Ask Dr. Drew - Your Calls with Jimmy Failla: Mask Mandate Rumors, Hawaii Fires & Pirola COVID Variant – Ask Dr. Drew – Episode 254

Episode Date: August 27, 2023

Dr. Drew and Jimmy Failla (Fox Across America) discuss alarming rumors of returning mask mandates, the Pirola COVID variant BA.2.86, the devastating fires in Hawaii, and answer your calls on any topic. Jimmy Failla is a former New York City cab driver turned professional standup comic who appears regularly on Fox News shows including Gutfeld!, Hannity, Watters World, Ingraham Angle, and The Five. His nationally syndicated talk show “Fox Across America with Jimmy Failla” is heard daily on 150 radio stations. Follow him at https://twitter.com/jimmyfailla and find more at https://jimmyfailla.com 「 SPONSORED BY 」 Find out more about the companies that make this show possible and get special discounts on amazing products at https://drdrew.com/sponsors • COZY EARTH - Say goodbye to hot, restless nights with soft, temperature-regulating bedding from Cozy Earth. Susan and Drew love Cozy Earth's sheets made with super-soft viscose from bamboo! Use code DREW at checkout to save 40% at https://drdrew.com/cozy • GENUCEL - Using a proprietary base formulated by a pharmacist, Genucel has created skincare that can dramatically improve the appearance of facial redness and under-eye puffiness. Genucel uses clinical levels of botanical extracts in their cruelty-free, natural, made-in-the-USA line of products. Get an extra discount with promo code DREW at https://genucel.com/drew • PRIMAL LIFE - Dr. Drew recommends Primal Life's 100% natural dental products to improve your mouth. Get a sparkling smile by using natural teeth whitener without harsh chemicals. For a limited time, get 60% off at https://drdrew.com/primal • PALEOVALLEY - "Paleovalley has a wide variety of extraordinary products that are both healthful and delicious,” says Dr. Drew. "I am a huge fan of this brand and know you'll love it too!” Get 15% off your first order at https://drdrew.com/paleovalley • THE WELLNESS COMPANY - Counteract harmful spike proteins with TWC's Signature Series Spike Support Formula containing nattokinase and selenium. Learn more about TWC's supplements at https://twc.health/drew 「 MEDICAL NOTE 」 The CDC states that COVID-19 vaccines are safe, effective, and reduce your risk of severe illness. You should always consult your personal physician before making any decisions about your health.  「 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. 「 ABOUT DR. DREW 」 For over 30 years, Dr. Drew has answered questions and offered guidance to millions through popular shows like Celebrity Rehab (VH1), Dr. Drew On Call (HLN), Teen Mom OG (MTV), and the iconic radio show Loveline. Now, Dr. Drew is opening his phone lines to the world by streaming LIVE from his home studio. Watch all of Dr. Drew's latest shows at https://drdrew.tv Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome, everyone. Today, hopefully, we're going to have a little bit of fun. Our friend Jimmy Fala from the Gutfeld Show joins us. He, of course, is the host of Fox Across America, noon to three Eastern time, weekdays. Something that Greg Gutfeld never gives him is the tune-in times. Reminder, we have tomorrow, Veebek Meniche. I can't really pronounce her name. I'll learn it between now and tomorrow. She is the Danish researcher that did some excellent studies that showed that 90% of the adverse vaccine reactions were accounted for by 5% of the batches. And she had a hell of a time getting that published for no good reason. So we'll find out more about that. Of course, Kelly Victory will be with us today.

Today, Jimmy Fela, a reformed New York City cab driver, now stand-up comedian and radio host. We're going to talk all things mask mandates and Hawaii fires. He's got a lot of opinions on a lot of things. Hopefully, we'll have a little fun, and we'll take calls as well on Twitter space, as you saw the little cartoon there, how to get up there. So we'll see you on the spaces after we take—well, we're going to first talk to Jimmy after this break. Our laws as it pertained to substances are draconian and bizarre the psychopath started this he was an alcoholic because of social media and pornography btsd love addiction fentanyl and heroin ridiculous i'm a doctor

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This is still a story that's evolving. But today we'll bring a little levity to the conversation with our friend Jimmy Fela from The Greg Gutfeld Show. Again, his radio program is Fox Across America with Jimmy Fela. You can hear it Monday through Friday, noon to 3 Eastern time. So that's 9 to noon, those of you out here. Please welcome Jimmy Fela. There you are.

Good to see you, my man. Uh-oh, no sound. Hold on, Jimmy. There you are. Good to see you, my man. Uh-oh, no sound. Hold on, Jimmy. There you are. You had no sound for a second. Is that true? That was a thing? For you, no way.

We got you back, but that would have been one of the worst moments of your life to not be heard, not let your voice get through. You stop it. It's good to hear. It's good to have you my friend uh and i really i'm mad at greg for not giving the tune in on your radio program i didn't even know it was a radio program until i started preparing for today i thought it was like a youtube thing or something and you follow brian kilmeade on fox cross america on that is fox news radio right. And if one of you were to tune in tomorrow, you would double my ratings.

So that's kind of a big deal. We'll see if we can double them up. Well, here's the thing really quick. All I was going to say is Gutfeld is actually super duper helpful to my career, but we have this begrudging rivalry. We have this begrudging rivalry over fashion. He doesn't like my outfits because they don't come in kid sizes. But had that changed, I think he'd be an early adapter. Well, you're a little flashy with the coats that you wear that look like sort of bowling uniforms from the 70s oftentimes. And today we got polka dots. But for God's sakes, he wears Vandals t-shirts and then has a $300 coat on top of it. I mean, what's he doing?

Thank you. Okay. And to be honest with you, like my, my look, it doesn't work for him. And I get, and I love that about him, but to most, but to most of the country, they love me because I look like an affordable male stripper. You know what I'm saying? Not everybody out there has, not everybody out there has the budget for magic Mike, but they can all afford tragic Mike. And that's kind of my contribution to the aesthetic. There's a lot of chubby chasers out there, Drew. And I will not have that. You can mute my mic. You will not silence the chubby chasers. You got to lean into your strength, my friend. I've noticed he does not take any sort of issue with how Tyrus presents himself.

Isn't that interesting? He's finally at a place where he's enjoying his life. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So I want to mention one other thing that um we had cat tim's book launch party at our apartment building in new york city and you very kindly came and i don't know if you're aware of this but susan pinsky became huge mackie and phala fans after meeting you guys actually what surely surely surely yes surely is, you mean from the Stern show?

Shulie does the, he does the Biden stuff, right? Oh, Tom Shulie. Oh, Shulie. Shulie. Shulie. Shulie. Shulie. Shulie.

Shulie. Shulie. Yeah. So the three of you became obsessions of Susan Pinsky after that party. So she's huge fans of you guys. I know. I told him. Oh,'s huge fans of you guys. I know. I told him. She told you? That's a little scary.

I laugh and I text him and go, hey, you were funny tonight. He goes, gee, thanks. Come on, Sue. He's probably not anticipated. We have a little thing going on here, Drew. You didn't know about it. It's getting a little scary, as a matter of fact. Back to the chubby chase thing stuff. Maybe I'm losing too much weight for you.

My demographic just grew even more. Take that, Drew. Oh, I think she's uncomfortable. We're making her uncomfortable. This is good. I'm sweating. This is good. This is good.

But I was surprised at her affection for Mackie. That one sort of surprised me. Because Mackie is his own kind of humor and it's it's it's i love it but i didn't know susan pinske was gonna take it quite as much can i just jump in because i fell in love i fell in love with mackie the first time i met him at comic strip live but it's also strategic because mackie very much has a school shooter vibe. So you want to get on the good side. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. For sure.

