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Origins with James Andrew Miller
Sheila Nevens Believes She Was a Tyrant
"One of the things I particularly interested in was the way that you worked with filmmakers at HBO. The tyrannical way I work with them. Do you autocratic? You know, I was not raised by a king and queen. But I learned a lot about royalty. Come on, Sheila. If you were so tyrannical, why do people like Spike Lee, Liz garbus, Alex gibney, worried Kennedy, keep coming back? But I was the only game in town. So did they come back because they liked me or like working with me or because, you know, that was the bank that cashed the checks. All due respect to the fact that I was a good mentor and all that. I gold it out.
The Al Franken Podcast
"alex gibney" Discussed on The Al Franken Podcast
"In fact we profile You know one of the people who we profiled in the film was a former. Da official named joe ramsey joe describe an operation in florida where there was a cvs and one of his undercover agents went in and said geez. We noticed that people are lining up at your cvs at five o'clock in the morning in order to be able to get oxycontin. This seems to me to be a problem and the person said look. Don't worry we cut off. The sale of oxycontin to those people at around two o'clock can give medicine to the people who really need it was a dropper. Talk about this The guy was in in the film Ban prison of the number of people in prison. Our aim those doctors in prison that this any the firm pharmacists did this are. Who's i think that the. Da did put a number of doctors and or you know a federal agencies and sometimes state agencies did a number of doctors and some pharmacists in prison. I think the problem was it was excruciatingly rare for the large businessmen in large corporations. That were really fueling. This process to be ever held to account now. The executive insists john. Kapoor who was the guy who ran the company. He was convicted and he's serving. Believe it's four years in prison and we also profile another guy. Who's kind of like the walter. White of our story got caleb. Near kind of exemplifies the guy got addicted. He got addicted because he had a really bad injury and he needed oxycontin for pain so he got addicted but when he got addicted he needed more and more of the drug and it was either becoming harder to persuade doctors to increase the dosage or it was too expensive and so caleb turned to heroin. Heroin turned out to be too expensive for him. So he ultimately learned that he could order sentinel via fedex from china and it would just be sent to him and fennel is so powerful that he could cut it and then support his habit and also make a rather handsome living by selling so he became a fence dealer and love lubbock texas until federal agents caught wind of what he was doing and ultimately arrested and it was very walter white because he had like we had a lab there in his. He had his own lab he was he was cooking his own. Fennel when the federal agents raided his lab. They did so with has met suits because fenton was so powerful. That if you get too much much of it on your skin you can overdose. So they they were. They were deeply concerned. You know the a lot of the agents and we did get some rather nice cooperation from some of the da and also homeland security folks. They do investigations into overdoses and very often they would find people you know still holding the fennel pipe in their hands. They wouldn't have dropped by the time they expired. Because the rush and resulting death was so instantaneous. That because the drug was of our. We're gonna take a little break. We'll be back with alex gibney..
The Al Franken Podcast
"alex gibney" Discussed on The Al Franken Podcast
"So that's what happened and yeah. It was passed by unanimous consent. Nobody it's unclear whether anybody even read it. I'm sure i didn't i. May i'm sure i didn't Again this is an amendment to a probably a huge bill and it just didn't you know get to the level of. Hey hey hey and you know what. Threat of death. Being put in their wilders an opioid crisis you could go like. Oh good they put it in. Threat of death is good for them. Thank god somebody's saying there's a threat of death which am but it has the opposite fact which is saying he needed to have an immediate threat of death in order to be looked at by By the okay. i just. That's a process thing that i think even people watching the film i'm not sure They understand that how something gets through like that without people flagging it at the time a lot of stuff gets through where only sometimes years later you find out. Oh crap that shouldn't have been in there and sometimes right. The intention wasn't terrible but anyway this this one. I think that marsha blackburn got contributions from the farm from pharmaceuticals. She did indeed and she did indeed in so tom marino. You know you know you let me say when i mean you do know if you wrote the bill i mean if it's your bill if you're introducing it you you should know everything in that. That's right so i put the squarely on marsha blackburn from tennessee when she was in the house then. Now a senator and This guy marina marino. Tom marino. Oh boy okay. So let's start it. let's start with. Let's start with purdue and the sackler xiao we sure the sisak lawyers. I mean the. They're shot for the on by the way. Okay ladies and gentlemen what that means is an embarrassment for the jews because they jewish people and It's there in the roy. Cohn area is what i'm saying. Yeah it's bad. What they did was bad and they very much knew the damage that they were doing. Because it was referred oxycontin We discovered depositions by people within purdue pharma which was the sacrifice company Talking about how they used to joke about oxycontin calling it hillbilly heroin inside the office. Boy stuck didn't it good for you. You calling something before it was coined..
