The Charlie James Show Podcast

• Hour 4 : The Charlie James Show - (6:00pm) - Monday, May 12th, 2025

  And welcome back to the program. Well, president Trump signed an executive order today to lower pharmaceutical prices here in The United States. And, boy, that is welcome news because there's a lot about this that we don't know. Now we pay dramatically more here in this country than they do in other countries for the same pharmaceuticals. In fact, president Trump had an little bit of an anecdote about that today. I mean, I'll tell you a story. A friend of mine who's a a businessman, very, very, very top guy. Most of you would have heard of him. A highly neurotic, brilliant businessman, seriously overweight, and he takes the fat the fat shot drug. And he called me up, and he said, president. He calls me he used to call me Donald, now he calls me president. So that's nice respect, but he's a rough guy, smart guy, Very successful, very rich. I wouldn't even know how we would know this, but because he's got comments. So president, could I ask you a question? What? I'm in London, and I just paid for this damn fat drug I take. I said, it's not working, they said. He said, I just paid $88. And in New York, I paid $1,300. What the hell is going on? Exactly. I love that. It's not working. That that's great. But we do we pay a lot more here than other countries do. Because you see and the big thing that they always talk about, oh, you know, we got research and development, and we've got yada yada, and we've gotta pay for this and that, and we've gotta do well, why doesn't anybody else have to pay for it? Why isn't a a drug the same price in London as it is in The United States? Why isn't a a pharmaceutical the same price in Canada as it is here in The United States? Listen to what RFK Junior said. This is this is pretty darned amazing. It really is. Mister secretary, Trump says some prices will come down almost immediately. What is the timetable for these price cuts? Well, there's a series of escalating steps, but you know what? The that that will bring them down to European levels. Right now, we spend we provide America provides 75% of the pharmaceutical revenues in the world, and we only have 4.2% of the world's population. Sure. We're paying in, in our country, the list price for Ozempic is $1,300 per dose. In London, it's $88. And Democratic and Republican politicians have been talking about for years, we gotta end these discrepancies. Nobody has had the courage to do it because of the power of the pharmaceutical lobby on Capitol Hill. K. And and answer your question, how soon will this happen, it it depends on how enthusiastically the drug companies cooperate. There are a series of escalating steps that we will take if they don't cooperate. But we're very you know, we've been meeting with the pharmaceutical companies. They admit that this is something that is should have ended a long time ago, and I think they're ready to figure out a way to get there. And they have advantages in this executive order, Stuart. K. Because we got rid of the PBMs. We got rid of the middlemen, and that's something that they've wanted themselves. Now here's the big question. Why aren't the Democrats celebrating this? I mean, after all, hey, then we just go back to Bernie Sanders. Back in 2016, Bernie Sanders ran on big pharma. Let's take a listen to what he said. Here we go. We pay in this country the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. Maybe, just maybe, it might be time for the United States Senate to stand up to the pharmaceutical industry and all of their lobbyists here and all of their campaign contributions and say we're gonna stand with the American people who are sick and tired of being ripped off by the drug companies. There there are many reasons why we pay such outrageous prices, but one reason is we continue passing laws written by the pharmaceutical industry and their lobbyists year after year after year. I believe that the American people should know that the pharmaceutical industry has spent more than $3,000 ...

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• Hour 4, Segment 1 : The Charlie James Show - (6:00pm) - Monday, May 12th, 2025

