1:02🔗VoiceoverListener discretion is advised. Adam Corolla and Dr. Drew. LoveLine, Coast to Coast.
1:13🔗VoiceoverHey, everybody, it's LoveLine. I'm Adam Corolla, that's Dr. Drew, Dr. Drew, board-certified physician, addiction medicine specialist, phone number, 1-800-LOVE-191. Tonight, our guest is Ken Baker. Ken Baker is the author of a book called Man Made. Now, this is Drew's booking.
1:34🔗AdamNot that I got a problem with Ken, but Drew, where did you come across Ken?
1:39🔗DrewWe had a mutual friend who's a writer, and she recommended this book. I was sort of going off about male-female issues and how people have this crazy notion that men and women are biologically the same, and it's all the culture that makes the differences. She said, do you know how to read this book, Man Made? It's about a friend of mine who had a pituitary tumor that caused his testosterone production to be shut down for many, many years when most guys are in testosterone storm, the guys we kind of talk to here in the show, Adam.
2:07🔗AdamWhen does the testosterone start kicking in? Is that puberty?
2:14🔗AdamDo you have testosterone as a 12-year-old?
2:17🔗DrewYeah, but it's mostly, these are the things actually produced by the adrenal glands. A lot of the sex hormones actually come out of the adrenals initially. That's why you get those breast development.
2:27🔗AdamBut here's what I'm asking, and can you jump in because you've probably done some research here, right? A little bit. Do all men have testosterone in them from the word go? At some level?
2:58🔗AdamIs that puberty or is that just a part of it?
3:02🔗DrewThat's puberty. Let's see what the dimension.
3:03🔗AdamDoes the testosterone cause the secondary hair growth, as you like to say, and the voice change and that sort of thing?
3:10🔗DrewThe voice change, but the hair growth initially is actually, again, an adrenal thing.
3:13🔗AdamOkay, so the puberty kicks in, or the testosterone kicks in, and all of a sudden, you have... Now, when does a man have his most testosterone? Is it at 18?
3:39🔗AdamOkay. All right. So anyway, Ken did not have the testosterone kick in. Is that what the case was?
3:48🔗Well, what happened was I was just a pretty normal kid. Just always playing sports and was interested in girls just like any other young guy, like 12, 13, 14, 15. But then when I was 16 or 17, I just started noticing a difference. Well, first of all, my body was zero hair on my body. Not zero, but not that much. I wasn't as into the chicks and everything as the other guys. I definitely wasn't gay.
4:13🔗DrewYou weren't overcome by it the way the other guys were.
4:17🔗Right. But I liked girls and that was what I was into. But it was more like intellectually, like I didn't just want to go out for the sport of it.
4:27🔗AdamWell, you're still concerned about the cootie factor like you were at 11, where guys learn to get past that with testosterone trumps the cootie factor.
4:35🔗Right. And then when I was on my 17th birthday, I tried to lose my virginity. I had a girlfriend and it was going to be the night I'd lose my virginity and went up to this hotel room in Toronto. And the whole production, like the candles, the whole thing. Of course, I just want to get over with.
5:16🔗No, no. Yeah, that's the thing. I just wasn't hyper-sexed out. At that age, I felt like most of the guys were. I grew up playing hockey and that's all the guys talked about.
6:02🔗CallerWell, of course, I don't want to think about that because as a guy, I mean, you're thinking, all right, I don't want to think about it. Let's just do it. I eventually did have sex occasionally, but it wasn't something I really wanted to do. I had to be roped into it. I mean, I don't mean any pun there. But I had to be coerced a little bit. And I went into college. I went to Colgate University. I was also on a hockey scholarship, and so women are sort of, for whatever reason...
6:34🔗DrewWas your sports performance, did you notice?
6:36🔗CallerWell, not at 17, 18, not really, but 19, 20, near the end of my college career, totally. I just wasn't as quick as I used to be. I definitely wasn't as strong.
7:09🔗AdamTestosterone. Right. And you didn't get any. It's as if everyone on the league was on the juice and you were just drinking yoo-hoo.
7:17🔗CallerYeah, completely. So on the ice rank, I was totally at a disadvantage. Then in the realm of dating, I mean, talk about complete evolutionary disadvantage. I just did not have the mojo. Women could sense it. I wasn't emitting these pheromones. I mean, it just wasn't going on. Now, I wasn't thinking, oh, there's something wrong with me. I have some tumor or something. I just was thinking, I'm just a dork. I mean, really, that was sort of what I was thinking.
7:59🔗AdamI am so mad at you, mom. That was from a play I did in high school. All right. So anyway, go ahead, Ken.
8:08🔗CallerSo, I'm going on. Eventually, it's safe to say I didn't see any action in college. But it didn't really... It's not like I was... You know, it's worse when you're not seeing any action and you really want it in some ways.
8:34🔗CallerAnd so I just sort of was cruising through life, just thinking, well, eventually I'll... What ended up happening was when I was with a girl, and it would happen, you know, you're college, jock, all that kind of stuff. But girls would approach me and I'd sort of like, okay, you know, you got to do something. But it wasn't innate. It wasn't like I was seeking it out. I was just like, all right, I have to do this.
8:55🔗AdamYou're like trying to act like a guy would act.
8:57🔗CallerExactly. Play the dude role. I just time after time, I would just not be able to get an erection. And it came to the point where I just avoid it. I just wouldn't want to deal with it at all.
9:10🔗AdamWell, let's fast forward a little bit here. And because I know Drew's got an angle on this, and I'm guessing, so you went ahead, eventually got checked out and you realized you had this tumor, right?
9:23🔗AdamBut how does this affect, I mean, what have we learned from this, I guess is the question.
9:30🔗DrewWhat was it like when his testosterone turned back on again?
9:33🔗AdamOh, okay. Well, there you go. Yeah. Right.
9:35🔗CallerWell, sort of what happened, an important part of the story that I can't leave out, is that as I got older, I definitely, my body was just starting to betray me. I'd have hips sort of, I was flabby. I just, it was so frustrating. I mean, I had no metabolism.
9:50🔗AdamAnd then one day, I was, you know, And you were working out and stuff, right?
9:53🔗CallerI was trying, yeah. In fact, I ran a marathon. And this is when I was like 23.
9:59🔗CallerI tried to enter, but what happened was, I, at the end of the marathon, my nipples were killing me, really badly. But I was told to expect that, because it's what happens when you run and your blood. Right. But with me, I looked down, I remember I opened up my shirt and I felt so much pressure. Like, I'm just feeling it right now. I can almost feel what it was like, the pain. And my instinct was to squeeze it, like a zit. There's pressure in there. And out came this milky, white kind of, whoa.
10:30🔗CallerWell, actually, what's interesting is I would later find out. And even at that point, I didn't go to the doctor. I was just like, man, I'm not running a marathon again.
10:38🔗AdamWhoa. That's logical. Most of our listeners and callers would do that.
10:46🔗CallerBut I didn't get any help. But what I would find out eventually when I was 27, I finally went to a doctor. This girl urged me. She's like, you're sick, physically sick, that you need to get help. And I went and I found out that I had 150 times the normal level of this hormone called prolactin.
11:29🔗AdamWell, it's kind of a testament to your, I don't know, ability or spirit or something that you're able to, you know, play hockey at a collegiate level with, you know, essentially pregnant.
