Judy

This is our taxpayer dollars being put to use by coming out to Eagle Pass and what's happened is it's jacked up the hotel prices.

Understood, understood.

Can you imagine if you went with it like that?

Donald, now that the lawsuit is behind you, what do you want to do next?

That sounds very ambitious. Where do you get the drive? You're still so young, Donald.

Hi there. Thank you for taking my call. So I am 65 years old. I have zero savings right now. And I wonder if I should start, instead of building up a savings account, build up a investment account, like mutual funds, as you and Ramsey speak about all the time.

The thing is, I'm 65, and nobody knows how long they're going to live. So like, 65. What if in five years, you know, it's not going to move a lot?

I work part-time, yeah. I make about $1,600 a month. Are you single, married? I live with my boyfriend. He covers most of the expenses. Most of my income is disposable, as I said. I hate that term, but yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, wow.

We had, well, yeah, yes, but... What happened? There was a big difference. Well... The last time his drinking was out of control, but he has stopped drinking. And so we're back together the last two months.

He has two kids. He doesn't want to marry me. That's the problem.

I do own a home. I mean, as I said, as you know, I live near Tampa, so the home just got... so that put me back in a hole. I'm not in a hole. I'm not in debt, but it wiped out any savings I had.

Right now I'm living in his home, but I was in my home. Okay, and what's going on with your home? Now we're going to rent out my home.

Well, there's good news and there's bad news. The good news is we bought it at $50, and it's probably... Anywhere between $200,000 and $300,000 now.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We bought it together and we paid cash for it at $50,000 during the hosting market crash. You and your boyfriend did? Yeah.

It's my name. It's in my name only, only. But you said you guys bought it together. Well, he gave me the money. Wouldn't he want to write to some of the money?

This is a Netflix series. I can't force him to marry me.

You want to hear something even worse?

You do? Yeah. My work, I work for him.

He has a small business.

Actually, the last time I asked, he said, he said, walk with it.

Let's answer your original question.

I do have to pay. Now I'm on Medicare, so I have to pay that, and I have to pay for my phone, and I have to pay for my car insurance. Great. Okay. And I get a Social Security check, so that kind of eats up my Social Security.

$875.

The only stream of income I have is that we're going to rent out the house for approximately $1,300 a month.

Yeah.

Well, as soon as I pay back some money that I borrowed from him.

And I went... What's Team Judy going to do when she doesn't have the ball, you know?

Okay, so if I have $5,000 to $10,000 saved, then I can start investing? Is that what you're saying?

The mid cap, the large cap, and the small cap. Sure. And the international mutual. Yeah, index and mutual funds and tax advantage accounts.

I lost some money twice. I mean, I had some money, but... I know.

Like, you know, the hurricanes. The hurricanes. I get it. The hurricanes. As I said, that cost $20,000.

Hello, Mr. Theo Vaughn.

In Shreveport, Louisiana.

I've called you a few times. Anyhow, I just want to say congratulations. I'm so happy for you that you had the opportunity to go to D.C., On Inauguration Day, I had actually said something to my husband over the weekend that I sure hope the Elvon goes to Washington to experience Inauguration Day.

Because you, my friend, are so worthy and deserving to have that opportunity. Countless, countless of us are so grateful. Thank you for going. You truly deserve that. I was so excited for you. And I just want to thank you again for just having truly the best podcast that I get so hyped to listen to. And you are so deeply loved.

Dear Judge Kearney, prior to March 3, 2019, I would never have imagined having to make this statement. My entire world was viciously ripped from me with the murder of Thomas K. Burchard, my fiance and long-term partner. Since that time, I have suffered unimaginable grief and loss, which has taken its toll on me physically, emotionally, and financially.

I was the first to know that something was seriously wrong when he did not get off the plane he was scheduled to fly home on. My immediate thought was to check with his office. I knew that no matter what, he would not just leave his patients without making arrangements. I will always wonder if there was something I could have done to prevent Tom from going to Las Vegas to see Kelsey Turner.

Tom was under a lot of stress and I sincerely believe he was in the early stages of Alzheimer's or some other form of dementia. She lured him to Las Vegas with some story about how she was sick and couldn't take care of her child and had no money for food or medicine, etc. His last words to me were, she's such a pervasive liar that I had to see for myself.

A day does not pass that I am not reminded of Tom and how horribly and painfully he suffered in his final hours on Earth at the hands of John Kennison and Kelsey Turner. I never realized such evil existed in this world until this happened. Physically, it has been very difficult for me. The emotional turmoil I have experienced was and is literally gut-wrenching.

Prior to Tom's murder, Kelsey Turner had threatened violence and even threatened to kill me if I caused her to be evicted. I was in no way responsible for her eviction. The fact that she hadn't paid rent was the reason for eviction. Considering the fact that she was that angry over an eviction, she will be much more angry after having been incarcerated.

I also want to mention many other victims of this crime, the silent ones, his patients, who are some of the most vulnerable people and most were children. I can't begin to tell you in the past how many people had come up to us and said, Dr. Burchard, you probably don't remember me. But 20 years ago, you saved my life when I had tried to commit suicide.

It grieves me to think how many lives have not been saved due to his murder. One of the hardest facts to accept is that Tom was heinously, savagely beaten, literally tortured to death, and then callously dumped in the trunk of a car and left abandoned in the desert. But the hardest of all to accept

is that from what I have seen, Kelsey Turner shows absolutely no remorse and does not accept any responsibility for the murder she committed.

Okay.

I love it. I think it's chic. Thank you. Sometimes I used to see old ladies with red lips, and I couldn't ever decide if I thought it was good or bad.

Yeah, but this is a lipstick that's very dry. So in other words, have I done it right?

Is that good?

So much for activism and the good of the planet.

Yeah, there was one time when I met Carl Sandburg's daughter, and I just started to cry. I mean, I was so overwhelmed with being close to somebody that was a daughter of Carl Sandburg that I felt like I was sort of in this state of grace, but it came as a surprise. I mean, I didn't expect it, and I couldn't stop that feeling of overwhelm sort of both joy and melancholy.

I don't know how to explain it, but it was... In retrospect, it was wonderful to feel that way.

Feeling the glory of the world. Right. Letting the glory of the world come in through a person. Totally. Yeah.

One of the songs that we... sang in those days because we loved folk music was the Colorado Trail and Carl Sandburg wrote it and we had literally been singing it the night before and I started to tell her that I couldn't tell her I couldn't say it because it was so I was so overwhelmed and Oh, that's so good. That makes me feel better about today.

I didn't know that Bonnie was a big hero of yours. Tell me about that.

You know, there are some things that go beyond words, and something that happens to us when we're in contact with those people or what they represent to us or what they've said that means something to us, but there are people that are I guess in a way bigger than life or that, or who, who just have opened you up to certain things. I mean, what can you say?

It's just, you know, in your, your body and soul just is like, wow.

And I love you. And don't start crying when you see me. Oh, no, you. I'd love to be that figure for you. You are, mom. You are. Yeah. Much love.

Love you.

Bye.