Speaker 1 0:24

Hello and welcome everyone to ask the neighbor This is Danko center offski with DJ Chuck comm on 690 Am w NZK Thank you everyone for tuning in all the neighbors give us a call 248557 3300 is the number we're going to start it off with a song and get the phones ready

Unknown Speaker 1:19

let's let it control our destiny we owe it to us have you been searching let's go beyond enemy to demand we've been waiting we've been hoping we've been looking?

Speaker 1 4:59

God Alright, DJ.

Unknown Speaker 5:21

Yeah, those are the OJS. And now that we found love,

Speaker 1 5:25

all right, all right, what a tune. Welcome everybody to the show. It is February the first can we believe it, I can't believe it, we made it to February. And we have less than 30 days left to mark our first year here on 690 am doing ask the neighbor show in this time slot. So it's been a interesting ride. And we are getting some of our shows transcribed right now that we're gonna put them on the internet, so that we can actually see what was said in text format on our website. So we're going to be able to go to ask the neighbor comm pretty soon and check it out. You can also do that right now. Matter of fact, on very detroit.com We've put a place on there where you can do a show recap. And when you click on that show, recap, it's gonna take you to a page that transcribes that show for that day. Not all the shows, but some of the shows, check them out at very detroit.com Also, check us out on our Facebook page facebook.com forward slash Ask a neighbor facebook.com forward slash very Detroit and on Instagram at Ask the neighbor and at very Detroit. Thank you, everybody, for tuning in. 690 am WNZ K Monday through Friday 9am till 11 as the neighbor is the show, thank you to father's justice law, if you're interested in a family law firm that can help you out. 313-819-9176 That's father's justice law. 313-819-9176 Thank you to Lewis Tire Service located on Eight Mile Road 317 East Eight Mile Road in Hazel Park 248-542-0930 mentioned as the neighbor and you get half off of your tire repair. Thank you to tech solutions consultants.com Rene concetti can help you be more prepared for what's ahead to 485663362 That's Renee concetti tech solutions. consultants.com If you're a business if you're an individual, she can help you figure out your tax situation and make sure that you're in the best situation for your financial future. 248-566-3362 That's Renee concetti from tech solutions consultants, thank you to one mag.tv You're waiting room media solution. You can actually print one off today at one mag.tv Just hit the print button as you scroll down and you'll see it's a QR code based magazine system digital magazine system for your waiting room. One mag.tv Thank you to Detroit gold coffee.com boldly rude and Motown with flavors like nightmare black and Woodward blend. Check them out at the Eastern Market at Myers at Kroger's or you can go to their website Detroit bold coffee.com Put in the promo code very Detroit. All one word all lowercase, and get yourself a discount at Detroit bold coffee.com You can also use that promo code very Detroit. all lowercase all one word when you click on the shop Detroit button inside very detroit.com Thank you to kebab Island, go to kebab Island calm and check out their menu 586-751-7511 That's kabob island located on 13 Mile Road just this side of Shaner with a beautiful assortment of different salads and different entrees that you can order from them. 10% off when you mentioned asked for neighbor, thank you to Troy jewelers custom designing engagement rings for Troy and the surrounding areas for over 35 years folks their family owned business 35 years 248-528-0962 located on Rochester road between big Beaver and wattles. That's Troy jewelers. You can check them out online at Troy diamonds.com. Alright folks, well, this is the show, give us a call 248557 3300. Until then, we're gonna go to a TEDx talk right now. And we will take some callers then after here we go.

Unknown Speaker 9:28

Good afternoon. Have a show of hands from those people who are retired. Thank you. And raise your hands if you have a plan to retire in your 50s.

Unknown Speaker 9:46

Thank you. And now raise your hands if you plan to retire in your 60s. And finally, he doesn't plan on retiring at all. Wow. What is retirement? And why don't we retire at all? Yes, Malati the origins of the word retirement means to withdraw.

Unknown Speaker 10:17

It was originally used in the 1500 by soldiers who had retired from battle to rest and recover. Then, in the 1600s, we'd retire from the drawing room. to rest, to go to bed to sleep. Today, we often associate the word retirement with professional athletes who retire from sport due to injury, or some other reason was my brother wasn't a professional athlete, he was a skilled amateur tennis player. However, at 16, he acquired a serious shoulder injury, and was forced to retire from tents permanently. He still can't really play today. The pension was introduced at the end of the 1800s, early 1900s. It was provided to people when they ceased working, retirement age, and eligibility for pension at that stage was 65 years old. And this is a time when actually lifespans were not at 65 years old. So in fact, we'd worked for most of our lives. There's another word that looms large at this age, redundant. Our award for our years of hard work contribution or service, or redundancy package is simply a means of compensating us for being sacked and considered no longer relevant or necessary. And Ross returned redundancies possible at any age, it becomes particularly attractive at retirement age, due to the financial windfall that often accompanies the experience. retirement pensions redundancy, these words and our current behavior are generally associated with being in our 50s or 60s and no longer working. And yet, there's been a critical and structural demographic shift. Our lifespans are longer today than at any other time in history. In fact, lifespans today on average are in our 80s. And for those of you in your 20s, chances are you'll live into your 90s and beyond. The years we've been sold the retirement dream, you know, the one never ending holidays, lunches and dinners with our similarly attractive silver haired friends. wearing denim blue shirts, jeans or white trousers. of heads, we see ourselves sailing together in love like never before. Or doing yoga, gardening or Thai tea with our funfilled beautiful friends, not a care in the world. Avoid buying into a retirement stereotype that limits our potential.

Unknown Speaker 13:32

My father died when he was 63 years old. I still remember my brothers and I saying that's okay. He's had a good life. He's had a long life and he was old. Now 25 years later, I don't think 63 is old. It's not because I'm closer to 63 than 33. My father was encouraged to retire because it was financially beneficial. And while still early retirement is revealed as something available to those fortunate to save enough money to no longer work. Rarely have the post retirement is being planned or thought through. And this was true for my father. In some ways he was lost. He did some house painting cooked occasionally. And Ted love to play golf. But I didn't feel his weight. He done that when he'd worked. Dad was also a beautiful jazz piano player. His piano playing will remain one of my fondest childhood memories. I still have his piano and pay occasionally. Not nearly as well as heating that I can play. His piano is one of my most treasured possessions. My daughter still plays the keys that he's gigantic hands on One standard across all those years ago. With little planned and little to do, he spent many, many, many hours practicing and playing the piano. My father was awarded a royal Victorian ordered by the Queen for his work caring for members of the royal family and their staff when they visited Australia. And yet, on retirement by and large, he became rudderless with no purpose and meaning. He lost his daily easy social connections, an activity he'd gained through work is self esteem. Last. He bought into the Retirement and Pension stereotype, hook, line and sinker. In fact, he was incentivized to do so. Most of us won't die in our 60s. But will we be living the retirement stereotype or something greater. A number of years ago, I miss a couple was traveling on a train. They told me how they've been planning their retirement for years. They knew that they would sell their family home for a sea change. Then you exactly where they want to live and the type of home they'd like to buy. And on retirement, they found their dream home in their dream location and moved in, excitedly unexpectedly planning to live the dream. Yet, despite being regulars at their local shots, the shopkeepers didn't come to greet them in the familiar ways that locals and regulars are welcomed. They also quickly discovered that most of their neighbors worked in already led incredibly busy lives. They felt lost, lonely, invisible, isolated, no one really talked to them. The utopian dream exactly that. A dream not grounded in reality. They've moved away from their friends and neighborhood which they knew and were they were known. Against their adult children's advice. They sold their home within six months and moved into a retirement village. It was at this point that I met them. There are a few Civ about their newfound friendships. The social lives they now lead and the support they'd received when they first moved into the village. This is not a sell for a retirement village. Most Australians started leaving them and the majority of people I speak with don't want to move into one. It's not my plan to move into an either. It's a cautionary tale of imagining a life based on stereotypical attitudes, beliefs, and advertising that sells us something that simply doesn't serve us anymore. Today, many of us continue to live our life in the same stereotypical manner. The old three phase paradigm of educate, work, retire at 60, or 65. relevant for our forebears and irrelevant today

