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Peter Berg

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#157 Peter Berg - Exposing Big Pharma, Lone Survivor, and Hollywood’s Dark Side

It's like I didn't have to leave a note, like, hey, man, if something happens to me, it was Richard Sackler. People kind of already would get that. And everyone's like, dude, I don't know if I want to stand so close to you. I don't know. I'd invite my friends out to dinner and they're like, yeah, no, we're good. We're busy for a while. Let's see how the show plays out.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#157 Peter Berg - Exposing Big Pharma, Lone Survivor, and Hollywood’s Dark Side

It's like I didn't have to leave a note, like, hey, man, if something happens to me, it was Richard Sackler. People kind of already would get that. And everyone's like, dude, I don't know if I want to stand so close to you. I don't know. I'd invite my friends out to dinner and they're like, yeah, no, we're good. We're busy for a while. Let's see how the show plays out.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#157 Peter Berg - Exposing Big Pharma, Lone Survivor, and Hollywood’s Dark Side

It's like I didn't have to leave a note, like, hey, man, if something happens to me, it was Richard Sackler. People kind of already would get that. And everyone's like, dude, I don't know if I want to stand so close to you. I don't know. I'd invite my friends out to dinner and they're like, yeah, no, we're good. We're busy for a while. Let's see how the show plays out.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#157 Peter Berg - Exposing Big Pharma, Lone Survivor, and Hollywood’s Dark Side

People kind of distance themselves from me for a minute. But I mean, I'm not necessarily like the biggest conspiracy guy. Like I'm always up to entertain a good conspiracy story. Like I'll talk about Lee Harvey Oswald for a long time and the magic bullet theory and all that. But I don't even know whether it's a conspiracy or it's just like the realization of how the world does business.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#157 Peter Berg - Exposing Big Pharma, Lone Survivor, and Hollywood’s Dark Side

People kind of distance themselves from me for a minute. But I mean, I'm not necessarily like the biggest conspiracy guy. Like I'm always up to entertain a good conspiracy story. Like I'll talk about Lee Harvey Oswald for a long time and the magic bullet theory and all that. But I don't even know whether it's a conspiracy or it's just like the realization of how the world does business.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#157 Peter Berg - Exposing Big Pharma, Lone Survivor, and Hollywood’s Dark Side

People kind of distance themselves from me for a minute. But I mean, I'm not necessarily like the biggest conspiracy guy. Like I'm always up to entertain a good conspiracy story. Like I'll talk about Lee Harvey Oswald for a long time and the magic bullet theory and all that. But I don't even know whether it's a conspiracy or it's just like the realization of how the world does business.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#157 Peter Berg - Exposing Big Pharma, Lone Survivor, and Hollywood’s Dark Side

And this, if you really want to understand what the fuck's going on, not just in pharmaceuticals, but I think in almost any business, certainly the business of war, right? The amount of guys that are making money off of war, right? That's a different story. But the way money rules the world, It's all about money and the Sacklers knew it.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#157 Peter Berg - Exposing Big Pharma, Lone Survivor, and Hollywood’s Dark Side

And this, if you really want to understand what the fuck's going on, not just in pharmaceuticals, but I think in almost any business, certainly the business of war, right? The amount of guys that are making money off of war, right? That's a different story. But the way money rules the world, It's all about money and the Sacklers knew it.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#157 Peter Berg - Exposing Big Pharma, Lone Survivor, and Hollywood’s Dark Side

And this, if you really want to understand what the fuck's going on, not just in pharmaceuticals, but I think in almost any business, certainly the business of war, right? The amount of guys that are making money off of war, right? That's a different story. But the way money rules the world, It's all about money and the Sacklers knew it.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#157 Peter Berg - Exposing Big Pharma, Lone Survivor, and Hollywood’s Dark Side

And the Sacklers knew that they had this incredible product that could do this incredible thing, take away your fucking pain. Like for anyone that's dealt with pain, whether it's like the emotional pain that your buddy went through after losing his child and girlfriend and seeing what he saw in that helicopter, he's in pain, give me that pill.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#157 Peter Berg - Exposing Big Pharma, Lone Survivor, and Hollywood’s Dark Side

