Rep. llhan Omar Raided: Ex-Dem Alan Dershowitz Predicts She’ll Resign Over Birthdate & Brother Marriage Probe – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 680
00:02 Great guest today. We are starting with Professor Alan Dershowitz. He thinks that Ilhan Omar may choose to resign rather than face the investigation. They have raided her home, accusations of lying about her birthday, her sham married, her own brother. And for the first time in U.S. history, a member of Congress could lose her seat and her citizenship. Before the mics heated up, we were reflecting on the fact that Al Franken lost his seat or was forced to resign because the hysteria around Me Too for not. sort of mimicking like he was going to touch somebody, even though he didn't. Things have gotten quite weird.
00:40 His book is Why I Quit the Dems and So Should You, and so should you. Former Harvard Law Professor details why. Then I have Dr. Merrill Nass in here. You know her from previous experiences on this show. She now can sue members of the main medical board after the controversy is suspended her license, all related to the COVID vaccine debacle. And then finally, California Post opinion editor, Joel Pollack, comes back. He has written a book.
01:09 It is the definitive Scott Adams' biography. It is Scott Adams, a life of purpose and principle. Also, he's going to comment on some of these other issues, such as the California election. I miss Scott so much. We ran a little tape of him before we got on air here. In event, a lot to do. Much to talk about. We'll be watching you on the restreams and on the Rumble Rants.
01:31 I appreciate your all being here. Phone lines also will be open. We'll be back with Ellen Dershowitz after this. Our laws as it pertain to substances are draconian and bizarre. The psychopaths start this. He was an alcoholic because of social media and pornography, PTSD, love addiction. Fentanyl and heroin. Ridiculous.
01:51 I'm a doctor for, I say, where the hell you think I learned that? I'm just saying, you go to treatment before you kill people. I am a clinician. I observe things about these chemicals. Let's just deal with what's real. We used to get these calls on Loveland all the time. Educate adolescents and to prevent and to treat. You have trouble.
02:07 You can't stop and you want to help stop it. I can help. I got a lot to say. I got a lot more to say. Alan Dershowitz, professor of Harvard Law School for over 50 years now. Emeritus Professor, if you don't know who he is, you've been living under a rock. Prominent clients have included famously Claudevon-Bulow, O.J. Simpson. Author now of Why I Quit the Dems and So Should You.
02:40 Also, the 10-Bing. anti-Israeli lies and how to refute these with truth. You can follow Professor Dershowitz on X-A-L-A-N-A-N-A-D-E-R-S-H. Professor, welcome to the program. Thank you for joining me. Well, thanks. I've been a great fan of yours for a long time because you talk common sense, so I really appreciate you're having me on the show.
03:02 Well, it's so interesting you would start the frame that way with common sense because common sense seems to have been walking. from the system in many ways in almost every platform I can think of. But, you know, before the mics heated up, we were talking about how Al Franken was forced to resign for doing this to my friend Leanne Tweeden in a picture where he was feet away from her. Just it was this lewd gesture. And that was the first hysteria that I can remember in my lifetime. And his, well, I'm talking about the Me Too movement, even though there was there was a foundation. to it that was legitimate and reasonable. The hysteria around it was astonishing. And I kept saying, you guys, there's no due process in all this. You're going to lose the depths of what you're trying to achieve here. But little kind of predicted one after the next hysterias that we have been through.
04:03 Jim, can you make any, is it hysteria? Before the trans, we want to say, one more thing. I read a book about the 1939. Berlin through the eyes of the American ambassador at the time. And a quote of some of the people working in the, around the ambassador at the time caught my attention where they started talking about Germany being captured by hysterias. And I'm just wondering if these things just happened through history and we're just in the midst of it now. We're in 1932, Germany right now. It's not 1935, but we see Jewish students being discriminated against by Harvard University.
04:41 for admission. We see Jewish professors not being promoted. We're seeing all kinds of, as you suggest, hysteria. And it's the fault of the Democratic Party. Look, the Republicans have their problems, too. They have some extremists, Tucker Carlson, but they have mostly marginalized their extremists. The reason I left the Democratic Party is not because these people were nominated, not because they nominated a Nazi in Maine or because they're about to elect an anti-Semite Michigan, but because the centerists, the Schumers, the people at the center of the party have embraced them, whereas the Republicans have marginalized their extremists. So, yeah, I think we're living through an age of hysteria, much like 32 Germany.
05:32 And our job is to make sure that 32 Germany doesn't become 1935 Germany, which would be a terrible, terrible thing for a mess. America. Right, right. I totally agree with you. I just noticed, I think it was today, Governor Newsom here leaned in to the DSA saying, no, no, no, they are the core of our party. They are at the center of what we're trying to do as Democrats. And it feels like, from a strategic standpoint, I mean, you see President Obama embracing El-Sayed now. I mean, it seems like they're all leaning in on this. They are. That's the problem. The problem is, is that today we see one of the major parties in a country that's a centrist country.
06:15 We avoided what happened in the 1930s in Germany, in the 1930s in France, 1930s in England, Italy, where you had to pick between being a fascist or a communist. There was no middle. We won that because Franklin Delano Roosevelt kept us in the middle. We are a middle country. We are a centrist country. But the Democrats have moved so far to the left. And it's not just their extremes. It used to be the extremes, the squad, the Ilan Omar's, the AOCs, but now it's the center of the party, the core of the party. Today, we are seeing Elon Omer meeting with Hassan Piker. Hassan Piker, the man who said that America deserved 9-11, I challenged Asan Piker to look into the eyes of a widow of a brave American policeman from New York who went into the burning
07:08 fire to save people and say to him, your husband deserved to die on that day because he was an American. That's what Asan Piker stands for. That's what we're seeing Ilan O'Marc embrace. That's what we saw El-Said embraced. He also campaigned with Piker. And what we're seeing is the destruction of one of our parties of our great two-party system. Thomas Jefferson, the founder of the Democratic Party, would not be happy with what has happened to his party. And look, it was hard for me to leave. I have been a Democrat for 75 years. I'm 88.
07:52 I started when I was 13 years old, going through the streets with a loudspeaker campaigning for a Democratic assemblyman named Philip Schupler. And I have been a Democrat, a loyal Democrat for all these years. And as Ronald Reagan said, I didn't leave the Democratic Party. They have left me. I cannot associate with the party whose central components support and endorse these racists, bigots, anti-American, anti-Semite, anti-Judeo-Christian. Every good thing that America stands for, the current leadership of the Democratic Party is opposed to.
