JCS: The C.A.R.E. Foundation

0:00This episode is sponsored by Maximus Tribe. You train, you track, you eat right. But if you're over 40, you've felt it. The results don't match the effort anymore. That's not willpower, it's biology. Hormones drop, metabolism slows. Your body stops responding the way it used to. Maximus is the online clinic that reverses your decline with prescription performance medicines, GLP1's testosterone and peptides that reduce belly fat, restore energy and boost recovery. Over 50,000 high performers have already broken through their plateaus. If you're ready to turn your hard work into measurable results, go to MaximusTribe.com. That's MaximusTribe.com. Hi guys, Charles and Melbourne here again. I love you guys so much to do your show every opportunity I get, but let me tell you something. Some kids don't grow up. Every now and then, somebody ends up with somebody

1:02in their 30s and we're still paying their way. Son of a... Welcome back to the Jim Colbert Show on Real Radio 104.1. Parents, we can feel your pain. Feel free to send us a talk back if you want. Expressing your pain after we just shared the news that it cost over $300,000 to raise a child here in the United States. A Jim will be back with us on Monday. He's on vacation. Joining us today, of course, you've got myself, Jack Bradshaw, executive producer. Hello. Our absolutely special guest co-host today, Johnny Magic. Yes, hang in there. Yes, hang in there. And every Wednesday at this time, we do a little thing called Animal House. She likes them fuzzy, furry, feathery, tough, and galee. It's time for Animal House with Deborah Roberts. And Animal House is generously brought to us each and every week by Personal Injury Attorney Glenn Clausman over at Clausman Law. We'll tell you how you can get in touch with Glenn

2:02at the end of Animal House. But now, please join me in welcoming back, founder and executive director of the Care Foundation, Kristen Bureford. Yay! How you doing, Kristen? Hanging in there, hanging in there. Yeah, get nice and close to that microphone, even though who is your furry friend you've got with us? This is Cecil the Weasel. Cecil the Weasel. Hang on a minute. He's creeping me out. Wow, it is like Jim is still here. It came at me a second ago. Okay. Maybe she just has good taste in the media for a second, so just wants to cut on. Yes. So how did you come across Cecil? Is this the first fairytale you have at the Care Foundation? Oh, no. No, we've had several fairytales. We've got two others at home. This one was found wandering somebody's backyard. Really? And the man thought it was a fairytale, but then he sent a picture to a veterinary office and they said it was a baby possum. So he brings it to me and I'm like, let me go see this thing. I'm like, no, you were correct. It's a fairytale. Somebody needs to be retrained at the vet's office.

3:03No doubt. So they're not a native species to Florida. Yeah. So that must mean it was a dumped pet. Yeah. Somebody lost their pet or he put up signs and everything and nobody claims he's still the Weasel. Yep. So he's ours now. And that's another animal for you to care for. Yeah. And for those who don't know, the Care Foundation, you guys have been essential for the staple for, I mean, Johnny and I remember, I mean, you guys brought the dog up and there. Yeah. You're tiger wanted to eat me. Yes. It really did. It wanted to eat me. It was like, hmm, I see some tasty over there. I see some dark meat. That's right. They say it's juicier. So how long has the Care Foundation been a part of center Florida? We have been in Orange County for 30 years. Wow. We have a current location for about 20 years. And you know, up until your recent move, you guys used to have a lot of community outreach. You had big tour groups, small tour groups, like ambassador, animal ambassador for the

4:04day. Are you still able to do that? Or since your move, are you still dealing with the kind of bureaucratic red tape? Well, up until just recently, we're still able to do tours and everything. We just couldn't do our big open houses. Right. It's a county issue. We're trying to deal with that and have been for a while. Right now, we're going through USDA relicensing. So temporarily, we cannot do any shows. We can't do any tours, anything like that. We have no way of bringing money in at this very moment. We don't know when the inspector is going to be out. Wow. They don't give you a date. They do not. Isn't that funny that the government just doesn't tell you and make it easy for you and give you all the tools you can succeed? They want it to be a surprise visit so they can see what you're like when they're around. Maybe that's it. I don't know. Yeah. It's been three years since we had an inspection. We're on the three year rotation. So being a three year, it means they usually don't worry about us too much and everything. But the inspectors keep getting shifted around.

