Ask Dr. Drew - $170 Million Homeless Scam: How Ghost “Urgent Care” Companies & Crooked California Developers Are Stealing Funds Straight From Your Taxes w/ Eric Nissen — Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 601

Episode Date: March 27, 2026

California’s state-level homelessness spending is about $1.5 billion per year… and that figure doesn’t even include the ~$900 million spent by Los Angeles. But if there are still 131,000 homeless in the state, where is all the money going? Independent journalist Eric Nissen found an alarming pattern: ghost businesses with no operating hours, developers pocketing millions in a single flip, and a fraudster who was running FIVE businesses out of a single storage closet. Eric Nissen reveals the shocking reality behind the state’s escalating crisis, detailing a staggering $170 million in fraud linked to homeless initiatives like Project Homekey. Independent California gubernatorial candidate Elaine Culotti breaks down the reality of media election interference after being intentionally excluded from the major ABC7/USC debate. Dr. Charlie Powell, a decorated war veteran and physician, exposes how modern medicine abandons trauma survivors by numbing their pain with pills rather than offering real solutions. Eric Nissen is a citizen journalist based in Los Angeles who is exposing fraud being practiced all over the city. He has worked with Nick Shirley on uncovering hospice fraud. Follow at https://x.com/InnerRhythmWave Elaine Culotti is an independent California gubernatorial candidate. The renowned entrepreneur, designer, sustainable farmer, and former star of Discovery+ reality series “Undercover Billionaire,” is focusing on addressing California’s escalating wildfire crisis. Leveraging her extensive background in construction and development, she advocates for practical, community-driven solutions to enhance resilience against such disasters. Follow at https://x.com/lipstickfarmer Charles “Dr. Charlie” Powell is a decorated former Naval Lieutenant Commander, war veteran, multiple medical-patent holder, and former owner and Chief Medical Officer of a major medical system in Texas. He is the father of a special needs son, Charlie, who is the inspiration for Saint Charlie Resorts. Dr. Powell directed the documentary HEALING HEROES NO MIND LEFT BEHIND. Learn more at https://healingheroes.com 「 SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS 」 • STRONG CELL – If you want to feel more like your younger self, go to https://strongcell.com/ and use code DREW for 20% off. • AUGUSTA PRECIOUS METALS – Thousands of Americans are moving portions of their retirement into physical gold & silver. Learn more in this 3-minute report from our friends at Augusta Precious Metals: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://drdrew.com/gold⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or text DREW to 35052 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠• FATTY15 – The future of essential fatty acids is here! Strengthen your cells against age-related breakdown with Fatty15. Get 15% off a 90-day Starter Kit Subscription at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://drdrew.com/fatty15⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ • PALEOVALLEY - "Paleovalley has a wide variety of extraordinary products that are both healthful and delicious,” says Dr. Drew. "I am a huge fan of this brand and know you'll love it too!” Get 15% off your first order at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://drdrew.com/paleovalley⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ • THE WELLNESS COMPANY - Counteract harmful spike proteins with TWC's Signature Series Spike Support Formula containing nattokinase and selenium. Learn more about TWC's supplements at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twc.health/drew⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 「 ABOUT THE SHOW 」 This show is for entertainment and/or informational purposes only, and is not a substitute for medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Executive Producers • Kaleb Nation - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://kalebnation.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ • Susan Pinsky - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x.com/firstladyoflove⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Content Producer • Emily Barsh - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x.com/emilytvproducer⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Hosted By • Dr. Drew Pinsky - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x.com/drdrew⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are going to speak to a California governor, gubernatorial candidate, Elaine Kuladi, who spoke to before. She is a renowned entrepreneur. And the California debates got canceled possibly because of her. We'll talk about that. And first, we'll have Eric Nissen in here. He's a citizen journalist based in Los Angeles. He has been exposing fraud. He has tons of video.

He is working with Nick. Crap, I'm booking Nick's name that has been exposing so much fraud in this country. Nick, what is it? Shirley. Surely, and it's surely, yes. And then Dr. Charlie Powell comes in. He is a naval, former naval lieutenant commander, war veteran, physician,

and we're going to talk a little bit about, amongst other things, veteran health care, right after this. Our laws as it pertain to substances are draconian and bizarre. The psychopaths start this, he was an alcoholic because of social media and pornography, PTSD, love addiction. Fentanyl and heroin.

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It's all... It looks worse underneath that. It's all just peeling so badly anyway. It's like wild. So apologies for the unpleasant appearance. Maybe Caleb can put some filters on there to make me more acceptable. Eric Nissen. Okay, you can follow Eric on Instagram.

Eric with a C, William Nissen, N-I-S-E-N. Also, inner-rhythm wave. And inner is I-N-N-E-R, inner-rhythm wave on YouTube. Eric has been exposing fraud and we thank him for that and he's going to tell us what he has uncovered. Eric, welcome and thank you for being here. Thank you so much, Dr. Drew. I'd just like to say I've been a big fan of yours since my high school days listening to Love Line. So I love everything you're doing with the homeless stuff, the mental illness and everything you've been covering.

But yeah, it's kind of a crazy story because I had a family member who was just in need of like physical therapy. and I have a friend who's a physical therapist and I knew a little bit about home health, but I decided to look up some home health agencies and try to hire someone. And right near where I used to live in West L.A., there was a funny little one called Hospice of Nation, which just kind of felt like not a real name when I first looked at it. So I kind of looked into it. There were no reviews. It didn't seem to be like a real business that had gotten any traction.

and then I noticed it was in a business building that I used to live near. So I went and checked it out. And that's when there was just a ring camera on the door and nobody was there. And when I tried to talk to them, they kind of just pushed me away. So that made me kind of wonder what was going on. And when I tried to look for more, I actually found a company related to Hospice of Nation called Atlantic Care Hospice. So I saw the same guy owns the same thing in the valley. So I went up there and I was going to go check that out.

