Ask Dr. Drew - Latinos For Trump: Why They Voted For MAGA & Mass Deportations Of Illegal Immigrants w/ Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar & Chris Salcedo + How ChatGPT Endangers Mentally Ill Users w/ Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 565

Episode Date: December 14, 2025

The 2024 election was very confusing for Libs. After years of pandering to minority groups and “expert” predictions that Trump’s immigration policies would lose his Latino supporters, a Pew study found Latino Americans surged to MAGA with over 48% – actually rising from 36% in 2020. But for people who aren’t racist panderers, the explanation is simple. Cultural traits common among many Mexican-American immigrants — Catholic faith, traditional family values, commitment to hard work and law-following — align with conservative ideas. Many Latino immigrants resent those who cross the border illegally and view legal immigration as a matter of principle – because they worked hard, followed the law, and distrust those who won’t do the same. In fact, a recent study found Latino Americans are powering US economic growth, reaching an estimated $3.7 trillion of our GDP. Chris Salcedo is a television and radio broadcaster, political analyst, and podcaster. He is Executive Director of the Conservative Hispanic Society and author of The Rise of the Liberty-Loving Latino. Follow at https://x.com/CSalcedoShow⠀Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar is the U.S. Representative for Florida’s 27th District and a five-time Emmy Award-winning journalist. She is the author of “Dignity Not Citizenship” available at https://amzn.to/4q14rdc and was born in Miami’s Little Havana to Cuban exiles. Follow at https://x.com/MaElviraSalazar⠀Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring is a board-certified psychiatrist and former FDA Medical Officer. He is Medical Director of TaperClinic, specializing in de-prescribing psychiatric medications, and runs a growing YouTube channel focused on mental health education. Follow at https://x.com/drjosefWD 「 SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS 」 • 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 」 Ask Dr. Drew is produced by Kaleb Nation (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://kalebnation.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠) and Susan Pinsky (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/firstladyoflov⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠e⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠). 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 & Booking • 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

Well, we're going to start out today with Chris Salcido. He is a television and radio broadcaster, political analyst, executive director of the conservative Hispanic society, author of The Rise of Liberty Loving Latinos. You can follow him on X at C. Salcido Show. Then Maria Elvira Salazar will join him. She's the U.S. House of Representatives for Florida's 27th District. Emmy Award-winning journalist, author of Dignity, not Citizenship,

which is from Miami, born to Cuban exiles. She is at Ma Elvira, M-A-L-Vyra Salazar on X. And Dr. Joseph Watt Daring joins us again. Board Certified Psychiatrist, former FDA medical officer, medical director of the Taper Clinic, talking about D-prescribing. You can follow him on DR Joseph, J-O-S-E-F-W-D. We've got a lot to talk with everybody about. So, including some breaking news out of Venezuela,

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and a 2026 holiday caravan stop. Learn more at Canada's Wonderland.com. All right, let's get right to it with Chris Salcido. Chris, welcome the program. Dr. Drew, great to be with you. Pleasure to have you. Tell me about the book, first off. The rise of the liberty-loving Latino and New American Revolution.

Well, it is about, if I want to just wrap it up in a bow, it is about the greatest political revolution to hit this country since the formation of the Republican Party. It chronicles, well, I guess I got to go back to the beginning of the Chris Alcedo show. I got out of news and got into opinion and I needed a moniker and I love alliteration. So I said, you know what? Liberty. I love liberty. Yeah, I'm a Latino. Yeah. So I need to be a liberty loving Latino. There you go. And that was my moniker. and when I started an opinion over at the Blaze Radio, we started developing these concepts about how the Latino community's natural home was inside the Republican Party,

or on the conservative side of the ledger, I should say. And with the election of President Donald J. Trump, that reality that I've been preaching about for years, we saw it come to pass. Majority of Latino males voted for President Trump in the last election and a record-breaking number of Latinos were at large voted for President Trump in the last election and there's several reasons why

and I go into all of that in the book and not just going over my interview with President Trump before the election as kind of how we couch everything but also look forward. How can we maintain this level of engagement in the Latino community engaged now

and maintaining freedom, liberty, prosperity? Well, I don't understand why this is a surprise to people. I remember speaking to a bank loan officer in the 1980s who was explaining to me that the population that they preferred to loan to for housing for Latinos because there were multiple generations in the home, there was conservative economic financial values, there was stability, all the things you're talking about.

There was a, I wouldn't say there was a love of capitalism, but there was sort of a conservative approach to building a life and being responsible members of society and then again, taking care of the family often multiple generations. This has been going on for a long time. Why only now are we coming to think of this

as conservative values or Republican values? Well, it was the work ethic too that feeds all of that. And because the United States of America provides that ability to work hard and then see a fair return on your work. work. That's what attracted so many of my ancestors. I'm third generation. My ancestors came here. People from Latino countries came here because the Democrats, the Democrat equivalent had taken

over in their countries and of course ruined their countries. So they wanted to flee to a place where they could get a fair return on their money and their work. And then here we go. They were shocked to find the most recent importees that the Democrat Party had turned America into the very kind of nation that they had fled from. And so Abolitas, they were all out there saying, hey, look, grandmothers and grandfathers are looking

saying, hey, man, this is what our family left, and this is what the Democrats have turned us into here during the Biden regime. And a lot of Latinos, to their credit, joined the fight for freedom and said, you know what, we no longer believe that Democrats are an American

party, because they've shown us something different. They look more like the castros of the world. They look more like the Maduro's of the world or the Shavez's of the world. And Latinos finally said enough. Well, let's break that down a little bit because it's always been the case that the Cuban refugees were got the message, so to speak. They were, they were vehemently on one side of the aisle. And I will have just absolute categorical, I don't have a strong enough word. My friends that are Cuban have very strong, we visited Cuba

and they barely spoke to us for a while after that. But that's the kind of feeling they have about what was done to their country. And they see it coming, they recognize that they know what leads to this sort of stuff. So they've been there for a long time. And I still

don't understand, like you said, people that come up here from Central America, from Mexico, South America even, excuse me, were here for work. They saw the opportunity here and they came to work. Why did they ever, why were they ever sort of part of the democratic regime? Why did they, well, it seems anathema to me to their values. That's why I'm trying to understand why this is a new thing. Well, first off, the Cubano's, the reaction the