11:44🔗CallerWell, it was a struggle. I mean, I had to work really hard by the, again, no pun intended. I don't know why it keeps sounding like that. But by the time I was a senior, I just was frustrated. I almost didn't want to come back my senior year, but they were paying for my education, so I did. And I retired, and I just didn't want anything to do with it, because it was frustrating, because I was in the Olympic development program. I'd go to all the Olympic camps when I was young, and it was just sad to see my skills deteriorate. And so that aspect of my life, I just shut down. I'm going into journalism, because then you could just be a slug.
12:19🔗AdamDrew, hold on. I may have this. Maybe I have this. Could be. I might have this. You could be. I was a real kick-ass football player at the Pop Warner level.
12:33🔗AdamI was pretty good all the way through grade school, junior high, and then I got to high school. It was a little crappy, but then I came back and I was good later on. And then I got to college and I sucked again, and I should be better.
12:47🔗DrewYeah, but there's that whole masturbation thing that keeps going. That would have been shut down by the pro lactum by now.
13:03🔗AdamNo. I don't use my head. It just sits there.
13:09🔗DrewLet's take some calls, and then next second we'll talk about what happened, because the really interesting part is when testosterone turned back on again. How different, what really men have to deal with that is so different than 27 state raping spray? Absolutely.
13:25🔗Oh, yeah. My question is for Dr. Drew. I wanted to know if I use my mom's postmenopausal cream, like that yam progesterone stuff, if my breasts would get bigger.
14:10🔗DrewAgain, you can go on birth control pills and experiment that way and see if it makes your breast bigger. Because if anything would, that would be it.
14:24🔗AdamWell, you have to go on that birth control.
14:25🔗Yeah? Yeah. All right. Oh, and Adam, if you ever leave the country and go to Tokyo, you can get porn and vending machines there. I read in a magazine.
14:33🔗AdamFantastic. What kind of change do they take? So they just bring a whole sock full of quarters and nickels?
14:43🔗AdamAll right. Thank you. There's something very exciting about the vending machine. We get real excited about it. You can get a cell phone, you can get porn, you can get kids. All we can get is Doritos. But if you really break it down, how glamorous is the vending machine?
15:04🔗AdamI'm all right with the concept of going into a place and buying some porn or buying a cell phone. I don't need to feed 80 bucks worth of quarters. You know what's funny is cigarette machines now, now cigarettes are like five bucks and that's at the 7-Eleven. So the vending machine, they're like six bucks. Yeah. There's no increment bigger than a quarter yet. So it's like 24 quarters. You want to buy pack of smokes out of a cigarette machine, it's like you're literally, it's like playing a slot machine.
15:33🔗DrewThey don't take the dollar, they must take dollar bills.
15:36🔗AdamSome do and then it'll spit out change. Sometimes they give you change, sometimes that part's broken. But you're just literally feeding quarters. Like you could probably quit smoking by the time, by the time and you lose count, you're like got 21. Wait a minute, where am I with these quarters? Let me say, remind me to talk about following and how to properly follow somebody when you're in a car.
16:05🔗AdamNo, but you know, you know when you say, especially your dad, you go, you go, follow me. I'm going down the hill, I'm going over, just follow me. You're going 36 miles an hour and you're looking in your rear for you and the guy's about 400 yards back there, and there are other cars sliding in. This is how I know I have testosterone because I'm screaming, I'm yelling, hey jackass, follow me. So you start slowing down, but they seem to slow down too, and you're like, what goddamn part of follow me? How conky or confident can you be? You don't know where we're going. I can't even see you now. My dad will do this, but other people do this. They follow you. Then you get to that light that only you're going to make now, and now you're pissed because now you're cutting across traffic and you're pulling over, and you're waiting now while this person pulls up. You got to wait for the light to cycle, and inevitably there's somebody pulling out of the gas station that you stopped in front of the driveway and people are turning right, and getting caught behind you, and thinking, can you just follow me? How difficult is that? You guys know what I'm talking about?
17:17🔗CallerOh, yes. It just happened to me on the way over here.
17:20🔗CallerMy friend was following me. She was actually trying to follow me, and I was losing her.
17:25🔗DrewThere's another version of this. When you're 17, your girlfriend, or some girl you like, tells you to follow her. Then you're six inches away from the back of the car.
17:31🔗AdamYou are, yes. You are, because you understand the concept of following somebody. My dad, when I tell him to follow me, he is four, five thousand yards.
17:45🔗AdamA CIA marksman could not hit his windshield with a 30 at seven.
17:50🔗DrewThere's a whole thing we get into about tailing etiquette. How far do you go behind someone? How fast do you come up behind them?
17:57🔗AdamHere's the deal. You don't leave so much space that three other cars then slide in. Now you're looking in your rear and you got someone else following you. And then, now what do you think this guy does? Now when a guy slides in front of him, does he give him 300 yards or is he in fact just 30 feet behind the car in front of him? Just get behind. And it's not as if, it's not like I'm pulling e-brakes and sliding around corners with the hubcaps rolling off, it's not a Starsky and Hutch thing. I'm going twice as slow as I normally do and I'm being twice as cautious as I normally am and I'm totally cognizant that somebody is behind me and I'm still 250 yards ahead of them. Now what is that? Is that, I say it's passive aggressive. I say they're saying F you and you're follow, follow you, follow me, kiss my ass. I don't follow anybody. That's what that is. Is that what it is? That's got to be. Whose brain, who do you have to explain following to any more than follow me, we're going to a destination that you don't know of so stay close. No, can't handle it. Jesus Christ. I'm going to kill these. All right. It happened today. It's horrible because you're yelling at the mirror. You're looking up the mirror and you're screaming at it. Then like I said, when you miss that signal and got to pull over, it's like, all right.
19:26🔗Hi, Adam. Dr. Drew. Ken, how are you? Good. This is my question for Dr. Drew. This has been happening over the last year or so. When I get an erection, my testicles rise up into the base of my penis, so they're on each side of it, which is not a big problem in itself.
20:08🔗Exactly. So now is there any way to get them to swing a little bit?
20:11🔗DrewYou can push them down with your fingers and with your thumbs. They shouldn't hurt. They'll drop back down.
20:16🔗AdamHow about not letting them come up? How about a little zip tie?
20:19🔗DrewYeah, the cremasteric muscles pull them up, and that's a normal reaction.
20:23🔗AdamYou put a hoop there too small for them to jump through, and it would make a C-ring?
20:27🔗DrewHuh? Many people have it happen at ejaculation. It doesn't happen usually that intensely to most people. I would say no, that's kind of an unusual thing, but it's physiologic. It makes sense.
20:38🔗AdamHow? You wouldn't tear anything if you just didn't let them come up. I mean, you wouldn't get into some kind of tug of war that would rip something up.
21:03🔗DrewAdam has a series of stores out there. Lava lamps and C-Ring, remember?
21:08🔗AdamYeah. I was going to open that up, but it fell through. Our financial backers in Zurich fell off. They found out what C-Ring was. But anyway, yeah, couldn't one-
21:55🔗AdamYou're going to have to use something that doesn't have any give in it, but that would clamp on and stay in its shape. Let's just say you had like a notebook binder ring, the snap ones. What if it was something about that size? They'd probably go through one at a time. They might not work. Zip tie, one of those electrician things, things like cheap handcuffs to cuff you.
22:18🔗DrewCan you imagine if they just pulled one couple of cranks too tight? Seriously, it just seems dangerous to me.
22:44🔗CallerA lot of people make fun of me, my brother especially. I can't stand that, but I just let it go. I think I have to get the last word and stuff.
