Ask Dr. Drew - $4.50 Gas Coming Soon: Eric Bolling On Iran War Propaganda, Deep State Ops & Who Is Manipulating Trump — Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 599

Episode Date: March 24, 2026

Are global conflicts in Iran and political scandals being engineered by hidden “deep state” influencers behind the scenes? Eric Bolling joins to discuss the likelihood of gas reaching $4.50 a gallon (or higher), sorting facts from propaganda, the weaponization of the justice system, and the terrifying economic reality of the Middle East. Eric Bolling is an American TV personality, conservative political commentator, and author. He is the host of TheEDGE and a former co-host of Fox News’ The Five. A former commodities trader at the New York Mercantile Exchange specializing in crude oil, gold, and agricultural commodities, he also served on the NYMEX Board of Directors. He is a 2-time NYT bestselling author. Follow at https://x.com/ericbolling⠀James Rosen is chief Washington correspondent at Newsmax, where his sharp questioning of Presidents Biden and Trump made global headlines. He previously covered the White House and State Department for Fox News for nearly two decades. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, POLITICO, The Atlantic, and National Review. Follow at https://x.com/JamesRosenTV⠀John Strand is an actor, civil rights advocate, and author of Patriot Plea: The J6 Journey of a Political Prisoner in the Divided States of America. He is the Creative Director of America’s Frontline Doctors and is currently running for Congress in Florida’s 19th District. Follow at https://x.com/johnstrandusa 「 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

All right, a lot to get into today as well. Eric Bowling is here. American TV personality, conservative commentator, host of The Edge, former co-host of Fox News The Five. A trader at the New York Mercantile Exchange, he has, can be followed on X, Eric Bowling. We're going to talk a bit, we've got lots to talk about today,

many different topics. But amongst the other things, what is the war doing to oil? And then James Rosen, he has a book, Scalia Supreme Court years. He has a torch kept lit, Great Lives of 20th century. We're going to talk with James about amongst other things, some of the midterms and what the political battlefield is likely to look like.

I'm sorry, that is John. I beg your pardon. The James, we're going to be talking about Watergate as a deep state engineering operation and some interesting insights into things not seen by the average American. And as I said, John Stan will speak about upcoming midterns. and he was a January 6th prisoner. And he'll tell us that story as a book about that. He'll back with Eric after this.

Our laws as it pertain to substances are draconian and bizarre. The psychopaths start this fact. He was an alcoholic because of social media and pornography, PTSD, love addiction. Fentanyl and heroin. Ridiculous.

I'm a doctor for a second. Where do you think I learned that? I'm just saying, you go to treatment before you kill people. I am a clinician. I observe things about these chemicals. Let's just deal with what's real. We used to get these calls on Loveland all the time.

Educate adolescents and to prevent and to treat. You have trouble. You can't stop and you want to help stop it. I can help. I got a lot to say. I got a lot more to say. 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.

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And do we have any books to throw up there, Caleb, while we're introing this? I'm going to show his media in a second. All right, let's bring Eric on in here. Eric, thank you for being here. We really appreciate it. I mean, your career is wildly extraordinary, I would say, having been a oil trader and having been a, you know, somebody, I think you actually founded the five on Fox, didn't you? You were one of the founding members? On the five, I used to do that. No, Mike, we don't hear you.

I think you're, there we go. Sorry, say it again. Yes, I was one of the original OG gangsters of the original five in July of 2011. Yeah, and there it is. There's the edge. There you go. Doc. Thank you for that.

And talk to us about that before we move into the topics. Yeah, very quickly. It's a men's performance show, channel platform. And it's all about it's okay to be a dude again. It's okay to be masculine again. I bring in Brett Farr, I bring in Tito Ortiz, bringing in Ray Lewis, I bring in some of the Titans of Wall Street. I used to play professional baseball. I was a Wall Street trader for 15 years. And then I spent the last 20 years on Fox News and others. So I've got three arenas where you're kind of tested in the fire. And I just want to bring people on who've been

success, we've been tested and just talk about where that grit and motivation comes from to continue after you get knocked down because we all get knocked down at some point. And we want to tap into that for guys, really. We're about 80% male audience. And honestly, Doc, it's 25 to 44 is our main demo. Young people are really interested in figuring out how to get better and get ahead and succeed, which is, it's nice from those years of toxic masculinity. we say we lean into toxic masculinity rather than run from it.

What do you imagine was, I'm just curious if you have a theory on what happened. There's a whole conversation out there I see periodically about something that sort of pejoratively gets called gyno-fascism. But there's a evolutionary biologist out there that's talking about just the fact of the biological proclivities of the character constructs of women have the predominant influence on most of the administrations of most of our institutions. And she puts it up to that. But why did men have to be marginalized? I think, because every group that isn't in power at the time thinks that they deserve to be in power. Women, minorities, etc.

And when the time comes, they like to take, let's call it a hatchet to the feet or legs or Achilles of the current power structure. white men have been historically the whole all the reins and the power and they wanted their shot and they get their shot but here's here's a thing how about your your your attributes your brains your success your motivations those should be the reasons to be in power not because you're white or male because you're the best at something and for a long time it was because you're white and male and then it became because you were black or you were Hispanic or you were female we the DEI crew pushed those to the top instead of bringing the most talented people to the table.

And now I think we're coming to a place where it's the most talented, the smartest, and the people with the best ideas, whether you're black, white, male, female, Asian, doesn't matter. I think we're finally to that point. So white men became a very strong minority, certainly in America, maybe in the, we'll call the Western Hemisphere, because of the DEI push. And we realize that this is a moment in time because of Trump, basically, because of the MAGA movement, it's more based on your success rather than the color of your skin or your gender. Yeah. Yeah, I want everybody to thrive. But young men, I've noticed, were so profoundly marginalized.

