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Pharmacy 50 Awards Ceremony Part Three | Winners 24 through 13 · Pharmacy Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Value Drug Company congratulates all pharmacists recognized in the twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five PPN Pharmacy Fifty Awards. This honor reflects the dedication, innovation,
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  Speaker 1: and commitment to excellence that independent pharmacists demonstrate every day.
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  Speaker 1: We are especially proud to see several Value Drug members
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  Speaker 1: included among this year's award recipients. As a trusted partner
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  Speaker 1: to independent pharmacies nationwide, Value Drug is committed to providing
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  Speaker 1: the programs, support, and resources that help pharmacies grow, adapt,
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  Speaker 1: and continue delivering exceptional patient care within their communities.
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  Speaker 2: You are listening to the global network of podcasters dedicated
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  Speaker 2: to the pharmacy profession. Welcome to the Pharmacy Podcast Network.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, welcome.
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  Speaker 4: This is Todd Urie, founder of the Pharmacy Podcast Network.
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  Speaker 4: This is the fifty Most Influential in Pharmacy Awards four
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  Speaker 4: part series and you're listening to part three. This is
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  Speaker 4: an amazing opportunity for you to listen to the people
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  Speaker 4: that are innovating this profession and we want you to
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  Speaker 4: be a part of it. Please reach out to me
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  Speaker 4: sometime either on LinkedIn or through social media. We're always
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  Speaker 4: at Pharmacy Podcasts. Let's get gone with part three. Hey,
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  Speaker 4: Prent Towney again people, this is so exciting for US Australia.
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  Speaker 4: This is another one that's international, Like, I love this.
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  Speaker 4: This awards program is growing on a global level. He's
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  Speaker 4: with the Pharmacy Guild of Australia, he's in the advocacy,
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  Speaker 4: policy regulation sector and he's twenty fourth to get that
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  Speaker 4: much attention from Australia. Shout out to whoever put his
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  Speaker 4: information out there, or the Pharmacy fifty out there.
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  Speaker 3: This is so exciting to see.
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  Speaker 4: Please Trent, come on, twerks, Let's talk about what's happening
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  Speaker 4: in Australia, how's it different from Canada or the United
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  Speaker 4: States medicine and then of course we want to hear
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  Speaker 4: more about the Pharmacy Guild as well.
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  Speaker 5: All Right, I'm going to make a bold prediction. I
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  Speaker 5: said over ten thousand votes next year. I'm going to
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  Speaker 5: say ten thousand votes and every major continent is going
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  Speaker 5: to be represented in twenty ten.
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  Speaker 6: You stole my thunder over. Oh I was going on
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  Speaker 6: to Colnton. I'm don here saying we got three we
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  Speaker 6: need four more.
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  Speaker 5: I could yeah, because yeah it's still seven right, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: all right, so we only need four come on that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: All right. I know this guy, doctor Dang.
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  Speaker 4: Richard Dang, congratulations for making the Pharmacy fifty coming at
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  Speaker 4: number twenty three with the University of Southern California in
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  Speaker 4: the Academia and Pharmacy Educator Space out from Los Angeles, California.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, that's where the.
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  Speaker 4: APHA twenty twenty six is happening this year and is
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  Speaker 4: right in his backyard.
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  Speaker 3: Hopefully I'll see you there. Yeah, of course.
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  Speaker 4: You'll see us there, Richard. We have to get you in.
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  Speaker 4: We'll have a station covering the Venice Press. So doctor Dang,
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  Speaker 4: please make some time with us. Let's get the story.
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  Speaker 4: Let's get you on twerks as well. We'd like to
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  Speaker 4: hear more about what you're doing at the University of
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  Speaker 4: Southern California and how active you are and how entrepreneurial.
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  Speaker 3: This guy is too. It just comes out of his beans. Well.
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  Speaker 6: He looks pretty young to me and it's pretty I'm
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  Speaker 6: just impressed that someone like that is making an impact
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  Speaker 6: in student of pharmacists lives.
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  Speaker 4: Very much, so thank you, congratulations, doctor Dang. Another international
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  Speaker 4: in the technology space, Siam Ali, is the CEO of
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  Speaker 4: Pharmacy Mentor and the technology platform, and I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't.
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  Speaker 4: This is like one of those times that I got picked.