But when I got in there, I realized that there was about 40 to 50 more hospice and home health centers. And that's when Elon Musk retweeted my Wall Street Apes post of just uncovering a place that basically has 40 to 50 of the same business running out of it. And none of them seemed to care about getting business either. That's what was interesting. is nobody really cared to take my info and try to get me signed up. They were just kind of like letting me. Were there people there people there people behind the doors? Well, so a few of them did have people working, just like kind of an assistant that's just

kind of sitting there seemingly waiting for mail or just kind of on their phone. One of them had a couch with a TV. The guy was just watching movies. And then most of them, nobody was even there, which then when I looked into it, hospices are supposed to legally have a phone number 24. seven. So I would call the phone numbers and they would just go right to voicemail. I would never get, no one would ever get back to me. And, and yeah, and then many of them started to seem like I was almost worried. Like I was like, can this even be real? Like this amount of fraud at this level.

And so I looked into it and lo and behold, it seems like that's what I kind of stumbled into. So let's talk about the stumbling for a second. You were looking for a physical therapist. You got interested in home health. Were you already, you know, had you already heard of Nick Shirley's stuff? Were you already thinking? I wonder if there's some of that fraud out there. This doesn't seem like a real thing. Well, yeah, I had seen the Leering Center stuff in Minnesota a little bit. And the Hospice of Nation maybe hit my mind like kind of a funny name like that. I was like, you know, that's just kind of a silly name to call something. So there was that. But I didn't really know much about him until my cousin called when I was on Elon Musk page and my video kind of blew up, my cousin called me and was like,

dude, like people are saying you're the next Nick Shirley and all this stuff. And that's when I had to kind of look into it and find out more about what was really going on with all that. And yeah, I mean, it started to seem really similar because I basically looked up some of the same people who own these home and health agencies and some of them actually own daycare centers and some of them own transportation companies, medical supply companies, consulting companies. And all of it seems to be intertwined not only with those industries, but also we're finding Hollywood, things in Hollywood, like vehicles, LLCs for movie vehicles to move money and pay out directors, writers, and producers. So we found some stuff in New York and New Jersey, and we're going to be out there

doing some more stories. And yeah, the ties don't end. There's Staten Island, there's Seattle, Washington. All sorts of other states are also involved in this, it seems. So, of course, you're a racist, right? Because much like Dr. Oz and Nick Shirley, he targeted Armenians. That's what he was doing. That was his plan. What group did you target? Well, yeah.

Well, so he, Nick Shirley reached out to me in mid-January when my videos were blowing up. And he said, let's work. So I sent him a bunch of pages of non-compliant hospice centers, you know, that get These are, these are, these are delinquent amendments on the business profile that are getting flagged. And it seems like they can just sort of change their name slightly or change the address that it's registered at or just have a, a quick little edit in the system and they get plugged right back in as an active, as an active company. So, so I just sent him a bunch of that stuff. And that's where this video, that's where I think he went to because the first few pages were all

A's and I saw there was a lot of angel ones on there. So I think those are the ones that he found, but I'm sure he also did a lot of great work on his own. And, you know, I do support him and everything he's doing. And I would love to work with him. But yeah, it's not about targeting individual, you know, classes of people or races or ethnicities. It just so happens that a lot of the names on there may be from the caucus regions, you know, the lesser caucus and the greater caucus regions. But yeah, I can't speak much of that. What are the politicians doing with this? Is anybody getting behind you and getting like the sheriff from Riverside?

Is he interested in helping you out? Are there people getting in your way like Attorney General Banta who gets the way of everything like this? What do you find? Yeah, it seems that Rob Banta doesn't really seem to care. Jenny Leroux with Steve Hilton have reached out to me and my team has been talking with them and seeing what they're doing with this Caldoge stuff. So that was the only thing that we've really heard from people reaching out is the Caldos people. And I'm interested to see what they are going to do with all this.

But no, you know, Adam Schiff was in charge of the congressional district where most of this is going on for 24 years. And he was a big proponent of getting certain aid for the Nagorno-Karabakh region, which was, you know, Azerbaijan and conflicts with Armenia and things like that. So he was a big proponent of a lot of initiatives to gain funding for the Armenian community in their country. But during those years, it was funny because I started reading that a lot of the military and high up people in that country as well were just taking money and not necessarily using it in the best way for the Armenian people. So even if it's about helping a certain group of people, in a conflict, you know, we're not even sure that that money is even getting to those people either.

So even our financial... What are your personal thoughts about all this? What do you walk away thinking? Is it just... Our money is being squandered. It's outrageous. You're angry. What do you personally see?

