The Adam and Dr. Drew Show - Classic #446: Anderson Cowan

Episode Date: February 12, 2026

October 30, 2016Adam and Dr. Drew discuss their Halloween plans and past costumes. They also talk to a caller who was recently contacted by his ex-girlfriend. After the break, the guys welcome their old Loveline engineer Anderson Cowan who talks about crowd-funding his upcoming film, Groupers. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

And here's a throwback episode number 446, Anderson Cowan. Oh, Engineer Anderson. That's October 30th, 2016. Me and Drew discuss our Halloween plans and past costumes. Enjoy. Recorded live at Corolla 1 Studios with Adam Carolla and board certified physician and addiction medicine specialist Dr. Drew Pinsky. You're listening to.

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and we love reading all the tweets, and we love all the good stuff about you guys, and you guys spreading the good news. What's going on, Driskey? This is the gospel. Happy Halloween, everybody, right? Yeah, happy Halloween, y'all. What are you doing now?

I will be probably... I'm trying to talk my wife into marching in the Greenwich Village Halloween parade. Really? I will be heading, as we are taping this, heading out to New York, virtually that day. And, yeah. Does she not want to march in the Greenwich Village? I mean, there's nothing more prestigious than the Greenwich Village, although I've never heard of it. It's a gigantic Halloween parade, costume parade.

She got caught in one year. It was so traumatized. She never wants to go back. It's like one of these things in New York City where people are like, you know, in the streets, you know, shoulder to shoulder and, you know, you're pumping up against the people in front of you. And you can't get out. People are just the mass moving forward. Don't all things involving costumes that end in Village eventually get usurped by the gay community?

100%. So this has to be a gay thing. Of course. Oh, okay. Pardon me for sounding a thousand years old, but I was just hearing your wife who's not gay. Right. He's going to go march in a parade in Greenwich Village. It's just a...

For a second there, I didn't think it was gay. But people put bull their kids out. It's arching a two. I mean, it's not exclusively a gay thing, but they add the important color, you know what I'm saying? Mm-hmm. And what, it's weird, you know, actually, I must say, I think a Halloween costume is one of the few things, which is to say that I don't think I would, if you just said, hey, here's a fella or a gal, you've never met them before. he said, look, here, here's what you got. You got one fella, one gal, doesn't do anything for Halloween,

sort of refuses to participate. I'd go, I don't think I'd have a good time with that person. The person just shuts their porch light off on Halloween. In particular, if you're a young adult, particularly. Not even young adult. Just I don't have, don't get to qualify. Okay. I don't have time for that person.

And then you tell me, this person treats it like it's the Fourth of July, their birthday, and the Super Bowl. ball rolled into one. They start prepping weeks in advance. I'd go, I don't think I'd hang out with that person either. So it's a weird spectrum thing because I can't hang out. You'd think, well, look, then if you can't hang out if the guy goes all out balls the wall, then you're going to love this guy because he doesn't do anything.

Don't love that guy either. I got to find someone in the middle. Which you just reminded me. I'm a middle guy. I like putting in some weird contacts. That's always a good move or some weird teeth or something. And that's it. Just leave it at that.

I don't know where you get. See, I never wore glasses, so I don't know how to do contacts. Oh, they've got some crazy stuff. I've got stuff that makes my sclera black, everything black. Oh, really? Maybe a white. Some only doctors can get? No, no, anybody can get them.

Yeah. I put them on once. I don't know if you remember, but when I had that daytime show, I put them on for that. And they're crazy. They cover your whole eye. I mean, getting a contact in that's that big is a chore. That's what I'm saying. Yeah.

You've already crossed my threshold for calorie burning. Yeah. All right, well, I've got another one that's just like a cat eye, put that in. The other one's more comfortable. I had, I got, what I've really come up with is sort of diabolically simple, which is I now realize I have fire suits, racing fire suits, cool racing fire suits, more than one. And all I got to do is get into them, like their coveralls and zip it up. Yeah. And I'm not even going to bother, like, dragging a helmet around under my armor.

anything, that's too much. Maybe I'll put the shoes on. I used to wear surgical greens. Yeah, there you go. Just done. Tennis shoes, yeah. Done. Yeah.

I like it. So I am going to and went to cousin Sal's party, Jimmy's cousin Sal's party. And I had this. What I didn't realize is, and this is unfair, don't you think this is unfair? Yes. Thank you. Good training. Halloween is its own theme.

