So from what you're seeing and hearing, it's the economy that is the number one issue for these all-important midterms.

Yeah, it's the economy.

Look, I even had a couple people who said they voted for President Trump last time.

And one of the reasons why they voted for him is because they didn't want to go to war.

And they said that he was going to take the country back to war in this country.

as they call it, the situation in Iran that they're concerned about.

So what's interesting to me is you started to see the bubble here of people, not only as you drive through the city, and I know you go all over the place, you're seeing signs that say vote.

But if you look at the money being spent, $7 billion, according to Brian Seltzer from CNN, $7 billion spent on this campaign shows the importance and I think the enthusiasm that you are witnessing out there The question here in Georgia is, and we heard from Rick Jackson at that campaign event that you mentioned with Collins and President Trump, like trying to get that enthusiasm into the northern suburbs and get the low propensity voters that President Trump was able to get out to come out for this midterm cycle.

Is there any currency to that, do you think?

Maybe, but I don't think it would have any effect in the U.S. On Trump's end, I think it's just personal.

He didn't like Justin Trudeau.

He doesn't like Mark Carney.

It's just personal.

Terrorists have always been a gut thing with him.

And on Mark Carney's end, he's kind of trapped because Canadians...

Why is he not, if he thinks he's got a real agenda here and that does work, and works for Americans, why do you suppose the president isn't taking the time to actually try to explain it and get Americans to back him on this move?

Mm-hmm.

And since that time, uh, it's, it's always been, uh, basically a, a, a debate amongst different factions, uh, on the council in Saint-Anne-de-Bellevue about, you know, whether to, uh, restore it or whether to demolish it.

And, uh, you know, it, it's still an ongoing debate because here we are, you know, uh, I think 14 years, uh, later, uh, and, um, you know, and now, uh, there is a, a new council elected since, uh, last fall with a new mayor, and, uh, there is a meeting of the demolition committee tomorrow night at-

Mm.

You know? And, you know, the heritage value of this place, uh, goes back, you know, that, that far back in history, 1797.

You know, Saint-Anne-de-Bellevue wasn't even, uh, a, a place the way it is.

It's, uh, wasn't even a municipality back then.

It was a whole parish on the western end of the island.

Ryan, tell me exactly how to set more appointments and take more listings.

Just real quick before we do that, I want to just lay some kind of context on why listings are so important to our business.

And if you don't know this, I would highly recommend you start here, because I know we say listings leads leverage or leads listings leverage.

I know you say you list to last, but, like, you really have to understand why are listings important, because listings are significantly harder.

It's a harder business than the buy side, right? I just want to be upfront with that.

Like, listings take longer to cultivate.

Sellers are more transactional.

And we don't have time to unpack how Ryan does it exactly and how it's compliant, but I'm just telling you, you need to make sure you're doing it the right way.

With Shed Tassie now in the mix, Ryan, what's your opinion on where you think things will be heading or shifting with Congress? That's

a tough one.

That's going to be interesting.

If the buying public is unwilling to buy on sex babies, we're all going to have to kind of factor that in and then how that's going to affect male versus female prices, locality, hybrids, all this stuff.

Everything's going to be a little different now.

I think it's going to be interesting.

It could be good.

all right ryan send us somebody what's your most anticipated uh pairing project or is there a python species you need to check off for 2027 give us some

Yeah

... pairing up stuff, um, about the same time, and even stuff I'm like, "Well, they're probably not gonna do anything for months," I'll just put them in there just to see.

Um, but yeah, like the, the duns and stuff, they usually go fairly early.

Um, and so I feed them more heavily during the cycling period, and they start breeding earlier.

Um, the white lips, they'll usually start breeding during cycling and eat heavy during cycling.

Some of the carpets and stuff, it's better to not feed them during cycling and then feed-

... to raise their eggs.

Yeah.

Is that a proper way to look at it?

It is.

It is.

Inflation eased just a touch.

