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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Why Is No One Being Held Accountable For America's Opioid Crisis?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-10-28. Transcript available.

So you're from a region that was firsthand devastated by the money lizard Sackler
family, right?
Which like, you know, which Purdue Pharma and everything that happened with OxyContin,
like over 500,000 people died at the hands of them.
Yeah.
And big, big problem.
Yeah.
Unbelievable.
Right.
And it compromised like, you know, they use loopholes, all types of stuff to to
be able to keep that company going.
Right.
And really to keep killing people.
I mean, it seemed undeniable at a certain point that they were murderers.
It was legalized drug dealing is what it was on an industrial scale.
I mean, made billions and billions of dollars.
They just got like a slap on the like they got a financial slap on the wrist.
Right.
Very tiny.
But why why can't we shouldn't they be kicked out of our country?
It feels like like if we can let in 20 million people in our country, right,
that shouldn't be here.
Yeah.
Or that are not like vetted properly to be here.
Don't have a legal right to be here.
Right.
I agree.
I would say they shouldn't be here.
But why can't we put those motherfuckers on a boat and send them back to
wherever the fuck they came from?
That's a good question, man.
Look, I think that frankly.
And I don't mean that angrily at you, but it's like.
No, man.
I'm pissed off about it, too.
Like at what point do people lose the opportunity to be here?
It seemed like if you killed 500,000 people, you wouldn't be able to hang out
anymore.
Or maybe at least you should have a criminal investigation.
Yeah.
Right.
Because that's the thing that's always I've always I mean, like the Sackler
family clearly got rich off of an extraordinary amount of human misery and
death.
Yeah.
OK.
Where are they from?
Bring it up real quick.
I want to say they're from New York, maybe, or they're from the Northeast.
I'm pretty sure.
The Sackler family originated from Galassia in Poland and their ancestors were
Jewish immigrants.
Isaac Sackler.
Brooklyn, New York.
Oh, and then they lived in Brooklyn, New York.
That's why I thought they were from New York, Connecticut.
I mean, look, the thing that I've never understood about them is that they did
get fined, but the fine was such a tiny amount.
It was a couple of billion bucks.
But they made tens and tens of billions of dollars.
I mean, these guys were absolutely rolling in the dough.
But they like why isn't there a criminal investigation into this, right?
Like if I sold drugs on the street and some person has an overdose and died,
like you can get felony prosecuted for that.
Yeah.
Or at least investigated for it.
And there was never a criminal, at least as I understand it, never a criminal
investigation into what was known.
Yeah, I think they had to breach a plea deal of some sort.
Okay.
As the nation continues to grapple with that, the Sackler family had agreed to
pay $6 billion to families and states as part of an agreement to wind down
Purdue Pharma, the maker of Oxycontinent exchange.
The Sackler family would be immunized from future civil liability claims.
Unreal.
Because here's my understanding about it.
And by the way, I think that like you always got to be worried about this stuff
when you're the child of addiction is like, are there, whether it's drugs,
alcohol, whatever, you got to be, you kind of, you're worried about making sure
you do yourself don't get hooked on anything.
Right.
Like I had a minor surgery once and like a very minor surgery and I was
prescribed Oxycontin and I took it for like, you know, 12 hours.
Got any left?
Sorry.
No, because of my wife, because of what I'm about to tell you.
Okay.
And my wife was like giving me my meds.
She was like, hey, you ready for your next dose?
And I was like, yeah, you know, the pain's not really that bad anymore.
I don't really want to take one.
But yeah, just give me one because I feel really good when I take it.
And then she and I both had this like moment of realization, like, oh shit.
Right.
That is, that is where this whole thing starts.
So she, you know, took it to wherever some disposal site and got, we got rid of
it and that was it.
But the problem with Oxycontin, as I understand it at least, is that it's
supposed to be delayed release oxycodone.
But, you know, the problem that is, is people figured out if you just crush it
up.
Yeah.
Then you could just get it all at once.
All released right now.
All released right now.
And then the Sackler families, I understand it, knew about it.
Right.
Purdue Pharma knew this was going on and they should have been like, oh, no, no.
Okay, we're going to stop this because people are getting killed by overdosing
all this stuff because they're taking too high of a dose and they didn't do
anything.