Sal and his wife Melissa pick a theme in the Halloween party and because I don't read down the emails that closely I was saying to Mike August hey you're going to Sal's party and he's like yeah and I said yeah I'm going too and I said I got a diabolically easy idea I just get my fire suit I just climb in and saying

it's actually he's over on the west side it's usually a little cool at night and it actually kind of feels good to be in your big onesie standing outside with a cocktail and he goes Oh, how's that fit into the Olympic theme? Oh, ha. And I said, what?

And he said, there's an Olympic theme. And I was like, oh, bizarre. I mean, you would hope they would like, oh, it's Frankenstein or it's monster or it's spider or something Halloweeny is part of the theme. Well, this opens it up, but it's still, I would argue that we're already theme. You see what I mean? You can't pick a theme on a theme. The theme is Halloween. We already got it.

We already have a reason to dress up. Oh, I hate that. Now, here's the best part about it. Because now you have to be creative. It's the best part about being American and white and a male. Mike and I then had a 11-minute conversation on, well, racing should be an Olympic sport, shouldn't it? I mean, you could be there as an ambassador at Chutu Racing. I mean, and I'm like, hey, Formula One is a huge sport.

I mean, internationally, I mean, you know, the Olympics are international. Erring Senna. I mean, that guy, he was Brazilian. Well, that town loved him, boy. That closed the whole place down when he won an F1 championship. So this is an international sport. So I guess if I went as an ambassador, an Olympic ambassador, you're representing the racing community.

And that community, but for a new Olympic sport. For the next... That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Yes, Drew, you're saying exactly what I just said. And then he jumped in and went, oh, yeah, for sure, that would work. And we've got very earnest about it for several off-ramps talking on the phone. And then I realized, what the hell are we doing?

Or I could just show up and no one would care. Right. Are they, I want to understand why they would go for something like the Olympics. Are they going for like Olympic gore? Like, you know, somebody. No, it's, I, you could be, well, they have fun. Do you actually get shot? You could be, no, well, Drew, I don't know where your head's at, but you're allowed to dress as a scarecrow or a clown.

or something. You don't have to be shot. You don't have that blood sticking out of here. That's my point. It seems weird to just go as I'm going as a soccer player. No, you're... Unless there was something Halloweeny about the soccer player. You know what I'm saying? No, no. No, I don't. Because if you go as a gymnast, then that's your outfit.

They don't need to wear a pumpkin on your head and go as a gymnast. That's your that's your outfit. But what they're trying to spawn is some sort of creativity. Whereas you go as whoever. Look, I'll give me, I'll give it, okay. All right, hold on. Give me an example of creativity without the call. Why are you even asking?

I was the rock last year. You were the rock. Yeah, but it was like an old photo of that one where he's wearing that he has a fanny pack. It was a fanny pack rock. Yeah. Yeah. And that, yeah, that was a huge hit at the point. All right, you go, I'll give you an example.

I'll guarantee one person is going to go as Oscar Pistorius's girlfriend who got shot. Okay. There you go. Yeah. See what I mean? Yeah. That's an Olympic theme. Yeah.

You feel like me? Yeah. You smell what the rock is cooking? Oh, there we go. Looking at Max. That's pretty funny. What was the theme? Real cheap costume, too.

There was no theme. It's called Halloween. It was a Halloween party. Wasn't one of these. It wasn't Sal's thing. No, no. The theme was Halloween. There was only one tier at this party.

Yeah. It's Halloween. The reason I mean, now, the only reason I'm asking this is that it's such a generic and wholesome sort of everybody's like I'm a gym you know it's so generic I'm wondering if they're calling out for a Halloween element to us what I'm asking I'm just asking the Halloween element is getting in an outfit

and showing up at a party okay that would be the Halloween element then they're aware that people will choose different outfits and add their own creative elements to them what was the last thing you were for Halloween Drew Again, I would wear the weird contact stuff. The last thing I really was dressed up for was for a talk show where I was Dracula.

Really dressed up. That's going to be the worst part about doing any of those good morning shows. Because you have to dress up in your stupid outfit. It's some weird competition. And you can't just mail it in like I would do. You have to get, you know, the guy's got to get the airbrush out and do the stenciling and put the weird prosthetic nose on you and everything. I could only imagine.