The Al Franken Podcast
"alex gibney" Discussed on The Al Franken Podcast
"In americans gotten billions of dollars back and the insurance companies have been forced to become far more efficient now. Three democrats voted against allowing medicare negotiate with the pharmaceuticals killing it in the house energy and commerce committee scott peters of california kurt schrader of oregon and kathleen rice of new york. If you're in one of their districts please give their office call and give them hell There's another big development In in congress week senate. Democrats have come to an agreement on a very good voting rights. Bill amy klobuchar and joe mansion and several other senate democrats have produced the freedom to vote act includes a lot of very important provision at safeguard the right to vote and the integrity of future federal elections a lot of important provision from the house which had passed the for the people act and important provision from Senator rafael warnock's preventing election version. Act which is designed to counter provision in laws passed in in georgia and taxes. That will allow partisans to overturn elections and it protects election officials from being replaced partisan purposes and protects poll workers by making intimidation of poll workers a felony overrides local voter suppression laws. That we've seen passing in eighteen states. It makes day national holiday which it most definitely should be so that working isn't a barrier to voting is voters to request mail in ballots. It addresses these massive efforts in states like georgia to purge voters from the voting rolls allows for election day registration. You're in state driver's license. Automatically gets you registered and there's finally a disclosure piece to this bill which would end dark money in campaigns which is absolutely crucial to restoring fairness and our democracy and in our economy. There's just a whole bunch of great things in this bill The question is can democrats get ten republicans to vote for this. Which brings us to the filibuster. I've talked about this before i. You carve out voting rights as being so fundamental to our democracy that it should only be held to a fifty one vote threshold would would mansion and and cinema. Go for that. Let's see what happens when joe manchin tries to get ten of his republican friends To vote for this bill watch. Mitch give him collins and murkowski won't bipartisan. Stop anyone and for. There's also the Filibuster modification norm ornstein. And i have talked about the mansion. Says he's open to now. You've heard me talk about this before. Basically what it would do. First of all put the burden on the people who are filibustering so instead of democrats having to come up in this case democrats with sixty votes to stop a filibuster. Republicans in this case would have to come up with forty one votes to sustain a filibuster and they'd have to come to the floor forty-one republicans would have to be on the floor and stay there but they could some could leave and others come in but at all times they have to have forty.
