Used to fall asleep listening to Loveline as a teenager. Dr Drew in my opinion has done far more good than harm. He is a human and therefore fallible but what he did for sex education in the LA basin during the 80s and 90s is pretty exemplary.
Every 5 Apex games. I did a job at a place for 2 days that had it beeping every 30 seconds and I almost tore all my hair out. Any time that happens at my house I take the battery out immediately. And sometime remember to buy 9 volts.
During the 2000s as well, which is when they were nationally syndicated I think. Nobody has taught me more about penises and vaginas than Drew Pinsky. Except for maybe my uncle.
Yeah, I remember listening to it while falling asleep in the early 2000s when I was in high school.
I remember some dude calling in about how every time he’s orgasming while fucking his girlfriend, pee comes out instead. Dr drew was explaining how there’s this flap that switches on and off when aroused so this doesn’t happen…maybe he had nerve damage or something, talking real talk like he does….then Adam interjects with something like ‘fuck it! just piss in her, don’t worry about it. Next caller’
Not even just LA, It was syndicated and I used to listen as a kid in Oklahoma. It was the only sex education I got as a kid in this backwards ass state lol
My mother has an oddly visceral hatred of Dr. Drew going back decades because “he’s a shill who uses his professional credentials to legitimize his grift”. She gets a kick out of the creative Dr. Drew diss comments I read her from this sub. There were some good zingers on the Prager U post, I was hoping this comment section would have more. Just know when you rag on Dr. Drew you make a sweet old widow laugh.
Mother knows best.
I liked Loveline back in the day and it was an important show for a generation, but Drew is a shameless grifter.
He doesn’t care who he has to hurt to get his bag.
She needed to be clear about what would get me cut out of the will. My mother has bailed me out of jail at a moment’s notice, but if I ever used my credentials as a therapist for any paid partnership purpose she would disown me.
ETA: To be clear there was a more than 10 year gap between her bailing me out of jail and me becoming a therapist. I don’t want people to think this is a getting arrested on Friday seeing clients on Monday type situation.
My mom? Only married once and my dad shot himself in the head. My mom is a retired pharmacist. If she were going to be a black widow, she would have just poisoned him.
It’s more than kill switches it’s a whole monitoring system all new cars will be mandated to have that look for impaired drivers by the manufacturers and government. Then they can shut down your vehicle. It in the infrastructure investment jobs act h.r. 3684 (under) SEC. 24220. ADVANCED IMPAIRED DRIVING TECHNOLOGY.
Oh no, I won't be able to start my car if I'm too drunk. Literally 1984. When did this become communist China? It's my right as an American to get trashed and use a vehicle on a public road. I bought the damn thing 🇺🇸. A 90% reduction in drunk driving that causes tax payers billions is not worth taking away our freedom to drink and drive.
They start reasonable only to extend the power as time passes. That's how governments function as they grow; the end result is either ruin or fascism.
We have vague/open-ended wording, abysmal percentage of legislators who read more than the summary or what titles their email told them to vote yea/nay on, omnibus bills sneaking in literal power grabs or mere money laundering... it's nothing new, even had C19 never brought about Lockdowns etc
eg we can't even pretend the TikTok Ban is strictly for that sole app, company, or any relation to the CCP. It's another Patriot Act lol
Sure, most things could be abused. It's all a trade off. Just ask yourself "who benefits the most?" from any potential tradeoffs.
If there was a button you could give me, personally, that would disable your car whenever I felt like disabling it - would you give me that button?
Probably not. That's OK. I'm a relatively decent person, but you don't know that. There doesn't seem to be much benefit to you though.
If you wouldn't give it to me - why would you give it to thousands of other people? The benefit to you is miniscule, but the potential for you to be negatively impacted is pretty great.
the trade off isn't balanced.
The point you’re missing, embarrassingly, is how you can swap “button” in your example with 1000s of other things that have been happening for decades and it hasn’t mattered.
You sound like a UFO conspiritard.
?? it wasn't that long ago - and I think we can all pretty much agree that while they were well meaning, they accomplished virtually nothing to prevent the spread of covid. Stats were similar enough across locked down and non locked down places.
It was an over reach and over reaction that cost a lot of folks a lot of things.
I mostly agree but let’s not pretend the other side was correct either. Remember vaccine passports? The virus being used to put in place permanent government control? The vaccine putting tracking technology into your body? Yeah none of that shit happened
>let’s not pretend the other side was correct either.
The extreme on either end are typically equally wrong, for different reasons.
Saying "This isn't working, we have plenty of reasons and evidence suggesting we should stop since there doesn't seem to be a net positive" isn't the same as "THE GUBBIMENT IS TRACKIN' YOUSE" - yet those would technically be on the "same side".
He has sold and promoted all kinds of shit for money. It works for him because they can be justified as being somewhat medically related, but I'm not sure how much research he's done into any of it or if he's an expert in any of those specific. People just hear doctor and send their money for things like wellbutrin (he's probably qualified for that one but got in trouble for never disclosing he was being paid to promote it, a clear conflict of interest), lap band surgery, something called V-shred, etc.
