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my wide shot of Bob Logan with me, he's from a plumb line and
we'll be talking about plumbing, heating, cooling, electric, we talk about
home services. We're gonna talk about some other stuff as well. Going on,
I want to talk about consumer myths, well not necessarily consumer myths,
but myths, and I want to know if you agree with it, and
I would like you to help me add to the list if you could on
that. So, if you could let me know what you think are common
myths and how we can do away with these myths. I'm going to give
you an example of that, and I'm going to go to the phones as
well, three oh three, seven to one to three talk And of course
you can always call three oh three Martino twenty four to seven for help,
information referrals. But here's the thing. One thing I think we all agree
on, no matter what differences we have, one thing we agree on.
No one should be lied to, cheated, or ripped off, no one.
So I think everyone agrees with that. Right. So what is ripoff?
Sometimes it's out and owt ripoff. Sometimes it's a perception of a ripoff.
Do you know, Bob, I decided you know what one of the
perceptions of a ripoff is one of the main perceptions. What's time equals value?
If you do something too quickly, whether it's a car repair, a
plumbing repair, whether it be any kind of repair or service or consultation.
If you solve the problem quickly, they feel it's worth less money. Have
you noticed that? I agree with that, And we run into that ourselves.
I don't agree with the myth I'm saying, we do run into that
ourselves. We people do believe that time equals value. The more time you
spend, the more I should pay. The less time you spend, the
less time, the less I should pay. Of course, there's a certain
cost to doing business for everyone, whether it's insurance and I say everything,
okay, just you know what I'm talking about, insurance and taxes and licensing
and just equipping vans. And here's the unfortunate thing with business. You have
a certain percentage of people not working at any one time and a certain percentage
working. So if you take one hundred percent of your workforce and equipment,
you might have seventy to eighty percent of any one time working. I mean,
you think you have them all, but you don't, not really in
between jobs, all different things, and you have to aggregate pricing over the
entire units. I mean, you can't. Just I can't tell you how
many times I've heard this. I can buy a part for thirty nine dollars
and have it installed by a handyman. I don't know how to argue that,
other than to say, if the handyman ruins your home, he's gone.
You're done now. Not that it would happen, but what if now
we're going to keep going, go to the phones, and I do want
to talk about myths and I want your input. Here's my first myth I
want you to talk about, and I want you to add to the list
as well. I don't have to go with my myths. Tertification is the
answer to cleaning up our environment and climate change, avoiding climate change or minimizing
climate change. Everyone is getting in to electrification everyone, So what's the real
story with electrification? What do you think? I mean, that's what I
want to know. Will electrification? And I have to sign on to my
YouTube. I haven't done that for my more On Zach, it's your turn.
What's going on with you? Zach? What's happening? Oh? That
was a dial tone? Is that Zach? Did we lose him? If
so, I'll just move on. Three zero three seven one three talk communicate
with me. Should I take Zach or should I try to move on?
Where's Zach? Lists? Okay, then we'll go to Dora. She has
she wants some advice on a body shop. I love advice, especially if
it comes before a problem. But Dora, let's call Zach back when we
get a chance. We have his number. So, Dora, what's going
on? I need a number of a good body shop is Lakewood? Please?
And why does I'm just curious, now, why does it have to
be in Lakewood? In Lakewood? Okay? Well, listen here, here's
all I want to say. You should never pick a place for a major
repair based on where it is, because you really need to pick the best
spot. So I can't give you the best I can't do that. But
here's why. How often do you have bodywork done? If it was a
local doughnut or coffee shop or something you frequent a dry cleaner, I could
see the wisdom in picking one close to you if it's a major repair,
if it's bodywork, I would never pick ever a place based on location.
I just wouldn't. Now, I'm not saying you have a bunch of bad
body shops out there. I just don't know of any. And by the
way, we are very light when it comes on auto body shops. I'm
referral lists dot com. We really should do a better job. But we
don't have many auto body shops. But I do know of some auto body
shops that are pretty good. What do you have to have done? I
just have some minor I got vandalized. Oh you got vandalized. Is your
insurance covering this, Dora, Yes, I expect them to. It's two
large scratches with some sharp objects. It's obvious and that's allers do it.
There's there's no major bodywork need it is. It is damaged, dear.
All the scutches are pretty bad. They're deep. Okay, we have paintless
to repair. Let me think I want people if they have a suggestion on
body shops, I'll tell you that. Unfortunately we you know, we used
to have a good body shop. We recommend it all the time. I'm
not recommending it anymore because they've dropped the ball with me. And if they
dropped the ball with me, I will tell you a really good one that
I know about. They're not cheap, they're excellent, and they're called Bodyworks
by Murray, and they're part now that they do all the high ends and
they can do any kind of car. They have long waits. It's hard
to get booked. But Murray has this shop called Bodyworks. I don't I
know that, and I hate to sound like this, but we don't have
a lot. Caliber has been around for years. I can't speak to their
reputation, but I know they have pretty good ratings. I can ask a
question. So I believe in Colorado by law, you can use even if
you're going through your insurance, can use any body shop, any body shop
you want. That's right. However, is there an advantage because all insurance
companies recommend body shops, so it is there zeroage? Zero advantage, but
zero advantage. But if something doesn't go right and use your own body shop,
well, even if you use theirs, even if you use theirs,
But don't they seprogate for you. Won't they fight for you? Not necessarily.
Nope, they'll say that's between you and the body shop. We've had
that happen Bob, where they say use our shop. Now if they say,
use our shop and we'll guarantee everything one hundred percent and if anything goes
wrong, we'll take care of it. But they don't. If they really
did that, that might be a reason to use the recommended shop. Many
times, the reason it's a recommended shop is they make an agreement with the
body shop. Look, we'll send you a lot of work, don't overcharge
just which is good on the surface, But a lot of times that's code
for use cheaper parts, use some aftermarket parts that are cheaper, don't you
know, Let's let's just try to get him in and out. It's not
necessarily the best. Again, all I can tell you is I wish I
had a recommendation. I know, like I said, I don't. That's
I'm just being straight with you. I don't have a recommendation right now.
We used to have some, and I don't. If anyone wants to call,
if they've had a personal experience with a body shop, I'd love to
hear about it. Three zero three seven one three. Talk Zach. What's
going on? I'll go back to Zach right now, Zach, what's happening?
Hi? My mom is seventy four. She's a a scooter to get
around, and I went to Batteries Plus to buy her two batteries for a
scooter, and it ended up double charging me for four batteries. I guess,
wait a minute, that's an easy problem, isn't it. Don't you
just basically now, wait a minute. You went for a new battery and
they charged her for two batteries and they charge you for four. Yes,
do they claim they delivered four batteries to you? That's what they're saying.
Now. Effort there was two transactions. One got canceled. They supposedly one
transaction. At first they're saying one transaction didn't go through, they didn't have
it, and the other one did. And now they're saying that I walked
out with four batteries, which I didn't. I walked out with two batteries.
