It’s Time to Consider a Respirator Annuity: Shootin’ It Straight With Stan

February 22, 2026
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It’s Time to Consider a Respirator Annuity: Shootin’ It Straight With Stan
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If you’re alive, the annuity pays. Period.

In this video, Stan explains what happens if you’re on a respirator or unable to make decisions, and why annuity income doesn’t stop just because your health changes. There’s no approval process. No paperwork. No debate. If the contract says it pays, it pays.

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0:00
Welcome to Shooting It Straight with

0:01
Stan. I'm your host, Stan the Annuity

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Man. America's annuity agent, licensed

0:05
in all 50 states, top independent agent

0:08
in the country. Some even call me the

0:11
tallest annuity [laughter] agent in the

0:13
country, and I am the innovator of

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contractual guarantees only. Approach to

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annuities, CGO,

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contractual guarantees only. Today's

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topic is a very unique one that only I

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could come up with. It's It's time to

0:27
consider a respirator annuity. Yes,

0:31
respirator. That's what I'm talking

0:32
about. You say, "Wait, wait a minute,

0:34
Stan. Is there such a thing as a

0:35
respirator annuities?" Like, there's

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SPAS, DAS, QAX, FAS, respirators. Well,

0:42
not really. But let's talk about

0:44
respirators for a second. Respirators

0:47
sounds pretty cool if you think about

0:48
it. Break the word down. It's when

0:50
you're laying in the bed. is like sh

0:55
and they're helping you breathe. Now,

0:56
why are you saying this? Are you morbid?

0:58
Did someone in your in your family die?

1:00
Are they in the hospital recently?

1:02
Actually, yes. My mother-in-law based

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out of Nebraska, which isn't the end of

1:07
the world, but you can see it from

1:08
there. That's not true. Actually, my I

1:10
think actually Nebraska is pretty cool.

1:12
That sand hills area where they live.

1:14
Um, but that was a good joke. I guess

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you could say that about every part of

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the country. Hey, North Carol, rural

1:19
North Carolina. Ain't the end of the

1:20
world, but you can see it from there. I

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mean, I'm from rural North Carolina, but

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she's been going in and out of

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hospitals, etc. And when you walk in to

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visit her, you you see people on

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respirators. And it hit me going, I

1:29
wonder if that, you know, of course me,

1:32
you know, I wonder if that person has an

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immediate annuity payout for lifetime

1:35
income. Because if they do, and the

1:38
respirators keeping the breathing,

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there's not a clause in the annuity

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contract that says, well, it's as long

1:44
as you're breathing unless you're on a

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respirator. So my comment to that is and

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I don't I don't want to be the guinea

1:50
pig for that and if you want to if you

1:51
want to say Stan I'll be the guinea pig

1:53
for that then that's cool we'll talk

1:54
about it is let's just say you go into a

1:57
you have an immediate annuity and it's

1:59
been paying and it's been paying and

2:00
it's been paying it's been paying and

2:02
it's life with cash refund meaning that

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if you die tomorrow whatever whatever

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money is left in the account goes 100%

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the bit to the beneficiaries and the

2:09
evil annuity company doesn't give a

2:11
penny but let's just say just for

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conversation sake you're laying in the

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bed and you having trouble breathing and

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they have you on a respirator and the

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doctor walks in and goes uh uh I'm Dr.

2:22
Johnson. Um you know I got my degree

2:24
from Harvard and I'm just you know I'm

2:25
sorry to say that that 47 years of

2:28
smoking those lung darts [snorts] those

2:30
uh you know camel no filters has taken

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its toll on your lungs and uh we're

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going to have to keep you on a

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respirator andor oxygen uh from here but

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for now when you're in here we're going

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to put you on a respirator. Okay. And

2:43
then you go into a coma. I know what

2:45
you're saying, Stan. Mr. Positivity, I

2:47
get it. But you're in a coma. You have

2:49
the respirator on and the immediate

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annuity still pays. And you're in a coma

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and you're in a coma for 10 years and

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you're in a coma for 20 years.

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Respirator is still keeping you alive.

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Annuity keeps paying. So when I say I

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don't know what the ROI is until you

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die, return on investment until you die.

