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1:21🔗VoiceoverHey, everybody, it's Loveline. I'm Adam. That's Dr. Drew. Phone number 1-800-LOVE-191. Dr. Drew is a board certified physician and addiction medicine specialist. Greg Behrendt is here tonight. Greg is the co-author of He's Just Not That Into You, which I saw featured on Oprah, I think, a couple months back. And I don't know if it was you who was on it or the co-author or you're both on it. It was me.
1:52🔗Greg BehrendtYeah, it was me. Well, you're both on there, but I sat in the chair next to Oprah.
1:57🔗AdamYeah. And I got to say, and by the way, New York Times, Best Seller List, Wall Street Journal, Best Seller List, USA Today, Best Seller List, and all sorts of good things. Also, Greg was a consultant for three seasons on Sex and the City, which I enjoy. And-
2:22🔗DrewI've never heard you say that. I'm sorry. I beg your pardon.
2:24🔗AdamWell, it's never really come up. You don't have to apologize, Drew. It makes me seem like an ogre. But what I mean is, I enjoy the show. I watch it. I watch that. I watch a blowout. By a gay hairdresser. I watch- I watch- I like Sex and the City. And everyone was like, you don't get a lot of manly points for enjoying that show, by the way. No. As I would explain to people, though, it's because I was secure with my sexuality, which then made me insecure because I had to explain it. Right. And now I'm back at gay again. Right. But back at gay again. Write that down. No, it's going to be my book. But the point is, you know, when you compared it to certainly whatever else was out there, with the exception of, you know, maybe The Sopranos and a handful of other shows, I thought it was a great show.
3:11🔗AdamAnd but when I saw- when I saw you featured on Oprah and I saw the information that was being dispensed about, you know, the guy's not calling you back. He's just not that into you. I would say to myself, no duh.
3:36🔗AdamYeah, not even sophisticated in a complicated way. But I mean, they're those, they're those, look, if you go on two dates with a guy and he says he's gonna call you and he never calls you back, he's just not that into you. That's one of those, all right.
3:56🔗AdamOr the one that, the one that I wouldn't have thought of is what I'm saying. What's one that Drew wouldn't have thought of?
4:00🔗DrewWell, there's one, there's an area that I think is a little more intuitive, which is the guy is dating vigorously, but isn't gonna stick around. And only other guys would kinda see that.
4:12🔗DrewShe's dating, she's dating, the guy's dating some woman, and they're like hanging out all the time, they're having sex all the time, they're practically living together, and you can tell as a guy that he's going that way.
4:19🔗Greg BehrendtIt's not gonna go that way. Yeah, it's not gonna go that way.
4:21🔗DrewAnd the women seem not to be able to perceive that at all.
4:23🔗Greg BehrendtWhich is why it's called, he's just not that into you.
4:27🔗DrewHow do they know when they're in one of those relationships? That's what I think what he's looking for. How does a woman know she's into something with a guy who's not?
4:33🔗Greg BehrendtBecause he's unwilling to discuss the future of the relationship, or he's unwilling to do any of the things that he says he's going to do. It's really pretty simple.
4:59🔗AdamThey build stuff out of clouds in their head. We actually have to build a suspension bridge and have the 400 guys die trying to dig the tunnels. They build stuff out of clouds. They're girders or pixie dust.
5:13🔗AdamThey're panels. They're like angel farts. Yeah. They don't actually build anything. That's really what they do. They're really construction.
5:19🔗Greg BehrendtDid you say angel farts? Yeah. I was just trying to follow.
5:22🔗AdamWorld's worst cereal. If you remember that from the seventies. Now, women really, and the other mistake I think women make is they go, and this is not about dating, but this is the horrible relationship where they're like, well, I've been in it for three and a half years. I've invested this time, like some stock that's plummeting that you never want to sell.
5:45🔗Greg BehrendtYeah, because you think someday it's going to come back.
5:48🔗AdamYeah. And, oh, I bought it 50 bucks a share and it's down to 18. Well, it's going to 10.
5:54🔗DrewYeah. It could go to zero. Which is most of these guys are going.
5:57🔗Greg BehrendtYeah. And essentially what you're saying is like women suffer from the affliction of hope.
6:01🔗Greg BehrendtWhich is really kind of, you know, sad, but it is that sort of thing where women have more faith in something a lot of times.
6:05🔗DrewBut guys don't come around. You know what I mean?
6:09🔗Greg BehrendtAnd I also think that they don't completely know they're just not that into it. They just don't know what it is yet until they see the right thing. But guys don't? They don't want to go further.
6:16🔗Greg BehrendtI think sometimes you're in a relationship with somebody and you enjoy them and you're like, I'm trying to make this work. But when you really think about it, you're like, yeah, no, I'm not going the distance. I just don't know what to do.
6:23🔗DrewI also think it's guys are not at that point in their life when they can go further with it. Some guys have let the right one go because they just weren't able to go on at that point in their life.
6:32🔗Greg BehrendtBut don't you think that the right one would inspire you to get your life together? When I met my wife, I was just an open mic nobody, trying, but I was like, I don't have time to wait. I want to marry this person. It'll come together while I'm with him.
6:51🔗DrewIf you were 24, or 22, forget it, forget it.
6:54🔗AdamYeah, obviously, well look, if you're doing open mics, and you're waiting tables, and you're living in a single apartment, and one of the chicks from the model show, what the hell show is that? World's Greatest Model, where the hell did Tyra Banks go? Next to Greg. Yeah, if she wants to start dating you, you might throw it all away and take a chance and get married. I mean, if somebody completely, someone you recognize from TV, or just completely out of your league comes in, yeah. But in general, you don't get to date those people. You get to date the waitress who you're working with.
7:31🔗Greg BehrendtYou get to date. You mean date at the level that you're at.
7:33🔗AdamYou date at the level you're at, and when you meet her at 24, being usually not ready. Now, see, guys have a little bit of a plan oftentimes too, which is you're dating at the level you're at. And when you're a 24-year-old chick, you're peeking out. You're redlining level-wise. I mean, you just are. You're not going to get any better looking. You're not getting any thinner. And we don't care if you're richer. You know what I mean? We don't care the position you hold. That's it.
8:01🔗AdamIn society. Yeah. I mean, the reality is, I don't speak for all guys, but 98% of them are straight guys. The point is, as a woman, you could be working at a coffee shop, hot, in 23, and that's basically as high as your number's going. Now the guy-
8:24🔗AdamNow look, I'm not saying you could be a more complex person or learn more, be more interesting. It just doesn't, guys don't really, you get half a point as far as the guys go.
8:34🔗AdamRight? So the point is, is now when you're a guy in your 23 and you're working next to her at the thing, your number still could go way up. You got an idea for business, you're working on a degree.
8:47🔗Greg BehrendtShe doesn't really have room for growth. Like you're saying she's not going past the waitress thing.
8:50🔗AdamShe can have all the interpersonal growth she wants and all the emotional growth she wants, but as far as her number goes, not really.
8:57🔗Greg BehrendtLike so she hasn't got a foothold in some other career, it's probably not going to happen to her. No, no, no, no.
9:01🔗DrewHe's saying to the guys, it doesn't matter. Even if she becomes a nuclear physicist.
9:05🔗AdamDoesn't matter what she does. Yeah, unless, you know, she starts a porn company or something, the guy's really in. You know what I mean? There's something very specific.
9:14🔗Greg BehrendtLike, I mean, so it doesn't matter if she does. You don't think you don't feel like that makes a difference. Because to me, I find that incredibly attractive. Somebody who has a life, you know, I mean, it does.
9:24🔗Greg BehrendtNobody's word again. I think that's true. Like I dated. I did. Look, I did stand up forever. So I dated a lot of waitresses. So I know what that is. And then I met somebody who my wife was in the record industry who I found. I found that fascinating. I found that to be eternal.
