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I, I, you know, it's time that we start talking about heroes,

good things.

For instance, did you know the trans-identified male

has just won first place in the women's cycling tour?

Did you know that?

No, yes, congratulations.

She, he,

they won.

They won.

They won.

Taking first place.

The first female with junk in her pants taking first place.

And I, I, hats off.

Also, there's a bearded man

who

claims to be a woman,

but doesn't do anything about it,

just still looks like a man, but he's, yeah, he's a good-looking woman if he'd throw throw some makeup on, you know, spend five minutes in front of the mirror, dude.

Anyway, he just won.

Yeah, another winner, the women's poker tournament.

He just won.

So you got that.

So this is good for women.

This is good for women.

And I, you know, a lot of people might take this as being sarcastic, but there is a guy in Delaware County, in Indiana.

He is a Delaware County, Indiana councilman.

He's Ryan Webb,

and

he is the first Republican local councilman to come forward as a lesbian woman of color.

And Ryan, hats off to you.

Well, good morning, sir.

I appreciate the invitation, and thank you for the recognition.

Thank you.

Sure, sure.

Now, how long have you been contemplating this transition to a woman?

Well,

I'm not really sure how long I've been contemplating it.

I felt this way for quite a long time and just really wasn't sure the right time to do it.

But as with each passing day, it's become more and more socially acceptable and the rules have become ingrained and set in stone is such that someone such as myself who has no real ambition to actually live life as a woman, however, knows in my heart that I am a woman,

I thought this was the right time for me to go ahead and announce that that's

the way I choose to self-identify.

I think that's great.

You did say in your Facebook post that

you noticed that

there wasn't any LGBTQ representation on the council board

and you are the first woman of color too.

What color are you?

Well,

I appreciate you saying that, and I did notice that, and I thought, you know, we just need a little bit more diversity.

We had way too many straight white men on the council, and I thought, you know, we could do something about this.

But to answer what my heritage is, I am Cherokee Native American on both sides, very proud of that,

which qualifies me as the woman of color that I am.

Oh, so you're not just Jane, you're not just a white guy that is

now saying I identify as a woman of color.

You're actually,

I mean, we could, you know, in the old days, I would say, scientifically show your bloodline has Cherokee in it

oh yeah yeah full fully backed up with the documents of ancestry dna calm you know shout out to them but yeah yeah that is the fact

so now you say you're excited to be a vocal partner of the LGBTQQIAPC plus plus movement

and just how far can we take things?

You're glad that, you know, now anyone, just like you can be anything or anyone they want.

How far do you want to take things?

Well, you know, with this whole journey of, you know, gender discovery and who you are, I'm just riding the wave, and wherever it takes me is where it goes.

And I've said before, you know, oftentimes with these things, they're very complex.

Sometimes we end up right back where we started.

But for what I'm trying to do as far as promote some awareness within the community,

there's a lot of bad information out there from some of these folks as being intolerant and hateful.

And I want to show the world that some of us are pretty down-to-earth and sensible people.

We're not all crazy.

Right.

Right.

Okay.

Have you had your first period yet?

Well, you know,

I had something going on the other day, but I wouldn't classify it as that.

I think I just had a little bit of indigestion.

Okay.

All right.

Well, be prepared.

You should keep some family.

Talk to your.

Are you married?

I am.

Yeah.

You are married.

Beautiful wife, Brandy.

Yeah, beautiful wife Brandy.

We have six kids.

And she's fairly excited about the new designation of not only being married to a woman of color, but celebrating our diversity as an interracial married couple.

Right.

Right.

Now, she is excited that you are now identifying as a woman.

Well, you know what?

She stands behind me and everything that comes with it.

And, you know, she's been sitting back watching things like everybody else.

And

she's not naive to the benefits that come with being a woman of color.

So, we're hoping that our kids will be accepted to some colleges that they previously made,

right, right?

So, you know, the sky's the limit.

So, she's excited about that.

And she's identifying now as a lesbian.

Well, she's not necessarily changed her identity.

I don't think she can argue the point that that's what she is.

But, yeah, she's allowed me to go on my journey, and her journey will take her wherever it chooses to go.

Right.

And

you are a lesbian, though.

You'll only sleep with women.

