1:20🔗AdamDr. Drew, board-certified physician, addiction medicine specialist. I'm looking for the volume on my headphones. Oh, there it is. Okay, yes. You want us to switch mics, Anderson?
1:30🔗DrewNo, they're both going to sound like that, I'm afraid.
1:34🔗AdamWe're at the Museum of Television and Radio, and we're doing a show. I don't know why we're here, but here we are again. It's been a year, right?
1:42🔗DrewYeah, it's been good. It's nice to come back, isn't it?
3:24🔗AdamAnd he's going to be down at Britannos in Century City on Santa Monica Boulevard this Friday doing a signing at seven o'clock. Cold Heart Canyon is the name of the book.
5:07🔗AdamThe audience knows what I'm saying. McFarland bought this ball for like three million dollars because it broke the home run record three or four years ago.
5:15🔗DrewLet me put it this way. I would imagine that the ball that Hank Aaron hit out of the park was at Atlanta, that that would still be worth ten million bucks even though the barrier was shattered quite some time ago.
5:28🔗AdamWell, that's a valid point. It's probably worth less after it gets broken again, but that was 25 years ago, too. This is three years later.
5:37🔗DrewSo he's got to hang on to McGuire's ball, that's all.
5:39🔗AdamNo, no, no. The point is he spent three million bucks on a ball that broke a record that no one thought could be broken. And it's not Hank Aaron's ball. What's his names?
6:33🔗AdamAll right, so tell us about this book, Clive.
6:36🔗Clive BarkerIt's a book about Hollywood. It's my towel book. Well, we talked about it last time I was here. I was doing a book in which I was trying to put all this stuff about Hollywood that I had learned in the last ten years and really try and uncover some stuff about the town and particularly its history. I mean, I was looking back at the early years of Hollywood, the time when it was supposed to be an innocent town and it was a wild place, frontier place.
7:10🔗Clive BarkerYeah, exactly. I am talking about 1919, 1920. And so I get some of that in the book and then I get a lot of modern Hollywood too. And I really tried to, you know, tell it like it is.
7:27🔗Clive BarkerYes, it is. It's very interesting. I gave the book to my publicist and she named everybody instantly. I thought I had done a really good job of covering it all up.
7:36🔗DrewDid you have to research it a ton to know what was going on in the trans-central?
7:39🔗Clive BarkerOh, yeah. There was a lot of stuff covered up, I think. I think we have a kind of weird idea of what those years were like. I mean, we think of Mary Pickford. Mary Pickford was earning a million dollars a year back then. I mean, that is a lot of money. And they were having serious parties.
8:56🔗Clive BarkerYeah, well, I think all of that, we know all about that. Yeah, we, somebody is going to turn on the air finally. Look at that. That kind lady is going to turn on the air.
9:05🔗AdamWho's the biggest sleeper? I mean, who's the Hollywood star that you didn't know about that was out philandering?
9:11🔗Clive BarkerI can't tell the ones you don't know about because they're kind of protected. But people like Flynn were very, very wild. I think there was some stories which aren't fair. I don't think he was ever a Nazi, for instance, which was claimed at one point. But, you know, he wanted to name his house Cirrhosis by the Sea because he drank so much. I mean, he was a wild, wild guy, and that was part of his public appeal, I think. I mean, I think people liked the idea that they were watching this guy who was out there. I don't think we have people like that now. I think we're sort of a little PC. Now, that isn't to say that movie stars aren't actually being wild behind closed doors and occasionally locked doors, but I think that by and large we've cleaned up the act, which is perhaps a pity.
9:58🔗DrewWhat occurs to me immediately is like, well, Studio 54 people were still that way.
10:02🔗DrewBut then what sort of stopped all that was HIV, and I wonder if that's what helped put a lid on some of it.
10:07🔗Clive BarkerWell, you still got Robert Downey Jr. and a few people around who were doing the drug thing and so on, but yes, I think we all were traumatized by that.
10:18🔗AdamI don't like to drop names, but Robert Downey Jr. called me today at home.
10:27🔗DrewBecause I know you called him, I expect him to call back and go, Jesus Christ, how do you get this phone number? Is that why he called you back?
10:33🔗AdamNo, Bobby Downey just called to chew the fat, talk about some projects and things like that.
10:57🔗AdamYeah, you want to know the range of my life? I was on the other line with a guy in Minnesota who made steel fabricated wool sheds. And I was like, hold on, hold on, this guy's, it's snowing. He's sitting in Minnesota and I'm talking to him about purlins and headers and the steel fabrication. And it's like, hi, this is Robert Downey Jr. I'm like, John, yeah, Robert Downey Jr. is on the other. The guys in Minnesota are screaming, no way.
11:25🔗Clive BarkerSo, yeah, that's the range I had. What was it?
11:28🔗AdamSome benefit thing and I called him first. So, he's just returning the call. Let's help the kiddies. Hopefully, we will get him on this show along with Anthony Kitas from Red Hot Chili Peppers coming up real soon.
12:14🔗DrewYeah. She should carry that. But aside from that, is she willing to go on the birth control pill?
12:19🔗Yeah. But I don't think right away she wants to put her arm in stuff. Not in time.
12:24🔗DrewWell, so one thing you could do is obviously use a condom, which is probably... Are either of you sexually active or have you been in the past?
13:02🔗DrewWell, John, here's the deal. Condom is a good protection, but it's only about 80 to 90% effective. And I think it's really important that you keep the emergency contraception around in case the condom fails. Right? And that's something she would take as soon as possible after an unprotected encounter. It suppresses the egg from being released, so you never get pregnant. You never have to worry about is this some sort of abortion pill because it isn't. It just works just like it's just not as effective as a normal contraceptive, normal birth control pill taken before the intercourse.
14:04🔗I'm doing pretty good. Thank you, sir. I'm calling to ask about some, I don't know how to properly classify them as warts or blisters on the tip of my penis that I've probably had since, at least since I was 15 years old.
14:19🔗DrewFirst of all, this is, I realized last night when I tried describing to someone what a blister looks like, how is it that people in this country don't know what a blister looks like? Well, by the way, if you had a blister that, hang on a second, Bill, if you had a blister that lasted 15 years, would you then begin to think maybe that's not a blister?