08:27 So I am a reluctant Republican, but I am a staunch anti-Democrat. I want to see the Democratic Party defeated. I want to see the current Democratic Party destroyed. I want to see them lose every single election. So I am more an anti-democrat than I am a pro-Republican, but that makes me a pro-Republican. Look, my wife joined me and leaving the Democratic Party, but she couldn't join the Republican. She's an independent. I was that way for a while, and then I realized that a two-party system, you've got to make choices, so I've become a Republican. That's interesting. Now, I literally, I'm, you know, I'm so delighted to be speaking to a constitutional scholar because I'm literally confused by one of the DSA's sort of claims where they're going to get rid of the Senate and pack the Supreme Court.
09:16 How do you tear up essentially the Constitution from any elected position? How does that? You know what I saw Victor David Hanson say something. He's just going like, who are you? Who are you to do this? After thousands, you know, hundreds of years and hundreds of thousands of lives fought for that document. What is that all about? Well, it's all about that people on the left today don't, don't in any way support our Constitution. They don't support our tradition.
09:48 How do they do that? Is it possible even? I mean, wouldn't you need the states involved with that? Wouldn't you, you don't? If you really want to amend the Constitution, it's almost impossible to do today. And the Constitution framers made it almost impossible. That's why we only have. you know, two dozen or so press amendments to the Constitution.
10:09 It's the longest enduring Constitution in the history of the world. And the Democrats in order to achieve results, short-term results, would trash so many of our bills of right. I mean, the First Amendment today, you have professors in major law schools who identify as Democratic Socialists of America, who are saying the First Amendment is patriarchal, imperial, colonial, we shouldn't give the other side a chance to persuade people. We know what the truth is. And by the way, this is not only academics, you want to buy my book today? You can't go into a local bookstore. And I challenge all of you to do this. Go to your local bookstore and try to buy this book. And they will tell you, we don't sell books like this. You can buy any democratic book, any socialist book, any communist book. You can buy a book by Fidavit. You can buy a book by Fidavit. Del Castro that you cannot buy a book by Alan Dershowitz or John Federman, even though he's a Democrat,
11:11 too, because we, the independent small bookstores of America, believe in free speech for me, but not for thee. So if you want to buy my book, you've got to go on Amazon.com, you've got to go on marries and noble.com. You cannot go to your local bookstore. Local bookstores are supposed to be the heart and soul of the First Amendment. Forget about it. They are destroying the First Amendment in the interests of promoting a socialist end. So I'm hoping you can reassure me, though, about the DSA's intent to tear up the Constitution. I don't understand how that's even possible.
11:48 Is that, I mean, without triggering some major, major social crisis or political crisis? Well, I think it would. But remember, there are various things they can do that don't necessarily require a constitutional amendment. For example, packing the Supreme Court. There's nothing in the Constitution that says nine. You can have 13. And if you have 13, by the way, as soon as the Republicans come into power, they'll make it 16.
12:11 And then when the Democrats, they'll make it 19. And soon you're going to have to fill the Yankee Stadium with robed justices. There'll be so many of them because every time some new party gets elected, they will add new justices in order to get their way. That's all they want. It's the ends justify the means. And these ends that they want are no good. but the means they want are even worse. Look, you can't abolish the Senate without a constitutional amendment,
12:40 but there are ways around it, too. There are academics now who are working to try to undo the electoral college by saying every state should have to cast all its electoral votes for whoever won the popular vote. That's not what the framers of the Constitution. And yet maybe they could get away with that. So they're trying to subvert the Constitution in every way possible, short of amending it because they know they can't succeed in amending it.
13:07 And I'm going to stand in their way, which is why I am so unpopular among Democrats and radicals because I'm a liberal. I'm not a reactionary. I'm a liberal. I support a woman's right to choose. I support gay rights. I support the environment. I support separation of church and state.
13:24 I just don't support the extremism of the new Democratic Party whose poster children are people like Hassan Piker and Elon Omer. And that's not my party and I don't think it's the party of most Americans. Classical liberal, yeah, is now classical liberal sort of become independent almost because they have no home, it feels like.
13:48 But I know you've been sort of forced into one home sort of against your, against your will. Let's talk a second about Elon Omar. What is your prediction about how this is going to go down? And I have two questions. That, let's answer that first. Okay, I think this is drips and
14:04 drabs. We're seeing more and more things come out. I don't know of anybody who's ever survived that before. Now, she comes from Minnesota. She's protected. She's protected by her senator. She's protected by other people. So it's conceivable she can hang on. But in the normal course of events, when this kind of drip and drab begins to pile on the way it's piling on, the inevitable result has always been resignation like it was with Franken. You remember the people who got frank and out were the Democrats. People like Gillibrand, the senator from New York and others. It was Democrats who forced him out.
14:39 Pelosi. I think in the end, the same thing. Democrats forced the guy from Maine out. And I think in the end, it's going to be harder because she's a person of color. She is a minority. She is a Muslim by background, Somali. And so a lot of the traditional left is going to rally behind her. But I don't see how she survives this.
15:04 Now, she should take a DNA test and have all of her relatives take DNA tests. There's no doubt in my mind that she has records that show how old she actually is. Now, maybe she doesn't have a birth certificate. Maybe that was a Florida in Somalia. But she has a report card. She has school records. She has to produce those records. How old is she?
15:26 Was she 17 when her father, perhaps perjewish, perjuriously, said she was underage when she was in fact above the age, which would have her denaturalized and denied citizenship, which would eliminate her right to serve in the House of Representatives. So she can do a lot more if she's innocent to produce evidence of innocence. The fact that she hasn't done it strongly suggests she has something to hide. I'm wondering if you have any thoughts about what's going on in Europe and the sort of, particularly in France, and what the ultimate intent of the DSA is. You said they want to be right.
16:10 They know, they know what they have something in mind in terms of what their plan is. Is this an international globalist thing? Is it the same thing we're seeing in France and Italy and Spain now? Or is it something different? Certainly contagious. I just came back from France.
16:27 I was there. I saw some of the demonstrations. We're now seeing in Italy. they're, of course, blaming it on the Jews. That's usually the last recourse of every naive and fool, blame it on the Jews. So you see Palestinian flags in a lot of these demonstrations. Now, the demonstration started legitimately about school size, etc. But immediately, as soon as there are demonstrations, they're taken over by professional, radical people of the hard left
16:55 who have one goal overthrow, overthrow of the government by force and violence, They can't do it instantaneously. They can't do it in every country. It's not going to work in England. It might work in countries that are less stable. But their goal is to overthrow the government, substitute a hard, hard, hard, hard left-wing government. They call it democratic socialism.
