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What's going on in your life? How can we help you? And Mark
let me know if you if you need me to reboot these cameras, and
he's working on video time, I can reboot if he needs me too.
But anyway, so let's talk today. You know what's weird? The Supreme
Court refused to block the law in Texas where Texas the state was arresting people
who entered illegally. Now, the Biden administration and the Justice Department wanted the
law blocked because of the profiling aspect of it. What first, they're saying,
the federal government has purview over immigration, and the federal government is the
one that enforces immigration. And second, other people who are against the law
say they're against the law in Texas saying you shouldn't profile people based on what
they look like and then you know, basically ask for their papers and arrest
them if they're here illegally. Now, the Supreme Court refused to block it.
They didn't really hear the case on its merits. They just felt the
state had the power to do it, so they refused to hear it.
Everyone took that as an approval of that law. But what the Supreme Court
really did was sent it back to a lower court. The lower court,
i believe last night, did block it. So now the lower court says,
and it's a federal court. A federal judge said that they're putting a
stay on this law until they can look into the constitutional aspects. But they're
also it was a very quick stand. They're taking oral arguments on it in
the next day or too. Okay, that's good. The oral arguments with
the Supreme Court, Mark, or with that with the Federal Court, with
the Federal Court, and then the Federal Court will decide and then if they
go against Texas, of course, then it'll go back to the Supreme Court
to actually rule on Thank you now, Mark, Should I reboot the cameras?
By the way, Yeah, I was just typing in there. Yours
is just no good man, all right. I don't know what's going on.
But again, you know, these things happen. I just turned them
off. I'll turn them back. You didn't do anything. Yeah, anyway,
I want to talk to Greg with an IRS issue, and we have
our experts on from Larsen tax Relief dot com. These guys are really good
for people who have a lot of trouble. And there's always that point when
do you call them? When do you not? And Michael isay call them
no matter what. And then you guys, you can you will honestly assess
people's situation and tell them, hey, you know what, you don't really
need us, or it may not pay to hire us. Here's what you
should do. Isn't that what you have been done in the past. That's
what I love about what you guys do. Michael is he there, Michael,
Let's we just give them some guidance and let them go on their way.
Yeah, okay, So let's talk about this. And because my camera's
not working, I can actually itch and pick my nose do whatever I want.
Hey, I want to, Michael, I want to talk about this
with Greg. Greg is calling for an employee. Okay, and Greg,
why don't you explain the situation. I have your call here, but since
you're on, explain to Larsen tax relief. What's going on? So?
I have an employee who has not filed tax returns for I'm thinking decades.
He's been my employee for since I purchased the business approximately six or seven years
ago. He has not filed a return in that time. He's set his
withholding that five dependents which he does not have and so to minimize them.
And recently he received a letter from the State of Colorado Revenue Department that he
needed to pay one thousand dollars for SAX years eighteen and nineteen plus a two
hundred and fifty dollars using round numbers fine or they were going to start garnishing
his wages toward the end of this month. Do you know why they flagged
just those years, Greg, No, no idea. My suspicion would be
and Larson would know better than I. But my suspicion is they'll go after
those and then as soon as that's meant, they'll go after other years.
Now, here's what I want to tell you. Here's what I want to
ask you. This is important. You have been paying him and paying withholding
on him, and you have been using his Social Security number? Is that
right? That is correct? So there is a file in the sky for
this employee. Yes, So I have some basic questions for Larson tax relief
Michael. When somebody is hired and an employer pays withholding on this person,
and when there's a file in the sky, does that trigger the IRS or
the state to eventually say where's the return? Yeah, and that could also
trigger Tom the state or IRS to file a return for the taxpayer and start
collecting on that return. When they file a return for the taxpayer in this
case, they were pretty accurate. Can you just do that year after year
or do they eventually say, hey, dude, we're not your accountant.
They'll do it in time, year after year, but eventually they'll just start
levying bank accounts or garnishing waged, and that'll wake the taxpayer up and nudge
him along to filing the remaining years or returns for the years that the state
or IRS did for him. Now in the year, let's just say the
IRS is not overestimating or the State is not overestimating, but they're picking the
past years as they go. What would would I be giving bad advice if
I said, have the employees start filing from this year forward and then let
the FEDS and the state worry about the past and pay as they bring it
up. Is that bad advice? I don't think it is bad advice,
Tom, because with the IRS, especially, there's a statute of limitations of
ten years. So say the IRS files are return for a taxpayer for twenty
eighteen. The clocks start as soon as the IRS files that return for that
person, so the ten year o'clock. If that person says, hey,
I don't like the IRS's return, I want to do my own, and
that taxpayer files his own return for eighteen, he resets the clock to start
at ten years from that point. So if it's not overestimated, leave it
alone. But I want to know this. The statutal limitations. That's only
if you file. So if this guy hasn't filed, let's say in thirty
years, literally thirty years, can they go back twenty five, twenty eight
years ago? No, they can't. Generally, the IRS will only go
back six years. Tom states are different. Colorado, I've seen go back
as many as eight, but generally okay. So let's say, worst case
scenario, they go back eight years and he pays this bill because it's due,
and then he just waits to hear from the IRS or the state.
Is it likely he'll hear from the state IRS since the state wrote him a
letter about these years. Yeah, I mean that'll sometimes flag the system of
the IRS. Where So if he just starts filing from this day, from
this year forward, or twenty twenty three forward, or twenty four for whatever.
If he starts filing and then as the past years come up, if
they're not sadly over exaggerated, he simply pays them as they come up.
Will that keep him out of deep trouble? Generally? Yeah, so long
as he stays current from this point forward, and if he gets billed for
returns that the IRS previously filed, that would keep him out of trouble.
That seems to me. Correct me if I'm wrong, to be more logical
than to try to go back and file eight years all at once. What
do you think? I agree with you, tom So, I'm glad we
have him on to clarify this. Greg. Is he prepared to start filing
for let's say he has another month to file for twenty twenty three? Is
he prepared to do that? Or does he spend every dime or what?
Oh? I think he spends every dime. But you know, and I
think the sad part is throughout this recent period we're talking about, there were
so many state and IRS refunds and credits. He probably hurt himself financially,
rather than by by not filing, he probably would have gotten money back.
But no, but TA can go back, what is it, two or
three years and actually amend those. And if that's actually the case, wouldn't
you still get those I don't want them to call him rebates but free COVID
money? No? I think those I think those required filing on time.
I did not know that I could be. And the listener in collect there
mark and the timetrame for claiming refunds is three years Okay, So I think
the battle plan, Greg is to have him go twenty three forward and then
wait for the acts to draw the shoe to dropper or the pammer to drop
or however you want to put it on the previous years. Here's the thing.
Okay, Greg, what kind of work does he do? He's a
sand blaster. Okay, you should probably have him adjust his deductions as well
if he spends every penny. Oh oh. I have this conversation with him
frequently. Yeah, because he lives his life and fear and that's distress.
Or you give him a raise. I hope he's not listening. But you
know how long has he been with you? Well, he's been with this
company for a dozen years, and he's been with me since I purchased it.
So I'm i'm I am willing to help him, and I'm willing to
adjust his pay up to accommodate for the additional withholdings. But yeah, I'm
looking for the best advice to get him on the correct path and not have
to live. Well, I'm going to tell you Larson tax relief for anyone
with tax issues, and I'll give you the number and you can ask for
Michael or anyone there really just to talk about it if you need to.
But I think he's given you solid advice. It's Larson L A. R.
S O N. Tax Relief dot com and the number is eight four
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one three talk seven one three eight two five five with me Tyler. Tyler,
somebody wants to know all ready, I got a text for you.
So you're pretty popular. No, seriously, somebody wants to know on the
text. And if you want to text the show, it's five seven seven
three nine. You got to put Tom in it. And then it comes
to me. So if somebody's going to do their own windows, you know
not I'm not saying they're not going to ever hire you, but if they
want to do their own windows. What's the best solution? What do you
think? Yeah, so we actually sell a solution that we have designed here
in Colorado for people who want to do it themselves, really that they can
purchase directly from us. All they do is put it inside of it.
Is it really different than can you give me basic and grid? I look
at it. We're not looking to take away business from you, but just
give me some secrets. I wish things that you like. I wish I
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It acts almost like a ceramic coating on a car pretty much in a way.
So once it cleans it, it keeps it cleans it keeps it cleaner.
All of our guys use it twenty four to seven, seven days a
week, every day that we're operating. And let me put this another way.
If you're at home and you want to use something quickly and you didn't
buy the stuff from you because you really I have no problem with them calling
you guys for this and I'll give out your contact. But if they want
to use something at home, what's the best thing at home they have?
Now? Don dish soap and water, Okay, don dish oup and water
we used. Is that a myth or what it's a it's a one hundred
percent myth. They've said they lose paper and uh and vinegar. It doesn't
work anymore. No, no, no, okay, So dawn is good.
What about in a weak solution of dawn? Right? You know when
it says you r what what do you It's like two two teaspoons inside a
in a five gallon bucket. You don't need? Oh my goodness, yeah,
you don't know, So rags or squeegees or what? We use squeegees
on a day to day basis. I would always recommend squeegees. What about
soft brushes? Soft brushes can damage the window. The windows are very very
soft. I would recommend if you don't have a squeege a mop you use
use like a surgical towel. Now you don't want to use you don't want
to try to get the minerals off. Well, the minerals aren't going to
come off with dawn, are they? No, the minerals aren't. That
it's a special restoration. Yeah, that's a special restoration. I mean hard
water, and well Nature's hard water can really put it do a number one
thank you. And that's a Premiere Window Cleaning and pressure watching by the way,
Denver. Wait wait, we gave it another number. We we we
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easier. The other one is Denver Pressure washed dot com. Yep, there's
nothing wrong with that either, because they do that. Okay, let's go
to the phone. So Rommie wants to talk about something with his business.
Go ahead, Romie, Yes, Tom, thanks for taking my call.
Yes, sir, what's going on? Rommi? We have a life insurance
and short term disability with Guardian and we've been using Okay, you have a
life insurance policy with Guardian. Okay, and this is for our business.
So that's for our employees in the business. Okay, So hold on.
So Guardian provides insurance products for all of your employees, well, the full
time staff is okay, got it. And we've been having trouble with them.
We added you know, they dropped our short term disability last year.
Now do you provide both long term and short term? Just short term?
Okay? So you provide short term disability and life insurance yes, and they
dropped last year, they dropped the short term disability from our plan, and
we took us a while to figure out why they dropped it. They said,
we we had we're small companies, so we don't have very many staff,
and they said, we went below their minimum. But that took,
you know, several months to figure out. So then we had to get
short term disability added back on. They added. I said, hey,
can you when you're doing that, can you add me? Give me a
quote so I can see how much it would cost to add me as an
owner. The next thing we knew they were billing us for adding me to
the short term disability hold on. But here's what I want to know.
