1:16:45 One of our producers went through the trouble of collecting a number of great news stories regarding heroin in Gitmo Nation. It's just amazing if you read, let's see, heroin use rising in Oak Park and River Forest, and those are, where is River Forest? Where is that, John? River Forest is near Chicago, isn't it? Yeah, that's right, it was Chicago, right. This in fact Chicago is really rampant the kids just puking on the streets because they're ODing right there right in front of your nose Let's see Middlesbrough dealer sold cocoa that they the boys the Obama administration that we do these people a favor again some good clean stuff and look what happened Yeah, it's too clean
1:17:36 A con man, a drug dealer who sold cocoa powder claiming it was heroin looked stunned as he was jailed for three years. There's a great picture on this on this news article of him looking actually stunned. Why? What did he do wrong? Well you can't just say you're selling the H if you're not really selling it. You're blowing the whole system. You really have to be selling it then, huh? Interesting. Yeah, you're blowing the whole system man. That's not good. But the uh here heroin dealt from senior homes this is apparently happening quite a lot that senior citizens are being forced into dealing heroin because of course they're afraid to uh to call the sheriff and say hey I'm being forced and selling this shit but we have uh we have uh something from a PBS NewsHour a little clip here from Wisconsin
1:18:23 Where I mean this when they when it's what has happened in Wisconsin man, you know, it's like, you know, it's gotten pretty bad So let's have a quick little listen for those stations not taking a pledge break the news hour continues now That's funny. Well, most of the country is hearing telephones ringing Here's some actual news with a story from our project we call news hour connect That's where we showcase the best of public broadcasting from around the country by the way. This is one of these government sponsored bit isn't it? News Hour Connect, isn't that what the government had made funds available to uh... I have no idea but I think it is. Yeah, I remember the story we talked about it, PBS News Hour Connect, this was going to be the short little bites that the government uh... Oh right, they wanted, yeah, in fact they've been doing way too many bites on the News Hour.
1:19:11 this is the ministry of truth now. Now the government is actually paying for it. So let's listen to what they have to say about their own business because let me remind you we are guarding the poppies in Afghanistan so the heroin that comes in is cheap, pure and awesome. Tonight, how one state is dealing with a surge in heroin-related crimes. Frederica Freiberg of Wisconsin Public Television reports. Come on, Frederica. Come on in, baby. If it can save one person's life, I guess that's my goal. Heroin is overlooked. People say it can't happen to them. And I believe I'm a person who always thought that.
1:19:47 This Janesville mother does not want to be seen on camera. She does not want her son's name used. He was 18 when he fatally overdosed on heroin two years ago. Now what's funny is they show a needle, you know the typical needle with a spoon over a lighter, but this is not what's happening. This stuff is showing up cut in with coke, it's being cut in with all kinds of other stuff. Kids are snorting it, it's called China White in street jargon. And I get a lot of information from my daughter about this stuff. And you know, people are just chopping it up in the coke. And kids are snorting it. And then before you know it, they want the good stuff. And it's not needles anymore. That's like really, really advanced. After you're hooked, then maybe you go on to the needle. So this is a very tainted story at best. He had been college-bound. How did you find out that's what he was doing? The day he died. I didn't know he was using heroin. I had no clue. I knew he had smoked pot.
1:20:50 I had no clue. There it is. There it is. Yep. I think I saw that one. Yeah. There's been like two or three of these reports. And they always drop the pot thing in there, the pot bomb to make sure that you know, your, your, the public is, is, is thinking negatively about pot. So they, so California doesn't, uh, California, the obvious state to pass the marijuana initiative referendum. It's going to get defeated with this subtle propaganda. Very good. Good job. Good job. So, you know, I used to have, when I had a place down in Bora Bora, down lower off the hill in Albany and next door for about, oh,
1:21:38 For about six months, a heroin dealer moved in. Next door, he was your neighbor? Yeah, next door neighbor. And he was, but he was high-end. And one day, the one that really got me was that one day, people would come in really late at night in these expensive cars. And one day, somebody mistook my house for his house and these two, I swear to God, it was about two, about 1.30 in the morning, these two ridiculously beautiful models knocked on the door and they were they just came in on some big some brand new SUV and they came to get their their heroin from this guy. They knocked on your door? They knocked on my door and I'm looking at him going what what what is going on with this? You thought yes my prayers have been answered thank you Lord.
1:22:33 and whatever his name was. I don't remember. What did they say? We're here for... I can't remember. Is Dave here? I think they realized that they'd gone to the wrong house and they said, oh I'm sorry we knocked on the wrong door and then they went over to the other guy's house. We're here to blow the heroin dealer and you sent them away didn't ya? I think they scurried away once they saw me. But that was the type of customers that this guy was dealing with. And I found it like a, you know, and then some, he wasn't there very long or died. And I think he died actually. So let me play the story for you. So these two really hot models come up and they come up to John's door and they're like,
1:23:19 Uh, yeah, we're uh, we're here to, for the, for the heroin. And John's like, hmm, I don't have any heroin, but uh, Hot Pocket! Can I interest you in a Hot Pocket? Would you like a Hot Pocket? So, uh... Say that again! So, uh... Say it again! That's funny! Would you like a Hot Pocket? Hot Pockets! Anyway, the guy, yeah I think he died. He just dropped dead from using his own product. I don't know what happened. But whatever the case was, that was the end of that short thing. But it was amazing to me the people that would go in and out of that place because you could see them coming and going constantly. Yeah, Porsches, Bentleys, high-end cars. Sure, sure, sure, sure. It's always your doctor or your dentist. It's not the guy who you see on the street with the shopping cart.
1:24:11 Yeah, no, I was astonishing. Yeah, you know calling it calling it a John texture disturbed by this I'm John would you just tell Eric to stop uploading porn and call me again? Okay, you're amming It's like complete a.m. Radio now. It's like horrible. It's like crazy Eric stop uploading porn Yeah, this is better. Yeah, like a million times better. Okay. Well here I am. Yeah, I So, yeah, well that's a nice little anecdote there.
1:24:47 Yeah, I thought it was disturbing. Yeah, do you think? And then when I guess you started gossiping with somebody that knew about the whole story about this character and then he told me all the different kinds of customers he had which were businessmen in Berkeley and restaurant owners and I was just like aghast at how many people were strung out on heroin and this was a while back. And this was a very 70s type of drug but it's of course we had a different war in the 70s when we had good heroin coming in because we were shipping it in then. One day people will figure this out. It may actually be in a history book one day. They'll go, oh wow, that's what we were doing in Afghanistan. Because we're losing the war. We know that. We're losing the war. I'm wondering what that meme is all about. You know, somebody sent us a clip. I do have it.