1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,640 Speaker 1: Not just the Nicoboca Hotel in America. Richard Arnold's there 2 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:06,000 Speaker 1: as well. Morning, very good morning, very fast developing events. 3 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:07,800 Speaker 1: What have we got? Five arrests? I last saw a 4 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:09,280 Speaker 1: couple of doctors and some drug dealers. 5 00:00:09,640 --> 00:00:12,760 Speaker 2: Gosh, are we surprised at what has just been announced here? No, 6 00:00:12,840 --> 00:00:16,040 Speaker 2: we're not. But it is. It is vile, It is horrifying, 7 00:00:16,079 --> 00:00:19,360 Speaker 2: It is shocking. It is allegedly the deadly abuse of 8 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:24,119 Speaker 2: one of the most beloved of all TV characters in 9 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:26,360 Speaker 2: our time. Many people looked up to the handsome and 10 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:30,680 Speaker 2: wirescracking Chandler being on the television series Friends, but Matthew 11 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:34,000 Speaker 2: himself friendless at the end of a life where he 12 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:36,480 Speaker 2: struggled so publicly with drug abuse. I mean his colon 13 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:39,800 Speaker 2: had burst from opio overuse. At one stage he would 14 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:42,440 Speaker 2: take more than fifty vico and painkillers a day, he 15 00:00:42,479 --> 00:00:46,600 Speaker 2: confessed once he'd done some twenty five drug detoxes. Is 16 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:49,560 Speaker 2: at a record, I don't know, gone through fifteen stints 17 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:52,080 Speaker 2: in rehab. He'd written a book about his drug struggles. 18 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:54,960 Speaker 2: He was brutally honest, but did any of that help not? 19 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:57,440 Speaker 2: In the end. He died last October, of course, at 20 00:00:57,440 --> 00:01:00,760 Speaker 2: age fifty four, in his waterfront home in southern California, 21 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:03,040 Speaker 2: sitting in his hot tub. It has echoes of the 22 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 2: Whitney Houston tragedy or the Michael Jackson saga. Just like 23 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:09,880 Speaker 2: Michael Jackson. Two of pery so called doctors are among 24 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:13,039 Speaker 2: people charged now over his drug deaths. These two medical 25 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:17,040 Speaker 2: doctors can we call them? That supplied huge doses of ketamine, 26 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:20,160 Speaker 2: which in small amounts can be used for anxiety treatment. 27 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:23,080 Speaker 2: Knew that they were putting Matthew Perry's life on the line. 28 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:25,720 Speaker 2: This was aided by the actors live in assistant thank you, 29 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:29,960 Speaker 2: and by someone known as the Ketamine Queens and Milliganov 30 00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:31,200 Speaker 2: drug enforcement. 31 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:35,600 Speaker 3: Here they supplied Matthew Perry with large amounts of ketamine 32 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:40,520 Speaker 3: in exchange for large sums of money, charging Perry two 33 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:45,399 Speaker 3: thousand dollars for a vial that cost doctor Chavez approximately 34 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 3: twelve dollars. 35 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, lots and lots of money. Those doctors face life 36 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:53,800 Speaker 2: in prison if convicted. One of the doctors who was 37 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:57,360 Speaker 2: pumping Perry was likely death and using amounts of drugs, 38 00:01:57,360 --> 00:02:00,800 Speaker 2: sent a text message just days before the act succumbed. 39 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:04,960 Speaker 3: He wrote in a text message in September twenty twenty three. Quote, 40 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:07,720 Speaker 3: I wonder how much this moron will pay? 41 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:11,079 Speaker 2: How much money could they squeeze from quote this moron? 42 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:15,080 Speaker 2: Investigator Martine Strata says they found all sorts of drugs 43 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:17,920 Speaker 2: at one of the defendants' houses. Their indications of this 44 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 2: gang also was applying some other celebs. When I think 45 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:23,919 Speaker 2: of Michael Jackson and how doctor Conrad Murray remember him 46 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:26,679 Speaker 2: supplied the anesthesia to the King of pop to help 47 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:30,040 Speaker 2: him sleep apparently or whatever it was. Murray served two 48 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:32,519 Speaker 2: years of a four year prison term, asserting that he 49 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 2: was trying to get Jackson off the drugs in the anesthesia. 