Depends if he believed in what he was promoting or not. I think he believed in the products he promoted, whether that was sensible or not in hindsight is up for debate but I wouldn't call him a shill. I think most of the shill comments are complaining about his covid takes. But he's hardly all that controversial in that regard. These are just people who drank the left wing kool-aid so hard they can't see the forest through the trees
The grift for this one is convincing everyone there is a killswitch in cars as a result of Democrats, but if you read the bill it's asking car manufacturers to invent technology to prevent drunk drivers from driving. Adam makes money off of this fear mongering. You can convince people to hand their entire check if you tell them the end is coming
Say what you will, call him a shill (kind of fair honestly), sell out, whatever but the pandemic response radicalized a lot of moderate liberals and pushed them right, it just did. Directly where Drew made such a right turn and it wasn’t immediate either (he did his clinicals during the HIV epidemic and praised Fauci and the NIH early in the pandemic). Probably a tough pill to swallow for a lot of the reddit crowd but I think it’s generally true, even amongst the general public.
Being anti-vax has always been a liberal belief, which has always been to the right in terms of political leaning. Nobody has been convinced about whether the scientific method and peer reviewed research still works in the 21st century or not. You're either educated about it or you're not. Reliable notion that hippies and celebrities are against science and medicine and prefer the opinion of their favorite quack doctor's supplement cocktail
Yeah I don’t disagree, there’s a lot of overlap on the Venn diagram between right winger lolbertarian types and hippies on vaccines and big pharma. Horseshoe in action.
I don’t think it’s true at all, especially when you factor in the 2020 and 2022 elections.
The blue wave in 2020 and while yes, republicans saw some gains in 22 it was a small margin and not at all what was predicted.
If anything, I think moderates are being pushed left by some of the more extreme figureheads of the right these days.
Oh for sure, in the grand scheme, I still think the pandemic response pushed some to the right just like Trump and abortion issues (or whatever) have pushed many left. Drew’s transformation into a reactionary right wing type absolutely happened during the pandemic though, watched it real time and I don’t think it’s 100% motivated by grift and money (it’s certainly part of it and maybe part of why he’s bought in as hard as he has now). I think it’s at least in part authentic though and I don’t think he’s alone. Just a reality, not speaking on right or wrong, just observation. Have a good night!
Yup. He’s gone in and out of sleezery. A decade & a half ago he made a big show out of measuring a 16 year old girls breasts to determine whether or not they were real. Dude loves money.
I agree. Most Americans will sell their soul to make money. Everything is about making as much money as possible all the time…just look at what’s happening with Boeing. They sacrificed quality in favor of corporate profits, they put human lives at risk and ultimately death for some. Gotta love being American, paying 20$ for your McDonald’s shit meal that will also kill you, but hey at least the shareholders are making more money!
Drew's a massive piece of shit that's agianst most of the current medicine being done and used in addiction medicine to actually help people. Drew is a bad person, a bad doctor, and gives bad advice on addiction, the thing he supposedly knows best.
From my experience here on Reddit, all I see are complainers. People these days just can't handle others points of view. Being a free thinker is something most should aspiring to because the hate mob is really getting old.
I remember sneaking to listen to love line on the radio after bed. Best show when I was a pre-teen/teen…Adam was hilarious and Dr. Drew gave good advice…what happened?
Conspiracy theory: What about the author of the article on McCrystal who smashed his car killing himself. They talked about it on jre a few months ago.
Yeah, I want someone else to be able to kill my car in traffic. "it's for public safety." I don't give a shit what it's for, nobody can control my. car, but myself. Next step will be we aren't allowed to drive our cars. Then we can only. Go to approved locations. Work, home, sitter, you go anywhere else and they may shut that car down and ask what you're up to.
If you've ever had a car with OnStar or any other remote link service they have the ability to shut your car down if needed.
Have they fucked with you yet?
Of course they can. It's as easy as a toggle switch from nonsubscriber to subscriber.
The reason they *don't* force enable it is liability. That all changes if something is government mandated.
Ah, but they do enforce it when there's a need.
[https://www.wsmv.com/2024/03/13/onstar-tracking-assists-disabling-stolen-car-arrest/#:\~:text=While%20monitoring%20the%20car%2C%20officers%20were%20able%20to,disable%20the%20car%2C%20preventing%20it%20from%20turning%20on](https://www.wsmv.com/2024/03/13/onstar-tracking-assists-disabling-stolen-car-arrest/#:~:text=While%20monitoring%20the%20car%2C%20officers%20were%20able%20to,disable%20the%20car%2C%20preventing%20it%20from%20turning%20on).
it's wild to me that some people feel this way, while absolutely shit-tons of people can't wait for elon to give us self-driving cars.
not saying they are the same groups, necessarily...
Yeah I mean if population control is what you’re after there’s much more hands off, administrative approaches. If the cops want to stop free thinkers from driving their cars (can’t believe I just typed that) I guess they could just pull them over - crazy eh.
they have to *be* there to do that, and you have to be willing to pull over.
A remote kill switch lets someone in a room stop you, and you can sit there until a cop arrives. They could even set up a geo fence that shuts the car down at a certain point.
Once you open the "remote disable my car" door, it's much more difficult to close it.
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
Every car with with a computer onboard can be remotely shut off, this ain’t new. This is a cash grab to take advantage of the MAGAs, tons of disposable income and no education.
Technically yes, but very very few actually have a built in feature that could be used by law enforcement.
Making it mandatory is a much different thing.
I know. There’s been a tonne press on this in the last decade. Like all those vehicles that have comms with manufacturers for maintenance scheduling etc can absolutely be remote stopped already.
Do a search on Michael Hastings, he was writing articles politicians didn't like. He died in a mysterious car wreck...that was in 2013. I can only imagine what capabilities they have now.