Unknown Speaker 18:27

it's time we stopped blindly walking the path of retirement, because that's what previous generations have done. Why? Because retirement at 60 provides us with 20 more or more years of life of living, not dying. That's 7300 days, or 175,200 hours. It's time to look at where we want to go to create a new future, a different future, a future that utilizes and maximizes this gift of longer lies. Remove the invisible but fully present age ceiling in our thinking attitudes, beliefs, and behavior, about what we believe people can or can't do based on their age. fantasize for a moment. Imagine you work for an organization that actively includes older people in their workforce. Now pretend you're in your 30s or 40s, or perhaps you are in your 30s or 40s. You have a family and you only want to work part time. Because you work for an organization that actively includes older people you job share with someone in their 60s or 70s, who also only wants to work part time. Now imagine that you want to take a few months off, you decide you'd like to do a house swap with another family in Europe. and travelled for a few months. Now imagine this as possible, because the older worker, who you job share with is willing to work extra days whilst you're away so that you can have this experience. Now, I mentioned that you're the older worker. And when your jobs here buddy returns from their travels, you share your own plans about how you would also like to do a house swap and travel for a few months, particularly now you've earned some extra money from the additional days and the hours you worked. What's your job share Buddy was away intergeneration intergenerational job sharing fantasy perhaps he's the thing though. We haven't been here before. There are very few models or examples of how to live these longer lives. It's up to us to create it. I believe this. Having gray hair does not mean were part of a Grey's Anatomy. Nor does that mean we become a burden on society. becoming older does not mean we're technology illiterate on a downhill decline to dementia and incontinence. On the contrary. Every single one of us has the potential that's untapped. underutilized and unappreciated. by us, by our communities, by organizations, by government, by our culture, it's time to look at things differently. Farmers don't retire. By the way. Work education gap is sabbaticals, we have an opportunity to mix it up. Educate throughout our lives for lifelong learning. Take a piece of sabbaticals at all ages in our 30s 40s 50s 60s or 70s and beyond, change jobs participate in the gig economy, tap into the share economy. planning our working lives to this endpoint in our 60s, limits our potential and robs our world of knowledge, skills and experience that could contribute to positive social, economic and environmental change. Why is this not happening today? ageism is definitely part of it. And so is few. That's fee, uncertainty and exhaustion. Not leaving this stereotype is scary. It's known, it's hard. We may not know what we want to do when we stop working. But we do know we don't want to do what we've always done. More often than not, we've worked intensely and hard for most of our adult life. With lifted three pads, stereotype educate, work, retired. It's been tough. We've had enough.

Unknown Speaker 23:18

I get it. As we age, we no longer seek to drive and strive to survive. What we valuing work changes. And equally, we want our knowledge, skills and experience to be valued. We often want to give back to others. It's time to paint a new life canvas. Alive Canvas covered in color, reaching texture and imbued with imagination. longer lives are a gift we've all been given. Regardless of gender, race, religion, sexuality or ability. It spans all diversity inclusion issues. longer lives for us all, I hope. I invite you to have a conversation about your life in a way that we usually don't decide they invite you invites you to think about your life differently at all ages and stages. The world The world has changed have you? How will you grasp this gift of a longer life? How will you reimagine life individually in your organization's we have a responsibility to create the change about how we live these longer lives. Ultimately, we all have a potential to be greater, much greater than the age stereotypes. Retirement is redundant. Aging that's living

Speaker 1 25:04

Alright, DJ.

Unknown Speaker 25:05

Yeah, that was retirement is redundant and that was Catherine record.

Speaker 1 25:09

All right. All right. You're listening to 690 Am w NZK I'm your host Danko Sutter. offski with DJ czerwca coming to you Monday through Friday 9am till 11 right here on 690 am WNZK Except on Thursdays it'll be 9am till 10am Right now we've got David from Detroit on the line. Good morning, David.

Unknown Speaker 25:30

Good morning, John. Sir. Good morning. Morning

Speaker 1 25:33

Morning. What's happening?

Unknown Speaker 25:36

Oh my god, it's been a it's crazy. What's going on? So my call me at 930 Yesterday, okay? For mender Hendersonville, Tennessee, okay. And they call me and they can't, I said, don't miss Dallas. That was a turn of blind learner. Right? Right. Right. Right. And I said to Jay, please call the station leader of her voice. And he said challenge working on it and minor Dalli Dalli Dalli, so bringing more

Speaker 1 26:25

I know she Yeah,

Unknown Speaker 26:27

yeah. And so at least a cone nice a call the radio station

Speaker 1 26:33

all right. Did you put your phone number on there to call you know,

Unknown Speaker 26:37

I put you guys's number and my phone no okay,

Speaker 1 26:41

I wonder if he tried calling the station DJ

Unknown Speaker 26:45

not yet.

Speaker 1 26:47

I wonder if somebody maybe last night was got off the call huh? Oh, I don't Yeah, I don't know about that. We got to double check with the

Unknown Speaker 26:58

dumpster at 930 at night. I sent you guys a radio program from nine Joy level and dally been so busy everything everything going great right I've seen I've seen during the power eight. I think it might not be this morning. Why not? For the letter beautiful $14 What what

Speaker 1 27:38

made it happen that's for sure. You made it

Unknown Speaker 27:45

John the girl quit the job

Speaker 1 27:52

well, you got close we got caught you got close. You got close to it though. You almost had it

Unknown Speaker 27:59

well, can I do my last song? Yeah. Hey, diary Jericho. Why? I know J time for that certified learner proposto teacher about their return hey

Unknown Speaker 28:21

I don't we love you man

Speaker 1 28:27

what are you doing? Where are you man? Where are you right now? market that's right it's Tuesday so as the market open or what?

Unknown Speaker 28:36

Yeah, we're ready to go

Speaker 1 28:40

what do you guys selling right now? What are you selling today?

Unknown Speaker 28:43

No, I'm not I'm gone. I'm gonna think tactically now.

Speaker 1 28:48

Okay all right. Good. Good.

Unknown Speaker 28:51

I know you're like a little further than this. i i bought out the radio space because we're playing your songs Night

Speaker 1 29:09

Day but when I mean I don't know about that hopefully

Unknown Speaker 29:20

Hey, come seven tellers never know.

Speaker 1 29:25

Well, you know what, we're ready to play a Dolly Parton song now we are ready to play a Dolly Parton song now. Are you ready to hear one? Yeah.

Unknown Speaker 29:36

Well, here's DJ Chubb, CA Yeah, it's Do I ever crossed your mind to David

Speaker 1 29:44

he's got a big fan club. Jacqueline down. We're saying we love that neighbor. You know, no Countdown dialing, dad. Show hillbilly Mr. I'm gonna wait. I thought you were from Butcher holler, Kentucky. Yes, sir. I read a lamb Oh, okay. All right, and we got Jack why not? Oh, yeah, we do man for sure. He's got to be on the very Detroit program and the neighbor. Why not? Hey, can you do that? Song? Yeah, yeah, I think we can do that one. That's the one you wanted that one the other day. Code of any color. That's a good song, man. They love you, brother. So the Eastern Market is open. You're working. You're going to the Eastern Market. You're working the market right now.

Unknown Speaker 30:58

No, I'm going home. Okay, now. I gotta get home. They went out. I got a big snow coming out of the neighbor's

Speaker 1 31:11

Oh. Oh, yeah.

Ha ha ha ha David, you get everybody together. All right, Billy. Thanks for calling. And here's the song that you wanted from Dolly Parton. This is day what Kota many colors What day is it DJ Oh, sorry. It's day eight day eight for dolly songs. Man Here we go

Unknown Speaker 31:43

back through the Go wondering once again. That to the seasons, my you recall the box of raisins someone gave and how mamama foods the rags Do you there were rags have many covers. Every piece was small. And I didn't have a coat. And it was a way down and fall. Mama's souls array together. Stolen every piece we love she made my coat of many colors. So as she sold she told a story from the Bible. She had read about a coat of many colors Joseph Warren's and he said perhaps this coat will bring good luck and happiness and I just wait to wear it and Mama My code is made only progress oh we had no money was riches I could be in my mini my mama made for me. So with tattoos on my britches, and holes in both machines, in my code of many colors, I hurried off justifying the others laughing and making fun of me and my coat of many colors. My mama made me understand for us, I was raised and I told him all the love my mama sewed in every state and I told them all the stories mama told me watch this many colors was worth more than all their clothes. But they did see is now on no we had no money, but I was riches. I could be in my coat of many colors. My mama

Speaker 1 34:40

Alright, DJ

Unknown Speaker 34:41

Yeah, Dolly Parton Kota. Many colors for David.

