Tin Foil Hat With Sam Tripoli - #316: The Dark Side of Dentistry with Brady Smith
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Timfoil Hattie.
Oh, what the fuck are you guys even talking about?
Global controls will have to be imposed, and a world governing body will be created to enforce
them.
Welcome to Tinfoil Haas.
We go deep, home, boy.
Aaron, open your mic.
Drink from the fountain of knowledge.
There's lizard people everywhere.
That's some interdimensional shit.
Wake up, Aaron.
This is only the beginning.
You just blew my mind. Yeah, and welcome to Tinfoil Hat. You know I'm, you know, I'm here to do.
I'm here to walk.
There's a revolution will be podcasted.
Yeah, and welcome to TinFoil Hat.
You know, I'm, you know, I'm here to do.
I'm here to walk.
There we go.
Joining me is the outlaw himself.
Back from San Francisco.
Just, thia. himself back from San Francisco just I mean not listen to governor Newsom he's
not social distancing he doesn't even know how to say that in Spanish he's
welcome Xavier Guerrero we're doing boss Xavier how are you man you went a little
trip living dangerously a little trip man I want to hang out a little bit of a little
true a little bit a little bit a little friend since they canceled our little event, we all hung out, partied a little bit.
So you guys did like, what, you guys did, some ecstasy and some glow sticks together in like a studio
apartment in San Francisco?
It was woodstock all over again.
It was?
Yeah.
A lot of people there?
It was, I'm Oh yeah, that had the smells had to be enough.
That's crazy, dude.
So you did a rave in somebody's apartment?
And it was like a, it was crazy to run an Airbnb and everything.
So I was, I said, fuck it, let's go.
I have nothing better to do.
Wow, dude.
I love it.
That's great.
And what's their whole feelings in San Fran? Um, still a lot of homeless?
A lot of homeless.
That's shit.
I thought they'd be gone.
I thought they'd be trying to hide.
They're hanging out, still asking for money.
No, you thought they'd be dead by now, but the way everybody's like stay inside, but
no, no, nothing, no, like mass graves of dead people, their th, dude. It just doesn't make any sense.
I don't know if you've seen his,
I join us on the ones and twos in his frozen picture
because he's got a headache, which I don't,
that's probably the worst excuse have ever heard.
Johnny Woodard, Johnny, are you there?
Yeah.
Okay, Johnny, you don't have to act. You don't want to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go. T. T. T. T. T. to go. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. toooooooom. th. th. thoom. thoom. thoom. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. tho. tho. to. to. to. to. to. the to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. tooooooooooooooooooooooooo. the. th't have to act. Okay, we got it. You don't want to go to the
street. No, no, I know. That's just spoken like somebody who's never had a migraine.
But okay. Okay. We got you. Um, so real quick before we get into our guests and our reads
and all that stuff. Um, you guys, I don't know if you know this or not, but Daddy's been kicked off almost every,
like I've been messed with on every single one of these,
on these social media stuff.
Twitter's now hit not only suspended my main Twitter account,
and they did not tell me what I did,
but they also basically started messing with the TimFol Hat one,
and here's another one, Drum Rope, please,
and they messed with the broken simulation one,
which only has 200 people.
And then you go, then I got YouTube, so I had Twitter across the board, and then I just looked on
Tinfoil Hat, Apple, uh, cow, and it says nobody's listened to the last six episodes.
When it goes by popularity, nobody. Nobody. There's not any of the bars are taken up on
to try to show you popularity of the episode.
None.
It's because there's Sammy 69 now.
They don't like snitches.
They'll like snitches.
Sammy 69.
Sammy 69's in the house.
Snitching on Bloods and Crips.
I'm about to give you my mom's Facebook see if you can get that band.
Yeah. Whoa, someone came back from San Francisco with jokes, man, with jokes.
That's great.
Hey, how is George Foreman's Grill going?
It's good.
George Preston's story, it's good actually.
We all went to Planned Parenthood and we got a vaccine for Pink Eye, so we're good to go now. They have those? Yeah, it's new.
Where they shoot it into you?
Your eyeball?
Yeah, it works perfectly.
No more and don't go.
That's great.
Stripper ass juice, you're good to go.
Tell George, I got four tickets to the first game with.
Oh shit,'re in already? Yeah, dude, I'm super stoked. I am super stoked.
Who's the first game with? It is, it is New Orleans. And I'm really excited about having on our next guest.
I've been waiting to have a mom for a little while. I'm super stoked about it.
Um, you know, because this is very personal me and I have a story here to talk about the, uh, the inter-tip. I'm super stoked about it. You know because this is very
personal me and I have a story here to talk about the the interesting world of
dentistry and believe it or not there is a lot of like shady shit going on. Please
welcome Brady Smith. How are you buddy? Dude, this is an honor man. I'm always
super shocked when people let me on their podcast because they must be like, wait who
who do we book?
A dentist?
Yeah.
Like, maybe next week we'll get an accountant on and just like highlight the world's most
boring jobs.
But.
Well, I already know you're interesting because you have more stuff on your wall than most
of our guests.
So most of our guests have nothing on the wall like they're squatting and they're just doing a podcast in an MDS apartment building but yeah yeah no we get we go in depth we go
in depth in dentistry man and we kind of try to make it interesting to
everybody. Now we were talking a little bit before about what you do and how you
can you can like piss off some of the people in your profession of dentistry.
Yeah.
You know, because you're kind of pulling the curtain back.
Should, is this in the same vein of how, like, magicians got mad at the guy, uh, giving away the
magicians secrets? I don't think it is, but it is kind of interesting though.
Oh, there's definitely a correlation there, my friend.
Especially right now, there's so much infighting in dentistry because of the coronavirus.
Like, Dennis, we were never mandated to close, but then like, the people who didn't close and are still seeing emergency patients are being like called, like murderers.
And you're killing everyone's grandma if you're staying open.
And then if you're closed, you're you're you're the socially you're the socially you're the socially you're the socially you're the socially the socially, you're the socially, you're the socially, the socially, the socially, the socially, the social, the social, the social, the social, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, the the thi, thioli, thi, the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th. the the the th. the the the thi, the the then if you're closed, you're the socially responsible person. So right now is a particularly easy time to piss off.
A lot of dentists, unfortunately.
But, yeah, yeah.
What's the name of your podcast, sir? Let them know about your podcast and what's about.
Yeah, so I run a podcast called Dr. Brady.
We give away 500 bucks in free dentistry every single week.
More so for my local listeners,
I'm running out of a Vancouver, Washington, Portland, Oregon area.
But we also do these huge six-month giveaways.
Every six months, we do these huge giveaways where we're doing like a $50,000 case.
Totally just rehalling someone's mouth. It's based on a nomination process.
So you nominate someone, you just can't nominate yourself.
And then our job is actually to recruit.
I mean, our ultimate ambition is to get every single dentist
to do a free case every single year.
And so we got dentists right now, we have about five or six all over the, the kind of the western western western western western the the the the the th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th. th. th. th. thus, thus, thus, thiole. thiolome. thi, thiolomea, thiolomea, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, th. th. So, th. So, th. So, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, th. to, to, th. th. th. to, to to to to to to too, tooo, tooo. too. toooo. too. too. too. too. too. tho. to, to or six all over the, the kind of the western part of the United States that are volunteering and we're ramping up to expand and and scale our project.
Well, I think that's awesome. I'm the perfect guy for you to be on his podcast because it is my full belief.
Yeah, that my childhood dentist
paid off his house by drilling my mouth.
Yeah, I mean like if you let,
sometimes I hate to smile because my,
oh, you guys can look about it.
It's all, it's all, it's, here, let me just see if I could click on this so I could see myself,
but, it's all, it's all black from the drilling, from the cavities being put in.
Now here's a thing, once I left this doctor, okay?
I never had a cavity again.
Never once did I ever have another cavity in my life.
Now, since I've lost a tooth air, which is weird because I still have the tooth, it's
like this tiny tooth.
And these two Russian dentists were like, you still have your baby tooth.
I go, I'm 46 years old, what do you mean?
It's still a baby's tooth.
And they pulled it out. And it's just this tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny ti tiii, thenine thiny, thine thininininin, thine thi, thi, thi, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. too. too. too. too. too, too. too. too. too. too. too. too. too. too. I. too. I. I. too. I. I. to. to. to. to. I. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. th. th. th. to. tod toda. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. out and it's just this tiny ass tooth
that looks like it's been drilled and destroyed
and it's got all this crazy stuff.
Okay, this crazy stuff of my teeth and yeah,
it's just very weird.
Yeah, your story is like a thousand other people's story where they had some traumatic, like childhood memory of dentistry and now they hate it, like, into their adult life.
That's kind of the way it goes.
So it sucks because sometimes you got dentists who are just like, you know, huge douchebags,
and they kind of don't take that into consideration when they're working on people. And definitely, that's a super common mentality, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, thi, and, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, they they they, they, they, they, they, they, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thateat, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, thateat, that, that, that, they're they're they're they're they're they they're working on people.
And definitely, that's a super common mentality man.
And every, I'll tell you what, every dentist is very different.
So you can definitely go to 10 different dentists with the same mouth
and get 10 different, here's what you should do conversations.
And that's just the way it is.
And you are outgunned in a dental office as a lay person. You have no
ability except for your gut feeling and if you trust the person who's working on you, to
know if you do have a cavity or if you don't have a cavity. It's kind of, you're outgunned, unfortunately.
