1:01🔗VoiceoverListener discretion is advised. Adam Carolla and Dr. Drew Loveline, Coast to Coast.
1:13🔗AdamOh, hey, it's Loveline, everybody. The show started at 10 for the last 250 years, yet it always has a way of sneaking up on me. Dr. Drew, Board Certified Internist, Addiction Medicine Specialist, and the phone number is 1-800-L-O-V-E-1-9-1, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, is the name of the movie we're talking about tonight. Kevin Smith is here and Jennifer, and tell me if I mispronounced this, Schwalbach. Perfect. Wow. And you guys are married, right? Husband and wife in the studio to give it a nice plug. Kevin was nice enough to ask me to do a small part on this film, but I've heard I've been cut out since then.
1:57🔗DrewIt's like it's certainly not by virtue of the fact that the performance wasn't any good. The performance was quite stellar.
2:03🔗No, please. If it stood out too much. No, I- It stood out in bold relief.
2:07🔗DrewWell, you would have thought the picture was called Jay and Adam Corolla straight back after that scene was done.
2:12🔗Well, to listen to Adam every night, I would think his skill would be extraordinary.
2:17🔗DrewYou know what it was? Unfortunately, he was in one of those scenes that when the movie is running long, just kind of hits the floor. But DVD, it's all you, dude.
2:31🔗DrewOh, God. You'll be the stellar scene because it's the sequence, the one end-to-end sequence that was kind of cut. Everything else is a bunch of trims within scenes, but that thing can just kind of go. It was poor writing is what it was.
3:16🔗We don't want to spoil the vibe of the film by...
3:18🔗DrewYeah, I mean, already you're talking about the video release. Please, dude. Theatrical. August 24th. Heavens.
3:24🔗AdamI was being selfish. You're right. You know, you guys were nice enough to send me a jacket.
3:29🔗DrewYes. Which I hear you pimped on the show one day with the Blink 182 guys.
3:33🔗AdamI was wearing the jacket. Well, you know, as Drew knows, I have momentum with apparel. Meaning certain shirts, certain shoes, certain jackets. They come out of the closet and they stay there. And I don't even know how they get back in. But I will wear them day in and day out. It becomes a uniform.
3:51🔗DrewI've not taken this off in about two years.
3:52🔗AdamRight. I was wearing this jacket day in and day out and got more feedback on it. People saw me and by then I was boasting that I was in the movie until I was wearing the jacket one day and some grip or some guy at the man show came up to me and broke my heart.
4:10🔗AdamYeah. Well now I'd like the DVD patch underneath the James Gilelis box.
4:15🔗DrewAbsolutely. We'll give you the addendum patch that you put under the logo of the movie that says See Me on DVD.
4:20🔗AdamWell, the point I was getting to, which is a compliment, which is just a ton of feedback on this jacket, and of course the film, and people seem to be like waiting for it to come out.
4:37🔗AdamBut I wear jackets and shirts and hats with junk on it all the time, and nobody says anything, and this thing didn't have big letters that were, just a little, well, you know the jacket.
4:53🔗AdamTasteful patch on the shoulder, and I got a ton of feedback from it.
4:57🔗DrewIsn't that weird? You figure you've accomplished a lot in life, people come up to you to talk about your stuff, and they come up to you like, nice jacket, I like those guys.
5:04🔗AdamWhere'd you get that, and when's the movie coming out?
5:07🔗DrewYou're like, I don't know, you know what, I don't know and I don't care.
5:10🔗AdamThat was me. But now I really don't care. Before, I was just being cool. Now I mean it when I say that.
5:18🔗AdamBut were people waiting on this film? I mean was it around the Internet or something?
5:24🔗DrewI think there are about 12 people out there really waiting for it and you just bumped into all 12 of them.
5:28🔗AdamYeah, I may and their brother. No, I mean was this something that you were planning on for a while?
5:34🔗DrewNo, it's just we've made four movies before and they all have attained a cult status and those characters have been in every movie we've done. So when we announced that the fifth one was going to be those guys up front and center, Jay and Silent Bob.
5:52🔗DrewBecause you like to think you've made some movies with depth and people are like, great movies, want to get stoned, love Jay and Silent Bob, that kind of thing.
5:58🔗AdamRight. Yeah, I know. My grandfather wrote movies and TV and he got nominated for Academy Award and all that good stuff. But he wrote a movie called The Mold People back in like 1956 and that's all anyone ever wants to talk to him about. Just geeks wanting him to sign Mold People posters. He hates it, but I think much like, I don't know, Bob Denver's come to grips with the Gilligan character. I think eventually you embrace it.
6:28🔗DrewYeah, even Nimoy first he wrote the book I Am Not Spock and then years later he wrote You Know What, I Am Spock. So I've never had that Nimoy relationship with the character where I'm like I am not Silent Bob. I'll take it.
6:41🔗AdamThis movie has a zillion cameos and a lot of big names in it. It seems like a cool film that people wanted to do. Was that what you found?
6:52🔗DrewYeah. You did it, right? We called you and you were like, I'm there.
6:55🔗AdamYeah, it was great. My agent was like, listen, no money, great exposure. Now, one of those equations have been yanked out.
7:05🔗DrewWhat you didn't hear was he said great DVD exposure.
7:10🔗DrewBut yeah, there was great cameos in the flick. Most of the people we'd worked with before like Jason Musa plays Jay, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Chris Rock, Jason Lee, George Carlin. We'd worked with those guys in previous flicks in varying degrees.
7:24🔗AdamIt's a real nice compliment that they hear you're doing a film and they say, Oh yeah, absolutely.
7:30🔗DrewI tend to call in a lot of favors. Me and my producer, Scott Moser, were executive producers on Good Will Hunting. We got that into Miramax and it got made and made Ben and Matt. So anytime I make a movie, I just remind them of that very gently, very subtly.
8:19🔗AdamFilming the camera or not, the point is, is I was called out to the set.
8:23🔗DrewIt basically was an elaborate charade. I was just like, folks, I have a debt that I owe Adam Corolla that I mentioned once in a radio show many years ago. Let's just pretend we're shooting, okay?
8:33🔗AdamThat's right. But don't worry, Ben Affleck is coming by to pay the fiddler later. So what comes around goes around, kiddies. Mark? Yes. You're 23.
8:46🔗CallerWell, I had a couple of exciting experiences but they're also humiliating at the same time. I'm wondering if maybe I got like some kind of a masochistic tendencies.
8:57🔗CallerOkay. I'm working in a restaurant and this very, very attractive woman, I work with, she's a few years younger than me, but kind of like a very hard-nosed bitchy woman. But I did like her.
9:13🔗CallerSo I asked her out. She kept saying, no, no. And then one evening we were closing up a few weeks back and she said, so I know you really want me. I go, yeah, I do. She says, well, you're going to do stuff but what I want.
10:43🔗CallerIt just seems kind of bizarre. I'm wondering if this is like-
10:46🔗CallerYes, it seems kind of bizarre. We would agree.
10:48🔗AdamMark, let me say this. From this day forward, anything that you deem bizarre is bizarre. You don't have to bother calling the show anymore. Any more bizarre encounters and rim jobs and spontaneous orgasms because your tongue is halfway up someone's ass. Consider that bizarre and be comfortable with that. All right.
