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listen, I want to go to the calls. Of course, calls
always get priority. We have a follow up with Kelly. But I also
want to say I did something that I don't think truly anyone in the media
or in politics has actually done. I know Biden hasn't, and I know
not one person on CNN or Fox did it. I did something very unusual.
I actually read something before commenting on it. I read it from cover
to cover. I read every single page, and I have some interesting thoughts
on it. I think now again, I'm not giving up. I'm not
going to give my opinions on this because I've always thought this, and I
mean that. I mean, I might give an opinion, but what I
mean is I'm not going to try to sway opinions. I've always thought this
before. I think people in the media think they have too much, and
in celebrity, you know, the celebrity world, they all think they you
know, people give it damn what they think. People don't. You're not
going to change minds. Okay, really, I don't care what Robert de
Niro thinks. I don't care what anyone thinks. I all I care about
it are the facts, and I want to make up my own mind.
I want to think for myself. I am so tired of the elitism of
people believing that they know better and can make your decisions and you should follow
them. So I don't try to do that crap. But I did read
Project twenty twenty five cover to cover every single word. I want to know
how many people have every single word? All I did was downloaded it.
It's not a big not a big secret, and I read it cover to
cover. Has anyone raised your hand? Anyone do it? I know a
lot of people are commenting on it. Now, here's what I'm going to
do for you. If you wonder what project or it's a mandate for leadership,
It's called Project twenty twenty five Mandate for Leadership, the Conservative Promise,
And as you imagine, there are a lot of conservative promises. And I'm
not going to go, you know, page by page. But what I
am going to do is answer questions if you have them. Since I have
it here and I have it in a document we can search, you can
give me a keyword and I'll tell you what it says. Racist. There's
your keyword? Racist? Is that in there? Okay? Because that's what
all the pundits are saying, it's extremely racist, Okay. Bureau The first
word that comes up. It says, bureaucrats of the Department of Education inject
racist, anti American, anti historical propaganda into American classrooms. That's one thing.
It's I agree with that. It says the former, and then it
says it says also systematic racism. It talks about systematic racism is not a
thing, okay, basically that it's not built into the system. However,
improvements can be made, and that critical race theory gives people excuses. Basically,
I'm summarizing, and critical race theory is not something to inculcate into the
minds of the very young because they can come up and not think automatically they're
going to be set back, and that gives them a better outlook without looking
at everyone as racist. And it says that critical race theory basically starts out
that everyone is a racist and then you have to prove you're not. So
the Secretary of Education should insist that the department serve parents and American ideals and
not advocates whose message is that children can choose their own sex, that America
is systematically racist and that math is racist, or that anything in and of
itself can be racist. I mean, it just basically says a lot of
I'm giving you just a highlight. It says it's basically against indoctrination like I
talked about yesterday. And then it says America. It says we must defend
the false idea that America is systematically racist. The theory is disrupting the values
and actually dividing people instead of uniting them. And again, there might be
black people. I can't speak to this. I mean, I can't speak
to it. But there are blacks listening to me every day. I mean,
they call the show and we have a great time discussing everything. So
here's the deal. You know, people say, Tom, do you see
color? I say absolutely, I do. And I love every color I
see color. I notice differences. I love the differences. I love that
people have different cultures. I love kids who grew up in Italian households,
kid who grew up in Irish households, people who grew up in all kinds
of hell. I love it. I love the cultures, the Jewish culture,
I love it at all. And what I'm saying is this is their
hate. There, No, you can see it without hating it. But
what is this I'm not black. I can't say that right now. Well
I can. In my perspective. I don't see large scale racism, But
is there. I mean, right now, is there if you're black,
do you feel that we still have a system that is systematically racist? But
you know what, Tom, you know, when we'll get over that when
you're not black, I'm asking her. I know, when you get to
the point where people don't say he or she is a first like this or
the first black that that really gets on the mycet. Well. Anyway,
so, Mark, you asked about that the word, and we're going on,
I got you, Doc, I heard you. Now the other way
rehearsal of racist equity. They feel that it's going too far the other way
and it actually becomes racist against others. And the casual acceptance and the rapid
spread of racist policy making, which believes the federal government must correct the racist
policies of America. Another one, and again I'm just I'm just keyword searching.
It says the the the American the Biden administration and the government believes that
America is racist and uses it to divide people instead of uniting people. And
they keep promoting this theory. And anyway, so so you asked about that
word, Yeah, the word is in there. That's very interesting that you
picked that word, Mark, But is this policy racist? I don't from
anyone that I've heard people I've heard from that are against it, and I
haven't read it like you, So honestly, I know nothing about it.
This is a first i've heard anything about it besides Trump is for it,
which is bad and it's going to bring our country back to the eighteen hundreds.
And I don't know where that comes from reading and doctor Okay, well
here from reading the document, what I can tell you is this. It
is far more extreme than any Republican i've heard talk. When I say extreme,
I'm not talking bad or good. I'm not giving you my opinion on
how I feel about this. Some of these give me an idea of something
you would call extreme. What's something extreme? Some of these things I like
and some of these things I don't like. Okay. They do believe that
the federal policy nationwise should be against abortion. Okay. Now, when I
say extreme, I again, I'm not giving you more radical. No,
no, no, that's radical as hell I believe. I'm not saying now
because of that this is bad, we shouldn't do it. Nor am I
saying we shouldn't have a policy of life first. What I'm saying, is
this document it looks like from I'm reading, would go for policies, would
go for policies that would ban abortion. And I have to be honest about
that. There are many parts of it, and I'm not saying that's good
or bad. I'm saying it does this document if you read it and don't
have any outside influence or opinions and actually read it it, probably you would
come You would come away with the idea that they would encourage their leaders to
ban abortion nationally, which which honestly I think is anti Republican. And I'll
tell you why, because I believe it's right where it's supposed to be now
in the States rights, which is us the people's rights, and that's where
it should stay. Now if you live in a state and everybody votes,
that's the way it goes. It does not call for a nationwide ban of
abortions. It says to support leaders and to promote a life agenda where you
know, and it just has other wording. But you could make the conclusion
that they want the federal government to take a stance against it. Especially now
I'm a little upset that now I found you a little misleading. You made
it sound like they wanted to ban it. No, if they just want
agenda that promotes life, what I said was, no, it's a little
more than that. And they do you they do say they're against abortion,
but they don't come right out and say that they support a nationwide ban or
a law against it. I am saying, if you read it, you
get the impression that that's not far away that they could What else? What
else did you read that people might consider extreme on the left? Okay,
Tom Whyle, Look, can I ask the question, Yeah, who produced
this document? I never Project twenty twenty five? Yeah, but who?
Oh, oh my god. It's a number of conservative organizations. Heritage found
that was the primary. But then there are there are like one hundred authors,
I mean or contributors. And you know what, Trump's actually separated himself
from this. And when it comes to Trump and the abortion rights, he's
changed his stance. Remember at one point, this guy before you as president,
back in the day, he was all about women's rights and he became
a Republican and changed it. And I think a lot of people could say
he changed his vision because of what party he was running for. But now
he's back to like pretty much what I would consider middle of the road thinking
on it. Okay, I want to talk to Don, Don, go
ahead, what's going on? Don? Hi? Tom? I was just
going to speak to the same thing that everybody else is speaking to. This
Project twenty twenty five is not Trump's it's right, that's right, a false
plot. It's a false positive To put this out on the radio and go
through Project twenty twenty five and talk about Trump because the average listener is not
going to know that, and they're going to associate Project twenty twenty five with
Trump. That would be like that. And I just said that. I
literally just said that. I know, I said, I was just going
to say what you guys were just talking about, And it would be like
me putting something on about the Tom Martino Show that has nothing to do with
Tom Martino's opinions. There may be some got parallels to it. Tom,
you wouldn't like that. You would be saying, this is no no.
I understand that, but I didn't think it was my place when I said
I read it. I'm not I guess I am giving an opinion when I
call that extreme, So that is an opinion, right, But but like
like there there are things here. When it comes to let's put a different
way, you're also talking about it in front of thousands, tens of thousands
of people in an election year, and it's associating it, yeah, with
a candidate that has no association with no. No, And it doesn't say
that, it says we must call on leaders, we must call on leaders
to do this and do that support at all costs a pro life agenda.
And then it also says, okay, let me just summarize one thing.
Okay, when it comes to climate change, they absolutely positively believe there should
be not one penny spent nor one effort made for climate change, and that
we do not have an appreciable effect on it. But to Tom, if
I came up with Don McDonald's project twenty twenty six, and I had all
kinds of things in there, and I started talking about Tom Machino and talking
about my project twenty twenty six, there's no parallel. It's a false Don,
I'm not making a parallel done, I'm not. I'll tell you why
a parallels made, and it shouldn't. It shouldn't be foreign to us.
Here's why the parallel is made. They call this a conservative promise, and
then other people call themselves conservatives. Soople say to themselves, Okay, if
that person is conservative and if this is a conservative promise, they must be
related, just like we do when it comes to progressive stuff. If someone
calls themselves progressive and we read what's so called progressive agenda, is we make
the connection. I'm not saying there is a connection. I'm not saying some
people believe it. I'm not saying some people don't believe it. I am
saying that's why the connection is made. Whether it's accurate the connection, I
disagree. I think to connections made because every lefty station out there, every
lefty station out there, is the one that's trying to tie Trump to it.
It's got nothing to do with being conservative. It's MSNBC, it's CNN.
May directly say all those are his past people, but he asks why
there are parallels made or and I'm saying the reason is because they identify themselves
as strictly conservative and anti progressive, and that is what a lot of Republicans.
I am not saying that Trump is related to this, but you can't
entirely say it's illogical to make a connection. Just like conservatives make a connection
to all progressive ideas. That's all I'm saying. Whether it's accurate or not
leads. I imagine there are many Republicans who think this is bunk, and
there are many who think it's wonderful, and there are many who think some
of it's good and some of it's not. I am simply speaking in reality,
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one three eight two five five. I'm gonna go back to this in a
minute, but we're I'm going to take my calls Kelly. She has a
happy ending for a we have a follow up now. Kelly called the show
and she called back and Hew, are you laughing? Kelly? He is?
He? Tom Oh? He I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry,
Kelly. Okay, So, anyway, I didn't know your damn pronoun.