Yeah. You know how most people go find their dentist? Through Yelp? Through Yelp or some shit like that, and I can't believe that that that that that that that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's th. th. th. th. th. th th. th thi's thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi. thi. thoo-I's thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their th. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. th. th. the. the. th. thei. th. th. the. th. the. th. the. the. the. th shit like that. And I can't believe that that's how we're gonna decide
who my dentist is through Yelp where they can pay someone
to go give a good Yelp review.
Oh, yeah, that's true.
I mean like back when I was a kid,
it was, who's your family was friends with.
You go to that dentist and you trust and thus thus this this this this this this this this guy, and you know, and it's just like everything in life,
whether it's this COVID thing or, you know,
our government's foreign policy.
We just tend to be people who are trusting people,
and we allow these, these, like these people that maybe don't have everybody's best interest but their own and their own bank accounts, best interest in mine. We kind of thrust thrust, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, thi th, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, this this this this this this thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, and thi, and thi, and thi, and thi, and thi, and thi, and thi, and thin, and thin, and thi, and thi, thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii, thi, thi, thi, thi's best interest but their own and their own bank
accounts best interest in mind, we kind of trust them to make decisions for us. And that
kind of makes me super sad. But I, you know, I also understand why people don't want to live
in a world where they have to question everything. That's very mentally taxing.
And, you know, you know, I'm looking over
because I always like to get some notes before the show
on what we talk about.
And I think you bring up a really great point
about how mysterious dentistry is,
because I've always said that most of us don't know how to fix a car.
I mean, at all. Yeah. We have no clue how to do it. Myself included.
When we go to the auto mechanic, we really are trusting people.
And those people, most of them are good guys.
And like, dude, people get excited about an auto mechanic that they think is honest.
They can't stop telling every, oh, dude, I know this guy, this guy, dude, he's the best.
He hasn't run me on nothing.
And they're out there, dude.
And we all have that guy that just jacked us.
My mom, when I lived in upstate New York,
there was a guy that and you would leave with another problem so you had to come right back.
All the time.
Universally it happened to the point where I'm like, mom, stop bringing your car to that
jackass.
He's running you, he's running game on you right now.
That's my opinion on dentistry. It's like you go to dentist or like, oh I see this, you hear him and you hear him like, the th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, thus, thus, thus, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, thu, thu, thu, thu, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi. thi. thi. thooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. So, thu, this. And then you see that you hear him like with the little like hook and the guy, you got,
and you're like, oh, that sounds like it's something.
And they tell you it is.
And then they'll give you an x-ray and you're like, look at that.
You're like, I guess it looks like something, I think.
And then there you are.
You know, and that, and that, and that, and that, and that, and that, and that leads that leads that leads that leads that leads that leads that leads that leads that leads that leads that leads that leads that I talk about all the time on my podcast which is that people should be shopping dentistry and people don't
shop. Dentistry. People don't think of it as like this is something you can
call five people up and like find out how much is it going to cost there. Hey, can I
come see you and you look at my x-rays and see if you find the same thing.
and you can cost, you can you can you know, price shop and you do like a comparative
analysis. And as a lay person who's not a dentist, that's probably your best bet in understanding
if you really want to know what's going on with your mouth, you got to trust the person.
And sometimes it's helpful to go to different dentists and get a couple of different
ideas from different dentists. Sometimes it actually makes things more confusing. So all in all, it's kind of super difficult.
And the advice that I give is kind of like, well, do what you got to do to find someone to
trust, because that's it.
You got to have trust.
Do you recommend chain dentistry, like Western dental and Brighton, all those, or you more
home and mom and pop shops, dentist places?
You know, dentistry is a pure capitalistic model.
It's a pure capitalistic profession,
and I think that's a positive thing for the consumer.
Because like health care is not,
like health care, not dentistry,
health care is a different, it's not capitalistic.
It's run by insurance companies and hospitals that dictate treatment and they're the gatekeepers. But because dentistry is so capitalistic still capital capital capital capital capital capital capital capital capital that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that thiistic thiistic thi. thi. thi's thi's thi's thi's thi's thi's thi. thi's thi's thi's thi's thi's thi. thi is thi is thi is thi is thi is thi is thi is thi is thi is thi is thi. thi is thi. thiistic is thiistic thiistic thiistic thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. ta. ttthe the thea. thea. thea. thea. thea. thea. thea. thethat dictate treatment and they're the gatekeepers.
But because dentistry is so capitalistic still, these chains that come in,
they do offer a very important kind of niche in the market, which is a lower cost dentistry.
Your dentistry is only as good or as bad as the person who does it.
And there's nothing to say that a dentist and a Western dental. So Western dental is a California chain. There's a Aspen dental dental in some areas.
Real quick. Before you come in. Do you have a lot of things open on your computer right now?
No, I don't man. No, this is it. Okay. Let me see. You keep rocking and rolling and halfway through your point,
you've been freezing up a little bit.
I just want to make sure,
if this is what we got, this is what we got, keep going, sorry.
So you're gonna have a-
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dentists are going to lose patients to them because their prices are lower.
So that has other dentists who are forced to say either we're going to be okay with that,
or we're also going to lower our prices and make dentistry more accessible.
And so if accessibility or access to care is your goal your goal then the more chains the more
competition that you have that drives the price down so it's just pure
capitalistic which for the consumer it's got to be a positive thing for a
dentist who's trying to charge a $2,000 a crown which is a high price.
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That's not a good deal for that dentist.
Yeah, I think about when, what do you think about when people go to T.J.
You've heard that, oh, I'm going to go to T.to TJ to get something done. And I'm just like, it's kind of sketchy,
you're gonna go to, not even like just basically
like a third world country, go get your teet done.
And TJ, I don't know.
How does it, do you recommend that?
How often do you hear that?
That is crazy.
All the time, all the time. And I have a very different perspective than most dentists. Most dentists are gonna just crap all over that, man.
They're just gonna say, you're gonna get a disease,
you're gonna contract something,
the dentist is gonna be terrible.
But again, it's the same principle that applies where
there's no rule that a Mexican dentist can't be a good dentist.
And so you might get someone who's a fantastic artist and dentist and good person, and that's that's freaking great okay. I mean
you've seen that but I can tell you I got Dennis a mile up the road who do
crappy dentistry so that you're not safe in the US from crappy dentistry I know
you're not. Go on sorry sorry I'm already cutting people off I'm just super excited about this.
In my in my local area we get a lot more of
like Eastern Europeans like Ukrainians and Russians that do the exact same
thing. They're going to head back over to Ukraine and get their crowns done.
And honestly I'm such a busy guy with my practice. I'm just like awesome.
I think it's great. Just make sure again, make sure you trust someone.
But Dennis are so egocentric and kind of,
I don't know if it's a little bit of xenophobia
where it's like, if it's not American, it's not good,
but I completely disagree with that
because I see good work coming out of the Ukraine
and I see bad work coming from a mile up the road from me. It's got to be like tattoo artists. to be like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, a. to to. to to. to. to. to to to. to. to. to. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. that, that, to the that, the mean like, oh yeah, probably. There's some like... Mechanics is a great analogy too. I mean, but tattoo artists, it's like, you could be on the same block and there's like the most amazing tattoo artist.
And then down the street, there's just somebody who's just doodling at that point. And like, I've never thought about dentist being like an artist. But yeah, I guess that's kind of like
setting all bring putting in the gold tooth with which I need I need to get a
gold tooth yeah there's a lot of artistry to it for sure but you know I'll tell
you what I got a time for a TMI section here I got a vasectomy a few years
to go so sorry ladies sorry ladies
but you know I couldn't shop my vasectomy.
And the person who did my vasectomy, I didn't know if he was good at doing a vasectomy or not.
I don't know how many he does. I don't know if he's good at it. I don't know, I can't talk to his patients.
There's no yelp. I can't, I don't know anything. I'm completely outmatched when it comes to is my urologist good at what I'm
going to ask him to do which is super important because he's cutting a hole
and I scroat him right so so you know but the thing about dentistry is let's say
that I was a urologist and I'm really really good at vasectomies and so I
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and I start doing vasectomies all day long,
all day every day, right?
Because I'm good at them and I can do fast and easy
and I've gotten really good at that procedure.
That's not the way medicine works,
unfortunately.
I think if it took a page out of dentistry is so arbitrary. It's just, it's just literally you're pulling prices out of your butt.
And, you know, insurance companies kind of dictate prices a little bit.
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interesting dude. You know what I also find very... The vasectomy thing is just kind of like...
Right. I just find it so interesting that like, you know, you think about comedians, we put up
YouTube videos and, you know, people rate
them whether they're good or bad.
And I know that there's Yelp out there, but like, like, is there any way, like, like, lawyers,
like, do, how can we don't get to find out what their records are?
And you know, like, hey, I've won most of my, here here's I can go see what my record is like a
sports agent or something like that or you know it's like I mean like yelps yelps are like
good I don't I mean like I don't know how many people X G or Johnny do you guys
you guys yelp do you guys actually yelp do you sit down and yelp some shit like
like would you yelp if anything was negative?
Would you, like dude, I got pizza from a pizza down here. They completely shit the bed on it.
I didn't go there and be like, this you did pizza hop was the worst pizza hot.
I've done it for people I wanted to support. I've done it, you know, if I've had a particularly good
care. I don't usually do it out of rage, but yeah, I've done it for like local businesses and stuff back home especially.
Yeah, sure. And I don't I don't do Yelp, but I do go on like, let's say I'm in some place of town,
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Yeah, I think for like doctors, dentists, lawyers,
I would love to know their record.
Like, hey, I'm a heart surgeon.
Like, they're heart surgeon, it went really well.
Okay, so, yeah, Dennis, you can.
