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here to talk about that. And right now jaris that. You know,
here's what I want to say, real quick. Everyone's optimistic because the market's
going crazy. The market had two rallies last year which made up for all
of its losses, so it finished really strong, really really strong. And
now this year it's really really strong. They say the FED cuts rates.
The Fed cuts rates, we could see a six thousand, a six thousand
level which would be unheard of. But it can't. And again I'm not
pessimistic on purpose. I don't want to just make people upset. But it
can't sustain. What do you think, you know, I wish I had
a crystal ball tom No, no, no no. But I mean,
in general, in general, the stock market over time, as Warren Buffett
has proven over the long run, if you just don't go crazy, you
can make a pretty good hedge against inflation. Yeah, and that's that's really
the point of what we do with our clients, Thomas. We help them
figure out ways and not only take advantage of the market growth over time,
but make sure that their money's in a place where short term they're not going
to lose huge amounts where they're going to have to stop and like positive retirement
for example, most people make them. Here's where most people make a mistake.
They try to day trade or short trade or play the market. Now
some people could do that, some people can, but it is so so
difficult. Well, and it's really easy to get whips when you do that
kind of thing too. You know, they say, oh, I'm going
to invest in this or in that or in this, They find one or
two stock and then they go to something else. But Warren Buffett, over
the long run, it's probably the smartest investor that ever lived. Now I'm
not talking about well I am. I'm talking about him as a person that's
smartest investor. But he has done nothing flashy, nothing nothing flashy. I
mean, it's weird. So is the stock market safer is it not?
The bottom line is this, The stock market is as safe as you make
it. Here's the problem with the stock market and people. And you hear
Joe Kiana talk about this a lot. He says, get out of the
stock market. You know, I think what he means is this, And
I want, I don't want to put words in his vote, but I
think what people mean is this. If you have a retirement account and you
have a certain window, if that retirement account suffers big losses during that window,
you may not have enough time in that window to get him back right.
And there's different phases of life when you should write that's right, different
that's right. And I think I think that's what really it means. If
you're going to stand with some solid stocks for the long run, you're going
to hedge against inflation and do pretty well. If you're going to try to
play the market, don't do it with your retirement account. If I'm a
twenty year old and I've got a bunch of money and a tech fund,
I'm okay with that. Yeah. If I'm a seventy year old or a
sixty five year old, now my money's in large cap tech, that's a
problem. I'm going to need to talk now. I'm going to go to
the phones. But Mark loves playing with stocks and he does pretty good here
and there, but he pays a lot of attention. A lot of people
don't have the time or energy to do that. Let's go to Marguerite.
She has an issue with movers and oh, I hope it's not the same
issue we hear all the time, Marguerite. I'm going to let you start
your story here. What's going on? Hi? Tom, Nice to meet
you. Nice Tom. What's going on? I've been in an earthing home
for about three years now due to some physical issues, and I've got the
opportunity to transition into the community, so I hired some move to move my
storage into my apartment. The storage is five foot deep and ten foot wide.
I met with one of the workers and he looked at it, and
my transition coordinator asked, how long do you think it'll take? She said,
oh, about two and a half hours. Okay. Then after that
they where'd you find the mover? That's what I want to know. And
always listen to your gut. When I don't, I always regret it.
It's a friend of a friend. Well that's better than just going on the
internet. But I mean still okay, So but I want to ask something.
Do they have a company or are they just people know they have a
company. They have a website, they have a company. What's the name
of the company, dear Carrying Transitions? Oh, did they specifically work with
older people? I think they do a lot of the state sale and transition.
I don't think they specifically work with older people, but I think that
kind of becomes there. But so you hired Caring Transitions to move you correct,
And you told him you had a storage unit of ten five y ten
and he came and looked at the storage unit with me and the core.
He gave you a bid. He never gave me a bid. Well,
hold on, he just he did. He kind of gave you a bid.
He said two hours. He said two two and a half hours,
yes, And then after that he said, oh, by the way,
it's one hundred and fifty an hour. I'm like, well, that's kind
of a lot, but no, not really. How many men for that
one He ended up using four? But it was it still one fifty or
was it more like? In other words, the one fifty an hour represented
what one worker, two workers, three workers, four workers one? You
didn't really get details in writing, did you No, but the one fifty
per work her. Oh, so it was going to be three hundred an
hour with two workers, Yeah, but it turned into four workers, so
it was six hundred an hour. Correct. So what happened then? Well,
you know that all kind of snuck up on me because I got it
in increments. But did you sign something saying you were going to pay one
fifteen hour per person? I did? Okay, keep going then what happened
then? So the day finally comes and he's got four people, which I
was like four people. I thought it was going to be two. And
he was supposed to go to the storage, thought that my daughter's house pipapa
bed, then go to the apartment. Instead he went from the storage to
the apartment, then backtrack to my daughter's and then back to the apartment.
By then, the freight elevator was being used someplace house by someone else,
and I guess he had to wait, did you have a freight booked?
Did you have a freight elevator booked? I just I just reserved the freight
elevator. Well that's what I meant you. You had it reserved and he
missed the winter? Correct? Okay, So what happened because he was backtracking.
Let's get right to this. Well, let's get right to this,
Marguerite. Is the problem you got builled way more than you expected? Is
that the problem? Two thousand, three and seventy five dollars? Oh my
god, I seat by ten feet from where to where? It was just
about a thirty minute drive. It's from like Alameda. Did you how many
hours total did it take them? And was part of that time waiting for
the freight elevator I'm imagining it it was. I'm assuming how many hours did
they bill you for? Five hours? At five hours and four men?
Correct? Okay, did you have anywhere on the paperwork you said you signed
something one hundred and fifty dollars an hour per man or per person? Correct?
Did you also sign something saying it was only going to be two hours?
No, he never put that in writing. Then he then, okay,
I'm going to give you the bad news. First, you kind of
obligated yourself. I mean they just snowballed you, man that they obligated you
signed saying yeah, I'm going to pay one hundred and fifty an hour per
person, and so they have five hours and four people. I mean that
is never? What's that? That was never? In writing? You just
told me that you Now, I'm not arguing, I'm asking did you sign
any First of all, let's start here. Did you sign anything at all?
Yeah? Okay, what did you sign? Did you sign an estimate
that said one hundred and fifty dollars an hour per person? Yes? Correct?
Did it also say how many people they were going to use? No?
Did it say how much time they were going to take? No?
Okay, so you obligated yourself. It wasn't writing you say if they had
ten people for ten hours, you would have theoretically had to pay that.
Theoretically, I mean there's something called unconscionable, but you would have had to
pay it. Did you end up paying the two thousand, three hundred and
seventy five dollars I have not paid it yet. No? Okay? Is
your stuff delivered? Yes? Oh? Good, good, good good.
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talks seven one three eight two five five Real quick here. Greg has a
comment on investing. Go ahead, Greg, tom so retirement investing in the
stock market. The thing that frustrates me is when people say, oh,
you're fifty or fifty five or sixty, move all of your investments to something
you know with less risk. The longest time between recordhis in the stock market
is seven years approximately, So unless you're planning and using all that money in
seven years, there's no reason to think you need to withdraw all of it
into lower risk. But Greg, Greg, I kind of agree with you
and not. It depends and you're right, there's no one answer. But
Greg, one thing I wanted to mention when you talk about record high peaks
being about seven years apart or sooner, the problem is the record highs don't
always make up for all of your losses of lows. They don't always.
It doesn't balance necessarily that way that you have to make up more in the
plus than you did in the negative. You know that, right, sure,
But that's yeah. I mean, if you're maintaining a fund, that's
consistently following the averages. Though, then if you don't sell it when it's
low, you'll be fine. And some people are more risk averse, some
less verse. I'm not advocating to change your strategy, but the notion that
you're approaching retirement agent you need to you need to move everything to secure you're
just going if you if you're a person who is willing to take on risk,
you're passing up earnings. Okay, But here's another thing I wanted to
mention Greg. There is a time, and I don't think all of your
money, but there truly is a time, and I've I've done it.
I really did it where you convert some of it to an annuity. And
I don't mean a regular annuity of the high priced, crappy annuities, but
I did a guaranteed annuity with a bonus and with income. I actually did
it. I mean, but not all my money. But what you know,
I don't know what you think about that, but I think that's a
good idea. Jaris Yeah, Tom and Greg. It's never a good idea
to have all your money in one basket. Now, of course it's safe
or in the market. And one thing that that's important is if you've got
a bunch of money in the market and you're relying on it for income,
that may not be the best place to keep all of it, not for
a long terms. So you know, if you are a retiree and you're
getting ready to pull money out of an account, I wouldn't want to keep
that all at risk because if I've got a thirty percent drop in the market
all of a sudden, I'm gonna have to take a little bit less out
as income from that account in the future. I want I want to I
want you to later in the show. I want you to talk about the
three buckets. I love that scenario. Hey, doctor Gary, I'm going
to go back to the mover thing. I just we're just noodling on it.
Figure out what we can do. Doctor Gary. You you have a
question, go ahead, Yeah, Tom, I'm really calling to see if
you were pleased with your top surgery for your low back. I'm one thousand
percent please yes, But but I have done You have to understand something.
I got it for what it is right. It's not an end all be
all. It is for what it is right now approved for is one level
and it's going to be multi level. I don't see why it won't be,
but because but the one level, meaning instead of a fusion, you
get this. And what it does is it stabilizes your back and allows for
full movement. Gary. Have you seen his video he did on it.
Well, I haven't seen the video. I actually spoke to Prima in Connecticut,
a company that actually developed it. Yeah, now listen, here's the
deal that they're They're really wonderful people. And the top surgery for those listening
is a titanium implant with a movable disk in between, and it literally takes
the place a part of your spine. Do you understand that the bad level
of my spine was removed? It wasn't fused, it was removed. There's
nothing to grow arthritis, and there's nothing to ever pinch that nerve again.
There's also no adjacent disk disease because I'm not putting extra pressure above or below
it like you would with a fusion. That's not to say I could not
develop arthritis in in other facet joints. Of course you can. I mean,
you know, you still have to whatever be healthy. But if you
had multiple levels and of bad, bad, bad back facet joints and discs.
If you don't want to wait for a TOPS to be approved for multi
level, you may have to go ahead and get a fusion. Well,
go ahead, Gary. In my office, I see all those fouled fusion.
