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Speaker 1: through ordinary Americans doing extraordinary things. Take the Grammar Stand.

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Speaker 2: Okay, there's one stand, the Grandma Stand giving away something

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Speaker 8: Record like to share your story and try and you know,

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much. All right, there you have it,

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Speaker 1: Glad to have you here. By the way, I hope

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Speaker 1: This is the Steve Griverers Show. It has been a

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Speaker 1: Joeanils Congressant Jack Bergman from Michigan's first congressional district. He's

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Speaker 5: Nice to see you, Steven.

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Speaker 8: Just so you know, let's get let's get the important

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Speaker 1: You would wonder this year I hear snows up to

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Speaker 5: Well pun intended with the boat.

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Speaker 8: They are missing the point that especially sentinel as it's

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Speaker 8: So the narco terrorists make their money and in conjunction

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Speaker 8: Well, I would say the the malady of Trump arrangement

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Speaker 8: syndrome is only growing across the country, and we've got

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Speaker 8: our Democrat colleagues who just will not face the truth.

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Speaker 8: The reality of what our role is here in Congress

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Speaker 8: is to ensure we've got a strong legislative branch, but

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Speaker 8: a strong executive branch to do exactly what President Trump

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Speaker 8: is doing and keeping Americans safe. It's not only about

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Speaker 8: the safety and the security, it's about the economic viability

447
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Speaker 8: of what we're doing here in Congress that the Democrats

448
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Speaker 8: don't like because we're literally eliminating some of their pet

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Speaker 8: projects that siphon money taxpayers money from the government, but

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Speaker 8: don't provide returns for the American taxpayers who provide.

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Speaker 5: That money in the front end. It's just morally wrong.

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Speaker 1: And speaking of taking money from taxpayers giving them a

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Speaker 1: little internals. Stick to that healthcare idea you mentioned a

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Speaker 1: moment ago. Look, the Affordable Care Act has been an

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Speaker 1: abject failure. I think it was by the I don't

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Speaker 1: think they ever intended to work. But here you are.

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Speaker 1: The Democrats set a deadline for the expiration of these

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Speaker 1: enhanced subsidies. They did that. I think they did that

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Speaker 1: looking forward to the midterm elections. It's all an attempt

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Speaker 1: to blame you and other Republicans when it's a failure.

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Speaker 1: But health savings accounts great idea. Health associations where millions

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Speaker 1: of people could get together and negotiate with United Health

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Speaker 1: or Blue Cross and Blue Shield. These are good ideas. Now,

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Speaker 1: the question to you is this, do you extend the

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Speaker 1: subsidies for some period of time while you rebuild a

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Speaker 1: healthcare system that works for the majority of America and

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Speaker 1: not just the few.

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Speaker 8: I'll tell you what, if they could figure out which

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Speaker 8: subsidies that should be extended, I would consider. But to

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Speaker 8: do a blanket extension of the subsidies, the answer is no,

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Speaker 8: because right now the insurance companies are controlling everything. They're

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Speaker 8: getting all the money people who apply and are eligible

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Speaker 8: for healthcare planned subsidies don't even use the healthcare system

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Speaker 8: goes right.

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Speaker 5: To the insurance contraction.

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Speaker 8: So this scam that's being perpetrated by the Democrats, if

477
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Speaker 8: we could just reduce the fraud, let alone to the

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Speaker 8: abuse and the waist. But the fraud in the system

479
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Speaker 8: the way it's currently set up, our delivery of healthcare

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Speaker 8: to the people who need it, number one is not

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Speaker 8: going to change.

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Speaker 5: It's the fraudsters and the people who.

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Speaker 8: Don't rate a subsidy because they make a whole ton

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Speaker 8: of money they don't need it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we need to save people money and give them

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Speaker 1: better care, especially in rural places like your district, A

487
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Speaker 1: lot of rural places there, speaking of you, of that,

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Speaker 1: the cheapest gas in Michigan right now can be found

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Speaker 1: in Delta County, Michigan. Two thirty nine a gallon is

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Speaker 1: the average. That's good news for working people, isn't it.

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Speaker 5: Well, it is good news.

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Speaker 8: What what President Trump said is what he's going to

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Speaker 8: do is is you know, again, working family tax cuts,

494
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Speaker 8: which you know that one big beautiful bill was not

495
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Speaker 8: well named, but this is for working families. And what

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Speaker 8: we're going to see come six months from now, when

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Speaker 8: people file their tax returns, they're going to see that they've.

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Speaker 5: Got more money in their pocket in twenty eighteen. We

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Speaker 5: didn't act fast enough in twenty.

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Speaker 8: Seventeen with the TCJA tax cuts and jobs at right.

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Speaker 5: We acted this time early.

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Speaker 8: In the second Trump administration, so that tax payer will

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Speaker 8: feel that difference three months from now.