Yeah.

Yeah, yes.

And I've offered to prove that if anyone doesn't believe it, I'm very affectionate with my wife in public.

So I think I've more than

stood on my own two feet with that statement.

You know, a lot of people, Ryan,

we're talking to Ryan Webb.

He's a local Republican councilman who has just come out as a lesbian woman of color and the first one on the council.

And that was very brave of you.

So hats off on just your bravery.

A lot of people would say that

you are making fun

of wokeness and the fact that

men will always be men and not women.

Is there any truth to that?

Well, those allegations have been made.

Now, I wouldn't make those allegations.

I'm not saying that.

In fact,

I don't know what rule book they're reading from, but my understanding was that we weren't allowed to question someone's gender identity, that it's simply declaring it, and it is so, you might as well write it in red.

So I'm not necessarily making fun of anyone.

I'm just expressing how I'm choosing to live my life within the boundaries and rules that's been set forth by society and pass the test.

So they can say that all they want, but I don't need their confirmation or their affirmation or any of the agents.

I'm living my own life.

All right, Ryan, again, we salute you as a very brave, brave.

It is hard in in these days to come out

on something

like this and stand there all alone, surrounded by all of the real power in society,

holding your hand and propping you up and giving you all kinds of benefits.

And that's a scary place to be.

Well.

You are correct with that.

And in the beginning, you know, some folks didn't really know how to take it.

Some were upset.

But as the days have went on, I've been receiving a lot of support.

And to be honest, Glenn,

the local leftists in my community, they're the ones who insisted on making this story a national story.

Me personally, I would like to focus more on the important things that we're doing on the council, such as increasing transparency and increasing the wages for all of our county employees.

But unfortunately,

this is what we're talking about.

Really sad situation.

Yeah.

All right.

Well, Ryan, you keep with your truth.

Okay?

I appreciate that, Mr.

Beck.

I will.

I will.

Thank you so much.

Thank you very much.

That's Ryan Webb, Delaware County, Indiana.

County Councilman.

Brave.

Very brave.

Very brave.

To take a stance like that.

And I know

I assume

they are going to be celebrated for this because that's what our society does.

Well, I don't, you know.

I appreciate that he's keeping his name because I don't want to dead name anybody.

Right.

But who am I to question what he believes, what his truth is, and what his truth may not be?

You just did three in a row.

He, he, and his.

Are you kidding me?

Oh my gosh.

I am so you are.

That is disgustingly.

Oh my gosh.

You are so brave.

Thank you.

You are so brave.

Thank you.

I am.

I mean, going along with what everybody who has any kind of power at all, just going along and sniffing their butt and holding their hand.

That's yep.

You know, and doing exactly what you're told.

You are so brave.

Thank you for affirming me.

Well, thank you for affirming.

Well, you haven't yet.

You haven't.

I affirm you.

Okay.

Wow.

I affirm you.

Wow.

Don't you feel...

I feel heard

and affirmed

and

just kind of, I don't know, like it's my first day of being a girl.

You know,

you'd pass, you

would make a very attractive female.

Not that that's what your journey is.

That's not what my journey is right now.

But let me tell you something.

If I do become a girl, you damn well better say that I'm not only a girl, but I'm a good-looking girl.

Oh, I will affirm the hell out of you for that.

Yeah.

All right.

So thank you.

I affirm you too.

Thank you.

This has been a great.

See, this is how we all come together.

This is the Mutual Affirmation Society.

Just speak the truth

that our overlords demand we speak.

And then we can all get along.

And that's all you have to do.

You just have to say what your truth is, and it becomes the truth.

With one exception,

if someone says they're trans and then they commit a mass murder, then it's totally okay to say actually they were lying the whole time.

Any other instance, though, you must affirm what they say.

And I would like to make another correction, and I hate to

disaffirm you.

But I think it's actually deaffirm.

Okay, sorry.

You've been officially.

Defirm.

Defirm.

Thank you.

Okay, I hate to defirm you, but

uh there you know what you said you can say you're whatever your truth and it is truth and that's not true there is

truth stu and it's your truth and it's my truth but there are some people that don't agree with that truth that we're getting from you know the experts and those people should be shut up

you know

because they're not brave no they're not

we defirm them we defirm them thank you all right hey it's a great great day on the Glenn Beck program.