14:36🔗DrewBlisters are stuck on, they're on top of the skin, they're a bubble. That's a blister.
14:41🔗Maybe the best way to classify them is like, actually, I'm thinking like a blood blister, actually, because it actually seems like, you know, like dark blood, that, you know, like when you get a blood blister, the kind of bubble will be cut out.
14:52🔗DrewThere are those things, those things do develop on the penis, usually at an older age.
14:56🔗AdamIt's like a birthmark at a certain point, isn't it?
14:59🔗DrewThere's some stuck on little bloody growths that can, you in fact called me about that one time.
15:16🔗AdamThat's how I know about your penis. I got my sources out there.
15:20🔗DrewIf it's flesh color, do you think about the pearly penile papules, but these sort of stuck on blood color, dark purple, those are normal also. They're usually more towards the base though.
16:03🔗AdamWhat is that, from the painkillers? Okay.
16:06🔗DrewGood times. By the way, since I'm going to tell a Ohio Patrol story, they should be on the lookout for you. You should be driving home tonight.
16:47🔗DrewWarts. Yeah. You assume it's a papilloma virus. And the complications of HPV. What's the matter, Ann? Okay. Just give us a little bit of a post on. The complications of HPV.
16:56🔗AdamWhy are you taking two wart calls in a row? That's why her post is on.
17:22🔗DrewWell, there are certain viruses that persist and you can't really, there's no way really to tell which one you've got. And the ones that persist tend to be the ones that increase the risk of cervical cancer. So you have to screen more regularly and have to get those little pre-cancerous changes taken off whenever you get them.
18:20🔗Clive BarkerI was wondering if any of your other books are going to come out that were as intense as that?
18:27🔗Clive BarkerYeah, actually, we're doing a movie over at Warner Brothers called The Damnation Game, which is based upon one of my novels, which I think is probably the most intense thing we've ever put on screen. I'm hoping.
18:41🔗Clive BarkerJust going to screenplay right now. It's a book I published 12 years ago, I guess, 13 years ago, and it's really a heavy book, and I was delighted that a big studio wanted to do it. I think they want to do something which is as intense as The Exorcist. That's what they've been saying. So if we can pull that off, it would be great. The Exorcist is one of my favorite horror movies.
19:08🔗Clive BarkerI think it's a kind of relentlessness and a kind of seriousness of tone. Horror movies, to be really scary for me, they just need to be serious. I don't like the tongue-in-cheek kind of stuff. I like movies to be, there you go. That's a serious horror movie, you see? Yeah, the Halloween scared me because it was a scary...
19:54🔗Clive BarkerOh, yeah. There you go. Didn't that picture scare you?
19:58🔗AdamYeah, it scared the hell out of me. You know, Phyllis Tyler, this girl I like, farted in the theater, it was so scary. It was so startling to her, she squeezed one out.
20:13🔗AdamI was totally into her and she was sitting right next to me, and Jason came up busting out of the closet or whatever the hell that scene was. What's his name?
20:24🔗AdamOh, Michael. Right. Yeah, it's now ruined because of the Canadian comedian with the same name. But the point is, he came bursting into the closet and she was like, I thought, wow, this is scary.
20:40🔗Clive BarkerSo she was very embarrassed or not?
20:43🔗AdamWell, she would have been had she liked me, but it's like, screw it. It's like when you do something stupid in front of a homeless person and you think, no, who cares? Who are they going to tell?
20:53🔗DrewThey start ripping further, doing some more for you after that? Yeah. Yeah, to push you away, repel you. Thank you. You loved her more though, I suppose.
21:21🔗AdamAll right, Drew, you see, now you're going to have to step it up because I'm a little bit high, my pupils are. Now, this is the opposite of dilated, what do they call that?
21:49🔗AdamI'm going to go home and experiment with my eyes. Now, I don't actually dump the booze on my eyes.
21:55🔗DrewNo, no, you don't have to drink it. Right? Yeah, yeah.
21:56🔗AdamAll right. Clive Barker's our guest tonight. We're going to, we're out here at the television and radio museum and we're going to take a few more calls and talk to Clive and do all that after this.
22:48🔗DrewAdam's mic is out. How are we, Clive? We're going to have a good time tonight. I'm Dr. Drew, that's Adam Corolla over there speaking to a dead mic.
23:10🔗AdamGood times. I'm a little bit, uh, my pupils are small. They're pinned. As I took painkillers all day today because of a screwed up root canal I had a few years ago. So don't worry about it.
23:23🔗DrewSo Adam and I talk on the phone every night. We don't get enough chance to talk here on the radio every night. So we talk all the way home on our damn cell phones. Is that true? Yeah, that's true. And, uh, well, Adam talks, I listen. And then last night I took a different route home and it goes sort of by a mountain. And I started losing him. So rather than having him repeat everything he had been saying, which was quite a lengthy tirade, I thought, I've got to speed around this mountain. It's to make sure I don't disconnect from him so I can keep going. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. And I sped around them. I didn't pay attention how fast I was going and got off at my home. And I'm still talking to Adam now. And I go, oh, my God, there's a policeman right behind me. No lights just sitting behind me. I thought, oh, Christ, it's over. And Adam goes, he'll recognize you. Just shut up. Don't worry about it. He's going to let you go. I thought, what are you talking about? I was speeding.
24:06🔗DrewAnd he goes, no, just shut up. He's going to let you go. I swear to God. I thought, oh, the lights come on right then. Right as you said that.
24:11🔗AdamYep. Right as I pulled into my garage, Drew was looking at rollers in his rear view. And I thought, oh, I'm so glad I'm home.
24:19🔗DrewThis guy pulled me over and he goes, uh, going 90.
24:53🔗DrewBecause I did something wrong and I should have to be consequences. You want to be punished. I don't want to be punished. I just want to do what's right. Then I feel bad for other people that don't get let off. Why me? That's my self-worth problem. I'm not worth being let off.
25:08🔗AdamYou're mid-level B slash C celebrity. That's why you got off.
25:13🔗DrewPlease give yourself some credit. The guy was so nice to him. He made me feel worse.
25:40🔗Clive BarkerYeah. Why do you feel as though the guy was being generous and making a gesture towards it? And isn't it okay that people just in general can extend that? Not just to a celebrity, but just generally?