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  Speaker 4: I got tripped up by.
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  Speaker 3: One of the nominee.
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  Speaker 4: I had no idea this guy who this guy was,
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  Speaker 4: what he did. And digging down in there are people
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  Speaker 4: out there that believe in what he's doing in his
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  Speaker 4: leadership and technology. I think it's really interesting how the
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  Speaker 4: realm of digital health is becoming so much more his
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  Speaker 4: recognition and the way that he's built high impact digital
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  Speaker 4: strategy systems as well as interfaces to other pharmacy management
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  Speaker 4: systems and EHR systems and kind of the collection of
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  Speaker 4: the data and making things more accessible through mobile technology
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  Speaker 4: as well. So same, you are a mystery to us.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna be reaching out to you for Pharmacy Mentor
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  Speaker 4: to get you on the twrqu show. But congratulations for
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  Speaker 4: making the Pharmacy fifty Most Influential twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 5: Five is doing pretty well. You might actually think about
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  Speaker 5: hosting it in the UK.
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  Speaker 4: I know we need more UK, we need more international podcast,
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  Speaker 4: so you're.
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  Speaker 5: Going to have to have another facility over in the Europe.
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  Speaker 5: Be a quick quick road trip there.
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  Speaker 4: You go that road trip to Sheffield, England, Okay, coming
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  Speaker 4: in at number twenty one. No stranger of the Pharmacy fifty.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's just his second time. Doctor Sammy Yaffey
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  Speaker 4: Farm d MBA New York City Health Systems and Hospital
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  Speaker 4: Systems coming in at number twenty one.
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  Speaker 3: Congratulations Sammy, second time.
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  Speaker 5: He said, second time, Hey, a lot of multiple Did
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  Speaker 5: you actually calculate how many are multiple winners from?
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  Speaker 7: I did?
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  Speaker 4: I don't have that stacked up, but we'll actually be
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  Speaker 4: pushing all this information up. But he just shouted out
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  Speaker 4: to us from LinkedIn too, So it's it's exciting to
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  Speaker 4: see that he made the list again. And like I said,
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  Speaker 4: he has been open to doing other things in collaboration
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  Speaker 4: with us, so we definitely want to hear more from you, Sammy.
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  Speaker 3: So congratulations.
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  Speaker 7: You know, maybe they should all get a pen. I
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  Speaker 7: mean we got one.
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  Speaker 4: They're going to get more than waits to see these
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  Speaker 4: kits that we're going to send out the winners. They
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  Speaker 4: got to throw the PM and we'll throw some pens
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  Speaker 4: in there. You guys got a whole Pharmacy fifty kit
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  Speaker 4: coming to you.
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  Speaker 7: I see podcast network, I got two pins. I see.
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  Speaker 7: You're very special then.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, coming in at number twenty once again. A multi
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  Speaker 4: time award winner here at the Pharmacy fifty is doctor
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  Speaker 4: sue O Jigeir and she is a major, major social
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  Speaker 4: media influencer. She involves her children in her videos, she
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  Speaker 4: involves her home, she involves cooking. She's not just doing
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  Speaker 4: pharmacy stuff. She's out there kind of building a brand.
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  Speaker 4: But she's so open to collaboration. She's so open to
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  Speaker 4: talking with people and patients and letting people know that
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  Speaker 4: she's a pharmacist.
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  Speaker 3: That's kind of like.
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  Speaker 4: Her main thing, but she wraps up all this other stuff.
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  Speaker 4: I actually enjoy watching her content because it's very creative.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and the credibility, I mean, you're getting people out
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  Speaker 5: there that are not just influencers. You've got people that
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  Speaker 5: are influencers that have the ability to back up what
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  Speaker 5: they have to say. So it's great to see so
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  Speaker 5: many of these pharmacists and associated specialties in pharmacy out
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  Speaker 5: there creating this platform of influence.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely yep.
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  Speaker 4: And her platform is the Pharmacy Mentors, and it'll get
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  Speaker 4: pharmaists to go and mentor students and young pharmacists and
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  Speaker 4: it's a pretty powerful platform that we like watching it grow.
