America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes - What's Really Behind the Opioid Epidemic | America First Ep. 127

00:00:02.000 Good evening, everybody.

00:00:03.000 We're watching America First.

00:00:05.000 My name is Nicholas J. Fuentes, and we have a great show for you tonight.

00:00:09.000 Lots to talk about, lots to get into, and for the first time ever, starting this week, we are now multi streaming on four different platforms, four different services.

00:00:21.000 We are on YouTube as always.

00:00:23.000 We're on YouTube, and we had a little bit of trouble with YouTube.

00:00:27.000 I know some people are saying they didn't get a notification for the stream starting on YouTube, and we'll get into that in a moment.

00:00:34.000 But we're streaming on YouTube.

00:00:35.000 We're streaming on Facebook Live.

00:00:37.000 Facebook's been having some trouble today.

00:00:39.000 But we're streaming on Facebook Live for all of the over 30s, for all of the over 35s who are not on Twitter, who are not on YouTube.

00:00:47.000 We're on Facebook Live for our boomer friends.

00:00:50.000 We are on Twitch for our Generation Z friends, for our under 20s, under 18s.

00:00:56.000 I don't use Twitch.

00:00:57.000 I'm not a video game guy.

00:00:58.000 But I guess we are out there for all of the youthful people out there, for the gamer type people, for Destiny's crowd.

00:01:05.000 And we are on Periscope as well.

00:01:08.000 And I believe we're also, so that's Twitter as well, because Periscope and Twitter work together.

00:01:12.000 But we're streaming now on the four different services, which is a great thing.

00:01:16.000 Lots of changes have taken place on the show.

00:01:19.000 One of the things we're going to do now, as we are on all the four different services, is now we're transitioning away from the Super Chats and into Streamlabs, which, if you guys don't know what that is, I'm allowed to multicast because of a service called Restream.

00:01:35.000 And given that we get our questions in the last 15 minutes of the show typically with Super Chats on YouTube, In order so that everybody can participate in the show, in order so that everyone can interact with the show and ask their questions, leave their comments for the last 15 minutes, we have transitioned towards Streamlabs.

00:01:54.000 And what this allows us to do is whether you're watching on Facebook or Twitch or Periscope or YouTube, you can donate to the show and leave your super chat.

00:02:04.000 And for people that don't watch on YouTube for the last 15 minutes, we do take your questions if you leave a donation on YouTube.

00:02:11.000 But we are transitioning now to Streamlabs.

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00:02:14.000 If you follow that link down below, or excuse me, over here in the bottom left-hand side of the screen, in the left-hand corner of your screen in the bottom, if you click that link, you can go to that website and you can leave your tip, you can leave your comment, and we'll see how it works.

00:02:29.000 If it's too complicated for you, just do the super chat.

00:02:32.000 I'll be looking at those as well.

00:02:34.000 But we're trying it out this week.

00:02:35.000 We'll see how it goes.

00:02:36.000 We'll see if it works.

00:02:38.000 Should be a fun time.

00:02:40.000 But we are doing that.

00:02:41.000 So it's a lot of changes.

00:02:42.000 I've got to say, it's very difficult for me.

00:02:44.000 I was Boomer Tech for the longest time.

00:02:47.000 I still am deep down.

00:02:48.000 I still am boomer tech at heart.

00:02:50.000 And I got to say, it's very challenging.

00:02:52.000 The problem with YouTube, why people are not getting notifications, is I had it set to private.

00:02:57.000 I had it as a private stream for when I was testing it over the weekend.

00:03:01.000 Forgot to change it to public.

00:03:02.000 Now, when I started streaming this evening, it started out on private, and so nobody gets a notification.

00:03:07.000 We changed it to public, people still don't get the notification.

00:03:10.000 So we're having some difficulties.

00:03:12.000 We'll be figuring it out this week, but I think we're off to an okay start.

00:03:15.000 Let me just check on.

00:03:17.000 All my different chats here and make sure that we're all right.

00:03:21.000 The link is wrong, they're saying.

00:03:23.000 The link to the Streamlabs is wrong.

00:03:25.000 So I'm going to have to go in there and change that.

00:03:28.000 We're already off to a great start.

00:03:29.000 If you can't tell, let me pull it up here.

00:03:32.000 Oh, you know what it is?

00:03:34.000 Ah, Goofy Nick.

00:03:35.000 I know exactly what it is.

00:03:36.000 It's not Nick J. Fuentes, it's Nicholas J. Fuentes.

00:03:39.000 So I'll go in there and change that right now.

00:03:41.000 I can change it while I'm streaming at the same time because I am an intelligent person and I can do all.

00:03:48.000 All kinds of things.

00:03:48.000 I can multitask here, streaming the show and also editing.

00:03:52.000 So there you go.

00:03:52.000 Now the link is right.

00:03:54.000 Nicholas J. Fuentes.

00:03:55.000 Now we're all right.

00:03:56.000 So, you go to streamlabs.comslash Nicholas J. Fuentes to leave your tips, leave your donations for the super chat.

00:04:02.000 You should be all right now, fellas.

00:04:04.000 But it looks like we're good on YouTube, Twitch, Periscope.

00:04:07.000 It looks like we're having a little bit of trouble on Facebook.

00:04:09.000 I might have to sort that out.

00:04:10.000 But look, we're going to get to the point.

00:04:12.000 Nobody wants to hear about the tech.

00:04:13.000 We want to hear about the news.

00:04:16.000 And look, I got to tell you, not much going on this weekend, not much going on this week.

00:04:20.000 You know, usually Mondays are a great episode because we have three days of news, or four days if you're lucky.

00:04:25.000 If you have something, In the evening on Friday, you have Saturday, you have Sunday, you have all day Monday.

00:04:31.000 But this weekend, pretty uneventful.

00:04:33.000 We saw the firing of Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe.

00:04:37.000 We saw the election of Vladimir Putin to a fourth term.

00:04:42.000 You saw the election of Xi Jinping to the presidency in China for a second term, and there's no term limits there.

00:04:48.000 So we see some elections.

00:04:49.000 We see some other things going on.

00:04:51.000 But the big thing that I wanted to talk about tonight, if we want to have a laser focus on something right here tonight, what I wanted to talk about is.

00:04:59.000 The opioid epidemic, because we had some really strong comments made by the president this afternoon.

00:05:06.000 He was giving a speech and he reiterated his line about giving drug dealers the death penalty and very controversial.

00:05:13.000 Everybody's talking about this.

00:05:15.000 One of the top stories on Fox, top stories on BBC, is this new Trump position, this new Trump talking point, which is we have to give drug dealers the death penalty.

00:05:26.000 And he introduced this, he rolled this out.

00:05:29.000 I think it was talked about a little bit.

00:05:30.000 You heard some rumors of it a couple of weeks ago.

00:05:33.000 And then he really hit it hard last week at his campaign rally in Pennsylvania, which, if you remember, he was out there, and this is before the humiliating defeat in the special election in the 18th district.

00:05:44.000 He was out there in Pennsylvania campaigning for Republican Rick Sicone.

00:05:49.000 And this is where he introduced it publicly for the first time.

00:05:51.000 This is the first time in a major venue that he started talking about this.

00:05:55.000 He said that we should be giving drug dealers a death penalty.

00:05:58.000 And the reasoning was you look at other countries, whether they be China or India, countries with a larger population.

00:06:06.000 And he says, you know, how do you take care of the drug problem in China, for example, he gave in Pennsylvania.

00:06:12.000 He said to Xi Jinping, how do you solve your drug problem?

00:06:14.000 And they say, well, they solve it with the death penalty.

00:06:17.000 And the rationale that he used in Pennsylvania last week was that he said that if you're a murderer, if you go out and you kill one person, or you're a drunk driver and you kill a person, if you're a murderer and you kill a couple of people, sometimes you get 30 days in jail, or for drug dealing, you'll get 30 days in jail.

00:06:36.000 Life in jail, or you get the death penalty.

00:06:38.000 You kill one person, you kill a few people, you get life in jail, or you get the death penalty.

00:06:42.000 Life in jail with no possibility of parole, or you'll get 30 years in jail or 50 years in jail.

00:06:48.000 But he says if you're a drug dealer and you're responsible for killing thousands of people in the case of these stronger drugs like heroin and the opioids and all the rest, you'll get 30 days and you'll get let out, or you'll get a fine.

00:07:00.000 And in a lot of countries, we're seeing it being decriminalized.

00:07:03.000 We see in Portugal, they've done a decriminalization project.

00:07:07.000 In Uruguay, they've done a decriminalization project.

00:07:10.000 We see all kinds of different efforts around the Western world to rehabilitate drug users, to treat them, to decriminalize, to make it so that young people are guided in a better direction.

00:07:21.000 And we see the converse of this.

00:07:22.000 Maybe that was the liberal approach, which prevailed under Barack Obama, which saw marijuana, for example, being legalized in different states in the United States.

00:07:31.000 And you see in the liberal world, we treat it in that way.

00:07:34.000 But on the converse, you see in places like China, I think the best example is in the Philippines, they treat their drug problem with harsh, Punitive measures.

00:07:44.000 Rodrigo Duterte is probably the best example in the Philippines who goes around, he brags about extrajudicial killings of drug dealers.

00:07:51.000 There's all kinds of human rights concerns, and we're really wild about the human rights people.

00:07:56.000 But Donald Trump really presents a stark contrast to how our policy on drugs has been for the last eight years, or even the last 16 or 25 years.

00:08:05.000 Whereas even under Bush, even under Clinton, even under Bush Sr., we were still fighting the war on drugs.

00:08:10.000 We were fighting it half heartedly.

00:08:12.000 And the pharmaceuticals have always been there.