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my heart surgeon has killed.
Yeah.
I don't know.
That's important to me.
If I was getting that, I mean, like,
my vasectomy, my vasectomy,
I would have liked to have known
how many procedures have you done? Is this your first time or have you been doing this for 12 years? And I can trust you.
And you know what else I would like to know?
How long he's been on the clock?
You know, I see a catalog of your work please so I can, what's that?
I said I would also want to know how long he's been on the clock for doctors. That's a really good point. That's a really good point. Would you, could you recommend a few questions?
Maybe we could ask of a perspective dentist,
like someone we're considering going to,
maybe if we get in on a phone call with them or something.
What kind of questions would you ask?
Like in person once you're there?
Yeah, yeah, maybe, or even if you're just setting up the appointment with someone on the desk, you know, some things
they might know possibly that you could ask to see if it is somebody.
Yeah, you know, most dentists, most dentists will catalog some before and after pictures.
So like if they have like an Instagram or, you know, find out they have social media,
because they'll usually brag about their work on social media, and that's something
to look at. You can do a lot without talking to them,
like you're looking at their Google reviews a little bit.
Understand that most dentists have bad reviews,
even if they're good dentists.
So, dentists, dentistry or dental officers,
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So we get a lot of unfair bad reviews. So yeah. So you look at like we're not shooting for 5.0 out of 5.0.
If I have a 4.2 and I have 100 reviews and four of are like, well, he has 92 good reviews and four bad ones.
He's a probably a good guy.
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I don't know.
I'd be interested in you guys think about that.
Yeah, well, I play comedy clubs, right?
And I'll play a roomful of 350 people want to talk to the manager all of a sudden the night's a total shit
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Um, people have been talking about root canals and what what goes on with root canals and the process of root canals and how that can set you up
for possibly down the line some more diseases
because the process isn't like super like clean as people would think it is.
What's your thoughts on that?
Yeah, this is a great question.
So there was a Netflix documentary that I. Yeah, it didn't that came out.
It was really what was the impetus of like, yeah, it was called root cause.
Now that was moved, that was removed from Netflix because of the lobbying of the American
Dental Association and other dental associations.
They are 100% responsible for getting that thing removed.
I was able to, and they were like sending out email saying, it's garbage.
But I was like, I'm definitely watching it. Yeah, why would they say that? Like, I don't know. Hey, guys, don't watch this.
Trust me, you know, like, I'm like,
first thing I'm doing right now is watching this thing.
And that's what they're doing with that pandemic video.
They're telling you that's bullshit.
Don't watch it.
If you see, if someone sends someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone someone. Earth videos. Now this is a told different debate, but if it's such garbage science,
why are you like removing them from YouTube? It just makes no sense. Well, I didn't agree
with removing. I am totally anti-censorship. I don't care how crazy people. You want to talk, crap,
talk. I don't care what you say. Flat Earth, whatever, dude. I'm okay with whatever people want to say. I'm totally against censorship. I watched it because I'm a dentist and I want to know what my patients are
going to come armed with as far as their information. Now root canals are really
easy to get people on the on the anti-root canal camp because root
canals fricking suck. Like for sure they suck. They're not something
fun, they're not something you look forward to, it's something you need out of necessity usually. I do believe that show root cause
was 99% garbage. And I am and I am a conspiracy theorist at heart. You want to
start talking crazy, let's talk about the moon landing. Let's talk about the
coronavirus. Because I'll I'll I will show you how in the clouds I can get.
But root canals are something that I do.
I'm sorry, man.
I see how they relieve suffering.
I see people on a regular basis.
I don't believe that they have any other problems.
I mean, people are associated with root canals cause cancer was basically the gist of this movie.
That by doing it, there's infection inside the tooth
that you can't possibly remove.
And so therefore, it's just a harboring infection.
And so,
you know, people get other maladies or problems from having a root canal done.
They have the study where they basically said like,
oh, they were they were
correlating like breast cancer research. Like you had lumps in one of your breasts. It was associated
with I had a root canal on the right side of my face on the right side on a right tooth. And so I had a
lump in my right breast. And they were making really outlandish claims that weren't really backed
by evidence. They interviewed nobody of the opposite camp,
to like no pro root canals, traditional dentists
or indidontists or specialist of any kind.
They only interviewed people who had bad things to say.
It was very slanted and very easy to convince people
that you shouldn't get it done.
And now there's a whole batch of holistic dentists.
That's a whole faction of dentistry
called holistic dentistry,
which is not complete garbage.
A lot of aspects of holistic dentistry are sound.
But these dentists will pull out any tooth
that a root canal done.
And I think that's a little aggressive, a little extreme.
So root canals have been done for decades, man.
I mean, like since the 60s, 50s.
Real can I really quick, do you have a preference if all things are equal and by all things,
I mean price between implants, dental implants and root canal, like just replacing the tooth
if it's, yeah, predictability-wise I would choose an an implant if a tooth needed a root canal it's a little
more expensive typically to do an implant but to me it's more predictable I
guess I say in my hands an implant is more predictable than a root canal in a
tounterms in terms of the root canal the root canals just in
probability of it taking and and not causing problems. Listen, implant dentistry is like carpentry.
It's like drilling a screw into the wall you're going to hang a picture on.
All I'm doing when I'm doing an implant is screwing a piece of hardware into someone's job.
And while that sounds like super barbaric and super like terrible, it's actually very non-invasive
and doesn't hurt a whole lot. It doesn't cause a lot of pain. Root canals have a
little bit of a degree of unpredictability. Some root canals, and this is
where they get their bad reputation, which I think is unfair. A small minority of
root canals will cause tremendous pain and they don't, you know, teeth get super infected and
that's why they need a root canal typically and it just puts the person in
just an extreme amount of suffering. Sometimes it's easier to just yank the tooth
out, throw an implant in and now your body is made of like, you're like a Darth Vader basically, I mean like you have a mechanical too the the thi that th the the the the you th th th th th th th to to to to to to to to to to to the to to the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the theat theat the. I the the the the. I the. I the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the to toooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. thae. t't hurt. It can't decay.
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It's just, I mean, like,
it's like why, why are they moving forward this with all that anti-root canal stuff? If there's nothing to it though, there's like, there's nothing that could lead to any kind of,
because it's like, why do I, and I, listen, well, I, the fact to you come on the show,
let's me know, you come from a good place and you got a good heart, and you know, and you're saying stuff that I've thought for a very long time.
You know, but there's nothing to that though?
There's nothing to that there,
it could lead to somewhere or something that the chemical,
the things down there,
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know based on what you've told me you're you're pushing forward in in
giving people reasonable dentistry work but it's like we've seen in like the
medical community where it's like they don't want to move off a
particular procedure because it makes them so much money.
It just seems like it's so weird that they want to take this video down that there's nothing to it.
Well, let me address that because that's a really good point.
Maybe that maybe Dennis want to do root canals because we charge so much money for them,
but I get more money from an implant, a lot more money.
Like if I really was just all about the money, I'd say, yeah, pull your root canals and put implants in because I make more money.
It's actually an easier procedure for me, like,
just technically, like it's a breeze of a procedure for me,
where root can get really tricky to do well.
So I have absolutely no motivation, like financially,
to convince people that root canals may cause cancer.
Now here's the thing, I'll tell you this.
I don't know that there's no bad side effects to root canals.
I will tell you, all I can tell you is my experience,
the scientific literature, which I'm very familiar with,
and the experience of thousands of dentists and thousands and hundreds of thousands and probably millions of procedures that have been
done on human beings over long periods of time that just don't, I mean it's just not, it just
doesn't add up to me. So I'm throwing my opinion out there for sure. What do I know for certain?
I'm no scientist man. I don't know exactly. But I would say the people who are claiming that
they cause cancer also don't know that. Very interesting because you're telling me you're getting a lot of a little, a lot of hate
sent your way from people that in your profession.
And you know, it's my theory about like, you know, everybody in the medical
community, everybody when we start talking about single payer versus the
health care system we have right now, the whole, the whole discussion from one side is that
they're, you know, free market, free market, we've got to have free market.
And to me, there's no free market.
There's only just collusion from like, you know, it's like, you know,
free market to me is like cell phones now, right?
Like I can get a cell phone for like $30 a month
and it has everything.
But for some reason I stay on Verizon
because it's a brand that I like,
and they're just fleece of me, right? But it's like, you got this like, walking talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk the like the like like like like the like like like like like like like like like like like the like like like like like like like like like like the like like like like like like the like the the the the the the the the you got this like walking talk the new thing and it's only like $25 a month for free data and everything and it's got
network everywhere but nobody wants to jump to that. But in the medical
community we don't, where can I go get my you know 99 cent store, you know,
heart procedure, not that you want to do that with your heart, but you know, like, where can I go and get this kind of discount work done?
And I think is that, can that be applied to dentistry?
And is that reason why you are getting so much shit from your fellow dentistry? Well, I get, I get, I get some nasty emails and DMs from time to time because of the time, the time, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, thi, thi, the the the the the the the their kind, the kind, the kind, the kind, the kind, the kind, thi, the kind, the kind, the kind, the kind, the kind, the kind, the kind, the kind, the kind, the kind, the kind, the kind, the kind, the kind, thi, thi, thi, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, the kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, they, thi, thi, thi, thi emails and DMs from time to time
because of the free work that I do.
There's a lot of dentists that believe
that if you do free work, you're cheapening the whole profession.
And that's just not the way I'm wired.
I began doing free work, actually a few years back,
because I hated my job, hated being a dentist,
just couldn't deal with it, a lot of pissed off people all the time.
