ousands of Americans every year. It weakens us. And they say the problem's on our end. The problem's on our end. That because we're a bunch of drunk drug users.

Now it reminds me, I saw a tweet this morning from Jessica Vaughn. Said she has a Russian roommate, I guess, who is saying that Russia doesn't have any homeless problem. It just doesn't have one. Now apparently they don't have drug addicts either or something, or they don't have craziness. But it did make me wonder, where do they go? Do you think that Russia just doesn't have any mental illness or drug addiction? Or does somebody kill them? I mean, do they get put in hospitals? Do they drink themselves to death of vodka? Nobody notices. I have lots of questions.

You think they'll lock them up maybe. But China and Russia don't seem to have a lot of homeless problems. I'm not sure that they're handling it the way we would want to. Probably pretty brutal over there.

All right. Have you heard that these diabetes drugs, new diabetes drugs, are helping people quit addictions? So there are people who are taking the diabetes drug for diabetes, and they discover that they stop drinking or they stop smoking, and it was easy. They just lost their urge to do those things. And now they're thinking that this drug interferes with some part of the brain that involves addiction.

Now does this sound like good news to you? Would you say that's good news? Because it scares the hell out of me. Here's why. They develop a drug for one purpose, and then they find out it alters your brain. What are the odds that the only way it alters your brain is this good way? Is there such a thing as a drug that could reprogram your brain? It'll reprogram your brain, but only in that one way, just one narrow way that happens to be so positive. Isn't that a nice coincidence? Huh? Don't you feel lucky?

How about those side effects? Any side effects? I don't know. It's feeling like COVID vaccine 2.0. It's feeling a little bit too much like, you know, we're five years away from the government requiring it. You know, we've got this big problem with addiction. You know, it would be good. I've got an idea. What if everyone had to get an Ozempic vaccination? No more addiction. We could solve addiction in the United States to give everybody a shot. I don't know if you could put it in the shot. I'm just saying that to be more provocative.

But at what point does the government get to decide what's good for you? They do it all the time, right? I mean, that's the whole point of the childhood vaccinations, is that the government has decided what's good for you, not your parents. And where's the line? How far can they take it? Could they take it all the way to we'd like to give you a vaccination to make sure you don't grow up to be an addict? And what if it worked? It might actually just work.

I mean, the other possibility is it just works and everybody's happy and it changes everything, and we're all twice as delighted when it's done as possible. But none of this looks safe and healthy to me. Yeah, it's got like every red flag you could possibly see.

And here's the other question that I asked. Do you think it's a coincidence that Ozempic, a real serious pharma drug, is helping with addiction at exactly the same time in history that we've discovered that these cheap and easily available psychedelics might do exactly the same thing, as in cure your addiction? What a coincidence, huh? Big old coincidence that after a million years of human civilization, exactly the same time we find this free, naturally evolved stuff that anybody could get and cure their addiction in maybe one or two experiences — you know, that's the kind of reports we're getting — exactly the same time you can do it for free, Big Pharma has a drug that does it too.

Which do you think will win in the court of legal opinion? If you think that Big Pharma has this drug that can cure addiction at the same time the psychedelics can cure addiction, and let's say that we imagine they work about similarly effective, which one do you think will be illegal and which one will be required? That is, no, we're going to find out, because I've got a feeling that the mushrooms will be illegal and the Big Pharma product that costs a lot of money will be mand