And then once you've told me that, talk to you about homelessness where it's even more egregious, perhaps. Absolutely. I mean, what I've seen in California growing up here ever since I was a kid is, you know, they they pass a lot of initiatives with a lot of money behind it and they promise to do something. And as soon as you let that vote go through, they don't start doing anything, but they allow the door to be open to continue funding that exact type of program. And the media could be complicit and certain entities could be complicit in making it seem like that money is going to so much good and changing so many things. So let's give them more money, you know, and that that's when it

seems to never stop this, this never-ending cycle of basically taxing us more, putting fees on top of things more, making little irregular payments all the time that the, that the taxpayer is basically burdened with, and then siphoning them into these programs where tens of millions of dollars are going to individuals or entities that are supposed to be, you know, performing something because there's supposed to be a contract written out and they refuse to perform those things or they do very little of it. And that's where I started finding the homeless housing as well all around Los Angeles. Many of them are just old dilapidated motels that haven't been even converted or even started to be renovated. But they've received $20 to $30 million

from Project Homekey. Right, right, of course. So you're not angry. You sound very even sort of emotionally about that. I'm mortified. I'm beside myself. I want to just. Right. Well, the state, yeah, absolutely. The state, you know, it's filing season for taxes and the state wants me to pay a couple grand in taxes because of the money I've made. And I'm sorry, but, you know, until all this is figured out, I'm definitely not paying that. And it's actually illegal and they're violating my rights and all the Californian citizens' rights by not allowing us due process by stealing this money and not allowing us to have any recourse and not performing the contracts of what this tax money was supposed to be used for. So technically in the eyes of the law,

they're breaking the law and they're violating our rights. So that's where we're coming from. Is somebody going to take that to court? Is somebody taking that to court? Yeah, absolutely. Well, yeah, I've written a few drafts. and summons of complaints to submit. Governor Gavin Newsom is definitely a person of interest. Adam Schiff, Ted Lou, Maxine Waters, Karen Bass, pretty much anyone besides Kevin. Yeah, I have reached out to Michael Gates. I do, yeah.

And I have reached out to him. Did he respond? No, but, you know, Caldose and all of them, they're super inundated with all this stuff and there's so much going on. Do me a favor. Send it to me through our booker, Emily Barsh, and I will get it to Michael Gates. He's a very talented litigator. I would think he would jump all over this.

Yeah, absolutely. Thank you, doctor. Okay, you got it. Well, I don't know. You're uncovering terrible things. And the people are dying in our streets because of it. Literally, it's negligent manslaughter on one level, and it's just massive.

negligence and fraud on the other. It is unbelievable that we live in a state that is allowed to manage its money like this, our money like this, and continue on. It is disgusting at a level that I don't understand why the voters aren't rising up. At Desjardin, our business is helping yours. We are here to support your business

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So it's been hard to even organize all this information and organize all these places because it's, it's, I can just drive anywhere in the state and find this stuff essentially. So yeah, I mean, Karen Bass has a duty to exercise reasonable care and care for these homeless people on the streets. And by not doing that, she's actually, you know, she's grossly negligent and she is performing a definition of her own. I understand. Doctors and nurses are not. allowed to get near these people. This is an open-air hospital without doctors and nurses run by social workers and volunteers. These are as sick as brains get. You can't get sicker than being so drugged out you don't know what's happening to you or so severely mentally ill. You can't manage

your housing and your food and your daily living needs. That is, those are people that need hospitalization. They need medical care. You need nursing. care. And that is not even close to being delivered. In fact, quite the opposite. We are, prevented from doing the care that these people need. You saw the little, we had a little, we had a little bit of a piece before we went in here. There was that, go ahead. No, no, go for it. I did watch that. Yeah. We ran a little tape before, before, yeah, before we came in. It was a guy that tried to help a child star that was strung out on meth. And he kept running away from treatment because you're not allowed to keep people in treatment until they're clear. So they can

start to think again. And so you're not allowed to. There's no gravely disabled. There's only, I'm going to hurt, I'm going to kill myself, I'm going to kill somebody else. That's it. You don't do that. Sorry, you can go back. You know where to get a, you can panhandle on the five freeway. Fine. Goodbye. That's it. Right. It's it is beyond, it's inhuman at a level that is, if you told me we were going to do this with psych patients 40 years ago, I would have laughed at you. But here we are. All right, Eric, where do you want people to find you? Well, Interrhythm Media on YouTube and TikTok, Interrhythm Wave on X because 15 letters wasn't allowed. And then Eric William Nissen on Instagram.

But yeah, I agree. It's absolutely egregious and it's criminal. And, you know, it seems like it's being perpetuated on purpose to keep these funds flowing. So we're going to keep looking into it. And I know you as the L.A. You know, service authority, you were going to be put on and they didn't really like what you had to say. So that makes it even more, you know, suspect that they would fire one of the best people who had the best advice to give. I was there.

I was appointed and then they, they, I was appointed and then they were, they stonewall and all this stuff and had a shit fit about it. But they have no clinicians taking care. There's no clinicians on these panels. There's nobody with any training who understands what this even is, let alone what to do. about it. So it's beyond. It is beyond. So anyway, keep up the great work. Let us know how we can support you. You send me that whatever the legal document is or the thing and I'll get it to, Emily. She'll get it to me. I'll get it to Michael. Okay?

All right. We'll do. Thank you so much, Dr. Drew. All right. Thank you. You got it. And remember Michael Gates is running for Attorney General. Get behind him. Get Bonta. His behavior is just, you know, and if you saw the Riverside Sheriff found 45,000. ballots that shouldn't have been in his district. He wanted to count them. The Attorney General of California is preventing him from counting them

to see if he has more ballots than he's supposed to have. Forget who's they are, where they came from. He just wants to document that there's something wrong with the ballot count. No, that's against, we're going to put an injunction against you can't do that. This guy needs to go. All right. Now, speaking of needed to go,

Newsom needs to go, and who will we replace him with? Elaine Colladie is running for governor. She is NPP. She is no party preference. So she is in that, what I call the radical middle, which is a place I prefer to stay. Elaine, you know her from the television show. The, let's see, it was called, I'm sorry, Discovery Plus reality series, undercover billionaire. That's what it's called. And you can follow Elaine on exit Lipstick Farmer. Back with Elaine, right up to this.