And so I changed a few things.
The one things I started doing was a lot of charitable service.
And so that is really what turned my whole perspective around.
I enjoyed what I was doing a lot of charitable service for stand-up comedians. Is where I started to do. We need it.
I know.
I know.
So I'm a huge fan of comedy.
And I started going to like open mics at Helium Comedy.
Oh, that's so nice, dude.
The club in Portland.
And I'm at, every comedy club has like they're like crew or squad of like your locals, your hitters that come in and, and you, and you, hitters that come in and you know your big names right? So I got in with a lot
of the open micers and it just helping I wanted to help people out so I was like
just kind of got known as like hey this guy will help you out so a lot of
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Hit me up man. We'll put you on some nitrous and see what
See what's true. Brother. I gotta make sure that doesn't violate my sobriety, but if it doesn't, I would like to do that.
I'm not getting high to get off. I'm getting high to make a YouTube video. So it's totally
legal as long as we're doing a procedure, which would be the cleaning. It's a hundred percent legal.
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I felt so great about it, I started telling more people about it.
I created a podcast.
I created a nonprofit organization that all revolved around doing all this free work.
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on this issue.
And so I get these notes saying,
you shouldn't be doing this and it cheapens everything.
And what you gotta understand,
dentistry has a collective aspiration to increase to increase prices.
Right, they wanna like, they wanna be like be more expensive. They want to be, like,
they want to eliminate the insurances that poor people have. They don't want to take state insurance.
They don't want to take PPO plans. They want to be fee for service and charge whatever fee they want,
which is their right to do that. But the whole, the problem is, if we do that collectively as a profession, you're ignoring a huge portion of the population where the majority of dentistry is actually needed. And so if all the dentists are ignoring these
people, all for money, you know, there's just a huge amount of people that are
neglected in that. And so that's kind of the message that I'm getting and that's why I
get a lot of pushback from certain colleagues, not a lot, but it's enough where it's a regular
thing where you get a nasty email from someone.
You know, it's very interesting because we do think about that, what we have right now, and
you know, I'm blessed. I'm going to be honest with you, up until I was about 40, until this year,
I didn't have insurance. I didn't have it forever. I wasn't, I was just running and gunning and hoping that, I, I, I, that, that, that, I, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, th, th, th, it, it, it, it, it's, it's a thi, it's a thi, I didn't have insurance. I didn't have it forever. I wasn't you I was just running and gunning and
Hoping that nothing bad happened and the the blessings not come was that I got to this point so far
And now I have you know, blue shield and I have a I have a plan. I'm happy with
But you know, it's like the whole thing is you know, there's this whole discussion about single-payer and all that stuff.
And I understand the thought of behind that because for the longest time I was a single-payer
guy. And I was like, oh, man, we should have single-payer.
And I understand the argument for that.
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months and then they go and they blow their brains out in the parking lot. We've heard those tails, stuff like that. So I go, I I I I I I I I I I I I I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. th. th. I th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. that, I'll that, I'll th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. thetales, stuff like that. So I go, how do we, how do we, how do we get from like,
whatever we have to whatever England has, right?
And England isn't the same size as America.
America, you know, the United States is so big, 335 million people,
destinations. And I don't ever believe those numbers.
It could either be way more or be way less.
We don't know.
But obviously we're a much bigger country than Britain and their ability to, you know,
be able to have single payer.
They pay much more in taxes, but they seem to have the same standard of living.
I don't know what is the, is,
well, how do we do, how do we find that happy ground there?
So I'm a dentist and I know how dentistry is run.
I think when I look at the medical system in America,
it certainly doesn't work well and it definitely doesn't benefit as many people as it should.
For sure, I agree with that.
And I don't want to get too political,
but I don't agree with a single pair or a multi-payer system.
I agree with how dentistry is done,
because dentistry is super accessible.
And people don't know that dentistry is accessible.
This is a big problem. People think that dentistry is not accessible because that's thiii, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I, I, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, tooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. And, to thi, is not accessible because they're like, well, I don't have dental
insurance so I can't go to a dentist.
Well, that's crap.
Yes, you can.
You can go to a lot.
There's a lot of dentist.
You can come to my office and for $19, I'll give you a full exam, a full set
of x-rays and for $49, they have an intro special and they'll give you an exam x-rays and a simple cleaning for 50 bucks.
So you don't need to have expensive dental insurance unless you need like significant dental
work completed.
So where dentistry is a purely capitalistic model, it allows people like me to adjust the price.
But if you are a heart surgeon, you can't, you're not the boss, you're an employee, you're an employee of a hospital, you're an employee of a group, you're an employee of someone else. You don't call the shots. Even though you're the guy, you're the operator. You're the guy doing the damn thing. So the idea is that if you could get a system where the system, if the system, if the system, if the system, if the system, if the system, if the system, if the system, the system, the boss, the boss, the boss, the boss, the boss, the boss, the boss, you the boss, you're the boss, you're the boss, you're the boss, you're not the boss, you're the boss, you're not the boss, you're not the boss, you're not the boss, you're not the boss, you're not the boss, you're not the boss, you're not, you're not the boss, you're not, you're not, you're not, you're the boss, you're the boss, you're the boss, you're the boss, you're the boss, you're the boss, you're the boss, you're the boss, you're the boss, you're the boss, you're the boss, you're the boss, you're not the boss, you're not the boss, you're not the boss, you're not the boss, you're not the boss, you're not the boss, you're not the boss, you're not the boss, you're not the boss, you're not the boss was actually in charge of things, the doctor meeting, then you could have a market by capitalistic model that actually is
truly capitalistic.
But even right now, in a multiplayer system, insurance companies run the game, man.
The insurance companies run everything.
They control the doctors.
They control what they do it.
The doctors don't own their equipment. I use this example all their their their their their their their their their their their th, I th, th, th, thi thi. thi. thi. I thi. I thi. I'm thi. I'm thi. I'm thi. I'm thiole. I'm, thi. I'm, their. I'm, their. I'm, their. I'm, their. I'm, their. I's, their. I's, their. I's, their. I's, the control what they do, they control where they do it. The doctors don't own their equipment.
I use this example all the time.
I do all this free work for people
because I own everything that I use.
I own it.
So it's my stuff, I can do with it what I please.
But I don't own an OR, an operating room.
So if I was a heart surgery for free for somebody. I can't even do it. You can't even move the pieces to do your skill and talent for free if you chose to.
Because you are owned by other corporations, entities, employers, things like that.
You brought up insurance that they run everything.
What do you think about braces?
Is that just like a scam?
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But then I just, I go to these, my niece's parties
and all the kids got braces.
Do they all need them or is that just like
they got insurance, let me hustle these kids and make money.
Yeah, I mean, listen, braces are one of the procedures that probably have the most ridiculous overheads that you would ever,
like the profit margin on braces is ridiculous.
It probably costs, so I do braces as a general dentist, which is super unique,
because I went and trained myself to do it because the profit margins are so big.
And I do it at a discounted rate because I'm my own boss and I can do that.
So, but it cost me maybe 200 bucks in raw equipment to put braces on
someone's face and you know the going rate in my area is about six grand for braces.
Now it takes 18 months to two years so I got these people coming in but I don't even
spend time with them like we, like it's a really easy visit to come in. I change a wire, I tighten some elastics up and they're all.
So it's super easy and super lucrative.
And orthodontists are one of the most profitable dental specialists that exist
because of that fact.
So that's why you have companies like Smile Direct Club,
which is a D-Y Brace coming in.
So Smile Direct Club is a company that dentists collectively pretty much loathe.
They hate Smile Direct Club because they're coming in with mail in braces.
These are trays.
You can like take impressions at home and for 1,800 bucks, you'll move your teeth.
And you recommend that?
That's good to go?
No. No. I always recommend that dentistry is good to go? No. No.
I always recommend that dentistry is done under the supervision of a dentist or, you know, licensed
professional.
Would you, would you say the same thing about teeth whitening also?
Like those trays, you know those trays that you look up and they have the fluorescent shit
and you can buy it on Amazon for a hundred bucks?
No? Uh, is the cut out, the question cut out.
Say it again, what's the question?
Would you say the same thing about teeth whiting?
That you should only do it under supervision of a dentist?
Well, teeth whitening is different because the FDA controls the chemicals that are
used for teeth whitening thinning agents. So, like, your Cc, the the the the the the fi-cest-white-white-white-white-white-white-white-white-white-white-white-white-white-white-white-white-white-white-white-white-sts-sts, the the the the the the the thi-sts, thiqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqs, the-a-a-c-a-c-a-c-c-c-a-c-c-c-a-c-a-c-c-c-c. thii. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. th-ae. th-ae. th-a-a-ss. thi. thi-s. thi-s. thi-s. thi-s. thi-s. thea-s. theaicicickkkoutoutouteaeaeaeaeaeau anea-coueau aneau aneau an things. things. thea-c. thea-c. things over the counter that are higher than a certain percentage of concentrated whitening agents. So like your crest white strips are great products, but they have
a very low concentration of whitening agent. And so that's why they're sold because the
whitening agents can like chemically burn your gums if it's too high concentrated.
So you go to a dentist if you want like a one day treatment for whitening because they'll use like a rubber dam that th th th th th th th th th thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. I'll, thi. I'll thi. thi. thi. I'll thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. I thi. thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi. thi. thi. thi. thi's thi's thi's thi's they're thii's they're they're they'll use like a rubber dam that goes over your gum tissue. They'll protect your gum tissue from
chemical burns so that you can witen your teeth. So the whitening agent is super costic and
like to toxin. Not to teeth but to gum tissue. Yeah, you can't leave that on your gums for too long, it'll burn you. It leaves us like nasty, like white, like hot white burn.