25:54🔗DrewIt's a mix for me of not feeling like I'm the one that's worth having that extended to, because I was wrong. I was just, I screwed up. And there are other people that probably need the break more, and why the hell should I get it? I don't feel right about it.
26:07🔗Clive BarkerThat seems fair. You should be punished.
26:10🔗DrewI am every night in here for two hours, for Christ's sake.
26:13🔗AdamClive, you have a dungeon in your house, right?
26:45🔗I think I have a great sex drive. As soon as I get into a relationship, right, as soon as I know there's a commitment or something, I don't know, this is what I'm guessing it is, my sex drive disappears. Like, I just have no interest. Not that I don't have any interest in the person.
27:00🔗DrewThere's a lot of reasons that can happen. One is that you're sort of fearful of getting lost in the relationship, that you get sort of sucked in so deeply that you're going to be vulnerable in some way. Does that sound familiar?
27:14🔗DrewAnother is, another thing that people do is that if they, if there's no quality of withholding, they're not aroused. So if this guy is completely available, if it's not being withheld, it's not fun. It's not arousing anymore.
27:27🔗AdamYeah, but that's not a chick thing normally.
27:31🔗AdamBut women grow up knowing that guys are good to go.
27:34🔗DrewYeah, but they need some, that's where a lot of that desire for the alpha male type comes in. They need that withholding quality to be, that negativity in order to be attracted.
27:44🔗AdamBut is that, is the alpha male withholding quality? Yeah.
27:49🔗DrewYeah, it's like, it's striking and leave.
27:52🔗AdamWell, that's not withholding sex. That's withholding love.
27:55🔗DrewRight. And this is now someone who's in, there she's going to commit a relationship, and now no arousal because it's not being withheld anymore.
28:01🔗AdamAll right. Well, listen, I don't understand, Andrea, how you have a good sex drive.
28:06🔗Well, okay, like, let's put it this way. Well, before I really know that they're, you know, like if I have sex with somebody before I get in a relationship or whatever, before I actually know there's a relationship, like, I can have sex all the time with that person. But as soon as I know that there's a commitment there, it seems to disappear. At least that's what my best is, is that it's a commitment. I don't, I'm lost.
28:29🔗DrewI'm like, Just to cover all bases. First of all, I just want to cover all bases to make sure that when you're in a committed relationship, you don't change your sort of biochemistry by getting on the birth control pill, for instance.
28:39🔗Okay, well, see, that's the thing. Okay, I'm a lesbian, so I don't ever have to worry about getting pregnant.
28:46🔗DrewThese are always with women, these relationships.
28:47🔗AdamHold on a second. A chick can't knock another chick up? Really?
28:51🔗DrewNo, those aren't real penises. The ones you see in the films.
28:53🔗AdamI was wondering, because it's like the chick is white and the penis is black, and I'm like, what the hell? There's that strap, I'm high, I'm sorry.
29:04🔗Clive BarkerYour dreams have been destroyed, right?
29:33🔗Clive BarkerYeah. Andrea, can we just break in a moment and ask Adam why he wants to be gay?
29:38🔗AdamWell, I like the lifestyle. I like the recycling. I like the dual income. The gays take care of the neighborhood. They recycle all the time. I mean, look at Santa Monica Boulevard. I drove down here on... I took Santa Monica all the way down. You could eat off of the street.
29:55🔗DrewIt's beautiful. He likes hanging out with men, not with women.
30:04🔗AdamRight. Right. Yeah, the sex. I can't get past that part. Yeah. But, you know, the whole lifestyle, like, you can have, like, you have separate rooms or you can, right?
30:49🔗AdamI mean clingy. You know what I'm saying?
30:51🔗Clive BarkerOkay. Maybe. But are all women clingy? I think that's a- Yeah. You could go, well, ironically, my mother is not clingy. Oh, really? No, she was never clingy. She just-
31:02🔗DrewIs that her mom that gave you the story about the male in the public restroom?
31:08🔗Clive BarkerMy father's mother. But my mother's mother lived to 101. She was never clingy. She just wanted to have a life. I think that's terribly judgmental to say all women are clingy.
31:22🔗AdamListen, I'm trying to compliment the gays by saying I enjoy that lifestyle. Hanging out with guys and recycling and doing work around the house.
31:45🔗DrewWhat? I don't know. Andrea. Yeah. So, do you recall what I said at the opening of your call, that sometimes withholding is something people find arousing or getting into a relationship is scary because people sort of have a fantasy that they're going to get lost in it or become vulnerable. And that diminishes arousal. Right?
32:05🔗DrewAnd if you've had abandoning experiences in your childhood or at other times in your life, that can make being intimate very scary. And when you're scared and you're sort of feeling attentive, it makes it difficult to be aroused.
33:06🔗CallerOkay. Anyways, there was a kid that went to my school that died. In the paper, it said that he had a reaction from taking cold medicine and marijuana and that he stopped breathing. And I tried looking this up on the Internet, but I couldn't find a single thing on it.
33:26🔗DrewYeah. That's probably a little inaccurate.
33:42🔗DrewWell, marijuana, I know of no cases of death from marijuana of itself or in relation to other substances being used, really significantly contributing. I suppose it can contribute to seizure. And if you're doing drugs that like cocaine or speed or actually they could risk precipitate a seizure, it might add to that. Seizure can, secondarily, you can die of seizure.
34:09🔗DrewI'm just curious because I think we're talking about stimulants here. I think the cold medicine was probably one of the several stimulants he was mixing together. That's what I would bet.
34:19🔗CallerUm, I didn't, but like my sister was pretty good friends with him.
34:24🔗DrewYou have to take a lot of medicine to stop breathing. You can stop breathing from alcohol if you drink a ton real fast.
34:30🔗Clive BarkerThere's a lot of alcohol in those cold silks.
34:32🔗DrewRight, so that's one possibility. But usually people are using for the dextromethorphan and the other sort of elements in there that can cause...
34:41🔗Clive BarkerSorry, what was that? What is it?
34:43🔗AdamDrew, what about doubling up on the pain medication and having a little red wine, you know, after a radio show, let's say? That's cool, right?