The Al Franken Podcast
"alex gibney" Discussed on The Al Franken Podcast
"Hey everybody we got a great one. Today you know for a change and this time this time. I mean it. Alex gibney academy award winning documentarian also emmy winning and many many other awards in his long distinguished career his latest on. Hbo is the crime of the century. And of course we're talking about biden stealing the election. I thought we'd just finally get another point of view on that. No no it is. it's about Unfortunately about opioids over five hundred thousand americans dead very sordid tale about the pharmaceutical industry. Particularly purdue pharma founded by the sackler family who do not come off well the satellites. But it's a story with a lot of bad actors including rudy giuliani who represented the pharmaceutical industry during a very crucial period that led to a settlement a settlement that buried a lot of the worst practices that created this crime that left so many americans dead some regulators look bad doctors not so good many of them a few politicians marsha blackburn now senator from tennessee very bad it is fascinating A lot going on up on the hill this week. Democrats in congress overwhelmingly are for allowing medicare negotiate with pharmaceutical companies to bring down prices. I wrote a bill to do just that several years ago the Republicans were in the majority at the time in the senate and my bill really had nowhere to go and by the way. The pharmaceutical industry is far more profitable than the insurance industry in two thousand eighteen. For example the top five pharmaceutical companies had a profit margin of nineteen point four percent the top profit margin for four profit. Insurance companies was six percent and three percent for nonprofit insurance companies. That's in actually no small part. Because of provisions. And i rode into the affordable care act called the medical loss ratio which said that health insurance companies have to spend at least eighty percent of their premiums on actual healthcare and not on administrative costs executive salaries and marketing. That's for small group. Policies eighty percent eighty five percent for large group policies and if they don't hit that medical loss ratio. They have to refund the difference to their policyholders..
Reality Life with Kate Casey
"alex gibney" Discussed on Reality Life with Kate Casey
"Welcome back to another episode of reality. Casey hope that you've had a great week this week. Marks the beginning of the elizabeth homes trial the case. Us versus homes began on tuesday with jury selection. One of my most favorite documentaries on my all time. Favorite list is the inventor executive produced by academy award winner. Alex gibney who also did enron the smartest guys in the room and hbo's emmy winning going clear scientology in the prison of beliefs this. Hbo documentary investigates the rise and fall of theranos the one time multibillion dollar healthcare company founded by elizabeth homes in twenty four elizabeth holmes dropped out of stanford to start a company that was going to revolutionize healthcare in twenty fourteen theranos was valued at nine billion dollars making her touted as the next steve jobs. The youngest self made female billionaire in the world but just two years later. Theranos was cited as a massive fraud by the sec and its value is less than zero so if convicted elizabeth holmes faces up to twenty years in prison plus two point seven five million dollars in fines as well as restitution to be paid out to victims drawing on extraordinary access to never before seen footage and testimony from key insiders. The inventor tells a silicon valley tale. That was too good to be true. It examines how this could have happened. And who is responsible while exploring the psychology of deception elizabeth group in unacademic home of privilege. Her mom noel was a congressional committee staffer and her dad christian worked for enron before moving to government agencies like usa id. She was a bright child. She had a competitive streak and early as age. Nine told relatives that she would one day become a billionaire in high school. She became a straight a student in started her own business selling compilers a type of software that translates computer code two chinese schools she went to stanford to study chemical engineering and while a freshman became president scholar and honor which came with a three thousand dollars stipend to go towards a research project as a sophomore. She went on one of our professors channing. Robertson and said let's start a company so with his blessing. She founded real time cures later. Changing the company's name to theranos she's soon filed a patent application for a medical device for analogue monitoring and drug delivery a wearable device..