And they will not relent on this. They're saying, okay, and
was this on a credit card? Yeah, well the obvious I want to
ask an obvious question. Did you contest the credit card? Yeah, it's
my mom's card, and yes she did, but they bought it and they
won't They won't do that, they won't sell them budget. Wait a minute,
your credit card company should side with you if they show now in the
these two transactions, does it show two batteries in each? Or are they
for transactions? How is it? How does it appear on the statement?
I only have a receipt for one transaction for one hundred and thirty six dollars,
which are two batteries? Yes, and then I went through for one
hundred and fifty five dollars, which was no, no good. We don't
know what that was. Forward I was, and they will not let you
contest that now, and my mom tried to dispute it through her bank because
it was through the debit card, and they're, oh, wait a minute,
Okay, so it's not a credit card. It came right out of
her account. Yeah, as far as I know yet, hold on,
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Here's another myth. The first myth electrification is the answer to cleaning up
the environment and diminishing climate change. Okay, that's the first myth. Second
myth. For humanitarian reasons, we must have open borders. What I'd like
to do is ask people if they disagree or if they want to add to
our myth list. Right now, I'm going to go to the phones and
zach it. Had you know, Bob Logan, our guests say from plumbline
services, He said, had the had the charge has been exactly the same,
it would have been easy to show a duplicate. But why are they
not exactly the same? From what I understand, the one hundred and fifty
five was for two batteries and two court charges, and then the one hundred
and thirty six which I paid was just for two batteries. They didn't do
court charges on one hundred and thirty one hundred and thirty six. Did you
return batteries for the to erase the court charges. No, not yet,
then you should be charged for the course, right, yeah, I would
think so, Yeah, but I'd be fine. I just I don't undertand
why woul charged twice or four batteries? I don't mind being charged with the
Okay, you're going to have to take in the small claims court. And
here's why. They're just gonna claim you got four batteries. But they have
cameras in that store. They can clearly see if you got four batteries or
not. And I would, as part of small claims demand that they show
you the video evidence came hold on to Bob, go ahead. I was
going to say, not only do they have cameras, but they should have
an inventory control system so they can see right in their inventory. Or we're
talking about batteries, of course, whether whether four batteries. Now we can
have somebody call for you as well. But Zach, did you did you
ask him about the video? Yeah? They said the cameras were out that
day. Oh really convenient. That's what they told my mom. Yet was
your mom there alone? Now? It was me alone. My mom's handicaps,
she doesn't walk very well. So I was buying her batteries for a
scooter that she uses, and it takes how many batteries? Two? No,
I'm sorry that these people have to give in. I mean, you
know, I want all the frustrating. I went in the next day and
they showed me the computer screen and there was no charge for one hundred and
fifty five. So she didn't know. We didn't know. So they were
saying there's no charge at first, and then now they're saying that four batteries
left the store, which is done true. Here's my guest. The guy
charged them one hundred and thirty six. After he left the story realized,
oh, I didn't charge the court charge because he didn't leave the batteries,
went in there to adjust it thinking he was gonna bring the batteries back,
and now is the court Yeah, that could be. Is the court charge
like twenty or thirty bucks more? Yeah? I think it's ten dollars a
battery. I think for twenty a battery, I think yeah. I want
someone to call which batteries? Plus? Is it down? Abiline by a
Roman? Okay? Who do we have Kaschina that we can give this to
today? We have wy Jaques in the studio. I'm studio Tom, Doc.
Let's call these guys man this you know, look at do you really
I don't think Zach would go through all this trouble he and his mom to
rip them off for two batteries and just say, look, they should have
video evidence. If they don't, I mean, come on, this is
ridiculous. I and Doc, if you have to, let's go to a
let's go to a district or area manager. Just this just sounds ridiculous to
me, it really does. Okay, hold on a sec, bro,
let's just call Okay, I get so freaking tired of these of these stores
sometimes. Now, look, there are people they're getting ripped off right and
left by shoplifting. That's not what this guy's doing. All right, let's
go to Ruth. Ruth, what's going on? And by the way,
we do have j Jay hang on with a referral. Ruth, what is
your problem with the HOA? Hey, yeah, thanks for having me.
So. I'm a single mom and disabled veteran and I bought my house about
three years ago, and we nicknamed it the Miracle House because we were so
blessed to have it. So I was the first house in a brand new
neighborhood, new construction, because it's the only thing I could find. I
haven't heard a word from the HOA in three years. In January, I
got a certified letter and I'm okay. I signed for it and I opened
Now, how long have you been in the home? Three years? Okay?
And it's a brand new home, correct, Okay, go ahead,
dear. And so I opened up the certified letter and it's a bill for
fifteen hundred dollars. Okay? What is it for? It said, a
late fee and another late fee and the rest was all legal fees. But
are they claiming? Okay, but a late fee for what do you have
monthly payments due? So? I had monthly payments due. I paid those.
This was for not having a landscaping plan on file with the HOA.
So you've been paying your monthly dues. I've been paying my monthly dues.
Everything. That's fine. I've done the landscaping required, brand new backyard.
Of course, nothing was there. I just didn't have the piece of paper
on file with the HOA. So and because of that, oh god,
hold on, when you did your landscaping, who approved it? No one
approved it? Were you supposed to get it approved. I think so.
Maybe At this point it was a brand new subdivision. I was the first
house in. The houses across the street were still a foundation. So I
not. Were you ever warned about this? They say, I was?
I don't. I didn't receive any letters they said they received. They sent
one letter and a second warning letter which I never got. I got a
warning letter about my week being high. I took care of that. But
as far as the so, the whole bill is how much right now?
Right now? It's at almost twenty five hundred, and what do they say
they're going to do? They said they could put a payment plan over the
next eighteen months, and they won't like, they won't give you a break
at all. They won't budge so our h away. Our neighborhood is about
one hundred and seventy houses ish. They spent eighteen thousand dollars on legal fees
in our neighborhood alone last year. Are you what's the neighborhood? Meadows at
vandal Water, meadows at vandalar Vanda Water, Yeah, oh, Vanda Water,
Vanderwater okay? Is it in? Yeah? And so they spent eighteen
thousand dollars on legal fees. Where's this located? Where is this located?
South Loveland, Okay? And so I was shocked at the fifteen hundred dollars
bill, And I'm going, whoa, this is the first time I'm hearing
about this. What's going on? Do you have a contact? Do you
have a contact at the HOA? I do? Uh? Huh? All
right? Hold on a second, is Deputy Dollar around? Uh? Kachina?
It seems like a busy Monday. Is Deputy Dollar around? Because this
might be a pizzolity I can find out. Hold on, let's no matter
what, Let's get this to them because we really need somebody to just call
there and see if they'll give her a break. And I don't just mean
a monthly I mean did they have like did they say they had certified any
kind of certified mailings or anything like that. This was the one and only
one that I received. So they they said they sent other ones. I
said, well, please send me the receipt of all the certified letters you
sent and it was only one. They're full of craft. I asked for
an itemized bill from the legal team. What on earth did they do?
