How To Find The Highest Contractual Annuity Payments

October 15, 2026
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How To Find The Highest Contractual Annuity Payments
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Are you getting the highest guaranteed annuity payments or are you just being shown one company’s product? In this video, I explain how to compare annuities based on their highest contractual guarantees, why financial strength matters for lifetime income, and how to avoid sales pitches built around projections and promises. Learn how to compare quotes across carriers and use anonymous annuity calculators to find the highest available guarantees in your state without providing any personal information.

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00:00 Introduction to the Video
00:35 How To Choose The Best Annuity For You
01:10 Truth About Agents Promoting One Product
02:00 How Annuity Quotes Change Frequently
02:48 How You Can Run Annuity Quotes Anonymously
04:20 Why I Started The Contractual Guarantees Only Movement
05:03 Important Advice for Buyers
05:58 How Buying Annuities Lead To Better Investors
07:59 Helpful Annuity Resources
08:19 Next Video To Watch

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  • 0:00 Introduction to the Video
  • 0:35 How To Choose The Best Annuity For You
  • 1:10 Truth About Agents Promoting One Product
  • 2:00 How Annuity Quotes Change Frequently
  • 2:48 How You Can Run Annuity Quotes Anonymously
  • 4:20 Why I Started The Contractual Guarantees Only Movement
  • 5:03 Important Advice for Buyers
  • 5:58 How Buying Annuities Lead To Better Investors
  • 7:59 Helpful Annuity Resources
  • 8:19 Next Video To Watch

0:00
Hi there, Stan the Annuity Man,

0:03
America's annuity agent. Today's topic

0:05
is a good one. Right in my wheelhouse,

0:07
softball to Stan hit it over the park.

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How to find the best contractual

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guaranteed payments, the highest number.

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How do you find the highest number, Stan

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the Annuity Man? This guy's showing me

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down the road one carrier. How do I know

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that's the best carrier? Not taking his

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word. I'll tell you how to do it after

0:28
this.

0:34
[music]

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If you remember one thing, remember

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this. Annuitities are commodities.

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There's not one that's better than the

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other. The logo doesn't matter. The name

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doesn't matter. The product brochure

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does not matter whatsoever. Okay? You

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quote them for the highest contractual

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guarantee. For lifetime income, it's A+

0:52
or better. No exceptions. So, A+ or

0:55
better, highest number. A+ or better,

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highest number. If you said, Stan, I

1:01
want A++. Okay, A++, highest number.

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There's not one annuity company that's

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better than the other. There's not one

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product that's better than the other.

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And if someone is showing you one

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product, they have an agenda. Either

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they're lazy and they can't do can't do

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the research on everything, don't want

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to offer everything, or if they sell

1:20
enough of it, they get to go on an

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incentive trip. I did I did a video

1:23
recently. Like don't fund your agents

1:26
incentive trip. We don't take incentive

1:28
trips. If I want to go on a vacation,

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I'm going to go on a vacation, but it's

1:32
not going to be with a bunch of freaking

1:34
annuity agents. Stabbed myself in the

1:36
eye with a fork. You kidding me?

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Somebody asked me the other day, they

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called and they said, "Stan, you know,

1:41
you keep qualifying. You never come to

1:43
the event." I said, "I will show up. If

1:45
you pay me x amount of money, I'll show

1:48
up." They're like, "Well, the trip is

1:51
the incentive." I'm like, "No, no. I'm

1:52
telling you my terms." Like, "How much?"

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And I was [snorts] serious. I I had one

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taker. I turned it down. But the point

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is, one there, if someone's shown you

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one and they say something like, "Well,

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you know, I've done all the research,

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son. I'm tell you something right now.

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This one right here, the best one.

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They're full of crap. They're full of

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crap." Get up and walk out. And if it's

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legal in your state, backhand them. Just

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go. Just back. I doubt if it is, but

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that's assault. But check your check the

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law. The point is check I mean quotes

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are like a gallon of milk. My

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grandmother used to say you she used to

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smell the milk after about 7 to 10 days

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and and soured meant blinky. It smells

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blinky. I'm like blinky. What's blinky?

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Blinky is this is not good. Listen every

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seven to 10 days just like a gallon of

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milk quotes get blinky. Okay. You need

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to re quote. If you go to my site, you

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can find the highest contractual

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guarantees period for migas. Put in your

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state of residence, put in the duration,

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you'll see the highest contractual

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guarantees in your state. That's guar

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that's approved for sale in your state.

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And we're licensed in all 50 states. For

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lifetime income products, PSDs, QX,

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income writers,

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same thing. Quote away. The great part

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about my site is that you can run

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anonymous quotes. stand. Give me more.

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Please give me more. Okay, we're the

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only ones that will quote you from all

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carriers, showing the name of the

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carrier, showing all of it, and all you

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have to put in is your date of birth,

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your gender, and your state of

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residence. No name needed, no email

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needed, no phone number needed. And

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you're out there going, "Stan, that

3:38
sounds like annuity heaven." It is. It's

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anonymous annuity heaven. a a

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anonymous annuity heaven 24/7 365

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anonymous quotes for the highest

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contractual guarantee. Just remember for

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lifetime income it's A+ or better. A+ or

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better you don't need a sweater rhymes.

