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90's kid here. Dare introduced my generation to drugs. The showed us what weed is in 5th grade, and we were smoking it in 6th grade. I remember once when they were describing the negative effects of weed. One of the negative effects was "a feeling of euphoria". We looked that word up in the dictionary that day and got pretty curious.
I remember we watched a video in DARE that had a 90s graphic of bent spoons dancing in 5th grade. I asked the officer what those spoons were. Dude gave a detailed play by play in how to shoot up heroin. It always stayed with me because of how insane it was to me. It was almost to the point of the clayton bigsby sketch where he told kids to go see Martinez cuz his stuff was da bomb.
When I was in elementary school, we had a D.A.R.E officer from our county sheriffs office. He hit and killed a young woman with his patrol car, who was pregnant. At the time of the collision, he was drunk. That was the end of our D.A.R.E program.
I feel like that is the story behind almost every D.A.R.E officer, they are always heavy drug users to end up ODing, killing someone in a DUI, SAing someone, or dying in a DUI. Buncha hypocrites.
@@Adam-nv9zo wouldn't it be amazing if the young pregnant woman and the cop were actually married, and were planning to move out of town.. so they figured, they'd stage the whole thing just to drive home the message for the kids in the community ☺
@earthworm7346 That would be nice, but she died, and so did her unborn baby. And to make it worse because he was a police officer, he just got a slap on the wrist and lost his job at that department just to go get another job at another police department 45 minutes away. The whole thing was disgusting.
I remember our health teacher step by step instructions us & visually showing us how to huff with permanent markers and a plastic bag. He also then proceeded to actually huff said bag and get absolutely faded, right in front of a bunch of 7th graders. I'll never forget it
In elementary school the DARE officer was teaching us about reaction times while on drugs. To demonstrate normal reaction time, he took his keys and tossed them towards me. I watched them go by and hit the ground. He said “a normal person would have caught that.” That’s about all I remember of DARE in 5th grade.
Insofar as I know, the non-mitigated human reaction time under ideal circumstances is between .3 and .6 seconds. However: even drugs that seem to boost reaction time can potentially degrade the quality of decision making. Basically, being drunk and snorting some coke doesnt mean you hit sobriety level quality of human mode. You are still drunk and now u are hi on coke.
@@py_a_thon I dunno coke makes you almost completely sober, you could be stumbling about and throwing up do a line and you can walk properly and no longer be vomiting. i doubt your actual reaction time would be that of a sober person but it would definitely help
he is a model interviewer honestly. he doesn't project his opinions at all unless necessary. he gets more info than anyone because he doesn't let himself get in the way.
I think that’s the first person to successfully get Andrew to answer a question. He’s usually good at pushing the focus back on those he’s interviewing without having to insert his own views or thoughts when asked.
Honestly that's insanely effective, not only you think that he already had enough bong for the day, you start wondering whether you are just as incoherent when you're high.
Remember crack was given far harsher punishment back in the 80's than it's brother coke, poor people typically had crack on them the rich bankers coke. So your experience totally tracks since they would prefer to lock up the poor inner city user/dealer than the far more well off businessman.
My DARE officer caught a BUI two summers after I finished DARE, and that following year in 8th grade my class was wild with weed smoking and drinking. Definitely not because our DARE officer got caught, but we all joke that his arrest is what ruined us those 20 years ago 😅
Mine was cool during the program but when I was a teenager I saw him out in public and walked up to say hi. He stared at me with the nastiest scowl on his face and never said a word. F that guy.
The problem I see with DARE is that these officers never even tried drugs so they have no idea what they are talking about. We need actual people whose lives were ruined by drugs to come to schools and share their experiences. The funding could also go to get these people back on track as this can be their full time job.
If I was in school and some officer came and told us: ‘do not vape, its uncool’, I would think the opposite. If it was a person that needs a device to talk and looks absolutely fucked up because of lung/throat cancer, it would scare the shit out of my young mind so that I will be less prone to try it.
We had some prsioners come in and talk to us in highschool. One had been a meth cook and had a hole in hir heart from cooking. Its wasnt part of dare though.
that never worked. we had many ex-addicts come to speak to us at my school from middle school to high school and no one cared or paid attention. what they need to do is talk about what drugs actually do to you and not the "makes you lazy" bs. they need to show studies and bring in neurologists, for example drinking lets say, when it came to alcohol you just hear how it messes up your liver and addiction to it can ruin your family, but bringing up how it destroys grey brain matter is a lot more substance. i became sober from all intoxicants when I started reading the effects of drugs.
TBH, Retro Bill's approach to DARE made the most sense to me of the people you interviewed. He doesn't try to punish kids; he tries to reach them where they are at. Everyone else at DARE seemed to understand there's a host of factors that could lead to unwanted drug use, but still leaned on severe punishment to address those issues instead of finding solutions for root causes. So long as punishment remains the go-to reaction, I don't think they'll find the outcome they want.
He seems the most realistic, I disagree with him on a lot of shit but I can absolutely respect the idea of just trying to reach people in lots of different ways until something clicks, and acknowledging that his way definitely won't work for everyone but still trying to make a difference for the few kids he did reach.
I grew up in a loving home with two dedicated parents who did nothing but try their best to make sure I had everything I needed and to raise me to be self sufficient. Clearly my decision to smoke weed when I was 19 came from my inner struggles and deep seeded pain... It for SURE had nothing to do with the fact that it was fun and made Skyrim feel super immersive...
Same here…started at 19 just cause I was bored. I’m 24, turning 25 soon and I think it’s time to put my stuff away. Enjoy your time, don’t get too into it
Honestly, what clicked for me is when I was in 9th grade and we had some people from a home for people who were using come to my school. There was a guy, probably 20-25, saying he just got to the house today and was using yesterday. The look on his face, the way he spoke, it was devastating. I feel like that man changed my life, and I think about him a lot. That is what worked for me. I think it’s so important to hear from people who use, rather than hear from people who truly know nothing about drugs and what it is like to struggle.
It's such a satisfying win to hear Andrew ask the guy if he drinks and if he does it for pleasure. I specifically remember learning in this program that alcohol is a drug. This guy explicitly says that people who use any drug have mental or emotional issues. So which is it? That guy could not answer.
It’s sad, what keeps kids off drugs is showing them the truth of what things like cigarettes and heroin can do to you. Just saying “just say no” doesn’t show them what actually happens when you do hard drugs.
To stay sober today I read some of Norm McDonald’s book, rode my mountain bike 18 miles, and called my mom. Don’t over think it, just do what you did when you were a kid.
"Gateway Drug" has to be the most misused term ever, it does not mean that taking Weed makes you easier to become addicted to harder stuff. It actually means, that to get Weed you need to go to a Dealer, who is economically incentivized to entice and offer you more expensive (Harder) and thus far more profitable Drugs than Weed. The Solution to the "Gateway Drug" thing is literally to open a legal Weed store...
I genuinely disagree. I think you misunderstand what the label means. The one thing I think dare got right was about weed being a gateway drug for *some* people. I’ve seen it happen to myself and to countless others. What you’re missing is the curiosity that weed brings to a lot of people. It opens peoples minds into realizing that illegal substances aren’t inherently bad. I’ve also seen that a lot of people just get bored with weed after smoking for so long and want something more. And I think your theory about dealer pressure is not true at all. This does happen at times but it’s way less common than you’re implying and ignores who is actually dealing weed and drug prices. The majority of weed dealers sell just weed in large part due to stricter penalties for selling harder substances and aren’t even offering people other drugs. You’re also equating hard drugs as more expensive which is not true at all. Meth is one of the most common hard drugs used right now and you can find it at the same price if not cheaper than weed. But in saying all of this it really is only a gateway drug for addiction prone individuals. There are plenty of people who have no urges in trying anything else but weed.
Andrew and Channel 5 just keep getting better and better! I had been avoiding this video due to the thumbnail. I was blown away by the level of quality journalism
I like the direction your journalism is taking. Giving people time to speak and presenting history on the subject is valuable. For what it's worth, those throwbacks to your younger self really build your credibility in my eyes.
Andrew gets so much shade from the MSM but he is really showing them how to do Journalism: with a bias towards facts, not ideology or political parties. It's beyond refreshing. The MSM needs to go back to this model and stop trying to control people's minds.
@@micahjones2090 his message at the end about someone coming along in your life as a mentor of some sort and just fundamentally clicking something in your brain is so real and true
@@NegoClau I think he didn't. Again, I think some of these people are genuinely in D.A.R.E. for a good reason and have had some genuinely good impact. Of all stories he could've told, that one was more than credible. Even if you disagree with DARE, you can admit that at best these people genuinely want to help, cause like people suffering from addiction they're not robots or demons, they're people. And before you assume I support DARE, I don't. I am not american and DARE wasn't something I even knew of before getting access to the internet and learning english. I don't agree with DARE's philosophy and definitely don't support its historical context, since that did impact indirectly my life as well. But people are not solely historical contexts.
@Ch-xc4fo Honestly, it seems as though he was advocating for and anecdotally ascertained that in person professionally trained spokespeople are more effective than D.A.R.E. While there must be some programs to educate students on the harm that drugs can cause, it is everything else within D.A.R.E that made it the failure it was. Person to person empathy is powerful.
As an alcohol and other drugs counsellor I always explore with my clients to go back to the basics (looking after Sleep, exercise, diet) distracting yourself and making time/doing things you used to enjoy(self-care) and motivate you for a purpose in life(job,friends, family).
I don't know if it's the fact that I'm not an American, but to me Retro Bill is the personification of "how can I make this about me." The way he centers himself and his role in every single story just rubs me the wrong way to be honest
Even on like a deeper level he's like obsessed with his individual existence. When confronted with the fact that his program coincides with higher and not lower drugs use among young people, he tells some sob stories about people whose life he supposedly changed. Which, even if I'm willing to buy that that's true, what is this approach if not living in denial of reality. Just like a flat earther who sees the horizon line is straight and refuses to grow beyond their naive experience, Bill here sees individuals who were supposedly helped and refuses to acknowledge that his program probably put a lot more youths onto drugs than some local gang ever could.
