold on a second here, Ruby. Listen, Bruce, I'm no gynecologist. I'm no doctor. I failed biology in high school. I was a ceramics major and I started a long carpet cleaning career right after high school. I am a carpenter. That's what I do. And if we were talking about houses, I would know everything. Now you are a doctor, theoretically. If we were talking about framing, I would tell you that studs are spread out 16 on center. I would tell you header sizes. I would tell you spans for headers. I would tell you what shear wall was and what thickness it needed to be and what the nailing pattern of it needed to be. But we're not talking about that. We're talking about your area of expertise.
41:50
Adam
And what is it that you'd like to know?
41:51
Dr. Bruce
You should go ahead and shed some light on this and not let this poor Ruby over here, who got thrown out of junior college six months ago, describe this whole process to you.
42:04
Dr. Bruce
What makes you think that I graduated from junior college?
42:06
Dr. Bruce
Well, I said thrown out.
42:07
Adam
Because you're calling the show, probably.
42:09
Dr. Bruce
We don't have college grads call the show. We don't let them through. We screen them out.
42:15
Adam
Okay.
42:15
Dr. Bruce
Okay.
42:16
Dr. Bruce
So. What about all those college graduates that are attracted to Drew? You know, he's intelligent.
42:20
Dr. Bruce
Yeah. There's a handful of those guys out there, mostly Asian men.
42:24
Dr. Bruce
Okay.
42:24
Dr. Bruce
All right. Now listen, Ruby. So the thing starts down the fallopian tubing.
42:30
Dr. Bruce
That's how like ectopic pregnancies occur. That's where a tube will pregnant.
42:33
Dr. Bruce
Right. But how long does it take the egg to make its way down the tube?
42:37
Dr. Bruce
I would have guessed about two weeks, depending on your cycle.
42:40
Dr. Bruce
But if you say if you're on the two weeks.
42:42
Dr. Bruce
Well, yeah, that's since it's a 28 to 30 day cycle. Yeah.
42:46
Dr. Bruce
But wait a minute.
42:48
Adam
Mid cycle, it pops out of the ovary and headstones.
42:51
Dr. Bruce
Two weeks. Just like you said, you were totally right. Pops, estrogen is released, which caused the release of the egg from the ovaries. It takes about two weeks, depending on your personal cycle to travel from the ovaries to the uterus. Therefore, it embeds itself into the line.
43:08
Dr. Bruce
Bruce says no.
43:09
Dr. Bruce
Okay, tell me what's wrong.
43:11
Adam
No, when it comes out of the ovaries and travels down the tubes, that's a relatively short period of time.
43:16
Dr. Bruce
Well, how long?
43:20
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
43:21
Adam
I would say that you're talking about a couple of days or two.
43:27
Dr. Bruce
A couple days. I'm still very confused about the whole thing. Anne, maybe jump in here.
43:33
Dr. Bruce
Never date a man who knows more about your vagina than you do.
43:37
Dr. Bruce
Don't worry about Bruce. You have your period. You're done with your period, right? Then the ovulation process starts about two weeks later. Now, the ovulation process starts. The egg starts going down the tube two weeks after that. So it's up there and nothing's going on for about two weeks. Let's just say that's your cycle. Nothing. So nothing happens from the time you finish your period till two weeks later when the egg begins its descent down the tube. Then a couple days later, it reaches the what? Bruce?
44:20
Adam
It reaches the uterus.
44:21
Dr. Bruce
It reaches the uterus. I don't know why it took you ten minutes, but it reaches the uterus. Now it is in the uterus, correct?
44:28
Adam
Yeah.
44:29
Dr. Bruce
Now you can get pregnant when it's in the uterus, when it reaches the uterus.
44:34
Dr. Bruce
In the tube.
44:35
Dr. Bruce
In the tube, you can get pregnant.
44:37
Dr. Bruce
Yes, exactly.
44:38
Dr. Bruce
It can get pregnant in the tube.
44:39
Dr. Bruce
Oh, definitely, yes.
44:40
Dr. Bruce
And that's that ectopic pregnancy.
44:43
It actually doesn't.
44:44
Dr. Bruce
It implants. Exactly. If it stays in the tube and doesn't make it down to the uterus.
44:49
Dr. Bruce
Right.
44:49
Dr. Bruce
That's.
44:50
Dr. Bruce
Right. But I'm not talking about atypical stuff or abnormalities. I'm talking about normal textbook kind of biology stuff.
44:59
Dr. Bruce
How long is the passage from in the tube?
45:01
Dr. Bruce
Drops down the tube. Bruce, even though he's a doctor, claims to be one, has no idea how long that period is, although he has suggested it's a relatively short period of time. I'm guessing anywhere from an hour.
45:13
Adam
It's not a parking lot up there. It's a freeway.
45:15
Dr. Bruce
It goes down or it gets to the uterus. Right. And then it's it can be fertilized in a couple of days while it's down there. And if it's not fertilized in that period, what happens?
45:27
Dr. Bruce
It sloughs out.
45:28
Dr. Bruce
But it doesn't slough out yet. It's still not going to slough out for another couple of weeks.
45:33
Adam
Has Drew recommended Prozac for you?
45:35
Dr. Bruce
I know.
45:35
Adam
OCD here. You're obsessing on this. It's incredible.
45:38
Dr. Bruce
If you could give me an answer or two, we wouldn't be getting into this. I mean, Bruce, go get a book. Go get a book and look this thing up, would you? Are you sure you're a doctor?
45:49
Adam
What's that name you call me? What's one of the things you call me?
45:51
Dr. Bruce
Jack Hole?
45:52
Dr. Bruce
No, no, no.
45:55
Adam
Look, idiot.
45:56
Dr. Bruce
Idiot.
45:56
Adam
Let me say this.
45:57
Dr. Bruce
Go get the book. Look, idiot.
45:58
Adam
I don't care what happens to the egg if it's not fertilized.
46:01
Dr. Bruce
It's like, what do you do?
46:03
Adam
Do you want to know where tampons go when they're after their use?
46:05
Dr. Bruce
What do you do for a living? Go get a book.
46:08
Adam
I treat serious medical problems. And I find that very hard to believe.