Sixty one percent of them fail within four to five years. And those
exactly yeah, I see. Even when they don't fail, Gary, their
lives are miserable because they can't move right. Right. So when I spoke
to Prima, they said, and I told him my diagnosis, they said,
you are the perfect candidate for this particular procedure. I went to a
regular spinal surgeon yesterday and he basically said, oh, it hasn't been around,
it's experimental, and he was just saying horrible things about it. Now,
doctor, I'm going to tell you why, okay. And you know
this about the medical profession, just like the electrical profession, the investment community,
the HVAC community, the automobile community. What is it If they don't
bring it to you and they don't do it, then they diss it.
That's what it is. Because this moron doctor has no idea what he's talking
about. They went through extensive trials, extensively and hundreds and hundreds of these
were done in Europe. Here's the point. The point is is, of
course you're going to still have doctors who say, oh, it's experimental,
it's no good, it's that Well, we do know one thing for sure
that the fusion is the worst thing you can do. Okay, we know
that, So if you know, here's what I'm going to tell you.
Look, I am living proof now I've had it a year. People to
say, well, you don't know what's going to happen to him. It
might fail, who knows, of course it might anything could fail. But
I'm telling you it's the same materials that a fusion is made from, right,
but instead it moves. So why are people saying, why would that
moron? Doctors say a fusion is fine with the same materials, but put
in a different way, why would it not be fine? Why? Exactly?
You know? I mean, here's the deal. What you need to
go is see a forward thinking neuro surgeon who actually does all kinds of surgery,
so he's not held bent on selling you on one or the other.
I already have appointment with both of them. The only two guys that do
it in town, and one of them is my doc thought, right,
one of them is your doc and the other one's over in a war on
see you, and they're both really they're both really good. Right. And
my other question for you was how how long was it before you could resume
your regular activities? I was walking around the next day. I was,
excuse me, I was walking around that night all over the hospital ward they
said, what are you doing? I said, I'm walking. I'm having
a wonderful time, and I resumed. Now, listen, I'm not recommending
this, but I was. I was doing regular walking. The next day.
I was going to the now I was. Let's put it this way.
My people here will tell you that they couldn't believe I had surgery.
Okay, I'm the only thing. The only thing you complained about that I
remember was the incision itself. Yeah, yeah, the itchy and all that.
Yeah yeah. And here's the thing I'll tell you. Okay, my
doctor said, Tom, before you go to the Jim, wait at least
six weeks. And then when you do go, don't put don't put weight
right on that. You know, let those screws really really adhere to your
spine because it's holding it up in bottom. And but I'm going to tell
you somebody, Okay, I was crazy and I had no I felt zero
restriction. If you're wondering, are you going to be laid up like with
a hip surgery, No, absolutely not. That doesn't mean you should do
what I did, but but you will not feel laid up. You know
what he told me yesterday was no lifting, bending, or twisting for three
months. Well, okay, that's true. I mean, I know,
I know what. I know what they're saying. And when they say that,
what they don't want you to do is like lift, they don't want
you to do stupid lifting and stupid twisting and all of that. I understand
that. Yeah, right, And but my recovery will probably be cut in
half because I have a hyperbarret chamber in my office. So that really is
and you probably are. Are you fit anyway I used to be? But
because of my disability, I'm not as good as I used to be.
Yeah, and that's the same I was, although I still I still you
know, was I think below twenty percent body fat. I think that I
had to just I had to be held back. Let's put it that way.
I had to forcibly be held back because I had zero pain and zero
discomfort and zero impingement. So the best to you stay in touch with me
every step of the way. And either doctor you choose is going to be
a good one. You're gonna love it because they both doctors who do it
do a fine job. Three all three seven to one three talks seven one
three eight two five five. You know, it's really funny though. I
know you've all heard this, right. If they haven't done it, or
if they don't tell you about it, it's bad. And that's not just
with the medical profession. That's with all professions. I mean, I have
through my entire life have heard people tell me about how bad something is because
they were not familiar with it. Now. At the same time, that
doesn't mean you go to everything that's brand new either. There's a balance there
now, Marguerite, here's what I'm Here's what I'm saying. You have movers
that charge you way more than you thought they would. But they were right
up front with you with the written contract. But they told you it should
only be a couple hours and a couple men. It turned out to be
way more. Out you have one a witness to that this happened to us
when we help Miles move. It just happens. I guess, like part
of the industry. Here's what I'm going to get out. Okay, Margaret,
it doesn't matter if you have a witness. You're not going to go
to court over it because you're going to lose if you go to court.
So really all that matters is what's in the written contract. And movers are
are are extremely good at cheating people. Okay, I'm just going to tell
you, in my opinion, it's cheating because they they they bait and switch
you. But here's the deal. What can they do to you if you
don't pay? Let me ask you that. What can they do to you?
I guess maybe take me to small claims. Course, yeah, they
could and get a judgment. But bot I'm asking is what do they get
if they get a judgment against you? What do you have? Yes?
I have nothing? Right And what is your income? What is your income?
You know I'm in a wheelchair, Margaret, Marguerite, what is your
What is your income? I get social Security every month. They can't garnish
social Security. They have nothing. You're called judgment proof. There's nothing they
can get from you. Do I suggest you not pay them. No,
I suggest you pay them for two hours and two men, which would have
been six hundred dollars right, or may be a thousand or whatever. Now
you do know you're gonna owe something. What were you expecting to pay?
I was expecting to pay about seven hundred dollars. Okay, then I would
put down I would I would pay them, saying, look, you know
you estimated way less than this. It was I had an eight by or
a five x ten storage occer. And I cannot pay you anymore. And
this is what I was expecting to pay. And I've had witnesses. I'm
not This is not legal advice. This is if you were my mom.
I tell you, this is my sister. But here's the deal. Once
you do that, they can't. They can do something. They're gonna uff
and puff, but they can't blow your house down. They have nothing.
You have nothing. They can get nothing nothing. You may not like it,
but there's nothing they can do to you, even if they get a
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Tom Martino here three O three seven one three talk seven one three eight two
five five. It's Nina's churn. She wants to talk about a repair issue
I believe with Hyundai. What's going on? Nina? Oh? All,
good morning, Hime. So this is the this is the dilemma on facing
Okay. On February fifteenth, I was driving to my sister's house for her
birthday dinner. And I was five miles away from more house and my two
thousand and four King Hyundai Tuson, which has eighty two thousand miles on it.
The check engine light came on and started flashing. So I made it
to my sister's house and I just left it there for the evening and I
called the Foundation Hundai. On Friday, February sixteenth, and I told them
I was going to have my car toad there. Well, the female that
works in the service department said, well, you don't have an appointment,
we're not taking the car. And I said, well, you have to
take it because it's being told. She goes, no, we're not taking
it. Well, wait a minute. Why did you think they had to
take it though? Well, because it was a because in my mind,
I thought, well, it's a Hundai. The check engine light's coming on,
so you know, and that's that's the place I usually take it to.
No, I understand that, But you had it taken. You instructed
them to take it there before you at eb and called them. No,
No, I called them before I had a toad from my sister's house.
I called Hyundai and female who as the female who answered the phone said,
because I did not have an appointment. No, I get that, but
I know I understand that. So when they told you not to toe it
there, what did you do? Well? Then I towed it to another
garage accurate auto okay, which is not too far from me. And where
is it? Where is that located? What part of the town are you
calling from? Denver or Springs or where I'm calling from. I'm calling from
Erie, Colorado, Eerie, Okay, got it? Okay, so you
took it to another place and what happened? Right? So then that morning
around ten thirty, the mechanic from Accurate Auto called me and he said,
well, Nina, I've got some good news and I got some bad news.
And I said, okay, so yeah, what is it? Good?
He said, The good news is your vehicle is The bad news is
you're going to have to tow it from us to Hyundai because the diagnostic testing
came out that it is a bad cart in your engine. Now, how
many miles on this car? Eighty two thousand? And is it still under
warranty? Mark this two thousand? What was the in service date? Like
it's a twenty fourteen hundred, I'm all going to come down to the in
service date because it's roughly ten years. When was the in service date?
I mean when when did you actually did you buy this new? Yes?
I did. I bought I bought a July fourteenth in twenty fourteen. Okay,
so it's under the ten years. I would assume that it's under warranty.
What so, what's the problem today? Hold on, we'll come back
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Okay, I'm Tom Martino, your troubleshooter three oh three seven one three talk
seven one three A two five five. Well, Nina, it looks like
your YNDAI will probably be in that tenure warranty. So where does this stand
right now? What is the problem? Why are you complaining? Well?
So then when when the when the accurate I'll cally, I had it toad
from accurate auto because they had told me they had called the court. I
don't care about that. Where did it go from accurate to where? I
don't need to know the reason. Where did it go too to Foundation?
Hunts? Okay, good, now is it now? What did Foundation do?
Did they fix it under warranty? No, they're they're fixing it under
warranty. Why they're they're telling me that they're diagnostic testing because their diagnostics machines
cost anywhere from ten thousand. Okay, all that is that. I want
to know what do they say? Foundation says they will not fix it because
their diagnostics says what that it's uh, it's my it's spark pluge, it's
not what it's not this TSB that came up. Okay, so get the
spark plugs replaced. Who cares? Well? I yes, I told them
that. Okay, I told I told the manager of the service department,
okay, let's get it fixed. And so then he said okay. He
said, well, because you didn't have an appointment, is here, but
we can see your car till March fourth. I said, okay, I
understand that I can wait. So March fourth came along, I didn't hear
from them. I called Foundation Hundai on March fifth and he's and Eric told
me, oh, you know what, two of my mechanics were injured.
One is back Okay, now, Nina, without all, I don't need
to know the entire history of their workstaff. Here's what I need to know.
Where does it stand today? Did they ever get to it? They
got to it, but now they're saying that they're waiting for a part to
come at. What are they doing to it? What are they doing to
it? He said that they're replacing the spark plugs and that there was a
slight leak in my oil pan, which I said, I've never had in
any oil leaks and he said it's so slight that it would evacerate before it
hit the ground. Well that's not true. But Nina, Nina, I
don't know what the hell they're saying. But I know Foundation went to hell
in a handbasket. They used to be a good organization. They suck.