17:18 There's no such thing. That's an oxymoron. There's never been a real socialist state that has been democratic because it takes away your property. And once it takes away your property, that's an essential part of democracy. is the right of people to earn the right to keep their money. And, you know, you're sure you have to pay taxes.
17:36 And sure, that has to be fair. But that's not what the Democratic Socialists want. They want to really spread the wealth from each according to his means to each according, you know, ability, all the Marxist concepts that we learned about in school. They are real for these Democratic Socialists of America. And that's spreading to Europe. And I think we're seeing it spreading back to the United States. We're going to see more violence in the United States, in Italy, in Europe, in England. And I don't think this is the end.
18:07 I think this is the beginning of something. And it depends on what happens in the elections, too. We saw some results already in Europe. We're going to see an Israeli election. We're going to see an American election. Elections matter as well. Do you have any predictions in France and then predictions for U.S.? Predictions in France is this government will fail?
18:29 will fall. And we're going to see more riots, more demonstrations, and probably new governments coming in. In America, I think the Democrats will take over the House, and that will be a disaster because many of the chair people of the committees are these radicals who will use their chairmanships in a very un-American way to get even with their political opponents. I don't think they'll control the Senate. I hope not, but nobody knows. Nobody knows how Maine is going to go. If Collins loses Maine, it will mean that there's not a single Republican, not a single Republican in the House or the Senate from all of New England. New England is a very large part of this country. And 45% of New Englanders are Republicans, but they will not have a single representative
19:22 in the Senate or the House if Collins loses this election. So what we're seeing is, the hard left trying very hard to really take over this country. And our system of checks and balances makes it very difficult to do so, but it's not impossible. Is there a road out, or is it ultimately just we're looking at what one of my friends, Adam Carolla says, that it's just going to be states, the individual states of, he calls them, safe spaces versus octagons. Florida will be an octagon, Massachusetts will be a safe space, and you're going to have to move in order to get away from some of this. And we'll see how much more space there will be to move into.
20:06 You know, it's very hard to know what the future holds. Remember, if you want to predict the future of what America would look like in 20 years, look at the college students today at elite universities. I know I taught those students. For years, I taught presidents and chief justices and others, and I know that 20 years after I taught them, they became leaders. And if you look at the current students and you project forward their leaders, I'm not an optimist. You know, in Israel, they say a pessimist to somebody who says, oh, you think things are so bad, they can't get worse.
20:35 And an optimist says, yes, they can. So, you know, I combine things could get worse. But I think there are enough good people in this country that will prevent it from getting worse. But the first thing we have to do is stop, stop the Democratic Party from its mission to, turn America into a socialist government, which is not a government that will serve the best interests of the American people. Well, I must say, I leave with Ajeda. So I'm wondering if you have any sort of prescriptive recommendations.
21:16 Oh, I have a lot. And in my book, Why I Left the Democrat, and so should you. I give lots of, lots of prescriptions as to what can be done, starting at a lot of. elementary school and the lower schools, colleges, changes in our approach to primaries. We give too much power to too few people in primaries, which gives the hard left, the ability to take over the Democratic Party. There are good things that could be done, and there are good people who can do them. And I'm hoping that the last two years of the Trump administration will,
21:57 produce some of these kind of counterbalances to the extremism of the Democratic Party that really, really threatens to destroy America. This is really serious. And especially if the Democrats take over the House and if, God forbid, they take over the Senate. We are in for trouble because they may also win the presidency two years from now. And it's very important that we change that. That's why I urge people to go to your local bookstore, complain to them that you can't find my book there, get it on Amazon, go out and vote against the Democrats. I hear you vote for. Vote against the Democrats. Send the Democrats a message that we don't like the direction in which you're going.
22:43 We don't think you're helping our country. I guess one of the things that scares me as well is that if, let's say, there is things really do swing left, then we have. of the risk of an extreme right stepping in. And now we are 1935. We are. I don't think the extreme right, look, J.D. Vance is to the right, obviously, ideologically, then Donald Trump. But I think he's about as far right as the Republicans are going. And he is not an anti-Semite. He loves America. He's a patriot. He's a decent man. So is Mark Rubio, who is neck and neck with him for the, nomination. So I'm not as afraid, but you're absolutely right. If there's an extreme movement to the left, it will generate an extreme movement to the right and we'll see people in the street. And that's what
23:38 happened between 1932 and 1935. And I hope and pray that this great country that I love and that my parents, grandparents, escaped to from Europe, not only survives, thrives, but continues to be the greatest country in the world. We can make that happen. Yeah, my parents came over in the great diaspora as well. And I will follow on X. It's, let me get your ex-A-L-A-N-E-R-S-H, and we need to get the book, everybody. It is why I quit the Dems and so should you. Professor Dershowitz, thank you for spending a little time with us. Well, thank you for your great questions and thanks for having me on. Appreciate. All right. Up next, Dr. Merrill Nass comes back around. She has some new privilege in terms of her ability to take action for the uncanny experience she had with her medical license after this.
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27:58 Dr. Ness, welcome back. Give us an update. So the update on my legal cases is that I was given permission by a judge to sue the medical board that took my license away, sue them in their personal capacity. And what that means is that while the members of the medical board have qualified immunity for what they do as do properly as board members, that in my case they went way outside of their remit and basically concocted a case against me with no evidence, no reason to think that I had anything wrong with my brain and demanded a neuropsych evaluation. And so now do judges have said that that was arbitrary and capricious, that it should never happen again? and that because of that and because that helped enable them to suspend my medical license and impair my free speech, I am able to sue them on those bases and even consider going after
29:07 what's called punitive damages, which means damages not just for what I lost as a result, but to stop anyone else from ever doing the same thing again, any other medical board. Well, and there was immense suffering involved with this. I mean, that's why we were all sort of rallying behind you, because we saw in your circumstance the potential for each of us to be abused in this way. And it was, it remains, you know, there were some horrible cases. There were many of them, but yours was, you know, sort of uncanny. It's the best word I have to describe it.
29:45 It's just unbelievable what was happening to our peers and our medical board. and what they did to you. Has your license been restored? No. So I was given the option of getting my license back if I allowed the board to basically look over my shoulder. If I hired a practice monitor for two years, if I gave them my charts to review,
30:09 took a bunch of courses and paid $10,000. And I said, look, you know, the only reason I want the license back is so that if we get something like COVID and people need an alternate method of treatment, I would be available, and obviously under these conditions I wouldn't be. So I did not apply for my license to come back,
30:29 and I moved out of Maine into New Hampshire, which hopefully is a freer state. All of New England seems a little caught these days. So we'll see. What happened? Do you have any further thoughts on what happened to our profession, our peers. I was thinking about it today. I was looking at an ER chart. And I thought, oh, all those things that were so excessive during COVID have just become ensconced in the routine now.