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Speaker 1: You know, not everybody's entitled to a white Christmas, Jack,

505
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Speaker 1: but where you live, you are, and I'm sure you'll

506
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Speaker 1: have a wonderful white Christmas. I appreciate you coming here,

507
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Speaker 1: so enjoy the snow. I'm hoping you're home for Christmas.

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Speaker 1: And if you are, merry Christmas, my friend, I will.

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Speaker 8: Merry Christmas and snow for us in the Up and

510
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Speaker 8: northern Lower is all. It's green because the people come

511
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Speaker 8: to recreate. They ski, they snowmobile, they ice fish, so

512
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Speaker 8: we want the snow.

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Speaker 1: The ski resorts are having a bang up season. We're

514
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Speaker 1: a two hundred and fifty percent down here around Lancing

515
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Speaker 1: of snowfall for the season. Already, it's snowing everywhere. Kins

516
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Speaker 1: with Jack Bergman always a pleasure.

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Speaker 5: Merry Christmas.

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Speaker 1: Merry Christmas. Will take a break and be right back. Well,

519
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:35,600
Speaker 1: it's Christmas time, of course. So you hear about porch

520
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Speaker 1: pirates sealing stuff off the people's porches. You hear about

521
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Speaker 1: houses getting broken into and Steff kidding some soone, what

522
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Speaker 1: if they came right after your house itself. They skipped

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Speaker 1: the porch, they skipped the big screen TV, they skipped

524
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Speaker 1: the PS five didn't care about that, came straight for

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Speaker 1: your house. If you don't think you can happen, I

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Speaker 1: think you're mistaken. Joining me now, Natalie Demanez Title Theft

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Speaker 1: Education Specialist for Home Title Lock. Natalie. Nice to see

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Speaker 1: again today.

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Speaker 9: Hi see You've always great to be with you.

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Speaker 4: Guys.

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Speaker 1: We've done some horror stories about people, you know, signing

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Speaker 1: documents thinking they were getting a loan or think they

533
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Speaker 1: were doing something else, and all of a sudden they

534
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Speaker 1: realize there's a letter in the mailbox that says that

535
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Speaker 1: I'm foreclosure. Like what happened? And you've got a story

536
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Speaker 1: today even more sinister. I think a ringleader of Dee

537
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Speaker 1: Theft Creuse sentenced for sealing homes and queens. They didn't

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Speaker 1: just get one. This was their business plan, wasn't it.

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Absolutely?

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Speaker 9: And this I think the scariest part about this, and

542
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Speaker 9: something that we haven't really seen before, is that this

543
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Speaker 9: man over the last thirty years that did this has

544
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Speaker 9: been sentenced to three felonies and multiple other arrests. I

545
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Speaker 9: think it was twelve different convictions, and they're calling him

546
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Speaker 9: the John Doe Deed theft ringleader because authority is although

547
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Speaker 9: this man has already gone through sentencing for all of

548
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Speaker 9: these crimes, has not been identified. And he actually got

549
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Speaker 9: caught doing this because his former roommate, who knew him

550
00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:03,200
Speaker 9: as Ace, he stole this man's identity and that's how

551
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:04,840
Speaker 9: he ended up getting caught, was that he stole this

552
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 9: man's identity and then went through stealing three different people

553
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Speaker 9: in New York's homes under this false, false identity, false names,

554
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Speaker 9: and did a bunch of different fraudulent documents and stuff.

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Speaker 1: Three homes that we know of, one in Queen's Village,

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Speaker 1: one in ke Gardens Hills, and one in Jamaica Estates.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he was just he's going from neighborhood to

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Speaker 1: neighborhood and just scamming people. And so when you sit

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Speaker 1: there and say, you know what my homes find, how

560
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Speaker 1: do you know when you first joined me here years ago.

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Speaker 1: Now you said, where's your title to your house? I'm like,

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Speaker 1: I have no idea who looks at that stuff? I

563
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Speaker 1: didn't I do now I have home title log because

564
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Speaker 1: you made me stand thinking, I have no idea who's

565
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Speaker 1: looking at my stuff? In this day and age when

566
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Speaker 1: everything's interconnected and they can find out information on you

567
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Speaker 1: and this and that. And you got to cover your

568
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Speaker 1: six as they say, don't you absolutely?

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Speaker 9: And when you say you know, where's my title? There's

570
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Speaker 9: a big misconception that someone might have a copy of

571
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Speaker 9: their title paperwork. You know, we see it all the

572
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Speaker 9: time online. My deed's in my safe, no one has

573
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Speaker 9: access to it. But all of this is public record, right,

574
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Speaker 9: So your title is available online. It's avaible to walk

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Speaker 9: in because it's considered a government document. It is public record.

