Dr. Phil was a frequent subject of ridicule in my Ethics in Psychology course in college. You can use him as an example of almost every single ethics violation.

Maybe you have already (I'm new to the 'cast), but if not, do a series on Oprah. She has empowered so many charlatans and promoted so many terrible ideas in her time on television, it's truly astounding.

Oprah has unleashed so much horror into the world, I'm surprised she hasn't gotten her own episode yet.

Look Robert - I fully support your right to not like my home state, but don't blame Kansas for what Dr. Phil was doing in Wichita FALLS, TEXAS

It really sounds like Werner Herzog wanted to jump into a field of cacti and worked backwards from there.

No, it is not time to have a "Philgasm" because it is never time to have a Philgasm.

Dr. Phil looks like that one Muppet on “Sesame Street” where Grover was a waiter who would always screw up his order.

"Dr. Phil Is Even Worse Than You Think And You Probably Think He Suck " great headline

I knew a doctor Phil. He sucked. Edit: I think we can all agree that setting aside the assumption that Dr Phil would absolutely have been your stereotypical NFL player that keeps getting arrested for spousal abuse, I think the world would be a lot better with Phil, the linebacker vs Doctor Phil, the rube whisperer.

PLAYED COLLEGE BALL Y'KNOW, COULDA GONE PRO IF HE HADN'T GONE INTO BUSINESS.

Fun fact: Narlythotep and adolf H. Both appear in persona 2. This makes persona 2 one of roberts top 3 games of all time

The grifter that got me was Elmo Musky. But then he kept saying things that showed me he didn't know what he was talking about. The first one was, in reference to long distance space travel, that "radiation isn't that big of a deal". It's a very big deal. We essentially need to cure cancer.

"It's not self-destructive to jump into a cactus." -Werner Herzog

19:20 This man... with the exception that I don't think he was in the Navy, he's basically the person Senator Armstrong is caricature-ing. "PLAYED COLLEGE BALL, YA KNOW."

Slayer we’re guests on Loveline once, & they actually gave relationship advice.

I don't want to spoil the party, but I think armchair diagnosing him as "a narcissist " contributes to the pat, moralistic pop pseudopsychology for which Dr. Phil's career has been gasoline to a fire. The only diagnosis lay people can make about a public figure is "bastard," & what's more, 'bastard' is sufficient!

I will always remember the video of the BumFights guy dressing as Dr Phil, which showed full frontal how much of a hypocrite this so called doctor really is.

My favorite confusing "whoa, X used to be hot!?" moment was looking up old hussar uniforms and stumbling across a picture of Young Winston Churchill.

Once again, thanks Oprah. Dr Phil, Dr Oz, & John of God.

Dr. Phil's eyes look like two Ban Roll-On applicators

I would love to hear an episode about Dr. Drew, honestly. I used to watch and listen to Loveline back in the 90s and early 2000s and he always seemed like he gave reasonable medical advice. But then I was pretty young then.

My mom actually drove at age 11. She lived on a dairy farm and drove tractors on the property well before that

People too poor to pay attention, even if they lost they oil service airplane money, would not have enough money to become a psychologist while supporting even one child. Come on, we know what was going on. We know he was livably poor and only because he chose to become a psychologist rather than managing a Woolworths or something. Profoundly self centered.

Del Bigtree, one of the leaders of the vaccine denial movement, got his start helping not-a-doctor Phil make his shows.

5:34 "you wind up an alcoholic working on an oil derreck or you do everything possible to escape the desolate south" sometimes both! a little healthy alcoholism is a rule of thumb to southern survival

I know he's a little outside of the scope of this show, but I'd love for you to do an episode about Werner Herzog. Maybe just about his relationship with Klaus Kinski, a man so unhinged that Werner Fucking Herzog described him as "a monster and a great pestilence".

2:51 okay so Dr. Drew started out on a radio show in the late 90s early 2000s called Loveline, my brother and I were SO INTO IT that we'd record it off the radio onto cassette tapes Loveline was a late night talk show where folks would call in with relationship and sex questions, from What Is My Body Doing to Why Does My Boyfriend Keep Doing This Thing I Asked Him Not To Do? Dr. Drew's co host for the beginning and most of the run of the show was Adam Carolla. The idea is Adam brought the jokes and Drew gave the advice, and the two would bounce off of each other between calls. Dr. Drew's advice was generally pretty solid; if your partner ignores basic consent, dump they ass ASAP. If it hurts, don't do it. Consider lube. Consider condoms. Talk to your partner about intimacy outside intimate moments. Other times... well, it was a talk show, and Adam wasn't really a moderating force. Around the time Drew wrote his book, Cracked, the show started to feel different. Less general advice and more 'wacky' calls, where it sounded much more likely the caller was making shit up but instead of screening it out it was allowed to air. That's when I stopped listening to the show.