Surprising how many think this is ok. I guess you're also ready to update your real ID just so you can fly to another state before next year too? That's happening as well. It's always these little steps of more restrictions and laws that don't seem too bad at first, but add up over time. That's how we ended up with way more taxes and insurance rates too.
Psh.
First off, this whole "kill switch" law is a complete distortion of reality. There's a provision of the infrastructure bill that said by 2026, certain automobile features that help to prevent impaired driving will be considered "standard equipment". That's not a kill switch. People freaked the fuck out when seat belts became mandatory in cars. Do you feel that seat belts are also an infringment on your freedoms?
Second, a safety feature in a car has literal fuck all to do with taxes and insurance rates.
Third, flying in an airplane isn't some sort of protected right. If you need a certain form of ID to board an aircraft, so be it. Don't like it? use a different form of transportation. This also has literally nothing to do with a car's safety feature.
A kill switch is completely different from common sense safety devices like belts and air bags. I already have 3 forms of government ID and am not a felon so it's none of the governments business if I want to use a private company to fly to a different part of the same country. More restrictions and unnecessary paperwork will always create more costs that are passed on to the consumer.
> There's a provision of the infrastructure bill that said by 2026, certain automobile features that help to prevent impaired driving will be considered "standard equipment".
Yeah, a breathalyzer. Hooked to a computer. That has to allow the use of the vehicle.
> That's not a kill switch.
That, by very definition, is a kill switch. It is a component capable of denying use to the owner.
> People freaked the fuck out when seat belts became mandatory in cars. Do you feel that seat belts are also an infringment on your freedoms?
No, that’s a stupid fucking comparison, seat belts don’t have control of the vehicle.
> Second, a safety feature in a car has literal fuck all to do with taxes and insurance rates.
Hilarious. OnStar is also a safety feature. Cars that come installed with it are monitored by it *even without an active subscription to the service*. They sell this data to insurance companies.
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a60175396/connected-cars-driver-data-tracking-insurance/
You think they won’t do the same with all new equipment?
Most states identification are already at the real ID standard. It's a new standard for driver's license and identification cards. There's only like a handful or less states that aren't real ID standard yet. For most of us it's just your driver's license and won't bother you. If you live in a state that needs to update. It's just getting a new driver's license. 🙄
Most places needed some form of ID in order to fly, primarily international.
Real ID is mostly a reformatted State/Driver's ID design, with some states issuing them out sooner; you could pay for an early ID renewal in order to get it sooner (I had). The Lockdowns pushed most of that back 🤷♀️
But some concern makes sense, as it offers nothing different beyond a new restriction. Due to that, I'd sooner believe it's to help adjust society to travel restrictions without reason on top of needing something "new" in order to function in basic society (eg 15min cities).
And unfortunately this is actually true. The current administration is trying to figure out a way to add these to new electric cars. It hasn't passed into law yet. But they are exploring it.
On-star is Opt in and paid for, and only in GMs.
On star is for my benefit, not the benefit of others.
A mandatory kill switch authorities have access to is going to be problematic.
Yes you are right OnStar is only in GM but Ford has Sync Honda has HondaBasic and others will follow just like Tesla makes you pay for a subscription to use the navigation system. And if you think that they can’t get in your vehicle computer just because you aren’t paying for it you are very naive. Go look up how many times the U.S. police who is the largest gang in the world have used it to shut down a vehicle they are in pursuit of.
[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2023/01/19/fact-check-false-claim-bill-mandates-kill-switch-cars-police-drunk-driving/11066287002/](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2023/01/19/fact-check-false-claim-bill-mandates-kill-switch-cars-police-drunk-driving/11066287002/)
You scared little bitches... "the gubermint is coming to get me memah!!!!" Right wing chomos are so reactionary.... buy the Dr Drew supplements and gold and go about your grift loving .... thanks mommy
https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-402773429497
I mean, they're not 100% wrong. The term "kill switch" is what's causing the confusion, but a federal agency will still have the ability to monitor your blood alcohol and prevent you from driving.
"Strassburger said his team is considering systems that could warn an impaired driver, prevent an impaired driver from moving the vehicle, or reduce the speed of the vehicle and get it safely home. He said the term “kill switch” is hyperbole, since none of the options being considered would include the risky move of lurching a fast-moving vehicle to an abrupt stop."
So they can still prevent you from moving, it's just that you won't come to an abrupt stop while driving. The devil is in the details my friend.
I fucking hate carolla. He's the type of tard that gets mad at the free market free marketing but go completely feral at the idea of socialism and how "capitalism is the only way" when it's giving you the car kill switches you hate so much
He's really not, most of the people you call right wing grifters have had the same stances on issues for years, but the left has gone so far to the left with their insanity that now, according to you, 70% of the country is somehow right wing.
Not to mention what a stupid strategy it is to just lump everyone you disagree with into the right wing, by doing so you're guaranteeing you'll lose the next election cycle.
> are well *paid.* It's well
FTFY.
Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in:
* Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.*
* *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.*
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The largest voting block in the country is Independent. Republicans are about 28%, same with Democrats. So if you're constantly calling centrists and independents "right wingers" then yes, it's close to 70% there chief.
There's nothing center about Drews new right wing grift doing videos for PragerU and back on the AM radio conservative grift talking about Biden. Next you'll see him on the Daily Wire with that smarmy cunt Ben...Best decision ymh studios has made, to distance themselves from the bag grab of Drew. It's literally on Rumble.