11:09🔗DrewYou can count your lucky stars, too. All right.
11:12🔗AdamWhat else are you going to do? Do you have any further plans with this girl?
11:15🔗CallerWell, I mean, I suspect we're going to have some more encounters.
12:14🔗I have a 10-year-old son, and soon enough, he will be getting sex ed in school.
12:19🔗CallerThey're very effective. First of all, this is a very complex issue, and you almost have to be a scientist to understand what's being bantered about here. They went ahead and did a large-scale study where they tried to scientifically prove the effectiveness of condoms against multiple sexually transmitted diseases, and they didn't have sufficient data to prove it. They didn't prove it didn't work. They just didn't have sufficient data to prove it did. And except for hepatitis and HIV for males, it protected males for sure against those two illnesses. As a matter of fact, in clinical, anyone who practices medicine will tell you it is a very fine barrier. CDC, Institute for Medicine, National Institute of Health, everyone else believes it is a very effective barrier against pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.
13:06🔗AdamHow does that, how do you test for that?
13:36🔗CallerShocking, shocking. Remember she was in here spouting that stuff out, remember?
13:39🔗AdamRight. Not that interested in the truth, more interested in talking about why people shouldn't have sex, and it's mainly because they never get laid. Have you ever seen these women? They look like Jane Hathaway from the Beverly Hillbillies. It's like, here's really what they should be saying. They're always talking about Jesus, and they're talking about contraception, and they're talking about Right to Life, but it's really like, look, I'm not getting laid, so the world should stop screwing.
14:23🔗AdamThis just in. Swallow bad, condom good, rim job bad. Where are we so far?
14:28🔗CallerI'm going to keep it tally. Rim job. Yeah. Rim job dubious. But I've had to do a lot of public speaking about this condom thing because it inflamed this controversy built on just an incomplete study, basically.
14:42🔗DrewYou think like condoms are just introduced into the mainstream.
14:44🔗CallerYou would think that, yeah, it was some sort of nefarious behavior, some nefarious technique people were using that had questionable utility.
15:22🔗CallerAnd I was wondering if it was actually going to be safe if I could actually get any type of STDs or something. If you don't like clean the tweezers or if they, you know.
15:32🔗CallerWhat are they using besides wax when they do these things?
16:01🔗CallerOkay. So there's no possible way then?
16:04🔗AdamWell, here's what, there's something that's curious about this. I don't think most guys know this, but this is the nails, the cuticles, the pedicures, the manicures, the waxing, the bikini stuff. It's exclusively the domain of these Asian women. Right.
16:22🔗CallerAnd that's part of what's confusing me, is cheap Asian place where they do this.
16:26🔗CallerWell, I mean, if I go to a white place, it's going to be like two or three times more, you know?
16:31🔗CallerWe didn't know non-Asians did this. Really? White?
16:34🔗CallerThe place I'm going to go to, they specialize in nails. They don't even do hair or anything. They just do nails and waxing.
16:40🔗AdamFunny, white guys always charge double or triple for everything. You want your lawn mowed.
17:30🔗AdamDid they let you audit those? Could I just hang out? Was it an acting class?
17:35🔗CallerI did an MTV show that's going to air in a couple of weeks called Flipped where this couple was flipped. The guy became a girl and the girl became a guy. They had a makeup artist come in. These people, they were changed. He had to go through all the beauty and stuff and had all the hair ripped off and everything.
17:51🔗CallerYeah. He had multiple, yeah, butt growing and everything. He said it was an eyebrow. He said it was just crying, sobbing, little baby.
17:59🔗AdamMadame Tussaud does not have enough wax to get the hair from my ass area. I guarantee you that. They'd be like calling a flatbed trolley. Back up the wax mobile. I don't understand it. We had six months worth of wax in this. All right, Wendy, you can go there and tip the ladies, would you?
18:19🔗CallerYeah. But I have one more quick question.
18:21🔗CallerOkay. Dr. Drew signed my Dr. Drew and Adam book last summer at the BSD. I was just wondering if you guys are going to have another book like a volume two or something.
18:43🔗DrewI feel like we're in the 1950s, man. The first one of the first questions is, do condoms work? And the other one is, what about this waxing I hear so much about?
18:52🔗AdamThis newfangled wax material that was just discovered. And I hear stories. There's this place called Pinky Cheeks or something that's around here. It's on Ventura or something. And I hear these stories is where all the playmates go to and everything, where women are like on their back with their knees behind their ears. And the woman's like stuffing stuff up the crack.
19:13🔗DrewDescribe. How does it go? You've been there?
19:15🔗CallerYeah. It'd be more vivid than what just Adam just said.
19:17🔗That is a perfect picture of what is going on.
19:27🔗CallerI think this new film is germinating here.
19:30🔗AdamAnd it's sort of like, look, I know this is going to sound horrible.
19:33🔗DrewIt would be an excellent film. It's a fish out of water tell you and a bunch of Asian chicks. You somehow through some court order, you have to wind up doing waxing, kind of getting touched by the feminine side. Your ex-girlfriend comes back to you.
19:47🔗CallerYou beat a woman or something and it's your punishment.
19:50🔗DrewAnd then you come to realize that, you know.
19:52🔗AdamHere's the twist though. I'm like, I'm a total pee hound. But after seeing this for eight hours a day, six days a week, I grow tired of a woman's genitalia and I never want to see it again.
20:03🔗DrewI'm sorry. You can say rim job in the show. You can't say pee.
20:07🔗AdamI don't know. Am we allowed to say that word? Pussy hound? We can? All right. Am I allowed to say that, Anne? I think Anne's fine.
20:17🔗AdamOkay. Thanks. They just beeped half the show. Here's my theory about this and I know it's one of my many racist theories. But I think women like the fact that they're sort of little Asian women who speak broken English because it's sort of half-person, half sort of alien. You know what I mean? They don't really count. Who are they going to talk to? They're going to run into one of your friends at a party. You don't run in that circle. You'll never see them again. That's what I'm saying.
20:45🔗CallerThat's true, but getting a bikini wax, it takes maybe half an hour. You are talking so much to this woman about anything, your deepest, darkest secrets, because it hurts so badly and your legs are in the air, that this woman knows more about me than my husband does, because you are just trying to kill the time.
22:29🔗CallerWe'll be right back. Call on the 1-800-LOVE-191.
23:03🔗AdamHey, it's the Loveline. I'm Adam Corolla. That is Dr. Drew over there. Phone number 1-800-LOVE-191. A little microphone problem there. Kevin Smith and Jennifer Schwalbach are both here. They are a married couple. Don't let the names confuse you. Both in the movie, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, which is coming out on August 24th. That's a week from this Friday. Yes.
23:53🔗AdamShoot. We do get invited to premieres from time to time, but there's never one on a Friday or Saturday.
24:00🔗DrewPresumably, the movie opens on a Friday, so why have the party? You want people going to pay to see the movie. I personally am not a big premiere fan. I'd much rather not be having a premiere tomorrow, because you're giving away 700 free seats.