They were lost. And I think they're finding their way back. And I'm guessing you hear from them a lot. With a vengeance, Doc, with a vengeance, because it wasn't natural. It wasn't normal for them to take the back seat because they're white men, especially young, white, aggressive men with testosterone. They can still take the back seat and still thrive. They were told they shouldn't exist. You know what I mean? They were really marginalized where they were told they're not worthwhile.

They're not going to have a relationship. They're not going to reproduce. They're not, you know, just go away. Just go away. That's different than, hey, let's be the best that you can be, which is a reasonable mantra for everybody. But let's, okay, let's get into the oil. stuff. So here we are at California. I filled up today. I have a little bit of a fancy car,

so I had to get the premium gas. $750 a gallon. 750 a gallon. And we're getting used to it here. And do you think, what does Newsom? Imagine he pushed out all the oil refinery. He pushed out all the oil companies. He's added a $2 tax that was supposed to go to homelessness that is going into gigantic grift and our McCormone's problem gets worse. People are dying at six a day in this county every day. And do you imagine that the people he claims to be serving, the underserved, let's say, you know, a Hispanic gentleman with a truck with a bunch of equipment in the back, that guy isn't being punished by the $8 or the $5 gas of what he's paying. There's the gas prices on the screen there right now. This is a result of the war, I assume.

But talk to me about where we're going. And it just feels like we're in a phase of the war where they're just going to go after the oil on both sides. And that's that. Well, okay, so there's a couple of things at play right here, Doc. By the way, don't get used to 750. It's going to go a lot higher. We shouldn't get used to 380, which is a national average nationally, including your California rate. It's going to go a lot higher.

Weeks ago, I was on with Ben, and I said it's going to be $4. It was about $3.30 at the time. People are like, no, no way. it's going to $5 nationally. You're probably going to see an $8 average price in the pump in California because of the Middle East. Okay, everyone thinks it's all Iran. It's not just Iran. Yes, Iran is a big part of that.

They're three million barrels a day. The world uses 100 million barrels a day. It's not just Iran. It's the other countries in the Middle East who Iran is bombing. And I will tell you, I mean, this is going to be a little conspiratorial for a lot of folks. But I believe that the Saudis, the Bahrainis, the Yomani's, throughout the reason Iraqis are

saying they're being bombed, they may be being bombed, but they are very much participating in a $100 barrel of West Texas and Armenian crude, which is trading right now at $100 a barrel. And Brent, North Sea Brent, which goes to Europe, is trading at $115

a barrel right now. It's almost $120 a barrel. So everything's going higher and the Middle Eastern countries are absolutely loving this stock. I mean, they used to have to pull an OPEC move to get a $100 barrel of oil.

Now they got one. So they claim to love Trump. They encouraged Trump to bomb Iran, right? Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran. Trump, because it drives the price of oil higher. Of course. Well, I read a bit today about natural gas

being in jeopardy. And I thought to myself, don't we have the biggest natural gas reserves in the world? Why don't we actually take care of our natural gas, gas resources and develop a liquid natural gas national policy, which we've never had. And it seems like the optimum opportunities for us to do something like that. There are ways we can be completely energy independent.

One of us increase our natural gas production. But again, the green lobby, the treehangers don't want drilling in their backyard. Another one is nuclear. You put some nuclear, you refire the nuclear power plants from the 80s who have been sitting dormant for years. You can tool those right back up immediately, take the pressure off our electric power grid with the nukes. It brings the demand for everything else down because right now we're running coal, natural gas, crude oil through the electric plants, right? So if you're doing nukes, then that's less demand on the other thing. I have a very simple solution to this.

That doesn't even include anything that's going to piss off the green lobby. I've said this here. look, you're Trump. Put the U.S. military boot on the neck of Iran. I'm not just talking about Carg Island. I'm talking about take out their infrastructure, take out their media, take out their industries, take out their manufacturing for one simple reason. Get them to the bargaining table for real. And then you negotiate with them. Right now they produce three million barrels a day. They can do seven or eight. They did it before. They were producing eight million barrels in the 80s, right? Venezuela, one million barrels a day they used to do three. You go to Venezuela

and you go to Iran and say, our oil companies will get you back up to where you were before, but just the incremental barrels from where you are now to when we bring it live and on stream, we get the first crack at that oil at market prices. Well, and you do this legally and you do it, international law that they can't back out of this ever. And what do you do? You've created the situation where we now produce 13 million of the 20 million we use a day. The difference is seven. Guess what? The difference between bringing Iran up to where they were and Venezuela up to where they were,

seven million barrels. Without even having to piss off the green lobby, you're becoming energy independent for life. Who do you imagine is advising Trump now? Do you see the fingerprints of somebody in particular? You know, I don't know. Donald Trump has always wanted to hit Iran. I think you have that clip.

I've seen the clip flying around of 1988. Donald Trump saying I'm going to, if it were me, we actually have a job. Eric, let's play the clip. Let's play this from 1980. And the other countries tend to do a little bit as you do. And you can create the right attitudes. The Iranian situation is a case in point.

that they hold our hostages is just absolutely and totally ridiculous that this country sits back and allows a country such as Iran to hold our hostages to my way of thinking is a horror and I don't think they'd do it with other countries I honestly don't think they'd do it with other countries obviously you're advocating that we should have gone in there with troops etc and brought our boys out I absolutely feel that yes I don't think there's any questions There's no question in my mind. I think right now would be an oil-rich nation,

and I believe that we should have done it, and I'm very disappointed that we didn't do it. And I don't think anybody would have held us in abeyance. I don't think anybody would have been angry with us, and we had every right to do it at the time. I think we've lost the opportunity. That's interesting. I saw another clip of him saying,

they can never have a nuke. That's what he was saying in 88. They should never, if they ever get close to nuke, we have to take it out. it out. And he's kind of right because I remember, I was in college in 1979 when this all happened. And it was demoralizing. It made us feel like, oh, God, we just suck. And then you saw the helicopter in the desert, the debris all over the place. They couldn't even do a, couldn't even sort of exercise and a, they couldn't even rehearse a rescue attempt without falling apart.

