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Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand-up comedian Dave Neal.

Well, ladies and gentlemen, on today's episode of The Rush Hour podcast, so excited to talk to filmmaker Christopher Wells. How are you?

Pretty good. It's good to have you here.

We actually kind of cross-passed through, was it Instagram? Is that where you found my content?

Yes. One of your Instagram posts, I guess, came up on my feed because I try to be knowledgeable

about what's going on with Medicare and the government.

And I guess you posted something about someone who's, I think it was someone's house was on fire

and their insurance company didn't cover it, I believe.

Sure.

And it's, you know, it's heartbreaking that we live in a country that's supposed to be free.

We pay into a system.

We vote people in.

And when shit hits the fan, they're nowhere to be found.

We don't get any real help.

And, and I just don't understand that.

Yeah, I've never, you know, insurance companies,

they've really proven just to be so useless. You know, we were looking to buy a home. Now,

obviously there's this one of the one of the country's worst wildfires of all time. We were

looking to buy a home last year in Altadena, but we couldn't be like assured that there

would be fire insurance. And insurance companies are like, look, we can't make money off of it. So we're out. They want to insure homes in like Nebraska where there's not much of an issue of anything, but not in Miami. the protection. I think that's what it comes down to, right? It's like, as Americans and what's supposed to be

the wealthiest country, one of them, we all want to feel protected that our livelihood is not going to

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