24:22🔗DrewGive the tickets away to the people who can afford to buy it. In the Porsche, we have to work for a living. We have to buy 8, 9 buck tickets.
24:30🔗AdamOh, they leave early. They try to catch you at the party.
24:34🔗DrewWe had a school. The last premiere we had for Dogma, Michael Keaton was there. And I was kind of jazzed by that, because he was Batman. And at one point, like I'm saying, I've seen the movie. I'm like, I'll sit through it again. And he spent half the movie out in the lobby on his cell phone. Very classy. Very classy Batman. Is that Commissioner Gordon calling you? Must you be on your way? Is the signal in the sky?
24:55🔗AdamWell, he's, you've cursed him with his career, by the way. I mean, his career just fall apart, hasn't it?
25:02🔗CallerHe's a great actor, too, I think. Yeah, he's a very good actor.
25:05🔗AdamPlease, he hates the man. Don't talk about him.
25:07🔗DrewI love Michael Keaton. No, I love Michael Keaton. I was crestfallen that he talked on the phone through most of my premiere, but I got over it. I said, I'll show you Michael Keaton one day. I'll put Adam Corolla in the movie.
25:36🔗AdamKevin told me during the break that he'd actually cut so much stuff of my mind out of the movie that if I appear in the next movie, that's going to have to be cut, too, because it was part of the cutting process. We kept cutting.
25:47🔗DrewWe ran out of stuff of yours to cut. We were like, well, mental note, cut more of his stuff when we use it in the next picture.
25:54🔗AdamIn the third, if in fact there is a third.
26:46🔗CallerWe were bummed that there was like 300 there. But then afterwards. The reason why I'm like a huge fan, as I know Chasing Amy was like a big movie for you, not only just making it, but as long as far as the story. But I know it sounds really weird, but that's the reason why I got the laser dis-sign is because that is actually a true story for me. I know listening to the commentary, you're like, yeah, all the guys are going to go out and like try to get laid by lesbians. But that actually happened to me. I actually asked the girl out that was gay to go see Chasing Amy. And from there we had like a three-year relationship.
27:27🔗CallerNo. Well, not really converted her because I mean, three years later when we broke up, she was back to, you know, but.
27:33🔗DrewDid she try to bring girls into your relationship over the course of three years?
27:36🔗CallerNo, not at all. It was just one of those things where it was like when we were sitting there watching the movie and Joey Adams was explaining to Ben, like, you know, why she fell in love with him and why she was with him. You know, she just turned and looked at me and was like, you know, that explains it all and you don't really have to ask any more questions. And from that moment on, I never did question it because beforehand, it was just like, you know, we would look at each other and say, you know, why is this happening? Why are we together?
28:05🔗CallerI don't know what she says. What was the line?
28:07🔗DrewYou know, like, escape from it. No, she talks about why you're talking about why she was, I totally zoned out because I was like, Adam and Drew are just like, wrap it up, kid. We got to talk about Nookie.
28:21🔗AdamHey, James. I'm glad you got sex off a lesbian, all right? All right, God bless. You know, it's tough. Here's the tough part. It's got to be tough in your career. It's tough in ours too. We don't have as many fans as you do, but the more energetic a fan is, the crazier they are. So you're profoundly flattered that they went to great lengths sleeping in their car. You know, for us, it's bus rides from God knows where. But you realize only an insane person would do that, and that's who you're dealing with at this point.
28:58🔗DrewLike, she's always talking about, like, I don't understand why people want your signature. She maintains, Jen, my wife, maintains that she would never want anyone's signature. And I cop to actually having two autographs myself. Who? Howe Hartley and Michael Keaton. I got him to sign it while he was on the phone during my premiere.
29:17🔗DrewNo, there was a director named Howe Hartley. I had him sign a laserdisc for a movie he did called Trust, which I liked a lot, before I got into filmmaking myself. And Richard Leclerc, a guy that did Slacker and Dazed and Confused, he signed my Dazed and Confused CD.
29:33🔗AdamI really, really enjoyed that movie. And my only problem with it is there's a guy by the name of Sasha Jensen, who I went to high school with, who played a high schooler in that movie. And I was like sitting there like, no way, Sasha, no way. I graduated the day in 82. He can't be in high school. Last time I saw him was high school. He passed.
29:53🔗DrewHe can't be back in high school. They all looked about 30 to me in that movie. But most movies, look at Grease for heaven sakes. George Ravold's Olivia Newton John High School, I don't buy it. And then I got in high school, I'm like, how come nobody looks like they did in Grease? We all look like kids.
30:06🔗AdamRight. Yeah, it looks like Newsies. Karen, you're 21. What's up?
30:15🔗CallerWell, I've been married for a year and a half. My husband's 20. And we have sex, but it's like, I don't really, it doesn't do anything for me, just regular sex. And I feel really bad because it kind of makes me not want to.
30:28🔗CallerWhat do you mean just regular sex? What kind does do something for you?
31:21🔗DrewGet out. Why that man will do what you need. Get out.
31:25🔗AdamBut I don't know if she knows what she needs or... She's, what, 21. And a lot of the women we talk to at 21 just have not hit their stride yet sexually. No, maybe it takes a guy to get them on that stride. But Karen sounds sort of like a young 21 and sort of naive. And maybe she's not really too into it at this stage of the game.
31:49🔗CallerSo you're committed to the relationship.
31:51🔗CallerOh, yeah. We're very intimate. Like, I guess the way that I feel intimate is just by talking. All right.
31:56🔗CallerThat's right. I understand. But then that's sort of how women do experience that. Men don't necessarily experience that. But one thing that men can do easily is just listen to you and do what you ask of him. It's simple enough. Why don't you tell him what you want him to do?
32:09🔗CallerBut it's not even that. I mean, it doesn't really make a difference whether or not I orgasm to me.
32:16🔗AdamWhy don't you tell him that? Can you do that? Yeah. Try that. Women...
32:22🔗CallerThere's something missing in your connection with your husband. That's all I can tell you. I don't know what it is, or if it is just a particular communication problem, but there's something missing here.
32:31🔗AdamWomen also, I think, don't like telling guys what they want.
32:35🔗CallerYeah, it's like it spoils it. They're supposed to magically know.
32:38🔗AdamGIO And it should be magic. And also, some of them, like we'll talk to women who have been married for 15 years, they love oral sex, their husband doesn't do it, and they're angry at the guy. And they should be because the guy should be doing it. But on the other hand, you've not been telling them for 15 years what you want. Each year, you get more and more angry. Whereas men, we understand being told what to do, and we like to tell what to do. That's why, like with hookers, it's like, okay, how much for a BJ? 50 bucks. Okay, sex, that's 100.
33:10🔗DrewI'm still flabbergasted. You can say rim job, but you have to say BJ. I don't understand the show at all. You're right.
33:15🔗AdamI don't have to say it. I can say below job.
33:17🔗CallerTalk to your friend George Carlin. He invented the seven words you can't say, and that's it. We still have to fly by.
33:49🔗AdamKaren, you're going to get angry at the guy, especially if you think he knows you like it and he's not doing it anyway.
33:55🔗CallerWell, it's not that he avoids it. I don't know. It's not that important to me, I guess.
