Ask Dr. Drew - Ask Dr. Drew - Christina P and Leeann Kreischer - Episode 14

Episode Date: April 1, 2020

Ask Dr. Drew is joined by main mommy Christina P and LeeAnn Kreischer! Missed the live show? Get an alert next time Dr. Drew is taking calls: http://drdrew.tv Christina Pazsitzky (AKA Christina P) is a comedian, writer, and co-host of the wildly popular Your Mom’s House podcast. She is a recurring guest on YMH’s Dr. Drew After Dark. Her comedy specials “Christina P: Mother Inferior” and “The Degenerates” are available now on Netflix. Find more info on her tour dates and shows at ChristinaPonline.com. Leeann Kreischer is an actress and host of the Wife Of The Party podcast. She is the wife of comedian Bert Kreischer and appears frequently in his comedy routines, on the Your Mom’s House podcast, and on YMH’s Dr. Drew After Dark. Missed the live show? Get an alert next time Dr. Drew is taking calls: http://drdrew.tv Ask Dr. Drew is produced by Kaleb Nation (@KalebNation) and Susan Pinsky (@FirstLadyOfLove). THE SHOW: For over 30 years, Dr. Drew Pinsky has taken calls from all corners of the globe, answering thousands of questions from teens and young adults. To millions, he is a beacon of truth, integrity, fairness, and common sense. Now, after decades of hosting Loveline and multiple hit TV shows – including Celebrity Rehab, Teen Mom OG, Lifechangers, and more – Dr. Drew is opening his phone lines to the world by streaming LIVE from his home studio in California. On Ask Dr. Drew, no question is too extreme or embarrassing because the Dr. has heard it all. Don’t hold in your deepest, darkest questions any longer. Ask Dr. Drew and get real answers today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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slash Dr. Drew. And also a shout out to Needle Destruction Device. Again, I can't say enough about this thing. We've been off it because of the whole corona thing, but needles are a major, major problem, and this incinerates needles down to a non-biohazardous little nub. And, of course, our friends at Blue Mics will have more about that at the break. So before I welcome our guest, let me give you a little corona update.

We are at 122,000 cases on this particular corona tracker 137 at johns hopkins uh we are doing pretty well in many states and new york obviously is really struggling we put up a video yesterday susan maybe we had to put that up again uh that a physician put together from a guy that works in the icu in the busiest corona hospital in the in the city of new york and he was saying he feels very very confident about things he feels like we will from a guy that works in the ICU in the busiest corona hospital in the city of New York. And he was saying he feels very, very confident about things. He feels like we will meet the needs of even that city. But he had some advice about keeping your hands away from your face.

He feels that's the main unit of transmission. Which video are you talking about? The Vimeo we gave out yesterday that I texted to you. Oh, the Vimeo. Oh, okay. I think it's worth your watch. I'll do it. I'm on the restream. So, again, these are going to be. Oh, okay. I think it's worth your watch. I'll do it. I'm on the restream. So, again, these are going to be scary numbers, of course,

and we always knew we would get here. The question is, where does it go from here? And I'm going to suggest that the monumental effort our country is making and that particularly

several states are making is it's going to keep things down. If you consider L.A. County, where we live, we're just 1,800 cases in a county of 10 million. That's doing pretty well. It's doing pretty well. They have a little hospitalization rate that's higher than usual, and I don't know why.

We'll have to kind of see if we can get that down. But this week, I've been saying this all along, but what you're going to hear about this week is treatment and testing. Those are the two big topics that you want to hear about next week. What kind of testing are we going to do? How are we going to do more diagnostic testing of the presence of the virus for people even with milder symptoms, and how are we going to do serological testing to detect the antibodies to see who's had this thing. So we can begin to sort of plan for who and where people can begin to return to work.

And then, of course, therapies, treatments, large-scale studies are underway right now. And I suspect we'll open some of those up if they're looking good and begin to come out with treatments that will reduce the hospitalization rate, reduce the ICU rate, reduce the need for ventilators, and maybe reduce the viral shedding, which would be a dramatic thing. So let me – how long do I think New York to turn this time? It's going to be a couple weeks in New York. But I think you may – it's not, the thing you got to kind of look behind the numbers a little bit.

You're not seeing an uptick, a rate of change increase. It's arithmetic in terms of it's pretty steady every day. You're not seeing an increase in the numbers of results, even as you're doing, I'm not saying this right. You're not seeing an increase in the rate of increase of cases, even when you're seeing more testing. So it's arithmetic, not logarithmic. You're not seeing this. You're seeing this.

So let me welcome my guest to the show. From my podcast, Dr. Drew After Dark, we have Christina P. She's also Tom Segura's wife and the other half of your mom's house. And then we have Leanne Kreischer. Leanne, of course, Bert's wife. She is with Christina. They do Where Your Mom's At, right? Yes?

We do occasionally, yes. Occasionally? Tell me more about that. Yeah, we don't always do it together. I'm an occasional guest. Yes. It seems like you guys are always, well, those are the ones I tune into a lot. So I'm sorry. Sorry, Christina.

So let me give you. She has her own podcast, Wife of the Party. Yes, Wife of the Party. You can follow Leanne at L-E-E-A-N-N-W-O-T-P on Twitter and Lkreischer, K-R-E-I-S-C-H-E-R on Instagram. And then Christina is Christina P on Twitter and the Cri- the Christina P on Instagram. And you guys are holding up?

Main mommies? Yeah. Well, I have a 20 month old and a four year old and, uh, yeah, so we're exhausted and we cook all day long. Um, I pretend like I'm on retirement. So I just do stuff that I'm going to do when I retire. I learn recipes. That's it, man.

What about you? What are you doing, Leanne? Well, homeschooling a lot. I have a 13, a 15, and a 47-year-old. How's he doing? Yesterday we did, how's Bert doing? Yeah. 47 year old. How's he doing? Yesterday we did, how's Bert doing? Yeah. He's actually doing pretty well, all things considered.

You know, he has OCD. Really? I never noticed. In this particular arena. Never noticed. You never noticed? What are you talking about? I wish I could say I'd never noticed. In this particular, I guess, moment we're in in life with quarantining, he is down for that.

He's like, yep, lock it down. Nobody goes out. Nobody does anything. Yep. He can wrap his head around that for whatever reason. So, you know, he's always got a bottle of hand sanitizer in his front. Oops. Ready for Bayer.

I don't know. What is he doing? Is he cooking a lot is he exercising is he yes drinking oh what's he doing no good no drinking no he had a no drinking he's he's had one drink we had a virtual cocktail hour with some friends where we facetimed three other couples and had one cocktail. But other than that, since he got off the tour bus, he's had no drinks at all. You know, I did his podcast last week. I don't know if it's up yet, but he was telling me about his change of heart when it comes to, he felt he was losing control over it a little bit and he

wanted to get it back in control and he did. It's good. I think so. I think he was running at a pace that would be hard for almost anybody to maintain. So I think when he gets in that place, he drinks a lot. That's how he manages his stress. So maybe not the best way to manage your stress, but that's how he does it. And Christina, how's Tom doing?

He's great. His special just came out on Netflix this week. So he's just been taking, you know, the press calls and like been crazy that way. But, you know, like he and I have been on lockdown for the last four years with children. So this feels really familiar. I mean, other than not being able to do stand-up comedy and travel, like our lives haven't changed significantly. We just hang around with the kids and fart around and make fart jokes and watch movies and stuff.

I'm just looking at my text with Tom. He's ruined me, you know. You know that, right? you're aware of that ruined you how you mean improved you oh i mean enriched your life he's enriched my life awakened uh awaken the awaken the inner 14 year old i think is what he's done and so's amazing! Yeah, maybe. And his latest little volley with me was about before 90 days on TLC.

Yeah, we're really into that show right now. And I'm guessing you're also into the Tiger King. Oh, come on. That's been there, right? It's the best. I'm just shocked I didn't get texts and calls from you guys about those characters.

Well, you know what? You mean every single person that was on meth? Every person that has meth in their mouth? I was talking to my sister's in-law, and they were like, I don't understand what's wrong with their teeth. And I went, oh, honey child. Oh, Sal, all you got to do is go to my hometown and you know exactly what's wrong with those teeth. And I went, oh, honey child. Oh, child.

All you got to do is go to my hometown. You know exactly what's wrong with those teeth. It's meth. It is meth. 100%. It was so sad. I feel like there are two real heroes during this whole pandemic. It's that show, the Tiger Guys. Joe Exotica.

Joe Exotica is the one hero. My husband. I think a lot of people. It's good three. My husband's special. People love that. I'm telling you of people, it's good three. My husband's special. People love that. I'm telling you, it made my day the day. And Bert's too, I got to tell you.

Bert's, I got too early. Yeah. That made my day. But then Anthony Fauci, let's put them all three together. And the CDC. Yes. Well, and the naked guy with the huge hog that everybody's watching. Oh, yes.

Thank you for those pictures too. That's been fun. Yeah yeah you know what happened do you know what happened the first time i received that photograph from my friend christina p i was on a plane going to burt's tour bus and uh and i got this text there's a coronavirus in in woodland hills which is where my daughter goes to school. And I went, oh, my God. Oh, my God, that's terrible. So I couldn't open the link, which was this very handsome, very well endowed large man. And I just forwarded it to my 16-year-old daughter.