22:50🔗AdamHold on a second. Hold on a second. You pansy. We got to take ourselves a little break, and then we'll get back. Now, I don't know what his problem is. Something with his voice? Yeah. His seizures?
23:01🔗DrewI don't know. But did your voice never change, or did it change and then go back?
23:04🔗CallerMy voice went deeper after I had my surgery to remove the tumor, and there were a lot of changes, actually.
23:11🔗AdamKen Baker is our guest tonight. He is the author of Man Made. Now, he did not produce testosterone, and don't correct me if I'm wrong here until his senior year of college, and knows what life is like to be on both sides, and is going to tell us when we come back, and what happened when the testosterone did kick in, and how that affected him. And I'm going to talk for about another 20 minutes on how to follow somebody correctly. There really should be a class. 300 yards. Listen, if you can't see the guy in front of you, you may not be close enough. OK, we'll be back.
24:24🔗AdamYeah, Loveline. I'm Adam. Dr. Drew over there. Ken Baker, the testosterone makers are guests tonight. He wrote himself a little book called The Man-Made. Drew found Ken on Oprah?
24:41🔗DrewNo, through a mutual friend. I write an article for USA Weekend, and Jennifer Mendelson is the journalist that helps me with that.
24:56🔗CallerShe claims she discovered me, which is actually true.
25:00🔗AdamWell, Ken, for those of you who missed the first segment, was not producing any testosterone his whole life, or very little, until his senior, somewhere around his senior year of college. She was a hockey player, and sort of wondering what was wrong with him, with the milk coming out of nipples and love handles, and no erections, moody, sitting around eating hog and dogs and crying all day.
25:39🔗CallerWell, actually I was. My endocrinologist over at Cedars-Sinai, really great doctor, he explained to me that when you have a really elevated level of prolactin like that, you have an estrogenic effect, is what he called it. And I totally felt that. I mean, I was definitely more passive. I was always like the good friend that girls would be like, oh Ken, you're so easy to talk to, you're such a good guy.
26:03🔗AdamWell, like when you were playing hockey and somebody came up and laid a hip check in you and put you into the boards, did you have, I'm going to kill that guy feeling? Or did you have, his parents must have been rough with him? I mean, I'll forgive him.
26:19🔗DrewI'm going to go talk to my friends about this.
26:20🔗AdamI'm going to try to break through to him.
26:22🔗CallerWell, I'll tell you that I, well, first of all, I'm a goalie, so I take the abuse mostly.
26:29🔗CallerBut you know, it's a very aggressive physical position. I mean, you have to be, you have to have a lot of hormones pumping to want to stand in front of 100 mile an hour speeding trucks.
26:38🔗AdamWell, actually, I'm sorry to cut you off, but I did, I'm rethinking my question, which is women are actually more violent than men in a retribution sort of way. Like, if a man is in the kitchen with his wife and they're fixing a meal, and the woman steps on the man's foot, the man will be like, ho, ho. But if a man steps on a woman's foot, she just whack him, she just smack him right in the face. It's quick reaction stuff, and they don't think about it.
27:07🔗DrewSomebody pisses her off, she'll never forget it. A guy will swing back, get it out of his system, and then it's over.
27:13🔗AdamI find that women will, if you mistakenly hurt them or injure them or knock them or whatever, that's what kids do. The kid's arm will just go flying and whack his little brother or whatever, when he's on his foot, not get off of my foot. So I guess it doesn't take testosterone to do that.
27:33🔗CallerWell, before my surgery, first of all, I quit hockey. I didn't want anything to do with it. I really got sick of it, like the fighting and all that stuff. I really was not into it. Sure. And then after the surgery, I picked the sport back up. And actually, I was telling Drew earlier, I'm playing pro hockey now for my next book in Bakersfield, California. And this morning, we were at practice this morning.
28:16🔗AdamHow about using one of those old school, you know, Jason type hockey mass with like the Cobra on it or something? I'd get killed.
28:23🔗CallerNow we use those like Felix Potvin ones. That's what I have. You got the little bit of the cage in front, but it's all fiberglass.
28:31🔗AdamYeah. Yeah. I like the old ones with the, you know, the mongoose or something sprayed on the front. I mean, it's skull and crossbows. Yeah. Those were the cool ones. How many years did those idiots play with no mask?
28:58🔗AdamI go home, and I watch the SpeedVision, and I watch the 1955 Indianapolis 500. No roll bar! These guys are going 165 miles an hour. And it's like, well, no seat belt. Well, because we got an accident. You don't want to be stuck in a car, get your head taken off. It's like, how about bending a piece of steel? Couldn't handle that? Couldn't figure that out.
29:24🔗CallerI just thought of one the other day. The squeeze bottle for mayonnaise. Why stick?
29:34🔗AdamWell, listen, I can't figure out how we were like, we had guys on the moon and we're using a rotary phone to talk to them. You know, it's like weird. Certain stuff should have come before other stuff. The roll bar should have come before the B-17. You know what I mean? We got 20,000-pound payloads and turrets that are spinning around and machine guns and all this World War II technology yet couldn't figure out the roll bar in 1947.
30:06🔗DrewWell, that's a pussy to have a roll bar.
30:08🔗AdamThat's what I think. That's what I think. A hockey mask, it was another, it was a pussy. They didn't want to be pussies. I could have figured out the helmets and the mask.
30:15🔗CallerWell, even now, the guys don't wear cages or visors. Most of them don't and they totally get whacked in the face all the time.
30:22🔗AdamAnd they don't, and I always say this too, they don't cinch up that chin strap. So their helmet falls off before their head whips and wax the ice. Why not, why do you got to hang that chin strap down like it's a bucket handle? That's what I'm saying. It's bravado. Cinch the thing up. Be a pussy and keep your brain. That's what I say.
31:20🔗AdamJust trying to trip them up. That's all right.
31:22🔗CallerI have no idea what you're talking about.
31:23🔗DrewWhat's the question? What's the question, buddy?
31:27🔗CallerWhen I've been really tired sometimes, and I start to fall asleep and like that, and I wake up like that, and I turn on the TV, and all of a sudden, I kind of pass out. When I wake up and I start dreaming something, it's like a daydream that you can't wake up from, and then you finally wake up.
31:41🔗DrewRight. That may be another seizure phenomenon.
31:45🔗CallerBecause, you know, it's really weird, because one time I had one of those, and all of a sudden, I felt like something on my body, and I looked up, and it was like somebody's head, and I woke up again, and I was like, and I just went to the bathroom and threw up, because I was like so scared. I was like...
31:59🔗DrewWell, again, the night terrors are typically, you wake up, you feel paralyzed, like you can't move anything. Yeah, that's exactly what I feel. And there may be a dream incorporated into that where you actually see things holding you down and that kind of thing, but it is a form of a seizure phenomenon. If you have a seizure disorder, you're known to have that and you have these, you ought to talk to your doctor about that.
32:18🔗AdamWhat's he going to do about his voice? He sounds like Felix the Cat.
32:22🔗CallerNo, you want to hear something really funny is I can make my voice really deep.
33:14🔗CallerAll right. But if his voice is high maybe and he's having these seizures, I mean, there could be some tumor or something affecting him, right?
33:23🔗DrewHe wouldn't be able to do this low voice if he-
33:30🔗DrewYou got to have a certain coarseness to deliver that low voice. That's his real voice. It's the master cylinder. If that isn't his real voice, he should use the lower voice in his standout life.
33:42🔗AdamWhat were the other Felix the Cat? There was-
34:02🔗AdamIt ruins it later on in life when you really figure out what a master cylinder is. It sounded really good when you were a kid. The master cylinder. Then you freaked out later on in life when the Midas guy tells you blew out the master cylinder.