We're just like, oh, we're done. That's it. He's right. He's right. It was a horrible. It was a horror. This is a moment in time right now. We have that window again because we started it. We're in it. Why not finish it for good? The solution is to secure that extra oil. You let Israel take care of the nukes. They can do it. They've done it in the past. They can continue to do it. We don't need to be doing that. And by the way, are we going to go ahead and take out every leadership of every country that has a nuclear weapon, North Korea, Pakistan, India? I mean, there's no reason to play that game, but becoming energy independent for life would be something that Donald Trump could be proud of and his family.

That would be his legacy and that is his moment. I don't know who's advising him. I'm guessing Miller and Heggseth on it. And I speak to Hegsteth three times a week. They're on it. But Iran isn't in an existential crisis right now. They will fight to the death. And I think they're just playing a cat and mouse game right now, shooting a couple of missiles here and there.

If it gets to it where they feel like they're about to lose or be taken over, they're going to shoot everything they can at it. Just because the Achilles to Donald Trump and the American economy is a higher gas price. And if they wanted to, they can get a $10 gallon of gasoline nationally here if they wanted to. They have the capabilities to mine the straits, not only of Hermuz, the other straight, the strait of Oman, the Gulf of the Gulf of. the Arabian Gulf, they can play games with that. They've got submersible drone mines with explosives on it where all you need to do is put them in the water. You just have to have that threat there and you shut down shipping completely, completely. So you picked up my ears there with saying that you speak to peak headset regularly. Does he agree with you? Does he have you

a plan for those drones? Does he say, does he tell you, don't worry, Eric, just wait and see? We're systematically dealing with this? Where is his head at? Or can you tell him? I'm not privy to what their plan is, but I consistently send him ideas, information. I gave him that idea with Iran and I got a thumbs up back.

But when we talk, he won't give me details of what the plans. There'll be a national security threat. And Susie, Susie Wilde gets them too and they're aware of it. I think Donald Trump does, he gets advised to give him ideas, but Donald Trump does what he wants to do. Drew, you just saw that from, what is it,

40, 42 years, 44 years ago, Donald Trump says, I want to hit Iran. Guess what? 44 years later, he hits the crap out of Iran. So Donald Trump is his own advisor. Do you have, we have just a couple of minutes left here. Do you have a, I'm asking a complicated question here, but can you layer in for me the China, India,

sort of elements, Russia, how this affects them? So China's at great risk right now because China produces virtually none of their oil. They produce a lot of coal, but almost no oil. So they're at great risk. And they're trying to cut deals around the globe. They have a deal with Russia, but Russia's on its heels, too. I mean, they're spending all their money on whatever situation they got with Ukraine.

And their infrastructures becoming dilapidated too, Venezuela. So you look at all these countries if they don't pay attention to their, their oil infrastructure, it starts to break down and goes away. So China's at massive, massive risk. So is India. They need the oil as well. But they're not interested. So it's really difficult. Do you want to put your boot on the neck of China, who's our greatest adversary, bar none their greatest adversary? By doing so, though, you're allowing the price of oil and gasoline to go up in a midterm election year. It's very, very politically dangerous. He's got a balance beam.

He's got to be Nadia Coleman H. And try and get his way through this, you know, across the balance beam without screwing our own economy up and still laying into Iran, getting rid of their nukes, getting rid of their power structure, and also maybe, you know, kicking China in the butt. You're signaling our boomer origins, or at least our Jones's origin,

by suggesting Nadia Komeniich is somebody, our average listener, who knows she is, but I know exactly what you meant. At least you didn't say, oh, crap, what was the one before her, the Russian? Oh, not, not, I can't remember now. Caleb, you're going to, you're going to throw it up there on the screen for me. But, you know, so, yeah, it is so complicated. I feel like they, like they've been practicing on a board of risk, you know, the risk game back from the 70s, that board, where they've got moving pieces all over the place. I, thankfully, it seems to me like they're thinking about all the moving parts, but just every single move has a thousand

probabilities and unpredictability is associated with it. I don't think Trump realized that the Iranians would hold out as long as they are. They got a lot more, they got a lot more will than probably anyone truly Trump and I expected. Thank you. Yeah, they're going to, they're likely going to extend this as long as they can. So Trump's got to either step back and somehow talked his way into we pulled back on purpose and then maybe things calm down a little bit. It doesn't look like that. I have a good friend who's probably the top oil trader in the world working for an U.S. oil company trading massive amounts of crude oil. He believes we're in a very, very precarious position right now. He thinks oil will be up one to two dollars a barrel every

couple of days going forward. And he'll see an end to it. And he thinks our equity markets are major risk to that. Because look, we have we had high in. inflation. We had a higher number for inflation today, and that's without the run-up in oil prices, which happened another 30 days since they were reporting that number. So we're going to see a lot higher inflation numbers. That's going to hurt the economy, the pocketbook. And honestly, Doc, it's the absolute worst time going into midterm elections. I think at very minimum, they have to, they have to sort of begin making the case that it's a patriotic duty to absorb all this, you know, because it's kind of, it's kind of, it's

I absolutely agree with you. Tell that to mom and pop. Tell that to mom and pop and trying to put food on the table in Kansas or Ohio. That's a tough stuff. How about all the people that have Trumped arrangement? They'll go absolutely insane. Yeah, there already are. They already are.