Speaker 1 34:44

Okay. All right. That's the eighth day in a row for Dolly Parton songs. We got to get this message out there into other media to let them know what we're doing to get dolly on our show. If there's a show out there that she should be calling in the Detroit area. It is our show for sure. This is a show that we talk about recipes, baking, all these different things. So thank you David for putting that out there. And hopefully we'll get a ring from her soon. 248557 3300 is the number you're listening to ask the neighbor I'm W NZ K 698 WNZ. UK with DJ Chaka and myself, Danko Sutter offski coming to you Monday through Friday 9am to 11 checkout very Detroit calm and you will be able to listen to our stream anytime and listen to all of our past shows. And we even have a show recap now. And you can buy different products with our very Detroit promo code. Right now we got Jerry on the line. Hello Jerry.

Unknown Speaker 35:45

Hello, Dan. Good morning, my

Speaker 1 35:46

man. How you been my friend. I missed you.

Unknown Speaker 35:51

I missed you too. And I missed the neighbors. Today I want to call you a dichotomy is What a sweetheart Dolly Parton is her birthday was these days

Speaker 1 36:05

yeah, it was last week is that's how can we started the whole dolly program was last week was their birthday week week or so ago right? Yeah, we can we can have

Unknown Speaker 36:20

dolly America's country sweetheart.

Speaker 1 36:23

Oh my gosh. Everybody she's a sweetheart she helps everybody in the world she just does good things

Unknown Speaker 36:31

you know God bless her and I hope she has a house the and safe and happy yeah, she is real country legend star superstar American American will be never forget this just as a gift for our country. You know that is so true. So I'm not trying to scare you but in the next two days Wednesday and Thursday, though other people they've been joking about the storm.

Speaker 1 37:08

You listen to those guys Jerry you're listening to those guys come on. We're going to the studio. Come on. We're gonna I'm gonna pick you up. We're gonna come to the studio. I'm not worried about a little snow

Unknown Speaker 37:21

okay, you don't have to worry. I will send you might see,

Speaker 1 37:31

DJ we have no problem. We got people we got people you got no problem?

Unknown Speaker 37:37

Yeah, don't go I have request. If you don't mind for sure. Oh, for sure. For you, Jerry.

Speaker 1 37:43

No problem.

Unknown Speaker 37:44

Thank you. It's been almost over four years ago. When I used to run my Mom and Pop grocery store at the great city of Ferndale. Can my Ella Hilton Campbell's. Oh, and I used to have a bread delivery gentleman by the name Eugene used to deliver for me tasty bread. You remember QSP right and

Speaker 1 38:12

I remember seeing it I can't you know picture it right now but I remember the name

Unknown Speaker 38:19

I was Yeah, you remember tasty bread. And next to it was Wonder Bread I used to carry about four different brand continental gay carry horses you know, one bit of bread you know the kids they love wonder because wonder where they put all those color tags like red, blue, red, their back. You know the dredging? You know brown packaging. Yeah. I miss test your bread. It was one of the best American bakery here in Michigan.

Speaker 1 38:56

He went out of business.

Unknown Speaker 38:58

Yes. So the Lee they went out of business. You know, unfortunately, you know, I missed St. Read. You know, we do have I know a lot of other companies coupling that affect coupling. You remember Danko was on the borderline of city friend Dale. It might and eight miles between Jana and Woodward.

Speaker 1 39:24

Oh really?

Unknown Speaker 39:26

plinker Yeah. Wow. Gatling gun was very right now. I do believe Damco I don't know if they move their location, but I do know there is a strategic location on that location. So I just wonder what happened to come and go if they are still in business or relocate

Speaker 1 39:49

question. Good question. I want to if anybody knows let us know. And what is happening with helping your Yeah. Um, yeah, that's a great location. You were at that 10 mile and Hilton Jerry, you know what your store that's a really good location back

Unknown Speaker 40:06

to me years ago, from 1976 till 1996 20 years, and when I close my business it was very hard for because that was my second home if it was not a first of all generation to generation I raised when I was there and the neighborhood they become my family. I know people by name of Father and Mother and even I don't think children's birthdays. Wow. So you know, you become a family. So don't go what I tried to suggest if you don't mind, testy bread driver, he used to always listen to a song they got working the floor for you watching the floor for you. This is 46 years ago I never heard that song again. Our our handsome bikes.

Speaker 1 41:10

Lady can find it. JERRY You surprised me? Got it. Yeah. Jerry. You surprised me your request man. You really surprised this?

Unknown Speaker 41:21

I will. I will appreciate Mike's got it but I know Mikey. He will find the song. Oh, yes.

Speaker 1 41:30

Thank you, Jerry. Thanks for the call. We appreciate it. All right. God Bless

Unknown Speaker 41:34

you. Bless my and all the neighbors. Yes, I

Speaker 1 41:38

did. This song will go out to Eugene from tasty bread from Jerry.

Unknown Speaker 41:43

I appreciate it. Thank you. All right, here we go.

Unknown Speaker 41:52

I'm walking in the flow. I can't sleep. Oh, that is true. I'm hoping and I'm praying you laugh me and you. You said the baggage that you felt in your promise and you left me I don't know why you did there but I do know that I'm walking away that is true. I'm hoping and praying at the heart rate blow someday you made the loan good for you. Just keep right on walking and remember that I left you and I'm walking I can't sleep awake that is I'm hoping and praying. Oh

Speaker 1 43:48

all right, DJ.

Unknown Speaker 43:49

Yeah, walking the floor over you earn a stub and that was requested by Jerry. Yeah, I

Speaker 1 43:54

hope that's the right one. I said it's gotta be I hope Jerry. I hope you like that one. And I'm thinking it is. It can't be that many songs. I wonder if there was a remake? Yeah. Yes, like Merle Haggard did it. There you go theory. But that was the original Ernest. There we go. That was for Jerry. All right, guys. Um, every Tuesday, we like to play a piece from Kathleen Graham. And we're going to go ahead and do that. Right now you're listening to ask the neighbor on 690 Am w NZK. And make sure to check out very detroit.com to get the stream and also listen to past shows. But here we go with a piece from Kathleen gramm right away here and here we go. We have with us right now. Kathleen Graham, Kathleen Graham. Good morning and welcome to the show.

Unknown Speaker 44:46

Good morning. Thank you for having me. Oh, our pleasure.

Speaker 1 44:49

And it's great to have you because Kathleen Graham, you're a registered nurse. Firstly, and you have extensive experience in the cannabis industry for many, many years. So you bring I have a multitude of knowledge to the table here, bringing in traditional medicine and how it integrates and works with this new medical treatment available. So could you briefly kind of describe that for us, what you how your journey has been? Yes,

Unknown Speaker 45:20

I was a hospice case manager when our state laws changed. And more and more people came into hospice care utilizing cannabis. And as a nurse trying to be the best nurse, I could for people that came to me at their end of life journey, I became curious how cannabis was affecting them. And notice quite a bit of differences from the people that took cannabis versus people that did not. And just thought out on a journey to get as much knowledge as I could, to be able to meet the patient where they were, and to be the best nurse that I could be. And so I traveled the United States, and actually went to Malta, to learn and participate in cannabis conferences and bring that knowledge back to Michigan, and create a cannabis nurse.com Tell us some continuing education credits for nurses, classes that offer those credits for nurses.

Speaker 1 46:21

Yes, you're a rare breed. Very hard to find someone with your qualifications in Michigan. And I tell you, it's really nice that you for being part of our show on Ask the neighbor so we can then share the knowledge you've gathered from the conferences and your experiences and hands on knowledge that no one really else can get, unless they've been hands on. So touching a little bit off of what you saw that other things that it could help with. Today, I want to ask you a little bit about how it affects seasonal disorder, you know, are these these mood swings that especially Michigan people can go through when the fall the seasons change? Could you tell us a little bit about that?

Unknown Speaker 47:13

Yes, actually, seasonal affective disorder is a specific type of depression, that is affected by the change of season. Usually, it happens in the fall and winter months. Because, you know, our lack of sunshine during those times I'm sure affects people, but it affects over 10 million adults in the United States. So it's something that is significant out there that's affecting people's ability to function in a normal society and do the things that they want.

Speaker 1 47:46

I would even say this, no, I think it's, I think that number is low, I think we have a higher number of that. Personally, I know that the lack of sunshine when it gets gloomy out, especially in the Detroit metro area, it gets really gloomy at times, and it affects a lot of a lot of people. And I think it's a conservative number of 10 million, I just you know, you can just feel it.