Reality Life with Kate Casey
'The Inventor' Documentary Investigates the Rise and Fall of Theranos
"Week. Marks the beginning of the elizabeth homes trial the case. Us versus homes began on tuesday with jury selection. One of my most favorite documentaries on my all time. Favorite list is the inventor executive produced by academy award winner. Alex gibney who also did enron the smartest guys in the room and hbo's emmy winning going clear scientology in the prison of beliefs this. Hbo documentary investigates the rise and fall of theranos the one time multibillion dollar healthcare company founded by elizabeth homes in twenty four elizabeth holmes dropped out of stanford to start a company that was going to revolutionize healthcare in twenty fourteen theranos was valued at nine billion dollars making her touted as the next steve jobs. The youngest self made female billionaire in the world but just two years later. Theranos was cited as a massive fraud by the sec and its value is less than zero so if convicted elizabeth holmes faces up to twenty years in prison plus two point seven five million dollars in fines as well as restitution to be paid out to victims drawing on extraordinary access to never before seen footage and testimony from key insiders. The inventor tells a silicon valley tale. That was too good to be true. It examines how this could have happened. And who is responsible while exploring the psychology of deception
Here's The Thing
"alex gibney" Discussed on Here's The Thing
"I said you watch is it. Everybody's looking for an excuse to get the f out of their house show. Gimme shelter brian. Cosgrove my friend. Who's a dj out here at the local radio station. Big rock and roll. But not we contact mazes any comes in. Does the qna after we pack the whole place. Two hundred people came and we show this movie and people literally got a contact high watching altamont. It was like what a great fantastic two things. I always done me when i watched the first of all. It's a cinema verite. Murder mystery and one of the directors is less heralded charlotte's wearing whose the editor and she put the structure together magnificently. So it plays like a murder mystery the other thing. That's interesting is a lot of that film about listening and watching and you wouldn't think that that would be important but to that scene where they're all listening to wild horses is just an exquisite senior and then the scenes where they're watching the footage at ultimate and realizing their complicity in the violence. Those are magnificent scenes and you. They're just so counter. Intuitive and testify to the kind of poetry that the maizels brothers and in this case charlotte swear-in. We're really into that. That film just deserves to be seen over and over and over. I love that moment with like you said. They're listening to wild horses. That are listening to the radio. Show and charlie watts says after sonny barger is yiping about the angels in their mantle. And what they need to do. And charlie telly. What's his ride on sunny. You know their will through all too so overwhelmed wondering how much much gas did they throw in the fire. Well let me just say this. I mean i'm obviously a boundless admire of yours. One of the great filmmakers of the last fifty years made so many great great fascinating and significant and important entertaining documentary films. So i hope when you go on your trip you'll put the phone in a drawer An but take it out for the last couple days. Because i want you to be tortured and haunted protest. The last couple of days of the governor trip. I want to get you back on his own. I'm with you and and there's a woman who's very much on your side. Who would agree. So i'm going to do the very best. I can. t t to hide the phone under a rock released part of the trip. Yes definitely my very best to you on. All things i loved. Crime of the century was the idea that you could see how much the government is for sale. Yes to watch. These people change laws and change legislation to suit the purposes of these people in. This industry was absolutely numbing to me. That's what it must numbing. Parts of the film. Thank you al. Great pleasure talking to you. Alex gibney his latest film. The crime.
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"alex gibney" Discussed on Here's The Thing
"Thing alex gibney is known for his films that challenge entrenched power but he also has a deep catalogue of work featuring musicians from an early blue series with martin scorsese to jimi hendrix. James brown the eagles the rolling stones and frank sinatra when gibney is working with a subject as lionised as sinatra. I wondered. is there an expectation. He'll put a shine on their legacy. Trust me as the sinatra family will tell you about some of the conversations we had. They weren't always pretty. They were of the opinion that i didn't shine the statue enough though. I think i think tina over time came to to become a much bigger believer in in what we had done. Even though she was skeptic going in so i had editorial control. So i could do what i wanted. I was focused in this film though a little bit more on sinatra the musician and as kind of gatsby esque character kind of represented both the american dream in american nightmare. That to me was was interesting. Because i because i have to be honest. I mean frank. Marshall was the one who who encouraged me to take project on. And i was not a big sinatra fan. I knew him as the guy who hung around with spiro. Agnew and i wasn't that interested. But i became you know in doing the film which is one of the great things about doing docks you become curious and you learn about a subject. I became a huge admire of his in terms of his ability to tell stories in three minutes through his voice but also the tension the rough and tumble tension between where he came from and where he was ending up. You know we could have. We've gone deeper into the mafia up. Probably and but. I think that there was enough there to give you a sense of what was going on. And that wasn't we skipped it and i think also the other thing that was tricky about him was his romantic life. Which i think we'd we did a pretty good job of dealing with the one woman who completely flummoxed him Ava gardner so ava gardner. I mean i'm a fool to want you. The one song. Frank sinatra wrote Maybe wrote to but that was the most famous one and she kicked his ass. Ava gardner did and and then he turns around. And does this terrible thing to mia farrow which we chronicle in the film where he he basically serves divorce papers on her or has his lawyer serve divorce papers on her while she's on the set of rosemary's baby and then she went on to point out the rosemary's baby out gross his film that was released at the same time he knew that so anyway. That was a great experience. Though and a lot of people have come to me about that film and it's become one of the films of mind that people like an awful lot. I loved it loved it. And i only highlighted my point that i'm in this work that i've done when i did a podcast. We've done this for now..