Andrew dude just saying please keep doing what you’re doing until you can’t. I’m a former journalist and you straight up make me wish I didn’t give up. You’re a paladin in a world of darkness. I think your work will transcend even your life. Your strength is rare. Don’t forget that.
We could really use you in your own city providing unbiased news, if you could do me a favor and find sometime every now and then to be a journalist again
To the other commenters: journalism is going through a massive crash at the moment. Thousands upon thousands are being laid off, newspapers are going under, websites are hung under, and even local tv news is going through rough times. It's never been worse than it is right now. At the end of the day your work still needs to feed you and most in the business are never going to be fortunate enough to find 1% of the success that Andrew has.
Andrew, when seeing Retro Bill almost tear up when you were talking about your one person, you can tell he whole heartedly agrees with his schtick. Seems like a good guy.
Whoo boy, you must not have gotten to know many good manipulators. Being able to pour as much emotion as possible into whatever the fuck you're talking about is the skill. Retro Bill smells like a garden variety charlatan to me.
I agree with you on that. He seems like a genuin and good guy. But... A very naive, un-educated, mislead guy that believes in something instead of educating himself. I dont know if he believes in his own goodness, god, love, or something else but he clearly let's his feelings and beliefs lead him blindly instead of arming himself with facts to do what his heart tells him to. Therefore he's more dangerous than helpful. The whole DARE-program is suffering from the same issue. They dont what they're working with, they just know their "why" and for them that's enough. I think the scene were he painted over hundreds of stickers and graffiti that was put there by 100s of equal citizens who obviously feel that the public grey spaces looks better with a bit of colour. Then Bill goes there with a bucket of grey paint and covers it all (illegally) because HE feels/thinks that's right in his good heart. His good heart are somehow above others good hearts, and that is extremely dangerous. My own personal perspective of my own drug history (i used amphetamines and H for many years IV, been sober 5 years now) is that if it wouldn't have been for drugs i would have killed myself before twenty. That was my plan and mindset til i found drugs. I clearly remember when i decided to dedicate myself to drugs with the aim to stay alive long enough to overcome my problems. And for me that worked, very well actually. I'm happy today. If Bill would have came to my school to lock me up, i'm not sure that would've ended so well. I'm not saying that my story is a good example. I'm just saying that most of us is good guys. I would never paint over someone's art on public concrete with grey though. That's evil to me. I'm 35 btw.
@@JimmyHagerstrom It was pretty clear from the video that DARE used evidence based methods and was willing to adapt and evolve. Retro Bill is just a mascot I don't see what he said was harmful or misleading. Your described experience actually reaffirms DARE's philosophy that drug users have mental problem which is better solved with therapy than drugs so I don't understand why you used it as an argument. It's good that you stopped abusing drugs because you already are not making much sense.
Drug use helped get a degree which I wouldn't have gotten without them. My life was a mess without drugs. Humans have always used drugs. It's just very recent that they have been seen as inherently criminal acts.
DARE kinda messed me up as a kid. My father had been growing his own weed for decades to smoke himself and when i was about 11 or 12 i figured it out. Because DARE and programs like it had gotten so into my head about even how "dangerous" pot was i held some resentment and anger towards my father over it. Even fantasizing sometimes about calling the cops on him when i was mad at him, only to then have a panic attack cause i was worried the cops would then take away our house. All over some pot he just grew and smoked on his own to relax with after work.
Hey at least you weren't dumb enough to call the cops because you can bet your ass they would have tore your family apart as he went to jail for a long time and would lose custody of his kids almost assuredly.
@@monopomanCounterpoint; what dad would grow weed knowing it could land him in jail and tear the family apart? Some responsibility on his side knowing he is bringing danger to the family would have helped. Yes, the war on drugs is stupid but its amazing that even pot is making a man willing to risk his life and family. Seems crazy to me.
@@monopoman I agree with that dont get me wrong. I just thought it was an odd thing for a dad to do in such an uncertain time with dare trying to make kids snitch you know?
I got kicked out of D.A.R.E when I was in grade 7. My Dad is a big time anti government, anti church, eat the rich, anarchist type. He had already taught me all about Iran-Contra, The criminalization of weed and hemp as a way to uplift the cotton industry after emancipation, Poisonous pain killers being legal because they come from mega-corps that used to be part of the Third Reich. ect. ect. When I stood up before the class and the poor, clueless junior RCMP officer and delivered my well written essay on these topics and advocating a shift towards harm reduction, it didn't go over well.
Genuinely, it's self-important control-freaky people like Bill that justify my pharmaceutical escapism from not having to share the same reality with them for a while.
Prior to the fentanyl crisis, I would have said she's insane for saying people need more access to prescribed opiates. With all the fentanyl nowadays it would actually make sense to help slow the amount of deaths.
Nobody who is addicted to fentanyl is going to buy heroin and pay taxes on it. Once you’re taking fentanyl, heroin is like taking a Tylenol. Plus it’s far more expensive WITHOUT government trying to get a piece. Unfortunately the only solution to the fentanyl crisis is a little more work than that - cheap (free) long term treatment centres, mental health supports… and maybe let’s stop villainizing addicts
@@baddaytraderThis isn't really true. Most heroin/fentanyl addicts would be much happier if they could have easy access to oxycodone or oxymorphone. And I'm telling you this as somebody in rehab right now for heroin and fentanyl.
@@baddaytraderbut otherwise you're totally on the money about the solutions. Decriminalizing drugs isn't going to increase their use, it will just make addicts less likely to become career criminals if they can get their fix without having to lie, cheat, or steal.
i used to run a fundraising company and had a contract with DARE, i’ve met Frank and Misty the President/CEO and CFO. met them at a resort retreat in mexico, they are loaded, boujii as hell but they genuinely believe in what they are trying to accomplish. the man that did the meta analysis that proved Dare had an opposite effect than intended (Richard clayton) was hired to rewrite their curriculum to focus on mental health and coping mechanisms instead of scare tactics. it was wild thinking back about going through DARE when i was younger while drinking cocktails with the owners on the beach in Mexico, after getting through Herion addiction. it was surreal like how did I of all people end up here?
It seems they're really trying to improve. My problem with D.A.R.E. is it's a police program. The officers trying to build trust with kids can also bust them for pot. Get law enforcement out and it would be a much better program.
Thats actually really cool that they genuinely care! Its unfortunate that DARE has become such a laughingstock. I assumed that it was invented by the gov and ran by all cops. I wish the program had been done differently, because no one can argue against “kids shouldnt do drugs”
Andrew, it's crazy how much you taught me about topics I never heard about before. It's in the way your videos are structured, making great points that are connected, to make me understand what's going on in the bigger picture, all while spitting hip hop jokes. The reason why I think your journalism is so unbelievable, is because you can make me instantly interested in topics that are important, but that are at the same time are not even close to being covered in the way you are doing it by bigger media corporations. Absolutely unique, I really really appreciate your work
I was addicted to heroin in 2019. I wanted DESPERATELY to get clean but there is ZERO help. I had to quit cold turkey and endure months of torture to get myself off a drug i still crave to this day. The only reason I am not dead is because of my parents and the only reason I was able to quit is because my former dealer moved away. Rehab is both exorbitantly expensive and runs the risk of encountering law enforcement. The reason there are so many addicts is a culture of demonization. No one using wants to use. Thanks Andrew
“No one using wants to use” may be one of the best lines I’ve heard. If there’s enough support, there’s no space for a vice. Thanks for sharing your story, good luck with your continued recovery.
Bless u man keep strong. The fiending will grind down like a rock in the waves. It will never leave but the edges will be smoothed out and you can give it a place in your life where it wont nag your brain every day. And before you know it you realize you havent thought about it for months at a time. Also congratz on staying sober. This bro is rooting for you 💪
the skeleton chick was talking out of her ass though wish they didnt bother showing her fried thought process. Shes talking about how all these drugs are harmless meanwhile shes clearly permafried and physically unhealthy. Walking oxymoron, you can tell her brain is short staffed just look at her glazed over eyes and mouthbreathing lmao
crazy what happens when true journalism and raw conversation is censored by media outlets, even Las Vegas Fox News tried getting his media removed off youtube by claiming free use under the documentary clause was copyright infringement. Normalize getting news from youtubers that get paid by ads and stay independent before Disney buys the platform.
It really stands out in so many ways. And I love how it's super clear at any point, what's "fact" (problematic term, i know) and what is his (or someone elses) opinion.
The people who know / who come in contact with addicts have some of the most interesting takes on how to solve these issues and how to treat addicts (see the Channel 5 videos in SF or Las Vegas). To me the DARE conference is just a big thought experiment: a group of people get together and try to solve a problem they have never actually seen. As much as they are in good faith, their effort are often misdirected and ineffective because they live too far from the sad reality of drug addiction
@@vangoghsseveredear Brother, cops "see" the reality of drug addiction as much as a McDonalds line cook "sees" a cow being butchered. They process it and send it away, it doesn't mean they understand or any closer to it than any other person.
You wanna know what the problem is? I have an idea…. As a Buddhist practitioner since 2011, one of the concepts that I’ve become acquainted with, is that of the interdependent connectivity of all things. In Buddhism, we strive to experience this-as part of a state of consciousness, not just as a theory. And over time, through devoted practice, one can begin to see this aspect of the reality of life in real time. One major problem with our approach to addiction (not to mention many other things) is that we tend to view it as though it occurs within a vacuum- disconnected from any causal relationships. This way of seeing addiction is just flat out delusional, because there is no thing in life that bares the quality of independent origination. Everything is connected to something; has been influenced by something else; owes its nature to the nature of something else. Because we do not understand this, we cannot fathom that addiction is a problem that we all created. It is the natural product of our entire way of living. And we cannot ever hope to cut it out, as a tumour is removed from the living flesh. Because as we do this, the tumour surely just grows back, because the circumstances for its growth still persist.
