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Columbus suing pharmaceutical comapnies and alcohol free beer · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: All right, City of Columbus. This is the City of Columbus,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, in case you wondering, City of Columbus.
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  Speaker 1: I jumped on them years ago, back when everybody was
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  Speaker 1: refusing to allow travel to the state of Arizona for
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  Speaker 1: immigration policies out there in Arizona or was it homosexual stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember which it was. There was something that
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  Speaker 1: Arizona was doing.
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  Speaker 2: Wait, we weren't allowed to travel to Arizona for homosexual stuff.
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  Speaker 1: No, it was against the rules. Man, I forget what
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  Speaker 1: it was. It was so silly that I've kind of
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  Speaker 1: wiped half the story out of my mind. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the state of Arizona was either doing something when it
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  Speaker 1: came to detention or arresting illegal immigrants, or it was
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  Speaker 1: maybe it was denial of some LGBTQ convention or so.
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea. I can't remember what it was.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, you know, other state governments said, well, we're
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  Speaker 1: not going to do any business with Arizona. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: prohibit state travel to Arizona for any of our departments
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  Speaker 1: or employees, that kind of thing. I think Columbus had
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  Speaker 1: to take a stand. I'm like, why do you seriously,
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  Speaker 1: do you think anybody in any city in any state
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  Speaker 1: in the United States of Americans. Man, we're gonna have
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  Speaker 1: an opinion on as suit as the people of Columbus,
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  Speaker 1: Ohio take a position. No, it was irrelevant, grand standing,
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  Speaker 1: see me, see me, see me. They've done it several
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  Speaker 1: times since then, several different occasions where uh, I just
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  Speaker 1: think again, in an attempt to up to seem relevant,
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  Speaker 1: they step into arenas where they do not belong. And
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  Speaker 1: here's the bad part of that. While they're trying to
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  Speaker 1: have this major league city reputation out there, we want
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  Speaker 1: people to think of us as a major league city.
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  Speaker 1: You do coltown bs like this? This that I am
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  Speaker 1: speaking of is a lawsuit from the WSYX six website.
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  Speaker 1: Columbus City attorneys at client announced the city has filed
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  Speaker 1: a lawsuit against several drug companies and pharmacy benefit managers
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  Speaker 1: for allegedly inflating in insulin prices for decades, costing taxpayers millions.
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  Speaker 1: The lawsuit aims to recover the millions of dollars in
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  Speaker 1: exorbitant fees that Columbus taxpayers are paid due to the
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  Speaker 1: alleged unethical pricing scheme. Okay, first, of all, it's been
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  Speaker 1: going on for decades. Why the hell did you wait
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  Speaker 1: till now to do something if you thought you could
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  Speaker 1: do something just asking, just asking. Columbus joined attorneys general
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  Speaker 1: from Arkansas. That's a state, California, that's the state, Kansas.
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  Speaker 1: That's the state, Kentucky that's a state, Minnesota that's the state,
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  Speaker 1: and Mississippi that's a state, as well as the city
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  Speaker 1: of Cleveland, and then other municipalities. See that's how important
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  Speaker 1: they are. They're other municipalities. They're not even named in
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  Speaker 1: the news coverage ensuing three major insulin producers and several PBMs.
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  Speaker 1: The companies named in the lawsuit include Eli, Lily, Novo, Nordisk,
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  Speaker 1: n Off, send Off, I don't even know sent Off,
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  Speaker 1: e Aventis, CVS Health, CBS Pharmacy Care, Mark Health, United
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  Speaker 1: Health Group, express Scripts, Pharmacy, optim Rx, among others. Napoleon Shoalink, PLLC,
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  Speaker 1: and Ventura Law will serve as special council to the
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  Speaker 1: city with no cost to Columbus for these services under
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  Speaker 1: a contract approved by Columbus City Council in July of
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. Because we all know legal firms jump
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  Speaker 1: on big corporate cases like this for free every day.
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  Speaker 1: I'm quite sure it would be one of those. We'll
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  Speaker 1: get a percentage of whatever you win, and the more
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  Speaker 1: litigants on board, the bigger the settlement. Week is I
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  Speaker 1: don't know that they're calling it a class action suit,
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  Speaker 1: but essentially it's the same logic. The more litigant we have,
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  Speaker 1: the more we can ask for, and then we the attorneys,
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  Speaker 1: will take a piece of that, but we won't charge
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  Speaker 1: you anything, which means the attorneys go into I guess
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  Speaker 1: relatively sure that they're going to procure some money, but
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  Speaker 1: if they don't, you get nothing, and you get the
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  Speaker 1: pleasure of looking silly. The only city named in that
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  Speaker 1: story outside of Columbus was Cleveland. The rest are other
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  Speaker 1: municipalities because they're meaningless state attorneys generals making filing lawsuits. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I can see that because states administer the medicaid programs
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  Speaker 1: that we're paid is. I don't even know where the
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  Speaker 1: city of Columbus comes into play when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: paying for these medications. There's no city medicaid. Is there
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  Speaker 1: is there a municipal medicaid? And how can the city
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  Speaker 1: have a problem paying for somebody's insulin, regardless of the costs.
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  Speaker 1: When they seem to have no damn problems, saying for
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  Speaker 1: needle recycling, nlocks own for the heroin addicts to keep
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  Speaker 1: on the fire trucks, the ambulances and the police cars.
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  Speaker 1: They got no problem with that. But you know there's
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  Speaker 1: money that we can go get some money. And that's
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  Speaker 1: what it's all about, man, It's all about follow the money.