Unknown Speaker 48:13

Yes, and that now we're just talking about a subset of depression, because there are close to double that number with people diagnosed with just regular depression, and that there's a multitude of mental illnesses. And it's one of the thing that that is there's a high stigma around mental illness. And I would like to normalize that in be like any other disease process out there, it's a disease of the mind or a disorder or syndrome of the mind. And there are treatment modalities to help just like there are other treatment modalities to help your diabetes or your arthritis, it's no different, we need to start normalizing mental health and mental illness a lot more than it is and embrace it with the people that need the help. It's almost

Speaker 1 49:04

like the last frontier, you know, with where we've come as a society of being accepting and understanding of really what it is and how it can be treated. So, you know, a lot of times people are afraid to reach out when they are feeling these kinds of mood swings. And so I feel that's maybe part of the reason why maybe the numbers might be lower. And I know this is a specific subset of, of some disorders. So talk to us a little bit more about what some of the studies have found out there about this, this disorder.

Unknown Speaker 49:46

They actually found that individuals who consume cannabis occasionally or even daily report having lower depressive symptoms and those who have never consumed cannabis at all Wow. They found that THC, particularly from cannabis may hold the ability to alter the brain's response to negative emotions and images by activating the endocannabinoid system. And so I'd like to say, give a shout out to CBD also, because sometimes THC can cause anxiety. And if you have depression coupled with anxiety, it may not be good to take THC. Rather, we would look at our CBD products or our full spectrum hemp products that have that tiny percentage of THC in them.

Speaker 1 50:38

Right. And that's a that's kind of difficult to measure, isn't it? The anxiety slash vers depression effect?

Unknown Speaker 50:48

Yes, because a lot of people that present with depression or even sad disorder, it is coupled with anxiety. So we want to make sure we address that aspect of it too, and not make their symptoms worse, by recommending something that could cause anxiety. But I thought this study was really important because CBD does help decrease anxiety. But THC can alter our brain's response to negativity. And that's important because I don't think CBD alone can do that. And pretty big couples together. All of our cannabinoids work to provide the entourage effect. And so getting that full spectrum hemp product that has that 0.3% THC, it gives you everything that you need in there without making you high and giving you that little bit of THC to help with those negative emotions.

Speaker 1 51:52

And normally, how would you consume that?

Unknown Speaker 51:58

A lot of the times people will take a tincher, which is a liquid form, and they will take it in a dropper right underneath their turns.

Speaker 1 52:04

Okay. And that's, this is an folks, we're talking about seasonal affective disorder. Correct. Am I saying that right, Kathleen? Okay. And this affects 10 million people, at least in our country. And we're talking about some of the studies out there that have been found to help. We have with us, Kathleen Graham, with cannabis nurse.com. This is where you can go and have and schedule a virtual appointment with Kathleen Graham, should you have any questions in particular, about any of these topics that we talk about every Tuesday here on Ask the neighbor 690 am. And I just wanted to mention that a little bit here, because I want to make sure folks can get to your information because they may this might just generate a few more questions for them.

Unknown Speaker 52:56

That's true. I appreciate that.

Speaker 1 52:58

Yeah. So tell us a little bit more here of what what could happen. And and do you would it just be cannabis that you would use? Or could you Is there a combination of other things that that are used to sometimes treat these types of illnesses

Unknown Speaker 53:19

or are a lot of the times that they will prescribe antidepressants, which are either the SSRIs or SNRIs, which is a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. And coupled with that cannabis and CBD, they complement those because those medications inhibit the reuptake of our serotonin leaving more serotonin in our body, were cannabis and CBD actually increase the levels of serotonin in our body naturally. So couples together, they can provide for a very effective therapy to fight depression or seasonal aspect disorder. But it's also that warning that too much can sometimes not be a good thing. And so with too much serotonin, you're looking at maybe sleep problems and irritability, mood disturbances, and it's something that should be addressed to either decrease the cannabinoid intake or decrease the pharmaceutical intake because they do complement each other. And what we have found though, is that cannabis is bi phasic, which means that when cannabinoids were increased, the seratonin in the rat's brain in the study actually dropped below the level of those in the control group. So if you take more cannabinoids, it's going to actually decrease the serotonin in your brain instead of increase it. So when we're talking about something like this, lower doses I'm more effective.

Speaker 1 55:02

See people I don't think understand that. And that's why I appreciate you being part of this show. Every Tuesday, Katharine Graham comes on here between nine and 10 o'clock am Eastern Standard Time. And we talk about different treatments for cannabis and different ways that we can share stories about how others have been helped with different treatments, because this is all new. And we're all curious, and we don't really know a lot of the answers. So Kathleen, thank you so much for joining us today. And we look forward to having you again on next week. Is there anything else wait a minute, before we let you go, anything else you want to share about this topic today?

Unknown Speaker 55:45

I would say to not be ashamed and to seek out help, the help is available and treatment is available for you to overcome this sad disorder and to learn to be happy again, in reach out, there are definitely professionals out there willing, more than able to help with this.

Speaker 1 56:07

Now, it's not typically for this situation here. Would you say to contact the psychiatrist? Or would they maybe contact you that you guys could work together with their other person, if they're working on someone? How does that work?

Unknown Speaker 56:24

I would say both. First, if you have a problem with this, reach out to your family physician. And they may or may not do a referral to a psychiatrist. But I would suggest asking them to because when you get that referral, you're getting a referral to a psychiatrist and the psychologist and one of them specializes in medication of the mind. And the other one sets up therapy sessions to help you talk through your problems that you're going through. And so it's a good treatment and then reach out to a professional such as myself in regards to cannabis because you definitely want someone to help you guide you through the steps of developing a wellness plan. If you're venturing into cannabis or CBD. It's not a good idea to try it on your own. Because you can end up with adverse side effects and make you not want to try it again.

Speaker 1 57:22

Well, there's some really excellent points and follow up with Kathleen Graham at cannabis nurse.com Kathleen, we will talk to you next Tuesday. Have a great day. Thank you for being on our show.

Unknown Speaker 57:32

Thank you so much. Have a great day.

Speaker 1 57:34

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Speaker 1 1:00:05

Alright welcome back to the top of the second hour everyone this is Ask the neighbor and I'm your host Dan Kosta Rawski coming to you today it's February the first that we're anticipating a snowstorm according to everyone and Jerry says don't worry about it because you're gonna be sending out what did he say DJ a chauffeur he said a chopper a chopper Jerry did you say chopper Did you say chauffeur i love it i mean it's a chopper seems to be flying out whether I think of a year prior right or well maybe hey well Alright well let's see who am I wonder if it's a chopper we're gonna have to go on the top of the roof I guess right when it lands cuz I don't want to go all the way down I have to come all the way up to the roof is there a hello Pat up here we got to check with the building maintenance here at at the place here so give us a call 248557 3300 is the number we're gonna go to a tune right now. Here we go just the News Radio

Unknown Speaker 1:01:37

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Speaker 1 1:02:41

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Unknown Speaker 1:08:24

It looks too nice today to have snow coming.

Speaker 1 1:08:28

I know. I know. But I hope you're prepared over there. I know you got a lot of family around you.

Unknown Speaker 1:08:35

Oh yes. We have the shovels and snowblowers ready and they have candles in case we lose power.

Speaker 1 1:08:40

Oh, look at you. That's beautiful. That's smart. That's what all of our neighbors should be doing right now is getting prepared. Yep. Yep.

Unknown Speaker 1:08:49

Listen, when you have the cannabis nurse back on next week, would you ask her? How does one even though you're in the nursing field, how does one become a cannabis nurse? Do you have to do? Good question. So into that field?

Speaker 1 1:09:07

Good question, become a cannabis nurse. Because I think that she also is doing trainings like that for that. So we will definitely ask her for sure about that question. Because I think that's a huge new area coming up in our world. That's different. That's different.

Unknown Speaker 1:09:26

Yeah, I have a few family members, but I know of a few nurses that are in the psych field. They're on psych wards in the hospitals. And I think it's time for them to change that they feel that they have to get out of that. Boy,

Speaker 1 1:09:43

take a toll on you. I feel like yeah, many years of

Unknown Speaker 1:09:48

it's, it's, it's rewarding, but in another way, it's very draining on you.

Speaker 1 1:09:53

Yeah, because I mean, even though you may be doing everything right, and that individual As a mental problem, right and incorrect can do anything back. And that really can affect you.