Yeah.
Like that, that is my understanding fundamentally of what happened is, is they
didn't want to stop it because they were getting rich from it.
Oh, yeah.
It's, man, it's, it's really gross.
I just couldn't imagine that.
Imagine people dying and you're making money, but they're dying.
People are dying.
Family.
The ripple effect of that in this country is still, it's still haunting people.
Absolutely.
And that's where the heroin epidemic, which is now a fentanyl epidemic, came
from.
It started as a pill epidemic.
And it actually was like, I always used to think it was okay, kind of like me,
like, oh, you have surgery and you get too many drugs and then eventually you
get hooked.
What it actually was is they were over-prescribing it so much that it was just
everywhere.
Yeah.
Right.
And so like, oh, you know, your nephew comes over and he's 17 and he takes some
to his buddies and now they're all hooked on oxy.
And that's like, that, that's what actually happened.
And there was just so much of this drug everywhere that it started the epidemic
we have now.
Yeah.
And the outside, it was like candy coat.
It was like, you just had to slurp off the outside a little bit and then you
could party.
Oh, I didn't realize that.
Yeah.
I think you just had to slurp.
I heard about people crushing.
I didn't know if you just had to slurp off the outside.
Yeah.
I think you did.
And yeah.
I don't know if you noticed this, but something I noticed and it's, you know,
it's not to get too political here, but, you know, like five, six, seven years
ago.
You know, you start noticing this and then it really started picking up a few
years ago where you have somebody who's been say six months or nine months
sober and then they don't come to a couple meetings and then they're just dead.
And you realize, like, when people relapsed, when mom was in the worst of it,
yeah, there was some dangerous shit out there, but it wasn't nearly as deadly
as the stuff that's out there today.
Oh, yeah.
And I really worry about that, right?
Because, you know, think about the second chance I got with my mom and I really
worry that the poison that we've got in the streets now is so dangerous that a
lot of people would have that second chance.
But, you know, you fall off the wagon once 15 years ago, it's like, oh, that
sucks.
I'm going to climb back on today.
You fall off that wagon.
It might, it might kill you.
Yeah.
And I really worry about that because I think a lot of a lot of good people,
you know, like mom, it didn't happen like once.
Right.
It's not like she got clean and sober and that was it.
Right.
It's a process.
Fall off a few times.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Get back on.
It's a process, man.
Yeah, I've had relapses over the years and had to get back on and it's tough
and one of the tougher things to do is to get back on.
But it's funny because I think if, I don't know if I'd be sober if the stuff
weren't killing people, to be honest with you.
I know that's sad to say, but that keeps me out of the risk of it, you know, it
just makes it too.
Makes it a little scarier.
Yeah, that's the thing.
It makes it scarier.
But it's also sad that somebody, I mean, this is ridiculous to say probably
that somebody can't, you know, you can't even do cocaine in this country
anymore, you know?
And that seems like a crazy thing to say.
And don't say it.
Don't say that.
But I said it.
But, but yeah, but don't say that anymore.
I'm going to steal that line.
After the election, though, and I win first.
It's unfortunate.
To be clear to those watching, I've never done cocaine before.
Yeah, and nobody's saying.
I've made many mistakes, but not that one.
Nobody's saying, yeah.
But it's just, it's unfortunate that, that it's, I don't even know where to go.
I know what you mean, but it's unfortunate that like, look, everybody makes
mistakes.
Right.
Everybody makes mistakes.
Right.
And like, I'm not, I know, there's a buddy of mine told me about this.
This is, hell, this has got to have been three years ago.
It's been a while.
But basically what happened is, his daughter was like a bridesmaid in a wedding.
And they were going to this wedding.
And like, the wedding got canceled because a couple of the groomsmen like, had
terrible
overdoses the night before at the bachelor party because they took some, I mean,
like,
you know, you can judge and say, oh, they shouldn't have been taking something.
But everybody takes something at some point in their lives.
Like, we don't want it to kill people.
We don't want stupid mistakes to kill people.
That's, that's sort of like, live and learn, live and learn from stupid
mistakes.
Right.
You used to be able to live and learn.
Yes.
Now it becomes a death sentence.
Right.