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"alex gibney" Discussed on Here's The Thing
"Here's the thing on the iheartradio app apple podcasts. Or wherever you get your podcasts. When we come back alex gibney talks about what he learned early in his career from on a series about the blues. With martin scorsese..
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"alex gibney" Discussed on Here's The Thing
"I i've been thinking about for a long time and it took a long time to get the script right but i'm really looking forward to doing. Run gunning matt cook. He wrote a patriots day which was directed by peder but interesting to me he was a In the infantry in iraq and this is a very much of a war story it's actually vietnam war and it's what is really about is how hard it is to be a hero and with looming tower. What was your input into that. I mean you know. Larry danny fetterman and i were You know co-conspirators early on in terms of coming up with the kind of the overall concept because looming towers of vast books and so how to contain it and how to focus it and we decided to focus it on this battle between the fbi and the cia in the run-up to nine eleven and to focus on to her reams character Ali far is the guy in which he he was. Based and and jeff daniels character john o'neill and obviously i mean you play george tenet who is a critical character in this battle between the fbi and the cia in terms of the overall conceit had a lot of input. I i think that it's fair to say. The danny and i had some creative differences on it and i won some and lost others. But that's the way things go now. There was some talk about another season of that didn't happen. Did you realize that that was the right thing to come about or were you disappointed. There wasn't enough season event. I was hugely disappointed. Work i i really think there could have been a great one and in fact out of that. I'm now doing a a doc. Which tells part of that story that i really wanted to tell in season two because you know when we originally came up with a concept. We had a notion for season two and then season three and for a lot of reasons. Season two didn't happen. So i'm just in the process of finishing because it's the twentieth anniversary of nine eleven in the process of finishing. Something that leans in to sort of the next chapter salon. Goes on and he ends up interrogating the first high value. Detainee is a member of the fbi. But that's that detainee ends up being the for the patient zero the cia torture program filmmaker. Alex gibney if you're enjoying this conversation tele friend and be sure to follow..
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"alex gibney" Discussed on Here's The Thing
"I'm alec baldwin. And you're listening to. Here's the thing alex gibney has said. He inherited some of his anti-authoritarian ways from his family. His father was a journalist who specialized in the culture and policy of postwar japan. His mother founded the health education department at boston's children's hospital has parents divorced when alex was young and when he was a teenager. His mother remarried a champion of civil disobedience. My mom in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight fell in love. With william sloane coffin. Junior he was at the time being tried for conspiracy with dr spot and she had known him from before and he was a very charming and charismatic guy and he would her and they ended up getting married and we moved to new haven. When i was i think a junior in high school and ultimately i did go to yale from sin right. Was it filmmaking. What was the first time you picked up a camera as a child. You didn't feel making your huge filmgoer. I was into it as a kid. I was always into cinema. But the thing that i think really changed me your turn me around. Where were these great film societies at yale and there was there was always an interesting film on every night. And you know this is pre video so you go to these films societies and sit and watch and and at the time documentaries and fiction films were distinctions. Weren't made it wasn't like one was up and one was down. They were all interesting. And i can remember to in particular that really floored me one was gimme shelter by the maizels brothers about the rolling stones. And the other was exterminating angel by louis boone. Well and i thought wow you know..
