Ask Dr. Drew - Fake Prince Andrew Arrest: “Insider Trading” Charges Distract From Real Epstein Crimes w/ JP Sears & Joel Pollak of CA Post – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 590

Episode Date: February 23, 2026

Ex Prince Andrew was arrested on his 66th birthday in a massive police raid linked to the Epstein files — but not for the crimes most people expected. UK investigators are examining whether the former Prince used his role as a trade envoy to improperly share “Official Secrets” and confidential government documents with Jeffrey Epstein. Under the Official Secrets Act, these allegations of “insider trading” of state secrets carry a potential life sentence. Is this a legal technicality being used to force a confession on the wider Epstein scandal – or a fake arrest to appease the masses? Is the UK simply trying to distract from the Epstein Files, or using a tactic similar to how the US eventually caught Al Capone for tax evasion after they couldn’t convict him for other crimes? JP Sears is a comedian, author, and YouTuber known for his satirical take on politics, fitness, and faith. He hosts Awaken with JP on Rumble and YouTube. Follow at https://x.com/AwakenWithJP Joel Pollak is Opinion Editor at the California Post and co-host of the “3 Homeless Guys” podcast. He is the author of “The Agenda: What Trump Should Do in His First 100 Days.” Born in South Africa and educated at Harvard, he also completed an MA in Jewish Studies at the University of Cape Town. Follow at https://x.com/joelpollak 「 SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS 」 • STRONG CELL – If you want to feel more like your younger self, go to https://strongcell.com/ and use code DREW for 20% off. • AUGUSTA PRECIOUS METALS – Thousands of Americans are moving portions of their retirement into physical gold & silver. Learn more in this 3-minute report from our friends at Augusta Precious Metals: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://drdrew.com/gold⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or text DREW to 35052 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠• FATTY15 – The future of essential fatty acids is here! Strengthen your cells against age-related breakdown with Fatty15. Get 15% off a 90-day Starter Kit Subscription at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://drdrew.com/fatty15⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ • PALEOVALLEY - "Paleovalley has a wide variety of extraordinary products that are both healthful and delicious,” says Dr. Drew. "I am a huge fan of this brand and know you'll love it too!” Get 15% off your first order at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://drdrew.com/paleovalley⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ • VSHREDMD – Formulated by Dr. Drew: The Science of Cellular Health + World-Class Training Programs, Premium Content, and 1-1 Training with Certified V Shred Coaches! More at https://drdrew.com/vshredmd • THE WELLNESS COMPANY - Counteract harmful spike proteins with TWC's Signature Series Spike Support Formula containing nattokinase and selenium. Learn more about TWC's supplements at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twc.health/drew⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 「 ABOUT THE SHOW 」 This show is for entertainment and/or informational purposes only, and is not a substitute for medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Executive Producers • Kaleb Nation - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://kalebnation.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ • Susan Pinsky - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x.com/firstladyoflove⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Content Producer • Emily Barsh - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x.com/emilytvproducer⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Hosted By • Dr. Drew Pinsky - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x.com/drdrew⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two more guests today that everyone knows. First up, we'll have Joel Pollock in here. Of course, opinion editor at the California Post, co-host of Three Homeless Guys Podcast, author of Scott Adams, Life of Purpose and Principle. You can follow Joel on X, Joel Pollock, P-O-L-L-A-K. And then J.P. Sears, comedian, author,

YouTube, known for his satirical take and is cutting sarcasm. He's been so great throughout COVID and beyond. takes on politics, fitness, faith. He hosts Awaken with JP on Rumble and YouTube. Follow him on X, Awaken with JP. We'll be back with Joel Pollock right after this. Our laws as it pertain to substances are draconian and bizarre.

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and appreciative of your comments at his service. Well, thanks so much, Dr. Drew. Scott really loved you and he was so happy when you visited him that day with Greg Gutfeld and the three of you guys did a podcast together. And he was really, really just happy that he was able to spend time with you before he passed away.

It was really, really important to him. Joe, for Greg and I also, we both multiple times to just thank God, we went up there because he got so sick very quickly after that. It's like we were trying to find that time. For six months, we were talking about going to visit him. And we finally found the time. Thankfully, we did.

How did you get tapped for the book about his life and tell us a little about the book? You know, I was asking him the same question. Why did you ask me to write this book? And I think it's because we just became friends who were loyal to each other and who shared things that we trusted each other with. and who defended each other. And I think over time, that created a bond of trust. And he really wanted to leave behind a biography that expressed some of his teachings

as well as the story of his life. And I'm through the first draft, actually halfway through the first draft, which I started right before he passed away. And it's going to go through several drafts. I'm hoping that we finish probably by the midpoint of this year so we can have it out by the end of the. the year. But he was very generous in giving me information and access to people who he interacted with. And I've learned an incredible amount about his life. I think the most interesting thing to me,

well, let me name two interesting things about Scott Adams. One is that we know that he devoted the latter years of his life to helping people. And he made that his focus. What I didn't realize was that he had done that his whole life. And there are stories. that began emerging about how he had helped people when he had nothing to give them. He became very wealthy through Dilbert and through investing, and he was able to make a difference in many people's lives later in his life. But he was interested in helping people when he didn't have those resources. And so that's been incredible. And the other thing is he had a book that he published before his very successful business books and his political commentary called God's Debris,

which is kind of a theological reflection. And his own publishers wouldn't touch it. They did not want to publish something controversial on religious and political topics. And he self-published it. And it became kind of a cult classic, and he later reissued it through his own publishing house. And what's interesting is that the roots of Scott's later philosophies

are all there in God's Debris. And I won't spoil the surprise, because I'm going to trace some of his ideas back to those original theological foundations. But there are some really interesting things that people associate with Scott's later commentary that really started 25 years before. And Scott saw a role for himself as someone who would help the world through difficult times. And that really started with God's debris. So that's something I think I'm going to bring out in my own.