00:08:14.000 The pharmaceuticals have always been there, overprescribing painkillers and being a big part of the problem.

00:08:20.000 Where you look in West Virginia and Pennsylvania and a lot of these states, they're ordering sometimes.

00:08:25.000 Hundreds of millions of prescription pain killing pills for towns and cities with maybe a few thousand people.

00:08:33.000 And so the pharmaceutical companies have always been complicit.

00:08:36.000 The deep state has always been complicit.

00:08:38.000 The CIA and the alphabet soup of different agencies have worked hand in hand, hand in glove with the cartels and with Mexico and with all these different non state actors.

00:08:49.000 And so even before Barack Obama, you had this policy in the United States of we're fighting the drug war, but are we really?

00:08:56.000 Can we really say we're fighting the drug war if we allow the pharmaceuticals to get away with murder?

00:09:00.000 If we allow drugs to come pouring across the border with people and we have no border, we have no wall, we don't enforce the border.

00:09:08.000 A lot of the heroin you see coming in is black tar, cheap heroin from Mexico.

00:09:12.000 A lot of the drugs, cocaine, other things just come in by the truckload from Mexico.

00:09:17.000 Can you really say we were fighting the drug war even before Barack Obama essentially, effectively made it a detente?

00:09:24.000 I don't think you could.

00:09:25.000 And then you had Barack Obama who had it being legalized in Colorado and all over the country.

00:09:31.000 And so now Donald Trump represents a real stark departure from how the United States has governed its drug policy.

00:09:36.000 Now we see ourselves moving away from the rest of the Western world, away from this hemisphere, away from Europe, away from countries like the Netherlands and Denmark and Scandinavia, in Germany and Portugal, where we see decriminalization, where we see rehabilitation. 0.73

00:09:52.000 Now we're moving more towards a much more right wing position, which is away from rehabilitative justice to punitive justice, where we're going to go after and kill people.

00:10:01.000 We're going to create a deterrent.

00:10:03.000 Whereas the liberals want to say our job, our mission, our task is to treat people who are on drugs and make sure people are healthy and make sure if they're on drugs, they can get weaned off of them and make sure that the people who are selling drugs are people that are in the private sector and they're paying taxes, right?

00:10:20.000 And they're not the drug cartels.

00:10:22.000 Whereas the right wing says, no, no, no, we have to deter people from selling drugs.

00:10:26.000 We don't want people on drugs to get better.

00:10:28.000 We do want that, but it's more than that.

00:10:30.000 We want drugs to not be distributed.

00:10:32.000 We want the people who make the drugs and sell the drugs.

00:10:36.000 To be afraid, to be crippled in their capability to manufacture what I think amounts to, if you look at just the deaths that result from drugs, weapons of mass destruction.

00:10:46.000 I think it becomes a nonproliferation issue.

00:10:48.000 But beyond just the opioid epidemic in terms of punitive justice, I really wanted to dedicate this show tonight to the opioid epidemic in all of its facets.

00:10:58.000 How we're going to address it, what's actually going on, what are opioids, what are the numbers on this, because this has been a central, a focal issue, a defining issue for President Trump.

00:11:10.000 And for Trump's America.

00:11:11.000 You look at the LSD epidemic.

00:11:13.000 I don't know if you could call it an epidemic, but you look at LSD use in the 60s.

00:11:17.000 You look at cocaine use in the 80s, crack use in the 90s.

00:11:20.000 And each of these different decades, each of these different eras were in many cases defined by, manifested in, the drug epidemics.

00:11:28.000 You know, I think LSD in many ways was symptomatic, was a manifestation of the broader cultural transformations and trends of the time.

00:11:37.000 Cocaine of the accelerated capitalism, the, you know, very intense high energy capitalism of the 80s.

00:11:43.000 Crack cocaine, you saw it in the inner cities with urban blight represented those times.

00:11:49.000 In the 2010s, I think we are defined.

00:11:51.000 I think we do see a very dark manifestation of these broader cultural and social trends in the opioid epidemic.

00:11:58.000 And we have to really explore what this means, how this is a reflection of our country, and not just in, you know, people are doing drugs and let's go after drug dealers, or people are doing drugs and let's see how we can rehabilitate them.

00:12:11.000 But just what does it say about people who make these decisions and why opioids?

00:12:16.000 Why is it an American problem exclusively?

00:12:19.000 You know, why is this such a problem in America as opposed to Canada?

00:12:22.000 Why is it such a problem in the Midwest and the Rust Belt in New England as opposed to the great coastal cities in the West or in the Northeast or in the South or in the Midwest?

00:12:32.000 And so we're going to really tackle it.

00:12:34.000 And I think we've all heard it on the show before.

00:12:37.000 I talk about it a lot on this show.

00:12:39.000 To really get to the heart of the opioid problem, we have to understand people's behaviors and we have to understand what the opioids are.

00:12:48.000 So the opioid drug, the opioids are a class of.

00:12:51.000 Drugs, which include heroin, opium, a lot of these pharmaceutical painkillers, which would be like fentanyl, which would be Oxycontin, codeine, hydrocodone, all kinds of designer drugs.

00:13:05.000 It's a class of drugs which includes a wide variety.

00:13:08.000 And so you'll have everything from things you could get prescribed by a doctor, which will be those kinds of things like morphine and fentanyl, which are prescription painkillers if you've had a bad surgery, if you have a bad illness, a terminal illness, to something you could get right off the street, which is black tar heroin.

00:13:24.000 And you look into actually what are the opioids and what are the effects.

00:13:28.000 I think that's where we really start to understand the appeal of opioids, where they're being used, why they're being used in the places they are, why it is opioids, why opioids, why now, why in these places.

00:13:40.000 Because unlike marijuana, unlike alcohol, unlike cocaine, opioids are this kind of a painkiller that doesn't really push you so much in one direction or the other.

00:13:51.000 You know, we look at marijuana where you'll have maybe this creative energy where People say we smoke marijuana.

00:13:58.000 I've never smoked marijuana before, but people who smoke marijuana say they do it recreationally because they're getting in touch with a creative side.

00:14:06.000 It's opening their mind, or it's a way to relax, or they get the munchies.

00:14:11.000 There's all kinds of different experiences associated with weed.

00:14:15.000 And weed is maybe the most similar, but then you'll have something like cocaine, or you'll have some of these other stimulant drugs where you have an increased appetite, an increased sex drive, increased energy.

00:14:24.000 It's a very, it's kind of this bipolar thing where either you have marijuana, which is this depressant, or Or you have cocaine where it's a stimulant and there are these feelings.

00:14:32.000 Whereas opioids are kind of in the middle here, where people who take them and understand why they take them, we have to understand the appeal, the effects of them.

00:14:41.000 If people are going to take them and ruin their lives, obviously we understand they induce in the short term and maybe short sightedly a good feeling.

00:14:49.000 And people who go on the opioids, they say it's like flying.

00:14:52.000 They say it's like they're flying.

00:14:54.000 And people have used opioids for thousands of years.

00:14:57.000 Homer talks about opioids.

00:14:58.000 They used opioids in the Revolutionary War.

00:15:00.000 They used them in the Civil War.

00:15:02.000 Opioids have been around for as long as mankind has been around.

00:15:05.000 And Homer described opioids as a drug that you could take it and you could witness your kid being killed in front of you.

00:15:11.000 You could witness your friends, your mother, people dying all around you, immense suffering, and you simply don't care.

00:15:17.000 They say opioids.

00:15:18.000 There was a really good article in New York Magazine where they listed a poem, they referenced a poem that said something to the effect that opioids are a way to get out of caring about life or death.

00:15:28.000 They say that every activity that we experience, Every euphoria that we experience, whether that's love or it's a success in your work, whether it's wealth or anything, all the experiences we have are enjoyed while we're heading towards death, while we're in this existential feeling of why are we here?

00:15:47.000 What happens after we die?

00:15:48.000 How do we cope with suffering?

00:15:49.000 How do we cope with death?

00:15:51.000 And the way this article described opioids were a way of getting out of that mentality, getting out of the crisis of living for a moment, out of the crisis of death for a moment, and just sort of floating there in this euphoria.

00:16:04.000 And I think that tells us a lot about who's using it, why we're using it, why it's an American problem, why we're using it now, because what it is, it's a numbness.

00:16:13.000 It's a numbness, not just to physical pain, which people have always felt.

00:16:18.000 And maybe to a far greater extent previously.

00:16:20.000 We look at where we are as a country today in terms of disease, in terms of crime, in terms of violence.

00:16:26.000 In terms of physical pain, we're doing pretty good.

00:16:28.000 In terms of physical pain, we're doing all right as a country.

00:16:31.000 Never before in history have we seen a safer country where there's less crime, less illness, less disease, more wealth, more comfort.

00:16:38.000 So, physical pain, we've always been okay, or we've been okay for a long time in this country.

00:16:43.000 Mental pain, it's always been there, mental stress maybe.

00:16:46.000 But opioids relieve an existential suffering that we have, a psychological suffering that we have.

00:16:52.000 They say that oxytocin, which is one of these pleasure chemicals in the brain, what an opioid does is it replicates oxytocin.

00:16:59.000 So that it's replicating the same pleasure chemicals, the same brain chemistry that happens when you're in love, when you have a close friend, when you have sex.

00:17:10.000 That's replicated with opioids.

00:17:13.000 And so we look at this class of drugs and what this really has to amount to, I think, in the eyes of many people.

00:17:20.000 If we are to address the problem head on, if we're to get at the root of the problem, which is Why people are turning to opioids when they are so destructive, when they are so harmful to people, is that they're looking to it as a substitute.

00:17:31.000 They're looking to it as an alternative, as an escape, as a numbing agent, a painkiller for an existential pain and angst that we're all feeling.