  And welcome back to the program. Well, president Trump signed an executive order today to lower pharmaceutical prices here in The United States. And, boy, that is welcome news because there's a lot about this that we don't know. Now we pay dramatically more here in this country than they do in other countries for the same pharmaceuticals. In fact, president Trump had an little bit of an anecdote about that today. I mean, I'll tell you a story. A friend of mine who's a a businessman, very, very, very top guy. Most of you would have heard of him. A highly neurotic, brilliant businessman, seriously overweight, and he takes the fat the fat shot drug. And he called me up, and he said, president. He calls me he used to call me Donald. Now he calls me president, so that's nice respect. But he's a rough guy, smart guy. Very successful, very rich. I wouldn't even know how we would know this, but because he's got comments. Said, president, could I ask you a question? What? I'm in London, and I just paid for this damn fat drug I take. I said, it's not working, they said. He said, I just paid $88, and in New York, I paid $1,300. What the hell is going on? Exactly. I love that. It's not working. That that's great. But we do we pay a lot more here than other countries do. Because you see and the big thing that they always talk about, oh, y'all, you know, we got research research and development, and we've got yada yada, and we've gotta pay for this and that, and we've gotta do well, why doesn't anybody else have to pay for it? Why isn't a a drug the same price in London as it is in The United States? Why isn't a a pharmaceutical the same price in Canada as it is here in The United States? Listen to what RFK Junior said. This is this is pretty darned amazing. It really is. Mister secretary, Trump says some prices will come down almost immediately. What is the timetable for these price cuts? Well, there's a series of escalating steps, but you know what? That that will bring them down to European levels. Right now, we spend we provide America provides 75% of the pharmaceutical revenues in the world, and we only have 4.2% of the world's population. Sure. We're paying in, in our country, the list price for Ozempic is $1,300 per dose. In London, it's $88. And Democratic and Republican politicians have been talking about for years, we gotta end these discrepancies. Nobody has had the courage to do it because of the power of the pharmaceutical lobby on Capitol Hill. K. The the and and answer your question, how soon will this happen, it it depends on how enthusiastically the drug companies cooperate. There are a series of escalating steps that we will take if they don't cooperate. But we're very you know, we've been meeting with the pharmaceutical companies. They admit that this is something that is should have ended a long time ago. And I think they're ready to figure out a way to get there. And they have advantages to this executive order, Stewart. Okay. Because we got rid of the PBMs. We got rid of the middlemen, and that's something that they've wanted themselves. Now here's the big question. Why aren't the Democrats celebrating this? I mean, after all, hey, then we just go back to Bernie Sanders. Back in 2016, Bernie Sanders ran on big pharma. Let's take a listen to what he said. Here we go. We pay in this country the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. Maybe, just maybe, it might be time for the United States Senate to stand up to the pharmaceutical industry and all of their lobbyists here and all of their campaign contributions and say we're gonna stand with the American people who are sick and tired of being ripped off by the drug companies. There there are many reasons why we pay such outrageous prices, but one reason is we continue passing laws written by the pharmaceutical industry and their lobbyists year after year after year. I believe that the American people should know that the pharmaceutical industr ...

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• Hour 3 : The Charlie James Show - (5:00pm) - Monday, May 12th, 2025