I used to watch Dr. Drew on Tom Segura's podcast and he seemed like a really nice guy that actually does care about the homeless people in Skid Row. But being friends with Adam fuckin' Carolla really puts a big Ole question mark on him.

There is Wichita falls TX and Wichita KS and there's a couple times this wasn't too clear in this podcast

5000 open heart surgeries?? Wow! That's one open heart surgery every day for 13 years! That's truly impressive! I didn't realise there were that many people in America requiring open heart surgery. Imagine the toll that would take on your mental state to exist under that level of stress for 13 years! 5000 people requiring open heart surgery? Yeesh...

Honestly, I think the association is an insult to Frasier. Dude may be doing pop-psych radiotherapy instead of practice, but he's not untalented at what he does. Not as good as Niles, of course, but not bad. To quote his greatest moment: Frasier: For God's sake... I don't care anymore. You know, I can't help you, nobody can. You want to ruin it for both of us? Here, go ahead, knock yourself out. I only wish I could be there when it happens. Bebe: When what happens? Frasier: When you see that newspaper headline: "Big Willy Boone, Millionaire, Dead." [Bebe's face lights up in a grin] Oh, how I wish I could be there when you watch the funeral on the news. [Bebe's grin slips in confusion] Watch the casket being slipped into the ground. Only, you won't be watching that. No, no, you'll be watching... the widow Boone. Tiffany, perhaps. Oh no, better yet, "Kelli" - with an "I"! Bebe: [no longer grinning] Stop it! Frasier: You'll picture her wearing YOUR jewels, sailing in YOUR yachts, sleeping with YOUR gigolos - but, oh, you won't be sad, no, no, no! [chuckles] Because you'll have your cigarette. [Bebe looks horrified at her cigarette] Frasier: Yeah! Clutched in your nicotine-stained teeth, smoke whirling about your once-pretty, now creased, leathery, smoke-ravaged... Bebe: Enough! [gives the cigarettes to Frasier] You are one hell of a therapist.

"Now Homer, don't sell me an outhouse and tell me it's the Taj Mahal. . ."

Joke's on you, Robert. I don't even have to search for podcasts, Spotify just throws them at me when I open the app. :P

I'm upset that you've informed me that Dr. Phil and I are from the same small town in OK. That is information I never needed to have.

I sense your anger. Release and embrace the dark side.

Well, count me in as one of the folks who got got by the fake ad break, and also I now have a wonderful image of Robert sitting on a (small) pile of money like a (temporarily embarrassed) dragon.

Can you do an episode about Marianne Williamson next? Too many people are ignoring her decades of shilling for A Course In Miracles and being Oprah's spiritual advisor.

As someone else that had a beat to shit ford tarsus at a school with plenty of children from families of means, this episode resonated with me

Heh, my first car was a beat up Taurus. Granted, i was 27 at the time, not a high school student.

You’re right, i do think he suck

Dr. Phil the southern Jordan Peterson

Sounds like that motivational conference craze was a sort of secular version of Revival tents.

We really all just ignored that fantastic "alright"..."alright"...."alright"?!? It was fucking perfect and y'all didn't even notice.😂😂😂

Phil claiming to have been in that football game is like George Santos claiming to be a producer of that Spiderman musical. Also, yes, contact football for high school and college should be banned…