33:59🔗AdamWell, it is. That's why you're calling the show, though.
34:02🔗CallerListen, there may be something more substantial going on here, but there is an obvious place to start. Just do that. Make sure he does that every time and pays attention, and see if that kindles a connection of some type. But he may not be paying attention to you. He may not be giving you your emotional needs, getting your emotional needs met the way you need, and that's a different issue.
34:20🔗AdamI'll do it every time. That's my style, and sometimes I'll even do it twice, so I don't have to do it the next time.
36:00🔗AdamUh, no. It's like you can't just go... Like if you're having a normal conversation and your mom was in the room, and your friend said, you know, did you make it out to the ball game last week? And you go, no. But now it's real strained.
36:14🔗DrewAnd he just knows, mom's sitting there going, Kyle, who are you speaking to at this hour of the night about taking frequent showers? What is that all about?
36:22🔗AdamDrew, what kind of plan is it, what kind of plan did God have to make us essentially hairless and smellless all the time we were not able to have sex? And as soon as the sexuality comes in, we cover ourselves with hair and stink. What kind of plan is that? Do you know what I mean? Shouldn't it be the other way around? Shouldn't it be hairy and smelly from like 0 to 14? Don't care. And then have the hair start falling out and the funk start going away so we can have some good, clean, hairless, funk-less sex?
36:52🔗CallerI guess we may have lost the appreciation of the funk-filled sex as we evolved as a civilized human.
36:58🔗AdamRight, right, right. There was a time when people probably appreciated that.
37:03🔗CallerAnd marked each other with it too. And it does arouse, theoretically. That part of the brain gets affected by it.
37:22🔗AdamAll right. We will take ourselves a little break. Jennifer and Kevin are both here from Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. Out this, not this Friday, so.
37:30🔗AdamA week from this Friday. And we'll be right back.
37:34🔗CallerLoveline, Loveline, 1-800-LOVE-191, we'll be right back.
38:06🔗AdamHey, everybody. This is Loveline. I'm Adam Corolla. This is Dr. Drew. Phone number 1-800-LOVE-191. Jennifer Schwalbach, Schwalbach, sorry, and Kevin Smith are both here from Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, which is out a week from this Friday on the 24th. It has tons and tons of funny people in it. Drew's just broken his microphone. All right. You'll be fine, Drew. And I don't know. I haven't heard any press on it or anything, but the commercials look funny and a lot of buzz, like I said, based on wearing the jacket.
38:51🔗DrewAnd then most of the other reviews, I guess, break fairly soon. But we had a junket like a month ago, and the press there really seemed to dig it.
39:02🔗DrewBecause there's no depth to it whatsoever. It's just a comedy for the sake of being a comedy. And after the last movies, after Chasing Amy and Dogma, the critics say things about you like, ah, he's living up to the promise he showed with Clerks and then suddenly we make a movie that is a quantum leap backwards and is more like the second movie we made which nobody liked, Mallrats. Well, some people like the critics.
39:24🔗AdamI like Mallrats. I saw Mallrats in the theater.
40:22🔗DrewFavorite movie to make? I think actually, I mean, it's going to sound like I'm just pimping the new movie, but it was the recent movie, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. A lot of fun making it.
40:31🔗CallerAll right. And in dogma, what do you have against Wisconsin?
40:35🔗DrewNothing. In dogma, there's a joke about Wisconsin being kind of hell on earth. It was just I needed the state that was right next to Illinois.
40:43🔗CallerAlthough I got to say, I was in Milwaukee in February, and I couldn't help thinking, why did humans settle here?
40:51🔗DrewIt was a cold and barren and windy. It didn't look like that on Laverne and Shirley, right?
41:20🔗AdamYeah, a security guard that has a narcolepsy is not here tonight. We had a security guard. The guy is a big, heavy-set guy. He must have three or four daytime jobs because he sleeps on the sofa. Right.
41:35🔗AdamYeah. Yeah, I really do. I mean, this guy, in a way, he's just sort of like, he's like a hay bale. You dive behind him at the shooting. It's like a sandbag. He snores, but it's sort of novelty snoring that only big husky guys can pull off. That weird, just like arching.
41:55🔗AdamYeah. It just takes a man of a certain carriage to be able to pull off that kind of snoring. He would do that, and so I decided to get a 20-foot extension on my mic, and I dragged it over there during the show.
42:36🔗CallerYou're shaming someone who's defenseless. You should be ashamed of yourself because he doesn't process there's a mic there.
42:44🔗AdamI think he was sleeping on his gun, so it would have taken him a while to retrieve it from the crack of his ass. But he was asleep out there and I thought, I'm going to get the mic out there and I'm going to put it next to him. I got as close as I could get to his mouth and then it rained back in here. We just checked with it throughout the evening. We'd hear him sawing logs. The poor guy got fired, I think. Did he get fired, Drew? He came back, though. But he came back a year later. Then he fell asleep again, so I decided to go back and Drew was like, don't do it, you got him fired. Drew started in with the, he's got kids and I started in with how is he going to learn a lesson and all this. We couldn't get him the second time. He kept rolling over and stuff.
43:20🔗DrewYou would imagine once bitten, twice shy kind of thing, but apparently not. He's like, I got my job back and finally security again.
43:27🔗CallerThat's why I'm saying he had a medical problem, he had sleep apnea.
43:30🔗AdamHe really made a lot of noise. Tom Vu is a guy who used to sell real estate over the late night infomercial guy in Joy Lot. But you don't know Tom Vu?
43:52🔗CallerI am getting ready to marry my fiancé of six years. And sex is great if we get off to a good start, which is rarely. So I've tried everything from lingerie, novelties, anything you can possibly.
44:10🔗CallerHold on a second. Help me out. First of all, I'm going to sort of question everything you say because everything is great as long as we get off to a good start, which never happens. So you're saying they're not great. Okay, what does off to a good start mean?
44:24🔗CallerYou know, at least five to ten minutes of good foreplay.
44:27🔗CallerOkay, but you're doing these things to try to evoke him, to try to be more provocative, and that moves him along quicker. That's going to make him want to jump right past foreplay.
44:38🔗CallerWell, and I've even tried to be more subtle, and it just, I, and he's bluntly told me that it's not something that, you know, he's not into it. He would just rather cut to the chase, and obviously for me, you know, there's chances that, more than likely, I won't even orgasm if we don't.
44:55🔗AdamSo you're talking about, like, making out, oral sex, and fondling, and all that stuff, and he wants to get right to the intercourse.
45:02🔗CallerRight. Well, unless of course he's getting a BJ, and then otherwise.
45:26🔗CallerI think what it is too, is his sex drive is like tenfolds mine. And so I have a hard time keeping up with him. Well, he needs to take care of him.
45:52🔗CallerUm, no. He just loves sex. I mean, I imagine every guy does.
45:57🔗CallerYeah, but sometimes it can become a problem. It's starting to have consequences here. I mean, that's.
46:01🔗AdamBut as a guy who loves sex, he should understand how to get sex and how to get more sex, and he should put his time in with the foreplay.
46:09🔗DrewBut six years, I guess maybe he assumes he put his time in.