And I meant, was it wife or girlfriend? She was remarkably normal. Was she being like held hostage or something? Or was that just some sort of stand in for the night to make him seem normal? I can't touch that one. But I do know those agency fees go a long way. Uh, good. All right. Good. So listen, one of the things I have not heard, and I'm sure it's somewhere, but I wanted to hear it myself was your history. Uh, what were you came from and

cab driving and all that stuff? Where'd you grow up? So I grew up on Long Island in Levittown, New York, Nassau County. Hey, girl. And I know nobody likes a show off, but I did go to Nassau Community College. I don't mean to piss to whip you guys. I don't mean to piss to whip you guys with my intellectual prosperity. But yes, I grew up in Levittown. I started driving a cab and doing stand-up. And the way I wound up at Fox is a booker for Kennedy show

saw me at the Gotham Comedy Club and invited me to come do her show. And it's kind of weird, Drew. Interesting. Because the first time I was booked on Fox, I wasn't even sure if it was like a real booking. So like I legit had my taxi, I had my taxi double parked outside with the hazards on and the trunk open.

And I came in and did like a four minute TV hit like you do. And then I had to run out and get my cab. Like when it was over, I said to her like, nice meeting you. I got to go get my cab. And she was like, but there's nobody in it. And I was like, oh, here's the thing. Like it's my cab. And it was a little awkward, but we made it work. A couple of things things i just learned something that if i need to park on new york streets i leave the hood open or the the trunk open i did not know that little trick but thank you for that that's a good one and and how old and by the way the community college what we call out here in the west junior college junior junior college and and uh what so you're driving a cab you must have been 20 or so 19

are you that young i started driving 45 so i actually know i started driving a cab like around my 30th birthday and really what were you doing that 10 years in between uh i had a lot of 19 to 30 gambling uh what was i doing i was yeah whippets uh i was betting on horses and sports and doing stand-up like i started doing stand-up as like a feature act like an opening act like full-time in like 2003 so when at the time my wife got pregnant i was doing well enough in stand-up that I needed to go get a taxi license, you know, and start making like some, some side dough. And now that's what we did when my son Lincoln was born. I was driving a cab doing standup and here we are.

So I was talking to Adam Corolla today. We were talking about a scene from, uh, and just like that or whatever, whatever the new sex of the city is called. And they had a scene where a guy was discriminating against a African-American cab hailer, which I know unfortunately happens. But what struck us was in the episode, the cab driver was white. I never seen a white cab driver in New York. Were you the only one? Are there some more out there? It's quite a rare sighting, isn't it? Everyone who gets in your cab either thinks you're an undercover cop or it's cash cab. Remember the game show Cash Cab? So people would always get in my cab and like two blocks in, they'd be like, so do you have any questions you want to ask us? And I'd be like, yeah, where are you headed?

I didn't have any questions, but they always thought I was on a game show. But can I just- It's hysterical. Can I just add one thing to this note though? This is important, because people ask you as a cab, they ask you as a cab driver, do you ever profile and not pick someone up

because they look dangerous? And I will tell you, it's actually not true because when you drive a cab 12 hours a day, you want to die. So if I didn't pick you up, if I didn't pick you up, it's because you didn't look dangerous enough. That's all I'm saying.

So a knife in the neck, you're looking for the guy with the tattoos on the neck and a sharp object, it's good. You're rooting for that guy. Well, it is, is you know the culture of cabs in new york is fascinating you know it's it's i i in the way they've changed what kind of vehicle they've changed the vehicles lately so they're very different than they were i'm guessing you had it back in the days when it was just like the you know sort of more of a four-door sedan

kind of look i had like a ford crown vic it didn't run on like you know wind and angel tears or anything they're doing now yeah right old school crown victoria gas remember gas you put gas in a car we still do that on the east coast interesting well but i'm not overstating the profiling of the cab driver and i that it's so it's so rare to find a caucasian cab driver right what what is that i don't know what that is why why is it it and it's usually guys with an with a you know it's sort of a what again back to corolla sort of a johnny quest villain accent like i can't look i can't figure out where they're from this could be a multiplicity of places but you know what i mean is that that just, why is that in New York specifically? A lot of, there's a lot of Russian dudes that

drive cabs, but basically what happened is New York had a predominantly white, we had a lot of white cab drivers. And what happened was seventies and eighties, the taxi medallions are so expensive that when guys eventually saved up to afford a medallion, they started to use them like real estate. And instead of driving, they refinanced them to buy more medallions. And at the height of- Oh, interesting. For real. Yeah. I don't mean to get all inside baseball. That's interesting. No, that's fascinating. Yeah. So at the height of the medallions, they were worth about a million won. And most of the guys who owned them were white.

Wow. But they were leasing them out to other people who were new to the country and getting new jobs. Yeah. Oh, my God. So that is a fascinating piece of history that I didn't know. I spent a lot of time in New York. I'm guessing most people don't know that. And the Russian guys, I remember the Russian guys for a minute, but those guys all became Uber drivers, it seemed to me.

They're all driving Ubers now. Am I missing that one too? They're either driving Ubers or a van full of strippers to Flash Dancers. That's every Russian guy I know. Every Russian guy. That's right. That's right. Susan, do you have any questions for Jimmy before we kind of get into some stuff here?

No, go ahead. Okay. So I saw you tweet today something about the Maui fires and President Biden's performance there. I wonder, flesh out your thoughts for me. It was a very unfortunate, I felt sorry for him. Yeah, I felt sorry for everybody because there's this thing going on here where I don't doubt that Biden means well in these situations. Like he makes attempts at empathy, but he's genuinely, genuinely just not good at it. So like when he shows up and tells this, when he tells the story he's being made fun of for, which is, I know what you guys going through,

you know, my microwave caught fire, whatever the heck he's saying, and he almost lost his house. And he says, my Corvette and my cats. Like, first of all, nobody cares, okay? But second of all, and this is the problem, it's like you're attempting to demonstrate empathy, but you're comparing your almost to their reality. You dig? It's one of the most

annoying things in New York, Drew, is after 9-11, there were those people who would tell you how things would have been different for them. I normally take the A train every day, but if I had taken the one train 20 minutes earlier than I used to, I would have been there. Like, yeah, but you weren't there. So shut up. Why are you giving us hypothetical trauma to go with our real trauma? And that's, I think, the biggest problem with what Biden did is all jokes aside, he's shoveling like a fake trauma onto a real trauma. That's not empathy. That's just a weird. It's really interesting. Yeah. So it's a it's i'm guessing it's all the same kind of people that do that it is sort of a narcissistic trait which is

i'm trying to feel what you're feeling but the but everything revolves around me so all i can do is tell you what i've been through or what might have happened to me or what if i had been there because it's all about me that's the way narciss narcissism is. It's all in relation to me. Uh, and it, what I felt terrible about for him was that it really exposed a deep trouble appreciating what had actually happened there because he clearly did not get it. I mean, the fact, if you can come up with that it's like oh dude come on this was and and we and by so bad that they're not even telling us how bad it was yet which is another thing that

troubled me that the hawaiian uh authorities are sitting there like uh it's bad it's bad but they won't tell you so this is this is an interesting topic which is that we live in a time when people are fearful. Remember the movie A Few Good Men and the Jack Nicholson character that screamed at Tom Cruise, you can't handle the truth? That was the villain in the movie. We all looked at that and said, that's a horrible human being. That's a villain. That's the worst that the military has to offer. And now that is a pervasive impulse everywhere,