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And it's delicious, strawberries and cream. All right, Elaine Kulati is an NPP, California gubernatorial candidate. She has a lot of background and things like construction and development. She advocates for practical, guess what, pragmatic solutions. Elaine, welcome back. We can find you. Let me get to the lipstick farmer on X, Instagram, and Kulati for California.com. Elaine, welcome back.

Hi, thank you for having me. How's it going? I've even been watching what's been happening. Very well. Yeah, what did you do? What did you do? Sik-d-s-k-d-d-sk-d-dus. I got really upset about the USC debate,

and everybody's upset now, and they canceled it. Yes. And those little scanners. There were a lot of issues. Yeah. The fact that they moved from the political science department to the arts department already is like what in the hell is going on here that does not belong there, number one. And number two, they didn't allow for a lot of representatives who should have been on the stage,

right? Well, yeah, I think what the problem is, is the Democrats had had their own convention and they couldn't pick a candidate. They had like 3,000 Democrats in a room. I can't even imagine what that was like. But they couldn't, you know, they couldn't whittle down their, you know, their bench. And so they were, in fact, most of the people. people in the convention, including Katie Porter was there, you know, and I'm just, I've just had it

with the whole Katie Porter thing. She was holding up a sign at the convention that said F Trump, and that was her platform. And Swalwell's platform was Get Trump. So they basically didn't really have a plan. And then it's debate season. The primary is like, you know, 60-something days away. And what they came up with is we'll do a debate at USC, which USC host colleges host debates. And we can talk about the psychology of that and what that means because it's really important. You know, young kids are learning about politics and colleges are supposed to host debates, but they're supposed to be bipartisan. And so the Democrats who control California with, you know, more or less around 60% stronghold for the last at least two decades, decided they would do this debate differently so that they could whittle down their bench, coal their herd. So they picked who they wanted.

They cherry picked them and they made the rules so that the four Democrats that they picked would work. And what happened, wow. So what happened is they cut out all of the minority candidates. And that made it look really bad. They cut out, you know, Betty Yee and Bacero and Antonio Villaragosa. And these, they got mad. And so I was sitting back watching the whole thing. And as I'm watching it, I'm like, what am I missing here?

Where's the middle? Where's the podium for the independent voter and independent candidate? And there was none. So they made the whole thing about race. It was a huge mess. And I just got so pissed off. And I called everybody I could call and I emailed everybody. And I said, guys, you know, you can make it about race if you want to have an ali, ali,

I'm come free. But we have 31% registered independence, okay? To be clear, the Republicans only have 25. So how are you, you want a two-party race? A two-party race is a one-party race. Do you think I'm stupid? And that's what they did. And so now they don't want to talk about it, but that's what they did.

That's what they did. And I really feel like they race-baited us. It's not about that. It's about getting those independence out. out of the picture so that they can keep their stronghold. Because the bigger, the bigger party is in the middle. The bigger party is in the middle. The power is in the middle.

That's what I've always felt. I always wonder why the voting in California always went 60% certain way. Because when you talk to people in the Californians, they're much more reasonable than the politicians. They elect. So I'll ask two questions of you. There's probably long answers. One is what have you learned digging into the,

what should we call California? It's not a swamp. It's a, what is it, a quicksand, the mud of California. And you're a pragmatist, you're a problem solver. What would you bring? And there just is nothing pragmatic going on in our government. There's no governing. They've switched from governing to representing.

They just want to represent. So Karen Bass wants to represent. She goes to Ghana while the city burns down because she's representing. It's not governing. She's representing. And so that's the opposite of pragmatism. So A, what have you learned? And what are you going to do as a pragmatist that get us out of this mess?

Okay. So what I've, wow, what have I learned? I thought it was kind of done. I was going to take a break and the fires happened. And what I've learned, the fires taught me a lot. So number one, after it was all over and the smoke was gone, you could see in the Pacific palisades in Malibu. And you know, I've talked to Adam about this a lot. There was no infrastructure. So the roads are broken. The fire hydrants are broken. There's not fire department turnarounds. There's no water. The fire hydrants are on this tree thing, which is really archaic, which means water can't pump up. All of the reservoirs are depleted and broken and there's no way to dip in and use fire water. They didn't have enough fire trucks. I mean, I could just go on and on. But what it equals is that we have an infrastructure issue.

and a resource issue. And being in construction and big constructions, so I say to myself, like, well, where are all the resources and where all the money go? And why are the roads not working? And why is there no water pressure? And it's an infrastructure problem. And so you can go on and on about the fires. But what the fires were to me and what I learned is wake up California. They have ripped us off for three decades. They have stolen our money. They have, they are walking out of our state with all of our money. And none of it goes back into our beautiful, beautiful, beautiful state. They don't fix the roads. They can't build railroad. They just don't know how to do it. They can't even make the schools better. You know, they don't put the money in

the right place. They can't solve homelessness. Instead, they have middlemen. I have learned really, really, really difficult lesson. I have learned that California has to be the completely rebooted. And to do it, you've got to wreck, you've got to take a wrecking ball to Sacramento. You've got to take a wrecking ball to the upper echelon of California. They all got to go. They all got to go. The mayors and the cities are fine. Let me just tell you, if Sacramento would leave them alone, from Mayors Matter, I'm telling you, if Sacramento would leave them alone, stop with unfunded mandates, using NGOs and middlemen and everything to distribute money, we would be fine.

Just leave us alone. But no, they get up every morning and they think, how are we going to take every last dollar? How are we going to squash every single dream of every single Californian? That's what they get up and do. And what are you, how are you going to do this? How are you going to get rid of the clear of the swamp, those sorts of things?

