Black market

Marlena is shocked and pretty confused.

Did her vet just recommend black market cat drugs from a Facebook group? Before Marlena has time to think about how bizarre this all is, she looks over at poor Otto, who's gotten skinnier and weaker each day, and she logs onto Facebook.

So I go to the Facebook group and it's very weird.

It's a private group.

And the very next day, she found an unmarked package on her doorstep with vials of a mysterious liquid and instructions for how to inject them into her cat.

Over the next three months, Marlena says she spent thousands of dollars via PayPal to order more and more of this liquid.

But the weirdest part was that this black market drug, it actually cured her cat.

Within the first week, he was back to normal.

Did you get a chance to, to, to actually work through the report, and can you share with the audience what is the big headline item in it for you?

I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll share you my quick assessment because I think it came out as I was coming back from, uh, Underground Economy.

And, uh, uh, with Underground Economy being in Strasbourg, if you're not experienced into European travel, that is like a, a special thing by itself.

Going, uh, to Bucharest from Strasbourg, uh, or from, uh, Strasbourg to Bucharest, it's, it's, uh, it's a tough thing, man.

So-

Jiminy Christmas.

But it's like we go from an episode of, like, black market, where it's like, "No one can get what they want-

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... and we gotta have the black market," to this.

Mm-hmm.

It's good to see you.

Don't, I, I, d- I didn't, I liked, I liked the episode.

The episode was good.

That is his taco.

That is his taco that's a tribute to the Mercado Negro in Ensenada, the black market, and it's on his tasting menu at Orixe.

Um, you know, right now for, you know, if you want a chef-driven restaurant experience in Tijuana, Orixe is the place to go, okay? Um, now the other thing that was really [laughs] amazing...

Now, I'm not, this is not a, a, you know, I'm, I'm like, both of those, uh, tacos are amazing, but there's just something really special about the taco that, uh, Tomas Gastelum is doing under, you know, with his partnership with Chef Jo- Jose Luis Hinestroza, a friend of the podcast from Arca in Tulum, who is a, who is an owner at Mira Fireside.

What is going on with you?

I'll be at Underground Economy in the beautiful city of Strasbourg, which is like the second capital of the European Union.

That's the Brussels, which is the capital, and like the smaller capital is Strasbourg.

for don't ask why it's like historical

no no no i mean strasbourg is like the second capital of the european union for historical reasons like they didn't want to to kind of offend any of the founders so as a result in the constitution it's something like uh european parliament needs to uh have sessions both in Brussels and in Strasbourg so like every now and then one day per month they go everyone goes to Strasbourg and they have some meetings in there just so that everyone is happy

this is a threat Intel thing

it's underground economy is it's a kind of the top conference from team Cumbria which also have very, very interesting services, by the way, like not just passive DNS and site, but they also have things like NetFlow, the Auguri system.

So very interesting services they're offering.

Only the black market wins.

Is that the main reason for your partnership with NBA?

People more refer us as the number one brand here.

easiest thing you can do is to ban.

Yeah, it is the way, but that's not the right solution because the betting is always there, even pre-poll goal, even after the legislation.

Still, at this moment, we can see probably about a substantial amount of activities on black market and if you do over regulation you will drive the behavior betting activities to the black market operator yeah so it will be everybody lose only the black market wins be honest

yeah yeah true well thank you so much for joining me sharing your insights as well as plans for the coming years i look forward to another opportunity to meeting you thank you for having me thank you so that's it guys share your thoughts in the comments below and i will see you on the next one thank you thank you

Take the tax.

Yeah, well, 80% of tobacco consumed in Australia is now bought on the black market.

Oh, you know Julian Hill, the Assistant Customs Minister? He tells me that's wrong.

That's the ABS's number, by the way.

We've seen a rise in underworld crime because of this demand for illicit tobacco.

And greedy Labor has now ramped up packets to a maximum legal price of $60.

I mean, who can afford that? So people are, of course, now going to the black market.

I mean, isn't this an example of how, you know, government greed...

Abject failure.

I mean, we have a situation where 80% of smokes out there are bought from the black market, bought from organised crime.

I mean, the tax revenues are falling because they're failing.

I mean, so there's not even a health warning on the packets that are brought in by Manchester, made in Dubai, sold by some Lebanese crime gang on the streets out there.

Six lawsuits naming US companies Aesthetic Envy, Astra, Legendary Peptides, Stryker Pharmacy, Texas Peptides, and Lone Star Peptides as the defendants.

saying that they're selling the black market ritatatride to the public.

Now, here's why they are doing it.

The reason these compounding pharmacies are making ritatatride is they go through the research use only case, which obviously, who's in the public doing research with vials of ritatatride for one person? It's an N of one, N of one.

I didn't realize that it was like the scale at which people would be integrating it.

It's like, I mean, yeah, highly addictive in a sense because you're addicted to your aesthetic, which we'll talk more about in our next episode.

But Yeah, black market and crime organizations getting their fingers into it.

I mean, I guess there is a lot of money to be made.