Oh, my God. Coronavirus at your school. I can't open the link, but I thought I'd let you know. I forwarded it to her and some moms And said the same thing I can't open the link But I thought I'd let you know Who did you send it to?

I sent it to some other moms That go to Georgia's high school And to Georgia And so a few minutes later One of my mom friends texted me back And said I think your friend is playing a prank on you. And I still couldn't open the link. So I was like, what does this mean?

What is, I don't know what this means. And I finally got some good wifi, opened the link and went, oh my God, I have sent this to my daughter. I have just traumatized my daughter. Thank you. Push. Thank you, Christina, for traumatizing through me. I mean, I called Georgia and was like, I am so sorry. Leanne, you have to open it before you send it. I even couldn't open it. You've never done anything like that to me before. So you've never like pranked me like that? Oh, come on. That can't be.

That cannot be. That's not the way she and I have a relationship. Well, you've raised the stakes in this relationship. Congratulations, Leanne. You're in. And if you expect sympathy from the Segura family at large, you are sorely mistaken. Because when they nail you in some sort of horrible way, they just feel great about it.

Both of them. I know. I've been witnessing this secondhand with Bert. Oh yeah, right. But I've never been the recipient personally. Congratulations. You've stepped up in their eyes. Listen, if Tom and I send you something horrifying,

it means we love you and you're in the circle. We don't send it to squares, okay? Well, this question would be, did you think I was a square until like six months ago? Squares. I just made it in. Squares. You don't send it to squares. What is the matter with you?

Yeah, you're always cool, but now you're even cooler. Now you have to you have to pay it forward that's how it goes well you know hey christina tell people if you know this my restream is usually people that join us on it we're going to take some excuse me take some calls in just a second and it's usually people who join us on the restream um on this this stream we do every day we're just updating coronavirus so obviously today we're trying to clear our power a little bit and do something a little bit different and maybe all lighten up a bit.

But if people aren't familiar with you and your mom's house, tell them about it. And then Leanne, I'll have you do the same thing. Sure. Yeah. So your mom's house is a podcast my husband Tom Segura and I do. And we did it, we started doing it eight years ago and basically if you like seventh grade humor do you like farts you like talking about farts

do you like um smelling you like smelling no do you like also really immature videos and cool guys then where you're laying and and we call our show a safe space in that we can say whatever the hell we want so uh so that's my show and then you're and you have two netflix shows out right i do uh my special mother inferior there's i move my head that's one comedy special and then the degenerates on netflix and if i ever get to do stand-up again, there'll be another one. And before your stand-up career, you were a goth chick. Yeah, I was. I was goth from the age of 13 to about 23. And I wore black velvet capes in the middle of summer in the San Fernando Valley. Oh, my God. You must have smelled awesome. Well,

and patent leather, black pants, which are not very porous either. And I would wear, I would buy my makeup once a year at the Halloween store. Cause they didn't have hot topic back. It was, it was,

it was like being Amish or something. Please find pictures for us, please. Yeah, you got it. You got it. And then Leanne, your pod, Wife of the Party. Wife of the Party. I started Wife of the Party two years ago. It's a hangout with usually two friends.

Sometimes we're topic-driven. Sometimes we just hang out. But definitely, I'd say say 99 of my friends are moms so we end up talking about mom stuff a lot but uh we talk about sex we talk about money we talk about real estate we talk about lunch boxes so it's just kind of a free form hangout conversation all right you guys i've got a ton of great calls coming in here so hold on let's get to it here we go yeah okay can i ask you a couple of coronavirus yes please go ahead before we go go go uh the malaria drug they say is promising right now what's the deal so the deal is uh they

they have used it in france to great effect. The research there looks remarkable. The research in China is looking less enthusiastic. There is regionally huge enthusiasm for it to the point where doctors were using it routinely and taking it themselves prophylactically. I know of many cases of that. So, you know, it's so much so that in New York State, Como has outlawed the distribution through the pharmacy unless somebody is in a clinical trial. So those clinical trials should be coming out next, should be preliminarily available next week, I think. It runs between extreme enthusiasm and sort of meh. So we'll have to see what objectively is going on. It does have many antiviral properties.

It does seem to reduce the viral production. So it may, if it shows that it can reduce hospitalization rate, ICU utilization, and infectivity, it'd be huge, huge. So that's the stuff to look for next week. My bet is it's going to be in between right it's going to be probably probably very effective in some cases but not predictably so i suspect that's it and what about what about amazon boxes i have a quite an amazon problem and um although it's not a problem if you can afford it that's what i say but uh what do I do? Do I have to stop shattering crap?

So, cardboard is, there's mixed data on cardboard, but let's just say the surface data is a lot of data on the viral survival on surfaces. It survives on metal.

It survives on plastic. It probably does survive on cardboard 48 hours. 72 hours is generally about as long as it survives anywhere. But there was some data on one of the cruise ships that showed that it survived 17 days. And what I would say about all the surface data is there's very little evidence it gets transmitted that way.

We should be super-duper diligent about it. But the evidence suggests that almost all of this is droplet or our hands to our face. And that's about it. And it has to be prolonged exposure, too. It's not quick. So, you know, people are asking me about Fauci and his predictions this morning. He was predicting a million cases, which I think is not unreasonable. And we have 24 million cases of the flu every year.

So for us to have less than a million of this, we would wonder why we did this if we have less than a, much less than a million, but he predicted a hundred thousand deaths. I'm going to say that that we will get down in this country. That presumes a 10% fatality rate or 1% fatality rate. And, uh, at a million cases, that would be a 10% fatality rate. So I'm not sure what he's saying because we are nowhere near that. So I'm going to say we're going to do better than that. So anyway, it's a thing to watch out for your hands. Susan, have you put up that Vimeo yet of the doctor talking about those issues?

Yes, I have. Okay. So look for it on the, on the restream. Don't go to it now. Wait till after the show. Right, right, right. Christina, other questions? Oh, wait, wait.

I didn't tell you. I didn't tell you what to do yet. So here's what you do. You bring your stuff in. You don't bring it in the kitchen. You don't put it places where it can contaminate stuff. You open what's in there. You wash your hands.

You take out what's in there. You open the packages. There's some videos out there on how to handle surgical products even. You handle it, but you don't touch the actual thing that's inside you sort of spill it out somewhere wash your hands again and then go at it so in other words the the cardboard can assume the cardboard is contaminated and assume what's inside is contaminated somebody put something inside there right so just be careful that's all lots of hand washing is it okay we've been with our amazon we've been

taking our amazon box and putting it in the garage for two days and then you can do that it with like rubber gloves and then throw away the rubber gloves and then yeah what's inside yeah that's fine but remember what's inside was put in there by somebody too so that should be dealt with. Anything else Christina? Yeah. Okay, yeah go ahead. Why, if you've had the virus, do you still need to get tested for having had the virus? You should make sure that's what you had. If you know you had the virus, then you're done. The only thing you test for is are you still producing virus to see if you were infectious to anybody else. That it i see so that's why it's important to see if you're infectious to someone else well yeah and also if you're still producing virus you should really take it easy because there's been some recurrences people always ask about reinfections it's not

reinfections there are recurrences and people that keep producing the virus. And again, that's how this gets infective, is somebody producing virus that doesn't know it. But isn't it true that a lot of people probably had it and didn't know it? Well, that's, we think, but we have to prove that. That's where the antibody testing will come in, and that needs to be done like crazy. And those are rapid tests. They take

like five minutes or a finger stick. We have to get that going. It's like a pregnancy test. Yeah. What's the E eta on that one again look for next week during the week that people talk about these things excuse me i gotta go uh throw my dog in the la river i'll be right nice congratulations oh they want they want to know about rpc we know Christina has had contact with him. When she gets back from killing her dog, we'll tell you about it. So, here we go. Christina. People are asking on the restream here, what about RPC?

How's he doing? Robert Paul Champagne. Yes, Robert Paul Champagne. So, Josh Potter is in contact with him, and he is absolutely fine. Josh said that he doesn't seem to be aware of what's going on in the outside world. Surprise, surprise. And the irony is that now we are all living just like Robert Paul Champagne. I wouldn't say just like.

If you watch the video, there's a few things that were a little different. And are we ever going to drop uh tour that i did with him i know we were trying to be kind to him we never we never put that up yeah i think they're working on it i think there was a reason well the reason was he was all he was upset with us and we didn't want him to be upset okay well i'm gonna i'm gonna check on it because that the tour was impressive i wore some of the gear i put some of the gear on the rpc gear wow it was a courageous moment how did it feel uh the i can't remember the the kid who was recording things he never got over it he was never the same yeah yeah he's uh yeah yeah all right let's get

some calls kind yeah lots of calls here so let's get to them and you guys can help me answer them this is uh katherine she's calling from indiana katherine go ahead uh-oh we're getting a weird sound but not sound yes what is that it's a fire alarm sounds like a dog barking hold on a dog barfing let me make sure katherine are you there feels like we're not getting into the oh you know what here let's do this hold on katherine keep talking i'm gonna put her back in the queue i know what's wrong i will get to her in a second let me fix it. I will do that.

I don't know about you guys, but I'm kind of enjoying quarantine. Is that horrible? But I feel like I am enjoying it. I know a lot of people are. I can't. I have trouble not being able to look forward. It's really troubling to me. Maybe it was that caller. Might have just been that caller.