I think we've just solved another problem.

Thank you so much, Ryan, for being on the program.

This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for listening.

Senator Mike Lee, how are you, sir?

I'm doing great.

Good to be with you, Glenn.

Yeah, thank you.

I have a rule that Stu and I heard about on a ruling this week that I want to talk to you.

I got to get to that too.

But first of all, have you heard about the strike of what is being called Ukrainian drones hitting the

Kremlin, blowing up last night?

Didn't do any damage to the Kremlin, but they shot them out of the sky and they said that it was an assassination attempt.

They were headed towards the presidential palace.

Yeah, I read about this in the Guardian just before I took this call, and

this is a significant development.

We know very little.

I don't know any more than what's been reported publicly.

But that's certainly a significant development of that conflict.

It raises all kinds of questions in my mind as to

what kind of weapons were being used, where they came from, how they were deployed, and so forth.

But yeah, this is a significant escalation in that conflict.

I mean, if another country sent even a little drone with firecrackers in it

and hid into our Capitol dome trying to make even just a statement, I would think that

we would be

closer to war footing in a serious, serious way.

Would you agree with that?

Yes.

Yes, one could certainly make that argument very persuasively.

Look, the point is that there really are consequences.

There are significant implications that come from getting involved in what might be characterized as a proxy war through a third-party nation.

When you do that,

there can be consequences.

And so, this is why this is cause for concern.

We need to know more about how this happened, how serious it was, how close they came,

because this could have implications for American national security.

And it's something we need to follow.

So, Mike, can I ask you a question?

It's probably a really stupid question

for you.

So, try not to make me look so bad.

But

where is my representation?

I know I elect congressmen and I elect senators and I elect presidents.

And so I can vote.

But they are not abiding by the Constitution.

I feel like most Americans feel like, wait, we're going to war with Russia?

What is happening?

Why are we doing this?

Nobody's even making the case.

It seems like

there's a machine that's just clicked on and no one can even question it.

I saw yesterday, or I mean, last week, the president gave a billion dollars to China, just gave them a billion dollars.

And I thought, did that go through Congress?

Because that billion dollars is more money than like a whole town of people will ever give through maybe three generations of work.

Where is the representation of the people on these things?

Yes.

Look,

as you point out, people are all over the place on this politically.

And there are those in Congress, in the Senate and in the House, and in both political parties who strongly support the aid that we've been providing to Ukraine and want us to provide more.

There are others like me who have significant concerns with the aid that we've been providing to Ukraine.

Just

in the last ten days or so,

I sent a letter along with a handful of my colleagues in the House and in the Senate expressing grave concerns about what we're doing.

This is a letter that on the Senate side was signed by me along with

Senators J.D.

Vance of Ohio and Rand Paul of Kentucky.

And it was led by Representative Eli Crane and signed by about 15 congressmen on the House side.

And the letter says in part that unrestrained U.S.

aid for Ukraine needs to come to an end.

And that

we plan to oppose future aid packages,

especially if they're not linked to some clear diplomatic strategy designed to bring the war to a rapid conclusion.

That's been our great concern.

Glenn,

you wouldn't believe that

how much opposition there is to this very simple concept there.

Oh, I would.

People have just adopted lockstock and barrel

the assumption that this war is an unmitigated good, that our support for this war is an unmitigated good.

Look, I don't like Vladimir Putin.

I am not a fan of Russia.

I also know that Russia has a lot of nuclear weapons.

I also know that

that could cause problems for us and our allies if we're not very, very careful.

Yeah, and

I also know that the Ukraine is one of the dirtiest, most most corrupt countries in the world.

And maybe 30% of our dollar is going to where we're trying to get it to.

Most of it is going to these,

you know,

gangsters.

It's all going to the elites and the gangsters over there.

And nobody even cares.

That's 70 cents on every dollar.

I don't know.

I care about that.

Yes.

And you should care about that.

And once it leaves our hands and goes to another country, it's very, very difficult not just to control it, but even to account for where it went,

whether it's in Ukraine or a lot of other countries.

But as you point out,

there are known problems within Ukraine, and especially during wartime.

You're probably going to have even less accountability than you would ordinarily.