I'm gonna call you your highness anyway, Kelly, here's him. Here's
the deal. You bought a twenty eighteen toyot a four runner, and uh,
whether you bought a five year, one hundred thousand mile extended warranty for
a three grand? And then, as I recall, were you getting rid
of this pretty soon? This? Did you get rid of this or something
be way before? For your warranty was up? Yeah, I traded it
in because I was trying to get a truck and I through just some really
bad misfortunate that dealership. The truck they gave me was a Lemon, so
I ended up with the fore Runner, so okay. Traded the fore Runner
in within about a month of getting it. Okay, So then what happened
they we submitted a return refund for the extended warranty and it kept giving me
the run around. So now did they say it was non refundable, because
I told you it was refundable and pro radable. What did they tell you?
They told me that they had to submit the paperwork. And it started
off as a six to eight week return. Yeah, and at eight weeks
it became ten eight to ten weeks, and then that about ten and a
half weeks is when I called you guys, And so what happened then?
I know Deputy Dot called over there a few times. He never actually got
to talk to anybody, but they knew why he was calling. What happened,
Well, it was funny. They called me. I talked to you
guys Thursday, and by Friday I had a phone call and they said they
were going to overnight me the check on Monday. Did you get it?
I did? I got Shannon overnighted he got the check. What do you
want? What do you need to do? Bro, I'm in the studio
today, not in my home studio. You got to do my dinger and
uh, come on, Shannon, come on now, boy, there you
are, Kelly. But by the way, I really appreciate you calling and
thank you. Uh, we appreciate, appreciate you guys. You do awesome
work. So Okay, man, it's so nice to hear that. Okay.
So three oh three seven one three talk seven one three eight two five
five. Uh, Jamie, now this this Jamie, I want to take
a quick break. Come back to Jamie. I'll tell you why. This
highlights what I believe is a new level of crime. Now, people might
say, Tom, vandals have been with us forever. Yeah, that's true.
But if you notice nowadays, there are crimes that are committed and I
guess we can call all crimes committed to be hateful, right, and to
be mean, But some of them have no other motivation. There's no profit,
there's no money. It's not like, Okay, looting a store is
mean, it's terrible. They break the windows, they steal stuff, but
why do they steal stuff to resell it? But there are some crimes that
are done with no apparent motivation other than to be mean. And that's one
of the things like key in a random person's cars, yeah yeah, or
else exactly to put a video on TikTok. Now, I'm going to tell
you something that came out in the news too, and people say, you
know, what what is this all about? You know, I know people
love seeing conspiracies under every under every rock. And I'm not talking conspiracy,
I'm talking facts. There are two things that are very weird right now that
I find. First of all, all of these videos and people coming out
saying they saw a guy crawling around on a roof at the Trump rally and
he was the shooter. And in fact, the police officer who came eye
to eye with him saw him and then fell off the he was holding onto
the roof and peeking over the roof, and he didn't immediately warn anyone.
And then you have all of these people who say, we were telling police
there's a guy on the roof. One person even said there's a guy crawling
around on the roof with a gun. Now, well, and a lot
of it's on video, Tom, It's not like they're just saying it.
The video backs up it. Then you said, and I looked it up.
Mark the headlines. Now the pants is incredible. Ahead, Mark what
happened? The parents call? Well, the parents we right before the show
started, we find out the parents of the sniper, the attempted assassination.
This is unbelievable. You ready for this? They called the cops hours before,
thinking their kid might make an attempt on the president's life? Can you
believe it? So all of this goes down, and I keep saying this.
At one point do people go, oh, that's a conspiracy. Where
does where does it cross the line of these guys did nothing? They didn't,
they did nothing. They were worn two hours before from the parents.
Cops knew about it, everybody knew about it. Then we find out I
ran wanted to kill this guy. It's just so infuriating. At what point
is it no longer a conspiracy that the Biden administration could care less as someone
shock it the former president As far as caring, I don't think they had
anything to do with it, but I think there's something. Are you kidding?
He's the one that hired the lady in charge, Tom, He hired
the lady that used to work for PEPSI to run the secret Service, and
it's gone to hell. Yeah. More coming up on The Troubleshooter Show,
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five. Okay, So, Jamie, I heard about this and said I
can't believe it, and I think it goes into a category of just plain
mean. Can you explain what's going on? So we have a family owned
and run company. My brother in law, my husband, and our family
run a tree spade business. Now it's a tree it's like a tree farm.
Yes, yeah, okay. So we have a tree farm out in
Albert, Colorado, and we've been working hard trying to invest in our future
and possibly the futures of our children, just depending on what avenue news they
take. How long have you been in business, Jamie. We've been in
business as landscaping and more recently and completely now tree moving and sales since nineteen
ninety nine. Okay, So you've been doing it a while, yes,
okay? And what happened? So somewhere around about the thirteenth to the fifteenth
of June, somebody cut our fence, went into our tree farm and took
a chainsaw to both irrigation system and over two hundred and seventy seven trees.
What stage of development were those trees? In? A lot of them were
completely ready for retail sale. They just went into disband They didn't steal the
trees, they didn't do anything. No, no common sense would tell me
competition. God, do you really believe that? I believe who else would
do it? What maniac's going to go in the middle of Elbert County with
a chainsaw? Yeah. So we're trying to find the people that did this.
We want to hold them accountable, We want we want justice because what
they did was try to put us out of business. And that's very personal.
That's not something that we've ever warranted through the way that we conduct ourselves,
the way that we do business, the people that we are, and
this is very personal. Does insurance cose either a pissed off customer or a
competition man there or an ex employee? I agree, this is a very
personal act. You think so marked like they were targeted, right, I
definitely, yeah, we are definitely targeted. It's just a matter of now
finding out who. So we've hired a PI. We are using every bit
of technology available to us. Anything that we find out, we're actively pursuing.
We want these people held responsible. Wow, I wonder where you even
start with an investigation like that. You know, we're kind of deferring to
the professionals on this because this is something that we can even fathom or comprehensive.
Now, now let me ask you this. Now, Now you say
a chainsaw, how do you know that? I mean, it's obvious because
they were so they left them right, They left the trees right there.
Yes, they did not physically remove anything from the property. They just wanted
to destroy everything. That is so sick, Tom, You couldn't cut that
down that many trees. And that's true, that's true. So do you
think, I mean, do you do you think it could be someone one
of your neighbors that was there anyone that ever objected to you for some reason
having a tree farm. I could think of no better neighbor than having trees.
But I don't know our neighbors are great. We are on really good
terms with everybody that we've met. We don't have like an ongoing it's not
like Hatfield and McCloy's. It's it's nothing like that. We don't we don't
do things like that. And our neighbors seem like they're perfectly fine having trees
instead of rambunctious teenage or something for neighbors, you know, they're fine with
the tree farm. We've never had a complaint. The property that we purchased
was already a tree farm. We've just worked hard to improve it and try
to optimize what's going on. So we weren't establishing something that wasn't already there.
Now, why do you not know exactly when do you not go out
and check them off? And you said sometime between well and such. So
we work on other properties during the week. We're moving trees things like that.
We have other locations that we do pull trees from. So we were
not on that property. On our tree farm, we check it on the
weekend, but we were not out there that weekend. So we were out
there Wednesday, and then we were out there the following Tuesday, and that's
when we found all the damage. What do you know about the prior people?
Did they happen to get foreclosed on? Was it at auction? I
mean there's got to be someone out there, the PI or or you and
your husband are looking at we are looking at everybody right now. I want
to ask you something. I once saw this on a TV show. Please
don't laugh at me, but it was. It was on a cop show.
And what did the cops say? The cops said, you somebody A
few people came to your mind when you saw it. And now I don't
know if that's true. It was a cop show, but I figure they
have cop consultants. Did that happen? Right? Did anyone pop into your
mind? One or two, three people? I'm not asking for you to
name them on the air, but did did anyone pop into your mind?
We definitely have our suspicion. See I thought so. But let me ask
you this, Why did they pop into your mind when they did? I'm
not asking for who they are? Why did they pop into your mind?
Because who else would do it? You know? It's just she doesn't want
to give it away. Oh yeah, I'll tell you who you can Who
can you limit? Trump? No? Joyce Kilma Trump was at the convention.
Jamie, what is the value of these trees that were destroyed? Yeah,
what's the value? The retail value by the time we would have enabled
to sell damage is over three hundred and twenty fives. Now three twenty five
was the gross amount? What would your profit have been? That's with our
profit. That would have been your profits that were destroyed. Oh ok,
yeah, so let's figure one thousand bucks plus. Situation. Man, that
is unbelievable really, So so do you have any kind of business insurance?
We have every kind of business insurance except cross insurance. Because of all the
things that we felt like we had to protect. Trees growing on a random
piece of property somewhere was not even in our wheelhouse of being a necessity.
So as far as being made whole by insurance, that's not happening here.
It sounds like it's someone I bet. I bet someone in the business would
know that too. Someone in that same business would know you didn't have that
insurance. I go back to an ex employee or a competition. Why,
Mark, I mean a competition. Now, First of all, you're talking
about, you know how hard, even even with an electric chainsaw, to
cut down two hundred and plus trees is insane. No one would do this
just to do it. No, And we had a bunch of smaller nursery
stocks that we had just bought this spring over this probably over two three hundred
trees out there that are younger. They were, you know, we were
getting implanted so that we could grow them up to sell them as adult trees
instead of you know, younger trees. And they cut all the leaders out
of every single one of them, so they knew, they knew college of
what to do. Yes, plus your irrigation system, and I'm sure they
knew that there was no insurance to kick in. It was hate for sure.
Jimmy, I am how long do you think how long do you think
it would take? I mean, you know how long it takes to chainsaw
stuff better than I do. How long do you think these vandals or these
these asses were there. They would have been on property for hours. It's
not just when. So it's somebody who knew they someone who knew your schedule.
Even well, we to the best of our knowledge, because we do
have a couple of neighbors in particular that really do look out for us.