I don't know how that happens. They go from hero to zero in such
a short time. It just absolutely amazed me. So here's all I need
to know. When do they say your car will be done? I received
an email from the corporate office. When do they say it's going to be
done? When do they say it's going to be done? They said in
the email it might be done this weekend. Okay. Now, are they
fixing it under warranty? No, because it's not a warranty issue, because
it's normal warrant here. Well, that's what they're saying. Okay. So
if you get your car back and it runs fine, everything's going to be
good. But what you're upset about is it's taking a long time. Is
that what the essence of the call is? Yes, Okay, I can't.
They told her they told you not to tow it in the very first
place. Yeah, I know, and then they thought you no, but
then the wrong diagnosis by the other company got it there. I don't know
what they did wrong. To be quick, they didn't do anything wrong.
Okay. I was about to tell her that, Nina, They're not doing
anything wrong. Everyone is faced with these delays, and it's a terrible situation.
I think. The only here's what I'm more concerned about. Here's what
I'm more concerned about. But I don't think this is happening. But I'm
concerned about it, and that is that your car does have a deeper problem.
But the good news is you have a record of this, and you
have a record of the previous diagnostic from the other place. Accurate. Therefore,
if you do have a problem that surfaces right after the warranty expires,
you can make the argument that this problem reared its ugly head while it was
under warranty and foundation sluffed you off. Although I don't think that's what they're
doing. My gut is telling me I understand why you're upset, but they're
not doing anything wrong. They truly aren't. If you analyze the situation.
They're simply delaying it after you get it fixed. My recommendation is that we
have one of our people check it out to make sure it's in good shape.
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to five. So we have open lines for the first time this morning.
So that's good news. Well it's not really good news. You can get
your calls in. I mean, it would be good news if no one
had a problem. No problem. Hey, hey, I want to bring
something up. Yes, listen, man, I watched all this coverage on
this bridge in Maryland and it's absolutely horrible. I cannot believe that happened.
I understand that its power in this cargo ship couldn't stop. In the video
of that bridge coming down, and they're finding cars. They found a car
about an hour ago, or a truck and the people that died. Now,
I hate to say this, but what it reminded me of is a
video I saw of you way back in the day. You look like you're
twenty something. On early nineteen nineteen eighty, I covered the Sunshine Skyway bridge
collapse. I was the first one on the scene, bar None and I
got there and I picked up my photographer on the way because we were eighteen
minutes away. I pulled up on the bridge before they had even cordined it
off. And I drove up there and saw that one car up there looked
over the edge and mark that is indelibly. It's in my mind. I
can never erase it. I looked down and horizontally under the water. In
other words, just under the water. I could see Bobby up a bus.
Oh my god, an entire bus. Yeah, and inside the bus
were people bobbing. Oh my god. It is so similar. It's crazy.
It looked like the bridge you were at. I was watching the video
and for folks out there, a couple things. You got to see how
similar this is to this recent one. Plus you're gonna see Tom way back
in the day. To me, he looks completely different. And if you
go to our YouTube channel and just type in Troubleshooter Network on the next break,
I'm gonna actually play that video so you can see it. But you
got to go to YouTube, type in Troubleshooter network and hit the live button.
But Tom, I mean, it's crazy. I think way more people
died on that one. You covered. If I recall this, like thirty
or forty thirty two people, I believe it was mark. It was hard,
crazy, it was horror hing. Did they pull anybody out? Did
you see anybody literally get rescued and live? Oh? Yeah? I interviewed,
Well, the one guy that car. You see, that guy ran
back, you know, he got out of his car. I tell the
story a lot. He ran back towards safety, you know, down the
bridge, and as he got halfway to safety, he realized he did not
lock his car, and he ran back to lock his car. That's how
much shock he was in. I interviewed him. Then I interviewed a guy
who had a pickup truck that went off the end and bounced onto the tanker
and he fell out of his truck before it hit the tanker. No,
he was, It hit the tanker and he fell out, was ejected from
the truck and lived and in fact was not seriously injured. I interviewed him.
I'm razy, yep. And that guy, what was that one caused
by this one? They're saying the ship lost power? What? What what
caused that? I actually, let's see, I'm not sure, I remember
all of the years. I remember there's the tanker ran into it or the
Yeah, I think it was a tanker and it ran into it, and
of course it came tumbling down. But I'm not sure what I think the
guy may have been even prosecuted. It was so long ago, and I
did not bone up on the details I should have because of this incident.
But it's so similar. It's scary, man, it's crazy. Yeah,
I know it. And and it's it's scary. That's right, that's a
good word for it. And it is the thing that it is so similar.
Now that bridge did not as I remember, you know, I don't.
I think there were alternate alternative ways over that alternate ways highways in the
in the video, it looks like there's two bridges that are independent of each
other, side by side, and the first one from the direction the ship
was coming is the one that collapsed you're talking about on the Sunshine Skyway.
On the Sunshine Skyway. So I think what maybe one direction was one bridge
and then the other the other way, or one was old one was new.
I don't know. Yeah, but here's the thing on the Baltimore one,
here's what I want to know are they are they saying there's no other
way back and forth? What are they saying? I mean, do people
have to drive miles and miles and miles and miles or what. It's really
bad. I think they're going to just have of course, they got to
start rebuilding this thing. But I think they said something like thirty five thousand
people a day. It's really nuts. I don't know what they're going to
do. And it's one of the largest shipping areas in the country for containers.
I mean, this is going to affect all kinds of businesses, all
kinds of jobs. This thing is gonna it's just not good. I mean
the death, of course is the worst part, but going going down the
road. This is really a bad deal man. Yeah. I mean it's
unbelievable. It's going to mess up commerce. Yeah, it's going to have
a lot of effects. So in any case, let's talk to Robert.
He he was working with Chopper on a problem. Robert, go ahead,
what's going on? And I still haven't got my car back yet, Okay,
and Robert, Robert, thanks for jumping into this. But I got
to figure out what we're talking about. So when did this problem. First,
come out. I'm just going to look for your call so I can
look it up. And then his deputy chopper around he can talk to us
about it. He is off today work. Okay. Is this where you
damage your tires and wheels and also damaged the door to made me make two
claims? Yes, okay, because you had a and then we had we
wanted to know if that was normal, and they said yes, if they
were two different incidents, even if they're a week apart or a day apart,
or even in the same day, but hours apart, they can charge
you two different deductibles. And your insurance temper made you file that. So
then you said, now, I didn't know you had a secondary problem here.
So you had a problem with the shop. What shop is it?
But the shop is the body shop is my car has been done for a
week in a day. Now, Oh, oh, I know what it
is? The claim they're not paying it. You said, yes, and
my car is ready and I need to get rid of this rental car.
Can't afford it three hundred dollars a week. I'm over. I'm over three
thousand dollars plus. Well, you can always pay the body. You could
always adopt and go after the insurance company to stop the rental car billing.
Oh, I mean my car. I can't afford that. I don't have
that kind of money. Did you hear what Mark just said? How much?
Hold on? How much is the bill four with my deductibles? No,
the entire bill with my deductible thirty four hundred. Okay, and you
don't have it to pay one thousand dollars deductible. That's all. What I'm
supposed to pay is five to five hundred dollar deductibles. Well, I get
it, so my car because insurance hasn't paid the supplement payment. Okay,
So I get the entire claim. If you were to go in and you
didn't have insurance right now, the whole claim to get your car would be
thirty four hundred. Is that right? Yeah? That maybe taxes. So
pus storage day Storage days now stays for storage because it's been over a week
and nobody's taking it up. Nobody's calling them back. Did we have Chopper
call Temper insurance? Did anyone call Temper Insurance for you? What are they
telling you? Why are they saying they're not paying it? No? No?
Yeah, have you been able to talk to Temper Insurance and it's under
review for payment. But after they and told the body shoff to do the
work, now it's going to review. Huh, what are you talking about?
What am I? I couldn't believe it. Do you have an agent?
A local agent? We went through this before. Do you have a
local agent's he's what's called. But he has nothing to do with it,
you don't. He says he can't do anything. Okay, Robert, respectfully,
he's full of crap. Your agent is full of crap. He sold
you the policy. He should be able to talk to them. Who is
your agent? Blacks? Who is your agent? Name is Alex? My
phone number? You want a phone number? What I'm going to call?
I'll call Alex on break, Kelly? What is the phone number? What
is the name of his agency? I don't know the name of the agency.
I have been using them for seven years. I just pay him my
insurance eventy six months. Yeah, well you shouldn't use him anymorel wait,
wait, no, hold on, do it off the air. Do it
off the air. I'll call you know what. He shouldn't use him anymore,
Deputy Chopper, you have a comment. Go ahead, Chopper what's going
on? Man? I've contacted both the the autobody shop and I've tried and
tried to get through Kempler. You get the typical ignore. The body shop
won't release it till they're paid and there and they say they're waiting on Kempler.
We somehow have to get through the fence to get the Kempler. Did
you call the agent? I'd never was given an agent name. I was
just I got the just the Keimfler. Okay, all right, fine,
we should call the agent because that's you know, he has to know something,
and that's bs when he says I can't do anything. Yeah, he
he collects your money though, doesn'ty You should dump them. You should dump
them and go to Compass Insurance Group. And I'm not kidding because people like
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three O three seven one three top three O three seven one three eight two
five five. So we have Robert who can't get his car mark. Did
you call Alex or not I did. I left Alex a message. Hopefully
I hear back from him, and you know, we'll see what happened.
We're just gonna Robert, he's gonna be advocate. Yeah, we're gonna stay
on top of it. I can't promise anything, but man, this should
tell you something. Drop that damn insurance for sure, and then we'll just
mark this pending until we hear. Will give Alex a chance to respond to
us. Three oh three seven one three eight two five five. Charles needs
medical advice. Uh, maybe we can get him some. We don't give
out medical advice directly, but Charles, let's see what you're talking about first.
What's going on? Maybe one of your listeners could leave anyway. I
like to change cardiologists. They all seen them the same. They say that
class all is a bad guy, and I hear it's not that bad.
Oh, this is not medical advice. Okay, let me let me ask
you some Charles. You have a cardiologist that you want to change. Yeah.