not in media, in government, in military. And here the government doesn't tell us what's happening because you can't handle it. It happened in COVID. It's happening everywhere all the time. And the fact is, I interview lots of people that were silenced because you can't handle what they were saying or what they're saying was, I don't know, contrary to a narrative or something. And having worked in the psychiatric hospital for 35 years, I can tell you for sure that you take anybody and you restrict information. You tell them, you know, you just go to them, well, something happened, but maybe we'll tell you. People immediately become paranoid. And paranoid people become very paranoid and conspiratorial. But even a normal person is trying to understand

motivation. And they'll like to try to, they start going on a witch hunt is really what happens. Like what happened here? Something bad happened. We got to blame somebody or why aren't they telling us? There must be a reason. There must be something behind it. It's the opposite of how you manage these things, which is sunshine and fresh air. I wonder if you have any thoughts about that and how we got here. Well, that's part of the truth is this, okay? They've created, okay, this massive gap between what people believe to be true and what they're willing to say in public. And if you start there, okay, when you talked about people who've been banned on your show and stuff of that nature, okay, it created this, it kind of like pistol whipped us all into compliance because we were more fearful of the backlash that would come from

speaking what we believed to be true. And once we became reluctant, once we became reluctant to express our own beliefs, it became kind of commonplace to withhold information, whether we were doing it ourselves in polite society or the government was doing it to us. Like it used to be when there was a tragedy, you know, heaven forbid a shooting, you'd have a sheriff at a podium every hour, every two hours, every four hours. This is what we know. This is what we found out. We're actually not getting that now. And part of it is not so much you can't handle the truth, so much as like, we just don't owe it to you. It's weird that we've kind of accepted this,

but part of the way we've accepted it is by being shamed out of standing our ground in a lot of key areas. So that's the part that bothers me, is people always say like, oh, you know, America needs to have a conversation. America's not having a conversation about anything because the minute I stay to believe, like America needs to have a conversation. I'm like, okay, I'm not sure about the vaccine. They're like, well, your wife's a hoe. And I'm like, whoa, hold on a second. And maybe she is. And maybe she is. We're working on it. Yeah, we're working on it. That's where the conversation goes. And the fact that we don't feel comfortable engaging in a free exchange of ideas is also why we're no longer demanding it from public officials yes and in the meantime just to pile on i agree 100 with everything you just said government is

not functioning it's not functioning i dare you to drive around los ang and tell me Los Angeles government is functioning. The basic functions, water, sanitation, safety, roads, forestry management, basic power, none of it functions normally. It's all sort of barely functioning or going in and out and no sense of, you know, in this city, in in this county in this state they blame the citizens if things don't work right yeah don't use so much power damn it stop it turn your air conditioning off it's it's the opposite of government your water off yeah turn your water off turn it's the opposite of governing it's weird did you ever think you'd live to see the day where they were victim blaming as a government you know they're like look at the way look at look at the way he gassed up your honor he was asking for it you saw the way he gassed up

not only that that's right and not only that though when you when you start blaming it all on climate which is fine let's blame it on climate then prepare for the consequences of climate. Us reducing our carbon footprint in Pasadena is not going to change the carbon issue in the world. So let's start governing and dealing, whether we need to build seawalls or better drains or whatever it might be, do the freaking governing rather than just sitting wringing your hands about the future. Yeah, well, that's the problem, I think, in general with people who want to give control of their lives to the government. It's like we all have a friend who's been divorced nine times that wants to give you relationship advice. And there's a reason you're not eager to get their advice, you know, and that's the government. If they've screwed up in every area of their

existence, it's hard to want to cede control. But to the point of the climate really quick, I'm not an expert on this as you'd imagine. Okay. But I do know we have, we have cut emissions as much as any major industrialized nation, you know, but regardless China being the biggest polluter in the world, more so than every industrialized nation combined, right. right means anything we're doing anything we're doing is moot like i try to explain this to people you've got to look at the world the world is a pool yeah and all we're doing in our end of the pool is creating a no peeing section but guess what china has a section they have their own section and here's the bad news

it's in the same pool as ours so none of this matters unless we get like a global compliance. So instead, we're just giving up so much of what we need to thrive as a country and nothing's getting better. So that part drives me crazy. I mean, you know, when a guy in polka dots is the voice of reason, we're in a bad spot. did you did you take away any life lessons from your cabby years i'm just curious what kinds of things you learn because i'm certain you learn a lot of isaiah you said you want to kill yourself but you want to kill yourself because you're dealing with the public you want you and new york public too and you must learn a bit about humanity and about the city i'm wondering yeah well the big thing when you drive a cab is you do become like an affordable therapist for a lot of people because they get into your cab and they don't believe they're ever going to see you again. So they do give you like their conspiracy theories and their pork chop recipes. And they'll talk to you all about their relationships and their love lives. And here's a

newsflash. Sometimes you see him again, which a little awkward when the guy gets in two days after, you know, well, good morning, cowboy. You know, are you back in the saddle yet? That whole thing. But what I've learned is, and this is the truth, okay? Talking to human beings is so profoundly helpful to our mental and emotional wellbeing. Just the act of talking, expressing yourself, exchanging ideas. The fact that we've gone as digital as we have, I think is creating this idea where empathy has become a brand instead of a value, instead of a trait. And I think it's more important now in the digital age to say the right things, to put the right flag in your profile, that it is to actually care. And I don't think you care unless you physically engage with other people because our phone is so carefully calibrated to make us the center of the universe

that we don't scale. You know what I mean? Like if you watch something on your phone, it doesn't like hurt, you know, deal with you emotionally. It's just another thumbnail you're going to click on. And that's the part I think that I miss the most about cab driving is you could see where other people were benefiting just from being engaged we don't do a lot of that yes so so again I'm mostly piling on to everything you're saying the kind of caring the kind of caring that goes on now is sort of narcissistic caring i'm caring to show you how gratifying how great i am so i can be gratified by caring so much and by the way a lot of the caring these days is rescuing and rescuing is extremely unhealthy

so once you rescue somebody you unless it's some acute crisis, obviously, or something, but if you chronically rescue people from their emotional states, you are leaving them chronically dependent on rescue. You need to hold the line, hold the boundary, be with people, let them struggle themselves, as painful as it might be. And you're using the word empathy. I think the word we got to kind of get a little more into the lexicon, maybe this isn't the right word yet, but attunement or something. Because it's not, you don't have to empathize with somebody who comes in your cab. That's a lot of work. But you can attune to them. You can be present. You can listen. You know what I mean? And that's the part you can't do online that you can do in person. I know for sure happens to be biologically very, very healthy.

Yeah. I mean, you think of it this way. Imagine you were pouring your guts out to someone in person and they started scrolling on their phone. You know, it really just kind of demeans what you're expressing. But understand when you do it on your phone, you're literally only communicating with people scrolling on their phone. So we've really kind of minimized the attention we're giving to anything.

And that's the part, I think, that has probably become the worst thing for our society in that regard. People don't talk as much. And there's this whole other disconnect now between everything. Drew, I used to say this, okay? When I was growing up. As I scroll on my computer. Yeah. But my point is the phone enables us to see things you shouldn't see, okay? When I was a child, Drew, if you wanted to see something as depraved as a man attacking a hooker,

the only way to do it was to go out and attack a hooker now you just put it in your phone and google's like did you mean a brunette hooker or a blonde hooker you know like that's not healthy that's right and the fact that we can just access it so easily desensitizes us to what it is so put your phone down i agree i and we have the press now constantly pumping out uh fear porn and all this stuff. We're going to take a break in just a second, but I wanted to share with you Kelly Victory, who I do a show with on Wednesday.

