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"Beginnings" (Friday, January 16, 2026, Hour 2) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: You had set about disrupting the class by attracting attention
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Speaker 1: to yourself.
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Speaker 2: On a need to know basis, because you need to
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Speaker 2: know the first thing today.
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Speaker 3: Jord said, steal me step.
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Speaker 4: You have a day at least for work when the
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Speaker 4: sun comes up.
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Speaker 3: Drops a pet to school the way Joe has everything,
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Speaker 3: A dreamer all the Joasu needs no one that Joe's
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Speaker 3: as smiled he on the eggs.
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Speaker 5: Please let it be Joe.
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Speaker 6: Bless you for letting us be of service to you.
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Speaker 6: I want to be four three four eight A two
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Speaker 6: four two one seven is our phone where Joel was
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Speaker 6: on the phone with us as we're heading to the
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Speaker 6: news at the top of the hour, talking about President
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Speaker 6: Trump's plan to UH create a consumer side subsidy in
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Speaker 6: the health care business. And Joela wanted to finish on
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Speaker 6: a quick thought on this so that Catastrophic Health Insurance
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Speaker 6: started to try to figure out ways, because it's what
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Speaker 6: insurance companies do all day, every day, is try to
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Speaker 6: find ways to limit their liability. And they did it
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Speaker 6: more and more and more to find ways to say,
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Speaker 6: you don't qualify, your plan doesn't cover Oh, you've filled
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Speaker 6: out this paperwork the wrong way and therefore we don't
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Speaker 6: have to pay. And so that started Bill Clinton and
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Speaker 6: Hillary Clinton because the public was having it happen to
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Speaker 6: them more and more and more that they were denied
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Speaker 6: coverage by the insurance. This is all born of this
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Speaker 6: actuarial allowance that insurance companies would dodge responsibility for stuff
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Speaker 6: that patients thought they were supposed to get. So the
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Speaker 6: HMO business started saying, oh, you know, have to worry
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Speaker 6: about all those heavy piece of paperwork. That was the
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Speaker 6: whole sales campaign behind the HMO movement was don't worry
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Speaker 6: about all that paperwork anymore. Just join our HMO and
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Speaker 6: it's all covered, and we'll tell you what doctors to
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Speaker 6: go to and you don't have to We're back filling
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Speaker 6: out giant amount of forms anyway now and we're paying
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Speaker 6: more and still not getting the coverage we want. So
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Speaker 6: it's born in a place where people are just trying
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Speaker 6: to find every way possible to not pay for a
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Speaker 6: medical treatment. And this still dances around that. And I'm
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Speaker 6: not saying an insurance company should just pay every claim
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Speaker 6: because some of them are spurious. But if you're insured
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Speaker 6: and you go into the hospital for I don't know,
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Speaker 6: you had a fall or a gar accident, and then
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Speaker 6: the insurance company says, well, you misfiled the paperwork, therefore
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Speaker 6: we're not covering you. That's how we all.
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Speaker 5: That's how this whole.
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Speaker 6: Journey began, with that happening more and more frequently enough
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Speaker 6: to where politicians said, I must do something about this immediately.
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Speaker 6: And here we go, and now the journey is on
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Speaker 6: this end of it and we can't even see where
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Speaker 6: we started. I what your thought on that, working in
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Speaker 6: the healthcare industry, but it was just a flag down
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Speaker 6: that we are coming up on our first thing. So
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Speaker 6: we got to tell people what the hell we're talking
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Speaker 6: about here so that we can all conversate on it
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Speaker 6: thoroughly and depthly. At four three four eight a two
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Speaker 6: four two one seven inch old, I promise you'll get
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Speaker 6: your turn on that in a second. But President Trump
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Speaker 6: rolled out Trump Care, if you want to call it that, yesterday,
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Speaker 6: saying that he would make a government payment directly to you.
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Speaker 6: He said in a video, it goes to you, and
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Speaker 6: then you take the money and buy your own healthcare.
