panini's i feel your juliet i feel you that's a thankless job being the spokesperson for a big pharma company as top and i feel that you're right it is misleading i mean big pharma would never dream of inflating costs lying about their products or buying doctors to overprescribe pain killers to the country that would they would yeah they would do that all right. but they wouldn't do it as well if we were all truly watching the hawks. look. at the bottom. like you know that i got. it so. well that we're going to watch our science i robot

and how many. pills and more pills expensive red ones blue ones right ones left one one one do i take and which the world gets turned up side right side right again the green color of the red yet either purple yaz you know yellow whatever it takes people care i want to know like why is this story important while a we're all going get old someday and be no one wants to see you know old people swindled because of the day they've worked all their lives put into social security a lot of times as will most american elderly folks are living off of their social security checks and maybe whatever little bit of retirement they have right now according to the centers for disease control and prevention ninety one percent of individuals over the age of sixty five are reported to take at least one have at least one drug prescription that they have to take sixty seven percent of all seniors take at least three prescription drugs is that you have to take him year in

order to live you know forty one percent taking five or more so when you hear about corporations and corporate greed because it can't be anything other than that i'm sorry now stepping in saying oh well we know that you have to take these pills to survive you have to at least ninety one percent of you have to take one of these pills and then we're going to up the prices on these europe here despite making massive profits. that's a swindle and i have you can not report that no. medicare beneficiaries out of pocket spending in six get this is expected to rise forty one percent from forty one percent of their social security income in two thousand and thirteen twenty thirteen people paying out of pocket for medical pills things like that forty one percent of the that's going to rise to fifty percent in twenty thirty that's incredible in twenty thirty medicare beneficiaries ages eighty five and over are projected to spend a full eighty seven percent of their social security income forty four hundred dollars or more out of pocket for health care on average these are insane huge

numbers by twenty thirty so we don't rein this in. that could be me i care about the. sixty's probably by the time i'm worried about the pick we should only be around in your fifty's hopefully don't have any major time time warp issues were issues well this is one of those things that's happening is you have a very large boomer the baby boomer generation which is getting older and older and older and these are the people that are going to need this stuff the most people are going to have a lot of ongoing issues especially with the increase and all simers to mention those kind of things in that age group so it's going to be a big cost to everybody and i think the funny thing is that it's those medicare medicaid numbers and everything is being all these prices are being based on trying to get a little more profit out of each layer of those middlemen that they talk about and one of the things was that so the increase for every brand name every single brand

name drug that was in the top twenty most used drugs for senior citizens every single one of them has had price increases over the last five years and the prices for these drugs increased twelve percent every year for the last five years on average which is what gives you that about ten times higher than the annual rate of inflation. you know do you know that you're asking are our country's elderly to pick up this cost or someone else to pick up the cost when everybody is you know our generation is going to have to figure out a way to pay for all of this shenanigans yeah that's going on and the thing is if you're making those kind of profits but your purse cry because it means you're go out and there are no other explanation other prices going to where all the every time you see in that industry it's all a lot of finger pointing owing to the pharmaceutical companies no no no it's not us it's that it's the pharmacies themselves all of them alone it's the little man over a little of this everybody wants to point fingers but nobody actually wants to get

to the real root there were so it was like one of them they were saying that six out of twenty of those drugs that we talked about has had their prices increase over increase of over one hundred percent and in one case does this understand how crazy this is the weighted average wholesale acquisition costs for a single drug increased by four hundred seventy seven percent over that five year period and just imagine everyone even the middleman the small pharmacy pharmacy owner down to his customers is losing wow everybody on wall street us there's got to stop the worst growers in the world when you got to stop. venison is the new kale that's the chalkboard message outside of a restaurant that let a small group of even activists in toronto canada for to protest chef michael hunter yes hunter is actually israel and for his meat loving menu at his restaurant

and more about a dozen protesters came for four days holding up signs saying murderer of animals are not ours to eat also citing that quote emperor serves the cruel flaw graw they also farm animals meant to run in the wild like deer and clipped hunters response he brought an entire dressed in butchered fenice and leg and his equipment to the front window of his restaurant proceeded to cut steaks from the meat you then went back. into the kitchen cooked it up and ate it in the front window in front of the view of all the protesters and while protesters were flabbergasted and deeply offended by chef hunters actions diners were more abuse than moved by the protest saying it only made them want to eat there more chef michael hunter's antler restaurant focuses on local seasonal and wild food such as for ridged leaks and mushrooms as well as bison boar rabbit duck and dear and a quick look at their menu actually shows far more vegan and vegetarian options than most meat focused establishment i read and so i want to respond to the email

to the toronto star saying quote these protests are not unusual for the restaurant industry and therefore we're not surprised by the actions of the protestors we are operating business as usual our identity as a restaurant is well known throughout the city as is our ethical farming and foraging initiatives we stand by our restaurants identity and the identity of myself as a chef which leads me to wonder if the factory farmed pigs cows and chickens might be worth the fight if they were meant to run in a feel like deer so hawk archer's let me ask you was just under our of line or have these we can protest or simply lost the thread of their own narrative. to the top shelf question of course and i was a very controversial thought of all the things we talked about there so this means the good as a this is actually one of the more controversial things that we talk about and it's good to go look i don't think anybody can sit around the from factory farm and no