There's a CNN at the head of post. What's coming up? CNN had to post a poll today 100% of MAGA, not 99. 100% of MAGA believes Trump is doing the right thing. So I think he's on solid footing as far as the base goes. It's coming up on the edge. Maybe Dr. Drew soon. That would be a good one.

That would be one of my best episodes. I'm in. I'm in. You tell me when, where? I'm adopting coming in. Can we do it by Zoom? We can do it by Zoom. We can also do in Boca because, you know, I hear you frequent the area once in a while.

Doc, we have Ray Lewis coming up next. He's a, you know, a Hall of Fame football player who ran into his own troubles when he, he'd gotten involved in his scuffle outside of nightclub in Atlanta and ended up shooting and killing a guy. And he is doing amazing things right now with charities and a lot of money and investments. So that's what we do. We talk to people who have fallen and still have figured out a way to get back up. Also, he was a great football player.

Oh, my God. Was he great? Roodle. He changed football. He changed the game plan of any team he played. I think you're right. I think you're right. that way they were going to play the game it's amazing all right eric and where can they find it and you

uh youtube youtube at the edge on youtube eric pulling the edge on youtube and and uh you know anyway any social media um at eric pulling great all right see you soon thank you so much for joining me appreciate you brother thank you you got it all right coming up uh we are going to talk to james rosen uh he's got a lot of interesting insight into sort of, you know, so many things that are moving about in politics right now are being, requires a look behind the curtain. And James is going to give us that. And he had some exclusive reporting in the Obama era that led to the FBI placing him and his family under surveillance and the disclosure that made national news. And he's going to talk to us about Watergate as a deep state engineering operation right after this.

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Scalia, Supreme Court years. I think that's what he's promoting presently. You can follow him on X James Rosen TV. James, thank you and welcome the program. That's great to be with you, Dr. Drew. Thank you. You bet. Talk to me about the book and also James Rosen TV before we move on.

Sure. So at James Rosen TV is where he can find me on X. I am the chief Washington correspondent for Newsmax. Been with this company about four years. I did 19 years at Fox News. A lot of people know me from that as well. And you're very kind to have me on to promote my new book just out called Scalia, Supreme Court years, 1986 to 2001. This covers the first half of Justice Scalia's momentous, hugely influential tenure on the Supreme Court, the first 15 of the 30 years he spent there. And it's the second and second and installment of a three-volume biography. The first volume was called Scalia Rise to Greatness, 1936 to 1986, and that covered his life up until the moment he sits down on the Supreme Court.

By the way, I thought, having watched the previous segment with you and Eric Bowling, my colleague at various organizations, that I really would be hard-pressed to find a more demo-friendly reference than Nadia Komenich or Olga Corbett. So I figured I must find a way to work Herb Albert and the Tijuana of brass into this segment. So you'll be, you'll be happy to know that I referenced Olga Corbett just to dial it back even further. Yeah. And weirdly, Corolla and I lately have been talking about not just Herb Albert, but the Baja Marimba

band that spun out of the Tijuana brass. Wow. That's deep. That's deep. Right. Deep cuts. So before I get into Scalia, isn't Newsmax a great place? I mean, they are just zooming along.

They are, they are such a great organization. I've done a lot of stuff for them. And they just are very positive. But we're growing. And I think a lot of viewers have found out about Newsmax as a really great alternative. And I've been blessed here to cover the White House for the first three years that I was here under President Biden. Now I'm our chief Washington correspondent. I did the first 60 days or so of Trump 2.0.

It was this reporter who asked President Biden on January 19, 2022 in his news conference in the East Room about the polling surrounding concerns over his cognitive decline. And I was the first and only reporter to ask him about that for a good two and a half years. And I paid a high price inside the Biden White House for it. At that around the same time, I was the reporter, again, working for Newsmax, who asked former President Trump in March of 2023, I think it was, when he was running for president about the whether or not he would stay in the race if he were indicted one or more times in the cases that were then pending. And he said, absolutely, I would never think of leaving. And he said, probably only enhanced my numbers. And he turned out to be right about all those things. So I made headlines with both of those guys,

you know, without fear of favor for ideological or partisan lines. And that's what I've been doing as a reporter in Washington since, gosh, 1999 now. James, if you ever decide to pull out of journalism, you just join the SNL cast and do the Trump there because it's pretty good. Thank you. Did you run across the name in your studies and your writing of the book about Scalia the name Hadley Arkeys? Oh yes and I know Hadley

for sure. So he was a college professor of mind and he is one of the guys that... Amherst College at Amherst. Okay, yeah. Yeah, and he sort of changed my life a little

bit in terms of critical thinking and pursuing thought, and reading things more carefully. And weirdly, you know, my son went to Amherst too, and he came up to me at his graduation and, you know, shook my hand and called me by name. And then sent me and has sent me emails over the years that are enlightening, frankly. And he really felt Scalia. Let's flip it around.

