The Drew Mariani Show

Hour 3 for 8/13/26

Drew and Jordan Davidson from Smart Approaches to Marijuana discuss daily marijuana use (1:00). Topics/calls: Marijuana use helped MS symptoms (8:07), second-hand smoke (13:18), anxiety (16:56), and smoking marijuana for over 30 years (20:58). Then, Fr. Tad Pacholczyk covers the morality of marijuana (31:28). Topics: setting a good example (34:36), common good (42:59), serial murderers (45:45), brain size (48:19), and psychosis (49:25). 

Links:

• https://learnaboutsam.org/ 
• https://www.ncbcenter.org/meet-the-ethicists/fathertad
• FatherTad.com

Hour 1 for 8/12/26

Drew and Dr. Kenneth Craycraft discuss the true meaning of the common good in light of Catholic teaching (1:00) and the former NBC players declaring for the WNBA draft (16:56). Then, Ed Morrissey covers the recent primary election results -- including in Wisconsin and Minnesota (29:24) and if we've reached peak socialism (42:22).

Links:

• • https://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.php?ID=203080
  • The WNBA is the Reductio ad Absurdum of Trans Ideology
  • https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/08/12/hasan-piker-takes-wi-results-as-well-as-youd-expect-n3817909
  • https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/08/12/wsj-dont-look-now-but-the-dsas-not-too-popular-in-the-red-apple-either-n3817911
  • https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/08/12/wisconsin-progressive-cry-fraud-n3817912

Hour 2 for 8/12/26

Drew and Brooke pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy (1:00). Then, Daniel Kowalski the Director of the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget at The Heritage Foundation joins Drew to discuss young people and debt (32:51), credit card payments (36:38), teaching children spending habits (44:45), and teaching budgeting (47:33). 

Link:

https://www.heritage.org/staff/daniel-kowalski

https://betterqualified.com/

Hour 3 for 8/12/26

Drew and Matt Buonocore, Chief Financial Officer at Relevant Radio cover personal finance 101 (3:55). Topics: making a plan and a budget (6:28), farming (11:25), our cashless society (17:31), teaching about credit in high school (19:36), and debt (23:23). Then, Charles Gardner Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center covers housing affordability (28:33). Topics: growing up in smaller houses (33:21), start homes (42:39), high rises (44:03), and flood insurance (49:59). 

Link:

https://www.mercatus.org/scholars/charles-gardner

Hour 1 for 8/11/26

Drew and Dr. Aaron Kheriaty cover the recent questions about what Dr. Anthony Fauci knew about how the COVID vaccine impacted pregnant women (12:57). Topics: public health (18:56), hospital funding (21:48), stillborn children (27:49), and COVID scare (33:47). Then, Dr. Bill Thierfelder covers the former NBA players who are declaring for the NBA draft (40:14) and how we got to this moment (45:24).

Links:

• Making the Cut: How to Heal Modern Medicine

Hour 2 for 8/11/26

Drew and Brooke pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy (1:00). Then, Dr. Fernanda Psihas covers the recent stories of AI deceptions and breaking out of sandboxes (27:30). Topics: jobs in the era of AI (35:38), new viruses (42:20), healthcare (44:18). 

Link:

https://snas.franciscan.edu/faculty/psihas-fernanda/

Hour 3 for 8/11/26

Drew and Dr. Susan Hanssen discuss the Cold War and the horrors of the Soviet Union (1:00), the generational divine in memory of communism (13:52), the appeal of socialism (16:42), and resentment (23:57). Then, Dr. Deborah Savage covers the partisan divine between the sexes (29:55), feminism (41:24), and how women are characterized (46:23). 

Link:

Relevantradio.com/UDallas

Hour 1 for 8/10/26

Drew and Dr. David Wurmser cover the latest with the war in Iran (1:00). Then, Professor Rick Garnett from Notre Dame covers the religious liberty issues associated with the Florida AG requiring Catholic schools to have vaccine exemptions (15:26). Then, Fr. Kevin Fitzgerald, SJ covers the morality of using vaccines associated with aborted tissue (27:28). Topics: ethical vaccines (41:41), stem cells (43:43), using stem cell lines from many years ago (46:48), and vaccine injury (48:41). 

Links:

• x.com/@rickgarnett
• https://centerforsecuritypolicy.org/
• https://www.creighton.edu/medicine/departments/medical-humanities/department-chair

Hour 2 for 8/10/26

Drew and Brooke pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy (1:00). Then Rev. Tad Pacholczyk joins Drew to discuss a recent organ procurement organization that was recently de-certified (28:09). Topics: what brain death is (38:11), organ donation seems shady to me (42:29), daughter's brain hemorrhage (45:07), and son saved by liver transplant (47:24). 

Links:

• ncbc.org
• https://www.fathertad.com/

Hour 3 for 8/10/26

Drew and Dr. Paul Kengor cover the rise of socialism in the US, and Kengor's new article Meet America’s New Un-Americans… the DSA (1:10). Topics: school brainwashing (16:09), revolutionary spirit (19:10), union paychecks (27:56), I'm worried about the right, too (30:45), Constitutional questions (34:42), Catholic Church (36:31), voting age (44:02), and buying stock (46:33). 

Link:

https://spectator.org/paul-kengor-meet-americas-new-un-americans-the-dsa/