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  Speaker 4: Reach out to Sue if you're interested in mentoring a
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  Speaker 4: young pharmacyst story a pharmacy student. Hey, shout out to
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  Speaker 4: Value Drug Company. Congratulations and thank you so much for
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  Speaker 4: your representation and support of the Pharmacy Fifty Awards. Pat Lavella,
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  Speaker 4: thank you so much for your direction and your leadership
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  Speaker 4: with a Value Drug Company. We're so thankful to the
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  Speaker 4: team and to the group with the Value Drug Company
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  Speaker 4: and their support of the Pharmacy Fifty Awards twenty twenty five. Hey,
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  Speaker 4: coming in at number nineteen, this is a big deal
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  Speaker 4: for us. I had no idea this was going to happen,
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  Speaker 4: but it makes sense that you think of the inflection
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  Speaker 4: point that pharmacy's at, you think of the turmoil, you
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  Speaker 4: think of pharmacy deserts, you think of the PBMs, and
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  Speaker 4: this guy has made such a big impact on getting
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  Speaker 4: people to pay attention to what the heck pharmacy is,
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  Speaker 4: and that is mister Mark Cuban with Mark Cuban Costs
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  Speaker 4: plus Drugs and we have him, of course in the advocacy,
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  Speaker 4: policy and regulation space. The guy puts on the boxing
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  Speaker 4: gloves and socks people right in the mouth with factual information.
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  Speaker 3: He's so intelligent.
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  Speaker 4: He is actually down in Miami right now for the
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  Speaker 4: championship basketball game, but he's going to be on PUTT.
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  Speaker 4: He's going to be on Pharmacists United for Truth and
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  Speaker 4: Transparencies podcast. He's been on one of our clients podcasts
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  Speaker 4: through Psychs and Company before, and he's really starting to
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  Speaker 4: pay attention to pharmacy more so where he's becoming an insider.
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  Speaker 4: And when this first came out, I interviewed doctor Alex,
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  Speaker 4: which is the guy that runs it for him. I
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  Speaker 4: interviewed him way back in twenty twenty one, and to
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  Speaker 4: tell you the truth, I didn't feel good about this
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  Speaker 4: whole thing. I thought it was a was a billionaire play, right,
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  Speaker 4: this big successful billionaire coming into the pharmacy space. And
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  Speaker 4: I rolled my eyes and I'm like, oh God, here
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  Speaker 4: we go again with something that's going to, you know,
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  Speaker 4: builk the system. Now, this guy has put a crack
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  Speaker 4: in the armor. He loves it, he wants to dismantle it,
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  Speaker 4: and he's part of the he's part of us. I
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  Speaker 4: consider Mark part of the pharmacy profession helping us to
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  Speaker 4: change things.
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  Speaker 5: Well, he's a a customer of ours and IPSO USA,
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  Speaker 5: our sister company, and I think you know, the one
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  Speaker 5: thing he has done effectively is start to create awareness
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  Speaker 5: about how the system works. And no matter where you're
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  Speaker 5: in a system, we'd all agree that's not working.
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  Speaker 7: Well.
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  Speaker 5: There's challenges with it, you know, when we know that
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  Speaker 5: patients aren't always getting their medicine or drug shortages are
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  Speaker 5: because we can't make enough money to continue manufacture. A
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  Speaker 5: lot of that has to do with where the money
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  Speaker 5: flows within the system of care. And most pharmacists, yea,
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  Speaker 5: even my own pharmacists who have become very friendly with
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  Speaker 5: you know, half of his prescriptions he's not making money
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  Speaker 5: on that. He's filling based on what they're cased. So
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  Speaker 5: if anything happens, we have to be honest with the
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  Speaker 5: fact that there's certain people in our system that don't
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  Speaker 5: want to have this conversation, and we probably could name them,
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  Speaker 5: but the pack of the matter is is that we
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  Speaker 5: need it to change because as an industry, as a
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  Speaker 5: pharmaceutical innersy, we get blamed a lot, right, It's oh,
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  Speaker 5: why are drugs so high?
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  Speaker 7: Well, it's a pharmacy, pharmaceuticals.
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  Speaker 5: Well, but I want to hear to tell you I've
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  Speaker 5: been doing this for thirty plus years, and there are
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  Speaker 5: bad players out there, but there's also a lot of
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  Speaker 5: things that are forcing us to do things a certain way.
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  Speaker 5: And then how everything gets managed down to a pharmacist
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  Speaker 5: trying to manage and at least stay neutral, stay neutral
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  Speaker 5: on a prescription job.