I did not know he had that sense of himself, but he had a weird sense. of where he was in time. Like he knew he knew he was going to die young. He knew he just everything, he sort of kind of knew what was going to happen to him and what his path was going to be and what his purpose was going to be. I think the most difficult thing for him about dying the way he did was that in many situations in his life,

he had managed to overcome incredible odds. For example, he had a focal dystonia in his hand that prevented him or could have prevented him from drawing. And then he had a spasmodic dysphonia where he couldn't speak properly because he had this spasm neurological issue. And nobody had recovered from either of these conditions, but he recovered from both of them. So when he was diagnosed with cancer, he thought, well, maybe I can do this again. And he very nearly did. And he was admitted to this experimental program. And Dr. Patrick Sun-Siong was running these clinical trials that Scott was going to be

able to benefit from. And unfortunately, the tumor just grew too fast. And I think it took a while for Scott to really understand what was going on. But once that had happened, he really found a way to live more meaningfully. And in a way, he reframed the experience of death and mortality for many of us. And I think that even though he wasn't able to overcome the medical odds, he really did change the experience of dying in a way that I think will make people feel much more comforted about our own mortality. And I think that was a gift that he felt a whole of an extraordinary person. I completely agree. We do we we we do die poorly in this country and he died well and did it very publicly and showed us how to do that. Our end of life situation is just a mess in

this country. I have to deal with it all the time. But oh shoot I just my my aging brain gagged on me as it often does. But let's go over to California and talk about what's going on here. I believe you wrote a California Post article about the homeless industrial complex. Maybe it wasn't your article. I'm not sure.

Let me try to find it here. Well, in any event, I'm interested in the fact that oh, there it is. LA's councilmen dig in against clearing homeless. This is the article up here. They were in these Tinderbox areas. The fire department tells me that nine out of ten fires in Los Angeles are caused by homelessness.

I mean, they're just doing that all day long. And I have a friend that owns one of the airlift companies to drop the fire retardant. He said, absolutely, we're doing all day long. We're dropping stuff on homeless encampments. And then we have San Francisco at the same time where the mayor has his reset program. Are you familiar with this? Which is outstanding. You're being arrested for breaking the law, shocking,

and then as opposed to being put in prison, you're taken to treatment. That will help. Anything else is not going to help. Nothing is going to help. Otherwise, people will continue dying eight people a day here in county, Los Angeles. We have a serious problem with homelessness.

And you can see an extreme version of that problem when you look at New York City with Mahmoud Mamdani. Sorry, Mahmoud's his dad, Zeranamdani. Mahmoud was a famous post-colonial theorist at Columbia, whose work I had actually read 25 years ago. So the fact that his son is now mayor of New York City is pretty crazy. But Zoran Mamdani left over a dozen homeless people to die on the streets because he's against clearing homeless encampments. And for a long time, we had that same problem in L.A.

And interim fire chief, Villanueva a few months ago, said that one out of every three emergency calls the fire department gets are for fire starting. by homeless people. The other thing to know about homelessness and fire in LA is that we spend more money on homeless services than we do on fire prevention. And my neighborhood, Pacific Palisades, is one of the areas that burnt down. And when you hear that we're spending more on homeless services than on fire prevention, it all starts to make sense. Basically, homelessness is a problem that has started to swallow the city because it's overwhelming all of our other services. And we're just spending so much money in devoting so much of our manpower, woman power, whatever you want to call it, to dealing with

the problems that these homeless encampments create and that we've created for ourselves through our policies of encouraging these camps. There's another problem that I know you'll relate to and understand, which is that there are these clinics that purport to treat addiction, and they actually import addicts from other parts of the country, milk their insurance policies, and then put them out on the street. And this was exposed a decade ago by the Orange County Register. And it's still gone. We're important homeless people into California from the rest of the country because of our crazy insurance laws. And then these people are just kicked out under the street before they've gotten over their addictions. And they just go right back to using the go to MacArthur Park in L.A.,

which we've written about at the California Post. And that park has been allowed to decay by Eunicey Hernandez, the local city council member and by the L.A. City Council that refused. to do very much about it at all. And, you know, we just repeat this cycle over and over again. And then the homeless industrial complex are all these NGOs that purport to provide homeless services. But, you know, we've got this mansion tax, as they call it, in L.A. that was recently passed by referendum, tell people that they're taxing the rich to pay for affordable housing, and people think that's a neat idea. Except the problem is that the tax just apply to big mansions, it applies to commercial buildings, all kinds of other stuff, hospitals, schools. And so they

don't collect very much because the real estate markets basically died. And when the money gets spent, it gets spent not on helping homeless people get into housing, but it gets spent on these organizations with all the overhead. And who knows where the money actually goes? They just indicted a guy for $20 million of fraud. So it's a huge problem. Joel, these are open-air hospitals. These are hospitals without walls and ceilings where doctors and nurses are not allowed in. It's hospitals run by social workers and NGOs, and it's killing people on a daily basis.

Are we surprised that a hospital with them, you can't get any sicker psychiatrically than the people that end up on our streets? That's as sick as a psychiatric patient can get. And yet they sit on the streets and doctors and nurses are not allowed to get near them. Social workers who are not trying to, trained to take care of the medically ill.

They don't know how to assess them. They don't know what their needs are. Are the only people allowed in? This is insane. If you just built the walls and the ceiling and called at a hospital and eight people were dying every day and no doctors and nurses were allowed in, people would get it. But because it's open air, they think somehow that people have nothing to do with the medical condition they're in. This is as sick as you can get psychiatrically. And here's the deal.