46:13
Dr. Bruce
I find that very hard to believe. I can treat you.
46:16
Adam
I can help you. I can.
46:17
Dr. Bruce
You can help me by go getting a book and looking up something you should have learned first year in med school. There you go. Look it up. We'll take a break. We'll be back. Hey, it is Loveline. I'm Adam Corolla. That is the sage, Dr. Bruce over there, who seems to know something about something that's just not medicine. All right, we'll take a quick break, and we'll be back with more of the show in just 10 seconds.
47:19
Dr. Bruce
This is Loveline on Radio Station.
47:35
Adam
The gas is coming. Get me a mask, Ann.
47:38
Dr. Bruce
Dr. Bruce is here filling in for Dr. Drew, and now I'm not sure if it's Dr. MD, Dr. or sort of Dr. like, you know, Dr. J or Dr. John or Dr. Hook.
47:50
Adam
I'd say, listen, I don't want to drag myself down to your level.
47:54
Dr. Bruce
He does like guitars. Are you a blues musician or is a real doctor?
48:00
Adam
I'm a doctor. You know, doctors that get out there and try and play music with, you know, with rock musicians. You got to watch those guys.
48:06
Dr. Bruce
Sorry, I just, you know.
48:06
Adam
Just playing the privacy of my home and trying to disturb too many people.
48:09
Dr. Bruce
But like I said, I just thought the whole doctor title may have been some sort of a thing that some, you know, bass player in Louisiana dubbed you with in 1974.
48:18
Adam
I wish I played that well.
48:19
Dr. Bruce
So you actually went to med school and everything.
48:22
Adam
I thought of an after analogy to you wanted me to track the spent egg here. Do you track your spent sperm? Where are they all, Adam? Do you know where they go?
48:33
Dr. Bruce
Yes, they go right into the hamper.
48:37
Adam
It's pretty scary.
48:37
Dr. Bruce
All right. Nice. Nice comeback. Phone number 1-800-L-O-V-E-1-9-1. Forget about the fax number. My eyes hurt too much to read. Dr. Bruce is here and we figured a few things out about the women's reproductive system tonight. Just not everything. And no thanks to Dr. Bruce. Juan.
49:01
Dr. Bruce
Yeah?
49:01
Dr. Bruce
You're 17.
49:02
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
49:03
Dr. Bruce
What's going on?
49:04
Dr. Bruce
What's up, Adam?
49:05
Dr. Bruce
Hey.
49:05
Dr. Bruce
You're like my hero, man.
49:07
Dr. Bruce
Oh, thanks, Juan.
49:08
Dr. Bruce
I'm all into the construction now.
49:10
Dr. Bruce
You're getting into construction?
49:11
Dr. Bruce
Yeah, I'm going to work on my license. I'm working with my brother-in-law in getting the general construction license.
49:18
Dr. Bruce
You know, your brother-in-law do masonry?
49:20
Dr. Bruce
He does everything.
49:21
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
49:22
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
49:23
Dr. Bruce
Are you a Hispanic guy?
49:24
Dr. Bruce
Yeah, I'm Puerto Rican.
49:25
Dr. Bruce
Let me tell you something about them Hispanic guys. It's Puerto Rican. That's Hispanic, right?
49:31
Dr. Bruce
Just Latino, I guess.
49:33
Dr. Bruce
You got a gift for the masonry. They know how to do the brick, the tile, the stucco work, grouting, forming work, all sorts of concrete work. Yes. It's in your blood.
49:46
Dr. Bruce
It is. I guess I'm natural to it.
49:48
Dr. Bruce
That's right.
49:48
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
49:49
Dr. Bruce
Not a bad way to make an honest living. So what's your question?
49:52
Dr. Bruce
Oh, I have a question for Dr. Bruce.
49:55
Adam
Yes.
49:56
Dr. Bruce
I was wondering if having sex in the beach water would affect me and my partner.
50:02
Adam
No, if it's Santa Monica Bay, you probably get some toxic.
50:05
Dr. Bruce
You get hepatitis.
50:06
Adam
Yeah. Well, no, seriously, there are no effects from having sex in water in terms of.
50:16
Dr. Bruce
Would the salt have anything on it?
50:19
Dr. Bruce
Uh, no.
50:22
Adam
Have anything on it?
50:23
Dr. Bruce
Well, would the salt water make.
50:26
Dr. Bruce
Yeah, have any side effects create anything bad?
50:29
Dr. Bruce
Well, what about this, Bruce? A woman gets lubricated to a certain degree when she's in that way. Doesn't the water sort of dissipate that? You know, make things a little uncomfortable?
50:44
Adam
Certainly that could happen. But in terms of, you know, you have a potential space vaginally and you have the sex act occurring and you're not bringing the whole ocean in there, which is, I think what you're talking about, is the water going to mix in with what's going on?
50:57
Dr. Bruce
Yeah, you know, in the intercourse or anything.
50:59
Adam
No, no, but I mean, again, a lot of the waters that people bathe in have a lot of bacteria in them. Because people, hopefully, they don't defecate, but kids, small children do at times.
51:11
Dr. Bruce
Small children. My friends do every time they go to the ocean. Where do you live?
51:15
Dr. Bruce
Anaheim.
51:16
Dr. Bruce
The Anaheim.
51:17
Adam
Be very careful.
51:18
Dr. Bruce
Listen, you want to do it in a body of water, just, you know, turn the hose on yourself or something, but just stay out of the ocean with that one.
51:25
Dr. Bruce
And one last thing. I love you.
51:28
Dr. Bruce
That's right.
51:29
Dr. Bruce
And I love you too, Adam.
51:30
Dr. Bruce
I love you too, Juan. Thank you. All right. Learn your craft there.
51:34
Dr. Bruce
We have the doctor on the line.
51:36
Dr. Bruce
Oh, we do.
51:37
Dr. Bruce
But he doesn't want to go on the air.
51:39
Dr. Bruce
Oh, he doesn't.
51:40
Dr. Bruce
So, Bruce, do you want to come out and talk to him, get the answer?
51:43
Dr. Bruce
Now, who is this doctor, Bruce?
51:44
Adam
Dr. Phelps. Dr. Phelps, he's a...