9:35🔗AdamIt is it is good for. Look, don't get me wrong. If you yeah, if you had your druthers, you'd rather have a hot chick who was an executive than a hot chick who was a junkie. The junkie thing is going to shave a good quarter point, right? Maybe up to three eighths of a point off of her thing, you know. But hot chick is hot chick and hot twenty three year old is hot twenty three year old and position. Yes. And anybody could come in and marry her at any given any given point.
10:05🔗Greg BehrendtI will say with the junkie, you always know where she is. She's on the floor where you left her in.
10:08🔗AdamShe's in her own, her own mess, her own sick on the floor, or she's she's turning a trick on it. You'll scratch together and you'll get some of that money, too. The point is, is when you're a guy. Now, here's how I think a lot of guys think. And I think I thought this way a little bit. And maybe you guys did, too. When you were twenty four, twenty five, you were dating people that were on a par with you. And unfortunately, you weren't doing so great. So you had to date on your level. But you had a plan. One day, I'm going to start making some money. I'm going to drive a nice car. I'm going to get my career off the ground. So don't marry yet. Because right now, I'm dating on a sixth level because I'm a sixth.
10:48🔗AdamThe sixes will remain where they are. But I can step up to the nines when I get my career going. When I get it's not just about money, it's just about getting on track.
10:58🔗AdamSo I think a lot of guys feeling is, is why should I get married at twenty five? Because I'm only going to I'm still in school or I'm still struggling with this person now.
11:06🔗DrewBut I can't think of the future because I don't know who I'm going to be in three years.
11:09🔗AdamI'm a junior. I'm a junior. I'm in the mail room right now. What am I? What kind of tail am I going to draw here in the mail room? I know it sounds like I'm breaking down its lowest common denominator. But a lot of guys are like, I'm going to wait till I'm 33 and I'm vice president.
11:22🔗Greg BehrendtBut that's the perfect time to marry a guy. I mean, I think that's I think it's a perfect time to get married. Like when you get in your early thirties, like they should. I mean, they will not ever have a law, but it would be awesome to have a lot of good, do not do, stay away from all men till early thirties. Cause by then you're like, okay, I've done my thing.
11:36🔗DrewAnd there's a biological thing too, by the way, you're in a testosterone storm until you're like 28. Levels fall precipitously after that. You can start to think again. You know your feet are on the ground. You can start to see.
11:48🔗Greg BehrendtListen, now I'm in an occasional shower, but it's nice.
11:51🔗DrewBut in Adam's case, he had to swim through the semen to get to the door of the day.
11:54🔗AdamI get a little wiper spray. I get just a little wiper spray once in a while. It's like, you know, when you think it's starting to rain, but it's just a sprinkler or something. That's all I get of testosterone.
12:03🔗Greg BehrendtThe good thing is people do not enjoy the dating thing. Like people, it feels like people just, and it seems like a lot of times, people want to lock something down or figure out what it is. There's no sense of like, let's just enjoy it. Like, let's just have it. Yeah. Let's just date. People don't date. It's just to date people.
12:18🔗AdamWell, it's very rare that you find a woman, I believe, who wants to. Here's the fundamental problem. If you think about it, a man can continue dating a woman for a period of time, up till a couple of years. If she's hot, he's interested, he's into her, they're into the sex. She doesn't put the screws to him and all that. If a woman is dating a guy, she wants it to go somewhere. I mean, I know I'm overstating the obvious, but I mean, if a woman doesn't like the guy or doesn't think he may have the potential to be something, she won't go on the second date usually, certainly not the third. A guy will continue dating. He'll just stay in that holding pattern of like, yeah, food's not great, but it's free kind of thing. I ain't going anywhere. Right, until something better comes along.
13:03🔗Greg BehrendtYeah, and people don't get a chance to, and you don't know after you've been with somebody twice whether they're a good person or not. Like if people actually dated and spent time and dated, dated a few people. Like when I met my wife, I was actually dating a couple of other people. So she and we took a really long time with it.
13:18🔗AdamI always used to wonder how that worked though. Like whenever I used to see a love connection, I would always see them go, they do that status thing. And they go, currently dating about three or four people. And I was like, wow, how do you, does that mean they're having sex with three or four people? Or when they, and if not then.
13:33🔗DrewThat's always left a mystery. That's always left a mystery.
13:35🔗AdamI guess the question is, is then, if you're dating a handful of people for a period of time, then what goes on at the end of, nothing that's just talking about sex, but I just mean, if you're going out with someone 20 times, what?
13:46🔗DrewYou can peter out. Because it's once every two weeks, and when you're available, and here and there.
14:10🔗AdamWhere are we at? Want to take a sauna? Oh, this restaurant? Part ownership. You want to go in there? No, they'll keep it open. I might be just getting oral while I'm sorting appetizers. Be awesome. Yeah, now I could really date. Awesome. Oh yeah, Loveline. Yeah, that's my show. I'm by 100 cities, I guess. I don't care. Yeah, I wrote that book. I was on Oprah. Yeah, sure. Yeah, yeah, sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah, doctor. I got my own show. Yeah, I'm five. It's peppy. I'm 400 horsepower. It's nice. I like to smell leather. Yeah. They got a week of date.
14:47🔗AdamYeah, you know Dexter from The Offspring's got a jet. Yeah. No, he says to take us to San Francisco. We need some lunch. Awesome. We'll wait in the jet. Yeah, yeah, it's cool. Yeah, no, they're good.
14:57🔗Greg BehrendtYou want to meet Oprah? Yeah, we do want to meet her over. Yeah, let me hang on. Let me get on the phone. Let's put her on speaker.
15:04🔗AdamListen, listen. Oh, yeah. Gee, it's my lady's birthday. Could you say say a little something in there? What's the outgoing message?
15:12🔗Greg BehrendtYeah. Yeah, we hit the place. And can we just use your place in Santa Barbara for the weekend? Yeah, it will be cool. I'll clean. OK. Oh, yeah.
15:17🔗AdamYeah. You see about. Oh, think about the dating we could do now. Awesome.
15:40🔗Well, I don't really want to. My sister, he asked my sister before he asked me and she's all for it. But I really don't want to. And I told him no, but he keeps insisting on it.
17:20🔗DrewAshley, you're not describing a situation where somebody can contemplate something like this. You're fat.
17:27🔗It's really weird because he was going out with my sister before he went out with me and just out of, well not out of nowhere, but he was hinting that he wanted and then just he said that he wanted to do it with my sister.
17:41🔗AdamNow, he's already got both of you. Still, Ashley, you're just repeating basically what you said over and over again. It's not convincing us. We don't believe you. Bogus. Unless there's something you need to tell us that involves something serious, something good.
18:01🔗AdamThere's no question and nothing we can hang our hat on.
18:03🔗DrewAnd that story that doesn't make sense. Again, you don't sound like the history of a person who would consider something like this, or even date a guy who would ask you something like this.
18:12🔗Well, I didn't really think that he would like that, like.
18:18🔗AdamBy the way, I really picture us speaking. I almost like we're speaking to insects. I was going to say animals, but that's not fair. I have a dog. And that dog knows its name.
18:41🔗AdamNot good. It's got the word Mexico right in the title. By the way, I would have been like, hey, how about we call it New Canada? And they're like, well, that's not even close to it. Fellas, let's not take any chances. Let's just call it New Canada. We get used to that.
19:04🔗AdamYeah, yeah. As a matter of fact, I say we change New Mexico to New Canada right now. You know what I mean? How are you supposed to tell people that are coming across the border when there's a place called New?
19:33🔗AdamHe took it right outside. I was thinking of a neighboring country, but no, forget it. Let's take one of our better places and put on there. New Hawaii. It sucked though when it was 170 degrees in the summer though and you're at New Hawaii.
19:45🔗DrewYou feel better about it because you're going to Hawaii.
20:16🔗AdamOh, hold on a second. But you know what Toby may be? And you run into him every once in a while. The beautiful, tall, blonde chick who's goofy.
