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being pro-crime. You would never think of that because they're so follow the rules, they're strong on police, strong on military, strong on borders. So clearly the Republicans are strong on crime, and if anything the criticism should be that they're too strong against it. You know, that would be the criticism from the left. So calling the Democrats the party of crime is actually pretty effective.…
← Previous segment →octor is being paid by that call, not by the time he spends. So you're always sort of conscious that the doctor wants to get on to the next one. Not necessarily because of profit but because there are other people waiting.
So your normal politeness, your sense of playing within the rules, playing within the system, makes you sort of want to be rushed. You know, you're sort of okay with being rushed because there are people waiting and it is a business model. You don't want your insurance to cost more, so you'd like to be as efficient as possible as well. So I always have this feeling of being a little bit rushed with a doctor. It's not the biggest problem in the world, but I feel a little rushed.
But because of the interface by WhenHub app, and because the doctor, any doctor who's on it would be charging by the time that they spend, I wasn't rushed. Because I don't think the doctor would care if I spent time with him or he went to another patient if he's being paid by the minute. And so I found myself asking questions about things I'd always been curious about but were not an immediate problem. And I just got this amazing information from one of the most knowledgeable medical people on the planet for a very reasonable price. It was incredible.
So here are some other things I would like to see on the app in terms of experts. So we're having this big discussion about memory now, and you're seeing a lot of articles in the press about memory and memory experts, etc. Well, I have a friend, you might know Carmen Simon, who wrote the book "Impossible to Ignore." It's a book about memory, and I'll probably try to talk her into getting on the app at one point. I'm not sure if she'll be interested. But the general point is the same. Wouldn't it be great if you were an expert on memory and you knew that the headlines were about memory and you could just put yourself on the app, say I'm a memory expert, and then if you're writing an article about it, let's say you're a journalist, blogger, you're just writing an article about this Kavanaugh thing about Dr. Ford's memory and you'd like to talk to an expert, just pick up the app. Here's an expert on memory. Boom. And you're having a live call with a world expert like a published, recognized PhD expert in memory who is currently working in the field right there. It's just in your hand and it took you no time. You just typed in memory and there was your expert.
So I think the way news is going to be covered could change because of stuff like this. Every time there's an aviation incident, just think about this. Every time there's a plane that has a problem, let's say a plane goes down, the press is always looking for an aviation expert and one who knows that particular plane, ideally a pilot who's flown that very plane. Wouldn't it be great if no matter what they always just pick up the app and instead of Googling somebody and trying to track them down and sending an email to a website that may or may not be read, that's the way the press does it now, or unless they have them on their list already, there you just go to the WhenHub app and say, all right, let's see if anybody signed up. Because of the headline they might not be there ordinarily, but because of the headline experts would just sign up in the app and say, okay, I'm an aviation expert. I have flown this plane. I've been a flight controller at this airport, etc.
Somebody said how do I invest? So we're not — well, the quick answer is that the app is supported by tokens, a cryptocurrency that we created for the app. It works within the app. It's optional. You can just pay by cash and credit card. But some people will pay by our own currency called the When. If you own the When and the app does well, the When is likely to go up in value. But we don't call that an investment. So cryptocurrency does not qualify as an investment, but it is nonetheless true that if you owned the When, which you could buy on a couple of exchanges now or just go to WhenHub.com, you'll see links for buying it directly. So if you go to WhenHub.com you'll see directions for buying the When cryptocurrency that if the app is successful there'll be more demand for it as a token within the app and that should, because of demand and supply, cause its value to go up. It's already trading on a couple of exchanges, LATOKEN exchange for example, and we'll be on some more exchanges I think soon. It's both Apple and Android, yes, and it works across platforms. So if you have an Apple you can call somebody who's on an Android.
All right, enough of that. Let me give you another example. Remember yesterday I was talking about the idea somebody had that I liked but I didn't know whether it would work. And the idea is this: to increase the postage that China has to pay to mail a package to the United States. And the idea is to take the extra money from that postage and use it to buy fentanyl detectors so that we can check all of the mail that's coming in from China. And that it would be funded by increasing the postage on China because fentanyl from China, from their illegal drug labs, is probably killing 30,000 people a year, including my stepson. This is the latest week.
Now the part I didn't know is, is that practical? Could you increase postage? Is that even something that we could talk about or is there some treaty that we couldn't violate or some process that makes it hard? Well, what I would have liked is that during this Periscope I would say I'm going to ask an expert on how postage is set internationally. There must be somebody in the country who has worked in this field. They worked for the Postal Service. They've negotiated international postage exchange rates effectively because you know what we pay to mail something internationally is based on that other country agreeing to handle it once it gets there. So I'd like to have an expert and say, okay, is this idea practical or is it crazy?
Now I've been saying for a while now that we're entering a golden age, and the way I've defined the golden age, this is sort of my own definition, is that most physical problems have been solved. We now have mostly information problems which we're developing tools to solve quickly. And this was a perfect example. This whole postage thing to increase the tax so we can buy fentanyl screeners to stop China from selling their poison into this country is the sort of idea that's either really good or it's not. But it would take an expert to answer that. So I'm using that as a generic situation where probably information and the ability to quickly find the right kind of expert, which is what my company's app will provide, could make just a huge difference to society because of its ability to plug that piece of missing information almost instantly.
Yeah, the Mexican cartels are a big part of the problem, but it turns out that China is the major fentanyl — China, as I call them now. Oh, and I didn't even tell you the best part about the idea. I'm sorry, I completely forgot to tell you. Speaking of memory, why the postage increase to buy fentanyl screeners to screen Chinese packages, why that's such a good idea. The reason it's such a good idea is that it puts the spotlight on China for being such bad international citizens.
All right, so it's not even about providing money because it's entirely possible that somebody's going to say to me, you know that fentanyl screening equipment doesn't cost that much and the Chinese mail is coming through one source. We already have the funding for those screeners. To which I say, missing the point entirely. It's not really about how we fund the new equipment to screen the packages. It's not about that. It's about having something that is ready-made for the media to say we're arguing with China and China doesn't want to do this but we want to increase their postage to pay for the fentanyl screeners because they're killing 30,000 people a year. That's why you do it. You do it because it packages it as a story that shames China into doing more to make sure we will stop talking about their fentanyl war with the United States.
They want us to not talk about it. China really, really wants us to not talk about how they're killing how many tens of thousands of people they're killing every year in our country. Because if we start talking about that, what does that do to all of the other negotiations about trade? I'll tell you what it does. It stiffens the spine o
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f the U.S. citizens. President Trump's ability to negotiate effectively with China depends on China understanding the mood of the U.S. I would say the mood of the U.S. is that China is sort of a frenemy, meaning that they're mostly friends and in most ways that countries interact it's mostly good. You know, we're not at war with them. We trade with them. We both make money off each other. We coord…
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