Caladoge. The first thing I'm going to do, the first thing I'm going to do is beg everybody that's watching the show and everything you see with me, I need you all to understand that on June 2nd, your choices are over. You have to vote. You have to be engaged.

And you have to vote for somebody who you believe in. You can go on to Grock or Chad or perplexity and you can put in the name of every single candidate and you can read their voting record and you can read what they've done and what they haven't done and how bad they are or how great they are.

You have that option. And on June 2nd, it's a jungle primary. So the one with the most votes, let it be me. Please let it be someone like me. Wins the jungle primary. And then now it's me and some big Democrat or some big Republican,

just fine, but it's a legitimate candidate. It's not the way that they tried to pull off this SC thing where they're cutting the middle out. You want candidates like me who write their own policy. And I've written policy on water and my farmers. I've written policy on how we do debris removal because we dumped it in Calabasas and Silmar and all through the valley.

We didn't think about taking it out on rail and keeping our great, great, great city clean. No, I've written policy on the Great American Credit Union, keeping our money in our state, having independent control over our money. I've written money on pensions. We have, sorry, written policy on pensions. We have a really big problem with theft. and you can see that other people like your previous guest and of course, you know, Nick Shirley and Doche, we have a huge problem. In, you know, 19 or sorry, 2007, the Trump administration passed the Tax Act and Jobs Act. And when they did that, they removed this interesting category, which created a really big issue, I think. And it was, you know, good intentions, pave the road to hell.

So what they did is they said, you cannot longer take the same deduction. on your tax return by delivering money to charities, charitable donations, a lot of them went away. 37 million households lost disability. And then $20 billion a year started to go to D.C. to funnel into all sorts of charities. And that became now almost a trillion dollars. And it became the biggest middle man game,

where your money goes from D.C. and Sacramento, all your tax dollars. into a plethora of middlemen. And what I'd like to do, I'd like to run, I'll get in trouble for this. Do you want me to get in trouble for being a creative governor? I'm going to get in trouble. Here you go. And you guys can quote me on this. Cause some trouble.

We could, we should run our state like Vegas. Okay. So here's what I'm saying. When you have a big backer, which are a billionaires, you let them back the best poker player. and they cover the losses. But I guarantee you, we'll make more money in this state if the billionaires back the best players

instead of taxing the billionaires out of the state. And if we have a great American credit union and we create 244,000 new jobs, new businesses, we'll create 2 million employees and we can do it with the SBA and the billionaires and they can split the VIG. And that's what we should be doing. That means that California gets the profits.

It goes through the credit union. We have a dividend-paying bank instead of a stealing, stealing and robbing and strip mining everybody. And you could easily do it if you're the governor because all you do is put the money in California. You stop putting the money into private people that are stealing it. It's so easy to do. There's so many things you could do. You work with the mayors. How about we pay mayors in California more than $600 a month?

How about we do that? No, we spend it on a homeless group. How about we audit California? Do you realize that if a Democrat gets in, guys, wake up California. If a Democrat gets in, they'll block any audit. They already block it the homeless audit. Yep. Yeah.

Yep. Yep. Have you talked to Schwarzenegger? No, but I love him. I love him. I used to know him back in the day. I love him. He's so smart.

He's so likable. Call him. Okay, Drew, text me a cell phone. stuff done in Sacramento. Well, he can be my secret weapon. My term, my very own terminator.

I need him. I bet he talks. He talks to everybody and he would tell you about his experience and sort of, you know, how difficult it is up there and how it's frustrating it is up there. It's just terrible. Well, all right. Well,

there's a lot to think about. I just hope you or somebody sane gets in and can make a difference. I have a feeling, even if you don't become governor, whoever does will want to use you for some of these ideas, right? I mean, think of all the other positions you could fill up there. I would love you for governor. Don't get me wrong.

But we need you and others like you working on this state, as you're saying. It's so far gone. And the road back... Well, it's possible, though. The thing about California is it's possible for me. Sure, because at the end of the day... If somebody's governing and not representing, and if somebody is interested in actually restoring the state and managing the finances,

I mean, it can go very different. But boy, we are on the precipice here, it seems to me. The goal is to have debates with everybody on the stage. No debate should be without independence. And everybody should be able to debate at this point. I definitely think it's going to happen because I think USC did a really good thing. And I think USC went NPP. They finally, they figured it out.

And I think all the colleges. And it's just important that everybody gets a chance. And look, you lose. If you lose on the debate stage, you lost. Fair and Square. But to block people like me, uh-uh. Uh-uh. That's not fair.

And nobody, and people know it. You know, Republicans and Democrats know it. They know it. I like it. USC canceled after a candidate. Good eyes. Yeah. I appreciate you being.

Oh, there was some sound we were supposed to listen to on Steve Hilton. I guess he was on Instagram talking about this very issue. Let's just quickly look at that. before we wrap up. With the TV debate next week, it's completely ridiculous. You've got a bunch of Democrats that aren't doing well enough to get into the debate complaining about it. And I don't have any time for that at all.

Do better. And then you'll get in the debate. Then you've got Matt Mayhan, who's a candidate who's just got into the race, absolutely doesn't meet the criteria. But they've rigged the rules in order to get him in as a Democrat. But the big thing I want to say is that Elaine Kulotti, who's running as an independent, she's a businesswoman, she's got a big following.

There's a lot of independent voters in California. Now, of course, I would love those voters to support my campaign, but the fact that you don't have an independent on that stage, you've got a bunch of Democrats and you've got two Republicans, but no independent. That is outrageous. We've got to have proper representation in this debate, including of independent voters and the independent candidate

that's leading this race in that part of the electorate is Elaine Kulotti. She should be on that stage next week at USC. And I hope you thanked him, Elaine, for that. Oh, I love him. He's great and he's a good candidate.