00:17:40.000 And I think we can all feel it.

00:17:42.000 I think we all understand it on a very intuitive level, on a very vibrational level.

00:17:47.000 If you get into this hippy dippy kind of stuff, I think we all understand that as a country, regardless of the ups and downs of the market, regardless of the culture and all these things that are going on, With the constant stimulation, everything's loud, everything's intense, everything's fast.

00:18:03.000 Outside of all of that, I think the prevailing feeling of the country is misery, is numbness.

00:18:09.000 And you can see it all around you.

00:18:10.000 You can see it at work, you can see it at school, you can see it on the streets.

00:18:15.000 Generally, are people more or less happy than they were 20 years ago?

00:18:19.000 Are they more or less upbeat?

00:18:20.000 When you're on the subway, and this is, I think, a great experiment, when you're on public transportation, you look around at people.

00:18:27.000 Are these happy people?

00:18:28.000 Are they cheerful?

00:18:29.000 Are they talking to each other?

00:18:30.000 Are they excited to go in?

00:18:32.000 To work and make a living?

00:18:33.000 Are they excited to go out and do what they're going to do?

00:18:35.000 Or by and large, you see people that are crushed.

00:18:39.000 And they're crushed by the weight of a civilization that has no answers for our spirit, for our souls.

00:18:47.000 We look at a country where the center is simply not holding.

00:18:51.000 In the past 20 years, we have these transformative forces.

00:18:54.000 We have forces that are economic, that are cultural, that are social, that are going a mile a minute, they're going 100 miles an hour.

00:19:02.000 Whether you look at free trade, You look at this capitalist system, this very progressive capitalist system that's going 100 miles an hour in terms of creative destruction, where the Dow Jones just goes up and up and up, and the stock market goes up, and the labor market is very elastic, and all markets are very elastic, and things are moving very quickly, very disruptive, ripping out roots, whether they be of workers or factories or what have you, free trade ripping the country apart.

00:19:30.000 You see demographic trends where the country has gone from 90% white in 1960 to less than 40% by 2050.

00:19:37.000 So, in 100 years, you've seen the population, the founding stock of the country that built the factories, that fought the wars, that settled the lands, they've been replaced in 100 years from 100% down to 50%.

00:19:51.000 And with that, you see a cultural transformation where, in the span of 50 years, we went from a Christian nation, a conservative nation, where men were men and women were women, and we all went to church on Sunday and we all went to work Monday through Friday.

00:20:04.000 Now we see 50 years later, we have the rise of these alternative families, alternative lifestyles.

00:20:10.000 People are not getting married.

00:20:11.000 People are not having children and all the rest.

00:20:13.000 And so you see these cultural transformations.

00:20:15.000 You see the demographic transformations, the economic transformations.

00:20:20.000 And maybe we could handle it.

00:20:22.000 Maybe, oh, maybe we could take it.

00:20:24.000 We've seen transformations like this before in the country.

00:20:27.000 We've seen wars.

00:20:28.000 We've seen the country ripped in half in the Civil War.

00:20:30.000 We saw an industrial revolution in the country.

00:20:33.000 We saw two major world wars, and situated right between them was the worst depression in American history, maybe even world history.

00:20:41.000 We've seen strife. 1.00

00:20:42.000 We've seen attacks from indigenous. 1.00

00:20:45.000 Native Americans, or as I like to call them, savages, where they'd come through and they'd ride through towns and scalp people and they'd cut babies out of pregnant women. 1.00

00:20:53.000 I mean, we've seen suffering in this country before. 1.00

00:20:56.000 We've seen transformations in the country before.

00:20:59.000 But what makes this time so unique, what's unique to the 2010s, and what's unique about this crisis is that unlike any other time in history, we have all these transformations and we have no core.

00:21:11.000 There is no source of solidarity.

00:21:14.000 There is no shoulder to lean on.

00:21:15.000 There is no ground that we are tethered to.

00:21:17.000 Whereas in the transformations we've seen in previous times, you could always go into the church.

00:21:23.000 You always had the church.

00:21:24.000 You could always turn to God.

00:21:25.000 You could always get on your knees and pray to the divine ruler of the universe.

00:21:31.000 In previous times, you always had family.

00:21:33.000 You always had mom and dad.

00:21:35.000 And, you know, maybe things were tough, maybe the chips were down, but you had a strong father.

00:21:39.000 You had a gentle mother.

00:21:40.000 You had a family.

00:21:41.000 You had brothers and sisters.

00:21:43.000 You had community.

00:21:44.000 You had friends.

00:21:45.000 You had civic institutions.

00:21:46.000 The church was a part of it, but you also had fraternal institutions.

00:21:49.000 You had neighbors that you could count on.

00:21:51.000 You could go across the street and borrow a cup of sugar.

00:21:54.000 You know, that's a proverbial analogy, but you could go down to the supermarket and see people you know and talk to them.

00:21:59.000 There were PTA meetings, there were fraternal organization meetings, there was the Boy Scouts.

00:22:04.000 Everybody on the block spoke the same language.

00:22:06.000 Maybe they came from the same place.

00:22:07.000 They all shared the same God.

00:22:09.000 And there was some semblance of community, there was some semblance of structure.

00:22:13.000 And so what we're seeing now is these transformations, we're seeing these disruptions, things which we've never seen the likes of before.

00:22:20.000 Where in the past 25 years, the trajectory we're on is exponential as opposed to linear.

00:22:26.000 In every facet and every capacity, and in all the ones listed before.

00:22:30.000 And uniquely, when these things are happening, they are eroding, they are taking place in the absence of any coherent identity, any coherent sense of belonging.

00:22:38.000 And this is why you have the opioid epidemic.

00:22:41.000 Until you solve this problem, you are going to have no shortage of people who want opioids or who want some form of a substitute.

00:22:49.000 I think the people who are on opioids are only the most desperate people.

00:22:52.000 I mean, we see a crisis that is ravaging the country, and we can look at the The pervasiveness of this epidemic, and we just look at some of the numbers here.

00:23:00.000 I'll pull them up right now here.

00:23:04.000 You look at just how many people are affected by this.

00:23:06.000 The opioid epidemic is on track to kill 52,000 people this year, 52,000 people dead from drug overdoses.

00:23:14.000 This is by far the biggest cause of accidental deaths in the United States.

00:23:19.000 This surpasses car accidents, this surpasses gun violence.

00:23:24.000 We talk about mass shootings and that kind of thing.

00:23:27.000 Far surpasses anything like that, 52,000 this year.

00:23:30.000 It's on track to kill 500,000 over the next decade.

00:23:33.000 They say 116 people die every day from opioid abuse.

00:23:37.000 Think of that.

00:23:38.000 116 people every day.

00:23:40.000 So imagine you're driving to work, or imagine you're in your community and you look at a given block, and maybe you have what?

00:23:48.000 20, 30 houses on a given block.

00:23:51.000 Let's say you're in an average community, an average middle class community.

00:23:55.000 Say you have four people for every house.

00:23:56.000 So imagine every day a whole block of people in a suburb gone, killed by opioid abuse, by drug overdose.

00:24:04.000 116 people a day.

00:24:05.000 Probably.

00:24:07.000 Probably more than a block of people, and that's every single day for the last five, six, ten years.

00:24:12.000 More than two million people are addicted to some kind of opioid, and the overdose rate is 10 and a half out of every 10,000.

00:24:19.000 And compare that to put these numbers in comparison the overdose rate was one and a half after Vietnam veterans were coming home from a war.

00:24:28.000 So you imagine the 1970s, you have people shipping out overseas to go and fight in the jungle for God knows what, and they're in there in the worst conditions.

00:24:37.000 They're in there getting killed, young people getting killed.

00:24:40.000 They're in the jungle.

00:24:41.000 They're fighting these very ferocious warriors over there for who knows why.

00:24:46.000 They come back and they're on morphine.

00:24:49.000 Lives are ruined.

00:24:49.000 Families are destroyed.

00:24:50.000 And you had an overdose rate that was one seventh of what it is today.

00:24:56.000 Excuse me.

00:24:56.000 And no comparable war effort.

00:24:58.000 People could point to Iraq or Afghanistan, but there's simply no comparison in terms of the scale between Vietnam and Iraq.

00:25:06.000 And we're seven times that what it was in Vietnam.

00:25:09.000 To bring back the Vietnam analogy, you had more people killed by opioid abuse.

00:25:14.000 Last year, than in the entire length of the Vietnam War.

00:25:18.000 So imagine all the body bags that came home from Vietnam.

00:25:21.000 That was the war to end all wars in the minds of the hippies.

00:25:25.000 And people are protesting.

00:25:26.000 There were too many casualties.

00:25:28.000 Americans are dying overseas.

00:25:30.000 In one year, more people have died because of opioids than in the entire span of that war.

00:25:35.000 And that war lasted eight years.

00:25:37.000 And so that's just to give you an idea of the scope of the problem.

00:25:40.000 These are only the most severe cases, these are only the most lost souls.

00:25:44.000 These are the people where.

00:25:46.000 They find an opportunity.

00:25:47.000 They get turned on to the drugs.

00:25:49.000 But this doesn't even take into account, I think, the real problem, the real root of the problem, which is how many millions of people who can say that cheap entertainment isn't doing it for them?

00:25:59.000 That they turn on the big game or they go see a movie or they're playing video games.

00:26:03.000 It's generational what kind of cheap entertainment they use.

00:26:07.000 But how many people aged, I think you could go as young as 13, upwards through 65, 70, 75, if you're getting into like mid boomer territory, how many of those people can say, They feel the same way.

00:26:20.000 Maybe they don't medicate in the same way.

00:26:22.000 Maybe they don't medicate with opioids.