46:12🔗CallerI have no problem getting sex from him. It's just getting at least those two, three minutes to get me jump started.
46:17🔗CallerYeah, Mary, you've got to be more realistic about what you're dealing with here. You've denied every time we've tried to make you look at things through the prism of reality. You've said, no, no, no, it's not so, right? Yikes. Yeah. Things are great, except they're not. He's a wonderful guy, except he's not. Be more realistic about what you're dealing with here, and assert yourself very, very clearly, and create consequences if he doesn't comply, if he's not willing to have reciprocity in your relationship.
46:45🔗CallerOkay, but it doesn't make sense to me to be like, well, I'm not giving you sex unless you can give me foreplay. I mean, I like the sex once we get into it.
46:54🔗AdamRight. You don't like the idea of having to threaten him to not be selfish.
46:58🔗DrewYou don't want to use sex as a weapon, as Pat Benatar would say.
47:09🔗AdamYou better take care of this before you get married and have kids, and because as we know, hell is for children. Another Pat Benatar adage. All right. Actually, if you listen to this song, hell is for hell at the end, which is sort of redundant.
47:27🔗AdamHow dare you? That's a big karaoke number for me. I almost start crying when I talk about that. I tell grandpa you fell off the swing. You know that? Oh, it's great line, Drew. It's about child abuse. Very heavy. Brings the room down, but it's a powerful message.
48:34🔗AdamIt is Loveline. I'm Adam. That's Drew. Phone number 1-800-LOVE-191. Kevin Smith and Jennifer Schwalbach are both here. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is the name of the movie. They're both starring in it. Jennifer, are you starring in it?
49:03🔗DrewShe was a journalist. We met and she interviewed me back in 98. She used to work at USA Today. It was just apparently a very good interview. You should see the piece she wrote.
49:36🔗AdamYou have to capture them because you don't want to hurt them.
49:40🔗CallerHis theory is that he can't make an ant.
49:43🔗DrewIt's very close. My theory is it's like a human life. It's not a human life, but it's a very intricate life form. It seems ridiculous to just kill it because it's like you're in my way.
49:53🔗AdamYeah. My thing is I'm almost the same way, but I will make the exception for vacuuming them. If I can vacuum them, because you assume they're alive in the bag.
50:04🔗DrewThis isn't bad. This is a nice place to be. The bag, there's dirt in it.
50:08🔗AdamWell, that's like a cathedral for him, for that ant. I mean, there's a lot of room in that bag.
50:13🔗DrewHe gets in the bag with all the other ants, they're like, he got you too.
50:24🔗AdamYeah. Roach comes in like two weeks later, what are you in for? I don't know. It's just hanging out.
50:28🔗DrewI know you wouldn't kill me though. I wish you had sometimes.
50:32🔗AdamIt's weird about the human mind, which is I'll see like a spider or ant or something, and I will vacuum it up. It'll go into the bag and then I'll have that thought. I'll go, now it's in the vacuum, aware of that. Do you think it can climb up and out of the vacuum? Is it in the bag? Is it going to die in the bag? And then it's like, wait a minute, my balls itch. I start scratching my balls and I go, what was I thinking about? Who cares? And I start and I move on.
50:57🔗DrewAnd the spider's in the bag going, God, I hope he's got a guilt complex over this. Maybe I'll get free.
51:01🔗AdamI actually bought one of those insect...
51:24🔗DrewA more painful death than his already short lifespan.
51:27🔗AdamYou know what I do too is I will give them a chance to live, but if they don't embrace it, I will kill them. And then like mock them. Like I do that with flies, like flies buzzing around. I'll open the window. The fly will smack the window next to it, bounce back. Then it'll come back in the room, be buzzing around and I'll have the window open and I'll start that dialogue. Free, go, go, look, I'm giving you a chance. I give it, this is it.
52:43🔗DrewMiramax option, a series of book. When people hear Fletch, of course, they think, rightfully, Chevy Chase, the two movies, the one really good one, the one not so good one. But the first movie was based on a book that Gregory McDonnell wrote. He wrote a series of them, a series of books about this character Fletch. Sixth or seventh in the series was a book called Fletch One, which took the story way back to the beginning to tell how he first got a job on the paper. I always felt I learned to write dialogue by reading Gregory McDonnell's Fletch novels. They're very dialogue heavy, very few expository passages. Basically, it reads like a script. So when the option lapsed, I guess, at Universal or something like that, I heard that it was available. And I asked Miramax to pick it up, so they said yeah.
53:28🔗DrewThat's what I'm hoping. I don't want to do it if it's not Jason Lee.
53:32🔗AdamAnd that's not your next film. That's the one after that.
53:35🔗DrewThat's going to be the one after that. I mean, it's a comedy, and we just made a very kind of a ball. Can you say ball? Is it B? Go ahead. Balls to the Wall comedy. Right. I don't know on the show. Balls to the Wall comedy. And I just didn't want to make another one right next to it. So the next one we're going to do is kind of more along lines tonally of Chasing Amy. It's a mixture of the comedic and the dramatic. It's about fatherhood.
53:59🔗DrewI got a kid now, so I've got to talk about it. Who wrote it? Do you write it? I'm working on it right now. I'm about 40 pages in.
54:05🔗AdamThis sounds like a trite question, but what are your favorite movies? What are your top five or ten?
54:11🔗DrewTop five is funny you should ask. JFK, Jaws, A Man for All Seasons, Do the Right Thing, The Last Temptation of Christ. Those are my top five.
55:46🔗CallerYeah. I'll tell you, big bulky glands in there and pain in the lining of the vagina. You have any burning when you're not having intercourse? Do you have pain when you're not having intercourse?
56:04🔗CallerDefinitely, if you're having that, a doctor needs to look at it because that's how the diagnosis is going to be made. If you have all those things present, they can see if you really have the lesions there.
56:13🔗CallerOther bacterial infections in that region can also cause similar kinds of experiences, but this needs to be dealt with right away, like tomorrow, first thing, okay?
56:44🔗CallerI'll just squish them and I don't know.
56:46🔗DrewCan do it. Try to make peace with it. Just try to gentrify the neighborhood, get the ants away.
56:52🔗AdamIf I knew he wasn't going to talk, I'd let him go.
56:55🔗CallerI can have no guarantee of that. Here's again an interesting twist in the human mind. So you can't squish an ant, but can you have the orca guy come and spray four billion of them?
57:04🔗DrewNo, I can't. Even if it's a, I can't mandate genocide either. It still feels like killing them.
57:11🔗AdamI do. I throw them out, but I realize they'll soon be back in, and that's why I want to get some-
57:54🔗CallerYeah. It's still, it's still, that's, they get sort of fixed in that state of development. And David, this is, this is how child abusers are born. That 60% of people who are sexually abused will then themselves abuse in some fashion.
58:07🔗CallerBut is there like anything I can do to stop picturing them?
58:10🔗CallerYeah. Get some treatment for dealing with the trauma of having had that sexual abuse and maybe you'll grow past that.
58:19🔗CallerOr you could do what Adam says. But I do think that before you do something that harms another person, you got to get some treatment for this.
58:45🔗AdamThat's a little out of bounds, don't you think?