Fifteen dollars worth of legal fees? You know what this is. It's damn
abusive, That's what it is. But I also want to talk to Stan
the hoa man, hang on and we'll get stand on and then I want
to give this to Deputy Dollar as well. Hold on, all right now,
Frank, you have a comment. Make your comment about the Democratic about
the Demo credit ballot? Is that the Democratic Primary? Is that what you're
talking about? Yes, go ahead, Frank. Hey, I'm down here
in Colorado Springs, El Paso County. I looked at my Democratic ballot.
I was going to fill it out. I wanted to put a write in
vote in for a certain candidate. They do not allow write in votes on
the Democratic ballot. They do allow write in votes on the Republican ballot.
A Republican friend of mine showed me her ballot. You know, parties are
allowed to do that. Parties can run themselves any way they want. They're
the only thing they have to do is they have to follow election procedure.
But they don't necessarily have to have open right in. They don't have to
do that, but they have to conduct fair balloting. Now, let me
ask you something, Frank, in the real sense of things, will it
make a difference. Are there enough people that wanted this candidate? Well,
I think so. I'll name the candidate even if you want, go ahead,
I don't care. They wouldn't allow him on the ballot. Bobby Kennedy
Junior. Oh you this is for president? For president you're talking about?
Yes, sir, okay, I see very plainly on the ballot. If
I write Bobby's name in, it will invalidate the ballot. Is do you
know if that's the same in all counties or is that just there? I
don't know. I can only talk about this county. Okay. I'll tell
you why. I'd like to find out. I'd like to find out.
I want someone. I don't know about it. I just don't know.
I'm going to look it up, though. Hold on, I'm Tom Martine
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two zero sixteen twenty two. Hi Tom Martino, you are a trouble Shoot
three all three seven one three Talk plumb Line Services dot com in the house
with us. We had a question about a hot water loop. Can you
retrofit a house? This person says they wait five minutes for hot water.
The question is can you retrofit a home if you don't have it in there
from construction? What do you do? Hold on, let me turn the
mic on. Go ahead, sir. You can. Depending on the area.
There are point of use systems they can help out with that. I
heard that there's one like you put under like the bathroom sink or the kitchen
sink that actually recirculates it right back or to the cold side maybe or somewhere.
I don't know how does that work? Yeah, And I mean,
but they are what the point is you don't have to read. The point
is you don't have to repipe. Yeah, there really are systems that do
that. I would think with a check valve too, it could do it
right, you go right back to the hot water. Yep. I don't
know. So, I mean there's a there's a number of options. Point
of use is probably the most popular, but they can do there are there
are systems that can do it throughout the house. Okay, so hot water
loops can be retrofitted for that caller, M I mean that texter. And
by the way, I always I don't give out this number enough three oh
three, it's it's five seven seven three nine for texting me, hey,
Kelly, are we up on YouTube? Because I didn't get the link and
I wanted to tune on to my YouTube morons and say hi, okay,
Alan, Uh, go ahead, Alan, you have an issue with tree
removal. What's happening? Oh oh Jay? But Jay has a referral and
a body shop. Let me take him first because it's really quick. I'm
sure, Jay, who are you recommending for a body shop? Somebody called
in about Yeah, there's a great body shop in Linklod. Thank you guys
to get him on your list. What what are they called? Perry Terry?
Yes, you're right, you know what. They were on my list
of years ago. Perry and Terry are still around. Yep, they sure
are, and they're just as amazing as ever. And I have a myth
for you. Okay, what is a myth? I want to hear a
myth. Here's a myth. Our oxygenated fuel here in Colorado shaves gas and
the environment. They're full of crap. You're absolutely right, So you're you're
absolutely right. I'll give you another one. Government money does not come from
us. How do you like that one? Okay, thank you very much.
So oxygenated fuels, you use more of it and it doesn't help,
you know. It's funny how people convince themselves that doing things help others,
like open borders. Is it really helping? What is it doing? Do
you know we took all the money and just put it in to that country.
Maybe on helping people rise up against oppressive governments, how about that?
I mean we help people for way less we invade countries for oil, why
not to help people live a good life. I was told there were beatdowns.
I mean, I feel sorry for the Venezuela's coming into our country.
But did I hear that there's a new president there now a better The reason
that these countries are so poor is because of government corruption. You send them
money to the country, it will never reach the people who need them,
you know that. Yeah, that's true, that's true. Some people are
saying that's happening in many countries, and Venezuela used to be a flourishing country
until what socialism that Let that be a lesson. What's really funny is the
states that they're going to are the ones espousing basically that type of government.
Anyway, Alan, what is the issue with tree removal? Alan? Yeah,
so our realtor call is yet sitting asked if we were having a tree
trim during our open house, and I said no, and they sent me
a picture where this tree trim had come and actually cut down a forty foot
tall juniper tree that was one hundred years old and in perfect condition. Wait
a minute, and somebody you said no and somebody thought you wanted it done?
Or did they do it just to be you know, what's going on?
I don't get it. Supposedly this tree trim I had been working with
someone remotely using our address on their name. Oh, I get it.
Pree removed? And how old is this tree they removed? It was one
hundred years old? Oh my god? Was it in good condition? It
was an amazing condition. So what okay, what happens in a you know,
this is very interesting? What happens in a case like this? That's
what I'm calling you for. Holy crap? What did they say? Okay?
I don't even I don't even know what to tell you, Like,
like, what would happen? I just don't, I, honest to god,
don't know what to tell you on this. So did you call the
company? First of all? Well, the company? I talked to the
guy. I think it's a single, single person tree trimmer. He waited
for me to get back. And what did he say? Okay, what
did he say that? He thought? He give me his story? Yeah,
so he he had been contacted by someone based on his Internet advertising.
They asked him to come to the house to remove a tree, and he
went to the wrong house. Is that it? No, No, he
came to the right house. But who who asked him to remove the tree?
Someone supposedly in Texas named Ron Peterson. Okay, now, come on,
man, So who's he billing for? This? Is somebody paying him?
Well? Yeah. He sent a copy of the invoice to this person
at the other end, including a picture of the tree, and he had
circled the tree and said, is this what you want removed? Along with
our ad Whose property was it on? It's on my property, it's inside
a fence on Quebec. And he came onto your property. Yes, and
he removed the tree at the request of this unknown person that for some reason
right now, do you know this person in Texas? No, never heard
of him. Did you contact him? The guy must have a phone number.
Yeah. I called the phone number, it left the message. I
sent a text. The person asked who I was, and I said,
I'm the owner of the house that you sent someone to to remove a tree.
And I heard nothing back from since. And the guy's name in Texas.
The guy's name in Texas is who Ron Peterson. If I recall correctly,
this just doesn't even make sense. I mean, and now there's tree
trimmer is threatening to put a lean on our house because I refuse to pay
for the work because I just lost a five thousand dollar tree. I don't
care about them having I would sue that guy, the tree trimmer. Okay,
I would sue the tree trimmer because that tree trimmer had no indication whatsoever.
