CZM Rewind: Part Two: Dr. Oz: Why 'America's Doctor' Is A Bastard

It's still a CZM Rewind week! Enjoy the second part of this unfortunately prescient episode where Robert is joined by Matt Lieb to discuss Dr. Oz. See omnystudio.com/listener https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Speaker names marked ? are inferred from speaking time and the show’s known hosts — they are not voice-verified.

• 0:00Speaker 00

  This is an iHeart Podcast. Guaranteed Human.

• 0:04Speaker 01

  Underdog already has team picks, player props, money lines, spreads, you name it, they got it. But apparently, somebody over there said, you know what's missing? Screaming like a maniac about a rookie card on your couch. And we love them for that. Because Underdog now has rips. You get a digital pack, starting at just five bucks. You check the live odds, see which grails you could pull, then rip it open to reveal a real, physical card. And the grails are no joke. They have cards up to $125,000 in value, and plenty to pull. From football and basketball to Pokémon, with new limited edition packs dropping regularly. Even cooler, you can decide to keep the card and Underdog will ship it straight to your home. Or sell it back instantly at 100% of its fair market value.

• 0:48Speaker 01

  And the cash goes right in your account. No listing it online, no stranger lowballing you in the messages. Just rip, reveal, and cash out instantly. Or make some room on your shelf. Download Underdog and get in on the chase. Get five free rips packs when you deposit $5. Real rips, real cards, real cash. Only on Underdog. Unleash your dog. 18 plus, terms apply. Top grails are extremely rare.

• 1:12Robert Evans?

  Picture this: You're listening to the Sniffy's Cruising Confessions podcast, and suddenly, wait, what did they just say? Well, the questions raised in those show-stopping moments will be answered in the all-new bonus series, Sniffy's Cruising Confessions: Bedside Manor. Hosts Gabe and Chris will dive deep on a specific topic covered in that week's Tuesday episode, from sexual health and HIV prevention to finding the right doctor. Listen to this special bonus series, Sniffy's Cruising Confessions: Bedside Manor, now on the iHeart Radio app or wherever you get podcasts. Sponsored by Healthy Sexual from Gilead Sciences.

• 1:44Speaker 03

  OnDeck is built to back small businesses, like yours. Whether you're buying equipment, expanding your team, or bridging cash flow gaps, OnDeck's loans up to $400,000 help make it happen fast. Rated A+ by the Better Business Bureau and earning thousands of five-star TrustPilot reviews, OnDeck delivers funding you can count on. Apply in minutes at ondeck.com. Depending on certain loan attributes, your business loan may be issued by OnDeck or Celtic Bank. OnDeck does not lend in North Dakota. All loans and amounts subject to lender approval.

• 2:16Robert Evans?

  This is Behind the Bastards, the podcast where we neg our audience in order to make them more closely drawn to us. It's a tactic I learned.

• 2:26Speaker 04

  From pick-up artists.

• 2:27Robert Evans?

  From pick-up artists, yes. Really, this whole show is based on the lessons I learned as a pick-up artist. You can't see it, but I'm wearing an enormous hat with ostrich plumes coming off, made out of purple felt. It's an incredible hat.

• 2:42Speaker 04

  The most fuckable hat.

• 2:44Robert Evans?

  The most fuckable hat. Yes, that was actually the first name I pitched for this podcast, but Sophie said that that means nothing and no one will listen to it.

• 2:54Speaker 05

  He always puts lies on my name and saying that I turn down his ideas. That's just not the case.

• 3:00Robert Evans?

  Sophie, I think we can all agree that one of the best things to do is to lie about things your colleagues didn't do because it's funny.

• 3:08Speaker 04

  I agree with it.

• 3:09Robert Evans?

  Thank you. Onto the show. We're talking about Dr. Oz. And as we left the last episode off, he had just, you know, gotten Oprah'd, right?

• 3:23Speaker 04

  Started his TV career.

• 3:24Robert Evans?

  Gotten Oprah'd hard. So he started his TV career. And he also starts right around the same time he gets on TV for the first time. He starts a daily morning radio show on Oprah Winfrey's Sirius XM channel.

• 3:37Speaker 05

  Never a good idea.

• 3:38Robert Evans?

  Sirius XM? No, terrible idea.

• 3:40Speaker 04

  What is it about giving people three hours of uninterrupted airtime? You know, there's just something about it.

• 3:47Robert Evans?

  I, you know, and this is an opinion that's pretty controversial within iHeartRadio. I think radio should be illegal. And I think it should be a felony punished by prison time for for being on the radio or having a radio or thinking about the radio.

• 4:02Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 4:02Robert Evans?

  I think the only form of entertainment that should be legal is specifically my podcast.

• 4:07Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah.

• 4:08Speaker 05

  And ads.

• 4:10Speaker 04

  And ads, yeah. And and there should legally only be one Sopranos podcast allowed, which, as it turns out, is the case. So.

• 4:18Robert Evans?

  I think if we if we could get Chuck Schumer's ear, we can make this happen. We'll tack this onto the pot bill. No one will notice. So Dr. Oz has the Dr. Oz Show. He's got a radio show on Winfrey's XM channel where he covers very scientific topics like how God changes your brain and the happiest people in the world. Now.

• 4:43Robert Evans?

  I found a New York Times article that was written just a few months into his tenure with his TV show, kind of at the start of his, his burst into stardom. And the interviewer who talked to Oz for this article seems as impressed as everyone always is by the manic, somewhat inhuman pace at which Mehmet Oz works. By this point, he'd also written six books with titles like You, The Smart Patient, You on a Diet, and You Having a Baby. It's like the series is the

• 5:10Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah, the famous You series.

• 5:12Robert Evans?

  Colon, whatever. And he, he co-writes these books with another doctor. I can't tell you how much of the writing was, a lot of times, I'm not saying this is the case with Dr. Oz, because he's a wild workaholic, but a lot of times when you have a guy that's his kind of famous and they write a bunch of books, they write like 10% of the book and they have someone else, a co-author or a ghostwriter do the rest. I don't know if that's the case here.

• 5:33Speaker 04

  There's always one, one Matt Damon who's writing most of Good Will Hunting and then there's a Ben Affleck who gets top booking.

• 5:40Robert Evans?

  And I, I do believe Matt Damon writes most of his books.

• 5:44Speaker 04

  Oh, 100%.

• 5:45Robert Evans?

  Yeah. So, uh, nine million copies of his various titles are in print by this point, like the first year of his show. So he is, he is a very wealthy and successful man, pretty much out the gate, like

• 5:56Speaker 04

  Money machine.

• 5:57Robert Evans?

  Getting the start on Oprah kind of guarantees it. Basically, if Oprah likes you enough to put you on her show more than once, you're going to get rich.

• 6:06Speaker 04

  God damn.

• 6:07Robert Evans?

  Yeah.

• 6:08Speaker 04

  I just, I just should have spent my, my youth trying to get on Oprah.

• 6:12Robert Evans?

  We all should have, we all should have. So, um, Dr. Oz gets a semi-regular column for Time Magazine, uh, cause again, they, they see this guy get famous and like, we gotta get some of that Oprah money too. We get this guy on Time, people will start reading Time again. And yeah, it's interesting. They, they give him a column, um, and in 2008, they included him on their list of the world's most, uh, 100 most influential people. So before they hire him to a column, they call him one of the world's most influential people. And as soon as he gets listed as one of the 100 most influential people on the planet, Dr. Oz calls his dad, right? Like finally, this is

• 6:49Speaker 04

  Do you love me now?

• 6:50Robert Evans?

  Yeah, this has gotta be the thing. How could he not be impressed by this?

• 6:54Speaker 04

  Am I enough for you, Papa?

• 6:57Robert Evans?

  So when he tells his dad, his dad's first question is, what number? How high are you on the list?

• 7:06Robert Evans?

  And this is not a ranked thing like it's not the top hundred like going to one. It's just all these hundred people are all very influential.

• 7:14Speaker 04

  It's not a listicle, bro.

• 7:15Robert Evans?

  Yeah, it's not a listicle.

• 7:19Robert Evans?

  But Dr. Oz in this interview seemed to acknowledge that the fact that his dad reacted that way said a lot about both, you know, his dad and about their relationship. He told an interviewer, quote, "He wants to know what number." Are you kidding me? There are six billion people on the planet. It's a rounding error.

• 7:39Speaker 04

  God, but, but like, but like what number though? Cause you do wonder.

• 7:43Robert Evans?

  Seriously, what, how high are you, motherfucker?

• 7:45Speaker 04

  Yeah, come on. How influential are you?

• 7:47Robert Evans?

  You're basically me. Yeah. So that interviewer, along with the New York Times, wrote, quote, "It's also the kind of thing that goads the sun to climb mountain after mountain, seldom pausing to enjoy the view." The good doctor did admit to engaging in a number of time-saving measures. Over the years, he did numerous columns, which were often just recycled from other columns or chunks of his books. He'd provide the same list of skin moisturizing or metabolism boosting tips in different magazines or online articles. Even so, his workload was enormous. The Dr. Oz Show was instantly one of the most popular shows on the planet, and Mehmet was contracted to record 175 hour-long episodes per year, which is a fucking brutal work schedule on its own.

• 8:30Robert Evans?

  And the man continued to practice as a surgeon, albeit at a reduced rate. The New York Times interviewer who visited him in 2010 seemed to find his behavior and kind of his compulsive workaholism somewhat unsettling. "I never saw him without a portable larder of baggies, plastic containers and thermoses of food and drink, and all of it, every crumb, every drop, was healthful. Low-fat Greek yogurt mixed with brightly colored berries, spinach, slaw, raw almonds, raw walnuts soaked in water to amplify their nutritional benefit, a dark green concoction of juices from vegetables, including cucumber and parsley. Roughly every 45 to 60 minutes, as if on cue, he would ingest something from his movable buffet,

• 9:11Robert Evans?

  but only a little bit, his portions assiduously regulated, like an intravenous drip of nutrition. It was the most efficient, joyless eating I have ever seen."

• 9:21Speaker 05

  That is so weird. I'm sorry. That's so weird.