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  Speaker 6: Well, just to tie in with Mark, you know the
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  Speaker 6: stuff he's done on a national level to bring notoriety
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  Speaker 6: to what's been happening on a PBM front. But when
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  Speaker 6: you think about the traditional pharmacy model, if any of
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  Speaker 6: us would take that on Shark Tank, what do you
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  Speaker 6: think would happen?
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  Speaker 8: Oh?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, we get kicked out in ten seconds, thank you? True,
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  Speaker 9: that's right. Yeah, So Mark, shout out to you, buddy.
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  Speaker 9: If I mean, I know you have platforms over platforms
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  Speaker 9: to get your message out, but we would love to
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  Speaker 9: have you on twerks and talk shop. But this, this
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  Speaker 9: tells me something that the profession of pharmacy, there's an
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  Speaker 9: element of trust here, there's an element that we know
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  Speaker 9: that you're in this to help things really really make
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  Speaker 9: some changes. So shout out to you and congratulations for
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  Speaker 9: making the Pharmacy fifty twenty twenty five list. All right,
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  Speaker 9: coming up next, Pat love vela board of directors of
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  Speaker 9: Value Drug company, a pharmacy owner.
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  Speaker 3: I could go on and on and on.
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  Speaker 4: We don't have enough time to say everything that Pat's
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  Speaker 4: been involved with. We put him in the independent pharmacy space.
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  Speaker 4: Definitely belongs there. He's an educator as well, coming in
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  Speaker 4: at number eighteen. I want to kick this over to
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  Speaker 4: my friend John, to James, because you know this man
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  Speaker 4: very well.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Pat's one of my best friends.
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  Speaker 6: And truthfully, for as long as I was in the business,
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  Speaker 6: I met Pat probably say ten years ago. He taught
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  Speaker 6: me everything I didn't know into business, and here I
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  Speaker 6: am thinking I knew everything. The best thing about Pat is,
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  Speaker 6: you know, he probably retired at fifty and he was
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  Speaker 6: I don't want to say he was bored, but he
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  Speaker 6: came back to work. You know, he's a strategy director
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  Speaker 6: at Value Drug. He since has retired or else he
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  Speaker 6: tells us he's retired, but he's on. You know, he
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  Speaker 6: helps everybody out every single day. He's currently on the
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  Speaker 6: board of Value. He's also on the board of the
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  Speaker 6: line RX, which is a p SAO that merged with
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  Speaker 6: Pharmacy First. If you ever have to know who a
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  Speaker 6: politician is, whether it be on the state level or
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  Speaker 6: federal level. Pat probably either golf with them, has their
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  Speaker 6: cell phone number and could get to them like that.
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  Speaker 6: I just don't know where, you know where to start
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  Speaker 6: with Pat. In our industry, you know, it's common that
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  Speaker 6: you know, what would Batman do? Yeah, we all just
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  Speaker 6: say what would Pat Lavella do? He's just a phenomenal
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  Speaker 6: wealth of information and you know, successful store owner. He
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  Speaker 6: actually just his daughter rooms Hilltop Pharmacy in Pittsburgh. He
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  Speaker 6: just literally remodeled that because of the intake that he
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  Speaker 6: had from the righty mergers made the store bigger, has
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  Speaker 6: tons of tech, does a lot of stuff in the industry.
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  Speaker 6: You know, I don't even the sad part about it
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  Speaker 6: is he's the happiest guy if you just get.
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  Speaker 3: Him a hamburger and a pack of peanut M and
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  Speaker 3: m's and that's it. So love it.
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  Speaker 7: I love it.
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  Speaker 4: Well, congratulations, Pat, come join us back on this week
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  Speaker 4: in Pharmacy sometime. That's drug dig into some of the
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  Speaker 4: things you've done over the years, and I'd love to
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  Speaker 4: have you in the studio some time if you can
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  Speaker 4: make it to Pittsburgh for sure. All right, coming in
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  Speaker 4: at number seventeen. I know this man. I trust this man.