You know, Mike, we've solved this before.

In World War II, we sent money to the Arab countries for the war in the Middle East, and we sent money to Hawaii.

And when we did, everyone had the treasury seal.

The ones in Hawaii, I can't remember exactly what they were, but one was like red,

the seal instead of that green seal.

And then the one in the desert was brown.

And that way they could track where that money was going.

And they could also say, that money is worthless.

It's no good.

If it has a brown seal,

don't accept it as money.

We can do it.

We choose not to.

Yeah,

we don't do it.

And the sheer volume of money that we're talking about here is itself independently caused for concern.

We're talking about $113 billion that were appropriated by Congress last year alone for aid to Ukraine.

Put that in perspective, Glenn.

I'm told Ukraine in a typical year spends between $4 and $5 billion on defense in an entire year.

And I'm told that in a typical year, Russia spends about $65 billion billion

on defense.

So when we're talking about multiples, many multiples,

dozens of multiples of what they spend on defense in Ukraine, and

close to double what Russia spends on defense in a typical year, that makes us a very significant player in this conflict.

And I fear sometimes that

people aren't entirely grasping the extent of our involvement and hence the extent of our exposure there.

What I wish we were doing is identifying a way to resolve this conflict, to bring it to an end.

What I wish we were doing is focusing on the fact that if we figured out ways to get American oil and natural gas over to Europe, flood the European energy market with U.S.

sources of energy,

Russia would play a less dominant role.

Russia would have less money to play with.

Putin would have less capital

to justify this conflict.

Europe has laundered the oil.

They're buying it through India, and India is buying it from Russia.

That's what's happening.

Let me switch topics.

The White House is now thinking that maybe we don't even need to have a debt ceiling.

Maybe that's not even constitutional, so we don't have to do anything.

The Fed is going to raise the interest rates again.

They are squeezing the American people.

They're squeezing

the smaller banks, and they're all being rolled up into the Fed banks.

We're going to end up with maybe three banks, five banks, and they'll all be Fed banks.

And they're raising the rate yet again, it seems.

And yet they say they have to do that for inflation, but they will not even make mention.

of the spending of the federal government.

All of us could go on a spending spree with no limits on our credit card, and we wouldn't begin to spend half of the money that the federal government is spending on stupid things every single day.

Yeah, and this is one of the reasons why I've got major concerns

with Jay Powell at the Federal Reserve.

Look, he came to us throughout the COVID disaster, the COVID nightmare, and continued to reassure Congress.

that, don't worry, you're spending trillions of dollars more than you're bringing in each year, but this is not going to have have a significant impact on inflation.

That has continued, and they continue to not warn the American people or Congress or the White House about the very close connection between us spending too much money and having inflation.

They don't talk about that.

They instead resort to the Federal Reserve raising interest rates, which, by the way, is itself even too little.

If you're going to use that tool exclusively, you'd have to go a lot higher than this with devastating consequences.

But wouldn't it be nice, Glenn, if Congress just stopped spending more than we brought in?

Yeah.

I mean,

I heard Schumer.

I heard Schumer say this is draconian, these cuts.

We're talking about going back to the spending of what, 2020?

How could that possibly be draconian?

2022 is still allowing for a rate of growth increase beyond that.

This is absolutely absurd.

Now, Glenn, as to your point

about the

constitutionality of debt ceiling increases and debt ceilings, this is science fiction fantasy that they have come up with.

I'll tell you what the 14th Amendment says.

The 14th Amendment says we can't default.

It says that we have to honor the instruments of U.S.

debt that we issue.

That is very different than saying we do not authorize the Treasury Secretary.

to issue more instruments of debt, more U.S.

Treasury bonds,

once you go beyond a certain level.

There is absolutely nothing in the 14th Amendment that justifies what they're doing.

And by even floating that theory, they're engaging in lawlessness.

Is there a way to make a deal?

I mean, honestly, Mike,

I'm to the point to where this government is spending my tax dollars on things that my congressman doesn't even get a chance to vote on.

Don't even vote on them.

They just do it.

And

where's my representation?

That's taxation without representation.

They are putting my children into the poorhouse and everybody else is into the poorhouse because the administrative arm feels it's the right thing to do and Congress is not even consulted.

