Supporting Raymond’s Snake Business

What are you selling? Snakes, huh? Bunch of snakes. What do you mean?

That's what we do. It's just like family business. What we do? Yeah.

Can I pet it? Yeah. Does he bite? Nope.

Is he chill? Oh, yeah. This one's really chill. This one we hold every day.

I know you don't know me, but like just uh be uh be nice. Okay. All right. Yeah, that's uh the first time touching one.

Yeah, dude. Yeah, that was crazy. Gave you that first time experience. Yeah, that's pretty cool.

I've bred a lot of these, you know. This is how I make my living with my baby. So, like this your job is selling snakes? Yeah.

Oh, pretty cool. Look at that. How much are you selling for? We got snakes anywhere from 100 bucks to a thousand.

So, does it support your family? It It does. How many kids you got? I got seven total, but uh four are adults and I I got three teenagers here with me.

Oh, there you go. Seven kids, man. Wow. Yeah, we got a little behind on some things and then uh How much you behind?

Like 1,200 on our rent because I had stuff better paid out of my money. So, you know, I'm bad with money. So, I just make sure they take it so I know what I can spend. What do you charge to get into the haunted house?

Oh, it's free. It's for the community, bro. I I do it for I do it Yeah. I do it for the community, man.

I do it for the kids, bro. It's all about the children and the community and you know adults too. We get adults that were scared to come to last year. So I'd be afraid.

So how many snakes do you have for sale? 60. Probably around 60. You got 60?

Yeah. Be around here. Really? Yeah.

You know, I wanted to get something running that was Natives Against Hunger, you know, and I wanted to do a food truck where I can feed during the week and the money I make out then I go feed the homeless for free on the weekend. You ever do that, man? Hit me up. Yeah.

So why is helping people so important to you? It just feels so good once you're done giving back to somebody all day. No matter how hot you are, how cold you are, what you did to that day, when you come home, you feel really good about yourself. So, I always love giving back and it's just part of who I am and that's who I'll always be.

I just wanted to come here and support you guys. I heard about your story. So, I want I came here with a little bit of money for you and I I want I want this to go towards whatever you need, man. Bills, anything.

Oh, hell yeah. I appreciate it. So, take this and do what you want with it, man. But I Oh, keep showing love to the community, bro.

Oh, no. No. That ain't going to stop, bro. That's who I am, you know.

It doesn't go unnoticed. Yeah. Well, maybe we could uh get together sometime and do something for the homeless together. Would be sweet, bro.

Let's do it, man. It might go towards some kind of decoration for the Halloween, you know, something something like that that you know, it's going to go back to something that for for the community or for us. As long as it can benefit you and benefit your family and make sure you're in a better spot, I feel good. Hey, thank you so much, Raymond.

You got to Yeah, the snake's scaring the crap out of me, though. We got