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"alex gibney" Discussed on Here's The Thing
"Back us up Once we convinced them that we had the goods filmmaker. Alex gibney one person who never saw risk free entertainment. Go sheila nevins has the head of hbo documentary films from nineteen seventy nine until her retirement in two thousand eighteen nevins laid the groundwork for our current golden age of documentaries however when she started in the early eighties. Hbo wouldn't even use the word documentary. When we did promos for films we would call them document. We invented this lunatic word. Because we afraid that if we said documentary people would feel that it was for the elite and that it was about politics and that was not going to be about human stories and so we we hid behind his word dr tain men and then slowly but surely took a good twenty twenty five years. We'd be able. Maybe it's not such a dirty word and reality. Programming sort of said real people can be interesting in a trivial way so then somehow it went document reality. Tv yeah documentary. Go fort say that real people people without celebrity people who are trying to survive in a complicated world saying their own words and stayed in their own words to hear more of my two thousand seventeen conversation with sheila. Nevins go to our archives at. Here's the thing dot org after the break. Alex gibney talks about his first job out of film school. Cutting trailers for exploitation films the moments. You'll never forget the stories. They've never told the secrets. They've never revealed buying the music returns exclusively to paramount plus with the spotlight on new and legacy artists reliving the biggest moments of their musical journeys. Get a backstage pass into the lives of some of the most popular musicians of all time and revisit. Some of the most iconic episodes with new interview footage storylines and commentary here about all the memorable rise and fall moments that made the careers of artists including duran new kids on the block. Bret michaels ricky martin. Ll cool j. huey lewis. Busta rhymes and fat..
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"alex gibney" Discussed on Here's The Thing
"Like crime of the century took close to three years to do with a small group. That really gets intensively into the subject. That's what allows it to happen rather than kind of big machine which attempts to crank these things out can't be cranked out because the rhythm of them sometimes depends on when you get documents or when you get people to talk to the pace of their own. Yeah i'm even talking about the creative. Dna or biology of project to project. I'm just talking about resources in terms of when you're first starting out you might not have everything you need as you become this phenomenally successful filmmaker one thing and afford you to do is to have more people come on and do more research and deepen your research and have more legal help to protect you now. You know i wasn't sundance. I saw you there. I went to the screening. And i'm in that rarefied position where i'm friends with tom. I mean he's he's a friend in terms of my career you know. We don't see each other for long periods of time. We pick up where we left off. He had me come into a couple of Smaller parts and to m. i. movies and so forth and i've often speculated and i even wrote in my memoir i so i thought what was it. What did he need this involvement in this organization in this in this Faith or whatever you want to go. What do you need a four. I wasn't quite sure what its purpose was know. He has everything know wealth and fame and legacy respected the community. He has everything you could possibly imagine in a career as as as a movie star. So what did this add to his life. And i my speculated about that in my book. I came up with an answer but when you were doing going clear. The scientology community which is diverse. Different people as out all tom inc. Maybe but all those people have been able to in some way shula way any real close examination. And when i watched your movie i was mildly taken aback. By how deep you got. Your film was among the first people from the major filmmaker to say that the the institution is guilty of certain abuses. I mean they abuse people their attitude to me was always like hey man. We're not hurting anybody and we manipulate people. No more no less than us military recruitment companies. Do you know what i mean. We have a certain kind of a thing. We do to get people to want to join and sign up with us. But no one's being abused or hurt and you. And what was the genesis of that movie. Why'd you decide. You wanted to go further and look into that even further. You know what's interesting about. That is that i've been offered to do that. Movie any number of times. And i had always turned it down because i always felt. He was too fringe. There weren't that many scientologists in the world as opposed to save the roman catholic church. I did. I did a film about the church. And coincidentally or not two weeks after it premiered. The pope resign. So you know. I was familiar with deep seated religious organizations. And also you know the pushback you can get but in the case of going clear it was larry who convinced me larry reid who convinced me to take it on..