His, my sense was Hadley was a source of philosophical clarity for Scalia. Is that accurate? I wouldn't go that far. I think that they were fond of each other, and Hadley Arcus is still with us, and he is associated with the concept of natural law. And Scalia loves natural law, but decals what he calls mere,

mere natural law. Mere natural law, he's now famous for saying, merely natural law. Yes. You know, natural law is distinct from Scalia's philosophy of originalism and textualism, which I hope we'll have a moment.

at some point here to explain, which is what makes clearly not just an important Supreme Court just, but really one of the most important Americans of the last hundred years, the originalist believes in looking at the text of the law and the original meaning that a law or the Constitution held in its own time. And that's what a judge should adhere to when interpreting the law, which is the central business of judges. Natural law posits that there are rights that are, that obtain even apart from textual analysis. And when he would be asked about why doesn't he favor natural law, Scalia would answer in his famous Socratic method,

he would say, who's natural law? Mine or William J. Brennan, who was one of the most liberal justices on the Supreme Court. But Hadley Arcus was a friend of Scalia's. I think Hadley is partly the reason why Scalia's youngest child, his daughter Meg Scalia-Brice, attended Amherst. And Hadley will appear in volume three of this book, near the very end of the book, near the very end of the entire saga,

when I'll be returning once again to the subject of Scalia's deep Catholic faith, which I call the rocket fuel for his rise to greatness. And there's an episode where the two of them were in church together, and Hadley was kneeling, and there was no sort of padded area along the pew for him to place his knees on. and he told me that Scalia observed this and passed a pillow along the pew for Hadley's use for his knees on the floor of that church and he cited that story as embodying the kind of man Scalia was off the bench.

Let's talk about the originalism, the truth, so to speak. So when Scalia came along as a federal judge on the Court of Appeals in 1982 and then was elevated by President Reagan to the Supreme Court in 1986, there prevailed in the law in this country a liberal notion called the living constitution. This is the idea that when judges or justices interpret the constitution and its meaning, the meaning of its text, that they should be able to do so quite broadly,

even imbueing meanings that weren't there at the time, that it's a living, breathing document, the meaning of which should be allowed to expand in order to account for phenomena that the founding fathers never could have anticipated, such as podcasts or the nuclear weapons or the internet or what have you. And in order to breathe this expanded meaning into the text, the living constitutionalist judges and justices were bypassing the text altogether to look for the intent behind the law.

And they found that through trawling through legislative history. What was said on the House and Senate floor in their speeches, what was said in committee reports leading up to the vote. Scalia stood to thwart all of that. His view was the job of the judge is to interpret the law according to the original meaning that that law or the Constitution enjoyed when it was enacted, and no judges should be grafting their latter-day policy preferences onto those existing texts and how to find the original meaning of the law.

For this, Scalia employed textualism. I like to say textualism was the metal detector that Scalia would use in order to discern the original meaning of a law, really closely looking at the text, sometimes busting out dictionaries if needed. These were lonely positions to hold when he came along. but through the force of his personality and not because he was on the winning side of cases so much on the Supreme Court, more often in dissent, but through his personality, his dazzling literary gifts,

his use of language. Scalia ushered in a kind of counter-revolution in this country. He changed forever the way the law is drafted, enacted, debated, and decided by our courts. That legacy affects every American today, and by the time he died, no less a figure than Justice Alan Akagan, who had been appointed by President Obama, pronounced publicly that as a result of this counter-revolution by Antonin Scalia, if you will,

quote, we are all originalists now. That's interesting. And it was really the Warren Court that caused the weird sort of almost limitless interpretation of the Constitution, wasn't it? Right. Yeah, the Warren Court popularized the Living Constitution notion. But I want to make clear about this book and both of the books, this is not just for lawyers. I'm not a lawyer, and I wrote the thing.

And in preparing this for hard covers and going through the editing process, I found myself cracking up because still in the history book was so fun. Say again? Yeah. It's a cultural, it's not just a political book or even a history book.

It's something that influence culture. I discovered this, probably in the 70s, 80s, I started to think, God, the Supreme Court really is a massive effect on the American culture, and way more than we realize. And this book gives you both originalism and textualism, explains Scalia's philosophy and how he used it in his gifts to change the law in this country. And you'll get the specific cases through which he did this.

But you'll also get the man. You'll get the husband, the father, the devout Catholic. The first book traced the formation of Scalia's Catholic faith. This book shows you how he strove to keep his Catholic faith out of his legal opinions, even when he was ruling. in ways that pleased about Catholics, like on abortion, because he understood that the honest judge will not graft his religious tenets onto his legal opinions. The honest judge will just interpret the law as it was written and widely understood in its time. And the way he used to put it, Dr. Drew, was there's no such thing as a Catholic hamburger. The closest we would come is a hamburger that is

made perfectly. We miss him. Let's spend our remaining time, if you don't mind. Telling me about your insights on Watergate and that as the history was written, as the movies were made, it's a grave distortion of probably the facts as they occurred. Sure. So my first book was called The Strongman, John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate. And I'm ashamed to tell you it took me 17 years of part-time work to research it, write it, and publish it. It was published in 2008. And it's not your father's history of Watergate. It's very decidedly revisionist. It asserts, for example, that the break-in was actually ordered by John Dean, not John Mitchell, that Dean did so because his wife had some affiliation with a call girl ring that was operating nearby the Watergate in 1972,

and all of this has been documented and vetted. More recently, I published an article in the New York Times on Super Bowl Sunday of this year, and after our program is over, I will put a link to this article up on my ex-feed at James Rosen TV. it's 6,000 words. Your average New York Times op-ed is only about 800 words. And it's pretty extraordinary. Basically, I was able to gain access to seven pages of grand jury testimony by ex-president Richard Nixon when he was interrogated by the grand jury in San Clemente, California. This is after Nixon resigned, after he was pardoned by Gerald Ford, the Watergate Special Prosecution Force sent eight prosecutors, plus two members of a grand jury and a stenographer out to California. And they