58:47🔗CallerI mean, I like go up to them and say, gee, can I have a hug? And they'll go, oh, sure.
58:51🔗CallerYeah. If you get yourself in some sort of bad state emotionally, that may become you going up and exposing yourself, or God knows doing what to them. And so you must stop. You must stop. Someone's going to look at that as an assault, and you're going to be in trouble. So just get some supervision.
59:07🔗AdamWell, David, look at it this way, too. Not only for them and, you know, future potential victims, but for you. I mean, you don't want to hurt anybody, and you don't want to spend any time in prison, right?
59:59🔗CallerWho's going to be in it? Like Dante, Randall?
1:00:02🔗DrewYes. Brian O'Haller and Jeff Anderson, the two guys from Clerks. Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Chris Rock, Jason Lee, George Carlin, Joey Adams, playing old characters, Rene Humphreys, some. I mean, George Carlin is not playing Cardinal Glick this time out.
1:01:02🔗AdamSure. You end up on the floor. Actually, it goes into the garbage show. It doesn't go on the floor, does it?
1:01:08🔗DrewNo, it goes in. I mean, it's all digital, right? You have it on an Avid. So it's saved on a hard drive somewhere. Beautiful. You exist. You're still there.
1:02:06🔗CallerIf you want to have a monogamous relationship with someone, that's what you got to have. Or there is heartache. It doesn't work bringing other people in.
1:02:14🔗DrewYou just brought the show down with that. It's very true sentiment, but it really brought the show down.
1:02:18🔗AdamNot only that, but what Benatar song is it is heartache? I don't know that one.
1:02:33🔗CallerYeah. Dr. Drew, I'm going through a separation right now, and I'm trying to stay positive and stuff. She doesn't say she wants a divorce. She just wants space and stuff.
1:03:01🔗CallerWhat went wrong in this relationship after a year?
1:03:04🔗CallerWell, I'm not so sure if anything went wrong. I'm almost beginning to believe that this is like a healthy progression of the relationship.
1:03:11🔗CallerAsking for a divorce, not usually a great sign.
1:03:14🔗DrewThat's not where you want to go with a relationship.
1:03:15🔗CallerWe're not asking for a divorce. We're coming with a lot of dysfunction.
1:04:05🔗CallerAll right. And in the course of her sobriety now, she's decided this relationship is not for her.
1:04:11🔗CallerI think she's taken the separation to decide if it is.
1:04:15🔗CallerAll right. You know what? Okay, listen. What you said about the relationship, Miss May being a healthy part of the relationship, may be true. This could be right. Because the difficult part about that first year of sobriety is whoever you were involved with when you entered sobriety keeps you fixed as the person who started in sobriety. It doesn't let you grow in whatever direction you need to grow to develop in sobriety. So this might be a good thing. You're right. She may decide, jeez, this is the relationship I want to come back, but it's very risky. I agree.
1:04:47🔗CallerWell, like for Kevin and Jennifer, you do shoots and stuff and you're out, you're taking those natural separations. Well, we don't have that ability because of our finances and stuff. When you take a separation, you go off on a shoot or something and then you come back, does it feel like it strengthens the relationship?
1:05:10🔗DrewWe're never apart. Yeah, we're never really apart. I mean, we've only been married two years and changed and then we worked on the last movie together all the time. But I'm not one of those people that feels like absence makes the heart.
1:05:20🔗CallerI agree with you. I think small separations can be good for each of the individuals. Yeah, for them to focus on themselves, but it doesn't do much for their relationship.
1:05:29🔗CallerRelationship needs lots of time and lots of connection. But Tim, this is a different situation. She is in the process of recovering from an illness. And if her sponsor agrees with this?
1:06:12🔗CallerTim, it's all going to work out. This has to happen. So sit tight and you got to work on your maybe get your connection strengthened with other people. Get you go with a sponsor again, go to more meetings.
1:06:57🔗DrewFor a minute, I thought he was going to wait. He was like, I'd like to ask Kevin and Jennifer when they kick smack. I don't know how I was going to work into that equation.
1:07:05🔗AdamWell, I guess he just, him and his wife just shoot locally or something.
1:07:15🔗DrewWhen the party is over, kind of a days of wine and roses affair.
1:07:19🔗CallerBut when you're getting clean, aren't you supposed to wait a certain amount of time?
1:07:22🔗CallerBefore you make a major decision? One year. It's been one year for her.
1:07:25🔗CallerBecome involved in a relationship or?
1:07:27🔗CallerYeah. But they were already involved.
1:07:29🔗CallerRight. It doesn't apply to their situation, but in general, you're supposed to wait like a year before you become intimately involved with someone else.
1:07:35🔗CallerAbsolutely. I can't tell you how many recoveries I've seen destroyed by new relationships. That's the most frequent reason people go down.
1:07:43🔗CallerIt basically pulls. Relationships bring out the sickest part of who we are as humans. It really does. It just does.
1:07:49🔗DrewI've got to go home with this lady tonight, man.
1:07:51🔗CallerEspecially if you have a delicate growth process under way and you escape out of that into an old pattern of relationship. It pulls you back to the person, the template you were before you started recovery. What they would tell something like this is don't make any decisions for a year. Just focus on your recovery. Well, it's been a year now. She's making some decisions.
1:08:11🔗DrewBut also too, you get involved in a relationship. Relationship winds up busting up. Suddenly, you're dealing with emotional heartbreak and you race back to whatever it is.
1:08:18🔗CallerOh, absolutely. That's part of the reason people react.
1:08:39🔗CallerWell, no. I wanted to ask you that because I'm a really big fan.
1:08:42🔗DrewOh, awesome. Yeah, we were initially going to make Clerks 2. We wanted to make a movie that kind of closed out the movies we've done so far, which we called the first, it was the Jersey Trilogy and then it became the Jersey Chronicles because we made more than three, and that we wanted to end it. And so we were going to bookend the series of flicks. We started with Clerks and we're going to end with Clerks. But it just felt like Clerks was its own kind of unique little black and white messed up little thing. And just didn't want to futz with that, go back and do a color version or just retell that story more or less. Because what are you going to do? The guys are still working at the store. Right. No new info. So that's when I kind of shifted the thought pattern, moved toward making Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back instead. Decided like, here's a guy who's been in movies, all the movies we've done. Let's just put them front and center.
1:09:32🔗CallerOkay. Also, I had sex with my best friend.
1:09:38🔗CallerAnd he hasn't called me and it's like not normal for him not to call me because it's like we'd always be together, but now it's just like it's weird with him.
1:11:50🔗CallerIt may not be. That may be why she's having such a tough time dealing with it. Yeah, that's what people do when they don't want to really admit to themselves or the other person how they're really feeling, because they don't want the other person not to reciprocate. They have a sense they won't be reciprocated.
1:12:04🔗CallerBut isn't it better to just call in and confront the situation and be honest, and if he's not into her, then she knows and can move on?
1:12:38🔗AdamWe'll take ourselves a little break. We'll be right back. Hey, it's Loveline, everybody. Kevin and Jennifer are both here from Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, which is out a week from this Friday. That is August 24th, everybody. Tons of celebrities, good reviews, and good, funny, lighthearted movie.