Cubano's had to left-wing thought is because they, they saw their lives ruined by communists, right? And now you understand why I, your liberty-loving Latino, have such a visceral reaction to Democrats. I have the same reaction. The same principles on display from Castro have been on display from the modern day Democrat Party. It's true. There's a lot of factors that they go into this. The Democrat Party, since Barack Obama, has been on a steady decline towards socialism, overt socialism and communism. So that was new. 20 years ago, you could probably make the case that the Democrat Party was still an American party and that Latinos, things hadn't gotten bad enough for Latinos to actually say that's not for me anymore, but it really

hit its apex, really hit its climax in the era of Joe Biden, in the era of Obama, when they started taking that party into complete bat guano crazy spheres. And I'll give you an example. And we will talk about this extensively in the book. It is my firm belief that it was the cultural stuff that you made allusion to, Dr. Drew, that opened the door for Latinos to see what President Trump was offering. Open the door for the possibility that there could be something else. What am I talking about? Well, this idea that little Johnny can be little Susie. Little Susie can be Little Johnny. The best woman for the job in female sports is a man. Men can have babies. And then there was the real straw that broke the camel's back was this whole Latin X nonsense because of the Democrats' devotion to the- What was that? What was that? Well, I'm going to tell you, diversity inclusion equity, the die program, diversity inclusion equity, cultural Marxism. We were being told as Latinos by Democrats, by leftists, hey, your beautiful Spanish language. We're going to need you to change that. For any of you have had first-year Spanish.

you know that there are feminine and masculine assignments to certain Spanish words. They ended in an A or an O, okay? So the Democrats said, because we don't want to get to this whole gender thing anymore, we're crazy, we're nuts. We're going to have to ask you as Latinos to get rid of the Latino, Latina,

and we're going to ask you to go Latinx. And I don't care who you are with your conservative. liberal, whether you're a Republican or a Democrat, nobody likes Latin X. So they opened up the war with that, that idiocy, Dr. Drew. And then thank goodness there was something over on the Republican side for Latinos to find because if Mitch McConnell had been over there, the Latinos would have kept on walking, but it was President Trump who gave them a different vision. I kind of feel like the Hispanic community, and to be fair, Hispanic community is not a monolith, right?

I mean, Cubans are not the same as Honduran's are the same as Nicaragua. There's a lot of different culture and identities and even political ideas and amongst Hispanics. And so I get a little nervous when we lump them all together. But I have this feeling that they fell victim to the same thing that the African American community fell victim to, which is like, hey, if that person looks like me and talks like me, they must share all my values. when it feels like what actually happened is what got elected was a bunch of people that were interested in their own interests and their own political careers

and really not their ultimately maybe at the beginning they did but ultimately not really giving a damn about the constituency, really understanding about more interested in holding power for themselves. You're more right than you know, especially in my home state of Texas. Down there on the southern border

along the U.S.-Mexico border in 2020, all of those counties, those majority of Latino counties, were all voting Democrat. They were all blue. After Joe Biden opened up the borders and the Democrats opened up the borders, I had Democrats coming on my show saying we're begging and pleading, we're begging and pleading the Democrats to stop this illegal immigration. And the White House, the Beijing Biden White House, they wouldn't take the Democrats' calls down there on the border.

They didn't want to hear it. They told him to go shove it. So now, in 20204 in the last election, all of those counties are now red because the Democrats said, hey, I don't care about your communities. You're going to take it for the cause. You're going to take it for the advancement of left-wing extremism, socialism, communism, communism, and a lot of Latinos said no. Well, it feels to me like this is identity politics gone bad. I think that's what happened. And I think the Latino community is waking up that the best man or woman for the job is what they should be looking for, not for somebody that looks a certain way or talks, you know, as it just we are, it may be it's, I wonder, it makes me even wonder if there is sort of a pattern for immigrants in America generally to do this.

It makes sense to me that when you arrive here, you're going to be attracted, you're going to live around people that talk your language. you're going to, you know, stay with people that understand your culture. But if you really do that long enough on the, on the electoral front, you're going to end up finding people that are just exploiting that. And I think that's what has happened here. Am I, am I far off? No, no, no. I think you're striking on a certain element.

There's actually a something I talked about in the book called the TPO, the progressive pecking order chart. And this is how Democrats, you know, segment everything the Democrats, exploit, whether it be blacks, Latinos, gays. Now they're on to the whole trans idiocy. Everybody they chew up and spit out is to advance their own political ideology. And everybody's catching wind of it. Or their careers, or their individual careers. Exactly. And once you're of no use to the Democrats, i.e., when President Trump won the majority of Latino men in the last election, what did MSNBS do, Dr. Drew? He jumped on the ear and said that we Latinos were

misogynists and we were hate-filled people because we didn't vote for for cackling Kamala coronated Kamala that's that's what democrats do once you have no use to them more they discard you it's a weird time we it's it's just so funny to me and and yeah i i they it's going to be really interesting to see how the particularly like you're Cuban but i wonder how the Mexican-American community is going to there's so many things that are anathema to Mexican. You're also Mexican? Okay. I'm Mexican descent. I'm not Cuban descent. Yeah. Oh, perfect. I love Cubano. I love Marco Rubio, have a lot in common with the Cubano's. A lot of my friends are Cubano's. But I am of Mexican descent. But I grew up in the People's Republic of California. And I saw the way things could be. And I watched the disintegration as that state welcomed any illegality and the destructive force of that in a nation, that's supposed to be a nation. of laws. Yeah.