20:34🔗AdamAnd it's weird. It's like they're really hot from across the party, but then you start talking to them and it's like one of your buddies, teenage brothers, who's sort of grown into his gangly body or something. It's weird because they look really hot, but there's something goofy about them that makes them kind of asexual. What is that thing? You know what I'm talking about? And it happens in blondes, by the way.
20:55🔗AdamI don't know what it is. It's like they're tan and it's always the same earmarks. Long legs, beautiful long legs and nice. They look like they play a lot of volleyball out in the sun and stuff and they look great. Then they start talking. They have marbles in their mouth and then it's weird. And all of a sudden, you're not attracted to them. But 10 seconds ago, you couldn't believe it. You couldn't believe it from across the party, right? What is that?
21:18🔗DrewThere's a chapter about that in his book, in Greg's book. A chapter dedicated to the goofy blonde girl.
21:23🔗AdamThey do not come in auburn hair women, not rarely in brunettes. It's really a blonde thing. Toby?
21:33🔗CallerMy question? I haven't been, I mean, I'm young, but me dating has never been like, I've never been serious with anybody. Lately, I mean, it's not like I have to have been by 19. I know that, but most people I know have had at least one, maybe at least a couple of months long relationship. I've had none of those, maybe one month.
21:59🔗CallerI don't know. I feel I'm very picky, but I don't know if that's, I know it has more to do with. There's a lot of things that I've picked up that I find that I cannot like. I don't like them. They're too, they have, they put too much into it, and I just get, I push them away.
22:32🔗AdamWhich is weird. They want you to be super enthusiastic. I packed a picnic basket. I got a place worked out. We rented a convertible. We're going out this weekend. When you're with a woman for a few years, that's all she wants out of you. The first few dates, she don't want that kind of crazy enthusiasm. It freaks them out.
22:51🔗DrewEven then, after a few years, it has to be delivered as though you're delivering it to a Persian cat. Come at it too fast. What do you think?
22:58🔗AdamNo, I know. But the point is, is if your wife came home and you said, sweet, I made some plans for Saturday, I packed this a bit, a basket, we're going to the Hollywood Bulls, she would be looking for your cocoon underneath the house. She would be blown away.
23:11🔗DrewBut it's got to be delivered dispassionately.
23:13🔗AdamYeah. Hold on, Drew, you make a horrible point because no, you can't. If I did any, if I got up off the goddamn sofa, my wife would have a heart attack. I'm not saying you tackle her at the door like Dino tackling Fred. I'm just saying some enthusiasm, some initiative, some commitment. But you see it too early, date number two, chicks freaked out. Freaked out. Freak out, Toby.
23:40🔗DrewAlso, it can sometimes mean intimacy problems too, though, if your dad left or your product, divorced family, that's sort of a-
23:59🔗CallerAll right. He's one of the truck drivers. I've been dating this guy for about a month and I went to a drive party with him and all of his friends, I'd only met like five or six of them, the huge party. And he kind of ignored me a little bit around his friends, wasn't as normal as he is when we normally hang out with one or two friends. So he's cool around a couple, but when he gets run a lot, it's kind of like he wants his own little space. But when I am towards the end of the night, I think I broke down to one of his friends who I hang out with like, he's always there whenever I hang out with them. That was like the three of us. And I think he saw me talking to him for about 20 minutes. And I would think I was crying. I might have been, but he left the party without me. Just left. We came together. We stayed the night before at his house and we woke up early.
24:47🔗AdamYou mean like you were cheating or something?
24:53🔗CallerHe's like his best friend too. This guy, I talked to him and I was like, would he, have you ever done this to him before? Like to where he might think that I might have been, you might have been trying to get in my pants or something. He said, no, I would never. He's my best friend.
25:05🔗AdamAll right. Okay. Here's the thing. I'm not so sure if this guy's Mr. Right.
25:10🔗AdamAnd I don't know why he would just leave. And it doesn't make sense. Here's what I would say. This is a sort of a crossroads. He did something. You can give him an opportunity to explain himself. If he tells you something good.
25:25🔗CallerHe thinks I did something. I swear he thinks that I'm, he left me a text message when I was leaving the party. I was trying to get a hold of him. Says, that's not what I'm looking for. I don't understand what that means. What did I do?
25:35🔗AdamWell, look, obviously you didn't do anything. And obviously he thought you did something.
25:39🔗DrewSo maybe it was the fact that you were sort of too intense and breaking down to his friends. And what's he, you know, why are we not spending all our time together at this party?
25:46🔗Greg BehrendtIt doesn't sound that fun, though. He seems like an able. I mean, I know loss like, you know, I just smell alcohol.
25:55🔗AdamWhat about? I've been drinking pretty good. Yeah, I mean, how about this, though? You know what I like about women?
25:59🔗Greg BehrendtHe did say that's not what I'm looking for.
26:00🔗AdamSo I've had 13,000 discussions slash apology sessions with women about how you act around your friends with your friends. I have never said to any woman I've ever been with, oh, when you're around your friends, has a guy ever had a beef about a woman and her friends? First off, we're elated if they have friends. That's number one. God, thank Christ you have friends. Number two, honey, we're doing a girl's, go, go.
26:30🔗DrewNo, but this is 19 though. I can remember at 17 having all kinds of weird energy about parties.
26:34🔗AdamNo, weird energy about parties because her old boyfriend or whatever, or a dude you imagine, good looking guy comes off the beach, gives her a hug. Who's this guy? How does he know her? But never her with her girlfriends.
27:01🔗AdamAll right, so here's what I would do. Piece of advice. Just because someone gets on the offense doesn't mean you need to get on the defense. Somebody leaves you at a party and accuses you of cheating. You don't have to go, oh no, oh no, no, no. You can get on the offense going, what the hell you talking about? What were you doing straining me at the party? I didn't even have a ride home. How dare you?
27:19🔗DrewI'm not sure Toby has good enough boundaries to do that. She needs to just end it.
27:23🔗AdamGot a little of that goofy blonde in her? Yeah.
27:46🔗AdamAll right, Greg Behrendt is here tonight. He is the, I'm just going to go ahead and call you the author of He's Just Not That Into You, which is number one bestseller. We'll also going to be at the Irvine Improv this week, seven through the 10th, and we'll take a little break. We'll be right back after this.
28:28🔗AdamHey everybody, it's Love Line. I'm Adam, that's Dr. Drew. Greg Behrendt is here tonight. He is the author of He's Just Not That Into You, which I can say quite easily, but when you try to read it and say it, it doesn't want to come out of your mouth.
28:50🔗AdamI don't know why, maybe it's just my horrible ability to read, a little dyslexia, but I can say he's just not that into you, but when I read it, it feels like it's, like I'm crapping it out. Also, Greg's going to be at the Irvine Improv this week, that would be Thursday through Sunday, 7th through the 10th, and got himself some sitcom stuff coming up, developing a sitcom, movie deal about the book. Who do you think's going to be in this movie?
29:19🔗Greg BehrendtI don't know, they've asked us, actually. Clearly, you and I will be. Yeah, I think it will be us.
29:22🔗AdamOh yeah, well there'll be a scene that'll be cut out, that'll have us in it.
29:24🔗Greg BehrendtIt takes place in radio, it takes place actually in radio.
30:17🔗AdamYeah, just. It should smell like that Taco Bell mascot was raped in the microwave. That's what you smell. Just hell. Yeah, it's just raped with a burrito. That's right. A Mexican hooker was raped with a burrito. That's what it should smell like. Because if it was just burrito, it would smell kind of good.
30:41🔗AdamYeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then lots of notes on stuff all over the place. This is Jed's Tabasco sauce. You know, 40 something year old guys putting Post-It notes on a nickel's worth of Tabasco.
30:53🔗DrewThreatening. And a nice sort of detail would be that a chef boyardee can open, half eaten, and then there's a paper towel stuffed in it.
31:09🔗Greg BehrendtYou know, you're on radio and you live a good life.
