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Trump’s Food Stamp Cuts Are Leaving Americans STARVING | Arizona Crisis Spreads Nationwide · The Karel Show

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  Speaker 2: Let's give it a go.
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  Speaker 1: Corilla is the one that you need to know now
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  Speaker 3: The big beautiful Bill is literally starving people. We're gonna
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  Speaker 3: talk with someone who's an expert in the field about
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  Speaker 3: those cuts. Also, David Eath Writs will be here to
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  Speaker 3: He's going to talk real estate. We've got Jolene from
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  Speaker 3: Southern Florida Hunger. I'll get the title right when I
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  Speaker 3: introduced her. Don't worry, but she is here today to
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  Speaker 3: talk about the story that really affected me yesterday that
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  Speaker 3: I read from NBC News about how people in Arizona
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  Speaker 3: and other states are now literally starving because of the
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  Speaker 3: ridiculous snap benefits. So we're going to talk about all
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  Speaker 3: of that today. So lots to do today. Some of
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  Speaker 3: you know, I just read something. I just read something
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  Speaker 3: right before I came on here. Fifty percent of single people, okay,
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  Speaker 3: fifty percent of single people say they are not going
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  Speaker 3: on dates right now because it's too expensive. Now you
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  Speaker 3: might think, well, so what you know, But I got
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  Speaker 3: to tell you that can be really lonely, you know,
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  Speaker 3: if you're single, not going out on a date because
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  Speaker 3: it's too.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 3: I guess I've always been poor, so I know how
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  Speaker 3: to do cheap dates, okay, And some of the best
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  Speaker 3: food in the world is from strip malls or you know,
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  Speaker 3: places like that. But still, fifty percent of single people
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  Speaker 3: in the United States have now said they are not
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  Speaker 3: going on dates because it's too expensive. I heard that
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  Speaker 3: number and I freaked out. I'm like, are you kidding me?
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  Speaker 3: And you know, Trump is oblivious. They're talking about getting
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  Speaker 3: rid of the gas tax. Now that would lower gas
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  Speaker 3: prices about eighteen cents, but it would harm us. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: people do not realize it would harm us. And the
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  Speaker 3: only ones that would really benefit are the high fuel consumers.
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  Speaker 3: The average fuel consumer is really not going to benefit.
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  Speaker 3: And guess what that gas tax goes to fund things
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  Speaker 3: like highways, infrastructures, bridges, you know, the things that are
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  Speaker 3: falling apart. There were criminal charges filed today and the
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  Speaker 3: bridge in Baltimore that got hit by the ship. But
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  Speaker 3: a lot of bridges in this country are falling apart.
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  Speaker 3: We know our roads are not up to speed, and
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  Speaker 3: we certainly don't have enough high speed trains or any
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  Speaker 3: kind of public transportation. And so here we have. He
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  Speaker 3: wants to cut the gas tax. He won't replace that
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  Speaker 3: revenue from somewhere else. He's not gonna say, go ahead
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  Speaker 3: and suspend the gas tax. We'll take some money from
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  Speaker 3: this fund over here. But no, we're just not gonna
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  Speaker 3: We're have crappy roads. So will it give you short
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  Speaker 3: term relief at the pump, yes, will it hurt you
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  Speaker 3: in the long term, yes, you know how to lower
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  Speaker 3: the price of gas, and the fucking war that you
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  Speaker 3: started instead today escalating. And what a distraction. It's proved
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  Speaker 3: right Epstein files nowhere in the news. Nowhere, You cannot
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  Speaker 3: find the files anywhere in the news. That's alarming, you know.
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  Speaker 3: So we're all looking at Iran, and now we're not
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  Speaker 3: even looking at Iran. Now. The big thing in the
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  Speaker 3: news is that he's off to China with all these businessmen,
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  Speaker 3: including Chim Cook from Apple. I'm so glad he's being replaced.
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  Speaker 3: But he's off to you know, China to meet with
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  Speaker 3: Ji and Beijing. And what are they gonna discuss? What
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  Speaker 3: is he gonna say? Why are you trying to charge
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  Speaker 3: us so many charis? Why are you you know, invading
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  Speaker 3: Iran and making oil? You know, I mean, I just
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  Speaker 3: it's crazy. So Epstein files out of the news completely,
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  Speaker 3: just gone. They're not even in the news. The biggest
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  Speaker 3: scandal of our day, where rich white men trafficked and
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  Speaker 3: ruined the lives of young girls, out of the news,
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  Speaker 3: out of the news. Meanwhile, Iran, which is ruining the
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  Speaker 3: lives of the world, quite frankly, dropping down in the news.
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  Speaker 3: Why because he's off to China with a group of
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  Speaker 3: rich billionaires and he says he might lower the gas tacks.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, all of this affects the price of food,
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  Speaker 3: all of it, and so many of us are in
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  Speaker 3: need of assistance these days, and they're not getting it.
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  Speaker 1: Let's give it a go. Carell is the one that
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  Speaker 6: Hello, Hi, how are you today?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know your computer works all the time and
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  Speaker 3: then it doesn't. I hear you. I absolutely hear you.
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  Speaker 3: It's so nice to meet you. Nice to meet you
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  Speaker 3: as well. Yes, I had a little trouble all right now.
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  Speaker 3: There's no secret to anyone that has been watching or
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  Speaker 3: listening to me for the what thirty plus years I've
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  Speaker 3: been doing this. I grew up poor, and when I
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  Speaker 3: say poor, I mean, you know, living with relatives poor.
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  Speaker 3: And my family was often on public assistance, very often
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  Speaker 3: on public assistance, and I remember foodstamps from back the
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  Speaker 3: day when they used to lay them all out and
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  Speaker 3: they had to stamp them and embarrass you in front
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  Speaker 3: of everybody, and it was absolutely horrible. So I am very,
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  Speaker 3: very very in tune with the needs of people on
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  Speaker 3: Snap food stamps, et cetera. Also, my sister gets one
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  Speaker 3: hundred and fifty six frickin dollars a month whoop de
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  Speaker 3: do from Snap. And it's always amazed me as a
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  Speaker 3: gay man, how they can use the Bible to discriminate
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  Speaker 3: me against me my entire life. But one of the
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  Speaker 3: tenets of the Bible is feed the people. Christ did it.
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  Speaker 3: It's referenced many times. Feeding each other is it's just
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to say it's a human right, but
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  Speaker 3: it basically is, everybody has the right to food, and
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  Speaker 3: we are rich nation and we can afford to feed everybody.
