Topic: Niaspan

The hosts deconstruct an advertisement for Niaspan, a prescription drug marketed to treat high cholesterol and plaque buildup. They reveal that the drug is essentially a time-release version of Niacin (Vitamin B3), which is available over the counter at stores like Costco. They criticize the pharmaceutical industry for using "big brother" style intervention narratives to sell common vitamins as expensive prescription medications.

The discovery of an 18th-century ship under the World Trade Center site is linked to Hangar 17 at JFK, where 9/11 debris was stored. This is followed by a critique of a commercial for the cholesterol drug Niaspan, which uses a "brotherly intervention" trope to push pharmaceutical use.