31:11🔗AdamYou know what's good about radio, too? Angry notes posted around the kitchen. There was half a ding dong in the thing. Whoever ate my ding dong, whoever ate the other half of my ding dong. I want to answer. Really, really what happened is the janitor threw it out, is what happened. 40 something year olds writing angry notes on coke machines, writing angry notes in kitchens. What's going on on radio?
32:04🔗AdamHere's the other thing that's funny about radio too. I was just thinking about, I was just talking to somebody about KALIS-X, one of the stations out here in Los Angeles, and they were like, KALIS-X is making money hand over fist. I thought to myself, why don't they have any goddamn carpet in that place? You ever been to KALIS-X?
32:23🔗AdamThey had indoor-outdoor carpet that looked like transmissions were changed on it and bums defecated into it for about 20 years, and then they pulled it up, and now it's just slab. And I thought to myself, they're making money hand over fist, and they got no goddamn carpeting?
32:40🔗Greg BehrendtNo carpeting, that's where you cut it back.
32:41🔗AdamThat's radio, everybody. You work in a business with no carpet.
32:45🔗DrewBut the interesting thing about radio is that the extra 12 cents a square yard nets them millions.
32:50🔗AdamYeah, no. If they can't trade it out, if they can't trade it out to Flooring Plus, who they're down trying to get as an advertiser, they're not gonna do it, but I just thought, making a ton of money and you don't have any goddamn carpet in the whole building. Awesome. Brandon?
33:06🔗CallerAll right, I've got this girl, been chasing her for about four years. She's 21, I'm 28. She's got this thing when every time we'll have sex, afterwards she talks about and she acts like she feels dirty. Ashamed of herself.
33:26🔗CallerI don't know, I can't get her to talk to me. I know her very well, but whenever it comes to this issue, she clams up and well, I'm, a lot of people kind of reverse our positions.
33:43🔗CallerI'm kind of described as being the female in the relationship and she's more like the guy, because I'm the one that was always wanting to snuggle up with her, I write poetry and stuff and she's like...
33:55🔗AdamYou have any of that on hand? And by the way, Brandon's calling from Missouri, so officially the first person from Missouri ever to write poetry?
34:23🔗DrewOne is that she was sexually abused or was sexualized or somehow exposed to something very traumatic growing up and that having sex re-evokes that.
34:30🔗AdamWhat rhymes with sodomy? See, it's tough.
34:39🔗AdamAll right, let's keep going. Show me some beats.
34:42🔗DrewNumber two, a very stringent religious upbringing can make people feel guilty about being sexual at all, though that is fairly unusual these days.
35:32🔗AdamYeah, but you do it, I think, when I used to work here. Just pick it up and slam it down again. That'll teach them a lesson.
35:36🔗CallerWell, actually, well, the thing is, is that anybody calling me at this hour is just a friend.
35:40🔗DrewAnd then finally, who's hearing on the radio right now, finally, there is the possibility that she comes from a lot of chaos and has difficulty with intimacy, and you being, as you've self-described, a nice guy, available, super romantic, all this stuff, makes her feel very uncomfortable.
35:56🔗AdamWell, the Wiccan part would raise a red flag for us.
36:03🔗CallerShe was raised Christian. Her mother was abusive. I know that. All right. There you go. But she became Wiccan. She's very, like, she's super intelligent, very...
36:13🔗DrewOkay, and they didn't discuss her being or not being intelligent. That has nothing to do with this.
36:18🔗CallerRight. The thing that really gets me is, like, she's always talking about needing love, and she'll sometimes, like, open up her arms and, like, motion like she needs to be hugged. Yeah. Like, and be very clingy, and then other times, like, I wanna cuddle afterwards, and she'll shove me away. All right. Well, what about, I just want to be, or she'll get in this state.
36:40🔗AdamWhat about the notion, and Greg, you weigh in here, too, of just, she's 21. She's not gonna do a whole lot of change in that fast. If you're in this relationship to change her, it's gonna be a long and uncomfortable relationship for you. What about the notion of just saying, I'm gonna take her for what she is, if she tries to stab me in my sleep, I'm leaving, if she's good enough for me now, that's fine, and I'm just gonna hang in, it is what it is.
37:10🔗DrewA guy can do that, not Brandon. Brandon is weaving. He's writing poetry.
37:14🔗AdamRight, don't you wish someone would have said to you when you were in your early 20s or mid-20s and you're having these relationships that were so fueled with angst and feeling so much, don't you wish a little kazoo would have landed on your shoulder?
37:31🔗AdamHey dum-dum. Yeah, another Flintstones reference. But the point is, is your little muse lands on your shoulder and he says to you, hey listen, you're not going to marry this girl. This thing's going to go on another six months and then you're going to have a few months off and you're going to meet somebody else. And then the third one you're going to marry actually.
37:51🔗AdamJust enjoy it. Don't try to change or don't get freaked out about the old boyfriend. Don't even just, just enjoy, just be in it.
37:58🔗Greg BehrendtUltimately, don't you think, A, you can't change her. She would have to change herself. But B, if you said, look, this isn't working for me, you know, I can take it for so long and then give her the option to then the consequences are, then she would have to look at it. But ultimately, you know what I mean? Like you can't change her. And the only thing you have is the ability to say, listen, this isn't working for me. So either we fix it or I have to move on. Right.
38:18🔗AdamThat's about it. And really, if you do want her to change, that's the only way you can is the threat of moving on. Although I'm not sure if Brandon is capable of that.
38:28🔗DrewYeah. And if she is as borderline as she appears, she's going to be pushing, pushing away until you try to go away. And then it'll be like total hell will break loose. There's a great book on borderline called, I Hate You, Don't Leave Me.
39:20🔗AdamHere's the thing, too, that, you know, I'm going to...
39:22🔗Greg BehrendtThat's just too much God smack.
39:24🔗AdamI'm going to write a... I'm not going to write a book. I'm just going to have a laminated cheat sheet that people can keep in their wallet, like that tipping chart that chicks have to use, non-Asian women to figure out what to tip. Yeah. My wife. $21.00. I just figured it would be $20.00. What do you... Let's do the $21.00 to round up the... All right. But anyway, that little laminated cheat sheet, which is guys can look at it when... See if chicks are nuts. Here's the thing. Wiccan. That's up there. Indicalonix. Way up there. This is just a sort of... These are the big beats to look for. I hate stepdad, that kind of thing. Doesn't know real dad.
40:03🔗AdamCries after sex. Cries during sex. Cries before sex. A lot of that. Or wants you to strangle or punch her when you're... You know what I mean? Or do that thing where you pretend to break in and rape her. It's just ten basic...
40:15🔗DrewGreg's next book. This is Greg's next book. How to know that it's good enough for now, girl.
40:19🔗AdamHere's the name of the book. Don't Get This Crazy Bitch Pregnant. That's going to be the name of it. Oprah will have it.
40:27🔗AdamSure. My wife who actually forced me to watch Oprah during the week, during the break actually, she teased it. I enjoyed it. Then my mom came in with a tape from Oprah. Yeah. She said, awesome. But my mom came up, my mom came over yesterday with a tape. She said, I saw a comedian on Oprah. His name is John Stewart. He's on it. Do you know? Do you know who he is? Do you know who he is? I was like, yeah, I think I know that guy. We had the same agent, by the way, that was my stupid wife jumped in and said, after about 20 minutes, she couldn't take it anymore. I had to say, I screwed up. But the point is, I was watching Oprah, and every chick's nuts about Oprah, and her popularity just keeps growing. Unbelievable. My wife's like, wait a minute, you're going to be on TLC? I was like, yeah.
42:34🔗AdamYeah, that's what I'm going to do. B-A-R-E-N-T. He is the author of, he's Just Not That Into You, co-author, but I'm just going with author tonight. He's also going to be at the Irvine Improv coming up Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. This week, got a new deal for a movie, Lookout. And have you thought about anybody or we talked about this?