Before that happened, when they dropped your disability, did your premium go down?
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, okay? And then did they add
back disability without you on it first? No? They added it with me
on it, okay. And did you put them over the minimum? Is
that why that happened? Or did they make a special exception? No?
They I shouldn't have even been allowed as it turned out. No, I
get it, but the fact that you were allowed, did that put your
number of employees over their minimum correct, Yes, it did. Okay,
So then what happened, Well, I had other employees I was trying to
add at the same time, and that's the part that was confusing. It's
like, I have two employees I want to add and I need to quote
from me they added me? And did they add another two employees? And
then it started, you know, the rest of last year us trying to
work out, Hey, drop me off the plans so I can have these
other two people. Now when you said you can't be part of it,
is that part of the law you say you can't be part of it?
Or what do you mean? You for their guidelines? For their guidelines?
Okay, but there's no law I know of that says you can't be correct
correct. Yes, it was just you know that we weren't. Whoever the
underwriter changed our plan agreement and okay, so where do we stand today?
What do you need done? What I need is feedback so from you or
advice from you. So we've now added another employee to the short term disability
and they back build this nine months of short term disability and I said,
now, wait, back build you nine months for the people that you added,
saying they were there the whole time or nine. Why did they retroactively
bill you because they said, though it's three months after the start date.
Is what you know, our contract says we can we can back and bill
you. Okay, then last April. So when you added let me get
this straight. Then when you added the new people, they go back ninety
days on each one you add, they go back three months after their start
date. Why that's what they say. The plan is. So there's you
know they have, But what's the purpose of that retroactive billing. I don't
get it. Are you getting covered for that? Well, that's that's the
reason why I was having a problem, Mark Ronnie. Are they saying theoretic?
Are you saying so if somebody I got to get this straight. If
somebody starts at the end of March and you add them to the policy,
they go back and bill you as if they were working for you January,
February and March. The way it works is usually that there's a three month
waiting period, so they won't cover anyone during that three month waiting period.
Got it, I get it. So it's really it's really priming the pump.
And I totally get it. And it's contractual. What they're saying is
we want you to spool up with three months of premiums before we cover the
person. So and also they want to make sure that and this happens a
lot with disability. By the way, people get disability and that's the last
time they ever work, or they go right off and collect it. So
that waiting period allows them to ferret out the fakers. Get it. It's
legal and it's been held up. I know this for a fact because we've
handled these before. However, However, what I don't understand is this,
and I want a clarification. So if someone starts April first, they bill
you from January, February and March for that retroactivity. But then does that
mean that the person hired April first is immediately covered? So let me let
me clarify something. So they're not billing us during that three month waiting period.
They only start the billing period. After the three month billing period,
they say they're not eligible. I get it, But after three months,
are you retroactively built for all three months? No, Well, we haven't
added because of the problem last year. We haven't. Here's what I want
to know, Ronnie here's what I want to know. You just told me
that they bill you retroactively. So do they or don't they bill you retroactively.
They billed me retroactively for the period of time after that three month start
period. So we told them, or my broker told them the start that
was January of twenty three and so they went three months after that and said,
okay, you os April of last year through February of this year.
I get it. I get it. Okay, I get it. But
they but they weren't technically named on the policy, but they're still billing you
for it. They're still billing me for it. And I'm like, well,
you didn't cover that person, wasn't covered during that time? Well they
were covered, and they were covered. They were covered. Okay, hang
on, and we'll talk about that coming up. I want to get Compass
Insurance group on. Hang on. I think you're missing. I think I
know what's going on, and it's only because we've handled plenty of these.
But we'll we'll tell you how to get to the bottom of it right after
this. Hi, Tom Martino here three three seven one to three talks seven
one, three, eight, two five five. Let's talk where we're going
to wait for comm compass before I bring romy back up. I want to
get some expert opinion. But right now I want to talk to Fernando.
He has a comment on that other issue. So a guy calls in for
his employee, says, he hasn't filed taxes in dozens of years. Now
he's getting a letter and he's worried, and we gave him advice. We
gave him advice, and the advice was just start current, stay current,
and then as the other pass notices come up, if they're not sadly exaggerated,
just pay the tax, go ahead. Fernando, all of tom,
I just wanted to add some advice his employees shoot file previous years, because
the IRS is going to charge file a tax for him based on just what
the employer reported paying him. That's right, Well what he need, Yeah,
but they're not going to give him credits that he might deserve for it,
like what maybe like maybe he's married, give him an exemption for his
wife, maybe he has kids, there's another exemption to reduce his tax.
So they're just going to base it on him being single and he might deserve
other tax credits. Okay, you're right. If it turns out it's for
him to file previous years. And that's I guess what I meant when I
said, if it's not exaggerated and you don't mind the tax bill, he
could do some math to see if he'd better be better off doing an amendment.
He could do that exactly well, doing the original he didn't file.
Well that's what. Okay, you're right, but it's an amendment. Hold
on, it's still considered an amendment since the state filed for him. Well,
that's the thing is, I wasn't sure if you were talking about the
IRS or state what it is. Right now we're talking about the state.
But I agree with you, Fernando, I agree totally. Fernando's message is
this, don't just let the past wait until they contact you. Well,
I believe you should. But what Fernando is saying is you still may want
to file your own because your own may take into consideration other credits. However,
there is a statute of limitations. I was told if you don't file
on time, you lose those credits and you lose those incentives. So really
what you need to do is this, if you get a letter from the
IRS, What you need to do is check with someone who knows about taxes
to make sure that it's not an exaggerated amount. If you can do better
filing an amendment to what they file, go ahead and do it. Fernando,
thank you for that advice. Three oh three seven one three talk seven
one three eight two five five. Connie, you called into what a few
months ago? Connie? Are you there? Can someone help me? She
should be there? Okay, Connie, I need to know where we're at.
If you if you don't say I'm here, I'm here, tell me
what's going on? Okay? A few months ago I called you. Do
you know when you called me? Connie? I'm looking for your call,
just roughly maybe three months ago? Okay, So what's going on? And
I will and I could have called in a consilo because that's my given name,
Okay, and the ha that I was having a dispute with Okay,
and we had been down the road that's been going on since last August.
Okay had a hearing. They have fined me. Now tell me what the
original problem was with them. It was that they had we had a new
president come into on the scene here and they went back into the deck pages
and discovered that no one should be able to toast the common areas. Oh,
I remember you were landscaping in your town host Unity. Yeah, you
were maintaining common property and you were credited HOA fees for doing it. So
instead of so instead of paying the full HOA fees, they said, because
you're doing this landscaping, we're going to credit you. Then the new board
said no, no, not only do we want you to stop that,
we're going to find you for doing it. And they find you fourteen hundred.
Then you said, hey, how about seven hundred and we'll call it
good and I won't do it anymore. And then that you were going to
go to mediation. We did that. What happened we had a mediation a
week ago from Monday. I was able to talk for of course, we
did it through zoom and so I explained to the mediator what my situation was.
I gave her examples, pictures and whatever I could throw in there,
which I've never been able to say. And this was in early March.
Yees, okay, okay. What was the result of your mediation? Was
it a fair hearing? You think? Oh? Absolutely done. I did
all the talking. She went back. She was gone maybe ten minutes.
She came back and do you have to pay the full fourteen hundred? Oh?
No, Now they want ninety three hundred from me. Wait wait,
wait, wha, wha what what? Nine thousand? Why? Nine thousand,
three hundred? That's why the lawyer fees. They want me to pay
the lawyer fees. You went to mediation, you offered to pay seven hundred
when it was fourteen hundred, Yes, and now they want you. Did
they have a lawyer at mediation? Yes? It is. Are you kidding?
How are you ever going to come up with ninety three hundred? I'm
not so After that phone call, I called him, their lawyer, and
I explained to him. You know, I said, I offered five hundred
in the mediation. I said I can give them five hundred and let's just
make this go away. And known that's when they came back and they said,
nope, they want ninety three hundred from you, and I just kind
of laughed. And so then I called him and I offered him fourteen hundred
dollars. I said, I could do fourteen hundred dollars. That's all I
can do. And my daughter so happened to be on the other line.
We did a three way call to him and she asked him, why is
that you know it's all for his lawyer fees. My question to you,
tom So, I did say I can do fourteen. He says, well,
I'll present that to them. If not, we go to court.
Well, you can't afford court. I don't want No, I don't want
court. But I'm not paying them, you know not. Every time they
look at him, he's you know, the ticker's running. This is the
problem with Cho's. This is what happens. Oh, I know it's yearning.
It could go if you go to court, it's going to go to
twenty five or you're going to lose your place. You know that, right,
Yeah, And I'm not going to do that. I'm not doing it.
I mean I will do whatever. Well, what happens if hold on
the law is not always fair, No, it goes by whatever the law
is. I hate HOA laws and structures the way they are right now.
They should have a limit on attorney's fees and all that. They punish people
for trying to stick up for themselves. They punish you, and I think
they should take the attorney's fees provision out of it because it punishes people.
So I do too. If you go to court, let's just say they
won't settle. I need to ask. I just want to talk about some
really hard facts right after this. Okay'd you just hang on? Do I
I owe break, don't I? Shannon? All right? Just hang on
three oh three seven one three eight two five five. Hi, Tom Martino,
your troubleshoot your three O three seven one three talk seven one three eight
two five five. I'm going to go back to that town home to the
HOA thing shortly. But I want to go to Diane. She had an
issue with a car that she just has, an old ninety four Dodge Ram.
I sent her for a second opinion to Jesse Schillinger over at Honest,
Accurate Auto in Colorado Springs. Good people and we trust them, and I
wanted to know is it a throttle body? That's what somebody recommended? And
Jesse, what did you find? That's a good question because I don't know
if I looked at this. What's the last name of the customer? Oh,
I'm sorry, Maybe I was just going to get you on. Yeah
that's true. Yeah, Yeah, we're going to bring Yeah, we're bringing
on as an expert. I'm sorry, okay, And we already did have
somewhat of an expert opinion. She has a ninety four Dodge Ram truck.
It started up one day but did not move. And when she presses on
the gas, it doesn't rev the engine. It simply doesn't move, but
to one mile or two mile an hour, no matter what she does.
So when she presses harder on the gas, it still doesn't rev, but
it doesn't move faster. And somebody tested to her that it might be a
throttle body. Is that right, Diane, Yes, it doesn't even move.