I would go and get a judgment against that tree trimmer. That's what
I would do. Even if that tree trimmer goes bankrupt, I don't care.
That's what I would do. That's the first thing, because what come
on? A tree trimmer gets a text and goes and cuts down a freaking
tree. What's the name of this idiot tree trimmer? Go with a sure
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four to seven three all three six two seven eight four sixty six. Somebody
called in earlier and said, you know, I can't write in Robert F.
Kennedy's name. No, not Robert, was it Robert F. Is
it? It's it's uh Bobby Kennedy Jr. Okay, that's what it is.
Yeah, I can't write in his name because they won't let me in
El Paso County in the Democrat primary. Here's the deal. I looked it
up. The rules regarding candidates very state by state, and they're allowed to
do so. Each party has a Each party can do what they want with
that rule. Some states do it, some counties do it. So if
they say you can't, and you're a member of that party, you can't.
That's just the way it is. In a general election, they cannot
limit you to write in anything that's a general election. But each party has
a right to control its own destiny. Steve has a comment on ballots.
Go ahead, Steve tom This is Steve. I'm up in Long Want.
Technically, I'm in a portion of voter county. I'm an independent voter,
and so I get a ballot for both Republican and Democrat. So listening to
you this morning, I took a look at my Democrat ballot and there are
eight people on the ballot. At the bottom is a place to pencil in
a non committed delegate. Okay, what does that mean? You got me?
I don't know what that means. You got top the bottom. Well,
it's just I guess what they're saying is that they're giving you a right
to do it. I guess so, but you know what, it doesn't
leave enough room where it says non committed delegate. It's got a little circle
that you can fill in with your pencil, but there's not enough room otherwise
to write in anyone's name. So it's bizarre. That's weird. That is
really Thanks you, though for telling us about it. Three zo three seven
one three talk seven one three eight two five five Did you know that the
Supreme Court is going to hear a case having to do with censorship? By
the way, I feel censorship is one of the most important things going on
right now in America. I saw a short movie nominated for an Oscar and
it was about burning books. And it wasn't really literally about burning books,
but banning books. And this movie decried the practice, which I agree with,
by the way. I agree that they should be down on that and
that people should not ban books of any kind any were. But what this
documentary conveniently doesn't talk about. They talk about books, yet there have been
books banned for other reasons, so they don't really care about banning books.
They care about banning their books and the books they believe in every single book
that they were complaining about, well, not every single But most of the
books they were complaining about had to do with climate change or LBGYTQ communities.
Okay, now I don't think they should be banned. I think people should
be free to read anything they want. But I also believe people should be
free to espouse their opinions on all of this pro con in between. I
don't care on anything. Anything. That's what a free society is. Anything,
even hate, hate should be You don't have to believe hate. If
you're a moron. You want to believe hate, then believe it or follow
it, but you can't legislate it. And so the laws in Texas and
Florida being challenged at the Supreme Court are being challenged by big tech. Now,
the big social media companies say these laws that were passed, say this
is what the laws say. You cannot censor people on your platform for political
reasons, blah blah blah and other reasons. Now big tech says, now,
listen to how they construct that our freedom of speech is being infringed upon
because we are not allowed to present our perspective. If we have to present
all perspectives. That's their legal argument. They're actually saying, if we can't
present our perspective and we must include everyone. Then our freedom is being infringed
upon our corporate freedom. How bs can that be? The point? Is
this? What if a media company says, we don't want to publish anything
to do with communism at all, or we don't want to publish anything to
do with anything republican, they shouldn't be allowed to do that. Or how
about this, no black people on, no black perspective whatsoever, no Asian
perspective whatsoever. What if one platform wanted to do only white men, those
same people would be back at the Supreme Court saying that media company can't do
that. Yet, media companies are saying we're a private company, we should
be able to do whatever we want. No, that's not true. Private
companies can not infringe upon your constitutional rights. Period. They can't do it.
I don't know what people are why people are against freedom and expression of
all kinds. I don't follow these idiots, but I want them to be
there. In fact, I want to know what people are thinking. I
want to know what organizations are feeling. I want to know. I don't
want it secret. Why do we Why isn't it amazing to me? It's
amazing. I'm just going to call out liberals because that's what it is.
Liberals decry, oh, you can't badness book, you can't band this book.
But they're all for censorship, all for it if somebody talks against the
vaccination, or speaks an alternative theory on COVID, or they want to talk
about how bad something is. Amazing to you, how censorship is totally embraced
and accepted. If you are totally censoring what we don't believe in, Hey,
Tom, is not what freedom is. We should be able to express
everything. I mean everything. I don't care what it is. Oh,
Tom, we shouldn't have hate speech? Why why there's nothing wrong with hate
speech? For I mean, let me let me am in, Tom,
somebody want says hate speech. Doc hold On was okay when I said there's
nothing wrong hatespy. I personally find it offensive and disgusting, but I want
people to be able to express it, so I should say I don't think
there's anything wrong with the expression of it. It's what people embrace. But
you can't legislate that in their hearts and minds. What were you going to
say, doc, Someone I figet it was the claim that said, the
only defense against hate speech is more speech. Yes, of course it is.
And you know what, trust me, it's not so much hate.
By the way, what is hate? What is hate is whatever you call
it to be. I mean, in fact, some of the most hateful
people are the people who are in that organization against Digital Hate. They call
it what the hell is digital hate? First of all, digits can't hate
a binary codes can't hate people hate God Almighty. So it's amazing to me
how liberals take one stance on censorship when they can't have their voice, but
another one when the other party can't have their voice. I say, do
away with all of it, all of it. Our eyes and ears can
take it. We're intelligent people. I mean, do you remember when the
Civil Liberties Union defended This was back when the civil Civil Liberties Union meant something.
They're a bunch of a holes right now. But you know what,
at one time, this Civil Liberties Union actually and this was this was crazy,
but they defended the Nazis. Remember that he said they wanted to have
a march in Skokie, Illinois, I believe, And although they had to
hold their nose to do it, the Civil Liberties Union knew that it was
the freedom to do that that was more important. Do you think they would
ever do that today? Ever? Ever? Do you think that would happen
today? Do you think liberals today would ever ever hold the mantle of freedom
of speech at all costs? Hell? No, are you kidding me?
I mean, think about this. The Hunter Biden laptop story was suppressed as
fake news. I mean, it's the amazing to me what the media's entities
will do to suppress what they want. And by the way it goes both
ways, I just personally can't stand any censorship by anyone. No, I
don't think Florida should have banned the books they banned, or Texas or whatever
in California's banning books. But the other way around, you know. And
here's what's funny. People are protesting like crazy because drag queens could not read
their stories to kids that listen. If drag queens want to have story hour,
let them have story hour. Transgender want to have story let them have
it. It should be the parents that decide of their kids go and attend
it. If kids attended and parents want them to, they should have the
right to. But what's amazing is while they were oh aghast at the idea
of drag queens not being allowed to tell their stories. On the other coast,
uh Kurk Cameron, who wanted to do Christian and Bible stories were he
was banned. So what a bunch of phony jerks, God Almighty, I
am so tired of phony people, Deputy Chopper. As a follow up,
we'll get to right after this. I need to know a little more on
what it is. It says an update on a case we have Bob with
plumbline services with us. Meanwhile, go out and censor something you disagree with.