35:12🔗Clive BarkerI don't recycle, Ted. I don't recycle.
35:15🔗DrewYou understand. Significantly. You're reacting to him generalizing, but just notice how the language rolls off the tongue. The gays. The gays. I don't like that. He'll talk about the blacks and the Mexicans. I don't like that. He's not racist, though. Make note. Not racist.
36:18🔗Clive BarkerYou are my favorite author, actually. Thank you. I'm psyched to hear about the damnation game going to movies. I can't wait.
36:25🔗Clive BarkerIt's going to be a while, but I think it's going to be a cool movie.
36:27🔗Clive BarkerI'll be there. I was also wondering, I'd heard about a year ago that Steve of Always was going to be put into a movie. Is that-
36:34🔗Clive BarkerYeah. Well, we've been trying that and it's gone into turn around at Universal, which means that the script is now available for anybody out there who wants to make the movie. But I'm hoping we're going to still get it set up at a major studio. I can't say too much, but still hoping it will happen. It's just, it's hell out there right now. There aren't a lot of movies being made right now. And it's very-
36:57🔗AdamWell, there's not a lot of horror movies or movies.
37:00🔗Clive BarkerNo, there aren't a lot of movies.
37:01🔗DrewBecause of the hysterics thing, people can't decide which way is up.
37:05🔗Clive BarkerIt's very, you know, a lot of movies got turned around immediately after the events of September the 11th. People are very doubtful about what kind of movies to make. I don't think horror movies are really high on people's agenda right now.
37:19🔗AdamYou know, I had, and Drew, you know, because I was on the painkillers, you told me, you talked about this before, but I had what I thought was an ingenious idea just the other day, which was, remember-
38:01🔗AdamWell, yeah, no job with the accent. But all we do is swap out Brezhnev and Bin Laden and we're there. You know, like Yakov was a horrible hack comedian who made millions because he had this whole thing where he would beat up Russians and Americans would pay millions to hear him talk.
38:17🔗DrewHe'd get up there and he was a Russian guy, allegedly.
38:30🔗AdamMid 80s. He'd get up there and he'd do like really bad jokes. He'd go, in America, you can say whatever you want about Reagan. In Russia, it's the same way. We can say whatever we want about Reagan. Yeah, and I could have millions of dollars for this garbage material, but the audience would eat it up because we hated the Russians. So I'm just saying, if we get some sort of Afghani stand up, the Afghani stand up. Yeah, but his name is, what was his name?
39:06🔗DrewAbou-Kous-Kous, we got to go to bed. We got to go to bed.
39:54🔗Dr. Drew Pinsky, Dr. Drew Loveline, I'm Adam Corolla, that is Dr. Drew over there.
39:57🔗AdamWe're at the Museum of Television and Radio. Clive Barker is our guest tonight. Clive is going to be down at Brentano's in Century City at 7 o'clock this Friday, signing his new book, right Clive?
40:10🔗Clive BarkerYep, Cold Hawk Canyon, my Hollywood ghost story.
40:14🔗AdamAnd you can meet Clive there, shake his hand in person. All right, Drew, got some calls lined up.
40:50🔗Clive BarkerWell, my boyfriend broke up with me a few days ago. I'm just, like, dying right now. And I was wondering, like, I don't know. I was going to marry this guy. I know it sounds stupid because I'm 17, but I really loved this guy. I don't know. It was, like, a long-distance relationship. But, um, we were together for a while. And everything, we even talked about marrying and, like...
41:13🔗DrewWould you read a book from... If I gave you a book, would you read it?
41:21🔗Clive BarkerHe broke up with me, and I was wondering what's the best... I know, I keep hearing different things, what to do, like, to get him back. And I was wondering, from your guy's point of view, what's the best way to, like, win a guy's heart back?
41:33🔗DrewGetting back is one of the worst plans of all time.
41:52🔗Clive BarkerLike, we've been together for a while, and we did it for the first time, and he started acting all weird. I don't know. I mean, he was all loving and stuff with After, but then he started acting with it, and...
42:21🔗AdamFirst off, London and Bakersfield are virtually the same place. I don't know why he would feel the need to move. Number two, he's probably gay if he's...
43:28🔗AdamHe's like, what rhymes with vulcanized rubber?
43:33🔗Clive BarkerHe wants all this relationship and we had a really deep relationship. Then he said, his reasoning when he broke up with me is like, that I'm not ready for the relationship you want. Then he said something when he was on the phone. He wasn't sure how you felt and then he thought, I can't explain how I feel. I have to write it in a letter and I'll send it to you. He just sounded really upset and he was like, I have to go, I have to go.
43:59🔗DrewHe just wanted to push you away and get it over with. That's it. He feels guilty, he feels bad, but it's over. You've got to accept what they are.
44:09🔗DrewBell, it's normal to feel awful. Everyone has to go through this. Let's get through it.
44:14🔗AdamYes. It's an important right of passage for everybody. I don't know why, but it is. So, let it go. You understand, Bell?
44:22🔗DrewThank God he's in London. You can't get at him. Thank God.
44:25🔗AdamYeah. Listen, one day, God willing, you'll be living in a double-wide in Bakersfield on some salt flat with 15 kids and an out-of-work husband, and you'll be laughing.
44:37🔗Clive BarkerAnd he'll come over with his boyfriend and we'll have a party together.
44:40🔗AdamHe'll pull up in his Bentley and he's a chauffeur, a roll out of red carpet, and him and his male entourage will come out. What's that, Drew?
44:59🔗CallerHey, my question is actually, how do you feel about the horror movies that are coming out today?
45:07🔗Clive BarkerNot too good. Not too good. I was saying a little while ago that I like my horror movie series. And there's been a lot of tongue in cheek stuff recently. There's actually a cool movie out right now called From Hell.
45:40🔗DrewDid Heather Graham do an English accent?
45:41🔗Clive BarkerShe put on a good English accent, I thought, yeah. And the picture felt kind of real. It was kind of gritty. And I don't know much about the Jack the Ripper murders, but the little bit I knew, it seemed like they were really trying for something. I thought it was a pretty good movie. But it was very serious. I liked that stuff. And actually, you'll like this in your present state because Depp plays this detective who is an opium fiend. Oh, interesting. And that's actually a really interesting take on it. And he has these Lordenum visions. We take Lordenum and Absinthe as well.