In other words, if you keep pressing the gas, it eventually just
and then you have to restart it and does the same thing. And how
much did they quote for that throttle body. Well, I'm calling my internet
places and stuff, and they're talking three four hundred dollars. I just don't
have it. I'm a senior citizen. But that's a cheap that's a cheap
price. What we were gonna find out is a price on that Jesse.
But we're running out of time. I simply don't have the time. I
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uh, we're gonna go to Connie and Connie, this is an hoa problem.
By the way, I was just texted some information here on something that
says attorney's fees aren't always awarded in mediation, but they're supposed to keep costs
down. But you know, I'm a little I don't understand how it's binding.
Did they sign something at the very end of buying the mediation? Let's
figure this out. Okay, let's figure it out. Connie, did you
sign anything saying before, no, you would sign that before? It was
this binding arbitration by the way, And was it arbitration or was it mediation?
Oh, that's true? What was it? It was mediation? Well,
mediation doesn't make an order? Was it arbitrarate? Like? Is there
an order somewhere? I mean, did they order you to pay this or
suggested it? Generally? With mediation the ones I've gone to, and there's
been more than you could imagine. You sit and you discuss everything. If
you come to an arrangement, then it's written up by the mediator, everybody
signs it, then the judge signs off. That's right, correct, yees,
and is that what you did? We did the zoom thing. Well,
I understand this, but here's what I'm asking you. It's very simple.
Did you sign an agreement prior to the mediation either or did you did
you sign anything prior saying the outcome would be binding? I have to find
that fable work. Did you sign anything at all anything? Did you sign
anything before mediation? Yes? I did, because I have Okay, we
need we need to have somebody look at that. Did you sign anything after
mediation? No? I have not. Okay. I suspect that possibly what
you signed ahead of time was a binding agreement. It could have been.
I don't know. I don't know yet. Okay, So you hang on
and we'll figure it out. But you got to send that to us.
But here's what I'm going to say. Okay, And I just wanted to
hit people between the eyes with reality for a reason. Time after time,
laws come before the legislature in this state trying to curtail the powers of management
companies hoas and attorneys for hoas, and it's usually defeated, which, by
the way, it baffles me because in a legislative climate with all mostly Democrats,
normally and I'm not taking sides with Democrats or Republicans. I'm speaking fact
normally, with this kind of a government that we have now in Colorado,
they're more pro the little guy than they are the big guy. Most of
the time. They make, in fact, ridiculous laws sometimes for the little
guy. And you would think that they would be pro curtailing or they would
before curtailing the powers of hoa's and management companies and helping homeowners, but for
some reason they have not done it, which leads me to believe that they're
in the pockets of hoa's and attorneys and management companies. We stand the HOA
man who fights for HOA members all the time he's on and he says,
Tom, we can't hardly, we can hardly get anything passed for the consumer,
for the homeowner. So here's what, having said all of that,
I want. I hope people will get involved with their legislature and find out
what laws are there, and then communicate with their representatives on what they want
or don't want, because right now there are several bills people need to know
about. More on that later, but right now, Mary, here's what
I'm going to ask you. If there was an esay, Oh not Mary,
I'm sorry. I got to get your right call here and I want
to talk about what just happened to you. Okay, So Connie, what
we need to know is this. Let's say that you did sign barn binding
arbitration or that you do have an award sitting out there they want you to
pay of nine thousand dollars. Let's say, okay, now, if you
can't pay it, you don't want to pay it. What do you think
will happen? B put alen on my home? That's right? Then what
do you think will happen? I'm not sure. I mean, they're going
to foreclose home, my home. They're going to foreclose. You're going to
lose your home. You do understand that they hold all the cards if if
truly you don't win, they hold all the cards rest and every time you
fight them, it adds to your bill. See that is what I hate
about HOA battles. Every time you fight them, it adds to your bill,
whether you win or lose. By the way, whether you win or
lose, did you know that? Yeah? So maybe and I'm not suggesting
you do it, but maybe it might be considered that you try to get
a second or something and settle with them. Right. Well, like I
said, I did call him and I did present it. I was going
to email him this morning. But the question that before I ever forget I
pay into an HOA. We pay our ho fees every month. Right,
My question is there is a lawyer where we pay for a lawyer to be
on retainer through our hi as. Right, does that have any effect on
I mean, I've literally repaid that. You don't pay. You don't pay
for the attorney unless they build time. There might be you have to repay
a retainer fee in our HOA duties. No, I don't. I don't
think and if you do, by the ways, for normal business, what
the law firm has done, they take a look at the HOA. They
took a take a look and have it come up with a retainer to keep
them on retained. Truly, I'm going to tell you this, when it
comes to attorneys, they're not gonna they're not going to manipulate. Normally,
it's going to be a retainer paid to their trust fund and drawn against.
But when a specific problem comes up, it's hourly. I'm sure the contract
says all of that. Connie if you're going to try to attack the fact
that you all pay and you shouldn't have to pay again, it's not going
to work. Okay, I'm just going to short circuit that. I'm trying
to save you time and money. It's not going to work unless you're dealing
truly with one hundred percent crooks and thieves. And I know people will automatically
well I am, I am in this case, it is, but it
isn't. Most of the time. They're they're abusive, they're ridiculous. I
can't stand them. But they're not liars and thieves. Okay, they're just
manipulating the law. So I think you're caught. And what you need to
do is send us a copy of anything you signed and we'll have our real
estate attorney take a look at it. Brian Burns is with Compass Insurance Group.
They do, by the way, free insurance checkups for the asking which
can keep you, which is a good deal, by the way, And
Brian Burns three h three nine ninety six nine thousand, I'd like to ask
you a question, Brian. Yeah, we have a situation I want to
go back to, and this is with Romie. He has a situation with
disability insurance. Are you familiar with disability insurance for business? You don't write
disability insurance, but well, I'll do my best to try to out,
but you're familiar with how they usually are written. This is short term.
So they're telling him that he added employees in twenty twenty three, right in
twenty twenty three, And what they're telling him is, oh, no,
actually they started I'm sorry, they started working for him in twenty twenty three.
However he didn't report it and add them to the policy officially until this
year. Now they're saying, well, what was their start date? And
they went back to the start date they went ninety days forward, which is
a grace period. They don't allow people to have disability in the first ninety
and then then said to them, well, you're going to have to pay
from that date forward. And Rommy said, but why I just added them
to the policy now, and their disability agent is saying, no, once
they start working ninety days later, they're covered. I have a feeling they
have a blanket contract that even though Rommy doesn't think they're named on the policy,
the fact that they're a full time employee makes them covered. Have you
seen policies like that, Yes, And that makes absolute sense to me.
If if that's how it works in there as far as how their their culture
or their company policy is that, then they would be on the hook even
if they haven't added them yet, they're on the hook if something happens,
So they're always going to go back to that that a higher date plus ninety.
See, Rommy, that's what I was suspecting. I'm not saying that's
the case with you, but if you look at your master contract, I
have a feeling you have a blanket policy that covers your people ninety days after
they're hired. And and Brian correct me if I'm wrong. Aren't there other
kinds of like workers compets, of other kinds of policies written that way?
Exactly? That's exactly what I was going to say. And it actually is
protecting the business owner because if he doesn't remember to go add employees when he
hires them and they have a loss, he doesn't want to be responsible for
these things. It protects the business owner in a sense. But you know,
in this case, he's that he's going to have to pay the premium
because they were covered. I mean, I don't know that. I'm god,
no, no, no, that's what we're assuming. Is that possible.
I'm going to ask our caller now, Ronnie, is that possible?
Yeah, I mean that's probably what it is. But you're not going to
get out. You're not going to get out of it unless you cancel the
policy. Well, I don't even think to get out of it. Will
still come after cancel the policy. Here's the problem, Ronnie, here's the
problem. So many people say, why am I paying retroactively? We had
no claims, But the point is they had exposure, and insurance gets paid
for exposure even though there were no claims. It's like taking your car insurance.
If I went to Brian and said, Brian, I haven't had insurance
in so long, excuse me a claim in so long? I want a
refund of my premiums. I mean, they're not going to do that because
they had exposure. Who was talking? I'm sorry, was it you Brian
or Rommie? Did you want to make a point? Brian? Go ahead?
Whenever someone buys a is he cutting in and out? Is that what's
going on here? Shannon? Help me out here? Chatting? Well,
okay, I'm not hearing but every other word, Yeah, if I can
jump in real quickly, I know, And this is kind of what I
was afraid of, Tom, But I contested that once I found out what
it was, and I said, well, we weren't even sure because of
the other problems we were having with short term disability, and they had canceled
our policy of the year before that we were going to continue with them,
and that you know, we finally got that resolved, and then they back,
you know, we've got to build for one thousand dollars, and I'm
like, you know, if that would have made sense, I said,
we'll go three months back, you know, or you can just start.
But you don't get to rewrite the policy. You don't get to rewrite the
contract. Ronnie, I want to ask you a question. Why are you
offering short term disability to employees. That's almost a ticket to have them take
time off. Yeah, well it was as a klingon. We started a
business with a partner and we had had short term disability. I just want
you to know something, company, business owners, business owners, that we
got break. Brother, Okay, let's take this break, and then I'm
going to tell you business owners find it a scourge more right after this,
Hi, Tom Martino three oh three seven one three talks seven one three eight
two five five. Okay, so we will go to the phones now once
again, and we have let's see I think Brian, let's go back to
you, Brian, with coverages. You were going to say something on these
coverages, go ahead, I think we were well, I was just going
to reinforce was then to reinforce the same thing you were saying. It's like
when people call, you know, to tell me that they need to add
a car and they and I ask, okay, what date did you purchase
it? And it was, you know, three weeks ago. I say,
okay, well they're going to add it on as of the date you
bought it. And sometimes people are frustrated because they said, well but I
haven't had any claims. But the point is if you did, it would
be covered. So they always go back to the date that you purchased at
exactly. So romy did you want to make any Do you have any other
questions? No? Do you think you know both think that we're going to
need to pay it. That's fine. I'll take your advice. If your
contract says that they're automatically covered when they hit employment plus ninety, then yes
they were covered. Yeah. But the part that this irritates me is,
remember I think I told you they had terminated our short term disability, which
was the only part of the insurance I wanted. I thought, like the
dickens to get it added back on, and then they tried, if it
was terminated, you don't have to pay for any period that was terminated.
But you said you had more than disability with them, So are they charging
you for other stuff as well? The life? Yes, they're charging me
for the short term disability and the life. But then again they're going back
to April. I'm blast you. Here's what I'm asking. Here's just one
question on those employees in question. Where they went back retroactively? Was the
disability policy in effect when they re established the short term disability policy after they
terminated it, they you know, it went back past April. So yes,
but everything again was retroactive. I just asked here, all that matters
if that short term disability policy was in effect, and if those employees were
covered under that plan, you need to pay for it. Okay, It's
that simple. If they weren't, if you didn't have a policy you don't
have to pay for it, Brian, thank you very much much. By
the way, if you need any insurance help, that's three or three nine
nine six nine thousand, including a free insurance check up three or three nine
ninety six nine thousand. I want to go to uh Rick, who's been
waiting a while? Rick, what's going on with you? By Tom?