51:48
Dr. Bruce
You don't have to say the guy's name. How do you... You know, you and Drew, you suffer from the same disease. And I...
51:57
Adam
Wait, answering the question you asked us?
52:00
Dr. Bruce
No, but the guy doesn't want to go on the air.
52:02
Adam
He doesn't want to talk on the air because he doesn't want to be wrong on the air, knowing this guy. He gives me such a hard time.
52:08
Dr. Bruce
This guy... I'm saying he probably doesn't want his name mentioned. I mean, who is the doctor? I don't need the guy's name. I just mean...
52:13
Adam
He's an obstetrics and gynecology senior resident. Okay.
52:17
Dr. Bruce
At the hospital you work at?
52:18
Adam
Yeah, at the hospital. He's a little abusive towards me for being a resident. As I called him down to the ER for a patient was transferred, that said they were pregnant and the patient turned out not to be pregnant. So he's always kidded me about not being able to diagnose basic pregnancy.
52:32
Dr. Bruce
We've talked him into going on the air. So is he online? What?
52:38
Adam
He's deep breathing or something.
52:40
Dr. Bruce
Yeah. He said, give him 10 seconds.
52:41
Dr. Bruce
Give him 10 seconds.
52:44
Adam
He's delivering a baby, doing something important.
52:46
Dr. Bruce
You know, it's funny that it's bizarre to me that people would get nervous about coming on the show. And I understand they would. But, you know, I sit next to Drew every night who I have to like poke with a stick to wake up. He falls asleep halfway into his answers.
53:01
Dr. Bruce
Line seven.
53:01
Dr. Bruce
Line seven. Hello, doctor.
53:04
Dr. Bruce
What do you want, doctor?
53:05
Adam
No, he's not. He ain't a doctor, believe me.
53:09
Dr. Bruce
No, he's talking to you. What is your name, doctor?
53:13
Dr. Bruce
Dr. Fulford.
53:14
Dr. Bruce
How's that spelled? F-U-L-L?
53:17
Adam
Yeah, I'm not sure. I'd want to go.
53:18
Dr. Bruce
1L.
53:19
Dr. Bruce
Oh, okay.
53:20
Dr. Bruce
Is this Dr. Heischover?
53:22
Dr. Bruce
That is him. That's better known as Dr. Bruce.
53:26
Adam
Yeah, better known as Dr. Bruce.
53:27
Dr. Bruce
Dr. Bruce.
53:28
Dr. Bruce
So do you two work together?
53:30
Adam
I supervise this guy.
53:33
Dr. Bruce
And frequently.
53:34
Adam
Yeah, right.
53:35
Dr. Bruce
Is he really a doctor?
53:37
Dr. Bruce
Well, sometimes. A Fulford.
53:40
Adam
Behave yourself.
53:42
Dr. Bruce
I just can't believe he's an actual doctor. He's never had an answer to any question I've ever given him that had to do with medicine.
53:48
Dr. Bruce
Well, it's a little stage fright, that's all.
53:50
Dr. Bruce
Okay, that's all. You think he'd be over it by now. So you know how this works on a woman, these parts.
54:00
Adam
Adam, why don't you explain the way a woman's parts work?
54:03
Dr. Bruce
Well, I'll ask the questions because we have some specific ones here. How long, and doctor, this is all just average lengths, because I know some things will vary from woman to woman, but you just give me the average amount of time or space or distance, whatever the question is, okay? As far as the egg making its way down the fallopian tube, when the egg begins its drop, how long does that usually take before it gets to the uterus?
54:36
Dr. Bruce
About a week.
54:37
Dr. Bruce
About a week. Well, that's a new one. Bruce thought it took 15 to 20 minutes and thought it was a couple of days, but you're saying in the average woman...
54:50
Dr. Bruce
Well, it's probably more like five days, but you're just wanting a ballpark average, so...
54:55
Adam
Well, Adam was... Here's his analogy, a parking lot for Adam, and I was saying it's more like, you know...
55:01
Dr. Bruce
You called it a freeway. Five days to travel six inches is not a freeway.
55:08
Dr. Bruce
This is the big question that you know you're wondering, is right after ovulation, fertilization of the egg has to take place approximately no more than two days after that. Otherwise, you've missed it. It takes about... It's about a week before that fertilized egg, if it were to get fertilized, to implant into the uterus. So, it's probably in the uterus and it floats around there for a couple of days before it actually implants, if it's been a fertilized egg. Otherwise, it's just lost with the next menstrual cycle.
55:41
Dr. Bruce
Otherwise, it just floats around until it's sloughed off with the next menstrual cycle, is what you're saying.
55:48
Dr. Bruce
Correct.
55:49
Dr. Bruce
Okay, so let me just get this timeline down. After the woman has ended her period, the average ovulation begins two weeks after that?
56:02
Dr. Bruce
No, you start from the first day of bleeding.
56:04
Adam
You're going to confuse.
56:05
Dr. Bruce
All right, just quiet down. Go ahead, Brerard.
56:07
Dr. Bruce
Start from the first day of bleeding and count approximately 14 days on average.
56:12
Dr. Bruce
From the first day?
56:13
Dr. Bruce
From the first day of bleeding, count 14 days, and that's the approximate average day of ovulation.
56:23
Dr. Bruce
Okay.
56:23
Dr. Bruce
That varies from day 12 to as late as day 16 or 19.
56:28
Dr. Bruce
But the average is 14. Correct. We'll just stay with the averages. And then the ovulation begins, and that means approximately five days until it gets down to the uterus.
56:44
Dr. Bruce
More or less.
56:45
Dr. Bruce
Okay. Approximately. But again, I'm not going to hold you to any of this. I'm just saying, we'll pick, you know, if some women are two days and some women are four days, we'll just go with three days. So five days. So it's approximately 19 days from the time the woman begins her period to the time that egg is in the uterus. But she can also get pregnant in a two-bulb pregnancy as well, right?
57:12
Dr. Bruce
Right.
57:13
Dr. Bruce
So she could be pregnant at any time or you could theoretically impregnate her at any time during the ovulation while the egg was traveling in its five-day period.
57:23
Dr. Bruce
Most eggs are fertilized in the fallopian tube itself.