• 9:26Speaker 05

  That makes me so uncomfortable to just listen to.

• 9:29Speaker 04

  He's cool, dude. Like, that's, you know, he's living life in the, in the most drab way possible. Just trying to, just trying to make TV shows and do heart surgeries, you know?

• 9:39Robert Evans?

  Yeah.

• 9:39Speaker 04

  Who has time to enjoy anything when your daddy?

• 9:42Robert Evans?

  Joyless, efficient evening, eating.

• 9:45Speaker 05

  He's like, I don't eat or drink anything that I would enjoy.

• 9:50Robert Evans?

  Yeah.

• 9:50Speaker 05

  You're welcome.

• 9:51Robert Evans?

  That's just so unsettling. I mean, you know what? I have known a couple of people in my lives, all very skinny, who have told me like, I just don't really like eating. Like, yeah, there's some foods that I prefer to others, but I just don't really enjoy it one way or the other. Like, I've, I've known, like, some of those people wound up on the soylent thing. And I guess, like, I mean, yeah, fine. It's like, it's whatever, you know?

• 10:09Speaker 04

  It's your life. If you want to eat monkey food, eat monkey food, but don't, you know, be surprised when I judge you, you know?

• 10:15Robert Evans?

  Yeah.

• 10:16Speaker 04

  Like, it's, uh, that's weird.

• 10:18Robert Evans?

  At the start, the Dr. Oz show was broadly inoffensive from a medical perspective. He gave a lot of fairly good, common sense health advise, health advice, and provided a lot of people with a friendly medical face, willing to explain things their doctors might not have the time or the bedside manner to properly lay out. But Oz's fascination with alternative medicine was present from the beginning. And as time went on, he veered more and more in that direction, following both the topics that consistently drew the most viewers and the topics that were easiest to put together. Because 175 hours of content a year is a lot.

• 10:50Speaker 04

  I mean, really, though, like, at some point, you run out of shit to talk about and you have to just be like, oh, pendulums over the heart. Do they work?

• 10:58Robert Evans?

  Yeah. Yeah. Punching people in the dick. Could it improve your bowels?

• 11:02Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 11:03Robert Evans?

  Why not? Yeah. Try it. I mean, you know, we, we have to do, I don't know how much content we have to do per year. 52 weeks, two hours a week. Uh, yeah, we, we do like 110, maybe like with some of the episodes that go over, 120 hours of content a year for this show. And that's a lot. Um, 175 hours of video content is huge. Like, you can't. There's, there's not that much good and also entertaining medical advice that you could give in a year, let alone every single year.

• 11:31Speaker 04

  I mean, just like, there's only so many organs to talk about, you know? After a while, you just got to invent shit.

• 11:38Robert Evans?

  Yeah. And it's this thing. It's this kind of, this inevitable churn of capitalism, leading us all into this, this specific kind of nonsense, because you can't not.

• 11:50Robert Evans?

  Have content legally you're contracted to, but also you have this whole team of people whose ability to pay their rent, whose ability to, to, to afford their homes, to, to keep their kids in school is dependent upon you doing this show outside of just the fact that he's rich. Like, like he's fine, but he like, it's this thing. You have to keep putting out the thing and you will never have enough meaningful shit to put out to do it.

• 12:13Speaker 04

  Right.

• 12:13Robert Evans?

  So you start in his case, doing nonsense about mediums and shit. And in our case, doing episodes about Dr. Oz.

• 12:24Speaker 04

  When you run out of bastards, eventually you just gotta find one on TV.

• 12:27Robert Evans?

  We're not out of bastards, but like last week, I spent 30 hours reading about the protocols of the elders of Zion. I needed an off week, you know?

• 12:35Speaker 04

  God.

• 12:36Robert Evans?

  We all need off weeks.

• 12:37Speaker 04

  That is, that is one of my favorite, absolutely real documents to read.

• 12:43Robert Evans?

  Yeah. That's why we brought you on, actually.

• 12:46Speaker 04

  Yeah. I'm, I'm actually one of the elders of Zion and I got some protocols for you.

• 12:53Robert Evans?

  Oh, good times. So for an example of the kind of nonsense creep, I guess you'd call it, but like advanced upon his show in March of 2012, Dr. Oz did a show titled Medium versus Medicine. Oz's guest was a psychic who claimed she could communicate with the dead. This was one of several, and by this point, probably dozens of episodes dedicated to people who claimed to talk to the dead. Energy healing was, you know, on the fringe, certainly, but at least it was something that when he started doing it, there were scientific studies saying there might be something to it. Those studies have since been to, to a large extent discredited. But when he started doing that, there was some evidence, it was a thing to try, you know, he wasn't completely out of left field.

• 13:37Speaker 04

  Yeah, people were at least testing it out.

• 13:39Robert Evans?

  Doing episodes on mediums, talking to the dead is well outside of plausible deniability territory, right? Like you're just doing nonsense at this point.

• 13:49Speaker 04

  You know, it depends how they're talking. If you go up to a dead body and start talking to it, you are technically talking to the dead.

• 13:56Robert Evans?

  Now that would be a fun show. Dr. Oz breaks into morgues and talks to corpses. Yeah.

• 14:01Speaker 04

  Hey, how'd you die?

• 14:04Robert Evans?

  Just, just, just having his bodyguards, mace, police officers rolling into a crime scene be like, who did this?

• 14:13Robert Evans?

  How'd this go down?

• 14:16Speaker 04

  Are you okay?

• 14:18Robert Evans?

  I am a doctor.

• 14:21Robert Evans?

  Do you want some almonds?

• 14:25Speaker 04

  They're soaked in water for more nutrition.

• 14:29Speaker 04

  All right, someone get me a crystal.

• 14:33Robert Evans?

  So, yeah, he had, yeah, Dr. Oz had, among his psychic guests, famous grifter king John Edwards on his show, not the politician.

• 14:44Speaker 04

  No, no.

• 14:45Robert Evans?

  The talks to dead TV show guy.

• 14:47Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 14:47Robert Evans?

  Yeah. And he praised the reading that he received from John Edwards, saying, quote, "Let me tell you it changed my life. I've learned in my career that there are times when science just hasn't caught up with things, and I think this may be one of them."

• 15:03Robert Evans?

  Which is almost exactly what he said about John of God, the guy who raped hundreds of people.

• 15:07Speaker 04

  Mm hmm, mm hmm. Yeah, that's how you know, like, to stay far away from anything when he's just like, "Man, this is a, this is a brand new groundbreaking territory." And you can go, "All right, guys, it's a rapist, run."

• 15:19Robert Evans?

  It's, it's one of those things, part of how he's, like, the intelligent way to frame this is you start with the true thing, which is there are things science can't explain. One of those things is the nature of consciousness and what happens to it after, you know, vital sciencees. We don't know. There's not an objective answer to that. But it, going this way is kind of like being like, "Yeah, you know, we can't explain, like, the slit box experiment. Like, there's a bunch of shit in physics. I don't know, I'm not a science guy, but like, you know, particle and wave shit, you can't explain that."

• 15:48Speaker 04

  There's a bunch of shit you can't explain. Magnets.

• 15:51Robert Evans?

  Yeah, how do they work?

• 15:52Speaker 04

  How do they work?

• 15:53Robert Evans?

  It's this, it's this jump from, "Yes, there are things we can't explain," to, "So let's listen to this man talk to the dead."

• 16:02Speaker 04

  Millions of people, gather around.

• 16:04Robert Evans?

  Gather around, he's going to channel your dead aunts, yes.

• 16:09Robert Evans?

  Maybe not, not a reasonable way to take a reasonable starting point.

• 16:14Speaker 04

  Yeah, especially when you're a doctor on TV.

• 16:18Robert Evans?

  Yeah, and I want to quote from a write-up I found in the Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association, quote, During another show, Oz interviewed Dr. Mosar Fali, a miracle healer to Sylvester Stallone, Prince Charles of England and others regarding his use of iridology. According to the widely debunked bizarre belief, each part of the iris corresponds to a specific area of the body and a person's state of health could be diagnosed by examining particular regions of the iris. After expressing his amazement at Dr. Ali's diagnostic abilities, Oz stated, "I want to applaud Dr. Mosar Fali because these are ancient traditions and they have been around for centuries. So who am I to dismiss them?"

• 16:58Speaker 04

  Other than a very well-educated man.

• 17:00Robert Evans?

  A doctor, you're a doctor, Mehmet.

• 17:03Speaker 05

  You had me at Prince Charles.

• 17:06Robert Evans?

  Yeah, it's like, you know, there's a lot of cultures who say that you should remove the clitoris surgically because it's healthier and it stops dangerous masturbation. It's ancient. Who are we to say this is a bad idea?

• 17:19Speaker 04

  Who are any of us to say anything's wrong?

• 17:24Speaker 04

  Oh my God. I love it too. Just like, I was amazed by his ability to look into my eyes and diagnose that my dad will never love me. How did he know? How did he know?

• 17:35Speaker 05

  It does bring me joy that Prince Charles got fucked with because fuck Prince Charles.

• 17:39Robert Evans?

  I wonder what his eyes said. It's funny.

• 17:41Speaker 04

  It said the same thing. It said, "Your dad will never love you." That's all he does. He goes to famous people and he goes, "Your dad will never love you. Your dad will never love you."

• 17:48Speaker 05

  Thank you so much.

• 17:50Robert Evans?

  There's this, one of the big aspects of this guy's success and of the success of the things he pushes is Orientalism, right? Like this idea of like the forbidden and strange and wondrous and magical east and all of the, we don't understand all of these like, oh, India is so mysterious, yada, yada, yada. What if you were to say like, well, for centuries, tobacco companies have said that tobacco can cure like different lung ailments. Who are we to dismiss these ancient traditions?

• 18:22Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 18:23Robert Evans?

  The Q zone could be real.

• 18:25Speaker 04

  Exactly. Like it stops people from stuttering. Do more cocaine.