@@Deadyguerro It's not even wholly about that. Yes alcohol is dangerous, but so are certain other drugs. The hypocrisy lies within the fact that our government and society accept the harms that come from alcohol use and allows adults to choose to consume it, while simultaneously saying that adults can't choose to consume other substances. It's a pure double standard.
its disgusting. boozebags equate their shitpoison to other drugs so they get paranoid about it because their alcoholism makes it so they cant admit to themselves theyre heavy drug users aswell. the guy at 24:07 is definitely one of em, you can see by the color of his skin and his mantits that hes a boozer
15 year old student gets caught with drugs, expelled from school, taken to jail, put into the criminal justice system, 18 years later still suffering from the consequences of that and doing manual labor while going to college with kids ten years younger than him. Does that make sense to anyone?
@@MibbilyStibillies I bet you're so much fun at parties. What a terrible take, like you are the judge of "college worthy". You are an insult to education.
@@MibbilyStibilliesOr maybe, bear with me, their education was interrupted. All these adults around, parents/teachers/etc, and they all failed this child. Instead of teaching this person life skills, they were thrust into jail, for a mistake made as a minor. How would YOU help them become college material? Clearly you have the answers...
The edits in Andrew’s work are truly epic. The flashes of people’s careers and activities are amazing. You can also see the Sacha influence in his interviewing style. Andrew is the best
This is by far one of my favorite Channel 5 documentaries! The team really gives a good background on the subject, reputable sources for what's happening on the ground, and enough heart to keep us curious for more. I appreciate the work you all do and the way you do it. I lead a team of therapists who support foster and probation youth living in group homes. I'm planning on sharing this with my team. Know that you'll make a difference in the lives of the youth we work with.
This is real journalism at it's best. Both sides are humanized and get equal time. Cable and local news syndicates could take a note, but they're more interested in profit than real journalism. Keep up the great work Andrew and crew. You're helping to set a new standard. P.S. Seattle misses you
@@evolicious in one dojo i trained with, they nicknamed me 'tweak'.. in teen years, people would assume i was on drugs sometimes, and i never was. I was just very healthy & fit 🤷♂️. I later realized that it was only ever the drug users that thought i was the one on a drug.
Great video, only issue was at 20:38 The way you framed that lead up it seemed like you wanted to imply that kid in the clip was getting arrested for a minor drug possession. That person is Martrez Antonio Barnes, they were arrested for sneaking a firearm onto school grounds. Not drug possession. Appreciate the videos!
I remember D.A.R.E.. We had an Office Friendly who taught us how to look for drugs in our home and then gave us his contact card so we could call him to get our parents help. He showed us what drugs looked like, smelled like (hahaha) and all that. He went on and on about how much the police CARED about our families. It wasn't just about us being clean but about our parents and even our friends' parents. So yeah. Government rep telling children to dig around in homes looking for drugs so we could become foster kids. He left that part out. The whole prison thing. Also getting our friends' parents arrested? Yeah no mention of that. Just aaaaall about heeeeeellp!
The kids don't know we lived the book "1984" meanwhile everyone who was wealthy was doing everything, selling everything, and now their children own half the US today.
Love the doc ❤ My twin brother was a victim of the effects of the D.A.R.E erra. We grew up on the oregon coast and picked Oregon Blue mushrooms during our court mandated community service, known as "Road crew". My bother took too many mushrooms one day and ended up in pretty severe legal trouble due to his actions while intoxicated. We were 14 years old and already on probation for fighting with each other on the side of highway 101. He never was able to dig himself out of the legal system, or his psychosis after tripping so hard and "ruining" his life at such a young age. After mamy years of struggling to go to community College and keep himself out of trouble, he found himself homeless for a few years. While homeless and in and out of jail for minor offenses, he found himself sleeping in dumpsters and trying to stay clean. In January of 2021 i got a call that he had been crushed to death in Tacoma Washington by a recycling truck, they found him on the sorting line of a transfer station in rural Pierce County. If drugs were the problem, why did the system treat him like he was the problem? He could never get a leg up and i wish somebody with real resources had vared enough to help him save himself
@@StandardName562 You can't force someone who doesn't want to get help. They could of tried to drag him by the feet and he'd probably of snuck out or just broken out of their house.
I agree. More resources should be directed toward counseling young people who have gotten into trouble with the law. Especially when substances are involved. Btw ignore these negative comments.
I worked for D.A.R.E back in 2018 and would stand outside businesses with a booth and get donations. It was a MLM/ Pyramid scheme. Also EVERYONE I worked with at the VERY LEAST smoked weed. A few of em did hard drugs. ALSO the boss/ head of our branch would pocket some of the cash donations every day and ended up stealing over 30k from them before getting caught. Wild times.
Im a recovering heroin addict, sober some years, and work for a homelessness agency that runs apartments for the chronicly homeless. Unfortunately, the answer is probably somewhere in the middle, nuanced, and highly individualized. Which takes resources, some of which cant be bought, time, and sweeping cultural change at mutliple levels. Part of me says legalize as much as possible because its destroying other countries, or at least cultivating crime and funding crime, but i dont think in the US thatll solve what people think it will, especially looking at those most effected like addicts, homeless, and their families, nor crime adjacent drug use. This is a great vid tho, covers both extremes and some of the middle. Channel 5 always killin it!
Yeah, it's almost like it's actually an extremely complex issue and there isn't a one-size-fits-all solution for addiction! I wish our lawmakers understood this. I'm not sure if I'm fully on board with the legalize everything approach either, but I think decriminalizing all non-violent drug crimes would be a good start. Whatever your opinion is about drug use, I don't think any honest person can say the War on Drugs has been a good thing. I think in the aggregate it has possibly destroyed more lives. Good on you for getting sober. I know it's very difficult and this world certainly doesn't make it easy, but facing reality with a clear head and clear eyes is always more rewarding. Thank you for the work that you do!
@@indieguy81foreal though stuff is still terrible though obv depends on the drug but I was shooting up for like 4 years and got sober and had 3 sizeures detoxing and stuff like that lady is cooked stuff is soo bad obv anything can be used in certain doses but she never been a addict or is a new addict in denial but oxy goes to herion and then fent and messes ppl up hard stuff had a chokehold on me and like so many other ppl
Heroin should for sure be legal. Look at how they do it in parts of Europe. They had a crazy pro with homelessness and open drug use, they legalized and backed it with services including rehab and jobs, housing healthcare etc. we do harm increase here under the guise of harm reduction because it’s not backed by services like that. We half assed it and made things worse. Almost seems like it was on purpose so we can point and say “look, see? Harm reduction doesn’t work!”
I appreciate your honesty. Regarding "Sober some years" I am currently in a battle with a substance myself. And i couldn't of said it any better. I believe if there is a god, He or she understands human nature. And having an addiction, is the most human of natures.✌️
@@indieguy81I too am conflicted. Everything he stated I fully agree with. The one thing that I KNOW has happened, is when weed became legal in multiple states in the northeast, within 1 year no one sold weed anymore. Atleast anyone that I knew and I knew a lot of people that did. When we could just walk in a store and get the same, medical grade herb, there was no reason to buy stuff of the street. And I would imagine that absolutely lowered weed related crimes. Obviously other drugs are not the same. I am conflicted ! The approach that has been taken for decades does not seem to be helping. I’m not saying legalize everything just to be clear!! But we need to start looking at alternative options. Like it was said in the video, the answer is “Love”. To me, love doesn’t look like locking up a teenager and getting them arrested and thrown into an institution to potentially escalate them towards worse behavior and expose them to potentially even more dangerous people that will influence them further. Idk, just spitballing 😂
Here in New Zealand our version of dare was “Harold the giraffe” who was a giraffe hand puppet. We were seriously “educated” about drugs by a giraffe puppet called Harold in the back on a semi truck trailer that went from school to school.
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Honestly I get scared most times people talk about alternative news sources.... But This. This right here. This is one of the best news channels I have ever seen - aiming for fair coverage of all sides of an issue, showing personal bias but not bending interviews in that direction, and showing the complexity of a situation while distilling main points for the audience to contemplate. This is journalism
Andrew makes a solid argument for Sigmund Freud I thought he was a wild dude always took his words with more than a few grains of cocaine because he chain smoked and did cocaine all day every day but Andrew really puts his “talking cure” to work it’s like he’s doing the talking cure therapy for the whole country and it does seem to be effective
why do people love their "fair neutral unbiased coverage" when people make stupid arguments you don't need to take them serious or give them credit by framing them as professional
@@oiytd5wugho The way he just stands there with the mic and basically in as few words as possible says “yes yes tell me more about that, and how does that make you feel?” That’s a therapy technique called the talking cure but the guy who came up with it the “father of modern psychology” was a pretty wacky dude although before him people weren’t sure if the brain is where thoughts happen sooo
-How should we prevent children from doing drugs? -Let's do presentations in 95% of schools telling children about drugs they possibly don't even know exist yet
And instead of telling them the actual dangers, let's pretend like weed is basically fentanyl while alcohol is being legally advertised on television. Then all their bs detectors will go off, turning them against us, thereby causing them to actively seek out these drugs. Let's also make sure that drug use is illegal and villified, so addicts will not seek out help and be more likely to remain addicted
I loved your incogni add approach. Love your work. I'm in my 40s. Went through DARE in Burbank in CA. I think we only saw the DARE dude probably 3x in the school year and never again. At the time I think most KIDS automatically rejected the message because it was just uncool to listen to this officer. It felt awkward listening to a dude that we barely knew and didn't know who we really were. Honestly it was forgotten as soon as he left. I did lightly use Marijuana later in life between 14-16ish and DARE had no impact on me using it.