And I confuse your heritage with Representative Salazar who will bring in a few minutes. She's Cuban fully. And, but it, I'd be curious to see how Mexican Americans get attacked

because there's a lot of things about Mexican culture that are not democratic stalwart topics. You know what I mean? I mean, if you watch, I like, for instance,

I get fascinated by Mexican television. because on Mexican TV there's one thing you'll notice men are men and women are women and it's very clear it's very clear and that yeah and that is

something that I think oh we'll see if they get attacked for that one day I've always wondered why that was sort of we'll see how it goes but I bet you as you move on a certain direction as a community you'll start to get attacked for that well Dr. Drew

let's not forget Democrats are not very fond of Catholics. They're not fond of Catholics at all. You saw how the Biden regime created Catholics. Majority of Latinos are Catholics, right? A lot of Mexicans are Catholic. That's what's so crazy to me that we're in, that this is all a surprise to people.

The more we sort of dig through all the qualities that are so rich in the Latino culture, you realize that not a lot of them line out. Certainly not with the progressive stuff. Yeah. Democrats really don't like what we're about. They like Latinos, they like blacks, they like gays, to the point to where we're advantaging their political objectives,

which is the advancement of socialism, communism. Up until that point, until we're of no use for them, then we're out. And that's exactly what we saw play out in the last election. President Trump just says, hey, man, come vote for me, let's make America first. And a lot of Latinos said thumbs up. Well, if you could stick with us for a few minutes, we're going to welcome Representative Salazar in here just a second to, I think she may be in Norway.

That's what I heard. Is that true season? Yeah. Give her a minute. She just got out of bed. She's putting on her makeup. So she'll be here too soon. She's going from one work to the next.

She's not out of bed. It's got to be five in the morning there. No, it's 1.30 in the morning. No, it's nine hours later. That's what I've been hearing in my ear. I've been hearing somebody having a discussion with Spanish. And I'm like, wait a minute, who is that? I thought it was my, you know, I thought it was my brain.

No, I don't know if she was in bed. I'm just, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm so excited she's on her way. Yeah, we appreciate her to be being here. And we will get to her just after this. Next year, the national debt is going to hit $40 trillion. As insane as that sounds, it's even worse when you consider unfunded liabilities for Social Security and Medicare. care. If our status as the world's reserve currency suddenly changes, our nation could collapse

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Dr. Drew called me unfixable. And to remind you, you can follow Chris Salcido on. Let me get you his X handle. It is C. Salcedo show. Congresswoman Maria Alvira Salazar, she is M.A. Elvira Salazar on X. Salazar. Salazar.com. Congresswoman, welcome to the program.

Thank you very much. I'm trying to fix everything. It's 2 o'clock in the morning in Oslo, and we're waiting for the Nobel Peace Prize winner to arrive. She's going to be here at any time, but I knew that I needed to do your show, so here I am. The effort is monumental and deeply appreciated.

And I don't know why you agreed to do this at 2 in the morning, but we appreciate it nevertheless. No problem. So I don't know if you heard what Chris and I were talking about, but we were sort of discussing, yeah, the sort of unnatural, frankly, history with a Latino community and the sort of left-leaning world. I'm going to move it a little bit. It sort of... Right here.

So you can... Don't get that glare, so I think that there's some glare there. No, no, we're good. Right in front of my face, but there's a light, so... It is pretty good. It looks good. Yeah, believe me, you would be hearing from Susan, my wife, who's very much all about the camera angles, if there was some. It's a gift from God.

Yeah, it looks more like you're shining and you're basking in the light. So, and if you didn't hear we said earlier, I was saying, you know, I have lots of Cuban friends and you're of Cuban descent. And the Cubans that fled the catastrophe that is Castro's Cuba

have always been very clear about their political orientation. But it seems like, so many other, and again, something we pointed out is the Latino community is not a monolith. It's a diverse community with lots of cultures and languages, then pictures, histories, but that they're all kind of moving in the same direction. Is that accurate? Well, in 2024, the Latino community gave an opportunity to President Trump like no other. Fifty-five percent of the Hispanic males have voted for President Trump in 2024.

He promised the mass deportations. We all agreed that the battle embrace needed to be taken out. Trandaragua and all those people who came in without us knowing who they were, came in through the southern border during the disaster that Biden created in those four years. He was in the White House when it comes to immigration. What I'm understanding right now, and that's why so many like voters supported Donald Trump, because they heard that Trump was promising better economy,

that he was promising to seal the southern border, which President Trump did, and that he was going to fix the economy, which he has, and that he was going to stop with the, like you were saying, the gender ideology, the wholeness, that has nothing to do with the Hispanic community. I do believe that President Trump, and that's why I wrote that book,

that you just showed this dignity, not citizenship. President Trump has a historical opportunity right now to keep the Hispanics in the GOP fold by giving them dignity to those who have been here for more than five years, do not, do not have a criminal record. And they have been contributing to the economy, specifically in construction, hospitality, and agricultural. And give them what I call the dignity status, not citizenship or amnesty. Immigration is one of the most important topics and most toxic topics in the country 70% of illegals are Hispanic

and this is a historical moment for the GOP and for the Republican Party to bring us into the fold because Hispanics, like you said, we're not monolithic but there are certain values that are across the border from Argentina to Honduras to Cuba to Nicaragua, to Guatemala, to El Salvador, to Peru, to Ecuador, to Venezuela. We're of God-fearing, law-abiding, taxpaying, family-oriented, churchgoers,

and we want to live in dignity, not necessarily citizenship for those who are illegals. So what does the Dignity Act look like? It looks like that you have been here, and this is the art of the possible. As I said, 40 years of... illegal immigration where many people have gained the system when it comes to asylum seeking. So what we do is that we seal the border. We concentrate ice on the bad hombres. Let's look for the trendoragua and for the gang members.