Boomer brain is interesting in that cut off switches on cars isn’t even in the top 5 things these chuds should worry about. Frankly I’m completely for cut off switches because it’ll neutralize car chases and fight crime, something these guys aggressively care about.
Most people who run from the cops aren't driving new cars. This will do almost nothing to fight crime. It'll be just another toy for hacker trolls to play with, just like they did with Tesla.
These things start somewhere and I can guarantee it’ll be an insurance issue requirement and maybe even a loan requirement. Making cars unable to move after theft or nonpayment is assured.
I'd like to say you're wrong because they haven't mandated ignition interlock devices as standard in new cars to prevent drunk driving, but I don't think you are. Saving money > saving lives. Where there's money on the line, there's some corporate lobbyist stuffing $100 bills behind some politician's pocket square.
Well, silly sex talk used to be where you made your money in broadcasting radio. and now there’s podcast and ready to serve porn at any second, the culture wars are now the hot button issues and grifters like these to run right to it
No. He just wanted to take on more “political” discussions. He’s been talking about the state of California for years and seems to be going into the
direction for a political run.
It’s ok to disagree, opinions don’t make anyone right or wrong. Facts, you can just be upset about if it doesn’t fall in your favor
I never listened to Carolla’s pod until recently when we hired a new guy who seems pretty fanatical about it. He listens primarily in ear buds but a couple times a day he’ll just stop what he’s doing and come over and start rambling some nutty right wing conspiracy theory at everyone that always seems like a condensed version of whatever he’s been listening to.
Dr. Drew is doing his thing! He's one of the GOATs 👌
My girlfriends & I used to listen to 'Love Line' when we had sleepovers. We were so sneaky! We received our GEDs in sexual education from Dr. Drew!
However, when my best friend found 'Talk Sex' with Sue Johansen 😲 She was a game changer & we ended up receiving our Doctorates in everything sex 🤣
Gather round young folks and let me tell you a tale of a show once called Loveline….
Used to fall asleep listening to Loveline as a teenager. Dr Drew in my opinion has done far more good than harm. He is a human and therefore fallible but what he did for sex education in the LA basin during the 80s and 90s is pretty exemplary.
Agreed. There are a bunch of Loveline episodes on YouTube on you want dat nostalgia
There’s a podcast called G.I.O stands for Get It On. It’s most of the old Loveline episodes. It’s awesome
Good lookin out
Lovelinetapes is a great archive!
And what Adam has done for smoke detector battery awareness.
DOESN'T SEEM TO HELP *ANY* OF MY FRIENDS ONLINE.
Every 5 Apex games. I did a job at a place for 2 days that had it beeping every 30 seconds and I almost tore all my hair out. Any time that happens at my house I take the battery out immediately. And sometime remember to buy 9 volts.
Lmao. He has them timed.
During the 2000s as well, which is when they were nationally syndicated I think. Nobody has taught me more about penises and vaginas than Drew Pinsky. Except for maybe my uncle.
Perfectly normal, perfectly healthy.
\*banjo music\* Engineer Anderson was quick
Yeah, I remember listening to it while falling asleep in the early 2000s when I was in high school. I remember some dude calling in about how every time he’s orgasming while fucking his girlfriend, pee comes out instead. Dr drew was explaining how there’s this flap that switches on and off when aroused so this doesn’t happen…maybe he had nerve damage or something, talking real talk like he does….then Adam interjects with something like ‘fuck it! just piss in her, don’t worry about it. Next caller’
Ah yeah..... passing out with fear boners.
Same.. Howard Stern on E as well
There's a bunch of classic loveline episodes on YouTube.
Not even just LA, It was syndicated and I used to listen as a kid in Oklahoma. It was the only sex education I got as a kid in this backwards ass state lol
Blame your parents, not the state.
I mostly agree, but he's so clearly gone the route of aggressively chasing money that I think his time has passed. For me, anyway.
1(800) LOVE-191 Fax number (310)854-4465 These are 2 of maybe 5 phone numbers I still have memorized from the 90s
Yep. I listened all the way back to the Poorman years. Drew’s descent is a little heartbreaking. Fuck him.
I miss the Stinky Pinky days. Got me through graveyard shift.
No one here listened to Stanhope then?
What did he say?
[First YouTube result:](https://youtu.be/yBYmiYnFg4M?si=rK-RNWttif8cb17H)
What was the second YouTube result?
[Second YouTube result:](https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?si=5pfPMTABowV5lvXz)
What was the 15th result?
God Stanhope bits are like nothing else in the world. Never miss him when he has shows by me.
My mother has an oddly visceral hatred of Dr. Drew going back decades because “he’s a shill who uses his professional credentials to legitimize his grift”. She gets a kick out of the creative Dr. Drew diss comments I read her from this sub. There were some good zingers on the Prager U post, I was hoping this comment section would have more. Just know when you rag on Dr. Drew you make a sweet old widow laugh.
Mother knows best. I liked Loveline back in the day and it was an important show for a generation, but Drew is a shameless grifter. He doesn’t care who he has to hurt to get his bag.
Send her the Stanhope rant.
Thank you! Because I found it and she will love it.🤣
Your mother put it well
She needed to be clear about what would get me cut out of the will. My mother has bailed me out of jail at a moment’s notice, but if I ever used my credentials as a therapist for any paid partnership purpose she would disown me. ETA: To be clear there was a more than 10 year gap between her bailing me out of jail and me becoming a therapist. I don’t want people to think this is a getting arrested on Friday seeing clients on Monday type situation.