46:44🔗AdamI was watching TV. I was real high today watching TV and drugs. And I thought, if I was a chick, I'd have a huge ass and a flat chest. That's what I thought. Is that horrible thinking? I don't know. I don't know why.
47:58🔗AdamI'm Adam Carolla. That is Dr. Drew over there. Phone number 1-800-L-O-V-E-1-9-1. We're at the Museum of Television and Radio doing our show tonight. Got it right. Oh, I'm reading it. You kidding? Clive Barker is our guest tonight. He's gonna be at Brentano's in Century City. He's gonna be signing his book on Friday at seven o'clock. That's October 26th. Cold Heart Canyon is the name of the book. It's a book that Clive spoke about when he was on the show just a few months back and is now out or will be out.
48:29🔗Clive BarkerNo, it's actually out. It's been out about a week, week and a half.
48:32🔗DrewGiven that, now, before we, when we last talked to you, when we last had you on the show, it was before September 11th.
48:41🔗Clive BarkerI think they're pretty universal, aren't they? I mean, I called my mom the day after and she was sitting in Liverpool in tears, you know. This is a human response. It's not an American response or an English response. It's an appalling, it was an appalling sight. It's an appalling thing to keep living with, don't you think? Turning on the news and there it is and the images and the images of loss, those images of the flyers on the wall. I found...
49:06🔗DrewHave you gone to New York and seen that?
49:12🔗Clive BarkerJust the film of it. Overwhelming, overwhelming. And I think, you know, I'm really proud of this country right now. I mean, I feel like I want to be an American. I want to become a part of this community in a more solid way. So I'm going to, you know, not be a resident alien very soon and become a... A citizen. A citizen. And I think that that's being pushed towards a... That decision has been pushed forward by what happened on September 1st.
49:45🔗Clive BarkerA lot, actually. You need to answer a lot of questions about the country. You need to, you know, go down to the court and raise your hand and swear yourself in. And I think that's cool.
51:28🔗DrewYeah. Vinnie, you can't change your dad. You certainly can put him on notice that his alcoholism is affecting you badly. The best thing you can do for yourself, believe it or not, there's two things. One is you can take care of your own stuff. You can really spend time out of the home, stay away from him, focus on school, take care of yourself properly. Secondly, you can go to something called Allateen, which is actually an organization that, if you do, might get his attention in a way that would cause him to make some changes. In my experience, involvement in these codependency recovery programs have about the highest probability of anything, of getting an alcoholic to begin wanting to change.
52:05🔗AdamYou think he would freak out if he knew you were going to Allateen meetings, Vinnie?
52:39🔗AdamHere's the good news. Well, the bad news is your dad's a A-Hall. The good news is in a year or so, you'll have your own life. You'll be spending time at school. Well, I don't mean you're moving out, but you can essentially, by 15, I was out of the house all the time at 15. You hang out with your friends, you play sports after school, you do all that extracurricular activity crap, and you just get out of there. Home is a place where you keep your clothes and you go to sleep and you leave the next morning. It's like living at the Y.
53:11🔗DrewYou have your popcorn can you crap into.
53:13🔗AdamOh, Drew, what was that? It was a decorative tin of popcorn. I was locked out of the house.
53:58🔗AdamWell, it had a nice snap lid on it. It was a metal tin.
54:01🔗Clive BarkerOh, okay, so it could keep the smell down.
54:02🔗AdamIt wasn't, you see, everyone understand. It's not like there was, to the right is the popcorn can, to the left is Zsa Zsa Gabor's toilet. To the left is a slab of concrete. I was exiled from the house. I was living in the garage.
54:20🔗AdamWe didn't have plumbing in the garage. I had to shower with the hose.
54:25🔗Clive BarkerWhy was he exiled? I want to know this.
54:27🔗AdamWhy was he exiled? Because my stepmom was evil and my dad was a pussy. And dad, if you're listening, you know you're a puss. He just sat there. He was spineless. And she didn't want me in the house, so I was living. I was like 18. It was time to get out. So I got out.
54:43🔗Clive BarkerAnd she knew you had the popcorn thing going?
54:46🔗AdamUh, I'm not so sure she knew about that. I didn't want her to find out.
54:51🔗AdamAnd I didn't want my uncle Vince to find out because he was the one who gave me the decorative tin for Christmas. And I'm sure that I'm sure that was not part of the plan for him. I'm sure he didn't say to my aunt, you know, well, when he's done with the cheesy corn, he can go ahead and take an ass in it. Yeah, it was bad times. Well, look at me now.
55:10🔗DrewYeah, you're literally, literally a millionaire.
55:37🔗Clive BarkerOh, yeah, I'm sorry. I just moved out of my mom's house, like, three months ago, and I moved in with my boyfriend, and her and him don't get along at all. She thinks he's, like, way too controlling.
55:56🔗DrewAnd what is it that she specifically doesn't like? Give us an example of something he did that she didn't like.
56:00🔗Clive BarkerWell, like, I cut, like, when he's, like, at work right now, and when he's at work, I, like, stay home, and she thinks that it's just because of him that I stay home, which, I mean, he doesn't like me to go out with my friends a lot.
56:17🔗AdamOkay, well, wait a second. You're living at his place, right?
56:47🔗AdamOkay. And is she all wrong about this guy?
56:52🔗Clive BarkerWell, not all wrong, but I mean...
56:54🔗DrewThere's got to be something altogether different on my mom's mind than he's just preventing from going out at night. There's something substantially wrong with her. She has some heavy feelings about this guy.
58:26🔗DrewThat's what she doesn't like. Wait, that's what she doesn't like, Amber. She doesn't like that her 17-year-old daughter has moved in with him. What?
58:34🔗She didn't like him when I didn't live with him.
58:35🔗DrewWell, maybe she saw the direction this was all going. She didn't like the sort of intensity of this relationship for you at your age, perhaps. You're going to have to ask her precisely what really is going on with her because whatever it may be, well, maybe it's something that's really genuine and you could learn from and help get some guidance based on her feelings. But what all you've got now is smoke and nothing, BS.
58:59🔗AdamAll right. You really helped there, Drew. You got nothing.
