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Anthropic’s Trillion-Dollar IPO & the “Effective Altruism” Cult Fighting To Control AI – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 685
11/11/2026 | 1h 9 mins.Anthropic’s IPO, announced today, values the AI company at over $1 trillion, even as its own founders warn of impending doom and an AI apocalypse.
But investigative journalist Jordan Schachtel calls Effective Altruism, the movement tied to Anthropic’s founders, a “secular cult,” and says AI “doomers” don’t actually want to stop AI – they simply want to control it. The IPO will make Anthropic’s founders worth hundreds of billions and hand enormous control over the future of AI to a small ideological movement led by billionaires and elites.
Schachtel explains what Effective Altruism is, how its money is influencing DC, and why he says the fight over AI “safety” is really a fight over who holds the keys.
Behavioral scientist Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, author of “The Psychology of AI Adoption at Work,” says AI adoption is primarily a human challenge. He explains when AI anxiety is rational, what actually resolves it, and why so many employees secretly use “shadow AI” – the practice of using AI tools for their jobs while hiding it from their bosses.
Psychotherapist Dr. Joseph Sansone, author of “Psychopathic Authoritarianism: A Disease of the Soul,” speaks on the psychology of people who seek control over others and his fight to remove mRNA injections from Florida.
Dr. Joseph Sansone, PhD, is a psychotherapist and author of “Psychopathic Authoritarianism: A Disease of the Soul.” He holds a PhD in psychology with a transpersonal concentration. Follow at https://josephsansone.com
Jordan Schachtel is an independent investigative journalist and foreign policy analyst who covers AI and superintelligence policy. He is the publisher of The Dossier on Substack. Follow at https://x.com/jordanschachtel and https://dossier.substack.com
Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, PhD, is CEO of Disaster Avoidance Experts and author of “The Psychology of AI Adoption at Work: From Resistance to Results.” Named the “Office Whisperer” by The New York Times, he has published over 650 articles and given over 550 interviews. He earned his PhD in the History of Behavioral Science at UNC Chapel Hill. Follow at https://x.com/Gleb_Tsipursky
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11/10/2026 | 1h 9 mins.Bobby Lee was using meth by age 12 and heroin by 15. After multiple trips to rehab, the MADtv veteran and Bad Friends co-host got sober at 17, then relapsed years later on Vicodin, and again after his father died of Parkinson’s disease in 2019.
Ahead of his first hour-long stand-up special premiering on Hulu (Bobby Lee: Finally), he joins Dr. Drew to discuss sobriety, behavioral compulsions, and putting recovery ahead of his career.
Also on the show:
Vanderbilt senior Lauren Friedman says an antidepressant left her with Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD), a condition UK regulators now warn about while the FDA does not.
Americans for Ibogaine CEO Bryan Hubbard speaks on Texas’s $50 million ibogaine trials, and what Stanford’s research on veterans with traumatic brain injuries shows about the psychedelic.
Bobby Lee is a comedian, actor, and a former cast member on MADtv. He hosts the podcasts Bad Friends and TigerBelly, two of the top comedy podcasts in the world. His first hour-long stand-up special, Bobby Lee: Finally, premieres November 27 on Hulu. His film credits include Happy Gilmore 2, The Wrong Missy, The Dictator, Pineapple Express, and Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle. Find more at https://bobbylee.live/tour
Lauren Friedman is a senior at Vanderbilt University and a patient advocate for Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD), a neurological condition characterized by persistent loss of sexual and emotional function following antidepressant use. After developing PSSD herself, she became an outspoken advocate for public awareness, scientific research, and regulatory recognition. Follow at https://pssdnetwork.org/
Bryan Hubbard is the inaugural CEO of Americans for Ibogaine. A former Kentucky attorney, he chaired and led the Kentucky Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission and served as Commissioner of the Kentucky Department for Income Support. The grandson of two Appalachian coal miners, he has spent years with families after MAT, SSRIs, and talk therapy have failed. Follow at https://x.com/w_bryan_hubbard
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11/06/2026 | 1h 17 mins.In a major study released this week in Global Epidemiology, MIT Professor Retsef Levi and Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo say a massive cohort of nearly 2 million vaccinated adults revealed an alarming 40% higher all-cause mortality rate among Pfizer recipients compared to Moderna.
Epidemiologist Nicolas Hulscher says the data shows “a hypothetical extrapolation of 522,000 excess deaths from Pfizer alone” representing a “catastrophic loss of life rivaling major wars.”
“For those who had to take one, Florida’s public health data strongly implies that thousands of Floridians died as a result of receiving Pfizer instead of Moderna,” writes Dr. Ladapo.
Nic Hulscher joins Dr. Drew to review the new study and connect the dots to the recent stroke suffered by 53-year-old Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT). Murphy is the fourth sitting Democratic senator under 65 to suffer a cerebrovascular event since 2022, joining Senators John Fetterman, Ben Ray Luján, and Chris Van Hollen – and Hulscher believes the spike protein and mRNA are directly connected.