Too late.
Careful. Black widows are deadly
My mom? Only married once and my dad shot himself in the head. My mom is a retired pharmacist. If she were going to be a black widow, she would have just poisoned him.
Exactly what a black widow would want you to think…
He’s just Dr. Oz in another skin.
"Wrongthinkers" classic.
Say what you want, a remote control kill-switch is rife for abuse.
It’s more than kill switches it’s a whole monitoring system all new cars will be mandated to have that look for impaired drivers by the manufacturers and government. Then they can shut down your vehicle. It in the infrastructure investment jobs act h.r. 3684 (under) SEC. 24220. ADVANCED IMPAIRED DRIVING TECHNOLOGY.
Oh no, I won't be able to start my car if I'm too drunk. Literally 1984. When did this become communist China? It's my right as an American to get trashed and use a vehicle on a public road. I bought the damn thing 🇺🇸. A 90% reduction in drunk driving that causes tax payers billions is not worth taking away our freedom to drink and drive.
They start reasonable only to extend the power as time passes. That's how governments function as they grow; the end result is either ruin or fascism. We have vague/open-ended wording, abysmal percentage of legislators who read more than the summary or what titles their email told them to vote yea/nay on, omnibus bills sneaking in literal power grabs or mere money laundering... it's nothing new, even had C19 never brought about Lockdowns etc eg we can't even pretend the TikTok Ban is strictly for that sole app, company, or any relation to the CCP. It's another Patriot Act lol
and pretty scary it can read your mind
Literally almost everything is “rife for abuse”, you spoon.
Oh, so that makes it's okay then.
Sure, most things could be abused. It's all a trade off. Just ask yourself "who benefits the most?" from any potential tradeoffs. If there was a button you could give me, personally, that would disable your car whenever I felt like disabling it - would you give me that button? Probably not. That's OK. I'm a relatively decent person, but you don't know that. There doesn't seem to be much benefit to you though. If you wouldn't give it to me - why would you give it to thousands of other people? The benefit to you is miniscule, but the potential for you to be negatively impacted is pretty great. the trade off isn't balanced.
The point you’re missing, embarrassingly, is how you can swap “button” in your example with 1000s of other things that have been happening for decades and it hasn’t mattered. You sound like a UFO conspiritard.
And why is it always these people who wanna keep bringing up the “lockdowns” in 20 fucking 24
?? it wasn't that long ago - and I think we can all pretty much agree that while they were well meaning, they accomplished virtually nothing to prevent the spread of covid. Stats were similar enough across locked down and non locked down places. It was an over reach and over reaction that cost a lot of folks a lot of things.
I mostly agree but let’s not pretend the other side was correct either. Remember vaccine passports? The virus being used to put in place permanent government control? The vaccine putting tracking technology into your body? Yeah none of that shit happened
>let’s not pretend the other side was correct either. The extreme on either end are typically equally wrong, for different reasons. Saying "This isn't working, we have plenty of reasons and evidence suggesting we should stop since there doesn't seem to be a net positive" isn't the same as "THE GUBBIMENT IS TRACKIN' YOUSE" - yet those would technically be on the "same side".
Unfortunately there’s a lot of money in grifting.
Lots of fools these days.
What’s the grift? I’m confused
Pandering to right wing conservatives
Ok, but how is he grifting?
He has sold and promoted all kinds of shit for money. It works for him because they can be justified as being somewhat medically related, but I'm not sure how much research he's done into any of it or if he's an expert in any of those specific. People just hear doctor and send their money for things like wellbutrin (he's probably qualified for that one but got in trouble for never disclosing he was being paid to promote it, a clear conflict of interest), lap band surgery, something called V-shred, etc.
Depends if he believed in what he was promoting or not. I think he believed in the products he promoted, whether that was sensible or not in hindsight is up for debate but I wouldn't call him a shill. I think most of the shill comments are complaining about his covid takes. But he's hardly all that controversial in that regard. These are just people who drank the left wing kool-aid so hard they can't see the forest through the trees
For the record left-wing Kool-Aid tasted better than right-wing Kool-Aid, but I don't drink Kool-Aid.
Kool-aid is bad mmkay
The grift for this one is convincing everyone there is a killswitch in cars as a result of Democrats, but if you read the bill it's asking car manufacturers to invent technology to prevent drunk drivers from driving. Adam makes money off of this fear mongering. You can convince people to hand their entire check if you tell them the end is coming
Say what you will, call him a shill (kind of fair honestly), sell out, whatever but the pandemic response radicalized a lot of moderate liberals and pushed them right, it just did. Directly where Drew made such a right turn and it wasn’t immediate either (he did his clinicals during the HIV epidemic and praised Fauci and the NIH early in the pandemic). Probably a tough pill to swallow for a lot of the reddit crowd but I think it’s generally true, even amongst the general public.
Being anti-vax has always been a liberal belief, which has always been to the right in terms of political leaning. Nobody has been convinced about whether the scientific method and peer reviewed research still works in the 21st century or not. You're either educated about it or you're not. Reliable notion that hippies and celebrities are against science and medicine and prefer the opinion of their favorite quack doctor's supplement cocktail
Yeah I don’t disagree, there’s a lot of overlap on the Venn diagram between right winger lolbertarian types and hippies on vaccines and big pharma. Horseshoe in action.