We did a special show yesterday, and she has come up with a new variant on the horizon. The new variant is underway. It's called BS24.7. And so the BS24.7 variant is with us us and i thought it's a great way to push back on some of this nonsense around you know trying to make people freak out about covid bs 24.7 all right jimmy fail is with us let me give you some of his uh particulars where you can find him on twitter and whatnot it's uh jimmyfaila.com f-a-l-l-a it is instagram at jim faila look at you g-i-m- F-A-L-L-A. It is Instagram at JimFayla.

We'll look at you, G-I-M-F-A-L-L-A. No? It's F-A-I-L-L-A. Be close. What did I say? I don't see the E. F-I-L-L-A. I said I.

Okay, it's F-A. I-L-L-A. F-A-I-L-L-A. F-A-I-L-L-A. I saw the I and I just skipped over the A. Isn't it a bad sign for me that I didn't catch it, but he did? It is a little concerning that neither of us thought about it. It's weird, but things like that happening more often these days. We'll take a little break.

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Just raise your hand there. Caleb has a little cartoon he plays that shows you how to come up. And then once you're up, you've got to unmute your mic. And there you are. This is Mike. Hey, man. Hey, good afternoon. Good afternoon, Dr. Drew.

Good afternoon. Good afternoon, man. Hey, good afternoon. Good afternoon, Dr. Drew. Good afternoon. Good afternoon, sir. Yeah, I was I wanted to ask you if you're familiar with or if you watch the Netflix series Painkillers. I just kind of wanted your take on it. I'm kind of watching it. I was thinking about a lot of stuff about. I avoid all of those because they're often incomplete and I got notes and I lived it and it's hard to watch and so I all of the what was the what was the other one there was a scripted one I actually interviewed the woman that did it and then everyone gets very focused on big pharma when it pertains to that and absolutely pharma was duplicitous and rep and reprehensible in their behavior

but it was a small piece of the story at the time. The big story was we had evangelical physicians. I don't mean religious physicians. I mean enthusiasts who believed they were saving the world from pain. They felt pharma was the perfect partner in this, and they went out and got control of all the regulatory agencies, the VA, the California, the board of medical, every state medical board, all the professional societies and

mandated dope sick. That's what it was. Beth Macy, we, we interviewed her. They mandated that physicians, physicians don't treat pain aggressively. Meaning you leave the dentist's office with 90 pills or 120 pills. You are guilty of patient abuse, and you could go to jail, and doctors were sent to jail. That was the part that really put the rocket fuel on this thing. And so doctors stopped treating pain.

They sent everybody to the pain management people. Pain management thought these medicines were the most extraordinary breakthrough in the history of humanity that the drug companies were selling. And it was on. It was just whatever the patient said was pain was pain. Whoever the patient said was pain control was pain control. And you don't think my patients took advantage of that? They were dying by the hundreds. It was a horrible chapter. I fought against it for years and was

crushed by Department of Mental Health, California Board of Medical Association, my own hospital administration. Does this sound familiar to you, Jimmy, based on what happened during COVID? You have Deborah Birx evangelizing around the country about lockdowns. You have Fauci evangelizing about certain things, not others. And that was what happened during the opioid epidemic. It was the same damn playbook. Yeah, you should never take advice from anybody in a scarf. That was my takeaway with Birx. And it's like, you can't, the one thing is, like, I can't beg on Fauci too hard because he literally took every position there was to take. So I'm sure at some point he was right. But you could actually watch, obviously, the political science taking precedence over the real science at every turn. Like you said, just getting curb stomped. And what was so crazy about it is you sometimes were expressing dissent with a view that was considered acceptable like an hour ago.

I mean, if you remember where we went from, there'll never be a vaccine mandate. And then the next day they were like, get it or you're fired. And we were like, yo, this is weird. And they were like, you're going to get everybody killed yo this is weird and they were like you're gonna get it you forget you forget a piece of it that's trump's vaccine i would never trust that that's what california said we were all like i'll never take that that's his vaccine i play a clip on my radio show every day of biden and kamala in the run-up to the 2020 election, making it sound like Trump was making this with his son Barron for the school science fair.

They didn't wanna do the traditional, you know, the baking soda volcano that every kid makes in seventh grade. They wanted to go big. They were the Trumps, they're making a vaccine, and now I'm gonna kill everybody with it. And that's what they were running with. And you wanna know something? If Trump

would have won the election, none of the Democrats would have got vaccinated. No way they would have taken a Trump vaccine. Crazy. Boy, that's interesting. That's an interesting piece of history. Mike, anything else there? I would have saved a few people. Maybe. Well, we got a bit of time. I got it. Thanks.

I got it. Thanks. Thank you, sir. Appreciate it. Put up the banner, Caleb. I just said it would save a few people if they didn't get vaccinated. Hold on a second. We're going to get thrown off YouTube if we don't put it up. Yes.

Put up the banner. This is a Graham. Let's get Graham Hill up here. There we go. And again, don't forget to unmute yourself after get Graham Hill up here. There we go. And again, don't forget to unmute yourself after we get you up here. Yeah, the whole thing was so crazy and uncanny to me. But go ahead there, Graham. I've always heard the saying, if you really want to know something about somebody, don't ask their mama or ask their preacher.

Instead, ask their hairdresser. And after hearing Jimmy's cab stories, I'm thinking maybe we need to add their cabbie or their driver to that list of the hairdressers where you get the real truth about somebody. Yo, because I know the things the hairdressers won't even tell the other hairdressers. They got to get into it. Yo, can I just say this? Like, for real, when you drive a taxi, you get to see society from an angle that a proctologist sees a patient from.

It's a very unique angle. I don't recommend this for everyone, but there's a lot of truth in that job that man i'll never be able to unsee yeah listen that's why a taxi cab confessions was literally the best reality show ever created now i'm with you well there's sort of a freeing aspect to that you know the anonymity you think you have with the cab driver so you can just say whatever and like you said it it really probably is more therapeutic than you would think because you're almost talking to a wall but it's really a human being so psychologically you feel like you're getting all of it off your chest to a therapist so there may be some good points to it i don't know uh and jimmy i'm guessing also people often loaded often drunk or something oh here's the

thing man people are getting it people are getting into a taxi and they're under the influence of things you've never even heard of i was like wait what rubber cement and sweet corn like how are you getting high off that it's it's nuts it's every it's a talent show it's the best way i can explain it to you but you do hear some things thus the reality show there and it really was i i'm seriously a great great show about you know i i always look at that stuff and i go oh yeah those are my patients i i see that stuff all the time and it's just you know i see it from a slightly more empathic angle but um this is uh ll i know i wish that that show would come back that was a good one oh it's a great show really seriously great you could learn a lot about a lot of people watching that

yeah uh this is LL cool bean LL cool bean yo LL what what all I was gonna say all I was gonna say is like all of the dastardly things you'd hear on Taxicab Confessions, people just willingly express on TikTok now. It's like they're not even on HBO. They're just like, here's the craziest thing I've ever thought. And other people click like. It's weird. Like the people we thought were nuts on Taxicab Confessions are now just considered influencers. Like it's a weird time. Yeah, that's weird. The people we thought were nuts on Taxi Camp Confessions are now just considered influencers. It's a weird time.

Yeah, that's right. So LL Cool Bean, I don't know if you knew that you asked to come up here. I'm trying to add you as a speaker, but Caleb, it's not working for some reason. And we're sort of stuck in a weird cycle with her. Can you work on that for me? It has her listed. She's a speaker now, but she needs to unmute. But it's still, the wheel's still turning on my phone.