50 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:38,919 Speaker 2: Whatever you think of that. This Matthew Perry case exposed 51 00:02:38,919 --> 00:02:41,639 Speaker 2: as another really dark underside. 52 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 1: Of It's the truth. And then we go to Maryland. 53 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:45,440 Speaker 1: Joe seemed pretty well received in the last half hour 54 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:45,720 Speaker 1: or so. 55 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 2: Like you say, he found the door. But this might 56 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:50,000 Speaker 2: have been awkward the first public appearance of the two. 57 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:53,480 Speaker 2: They were appearing on a day when Biden has been 58 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:56,000 Speaker 2: telling The New York Times that he still harbors some 59 00:02:56,440 --> 00:03:00,320 Speaker 2: angst towards his very good friendly former Democratic Speaker Nancy 60 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:03,920 Speaker 2: Pelosi for helping to squeeze him out. Biden says he 61 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:06,800 Speaker 2: still thought he could have won reelection, but knew that 62 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:09,640 Speaker 2: it would have been an ugly battle with his poles 63 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:12,119 Speaker 2: slipping and with much of his party against him. These 64 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:15,519 Speaker 2: who appeared at an event marking how the government's Medicare 65 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:18,440 Speaker 2: agency has been negotiating for a long while now with 66 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:22,560 Speaker 2: pharmaceutical companies to cut prices to patients on ten life 67 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 2: saving drugs. They say this would save consumers around ten 68 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:28,919 Speaker 2: billion dollars in New Zealand a year in reduced drug costs, 69 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:33,320 Speaker 2: So pretty important for ammals like heart failure, of blood clots, diabetes, arthritis, 70 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 2: and many more. Harris stepped up to the microphone first 71 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:38,560 Speaker 2: two years ago as Vice President. 72 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 1: I was proud to cast the tie breaking vote. 73 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:45,760 Speaker 3: That sent the bill that. 74 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 2: Gang Medicare of the. 75 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:55,520 Speaker 1: Power to negotiate and let it get to the President's desk. 76 00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:59,680 Speaker 3: And I was proud when our President Joe Biden signed that. 77 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 2: Villain folks, I'm an incredible partner. Progress we've made, she 78 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:09,640 Speaker 2: can make one hell of a president. So chance of 79 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:12,640 Speaker 2: thank you. Joe followed up to Springsteen music and we 80 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 2: can expect a lot more of that at the damned 81 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 2: convention coming up. In Chicago next week. 82 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:18,440 Speaker 1: And do you have a good week, and we'll see 83 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:20,960 Speaker 1: you Monday, Ma. Richard Arnold stateside. By the way, I 84 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:23,080 Speaker 1: rid an interesting piece in the New York Times yesterday 85 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 1: the California is a California bill to regulate AI. Headline 86 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:30,360 Speaker 1: causes alarm in Silicon Valley, and it's yet to get 87 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:33,120 Speaker 1: to the point end. But this is Gavin Nusom all over. 88 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:37,600 Speaker 1: Of course I would impose restrictions on artificial intelligence companies, investors, activists. 89 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:39,520 Speaker 1: They're all scrambling at the moment trying to work out 90 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:41,600 Speaker 1: what the hell's going on. But I couldn't help but thinking, 91 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:45,520 Speaker 1: if you've invented something like AI, with its implications globally, 92 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:48,920 Speaker 1: and you don't think a government's going to get itself involved, 93 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:49,600 Speaker 1: you're an idiot. 94 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:53,279 Speaker 2: For more from the mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to 95 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:56,440 Speaker 2: news talks. It'd be from six am weekdays, or follow 96 00:04:56,480 --> 00:04:58,000 Speaker 2: the podcast on iHeartRadio.