We think this happened overnight, so they were out there in the middle of
the night doing this. Just it's mind boggling. And the more I talk
about it, the angrier I get about it again, because this is we
don't conduct ourselves in a way that this retaliation would have been justified in any
way, shape or form. I'm not saying that retaliation like this ever would
be, but not in your eyes. But in their eyes they thought that
obviously they Yeah, I don't know who they are. I can't understand the
way they think. Because there are lines you don't cross, and this is
the way. What can we do to help you? It's nuts just getting
the word out there? All right, let's talk about how about putting a
reward out? How about putting a reward out over the air. We have
a ten thousand dollars reward. Okay, now tell us how do they narrow
it down? It's in Elbert County, right, yes, where I mean,
can you get I mean, is it something you don't mind giving out?
It's off of Mall Road in one o two, so it is.
It is way out there. Someone knows, someone listening knows who did this.
Someone knows. It's too random. You don't just go driving around and
say, let's stop here and cut down trees. Did you say Maul Road
like mull m a U l Omall Road and yes? And what? Okay?
Okay, hold on, we want to uh, we want to talk
about this and figure out what we can do for you. Okay, So
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seven one three talk threer three seven one three A two five five. So
we want to figure out what to do the road. If you have any
information, what number should they call Albert County Sheriff's Department or what I mean?
If they saw anything hurt anything that's so far out there, but they
might have ideas. They hired a private detective. And in case you just
tuned in this Jamie and her husband they run a tree farm. They had
two hundred and seventy trees vandalized. People cut down their fence, went in
and just saw down with the chainsaw, two hundred and seventy trees plus destroyed
the irrigation system. Just plain mean, destructive, hateful, you know,
that's what There's so much of that going on nowadays, so much of that.
And it's not like they stole it. They didn't have money as a
motive. It was pure disgust and hate. What else do you call it?
Anyway, it was out near Mall Road, m aul Mall Road and
Road one oh two in Elbert County. And anybody have any ideas, give
us the call or give this Elbert County Sheriff's Department a call. And we
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Marklely Motors to Monty. And by the way, I appreciate you all being
here. We were talking about Project twenty twenty five. Now listen when I
say this. Some people texted me and said, Tom, why bother reading
it if no candidates are claiming it. Well, I'm reading it because it's
been in the news, and I read the entire thing from cover to cover.
Now, I can't tell you I'm an expert at it at all,
but I read it, and what I said was I could see where some
people would call it extreme and some from their viewpoint. And I can also
see where some people would fully embrace it from their viewpoint, because it really
takes some very strong opinions. And if I had to sum it up,
they the authors of twenty twenty five, do not believe we should do anything
special for gender dysphoria, especially when it comes to public funding. Not that
they should be discriminated against, but nothing should be done in the military,
or in education, or in funding of anything health related to so called gender
dysphoria. That's really a pretty good summary. And they believe we devote too
much time, energy and money to these transgender issues, including the sports title
nine and all of that nothing should be altered for them, and that they
believe gender is sex and that gender is not a list of forty other things
outside of sex. So that's a good and I can see where that angers
a lot of people. Right. Then they think abortion is wrong, done
over, should never be done, and that they should only support candidates and
lawmakers and people who are against it and have a pro life stance. Okay,
they don't say they should outlaw it, they never go that far.
And then they talk about climate change, that climate change is something that's inevitable
and history and that man, you know, no matter what we do as
America and spending the trillions of dollars we do, we cannot affect enough change
to make a difference. Unless the world was united in one effort, even
that would not bring about enough change. So they're saying that we're devoting too
much time and attention. In essence, they're saying we're devoting too much time
and attention to climate change, gender identity and the other, abortion, all
those things, and racism. They believe that we devote too much time to
that stuff and we are actually creating divisions among people. Now, I'm one
of the few in the media that actually read the damn thing. Now,
I don't see anything extreme as far as calling for nationwide bands or laws or
anything like that. But they say if we spent money to just help people
Americans and the country, and to keep us safe and to keep us secure,
we'd be far better off and pay less taxes overall. Now, when
you read it, you know, I can see where a lot of people
would say, oh my god, you know, it's going to be bringing
us back to the eighteen hundreds. In a way, it does regress some
of the policies that we've had. In other ways, it's refreshing, but
it depends on what sections you read. That's my take on it. But
I urge people to read it. In fact, I should make I mean
should I don't have to do it. You can do it just if you
google it. It's in a PDF. You just say what it is.
You don't see anything wrong in it. I didn't say that. I said
I don't see anything either way. I mean, I think there's a lot
of good stuff in it, and I think there's some stuff in it that
some people would find offensive. I personally don't find anything offensive about it.
Okay, if that's what you want me to say, you don't. I
don't personally find anything offensive about it or dangerous. I can see, however,
where people could use it to advance ideologies that could suppress people. I
am. Those people I doubt have read it. Those people are the people
you're talking about. They haven't even read it. And there are a lot
of things that we all believe in ourselves, right, But yeah, good
information is never bad, right. You will present the information about something that
most people don't know what it is. And I don't know how anybody can
get upset about the fact that it's as long as what you're saying is truthful,
and I know it is. It's just you're bringing up I'm trying to
be rather neutral about it, but I'm saying that I just don't. I
don't think it'sangerous at all. There's nothing dangerous. But listen, if you're
into and by the way, one day, let's not forget neither candidate has
anything to do with them. Less than one percent of the people suffer from
gender dysphor you. It seems to me. Now, I'm not saying that
people should be left behind just because they're a small minority. Okay, we're
not that kind of country. But I think we devote far too much attention
to those issues, far too much attention. I mean, I don't get
it. I just personally don't get it. But then I'm not affected by
it. But we've allowed the progressive left to redefine our culture to some degree.
We're bending over backwards to satisfy the demands of a very small percentage of
a population. Now and again, when we say left, we don't have
extreme left all the time. Just like when we say right, we don't
have extreme right. That's the problem to we all use a word and then
immediately we have our own definition of what that word means, and many of
us have chosen to mean a left is extreme and right is extreme, and
there's no in between. But there is in between. In fact, I
think most people don't feel fully about one or I don't think they fully feel
right or left. I don't think they do. I might be wrong.
Anyway, Monty, let's talk about this problem with Marklee Motors. Where is
Markelee Motors located? I fear it's going It's in Wells County, isn't it?
Is it Larimer County? I believe? Okay, I'm okay. So
anyway, Monty, what happened? Yeah, what happened. It's not a
whole lot of money, and they might be legit, but I took it
in for an air conditioning. Now, by the way, this is not
a car you bought there? Correct? Okay? What car do you take
in? It's a two thousands Okay, a two thousand buick Le Saber.
Go ahead. So I took it and for air conditioning recharge. The guy
told me it'd be one hundred and seventy bucks and then he would do as
much as he could for that amount, and if something was wrong past that,
he'd give me a call that. So this was for to install an
AC or service it. Service it. It was just blowing hot air.
Oh my god. One of the I just thought it was a free on
recharge or whatever they do. So he said one hundred and seventy bucks.
He'd work on the air conditioner and then call me that needed more stuff.
Well, they called me and said the thing was leak and they have a
whole thing. They went through leak inspection showed leaking out of the air conditioner,
blah blah, hoses needed. It was going to be one thousand dollars.
I said, well I don't want to do that, so I'll just
come pick it up. So I'd come in to pick it up and they
say they didn't do any work on it. Then they just had the diagnosis
on it. And then I'd go to pick it up and they say it's
one hundred and fifty seven dollars. Well, of course it is. They
did they did a diagnostic. Okay, So that's what I said. I
I mean, why should it be free? I mean, why should it
be free? They? I mean, I mean, okay, I get
what you're saying. You're saying they would service it for one seventy, Well,
they did kind of service it. I mean servicing includes die. I
don't listen. That's my perspective, Mark, What is your perspective on that.
Well, I don't know what they did, but most likely if it
was a very small hole. When they actually hooked up the machine to recover
the free on, they put another they put more free on in with a
die. Then they saw the die coming out and then call them up and
tried to sell you'll rip the additional work. Would you feel ripped off?
Mark? If they said it's one hundred and seventy for service. Oh,
by the way, we can't really service it. We found a leak one
of those I have it once again. I think they had to hook it
up to the machine and start the EVAC and recharge on it. So they
literally had to do the service. They just found out it had a hole.
Monty. Did you feel what did you feel they should charge you?
Let's put it that way. Well, that's I mean, that's why,
you know, sort of precist that was saying it could be totally legit.
You know, just what did you feel? What was your first initial reaction?
That they maybe could have put in like one of the hoses on it
or instead or something just for the one seventy did some kind of work on
it. You know, I think they did. I think they did.
I mean really, I honestly think they did. But okay, well,
I really appreciate you your and especially especially because I know you guys know.
Yeah, we we don't know everything, but we have good feelings. Let's
put it this way. We have a good barometer based on all of the
calls we take. Now, if you said agree, if you said,
hey, well beyond that I have I have probably performed and sold ten thousand
of those over my lifetime. You have to hook the machine up. I
mean, unless if they were a complete ripoff place. I mean, you
have to hook the machine up. Okay, Now, by the way,
thank you for calling Monty. Now, what do you guys think of what
happened to Terrell Davis? Okay? Do you think if he was I want
to ask it because everyone's asking it. If he was a white man,
it would have happened. Listen, what do you think do you think it
was because he was I don't know how. I don't know how the tap
went down and I don't know what. I don't know what mood the stewardess
was in or the flight attendant. So I don't know, man, but
it's a crazy story, clear picture. Was this a female flight attendant?
Do we know that? I couldn't even tell you. I don't know.
I think it was because I think it said she was taken off of active
duty or something. But in any case, I'm just curious what people think
about it. Really, I am, Well, you better explain what we're
talking about, because a lot of people don't know. Ozay, go ahead,
Mark Well as my best recollection. I didn't know you were bringing it
up, but Suzanne kind of filled me in on it. Yesterday. He's
on an airplane with his kid. His kid asked for a glass of water
or a cup of water or a drink or something along those terms, and
she just either didn't respond at all or said she was going to do it,
but basically, like, I don't think she responded or he responded for
that matter, So Terrell tapped him like, hey, did you hear him?