interrogated ex-president Nixon under oath for 11 hours over two days time in June 1975. That was kept secret under grand jury secrecy rules. In 2011, the National Archives released the transcript of those 11 hours of testimony by ex-president Nixon. But even in 2011, they kept secret seven pages. And I was the first reporter to obtain those seven pages. And I published them in this New York Times article. They are about a scandal from the first Nixon term that got sort of pushed aside by Watergate, but which is hugely important, and which validates claims by President Trump and his supporters today that there exists a deep state. What we found was that the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the nation's top uniformed military commanders, spied actively, mounted

an actual spy ring against President Nixon and his White House National Security Advisor at the time, Henry Kissinger, wherein a Navy yeoman, a young guy, now 82 years old, refused to participate in my reporting named Yoman Radford, Charles Radford, who was assigned as a kind of courier and typist and body man to Henry Kissinger, literally stole from Kissinger's briefcase, burn baskets, waste baskets, anywhere copy machines, wherever you get his hands on, 5,000 classified documents stole them from the National Security Council and delivered them to the Joint Chiefs of Staff over 13 months, 1970 to 71 in wartime. And I was also the first reporter to get the Nixon tapes out, the first pair of ears outside the government to hear the tapes of when Nixon was informed of this for the first time.

He wanted to prosecute the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Thomas Moore, for espionage. And his attorney general, John Mitchell, convinced him not to do that. So this really showed the deep state in operation against President Nixon. Back in the 70s and to his credit, he decided not to expose all this, even though it might have helped him politically because he did not want to add to the vilification of the armed forces that was already

widely prevalent in the 1970s. Oh, that's an interesting motivation. That certainly was the case. That's a wild story. That should be the next movie, you know, sort of based on true story movie that they should put together. Forget they did the Nixon versus Frost.

They did the, obviously, all the president's men. This is the one. This is the one that should interest people. I will tell you, Dr. Drew, that we've received inquiries from Hollywood about it, my agent at Javelin, and this newsletter out there in Hollywood called The Optionist, which alerts producers to hot literary properties, wrote up the article in New York Times, and they recommended that Timothy Shalameh should play Yom and Radford, there is a strong physical resemblance, and I'm willing to settle for any old kind of cameo in the thing. Oh, my God. I can't wait to see it. And your article, you're going to put the link up to the New York Times article? Yes, at James Rosen TV on my ex-V, right after we finish.

Okay, I will look for that there. James, thank you so much for joining me. It's fascinating. And I can't wait to, I can't wait until Professor Arches, that he's being featured in the third volume. and that this movie I just hope it gets made quickly because it's something that I feel like could inform people

could change opinions. You're very kind to have me. Thank you, Doc. Thank you, James. All right, so James Rosen TV is where I'm going during this little break and we come back. Hurry, James, put it up there right now

so I get the article. Yeah, exactly. All right, we are going to talk about midterms with John Strand. We're also talking about his imprisonment and how he got out. And having been on the FBI Most Wanted list is just a crazy story. So John Strand, right up to this.

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And the book is Patriot Plee, the J6 journey of a political prisoner in the divided states. of America. There it is. John, welcome and thank you for joining us. Yes, thank you for having me on, Dr. Drew. It's great to be here. What a crazy story. I mean, it's just when I read it, I was saying, oh, my God, could you have imagined? And I'm curious, you mentioned several times that these were all trumped up charges and things. Help people understand how that works. It sounds, if you've never been around a legal case, it sounds incomprehensible. They're what? You mean, they have false charges?

They just lie in court? Yes, they do. They certainly do lie in court, Dr. Drew. And I have some shocking excerpts in the book that comes straight from the transcripts of my trial. So that's pretty fascinating, direct proof of the U.S. prosecutors overtly lying. It's outrageous. It's actually not just illegal, but immoral and just destructive. So I encourage people to visit john strand.com slash book where you can pre-order this book right now

and also john strand.com slash j6. That link takes you to a fascinating 13-minute video, which shows you every minute of the circuit camera television footage of me in the building. You watch me the entire journey through the Capitol building. And then watch that video and ask yourself, did this man commit a crime? And should he have gone to prison? It's a mind-blowing expose of just a total departure from not only due process and legitimate law, but just reality and common sense in this country has gone by the wayside. So January 6th is a deeply complicated, controversial issue for a number of reasons. But what was done to nearly 1,600 American citizens is unprecedented in our nation's history.

It was incredibly destructive in the book, I call it the greatest American lie ever sold. And it's really important for us to dig into the bottom of that, find the truth, fully expose it, and bring criminals to justice and bring accountability back to our government, not just for people that were harmed by J6, but for the integrity of the entire system for all Americans. I want to talk about remedies and what you mean by bringing people to justice. But first, what would you say to people who look at that video and goes, oh, well, that's John Strand's version of what happened. What do you tell them? Well, first of all, when you watch it, just keep in mind, you're watching the actual footage from the government's closed circuit surveillance footage. So it's not me. You're watching what happened on government cameras. You do get to hear me narrate from my own perspective what I was seeing and feeling and understanding at the time that it happened. And of course, a bird's eye view after the fact is a different experience than what happens on the ground in real time.

My story is I've been pursuing the American dream as an actor and a writer and a musician and a model for many years. I'm born in California and worked in Hollywood as an actor. But when COVID turned the world upside down, I simply did my own duty in my own neighborhood to fight back and protect the Constitution and defend basic rights for Americans. I led a freedom rally that President Trump tweeted to support and that kind of blew up the profile of things. but I've just been fighting in every way that I can to represent basic constitutional principles and certainly to advocate for election integrity. That was the issue at stake in January 6th and continues to be a very important issue as we advocate for the SAVE Act to accomplish a very common sense idea that only American

citizens should be voting in our elections and that, yes, you should have to prove your citizenship with an ID same way that you do when you buy a beer at the counter. All outrageous misinformation. I understand you're running for Congress now. That is correct. And again, not anything I had on my bingo card or would have expected in my life. I was pursuing that dream in Hollywood and elsewhere. But God really brought to my attention the importance of defending our American liberties.