00:26:24.000 But how many of those people can say they really are satisfied, that they're really doing well, they're really content with how their life is, that this is how it should be, this is how it always has been?

00:26:34.000 I don't think you could say very many people would report that.

00:26:37.000 And I think we have to get down to, we do this rant all the time on the show because it's so true.

00:26:42.000 It means everybody's feeling it.

00:26:43.000 Everybody understands it, whether it's the college kid who's in school and they're drowned in student loan debt.

00:26:49.000 And they're surrounded by promiscuous, hedonistic activity, whether that's drug abuse, alcohol abuse, hedonistic, promiscuous sex.

00:26:57.000 They're in school studying God knows what. 0.86

00:26:59.000 They're getting a communications degree.

00:27:02.000 They're in there getting a gender studies degree.

00:27:04.000 And people make fun of the social sciences a lot.

00:27:06.000 They make fun of Hispanic studies and African studies.

00:27:09.000 But I would posit even things like political science, international relations, things that I used to study, communications, people who study things like sports broadcasting.

00:27:18.000 They're in the same boat as the gender studies kids.

00:27:20.000 Don't kid yourself. 0.96

00:27:21.000 You don't have to go into basket weaving to point at a ridiculous major.

00:27:25.000 And they're in there and they're studying and they're incurring thousands and thousands of dollars in debt.

00:27:30.000 And they get out into the open, and guess what?

00:27:32.000 They're not going to be able.

00:27:33.000 To find an eligible bride or an eligible groom.

00:27:35.000 They're not going to find somebody they want to start a family with.

00:27:38.000 Good luck.

00:27:40.000 Good luck accruing enough wealth to afford a home in this economy and starting a real family and a real home and saving any kind of money.

00:27:47.000 You're lucky if you get on your feet by the time you're 30 and you're thrown into the machine.

00:27:51.000 And so the young kids feel it.

00:27:52.000 The millennials feel it.

00:27:53.000 The Gen Xers feel it.

00:27:54.000 Those people that are in the workforce and they have no wealth. 0.99

00:27:58.000 This is a tale as old as time where you look at the 1950s and 60s where people could say they have equity in their homes.

00:28:04.000 Maybe they own their cars.

00:28:05.000 Maybe they own something.

00:28:06.000 And even the cars back then, there was a real asset.

00:28:09.000 It was real metal.

00:28:10.000 It was a real product.

00:28:12.000 These days, people that are 30, 35, they're the least wealthy generations in decades.

00:28:16.000 Where these people, they're sunk in debt, whether it's, if it's not student loan debt, it's credit card debt.

00:28:21.000 It's debt on their homes.

00:28:22.000 It's debt on their cars.

00:28:24.000 The money that they have goes straight from their paycheck into some kind of an expense.

00:28:29.000 And we see how high every expense is getting from taxes to health care to real estate and everything else.

00:28:34.000 I mean, the only generation that's really doing okay that's maybe not feeling this so much. 0.84

00:28:39.000 Is the boomers, and that's why we resent them still because they've stockpiled all the money.

00:28:43.000 You know, they had all the fun times in the 60s when the economy was booming.

00:28:47.000 But I think everybody can feel this.

00:28:49.000 But to get to, and that's why it resonates, but to get to a little bit more of a scientific analysis of our problem, to diagnose the opioid epidemic in a little bit more of a heterodox way, we've narrowed it down here to four things we have to focus on if we're going to solve the opioid epidemic.

00:29:07.000 And it's not what you think.

00:29:08.000 The four problems we have to solve.

00:29:10.000 To fix the opioid problem.

00:29:11.000 It's not, you know, like distribution of drugs and marketing campaign to get people to stop.

00:29:17.000 It's nothing like that.

00:29:18.000 It's not a law you can pass.

00:29:20.000 It's not a policy you can prescribe.

00:29:21.000 It has nothing even to do with drugs at all.

00:29:25.000 This is what social scientists agree are the four things that people need to live a satisfying life.

00:29:32.000 These are the four psychological, social needs that every human being needs to be satisfied.

00:29:38.000 And we're going to bring out the whiteboard.

00:29:40.000 A little bit of whiteboard nationalism on the show.

00:29:43.000 We'll turn up the gain here so you can hear me still.

00:29:45.000 And it's going to throw the white balance all off on the camera, but we're going to throw it up.

00:29:49.000 These are the four things that we need to fix if we're going to solve the opioid epidemic.

00:29:55.000 These are the reasons why people do drugs.

00:29:57.000 These are the reasons why people need a substitute for that oxytocin.

00:30:02.000 That's the pleasure chemical that you get when you're having a friendship, when you're in romance, when you're having sex.

00:30:08.000 If you're not getting that in real life, if you need to short circuit that or get some kind of a shortcut for that with a drug, We need to look at how we're going to rebuild that so people don't even want the drugs, so that virtuous people don't even want to go out and numb themselves.

00:30:21.000 And these are the four things family, you've got to have a family.

00:30:25.000 You've got to have a mother and a father.

00:30:26.000 You've got to have some siblings.

00:30:28.000 You've got to have extended family.

00:30:29.000 You have to have a family.

00:30:31.000 And we say family, we don't mean, you know, this weird New World Order type of family where they say, you know, like, oh, we have this family of foster friends. 0.58

00:30:41.000 You know, there's all these ridiculous new shows.

00:30:44.000 Modern Family is one of them. 0.73

00:30:46.000 We see all kinds of shows now in the primetime networks that try and reinvent what it means to be family.

00:30:51.000 You notice how concerted of an effort they make?

00:30:53.000 They throw in a bunch of characters from different backgrounds. 0.99

00:30:56.000 It's like you have the orphan, you have the retard, you have the black kid, you have the Asian kid. 0.99

00:31:01.000 They all come together, and it's like, oh, my dad was an evil white man. 1.00

00:31:05.000 Oh, my dad was this toxic masculine guy. 0.96

00:31:08.000 And they come together in school or in the orphanage, in the foster family, or wherever, and they say, this is real family.

00:31:14.000 No, no, this is new family.

00:31:16.000 Or in the show Modern Family, where they say, The modern family is all kinds of things. 0.99

00:31:21.000 It's old people marrying gold diggers, it's homosexuals, it's goofy beta male husbands and their bossy wives. 0.98

00:31:28.000 You know, it's where anything goes. 0.99

00:31:29.000 We say family, we mean, we know what that means.

00:31:32.000 We mean a father who's a breadwinner.

00:31:32.000 We mean family.

00:31:35.000 We mean a mother who's a real mother, a nurturing, a kind spirit.

00:31:39.000 Not some wino. 0.86

00:31:40.000 Not somebody, and maybe, you know, funny moms maybe drink wine, but not somebody who's like this degenerate. 1.00

00:31:45.000 Not one of these, you know, bad, tough moms where, you know, they leave their kids in daycare while they go off to work. 1.00

00:31:51.000 We mean families, big families with siblings. 1.00

00:31:54.000 Got to have close friends.

00:31:55.000 You have to have close friends.

00:31:57.000 This is another thing we see that is just collapsing in the country.

00:32:00.000 You have to have close friends and real confidants.

00:32:03.000 This is another thing where we see substitutes, where we see this is trite, this is TED Talk area.

00:32:09.000 We're about to enter the TED Talk zone here.

00:32:11.000 But it's true.

00:32:12.000 You look at social media, you look at Facebook, you look at Twitter, you look at the texting and the phone.

00:32:18.000 I catch myself doing this all the time.

00:32:21.000 When people are communicating digitally, when so much of it is online, it's really hard for me to believe that connections, communication, friendships are being formed in the same way that they always have been.

00:32:32.000 That is, in an organic, healthy, And well adjusted way.

00:32:35.000 I just can't fathom how this revolution and how individuals, men and women, men and men, women and women, communicate with each other, has not transformed or adversely affected the way that they grow their relationships, right?

00:32:49.000 If all relationships are based on communication, and a little thing happened the last five years, which is all the communication happens now with screens as opposed to face to face interacting with people in a very tactile and a very emotional way where there's touch, where there's eye contact, where there's emotions.

00:33:07.000 Displayed in all kinds of things where there's real interaction as opposed to, you know, it's like, hey, what are you doing?

00:33:13.000 Laying in bed, what are you doing?

00:33:15.000 You know, that kind of thing.

00:33:16.000 There's close friends, they're all going away.

00:33:18.000 And you also see it, by the way, with the atomization of communities, where I think so many people end up in college.

00:33:26.000 I got to be honest, and this is one of the draws for me why I reconsidered going back to college is the social aspect.

00:33:32.000 I think so many people are, you know, they want to go to college and they hold on to dear life to college.

00:33:39.000 When they're on the way out, is because what happens to us socially after college?

00:33:43.000 What happens?

00:33:44.000 You go from high school where you show up and you have friends, you're forced to interact face to face with people, you go to college and that's kind of like, uh oh, what happens after this?

00:33:54.000 And then you fall off a cliff where you're moving out, you're not with your family anymore.

00:33:59.000 For a lot of kids, they move into unfamiliar cities, they move into unfamiliar places, unfamiliar workplace industry where friendships have collapsed there. 0.74

00:34:08.000 And it's not like they can join up with their local Masons.

00:34:11.000 We hate Freemasonry, we hate Illuminism, but.

00:34:13.000 That used to be a fraternal organization, or they join up with a bowling league, or they join up with a gun owners' club, or whatever it would be.

00:34:21.000 There's no more community, no more fraternal organizations, so no close friends.

00:34:25.000 You have to have meaningful work.

00:34:28.000 This kind of goes hand in hand with the college stuff and the friendships.

00:34:32.000 This is something that Theodore Kaczynski addressed, Dr. Theodore Kaczynski addressed in his manifesto, Industrial Society and its.