By the way, you're filming four of the shows that day, too. Right. And it's August. Right. It's like, oh, crap. Yeah. Well, it's not August. But you know what I'm saying?

It's way before Halloween. Huh? You're often, you're... No, I'm talking about good morning. Oh, I see. But well, the talk shows... Good morning. All right?

The daytime talk shows have competition amongst themselves. And they're often weeks ahead. Oh, are they? Yeah. No, I didn't. I'm disappointed. But I don't really. Like Ellen is staying and...

Yeah, there are some of them. Some of the other dandiv. Some are. All right. What's a good week's in? What's a good weeks out show? That's syndicated? That engages in that stuff.

Well, you paint yourself in a corner here now. Well, we did it. We did it. You did it. Okay. All right. You want to hop on line one here? Yeah.

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a multiplied coconut oil today. That's what I'm talking about. It's the promo code, Adam. It's good, right? Yeah. You had it? Yeah, it is. Yeah.

I'm going to go get something now, actually. You can't take more than a tablespoon, otherwise we spend a lot of time in a John. You could, some people, it's true. Yeah, Drew, everybody, it's funny. It's such a weird thing, and we'll get to your question a second, but people in their gut, there's such a spectrum. You know, there's so many people like, oh, my, spicy food, oh, boy, spicy food, you know. Chris Locksumon over there is the top of the food chain.

Literally eats the shrimp tails after their. been discarded from your tempora platter. I am amongst the top, too. It's like I can pretty much just put anything in and don't worry about it. But Drew, and I have some weird stuff, and it's gotten worse as I gotten older, and I hate being that guy. Can I say this, Drew? You know how I like to say you're basically wired like a chick? Yeah.

Women in general, a little more sensitive to this stuff? Yeah. A little more. Especially older women, older women. You know, as a physician you hear that stuff all over the time. That's what I'm saying. Mike, go ahead. Okay, so a couple, I don't know, probably about three weeks ago,

my high school girlfriend hit me up on Facebook, and after 27 years she wants to know why we broke up. Wow. And I pretty much told her because I was a, you know, a 20-year-old, inconsiderate asshole. I didn't know no better back then. And since then, we've been talking, and I don't know what's happening,

but I guess you think I'm going down a road of reminiscent or unacquited love or, I don't know what I should be doing. Are you looking for a relationship now? Well, she's currently separated from her husband, so we're just trying to keep this as a strictly platonic friendship thing, but, you know, it's the what-if is always in our mind. It's really...

It's a what-if. Yeah, it's pretty common for people to rekindle intense relationships from adolescence. That happens a lot. In my experience, those don't work. out great. I'm not saying they can't, but they're sort of built on an adolescent feeling and fantasy of intensity already, and you're sort of finding that intensity that already is kind of abnormal, you know, how adolescent stuff is already too intense, and that I'm sure feels good, but really assess whether you two belong together. Like, do you really have things in common

at this stage of your life? She called you after separating with her husband? Yeah, well, Well, actually, she messaged me on Facebook two years ago, and I just saw the message like a month ago. There's something I got to say, Drew, and I don't know, but there's something I don't like the way this smells. Yeah, it's about right. She's desperate for release from this misery. There's something that, yeah. There's something going on. And, Mike, I don't know what your status is right now.

Single? Divorce for the third time. Oh. starting to think it's me. Well, it is. Maybe, you know, got such a great picker yourself. That's right. Yeah, yeah, Dr. Drew told me before my pickers broke.

All right. I would, I would, I'll tell you what I would do. And it's easy to do. And I don't know if you guys live in the same hometown or if anyone moved away or proximity. But, you know, I got to say, like, people do a lot of stuff where they're kind of like, well, she keeps texting me. What do I do? You know what? it's a pretty simple, there's a pretty simple way to kind of keep people at arms distance.

You know what I mean? They go, hey, what are you doing this weekend? And you go, oh, I'm traveling this weekend. And then you open end it. You go, hey, I'll hit you. I'll hit you sometime when I get back in town. You know what I mean? You just kind of, there's a way to not, you know, so everyone goes, well, I don't want to call her and be rude.