57:30
Dr. Bruce
Oh.
57:30
Dr. Bruce
And they start cell dividing and so forth while in the fallopian tube and as it's traveling down.
57:39
Dr. Bruce
Aha.
57:39
Adam
Anne told you that earlier.
57:41
Dr. Bruce
Around somewhere between days three to seven. It's usually about a week after fertilization has occurred that implantation occurs and starts to implant.
57:55
Dr. Bruce
Right.
57:56
Dr. Bruce
And start growing, making its little strongholds into the endometrial lining.
58:02
Dr. Bruce
So then that is why when I was talking to producer Anne and she was attempting to get pregnant, I could have done it one night after work, but she wanted to do it with her husband. And, you know, that's her business to eat your own. That's why she was saying two days after the ovulation began because it gets impregnated while it's in the tube. And Anne mentioned that, but we were talking about an ectopic pregnancy where it actually sticks in the tube after it's been fertilized.
58:31
Dr. Bruce
Correct.
58:32
Dr. Bruce
All right.
58:33
Adam
All right.
58:33
Dr. Bruce
We've had a lot of answers. I really appreciate this, Dr. Fulford, by the way.
58:38
Adam
See if Fulford knows about the breast pill.
58:41
Dr. Bruce
Do you know about what breast pill?
58:43
Adam
That makes breasts enlarge.
58:45
Dr. Bruce
Do you know any pills that make breasts larger other than the pill?
58:50
Adam
There was something that came out about a claim that there's a pill, and I don't know if it was a direct effect or a side effect, that increased breast size.
58:58
Dr. Bruce
Have you heard about that, doctor?
59:00
Adam
FDA-approved pill, but...
59:02
Dr. Bruce
Not FDA-approved? Is that what you're saying, Dr. Bruce?
59:04
Adam
Yeah, just some side effect type of thing, as I recall.
59:08
Dr. Bruce
Well, estrogens can make the breast feel a little bit fuller, but also some people in alternative medicine report that progesterone creams rubbed onto the breast tissue can stimulate the growth of them a little bit, but I do believe that that is if there are receptors available for progesterone in that particular breast tissue, would that occur?
59:41
Dr. Bruce
There's nothing like good old-fashioned plastic surgery, though, to really bring the breast to life, right, Dr?
59:47
Dr. Bruce
That's right.
59:47
Dr. Bruce
All right. Well, you've answered all our questions. Thank goodness. Be honest with me, Dr. Fulver. Is Bruce, is he a doctor, or does he just work with the vending machines there as far as restocking, maintenance, and that sort of thing?
1:00:06
Dr. Bruce
He's an actual doctor.
1:00:07
Dr. Bruce
I cannot fathom that. I really can't. All right, doctor. Thank you very much.
1:00:11
Adam
Thanks.
1:00:12
Dr. Bruce
Dr. Bruce, we'll see you in the ER.
1:00:14
Adam
See you in the ER, Fulver.
1:00:15
Dr. Bruce
Let me say something. I want to apologize to Dr. Bruce. I want to take something back. Even if you know nothing about medicine yourself, you do at least know others who apparently know something about medicine. Then for that, I want to apologize. I really do.
1:00:31
Adam
I'm not accepting that. I'd love to the public to have seen you furiously taking notes as the physician is describing the events of the cycle.
1:00:39
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
1:00:40
Adam
It's rather frightening evidence of your obsessive compulsive disorder.
1:00:43
Dr. Bruce
I wanted to get an answer to this and I'm sure our listeners were curious as well. Candice.
1:00:50
Dr. Bruce
Hello.
1:00:51
Dr. Bruce
Okay. So you heard about the brass bell. Yes. Yeah.
1:00:55
Dr. Bruce
And I called and they sent me information.
1:00:57
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
1:00:58
Dr. Bruce
And I just wanted to know if it worked or not.
1:01:00
Dr. Bruce
I, there's no free rides.
1:01:04
Dr. Bruce
Okay.
1:01:05
Dr. Bruce
And all those things that, and I know, I know it just sounds cliche, that sound too good to be true or not true.
1:01:11
Dr. Bruce
Pardon?
1:01:12
Dr. Bruce
I have seen tests done on this because I watch, I watch these, you know, shows, these 2020s and shows like this, and nothing really works.
1:01:24
Adam
It's a porn channel 2020.
1:01:25
Dr. Bruce
Yeah. You can get, I mean, if you, if you take some estrogen or something, can't your breast grow a little bit? Or you take like the birth control pill.
1:01:34
Dr. Bruce
I'm on the pill.
1:01:35
Dr. Bruce
You're on the pill.
1:01:36
Adam
There's cyclic change in size and, and well now where did you send away for this stuff without mentioning a specific company? Is this out of state or out of country? Yeah.
1:01:43
Dr. Bruce
It's somewhere from Texas.
1:01:44
Adam
And what's in it?
1:01:46
Dr. Bruce
No, everything's bigger in Texas.
1:01:47
Dr. Bruce
What?
1:01:48
Dr. Bruce
Everything's bigger in Texas. I tell ya.
1:01:50
Dr. Bruce
Do you want to hear the ingredients that it says it's in?
1:01:52
Adam
Oh yeah, that's interesting.
1:01:53
Dr. Bruce
Okay. It says wild black oats, protein, two sorts of hops, maize, rye, herbs, wheat, fiber, barley, starch and malt.
1:02:04
Dr. Bruce
That's course food from the Texas. That sounds like beer to me. No, that's not gonna do anything.
1:02:09
Dr. Bruce
It says that it has natural estrogen, I don't know.
1:02:14
Adam
It's gonna screw up your cycle. It's gonna probably interfere with your birth control pills if there's enough estrogen in there to really make a difference.
1:02:21
Dr. Bruce
Don't bother.
1:02:22
Adam
Don't take, I wouldn't take them. Right. I wouldn't take them. She shouldn't take them.
1:02:25
Dr. Bruce
Don't take them. Feed them to the dog. Okay. Bruce, where are we going here?
1:02:29
Adam
We're going to... Two.
1:02:32
Dr. Bruce
Two. All right, Bruce.
1:02:33
Dr. Bruce
Dave, how's it going?