31:03 So no one's really even in that, you know, in the way medicine has gone where we don't have to think anymore. Everything is just, you know, a routine sort of algorithm. I'm seeing things in the algorithms where I'm like, oh, where did that come? Oh, that came from. Oh, that came from. COVID, of course. And it just kind of goes on. People don't think of, they've stopped thinking. I don't know what it is. I can't explain what happened, but I wonder if you have any thoughts.
31:30 Well, I think, you know, I'm 75 now. So when I trained, we were supposed to. We are frozen here. Just give me a second. Caleb, do you see me here? Yes, you're still here. We're going to get her back in. just signing her back on again.
31:59 Yeah, if you haven't been following her story, it is quite interesting and quite devastating. In fact, she went through, I want to say again, something I used to introduce Dr. Nash, as when she got into medical school, right, it was hard as a woman to get in, but even harder as somebody who went to a scientific institution
32:22 like Caltech or MIT, because there was great deflation in those, institutions, this would have been the 70s, maybe even late 60s, at the same time as there was inflation in the rest of the country. And so those kids were absolutely penalized. I knew so many brilliant kids that could not get into medical school in those years because they happened to go one of these institutions that were full of brilliant people, graded strictly on the curve, median grade was a C-plus, and that was that. That was it. Nobody got A's. You know, the nuclear, people were going to go on to become particle physicist, got maybe A minus
33:03 Zays, people who, you know, were struggling, you know, may have gotten D's, you know, may have not been able to hack it, but the average student got a C plus, B minus, sometimes B, if they were, you know, really exceptional biological student in particular. And the biological science is especially a rather difficult. Caleb, how's that going? We got a bigger problem than And she's It looks like she's coming back in. I think she lost connection over on her side. All right.
33:32 In the meantime, let me. She can save your life, but it takes while to get. Let me look at you guys on the re-stream and see what you're got. Yeah, I intentionally, a lot of you started talking about Epstein on the stream or whatnot. And there's nothing really that can be said there in the sense that what I understand, Professor Dershowitz has admitted he was his lawyer and that he
33:59 has represented far more believe it or not worse people and he believes everyone should have a have a defense just watch his movie about it's about him with Klaus Van Brunbulo it sort of digs into this phenomenon
34:14 and that he had according to what I've read received a massage by an adult when he was somewhere in Epstein's property or something and that he was the other thing oh yeah they can't further comment he was going to go in front of i think congress to comment but realized that he had trouble waiving his privilege his attorney-client privilege and they weren't really to work with him on getting that squared so he just he did what he needs to do to be just and right which is defend i remember once i was on a deposition
34:47 where i was asked to say things about a patient and i just said no it's it's my my my patient physician privilege prevents me from doing that. Now, that particular case, I remember, the patient in question then asked me in writing to answer the questions in deposition, so I subsequently did. But at the time, I would not do that. So I don't know. That's being making the hard call when something you could, he could have exonerated himself. But he said he made the hard call to present, it seems to me, to protect the attorney-client
35:21 privilege. Any event, I'm looking at your guy's stuff on the restream. Be careful. Everyone should be really careful with what they jump to. Here's Dr. Nath is back. Where were we when I lost you? Good question. I think I had just talked about punitive damages.
35:43 Yeah. I think you were talking about, we were talking really about your license and getting it back and why it would make no sense to get it back. But are things underway now? where you were taking action to make sure this happens to none of our peers? So I was given the right to sue the board. They had tried to drop that case, and now they have appealed the judge's decision.
36:07 So we have to go to court to deal with their appeal. You know, you have no control over what happens. It may or may not be what I consider a fair judge. But we will go to court. We've probably got another year and a half in litigation now. And I will take this case to the end because it's critically important for all doctors that medical boards realize that they don't have complete impunity, that they cannot, that their job is to protect patients from doctors who are not doing a good job or treating them safely. And that's their only job. And their job is not to be agents of the state to be.
36:53 politicized and to punish people for not, you know, doing what governments want or what the board wants, even if the patients are happy and the patients are well. And I'll just mention again that I never had a board complaint from a patient in my whole career. I never had a malpractice case. And so the board was not protecting patients. None of my patients complained when they got them in front of the board. But the board was carrying out a different agenda, which is not their agenda. And And they didn't know that. You know, they're not legally trained, and they were, but they were being good Nazis and doing what was expected of them.
37:31 But now they learned that they actually have some ethical responsibilities, and their job is limited to protecting patients and not carrying out vendettas. Not just being good Nazis. So I want to talk about treatment for a quick second, proper treatment. I don't know if you noticed that the World Health Organization very very, very much. quietly added demilinating disease of which multiple sclerosis is one as one of the side effects of the COVID MRNA vaccine. Did you see that? No, you know, I missed that.
38:06 That's very important because up until now, it seemed like everyone was trying to limit the side effects to only myocarditis. So that's terribly important. I'm blanking in the name of the nurse that's done such a great job on reporting all this over in England. Help me. What's his name? Anybody. No. He reported on this, I think, today.
38:32 And when I heard that Christina Applegate's diagnosis of MS was being questioned, this is the first thing I thought of with some sort of spike protein something. And again, whether from COVID or I'm from a vaccine, but you're not allowed to ask about the spike protein because it's, it's produced by the vaccine, therefore we just... You can't ask about anything. I know, we can't ask about anything. Well, there are a lot of good Nazis around. John Campbell, yes, John Campbell, thank you. Ah, yes.
38:59 What's that, Susan? Yeah, John Campbell. So, one of the thing I wanted to ask you, and you tell me, am I overstating or misrepresenting when I, you were, you were zooming back in when I was saying this, and it's something I always say about you. And I don't remember if you really confirmed this, but I was trying to break into medical school in the 70s,
39:26 and I went to a school that had grade deflation. At a time when our friends at Stanford and the Ivy League's were having huge grade inflation. And I noticed that my most significant compatriots were people that went to MIT and Caltech. And what's one of in the, Pomona. Pimona.
39:49 Any event. The one, people are going to the very finest, hardest, math and technical schools where the grades were just given on a curve, and that was that. And an average grade was a C plus B minus, and thus was it. And it made it really difficult for you guys to get in a medical school. And you were a woman on top of that.
