Episode 472: Opioid Crisis Part 1

Cognitive Dissonance

Tom Curry

Comedy

4.8 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2019

⏱️ 82 minutes

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This two part episode dives into the opioid crisis. If you have any experience with this issue or have any personal stories you feel like sharing please leave in the comments below. America's Opioid Epidemic : NPR Listen to 'The Daily': How the Opioid Crisis Started - The New York Times The Family That Profited From the Opioid Crisis - The New York Times The New Yorker Radio Hour - How OxyContin Was Sold to the Masses | Listen via Stitcher for Podcasts Did Free Pens Cause the Opioid Crisis? - The Atlantic The Arthur Sackler Family's Ties to OxyContin Money - The Atlantic Opioid Epidemic: One West Virginia Doctor's Redemption - The Atlantic The Giants at the Heart of the Opioid Crisis - The New York Times The making of an opioid epidemic – podcast | News | The Guardian NPR Throughline Podcast: History of Opioid Crisis in America – Rolling Stone

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0:00.0	This episode of Cognitive Dissonance is brought to you by our patrons, you fucking rock.
0:05.6	Hey, this is Jason from Des Moines, Iowa.
0:09.8	So I have to correct you guys in a few things you just said.
0:13.0	First of all, Des Moines does get pretty creative.
0:15.4	Forest and go to my all.
0:16.4	You should have come down here and check it out some time.
0:18.3	We actually have a pretty good Hispanic population here.
0:20.8	The more relevant is your comments about the 15th and immigration.
0:24.6	You have to remember, they come to places where there's jobs.
0:27.9	And agriculture is a main driver here.
0:30.5	So the Hispanic population in rural Iowa is actually significant
0:34.2	because there's jobs there, the attacking plants, working fields,
0:38.2	and in general agricultural particularly hog production.
0:41.9	So to say that there's no immigrants coming is, it's just not right,
0:45.6	that they come here quite a bit.
0:47.2	The problem is, well, the King doesn't represent Des Moines.
0:50.5	And the King doesn't represent a very populated area.
0:53.6	Absolutely.
0:54.6	The reason that's absolutely terrible.
0:56.8	But what are you saying?
0:58.2	It does actually impact his constituency,
1:00.0	but not in the way that you think it does.
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