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Speaker 6: The plan also works on lowering drug prices and requiring
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Speaker 6: insurance to be more upfront with the public about costs, revenues,
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Speaker 6: rejected claims, and wait times for care. The President also
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Speaker 6: threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act of eighteen oh seven
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Speaker 6: to deploy troops and quel persistent protests against federal offers
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Speaker 6: officers sent to Minneapolis to support the administration's immigration crackdown.
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Speaker 6: This comes after a man was wounded by an immigration
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Speaker 6: officer who was being beaten with a shovel and a
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Speaker 6: broom handle. Venezuela and opposition leader Maria Karina Machado was
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Speaker 6: at the White House yesterday and brought her Nobel Peace Prize,
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Speaker 6: to which she presented it to Donald Trump as a gift.
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Speaker 6: The Nobel Institute said Machado cannot give her prize to Trump,
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Speaker 6: even though the gesture is purely symbolic breaking with the
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Speaker 6: United States. Canada has agreed to cut one it's one
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Speaker 6: hundred percent tariff on Chinese electric cars in return for
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Speaker 6: lower tariffs on Canadian farm products. Mark Carney said returning
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Speaker 6: from Beijing after two days of meetings. He said there
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Speaker 6: would be an initial cap of just fifty thousand vehicles
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Speaker 6: of Chinese ev exports, growing to seventy thousand over five years.
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Speaker 6: China will reduce its tarifon canola seeds from eighty four
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Speaker 6: percent to fifteen percent. Tyler Robinson, the twenty two year
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Speaker 6: old Utah man charged with killing Charlie Kirk. His defense attorneys,
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Speaker 6: who will be in court with him today are going
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Speaker 6: to ask for the prosecutors to be disqualified due to
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Speaker 6: conflicts of interest. Robinson's father is an officer of the court.
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Speaker 6: I think you're premature on us here. I think we
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Speaker 6: still have another minute to go, and we have more
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Speaker 6: news to do. After weeks escalating tension, US and Iranian
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Speaker 6: officials faced off against one another at the UN yesterday,
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Speaker 6: with the UN Security Council in the back drop. Let
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Speaker 6: me make it clear, the US Envoy, Mike Waltz said,
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Speaker 6: President Trump is a man of action, not endless talk
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Speaker 6: like we see here at the United Nations. He made
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Speaker 6: it clear that all options are on the table to
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Speaker 6: stop the slaughter. The activists say twenty six hundred plus
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Speaker 6: people have been killed so far in the riots in
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Speaker 6: the capital city of the Islamist Nation. Others are saying
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Speaker 6: the death toll is at more than twelve thousand, and
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Speaker 6: those are some of our first things. Joel, You're still there,
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Speaker 6: all right? Is that a thumbs up here. All right,
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Speaker 6: we'll give your thoughts on healthcare at a moment.
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Speaker 19: Doctor, tell me about it?
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Speaker 6: Never never, never, never about I understand the self doubt.
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Speaker 6: I mean, you know, if it wasn't for self doubt,
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Speaker 6: what doubt would we have in the world? Cue the
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Speaker 20: And I am thrilled to announce my plan to lower
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Speaker 20: health care prices for all Americans and truly make health
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Speaker 20: care affordable again. We're doing things that nobody's ever been
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Speaker 20: able to do. We're calling it the Great Healthcare Plan.
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Speaker 20: Instead of putting the needs of big corporations and special
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Speaker 20: interests for our plan finally puts you first and puts
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Speaker 20: more money in your pocket. The government is going to
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Speaker 20: pay the money directly to you. It goes to you,
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Speaker 20: and then you take the money and buy your own
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Speaker 20: health care. Nobody's ever heard of that before, and that's
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Speaker 20: the way it is. The big insurance companies lose, and
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Speaker 20: the people of our country when this proposal locks in
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Speaker 20: the massive discounts on prescription drugs that my administration is
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Speaker 20: achieving through our most favored nation Drug Pricing Agreement. Now,
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Speaker 20: when you hear about that, for forty years, they've been
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Speaker 20: trying to do it, but they're never able to do it.