And then all of a sudden, he basically gets asked to get off
the plane. Okay, And the way it happened actually which was weirder in
my opinion, was he tapped her, and you know when it's when when
the when the I guess they were flying at the time, okay, they
I think, or they I don't think they were on the ground. I
don't know. But when he tapped her, you know, you know,
in a plane, you know everything, you might have to speak up loud
or sudden. Maybe he tapped her and as you said, he didn't realize
how hard. Who knows, but he said he tapped her to get her
attention, and then she says, don't you hit me? But then that
was it. Apparently it was a male by the way. And then after
the flight is when he was detained. To see, people don't understand that
everything went normal from that point on. They didn't talk to each other,
and at the end of the flight when they landed, there were FBI agents
there to detain him. But then he was exonerated one hundred percent. They
said he didn't do anything wrong. That's right. But to go back to
your question, I don't think. I don't know if there was any relevance
if it was a black guy or not. I just I don't even know
how I'd make that determination without being there and not knowing that that that dude's
background, that background could be a racist bigot for all I know, or
he could be married to a black woman. I have no idea. Hey,
guys, can I pop in here some info? So, first of
all, it was a male flight descendant, okay, thank you. Okay,
of all, his son, Terrell Davis's son politely asked for a cup
of ice, okay, and the flight attendant pushed the cart through somewhat ignoring
him. So Terrell actually like turned around still in his seat and tapped him
on the shoulder, and basically, in his own words, he says,
the flight attendant either didn't hear or ignored his requests and continued pat to pass
a row. I calmly reached behind me and lightly tapped his arm to get
his attention to again ask for ice for my son. His response, and
the event was he shouted, don't hit me and left the cart to hurriedly
approach the front of the plane. Okay, So, by the way,
and then that's why nothing was done. Then they were in flight when that
happened. Then nothing happened throughout the flight. But at the end of the
flight is when they entered, so they might to call thehead and said,
I have a guy that was disruptive and I want because that's what they do.
And then at the end of the flight, when you land, there
are people there to meet you. So my gut is the guy this this
uh stewardess or excuse me, flight attendant is a complete jackass. Yeah,
who knows what motivated him. You know, that's weird. But anyway,
Terrell Davis was very upset about it, posted on social media and then have
been he has been interviewed by others and I just wondered what people thought about
that, because it did You know, the airlines are very very very sensitive
right now to I mean not now, but over the last few years,
especially just round COVID, they started getting really really sensitive about anyone who disobeys
them in any way or acts up in any way. Yeah, well you
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a comment on Project twenty twenty five. Go ahead, Kate, what is
your comment? Hi? Tom, I have read it and I would just
ask you to do to dive a little deeper. On the same page where
you found the twenty twenty uh twenty twenty five, there are position papers.
When you read those, then they're written by board members of the Project twenty
twenty five about the restructuring that they would like to see within the government.
It includes replacing current people and putting them through indoctrinations. Okay, I'm using
that word. Training program would be the where they use extemely training program.
How to you know, be an administrator? No, you're right, you're
right, they're talking You're talking about administrators. Now, what they're saying is
they define each position and the purpose of the position, and what qualities the
person should have and what should be their priorities based on their agency. Like
le, yeah, you're the same thing every employer in the world does when
they interview you. But but what did you not Was there something that troubled
you about a Kate, I want to look it up. What section are
you talking about out, well, I'm talking about those the recommendations for staff,
right, Okay, go ahead, So what did you find what did
you find troubling, if anything, that they would they believe in replacing current
people who may or may not have any political affiliation. You can't assume that
everyone who works for the government is a particular affiliation, right. So the
way they did that, and I'll let what she's talking about is this,
they took it an office position or an administrative physician, and they highlight it
with a topic, and then they go down and say this position is critically
important. This is why, and then they explain the office and then they
say what that person should be doing and what they shouldn't be doing. Yes,
okay, and you know, that's fine. They certainly can have their
voice along that. This is a twenty Remember this is not supposed to be
completed until twenty fifty. It's a long term. Wait. Wait, just
stick to what you called about. Stick to exactly what Tom just asked you.
What do you find wrong with the employer wanting people to understand what their
job responsi abilities are and whether they can do them or not. What's wrong
with that? There's nothing wrong with that. You're assuming that that isn't already
happening. And I guess, okay, I see what Kate is saying.
Is this Kate is saying, how can you say, for example, that
one position should not cater to because it talks about not catering to gender issues,
for example, or not catering to climate change because their office is not
meant to do that. She is saying, how do you assume that everyone
in the administrative government is doing the wrong thing to begin with? Well,
I don't think that assumption's being made. Are you saying that they want a
wide sweep firing of everybody in government? No, they want to review of
everyone, though they do they do. What's wrong with that? If I
bought when I bought. When I bought four good years, guess the first
thing I did was go buy and interview every single employee in person, down
to the tire changes to make a decision if they were going to be with
me or not. Do you think that everyone everyone in a government, in
our government should be believing exactly what you know, what Trump wants? No,
it's well, why did you just say Trump? Trump's not now we're
associated Trump? Put this again. It didn't talk about Trump. Okay,
go ahead. They need a Republican administration, they said, so after our
next Republican president is elected, whether that be Trump or someone else. They
you're missing it. The Trump disassociated himself from this group. But it does
no matter what she is saying. What she is saying is this, if
Trump becomes president or whoever is president, according to this agenda. By the
way, this agenda does not have just the president dictating this. What it
is. It's a list of duties for the state, for the administrative state,
the regulatory state. It's a list of duties, and it's a list
of do nots and stuff they're not supposed to get involved in. All it
is is policy. What's wrong with that? Because they are not the experts
in that they are a lot of them come out of his previous administration,
a lot of the board people. But well, you keep talking about Trump.
So if Biden did it, it would be fine with you. No,
No, I don't want either side to take over quote unquote, Well
then who does see I'm not trying to argue with you, but who does
Kate. Someone's got lay down how they're administrative staff and regulators regulate. Who
else should do that other than the leadership. That's why, that's why they're
the leadership. I mean, they set forth policy for their staff. I
see here. I happen to believe that the regulative state right now, the
administrative state, they're they're overrun with power. That they they're drunk with power,
and they have all kinds of power. It's amazing what they can do
with the swipe of a pen. Tom. If you I've been watching some
of the appropriations committees and other things on YouTube, the level of incompetence,
ignorance, and I know anology in these agencies, Okay is overwhelmed. Now
what Kate's saying is this, I know what she's saying. I hope Kate
listen she's saying, some of these people, for example, in an in
an economics office or in a budgetaria, they might be trained in in an
accounting or a certain skills. They may have a lot of skills that an
elected officer would not. And just the mere fact that you have elected people
saying here's how we want you to do your job. But that's not what
they're doing. It's not These are policies that are laid down. They're not
just picked by whoever is a senator, a congressman, or president. That's
why they laid out this agenda because they want them to follow certain guidelines that
so they can't, for example, make them do things outside of the guidelines.
They're trying to lay down guidelines for their administrative staff. And I call
it administrator. It's way more than that. It's regulatory administrative. It's basically
what people call do they call it the deep state or whatever? The unelected
officials. They're trying to lay down a policy for all unelected officials, saying
you're not elected, you don't have a right to just run your office the
way you want. Here's how you do it. Do you think there's anything
really wrong with that? According to them. Here's how you do it.
It's their agenda. I mean, you don't see their pushing. Oh my
god, that would be their administration. But that's no. But but Kate,
they're saying, you're right, you're right, Kat, You're right,
Kate, it is according to their view. That's right, you're right.
Yeah, okay, But if there's other views, I just think that it's
a one you either fit in the way that we have it. It's called
I'm sorry to draw the analogy, but you know there it is rather Hitler
esque. Kate. Kate, Wait, just wait, wait, Mark,
wait, I really want to say something, Kate. I swear to got
a liberal cam three minutes Mark without saying Hitler. Mark, Hold on a
second, Kate. You see, here's the point. Here's the point is
that this is their agenda. You're absolutely right. But for you to pretend
that the progressive movement doesn't have its own agenda. So what they're saying,
here's what they're saying, this is our conservative agenda. They call it the
conservative promise. They're not hiding from it. Now. I'm not talking about
candidates. I'm talking about the group that put this together. Okay, So
yes, it is their agenda, It absolutely is. But to think if
you didn't have this, you wouldn't have an agenda is absolutely wrong because right
now we have a woke progressive agenda just the opposite of this. So it
doesn't so what people want is what they'll vote for. Kate, You're absolutely
right. These people have their own agenda, just like the progressives have their
own agenda, and right now we're under that agenda. We're under an agenda
right now. It may not be this one, but we're under another agenda.
Can't you agree to that? I do agree, Okay, So we're
under whatever agenda people elect. We're under what i'd like to see, and
maybe this is what you're saying. What i'd like to see is that no
one has that. We we take the good and bad from different agendas and
kind of meld them together. I mean, but I don't see anyone ever
doing that. I don't know where the line was drawn, but it was.
We're never gonna have people in the middle saying, you know, it's
okay to do this, and let's do this, but not this, and
not that. They're never gonna meld the agendas. Go with a sure thing.
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so, Kevin Uh, go ahead. Now you had an issue with Gilbert's
tree service. You were working with Deputy Doc. What is going on,
sir, Well, when he delivered the firewood back in February. Uh,
he was driving a truck pulling a trailer and the four wheel drive wasn't working,
that's right, and he got and he got stuck on he got stuck
on the ice, and then maybe eventually he slid sideways and he finally got
the truck and trailer out. And you said that the truck did a lot
of damage to your landscaping, right, Well, not the landscaping, the
four x four posts, the two of them plus the gate. Oh okay,
yeah, yeah, okay, he closed off so we can keep our
horses in okay, And so we meet the gate. Well, they invent
the gate up, so we need the gate replace. He took out two
four by four posts, so we need them replaced. I'm sorry you were
working with Deputy Dollar on this. I thought I put down here you were
working on this. I was Deputy Doc. Oh Doc, I'm sorry,
doctor. What did you do? Doctor? Call him? I tried to
get in touch to them, and they never got back to me. God,
that's the same thing. They completely ignore me. Oh man, So
we haven't heard anything from them. I will try I've tried them a couple
of times. I'll try them again this afternoon, Kevin. Otherwise, you
know, maybe small claims. Quot is how damage? How much did it
cost you fix this? Well, we haven't been able to fit it yet.
I would have to. I would have the price the four by four
poles? Okay? Is the gate? Is the gate one of these big
like you know metal uh uh, it's a bit. It's one of those
green tree furt uh pel cattle cow panels. Yeah, it's a panel with
that. It's a panel that you put the hinge on the end of it,
right, and and and it hangs on the hinge. Yeah, well
on the on the post and there's yeah, there's two hinges right right,
and then you have the chain on the other end right. Well uh yeah,
because there's two gates that close h yeah. Yeah, and so only
one so you have two panels and one of them was destroyed, right right?