COVID really brought things into crisp focus for me and a lot of other issues just eroding the fundamental principles of our republic. So I actually escaped the communism in California four years ago. ago to live and enjoy freedom in Southwest Florida and really defend liberty and morality that underscores all of the great things that we have in this country. So going to prison was something I never expected and I shared that story in Patriot plea, but it really did just prove to me what's at stake where we are in this country. And if we don't have young men and women such as myself that really understand the importance of our values, understand the greatness of this

country and are willing to step forward and lead and fight for it, we are going to lose it. So that's really my call to everyone hearing this, that wherever you are, whatever your job is, whatever your upbringing is, whatever you think your path in life might be, there is a place for you to participate in the American experiment that certainly includes voting and being educated and participating in the civic process. It may not include running for office, but I certainly encourage everyone to visit john strand.com and help get a real patriot put into Congress. You mentioned remedies and bringing people to justice. What are you specifically looking at for those remedies and what do you have in mind?

That is a great question. I think, Dr. Drew, that most people watching this and most people paying attention at any level to the political discourse and to, I guess, the evolution of just of our society is really feeling frustrated and maybe even despairing that there's any hope for a robust and effective system of governance. that really treats people fairly and holds people accountable for their for their actions. So I think the lack of accountability for wrongdoing at every level has grown so large and so destructive that we're in grave danger of people just giving up on the system. So when I say consequences, I just mean a very basic thing that people expect that if you break a law, that there's a consequence for it that is applied equally and fairly. Of course, J6 was a great example of that being twisted and weaponized in a terrible direction.

But I think one of your previous guests mentioned some really clear documented evidence showing that members of the Obama administration, including Obama himself, and certainly members of the FBI and the intelligence community, have committed essentially treasonous and seditious conspiracies against President Trump's administration and this evolution of the deep state issue. So I want to see consequences for all criminals, but especially criminals in the government, which at this point they seem completely untouchable and very much above the law. And again, that causes everyone to doubt and mistrust the system at its core. Yeah, that was supposed to be one of the founding principles that could not be violated, but here we are. And I think he was talking more about the Nixon administration, it was James Rosen. but he was saying that an example of how the deep state operates and that there's no longer any debate about does this thing exist. It's here it is, here's how it works.

And evidently you were an object of its excesses. How about the midterms? What's coming up in the Florida 19th district? And we're in the middle of a military conflict. How does it look to you? Also a great question. The military conflict, of course, is forefront. front on our minds this week and in recent times has a lot of serious implications. On that topic,

I would just say that I think it is really important that we commit with unity to our country and to the current administration that we've voted into office. So it's fine to be skeptical and ask questions and even challenge, but I really do think, especially in the administrative level, that it's important for people to be loyal patriots rally behind President Trump and his administration. And I do trust him to make wise and courageous decisions. That's been his track record. We need more of that. As far as the midterms, it does get complicated with things like foreign conflicts and the price of oil and other questions that cause a lot of concern, perhaps even fear and strive for people. But this is what I would say.

Again, the underlying principle of our country is individual sovereignty and the rights and freedoms of every person to have their own voice, their own opportunity at the American dream. and to really participate in their government. So Dr. Drew, I've been telling people that the war for America is waged at the primary election level. And if voters only show up in November, they've already lost. At that point, you're just selecting essentially the lesser two evils or whoever the establishment has positioned in front of you to accept. And I really think that's why what I like to say is, you know, we all know the definition of insanity. Yeah, it's electing the same rhinos cycle after cycle and yet expecting different results. So I'm running in Southwest Florida in District 19. Oh, go ahead.

Please finish. Finish your thought. Oh, certainly. I'm running for Congress in Florida 19. The current congressman is Byron Donald's who's opening the seat to run for governor in Florida. And it's a very interesting test case. I think this applies in many districts, but where I'm running, it's very exciting because we have an opportunity, not just to elect a Republican, but to put a proven patriot in Congress. You guys, we need patriots in Congress. We need men of courage and faith to get back into government and lead our nation back to the fundamentals of freedom. And we've been lacking that in our country, in my opinion, for decades.

So the primary race and the primary layer of things is very important. Florida 19 is a very interesting example where there's going to be 12 people running all with an R after that name. And the question is, who do you want representing you in Washington? What is it going to take besides claiming your Republican to actually? to actually demonstrate that you understand the core principles of our American Constitutional Republic and you're willing to take a risk to actually defend them and advance in the people's interest what needs to happen there.

So, of course, my story has shared in Patriot plea is pretty extraordinary. I never expected to go to prison or deal with any of these other things. But the bottom line of it is, I had an opportunity to take the easy way out and choose a single misdemeanor plea deal to make all of that pain go away. but that pleadia was a lie and a false confession. I chose to go to prison on principle so that you don't have to. And I really want to take that integrity, that courage to Washington in order to reclaim the Republic for the benefit of the American people. Well, I'm delighted to hear you talk about the sovereignty of the people because I don't feel that that has been top of mind for anybody.

And if I had talked to you, say, what were you doing 10 years ago? Were you working out here in West or what were you doing? About 10 years ago, let's see, I was either in Hollywood working or maybe on my way overseas. I've done some work in Asia as well. It was modeling and acting in India for a while, which was an incredible experience. I learned a lot there and really loved it. But about 10 years ago, I was pretty much in the thick of working as an actor and a model both in L.A. and New York. Do you speak Hindi? I tried. It's a very, very difficult language, but no. I gave it my best shot. I was there. I thought maybe you grew up with it or something.

