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Dr. Drew: Microdosing and ayahuasca categorically cause severe psychiatric problems
“The AI world is populated by people that microdose on acid and do ayahuasca, which I tell you, it categorically causes severe psychiatric problems. I've seen it my entire career.”
Dr. Drew: Legacy late-night TV hosts will all face cancellation
“So when Colbert gets Gets fired for losing forty million dollars a year. I just looked at that and I go, well, of course. That's gonna happen to all of them. This is just not a model.”
Dr. Drew: Silicon Valley microdosing categorically causes severe psychiatric problems
“The, that AI world is populated by people that microdose on acid and do ayahuasca, which I tell you it categorically causes severe psychiatric problems. I've seen it my entire career.”
Dr. Drew: All high-cost legacy late-night television shows will fail
“So when Colbert gets Gets fired for losing forty million dollars a year. I just looked at that and I go, well, of course. Yeah. That's gonna happen to all of them. This is just not a model.”
Dr. Drew: Raw milk pathogens are very rare and easily treated
“You can get brucellosis, you can probably get tularemia, you can get listeriosis, and we can treat that with antibiotics, no problem. But they can make you very sick, and they're very rare.”
Dr. Drew: Goldman contemplated $30M check for zero-revenue drdrew.com
“The day the Nasdaq fell apart. The day we were sitting in Goldman Sachs and the woman across the table was contemplating giving us thirty million dollars on a hundred and ten million dollar valuation for a company that had never made a penny.”
Dr. Drew: Legacy Talent Agencies Refuse to Adapt to Modern Media
“What you have is these, the talent agencies and the ad agencies and the managerial services and the lawyers holding on. They're like going into the foxholes as opposed to adjusting and adapting and changing what it is they do. They are just Insisting that thin…”
Dr. Drew: Being hypomanic helps and many successful businesspeople are hypomanic
“Be hypomanic helps, which a lot of successful business people are.”
Dr. Drew: The goal is living well, not living forever or illness-free
“Living well is the goal. Not living forever. Not living perfectly free of illness. It's living a good life. And we are off of that.”
Dr. Drew: Disturbing when non-physicians like Mark Cuban push medical opinions
“And for a non-physician to have an opinion about milk that contains pathogenic organisms that he's never heard of or he learned to pronounce yesterday is disturbing to me.”
Dr. Drew: Media reports of 'AI psychosis' are overblown
“I'll tell you, I'll make a bet that it's over way overblown. It was somebody who was already psychotic and you know, whatever.”
Dr. Drew: Alcohol decline aligns with drops in dating and sex
“It fits with the lack of dating and the lack of having sex and the lack of socializing. It, that was the, that was a prime social lubricant for decades.”
Dr. Drew: SoftBank Invested $10M in DrDrew.com During Dot-Com Era
“Six or seven SoftBank VC representatives marched out of the room, and, ah, my Harvard Business School friend was anxious, and like, I didn't even understand what was happening. Still, I did not. And they came back in, and they go, okay, ten million dollars.”
Goldman Sachs offered pre-revenue DrDrew.com a $110M valuation in 2000
“We were sitting in Goldman Sachs, and the woman across the table was contemplating giving us thirty million dollars on a hundred and ten million dollar valuation for a company that had never made a penny.”
Dr. Drew: SoftBank invested $10M into drdrew.com after one meeting
“And they came back in and they go, okay, ten million dollars.”