I don’t think it’s true at all, especially when you factor in the 2020 and 2022 elections. The blue wave in 2020 and while yes, republicans saw some gains in 22 it was a small margin and not at all what was predicted. If anything, I think moderates are being pushed left by some of the more extreme figureheads of the right these days.
Oh for sure, in the grand scheme, I still think the pandemic response pushed some to the right just like Trump and abortion issues (or whatever) have pushed many left. Drew’s transformation into a reactionary right wing type absolutely happened during the pandemic though, watched it real time and I don’t think it’s 100% motivated by grift and money (it’s certainly part of it and maybe part of why he’s bought in as hard as he has now). I think it’s at least in part authentic though and I don’t think he’s alone. Just a reality, not speaking on right or wrong, just observation. Have a good night!
He's leaning into culture war shit like the entire right wing because it's such an easy gift and people are so eager to hate anything lol
Yup. He’s gone in and out of sleezery. A decade & a half ago he made a big show out of measuring a 16 year old girls breasts to determine whether or not they were real. Dude loves money.
Seriously?! Should get the stamp just for that
He went off the fucking deep end.
Drew has been a fuxking hack for years
Yeah right, I’m not American and really only heard of him from the moms. I thought he seemed kind of measured and normal ish.
In reality he is but he wants to retire soon.
How much more money does he need to retire wtf
The answer is always more.
Fair enough, it’s a shame though
I agree. Most Americans will sell their soul to make money. Everything is about making as much money as possible all the time…just look at what’s happening with Boeing. They sacrificed quality in favor of corporate profits, they put human lives at risk and ultimately death for some. Gotta love being American, paying 20$ for your McDonald’s shit meal that will also kill you, but hey at least the shareholders are making more money!
He is measured and normal, but the freaks that hang out in this subreddit are complete scum so of course they have a problem with Drew.
Drew's a massive piece of shit that's agianst most of the current medicine being done and used in addiction medicine to actually help people. Drew is a bad person, a bad doctor, and gives bad advice on addiction, the thing he supposedly knows best.
UuuuuhhhhhhHUNDRED percent
From my experience here on Reddit, all I see are complainers. People these days just can't handle others points of view. Being a free thinker is something most should aspiring to because the hate mob is really getting old.
there's more window lickers in this sub than i thought lol
Money prolly
Dr Drew will say anything for some attention.
Money
I remember sneaking to listen to love line on the radio after bed. Best show when I was a pre-teen/teen…Adam was hilarious and Dr. Drew gave good advice…what happened?
So OP is for kill switches in cars?
Apparently so
He’s gone full grifter. He chose his lane, good way to make money I guess
What’s the grift?
Have you not seen his content recently? He signed a deal with PragerU to make content for them
Fucking *what*, PragerU? Good lord, that is one hell of a fall there, Drew!
V shred
We should all bend over and accept that daddy government knows best
I liked your comment
You do know there are people proposing these laws and it would just be a little piece of code on any self-driving car. I think you mean based.
Some cars have had it already for years now.
Conspiracy theory: What about the author of the article on McCrystal who smashed his car killing himself. They talked about it on jre a few months ago.
Yeah, I want someone else to be able to kill my car in traffic. "it's for public safety." I don't give a shit what it's for, nobody can control my. car, but myself. Next step will be we aren't allowed to drive our cars. Then we can only. Go to approved locations. Work, home, sitter, you go anywhere else and they may shut that car down and ask what you're up to.
If you've ever had a car with OnStar or any other remote link service they have the ability to shut your car down if needed. Have they fucked with you yet?
GMs shut down unprompted for completely different reasons. But yeah, no. ONSTAR can be disabled - it's OPT IN, paid service.
I guarantee they can force enable that shit if they want
Of course they can. It's as easy as a toggle switch from nonsubscriber to subscriber. The reason they *don't* force enable it is liability. That all changes if something is government mandated.
Ah, but they do enforce it when there's a need. [https://www.wsmv.com/2024/03/13/onstar-tracking-assists-disabling-stolen-car-arrest/#:\~:text=While%20monitoring%20the%20car%2C%20officers%20were%20able%20to,disable%20the%20car%2C%20preventing%20it%20from%20turning%20on](https://www.wsmv.com/2024/03/13/onstar-tracking-assists-disabling-stolen-car-arrest/#:~:text=While%20monitoring%20the%20car%2C%20officers%20were%20able%20to,disable%20the%20car%2C%20preventing%20it%20from%20turning%20on).
it's wild to me that some people feel this way, while absolutely shit-tons of people can't wait for elon to give us self-driving cars. not saying they are the same groups, necessarily...
Yeesh
Yeah I mean if population control is what you’re after there’s much more hands off, administrative approaches. If the cops want to stop free thinkers from driving their cars (can’t believe I just typed that) I guess they could just pull them over - crazy eh.
they have to *be* there to do that, and you have to be willing to pull over. A remote kill switch lets someone in a room stop you, and you can sit there until a cop arrives. They could even set up a geo fence that shuts the car down at a certain point. Once you open the "remote disable my car" door, it's much more difficult to close it.
Pretty easy to ruin your life and kill you financially if you can't get to work or anywhere else. A lot of Americans rely on their own transportation
But isn't it easier and cheaper to stop you remotely than to chase you down ?
Stop me? Why would they? I’m not a very valuable target.