40:10 Was it, am I overstating it to say that that was a difficult task given your training and your gender? Oh, so my case was different because I had dropped out of college three times during the Vietnam War. And so I had very good grades. You know, I had like, I don't know, a three eight or three nine or something. But, you know, I only applied to four schools. I was living in Australia at the time. So I refused to even come back for an interview.
40:41 So I applied to four and I got into one medical school. But regarding your grade inflation and deflation issue, my son ran into trouble. with that. So he did a year abroad at Sydney University in Australia. And there they give, it's not an ABC system, but, you know, it's a distinction, high distinction. And so they give, like one to two percent get basically the equivalent of an A and almost everybody gets a C. And so when he, so he did very well there. But he came back with B's instead of A's, which is like the top 10 percent. And so when he, it, because it was a year abroad, it pulled down his almost straight A's and he almost didn't get into medical school. And I, we finally figured this out. And he had gone to
41:34 UMass, which had converted the grades, you know, into A's and B's and gave him a lower score. And finally, at the very end of the time when schools were, you know, closing their admissions, his performance, and maybe one of the deans made it clear to, he went to UMass as an undergrad, made it clear to the UMass med school that this was what had happened. And they should take into account these grades from Australia were different. And so he squeaked into medical school because of that. And so, yes, what you want to tell people who are applying to medical school is go to an easy college and get straight A's. Don't go to a hard college and get B's because of it'll be a lot harder to get into medical school because the standards are very rigid and fashioned. Yeah, weird game. All right. Well, listen, I appreciate you giving us the update and continuing to fight the good fight. Where would you like people to find you and tell us about door to freedom.org?
42:40 Yeah. So I found a door to freedom several years ago to fight the WHO. And we felt we were pretty successful with that. we helped get the United States out of the World Health Organization and publicize the pandemic treaty and the international health regulation amendments. And so almost none of them have been adopted. The WHO continues to try to get a pandemic treaty adopted. So one was voted in, but because the lending library of pandemic pathogens was so controversial that it took. take it out and put it into an annex.
43:22 And now they, so for over a year, they've been trying to get the annex adopted and they can't. So the pandemic treaty can't go forward without the annex. The annex is all about sharing pandemic pathogens with other countries, with other companies, you know, pharma companies, research centers who are then allowed to share these pathogens with anybody they like. I don't think it's going to go forward. It's just too far out.
43:48 and it would enable entities to release these pathogens, and then no one would know where they really came from, because so many entities would have a copy. So anyway, that's what we've done with the WHO. We're continuing to watch the WHO, but we think we've got them covered for the moment. Our organization then moved into the problem with food because we think the globalists are trying to control food,
44:16 and the WHO, too. trying to change food industries. So our food is made in factories from GMO materials, from bugs, from 3D printing, without consideration of whether that food is properly nutritious or whether it contains allergens that are going to be bad for us or other things. This is, it's a very odd agenda, but it is real. It's being hidden to a great extent. And so we are working on sort of saving the family farm, trying to change federal policies in the U.S. so that they support farmers.
44:56 We lost 142,000 farmers during the last five-year survey by USDA, which was between 2017 and 2022. And essentially, almost all the federal policies support huge industrial farms. and disadvantage small farmers and multiple crops. So if you have a huge farm and you're growing soy or corn, you're getting lots of federal money. And if you're not, everything is harming you. There are four companies that control 85% of beef that's sold in the United States. And there are four overlapping companies that control 70% of pork sold in the United States.
45:46 The small ranches and small pork farmers are being put out of business. We're trying to help publicize that and turn that around. So that's our primary focus right now. And there is a law called the Wholesome Meat Act passed 60 years ago that prevents farmers selling meat directly to customers. The animals must go through a USDA or state inspection before meat can. be sold in the United States, and that process is very time-consuming and expensive and adds several dollars per pound to the amount everybody pays for their meat. So we are trying to get an exception to that bill or get Congress to change it. Congressman Massey has introduced a bill
46:37 that would change it and allow small farmers to sell directly to the public where we would know where our meat comes from, and we could even get it more cheaply. If it would be a didn't need to go through animals travel, you know, hundreds of miles sometimes on the back of trucks to a USDA, you know, huge industrial facility that processes millions of cows a year. If we don't need to do that, we could get cheaper food, better food, and we would know where it came from right now. We don't know if it's from Paraguay or Brazil or, you know, down the street. So thank you.
47:15 You bet. Thank you, Dr. Nash, for all the work. I will follow you at NASM-A-S-M-E-R-L. I love her in this new capacity. Yeah, actually. With the food? She's doing such great work. And, you know, I'm sorry for her patience, but darn, girl, you've done a lot.
47:32 She's not one to let the grass grow under her feet, as they say. Thank you. She's still quite useful. So Twitter doesn't let my posts go very far. So substack, Merrill, NAS.substack.com is the best place to find me. Thanks. Great. We'll see you soon. Thank you so much for joining us. Joel Pollack, the opinion editor at California Post.
48:01 He is also, let me make sure I get that right. Opinion editor, yeah. He is also the author of the new book, Scott Adams, A Life of Purpose and Principle. He will talk about that after this. It's been a privilege to serve as the chief patient officer at the Wellness Company. and one of our top priorities has been to help families prepare for emergencies, avoid trips to the ER or urgent care, which is a waste of time and money. And you're exposing, it's just not the way medicine should be delivered. And I want to remind you about one of the most popular products amongst new and returning
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49:43 I don't see the first profession doing anything to really build trust beside you. Happy to be on here. Thank you for having me. You and I see the world the same way. What is it like for you to be the most chiseled and best-looking man in media? Giving us the information we need. Thank you for the truth.
50:03 My pleasure. We are going to take your calls at 8333-D-R-D-R-E-W. Joel Pollock, follow him on X. Joel Pollak, you will not be sorry. Get the book. Scott Adams, a life of purpose and principle. I think Joshua Lysick is involved with that as well. And check out the California Post where there it is.
50:24 There is the book. Where Joel is the opinion editor. Joel, welcome again. Good to see you. Good to be with you. I didn't know you were an Alan Dershowitt student. That was an interesting experience. Not only that, I was a lifelong fan.
50:42 And when he published his book, Hutzpah, I think it must have been about 1991. My parents bought it, and I spent that summer reading it. And then when I got to Harvard, I dropped in on his classes a couple of times. That was before I was at the law school. But then when I went back and went to law school, he was my professor. And I worked for him for three years. We worked together in his office.