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"alex gibney" Discussed on Here's The Thing
"He's taking on scientology or russian interference in our elections or icon. Ick figures like steve. Jobs lance armstrong and frank sinatra gibney never flinches and his stories. Stand up in fact. He can't think of time when he wanted to reissue. One of his docs to make a correction. I can't think of a time when it did happen. And i think about that a lot. Because i try to find a moment in time where it feels like. We're absolutely right and sometimes you know. I'm afraid that things may come out. That would cause to redo it. But i sort of feel like the films represent a certain wisdom at a moment in time and it's it's best to leave and i am kind of following up on a film. I did and doing another film to kind of dig a little bit deeper. The film. I did a taxi to the dark side. I'm doing kind of follow up to it. But i've never been motivated to really go back in. It's it's seemed like such a painful process. But i usually do think about like if i'm going to end this film here. Why are we ending it here and will it. Stand the test of time when the film was over. Do you ever privately. Follow up about certain aspects of does your carrying. Does your curiosity does your concern end when the film is distributed. No the ghosts of all my films tend to follow me and i often keep in touch with sources and interview subjects and in odd ways they keep coming back to films i make henceforth so they kind of reverberated like that moment in in ghostbusters. So they don't cross the streams when my streams are constantly getting crossed that seems like characters from one film are intruding into another. They all stay with me which becomes a little bit vexing. Sometimes it's hard to keep them straight in your career your fabulous career. You've made thirty films or so. In the last twenty years won an oscar but of course documentary films have become content for streamers and major major broadcasters. What are.
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"alex gibney" Discussed on Here's The Thing
"News stories new secrets. New episodes groundbreaking music documentary series behind the music returns exclusively to paramount plus the spotlight on new and legacy artists reliving. The biggest moments of their musical journeys get a backstage pass into the lives of some of the most popular musicians of all time and revisit..
10% Happier with Dan Harris
"alex gibney" Discussed on 10% Happier with Dan Harris
"Back pain. Chronic back pain because it's often hard to save. What is really helpful. And we know that some therapy forms of really helpful and we know that like some studies. Show that. Mindfulness is helpful for chronic pain in other studies. It doesn't really show an effect. And i think were casting the net too wide because first of all there's so many different forms of chronic pain and so if we can be more specific that is helpful but one study that i always loved so john cavity sin. Actually one of the first studies that he did with mb sr was for people with chronic pain and that was one of his intentions when you first started nba sr in nineteen seventy nine to offer something to people who really had gone through the entire western healthcare system with no really good results other than just medication or surgery and what was really interesting so they looked at. What are the pain level. Starting nba sr. And what are the pain levels ending. Nba saw and would showed was said for quite a number of people. The kind of objective pain level didn't change but the quality of life scores went up quite a bit and that touches me to just talk about that because me that is such an important way to express how the teaching squawk honestly damn so what it means is. They're still pain. But what does that mean. If your quality of life goes up you're happier you're more engaged. You feel more connected. You feel more like life as something to offer to you. You learn how to live with the pain. That is not going away and people will ask me. So i learned to meditate. Will my pain go away. And they say honestly i have no idea. I have seen people with like pain headaches. Strange pain unexplainable pain completely. Go away through meditation or through. These practices in other people know. Didn't change but what. I truly believe is said people who really make themselves available to these practices of mindfulness and compassion. Then they will get happier like maybe ten percent right maybe more but there is something that will change in. I find that so hopeful because we can't get away from this fixation of if only the pain wasn't here then i would be happy are just finished. Crime of the century. It's on hbo. Max directed by a guy. I know and respect alex gibney..