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  Speaker 1: This has nothing to do with right or wrong, good
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  Speaker 1: and bad, justice or injustice. This is all about money. Cocaine.
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned the lady from France who gave up her
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  Speaker 1: husband an eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars in a
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  Speaker 1: related story, Cocaine use in France has almost doubled in
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  Speaker 1: the last year. Why Francis cocaine consumption almost doubled in
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  Speaker 1: the last year, putting it on par with Britain. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't know the British were into that and all that.
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  Speaker 1: The French Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction found
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  Speaker 1: that one point one million people in France took drugs
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  Speaker 1: or took the drug at least once in twenty twenty three,
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  Speaker 1: compared to six hundred thy in twenty twenty two. Research
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  Speaker 1: from the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development showed the
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  Speaker 1: UK had the worst cocaine habit in Europe. Inch butt,
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  Speaker 1: what did you do it? Mit I having a cocaine?
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  Speaker 1: What you did?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Come in it? Join you? I can't believe it. The
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  Speaker 1: worst cocaine habbit in Europe at twenty twenty three, with
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  Speaker 1: two point seven percent of adults aged fifteen to sixty
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  Speaker 1: four fifteen as an adult fifteen to sixty four using
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  Speaker 1: the drug. France's consumption has now reached a similar figure,
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  Speaker 1: with the study finding that two point seven percent of
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  Speaker 1: French adults using cocaine in twenty twenty three. Various factors
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  Speaker 1: explained the dramatic rise, including growth in production and the
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  Speaker 1: drugs drugs changing image. International production is in an all
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  Speaker 1: time high. The three main producers it's like they know,
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  Speaker 1: Procter and Gamble now the three main producers Columbia, Bolivia
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  Speaker 1: and Peru have increase their production by one thousand, five
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  Speaker 1: hundred and sixty six tons between twenty ten and twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty two. According to the u in Office on Drugs
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  Speaker 1: and Crime, cocaine use going through the roof in France
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  Speaker 1: and the UK and also Miami, Vice premieres there next year.
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  Speaker 1: I understand, which I just I thought I haven't heard
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  Speaker 1: about cocaine in so long. I thought it was pass.
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  Speaker 2: A did you stop doing it?
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  Speaker 1: Or I've never done I was cocaine scares a crap
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  Speaker 1: out of me.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, that's what they all say.
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  Speaker 1: But who was Remember the basketball player? The heart attack?
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  Speaker 1: The yeah that happening to me. I'm a fat, cigarette
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  Speaker 1: smoking son of a gun. I Am not going to
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  Speaker 1: take a chance at my heart or going oh well,
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  Speaker 1: we weren't done. Nope, don't need it.
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  Speaker 2: He was sill good too.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, there's plenty of stuff out there. And
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  Speaker 1: I've said this before, if it wasn't a illegal and
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  Speaker 1: be could kill you. If I could get the effects
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  Speaker 1: of something that is illegal, you know, I would like
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  Speaker 1: if you gave me a completely legal, non addictive, not
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  Speaker 1: gonna kill you or make your teeth fall out. Crystal meth. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'd mixed that in with my chocolate milk. If I
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  Speaker 1: could get twenty and a half hours out of every
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  Speaker 1: day without being tired, oh man, I could be so productive.
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  Speaker 1: There's so much more I could get done.
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  Speaker 2: So the pep or the good part of it, but
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  Speaker 2: none of the side effects.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't want I don't want my teeth to
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  Speaker 1: fall out. I don't want to be dead. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to break the law. But yeah, well you know what,
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  Speaker 1: one day it will. We've already gotten no an alcoholic alcohol.
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  Speaker 1: That stuff scares me. It's like, GHB, have you seen
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  Speaker 1: those ads on the social media? Just add a drop
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  Speaker 1: to your soda or tea and it's like having an
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  Speaker 1: alcoholic drink. That crap is scary?
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  Speaker 2: Is it alcohol?
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  Speaker 1: No, it's some chemical thing like an eye dropper thing,
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  Speaker 1: and you can buy it and say you put a
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  Speaker 1: drop it and it's the same as having an ounce
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  Speaker 1: of alcohol and a drink, but there's no hangover associated
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  Speaker 1: with it because this is not alcohol.
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  Speaker 2: There's something else has to happen to you.
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  Speaker 1: That's scared. But it scares me. Man, what happens when
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  Speaker 1: some somebody gets a hold of that and just starts,
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  Speaker 1: you know, dropping a drop in everybody's drink And the
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  Speaker 1: next thing you know, everybody in the place is trashed
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  Speaker 1: and they haven't had anything but half a drink. And
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  Speaker 1: that's that's that's just danger waiting to happen. But that's
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  Speaker 1: modern technology and chemicals leading the way into you know,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, and that too will only get worse.
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  Speaker 2: Do you get drunk like real quick or is it
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  Speaker 2: a long time? Me? No? I mean if you use
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  Speaker 2: the eye drop thingy stuff, how does it work?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I've just seen the ads for it.
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  Speaker 2: We'll test drive it for food we'll get.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, if you guys want to do it,
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  Speaker 1: we can get some and give it a shot.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I'll be the guinea pig. I'll do. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Mark can stay in control and I will. I'll do
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  Speaker 1: like a you know, a drop in an orange juice
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  Speaker 1: every fifteen minutes or something like that, and see how
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing after two hours. I just warn you somebody
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  Speaker 1: may have to carry me. You might want to call
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  Speaker 1: appreciate it,