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Firestone. Now, Deputy Chopper, is this the one with uh Brian and
the Subaru. Yes, it is, sir Okay. He had a two
thousand and nine super roof forest or one hundred and sixty thousand miles. He
says he had four tires put on it Firestone. One went flat and they
replaced it, and then he says, recently the replacement tire fell off,
and he says it's their fault. It actually happened the same day as he
went to work. Later that day, it went off at about twenty five
and eighth Avenue. Then he brought it back. He towed it back to
Firestone. It sat on the rack for over three weeks with nothing being done.
I reached out to oh Fridgestone Firestone Media, and I'm going to cut
it down the long story short because there's a confidentiality of the settlement. But
they offered him some money for the repairs, which wasn't enough to buy a
new car because his car was supposedly totaled. WHOA. I made a suggestion
Tom take the money and ask for your car too. He did, and
he's going to call Shardan Auto Tech and see about just getting the car repaired.
But he's happy with the deal and I'm happy with the turnout too,
so really wow. So anyway, he does have a settlement. That's the
bottom line. Thank you for that one. This is really a weird one.
So the car was totaled. That's because the hub, the whole wheel
and hub came off and he was blaming them for that. So did they
in essence take responsibility? Well, apparently the insurance suggestor did because he totaled
the car and gave him money. Okay, and he's going to get to
keep his car. And get try to get it fixed anyway. Thank you,
chopper, appreciate that. Threeho three seven one three talk three oh three
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a problem, question, complaining somebody lied to you, or cheated you,
or ripped you off. And okay, someone here says, and now
this comes from today, or no, this comes from the other day.
About doing away with auto stopping in your car, you know where I have
a button that does that. I call it golf cart mode. Where you
pull up in your car and you're at a red light and the engine goes
off and then as soon as you as soon as you touch the gas it
starts again. I call it golf cart mode. Bob, have you have
you experienced that? Don't you have a button in your car that can turn
that off? Yes, but it can't be turned off permanently. No,
that's right, that's right. Oh okay, so that's what this guy's talking
about. There's some I guess there's some software that'll disable it completely. I
was told by the dealership, because I would love to disable it completely,
but I've told by two different dealerships that you cannot disable it. No,
I mean, this is an aftermarket. You know, each car manufacturer has
its proprietary software, and if you go online you can find software to hack
into it. I forget what they call the ones for Beamers, but they
have software specifically to hack into it, and you can change all the settings.
You can do the same with Mercedes. You can do the same with
all different cars. I don't think they've cracked Tesla yet, and I don't
know what you would hack in Tesla, but in BMW, for example,
I shouldn't even say this. I don't have it. There's a way to
hack into that. So the monitor works while you're driving if you have your
phone up on it watching a movie. I'm not And what they claim is
if you want a passenger in the front seat to watch the movie, you
know you can still drive and and and you can because that monitor will not
allow you to do any video on it in any case. There's something else
too with the write in candidates. That's not somebody else. YouTube brought out
that Kennedy is not running as a Democrat. That's why you can't write him
in. But I don't. I don't think you can write in anyone.
It's not just Kennedy. Kennedy is running as an independent. But here's the
here's the thing. Parties are allowed to make whatever rules they want for their
candidates. Now, YouTube has come up with some myths. By the way,
I asked for myths. They didn't call in with them, but they
put some myths down on the YouTube thing. And here's here's some myths we
came up with. And I want to know if you know any First of
all, I came up with government money does not come directly from us.
That's a myth. We can actually change climate and weather patterns. Is that
a myth? Some people say that's a myth. Electrification is the answer to
cleaning up the environment and diminishing global or climate change. People say that's bull.
It'll have actually more of an impact. Here's what I want to know.
When if everything was electrical, everything, our heating are our areas.
But okay, let's say heating cars, hot water, Bob, Could you
imagine are people asking for electrification right now for the environment? Are you getting
that? We're getting some inquiries, but we're going to be forced to electrify
everything, well, including what are you talking about the new regulations? Everything
there's going to be. It won't be too long before you will not be
able to you will not buy a gas appliance. In Colorado, everything will
be So when we move to electrical, how will the grid keep up with
it? They haven't figured that part out. They never consider the unattended consequences.
If it just sounds like a good idea, let's do it. So
so, I mean we are actually confronted with this because in California, I
forget what the year is, They're not going to allow vehicles in the state.
If you're if you're delivering to California, you have to have electrical vehicles.
I mean, is that is that for real? I mean, if
you think about it, what do they so if everything is electrical, does
that mean what what happens to all of these celebrities that have private jets?
I mean, okay, all right, here's another one. The guy said
oxygenated fuels are good, are better for the environment, or help the environment,
and we you know that that has been one of the you know,
one of the good parts about that is it gave farmers another source or another
i mean vendor to buy their corn. You know, But as far as
being good for the environment, you just burn more of it. So there
are some others I found on YouTube. I can't find it right now.
But anyway, here's the deal. We're going to uh, we're going to
come back, take your calls, and we have some other stuff to talk
about. For example, we talked about a retro loop for hot water.
Nowadays, people are saying it's actually better to keep a loop running with hot
water for far away bathrooms or bedrooms or kitchens than it is to run the
water until it gets hot. Because water has become such a valuable resource.
The price of water is going up. And really, if that loop,
you can put the loop on a timer, or you can have it one
at a low speed constantly, and it really doesn't use that much heat,
does it. Well, it doesn't use that much heat. I won't use
as much correct Now, would you rather use the water because some people literally
wait three minutes of water running that's a lot of water. Or would you
want the loop so you have hot water more instantly. That's the point.
Now somebody else wants to know if you do a hot water loop, what
if you have an on demand water heater, can you still do a hot
water loop? And does that strain the hell out of it because it's always
running. Do you know. I don't know the answer to that question.
We need to ask because I want to know if you've put them in with
constant flow water heaters. So if you could find that out. And we're
talking about a hot water loop and if you have not built your home with
one and you're wondering, can it be done? The answer is yes,
it can be done. They actually put a recirculating pump at the point of
use or somewhere else, but at the point of use, then have a
check valve system where you can actually rotate. You can circulate hot water so
there's always hot water near that sink, so you don't have to wait three
five six minutes to get hot water. But if you do it with a
on demand water heater, it seems to me that water heater would always be
running and they're not made to always be running. We'll find out about that
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Tom Martino, your troubleshooter three all three seven one three talk three O three
seven one three eight two five five. I'm going to tell you one of
our next crises coming up in America. You know, we have the credit
card bubble, we had the student loan bubble. Now Biden of course trying
to do away with student loan bubble by getting voters by forgiving their debt.