59:01🔗Clive BarkerWell, you didn't ask whether she loved him.
59:04🔗DrewYeah, she said I loved him. They all love him. Yeah, I guarantee they'll say that.
59:29🔗CallerNot much, man. I actually had a kind of an interesting question for y'all. I've been kind of seeing this girl for a little while, and we were out drinking some beers the other night. I actually started to kind of get freaky.
59:44🔗CallerIt happens. But anyway, what we were doing, she kept kind of grabbing her hair, twirling around, and going like, no, no, no, no, kind of repeating it over and over again. So I kind of stopped. What the hell is going on here? And she'd be like, no, no, no, don't stop, don't stop. Keep going, keep going. So I keep going. And she'd keep doing it. Like she just kept like kind of, I don't know, putting her head back and saying, no, no, no, no, she kept like kind of just doing it over and over and over again. I couldn't figure out what the hell was up with it. Like she didn't even seem to know what was going on. And I mean, I thought it was an isolated incident. So I just, you know, I kind of forgot about it. And then next, I don't know, a couple of days, more or less same thing happens, and she keeps doing it. So it seems to me like it's some kind of track record. Like something might have happened to her. I was just wondering if you guys had any decent idea of what was going on.
1:01:00🔗Clive BarkerDid she look like she was having a good time? Well, yeah, yeah. Did she look, yeah?
1:01:03🔗CallerEvery time she'd be like, no, no, that was great. Yeah, keep going.
1:01:06🔗Clive BarkerSo at the end of it, she's comfortable, she's not being hurt in any way.
1:01:10🔗CallerYeah, exactly, exactly. Like, I honestly thought I was like hurting her or something, so I just completely stopped, and she kind of like, you know, gathered...
1:01:17🔗Clive BarkerMaybe she's playing out some kind of fantasy. I mean, once in a while, you know, I mean...
1:01:34🔗AdamNow, I know you don't understand it either, but we don't understand it even further because we don't understand what you're saying. You're on top of her.
1:01:54🔗CallerYeah, yeah, yeah. But like coming, you know, just like grabbing handfuls of hair, like pulling it side to side and saying, no, no, no, no, no.
1:02:02🔗Clive BarkerI think she's just having a good time. I think it's playful. I think it's play. I think there's nothing wrong with play. If she's having a good, can I say this? If she's having a good time and she's not being hurt by the experience, you know, pull your own hair.
1:02:19🔗AdamI agree. Let her relive the rape of... 20 years ago at her father's hands. Mazel Tov. I agree with Clive.
1:02:26🔗CallerThat's a long line. I was thinking, I mean...
1:02:28🔗Clive BarkerIf she's having a good time, what's the deal?
1:02:30🔗DrewLet's put it this way. There's nothing characteristic about that behavior that we can share with you that will sort of crack the code of what's going on here. The only way you're going to find out is when you ask her.
1:02:41🔗DrewI know. It risks, of course, the sex of perhaps being interrupted.
1:02:45🔗Clive BarkerOr maybe getting better. I don't know.
1:02:46🔗AdamThat's right. No, no, no. Drew, are you manning this thing?
1:02:51🔗DrewYeah, I didn't know you were down there.
1:02:52🔗Clive BarkerThat was a moment. That's an image, isn't it?
1:02:55🔗AdamYeah. The push me, pull me thing with the hair. I think he's scared that if he opens Pandora's box, he's going to get more information than he wants.
1:04:01🔗Clive BarkerWell, I was just curious if you are still writing plays, and if you were, how does somebody go about checking one out?
1:04:09🔗Clive BarkerWell, we've got two books of plays out there, one called Forms of Heaven, another one called, damn, what's the other one called? Incarnations. I forgot my own title there. You can actually get the plays performed. If you want to perform one, is that the deal or you're just wondering how to read them?
1:04:30🔗Clive BarkerI'd be in the audience watching one.
1:04:32🔗Clive BarkerWell, we actually have productions going on right around the country all the time. If you go on to clivebarker.com, you'll find out where they are at any given time. Where are you? Where are you located?
1:04:45🔗Clive BarkerWell, there are productions out there for sure. Why not mount your own though? I mean, you know, just get to the plays and do them yourself. It costs a dollar to do it. I give the rights out for a dollar and people do them. Really? Yeah. We got productions going in Paris and Sweden and Germany. It's cool.
1:05:04🔗Clive BarkerIt's just a nominal sum and then I just want people to just go out and have the freedom to do the plays. I just don't want to make money from it. I just want people to have the fun of doing them.
1:05:13🔗AdamIt's funny. You sound better saying charging a dollar than you would be doing it for free.
1:05:17🔗Clive BarkerWell, legally for some reason you can't do it for free. There's a reason why it's a contract. If you actually have the passing of a dollar. So it's a nominal sum and then people just go and do them. We've got actually one of the plays being turned into an opera right now in Paris. It's going to be fun.
1:05:41🔗Clive BarkerWhere's Andrew Lloyd Webber when you need him?
1:05:44🔗AdamYou really could do something. Someone should do it. I mean, the Phantom of the Opera is the only one. Is there something like a horror opera or a horror musical?
1:05:53🔗Clive BarkerI'm not very up on operas, but aren't there some operas which are kind of scary? No?
1:05:57🔗DrewYeah, there are a lot of violent, scary, and awful. Violent.
1:06:00🔗Clive BarkerHorrible things happen to people.
1:06:02🔗DrewIt's all about Italy in the 15th century and all the murder.
1:06:06🔗Clive BarkerThere's murder, poisonings, and people killing each other's kids.
1:06:10🔗AdamA 400 pound chick in a viking helmet, that's pretty scary.
1:06:12🔗Clive BarkerYeah, that's my image of opera right there.
1:06:15🔗Alright, Drew, you got one more before we go to break?
1:06:19🔗AdamAlright, we'll do that. Clive Barker is our guest. We're here at the Museum of Television and Radio, and we'll be right back. Hey, everybody, I'm Adam Corolla, that's Dr. Drew, this is Loveline, Tony Hawk coming in tomorrow night. Yes, the great Tony Hawk.
1:07:07🔗DrewHow come we didn't have any system of the down music tonight? I don't know.