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  Speaker 3: So it was with great dismay that I read an
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  Speaker 3: article coming out of Arizona where there are literally people starving,
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  Speaker 3: going hungry, children and adults going hungry because of the
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  Speaker 3: changes from the Big Beautiful Bill and the Snap to
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  Speaker 3: the SNAP program. And I wanted to speak with someone
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  Speaker 3: and not just sit here in pontificate if I often do,
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  Speaker 3: but speak to someone that actually works in this area
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  Speaker 3: and is able to see firsthand the challenge is being
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  Speaker 3: presented by the changes under the Trump administration. Joline Mullins
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  Speaker 3: is an NPH executive president for Programs and Operations for
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  Speaker 3: South Florida Hunger Coalition. You know, I'm an atheist, but
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  Speaker 3: she's still doing the Lord's work because you know, feeding
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  Speaker 3: people is possibly the most important thing a human can do,
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  Speaker 3: and she's here with us to talk about it. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Joline, Joline,
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  Speaker 3: Joline Jolne. Thanks so much, Yes, thank you, thank you, Carol.
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  Speaker 6: It's so nice to be here.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Now. As I said, and as my audience knows, I
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  Speaker 3: am someone who came from very from nothing, been very,
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  Speaker 3: very poor in my lifetime, and you know, and still
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  Speaker 3: live basically Check to check podcast. Don't roll in the cash,
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  Speaker 3: particularly if you're a progressive and not a hate monger.
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  Speaker 3: They make a ton of money. Charlie Kirk had fortunes,
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  Speaker 3: not me, so I'm very in tune to this. Plus,
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  Speaker 3: my sister lives in Arizona and she is sixty nine
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  Speaker 3: years old, single, lives off nine hundred and twelve dollars
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  Speaker 3: a month, survivor benefits from Social Security and SNAP gives
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  Speaker 3: her one hundred and fifty six dollars. And she called
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  Speaker 3: yesterday and said, you know, Chucky, what am I supposed
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  Speaker 3: to do? Because if you're family or sleeping with me,
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  Speaker 3: you can call me Chuck or Chucky. What am I
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  Speaker 3: supposed to do? I said, well, of course, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I gave her a credit card and I said, look,
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  Speaker 3: if you ever get into a jam, just put it
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  Speaker 3: on the card. And every month she usually has to.
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  Speaker 3: So let's talk about this specifically in Arizona, but in
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  Speaker 3: other states, because the Big Beautiful Bill doesn't just affect Arizona.
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  Speaker 3: It changes the SNAP qualification. So for those of us
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  Speaker 3: that aren't on Snap currently and didn't read the Big
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  Speaker 3: Beautiful Bill because we have a life, how did this
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  Speaker 3: Big Beautiful Bill change the SNAP program?
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  Speaker 6: Well, again, thank you so much for letting me be
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  Speaker 6: with you all today. The Big Beautiful Bill, or as
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  Speaker 6: many people call it, the Big Hideous Bill, basically changed
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  Speaker 6: the work requirements. It changed the age requirements, It changed
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  Speaker 6: the amount of money the poverty level that you are
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  Speaker 6: eligible for, and it put in regulations that said, you know,
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  Speaker 6: if you lose SNAP, you lose it for years.
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  Speaker 3: Let's talk about the poverty level. That's something that I
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  Speaker 3: do on my show all the time. I believe in
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  Speaker 3: America poverty levels should be fifty thousand dollars. Economists agree
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  Speaker 3: with me. The only reason the government doesn't change it
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  Speaker 3: is because no seated president wants to have on his
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  Speaker 3: record that he oversaw the largest growth of poverty in
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  Speaker 3: the country's history. If they were to actually make those
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  Speaker 3: numbers realistic, is it still something stupid like twenty four
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  Speaker 3: thousand dollars or below.
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  Speaker 6: It's actually less then that is twenty thousand for a
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  Speaker 6: single person. That that's one hundred and thirty percent of
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  Speaker 6: poverty level.
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  Speaker 3: That is fainteen hundred dollars a month. You cannot you can't.
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  Speaker 6: You can't afford rent enough for that. You can't keep
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  Speaker 6: a roof over your head for that. And when you're
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  Speaker 6: talking about a state like Florida where normal rents average
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  Speaker 6: rents in South Florida are two thousand to two thousand,
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  Speaker 6: five hundred for a single room apartment, you can't live
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  Speaker 6: on that. So people work three or four jobs at
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  Speaker 6: the minimum wage of fifteen dollars an hour, and everyone goes, oh,
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  Speaker 6: fifteen dollars an hour.
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  Speaker 3: WHOA right, the problem? Oh it should be twenty five.
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  Speaker 3: I've talked to many.
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  Speaker 6: Economists, and you get no benefits with that because you
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  Speaker 6: know the companies that you're working with, the businesses that
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  Speaker 6: you're working for, are not providing benefits because you're part time.
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  Speaker 3: Well, now, when Walmart directs you how to apply for
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  Speaker 3: SNAP once you get a job there, you know that
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  Speaker 3: there's the problem. When so what we're finding, no, Please
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  Speaker 3: go ahead, drink.
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to say, when people who work for the
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  Speaker 6: state have to apply for SNAP and WIG benefits, you
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  Speaker 6: know you have a problem.
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  Speaker 3: And by the way, when we say this, we may
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  Speaker 3: do two segments because I could talk about this for hours.
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  Speaker 3: But when you say, quote, apply for SNAP, there is
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  Speaker 3: no more dehumanizing process than applying for social benefits. I
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  Speaker 3: have been with my parents at the offices. It takes
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  Speaker 3: eight hours. Sometimes it takes two days or three days.
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  Speaker 3: If you don't get the phone call, or if you
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  Speaker 3: don't show up at twelve oh one standing on your
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  Speaker 3: head in a breeze, you get cut off. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: they just don't make it easy to apply for these benefits.
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  Speaker 3: But more importantly, they make it dehumanizing.
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  Speaker 6: I agree with you. And one of the challenges also
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  Speaker 6: is that for many benefits you have to apply online
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  Speaker 6: and not everyone has access to the internet, right, And
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  Speaker 6: are you going to do it in a public library?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're going to go to the library, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and bring your kids along and say, you know, please
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  Speaker 3: be quiet, sit right hYP No, it's just it's a farce,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Joline. Let me ask you, miss Mullins, and
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  Speaker 3: she's the executive vice president of Programs and Operations for
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  Speaker 3: South Florida Hunger Coalition. That's f s f HC dot org.
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  Speaker 3: If you, even if you're not in Florida, they could
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  Speaker 3: user help. I donate to three Square here in Las
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  Speaker 3: Vegas every time a blessing comes my way. Yesterday when
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  Speaker 3: I found out that my record in the UK was
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  Speaker 3: number ten, that my single is number ten, even though
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  Speaker 3: I make no money from that, because there's no money
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  Speaker 3: in music, I still donated fifty dollars to three square
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  Speaker 3: because every time a blessing comes into my life, I
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  Speaker 3: feel I have to share it. And you know, and
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  Speaker 3: and there's so many hungry people here in Nevada. I
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  Speaker 3: want to ask you something a little off topic, but
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  Speaker 3: you know, every every month they have a food bank
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  Speaker 3: here at Desert Briese Park at the pool and they
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  Speaker 3: line up in their cars. And I always tell my listeners,
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  Speaker 3: you see Tesla's lining up, you see Mercedes, you see Honda.