No, you don't have to call her and be rude. You don't have to do anything and be rude. There's a way to kind of take people. kind of an interesting thing. My grandfather used to do this sort of parlor trick, which was he'd say, when we're kids, he'd say like, a place something in the room. You go hide something in the room, and then he'd leave the room, and you'd go hide something in the living room, right? And then he'd go, and then I'll come back in the room, and I'll take your hand, and you'll lead me to it, you know. And somehow through you walking, walking you around, he could kind of feel that you're pushing

the wrong way or leaning the wrong way or whatever it is. It's a parlor trick. Anyway, there's a way to kind of guide people, even without them knowing it, like feeling dissed or cut off or cut loose or something. We all have those people in their lives where you blink your eyes and you go, I haven't talking about that guy in two years. And by the way, if they're not respond to some pretty sort of aggressive vibes that you're putting out, then you really have a, you know, then you know you're dealing with a problem.

Well, that's a good point. And even if they're not aggressive, because I'm not suggesting aggressive. No, no, but if they're putting the message out that you're just not available and they're pushing through it now, now they've self-identified at this point, yes? Yes. All right. We're going to bring engineer Anderson in in one second. I just want to let me just, I'll tell you what, since we're not going to do any more calls, I want to mow through a couple of quick calls. I would love to bring him in for line three, though, because that's.

Something we used to hear about a lot on Loveline. I would be interested to hear if he still remembers. All right. Well, let me do this. Let me mop up line five and then we'll bring Anderson in. Frank, 30, Detroit. Hi, Adam and Drew. I'll make this quick.

About four years ago, back when you guys were just doing the podcast intermittently, I called you right after I took the bar exam. And at the time, I was on food stamps, and I was in a pretty bad spot, and I was convinced I hadn't passed it. And you guys provided me some very good advice that allowed me to hold on. and I eventually did pass, and I got into a good law firm, and I built my practice, and just this last week, I just got recruited to one of the world's largest law firms in Chicago. Congratulations. That's fantastic.

And I wanted to let you guys know to keep you guys. You guys asked me to keep you posted, and I want to thank you for the advice you guys provided it. It meant a lot, and I still remember it to this day, and it's a great, I'm in a great spot now. Well, what was it? Because we have no recollection. No, I remember the feeling of this call. I don't remember our advice, but I remember. I do remember a call about the bar, yes.

But what was the advice? I remember how desperate he was. Yeah, go ahead. Well, at the time, I was in a really bad spot mentally, and I was contemplating things like suicide and things like that, and you guys told me just to hold on and wait, just wait, at least to, I think Adam told me, just wait to leave the results at least. And then kill yourself. Well, hey, listen, Frank, bless you, good on you, and thank you.

and thank you. And, you know, earlier in my career, I used to get a lot of, oh, so funny, that thing he said, so funny, it was funny, it made me laugh. Now what's much more rewarding to me is people go, hey, man, you really changed my life, you made a difference. I was in a place. It was a bad place, and now I'm in a better place, and you helped. And now, I can't absorb any of it, but I still like that. Do you think the humor was a surrogate for that when you couldn't really access this other service? It was a, well, first off, I didn't feel like I had as much advice to give.

Yeah. Number one. Number two, it wasn't really my job. It was my job to try to be funny. But I'm just asking emotionally to serve as a surrogate for this same experience. The comedy. Yeah. Did it, did you make you, did it feel like you were helping them being a service to people?

You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I never, you know, I've heard a lot of laughter's the best medicine and I've heard a lot of, hey, I was really feeling down and then all of a sudden you said this and it made me laugh and I felt better about myself. But I never really, I've never bought into the, you know, like sometimes every once in a while I'll be talking to some doctor or something and I'll go and he'll go, oh, we get together and we go to Nicaragua and we help the kids with the cleft pals. I go, hey, you're really doing, you know, you're doing the Lord's work over there. I'm just doing a podcast. And those doctors always go, oh no, you're doing something very important. You're making people laugh. You're making them

forget about their troubles for a whole time or making them think or something. They don't mean it. I know they don't. I know because I don't feel. I always go, yeah, okay, please. Now, how much money do you want? But I never think of it that way, but if it did turn out that way in anyone's life, then good. Yeah.

Okay. Yeah, yeah, it's an important thing. Well, speaking of the old days, we'll take a little walk down in memory lane. Anderson, producer Anderson. Anderson Cowan is going to be in here in one quick second. Yeah. We're back. Anderson Cowan here. Producer, director, wait a minute, engineer, Anderson, you know him from way back

in the day of Love Lines, then way up in the day in Love Lines. He's crowdfunding a project. Way up and way up. How many years in total, Anderson? On Loveline? Yeah. Just shy of 17. Jesus.

