Lionel Nation - The Tragedy and Waste That Was Matthew Perry
Aired: 2024-08-17
Duration: 09:27


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[00:01:31]  I'm going to say this in the nicest way possible.
[00:01:33]  I really don't give a damn about Matthew Perry.
[00:01:37]  I'm sorry that anybody died.
[00:01:39]  I'm sorry that anybody had a drug addiction.
[00:01:41]  But I really don't care.
[00:01:43]  When the whole federal government looks the other way regarding the criminal complicity of Big Pharma?
[00:01:50]  Why am I supposed to care about Matthew Perry?
[00:01:53]  Matthew Perry was driving me nuts towards the end of his pathetic life when he would go on all these shows and yell, I'm an addict!
[00:01:59]  You don't understand!
[00:02:00]  I'm an addict!
[00:02:01]  I'm an addict!
[00:02:02]  Okay, you're an addict!
[00:02:04]  But he wasn't doing anything to stop the addiction, apparently, and maybe that's the problem with it.
[00:02:10]  But I want you to understand something.
[00:02:13]  Yes, I believe we should do something to try to address people.
[00:02:16]  But there comes a point when people have to understand and recognize that when you elect to become a drug addict, somebody somewhere has to decide, I'm going to now embark into this world.
[00:02:30]  I'm going to traverse this barrier from non-user into drug addict.
[00:02:37]  I'm going to go from here To there.
[00:02:40]  You got it?
[00:02:41]  I'm going to go from here to there.
[00:02:44]  And I know about this.
[00:02:45]  I'm a smart person.
[00:02:47]  I make $20 million a year for the rest of my life doing nothing from being part of some half-baked TV series.
[00:02:55]  There's nothing that special about me.
[00:02:57]  I'm very smart.
[00:02:58]  I'm very wise.
[00:02:59]  And I'm going to do this.
[00:03:00]  And whatever happens to be next, I understand I'm assuming this.
[00:03:05]  Because unless somebody...
[00:03:07]  And by the way, sometimes these things happen, and I am in no way conversant with Matthew Perry's ills.
[00:03:16]  He could have gone to a doctor, he might have had some surgery, he might have had something where he was initially prescribed something.
[00:03:25]  I have no earthly idea.
[00:03:29]  I don't know.
[00:03:32]  I don't mean these people harm.
[00:03:35]  I don't mean these people any type of ill will.
[00:03:39]  But I'm tired of pretending that for some reason I've got to drop what I'm doing and pay homage to people because they're addicts.
[00:03:48]  I live in a world right now where I am immersed in drugs and drug addicts and most of the people who are involved in drugs that are legally prescribed by Big Pharma.
[00:04:00]  If I meet one more kid, one more person screaming, I have anxiety, popping whatever the hell they're popping, I don't know what I'm going to do.
[00:04:09]  We have lost control of ourselves.
[00:04:12]  There's something wrong with us.
[00:04:15]  There's always been alcoholism, there's always been drug abuse, but there's something different going on.
[00:04:20]  And now when somebody claims to be an addict, we almost hold them up to some position like, oh, back off, back off.
[00:04:27]  Don't say anything.
[00:04:28]  He's an addict.
[00:04:30]  Okay, I'm sorry, but you're telling me that the feds are going after, of all people, his dealers, when they know exactly what happened during Big Pharma?
[00:04:40]  Big Pharma that brought us the original opioids, and by the way, fentanyl, not fentanyl, fentanyl is a great drug, but the stuff that people are seeing on the street is not fentanyl, it's something else.
[00:04:52]  It may be called that, it's synthetic something.
[00:04:56]  But you mean to tell me when Big Pharma made Billions!
[00:05:01]  And has made billions through COVID manias, through all type of regular overuse and overprescription of drugs left and right.
[00:05:11]  Do you mean that this, whoever these queen ketamines are, that this is really something other than some theoretical production number?
[00:05:23]  Some parade?
[00:05:26]  Some pavan?
[00:05:27]  Some dance?