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Speaker 20: No other president was able to do it. I got
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Speaker 20: every other country to approve it by the use of
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Speaker 20: tariffs and other things. They all approved it. Nobody else
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Speaker 20: got it, no other president got it, and for the
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Speaker 20: most part, they didn't even try because they felt it
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Speaker 20: was impossible. It'll bring down drug prices eighty ninety percent
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Speaker 20: in some cases, just numbers that nobody's ever heard of before.
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Speaker 20: Your prescription drugs will come way, way down.
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Speaker 6: So some of the President's address yesterday on his healthcare plan.
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Speaker 6: Joel works in healthcare, and I set up this scenario.
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Speaker 6: Part of my problem with all of these solutions, whether
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Speaker 6: they come from President Trump or President at Obama or
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Speaker 6: Hillary Care, all of this stuff is it doesn't go
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Speaker 6: back to what the original source problem was. And we'll
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Speaker 6: jump back into it. But our friends James Locke and
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Speaker 6: his family business at jcsgold dot com on the phone
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Speaker 6: with us man, it was rarefied. It was still hanging
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Speaker 6: over ninety dollars announced for silver. James, last time I checked,
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Speaker 6: right before I hit the rack last night. How are
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Speaker 6: you doing this morning at jcsgold dot com.
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Speaker 21: Yeah, we're off for a busy start this morning. Gold
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Speaker 21: and silver are down just slightly. It looks like gold
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Speaker 21: is down about one and a half percent, down one
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Speaker 21: and a half dollars to ninety dollars and eighty five cents,
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Speaker 21: so it's holding strong above ninety so far, so we'll
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Speaker 21: see if it does hold for the rest of the
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Speaker 21: day today.
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Speaker 22: Good sold to the holiday weekend or not.
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Speaker 21: Yeah, for silver there and gold is down just just
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Speaker 21: a couple of dollars below even so far, it's four
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Speaker 21: six hundred and nine dollars, just down about a tenth percent,
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Speaker 21: so also holding kind of flat this morning. But people
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Speaker 21: are starting starting to accept these higher silver prices, at
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Speaker 21: least our clients are, and you know they're seeing that,
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Speaker 21: you know, they need to buy while they can below
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Speaker 21: below spot. And we have below spot deals on our
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Speaker 21: website at jasiscold dot com that that you can take
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Speaker 21: advantage of while those supplies last.
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Speaker 6: Well, you've talked about this in the past, and one
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Speaker 6: of the upsides of a family business that's not out
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Speaker 6: there trying to make some quota that's been dictated to
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Speaker 6: them from on high or anything, is you get an
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Speaker 6: honest accounting of things. And you've always said, just set
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Speaker 6: up something in your budge that you can handle for
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Speaker 6: monthly or weekly however you want to do it. Stacking
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Speaker 6: as you call it, just you know, say, if it's
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Speaker 6: fifty bucks. It's fifty bucks. I'll buy fifty bucks worth
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Speaker 6: of gold or silver on Friday, and you can do
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Speaker 6: that at jcsgold dot com. But it makes it so
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Speaker 6: that regardless of what the price is, that value is
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Speaker 6: going into your portfolio, if you want to call.
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Speaker 18: It that, that's exactly right.
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Speaker 21: I would not tell someone to, you know, drain all
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Speaker 21: of their accounts and gather up all their cash and
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Speaker 21: come in and put everything they.
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Speaker 18: Have into gold or silver.
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Speaker 23: You definitely, you know, the way to do it is
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Speaker 23: to overtime accumulate, just stack like you said, and just
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Speaker 23: accumulate gold and silver over time, your cost averaging in
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Speaker 23: Sometimes you're going to pay a little higher.
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Speaker 18: Sometimes you're going to get a better deal.