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  Speaker 4: I want to kind of call him the godfather of
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  Speaker 4: long term care pharmacy at home from a structural perspective
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  Speaker 4: in his work in consulting because he was kind of
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  Speaker 4: doing that consulting in helping people get up and running
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  Speaker 4: through long term care pharmacy. I don't know what jeez
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  Speaker 4: fifteen years ago and is really trusted now. He's the
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  Speaker 4: CEO of the Long Term Care Pharmacy at Home Network,
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  Speaker 4: which is a really growing network in the pharmacy space
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  Speaker 4: because of how important long term care pharmacy services at
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  Speaker 4: home is. And like we said, we already talked about
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  Speaker 4: Sean and what he's doing, but this is very important.
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  Speaker 3: John. Do you know Paul.
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  Speaker 6: I do know Paul, and he has been an advocate
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  Speaker 6: for that space for a very long time. He's taught
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  Speaker 6: a lot of people about that space. I think the
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  Speaker 6: success of it is when you think about the majority
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  Speaker 6: of the patients we take care, they don't want to
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  Speaker 6: go to a assisted living that people want to stay
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  Speaker 6: at home as long as they can. That the burden
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  Speaker 6: of cost goes down when you stay at home provided
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  Speaker 6: that you can be supported, you know, introducing that type
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  Speaker 6: of home pharmacy network that he has. I mean, it
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  Speaker 6: gives people their independence where they're most comfortable at and
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  Speaker 6: that's the success of LTC at home.
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  Speaker 3: All right, So we're moving on.
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  Speaker 4: We have coming in another one that made the Pharmacy
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  Speaker 4: fifty list. I think this is the second time that
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  Speaker 4: the CEO of the NPTA, the National Pharmacy Technician Association,
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  Speaker 4: mister Mike Johnston. Very proud of his advocacy of pharmacy
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  Speaker 4: and the pharmacy technician and how he's taken the role
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  Speaker 4: of the pharmacy technician to a whole other level with
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  Speaker 4: his training programs and how many pharmacy texts he's helped out.
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  Speaker 4: But he's a leader in our network, and he's a
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  Speaker 4: leader in our professions. So I'm very glad to see
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  Speaker 4: he's made the list again.
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  Speaker 7: Congratuss A number.
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  Speaker 3: Two, absolutely absolutely all right.
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  Speaker 4: April new Inn, doctor new Inn, is a farm dy
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  Speaker 4: pharmacy legislative a week founder and in the advocacy, policy
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  Speaker 4: and regulation space out of Sacramento, OHI, Sacramento, California.
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  Speaker 3: April is pat I.
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  Speaker 4: Watch her and follow her on LinkedIn and read a
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  Speaker 4: lot of her writings on LinkedIn and I can understand
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  Speaker 4: why she's coming in at number fifteen, So congratulations to you,
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  Speaker 4: doctor Wynn. Absolutely all right, coming in at number fourteen.
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  Speaker 4: Another social media follower, influencer, somebody that I follow on
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  Speaker 4: social media, somebody that is to watch as well as
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  Speaker 4: hilarious and funny and the education that she brings to
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  Speaker 4: her consumer. I want to welcome to the show, doctor
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  Speaker 4: Katie Forbes.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so excited to have you here. Katie.
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  Speaker 8: Hey, what's going on?
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  Speaker 4: So I want to just say thank you for being here,
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  Speaker 4: congratulations and making lists.
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  Speaker 3: I think this is your second time again, right, yeah
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  Speaker 3: it is. That's awesome.
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  Speaker 4: Why do you think the consumer or the consumers responding
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  Speaker 4: to you the way that they do. You now have
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  Speaker 4: this huge fan base on what is it? Is your
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  Speaker 4: platform better on TikTok or is it better on Instagram?
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  Speaker 8: It's better on TikTok. It's like, what is it three
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  Speaker 8: hundred and fifty thousand on TikTok, but when you put
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  Speaker 8: all my platform together, it's six hundred and fifty thousand
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  Speaker 8: or something.
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  Speaker 4: Becaw prosent it is what's happening in healthcare that people
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  Speaker 4: as you saw. The number one category is social media
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  Speaker 4: Influencer here awards this year.
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  Speaker 3: Why do you think that is?
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  Speaker 8: I mean, for the Internet, I feel like, I don't know,
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  Speaker 8: I'm young, it's pretty recent. I think a lot of
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  Speaker 8: things are kind of stray away from like your classic
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  Speaker 8: like TV ads. Most people can kind of just stream stuff,
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  Speaker 8: and I don't know, I think a lot of bigger
• 18:09
  Speaker 8: companies are kind of picking up on the social media
• 18:12
  Speaker 8: kind of bus it's still kind of like gaining speed.