35:13🔗AdamOkay. But here's what I'm saying. I'd like to get into this a little bit, Cindy, and take a couple of minutes with her and find out all about this cheating and how she's never going to let her husband forget it, and how it's going to make her miserable and all that good stuff. Ken Baker is here. He's the author of Man Made. He has an interesting story about what it's like to lead a double life.
35:38🔗DrewWe spent a lot of time trying to get people to recognize the reality of the influence of testosterone to the young male and how young males think, why they think that way, and there's resistance to it. Women don't want to hear it, but Ken will tell you the story.
37:10🔗AdamDon't be distracted. We'll go to commercial in a minute. We'll get this all taken care of. Don't get weird. Drew's got a weird, you got some kind of spazgine. You got the anal producing tumor. Seriously, producer Anne comes in here and she'll go, you guys got to read these liners. She'll do it in the first hour and it'll be like, I'm Adam, that's Drew, listen to. Drew will be like, come on, what are you doing? Let's do it. Let's get it done. Let's get it done. He starts yelling at Anderson to think, Anderson, what are you doing? Let's go. Anderson will be like, we'll do it next break. Drew's wigged out until we do it. He's such a slave.
37:47🔗DrewI am a taskmaster. What's interesting though, that's as turned down the volume gets on that kind of task mastering. You should see it when I really want to get something done. Well, I've never exposed you to that.
38:00🔗AdamAs long as we don't see each other socially, we'll be fine. So anyway, Ken has authored this book that really explains what it's like to have your testosterone turned on later on in life as an adult.
38:12🔗DrewWhat does testosterone do to the male psyche, quite literally, and system?
38:17🔗AdamSo you had your testosterone turned on at what age? Twenty-seven. Was it night and day or did it slowly creep in?
38:58🔗AdamWell, let me ask you this. I mean, obviously you want your testosterone, but there is a certain slave master relationship we all have with the testosterone, whether it's the pornography or the aggression or some guy cuts you off on the road and you're going after him now. I mean, you can become sort of a slave to it.
39:18🔗CallerWell, I went through an adjustment period for sure. What happened was I was diagnosed with this tumor. It's the size of a chestnut, right on my pituitary gland, which is about two or three inches behind your eyes.
39:29🔗DrewIt's right above your optic chiasm. Were you having vision problems, too?
39:33🔗CallerFortunately, I wasn't because it grew sideways. It didn't grow out. And so I was fortunate. But a lot of people do get blurry visions. In fact, it's a symptom. If there's anyone listening, it feels like, I might have this. If they have blurry vision, the tumor is probably pretty sizable.
39:46🔗DrewOrdinarily, parts of your field are out. You're hitting your head when you get out of the car.
39:49🔗DrewYeah, you can't see a tennis ball all of a sudden when you're trying to swing forward, that kind of thing.
39:52🔗CallerRight, right. And so within two weeks, they put me on medication. It took about six or seven months before I had the surgery. They want to try to shrink it with medication and it didn't work. But I went on this medication and my prolactin level went from 1600 down to like 100 in about a week. And I mean, literally, I actually even broke out with acne like all over my body. Like I never had acne growing up because, you know, just shut off. I didn't have the whole process. I had this, I remember going to my doctor's, I couldn't stop thinking about sex. And I was like, I go to the mall and it's just like, whoa, 50% of the population I've been missing out on for the last 10 years. You know, I go down to the beach, which drives me crazy.
40:35🔗DrewBut it's bothersome, right? It's like an irritation.
40:37🔗CallerIt was total hindrance. I couldn't concentrate. It was complete.
40:39🔗AdamAnd what about, I don't know, did you eat more red meat? Did you drink more beer? Did any of that stuff, watch more football or hockey?
40:49🔗CallerYeah, I became, I got back into sports. I totally had gotten out of sports, like competitive sports.
40:55🔗AdamAnd didn't your doctor warn you that you'd turn into an animal? Like David Banner in The Incredible Hulk?
41:01🔗CallerWell, he didn't want to. He wanted to get my hopes up because you never know what's going to happen. So a week later, I go in, I'm like, Doc, what's going on?
41:08🔗CallerYeah, he's like testosterone storm. And you're welcome to manhood kind of thing. And I was like, wow, this is tough. But there was no handbook. You know, there's no one saying, well, this is how you don't act like a jerk and cheat on your girlfriend. And I had to learn all that stuff. Right. But no, I just noticed an overall difference, not only in how I behaved, you know, more aggressively and, you know, just sort of always scoping out like that old, that predatory male thing. Like you're always like, whoa, checking out girls. I mean, I wasn't really-
41:39🔗CallerYeah, I was very visual. I was always sort of, I mean, just overnight it happened like that. And it was amazing to me. And I also noticed how women treated me differently. I mean, I became, you know, in certain situations a woman would approach me and be attracted to me like more than ever before. And I was, you know, you don't turn that stuff down.
41:59🔗DrewBut some of it may be a little bit of a feedback loop too. They send something out, you respond to it. They send something more out, you respond again.
42:05🔗AdamYeah, you, not only, your antenna may have been bent and you've not, were not picking up their signals before because-
42:11🔗CallerRight. Well, that definitely happened. I write in my book, I mean, just, there are so many encounters with women where I was like, oh, let's just go out on a date, go out to dinner. And they're totally thinking it's going in some direction. I'm being all nice to them. And then I would get to the end of the night and they'd want to sleep with me. I'd be like, no thanks, because I don't work.
42:26🔗AdamRight. You just want to BJ. Oh, I see. This is before the-
42:35🔗DrewWell, he likes BJs. I mean, did some- How dare you bring my thoughts to this?
42:39🔗CallerYeah, I went from nothing to I want to do everything.
42:41🔗DrewEverything. So there was no like, didn't focus on something. It's just interesting, I think.
42:46🔗CallerI just appreciated everything about women, and I realized why men are so obsessed with it. But what I write about in the book is, sort of what happened to me was, the way I looked at it was after about a year or so of trying to figure out what's going on, just adjusting to the transformation. I realized that getting rid of the tumor sort of allowed me to be male as I was meant to be. The heterosexual, functioning, hormonally normal male that I'm supposed to be. But it didn't necessarily make me a man. And I sort of had that insight where that everyone sort of comes here, or you hope they do, eventually, that there's a difference between being a man and being male. And being, manhood is, well, maleness is sort of the shell. But manhood is the soul of a person. And that's what sort of drove me to write about it, not just to say, hey, look what I went through, but listen, there's a difference between just being a dude and, but being someone with integrity. And cause it's, you know, guys were sort of wired to just go out and.
46:24🔗CallerHe, it was so stupid, he said that he went, he came home and said that he had gone to dinner with friends, and then the next day he said, well I didn't, I went fishing with a whole bunch of friends.
46:44🔗AdamAre you kidding? Hey, that's why I lied.
46:47🔗DrewWell, he should be behaving properly, not behaving as he wishes and then lying about it.
46:52🔗CallerIt's also one of those male-female differences things. Women will never forget about what happened, but a guy wants to move on and just sort of-
47:00🔗AdamA guy just sweep it under and keep moving. Listen, we got to go to break, but Cindy, I don't know what to tell you.
47:07🔗AdamAll right, well, go alone then. If he doesn't want to go, just go alone and work on it because you're angry and you don't really need him to work it out with you.
47:39🔗CallerLoveline with Adam Corolla and Dr. Drew.