Drew, what you have? 35. He's got me beat by a little bit. I had just over, a little over 10, maybe. Think of it. I'd been there 18 years when Anderson got there. Anderson's there. 17 years.

It's a clean show. No, say whatever you want. Anderson's doing a movie. He's crowdfunding a movie. It's called Groupers. I saw the online ask. It was well done. Most of those things are not very well done.

Oh, thanks, Adam. And so you can go to Groupers, themovie.com. I didn't. Now, is it through one of the crowdsourcing companies? Yes. Which one? I chose Seed and Spark, which I had never heard of before, but I stumbled across them because I thought that, we just had a baby.

My wife and I just had a baby. And we had a registry, right? And I was thinking about the movie. I was thinking about the baby. We had the baby registry. And I was thinking all these crowdfunding campaigns that I've seen. I've never seen one where you could actually register for a movie. We're looking for this amount of money to be able to fund the actors.

I thought that it was really interesting. And I thought that I created this whole new thing. And I was excited about it. So I did a quick little Google search. Turns out these two ladies already invented it five years ago on a site called Seed and Spark. So I ended up falling in love with them. and going with them. So it's like we need to pay for a lighting package.

Yes. We need. And so it is like, like, yeah. We need a crock pot. That's an interesting, that's a very interesting thing. I thought it was on to something. And I thought it was going to be a whole other like revenue stream maybe down like a whole another business model that I could do.

But it turns out usually good ideas have already been created by somebody else. Yeah. I found that as a few times. So the movie's already raised quite a bit of money, like 50 something thousand bucks. Yeah. We're a little bit past the two-thirds mark. 75K. Nice.

And what length is the movie? It'll be 90 minutes. So it'll be a full-length movie. Yeah. Uh, give us the premise. Uh, the premise is,

it's all about bullying and homophobia and group mentality and mob mentality, which, uh, you guys know me, you know, that I absolutely can't stand mob mentality. I don't think any of us can. And, uh,

the premise, the opening of the film is a, a younger woman in her mid, mid-to-early 20s. She goes to a bar. She picks up on these two young kids. Uh, They're probably 1920.

We find out later they got into the bar with fake IDs, and she lures them back to her van. They're thinking three some time. Right. They're thinking this is awesome. She ends up overpowering them with some really fancy driving and a gas mask and a canister. It's going to be a fun action scene to shoot. And she subdues them, and then they wake up strung together face to face at the bottom of an empty pool and an abandoned house.

And they're facing one another. They come to, she uses some smelling salts, wakes them up. And she says, hey, you two have been torturing my little. gay brother for years in school and saying that homosexuality is nothing but a choice, well, here's your chance to prove your little theory. You guys have to be gay for one another before I let you go.

That's the jumping off point. I don't know if you saw Drew in the Olson Twins movie, but he's got chops. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm thinking for him is one of the guys at the bar. Can we make them look young enough? I like the premise. And for you,

75 grand is a good chunk, but it's not a lot in the movie. movie making world. No, it's not at all. How do you budget this out? If I was smarter, Adam, I would have come up with a cheap idea to shoot a movie probably 10 years ago, but I'm not that bright, and I just write whatever comes to mind. And I just started writing this one, and it occurred to me, like, on page 30. I'm like, oh, my God, I'm writing something really cheap for the first time. This is the first movie I've ever written, first script I've ever written, where I could actually make it with just, you know, people helping. How do you budget it,

though? You get people that are smart with numbers and crunching it. So the first thing we did is I, I put my script into a producer who budgeted it all out. He gave me a budget from $65,000 to $105,000. What are you going to shoot it on? A lot of leeway. It's digital, right? Probably an Alexa. I would love to shoot some stuff on actual film.

That's a goal for later down the road. And Alexa is like it's a camera. It shoots 2K is what I shot on my shorts on. It looks good. It's theatrical release. It looks really good. How about those new red cameras? Red cameras are good too, but my DP is really proficient on the Alexa.