5:05I heard my last inspector is up in the panhandle. So I don't know who we have right now and with the government shutdown off and on. Oh. That's another thing. But my hands are tied and I have no way of bringing money in at the moment. So how are you feeding the the animals? I've been there and you got a lot and they eat a lot. Yeah. Right now, believe it or not, our biggest expenses are the monkeys and the birds. Yeah. It's monkey biscuits. Yeah. Johnny, I'm sure have you ever heard the word monkey biscuits? No. This is the first time I've ever heard of a monkey biscuit. They're a real thing, right? Yeah. They're a real thing and it's something they need and we go through a ton of them. We've got. What have we got? 11 monkeys. Now I said we'd never have monkeys. We've got 11 plus the kinkajews and the lemurs. So yeah, we go through a ton of monkey biscuits and then the birds. We usually get in birds in really bad shape like macaws and cockatues and the food we feed on like turns around like that. My vet actually has a big burden. She recommended that food, but it's expensive even more than the tigers.

6:07No, it's just their stuff is more expensive. Oh, more expensive. Yeah. We actually work with second harvest. Thank God for second harvest. Food bank because we get the meat from there. Isn't that amazing? I don't know about anybody else, but this is the first time that I've heard about second harvest food bank having their their feelers reach out and touch even more of the community. We know that they help food insecure families, veterans and other individuals in central Florida, but this is the first time that I've heard them helping an animal rescue because you're right. You've got a lot of big cats as well. Yeah. No, we wouldn't be able to have all the cats that we have, especially the liliger. If it wasn't for a second harvest, you mean the one that tried to eat Johnny? No, no, it's a tiger. No, it's a tiger. Oh, it's a tiger. It was a straight up tiger. Yeah. Yeah. And then publics also helps us with a produce. So that is that helps out quite a bit too. Couldn't you reach out to the government and say we'd love to get this inspection and we hope to do it soon because if not, we're just going to have to let these animals go. That would be frowned upon out the front door.

7:09Exactly. Get your ass over here now. Or you're going to end up having to call FWC. But you know, that is interesting, Chris, because you were saying that what you're looking for, really, from anybody who is listening, maybe you could text us at 77031 or even contact Chris and at the Care Foundation. But you're looking for some help, maybe from someone who has some zoning experience? Yes. Orange County zoning. We kind of fit in this weird, we don't fit anything really to be honest. So they try to classify, classify everybody. And there's no classification for us. So my husband's been working on this forever and he says, for some reason, we have to register our house as a business, the house itself that we live in, which if we're registered as a regular business, then there's all other kind of things that we have to jump through. Right. Well, it's interesting that you've been in that county for three decades and that these issues haven't come up. That's property.

8:09Yeah. That hasn't come up before. That happens if you don't register and all that stuff. We won't be able to do the big open houses and things like that. And that's how, of course, you make the majority of your money. Yeah. That's our one big, once a year, big, blow out fundraiser. So what can listeners, what can the community do in the meantime until this USDA inspection and happens? What can folks do to help you out? If they want to check out our website, it's thecarefoundation.org, all one word. We do have a donation site on there and you can just go and familiarize yourself with all the animals we have and what we do and the outreach programs that we do. Right now, even if you could donate five dollars, if everybody could donate just five dollars, that would be five more dollars than we have now. And it would help out quite a bit because we just don't know and we can go back to doing our own thing. And I'm the worst person to be a nonprofit person, because I hate asking for help.

