Special: How You Can Help Get PPE to Our Frontline Heroes (w/ Ben Hunt)
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Frontline Heroes is a grassroots charitable organization formed to get masks and other personal protective equipment (PPE) to medical professionals fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. Ben Hunt of Epsilon Theory joins the show to discuss the work he and others are doing to source PPE in Asia, ship it to the U.S., and distribute it to healthcare workers on the basis of need.
If you would like to contribute to Frontline Heroes, you can donate here.
If you or someone you know is a healthcare professional with an urgent need for PPE, you can fill out the form here to request aid from Frontline Heroes.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus. The podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market each day. |
| 0:11.5 | I'm your host Emily Flippin. I'm Jason Moser. I'm Nick Saiple. I'm Dylan Lewis. And today we're talking financials. Today we're talking consumer goods. |
| 0:20.0 | Wild-C |
| 0:18.0 | Wednesday. And we're talking energy. And today we're talking tech. Let's dive in. |
| 0:25.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus. I'm Nick Saipel. My guest today is Ben Hunt. |
| 0:31.0 | Those of you who heard our previous discussion with Ben |
| 0:34.1 | know that Ben's work at Epsilon Theory |
| 0:35.5 | focuses on using principles of game theory |
| 0:37.5 | to analyze markets. |
| 0:38.8 | That's not what we're going to be talking about today, |
| 0:40.4 | though. |
| 0:40.9 | Today we're focusing on Frontline Heroes, |
| 0:42.7 | which is a charitable organization set up by Ben |
| 0:44.9 | and others to help equip health care workers |
| 0:47.1 | with masks and other personal protective equipment |
| 0:49.5 | to help battle the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 0:51.7 | Ben Hunt's, welcome back to the show. |
| 0:53.0 | Hey Nick, thanks for having me on, appreciate it. |
| 0:56.0 | Well, thanks for coming on and thanks for the work that you're doing. |
| 0:59.0 | You know, before we get into frontline heroes, I want to talk a little bit about the COVID-19 |
| 1:04.2 | pandemic and kind of how you first became aware of what was going on here. I |
| 1:08.1 | think you were one of the first people I saw to really start sounding the |
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