You know, he's a good candidate. So he's got, he gets it. Like, these guys get it. They know that this is a one-party race. That's what they're doing. They're, they're like letting the two Republicans get up there because they know the 25% of California is Republican. They know that they've got it like in the bag. And it's not fair. And it's using the energy of these people who are, it's expensive to run. It's hard work. There's so much energy that you need. And it's such a psychology. It's such a, like, you've got to just really stay on 100%. And then they play you. You know, the Democrats, they just think, we can do whatever we want. No, you can't. No, you can't.

Elaine, where do you want people to go? Oh, Kalati for California.com or lipstick farmer. And Kalati is, as you can see on the screen, C-U-L-O-T-I, Kallati for California.com. Please, if you're going to donate $1,000, it's better to get $1 from 1,000 people than $1,000 from one person. It's all about engagement.

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So a bunch of stuff I want to hear about. I guess we should start with Healing Heroes No Mind Left Behind. Yeah, sounds good. Appreciate it. Yeah, I was a 16-year veteran. I served in the Army for four years as a combat medic with the first Gulf War and transferred over the Navy as I got a scholarship to medical school and spent 12 years in the Navy.

It was a great career. I really thoroughly enjoyed serving this country. I got out in 2005, moved to Dallas, Texas, where set up a beginning work for a small practice that over a period of 18 years built into a health care system that, I exited from about four years ago. In all of that, I silently was dealing with pretty bad PTSD. I was being treated on the side by a multitude of physicians that were absolutely doing the best they could that they knew for me. Interestingly enough, when I sold my largest company about almost four years ago, I was, by all definition, should have had the American dream. and I had everything that you're supposed to work for and work towards.

And I was probably in the darkest place of my life at that point. And I've been suffering for 16, 17 years on a multitude of medications to keep me going from day to day. But it was highly functional and a lot of other things sacrificed for it. Interestingly enough, I actually learned about alternate treatments that were available overseas, which I want to be very clear and straightforward. These treatments are not for everybody, nor are they necessary for everybody. But it was for me. And a lot of veterans out there that are suffering.

The movie became a passion project of mine. I wanted to not just tell my story, which was just one in millions of veterans that suffer from PTSD, but I wanted to show it real time. I wanted to, I basically got six of this nation's heroes between first responders and veterans that were suffering from bad PTSD, many of which had had attempts on their own life and brought them together down to a treatment program in Mexico that we filmed everything real time from their initial interviews to their treatment and to the follow-up, which we did for a full year after their treatment program.

So I'm aware of a number of, I guess, we're using the word alternative treatments that are flying around out there. What was the sort of conceit of this one? So it's interesting. This was based on psychedelic medicine. or a lot of people called plant-based medicine. And I don't know about your training, but mine was certainly that the word psychedelic medicine

didn't serve to be in the same book, let alone the same word. I came across this. I was multi-boarded. I ran a healthcare system. I felt like I was at the leading edge of technology for the most part. But I'm also not very typical.

In my 50s, I started a big piece of artwork on my body that I just enjoyed working on. And of all people, it was my tattoo artist. that brought up possibly the use of ayahuasca or I began to treat my underlying PTSD. It's funny, you know, we tend to have this stigma around mental health in this country where we don't talk about it. It's something that we don't bring out and about because then there's something wrong with this were labeled.

But that guy knew everything about me, right? He knew what I had been through. He knew what I was suffering with with the night tears and sleep paralysis. That's Skip Martin, by the way, Leeds Sinker Cool in the gang. Really cool guy came down to help us with a shoot. But anyway, I learned about it from him, and I really started doing some deep research and the fact that these resources were not readily available to anybody in the U.S., let alone studies, to back it.

So I put my own research into it, decided, hey, let me step up and go first, and I had great success with it. At Medcan, we know that life's greatest moments are built on a foundation of good health. from the big milestones to the quiet winds. That's why our annual health assessment offers a physician-led, full-body checkup that provides a clear picture of your health today and may uncover early signs of conditions

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And we really haven't done the right research to fully appreciate the risk award just yet. This is true of psilocybin's ibogaine. So, you know, I, and in my, I worked in a psychospal for decades, and I saw a lot of neurotoxicity from hallucinogens way more than, it's particularly LSD and mescaline. But also from Ibogaine and I, And so I'm, I've seen it also have some miraculous results. And I, you know, and of course, these are always cases that have tried everything else, right? And so you're, you kind of are willing

to take more risk, right? When somebody has failed multiple treatments that might be safer. So I get it. I don't know, I don't quite understand why we don't do more of it here. I've got psychiatric colleagues who swear by particularly psilocybin and sort of the milder hallucinogens being useful in mood disorders and things. I guess with RFK in there, we're going to be doing some of the research. I worry about the excesses. Again, the drug that's curious me,

as I said, more than any, the LSD, the mini-dosing and the doing it on your own and the kind of wild ideas that are out there. And then we just had that guy that's doing all the longevity stuff to do a, what's that stuff? He smoked. Oh, crap.

five methyl, you know, O methyl transphrase or something, inhibitor or, yeah, DMT, DMT, exactly. And, you know, everyone's applauding him for doing that. It's like, hey, this is, we're out of control here. This has got to be really careful of this. So what should we be doing? What are your recommendations for our system here? So let me tell you something.

I, my results were miraculous. I went from five different medications when I went into this. It was a program centered around not just the medicine. At best, the psychedelic medicine is only about 20% of a program. And people have to understand that because in Western medicine mentality, we're all around a pill can fix it. But there's so much more around a healing process, as you well know. But I had an amazing process.