Okay? Meanwhile, people, where is Gilbert's tree service located somewhere on
Payton I believe? Do you have a phone number for him? I can
get it. I have it right here. Give me the phone number,
doc, because I have an idea. Go ahead with seven one nine six
eight three six' eight three three four three seven three four three seven.
Look, we've given them time to call. Here's what I want people to
do. You know what. And if people say to me, why do
you do that? That's harassment, No it's not. It's no more harassing
than a review, and in my opinion, doing a service to the company.
So here's what I'm gonna do. I'm going to tell people to call
Gilbert's and say I heard about you on the Tom Martino Show, and you
need to call them about Kevin. Uh. If you're going to be in
business, you need to be responsive for damage as you do. Their number,
Gilbert shure another, don't be vulgar or me. Just tell him you
heard about him and they need to call us back. Give him the three
h three Martino number. Their number is seven one nine six eight three thirty
four thirty seven seven to one nine six eight three thirty four thirty seven.
I don't blame you for being upset. And let's see that's seven one nine
six eight three thirty four thirty seven. Now, Anthony, what's going on?
With you. Hi, Tom, what's happening? Uh? Well,
my mother passed away. It was the other day. Uh oh, he
left the whill. She left a will, and I'm wondering if she could
help me with a lawyer maybe or yeah, we can help you for sure.
Yeah, hold on, I'll help you. Hang on, Anthony,
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so sorry that your mom died just the other day. So now, did
she have a will? Are you there Anthony, huh am I doing anything
wrong here? Bro no sarh okay, can you see if he's there?
A guys, he had a question about a will someone died. Now you'd
be surprised how many calls I'm getting for people where there was no will.
Where if you do not have a will, if the deceased does not have
a will, then the law tells who gets what. But here's what you
can do. If you're in the line of inheritance and you're senior in the
line of inheritance, you can change it. For example, if you're the
first in the line of inheritance and you get it, you can decide to
divide it up. We're not, but no one else can without a will.
That's why wills are important, even if they are very simple documents.
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Com. All right, So we started out the show earlier today and we
we were talking about Project twenty twenty five. We'll have some comments on that,
so hang on, Mark, But I want to go to Anthony,
who has an issue with a will and Anthony, he said his mom died
recently. Sorry about that, Anthony. What are your questions? Basically?
Uh? What did she did? She die with a will? Yes,
she gave me a copy of the will before she died. Do you have
an original? No? I don't. This is a copy that she gave
me. Do you know where the original might be? I could call and
ask my sister. Who's the power of attorney? Okay? I want to
ask you a couple other questions. And uh, how uh? How old
is the will? Oh boy? Oh well, I could take a look
real quick. The date on it? Let me stay here. Yeah,
uh should be right on the top or where she signed it. Yeah.
How many pages is Oh boy, it's about five pages? Okay, Well
what does it say? The date at the end where she signed it?
Signed it in several fus. But did she put a date anywhere? Without
a date, it's not valid? Oh boy, I don't date. Well,
there's no date on that will. It's as good it's not good.
Oh, it's a durable that's not a will. A durable power of attorney's
not a will. Okay. It says gifts two family members. I give
Anthony before you read that, let me ask a few other questions. How
much is her estate worth? I'm not sure. Maybe a quarter of a
million? Okay, So she did she have a home? Yes? And
was it paid off? Yes? Okay? What's that that worth? H
I think she paid three hundred thousand or three maybe, well that's more.
That's more than a quarter of a million. Uh yeah. What else did
you have? Did you have cash in the bank? I'm pretty sure she
did. Did you have investments? No? No, I know. How
about vehicles? She had one vehicle with your new vehicle? Okay? Now
how many airs all together? Seven? Seven kids? Well, grandson shed
some too, No, no, I'm talking about immediate immediate family. How
many kids did you have on? Well? Two there's me and my sister
and then the granddaughter. Yeah okay, I get you and your sister.
But does the will? Does the will name individually other heirs or all that?
You said the will name seven heirs? Is that right? Yes?
That's correct? Okay? And what is your question? How can we help
you? How do I collapt on you? I mean, well, who
is the who who filed the probate? That's a good question, that's something
who's the personal reputation. Well, Anthony, so far you haven't answered one
question except five pages. So here's what I need to know. I need
to know something was a probate filed, Jed, I don't know? Okay?
Where did your mom live? Did you know that where she live?
She lived in the Windsor Garden Den? Okay? And your sister is she
taking control of this? She's supposed to power of attorney. That okay,
But that doesn't mean she's the personal representative. Okay, that doesn't mean that.
But the will names the personal representative. So when you read those five
pages in the very beginning, it should name her personal representative. Who did
it name? Oh? Boy, Anthony, do you do know how to
read? Right? Yeah? Okay? So when you read it, does
it say anything at all about a personal representative? No? Then you have
an invalid will. That will has no date, there's no original, and
there's no personal representative. So how do you even know it's Does it have
a signature? Even yes, she signed it in several spots not, but
she did not date it. Boy, there's got to be a date on
you. Okay. What I'm going to give you some homework to do.
Look for a date. Okay, you don't have to do it under the
pressure of a phone call. Look for a date. Your question is how
do you collect on it? Well, okay, do you talk to your
sister? Yes? Did you ask her? Did you ask her if she
opened a probate? No? I haven't. Okay, let's hear what it
was just yesterday? Okay, I get it. I get it. So
how long ago do your mom die? Anthony? That's two about two weeks
ago? Maybe? Okay, I'm going to give you a list. Can
you write a list down of what you need to do? Yes? Okay?
Good. Number one. Number one is find out from your sister if
she has the original will. Okay. If there is no original will,
it's going to be very, very difficult unless all the heirs agree to abide
by that one. But if that one does not have a date, that
will even be difficult. Okay, So you need to first ask your sister
do you have an original will? And also did you file probate? Once
they file probate, here's what happens. The personal representative. A lot of
people call them executors, but they're not really called that anymore. The personal
representative goes through the estate and pays the bills with the funds available. With
everything left over, they dole out the assets according to the will. Okay,
that's it. However, the will can be challenged if there is no
original and if there is no date. How did you happen to come across
a copy and my mother gave it to me in the hospital? How long
ago? Oh? About two weeks ago? Okay, okay, that's really
good. Was there any were there any witnesses there? No? Okay.
Do you think your sister is going to be fair and honest about this?
That's something? Yeah? Okay, good. Yeah, So there's seven heirs,
there's got to be a probate, So call and call us back.
But you must at least get started. Three three seven one three talk seven
one three eight two five five. Mark. I don't know if you have
if you have a quick comment or not on Project twenty twenty five. But
I started the show saying I was one of the few probably people in the
media that actually read every single word, every single page and had opinions not
on whether people should be four or against it, but but why people are
saying what they're saying about it? So what do you have to say?
About it, Mark, Well, it sounds I haven't read it. But
with listening to your conversation and then listen to what Kate had to say,
I think that this is trying to address things how they're doing it now because
they're just checking boxes. Now, say the Press secretary, there's a black,
lesbian immigrant woman, so they get to check four boxes. They're not
hiring people for their abilities. They're hiring because who they are. Shame as
they did with the Supreme Court justice. They they went to hire a black
woman, nobody else got a chance at the job because unless they were a
black By the way, you know, I know what you're saying, and
to a certain extent, some of that might be true. Here's what I
have. I have. I looked up what she was talking about, and
I do have some observations about that. I'm going to ask you to hold
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Alliance three oh three nine two zero sixteen twenty two. Hi Tom Martino,
you're troubleshooter three all three seven one three talk seven one three eight two five
five So uh, Mark, go ahead your turn. We had made some
comments on Project twenty twenty five Finish Upsir. I just wanted to make that
point that I don't think people should be put into a position because of who
they are, black, lesbian, YadA YadA. You go ahead and make
up your own, but I mean, if they're not, I want the
best person for the job, okay. And what this is, what this
is really? If I had to sum up twenty twenty five and what people
are talking about, really, what twenty twenty five says, what they're addressing,
it's weird, it's kind of weird. It's really control through no control.
And here's what I mean. They don't What they're saying is that our
government right now the positions in our government. There are mandates on how people
do their job, and those mandates are everything they do must include DEI diversity
and equity and inclusion and must be and hold on, must addressed all gender
identities, and must address climate change. What twenty twenty five basically says is
this, none of those things are your concern. You do your job.
So it's actually it's really the progressive and I'm saying, this is clearly a
conservative agenda, and there's clearly a progressive one. The progressive agenda actually came
in and added more control and definitions than anyone. When they talk about how
can the conservative agenda wants to control everything, it's kind of just the opposite.