• 18:32Speaker 04

  I mean, yeah, the, the, just the idea, and I've always found this in general to be the biggest load of horse shit is when people have, have said, you know, this is like an ancient healing technique. And it's like, you mean like bleeding people with leeches? You know, you mean like cutting off someone's leg because he got a fucking, a small infection on his toe?

• 18:53Robert Evans?

  Ancient. It's this fucking thing with Dr. Oz. Like, it's one thing if you're just like traveling to another part of the world, you see some sort of medical or treatment you've never seen before. And you're like, well, who am I, who am I to say anything about, right? Like, I don't know. Dr. Oz is a doctor on TV talking to millions. You're literally the person who should be saying something about the legitimacy of this.

• 19:16Speaker 04

  Right. Yeah. Yeah. You're, you're the guy. You're the person.

• 19:20Robert Evans?

  You are, in fact, the person who should say something about this.

• 19:23Speaker 04

  Who am I? You're you. He's the most famous doctor in America.

• 19:27Robert Evans?

  Yeah. And that's what that, that write up in the Journal of Missouri State Medical Association notes, quote, "Who? Dr. Oz is a trained clinician and scientist, someone who can read a scientific article with a critical eye. He is someone who can filter out the noise of the placebo effect or discern the simple carnival tricks of a charlatan. The problem is that most people in his audience cannot."

• 19:48Speaker 04

  Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's lit, he has a literal responsibility to tell people that these guys are full of shit. But he also has a responsibility to his show sponsors and to, to the network for ratings, you know?

• 20:03Robert Evans?

  You know who else has a responsibility to the show sponsors?

• 20:06Speaker 04

  Wow. That was, I think that's gotta be the first time. That's gotta be the first time it's ever actually been a relevant segue.

• 20:14Robert Evans?

  So fucking good.

• 20:16Speaker 04

  So good.

• 20:17Robert Evans?

  Anyway, here's products.

• 20:22Speaker 01

  Underdog already has team picks, player props, money lines, spreads, you name it, they got it. But apparently somebody over there said, you know what's missing? Screaming like a maniac about a rookie card on your couch. And we love them for that. Because Underdog now has rips. You get a digital pack starting at just five bucks. You check the live odds, see what Grails you could pull, then rip it open to reveal a real, physical card. And the Grails are no joke. They have cards up to $125,000 in value and plenty to pull. From football and basketball to Pokémon, with new limited edition packs dropping regularly. Even cooler, you can decide to keep the card and Underdog will ship it straight to your home, or sell it back instantly at 100% of its fair market value. And the cash goes right in your account.

• 21:07Speaker 01

  No listing it online, no stranger lowballing you in the messages. Just rip, reveal, and cash out instantly. Or make some room on your shelf. Download Underdog and get in on the chase. Get five free rips packs when you deposit $5. Real rips, real cards, real cash. Only on Underdog. Unleash your dog. 18+, terms apply. Top Grails are extremely rare.

• 21:30Robert Evans?

  This ad is brought to you by ViiV Healthcare, the makers of Devoto Dolutigrevir Lamivudine. If you're living with HIV, do learn about Devoto. Devoto is a complete HIV treatment by prescription only for some people 12 and older. Your doctor will determine if Devoto is right for you. Most HIV pills contain three or four medicines. Devoto is as effective with just two. No other complete HIV pill contains fewer medicines than Devoto.

• 21:54Speaker 06

  It is unknown if Devoto is safe and effective if you have HIV and hepatitis B. If you have Hep B, don't stop Devoto without talking to your doctor, as it may get worse or harder to treat. Don't take Devoto if you're allergic to its ingredients, or taking Dofetolide due to serious or life-threatening side effects. If you have a rash or allergic reaction symptoms, stop Devoto and get medical help right away. Other serious or life-threatening side effects include severe liver problems and lactic acid buildup. If you're female or obese, you may be more at risk. Tell your doctor about your medicines or supplements, medical conditions, liver or kidney problems, pregnancy, breastfeeding, or planned pregnancy.

• 22:30Robert Evans?

  Do ask your doctor about fewer medicines. Visit devoto.com or call 1-877-844-8872.

• 22:37Speaker 07

  Cash flow crunch? OnDeck's small business line of credit gives your business immediate access to funds, up to $200,000, right when you need it. Cover seasonal dips, manage payroll, restock inventory, or tackle unexpected expenses without missing a beat. With flexible draws, transparent pricing, and control over repayment, get funded quickly and confidently. Apply today at ondeck.com. Funds could be available as soon as tomorrow. Depending on certain loan attributes, your business loan may be issued by OnDeck or Celtic Bank. OnDeck does not lend in North Dakota. All loans and amounts subject to lender approval.

• 23:09Robert Evans?

  Ah, we're back talking about Dr. Oz, having just a great time. So obviously the fact that Dr. Oz, I mean, probably the fact that most of his audience couldn't discern whether or not any of these nonsense treatments were real is a big part of why the Dr. Oz Show became an overnight success.

• 23:28Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 23:28Robert Evans?

  Before very long, it was being watched by four million viewers every single day. Over the next half decade or so, he won two Emmys. His guest list included First Lady Michelle Obama, who loved Dr. Oz for his focus on healthy diets for children and in general, his crusade to get Americans to lose weight. Dr. Oz claimed through medicine, through math that I cannot verify, that his show inspired Americans to lose three million cumulative pounds per year. I don't know, maybe.

• 23:58Speaker 04

  Yeah, they based that on what? Like, did people call in to say how many pounds they've lost to the show?

• 24:05Robert Evans?

  I mean, I'm sure he found some way to like, make the claim or whatever, but it's, it's very, it's, I don't know, maybe. It is one of the things that he does that is, we'll talk about, there's problems with some of the diet tips he gives people actually, significant ones. But telling, like, inspiring people to lose weight is not usually bad for their health, although it can be.

• 24:26Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah.

• 24:27Robert Evans?

  Sometimes people take it too far and it causes significant health problems, you know? It's a mixed bag, I guess we'd say. But the other stuff isn't a mixed bag. So I guess we'll call that his, his great success. So, yeah, it is good. I will say it is unequivocally good that Dr. Oz continually pressed his audience of millions of people to eat more fruits and vegetable, fruits and vegetables, to get better sleep, to exercise regularly, and to get their flu vaccinations. That's all right, right?

• 24:56Speaker 04

  Yeah, but shit, I could have told you that. Give me a TV show.

• 25:00Robert Evans?

  You don't have to, you don't have to be a doctor to say that.

• 25:02Speaker 04

  You're not a doctor, no, that shit. Yeah. Eat better, piggies. I mean,

• 25:05Robert Evans?

  But he's charismatic. People like him. It's good that he, he does that at least. Yeah.

• 25:09Speaker 04

  They don't trust me, so they won't give me the show, but they should, because.

• 25:13Robert Evans?

  Yeah, the unfortunate part is that this guy gained, because he's, he's Handsome, a lot of, lot of, lot of ladies out there think Dr. Oz is hot.

• 25:24Speaker 04

  He's a doctor.

• 25:25Robert Evans?

  He's very charismatic. He's very charming and he gains this enormous influence with middle America. And he uses that influence to do some really fucking questionable shit. And I'm going to quote now from a write up in the AMA's Journal of Ethics. He has told mothers that there were dangerous levels of arsenic in their child's apple juice. There weren't, and suggested that green coffee is a miracle cure for obesity. Federal regulators discovered altered data in hyped coffee bean evidence. The Food and Drug Administration tested for arsenic in apple juice and found the vast majority of apple juice tested contained to contain low levels of arsenic. And given these levels was confident in the overall safety of apple juice consumed in this country.

• 26:07Robert Evans?

  Dr. Oz also featured two guests on his show who claimed that genetically modified foods were cancer causing, despite repeated safety reports that found no adverse effects.

• 26:16Speaker 04

  Man, I mean, he's like, he's very, he's getting there. Like I, I'm, I'm watching him slowly go from Mehmet to Mangala, you know?

• 26:27Robert Evans?

  Yeah.

• 26:30Speaker 04

  Come on, let him be Mangala.

• 26:33Robert Evans?

  It is too good a pun to.

• 26:34Speaker 04

  I get that you want to be fair, Robert, but let's go for it.

• 26:38Robert Evans?

  All right, we're doing it.

• 26:39Speaker 04

  But no, we're watching him like turn into a snake oil salesman and it's, it's very exciting.

• 26:45Robert Evans?

  Yeah. So Dr. Oz's enthusiasm for alternative medicine has had the effect of creating instant fads over any health product he even vaguely suggests on his show. When he mentions the purported health benefits of white mulberry, red palm oil, or brown seaweed, all of which he's claimed can do things like cut weight, reduce aging, or beat the flu, those products fly off the shelf. Oz often doesn't endorse specific brands, but he doesn't need to. Online retailers watch closely and immediately slap, as seen on Dr. Oz, on their pseudo scientific products.

• 27:18Speaker 04

  Yes, I've seen this.

• 27:19Robert Evans?

  Yeah.

• 27:20Speaker 04

  I've seen this.

• 27:20Robert Evans?

  This is where we get to the big harm. He did one episode that focused on so-called relaxation drinks and included a close up shot of five cans of beverages he said might help calm you down.

• 27:32Speaker 04

  Just a Miller High Life?

• 27:33Robert Evans?

  Yeah.

• 27:36Robert Evans?

  He just puts a can of Colt 45 on the table. Billy Dee Williams walks out.

• 27:44Speaker 04

  It's a steel reserve. Trust me, you'll be relaxed.

• 27:47Robert Evans?

  You'll be calm as shit.

• 27:50Speaker 04

  You might yell at your mom, but it'll be fun afterward.

• 27:54Robert Evans?

  Yeah, you will very calmly put your hand through a taxi cab window.

• 28:03Robert Evans?

  As soon as the episode aired, a quote liquid sleep aid called iChill bragged on their website. Dr. Oz is talking about a new way to wind down with relaxation drinks. They are the newest trend in helping you relax and calm down. And the best news is they contain natural ingredients already known to promote relaxation.

• 28:22Speaker 04

  Mulberry, laudanum.

• 28:26Speaker 05

  I remember the iChill. That turned into like an entire thing. There's so many.