I mean, look, I'm just going to be straight up and honest. I was on hydrocodone for nearly 15 years from a nerve injury from the war that. I was on antidepressants and ambient at nighttime to get me to go to sleep at night. It was no way to live. But my almost medications went away in one dose. One dose, no withdrawal, no cravings, just came out the other side. Now, at the same time, I'm going to tell you right now, I've seen a lot of great, great results with this.

But I personally have seen some of the worst that can deliver to. I want to be very clear to all your listeners, that I have personally seen this even tear families apart, because if it's administered by providers that don't know what they're doing, not doing appropriate screening, not doing appropriate follow-up, I call it Shaman Jane down the street. If they're seeing somebody that doesn't know what they're doing, you're actually doing more harm. So in my opinion, answer your question, there needs to be appropriate U.S. studies. There needs to be appropriate regulation, not over-regulation. And that just hurts things too. But we have to make sure there's good treatment programs and systems. Right now, there's incredible organizations out there like heroic hearts out of New York, the Mission Within out of Tijuana, that are having to bring veterans in and find nonprofit funding because our vets can't afford this. They can't afford to leave the borders of the country they defended to go get a treatment

that might actually work. And in so many cases, has. That's my take on it. let me tell you something interesting I've observed on the opiate front you said you're on hydrocodone for a long time a lot of my patients will out of you know trying everything we'll go down there and do this stuff the non addict opiate dependent patients stop using opiates the addict which is a different thing it's genetically different thing the addict addicted dependent opiate addicts go back after six months in all cases So it suggests to me that you weren't really an addict. You were dependent on the drug, which is the perfect person to get the effects of this. Yeah. It's interesting.

It's interesting. It's just something I've observed. I totally agree. And look, I got some unexpected benefits from this. You know, there's all this neuroperliferative properties of some of these agents. They found an ibogaine and psilocybin that, well, for example, the whole thing I was on the pain meth meth for was a bad neuropathy, my left leg. The Lyrica wasn't enough to cover it, which.

that stuff may be dumber than I already am. But basically, my neuropathy is gone and it shouldn't be. Or maybe I'm just not sensing it the same way. I can't answer that. But I can tell you that there was enough from it that I wanted to open people's minds. I can't tell you exactly why it's not being looked at here in the States as seriously as it is. You know, ex-governor, ex-governor Rick Perry of X. It will be.

I think it will be. Did you have, did you, out of curiosity, because I have another theory I've seen over and over again. Did you, was your neuropathy part of a complex regional pain syndrome? It wasn't. In this case, it wasn't. I know where you're going on this. It was, okay. In a sense, I believe it was, I was hyper-focused on it that, especially at nighttime, you know, when there's no distractions there for, it was probably like Burma Grease. But I can't explain it fully. I don't care to because all I know is that it made it better for me, but that's not a reason to go after something like this. Look,

I have seen. This is, we're still in that stage where it's like people should be aware of it. They should think about it. It should be, you know, if you've tried everything, you're desperate, this is available. I mean, it's, it's, I, we've got to do better here in this country. And I know there are psychiatrists using these kinds of things. They're out there doing it, even though it's not fully above board, so to speak. So talk to me about your son a little bit and about the resorts.

So I will, I have three wonderful kids. My middle child is little Charlie. he has got an unbalanced chromosome translocation 7 to 11 the only kid in the world ever like him probably behaves if anybody wanted to identify with something similar maybe like moderate severe autism his expressive communication is really low he's got some physical disability as well but he is he's taught me a lot more about life than I'm ever going to teach him it was always hard to travel with him it was a challenge we we would often get out there and places wouldn't know what to do anything with them, the kids program, the team program. Nobody knew what to do with him.

So one parent always had to stay behind. So it's not a big surprise to see the divorce rate, especially on these parents is as high as, you know, 80%. They just lack the opportunity to really get that family experience. Civilians often feel left out because so much attention is paid to the special individual who they love just as much. But there's a lot of stresses on these families that if you think about it, especially in autism, severe autism and higher debilitating cases, people go and get up go to their job every day and they come home to go to work. They have very little support, very little help. Hell, you have 80-year-old people right now taking care of their 60-year-old special needs adults because there's no place in the system for them to go. I'm not saying I can fix all

that, but what we wanted to do and what we have done is created a resource system, St. Charlie Resorts, named after Little Charlie. I'm no sate. I'm just the guy that came out of retirement to work for him. And creating a place where special is normal. We have our first site that we're under our final negotiations for it to open up in the Mexican Riviera in Mexico near the Cancun and Playao-Carmin area. And we're looking forward to having 11,000 rooms in Mexico for the special needs, both physical and intellectually disabled over the next five to seven years. Wow, congratulations. That's a big deal. Thank you, sir. That's a lot. It is. But at the same time, when I came out the other side of my trip,

treatment. And I realized I was not happy in the job I was anymore. I don't want to be in corporate America anymore. I felt like I needed to do something with a better legacy, better outcome. And what better things than serve two fragmented populations of people that are just suffering? I mean, I think I read a stat recently in California that one in 10 of the veterans there have contemplated suicide in the last year. That's just a staggering number. And it's crazy. You know, it's, what's tough about it is that I'll be honest with you on this. It opened my eyes even more than when I was a health care provider as to the mental health

crisis we have in our country. And I say something in the, I want to bring out now that I make point to, I truly feel like veterans are just the canaries in the cage. We are the first that lost community and lost purpose and got fragmented to a point where we didn't have anybody come into the rescue anymore. A challenge it's coming to the rest of our society if we don't start banding together, coming together under good people like Elaine

and people trying to make a difference like you, Dr. Drew. I really appreciate the work you do. Well, and Charlie, I was going to ask you, I'm sorry, what, you know, what we should be doing with our health care system? It's such a mess. The one thing I've noticed, and you tell me if I'm being overly,

you know, old man sitting on the porch. But our physician peers don't have the same spirit that they're doing something important. I think we have to somehow restore that. We have become data entry specialists. That's what we've become, right? With the EMR system, paraphrizations, pre-approvals. You know, I watch this organization that will be built into healthcare system turn into younger physicians that just come in every day, diagnose code, follow.