These are all treatable conditions. It's not that hard and it doesn't cost that much money to treat them. But you have to sustain it over long periods of time. What are they spending? Close to a billion dollars on it. It'd be so easy to treat that population. You put them in rooms. If all I had to do would treat the most ill psychiatric patients, was put them in four walls. That's all I have to do. Oh, my God. There would be no need for psychiatry or psychology or anything.

We would just house people with the most serious psychiatric illness. That's how insane this is. That's how insane it is. And that money could be spent building a hospital, training psychiatrists, getting these people treated, getting them out to RFK wants to have these work camps. Great, perfect. Let's go do it once they're stabilized. It would not cost nearly the amount of money they're spending,

and people would get well. Well, that's because in California, we don't spend money on solving problems. We spend money on problems. No. And then we provide this homeless industrial complex or you pick another problem. We provide the NGOs, people who make a career out of these problems. And sometimes these are causes I support. I mean, you know, Scott, our friend had a problem with the ADL, the Anti-Defamation League,

which has done some good work over the years, but it exists to fight anti-Semitism. And the problem with groups that exist to fight certain kind of hatred is that if the hatred declines, they lose their purpose. So they've got to go looking for more hatred. That's how they're ready to keep going. And so they exist because they need the problem to exist. And that's a problem. That's a problem in itself. We really want to be able to solve these problems.

Homelessness, as you point out, is solvable. You had a great idea a few years ago, which is to treat homelessness like a natural disaster, to bring in FEMA, and to, deal with the homeless population and that they are badly affected by a natural disaster. How would you get this problem solved as quickly as possible? The thing about a natural disaster is it has an end point, right? It's not going to be a chronic forever problem. Bring FEMA in and you finish it. Yeah. It's so doable. It's so easy. It's not that hard. This is people think, well, what are you going to do? I've got, I can give you a 10-point solution. And we would have this thing cleaned up and we'd clean it up in six months, but then have people really doing

well in about two to three years. But before I let you go, I want to do a little Epstein, because I'm going to get into that with JP as well. Do you have any thoughts about the royal arrest? My understanding was the arrest of Andrew is because he shared trade secrets. People are saying, oh, because he had sex with these younger age girls, which I probably did, but I don't know. But my understanding the arrest was because of the inappropriate divulgence of trade secrets. You know, the Jeffrey Epstein. Saga has become its own phenomenon. They say things like wildfires create their own weather systems. That's kind of what has happened to Jeffrey. That's a massive story that is creating

its own momentum. And it's very, very hard to understand why anything happens in the story anymore, why any new stage of the narrative develops. So it wasn't enough that he was stripped of his title and so forth. Now he's been arrested. What's interesting to me about the arrest, I was reading about the potential sentence. He's been charged with misconduct in public office, and that carries a life sentence in the United Kingdom. That's just... Wow.

I mean, I'm not trying to condone anything he did. I think he's probably one of the worst defenders, actually, if you look at the actual sexual crimes that people are upset about. But he's not being charged for that, as to point out. The actual charge is misconduct in public office, which, you know, if you had to apply that across the board, probably every politician would be guilty. and it's got a life sentence.

I mean, potentially, it's really... Listen, but the crazy thing is how our brain works in America versus how their brain works over in Europe. That was probably instituted by Henry VIII for Thomas Moore, whoever is... You know what I mean? And it just stayed on the books for 500 years. And that's probably how a lot of laws get sort of been...

Stay in place in these countries. Well, it got him arrested. Nobody else can get anybody arrested. Well, that's the question. What about that? Is there going to be some, that's a good rule? Is there going to be some sort of reckoning? And are there going to be more records? And is it going to involve the intelligence community at some point? Well, I think there's going to have to be. And there's going to have to be an investigation of who is really at the core of Jeffrey Epstein's crimes. The danger, of course, is that innocent people are getting swept up, and we saw what happened with Roe Kana, coming up with six men's names,

Representative Kana and Representative Tommy, Kentucky. Nassie. Yeah, and they read these six names, and two of them were associated with Epstein, but four of them were just guys picked up in a lineup, totally innocent. And Kana read their names on the floor of the House of Representatives, which shields him from defamation lawsuits,

which I thought was really cowardly and underhanded thing to do. You know, you either have the goods on someone or you don't. And if you don't have all your eyes dotted and teeth crossed, don't go around accusing people because these four men now, they've had their names dragged through the mud. And all that happened was they were called into a police lineup. And, you know, it's become its own thing. And it's become a potential witch hunt where innocent people could get hurt.

And again, it's not what anyone intended, I think, in the beginning. I think people want justice for the victims. but other people are seizing on it for political purposes. I mean, this was a Democrat scandal until Trump got elected. Then it became a Trump scandal because Democrats needed it to be. And so it's just kind of beyond any rational proportion. It is uncanny to me how much we live in a time when hysteria's witch hunts just kick in so easily. It's just one thing after another.

It's one witch hunt after the next. And I don't understand where these things sort of burn out or how. it burns out. Yeah. Well, I think you'll need to see justice and you need to see some actual perpetrator's name. So if it starts with Prince Andrew, I think they can probably trace him to something other than misconduct in public office. But people want to see justice. And I think when you start to break that down, or at least hold some of the people accountable who shielded him from prosecution, maybe there were decisions made. It doesn't have to be going after everybody and destroying everybody's life, but at least saying, look, mistakes were made, and here's where

they were, here's where we can improve in the future, and actually just being honest about what happened. But the fact that there's always been this shroud of mystery around it has really just now allowed it to become something so dangerous. Well, when I hear needing to see justice, I worry that you're getting mob formation, mob action, and scapegoating, and they really want blood more than justice, or they only see blood as a form of justice. And the, you, the, the guillotines are out and that's a witch hunt. That is a witch hunt. That's how we get there.