Thank you? I got a stupid question for you regarding a LGTV. Okay,
I's two years old. What's happening? Is? How old is it?
Rick? How old? Like? Two years? It's got it.
It's a smart TV, big nice one whatever. When I turn it on,
the little red light blinks on the bottom, and then anywhere from ten
to a half hour, I'll hear a do do do do do, and
the TV comes on and it works just great. Wait a minute, I
can't when you turn it on with your remote it takes that long to come
on. Yeah what Yeah, Yeah, it's really weird. I even called
LG and they don't have a clue what's going on. I've so you.
So you turn the TV on and all you see is that red light blinking
right. That's correct now and the screen's black right, And then you put
down the remote and walk away, and it comes on ten minutes later.
Ken, this morning, it was a half hour later. Yes, okay.
But when you when you first turn it on and it doesn't come on,
what do you do? Do you click it again? Well? I
did it first when it first started, but now I don't because I know
I have to wait now, Like it could be it could be a lapse
in your broadband. Really is it connected to your wireless or is it wired?
It is nicked too. Wired with a with a Cat five cable?
No, with the with the co x. Oh oh, oh, so
you have Do you have Comcast? No? I have Expinity? Okay,
okay, so you which which is kind of the same. So so it's
coacts. Your cable comes in through the coax Is that right? That's correct?
Okay, here's what I want to ask you. If you discourge,
does this happen every time you turn your TV on? Yes? That doesn't
sound right. Then okay, have you rebooted? I got four others?
Yeah, but here's what I want. Oh and they all come on immediately.
Yeah, okay, then then forget what I was going to say.
Okay, dang, yeah, Tom, maybe your listeners might have a clue.
You know what, let's put Let's put it out there and put it
out on my text as well. People can text it. Text us at
five seven seven three nine. Put Tom in the message. Do you know
what I would like to know if anyone has had this problem? Okay,
so hang on three oh three seven to one three talk. I'm gonna put
that question out. Uh does anyone have a delayed in their LGTV turning on
after they click the remote? I can't imagine if we'll have some people with
ideas, So just continue listening on that and we'll figure it. We'll try
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com three oh three nines are A four two thousand. Hi Tom Martino,
your troubleshooter three three seven to one to three talk. We have plenty of
people that want to weigh in on this LG issue. The guy says,
he clicks the remote, the red light blinks, but the TV doesn't come
on for ten or fifteen minutes. Then it comes on and works fine.
Now I'm getting texts, and some texts say could be a firmware update he
needs, and somebody else says it could be the remote needs batteries. I
don't know why that would matter. Why would it take ten minutes? A
power supply could be going bad. It's gotta be user error. So John,
what do you think? John, You've got an idea? Jeez,
can you hear me? Yes? Sir? Hey, So, I used
to fix TVs for a living, and n LG's probably one of the cheaper
parts inside of those TVs. They call it the PC board PCB. Those
things are notorious for having botched firmware updates. You can get a flash drive
and try and manually get that off of their website, but if it's consistently
happening, and it's getting longer every time. Everything's controlled by that board inside
of the TV. So probably going to need to end up replacing that part.
And depending on the size and the costs of the TV, it's going
to be more expensive to repair it than it would be too. Now,
how do you know this? I fixed TVs for a living. I worked
for Geeksquad, I did repairs for so okay and so so that part.
Do you know? What it costs? Depends on the TV and the size
of the television. If it's a lesser model, they're fit one hundred to
one hundred and fifty bucks. Some of their more high endtvs it could be
two fifty to three fifty. And how long does it take to replace it?
By a couple of screws come off the back of the TV, and
if you're technologically inclined, you can fix it in about an hour. And
what is the part called. It's called the PCB or PC board. And
is it just for the remote? No, it's it's for the television itself.
The remote has nothing to do with it. Just so if he went
up and hit the power button, the same thing would happen. It should
should have the same effect. Yeah, thank you, John, I appreciate
your information. Let's talk to Jim, he says he might have an answer.
Go ahead, Jim, Well, hello there Tom. What it is
is it probably in the power supply board, But think I was talking about
the PCB is called the power supply and the capacitors go weak on those and
corrupt the DC voltage to all the digital stuff ah to be delayed and coming
on, so it's not reading the digital information correctly. So what it is.
It's called the power supply. About one hundred dollars is about right for
a part, and it just requires taking the back off. It's generally right
in the middle of the TV and you just pop it off, plugging you
one in and it should be good to go. Wow. Do you do
repairs to Jim? Yes, sir, I do. Who do you do
it for? I do it for myself. I'm a self. I worked
for Circuit City for many years before they went out of went out of business
or bankrupt. But yeah, I've been you know circuit City. I had
a nickname for Circuit City. I bet you what was it. Well,
let's put it this way. I can't say it on radio. I got
you second word rhymed with City. Yeah. They were pretty bad on the
on the associate side as well. They were pretty messed up. Company Circuit
City. Yeah. Okay, Hey, Jim, what do you have your
own company that you do TV repairs? Oh? I did. I don't
do it anymore. I'm kind of tired, okay, but I did all
kinds of work for high definition television and stuff like that, and it would
be nice to know somebody, yeah, a referral list who does stuff like
that, because you know, people don't want to just drop something off at
the squad. Go ahead, give listeners some information real quick on all these
digital things, like all the new stuff, all the digital stereos and televisions.
When you start having intermittent weird problems like that, it's generally a capacitor
that's going bad in a power supply and dry up and go bad over time
or overheat. And once you replace those, I bitch, I'd go over
that guy's house and replace a couple of caps in this power supply board,
take it to a component level, and about about a being I'd have that
TV up and running. Jim, I see, the days of having people
that can do this are going away. Oh I know I'm pretty rare breed,
aren't I? Yes, you are honest to goodness. Thanks Jim appreciated.
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your troubleshooter. Three O three seven one three talk three oh three seven
one three eight two five five. John, Sorry for the wait. What's
going on with you? John? Which? Johnny? You talking about you?
Okay? How much of the letter that I sent to your station did
you read? Or should I just go over the whole story again? Well,
just because we have a radio show and we like people to hear in
case they have similar problems, I'd like you to just tell us your story
and then I'll ask questions. Okay, I had a three and a half
year old bull Terrier and I had a normal vet here and in the morning
he was growing up at four o'clock, so I went, he was how
old? How old? You say? He was three and a half?
Okay, got it and perfectly health yeah, hard check, kidney checked,
everything, stop not. So I went on my normal vet and I saw
receptions I wasn't used to. She said, well, why don't you go
to your regular vet? And I go, you guys are my regular vet,
and she said, well, today's surgery day. So she said,
let's go. Why don't you go to this other clinic. They used to
own this clinic and it was a referral. So I went down there.
They called me about twelve o'clock and they said, what's the name of the
vet? Okay, did you actually take your dog in? Yeah? I
went to the referral and this is about five minutes away, and I went
there and I said, I yeah, he's been throwing up and he's eaten
grass and typical obstruction from what I've heard. Because did you take the dog
with you? Oh? Yeah? Oh yeah, okay, so the dog
you went to the vet with the dog, and they examined the dog.
Uh not at the first one. They were so busy they couldn't No,
I get that, bro, I don't care about the first one. All
I care about is the second, the one that you did take it to
a vet that examined your dog. Right, yeah, okay. And I
was work and they called me up and they said we found nothing on the
X ray, which is a big buzzword right now. He said he probably
has an upper gi irritation. They gave him an anti nausea. I said,
how was He said, he was fine, picked him up, he
was doing fine. Came home. He was drinking water and then he was
throwing everything up. He wouldn't take his food. They gave me antibiox.
He wouldn't take anything. So all night he was thrown up. I put
him in the crate. I got him out of the crate and he could
barely get stanned getting out of the cratey. This was the next day.
This was yeah, this was the next day, early, about six o'clock
in the morning. I said, we better get you to the vet.
So we got him in the vet. Went through a snowstorm out here.
Did you go to the same vet again exactly. They go ahead, and
so he talked to the front reception. I said, hey, he's not
doing well right, and they said, well, we'll try to get him
into that. I said, you need to get him somebody out right now.
So I don't know if he's going to make it. Got the appointment,
so they said, well, let's get your room. So I'm sitting
there about five minutes. Get a room. Go out to the car which
is right in front of the door, open up the door, and he's
dead in the car. Oh my god, Oh no, what happened.
So it's been a rough week, little level. Oh oh my goodness.
And listen, I know how important that could be. So when you went
out to the car, he was dead. Yeah, he had died on
We think he died on the road down there. It was about a half
hour drive. And I said, I yelled at it. I said,
I think he just died. And so doctor came out put the cepiscope on
him, and then she said she shook her head, so try like a
baby. And so I talked to my other it's a big bull terrier group.
So what we figured out is the X ray only the text hard objects,
bone anything, allick stone, things like that. If a dog eats
the stone, that's that's he'll pick it up. They didn't do a barium,
which is they give a dog barium and then they l's that's for intestinal
blocks. Yes, yes, and they could find it out on the X
ray, but they didn't. They didn't do a barium, and they didn't
do an ultrasound because they're quote unquote untrained on how to do an ultrasound for
obstructions. And it was an interested disaster because they didn't even give me the
option of would you like us to keep them overnight and observe them and see
if we'd have to maybe do an emergency surgery on them? Do you want
to basically go to a better vet who can see thoftruc Because it was what
they did while I was there, She said should we find out what it
was? And I said, yeah, go ahead. So they opened them
up in the other room and they found the obstruction. They didn't open it
up. They didn't tell me what it was. They said they didn't want
to. It's kind of an unclean thing of doing in the middle of the
room. So anyway, what what did it turn out to? Be it
was some kind of it could have been a part of a toy or something.
But he wasn't much of a cheer and I never never thought about that.
Well when I was so he had a blockage, right, yeah,
he had a It wasn't an GI obstruction. It was a blockage that they
used an X ray to fine, didn't find it. Sent me off.
Well hold on and I get it, bro, you got and then you
came back. They in the autopsy they found it. They found it.