The way you put together something so good with real truth and so impeccable! Thank you for doing what you’re doing!! Every video I have watched I see what you’re doing and it’s great! You care not just there for the views, you want the truth out and it is admired!!
Andrew bringing the rap game in this one! Did not see that coming. Channel 5. Wow. To say y’all are doing great work is an understatement. Please keep them coming! This channel is 5 STARS ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I remember DARE. Some cop came into the classroom and showed us a box full of drugs and then told us how cool they were. Dare truly made me the drug enthusiast I am today. Thanks dare!
I distinctly remember sitting there in 6th grade in 1989 when the D.A.R.E. officer explained that I should never do LSD because “it’ll make ya see dragons and stuff”. I could not WAIT to get my hands on some.
I don’t normally comment on videos but you are an inspiration to those who feel like common ground is getting harder and harder to find. Keep up the good fight man
Andrew thank you, your Vegas tunnels videos showed me that if someone living in a tunnel with no money or I'd can get themselves help I can too. You have made a real difference on my life already. Also I love your goal of finding common ground with people with different opinions. Im that way too and I feel like some people just don't get it. We're all humans here and just because we disagree doesn't mean someone has nothing of value to learn from. If we all just think we're 100% right then most of us are actually wrong.
I was born in 1999 and I had D.A.R.E. in my elementary school, probably like 4th and 5th grade. I was 9 years old and didn't know what drugs were until they described a few in detail for our class and told us how tempting they are.... so idk if that was very helpful.
I remember the first year DARE entered our schools in the 90s. We had a officer come in and they gave us these glasses that "resembled being drunk" and put a piece of tape on the floor and we were supposed to walk the line with the glasses on. However, when you took the glasses off, youre way far off of the line. It was so fun and made you feel so funny while wearing the glasses. From that day forward it made me want to try alcohol.
Best deterrent for me was all the alcoholics in my family. None of them drank and became fun people. Every single one would drink then become angry and violent. I was so afraid alcohol would do that to me I didn't drink until I was like 19.
I like your point that everyone talks about drugs as a mental health problem. I think having a drug problem is a health concern. That does not necessarily mean using drugs is a concern on it's own, but becomes one when it interferes with your ability to live a fulfilling life and have healthy relationships.
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Nice sharing Vidio 😮
i've been sober from drugs and alcohol for 3 years now, but 15 seconds of retro bill snapping his fingers made me want to use again
wow 2:56 confirmed my point
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@@1weballin dude got statistics to prove his point lmaoo😭😭
@@hboyO2lmao
I rolled my eyes bc I thought you were exaggerating, but then that part came on and I understood lol
90's kid here. Dare introduced my generation to drugs. The showed us what weed is in 5th grade, and we were smoking it in 6th grade. I remember once when they were describing the negative effects of weed. One of the negative effects was "a feeling of euphoria". We looked that word up in the dictionary that day and got pretty curious.
I realized alcohol was a drug and saw adults doing drugs all over, irl and my 4:3 tv
You're not alone. They even had illustrations on how you can take money out of your grandmother's purse and can find pills in the cabinet.
lmao
how tf u get weed as a 6th grader
I remember we watched a video in DARE that had a 90s graphic of bent spoons dancing in 5th grade. I asked the officer what those spoons were. Dude gave a detailed play by play in how to shoot up heroin. It always stayed with me because of how insane it was to me. It was almost to the point of the clayton bigsby sketch where he told kids to go see Martinez cuz his stuff was da bomb.
When I was in elementary school, we had a D.A.R.E officer from our county sheriffs office. He hit and killed a young woman with his patrol car, who was pregnant. At the time of the collision, he was drunk. That was the end of our D.A.R.E program.
I feel like that is the story behind almost every D.A.R.E officer, they are always heavy drug users to end up ODing, killing someone in a DUI, SAing someone, or dying in a DUI. Buncha hypocrites.
Did it work to keep you fron using alcohol?
@earthworm7346 Well, I never have had a drinking problem, so maybe.
@@Adam-nv9zo wouldn't it be amazing if the young pregnant woman and the cop were actually married, and were planning to move out of town.. so they figured, they'd stage the whole thing just to drive home the message for the kids in the community ☺
@earthworm7346 That would be nice, but she died, and so did her unborn baby. And to make it worse because he was a police officer, he just got a slap on the wrist and lost his job at that department just to go get another job at another police department 45 minutes away. The whole thing was disgusting.
I remember our health teacher step by step instructions us & visually showing us how to huff with permanent markers and a plastic bag. He also then proceeded to actually huff said bag and get absolutely faded, right in front of a bunch of 7th graders. I'll never forget it
In elementary school the DARE officer was teaching us about reaction times while on drugs. To demonstrate normal reaction time, he took his keys and tossed them towards me. I watched them go by and hit the ground. He said “a normal person would have caught that.” That’s about all I remember of DARE in 5th grade.
Insofar as I know, the non-mitigated human reaction time under ideal circumstances is between .3 and .6 seconds. However: even drugs that seem to boost reaction time can potentially degrade the quality of decision making.
Basically, being drunk and snorting some coke doesnt mean you hit sobriety level quality of human mode. You are still drunk and now u are hi on coke.
@@py_a_thon If he asked me to catch them I would have. Why go out of my way? :)
Right? A normal person would have given you a heads up 😂@@dsyncd555
"That’s about all I remember of DARE in 5th grade." NO SHIT... You were high af the whole time!
@@py_a_thon I dunno coke makes you almost completely sober, you could be stumbling about and throwing up do a line and you can walk properly and no longer be vomiting. i doubt your actual reaction time would be that of a sober person but it would definitely help
I love how non-patronizing you are to everyone you speak with, even the people you fundamentally disagree with. You the goat.
Even when they're all WRONG!
Except for the women hes assaulted.
he is a model interviewer honestly. he doesn't project his opinions at all unless necessary. he gets more info than anyone because he doesn't let himself get in the way.
I don’t know how he keeps a straight face while confronting the bullshit he hears.
@@cruzin54321 so true hes always so calm and focused its insane
Retro Bill turning the question around and asking Andrew who changed his life was pretty wholesome. Really enjoy some Channel 5 lore
retro is a real 1
I am Crying Real Tears So Hard
I think that’s the first person to successfully get Andrew to answer a question. He’s usually good at pushing the focus back on those he’s interviewing without having to insert his own views or thoughts when asked.
I really thought we were done with the word "wholesome" 😩
can you imagine what retro bill would have done with the vine boom if it had been around then. i shudder to think of it
Andrew: "Hey, wanna hit this bong?"
Retro Bill: "I was paralyzed from the waste down last summer."
that gas station shit vro😢
Retro Bill rolling nothing but natural 20s.
shit i be thinking he's on drugs after he said all that
Honestly that's insanely effective, not only you think that he already had enough bong for the day, you start wondering whether you are just as incoherent when you're high.
@@MagnumCarta 🤣🤣🤣
My school’s DARE officer was caught with cocaine and only got demoted. Today he’s back as one of the highest ranking officers in the town
Remember crack was given far harsher punishment back in the 80's than it's brother coke, poor people typically had crack on them the rich bankers coke. So your experience totally tracks since they would prefer to lock up the poor inner city user/dealer than the far more well off businessman.
one of the HIGHEST officers in town 🤪
My DARE officer caught a BUI two summers after I finished DARE, and that following year in 8th grade my class was wild with weed smoking and drinking. Definitely not because our DARE officer got caught, but we all joke that his arrest is what ruined us those 20 years ago 😅
Mine SA'd a drunk underage girl
Mine was cool during the program but when I was a teenager I saw him out in public and walked up to say hi. He stared at me with the nastiest scowl on his face and never said a word. F that guy.
when bill got offered a fat bong hit at 43:20 and he responds with feeling your fingertips and being alive I'd be like "yeah man nvm you good already"
i agree that shit would work
Can't believe Retro Bill is real and not an Eric Andre Show character 😂😂😂
The problem I see with DARE is that these officers never even tried drugs so they have no idea what they are talking about. We need actual people whose lives were ruined by drugs to come to schools and share their experiences. The funding could also go to get these people back on track as this can be their full time job.
You would be a TERRIBLE politician
If I was in school and some officer came and told us: ‘do not vape, its uncool’, I would think the opposite.
If it was a person that needs a device to talk and looks absolutely fucked up because of lung/throat cancer, it would scare the shit out of my young mind so that I will be less prone to try it.
We had some prsioners come in and talk to us in highschool. One had been a meth cook and had a hole in hir heart from cooking. Its wasnt part of dare though.
that never worked. we had many ex-addicts come to speak to us at my school from middle school to high school and no one cared or paid attention. what they need to do is talk about what drugs actually do to you and not the "makes you lazy" bs. they need to show studies and bring in neurologists, for example drinking lets say, when it came to alcohol you just hear how it messes up your liver and addiction to it can ruin your family, but bringing up how it destroys grey brain matter is a lot more substance. i became sober from all intoxicants when I started reading the effects of drugs.
@@bekakilov9656 You described what happened with the original DARE program. It largely had the opposite effect.
TBH, Retro Bill's approach to DARE made the most sense to me of the people you interviewed. He doesn't try to punish kids; he tries to reach them where they are at. Everyone else at DARE seemed to understand there's a host of factors that could lead to unwanted drug use, but still leaned on severe punishment to address those issues instead of finding solutions for root causes. So long as punishment remains the go-to reaction, I don't think they'll find the outcome they want.
good observation
Bill seems like a coke addict and only puts on a show to talk to kids about anti-drug, but when he finds that one is a dealer, he gets real friendly.