So, well, listen, I appreciate, I know you have to go. Thank you for being here and thank you for working with Scott. And I look so forward to the book. It seems to me that the book is going to be an opportunity for people who might just not down, might not sit down and read his advice books and sort of get his philosophy and wisdom in a narrative format.

Yeah, exactly. That's how it's going to be. And it's been a laborer love and it's been a way of spending time with Scott every day even though he's no longer with us physically and I hope that I can impart some of that experience to the reader. Want to give us one reframe before you go? Sometimes managing feels like you're not managing. So when you ever have a day that things are spinning out of control, it doesn't necessarily

mean you don't have things under control. Sometimes that's a normal feeling to have and so you just got to push through it. That would be pretty good. That's pretty much today. Joel, thank you so much for being here. Thank you. Pretty soon. Joe Pollock on X, everybody, and also the,

let me give you the papers, because he has an opinion. The CA opinion, hang on, my, speaking of things spinning out of control, my computer's not working. CA opinion, C.A. Post opinion on X as well.

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Today it's J.P. Sears, comedian, author, YouTuber. it is Awakening with JP on Rumble and YouTube. JP, Sears, appreciate you being here. Dr. Drew, thank you for having me on. So since we last talked,

probably was what about, is a year ago, something like that? Yes. At the time, something like that, yeah. At the time,

if I asked you, you know, this is about as bad as it's going to get, right? Things are crazy. and you have plenty to make fun of. And, you know, things will hopefully settle down or move in a sort of pragmatic direction.

Nope, nothing like that happened. Things get weirder all the time. And we're going to get into the whole Epstein thing. What's on your radar? Well, I'm personally a little bit offended that you're even talking about this whole Epstein thing. It's like you haven't even seen the Dow, which is doing pretty good right now.

It's doing pretty good. Bitcoin's down. Trump coins down, Haktua coins down. It dropped after she talked about it, though. Well, yeah. But let's stick to what matters. If we focus on the money,

not the payments justice, who cares? We're living in a house of cards. If you've seen that with Kevin Spacey, it's just like corrupt and layered on corruption. And you don't even need a Netflix subscription to it. It's just, I don't think life is as weird as we think it's we're weirder than we can think. And it's just unfolding in front of us.

Well, what do you, let me ask us, what do you imagine is happening? In other words, I totally agree with you. I mean, the, the television writers for Casso Cards could not have come up with the shit that we're seeing now. They couldn't have come up with it. But what are we into? Why is this unfolding? Is it social media?

Is it just, like you said, it is a house of cards. And once it starts to unravel, here it comes. Someone has some momentum to it or something. Is it all trumped arrangement? Or is it all Trump doing it, shaking the box so hard that everything gets exposed? What do you think it is? Yeah, personally, I think it's the power of we, the people. I think the reason why any of this has come to light.

And I'll acknowledge there's probably far more that's still in the shadows than what's come to light. And I think the reason why... I hope that's not true. I hope you're, I hope you're I hope you're ultimately found to be false. So we'll see. Me too. Me too. I just unfortunately imagine we haven't seen the, the darkest of it. And I think the reason why that's happening, the reason why the Trump administration feels pressure to at least sort of go through the motions is we the people hold a lot of power. And a big part of that is social media and a really big part of that, quite honestly,

is Elon buying X a few years ago being dedicated to free speech. A big part of it is Rumble dedicated to free speech. You can look through the year, people were exposing a Rothschild lady back in 2017. She's got some connections with Epstein, according to Les Wexner, today. And they were getting censored online back in 2017. I remember February 2020, right before we started doing COVID, that's when I put out my first video about Epstein and YouTube censored it.

So the fact that we have social media, but specifically some platforms, Twitter X and Rumble, dedicated to free speech, that's letting we the people express our power. You've got some great people doing actual journalism, putting it out through those channels. And you've got a ton of people voicing their voices, which puts pressure on hours that be to at least go through the motions and pretend like they're doing something. Yeah, I have heard in Europe, in France, in fact, the Marine Le Pen has started saying, what is going on? the people are sovereign. The sovereignty of the people has been lost. It's been lost to these global elites, been lost to this dark banking system. It's been lost to these extremely rich people and NGOs.

There's so many ways in which our sovereignty has been completely undermined is the only word I can think of. But I wish I had something stronger to call what's happened to us. We've been left powerless when, in fact, as you said, we are the sovereigns. At least that was the intent of this government, as I understood it. And the French government, too. And the problem here becomes, how do we establish that sovereignty without, the divide is so great amongst the people. And it's making it hard to establish the sovereignty, I would say. I agree.

The divide amongst people, and there's a lot of division, makes it hard to create sovereignty. however, weirdly enough, silver lining, exposing the criminals in the Epstein files, that's now kind of an issue of unity. I mean, it used to be like, you're crazy for thinking there's Epstein files. It's like, well, I think so. Now everybody's on board. And for the most part, it's like bipartisan. Like we, the people are coming together over what honestly is a national.

national tragedy. It's a world tragedy. I mean, you kind of remember back to 9-11. It's a huge tragedy. Silver lining, it brought people together. Now, the Epstein stuff. I like this. I like this frame. I think this is great. It leads me to want to lean into it because if indeed it's unifying, I'm looking for anything that can be unifying right now. I'll lean into it. I don't understand it. It seems bizarre and ugh to me, but I certainly lean into it on behalf of the justice for the victims. Now, it seems like this country is at least, if not not, at least slow rolling their response to justice for the, or their attempts at justice for the victims. It feels like the fact that the Prince Andrew was arrested, that that somehow gave people hope that, look, If they can do it, why can't we?

Yeah, yeah. By the way, I was shocked. I mean, I've been a big fan of Prince Andrew for so long, like I think so many other people. So we're just like, oh my gosh, he did something wrong. And then you find out, you mentioned it in the first half of the show where he's actually been arrested for exposing trade secrets, like classified information.