Yes, But here's what I want to know. Under normal circumstances, right,
would an X ray show it? No? What would they have had
to do to find it. They would have had to have somebody who was
qualified to use an ultrasound, not like these ultrasounds for fetles they check for
puppy numbers and help and things like that. But I asked the doctor who
owned ron wait, wait, wait, wait, John, I need we
need to get deeper into this. You're you're kind of there's certain things you're
glossing over that I need clarification for. I want you to hang on because
there's a fine line between malpractice and not and then also there's a question of
damages. So hang on. I'm Tom Martine more coming up and I heard
Deputy Doc wanted to chime in as well. Three O three seven one three
eight two five five. Yeah, RiPP you need advice? Who you don't
have the come run into sustas as we can. So shoot is gonna help
come. This is the Trouble Show. No Tom Martino time, Tom Martino
here. Welcome to the show. Three zero three seven one three talk seven
one three eight two five five. We're here to help you solve problems,
answer question, take complaints, prepare window cleaning, pressure washing guests today,
we do have some questions on the pressure washing part. Do you even bother
doing pressure washing during the winter? They want to know what is there to
do? We operate twenty four seven, three hundred and sixty five days out
of okay, So what is the What is the benefit of pressure washing parking
lots, for example, I mean it's pretty obvious pobby to people that own
parking lots and management companies. Is it What is the main reason they do
it? Is it for pedestrians or cars or what? It's mainly just to
get all the debris out of there as that builds up over years and years
and years of driving on all the dirt stuff like that builds up on the
ground. Everything has to be maintenance at one point or not. When you
do pressure washing, do you do it primarily for commercial parking lots? Is
that your main Yeah? So we do a lot a lot of parking garages
throughout the year, parking garages, parking lots. What about buildings themselves?
Yeah, so we also washed buildings as well. We're getting ready bring some
drone technology and so we can go up and do like thirty story buildings and
wash the buildings down in Denver and stuff. Wouldn't that wait a minute?
So the drone would like pick the hose up? Yeah, so we actually
brought one in. Yes, we brought one in last year and we we
did the whole va out in Aurora. So you have to fly the drone.
And what I want to know is how does that drone resist the pressure?
I would not be able to answer that, but it does it does
it? So you were able to take a drone up the side of a
building while spraying high pressure? Yes, no, Mark, did you know
that? I did not? How would it? How would it resist the
pressure? Doesn't that sound like it has to be one hell of a strong
drone. Yeah, I think it like half. What's that mark? I
mean, doc, I said it overcame Newton's third law of motion except for
every action is in opposite reaction, right, it has to be more powerful
than the reaction. But what about thank you captain obviously going to change his
name by the way, though it truly is remarkable the drone technology. Do
you have that now? Yeah, so we have it right now. We're
working on being able to object solutions and stuff. So wait a minute,
not only is it carrying the damn wand, but you have to have the
hose almost be like a light a lighter weight hose, right, Yeah,
so we use an ultra light hose. It weighs nearly nothing. So when
we fill the wand is pretty light too. Yeah. Yeah, so it's
no, the one's actually built into the machine. It just yeah, it
just has a little nozzle thattually. So you you hook the hose to the
drone, yep, you look it up to the bottom of it, it
flies up and then it kind of makes ain. No, Nope, it's
pretty so we can so we can, we can maneuver it. However we
can be we have to be about ten foot off the building. So we
just we just set the set the height and just let it go from there.
It's just really then it's automatic. Yeah, it's really really cool.
Oh man, I gotta see I really have to see this. I didn't.
I didn't even know they exist. Yeah, try to give me an
internet link to look at that. I don't know if other people knew about
it, Mark, have you? He said he hadn't heard about it.
Mark. Do you still fly your drone? I haven't flown it for a
while. No, I really have it. Okay, now do you do
Tyler? Do you do residential power washing? And what would that be?
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though, Drone, I'd love to see it. Now John wants to talk
about his dog, and this is sad. This is really sad, and
we've had similar calls about stuff. But a three year old bull terrier was
throwing up. He took to a vet. They didn't examine some x rays
and said, we don't find anything. Here's some meds. He takes the
dog home. The next day he could hardly move or stand, so went
back to the vet and the dog died on the way apparently. And they
did an autopsy and they found something lodged where John just been. An intestinal
track came now exactly. Now, what I want to know is how would
they have found it? Well, usually you can tell this is doc talking,
go ahead, Doc a block as usually you can see on an X
ray their patterns. Why did their X rays not show it? I don't
know. It might have been a misinterpretation of the X ray. And you
know, I'm just talked about any humans. I don't well, I know,
but it wouldn't be any different, would John? You mentioned that?
Here's what you mentioned you said an X ray would not have shown an intestinal
blockage. Who told you that, No, a faft blockage. It's not
dense enough for the X ray to pick it up. That's why they would
use barium to watch it go down the intestinal track and watch it stop.
And they said, but hold on, would it be okay? But do
they if they do an X ray and they can't see anything obvious, would
would normal standard of care call for a barium? Yes? Yes? Why
is our typical thing? Well, because if they're if their their tools are
multrasounds with a trained technician or doctor, X rays or basically an exploratory So
you believe in a nutshell, the VET did not go far enough in their
test in their diagnostics. And the thing is that what I've been advised of
is that he was He took the Syrian, which I guess is an anti
nausea farian, masked his nausea, so he appeared to be everything I always
thought thought he would be. And then as soon as the Theian wore off,
is when he started trying to drink water, his nausea re emerged and
he just couldn't hold anything down. And that was something I was hoping that
the option is that if you can't handle. And I'm not trying to sound
like a movie, but if they were not able to do a full diagnostic
on Jojo, then I would think they would send me in tot an emergency
care and say this is out of our hands. X rays will only go
so far, and they would have set me off to mercy Clembic. I
would have had him opened up. Okay, what I'm going to do is
take you at one percent, for argument's sake, right, one hundred percent.
Right, Let's say they didn't go far enough and they didn't re for
you, and they made a mistake. Let's just say that, Yeah,
here's the major problem we have, the major problem we have. What do
you want? I knew you'd ask me that. Okay, I was unaware
of this particular situation. If I would have sourced my other people, I
probably would have been told, we're not going to change the industry. Just
so you know, we're not going to change. Okay, and I don't
want it, but I want people who own dogs, who may have a
cheer or a swallower to be aware that when they hit the vet, that
that there's options they need to go through and not just basically to follow what
the VET said. Sometimes you, obviously, with this situation, go with
your gut. Because that portal guy, he couldn't tell me where it was,
He couldn't tell me what it was. So I should have gone and
said, okay, I should have known what they couldn't do, and then
I should have left and gone to emergency cress. But do you think that?
And I'm not trying to bait you because we have this discussion and when
it comes to animals, they're considered personal property and valued very low. Only
one court recently, when I say recently, within the last five or ten
years, did rule an additional pain and suffering damage, which is not common.
But what I want to know, what do you like? And again,
you're not even trying to get damages? You know, Tom. The
weird thing is that I go there and I pay my three hundred and seventy
one dollars on Tuesday for a bad diagnostic, and then I drive him back
because he didn't the right job. They charged me three hundred and something of
dollars for the cremation, and I'm thinking, you know, you guys,
Yeah, it's kind of nervy too. Okay, well did they did you
ask at least for a courtesy credit? No, I have not asked for
that. Well, we should ask before we diss them. And you know,
I think at the very least, look, if they truly did screw
up and it's beyond the standard of care, if you could get another vet
to say automatically when a dog comes in like this, we would have done
an X ray and then we would have done it. Well, excuse me,
the X ray. Is barium is an X ray ray, it's just
with the added barium. Is that true, Doc? Or not? Oh?
Sorry, Yeah, that's true. Okay, So so it's not that
they did the wrong disno procedure. They didn't use barium. And is burium
a highlighting fluid? Doc? Is that what that is? It shows up
in the X ray? Doc? Mark can you do the dissibulatorium shows up
as bright white when you swallow it, So you can trace the the the
course of the of the barium through the intestinal track and see if it flows
all the way through or where it stops, and if it stops or surrounds
something that could be a soft blockage. Absolutely, Okay, you know,
John, you should ask you know what before we before we just dismissed this.
You should ask on the record a few veterinarian veterinarians here and say,
look, is this normal standard of care not to do the burier or would
you have done the bariu? If you can get two other vets to say
we would have done barring. How does Colorado see damages on a dog these
days? Well, I'm not That's not where I'm going right now. But
they did have one ruling for pain and suffering in the last I'm thinking it
was last five years, But that doesn't mean it changed that one precedent didn't
necessarily change. That was an egregious violation mark where the dog was let out
by the house cleaners by mistake, and the dog got hit by the car
by a car and was dying, and they took the dog and put it
underneath the tape where it sleeps as if it was sleeping, and did not
tell the owner, So that that was an extra step of egregiousness. I
don't know if under normal circumstances you would get more than the actual value of
the dog. What were you going to say, doc Oh, I just
want to know if that case was in Colorado. Yeah it was. Okay,
Yeah, So here's what I'm here's what I'm asking. Here's what I'm
asking. Yeah, if you can or saying, and if you can get
a couple vets to say this is beneath the standard of care, I would
be inclined to maybe go to small claims court, not for damages, but
for a refund because they did not do it properly. I'm on the money
up that water a little bit. He was a stud dog and he was
starting to be chosen to do his obligations. He might say, so that
was all that future income. I was on the left, you too,
So okay, hold on a second, hold on? What value would a
professional put on that dog? I don't know, but every time he gets
studded it's like two thousand dollars? Well, hold on, was he that
good of a specimen? Oh? Yeah, he was a grand champion.
I know the feeling. Okay, here's what we do. We should truly,
you should get the dog value. I mean, obviously you have to
do it posthumously, but you get him value. Okay, as what could
have been some income here may look, but you're gonna have to do the
legwork here you and look at I don't even know if there is such thing
as malpractice in veterinarian medicine, but I do know that if you got beneath
the standard of care, they breached their contract with you, and you paid
and you lost. I'm serious. There was an attorney that does dog law
or pet law, right Mark, and she got pissed at us. She
won't She got really upset with you. Oh yeah, Oh, go chime
in there, Susan. Hey, but you remember, Susan, do you
remember why she got so pissed at me. Uh? I think because we
were helping some another caller and she's a breeder, yes, and she did
not agree with that. She represented the breeder. That's right. She was
an attorney and represented the breeder and we thought the breeder was wrong. Hey,
John, one more thing. Make sure you get a copy of the
records, because if you go to a vet and try and explain it without
showing him the records or or the records, they're going to say, we
need to look at the records, so fabels. They're going to want to
know how the dog was presented, it's and how it was treated. So
make sure you get a copy of the records for which you aren't titled.