00:34:40.000 What is it, Industrial Society and its.

00:34:42.000 I keep thinking of the introductory words, but you know the essay that he wrote, the Unabomber Manifesto.

00:34:47.000 He talks about meaningful work.

00:34:49.000 And what we mean by that is work that, actually, it's a little bit different.

00:34:53.000 The social science definition more broadly is work where you feel that you're needed.

00:34:58.000 That's the broad definition.

00:34:59.000 Work where you feel like you're making a difference.

00:35:02.000 And the people that are there, that are consuming your work or the fruits of your labor, or if it's for a company, you're needed there.

00:35:09.000 You've got a skill.

00:35:10.000 You know, if you're a plumber, for example, people need plumbers.

00:35:13.000 People need you to go in and fix the pipes.

00:35:15.000 If you're a welder or something, you're not really expendable.

00:35:19.000 Many people spend a long time.

00:35:21.000 Honing their craft.

00:35:22.000 Sometimes it's a generational thing for certain trades.

00:35:25.000 If you're looking at some of the older trades, if you're looking at craftsmen, it's passed down from generation to generation.

00:35:30.000 Even businesses sometimes.

00:35:31.000 You look at even something like a funeral home, where a funeral home can be passed down from generation to generation in a small town.

00:35:38.000 And there's some level of where you saw in the small communities and smaller towns where it was, you know, this is the town mechanic.

00:35:45.000 This is the town this guy.

00:35:47.000 This is the town whoever.

00:35:48.000 And they felt like they had a role there.

00:35:50.000 They felt like they fit in.

00:35:51.000 Their work was meaningful.

00:35:52.000 When they showed up to be a shoemaker or they showed up to do their job, they felt like they were really needed.

00:35:57.000 They knew the people in the community.

00:35:58.000 They felt like they were doing something.

00:36:00.000 Now, With the kind of international finance system that we have, international capitalist system that we have, not like I'm against markets, but you understand the very progressive nature of these destructive economic forces.

00:36:12.000 Now we have it so that everyone is expendable.

00:36:14.000 Every single person, whether you have a degree, whether you have a skill, whether you have something, you're always just an infraction away.

00:36:22.000 Maybe you call a black person the wrong thing. 0.99

00:36:24.000 You know, this week it's person of color. 0.76

00:36:26.000 Last week it was African American.

00:36:30.000 On Wednesday it was person of color. 0.98

00:36:33.000 The week before that, it was colored people. 0.99

00:36:36.000 If you call a black person the wrong thing this week, yeah, you're canned. 0.99

00:36:39.000 You're gone. 0.99

00:36:40.000 You donate to a Republican we don't like, yeah, you're gone.

00:36:44.000 Or you hit on a girl the wrong way at the office, yeah, sorry, you're out.

00:36:48.000 And there's no meaningful work.

00:36:49.000 Everybody's expendable.

00:36:51.000 Is anybody really skilled?

00:36:52.000 Is anybody really necessary in the workplace?

00:36:54.000 It doesn't seem like it anymore.

00:36:55.000 And people understand that. 0.96

00:36:56.000 That's why work sucks these days.

00:36:59.000 And it hasn't ever been like that. 0.70

00:37:00.000 Maybe it was 100 years ago.

00:37:02.000 But we're entering into another transitional stage in our economy where increasingly everybody's expendable.

00:37:07.000 And the last thing, the most important thing, this is the most important thing, bar none, is an answer for suffering and death.

00:37:16.000 Some kind of satisfactory explanation for why we die, what happens afterwards, and why they're suffering.

00:37:23.000 This is usually theological or philosophical.

00:37:26.000 This is the biggest one.

00:37:27.000 You know, where all of these are concentrated, these are really concentrated on social, on demographic, on community.

00:37:35.000 This one is economic.

00:37:36.000 This one is all metaphysical, baby.

00:37:39.000 This is your bread and butter.

00:37:40.000 This is about religion.

00:37:42.000 Which is to say that now that we've removed God, now that we've removed Christianity from everything, we've taken God out of the public school system.

00:37:49.000 You can't pray, you can't learn about the Bible, you can't learn about moral virtues and values, you can't learn about, even if you look at it in the Jordan Peterson lens, as archetypes, as anecdotal and as archetypes, as myths, and I say myths in their original sense, which is a helpful way to convey lots of virtues and values in a story, in something that's memorable. 0.60

00:38:11.000 It's all gone.

00:38:12.000 People are not going to church every generation since the silent generation has had lower and lower church attendance.

00:38:19.000 It's just simply not present anywhere in our culture, not in movies, not in music, not in television.

00:38:24.000 It's almost become something embarrassing.

00:38:26.000 I don't know.

00:38:27.000 I know it functions a lot differently in the South.

00:38:29.000 I will say that.

00:38:30.000 If you look in the Deep South, there is still a very strong Christian influence in the schools and in civic life and among people.

00:38:37.000 But speaking from my own experience, growing up in the suburbs, growing up outside of a major metropolitan area, it just simply isn't there.

00:38:44.000 It's almost gone to the point where it's like a bad word.

00:38:46.000 It's almost embarrassing to bring it up. 0.98

00:38:48.000 To bring up religion is almost to appear corny, is almost to appear silly, anachronistic. 0.80

00:38:53.000 To bring up Jesus Christ or God, you feel almost embarrassed to do it.

00:38:57.000 I don't because I'm very proud of my faith, but I understand that a lot of people are brought up in a very secularized, sterilized world, materialist world.

00:39:06.000 They're almost embarrassed to do it.

00:39:07.000 And you look in every one of these things, and this is happening.

00:39:11.000 The family has gone away, close friends have gone away, meaningful work has gone away, the Christian tradition has gone away.

00:39:18.000 If you look at family, for example, just about every statistic reflects this decline.

00:39:23.000 You look at people that are getting married, and the percentage of people in terms of generations, the percentage of people that are married between the ages of 21 and 34 for millennials is down to 37%. 0.79

00:39:36.000 It was 78% for the silent generation.

00:39:39.000 So the amount of people that are getting married is just about cut in half.

00:39:42.000 The amount of people that are living in a traditional family where the father's the breadwinner, mother stays at home, went from 68% of the population in 1940.

00:39:51.000 Get this.

00:39:52.000 Percentage of people that live in a home where the father's a breadwinner, mother stays home, in other words, where you have one person working and one parent that's really parenting, goes from 68% in 1940, which that seems wrong to me, I'm sure was higher, to 10% in 2000.

00:40:09.000 10% in 2000.

00:40:11.000 10% of families have a father that's a breadwinner, mother stays at home.

00:40:15.000 Could you imagine?

00:40:17.000 And we're up where you have both parents in the household working, it's up to 40%, and then mixes everything else.

00:40:22.000 So how could you even say that you have a family when you have both parents working?

00:40:26.000 Marriages are going down.

00:40:27.000 You look at children born in a two parent household.

00:40:30.000 It was at 87% in 1960, down to 69% in 2014.

00:40:35.000 So that's been obliterated.

00:40:36.000 If you look at it in, and this is a peculiar one in terms of housing, since 2009, the rate at which apartment buildings have been constructed has grown at triple the rate at which single family construction units have been built.

00:40:51.000 So, in other words, you have three times the amount of apartment buildings built as you have homes being built, which tells you about Where the trends are going, where people are moving, what kinds of families are being built.

00:41:01.000 If you look at friendships, in 1985, most Americans said they had three confidants, which would be close friends, people they could count on.

00:41:09.000 Today, they say they have two.

00:41:11.000 In 1985, 10% of the population said they had no close friends, only 10%.

00:41:16.000 Today, it's 25%, a full quarter of the population.

00:41:20.000 The amount of people who say they can't trust anybody has increased.

00:41:22.000 The amount of people who say they regularly visit with their neighbors and are friends with them has decreased.

00:41:27.000 Just about every area here.

00:41:29.000 These are the vital things that we need to be happy.

00:41:32.000 These four things.

00:41:32.000 You get these right, you got a happy population, you could pretty much figure things out.

00:41:37.000 Economic catastrophe, war, famine, disease, you could recover if you've got these four benchmarks.

00:41:44.000 But if you look, everyone from family to friendships to meaningful work to these answers for existential questions, every single one of them has been under assault unrelentingly from every institution of power for 50 years running.

00:41:59.000 And it's really accelerated in the past 25 years, but it's been going on for 50 years.

00:42:04.000 That bit by bit, piece by piece, the globalist, the globalist establishment has annihilated the family.

00:42:11.000 They've ripped mommy out from the equation.

00:42:13.000 Mom's gone. 0.96

00:42:14.000 She's in the workforce.

00:42:16.000 And the marriage has been split in two, it's been torn asunder.

00:42:19.000 People are not getting married.

00:42:20.000 And if they are, eh, eh, who cares? 0.98

00:42:23.000 Man and a man, man and a woman, girl and girl, two guys, three women, black and a white, an Asian and a Mexican. 0.97

00:42:31.000 You know, everybody, anything goes.

00:42:33.000 Marriage is whatever it is.

00:42:34.000 If two people like each other, they get together and maybe they have kids, maybe they don't.

00:42:38.000 Maybe they have one kid, maybe they have no kids, maybe they have a dog, maybe they have ten dogs.

00:42:42.000 But, you know, it's whatever you make it.

00:42:44.000 It's whatever makes you happy.

00:42:45.000 Family has been annihilated everywhere.

00:42:48.000 Friendships, forget it.

00:42:50.000 You're just not going to have it.

00:42:51.000 At every turn, at every step of the way, the globalist has found a way for you to stay in your home.

00:42:57.000 Every step of the way, the globalist has made it so that from the time you wake up until the time you go to bed, you are alone.