He seems the most realistic, I disagree with him on a lot of shit but I can absolutely respect the idea of just trying to reach people in lots of different ways until something clicks, and acknowledging that his way definitely won't work for everyone but still trying to make a difference for the few kids he did reach.
Yet he is enrolled with the people who punish small kids, seems like he cares more about his character than actually finding a way to help.
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I grew up in a loving home with two dedicated parents who did nothing but try their best to make sure I had everything I needed and to raise me to be self sufficient. Clearly my decision to smoke weed when I was 19 came from my inner struggles and deep seeded pain... It for SURE had nothing to do with the fact that it was fun and made Skyrim feel super immersive...
Damn, so it was the depression huh?
You sure you didn't take skooma?
@@aqueousdog skooma bong rips are the best
you speak nothing but the truth brother 😭
Same here…started at 19 just cause I was bored. I’m 24, turning 25 soon and I think it’s time to put my stuff away. Enjoy your time, don’t get too into it
"home to only 1 Pacific Islander" really caught me off guard, lmao
I love how retro bill's voice got a little more urban when denying the bong.
If you’re gonna decline a fat bong rip you better be cool doing it
"urban"? coded af
@@iLikeMelkYou seem fun
@@jackpanozzo6004 only at parties
@@iLikeMelk that's the joke bro
Honestly, what clicked for me is when I was in 9th grade and we had some people from a home for people who were using come to my school. There was a guy, probably 20-25, saying he just got to the house today and was using yesterday. The look on his face, the way he spoke, it was devastating. I feel like that man changed my life, and I think about him a lot. That is what worked for me. I think it’s so important to hear from people who use, rather than hear from people who truly know nothing about drugs and what it is like to struggle.
That's called a confidence trick. Sorry fren. You failed the IQ test. You trusted the words of a liar.
@@Moe_Posting_Chad dafuq
@@Moe_Posting_Chad ur weird as fuck ngl
@@Moe_Posting_Chadwho do u think u are buddy😭 ur not a psychologist
@@cooper8473 I don't need to be an expert to accurately survey the world I live in.
It's such a satisfying win to hear Andrew ask the guy if he drinks and if he does it for pleasure. I specifically remember learning in this program that alcohol is a drug. This guy explicitly says that people who use any drug have mental or emotional issues. So which is it? That guy could not answer.
“What do you think is the best way to keep kids off drugs?” Love. I wanted to cry.
its valid
the only real statement
It’s sad, what keeps kids off drugs is showing them the truth of what things like cigarettes and heroin can do to you. Just saying “just say no” doesn’t show them what actually happens when you do hard drugs.
"I'm gonna say what no one else is willing to say; America has a fking fentanyl crisis."
- Gwimbly
So bold of him 😢
Google 10 little monkeys origin
oooh oooh oooohh!
Rip Mr Millipede, taken from us too soon 😢
@@destroymarcy Well, I don't do my iconic victory dance for nothing
To stay sober today I read some of Norm McDonald’s book, rode my mountain bike 18 miles, and called my mom. Don’t over think it, just do what you did when you were a kid.
This is great advice as someone struggling with a recent sober lifestyle chnage 🙏 healing my inner child is fr what i need most
Sending love to both of you 💕
@@dippyfresh7676 thank u brother ❤️
Proud of you bros 💪
Keep sober. Get on that bike and get outdoors.
"Gateway Drug" has to be the most misused term ever, it does not mean that taking Weed makes you easier to become addicted to harder stuff.
It actually means, that to get Weed you need to go to a Dealer, who is economically incentivized to entice and offer you more expensive (Harder) and thus far more profitable Drugs than Weed.
The Solution to the "Gateway Drug" thing is literally to open a legal Weed store...
alcohol is the biggest gateway drug and its legal to buy at stores
it literally makes your dopamine receptors more open to addiction
@@Alan-kl9vr Yup. So does sex, coffee, working out, and having a good time with friends
If your weed guy is selling hard stuff, you got the wrong weed guy.
I genuinely disagree. I think you misunderstand what the label means. The one thing I think dare got right was about weed being a gateway drug for *some* people. I’ve seen it happen to myself and to countless others. What you’re missing is the curiosity that weed brings to a lot of people. It opens peoples minds into realizing that illegal substances aren’t inherently bad. I’ve also seen that a lot of people just get bored with weed after smoking for so long and want something more. And I think your theory about dealer pressure is not true at all. This does happen at times but it’s way less common than you’re implying and ignores who is actually dealing weed and drug prices. The majority of weed dealers sell just weed in large part due to stricter penalties for selling harder substances and aren’t even offering people other drugs. You’re also equating hard drugs as more expensive which is not true at all. Meth is one of the most common hard drugs used right now and you can find it at the same price if not cheaper than weed. But in saying all of this it really is only a gateway drug for addiction prone individuals. There are plenty of people who have no urges in trying anything else but weed.
Andrew and Channel 5 just keep getting better and better! I had been avoiding this video due to the thumbnail. I was blown away by the level of quality journalism
I like the direction your journalism is taking. Giving people time to speak and presenting history on the subject is valuable. For what it's worth, those throwbacks to your younger self really build your credibility in my eyes.
Andrew gets so much shade from the MSM but he is really showing them how to do Journalism: with a bias towards facts, not ideology or political parties.
It's beyond refreshing. The MSM needs to go back to this model and stop trying to control people's minds.
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I also appreciate that he is honest about his own opinions or biases on the matter, rather than pretending to be unbiased journalism.
That end about Andrew's teacher was fantastic. I'm glad Retro Bill gave you the question.
And the snaps 🫰🫰🫰 were the icing on the cake
@@micahjones2090 his message at the end about someone coming along in your life as a mentor of some sort and just fundamentally clicking something in your brain is so real and true
I guess he made up the whole thing.
@@NegoClau I think he didn't. Again, I think some of these people are genuinely in D.A.R.E. for a good reason and have had some genuinely good impact. Of all stories he could've told, that one was more than credible. Even if you disagree with DARE, you can admit that at best these people genuinely want to help, cause like people suffering from addiction they're not robots or demons, they're people.
And before you assume I support DARE, I don't. I am not american and DARE wasn't something I even knew of before getting access to the internet and learning english. I don't agree with DARE's philosophy and definitely don't support its historical context, since that did impact indirectly my life as well. But people are not solely historical contexts.
@Ch-xc4fo Honestly, it seems as though he was advocating for and anecdotally ascertained that in person professionally trained spokespeople are more effective than D.A.R.E. While there must be some programs to educate students on the harm that drugs can cause, it is everything else within D.A.R.E that made it the failure it was. Person to person empathy is powerful.
As an alcohol and other drugs counsellor I always explore with my clients to go back to the basics (looking after Sleep, exercise, diet) distracting yourself and making time/doing things you used to enjoy(self-care) and motivate you for a purpose in life(job,friends, family).
Sounds logical.
Our DARE officer (also a local cop) when i was a kid smoked blunts with my friend. My friend was 12.
based
@@JW-hn5nt 🤣🤣
Hitting the pen while watching retro bill is a surreal experience
i was thinking the same thing lol
D.E.E.M.S??
Dude it makes me wanna apologize to him. I kinda respect him as goofy as he is. Sorry Bill but I’m a man now and I likea the weed
That dude is definitely hopped up on sugar.
lmao hitting the penjamin silly
Andrew is absolutely the GOAT journalist. Ever since Vice fell off, he's been one of the few people keeping such an important field alive.
Blame right wing media. They bought out Vice.
Why vice fell off?
*I'm not US citizen
Vice has always been shit, mate
Not really, did you miss the bitch shit he got up to in Kiev? Dude ran away just as quickly as he was trying to jump on the war views.
@@bronson4574 Watch their work in the Donbass and Iraq if you think that.
2000’s kid here, D.A.R.E. was prevalent throughout my elementary school education with our local PD having D.A.R.E. cars and everything.
oh yeah, i was born in 2001 and one of my first memories was running a DARE funrun when i was 4 or 5
I don't know if it's the fact that I'm not an American, but to me Retro Bill is the personification of "how can I make this about me." The way he centers himself and his role in every single story just rubs me the wrong way to be honest
Maybe its the fact that im an American but to me you’re missing the whole point.
Yup. It's 100% weird and the amount of people in these comments glazing him is fucked up. Dude is a mouthpiece for bullshit.
White saviors have no limit to their ego.
Yeah, the self aggrandizing won't stop setting off alarm bells in my head. It literally sounds like those "and everybody clapped" shitposts.
Even on like a deeper level he's like obsessed with his individual existence. When confronted with the fact that his program coincides with higher and not lower drugs use among young people, he tells some sob stories about people whose life he supposedly changed. Which, even if I'm willing to buy that that's true, what is this approach if not living in denial of reality. Just like a flat earther who sees the horizon line is straight and refuses to grow beyond their naive experience, Bill here sees individuals who were supposedly helped and refuses to acknowledge that his program probably put a lot more youths onto drugs than some local gang ever could.
Andrew dude just saying please keep doing what you’re doing until you can’t. I’m a former journalist and you straight up make me wish I didn’t give up. You’re a paladin in a world of darkness. I think your work will transcend even your life. Your strength is rare. Don’t forget that.
Go back into journalism my man. Maybe you find the fire again.
FACTS!!!
We could really use you in your own city providing unbiased news, if you could do me a favor and find sometime every now and then to be a journalist again
Andrew already has a lot of classic clips that people don’t even know belong to him. For example, the “white boy summer big booty latina” clip lol
To the other commenters: journalism is going through a massive crash at the moment. Thousands upon thousands are being laid off, newspapers are going under, websites are hung under, and even local tv news is going through rough times. It's never been worse than it is right now.