1:07:11🔗AdamAll right, well, we'll hear it later on. The night is still young, Drew. We're at the Museum of Television and Radio. There we go.
1:07:18🔗AdamYeah, Clive Barker is our guest. Clive, you can find at Brantano's in Century City. That's one of those places where the books are kept, but not the one where they lend them to you, right, Drew?
1:07:39🔗DrewNo, you don't buy them. No, they give them to you for a short period of time.
1:07:41🔗AdamI know what I'm saying. It's so confusing. Why not put the name Book in Book Lender or something? You know? All right. Anyway, I remember people talking about that play one more time. Library. Library. When I was in grammar school. No, I think it was the further one. The school, the one school. Yeah, I think no, no, the one between the first one and the last one. Junior high school.
1:08:08🔗AdamLibrary. People used to go there. I remember it to do. I don't know what went on. I didn't even know where it was. And I really I'm serious about that. And I think that means you're a bad student when you, when you go to school for three years and it's not that big a school. And then you think back on where the library was and you realize you don't know where it was. Yeah.
1:08:26🔗DrewBut you know where the ceramic kiln was.
1:08:29🔗AdamYeah. I knew where the potter's wheel was. I would say ceramics major, Clive.
1:09:12🔗AdamLet me just say this. Whenever we do one of these remotes, it's always a little touch and go to say the least. But it's always compounded by the stupidity of our collars. We haven't had one of these nights in a long time. It's not even a technical thing. It's more like the rhythm. You think you're screwing up, we'll punish you just a little bit extra. That's what we got.
1:09:36🔗Hi. Yeah, I had a question. I'm 16. About a few months ago, I had sex. It was for the first time. I didn't bleed and I didn't cry or anything. So I went to the doctors to get on birth control. They have to examine you and stuff. So the lady, she used one of those things that go inside. I don't know what they're called.
1:10:00🔗Oh, a speculum. It hurt. So she moved to the smallest one that they have. It still really, really hurt. So she's like, are you sure you've had an intercourse before? I'm like, well, yeah. Then because I think I know. She's like, well, you seem to me like you're still a virgin. Did you bleed? I'm like, no. She's like, did you cry? I'm like, no.
1:10:21🔗AdamSo like you really work in the crying angle here.
1:10:24🔗DrewDid you bleed? Did you cry? I've never asked a patient that before.
1:10:28🔗AdamYeah. I mean, they cry when Drew slaps the bill on them, but normally that's the only tears that are shed. She really asked you if you cried?
1:10:37🔗Well, well, no, because I told her that I didn't. So I mean, that's how I was like.
1:10:42🔗DrewShe kept pushing. I didn't cry on the doctor.
1:12:07🔗AdamI want you to drop out of school right now. It's not working. It's just not taking.
1:12:12🔗They don't teach me that. I never heard of hymen.
1:12:14🔗AdamBelieve me, it's been brought up. It's just your Teflon. It's all that knowledge slides right off you. You start working, baby. You hear me?
1:13:03🔗DrewLet's see if we can follow through. What's up?
1:13:06🔗Okay. Oftentimes, not every time, but when I'm having sex, I have a discomforting pain and I have to stop having sex and it's very, it's like a cramping type pain.
1:13:40🔗DrewWell, the common kinds of things that cause this are infection, there are going to be infections in the uterus, infection in the tubes, ovarian cyst, endometriosis.
1:13:49🔗AdamWell, wouldn't you feel that pain without the sex? Why does the sex bring that on if you have an infection?
1:14:40🔗AdamHey, she has cramping though. What I'm saying is...
1:14:43🔗DrewYeah, but that's how viscera hurt that way. And if it's just sitting there, it's okay. And you hang on, Debbie, and you push on it. It's like pushing on an infected, like a piece of... Imagine you're soft tissue.
1:14:53🔗Clive BarkerShe isn't infected. She's telling us she isn't infected.
1:14:56🔗DrewNo, she may... Did you go tell them that you're having these kinds of pains?
1:15:00🔗It's just when he's hitting it, like, really deep, you know?
1:15:02🔗DrewWell, maybe it's just... It can be normal, too. It's just too deep. You're actually stirring up viscera.
1:15:49🔗Clive BarkerSo it's a normal thing, then, right?
1:15:50🔗DrewWell, it can be. Again, I would make sure you discussed it thoroughly with the doctor's treating and make sure they hear that there's a lot of pain and they look for infections. You've got to look for these things. Art, 18.
1:16:06🔗CallerMy girlfriend has a question, which she wouldn't get on the phone. She just wants to know that, as it's safe, it's been 17 days that she's been on birth control. She just wants to make it safe to have sex here.
1:16:41🔗CallerShe said it said two weeks on the packet, and the doctor said it's allowed to wait two weeks.
1:16:47🔗DrewYeah, I'm saying it's possible. I for a while was saying on the triphasic pills, people could go ahead and have sex during that first month, but I think I've reconsidered that, and to be really safe, you should wait till the second packet.
1:17:00🔗AdamBut the doctor said it was fine, go ahead.
1:17:04🔗DrewYeah, I mean, I don't know why you're questioning his advice. Why are you calling Drew? All right, Wayne, Arizona.
1:17:10🔗Clive BarkerHi, I have a question for Clive Barker.
1:17:12🔗Clive BarkerHey, Wayne, how are you doing?
1:17:13🔗Clive BarkerPretty good. I love your stuff. I think Hell Rage was one of the best movies, horror movies ever.
1:17:28🔗Clive BarkerBut every ad I ever saw for it said you loved it. And I don't know, I went to go see it based on that and it was hopelessly retarded. You didn't like it?
1:17:37🔗I was just wondering if you really liked that one?
1:17:39🔗Clive BarkerYeah, I really liked that picture. The two horror pictures I liked is some of that and a picture called The Others.
1:17:54🔗Clive BarkerIt was one of those kind of movies. Wayne's got a point in terms of the retard of the plot, but it just kept going and going, and I was scared by the picture. In the end, horror movies are like comedies. They either work for you or they don't. You can't be intellectual about them. They either scare you or they don't scare you. Some people find Jim Carrey very funny. Some people sit there with an expression on their faces like, What the heck is this?
