Dr. Peter McCullough

**Theo Von** (0:00)
Just a reminder that tickets for Bus Boys, the movie, with myself and David Spade, are on sale right now. Pre-sale tickets, you can get them. It's in theaters April 17th, but if you get tickets now, it'll show the movie theaters that we're gonna sell them, or that they are selling, and then we can expand to more theaters. So, if you know when you're gonna go, and you can support, that would be great. And no pressure if you can't. Again, the pre-sale tickets are available, busboysmovie.com. I'm excited, thank you. Today's guest is a physician. He's a cardiologist. He's an author. He's a professor. He was the vice chief of internal medicine at Baylor University Medical Center. He later became known for his investigations into the COVID-19 response here in America. We're looking forward to spending time with today's guest, Dr. Peter McCullough.
And you can move this any way you want. If you decide you're moving over here, you can just move the mic over there.

**Dr. Peter McCullough** (1:20)
Well, I don't have the type of voice you have. Get that D voice.

**Theo Von** (1:24)
We'll make sure, we'll let you know if it's off.

**Dr. Peter McCullough** (1:26)
Okay.

**Theo Von** (1:27)
Yeah, you kind of that whisperer, huh?

**Dr. Peter McCullough** (1:29)
Man, well.

**Theo Von** (1:30)
You like to whisper?

**Dr. Peter McCullough** (1:31)
I was recently in the UK, and this woman who's an actress got up, and everyone was shouting at the microphone, making their things, myself included. She got up, and she started whispering, and everyone paid attention.

**Theo Von** (1:46)
Yeah, that's a whisper, and that's why it's a lost art.

**Dr. Peter McCullough** (1:48)
Yeah.

**Theo Von** (1:49)
But really the value, when everything is so high, you have to think that if you come in at another intonation, if you come in at another level, you have to find an alternate route into people's brains and hearts and stuff. And yeah, whispering, gosh. If we had just like Whisper Tuesdays where everybody just whispered.

**Dr. Peter McCullough** (2:06)
There was a doctor at Stanford back when I was, you know, accepted in academia, his name is Glenn Schurtau. And when he spoke, it was so careful. And he talked like this. And I remember the sponsors of a big meeting. I was at the National Institutes of Health. I said, what is it about Glenn Schurtau? He seems to be getting all the attention. They said, he appears wise. He has the appearance of wisdom, the way he speaks. He may not be wise, but he appears wise. The other thing that helps you that you and I don't have. Oh, he brought him up. There's Glenn right there.

**Theo Von** (2:46)
There he is.

**Dr. Peter McCullough** (2:46)
Beautiful guy. Good. Are we going to bring people up on the screen?

**Theo Von** (2:50)
We can.

**Dr. Peter McCullough** (2:50)
Oh, this is going to be so much fun. But anyhow, the one thing that my uncle Ivan taught me is that you can double your perceived intelligence with a British accent.

**Theo Von** (3:04)
Really?

**Dr. Peter McCullough** (3:05)
Oh, yeah. You get a British accent, they think you're twice as smart as you used to be.
Twice as smart.

**Theo Von** (3:11)
I feel like, oh, if I meet a British girl, I'm like, oh, tell me everything. I feel like they just know everything. Read me a book, mom.

**Dr. Peter McCullough** (3:18)
Have you ever read that book, Culture Code?

**Theo Von** (3:21)
Culture Code, no.

**Dr. Peter McCullough** (3:22)
It's about what's your first impression. He did focus groups. It's very scientifically very solid. He said when you meet a British person, what's the first word that comes into your mind?

**Theo Von** (3:33)
G'day. Oh, wait, that's Australian.

**Dr. Peter McCullough** (3:37)
You almost got it with that girl. Classy. So if you're going to advertise something to the British, you have to show somebody playing polo and it has to be classy.

**Theo Von** (3:49)
Just finishing a biscuit, you know?

**Dr. Peter McCullough** (3:51)
So how about Italian? What's the first thing you think about when you see it?

**Theo Von** (3:56)
You know?

**Dr. Peter McCullough** (3:56)
The Italian first thing? The Culture Code says artiste. So you have to, Michelangelo, you have to portray things artistic, what have you. How about American? Now, if you just do this globally, when you...

**Theo Von** (4:10)
Like a belch kind of?

**Dr. Peter McCullough** (4:12)
Well, close. America, the conclusion is out of this world. So you want to advertise an American, like, you know, landing on the moon or just doing something completely, you know, Elon Musk, you know, just jetting somewhere.