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  Speaker 3: How is it? My mom would have never she would
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  Speaker 3: have you know, if it wasn't a hooptie, she wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: have pulled up to get public aid in a freaking Jesla.
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  Speaker 3: But how is it in twenty twenty six we have
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  Speaker 3: people who are in these nice vehicles that need food assistance.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that is such a dichotomy, It's such a
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  Speaker 3: incongruous They may.
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  Speaker 6: Be living in those vehicles. To be honest, they may
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  Speaker 6: be living in those vehicles. And that is one of
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  Speaker 6: the challenges when when a county like Broward County, Florida,
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  Speaker 6: and you know Fort Lauderdale, and you know, I was
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  Speaker 6: born in Miami, Oh Okay, you know the north and
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  Speaker 6: south of US Imi. We're in one of the richest
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  Speaker 6: parts of the United States. We have more millionaires per
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  Speaker 6: capita than most states. The reality is that you've got
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  Speaker 6: in this county alone, we have eighty thousand children who
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  Speaker 6: go to bit Hungary.
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  Speaker 3: In a county with more millionaires than almost any other place.
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  Speaker 3: That is fucking disgusting. Excuse my friends.
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  Speaker 6: A county where the average household income is ninety six thousand.
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  Speaker 3: Now when you're seeing these cuts to SNAP in Arizona
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  Speaker 3: and the story, fifty percent of the people that were
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  Speaker 3: on SNAP last year are now not on SNAP because
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  Speaker 3: of these new bent, the confusion, the paperwork having. It's
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  Speaker 3: not their fault. They try to do everything they can.
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  Speaker 3: But then and.
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  Speaker 6: The work requirements, the work requirements are what is going
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  Speaker 6: to knock people off of staff because it used to
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  Speaker 6: be if you were a veteran, if you were unhoused,
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  Speaker 6: if you were over the age of fifty five, there
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  Speaker 6: were no work requirements. It was just income and you
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  Speaker 6: know what kind of of resources you had. Now, if
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  Speaker 6: you are unhoused, if you are a veteran, many of
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  Speaker 6: our veterans are unhoused.
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  Speaker 3: Let's be talking another shame.
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  Speaker 6: Which is another thing we can discuss. And the other
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  Speaker 6: thing is now the age is sixty four.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm sixty three. I'd still have to.
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  Speaker 6: Work, yes, indeed, and you have to work eighty hours
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  Speaker 6: a month.
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  Speaker 3: But if you get paid for those eighty hours, it
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  Speaker 3: might issue over the financial requirement for the staff.
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  Speaker 6: You could be pushed over by two or three dollars
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  Speaker 6: and lose your benefits.
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  Speaker 3: And what I know that Trump doesn't fucking care. I
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  Speaker 3: mean he doesn't. When's the last time his fat ass
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  Speaker 3: was hungry? But I have to ask, there's no other
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  Speaker 3: safety nets for these people. We don't set up social
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  Speaker 3: safety nets, and we vilify the poor in this country
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  Speaker 3: for some reason. We act like it's their fault they're poor,
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  Speaker 3: and that they don't have to be if they don't
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  Speaker 3: want to be, which is just the stupidest thing I've
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  Speaker 3: ever heard. But what happens to these people if they
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  Speaker 3: get cut off? What meager? And it's meager we're talking
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  Speaker 3: if you're single, it's one hundred and fifty months. They
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  Speaker 3: act like they're getting two three four thousand dollars a
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  Speaker 3: month in food stamps. They're not.
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  Speaker 6: And please know that every state determines that amount of money.
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  Speaker 6: So in Arizona you make it one hundred and fifty,
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  Speaker 6: in another state you may get twenty.
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  Speaker 3: And these people obviously haven't been the negoti store because
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  Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty dollars, it's going to be a
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  Speaker 3: bag of apples, some onions, and maybe a cantalope.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, and Florida.
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  Speaker 6: Has just introduced healthy Snap, and I have no I
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  Speaker 6: want people to eat healthier. I want you know, food
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  Speaker 6: is health I want people to access healthier foods. But
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  Speaker 6: what do we know about healthier foods? They're more expensive, right.
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  Speaker 3: I am a vegan, and I'm a vegan, and I
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  Speaker 3: will tell you over the last five years, I've been
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  Speaker 3: a vegan ten years. Eight of those years it was great,
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  Speaker 3: it was cheaper, it was fabulous. The last two years,
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  Speaker 3: basically since Trump has taken office, it's just to go
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  Speaker 3: buy fruits and vegetables is eighty dollars and that's just
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  Speaker 3: fruit and vegetables eighty bucks.
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  Speaker 6: And try to find fresh, high quality fruit and vegetables
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  Speaker 6: now because our farmers are struggling.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and the fertilizer's gone up and now that you
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  Speaker 3: know every.
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  Speaker 6: Transportation and Florida is an agriculture state, and we are
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  Speaker 6: really really struggling with the new farm and all of
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  Speaker 6: the changes that are happening to Snap and Wick, the women,
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  Speaker 6: infantite Children program where they are cutting those benefits so dramatically.
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  Speaker 6: Because we haven't seen the final version of the farm
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  Speaker 6: bill yet, which is right before the Senate now. But
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  Speaker 6: the reality is that this is not only hurting people
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  Speaker 6: who are hungry, it's also hurting the producers of the
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  Speaker 6: food we're supposed to be eating.
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  Speaker 3: Why do you suppose we're so cruel to the poor.
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  Speaker 3: Why do you well.
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  Speaker 6: We're supposed to be the land of you know, of
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: of wealth and everyone's supposed to be able to pull
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: themselves up by the bootstraps. But you were saying yourself
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: that you volunteer and you support locals left, Okay, I
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: want to say that one of the most important parts
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: of the communities is the local food pantries. The volunteers,
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: whether it be a church based or community organization, the
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: volunteers who work these pantries and the lines are are
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: miles long now, and those that is where the support
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: needs to go, and that's where we're providing support as
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: well as an organizing.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: Is that where the people like in Arizona and in
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  Speaker 3: Florida that have fallen off of SNAP for whatever reason,
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: is that their last hope the food pantry.
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: Or it supplements their SNAP benefits. You know that they
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: can get mostly shelf stable nonperishables. But the reality is
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: that if it wasn't for pantries, people would truly be
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: starving on the streets.