Not even consulted.

No,

that's right.

Look, what's happening here is the Democrats are doing what they always do when they they don't like the rules and they can't get what they want.

They try to change the rules.

But you can't simply reinterpret the Constitution to mean what you want it to mean in order to achieve your policy objectives.

There is good news here.

The good news is that the House of Representatives, under the Republican leadership and Speaker Kevin McCarthy, passed a really good compromise package.

We had a lot of members of Congress who have never voted before to raise the debt ceiling who did so on this one because this actually would do some things to bring inflation under control and bring federal spending under control so that we don't have to come back to this well as often as Congress frequently does.

That is the offer, and they need to do that.

Now, I'm leading a letter

being signed by a number of Republican members of the Senate.

And we're committing to vote against cloture.

to oppose bringing debate to a close on any bill that would raise the debt ceiling without significant substantive spending and budget reforms.

Good.

Because what the White House is calling for, remember, is a so-called clean debt ceiling increase.

No.

No strings attached.

No.

And we're not willing to do that.

And if we can get 41 Republican senators to sign on to this letter and to agree to support this effort, then it'll go a long way toward making clear that any debt ceiling increase is going to have to contain significant restrictions.

All right.

Hang on just a sec.

Do you have time to hang on for five more minutes?

Sure.

Okay.

Hang on.

Five more minutes with Mike Lee.

I got some questions about what's happening with the Supreme Court and something that I'd never heard of until on this program a couple of days ago.

And I don't know why we don't use this all the time.

The best of the Glen Bank program.

So

we had a justice come out over the weekend and say, I pretty much know, I think,

who leaked the Dobbs case, but I don't want to say.

Then some internet sleuths were saying it's sodomayor.

Is there no way we can find out about this, Mike?

Is there nothing that can be done?

There's a lot that can be done.

Look, all that has to happen.

You need to reopen the investigation.

The Marshal of the Supreme Court needs to be directed to reopen it and conduct it with the help of deputized

law enforcement personnel from the U.S.

Marshal Service.

And they need to go

back to all of these law clerks and make sure that every one of them participates in an interview.

I can guarantee they can find who this person is.

This is ridiculous.

And the statement that came out this weekend was, this was an attempt to get one of us killed.

This was an assassination attempt.

Right, right.

To either get one of them killed or at least cause a reasonable fear among them that they might be killed.

And either way,

whoever did this was good with that, if it meant that it would mean no Dobbs majority opinion, as it was in fact issued.

So the day after this leak happened, so

the leak happened one year ago yesterday, the day after, I was talking to our friend Dan Bongino.

And

Dan asked me essentially the same question, can they find this?

And I said, Dan, you're a law enforcement guy.

If I had access to you and they let the two of us go in there and ask them, we would figure out the right questions to ask them.

Yes.

If we had access to all the law clerks, we could figure out who did it.

I'm pretty sure it's a law clerk.

So, you think it's a law clerk?

You don't think that it is a Supreme Court justice member?

No, no, I don't.

I think that's highly

not just unlikely, I think it's implausible.

I think it was a law clerk, and if we had access to the law clerks,

I told Dan, you and I could figure this out within 48 hours.

Okay.

Because you go and you ask the right questions and you figure out

who might have done it.

You ask each law clerk to describe circumstances, who they're talking to.

You get the lay of the land, so to speak, among the law courts.

It's not going to be that hard.

It sounds to me like some

on the Supreme Court, including my former boss, Justice Lito, might well have figured out who it is or narrowed it down significantly at least.

It's not that hard to figure this out.

I don't know why they conducted an investigation in the first instance that was incomplete.

Senator Mike Lee, I'm out of time now.

I can't get to the question that I had for you, but

may I ask you back to answer this?

Because it's a rule I've never heard of, and it just worked on the ATF on firearms.

And I don't know why we don't use it all the time.

I'm talking about the Sixth Circuit's ruling on the rule of lenity.

Yeah, hang on.

I don't like to talk about that.

You'll come back to talk about that?

Heck yeah.

Yeah.

All right.

Good.

Thanks.

Mike Lee, senator from the great state of Utah.

This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

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But what we've tried to do is

basically make it as accessible as possible.