• 18:15
  Speaker 8: I know, pharmacy in general has this like this like
• 18:19
  Speaker 8: vibe of like professionalism and what is professional and what
• 18:23
  Speaker 8: is not, And like younger pharmacists like myself are kind
• 18:26
  Speaker 8: of like breaking that mold to kind of be like, well,
• 18:29
  Speaker 8: like you can be competent and you can be professional,
• 18:31
  Speaker 8: and like, with like the pay not really increasing that
• 18:36
  Speaker 8: much within the last one couple decades, a little side
• 18:40
  Speaker 8: hustle is nice. It's iced to make money through like
• 18:42
  Speaker 8: brand deals in the Internet, and some influential influencers actually
• 18:45
  Speaker 8: make like more money with their little side hustles and
• 18:49
  Speaker 8: brand deals and their platforms and they do Like as
• 18:52
  Speaker 8: a pharmacist, yeah.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: But you're doing it non drifty.
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: You're doing it from a position where I can hear
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: it coming out of your heart and you know what,
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: You get mad sometimes on social media, but it never
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: comes through from disrespect.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: You are never disrespectful.
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: And I think as a young person in using social media,
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: I like seeing that you can debate with intelligence and
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: not like call people names or not gets.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: And I absolutely love that about you, Katie.
• 19:21
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean like that's because I'm like smart, I
• 19:24
  Speaker 8: know how to I know how to argue.
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you do bring the data, that's for sure. I
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: love when you bring the data. And I know I've
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: learned to watch your stuff. If you're new to watching Katie,
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: you won't You won't catch the punchlines that are coming.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: But she'll page stuff and then all of sen she'll
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: smack you right in the face with the facts by
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: the time you hit the ending of the sixty seconds
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: on TikTok.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: But I absolutely love it. Yeah, but congratulations again.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: Would you promise to come to twerk sometimes and let's
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: just talk about shop, Let's talk about what's happening, and
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: you'll help me get more listeners because of how happy
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: there you are out on TikTok.
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 20:02
  Speaker 8: I'm still working kind of part time to my schedules
• 20:04
  Speaker 8: not as like packed as it could be. Were you
• 20:07
  Speaker 8: guys located again.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: We're in Pittsburgh, south of Pittsburgh. Yeah, exactly, keep the
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: debate going. It's it's so fun to watch what you're doing, Katie,
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: keep doing it. And anything that we can ever do
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: to help you, you know, you know I will.
• 20:25
  Speaker 8: Yeah. Awesome, Thank you guys for having me.
• 20:28
  Speaker 7: Thank you good.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: All right, all right, So I am so excited that
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: the voting for social media influencers has expanded and that
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: really tells me that the public trusts pharmacists and trust
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: people that are that are forthright, and it's so it's
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: so refreshing for me, and I just want to say
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: congratulations everybody.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: So far we are coming up to thirteen.
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: And by the way, this is another social media influencer
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: and somebody that is hilarious. I've met this man in person.
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: He is known as the Doctor of Comedy. He's also
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: a co founder of the Pharmacy Guild. Doctor Maurice Shaw
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: out of Chicago, Illinois.
• 21:22
  Speaker 7: Just love it.
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: Congratulations to Maurice all his work, his time as a
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: comedian as well is very meaningful.
• 21:33
  Speaker 7: His stuff.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: I don't know if you guys have ever seen his stuff,
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: but he uses puppets to be like customers, and then
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: he talks to them and they argue with him. And
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: he also involved in some other content creation. But I
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: just think he's dynamic and I love what he's doing.
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: You can just tell from his picture.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's dynamic. He's energetic, he's super smart. He makes
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: fun of himself on stage too, about being a black
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: man and maybe stealing medications as and he like sets
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: the audience up to say something and then he has
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: a punchline and his freaking comedy is so good. You
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: guys have got to go look him up on YouTube.
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: Just put in Maurice Shaw, doctor Shaw, Pharmade or doctor
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: of Comedy Maurice Shaw, and you'll definitely find him. But
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: he's made the Pharmacy fifty List, coming at number lucky thirteen.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: Actually, thirteen is my favorite number.