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"alex gibney" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"What's in it for me. Buddy you stop talking about rican drug. We stopped talking about saving the patient. Will you stop talking about the science and will you please tell me what's in it for me because you're wasting my time. Those are the reds those are the doctors you wanna find and those are the doctors you wanna move in livy and breathe perhaps perhaps the best argument for medicare for all. I've seen but alex gibney if you can talk about who alec burlakov is. What insists is it. You start with purdue pharma the prototype of all of this in expand to other drug companies. Well instances is a company that was selling a product called substance. Which was a spray. Where you would spray fennel in small quantities underneath your tongue and it would help to alleviate pain but alec birlik offers. A salesman actually was rather high up at at insists in terms of sales. And they're using the playbook that purdue kind of initiated but taking to a great extreme so that it's all about the money and it's all about trying to find either corrupt money hungry or other a doctors who that becomes your business model to look to those people to enuma to compensate them for being speakers to promote your drug but really a when it came to insist they actually had a return on investment of flow chart so that if you got forty thousand dollars for a insists as speaker you had to prescribe at least two times that amount or they cut you off and explain as saying speaker quotes in other words. Know it's legal to pay doctors to to speak on behalf of a drug but but in this case so so in other words to go out and talk to other doctors about how great this drugs. The problem was that they weren't really speaking. I mean they were just pay the money and they would go and have dinner and maybe talked to a couple of people but it was really a quid-pro-quo it was just a bribe. We'll give you forty thousand dollars. Provided you prescribe eighty thousand dollars of insects and they would encourage them also to up the dose to titrate up because the The more you increase the dose the more money that instances making i mean it's just a you know you see in alad burlakov exactly the argument for medicare for all because you have these terrible incentives where the incentive is not to cure the patient. The incentive is to just make as much money as possible. And i. I can't recall anything in the hippocratic oath. That had anything to do with supply and demand but but by the time you get insists of riffing on the perdue formula. It's all about the money. So i wanna go to another clip from the crime of the century. This is gary blinn talking about how he was given fifty oxycontin.
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"alex gibney" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"What's in it for me. Buddy you stop talking about rican drug. We stopped talking about saving the patient. We stop talking about the science. And will you please tell me what's in it for me because you're wasting my time. Those are the reds those are the doctors you wanna find and those are the doctors you wanna move in livy and breathe perhaps perhaps the best argument for medicare for all i've seen But alex gibney if you can talk about who alec burlakov is. What insists is it. You start with purdue pharma the prototype of all of this in expand to other drug companies. Well instances is a company that was selling a product called substance. Which was a spray. Where you would spray fennel in small quantities underneath your tongue and it would help to alleviate pain but alec birlik offers. A salesman actually was rather high up at at insists in terms of sales. And they're using the playbook that purdue kind of initiated but taking to a great extreme so that it's all about the money and it's all about trying to find either corrupt money hungry or other a doctors who that becomes your business model to look to those people to enuma to compensate them for being speakers to promote your drug but really a when it came to insist they actually had a return on investment of flow chart so that if you got forty thousand dollars for a insists as speaker you had to prescribe at least two times that amount or they cut you off and explain as saying speaker that you put quotes in other words. It's legal to pay doctors to to speak on behalf of a drug but but in this case so so in other words to go out and talk to other doctors about how great this drug is. The problem was that they weren't really speaking. I mean they were just pay the money and they would go and have dinner and maybe talked to a couple of people but it was really a quid-pro-quo it was just a bribe. We'll give you forty thousand dollars. Provided you prescribe eighty thousand dollars of insects and they would encourage them also to up the dose to titrate up because the The more you increase the dose the more money that instances making i mean it's just a you know you see in alad burlakov exactly the argument for medicare for all because you have these terrible incentives where the incentive is not to cure the patient. The incentive is to just make as much money as possible. And i. I can't recall anything in the hippocratic oath. That had anything to do with supply and demand but but by the time you get insists of riffing on the perdue formula. It's all about the money so i to go to another clip from the crime of the century. This is gary blinn talking about how he was given fifty oxycontin.
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