It's pretty painful.
White gum, if you saw a chick with white gums,
that'd freak you out, right?
That's a deal breaker, man.
That's a deal, but I mean, I'd still hit it,
but it would slow down a little bit.
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You know, we've, I've done episodes before where we just talk about like, you know, like
my opinion on the Libertarian Party is like, I agree with like so much of their stance.
I just, I personally believe that just like every other major political party, we're
not seeing it with the Democrat Socialist Party.
We know it's with Democrats and Republicans.
And I personally believe it's not libertarians, that the head of those parties are all just
sold out corrupt people.
And one thing, you know, and the reason I bring that up is because, you know, we have
so many
libertarians pushing against a single payer, which I understand, okay?
But they never address what I think is the issue that would get people behind their party
and their movement, which is get rid of price of entry, which is all these tests that doctors have to pay big dollars
to take to be able to graduate medical school and get certified.
And it's like if you get rid of all a lot of that and you you cap.
Like why does the price of school keep going up. Why? Why?
I mean, I know why.
I'm asking rhetorically.
This is insane in dentistry right now.
Because it's, yeah, so dentistry right now,
I came out of school in 2009 with about $300,000 in debt.
That was pretty hot.
Wow.
So that's what it cost me to have the license to do what I do.
Now, I was okay with that because, you know, you hear, oh,
Dennis can make $300,000 a year, 500,000, $600,000 a year.
Even the average dentist, according to ADA, makes like 175 a year.
So I thought, well, I'm better than average, and I was kind of banking on myself a little bit. Now, I mean, NYU just made headlines because NYU just raised their tutututututututututututututututututututuiiiiousousousousousousousousousousousousousousousousousousousousous tous tous tous tous tous touu tou tou tou tou to $ to $ to $ to $ to $ myself, you know, betting on myself a little bit. Now, I mean, NYU just made headlines because NYU just raised their tuition to $125,000
a year.
So now they're half a million dollars to become a dentist.
And this has made dentists, like when prospective dentists or perspective dental students
come to a dentist and they ask for our sage advice, you know, should I consider this as a career? You got to think twice because half a million
bucks, here's the thing. That's that's one of the reasons why dentistry is so high priced. That's one of them.
It's exactly. You just nailed it on the head because they're thinnec.
And that's not their fault. They, I mean, they chose to do that, obviously, but it's because they're being told you can make a killing as a dentist. You work four days
a week, three days a week, and you can make 400 K. And you have all these like, you know,
people urging you and have all these mentors who've done it, and they say, just do it, just do it, in dental school, you get the loans. You don't, it's an automatic, yeah.
Federal government is in bed with these private institutions and public institutions where
you get automatically approved for these federal loans.
Automatic. It doesn't matter. And so the dental schools can just keep on raising
the prices, raising the prices, you know, go from a class of 100 to a class
to 140, get more and more money. And they don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't, they don't, their their their their their, their, their, their, their, their. It's, the. It's, the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the the. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the their. their. their. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. thea.ea.ea.ea.ea.e. the. the. the. the. the. their. the of 100 to a class to 140, get more and more money, and
they don't get any of those savings back to the dental students at all.
Just prices just keep on going up.
And I think dentistry suffers as a result because, well, and our communities do because
you are pricing the poorest among us out of basic needs, basic necessities.
They're teaching.
And you know, it's like, we, it's like the biggest argument,
like people shouldn't be dying from not being able to afford health insurance in a country that is supposedly the richest in the world. I mean, like, I don't know if that's another one, like America's number one and everything, and we're really 30th, but, you know, it's like, you know, Saudi Arabia seems pretty, the thriv... th, th, th, th, th, like, like, like, th, like, like, th, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like,. I mean, like, I don't know if that's another one, like America's number one and everything, and we're really 30th, but, you know,
it's like, you know, Saudi Arabia seems pretty fucking,
word is their cops drive around and Lamborghini,
so I don't know what the number is on that, but the point is that, you know, we should, I, listen man, people should be able to make to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, the, the, their, their, their, their, the, the, the, the, the, the, their, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, th, th, th.... th. th. threat, threat, threat, th. threat, threat, thirty, thirty, thirty, thirty, thirty, thirty, thirty, threat, threat, to make as much money as they want on, in their profession,
but also people should be able to, you know, get basic health care needs as a collective
group.
Like, we're so like Boba assassin with each other
that we're willing to like allow the whole thing to crumble
for a couple extra bucks like we need like every other country.
Like nationalism is such an interesting thing because it's like it's a double-bladed sword right like there's some like really dangerous parts of nationalism.
But there's also some very important parts of nationalism.
You know, the United States in particular gets so like,
we're the only country where nationalism is so demonized.
And it's so tribal in this country.
We're like, we make fun of like Afghanistan and all these countries that are like, really not a nation. They're more like tribal. And we're like, how old, you know, how old is th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th tho, tho, tho, th. th. the the their their their their, their, their, their, th. their, their, thi. thi. thi. their, their, their, the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th. thi. thi. that. that. that. that that that that that that that that that that that that that that. that. that.that are like really not a nation.
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You're like, take a look at this country, ma'am.
Take a look at how many like tribes march against the exact same people.
Yet the other group never joins in to help them march against those people. Ever. Like if you take a look at the Black Lives Matter March, the women's march and the open. And the the the the their. And their. And their, they, they, they are they are they are they are they are they are they are they are all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all the the the the the the the the their, how their, how the the their, how their, how their, how their, how their, how their, how their, how their, how their, how their, how their. their, how their, how their, how their, how their, how their, how their, how their, how th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. them march against those people ever. Like if you take a look at the Black Lives Matter march,
the women's march and the Open Up march,
they're all marching against the same people,
but each one of them just shits on the other one
because, oh, dude, you know, it's like it flips.
It's like, it's like, you know, again, this is full, I am one of the open up people and I will fully 100% within a week say that this group has
has flip-flopped on their feelings on cops like out the gate man. It's like it's like one second
they're like hey stop being Nazis and brown shirts and let us fucking go to work and then they'll be like with
that kid that guy in Georgia be like oh he committed a crime and you have the right to shoot him down. It's like you don't th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th th th th th th th th th th th thu, thu, th th th th, th, the, thu, the, the, the, the, thus, thus, thus, has thus, has thus, has thu, has thu, has thu, has thu, has thu, has thu, has thu, has thu, has th, has th, has th, has th, has th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi's thi's thi's thi's thi's thi's thi's thiii's thi's thi, thi, thi, th like with that kid, that guy in Georgia, be like, oh, he committed a crime,
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We have a laws of this country,
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and the Open Up people,
we're marching against the exact same people.
And then you throw in the woman's, to to to to against the government. It's like, but nobody can get on the same fucking page.
And that's the thing with dentistry or like the medical profession.
It's like, you're just leasing people for your own benefit.
It's like, and it's like you're looking like, someone said that Jeff Basos is about to get
to a trillion dollars.
It's like, why, like, why do you need a the the the the the the the rest the rest the rest the rest the rest rest rest rest rest rest rest rest rest rest rest rest the rest rest the rest to a trillion dollars. It's like, why? Like, why do you need a trillion dollars?
You don't, you and the rest of your family fertility
will never be able to spend half that ever.
What is the point of fleecing everybody?
Yeah, dude, that's, that's a,'s a that's a that's a that's a brain full of
thoughts right there man. You know dentistry is interesting in the way
dentistry fits I'm super glad that I chose dentistry and I didn't know how glad
I was until I became a dentist and I've been working for a while and I kind of
started developing my own political beliefs because I'm just super glad
that I kind of have a skill that even in a zombie apocalypse people are going to need their teach worked on
them. And so for me it's been great to be able to kind of control my own
destiny but also realization that not everybody has that man, not everybody, people
are beholden to an employer or a power or an entity or a government that they they have to respond to. So I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, thi, I'm, I the, I the, I the, thi, thi, thi, they they they they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're, they're they're they're, they're, they're, they're, they're they're they're to they're to to to to to they're to they're to to they're thi, to to to thi, to to to to tipeeeat, tipeeat, tipe, tipe, tipe, tipe, they're they're they're they're they have to respond to. So I mean, it kind of sucks for a lot of people, but that's why I believe like
medicine, if the urologist who did my vasectomy opened his own place and just did
vasectomies or whatever you could do, but just did it on his own, own his own equipment, became a small business owner,
hired his own staff, and then all doctors did that,
and you basically would lose the idea of like,
you know, you could still have hospitals, but you know,
it would just, it's an overhaul of the entire system
that makes it more accessible to the average person because competition is,
like hamburgers man.
You can go get a dollar hamburger or you can get a $16 hamburger.
Yeah, and Dennis, whatever hamburger you want.
But Dennis, Dennis shit all over that idea because they.
Are like, oh, so we're going to have like our profession's going to turn to taco bell.
And I'm just like hell yeah, it's going to turn into Taco Bell because Taco Bell allows you to buy whatever tacos you want.
And if you want the cheap-ass tacos from Taco Bell for a dollar with a Doritos shell, you
get that.
If you want to go to the other place, who's a dollar 59 and maybe it's a little bit better,
you can go there. If you want to go to a super fancy, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to a to, to to to to, to too, and a too, and a to to to to to to to to to to too, and a too, and a too, and a to, and a to, and a to, and a to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to a to a to a to a ta, ta, ta, taco, taco, taco, taco, tacosa, tacosa, tacosa, tacosa, tacosa, tacosa, tacosa, tacosa, tacosa, tacosa, and a tacosa, tacos, you can pay $75 for tacos. You get whatever tacos you want because that's freedom.