In other words, if you did not present it properly, that well they
still had an opportunity to examine the dog. But still they want to know
a little bit of everything. So ask for all the record. Don't don't
uh, don't expose your hand on what you want to do right now,
but just do that. This is very interesting. Stay in touch with us
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Now let's talk about some other stuff that I wanted to talk about, and
then I want your calls at three oh three, seven to one three talk
three oh three, seven to one, three eight, two five five.
Now listen. What do you think the consensus is truly or do you think
it comes down to party lines? On Jared Polis? What do you think
do you think maybe even some of his own party is a little disgusted with
him? Or do you think it's right down party lines? Almost half and
half? What do you think? Well, it's not half and half in
Colorado. I think conservatives or Republicans are outnumbered and liberals or Democrats outnumber.
Again, this is a wide open discussion of not trying to change your beliefs.
I'm trying to ask you a question. I also want to know this.
What do you think? Have you heard about the new open meetings law
that he next? Basically he exempts lawmakers from open meetings? What does that
mean? Exactly? People were asking what does it mean? Quite simply what
it says. It means that lawmakers no longer have to have meetings in public.
They can meet, they can discuss, they can do whatever they want.
What do you think about that? I don't know what the idea it
was behind it. They want to provide. They want to just provide a
comfortable environment for lawmakers to meet without the scrutiny of the public. I don't
understand that. I mean, it seems to me that the wide open,
free societies should be what we have, especially in government. So what do
you think any ideas? Do you think it's a good idea? Mark?
Or do you not care? Do you not care? As soon as do
you care that, Shannon? Do you care? Not that I care what
you think? I think it's horrible, Tom, No, No, I'm
serious. Should everything should be transparent? Government. It's all of our taxes
that pay for this stuff, so we should know what's going on now.
Paulus noted that the bill applies only to the legislature and not the executive order.
Didn't they do that in the middle of the night to if I recall,
Yes, they can well anything it the entirety. Notice not one news
station that I know of, Nora, Carl Clark or whatever his name is,
that local guy. No, No one talks about it though, at
least not that I've heard. And you know what, Tom, I can
understand if they want to have the meetings only observed. What you know,
they don't want the public constantly interrupting or pricketing or asking questions. But the
meeting should be open to observation. It's not interruption, right, And I
want to know what people think of that, truly I do. Three oh
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mins. Tom Martine here at three oh three seven one three talk three oh
three seven one three eight two five five What's new in your life? Problems,
questions and complaints we have, Jeff, we have a follow up and
by the way, any problem it doesn't have to be any particular. We
don't today is not Cardie or anything like that. You can call about anything.
And what I really want to know is if you have been lied to,
cheated, or ripped off, because what we do here is keep track
of that stuff and can tell you about the worst contenders, now the very
worst or at Sleez Brigade dot com Sleezbrigade dot com. Hey, Jeff,
what's going on with you? Well, I'm gonna have to look up Sleeve
Brigade. Oh yeah, you look that up. You'll like it. What's
going on? Jeff? Okay, you gave me a a referral to Laramie,
Wyoming. I want to I want to wait, wait wait, I
don't know anyone in Laramie. I gave you a referral up in Laramie.
Yeah, that an issue with Mike hey On had an issue with my catalytical
burger. Oh oh oh, I know what happened. Mark gave you some
some ill conceived idea and I'll explain this to people and I don't mean that.
Wait, wait, what's a joke. It's a joke, Mark,
It's actually good advice. And what Mark said was this, if you lost
your cat, your catalytic converter, you can. You don't have to spend
a lot of money for the California one that they require here in Colorado they
want you wait, total ripoff. Thank you, paulush No, no,
no, no, I'm talking about the one here. Yeah. But what
I said was, if you go to Wyoming, you could probably get it
a lot cheaper, like half price, and get it installed and everything.
And then people would always when when we talked about this in the past.
I don't know if it's still happening, but people would say, you know,
Mark, you're telling people to do that and they're breaking the law.
Blah blah blah. And there is no law that says you can't. There's
no law. I mean, what I'm saying is and my best example to
this is, Okay, I drive to Texas and someone steals my cat.
What do I tow my car back or go buy a cat? Yeah?
And no one checks cats at the border, No one does, No one
does. Kay. Can you imagine? I bet we're getting close. So
did you go to Wyoming to buy one? Well? God, I first
I called there was a shop in Laramie that did do that, and only
one actually one place in Laramie. It's not a very big down and she
told me the guy that was doing all that had retired. Oh well,
there's other people in Wyoming, yet, what's the other I just always say
Laramie because my kids in law school up there. What's the other one?
Right down the road from Laramie, the bigger town, Cheyenne. Cheyenne's got
like fifty places, so I can maybe do that. Okay, Well wait
a minute, Wait a minute, where are you going? Where are you
coming from? Aurora, Colorado? Oh? Man, When he said Laramie,
that was just that. He didn't mean that was the only place in
Wyoming. Well, I didn't know. I just oh, I'm sorry for
the misunderstanding. What he meant was you can go to you can go to
Wyoming anywhere in Wyoming. Any auto shop in Wyoming. Okay, I'll have
to just call Sam then, yeah, just look up, just google muffler.
Here's what I would google, muffler shops in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Okay,
and then I would call three or four of them and tell them,
Hey, I'm in Aurora, Colorado. I was gonna drive up either.
You know, whatever day works for you. Guys can you guys replace my
cat. That's it. That's exactly what i'd say, right. I thought
I thought i'd go to shared An Auto Tech first to get a diagnosis.
Yeah, yeah, it's so it's on paper. Well, they're not gonna
if you already know you need to. I don't know how you know.
I don't remember the call that you need to, that you need the converter,
but you either need it or not, Big O'tires said I did,
I don't. Then I agree with you. I'd go to Shardan Autotech and
make sure before you make that drive and replace it. That's the problem.
I was just kind of getting a funny feeling from Big Oh. You know
you get that feeling in your stomach. Yeah, no, no, no,
I know age every day. I know that feeling very well. It's
called the gut feeling. I mean that's what That's why they call it a
gut feeling, you know, when something doesn't seem right. Although we could
be sometimes misled by gut feelings, I mean, you know, it's not
a feeling. Yes, So it's good to verify and to check into confirm
and all of that when it comes to everything. I mean sure, And
speaking of that. Yesterday, we had a woman call and she said she
fell for a marine. Her name was Lucretia. And this guy this picture
of the marine. I got all the correspondents and the photo. Oh my
god, she sent so much stuff. And this guy's you know, he
looks like a Oh my god, I mean, he looks like a stud
as far as his body. He's got an eight pack, and he's got
tattoos, and he's got giant muscles, and he's a marine and blah blah
blah blah. Anyway, bottom line, thank you for calling, by the
way, and now moving on to this this thing she sent me all of
the stuff he sucked her in, like open up a bank account, do
this, do that, And now she's looking at a lot of debt because
she, basically, without realizing it was a victim of a scam, she
thought, well, I'm going to protect myself by opening up a new account,
not my own and let him do stuff in my account. It's terrible,
it's terrible what happened. So I had this guy's picture, and what
I want to do is I want to What I want to do is basically
reverse search it on Google to see what it comes up. With but I
think that would be fun, right, I'll bet you. I'll bet you
the marine is a victim as well. I guarantee you he doesn't know that
his picture has been used to scan people. I see this over and over
again, that they just you serve pictures and the people the person who's picture
they use doesn't have any idea. Oh, you're saying that this particular guy.
I guarantee you will see it's not him, all right. This is
incredible though, the story behind it and what we'll see what I find out
with this, plus your calls, problems, questions, complaints three ZHO three
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five. Troy has a comment on scams. What's going on? Troy?
What's happening? Hey? Tom? Let me give you a website that you
can upload that picture to. Really what does it? Doom? Yeah?
It does a yeah, reverse image search. It's called the ten I t
I n E y E t I and ten I Okay, yep, okay,
go to ten I in the verse image search. It just came up.
Is it better than Google Search? Oh? Hell yeah? Really yeah?
Oh yeah, it's awesome. Uh. The reason I know this site
is because, uh, my aunt and my and my cousin who just passed
away, they're addicted to these romance scams. My aunt she has lost hundreds
of thousands of dollars. And the way I explained it to a lot of
people is it's like a heroin addict. Right. Wait, wait, when
you say she's addicted, is she addicted to following them or addicted to she
thinks someone's in love with her? Well? Yeah, and what she's doing
is she's spending you know the quote unquote guy, hundreds of thousand dollars.
Three. Wait a minute, Wait a minute, wait a minute, how
old is your aunt? She's in her late seventies. Does she like Italian
guys? You know? Does she like guys on the radio? She said
she likes single doctors. Yeah, she sends, She sends, She literally
sends people. Wait a minute, are you serious? Your aunt has sent
people hundreds of thousands of dollars. Yeah, she was in a serious relationship
with a guy who made lots amounts of money, and uh, yeah,
she convinced her boyfriend, real boyfriend to invest with this guy that she met
on the internet. Uh cost her. The relationship cost her hundreds of thousands
of dollars, and now she's barely She went from a very nice house in
a beautiful part of Maine to a apartment in Idaho that is being paid for
by the government now. And every every yeah, every nickel she gets,
she goes to these bitcoin ATMs, drops it in the bitcoin ATMs and sends
it, uh to you know, this fantasy guy. I found this guy.
I found this guy, but it his picture came up. It searched
sixty six billion images and it found him on Snapchat. So now what did
so that could be the one that she that she did on Snapchat. I'm
going to upload another one. No, yeah, what happens is, uh,
so these scammers will find uh a very good look and a lot of
military guys that or any good looking successful guy. I can't tell you how
many how many people have used my picture? Go ahead, I'm just kidding.
Go ahead, Tom zero, Yeah, go ahead. What happened?
Yeah? So, what what happens is, uh, you know, these
good looking guys, especially from after they've done a deployment, they tend to
get pumped up and uh, you know with muscles, you know, shows
tight T shirts, lots of muscles, and yeah, uh they are they
are very attractive, and they post a lot of pictures of themselves and these
scammers in India and Nigeria will start harvesting those images and you know, building
out a profile. And you know, I think we've talked before about ai
AI. You know, used to be easy to catch these guys because the
grammar was crappy. Uh, you know, every everything was crappy. But
here's what said. Your aunt. Your aunt literally has lost hundreds of thousands
of dollars. Oh yeah yeah, and nobody can convince her. It's like
she's a heroin addict. You're not going to convince a heroin addict to get
off the heroin, and she is addicted to this delusion. It's a psychological
problem that is being fed by technology. And you're so right. You know.
I've talked to so many of these people like your aunt. They just
won't accept reality. That is so Yeah, it's sad in their own fantasy
world. Yeah, it's sad man. Okay, thank you for calling.