Well, let me try another call. Try a different one. This one, I want you guys to help this gentleman. His name is Anthony. If I can get him up here. Anthony, are you there? Nope. Damn it.

Something's wrong. Anthony. Oh, it's that weird sound again. What happened? It's a very weird sound that we get instead of our callers. Hold on, Anthony and Catherine, everybody else. We will get to it. Yeah.

Sounds like Eric the midget. Oh. I don't hear a sound. Should we just scream? Stoic says he is just glassing. Christina, just glassing. Keep your mind tight. When do we anticipate the curve?

When do we think things will flatten? I think it depends where you are. I think, again, I've said this before, the local epidemiology is going to be more important than national epidemiology is for figuring out what's going on around you. I think California is doing very well. I really do. Should New York be quarantined? I don't have an opinion about that. I don't really understand the effects of quarantine.

I mean, one of the things that we'd do would be prevent people from New York leaving and going to other states and then seeding other states, which they have been doing. You watch the Southern Florida numbers are going up as New Yorkers flee to Florida. But on the other hand, if they're having a problem with hospital beds in Florida, let people leave New York. I mean, excuse me, in New York, let them go somewhere else where they're not having a problem with hospital beds. You know what I mean? Does that make sense, guys? Absolutely.

Did you see that thing about the cell phones in like spring break in Fort Lauderdale, was it? It shows like the cell phone usage during spring break. It's all lit up. And then what happens after spring break is those people disperse across the country. And that's how the virus spreads fascinating wow perfect uh let's see toddy how is california not doing well we have um i'll give you the number of cases we have here in california we have in california in a state of 60 million we have 4 000 cases how are we not doing well yeah that's cases. How are we not doing well?

Yeah. I mean, how is that not doing well? I'm sure it will be challenged. I'm sure it will go up from here, but that is a very light case rate. Okay. Hmm. Drew, try again. We were muting earlier because you guys were talking, and we were just goofing around over here.

All right. Give it a shot again. Let's try Anthony again. Anthony, can you hear us? Anthony? I hate to let this out. It's like we have to reset the whole thing, I guess. I don't know. We got 15 callers on the line there.

Maybe Lindsay can get everybody's number and call them back. No, no, no. It'll be fine. Oh, it'll be fine. They're working on it. Look at deaths in California. Hang on. Let me look at deaths in California. Deaths in California are 100. Again, 100

deaths. This is a state that has thousands of flu deaths every year. Come on now. Yeah. We have the lowest case fate we have one of the flattest lowest per capita case fatality rates in the country so we should celebrate certain yeah certain things are i mean i'm sure it's going to get worse but let's celebrate the progress we're making by all this massive effort uh anthony you there anthony's still not there

i'm gonna return dr drew what do you think about easter isn't trumpy saying by easter yeah i i think by easter some places may here's we have to have you have to have testing you have to have the testing of who is positive you have to have testing of who's immune and this has to be some way of identifying these people and then some sort of technology they did this in south korea they used technology to alert people if they were coming near somebody who was who had a virus and uh so if you were somebody that tested for the antibody don't worry about it so we'll see i mean i would just see how we deploy that here uh i love that let's do that i know we've got to do something like that that's

how we're going to get out i don't see that there's no way new york's going to be out by easter but maybe parts of let's look at the map where there's very low incidents some of this are like yeah dakota yeah i mean there's certain areas that right there's certain areas that we're looking at uh very low rates or at least you're going to keep track of what's there yeah the dakotas i can't wait to test myself i swear i've had it before i feel like i've had it before. I feel like I've had it. Wouldn't that be nice? Wouldn't that be a relief to find that out?

Yeah, it would be a relief. I'd like to get it. Let's get it now just to get it over with, everybody. Like chicken pox. Somebody just spit in my fucking mouth already. I know. Well, it's a nasty flu. It is worse than the average flu, for sure. But who knows where we're going to end up with it.

Let me try calls one more time. Wait, wait. Hold on a second. We're still running. Oh, they're still. Let me look at the restream then and see what questions you guys have. The corona guidelines from the vice president are set to expire on Tuesday. Will there be a re-up?

Yeah, there'll be some sort of. That's where I'm hoping the testing sort of thing comes into the their new their new recommendations like who should we need more testing we need broader testing so oh my goodness uh people keep asking about spinal cord injuries as though that is anything look if you're a spinal cord injury you're at risk for everything right because things don't go as if you've had a C-spine fracture or even a lumbar fracture, you can have complications that the average person doesn't have. So of course, that is a pre-existing condition that makes pneumonia that much more challenging. But it's not specifically a risk category like being over 65.

Oh, Dr. Drew, I heard that if you have a blood type a that's supposed to be bad too yeah i think that's association not causation i think we gotta i've not heard any real real data on that yet and uh so i'm i'm skeptical about that uh all right let me look through. Have you guys been sexually active during this time? I find myself not wanting to be very, I'm not. Are you, look at Leanne. Really? Yeah, always. Yeah.

I figure we are, we're quarantined together. What else are you going to do? That was what I heard from my wife. What else are we going to do? It's pretty, it's pretty inspiring. We're cooking. It's pretty inspiring. We're cooking. It's pretty inspiring. Yeah, we're cooking.

We're cooking, you know. We're cooking in the kitchen and we're cooking. Susan, get on mic here. They're asking about, oh, she's too busy with the phone thing. Kind of a vacation, a stay-at-home vacation, right? I can't get my mood to where it should be, though. I got to tell you guys. I'm here.

What's wrong? What's wrong, honey? What's the matter? They were asking about sexual activity and whether there was more or less than average. And why? She's laughing. Oh, Susan. Well, you're home more.

What else are you going to do? I told you guys. And you're on my rhythms now because you're home. It's not 9 o'clock at night so you are getting a little more lately i think no yeah not with my kids i think our kids are sucking the life force yeah that's oh they do that for moms for sure yeah somebody wants to know christina what what uh brand of lipstick are you wearing oh very important question uh thank you for asking it is a smashbox infrared infrared smashbox stays on for hours so we're we're having problems with

the connection on our bluetooth so we may have to restart the studio and then all everybody who called in can call right back because your questions will still be up there. They'll pop up. Why don't we try Anthony one more time? Okay, I'll try one more time. You mean restart the caller system not restart the show. It's not connecting. Anthony, can you hear us?

Yes, I can. That's what I'm talking about. Well done. Go ahead, Anthony. Hey, it's great to talk with you guys. I love all you guys. Dr. Drew, I've been a huge fan forever, and Leanne

and Christina, big fans from your podcast, and I think this will be right up your guys' alley. I've had to do things to talk about your anxiety. I've had a panic disorder my whole life misdiagnosed most of my life but about 20 years ago

say I have your doggy too like 20 years ago I found a great support group and I stopped having panic attacks and changed my lifestyle and everything's great but I still have this one kind of irrational fear. I had a lot of irritable bowel problems and I might have crapped myself a couple of times.

So I have like this irrational fear of driving with anybody or being on the freeway when I can't get off or I haven't asked a woman out in like 20 years because of this. I'm just wondering if you guys had any. You understand Christina would see this as a mark of deep passion, potentially. Oh, now she's off. Now they're off. Can I tell you that? Go ahead, Christina.

You got it. I actually had a phobia of vomiting. I had emetophobia. And when my anxiety was really high, I would be afraid of eating something and then getting on the freeway in L.A. Because I was convinced that I would get diarrhea on the freeway. And then it would like... So the whole time I was on the freeway I was like oh my god I'm gonna get sick I'm gonna get sick I'm gonna get sick and basically I had to break up with a boyfriend and after I broke up with him that kind of went away so but I don't know Dr. Drew you're the doctor I just want you to know

that it's I've done that too I think that's you guys were separated at birth you had to break up with a boyfriend. Why? I was living with this guy, and we were just going south. It had nothing to do with the freeway poopoos phobia, right? It did. It agitated my anxiety. That was the root of my anxiety, this poor relationship. So once I broke up up with the guy the emetophobia calmed down i see interesting that is an interesting point how sometimes something else in your life isn't

going well and all your other symptoms sort of like i go the other direction like they peek out the other side because you haven't taken care of something you need to take care of that's really interesting right so what do you recommend for anthony wait so the fear anthony so sorry so how is it impeding your life he has irritable bowel he afraid he's had some incontinence once or twice he's a fearful that's going to happen during a during a date or something or riding in a car with someone and so he doesn't have dates do you you don't have dates at all do you have like a method what do you do when your ibs comes on can you tell when it's going to come on what are the triggers honestly it really i haven't had an issue with it in years

but i still have a phobia i even carry around like supplies in my car in case it happens i have a change of clothes it's never actually happened but i still like i couldn't imagine driving with somebody because i always have to know like where the nearest starbucks is or where i could pull off just in case well the way to get over stuff like this is exposure exposure therapy uh i mean that's where you got to get up on the horse and you guys have any ideas how he might sort of inch into this maybe he should ask somebody out for a limited time frame just coffee because if you know not coffee yeah but you know there's a bathroom but there's a bathroom there you know what i mean if you if you go to the bathroom in a coffee shop it's not that big a deal so that's what everyone does i think what you know bert has a little bit of this

if he feels like he's being forced into doing something, suddenly he's got to go to the bathroom. So sometimes like if we're going to someone's house and we're running late, suddenly he has to go to the bathroom. So I kind of like, I kind of buffer in time and kind of say, how about you go to the bathroom, see if you need to go to the bathroom, so he goes to the bathroom before we leave. So any of that couldn't really happen because you're already, he's already empty in theory. He's pretty much empty.