So maybe you can take her down and put her back up again. I'll do that. I'll try that. Okay. Let's try and get, and by the way, just raise your hand. You were on a roll before. Yeah, we got plenty of questions. We're doing okay.

We got stuff to talk about. And you just raise your hand as a speaker, and then unmute yourself, and we'll bring you on up. You were on a roll before. Yeah, we got plenty of questions. We're doing okay. We got stuff to talk about. And you just raise your hand as a speaker, and then unmute yourself, and I'll bring you on up. And she's still... And I can't take her down either. I just have... It's weird. It's a weird hinterland she's entered into.

You can bring up more than one speaker at a time. Okay. Did you know that? I did know that. I was trying to avoid doing that but let's let's do it bring up josh if he wants to have a few questions at crack it come on josh get in here you know he knows hey dr there he is hey josh what's happening uh hey guys uh so i was thinking about narcissism because you mentioned it, and I feel like I hope we're over that.

I feel like you were saying in the 90s there was a lot of narcissism, and now we're seeing it with Trump. And the thing about it is he's in so much trouble right now. I don't want to make this about politics, but I really want to know if we're getting to the point where we can't have these kinds of personality disorders anymore. We could in the nineties, it was, it was celebrated, but we've really got to get straight, hopefully pretty soon. And I, I was wondering what you thought about that. Like, do you think we might be getting over the hump of these personality disorders? They, you don't, well, here's the deal. You don't, personality disorders do not change. And they are not amenable to treatment unless the person is desperate to get better, which

you rarely see. Their life has to depend upon it, like addiction. Then we see that people get better. But narcissistic traits, which is really what's pervasive right now there's a lot of sort of cluster b traits flying around like we just talked a few minutes ago about people caring so much we care so much that caring is grandiose that is uh theatrical it is narcissistic and it's not necessarily in the best interest of the individual. The harder work is maybe caring, but just being present for them and not fixing them. The fixing

part and having to attack people who don't care, that's all narcissism. And those traits need to be suppressed. People need to react to those in a negative way. And so to your point, I do think we can kind of talk about these things now. I think before it was unclear what was going on and you couldn't talk about it without getting literally fired or hurt or

doxxed or something. And now I think people are sufficiently sick of it. Yeah, it's not politics. It starts with the family. It starts with the family. It starts with the family. And it starts with childhood, doesn't it? And it's, you go at 100%. And it's scapegoating.

Really, at its core, these are scapegoating impulses. And the scapegoating impulse is one of the, well, it's one of the most destructive impulses you can have. It's an expression of envy really at its core, which is somebody has something that makes me feel a little bit less than, so I have to destroy them. And I can destroy them in all kinds of ways. And that's not healthy. Jimmy, your thoughts?

Well, I think that's where the whole idea of like canceling comedians comes from. You know, I don't know that people are genuinely offended by a joke that was told at a comedy show they weren't even at, nor do I think the people doing the canceling then go out and do any type of good deed on behalf of the aggrieved class. It's like when you think of the late, great Gilbert Godfrey, Gilbert Godfrey got canceled for tweeting about the Japanese tsunami. OK, I promise you, there was no one suffering from the horrors of a tsunami that was checking American Twitter

to see what we were saying about it, or heaven forbid, thinking there was any comparison to be made between joking about it and the actual tragedy. So I think there's a good, yeah, go ahead. And not only that, but watching the tragedy needs a little bit of lightening up so we can all tolerate these things. It's okay.

Listen, how do you think, you know, you look at suppressed classes of humans who've been through horrible traumatic things, whether it's African Americans or Jews and things, they always manage it with humor. It helps deal with the pain. It helps deal with the pain. It helps deal with what life is all about. It is to be encouraged. And that's why I thought Kat's book, the title of her book, was You Can't Joke About That. And she talks about some horrible shit, which was perfect. Perfect. Because you've got to be, much the way we need fresh air and sunshine as it pertains to conversations about everything,

we need to let humor drift in appropriately. The one thing, Jimmy, though, I want to ask you this. The one thing I've noticed about humor when it comes to touchy subjects, the one thing you must be is funny. You better be funny. You know what I mean? Oh, a thousand percent. Because the only way you're going to get, you're going to rally any support.

Number one is if they, if they're, you got people on your side with a joke, but this is the thing. Yeah. Especially, especially when it comes to jokes. What you've got to target is your audience is there is a whole subset of society that is using humor as a coping mechanism. Okay. People my age grew up, grew up joking because when we were in fourth grade, the space shuttle exploded on national TV. And we were all sitting in our classrooms in fourth grade, watching the challenger go up to space or at least try to.

And when that ended, there were two kinds of kids in the classroom, people that were either crying or getting sent down for some type of help or therapy and the rest of us that were telling dirty jokes in the parking lot. And for us, like that's where humor became like a safe haven. It was for people to cope who didn't really have the intellectual depth to dive into that trauma or just didn't want to. And that's why I think, you know, the whole idea of everybody having their own coping mechanisms is why you shouldn't ever be policing humor. You know, you might not think it's okay to joke at a tragedy, but other people do. So I think that's where it starts.

People who go after comics. And obviously, and people understand you don't express hate and you're not, you're not, you can seem insensitive with a joke, but the, I, you know, but as long as it's funny, it's releasing, it's not meant as an aggressive act. Kitty, you're up. You just unmute your mic and you're good to go. Hi. Dr. Drew, it's nice to meet you.

Jimmy, it's also nice to meet you. I'm a registered nurse by background. And there's a couple of different things I have to just jump in here and say. Number one, I'm not quite sure that Trump is a narcissist. I don't know if I would put him into that category. Number two is the humor is spot on. And as a registered nurse, I got to tell you this story. I used to work in the cath lab where we had to scrub the groins and shave the groins so that we could

access either the right or left femoral artery and there I had a patient who was just scared to death I mean he was visibly shaking so I was trying to calm him down and we typically put a towel over the privates right to give him give them some decency, do the thing. And I was standing across from a coworker. I picked up the towel and went, whoa, and put it back down. And that guy laughed and laughed and laughed. Here's what I promise. I hope he did well, but's he still remembers you i promise

he still thinks highly of you he still thinks you're best but but you know when let me i just gotta say something about my nursing colleagues for a second i gotta say something because i i am so grateful for nursing i could not uh you know you know what you do you and if you ever worked in an ic or er but my god um you you too i have doctors do. I don't know if you ever worked in an ICU or ER, but my God, you too, doctors are, I just don't even want to think about where I would have been without the great nursing that I came across. And what kills me and drives me insane is that nursing doesn't sort of get a seat at the table the way it should. People want to talk to nutritionists and they want to talk to chiropractors. It's like all these people that really don't know medicine at all, have never been trained, don't know a sick person from a well person. Actually, South Park zeroed in on

this one time with an episode. I thought it was exactly right. The nursing is our anchilla, I think is the word. It's the hand and glove of medicine with, with the stuff that we do as clinicians. And, uh, I just, I just, it drives me a little crazy and I bring it up whenever I talk to my nursing colleagues and I just want to say, thank you. Absolutely. Well, and, uh, yeah, go ahead. Yeah, you're very welcome. And the one thing that nurses are is flexible. Oh boy, adaptable and flexible. You can put us anywhere. And as long as we have great doctors who teach us, we're golden. Yeah. Oh yeah, listen, I know.