1:02:35
Dr. Bruce
You're 25. What's going on?
1:02:37
Dr. Bruce
Hey, my question is, my buddy and I, his dad was using the erection pill and basically we got some and we've been, you know, just trying a couple here and there with our female friends and it damn well works. But my question is, is if we keep on using it or if I use it, am I going to lose my own erection in the future when I stop it?
1:03:01
Dr. Bruce
Are you taking... Is it Viagra?
1:03:03
Dr. Bruce
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The erection one, yeah.
1:03:06
Dr. Bruce
Just say yes when I say Viagra, would you, jackass? What, now, what's it do? What's it do to you? What's the sensation?
1:03:17
Dr. Bruce
About an hour after I take it, when I'm kind of in the mood, it gives a bigger erection and it lasts longer. And even after you come, yeah, it still can stay erect and erect. And then anytime you get erect or aroused in the next almost 24 hour period, you're back at the heart of your life.
1:03:43
Dr. Bruce
And does it, is it an aphrodisiac as well? I mean, does it make you more amorous?
1:03:50
Adam
No.
1:03:51
Dr. Bruce
No, it doesn't.
1:03:52
Adam
It has a placebo effect. Whatever you think is going to happen is very powerful.
1:03:56
Dr. Bruce
Plus, when you have a penis that could be used as a lug wrench, it's so erect, I guess it tends to make you want to do more with it.
1:04:06
Dr. Bruce
You want to show off.
1:04:07
Dr. Bruce
That's right.
1:04:09
Adam
I mean, at your age, why are you taking this stuff? I mean, it's pretty ridiculous.
1:04:12
Dr. Bruce
I mean, you smoke dope, I guess, just for a try it.
1:04:14
Dr. Bruce
Yeah, but you don't need it. You aren't having any erectile difficulties.
1:04:18
Adam
No, no, no, no. So you're not using it on a regular basis or anything like that?
1:04:21
Dr. Bruce
I think about 10 times.
1:04:23
Dr. Bruce
Yeah. Here's the deal, Dave. I'm no doctor, but neither is Dr. Bruce. I'll just speak for both of us. It's hard to fool mother nature, and there are consequences to things. And you don't know what the long-term effects of this is for healthy young folks like yourself. Maybe nothing, but maybe something. And the point is, is you don't need it. So don't monkey.
1:04:50
Dr. Bruce
Don't monkey with it.
1:04:51
Dr. Bruce
Yeah, I wouldn't. I mean, unless you want to take one couple of times a year or something, fine. But when you start, you know, using it on a weekly basis or a daily basis, it just seems like there's an opportunity to screw things up. I just know one thing I've learned is that you try to fool your body and your body comes back around. Yeah. There's compensation, I mean, when you look at nature and it's like there's some pest and this pest is eating this crop, so they try to eradicate it through poison. And then the ones that survive end up being immune to the poison, you know. Things have a way. And then before you know it, you have a whole bunch of these pests and now the poison isn't working on them. And the same thing with these viruses, with the antibiotics, you know, and now they get these superviruses or, you know, it has a way of overcoming things.
1:05:47
Adam
Really like struggling for words there?
1:05:50
Dr. Bruce
No, I'm waiting for you as a doctor, a theoretical doctor, co-host, who I trust to bolster my point here. But the point is, is it, your body has a way of compensating for things. And you don't want a monkey with that, not a 25.
1:06:06
Adam
Tremendous number of younger people just experimenting with this. They were using this substance to treat heart disease experimentally. And so it has been around for a long time. There's been a lot of use of that substance without any long-term side effects.
1:06:24
Dr. Bruce
So there's been a lot of use of Viagra as a heart medication.
1:06:28
Adam
No, no, it's not the same medication. But in other words, that family of medications, there was research going on with that. And so it's not something that's completely new in terms of its chemical structure. Well, you're right. I agree with you 100%. People shouldn't mess with a process that's already working.
1:06:47
Dr. Bruce
It's like diet pills or something. It's going to come back to haunt you, I think. Okay. Where are we going?
1:06:54
Adam
Well, you just covered up my numbers.
1:06:56
Dr. Bruce
Okay. So you're switching pages on me. Nick? You're 24. Uh-oh. You got that little girl voice.
1:07:07
Dr. Bruce
Oh, no. Here you go.
1:07:09
Dr. Bruce
Uh-oh. Yeah.
1:07:11
Adam
You're going to have to answer the questions now.
1:07:13
Dr. Bruce
Now I got to ask the pertinent questions. What's that? Any trauma when you were younger? Say eight, nine years old?
1:07:22
Dr. Bruce
Nope.
1:07:23
Dr. Bruce
Nobody died?
1:07:24
Dr. Bruce
You think I sound like a nine-year-old?
1:07:26
Dr. Bruce
No, no, no. No, 10, 11. What? Nobody died?
1:07:30
Dr. Bruce
Nobody died.
1:07:31
Dr. Bruce
Where's your dad?
1:07:33
Dr. Bruce
He's at home.
1:07:34
Dr. Bruce
He's at home? And when did you lose your virginity?
1:07:38
Dr. Bruce
When I was 14.
1:07:40
Dr. Bruce
14? How old was a guy, 22?
1:07:43
Dr. Bruce
No, he was 16.
1:07:45
Dr. Bruce
16. And anything before that?
1:07:51
Dr. Bruce
No.
1:07:51
Dr. Bruce
Huh?
1:07:52
Dr. Bruce
Nope.
1:07:52
Dr. Bruce
Serious now?
1:07:54
Dr. Bruce
Serious.
1:07:55
Dr. Bruce
Ever go to camp?
1:07:56
Dr. Bruce
No.
1:07:57
Dr. Bruce
No neighbor friends?
1:08:00
Dr. Bruce
The neighbor was the guy who took my virginity. He was my neighbor.
1:08:04
Adam
How about alien abductions? Were you ever abducted by aliens?
1:08:07
Dr. Bruce
No.
1:08:08
Dr. Bruce
No.
1:08:08
Dr. Bruce
No.
1:08:08
Adam
Covered the gamut.
1:08:10
Dr. Bruce
Nobody in the fam, dad do a little bit of drinking?