00:43:04.000 No companions and no family.

00:43:05.000 You know, forget about that.

00:43:07.000 And then friendships, When you wake up, what do you do?

00:43:09.000 You check your phone.

00:43:10.000 You get on your public transportation and you go to work.

00:43:13.000 And where do you go to work?

00:43:13.000 You go to work in the cubicle where you're boxed off from everybody else.

00:43:18.000 You get off of work, you get in your car, you drive home in traffic, and then what do you do?

00:43:22.000 You flip on the television.

00:43:23.000 And they've made it so that you can be perfectly content in your home.

00:43:27.000 All these places of communal belonging, whether it's even a grocery store, even if it's a large, big box store, department store, that's gone now.

00:43:36.000 Amazon's the future.

00:43:38.000 All these community institutions, churches, fraternal organizations, all that forget about it.

00:43:42.000 Even the supermarket where you run into people.

00:43:45.000 It's all gone.

00:43:45.000 Public schools, all gone.

00:43:46.000 That's the government's job now.

00:43:48.000 So you got no friends.

00:43:49.000 Meaningful work, we're all expendable.

00:43:51.000 Where's everybody going to work in 50 years?

00:43:54.000 Manufacturing, they say, is on the way out.

00:43:56.000 Manufacturing belongs to the robots now.

00:43:58.000 That's what they say.

00:43:59.000 It belongs to the robots and to the third world.

00:44:01.000 Craftsmanship, any kind of trade that you could learn, that all belongs to the robots.

00:44:06.000 Your job now is to ask people for their orders.

00:44:09.000 Your job is to take down orders.

00:44:10.000 Your job is to crunch numbers.

00:44:12.000 Your job is to, you know, God knows the infinite amount of.

00:44:16.000 Of meaningless jobs they've created.

00:44:17.000 Maybe if you're, what's that guy's name, Jake Hanrahan, you harass right wing people like me on the internet for a living.

00:44:23.000 So nobody knows what they're doing for their living anymore.

00:44:26.000 And the most important thing is meaningful answers for death and suffering.

00:44:29.000 It seems like we've just turned around and embraced it.

00:44:32.000 We don't even care to answer that question anymore.

00:44:34.000 We just turn around and embrace it.

00:44:36.000 Suffering, death, we live in a cult of death now.

00:44:40.000 You know, where a baby, an infant, is a clump of cells.

00:44:43.000 This is how it's described by our politicians, by our celebrities.

00:44:48.000 The most vulnerable, the most innocent, The most pure form of life to them is comparable to a tumor.

00:44:54.000 And we look at all these things that are going on in the world and how they're commercialized, whether it's these pictures of people suffering, how it's turned around.

00:45:03.000 The best example is with this mass shooting in a high school where nothing is sacred. 0.70

00:45:08.000 Even children gunned down in a place of learning by a madman, they're going to go on television and tell you about how we need less white people in the Senate. 0.71

00:45:17.000 And until and unless we can come up with answers for these four guys, for these four categories, You're not going to solve the drug problem. 0.70

00:45:26.000 You're not going to solve any problem, as far as I'm concerned.

00:45:28.000 You're not going to solve anything until you solve these things.

00:45:31.000 And notice, it's not a legislative fix.

00:45:34.000 It's not a law that you could pass.

00:45:36.000 I know people love this kind of solution where they could go online and sign a petition, or they could ring up, they could light up the White House switchboards and tell Bloomf how mad they are about his most recent controversial statement.

00:45:36.000 It's not a policy.

00:45:49.000 Or there's a legislative effort they could get behind.

00:45:52.000 Hashtag pass the law.

00:45:54.000 Or there's an election they could vote, and I'm going to go.

00:45:56.000 And I'm going to write this name on a piece of paper.

00:45:58.000 I'm going to touch the name.

00:46:00.000 And we've achieved what we need to achieve.

00:46:02.000 None of these problems are solved.

00:46:05.000 They don't have a quick fix.

00:46:07.000 It's not going to be solved by some bureaucrat in a faraway capital writing something on paper and then collecting enough signatures and votes.

00:46:14.000 It's not going to happen.

00:46:16.000 It's not going to happen.

00:46:17.000 And this is the root cause these problems, which are all solvable on an individual basis that you can solve with small lifestyle changes, will have a massive ripple effect across the society.

00:46:28.000 This is why people are medicating, because they don't have these.

00:46:31.000 But it's also why people have given up on everything else.

00:46:34.000 You know, you look at, for example, the gun problem that we see last week.

00:46:38.000 This is a great thing that ties in with this. 1.00

00:46:40.000 You look at the immigration problem. 0.91

00:46:42.000 You look at all these problems that we're having as a society that people ask, Nick, what are we going to do about this? 1.00

00:46:48.000 Nick, what are we going to do about that?

00:46:49.000 As if they're all isolated, as if they're all these compartmentalized different issues, as though every single one deserves its own prescription, its own pill, essentially.

00:46:58.000 Every problem has its own panacea, every problem has its own pill, when in fact they're all connected.

00:47:04.000 They're all connected and they all come back to this.

00:47:06.000 A society is only as good as the constituent people that comprise it.

00:47:11.000 It's only as good as its constituents, which are its people.

00:47:14.000 You know, what is a society?

00:47:15.000 What is a nation except for all the people living in it?

00:47:18.000 And if the people in the country are not happy, if they're not healthy, if they're not virtuous, if they're not okay, if they're not doing okay, you know, how are you doing?

00:47:26.000 I'm not doing so hot.

00:47:27.000 If they're not doing so hot, if they're not doing okay, the country's not going to do well.

00:47:31.000 And so this is where it's got to start.

00:47:33.000 This is where it's all got to come from.

00:47:35.000 Unless we address these issues, pass all the laws you want, not going to matter.

00:47:39.000 Nothing's going to matter.

00:47:40.000 So that's the opioid epidemic.

00:47:42.000 I know we addressed that in a little bit of a different way.

00:47:44.000 I mean, we tackled a lot of, you know, the stuff about opioids in terms of the numbers, in terms of what is an opioid, what, you know, what it causes, where it's prevalent in the New England Rust Belt, that kind of thing.

00:47:59.000 But to really address the problem, we have to get away from that compartmentalized view, from this very tunnel vision kind of view that we have.

00:48:06.000 I notice this when I watch the news.

00:48:07.000 It's, you know, this issue, it's that issue, it's the other.

00:48:10.000 But it really all comes back down to the fundamentals.

00:48:14.000 And I think that's how we should best summarize what we stand for.

00:48:19.000 We're not ideological.

00:48:20.000 You know, you think I really care.

00:48:21.000 Today was a big win for the free market.

00:48:23.000 I don't really care about the free market.

00:48:26.000 Today was a big win for conservatism.

00:48:28.000 I don't really care about conservatism.

00:48:31.000 Conservatism as an abstraction, as an ideology, as something that was written by a savant 150 years ago, that's not what gets me up every day.

00:48:40.000 What we are looking for are practical, pragmatic solutions to problems.

00:48:44.000 That every person in the country is feeling today.

00:48:48.000 And that is a summarization of our ideology, which is to say that we want to return to these perennial values that are intrinsic to every person.

00:48:59.000 We want to return to these perennial traditions and wisdoms, which have allowed us to have these nice things and allowed us to be healthy and sane and smart.

00:49:10.000 And that's what we want.

00:49:11.000 So that's the opioid epidemic.

00:49:13.000 I hope that was enriching for everybody.

00:49:15.000 I hope people enjoyed that.

00:49:16.000 We're going to jump into our super chats now.

00:49:18.000 Super chats.

00:49:19.000 Slash donations.

00:49:21.000 And I know it's kind of a, for the day that we debut on all these different platforms, kind of a dark episode, kind of hard hitting.

00:49:26.000 But I think the white pill in it all is that we know the problem.

00:49:30.000 We know the problem.

00:49:31.000 And that's the first step to fixing it.

00:49:32.000 We didn't know this for a long time.

00:49:34.000 You weren't hearing about this in the mainstream.

00:49:37.000 Young people like me weren't talking about this 10 years ago.

00:49:41.000 You know, I don't think John McCain was tapping into that in 2008.

00:49:44.000 John Kerry, George Bush weren't tapping into that in 2004.

00:49:48.000 I think we figured out the problem and now we can move forward.

00:49:50.000 So that's your white pill.

00:49:51.000 But.

00:49:52.000 We'll check and we'll see our Streamlabs donations and we'll see what the people are saying here.

00:50:00.000 We'll see if it worked out.

00:50:02.000 So, this is our first time doing the donations, and it looks like we've got exactly one.

00:50:07.000 It looks like we got exactly one donation from Streamlabs.

00:50:11.000 It's not going so well, right?

00:50:11.000 So, I don't know.

00:50:13.000 So, remember if you go in Streamlabs.comslash Nicholas J. Fuentes, you do it that way.

00:50:18.000 That's the way to do it.

00:50:20.000 But we have somebody who says, actual compliant citizen.

00:50:23.000 Who says, coming from the practical rehabilitation angle, what are your opinions on heroin assisted treatment programs?

00:50:30.000 It could be a tough sell in the United States, but the Swiss have enjoyed significant success with this approach.

00:50:36.000 I think that's going to be a part of it.

00:50:38.000 I think if we do look at it from a more short term lens and away from kind of the longer term, more removed stuff, more removed social trends, if we're going to get right into the policy prescriptions, yeah, I think that could help.

00:50:53.000 I think you're seeing that already.

00:50:55.000 You see some of the.

00:50:57.000 Treatments, for example, what do they call that?

00:51:00.000 They call it the Narcan, I think they call it, or something to that effect, where, in terms of if people are overdosing, they introduce this life saving drug and that helps people.