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  Speaker 3: So Jolene Mullins is the executive vice president of Programs
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  Speaker 3: and Operations for the South Florida Hunger Coalition. She works
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  Speaker 3: directly in this every single day. It is not just
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: you know, a passing fancy for her. She's in the
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: trenches fighting for these people. She deals directly with the
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: SNAP program and trying to get people on SNAP that
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: need it, you know, trying to keep them on it.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: When we come back, we're going to ask her just
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: a few more questions, and more importantly about what you
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: and I who sit here not hungry. I just had
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: my hot cocoa and my Belvida biscuit. I say thank
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: you every time because as I growing up poor, I
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: don't take food for granted. I've eaten Boloney sandwiches for
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: a week before, or you know, whatever the church gave us,
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: and then we had to cook it and eat it.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: And you know, I know what that's like. I know
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: what it's like to count change, to go to Taco
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: Bell and buy a fifty cent taco. My life has
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: been that way before. I've been to food banks many
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: many a time when Andrew, my late husband, was alive,
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: he had HIV AIDS, AIDS for AIDS, and other places
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: had food pantries that we would avail ourselves of. Before
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: we got our gigs at KFI, and before we became
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: the first gay couple in radio to ever have a show,
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: we were literally at food banks because he was on
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: disability and I was under employed and in order not
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: to eat, and we relied on the Aid Services Foundation
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: food bank. We're going to talk more about that and
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: how you can get involved in your local community right
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: when we return, so don't go anywhere. I am correlative
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: the Correll Show. We have Jolie Mullens from the she's
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: the executive ice in the programs and operations at South
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: Farida Hunger Coalition. Will be right back, all right. We'll
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: be right back with more. But some of those numbers,
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: they're just twenty grand a year, where you don't fullify
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: twenty grand? Really, come on, hej.
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: Slap, stay.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: No show, all right. Joline Mullins is my guest. I
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: read a story of NBC News yesterday about how horrible
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: the Big Terrible Bill was for people on snap and Joline,
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: I have to ask you when you see a politician
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: or a spokesperson or what's her name, Carolyn le whose
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: husband is sixty and she twenty eight, out there talking
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: and they boast about how many people have now been
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: cut off the SNAP program, as if they've done something important.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: And when you hear about Iran, which is now going
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: into week seven and so far projected to cost sixty
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: billion dollars, which is about half of the annual SNAP
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: budget right there, and we have it to spend in
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: seven weeks on a war. How is someone in the trenches?
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: How does that make you feel?
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: You know, the frustration of seeing programs being dismantled and
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: the social safety net being dismantled, and seeing the challenges
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: that communities are facing. You know, there's when you were
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: talking about people going to apply for SNAP benefits or
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: people going to a food bank or a entry there
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: is a there's a kind of a chipping away at
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: your self esteem. Oh yeah, And especially for a parent
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: who feels that they can't take care of their children,
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: that to me is devastating. Oh.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: I watched my mom cry many a night. She she
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: just felt so terrible. She was working and she's hand
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: My mom was handicapped, four foot nine, various maladies, and
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: yet she worked. My dad was completely disabled, but he
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: was on back in the day. I don't if they
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: still do. The veterans, they gave like fifty percent disabled,
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: eighty percent disabled, and so he was deemed seventy percent disabled.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: So he didn't get the full benefit from the government.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: So we were often homeless, lived in our cars, went
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: to food banks, VFW Veteran Foreigm War Club, the American
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: Legion Food Voucher, Saint Vincent de Paul. You know, see,
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: I know what I'm I've been there, I know what
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: I'm talking about. And when we would go to the
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: welfare office, it would you could see it on my
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: mother's face. You know, my mother had a college degree,
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: and you could see how just dehumanized the whole process.
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: Well, well, heartbreaking it is. It's heartbreaking. And think about
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: now many you know, you've got grandparents and great grandparents
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: who are taking care of their not just their children,
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: but their grandchildren, their great grandchildren because their their children
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: can't find work, or they've come home because their parents
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: have a home or else.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: So what can we do? First of all, can we
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: rally our senators and congress people to increase funding or
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: to change I mean Snap needs to a increase the
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: amount of benefit that it gives, not decrease b change
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: its income allowance because if you make under fifty k
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: a year, you should qualify because food is so expensive,
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: or at least take it up to thirty you know,
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: I mean, the twenty is that's just I mean, that's
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: disgusting that, you know Elon Musk makes twenty thousand dollars
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: in interest in three minutes. You know, I read something interesting.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: A million seconds is eleven days. Because people, our brains
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: can't comprehend the difference between a million and a billion.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: We just can't. And we hear these figures of one
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: hundred and twenty eight billion, or say a million seconds
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: is eleven days, a billion seconds is thirty one years.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: That's the difference between a million and a billion. And
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: you have so many people in this country worth billions
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: and billions of dollars, while you have people lining up
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: for food. It's possibly the biggest shame and not very Christian.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: We purport to be a Christian nation. God bless America.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: May God you know, God has always brought into it.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: If Jesus came back and saw how we're treating our poor.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: I don't think he'd be happy about it. So what
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: can we do? Can we do anything to help people
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: because of them, of this terrible change in the sun?
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: Not program well, certainly advocating with our members of Congress,
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: because it's an election year for every one of our congress,
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: our representatives, and they are getting an earful when they
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: come home, Let's be honest, I mean, on both sides.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: Of the aisles.
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, and we need to keep up that pressure.
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: But the reality is that we are in in my
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: humble opinion, we're in a mindset that we're still in
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: that nineteen sixties, seventies eighties, that people are just taking
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: advantage of the system, and they're not you know.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: Who's taking advantage of the system to the tunes of
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: billions of dollars a year. Corporation. Corporate welfare is a
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: far bigger expense than helping people on snap. We spend
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: more money bailing out and giving tax credits to corporations
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: than we do to the very people that run this country.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: Every time someone says to me, I will welfare queen
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: this or law that, I'm like the biggest welfare queen
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: A mine of Jeff Bezos, you know, or Elon Musk
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: or whatever, because they take advantage of the system, end
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: up not paying taxes on billions of dollars, or get
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: subsidies and government hands handouts, and so people are quick
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: to give a corporation a government handout, but somehow it's
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: wrong to give a mother of two, you know food.
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: I hear what you're saying, and I wish that there
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: was more corporate responsibility. You know that corporations, they start foundations,
• 27:31
  Speaker 6: they need to be more held more responsible to support
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: their communities and the people who are actually making them
• 27:39
  Speaker 6: money and big profits. They need to be supporting the
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: community and supporting programs within the community. Now, we are
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: very fortunate because we do have organizations like the Children's
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: Services Council, which provides funding for We have a mobile
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: school pantry program. We have a summer breakspot program and
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: our summer breaks Bove program based Sickly feeds kids over
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: the summer school break.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: I was on the free lunch program. I got the
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: little blue card, I had to line up and I
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: was made to feel different. But so what at least
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: I ate, well, she does work that would exhaust me
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: every day I'd go ballistic. Joline Mullins, executive vice president
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: of Programs and Operations for the South Florida Hunger Coalition,
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: Call your senator, call your congress person. Advocate for snap
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: benefits and for increase in social safety net programs. And
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: in your area there is a food bank. They are
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: needed right now more than ever, and pantries. If you
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: can't give actual food, just call them and give a
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: even a twenty dollars donation can feed a family, So
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: please do that. Joline, thanks for two things, for coming
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: on the show, and thank you so very much for
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: the work that you do, you and hundreds and thousands
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: of others across the country who have taken it upon
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: yourselves to help the very neediest of us on their
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: worst days, at their worst times, helping them get through it.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: It is truly a blessing to have people like you
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: in society. Thank you so very much for all the
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: work that you do there at the Southern Florida Hunger Coalition,
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: And thank you for joining us today.
