This is The Bird Show.

Sanjay Gupta from CNN joins us right now.

Hey, Sanjay.

Hey, guys.

How you doing?

Good.

How are you? I'm doing well. Thanks for having me. The last time I saw you, we were holding the camera for each other, taking pictures with Bono. Yeah, that's a pretty good intro, isn't it? Isn't it? We were hanging out with Bono. We were hanging out with Bono.

Yeah, it was only for three seconds, but yeah, we were together with Bono.

Hey, Sanjay, I'm glad you're joining us this morning because, man, I am a prime example of somebody that fell into the marketing trap, and maybe you can give me more of a medical opinion on this, but, you know, I'm watching these Lunesta commercials over the last couple of months. And over the same amount of time,

the last couple of months, I have just been having the toughest time sleeping. Like, there's not a

stupid amount of stress on me. I'm not up at night thinking of anything really important. My mind

just wanders from topic to topic to really superficial topics. And I haven't been able to sleep.

I mean, probably two, three hours a night.

And when you get up at 3.30 in the morning, you have to kind of be on your game in a job like this.

I'm willing to do anything to get like at least six hours of sleep.

So when Lunesta came on and they said, look, you can use our sleeping pill. It's non-addictive. You can use it long-term. I got all excited about it. I went on the internet. I did my research on it just to make sure it was true. Then I talked to my doctor about it. My doctor says, you know what? For your case, don't worry. You're taking half a pill. It's only one and a half milligrams rather than the three that it comes in. He says, go ahead, do what you got to do. So I

started doing that, and I guess I've been on it for about six weeks now. And from time to time,

I try to sleep without the lunesta, and it's not even a possibility. I don't get a wink of sleep.

Wow.

So I guess my first question for you, and then we're going to talk more here about your

special coming up, is are these pills really addictive?

And if they are, how can they market themselves as not being?

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