But those who have been here historically five, 10, 15 years working in key sectors, don't give them citizenship, don't give them amnesty, give them dignity. So they can stay never with a path to citizenship, but at least they can continue contributing to the economy that we need so much. It's impossible for the United States to grow as an economy and to continue being the number one military in the world. If we don't grow economically and for us to be able to grow, we need hands.

And those hands may come from the legal sector, which is here already. And we need people. We need people. Are you concerned that the same thing will happen all over again where that group that is living here under the Dignity Act, should it be a reality, get co-opted as a voting force? We'll just say, oh, if you get a driver's license, you can vote, and then here we go.

So how do we prevent that? Well, let me start with the fact that Hispanics who are illegals don't really care about voting. The Democratic Party for 40 years has played political football with the Hispanic community, which happens to be the fastest growing and the largest minority in the country. So we, the GOP, we need to pay attention to them like President Trump did, and bring them into the fold and keep them under the Republican Party. What's happening right now.

I hear you, but I'm wondering why not have a, I mean, And pretty much everybody agrees, we've got to close the border, got to have a border, got to control what's happening here. But a lot of people also on the same breath will go, we need immigration reform. We need a rational road to citizenship. Is there, I mean, I feel like the Dignity Act, are you trying to get something in place because you don't think immigration reform is possible? Immigration reform is almost impossible. It's almost impossible. Okay, tell me.

For 40 years, it has been impossible for 40 years. Yeah. Why is that true? Because. Why is that so? Because most of my colleagues in the GOP believe or fear that they're going to be accused of giving amnesty to those people who snuck in illegal. So that's why I'm saying no citizenship, no amnesty. Because there is a concern about being primary because there is a concern for my.

colleagues and it's legitimate to be accused of something that they are really not trying to give, which is amnesty. Amnesty is a very broad term that no one has really defined. So I defined it by not giving citizenship, by not giving federal programs, by not allowing them to vote, obviously, by making a very fine mandatory, by just bringing out of the shadows, the historical, people who have been here working in those three sectors thereies, slaughterhouses, hospitality,

agricultural, construction, people who are needed. So bring them out of the shadows, give them the opportunity to pay for their crimes, pay $7,000 over seven years, according to the dignity law, allow for them to pay 1% of their salary to the National Treasury.

That's another way of paying for their crimes. But allowing them to stay, go home for Christmas, come back, buy a car, a home, pay taxes, open a credit card. The economic boom would be immense for the United States. And those National Association of Manufacturers who say that they need 400,000 jobs that they cannot fail, and those people who are in the roofing business

and in the restaurant business, Those people will have hands. It's simple. It's just a political willingness. I want to bring Chris Calcedo in here a second to get his view on this. Before I do, though, how do you find being a representative in the House? How is that experience? Fascinating, frustrating, and very taxing, physically and emotionally.

But we love, we're Cuban-American first generation. I was born in the city of Miami. We love the American exceptionality. and the American way of life. So that's why I'm fighting in order to be able to continue winning elections. Because if we don't win elections, you cannot change laws. Are you shocked by your new mayor? Speaking of winning elections?

Very, very shocked. Why is that? Because ICE has the wrong mandate. And I've been telling the White House that it's time for us to concentrate on the battle embrace. do not deport or chase those people who do not have a criminal record and have been here for more than five years. That's a mistake because you are sending

perception is reality in life and you're sending the message to those people who came in for the first time to the GOP that they're not welcomed. I always said that the Hispanics married Donald Trump. They're only dating the GOP. And it can always go back to their old boyfriend. And the old boyfriend.

Why? Why so attracted to the old boyfriend? Was it the abusiveness? What was it about that old boyfriend that is so attractive? The fact that ICE has the wrong mandate and they are taking and they are creating chaos and terror in the different communities and is not those who are being deported because they're illegals and they cannot vote. but I'm talking about the independence and those Hispanics who know that person who was just removed from the country and that brings a bad taste

because of the way it was done. I repeat ice. I understand that ice is doing its job. Period. We just need to direct and tweak what's the directest. Concentrate on the gang members and trender up.

I'm amazed I heard today some data that essentially the mayor was elected on approximately 12% of the Miami citizens who showed up to vote only 20% showed up and about a little more than half of them voted for her so it's essentially about 12% of the Miami citizens were responsible for the direction of the spent which it sort of goes to your point that the feeling around this can really sway things one way or the other. I want to bring Chris Salsito back in to get his opinion on this. And Chris, you want to have an opinion? Well, on Miami or about ICE's mission? Look, I think Tom Holman's doing exactly the right thing. There is no predicate for an illegal alien to be in this country whatsoever. There is no justification for it. Our laws are quite clear. And Tom Holman has said we're going after, as the congresswoman articulated, the bad hombres first, but if they happen to come across somebody who's an illegal alien, the folks in Tom Holman's charge are not going to look the other way. The Congress has not updated legal immigration

since the 1950s. That's what Congress has to do. They have to get up all their lazy butts and actually put into place real reform that put some of this technology to work so that legal immigration to get the people in here that we need, that they benefit the United States of America, that there's nothing wrong with the country saying, hey, we want to welcome in people who are benefit, who are going to work, who are going to be productive. There's nothing wrong with that whatsoever. But saying that, well, we need people here, so we're going to look the other way on illegal immigration, nothing good ever comes from a nation that breaks its own laws. We've got millions upon millions of illegal aliens, and just 15 million or so of them came in in the last

regime that do not belong in our country. They don't belong here. And there is no right that anybody has around the world to come to America. And there's certainly no right. Anybody around the world, a foreign national has the right to break into my country. So this tolerance to do is roll in the welcome, Dr. Drew, and say, illegal aliens shouldn't be able to rent, shouldn't be able to buy houses, shouldn't be able to have all of, should not be able to be made easy in their illegality, and that way, people will be inspired to get right with the law. But we have somebody from the house who does not seem lazy and does not seem like someone who's unwilling to get off her seat to go make a difference.