They want to take out the controls and the artificial mandates that they consider
artificial away from what's happening now. They said that our government is littered,
littered with all kinds of inclusion of extra stuff that was never there. In
other words, when you talk about the rights of everyone and the constitution,
it covers everyone. You don't have to make extra extra things in the government
administration to address all these things. When you're reading with saying, okay,
well that's what I'm reading from twenty twenty five. So it really isn't the
inclusion of a lot of requirements. What it really is is getting rid of
all of the crap that has infiltrated. Do you know that we went through
that that we as a country went through everything, the entire military, the
entire budgets, the entire laws, and they take out references to genders,
and they they have made everything politically correct cohesive in their mind, and they
have included climate change. In areas about education, they've included they have included
the issues of gender everywhere where it was just noted as as equality of the
sexes, now now they include dozens of definitions of different genders. So what
this twenty twenty five is saying, when I should have said this to the
other woman who called, who said, well, they're putting in all kinds
of controls. What they're actually doing is saying that we've had too many controls
and they're controlling our administrators and regulators now to a point where the woke agenda
is trying to tell people how to think. I swear to God that's what
they're doing. They're trying and so what twenty twenty five is saying is don't
tell people how to think, just give them our goals, and our goal
should be the protection of the country and of all Americans. And they're saying,
you don't need to make divisions among us. So, if I had
to sum it up, that's what it is. And I would just like
to say what worries me the most about it is so many people just accept
it as being you know, right, or you know, well, what
you're saying about it being crazy. They're vilifying iting it for exactly what Tom
said. I mean, basically, they want to take away the controls and
they wanted something wrong with all of those special definitions, all of those special
definitions, all of those special requirements, and all of the wokeism that has
been built in. They want to take back out again and make it the
way it was. They believe addressing men and women, male and female,
they believe addressing all Americans and security. My point is that's why the left
is vilifying Project twenty twenty five, because that's the last thing they want to
see. They thought they were changing us into a global society of some sort,
and they're not. By the way, By the way, our budget
items were thank you like, thank you for calling. And again, I'm
not sticking up for this over anything else because I read it and I just
wanted to know what it's saying. And it really is saying, get rid
of all this crap and just get back. And why won't you say you
endorse it Because it's not because nobody gives a damn. Because I don't think
that much of myself. That's why, Mark, Because I discuss ideas,
because because it doesn't really matter. Everything you read is so in alignment with
everything you generally say. Is my point. If you're asking me, do
I like a lot of what I read? There are some things I believe
that will cause severe division. Let me give you an example. It doesn't
mean I don't like it. I'm telling you it will cause division. When
they talk about protecting the rights of all Americans. That's all they have though
time on the left side right now, the Democrats side, all they have
is division. They have nothing to run on, but they got a guy
in office. You can't even look straight Mark. Where the Project twenty twenty
five talks about protection of all Americans. They believe in the unborn are full
fledged Americans that should be protected. Now, many believe that, but that
you must admit will cause severe division among an aggressive stance in my opinion ed
Yes, Okay. All I'm saying is so when you asked, do I
like I I what people? I don't think, Honest to God, I
don't think people listen to this show to for political advice for me or what
I think should happen. What they listen for is how to protect themselves and
not get ripped off and all that. But the reason I took on this
twenty twenty five is I was so damn curious. Just like when people used
to quote from all kinds of holy books, I decided, I'm going to
read the Korra. I'm not gonna I'm not going to uh, I'm not
going to let people tell me what it says. I'm going to read from
every holy book I can find the Kuran, and I wanted to know what
it said, okay, and and I just didn't want to hear it.
And what's amazing to me is why more people in the media don't do that.
It's there for you. It's eight hundred and eighty eight pay but many
of the pages are title pages or glossary and things. But if you get
right down to it, there might be a real substance if you can doense
it all maybe six hundred pages in this mandate for leadership, the Conservative Promise
Project twenty twenty five. And I urge people to download it, and I
think they would have a good thing. Oh, by the way, a
Belle, you got a question on wills, a general question. What is
it? Bill? Well, I'm just wondering if I even need a will.
My wife's on the titles for the house, and my wife is the
beneficiary of my IRA account. If listen, if you have everything payable on
death, whether it be a will, a deed, excuse me, whether
it be a bank account, a deed, artwork or whatever. If that's
all transferable on death, you don't need a will. However, it's not
bad to have a will to dispel anyone who might and in your case it
may not happen. It may not be a bad idea to have a will
that says everything has been accounted for and anything that's not goes to my wife,
right and then my kids. That's well, yeah, well, okay,
then you need a will because with that payable on desk stuff, it
doesn't address how your kids get it, well, not only if she dies,
but but what if you both die at the same time, or what
if she dies first? Well, then the kids get it, right?
Well no, not well okay, See Bill, that's the wrong way.
The wrong way is to allow the state to dictate, because when you say
the kids get it, okay, what percentage do the kids get? Well,
okay, are they happy with that? Well, they never talked about
it. Well, that's what I'm saying. A will dispels every single question.
And it's not going to cost that much to put it together, not
at all, not for a small estate like yours. Right, Okay,
I'm just wondering. Yeah, I think everyone the question. Everyone needs a
will. Everyone everyone needs a will, even a simple will. Miles,
what is your question about Miles? Well he actually it's more of a comment,
yes, sir, since they're talking about gender identity and ye kind of
thing. A friend of mine orders some shoes online and he wears a man's
size tent okay, and they shipped into him and they were way too small.
So he called them up and he goes, why are these too small?
And they said, oh, we have gender or gender neutral sizing.
Now, So if you want to size men ted he had to order a
size Twell, are you kidding? Come on, I've never heard of that.
I'm not, I am not, I'm not kidding. I'm just saying
it's getting way out of control. I don't care about anybody's gender or what
they identify as. But come on, well, you know, look,
look as far as as as Project twenty twenty five and other poly season all
of this, I don't think we need to be spending billions and billions of
dollars. And we are on gender inclusion and gender education around the world,
and that's what we're doing and in our country. However, however, I
do believe that people have a right. No, I am not against.
If people want to want to change their sex, let them do it.
I don't think we should prevent them. And if insurance wants to pay for
it, and people are paying for insurance, let it happen. The question
is should government pay for that in the military, should government pay for that?
Or should we educate children at an early age? Oh by the way,
kids, if you want, you can switch what you are. I
mean, all I'm saying is I'm not so sure that's the greatest thing in
the world. But I do believe everyone has the right freedom and should be
happy with whatever they want to be. I don't care if someone wants to
be a hamster. If they're not hurting people, let them be hamsters.
I don't care about furries, Honest to God, I don't. I don't
really care about it. And I don't avoid those people. I don't avoid
anyone. I think everyone has a right to be happy and secure and live
the life they want. I don't want to control them, but I don't
want them controlling me either. But Tom, that's where it lies the people.
I agree with you. But when it comes to infringing on others' rights,
and they talk about like girls' locker rooms, girls' restrooms, then that's
where we have the problem. And I also have a problem when it comes
to bottom line sports. Okay, you have girls who are always going to
be weaker than transgender girls men who became here. They're always going to be
weaker. It's just not fair. It's not because I hate them. I
don't hate them at all. I just don't think. Maybe we should take
all sex away from all of them, and then people will get what they
want. Take everything away. Everyone can peace on an open field, and
you know what, then what would happen? Reality would set in and they
start saying, wait a minute, that's not fair. Girls will never win
anything. We'll get the point. And how dare a judge asks someone before
sensing them? Where do you want to go? This guy has been sporting
a penis his whole life and then decides he wants to go to a woman's
prison and rape women. And all he has to say he has to show,
no medical nothing. All he has to say is I am a woman
and he goes to a woman's prison. That's freaking stupid. Go with a
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two. Hi Tom Martinez, your troubleshooter. I ran across a survey done
by it's called Life Rankings, And you know, you can get into the
methodology if you want. I've always found some of these survey companies to be
very accurate in that they take matrixes that they survey and don't really put opinion
in there. Let me give you an example. Let me give you an
example. This one list of surveys it's called City Rankings. And what they
do is they have a category that you can rank a city by any category
you want of their matrixes. Uh, and what do they have, Well,
they have for of all the overall rank then they have they have the
environmental rank aaron, water quality, housing, healthcare of physical health of people,
mental health of people, economic stability, employment, housing affordability, safety,
education, leisure time, recreational facilities, and on and on and on.
So you can actually range cities by individual items that are important to you.
Is song, Yes, now here's what I like. So then they
do an overall ranking of the best quality of life. Now this is kind
of strange. So then they get so they take all those matrixes I told
you about, like twenty four different categories and they take all those categories and
then and then give an overall rank. And they say that I had never
heard the city, But Mark, you're not far from it, Redmond,
Washington. Were you anywhere near Redmond, Washington. You went up to the
northwest anyway near Oregon. So Redmond, Washington has the number one quality of
life according to all these matrixes. New were Microsoft's out of Oh really,
okay, Newton, Massachusetts is number two. Now Newton is a small town
up in near Boston, outlire in Boston. It's right, it's I believe
it's where Boston College is out there. So Newton number two in the entire
country Woodbury, Minnesota. And then another one is Bellevue, Washington. Again,
I'm not going to go through each and everyone, but where is any
city in Colorado? Number ten? It was the first time Colorado showed up,
by the way, just you know, in the top in the top
ten, there were two from Washington state, two from Minnesota, and three
from California. And then you had two with only one in there. You
had Indiana has Carmel, and then Colorado the number one city in Colorado according
to this, And then the top ten in the country is castle Rock.
Huh, castle Rock. That's odd. So then a number of other California
cities again, you know, you might, I can't believe with the economic
stability, but maybe because the income is so high they don't care about that,
the tax burden and all that. Again, I'm trying to find another
Colorado city down here, and I'm looking at the top. I mean it
goes down to okay, Broomfield. Excuse me, Centennial Colorado shows up at
number forty. So you had castle Rock at number ten, and then you
don't get another ranking until forty, which is Centennial, and then it goes
back down to Broomfield. Colorado is forty four. Believe it or not.
Boulder is down at forty eight. You would think Boulder would have been maybe
a little highly impressed by castle Rock coming in at ten. Man, I
cool, no, I know it now Again, for a year, I
did not examine the total methodology. It looks like surveys and actual data as
far as healthcare and all that hospitalization's death rates, all of that. Again,
Colorado doesn't show up again. Oh wait, Denver is one hundred,
one hundred, which is you know, not terrible because they they rank all
the way down to Oh my god, I think five hundred. So it's
really a very interesting matrix here. By the way, Dragon is foolish to
me to think I'm caught up on breaks, isn't it? Is it foolish?
Or am I I need to write then? Okay, because I want
to tell you about some of the sub categories here and how we rank.
But in any case, get your calls in. We have another hour to
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O three seven to one three talk three O three seven one three, eight,
two, five five if you want to call, we got only a
few minutes this hour, but we have another hour to go. And some
of the notable call say it's a let me let me go to some texts
here. Anyway, someone says that it's wrong to talk about Project twenty twenty
five because it it. I don't know what they mean by this, because
it's an election year with Trump, and they said, like r of K
has a long established history of being a proponent of the environment, so it
would be like discussing RFK Junior while reading the Unibomber's manifesto. See, I
don't get that what he's talking about. Are you saying by reading from Project
twenty twenty five, I'm somehow inferring that Trump is part of it? I'm
not. He said some promotents of the environment. Wait, yeah, he's
making no sense to me. So and anyway, Hey, Susanna and I
just a side note. You said, unibomber, we were in Lincoln,
and uh, that's where he was from, man Ted Kazinski's little house.
That whole thing was right in that town. What did they memorialize it somehow?
