Hot Mic 001: “Take Away Meaning…”

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🗓️ 27 September 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Hot Mic returns in its non-NRA incarnation after eight long years! First up, a look at the epidemic of drug overdose deaths per capita: it’s a map of ever-growing suicide and despair. We’ll talk about what might be causing it, and more importantly what it represents and how we can stop it. Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

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0:00.0	Well, hi, everybody, and welcome to the return of Bill Whittle's Hot Mike, a show that we did many years ago for the NRA.
0:06.8	This show is completely independent.
0:08.1	It's nothing to do with the NRA, but we still feature our same host, Hot Mike, who is not able to be with us today.
0:14.6	Earlier this morning, Hot Mike went in for a full-body mud bath and disappeared a few hours later.
0:19.8	We have divers currently at work in the spa,
0:22.5	and our expectations are high that we'll be able to get them out and resuscitated in time for our
0:26.9	next episode. Today's topic has got to do with a chart that was tweeted out that is disturbing for
0:33.6	many reasons, and I thought we'd take a look at why. I'd like you to take a look at this
0:37.7	graphic here. This is a comparison of U.S. drug overdoses from 1999 on the left to 2014 on the right.
0:48.0	And if you look at these two maps, needless to say, you can say that there's an explosion of
0:52.3	drug overdoses per capita here in the United States.
0:55.8	But there's some interesting things about this map, too, that we need to take a quick look at.
0:59.2	First of all, you'll notice that they're not constricted to specifically blue city areas.
1:04.4	This is not so much an urban phenomenon as it was a working class phenomenon.
1:07.9	Most of the areas that are showing the biggest increase in drug overdose deaths are areas that we would probably call either middle-class neighborhoods or working-class
1:15.6	neighborhoods. That alone is worth noting. But more important, I think, is the cause. What this really is,
1:23.4	folks, is a map of a suicide epidemic, And it's worse than it appears because the information
1:31.3	that you see here plots from 1999 to 2014. Now, if we look at this separate graph here of drug
1:38.3	overdoses from 1999 to 2014, you can see that there's a significant increase, but 2014 was 10 years ago. If we extend
1:46.5	the information that's not available to us on the maps but is available to us on the graphs,
1:52.1	you can see that in the last 10 years, and the years not even included on these maps, the situation
1:57.7	has grown exponentially worse. It's a catastrophe.
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