51:03 And I helped him prepare books. I helped him prepare for debates. It was really a fantastic experience. And that experience has been put to good use now. the newest book is Scott Adams, A Life of Principal and Purpose. Tell us about it. I've obviously been following you on the Scott Adams School podcast
51:24 and hearing you talk about it there, but this audience may not have heard about it. Well, Scott Adams was the artist behind Dilbert, one of the most popular cartoons for more than 30 years, really, in newspapers around the world. And he later became known as one of the few people who had predicted that President Donald Trump would win the 2016 election. But along the way, he also wrote incredible books of
51:51 business advice. And he tried to use his political commentary to open up a window for people to understand what it was that made Trump successful and how you could use the same lessons in your own life. And along the way, he made many friends. He launched a podcast called Coffee with Scott Adams, which had millions of listeners. He also, had many enemies. And he was canceled. He lost much of his publishing empire. He had to start it from scratch in 2023. But he was an incredible friend. And this is just a really fun biography. I had so much fun writing it. It is very moving, especially for people who knew him and admired him. But I think even people who didn't know much about him beyond Dilbert will really find something in this biography.
52:38 And we're getting a link up on Amazon. For now, you'll be able to find out information about it at Scott Adam'sbook.com, but look for it on Amazon pretty soon. And Joshua worked on this with you, yes? Copy editing? Yes. Joshua was Scott's long-term editor and publisher, and he helped Scott reestablish his book empire and his publishing once Scott got canceled, which Scott, by the way, predicted he would be. And Josh really helped him.
53:09 The other great thing about him is, you know, you work on a book and you write it and you write another draft and another draft, and then you see the layout. And Joshua has really brought the book to life on the page. We went through all kinds of archives. Scott kept a real library of his books and his writings, including personal writing, index cards filled with jokes he was working on, school transcripts, everything. I went through everything. And you go through it and you do the research and it's all text on a page, but then the person who does the layout, really brings the book to life. And I've just been blown away by what Joshua has been able to do.
53:47 So I think this is really, in a way, his creation as well. Interesting. So you and I kind of know Scott pretty well, I think. Did you come away with new sort of sense of who he was or how he did what he did? I mean, to put a little fine tune on what you had said, he saw himself as looking through the prism of persuasive. in essentially politics and everything, really, human relations, persuasion, and because he was a hypnotist and he sort of saw a lot that the rest of it didn't see.
54:25 But is there anything you walked away from writing the book thinking, wow, this is a, I didn't know this about him. I knew appreciation or new wrinkle or new complexity. What would you say? Well, one of Scott's most important lessons that he began exploring even before he, he started commenting on politics was about the idea of a talent stack that you want to go through life acquiring new skills because it's not just a list of things you can do, but the things that you learn become more than the sum of their parts. So you become more attractive as an employee,
55:00 or you become more adept as a business owner, you become more resilient as a member of a family, but all of these skills that you acquire in your life can really help you. And I went back to his old hometown of Wyndham, New York, where he grew up. And it was there that I realized what gave him the idea of the talent stack, because Wyndham is still a small town to this day. And especially when he was growing up there in the late 1950s and early 1960s, you had to learn to do everything. Scott's parents built their own house. The only part of the house they didn't build themselves was the plumbing and the electricity, because they figured that would be a little bit too difficult for amateurs to do. There were too many mistakes that could be made. But they dug the foundations,
55:46 they laid the bricks, they built the house. And that's the kind of place Wyndham was. You had to learn to do everything. And Scott used to say of his dad, who was a postal worker, that he wasn't well educated, but he could do anything from creating a swimming pool in the backyard to investing in the stock market. And Scott grew up in that environment, surrounded by resilient people who had learned to do just about anything they needed. If you needed a skill, you had to learn it. And the other thing, just interestingly, about that town, Scott had an idea that you needed to work on yourself in order to be useful to other people, not to withdraw within yourself, but he said, look, there are times in your life you're going to have to be selfish. You're going to have to focus on yourself. And in that way,
56:30 you can be of better service to others. Now, that reminded me of what Alexis de Tocqueville had written in his great masterpiece, Democracy in America, 200 years ago. And I thought, you know, let me look on a map and see where Toakville actually journeyed, where he traveled when he was in the United States. I had been to a couple of places in Ohio where he had visited. And I thought, I wonder if Tockville visited upstate New York. And sure enough, Alexis to Tokeville had crossed very close to where Scott grew up. And I'm sure that he had a lasting impact on that area.
57:05 and he had also observed people in that area and came to some of his conclusions by watching this self-reliant culture of Americans in upstate New York. And Tocqueville said that was unique about Americans, that we pursued what he called self-interest properly understood. So I looked at Scott's environment, his family, and his life experiences,
57:25 and I think I got to the core of some of what really informed his ideas later on. Yeah, that's amazing. I can't wait to read the book. you know I just I was just thinking reflecting on how when I found him it was when Trump sort of hit on the scene and it was all very confusing to me I was not a Trump voter I was not a mega I was nothing I was just sort of like what is going on here I don't understand this I don't understand the enthusiasm for him I don't understand the reaction to him and Scott gave me a frame to understand what was happening and I got hooked I was like okay now this is a way of looking at things that I am not familiar with and And apparently the two-time president confirmed that the way Scott interpreted his own Trump's style or his approach was very much as Scott said it was. In the book, I talk about Trump's meeting with Scott Adams in the Oval Office. And I talked to White House advisors who were there.
58:28 I talked to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, both of whom were huge fans and are still huge fans of of Scott Adams. They couldn't wait to talk to me about him. And they recalled the meeting between Trump and Scott Adams. And Trump said to Scott, you know, I read your book. I read Win Bigley. And this was a surprise to some White House staffers who didn't know that Trump actually read the books that people gave him, you know. But Trump actually read the book and he said to Scott, you know, you explained what I did here and there. And I guess you were right about that. I wasn't conscious of what I was doing, but I think you nailed it. Right. I'd heard something similar from Scott, which is very interesting.
59:14 Let me switch gears on you and talk a little Ilan Omar, if you don't mind for a second. Is the, is quite a, I mean, it's a record scratch switch. Is California Post going to be commenting on this in a significant way? Because it seems like the press has been absolutely silent. Well, let's talk about the origin. of the Elon Omar story. And I really want to give credit to a few bloggers in Minneapolis. Elon Omar called them right-wing conspiracy theorists, but actually they are respected lawyers who in their spare time started a blog about two decades ago called the Powerline blog.
