Political Chaos Equals Contractual Opportunities

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Welcome to Shooting Straight with Stan.

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I am your host Stan the Annuity Man,

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America's annuity agent, licensed in all

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50 states. Today's topic, political

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chaos equals contractual opportunities.

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So, political chaos, you familiar with

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that? Seen any of that? Turned the

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television on recently at the time of

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this taping. Wow. I mean, there's just

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so much going on. It's just hard to even

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track the chaos now. I really don't

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care. I don't care if you're on the

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left, if you're on the right. It doesn't

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matter to me because both Republicans

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and Democrats buy annuities. We don't

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care. We just want everyone to hopefully

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get along. Sounds pretty sappy. Um, and

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you know, we're just kind of looking out

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for what you're trying to do with the

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safe part of your money. But in my

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opinion, and you see this every day with

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the markets, they gyate. Now,

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fortunately, they keep gyrating down and

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then they go back up and they go back up

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at the time of this taping. Check the

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date. But eventually, there will be a

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situation. There will be a market event.

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There will be something politically that

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happens that will create some problems.

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Um, at the time of this taping, we saw a

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little bit of a a blurp of a of a

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Bitcoin issue that scared some people

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where people just cashed out and were

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like, "Wait a minute, that that pulled

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the rug out from a few [clears throat]

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people." And if you look at the

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interesting part about crypto and

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Bitcoin, I have nothing against it. In

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fact, um, you know, I knew the I knew

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guys that bought it at 100. I knew guys

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that bought it at 70 and then, God bless

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them. But I read an article the other

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day. There's been like 3700

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uh coins created. Coins like Bitcoin.

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Bitcoin is a coin. 3700 of which 97% of

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those are worth zipola. Zip. Okay. Now,

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let me give you a scenario. Let's let's

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say that

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one of our fearless leaders, don't care

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who it is, gets up one day and says,

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"You know what? Um, we're not going to

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do we're not going to even look at any

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type of crypto anymore because what

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we're going to do as a country is create

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our own crypto, you know, Eaglecoin or

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UScoin or whatever. And that's where all

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the crypto is going to go. That's that's

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what we're going to use as a country for

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crypto. What if that happened? You're

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saying, "Wait a minute, Stan. That's

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never going to happen because blah blah

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blah blah blah blah blah fill in the

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blank." But I'm just saying, what if it

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does happen? What if it does happen?

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What if that political chaos happens and

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you're holding a lot of your um money in

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there that there's going to be a

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problem? Okay, we've already seen some

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stocks be affected with with tariffs,

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etc. Hopefully, you've been on the right

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end of the artificial intelligence

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trades out there and the money that's

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flowing in and out, etc. But there's

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going to be some bad things happen

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that's going to hurt your portfolio. My

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question to you is, I need you to look

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rationally at your age. I know what

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you're saying. You're saying, "Stan,

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you're a youngster. You're a young butt.

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You're vibrant. You're healthy." That's

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not true. I'm 61 years old and I'm aging

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quickly. But the point I'm trying to

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make is look at your age, your your

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health. How much longer do you really

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have? Truly, how much longer do you

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really have to live a good life, to live

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a healthy life? So why aren't answer the

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question. So why aren't you trying to

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maximize your lifestyle for the

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remaining years? Now, if you're 40 years

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old, shut the video off. You shouldn't

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be considering annuities anyway, but

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you're if you're seasoned like us, okay,

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you're looking for lifestyle or at least

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your spouse is nudging you going, "Hey,

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it's time. It's time for us to get more

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income. We need to go see the grandkids.

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We need to go to Europe, whatever it

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is."

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So, political chaos, you can look at it

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two ways. You can say, "Wait, this is

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the greatest reality television I have

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ever seen in my life because it's it's

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never ending." And that is true. It is

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great reality television. Okay. But

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political chaos and the political chaos

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that we're seeing and I think that will

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be around for a long time because we're

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so polarized and divided. That political

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chaos equals opportunity for locking

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things in for contractual guarantees.

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You have you have opportunity for

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lifetime income guarantees. You have

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opportunity for principal protection

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guarantees. You have opportunity for

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legacy type guarantees. Okay? If you go

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to my site at theanuityman.com, you can

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run quotes and look at rates until your

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heart's content and no one's going to

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call you. No one will ever call you

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unless you schedule a call and say,

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"Call me at this time." And then we call

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you right on the dot. And even then,

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we're listening and we're not a nail not

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we're not a hammer looking for a nail.

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Okay? But I want you to yes, let's watch

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the watch whatever cable show you want.

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Listen to whatever political podcast you

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want. Doesn't matter to me. But as

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you're listening, start thinking to

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yourself, "Wait a minute. Um, this might

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be time to lock in some guarantees. I

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don't know what's going to happen with

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all of these wars and all of these

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conflicts all over the world. I don't

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know if some rogue person drops a

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nuclear bomb, what happens to the

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market." I can tell you what's going to

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happen to the market. It's going to take

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a royal dump is what it's going to

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happen. Royal dump. That's different

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from just a normal dump. It's a royal

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dump. Multi-layered. Okay. So for for us

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as a country, as a to look at the global

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world, the political chaos, not only in

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this country, but definitely in other

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countries, and say, "Yeah, everything's

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cool. Everything's good. You know,

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market's going to keep going up. I'm

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just going to ride this thing out

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because I'm a market guru. I kind of

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know what I'm doing." And maybe you do.

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Maybe you're that 1% that actually does

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know what they're doing in the market.

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The rest of you are throwing darts and

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you know it. take some of those darts

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and put them in guarantees and make sure

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that your family's taken care of, your

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spouse is taken care of, and you are

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taken care of in and in case something

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does happen in in the world, that

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political chaos that we're talking

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about. So, political chaos, it equals

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annuity contractual opportunities. Go to

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my site at theanuityman.com and check

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out the customized quotes for your

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specific situation, your specific date

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of birth, your specific state of

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residence, your specific spouse date of

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birth. You can go there and run those

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customized quotes and we show them to

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you for free. You can run them forever.

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I think we have hund we have hundreds of

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thousands of quotes run every single

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month. The last time I looked, it was

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such a high number. And I'm paying all

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this money for free quotes. And I'll

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continue to pay money for the free

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quotes because I want you to be able to

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kick the tires without somebody in your

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ear going.

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And we don't do that. We're not going to

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chase you down. You're going to make

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your decisions on your terms and on your

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time frame with the best information out

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there. Period. End of the story. My name

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is Stan the Annuity Man. That is

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shooting it straight with Stan.