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A Mediocre Time with Tom and Dan

913 - Savannah and Ramon

A Mediocre Time with Tom and Dan

Tom Vann & Dan Dennis

Comedy, Improv

4.92.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2026

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

  • Bart Marek and Crystal Vann promoted as experienced Central Florida realtors

  • Warning against inexperienced realtors costing tens of thousands

  • Brian Zymel highlighted for better mortgage rates and shopping options

  • Spring market timing and importance of accurate pricing comps

  • Friday Free Show setup with Savannah in studio

  • Alligator 911 joke and Florida nuisance gator rules explained

  • Public overreaction to harmless alligators in natural habitats

  • 11 foot alligator found near International Drive

  • Trapper process, relocation, meat and hide use, and hunting camps

  • Ethical concerns about canned alligator hunts

  • Gatorland paying for relocation and rescue logistics

  • Plan to relocate large alligator instead of killing it

  • Savannah coordinating rescue approval and funding via social media revenue

  • Viral Lamborghini crash with lifted truck in Lake Mary

  • Driver visibility issues and dashcam footage breakdown

  • Crowd filmed instead of helping, only one person checked on driver

  • Massive repair costs and exotic shop handling damage

  • Discussion of lifted trucks versus low sports cars danger

  • Ramon shares business background and Happy Kiddos company

  • Cuban immigrant story and leaving high paying job to build business

  • Multiple income streams including real estate and mentorship

  • Mixed reactions to success, admiration and skepticism

  • Joke about Lamborghini owners and Florida driving chaos

  • Crunch Fitness references and ad idea from crash

  • Life success compared to poker with luck and skill

  • Cuban resilience, optimism, and desire to help people in Cuba

  • Savannah viral photo and dealing with creepy online comments

  • Strategy of blocking and filtering toxic followers

  • Debate over responsibility of posting versus commenting

  • Online trolling behavior and hypocrisy from normal profiles

  • Morocco trip for crocodile conference and conservation work

  • Criticism from academic community and influencer crossover tension

  • Gender bias and comparison to stand up comedy gatekeeping

  • Preparing for cultural norms, travel concerns, and safety jokes

  • Wildlife stories including being chased by alligators and crocodiles

  • Advice to run straight and target soft spots if attacked

  • VPN discussion for privacy, pricing differences, and streaming access

  • AI glasses and real time language translation tech

  • Speculation about communicating with animals and brain mapping

  • Concerns about AI dependence and reduced creativity

  • Nostalgia for early phones and simpler tech era

  • Red light camera tickets and lawyer advice

  • Listener voicemail from Cactus Steve and cancer support

  • Nostalgia for radio promotions and bar events

  • Local food talk including soul food spots and small business struggles

  • Debate on why good restaurants fail without marketing

  • Fast food quality, sauce limits, and corporate control

  • Sushi eating limits and fast food binge stories

  • Conspiracy talk about food supply and large chains

  • Flea and tick infestations tied to environmental changes

  • Pest control ideas including heat traps

  • Running jokes about failed business plans and missed opportunities

  • Gatorland tips, baby birds, and harsh wildlife realities

  • Promotion of BDM membership and show wrap up

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Transcript

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0:00.0

If you're looking to buy a house, if you're looking to sell your current house, the Bart Merrick

0:04.6

team, Bart Merrick and Crystal Van, they will help you out. They have insane experience here

0:10.4

in Central Florida. They have insane experience as realtors. Well, there's pretty much not

0:15.0

anything they haven't seen. Yes. And I will vouch for them. I have used them personally. The

0:19.4

attention to detail that you get is unlike any other realtor.

0:22.3

Yep.

0:22.6

And a lot of people just use some realtor and their family or a coworker that may not have that many, you know, sales or that many, you know, houses that they helped a client buy or sell.

0:36.9

And when you do that, you could be costing yourselves the tens of thousands of dollars by making a mistake. You're hurting yourself. You have no loyalty to you have a loyalty to your family and yourself to get the best value out of your home or the most when you're buying, right? You want to when you're buying something and you're paying money, you want to get the most out of that house that you're getting. And I guarantee you, Bart knows how to do that because mine was wrong and he fixed it. They also work closely with Brian Zymel from streamlined mortgage solutions, which can get you the best rate when looking for a mortgage. And that's another thing, too. Like, some people just go with the first mortgage company.

1:15.9

Like contact Brian, see if he could do better. I've seen it happen before where he saved one of our listeners like, you know, thousands of dollars over the course of a year.

1:22.1

Well, they're up on it. They stay up on what's happening. They stay up on rates. New programs

1:26.5

are coming out like all the time. And you're not going to know that if you go with, you know, the guy that does it, dabbles in it rather. Yeah. It's not good. And all you have to do is talk to them. If you're looking to sell your house, now's the time. It's springtime. It's hot right now. And they'll let you know everything you need to do. They'll let know what they could probably get for your house to uh using comps and uh you know really dialing it in a lot

1:48.8

of times a realtor would just tell you what you want to hear which could really hurt you anyway

1:52.3

they will not do that they will help you out it's the bart merrick team bart the realtor

1:57.0

dot com live from the injured on the go, just call Mo Studio.

2:01.3

It's a blast!

2:02.1

It's Orlando's own Tom and Dan.

2:06.1

Hello, this is your mediocre time with Tom and Dan program.

2:13.6

We hope that you will find our presentation, precise, joke heavy, and just right. Thanks. Welcome to the Friday free show of A Mediocre Time.

2:58.6

It is another A Mediocre Time of Tom and Dan. I'm Tom.

3:04.0

With us today, we've got Savannah.

3:06.5

And I'm Savannah.

3:08.3

That is Savannah. Hey, we've got Savannah. And I'm Savannah. That is Savannah.

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