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Speaker 1: His book is released today. It's called Political Prisoner, Persecuted,

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry. New York State Governor even said, wow, I

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Speaker 1: got to give credit. The governor of Texas is brilliant.

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Speaker 1: like it. Anyway, My friend got a role. It's uh,

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Speaker 1: it's a level of lawlessness I've never thought i'd see

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Speaker 1: from a president at all at all. Right, back to

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Speaker 1: our busy phones. Alan is in Houston, Texas. Alan, how

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Speaker 1: are you? Thanks for checking in my front? Hey, Sean,

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Speaker 1: you're a great American and I appreciate everything you do

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Speaker 1: for us every day. You too, my friend, what's going on. Hey. Um,

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Speaker 1: I'm a contractor and I do mostly remodeling, and um,

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Speaker 1: I agree with the one that the housing market is

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Speaker 1: the homes that they currently have. They're not gonna you know,

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Speaker 1: bustered up to a five and a half or a

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Speaker 1: you know six point um, you know interest rate. They're

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Speaker 1: the other thing that I've noticed is that you know,

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Speaker 1: and so it's easier for me to actually get products

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Speaker 1: Let me help you out by reading you a headline

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Speaker 1: in today's New York Post. Okay, it says housing recession

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Speaker 1: is hitting home. I don't know if you listen regularly

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Speaker 1: till the housing market gets hit, that's next. And it

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Speaker 1: blown recession as tight ended economic policy, surging expenses way

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Speaker 1: on home builders. I say, the first thing that's going

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Speaker 1: it's it's your home building is coming to a screeching halt.

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Speaker 1: With a few notable exceptions like Florida, Texas, Tennessee, the

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Speaker 1: Carolinas where people are moving to in droves, They're doing okay,

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Speaker 1: They're going to survive this better than other states. And

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Speaker 1: then sale of existing homes is going to slow down.

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Speaker 1: Then home values are going to plumb, it dramatically, and

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Speaker 1: it's going to price people out of the housing market.

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Speaker 1: And it's it's it's not going to be pretty because

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Speaker 1: people already saw their four oh one k and iras

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Speaker 1: I agree with you one hundred percent. I'm not building

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Speaker 1: think that that's a viable market, at least with you know,

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Speaker 1: the company that I'm with. Um, you know, I'm not

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Speaker 1: I'm not a new home contractor. I'm just a remodeling

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Speaker 1: you know, sighting windows, roofing type of guy. Yeah. Look,

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Speaker 1: the probably people that have had to be on a

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Speaker 1: waiting list for a year to get something small done.

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Speaker 1: They're going to now be able to get guys like

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Speaker 1: you to do it. Things that that you weren't able

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Speaker 1: to get a contractor for, they'll be more readily available.

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Speaker 1: I just happen to be lucky. I'm friends with all

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Speaker 1: great job, and they're very very accommodating to me, and

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Speaker 1: I have a great relationship with them. I found the

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Speaker 1: right people. But but guys, that word building homes are

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Speaker 1: now going to go into your business, and that's going

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Speaker 1: to eat away at some of your business. That's the

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Speaker 1: next thing that's going to happen to you, which is unfortunate,

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Speaker 1: because that's how you put bread on the table, right

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Speaker 1: That's That's That's probably the truest thing I've heard today.

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Speaker 1: You know, I wish I was up in a long

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Speaker 1: island to be able to help you out Sean. But

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Speaker 1: you know, Houston, Texas is still putting bread on my table.

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Speaker 1: Let's and you're gonna fare better than other people in

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Speaker 1: other states. I'll tell you that because people in Texas

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Speaker 1: is still a massive influx into Texas, people moving to Texas.

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Speaker 1: That's not going to stop. I think you'll be okay.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it may not be exactly what you want,

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Speaker 1: but you're not going to be suffering like people in

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Speaker 1: New York, New Jersey, Illinois, and California that are in

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Speaker 1: the same business as you, I promise, Okay. A lot

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Speaker 1: of things that I've been bidding lately have been people

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Speaker 1: being out of state tenants. And the Wall Street is

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Speaker 1: doing a lot of this now and this has now

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Speaker 1: become their new investment thing because the return on investment

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Speaker 1: is pretty good. So look, whatever puts whatever puts food

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Speaker 1: on your table, you're gonna work. If people you want

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Speaker 1: to work, you're you're an average American that wants to

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Speaker 1: work hard, get a fair paycheck, and take care of business.

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Speaker 1: I think you're gonna be okay in Houston. I really do.

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Speaker 1: All right, Hang in there, buddy,