So dentistry allows that right now.
People aren't actually wise to that yet.
They can say, you can get your fillings for $80, or you can get a filling for $600.
And people don't know the difference because Dennis don't even talk about it,
and they don't want to. They're incentivized not to. And still I go out there saying, what the hell, dude?
What, why are you guys paying all this money?
You don't need to pay that?
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And it's just simply not true.
It's not an honest, it's not intellectually honest with the profit margins and what you're doing.
And why you're charging so much?
Because it's seriously arbitrary, you just pull the price out of your butt hole.
And that and you get your patients.
You know, and I'm gonna be honest with you man, and maybe you guys can comment on this as well.
When I go to a store, right, and I see, let's say, my favorite brand, we're talking chum, chum chum chum donuts, right?
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How come chimchims are $3?
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It's like, I can go to a Nike store
and I can get a $150 shoe.
Or I can wait till Ross paid for less on Wednesday,
and I can get Nike's for 20 bucks.
But why don't, why doesn't anyone do that? Because they're just afraid they're getting a less valuable product.
You know where that goes in?
I don't know if you've heard this, but they say Costco owns Gregoose.
And they say that Kirkland, and they're just that's the same thing as Gregoose, but you're
just paying Gregoose even though Costco owns Gray Goose.
And they're like, it's basically Gregoose. It's just not labeled Great Goose because they own the company and they just sell you the
cheap one and the expensive one.
And that's the same thing.
You know what?
Like Eddie Bravo says, I don't need to research it.
It sounds real.
I'm a real.
I'm a b the same way. I can't tell the difference between a diamond and cubit circonium.
I don't know why people buy diamonds
because I can't see the freaking difference.
And I wouldn't know it.
If you were all iced up, earrings, necklace,
I wouldn't know it.
And most people, by looking at you, You know, people want the real deal and they think if they pay the higher price, they feel better about that.
So, those are dentists out there for that niche of people.
Brady, have you ever heard any like horror stories out there besides the guy who never
got a drilling after he left his one dentist as a kid that you just heard about like an
hour ago? But outside of that, have you heard any other crazy stories like
like wisdom teeth? I've heard people go to get the wisdom teeth pulled out and
they felt the whole thing. I've had people bitch and crying. They never leave
after wisdom team was the last time they ever went back. Yeah, dude, yeah, of course,
there's horror stories. Dentistry doesn't come without some
horror stories. Denistry is not picture perfect.
I mean, the reality of dentistry, if we're, this is a place of honesty, right?
This is a safe space.
I don't know about that.
But we are, we are, we, you know, it sucks to get things done.
If you're getting a tooth pull out, it hurts.
It's just pain is part of the the. And we pain. And we try to do it as comfortably as we can,
but there are some situations where,
you gotta say, hey, but this is gonna sting a little bit,
right, I gotta give injections,
injections hurt to get people numb.
Sometimes they don't go totally numb.
Sometimes infections are present.
And infections are present, all bets are off. You can't, the presence of bacteria makes it very difficult to numb people sometimes.
So yeah, there's horror stories, there are situations, especially when people go to sleep
for wisdom teeth, they might be feeling it and not have the ability to voice it.
So they're kind of like in this state of like subconsciousness where they're like kind of
awake but not asleep. That is like the the the the the their their their their their their their their their their. their. their. their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. So, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, th. So. So, th. So, th. So, th. So, th. So, th. So, th. So, thi. So, thi. So, thi. So, thi. So, thi. So, thi's thi's thi's thi's thi's thi's thi's thii's thi's their thi's thi's thi's thi. So, but not asleep. Yeah, that is like.
They're feeling pain and they don't have the ability to communicate that to the operator.
Yeah.
That is, that is like, I think a lot of people's nightmares.
Are you here about like, you know, people like, I guess that's just a fear.
Like, they're like, they can't express if they're feeling pain and stuff like that. It's super rare. And so for them, in my practice,
I pull out a lot of wisdom teeth
and I don't knock people out for it.
I'll put them on valium or Xanax
or get them messed up on nitrous or something like that.
But they'll still lucid enough to talk to me.
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Teeth can, I mean, a bad tooth can ruin your life, a bad experience and dilaphas can ruin
your life, cause trauma, like mental trauma, you know, post-traumatic stress, super real,
dental phobobia, super real.
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dental chair, man. People with like neck tattoos and full sleeves, you get them
in the chair. They're crying. And they're little 10-year-old girls, dude, when it
comes to dentistry. And it's sad. And we try to help that out, you know, I'd tell you what, like, you know, when I first started doing dentistry, when I was early my career was like, oh, what a pussy, dude, like, this guy, what's up with this guy, dude?
But now I'm just like, no, it's real man.
It's like, it's a mental thing that you can't, like, some people just can't get
passed and you got to drug them.
You got to drug them. you had some controversial opinions about how frequently people should visit their dentist.
Could you talk about that a little bit?
Oh yeah, maybe cleaning something or something?
Yeah, six months is a total myth, man.
It's a total like scam.
I mean, I don't want to say scam.
Maybe that's the right word.
But listen, the rate at which someone should get their teeth, to be based on the evidence that they get crap all over their teeth at whatever interval.
So when someone comes to me for a cleaning,
I clean their teeth and I say, hey,
I want to see you back in three months
to evaluate what things look like.
If things look good, we might bump you at a six.
If things look bad, we might still keep you on a three-month interval. But that's based on what they're showing me, because I know when I get them clean, what
it looks like.
There are people who definitely can get away with a cleaning a year, for sure.
But that interval should be determined by the dentist with their patients.
Some of those things are dictated by insurance companies.
So why is six months the go-to answer. That's the reason six months is the go-to answer because that's what insurance companies pay for.
So that's what Dennis push to 90% of human beings
in the United States of America.
So.
Interesting.
But is it, do people need their cleaning's done every six months?
Not everybody, but that's a, that's a, it requires a dentist or a dental professional with their team,
working with you individually to determine, well, this is what I see, so this is what I think we should do.
This is like how often should you take a shower? Well, some people smell real bad after like two hours,
and they need to take a shower again. Some people can get away with once a day and most people are within that once a day. So most people fall within six months, I would say. It's a pretty safe bet, but some people definitely.
It's just the idea is that the insurance companies push that.
So that's why it's believed.
That's why you ask the average person,
how often should you clean your teeth once every six months?
But Dennis don't act.
Most dentists don't actually believe that. It's just that's that's the interval at which I can bill and get paid for the services. So that's the interval that I have you come
in. You know, uh, the truth is it's just like it's a fine line, right? Because, you know,
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You could say that, right?
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And I used to think that about doctors,
that they were part of the collusion of the pricing.
Later on, I found out that, you know,
they're like we just talked about,
the price of entry to this is so expensive.
They have to play ball. And it's just like they are in the business of making,
I mean like paying, who doesn't want to make more money?
I mean back to the baso point, you've made all the money.
There's a, you've, if you never made a dollar again, you'd be okay.
You know, it's this weird kind of thing. So it's like, it's like, where do we find this kind of like place,
this perfect place that does not exist in humanity,
where it's like you're making the insurance people okay,
but you're being truthful to your oath?
And I don't know if they make you take the oath of like,
gotta be cool to everybody and take the doctors take, which they take that. I don't recall, I don't thak tha tha tha tha tha tha tha tha tha tha tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, that, thi, thi, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, tho, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th, th, th, th, th, th. th, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi, thi, thi, thi of them and that they make the doctors take, which they take that.
I don't recall taking the Hippocratic oath
at any time in my career.
But I think in general we have regulatory boards
that make sure that we are not practicing malfeasance on anybody
and that we're practicing at a certain standard for sure.
Well, I really like you do because I think that what you're doing is very important.
And I think you, I think what you do, you know, Johnny text me about how much he enjoyed
this, how much you enjoyed this podcast.
And you know, and I think what you're doing is very important because it's more than obvious
that you care about people, but and it's very blatantly obvious as well,
is that you respect your profession and the others who do this.
So going back to my original question, is how is this different than the guy who gave away the tricks,
is the guy who gave away the tricks is trying to destroy his profession,
for most likely, in my opinion,
is that he couldn't make it as a magician.
So he's trying to rat these fucking guys out.
Whereas you are trying to find this place where it's like,
hey man, we got to take care of everybody, not just the ones who can afford it. And at the same time, dentists are artists and they need to be respected, you know, and they're trying the hardest for their their their their their their their their their their hardest for their hardest for their hardest for their hardest for their hardest for their hardest for their hardest for their hardest for their hardest for their hardest for their hardest for their the same time, dentists are artists and they need to be respected.
And they're trying their hardest for the most part.
That's what I got out of this episode we did today.
Yeah, so it is a lot like,
the difference between the magician analogy is this,
is that my goal is not to become rich.
If I wanted to be rich, I'd stop spending time time time time time time time time time time time time time time time time theniching to be tiiiiiiiiiaing to be to be to be to not to become rich. If I wanted to be rich, I'd stop spending time doing this
because this takes up an ornament amount of my time.
I get no money.
At this point, we have no funding,
we have no sponsorship.
We're in negotiations basically to get free product
that we use from certain companies that give us free product
to give free to our patients who win these, you know, full mouth over the holes.
But it's not about money.
It's keeping it laser focused on, we're just trying to bring health care to as many
people as we can.
And I lump dental care in with health care.
So, dental care is so important to me that everybody should have access to it.
And that's simply not the case.