Hopefully that leads to like actual investigation of his Epstein-related. sex crimes. So it has given people hope and you can look at that on one hand and say, is it a false hope? Is it a distraction? And I think you'd be crazy to say that governments would be above that. Of course, they're capable of it. But I think there is reason to hope. I think logically, I'd say, don't hold your breath.

But I certainly hope this is a domino of justice in another country that puts pressure on our government officials to do the same damn thing. And Dr. Drew, I'll just share this. You mentioned, you know, there's hopefully, and I think there is, unity happening here over this Epstein tragedy for justice for the victims. And I agree with that. And I think there's something bigger at play. I think the reason why so many Americans, including myself, are holding the line, We like, I'm a fan of Trump. I'm not giving him a pass. I'm going to call balls and strikes when I see it.

Yeah. And Bondi, President Trump, Cash Patel, Bongino, all of them. Because there's something bigger at play. And how I see that is we're building the future for our children and our grandchildren. We're setting a powerful precedent right now of what corrupt people can either get away with or not. And if we let them get away with it now and maybe. and maybe the biggest scandal ever, then we're just writing the check.

Yep, in the future, that's the world. Our children are going to live in and our grandchildren, because we're setting the precedent now. But if we can hold the line of justice, not forget what happened, no matter how much cover-up happens, how impatient we get, I think let's not move on,

because we're setting a powerful precedent. And I think we want to set the precedent that shapes a much better country and world for our grandchildren to live in. Well, I think you're talking about a system of laws and the laws have to be applied. Yeah, that's it. And the fact that we don't and that we defend fraud and that the law enforcement part of our country, the law enforcement officials aren't allowed to do law enforcement. People don't understand that that's what their job is.

we got a lot of retraining to do to, you know, maybe Epstein on down will be how we do it. But there's so many areas, you're obviously right that the system of laws has been sort of like, oh, well, it's just a way of looking at things.

Right. It is so much on down. You know, the highly, highly respected Pambandi, she has one of my favorite quotes of all time. If everybody was prosecuted, the whole system would crumble and we're kind of sitting back like, yeah, if it deserves to crumble,

let it. Yeah, that'll be a painful process. I couldn't even imagine it. Yet Pam's probably telling the truth on that. And it might just be so rotted to the core that it needs to crumble. I don't know what that looks like. I know it wouldn't be present,

but I know there's just rot deep. I wonder, if she means that the system of justice would be overwhelmed. Not that not that taking, pulling out all the criminals would cause it to. I don't know. Caleb, what is the, what is the clicker

you keep put, the timer you keep putting up there? We can celebrate. There's been one arrest, guys. There's been one. The counter is no longer stuck in zero. There's one. That's the arrest counter. And I think wasn't the former president

of Finland arrested last week. And again, that's someone in a different country. So maybe at most we've got two arrests. I keep down a few people. Well, besides Epstein himself, but, you know, I don't count him as an Epstein arrest. He's the source. Yeah.

I keep tagging Pam Bondi on Twitter letting know, like, hey, I can send you some links for leads if you need help. She hasn't responded. No response. Here's a super chat. They're not going to arrest themselves. Americans are too fearful for what needs to happen. We become comfortable in our cowardice.

Yeah, I mean, as the world crumbles says that, speaking of the system crumbling, he or she is correct about that in that we, I feel that way. I feel like I've been living in some sort of, naive state, right? I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, and sort of, um, trust in the system and the leadership, you know, the other thing I've noticed, and I, I'm, I'm championing this

from on high constantly is that people, the most of the people that get into government these days, particularly local government, state governments are not interested in governing. They're interested in representing. I'm representing. I'm here. I'm here to represent. It's like, my job is done now. Mayor Karen Bass, we've got a black social worker, female. Okay, she works done. That's it. She can sit back four years because she's going to represent.

That's it. And then the governance is supposed to happen on its own or something. It's like, in what world? I think people in their right mind, both logically and also having a healthy sense of self, don't want to be in government. That's why I so admire someone like RFK Jr. I don't think he wants to be in government. I think he's called to serve.

But the people who are looking to represent as the city's literally on fire behind her, or they want a position of power so they can feel more significant, probably have no clue the workload and no clue of how to do the workload. I know I would be so unqualified. I don't want to do that work. want to figure it out. I'm not good at it. But I think a lot of these people get into positions. You know, you look at Tim Walts, what he's allowed to happen in Minnesota. I'd be curious to really find out what was he actually aware of? And what did was he just unaware of because he's not

paying attention. Like he he's obviously seeking people of power. Is he actually interested in the 10,000 different nuances he would need to monitor. I don't know. Right. I wouldn't see him. See, Susan, I was feeling like I had to do something. That's why I was looking into doing politics, even though I do not want to.

She wouldn't let me. That was enough to keep me out. It was like, it was enough to keep me out. Like, all right, forget. But you know, Jay Batacharya just got moved over the Centers for Disease Control in addition to the National Institute of Health. And I thought, wow, I wouldn't want either of those jobs.

And he's doing both of them now. He's so awesome. It's so incredible. He is so awesome. But he doing both jobs. I want to go ask him like, like, how's that work? How do you do that? Which I intend to do.

Trust me. I, I, I, because I, because in what he's doing is some of the, what were you and I are talking about, JP, which is what does it take to govern in this, you know, how much, how much are you aware of? How much are you actually involved and what kind of work? What does a day look like? A bunch of meetings and you must be making decisions all the time. Right. And not only that, but also who is he working with? And I'm so grateful that like into the swamp, there are some good people that have gotten in there like by the Chari, RFK Jr. I'm so grateful they're there. But let's remind ourselves, they're in a swamp.