His opinion is, uh, he's just looking at my class stall and
my blood pressure and what is he saying? That's all He's checking out the
biggest thing he says, okay, But what I'm asking you is this,
do you have high cholesterol? I have it own new control with a statins
okay, And so are you saying you're wondering about the controversy having to do
with cholesterol. Why these old timeline doctors that they said they had it wrong,
that clestol is nothing. Okay. Here's what I want to tell you,
Charles. For the most part, okay, for the most part,
it's not going to be settled with one doctor or another because there are differing
opinions. But here's one thing that I believe, Okay. I don't believe
that controlling the cholesterol with a stat and is going to be the end of
the world. It's not gonna I don't think it'll kill you. Well,
that's sorry. Muscle aches, pain, stuff like that. Yeah, it
can now listen. But let me explain something else. It's there's a lot
more to cholesterol than cholesterol, okay, and I don't want to get into
it right now, but it has to do with particle size and with certain
things. But what cholesterol really is is a healing agent. Cholesterol is a
building block of life. Cholesterol is not in and of itself, bad.
The reason it became a bad actor in many of the doctor's opinions is because
when it rushes to your veins and arteries to heal them from inflammation. Okay,
when it does that, it coagulates there to save yours. It's what
it's doing. It's trying to heal your veins. Okay, it's trying to
heal them. As a result, you have cholesterol and high cholesterol. But
the real villain, truly, and everyone will agree with it, is inflammation,
not cholesterol. Cholesterol are the firemen going to put out the fire.
So if you had a barn that was burning and you saw a bunch of
firemen coming and you said, oh my god, firemen mean there's a fire,
So I'm going to kill the fireman. When you kill the fireman,
it doesn't stop the burning. So what I'm getting at is controlling cholesterol alone,
if you had an unnecessary build up or an unusual build up, is
not going to help the underlying problem. So where the problem is is where
people treat the cholesterol and not the inflammation. The number one problem with us
today is inflammation for all disease. Inflammation. What does that mean? It
means that our veins and arteries are inflamed, our circulatory system have inflammatory mons
why, there's a whole bunch of reasons. The number one reason, yeah,
but the number one reason for inflammation, well, there's two big reasons.
One is improper dental care. Okay, gums, So I don't have
any what's that? I have implants? I don't have anything. You could
have terrible inflammation in your mouth. You could have terrible gums. I don't
know what your mouth is. But that's okay. Tent says, I'm all
right on that. Well, okay, okay, but most people aren't.
Okay, most people aren't, but you're fine. The number two problem I'm
going to tell you with inflammation, if you'd like to hear, is glycation.
I'm not going to get into a whole medical thing. Look it up.
Glycation. It's basically too much sugar. Okay, that's really basically what
it is. Okay, So I don't like I said. So that's the
controversy. If you're looking for another cardiologist, I wouldn't because you're never going
to get them to agree anyway. It sounds like this guy's doing a reasonable
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two zero sixteen twenty two. Hi Tom Martino, you're troubleshooter. We have
with US Retirement Planning Center of the doctors have a few questions that we're facxing.
We'll get to in a minute. Here, I want to go right
to uh Laura, who has a landlord question about the new laws coming up.
Go ahead, Laura, what's going on with you? Hi? Thank
you so much for taking my call. I'm a landlord and I've been a
landlord for like twenty some years, and I have a question about all of
these new laws that are coming up and what all I can put in my
lease. So one of my main questions is some of the fees that are
allowed. Now we should get Brad O'Brien on for this. Yeah, he's
not available today. I already texted him. He's available tomorrow. So a
lot of these are not laws yet. The House has the Colorado House has
introduced a bunch of bills. Are you speaking of anything specifically that has been
passed. Yes, So one of my questions is is out of the last
set of rules that was passed, it was saying that you couldn't put any
more fees in there, like lift out any sort of fees. And part
of that is so they can get rid of all the junkies, which I
understand. But in my particular lease, I had to fee in there for
like a lease break fee, you know, that they would lose their deposit
and maybe two month's rent, you know, or I had to come Well
way which law But which law are you specifically referring to? Well, maybe
I'm just confused. I thought there was a law that was passed that said
that you can no longer have fees listed in there that you can't have.
That's going back. What that's going back to like twenty twenty, though I
know that's what I'm trying to figure out. What says the landlord shall not
require a tenant or mobile homeowner to pay any fee or other charge other than
the rent, except that a landlord may require a tenant of a mobile homeowner
to pay a U space fee that is described in the rental agreement. See
here's the deal. Okay, So I take that that statement, and then
does that say that I can not have a lease break fee or that I
cannot say, you know, I'm going to charge you three hundred dollars for
cleaning if you don't clean the place before you leave. No. I think
if it's spelled out in Tom by the way, it's HB twenty dash one
one four one HB twenty Okay, yeah, dash one one four one.
But no, my understanding. And now we're going, I mean, really,
you're this is like COVID times. You can put like a late fee
in there, but the late fee can only be a certain amount. I
think it's like, you know, eighty bucks or three yea. I'm looking
at it right here, and I think, Mark, the main deal of
this is that they have to be spelled out you can't just if you more
of a clarification what I was gonna say, If it's not in the lease
and it's not already laid out, you can't all of a sudden come up
with a new fee. No, no, mine, We're spelled out in
the lease. Mine said. You know it's always best. Did you when
was the last time who made up that least for you? By the way,
did you have an attorney make it up? No? I made it
up. Well, that's a bad thing to do because you could lose all
of your rights when you have to evict people. You need to really get
an attorney like Brad O'Brien O'Brien Legal Services to go over It won't cost you
a lot to go over a lease and make it legal according to today's laws.
You know what's coming up, Laura. Have you heard about the one
that says basically, you cannot evict or terminate a lease. It has to
go on and on and on unless you have a specific cause and they outline
what the causes are. You can't. Even if you just don't want a
lease anymore, you can't do that. Our governor's not going to sign that.
As much as I can stand the guy. There's no way. I
read about that too, and I have a question about that too, And
then what if they're just are that's not a law yet? What is your
question about it? Well, the question would be if they do pass that,
and I have people that are on months to month, which I do
that on purpose. Once their one year lease expires, I just keep them
on months months, because then no, month to month is no longer.
Month to month, month to month is forever unless you want to move back
into your property. Under certain circumstances, you can't just say, hey,
my son wants to move there. You have to have a good I don't
want to go through the law, but you have to have a good reason
to get rid of them. So you can't just even if you just want
to get rid of them, if you don't want to rent anymore. I
have to correct you there time. It's not a law, No, that's
what I meant an act. Yeah, it's a bill, right, So
it's not a law yet, Laura, Yeah, but when it, I
guess when it becomes a lot, then you're saying there's no more months to
months. So then if so, then I would have to well, no,
there is a month to month. There is a month to month you
can terminate at the end. See let me explain this. If you had
a one year lease under the new if it became a new law and you
had a one year you would have to deal with this at the end of
the lease. If you wanted to just trade tenants for a better tenant or
a friend or a neighbor, you can't do it. If you want to
just take your property back, you have to have a good reason. Okay,
I'm just telling you the law gets into your rights. Now. If
it's month to month, the same thing, you you get to address it
every month. So it is there's still a benefit to having a month to
month Okay. So for then when you say that, so the new proposal
would be that you have to give so many ninety days notice. So my
question on that would be no, that is not no. No, it
has nothing to do. There are some notice requirements, but that is not
the real That is not a big deal. You still have to give notice
requirements. Now you know this. Guy Dave hold on Guys Dave on a
YouTube says that the Republicans have inserted an amendment that permits in a eleven month
quote trial period for new tenants. They can be evicted without cause before twelve
months. So once again, this thing is just negotiations at this point.
Yeah, I wouldn't even worry about it now, Laura. So going back
to the question that I have from the from the last thing that passed during
COVID, is there anything that, like, is it legal for me to
have in my lease that says, you know, if you break your lease,
I'm gonna charge you. We can't. We can't tell you that,
Laura. We can't tell you that. Specifically, you have to Everything in
there about fees is highly regulated. You have to do it according to the
law. You can't you can't even evict someone for fees. Let's say they
have a late fee every month and they never pay their late fee. You
can't add interest to them. They can only be a certain amount, and
as long as they've actually paid the rent, not the fees, you can't
even evict them for nonpayment. My suggestion, what we're trying to get We're
not trying to be koy here. What we're saying is this, in general,
you can charge many, many fees, but specifically they have to be
worded and you have certain limitations of rights. When it comes to enforcing them,
it's best to get an attorney to go through your lease and make it
legal. So in general, yes, you can charge fees, but you
have to do it in a very specific way. Three oh three seven one
three talk three oh three seven one three A two five five. So Retirement
Planning Center of the Rockies is with us. I want to go over this,
plus Blake and Jill want to talk about their taxes. But first,
Jaris Hanson with rpcenter dot com. What are the three buckets? Now?
People? One of the big deals, whether it be an annuity, or
whether it be savings, or whether it be an investment account, one of
the big deals people want is to have money can draw out. If you
simply exhaust an account, you will run out of money. Most of the
time. You won't have enough money for retirement unless you're just ultra wealthy.
Or here's the deal, if you have certain ways to preserve that money,
it could last you. Our PCE center does what they call the three bucket
solution. That's one of their strategies. Explain it in a really stupid way
for me, and you know what I mean, very simple and briefly,
what is the three bucket solution? Definitely, so everybody's got money in multiple
places, but there's really only three main areas that are that are there.
You've got safety, which are things like money in the bank, CDs,
money market accounts, things that are liquid and accessible and ready to go.
Could an annuity be considered safety or not? We don't put it in the
safety okay, okay. So the second bucket is income, which is where
an annuity would fit. Other income producing assets fit there. This is where
we will put your social Security, if you've got a pension, or maybe
some dividends yep, things that generate income. And then the third bucket is
growth. The growth bucket is where we put money that we're going to need
but we don't need right now. For income, what I prefer to do
and what we do at Retirement Planning Center is we'll get income set up.
So you've got Social Security and if you've got any pensions, whatever, and
whatever the case, you got income. But we want to make sure that
you've got as much of your income guaranteed as possible and as much as you're
comfortable with, so that if the market does crash, we're not relying on
money out of the market to cover the income that we need. What that
allows us to do is have time in the market with the money that's in
the market and not have to worry about relying on that for income during retirement.