  I, man, might be getting an inch of rain overnight. I tell you what, days like this, my dogs can't stand them. Arty, not as much. Arty's kinda cool. He's kinda laid back and chill. But Sophie Sophie hates rainy days because we don't let her outside that much because she would spend all day outside if we let her. All day. Now we've got a doggy door. Right? This little girl will walk in, take a lap around the kitchen island, get a drink of water, go right back outside. If we had to let her out every time that she wanted to go out, we would have a groove worn in the flooring going through the front doors or to the back door rather. So, so, yeah, dogs are hating today, and I'm not all that crazy about it as well. Lots of rain coming. It's been a very, very wet, spring. Coming up in just few minutes, gonna tell you we're gonna talk a little bit about climate and why ABC News is so upset over over something that Noah is not including in their reports. We'll have that for you coming up. But I don't know if you know this. Did you know that we had a trade deal with China? I I no. I'm not talking about this one. Not talking about this one. I'm talking about previously under the Trump administration. Did you know we had a trade deal with China? I had no idea. Listen to what Scott Bissent said about it. What has to happen is it has to be fair for the American people. But in January 2020, president Trump produced a template. We had an excellent trade agreement with China, and the Biden administration chose not to enforce it. The the Chinese delegation basically told us that once president Biden came into office, they just ignored their obligations. So, you know, we all already have a large framework. The other thing to remember here, Jonathan, is that this is a pause down to 10%. The April 2 level for China is 34%. So, we will be working to see where their final reciprocal number ends up. And the negotiations are a combination of tariffs, non tariff trade barriers, currency manipulation, and subsidies of labor and capital. What has So here's the deal. Here's the deal here. Everybody over on the left, everybody, all of these peep everyone of them, they all came out and they said there's no way. There is no way that Trump is gonna be able to work out a trade deal with China. This guy is just he's spitting in the wind. I don't know what he's thinking of. There's no way. He's gonna ruin our economy. And what happened? What happened? We now got a reset. This and that's exactly what it is. It's a ninety day pause, sort of a pause, between us and China, and we are resetting where we are with our with our tariffs, both sides. That caused the stock market to go absolutely crazy today. It went nuts. It really did. Had a great day on Wall Street. So this ninety day pause is gonna give us more leverage to do more negotiations with China because, remember, they need us more than we need them. I know a lot of times you think you need the store, but, actually, the store needs you more than you need them. That's a little thing out there called competition. And if you don't like the prices, you don't like the service, you don't like the location of a store, you just go somewhere else. Same thing with China. We don't like the deal we're getting with China. We don't like how much it cost. We don't like the fact that they're not buying our goods. Now we've got other company or other countries stepping up going, hey. We'll fill the void. China has been hurting over the past couple of weeks, and I think they have realized just how delicate and fragile their economy actually is. Their warehouses are stocked full of stuff that they just cannot ship. Factories are closing down. The ones that are staying open are experiencing, protests. They're experiencing, what do you call them there? Strikes. They're striking. China's economy is not doing well right now, and they're feeling the pressure. Now wait a minute. Hold on. You can just go back a coupl ...

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• Hour 3, Segment 1 : The Charlie James Show - (5:00pm) - Monday, May 12th, 2025

  I, man. Might be getting an inch of rain overnight. I tell you what, days like this, my dogs can't stand them. Arty, not as much. Arty's kinda cool. He's kinda laid back and chill. But Sophie Sophie hates rainy days because we don't let her outside that much because she would spend all day outside if we let her. All day. Now we've got a doggy door. Right? This little girl will walk in, take a lap around the kitchen island, get a drink of water, go right back outside. If we had to let her out every time that she wanted to go out, we would have a groove worn in the flooring going through the front doors or to the back door rather. So, so, yeah, dogs are hating today, and I'm not all that crazy about it as well. Lots of rain coming. It's been a very, very wet, spring. Coming up in just few minutes, gonna tell you we're gonna talk a little bit about climate and why ABC News is so upset over over something that Noah is not including in their reports. We'll have that for you coming up. But I don't know if you know this. Did you know that we had a trade deal with China? I I no. I'm not talking about this one. Not talking about this one. I'm talking about previously under the Trump administration. Did you know we had a trade deal with China? I had no idea. Listen to what Scott Besant said about it. What has to happen is it has to be fair for the American people. But in January 2020, president Trump produced a template. We had an excellent trade agreement with China and the Biden administration chose not to enforce it. The the Chinese delegation basically told us that once president Biden came into office, they just ignored their obligations. So, you know, we all already have a large framework. The other thing to remember here, Jonathan, is that this is a pause down to 10%. The April 2 level for China is 34%. So, we will be working to see where their final reciprocal number ends up. And the negotiations are a combination of tariffs, non tariff trade barriers, currency manipulation, and subsidies of labor and capital. What has So here's the deal. Here's the deal here. Everybody over on the left, everybody, all of these people, everyone of them, they all came out and they said there's no way. There is no way that Trump is gonna be able to work out a trade deal with China. This guy is just he's spitting in the wind. I don't know what he's thinking of. There's no way. He's gonna ruin our economy. And what happened? What happened? We now got a reset. This and that's exactly what it is. It's a ninety day pause, sort of a pause, between us and China, and we are resetting where we are with our with our tariffs, both sides. That caused the stock market to go absolutely crazy today. It went nuts. It really did. Had a great day on Wall Street. So this ninety day pause is gonna give us more leverage to do more negotiations with China because, remember, they need us more than we need them. I know a lot of times you think you need the store, but, actually, the store needs you more than you need them. That's a little thing out there called competition. And if you don't like the prices, you don't like the service, you don't like the location of a store, you just go somewhere else. Same thing with China. We don't like the deal we're getting with China. We don't like how much it cost. We don't like the fact that they're not buying our goods. Now we've got other company or other countries stepping up going, hey. We'll fill the void. China has been hurting over the past couple of weeks, and I think they have realized just how delicate and fragile their economy actually is. Their warehouses are stocked full of stuff that they just cannot ship. Factories are closing down. The ones that are staying open are experiencing, protests. They're experiencing, what do you call them? Their strikes. They're striking. China's economy is not doing well right now, and they're feeling the pressure. Now wait a minute. Hold on. You can just go back a coup ...