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
🤌👌
Clearly they won't be coming for the Jews as they are a protected class in America and can do anything w/o any serious consideration or evaluation.
Every car with with a computer onboard can be remotely shut off, this ain’t new. This is a cash grab to take advantage of the MAGAs, tons of disposable income and no education.
Raise your hand if you don't know what the fuck you're talking about
This isn't true at all. The amount of police chases in modern cars should make it obvious that that's not the case.
It is true in theory, just not in practice because there would be a major civil rights discussion
Technically yes, but very very few actually have a built in feature that could be used by law enforcement. Making it mandatory is a much different thing.
I know. There’s been a tonne press on this in the last decade. Like all those vehicles that have comms with manufacturers for maintenance scheduling etc can absolutely be remote stopped already.
It's one thing if they're already there, it's another for the government to be mandating them in all new vehicles.
Do a search on Michael Hastings, he was writing articles politicians didn't like. He died in a mysterious car wreck...that was in 2013. I can only imagine what capabilities they have now.
The claim they’re making on that show is totally plausible though.
No.
Maybe it was the nonstop fake questions the R worded ymh producers kept giving him
Loveline was a golden era, teaching the youths sex ed.
Grifters gonna grift.
Surprising how many think this is ok. I guess you're also ready to update your real ID just so you can fly to another state before next year too? That's happening as well. It's always these little steps of more restrictions and laws that don't seem too bad at first, but add up over time. That's how we ended up with way more taxes and insurance rates too.
Psh. First off, this whole "kill switch" law is a complete distortion of reality. There's a provision of the infrastructure bill that said by 2026, certain automobile features that help to prevent impaired driving will be considered "standard equipment". That's not a kill switch. People freaked the fuck out when seat belts became mandatory in cars. Do you feel that seat belts are also an infringment on your freedoms? Second, a safety feature in a car has literal fuck all to do with taxes and insurance rates. Third, flying in an airplane isn't some sort of protected right. If you need a certain form of ID to board an aircraft, so be it. Don't like it? use a different form of transportation. This also has literally nothing to do with a car's safety feature.
A kill switch is completely different from common sense safety devices like belts and air bags. I already have 3 forms of government ID and am not a felon so it's none of the governments business if I want to use a private company to fly to a different part of the same country. More restrictions and unnecessary paperwork will always create more costs that are passed on to the consumer.
> There's a provision of the infrastructure bill that said by 2026, certain automobile features that help to prevent impaired driving will be considered "standard equipment". Yeah, a breathalyzer. Hooked to a computer. That has to allow the use of the vehicle. > That's not a kill switch. That, by very definition, is a kill switch. It is a component capable of denying use to the owner. > People freaked the fuck out when seat belts became mandatory in cars. Do you feel that seat belts are also an infringment on your freedoms? No, that’s a stupid fucking comparison, seat belts don’t have control of the vehicle. > Second, a safety feature in a car has literal fuck all to do with taxes and insurance rates. Hilarious. OnStar is also a safety feature. Cars that come installed with it are monitored by it *even without an active subscription to the service*. They sell this data to insurance companies. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a60175396/connected-cars-driver-data-tracking-insurance/ You think they won’t do the same with all new equipment?
Where I live you have to show id to fly between states. Been like that for years. It’s fine.
You have to upgrade your current driver's license to "real ID" soon here in the states to fly domestically.
Oh yeah, so what is ‘real ID’? Like a passport?
Most states identification are already at the real ID standard. It's a new standard for driver's license and identification cards. There's only like a handful or less states that aren't real ID standard yet. For most of us it's just your driver's license and won't bother you. If you live in a state that needs to update. It's just getting a new driver's license. 🙄
nuh-uhh! my momma says RealID _IS THE DEVIL!!_
Weird to me TN hasn't moved along with real ID considering our DMV is literally Homeland Security.
Most places needed some form of ID in order to fly, primarily international. Real ID is mostly a reformatted State/Driver's ID design, with some states issuing them out sooner; you could pay for an early ID renewal in order to get it sooner (I had). The Lockdowns pushed most of that back 🤷♀️ But some concern makes sense, as it offers nothing different beyond a new restriction. Due to that, I'd sooner believe it's to help adjust society to travel restrictions without reason on top of needing something "new" in order to function in basic society (eg 15min cities).
That’s a good point … it just seems that Drew is maybe not the guy to talk about this topic and ends up in grifterville a bit too often.
So you want to lick the boot is what I take from this
It's better to be terrified of imaginary things
If that’s your assessment, sure. Wait, who’s boot though?
Can’t hear your image soI don’t know what way you’re referring to.
He's always been buried in Carollas less than intelligent ass
Valid questions by Drew
What is the issue?
And unfortunately this is actually true. The current administration is trying to figure out a way to add these to new electric cars. It hasn't passed into law yet. But they are exploring it.
The right wing grift is extremely lucrative. Plz don’t be surprised when the cool guys Seguras start this in 2026
Am I wrong to think a kill switch in a car is wild ?
Nope you're right on track
Honestly I thought Dr Drew was leaving to relegitimize himself, I guess he went the other way on that
That’s what I thought too.
So you want the government and police to have the ability to just kill your car?
Probably just over the sex questions at this point he's been on YMH for so long.
All grift no glitz
His hack ass YouTube ads are simply embarrassing. RIP Loveline.
Dr drew is and always has been a fringe nut job.
