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Speaker 1: Right now, let's say good morning to the host of

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Speaker 1: How to Money on KFI. It's are very own Joel

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Speaker 1: lars Guard. So Joel, let's talk about today, including how

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Speaker 1: you can now get prescriptions at vending machines.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's a super that's a really interesting one, right,

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Speaker 2: And this is happening specifically in Los Angeles. It's a

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Speaker 2: trial from Amazon and One Medical who have a partnership together.

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Speaker 2: And I think this is great. Think about how annoying

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Speaker 2: it can be to get prescriptions filled. A massive chunk

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Speaker 2: of prescriptions that are made don't get picked up by people.

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Speaker 2: Lots of times it gets lost in the shuffle. You

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Speaker 2: realize how much it's going to cost, and or you're

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Speaker 2: just like I don't know the scheduling and actually making

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Speaker 2: it out to the pharmacy. You just don't do it.

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Speaker 2: And so you're like, I'll just get better over time,

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Speaker 2: and you grin and bear it. And so I think

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Speaker 2: these these pharmacy vending machines are going to do a

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Speaker 2: couple things. I think one, people are actually going to

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Speaker 2: get their prescriptions because it's going to be so much easier,

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Speaker 2: so much more convenient, and the cost is going to

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Speaker 2: come down with some of these pharmacy venting machines. So

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Speaker 2: it's not going to be for like everything, but it

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Speaker 2: is going to be neat to see how these impact

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Speaker 2: the prescription game, which is changing a lot. Like it's.

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Speaker 2: While these vending machines are great, I think actually, if

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Speaker 2: you want to save the most money still, it's worth

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Speaker 2: checking online, in particular at places like cost plus Drugs

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Speaker 2: dot com. I think that's the best place right now

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Speaker 2: to save money on prescriptions.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so if you go to your doctor and they

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Speaker 1: say here's a prescription for a maxicillin or something, you

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Speaker 1: don't have to go to a regular old pharmacy and

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Speaker 1: go to cost plus drug and get it filled.

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, so you can go to cost plus Drugs

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Speaker 2: like this is Actually we had a prescription for my

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Speaker 2: daughter recently. It's going to become a recurring prescription. And

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Speaker 2: when I was doing the doing digging into seeing well

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Speaker 2: how much does this cost? I was seeing a reasonable

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Speaker 2: prices at some of the big pharmacies or a grocery

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Speaker 2: sport chain pharmacy, and then I looked it up on

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Speaker 2: cost plus Drugs and I was like, oh my goodness,

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Speaker 2: it's half as much on cost plus drugs. And that's

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Speaker 2: because this is Mark Cuban's company, and they have a

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Speaker 2: model that's kind of actually like Costco's model, where the

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Speaker 2: markup is essentially fifteen percent on every drug that they sell,

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Speaker 2: and then there's like a five dollars shipping charge. So

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Speaker 2: in particular, if you're getting your prescription filled there and

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Speaker 2: you're also getting multiple months at the same time, let's

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Speaker 2: say getting a ninety day supply instead of thirty, you

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Speaker 2: can really cut that cost in half or maybe even more,

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Speaker 2: depending on what prescription you're getting. They've got instructions essentially

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Speaker 2: for how to tell your doctor to send your prescription

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Speaker 2: into cost Plus Drugs. But it's it's pretty easy, and

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Speaker 2: I think for a lot of people, especially people who

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Speaker 2: take medicine on a recurring basis, if that medicine's offered

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Speaker 2: on cost Plus Drugs, it's going to save them a ton.

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Speaker 1: Okay, good to know, Good to know. Okay, here's another

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Speaker 1: way you can save a ton. At Thanksgiving, there's turkey

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Speaker 1: baskets at a couple of different places that are really

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Speaker 1: quite economical.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so all the and Walmart are essentially like vying

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Speaker 2: for the title of low cost leader when it comes

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Speaker 2: to groceries, and there's just so much competition in the

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Speaker 2: grocery space. It's a beautiful Behold doesn't mean food prices

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Speaker 2: haven't gone up obviously over the past five years in particular,

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Speaker 2: like we've seen inflation in that space, but we've seen

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Speaker 2: less inflation because of how much competition there really is.

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Speaker 2: And All The in particular has been at the forefront

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Speaker 2: of that has been basically holding other grocery store chained

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Speaker 2: feet to the fire. And so All the and Walmart

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Speaker 2: have both announced full Thanksgiving meals for forty bucks that

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Speaker 2: are going to say, are going to feed ten people.

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Speaker 2: So this includes like the turkey, the sides of apple,

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Speaker 2: pumpkin pie, excuse me, all that kind of stuff. And

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Speaker 2: so I just I love this because it just goes

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Speaker 2: I mean, Thanksgiving can be a really inexpensive if you're smart,

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Speaker 2: and so yeah, if you're going to Aldi or Walmart,

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Speaker 2: I think it just reinforces how where you shop makes

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Speaker 2: a significant difference in what you end up paying. And

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Speaker 2: I love the low cost grocery stores because they just man,

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Speaker 2: they're all about making it. I mean, think about going

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Speaker 2: into all the there's all these cardboard boxes, like there's

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Speaker 2: just the shelves don't look as nice, there's fewer choices.

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Speaker 2: But all that means is that you're going to save

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Speaker 2: more money by shopping there.

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Speaker 1: Okay, perfect, and then we have like thirty seconds left.

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Speaker 1: But you said that people are not taking their vacations.

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Speaker 2: What oh man, Flex Jobs just did this study of

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Speaker 2: US workers and they found that about a quarter don't

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Speaker 2: take a single day of vacation over a whole entire year.

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Speaker 2: That shocked me. I'm like, I know we don't take

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Speaker 2: all our vacation, but to see that quarter people aren't

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Speaker 2: taking anything, like, I just don't under I don't understand.

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Speaker 2: And I realized that there's sometimes in some work environments

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Speaker 2: kind of an un unsaid rule, like we don't take

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Speaker 2: vacation here. But man, as vacation time is offered to you,

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Speaker 2: it's time to book that rule. You've got to take

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Speaker 2: that vacation. It's actually going to make you a better,

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Speaker 2: more productive worker.

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Speaker 1: See there you go. Host of how to Money is

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Speaker 1: Joel Larsgard, and you can listen to him every Sunday

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Speaker 1: from noon to two right here on KFI. Get lots

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Speaker 1: of great financial tips from him, and you can also

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Speaker 1: at how to Money Joel, Thank you, Joel Larsgard.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Amy,