It makes a big difference as far as how people can sleep at night,
and it helps people make that money less than in three different buckets,
correct ye anyway? Three all three seven one three eight two five five.
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two five five look, coming up on this break, Coming up on this
break, I'm gonna play this video from Tom on a local news station.
Hold on Tom, local news station from nineteen eighty about the Sunshine Bridge.
He was covering it. Thirty two people died on it. But it's very
similar to the one that is happening right now in Baltimore or in Maryland.
And my goodness, when you get a look at Tom with hair and not
gray hair, it's gonna be, uh, it's pretty amazing. So that'll
be coming upright at the noon hour. Yeah, and you're gonna be doing
that online on YouTube. Yes. Oh, I'm sorry, Thank you,
Tom. You need to go to troubleshooter dot com. I'm sorry. Go
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We do every show every day. Hey, Blake and Jill, what's going
on with your taxes? Yeah? Hi, Hi, what's going on?
Well, we went to file our taxes. Our tax lady started to file
our taxes and she said that the IRS rejected it. It said that Blake's
Social Security number was used on another return. This is happening more and more
frequently. Have you noticed this? Mark? Have you noticed? We had
a few calls about this big time? You know where? You know who
has it? Right? You know who? Probably from how they got your
number and started you what's that? We don't know who has it. We're
just wondering how we can find out. Okay, here's what I'd like to
know, I mean like to do. I think that there is a way
by the way, private private eyes have a way of tracking socials. But
I'm not going to get into that right now. What I'd like because otherwise
you're not going to take matters into your own hands. But the IRS should
know and should investigate. Did they offer to investigate for you? No,
we tried to call them and we just get a recording about did you follow
your taxes or you know? It's okay, I want to talk to Larson
Tax Relief and ask them we have an expert. We have some experts at
Larson Tax Relief. They're pretty good people and I think they can help us
with this, or at least point us in the right direction. So if
you hang on, we'll get a hold of them. Three oh three seven
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have retirement Planning Center of the Rockies with us plus all of your calls,
and we had a lot of exciting discussions. We're also going to get somebody
to help with Jill and Blake, who have an income tax question. Uh,
here's a problem, Larsen. Right now we don't have anyone available,
but I'm wondering what we do about that. So I'm gonna, uh,
We're going to get them back, but I want to talk to them first
because I want other people to listen. When we get our experts back on
tomorrow and Blake and Jill, we're going to be doing some research on this.
We've had a number of calls on this, so it's about time we
address it. And to make a long story short, you your your your
filing was rejected. Did the irs basically say you could not file your tax
return because it has uh a social Security number that has been used. My
tax lady just took Blake off of my taxes and then it went through.
So it went through, but it only went through with Oh, but it
only went you through with you in other words, in other words, you
had to do it, did you, Well, did you list Blake as
income or did you do it totally without him? Uh? Well, she
just took him off of it, then off of my taxes, and then
I went ahead and she went ahead and filed them for me and it went
through. But well, I understand that, but did you do it asn't?
Did you do it with only your income or did you do it for
the household? Yeah, we did it for the household. We did it
okay, so you did accomplish its disability. I might so have a disability.
So this is what my tax lady said. She said, just so
you know, the difference in your federal return was about twelve hundred dollars after
removing your husband. I would try to find out who is claiming him.
Oh, in other words, you would have gotten twelve hundred dollars more.
Yes, someone stole their money. I'm getting twelve hundred dollars Mark. I'm
not sure they filed in his name or just used their the number for their
own. Do you know what I'm saying? Yes, I think maybe they're
claiming him. Well, if that's the case, it goes back to what
I said. It's because it's probably an illegal that he is a social But
the reason for rejecting it the first time, I want to get this straight.
They were a newcomer. I'm sorry, newcomer. The reason they rejected
it to begin with. Let me get it straight was they said that the
social Security number had been used already. Yes, it was being used on
another tax return. Did they say it was in his name? Uh no,
she just said it was being used in another tax return. So evidently
someone else is claiming him. But that's what I don't understand. The part
about claiming him. They might be a simple mistake. You know, when
you contacted the I R S. Did you did you contact their identity theft
number? No? We didn't. We didn't have it, and we tried
to contact him. And here here's the number. Here's the number specifically for
identity theft. Okay, hold on right, this is what there we go.
One of my experts just texted this to me. Eight hundred nine zero
four four four nine zero. Also, also, there's a form that you
use. And even if you're not sure it's identity theft, it could be
a mistake. You still use the identity theft phone number I gave you.
And here's a form you can fill out. It's for specifically when you suspect
identity theft. It's one. It's form one four zero three nine. Okay.
And where would I get that? Well, you're tax repair should have
it. Maybe you can download it online. I'm not sure. Actually,
I really am not sure where you get tax forms anymore. But I suspect
you to do that, so let us know what happens. We will get
you on tomorrow, also with our expert. If you'd like Katschina, get
their number, we'll call them back. But I would start with that phone
number and then you can tell us tomorrow how that turned out. Appreciate that.
Let's talk to Terry. Terry, what's going on him. Hi,
Terry, you have a Otter repair shop and he used to do the old
R twelve air conditioning. Yeah, yeah, and I need to what do
I do with that old R twelve unit and the gas gas's in it?
I think you well, just talking about it right now, probably one of
the shops out there that either we deal with or that's listening, they'd probably
be interested in buying it from you. Oh cool? Oh really, Mark?
Are they even still using it on the old systems? Yeah, you
can still use it if you have it. It's illegal to manufacture, but
if you have it and have the equipment for it. Kevin probably has it,
it's not illegal to use it. It's just illegal to manufacture it.
So it is going away pretty quick. Most people have converted over to the
new stuff. But if someone out there owns a shop and still has that
equipment, especially older shops, they would love that, wouldn't they. Yeah,
that cater to older vehicles is what I meant, you know what.
They would love that, probably because they can. You know, it's hard
to find, Terry. So, how much are twelve do you have?
Do you know? I know the bottle's almost full, and is it like
do you know what size bottle it is? Is it a one gallon?
A five gallon? What's it look like a propane tank or what like propaine
tank? Yeah? Okay, don't you listen. I would try. I
would try our Case Automotive. That would be almost a perfect fit. I
would guess yup, because they do a lot of older cars, our Case
Automotive. I'm going to give you the number talk to Romando, and if
anybody else out there is interested, you can email us at help at troubleshooter
dot com. Here's the number for RKC Automotive seven to zero seven four nine
thirty nine sixty five. Do you know anybody here in the car at Springs
area? Oh? I'm sorry, you're in the Springs area? Hey,
I call it Jesse. Yeah, honest accurate auto. Try them, okay,
honest accurate auto. See they might want to buy it, all right,
I'm I'm looking at listen to this time. This is crazy, you
know, this just came up. I am looking at I'm trying to see
how many pounds this is. Hold on, I mean, I can't believe
how much this is selling for. This is probably the same size as she
has and it is going for nine hundred bucks. Wow. Wow. Yeah,
it's illegal to manufacture it anymore, that's why it's but once again,
it's not illegal to use it, just to manufacture it. Thank you.
Three h three seven one three talk seven one three eight two five five Larry,
what is your comment on this issue? For Blake and Jill that called
in about the IRS. I felt sorry for the lady because I went through
this with my son and daughter in law. Somebody was using their daughter and
it ends up it was an ex husband using their security number. And what
that does is you can't file electronically, you know, kick back and say
no, this is security numbers used. But what you do is you file
manually then and just because the other person beats you to the door, so
you file manually. What the IRS will do is they'll have you fill out
a form and it's just just explain why you're able to claim that that's a
security number. It's wrong some you know that my daughter lives with me over
half the time, whatever whatever the reasoning is, and they'll process the return
and it doesn't mean they didn't process the other one either, but eventually they'll
catch up with the person that's doing it. My point was going to be
the accountant doesn't know what she's doing, whoever she has, and that she
should have told her this. It's not up to the filer to go find
the person that's misusing a soial security number. That's the irs is problem.
Hey, you know that's really good advice, Larry. They fill it out
on and just mail it in and it's yeah, they just won't accept it
electronically because the computer goes we've already got that number, you can't use it.
That makes sense. Thank you very much, Larry, appreciate that.
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zero sixteen twenty two. Hi Tom Martino here three oh three seven one three
talk seven one three eight two five five. Butch, let's go to you.
Sounds like it could be the yuck department? What's going on? Butch?
Oh, I love in a ball package of hot dogs for king,
supersating one of them and something in it both my tooth, wow, and
a half the whole backside of my tooth is gone. Butch, how old
are you? Father? Eighty four? Okay? The reason I'm asking is
usually when teeth break like that as usually when you're older. I'm not saying
that's a good or bad thing or it doesn't help. I mean, it
doesn't matter as far as that. But anyway, you so, what did
you do you gotta when you say a package of hot dogs. You're not
talking about ready made hot dogs. You're talking about a package of hot dogs
you took home and cooked. Yeah, and did you have it in a
bun? Hell? Yeah, I think I did. I must, okay,
hold on, so you were eating it and it broke your tooth?
What did did you? Did you grab the thing that broke your tooth?
Yes? I got it. I thought I thought I knocked the filling out,
But tomorrow I feel of it was my tongue, And the more I
look at it, I don't. I think this is a debrieon that bought
my coach. No, I get it. That is okay. So so
I have handled many, many, many, many many of these over the
years. The answers aren't always what people want to know. But let me
just ask you this. Did you call King Soupers? I took the rest
of the hot dogs back to the store, and UH told their check out
gal about it, and she called the manager of the furnitive store. He
came and took my name, the phone number, and the remaining hot dogs
in the package, and UH said they would contact me in a few days.
He never did. I write it. A couple of weeks I went
back and talked to the gal again and she called the manager back to the
furnitive store. There's a different guy this time, he did they hold on?
Did they remember you at all? Yeah, I'm getting to it.
If I could tell you the whole story. Just take a few more minutes,
Okay, go ahead, Okay. The second guy took my name and
phone number because I didn't have the hot dogs there. I had given him
to the first guy, and both of them I don't think they took me
serious. They just wrote my name and number down on a piece of crackspaper
and I never heard nothing again. So I came back a couple of weeks
later and I mentioned the to the gal who had witnessed both of the transactions,
and they called another manager after the pros store. This time, I
was a lady who had an official looking form she had me fill out,
and then he said they'd get back to me, and they did, and
she called me yesterday and said, h ing, supers, what offer me
three hundred dollars? That's the end of k But this truth is mustard,
hey, but I'm sure I have to pour it. But your backside doing
But just the side of the truth. I'm going to the dentist Monday to
get that. But but but just just let me talk to you about this.