It's not just the medications you've got to pay for.

You've got to pay for the physician visit to have that encounter, to get the prescriptions, and then go to the pharmacy, get your prescriptions, and have them sent out.

So packaging that all together, it turns out, though, that it's probably a lot more accessible than people realize, just because we're so used to dealing with insurance companies and co-pays and we are just disconnected from the true cost of the care that we receive.

And so this, we kind of have taken all that out and made it a much more direct connection between ourselves, the patient, and the physicians.

So you put together a list here, and I don't recognize any of these drugs.

I bet I'm on one of them.

Foloxetine.

Isn't that that anti-depression medicine or not?

Yeah, that is one.

And a 12-month supply is $60.

That's great.

Right.

Yep.

There's some on there that,

you know, $40, $50, $60.

You mentioned some seizure medications.

Those might get up there a little more too.

And right now, this is limited to

pills, tablets

for the most part.

So injectables aren't yet on the list.

Insulin, which is a big request that we get.

And how do you solve that problem for you?

How do you solve it?

How could you even store it for a year, though?

So if it's stored properly,

you do get, you can, in some cases, get up to a year of viability out of your insulin.

As soon as you take it out of the fridge,

the clock starts ticking and you get your 30 days or whatever it is.

So there is a way to do it.

And that's something that's a, that's another one that maybe we can come back and talk about, but that's another one that's in the works.

Right.

And how are you, I mean, because the government is so freaked out about

every kind of pill now,

and they're cracking down on everything.

And, you know, they're creating all kinds of problems and shortages and everything else.

But

do you have to have your doctor call into you guys or what do you do?

Right.

So the biggest thing, bringing up kind of regulations and,

you know,

our goal, we want to empower people and we want to do that through access, access to

physicians, access to the medications at a reasonable rate.

And part of this, though, is not everything's on the table.

That's not everything's an appropriate or safe option.

So, of course, controlled substances, just an immediate off the list.

There's no way I can get you a year supply of your ADD medication or your pain meds.

And so there's certain medications that are just disqualified right off the bat.

So that's, that's, and that, it's appropriate.

It's the best way to do it.

Yeah.

We're talking about kind of that would cause you all kinds of trouble.

Yeah.

And it would and yeah, and I think,

again, trying to balance access and empowerment with appropriateness is also really important for us.

And so, you know, when it comes to the controlled substances, that's just something that we're not able to

help with right now.

Again, though, coming up with some other, got some things in the works there.

So really, we're talking about the legacy drugs.

You've been on your blood pressure meds for 10 years.

You see your doctor regularly.

Things are under control.

You haven't changed your dose.

You're a safe patient.

You're someone that I, as a physician, would feel comfortable knowing that you've got regular follow-up.

I'm going to give you a year's prescription for this medication.

And why not?

And that can be applied to a lot of different medications and conditions.

And they're all relatively, I'm going to say, low risk when you compare them to things like opiates and things.

So that's where kind of regulatory-wise,

you know, this, it goes through a board-certified physician licensed licensed in your state.

It goes to a pharmacy that also

is licensed to do business in your state as well.

And so.

And the JACE case has,

what, five flights of antibiotics?

Right.

So you've got five antibiotics in there, covers really quite a range of different potential bacterial infections.

They were specially curated and selected because of the things they cover.

You know, we want to cover things that are common, that might be common in a scenario where you don't have have access to medical care, things like UTIs, you know, urinary tract infections or sinusitis or pneumonia.

We also want to cover things that are really deadly, like a bioterror attack.

You know, if there was an incident of bioterror in your city, some aerosolized anthrax, which is one of the agents that's been identified by the government.

Plague.

Plague is another one.

They're using that.

And don't worry anybody.

Just, you know, in China, the same lab, they're just doing some experiments with the lab.

I mean, with the black plague and

should work out fine.

Well, so there is there is treatment for that and prophylactic treatment that everyone would need to be on.

For example, one of the drugs in the kit is doxycycline.

So the idea is that you'd get the whole population taking prophylactic doxycycline in the event of one of these attacks to

prevent getting sick, right?

And so how that gets from the national stockpile into your hands as a citizen

in whatever city you're in, I'm not sure how well that's going to go.

We kind of saw how the vaccine rollout went and things like that.