And the environment we live in now is drifting further away. The collective
mentality of dentists is to drop the insurance companies, is to drop the low
reimbursing insurance companies, increase your fee.
Jesus.
Dental consultants will come into your dental office and for a nominal fee, they'll tell
you how to improve your practice.
And without fail, every single dental consultant group will tell you to raise your prices.
They'll stroke your ego.
They'll say, hey, doc, you are such an amazing dentist that you need to really re-evaluate
your prices.
And so, you know, dentists just keep on raising their prices and they feel really good about it.
It's very, it's ego driving, right?
It's like I can, I can get away with a $1,600 crown and Dennis wear that as a badge sometimes.
So the point of the podcast and what I do with my nonprofit is to stay laser focused.
The reason I'm revealing these things is to help the average person find access to care. That's the ultimate the ultimate the ultimate the ultimate the ultimate the ultimate the ultimate the ultimate the ultimate the ultimate the the the the th. Why thi. Why thi. thi. thi. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi, thi, thi, thi. thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi. I'm, thi. I'm, thi. I'm, thi. I'm. I'm. I'm. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I thi. thi. I thi. I thi. I'm, thi. te. te. I'm, te. I'm, te. I'm, te. I'm, te. And, te. I'm, te. I'm, te. I'm, thi. I'm revealing these things is to help the average person find access to care. That's the ultimate, you know, why do I tell you people to go shop it around?
It's not because I want these other guys who out of business. I don't care about them. Ultimately,
what I care about is that I want people to know if you can't afford that $1,600 crown, you can get one for 800 bucks. It's not a different a different a different a different different different different different different different same same same same same same same same same same same same same same same same same same same same same same same same same same same same same same same same same same. It's the exact. It's the exact same product. In fact, some of these places actually use the exact same laboratory
where the exact same product comes from.
And they buy the supplies from the exact same dental supply chains.
It would be like finding out that Applebee's and, I don't know, like French laundry in San Francisco or in Napa Valia.
You know, super like fancy restaurants get their bread from the same bread truck.
And that would blow your mind.
That one charges you, you know, an insane amount of money, one charges you nothing.
And they get the same products from the same places.
And that's, and that's the case in a lot of dentistry.
So that's the difference between the analogy with the magicians is that I'm not out there trying to ruin other people's lives.
I'm just saying, listen, if you're going to charge an exorbitant fee, you better be
able to back it up and prove your value to your patients.
And I think that's reasonable.
I agree with that.
And I just said it better.
You said more eloquently than I did.
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is like how much is it going to cost for me to get a gold tooth? Dude you come to me
and I'll do your gold tooth for free man. I just look how much how much does a
gold I did? I'll go so much I'll go right there. I really want some gold in my mouth.
Come up to Portland, dude.
Gold is one of the only materials.
So one thing that's super unique about the way
that I like to do business is that I don't charge people money
for differences in materials.
So for example, like fillings,
you can get a silver filling,
which is probably some of the dark, like, the silver filling, which is probably some of the dark spots you see on your tooth that you think are like you can still see the like the silver filling or they're dark and white
fillings. White fillings usually cost more. At my office about four or five years ago I decided
to level the playing field say no, it's the same price for filling no matter what material.
So people just don't choose silver fillings. I haven't done a silver filling in five years because as soon as I make a level playing fielding, let my patients actually make a decision, what they want, they don't choose that material.
Gold is different because gold cost me more, like a lot more.
And so, but still typically I do a crown for $650 and I add $150 to do it gold.
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Dude, let's make a whole grill, man.
I'll make you, I'll put some, some diamonds.
It'll say to you.
Do not threat the threat the, threat, threat, the not threaten with me, get out. My mom would lose her skull, but I would do it.
I would love that one gold tooth you could see.
That'd be the best.
Probably biased, because I grew up with my dad
having a gold tooth like way up on his molar,
and I used to always like, oh, I would love it.
I would love it. I thought it was the coolest, thing. I was coolest coolest coolest coolest coolest coolest coolest coolest coolest coolest coolest coolest coolest coolest coolest coolest coolest coolest coolest coolest coolest coolest coolest coolest coolest this gold crown and that's it's so dope. I remember being like eight or nine years old just thinking my dad's the coolest
coolest. He's got a gold tooth. And so I think I'm super biased but I think it's dope as hell.
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I've never had someone request that.
Why do you want that?
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You come up the Portland? Yeah, dude, we were just there. We sold out Mississippi Studios, which is like, got me back to like, because we were going
to start before this whole bullshit went down.
Oh, really quick, you had mentioned, and you know, we'll wrap it up, but you had mentioned
that you had some opinions on the coronavirus.
What are your thoughts on that? As I know your doctor, I mean, I'm a doctor in voodoo.
I mean, we both have our professions, but like what is your take on that doctor?
You know, you know, there's a difference and you want to keep a, you want to keep a
straight head, a level head about what you think and what you know?
I am very convinced we've been lied to because the numbers
don't justify the reaction and I will die on that hill.
The numbers do not justify the reaction that's been taken.
As far as why people, people always ask me, what's the angle?
Who's benefiting from this?
I don't know.
I don't know how the Lisbon people operate, man.
But I do believe that we're being lied to to be to be to be to be to be how the Lisbon people operate, man, but I do believe
that we're being lied to. I don't believe, you know, my thing is that I think I can care about
saving lives, protecting the Constitution, and maintaining our way of life, I can make care about all three of those
things, I don't have to choose just one. I can choose all three of those things to be, to care about.
And I do care about all those things.
And so we try to save people's life.
But here's the thing about dentistry,
where the coronavirus comes into play.
So coronavirus has shut people down.
And it's just an immense amount of fear. The virus hasn't affected dentistry at all.
Nothing.
But the fear of noncompliance has affected dentistry tremendously.
So dentists are afraid of not complying.
They're afraid if someone gets in my chair and they spread coronavirus to someone else
or inadvertently through their interaction and dental office, what they're
afraid of is not death, it's liability. They're afraid of I'm going to get
sued because I didn't have proper precautions in place and we don't know
what proper precautions are. None of our, none of our dental agencies are telling us, here you have to wear an N95 mask
there's they're basically use your own judgment but the thing about
dentistry is that dentistry doesn't have one documented case of spread of infectious
disease we deal with HIV positive patients have C to tuberculosis
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I mean, I get a little worked up, but I apologize.
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You have some racial slurs.
The idea that dentistry has probably the best, what I'm doing, it doesn't make any sense, I'm not being mandated to change what I'm doing, and it doesn't make any sense with history.
History is that dentistry has probably the best
impeccable track record of any medical profession.
We don't spread infectious diseases.
Dentistry is not known for that.
Dentistry would be known for that.
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well we might be high exposure, we are not high risk and those are the same, those are not the same things. We are, you know, wearing people's mouths all the time, but we're masked up, goggled
up, we are wearing, you know, proper precaution.
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We treat every single human being like that.
And that's what I thought from the beginning.
I have this home girl who's a dentist assistant and they're getting paid this whole week to
watch videos.
Videos on the new Corona on how to do this and they're getting paid just to watch videos and I'm like, shouldn't you were, wouldn't you already assume me homeboy was sick?
Like you already ate, it's it's all fair dude.
It's all fear. Well, yeah, and so that's the thing and it's all liability too.
You know, Xavier, the reason why your friend is watching those videos is so the
dentists can say if something happened. video. I showed my staff the training video and someone selling those training
videos and people are coming to me telling me, hey here's this new suction unit
you got to have this for coronavirus. It's this new that you got to outfit
all your rooms with these $10,000 aerosol units and I'm like...
Dude, go jump off a building. I'm not I'm not doing that. There's no evidence that suggests there's no mandate,
there's no evidence. You, your opportunistic salespeople and that's all it. So, so,
so, you know, I have some suspicions of, you know, the coronavirus on the whole. But, yeah, let's hear them. Let's hear them. This is the podcast for that. Well, you know, I don't, I don't, I don't, maybe, okay, whatever.
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Right, I don't, I don't think that that seems.
Nope.
It's legit.
So I think, here's a thing, politicians don't know what the hell we're talking about.
They're not scientists. They don't know, their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their the, their only goal is to get reelected. That's all they're ever doing. That's the only motivation they have
is to get reelected and maintain their power and influence.
So that's all that they want to do.
With that in mind, my governor of my state
is not looking out for me, he's not looking out for my patients,
he's looking to get reelected. And I understand I that, but that, but that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's know, he can't afford to lift a stay-at-home order because if someone dies, same liability that
dentists are afraid of. Politicians are afraid of the exact same liability now it affects them.
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this is who I believe, but I believe, you know,
common sense, and common sense is that, you know, the mortality rate is probably way less thanthan what I think Elon Musk was just on Joe Rogan
talking about the mortality rate is probably something like 50 times less than what we thought it was.
Yeah. And so what I do believe is that the virus does the numbers don't match the reaction.
And I think we're being lied to. I don't know for what in. I don't know for what purpose, but I don't believe this is something
that warranted the reaction. I agree with you on that. I mean, we are we are shutting down
the world economy for a virus that has a 99% survival rate. Yeah. And the desk,
listen, my friend called me, my friend Lacey,
she's from Vegas, and I've known her since 1991, and I was telling somebody today, she is honest
to a point it hurts, okay? Like you're like, fuck, okay, you don't to be that honest. But
she's brutally honest human being. She's never really pulled any punches.
And she's like, I've seen COVID deaths,
they are brutal.
And so, brute deaths are happening.
Nobody's saying they're not.
But what we're saying is that the number of deaths
does not warrant this.
And we will never find out what is actually causing it,
if we just think everyone's got it.
