Latif Nasser

Seven dollars.

Ten thousand dollars.

Yeah, I would say five bucks.

On things that seem... Priceless.

Priceless.

Priceless.

Isn't it really...

Okay, so start at the top.

Bring on the pressure.

All right, we're going to start the show with a story from our producer, Molly Webster.

I don't remember any of it.

Who we might actually want to rename Molly Wongster because she recently got herself some serious numericizing.

Actually, it didn't start as a wonky thing.

It started actually with some medical journals.

So that was interesting because it was some of the most poetic writing I've seen out of doctors ever.

One journal article said, like, what would one more month mean to a 37-year-old mother who has four children?

Or what would one more month mean if you are a 67-year-old who's about to go traveling around the world?

People were just kind of, like, drifting these questions out there.

All these questions seem to circle around a seemingly simple story of the pricing of a drug, a cancer drug.

And the story, if you really want to tell it from the beginning, it begins with this guy named Leonard.