1:13:47🔗CallerYeah. And so I wanted to ask you, is it worth it to become a filmmaker?
1:13:52🔗DrewIs it worth it? Judging by the looks of the lady sitting in my right, yes. Really? Oh, God, yeah. And I would have never met her had I not become a filmmaker, because they don't send journalists from USA Today to interview guys working at the quick stop in New Jersey.
1:14:08🔗DrewI did that for a few years, waited for that interview and never happened. Never did? Never. Just waited for them to come to the door.
1:14:14🔗AdamNot a full page, but it's certainly a piece with stuff.
1:14:16🔗DrewNot even in the column, not even up and coming. No, we sold USA Today quite a few copies, but nobody ever came to interview me. Yeah, I'd say it's absolutely worth it. It's a communications medium, so if you're lucky, it's you throwing your message out in the void and seeing your response to it, and building an audience off of that. There's nothing better than being able to tell stories for a living, make pretend for a living. There's a part of you that doesn't have to grow up.
1:14:43🔗CallerOh, and I also wanted to ask you, because I've got to know, what do you think of the new Star Wars title?
1:14:48🔗DrewIt doesn't bother me that much. A lot of people on the internet seem really bugged by it. What is it? It's called the Episode 2, The Attack of the Clones, or I threw in the, it's just Attack of the Clones.
1:15:00🔗DrewYeah, people are trying to change it already. But people said the same thing about Fan of Menace as well, when that title came out. But at the end of the day, nobody refers that movie as Fan of Menace, they just call it Episode 1. Same thing here, they won't call it Attack of the Clones, they'll just call it Episode 2.
1:15:17🔗DrewYeah, I guess I've been tagged as that. We reference those movies a lot.
1:15:22🔗CallerWe have Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher in the movie.
1:15:24🔗DrewYeah, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher in this movie.
1:15:26🔗AdamAnd were you disappointed in The Phantom Menace?
1:15:29🔗DrewNo, I actually liked it. I was one of those cats that really dug it. I didn't go in with high expectations. Because I'm no longer 9, 10 years old. By the time the movie came out, I was like 28, 29. And I just assumed that it wouldn't affect me the way it did when I was a kid. I think a lot of people went to see that movie thinking, I'm going to be blown away just like when I was a kid. And it will be my brand new mythology. And those movies are kind of aimed squarely at kids.
1:17:26🔗CallerOkay. I have another question. Sometimes when we do have sex, I never get to my point and the next day I wake up really swollen and in pain.
1:18:17🔗CallerYeah. But I feel maybe he'll probably just say like, okay, fine then. Because he's a real sensitive person.
1:18:24🔗CallerPatty, you're afraid, how sensitive and great a guy can this be, that you're afraid that if you tell him he's hurting you, he's going to like leave? Give me a break. Why do women think like that?
1:18:34🔗AdamDid she say that? Was that what you said, Patty?
1:18:37🔗CallerIn a way. Maybe he'll probably just tell me, okay, then fine, we won't do anything no more.
1:18:48🔗AdamHe's not going to cut you off. Oh, I've got to criticize my love making. We'll see how you like it when I don't give it to you anymore, honey. Yeah, women really respond to that. No guy's ever done that. He's not going to cut you off sexually. You understand? Tell them what you want.
1:19:04🔗CallerIs that women thinking like the men elect women? That if somebody insulted them, they go, forget it then.
1:19:11🔗DrewAfter this evening, I'm convinced there are very few sexual problems in the world. There are just a lot of communication problems. People just don't talk to each other. If people learn that just by communication, you get your point across, you'll be a happier person than like Pat Benatar once saying, we would be invincible.
1:19:28🔗CallerHe's been looking for a way to work that in.
1:19:31🔗AdamI got to get on the Internet. Next? Yeah. I'm going to find something here. Yeah. That's right. I could just critique my love making, will you? Well, perhaps a couple of weeks without my penis, and you'll teach you a good lesson. And no BJs in the interim either. Thank you.
1:21:06🔗CallerAnd so I woke up and I asked him because I thought it was about me. And, you know, when he dreams about me like that, I like to hear about it.
1:21:14🔗CallerWell, but then he was like, are you sure you want to know? And that should have been clue number one, that I didn't ask him to go any further.
1:21:39🔗CallerShe looks really great. She's 54, but she looks really good.
1:21:43🔗CallerBut wet dreams can be very random. I mean, it could be Jabba the Hutt, you know, it could be Keeping In Theme, which is her brother's name, by the way.
1:23:38🔗AdamAll right. All right. Hey, why don't you, why don't you boff her dad next time you go to bed? I mean, in your dreams. His dad. Just sort of, yeah, his dad, sorry. Not your dad. To pay him back. Can you do that?
1:23:52🔗CallerNo, because then that would just do. No. I don't want to do that.
1:23:55🔗AdamAll right. Is this guy all right other than this?
1:23:59🔗CallerWe have some communication issues, but we're working on it. Mostly we're both young.
1:24:03🔗AdamYeah. He seems, like I said, this is a very honest, forthright guy. He's telling you what he did to your mom, for Christ's sake. How long is it, Drew, before a guy should really learn to lie in a relationship? You know what I mean?
1:24:17🔗CallerWell, studies suggest generally about 38 minutes in.
1:24:30🔗CallerYou mean preserving people's feelings.
1:24:32🔗AdamI mean the kind of lie, like, you know, you go to the DMV and they go, this car hasn't been registered in six months. Have you been driving it? And you go, would that be good? Should I have been driving it?
1:24:45🔗DrewThat's not really a lie. It's like you testing the waters.
1:24:53🔗AdamWhat's the best? I could have. I don't know.
1:24:56🔗DrewRight. I don't know if that would have applied to this situation. She's like the wet dream. Who was in it? You know, you don't go like, would it be bad if it was your mom? That kind of thing.
1:25:04🔗AdamRight. You probably don't get those options.
1:25:05🔗DrewI can't believe the dude that's flat out said it was your mother.
1:25:09🔗DrewReally? I don't think that I would be like, I don't know if I would want to comp to that because, yeah, I wouldn't expect hostility, but at the same time, it's like, did she really need to know that preserving her feelings, as Dr. Drew just said, it's not really a lie. He could have just been like, yeah, I don't know, I don't remember.
1:25:31🔗AdamOkay, so I'm going to turn the hose on you. We'll take a little break. We'll be right back.
1:25:37🔗CallerLoveline, Loveline, we'll be right back.
1:26:12🔗AdamHey, it's Loveline, everybody. I'm Adam. That's Drew. Phone number. Oh, forget about that. Kevin Smith and Jennifer Schwalbach are both here. They're a married couple. Kevin wrote, directed, and stars in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. And that will be out August the 24th. Kevin and Jennifer are back in the studio. And let's hop back on the phones and speak to Jeff who's 20. What's up, Jeff?
1:26:44🔗CallerYou're right about those PSAs. Those things are retarded. Right. I got a question for Kevin. I'm a writer. Well, a tipie to be. A question about how the best way to get my foot in the door, how to get my scripts out there and look at them. If you gave me any advice, it would be great.
