Barry Meier

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Barry Meier (Spooked, Pain Killer) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and a former New York Times journalist. Barry joins the Armchair Expert to discuss investigating the opioid crisis, how Big Pharma played a role in perpetuating the problem, and the depths in which people will go to make money on people's addictions. Barry and Dax talk about the modern-day private spy industry, news media bias, and how the spread of misinformation has shaped the political landscape. Barry explains how spy companies use digital tactics to acquire information, how phone hacking has become harder and harder to police around the world, and that the use of dirty tactics in private espionage is being solicited more frequently. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome, welcome to armchair expert experts on expert. I'm Monica
0:04.8	Lily Padman. I'm joined by Dax Sheppard.
0:07.5	Dax Randall Shepard. Oh, so sorry, I always forget your middle name. It doesn't
0:11.2	seem like that would be your middle name that it is and I love it who you
0:14.8	named after where is that one come on my uncle your uncle Randy yeah you know what I
0:20.1	just realized oh my god what I have an uncle?
0:23.0	an uncle?
0:24.0	You're named after your Uncle Randy and my middle name is named after my Aunt Lily.
0:27.0	Your Uncle Lily!
0:28.0	You have a role in it.
0:30.0	I'm sorry, Uncle Lily would be funny though.
0:32.0	Well, sure. but I was angry because my uncle Randy was
0:35.9	Randy not Randall and as like a six-year-old I'm like that no Randall all Randy's
0:41.2	are really Randall I'm like no I want Randy be good you want to be
0:45.2	Jack's Randy Shepard well I'm glad it's Randall okay Randall sounded like
0:51.5	Randolph Hearst.
0:52.8	Yeah, that's cool.
0:54.0	Oh, okay.
0:55.0	Today we have Barry Meyer on.
0:57.0	Barry Meyer is a Pulitzer Prize winning writer and former New York Times journalist who wrote the 2003
1:02.3	non-fiction book, Painkiller, A Wonder Drugs
1:06.4	Trial of Addiction and Death.
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