Okay, Okay, King Soupers probably did not owe you a dime.
So what they're doing is for hot dogs. But let me just explain this
to you. They probably on the surface don't owe you a dime because it
is a what's called the food contamination thing. And what I'm just let me
make a long story short. They don't technically owe you a dime unless you
want a lawsuit. Okay, they don't owe you automatically. What they did
with that three hundred dollars was called a good will gesture. Okay. Now,
obviously you know it's not going to cover your tooth. But most of
the time, unless you can show and prove your case to the manufacturer,
King Supers has no liability at all. It would be the manufacturer. What
King Supers is doing is a good will gesture. If you want to take
the three hundred, go ahead. If you don't, you would have to
go and sue the manufacturer. The manufacturer, but you don't have any information
anymore. You don't have the proof, you don't have the evidence, You
have nothing, and it's too hard to reconstruct it, and it would be
too expensive because no attorney will take it unless and even if they did take
it, there's not enough money there to justify a personal injury claim. So
this is one of those weird cities situations where it's probably not worth it to
pursue it. And I know that you don't want to hear that, but
I have to tell you the truth, all right, Okay, I was
just kind of bouncing it off. Yet That's why my mother once broke her
tooth eating Swanson's frozen chicken years and years and years ago, and my mother
thought they should pay her the world, and I said, Mom, it's
only worth what it's worth. It's it's you're not going to get anything.
And it was a bone, which is a normal it was supposed to be
boneless. I think it's something. What the bottom line is this, Yeah,
it's like it's it's like, here's what probably that was. That was
probably a bone fragment or something. Did it look like a bone fragment to
you, butch a pizza metal? Oh my gosh. Okay, that changes
things a little. And I'll tell you why it changes things, because that's
not the normal course of manufacturing risks, so that could have changed things.
Did you ask if they have that hot dog and metal? Did they still
have it or not? I have the metal the guy the manager took the
hot dog. Have you been handling the metal a lot? Or is it
in what? Did you put it in a baggie or what? Now?
How big is that piece of metal? Is it bigger than a quarter?
Oh? No, it's about the size of a matchic? Oh oh oh
oh oh, okay, okay, yeah you know, but no, no,
I get it, bro, But I don't think I don't think you're
going to get anyone to take this case that that's that's the truth of better.
I just I just don't think you will. You know, food contamination
is a food contamination is a funny thing, and that is with food contamination,
a lot of people believe if they can prove where it came from and
they can prove their even if they can prove their case, they magically are
owed money. And they probably are owed something, but not usually a lot.
And it's really but there are some contaminations with drugs and things that can
get into the millions, and then there are others contamination cases with food or
deodorant or something that aren't worth going after. And in this case, I
don't think here's the bottom line. I don't think you'd ever find anyone to
touch it. So I would take the if it was me, or if
you're my grandfather or my brother or my uncle, whatever, I would tell
you to take the three hundred bucks. But I'm not giving you legal advice.
Feel free to talk to an attorney. So Je, well, thank
you. I'm sorry it happened to you. And uh, listen, there
are some lower costs, and I don't want to God, Jennis, I
have a look at her now, you know. Also, also, you
may not want a whole implant. It depends on how important that tooth is
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two. Hi Tom Martino, you're a troubleshooter. Three O three seven one
three talk seven one three eight two five five. Hey. Terry had just
called about her R twelve machines and and our twelve gas saying she was looking
to sell it. We gave her a few recommendations. What's going on,
Terry? I did call Honest Accurate Auto and they said that that's totally illegal
that they cannot use anymore. So I just have to take it to a
hazardous waste disposal place. So they it is so they said it absolutely cannot
be resold. Yes, he said, it is absolutely illegal. And they
so what do they do? What? I wonder what they do when a
car comes in that hastri convertage. Oh okay, I'm glad you called us
back. Thank you very much on that. I don't know if that's correct.
Let's get Kevin on and ask Kevin. Okay, okay, who did
you talk to? Do you remember? Poe went and asked Jesse. I
think it was Okay, all right, Jesse, is the is the Manda?
I mean, I see it for sale all over the place. I
know. That's what I don't understand. Huh, Well, we'll check it
out. No, no, I get it. We'll check it out.
Everything I read says this, while the production of Our twelve is banned,
it is not illegal to sell or use Our twelve. In fact, many
of the cylinders and cans of free on Our twelve sold for decades throughout the
United States are still around today. Well, it's good to know. Let's
figure it out one way or the other. We'll call let's get a second
opinion from Kevin Calking over at share at an Auto tech. Billy, what's
going on with you? Hello, Billy? Hi? Tom. I called
about an accident I got in last week and it was my fault. And
I just got a text from my insurance company and they said that they are
going to pay seventy five percent. Oh wait, this is your own hold
on after me? Is this your own insurance company? Billy? Yes,
explain the accident to me. I was turning left with one of those left
lane arrow lights, Yeah, into a parking lot. The light was red,
so I was stopped, and when the light changed to the arrow,
I would have swore it was for me. I went, I was going,
you know, very slow under single digits, and I got key boned
by a pickup truck coming coming at you. Right, okay, So did
you did you get it? Did you get a ticket? Are you at
fault? I was at fault. I turned left in front of someone,
I understand. But you say you had an arrow, but I guess it
was a yellow arrow, and I just I just went when I saw the
arrow, and I went, oh, it was the blinking yellow arrow.
I don't think it was blinking. It was solid. Okay. So so
what I want to ask is this, when you say your insurance is only
paying seventy five what does that mean you mean to the other party? Right,
okay, do you know why that? Here's what your insurance is trying
to do. First, they're trying to save money, but they're also doing
what's called comparative negligence. Do you know what that means? No? Well,
what does this sound like comparative negligence? What they're saying is they're saying
you were responsible for about seventy five percent of that, and the other guy
was responsible for twenty five percent of it. Now, that's totally arbitrary that
they just make that up. And the reason they do that is to save
money, or they do it because they don't think the other person will fight
them on it. So what I want to know is how is this affecting
you? Well, if they only pay seventy five percent, I'm concerned that
the other party will come after me for the other twenty five And you're absolutely
right, they can. But most of the time they won't pay out that
seventy five percent to the other person. In fact, they have to protect
you, so they would get a release from that other part. So the
other party would not receive the seventy five unless they said, okay, we'll
settle for that. That's that's my understanding. I have never seen that happen
before where they leave you exposed. Okay, but I want to make sure
hold on, hold on, Billy. It's really easy to make sure.
You ask them what insurance carrier do you have? Unfortunately it's all stake.
Okay, Okay, ask them if they're going to get a release from the
other party. Okay, okay. So I wanted to talk to you first.
That's what you really want to make sure because you're right, you don't
want to be left exposed. And that's a good thing to keep in mind.
So let us know if you need more help. Three oh three seven
one three talks seven one three eight two five five. We have plenty of
time for calls. Get your calls in now. Kevin Calkin is with Sheridan
Auto Tech. We had a woman call in who said she had an R
twelve machine and some R twelve gas leftover from her husband. She wants to
sell it and she was told it's illegal to sell it by one of our
experts. Said, no, you can't. We can't buy that. You
can't sell it. It's got to be disposed of. It's no longer in
use. Kevin, what about that. I've never heard about legality of it.
If it's just practicality, nobody uses it anymore, No one does.
No, I haven't haven't had a call for that in years. What year
would it be? What year car would use it? Oh, pre ninety
Okay, yeah, there wouldn't be many cars who used in refrigerators and other
stuff as well, well, not the R twelve that's automotive. But it
was, and you can convert them so easy than one thirty four. It's
not worth it. It's just there's there's no value to it. Okay,
I just well, Kevin, Kevin, if I just do a simple Google
search, there's companies out there that are offering a lot of money for this
stuff. Really. Yeah, Like I said, I've never heard the legalities,
but I guess if you're doing restaurant, here's what it says here,
here's what it says on what I found that it is legal to service these
units with our twelve if they have existing supplies left. Sure. Yeah,
no, I said, I haven't seen one in years. It says it's
illegal to produce our twelve, but the sale of existing our twelve is allowed.
Yeah, sure makes sense, So it's not illegal. If she's listening
to us, it's not illegal. I think Jesse was misinformed. I don't
think he was trying to you know, give it. I think it's illegal
unless if you have well, this would go for any refrigerant, right,
Kevin. But you're not allowed to actually service someone else's vehicle unless you have
you're registered with the state. Is that still the same way. Yeah,
we we have licenses in order to purchase the frend. Now, how do
people walk into Walmart in and buy this cansa free on? Yep? Yeah,
it makes a lot of sense, doesn't it. It doesn't make any
damn sense. I don't get it. If I call NAP, I have
to have my license on file with them in order for them to ship the
free on to me. But you could walk into Walmart and buy it if
you're you know, eighteen years old and you know wet behind the years.
Yep, and overcharge your system and everything else. Absolutely, yep. You
mean the old R twelve You can buy, well, any of the free
ons you can buy if you can find the R twelve. But Mark's talking
about we need a license to purchase free on from our supplier. But the
general public can walk into Walmart and buy the same free on a shelf without
a license. But they're only small quantities, small cans. You could you
could buy a case, girl, Yeah, but but what would be the
practicality of somebody buying the case? None? But it's just what's the practicality?
You're like, No, I understand what you're saying. And it's like
it's like they do with drugs. I mean, you can buy you know,
small quantities. They don't bug you. Big quantities they do. Yeah,
I mean really Anyway, We have more coming up on The Troubleshooter Show
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nine two zero sixteen twenty two. Hi Tom Martino here at three oh three
seven one three talk seven one three eight two five five. Deputy Doc has
some updates. Uh Doc, what have you been working on? Hey?
Tom, you're there, Yes, sir? Okay. First one, Michael
Harris had a problem with cartoys. This was a long time ago. Yeah,
Hey, hey Doc, let's just one one quick note here. Let's
not use last names. Okay, So what happened? Sorry? Oh.