The COVID thing drove me crazy because I was arguing with physicians on LinkedIn saying, where did you go to medical school? Like, did you not take the same virology and microbiology classes I did? And it wasn't until I found Dr. Jay Bahacharya and I said, that guy is telling the truth. But I, you know, it's so funny. It's funny. It's your, your, because you. It's you're, you're, because you have great, the reality is you have great judgment, right? And the, and I had the exact same experience with Jay and I've interviewed him several times and, uh, talked to him and just, he is a, a mensch amongst mensches. And, and I just think he is the poster child for the excesses

of the COVID situation that you would choose that guy to cancel. That guy? That guy is the top of the heap professionally and academically. And that's who you think you should silence? That's insane. And we should just, if you don't know who he is, look him up. He speaks to, everything about him speaks for itself. He is such a humble guy. I started following him on LinkedIn years and years and years ago. And we were both being censored. And so as a registered nurse being censored, and he's censored, now we're buddies on Twitter. So follow Jay because he is the epitome of what all physicians should be. I agree. Reasonable. And he actually just, you know, he never really did clinical medicine.

He's always been a researcher and a teacher and stuff. And he's an epidemiologist and all that kind of thing. But he was clinically trained and his, you know, his judgment is great and that kind of thing. But Kitty, thank you. thank you again. Okay? You got it. Jimmy, you wanted to say something? Woo! No, I listened to the nurse shout out. I thought it was great. A man of my background. I should also shout out naughty nurses

though. I would be remiss if I didn't talk about the role that they played in shaping this side of the screen. All right, Mr. Classy? It's good. You've got Susan Pinsky. She's appreciating every word of what you're saying. She has a special job.

So Susan, you're picking up some haters on Rumble? No, there's just one silly little troll that said this show is stupid. That's Kayla. She's 14. Oh no, is she really? I don't know. I don't know. Everybody else know everybody else is happy but rumble

put us on the front page jimmy you're here you have arrived so we have we have lots of people watching it is it is so so no pressure and there's rumors uh jimmy of a mask mandates coming back i wonder if you have any thoughts about that i I know that some colleges have instituted them already. And as I said, my partner Kelly Victory on this program has identified the new variant that we should be very scared about called BS24.7. But what about the mask mandate? And by the way, that's not to say that something couldn't happen. It could. It could be a bad variant.

It could happen. But it's not happening right now. Go ahead. Yeah. I mean, listen, first of all, I'm not concerned one way or the other because as a former cab driver, like I've caught things you've never heard of. I was told I was immune to COVID like long before, you know, it became a thing. But when it comes to the mask, here's the problem. Okay. The mask is now more about branding than it is about science. As you know, it's like a liberal MAGA hat. People walk around with masks on outdoors. You see them in their cars,

you see them walking through the park, and there can't actually be any scientific basis for having it on other than you want people to know that this is my side. And my frustration, I'm being serious, man, is when it comes to COVID, which was common cause, we fought each other and continue to fight each other harder than we fight COVID. You dig? And, you know, implementing one size fits all mandates has nothing to do with controlling a virus and everything to do with controlling the other side.

So that's the frustration. I do think it'll come back, but it's just important to remind ourselves of where we've been. It went from no masks to some masks. Do I can't believe it's not masks. Then it was, you know, Fauci took every, I mean, seriously, Fauci took more positions on masks than the nurses on Pornhub. Okay. There's no way you can tell me there was a concrete through line on masks other than you look crazy if you're wearing one in your car well if if there was good evidence that masks worked or that mandates worked then of course i'd be all about it but there is overwhelming evidence that it does not

and that is because this is a aerosolized virus we now know that and it goes 30 feet if there's so much it's a tiny space between your nose and the mask. And most people wear the mask below the nose. They don't tie it as a space on the side of the cheek. That makes the mask complete. It's not the spit. It's not the particulate matter. It's the aerosol.

And aerosol goes way more than six feet. So the six feet doesn't mean anything. And the masking has to be perfect with an N95-type mask. And again, if you think it works, then you shouldn't care what I'm doing. You know what I'm saying? Right. I don't call up my neighbor and tell him to put on a condom because Jenny and I are about to go do it down the hall because it shouldn't have any effect. But here's the thing, and I'm sorry to take it to such a superficial place, but there's the other consequent to the mask. Okay. I'm a parent. My son is 14.

A lot of kids were socially inhibited by the mask. They didn't pick up verbal cues the same way in school. They were denied that genuine contact verbally with other people. And then there's this superficial aspect of, do you know how many people were misled by the mask when it comes to being attracted to other people? Everybody knows someone, but everyone knows someone that they thought was gorgeous till the mask mandate ended. And then they were like, ah, you know, and if you don't know one of those people, it's because you were the person who catfished someone with your nice eyes,

but you were a four on your wedding day without the mask. And no one talks about, no one talks about the victims of mass catfishing, but that's a reality too, Drew. That is. I will leave that where it is. Think about the real victims relate to it thank you oh my god all right let me bring chronic on up here

crying just uh hit that microphone lower left hand corner after you come on up yeah it's uh i think if you have a really bad runny nose and you're jumping on an airplane you should wear a mask okay i listen I have no objection to people wearing it. It's the mandate part. I caught it from a woman on a train going between Bordeaux and Paris. I could hear her sneezing. I went, oh my God, I got COVID. But Susan, if she had not worn a tightly fitting N95,

it would have made no difference. I know, but it would at least have not made me so mad. These ideas mask between bites that's a zero that is that is now i mean she was completely the whole thing she honked for yes she did two and a half hours like blew her nose chronic go ahead and uh unmute your mic they were all ready for you hey don't go on a train if you have no problem i um i forgot that it doesn't show my real name because I don't have it there. My name is Corey. Hi, Corey. Sorry about that. Not a problem.

That's hysterical. Here's the situation. So I have end-stage renal disease. I started out in center hemodialysis. I have switched to home PD because, I mean, I love it. love it I can you know form my schedule around it and I am let me let me go I'm gonna stop you and let me just tell people what that is so he went from having to go to a dialysis center where they plugged into a shunt in his arm or somewhere that took his blood out and put it through a dialysis machine now he's got a spigot in his

abdomen a little tiny thing that he's able to do peritoneal dialysis. So he pushed these specialized fluids in usually while you sleep, right? You do it overnight. Yeah. Do it while I sleep. Yeah. Yeah. And it, and that exchanges, it's a fluids are balanced in such a way that all the things that need to be cleared from the system come into the peritoneal cavity and then you'd pull it back out again which is a fascinating way of doing it a great way of doing it so good for you yeah it's it's it's amazing um you know i i feel better about being able to do it on my own schedule and at home i had the the permacath in my chest because my nephrologist said that you know we needed to do this immediately it's been since taken out because, you know, the risks go with that.

But I love the home PD. But here is the question I have for you. So I've done my consultation for a transplant and I'm waiting to hear to make sure that I'm approved. But I want to get on as many transplant lists as possible. I wanted to know if there were any hospitals or transplant centers that you were familiar with that I should maybe look into to, to reach out and see if I can get on their list as well. Gosh, Corey, aren't there centralized, this is not my area of expertise, but aren't there centralized patient support

organizations for chronic renal failure and and uh replacement and and uh i you get on as many of those you get to get on the patient advocate the patients know what's up right and so you get on the patient websites the patient advocacy website and you start asking get on a chat ask lots of questions that's where you're going to find the real magic. That's where you'll get cool, really interesting sort of tips. You know what I'm saying? Okay. Yeah.