And it's like, you know what,
when it comes to COVID and working,
all I have to say is like when AIDS was discovered,
everybody kept fucking.
They didn't stop fucking, okay?
We didn't, I mean, we didn't stop making people,
and we didn't stop all that.
So I mean, do you want me to go to work in a to work? Because I'll do that if it means I can make a dollar and pay my bills.
Because you know what?
People survive COVID.
You know what they most likely don't survive more than not, suicide.
Okay?
And that's what we're looking at mass numbers of that because people are going to get so
far in debt and depression and not seeing other people that you can't
come back from that shit.
Yeah, and the way of life, your way of life is the most valuable thing to me as an American.
As you know, the whole one of the best blessings or benefits of living in America is the way,
is our way of life.
Is our freedom, and to take that away temporarily, okay.
But you set a precedent that governments are,
people in power are watching this precedent being set.
That you, if you want to just, people just gave up their freedom for a pittance.
People just gave up the most frustrating thing people just gave
up their freedom yeah for you know a pittance like like and under the guys
of I'm saving lives yeah yeah and now it's coming to light that stay at home
orders there's not a lot of evidence showing that saved any lives and I'm sitting here thinking duh of course not that in anything might cost lives I mean you want to be out there and you want to be out there and to to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be the to be to be their to be their their to be their their their their their their to be their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their th the the tho tho tho tho tho the. tho the. the. the. the. the. the. the. their their their their their the showing that saved any lives. And I'm sitting here thinking, duh, of course not.
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I mean, you want to be out there and it sounds,
that's the other thing too is that the coronavirus
seems to affect people so differently.
That strikes me as odd that the same virus
affects the human body.
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your soul. But face with the facts, you can't even get anybody to believe in what's
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so Bill Gates goes on CNBC and basically talks about
all the profits he's making off of vaccines.
At like a 200% or 20 times the profit. And you show people this video and they do some weird cuts on it.
So everyone's like, collective editing.
Excuse me, selective editing.
And then you give them the article
that was written on CMBC's own website.
Now, CNBC's fake news and all that stuff.
They're full of shit.
But the reason you show that to everybody is because of their own stupid websites
are showing them this, and they still don't care
that this guy's making hand over fist profits off this thing.
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when they deregulated the media.
And now, you know, four companies own all the media in this country.
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Fox News telling conservative what they want to hear and the never two shall pass, you
know?
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And it's destroyed the country.
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you believe in stay at home orders, you believe in social distancing. If you're right,
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can care about all these things. So what I'm saying like I can care about
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And, uh, you know, it's like, people, I listen, man, I have my feelings on Trump.
He's not what everybody is going crazy on.
And I think this is an attack on nationalism in this country.
Again, I didn't really finish my point on nationalism, but it's like, nationalism is huge.
Everywhere but the United States, everywhere.
Canada, talk to Canadians, they love being Canadian, British. They love being British. Everywhere they love where they United States. Everywhere. Canada, talk to Canadians, they love being Canadian, British,
they love being British. Everywhere they love where they're from. And I don't think American
deaths are more important than any other deaths. The genocide that's going on in Yemen, the genocide
that's going on in the Middle East, where we killed millions of brown people. There will be a time
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Across the board, and it got to the point where people refuse to accept rampant pedophilia.
They have politicized pedophilia.
Okay? And like, I know this might not be your conversation, but it goes back to like,
if you're always on this side of this group, no matter what the talk is, you are brainwashed.
I can tell you what I don't like about Trump, and none of these people will ever hear it because it registers with them is like, yeah, he's an asshole.
It's only when I say he's doing good shit that people lose their collective fucking skulls.
And that's, I just wanted to yell.
Yeah.
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that I think he's done that are good.
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And that's it.
And I'm definitely more libertarian leaning, but I have my problems with the libertarian
party as well.
And so I'm just kind of like, you know, I just.
Brother, you're roning, no masters, no lords. That's who I am, dude. Beholding to no man. There we go. Final question. Yeah. Final question. What the fucks up with voodoo donuts?
You ever go down there and just like case out some weird shit like what's going on?
Why they got a baby fucking casket? Well, you just cut out. Say it again.
What's up with voodoo? the shady shit go on down there? Dude. Vodoo isn't even the best donut store in Portland, dude.
People go there because it's like got the reputation.
I mean, I hope you're not listening. I feel real bad if they're listening.
They're all right.
Blue Star donuts, that's the money.
They're made from bryosh.
They're delicious. And you should eat those.
And they don't have any food is okay. I got local donut shops. What's that?
I just said they don't have baby coffins. I don't know if you've been there, but they're literally me and Eddie Baba went last time and Sam was like, I'm not going with you
fucking weirdos. You're asking to just bring me a donut.
I don't see, I didn't see any baby coffins in there. I taken my kids to voodoo donuts and I certainly wouldn't have taken them if I thought they were baby coffins in there.
Go look dude go check it out. Are there? Yeah. I mean listen they're called voodoo donuts. They do some weird stuff. They have penis-shaped donuts which is awesome and they do all kinds of crazy stuff. Crazy stuff. I want to fight the pedophiles. the crazy. Crazy. C crazy. C crazy. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. I. C. I. C. C. C. C. I they. C. C. C. I they. C. C. C. C. C. I they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they're they're they're they're they're they're they they they they they they they they they they they they they. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go go. Go go. I go. go. go. go. Go go. go. go. Go go. go go th. Go th. Go th. Go th past him. But as far as taste, Blue Star wins in my book.
Well, send us out. I'll give them shout-ups. I want to fight the pedophiles. Hey, Brady, you were great,
man. This podcast was excellent. We had a couple internet issues. I think big dentistry is on to you
and they don't want you to spread the word so they slowed down your internet here and there. But overall, this was a wonderful podcast.
It was a lot of fun to talk about.
It's an episode I've been wanting to do for a long time.
And I'm glad we did it.
I'm glad Xavier hooked us up.
And yeah, real quick, tell them about your podcast again,
your website and whatever else you'd like to know about. Tell them how to nom to nom to nom to nom the the their their th th th their th. th. th. tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho. tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, their, their, tho, their, tho, tho.. thooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo... Tell them how to nominate themselves or nominate someone for the giveaway.
Absolutely. So it's all done through the website. Dr. Brady. Dr. Brady. That's drilled, DR-B-R-B-R-A-D-Y.
And then those are my handles, a drilled podcast on Instagram, on Twitter. We have a YouTube page where you can see a lot of fun stuff that we do and all the
all the charity cases that we do as well. We document most of those.
If you want to nominate someone, so here's the thing, you can't nominate yourself.
But if you want to nominate someone, you probably just have to stay tuned to to the, to the podcast because we we we we we we we the podcast, the podcast, to the podcast, to the podcast, to the podcast, to the podcast, the podcast, to to to the podcast, to to the podcast, to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the, the to to to to to to to stay tuned to the to the podcast because we open up the nominations about once every six
months and usually the nomination period of time is about a month to six weeks. So we'll usually
advertise that on our social media pages when those nominations are open. And you can make
those nominations through the website. Or you can email drill, drill podcast at Gmail. So drill podcast at Gmail.com you can get in to Dr. Brady. I'm sorry, drill podcast at Gmail.com.
So drill podcast at Gmail.com, you can get in touch with me directly.
I respond to most DMs and private messages.
And yeah, we're just try, you know, our goal is to dot the map within us who are willing to help so that you don't have to travel.
We can we can find someone in your area.
And we are on the verge verge to to to to to to to to to to to the to to to to to the to the to to to to the to to the the to to the to to to the to some of creating I think the most impactful dental charity that has ever existed
And as soon as we get we have some negotiations that are very promising right now
That's gonna get some funding to make this thing pop off to so really excited about it. I appreciate dr.
Dr. Brady Smith. He's the man he came he saw he dropped the hammer. He dropped the woop ass Nothing scares me more than than than than than than than than than the sound the sound the sound the sound the sound the sound the sound the sound the sound the sound th. th. th. the sound the sound the sound the sound th. the sound the sound the sound the sound the sound. the sound. the sound. th. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. th. th. thi. thi. thi. th. th. th. th. th. th. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th. the the th. the th. the th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi theee. thi thi. the thi dropped the woop ass, nothing scares me more than
the sound of drills. That just like it would haunt my nightmares. But it's good to know
you're a good man and you know, I think dentists are good people, you know. Every group has bad
apples but I think dentists for the most part are really great people and we should applaud them
for what they do. And I appreciate you coming on Xavier I appreciate you putting it together. One more time Xavier
what is your social media? Actually marks a spot Twitter Facebook Instagram
your podcast George Press stories. Dr. Smith your social media one time did you tell him already?
Yeah Instagram is drilled podcast same on on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube is drilled with Dr. Brady,
YouTube channel, just to make it super complicated and not the same. I don't know why we do that.
You should probably change that. You know, welcome. You guys. You have 40. You find, you find one of our sites.
You'll find us everywhere. Johnny, where are you at? Johnny Woodard on Twitter Johnny a wooded on Instagram
Email Twitter. I don't know push buttons on Twitter complain about Sam's ban
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How it's Jones?
Yeah, man.
Right off the board.
Yeah, dude, it is crazy.
And I don't know what it is.
And I think it's that Pissar episodes, dude, the episode that like piss them off. So hey Doc, thank you so much for coming on, man.
It was a welcome.
Thanks for having me, dude.
Check out your podcast because you're a fun interview.
And we'll do it again soon.
Thank you, Johnny.
Thank you guys.
And we'll talk soon, brother.
Thank you so much.