And what she has told me is that immigration reform is impossible. And so she's trying to come up with a solution that keeps people in the fold and solves this problem of, you know, not. looking the other way, but creating a formal status. Am I getting that right to Congresswoman? And I understand what Chris is trying to say, that this is just the art of the possible. There are three things that you have to consider. Number one, that those three industries need to continue working. And I understand that they say, well, they are taking jobs away from the average American work. Why don't we then make E-Verify mandatory? No one has dared to do that. Why do you

think that is. So you see, I'm trying to create a level playing field here. Why? For the guy who's giving him a job and for the guy who is, it's because there are three sectors that are very important. Instruction, hospitality, agricultural, dairy, slaughterhouses, of course. So then what don't we do amen? What don't we make a verify mandatory? At the same time, why don't we bring out of the shadows, those people that Chris says that they broke the law. Indeed, they did. But someone gave them a job. job. And someone has given them a job for 15 to 20 years. Oh, that person who owns the fields or the restaurants or the construction, I understand when you talk to him. And he says, well, but I need

workers. And then it starts this world that then you do not know when you're going to end. So what do we just do what's the art of the possible? We don't have enough agents to deport how many, 10, 15? I'm not talking about the Biden migrants. I'm talking about. I'm talking about the historicals, the people who do not have a criminal record, people who have been paying taxes, and have been working on those three main industries. Let's be realistic. We do not have enough agents to deport them all. So then we need to know who my neighbor is because I want to know that my neighbor is not a terrorist. But it's Pepe Pettis, who came in from Honduras, 20 years ago

who has three American kids who has roots in the community who's loved by the pasture. You see, this is complicated because we're talking about human beings. So I understand what you're saying in theory makes a lot of sense. In practice, it's impractical.

So I try to do something that was very solemn up. Do not give them citizenship, let them stay. Let them pay and help the treasury and Social Security that in 2035 may be bankrupt. Create a new pool of taxpayers.

Do not give them any federal programs. Make e-verify mandatory. Codify border security in the dignity law. Because in 28, we may have another president that may not be from the same political party and we may go back to the Biden 2020. Could you imagine what a disaster that would be? As a reason why I wrote this book, tell me.

And do you have allies in the executive or in the Congress that are thinking similarly? I have many allies. I have many allies and the more time it passes. Look at the disaster we had in New Jersey. Look at the disaster we had in Virginia. Look at the disaster we had yesterday in Miami. We need to bring a new pool of voters to the GOP and make them permanent. OP voters, and that's the largest minority, fastest growing minority in the country.

People who do have their voting card in their hands, and they happen to be Hispanic. Whether we like it or not, is the reality of life. I love the American exceptionality. I am the perfect example of what the American dream looks like. I'm the daughter of political refugees. We know I know, look, I'm in Oslo. I'm just, I'm about to meet with Maria Corina, who has been in a tunnel for six, months because the communists

kidnapped the country that has the most solid democracy in the hemisphere and they have the largest reserves of oil in the world. How did that happen? Because the woke people penetrated. So I don't want that to happen to the United States. So I'm trying to see if I could create some movement within the GOP.

And Chris, it's real politic. I'll let you comment then I'll let you go and I'll finish up with Representative Salcido Salazar, I beg a pardon. Well, look, you are Salcido. The idea the Latino community somehow embraces

illegality that somehow I, as a liberty-loving Latino, will look at Tom Holman rounding up illegal aliens and I'll be offended somehow. No, I'm not offended at all by that. It's a matter of fact, most Latinos value the rule of law. They understand the reason

why they came to the United States of America was for the stability that the rule of law provides. And the fact is, it is the responsibility of the United States government to police those borders. It's not our business's responsibility. The Supreme Court has been very, very clear. It is the exclusive responsibility of the federal government to make sure that immigration laws are adhered to and obeyed. And the reason why we have millions of illegal aliens in this country is because of one reason only, the failure of the U.S. government. And we people, we the people have got to start demanding better from our government. And our government's not going to get off its stuff. And of course, Congresswoman Salazar, she's got ideas.

She's doing something. She's out there robustly offering ideas. But the vast majority of the Congress isn't. And so because they're not, it is my suggestion that we, the people might want to work on replacing that government and get one in there that is America first. Because remember, as the congresswoman said, Latinos went there and they, you know, they, married President Trump because President Trump showed the American people a contrast. The Republican Party was arrayed. I'm sorry, Dr. Drew, the Republican Party before Trump was arrayed getting up every morning and finding the nearest Democrat butt cheek on which to firmly plant their lips.

That's how Paul Ryan, that's how Mitch McConnell, that's how John Cornyn has arrayed the Republican Party, and it's a failure. And the only reason why we had those losses in 2025, the Republicans in Virginia, they ran away from Trump. The Republicans in New York, they ran away from Trump. The Republicans in New York, away from President Trump, and they lost. They couldn't even beat an attorney general candidate who wished death upon his political opponents and his political opponents' children. That's how lackluster the Republican Party, the old Republican Party, that allowed this massive amount of illegal immigration into this country.

The American people want something new. They want the stability of the Constitution and the rule of law restored. The American promise restored. I appreciate being here, guys. Chris, great to see you. The rise of the liberty-loving Latino. C. Salcido shows where you can find him on X. And Chris, hope to see you in very soon, okay? See you.

Cheers. And Representative Salazar, I want to give you a chance to respond to all that. It's easy for us. We're commentating and talking about this. And you're actually in there fighting the good fight. And that's why I was asking you what it looks like from the inside. because those of us, they're not inside. You can't even, I imagine, we can't imagine it.

It's just like hard to, it seems like, oh, I'm going to go in, I'm going to make a difference. I'm going to vote. I'm going to raise it. I'm going to start a movement, whatever. It must just be awful meets inspiring somehow. It is. But you're in there. We are happy to be doing it.

