Happy Monday, everybody. This is Meet the Nation Monday. This is when we call up someone

who is a fan of the show and talk to them about themselves so that we can get to know them

better. Hopefully they will all sign up for the Badger Trail Races. He says Sugar Badger,

the Badger Trail Races in August or the last dot standing in October. And then we will

all get to hang out and we will remember all the funny things that we said when we were

on the podcast. Today we are talking to Ryan Paul. I was like Paul Ryan when I see that

for some reason. Anyway, away we go.

Alright, let's light this candle. Hello. Hello. Hi. Ryan Paul. This is me. Not Paul Ryan.

Yeah, that's confusing to me. I keep seeing it wrong. Is that just me or does everybody do that?

A lot of people do that. Okay. Good. Good. I'm not alone. You're not the first to get a reverse for sure.

Outstanding. Alright, where am I calling you at? I am in suburban Philadelphia, a town called Gladwing.

Nice. And what am I interrupting in order to do this? What are you working at in your job there?

Just some phone calls and nonsense stuff. What do you do? So I have a consumer loan servicing company

that I'm the CEO of. So my gaze putting up fires and solving problems. So it's kind of the same.

So consumer loan servicing. What kind of loans are we talking about? So mostly student loans for vocational schools,

but also home improvement loans, elective medical loans, anything unsecured.

Okay. So if I get like a notice that my student loan has been transferred or sold to someone else,

it might be to this company. It could be, but unlikely because we generally do.

We generally service loans that are not federally insured or not part of the federal loan program.

Either loans that we buy the private student loans, either loans that we buy or schools or institutions that we do business with

don't want to sell or can't get financing for from the government. So we service them for them.

And those were those loans paused during this pandemic or no? They were not. Okay. They were not.

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