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Speaker 22: Buy stuff that you like, you know, whether it's Morgan
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Speaker 22: silver dollars, it's old history, you know, silver buhyd the
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Speaker 22: stuff that you like, or it's just pure bullion and
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Speaker 22: it's it's random rounds printed by the private mints over
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Speaker 22: the years, and some of them have, you know, funny
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Speaker 22: quirky designs. You know, just burow whatever you'd like to
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Speaker 22: invest in silver and to stack it up over time, and.
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Speaker 23: Then you know, when the price does run up like
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Speaker 23: this next thing.
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Speaker 22: You know, you you have a little pile of silver
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Speaker 22: there in your and you're safer.
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Speaker 21: In your gun safe and and then you can calculate
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Speaker 21: and you.
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Speaker 6: Can get and you can take that to that bolence.
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Speaker 6: If if let's say you had silver at this point
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Speaker 6: last year, I think it was like forty dollars an ounce,
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Speaker 6: well take that forty five extra dollars announce that you've
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Speaker 6: made and invested in more silver.
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Speaker 21: So you're exactly right. It's just one of the things
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Speaker 21: it's always good to have.
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Speaker 24: You know.
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Speaker 21: It's a hedge against the economy, a hedge against inflation
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Speaker 21: and a shrinking dollar, and you know, it's just something
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Speaker 21: that everyone should have a portion of their portfolio and
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Speaker 21: a little bit of physical gold and silver just in
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Speaker 21: case you need it.
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Speaker 6: Give him a call after ten o'clock Eastern. If you
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Speaker 6: don't believe me about the family business, ask around four
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Speaker 6: three four ninety seven nine. Coin is their phone number,
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Speaker 6: but you can visit them anytime twenty four hours a day,
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Speaker 6: seven days a week at jcsgold dot com. James, you
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Speaker 6: have a great morning, sir.
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Speaker 18: Thanks shure you too.
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Speaker 6: And now we get back to Joel. So we were
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Speaker 6: talking about the beginnings, because I don't believe you cure
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Speaker 6: an illness until you find out how the illness got there.
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Speaker 6: And we were talking about how the scenarios started to
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Speaker 6: get laid out, that too many consumers were having issues
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Speaker 6: with being denied healthcare insurance coverage, and it became an
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Speaker 6: activism that the politicians felt compelled to get out in
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Speaker 6: front of because well, I mean, it's heartstrings, Joel, and
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Speaker 6: that's how we get here. Did we know? I know
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Speaker 6: he's busy, but did we get Joel always aligned to
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Speaker 6: all right, Joel and Joe.
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Speaker 17: The other thing is you're dealing with all different kinds
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Speaker 17: of education backgrounds, with people uneducated, educated, elderly, and try
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Speaker 17: to get through on a on a on a phone
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Speaker 17: or a computer, and then you wait an hour to
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Speaker 17: try to get through to take care of the bill
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Speaker 17: or to do something, and then your call gets dropped.
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Speaker 17: You got to go through the whole thing and talk
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Speaker 17: about government agencies.
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Speaker 6: Try to call the I R. S.
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Speaker 17: You'll be on the phone for four hours. Yeah, I mean,
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Speaker 17: if they're they're talking about the efficiency, we don't There
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Speaker 17: were two hundred something bills on Congress's desk. They couldn't
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Speaker 17: even get what they get.
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Speaker 6: Nine bills passed last year, Yeah, something like that. It
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Speaker 6: was really low. But but maybe that's to our benefit
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Speaker 6: because I think the government that governments the least governs
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Speaker 6: the best anyway. But you see, we're still trying to
20:59
Speaker 6: hit other body parts metaphorically with a hammer to make
21:03
Speaker 6: us forget where the original pain was. And we need
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Speaker 6: to go back to that spot where we were sold
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Speaker 6: a product. The product didn't turn out the way we
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Speaker 6: wanted it to, and instead of going after the product
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Speaker 6: because healthcare and medical treatment was part of it, the
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Speaker 6: government got involved because the health of people were involved,
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Speaker 6: and it looked bad on the news and everything else.