1:08:13
Dr. Bruce
Nope.
1:08:13
Dr. Bruce
I bet my mom is an alcoholic.
1:08:15
Dr. Bruce
Mom's an alcoholic? And ever have a eating disorder?
1:08:21
Dr. Bruce
No.
1:08:21
Dr. Bruce
Huh?
1:08:22
Dr. Bruce
Nope.
1:08:23
Dr. Bruce
All right. And you do any drinking yourself?
1:08:25
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
1:08:26
Dr. Bruce
No, but you wouldn't?
1:08:28
Dr. Bruce
Not a whole lot.
1:08:29
Dr. Bruce
Wouldn't consider yourself an alcoholic?
1:08:32
Dr. Bruce
Well, I guess because I drink and it's in my family. I probably have some kind of...
1:08:39
Dr. Bruce
Is mom sober now?
1:08:41
Dr. Bruce
No.
1:08:42
Dr. Bruce
No. That's gotta be... I mean, we're used to talking to dads that are F-Ups or kids that have dads that are F-Ups. And that's always tough, but I'm almost used to it.
1:08:52
Dr. Bruce
He's in jail right now, my mom is.
1:08:54
Dr. Bruce
Oh, I see, I see. The voice... what's she doing in jail?
1:09:01
Dr. Bruce
She got some daylights.
1:09:06
Dr. Bruce
She's had... Yeah, she must have had quite a few to put herself in jail.
1:09:12
Adam
Now, Adam was asking if family was normal, everything was okay. You said yes.
1:09:16
Dr. Bruce
No, she said, is your dad at home? He asked me if my mom...
1:09:19
Dr. Bruce
Oh, I see. I usually start with the dad when I get the young girl voice.
1:09:23
Dr. Bruce
But everything's normal as far as my life. I mean, I've accepted the fact that my mom is an alcoholic.
1:09:30
Dr. Bruce
But it...
1:09:30
Dr. Bruce
Normal for me.
1:09:32
Dr. Bruce
I know, but is a child having a serious alcoholic for mother just gotta be tragic?
1:09:38
Dr. Bruce
It's exceeded since I'm older.
1:09:40
Dr. Bruce
It's picked up a little bit? Well, you also may be more aware of it now because...
1:09:45
Dr. Bruce
Yeah, because I am older.
1:09:47
Dr. Bruce
Yeah, because you understand things a little better. And what's up with dad that he would just let mom spin off this way?
1:09:56
Dr. Bruce
Just one of those people that, I mean, I don't know.
1:09:59
Adam
Okay, mom was actively drinking while you were growing up?
1:10:02
Dr. Bruce
No, not when I was growing up. They always had jobs or whatever. But it seemed like... Let me see how far I go back. Can I go... Maybe when I was... I'd say 14, that it started.
1:10:18
Dr. Bruce
She just became an alcoholic when you were 14?
1:10:21
Dr. Bruce
I think that's when I kind of noticed that she was drinking more.
1:10:24
Dr. Bruce
All right. Well, I'm guessing she'd been drinking a little before that, but...
1:10:28
Dr. Bruce
Yeah, it's probably, most likely.
1:10:30
Dr. Bruce
How long is she in jail for?
1:10:31
Dr. Bruce
Three months.
1:10:32
Dr. Bruce
Three months? Geez, you can... Oh, Jay didn't do three months.
1:10:37
Dr. Bruce
She's on work release, though.
1:10:39
Dr. Bruce
Oh, she's on work release? Oh, it's got to make you proud every time you pass her on the freeway. Do you honk? Do you honk the horn?
1:10:46
Dr. Bruce
But I love her.
1:10:47
Dr. Bruce
Hey, ma, you missed a rapper.
1:10:52
Adam
Okay, so how's your relationship with your husband pretty good?
1:10:55
Dr. Bruce
I don't have a husband. I have a boyfriend.
1:10:57
Dr. Bruce
Oh, uh-huh. And is he the father of your child or...?
1:11:00
Dr. Bruce
I have no children.
1:11:01
Dr. Bruce
You have no children? Okay.
1:11:04
Dr. Bruce
My question...
1:11:05
Dr. Bruce
Yeah. Did you do any stripping? What do you do for a living?
1:11:10
Dr. Bruce
Me? I'm at work right now.
1:11:12
Dr. Bruce
At the strip club?
1:11:13
Dr. Bruce
No. I work at, um, um, Rocky Mountain Bottle.
1:11:19
Dr. Bruce
Rocky Mountain Bottle? Oh, sure. Yeah, the bottle place.
1:11:23
Dr. Bruce
Coors.
1:11:24
Dr. Bruce
Oh, Coors. Oh, you...
1:11:26
Dr. Bruce
It shouldn't even be famous on the radio.
1:11:28
Dr. Bruce
You work at Coors? What do you do there?
1:11:30
Dr. Bruce
Well, I'm a store clerk.
1:11:32
Dr. Bruce
Oh, all right.
1:11:32
Adam
He's going to want free beer next.
1:11:34
Dr. Bruce
That's great. You got... Oh, your mom must be dying to get in there.
1:11:40
Adam
Okay. Is your mom working a 12-step program and all that kind of stuff?
1:11:45
Dr. Bruce
She's done all the...
1:11:46
Adam
And you've gone to Alateen and Al-Anon?
1:11:48
Dr. Bruce
All that stuff. Yeah.
1:11:51
Dr. Bruce
All right. So what's your question?
1:11:53
Dr. Bruce
Okay. My question is, I have a boyfriend. And when he was two years old, he had a bladder infection. And his mom didn't know. And they liked it. It was got too far. And they had to perform surgery on him to clean it out. I'm not sure what they do.
1:12:11
Dr. Bruce
All right. So now...
1:12:13
Dr. Bruce
So now, when he got of age, that he knew he could have sex or orgasm or whatever.
1:12:21
Dr. Bruce
That's one more time. So now...
1:12:23
Dr. Bruce
So now, like now, as of when he was 16, he's not 16 now, he's 36 now.
1:12:30
Dr. Bruce
Right.
1:12:31
Dr. Bruce
He has no... He has an orgasm, but nothing comes out. Oh.
1:12:37
Dr. Bruce
Nothing comes out?