On Dr. Drew: from 1984 until 2016, across from one of a half-dozen "comic foil" type hosts over the years, Drew Pinsky was the "straight man," medically informative half of the Drewless but still-airing _Loveline,_ a nationally syndicated, late (~10PM to midnight) weeknightly call-in FM radio show. During the (arguably) best years, 1995-2005, before it was so apparent how much they both kind of suck as people, Dr. Drew teamed with Adam Carolla. Their on-air rapport and comedic chemistry, with the frequent addition of celebrity guests from music and film (legendary repeat guests include the _hilarious_ David Allen Grier, Andy Dick, and Fletcher of the band Pennywise - seriously, look them up!), they were a very entertaining, mostly helpful resource for young people across America.* Whether one were calling to ask a question or just listening in, they applied a combination of levity and knowledge to supply blunt, sincere, matter-of-fact answers to questions that're often too scandalous to ask in a religious social circle, or things kids want to understand but which any adults they ask refuse to answer "until you're older" (as if such things have ever led anyone down a path they'd have not otherwise walked). As a teenage listener myself, in the late '90s and early '00s, even with a far from repressive family, I enjoy my memories of many nights of listening, and I've always been buoyed by the existence of a live human resource to help offset and shore up the dearth of reliable info available through horrendously inept public-school sex-ed too many children were/are provided with.‡ Before we all had the ability to hop online and find stuff out, they were a (mostly) helpful counter to the enforced ignorance afflicting many knowledge-hungry young people loitering near the line separating "minors" and "adults..." and there were plenty of oddball inquiries from grown-ups with conundrums, too. On "Dr." Phil: if you ask 'em to Super-Size™ it, you can get a 10-pump Grawgasm™ from McGrawnalds! *and the occasional international caller, despite the expense of waiting on hold while racking up 1990s-level international long-distance per-minute charges for your only connection option, aside from using a way expensive military-style satellite phone. ‡or burdened with, if you consider the myriad avoidable harms caused by the religious obsession with continuing to champion ideas long ago proven to increase accidental pregnancies and STD transmission... among countless other physical and interpersonal pain unintentionally inflicted upon one another by ill-equipped, inexperienced young people, expected to just ignore what they crave for _years,_ without knowledge of anything remotely helpul, while regularly being subjected to the influence of inescapably intense hormone-driven tunnel vision, the sort that can lead even experienced, knowledgable _adults_ into making big mistakes. Despite consecutive _generations_ of abysmal results, in spite of countless lives lived engraved with the traumatic memories and physical scars of this godly tack's perpetual failure to ever acheive its stated goals - except by sheer denial of reality when assessing the outcome - we continue bending to the shouted self-righteousness of the obnoxious, dysfunctional adults who exemplify the end result of the miseducation they demand to be allowed to force upon _everyone's_ children. Despite the clearly damaged output of their virginity- and purity-focused syllabus, they continue to obtain leave to perpetuate their dysfunction. Despite clearly correlated explosions in the issues caused by sexually active youth with no clue how to protect themselves or each other, these oblivious adults get access to each crop of kids, to pass on their irrational fears and willful ignorance. By the way, when it comes to adults who insist on playing the role of moral arbiter and purity patrol, too many of them seem to spend their days thinking of little else besides the sexuality of children & how best to shame every expression of it. Likely, this is because of the damage _they_ live with, after similarly abusive childhood experiences; in the teeth of irony, scoping out and judging the appearances of kids all day without any notion of how messed-up it is (thankfully, they usually seem equally empty of any nefarious intent, to find one sole upside); from deciding which 13-year-old girls "look too sexy" and demanding they express more shame of their bodies, often teaching them to forevermore obsess over bodily attributes they were hardly even aware of beforehand, to the noticeably more lenient but still deeply damaging levels of shame forced upon boys, on sight of any behavior interpreted as expression of sexual attraction or even platonic interest in anything remotely sexual or feminine. All from intentionally vacuous, dogmatic, abstinence-obsessed, shame-based, disingenuous abuse intended to leverage the failure to separate church from state into an apparatus to coerce and scare libidinous youth into celibacy via subterfuge, dishonesty, condescension, and enforced ignorance. So, uh, yeah... Loveline was a pretty sweet way to skirt that morass and educate oneself about The Sects!

I do think He suck

I need you to understand that Wichita and Wichita Falls are not the same city and Wichita Falls is in Texas

Dr. Phil is the pope of bored housewifeism

I can attest: My mom was WAY into Dr. Phil when I was a kid. She'd quote that all the time. ... And now I'm studying Psychology to be a counseling therapist and every time I remember this, I die a little inside.

I haven't seen the bobcat shotputting and wow, that was an intense ride. Cool dude and glad he put the poor rabid thing down to save anyone else experiencing such an awful experience.

All roads lead to daddy.

I was going to reply about how Martin Crane lied under oath until Robert brought it up, heh.