Is it like a landmark of some kind? No, seriously, we
seriously, we didn't even know it was till we got to our next destination,
Polsom Lake, and a listener took us out on his pontoon boat and
asked us the last place we went to, and we said it was Lincoln
and he goes, oh, that's where the unibomber's from, is shack and
everything. So did you actually see a shack? No, when we were
there, we didn't know, nor would I go out of my way to
see Ted Kazinski's shack. All right, Well, anyway, we got more
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things and you couldn't read about certain things because it was going against the narrative
of and by the way they thought they were doing good. Possibly it went
again the narrative of the vaccine, especially so if the vaccine was attacked in
any way, shape or form, it was taken off of social media,
and then also anything that was considered dangerous and they would say it was due
to danger consumer safety. Yet there is a trend now people are buying on
Amazon all day long something called sodium nitrate, which is what what basically is
that sodium nitrate? Is it powder? Well? Guess what it's. Sodium
nitrate is a compound I'm reading here that is used in food preservation, automotive
maintenance, whatever the hell, and animal control now potentially fatal when digested because
it interferes with the red blood cells to transport oxygen. Basically, if you
have too much of it, you don't get enough oxygen and you fall asleep.
I guess when you're deprived of oxygen, you don't always choke and gasp,
do you, Okay, So they're using it for guess what. Teens
in record numbers are ordering it for suicide. Really, there have been several
cases of suicide where the sodium nitrates have been traced to a purchase on Amazon.
Now, some people have tried sewing Amazon because of this, and they'd
not be helped, They've not been held in. That's absurd. It's absolutely
absurd that they would go after Amazon. Yeah, well, and so nitrate
is a chemical you might as well know. I know, I get it,
I get it. You're right. No, I don't think Amazon.
But it's amazing to me though, that you couldn't buy what was it there?
There were certain things you couldn't buy during COVID because they were afraid people
were over using it. But you could you can buy Oh, it was
some horse stuff, but it was for the horse, so it didn't need
a prescription. And anyway, they weren't selling They wouldn't they wouldn't be allowed
to sell it. But they will allow you to kill yourself with sodium nitrates.
But this thing is a big deal right now. Also, new trends
in construction. There are stats showing that new homes. You remember now,
you remember it was if you had a big, giant home, it was
a symbol of being rich, being symbol of being success. Yeah, and
there were a lot of them. There are a lot of them. Look
all over Greenwood Village, Cherry Hills. Look at all over the big what
I call the big house subdivisions, and then you have the smaller, more
luxurious homes when you get closer to Denver in tight neighborhoods where they were small
and they redo them. And then some of them do infill projects where they
tear down a house and put up a new mansion. But that was big
in Hilltop tearing down Hilltop and building a new home. Oh yeah, but
right now, and that is in Hilltop what they call pill Hill. I
don't know, you know what that meant? Right? All the doctors lived
up there anyway, I know a lot of them that do. Construction spending
is starting to increase. I don't know why with the interest rates, but
right now the building permits are not lagging that much, but the houses being
built are smaller in general, and people buying homes. According to the US
Census Bureau, people are seeking lower square footage now rather than higher square footage
now. There are many reasons given for it. One is cost of maintenance,
of heating, of air of all of that. That's the number one.
Well, when I say maintenance, it's not not just maintenance to repair
it, but also just to maintain the lifestyle in a large home. So
large homes are become, are trending out. It's got to be also.
The interest rate has to have something to do with it. Tom, I
don't know if it does, but it might, but it's been happening.
It's been happening gradually. I think utilities are in my opinion, I think
interest rate. It's of course the cost. But you see they're not necessarily
cutting back in cost, they're cutting back in size. Now, obviously cost
has something to what I mean by that, Doc, let me clarify that
per square foot it is a cheaper home obviously when it's smaller, but the
quality. They still seem to be going for the quality, but not necessarily
the size. And I think I think they don't cite why, but they
say there's an number of factors. I think one of the big reasons would
be the cost of heating and air, I mean utilities, electricity itself,
right, and obviously they say a more attainable price point. But another thing,
people want to be environmentally conscious conscious and they are looking to lessen their
carbon footprint. Now, honest to god, I don't know about carbon footprint.
I really don't. I don't know what my carbon footprint is. I
don't know what yours is. Do people actually keep track of their carbon footprint?
I mean I don't. I truly don't know how to calculate it.
Nobody I know does, Tom, But I mean I imagine there are people
who care, so I would like to know. I'm going to ask.
I'm going to ask artificial intelligence here, how do I calculate my carbon footprint?
Have you ever calculated yours mark in that big motor home that eats up
diesel fuel all over the country? How do I calculate only when I'm pouring
oil directly outside and running over trees? How do I calculate my Okay,
I'm asking this now. I'm asking how do I how do I calculate my
carbon footprint? And I'm going to find out. Okay, there is there
is a footprint calculator, There's a carbon footprint calculator, and I'm going to
look it up. There's also my climate footprint calculator and carbonfootprint dot Com,
all places you can get an idea. Deputy Chopper, what's going on with
you? Sir? Well? Tom, this is a personal problem. So
yeah, Well you can call just like anyone, and you you actually earned
the right to do that. What's going on? Well, over the last
three four years, we have been hit really hard with hail and we've made
two claims the safe coal. Well, yesterday I got the infamous letter we're
dropping you. Oh wait, you're from your homeowners? Yes, from my
home owned. What were the two claims? Yes, two claims. What
were they? Uh? It was roofs, siding, everything, paint.
Yetesis took care of us. That was for Hal. What was the other
claim it with Hal? Both of them were hal within how long? Probably
within I think three years. We have two roofs within three years. Oh
my god. Yep, you're You're a hotspot. They're getting read of you.
So I was wondering, is this kind of like, uh, you
know, when an old girlfriend drops you, you're done? Or is there
any record you mean, like will other girls be attracted to you? Or
or you mean, can you can you force them to renew you? No,
you can't, And that's what I was wondering. No, there is
no force renewal that you can't or it's a company to keep you. But
I think now I don't like a lot of government regulation. But I will
tell you this the only industry in the world that I believe should be regulated
more than any other industry. If I had to pick one, if I
had to pick, like, who should be regulated, it's insurance. Insurance
is a nasty, dirty, disgusting business, and it's it's just not a
good thing. It's become mandatory because we can't sustain some of these losses on
our own. But in my opinion, it is an immoral industry. It
is predicated on not paying justifiably for losses. It is predicated on trying to
keep as much and make as much profit and screw the owners. And I
hate it. But well, Tom, they didn't have any problem taking my
money for twenty three years. That's what I'm getting at. I think,
I think personally that there should be some kind of legislation and requirements that if
they take your money for a certain number of years, they have to take
it after that for the same number of years after what would be a cancelable
event. So if oh my god, I'm turning over in my soon,
don't care. I don't care, I don't care what you're doing. I'm
saying that I would invest in any companies that do that, and I'm glad
you wouldn't, because, first of all, I don't believe insurance companies should
be publicly traded because I think that is another incentive to screw the policy holder.
But they are, yeah, but not all of them, but you're
right, they are many of them. And I think that insurance companies I'm
not saying it's going to happen, but I believe insurance companies of any industry
should be one that is nonprofit because the profit incentive for insurance, not for
other companies. For insurance is an automatic incentive not to pay just claims automatically,
and it shouldn't be not in health, not in casualty. We are
pulling our money together, We're pulling it, and what we should do with
that pulled money is use it to pay claims and to invest wisely. What
they have been doing, though, in the insurance industry, is more than
that. They're pulling other people's money together to make gross profits for themselves and
to increase their prompt their stock values, and not to serve the people who
pay the premiums. Now, no other companies do that. They couldn't stay
in business doing it. But because insurance has become mandatory, we have fallen
for this faulted model. We would never do that with a car, We
would never do that with any other product that we buy. If their incentive
is to not give you everything you paid for, that is exactly opposite of
let's say, the auto industry. They try to over deliver value for you.
They don't try to underdeliver. Every year they look to improve. The
insurance industry is the only industry that every year they look to diminish coverage.
It's the only industry that looks to do less and make more, the only
one. Now there's nothing and now auto and everyone else they do want to
make more. Nothing wrong with it, but they deliver more for it.
The insurance industry. The insurance industry wants to deliver less and get more,
the only industry that does that. Go ahead, dude, I don't want
market roll over and is great. But pail damage I thought was always considered
that's not your fault. Well that's true too. They're saying, they're saying
you're in a high risk area. They're not blaming you for it. But
but and really, look, there is something to be said about high risk
versus low risk and all that. But when you aggregate losses, okay,
and you have two losses, Let's say you've had two losses and how many
years you've been with them? How many years, and then you're canceled.
Now, to me, that's not that's not proper. That's my opinion.
It's not proper. Again, insurance is the Ore's a lot of companies that
have decided not to write anything in California. We just won't do it.
I just don't have a problem with that. If they're losing money in California,
they shouldn't be forced to write a policy in California. Okay, I
think the company needs to make that decision. Okay, that's right. The
way they're structured now, they have to make a decision. But when you
say losing money, they're not losing money. They're losing value. They're not
they're not net subtracting money. They're not literally going into the red. They
are in that location, arguably, I don't know they're losing. What they're
losing is value and investment and profit. That's what the yeah, they did
lose compared to the year previously. They're not going into the red They're not
literally going into the red. What I'm saying is the whole idea of insurance
is to be aggregated, so the people the place is having losses, the
places not having losses make up for it. Again, you're right the way
it's structured. Now, every company has a right to say I can do
business or not. What I'm saying is the entire function of the industry is
too important not to be heavily regulated. Too important it is. It's just
it's it's too ubiquitous, and it's become mandatory. It's it's just a ridiculous
notion. Do we need something like don't you know? No, but I
think there needs to We don't need more government in any i'm talking about.
No, I'm talking about a nonprofit structured company that simply does exactly the same
thing except make profit. That the profit incentive when when you look at a
claim, you don't say to yourself, no, we're not going to play
one hundred every claim they look at. They they never want to play.
That's why they have things called adjusters. Now, I'm not saying when they
become nonprofit they should play every cockamami claim or fraudulent claims again, don't go
there. I am saying legitimate claims every single day are turned down by insurance
or underestimated by insurance for the mere purpose of more profit. You never have
to feel sorry for insurance. They are immoral and corrupt. They have inserted
themselves into our economy and have absolutely made money off the misery of others.