• 28:30Robert Evans?

  Yeah, we're about to, we're about to talk about it. Yeah. And, and also if there was a laudanum drink, I would be buying it. So the problem with all with this is that all of these different relaxation drinks are filled with a variety of chemicals like melatonin and theanine and taurine. These drinks are unregulated as they are not medicines or dietary supplements. But the chemicals they include all have actual impacts on the central nervous system. Pregnant women and children are often advised to avoid products with some of these chemicals. But the beverages in question rarely note this. No data exists on how these chemicals might impact people and the quantities they are added to in these beverages.

• 29:11Robert Evans?

  Or when combined with other chemicals or when combined with medications, people drinking them might be taking. Responsible doctors writing for the journal, for the journal Nature Neuroscience, wrote a warning about these beverages that specifically called out iChill by name. Quote, existing research on the potential benefits and harms of some components of relaxation drinks suggests that they may not always be safe. Indeed, the FDA issued a warning last year to the manufacturers of melatonin laced brownies, citing safety concerns from the literature, including effects on the autonomic nervous system and visual system, and increased expression of symptoms in a sleep disorder. Other components of relaxation drinks such as L-theanine or amino acids such as taurine may be considered safe for consumption only at some doses by the FDA.

• 29:56Robert Evans?

  But relaxation drinks are not subject to such regulations, nor are they required to disclose the amounts of their ingredients.

• 30:03Speaker 04

  Oh my God. I mean, first of all, did you say melatonin brownies?

• 30:08Robert Evans?

  Yeah, buddy.

• 30:10Speaker 04

  What the fuck? Like, I want to eat and just get tired immediately. Like, that is very strange. It like, here's the thing about brownies. I've never eaten one and been like, I just want to relax. Like, no, I'm trying to get a little sugar rush.

• 30:23Speaker 05

  To be honest, to be honest, a sleepytime brownie delightful. I would be very down.

• 30:29Speaker 04

  Listen, pot brownies are very different. It's not, it's not the same as relaxation brown. Like, one is like an Ambien brownie and the other one is like a brownie that makes you hungry for more brownies. Pot brownies make sense.

• 30:42Speaker 05

  If Ambien brownies exist, I would love one. Thank you very much.

• 30:45Speaker 04

  I mean, I guess I'd rather do that than just swallow an Ambien, but man, that is a

• 30:50Speaker 05

  I'm like, I'm like, gets to sleep and also got a brownie. I'm, sounds awesome.

• 30:55Speaker 04

  It's bad for your health. I'll tell you that much.

• 30:57Speaker 05

  Apparently, um, am I remembering this correctly, Robert? But wasn't the eye show like, like the bottle and the marketing like similar?

• 31:04Robert Evans?

  Yeah.

• 31:05Speaker 05

  Style to like an energy drink, similar to like a five hour energy. That was like the aesthetic?

• 31:10Robert Evans?

  No, no, no. I think those were, those were, they had like a weird, different shaped plastic bottle. But like the, the problem is that, again, number one, you've got a lot of people with like, who are on medications that this shit interacts with.

• 31:21Speaker 04

  Which is crazy that like literally a relaxation drink could be contraindicated for your prescription medication.

• 31:30Robert Evans?

  Okay, so everything Dr. Oz recommends, I guess outside of like death psychics, comes with this caveat.

• 31:38Robert Evans?

  Some of the herbs and natural medicines that he recommends do have health impacts, but they also have consequences. Medications they might not interact well with. Dr. Oz does not bring this up when he shotguns half-assed advice out to an audience of millions. That article in Nature Neuroscience that I referenced, warning about the relaxation drinks Oz recommended? It's been read 10,000 times. So the article, warning people that these things can be contraindicated and might have impacts on your health and your central nervous system, read 10,000 times. Dr. Oz's episode suggesting these drinks, listened, watched 4 million times.

• 32:13Speaker 04

  God damn.

• 32:15Robert Evans?

  Yeah, people started to notice that this was a problem by the mid aughts. Doctors had been complaining for a while, but in 2013, Forbes wrote a listicle laying out the silliest things Dr. Oz has suggested on his show, including the fact that having 200 orgasms a year would extend your life by six years. Here's how he explained that bit of math on his website.

• 32:36Speaker 04

  Dude, I'm about to live to 200 years old.

• 32:39Robert Evans?

  I ain't never dying, motherfucker.

• 32:41Speaker 04

  I ain't never died. I get one out at least once a day. 365.

• 32:48Robert Evans?

  Here's his website. If you have more than 200 orgasms a year, you can reduce your physiologic age by six years, Dr. Oz says. He bases the number on a study done at Duke University that surveyed people on the amount and quality of sex they had. They looked at what happened to folks that are receiving a lot of intercourse over time, and the fact is it correlated.

• 33:07Speaker 04

  Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait. Is it sex? Because he didn't say nothing about sex. He said orgasms. And I do that on my own.

• 33:16Robert Evans?

  I mean, he talked to him about the amount and quality of sex they had, but like, it's correlated. So again, he's basically lying here.

• 33:25Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 33:26Robert Evans?

  Because you, number one, what is the possibility that people who are having a lot of good sex are in better health? And that's why they're able to have a lot more good sex? Because they're like, they're physically healthy, and so it's easier for them to like, what are the odds that like, if you're having more sex, you're more social, you're more likely to have a long-term romantic partner? That increases your lifespan? Yeah. Again, I'm of all people never going to be the guy to say there's not health benefits to sex. There sure is.

• 33:55Speaker 04

  Oh, yeah.

• 33:56Robert Evans?

  But Dr. Oz is exaggerating this. He's taking an actual study that showed some interesting stuff, and he's turning it into a lie.

• 34:05Speaker 04

  Yeah, he's turning it into like pretending he has quantifiable data and that like correlation and correlation is causation like that. Yeah, that's, that's what he's trying to do.

• 34:16Robert Evans?

  Yeah, there, there is data that suggests that regular intercourse reduces men's mortality risks by 50%, which doesn't mean that fucking stops men from dying, particularly because it's men who benefit in this way. It means that men are less healthy than women, tend to die faster. And when men have partners that they live with, they are more likely to have a medical problem noticed. If they have a heart attack, someone's going to be there to call. Like, there's a lot of reasons why this is the case.

• 34:42Speaker 04

  Yeah, they're not dying alone, you know?

• 34:44Robert Evans?

  Yeah, it's not the fact that just fucking magically adds like reduces your age by six years if you do it enough. Like, that's nonsense.

• 34:52Speaker 04

  It's nice to think it, though. It makes, you know?

• 34:55Robert Evans?

  It is nice to think it.

• 34:56Speaker 04

  I'm going to print out that article, show it to my girlfriend and say, hey, you gotta help me live longer, you know?

• 35:03Robert Evans?

  Not coming enough, I'm gonna die.

• 35:05Speaker 04

  We gotta do this more.

• 35:07Robert Evans?

  Yeah, just start fucking in public. And when the cops come, be like, this is medicine.

• 35:11Speaker 04

  Yeah, it's like, do you want me to die six years earlier than I should?

• 35:15Robert Evans?

  I have a right to this.

• 35:18Speaker 04

  Doctor Oz said I should fuck more.

• 35:21Robert Evans?

  Now, on its own, recommending that people get more sexes is, you know, fine. I'm, I'm very pro sex, but I am anti encouraging people to misunderstand health science. The nature of Dr. Oz's audience and the sheer breadth of things he suggests makes it difficult to analyze the total health impact of his show. But there are some dire case studies, as Vox notes in their write up, quote, "There's the case of a man who followed Oz's suggestion of curing insomnia by pouring uncooked rice into socks, heating them in a microwave and wearing them to bed. The man got second and third degree burns on his feet." And the reason he got burned is because he was diabetic. He didn't have the same level of feeling in his feet.

• 36:00Speaker 04

  Oh, my God.

• 36:01Robert Evans?

  If he had gone to a doctor and said, hey, I heard about this thing that might help with insomnia, the doctor would say, well, you're diabetic, you don't have as much feeling in your feet. I'm worried you might call it burn yourself. Dr. Oz is just saying, hey, this will help you sleep. Do it, whoever you are. Again, it's a problem. You're talking to four million people. It will be bad advice for some of them.

• 36:21Speaker 04

  I mean, it's like, this all feels very much like.

• 36:27Speaker 04

  When Trump was telling everyone about the wonders of hydro.

• 36:31Robert Evans?

  Hydroxychloroquine. Oh, yeah, we're gonna talk about that later.

• 36:34Speaker 04

  And then people are eating fucking fish food or like fish tank cleaner and dying. And people are like, how could, how could people be so stupid? And it's like, people are stupid. You, you can't tell them to eat the fucking fishbowl cleaner.

• 36:48Robert Evans?

  Yeah.

• 36:48Speaker 04

  They'll do it.

• 36:49Robert Evans?

  It's, they'll fucking do it. Um, so this guy sued, but the case was thrown out because the judge determined that Oz cannot establish the physician patient relationship through TV. I agree with the judge. That's my problem with his show.

• 37:03Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 37:04Robert Evans?

  Is that he is a physician purporting to be giving medical advice, but is also not taking anyone's individual circumstances into account. And more to the fucking point, not liable if he does any of the irresponsible things that would lend a physician doing their job traditionally in trouble.

• 37:23Speaker 04

  I mean, it is medical malpractice, whether or not he's legally liable for it or not.

• 37:29Robert Evans?

  I, I would agree.

• 37:31Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 37:31Robert Evans?

  And I'm going to continue that quote from Vox. Not everyone agrees with the judge's reasoning. Rochester, New York, medical student and blogger Benjamin Mazer has been publishing anonymous stories sent to him from health professionals about the impact Oz has had on patient care. One reported that her dad had a heart attack and five stents placed in his heart, which required him to take aspirin and Plavix to prevent blood clots. He was watching Dr. Oz, who said Plavix was not necessary, so he stopped taking it. About a month later, he had another massive heart attack and coded and had to be shocked back to life.

• 38:02Speaker 04

  Wow.

