A Tale of Two Housing Markets
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🗓️ 4 September 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode is brought to you by Mentos Pure Fresh Cum. |
| 0:04.0 | It's time to get energized. |
| 0:09.0 | We actually almost didn't even bother looking at the place because the pictures did not do it justice. |
| 0:15.0 | But we're like, you know what? Just for the sake of doing our due diligence, let's go see this house. |
| 0:24.0 | That's Melissa Martin and that house was in a little town in Louisiana just a few weeks ago. |
| 0:31.0 | And then we got in here. It was something, something about the place kind of hit us in the face of like, like, oh wait. |
| 0:40.0 | Oh wait, this feels like, uh, there, there was a vibe. |
| 0:45.0 | Melissa grew up in Seattle. Her wife was raised in Louisiana and the two of them are part of a growing number of Americans buying homes right now. |
| 0:53.0 | Right now in the middle of a pandemic. Talk to realtors, housing experts or anybody with a house in the suburbs getting postcards under the door saying, |
| 1:02.0 | list your house now. You will find a buyer. They see this story playing out. |
| 1:08.0 | But it's only one story because something else is happening in the housing market at this exact same time. |
| 1:14.0 | A story of people for whom buying a house feels further out of reach than ever. And it was already hard. |
| 1:23.0 | Welcome to skim this. This week will explain why you might be getting mixed signals from the housing market. |
| 1:32.0 | Then Mulan and Tenet. This summer's big Hollywood blockbusters drop this week, but it sure doesn't feel like summer movie season. |
| 1:40.0 | Also, it's September, not 4th of July weekend. |
| 1:43.0 | Oh, and if you're thinking this show sounds a bit different today, you're right. |
| 1:47.0 | Our host is on vacation and we'll be back next week. |
| 1:50.0 | All right, first up, we've got some context on two big developing stories. |
| 2:01.0 | The first has to do with a new term getting thrown around this week, domestic terror. |
| 2:06.0 | That term came up during a presidential visit to Knozha, Wisconsin. |
| 2:11.0 | That's the town where Jacob Blake was shot by police late last month. |
| 2:15.0 | And where a vigilante gunman shot and killed two protesters and injured a third last week. |
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