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I'm being serious with lifetime income

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products like single premium immediate

3:12
annuities, deferred income annuities,

3:14
qualified longevity annuity contracts,

3:15
or income writers. Those are the four

3:18
ways for lifetime income guarantees,

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meaning it's going to pay as long as

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you're breathing. Now, the annuity

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companies, annuities are issued by life

3:28
insurance companies, and life insurance

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companies have the big buildings because

3:30
they know we're going to die. But what

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the actuaries hadn't fa factored in to

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their um I guess when they put the pen

3:38
to the paper and they go, "Well, I think

3:40
they're going to die like right here."

3:42
And they kind of know when we're going

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to die, but they haven't factored in the

3:45
respirator.

3:46
Okay. So, let's just say that you have

3:48
this immediate annuity. You're on a

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respirator. You go in the comment, the

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respirator is keeping you alive. The

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annuity is going to pay even if there's

3:56
no money in the account.

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And you can use any type of account. You

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use nonirra, IRA, Roth IRA. Doesn't

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matter. Well, the only thing that

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matters the taxation of the money coming

4:08
out. But let's just say you you bought

4:10
that immediate annuity, your respirator

4:13
annuity. Didn't know it was, but you

4:15
probably need to put in your bed. This

4:16
this Martha, I'm going to tell you

4:18
something right now. This could be a

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respirator annuity. She's going to be

4:20
like, "What?" Um, smacks you. But I mean

4:24
if you if it's if you are on that

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respirator and you have drawn that

4:27
account down to zero, it's going to

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continue to pay. All lifetime income

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from all lifetime income products as DSQ

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likes income writers is a combination of

4:36
return of principal plus interest. Okay?

4:38
So you're getting your money back with

4:40
interest. It's drawing it down. If

4:42
there's any Johnny Apple Seed agents

4:43
going, "My annuity will pay you for

4:45
life." And and let me just tell you

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something right now, son. It's going to

4:49
it's you know the the growth going to

4:50
offset the income full of crapola. Okay.

4:53
Or if you have the the life insurance

4:55
salesman go, "Well, my index universal

4:58
life, that's taxfree income, son." No,

5:00
that's a loan. Okay? That's a that's not

5:03
even income. That's a loan. So, you're

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getting your money back with interest on

5:08
lifetime income annuities, transfer of

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risk. They're going to pay. So, and you

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draw it down to zero, they're still

5:15
going to pay. Yes, you're going to pay

5:17
taxes on the amount that they're still

5:19
paying, but they're drawing it off of

5:21
zero. Now that if you're that person on

5:24
the respirator getting the annuity

5:26
payment, I mean, you're the unicorn.

5:28
You're the person that the actuary at

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the annuity company isn't factoring in

5:32
like the actuary sitting in in their

5:34
office, you know, click and they got all

5:35
these screens and they actually they

5:37
have like an abacus and and so they're

5:39
just like ch I don't even know what an

5:41
abacus is. Anyway, so they're Zeke's

5:43
behind the camera. So you just they're

5:45
figuring it out, figuring out and they

5:46
got a knock on the door. Knock knock

5:48
knock. Come on in. Uh yeah, hi John. Um,

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yeah. Oh, sir, that's a C. You're the

5:54
CEO of the annuity company. Yes, John.

5:57
Um, what's with Freddy Jones here, who

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we've been paying for 49 years. Is

6:03
Freddy not, is he dead? Well, sir, um um

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from what we know and we, you know, it's

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we can't really dig that much. He's on a

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respirator, sir. It's really sad. And

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see, he's go I don't give a crap. Do you

6:17
know how much we paid on his initial in

6:19
initial premium? And you know, the

6:21
actuary is like, "Yeah, it's it's a

6:23
pretty good ROI,

6:26
even if he died tomorrow." Uh, yeah, but

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but sir, that's that's contractual. I

6:30
know it's contractual. And so the CEO

6:32
storms out, there's nothing the CEO can

6:35
do. There's nothing the actual can do.

6:38
Okay. Your family who's sitting around

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your bed going, "Yeah, hey, did the uh

6:42
you because you can't hear. You're in a

6:44
coma and you're on respirator." They're

6:46
like sitting there going, "Hey, [snorts]

6:47
uh, did that annuity payment hit again?"

