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just came across our favorite joke of the day, Rosanne Bar puts the ambient back in

and I am being a racist, which is pretty funny. Apparently the, apparently the believe it

or not social media is not reacted well to her claim that she was all hopped up on

ambient and that's what happened. They're not being patient understanding and charitable.

On social media, no, not really. Maybe we'll hit you with some of those later.

Well, yeah. Now something completely different. Barry Meyer, he worked for a long time as a

New York Times reporter. He's the author of Pain Killer, an empire of deceit. He's been writing

lately about the fact that major pharmaceutical companies, new opioids were highly addictive,

but were claiming quite explicitly otherwise. Mr. Meyer joins us now. Barry, how are you?

I'm very good. Thanks so much for having me. It's our pleasure. One of the frustrations

in observing the media these days and we were just talking about this in another context is

that there's so much stormy Daniels and Trump gossip in the rest of it. You've got a story is

incredibly important as this one to us not getting nearly enough attention, but having said that,

what should we know about the marketing, the claims about your opioids by the companies and how

that compares to reality? Well, this story dealt specifically with the drug that has

sort of become the symbol of the opioid epidemic, a drug called oxycontin, which is made by a

company produced farmup. And they marketed very aggressively back in the 1990s and early 2000s

for kind of the general treatment of pain and it's been ultimately just that time.

Dang it. They claimed it was less attractive to drug abusers. It could be easily crushed and

people were snorning it. What did you, the booker, was in the story? A certain chance we can get

another phone line or something like that. Unless my hearing, unless my oxycontin abuse is

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