What was the nature of your renal disease? Was it hypertension or diabetes? Or what happened? It wasn't diabetes. I believe it was hypertension. Just got to a point where it was just uncontrollable. I do a lot of research on hospitals and clinics. My home center is Emory. That's where I do my dialysis, well, my PD nurses.

It's a big one. It's a good one. It's a good one. I've been thinking about trying to get on Duke, Cedars-Sinai, Vanderbilt. I'm really looking for centers that have... I mean, why not? Why not? Yeah. I'm really looking for centers where they can do robot.

Well, that's an interesting question. That I can't answer. Robotic surgery is always the way to go if you can get it. But, you know, once you get that transplant, you'll get it, my friend. And the transplants go exceedingly well. I mean, people just go for it, my friend and the transplants go exceedingly well. I mean, people just go for long periods of time with the transplants.

You'll, you'll, you'll love that. So, um, taking you off right now, my friend, I've got other, other things I've got to get to here, I'm afraid. Uh, but that is, uh, you know, the more common than, you know, Jimmy, the chronic renal failure, chronic kidney disease, people on dialysis, these are common conditions. And what drives me insane is that hypertension is one of the leading causes of it. Chronic renal failure, chronic kidney disease, people on dialysis, these are common conditions. And what drives me insane is that hypertension is one of the leading causes of it. And that's such a manageable, easily manageable disease these days.

If people, you know, when doctors say you should be on hypertension medication, take the damn medication. It breaks my heart when people, and you know, Corey may not even have known he had hypertension. That's the other thing, you don't know it half the time. Yeah, sneaks up. I'm just, listen, I'm glad you took that one, buddy. That's the other thing. You don't know it half the time. Yeah. Sneaks up. I'm just listening. I'm glad you took that one, buddy. That was kind of beyond my pay grade. You don't want to do it?

Aside from yourself, the only doctors I know are Dre and Pepper. So I was definitely at an intellectual disadvantage on them. So thank you. They might have had some trouble with that one as well. He did have that deer in the headlight look. Jimmy's got about eight minutes. Oh, he's got about seven minutes left so who jimmy does yeah yeah i was i was gonna head towards the door i want to take i there are people sort of lining up for questions if you have you can take some more after he goes okay if you want to do you have anything after this uh commercial uh no i don't we could keep going jimmy or you uh when's your next gut filled experience?

Ooh. So this is the one you need to hear about. Okay. Okay. I'm scheduled to host. I'm scheduled to host Greg show this coming Tuesday, August 28th. I'll be filling in for the King of late night. So instead of the King of late night, you get the Rodney King of late night. That's me. Uh, but this, but this Saturday night, Hey girl, I am hosting Fox news Saturday night at 10 o'clock this coming Saturday. And that one kind of matters. That's me in the host chair, 10 p.m. Eastern time. And I'll be doing it. Drew, this is nuts. Friday night, I'm performing in

Vegas at the Green Valley Ranch in Las Vegas. And then I'm flying home to host Saturday. So there's a good chance you're watching a Fox News host with a face tattoo on Saturday night, which is kind of historic if I'm spending the previous night in Vegas. So I think it's worth at least put it put put one on, put one on with some henna at least so we get the full effect, keep us guessing. One last thing I want to ask you about. I talk to me for just a second before I let

you go, and we will take some calls after this if you wish. What has gone wrong with media? And I hold all, particularly the 24-hour news cycle television media. For instance, I saw Vivek being interviewed by someone over at CNN, and I guess he had made some kind of comment about 9-11 being an inside job. And of course he didn't say 9-11 was an inside job. He went something on the order of, my God, I, I can't believe anything that's coming out of television, news, the Atlantic, our government, I don't know, I once thought maybe 9-11 was an inside job. How crazy is that? Not saying, like, that's how crazy I've gotten trying to get to the real information. And he gets attacked for that. That, to me, is the lowest rung of journalism. It's like, let's get on with what's going on here. Give us the information.

Do your job and interview people about what their actual opinions are not what not you got you with something that we could give a shit about what's going on well that's what i think i think by the way we got this and fox is guilty of it too i'm not i'm not holding just cnn response well it's all over the place but go ahead what i think is happening is I think the world has gotten too reductive in the name of convenience. Life is now weapons grade convenient. If anything you want, you hit a button on your phone, you just have it now. So political disagreements are inconvenient. Ergo, we'd rather be spoon fed a reason to excommunicate this person and their views in perpetuity, then take that

inconvenient 30 seconds to think with a little depth about the person or the subject matter in question. And that's kind of what cable news has devolved into on a lot of fronts. It's just an exercise in delivering confirmation bias to people who tune in. I always joke, I have a lot of friends who work at MSNBC because I grew up in New York and everybody's liberal here. But essentially any show you turn on over there is just telling them who's a racist misogynist tonight and you can feel better about yourself because you don't live in the middle of the country in an affordable McMansion.

And it always makes me laugh as a New Yorker that all of my friends who have nine roommates to afford a studio apartment are like, do you believe these goobers buying a house at the age of 19? That's brand new. I'm like, yes, I wish I was these goobers if I could, but that's what I think it is. I think this quest, this perpetual quest for confirmation bias is just making us reduce everybody to that. I agree. I agree, but it's so disappointing to see journalists not being journalists. That is, that is just, it just calls everything they've done into question. It's, it throws Watergate into question. Like, were those guys really, or were those guys, what are the, it makes everything, you know, you, you just, it just makes you sort of doubt

everything they're presenting, which is not even the weather here in Los Angeles. They couldn't present the weather. We had an obvious no, nothing happening here. We had a little rain and it was, I finally found a, a, a meteorologist on Twitter who was honest. He went, you guys have Pacific storms that drop more rain than this. And it lasts for two weeks. So you're, don't worry.

It might be a little windy. The desert's going to have a problem. That's what I kept telling everybody. Desert's going to have a problem because a lot of rain is going to come and there's nowhere rain than this and it lasts for two weeks so you don't worry it might be a little windy the desert is gonna have a problem i kept telling everybody that's gonna have a problem because a lot of rain is gonna come and there's nowhere for it gonna go so it's gonna be some flash flooding the desert like stay home shelter in place otherwise it's a nothing burger and i thought oh my god and the rest of them were like oh it could be this and it could be that it could be a storm surge it could be could be that it's like stop it everybody stop it. It's just so disappointing. So anyway, that's my two cents. My favorite weather guy was Fritz Coleman, and he used to say,

why would you take advice from a comedian about the weather? He was a comedian. He did the weather for years. He goes, I don't know what the fuck's going on. He goes, I just say whatever they tell me to say. Yeah. So, Jimmy, I know you got to go. Susan, do you want to express your love for Jimmy so you don't

have to do it over text message later? Oh, yeah. We'll be talking later. He's the highest audience that we've ever had on Rumble. I just want to let him know. Oh, stop it, Susan. You are buttering me up, girl. I knew you had it, whatever it is. There's a lot of

chubby chasers out there. Uh-huh. Well, they're all here tonight. So anyway, I believe you need to go. Is that correct? We got to let you go. You got important things to do. Yeah. I'm going to try not to get emotional, but we're going to go shoot a segment for the

Saturday night show. Please, somebody watch. Look at me. I need ratings. Yeah. Saturday night. Everybody watch. And go out to, what was it?

Green Valley? The Green Valley. If, the green Valley. If you're in Vegas this weekend. Yeah. Green Valley ranch Friday night. And my one hour standup comedy special is taping Friday night, October 13th at the Paramount in Huntington, Long Island.

You come out to that. That's going to be a banger. Drew. Come on. Yeah. All right, my friend, hopefully see you soon in New York.