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Speaker 6: And we've continued to create bad scenario after bad scenario
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Speaker 6: rather than being honest about how we get back to
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Speaker 13: Bomb bomb, bom bom bomb Iran.
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Speaker 6: I think it's some of the funniest stuff. I mean,
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Speaker 6: And the situation with the Iran is is it twelve thousand,
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Speaker 16: Huh m hm. Yeah, We've been on the verge of
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Speaker 34: As long as you go, you're on the air.
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Speaker 15: What's on your mind?
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Speaker 6: Four three four eight A two four two one seven.
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Speaker 6: You know the issue of Iran and what's going on
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Speaker 6: they are internationally is about marginalizing Russia. This is why
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Speaker 6: everyone you know Putin and the punchline of the morning
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Speaker 6: I'm looking for international law and a couple of text
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Speaker 6: messages on the issue of international law and Vlad the Invader.
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Speaker 6: Joe play that clip every day of Putin call for
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Speaker 6: international Law to rebuke President Trump.
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Speaker 31: Voice truly committed to the ideals of a multipolar world.
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Speaker 31: Our country has always conducted and will continue to conduct
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Speaker 31: a balance, constructive foreign policy course. Sensible way out of
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Speaker 31: this situation appears to be to more assertively demand strict
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Speaker 31: adherence to international law from all members of the global community.
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Speaker 6: So again, whether or not this becomes kinetic or not,
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Speaker 6: marginalizing the Russian Federation right now is where we need
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Speaker 6: to be. They have been acting in a way. But
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Speaker 6: I like this email from Sharon who writes, in Joe,
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Speaker 6: if your premise on healthcare is important that we go
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Speaker 6: back to how our healthcare system became the mess that
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Speaker 6: it is. Isn't it important to go back to how
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Speaker 6: this situation with Russia has gone off the rails? Have
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Speaker 6: you ever heard of Nigel Farage? Yes, I have. As
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Speaker 6: a matter of fact, you're rare in this industry these
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Speaker 6: days to have anyone to even talk about Nigel Farage.
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Speaker 6: He's been on this program in earlier iterations that I
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Speaker 6: believe the lawyers still tell me I can't talk about.
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Speaker 6: And frequently when you bring up Nigel Faraj in his
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Speaker 6: position on how NATO treated Russia when they collapsed, when
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Speaker 6: the Soviet Union collapsed. You will get a lot of
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Speaker 6: people saying, what difference at this point does it make?
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Speaker 6: But you have to look back to where you started.
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Speaker 6: And I think, Sharon, if I know where you're going
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Speaker 6: on and you didn't lucidate to this point, but you know,
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Speaker 6: if Iran is collapsing under the weight of its theocracy,
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Speaker 6: a it's a warning to everyone who wants that in
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Speaker 6: the United States a big authoritarian Marxist state, because eventually
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Speaker 6: it will collapse. And this is what you see, and
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Speaker 6: this is a master's class and why we fight Marxism
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Speaker 6: even when people are poor and can't pay their bills,
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Speaker 6: because this is what you wind up with. A currency
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Speaker 6: that's I think it's one point four million real for
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Speaker 6: every US dollar and the US dollars sucks. I'm sorry,
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Speaker 6: that's an economic term. I heard Larry Kudlow use it
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Speaker 6: the other day. Steve Moore uses that word frequently. The
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Speaker 6: US dollar is in the dumps, and it still takes
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Speaker 6: one point four million real to have the buying power
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Speaker 6: of one devalued US dollar. This is what you get
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Speaker 6: when you allow Bernie Sanders and AOC and Gavin Newsom
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Speaker 6: and these folks to run the government and we're heading there,
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Speaker 6: and the healthcare stuff, the healthcare subsidies are the same things.