And you see how these things, these things all, you know, the OCD, phobias, panic, anxiety, they all go together. They all kind of are overlapping syndromes. And, but exposure, I'm looking for a book. I can't find it right now. It's called Dare. It's essentially about leaning into panic and anxiety. The guy's name is like McDonough that wrote the book.

And I would recommend that book to you. Have you seen it, Anthony? No, I haven't. Yeah, Dare. Dare, it's about panic and anxiety and uh and then take the advice of the ladies here and start to inch out into some sort of structured environment i suspect there's more anxiety about the dating than just the irritable bowel because uh that's a skill you got to develop so you got to have you got to do it eventually so here we go uh yeah and anthony just one thing sorry

before we go on find a place you want to take her like a restaurant that's like a safe haven toilet we all have these in public you know you're i i like roman's bookstore in pasadena that's got that's a nice toilet find a place that's got a safe haven toilet a public that you feel you can get diarrhea at and then take her there. But don't tell her that. So should you run into Christina P. at Roman, do you know what she's doing there? She's drinking coffee.

A public toilet. Coffee shop up front there. Hi, Catherine. Take your book in with you. Hi. I have a question regarding the baby-making process with my boyfriend.

So, should I expect any challenges? He had testicular cancer about senior year of high school and then after that he had, I think it was cancer of the abdominal lining

or something. Oof. He ended up having one testicle removed and we've probably been, we've known each other for years, been dating for about one year, but I'm just looking for the future.

Do you expect any challenges? No more so than usual. One testy will do the job unless he had something in terms of the treatment that rendered that problematic. But you can have normal fertility with one testy.

So don't worry about that. And certainly normal function, that kind of thing. Let's talk to Daniel. Daniel, what's up? Hey, Dr. Drew, what's up? Hey, man. Hey, so I didn't mean to, like, you know, pedal backward to the old topic of the coronavirus.

No, no, it's fine. It's what we're all thinking about, so why not? Go ahead. Alright, cool. I'm also going to have another question for the mommies. Hi, Christina. Hi, Leanne. Hi, James. Hi, so I'm a pot smoker

and I know it's a respiratory thing, so I was curious to know if it affects, you know, cannabis smokers like it does cigarette smokers. I kind of cut that out and started doing edibles. Right. I think that's very smart. Anything in the lungs appears to adversely impact this thing.

Anything. So whether it's vaping or cannabis or tobacco, it all seems bad. Okay. Now, as far as the shortness of breath goes um does that can that occur prior to the fever and the coughing or does that happen and then it's the shortness of breath typically that does occur what's a good what's a good way to measure your shortness of breath okay great question watch you watch that vimeo video that we put up on the restream susan maybe put it up again uh because he talks about those sorts of things.

But yes, it is typical. I mean, it can have all kinds of protean manifestation. It can be just gastroenterological. It can start with diarrhea, start with fever, start with cough, start with shortness of breath. But typically, it's fever, chills, cough, shortness of breath. And the way to assess yourself, people are having so much anxiety now that everyone's like, I think I'm short of breath. I'm short of breath. Christina was short of breath, right?

Christina called me. I'm short of breath. I'm in front of her. Yeah. Bert's been holding his breath. Bert was holding his breath? He's been holding his breath and counting to see if he can hold his breath. I've literally been doing that as well.

Yeah, I'll be taking the deepest breath as I can. I'm like, is that the shortest? Is it shorter than the last one? I don't want to psych myself out, you know? So here's the deal. So shortness of breath is also called dyspnea. Like you can't catch your breath. If you can't walk to the bathroom without feeling short of breath you need to go to the hospital if you when

you talk to somebody you're gasping between each word that needs to go to the hospital if you are feeling just a little tight in the chest and like kind of like i think a little short of breath keep an eye on it keep an eye on it okay okay all right buddy now i have a question for the mommy real quick um so my sister-in-law is potty training her daughter do you guys have any good advice as to like would be a good practice for her you have girls man you take this one because boys are different than girls are they with the potty training a long time really i don't know i've never potty trained we did triplets we did triplets and it was all pretty much strapped everybody in the morning and they pooed jordan wouldn't stop till he was four remember yeah he'd hold it all

day at preschool and get in the car and crap his pants oh poor guy i know i just hear that boys take longer. Yes. My older boy didn't want to do it. And then one day when he was about three and a half, he was like, I want to go poo-poo on the toilet. Right. That's what happened with Jordan too. Yeah. Well, with my girls, it's been a long time.

My youngest is 13. So I think we potty trained both of them at about two and a half years old. And it was just about being really consistent. You know, as soon as you wake up in the morning, go to we potty trained both of them at about two and a half years old. And it was just about being really consistent. You know, as soon as you wake up in the morning, go to the potty. And then as soon as they drink something a few minutes later, go to the potty. Just about being really diligent and really consistent. Structured, yeah. And very structured.

Clearly, Bert did not run that game in my house. What? He ran that game entirely. Wow. It took Georgia a lot longer to be comfortable to poop on the potty. So that took her a while. She did not want to do that. But once we took her diapers off, we were done.

We didn't do pull-ups. We didn't do like just in case if you peed her pants, then we cleaned her pants. You know, we put new pants on we didn't do that I felt it might was my opinion that gave a mixed message right? diaper is a diaper so We just were like, okay We're putting on some big girl Yeah, and you rely on her to tell her or like to warn her when she needs to go

But by the time she tells her she already goes you know so i guess yeah that's the schedule thing would work out i think yeah i think they're too young to even know that you kind of have to take the lead and say i think now's a good time to try to go and you know and it's kind of scientific if they've just drank a big glass of juice then pretty soon they're gonna need to go to the bathroom. There's also something called the gastrocolic reflex, which is when you take something warm and large into your stomach, your colon pushes stuff through a little bit. So maybe you take it. That's sort of what Leanne's talking about. Thank you, buddy.

Appreciate the call. Let's talk to Joe. Hang on a second. Oh, I can't get. Let's talk to Joe. Hang on a second. Oh, I can't get... Let me try. I got it. Hi, Joe. Hello. Hey, buddy. Hi. What's happening? How's it going, everyone?

Good. Hi, Chico. How's it going? I'm so excited to be here. Well, I'm not there. I'm here. So, my question for you guys is and dr drew you mentioned on wanting to keep it light this episode um adam carolla on your show mentioned that um when he was going on a hike he saw people having sort of a change of heart and things like that so this is more of like a personal question for all of you what are some changes you hope or

would like to see come out of this socially or consciously? I guess they're not really. It's a great question. But what changes do you think will happen? And what would, what would you like to see come out of it? And Joe,

do we know you from little, little Spain, a Hudson yards in New York city? I didn't want to get the bar, but yeah, that's what you don't. Yeah. Are they, are they keeping you are they keeping you guys employed and what's happening is the things open there what has um again more of a positive story um jose andres decided to um pay us for a month uh where i'm a tipped, so they took an average of what we made in the last

60 days, and they're paying that for a month, and they're giving us our health benefits. And when I found that out, I cried over my phone. But yeah, he's an important person. Yeah. Well, we miss it.

I miss being the mayor of the Barley. We'll be back i hope so i hope so but he joe has a really great question though and adam was talking about that he saw people sort of greeting each other being a little more cordial and sort of warmer to each other what how we're not going to be the same after this how do you how do you think things are going to change christina well what i hope will happen i'm actually the opposite of adam here and that i hope this suffering makes us lighten the fuck up excuse me my life is cursed now light the f up um you know the best comedy rooms in the world are aa rooms because they've been there and they've done that and they laugh at everything and i think we were getting really uptight in this country before this all went down and i'm hoping that people

will start to like lighten up and be like oh this we're not here forever you know this is temporary or the things that seemed important aren't so important but my fear is my fear is that they're going to look back at this thing and one group is going to go, hey, we kicked this thing's butt. We did it. It's American innovation. And another group is going to go, hey, why'd we do that? That was too much. I'm angry. I lost my job. And that's what I fear going forward. But we'll be doing more telemedicine, more teleconferencing, more, I'll be doing more streaming stuff to the world i mean it's just that we are the things we're all doing though to manage this i think we'll kind of keep doing leander great great yeah i do agree uh i think for me i hope that we all slow down a little bit you know this has forced

everybody to shift into a much lower gear yeah i find myself trying to shove 18 things into a 12 hour period and now you can't do that and it's amazing how just the you can't do that of it gives you permission to slow down so i don't know why we can't give ourselves permission going forward to just slow down a little bit appreciate your family and you know have a movie marathon for no reason whereas that's our every night lately so yeah i hope that sticks as a you know as a society so we just slow down just a little bit thanks joe oh wait i wanted to say one thing to christina um just to make you guys chuckle. There was this one time I was dating this guy, and I

forced him to watch one of your husband's stand-ups on Netflix, and I was making, like, really fresh strawberry margaritas, and he said a joke. I don't remember the joke, but I spit through my mouth and my nose of

strawberry margaritas all over this guy's clothes. And I will never forget that date. Oh, I'll tell him that. He'll be very happy. So please thank him for that. That was one of the most embarrassing and funny moments ever. Of course. Thanks, Joe.