At the end of the day your work still needs to feed you and most in the business are never going to be fortunate enough to find 1% of the success that Andrew has.
I can't believe Robbie Rotten became the D.A.R.E. spokesperson...
all jokes aside RIP to the actual actor he was a cool guy
@@Oakslee While Robbie was Rotten, Stefán Stefánsson turned out to be a pretty fresh dude
😂 did you learn anything today?
@@biggreen1456the eternal #1
Crazy things happen when you die!
Retro Bill snapping his fingers made me feel like I was watching Tim Heidecker or John C Reilly doing a bit
"You could be a Teachler"
Shout out to all the hardworking teachelors
Andrew, when seeing Retro Bill almost tear up when you were talking about your one person, you can tell he whole heartedly agrees with his schtick. Seems like a good guy.
he seems like an amazing man
Whoo boy, you must not have gotten to know many good manipulators. Being able to pour as much emotion as possible into whatever the fuck you're talking about is the skill. Retro Bill smells like a garden variety charlatan to me.
I agree with you on that. He seems like a genuin and good guy. But... A very naive, un-educated, mislead guy that believes in something instead of educating himself. I dont know if he believes in his own goodness, god, love, or something else but he clearly let's his feelings and beliefs lead him blindly instead of arming himself with facts to do what his heart tells him to.
Therefore he's more dangerous than helpful. The whole DARE-program is suffering from the same issue. They dont what they're working with, they just know their "why" and for them that's enough.
I think the scene were he painted over hundreds of stickers and graffiti that was put there by 100s of equal citizens who obviously feel that the public grey spaces looks better with a bit of colour. Then Bill goes there with a bucket of grey paint and covers it all (illegally) because HE feels/thinks that's right in his good heart. His good heart are somehow above others good hearts, and that is extremely dangerous.
My own personal perspective of my own drug history (i used amphetamines and H for many years IV, been sober 5 years now) is that if it wouldn't have been for drugs i would have killed myself before twenty. That was my plan and mindset til i found drugs. I clearly remember when i decided to dedicate myself to drugs with the aim to stay alive long enough to overcome my problems. And for me that worked, very well actually. I'm happy today. If Bill would have came to my school to lock me up, i'm not sure that would've ended so well.
I'm not saying that my story is a good example. I'm just saying that most of us is good guys. I would never paint over someone's art on public concrete with grey though. That's evil to me.
I'm 35 btw.
@@JimmyHagerstrom It was pretty clear from the video that DARE used evidence based methods and was willing to adapt and evolve. Retro Bill is just a mascot I don't see what he said was harmful or misleading. Your described experience actually reaffirms DARE's philosophy that drug users have mental problem which is better solved with therapy than drugs so I don't understand why you used it as an argument. It's good that you stopped abusing drugs because you already are not making much sense.
Drug use helped get a degree which I wouldn't have gotten without them. My life was a mess without drugs. Humans have always used drugs. It's just very recent that they have been seen as inherently criminal acts.
DARE kinda messed me up as a kid. My father had been growing his own weed for decades to smoke himself and when i was about 11 or 12 i figured it out. Because DARE and programs like it had gotten so into my head about even how "dangerous" pot was i held some resentment and anger towards my father over it. Even fantasizing sometimes about calling the cops on him when i was mad at him, only to then have a panic attack cause i was worried the cops would then take away our house.
All over some pot he just grew and smoked on his own to relax with after work.
Hey at least you weren't dumb enough to call the cops because you can bet your ass they would have tore your family apart as he went to jail for a long time and would lose custody of his kids almost assuredly.
@@monopomanCounterpoint; what dad would grow weed knowing it could land him in jail and tear the family apart? Some responsibility on his side knowing he is bringing danger to the family would have helped.
Yes, the war on drugs is stupid but its amazing that even pot is making a man willing to risk his life and family. Seems crazy to me.
@@crypto1upteam750 Some parents are kinda dumb but that doesn't mean the kid should call the cops on his dad.
@@monopoman I agree with that dont get me wrong. I just thought it was an odd thing for a dad to do in such an uncertain time with dare trying to make kids snitch you know?
Do you smoke some yourself now lol?
I got kicked out of D.A.R.E when I was in grade 7. My Dad is a big time anti government, anti church, eat the rich, anarchist type. He had already taught me all about Iran-Contra, The criminalization of weed and hemp as a way to uplift the cotton industry after emancipation, Poisonous pain killers being legal because they come from mega-corps that used to be part of the Third Reich. ect. ect. When I stood up before the class and the poor, clueless junior RCMP officer and delivered my well written essay on these topics and advocating a shift towards harm reduction, it didn't go over well.
Holy shit, unfathomably based
I love your content man, I've been a fan since All Gas No Brakes. It's cool to see you find your own style and grow as a journalist.
Dude played a role in the 90s and turned it into his entire existence 😂💀💀
It fed his coke habit
I Wonder how much he makes
@@Juva_oprobably 6 figures. Sure it’s a good living
He does drugs
🎶 back in the nineties🎶
🎶 I was in a very famous TV show 🎶
Thank you Retro Bill, after hearing you speak, it finally clicked for me. I need to be doing more drugs.
Hell yeah
Yeah I think he is undercover and in reality an advocate for drugs.
Wack af grow up child ,drugs are gonna put ur ass in the dirt ,don't worry 😂
@@Patrick-if9idNah - He just wants to violate children.
Genuinely, it's self-important control-freaky people like Bill that justify my pharmaceutical escapism from not having to share the same reality with them for a while.
Prior to the fentanyl crisis, I would have said she's insane for saying people need more access to prescribed opiates. With all the fentanyl nowadays it would actually make sense to help slow the amount of deaths.
Nobody who is addicted to fentanyl is going to buy heroin and pay taxes on it. Once you’re taking fentanyl, heroin is like taking a Tylenol. Plus it’s far more expensive WITHOUT government trying to get a piece. Unfortunately the only solution to the fentanyl crisis is a little more work than that - cheap (free) long term treatment centres, mental health supports… and maybe let’s stop villainizing addicts
@@baddaytraderThis isn't really true. Most heroin/fentanyl addicts would be much happier if they could have easy access to oxycodone or oxymorphone. And I'm telling you this as somebody in rehab right now for heroin and fentanyl.
@@baddaytraderbut otherwise you're totally on the money about the solutions. Decriminalizing drugs isn't going to increase their use, it will just make addicts less likely to become career criminals if they can get their fix without having to lie, cheat, or steal.
D.A.R.E taught me about every drug at a really young age so I could try them, Thanks. Very succesfull.
i used to run a fundraising company and had a contract with DARE, i’ve met Frank and Misty the President/CEO and CFO. met them at a resort retreat in mexico, they are loaded, boujii as hell but they genuinely believe in what they are trying to accomplish. the man that did the meta analysis that proved Dare had an opposite effect than intended (Richard clayton) was hired to rewrite their curriculum to focus on mental health and coping mechanisms instead of scare tactics. it was wild thinking back about going through DARE when i was younger while drinking cocktails with the owners on the beach in Mexico, after getting through Herion addiction. it was surreal like how did I of all people end up here?
They’re alcoholics aren’t they?
Money.
I live in Canada and all the dare program did was teach you how to do drugs.
It seems they're really trying to improve. My problem with D.A.R.E. is it's a police program. The officers trying to build trust with kids can also bust them for pot. Get law enforcement out and it would be a much better program.
Thats actually really cool that they genuinely care! Its unfortunate that DARE has become such a laughingstock. I assumed that it was invented by the gov and ran by all cops. I wish the program had been done differently, because no one can argue against “kids shouldnt do drugs”
Andrew, it's crazy how much you taught me about topics I never heard about before. It's in the way your videos are structured, making great points that are connected, to make me understand what's going on in the bigger picture, all while spitting hip hop jokes. The reason why I think your journalism is so unbelievable, is because you can make me instantly interested in topics that are important, but that are at the same time are not even close to being covered in the way you are doing it by bigger media corporations. Absolutely unique, I really really appreciate your work
I was addicted to heroin in 2019. I wanted DESPERATELY to get clean but there is ZERO help. I had to quit cold turkey and endure months of torture to get myself off a drug i still crave to this day. The only reason I am not dead is because of my parents and the only reason I was able to quit is because my former dealer moved away.
Rehab is both exorbitantly expensive and runs the risk of encountering law enforcement. The reason there are so many addicts is a culture of demonization. No one using wants to use.
Thanks Andrew
“No one using wants to use” may be one of the best lines I’ve heard. If there’s enough support, there’s no space for a vice. Thanks for sharing your story, good luck with your continued recovery.
Bless u man keep strong. The fiending will grind down like a rock in the waves. It will never leave but the edges will be smoothed out and you can give it a place in your life where it wont nag your brain every day. And before you know it you realize you havent thought about it for months at a time.
Also congratz on staying sober. This bro is rooting for you 💪
Holy shit famed mspaint central figure FunkMcLovin
As I am writing this, 1.9 million views, 52,000 likes. You're making an impact! Happy to support you and your endeavors.
Insanely high level interviews on this channel. There's not many people reporting at the level that this channel is. Thank you!
the skeleton chick was talking out of her ass though wish they didnt bother showing her fried thought process. Shes talking about how all these drugs are harmless meanwhile shes clearly permafried and physically unhealthy. Walking oxymoron, you can tell her brain is short staffed just look at her glazed over eyes and mouthbreathing lmao
crazy what happens when true journalism and raw conversation is censored by media outlets, even Las Vegas Fox News tried getting his media removed off youtube by claiming free use under the documentary clause was copyright infringement. Normalize getting news from youtubers that get paid by ads and stay independent before Disney buys the platform.
THIS IS FACTS. These videos seriously just keep getting better and better. Insane.
I can't tell if this is sarcasm
It really stands out in so many ways. And I love how it's super clear at any point, what's "fact" (problematic term, i know) and what is his (or someone elses) opinion.
