#2105 - Dr. Phil

Joe Rogan (0:12)

I like how you did the cliff notes, that's a slick move.

Phil McGraw (0:14)

Yeah, how about that?

Joe Rogan (0:15)

Yeah, that's very smart, because big print too for dummies like me. This is nice.

Phil McGraw (0:22)

Yeah, how about that?

Joe Rogan (0:23)

Yeah.

I'm excited to read this, man. You are a great giver of advice, sir. What is it like to carry that burden in a wild world?

Phil McGraw (0:32)

Well, I'll tell you what, I ain't looking for something to do. I don't have to look very far.

Joe Rogan (0:40)

Yeah, it's a wild time of mass confusion and people losing their fucking minds. Very strange.

Phil McGraw (0:49)

Yeah, it really is. And I keep thinking, this is about as crazy as it can get, and then I go, I get up and...

Joe Rogan (0:57)

And you see the NYPD dance team.

Phil McGraw (1:00)

I haven't seen that.

Joe Rogan (1:01)

Okay, here we go.

Phil McGraw (1:01)

All right, you gotta show me.

Joe Rogan (1:05)

The NYPD in the middle of the craziest migrant crisis that anybody's ever experienced, in the middle of places where you attack police officers, violently attack police officers, and you release no bail, like that, right back out on the street. This is the NYPD dance team. So they developed a dance team.

You remember when you were a kid and you thought about the fall of the Roman Empire? You were like, did they see it coming?

Phil McGraw (1:40)

You think this is a clue?

Joe Rogan (1:42)

Is that what you're taking? A bigger clue would be an alien landing on the White House lawn. That's the only thing bigger.

This is insanity, the fact that they would A, put this on television, first of all, is this the news? What is this that they put this on, Jamie?

Jamie (1:58)

I think it's the New York News, yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:00)

Okay, isn't there a lot of other shit that's the news? That's like really important for people to know about right now?

Phil McGraw (2:06)

You know what, I'll tell you, anything that lifts morale with law enforcement right now.

Joe Rogan (2:12)

That's true.

Phil McGraw (2:13)

You gotta give them that. Anything that lifts the morale and bonds them, because they got the lowest morale ever and I don't blame them.

Joe Rogan (2:21)

I don't blame them either. This is not the solution, but they should be massively funded, not defunded. You should train them better.

If you've got all these situations with people, you've got people that, I mean, how much training is involved today in this time of such a demand for police officers, right? Like they're trying really hard to get police officers. They should train them like they train Navy SEALs.

It should be like a very difficult process to get through. And we should be very thankful that people are doing the job and they should be rewarded and treated well.

Phil McGraw (2:54)

You know what really drives me crazy about this defunding that went on? And of course, I think everybody's decided that was like a either really bad idea or really poorly worded idea either way. But listen, the last thing you wanna do is try to get police officers to wear three or four different hats. You don't want them showing up saying, okay, I wanna try to be a social worker and a psychologist and defuse all of this and all.

A police officer should show up and enforce the law.

If not, people are gonna get shot and killed. Police officers should show up and suppress illegal activity, disarm people that are a threat, and after all that's done, then fine. Bring in somebody that is a social worker or whatever, but you don't want a police officer doing all of that stuff. They're there to do one job, and that is suppress illegal behavior, disarm dangerous people, and they need to do it as quickly and efficiently as they can. They don't want to do all of this, one job. And they need to do that one job and do it very well. And they don't need people in there saying, well, you need to kind of talk to them, and you need to this, you need to that. I'm not saying be heavy handed or badge heavy, but they need to do what they're there to do, and then let other people come in behind them and try to do all the rest of the stuff. You don't want a cop doing three different jobs. You want them doing one job, and that's suppress illegal behavior, get it under control, and then let somebody else do everything else.