42:58🔗Greg BehrendtYeah, well, I mean, I'm not going to have a say in it, you know. We'll write it and then New Line will make that decision. But I like Ethan Hawke, actually, because it's about a guy who's sort of a guy who hasn't let go of the sort of grunge, slackery thing. And so I think he'd be good. And I saw him on Conan, I think, the other night. I just thought he would be cool, be good for him. And he's funny. I think he's actually funny.
43:24🔗AdamYeah. A little break up. Yeah, he's good. He was good in Training Day, too. And good in Slackers, or what the hell was that movie? What the hell, but the Winona Ryder and...
43:55🔗DrewThat's why I have David getting away with his stuff, right?
43:59🔗Go ahead. Anyway, pretty much what I'm wondering is I have this girl that I've been dating for a while, and I'm just wondering how I can give her the hint that I don't want to be with her anymore.
44:13🔗DrewSee, this is the risk of what you were advocating earlier, which is that the kazoo comes down and tells you dumb dumb, just relax and enjoy yourself. Will you do that? And then you end up like David with the girl going, what's going on here? You're behaving like you're really into this relationship. You certainly aren't straying or going elsewhere. You're not giving me any signs that you want to move along. Well, let's dig in. And off they go. And all of a sudden, David's going, now, how do I get out?
44:38🔗It's been like four years and we were together for a while. We were together for a while. Like, we were like, it was great. Like, probably the best relationship I've ever had.
44:47🔗DrewYou're starting at 17. How many relationships have you had?
44:49🔗AdamIt's a zygote. Look, here's the thing. Do you, why do you want out?
44:56🔗CallerIt's just like the relationship we've gotten away. Like, we moved away from each other and we lived apart for a while. And so I pretty much got over it.
45:13🔗AdamNo, it's like you were thinking about quitting your job that you'd been thinking about for two years and then there was a fire and you fled. This is the fire sale. You're leaving. You're leaving the premises now because of this.
45:28🔗AdamAnything, Greg, or is there any trick to this?
45:31🔗Greg BehrendtI don't think there's a trick to it. I just think that you have to be, I think it hurts no matter what you do it, but you have to realize if you're dragging somebody through the mud and being unclear with them, it's just unfair, and it makes them start to question themselves, and then they want to know why.
45:48🔗DrewEvery man on earth does it. Every woman on earth does it.
45:52🔗CallerI don't know. I've been as honest with her as I can about anything. I've told her I've kind of been with other people, and I've told her that.
46:00🔗Greg BehrendtYou just got to go, here's how it goes. You just got to go, hey, listen, this is over. I can't go any further, and then we're done, and there's no more phone calls, there's no more.
46:08🔗DrewDon't torture her with setting things up to make her miserable, to make her leave, to push her away. You must have the way to stand up and say, it is over.
46:18🔗Greg BehrendtThen don't make plans to call her later, and don't check in on seeing how she's doing, because that's not helping her going, we definitely need like two months.
46:47🔗Greg BehrendtIt's not you, it's me. Yeah, I don't enjoy you.
46:49🔗AdamYeah, look, short and swift. And here's the thing, too. If you want, all you can do is you can have no, she can't have a kernel of thought about you two getting back together. What you can do is say we're definitely not getting back together. There's definitely nothing wrong with you. You're not an unattractive person and there's nothing wrong with you and you'll be fine. You and I will not be together. Don't beat yourself up.
47:12🔗Greg BehrendtBut don't say I love you but I'm not in love with you. That's the worst.
47:16🔗DrewThis is what's supposed to happen in relationships that begin at 17. That's right.
47:19🔗AdamThis is how Drew said to do it. All right, we'll take a quick break. Be right back after this.
47:23🔗CallerAll right, guys, here's the deal. Look in the hook up, call the dateline.
47:26🔗CallerStick a waste in time with the wrong person.
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50:59🔗AdamNever looked into a stream. Yeah. Greg Behrendt is here tonight. Greg is the author of He's Just Not That Into You, bestseller on the New York Times bestseller list, also Wall Street Journal and USA Today. That, I'd say between USA Today and a Wall Street Journal, you're about covered.
51:22🔗AdamThere's nothing that doesn't, there's no human being that doesn't fall in between the USA Today and the Wall Street Journal. Also, he's going to be at the Irvine Improv this Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, working on a sitcom based on this in a movie.
51:38🔗Greg BehrendtThe sitcom thing was based on my stand-up CD and that's no longer happening.
51:57🔗Greg BehrendtIt's how to recognize that you're actually in a breakup and how to get through it. How to cut to the chase like we were just talking about. You can get out, stay out, move on.
52:05🔗AdamI should suggest we write one of those with my wife so she takes it. Honey, I'd like to write a breakup book. Is that cool? How do you feel?
52:24🔗AdamHow was it writing a breakup book with your wife though? She didn't feel like-
52:27🔗Greg BehrendtWe did it by email. We sat in the same bed and emailed to each other. It was good because we both had come out of really bad breakups. Right.
53:01🔗CallerYeah. Thank you. Well, the thing is I like guys and girls. And I have this girlfriend. Well, not girlfriend. I have this girl. And we kind of made out in March when we were drunk and she liked it. And we we've made out ever since. And we just we're best friends. We like love each other. We do anything for each other. And I want to know if I how would I go about making her more comfortable with her sexuality. She's never done this with girls before.
53:39🔗AdamNow you got it. You got a drugger. That's the way to get people to feel comfortable.
53:44🔗DrewThere was an interesting article in New York Times this morning about bisexuality where it was suggesting it was a pretty well done study apparently that bisexuality doesn't exist in men. That it's as we've always expected.
54:00🔗AdamThey're saying bye as a guys. I've always said bye to heterosexuality. It's not bisexual. It's bye. Bye to vagina. Bye bye vagina. Not going to miss you.
54:27🔗DrewThough there is a category, a separate category of called men who have sex with men, not gay.
54:31🔗AdamWell, those are, those are, let me explain something. There's two things. Those are inmates. And those are certain Latin cultures who like, I'm not gay. I was, I was packing his ass. That's not gay. He's gay. He was the guy who was sodomizing was gay. Not me. I'm more man. In a way, I kind of get your argument too. That's a lot of man.
54:54🔗DrewStill gay. All right. And in women, it's a little more fluid. Yeah. Can be some. I would imagine Brittany had some boundary issues growing up. That's what that causes this kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah. Brittany's on hold. Brittany, did you put her on hold? No, somebody over the other end did.
56:37🔗DrewSo how to make her more secure? You can't do anything to make her anything.
56:40🔗AdamYou want to say when you say moved for college, you mean the college in your town asked you to leave or you actually want somewhere to go to college and say, I moved to San Diego to go to college. San Diego State?
58:24🔗AdamThe other thing, well, it started with black athletes. Lamont, you had four drop balls and you'd actually gotten 170 yards in penalties. You think that had to do with it? No, not at all. So that's how it started. Yeah. Jesus Christ. Yeah. No, not at all. Started that one. Where were we, Drew?
58:49🔗AdamHere's the thing about Brittany. And by the way, you want to know the difference between men and women. She's in love with this woman, it sounds like.
59:25🔗AdamRight. So it's weird though that she just gets the vibe of the chick, not wanting to move along, and that's enough to keep her from moving along.
59:35🔗DrewYou know what I think? I think that she actually had a tender intimacy with her friend when she was seven, and she's now left a chaotic home and is looking for that same kind of connection that she can't get with men but found once in the remote past, and really this isn't a sexual thing at all. That's my bet.
59:50🔗Greg BehrendtSo she's actually keeping it from going forward.
59:52🔗DrewShe doesn't want it to go forward. She's interested in that and she will move on to something.
59:55🔗Greg BehrendtBecause the girl's laying there with her and it's consistent. This is not a sexual thing.
59:59🔗AdamNo, this is about finding intimacy. She wants, this is almost a little bit of a Michael Jackson thing, just once a little.
