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🗓️ 5 September 2019
⏱️ 106 minutes
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0:00.0 | Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Wherever you are out there in the world, we are broadcasting live, sending the signal to you from California, where currently we are under siege. |
0:25.0 | We are under siege by an industry that is taking over this state. The rules of law have been suspended this week, and our governor is under attack. |
0:36.0 | All of these things will be discussed today, but I guess the best thing that I can say that at least our captors, the minds and the control body behind this takeover of California, is only the most hated industry in this country. |
0:53.0 | I think this is fascinating that we find ourselves, as everyone has been watching SB276, which I am going to talk about a little later in this show, this article came out, big pharma, sinks to the bottom of US industry rankings. |
1:10.0 | Absolutely worst industry in America. Think about that. Look at what this article goes on to say, and who we are comparing it to. |
1:18.0 | The pharmaceutical industry is now the most poorly regarded industry in Americans' eyes, ranking last on a list of 25 industries that gallop tests annually. |
1:30.0 | Americans are more than twice as likely to rate the pharmaceutical industry negatively. 58% of people hate pharma, compared to 27% who do not, giving them a negative 31 approval rating. |
1:44.0 | It goes on to say, I mean if you look at this chart, it's slowly been declining since 2001. They had some sort of uptick in 2014, I have no idea why, but now it's crashing through the floor. |
1:58.0 | In fact, if you look at it, there was only two industries that came into a close second and third most hated industries, that is the US government and then our health departments. |
2:10.0 | So the healthcare industry, the federal government and the pharmaceutical industry are the three most hated industries. |
2:18.0 | And what you find fascinating is number one is pharmaceutical and the other two are who far-receded the health care industry and of course the government of the United States and most indicated indicatively hear the government of California. |
2:32.0 | Well, we were looking at this and thinking, I mean there's a lot of things to hate about industries across America. |
2:38.0 | There's a lot of polluting going on, things that really bother people, I mean we've all dealt with it. And we looked into think what things, you know, were outranked by pharma. |
2:48.0 | And we came up with this top five just to give you some perspective on how much we hate pharma. Here it is, five things people like more than pharma. |
2:59.0 | Number five, two hour lines at Starbucks ranked high above the pharmaceutical industry. In fact, I allowed you to be bothered by that at all. |
3:10.0 | And maybe I was the only one voting for my hatred of standing in a two hour line for a cup of coffee. |
3:16.0 | Number four, sinking vacation cruises came in above the pharmaceutical industry. |
3:25.0 | Number three, oh this is a real favorite of mine, concert portapoddies ranked higher than the pharmaceutical industry. |
3:34.0 | Number two, three hour tarmac delays with no AC. I actually had that happen just last week, that was a real joy. |
3:42.0 | I felt like everyone on that complain, that play was complaining, but apparently that did not outrank how much they complained about pharma. |
3:50.0 | And then lastly, coming in at number one, things people liked more than pharma offshore call centers. There you have it. |
4:00.0 | The top five things that people love more than pharma. Now, this is a serious situation going on here in California and going on in this country. |
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