That's what's really, I think, changed about from now to when my, my mom was
struggling with
addiction.
Why, why is it so bad?
Like, what, do you know a lot about the fentanyl crisis?
I mean, I know a fair amount about it.
You know, I've, I've, I've worried about it for a long time.
I've, I've, you know, worked on bills related to it.
I mean, there, there are two basic issues, right?
And it's, it's like, you know, any business, there's a manufacturer, there's a
wholesaler,
and then there's the retail.
Right.
And, you know, with, with fentanyl, it's, it's not, you can't like make fentanyl
in a
trailer in somebody's basement, right?
That's like, it's not like meth.
It, it takes a really complicated, pretty sophisticated pharmaceutical process.
So we know that a lot of it, maybe even most of it, the Chinese are making,
meaning Chinese
companies, not like necessarily the Chinese government, but they sure as hell
know about
it.
And then they bring it in primarily through the Southern border.
And the Mexican drug cartels are like the wholesalers, right?
If the Chinese pharma, pharma is the manufacturer, the drug cartels are
bringing in wholesale
style, and then it makes it in the street level.
Wow.
And I mean, it's really crazy, man.
Like I was talking to a DA agent about this a couple of years ago, and I think
this was
in, this was in 2022.
He was, he was like, look, a few years ago, the cartels were making less than a
billion
dollars a year.
And he's like, in 22, 23, we think they'll make $14 billion a year.
So like an explosion of drug trafficking in this country.
And yeah, you hear about stories, and I don't think it happens that much, thank
God, but somebody
smokes a joint, it's laced with fentanyl.
They go into a coma.
Oh yeah.
I mean, I have seven friends that have, that I have seven friends and not even
just like
estranged people, you know, like, but not all best friends.
Sure.
But I have seven friends that, um, that overdosed and died from, uh, fentanyl.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's me.
Right.
And it, yeah.
And it happened with harder stuff.
It happens a lot.
Like, I think with, you know, you hear about it being laced in marijuana, but
like not that
much.
Yeah.
But I mean, your point about cocaine, pills, like you have to be careful, like
seriously,
it's, it's a huge thing, unbelievable crisis.
And it's like, yeah, you'd think that we, I don't know how you fight something
like that.
Maybe we need to have like a, like a head of like the DEA or something on,
maybe he would
be able to help or, or she would be able to help us figure that out a little
bit.
I think it'd be, that'd be a very interesting conversation, but I think, I
think you've
got to, I think you gotta go, go to it at the heart and something, you know,
Trump did
towards the end of his administration, doesn't get a whole lot of headlines.
Obviously I'm biased.
I think it should get headlines as he was using economic leverage to try to
convince the Chinese
to crack down on fentanyl manufacturing.
Cause if you get it at the source, right, that's, I think really the way to, to
address
it.
Oh, there's fentanyl in half the bookshelves they make over there.
Dude, you put a couple, you put a fucking half a set of dictionaries in that
bitch will give, that bitch will give way.
I mean, I, I absolutely believe that.
Oh man.
That's what's in the furniture here.
We okay.
But you, you, I mean, you, you do that.
You go after the drug cartels.
The other thing that people don't realize about the cartels, man, is, is one,
we're talking
about some very dark and dangerous people.
Like this is not some guy who's like dealing, you know, selling joints on a
college.
These are like, they're doing sex trafficking.
They're, they're, they're, they're, they're getting 11, 10 year old girls
involved in the
sex trade.
Yeah.
They're like very evil people.
Dictator type of.
Oh, just absolutely vile.
And it's, it's like, why, why are we making it easier for these, this like
massive criminal,
um, organizations to get richer and richer and richer?
Like we should be trying to make them poor.
And I mean, you know, help, help people actually need it.
Well, it's also, it's obviously one of the biggest enemies.
That's right.
It's like, if there were an enemy that we're killing, if somebody, if there
were somebody
shooting in your country every day and killing people at a certain point, you
go over there
or you send your military there or do something to say, Hey, that's right.
You're not going to be, we're not going to let you do this anymore.
Yeah.
That's basically what's happening.
That's right.
I mean, can you, can you imagine if, if, if Mexico sent gunmen across the
border and killed
70,000 Americans a year?
Cause that's about what dies from fentanyl.