576
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Speaker 9: So I can go in, I can look at anyone's

577
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Speaker 9: property information. I can look at their signature on record.

578
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Speaker 9: I can pay generally either free or ten cents a

579
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Speaker 9: page and get a copy and bring it home.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I had this. I had this happen just recently.

581
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Speaker 1: I've told this story on the show, but I'll share

582
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Speaker 1: it again. Now. I had a guy that needed to

583
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Speaker 1: go on a piece of property I have not too

584
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Speaker 1: far from here, and so I get this call from

585
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Speaker 1: this unknown number. I don't know who this is, and

586
00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 1: I take the call on the guy, Yeah, I just

587
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 1: wanted to walk on your property. I had something to

588
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Speaker 1: go over there. I said, Okay, how did you figure

589
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Speaker 1: out who I am? He had an app on his

590
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Speaker 1: phone that said here are the properties and here's who

591
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Speaker 1: owns it. Oh and by the way, then I was

592
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Speaker 1: able to do a search and I was able to

593
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Speaker 1: find some more information. I was able to get to you.

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Speaker 1: And I'm like, how frightening is that he just went

595
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Speaker 1: on an app and it tells you who the property

596
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Speaker 1: owners are, how much land they have, what their mailing

597
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Speaker 1: address is. And I'm like, are you kidding me? It

598
00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:08,400
Speaker 1: was a hunting app, Believe it or not. It wasn't

599
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Speaker 1: even something fancy just for people who go out in

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Speaker 1: the woods.

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Speaker 8: Yeah.

602
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Speaker 9: No, And it happens all the time. Actually, I mean,

603
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Speaker 9: you know this because we did this with you, and

604
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:19,160
Speaker 9: we first started working with you. I usually like to

605
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Speaker 9: kind of do a deep dive and see what I

606
00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:23,760
Speaker 9: can find just within an hour out with any of

607
00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:26,840
Speaker 9: the new you know, our partners, And we had one

608
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Speaker 9: partner in the beginning of working with them, that got

609
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Speaker 9: so freaked out because he was a pretty high profile

610
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Speaker 9: i'd say, you know, comedian, actor, whatever, he'd now kind

611
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Speaker 9: of influencer. He got so freaked out that he didn't

612
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Speaker 9: want to do the ad anymore that we said that

613
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Speaker 9: we were going to do, because he didn't want people

614
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Speaker 9: knowing that we could find the information so easily. It's

615
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Speaker 9: scary stuff.

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Speaker 1: That's kind of a first, isn't it. Look you're freaking

617
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Speaker 1: me out, dude, stop it. You're finding out too much,

618
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:57,720
Speaker 1: but it is. It is too easy to find out

619
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Speaker 1: information on people. Be more privacy. But until that happens,

620
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:05,320
Speaker 1: you have to protect yourself because if you lose your

621
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Speaker 1: home in one of these deals. We had the elderly

622
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Speaker 1: man you talked about here recently who was set on

623
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Speaker 1: the curb. He had signed a piece of paper, thought

624
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Speaker 1: that he was getting an extra loan for his house

625
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Speaker 1: to pay off some debts, and before you know, he

626
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:19,520
Speaker 1: didn't own the house that he had been in for decades.

627
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Speaker 1: If you think it doesn't happen, it does happen, and

628
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Speaker 1: it's frightening. So what does home title lot do that's

629
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Speaker 1: different than anybody else? To protect people, Yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 9: And I do want to make one note too, because

631
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Speaker 9: you're talking about the gentleman, the elderly gentleman. Unfortunately, the

632
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:36,680
Speaker 9: elderly are our most vulnerable. And in the case like

633
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Speaker 9: the one that we just talked about, he presented himself

634
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Speaker 9: to these three homeowners in New York as someone that

635
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Speaker 9: can help them with new loans on their houses that

636
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:49,080
Speaker 9: were foreclosing and things like that. So be very aware,

637
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:52,000
Speaker 9: guys of just even it doesn't only happen online. It

638
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:53,840
Speaker 9: can be your neighbor, it can be a family member,

639
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:55,320
Speaker 9: it can be someone saying they're going to help you.

640
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:57,320
Speaker 9: So just be very aware the people around you. But

641
00:33:57,400 --> 00:33:58,880
Speaker 9: what we do here at Home Title LOC is we

642
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:02,320
Speaker 9: offer our million dollar triple lock protection. What that means is,

643
00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:05,480
Speaker 9: first is we monitor your property twenty four to seven. Second,

644
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:09,160
Speaker 9: second is urgent alerts right, very important to keep an

645
00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:11,839
Speaker 9: eye on things when you know scammers are obviously going

646
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:13,759
Speaker 9: to be looking for these things more than you are.

