The Michael Berry Show The headline on KVU E out of Austin our Austin affiliate is KJCE.

And this station, TV station was reporting multiple dead as officials report dozens of

overdoses in Austin on Monday. And they're calling it an overdose outbreak.

My problem with that is an outbreak

an outbreak suggests a third-party organism, bacteria, virus, these are individual behaviors.

I don't mean to quibble over the words. Is there individual behaviors with a very

similar pattern? We're not yet at epidemic, which is another favorite for news media.

But they're calling it an overdose outbreak in the downtown area.

30 suspected overdose cases, at least four people have died between 6th and 8th streets, but then it escalated to all parts of Austin.

So I suspect what's happening here is somebody's passing out bad drugs.

Somebody selling bad drugs.

Probably fentanyl, which is very, very common.

And this fentanyl is making its way to America's big cities, and small cities, sadly.

It comes from... big cities and small cities sadly.

It comes from, it's funded by the triads out of China.

And it's brought the logistics the transportation network is the cartels.

And this is if the cartels would go public

it would and should be the largest public offering of all time.

The cartels are going to end up bigger than Apple.

Don't challenge me on this.

Because Apple has to keep innovating with competition

to provide products that you keep buying. And you might go, oh,

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