2:35:01 I have a couple clips left here. Oh yes, being a vaper myself I track the vapage, what's going on. You know Dexter of course in Gitmo Nation East has his e-liquid company. The kid's gone from delivering weed in Domino's pizza boxes to he has like 15 employees. Very proud of Dexter. So I've you know, I'm giving you a piece of the action. You're always promoting him No, I get no piece of the action. I should give you a TV couple points One points from Dexter. I think Christina and her girlfriend have chosen him as the father for their child or something So I got to be nice to him. I know don't need don't get me started on these kids. Yeah I'm okay with it though. Smart kid. It's good. It's pretty cute cute boy. I
2:35:49 So what is happening now is the FDA and, I've been following this on CNBC, they seem to be all over it, are making noise about the liquids, the e-liquids. And of course it's horrible because we're, you know, it's a gateway to cigarettes. And notice how they never call it vaping. You ask any kid, what are you smoking? Will they say an e-cigarette? No! Let's say a vape or Juul, which is kind of the USB chargeable thing the kids are using these days. I no longer smoke tobacco products. Not combustible, because I've learned that term. I vape and it actually helped me get off of cigarettes.
2:36:37 And you can get these e-liquids in a variety of tastes and aromas and with or without nicotine. Now nicotine itself is not a foreboding substance. It's not highly regulated, is it, John? I'm not aware of this. You can go buy some nicotine pills at Walgreens. Yeah, over the counter. Yeah. So nicotine is and... You go buy a patch. Or you go buy five patches and put them all on at once. And lick one at the same time. Press it against the roof of your mouth with your tongue. Exactly, but they're making it this out to be like these e-liquid guys and really it's kind of a bathtub cottage industry people who are doing this and there's no real major brands and What you're about to hear is right what you're about to hear is It's the FDA commissioner, what's his name Scott Godley and
2:37:36 He is pretty much shilling for the big tobacco because the big tobacco companies see this coming down Broadway They want to be the sole guys in this business, and I think it was two years ago I said you watch they're gonna come in and you have to file the some kind of you know medical just some kind of food report or whatever for every single flavor you create everything you do everything you change and I'm not quite sure if they have the authority to do this at all and But here's the report on CNBC. Well we have access to early data right now that we're going to make public very soon that shows us that the proportion of high school teenagers using e-cigarettes has reached nothing short of an epidemic level in my view and it requires us to step in and take dramatic action to try to curtail. Yeah we have data coming very soon. Where's the data coming? Yeah FDA is real real big on data that's all fair and
2:38:29 and make sense. Presumably don't have all the risks. That's got a lot of weasel words. Guy is a weasel. He's a total douche and he's all this is for big tobacco And it's really disturbing how CNBC laps it up who haven't and this woman is it was about to speak She's not a smoker She has no crap about the question But it cannot come at the expense of hooking whole generation of kids onto nicotine and hooking a whole generation of kids onto nicotine
2:39:07 Really now? And eventually onto tobacco products. Oh, and straight, it's a gateway drug! So unfortunately in order to close the on-ramp to kids we're gonna have to narrow that off-ramp for adults and the thing we're looking at right now... On-ramp, off-ramp... is removing the flavors, the characterizing flavors from the e-cigarette products. Removing the flavors and she chimes in, that makes sense. I mean it never made sense to me the idea the argument that adults who are trying to quit smoking would suddenly turn to vaping for flavors like mango or donut or pineapple. Yes, yes, yes, yes. That is exactly what's happening and if the kids love these. No, she said it's not happening. She's full of baloney.
2:39:50 The kids love these flavors and they're not necessarily getting them with nicotine. You can get all these flavors without nicotine. A lot of kids don't want the nicotine. They just, it's a, it's an oral fixation, whatever it is. It's an on-ramp to smoking. And of course they'd love to then switch out a cartridge and put a little weed in there, also all for it. But no, no, this is a throwback to the candy cigarettes. That's what this is. Remember that, John? Oh, I remember. You used to buy a pack of candy cigarettes. And they became socially unacceptable. Yeah, I remember in the fourth grade, fifth grade, the candy cigarettes were very popular and they had labels that looked like real tobacco cigarettes. And people would have this, you know... Yeah, and it was chewing gum or chocolate. It was different kinds. And they were tasty. And of course, it familiarized kids with tobacco products. Of course. I never smoked, ever. That we know of.
2:40:47 No, I never smoked. I never smoked cigarettes and I've never and I remember candy cigarettes and I like them. They're very tasty. So anyway, so notice what they're doing. They're not and the clip has a little more to it. Then what they are, they're going after people who make flavors. Now the flavors is really what all this cottage industry has, is known for. There's fantastic brands and very interesting tastes and it's food. I mean, it's a food industry if you look at it. There are definitely the propofol, not propofol,
2:41:23 Whatever propylene whatever it's called the stuff that that you need as a base to create the vape the vapor Yeah, it can affect you because I think it can give you To make you poop a lot maybe But, you know, it's not... They have a brand called Poop-a-lot. This is the kind, this is what's so great about this industry. You could have a Poop-a-lot brand and people be like, oh, this is cool, I want that. And they've, you know, the labels are great. And this is what Dexter has become very successful with. But they're not going after the devices. They're not going after the nicotine providers. No, let's go after the kids who are making up all these cool little flavors. That seems like it's entirely designed to lure in non-smokers and new customers.
2:42:05 Well, look, it may be the case that the flavors do help some adults transition off of combustible tobacco, that they have appealed to adults as well. But what we're going to say to the companies, those flavors are on the market but for an act of enforcement discretion by the FDA. We're allowing them to stay on the market without filing applications, seeking approval to have those flavored products on the market. What we're contemplating doing, and we're giving the manufacturers some time to come back to us, But what we're working on right now is a plan where we would require these companies to have to file applications with the FDA demonstrating that the flavored products have a net public health benefit, that they're going to entice more adult smokers to quit combustible tobacco and move on to e-cigarettes or off-tobacco altogether, versus enticing more young kids onto these nicotine products. No, it's closer to a million. It's closer to a million per flavor.
2:42:58 This whole thing is an example of the problem with government, today's government, over-regulation. This is over-regulation that the republic is always bitching about. But meanwhile this goes through with Trump as president. And this is the kind of thing that this is extra-legal enforcement of laws that are only done by bureaucracies. I had worked for one of these operations. And they, which is the way the government works nowadays, they give the authority to the FDA to make their own rules, make their own laws when laws are only supposed to be made by Congress or the states. But no, no, they're made by these agencies and they're usually made on behalf of some organization like big
2:43:38 tobacco. Yeah, exactly. And the whole thing, the whole system's corrupt and this guy should be run out of town. He should be roundly criticized by the reporter instead of her agreeing with everything he says. Oh, yes. Exactly. And notice he says, you know, we're giving the manufacturers, yeah, the manufacturers are all going to come back and they're in this question and answer period and it'll be, yes, we agree, we think we should have this very strict policy to push all the other kids out who have made this industry. Yeah, well, at least we show that no agenda shows sticks, stays behind the people that have something to do with we knowing them.
2:44:16 Yeah, that's what we stand for Dexter Dexter It's all about Dexter. I got some points on the back end John sounds like hey John I got some points on the back end of the vape liquid. It's our exit finally. It's here get some points man I have one, I have a couple of last clips, but I have one that I think is probably worth playing. And this is the one where Trump says, you're not thinking, you're an idiot. Calls on some woman to report it. This is the whole clip and you can tell he's just being Trump. He calls on some woman from CNN, I think, and he lets her ask a question at a press briefing about