That's what he's trying to do, and uh, you know, making some
progress there. And the next big one is going to be people in retirement
with zero money. Now. I know, we hear about people having lump
sums of money to put in an annuities and some people that have savings equity
in their homes. But the real crisis is going to be as people we
have more people aging now than ever. The biggest chunk of people are old
farts. The biggest chunk of people. We're having less kids, more adults
growing older, and they don't have money. Why because of YOLO You only
live once. People are spending money like crazy right now, more than ever
for the look for the wanna be status to pose whatever it is, and
younger people especially are indebting themselves for life. But anyway, it's called the
only you only live once spending spree now more than ever. When you think
the economy is doing badly, look at the YOLO spending spending on absolute non
sense things that mean nothing and high brand name things over spending. Vacations are
a big deal, once in a lifetime vacations. People are saying, screw
it, I'm not going to be able to afford a good retirement anyway.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to just spend my money to
have fun and the hell with retirement. And more and more people are doing
that. They're saying, the heck with it. I want I want to
I don't care what I have in retirement. I want to live well.
Now, Now here's another thing. Bob with water heaters. I don't know
why I'm on water heaters right now, but people are texting me with a
can you have a water heater that has a combination constant flow and a tank
so you can use it when you need it? Can you can build up
hot water if you want to? So of the some of the water heater
manufacturers do have a small tank reserve tank attached to them. Yes, so
you don't get that what they call cold water sandwiching in between, right?
And how small is that tank? Usually like six gallons? Oh that's small.
Yeah, but it just helps enough to get it going. Yep.
But yeah, the cold water sandwich Are they even popular? I mean it
used to be the rage people said everyone's going to be going to that is
it really didn't take over like people thought, like in Europe. No,
I mean we still we still install quite a few tankless water heaters, but
but the majority of what we what we install our tank style water heaters and
in the high recovery, high recovers. Yes, now, Steve, what
is your issue? Sir? Night? Hey man? What's happening? Hey?
Hold on? Sure? Yeah, no speaker, Hey, I was
online looking for this good real good year real hose hunter's foot and it was
a way below everybody else's prices. It was like eighty five dollars compared.
Is it a water hole are you talking about No, it's an air holes
it. Oh real, that's retractable. You can bring it in and yeah,
I have a couple of those. Now where okay? And where did
you see it? I've seen it online but disappeared and then it came back
up again this morning and it was and what is it called? It's called
Turtlesoon dot app I think Turtlesen. Yeah, yeah, you ever heard of
him? Is that the name of the real or the name of the company.
That's the name of the company supposedly online? No, never heard of
them. You know, those things are available all over the place now,
oh I mean I mean all over the place everywhere. They're great to have,
by the way, But are you talking about the good the one made
by Goodyear? Correct? Yes? Okay? And how much? Well,
here's here's the price that they had eighty five dollars free shipping? Is that
for three eighths three eights? And is it sixty five feet no, it's
one hundred feet. Wow that I've never seen a price that low ever,
I know that's what well and everybody else has got them for two hundred to
three, you know, free shipping. That's pretty damn cheap. But I'll
never I'd look at what have you seen any reviews by turtles? And I
always see there's what I do. I just I go to Amazon normally,
but you know, now you're talking about on go ahead and no Amazon had
them for a lot higher price, of course, but you know they're probably
legiti. But I went. I went and it says buy you know,
pay or buy now, and I checked that, and then I went into
there and to pay for it, and wouldn't let me pay a kate.
It says we trackt your item or something like that, like you know,
reverse it, don't buy it. What I mean, normally, when I
have a problem with paying for something, it's because my card is rejecting it,
and my card automatically tells, well, it won't in fact, it
won't let me buy from certain sites. It won't let me. And well,
I was I was trying to figure out if this was a scam site,
because I after I tried that, I went in there and got their
phone number and I couldn't get through the kept person. I can't even find
it. I can't even find it. I looked at turtles in dot app.
I can't even find turtles in dot com. I can't find That's weird.
It was on my it was on my end of And then they sent
me an email Tom saying finished, you know, playing for the item,
And I thought, well, I'm not going to do that now, No,
I won't. I'm looking at it, man, I can't find it.
I don't know what you're looking at. How do you sell turtlesen p
U R P O E S O I M. And I believe it's called
dot app. I can't find it, and I use the best buy logo
kind of you know, that's what gets me. It just kind of threw
me off. Here's the problem with online buying nowadays. You're everywhere you look
there a ripoffs. I mean really truly. That's that's one of the reasons
I do Amazon. You know, Amazon aggregates other people, so you're not
really just buying from Amazon. But you know, like it or not,
these people at least they won't have on their site a scam vendor. Well
they might one or two transactions, but as soon as they find out there's
anything wrong, they pull them. And that's the only reason I not the
only, but one of the main reasons I do the Amazon thing. And
man, if it comes down to saving ten bucks, it's not worth it's
not worth some of these other sites. It's just not worth it. And
right another thing, I was just trying to find out if it was legit
or not or a scam. No, I've never heard me. Maybe if
someone listening has been there, they can let us know, but I have
never heard of it before. And normally when it comes to shopping online crap.
I know a ton of people. I mean, I am really good
at ferreting out the good places to shop online. I do all Basically,
I don't even go to stores anymore. I don't know how other people do
it, but I don't even bother. I mean, I swear to God,
if I can go on Amazon and have it tomorrow morning, I don't.
And I've done that now at least the last twenty times. I can't
remember shopping other than online. Now supermarkets I'll go to for a quick eyed
and Bob, do you shop online a lot? I do? I mean
all the time. I will never walk through a best Buy or god forbid
a Walmart. I don't. I just don't do it. I mean,
it's a pain in the ass. It's so easy just to go on the
computer and it comes right to your door. In fact, if I think
about it, I don't go to pharmacies anymore. I have express scripts.
I don't do stores for anything. The only thing I buy at a store
is at a supermarket if and that's very In fact, even at a supermarket,
I have stuff delivered. And what makes it great is if you're unhappy
for whatever reason, it doesn't matter what you don't pay shipping to, you
don't make pay shipping back. I mean it's hard, you can't go wrong.
No, I mean you know you have to give it to Bezos in
his buddies. No, I'm serious. The online shopping thing, they have
it perfected now other places. Walmart online is great. There are a lot
of good online places. But I would have to say I never thought i'd
hear myself saying this, but I absolutely positively shop ninety eight percent of the
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Here a question about a twenty twelve Nissan Exterra. We might have to
get one of our experts. Don go ahead. What's going on with you?
Don? Had a quick question. I have a twenty twelve Nissan Exterra
with a little over quite a bit over one hundred thousand miles. I've always
used regular oil. I took it in the other day to Big O' and
requested regular oil and they put synthetic oil. Do you foresee a problem with
that? Or am I going? Okay? So let me get it straight.
You've always used regular oil, is that right? Yes, sir?