My DP, fortunately, has been working in the business for, forever. He works on all the Christopher Nolan stuff. He just got back from Europe. He worked on the new Dunkirk movie in the camera department. Director of photography, yeah. Oh, there's a Dunkirk movie. Yeah, it's coming. It'll be here next summer. The red's, uh, the red gets hot. That's one of the things. That's why they call it the red. You got to stop because it overheats. So it's hard to... All these cameras are so big and bulky and like, you know, 10 years from now, they're going to be a joke and they're going to be free, essentially. So when, uh, what are, what are some of the

rewards then having some fun with some of the rewards like the $25 one is essentially just like you want to see this thing and you're going to buy a ticket and like a digital link to it beforehand so $25 bucks gets you a ticket to the first screening for the supporters that I'm going to have once it's done as well as a link to the actual movie

and then like the $50 range you'll get you like a t-shirt Cold Cocko Productions is my production company I brought you one at him here you these are very cool t-shirts Colicokeco production t-shirt as well as an embroider patch and some stickers. Just a little, how do you do? I am ironically this week on Friday I will be finishing the last of whatever the crowd promises I did on my movie. Wow.

You still haven't done all that? Well, what would happen was is it go like, hey, we're coming to Chicago, we're doing a screening in Chicago, coming to a screening in Chicago, coming to a screening in Chicago. And then you get an email from someone and they go, I moved to Dallas. And then you go, well, technically this is on you. It is absolutely. If I'm coming to Dallas and you'll get this too at some point, at some point you'll make another movie and you'll do another one of these things and you'll want the person from Dallas thinking, well, he did come out and we had drinks before the show in Dallas and he did fulfill this thing even though this person, I think, moved from one of the towns we're in. But you do the best you can. Well, when you did yours, I mean, do you even know the number of people that actually contributed?

by the end of it? I don't have the grand total. We could figure it out. I think it was, you know, for some reason, I have the number like $13,000 or something that jumps into my mind. Drew, it was, it's totally insane, especially if you come from where I come from when you crowd fund one of these things and you go online, you go hot, you know, you put it up. And you want to talk about the funthest thing in the world. I mean, if it's going right, you'd look at the thing and it'd be like, oh, we're at $61,000.

That's cool. And then you'd go out and kind of go about your day and kind of forget about it a little bit. And you'd come back and it's like, oh, we're 267. And, like, we just went out. You're like, oh, my God. And then you'd wake up the next morning. Oh, we're at $5.55. Like, you're like, overnight.

Like, crazy. This is what's really, really rich people who play the stock market must feel like, I think. Every time I'm looking at, I'm thinking this is what people who have a lot of stocks are feeling. Yeah, it's just, you've never seen anything like it. You don't have anything to compare it to. But, I mean, we raised like $1.4 million or something, and it was a fairly short period of time. And there was some times where it'd go up $100,000 or $200,000 in a day. Crazy.

It was crazy. But we did have to fulfill, which is like me standing in someone's backyard doing stand-up. That wasn't. Did you agree to that? Who came up with that? I can't picture you sitting down coming up with the perks. Who came up with your perks? I basically said whatever anyone else did before us is fine with us.

But I don't have, I really have this thing where it's, and I've done it way more than once. I come to your house, I'll stand in your living room, and I do a 45-minute comedy set. And my whole thing is sort of like, I am not put off coming where I come from that somebody goes, it's my husband's, it's his 40th birthday, I bought the $10,000 perk, it's huge, he's going to go nuts, like, I can't be put off by that? Yeah, yeah. Feel the stress of

like wanting to deliver? No, no, no. The idea that somebody would care enough to do something so thoughtful and interesting. Adam blows his head up. Right? Oh. Yeah. Mind exploded. Well, what I mean is like, I don't want to spend Friday night in your living room, and yes, I do feel a certain amount of pressure

like there's a much in-laws standing around who have no idea who I am. Like, I can't to show up and keep it clean stuff. There is that. But there's the part where it's like where the wife is going, thank you, thank you, thank you. I'm like, thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

No, I got to eat for free. You paid me a bunch of money for a birthday present. I sat at a table where people are like, be quiet, don't talk. Like my whole childhood, who could do this? So some of them are basic. What's the most exotic reward? 10 grand, which no one has gotten. And I don't expect anyone to get it.

But that gives you full, in the movie world, producer. is the number one. Bigger than executive producer, producer is number one. And if this movie goes on to win an Oscar, which I intended to, they actually get the Oscar. That's...