647
00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:17,720
Speaker 9: And last, but not least and most importantly, our restoration

648
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 9: will spend up to a million dollars to fix the

649
00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:22,440
Speaker 9: fraud get everything back in your name. In the case

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Speaker 9: that we were talking about, earlier in New York. Because

651
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Speaker 9: New York has some laws in place in just the

652
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Speaker 9: city that they passed in twenty twenty four. This man

653
00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:34,239
Speaker 9: is being criminally prosecuted. Most other places in the US

654
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:37,320
Speaker 9: don't have that. So what happens is the civil process

655
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:40,560
Speaker 9: is completely separate from anything criminal if they can prosecute

656
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:43,759
Speaker 9: and these homeowners, two of them, their home was sold

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Speaker 9: to a third party already, so now they can't even

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Speaker 9: just restore the title. They have to go through this

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Speaker 9: people that illegally purchased it. So what we do is

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Speaker 9: we handle all that for the homeowner, no out of

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Speaker 9: pocket costs. You don't have to, you know, hire a

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Speaker 9: lawyer and go through all this for years. We have

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Speaker 9: it for you so that you just you have peace

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Speaker 9: of mind, don't have to worry about it.

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Speaker 1: It's all you man. It's a frightening world. And at Christmas,

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Speaker 1: don't think they're going to take the holiday off. Like

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Speaker 1: I said, not a porch pirate. Now somebody's trying to

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Speaker 1: break in your house and steal your jewelry or whatever

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Speaker 1: they want to steal the whole thing because you've been

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Speaker 1: paying your mortgage for twenty thirty years. Maybe it's paid off.

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Speaker 1: There's all this equity sitting there. It's like a big

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Speaker 1: pot of money for them, and that's the target. Hometitle

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Speaker 1: lock dot com promo code Gruber. Thank you, Natalie. I

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Speaker 1: got to run, but I appreciate people protect yourselves in

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Speaker 1: the Christmas season. I'll be right back, well, jumping back

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Speaker 1: into it now. Ah love Christmas, I do. It wasn't

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Speaker 1: as white here as I thought some parts of the country,

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Speaker 1: not as much snow. We had two hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: percent of snow in November and December here in southern Michigan,

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Speaker 1: either two hundred and fifty percent of average. Maybe get

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Speaker 1: piled with snow throughout November, got big snowstorms early December.

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Speaker 1: It's slowed up a little bit, but it's on the way.

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Speaker 1: And I guess what I'm getting at here. Winter comes

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Speaker 1: every year. Remember all those predictions about ice free winters

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Speaker 1: and ice free summers and the Arctic was going to

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Speaker 1: thaw and the whole world was going to hell. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that didn't happen. Another Christmas miracle. Al Gore's wrong for

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Speaker 1: another year. Yeah, they're just wrong all the time, all

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Speaker 1: the time, and they try to gin up this stuff

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Speaker 1: to try to create fear, and by creating fear, they

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Speaker 1: try to create control. Oh, you can only have an EV. Well,

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Speaker 1: the EV's went away, Ford Motor Company dumping almost twenty

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Speaker 1: billion dollars in a write off and saying, yeah, we're

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Speaker 1: not gonna make the Ford Lightning anymore. We're not going

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Speaker 1: to make these evs anymore. We're going back to hybrids

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Speaker 1: and gas and diesel. I mean, Toyota had this figured

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Speaker 1: out a long time ago. Hybrid's gas and diesel. Right,

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Speaker 1: good stuff makes sense. So I am bullish on twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty six. I feel good about where we're going. Energy

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Speaker 1: policies are the foundation of a great economune in America,

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Speaker 1: and Chris Wright is a fabulous job as a Secretary

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Speaker 1: of Energy in the first year on the job for

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Speaker 1: the Trump administration. I expect only better things to come

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Speaker 1: in year two. Of course, it all comes down to

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Speaker 1: the midterm elections, and I believe by the fourth of July,

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Speaker 1: by the time we celebrate America's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary,

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Speaker 1: this economy can be can be in really good shape.

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Speaker 1: Really good shape, which means things will be humming along.

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Speaker 1: People are going to be smiling when they go into

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Speaker 1: the ballot box. I mean, if you get eleven to

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Speaker 1: twenty thousand dollars refund and two thousand dollars on top

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Speaker 1: of that, and you got some money in your pocketting

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Speaker 1: gases to twenty five a gawn or whatever it is

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Speaker 1: by then could be cheap. It could be bull of

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Speaker 1: two dollars a gallon. I think that makes people pretty positive.

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Speaker 1: So I'd just like to say, let's focus on that

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Speaker 1: on this Christmas Day, the good things that have happened

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Speaker 1: in twenty five remember this Christmas. Choose to accept the

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Speaker 1: Christmas miracle of Christ and be positive about the future.

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Speaker 1: I'll take a break. Well, another hour of The Steve

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Speaker 1: Groover Show straight ahead,