 Dow. Dow industry is up 253. We get the Nasdaq up 235. S&Ps up 43. I guess today folks is Tory Nelson. Tory is running for the mayor of St Pete. We have elections tomorrow. Tory is dedicated to building our community, making sure every voice is heard. You can find Tory's website folks at Tory4StPete.goDaddySites.com. Tory, welcome to TFNN. Thanks for having me, Tom. How are you? I'm doing great, man. I'm doing great. Well, tell us why you want to be mayor of St Pete. Oh, wow. We have an hour segment here. Well, yeah, it's so many different things that makes me want to become mayor. It's always been an aspiration of mine. But some of the main issues that I keep hearing around the community, I keep hearing people complain about affordability. And I feel, you know, it's time for me to step up. It's time for me to make my run and time for me to make a change. There's a lot of things, environment. I'm really big on environment. My background is law. But since I started my campaign, I became an environmentalist and I'm going to restore our natural resources. I'm going to add biodiversity to our landscape. I'm going to overhaul our land with all our native plants so we can have ocean friendly plants. And it's a ton of stuff, Tom. So let me ask you this. Listen, those are great things, right? So I know in Childs Park, okay, so did you open a homeless shelter in Childs Park? Tell me about that. Yes, sir, I did. What I did, I took a student loan and I got an agreement for deed. A lot of people don't know agreement. Well, I'm a true American. My credit was shot. Okay. Yeah. I took agreement for deed in Florida agreement for deed is considered a sale. So at the height of my real estate career, I was up to like four transitional homes. So I took a student loan. I got a multifamily home. It was a seven bedroom house with a two bedroom garage apartment and I converted it to a transitional home. And like I said, at the height of my real estate career, I was leased in one building and I had two duplexes in the one home in Childs Park. So I was up to four transitional homes and I was taking a lot of people off the streets at one point. And when you do that, so were you getting paid by the state to do that? How does that work? I did it totally with no government funding. Okay. That's why I'm resourceful. Like I'm listening to your show and you're talking about, you know, that's not my arena investing. Because I guess I got scared money. They say scared money don't make no money. But I'm very resourceful. I was running the homeless shelter in Childs Park with like 1500 overhead. I paid my life to my water and my mortgage. What made you want to do that? Well, I was getting, I got bowel tested. I was constantly getting pro with different city departments and I was lasting. I was meeting angels along the way. Different people that was living in my shelter was helping me. Okay. And we just kept, I kept running for almost a decade. So let me ask you something. You know, every city has problems. Okay. And the younger kids right now, you know, it's interesting, Tori. My take on the violence is right across the country is that, you know, I'm a lot older than you. In fact, 30 years older than you. And when we were growing up, it was always the 14 to 18, you got to make it through that deal. And when I was growing up, it was very violent across the country. When we were 14, it was 1964, you know, going forward. Then it leveled out. What people don't understand right now is that the demographics right now are bigger than even that. So inside the major cities, like let's say inside, what can we do? Do you think in order to bring the violence down outside of education? I know education is huge. There's no doubt about it. But you know, when these kids are out here, it's sad before, you know, when I was growing up, yeah, you might get stabbed. Now everyone's getting shot though. It's a huge difference, you know what I mean? Yeah. Well, you know, a big part of it, I think it's the evolution of music. Music, when you're young, it kind of like influences you. Okay. You know, TV kind of influences you. That's right. That's right. Yeah. So you see stuff and you want to kind of emulate it. You want to be like that person. And a lot of the rappers today, I believe they're glorifying guns and shooting and killing. And a lot of our youth before their, their brain is, it's like maturing is actually going down this road. Interesting. Yeah. Yeah, I got. No, go ahead, please. I was the same way when I was 14. I was too. It's a great point, man. I mean, I love hearing this because this is the stuff that, you know, I tell people, you know, people don't understand. You only know four square blocks when you're growing up, man. And then all of a sudden you get outside and say, hey, man, the whole rest of the world is not like this. Okay. So that's interesting, man. And I can see that. So how do we get into these kids' heads and just say, hey, man, can you like just give it a break for a few years? Because you're going to get over 19 or 20. And then we'll stop thinking a little bit better. Yeah, definitely. I think maybe if we inform the kids like anger management a lot, we can implement anger management because one second of getting angry, because a lot of kids are toad guns. They don't know the consequences. If we can let them know the consequences. Right. Yeah. Constantly reinforcing pretty much brainwashing the same thing they're seeing or listening to on TV. If we brainwash the same positivity, hopefully it'll level that out a little bit. And then I guess another question would be this. Okay. So you open a homeless shelter, which is awesome. You're going to be a dynamite activist. We know, listen, you're not going to be mayor tomorrow, but that's all right. It doesn't matter. I'm glad you're running. That's the bottom line. But you'll be a great activist. So let me ask you this. So we have communities in need. You already opened a homeless shelter. Now let's talk about, let's say that, you know, someone's already gotten trouble. They're in the can. They can back out of the can. Okay. Now the question is, how do we help them? Because you can't go back to the same corner. If you go back to the same corner, you're going to go back to your friends. And all of a sudden there's trouble again. It's like, okay, man. So how do we help folks that have gotten trouble? You know, and most of the trouble is not serious trouble at the beginning. Okay. It's, it's petty trouble. But then all of a sudden then, hey, guess what? You get those, you know, cocky pants and you're coming back out. How can we help kids that are coming back out of jail so that they can basically get into the system without basically doing 10,000 hoops? Yeah. That's a great question. See, you told me to show education, but that has a lot to do with it. I think it does. No, it does. Yeah. I think gives you a better quality of life. A lot of kids, they might come out and, you know, and they can't get jobs for their record. Right. So a lot of them have to turn into entrepreneurs. And it's just like keeping up with the Joneses. Our economy is just thriving right now down here in St. Pete. Yes. Yeah. Rent skyrocketing. So it's hard for God. I'll just say a guy to be the head of his household. You want to have a girlfriend. You want to have a family, but you constantly got your girl on your head. You can't make enough money. You can't get a job. So you ultimately got to turn it back to the street life. So with better education, I believe maybe we can implement some reentry programs to teach them to be entrepreneurs. Hopefully that can help because basically there's no second chances once you once you get in trouble. All right. Right. I'm a living testament of that. I graduated with a bachelor's degree, two degrees actually, and I got in trouble. And I like your the quote you just said a little while ago. If you live in the past, you forget. Yeah. Isn't that a great card then? Yeah. You're going to be here now, man. I know. I'm going to start using that. But listen, man, I will send you that quote. Well, listen, man, this has been a pleasure. I look forward to having you on again and bottom line. I hope you get a lot of votes tomorrow, man. You know, you're going to be around. That's a beautiful thing. Oh, thank you, Tom. I appreciate you having me. Thanks, Terry. Thanks, Tori. Have a great one. Have a safe one. You too. That's Tori Nelson, folks. He's running for mayor tomorrow. Our elections in St. Pete. His website is Tori4StPeteGoDaddy.GoDaddySites.com. Dow Industries right now at about 2.56. You get the NASDAQ up 240. S&P's up 43. Stay right there, folks. Come right back.