[00:05:28]  Some symbolic?
[00:05:30]  What?
[00:05:31]  Cavalcade of law enforcement?
[00:05:33]  What is this all about?
[00:05:36]  If you really want to go after what's going on, go after Mexico.
[00:05:40]  Go after the cartels that bring this crap in.
[00:05:43]  You know, years ago, we had this fellow who was a very important actor, Philip Seymour Hoffman.
[00:05:48]  Very sad, very tragically, died from heroin overdoses and overdose.
[00:05:53]  And that was on TV at the time.
[00:05:56]  And NYPD was looking for the individual responsible.
[00:05:59]  He's responsible!
[00:06:01]  Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
[00:06:02]  I mean the, you know, the pusher, the dealer.
[00:06:06]  He's responsible!
[00:06:08]  So I was doing a TV show at the time, and I said, by the way, I know who did it.
[00:06:11]  I said, Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan.
[00:06:14]  That's where the poppy fields are.
[00:06:16]  That's where the drug fields are that American servicemen and American soldiers are protecting.
[00:06:23]  Would you stop this game?
[00:06:26]  We go after a few people for some parade, some make-believe statistic.
[00:06:31]  Look, we're doing something.
[00:06:33]  Just like when they arrest Al Capone.
[00:06:36]  It looked good.
[00:06:38]  Drug abuse is a problem that is so pervasive, so incredibly...
[00:06:43]  What's the word?
[00:06:46]  So expansive that we can't even get our minds around it.
[00:06:54]  But to suggest...
[00:06:56]  That this means something is an embarrassment.
[00:07:00]  It embarrasses and insults our intelligence.
[00:07:04]  The federal government has never wanted to stop anything involving drugs, drug abuse, drug cartels, drug networks, drug syndicates.
[00:07:17]  Stop it!
[00:07:18]  Crime and drugs are huge money makers.
[00:07:22]  Money.
[00:07:23]  Everybody benefits.
[00:07:25]  Everybody.
[00:07:26]  There also comes another issue which we're going to have to deal with again.
[00:07:29]  Do you believe that people have the inherent natural right to kill themselves with drugs?
[00:07:34]  And the answer is yes!
[00:07:36]  Yes you do!
[00:07:37]  Yes!
[00:07:38]  I cannot stop you from killing yourself.
[00:07:45]  But if I ever really want to stop drugs, stop their proliferation, stop their availability, I've got to do a number of things.
[00:07:57]  First, stop pretending I'm doing something with these titular raids and arrests.
[00:08:04]  Number two, go after the people who are really responsible for this.
[00:08:07]  And that's foreign countries and cartels and elsewhere.
[00:08:10]  And also, start with Big Pharma.
[00:08:13]  Big Pharma has done more to destroy and the medical community and the psychiatric community has done more to screw more people up permanently.
[00:08:24]  And indelibly.
[00:08:26]  So, while I appreciate the fact that Matthew Perry was a talented actor, who got on my nerves, his character, who he was, I never...
[00:08:38]  Look, I don't mean anybody any harm, but he's not a hero.
[00:08:43]  He didn't do anything that great.
[00:08:45]  He was an actor.
[00:08:47]  There's a million actors.
[00:08:48]  And it's tragic what happened to him.
[00:08:50]  But you're telling me...
[00:08:52]  That I'm supposed to not see through what the government and the feds are doing?
[00:08:56]  You've got to be kidding me.
[00:08:59]  You've got to be kidding me.
[00:09:01]  Just like with Philip Seymour Hoffman.
[00:09:04]  It's Afghanistan!
[00:09:07]  There's more people.
[00:09:09]  There was a case here of this poor little girl.
[00:09:10]  She was at a daycare center and she got into something that had fentanyl on it or the synthetic.
[00:09:16]  Died immediately.
[00:09:17]  You're not going after anybody who's providing.
[00:09:20]  That kid or that family the drugs?
[00:09:23]  No!
[00:09:24]  But if it's somebody in Hollywood, well, we're going to get to the bottom of that.