• 38:02Robert Evans?

  Continued, "My dad admitted to following Dr. Oz's advice and not asking his own cardiologist."

• 38:09Speaker 04

  Man.

• 38:09Robert Evans?

  Yeah, that's really bad.

• 38:11Speaker 04

  Did he have, did he have like an alternative? Or was he just like decided one day that Plavix is gonna be the thing?

• 38:18Robert Evans?

  Was, if I know my Dr. Oz, I'm sure it was, you don't need to take Plavix. Eat these different heart healthy foods and avoid these foods and that'll do all that Plavix will do.

• 38:27Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah. Eat some beans and put your face in some boiled water and you should be fine.

• 38:32Robert Evans?

  I, I suspect it was dietary advice that if you're someone who doesn't really need Plavix. Is fine, or might even help you to not need it later in life.

• 38:40Speaker 04

  Right.

• 38:40Robert Evans?

  If you adopt healthier habits. But the problem is, again, the way he's framing it, there's gonna be a lot of people who are like, just had stints placed in their heart. I don't need Plavix, fuck it, you know?

• 38:48Speaker 04

  Yeah, Dr. Oz, the, the, the TV doctor said, I don't need this medicine. I just need more acai in my belly.

• 38:56Robert Evans?

  The TV doctor also said he can talk to ghosts, so I'm gonna go talk to... I mean, you will be talking to ghosts faster if you follow all of Dr. Oz's advice.

• 39:05Speaker 04

  I wanna talk to ghosts, I'm gonna stop taking my Plavix and die of a stroke.

• 39:10Robert Evans?

  Now, on his show, Dr. Oz claims that the trust of his audience is the entire reason for his relevance. Quote, "The currency that I deal in is trust, and it is trust that has been given to me by an audience that has watched over 600 shows." He repeatedly references the fact that he is responding to the very real and very understandable, unfilled needs of Americans who feel alienated from modern healthcare, which is an expensive and often inhumane labyrinthine bureaucracy.

• 39:37Speaker 04

  True.

• 39:37Robert Evans?

  This is true. Yeah, absolutely.

• 39:39Speaker 04

  100% true. Yeah. How you exploit it is a very different thing.

• 39:45Robert Evans?

  But the thing he is replacing it with is by and large nonsense. And I'm gonna quote from that right up in the Journal of Ethics again. "When it comes to epistemic boundaries, Dr. Oz admits he applies different standards of evidence compared to those accepted in the medical establishment. When challenged by a reporter for The New Yorker about his questionable evidentiary standards, he replied that all data could be differentially interpreted. You find the arguments that support your data, he said, and it's my fact versus your fact. It's not that he doesn't offer data, it's common for Dr. Oz to offer some plausible mechanism from test tube experiments conducted by manufacturers, combined with personal anecdotes from his own or consumers' experience, to support the products he's promoting. A study of 80 recommendations made on the Dr. Oz Show in early 2013

• 40:30Robert Evans?

  found that published evidence supported 46% of recommendations, contradicted 15%, and did not support 39%."

• 40:38Speaker 04

  Gotta love a good, like, coin flip on whether or not he's fucking lying to you and having an adverse effect on your health.

• 40:46Robert Evans?

  If your doctor said, hey, you know, 46% of the time, I get pretty good advice.

• 40:50Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 40:52Robert Evans?

  You would be like, I think I'm gonna get another doctor.

• 40:54Speaker 04

  But he would reframe it to be like, I'm batting 500 here. And you're like, ooh, 500, that's a good betting.

• 41:00Robert Evans?

  If you assume medicine is like baseball, I'm a great doctor.

• 41:04Speaker 04

  No, he's crushing it. Yeah. Doing a great job.

• 41:08Robert Evans?

  Now, to his credit, the journal does note that a decent chunk of the blame for Dr. Oz's success lies in the very, very flawed state of mainstream medical science. Quote, "We settle for incomplete selectively published data in journals heavily subsidized by pharmaceutical companies and for outcomes that don't give firm answers. While not on par with offering anecdotes as evidence, the fact that debates persist about what constitutes sufficiently high, unbiased quality evidence to support decisions in the profession as a whole creates a wedge that Dr. Oz seems to exploit."

• 41:40Speaker 04

  Mm hmm.

• 41:41Robert Evans?

  So again, this is the Journal of Ethics being like, the fact that you can pay to get a study done, the fact that we pharmaceutical companies lobby to allow them to market things in dishonest ways, the fact that doctors are bribed by companies like Purdue Pharmaceutical with vacations to recommend people take medication that is not in their best interest to take. That's why this motherfucker has a job. And the fact that healthcare is expensive, right? The fact that we don't have single payer healthcare. It all combines to the fact that a lot of people who are not idiots, I'm not saying has, you can be, I'm sure there's people who are brilliant electricians who fucking, or brilliant at whatever, who are great at whatever it is they do, but they're not fucking doctors because most of us aren't.

• 42:23Robert Evans?

  And it's hard to get, I am very fortunate in that I have a couple of good friends who are doctors and I am luckier than I can, one of them is a guy who was on the show recently, Cavahoda, I'm luckier than I can, that I can say to be able to like, every now and then send them a message being like, hey, what should I do here? He has a question of like, I'm having this problem. I don't know what kind of doctor to see to like, get this dealt with. I don't know whose job this is and I don't want to like, my, um, my ex a while ago had a non-cancerous brain tumor and it was a fucking nightmare figuring out, it took a series of different doctors and tests to figure out what kind of doctor she needed to go to to get the medication that would help.

• 43:05Robert Evans?

  And it's, of course, people are like, well, this guy is explaining things and he's nice and he's saying that I have the power to deal with this. If I change my diet, if I do this, if I do that.

• 43:15Speaker 04

  He's giving us all. Alternatives to dealing with the bureaucracy of medical institutions in this country.

• 43:20Robert Evans?

  Yeah.

• 43:20Speaker 04

  I, I have a Kaiser and um, I, I had to go to a rheumatologist and I tried to get ahold of him on the phone. And they sent me through six different call centers to finally get to his specific office. And then I asked the lady, oh, can I get the extension so that I don't have to deal with that? And she's like, oh, sorry, we're not allowed to do that. And so now, now I'm just recording every phone call and just, you know, freestyling to the whole music. Because it's the only thing I can do. I'm like, you know what? I might as well turn this into content because this is fucking ridiculous. You know, there's like, the, the amount of bullshit you have to go through makes people like Dr. Oz feel like a good alternative, you know?

• 44:05Robert Evans?

  Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And it's, it fucking sucks. It's just really fucking sucks.

• 44:14Robert Evans?

  And it fucking sucks because there's a lot of wonderful people who are part of the medical system, like the fucking doctors. In the, in the ER who were with my mom in her last days, like incredibly competent and compassionate and like amazing people who in their entire careers will never be able to do as much good as Dr. Oz does harm. Because he has four million people watching him every day. It's a bummer.

• 44:39Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 44:40Robert Evans?

  You know what's not a bummer?

• 44:42Speaker 04

  Oh.

• 44:43Speaker 05

  Wow.

• 44:44Robert Evans?

  Capitalism is actually a bummer, but it's the water we swim in. So here's some fucking ads.

• 44:52Speaker 01

  Underdog already has team picks, player props, money lines, spreads, you name it, they got it. But apparently somebody over there said, you know what's missing? Screaming like a maniac about a rookie card on your couch. And we love them for that because Underdog now has rips. You get a digital pack starting at just five bucks. You check the live odds, see which grails you could pull, then rip it open to reveal a real physical card. And the grails are no joke. They have cards up to a hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars in value and plenty to pull. From football and basketball to Pokemon with new limited edition. packs dropping regularly. Even cooler, you can decide to keep the card and Underdog will ship it straight to your home or sell it back instantly at 100% of its fair market value.

• 45:36Speaker 01

  And the cash goes right in your account. No listing it online, no stranger low balling you in the messages. Just rip, reveal, and cash out instantly. Or make some room on your shelf. Download Underdog and get in on the chase. Get five free rips packs when you deposit $5. Real rips, real cards, real cash. Only on Underdog. Unleash your dog. 18 plus, terms apply. Top grails are extremely rare.

• 46:01Robert Evans?

  This ad is brought to you by ViiV Healthcare, the makers of Devoto Dolutegravir Lamivudine. If you're living with HIV, do learn about Devoto. Devoto is a complete HIV treatment by prescription only for some people 12 and older. Your doctor will determine if Devoto is right for you. Most HIV pills contain three or four medicines. Devoto is as effective with just two. No other complete HIV pill contains fewer medicines than Devoto.

• 46:25Speaker 06

  It is unknown if Devoto is safe and effective if you have HIV and hepatitis B. If you have Hep B, don't stop Devoto without talking to your doctor as it may get worse or harder to treat. Don't take Devoto if you're allergic to its ingredients or taking Dofetilide due to serious or life-threatening side effects. If you have a rash or allergic reaction symptoms, stop Devoto and get medical help right away. Other serious or life-threatening side effects include severe liver problems and lactic acid buildup. If you're female or obese, you may be more at risk. Tell your doctor about your medicines or supplements, medical conditions, liver or kidney problems, pregnancy, breastfeeding, or planned pregnancy.

• 47:00Robert Evans?

  Do ask your doctor about fewer medicines. Visit devoto.com or call 1-877-844-8872.

• 47:07Speaker 07

  OnDeck is built to back small businesses like yours. Whether you're buying equipment, expanding your team, or bridging cash flow gaps, OnDeck's loans up to $400,000 make it happen fast. Rated A+ by the Better Business Bureau and earning thousands of five-star TrustPilot reviews, OnDeck delivers funding you can count on. Apply in minutes at ondeck.com. Depending on certain loan attributes, your business loan may be issued by OnDeck or Celtic Bank. OnDeck does not lend in North Dakota. All loans and amounts subject to lender approval.

• 47:37Robert Evans?

  We're back. So in 2014, Mehmet Oz was called before a Senate Subcommittee to answer questions about his unfounded claims about dietary supplements. Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill went off on him, saying, "I don't know why you need to say this stuff because you know it's not true. Why? When you have this amazing megaphone and this amazing ability to communicate, would you cheapen your show by saying things like this?"