You know, one of the things, buddy. See you soon, I hope. Thanks, Joe. One of the things that Tom says in his new special was how when he grills people with inappropriateness, inside he has a little marching band going, good job, good job. I think you have the same band, Christina. I think you have the same one inside. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, that's why we've been together for 17 years. Of course.

All right, let's go here. We got a lot. Here's a mommy's question for the mommies. Emily. Hey, what's up, you guys? Hi, Emily. What's up? How's it going?

We're good. How are you? Good. what's up how's it going we're good how are you good um i wanted to ask um pretty much all of you guys i just graduated from college and i am starting a job like making money which is crazy and how do i've always had a difficult time maintaining really good friendships with other women like how do you like how do you do that like as a real adult as a real adult not a pretend adult like like as a post-graduate like employed like salaried employee like i don't know like not with i don't know like teenagers i feel like i don't know like other people that have ambitions and values that i feel like they kind of weed out once you graduate and move on to more ambitious things who wants to take this well leanne's better at this kind of stuff i'm good at like the

public stuff i've shit in public before on the record. Congratulations. No, I had a hard time with this until I was probably in my late 20s. I had a really hard time figuring out what a who I was and how I could make someone else feel good about who they were. And those are the people you kind of look for. I think that's difficult because girls are like, oh, sorry, sorry. I was saying, I think it's difficult because girls are like, they're fucking mean. Like, I'm sure you realize that with your teenagers. Like, these girls are the worst people ever. They can be.

And I found for me, as I matured as a woman, my peers matured also. So, the more mature everybody got, the easier it was for me to maintain real, close, authentic friendships with women. It's interesting that men don't have these kinds of thoughts very often. No, they don't. Because here's what we do to let another male know that we think well of them. We attack them physically, attack them emotionally, give them shit about everything, tease everything that they possibly teased about,

and then we're fine. And I've noticed that, man, if you tease a woman, it takes deep effects. It never can be taken in a playful way. Christina, you're close. You're close to being able to do it, but not really there. Right? Well, female comics are a little harsher. So like Sarah Tiana and I, we shit on each other constantly and that's how we're friends.

So there you go. You know what though, man? I think the real world does weed out people, right? Like in college, the people that sat around and smoked dope all day, like you're probably not going to stay friends with them unless you're doing the same thing as an adult. So you got to fly with eagles i mean i always look for the winners look for the winners i still smoke weed like all day but it doesn't hinder me from my goals and achievements good that's good but it is it is common values common interests, common goals, that kind of stuff does help. It really does help.

All right, my dear. So, basically, you're saying, like, be authentic to yourself and don't let other people, like, hinder your own achievements, like, despite what they think about them or whatever. Just basically, as authentic as you are to yourself, like, those people will attract the same qualities. Yeah. I mean, that sounds a little headyady really uh it almost sounds like too okay too much uh it's just you have you you'll be attracted with how we fit together through attraction is its own science right and so you're going to be attracted to people kind of like you with traumas kind of like you or or who are fitting you know or codependent on your traumas, one or the other,

and then if they also have similar life experiences and similar goals and similar struggles, well, you're going to share a lot of common ground then. And so it's pretty easy to connect. Cool. Right? Awesome. I would say one more thing. Something that took me a long time to figure out is when I would see a red flag with a girlfriend, I would go, oh, she's just doing this or that.

And I would dismiss it. And then the red flag would come again. And I'd continue to dismiss it because I wanted to believe the best about people. Well, sometimes when you get a couple red flags, you should listen to that. That's your own self saying, huh, this doesn't fit for me. It doesn't mean that person's a bad person. It just may not be a good fit for you. So that took me a while to figure out.

Thanks, Emily. Awesome. Thank you, guys. Bye. Caleb, do I need to take any kind of break? I wasn't watching any timer on that. Am I good? You can take it anytime. Anytime.

Okay. Not yet. I also wanted to say something about that. Yeah. I noticed that when women go through menopause, they're a lot easier on each other. And you have more friends after menopause. It is interesting, isn't it? Tell me why.

Is that a reproduction thing? Like you're not competing for male sperm? I think it's just the estrogen turns us into maniacs. And I mean, after getting testosterone replacement, it makes you a lot better. You're a lot happier and a lot nicer. But I feel like you also have a lot in common with your kids' friends that you like, and you have longer relationships. But for some reason, I think after menopause, women get a lot nicer. But it does raise an interesting question. I mean, does somehow the hormones intensify that irritability or that desire for going after limited resources,

which is what the theory has always been? I don't know. I don't know. But I've definitely observed what Susan's saying. Yep. I can't wait for menopause. Yeah. Right?

Yeah, shut it down. Bitches. I know. can't wait for menopause yeah right yeah shut it down but that's because they're usually unhappy in their own lives you know winners like to see other people winning man it's always how it is that's true uh here's more for you guys more for christina especially thomas hi hi buddy uh hi uh how are you guys good christina thomas it's about brown uh i've been about brown i've always had like a weird really it sounds like you're driving within a convertible. Hold on. Slow down. He's in a wind tunnel.

Go ahead. We really want to hear about this. You probably are surprised. Yeah. I've always had like real irritable bowel, like inconsistency. I have an inconsistent diet and work a lot. Since I've been locked into my apartment, I quit smoking two weeks ago, three weeks ago, and I didn't shit for a whole week. I got really serious about flax and all the different things that I talked about, adding bulk, adding muscles, that will work.

Uh, and now the last two rounds I've had have been no joke, like two foot long, solid, huge curves that just come right out. Congratulations. And like, it feels very,

it feels very like good, but I'm curious if there's like too much, like if I'm going too far and maybe have too much'm curious if there's, like, too much. Like, if I'm going too far. That's amazing. And maybe have too much fiber and if there's a danger in that. If you're a fan of your mom's house or Dr. After Dark, you'll know we have this guy named Enny that works as part of your mom's house. Yeah, I have a very similar pattern. Like, not a lot of poop.

Not often. Like, I empathize with him. But it's just that people think about these things way too much. Way too much. Yes, knock down on the bulk. Move your bowels a little more frequently, you're going to be fine.

Maybe a little too much bulk. But is it too much brown? Can he make too much brown? I think you hope for that, Christina. You're like, well, you're looking for that person okay but there's no you're sure there isn't that person well uh so so annie goes once a month or something right isn't that his thing yeah yeah and and i was saying the thing i worry about is something called toxic megacolon, where the colon can't contract anymore. And that's a real concern.

But he works with it. He works with it. So congratulations. Yeah, exactly. It makes Christina happy. All right, here's a little local political question I think is rather interesting. This is Courtney. Courtney, go ahead. Hi, Dr. Drew. Thank you so much for taking my call. I live in the city of Palisades, and I have three small girls.

And our whole community is really freaking out because the idiots, Garcetti and Bonin, are turning our local rec center into a homeless shelter amid the COVID-19 outbreak. And they're saying, oh, it'll be safe. They're going to, the beds are going to be six feet apart. There's going to be a nurse. They're going to be monitored. But I mean, our fear is that it's just, if any of them are infected, it's just going to spread like wildfire. And that's the perk for like all of our kids play obviously not now but um you know

and then we have a homeless population that now is roaming our streets and we're all just terrified about the repercussions of this i'm assuming they they're going to keep them in this rec center as a temporary housing and then get them placed somewhere else not just leave them on the streets of pacific palaces right and as Well, they said they're allowed... They're allowed to come out? Yes. They're only required to sleep there. That does not make much sense.

I know, and we've all written to them and we're not getting any responses. Would you feel better if they kept people... They had them shelter in place like everybody else wouldn't that make more sense right well absolutely but then you know i don't know it just seems counterintuitive like why wouldn't they be in hotels like this rec center barely has three working bathrooms there's no kitchen there's zero ventilation it's like a gymnasium right i i i

know they're turning some gymnasiums into sleeping environments i i don't understand the logic of holding them in an environment just overnight that makes no sense i mean what what happens magically overnight that you're going to be able to do for these people in terms of reducing their psychiatric symptoms medical risk and ability to infect people out in the world. So I'm concerned about that too. What do you guys say, Christina? Yeah, freaking out. I mean, what the hell can they do?

She's saying that they're calling and they're not getting a response. Stay indoors, man. Go walk to the beaches. Don't stay away from those homeless wandering i don't know what what do you do dr drew you tell i i i think you gotta you gotta document what's happening and you're gonna have to peel probably to your is that are you in los angeles there in the palisades yeah yes yes we have the idiot bonin and garcetti and we keep posting things on our local next door and our posts are getting taken down.

They're getting censored. By whom? We have no idea. We have no idea. And we try and reply to certain posts, and it's really, really disconcerting. And that's why I wanted to reach out to you, because I know you've worked so much with the homeless population. And I didn't know if you knew someone that I should call. Could you go?