1:27:03🔗DrewWell, I could give you the advice, the path I took, because I don't know any other way. Wrote a script and made the movie of said script. And that was Clerks. Shattered for like 28 grand, 27, 575. And that kind of got me noticed, because I don't know any other way.
1:27:18🔗CallerWhere do you get the money for that?
1:27:20🔗DrewCredit cards. I'm sorry, what? About 10 credit cards? Dr. Drew asked me, where do I got the money? But yeah, that's the way I know. Some people write scripts and send them to agents, hoping that agents will read them and kind of take them on as clients. That, based on any conversation I've ever had with an agent, that doesn't really happen very well.
1:27:39🔗CallerHow did you go about financing the first one? Because I've been thinking about that, too. Doing a couple of shorts, kind of get my name out there.
1:27:46🔗DrewMy feeling about shorts, and this is just my personal theory, shorts don't really let anyone know whether you can tell a full story or not. Making a short says, hey, I can make a very short subject. Carrying a feature is a whole different thing. If you're going to do it, go the distance, 90 minutes. I mean, you can do it on DV now. You can rent any number of, there's high definition video you can work on. But you don't have to spend a lot of money anymore to make a movie. You can do it rather cheaply.
1:28:17🔗AdamHey Jeff, and you're asking, he already answered how we financed it.
1:28:29🔗AdamYeah. A lot of agents don't even read the scripts, right? I mean, they don't even want to open them up because there's like liability.
1:28:35🔗DrewThere is. People send scripts to our office too, and we just don't open them, we send them back. Because if you receive their script and one day something shows up even remotely close and something you do to something that somebody else wrote and one day sent you, that's an instant lawsuit.
1:28:51🔗AdamIt happened to me with Coming to America.
1:28:53🔗DrewYou were that guy? Behind that hole in the back?
1:29:00🔗AdamI sent it to Art Buchwald and then he sent it to Eddie Murphy. Yeah, that's what it- you know, we got screwed. It never showed a profit. Mike? Okay, what was your question now? Mike? Oh, Mike, you there? You're 19?
1:29:29🔗CallerYeah, I was wondering, well, I got a girlfriend, but she's a friend. I was wondering, because she acts weird, I thought I'd do it.
1:29:38🔗AdamOkay, leave her. There we go. Once in a while, you play a hunch.
1:29:41🔗DrewSee, that should be the whole show. The whole show should be a one-word answer to their question.
1:29:45🔗AdamRight. Here we go. Let's try it again. Hey, Joe? Yeah? Keep her. Marry this one. All right? All right. All right. Where the hell is Joe? Joe?
1:29:57🔗CallerYeah, I want to know what's up with community colleges because I'm going to be a senior and I'm freaking out about graduation and where I'm going to be going to college and stuff.
1:31:04🔗CallerI really love performing and just making people laugh. And I can act. I can write musically. And I'm like in the midst of writing a script.
1:31:13🔗AdamOkay. So don't waste your time. Make a movie. Or get booked on a cruise ship or something. They book riders on cruise ships. I haven't been on one in a while.
1:31:23🔗DrewYeah. There's a buffet and some guy sits on stage and composes a sonnet. Writes a few pages of a script.
1:31:53🔗CallerAnd it's like, I feel like, okay, like I'm 17. I feel like, all right, I'm almost going to be like an adult and I should like already know how to do something.
1:32:01🔗DrewOh, heavens no. But I don't know how to do a damn thing. No, no, not at all. I didn't learn. I'm 31 and I made five movies, still don't know a damn thing about the process. There's plenty of time. Do it while you're young, especially.
1:32:14🔗DrewWhere do you learn doing this? Some people go to school to do it, you know, go to like a USC or an NYU or a smaller school that has a film program. And I always found it best to kind of learn as you do. I went to four months at a school called the Vancouver Film School in British Columbia and didn't learn anything except that I didn't want to be in film school. And where I learned and where you continue to learn is just by practice. Get your hands on a camera if you can or make friends with somebody who is going to a film school and they have access to cameras.
1:32:44🔗CallerDo you know any good schools in Michigan? Because I need to pick a school. I've got to go to college and stuff.
1:32:52🔗DrewWhere in Michigan are you near Ann Arbor? Because I know there's lots of great schools there.
1:32:56🔗CallerSort of near Ann Arbor. I'm really near Detroit, but I could do that.
1:33:01🔗CallerWouldn't you agree? Just get the best, broadest education you can? Because your experience of life and your understanding of life can be more impactful on what you create anyway.
1:33:09🔗DrewYeah, to some degree. It depends. I mean, my feeling on filmmaking or in terms of like being a writer-director is nobody can really teach you to write in school. You either can or you can't. It's just something you're kind of born with. And directing, you can go to school and kind of learn how to shoot different angles or any number of technical aspects to filmmaking. But when directing, for me, comes down to communication, like any communicative thought to your cast or your crew and so that they can help you bring it to life. And that's something either you do well or you don't do it all. They can't teach you that in school either.
1:33:45🔗AdamI had a wonderful experience on the set with Kevin. You know what you guys did to me?
1:33:52🔗AdamWhich was, I was doing a thing where I was talking on the phone to an imaginary person. And here's, I know we're running late on time, but this happens to me over and over again. Which is, the person I'm supposed to be speaking to.
1:34:11🔗AdamSo what they did is they gave a female the script and had her read the male lines.
1:34:15🔗DrewThat was Hillary, she was the script supervisor.
1:34:17🔗AdamAnd Hillary, although Hillary had the script on her lap was having some difficulty getting through the script, she flubbed more of her lines than I was flubbing of my lines. She was trying to memorize the lines.
1:34:27🔗DrewAnd eventually you got very diva-like. You were like, can I have a male read that part, please?
1:34:31🔗AdamIt's disconcerting when you're going, dude, I'm going to kick your ass. And there's some woman in her 40s sitting on an apple crate five feet away.
1:34:40🔗DrewPeople were calling you Val Kilmer after that.
1:34:42🔗CallerThat's again that method, method, method.
1:34:55🔗CallerAdam and Dr. Drew will be right back on Loveline.
1:35:25🔗AdamWell, that about does it. I want to thank Jennifer and Kevin for coming in here tonight. And again, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, which is out August 24th.
1:35:36🔗CallerAnd then we discovered that Adam was cut out of the film, and he was cut out because he tested poorly.
1:35:41🔗DrewTested poorly. Tested audience was like, him? I can see him on TV. Listen on the radio. Give me some of that I can't see.
1:35:49🔗AdamYeah. Yeah. We don't buy him wearing long sleeves.
1:35:53🔗DrewBut on DVD, you'll be the Mac, the hero.
1:35:56🔗AdamOh, I will be first in line to get that DVD.
1:36:07🔗DrewSend this guy a DVD because I know he's really troubled.
1:36:09🔗AdamWell, like I said, I usually don't make a big deal out of it, but after all the response I got on wearing that jacket, I was really-
1:36:17🔗DrewYou're like, I did something pretty good.
1:36:19🔗AdamWalk around like a peacock with that date on and then the grip broke the news to me. All right. That is it. Thanks for listening, everybody. Until next time, it's Adam Corolla for Dr. Drew saying mahalo.
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