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: And thank you for allowing me to be with you today.
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: Thank you so much.
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: People like you should have the microphone a lot more
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: than people like me, because we need the message that
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: you have more than any other message right now, that
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: there are people suffering and they don't need to be,
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: And there are people hungry, including children, and they don't
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: need to be. I am Carel. Coming up next, another
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: person in Florida, David Sbridge, is going to be here
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: to talk about the real estate market. Is it a
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: good time to invest? Should you buy? Should you sell?
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: Should you just stay where you're at? All of that
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: coming up next. I am Corel. Don't go anywhere.
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: You're listening to the Corill cast driving you home?
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: Or you crazy?
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: Alrighty died he Then we are back and now we
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: are going to go to my friend David, who is
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: looking off at the stars because you know it's so pretty.
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: We're gonna go to my friend David Ethridge, who is
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: a realtor in Orlando, Florida. Live near the magic dot
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: com is the website, Live near the magic dot com.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: And we'll tell you why it's called that in just
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: a moment. And by the way, when you see someone
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: with the word realtor and the little trademark, that means something,
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: you know, that means that they've taken classes, that they're registered,
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: that they're a real live realtor, and so you really
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: do whenever buying or selling a property, want to be
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: sure that you're using a real live realtor who is
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: actually you know, gone through the paces. I didn't know
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: that until you told me, David, by the way, that
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: that really, you know that the little all realtor with
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: the little trademark or whatever actually meant something and that
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: it's important, right, that's important when you're looking for a realtor.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: Yes, the National Association of Realtors is actually the largest
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: trade association in the United States.
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: Wow, I didn't know that.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: Well.
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: He is in Orlando, also licensed in California and live
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: near Themagic dot com is the website. And we'll tell
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: you why in just a second. But I guess you
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: can guess. But first let's start talking real estate.
• 31:22
  Speaker 6: Now.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: As you know, the war in Iran has done many
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: things to gas prices and food prices and everything else.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: Has it done anything to the real estate market, because
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: it sure feels like it slowed down to me. But
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: you know, I'm here in Vegas where we were just
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: named the number one buyer's market, which means is a
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: shit ton of inventory and no one's really buying things,
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: So it feels to me it slowed down. But then again,
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: I'm in a market that has been named the number
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: one buyer's market. How are things nationally and has the
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: war in Iran done anything to real estate?
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: Well, yes, I mean I feel like it did call
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: a bit of a blip. You'll recall a couple months ago,
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: rates interest rates, mortgage interest rates were dropping a bit
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: and actually for about one day dropped down below six
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: percent into the high five point nine nine. I think
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: it was maybe five point ninety five. But immediately thereafter
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: the war began and interest rates went back up. However,
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: you know, nationally, month by month each month so far
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: this year, interest rates have come down a little bit
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: and we're sitting right now at about a quarter point
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: lower than we were at the beginning of the year.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: So I'm taking that as a good sign. And I
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: have been hearing some encouraging things about the spring market
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: here in Orlando, so I know, at least here and
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: in some other places, you know, things are starting to
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: pick up my.
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: Home, but we're also hearing that people are just holding
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: on to their money Moore because they're unsure of the
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: economic future. There going to be a recession that sort
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: of thing. Does that transferred to the real estate market.
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: If people are holding onto their money more, do they
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: tend to buy less real estate because they're afraid to
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: spend a large amount of money right now? Or is
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: it really? I remember you told me a long time
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: ago when I asked you when's the best time to
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: buy a house, and you said, when you need a house?
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: Yes, exactly. I mean that is a consideration that a
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: lot of people have, but they're uncertain about their own
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: financial situation. You know, they may put off buying, but
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: you know, you need to live somewhere, so you're either
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: going to have to rent or buy, you know, no
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: matter where you are and what the situation is. So
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: unless you find some lucky relatives to crash on their couch.
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: Or desert breeze park where you can just live on
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  Speaker 3: themagic dot com. Now, you know, as a gay person,
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: let's address this about up out the bat. You're day.
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: You've had a husband for twenty five twenty six here
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: twenty five years now.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: I am gay. I am gay. Thank you for reminding me.
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: Yes, and you and told you have been twenty five
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: plus years now.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: We pasted our twenty five year anniversary of our first date.
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: Yes, and I remember because it's the same year Andrew
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: dud I can always keep track of two thousand and one.
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: But you moved to Orlando, and a lot of people
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: are like, oh, a gay person shouldn't live in Florida,
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: but you always tell me. Look, Orlando is blue for
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: the most part. There's the theme parks which make it
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: more gay friendly. There's Wilchin Manors in Florida, which is
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: the largest gay housing, bigger than Palm Springs when it
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: comes to the amount of gay people to live there.
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: So if someone is hesitant about moving to, say Orlando,
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: what would you tell them?
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: I would say those fears are a bit unfounded. I mean,
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: obviously we are a red state, but there are lots
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: of red states. But in almost every one of those
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: red states, if you look at the math, county by county,
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: everywhere there's a city, you'll see a Blue.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: And we were addressing the elephant in the room, which
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: is you know, just today Defanta said he's pulling money
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: from gay Pride in Key West. But one thing that
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: and by the way, you don't have to be gay
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: if you want to, David will sell you a property.
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: If you're gay, straight by trans, if you're you know,
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  Speaker 3: whatever you are, if you're maga, if you're not maga,
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  Speaker 3: whatever you know, he will help you with your property.
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: He doesn't discriminate. But that being said, you know, we
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: hear all these horror stories from Ronda Santa's painting over
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: parking lots or crosswalks, and now he's pulling funding from pride.
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: Something you told me which still resonates with me, is
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: gay pride happened before we had city and state involvement,
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: and it'll continue to happen without it or with it.
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: It doesn't matter. You can't stop the pride. But in terms.
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: A lot of my listeners are in fact democratic or independent,
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: and you are, I know, you know, a progressive, So
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: you don't find it oppressive to live in Florida. And
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: you bring up a great point that there's blue people
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: in red states. I even on the website Red State,
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: Blue Date. There's a lot of like minded people. You
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  Speaker 3: just have to find your community, and that's part of
• 36:52
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• 36:56
  Speaker 3: their place that they're going to feel comfortable living in.
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: Correct. Yes, absolutely, you know, as I was mentioning earlier,
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: you know there's blue parts of every red state. So
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: I mean somewhere in the in a in a big state,
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: you're going to find your people and you're going to
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: find your tribe.