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But you know what I'm saying? We're

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we're going to marry lifetime income. So

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that carrier has to be solid. You don't

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bottom fish there.

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You know my guess is different story. We

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can go lower than A+ or better. But

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that's your call. I look at those

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companies because we're dating the migas

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for that specific term. We're marrying

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the lifetime income. One of the reasons

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I started the the the

4:23
organization I was going to call it a

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foundation. It might turn into that

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contractual guarantees only CGO is

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because I want the industry to get

4:32
behind me and do what I do which is own

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an annuity for what you for what it will

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do not what it might do. Not the

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hypotheticals, not the theoreticals, not

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the back tested, not the projected, not

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the hopeful, not the unicorn chasing the

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butterfly, not the sales presentation at

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the steak dinner that you'd never eat at

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except for this guy sent you a thing in

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the mail and you went and ate it anyway.

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And you got the flet mum, as my mom

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calls it. That filelet mins was good.

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What? Oh, fame. Yeah, great. Um, be

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careful out there. You're going to hear

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sales pitches that sound too good to be

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true because they are. The question is a

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good one. Where do I find the best

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contractual guarantees? Why is that so

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important? Is because life insurance

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companies issue annuities and those

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annuities are policies. And those

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policies are contracts. And in those

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contracts are the contractual guarantees

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of that policy of which you own. So if

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you buy the dream, you're going to own

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the contractual realities. So let's get

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rid of that. Let's just own the

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contractual realities and base our

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decision solely on that. Duh duh,

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as the kids might say. I don't think

5:39
they say that anymore, but they did a

5:41
while back. They went duh.

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I think now they go me, whatever that

5:47
is. I think that's even dated. Whatever.

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My daughters are 30 and 28, so I'm still

5:51
stuck in that little time warp, you

5:53
know. But contractual guarantees, that's

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what it's all about. Here's the other

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little tidbit you want to hang on to.

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Annuities are the only product that can

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provide a lifetime income stream for as

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long as you're breathing whether there's

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money in the account or not. Hello.

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Do not let your master of the universe

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money manager who's never seen a down

6:15
market say, "Don't buy an annuity. I'll

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just manage your money and peel off the

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gains." Great, Chester. Except for the

6:22
fact that markets don't work like that.

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They go up, they go down. They go up,

6:27
they go down. Sequence of returns risk

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is all about leveling out that and how

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you do that. Good question. Income

6:35
floor, guaranteed income with annuities.

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You already own social security, best

6:40
annuity on the planet. Add to that. Add

6:43
to that income floor so that you don't

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have to disrupt your investments.

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What you don't know is in most Wall

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Street firms like the CEO of Morgan

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Stanley, the CEO of JP Morgan, the CEO

6:55
of Goldman Sachs, they have pictures of

6:57
me in their office

6:59
and they and they look at me lovingly

7:02
every day and say, "He he's so helping

7:04
us." Stan the annuity man is helping us.

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How am I helping them? Putting the

7:08
income floor in place so you can go

7:09
invest the rest and not disrupt it. They

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don't tell anybody because it's not

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politically correct. But every single

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one of them have a signed photograph

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from me that I' I've heard about this.

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I've sent them. I just don't sign, you

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know, glad I can help stand. Little

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heart in the thing. Like heart with

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money in it. I'm not sure if they've

7:30
hung them up, but they've all been sent.

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But I'm going to tell you this right

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now. I'm the best thing that's happened

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to Wall Street. You know why? Because I

7:37
understand it. I used to work for Dean

7:39
Witter which then turned into Morgan

7:41
Stanley. Then I went to Payne Weber,

7:42
which then turned into Union Bank of

7:44
Switzerland. I get it. I understand it.

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I'm the foundational part of your

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investment portfolio that needs to be in

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place contractually.

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Getting back to your contractual

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guarantees question, your instincts are

7:58
right. Go to my site at

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theanuityman.com. I've got books you can

8:02
download. There's all kinds of things

8:04
you can do there. There's an there's a

8:06
virtual Stanley. There's an AI me on the

8:08
site. Now, I blame my CEO because I

8:11
think he thinks I'm gonna die and he's

8:13
putting all this in place so that he can

8:15
continue to make gobs of money when I'm

8:17
gone. And that's okay. But there's one

8:19
thing I do want you to do. There's a

8:20
video I did spinning above my You're

8:22
saying, Stan, you are teched out.

8:24
Spinning above my head is a video. It's

8:25
going to appear. It's about how to use

8:27
these calculators of mine anonymously

8:30
getting the best quotes without putting

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in your personal information.

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Hello, industry. I'm over here. Hi,

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[laughter]

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boy. I tell you what, there's some

8:45
wrenches that's been thrown into some

8:47
annuity company engines with this one.

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You're telling me, Stan, that you can

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get me quotes without me putting in a

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name, email, any personal information?

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Yep. As they say in Nebraska? Yeper.

8:59
Absolutely. And there's more. There's

9:02
more to come. We're going to flip this

9:03
industry upside down in the consumer's

9:08
best interest. The old boy, good old

9:10
boy.

9:13
Internal games being played over, over.

9:18
Game over. I'm in charge now. And that's

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the way it's going to be. Join us. Email

9:23
me stand theanuityman.com. Book a call.

9:26
Use us. We want to be your agent. See

9:29
you next time.

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