my my favorite was haralo Rivera interviewing the troops rationalizing why they hady fields we have to guard the heroin yeah for the good folks well I couldn't this heroin falls into the wrong hands it could be lethal there's no way America would sell this heroin there's no way the the the output of heroin out of Afghanistan I want to say it was a 96% increase total 80% Global 80% global supp no no no no no it was responsible for 80% oo yeah they was responsible for most of the global supply of heroin and it the production went up after we invaded so Opium poppy which grows extensively in Afghanistan Southern Fields contains main opium ingred used to manufacture heroin Afghanistan was previously the world's top opium producer responsible for over 80% of the global Supply and a major source of heroin in Europe and Asia so how much did it go oh plunges by 95 % when was this under the Taliban now that's now yeah yeah see the Taliban doesn't want everybody on heroin they want people to get back to work and make Afghanistan great again the Taliban just ran on a message they [ __ ] kicked out the drug dealers that's what happened they kicked out the drug dealers dude they were there was a giant part of the supply of heroin to the world the idea that we didn't well we are not in interested in that at all we just want to push Freedom yeah and and I think even people who are even the people I think who are lying about this [ __ ] rationalize it in their own head bro where did that money go yeah well that's uh where did all that heroin money go well I know you I was listening to uh the Mike Baker uh podcast you had on where you were uh talking about the like the money in Ukraine and where it went and he even he was like ah yeah no we don't really know where that I thought one of the funniest things about that I'll tell you where some of it goes well well that's for sure I think that's for sure the Taliban it's not our tax dollars have 100% paid for some cocaine oh certainly the Taliban successful opium ban is bad for Afghans and the world the ban is not a counternarcotics victory and will have negative economic and humanitarian consequences potentially leading to a refugee crisis oh unlike us leaving in the middle of nowhere allowing the Taliban to kill all the people we worked with but you see you get my point about how humans can rationalize anything like they can just come up with propaganda that'sa yes that's true that's also true but even people who are like I mean I like look I thought the only way you could say that that what gu made sense is if you advocating that heroin should be legal yes if you're advocating that heroin should be legal and this is your full persp okay now I'll accept it but if you really think that heroin is a Scourge and if you really do appreciate that a 100,000 people died last year year of opioid overdoses 100,000 it's a real [ __ ] crisis yeah if there was a disease killing 100,000 people we would freak the [ __ ] out well look I mean I do think there's a strong argument for legalization but there's also a difference between that and the government kind of like sponsoring damn this has % 90% of heroin globally and more than 95% of the European Supply more land is used for opian in Afghanistan than is used for Coco cultivation in Latin America bro do you don't think that has something to do with it is that am I silly no I think it's insane to ignore that I mean like where's that money yeah where so I was gonna say r r Paul I thought this was so funny it was during during one of the rounds of uh of Aid to Ukraine and Ry Paul stood up and said look we uh we don't know where any of this money is going if we're going to send them this money can we at least have an inspector so that we itemize like where all the money is going and it failed the vote fa like even in communist talk yeah like even in the Senate they were like what what are you talking about communist talk we're going to know where our money is going nah that's lame yeah we don't just send it over there just send them that [ __ ] send them everything they need and more and then do you have one of their Flags you should wave it around yeah and we'll we'll provide FL Congress we'll provide the flag flag they're uniform same size it's not only people bought them from different vendors no they all got them from the same they got a box of them hey make sure you guys grab your flags [Music]