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that have not had their mandatory milestone inspections, call the HOA director and say, hey, this is what you're facing.

Do you want to get out of town? I have a nice house over here in Lakewood Ranch.

Yeah, that works really well.

It's a

Yeah.

Sell the condo before people know.

You find them a little house in Lakewood Ranch so they get to know and love it.

Then they build the house of their dreams.

So while we're not-- our startups aren't necessarily doing, let's say, novel research that you would see in Silicon Valley, what they're taking is, um, is concepts like software as a service, but then applying it to industries that have customers, a captive customer base in Florida.

So examples would be, uh, a company we just invested in recently in, in, uh, Lakewood Ranch, Florida, which is a suburb of Sarasota, uh, that created a, a SaaS for wealth managers.

Well, what do we have a lot of in Saint [laughs] Florida, in Sarasota but wealth managers.

So while not necessarily a novel idea, the, the company has a lot of customers per se.

Yeah, yeah, all right around where we live, yeah.

So I live in a town called Lakewood Ranch that has two of the Ed's Taverns, and then we kind of started moving north with the expansion, and now we're coming back down south a little bit, and the big seafood restaurant is...

Awesome restaurant.

We buy from local fishermen, comes in fresh, you know, big grouper and snapper, goes in the filet room.

Miami, Jacksonville, Orlando, Tampa, Cape Coral, all that kind of craziness.

Yeah, it was Lakewood Ranch, Tampa, Orlando, and Miami.

And, you know, big area of the state.

We had all the cases for Progressive.

Wildlife trapper Justin Matthews responded to Hayes' call and assessed the eagle's injuries.

Doug Hay called me about an eagle that was in a pond in Lakewood Ranch.

He swam and got the eagle out of the pond.

He said a gator went for it and left it when he got into the pond.

Pirates.

Lakewood Ranch.

Mustangs.

Mustangs.

Sam from Ballin in Victoria is 12.

Christian from Lakewood Ranch in Florida is...

He is 32.

And Oscar from Richmond in Victoria.

Local Rangers fans, a.k.a. the Bradenton Bears, have officially formed the region's dedicated Glasgow Rangers Supporters Club, bringing together the area's Scottish football community to follow the light blues all season long.

Founded by four long-time friends and die-hard supporters who have gathered to watch matches for years, the Bradenton Bears club is opening its doors to all Rangers fans, expats and Scottish football enthusiasts across Lakewood Ranch, Bradenton and Sarasota.

The club has established Ed's Tavern on Route 64 as its official matchday home base.

Supporters can expect breakfast and drink specials and a true matchday atmosphere to cheer on the famous and you can follow them on Facebook on Twitter or X and get the exact location and the game day details and such like that so congratulations and well done to everybody involved in getting that off the ground I know that's been something I actually started talking about that last year.