00:51:09.000 And they're developing new drugs which help people get weaned off of fentanyl and heroin and all the rest.

00:51:16.000 So, yeah, I definitely think that would be useful today.

00:51:20.000 I think those things can be introduced.

00:51:22.000 Like you said, though, it's a tough sell because we have this tradition for about 100 years of just going balls to the wall on drugs that, you know, the only solution is arrest people.

00:51:32.000 And to an extent, I think we should be.

00:51:33.000 Amping that up, arresting people, deterring people from selling drugs.

00:51:36.000 But if you look at people that are on drugs, the victims, it seems like that's the only way, or else they're just kind of left to their own devices.

00:51:43.000 So, sure, I think that could help.

00:51:45.000 But let's look at our super chats.

00:51:48.000 Then, if nobody's going to do the Stream Labs, if nobody's going to do Stream Labs, if we're all just going to do the super chats, and hey, look, the reason I do the Stream Labs, the reason I do that is because Google takes 30% when you do a super chat.

00:52:01.000 So, for every super chat, if you put in a dollar, Google's taking 30 cents.

00:52:05.000 If you put in $100, Google's taken 30 bucks.

00:52:08.000 So the Streamlabs only take 3%.

00:52:10.000 So that's why I like the Streamlabs a little bit better.

00:52:13.000 You don't fund the New World Order machine like you do with the Super Chat.

00:52:17.000 But that's all right.

00:52:19.000 We're learning it.

00:52:20.000 So we'll check out our Super Chats then. 0.83

00:52:23.000 And we have Guns, Guns Yen Guaya, who says Looking at the different subcultures InfoTech has generated in the African American culture, what role do you think it will play on the evolutionary phasing out of? 0.76

00:52:38.000 So, I guess he's talking about black people who are into gang culture and how will that take?

00:52:47.000 I don't know if that's even going to happen.

00:52:49.000 Is that a trend that's happening?

00:52:51.000 I think more and more you see kind of the opposite.

00:52:53.000 I think you see that the trend of black Americans losing their religion, their families going away, their education being reduced.

00:53:02.000 I think that's kind of flatlined.

00:53:03.000 I think that increased a significant extent every year since civil rights started in the 1950s.

00:53:09.000 Not since the welfare, in the 60s, since civil rights in the 50s.

00:53:13.000 Every year since the 1950s, the rate of out of wedlock births has increased, the rate of drug use, the rate of all kinds of pernicious social trends has gone up.

00:53:22.000 And it's not going down anytime soon.

00:53:24.000 It's not like, well, we see a downward trend.

00:53:28.000 I think it's flatlined.

00:53:29.000 And if anything, I think it would increase.

00:53:31.000 I mean, you look at the ability of modern communications and media technology and entertainment to take rap culture and gang culture and all these things and blast it out to, 100, 200, 300 million people, billions of people. 0.81

00:53:46.000 If you look at its worldwide footprint, I think it could be increasing and even infecting white people and Hispanics. 0.70

00:53:52.000 I think you see that all over the place. 0.96

00:53:54.000 So I think it's phasing it in even further.

00:54:01.000 Let's see.

00:54:02.000 Wednesday Adam says Nick, our little brother has never been into politics, but he recently said he listens to Ben Shapiro.

00:54:09.000 I've been trying to convert him into a knicker, but he won't take my advice.

00:54:12.000 How can I convince him?

00:54:14.000 I don't know.

00:54:16.000 I mean, Ben Shapiro, look, it's very viral content.

00:54:16.000 That's tough.

00:54:16.000 I don't know.

00:54:18.000 It's very good content.

00:54:20.000 And it's tough to awaken people from that stupor.

00:54:23.000 It's tough to wake people up from that kind of stuff. 1.00

00:54:27.000 I think the strongest example is Israel. 0.96

00:54:29.000 I think the strongest example is Israel.

00:54:31.000 Because once I got around to that, that's when I said, I don't like Ben Shapiro anymore.

00:54:35.000 Right?

00:54:36.000 I was a big Ben Shapiro fan.

00:54:38.000 I almost went over to work for him in November of 2016.

00:54:43.000 They were getting ready to bring me into the Daily Wire harem, even though I wasn't Jewish.

00:54:48.000 They were going to bring me in.

00:54:51.000 And then I started to see what was going on.

00:54:53.000 I started to see what was going on.

00:54:54.000 I put on the glasses, so to speak.

00:54:56.000 Remember, and they live that movie with Rowdy Roddy Piper.

00:54:59.000 I put on the glasses and I said, Hey, uh, wait a minute.

00:55:02.000 You and NBC and you and Israel and all the rest.

00:55:09.000 I and Frankfurt School.

00:55:10.000 I started to say, Wait a second, something's going on here.

00:55:12.000 And they said, No, you're not allowed to talk about that, Nick.

00:55:15.000 You're going off the reservation.

00:55:17.000 And hey, look, we can disagree about this, but we can't disagree on that one, buddy.

00:55:22.000 We can't disagree on that one, boy.

00:55:25.000 So, but they didn't say that.

00:55:27.000 So, um, That's what made me get away from the Ben Shapiro stuff and over to people like Pat Buchanan, Donald Trump.

00:55:34.000 I got to say, turn them on to Donald Trump.

00:55:36.000 I think if you turn them on to a lot of the Donald Trump stuff, if the Israel stuff doesn't work, and I don't know how that doesn't work, if you show people the double standard, the aid, the war crimes, and all the rest, and how they're just really using our country like a puppet, if that doesn't convince, I would say just look at Donald Trump stuff in 2016.

00:55:55.000 I was earlier today going through watching the old Can't Stump the Trump videos, watching the old.

00:56:01.000 Clips from the debates, and you realize Trump was this hilarious guy.

00:56:05.000 He was talking the people's language, and Ben Shapiro was wholeheartedly against him.

00:56:12.000 Never Trump.

00:56:12.000 He was all up against that.

00:56:14.000 And I think that kind of says it all right there.

00:56:16.000 So maybe turn him on to Trump.

00:56:17.000 Maybe turn him on to the Israel stuff, or just turn him on to the old Nick Fuentes, and he'll red pill the fella.

00:56:24.000 Wednesday Adam says, Nick, or I'm sorry, I just read that one.

00:56:27.000 Froctor Enthusiast says, The red pill hurts too much.

00:56:30.000 I need a lobotomy pill.

00:56:31.000 Exactly.

00:56:32.000 It hurts.

00:56:32.000 Exactly.

00:56:33.000 It hurts.

00:56:34.000 We're all in this. 0.99

00:56:34.000 It sucks. 0.99

00:56:36.000 Like, weird place now. 0.98

00:56:38.000 The 2010s are weird, aren't they?

00:56:40.000 I mean, we're in this just like post, post, post.

00:56:43.000 We don't even have a.

00:56:44.000 We're so lost in where we are, we don't even have a word to describe where we are.

00:56:48.000 It's just in relation to other things, in relation to other historical periods that had their defining features and defining cultures.

00:56:56.000 The only way we can define ourselves is in relation to other things.

00:56:59.000 We fully actualized the relativity theory and, I guess, the age of relativity in the sense that everything is referential, everything is relative.

00:57:09.000 It's a shame, and we're lost.

00:57:11.000 It's a weird time.

00:57:13.000 Weird time, but I'm enjoying it.

00:57:15.000 I am fascinated by it.

00:57:17.000 American Life 7022 says 413 in Vegas, Milo event.

00:57:23.000 Antifa is bussing in.

00:57:25.000 Oh, Milo is coming back, huh, in Las Vegas with Laura Loomer, huh?

00:57:30.000 Right?

00:57:31.000 That'll be interesting, I guess.

00:57:32.000 You guys know I have a little bit of a personal beef with Milo because he left me hanging.

00:57:38.000 He left me high and dry on a tarmac.

00:57:41.000 In Miami, Florida, in August of 2017, after the Charlottesville rally.

00:57:46.000 Gonna do an interview with them, but he canceled at the last minute and really put me in a tough spot, so I'm not too pleased with him.

00:57:52.000 But hey, I wish him the best, huh?

00:57:54.000 Simon Skola, there are needles on the sidewalks where I live.

00:57:57.000 Yeah, that's, I hear it, man.

00:58:00.000 That's Ohio, that's West Virginia, that's Rhode Island, that's New Hampshire, it's Massachusetts, it's everywhere in the Rust Belt, in New England, and I hear you.

00:58:10.000 And by the way, I got your knife, I left it upstairs.

00:58:13.000 Because I was trying to figure out all this tech.

00:58:14.000 But I got the knife, Simon Skola.

00:58:16.000 He sent me a very nice knife in the P.O. box.

00:58:19.000 So, Nick the Knife, we're collecting.

00:58:21.000 We're up to three fan sent knives now.

00:58:24.000 So, it's growing.

00:58:26.000 Eric Wright says traditional family, more like normal family.

00:58:29.000 Well, and also traditional, it's both, right?

00:58:32.000 Normative and normal means traditional, what's traditionally accepted as family.

00:58:37.000 And what other kind of family is there, right?

00:58:40.000 You look at just the biology of what is a family. 0.90

00:58:43.000 To have a child, you need a man and a woman, right?

00:58:46.000 I mean, this is not rocket science here.

00:58:48.000 We're not, you'd think we were trying to introduce like some esoteric national socialist Nazi conception of family.

00:58:56.000 It's biology, folks.

00:58:58.000 If a family is, you know, one generation and then another generation, to beget the next generation, you have to procreate. 0.79

00:59:06.000 To procreate, it's one man and one woman, and they create a child. 0.78

00:59:09.000 This is the family. 1.00

00:59:10.000 It's easy stuff.

00:59:11.000 They can do everything that they can. 0.66

00:59:15.000 They can mutilate themselves.