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Speaker 6: So I don't think it's inaccurate to to point out
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Speaker 6: how we got to this place with Russia. But it's
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Speaker 6: not as easily curable as how we got into the
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Speaker 6: healthcare mess because we can't go back and unpunish Russia
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Speaker 6: for ills that they didn't do. Let me get to
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Speaker 6: you at four three four eight eight two four two
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Speaker 6: one seven. Who's this morning show? Mike? You got one
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Speaker 6: of them sell service issues going on there. I can
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Speaker 6: hear it right now, So jump right to your point
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Speaker 6: before we lose you. I guess that ship sailed. Yeah,
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Speaker 6: he goes through areas and they hate cell service where
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Speaker 6: he lives. They can't they can't stand it. They see
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Speaker 6: the towers and they think rich oligarchs. These are all
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Speaker 6: want to be Bernie Sanders types in his county government.
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Speaker 6: I know where he lives, not in a creepy kind
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Speaker 6: of way, but we know where he lives. And the
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Speaker 6: rich oligarch argument is very strong about amongst the Bernie
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Speaker 6: bros That run his county, and that's why you have
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Speaker 6: awful cell service there, even beyond Verizon's collapse. The other day,
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Speaker 6: did you see that Verizon's going to send out twenty
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Speaker 6: dollars vouchers to any of their their customers? There, good morning,
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Speaker 6: You're on the air with Joe. Who's this.
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Speaker 32: Hey? This is pharmacist Moscow.
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Speaker 6: Bob heyarmacist Bob.
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Speaker 34: Hey.
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Speaker 32: With the healthcare and when you're combining it with how
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Speaker 32: much the reality costs and everything else, it's like here
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Speaker 32: in Russia, it's eighty rubles to a dollar, but my
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Speaker 32: doctor visit to the neurologist only costs me twenty dollars, okay,
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Speaker 32: what it costs in America. In America, if I had
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Speaker 32: to go to a neurologist and pay cash, it probably
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Speaker 32: cost me close over one hundred.
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Speaker 29: Dollars, I'm guessing.
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Speaker 6: So is it a good your neurologist. I mean, what I'm.
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Speaker 32: Saying, what I'm comparing is is, yes, the dollars lost
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Speaker 32: its value into other currencies, but the cost of living
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Speaker 32: is so high in America that the dollar is even
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Speaker 32: less valuable compared to what it is for me living
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Speaker 32: in Russia and paying everything in rubles. That's why I'm
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Speaker 32: in here in Russia's because of the health care I
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Speaker 32: can't afford on my salary in America the healthcare that
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Speaker 32: I'm getting here. And my friend from Ireland that lives
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Speaker 32: here has payancreatic cancer, and he's married to a Russian woman,
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Speaker 32: so he gets the Russian health insurance, so all his
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Speaker 32: oncology treatments are paid for. He only has to pay
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Speaker 32: for the doctor visits and the immunotherapy. So yes, the
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Speaker 32: value of the year the Irish dollar is much more
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Speaker 32: than the Russian ruble, but your living expenses have been
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Speaker 32: so much less compared to those countries, so you have
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Speaker 32: to take that into account. So yes, you look at
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Speaker 32: the dollar, but look at how much it costs for healthcare.
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Speaker 32: How many people are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars
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Speaker 32: or in debt in America because of healthcare because it
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Speaker 32: can't afford it.
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Speaker 6: Well, yeah, and the argument has been for years, the
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Speaker 6: quality of care is better because you're not a government employee,
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Speaker 6: and you know if they ask anyone who's been to
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Speaker 6: the DMV. But unfortunately, as these insurance companies have become
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Speaker 6: more and more bureaucratic, it's becoming harder and harder to
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Speaker 6: distinguish between the government bureaucracy and the healthcare insurance company bureaucracy,
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Speaker 6: and I believe that's intentional. Bob, good stuff. My friend
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Speaker 6: will go to.
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Speaker 32: Yeah, but on the quality of healthcare here in Russia
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Speaker 32: and Europe is done in the United States because they
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Speaker 32: want to cure you fast, because that saves them money
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Speaker 32: instead of prolonging going to see more and more doctors.
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Speaker 32: That's the difference between the United States and the rest
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Speaker 32: of the world, the rest of the world.
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