• 48:03Speaker 04

  And then he just pulled out a wad of money and he just started making it rain all over Congress.

• 48:07Robert Evans?

  Do you know how many houses I have? She pointed out several examples of the things he cheapens his show by saying. He had called green coffee extract a "magical weight loss cure." Recent research has suggested that long-term use of green coffee extract causes bone density loss in animals.

• 48:29Robert Evans?

  But you are, in fairness, you're losing weight. Your bones are lighter. That's weight. Bones are heavy as hell.

• 48:36Speaker 05

  It was everywhere when that came out. It was at literally not just like, it was not like Bed Bath and Beyond, everywhere. It was...

• 48:44Speaker 04

  Get light bones. You can fly like a bird.

• 48:47Robert Evans?

  Mm-hmm.

• 48:48Speaker 05

  Horrible.

• 48:49Robert Evans?

  And again, those are studies in animals, but it's the kind of thing where a responsible doctor would say, "Well, some studies in animals have shown that this might cause bone density loss. So unless, you know, your weight is a really disastrous health situation and your bone density is fine, I wouldn't recommend this." Doctor Oz is just saying it's a magical weight loss cure.

• 49:08Speaker 04

  I mean, he's not wrong. He's not wrong.

• 49:11Robert Evans?

  Yeah. Oz called raspberry ketone, quote, "The number one miracle in a bottle to burn your fat." This is a fun one. First of all...

• 49:20Speaker 04

  It's all gasoline.

• 49:21Robert Evans?

  Part of why people, well, actually, part of why, part of why people are attracted to stuff like this is that like raspberry ketone, that's natural. It sounds like, oh, if I just like getting raspberries, that's going to help me lose weight. This chemical in a natural, healthy fruit. Of course, it makes sense that like some wonderful plant-based medicine would be able to help me lose weight.

• 49:40Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 49:41Robert Evans?

  Raspberry ketones don't come from raspberries. They can, but it takes 90 pounds of fresh raspberries to produce a single dose. As a result, they are manufactured synthetically, a fact Doctor Oz did not feel the need to explain because again, he's really critical of GMOs and it might seem hypocritical to note that raspberry ketones are actually synthetic lab nonsense.

• 50:03Speaker 04

  I love when people say things like it's it's natural. It's like, I think cyanide is natural. There's like, there's a lot of like, natural poisons out there. Fucking snake venom is natural.

• 50:15Robert Evans?

  The fucking arsenic in the apple juice that he's worried about is natural.

• 50:19Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 50:20Robert Evans?

  It is possible, based on animal studies, that these ketones may have some ability to reduce or slow weight gain. But no studies have ever been conducted on how raspberry ketones impact human beings. There have been reports that they increase blood pressure and heart rate in humans. Dr. Oz does not warn about this. Likewise, when Dr. Oz told his viewers that garcinic hambosia may be the simple solution you've been looking for to bust your body fat for good, he did not also warn them that it can interact negatively with diabetes medications, painkillers, and psychiatric medications.

• 50:56Speaker 04

  Oh, my God.

• 50:57Robert Evans?

  Why would you need to warn people that? Look, what are the odds someone looking to lose weight has diabetes medications? Zero.

• 51:05Speaker 04

  What are the odds that someone who has diabetes is sitting around watching Dr. Oz's show?

• 51:11Robert Evans?

  Zero. What are the odds that a middle-class American is addicted to painkillers?

• 51:17Speaker 04

  Zero.

• 51:18Robert Evans?

  Zero.

• 51:20Robert Evans?

  During the Senate inquiry, Senator McCaskill pointed some of this out, and she told Dr. Oz, quote, "When you feature a product on your show, it creates what has become known as the Dr. Oz effect, dramatically boosting sales and driving scam artists to pop up overnight using false and deceptive ads to sell questionable products."

• 51:38Speaker 04

  Hmm, yeah.

• 51:40Robert Evans?

  In the wake of this, which was a fairly bad day on Capitol Hill for him, Dr. Oz released a somewhat contrite statement where he noted, "I took part in today's hearing because I am accountable for my role in the proliferation of these scams, and I recognize that my enthusiastic language has made the problem worse at times." We're good so far?

• 51:58Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 51:58Robert Evans?

  Pretty good.

• 51:58Speaker 04

  Not bad.

• 51:59Robert Evans?

  Pretty good so far. Oz added in his statement, "To not have the conversation about supplements at all, however, would be a disservice to the viewer. In addition to exercising an abundance of caution in discussing promising research and products in the future, I look forward to working with all those present today and finding a way to deal with the problems of weight loss scams."

• 52:17Speaker 04

  God, I, I.

• 52:18Robert Evans?

  Yeah, it's amazing.

• 52:20Speaker 04

  I'm just talking about, I'm just asking the question.

• 52:23Robert Evans?

  We have to have conversations about this. You know, a conversation would be noting, for example, green coffee extract causes bone density loss in animals and perhaps be worried.

• 52:33Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 52:33Robert Evans?

  That's a conversation. Well, you and I have had about these things is a conversation.

• 52:38Speaker 04

  Yeah, I love it. I love people are like, I'm just asking the question.

• 52:42Robert Evans?

  And I'm not a doctor. I'm a guy who's addicted to an unregulated plant.

• 52:50Speaker 04

  Oh, my God.

• 52:51Robert Evans?

  Which I just took more of while standing next to my unregulated gun.

• 52:54Speaker 04

  Yeah, dude, you're living the unregulated dream right now.

• 53:00Robert Evans?

  So, Dr. Oz also making this statement pointed out that he believed the greatest disservice he'd done to his audience was to not recommend specific products, which had provided room for a wide industry of shysters to stick his name on their website. So like, oh, I was just saying green coffee extract and a bunch of companies I couldn't verify started selling with my name on it. I should have recommended a specific brand.

• 53:24Speaker 04

  Yeah, what I need to do is cut deals with specific companies so that you can only be taking their bone density loss drugs.

• 53:34Robert Evans?

  Yeah, exactly.

• 53:36Speaker 04

  Good call.

• 53:37Robert Evans?

  Fucking amazing.

• 53:39Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 53:40Robert Evans?

  So in the wake of this day on Capitol Hill and this amazing response, physicians across the country asked Columbia University in a letter, basically, what the fuck? Why is this guy still on your faculty? Columbia claimed it was because of their commitment to, quote, "the principle of academic freedom and to upholding faculty members' freedom of expression for statements they make in public discussion."

• 54:02Speaker 04

  Hell, yeah, dude. That's like.

• 54:04Robert Evans?

  Fucking rad.

• 54:05Speaker 04

  Yeah, of the like anti-cancel culture letter, you know, they're just like, stop trying to cancel Dr. Oz. It's freedom of speech.

• 54:12Robert Evans?

  Your freedom of speech. Yeah, I mean, doctors also are held to different standards than the rest of us.

• 54:18Speaker 04

  They take an oath. They, come on.

• 54:21Robert Evans?

  If like your Uncle Jimbo says, hey, you know, take some green coffee extract. It'll help you lose weight.

• 54:26Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 54:27Robert Evans?

  Nothing wrong with that.

• 54:28Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 54:28Robert Evans?

  It might not be good advice, but

• 54:30Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 54:30Robert Evans?

  That's just a guy saying a thing. Doctors are held to a different standard.

• 54:35Speaker 04

  Yeah. It's on you if you listen to your crazy Uncle Jimbo. It is definitely on the doctor. If he recommends you lose some bone density so that you look better in that dress.

• 54:46Robert Evans?

  Mm hmm. It's, it's, it's awesome.

• 54:49Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 54:52Robert Evans?

  So on April 15th, 2015, 10 prominent physicians sent a letter to Columbia University calling Oz's faculty position there unacceptable and citing his quote egregious lack of integrity. The only change wrought by the congressional inquiry and the flood of condemnation from the medical community seems to be that Dr. Oz started endorsing specific supplements and pseudo medicines.

• 55:13Speaker 04

  God, he's Alex Jonesing it.

• 55:15Robert Evans?

  He's Jonesing it hard. He's so much smarter than Alex, though.

• 55:19Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 55:20Robert Evans?

  You focus it just on the health. None of this nonsense, like political shit. Everybody's gonna love you and you'll make way more money. Yeah. A 2018 analysis of his show by the Health News Review found, quote, "In the Dr. Oz Show, 13 out of 19, 68.4% shows had ads relating to general show content. 57.9% had specific products mentioned by the host using their commercial name and 36.3% of shows mentioning products by name named more than one product." It also found that 78% of the medical statements made on the Dr. Oz Show did not align with, quote, "evidence-based medical guidelines." So

• 56:04Speaker 04

  If those guidelines mattered, they'd make more money, dog.

• 56:08Robert Evans?

  Half a decade earlier, 46% of his statements are more or less fine.

• 56:14Robert Evans?

  Now it's down to, what, Jesus, 22%?

• 56:18Speaker 04

  Wow.

• 56:19Robert Evans?

  So we're seeing, again, he mad the quality of the, uh, cause again, you're running out of good content. You only have so much good medical advice you can give when you're doing an hour a day, 175 times a year for fucking 15, 16 years.

• 56:33Speaker 04

  Eat fruit.

• 56:34Robert Evans?

  Exactly. The actual amount of things that an average person can reasonably do to improve their own physical health doesn't really take that long to explain to you. You know, it's pretty simple stuff and most of us know a lot of it already. We know when we're, I know that pounding kratom and Coke Zero isn't a wise healthcare decision.

• 56:54Speaker 04

  No, no, but you know it and you can, you know, fucking, you don't need a Dr. Oz to tell you that, you know, you just, no, you know.

• 57:02Robert Evans?

  I know that the fact that I bought the hundred dollar entire smoked leg of, uh, of, of pig from Costco, the giant prosciutto leg that you can get.

• 57:12Speaker 04

  Wow.

• 57:12Robert Evans?

  I know buying that and not also purchasing, uh, I don't know salad, uh, in order to have sufficient fiber.