Neuroscientist and author Dr. Debra Soh breaks down findings from her book “Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy” and why hyper-sexualized modern culture has triggered a historic collapse in real-world dating and pair-bonding.
Pastoral counselor and SheRecovery founder Crystal Day shares insights from her global study of 1,321 women across 58 countries for her book, “What Drives Women to Porn?” Day details how early childhood trauma establishes a persistent neurological template linking arousal with emotional relief, and explains why lasting freedom requires addressing root relational wounds rather than religious shame.
Dr. Debra Soh is a neuroscientist and author who specializes in human sexuality. Her new book, “Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy,” investigates the global dating recession. Her writing has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and The Globe and Mail. Follow at https://x.com/DrDebraSoh
Crystal Day is a speaker and pastoral counselor and the founder of SheRecovery. She is the author of “What Drives Women to Porn?: Why Women Struggle Sexually and How to Heal” and host of the She-Recovery Podcast. Follow at https://x.com/crystalrenaud
Nicolas Hulscher, MPH, is an epidemiologist and administrator at the McCullough Foundation. He earned a Master of Public Health with a specialization in epidemiology from the University of Michigan School of Public Health, and has contributed to the publication of 16 scientific manuscripts on COVID-19 vaccine injury syndromes, their potential treatments, and the origin of H5N1 Bird Flu. Follow at https://x.com/NicHulscher
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11/04/2026 | 1h 19 mins.They’re pulling dirty tricks for Midterms 2026. In the final days of the election, Michigan Democrat Rep. Haley Stevens endorsed her Republican opponent and Alaska Democrats were accused of a “decoy Dan” plot against Sen. Dan Sullivan.
In Michigan, Rep. Haley Stevens appeared alongside Trump-endorsed Republican Mike Rogers, reversing her support for Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed. Her own allies on the Left have spiraled into sexist attacks, claiming that a sitting female Congresswoman is now somehow being controlled by her fiancé.
In Alaska, a New York Times report detailed an alleged scheme in which Democrats recruited a man named Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. to run against incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan – intentionally confusing voters at the ballot box.
Larry Elder joins Dr. Drew to break down what’s at stake today. Steve Cortes, former Fox News, CNN, and CNBC broadcaster, previews his new documentary “Palisades Fire: Newsom’s Nightmare.” And former Acting White House Drug Czar Richard Baum, author of “Inside America’s Opioid Crisis,” speaks about addiction and fentanyl coming into the USA from the cartels and China.
Steve Cortes is a Georgetown graduate and former Wall Street bond trader who led the Trump campaign’s Hispanic outreach. He is the author of “Against the Herd.” His new documentary is “Palisades Fire: Newsom’s Nightmare.” Follow at https://x.com/stevecortes
Larry Elder is a talk radio host, ex attorney, and former presidential candidate. He hosts The Larry Elder Show, now on YouTube and the Salem Podcast Network. He is the author of “As Goes California: My Mission to Rescue the Golden State and Save the Nation.” Follow at https://x.com/larryelder
Richard Baum served 28 years at the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy across six presidential administrations, including as Acting Director, often called the “Drug Czar,” from 2017 to 2018, overseeing a $40-plus-billion federal drug control budget. He is an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown’s McCourt School of Public Policy and the author of “Inside America’s Opioid Crisis: 12 Hard Lessons for Today’s Drug War.” Follow at https://x.com/RichardJBaum
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10/28/2026 | 1h 21 mins.America faces a historic crisis as the midterm elections force voters to choose between free-market capitalism and state-subsidized socialism, warns legendary historian Victor Davis Hanson.
“Rarely in American history have the two parties been so far apart or the choice between them so stark,” he writes. Hanson says decades of trust in universities, media newsrooms, and federal bureaucracies have already evaporated, sparking a grassroots backlash ahead of the election – but it’s still unclear which side will be victorious.
Evan Barker is all too familiar with the crumbling Leftist establishment amidst its Socialist infiltration. After raising tens of millions of dollars for Democrats – so deeply inside their machine that she was present when Bernie Sanders and AOC first met – Barker says her breaking point happened on the floor of the 2024 Democratic National Convention. She joins Dr. Drew to tell why she left the Left, how the progressive movement has been hijacked by the very billionaires it claims to oppose, and the behind-the-scenes look into the DNC in her new book “Nothing Left: Confessions of a Democratic Operative.”
Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is an American military historian, columnist, former classics professor, and scholar of ancient warfare. He has written or edited 26 books, including “The Counterrevolution: The Fall and Rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA Movement” and “The Dying Citizen.” Follow at https://x.com/VDHanson
Evan Barker is a former Democratic campaign operative and political strategist. A first-generation college graduate, Barker earned her Bachelor’s degree from the University of Kansas in 2015. A columnist, Substack writer, and podcast host, Evan lives in Northern California. She is the author of “Nothing Left: Confessions of a Democratic Operative.” Follow at https://x.com/evanwch
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