1:00:07🔗Greg BehrendtThe point is, is it really or is that completely different?
1:00:12🔗AdamOnce the cuddle with somebody who's not going to threaten you. You know what I mean?
1:00:17🔗DrewIt's literally a recreation of that cuddling she had when she was seven.
1:00:41🔗DrewThat was all BS, by the way. Why couldn't she transfer from Santa Monica College? Or Pierce College?
1:00:47🔗AdamLook, here's the deal. People that go to junior college are basically, it's a scarlet letter. It's sort of like, Where's your shirt, by the way? I'm going to wear it tomorrow. Junior college.
1:01:00🔗AdamJunior college is basically, admitting you go to junior college is sort of the adult, sexual sort of equivalent to having herpes. You know what I mean? There's a stigma there. You know what I mean? You go to an Ivy League school, it's like saying you have a nine inch penis. You go to junior college, like saying you got herpes.
1:01:48🔗AdamHere's the whole thing. I treat junior college like Logan's run. I start I start killing people at 27. That's it. Except for the Asian nursing. OK, my policy on that. All right. So here's my point.
1:02:09🔗AdamAnd then, yeah, they say going away to school, which throws you off because who the hell would go to junior college away from the junior college?
1:02:17🔗AdamAll right. That's number one. Then oftentimes it's good because it's not in the vicinity. See, people don't know. People know their own crappy. Going to Goodman. Right. If you say go to LA. Valley College or Pierce, everyone lasts their ass off. You go, I'm going to Saddle Peak Ranch. They're like, well, it sounds like a nice school.
1:02:34🔗DrewBut then the comedy is you're going away to a better junior college. The more prestigious, but I did get something out of it, though.
1:03:23🔗AdamNow, what's the deal? Now, is the world your oyster? What are they looking for now? Their placement test? The world is your oyster. I mean, because that's all the world is. You know, it was funny, Anderson, I brought a check for you tonight. I was thinking about giving it to you, but the world is your oyster. I mean, because that's all the world is.
1:03:52🔗DrewWell, give me a guess. What are you thinking about going? UCLA, right? Yeah, UCLA. Okay.
1:03:57🔗AdamReally? Here's the thing. Here's the thing. Here's the only thing that scares me. He went to two-year college for 19 years. If he goes to four-year college, it's going to be at least 38 years.
1:04:25🔗CallerMy girlfriend and I are both addicts. She's going to rehab right now, and I'm really not sure how to be there for her because I'm not in rehab.
1:04:35🔗DrewYou can't be there for her. Here's how you can be there for her. Get yourself sober.
1:04:41🔗CallerThat's the bottom line. I started cleaning up last month.
1:04:44🔗DrewNo, get into a program. You just cleaning up will not do anything for her, if that's the reason you're going to get into sobriety.
1:04:50🔗CallerYou have to be 18 to put yourself in rehab and stuff. My mom doesn't believe that I'm actually using a need to help.
1:04:57🔗DrewAll right, well then start go to some meetings on the outside.
1:04:59🔗Greg BehrendtYou don't have to be an ace to go to those.
1:05:00🔗DrewAll you got to do is have a desire to quit.
1:05:12🔗DrewWell, you don't go with her, you go with her, you Amanda. You get a sponsor, you start working the steps, you get well. You're 17, you're already strung out on its math.
1:05:41🔗AdamAbsolutely. Here's the thing too, Amanda. Think about the resourcefulness of people that are strung out in terms of getting their drugs. Think about how good they are doing it.
1:05:53🔗AdamIf someone has no money, no job, no car, no nothing, we'll figure out a way to go out and score in that 45 minutes. Right. All right. Use one-tenth of that to go get yourself some help. That all like, I don't have a ride. So what? You didn't have a ride when you're scoring, you didn't have a ride for anything. You went out and did it.
1:06:08🔗Greg BehrendtYou can do it. Yeah, and in most places, AA makes themselves pretty available to you. So it's very easy to get to any meeting.
1:06:16🔗CallerIs there like any way that like, for both of us, because we both want to do it?
1:06:20🔗DrewNo, stop with the both. Stop with the both.
1:06:22🔗AdamI don't understand the both parts. She's doing her work, right?
1:06:27🔗AdamWell, didn't you say she was in a program?
1:06:29🔗CallerShe's in a program, but her mom put her in, because I made her talk to her mom and ask her for help, because she's in a program.
1:06:36🔗DrewAnd that's separate from you, and you need to do some work on your own.
1:06:42🔗AdamWhat do you want us to do? Dig a tunnel between where she's at and where you're at?
1:06:47🔗DrewNot only that, you never treat people in relationships in the same program. You don't do that, because you have to talk about intimate details that you may not feel that comfortable talking about in front of the person that you're having very whatever feelings about.
1:07:12🔗AdamI let him let him serve as a shining beacon of hope for all you folks out there. Yeah, that's him. Chris, but no ceremony. Was there a graduation ceremony?
1:08:01🔗DrewBear magazine. Yeah. And she was asking a question about, is there anything redeeming what he was saying? I thought, you know, there is something in this idea that people take a pill and it's over stuff. And all too often people don't try to do this spiritual, interpersonal and psychological work that they can't help them grow and change and change their character structure and stuff. And so there's something to be discussed there. And recovery is an inexpensive and free way to do that. You will change.
1:08:28🔗Greg BehrendtAnd there are a lot of people in recovery who believe the same things that he, you know, you'll hear people share meanings that.
1:08:33🔗DrewWell, I think more and more people in recovery understand that, you know, you do speed for ten years, your brain is damaged. You're probably going to be on something to help compensate for that damage. But that the, it sort of misses the bigger picture to, or the more meaningful picture to just stop with taking a medication. There's something much more to be gotten out of life.
1:08:53🔗AdamAll right. Let's talk to Kylie, Kaylee. Kaylee, 27, has a car accident now every time. Pops, a Vibra, what's that say?
1:09:16🔗AdamI was thinking, this architect I'm working with, he always goes by Starbucks before he comes over to my house to talk to me. And then he always holds, you know, you don't realize you go to Starbucks, you get one of these tall things, they're in your hand for about 14 hours.
1:09:29🔗AdamYeah, you get the massive one, you even wave them around for about three hours. And he's waving it and he's pointing it. And it struck me that Starbucks always writes your name with a Sharpie on the cup. And this guy's name is John. So when he's pointing it at me, he's holding it. I'm thinking of the bathroom, but I'm also thinking John. And I thought, they don't really know what your name is. And I thought, when I go to Starbucks, I'm going to use a name like Dutch, or maybe Duke, or Hondo.
1:09:56🔗DrewSomething when they yell, it'll be ridiculous.
1:10:04🔗AdamAnd I'm going to be holding this thing that says Hondo, or Turk. You know what I mean? I'm going to just, and people are going to be impressed.
1:10:11🔗AdamYou know what I mean? I'm gesturing with the thing. I'm home talking to the ladies. They're reading my Starbucks thing, and they're like, Big dicks at my place. Wow.
1:10:32🔗AdamYou could do. But I don't think they're going to write, I don't think they're going to write big. I just, I do think they would go with a Turk, or a Dutch, maybe even a Studs, or something like that. Something that was a little more impressive than whatever your name was. You know what I mean? Nickname, spats, you know what I mean?
1:10:50🔗Greg BehrendtThey should just put phrases on there, should just be able to say, could you put caring, sensitive lover on mine today?
1:10:55🔗AdamRight, that would be a good draw, that would be a good draw too.
1:10:59🔗Greg BehrendtI mean, you can't, they can't actually tell you that's not your name, if that's what you give them.
1:11:03🔗AdamThey might ask you to produce some identification.
1:11:04🔗Greg BehrendtI don't have it, it's in the truck. Caring, sensitive lover on my latte.
1:11:08🔗AdamReally going to need to see a license.