And I tackle probably one of the most important and most difficult topics because I come from the world of television. I know the perception is reality. And I can tell you that my intention is to be able to bring to do an economic. My bill has three aspects. National security, know who your neighbor is, the economy. We cannot have 1.9 million jobs available and having the roofers and the restaurateurs and the construction and the hospitality and those sectors that are labor intensive saying we don't have enough hands.

Okay. Is there a world, yeah, I hear you. Is there a world where you go to the executive branch, whether it's the Oval Office or God knows where, that you could get a useful conversation going? Of course, and I do know, and I'm going to tell you, I'm sure that President Trump next year will be the guy signing dignity because he is an intelligent guy.

He dares to do what other presidents did not do, and he could be for immigration, what Lincoln was for slavery, or Reagan was for communism, he can't do that. He dares to do things that other presidents don't dare to do. And he is going to really, besides, he comes from hospitality and agricultural. He knows what's needed in the private sector. So he is the man to do this.

Do you have a meeting planned or do you have a strategy where you can get in there and have that conversation? I guess is my question. We can talk to the president. We are part of the legislative branch. and he talks to us all the time. It's a complicated process, but I do know that Trump didn't get to where he is. His political instincts are very sharp.

And I do believe that he will be the one signing and fixing immigration for the time being legal and illegal. Because I repeat. I understand what Chris said. Is the art of the possible? Let's be realistic. Legals don't want to be legal They came in gaming the system

So it's all the same thing So let's just put an end Fix it and seal the border forever And so There you are Is that you with the president right there And so what I'm What I'm asking is is there

I want to watch you I want to watch how you carry First of all congratulations I'm being in in Scandinavia And being a part of a historical event And there must be a lot of fun And I really appreciate you interrupting me with my thoughts to talk to us.

I'm waiting to go talk to murderyak, Karina Machado right now, but I have this commitment, so here I am. And I'm going to let you go. But I think those of us who are at least interested in your abilities, what is the timeline? How can we watch and support what it is you're going to do? Right here. The dignity, go to Amazon, dignity, not citizenship.

Go to Amazon, buy. it. It's cheap. You can buy it online. You can buy it digitally. And you will see when no one is telling you no truth. No one has told you the truth about immigration like I am. Because I was a journalist for 35 years. So I'm very, being very solomonic, I tell you one way, the other way. Because this is a two side. Everyone is, you have this confrontation from these two sides or these two sectors. Somehow I'm bringing them all to the middle. And it's the art of the possible, just like politics. Thank you very much.

I think I do need to go. All right. Thank you for the opportunity. All right. We'll love to have fun. Got it. We'll put it back up there and we appreciate your time and we will look with great enthusiasm, it's your progress.

You can follow her on Ma Elvira Salazar and also salazar. And also salazar. com. All right. We are going to switch gears a little bit and talk to Dr. Joseph Witt Daring. I think I hope pronounce his name. correctly. We've got a lot of stuff going on, obviously, on the medical front with the

deprescribing and the overutilization. So psychotropic medication at the same time, there is under utilization, under access, people who really need these medication. So it's become trendy amongst TikTok influencers to use psychotropic medication, I guess, is what we're finding. So you'll tell me to report to us on that. I'll say something really quick. Yeah. I'm sorry to interrupt. But, you know, here's another strong woman with really good opinions about how to make a better system. And I find it so refreshing that she has this idea. And I kind of agree with her, even though, you know, I don't want illegal immigrants in our country that are going to be bad in doing stuff. But I think that there are people who are illegal and they've been here a long time and they make a lot of money and they are super intelligent and they're doing their job.

They don't drain our medical system. They don't do anything. My only concern, I agree, she's inspiring, but that somebody's going to use these people as political instruments, and that's what has happened so far. And there has to be really careful analysis to make sure that doesn't happen. You don't think that's what happened in Minnesota. I mean, that's what's happening in California to some extent.

And so this is... I mean, I'm not an expert on all this, but I feel like she has some good ideas, and I think it could be... It doesn't have to be one way or the other. Well, at very minimum, she is alert. people in the Republican Party that if they really want to get serious about getting people onto the boat, so to speak, with the Republicans, they're going to have to solve this problem. And she's trying to solve it in a way that she feels it can be.

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And I'm wondering, what's on your mind now? Is it the chat GPT thing that's most concerning to you and that people are developing these distorted, nefarious relationships with AI? Or is it everything that AI is doing to us? And where's your head at? I mean, there's really so many things. I mean, firstly, there's just this looming. what is going to happen in the next five years or so? Because, I mean, AI is coming in. It's going to put a lot of people out of business. Soon we're going to have humanoid robots, you know, whether that's five years or 10 years, people who can, you know, bus tables, you know, do landscaping, all of that. What effect is this going to have in hospitals, you know, in the military, all of these things? So on the one hand, I'm looking at that.

the future. And I'm just thinking, how are we going to figure that problem out? Because millions of people aren't going to have jobs to do anymore. And we need that for purpose. And so that would be the first thing that really, really bothers me. Now, you brought up something else, which was really interesting, was actually that these users have been finding that ChatGBT BT has been giving really bad advice to people. I think it was actually a psychiatrist and a psychologist. And a psychologist from a university and and they were finding that it's they they called it very sycophantic and that means essentially this chat gbt program has almost been trained to be affirming in some ways to to to go along with people now yes that might lead to high engagement i interrupt you

really quick if you don't mind i want to interrupt you south park did an entire episode about this where I think it was Randy that gets completely hoodwinked by these reinforcing, like every screwball idea that Randy had, the sad GPT is, yeah, that's a good idea. I like the way you're going with that and then sort of piles on and sort of moves people in a certain direction that may be quite destructive. Oh, absolutely.