But, okay, excuse me. Did, could, if I had run into you in an airport 10 years ago, could you have imagined, forget running for Congress and that bringing a prison and all the things you've described so far? Right. Could you have imagined then that four words you used clearly and several times in our conversation here. would you have imagined these words would have been coming out of your mouth and a preemptive or a preoccupation for you those words patriots freedom faith courage 10 years ago would you have been thinking about those four words faith and courage yes i don't know about patriotism i always loved that concept in the the amazing story of the American Republic. But I don't know that it would have been so forefront of mind. Certainly prior to COVID, I understood that our nation was declining in terms of its

commitment to faith. I mean, more so than that, I actually really think we've found ourselves in a national divorce from God. And I think that really underlies all of the problems that we're facing. Again, we are one nation under God. Yeah. So that, that correlates to the cultural, physical. Yeah, I mean, it's interesting to me. COVID, you know, sprung me into action also and the scales fell from my eyes. And particular words, freedom and courage,

I'm never was using those words, or never thinking about those things. And they became a preoccupation. Freedom of speech, freedom of movement, freedom of your bodily integrity. I mean, all these things were being violated. And then the courage to stand up to it, which is what you are doing and what you have done.

done and hats off to you. Thank you for your service that caused you to have to spend quite a deal of time in prison, but you're making the best of it. I hope you wrote the book there maybe. Is that that used, use the time. Do they allow you to write while you're there? The first half of my period in prison, I was abused very badly and solitary and it was awful. I did nothing but pray and just try to stay alive. I share those details in the book. The second half, I was in general population, so I was able to write on handwritten, lined notebooks. I wrote the entire book by hand and then carefully transferred it out, typed it up, and worked on it with the publisher. So it's been a labor of suffering and of love for a couple of

years now. But it's about to hit shelves, john strand.com slash book. And it's a really important story. I share everything that happened. I really give you a behind the scenes underneath the hood look at a weaponized government, including a lot of transcripts. They really hang themselves on their own words. But it's also a really important story of an American dreamer and an American patriot in this time where we have a chance to reclaim the republic and it's a choice we have to make because like benjamin franklin said it's a republic if you can keep it right and uh let's hope we can well thank you for joining us here and thank you for writing the book and thank you for the time spent and uh kind of an extraordinary thing but um it we live in strange times and uh you certainly were living it in in real

times i the fact that you were in so many the j-sixirs i've spoken to were in solitary is just the oddest thing to me. And I hope you have good results in bringing, at least get some of these people consequences for what they did. Just a few was all it will take for the rest of them to run and hide and never come out. So thank you for John and John Strand.com. We'll look for you there. Yes, sir. Thank you so much. Dr. It's been an honor. God bless you. Thank you. Cheers. All right. Coming up, a big week next week and also tomorrow too. I think Walter Kern is in here tomorrow. You may have seen him on Gutfeld. He wrote the book

the movie Up. He was the screenwriter for that. Charlie Powell, Stuart Brutman. Uncle Cliff is my fine. I'll explain him to you as we move into that. Patricia Heaton is coming in. Salty Cracker. We got a lot coming up. Caleb, anything else

to review? You have to get over your fluenza. I've got to recover from the flu, but as soon as I get recovered, I have live callers all set up. Those are coming soon. We have a whole new number. We're going to have live callers back on the show. Also, you said Walter Kern wrote the movie up. And so I immediately had to Google that because I hadn't heard it. I think it was a 2001 novel up in the air that was then turned into a 2009 film starring George Clooney. I think that's different from the Pixar film

that I was thinking of when you said up. Oh, that's interesting. I always thought he, You may be right. I always thought he wrote up. Up in the air was that book. It was in an airport. He lived in an airport. No, no, no. The store.

Up in the air? Is it that one? Yeah, it's a movie called Up in the Air. Is it up in the air? The one about the Hawaiian family and the woman's in a coma and stuff. I think it's that one. No. The one that he was in was called Airport, I think.

Or air. I'm going to have him in here tomorrow. ask him. You find him, we'll go to the source. So stay tuned. Come back to

settle this controversy. I like that one where he was living in an airport. I remember that movie. I don't remember that one. In event, he's got a new book out, a new movie or a treatment out

called RASH. It's really a fascinating. It's very much of an exploration of how we behave during COVID and how far south we could go. All right. So tomorrow is at 2 o'clock Pacific time.

I believe that's it. Anybody have anything else? Oh, Caleb, your influenza B, my brain is working in a strange way today. Peks at around three to four days and lasts up to eight days. So you've got a couple more days to go here. So hang in there. I can't want to take questions other than Caleb's. Yeah, I think today I thought for sure.

I thought yesterday was the worst. And then it got, oh, I got slammed this morning. So I'm surely this is the worst. And then I'm improving tomorrow. I'll get some sleep tonight. Oh, yeah. It comes out both ends, I heard. With influenza B a can. Plus Crohn's disease, so everything always affects that.

Oh, good times. Good times. I didn't get it. I'm laughing with you, not at you. Tomorrow, two o'clock. See you there. Walter Kern. Ask Dr. Drew is produced by Caleb Nation and Susan Pinsky. Emily Barsh is our content producer. As a reminder, the discussions here are not a substitute for medical care, diagnosis, or treatment. this show is intended for educational and informational purposes only. I am a licensed physician, but I am not a replacement for your personal doctor and I am not practicing medicine here.

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