It's now up 3.4% over the last year, but as you pointed out... those paychecks still aren't quite keeping up.

Over the last year, real wages are down 0.2%, which, you know, it's not end of the world, but it's also not ideal, especially for people who are still struggling with bills to pay and dealing with price increases everywhere.

Energy prices went down in July, thank goodness, and that's why overall inflation eased a bit, although we do still have a way to go.

Couldn't we be doing that right now and produce some real gains for Americans by moving that cargo off the freeways and onto the water?

Do you see some optimism with that?

I'm liking what I see so far, although it's too early to tell.

There was never any question about Warsh being qualified or not having the resume for the job.

He, in the past, was already a member of the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors.

In fact, he was the youngest person to ever become a member of the Board of Governors.

He had a distinguished career.

The question was how independent Is he going to be his own man, or is he just going to cut interest rates when the president tells him to? That is where the great uncertainty lies.

The inflation rate, of course, far below what it was during the four years of the Biden administration, but still, correct me if I'm wrong, but it's still above the target rate that the Fed has set for where it wants to get inflation down to.

What, what did you see in that report that made you unwilling to declare this as the turning point?

I would say the core rates that you brought up.

Um, there are things the Fed can control and there are things the Fed can't control.

The Fed can't control Iran.

They can't control tariffs.

Uh, but they can control the money supply, which is what determines the overall price level for other things.

Um, you know, you see energy prices go up and down on their own because of Iran or because of other things.

How many years of, of, of wage growth above inflation would it take for that family to recover?

So I wanted to ask you, Ryan, what is what's the deal with boob eggs? Do you know what that is and why that happens?

I don't think you can ever say you know for sure, but the prevailing theory that I believe in is that it's basically a slug.

It's an egg that wanted to be a slug and wanted to be an egg and was just ovulated a little too early.

Basically, from...

My opinion was formed off Tracy's work with ultrasound machines, and the follicles on pythons don't all mature at the same rate.

And unfortunately, we don't know what the mechanism that causes ovulation, whether it's like a pressure switch or a timing or a temperature thing, we don't really know.

what actually triggers the actual moment of ovulation but uh suffice it to say that they all the eggs aren't mature at the same pace and if a snake ovulates too early then you get slugs so they're not they're not infertile like people suspect they're just not viable Got it.

And especially with like how new the science of this is, so to speak, like, you know, we're not going off of such a long history of, you know, case study after case study with some of these things where if you're like, oh, this is how it is because I heard such and such say it like, you're going to be happy with that much evidence to support your claim? That seems more like you want to justify something went wrong in your head rather than actually taking an objective viewpoint on what just happened.

Is it wrong to say eastern, Ryan? No.

Technically, there is no right or wrong.

I think if you're looking at lots of the reptiles that come from mainland New Guinea, you basically consider mainland New Guinea as the main body.

And then the central mountain range is the division between the north and the south.

The bird's head, you tend to refer to those animals as Vogelkop, bird's head, peninsula, or northwestern, meaning that they're still north of the mountain range, but west of the northerns.

Patrick, as far as I know, he's the only one I've ever heard refer to him as easterns, but...

That doesn't mean it's right or wrong.

yeah that's so that's how the sellers do it if it's red they're going to label it cyclops if it's yellow they'll label a giant it doesn't always happen like that i've seen plenty of reds labeled giant and i've seen plenty of yellows labeled cyclops and there is that's a more

You guys end up usually delivering far more songs than you'll end up using?

Typically a couple extra that don't make the cut.

We're not one of those bands where there's, uh, they record 50 songs and only 10 of them are on the record.

We'll just record a couple more than we think we might need and just take the, the last couple out.

One of our most popular songs is a song called, uh, Wait So Long, and we recorded that on the record before the record it came out, and it didn't make the cut.

And that became our most popular song.

Have you been recording anybody who's impressed you?

I've been doing kind of a variety of music lately.