59:49 And for many years, it was a valuable source of information for other conservative bloggers and writers. And they were the ones who initially dug up the evidence that Elon Omar might have married her brother. And they tried to get questions answered when she first ran for Congress. And the Minneapolis Star Tribune really did a very cursory look. They didn't really take it that seriously. They were satisfied with her answers. But these guys, Scott Johnson and a few others, they just stuck to this story and they said she has not answered these questions. In fact, Scott Johnson's daughter, Eliana Johnson, is now quite prominent in the mainstream media. she's had a great media career.
01:00:30 So these are not right-wing conspiracy theorists. These are journalists and bloggers who have other jobs, but who devoted themselves to trying to figure out who this new congresswoman from the Minneapolis area was going to be. And I think they deserve a lot of the credit. And now everything they said has become at least an open question. You can't say that they've proved that she married her brother. But now at least it is absolutely clear this was a legitimate question
01:00:56 that she has ducked for a decade. decade. And I think the simplest explanation here is likely to be that she married her brother to get him residency in the United States and divorced him when she wanted to marry somebody else and he was already living in the UK. I mean, I think that's the easiest explanation. The statute of limitations might have run out on whatever crimes might have been committed there, but I think it's an important part of this story. And I think it also just goes to the kind of inauthenticity of her character. You know, it's a broader problem with her. One of the things she declared on her assets when she had to declare her assets to Congress the way they do was she and her new husband owned a winery.
01:01:37 Okay. So I don't want to presume to judge anybody's religious faith. I don't want to be judged for my own defects and flaws and sins and that kind of thing. But if you're a Muslim wearing a hijab and you also own a winery, I think you have a few things to explain to people because those two things don't go together. well i mean her winery i keep saying was just like hunter bards biden's art there was no wine at the winery there's no art and the art it's the same exact game i mean they're both they they funneled money through these things and i guess it's legal i it's a wrinkle in our system it seems to me so she would just say well we never we never made any wine never intended to is the the part that
01:02:17 she has to answer to is that she never intended to that becomes consciousness of guilt to me but Yeah, she never made any wine that she knows of. So that's really funny. I hope people understand that reference. So, gosh, there was one more thing I wanted to ask you about, shoot. Oh, I should write these things down as they occur to me. I guess one of the things I want to know for you is what's next? You've been deep in the world of Scott Adams for so long.
01:02:45 What are you up to next? Well, that's a great question. In my ample spare time, I'm working on. a book about the Talmud. You know, I've been studying the Talmud for over eight years, and I have gathered some of the most interesting and some of the raunchiest stories from the Talmud. So that might be my next project. I'm working on it right now, a very, very vague outline of what it is. I do a little bit of writing on it every day just for fun. So it's not a serious project yet. I'm really focused on the Scott Adams biography. But you might see me
01:03:18 produce a piece or two or a book about the Talmud. And I guess provisionally, I'm calling it 100 stories for grownups from the Talmud. But there are some really, really incredible episodes that are talked about across the 2,200 pages of the Talmud, 72 volumes. I mean, I do a page a day as part of the international Daffiomi program, which, you know, you finish the Talmud in seven and a half years if you do a page a day. So that's what I do. I'm glad I've talked to I've got a few other questions
01:03:50 somebody just texted me during the show that they were upset that they couldn't write in a governor vote oh no a mayor mayor in their own sort of mayor mayor mayoral candidate on the ballot such as it is is that something about the way the ballot is structured here in southern California and what what is happening to our election system in this state yeah well you know the way we vote in California is really twisted. So there's this system called the jungle primary where all of the candidates compete in a common pool,
01:04:26 whether you're a Democrat or a Republican, and the top two vote winners move on to the general election. But as part of that system, since it's only two candidates allowed in the general, there's no right-in vote. It's just the top two from the primary. And the crazy thing about this is that this was a project of model,
01:04:44 Republicans as well as Democrats about 15 years ago because they said that they wanted to get rid of some of the more extreme candidates that were jumping into races in California. They thought this would help the moderate candidates reach out to voters in the middle on the other side of the aisle. But it's actually done the opposite because the jungle primary is so broad. So many people can jump in the race. There's always the chance that if you are a fringe candidate, you could get just enough votes to squeak through into the general. So it tends to attract even more extreme candidates than they had before. And Republicans have done very badly under the system. Republicans have not won a single statewide race since the jungle primary was introduced. And it's
01:05:26 crazy because there were Republicans who supported it on the argument that this would allow moderate Republicans, I suppose in the Schwarzenegger or Abel Maldenado mold to win elections. But it just hasn't. It's just allowed fringe candidates to come in, dilute the vote. vote. And essentially, Democrats have run the table ever since this thing was invented. And there's no right-in vote. So no right-in for mayor, even though L.A. voters, like myself, have a really terrible choice between an incompetent incumbent and a malevolent challenger. And one last kind of question. My restream is going wacky about Professor Dershowitz and his relationship with Epstein. He was Epstein's lawyer for a while, right? And as such,
01:06:10 he has this responsibility to maintain that attorney-client. privilege. Is that what everyone's P-Oed about? Is that what's at the core of some of this stuff that swirls around him? So if you think back to the beginning of the Epstein controversy, it started at the beginning of the first Trump administration because Trump's nominee for Secretary of Labor, I believe, at the time, had been the prosecutor who cut the plea deal with Jeffrey Epstein. And one of Epstein's lawyers was Alan Dershowitz. Now, if you are a billionaire, you get Alan Dershowitz to represent you because Alan Dershowitz is going to get you a great deal.
01:06:50 And Jeffrey Epstein got a kind of a sweetheart deal for his, I guess the charges were statutory rape or solicitation or whatever he ended up being charged with. But that tanked the nomination of the Labor Secretary. And then Jeffrey Epstein was re-arrested. And that's when he died in jail, in custody, whether you believe he killed himself, or not. But Dershowitz was his lawyer and no longer had a relationship with him after that arrangement was made after that plea deal. And you know, you look at Dershowitz's lengthy legal career. I mean, he's 88 years old. He's had a career more than 60 years long. He is a criminal
01:07:29 defense lawyer. He has represented some of the most unsavory people. And Jeffrey Epstein isn't even in the top five. I mean, if you want to look at who Allen's represented, but that's, that's his philosophy, he wrote a book called The Best Defense, saying that in the American system, even the worst among us deserves the best defense. And so I think people just need to look at it in that perspective. That's what I thought I was saying,
01:07:53 but people go all over the place with it. But there's, you know, one of the things I was talking to Alan about was the great hysterias that we are under right now. And his, he's in the, there's hysterias everywhere. And I think it's got to be, you know, when I was,
01:08:10 I find myself bringing this up these days. Over those maybe 20-year period, 90s to 2010, every second call on Loveline, hundreds of calls every night, every second call was a traumatized kid, sexual abuse, physical abuse, drug addict parents. And I just kept thinking, what is going to happen when these people become adults?