I mean, it's like getting into an echo chamber with yourself, you know? And, you know, people are going there for relationship advice. going there to deal with conflicts at the, you know, at the workplace. And essentially, it's just going to reinforce whatever beliefs that you have and make you kind of stronger in them. And really, it just ends up being, yeah, it's just like it ends up being a suck up friend to you rather than, you know, what a real friend would do, like an honest, an honest person would just be like, no, you're actually the asshole here. And you're really. wrong. And so I can see it leading people in a very dark. It reminds me of inner circle insulators

that celebrities maintain, how big celebrities maintain around them. That's why they become such severe drug addicts because of the people around them like, oh, you need some, okay, well, you know, who am I to say? It's like, yeah, no, no, no, people need confrontation. They need boundaries. They need redirection. They need to reality test. It's odd that we, I don't know. I worry about that. And then at the same time, there's another social media trend that I think you wrote about in the Wall Street Journal, right? Yes. Yeah, this is something that's really disturbing. And, you know, if you are on TikTok right now, you know, like a lot of the younger generation are on there, you will notice that people are talking about their psychiatric

diagnoses. They're talking about what medications they're on. I mean, there was even, this viral campaign on Instagram a couple of years ago, you know, hashtag post your pill where everyone was saying, you know, hey, I have OCD or depression or bipolar and these are all the medications that I take. And for many people, this is totally bizarre because, you know, back in the day, your psychiatric drug use was something that maybe your family knew about or maybe, you know, you talked about with your doctor. you weren't broadcasting it online.

And so, you know, one, I think this is kind of dangerous because it makes, you know, the use of psychiatric medication seem, you know, not a big deal. Like if it's so ubiquitous and everyone is using it, you know, this is not a big deal. But two, it actually points to something that's really disturbing. And so if I put on my hat as like a social commentator, you know, what we've seen happening in like the wokeism recently is that you can get these, you know, you get incentivized almost to identify with different categories, you know, whether it is a sexual minority or whether it is, you know, a certain race. And then, you know, the media will kick up a narrative and just say, you know,

you are oppressed and, you know, you get these sort of social status points for it. And the exact same thing seems to be happening with mental illness. Like if you have a mental illness, you are someone who is stigmatized, you are someone who is misunderstood, and you are someone who needs coddling, essentially. And I think because that this big reinforcing narrative around it, you actually have people wanting to identify with it. They want to identify as having a mental illness. They want to show people that they have all these drugs. Oh, you're only on one drug. But look at me, I'm on three or four. You know, my depression is so much worse than yours. And, you know, that kind of confers this additional this additional status and we have to gosh we have to be so careful about what we incentivize in this

country because you know another stat that's just shocking was I saw a I think it was like at one of these gallop polls or something like that that said 20% of Gen Z identified as being like LGBTQ like there's no way that is possible unless there's huge societal like incentives to identify in that way. And so that's what I was writing about. And that whole thing, it's just so bizarre. We need to get away from glamorizing mental illness and taking medications. So how do we, do you have a plan on how to do that other than just raise awareness? Again, to me, it kind of goes back to limit access to all these screens with your kids when they're at, you know, sort of developmental ages that are tender. Yeah. I mean,

Well, how do we do this? 30%. Here's the survey. 30% identify. You said 20%. You're off by a margin of 50%. It's like, it's getting worse. It's ridiculous. Yeah, our population is going to collapse.

I have seen TikTok videos with moms talking to their kids about being LGBT. And the kid, I remember seeing a six-year-old going, I hope so. I hope so, mom. I hope that that's what I turn out to be. And I thought, wow, I don't know we have to. hope for anything kids develop and they develop into what they develop and why should we be it's so strange and hoping that you have yeah yeah i mean we have like i have a lot of millennial friends out here and and and some some liberal friends as well and it's it's like they say things like

oh i hope i hope my son turns out to be gay and as if there is you know why would why would you be hoping for that you know what happens happens and like right um it always makes it seem as if it would be i don't know you know better in some way which i think is well i mean if you look if somebody likes gay if somebody has a son and they happen to really like gay man i can understand they're like okay i hope my son turns out like my friend who's gay it's like that's a nice guy but but they want to go to the musical theater together because you guys are well that's what you said she goes i i just i just really want I really like my gay best friend, and, you know, I'd like it if you'd be like that. But it gets to the point where they start painting the fingernails and they start saying,

oh, well, you know, maybe you might like to wear this dress. And that's just kind of confusing. Well, not even that. There's a bigger problem here, which is children aren't being, they can't be raised to serve any of our needs. That's frankly, they're not there to serve us or to service us, the parent. Our job is to be, we like lost track what parents. is it's a not protect them not prevent them from failure not protect them from consequences let them struggle with the reality that is tough while we stay present and give them support while they struggle

with that and in the meantime give them space to develop into whatever they're going to develop into this idea that we're you know hoping for which i i mean that we used to call that intrusive parenting i hope he becomes an astrophysicist i'm going to make sure he goes to harbor that that was considered like aggressive and probably potentially damaging parenting. Now as opposed to becoming, you know, an astronaut. We're hoping they become whatever. All of that is the same thing. I know.

It's so funny. And I love that contrast. Yeah, you know, it's like back in the day, it's like you're going to become a doctor. But now it's like, I really hope you become gay or trans or something like that. And it all comes down to what we're incentivizing in our media. It's so bizarre. But it's all bad. It's all bad.