1:12:38
Dr. Bruce
No.
1:12:38
Adam
Just air?
1:12:39
Dr. Bruce
Retrograde ejaculation.
1:12:42
Dr. Bruce
It goes into his bladder or...
1:12:44
Dr. Bruce
Right. Right. Okay.
1:12:46
Dr. Bruce
Right?
1:12:46
Dr. Bruce
Right.
1:12:47
Dr. Bruce
Okay. So if we were to ever try to have children... Right... .together, how would that work?
1:12:55
Dr. Bruce
He'd have to pee on you.
1:12:58
Dr. Bruce
No.
1:12:59
Dr. Bruce
How would that work, Bruce? How could he do it? Oh, I don't know why I'm asking you. Should we call one of your buddies?
1:13:06
Adam
Yeah. Let's call a urologist this time. I'm not sure what surgery he had, but if he wanted to have kids, as long as he's producing sperm, as long as he's fertile, which he probably still is. Right.
1:13:19
Dr. Bruce
They could extract that from him?
1:13:21
Adam
Yeah. And depending on exactly what the damage was or what's going on.
1:13:24
Dr. Bruce
I mean, okay, they will extract the sperm and put it into her. Is that? Yeah. Is that true?
1:13:30
Adam
That's a possibility. I don't know that that's what they do with him. I'm not sure exactly.
1:13:33
Dr. Bruce
Well, if nothing's coming out of his penis, they would have to extract it somehow.
1:13:39
Adam
Right. You can. I mean, if you have retrograde ejaculation for years and years and years, you can run into problems secondary to that. So I'm not sure why they would just leave that whole situation alone.
1:13:51
Dr. Bruce
Okay, so he should go in and see a urologist and consult him. But I'm sure there's ways around this. Okay.
1:13:57
Adam
Yes.
1:13:57
Dr. Bruce
We're going to take a break. Thanks for the insurance. Okay. We'll be back.
1:14:32
It is Love Line.
1:14:34
Dr. Bruce
I'm Adam Parola. That is Dr. Bruce. Dr. Bruce filming for Dr. Drew, and he turns back into a pumpkin at Midnight Tonight because Dr. Drew will be in next week. But there'll be other days for Dr. Bruce, not here, but there'll be a-
1:14:51
Adam
Call me after this series of shows and give me some advice. Like, don't come back.
1:14:56
Dr. Bruce
Oh, you're wonderful, come on. Come on, Bruce. You know what I like about Bruce? He may not know anything about medicine, but he is a great guy and he actually has hobbies. He likes to talk about cars and guitars and airplanes, mechanical stuff. Drew is a chick. Drew does not have hobbies.
1:15:17
Adam
We both shoot rats, you know.
1:15:19
Dr. Bruce
You're another one of your hobbies. Drew does not know from anything, cars, music. He doesn't care about anything. All he does is work.
1:15:30
Adam
My breasts hurt.
1:15:31
Dr. Bruce
And complain about his breasts. That's all Drew does. Yeah, let's hear, you know.
1:15:36
Adam
Have you heard him sing before?
1:15:37
Dr. Bruce
I've not heard Drew sing opera.
1:15:39
Adam
I like to hear that.
1:15:40
Dr. Bruce
Have you?
1:15:41
Adam
No.
1:15:42
Dr. Bruce
I know he has trained at it or had trained at it for years. I mean, you know, least 10 years. And I know he's good because he admits he's decent and he has such a low self-esteem. It's true that, you know, there's a difference between me and Drew. If I'm if I said I was great at something, it mean I was mediocre at it. And if Drew said he's mediocre at it, he would be great at it. Do you see what I'm saying?
1:16:12
Adam
Maybe he just shares that with more serious friends and he doesn't think to be responsible for information. And he's right.
1:16:19
Dr. Bruce
I'm not that interested, really.
1:16:21
Adam
So you're just going to make fun of him. So he's used good judgment and not discussing with you.
1:16:27
Dr. Bruce
I know he's pretty decent at it. So that maybe that is a hobby of his. I don't know. But I don't trust guys that don't like to wrench and tinker. And Drew doesn't like to do either one of those.
1:16:37
Adam
That's another strong, positive point.
1:16:39
Dr. Bruce
Still not a hobby. Bill?
1:16:41
Dr. Bruce
Hey, what's up?
1:16:42
Dr. Bruce
You're 25.
1:16:43
Dr. Bruce
Yeah.
1:16:43
Dr. Bruce
What's going on?
1:16:45
Dr. Bruce
OK, Adam, before, I know I've been rather foolish here, but I've taken GHB rather heavily for about six months. And I just tried to quit the other night and noticed I was getting extremely anxious and some pretty, pretty severe muscle cramps, too.
1:17:04
Dr. Bruce
Oh, right. Trying to quit. We've not talked to many people that were hooked on GHB.
1:17:10
Adam
Yeah. Gamma hydroxybutyrate. And there are forms of it that are still available on the Internet. What they do is they have a substance that's just one step away chemically. But this is stuff that they used to sell in health food stores supposedly for bodybuilding. And it acts on your body. It's sort of almost like taking alcohol. You take a teaspoon and it tells you you're going to get relaxed. You take two teaspoons and you may fall asleep. And really, yeah, it's not extremely predictable, but more important.
1:17:44
Dr. Bruce
Why for how would that aid in bodybuilding?
1:17:46
Adam
OK, well, that's you know, I for the life of me thought I was almost afraid to ask. I must be some obvious thing here that I'm just missing. But this is in looking at the sleep cycle. If you take this stuff and it increases the stage of sleep where you have the maximal growth hormone release, which I mean, that's if that's a remarketing scam, there it is.
1:18:09
Dr. Bruce
So, well, is that is that true?
1:18:12
Adam
I mean, not to the point where it's going to make any any discernible. It's sort of like, you know, a certain, all right.
1:18:18
Dr. Bruce
So, listen, I have trouble getting to sleep at night. Perhaps I should investigate this GHP. Yeah. Let me ask you, can it be taken in low doses safely and effectively and all that? Or is it just bad news all the way around?
1:18:33
Adam
Safely and effectively for what? I mean, what are you taking it for? People are going to take it to relax? Yeah. To go to bed. No, it's not good for inducing sleep.