• 57:19Speaker 04

  A little bit of kale.

• 57:20Robert Evans?

  I recognize that was the poor health decision.

• 57:23Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 57:24Robert Evans?

  No one tricked me about this and at no point did I think this hundred dollars worth of smoked ham is a solid healthcare move, you know?

• 57:33Speaker 04

  It's smoked. What could be so bad with smoking?

• 57:36Robert Evans?

  It's good for my Q zone. It's traditional medicine.

• 57:39Speaker 04

  Yeah, this is really good for all of my kidney meridians. I need all the smoked hams I can get.

• 57:45Robert Evans?

  All my meridians are fucking rocking right now.

• 57:48Speaker 04

  I am peaking in meridians, bro.

• 57:50Robert Evans?

  Let me fucking tell you, my meridians are as hard as a goddamn rock.

• 57:55Speaker 04

  Feel my kidneys, feel my kidneys. It's just like, why is your kidney swollen?

• 58:01Robert Evans?

  The Dr. Oz show is still on the air. In 2018, President Trump appointed Dr. Oz to a council on sports, fitness and nutrition as part of the Department of Health and Human Services. He is still on that council under Joe Biden. Bipartisan, baby. Two years later, oh, no politician is dumb enough to want to piss off Dr. Oz. You're never getting your Joe Biden throw it. Well, except for, except for Claire McCaskill. God bless her.

• 58:26Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 58:27Robert Evans?

  Like.

• 58:28Speaker 04

  She was the only one who had the guts to stand up to Dr. Oz.

• 58:32Robert Evans?

  I think other people did. I'm not an expert on what went down in that congressional thing, but she was, seems to be the main one who was really angry at him, which, good on you, Claire.

• 58:40Speaker 04

  I love that a bipartisan decision is just like, let's share this grifter, you know, between administrations, like, good, you know, got a lot of-

• 58:50Robert Evans?

  We all agree that you should be able to lie about healthcare as an MB. That's, that's, so 2018 is when he gets appointed to this council. Two years later, during the COVID-19 pandemic, he endorsed hydroxychloroquine. Later that year, he endorsed reopening schools, saying, "I tell you, schools are a very appetizing opportunity. I just saw a nice piece in The Lancet arguing the opening of schools may only cost us 2% to 3% in terms of total mortality."

• 59:18Speaker 04

  What the fuck?

• 59:20Robert Evans?

  I said 2% to 3% of the country, that's barely anybody dying. That's barely hundreds of thousands of deaths.

• 59:26Speaker 04

  He said 2% to 3% as if that's not a huge number of people. He's losing his goddamn mind.

• 59:32Robert Evans?

  And it's one of those things, not making a point pro or against gun control either way, but if somebody against gun control said, "What? Keeping these things legal is only gonna cost us 1% of the country," you'd be like, "You're a fucking maniac."

• 59:46Robert Evans?

  "You are a dangerous person." But he's like, we gotta, and he didn't, yeah, this outraged a lot of people and Oz apologized. As he apologized for vaxing hydroxychloroquine, yeah, he oopsie dazed it. He, he claimed regret that his comments had confused and upset people and basically pointed out The Lancet wasn't saying 2% to 3% of the country was going to die. It was, I think, more like 2%, 3% of like, I don't know, people's schools or something, like, would get sick. And like, it, it was, he, he, but the way he phrased it was, "It's only gonna cost us 2% to 3% of the country."

• 1:00:19Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:00:20Robert Evans?

  I don't care what the actual study, again, I don't care what the study is. I care what you said to your audience of millions. And also, I care about the fact that, in any case, that's- Fucking evil.

• 1:00:30Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:00:31Robert Evans?

  Like, that's an evil thing to say.

• 1:00:33Speaker 04

  Yeah, it's, uh, it's, it's, it's pretty wild to just look at two to 3% of the country as like expendable if it means that my fucking dirtbag ass fifth grader can be stuck inside in a school all day. And listen, I get it. People with kids, they want their kids to go back to school. But you, you, that's, you don't say the quiet part out loud, you know?

• 1:00:54Robert Evans?

  Yeah, it's one thing to say, hey, look, living in a society, there's all, all kinds of, of, of cost benefit sort of analysis.

• 1:01:01Speaker 04

  Sure.

• 1:01:01Robert Evans?

  We have to do, like, right, cars improve a lot of efficiencies in certain ways and people like have them. They're also going to cost X many lives, you know? We could change these sorts of laws, but it would, it would lead to this sort of problem. You know, we have certain freedoms that may cost lives and like,

• 1:01:18Speaker 04

  Right.

• 1:01:18Robert Evans?

  To be like, that's just living in a society, right? There's no, we, our society is not angled around absolutely more reducing mortality in every way.

• 1:01:26Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:01:27Robert Evans?

  And there's a cost to not having these schools open and it's a very real cost. And like, we have to, like, that's a way to say that, I'm not saying that's the argument I'm making because I'm not, I'm thinking, I don't think we should open schools out until we actually have, I don't know, like 80% of the fucking country vaccinated or whatever.

• 1:01:42Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:01:42Robert Evans?

  But like, um, but that's a way you could, that's a way you could make that argument and not sound like a, a gibbering sociopath.

• 1:01:51Speaker 04

  And it's weird to like, you know, be like, all right, it was a poor choice of words. And it's like, bro, at this point, saying words out loud to millions of people is your job.

• 1:02:00Robert Evans?

  Yeah, you're choosing to do the job. You could never work another day in your life and you would never, you, you, you're rich. You, you don't need to do this. You're choosing to. So go fuck yourself with that explanation.

• 1:02:12Speaker 04

  Fucking fix some hearts already. Stop talking.

• 1:02:15Robert Evans?

  We're getting to that. So today, Dr. Oz works to continue to monetize his brand with his wife and business partner, who he also writes books with. His daughter seems to be getting in on the grift too, with books like The Dorm Room Diet, which she wrote when she was in college, I think.

• 1:02:30Speaker 04

  The dorm room diet. It's just free pizza and dick.

• 1:02:33Robert Evans?

  The dorm room diet. Hey, you know if you pour coffee into instant ramen?

• 1:02:39Speaker 04

  Exactly.

• 1:02:40Robert Evans?

  It's an efficient breakfast. I've done that, by the way. Not proud of it.

• 1:02:45Speaker 04

  We've all been there.

• 1:02:45Robert Evans?

  Kind of proud of it. It's real good if you add in vodka. He is worth tens of millions of dollars and is not in any danger of being worth less anytime soon. We've talked a lot about the harms of his specific recommendations and the disinformation he spreads. But at the end of this all, I keep coming back to that 2010 New York Times article, specifically its end, when I think about what may be his worst crime against medicine. Quote, "On the stairs at Columbia Presbyterian, apropos of nothing, he began talking about certain Japanese, Sardinian and Costa Rican populations that live unusually long and said that their shared trait was activity, activity, activity. His first column for Time Magazine, "Living Long and Living Well", ran in a section called "How to Live 100 Years."

• 1:03:31Robert Evans?

  At another point in his Rockefeller Center office, he said that so many people thrill on being to being on television because, quote, "There's an element of eternity to it. You are storing you. You are taking your life force for that brief moment when you're on camera and you're storing that for all eternity, which makes you someone who will never truly die." That is a fucking bonkers way of looking at being on TV.

• 1:03:55Speaker 04

  Holy shit.

• 1:03:56Robert Evans?

  That is out of its goddamn mind.

• 1:04:01Speaker 04

  He's literally one year away from wanting to be buried with his cats, you know? Like this dude wants some pyramids and some live cats in a casket with him. This is, he's a pharaoh.

• 1:04:14Robert Evans?

  Yeah, I'm going to continue the quote. And he described his own investment in television by saying, "I've always felt that when I looked at my tombstone, it shouldn't say, 'Mehmet Oz banged out 10,000 Open Heart Operations.' I've probably done 5,000. Am I any better at it than 10,000?" He shook his head. "It's just a different number on the tombstone." No, it's not. It's 5,000 other people whose lives you've extended.

• 1:04:39Speaker 04

  Those are actual human beings.

• 1:04:40Robert Evans?

  Those are human beings. It's not about like you're how better at it. You're already great at it. It's about saving additional lives.

• 1:04:48Speaker 04

  My God. That it's that's wild.

• 1:04:51Robert Evans?

  One of the he has dramatically, he still does perform surgery, I think sometimes. He certainly was in the late aughts because he's a doctor. He just doesn't do nearly as much. He used to do a lot more and he's he's cut it by more than half the amount of actual heart.

• 1:05:06Speaker 04

  And it's the one thing he's good at. I mean, I almost.

• 1:05:08Robert Evans?

  And he's amazing. So one of the things that I should note here is that right now, even with the assumption that every available training position for cardiothoracic surgeons is filled. We are looking at a projected shortage of 1,500 cardiothoracic surgeons or 25% of the workforce by 2025.

• 1:05:30Speaker 04

  Fuck, fuck.

• 1:05:32Robert Evans?

  There is a desperate need for the thing that he's definitely one of the best in the world at, a tremendous and terrible need for it. And he has stopped doing that in order to give people bad medical advice that will hurt some of them on TV. And damn, I want to be really clear here. I am not saying that just because you become a cardiothoracic surgeon, you have to do that until the day you drop. You don't, you can quit.

• 1:05:58Robert Evans?

  You can, and that's not immoral. It's not evil to be like, I've done enough. A good friend of mine was a cardiologist for 30 something years and quit to travel around the world as a photojournalist. And I don't think there's anything immoral. You do not owe the world doing just because it's valuable and there are enough people doing it forever. I am not, and you don't, you don't have to quit to do some other valuable job. You can just quit to enjoy your life, be with your family. I'm not saying that.

• 1:06:20Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:06:20Robert Evans?

  But he didn't quit to be with his family. He quit to give people bad health advice.

• 1:06:27Speaker 04

  He quit to do crimes.

• 1:06:28Robert Evans?

  Yeah, he is. He is doing something that should be illegal instead of performing an additional 5,000 life-saving surgeries.