and might and seven hundred thousand i don't even know we were talking about this story the other night. you know it really made me you know brought up that idea of cows versus by this and you know locally grown locally sold in like that whole you know i mean when you look at like the difference between deer and cow just for an example right venison is more vitamins and minerals per serving the beef does three ounces of lean beef contains two hundred forty seven calories and fifteen grams total about three hours of medicine hundred thirty four cultures together so it's already healthier and it's not like we have a lack of deer running around you know you know and and i think that it's one of those cases words like i hate you know pointing out protesters you know protests is always good localized free speech but it's missing now you know this doesn't sound like a restaurant who's out there loud trying to destroy the world even though you know it sounds like a chef who sues like your son has got local ingredients is making

a small footprint as small prayer does he wants to. you know there's bigger push to fry golden plum you know that's a really big companies hope here that you know hard are in the hot seat right now for all they treat their animals you know and treat the food that eventually they they send out from you know too much steroids all of it right and that's i got to figure becomes is a do the protesters actually want some kind of dialogue or is it just to sort of have a diatribe about it and there's a difference because i think everybody has the give and they assume oh my god wacky vegans running around and this doesn't help is what it is that you're part of that doesn't help because the truth is the goal for all for everybody is the same and i think for health reasons everything we shouldn't be eating these cows and chickens and pigs that we're eating because they're domesticated but the thing that was interesting to me was that chef hunter again that's actually his real name. invited

the protesters to come along with him on a foraging thing which is what they do instead of going to a store and doing all this answer he goes out into me. literally forages for things like leaks and he doesn't make sure they're doing making sure that they're not doing in places makes goes and gets maple syrup all of these things you can see fish is everything is ethically as ethically as it can be done and he's absolutely against all of the we're talking about these. factory farms and what he did after the day was invite them on a for a drink with no me you know and marnie euchre who actually was the woman who put together the protest refused the invitation which i thought was really terrible because you could have really had a dialogue which is what he says when she was asked why her or her group doesn't focus on factory farms why are they going after this little guy and why are they all in this like the commuters a meth. she said they don't because which i think a strange you know why are you out. doing you know going against these genetically

mutated seriously abuse nutrient poor disease the antibiotic steroids stuffed animals cows and chickens i guess because one my assume is you know it's they don't run through feel correctly or they're not cute it goes back to the dennis leary thing they're not cute enough you don't want to save on but the thing is she said i won't get through to them and then when you when the original plan for them to go to to protest was when this so the whole venison is kale it happened back in december yeah do you know why or why they didn't do the protest. because it was too cold too cold to save animals that died or something if. i see where you're coming from there is a lot of things argue about but this what you go that is where dialogue has to how people are going to be you got to have dialogue and you want to train somebody and get them to see your viewpoint thing you go out on the forging thing and say hey you know what let's have that conversation maybe i convinced this person that even

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story needs a villain that holds true not just for t.v. shows or hollywood blockbusters but to a viral news story as well but one that dylan clearly pure evil doesn't make sense to bestow on them a spot in history's pantheon of murderers terrorists and all around horrible people whether it be part. and pulse nightclub or any other deadly tragedy we often spend news cycle after news cycle dwelling and obsession over a single madman's myriad of entirely hypothetical triggers and motives and once we pass the initial phase of assigning partisan values and politically self-serving markers to a perpetrator's crime we then pass on to the next stage politicizing the victims taking advantage of the followed in every way imaginable and spinning the narrative as thoroughly as possible to make sure no tragedy goes to political waste to help us understand how our coverage or tragedy has become so corrupt and we're joined

today by do you walk ins author educator and activists welcome the hey hey you guys done good it was a pleasure to know you know whenever you see her if attack like this take place as to what it was saying that the media is what was always a wall to wall coverage of the perpetrator you know why did they do it let's have a panelist on the guess as to why they did it if there's no you know reason right away and everybody kind of jumps on board and you're not about this person and their name over over and of course people are curious i mean there's a natural curiosity there. to but when there's a you know it's but is this approach ultimately harmful in your opinion you know to us as a society. i believe it's super harmful in this culture of needing to be remember or recognize for something people will throw themselves in front of a truck for social media likes and it's discussed and the results are even more disgusted i mean think about it let's just make this really simple two thousand and

twelve a coward walk into a school murder twenty children six adults and himself right there was sandy hook since then we had over six hundred mass shootings. eight hundred people . in over sixty four hundred people was injured right all of these people and it's always the same story is some body lone wolf where he was picked on or he was a trouble whatever crappy narrative they give this person and they blast his face all over social media all over the internet. and then we start talking about this person the congress does nothing but i think it's our job and this is what i like i have the main of a lot of these monster. memory. going to give them their credit we don't we don't need to blow the images up we'll share their stories or make it a point to talk about in their perspective is about their perspective we've got to

