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Get him down. making back! This is hell.

for live streaming listeners, will, what was the music you were playing before today's show?

Uh, that was some Charles Mingus.

I thought it was.

That was going to be my guest, but I thought it was too pretentious of a guest to make.

I'm too pretentious of a producer I guess.

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime because this is how we have opened this show using that adage as a tagline many many times far too often

Something shameful wrong, dare I say evil yet still protected by the law is at the heart of obtaining

great wealth.

The saying appears to be written by Henri de Balzac and is from his 19th century novel

The Human Comedy. Its earliest translation from French is different from today's

opening line. That translation reads, The Secret of a Great Success, for which you are at a loss to account,

is a crime that has never been found out because it was properly executed.

In that reading, at least my take would be that not only behind every fortune is a crime that is not

only well done, but it also goes unnoticed. But I would also add that to be properly executed,

the wrongful, shameful evil must be done within the parameters of the law. That the law corrupted by the market protects that wrong shameful evil.

The wrong shameful evil we will be discussing today

is that of Big Pharma and its pricing of life-saving

medicine that millions of Americans depend upon every day to avoid terrible,

awful suffering. terrible, awful, suffering that can even lead to death.

The prices of these drugs are so high many of the afflicted, often younger patients do not use the prescribed doses in order to save money because the annual bill for their drug and the other ancillary equipment they need can be up to $20,000 a year just to address their affliction.

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