• 1:06:35Speaker 04

  Right, yeah.

• 1:06:36Robert Evans?

  That's evil.

• 1:06:37Speaker 04

  Yeah, no, that, that, that is bad. That is, that is definitely immoral to, to like have the ability. It's like being Superman and having the ability to save someone from a burning building, but being like, fuck dude, I'm kind of on my way to do this TV interview. It's going to get me more.

• 1:06:54Robert Evans?

  Yeah, but I'm going to sell people pills instead. Lex Luthor. Suck it, you know? I got pills to move. The way that he phrases that is incredibly telling, right? Like, it shouldn't say Mehmet Oz banged out 10,000 open-heart operations. Am I any better at it than 10,000? It's like, that's not, I care that you get better at it to the extent that it improves patient outcome, but like, I don't care. Like, the thing that's good about performing 10,000 open-heart operations is presumably somewhere near 10,000 people have had their lives extended because of you.

• 1:07:26Speaker 04

  Right, yeah.

• 1:07:26Robert Evans?

  And that's amazing. That's tens of thousands of cumulative years you've added to the lives of people who are loved and who do things themselves, who do incre- like, who have their own ways of contributing to society, who have children, like...

• 1:07:41Speaker 04

  It's such a sick way of looking at it, too.

• 1:07:44Robert Evans?

  It's really fucked up.

• 1:07:45Speaker 04

  Because it's like, I'm already really good at it, so I decided...

• 1:07:49Robert Evans?

  I wanna go get into TV now. It's like, if he'd been like, I did my car, I performed 5,000 surgeries, now I wanna become an actor. Like, fine, you have that right, absolutely. I'm never gonna say that's immoral, right?

• 1:08:01Speaker 04

  I mean, it depends on the movie, but yeah, yeah, for sure.

• 1:08:03Robert Evans?

  Yeah, if you're in Michael Bay movies, we might have another talk.

• 1:08:05Speaker 04

  Yeah, exactly, yeah.

• 1:08:06Robert Evans?

  But that's, again, it's not that he's decided he wanted to go into TV. It's not that he decided to go into entertainment. It's that he decided to do a job, to go from doing a job where he was unequivocally saving lives, to doing a job where he often gives people advice that could shorten or at least reduce the quality of their life.

• 1:08:23Speaker 04

  I mean, I guess he got tired of helping people and was like, you know...

• 1:08:28Robert Evans?

  Time to make some fucking bank.

• 1:08:29Speaker 04

  Yeah, it's, I mean, it's not just make some bank, but he's like, man, I saved 10,000 lives. I'm gonna have to kill 10,000 just to fucking net-neutral this shit, you know?

• 1:08:40Robert Evans?

  Yeah.

• 1:08:41Speaker 04

  You know, he's just trying to, he's trying to balance the scales of his good and evil.

• 1:08:46Robert Evans?

  It's so fucking frustrating. Um, I really dislike this man.

• 1:08:51Speaker 04

  Yeah. He's so handsome, though, dude. I mean, that's the thing. He's very handsome. Uh, he made a lot of money, so that's good.

• 1:08:59Robert Evans?

  That is good.

• 1:09:00Speaker 04

  And, uh, you know, he's, he's, he's out there every day, giving, giving hope to people who are currently dying of a very, very treatable ailment and saying, nah, dog, put your feet in some hot rice.

• 1:09:13Robert Evans?

  Put your feet in some hot rice, motherfucker.

• 1:09:15Speaker 04

  And see what happens, dude. Just see what happens. You know, like, someone's gotta be doing that job.

• 1:09:21Robert Evans?

  It's this fucking thing. Part of the Dr. Oz problem, and the part of it that, that he, he is, he is leaning into, but is not his fault, is this thing that's a broader problem that I've gotten trapped in that a lot, that everyone who's a public figure is at risk of getting trapped in. Um, which is the fact that if you're good at something and also have some measure of fame or popularity, you, you start to think you can extend your skills to everything. I was in the gym the other day, since I'm in Texas with my family, um, and since I'm vaccinated, uh, and, you know, everyone wears a mask, but I've been going to a gym.

• 1:09:55Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:09:56Robert Evans?

  Um, and my family's vaccinated. It's like, it's the thing we get to do now, okay?

• 1:09:59Speaker 04

  Yeah, you're allowed.

• 1:10:00Robert Evans?

  Yeah. I've been going to a gym and the gyms have like news programs on, right? And I saw Dr. Oz on, and it was Dr. Oz's true crime, because I guess Dr. Oz has added a true crime thing where he's like, talking about this woman who murdered her kids and interviewing like the ex-wife of the husband of the woman who murdered her kids and like, doing this, and he's like, you don't have any, why are you doing this? Like, oh, because, because it's popular with the same people who like your show. And why, why, like, why not? Why not stick your hand into this thing that is, is, is deeply painful for a lot of people and make money off of it? Um, why not do it? Because if you're, if you're famous and good at one thing, there's no reason not to do absolutely everything. I,

• 1:10:45Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:10:45Robert Evans?

  I just hate it.

• 1:10:47Speaker 04

  Yeah, it's especially since it's it's again, he he has the God given skills to actually do good and help people and he chooses, you know, this shit and I gotta say, I blame his dad.

• 1:11:02Robert Evans?

  I blame his dad too.

• 1:11:04Speaker 04

  His dad.

• 1:11:04Robert Evans?

  Fuck you, Mustafa.

• 1:11:05Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:11:06Robert Evans?

  Son of a bitch.

• 1:11:07Speaker 04

  You fucked up, dude. I mean, you did a great job by pulling yourself up by your bootstraps and what yada, yada, but you know, maybe you should have, maybe you should have maybe been more encouraging for him to just maybe, you know, pick one thing and stay with it rather than, you know, venture off into television. I will say at least with the true crime stuff that like, I know he's like, he's a little bit kind of like getting into kind of our territory here with the podcast business and I don't like that, but I'm glad I don't have a true crime podcast that he's currently cannibalizing. If he starts a Sopranos one, I will lose my fucking mind. If Dr. Oz decides one day, like, I want to do a prestige TV

• 1:11:51Speaker 04

  rewatch show for CNN, that'll be it, dude. Oz, you'll be on my goddamn list.

• 1:11:57Speaker 05

  I don't think his podcast publishers anymore, the one that he was doing. I don't see any new episodes. That's 2019.

• 1:12:04Speaker 04

  Well, I mean, he's, he's doing a true crime show. That's, that's as close as you get to, to the podcast business.

• 1:12:11Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:12:12Speaker 04

  You know what I'm saying? Those are the number one pods out there, dude. Pisses me off.

• 1:12:18Robert Evans?

  Casts my pods. All right, guys. That's the episode.

• 1:12:26Speaker 05

  Do you have any, any plugs?

• 1:12:28Robert Evans?

  Yeah.

• 1:12:29Speaker 05

  Plug the plugs?

• 1:12:31Speaker 04

  Uh, my name is Matt Lieb and, you know, I'm on Instagram, Matt Lieb Jokes.

• 1:12:36Robert Evans?

  The Gram.

• 1:12:37Speaker 04

  Yeah, I'm on the Gram. I'm also on Twitter at Matt Lieb, but follow me on Instagram. And yeah, if you like The Sopranos, pod yourself a gun. It's.

• 1:12:47Robert Evans?

  Pod yourself a gun, baby. Well, get out there and again, find Dr. Oz in the street. And Sophie, what, what is the legal definition of incitement?

• 1:13:00Speaker 05

  I'm not, for legal reasons, I'm not going to answer that question.

• 1:13:04Robert Evans?

  All right, well, uh, just, just go out and wander the streets. Angry and, and, and agitated. Yeah.

• 1:13:15Speaker 05

  So where are we doing it?

• 1:13:15Robert Evans?

  Without any clear goal. Yeah.

• 1:13:17Speaker 05

  Oh, okay.

• 1:13:18Robert Evans?

  Angry, wander the streets, agitated with an unclear goal. That's what I want all of my listeners to do.

• 1:13:37Speaker 01

  Games on a break? Don't doom scroll. Try rips on Underdog. Buy a digital pack, rip it open, and reveal a real, physical card. Football, basketball, even Pokemon. Packs start at just $5. Ship it straight to your door, or sell it back instantly at full market value. Max value up to $125,000. Download Underdog and get in on the chase. Deposit $5, get 5 free packs. Real rips, real cards, real cash. Only on Underdog. Unleash your dog. 18+, terms apply. Top grails are extremely rare.

• 1:14:08Speaker 03

  OnDeck is built to back small businesses, like yours. Whether you're buying equipment, expanding your team, or bridging cash flow gaps, OnDeck's loans up to $400,000 help make it happen fast. Rated A+ by the Better Business Bureau and earning thousands of 5-star TrustPilot reviews, OnDeck delivers funding you can count on. Apply in minutes at ondeck.com. Depending on certain loan attributes, your business loan may be issued by OnDeck or Celtic Bank. OnDeck does not lend in North Dakota. All loans and amounts subject to lender approval. Hear every word and feel every beat with VIZIO's powerful and immersive soundbar lineup. Whether it's a streamlined, all-in-one, flexible surround sound with the 4.1 Pro Wireless, or pure cinematic surround sound and thunderous bass with the 5.1 Wireless Soundbar, VIZIO has

• 1:14:52Speaker 01

  The perfect fit for any room and any setup. Blast your favorite tunes and podcasts with the iHeart Radio app and hear every beat like you're sitting front row. Upgrading your entertainment has never been easier. Discover Vizio's full soundbar collection at Walmart or walmart.com today. If you're a fight fan and you haven't seen the BKFC app yet, you're missing the world's most exciting combat sport. Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship has changed the game. No gloves, no stalling, no boring rolling around on the ground. Just pure violence and pure entertainment. The BKFC app includes live events, past fights, original series, behind the scenes access, merch discounts and more. Only $7.99 a month or $49.99 a year.

• 1:15:34Speaker 01

  Get the BKFC app at BKFC.com.

• 1:15:38Speaker 00

  This is an iHeart Podcast. Guaranteed Human.