When I grow up, I want to be a Teachler. Thanks, Retro Bill.
I will be proud to be your studentler.
When retro Bill says “orally” and then points to his ear. Still a nice guy. Good testimony at the end.
That's dudes face when "Retro Bill" started repeatedly snapping his fingers was so funny! 😆
The people who know / who come in contact with addicts have some of the most interesting takes on how to solve these issues and how to treat addicts (see the Channel 5 videos in SF or Las Vegas).
To me the DARE conference is just a big thought experiment: a group of people get together and try to solve a problem they have never actually seen. As much as they are in good faith, their effort are often misdirected and ineffective because they live too far from the sad reality of drug addiction
Never seen? A lot are legit police officers. They see it more than almost anybody
@@vangoghsseveredearMaybe he could replace “seen” with “understood”
Exactly, they think drugs are just an addiction, when its usually brought on by mental health issues, which they never address
@@vangoghsseveredear Brother, cops "see" the reality of drug addiction as much as a McDonalds line cook "sees" a cow being butchered. They process it and send it away, it doesn't mean they understand or any closer to it than any other person.
@@vangoghsseveredearnever see them as people*
I love how Andrew started talking bout how he got into journalism. Those teachers are the goats.
You wanna know what the problem is? I have an idea….
As a Buddhist practitioner since 2011, one of the concepts that I’ve become acquainted with, is that of the interdependent connectivity of all things. In Buddhism, we strive to experience this-as part of a state of consciousness, not just as a theory. And over time, through devoted practice, one can begin to see this aspect of the reality of life in real time.
One major problem with our approach to addiction (not to mention many other things) is that we tend to view it as though it occurs within a vacuum- disconnected from any causal relationships.
This way of seeing addiction is just flat out delusional, because there is no thing in life that bares the quality of independent origination. Everything is connected to something; has been influenced by something else; owes its nature to the nature of something else.
Because we do not understand this, we cannot fathom that addiction is a problem that we all created. It is the natural product of our entire way of living. And we cannot ever hope to cut it out, as a tumour is removed from the living flesh. Because as we do this, the tumour surely just grows back, because the circumstances for its growth still persist.
Thanks for sharing your wisdom sir
The double standard on safe alcohol consumption and the consumption of any other illegal drug is so mind blowing.
Exactly and alcohol has killed more people in history then any other substance .
It truly is crazy. Ganja helps save ppl, mushrooms too. Alcohol is truly the gateway drug🙄
@@Deadyguerro It's not even wholly about that. Yes alcohol is dangerous, but so are certain other drugs. The hypocrisy lies within the fact that our government and society accept the harms that come from alcohol use and allows adults to choose to consume it, while simultaneously saying that adults can't choose to consume other substances. It's a pure double standard.
Tax money. The state doesn't really care its about money.
its disgusting. boozebags equate their shitpoison to other drugs so they get paranoid about it because their alcoholism makes it so they cant admit to themselves theyre heavy drug users aswell. the guy at 24:07 is definitely one of em, you can see by the color of his skin and his mantits that hes a boozer
15 year old student gets caught with drugs, expelled from school, taken to jail, put into the criminal justice system, 18 years later still suffering from the consequences of that and doing manual labor while going to college with kids ten years younger than him. Does that make sense to anyone?
and a child predator would barley even get that much years and probably would get probation instead, just look at Nickelodeon whole industry and more
if you born in an anglo-country you shall believe in freedom, that is all you need.
@@MibbilyStibillies I bet you're so much fun at parties. What a terrible take, like you are the judge of "college worthy". You are an insult to education.
@@MibbilyStibilliesOr maybe, bear with me, their education was interrupted. All these adults around, parents/teachers/etc, and they all failed this child. Instead of teaching this person life skills, they were thrust into jail, for a mistake made as a minor.
How would YOU help them become college material? Clearly you have the answers...
@@seitenryu6844 Yea, that's what they were pretending. But maybe they're just trash
Opens and closes with snaps pristine work thank you all who work on these projects u guys are the bomb
The edits in Andrew’s work are truly epic. The flashes of people’s careers and activities are amazing. You can also see the Sacha influence in his interviewing style. Andrew is the best
That “WOCKYYYY SLUSHHH” took me out lol
Time stamp?
Nvm it happened like 2 seconds after I posted that lmaooo
@@asiangin timestamp?
@@asiangin DUDE YOURE NOT GONNA BELIEVE THIS
Time stamp?
This is by far one of my favorite Channel 5 documentaries! The team really gives a good background on the subject, reputable sources for what's happening on the ground, and enough heart to keep us curious for more. I appreciate the work you all do and the way you do it.
I lead a team of therapists who support foster and probation youth living in group homes. I'm planning on sharing this with my team. Know that you'll make a difference in the lives of the youth we work with.
So good seeing Mr. Daddy in the last few episodes
Thanks for your nuanced views and objective quality journalism.
This is real journalism at it's best. Both sides are humanized and get equal time. Cable and local news syndicates could take a note, but they're more interested in profit than real journalism. Keep up the great work Andrew and crew. You're helping to set a new standard. P.S. Seattle misses you
Journalism at its* best, no apostrophe saying it is best. Ours. Theirs. Its. No apostrophe for belonging to, because it's/it is already exists!
@@thekeysman6760 its a TH-cam comments section dude!
I always leave these videos with a broader, more human perspective.
Well said - Its Sad that that is not reality for media
Bad ideas don’t deserve equal time, that is right wing nonsense my dude
retro bill has no doubt snorted many many lines with that honker.
That schnoz has land in Columbia
Anyone with that much energy, is a coke head.
@@evolicious in one dojo i trained with, they nicknamed me 'tweak'.. in teen years, people would assume i was on drugs sometimes, and i never was. I was just very healthy & fit 🤷♂️. I later realized that it was only ever the drug users that thought i was the one on a drug.
@@earthworm7346 👀
Great docu man. I love your work, keep it up!
Great video, only issue was at 20:38 The way you framed that lead up it seemed like you wanted to imply that kid in the clip was getting arrested for a minor drug possession. That person is Martrez Antonio Barnes, they were arrested for sneaking a firearm onto school grounds. Not drug possession. Appreciate the videos!
I remember D.A.R.E.. We had an Office Friendly who taught us how to look for drugs in our home and then gave us his contact card so we could call him to get our parents help.
He showed us what drugs looked like, smelled like (hahaha) and all that. He went on and on about how much the police CARED about our families. It wasn't just about us being clean but about our parents and even our friends' parents.
So yeah. Government rep telling children to dig around in homes looking for drugs so we could become foster kids.
He left that part out. The whole prison thing. Also getting our friends' parents arrested? Yeah no mention of that.
Just aaaaall about heeeeeellp!
what the fuck😮
That’s the date I remember! Thought I’d how to sniff out our parents!
Sniff ya parents fenty
That's so fucked up.
The kids don't know we lived the book "1984" meanwhile everyone who was wealthy was doing everything, selling everything, and now their children own half the US today.
Love the doc ❤
My twin brother was a victim of the effects of the D.A.R.E erra.
We grew up on the oregon coast and picked Oregon Blue mushrooms during our court mandated community service, known as "Road crew". My bother took too many mushrooms one day and ended up in pretty severe legal trouble due to his actions while intoxicated. We were 14 years old and already on probation for fighting with each other on the side of highway 101.
He never was able to dig himself out of the legal system, or his psychosis after tripping so hard and "ruining" his life at such a young age. After mamy years of struggling to go to community College and keep himself out of trouble, he found himself homeless for a few years. While homeless and in and out of jail for minor offenses, he found himself sleeping in dumpsters and trying to stay clean. In January of 2021 i got a call that he had been crushed to death in Tacoma Washington by a recycling truck, they found him on the sorting line of a transfer station in rural Pierce County.
If drugs were the problem, why did the system treat him like he was the problem? He could never get a leg up and i wish somebody with real resources had vared enough to help him save himself
You, as family, could have given him a leg up. My brother is also an addict, but I would never let him sleep in a dumpster.
How did he 'find himself' homeless? Was he shunned by the family? Or just not aware?
@@StandardName562 You can't force someone who doesn't want to get help. They could of tried to drag him by the feet and he'd probably of snuck out or just broken out of their house.
I agree. More resources should be directed toward counseling young people who have gotten into trouble with the law. Especially when substances are involved.
Btw ignore these negative comments.
Take some accountability.
I worked for D.A.R.E back in 2018 and would stand outside businesses with a booth and get donations. It was a MLM/ Pyramid scheme. Also EVERYONE I worked with at the VERY LEAST smoked weed. A few of em did hard drugs. ALSO the boss/ head of our branch would pocket some of the cash donations every day and ended up stealing over 30k from them before getting caught. Wild times.
Huge props to Retro Bill, dude is not a character, thats him and I can respect that.
Im a recovering heroin addict, sober some years, and work for a homelessness agency that runs apartments for the chronicly homeless. Unfortunately, the answer is probably somewhere in the middle, nuanced, and highly individualized. Which takes resources, some of which cant be bought, time, and sweeping cultural change at mutliple levels. Part of me says legalize as much as possible because its destroying other countries, or at least cultivating crime and funding crime, but i dont think in the US thatll solve what people think it will, especially looking at those most effected like addicts, homeless, and their families, nor crime adjacent drug use. This is a great vid tho, covers both extremes and some of the middle. Channel 5 always killin it!
Yeah, it's almost like it's actually an extremely complex issue and there isn't a one-size-fits-all solution for addiction! I wish our lawmakers understood this. I'm not sure if I'm fully on board with the legalize everything approach either, but I think decriminalizing all non-violent drug crimes would be a good start. Whatever your opinion is about drug use, I don't think any honest person can say the War on Drugs has been a good thing. I think in the aggregate it has possibly destroyed more lives. Good on you for getting sober. I know it's very difficult and this world certainly doesn't make it easy, but facing reality with a clear head and clear eyes is always more rewarding. Thank you for the work that you do!