Unknown Speaker 1:10:08

Yep. And you're not allowed to, you know, if you're attacked by one, you're not allowed to touch him or hit back or, you know, you have to have somebody around you like a aid. Gentleman aid to sounds dangerous help that, yeah. Help whatever the other guy or girl is going to do to you. So it's kind of scary at times, boy, oh, boy.

Speaker 1 1:10:34

Oh, yeah, and even more. So now, you know, there's a lot of restrictions about everything. And there's so many people suing everybody I could imagine I would be

Unknown Speaker 1:10:46

the patient has more rights than then the nurse or the Doctor, the patient has all the rights. I mean, you can't lay a hand on them. You can't say anything derogatory to them. Because right away, they know what their rights are. I mean, they can tell you. They know everything by heart, even though they're mentally ill. They know what they can and can't do. So these girls want to get out of the field and into something else.

Speaker 1 1:11:18

Well, there you go. This is a growing field, and a lot of people need this advice. Yeah, I could see what that'd be tough on somebody over so many years. I think that field right there. Being a nurse in the mentally mental health industry is tolling. I mean, I could see why you need to go and maybe something else, spend a couple years in there, maybe do something else because it take a toll on you.

Unknown Speaker 1:11:47

Right? Oh, these girls, they're determined they want to do something else. So I just thought if she could give a few Hanser like you said, she has training classes, where would they go?

Speaker 1 1:11:58

Right? One great way to go. If you want to tell them to go to cannabis nurse.com and just reach out to Kathleen and maybe even set up an appointment to chat about it. She would love to chat with nurses like that. I know for sure she would.

Unknown Speaker 1:12:17

Okay. I jotted that down. So I let them know.

Speaker 1 1:12:20

How's your job? Hunt? Coming? Grace?

Unknown Speaker 1:12:23

My job? Yeah, I don't think they want to hire. Oh, lady,

Speaker 1 1:12:28

I disagree. I would hire you in a minute in a second. In a second. You've got so many great skills, I would hire you in a minute. Grace, I think I think I would call up Kelly Services and say, can you use me? And they would definitely be able to for sure.

Unknown Speaker 1:12:47

I never thought of going through an agency. Yeah, I bet you the senior posts on Facebook, but I don't know. I don't know if I should or not? Well,

Speaker 1 1:12:58

think about it. Yeah, think about it a little bit. I know it's a little bit. But you got a lot left to work, you know. So if you got some good skills, maybe somebody could really benefit from it. Why not?

Unknown Speaker 1:13:09

Well, we'll see. I've been I've been looking every day and they have these jobs for seniors. But then I said, Well, what, um, who's going to take care of my dog who's going to pay right away? You say, Well, yeah, dad in the back.

Speaker 1 1:13:26

Yeah, right. Maybe there's something you could do from the home? Yeah, I bet you there is that you could do from your computer remotely. Say like, you know, there's something like that Kelly Services, check them out. I bet you they would help you out.

Unknown Speaker 1:13:39

Okay, I'll give him a call.

Speaker 1 1:13:41

Nice talking to you, Grace. Thank you for calling here and I wish you I stay warm tonight. And tomorrow. We'll talk to you tomorrow. Yeah,

Unknown Speaker 1:13:48

you know, I just hope it just bypasses us you know, and that's possible. We don't we get lucky sometimes. All the people in Michigan have been so good.

Speaker 1 1:13:55

Yeah. Yeah, we have

Unknown Speaker 1:14:00

up to a foot of snow tomorrow. Who knows? We

Speaker 1 1:14:02

will see. We'll be fine. No matter what. Alright, Grace, take care. All right. Take

Unknown Speaker 1:14:06

care you too.

Speaker 1 1:14:07

Thank you. Alright, that was Grace from Troy letting us know a little bit about the preparation we need and about how to become a cannabis nurse. Right now. We got Lucy from Chesterfield on the line. Good morning, Lucy. Good morning. How are you doing pretty well, and it's good to hear your voice and I'm glad everybody's okay over there. And Chesterfield?

Unknown Speaker 1:14:26

Yeah, everybody's fine.

Speaker 1 1:14:28

Nice to know. Nice to know ready for the storm.

Unknown Speaker 1:14:31

Yeah, I'm not going anywhere.

Speaker 1 1:14:35

You're just gonna be right at home. And that's it.

Unknown Speaker 1:14:39

Yeah, perfect.

Unknown Speaker 1:14:40

People should just look out the window and watch it smell

Speaker 1 1:14:44

exactly and not get out and hopefully it'll melt quickly.

Unknown Speaker 1:14:50

I don't think so. It's gonna be cold but you know, people had enough time to get whatever they need to you know, in the house and And then stay in. Yeah. And elderly people do not try to get out there and do that know.

Speaker 1 1:15:07

Exactly. Thank you for that message Lucy because I feel like some some of the elderly folks feel like they you know they need to go out there and shovel it they you don't have to

Unknown Speaker 1:15:17

know as a matter of fact, our no company guy was just here to pick up his check for the month and he said to my husband, don't you dare get out there cuz sometimes they'll go and you know, make a pass. Just leave it. We'll be here two or three times.

Speaker 1 1:15:35

Good. That's nice.

Unknown Speaker 1:15:38

Yeah, I told my husband this one you don't bother. Right, father, right. Little like puffy stuff. That guy our man said the last snow we had was so fluffy. Used to some leaf blower?

Speaker 1 1:15:52

Oh, yeah. I heard that too. I heard that too. Somebody else did that. Because it was really light and fluffy. Well, I don't know what's gonna happen on this one. I know. There's a lot of you know, we're watching the images from New York and Boston and all that they got hit really hard from that. Nor Easter hit. I think we're all preparing over here. But, you know, it's been kind of a while since we've gotten really a lot of snow. So why not get out here seven

Unknown Speaker 1:16:22

years or more? Has it been that long? Yeah. Yeah, they're, they're saying that on TV. Right now I'm looking at it. It's got tenant 10.3 inches for my area. That's towards Toledo. They're supposed to get more. A lot more. If it pans out.

Speaker 1 1:16:44

Right. I mean, what do Yeah, we're do we do. But even that's not that much. That's not even that much. To be honest. I mean, come on. It's not even a foot.

Unknown Speaker 1:16:56

No, I remember when I was growing up. We had, you know, like, at the end of October, the beginning of November there was, you know, a lot of snow. Know, you're young. You don't

Speaker 1 1:17:10

know, I remember I remember. I when I was growing up, there was way more snow than we've had in the past year. Yeah. So it seems like you

Unknown Speaker 1:17:18

got it. You know?

Speaker 1 1:17:21

Well, I know. I know. And that's that'll happen. That'll happen.

Unknown Speaker 1:17:29

Gonna do your snow. Right. Well, I

Speaker 1 1:17:31

do my snow. I do my own snow. So. Yeah, okay. Yeah. You know, it's good exercise. As long as you stretch before you do it even doing that kind of an exercise, I want to say, I think it's important to stretch. No matter you know, don't go out there if you're up in age, but if you are going to go out there and do it, and you feel good stretch a little bit before you do it, because I think that really helps to, you know, avoid an injury.

Unknown Speaker 1:18:01

Well, that's what the one doctor said on TV here yesterday, you know, to do that, and don't go out of your this or that and, you know, and then take breaks and everything. Just now was supposed to be big. You have to I remember years ago when my daughter was little demand next door was my husband was working. And I said don't do that. Oh, yeah, I will do it. Because by the time Billy gets home, you know, yeah, it'd be too high. He went out every couple hours. You know, and did a little bit at a time, which is a good thing to do.

Speaker 1 1:18:34

Right? It's smart. If you I mean, if you can do that. If you don't have a ton to do, it's feasible. But if you've got like if you're a corner lot and you got to do all the way around the corner and all the way back and you'd be out there all day, just when you finish it up to come back around the corner lot. No, I don't have a corner. But if I mean if you gotta you must be prepared. If you want a corner lot. Either you're gonna pay somebody or you're gonna be out there a long time when it snows like this. That's for sure.

Unknown Speaker 1:19:02

I know. My daughter said yesterday she was over on the snowblower die. Oh, it died. Getting another one. You know, you want to go get another one. She said we just you know, her and my son in law and the kids do the driveway and then a lot of the neighbors help each other. Oh, good blower, so they'll get the front for him.

Speaker 1 1:19:23

See? Yeah, I mean, you know, what's funny is that, you know, does everybody need to have a lawn a snowblower on the block? You know what I mean? Do we need 30 snowblowers on the block? Why can't we just all buy one and use it right or somehow figure it out but right so nice way to share you know, things like that are happening I think around the areas where people are sharing a little more.