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you want to calculate your carbon footprint? You can, It's free. All
you have to do is put in your stuff. You tell them where you
live I got one right here, and you can calculate your footprint. Then
if that's not good enough, you can also offset that footprint by buying what
I call guilt credits, So you can buy credits after calculating what you have
done to the environment to offset it. So that's why people can have a
jet because all of the pollution that they contribute to the environment they can all
set by buying. So what is a carbon offset. You can buy money
that goes toward planting trees, or you can you can do something else that
would be considered net positive. So for your net negative, you add a
net positive. So I'm going to do a carbon footprint for me right here,
right now, right now. I'm doing it right now, putting in
my information as I do. It wants to know first of all, your
name, your zip code, how many people in the household, and then
you hit that. Then it starts asking all about your home, your energy,
what kind of gat you know, what kind you have, and how
much you pay. And I can't do that while I'm talking to you.
But then then after that you you put down, oh, what temperatures you
use, and then what kind of lighting you have? And then do you
have soul or what else you have? Then when do you do your wash?
How many times a day do you use cold water or hot water?
What energy star products do you have? Then it continues transportation. It wants
to know how many vehicles and how much you spend on maintenance, how much
gas you use, how many miles you drive, if you have an ev
blah blah blah. Again, I can't do this while I'm talking to you,
but it tells you what the averages are. And then you continue to
waste. What kind of waste do you have? Do you recycle and how
much do you recycle? And then it talks about that's it. Then you
can calculate, and when you calculate, it comes up with a number,
and then if you wish to offset it, you can offset it to make
you feel less skilty. And to offset it, you pay a certain amount
of money to buy these net positive, positive things for the environment. Now
here's what I want to say. I really mean this. I truly believe
that we should take really good care of our environment. Trust me, I
mean I really believe that. And but see, the carbon emissions versus our
environment are not directly connected, but we really should try to clean up air
and water as much as we can. There's nothing wrong with that. That's
a wonderful thing. We should be good stewards of the environment, right,
So what I'd like to know is do you personally make decisions based on that?
Now? Three oh three seven one three talk three oh three seven one
three eight two five five some other stuff I want to talk about. I
have some texts here. Somebody said that on a will that you don't have
to have it dated. When I said you do, and I think you
do now I'm actually though, I can't tell you that I got that from
our attorney. So could we get one of our estate attorneys on very quickly
about dating because this person who texted me doubted you had to have the original
copy and that you had to have a date. Well, Tom, look
at this way. If you and I, if you and I both have
copies of the will, and you say, well, your supersed's mine,
I say no, no, Tom, mind superseded yours? How would you
settle that without dates on the document? That's true, I mean, I
mean that's I can't imagine dates not being pertinent, I would think. So,
now let's talk about a matrix. We talked. I talked about this
this super matrix on ranking cities the most affordable housing in the entire country if
you want to move there right now. Jonesborough, Arkansas the most affordable housing
anywhere. Also next to that Bizmarck, North Dakota, and then Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, Sandy Springs, Georgia. So there are a lot of affordable
places to live where homes can still be purchased for one hundred grand or less?
Can you believe that? Now? Brian Burns is with us from Compass
Insurance Group. Brian, we were talking about insurance in general. I wanted
to ask a couple of questions when it came to companies. Are there any
mutual insurance companies still around where the Yeah? Okay, sure, And that's
where the policy owners they own the company. Is that right? That's right?
Yep, yep, that's not that's not on the stock exchange. It
can't. It doesn't have investors from the outside. Okay. So with a
mutual company, when you own it and you're a policy holder who makes like,
like what happens to profits? Are they put back into the company then
to make the insurance more of affordable? Yeah? I mean that's the thought
process behind it. I mean, is there any because there's no one person
that profits from the profit if it's mutual. If it's mutual, it's owned
by the policyholders, right right, Yeah, And a lot of it can
go back into reserves as well, obviously, because you have a certain amount
of money you have to ers, and the more you have, the higher
the rated carrier. That kind of thing. So, now, do mutual
companies act the same way as other stock publicly traded profit hungry companies like,
for example, And I'm not saying they're not all profit hungry, and I
don't want to talk about profit like it's evil except in insurance I think it
is. But when it comes to mutual versus regular insurance companies, I don't
know if you even know this or if it can be known. But do
they cancel? Do publicly traded companies have maybe lower thresholds before they cancel people.
I have not seen any evidence of that. I see it. I
mean, I have mutual companies that we write for, and I have,
you know, stock driven companies that we write for. I don't see any
difference. As a matter of fact, one of the mutual companies you write
for has been the most severe as far as shutting down writing business over really
a couple of years. Yeah, I mean like they were the first to
pull the plug and they have just not written anything. You know, the
mutual do the mutual holders get a say in all of that since they are
a voter? Well, I like, whenever you're writing up the policy,
you do have an option to opt in or opt out for the voting rights,
and I usually opt to everybody in just so they do it. But
I doubt many people take the time out. Okay, so basically it's going
to the proxied voters. That's right. Yep, that's very interesting. Give
me the eggs. I want to ask you some examples. I have to
take a break, but this is a fascinating topic because I also want to
ask you about being canceled and being you know, your your policies canceled for
a couple claims. What's the usual criteria and can you fight that actually and
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of that, we have an insurance guy on Brian Burns from Compass Insurance Group
and Brian, it's really important to talk about this, and this is UH
cancelations because people are getting canceled all over And I had a whole discussion on
insurance. I'm not going to repeat right now, but I have my own
thoughts on the industry. But what when usually can you almost count on being
canceled? We had deputy chopper who works with us say that he had two
roofs. Did he say in three years? Yeah, two roofs. He
was canceled because of held him. What do you think, Yeah, I
mean, I definitely see. Here's the problem. There's not a stets stetsas.
So people will call me and say, hey, you know, I
might have some hail damage, and I especially whenever I see they've had a
claim in the last couple of years, I'll tell them, let's be cautious,
let's make sure it's worth filing the claim before you do it, because
they could be non renewed. But I've had plenty of people that have had
two losses to two hale losses in the last it's a five year window.
By the way, I know that you said three and three is a factor
in auto policies a lot of time, but in homes that I don't know
a carrier that doesn't look at a five year loss history. So in the
last five years, if you've had two losses, if you were to come
to me for new business, it'd be difficult to find a preferred carrier that
would take you. But if you've had three, I think you're you're pretty
confident three losses in five years you should be pretty confident you'd probably be non
renewed. But even that's not a steadfast rule, so it depends on the
company. Yeah and yeah, what how have they been you know what they've
filed with the Department of Insurance for that state. Uh and uh, and
and then it's up to sometimes things slipped through. In all honesty, I
had someone, I had someone that they were going to non renew because they
had multiple lots. They had three losses and two of them were water losses,
which were even considered insurance terms, even worse than hail losses of course.
And uh, they were set to non renew and forgot to actually get
the non renewal sent out to the customers, so they had to renew.
So at this point, yeah, but when they have to renew, do
they have to renew at the same premium? Well, they've already sent out
the renewal, so whatever the renewal was. Oh yeah, the renewal was
already done. So they're stuck for a year. So what go Okay,
so if you're canceled, let's say Jeopardy Chopper, he had two roofs in
three years. That's just the way it is. He had two roofs.
Yeah, okay, so he had two roofs, I guess in five years
as you put it. But so right, and he's canceled now, so
can I Is there an appeal process? And have you ever heard of people
being reinstated not for that kind of reason? I mean, the appeal process
of come into play if let's say they're canceling because of a reason that you
can prove has been fixed. In other words, they're saying that that there's
damage to your sighting and you didn't get it fixed, and you can prove
you can go back and appeal the non renewal and say no, no,
we did get it fixed. Here's pictures, that kind of thing that that
underwriting experience. No, you're not gonna have an there's not an appeal.
So let's put it this way. If an insurance company, let's put it
this way. Then if insurance companies wanted to ensure you and take premiums from
you for twenty years, yep, and then they decided on their own that
if you have one claim, they're canceling you, would they be allowed to
do that? Of course they would, is what you're saying. Yeah,
you know, you can make a non renewal. Do they have the right
to non renew They can't cancel mid term? Of course no. But it
seems to me a bit. It's that's where the immoral thing comes in.
It seems to me crazy that a company could literally collect from you for twenty
years and cancel you with one loss if they wanted to. And and again,
I mean, I haven't seen anything, no, of course not.
You've seen two losses. Yeah, I have seen two loss two losses.
Okay, so you know you're sure it for twenty years. You get two
losses and you're gone. Now if you do the man here, let me
let me do the flip side of that though, Tom, I have dealt
with people that have their losses that were seven years ago and they're they've got
the best rate they could possibly get out there. They're they're getting charged like
someone that hadn't had losses year. So because it's only a five year loss
experience, that's that's that's where they're looking at. So whenever people say I've
been I haven't had a loss in twenty years. I just had these two
in the last five I get it. But you could have had five ten
years ago and you're not being charged for Okay, So it goes both ways.
It is a five year you know, lost period that they're looking at.
Is that five laws? Is that five laws? Five year statutory?
That's what everybody uses. I don't know about status story. I don't know
the So we talked about mutual companies. Who are the big mutual companies that
you represent? So nationwide Safego is owned by Liberty, Mutual Acuity is a
mutual I'm trying to think through who else is a mutual company here? You
know, back to that que that conversation. Sometimes you can see mutual companies
honestly having higher rates at times just because they're they're so basis of income is
from the policyholders. They can't raise capital through you know, putting it out
to a market. There's no there's no Well, they probably could issue bonds,
just not equity stocks, right yeah, I don't know about the bonds.
You might be right, but I know they can't do equity stock obviously,
sir. I think sometimes they can be. It's a more conservative approach,
which isn't bad. I'm just telling you it can go both ways where
you can also right, so well, so mutual companies don't necessarily equate to
better companies for coverage or for rates, is what you're saying. And that's
just it's odd to me, but that's the way it is, right,
It's just very odd to me that that's the way it is. So I
don't know what we do, Brian. I've always said it's a terrible place
we're in right now, and you've said, hold on one second, I'll
finish up. You know, insurance is one of the biggest things we spend
money on, folks,