48:20🔗AdamHey, everybody, it's LoveLine. I'm Adam, that's Drew, phone number 1-800-LOVE191. Ken Baker's our guest tonight. Ken is the author of Man-Made. Ken had himself a tumor for many a year, went undiagnosed, never had the testosterone kicked in, and basically knows what it's like to coast through puberty without coasting through puberty.
48:45🔗DrewHe knows what it's like to be a chick and be a dude.
48:48🔗DrewThis is living proof of nurture, nature being much more powerful, or at least a major issue as compared to nurture.
48:56🔗AdamWell, one of Drew's jags in life is he hates it. I think this movement has been dropped or lost a little momentum. But I could remember growing up with a hippie mom saying, look, we give boys these little guns and we give girls the dollies and maybe the boys want to play with the dollies and maybe the girls want to play with the guns. And left alone, 50% of the females would pick up a gun and 50% of the boys would pick up a doll. But that's just more brainwashing nonsense from the 70s.
49:32🔗DrewThere was a crazy move in the 70s that we are, all of us equal, no differences.
49:50🔗DrewWe were talking off the air before the show started about a young male whose penis was basically cut off in a circumcision accident. And they raised this child as a female, actually made external genitalia of a girl.
50:02🔗DrewAnd at 13, this kid starts flipping out because he is attracted to girls and wants to be physical and all the stuff you are describing. You cannot deny the profound effects of biology. It is just stupid.
50:16🔗AdamWell here is what I always yell at all those people who talk about the man and society. I always ask them, how did it get this way? Do you know what I mean? Why is it?
50:30🔗AdamHow can you argue with the end results? How come guys like fast cars with big engines and and toting guns and military and they like watching boxing and women like watching figure skating? Why is that? Did somebody make this declaration at the dawn of civilization that this is, let's tally it up, who is going to be interested in what? I mean, my thing is, your argument is fundamentally flawed because look around. I mean, we don't question it in any of the animal kingdoms. There's, there's, there's inherent male traits and there's inherent female traits. We don't look at who forced them to take on these stereotypical roles. We understand this is all part of nature. And I don't understand. It's sort of, it's sort of supreme narcissism to think that we don't fall under the same guidelines and rules as a species.
51:40🔗CallerOh my god, I love you guys. Yeah, um, and K-Rock, K-Rock and Super-S-Saiyan number one. Okay, you guys are cool. Anyways, for about two or three weeks now, I've been having like this gooey, clear substance come out of my vagina.
52:26🔗DrewYou're not sexually active, it's pretty hard to get a real infection up there. You can. There's other bacteria that can overgrow. If the yeast cream doesn't take care of it, talk to your doctor, there's something called Metrogel Cream that will take care of it.
53:01🔗DrewIt was probably like an acronym for some Latin words. But no one in the last 40 years has ever uttered them.
53:07🔗AdamHey Jeremy? Yeah. What are you, 15? What's up?
53:13🔗Yeah, in the past three weeks I've been taking acid at least two times a week. I was just wondering what the effects of it are in the long run.
53:23🔗DrewIf you raise Jeremy, I'm afraid they can be quite profound. There can be personality changes, permanent mood disturbances. It really can be a mess.
53:31🔗AdamHow much acid? Six times in three weeks?
53:38🔗DrewYeah, if you're lucky, you'll dodge a bullet here and it won't hurt you, but I have seen some just, I mean, I've seen devastation from 15, 16-year-olds doing acid.
53:50🔗Oh, yeah. And another thing was, is a friend of mine told me that if you take ecstasy and drink alcohol with it, it can like totally destroy your brain stem. Is that true?
54:02🔗DrewIt can do it without the alcohol, but you're actually doing something that is probably more toxic.
54:07🔗AdamThe acid? Yeah, the way you're doing it. Does the booze screw up the ecstasy?
54:14🔗AdamYeah, I never heard that either. Hey, Jeremy? Yeah. Here's the problem at 15. First off, your brain is pretty durable, but it does come back to sort of bite you in the ass. And you don't want to spend an hour looking for your keys when you're 28. You know what I mean? Yeah. And not only that, but just the general sort of mixing the drugs and experimenting with the drugs and doing the drugs. At 15, it means you're going to be in pretty bad shape at 20. Not only from the effects of the drugs, but you're going to be strung out. And maybe 20 would be a long-range thing. I'd guess more like 16 and a half or 17. It's a good time to stop. Because the thing is, is you can now. But a couple years from now, you may not be able to. It really, really messes you up.
55:09🔗AdamSo give that some consideration. And look, I'm not telling you this because I read a book. A lot of the guys I grew up with, almost most of them ran into some trouble with this. And they ended up getting clean. Most of them, if it didn't kill them, they ended up getting clean in their late 20s, early 30s. But that's a pretty good chunk of time that was lost. Relationships, prison time, job failure, you know, all that stuff. Now why go through it? Why not just stop now when it's easy? Instead of just freaking out and having to go to rehab, you know, 15 years from now. All right?
55:49🔗AdamAll right. I'm not sure if that's part of his plan to quit it.
55:53🔗DrewI know. Last one I saw was doing Big Time Asset at 15. I caught him about two years into it. He's probably down a hundred hits. And he what struck me aside from the fact that he was, I mean, you could barely communicate with him. He was profoundly impaired. His personality had changed drastically, but he could put his pants on, kept trying to put his pants on backwards. Oh, like that. And he couldn't figure it out. Couldn't like didn't.
56:15🔗AdamWhat was that? What was that band? Rerun? No. Kid n Play? No. What were those two little black kids? They wore their pants backwards.
56:29🔗AdamThank you there, Anderson. Big Chris Cross fan. Huge Chris Cross. And a big Christopher Cross fan as well. He loves all the Chris and Cross bands. Yeah, Chris Cross.
57:15🔗CallerWell, first off, I just wanted to give you guys both your kudos. Drew, I really respect you. Actually, last year I watched Mars, Venus, even though it wasn't so great. But just because you were on it, I watched it. But I would love to see Bo and Sam and Rondell and Christina on LoveLine one night. I think that would be a little fun to hear them come into your world a little bit.
57:36🔗CallerMy little brother is at USC and I hear that you do something at USC. So I was wondering what he needs to get addicted to to find his way into you. I'll tell him to get addicted to something.
57:46🔗DrewI occasionally go there and talk through the student health services and whatnot. Okay.
57:51🔗CallerCould I find that on drdrew.com or something?
57:54🔗DrewYeah. Or just call Student Health Services and see if I can set something up.
57:57🔗CallerYeah. I'm at the University of Toronto, so I didn't even know that I had a connection with your guest tonight. But hi, Ken. Are you from Toronto or?
58:05🔗CallerI'm from Buffalo, New York, but grew up playing hockey in the Toronto area.
58:54🔗CallerI run a small business on the Internet. What we do is we upgrade the TiVos to have up to 300 hours capacity. Instead of the 20 or 30 hours you guys have, we can get them up to 300 hours. How do you do that? Well, you add more hard drives and you have to do software work. But because you guys are you guys, I would love to give them to you for your hard work.
59:14🔗AdamWell, listen, get Dennis' number off the air and we'll talk because I need more time on the TiVos.
59:24🔗CallerTwofold. First off, I really want to be a lawyer. I really want to go to law school desperately. But I'm having so much trouble getting motivated to go to class. No matter, I know that I have to get grades to get into law school. I know that I have to work my butt off. I know all this. And I actually enjoy class when I get there. But there's like some sort of block that is keeping me from showing up at class. And I just can't do it. I mean, when I can scrape by, I get my sixties and seventies in classes. But I know I can do better if I would just show up at the lecture.