1:11:10🔗Greg BehrendtI'm going to just have you get me my coffee, really. I don't want to, do you need me to talk to your manager?
1:11:15🔗AdamIt's always bad when you get the three or four sirs in a row. Sir, sir, sir. Three sirs, Drew, you ever got an, I get the three sirs on the airplane a lot. Sir, sir, sir. And then followed with, I'm going to need you to, sir, sir, I'm going to need you to, I need you to go ahead and sit down for me right now, sir. Sir, yeah, triple sir. And by the way though, it means you've arrived.
1:11:48🔗I got into an accident about two months ago.
1:11:52🔗DrewKaylee's from Bakers. Hang on a second, Kaylee. I saw a huge article in like, I don't know, LA Times or something about the Renaissance in Bakersfield. Renaissance.
1:12:01🔗AdamRenaissance Fair or the actual Renaissance?
1:12:03🔗DrewNo, the actual huge housing developments and middle income folks flocking.
1:12:07🔗AdamWhere are they going to move all the people from Bakersfield? That's my question.
1:12:11🔗DrewAnd how they've never had anything like this. It's becoming sort of Main Street to California. So Bakersfield has a symphony and a cultural symphony.
1:12:20🔗They should move them all out to Oiledale for all the Rednecks live.
1:13:04🔗AdamOh, yeah. You're on the French Riviera. Go ahead, Kaylee. So you got in a car accident. What happened?
1:13:10🔗Well, I went into the hospital and they found out that I had compressed a disc in my back. And since then, I can't masturbate or have sex because every time I have an orgasm, it pops the vertebrae and it hurts excruciatingly.
1:14:51🔗DrewYeah, I mean, realignment is not a popping in procedure unless you have a facet syndrome. Have you seen an orthopedist? No, it wasn't broken, so they... You need to see an orthopedic surgeon who specializes in back or a neurosurgeon, and you need to discuss with that doctor the fact that you have pain with sexual intercourse.
1:15:13🔗DrewYou probably would have benefited from some physical therapy, but the popping in and out concept you have is not real. It is not as though when you're having sex...
1:15:25🔗DrewI understand there's a cracking sound of what not in that trigger's pain, and you might have a facet syndrome, and sometimes a little cortisone right in that facet.
1:15:30🔗AdamLet me do a little digging. First of all, I'm confused. Are you unable to work because of the accident or because you live in Bakersfield? And they just don't allow people to work. Oh, okay. Because I know they had a policy there against folks getting jobs.
1:15:43🔗DrewAnd why wouldn't you be able to work if you're not having pain except when you're having sex?
1:16:11🔗AdamAnd do you have plans to go back to work?
1:16:14🔗As soon as I can sit comfortably for more than an hour, it's in the thoracic lumbar junction, is what they tell me.
1:16:22🔗DrewNow, you need to get some proper treatment, Kelly. You don't even know what you're dealing with here. This doesn't have a name yet, it has a location, but exactly what the anatomy is needs to be sorted out and you need a specific plan of action.
1:16:31🔗AdamEver molested, dead, an alcoholic, any good stuff like that?
1:16:53🔗AdamAnd by the way, here's the thing about a chiropractor, as I've learned later.
1:16:56🔗DrewI don't problem with chiropractic care, but nothing better. He needs a diagnosis first.
1:17:00🔗AdamNothing a good massage can't do. Here's the deal. Here is the deal. You could spend a hundred bucks at the chiropractor, get adjusted for five minutes, or you could give that a hundred bucks to a masseuse and get a nice rub out. You know what I mean? Just rub one out. Just get in. No, I'm not talking about sexual, but I mean, just really get it in there, work it out. The thing about the chiropractor is they get a lot of mileage out of the cracking noises that go on in your body. And here's the whole thing. Do that thing, they crack. I've been to chiropractor a hundred times. You feel good for about 10 minutes and then you're back to wherever you are. I really, I don't find them to be that therapeutic.
1:17:35🔗Greg BehrendtIs that just the release of air in the joints or something? It's not like a, yeah.
1:17:39🔗AdamIt doesn't actually do anything, I figured out. As much as you cracking your knuckles makes your hands feel better. You know what I mean? Why should it? But that's the whole thing. It's like, they're like, oh, what do we got here? Crack. Oh, you see. You see. Like all of a sudden, the cancer came flying out of your mouth or something. So what, Weisenheimer? You cracked my back. I cracked my knuckle. I cracked my dick.
1:17:59🔗Greg BehrendtOh, so good to get rid of that cancer. Thank you.
1:18:07🔗AdamMy penis. My point is, is I love the carapace. Listen, here's what's good. And take a nice hot tub, nice sauna and get a nice rub rub down. Spend your hundred bucks. Go to a place. You know what I mean? Much better. All right. Let's, let's take ourselves a break. Drew, what do we got to do?
1:18:27🔗DrewOh, we got. They want us to do the ladders.
1:18:30🔗AdamWe got to go pee now. Greg Behrendt is here tonight. He's the author of He's Just Not That Into You. Take a quick break. We'll be right back after this.
1:19:36🔗Greg BehrendtHe ran into the Dalai Lama on the street and he said, I'm Bobby Brown, I'm Whitney Houston's husband, and so that would be a reference point for the Dalai Lama.
1:19:46🔗DrewHe's going to be on Jimmy's show tomorrow night, so Jimmy's going to. OK, well, shepherd him over here. Shuttle him over here.
1:19:53🔗AdamWe're going to have to tape him to a refrigerator dolly like Hannibal Lecter and drag him behind Jimmy's car over here. All right. So Bobby Brown, I'm looking forward to that tomorrow night. Bobby Brown in here and Greg Behrendt in here tonight. He is the author of He's Just Not That Into You. And he's also going to be at the Irvine Improv this week, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Let's talk to Zoey, who's 21. Zoey?
1:20:27🔗CallerWell, I, so I was diagnosed, I had an abnormal top smear and then it was found that I had mild cervical dysplasia. So, which means I have HPV. Right. And I had a boyfriend at the time and we-
1:20:42🔗AdamOh, does mild cervical dysplasia mean you have HPV? And you have warts? Yeah. Why?
1:20:55🔗AdamWhat's dysplasia? Don't German shepherds get that too?
1:20:58🔗DrewNo, that's a different thing. Dysplasia just means abnormal nucleolar, and the nucleus of the cells look abnormal. They look cancerous, basically.
1:21:07🔗AdamWhat's the dysplasia that dogs get in their heads? A hip dysplasia.
1:21:10🔗DrewYeah, it's a different thing. It's a mechanical thing.
1:21:11🔗AdamWhat way do they call it dysplasia? Dysplasia just means abnormal?
1:21:16🔗DrewYeah, let's all look it up during the break. Dysplasia usually means a pathologic. Yeah.
1:21:21🔗AdamLet's ask our recent college grad to look it up.
1:21:25🔗DrewJust go to dictionary doctor. I'd spell it. D-Y-S.
1:22:20🔗AdamYeah. I still polluted my book. No, I'm just kidding.
1:22:25🔗DrewYou're highly contagious. You have you can't share toys or anything like that. And any contact of body fluid at the genital level will result in transmission.
1:22:41🔗AdamZoe, what are you guys doing physically? What's the regimen?
1:22:46🔗CallerWell, I mean, we haven't, I haven't like shared any toys, but I mean, we have had oral sex a lot. But I, as far as I knew, I mean that I, I haven't told her. Yeah.
1:23:04🔗AdamWell, here's, here's the thing. It is not as big a faux pas for a woman, not to say it, than it is for a guy or girl, because that's surely going to be transferred. Right. For a woman, as long as you guys don't have anything that has two ends on it, and sort of a stick shift in the middle, you know what I mean? It looks like a baton, like a police, you know, a policeman.
1:23:56🔗CallerAlso, it was about six months ago, so I'm about to go in for another pap smear to see if it's gone away.