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: Now, live near the Magic dot Com is a very
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: interesting niche that you've come up with, and that is
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: you want to specialize in properties in or around the
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: theme parks of Orlando and California because you're licensed in both.
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: So if you're someone that lives in California and you
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: want to move to the theme park area of Florida,
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: they could call you or go to live near the
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: Magic dot Com. If there's someone in Orlando or another state,
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: if they're if they're in any of the fifty states
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: and they thought about living near the resorts, they you know,
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: you're the person that would be doing that with live
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: near the Magic dot Com So why that niche, by
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: the way, why why did you decide that that's going
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: to be the area that you focus on.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: Yes, I mean, as you know, I am a theme
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: park spouse and have been, you know, for the twenty
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: five years that Toby and I have been together. You know,
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: he worked at Disneyland in California for many years and
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: later here at Walt Disney World in Orlando, and now
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: he actually works at Universal. So I have kind of
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: been around the theme parks and that has been a
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: big part of my entire adult life. So so you're
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: an exercident. I'm you could call me an expert. When
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: we moved here in twenty twenty one, obviously we we
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: moved from California to Orlando. We had been here to
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: visit many times, but you know, it was it was
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: certainly eye opening to kind of get an idea of
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: what the neighborhoods are and where you can actually live
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: that you know, is in close proximity to the parks.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: I mean for us, you know, that's an important issue
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: because obviously Toby had to commute back and forth every day,
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: so we've we've got to live close by, and a
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: lot of people, whether they're theme park employees or just
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: big fans, you know, want to live in that area.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: So I decided to kind of focus on and specialize
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: in people who are looking to live near the theme parks.
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: And since I was licensed in California before, I still
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: retain my license there. I'm with Keller Williams Coastal Properties
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: in Long Beach, California. I'm with Kellerwiams Classic Realty here
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: in Orlando, but I still maintain my California license. And
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: if anyone is looking to live near the magic in California,
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: I have dozens of great agents that I've worked with
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: over the past twenty years that I've been a licensed
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: realtor that I would be happy to introduce you to
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: who will take great care of you and find you
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: your own magical place.
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: Now you know, when we I'm aging, believe it or not,
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: my next certain is and a lot of my viewers
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: might be thinking their listeners might be thinking, oh, Florida
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: is not for me or even southern Californi. It's not
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: for me. But one thing that I've been thinking a
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: lot about and I've been sharing on my show is retirement,
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: building wealth, you know, not being broke. You know how
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: to retire without being broke. And one of the things
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: that's always recommended is income properties, you know, rentals, whether
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: it's long term or Airbnb. Now maybe it's just me,
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: but I can't think of a better place to buy
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: an Airbnb than buy a theme park where there's going
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: to be a NonStop barrage of tourists. So is that
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: a good investment for someone if let's say they wanted
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: to buy something out there and kiss me or a
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: city that allows the airbnbs? Is that a good source
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: of revenue? And how would someone manage that if they're
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: not there?
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: I mean, yes, it definitely can be a good source
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: of revenue. It can also be quite tight, depending on
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: you know, the property, the nightly rate you're able to get,
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: and how many nights during the month that you're able
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: to keep the property booked. A lot of places here,
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: especially those that are very close to the theme park,
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: are have on site management, so you know, if you're
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: concerned about being from Afar and managing this property. There
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: are all kinds of different property managers available that can
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: help you out. And as I said, a lot of
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: the properties, especially those that are kind of a resort like,
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: are going to have an on site manager to handle
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: that for you.
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: And you actually work with someone there through Keller Williams
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: right across the hall from you, that is a management company.
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: So if someone were let's say in San Jose, were
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: to go to live near the Magic and say I'm
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: interested in buying an investment property in Florida, you actually
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: have an associate already that could help them manage that. Yes,
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: absolutely so, given you know, given that and given the
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: market today, how much are we talking? For instance, I
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: know what a two bedroom here in Las Vegas goes
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: for right now. They start at about two fifty two
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: hundred to two fifty, and they go all the way up.
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: They can go up to not as high as LA,
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: but you know they can go up to three fifty
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: four hundred thousand for a decent. If you want to
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: live on the strip or right next to the strip
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: in a high rise, of course it's going to be higher,
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: and the HLA is going to be huge. But in Florida,
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: what are what are property values? Home values going for
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: right now? Is it as expensive as California or is
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: it more affordable? If I wanted a two bedroom condo
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: in Orlando, maybe somewhere nearer to the Theme Parks, would
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: I be spending a shit ton of money or would
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: I just be spending an okay amount of money.
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: Well, we're definitely not as expensive as California. Although the
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: prices here, especially in the Orlando metro, have gone up,
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: you know, a decent amount since COVID when you know
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: a lot of people, a lot of demand for properties
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: in the area happened, and you know that kind of
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: drove prices up a little bit. But things here I
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: feel are still very affordable, especially when you compare it
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: to someplace like California. I have an agent in my
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: office that I was talking to earlier. She had a
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: new listing that came on the market this week that
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: I thought was a perfect one for us to kind
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: of look at here on your show. It's at the
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: Lake Buena Vista Resort Village. This is a three bedroom,
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: two bath condo a little over twelve hundred square feet
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: and the list price is one hundred and seventy five
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: thousand dollars. What. Yes, However, as you may imagine, the
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: HOA fee is quite high. It's nine hundred and forty
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: five dollars a month HOA fee. But of course this
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: is at a high rise resort condominium that has you know,
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: restaurants downstairs, that has you know, a pool with a
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: big pirate ship.
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Now people don't realize something that I came to
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: realize in Florida. And he'll appreciate this reference because I
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: looked in Florida obviously when I sold Park Howard, something
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: that which you David used to live at Park Howard.
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: He was the first resident of Park Howard with me
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: and Andrew. He lived there before anybody else, me Andrew
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: and him. And when I was looking those condo complexes
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: out there, they're like cruise ships. I mean literally, if
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: you're paying that much for the HOA, you're getting incredible
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: amenities that are pretty much like being on a cruise ship.
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: You know, you're getting access to restaurants right there in
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: your house, world class pools and spas. Oftentimes, they have
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: masseuses and things that come in two or three days
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: a week. They have movie rooms, they have. I mean,
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: they have a lot of stuff for the money. Now,
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: it's a lot to live at Lake Buenavista nine hundred
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: for HOA. But if your mortgage in only one seventy five,
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: that mortgage payment ain't gonna be nothing.
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: So to point out that this is a condo hotel,
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: this is designed for short term rental, so you cannot
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: actually live at this property year round. The owners typically
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: have six months of the year that they can occupy
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: the property.
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: You told me about those these condos hotels. I almost
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: bought it by mistake. I almost looked at one here
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: in Las Vegas, and when I looked at it, I thought, well,
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: this is great. It's right by the strip. It's so affordable.
