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Stand Up! with Pete Dominick

1504 Dr. Zeke Emanuel + The Shitshow news recap

Stand Up! with Pete Dominick

Pete Dominick

Racialjustice, Comedian, Democracy, Comedy, Environmentaljustice, Politics, News, Organizedlabor, Standupcomic, Covid, Petedominick, Trump

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

My conversation with Dr Emanuel begins at about 34 minutes

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In Eat Your Ice Cream, renowned health expert Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel argues that life is not a competition to live the longest, and that "wellness" shouldn't be difficult; it should be an invisible part of one's lifestyle that yields maximum health benefits with the least work

Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD, is the Vice Provost for Global Initiatives, the Co-Director of the Healthcare Transformation Institute, and the Diane v.S. Levy and Robert M. Levy University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.

Emanuel is an oncologist and world leader in health policy and bioethics. He is a Special Advisor to the Director General of the World Health Organization, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, and member of the Council on Foreign Relations.  He was the founding chair of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health and held that position until August of 2011. From 2009 to 2011, he served as a Special Advisor on Health Policy to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and National Economic Council. In this role, he was instrumental in drafting the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Emanuel also served on the Biden-Harris Transition Covid Advisory Board.

Dr. Emanuel is the most widely cited bioethicist in history.  He has over 350 publications and has authored or edited 15 books. His recent publications include the books Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care (2020), Prescription for the Future (2017), Reinventing American Health Care: How the Affordable Care Act Will Improve our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System (2014) and Brothers Emanuel: A Memoir of an American Family (2013). In 2008, he published Healthcare, Guaranteed: A Simple, Secure Solution for America, which included his own recommendations for health care reform.

Dr. Emanuel regularly contributes to the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and often appears on BBC, NPR, CNN, MSNBC and other media outlets.

He has received numerous awards including election to the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Association of American Physicians, and the Royal College of Medicine (UK). He has been named a Dan David Prize Laureate in Bioethics, and is a recipient of the AMA-Burroughs Wellcome Leadership Award, the Public Service Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology, Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation David E. Rogers Award, President's Medal for Social Justice Roosevelt University, and the John Mendelsohn Award from the MD Anderson Cancer Center. Dr. Emanuel has received honorary degrees from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Union Graduate College, the Medical College of Wisconsin, and Macalester College. In 2023, he became a Guggenheim Fellow.

Dr. Emanuel is a graduate of Amherst College. He holds a M.Sc. from Oxford University in Biochemistry, and received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and his Ph.D. in political philosophy from Harvard University.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Stand up.

0:02.2

Hi there.

0:02.7

Welcome to the Thursday episode of Stand Up.

0:05.4

I've got a big first-time guest joining me today.

0:07.8

It's Dr. Zeke Emmanuel, who has written a new book, Eat Your Ice Cream, Six Simple Rules for a long and healthy life.

0:16.5

It's a great conversation in the vein of our friend, Dr. Aaron Carroll, in his book, The Bad Food Bible.

0:23.8

I think you're going to love my first-time conversation with Ezekiel.

0:28.3

Dr. Zeke Emanuel, of course, is the brother of the former mayor, Chicago, and chief of staff of Barack Obama, Ram Emanuel.

0:36.2

And his other brother, Ari Emanuel, basically

0:39.5

runs Hollywood in the entire entertainment industry. So it's a very interesting family. He wrote a book

0:45.1

about his brothers in him. I think it's called Brothers Emmanuel. Anyway, my conversation with

0:50.3

Dr. Emanuel about his new book is coming up at 34 minutes. So if you want to skip the

0:56.7

shit show, which is what I call my daily news recap headlines and clips, then I understand.

1:04.0

But I hope that you'll stay because I've got some great clips and news headlines to share

1:09.6

with you. Also, I want to make sure you know that you are invited to tonight's stand-up

1:14.9

Happy Hour Hangout, which we've been doing since March 2020.

1:18.6

It'll be six years in March.

1:20.2

I've been hosting these hangouts almost every Thursday, sometimes more, and I'm very excited

1:25.7

to see you.

1:26.3

We had a great time last week. We'll have a great time

1:28.5

this week. And so be there tonight at 8 East. Sign up now to be a paid subscriber and you'll get

1:34.1

the email with the link and you can hang out with us. We always have a great time. Patreon.com

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