Anyway, he contacted the store, who contacted the manager, who contacted the
corporate office. I sent an email to the corporate office. I spoke to
the manager and basically, they don't believe it was their responsibility. And so
what was the original problem? That they had some work done and he had
a nineteen sixty six Chevy I Paula and something went wrong with that. I
think it was a steering column. Yeah, now I see it, okay.
And this was in October twenty twenty three. What he had he was
getting his dashboard converted to a digital display on an old car, and he
said that he had a steering failure on the way home. And he said
it cost him fifteen hundred bucks. So he thought it was too much of
a coincidence. Now are you saying that Car Toys doesn't think they caused the
problem? That's correct. We went all the way up to the corporate level
and they have denied it, and they said unless he can come up with
some different or some new evidence that wasn't presented, they are not going to
Now what evidence did he have, if anything, I don't remember what evidence
is specifically, Tom, but I remember I was sort of in the middleman
I was connecting him with Yeah, I get it. Yeah. So we
sent emails to uh Cluppard and they he sent his claim in and they denied
it. And when I spoke to them yesterday, they said, look,
it's a closed issue. Unless you have some new intimation that has not been
presented, we are denying the claim. So basically they're saying he did not
have evidence that he had. That's correct. Okay, you know, really,
as I remember, he didn't have any evidence. What he had was
a gut feeling because he said, yeah, okay, hang on and we'll
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Darryl Daryl has a transmission. Now excuse me, D is this d
or Daryl or who's it both? Yeah? This is d Darryl. I
just okay, d I didn't know if it was a man or woman.
Okay, because you contact me on next door. By the way, thank
you very much. So, Darryl, what is going on? I read
you know this is a complicated issue. I'm not sure we can help,
but I want to try. So let's start from the beginning. Just really
quickly sum up your problem. Well, I sid my turns mention went out
on my truck. I thought I had done my research. I found Cotman
Transmissions. I took it to them. He called me the next day,
calling me my vehicle was retired? Which Cotman did you? Wait? Wait,
wait, which Cottman did you take it to? I started on the
one on Broadway. They're both affiliated. Okay, so I took it there.
He called me the next dage only it was six. I picked it
up within a day. Now, how can it be fixed? The next
day? What did they say was wrong with me? He told me that
he had repaired the whole transit. They had replaced the transmission. Wait a
minute, wait a minute. Overnight I took it. I had it,
towed it there and overnight. Yeah, and he said they rebuilt it or
did what to it? He said that they had rebuilt it. You mean,
not rebuilt the one in there, but exchanged it for a rebuilt Huh.
I believe he told me they had built it, it was fixed.
I don't know a whole lot about cars, but he told me he was
fixed. I take three dollars three thousand, okay, okay. So the
next day I had another transmission figure light come on, so I took it
back there and they told me they had fixed it again, and the same
thing happened two days later. Well this went on about five times that I
had to keep taking it back and all within you know, it would run
a day or two and that was it when the light came on. Did
you have a failure? Yeah, it was always a failure. So eventually
how many times did they attempt to fix it? Totally? Like five?
This is crazy? Then what happened? It is so I actually got a
hold of the Better Business Bureau and that's that's like call okay, that means
nothing. So let's get to the real part. Apply to me. They
replied that to me. THEYD reply to me, and Topman said that we
would take care of it. He told me to bring it down to the
shop over in wheat Ridge. Oh I thought, okay, I'll give him
a shot. I took it down to the wheat Ridge office or the wheat
Ridge shop. So now this will be the sixth time at least, and
I took it there three or four times still, so basically they've tried to
fix it a total of how many times I would have to say nine?
Okay, So where does this stand right now? Well, it stands right
now that the second to the last time, the owner of the manager of
the shop told me that I had a misfire, so he told me he
would not repair it again until I took care of the misfire. Well,
what did do fire have to do with their transmission? Don't know? He
told me that's what was causing my transmission to go out, but it would
only run two or three days before the transition would go out. So the
last time I had a toade over there, it cost me over a hundred
dollars. Can you get Jeff Kimer on? It cost me over one hundred
dollars I had a toade over there, And he tells that's when he told
me he would not do We could not move forward with any repairs until I
had the missfire taking care of. Got it. So I finally got all
that done, and not all well done? Got all what done? The
engineery chair, the pits fired by who a friend of mine, because I
couldn't take it anywhere it wasn't running. It was here my parking lot like
all that time, so my case. So was there truly a misfire?
There was a mess fire. One of the it needed spark plugs, is
what it. But you know what, the first time I took it around
to Cottman's I paid him one hundred dollars to do as park puck change here.
Okay, I get it. It's getting complicated. So right now,
though, after the misfire was corrected, what did Copman do? He told
me that my warranty was expired and he would no longer take care of it.
How long was it from the time they attempted to fix it the ninth
time to the time you took it back after the misfire? Probably about three
months? How long was the total How long was the total warranty? The
total warranty was for a year. But we're talking to I. No,
wait a minute, so hold on, if the Darryl, when was this?
Let me get back to the important thing. I should have asked this
in the beginning. When did they fix it overnight? What year was the
date was that it was two years ago. It was a December. Well,
bro, Bro, you didn't tell me that in the beginning. That
was two much Really, that really shouldn't matter because I got well, I
got a letter from the manager of the shop stating that as soon as I
got my answers taken care of, he would do the repair. Yeah,
but here's what I need to know, No, Darryl, Darryl, listen,
one step at a time. Okay, you got your transmission done two
years ago, then it started failing nine times. How much time did the
nine times take? Oh was over? It was over like a year and
a half. Okay, And that fixed it nine times for a year and
a half. Okay, okay, So that okay? And so really,
then the transmission didn't fail every time you got it back immediately you did get
used. No, no, no, it did fail. It did fail,
but every time, but then it did it fail as soon as you
picked it up? As soon as you picked it up, Well, then
the box rounds maybe a week. But how did that if nine times lasted
a year and a half, okay, what was the total miles you put
on that transmission after they fixed it the first time? What's you know what
probably I probably didn't put on more than maybe a thousand miles, if even
that. Okay, So after a year and hold on, after a year
and a half, you then had the misfire fixed. Yes, and so
from the very first time they rebuilt the transmission to the time you took it
back after getting the misfire, how long of time had relapsed? It was
like a year and a half. You said, it's under warranty for two
years. It was all under warranty for a year. Gottman knew that I
was depending on this fix. I have stage four cancer and they knew this
going in. I needed my vehicle, Darryl, Daryl, listen, Honest
to god, I feel so bad for you on that one, But that
has nothing to do with this at this point. Does he helped me?
He told me that you would get this fix for me, Darryl, the
warranty was expired. Even when the warranty was expired, he told me this,
Okay, Darryl, what we should have And I understand if there's nothing
you could do for me, Darryl, I want to try. I want
to try, Darryl. Here's the big deal is we should have had it
checked out sometime during the warranty period by a good shop one of ours.
If you had called me then and I would have had ammunition. We would
have had ammunition to go in there. But here's what I want to know.
You got your misfire fixed and they refused to fix your tranny. Is
that right? Yes? Yes? Did they tell you what was wrong with
the transmission? They just got. All he told me is that the miss
fire was causing my He said, I was having engine problem. The only
thing I had was the mess fire. Do we have, Jeff that gun
yet? Jeff? Hold on, just wait, Jeff Kimmer Transmission, Are
you there, Jeff, I'm here. Have you heard this? Okay?
He had his transmission done. What kind of vehicle was that, Daryl?
What kind of truck? It's a fourth one fifty? Okay? So Compman
Transmission fixed it basically two years ago, but he said, and he said,
they fixed it overnight, charging three thousand bucks. He thinks they put
in a rebuilt but every time he pulled away he would get a light.
And they attempted to fix it nine times. To make a long story short,
a year and a half later, they finally told him it's it's the
reason the transmission keeps going out is because of a misfire. I want to
just take that one item. Does that make sense to you, Jeff?
Potentially depending on what's failing yet? Okay? Okay, fine, So he
has the misfire fixed, then he goes back to them and they say,
too late, it's out of warranty. What do you think's going on with
the transmission? That it would only last a few miles every time he picked
it up? Well, miss, misfires are bad nose, and then particularly
if the token of the clutch is going to be following that signal, and
you can earn nothing up pretty quick. Okay, So it is possible that
they fixed it nine times due to his problem? Correct? Okay, why
didn't they tell him sooner? I wonder that it was a misfire? Well,
that definitely should have been picked up sooner. I agree with you there,
Okay, that was my whole thing. I was not told about that
misfire causing my missions go out, told the second to the last time I
took it in. Okay, but so but really, how much is it
going to cost to fix? Right now? Do you know? I would
have to say it's gonna take the three thousand dollars to fix again. You
know, so every time you took it in, every time you took it,
every time you took it in when it failed nine times, they put
in nine different rebuilt transmissions. From what they told me, I mean,
I don't know if they did. They don't owe you anything. If truly
your car was that screwed up that it kept, If they truly put in
nine transmissions, I kind of agree with him. I wouldn't put in another
one. I mean, although they should have told you why. I think
that it was the new shop finally that told you it was a misfire,
the old shop. God, this is crazy. How many miles on this
truck? I think I have like one hundred and seventy on it now?
How many miles when you first took it in? Probably like one hundred and
sixty sixty eight sixty nine if even that. My truck has barely been driven
after I got it back. It's sitting in the lot. No. No,
And that all makes sense. Your your story is consistent. But with
one hundred and sixty thousand miles and then they did, Jeff, do you
think they installed nine transmissions in that thing? Well? If they did,
particularly if you said they were doing it overnight. That happened to the units
player I had already pre built on the shelf and ready to have in.
But my god, I don't know any shop alive that would keep replacing.
They wouldn't. They say, wait a minute, what's so? What's making
these things fall down? Because I'm in bringing them back in the door.