59:57🔗DrewWhere does this law school thing come from? Where did you get that idea?
1:00:00🔗CallerWell, I really don't know. I've kind of wanted to. I enjoy politics. I enjoy debating.
1:00:09🔗AdamWell, what do you care, Drew? He wants to be a lawyer.
1:00:11🔗DrewBecause I would bet that somebody sort of...
1:00:15🔗DrewHe doesn't have a passion. His father wants him to do something like that. He's not bought in to something that somebody else conceived of as a synthesis of your skills and your desire. But if you really came upon your passion, I bet you would just... It would self-stop.
1:00:32🔗CallerActually, after I said I wanted to go to law school, my mom decided... My mom had always taken care of us, but now my brothers are grown up, and I'm pretty grown up. So my mom actually started at law school. So I'm kind of trying to follow in her footsteps. But I think I had the idea first.
1:00:48🔗AdamAll right. So no Jewish dad. That's what you're asking.
1:01:09🔗AdamYeah. All the people I grew up with, their parents just wanted the F out of the house. That's their biggest dream. My biggest professional goal for you is, get the F out of the house and don't ask for money. So I hope you do something. Well, I don't care what you do. I could have announced I was going to be a porn director just as long as I did it out of the house.
1:01:28🔗DrewI suspect that Dennis just needs to find... I would expect if he found something in politics or something really turned him on, that would be it.
1:01:34🔗CallerYeah, if you're doing what you love, then you'll just... It won't even feel like work.
1:01:38🔗AdamYeah, but the thing is, it's not inherent in the win. No, what am I thinking of? Yeah, you're not up there... I was thinking of to kill a mockingbird or something. You're not up there arguing for the Supreme Court. You're taking a statistics class and it sucks. Yeah. So it's hard to get it up because it's not what you want to do.
1:01:58🔗DrewThere is some of that early on in college, but he's 22 now and you'd think that he'd be sort of self-started and stuff. But, Tarek, get his phone number, Dennis. Trust me.
1:02:07🔗AdamDennis, line three. Not because you want to help him.
1:02:57🔗Because usually every time I try to gain weight or lose weight, I gain it. And I've been having trouble eating certain foods since I've been on them.
1:03:18🔗DrewIt has a stimulant property to it and I could see where that might trigger some discomfort. Yeah.
1:03:22🔗I was just wondering if it was because of the pill.
1:03:24🔗DrewYeah. I mean your body basically thinks it's pregnant when you're on the pill. The nausea and food intolerance, that kind of thing can be a side effect.
1:03:31🔗AdamAll right. Well, that's good though, right?
1:03:34🔗AdamI mean, you want to lose some weight. You lost some weight. There's some stuff you can eat, but it's all right. It just makes you fat. So, fine.
1:04:01🔗Yeah. And last time he was down here, he was down here for four days on Thanksgiving. And the last time he had sex was when he was like 18. And we didn't have sex because neither one of us were protected.
1:04:16🔗So we decided against it. But we did do some foreplay.
1:04:21🔗DrewGet to the question. I'm not sure I needed to know that he was down four days over Thanksgiving to answer your question.
1:04:27🔗Well, I'm going to go see him again in May. And I know that it's been a long time for him and me both. And I was just wondering, like, if there is a way to where, you know, he won't orgasm so fast when we do have sex.
1:05:15🔗AdamFirst 10 over with. Yeah. Just, I don't know, why don't you call them up and tell them to, you call them up and give them a little sex talk and he'll probably start beating off. Call him from the airport before you come over. Figure it out. I don't care. I don't know why.
1:05:32🔗DrewYou know what? Interesting about the stuff Ken's talking about tonight, there's an anthropologist out there that believes that women on the birth control pill are subtly influenced, not even so subtly, that their sexual behaviors change, their receptivity to men change, and that if you give, like in a troop of chimpanzees, you give all the females pills, their relation to the males changed rather dramatically, and that us keeping all the women under the influence of these hormones may be changing the anthropology.
1:05:59🔗DrewIt's variable. I think that's why this can't be very easily ascertained. Some women it goes up, some it goes down. In the monkeys, it made the women sort of non-receptive and not as interested in the guy. And the male, the dominant male, would start getting more aggressive and masturbating more. Which Adam, you're sort of an interesting commentary on your life.
1:06:26🔗AdamIt's all coming together. It's all falling into place. At least I have an answer.
1:06:31🔗DrewStrangely, the males are peeing in buckets.
1:06:33🔗AdamI cramped in a decorative popcorn tin, which is nowhere near the same as peeing in a bucket.
1:06:39🔗DrewWe peed in the bucket too. Well, in your living room.
1:06:43🔗AdamOh, that was an ice bucket. I thought you meant a common pail. No, no, no, my friend. This is a silver gilded ice bucket was very nice. I couldn't make it to the bathroom. I was skipping rope. I don't have to justify myself to you or anyone else. I like when people throw the anyone else in there as if there's other people listening, you know, when you're having your conversation. I think they do that in soaps to include the TV audience. I don't have to justify my actions to you or anyone. I like that. I would always just cut them off. Just me, good enough. Not interested in everyone else.
1:07:24🔗CallerWatching soaps could be a pituitary tumor symptom too.
1:07:27🔗AdamOh, yeah. I mean, you did watch. Did you watch?
1:07:30🔗CallerYeah, yeah. In replacement of the sports.
1:07:33🔗AdamYeah, I used to watch a little Dynasty on a Friday night when I was at one of my lowest points in life. But I think that I was just sort of wallowing in my own depression at that point. Greg? I didn't actually enjoy the cry.
1:08:01🔗CallerWell, this is kind of a sidebar, but I don't have health insurance right now, and I'm kind of paying for my drugs for the prolactin. I have a prolactin like Ken Baker, and I'm paying for the drugs out of pocket right now.
1:08:37🔗CallerAnd Dr. Drew, or what do you call it? Ken. I was wondering, what can I expect in terms of secondary sexual characteristics? Because I went through puberty so late, I didn't go through puberty until I was 18.
1:09:34🔗DrewYou are still taking it. Wow. That's interesting.
1:09:35🔗CallerSo, you're not really seeing the impact on your sex drive, I guess. Is that what you're saying?
1:09:40🔗CallerI'm still kind of, I don't know, a seminet.
1:09:44🔗CallerHuh. And you've had all your hormone levels checked? I would totally go to the endocrinologist and make sure he has all the hormone levels checked. Because there's different kinds of testosterone too.
1:10:08🔗CallerNo, I maxed out on the health insurance plan already. They have a really low ceiling.
1:10:13🔗DrewOh my god. The hormonal systems are very complicated. And it's not always as easy as it was for Ken to reestablish normal physiology. Sometimes it has to be attuned very carefully with multiple different interventions. So, Greg, look forward to the fact that this stuff should be able to be correctable with pharmacology.
1:10:58🔗AdamWell, like when a duck is going against, let's say, a lion or a bear or a cougar or anything like that, a beaver will kick a duck's ass. But the Lord Jeffs... Lord Jeffs. The Lord Jeffs.
1:11:34🔗AdamSo it's like you guys may win on the field, but your players will start dying off years later.
1:11:38🔗DrewHere's the irony of how we look at these things. So Colgate and all these schools that have Indian warrior names get a lot of crap for having that. And yet here's a school that has, you know, as their mascot, the guy that invented German warfare against Indians. And no one mentions that.