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: And they said, well, yeah, you can only live here
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: three months out of the year and then we rent
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: it the other nine months and you get a you know,
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: percentage of all of that. And I thought, well, what
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: am I supposed to do for the other nine months
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: of the year. Where am I going to be?
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: But for an.
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: Investment property, Hell, one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars,
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: you put fifty grand down, you finance one hundred and
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: twenty five your mortgage is going to be I'm guessing,
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: but you know we're talking seven eight hundred dollars at
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: in the HOA, you're still at sixteen seventeen hundred. You
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: charge two hundred bucks a night for Airbnb. After eight
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: nights you're paid for, you're done old. So that kind
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: of math is it's good if you're trying to look
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: for an investment.
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: Yes, I did run the numbers on this particular one
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: that we were talking about. Your total monthly between mortgage,
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: HOA fees, your taxes, your insurance is a little over
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: two grand a month. And yeah, if you rented out
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: for two hundred a night, which you can probably get
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: more during the busy seasons around the holidays and you know,
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: in the peak summer, but yeah, at seventy four percent occupancy,
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: then you know that gives you a net profit every
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: month of over two thousand dollars.
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: Well, hell, I'll buy the damn place. I'll take out
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: a third mortgage on my house. I'll buy the damn place.
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: I could use two k a month. That's my that's
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: my pension right there, and they don't count that. When
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: you're on a pension or so security, that doesn't count
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: as income because it's not. Now, what are the challenges?
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: You know, we talk about real estate and the esoteric
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: here on the show. We talk about interest rates, we
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: talk about what states people are moving to or from,
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: We talk about real estate issues. But what are the
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: challenges right now twenty twenty six Trump's economy in being
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: a realtor? You know, what are some of the biggest
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: challenges that face your industry right now? Is it consumer confidence?
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: Is it the unstableness of the government, or is your
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: is real estate kind of immune to some of those changes?
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: And as an agent, do these present challenges or not
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: so much?
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean those all can be challenges. I mean,
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: like we were talking about earlier, you know, just the
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: you know, people need to have faith that they're going
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: to have an income, you know, a steady income if
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: they're going to buy a house and commit to something
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: like that. But you know, overall, real estate is somewhat
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: immune to those kind of factors because, like I said,
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: you've got to live somewhere. You either have to rent
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: or you have to buy or be fortunate enough to
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: find someone to let you say with them.
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: As a realtor, how do you feel when you hear
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: the NonStop cry from gen Y and gen Z that
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: they're never ever going to be able to afford a home.
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: We hear that all the time. Now, you know, I'm
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: never going to be able to afford a home. I'm
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: never going to be able to buy a house. As
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: a realtor, when you hear these young people say that,
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: what is your counter to that?
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean I can understand where they're coming from.
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: It's quite difficult. And you and I both know that
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: it's very difficult to you know, to save up enough
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: for a down payment, especially you know nowadays, when you
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: know you have to you know, even a starter home
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: is two hundred and fifty three hundred thousand dollars and
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: you need to come up with you know, five to
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: ten percent of that. I mean, that can be a
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: hard road for a lot of people, but it really
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: kind of all comes down to your own determination.
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: I mean, but wasn't it always hard? It wasn't easy
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: for you when you bought Cantel. It wasn't easy for
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: me and Andrew when we bought Park Howard in nineteen
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: ninety nine. They act like in some way that our generation,
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: your gen X, I'm a boomer technically, but they act
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: like our two generations gen X and Boomers had it
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: so much easier to buy property. That's just not true.
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: It's always been hard to buy property. There's always been
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: the five or ten percent or more down that you've
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: had to pay. And there's been times where interest rates
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: were seven eight percent. I bought Park Howard interest rates
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: was seven percent, So you know, it's always been difficult.
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: So why do you think they think it's harder now
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: than it used to be.
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: It's you know, I think it's just being you know,
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: in that position at that moment. I mean, they look
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: at the high prices and they think, how am I
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: going to save up that amount of money? And I
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: know that you and I.
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: We both these are the same people that will pay
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: two thousand dollars for bottle service at the Chainsmokers or
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: they'll I get done with them. David, I was like,
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: I don't want to fucking hear it. It's like, if
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: you put your mind, it's never been easy to buy
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: a high us. You've always had to save up. They're
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: a little mad that there's no generational wealth, you know.
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: They seem to think that our parents helped us. My
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: parents didn't give me a dime to buy a home.
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: I know your mother didn't give you a dime to
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: buy a home. If it weren't for Leon McKittrick, I
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: would have never been able to buy a house.
• 50:17
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: And so they act like we were just like candid.
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: Oh here here's a beautiful home for you, or oh here,
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: here's fifty thousand dollars for a down payment. And that
• 50:26
  Speaker 3: just wasn't our experience, and yet they seem to think
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: that it was. And I don't understand. We'll finish up
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• 50:51
  Speaker 1: No is show.
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that is my biggest thing. I hear them screaming nowadays. Oh,
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: we'll never be able to buy a house. I'm going
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: to be a renter forever. And I'll never forget when
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: Leon McKittrick came to me and Andrew at Huntington Beach,
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: when we lived at four oh nine Lincoln with a
• 51:11
  Speaker 3: house where you met me at where after the Grinder,
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: After we had lunch at the Grinder, we went over
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: to that house and saw my fish tank. I'll never
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: forget when Leon said, how much are you paying for
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: rent here and at the time it's the four bedroom
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: how many be one to three bedroom houses, maybe four
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: And it was seventeen hundred and ninety five dollars, which
• 51:31
  Speaker 3: we know right now that house would be four grand,
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: but it was seventeen ninety five back then. And Leon said,
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: that's a mortgage, you know, And so he then helped,
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: and he was creative. He said, I'll give the down payment.
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: You guys assume the note when you can refinance it
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: in your name, you refy it, you pull out the
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: money that I put in, and then give me fifty
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: percent of the appreciated value it's gone up since you
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: bought it. So we did, and we ended up paying
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: him out like twenty eight thousand dollars or something like that,
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: because he gave ten down and then it appreciated thirty
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: six thousand dollars, so we cut that in half. And
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: we when we refined in Andrew's name, we took out
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: that cash and gave it to him and we were
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: in the house. There are creative ways to buy property.
• 52:23
  Speaker 3: And as you said, these gen Y and gen zs
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: are paying rent anyway, and so it just always boggles
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: my mind that they seem to think that home ownership
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: is out of their reach when they've probably never spoken
• 52:37
  Speaker 3: to a realtor. And a realtor is a person who
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: can put things in perspective for you as to what
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: can you afford? What is your maximum mortgage payment that
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: you can afford, and can we find you a property
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: in that price range? I mean that's really what you do. Right.
• 52:54
  Speaker 3: Someone comes to you and says, I need to buy
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: a house. I've got twenty grand to put down, I
• 53:00
  Speaker 3: only have eighteen of months to spend on a mortgage.
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: Can you find me something? And that's why people use realtors.