algorithms, there's no passion in really problems solving in human health anymore. And somebody asked me that question, what would it take to fix the U.S. health care system? And I said something so catastrophic, it would put an imbalance to the whole financial system probably in the U.S. if not the world, because it's all imbalanced and misappropriated. Yeah. Yeah, I agree. And I'm glad that you see that lack of passion that I see too, because It was always sort of the engine that drove everything, you know, doing what's right for the patients, you know, dedicated to that. I don't know what we're doing now.

It's a very different. I've sort of spent, you know, decades trying to defend the physician-patient relationship. I feel like the EMR and the insurance that just destroyed that. Now I want to get everything right to the patients, which is why I'm interested in what you guys are doing. I mean, you're getting it to patients that need it and they do it on their own, I assume, or they find resources and, you know, advocate for themselves. That's what you have to do now. It's just there's no other way to do it.

You have to. And, you know, there's good systems that are popping up. I've seen a lot of physicians go out on their own and create their own cash-based system because they don't have to deal with the insurance. They can perform. They can practice like they want to. And people are willing to do that. They're willing to get out there and just receive good health care.

I believe in that model. Dr. Powell, we appreciate you being here. It is Healthy Heroes TV on Instagram and Healthyheroes.com. and that is the documentary. And what if they want to find more about you or the resort? So Healingheroes.com is the back page to our world premiere of the movie, which is tomorrow, which would be on multiple streamers to be announced at the same time. And then St. Charlie Resorts.com has got great information on the resorts that are coming.

Guys, get behind this. We need support to fill these things. We've got the funding. I've been raising tens of millions of dollars. to make this happen. All we need you to do is participate, come enjoy and take your part in life. For everybody that watches the movie, Healing Heroes, No Mind Left Behind, this is something in there for everybody. It's just not about veteran care because PTSD doesn't just wear a uniform. Trauma can be labeled as depression, anxiety. It can hit levels of PTSD, but there's something in there for

everybody, not just about plant-based medicine, but about the healing process. Dr. Powell, we appreciate good luck tomorrow with the premiere. Thank you, sir. Cheers. All right. Coming up tomorrow, Caleb, if you'd put the list up there. Yep. Stuart Brutman, Jay Dyer.

Justin Rose is going to come in here, Ken McCarthy. We have Naomi Wolf and Masma Pooledici. Uncle Cliff is somebody I've found. I just want to get some straightforward answers from him. We have Sean Spicer, Patricia Heaton, Dr. Kelly Victory, making around with us again. She's always a favorite with us. Brandon Strachukkah coming back.

Lots of guests, lots of interesting conversation. We hope you will be here. And if you have suggestions, you can send them at contact at doctordrew.com. Again, thank you for bearing with my leprosy face today. I appreciate it. Again, Caleb, too, has been suffering with influenza B for eight days, which it does linger on a little bit.

Bad one. It is the worst. I'm the only healthy one here. Oh, it's... Take my fatty 15. Good for you. My N-A-D. I'm at the angry phase of being sick now.

I'm like, what is this? Why is it not gone? I got things to do. Come on. Get out of my body and it won't leave. Anvious of people who are well. I get it. I was so mad.

It's not right. All right. But the skin thing does not bother my stamina and other things, thank God. So I feel fine. Just makes some crabby. I've been crabby. It makes me crabby, yeah, because I don't sleep all that great, I suppose.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, well, listen, let me look at the streams and things. There's anything you guys are talking about. Hello from Florida. Aaron, thank you. Oh, Emily says don't send suggestions.

Oh, when are we going to take calls at the end, Caleb? Oh, yeah, when we're going to do that? It's okay. It's not done. Yeah, we're going to do that. Ready. It's 99% there. I'm the piece that's not there because I don't want to, my brain is like at half power.

So I'm shocked that I was able to get the show ready all these times in a row. I know. I'm not trying to make you feel guilty. No, we appreciate you getting through this. It's going to have it all set up. We're going to be ready to take calls. Yes. Very excited. Soon.

Yeah. Poppy golden sun, it's a little more complicated than that. But again, I'm open to all that talk because there's going to be utility on those drugs for sure. Let's see. Yep. Current healthcare model is a dinosaur. That is for sure. You are right on that.

They are asking you, Susan, to stay. healthy. Because she does. Don't worry. It happens automatically. Don't get sick. Unemployment numbers rise as fraudulent businesses are exposed. My daughter's popped in my face last weekend.

I got it. But she got a double ear infection. It was trauma to the family. So she's better today. I don't know if you talk to Douglas, which is. Drew says I mentioned it, but I think maybe he was just thinking it.

I just remember you seeing her lie back to get her diaper change. I don't think she likes lying back. Maybe it's her ears. You're assigned us. You said something like that. Anyway, I thought that made perfect sense to me. I changed diapers standing up when they get. That's right. That's right. But it was her errors. Thank God. It wasn't the fizzy water. Or the garlic. We were all blaming food. I got to note that I shouldn't give her sparkling water because she didn't sleep all night.

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