1:24:02🔗DrewNo, it takes a few years to go away. The dysplasia will be treated and taken care of, but the warts, even if there's no evidence of it, takes years to go away.
1:24:12🔗CallerWell, they didn't do any treatment because they said it was very mild.
1:24:15🔗DrewYeah, but Zoe, the virus persists for years. And some of them persist permanently, and those are the ones that are associated with the more serious forms of cervical abnormalities.
1:24:24🔗AdamThat's a pretty good idea for a product, I think, just now.
1:24:27🔗DrewYeah, by the way, there's gonna be a wart, there's a vaccine, we're on the eve of the wart vaccine. Yeah. That is coming soon, within a couple years.
1:24:34🔗AdamYeah. This is basically a dip for vibrators and dildos.
1:25:06🔗AdamThe thing is, you know, you don't want the sink. It's got to be stuffed into a sock drawer. God knows, got the last girlfriend's stink all over it. You know what I mean?
1:25:16🔗AdamConfident. You know what I mean? And when the person goes to use your bathroom on the first date, it says confidence and cleanliness. Like, there's a confident person here. They're displaying their vibrator. But on the other hand, in a very hygienic way.
1:27:11🔗DrewPhone number 1-800-LOVE-191. And those of you listening on the East Coast, don't forget Strictly Sex on Discovery Health Channel tonight at midnight.
1:27:25🔗AdamOh, right. Well, you can get change out of there, can't you?
1:27:30🔗DrewYeah, yeah, I can. I'm looking at the cash register.
1:27:33🔗AdamYeah, right here. Yeah, I'm the cash register. Literally a millionaire, Greg, literally, literally. He's Just Not That Into You, the name of Greg's book and bestseller list. New York Times, Wall Street Journal, also USA Today. Sheena, who we were speaking of and speaking to earlier, has a little burn. Sheena?
1:27:59🔗AdamAnd Bobby Brown in here allegedly tomorrow night. You feel a little burning sensation when your boyfriend orgasms after sex?
1:28:09🔗CallerIt feels like more than just a burning sensation.
1:28:13🔗DrewAll right. And that is a function of inflammation of the lining of the vagina. It's not as though there's something wrong with his semen. People always call us and go, boy, I must be allergic. No, there's something going on. Either you have a yeast infection or you have a vaginitis or, and this is something that's often not thought of, you have an estrogen deficiency, perhaps caused by your contraceptive pill. People have a progesterone-estrogen combination, the progesterone may be sort of inhibiting or affecting the estrogenization of the vaginal lining. And sometimes there's something called vagifem, that's sort of this estrogen tablet you can stick in once a week.
1:28:58🔗Greg BehrendtYou know, and I was gonna say, he's just not that into you, which is another way of letting, yeah, if his sperm burns, he's letting it go.
1:29:05🔗DrewIf only there were that kind of biological sort of message.
1:29:11🔗AdamI let my semen in my talking, sweetie.
1:29:13🔗Greg BehrendtHere we go. What about, I think that should tell you everything.
1:29:17🔗AdamWhat about, where does sperm or semen or the fluid, where does it rank on the sort of pH balance level, you know, saline solution being a zero and just vinegar being a 10.
1:30:13🔗AdamYeah. Yeah. So, you know, it stings people's eyes if it hits you in the eye, right?
1:30:18🔗DrewI don't know that, but it sounds like you've got some experience. So I'm going with it.
1:30:22🔗AdamI've seen enough porn to know that it's just, you know, there's some lights in there.
1:30:27🔗DrewI think the pH is a little below saline, but I don't know that for a fact. So we can look that up.
1:30:30🔗AdamYeah. You know, really screwed porn for chicks? The first one that did the facial, you know what I mean? Because that opened the floodgates. It's now, all right, now this is the way it all goes.
1:30:41🔗AdamRight. There was a chick in 1968 who got high enough to agree to, because before that it was enough that they were just doing porn. You know what I mean? Like, hey, you know, in the 50s, you know, like, hey, we'd like to film you guys having sex. That was a tall enough order. At some point, some chick, they said to her, look, he's gonna need to finish on your head. And every other chick up until that point was like, are you crazy? I have, you know, I may not have high more values, but I have my dignity, I'll get my agent on the phone. All that, and eventually one chick went, yeah, all right, give me an extra 10 bucks, I'll do that. And now, that's it. It became the standard. This is what the NRA is worried about, by the way.
1:31:25🔗DrewOf course. Yeah, you take away the banana clips and-
1:31:27🔗AdamAnd all of a sudden, they want your sporks.
1:32:05🔗DrewThe number here is 1-800-LOVE-191. Is there a part of the future? Or is just the technology going to change? Are the behaviors going to evolve?
1:32:14🔗AdamI don't know. I imagine it'll take a turn for like- Remember, whenever things start to spin out, like when the hippie movement, when the bell bottoms, when the sort of guys with long hair and holes in their jeans and chicks got grungy enough, like not wearing makeup and just everyone grew their hair out and everything, eventually there was a preppy trend.
1:32:40🔗DrewSo we're going to go to some more traditional kinds of-
1:32:43🔗AdamWell, it's interesting. Guys in sailor outfits, chicks with their hair up in bouffants. I'm just saying, what ended up happening is when we got to our grungiest, you know, in like 1977, 78, when things really just- People just started wearing ponchos and boots around and no one got a haircut. Everyone just looked like a flea bag. So eventually, that led way to polo shirts and penny loafers and, you know, well, makeup and pearls. Women start wearing pearls. Yes. You know what I'm talking about? Yes.
1:33:31🔗AdamWhat ends up happening is when stuff spins out far enough, it, here's what it is. It's always about rebellion.
1:33:39🔗DrewYeah, but this seems like something so animalistic that it's like out of control. The government will have to bring it back.
1:33:44🔗AdamWell, maybe, but again, getting back to the preppy versus hippie, what is, when everyone's got a beard down to their knees and hair down to here and wearing jeans with a thousand holes in it, Rebellion is a short haircut.
1:34:05🔗Greg BehrendtDo you think they'll create a whole line of now, like new porn where people actually never actually have sex? It'll go the complete opposite thing, where two people will go, will just be people on camera with the potential of having sex but never get to it.
1:34:16🔗AdamNo, I think the guys are going to finish on themselves.
1:34:22🔗Greg BehrendtOr maybe it'll be guy, or it's guys watching, your porn is guys watching porn. Ooh, ooh, ooh. It's a guy, yeah.
1:34:43🔗AdamAnd they're trying to finish off, first off, that timing. Talk about amazing. You know what I mean? I'm trying to sink my scrotum up with anything.
1:34:53🔗Greg BehrendtAnd those guys don't get the credit they deserve. It's like a dance.
1:34:57🔗AdamThey just don't get the credit they deserve. There's two of you, you're over the same chick, and you're trying to crescendo at the same time. Now, here's the thing. Your job is to finish at the same time. You're staring down the business end of Ron Jeremy, who also has the same goal. You know what I'm saying?
1:35:39🔗AdamYeah, of course, they'd have to do a little DNA swab thing just to make sure you weren't trying to kill the system. All right, let's take ourselves a little break. We'll be right back after this.
1:36:25🔗AdamWell, that's the night, that's the show. Bobby Brown, theoretically, in here tomorrow night. Let's just assume he's going to be here until told otherwise. He's doing Kimmel, and Kimmel will do his best to get him over here. So Bobby, tomorrow night. Greg, thanks for coming in tonight.
1:36:44🔗AdamQuick plug for Greg. He doesn't need the book plug, but July 7th through the 10th, that's Thursday through Sunday at the Irvine Improv. Check him out doing his stand up all this week. Thursday on. Thanks, Greg. Appreciate it. And until next time, this is Adam Carolla for Dr. Drew saying mahalo.
1:37:08🔗CallerThe opinions expressed in this show are not necessarily those of the staff, management, sponsors, or this station. The producer for Loveline is Annie Gold. Loveline is a presentation of Westwood One Entertainment.