Probably, probably,

and you need to be, and it needs to happen within 24 hours.

So probably not going to happen.

Yeah.

So that's one of the ones we include.

And we include it in an amount that would be appropriate for you to take, which is two months.

You've got to take that medication for two straight months.

Then that's in the JSCAS.

And that's in the JSCAS.

Wow.

I didn't know it was two months.

Yeah,

it's a long prophylactic.

And can you get it?

for each member of your family.

So, yeah, and this is another one where

we need to operate within these appropriate bounds.

And so right now uh this is for

one it's for one person because it's got to be prescribed to that person through the physician and then age-wise we deal with we basically it's adults but if you've got a minor if you've got a child that's 14 or older in your family um they're basically going to be taking adult doses anyway so we'll do it for 14 and older as well so it does leave a big portion um when you're talking about pediatric patients and those that are younger and so that's another one uh i have to tell you that this is you guys are are you are you guys preppers?

Well,

I'm going to say yes.

I guess preppers is like everyone,

there's such a range of prepping.

I know.

Let me just say this.

You're worried about the supply chains.

You're worried about things.

I could sit here for the next three hours and talk about the dangers, the knife's razor's knife edge that we are on.

It's that is at its core why

I did this,

is because of that, because of living through pre-COVID, being in a hospital, in a community hospital, and dealing with shortages at that time, which was, for me, just like, what is going on?

How can this be?

We stopped being the America I know during COVID for multiple reasons.

But one,

I remember people saying, well, we're out of that.

We won't have it for maybe six months.

And I'm like, what the

means?

And that might work for the computer chip in your car.

You can get a car.

You just won't have all the fancy things.

Or maybe you can wait a year for your for your stove to to you know a new stove to install but that doesn't work for medications uh and if we if we go to war china even just does a trade war with us don't they make like 18 uh 18 different ingredients that we don't have access to like most of our drugs

at least yeah all roads lead back to china when we're talking about pharmaceutical supply.

Even when you look at factories in India, for example, which is another big supplier for the world, for the world, not just for the United States.

We're in line with everybody else for the world.

Turns out, and this happened over COVID, actually, India's government came out and

said for the first time, because these are numbers that are really hard to find.

The FDA can't find them.

And the government's trying to figure out how can we get more transparency in the supply chain.

India came out and said that around 70% of their active pharmaceutical ingredients for their product, for their manufacturing process, come from China.

Oh, my gosh.

So again, kind of all roads seem to lead back to China.

Certainly when we talk about generic medications, which is 95% of what we take in the United States on a daily basis, are generic medications.

Virtually 100% of those are produced out of the U.S.

and mainly have some tie, whether it's an ingredient or outright

manufacturing in China.

Well, it's good to talk to you.

I'm interested to see how this is all going to work out.

I want you to go to the, then this is not a commercial.

I was so excited when they talked to me about the Jace case.

One of the first things I said was, what about all the people that are going to die in 30 days if the supply chain breaks down?

And they said, we're working on it.

And I said, when you guys have it, you can come on the show because this is the one piece of a prepper's job that has not been able to be solved.

Yeah, absolutely.

You've got your food, you've got your water, but without your health,

just America without its psychiatric meds,

the number of depression we have that are killing themselves now.

Imagine in hard times and no medication, in 30 days, you start to have terrifying.

Oh, well, and some of them are life-threatening.

Specifically, you're talking about some of the psychiatric medications.

Those are ones, you know, if you stop taking your statin for your cholesterol, you're probably going to be okay for a a bit.

You can get back on.

You've got some time.

Right.

There's those other medications specifically in the kind of psych realm and some others that you can't just stop them, cold turkey.

There's going to be consequences.

And you're right.

We just haven't had a viable option

to protect yourself or your family.

Protect your family now.

Go to jacemedical.com.

Find out all about it.

Jace, J-A-S-E-Medical.com.

Congratulations.

Thank you for solving this.

Well, thank you.

I feel like we've got a lot more work to do, and we're just getting started.

That's great.

This is great.

You've been great at helping us get the word out.

You bet.

One step at a time, make sure every step is exactly right.

You make one false step and

then we lose this opportunity.

So thank you.

JaceMedical.com.

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