And thank you for joining us. All right, Susan, call hopefully see you soon in New York and thank you for joining us. All right, Susan, call me. I will. Jesus. All right. I'm going to get a couple more calls in here.

This is a Martin. Martin has his hands up and give him a chance to come up here really quickly before we wrap this thing up. Yeah. I even beat Megan Kelly's numbers. Hey, the K that Kalia, that kalia one that was uh trashness she has interesting points she says i wish marijuana cured covet i know some people

who claimed it does i wish that were true i wish that were so that would be awesome if that probably makes you feel a little better you know and by the way the pax levin's been oh hi rex pax was getting trash lately i you know i'll tell you a story, Susan, about somebody who took Paxlovid, was really sick and was better by morning. Yeah, I think if somebody's really sick and could die, it doesn't sound like a bad idea. And by the way, that's why I don't have enthusiasm for ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine

and all these other things, because you never see that. You never see the boom. They're so much better in 12 hours. Yeah, but you might catch it again because it does have well there's a little rebound right sometimes and you watch the rebound but when people are really sick uh and and going downhill it's it's everybody has to understand that drew's saving lives every day you know people that come to him are really sick and could die and if it works he's gonna tell you that's i'm gonna do it because you have to put

yourself out there, but whatever. Listen, I know you don't like the drug company, but think about it this way. As a physician, we have two things we can do. We can prescribe a medication or we can pull out a knife. That's it.

That's what we do. And we can do education and set up treatments of physical therapy and things like that. But really we either prescribe something, and we're highly dependent on the big drug companies to get those somethings. And I understand there's lots of problems. I talked to RFK Jr. I am persuaded.

But it's all we got. And it really does. We're fighting deadly illness. I saw, was it, I think Bill Maher or somebody the other day was saying, we have a sickness. We have a sickness health care system. It's like, yes, yes. That's what doctors do. Keep people from dying. That's it. When somebody is really in a car accident, when they're mangled, when they're dying, whatever, that's when we come in and we're busy doing that. We can't, we're not in the business of wellness. Wellness is a different thing. And it's very, very important,

very important. I don't want to minimize it at all, but that is a different thing than treating illness, which is what we are trained to do. You know what guys, I'm going to wrap this up. There are a couple of hands up, but I'm kind of running out of steam and I'm afraid I'm going to sort of not

be as focused as I should be. Caleb, are you cool with that? Or should I keep going? Yes, no, that's a good, just if Martin's already up, go ahead. I'd go and take his call.

He's not. I had the same problem with him that I had with that other woman. Oh, darn it. That's what I'm worried that things are getting kind of... I remember. I can bring him back. Martin's usually, if that's the same Martin, he usually has some good points. Okay. Well, I'm trying. Something's wrong with my thing here. I'm stuck in that loop. Oh, you know, I know Caleb's Catholic. I've heard him say this before. I've gone back to the Catholic Church.

I've gone back to, you know, just kind of trying to understand temptation, sin and virtue. Right. The more that I delve into it and practice, the more I realize that thinking is a temptation. I'm not going to start preaching here, but that's basically why you can sin just by looking at someone, just by looking lustfully at someone. And the reason I bring this is that I wonder if we haven't just lost that ability to think and to, I don't know, like the objective ability to, to take responsibility for our own thoughts and to do that collectively has lost, has been lost within our culture. Well, I couldn't agree more. I have felt, Martin, I have felt for a long time that it's time for a new great awakening of some type. I didn't know politics was going to be the focus

of the great awakening. I do think that religion serves a function. You don't have to be a believer even, in a sense, believing that it's real, to derive tons of benefit from it. And whatever the languages we use around religion, whether it's sin or aggressive impulses or defense mechanisms, these words are just words, but they're all dealing with the same thing, which is some of our horrible impulses as human beings, some of our narcissistic, you know, envy is a constant injunction in religions as a deadly sin. Yes, we tend towards envy.

We tend towards projection. We tend towards exploitation. We do all these things. And if there's not something in there causing us to stop and think, like you're saying, or to manage those things from the outside in, you live a certain kind of life, the insides change. And we have to kind of come to terms with that. It could help us. I'm glad you're doing that. I think there are lots of things like that to be done out there. It doesn't have to be the Catholic church. I mean, lots of things, but we, we need help. We don't, we don't automatically, um, we are not automatically good. Even when we think we're doing good.

I, earlier we were talking about the caretaking and the caring and the care. That's a form of aggression. That's more sin. It's, you know, caring, caring for your own benefit, not for selflessly for somebody else. So there's a lot in what you're sort of suggesting here. Yeah. Well, I think it was, it was that it was when you were speaking about that, it's kind of went along with what I've been gathering. And I think that if we don't all collectively have a, you know, uh, an agreed upon sense of what is virtuous and what is sinful or what is good and what is bad

then yeah yeah we're butting heads like constantly we don't even have a definition and not only that martin there's a reason there's a reason that these you know that throughout human history there have been philosophers advocating and struggling with these issues and saints and religions, and they all are going at the same stuff that we are allowing to run out of control right now. So I just agree with you. I think there's something in that. I think that by removing philosophy from science, that that's why now we have,

you know, people that call themselves believers in science that will mutilate. Right. All right. So let me tell you that, that, uh, the Pope Paul had an encyclical, uh, this is now probably whenever he was alive, 14 years ago or something. And, uh, he had a, he was trying to reconcile faith and reason, right? What, what is it, you know, how do you, because the Catholic church has actually had a long history of science and philosophy of reasoning, and they've tried to do a good job with that. And he said, you know what, and he used another word a minute ago, not just faith. What did you say? What was the other word you used a second ago? something like faith uh but he said he said faith and reason are the two wings upon which humans ascend to the contemplation of truth and i thought boy that is a great because

because you have to have some faith in order to like faith that the laws of gravity are still going to continue and you have faith that you can rely on some of the expertise of, of authorities and things, but you, you have to have them both faith and reason are there. They are complimentary. So there you go. That's my, my little public service announcement. And thank you for coming on up here. And, uh, I will leave it at that. If you guys don't mind, thank you all for being here today. Tomorrow's going to be a very interesting show. We have Kelly victory back with us, and we're going to be a very interesting show. We have Kelly Victory back with us and we're going to be speaking to the Danish

physician and researcher who did the very fine research that showed that 5% of the vaccine batches was responsible for 90% of the adverse reactions and she couldn't get this study published. It's just unbelievable. But anyway, Chris Ruffo

on Thursday. The following week we have Ego Wilson, Mark Changhisi coming back on August 31st. I look forward to that. I get him on his own show so I can really dig in with that guy. He's a cognitive psychologist. And we'll go at some of these other issues we've been talking about today from the standpoint of cognitive psychology.

So those of you on the spaces, I appreciate you being here. We've been monitoring the restream and the rumble rant. So we see a lot of the stuff you're saying. Susan, anything you want to say before I wrap it up here? Nope. That was a good show. All right.

A little different. We're going to do that occasionally. Yeah. Bring comedians in. Non-medical, you know. Yeah. Somebody funny sometimes. I think comedians are.

I just think he's funny. Yeah. Well, let's bring Mackie and Shalua in here. How here about that i'll bring all the whole gang be as funny as him but we'll see we will see all right everybody we'll see you tomorrow three o'clock pacific time with dr kelly victory ask dr drew is produced by caleb nation and susan pinsky as a reminder the discussions here are not a substitute for medical care, diagnosis, or treatment. This show is intended for educational and informational purposes only. I am a licensed physician, but I am not a replacement for your personal doctor, and I am not practicing medicine here.

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