stop that because we're adding fuel to the fire and we're creating a tradition of copycats absolutely and i think that's true and this is something that was warned of movies like natural born killers it's an idea fame above all else and of course the sort of cardassian culture of fame or infamy becomes this great thing so how the question now is how do we balance. factual extensive coverage of a crime to a point that's needed and the desire to deprive those killers of the notoriety and fame that they keep what is it is it not showing the pictures you know what are the steps we need to take started being so hungry to find out information about the shooters that run into their families and gone into their homes we should be promoting the narrative of the young people especially the young kids from parker who are really really really putting themselves out there to try to challenge government to do something because these you know. it makes you know this is this

is. maybe is not. giving to people all of the time but this may really be honest i quote they want to say that over and over again started going to same result as a definition of insanity because they really. i mean it's good but it's true you're the same thing over and over and over again and we're not getting any results so we have to shift the narrative we have to talk about the people the surviving victims in tell their stories because. we can create a different type into empathy that you know because people actually oh my god this this shooter he was always alone i just looked at his instagram account and he only had three followers you were a he was say no come on my evidence is so disturbing for me and i mean just as real quick as that this idea that the v. if the victims had just been nice or as if every one of those kids and parklane who

still has injuries who survived that those people had just been a little bit nicer you know what i was picked on at school i didn't shoot up my school and to say that these kids it's sort of this blaming the victims while making a victim out of the perpetrator is very disturbing but let me ask you this though isn't there something to be gained from understanding the person to where that where you can better predictor better see that person coming again here isn't there something we should say look we should be recognizing who these people are what potentially cause them to do what they do or the mental situation they were in to or that way the kids at the next school can say oh you know adults whoever might be whether school or whatever the master may be may be able to recognize who this person could be could end up being like that maybe i need to reach out to that person or maybe i need to tell somebody people this person yes but we're doing it and people were born about this last shooter and they still did nothing oh you know

so you're right we have to share the information and we have to really really really. shift the conversation on mental illness with not doing a good enough job at treating people with problems so you know who cares about some politician and how they feel about it especially when they take money from the n.r.a. especially when i've been trying to justify ok we know this so we don't need to hear from them anymore right who cares about this guy was still in that we heard ok we are ok you're lonely right we need to we need to shift the conversation on mental health. and we need to figure out what we can do. just elevate the real victims even more because i think that you know this is still new these kids are young and you know and i'm inspired by them and their speech is the you know and how it how this is being organized and people are actually trying to trying to really make change so i'm inspired by but again how do we continue to elevate the

voices of the real victims instead of creating mini celebrities of these little you know these these mentally disturbed people who are doing these let me do the same as i asked the so is it do you think though the is there a danger in you know because whenever you shine the spotlight of media on something it very can easily become that magnifying glass on the right and it can burn and kill the and or it can really you know is shining that media spotlight then on the victims. a lot of people want to jump in that and politicize everything they do whether they're against what they're saying or what they're saying or if the victims don't have a message and they're just trying to like you know go on with their lives and heal shining bright intense spotlight on it can also disturb you know those folks so do you think this type of coverage helps you know promote a productive discussion or is kind of politicizing children when talk about park and politicizing children and the survivors is that hurting in the long run. i'm

glad you said because emma gonzalez has been getting attacked by weirdos like alex jones. and i don't know you know. with a fan in five seconds you know they they have beginning at that and it's not always the safest thing but also they'll learn as they get older that putting yourself out there comes with that but i do feel wholeheartedly i feel like we don't give enough attention to the real victims and that's going to come with. a lot of media praise and it's going to come of being broken into pieces and it's going to come of both so it's like you know it's give and take but if we have to do something different because you know you know. ok so main big story right deliverer of what happened in charleston right we know. he was like a nazi want to be we know he was a little junior white supremacist we know he had

a stupid haircut we know of these things about him right but the smaller part of the story is again as soon as those police officers pick them up they took him to get a burger because he was hungry you know what i mean like instantly taking these people that a dollar of these things that burger from my perspective was like a silent thank you like a silent you took a stand because i mean i've been thrown in the back of a paddy wagon you know. and there was no hot burger waiting for me. it was that sandwich inside center book in the with the little thin layer of manny's in the brit and the one thing that is the danger and you know there are three very different people at this table and the thing is if we start sort of figuring out this how to look for it you become you know we have to figure out the profiling and i think you understand this if we start profiling you are the most dangerous person in this room you know who's on our white male i don't know

sometimes i don't know if they're sober and they're just call me out for being alone. or whatever but that's not what i'm and i think the through i like what you were saying earlier actually though that i think all of this does need to focus more recognizing the mental health failures we have in schools across this country now with kids and how we you know how we help kids i think that's the most important thing that's missing from a lot of this conversation and we can get into the gun debate and other times but run out of time now but realistically all that's what's really missing i think is the mental health in schools that the baby. needs that that needs that debate needs to happen as always thank you so much for coming on but they're always a pleasure talking with you great subject matter man crazy crazy stuff out there those were the watkins author educator always a pleasure thank you. for anyone with a love of space advanced technology growing g.i.

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