TBH theres no evidence of me doing any of the thing i did today

Remember when Sesame Street created a Muppet version called Dr Feel?

I went to UNT. Sometimes... mostly I grew ghani, bought recording equipment, and drank a lot of cheap wine while maintaining that I would do my jazz college tryout...

I listened to that episode of Maintenance Phase about that court case with Oprah. Fucking wild.

Holy shit i had the same experience with fencing. I still have all my equipment, including three swords. I've been thinking about getting into hema fencing recently too

I remember my friends loving dr phil and I just thought there's something wrong here so I asked my dad. My dad worked in a psychiatric hospital after leaving the army he said that dr phil made him sick.

"You gotta stop stinking... and start thinking" 😀

I have heard some Werner Herzog stories, but the one @35:00 is the most Werner Herzog story I have ever heard about the man

Literally my first introduction and it's "fuck yooooooouuuuuuuu people who listen" lmao ❤

The 100-6 loss was to the University of Houston. Tulsa’s biggest rival.

Phil never had the makings of a varsity athlete

I heard him admit that he has"narcissistic tendencies" in a podcast once. I've never been a fan but I looked at that less like honesty and transparency than just arrogance.

Well, your title is accurate. He is worse than I thought! And I haven’t even listened to part two yet.

Philma Boxx is my new drag name

You know, Dr Phil ASMR cannot be weirder than the Mortuary Trochar ASMR I found once. Yanno, the things you use to stab holes in corpses' organs so you can drain their fluids and embalm them.

I'm old enough to remember Loveline lol

As a person from Texas, you really need to look up where Wichita Falls is; Because, it's not Kansas.

Rick and Morty was inspired by Dr. Phil's childhood

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pdybo5ahm6y5doE.html Robert fancam. Not quite as flashy as your typical fan cam but the roots are there.

I feel old, I grew up listening to Loveline on the radio in high school and actually learned a lot about sex from it. Then I found out about the Man Show and I was over it.

Eddie Crane is a good boy and any wrongs he has done is excused on the grounds of Jack Russell Terrier.

Love from a SirSic and Vaush fan!

When they say with this song, I think talking about Wichita Falls Texas because there is no Wichita Falls kansas

35:40 god hes SO me

Support Your Local Suthrn Y'all 💯🌻😎 With your ears 👂🏻🌽

I cannot imagine listening to all of these things about Dr Phil being a masterful manipulator for nearly an hour and immediately saying "don't fuck your doctor" like the gal didn't have a manipulator in a position of power over her. Legitimately, I can't. There is some seriously internalized shit there that should probably be examined lmao

17:30 “he’s like an inch or two taller than me and I think quite a bit broader” bro it’s a podcast, I have no idea how tall or broad you are

CBT is a band-aid at best.

1:04:24 or if he started smoking Limbaugh style

"I've done CBT", she says. She _might_ even be referring to cognitive behavioural therapy.

So uhh the tv show Bull is based on Dr Phil? On one hand that sucks, on the other at least the name is appropriate.

19:34 I see what you did there Sofie.

What’s the deal with your co-host(?) cutting you off when you’re talking about the anti personnel mine discount code. “Fuck everyone in front of you.” That was golden. What’s the deal there? Was it simply to refocus you or did you say something you shouldn’t have said?

Do you think he got in thelma's box?

Sophie is the most successful short person

Dr Phil has definitely gotten worse

think he SUCK

I do think he suck!

I do think he suck

This.

I’m glad you’re calling out Dr. Phil but wow these guests are horrible

Hey, don't shit on SE Oklahoma.

No one should ever listen Oprah! Ugh, all of her suggestions end up being cringe and problematic.

Adam Corolla and Dr. Drew did a show together 20 years ago. While I'm sure they remain on good terms, your female host said they were "close friends", which is certainly an assumption on her part. Be better and think better of your audience than to lay this paper-thin shit bare as if it is evidence.

He do suck.

The great old ones love Dr. Phil.

Actually, I used to enjoy "Dr. Phil" ...but I've found his newest show...on another network to be pretty awful: Some of these episodes are very gossipy and extreme in tone...and kind've reactionary/neo-conservative. The man DOES have some reasonable credentials...and I don't like the VERY snarky criticism I'm seeing here.

Kinda getting on the Diss Dr. Phil bandwagon at the last minute, huh?