1:11:55🔗DrewThat should be much more offensive to them, I would think.
1:11:57🔗AdamYeah. All right. Well, anyway, Lord Jeff's got to be amongst the worst. And were we talking about this? What do they call the women's volleyball team? The Lady Lord Jeffs?
1:12:09🔗AdamLady Jeffs? That will turn anyone lesbian. All right. Let's take a little break. Ken Baker is our guest tonight. He wrote himself a book called Man Made. And we'll be right back.
1:12:24🔗CallerHello, this is your radio. LoveLine will be right back.
1:13:01🔗AdamHey, yo, it's the Loveline. I'm Adam, that's Dr. Drew. Ken Baker, the testosterone maker, is our guest tonight. He has written himself a book called Man-Made, chronicles his odyssey of growing up and having a tumor, and not being able to make all the testosterone. And I'm just tired, Drew.
1:13:26🔗DrewYeah. I've had enough. What? It hurts you to hear about this?
1:13:30🔗AdamAll I'm saying is, is you people, you should just know what I'm thinking from up. We've been on long enough. I don't have to say it. Do I?
1:13:40🔗AdamYou know what I would say. Like some jackass calls up, he's trying to screw around with us, or some guy says he comes too fast, or some chick says she's got an alcoholic boyfriend. You know what I would say, right? Just think it. Do I have to say it over and over again?
1:13:56🔗DrewNo, I think, you know, this show does have to keep evolving, Adam, and I've been trying to move it along lately, and I think your contribution needs to be just to sit and think the things you'd normally say.
1:14:04🔗AdamI'm going to try that. I'm going to try that in the next call.
1:14:16🔗CallerYeah, I just started snorting crystal meth about, I said, three and a half weeks ago. And I've been doing it ever since. And I don't know. I actually like doing it.
1:14:29🔗DrewWell, that's what addiction is. Initially, you do it because it works. You like it. But then you become unable to stop even though you want to.
1:14:53🔗DrewYeah. Okay. Right there. And, Jeff, this drug is pretty nasty. Even if you're using it two or three times a week, it can be an addiction at that point. It's not something you have to use every day to get the long-term effects. And eventually, you'll get psychotic. You'll start thinking that people that are close to you, workers, family members, are thinking about you and plotting against you. And if you get to that point where you're getting the psychosis, people often also get long-term problems with mood and memory. Memory problems from amphetamine. It's a common side of it.
1:16:16🔗DrewRight. You can remove Josh from the board here.
1:16:19🔗AdamYou think so? I think it's safe. Let's talk to Tina, 17. Tina?
1:16:24🔗Hi. I have a question. I was wondering what kind of qualifies as like verbal abuse from like parents. Because like my parents are like, they're like yelling at me like for anything, like swear to God, like anything.
1:16:41🔗Well, like my dad, he's like he's like he just like he just like anything like my parents are saying like a bitch all the time and that like they hate me.
1:16:53🔗DrewAnything? That's awful. I mean, that's full scale abuse. Anything disrespectful, anything exploitative, anything where they don't acknowledge the effects that their behavior is having upon you. That's all it is.
1:17:06🔗Yeah, but they say like, well, we like make the money and you live in our house so we can treat you however we want. And I'm like, I'm a person too, you know, and they're like, well, it's great.
1:17:17🔗AdamThat's what I was thinking. And are you sure you're not just a big pain in the ass?
1:17:23🔗No, I'm not. Like, my friends are all like, like my friend's parents, they like love me. They're like, oh my God, I wish you were my daughter. You're so sweet. And you're like, my parents are just...
1:17:31🔗DrewDon't worry, Tina will have her day when she finds a nice abusive heroin addict to her.
1:17:37🔗AdamBig bull lesbian, beats the crap out of her.
1:17:58🔗AdamAt 17, should you really be talking to your parents? I mean, can't you just steer clear of them?
1:18:03🔗I try, but they like, like, if I'm, like, in my room, they'll come in and they'll start bitching at me and I'll be, like, What are they bitching?
1:18:09🔗AdamI mean, here's what I'm trying to understand. There's no doubt. All right, I forget about this thinking business. We run into this a lot. There's no doubt that there's a whole bunch of horrible parents out there. And there's a small percentage of them who would just get drunk and come in and start beating up people or yelling at people unprovoked. But the other 90% of bad parents get started with something. They say, Do the dishes. The kid doesn't do the dishes, goes into the room. And then the parents come in and start yelling and the parents are out of line. But my point is, Do the dishes. You know they're a-holes. Keep them out of your room. Play the game. Resent them, yes. And then get the hell out of the house.
1:18:52🔗DrewGet a radio show and talk about their ass for 44 years.
1:18:54🔗AdamThat's right. That's right. That was my master plan.
1:18:59🔗AdamI've told my parents many times, You rolled the dice, came up snake eyes. I know, you thought I'd be driving a truck. Joke's on you. But the point is, just don't get into them. Don't dance with them. If your mom says, take out the garbage, do the thing or do your homework, whatever it is, don't give them any lip, just go do it, lay low. It's a bad situation, and you shouldn't have to, but that's the reality of your situation.
1:19:25🔗DrewAnd her thing is, she should only have to do it for another six months or so, and then go to college. Get out of there.
1:19:56🔗I'm not like one of those lazy bum kids who like just like, no, I don't want to.
1:19:59🔗DrewIs there any way you can stay out of their crosshairs?
1:20:00🔗AdamLet me ask you this. Say your dad or mom says like do the dishes. So you do all the dishes and then you go in your room and then they bust in and start yelling at you?
1:20:10🔗Well, it depends like their mood, like they like have mood swings and stuff.
1:20:24🔗AdamThey come in and start yelling at you about stuff when you've completed their tasks?
1:20:29🔗Yeah, like my dad, like I was like sleeping. It was like six in the morning and my dad like busted in my room and he was like yelling at me about something.
1:21:20🔗AdamAnd she's throwing salt in the wound. She's a snot-nose kid. Listen, okay, I'm trying not to be a colossal prick here, but what I mean is I'm asking her a couple of questions and I'm getting the vibe and the attitude that dad is getting. I don't know. Well, how long? A while ago. You know, it's like she doesn't know it, but if we got them on the phone, they would give us a laundry list of what the hell happened.
1:21:50🔗AdamOkay. All I'm saying is your parents are bad people. Know it, understand it, and kiss their ass for another six months, and then get the F out of Denver, and go to college, and then screw with them for the rest of your life. That's when you pay them back. There's a lot of situations that way. I think this is an important thing for people to understand, whether it's parents, or teachers, or parole officers, or prison guards, or wardens, or girlfriends, or boyfriends, or you get into situations, or roommates, where you're with people for a short period of time, and these people aren't right. But these people sometimes are dangerous, or abusive, or can really do a lot of damage. And sometimes you have to just roll with it a little bit.
1:22:41🔗AdamRide it out. Steer clear of them as best you can. Sometimes it means bending over a little bit backwards, and then getting out of the situation. If it's a roommate, don't agitate them to the point where they try to kill you at night. Just kiss a little ass, meanwhile make some plans to get the hell out of there. And this is true for many many facets of life, and you got to learn it.
1:23:10🔗AdamOh yes, alright, we'll be back. LoveLine. I'm Adam. That's Drew over there. Ken Baker is our guest tonight. Ken is the author of Man-Made, and Drew, did you read this book? I read parts of it.
1:24:05🔗DrewI didn't read it cover-to-cover, but I read a lot of it.