It's all bad. It's all not good parenting, and we just have not, I don't, I don't know. You know, if you said the book, The Turning, the Fifth Turning, or the Fourth Turning, where there's generational trends, and this guy was making the case that the next generation is going to be a good one. It's going to save us from ourselves, quite literally. But they certainly, I don't know that that's going to happen if we do shitty parenting. I just, I'm very, very worried about that.

which is like the next generation like the gen z is coming up now well there he's he's a little he's a little vague in in the book whether it's gen alpha or gen z or something coming after all because it's hard to predict exactly when these things happen but um but he was saying that that's we have a weird backlash happening now you know i i don't know how clued you're into the whole like nick fuentes thing and the andrew tate thing i've kind of been sitting on the sidelines watching this and you know we've had like a lot of the boomers go through and the boomers are super woke. I think everyone knows that, you know, they go through the 70s, you know, big civil rights era and now, you know, there's a lot of language policing and things go on. And now you have the rise of like the Nick Fuentes

and the Andrew Tate and they're super popular among young men. And I'm just, and the only way I can think about this is that must be a reaction to to everything that's been happening. here? Like, how else does it make sense? Yes. Well, the question is, is that something, is that something that they're just expressing their frustration and they're not taking it seriously? Or are we on the threshold of a movement that, you know, just problematic, that that could, you know, result in something not cool? And I don't know. I think my instinct is, my instinct is that young males are looking for direction. They're looking for a way to feel purposeful and good about themselves in the

world. And it is really my generation that should have been providing that and is not. And I've heard from young males literally asking for something that was shocking to me. We discussed this yesterday, actually, for spiritual guidance. This was not what my generation looked for from the generations ahead of them at all. And so to understand that they're looking for that from us is sort of, oh, I'm sorry, I didn't, I didn't know, I didn't even think about that as something you would want from me. But I think there's something in there and in the Nick Fuentes thing where we've got to give these young people something more than we're giving them. Yeah, and I think, I mean, absolutely. You know, when I, when, I mean, if you look, like, just

looking at religious attendance in the U.S., I mean, it peaked in around the, at around the 70s, I think it was 50% of people were going to church. It's down 20%, it's around 30%, it's mostly older now. And, okay, so we're going to church less. And so, you know, usually when you go to church, you're getting a lot of moral education there, you know, direction, living a life and service of others. You know, there's things like family values.

You know, it's a really great thing to start a family and all of that, you know, serve your community. And what have we seen happen in the last 10 years? Well, what we've seen is smartphones kind of explode. We see short form media taking off. Instagram, TikTok, all of these things. And there is no moral value in a lot of these reels. I mean, it's actual crap that they're ingesting. I mean, and many young people, it's like, it's like five hours a day. And I heard, who was it? You know, someone, you know, the author of the anxious

generation, he's very well known on this topic. He said some young people were spending up to nine hours if they were teenagers. And so you got kids not going to church anymore, but instead they're just mainlining, you know, this content that is optimized for the algorithm that just pumps like, you know, pretty like extreme polarizing content at you for engagement. It's all about how good looking you are if you're a girl. If you're a guy, it's like how jacked you are or how much money you make. I mean, or how much stuff you have or what vacations you're going on. I I mean, these are really junk values. And so we have our youth just sort of ingesting all of this stuff.

And it's no wonder that we have depression, you know, high than it's ever been, anxiety, high than it's ever been, you know, the use of these psychiatric medications more and more. And so I'm not surprised that you have young people coming to you and just saying, I need direction in life because, you know, this thing that's out there on social media that is obviously not working and not making me happy. How about I go back to the thing that's been working for the last 2,000 years? How about we get back to the Judeo-Christian values? Because that seemed to make people happy.

Joseph, I appreciate you being here. I'll let you wrap up with your sort of last thoughts and recommendations to us. And what concerns you, what we should be doing about it. And we can find you, of course, on Dr. D.R. Joseph W.D. What are your thoughts? You know, I'll end the way I end most of these things. So as a psychiatrist who helps people come off psychiatric medications, I want to encourage you to listen to your symptoms.

They are telling you something. Do not get sidetracked. Do not think they are a brain disorder. Look at your diet. Look at exercise. Look at sleep. Look at your relationships. These symptoms mean something.

God bless you all. Dr. Drew, thank you so much for having me. Joseph, I appreciate you being here. God bless you, too. So, Dr. Joseph, during, I think we will hear from him again. We were just having a big conversation over on Rumble about eating and weight loss and Veshred and how much I love Veshred. And I'm, this is not a sales pitch. This is actual real life stuff.

I used to go on keto diets and I would go to this place called Lendor and they'd give me shots and they give me these little bars to eat and I'd have to eat nothing but protein for a week and go into ketosis. and then I was really hangary and mean and it was very painful, but I would lose like 10 pounds and then I would gain it back pretty fast. When I did V-Shred, it's like just a well-balanced diet, you know, low in like carbs, but good carbs. But that's the whole point.

And then I worked out 20 minutes a day. Right. Guess what? Doing what we've always exercised and diet. And it was good for my brain. I felt good about myself. I feel stronger now. I can pick up my granddaughter who's 30 pounds now, and I don't have any problems, but building muscle and just eating correctly, I promote that too.

I mean, I'm not on any antidepressants, but I do know that that does help my personality. And I want to refine a little bit what Dr. Joseph was saying. Like if you have serious mental illness medications, it's necessary. But what he's talking about the excessive use, the excessive prescribed and the excessive reliance on these things. And that's really where we go off the rail in this country, where we expect things to be better. because of pharmacology and it's just life is not better because of pharmacology it treats serious illness where the risk is worth the reward that's that all right everybody coming up let's talk about tomorrow Caleb if you can put the list up there for me we're going to wrap up here in mirror moments del Bigtree and Naomi wolf that is quite a power health back to back yeah del of course I want to talk to Naomi about some of the stuff that there's so many different things what we were talking about yesterday with empowering women and there's just a lot of different topics we got to get into and when

i think about people worrying about women's issues i just think about Naomi wolf dale of course has that movie out that's been doing well we'll revisit that um look at the list there there's a lot coming up there's a lot yet to be there we've been discussing other people that might join us and there's a lot of exciting things if you have any recommendations it is contact at dr drew.com otherwise we will see you tomorrow at two o'clock right here Ask Dr. Drew is produced by Caleb Nation and Susan Pinsky. Emily Barsh is our content producer. As a reminder, the discussions here are not a substitute for medical care, diagnosis, or treatment.

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