That's nothing but costing your money. And we don't know if does your car
run right? Does your truck run right now? Darryl? Nope, they're
sitting in a lot? What lot? In my parking lot? How did
you get it there? I had to have a toad here and it was
like twenty some miles up. I ended up costing over one hundred dollars to
get a toad there and back. Oh god, man, And at this
point I'm wondering if I should just bite the bullet and maybe try to get
rid of it as is and give a new vehicle. Oh my god,
I just felt screwed by Cotlins. Because no, I don't think no,
I don't think they screwed you. I think it was just a comedy of
errors. No, no, this is not a normals. I'm telling you
the truth, Daryl. If they attempted to fix this nine times, honest
to god, that's not a screw job. It really isn't. They didn't
make money at this point. What are you kidding me? They charge you
three thousand dollars two years ago and put in nine transmissions or fixed it nine
times. It doesn't make sense to me. Jeff, I guess the only
reason I was really upset is because he told me to get it fixed,
and I got it fixed, and then they wouldn't repair it. Jeff,
I mean, okay, I gotta take a break. Hold on. I'm
gonna come back and try to piece this together with Jeff vic hold on.
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Okay, I think with Darryl and this transmission, Jeff, I need
to ask you a question. Do you think I can't? I find it
shocking and I don't think that would they take out a transmission replace it nine
times? I mean, what do you think getting into you know, maybe
they did the first go around that was a shelf unit or something got stabbed
in there, but after that I would think they'd be opening up the next
one. Here's what I want to know. If a misfire was causing a
failure, maybe it's not causing a complete failure. What a meaning is maybe
now he doesn't really need a complete overall transmission. What what could a missfire
cause a problem with that is not the whole TRANSMISI. Like I say,
the torken ver is the first thing you see there. You know it's going
to be following that signal. It's going to see it. It's going to
try to turn that clutch on and off, on and off, on and
off every time that thing miss fires, and so you're gonna have or spikes,
You're gonna have a clutch burning down, so it can be a cascading
event where it does destroy the whole unit. But you know, I would
expect something like a torkover clutch to be through primary failure. Tell me what
the minimum and maximum would be on repairing something that was damaged from a misfire.
Give me a range, well on the unit. I'm just assuming that
I'm talking about the correct unit. Just dog him by the price that he
was talking about. But you know, probably a low end someone in the
neighborhood. I'm gonna say around two twenty one hundred, high ends, probably
getting you know, you're topping off about thirty six thirty seven. Okay,
all right, it's going to be expensive, Darryl. I'm going to tell
you something straight up, man, I don't think we can make an argument
against Kopman at this point, Okay, I really, I just don't.
And now listen, that's not because they don't want to. I'm looking at
the time span here. I realize what you're saying. That you were working
with them and they kept replacing it time after or fixing it for nine times.
But the fact that they fixed it nine times is to their benefit,
not to I mean, because if it turns out that you truly did have
a misfire, do you know what that shop did? How much did it
cost you to fix that misfire? You know what? It was a spark
plug, And I was like not much. I was like maybe twenty bucks.
But Jeff could have one spark plug destroy your entire transmission. If you've
got a hard enough miss fire and then signal was following that, then yes,
but then he would have had to have been driving around with this misfire.
It couldn't have happened just once. You would certainly think that it would
take a few miles to do it. Yes, I don't know how hard
the miss fire was, but you would think you'd be able to put some
miles on it before it actually took it out. Oh my gosh, Oh
the whole shady party. And I can't prove it is I had paid cotton
and the first time I took it into them, probably the third time I
took it in, I paid them to replace the spark plugs and made them
do it. And why did you ask them to do the spark plugs the
third time you took it in just because I assumed they needed it. Why
because I had bought the truck. It was used when I bought it.
Okay, So it wasn't because it wasn't because they mentioned a misfire. No,
no, okay, okay, So so listen, how do you know
they didn't do the spark plugs? But because I hadn't pulled and they were
never changed. Did they charge you for them? I gave them one hundred
dollars cash to do it? Yeah, because he said you have Do you
have that in writing somewhere that they were supposed So you have no proof that
you paid them one hundred dollars and told them to change the spark plugs.
No, Bruce, Okay, so you see what I'm do. You see
what I'm facing here with your your call. You see it right? You're
telling me. You're telling me they didn't change out your spark plugs and that
caused a misfire, and the misfire caused but you have nothing to show,
nothing at all. Nope. D I can't go after Copp, d D.
I can't go after cop and I can't do it. I mean I
wish I could, I can't, I think right now what you do is
get that estimated from an honest shop and then make a decision whether you should
junk the car or I mean, what year is it. It's twenty seventeen.
Well that's not terrible. At twenty seventeen, f one point fifty still
has some market value, Yeah, it does, so it might be worth
investing in it. Look, it's not like you invested three thousand dollars every
time you went in. You did it once three years ago. It might
get it. I would get the transmission fixed and call it good. But
I wouldn't go back to common I mean, obviously, but I don't think
you can demand that they fixed the damn thing a tenth time. I just
don't think you can unless you have something in writing that says they promised to
do it. I mean, because there's too much back and forth right now.
I'm really sorry, Darryl, I honestly goodness, but I would go
to Kimmera transmission three oh three six nine three fourteen hundred. Now listen,
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Talk Denise. She is a landlord with a question about a tenant. Denise,
what's going on with you? Okay? I had someone call me to
say they noticed, uh, one of like three people, young people in
an apartment and notice she noticed that there was something pornographic on his computer.
And I'm Denise, Denise, hold on, hold on, back up a
minute. Are you talking about one of your hennen's. Yes, So somebody
called you and said that they saw something pornographic on one of your renter's computers?
Correct? Who are these people? In other words, how did they
see it? Are they house cleaners? Are they friends? How did they
see this. It's a friend of one of the people that rents there.
But uh so, what difference does it make though, if one of your
tenants is looking at pornography? Well, I want to am I supposed to
report it? Is it illegal? I don't know. Pornography is not illegal?
Are you talking about You're not talking about child pornography, are you?
She said that it was a cartoon with a baby. Oh my god,
I don't know. Hold on was disgusting. Okay, Okay, I don't
want to. I don't want you to describe it, but I don't want
to. Okay, here's the deal. This person that talked to you,
how well do they know the renter the tenant? How well? Oh?
I don't know. Well why were they there? Were they friends having dinner?
What were they doing? They're friends of a couple of the other people
that lived there. Okay. Did they say they know this person and she
thinks that there's some mental stuff going on with him too? Okay? Are
these tenants good tenants or are they flaky? Or what? As far as
paying rent and all of that other stuff? Flaky? You know, I
don't I really don't know what you do. It really depends on what she
saw. If she saw like real child pornography on there, I think cartoon
it was cartoons, but I don't know if there's also more going on.
Yeah, neither do I. And you know, unless she does, really
there's nothing you can do about it. But here's the point. Yeah,
you can't. You shouldn't report it. She should. And if she doesn't,
and if she's then you didn't see it, you can't. You have
nothing to report because you saw nothing. So here's what I would say that
if she sees stuff that concerns her and she thinks it might be involving children
and pornography not cartoons, cartoons don't count. You know, there is a
certain amount of freedom of expression for anything, no matter how grotesque and disgusting
we find it. So I would say, you do nothing unless this woman
feels there's something illegal, and this woman should report it. Okay, I
will, I will. I have her number from when she called me.
I would tell her. Listen, here's what I would tell her. Tell
her that listen, if just say, if you ever see anything that you
think deserves to be reported, you need to report it. And I can't
do it. I didn't see it. I can't do it secondhand. But
if you ever, why did she tell you about it? By the way,
I don't know. It's probably disturbing, is why it was. It
disturbed me, and maybe she was disturbed. I don't know. Maybe she
thought I could get the person out of there because she knows. Uh one
of the other people that is there. Are they roommates the other people there?
Are they roommates with this weird o? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
there are times real quick guys. On a side note, you said something,
you said cartoons, even if it was like child stuff, cartoons wouldn't
count. How does that work or how do you think it works? With
AI? Like all these these fake, deep fake videos that look real?
Is it is that? I don't, Honest to God, I don't know
the answer to that. I really don't. I don't. I know that
people are allowed to draw ugly, disgusting, terrible, vile cartoons and pictures,
even depicting children and pets and animals and everything. They're allowed to do
that. Now, whether or not you can publish it and where you can
publish it, that's for all these siccos to figure out. However, it
is a freedom of expression that people can do. They can even depict violence.
They can depict cartoons of killing people and all kinds of stuff, of
school shootings, of disgusting, terrible, vile things. What they can't do
is incite it in others, and that becomes a really fine I don't know
where the distinction is and what Mark said, if it's fake and a freedom
of expression, does that include stuff that looks real? Like if a guy,
let's just say someone and thank you for calling. By the way,
Denise, if someone, let's say, had on their computer some AI video
of child porn? Is that the same violation of having a regular video that
is a question mark for the ages? My god, I mean, who
knows it's it's really a brave new world? Who knows? Who knows?
Uh, it's a scary thing. And again, if I were her,
I wouldn't do anything unless I observed it. If that other person observed it
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two five five. Okay, Uh, Kenny, what's going on with you?
Kenny? Are you there? Yes? Sir? Okay, Hey,
I don't know if I heard this right last week or not. Something about
it. If you bought a car six months ago and you had it in
storage and didn't ensure it, they could go all the way back. So
yes, here's what they do. If you have a car that's not registered,
they charge you for it not being registered. So even though you think
you're skipping those years, they do go retroactive on a registration to a certain
time. I'm not sure of the exact time. What ms. If you
sell it, well, that's different. Mark. If you sell it and
somebody buys it, they register it from day one. No, I'm saying
if you had if you haven't had insurance and it's been sitting in a garage
for a year, when you sell it, you're never going to end up
paying any back stuff, right, No, not at all? Nope.
Well no, like I bought it from my brother in last six months ago,
but it's set in a garage and now I'm ready to use it.
So so what do you do You have a question about the registration fees or
do you have a question about the insurance? Well, the insurance, I
mean I said I parked it in the garage. I didn't know if you
didn't have that car and you didn't have it insured, and it's a new
car to you, that's all that matters. They want to know what was
it doing for the last six months. You need a broker like Compass Insurance
Group who will explain to the underwriter that it wasn't uninsured on the street.
But there are some insurance brokers that won't do that. They will just rate
you based on six months of no insurance. Okay, So what you need
to do is you need Sometimes you need to explain extenuating circumstances the underwriter.
Sometimes you don't. It depends on what they do. So if they say
who is the previous insurance and you said no one, you could or you
could rewrite the bill of sale. What you should do? Is it your
brother brother in law? Yeah, I was just singing. You could rewrite
the bill of sale and do it and then there's no question as to what
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