• 53:07
  Speaker 3: So I think these kids would be better served if
• 53:10
  Speaker 3: they called someone like you and talk to them before
• 53:12
  Speaker 3: they thought they're never ever going to be able to
• 53:14
  Speaker 3: buy a house, because you guys get all kinds of
• 53:18
  Speaker 3: weird situations owner financing, where an owner will finance or
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: I mean, there's all kinds of different ways that people
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: sell houses, and you guys are the ones that know that,
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: and they never even call a realtor. They just scream, oh,
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: I can't buy a house. I can't buy a house.
• 53:33
  Speaker 3: It's like, well, you don't really know that you can't
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: buy a house. You could certainly buy that one in
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: Florida for one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars. They'll
• 53:40
  Speaker 3: tell you that. So going forward with live near themagic
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: dot com, it's your hope that, of course people will
• 53:47
  Speaker 3: want to live near the park there. But also if
• 53:50
  Speaker 3: they're selling, you specialize in long distance sales. So if
• 53:54
  Speaker 3: someone in California wants to move to Florida, you could
• 53:57
  Speaker 3: actually handle both their transactions because of your licenses in
• 54:02
  Speaker 3: both and you work with other agents and so, or
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: if someone in California wanted to buy a house in
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: Florida just for income reasons, you could still handle that.
• 54:10
  Speaker 3: They wouldn't have to come out to Florida, right that
• 54:12
  Speaker 3: you can handle it with them in California.
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: Yes, I mean yeah, you know, as you know, I've
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: been here in Florida for almost five years, but I
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: just got my real estate license here. For the last
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: four years or so, I was still working with my
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: same real estate team in Long Beach, California, and I
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  Speaker 2: did everything remotely, so you could consider me a bit
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  Speaker 2: of an expert in remote transactions. I know how to
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  Speaker 2: coordinate everything, you know, with all the vendors, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: the different people involved in the transaction. I know how
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: to handle all of that from a distance. So if
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  Speaker 2: you know that's.
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  Speaker 3: The kind of it. Is it rough right now to
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  Speaker 3: be a realtor? Is there a lot of realtors and
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  Speaker 3: few properties or is it the same as it always been?
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  Speaker 2: It's it's the same as it's always been. There are
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  Speaker 2: many many realtors, and you know, maybe not as many
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  Speaker 2: properties on the market right now as there have been,
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  Speaker 2: you know, some years in the past. But I actually
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: just today finally I was inducted into the Uh where's
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  Speaker 2: my lapel pen?
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  Speaker 3: I was showing it earlier there?
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  Speaker 2: Oh well, yes, I was inducted into the Orlando Regional
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  Speaker 2: Realtors Association.
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  Speaker 3: And how do you know if a realtor's right for you?
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: How do you know to pick? How do you pick one?
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  Speaker 3: I picked one because she brought me a note pad
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  Speaker 3: and I was on my refrigerator door. So she happened
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  Speaker 3: to be a good one. But I got lucky. But
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: how do you know how to pick a realtor?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I would say, you know, you can start with
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: googling and see who there is. And if I were you,
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: or if I were one of your listeners looking to
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: find a realtor interview a couple of people. You're gonna
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: want to talk to a couple of people and make
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: sure that the one that you are working with is
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: the right one for you. Make sure that you guys
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: are on the same page, that you have the same
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  Speaker 2: sort of vision for you know what your client wants
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  Speaker 2: in a house, and that the realtor is the right
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: person to kind of help you achieve that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I knew that Shannon was LGBTQ friendly because of
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  Speaker 3: the neighborhood she served, So I knew that she, you know,
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: gay people weren't a shock to her. So for me,
• 56:17
  Speaker 3: that was important to have someone that understood that, you know,
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: me and Andrew and understood a gay couple and the
• 56:26
  Speaker 3: challenges that we faced, even legally we had to do
• 56:29
  Speaker 3: paperwork a little differently than others who could have been
• 56:32
  Speaker 3: married at the time. And so I do think it's
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: important when you choose a realator. You don't necessarily if
• 56:38
  Speaker 3: you're gay, you don't have to choose a gay realator,
• 56:40
  Speaker 3: but it certainly wouldn't hurt if you're African American, you
• 56:43
  Speaker 3: might feel more comfortable with an African American realtor as
• 56:45
  Speaker 3: opposed to not you really want to choose someone that
• 56:48
  Speaker 3: you think reflects your values and what you want from
• 56:52
  Speaker 3: your house, because ultimately it is a very big investment.
• 56:56
  Speaker 3: All right, It's lived near Themagic dot com. Live near
• 56:59
  Speaker 3: the Magic dot com. If you're interested in real estate
• 57:02
  Speaker 3: in California or in San Nevada, in Florida, near any
• 57:07
  Speaker 3: of the theme parks, We're gonna have David come back
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: on and check in with us every few weeks to
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: talk about real estate. You just in general, if you
• 57:16
  Speaker 3: have any real estate questions for David, meaning not necessarily
• 57:20
  Speaker 3: like you want to buy yourself, but just a real
• 57:22
  Speaker 3: estate question. Of course, he can't give you advice if
• 57:25
  Speaker 3: you're entering contracts or anything, but if you have a
• 57:28
  Speaker 3: general real estate question, you can always send them to
• 57:30
  Speaker 3: contact at reallycarel dot com. That's contact at reallycorrel dot com,
• 57:34
  Speaker 3: and I will forward those questions off to David. Anything
• 57:37
  Speaker 3: real estate related that you might be wondering. He'd be
• 57:40
  Speaker 3: happy to answer your questions and we'll save them for
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: the next time he's on air. So if you have
• 57:44
  Speaker 3: any real estate questions, contact at reallycarel dot com. Contact
• 57:49
  Speaker 3: at reallycorrel dot com the next time he's on We're
• 57:52
  Speaker 3: gonna talk about some of the markets and these surveys
• 57:54
  Speaker 3: because David, we always hear these top ten markets for
• 57:57
  Speaker 3: this and top to five markets for that, or don't
• 58:00
  Speaker 3: move here or definitely move over there. And I always
• 58:04
  Speaker 3: take those with a grain of salt because I think
• 58:06
  Speaker 3: to myself, move where you want to live, like, don't
• 58:10
  Speaker 3: move because there was a list of ten places that
• 58:13
  Speaker 3: said these are the best markets. If you don't like
• 58:15
  Speaker 3: those cities, don't go there, you know, move where you
• 58:18
  Speaker 3: want to be, And so I think that's really important.
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: Definitely. So yeah, if if your listeners have any questions,
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: I'm happy to.
• 58:29
  Speaker 3: He will answer and they'll be and they'll be great answers.
• 58:32
  Speaker 3: I am Corel Be who you want to be is
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  Speaker 3: near themagic dot com. We'll see you all tomorrow Tuesday.
• 58:40
  Speaker 3: Have a great rest of the day.
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