We would be in a major war, right?
What, you know, we, we, we just absolutely would be the case.
So the other thing that's crazy about this is, so these cartels, and you see
this graphic
that helps pretty, pretty interesting there, but the cartels are going to start
to destabilize
the country of Mexico.
Like, do you know, um, do you know his name Pablo Escobar?
Yeah, I do.
Okay.
So like the, the, the Colombian cartels in the seventies were as powerful as
like the
Colombian government, right?
It was, it was a narco state.
You don't want that to happen at like right at the American Southern border
where the drug
cartels have more power than the Mexican government.
That's just going to be chaotic.
It's going to be basically a warlike atmosphere on our Southern border.
That's bad news.
Well, it's bad news, but it'd be great to figure out a way that to, to shut it
down.
I mean, it just feels like, yeah, if that many people are dying each year, if
it were
a actual people shooting at these people, we would send people there in a
heartbeat.
Right.
I mean, and I, and I think that's what we have to, I think not that we have to
send people
to, to Mexico, but I think that we actually have to have a military response at
the Southern
border because these are such vicious people.
And I think local law enforcement, they're telling us they're overwhelmed by
some of these
guys.
And we've got to be willing to send our, our best people, our best fighters to
get control
of the Southern border.
I think that's the most important issue confronting the country because look,
I mean, how do you even measure the human cost of 70,000 people, many of them
in the prime
of their life and the ripple effect of it too, in their families, the orphans,
the parents
that are heartbroken.
I mean, how many kids are like, this is my story, right?
That's why my grandmother raised me is because my mom struggled with addiction.
Luckily my mom got clean.
You've got hundreds of thousands of children who are being raised by their
grandparents or
their aunts and uncles, like that is an unspeakable human tragedy, man.
Especially when we can do better.
We could do so much better and we're failing right now.
And that's, you know, the one, one of the reasons why I'm here.
One of the reasons why I'm running.
Yeah.
Thank you.

Why Is No One Being Held Accountable For America's Opioid Crisis?

So you're from a region that was firsthand devastated by the money lizard Sackler
family, right?
Which like, you know, which Purdue Pharma and everything that happened with OxyContin,
like over 500,000 people died at the hands of them.
Yeah.
And big, big problem.
Yeah.
Unbelievable.
Right.
And it compromised like, you know, they use loopholes, all types of stuff to to
be able to keep that company going.
Right.
And really to keep killing people.
I mean, it seemed undeniable at a certain point that they were murderers.
It was legalized drug dealing is what it was on an industrial scale.
I mean, made billions and billions of dollars.
They just got like a slap on the like they got a financial slap on the wrist.
Right.
Very tiny.
But why why can't we shouldn't they be kicked out of our country?
It feels like like if we can let in 20 million people in our country, right,
that shouldn't be here.
Yeah.
Or that are not like vetted properly to be here.
Don't have a legal right to be here.
Right.
I agree.
I would say they shouldn't be here.
But why can't we put those motherfuckers on a boat and send them back to
wherever the fuck they came from?
That's a good question, man.
Look, I think that frankly.
And I don't mean that angrily at you, but it's like.
No, man.
I'm pissed off about it, too.
Like at what point do people lose the opportunity to be here?
It seemed like if you killed 500,000 people, you wouldn't be able to hang out
anymore.
Or maybe at least you should have a criminal investigation.
Yeah.
Right.
Because that's the thing that's always I've always I mean, like the Sackler
family clearly got rich off of an extraordinary amount of human misery and
death.
Yeah.
OK.
Where are they from?
Bring it up real quick.
I want to say they're from New York, maybe, or they're from the Northeast.
I'm pretty sure.
The Sackler family originated from Galassia in Poland and their ancestors were
Jewish immigrants.
Isaac Sackler.
Brooklyn, New York.
Oh, and then they lived in Brooklyn, New York.
That's why I thought they were from New York, Connecticut.
I mean, look, the thing that I've never understood about them is that they did
get fined, but the fine was such a tiny amount.
It was a couple of billion bucks.
But they made tens and tens of billions of dollars.
I mean, these guys were absolutely rolling in the dough.
But they like why isn't there a criminal investigation into this, right?