I did a reverse search. It's coming up all over Snapchat. Not sure
what that means. I'm not finding it anywhere else. We have more coming
up on The Troubleshooter Show. We'll delve into this and more three or three
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Three oh three seven one three eight two five five Welcome. What's going
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and let me know. Three oh three seven one three talk. We have
our guest with us today. Premiere window Washing and pressure Washing, or the
actual name is premiere window cleaning and pressure washing. Okay, we've been talking
about did I take Troy already? Is he the one that gave us that
great sight? Or is as someone else? Okay, Yeah, we've been
talking about scams and I asked this woman to send me all the details,
and man, can I see why she was scammed? It's unbelievable. So
somehow she's on Snapchat and she gets request to snap somebody who appears to be
some stud, some marine stationed in Turkey. He sent her all kinds of
pictures over the time, you know, the typical one, the selfie in
front of the mirror with his eight pack and muscles. And then they're always
overseas or on an oil work tom Yeah, so because they can't they don't
want to zoom, So that's right. And then he sent her all kinds
of information. And if I go through this it, you know, he
says, you know, it's out. You know, I think I'm falling
in love and all that stuff. So it gets really weird. But he
says, I cannot believe that I manage hurt and break my heart such a
beautiful creature like you or let's see, Oh wait, I cannot believe that
I managed to hurt and break the heart of such a beautiful creature. I
don't know what that means. I am a giant fool for not being more
careful with my words and actions. I am terribly sorry. I regret everything.
Oh, I don't even know. They must have had a fight or
something. I never inter to hurt your feelings like this. I am terribly
sorry. Please forgive me. You are the son of my life, and
with you missing, I have grown afraid of the dark jeeves. This is
she didn't tell me they had a fight. And then some of the other
texts I see, I don't even I don't get this. Here's one of
the other ones. Millions of stars twinkling in the vast skies, but there
is only one that is dear to me, good night and see you in
the morning, my love, My god. This guy is like over the
top Tom. They have these things written out, and the people who are
texting it just text from the copy that the bosses give them. Wow.
See you look up whose picture it was? Yes, and all it says
is found on Snapchat. But I had no information. I'm going to try
Google again, but these are are you at the ATM now my love this
guy. It's so I mean, I'm trying to Its hard to believe anybody
could fall for it is as silly as it sounds. Why is the card
not working? Honey? Is it the same card they gave you? So
I want to get to the part. I'm trying to get to the part
where he says why he needs it. She didn't send that part. Wait,
she didn't exactly send that part like where it started. It's saying like
I've been waiting to at least hear your voice. I do not want any
issue. See she never did talk to him, you know, of course
not. He says, basically on the texts that he stationed in Turkey,
his wallet was stolen. He can't open an account and he needs her help.
If if she gives bank account, if she establishes an account, then
he'll deposit money or gives He originally wanted hers. But do we have her
number to call her back? Didn't we get her number? Or is it
in this email? Kachina? Don't we have her number somewhere? I believe
you we have it. Can you call her back? I mean, if
we're going to be like if we're going to be like, well, let's
say warning people about this scam. I want to make sure I get it
right, because so he would get the money from the ATM or she would
then what, oh, no, here's okay, I should mention for people
that didn't hear the original call. So he said, I can't open an
account. Can you give me access to your account and they'll deposit money.
Well, she was smart enough not to do that, so she thought,
you know what, I'm not going to give you access to my account.
So she opened up a brand new account, but it was in her name,
so she sent him the information and he forthwith deposited money in a check.
What I don't understand is they gave her immediate credit for that. I
mean like they let her have access to it. So some guy sends a
check to her account and she's able to draw it out with a debit card.
So he tells her, if you could help me draw out the money
that I just sent and put it in some gift cards, that's the only
way I can spend it. So she dutifully goes out and buys gift cards,
then gives him the numbers. So what he does now is exhausts the
gift cards. So he sends a five thousand dollars fake check. He gets
five thousand dollars in real money, and she's the one holding the bag when
the check bounces. So what's really sad is that now she owes the bank
five grand. Now he didn't leave that alone. He then sent her eighteen
thousand dollars and wanted her to deposit that. Luckily, she did not deposit
that, so that part at least she didn't do that, because that would
have been a terrible thing, a terrible thing. So she's got that eighteen
thousand dollars check. But I asked her to send me a copy of that
too, and I don't believe I have it. But let me go to
Troy right now. Who's on? Who's calling in? By the way,
I get your calls in at three oh three seven one three talk three oh
three seven one three two five five Troy, what's going on with you?
Hi? Troy? Hey? Tom. One other thing that happened last night
that uh, the uh Colorado legislature, the Judiciary Committee pass a sweeping what
is called asoul weapons ban right for Colorado. I heard about that on my
brown I'm not I didn't know the details. Right. What this is going
to do is this is going to destroy of the gunshots in the state of
Colorado. Gun dealers will not be allowed to sell quote unquote assault weapon.
Now, this is just a bill that was introduced. It would it would
ban the purchase, sale, and transfer of semi automatic firearms defined as assault
weapons. Right. Isn't a lot of this going to come down to the
Supreme Court though? I mean New York City tried this with any kind of
gun. Yeah, Mark, But the bill goes into effect one July twenty
twenty. Yeah, but I'm just I guess what I'm saying is we know
it's going to change. I don't even know why they're wasting their time.
Well so I don't know why they're wasting their time either, but the impact
that's going to happen to the small guys. So, you know, would
what I've learned being in the gun business, if you want to make its
devastating, what's devastating, you want to make a small time. So I
mean pretty much those are the guns people buy. And what he's saying is
a smaller gun shop, especially ones hit specialize in assault weapons. Once this
bill goes in even though. I'm sure it's going to be knocked down like
these always are by the Supreme Court, but that takes time. You know,
they're not going to be able to survive if they can't actually sell these
weapons in the intern. I want to know something, kiss you were in
the go ahead? Yeah? Mark? Uh so an assault weapon? Okay,
assault is a verb to I know, I'm just calling it. What
everybody does. I get it, man, I own one. I don't
care, right, But what's happening is we're normalizing that phrase. But to
me, I appreciate what you're saying. But to me, it's not even
a bad phrase. I don't care. Okay, keep going, but just
make your point. I'm not sure the point you're making. Go ahead,
right, that the legislature is using that phrase assault weapon as a bad thing.
A baseball bat's a weapon, a hoe is a weapon. So what's
happening is they've identified firearms and they've made a shopping list of firearms that they
want to ban. And now guns, even pistols the normal Colorado citizens carry
for self defense are going to be on that list. So you will not
be able to purchase or transfer or sell. Uh you know, you buy
a gun, you use it, you don't like it, you can't sell
it to your neighbor. So this is going to destroy the gun industry in
the state of Colorado. Well, can I ask something? Okay, hold
on, no, I listen. I want to ask a question or two,
and again I have to remind people when I ask questions, don't think
I'm in for or in favor or against anything. I'm asking clarification questions.
That's all I'm doing. Why do people want semi automatic multi fier weapons like
that? I mean, what what is the allure to them? Do you
think what is it to protect yourself from the government? Do you think that's
why people want that? Work? No? No, no, So I
am a Colorado firearms instructor. Why do people want those weapons? Troy,
Let's get to that part. Okay, So firearm is made of three basic
components. Never mind, hold on, I'm not I'm not going through a
whole history, lesson. I asked a very simple question. I know you
want to make you want to make this a soapbox. I can't do it,
bro, I just want to know what is the allure of these of
these rapid fire semi automatic weapons? Protection? The allure. Huh. Okay,
but what will a shotgun protect your house? Sure it will. I
mean, I don't know. I'm not I'm not making the argument against them.
I'm just asking a question. When people come into your gun store,
Troy, what is the reason they want those weapons? Okay? So a
modern uh sports rifle an ar is very easy to assimbol very easy to take
apart. I can make modifications to it. It is you know, parked
and pieces. Yeah, it's basically the Barbie Doll of guns. So it's
they like it because they're easy and simple and and what what they Oh,
they're very they're very easy to take apart, they're easy to modify, they're
easy to fire. Is a very stable platform. So they just like them.
They like it exactly. It's like why do you like one car versus
another? So a semi automatic firearm is you press the trigger once if fires,
wants press the trigger once if fires again. So it is no different.
It's all about the cosmetics, is what the legislature is going after.
So I don't know what they're going after. What they're saying is it can
do way more damage. I don't know. I mean, they're trying to
make. Here's what they're trying You want to know the truth. It is
an assault rifle, as they call it in the bill. Why are they
calling it that and why are they going after that? Do they think it's
any worse than a shotgun, a rifle, a revolver, a nine millimeter?
Do they think it's any worse? No, they don't. But they
want to get their foot in the door. That's what they're doing. They're
They're just trying to get their foot in the door and get people used to
having at least one type of weapon demonized and controlled and outlawed. That's what
I think. I don't think it has anything to do with the actual rifle.
I think it has to do that. It's it's one of in their
minds, the things against the Second Amendment. So everything they're trying to do
is just a waste of all of our time and making markets. And there
are people, there are people who truly, honest to God, believe that
the Second Amendment is old and should be revised. I'm not arguing that.
What I'm saying is a lot of these things have already been visited and ruled
on in the court. They're just simply doing this knowing it's going to be
overturned. But there are two amendments that are coming under fire over the next
few years, the First Amendment and the Second Amendment. The First Amendment is
under a sale assault right now, totally. The First Amendment in mispeech and
expression, forget it. That is only if you agree with us, that's
what that's. People want to ban everything else. But if it's against what
we believe or against the narrative, then it should be quashed. That's just
as dangerous as going after the Second Amendment or any other amendment. We have
more coming up. Hi, Tom Martine, your troubleshooter three oh three seven
to one three Talk three oh three seven one three eight two five five.
Welcome to the show. What is going on in your life? I have
with me Tyler from Premiere window cleaning and pressure washing. We've been talking about
the various aspects and if you haven't seen this, they use this drone that
can Now how many stories can you go up with that drone? Right now
at the moment, we've done seven stories. We have not went above.
They're saying it can go up to like thirty six stories. We haven't tested
that far. Well, it's long hose. Do you have a hose?
Do you have a camera? Does it show you? So there's a camera
on the front. We're trying to figure out how to keep it clean because
once solution comes on to it, we kind of go blind while we're up
there. So yeah, that's not it's not a good sitution. But it
has an automatic button for parking right to come back and park yep where you
took off from exactly mark, do you had in your drone that you had
do you did you have an automatic come home button? Oh? God,
yeah? Well? Or or simply if it ever lost connection, if I
flew it too far, I would come home. One time I flew it
too far Man and I would never condone. But I had a certain piece
of software. I could fly it as high as I wanted, not that
I'd ever do it, but I totally lost it, had no idea where
it was. It was far away and extremely high, and I thought it
was gone, Tom, I honest to god, thought it was gone.