1:18:43
Dr. Bruce
It isn't. I thought you just said you take one teaspoon, you get relaxed, you take two.
1:18:47
Adam
I see the morons that are marketing it are telling you that it builds your body by increasing growth hormone and it's not.
1:18:55
Dr. Bruce
But before that, you said that you take a tea spoon.
1:18:58
Adam
Just like alcohol does. Alcohol, initially you have some sleep inducing effect or you get tired and there's a rebound excitatory phase. Just like when you have a cup of coffee, you get some energy and then you go back down and have less energy.
1:19:11
Dr. Bruce
That's why you never stop drinking the coffee. But here's my point. This is not good for anything. It wouldn't make you tired. If I went home and took a tablespoon when I got home, it wouldn't put me to sleep.
1:19:23
Adam
Okay, not everything that gets you started at sleeping keeps you sleeping or is a safe place. Benadryl, these over-the-counter sleeping pills that you take, a lot of them change your REM sleep pattern. So there's restorative and non-restorative sleep. So it's like the patients on the addiction treatment unit, they want immediate results so they can't sleep. And I say to them, well, if I took you to the operating room, put you under anesthesia, and made you unconscious for eight hours, would that be a good night's sleep? Yep, as long as I'm not. Right. But that's not the way it is.
1:19:54
Dr. Bruce
It isn't.
1:19:55
Adam
So anyway, Bill, you need to get professional help getting off this stuff because it has an effect at the same, you know, there's a GABA receptor, which is the inhibitory receptor in the system. So when you take Valium, when you drink alcohol, it stimulates this receptor and it makes you feel relaxed. But once you do it every day, it's just like getting off alcohol or Valium and a little more tricky perhaps because people don't have experienced detoxing.
1:20:23
Dr. Bruce
Do you see these guys coming into the ER?
1:20:26
Adam
Oh, out where I am, we have the phenomenon of the raves, the all night raves. They're not, they don't allow them in the sophisticated city. So they come out to the, to the desert and they, do you ever, do you spin at those or what do you do with those?
1:20:43
Dr. Bruce
Me?
1:20:43
Adam
I, I spin in the ER. Oh, I was going on because individuals like to take the GHB and then have a glass of wine or beer, some alcohol. And together it makes you stop breathing. So.
1:20:56
Dr. Bruce
That seems, seems like a bad combo. This stop breathing combo.
1:21:00
Adam
We sort of have the teenage ventilator chorus on nights when we have, yeah.
1:21:04
Dr. Bruce
Well, how does that work when you stop breathing? I mean, don't you just die in four minutes?
1:21:09
Adam
Well, the paramedics, I mean, the paramedics hate it because they just sort of wait around and they put them on a ventilator, put a tube in and start breathing for them. And about four to six hours later, they wake up in unison and want to yank the tube out. You wake up very quickly. It has an on-off. But people have died. We did a case study on a woman that, she didn't die, but she was an older woman who bought it through the Internet. It was Blue Nitro or something like that. This is also being used like Rohypnol to knock out a date rape drug. But she had no idea. People believe what they read sometimes. And she bought it and her husband came home and she was unconscious. She'd been taking it for relaxation. But the difference between a therapeutic effect, the effect you want, and a toxic effect is very narrow. So this is very unsafe stuff. So Bill, let's just ask him what he's going to do because this is very serious.
1:22:04
Dr. Bruce
Just tell him what to do. Don't ask him. We got to move on.
1:22:08
Adam
He needs to go to a hospital. But he needs to talk to somebody that practices addiction medicine, that understands treatment of withdrawal because he could have seizures. He could get into some real serious trouble.
1:22:18
Dr. Bruce
All right. Let's just squeeze in real fast here before we go to break. Andrew, you're 15. When you masturbate, urine comes out.
1:22:28
Adam
Yeah.
1:22:29
Dr. Bruce
Well, stop yakking yourself while you're peeing.
1:22:32
I'm not yakking myself while I'm peeing, dude. I mean, seriously, I'm scared to do anything now. I mean, I'm afraid I might be sexually dysfunctional.
1:22:41
Dr. Bruce
So does sperm come out or semen come out?
1:22:46
It usually does. And then I just did it one time. And I mean, I'm scared now because urine came out. I was sure it was urine.
1:22:51
Dr. Bruce
Well, it just happened one time?
1:22:53
Yeah. And now I'm afraid to do anything.
1:22:55
Dr. Bruce
Well, try it again. See what happens.
1:22:57
I know, but I mean, I'm afraid I might be like sexually dysfunctional or something.
1:23:01
Dr. Bruce
Well, how are you going to know unless you try it again?
1:23:04
I mean, it's kind of like now I'm like really paranoid almost.
1:23:09
Dr. Bruce
I know, but you're...
1:23:12
I mean, what just happened? Like, why would that happen? Do I have like STDs or something?
1:23:17
Adam
Okay, wait a second. Look, probably some clear fluid came out and you thought it was urine and it's seminal fluid or something.
1:23:23
I mean, it was urine, man. I mean, seriously.
1:23:29
Adam
Okay, and that's not necessarily... No, no. Look, you're very anxious and nervous about something that sounds like it was a normal variant.
1:23:38
Dr. Bruce
Listen, how does that have... Is that the prostate's job to do the closing off and the separation and all that?
1:23:46
Adam
We're not going to get into... Believe me, I'm not going to get into the structure of the male... No, it's not the prostate's job to separate the...
1:23:51
Dr. Bruce
We're not going to get into it because you probably have no idea how it works. It's very good, very elusive. I like that. Smart, you make a good politician. Yeah. Yeah, okay.
1:24:00
Adam
Now, first of all, you're concerned about STDs if you had sex, if you had unprotected sex?
1:24:06
Caller
No, but I mean, I've engaged in like other stuff than sex that might put me at risk.
1:24:12
Adam
Inanimate objects or just...
1:24:14
Caller
Just like oral sex.
1:24:15
Dr. Bruce
Oh, wow.
1:24:16
Adam
Okay, that could put you at risk for...
1:24:19
Dr. Bruce
All right, go to...
1:24:22
Dr. Bruce
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