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• Hour 2 : The Charlie James Show - (4:00pm) - Monday, May 12th, 2025

  I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Oh, beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of rain, for purple mountain majesties, America is back. Yes, sir. Welcome back to the program. We appreciate you tuning in this afternoon, especially with all the winning that president Trump has done over the past couple of days. Let's go to Gene in great court. Gene, what do you think about president Trump? Charlie, I'm gonna ask you to start a movement here on your program with all of Charlie champs. Okay. And that is we need to petition the Norwegian parliament to declare Donald Trump the next Nobel Peace Laureate. Yeah. He has done much to stabilize the world, to give the world clarity of direction and stability. Yeah. No question about it. And that includes the accomplishments of his, 40, fifth term, Charlie. Now, on the other hand, if they won't do it, then we have to demand that Barack Obama go on a special Oprah Winfrey show and return the Nobel Prize that they gave to him to say this rightfully belongs to Donald j Trump because I did nothing. You're exactly right. That that guy did nothing, got the Nobel Peace Prize. I appreciate it. Thank you, Jean. Man, I would kill to get a Nobel Peace Prize. Let's go to Tom in, Anderson and talk to him. Tom, welcome. Hey, Charlie. How are you today? Doing good. What's up, man? Well, I wanted to comment on the pharmaceutical price reduction. Yeah. It wasn't that many years ago that I recall that you could basically deal with some companies out of Canada. You could buy a drug manufactured here in The United States that was sold to Canada, and then in turn, somebody in Canada could sell it back to you Yeah. For half the price that you would pay if you bought it here. Yeah. And they're still making money, which you think to yourself so, basically, they're just, like, taking huge advantage of their own countrymen while but somehow, Canada's able to buy it so it's cheaper. Reduce the price in half and still make dollars off of it. Yeah. The last time I got something, I I think they had sent it to Zimbabwe or something. Right. And so they ship it all around the the world, and somehow it comes back to me at the half the price that I would pay if I went down to my local pharmacy and bought it. Yeah. And you're going Yep. This is insane. It really is. I'm glad he took care of that. I am too. I am too, Tom. I appreciate it. In fact, there's so many do you know I mean, like like, ivermectin? You know, in Mexico, that's over the counter. You you can go and get ivermectin like you can get ibuprofen. Not here. Not here. But thanks to our FDA and the USDA, they got those restrictions on those. Well, we remember last week that a bunch of Democrats showed up at a an ICE detention facility in Newark, New Jersey. Remember that? And, oh, boy, and they caused a ruckus while they were there. Well, they might actually be paying the price for that ruckus. The Trump administration is warning there could be more arrests after three house Democrats attempted to push through ICE agents and enter a New Jersey immigration detention center on Friday. He just assaulted me. He just told me. He just told me. Lawmakers have oversight capacity. DHS had said, hey. You know, we would have let them in with proper channels, but instead, you saw that play out. Those Democrats, though, they're insisting they are the victims. That's right. They're always the victim. Now federal law enforcement exists to uphold the law. That's what they're supposed to do. They're not supposed to be there to be props for political stunts. They staged an unannounced inspection, quote, unquote, at a fully permitted ICE facility operating under a $1,000,000,000 contract with the GEO Group, then they cried foul when all their grandstanding collided with security protocols. The mayor trespassed after ignori ...

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