And they put synthetic in this time? How many miles on it? Approximately
one hundred and six thousand. Yeah, I do. I do think you
could have a problem. And let me tell you what the problem might be.
Okay. The superior the superior cleaning properties and lubrication properties can clean out
that engine to a point where you want you don't want it to. I
mean usually it builds up and I don't know how to put this, but
if you have unusual wear, it can sometimes fill in the unusual wear and
it becomes it becomes worn in a certain way. And synthetics clean too.
Well, there's nothing wrong with going from a synthetic to a regular, but
going from a regular to a synthetic with high mileage I've been told could be
a problem because of the exceptional cleaning properties. However, I want to ask
one of our people. I want to make sure that's still the rule.
It used to be with the older cars, but with newer cars it may
not be a problem. And well twenty twelve, you know it's ten or
eleven, But I'm talking about it used to be a problem with when I
say older cars, you know, in the nineties and early two thousands.
Hey, Kachina, could we see if Kevin Calkins around, or Jeff Vick
Kevin or even our case, anybody you can get on. I'd like to
ask about that switching. I was always told switching to a synthetic after you've
had, especially one hundred thousand miles, it might be a problem. So
hang on three oh three, yeah, hold on, we'll get an expert
opinion. Three oh three seven to one three talk seven one three eight two
five five. So I have a text question here, so when it comes
to oh, this is interesting, so on a text this has to do
with a water leak. How do you find water leaks and they know they're
using water? How do you? I mean, that's an interesting question.
Actually, how do you find water leaks? I mean, is this outside
in their house? They can't find it, but they know the meter's running
when all the water's off. How do you find it if there's a pinhole?
I mean, how do you are? Are there ways to trace where
water leaks are coming from? Well, I mean it doesn't take very long.
Even a pinhole leak, it's going to expose itself somewhere. But if
you don't see water, if you don't see water and your water meter is
running, we were just concidentally congregation system, it could be outside. Most
likely it is because there are a way to pressurizes. I mean, what
do you do? Though? Seriously, I would turn out I would I
would turn the valve off to the irrigation says, make sure that's off and
and and then see if the meter so if it continues to run. Meters
should not run, I mean, you should not be using water when everything's
off. No, Now what they might what they might be experiencing is a
toilet run That could be very easy. That's probably more likely the case if
it's not the irrigation, it's a toilet runing. Because again, if it's
if it's a pinhole leak or something in the ceiling wall, whatever it's gonna
you're gonna notice it really really quick. Why do pinhole leaks occur? I
hear so much about pinhole leaks? Way, is it from corrosion. It
is from corrosion from the inside and inside out right, And and that's another
myth that Rocky You know, we have clean Rocky Mount and clean water here
many places in Colorado Highlands, Ranch Park or many. I mean, we
have first of all, very hard water in many many places, not to
mention the contaminants in the minerals, but but yes, it's it's it's typically
from the inside out. It starts crowding until a pinhole leak exposes itself.
And again, a pinhole leak can cause a lot of damage because it's a
pressurized pipe. Yeah, and you don't see it for a long time,
so it would be a problem. Now, what about what about inspecting a
home? Is there a way to inspect a home for leaks before you buy
it. Remember, they used to pressurize pipes. Do they do that anymore?
All water lines are pressure I guess that's what I mean. But I
mean they used to put They used to maybe this was on new construction.
They would like block off the pipe and then and then pump it with air
or something to see if it held pressure. Yeah, they'll pressure, they'll
pressurize the pipe. But no one does that when you buy a house,
not not not in an existing home. Now you can do that in the
drain lines, and and sometimes we're required to pressurize a drain line that is
not normally pressurized. So but no, again, the water lines, they're
already pressurized. Okay, Kachinas, see if we can get any of those
guys on if you're if you're still trying, but on another on another thing.
Then we were talking about, Uh, I'm trying to find that other
text on well, I'll have to wait. I can't find it right now
while i'm live three oh three seven one three talks seven one three eight two
five five. Okay, oh, I know what it is. I know
what it is. I don't have the text, but now I remember it
has to do with electrification. You were talking about certain that gas appliances might
so water heaters, when will they be actually phase out? We will have
to have electric water heaters, electric water heaters, electric furnaces, pumps yeah,
wait wait wait wait, heat bumps. So are you saying, though
seriously, furnaces themselves, yes, electric furnaces, yes, how is that?
But that's different than a heat pump, right, Well, I mean
a heat pump is a reverse cycle ac right, and an electric furnace is
an electric furnace with that an electric heating element. Well but the yeah,
and again you're getting it into the tent business, which I don't understand.
I understand, But here's the deal. When is that taking place? I
mean, are you guys at your shows? Are they showing new electric stuff
all the time? Well, from my understanding, in Colorado, we will
not be able to sell. You're required to install heat pumps as early as
the end of twenty twenty five. Wow, in a couple of years.
Yes, you have to have so when you put in a furnace or ac
whatever, you have to have a heat pump associated with it. Correct,
But that's going to be more expensive, which is more expensive right now.
I mean gas is cheap compared to electric right electricals Electric is way more expensive.
You know, I would love to have somebody on from What I'd love
to do is have somebody on from Excel Energy to talk about how they're going
to meet the coming demand. Wasn't there a time when they were encouraging people
to not do electric because they did not want to build new plants. I
thought they were giving and they wanted people to do solar. They want people
to do alternative energy, they want people that. At one time, if
I'm not mistaken, they were trying to encourage gas appliances because of the electrical
load. And if they get to a certain amount, they have to now
build a new plant, and the return on investment is going to be astronomical.
They have to They don't want to build a new plant. I don't
see how they get around building new plant, you know, I don't think
they can get around it. Now, here's the thing that no one wants
to say now. I know Brownie was talking about it earlier today, and
that is we need we need nuclear power. That's what we need. That's
I mean, Jeff Fick is with us. I want to get right to
him. He's an expert, Jeff, thanks for being here. Men,
Jeff, just with camera transmissions. He also does, of course, you
know, repairs and maintenance on vehicles. And Jeff, I heard years ago
when we used to get this call, we would tell people not to do
it. They've had older cars that use regular oil for years and years and
years. They're up around one hundred thousand miles and they want to know about
switching to synthetic, and we would say no, no, no, because
of the superior detergent qualities and stuff could have caused you problems. Is that
still the rule of thumb? Like this guy's got a twenty twelve Nissonic ster
Era, what's the rule on that? He has over one hundred thousand miles
and he went for an oil change and the place put in synthetic. I
would do the same thing. I prefer synthetic fluids. Okay. So it's
not going to go retro on the sludge or on any build up of carbon
that he needed, and it's not going to hurt compression or anything like that.