I mean, could you imagine you're not only trying to do a massive amount of work, that'd be so overwhelming. And who you're working with, some of those people, they're literally swamp rats. They're working against you. There's lies manipulation, deception going on. Then you have to play a political role of manipulating the manipulator. Dear God, I mean, I don't know what a good person in the swamp. I'm seeing that Maha to that point is saying they're furious because Trump invokes the what is this defense some sort of production act to promote production of glyphosate

yeah glyphosate oh for defense production um okay I mean yeah the Maha people are very impatient and it's yeah I you know I see I it's very hard for the people that are in there they want to do their job, but it's slow. It's like you're discussing. But my question to you, JP, is what did you imagine? If I were talking to JP in 2017, what would he have told me he would be doing in 2006 and 25? Oh, gosh.

Yeah, just completely different. You know, I would have told you, hey, I'm just doing comedy about these stupid topics, the new age culture, you know, stuff I'm into health trends, exercise. But now it's like, oh, today I recorded a video where I'm playing the PR firm that's representing all of the people in Epstein emails. It's fun. And I'm literally saying lines like eating babies. And it's like, ah, this is, we're into some dark, I think, honestly, satanic stuff that's coming out in the world. And it's not, inherently funny yet using satire to do my best to represent truth and shine light on lies,

corruption, deception. That's what I'm doing a lot with my content. And back in 2017, I luckily lived in such a naive bubble that, you know, my biggest stress was wondering, did we really land on the moon? You know, that Van Allen radiation belt will be a lot to get through. But now I'm just like, I don't know, is the sun at all reptile humanoids? Or is there human DNA in that? Like, no. Yeah.

Oh, you know that Joe Rogan had the greatest vert. Did you remember his little rant on this during his latest Netflix series? Oh, he goes, he goes, he goes. he goes, I don't know what to believe anymore. I hear all these stories and they end up being true. Maybe the world is flat. Maybe we didn't land on the moon. Maybe Michelle Obama does have a, maybe that is what's going on here.

He goes, I don't know. I don't know anything. So, oh, yeah, there was, let's talk about this after the break. Trump took on former President Obama's aliens comments when he was talking to his podcast was he on. He was on with Conan O'Brien. So J.B. Spears is here with me. We'll be right back after this. More of our audience is taking health

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Okay, J.P. series is here with me, and before the break, we were talking a little bit, a little alien talk. And J.P., you were saying that you make fun of lies and deception, that that's your target, which I find fascinating, which is a perfect fodder for irony and, you know, mockery, frankly. But the alien thing, you know, so Obama is on the Conan O'Brien podcast and he says, I don't know, I never seen any of it. First of all he says, aliens exist, okay?

And he doesn't define what he means by that. I'm going to break this down little by little. Do you think aliens exist? Well, I did until Obama said they exist. Okay, good. Okay, good. Good. I figured that would be true.

But one of the things that bothers me about the entire conversation about aliens, it stays in this human anthroposentric, would that be the way to say it? Humanoid category. the universe or universes are so vast and things are moving around the universe at the speed of light on the scale of time and space that our brain can't even begin to sort of wrap around of course there are going to be biological species of various types but they're going to be slugs and viruses and algae and then you know lichen and things like that there are things we've

never heard of but but not likely to be animal like or humanoid that that's a crazy thing that happened on this planet i think because of a confluence of multiple hits on you know how mitochondria that are in our cells are bacteria they are bacteria that found their way inside a plant cell and turned it into an animal cell. It's crazy what happened. In any event. So he says aliens exist. I kind of agree with him, but he didn't define what he means.

I hope he's not talking about humanoids. And that they wouldn't show him any evidence of it. He'd never seen any evidence. But then Trump comes in and says, how dare he divulge such important secrets? Here, Trump calls Obama's alien comments, a big mistake after alleging classified information podcast revelation. Is this real or is this all smokescreen, obfuscation, gaslighting?

Because something else, aren't we about talking? We're going after Iran or something. And so we're going to, every time aliens come up, it seems like it's a smokescreen for something else. I kind of think the latter. I mean, the timing of we're in the thick of the Epstein files. There's Israel. There's Iran. And so I think that's where I'm at on it.

I think, I don't know if you saw it, Sean Ryan put out a fiery three-minute video on Twitter a couple nights ago. Just going off about the Epstein files, and he mentions Obama saying, by the way, there's aliens and just calls it out. Like, this is a classic move of distraction. You look at the timing of it. By the way, a couple of years ago, I heard people saying like, yeah, when the Epstein stuff starts coming out, they're going to say there's aliens. And like, yeah, they're saying it now. But yeah, like, it'd be cool if there are, but not like the amoeba ones that you're talking about. Those are boring alien.

It'd be cool if they have like a owl, like a wolf owl they find on Venus maybe. That'd be cool. But back to the Epstein files. Okay. Alien, great. Food's guilty. Which would be which? The owl body, owl face, wolf body. How are we going to put that together? Oh, yeah. You definitely go with the owl body and the wolf face. It's just more unpredictable. Oh, yeah.

Can it fly? How did you, you said you were, you were bringing up Epstein years ago. How did you find your way to his stuff? So I found my way to his stuff, you know, after he, after he definitely killed himself. Or if I could quote, in Van Gino, he definitely killed himself. You know, that came out and there's, there were some serious discrepancies. Why were the security cameras off? Why were the guards not there? What happened to the cellmate?