Unknown Speaker 1:19:46

Oh, yeah. When you know, you can give them a couple bucks for gas for the snowblower? Yeah, my husband used to go up and down four or five houses that

Speaker 1 1:19:55

Oh, did he really wow, gerbil?

Unknown Speaker 1:19:59

Well, that's When we when we had, when we had our snowblower I gave it to my sister in law because she has a big long driveway, you know, so, and my brother has passed away but and we give it to her when we move because we didn't need it. Right. You know we didn't need it on we have the you know our man here so come and got his early his money. You better make out the check because he's going to beard mouth, right Yes to buy gas for? Yeah.

Speaker 1 1:20:32

Well, it's good that you have some coverage for that. I hope everybody's got a plan for tomorrow. In the next few days and stay inside. You don't have to go out there and shovel it. Thank you Lucy for that message. You know, watch it

Unknown Speaker 1:20:45

cleared up. I'm the treasurer for our association. That's why I wrote the check. Not just for, you know, my house. We don't have sidewalks. We just have to drive in the street. Because we own our streets. So

Speaker 1 1:21:02

Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah, well,

Unknown Speaker 1:21:05

you know, so just write out the check for the month for the lawn and snow. You know, you know, landscapers snow lawn and all that crap.

Speaker 1 1:21:17

Well, you got to pay to get the server. Yeah. So the good thing

Unknown Speaker 1:21:21

Vation fees. That's how he gets paid to the association fees.

Speaker 1 1:21:26

Oh, good. Well, stay safe. Lucy. Thank you for calling guys. We appreciate the call. Thank you so much.

Unknown Speaker 1:21:33

May I help me I have a snow day too.

Speaker 1 1:21:35

I hope so too. We'll see what they will see what happens. We'll see

Unknown Speaker 1:21:39

how my grandkids are praying for Wednesday in Thursday. Yeah. Well, no days. They'll get tomorrow but they may get early release.

Speaker 1 1:21:48

Maybe early release. We'll see how it goes.

Unknown Speaker 1:21:51

We'll see. That one. I know. I'm taking up too much time. But that one? A Talion. Lady that you did a TED talk. Yeah. She was so fun. I know you have any

Speaker 1 1:22:03

more. I know. I'm gonna have to look her up. I'm gonna have to look her up.

Unknown Speaker 1:22:07

I don't remember what her name was. But I was cracking up and I call them

Speaker 1 1:22:11

Yeah, it was a good one. I remember. I remember you did call in. Yeah, it was great. We'll have to look it up. We'll look it up and we'll see what we can find by tomorrow.

Unknown Speaker 1:22:21

It was so true. Okay, buddy. Have a good day. You stay warm. Think of your neighbors and your pets.

Speaker 1 1:22:27

Thank you, Lucy. You too. Take care. Okay. Bye. Bye. Take care. That was Lucy from Chesterfield, on the line letting us know. Be prepared for tomorrow in the next day. And I hope our neighbors will be right now. We've got Bill a White House on the line. Good morning, Bill.

Unknown Speaker 1:22:43

Good morning. Danko. How you doing?

Speaker 1 1:22:45

We're doing great. Thank you for the call. First of all, I just want to make sure we introduce you properly. Bill White House from White House real estate?

Unknown Speaker 1:22:55

Yes, sir. I'm at the White House team at Berkshire Hathaway. HomeServices.

Speaker 1 1:23:00

Fantastic. And on Tuesdays, you're calling in to kind of give us a little bit of an update on this kind of wild market that we've been in, don't you think, Bill? It's been kind of this crazy, crazy ride?

Unknown Speaker 1:23:16

For sure. And it continues to be so you know, there's a lot of there's a lot of buyers out there that are competing against each other over a limited supply of homes being listed. So homes when they're listed, they go very quickly, they're often under contract to in a matter of days. Now,

Speaker 1 1:23:37

do you? Do we see that changing? You see that changing a little bit? Or? Not really,

Unknown Speaker 1:23:43

is there's no indicators of how or why a good change? I mean, there has been talk of moving up the interest rates because of our overall economy, which could have a slight impact on that. But when it comes down to it, the problem is, is there's just not enough homes out there that have been built and that are for sale. So because of that limited supply. The buyers that want to buy just compete against each other very aggressively.

Speaker 1 1:24:10

It's so interesting to me, you know, having studied economics, you know, and all of a sudden, we don't have enough homes, like you know what I mean? Like the economy should adjust itself to it.

Unknown Speaker 1:24:23

So it should though, you have to understand the cycle or actually constructing a home can take anywhere with regulations six months to a year to more so for the builders to commit themselves to that. Oftentimes, they don't even want to commit themselves until they actually have a purchase agreement on the lot that they were selling before they break ground just because they don't want to risk that. So there is opportunities if someone wants to put some sweat equity into a home you know, you can buy a home that needs some work needs some updating. There's mortgage products out there that allow them to, you know, finance those renovations. And with just doing some of that work themselves, they can build some sweat equity into a home and actually build a home exactly the way or rehab a home exactly the way they like it.

Speaker 1 1:25:09

Are you seeing? Are you seeing the ones that need to be remodeled, stay on the market longer?

Unknown Speaker 1:25:16

Yes, because it takes a certain type of buyer, a buyer has to have the time and inclination to actually want to go and take care of that work. So there is that situation. A lot of times, you know, if someone's busy, if they don't have that time, if they don't have that knowledge, they want a home that's fixed up. So a home that has been completely fixed up, you know, it's been decorated, like we see on HGTV, we'll just go very quickly,

Speaker 1 1:25:40

right? Well, it's a and I don't think people understand what kind of equity you could build, when even just even if you just have to paint the inside of the house, right. And let's just say it's a 1500 square foot home. And if you were to have to paint the inside of this home, in there, we're giving you a $10,000 discount because of it. And you're sure and you could theoretically paint it for if you did it with you and your wife, maybe for a couple 1000 or 1000 You know what I mean? You could paint it, and you're saving yourself, you know that equity goes right into your, you know, future, right?

Unknown Speaker 1:26:25

I mean, when you look at a home, you know, really break it down to its basic parts, you know, you have walls, floors, or roof, mechanical systems, specialized rooms, like the kitchens in math, and you can break down each one of those spaces, to you know, what's its current condition? And what would it cost to, you know, upgrading it. And when you start to break it down to its little pieces, it's very doable, and it doesn't have to all be done at once. Right? You know, if you have a couple bathrooms in a house, you could be using one while you renovate the other

Speaker 1 1:26:54

right? Patients and you can get what you can do is create a lot more equity for yourself and get you and purchase maybe a bigger home in an area that you might not have been able to afford had been completely remodeled. That's the that's the difference, isn't it? What I mean, if it's a complete remodel on the inside, what kind of price differences are we seeing?

Unknown Speaker 1:27:20

It really depends on the area. And what is you know what the market value is, but you know, it's using the Internet nowadays, you can very easily get some very simple prices or ideas of price ranges for doing certain rehab. So you know, you could look at the floors, what would it cost to re stain the floor or to put down a new floor? There's a lot of options out there. You know, Home Depot is kind of like a toy store for adults. To do this, and I can do this. Yeah,

Speaker 1 1:27:50

I was there yesterday, I was there yesterday. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker 1:27:54

Yeah. And you can you know, just take a little bucket list, you know, pick a room that you want to, you know, address is COVID Playground, find out you know, each piece of it, what would it cost for new Safeway will cost for the toilet? And how much is the flooring per square foot? It's kind of create a rough budget that way. And then when you start to do that, you really find out that it's really not as expensive as you may think.