I went back inside and you can picture my family room in the deck.
So it took off from my deck on the coffee table outside and I was
sitting there in about fifteen minutes later, she came back and landed right there.
Man, I was so excited. God, how that was crazy?
So it lost connection, but inside remembered where it was. Yeah, and
then I'll tell you what I remember. I just said that I had the
ability to fly it as high as you possibly can. You're the one.
You're the reason I really got rid of that software because I started thinking,
you know, you saw mine. It's not that big. I could get
so high in that thing you can't even see it. I'm not talking far,
I'm talking straight up. And the problem is, man, there's a
lot of helicopters and planes, and you you're the one that told me.
Man, if that thing ever hit a rudder, a rotor, right,
you'd be yeah, or a roter, you'd be cooked. Man, I
know it. It could really do harm. I wonder. I mean there
are laws now, right, do they regulate drones through the FA or something?
Right? Of course? But what do they regulate? Do they?
Mark? Did you said you had a software hack that got it as high
as it wanted to go? Wait? Without that? Is there a limit
built into them? Yeah? So most of them. I don't remember the
altitude, but yes, right out of the boxes. Software just stops.
You can't go any higher than that, and it's probably a good thing to
be honest. I mean, it's pretty high, don't get me wrong.
I don't know how many thousand feet it is. I'm sure we've got listeners
that know. But then you can override that in some but I don't know,
like the brand new ones coming out, And I know I did register
mine on an FAA site at one point. I mean I don't even know
why. I guess in case if it does cause an accident or ends up
somewhere, they can trace it back to you. But I put it under
Tom Martine. Now, these drones are not issued numbers though, right I
don't believe so. Right, So there's not an identifying number or anything like
on an airplane. I'm pretty sure there is now on some of them,
not like a tail number, but they have whether it's a chip or something
electronic or computerized, it has its own number, like maybe a Mac address.
But I'm pretty sure they can tell exactly what that drone was and who
it was registered to if it's registered, you know. And what gets me
though, is how advanced they've become. The thing I think that turned the
corner for drones is when they had the drones that when you take your hands
off the controls, it hovers in place. Yet that changed everything because before
that, once you took off and they never hovered. You just took off
and had to fly, and you could go slow or fast, but you
couldn't literally just stay in place. And that changed everything because what happened with
other people they would get confused. I mean, you had to constantly be
moving, even if you're going slowly. You had to constantly be moving with
marks. I liked it because you could fly it and then just stop and
it just stops. It sits there. One of the fun things you can
do with it, too, is if you have a motorcycle or a car
or a bicycle, you just you set it and tell you to follow,
so you can get in your car and it'll follow your car at whatever you
set it to do, which is really cool. I always thought it would
be cool to do going down I twenty five, except as bridges. Then
you could always see traffic ahead of you and stuff. But by the way
it is, the Bluetooth and the Wi Fi have Mac addresses, so they
each drone is a unique has a unique identifier and those drones if you have
the follow you, they avoid objects, right obviously bridges and tunnels. I
mean, what the mind you can you can tell it only going forward.
I don't know about all the drones out there, but mine. When you're
moving forward, you can absolutely make it to or or won't hit anything unless
if you take it out of that mode. In other words, you can
do Harry carry mode if you want to. Yeah, and they do that
people race. Wait wait, that's not the word I want Harry carry.
It's the well, it's the the suicide pilots. I mean it could do
one of those if you wanted it to Kamakazi. Yeah. The cool part
with ours, right is we bring it up to a certain level and then
we stop it there and it can only move at that level side to side.
So it allows us to kind of keep control of what the drone's doing
up inside the air, so we can get a good clean on it.
Man, I can't wait till you can go building to building. Like in
Dubai, you just hop on a you know, hop in a drone.
There is no dry I we you uber a drum? Do they actually have
that in Dubai? Carrying people. Are you sure. I'm pretty sure they
have that right now in Dubai because I would be really reluctant to be in
something like that because what happens with a power failure, you know, I
mean, because they haven't figured out. Well, actually, you can make
them fool proof if you did some kind of parachute system. I guess that
would be pretty cool. Yeah, I'm sweet. But did you see that
Serrus accident? I think it was last week. Man, That parachute saved
the family. It was a guy, his wife, and I think what
happened a toddler they lost. I don't know what happened, but he lost
control and engine failure a little bit after takeoff and they were in a pretty
wooded area under them, and as a last resort he hit whatever button it
is, deployed the parachute and they all walked away from it with very minor
injuries. But it's crazy that parachute saved them because that wooded area, they
weren't going to be landed anywhere. Man. Yeah, I just saw this.
I just saw it, and they had a video of it. I
don't know if the video came from someone's backyard or where, but you can
see the pictures. I don't know if it was video or just the pictures,
but the engine failed on takeoff, yeah, saving the people. It
said two people on board. Maybe this is not the one, but I'm
pretty sure that's it. And there March seventh, it says March seventh.
This one was so I don't know, man, but yeah, that's an
amazing airplane. What people don't understand is when that parachute does get deployed,
it totals the airframe. I mean, it's not like you can reuse it
again. The airplane's toast, but people live. It was Santa Rosa residents,
including a two year old child. Okay, then I didn't have the
right one thirty eight year old adult. Let me see March eighth headed Santa
Rose, so with two thirty eight adults. So it sounds like to parents
and the kid, but it was a serious SR twenty two. You did
you have one of those? Yes? So how like what do you do?
Is it like like a code you put in or eleven? What do
you havebjects? You have a lever between the two seats that you reach it
you reach and you pull it up. You first you have to pull it
up and then pull it out and and you're not you you are not physically
doing it. What you're doing is releasing a shot an igniter that then then
there's a blaster that blasted through the back of the plane, almost like an
ejection on one of the jets for the Yeah, you have no, you
you wouldn't have the physical strength to do that. You have to kill the
engine before, like if there's a there's a deployment procedure, of course,
and what it is is to yes, you should kill the engine and you
should slow down and then do it. But in an emergency they say it
doesn't matter. I mean, if you're gonna die, you do anything.
Because but then what happens is it shoots out the back what would be what
would be the rear windshield of a car. There is no windshield there,
but it shoots out that direction and then it pulls it rips cords out from
the airframe at four points. So there's so when the parachute is rock there's
a rocket, you fire. The rocket pulls the parachute up, and as
it pulls the parachute up, it pulls these cords out in four points.
So it's a four point harness, and it's it's the front has two places
and the back has two places, and then the parachute comes up in the
center and then it just drops you down. It says, listen to this.
The plane in parachute became entangled in the trees about one hundred feet off
the ground, so the parachute got stuck and the plane got stuck. They
were one hundred feet off the air. That's just insane. They said,
it's a modern day miracle that these people walked away with a few scratches.
Yeah, And I've seen interviews with people. There was one guy that had
a heart attack and lost consciousness, and they came and got him and you're,
you know, man, all kinds of things scared, but he lost
consciousness. How they hell did he deploy it? Well, no, right
before he lost he did. And then there are people who say that pilots
will take unnecessary risks when they have it. They say that it doesn't necessarily
add the safety. I disagree. The same idiot that would take unnecessary chances
would be unsafe in any plane. But I think that if used properly in
the way it's supposed to be used, it can save lives every single time.
I mean if especially when people are in weather conditions and they lose orientation,
they don't know where the hell. You know one that that scares the
hell out of me. I thought about it was a private jet. I'm
pretty sure the guy was a golf but I guess they lost oxygen because they
were too high and then and then it flew and flu and flu into the
ocean. It died. He was a very famous golfer. That like freaked
me out. I'm like that, that's my worst nightmare. On a commercial
jet, You're headed to Hawaii. Somehow oxygen's gone, Pilots and everybody else
are passed out, and that's it. You're done. Rich real quick.
What's your comment on scams? Go ahead, Rich, Hey Tom, just
real quick. You know how we all get disgusted at these people that wake
up and try to take advantage of older people and people. This great movie
out called Beekeeper with Jason Stadium. It's called Beekeeper, all about scams.
Yeah, he gets uh I love him by the way, I love you
see this movie. He gets ultimate revenge on these people that take advantage,
you know, through scams. Oh, I got a long story short,
Oh, Yeah, he's living on a farm, just incognito like he normally
does. Scammer calls the lady who owns the house he's at, and he
goes off on these people. Awesome movie. You won't believe it. Yeah,
what a great idea for a movie. Thank you. I'm gonna look.
I'm gonna look for it. Is it on Netflix or Amazon orware sree
Keeper? Yeah anything. I watched it on Accnity, but uh yeah,
Beekeeper, you should be able to find it anywhere. Thank you, I'm
going to I appreciate it. We got more coming up, Tom Martino,
you're troubleshooter three oh three seven one three talk seven one three eight two five
five. Tyler wants to do a special today for his window washing and pressure
cleaning. Go ahead, Tyler, what do you want to do? Man?
We're running one hundred dollars off for the month for the remainder of the
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They don't have to have a contract with you. They can just calls yep.
They can just call and you'll come one time do their driveway or do
their house. Yep, exactly. So you guys should keep this number handy
just in case, because really there are very few snow removal people that'll just
come out and do it they want. I could have used them last week,
man, I don't think they could have made it out. I don't
think that's the whole problem. I don't think they could have been. Who
was telling me, Oh, Mitch Fleuria told me out at his house in
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Now, somebody said, Tom, you're right about assault rifles. They don't
care about assault rifles. They just want to get their foot in the door
as soon as they get one band, then they go to the next and
then someone else said this Deputy Dollar, he said that that woman was definitely
scammed. He looked at the pictures this morning. But what I want a
Deputy Dollar to find out is why that bank gave immediate access to those funds
when she deposited or when he deposited a five thousand dollars check. That's the
part I don't understand. Usually they wait a while before they give you access
to those funds. But she was able to take those funds out and then
got into trouble. Anyway, we got more coming right up. If you
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or seven to zero nine five three zero zero seven eight. And we were
having a spirited discussion off the air about Mark being a pillar of the community.
I don't even know what that means. But sus who called him a
pillar or We're not going down that gentleman at a bar and Parker. Okay,
so first of all, oh hell, he had to do it.
This was twenty four years ago, which makes it more laughable. Oh yeah,
because twenty four years ago he was a dredge of society. It was
any anyway, I want to thank you guys for being here. Don't forget
you, and this is important. Are we done? Was it? Oh
four? I thought it was forty four? Okay, now it's okay.
I thought I thought it wasn't the is the is the album? Is it
fifty eight? Oh four? At the last hour? All right, man,
I'll see you