@@indieguy81foreal though stuff is still terrible though obv depends on the drug but I was shooting up for like 4 years and got sober and had 3 sizeures detoxing and stuff like that lady is cooked stuff is soo bad obv anything can be used in certain doses but she never been a addict or is a new addict in denial but oxy goes to herion and then fent and messes ppl up hard stuff had a chokehold on me and like so many other ppl
Heroin should for sure be legal. Look at how they do it in parts of Europe. They had a crazy pro with homelessness and open drug use, they legalized and backed it with services including rehab and jobs, housing healthcare etc. we do harm increase here under the guise of harm reduction because it’s not backed by services like that. We half assed it and made things worse. Almost seems like it was on purpose so we can point and say “look, see? Harm reduction doesn’t work!”
I appreciate your honesty. Regarding "Sober some years" I am currently in a battle with a substance myself. And i couldn't of said it any better. I believe if there is a god, He or she understands human nature. And having an addiction, is the most human of natures.✌️
@@indieguy81I too am conflicted. Everything he stated I fully agree with. The one thing that I KNOW has happened, is when weed became legal in multiple states in the northeast, within 1 year no one sold weed anymore. Atleast anyone that I knew and I knew a lot of people that did. When we could just walk in a store and get the same, medical grade herb, there was no reason to buy stuff of the street. And I would imagine that absolutely lowered weed related crimes. Obviously other drugs are not the same. I am conflicted ! The approach that has been taken for decades does not seem to be helping. I’m not saying legalize everything just to be clear!! But we need to start looking at alternative options. Like it was said in the video, the answer is “Love”. To me, love doesn’t look like locking up a teenager and getting them arrested and thrown into an institution to potentially escalate them towards worse behavior and expose them to potentially even more dangerous people that will influence them further. Idk, just spitballing 😂
Here in New Zealand our version of dare was “Harold the giraffe” who was a giraffe hand puppet. We were seriously “educated” about drugs by a giraffe puppet called Harold in the back on a semi truck trailer that went from school to school.
We also had Harold roll in on a truck in primary school in QLD, Australia
Oh my lord, you're bringing back memories. We had Harold in the UK as well, along with the weird lighting up anatomical woman in the wall
In NSW he was Healthy Harold.
Healthy Harold REPRESENT 🗣️🗣️🗣️
Yeah but Harold was awesome though.
Just wanna throw this out there. I've bought your "Channel 5" merch three separate times and it is BY FAR the best quality and best fitting TH-camr Merch that I've ever purchased. The designs are killer and I've literally gotten several compliments from strangers, specifically the purple acid wash hoodie with the hand, USA, and number 5 walking together. Just wanted to share the love. I'm very happy with your merch dogs.
BRO why did i bust up laughing from that snap AD placement hahah
Honestly I get scared most times people talk about alternative news sources.... But This. This right here. This is one of the best news channels I have ever seen - aiming for fair coverage of all sides of an issue, showing personal bias but not bending interviews in that direction, and showing the complexity of a situation while distilling main points for the audience to contemplate. This is journalism
Andrew makes a solid argument for Sigmund Freud I thought he was a wild dude always took his words with more than a few grains of cocaine because he chain smoked and did cocaine all day every day but Andrew really puts his “talking cure” to work it’s like he’s doing the talking cure therapy for the whole country and it does seem to be effective
why do people love their "fair neutral unbiased coverage" when people make stupid arguments you don't need to take them serious or give them credit by framing them as professional
@@nothanks9503 wtf are you talking about?
@@oiytd5wugho The way he just stands there with the mic and basically in as few words as possible says “yes yes tell me more about that, and how does that make you feel?” That’s a therapy technique called the talking cure but the guy who came up with it the “father of modern psychology” was a pretty wacky dude although before him people weren’t sure if the brain is where thoughts happen sooo
@@joyce8120 You have to be supportive and let them talk that’s the only way to get unbiased reporting
-How should we prevent children from doing drugs?
-Let's do presentations in 95% of schools telling children about drugs they possibly don't even know exist yet
harm reduction is good though, would u say sex education shouldn't be done either?
@@Robzabest25good point here brother
And instead of telling them the actual dangers, let's pretend like weed is basically fentanyl while alcohol is being legally advertised on television. Then all their bs detectors will go off, turning them against us, thereby causing them to actively seek out these drugs. Let's also make sure that drug use is illegal and villified, so addicts will not seek out help and be more likely to remain addicted
@@tmsplltrs exactly. all this effort to enforce Nixon's literally racist drug laws meant to target the anti war left by his own admission.
@Robzabest25 absolutely. as with drugs this should whiegh onto parenting. not some creepy gym teacher
I loved your incogni add approach. Love your work. I'm in my 40s. Went through DARE in Burbank in CA. I think we only saw the DARE dude probably 3x in the school year and never again. At the time I think most KIDS automatically rejected the message because it was just uncool to listen to this officer. It felt awkward listening to a dude that we barely knew and didn't know who we really were. Honestly it was forgotten as soon as he left. I did lightly use Marijuana later in life between 14-16ish and DARE had no impact on me using it.
The way you put together something so good with real truth and so impeccable! Thank you for doing what you’re doing!! Every video I have watched I see what you’re doing and it’s great! You care not just there for the views, you want the truth out and it is admired!!
retro bill almost hypnotized me there for a second with that snappin
Glad im not the only one who noticed.
Yea I noticed that twice
He knows what he is doing. Be careful there are others like him. 😮
@@mantissmith5212 Yup. Evil is all around. Take care and god bless.
@@lotlizard7735what?😂
That has to be one of the first sponsor segments I've watched in years.. absolutely amazing
Haha same I was annoyed I couldn't fast forward the ad but simultaneously so entertained 😂
I hate commercials but for the first time in almost 20+ years I was actually interested in one for once, I hate but respect you for that!
Andrew bringing the rap game in this one! Did not see that coming.
Channel 5. Wow. To say y’all are doing great work is an understatement.
Please keep them coming!
This channel is 5 STARS ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
that snap transition into an ad was a masterpiece 👏
I remember DARE. Some cop came into the classroom and showed us a box full of drugs and then told us how cool they were. Dare truly made me the drug enthusiast I am today. Thanks dare!
DARE to do drugs
I’m sorry to hear that
@@Shleppi'm not
I distinctly remember sitting there in 6th grade in 1989 when the D.A.R.E. officer explained that I should never do LSD because “it’ll make ya see dragons and stuff”. I could not WAIT to get my hands on some.
They passed around individual bags of drugs in mine and someone somehow managed to steal the bag of weed 😂
so much to respond to and questions i would like to ask. great direction with the channel. love to see the head nod still in play.
the stimulation point of elvis videos is spot on those sounds had me cracked out
Retro Bill seems like he enjoys a drug or two
Looks like & seems like
@@akedi2734same thing
@@akedi2734 It also appears that way
100%
That drug is children. If you know what I mean.
Watching this from Sydney, Australia at 5:30am. WOOHOO!
Parents must be proud.
Watching this from Prague at 21:34 WOOHOO
Holy cow man I’m watching this from Newcastle Aus at 5:38am!
Watching from Saigon at 2:38am wooo
Watching this from Haapajärvi, Finland at 22:41pm. ZZZzzz 😴
Retro Bill...What a Thoughtful, Caring & Passionate Gentleman, which is a somewhat of a rarity in today's world...
Thank you, Retro Bill💯✌❤❗
I don’t normally comment on videos but you are an inspiration to those who feel like common ground is getting harder and harder to find. Keep up the good fight man
Im high & drunk watching this. Thanks D.A.R.E.
Cheers to that! 🍻💨
Common D.A.R.E. W
Fat dabs for Bill🫡
Same
Blunts for Bill.
Andrew thank you, your Vegas tunnels videos showed me that if someone living in a tunnel with no money or I'd can get themselves help I can too. You have made a real difference on my life already.
Also I love your goal of finding common ground with people with different opinions. Im that way too and I feel like some people just don't get it. We're all humans here and just because we disagree doesn't mean someone has nothing of value to learn from. If we all just think we're 100% right then most of us are actually wrong.
I was born in 1999 and I had D.A.R.E. in my elementary school, probably like 4th and 5th grade. I was 9 years old and didn't know what drugs were until they described a few in detail for our class and told us how tempting they are.... so idk if that was very helpful.
What a crazy smooth ad transition
I remember the first year DARE entered our schools in the 90s.
We had a officer come in and they gave us these glasses that "resembled being drunk" and put a piece of tape on the floor and we were supposed to walk the line with the glasses on.
However, when you took the glasses off, youre way far off of the line. It was so fun and made you feel so funny while wearing the glasses.
From that day forward it made me want to try alcohol.
Exactly everyone's take. They tried to bait us all into doing drugs under the guise of g00ft@rdz
Lol we had those in my driving class
Best deterrent for me was all the alcoholics in my family. None of them drank and became fun people. Every single one would drink then become angry and violent. I was so afraid alcohol would do that to me I didn't drink until I was like 19.
@@brand0n. Same here
Retro Bill basically invented the TikTok format before short format existed.
True innovator. See what being straight edge can do for ya
The grandfather of overstimulation
😂😂😂😂 15 second tv commercials did -- lolol
Dude is anti-drug Cocomelon
I don't know who came first but Bill Nye basically did the same thing.
I like your point that everyone talks about drugs as a mental health problem. I think having a drug problem is a health concern. That does not necessarily mean using drugs is a concern on it's own, but becomes one when it interferes with your ability to live a fulfilling life and have healthy relationships.
lmao i was NOT ready for that clip of andrew freestyling