9:10We try to go out and earn our own money, earn our own way. But yeah, right now when they stop you, you have to do what you got to do. We got to do what we got to do. What's that website again? Thecarefoundation.org. Well, you know, you need to lean on this guy over here to, you know, I want to get together. I want to go back in the woods and maybe do a show from out there again. There you go. I'm going to try to smack you again. You're going to risk your life again. I don't feel bad. I've snagged guests as they sat there too. There's no shame in this game, Johnny. You know what you got to do. I've known you too long to consider you stealing it anyway. Okay. And it's really watching on YouTube. There's a picture of someone who wants Johnny to come back out there. Hey, wait until you hear that sound effect. It really wanted to eat. It's, it's people who dilated like, oh yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, while this came out. It is. It is. It is. You smell really good. Yeah. But really stealing guests, I mean, it's all about helping you be able to stay open because for a while there, school kids were able to come and be exposed to these animals.

10:12You've got a lot of really great volunteer opportunities. Do those volunteer opportunities still exist or do you need to wait for the inspection? No. We still can take volunteer. Okay. Great. So if you maybe have a young person who's looking for a future here. Oh, my God. Need a hundred volunteer hours. Send them away. I will send them away. I will send them away. I will send them away. I will send them away. I will send them away. I will send them away. I will send them away. I will send them away. I will send them away. I will send them away. Exactly. Okay. Nothing like mucking out some stalls to teach you some humility, right? Absolutely. Okay. Well, Kristen, we're going to make sure that we post the Animal House podcast so folks can hopefully contact you if they have some zoning experience with county government. They can kind of give you a little lending hand. Johnny had even mentioned earlier that if there's anyone out there with any kind of legal experience. Yeah, they can help you with that. Because we're not sure like what even kind of what to do, what what a turning what kind of a turning would you even ask for in that kind of situation? Don't rule out direct threats. Let the pigeons loose. They only they were pigeons. They're not killing machines. No, you can tell you got a lot of passion for what you do and I've seen you work.

11:12Thank you. I think it's something you keep doing. It's going to work out. It's going to work out. It's not, too. It's going to work out. It's going to work out. It's not, too. It's going to work out. It's going to work out. It's going to work out. Absolutely. You've got a lot of people in the community who love you. You've got a lot of animals that rely on you and together we're going to make it work. You're going to make me tear up. I know. It's going to happen. At this philosophy, when you're doing the right thing it will all work out. It may not be the way you want to but it will work out. Sometimes the harder you have to fight the more it's meant for you in the end. It is. Where in me down though. You're stronger than Matt. Yeah, I have to be. You're stronger than Matt. Don't you crowd start. I got like 200 kids counting on me. If you start to cry. That's it. Jack will be over there. I'm an ugly cry. Open the gate! Open the gate! Open the gate! Open the gate! Open the gate! Open the gate! Check, I'll just put it on auto pilot and go home. I don't know, Brad, Chuck, I'm out of here.

12:13I'm out of here, forget about that. But thank you, Kristin. No, thank you. Put your hands together for Christmas. Thank you. And Cecil the Weasel. As always, Animal House is brought to you by Glenn Klossman over a Klossman law. If you've been in any kind of an accident, it could be a car truck or motorcycle. It could even be a slip-and-fall. Here's just a couple of reasons why you need to call Glenn one. Glenn is not going to pass you off to a caseworker. Glenn is going to handle your case. So much so he's going to give you his personal cell phone number and then pick it up when you call, even if he happens to be in Paris. Just a couple of reasons why. Year after year, he's voted super lawyer and legal elite. He truly is an animal lover and a friend of the show. So if you've been in any kind of an accident, give him a call, 407-917-18, or check him out online at Klossmanlaw.com. That's k-l-a-u-s-m-a-n-law.com. We're going to take a little break and up next, we're going to talk to Orlando Sentinel columnist, Scott Maxwell. So keep it here on the Jim Colbert Show on Real Radio 1-4.1. This episode sponsored by Maximus Tribe.

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