53:28 Yeah, we suck, but we're learning. Yeah, we're getting there. We're learning some stuff. It's good. It took us a while, you know, but we're learning. We're better than we were. Yeah, it's only 10 years. What's your problem, slave? Shut up and pay me. So we missed something, John. Oh, we miss something all the time. Yeah, but luckily I picked up on it because again, this is from C-SPAM. Is it a meme we missed? No, it's a huge, huge policy document. Oh. Yeah, which I took the liberty of reading through for us and I was quite surprised by this and this coincidentally happened April 17th which was just about the time I think the president the Secret Service scandal was taking place
54:17 And to revisit that for people, our assertion is that the Secret Service scandal was a cover up, a cover if you will, so that the United States would not have to talk about drug policy with the Colombians and the Brazilians and the Guatemalans and the Guatemalans who basically want to make it not only completely legal to draw down drug trafficking, which has proven to work in countries like Portugal, But also to take a fee on anything that they find. But of course we know that the illicit drug trade is what's keeping the United States economy afloat.
55:00 And the primary mission of the Secret Service is to protect the integrity of the American financial system. You may not believe that, but if you go to their website, it says it right there. It's their number one mission. Number two is to protect the president and the vice president and anyone else they deem necessary. But our drug czar outlined our new drug strategy, and I did not know we had one. A drug strategy? At the summit. Yeah, you're right. But it didn't get discussed. So I'm watching C-SPAN, I'm like, ah, drugs are okay. And then I'm like, hey, hold on a second. Let me characterize those views for you. On the one side we have a very vocal, organized, well-funded advocates who insist that drug legalization is a silver bullet for addressing our nation's drug problem. Then we have the other side.
56:07 On the other side of the debate are those who insist that a law enforcement only war on drugs approach, the one that was just mentioned, is the way to create a drug-free society. You know, if only we could spend more money on prisons and enforcement and increase arrests and seizures of drugs, that logic goes, the drug problem will at some point just go away. Well, the Obama administration strongly believes that neither of these approaches is humane, they're not compassionate, not realistic, probably most importantly, they are not grounded in science.
56:46 The approach is also to not acknowledge the complexity of our nation's drug problem or reflect what science has shown us over the past two decades. Whenever you can put the answer to a complex problem on a bumper sticker, you know you probably don't have much of an answer. That's why two weeks ago we released the National Drug Control Policy and it pursues a third way for our nation to approach drug control. This is a 21st century approach to drug policy. It's progressive, it's innovative, it's evidence-based, and it represents what we believe is the way ahead for drug policy. So you can imagine my head swiveled around. There's a third way.
57:29 John, we've only been discussing the two ways and now there's a third way which is the 21st century solution to the problem. And after this invigorating speech from this very motivated speaker, I'm sure you're dying to hear what that third way is. Well, I'm sure you looked it up. Yes, I did. And it's, well, it's only a couple hundred pages. So this is, that was Director Kerlikowske. How do you spell his name? Kilo, Echo, Romeo, Lima, India, Kilo, Oscar, Whiskey, Sierra, Kilo, Echo, Kerlikowske. So this is the National Drug Control Strategy known as the NDCS 2012. And just want to outline first the strategy.