They're not having board meetings and things, so it makes it very difficult. And people are talking about filing a lawsuit, but the courts aren't open. Right. been right i really think that this is newsome and all of those idiots their way of just dealing with the homeless problem under the guise of you know covid 19 i think it's so ridiculous and doesn't make any sense well what i don't like is that they're they're wandering about everyone else is shelter in place and they're wandering about that that doesn't that doesn't seem fair it doesn't seem like you're doing anything if you just have people sleep in a cot overnight like what have you done i don't know i know yeah but uh we worry about drugs and needles and stuff there with our kids playing whenever it reopens i mean there are just so many concerns for us

can you work with local law enforcement we have zero local law enforcement. We have one police officer assigned to 24 plus thousand people in the Palisades. And all of our crime has been going up because the criminals know this. They know it's going to take them 45 minutes to an hour to respond to a 911 call if they respond at all. So we've been relying on our local private security companies, but they can't be expected to handle something like this it's insane do you know how many people they're going to put in this rec center we've heard anywhere between one like around 100 around 100 is what we've heard but we've been getting conflicting information depending on who you talk to and who's different office all right let me um hmm it. Let me see what I can do.

I'll start calling around a little bit and see. It seems like the difference between this being an okay situation and a mess is keeping people isolated like they're supposed to be. All right, here we go. Why don't we take a little break? I know.

Guys, let's take a little break? I know, guys. Let's take a little break. We're going to keep calls going. You guys have anything you want to plug or anything before we go out on a little break here? Your mom's house and where my mom's at. Leanne Kreischer guests on where my mom's at from time to time. She's fantastic. Yeah, we get along.

We've known each other for a million years and um yeah and my podcast why for the party can you guys my podcast you guys retweet the periscope so more people can see it today i yes i just retweeted that god bless you so let me let me before we go to break we mentioned that again in, again, in L.A. County, we're at 1,800 cases. It's, again, an catchment area of 10 million. I say that's pretty good. In California, we have now, in a state of 60 million, we have 4,600 cases. I say that's pretty good. But there's 64,000 cases test pending.

So I'm going to bet that that 4,000 jumps up to about 12,000 very, very quickly. That's still doing quite well in spite of, again, 60 million people in this state. The United States as a whole has about 122,000. It seems like that might be slowing a little bit, like we might be catching up with the testing, which is what we've mostly been seeing for the last three days, which is a backlog of testing. And then New York continues to struggle. Though, if you watch that video we put up, you will see that the physicians there feel very confident that they're going to meet the needs and the demands of the moment without any great difficulty, and that we are going to be able to knock the death rate down in this upcoming week. What you should look forward to is more

stories about testing and more stories about treatment. That is how we're going to get out of this. Treatments that reduce viral shedding, treatments that reduce the hospitalization rate and the use of the ICU and ventilator,

and also testing that lets us know who's had it, who has it, monitoring and tracking them so we can begin to start to be a society again,

for goodness sakes, not just a bunch of shut-ins. Right? Yeah, man. Right? Yeah, man. Okay. to start to be a society again, for goodness sakes, not just a bunch of shut-ins, right? Yeah, man. Right, yeah, man. I'm tired of homeschooling. I'm tired of teaching eighth grade. Take a little break and we'll be right back.

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Got some really interesting calls coming in. I want to get to them. This is Joe. Go ahead, Joe. Hi. Hi, Joe. Drew Drew. Hello, everyone. Hi. Hi, Joe. Drew Drew. Hello, everyone.

Hi. So really, Dr. Drew, shout out to Artie Lang for a year sober. I saw that the other day. God bless him. God bless him. I wanted to ask you, I teach college history, and I'm going to ask you to put your educator hat on. Yeah.

Towards the end of the semester, doctor, we cover HIV and AIDS, and these are 18- to 22-year-olds, and they have no concept of, like people ask me, oh, did you die of AIDS back in the old days, in the 80s? The olden days. They have no concept, none. And I showed them parts of the book and the band played on and some other 80s documentaries or footage of people with KS lesions and how they would waste away. And they are plummets.

They have no idea that people died like that. It's just crazy, like, when we were taught, like, how deadly it was. My question is, Doctor, and this is a question that I know they're going to ask. I'm teaching online now, but I know they're going to ask in the discussion. One is, the first one is, before the AIDS crisis, how rare was KS in, I guess, for dermatologists, how rare of a disease was that? And secondly, when people stopped dying in the mid-1990s, was it drugs that they had or they just found the right recipe, or was it somebody in a lab invented the thing that made people survive that's the question i get what made them stop dying was it something

that they already had they found the right recipe right or was it something that somebody yeah so so let's let's go over the whole history do you guys remember that period of history do you how were you in that time yeah it ruined my college years because i had the fear of God put into me of having unprotected sex. Yeah, of course. It's very relevant for what's going on now with coronavirus because I will tell you. So in 1984, I was up to here with AIDS patients. I mean, I was literally, I was really doing, that's almost all we did back then was HIV and AIDS when we were training. I mean, we saw obviously cardiovascular disease and stroke and stuff, but we, you know, people

trained in the 80s. We were highly specialized in treating AIDS patients because we dealt with so many of them. And it was the saddest chapter. I can't even tell you how horrible it was because for the first, from like 1983 to 1987, all we could say when they come in with their pneumocystis pneumonia was, I'm sorry, you have six months to live. And that was it.

We had nothing until we started getting able to treat the pneumocystis a little bit. So what happens clinically is you start finding ways to treat these things. We started finding ways to treat the Kaposi's, ways to treat these things so we started finding ways to treat the cap disease ways to treat the pneumocystis ways to treat the cmv retinitis and the cryptococcal meningitis these these are bizarre infectious diseases that no one had ever did you'd expect to see maybe once in your career we were just seeing hand over fist so we got very good at treating these illnesses that were the result of the immune system going away. Burkitt's lymphomas. Oh my God, so much stuff. And they tended to be very, very aggressive. And all the while, while we were trying to buy people time by treating those illnesses, the researchers were

inventing antiviral medications. Antiviral medications did not exist. We had antibiotics and we had things to treat all the crazy infections that were happening from the immune suppression, but antivirals did not exist. Not until we got AZT. And AZT changed everything. Unfortunately, the story told by Matthew McConaughey and the Dallas Buyers Club doesn't tell the story of when AZT started making things better and they took the position that AZT was causing illness so many people died so many people died because of that but at that point the reality was the AZT was keeping them alive about 6 to 12 months longer anyway it wasn't really changing things and as newer antivirals came in they started combining them the way we combine

antibiotics and they found they could actually get eventually when they found the right ones, that if they hit the viral production in certain spots, multiple spots, they could knock it down. So it wasn't being produced. So if the virus isn't being produced, it's not killing off all the immune cells and not working on the brain the way it did. And the disease process is essentially halted. That's what's going on right now with coronavirus. People are trying to come up with antiviral interventions that stop the illness. In the meantime, we are getting very good at supporting people through the illness and

dealing with the ARDS and all the complications of the illness. Now, the other question you asked, two of the things. You asked about Kaposiosi sarcoma before the advent of hiv and aids you would never see that you would never see chaos you never would you would never see cryptococcal pneumonia you would never see cmv retinitis you would never see that and yet i saw more than i i care to think about and uh it was and there's no here's the other part joe there's nobody around to tell the tale. They all died.

Only those of us that were there struggling with them are left behind. It was a horrible dark period. So many great people died. It's unbelievable. Now, does that answer your question? No, it's completely, totally not. Like I said, I'm glad I get to some someone who who was actually actually there because like i say i show them the footage and they can't believe that people would die like that oh my god it was terrible it was terrible

i mean it was just all the wards were filled with this stuff now here's another interesting piece of the story i was working alongside anthony fauci at that time he was my guiding light then as he is now. At the time, he was coaching us up saying there's going to be 10 million deaths. He is the reason I got on the radio. Let me bring Christine and Leanne back. Did you know this part of my story? Yeah.

I did not. Because I went on the radio, I was sort of an accident, asked to come in, and they were asking questions about relationships in a second. I was like, do you understand what's coming? Do you know what is there? Like no one had any idea. And it was considered outrageous to talk to young people about HIV and AIDS

because as far as the culture was concerned, well, they weren't having sex. Why would you talk to them? I'll just make them want to have sex and then they'll get AIDS. So I was, once again, I was just absolutely excoriated

for getting out there and trying to help people. So that was the reason I went on. But there's a piece in here that's kind of interesting. So at the time, Dr. Fauci was saying 10 million dead, 10 million dead, 10 million dead,

not just in the risk categories, all over the place. All people, you know, anybody's at risk, 10 million dead. We ended up with 175,000 in the interval, in the time interval that he was talking about. So he was off by a factor of 100. I am hoping he's off similarly now by telling us the worst case scenario,

as he did then, maybe, maybe it's not as bad as people are painting it, the coronavirus, that is. Does that make sense to anybody? Yes, that would be great. That would be great. And Joe, does that answer your questions? Yes, sir. One more thing, I guess, because you saw so many.