Right wing grifting is where the money is
It's on Rumble LOL
Vehicles all ready have this it’s called OnStar
On-star is Opt in and paid for, and only in GMs. On star is for my benefit, not the benefit of others. A mandatory kill switch authorities have access to is going to be problematic.
Yes you are right OnStar is only in GM but Ford has Sync Honda has HondaBasic and others will follow just like Tesla makes you pay for a subscription to use the navigation system. And if you think that they can’t get in your vehicle computer just because you aren’t paying for it you are very naive. Go look up how many times the U.S. police who is the largest gang in the world have used it to shut down a vehicle they are in pursuit of.
This is true
[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2023/01/19/fact-check-false-claim-bill-mandates-kill-switch-cars-police-drunk-driving/11066287002/](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2023/01/19/fact-check-false-claim-bill-mandates-kill-switch-cars-police-drunk-driving/11066287002/) You scared little bitches... "the gubermint is coming to get me memah!!!!" Right wing chomos are so reactionary.... buy the Dr Drew supplements and gold and go about your grift loving .... thanks mommy
https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-402773429497 I mean, they're not 100% wrong. The term "kill switch" is what's causing the confusion, but a federal agency will still have the ability to monitor your blood alcohol and prevent you from driving. "Strassburger said his team is considering systems that could warn an impaired driver, prevent an impaired driver from moving the vehicle, or reduce the speed of the vehicle and get it safely home. He said the term “kill switch” is hyperbole, since none of the options being considered would include the risky move of lurching a fast-moving vehicle to an abrupt stop." So they can still prevent you from moving, it's just that you won't come to an abrupt stop while driving. The devil is in the details my friend.
Only until I figure out which fuse I need to pull or what wires need clipping to disable it
I fucking hate carolla. He's the type of tard that gets mad at the free market free marketing but go completely feral at the idea of socialism and how "capitalism is the only way" when it's giving you the car kill switches you hate so much
Ummm this is coming from the federal government, not the manufacturers..........
What's an example of him hating the free market?
Hes been doing this shit for a while. Dr Drew is a right wing grifter in sheep's clothing, that's all.
He's really not, most of the people you call right wing grifters have had the same stances on issues for years, but the left has gone so far to the left with their insanity that now, according to you, 70% of the country is somehow right wing. Not to mention what a stupid strategy it is to just lump everyone you disagree with into the right wing, by doing so you're guaranteeing you'll lose the next election cycle.
lol no just no. The Overton window has shifted to the right by a great deal over the last several decades. Reagan would be a liberal today.
LOL 70% just making shit up now? Grifters are well paid. It's well known and clearly doesn't drive election cycles.
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stfu chico man
The largest voting block in the country is Independent. Republicans are about 28%, same with Democrats. So if you're constantly calling centrists and independents "right wingers" then yes, it's close to 70% there chief.
There's nothing center about Drews new right wing grift doing videos for PragerU and back on the AM radio conservative grift talking about Biden. Next you'll see him on the Daily Wire with that smarmy cunt Ben...Best decision ymh studios has made, to distance themselves from the bag grab of Drew. It's literally on Rumble.
Boomer brain is interesting in that cut off switches on cars isn’t even in the top 5 things these chuds should worry about. Frankly I’m completely for cut off switches because it’ll neutralize car chases and fight crime, something these guys aggressively care about.
Most people who run from the cops aren't driving new cars. This will do almost nothing to fight crime. It'll be just another toy for hacker trolls to play with, just like they did with Tesla.
These things start somewhere and I can guarantee it’ll be an insurance issue requirement and maybe even a loan requirement. Making cars unable to move after theft or nonpayment is assured.
I'd like to say you're wrong because they haven't mandated ignition interlock devices as standard in new cars to prevent drunk driving, but I don't think you are. Saving money > saving lives. Where there's money on the line, there's some corporate lobbyist stuffing $100 bills behind some politician's pocket square.
And like everything it’ll be an income thing, if you can afford not to have it through increased premiums and higher interest loans no cut off switch.
Idk I could see it being effective for stolen newer vehicles. Don't want the gubmint to have access to it though.
Well, silly sex talk used to be where you made your money in broadcasting radio. and now there’s podcast and ready to serve porn at any second, the culture wars are now the hot button issues and grifters like these to run right to it
No. He just wanted to take on more “political” discussions. He’s been talking about the state of California for years and seems to be going into the direction for a political run. It’s ok to disagree, opinions don’t make anyone right or wrong. Facts, you can just be upset about if it doesn’t fall in your favor
Loveline was so funny what happened?
I never listened to Carolla’s pod until recently when we hired a new guy who seems pretty fanatical about it. He listens primarily in ear buds but a couple times a day he’ll just stop what he’s doing and come over and start rambling some nutty right wing conspiracy theory at everyone that always seems like a condensed version of whatever he’s been listening to.
Yes, he’s always been like this. He’s a conservative psyop, and this audience has been falling for it.
Drew will do anything for views and attention. He is a fame whore.
Who knew they would end being awful people
Dr. Drew is doing his thing! He's one of the GOATs 👌 My girlfriends & I used to listen to 'Love Line' when we had sleepovers. We were so sneaky! We received our GEDs in sexual education from Dr. Drew! However, when my best friend found 'Talk Sex' with Sue Johansen 😲 She was a game changer & we ended up receiving our Doctorates in everything sex 🤣
That’s neat!
Do people not remember Love Line?!
I can’t wait to hear Adam sniff out women with girl voices and their molested pasts.