Speaker 1 1:28:15

Right? And and there's a lot of information out there nowadays that we couldn't do our own work, because we didn't really know how and there wasn't really an instructional video that we could just pull up on YouTube and put in there, you know, how do I change this? Or how do I move this? Or how do I do that? And I think there's a lot more support out there, video wise, information wise, especially YouTube. I mean, you can look up anything on YouTube, and it'll tell you, how do I stay in my deck? You know, I mean, that'll save you. How do I do this? And how do I do that? You know, what's interesting to me, is if I look around, and this is just in the city of Detroit, when I look around, and I see the homes in one part going for 5000 that need to be completely remodeled, and then a few blocks over going for hundreds of 1000s Right. And then those are extreme remodels. But the new remodels we're talking about are usually everything's functioning, it's a finance bubble type of a product, right? It's all right, the kitchens working the the all the all the services need to be working. And that's the kind of remodel we're talking about. I'm just thinking a lot of those have to have probably gone off the market pretty quick too because when there's low inventory you know, we're gonna have to do this honey, you know what I mean? And we'll we'll have to put a little sweat equity in there

Unknown Speaker 1:29:51

very well to use one of the standard mortgage products you will need to have the basic systems working so it will have to have a furnace it will have to have a kitchen and things like that. Though there is mortgage products out there, like a two or 3k renovation loan, that will allow you to purchase a home that may not have that, and then have those things added into it right after closing by a qualified contractor. And then when the contractor is done, you just have that one monthly payment, all those costs are rolled into that one payment, and you can move forward. So depending on you know which direction you want to go, there are options and financing options to go either direction. You know, when you're looking at how the, what you really want to look for, especially for beginner, intermediate rehabbers is something that has integrity, it has a has some integrity about it. So you want to make sure that the roof is at least solid, you want to make sure that there's not been water infiltration. Because water infiltration can really be a wild card, it can get into walls and mold and create a lot of hassles, right? So if you can find a space that has that solid foundation, well, then it's just systems inside the house that you need to address windows to furnace to hot water tank. And just piece by piece, you can put those those pieces in and have a very wonderful home.

Speaker 1 1:31:09

So what areas are you liking right now in this Metro and have seen some boosts? And why do you like them?

Unknown Speaker 1:31:22

Well, one of the things that I continue to track is Pontiac in Oakland County, okay, it's a space that has always been in transition for many, many years, yes, and one of the situations has been the Woodward loop, which has really been kind of our hibbott up to allowing that space to develop, right, but they're moving forward with actually creating that to be a slower Road, to allow it to be more friendly for walking and bike paths. And they're really working to develop that. And as that downtown develop all that housing around there will continue to flourish. So that's one of those spaces, you know, getting in now. Right, it can pay off very well in the long term.

Speaker 1 1:32:00

Now. Now let's, what who's who's behind that?

Unknown Speaker 1:32:07

Well, it's the local government, it's the Michigan Department of Transportation, they're all getting together to work together in order to,

Speaker 1 1:32:13

you know, make County, the, the County, the City, everyone and I saw I read something about it. And the timeframe on that, hopefully, we'll be quick. And that will really transform that city. Pontiac is sits into his, you know, the, the, the the capital or county seat, right for the county, and sits it's such a beautiful location with all the, you know, it's hilly, and all the different homes that are there are, some of them are built in the early 1900s. And maybe before, right, and there's still some so is what's the inventory, like in Pontiac, for people.

Unknown Speaker 1:32:57

You know, it's across the board, you know, some when something is fixed up, it is still going fairly quickly. But you know, it's one of those things that if you're interested, it would be to just start to, you know, watch the market, watch things come on the market, get your financing, you know, pre approved, and then start to, you know, look at the homes as they come and make a decision if it's something you'd want to pursue.

Speaker 1 1:33:20

Now. Now, again, getting to you, how can someone connect to you, Bill?

Unknown Speaker 1:33:28

Yeah, there's a couple ways. I mean, give me a call at the office, you know, my number, there's 248-540-8100, okay. Or they could drop me an email at Team te am at White houses.com. And that's our team of mailbox. Our team is myself, my mother, my father, Doug, and Kathy White House, and my sister, Samantha, and we just work together as a family team. Beautiful, you provide those real estate services,

Speaker 1 1:33:56

you know, and that's what I love about having you on our show, because this is a family show. And having, having a couple generations of white houses that can bring that knowledge of real estate, especially this real estate in this Metro. Thank you so much, Bill for being on our show. Is there some anything else you want to let our audience know today?

Unknown Speaker 1:34:17

Well, I appreciate the opportunity to share with you is great speaking with you. So you know, if you have any questions, any personal questions, you know, feel free just to reach out to me it's there's no obligation just you know, come pick my brain. I've been in the business a long time I said it then that that was 10 years old when my parents got into business in 1978. They kind of raised me in the business round the dinner table. That's what we were talking about is the business. So I have a lot of mouths that I would love to share with your listeners.

Speaker 1 1:34:44

Well, I know that a lot of our listeners too are you know, they could be potential investors. They could be a younger people maybe wanting to make a shift into another community, willing to put some sweat equity Maybe they want to sell their home, because it's built up a lot of equity. And this might be a great time for them to take that equity out of their home, and maybe invest into a new community where they can, again, increase their equity once again. So hopefully they can give you a call bill.

Unknown Speaker 1:35:18

That's definitely a great idea. You know, oftentimes your first home can be your first investment and you can help build that towards your retirement.

Speaker 1 1:35:26

Yeah, and if you can, if you can take those steps, I'm telling you real estate can make a difference, like nothing else. You know, it can you can grow an empire quicker than you think. Right. I think you've seen some really interesting people do some great things with real estate, and the White House's can help you out you can go to white houses.com You can email team at White houses.com. And the phone number for the office is 248-540-8100 Thank you so much, Billy for calling on the line and being a part of our show. We appreciate it. Thanks, thanks eautiful day you too. Take care. All right, Bill, the White House there from white houses.com letting us know some tips about what's happening in our Metro and also letting us know that there's opportunities for financing when you're doing remodeling so many people might not know that but you can actually purchase a home and attach a particular mortgage to it that's going to help you remodel it so give Bill Whitehouse a call at 248540 8100 to talk a little bit more about it right now we're gonna go to a song and we will be back mi kismis whoa make clothes for lovers as you moron

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Unknown Speaker 1:42:52

Good morning. And how are you doing? They're fine, sunny day. Oh,

Speaker 1 1:42:56

that's great. When there's sun out. I feel super. I feel like you know when it's gloomy? I don't know. I'm just a little more down.

Unknown Speaker 1:43:05

Yep, I agree. That's where you got to pull the sunshine from your heart instead? Yes.

Speaker 1 1:43:11

It's, you know, there's how do we do that? How do you do that? You're always you're always peppy and

Unknown Speaker 1:43:16

very hard to do. But what I do is I started thinking about all the cool things that can happen on a sunny day. Yeah. Next thing I know, I'm happy because the sun shining in my heart instead.

Speaker 1 1:43:26

See that? I love that. Way to go. Sharon, thank you for that message. We need that. We need that every day. And we've got some snow coming. Snowstorm coming. Right. Right. Right.

Unknown Speaker 1:43:39

Well, I called the bank. Those people who heard me announced the other day, I have gotten some cards and some other things in the mail and telling me how much they missed me. I didn't realize I had so many viewers out there that missed me. course you

Speaker 1 1:43:56

do. Are you kidding me? You're you're part of the family here. You know, if someone doesn't call in, we're like, what's up? Were there they? You know,

Unknown Speaker 1:44:04

well, the funniest thing I am really part of the family because I think I was about 12 years old when I first start calling for my mother's to ask your neighbor show.

Speaker 1 1:44:13

Wow. Is that right? 12 years old?

Unknown Speaker 1:44:16

Yep. And we had the rotary phone so that was a long dial. Phone number.

Speaker 1 1:44:24

Oh, that's so that's great information. My gosh, what the what a story that is that's incredible.

Unknown Speaker 1:44:31

Oh, well, there's even more because Bob used to make special appearances and stuff. So he visited like Plymouth and he visited Lavonia and mother made sure we were to all of those visitations.

Speaker 1 1:44:43

Oh, wow. Look at that. That's awesome. And I mean, you can say nothing all I've ever heard. Were great things about Bob Allison. You know what I mean? How

Unknown Speaker 1:44:54

he was fantastic when he joined up but was his son. information we got from his son was just Fantastic. I didn't know he was such a good cook. You know, he got that from his

Speaker 1 1:45:04

mom see that? See, I mean, it's just so much history here that's been like through this family, this community of shows and this time slot. And I feel the love every day when we're on here and we get callers. And sometimes callers will call in that haven't called for a while. And but every day is a little different, just like life.

Unknown Speaker 1:45:27

Oh, yeah. And that's what makes us well, how can you say it that makes us keep going on a daily basis? Because we do have so much love for everybody. And we do want to learn so much. We were never meant to be alone. No, I know, this pandemic has put us into a lone state. Yes, but we're doing better than we were in, especially with your show on there.