So then ever, like, you start getting sex. censored for talking about anything other than the narrative. So I just play Mr. Detective on a comedy video and I'm just making a case for why Epstein definitely didn't kill himself. And that just gets censored from YouTube, which then made me like more intrigued by what I was saying. Like, okay, yeah, literally censoring this speech. What did I say? Yeah. There might be more to look into. But that's what drew me in. It's both the story of Epstein and killing himself or not, but then the censorship around it, that was the real magnet to draw my attention in. Well, you're early to that understanding, I would say, because I hope most people understand now

that to have a disagreement, to not like what somebody's saying, to attack them online, all the nonsense we all do, or I don't do what people do. I don't do. I don't. I know. I the recipient of, that's for sure, is different than getting censored. When you're getting censored, now we have a PSYOP. Now we have a superior force operating

and censoring our speech and taking away our civil liberties, and there's a reason for that. We may not know the reason, but there is a reason. So good for you for sort of sensing that. Are there things happening right now that you see that are being sort of

suppressed in any way, that we should be that suggests we're over the target somewhere that we should all be looking at more carefully? That's a good question. You know, I'm probably so attention-focused on the Epstein stuff. I'm probably missing stuff. And for all I know, we're talking about,

they're aliens, that's the diversion from Epstein. Well, what's Epstein the diversion from? So I do find it interesting. The 50,000 Dow, we should be talking about that, as you pointed out. That's why we have censorship so we can better focus on the Dow. But also another answer to your question, I am interested on free speech around Israel, not Jewish people, not the people of Israel, but the government of Israel, where there's a number of people in government that are trying to pass like anti-hate speech laws, which is completely

unconstitutional. And of course, what we've seen in the past is, anti-hate speech, it's more about banning speech that speaks counter to a certain narrative. And then, you know, allegedly yesterday with Tucker Carlson being detained in Israel, you know, my ears have been perked up about that government. And I think it's very sane to suspect that literally any government in the world has some corrupt shadowy stuff going on, including our own and including Israel. So I'm interested in that.

Yeah, they're not alone in this, I would call it, what's a good word for the attack on free speech? Evil's not quite it. Misguided, this misguided effort to suppress free speech. where we have Macron out there saying free speech is bullshit. It's all nonsense, you know. And so it's...

At least he's honest. He is not a... We have got to do something about this. And I don't... You know, it's so interesting that when I just... It just occurred to me that we... There's a lot of energy and concern put into income inequality, right? What are we going to do about this income inequality?

What are we going to do about this income inequality? What are we going to do about... about it. It's people, people are making all this money and then there's all the rest of us down here. Really quietly, what's been happening, it's, it's the money and the income inequality has created an elite that is so powerful that they're profoundly dangerous. They're just profoundly dangerous. We shouldn't be talking about income inequality, but what to do with an elite that feels above all of us, above everything, above the system. That is so disgusting and so dangerous.

And we haven't been able to deal with it. Maybe California is right to have a billionaire tax. I don't know. I think it's a horrible economic construct. But what do we do to downsize the influence and the ability of people who are in this class to think they should tell the rest of us how to live our lives? Yeah, you know, I have no problem with them telling us how to live our lives, because I'm not going to listen, but they can say what they want all day long. You should live this way.

And not listening is the antidote for that. However, I think when they get into their positions of power, mostly unelected, I think the real antidote for this, and it's easier to say a long-term solution, but, We have to elect principled leaders who will not be selling out their influence to a donor so that that leader can do their bidding. We just need more principled people who don't want to be in office, therefore they're not just like, I'm after power and significance, but uncorruptible people who are just strongly principled. And I think our founding fathers were that, they were so darned principled. they were willing to die for what they believed in. And freedom is what they believed in. Do you, can you think of a, is there anyone in office or out that you think of as somebody who is a good example of that?

That's a great question. You know, I think RFK Jr. Ron DeSantis, RFK, Oranda Santos, Elon Musk, any of these people, sort of they seem principled. RFK Jr. seems incredibly principled, both of my personal interactions with him, and then what he's doing in office. And I know he's not in an elected position. He's in a appointed position. I get it. Honestly, there's not many. If you would have asked me a year ago, I would say, damn it, President Trump, pretty good. And I still support president. Trump. However, I'm a truth loyalist, not a Trump loyalist. So I'll call balls and strikes and say it absolutely looks like he's helping orchestrate a cover up here with Epstein stuff. That's not principled. That's being influenced by some kind of outside power. So,

man, there's not very many, but I would, I'm glad I can list at least one from my perspective, RFK Jr. Yeah, that is good. If we could just get and find a few more and put them into a position. It is strange times, but I appreciate you there poking fun at them because the satire does get through, I think. I was talking to Adam Crolla a couple of years ago, and we both looked at your show and we thought the only hope is mockery. You have to mock these people because they don't respond to anything else. and mockery somehow, I don't know, gets people to stop and realize they're being foolish.

Yeah, you know, being made fun of is an incredible medicine for self-awareness. Now, you know, you don't want to make fun of someone in a bullying sense who's, you know, undeserving. But mockery and even really amplifying it when someone is being incredibly deceptive, the intent behind it is self-awareness around what's going on with this person. You want two things to happen. One, you want other people to see what's really going on. So self-awareness through the mockery. And ideally, that person, if they're not a sociopath, they can feel their emotions

when they're being mocked, if they have a level of connection with themselves, they can like see the truth reflected to them, oh, what about myself have I kind of been falsely projecting here? Now, don't hold your breath on that happening with everybody who's being mocked. But I agree. I think mockery, it's an important tool to use, especially in the face of corruption and tyrancy. You know who might be a good person to fill the shoes you're looking for?

I think Marco Rubio might be a good one. Do you agree? I don't know that much about Marco Rubio, to be honest with you. So I don't have a positive or a negative. I've heard noise, you know, in the negative. I've heard noise in the positive. But with my own eyes, I haven't looked deep enough to him as an individual yet. Well, as I said, I'm glad you're there making fun of them.