Is there one patient, eighth patient from the old days that sticks out in your mind, like it just not haunts you, but you remember all the time of just a sad state of how devastating it was? There were many like that. There was one guy I'll never forget all right uh there were several like that one i just like 10 of them pop in my head as just these intense tragedies but i'll tell you the one pick one this guy was one of the extras on cheers and he like sat next to Norm all through that whole run of that series and I got into him to take care of him in a county hospital after a Burkitt's lymphoma which again Burkitt's is a kind of cancer it's lymphoma so it's in the lymph glands it's a B-cell lymphoma

it used to be really rare it was common in the AIDS day and that lymphoma was so aggressive it just literally tore through his spine and he was paralyzed from the mid-waist down and he was the nicest guy there was no chance of getting his his feeling and motor function back in his legs ever we were fighting the burkitts at the time but i knew that he wouldn't live more than a year just no way so that's the guy i don't remember his name all right man take care but I knew that he wouldn't live more than a year. Just no way. So that's the guy. I don't remember his name. All right,

man. Take care. Yeah. And so I decided we had to talk about this on the radio. That was such a scary time though. I mean, I remember when HIV first started and my mom said, don't pet cats because they're finding that there's the AIDS is in the cat saliva. And don't remember that.

I do remember that because there was a there was a kitty AIDS. There was a kitty HIV. And I think it's it's incumbent on us to look at that epidemic and think about how we responded to that one and what that was like. I'm not done there. Yeah, we'd love it was a terrible time a lot i lost a lot of people i was i was not very old but when my parents divorced my mom moved us into a predominantly gay community in atlanta and every neighbor i had that was gay died all of them and I was very close to them I remember one of them was doing mom's makeup for one of her weddings for her I think third wedding and he said goodbye to us and I said where are you going he said I'm going to California because I want to die with

people who understand what's happening to me and not people who are afraid to touch me or be around me. So I'm going to California. You can't imagine what a miracle it is for someone like me who is struggling with this thing for a decade that in the shortest period of time, one of the shortest windows in the history of medicine, a epidemic that was fatal and broken out went from contained to manageable and a chronic illness. You can't imagine. That's nothing short of a miracle. Nothing short of a miracle. It's crazy. All right. Here's somebody who wants to ask about single fatherhood. David, whoops.

Hang on. Whoops. Hang on. What did I do here? Hello? There you are. Whoops. I lost him again now. Sorry, David. I'm sorry. I keep screwing up my phone system here.

I'll get you if I can find him. He's at the bottom. He's at the bottom. Okay. There he is all right i'm making recipes i'm getting recipes from all my friends if you guys want to give me your favorite recipe i'm gonna make it for any anything in particular just any good ones she gave me a pecan pie recipe uh 10 years ago and we gained 50 pounds

because we were making them every two days it's really good it's really really good really good all right david go ahead hello hi there oh hey guys hey now hi hey oh my god it's crazy to be on the phone with you guys i I listen to you guys all the time. I would be working right now. So this craziness wouldn't be happening. But with this time with my two boys, it has me just thinking about a lot. And one of the questions that I wanted to ask was I'm a single

father with diagnosed bipolar disorder I guess I don't know what you would call it and being well I would like I said I would be working I work two jobs so I some days I work two jobs, so I, I, some days I work, uh, basically 12 to 13, 14 hours a day. Um, and, and some, and some, and some days I don't, uh, get to see my boys a lot, but being, being away from them and just try, it's hard to basically connect with them. Uh, they're, they're younger. They're five and three right now. And I was just having trouble being almost like both the parents. Not only a father whenever I try to be, but a mom, like a sentiment, kind ofely feely person being a dude uh that's

definitely hard so what i i do you guys get the question i'm not sure i heard it i'm not sure yeah what what's the question i was just i was just wondering how could uh how can a single father be both uh mother and a father and where is the mother like where's the mother um he's she she's in a another state and she's abandoned the kids i wouldn't say i wouldn't want to say abandoned but you know it's hard it's hard it's hard to to to label it but you know she she like yesterday she talked to him for a little bit but they it's hard for them to even talk to them is she is she doing drugs or anything um not that i know of no as far as i know if she she has her head on straight she's uh uh has two kids of

another on with another guy and you know so she has basically her own set of life over there i don't know ladies what do you think about a mom that leaves the kids somewhere it's pretty unusual it's very unusual um i would probably rather have my insides ripped out than abandon my children oh let me ask you this is your bipolar disorder are you taking care of it are you medicated are you managing that yeah yeah i i medicate and um i uh see a therapist well right now i talk to my therapist over the phone um but i see a therapist and i see a psychiatrist yeah but you didn't you didn't meet her in a psychiatric hospital or something what was that where did you meet your your baby is it wife baby mama whatever the's mom, where did you meet her? I've known her for, well, I met her in high school,

so I guess high school sweetheart, I guess you could say. Okay. So what does he do to meet the needs of the kids when he doesn't have support of the mom? Let's just get still focused in on this question. Let's forget about mom how about this let's just imagine she's not coming back she is out of the picture so you're going to be responsible you have a therapist i use my therapist as a resource in raising my children if i'm not sure what to do i ask my shrink hey what do you think i should say to my kid that I have this issue?

Use your resources. Are you friends with women that you think are together? Ask them. But he's also asking, he works long hours and the kids need him. How does he balance all that? It's rough. That is rough. Thank God we're quarantined right now. Yeah, that is really tough.

Who's your childcare source? What's your child? Let me get him back. Give me a second. So David, the question is, uh, who,

how old are your kids and who takes care of them? And by imagine they just go to school during the day, who takes care of them when you can't be there? Um, my, my, my five-year-old, uh,

he is autistic. Well, he's borderline autistic, so he goes to a speech therapy class that's only twice a week, but he's going to start going to school. Luckily, the school is literally walking distance away.

My mom actually takes care of my kids and my parents. Okay, so grandma. Yeah, yeah. Grandma and grandpa take care of kids. Yeah. There's a lot of that going on in the country right now. I'm thankful that I have them.

Okay. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Definitely. Fantastic. Yeah. They're saving those kids' lives. I mean, we need to erect statues in the honor of the grandparents that step up these days.

A lot of that. We're her parents. What's that, Leanne? I said that's very true I you know I relied on my grandparents a lot when my dad's a single single dad and my grandparents live close by and my grandmother was like she wasn't a mom exactly but she was a mother figure for sure do you want to tell us you want to tell that story a little bit? About your mom? About my mom? Well, my parents were,

I did live with my mom for a bit, but she definitely was not a mother figure. She definitely struggled with some, in my opinion, she struggled with some mental illness. So I didn't really have a motherly mom. I had a great dad. So I had a lot of women. I had aunts and grandmothers in my dad's periphery that became mom figures. I pulled a little nurturing from this one, a little bit from that one, and I pieced together the mom that

I needed over the course of my life. So I think mom can come from lots of different places. It doesn't have to come from the person who actually gave birth to you. So if your mom is really involved in your kids' lives, then they may have all the mom that they need in that capacity. I don't know. Of course, we all hope for the ideal that we have this amazing mom who can take care of all of our motherly needs, but that's just not always possible. My dad lived an hour away from my mom. And when my mom had custody of me, I relied on the phone a lot. I called my dad a lot and he was able to be my dad on the phone. So no, it wasn't my favorite.

I wanted to crawl up in his lap and watch TV, but that's not always the way it phone. So no, it wasn't my favorite. I wanted to crawl up in his lap and watch TV, but that's not always the way it works. So I don't know. It sounds like you have some resources there you're using, which is pretty good. And I guess now if the question is, how do you connect with them during the quarantine? I think you have to find what they're interested in. It's a great opportunity to say, what do you like to do? Do you like to build Legos? Do you like to play in the yard? Do you like to play with Play-Doh? What do you like to do? Do you like to draw pictures? Do you like to play board games, put together puzzles? Most people have a lot of those items in their house already. So it's a great time to maybe explore who they are in a way that you wouldn't maybe be able to when you're

working so much. My dad worked the same. My dad worked six days a week, 12, 14, 16 hours a day. But when he wasn't working, he made sure he figured out who I was and what I liked to do, and we did that. Thanks, David. Appreciate the call. Are you guys watching the new Ozark series yet? No.

No, I keep hearing great things. Yeah. I'm too much into the tiger guy, 90 Day Fiance. Come on. I know. A couple of things. The Ozark has a new character. He's got bipolar disorder.

And it's a very good rendition. It's very accurate. Really? Yeah, yeah. Interesting. You'll have to watch that. I'm familiar with that. And then the tiger guys, somebody texted me or I got some sort of notification.

Someone was saying that apparently psychopaths are very interested in the big cats and things, too. The big, powerful cats. So amongst the characters that are portrayed in this series, a lot of drug addicts, for sure. But there might be some psychopathy in there too well yeah a couple of polygamists one or two polygamists in that ring somehow and let me say but psychopathy we don't mean people that are going around murdering people psychopaths are people that don't really have emotions very manipulative and can uh pretend to have emotions but don't really have them. And Joe's got a little bit of that stuff, right? Joe, you got it?

I think so. A little bit. I'm going to try to get Michelle Ward in here as an expert on psychopathy and talk about that and other things soon as we look for things to talk about other than the coronavirus to keep ourselves sane. Though I'm going to talk now about the coronavirus to an ICU nurse. Uh, Dan, there you are. Hey, Dan, what's up? Hi, James. How's it going? Hi, James.