Like if I sold drugs on the street and some person has an overdose and died,
like you can get felony prosecuted for that.
Yeah.
Or at least investigated for it.
And there was never a criminal, at least as I understand it, never a criminal
investigation into what was known.
Yeah, I think they had to breach a plea deal of some sort.
Okay.
As the nation continues to grapple with that, the Sackler family had agreed to
pay $6 billion to families and states as part of an agreement to wind down
Purdue Pharma, the maker of Oxycontinent exchange.
The Sackler family would be immunized from future civil liability claims.
Unreal.
Because here's my understanding about it.
And by the way, I think that like you always got to be worried about this stuff
when you're the child of addiction is like, are there, whether it's drugs,
alcohol, whatever, you got to be, you kind of, you're worried about making sure
you do yourself don't get hooked on anything.
Right.
Like I had a minor surgery once and like a very minor surgery and I was
prescribed Oxycontin and I took it for like, you know, 12 hours.
Got any left?
Sorry.
No, because of my wife, because of what I'm about to tell you.
Okay.
And my wife was like giving me my meds.
She was like, hey, you ready for your next dose?
And I was like, yeah, you know, the pain's not really that bad anymore.
I don't really want to take one.
But yeah, just give me one because I feel really good when I take it.
And then she and I both had this like moment of realization, like, oh shit.
Right.
That is, that is where this whole thing starts.
So she, you know, took it to wherever some disposal site and got, we got rid of
it and that was it.
But the problem with Oxycontin, as I understand it at least, is that it's
supposed to be delayed release oxycodone.
But, you know, the problem that is, is people figured out if you just crush it
up.
Yeah.
Then you could just get it all at once.
All released right now.
All released right now.
And then the Sackler families, I understand it, knew about it.
Right.
Purdue Pharma knew this was going on and they should have been like, oh, no, no.
Okay, we're going to stop this because people are getting killed by overdosing
all this stuff because they're taking too high of a dose and they didn't do
anything.
Yeah.
Like that, that is my understanding fundamentally of what happened is, is they
didn't want to stop it because they were getting rich from it.
Oh, yeah.
It's, man, it's, it's really gross.
I just couldn't imagine that.
Imagine people dying and you're making money, but they're dying.
People are dying.
Family.
The ripple effect of that in this country is still, it's still haunting people.
Absolutely.
And that's where the heroin epidemic, which is now a fentanyl epidemic, came
from.
It started as a pill epidemic.
And it actually was like, I always used to think it was okay, kind of like me,
like, oh, you have surgery and you get too many drugs and then eventually you
get hooked.
What it actually was is they were over-prescribing it so much that it was just
everywhere.
Yeah.
Right.
And so like, oh, you know, your nephew comes over and he's 17 and he takes some
to his buddies and now they're all hooked on oxy.
And that's like, that, that's what actually happened.
And there was just so much of this drug everywhere that it started the epidemic
we have now.
Yeah.
And the outside, it was like candy coat.
It was like, you just had to slurp off the outside a little bit and then you
could party.
Oh, I didn't realize that.
Yeah.
I think you just had to slurp.
I heard about people crushing.
I didn't know if you just had to slurp off the outside.
Yeah.
I think you did.
And yeah.
I don't know if you noticed this, but something I noticed and it's, you know,
it's not to get too political here, but, you know, like five, six, seven years
ago.
You know, you start noticing this and then it really started picking up a few
years ago where you have somebody who's been say six months or nine months
sober and then they don't come to a couple meetings and then they're just dead.
And you realize, like, when people relapsed, when mom was in the worst of it,
yeah, there was some dangerous shit out there, but it wasn't nearly as deadly
as the stuff that's out there today.
Oh, yeah.
And I really worry about that, right?
Because, you know, think about the second chance I got with my mom and I really
worry that the poison that we've got in the streets now is so dangerous that a
lot of people would have that second chance.
But, you know, you fall off the wagon once 15 years ago, it's like, oh, that
sucks.
I'm going to climb back on today.
You fall off that wagon.
It might, it might kill you.
Yeah.
And I really worry about that because I think a lot of a lot of good people,
you know, like mom, it didn't happen like once.
Right.
It's not like she got clean and sober and that was it.
Right.
It's a process.
Fall off a few times.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Get back on.