And I'm delighted when you spend a little time with us. It's always good to talk to you. We'll look for you on X. It is Awaken with JP on Rumble and YouTube and on X. Awakened withjapy.com and Awakened withjapy.com slash pages slash tour. You're having a tour on where you do it live? Oh, no, that's old.

That's fake news. I just ended my tour last year and I am, I've been touring for like eight years straight. So this is my, I'm taking at least a year off. It's just great to be home as my family grows. and put more focus on my video work. Your tours are just stand-up tours, or are you actually doing podcasting while you tour?

Well, at times pick up a few podcasts as I'm going, but it's primarily stand-up tour. And I don't know if you want to, you don't have to obviously divulge this, but where do you live? What state, what region? Yeah, I'm on Epstein Island. It's nice here, a great view.

The real estate here. video of it yesterday. Yeah, it's gone down. It's beautiful. It really is, it is something. And little, you can get control the real estate a little more easily now. Exactly. Now, I'm in Austin, Texas.

Okay. Great. Well, we spend a lot of time in Austin. So it's a lovely place to spend a little to live. It's a lovely town. All right, my friend, good to see you. And we will look for you anywhere else you want us to look for you or any upcoming books or any other sort of anything to promote? Nope. You can find me on all the socials,

Awaken with JP, or just avoid me at Awaken with JP if you find me offensive. Oh no. If they find you offensive, you're doing your job. So they need to find you offensive. Come on now. If you find them offensive, lean in. You're too much of a dandelion or a, what do they call it? you're too, God, my, my, I still have jet lag. You're too easily offended. I'm going to leave it at that.

JPM, thank you again. Dr. Drew, thank you for having me. You got it. All right. Let me look at what is going on here with you guys in the re-stream real quick before we look at our upcoming guest. Caleb, somebody on this thing,

I commented on what he or she said, said they sat next to me at a restaurant and I made them so nervous they couldn't read here. I sat next to a restaurant. I was Star Trek so I couldn't read the menu. I'm like, I wish people would just say hi. That is so crazy to me. That one time that you and Susan were down here in Alabama and we went out to eat.

And it was, I would say, every 10 or 15 minutes, even though it was late at night, someone would walk by and they would stop. They'd be like, they knew you. They just had to shake your hand. Oh yeah, I've been listening to you since I was. 12 years old and I'm 40 now and it was just a constant stream of them. So I think there's a lot of people. That's fine. That's fine to say hi and shake hands, whatever that, but to be like shocked or overwhelmed or scared or anything like that, don't do that. It's not, it's, we're all

people. Nothing unusual going on here. Ask Caleb. Ask Susan. Snowflake. Thank you, Snowflake. Thank you, Marine Brown. That's the word I was looking for, a snowflake. Okay. And then let me quickly go over to the rants and see, Tom, what's going on with you guys? Did I get it right that the prime minister or whatever they used to call him that Henry 8th had beheaded was Thomas Moore or was it Thomas Beckett or which one was that? Barsh, I'm going to look for you on that one. All right, give me the upcoming guest. Apparently, so it was reportedly the last senior royal who was arrested was King Charles I, who was eventually. beheaded in 1649.

So it's been a while. That's the, that's the English Civil War, the English Revolution. They actually had a revolution before the French did. It was a little more complicated. That's Oliver Cromwell and all that stuff. So next week, I'm going to be in Florida.

Do you have any of the, well, let's put up the upcoming guest. Michael Shermer coming out of the 25th. His book The Truth is very interesting. Dr. Paul Alexander, I haven't talked to him forever. I'm dying to talk to him. Jesse Kelly, Scott Presler. So many good guests, Bob. For us, Honey Boo Boo and her family is coming in and say her, gee, look at his threads on X. They've been amazing lately.

Uncle Cliff is somebody I found on, I think, Instagram, and he was just so funny and so glib and so willing to just say it like he saw it. I thought, I should talk to Uncle Cliff. Maybe can straighten some of this stuff out for me. I'm always looking for people that can, Scott Adams, I found him that way. I'm looking for people that can make me understand things and feel better about things and understand where we are. where we're going because it is all kind of mysterious to me that we hear this is where we are

okay what was I saying Caleb I lost my train of thought now I'm so tired I could thankful oh next week I'm going to be in Florida at at a event to I'm going to try to get a flyer for you guys if I can hold on some details

about it's going to be at Mara Lago do I know about this Caleb that I tell you about what we're doing I can't I'm not really sure because you had a different Mar-a-Lago event. This isn't the Gianno event? This is Gianno Caldwell. He's a Fox News contributor and his brother was shot

and killed in Chicago. And he very courageously decided that he could not abide by this. He couldn't just do nothing. He had to do something. And so he set up an incident, not-for-profit, essentially, here we are, that is designed to address

violence in this country. It's the Caldwell Foundation for Public Safety. The gala is on Tuesday, February 24th at Marilago. I don't know where people go to get tickets. I think if you just look up the Caldwell Foundation for public safety, you would probably find everything there. But we'd love to have people join. I mean, this is an important cause. And Gianno has been relentless in his efforts to try to do something on behalf of his poor brother. Is that something? Is that it to put up?

Yeah, this is the event. Okay. Okay. So there you go. So you can find it there. And otherwise, we are doing shows. Let's see. Hold on now.

I think we get back to New York right after that. So we start doing shows on Thursday, Tuesday and Thursday we're doing shows. Is that correct? I believe so. Yeah. Some of them keep changing. but whatever, yeah, the calendar seems. Yeah, Tuesday doesn't make sense, because that's the event.

But definitely Thursday at 2 o'clock. We'll be seeing you there. I heard some talk of Friday also, but we got a set next week. All right. Thank you all for being here. Thank you to my guests, and we will see you next week. Ask Dr. Drew is produced by Caleb Nation and Susan Pinsky. Emily Barsh is our content producer.

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