00:59:16.000 They can lop it off.

00:59:18.000 They can put on a wig.

00:59:19.000 They could do all this different stuff.

00:59:21.000 They could.

00:59:21.000 Put somebody's thing in somebody else's thing, and they could put this one on that egg and put it in this person, and they could mix and match all the different kinds of ways that they want.

00:59:31.000 But at the end of the day, the only way you produce a child is a man and a woman together, one couple, one man, one woman, one kid. 0.88

00:59:38.000 That's how it works. 0.95

00:59:40.000 So, yeah, of course.

00:59:41.000 Mike Healy, time for small business nationalism.

00:59:44.000 Support small businesses.

00:59:44.000 It's true.

00:59:46.000 Get away from the Walmart, get away from that kind of stuff.

00:59:49.000 It is just a civilization wrecker, it's a civilization killer.

00:59:54.000 When you see these big stores and they move in, and all of a sudden, small businesses are shutting down, they're going out of business.

01:00:01.000 You know, in my city, I drive down the street, and I'm sure people can relate, and there's always that one street.

01:00:07.000 It's down that one major thoroughfare in the smaller town or mid sized town.

01:00:11.000 That one major thoroughfare, which is car dealerships.

01:00:14.000 Car dealerships on both sides, car dealerships everywhere.

01:00:17.000 And in between the car dealerships, it's fast food.

01:00:19.000 So you got Arby's, Popeyes, McDonald's, Taco Bell, Chick fil A, and it's.

01:00:25.000 It's, you know, car dealership, Taco Bell, car dealership, McDonald's, Popeyes, car dealership, this one, car dealership, enterprise rent a car, car dealership, car dealership, you know, and all the rest.

01:00:36.000 And you got to imagine that while all these local chains are closing, all these local restaurants, all these local stores are closing, and all the big ones stay open, and it's destroying community.

01:00:48.000 Constancy's commentary We should give doctors who push pills the rope too.

01:00:54.000 Exactly, pharmaceutical dealers, they got to get the death penalty too. 0.61

01:00:58.000 The globalists have got to get the death penalty. 0.99

01:01:00.000 I got in big trouble for saying that in April of last year, for saying we got to hang the globalists. 0.98

01:01:06.000 And of course, I meant it rhetorically after a trial, after they are tried for their treasonous crimes. 1.00

01:01:12.000 But it's true.

01:01:13.000 Pharmaceutical companies, if they are prescribing, and they prescribe 30 times the pills that the population of our size would require, 30 times the amount that we should need as a country.

01:01:26.000 So the doctors, the pharmaceutical companies, they get it too.

01:01:31.000 Thumbs up, someone with some dollar deuce.

01:01:33.000 Thank you, my guy. 0.82

01:01:34.000 Matthew, what are your thoughts on the Sacklers and their role in the opioid crisis?

01:01:39.000 What is a Sackler? 0.66

01:01:39.000 I don't know. 0.66

01:01:40.000 Is that a family?

01:01:41.000 Is that a company?

01:01:42.000 I don't know what the Sacklers are. 0.98

01:01:45.000 Let me pull that up.

01:01:47.000 The Sacklers.

01:01:48.000 That's quite the name, huh?

01:01:50.000 Let's whip it out. 1.00

01:01:54.000 Sacklers.

01:01:55.000 Ah, yes.

01:01:57.000 Mortimer Sackler was an American physician and entrepreneur.

01:02:00.000 He used his fortune from OxyContin, the trade name for OxyContin.

01:02:06.000 Okay, so he built the painkiller network.

01:02:08.000 Well, I guess we got to try him.

01:02:11.000 We got to try him.

01:02:11.000 I don't know, though, by the same token, I haven't read too much, obviously, about this family, having just discovered them, but I got to imagine people that invent the drugs and get the drugs out there are not really to blame in the sense that there is a medical use, there is a medical utility for painkillers, right?

01:02:29.000 The problem is when the doctors prescribe them, over prescribe them.

01:02:34.000 So I don't know.

01:02:34.000 It's a different case, maybe, with Sackler, but I don't know enough about him.

01:02:40.000 Russian colluder America must renegotiate the Iran deal. 0.73

01:02:44.000 We should drop all sanctions, and in exchange, Iran agrees to destroy Israel. 0.81

01:02:48.000 You think Iran would agree?

01:02:49.000 No, we can't have that. 0.97

01:02:50.000 We can't have that.

01:02:51.000 We could not destroy Israel. 0.65

01:02:52.000 Of course, we could never do that.

01:02:55.000 No, no, no, no.

01:02:56.000 We can't talk like that.

01:02:57.000 Can't even joke like that, folks.

01:02:59.000 All right?

01:02:59.000 If you say that, you're a bad guy.

01:03:01.000 You're anti Semitic.

01:03:03.000 The problem I have with Israel is not that they exist. 1.00

01:03:05.000 Israel's fine. 0.78

01:03:07.000 You want your eternal capital and your eternal Holy Land, whatever. 0.85

01:03:12.000 You made it happen through deception and terrorism.

01:03:12.000 Okay?

01:03:15.000 You made it happen.

01:03:17.000 Okay.

01:03:18.000 But just leave everybody alone now.

01:03:19.000 Just leave everybody alone.

01:03:20.000 You got your land, whatever. 1.00

01:03:22.000 You want to drive the Palestinians out, just don't do it on our dime. 1.00

01:03:25.000 Just don't do it with our weapons. 0.83

01:03:27.000 Just don't do it with our politicians and spying on our people.

01:03:30.000 Just don't do that part.

01:03:32.000 Pursue your own self interest.

01:03:34.000 Do what you got to do. 1.00

01:03:36.000 If the Arabs are, they invaded us before, they'll invade us again, papa, papa. 1.00

01:03:40.000 You want to do that fear mongering in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, by all means, go right ahead. 0.99

01:03:45.000 But when they pull that crap in our country, and you got Bibi Netanyahu in these English speaking videos for our people, Propagandizing for war in Iran, that I can't take. 0.97

01:03:53.000 That I can't handle. 0.99

01:03:55.000 But we do need to renegotiate the Iran deal.

01:03:57.000 Not for that, but just generally.

01:03:59.000 Eric Wright, what's more indefensible, supporting Milo or Shapiro?

01:04:03.000 Pick between a race mixing drug user or a Zionist with no loyalty to America.

01:04:09.000 No cop outs. 0.99

01:04:10.000 That's a tough one.

01:04:11.000 That's a tough one. 0.99

01:04:11.000 I have to say, see, the thing is, Milo is a Zionist and also Jewish and also has no loyalty to America and he's also a race mixer and he uses drugs and he's a degenerate. 0.99

01:04:26.000 So, I guess unfortunately, I'd have to go with Ben Shapiro because, at the very least, you know, Milo presents as America First. 0.83

01:04:34.000 He presents as that, which is far worse, in my opinion, because Ben Shapiro, I guess he deceives, but on a different level.

01:04:41.000 Milo, he goes out there and he says, We're for Trump.

01:04:43.000 We're America First. 0.99

01:04:44.000 He's subverting an American nationalist position with this Israel loving stuff, with this degenerate stuff where he says, Oh, America First is about I can have sex with all kinds of these people and I can do these things. 0.98

01:04:57.000 Perverse things and blah, blah, blah. 0.80

01:04:59.000 And he's going to do his speeches and rallies with an Israeli flag in front of it. 0.99

01:05:02.000 You know, look, you love Israel so much, why don't you move there? 0.99

01:05:05.000 Hate to say it, fellas. 1.00

01:05:06.000 Got no problem with Israel.

01:05:08.000 By all means, do what you got to do. 0.90

01:05:09.000 But if you love it so much, why don't you go live there?

01:05:11.000 Do everybody a favor.

01:05:12.000 Same goes for any other country.

01:05:15.000 I see people in this country waving the Mexican flag.

01:05:18.000 It makes my blood boil.

01:05:19.000 I drive around the city of Chicago, which you may see this if you drive around Chicago, you'll see a lot of Polish flags, you'll see a lot of Mexican flags. 0.94

01:05:27.000 You love Mexico so much, go back to Mexico. 0.97

01:05:30.000 Sorry. 0.98

01:05:30.000 You know, I have Mexican heritage, and the people who left Mexico to come here wanted to leave Mexico and come to America. 0.98

01:05:37.000 You love Mexico, you want to fly their flag, go do it in Mexico. 0.63

01:05:40.000 You love Poland, go to Poland. 0.87

01:05:42.000 You love Israel, go to Israel. 0.97

01:05:44.000 So I guess Milo would be worse because he's a faker. 0.56

01:05:48.000 And our last one here Eric Wright, Oi, bruv, you got a license for that Neuf?

01:05:54.000 I do.

01:05:55.000 I do have my Neuf license in order, the licensing is in order.

01:06:00.000 For the tyrannical government.

01:06:02.000 We're all good.

01:06:02.000 I got license for the necktie, license for the microphone.

01:06:05.000 The only thing that we're not licensed on yet is the supercomputer, which we're working on.

01:06:11.000 So, now, but let's check back and we'll see if we got any other Streamlabs.

01:06:15.000 No, looks like the Streamlabs fellas, the Streamlabs donations are not exactly rolling in.

01:06:21.000 They're not exactly pouring in.

01:06:23.000 So, but that's all right.

01:06:24.000 We'll be working on it.

01:06:25.000 Remember, looks like those are all our super chats for tonight.

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01:06:49.000 I'll check back on the analytics.

01:06:51.000 If the analytics are good, I'll keep doing it.

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01:06:55.000 I checked on Facebook.

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America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes - March 19, 2018

What's Really Behind the Opioid Epidemic | America First Ep. 127

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