6:49
and and you and your sister goes, "Yeah,

6:51
it did. Yeah, it did. I got some new

6:53
shoes." The point is, think of

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annuities, respirator annuities, because

6:58
it's going to pay as long as you're

6:59
breathing. Even if you need help

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breathing, even if the machine is

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helping you breathe,

7:07
that's that's the value proposition of

7:09
lifetime income. And to add a little bit

7:11
more to that, at the time of this

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taping, maybe five years from now, you

7:15
you see this, you go, "Man, this already

7:18
happened, son. What are you talking

7:19
about? Look at the date. Okay. A date to

7:21
publish.

7:23
Artificial intelligence. Now the annuity

7:25
ban artificial intelligence means actual

7:27
individuals. But artificial intelligence

7:29
is going to shorten the the medical

7:31
breakthroughs which is going to lengthen

7:34
life expectancy tables which means

7:36
payments are going to go lower. So at

7:38
the time of this taping, if you're

7:39
considering lifetime income, it's a

7:42
bargain. It's an absolute bargain. If

7:44
you've already bought the lifetime

7:45
income, you've already locked in the

7:46
bargain cuz eventually because that's I

7:49
heard the other day Zeke Zeke's the

7:51
Zeke's the he's from Hawaii. I mean,

7:53
he's so laid-back, man. Sometimes he's

7:54
so laidback he takes a nap, doesn't know

7:56
it. I mean, that's when you know you're

7:58
laidback, right? His blood pressure is

7:59
like 80 over 70 or something like that.

8:03
Okay, so no, I digress, Zeke. I think I

8:06
lost train of thought. But the point is

8:07
this, okay? You're transferring risk to

8:10
companies to pay you for life. the the

8:13
life expectancy tables are in your

8:15
favor. Now, it's a bargain to lock it

8:18
in. Or if if you say, "Well, I won't do

8:20
that right now." Lock a portion of it

8:21
in. You're going to thank me because

8:23
eventually AI is going to shorten life

8:25
expectancy tables. The GLP1 stab you in

8:28
stab you right here and lose weight.

8:29
Stab, lose, stab. That I don't know if

8:32
you can see that, Zeke. I think you can.

8:33
But the point is that's going to that's

8:35
going to lengthen out life expectancies.

8:38
You're going to live longer. You're

8:39
going to be skinnier. But that's all

8:41
link. The life expectancy tables will be

8:43
longer which means the payments

8:44
projected will be more which means those

8:46
payments will be lower which means you

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need to look at it now. You need to look

8:50
at your respirator annuity whatever form

8:52
be a DQ like income writer now because

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you could be on that respirator and if

8:57
you are that income's going to pay. I

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encourage you to go to my site

9:01
theanuityman.com.

9:04
You can run quotes to your heart's

9:05
content on all of those lifetime income

9:07
products. You can schedule a call, free

9:10
consultation with my team of experts who

9:11
are all licensed in all 50 states but

9:13
are not on commission. So they're not

9:15
hammers looking for nails. And you can

9:17
also email me at Stan. So Stan at the

9:20
annuity man. And I will actually

9:22
respond. I did this the other day. Video

9:24
came out. I got 473 emails. I responded

9:27
to every single one. Took a few days. My

9:28
hands are kind of got a carpal tunnel

9:30
thing going on, but I will respond to

9:32
you because I still own the company at

9:35
the time of this taping. Um, and I don't

9:37
know. I don't know, Zeke. I guess what

9:39
happens when I die? I guess if I don't

9:40
respond, that means I'm dead. So, I'm

9:42
going to respond. Um, that's my

9:45
strategy. Death is not a good strategy

9:47
because you can only use it once. But

9:50
think about that. But think about this,

9:52
too. Respirator annuities. I'm creating

9:54
a new category as only Stan the Annuity

9:56
Man, thought leader, number one agent in

9:58
the country. Sells more annuities than

9:59
anybody. I can do that because I know

10:02
this back and forth. I live it. I

10:04
immerse myself, Zeke, into the annuity

10:07
world, the contractual guarantee world.

10:09
You own an annuity for what it will do,

10:11
not what it might do. Remember that.

10:14
Hey, my name is Stan the Annuity Man,

10:16
wearing the Stan the Annuity Man logo

10:18
everywhere. That's shooting it straight.

10:21
See you next time.

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