01:08:31 If they're not significantly treated, they will be, there will be a lot of chaos. has created by at least 60% of them. And I think that's the source of the hysterias right now, that people get sort of, they see everything as external to their internal world, and that's not a good way to go through life. Well, I also think that people haven't learned how to move forward.
01:08:57 A lot of people have had experiences of abuse or have been assaulted, not just women. I mean, boys get attacked and not just by men, Sometimes boys are assaulted by older women for whatever reason. And I think for a couple of decades in American culture, we tended to take victims very seriously, and we ought to do that. But we got so caught up in the stories of victimization that we kind of made them into a mark of prestige,
01:09:24 rather than something that we have to learn how to struggle with and get beyond. And actually, just to bring it back to Scott's book, Scott had things in his own childhood, not sexual or physical abuse, but things that were. were difficult. And he talked about it openly. One of the reasons he got into medicinal marijuana was he had incredible abdominal pain throughout his teenage years. And when he started using marijuana in college, the pain went away. And I talked to his college roommates and they said, Scott was the one person they met who could do a lot of marijuana and it didn't seem to affect him at all in a negative way. But he called that abdominal pain the curse. And the curse for Scott was deeply embarrassing. It was
01:10:06 debilitating, and yet he found a way past it. And, you know, I got access to Scott's journal that he wrote from 1979 to 1998. And he wrote in the early 1980s, and you'll see this in the book, that he felt that once he had overcome the curse, there was nothing he couldn't do. That that in his mind, that pain, that physical abdominal pain that he had was the single greatest obstacle to his success. And he felt that if he had overcome that, he could achieve anything. And I think that that's a mentality of someone who can move forward in life and who doesn't see themselves as having suffered from this ailment, but they actually found a path forward. He saw it not just as, oh, I found a drug that worked. I found medicinal marijuana, but he said, I found a strategy,
01:10:50 I found a system that can help me get over this. And so I think what we've got to do is start talking about these traumas that we endure. Many of us have had experience with them. We have to talk about them in ways that give us a sense of authorship over the world around us, that we can find new ways of connecting new relationships. And, you know, I first encountered you on Lovelin. I would listen to it when I was driving. And, you know, it was, first of all, highly entertaining, but also just so informative.
01:11:18 And the crazy thing now is that people have so many sexual choices. You know, you can choose what your sexual preferences. You can choose what gender you are, what pronouns you want. And yet people are having less and less actual sex. People are less and less fulfilled. They're more and more unhappy. What is it about all? of these choices that has made us unhappy. And the thing is, we haven't decided to take control,
01:11:40 I think, of where our lives are going. And I think Scott's philosophy was, you can be the author of your own experience. And he really developed that, especially in the later years of his life. Systems, not goals. That was Scott. And this, by the way, this is not at all where we intended things to go when we were trying to help people with law. We talked about law of unintended consequences. But I do think Jordan Peterson was also trying to put his finger on this. I think he too was someone trying to improve the connectedness and the authorship of our lives and things. It's just gone a little sideways. And maybe it is the phone and social media that really pulled it off course.
01:12:18 I don't know. I guess only when we're all gone and people analyze the history in retrospect, maybe somebody can make sense of it. But it is truly a very uncanny time. And you could not do a show like Love Lion Today at all. You couldn't come anywhere near it. You couldn't do things where you're just trying to help people because you might tread on some narrative or something or miss speak or misprone out or something. Who knows what?
01:12:47 Because you're not allowed to just focus on helping. I think the whole hookup thing that came on in the 90s was a move. There was something to do with feminism and the, hookup culture that caused women to force themselves to engage in a social construct that didn't make them happy. And I kept pointing it out and it just kept going from there. And then I'm not sure social media made things better. Joel, I appreciate so much. You didn't answer my question, though, about the California Post. Are they going to, it's, I don't see any ink being spelled really on Ilhan Omar generally. Are people going to take opinions on this? Yeah, I think they will.
01:13:28 Our colleagues at the New York Post are really leading on this. In fact, I'm at the moment taking a break from setting the editorial page for tomorrow, and I do think we have at least one editorial on Ilan Omar, and I know we have one column that's running in New York. I'm not sure if we're going to run it in California once in a while. You know, we usually take one of their columns per day and put it in our pages. So I know that we're looking at it this evening and tomorrow, but we'll see how far the story goes.
01:13:53 I think that she's in a lot of trouble, maybe not legal trouble, but I think that the truth is eventually going to come out. I think she's going to have to explain why she lied and why she hit this for so long. Well, thank you so much. I look forward to the book. Thank you. Cheers. All right.
01:14:12 Coming up, we'll be here tomorrow at 2 o'clock. I think Caleb will put our upcoming guests up there in just a second. Let's see. Victor David Hanson here tomorrow. That should be fascinating. Alan Yost. Deborah Soe, very interesting scientist who has some interesting thoughts about some of the stuff Joel and I were just talking about.
01:14:31 In fact, Salty Cracker coming back again. Alex Jones is on the schedule. He said move down a little bit. Mel Kay in here, Jeffrey Tucker, this are pack shows. And I know producer Emily Barshar is working hard on so many more extraordinary guests coming your way.
01:14:49 If you have suggestions, please let me know. You can contact at doctor.com. What's that, Caleb? There's a few more highlights that are coming up that's not on that list after Salty. and Alex. We actually have Roseanne Barr and Jennifer Say are coming in on the same show on the 19th of November. And then we have Megan Kelly scheduled for December 1st. I'm very excited for Roseanne to come back, especially with her show coming up. Yeah, Roseanne, what do you say? Never fail. Oh, somebody asked for Dave Smith back. That would be good.
01:15:21 Dave Smith. I would love Dave. He's on a couple times. He would be a really good guest to get back. I agree with you. All right, Caleb, anything on your parade here? Anything I need to bring up? I missed, or I'm sure there's plenty of things I missed, but anything we should get to at the end? No, I'm just very excited. Roseanne's coming back. She always makes me laugh when she's coming in.
01:15:43 It was a show that I watched. I remember watching it from afar whenever I was a tiny, tiny child watching her original show, and then to have like a whole new wave of it coming in when I'm an adult that I get to watch with my wife now, and I'm real excited for her show. I think it's called M-Maw, the poster looks amazing. Go look it up. Perfect.
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