1:18:40🔗AdamNo doubt about that. But there's a lot of guys that are really talented that I just recognize as talented, but I don't really like their stuff that much. It's like musical taste.
1:18:49🔗Clive BarkerThat will be my point about horror movies. Exactly. You know, you either like them or you don't. You can't sort of intellectualize them.
1:18:54🔗AdamDrew got The Shining the other day, by the way, which he is still not seen.
1:18:59🔗Clive BarkerI don't think that's a scary movie.
1:19:00🔗AdamOh, you don't think The Shining is scary?
1:19:37🔗CallerI've got a situation where I've been seeing this girl, and she's a girlfriend of mine for about six months, and she seems to be well experienced in the lovemaking field, and I'm just a little concerned about it.
1:19:51🔗CallerShe's really my first real girlfriend, and she just is wanting me to always try new things, and we've only been dating for a short while, and the stuff we're already doing, I think, is plenty. I'm afraid to tell her I'm not really interested in the unusual thing that she's asking me.
1:20:09🔗DrewWhat is this unusual thing she's asking for?
1:20:12🔗CallerOh, like when we're having sex, she'll want to put something, she thinks I want something in my, in my rear, or my butt, I guess. She thinks that'll make it better for me, but I'm already fine with everything, you know?
1:20:31🔗AdamYou're saying you're functioning okay without something rammed up your ass?
1:20:51🔗CallerYou know, so I wonder if it's just the fact that she's, you know, she's almost two years, you know, two years older than I am, and I just wonder, and she's really my first girlfriend, but I got a feeling that maybe she's had quite a few.
1:21:03🔗AdamI don't know why this sounds bogus to me.
1:22:18🔗AdamAll right. Good try. Good try. Yeah. What is it?
1:22:22🔗Clive BarkerYou guys are really, can I just say, you guys are really good, because I would always, I think, give people the benefit of the opinion in case I was wrong.
1:22:29🔗DrewI swear, when you get that feeling that it's not real.
1:22:32🔗Clive BarkerBut have you ever been, have you ever sort of called somebody and it means...
1:22:36🔗DrewYou know, we have, I think it's been quite the other way. We've had the feeling, but the content of the call has been so serious that we couldn't really address it.
1:22:46🔗DrewJust too serious. People really sort of, they sort of hamstring us with that. They'll talk about, you know, somebody's suicidal and they're either...
1:22:52🔗Clive BarkerYeah, well, you wouldn't want to be wrong. Even if it was a 1% chance, you wouldn't want to be wrong.
1:22:57🔗DrewIt would be inappropriate to even discuss about it.
1:23:00🔗AdamBut as we've talked about many times, you know, people always say to us, how can you comment on these people's lives? You don't even know them. And I always say, that's the point.
1:23:37🔗DrewAnd also, there's a difference in your interaction when they're face to face with you. I mean, there's no doubt. I had a definite, bogus feeling, two sentences into that guy.
1:23:45🔗AdamRight. And also, there's a certain math, which is this chick who's been around the block a thousand times is not going to screw around with a delt or was.
1:23:54🔗DrewYou know what? I think that was just you trying to figure out why you're feeling wasn't right, why it wasn't working.
1:24:01🔗AdamWe're going to take ourselves a little break. Clive Barker is our guest tonight. And we'll be right back after this.
1:24:07🔗Hello. This is your radio. Loveline will be right back.
1:24:51🔗AdamHey, everybody, a little more Loveline to go. Clive Barker is our guest here tonight. Tony Hawk in the studio tomorrow night, world champion skateboarder Tony Hawk. Clive is going to be out with Brentanos. I forgot about him. So out of it. My drug haze. I forgot to sing along. That's right. A system of a down. So where was I? Yes?
1:26:40🔗AdamBig mistake, by the way. Drew's a passionate, passionate man with a passionate, passionate penis. I mean, that's a weapon. I'm surprised you got it on.
1:27:30🔗And I was just wondering, are you ever going to write anything more about those characters?
1:27:35🔗Clive BarkerAbout the Nightbreed? Yeah, absolutely. I've promised that as recently as last night, I was doing this interview with these people in Chicago and somebody asked the same question. And I said last night, I would absolutely return to those characters. I'm actually going to write. The other thing I'm going to write pretty soon is, is the death of Pinhead. I've decided to do that and just finish the guy off.
1:27:57🔗AdamAnd he's not dead, isn't he sort of undead already?
1:28:01🔗Clive BarkerNo, there's ways of doing it. It's time to finish that guy off. Too many movies.
1:28:06🔗AdamYou feel like a plate spinner on Ed Sullivan sometimes. You've got too many characters going and too many unfinished books and characters.
1:29:23🔗Hi. First, I want to say that I think you're doing incredible work, Clive. Thank you. And I think that Damien and Tara Don't Call Me Tara both need a raise because they're doing great jobs.
1:29:35🔗AdamYeah, those are phone screeners, by the way.
1:30:20🔗Um, not right now, no, but I mean, I have other things going on, so...
1:30:24🔗DrewSo let me be sure I understand this. You were functioning normally and then all of a sudden, it sort of tapered off over what period of time?
1:30:32🔗Um, I'd say probably, I mean, the last two to three weeks is when I haven't been able to orgasm at all, so probably over the last, I don't know, I guess, six weeks.
1:30:42🔗AdamHave you checked the batteries and vibrator?
1:30:44🔗Have you changed your technique at all? I don't use a vibrator.
1:30:47🔗AdamWell, there's your problem. If I was a woman, I'd have a vibrator on my keychain.
1:31:19🔗DrewYou're sleeping normally. You're otherwise feeling healthy. You're eating normally. You haven't started any new vitamins or any strange medications.
1:31:38🔗Clive BarkerOkay. This is just a layman's observation but when it isn't working, change it so it is working. Do you know what I mean? Maybe your body is just a little bored with what you are doing.
1:33:21🔗AdamAll right, well, that is it. I want to thank the Museum of Television and Radio for having us. They got a bunch of stuff. Just check their website or something. I don't know what the hell it is.
1:33:37🔗AdamWell, yeah, I missed the 2,000 words a minute over here.
1:33:40🔗DrewSeminar tomorrow, radio response to the crisis, radio broadcast Canadian for the rest of the week out of this studio. Live music performances on the roof.
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