Name: Joe Rogan Experience #372 - Mariana van Zeller
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #372 - Mariana van Zeller' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2013-07-09. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #372 - Mariana van Zeller

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folks i know i've
been super busy and i've been down to one a week over the last uh couple of
weeks but almost out
of the woods with this new tv show so shit will get normal any second now this
week uh today uh
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hee-haw all right so uh with me today are uh darren foster and mariana von zeller
and um i first found
out about mariana from the uh show uh on vanguard the oxycontin express which
uh i remember watching it in
my house and thinking this is the craziest thing i have ever heard in my life i
couldn't believe that all
the things you were telling me about the whole system of pain management
centers and how it's set
up in florida it was true and the statistics on how many people are addicted to
oxycontin how many
prescriptions are being given out for oxycontin in florida is just absolutely
bananas
and i watched it and i said this is so far beyond out of control that it's
amazing that i'm just hearing
about it now from a documentary on current tv which is like you know not the
most widely viewed channel
i mean i felt like this should be on every channel on the front page of every
newspaper there's a
hijacking going on down there they've hijacked the legal system somehow or
another and
absolutely willfully put these things into position in order to extract money
and do it at the expense
of all these people being addicted i mean how did you find out about this and
how did you go about
doing that piece it's interesting you say that i mean it was exactly the same
for us the same surprise
that we got when we started looking into this story we found a little news
clipping on one newspaper
about some deaths in florida because of prescription drugs and some there were
more pain clinics around
and mcdonald's and we thought wow this is really interesting we should
investigate this and we
started looking into it and then we found out that there were seven people
every day dying from
prescription pill abuse that all over the u.s there are more people dying from
a prescription
pill overdose than heroin cocaine and ecstasy combined that just last year it
surpassed car
accidents to become the number one cause of accidental deaths in the united
states so this was a story that
we could just kind of turn our heads away from my god when when i watched it i
went to work and i told
all these people about it i was like you got to see this this is crazy and they
they didn't believe me
like when i was saying i go do you know in florida you can go to a doctor and
get a prescription and then
they don't have a database you can go to another doctor across the street and
get a new prescription
and just ping pong your way back and forth down the highway and they're
everywhere you know the most
insane thing was that we spoke to local journalists who had sort of covered
this story a little bit
and they told us look you'll go by pain clinics here and you'll see lines of
people and out of state
cars parked outside and literally lines of people i mean very long lines around
the corner of people
waiting to get into these pain clinics to get these prescription drugs and we
thought okay this is the kind of
thing that you hear about we'll never be able to film or witness ourselves and
then and then it was easy
i mean we as soon as we left the airport went straight to this one street that
we knew had a
lot of pain clinics and there it was the parking lots full of out-of-state
plates i mean people
driving all the way from kentucky ohio as far off as massachusetts down to florida
to buy their pills
and they pack their car with cars with people and then they bring them back and
sell them for five
ten times the price that they buy them in florida so it's a racket it's so hard
to believe when when
when i watched your show it was so hard to wrap my head around the fact that
there was one area that
was so completely out of control because where i grew up on the east coast or
here in california i've
never seen anything like that and i never had any inkling that this was
something that had to be dealt with
somewhere so watching that was a wow you really freaked me out it was when we
tried to film one
of the lines we knew there was this one pain clinic that had that a lot of
people liked going to because
it was super easy to get drugs basically you just go in and out and get
whatever you wanted and we
started filming outside and we set our tripod and we were across the street on
the other side of this
sort of it wasn't a freeway it was sort of a big street and uh as soon as we
started filming these
these guys come out and they start chasing us and they asked us what we were
doing and we said you
know we were just filming out here big guys big guys i mean big big guys um and
um they started
chasing us and we ran out of gas because every time we tried to stop and get
gas in our car we were
running low they would get out the car and it was just me darren and our other
producer sarissa and i
was freaked out the night before i'd been watching the sopranos and i really
felt like i was a part of the
sopranos oh my god we we've been we traveled all around the world been to war
zones and we're going
to be killed right here in in florida in fort lauderdale florida because we
were filming a pain clinic it
was but those guys those guys were actually later indicted they were um busted
by the dea and they
were late indicted but in the indictment they found that they had made like 40
million dollars in
two years off these pain clinics and they're they're in jail for like 17 years
now because i think one of
them was even um convicted of like hiring someone to to uh kill to take out
somebody else yeah gun for
hire yeah i mean these were dangerous people these were not people that you
want yeah so not not good
people always getting in behind the these rackets so when you ran out of gas
what happened so we ran out
of gas and i i had just entered we just interviewed some law enforcement there
and we had he was calling
9-1-1 i was calling the contact that we had for law enforcement there and
saying please help us we don't
know what to do and in the meantime the 9-1-1 i mean we were about five minutes
later we were on 95 and
so like highway patrol just saw that we were pulled over anyway and they they
came and then but we
stopped and then the other guy stopped behind us and they didn't come out of
the car because i think
they realized that we were calling 9-1-1 but they just they just stayed there
and it was just to
intimidate us so they stayed there and then they made the story up to the
police that uh we had been
stalk stalking them that they had an ex-girlfriend that was stalking them so
they thought that we were stalking
the ex-girlfriend or something like that um but she wants it bro she's filming
because she wants me
i mean you do have stalker tendencies coming from my husband wow so um the non-database
thing that has
to be a criminal thing i mean that there's no way that could in this day and
age there's no way that
could be by accident right yeah you know they they did pass a um a drug control
plan there there now that
um is in place what does that mean it means that now doctors they have a
database and plan in place
basically that they um are supposed to check to see if a customer is coming or
a client is coming to get
more drugs right so that you can't go what's called doctor shopping from pain
clinic to pain clinic or pharmacy
to pharmacy to get all these meds um however it's not mandatory but i mean it's
but far better right
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