Speaker 1 1:45:49

Well, thank you for that. I mean, it's just one way for us to, you know, get get our thoughts out at least a little bit about what's on our mind, be able to talk to other people that are just going through the struggle of day by day kinds of things. And, you know, with with you when you call in, and when you've called in, you know, you're sharing a part of what's happening in this Metro that you're not going to hear on any TV station, you're not going to see on Facebook, you're telling us the story, that you're connected to this family that is homeless and is struggling right now that, you know, they need help. And I'm glad that some of the neighbors could help out in, you know, those are the things that we do as neighbors, right, that's exactly what this shows, help each other.

Unknown Speaker 1:46:38

Our neighbors help each other out. And you know, our newspaper were was able to do that. But when we lost the newspaper, and a lot of people don't have computers or smartphones and stuff, you kind of lost that connection. Right? And that's why your show is even more important now than before. Because you give that connection back to those who cannot afford somebody sleep. Yeah, I mean, yeah, it sounds simple. Just go to the computer. Well, there's the cost of computer, there's the hardware for the computer, there's also the anti virus for the computer, and the electricity for there's so much cost to a computer knowledge.

Speaker 1 1:47:13

Okay, what about the knowledge of a computer to I mean?

Unknown Speaker 1:47:19

Exactly. So I mean, it is hard for people to really get a hold of them. If you've got a family of five, well, then who's gonna use the computer first, if we enough time for everybody to use one computer?

Speaker 1 1:47:32

That's so I mean, you bring up a great point, people just don't understand when you're privileged. Yeah, you know, no big deal, just get Wi Fi and everybody's happy. But what if you can't afford Wi Fi this month? And what if, you know, and you can't afford that computer, and you can't afford this. But that's why radio, this is broadcasting out there. And you don't need anything but a radio to listen in. And a landline to connect, which some some folks, you know, we've really been enlightened on how there's a lot of people out there that don't have internet service, and that don't have a mobile phone.

Unknown Speaker 1:48:15

Right. In fact, I was one of those. Yeah, that's what I was using until about one month ago, and a friend just felt sorry for me. And when I bought me a phone, it's like, I don't want this.

Speaker 1 1:48:32

Like, what do I do with this thing? Now? What do I touch, you're like they touch.

Unknown Speaker 1:48:41

Tell my friends. I have a love hate relationship with computers. Right? I love that one moment, but I'm ready to throw them out the window the next moment because they can get so frustrated so fast.

Speaker 1 1:48:51

Well, you're not alone. And I think that's typical. Even if you've even if you're experienced with computers, right? And you've worked with computers your whole life, they're still challenging, because it's not how we operate. You know what I mean? As a human being right? We're different, where we want to talk, we want to, you know, there's emotions, there's feelings, there's other things that are not so much in order, like a computer needs it to be. And so I think these points are so valid and listening to our audience. You know, like, anyone can pick up an am radio anywhere for a couple bucks. And you can be Yeah, you can listen to the show or in the car, or at home, if you have a radio and you know, bring up and this this signal, and radio goes the distance like where are you right now, Sharon?

Unknown Speaker 1:49:45

Well, I'm actually in Canton area. Okay. What I've caught you as far as it's Lanie. Wow.

Speaker 1 1:49:53

Yeah. All right. So Annie,

Unknown Speaker 1:49:56

how are you? People? I've heard people catching you off. Are we up into Canada in some areas?

Speaker 1 1:50:02

Oh, look at that. So hello, our Canadian neighbors, we miss you. And we'd love to see you. And I love to go out to Canada. But I'm afraid I might not be able to come back with all this Corona stuff.

Unknown Speaker 1:50:17

I know this is so scary. This whole thing is, yeah. But you know, that's the reason why you're important. That's reason why aren't our nonprofit organizations are important, because we still keep you guys connected. We know how important people are to each other. We were never meant to be by ourselves. Never. No, no. And it's hard when when we have a world right now that's so disconnected, that even our kids are feeling the suffering of it

Speaker 1 1:50:44

all. Well, how sad is it when you can't see your mom on Christmas? Right? And because you're afraid you're gonna get get him sick. Right. So yeah, it's a, it's been a, it's been a tough time for everybody. And for us to adjust like this, we have to help each other out, we're gonna have to take some risks, you know, that's life and be.

Unknown Speaker 1:51:05

And that's reason why you learn to connect with each other through networking, you find people you can talk to over the phone, you try to get on, if you're lucky, Facebook or whatever, our church at this point is still putting on a small grief group. Because there is a lot of people have died that really are trying to get through this pandemic, because they can't be with the loved ones to take and say, Hey, it's okay for now that your loved one has died. Yeah. And there's other support groups out there that are going in different directions just to help people in this need, just like I am with the families that are needing help. They're homeless or just some food, or even shoveling snow tomorrow, you know, they still need to get connected when they don't have the proper things that our higher society has. I call it because they have a little more money than we do.

Speaker 1 1:51:57

Yes, yes. Yes. Yes. It's so I mean, so I just want to say, you know, the again, I want the people to be able to get a hold of you that might be listening in for the first time. Can you share your number, Sharon?

Unknown Speaker 1:52:11

Sure, no problem. It's 73474870569. Okay, if I don't know something, I'll be honest enough. And I'll try to find it for you. Or I'll send you to the people who do know something about it.

Speaker 1 1:52:28

Yeah. And to repeat, Sharon, from the Grange. You're working with the Timothy Lutheran Church? Yes. And some of the programs you discussed. You just talked about are there. Like the grief one? I think that's a big thing for people right now. Could you repeat that information for us, please.

Unknown Speaker 1:52:49

We have a person who deals with grief people. She's not a counselor, but she's been counseled. We do have a club that meets every three months. I believe our club was meeting this month, but I can't remember the date offhand. I can always give that information when we call. We have other support groups, which because the need is so big out there. We do sewing as a therapy job, as well as just doing whatever. We have crochet groups that come in. And we used to have music but our music director has retired. So you don't have the music people that we used to have. Every Thursday would play music. And all the people who play would come down and just have a like a jamboree. That's great. That sounds great. We're trying to get together some youth groups because we know the youth are suffering more than anybody right now. That's absolutely true. Yep. Connecting and knowing that they don't have to be a part of something to just at least meet talk in in get out there. Grief. Two because not going to school is grief. Yeah. Not having a job is grief. Yeah. Not having your loved ones of grief. Grief is a big word. Oh, covers a lot of areas. Yeah.

Speaker 1 1:54:05

We are. Right now. I feel like our whole society has been going through that grief of many, many things, you know, the changes the losses of lives, the losses of relationships, the loss of that social connectivity. For sure. Good. Well put Sharon well put, you know. So Timothy Lutheran church is located at Wayne rode

Unknown Speaker 1:54:30

with 882020 and that's Livonia. Okay.

Speaker 1 1:54:39

All right. And is there a number there that people can call and get all that information for the programs?

Unknown Speaker 1:54:46

Yes, it's 734734427427229022908. If you do have a computer, you can go on On the computer, just look us up on the website. And we are we got our own webmaster.

Speaker 1 1:55:05

Okay for Timothy Lutheran Church. Okay, so that's,

Unknown Speaker 1:55:09

I can find somebody who's smart enough to do it for the grades, the grades will have their backup.

Speaker 1 1:55:14

All right. All right, well, your number is 734-748-0569. If anybody wants to help out a homeless family that's looking to be normal again. Right. Right. And other things that you're helping out different people different programs. Sharon from the Grange, thank you for being on our show. We appreciate it. 734-748-0569. Have a wonderful day. Thank you so much. Hear

Unknown Speaker 1:55:41

you too, sir.

Speaker 1 1:55:42

Thank you. Take care. Bye, bye. Alright, Sharon, letting us know a little bit more information today about how to connect with the Grange and how some of the programs that Timothy Lutheran Church, provide some support for people experiencing grief. And it can be any kind of grief. Also sharing just to recap letting others know that, you know, some people can't afford a computer. Maybe they can afford a computer but can't afford the connectivity. Maybe they don't know how to use it. There's a learning curve situation and reiterating how the radio is still so important and much more. So now, during these pandemic times you're listening to ask the neighbor Show. I'm your host Danko center offski coming to you every day Monday through Friday 9am to 11am Monday through Friday, except on Thursdays till 10am 9am till 10am You can catch us online at vary detroit.com or ask the neighbor.com you can go to very detroit.com and click on the WNZK button and listen to our stream anywhere in the world. Also Sharon letting us know that she's heard us all the way in Canada in Ypsilanti and others have told us about Toledo and north so this signal is getting out there. Thank you so much for listening to our show today. We will see you tomorrow stay warm get prepared and we will see how it goes tomorrow take care and got down

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