So you go to groupersthemovie.com for the crowdfunding? I was joking there, by the way. I don't believe this movie's going to win... Groupersdomoey.com, right? Yeah. But certainly, Sundance, not out of the question. Oh, no.

Depending on the timing. This is the kind of movie that, yeah, Sundance... This is the first thing I've written where it's like it's definitely got a cause behind it. Yeah, if you can... You got a good theme and a good cause and a good anti-gay or anti-bullying or anti-gay bullying or whatever it is. It helps.

You guys ever see Black? I know we're going to go to call, but you guys ever see Black Mirror, the show out of the UK? No. It's like the closest thing to the Twilight Zone. It's a great show. Season 3 just got released on Netflix. It's a fantastic show. It's a very dark dystopian future about technology really taking a turn for the worst and screwing us.

And it occurred to me that Gruppers is a cross between Black Mirror and South Park. It's definitely like those two are the major influences. Maybe a dusting of red state in there. Dustin, yeah, and definitely, you know, years of experience of working with you guys on Loveline and hearing the calls and hearing all the issues that are going on out there. There's no way I can write this thing if I wasn't sitting there for all those years with you guys. Well, you know, it's weird. We always had this thought of the future with the robot that was going to turn on us. Yeah.

But it's not the robot. It's us turning on us using the technology. Yeah, right. communicating with the technology and then us turning on us. That's what Black Mirror is all about. You got to watch that. I think you'd really like it. All right.

You've seen West World yet? I'm not, I've not gotten into it. I shall. Chuck, 34, Cleveland. Hey, I'm doing. What's going on, man? Nothing. I love you guys.

Anderson. It's great to be on the phone with you guys, too. You guys really have, like you were just talking. You changed my life, Adam. Andrew, your show has been phenomenal to me. I was introduced you through Howard Stern. I listen to him every day religiously, and now you have taken over that mantle.

Like I wake up in the morning listening to Adam and Drew, the Adam show. Like everything you do has been phenomenal. I love you guys. Thank you so much. You have literally changed my life. Thanks, Jack. Quick, quick backstory when I was 19. My mom killed herself.

So I've dealt with major abandonment issues. I was celibate for probably 12, 13, 14 years. After listening to your show, I kind of snapped out of it. fell in love with my best friend, a female friend of mine. She's not interested in me other than just being friends, but we spend a ton of time together. She sleeps at my house on the couch all the time. Sure.

And you're in love with her. Oh, absolutely. How old are you? I'm 34. Right, dude. And then she knows this? Oh, absolutely. Yeah, we deal with it constantly.

I step over the line all the time. Yeah, I get it. I question her sleeping on your sofa knowing what's going on. and then it also makes me question. Not that she's into you, but question what her motives are. Well, how cruel of her. Well, she needs that around, right? She needs the constant adoration.

Yes. But she's willing to sacrifice his happiness for that. It does not make sense to any heterosexual guy that's not attracted to a woman to have her around to make us feel better about ourselves. But women do do this. So, Chuck, you've come a long way since your mother's suicide. Why don't you keep going down? this road and get into a real relationship. And honestly, if

you want this girl to like you, the best move it is possible, is to bring a girl home and take her into your bedroom, and this might make that one jealous. Tell her you need the sofa. It has happened. That has happened. You know, and I had a relationship going for a few months, but I broke it off because I was hoping to get with Dominique, you know, this

girl, my best friend, I, you know, kind of broke up off a decent relationship I had going because I was hoping she would get jealous and come out for me. I think you actually like this limbo you're in because in this limbo you don't have to be vulnerable. If she actually were available, then you'd be vulnerable to loss again. You guys have talked about that all the time, you know, and I've never dealt with the actual law. I've never gone to therapy. You know,

you guys are my therapy. All right. Well, no, this is not therapy. You need to go do some grief counseling. This is unresolved grief. And it's got you locked in this terrible relationship with a, with a person that's not good. She's not good for you. She's not treating you reasonably. And years are slipping away, man. You're 34. You don't want to wake up at 42 and go, what have I done? I agree. Drew. At Pluto TV, we're celebrating Black History Month with our free, curated collection of black entertainment. No ifs, ands or buts about it. Catch award winning films like Dreamgirls, Monsters Ball and Selma. We must make a massive demonstration.

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