Hi, uh, I'm an ICU nurse, uh, keeping a high and tight here in Seattle. And I was curious about, um, your opinion of like healthcare workers we get uh having like an increased risk of contracting covid especially since we're reusing a lot of our ppe like uh n95 and what can we learn from other countries uh and them using their ppe like the cdc recommending um like scarves and handkerchiefs. Am I better off just using a dirty N95 or should I be figuring something else out? I talked to an expert about this and he was saying that if you, his position was, I don't know that this is accurate, but he sprayed Lysol on both sides of the N95, then hang

it out for two days. So if you can put some kind of rotation on the mask, you'll be in better shape. Aren't they give you any guidance at the hospital from infection control? There's really not. I mean, we have to take it to our nurse supervisor and prove that it's soiled before they'll give us a new one. And so it's just kind of like keep it in a brown paper bag in your locker and then reuse it the next shift.

Wow. And, of course, I'm profoundly concerned about frontline health care workers. I saw a video from a guy that runs an ICU in New York City, and he was saying that he's convinced that the hands are the main unit of transmission, that in their hospital, which has been a strictly coronavirus hospital, they cleared everything out of there. They used to be a transplant hospital, and now they're just doing coronavirus.

And he said, no one is getting it. It's relatively unusual, provided that you're a hand Nazi, that your hand is the main unit of transmission. Keep it away from your face. That seems to be the main thing. and wear the proper protective gear too so uh yeah i mean i've said look personally i feel like it's it's it's i hope people understand that that's what this profession is that people step up and put themselves in harm way and forget about how they're feeling all the time when they're doing

medical services and uh i hope people appreciate it because i i do dan thank you so much thanks mommy all right buddy mommy i know genes your corona genes you gotta keep them i was listening to um stern and dr Agus was down there talking about how, what a blessing it is that the virus really gets killed by soap and water and hand sanitizer. The membrane, whatever is permeable. I don't know, whatever science it is, but basically it kills it. Easily killed. So she easily kills it.

Yes. There's so many things about this thing that are, you know, we should be thankful for it. You're absolutely right. Yeah. I'm looking through some of the other calls. It's a blessing in disguise. Let's kind of, you know, I feel guilty always when I have all these calls on hold, guys, but I can't get to everybody.

Here's somebody I think you could help. Okay. I got to take this call because we got to talk her off the ledge. It's another anxiety call but it's reason to be afraid uh nicole dr drew mommy hi hi nicole hi i'm so excited to talk to you guys i need your help so bad um i'm pregnant with my second child. I'm super excited. I'm due in June. Um, but everything with this coronavirus is really killing my pregnancy.

I mean, the stress, I'm like the stress. I can't even, I'm worried about like, if it's physically going to affect me or the baby, because I can't look at another article. I'm worried about not having a delivery room. If you know, things get crazy, like I can't birth in the bathtub. And like my old concerns used to be like, am I going to get a unihull?

What if I don't love this baby? The same as the first, like now I have real concerns. Yeah. Yes. All reasonable concerns. You're in New York city. Is that right?

I'm in New York. I'm a little outside like an hour upstate but they're going to be moving everybody to our outside hospitals because the city's just too yeah overwhelmed what is your obstetrician saying well i i've been trying to you know they've been trying to avoid appointments but i went in for my diabetes test last week, which didn't help me either. This was on Friday and accidentally someone was sent in who's being tested for COVID in the same waiting room as me. And they're going to call me tomorrow to discuss it. But that definitely didn't help my anxiety because we're supposed to be in separate waiting rooms, not near each other. Yes. Well, let me deal with the anxiety first.

Let me deal with your anxiety. Pregnant women have been studied a lot with COVID. And they do very well. The pregnant women seem to do very well. And it doesn't transmit to the baby. It doesn't mean the babies can't get it. It's me. You don't transmit it to the baby, It doesn't mean the babies can't get it. It's me. It doesn't train.

You don't transmit it to the baby, though. They, we don't know the longterm effects if there are any yet, because we just haven't had enough time with this virus, but so far things are pretty decent for pregnant women. So you don't have to be too alarmed, but you know,

like anything else, pregnancy, you have to be super careful. Yeah. I, I just think like the stress I'm feeling. Like, I was in the hospital, like, three or four weeks ago for test teams, and my E.C.D. was abnormal, but now my cardiologist appointment got canceled

to a virtual visit because the office is no longer open. So I don't know if there was actually something that, you know, needs to be checked out with it. And there's just been so much bad stuff happening with pregnancy. I'm like, oh my God. No, no, no, no. Listen, if there was something really wrong

with the electrocardiogram, the cardiologist sort of met you at the hospital. So I'm sure that's going to be okay. I'm sure that's going to be fine. I bet that's going to be a big nothing. Ladies, do you have anything to reassure her? Yeah. Listen, actually, I to be a big nothing. Ladies, do you have anything to reassure her? Yeah. Listen, actually, I just said to my husband this morning,

I don't even know how women are pregnant during this pandemic because I would be freaked out of my mind and my heart goes out to you. So here's what I would suggest, even just to put your mind at ease. Okay, worst case scenario, you can't get to the hospital or you have to give birth at home. Can you start talking to a midwife, even just somebody to support you during your pregnancy, I had a doula on my second child, because I had to travel. And I filmed a special eight months pregnant in Las Vegas. And so I've had this doula come with me and i found that even just talking to somebody like her

having her as a support system really alleviated my anxiety so i don't know maybe maybe you look into home birthing or hypnobirthing or things that you can do i think i think the point is that you talked work with your obstetrician or their charge nurse whoever they have in charge there to make plans backup plans yes what if the hospital is infected what do i do if there's no for beds what are we going to do so that that to me to me right now not have this is a kind of an interesting place to end this conversation but the thing that's depressing me and the thing i think it's making everybody crazy and making bert have panic attacks and is the fact that we can't,

we can't predict the future. We don't have control of the future. We feel like we can't, we don't know how to plan. We don't know how to manage it. We need to begin managing and planning moving forward. We've done the hold in place. And in all respects,

we need to begin planning what's forward. And in your case, it's, it's a little complicated, but you got to do it. Right. Yeah. And in your case, it's a little complicated, but you got to do it. Right? Yeah. Yeah. I know everything is going to, I feel like it's going to be one of those things I'm going to laugh about because I actually, I'm not as talented as everybody else, but I do stand-up comedy, you know, in New York. And I write about all the stuff that I've been

through and I'm like, oh my God, this better at least give me some good material at the end of the day for the love of God. We'll see you in the comedy cellar on the other side of all this. Definitely. You guys are so sweet. I love you all. Please stay safe. All right, you too, Nicole. Well, ladies, thank you for

cleaning my palate. I spent a little time with me and all the people that have been listening and calling. I really appreciate it. Say hi to your palate. I spent a little time with me and all the people that have been listening and calling. I really appreciate it. And say hi to your husbands. I miss seeing you guys. And everyone should, let's get all the pods in here. Go to your mom's house.

Go to cdrdrew.com for Dr. Drew After Dark. And then for Wife of the Party podcast, that is, do you have a website for that? Yes, wifeotp.com. Wifeotp.com. And then for Where the Mom's At?

Wheremymomsat.com. It's going to be online for tour dates, whenever I start touring. All right. Dr. Drew, I just want to thank you because I stopped watching the news. I only listen to you. I go to drdrew.com every day because you're doing such a service. And I know it's hard. It is hard trying to get the line right, thread the needle of all the misinformation and craziness that's out there and see through it all and try to keep moving forward.

But I think this week's going to be interesting. I have hopes for this week. I hope I'm not disappointed by the end of it. I'm hoping for news on treatment and testing, and then we should all start to think about how we move forward. When do we get to go back out into the sunlight? I know, right? It's crazy.

One more thing from me. I drink from my mug, and it gives me reassurance every morning. It's an immune booster. Immune. Well, thank you. I'm driving Susan crazy. You guys think your husbands are driving you crazy. Well, thank you very much also from my household.

You give my husband a lot of comfort. So thank you very much. Anytime. Anytime. Anytime. And you're the only person I listen to, too. Use a little hygiene on those high jeans. Hygiene on the high jeans. High and tiny, baby.

I think we need a little Corona gene, too, with a little spike in the spike Corona genes. Also mention what you're doing tomorrow. Guess who's coming on tomorrow. Oh, tomorrow, Jim Jeffries is stopping by. Oh, I love Jim Jeffries. That'll be interesting to hear how he's dealing with all this. See how that goes. We've got a report from Australia, too, from him.

Let's see what is what. All right. Everybody's home. It's really easy right now to get people to come on our podcast. We really appreciate the time that you've taken out of your day to do this. Thank you, guys. Oh, my God. Please. I'm going to go cook now out of your day to do this with us. Thank you, guys. Oh, my God, please. I'm going to go cook now.

I'm going to make some Wienerschnitzel, and I'm going to bake some chocolate chip cookies, and I'm getting a recipe from Leanne. Right on. Yes, I'm sending you one. I know which one I'm going to send you. Oh, you know,

you can do keto Wienerschnitzel with almond powder. Stop it. It's not even worth it. Don't even tell flour. Stop it. It's not even worth it. Don't even tell me. Forget it. Forget it. We're going all the way.

All right, guys. Yeah, man. Fuck the point. Thank you. And we'll see you all in here tomorrow. And then also the Ask Dr. Drew next Sunday as well. Are we doing it next Sunday? We're just doing a special one tomorrow.

I think so. Probably. We're thinking about it. We'll be here tomorrow in any event. If we're still in quarantine. We'll look for you then. Thank you. Oh, my God.

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