And the Sacklers knew that they had this incredible product that could do this incredible thing, take away your fucking pain. Like for anyone that's dealt with pain, whether it's like the emotional pain that your buddy went through after losing his child and girlfriend and seeing what he saw in that helicopter, he's in pain, give me that pill.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#157 Peter Berg - Exposing Big Pharma, Lone Survivor, and Hollywood’s Dark Side

And the Sacklers knew that they had this incredible product that could do this incredible thing, take away your fucking pain. Like for anyone that's dealt with pain, whether it's like the emotional pain that your buddy went through after losing his child and girlfriend and seeing what he saw in that helicopter, he's in pain, give me that pill.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#157 Peter Berg - Exposing Big Pharma, Lone Survivor, and Hollywood’s Dark Side

Give me 40 milligrams of that liquid honey, you know, that happens to have a little battery acid in the middle of it. I'll take it. And the Sacklers knew it. And they knew how to monetize it. And they knew how to game the system. And I think, like, the worst thing that I found, the thing that really floored me, was this guy Curtis Wright. Do you know who Curtis Wright is? Curtis Wright, no.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#157 Peter Berg - Exposing Big Pharma, Lone Survivor, and Hollywood’s Dark Side

Give me 40 milligrams of that liquid honey, you know, that happens to have a little battery acid in the middle of it. I'll take it. And the Sacklers knew it. And they knew how to monetize it. And they knew how to game the system. And I think, like, the worst thing that I found, the thing that really floored me, was this guy Curtis Wright. Do you know who Curtis Wright is? Curtis Wright, no.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#157 Peter Berg - Exposing Big Pharma, Lone Survivor, and Hollywood’s Dark Side

Give me 40 milligrams of that liquid honey, you know, that happens to have a little battery acid in the middle of it. I'll take it. And the Sacklers knew it. And they knew how to monetize it. And they knew how to game the system. And I think, like, the worst thing that I found, the thing that really floored me, was this guy Curtis Wright. Do you know who Curtis Wright is? Curtis Wright, no.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#157 Peter Berg - Exposing Big Pharma, Lone Survivor, and Hollywood’s Dark Side

So one of the challenges the Sacklers had with OxyContin and Purdue had, they needed to get the FDA to approve it, right? They had spent so much money developing this drug and they were having financial problems prior to OxyContin being approved by the FDA that they were all in on OxyContin and they needed the FDA to approve it.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#157 Peter Berg - Exposing Big Pharma, Lone Survivor, and Hollywood’s Dark Side

So one of the challenges the Sacklers had with OxyContin and Purdue had, they needed to get the FDA to approve it, right? They had spent so much money developing this drug and they were having financial problems prior to OxyContin being approved by the FDA that they were all in on OxyContin and they needed the FDA to approve it.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#157 Peter Berg - Exposing Big Pharma, Lone Survivor, and Hollywood’s Dark Side

So one of the challenges the Sacklers had with OxyContin and Purdue had, they needed to get the FDA to approve it, right? They had spent so much money developing this drug and they were having financial problems prior to OxyContin being approved by the FDA that they were all in on OxyContin and they needed the FDA to approve it.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#157 Peter Berg - Exposing Big Pharma, Lone Survivor, and Hollywood’s Dark Side

You think about the FDA, a big government organization, and it is probably a big organization that probably does need a haircut, and I'll bet they're going to get one now with the new administration, which is probably a good thing, I think. But you think, oh, wow, the FDA has to approve OxyContin. That's probably a team of 50 scientists, and they're going to have to go.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#157 Peter Berg - Exposing Big Pharma, Lone Survivor, and Hollywood’s Dark Side

You think about the FDA, a big government organization, and it is probably a big organization that probably does need a haircut, and I'll bet they're going to get one now with the new administration, which is probably a good thing, I think. But you think, oh, wow, the FDA has to approve OxyContin. That's probably a team of 50 scientists, and they're going to have to go.