1:24:08🔗AdamWell, if you read a lot of it, just say yeah.
1:24:10🔗CallerDid you read the Drew Barrymore part? That seems to be a favorite.
1:24:24🔗CallerWell, for a while I was a correspondent for People Magazine in Hollywood and went to a lot of parties with famous people like Adam and beautiful actresses.
1:24:42🔗CallerBut anyway, so I was at this party that actually I had done a story on her. I interviewed her and she invited me to a party. And I was getting this opportunity to sort of hang out with Drew Barrymore and sort of flirtatious and drinking and all that kind of stuff. And it came to a point where I realized, wow, I might be able to-
1:25:03🔗CallerYeah, I might be able to work this. But this was during the period when I was this is pre testosterone storm. And and so I just bolted. I was just scared. And just right.
1:25:14🔗AdamBecause you didn't want to get to that point. Right.
1:25:16🔗CallerLike it's bad enough not to be able to get an erection, but to not be able to get an erection with Drew Barrymore. That's like a thousand times worth. I'd rather not even try. So that was sort of like one of many strings of disappointments.
1:25:28🔗AdamBut he probably could have scored too. He married her for like 10 minutes and kind of.
1:25:33🔗CallerWell, someone pointed out that she, she seemed to like guys with maladies. She married Tom Green and he had the cancer or something. Yeah. Like sexually.
1:25:42🔗AdamYou got a little Tom Green in you too. I mean, both almost Canadian, sort of semi Canadian guys. She's sort of tall and angular and yeah, I could see that. All right. How nuts is she, by the way?
1:25:59🔗CallerWell, everyone's crazy in Hollywood to an extent, don't you think?
1:26:02🔗AdamWell, she grew up in a pretty bizarre environment. She has every right to be nuts.
1:26:08🔗CallerRight. I don't know if she's certifiably nuts.
1:26:10🔗AdamI think she's nice nuts, which I'm completely fine with, but I do think she's crazy. She's been married two times now, and I think she's got like two months.
1:26:23🔗CallerBut the one time she's married is for like a week.
1:26:32🔗AdamNo, I just mean people think more of you.
1:26:35🔗DrewYeah. Well, at a week, you sort of realize you made a mistake and get out of it quick before you establish a real marriage.
1:26:39🔗AdamI don't know. For me, two years is kind of a bad marriage too. Yeah. But what I'm saying is, no, no, I screwed that up. What I wanted to say is a week is worse. I look at it as a job. You have a job for two years and then get fired. That's not too bad. You got a new job. The boss loves you. Welcome aboard. Here's your office. We made you a name plate and everything and a week later, you're out of there. That's screwy. That's good and screwy. Even if you realize this was the biggest mistake of your life, you could probably float it for a year. That's all I'm saying. That's what I would do. Let's save the babies. Kevin.
1:27:28🔗CallerI've heard it makes you more like an alpha male than like...
1:27:35🔗DrewWell, are you talking about what if you naturally have more testosterone than the average male? You're talking about what if you take androgenic anabolic steroids?
1:27:42🔗CallerNo. What if you have too much naturally?
1:27:46🔗CallerI think I've read some things where it says you have a higher risk for heart attack.
1:27:49🔗DrewWell, yeah. I mean, the sort of paradigm would be what happens to guys when they take back testosterone and anabolic steroids. And yes, it absolutely affects their endothelial function. They get heart disease. They get strokes. They get disease of the heart muscle. They get liver problems. They get kidney disease. They get all kinds of stuff. They get depression. They get aggression. They get manias. Taking a lot of testosterone, extra physiologic doses has profound negative influence on your body. Prostate cancer even.
1:28:20🔗DrewIf your body produces too much, I don't know that they're having more health problems necessarily. I think you'd be at a higher risk for heart disease certainly. And you know, males produce more testosterone when they get into positions of authority, when they exercise more, when they speak in front of groups of people. Right.
1:28:36🔗CallerThey've done studies on incarcerated males and they found that they generally have higher testosterone levels.
1:28:45🔗DrewNo, no. It's not the result of being there.
1:28:46🔗AdamOh, you're talking about the speaking.
1:28:48🔗CallerBut that's a good way. That's another interesting angle.
1:28:51🔗AdamLet me ask you this, Drew and Ken. What about the sort of what seems to be a mixture of... Here's what I'm saying. What's the while you see like a guy is really like skinny, doesn't seem to have too much muscle on him or anything, maybe even feminine sort of body features. But he's hairy. How does that work? You know what I mean? Aren't they both... I mean, if you got one, shouldn't you have the other? Yeah. Shouldn't both be products of testosterone or more testosterone?
1:29:24🔗DrewThere are many other variables that go into how your body responds to testosterone. Many, many, many.
1:29:29🔗AdamAll right. Let's talk to Joe, who's 19. Joe?
1:29:46🔗CallerWhat's the average? What's it supposed to be?
1:29:47🔗AdamLike, what's the norm? It's like, it's five and change. You're not too far off the average. The average is a little smaller normal than average. That's my feeling about the average.
1:30:00🔗DrewThe average is no good, in your opinion?
1:30:02🔗AdamThe average is smaller than average. That's my take.
1:30:06🔗CallerSo, Aiden, would I be able to, like, satisfy somebody?
1:30:40🔗AdamYeah. And by the way, Joe, Joe, you're from Glendale? Yeah. San Fernando. This is where I grew up. This is what every in it and that family sounds like. Yeah. I grew up with Joe. No, I don't do that.
1:31:30🔗AdamYeah, because Joe is like a guy who's got like a 98 IQ, who says he wants to be a doctor and you go, well, you're going to have to study real hard and he goes, no, I don't do that.
1:31:39🔗DrewYou have an opinion about the fallacy?
1:31:41🔗CallerWell, I think that, well, Adam's right. It's almost like if you warm her up, for every couple of minutes you warm her up, you gain an inch. I don't know if you can quantify that, but it's something like that. But on the other hand, women, I talked to a lot of women about it and they will admit, size does matter, but there are ways around it, like you said.
1:32:07🔗AdamYeah. It is a factor and we've somehow convinced them, I think guys did this, talk them into deciding it wasn't a factor. It is a factor with women, but there's about 10 factors and that may be number 6 or 7. So the point is, it's like a triathlon or not a triathlon, decathlon, pole vault, not your strongest one. You'll make up for it. Excel, Excel in the 100-yard dash and the 440 and all that stuff in the discus. Now I'm saying get better at all the other stuff, all the cuddling and grinding and going down.
1:32:44🔗CallerWell, but on the other hand, I know a woman who, if she went on a date with a guy and found out that he's a small piss, she wouldn't go on another date. I mean, so that happens too.
1:32:55🔗AdamI'm trying to get Joe not to kill himself, basically.
1:34:00🔗AdamWell, there it is, the show is over. I want to thank Ken Baker for coming in here and being a good sport and plugging the book. Man-Made is the name of it. Drew has read fully one quarter of it.
1:34:14🔗DrewAt least. I want to thank Adam for thinking his responses to the calls tonight. There you go again. That's very nice. Well done.
1:34:23🔗AdamAll right. So until next time, this is Adam Corolla for Dr. Drew saying mahalo. Hi, I'm Adam Corolla. You know, I play pussy on the radio.
1:34:31🔗CallerThis has been LoveLine. The opinions expressed in this show are not necessarily those of the staff, management, sponsors, or this station. The producer for LoveLine is Ann Wilkins Dingle. LoveLine is a presentation of Westwood One Entertainment.