Cancer Explained

Are we on? Well, there we are. Thank you, Frank. That's very kind of you to say that. So I taught you everything you know.

And I want to laugh. That is Frank's been one of the leaders and one of the thought leaders and one of the creative forces in our movement for as long as I can remember.

So but that was a nice compliment. Well, I'm glad everybody got up and had a chance to stretch it all, because it's terrible when audiences go to sleep on you or they get bored and walk out.

I remember recently I was at a presentation where the speech was so boring.

I mean, really boring. And people were starting to leave and leave and the place was about half empty. It was very it was terrible packed. I would have gotten up and gone to except I was giving a speech.

You knew that was coming in, so. Well, what a pleasure it is to come back here to the Cancer Control society. I've been here, don't know, maybe five or six times over the years. I'm always amazed when I'm invited because, you know, I'm not a doctor.

I've really had no background to be speaking on my topic today. I'm just a researcher and a writer. And I produced a couple of documentary films and other words, I think of myself as a student and I get on fire. I discovered at an early age I have a crusader gene, apparently, because when I start into things that are new to me and I don't know anything about them and I think, well, who cares about this topic? And then I discovered something about it that enrages me.

Well, why didn't they tell me this? You know this is important. And I get all excited.

And then off I go running on some project like World Without Cancer. A guy like me. Who am I to talk about this topic? You know, I wrote a book on the Federal Reserve System, which is even further off my background. So I have that problem. But in a way, it's it's refreshing because people have told me who have been in the banking profession or in the medical profession.

They have said, I envy you talking to me. So why would that be? Well, because you didn't have to unlearn anything like we did, you know? So I thought, well, OK, maybe that's sure true. I didn't have to unlearn too much and I didn't have to unlearn very much about cancer research or therapy, because, believe me, I knew nothing at all about it.

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