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Dr. Kaveh Hoda is joined by comedian Butch Escobar and Dr. Jason Rosenbaum for the latest entry in their ongoing series on films that broke men's brains. The trio digs into Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) — a movie that proposes to be a cautionary tale about Jordan Belfort's reign of fraud, drugs, and excess, but may have accidentally created a hero for every hustle-bro in a boiler room.

They debate whether the film works as satire or celebration, why Belfort's victims are almost entirely absent from the story, and how the movie compares to better-constructed cautionary tales like Goodfellas and The Big Short. Butch draws on his own experience working in a boiler room and his past struggles with substance use, offering a raw and personal lens on the drug culture the film glamorizes. Jason breaks down why the movie's structure undercuts its stated intentions, and Kaveh — a physician who admits he reluctantly enjoyed the film — walks through the real history of Quaaludes, the neuroscience of addiction, and why doing cocaine to counteract a sedative overdose is a terrible idea.
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Dr. Chad Smith was the only emergency room doctor living in Weaverville, California — the guy you wanted in the room when it mattered most. Then one night, troubled by what he saw on the news and read online, he posted his thoughts on his private Facebook page. The next morning, his hospital fired him.

This week on The House of Pod, Dr. Kaveh Hoda sits down with Dr. Chad Smith and his civil rights attorney Matthew Kumin to unpack what happened in a small mountain town with a big story about free speech, worker's rights, and who gets to decide what a doctor can and can't say online. We dig into the First Amendment, California labor law, the difference between private and government employers, and why this case might matter more than you think. Plus: Chad's decision to run for the hospital board, what he's hearing from nurses and clinicians who've been afraid to speak up, and what every healthcare worker should know about their rights.

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Before Europe built its universities, before the Renaissance "rediscovered" science, and before the West even had the vocabulary to describe diseases, there was a young man from the Persian heartlands who was diagnosing rulers, running clinical trials, and building a system of knowledge that would dominate European medical schools for over 600 years. His name was Ibn Sina — you might know him as Avicenna. This week on Persian of Interest, Kaveh takes Shauhin on a wild ride through the life of a 10th-century Persian polymath who was too smart for his own good: a child genius who became a physician at 17, a vizier he never wanted to be, a fugitive who wrote his masterpiece by candlelight on the run, and a man whose ideas about medicine, philosophy, and the universe were centuries ahead of anyone else on Earth. Also: how much of his work was lost to book burnings, why he's the only non-Greek in The School of Athens, and whether Doogie Howser was secretly Persian.

It's part history lesson, part cultural reclamation, and part excuse for two middle-aged friends to hang out. They welcome corrections and look forward to hearing from you!

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Dr. Kaveh Hoda is joined by OB/GYN and bestselling author Dr. Jen Gunter and esthetician Naomi Laguana to learn about perimenopause — what it actually is, why it's so misunderstood, and who's profiting from the confusion. They break down the chaos of hormone fluctuations, the Women's Health Initiative and what it really showed, why hormone testing is mostly useless for diagnosis, the dangers of pellet therapy, and how the wellness industry exploits women's legitimate grievances with the medical system. Plus: brain fog, the "grievance economy," and why menopause care might be simpler than the internet wants you to believe. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Part 2 of the Raw Milk Saga: The Reckoning. Dr. Kaveh Hoda and Dr. Rakesh Jatwani take on raw milk's health claims one by one — lactose intolerance, nutrition, gut health, and asthma — and the evidence doesn't hold up. Then: the legal loophole that lets producers sell raw milk as "pet food," why aged cheese isn't as safe as you'd think, RFK Jr.'s role in gutting enforcement, and a recent outbreak across nine states. Plus a devastating story of a toddler poisoned by raw goat milk bought through a chiropractor's Facebook group — and how public health officials can find common ground with the MAHA movement without sacrificing kids' safety. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.