It's a process, man.
Yeah, I've had relapses over the years and had to get back on and it's tough
and one of the tougher things to do is to get back on.
But it's funny because I think if, I don't know if I'd be sober if the stuff
weren't killing people, to be honest with you.
I know that's sad to say, but that keeps me out of the risk of it, you know, it
just makes it too.
Makes it a little scarier.
Yeah, that's the thing.
It makes it scarier.
But it's also sad that somebody, I mean, this is ridiculous to say probably
that somebody can't, you know, you can't even do cocaine in this country
anymore, you know?
And that seems like a crazy thing to say.
And don't say it.
Don't say that.
But I said it.
But, but yeah, but don't say that anymore.
I'm going to steal that line.
After the election, though, and I win first.
It's unfortunate.
To be clear to those watching, I've never done cocaine before.
Yeah, and nobody's saying.
I've made many mistakes, but not that one.
Nobody's saying, yeah.
But it's just, it's unfortunate that, that it's, I don't even know where to go.
I know what you mean, but it's unfortunate that like, look, everybody makes
mistakes.
Right.
Everybody makes mistakes.
Right.
And like, I'm not, I know, there's a buddy of mine told me about this.
This is, hell, this has got to have been three years ago.
It's been a while.
But basically what happened is, his daughter was like a bridesmaid in a wedding.
And they were going to this wedding.
And like, the wedding got canceled because a couple of the groomsmen like, had
terrible
overdoses the night before at the bachelor party because they took some, I mean,
like,
you know, you can judge and say, oh, they shouldn't have been taking something.
But everybody takes something at some point in their lives.
Like, we don't want it to kill people.
We don't want stupid mistakes to kill people.
That's, that's sort of like, live and learn, live and learn from stupid
mistakes.
Right.
You used to be able to live and learn.
Yes.
Now it becomes a death sentence.
Right.
That's what's really, I think, changed about from now to when my, my mom was
struggling with
addiction.
Why, why is it so bad?
Like, what, do you know a lot about the fentanyl crisis?
I mean, I know a fair amount about it.
You know, I've, I've, I've worried about it for a long time.
I've, I've, you know, worked on bills related to it.
I mean, there, there are two basic issues, right?
And it's, it's like, you know, any business, there's a manufacturer, there's a
wholesaler,
and then there's the retail.
Right.
And, you know, with, with fentanyl, it's, it's not, you can't like make fentanyl
in a
trailer in somebody's basement, right?
That's like, it's not like meth.
It, it takes a really complicated, pretty sophisticated pharmaceutical process.
So we know that a lot of it, maybe even most of it, the Chinese are making,
meaning Chinese
companies, not like necessarily the Chinese government, but they sure as hell
know about
it.
And then they bring it in primarily through the Southern border.
And the Mexican drug cartels are like the wholesalers, right?
If the Chinese pharma, pharma is the manufacturer, the drug cartels are
bringing in wholesale
style, and then it makes it in the street level.
Wow.
And I mean, it's really crazy, man.
Like I was talking to a DA agent about this a couple of years ago, and I think
this was
in, this was in 2022.
He was, he was like, look, a few years ago, the cartels were making less than a
billion
dollars a year.
And he's like, in 22, 23, we think they'll make $14 billion a year.
So like an explosion of drug trafficking in this country.
And yeah, you hear about stories, and I don't think it happens that much, thank
God, but somebody
smokes a joint, it's laced with fentanyl.
They go into a coma.
Oh yeah.
I mean, I have seven friends that have, that I have seven friends and not even
just like
estranged people, you know, like, but not all best friends.
Sure.
But I have seven friends that, um, that overdosed and died from, uh, fentanyl.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's me.
Right.
And it, yeah.
And it happened with harder stuff.
It happens a lot.
Like, I think with, you know, you hear about it being laced in marijuana, but
like not that
much.
Yeah.
But I mean, your point about cocaine, pills, like you have to be careful, like
seriously,
it's, it's a huge thing, unbelievable crisis.
And it's like, yeah, you'd think that we, I don't know how you fight something
like that.
Maybe we need to have like a, like a head of like the DEA or something on,
maybe he would
be able to help or, or she would be able to help us figure that out a little
bit.