No, if anything, that may improve it by getting rid of some
of those sludge and they all control rings, Okay, well, well,
do you remember though, In fact, I think you were still on the
show back then, we used to there used to be something about switching to
synthetic on older cars when it had a lot of miles on it. Am
I remembering that sludge could be almost you know, seem beneficial in a way
when you've got some seals or something that started to hard enough and should be
leaking, but there's actually sludge packet it up behind it, and so it's
preventing those lakes from manifesting. So you could potentially end up with some new
leaks that you weren't anticipating because that sludge has been broken down and been moved
away, and now the actual failure that seal starts to show up. But
the car actually will run better. Yeah, yeah, you're gonna have less
friction. It's got a much better poor rate, higher boiling rate, lower
thickening rate, and then they are they're just better all the way around.
Yeah. Now, don is this a folk and synthetic you were given or
is it a multi blend? You know, I'm not sure. I just
saw synthetic, sir, and I did not pay attention on the belt.
How's it running? I did not run it until I talked to you.
I had it done last week that I wanted to talk to you first.
I don't think I don't you know, Jeff doesn't seem to be too shook
up about it. Let me ask you this, was it using an oil
before this? No, No, Sarah was not. So keep track of
it and let us know. I'd be interested to see. But you know,
synthetic oils nowadays. In fact, that's all you're going to see soon,
Jeff. When they say synthetic, does it mean there's no petroleum base
in it at all? Now they're going to have some petroleum base. But
the synthetic itself, I mean, you know, if you look at them
like you're the level, you know, the conventional is like a linear,
a tonic pattern, if you will, whereas the synthetic is like a wave
form. So it's much much more strong, it's much more gurble. You
can get more mileage out of the same oil, change better all the way
around. In fact, I don't think there's a new car that doesn't use
it. What are you? Pretty much not so? Don anybody so using
conventional? Don let us know, man about this. I think that's another
thing they're going to legislate you wait, I mean although you know, although
you know, hybrid cars use oil, electric cars they jeff, really they
don't use any oil. Right, you have lubricants or do you not?
Do you still have to lubricate an electrical car? Yeah, any moving part
is going to require some sort of lubrication of course. So they're not sealed
necessarily there are Will they still have serviceable joints and stuff? Do you think?
Yeah? Particularly, you know, do some of your suspension parts and
I mean you're gonna have to do something, but you don't have like a
traditional pumpkin or anything like that that disperses and gears. You will have gearing,
of course, but it's not a lot of them are starting to run
the motors right off the wheels themselves, Are you kidding me? So?
So the actual speeds are by resistance and you have no gearing whatsoever. So
that's what they're starting to move forward. Wow, that's incredible. Three oh
three seven one three eight two five five. Well okay, thank you very
much. So you know that was maybe I don't think of what I won't
call it a myth, but there was something about the older cars building up
sledge over time or you know, carbon deposits and then cleaning them all out
at once with synthetics could cause a problem. Jeff is saying, the new
cars nowadays aren't going to be affected that much. Don't worry about it.
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two zero sixteen twenty two. Hi tom Archino here three seven one three talk
three oh three seven one three eight two five five Okay now, I By
the way, from time to time, use chat GBTPT on this show,
and I type in questions to see what it comes up with, and I
put in my chat. Now, by the way, I've learned not to
use AI for social things at all, social questions about elections, about COVID,
about anything social, anything at all. If it's so social, it
will come back with the narrative that you would expect, a complete progressive,
woke narrative, complete, absolutely, bar none. No matter what you ask
it, it will come back in favor of woke and progressive ideology. That's
just the way it is. Okay. I'm not saying it's good or bad.
I'm just saying that's just waited. You will never get anything from AI
that bends conservatively ever, Okay, think of their designers. But it is
the most excellent tool for objective knowledge, you know, like what happens if
I do this, or what happens or what's the what makes a better multiply
drumshell when it comes to vibration, or what gives the best decibels for certain
sounds? Okay, Or you're on aircraft, you know you can ask a
technical question. I'm telling you. I asked the questions about compression testing and
all kinds of stuff, so I asked this one. Well, switching to
full synthetic oil cause a problem with an older car that has more than one
hundred thousand miles that has been run on regular oil. And it says switching
to full synthetic on older cars with more than one hundred thousand miles files could
cause problems, not immediate problems. Many mechanics do not recommend switching, And
then it says, however, others do because of the superior protection and lubrication.
But here are some problems that could develop, potential leaks. They have
smaller molecules, It's not necessarily the detergent quality, but smaller molecules than conventional
oil, and could probably reveal leaks that would otherwise not come up. There
By the way, I'll get to more of that, But Troy has a
speaking of auto repair, go ahead, Troy, what's going on with you?
Troy? Hey, Tom, I have a two thousand sixty A six
and I had it from my neighbor, but it needed a motor, so
I took it to this Garcia's Auto Repair Federal Heights. There he spent dollars.
How did you find Garcia's UH for for an Audi? Because I looked
right by there. Okay, two thousand and six Audi A six. Okay,
and you wanted a remand or rebuild that one? What were you going
to remove and replace? Tell me, well, I gave him forty two
dollars to get a different engine in it. Okay, that's what I want
to know. He was going to remove that one? Yeah? Sorry,
And you were buying a rebuilt Yep, he got it from Iowa, It
is what he said. Okay? Did he was it used? Hold on,
this is important because four grand does not sound like enough. Was it
rebuilt, remanufactured or used? Used? That's okay? Now that sounds about
right. Go ahead, okay. But he said it was all finished.
She said, I need to get two new Cadillac converters. I don't know
how you could tell that, I said, okay, Am I able to
drive it home? Which is only two miles after most? He said yes.
So I drove it home and I went to pack it up out of
my driveway, you know, just back it up. Something too close to
the garage door. We were playing in the garage wouldn't even start. I
mean, the battery, nothing would click over. Wait, wait, this
is after after you got it home. How long do you turned it off,
and then you tried to turn it back on. Yeah. A couple
of days later there was okay, and it would not start. A couple
days later, what did it turn out to be? It's the motor.
There's water and oil. Wait, everything underneath my car? Wait a minute,
Wait a minute. Did you have someone look at it? No,
not yet. I called him and he said, well, find a way
to get a toe down here, and so tried getting a toe down there.
I called him and called him. After that, my wife called him,
went to the shop and his son, who works there at the front,
Dan says, my dad's not around. My dad's not around. Wait,
nobody, ok did you say did you say you spent forty five hundred
forty two? Yes, sir? Okay? Did you put it on a
credit card? Dope? Cash? Crap? Crap? And do you you
said there's water and oil? Yeah? I mean underdeep. I got pictures
of it and stuff. It's just all right. Let's get Jeff Vick or
Kevin back on. Listen, man, you need before you take it back
to them, serious, Lee, what you need to do? Has Garcia
has been around a while or is this a place that can fold up and
go away? He's been around a while. All right, here's what I
suggest you do. You may not like the answer, but man, you
got to do this to protect yourself. You need to get it analyzed by
a good shop. Where are you located. I'm in Northblane, like okay,
so go ahead one hundred and fourth and like Fedro or here on.
So you could get down to Kevin at Shardan Auto Tech. And I'm not
suggesting that he tear into it, but he can go through that. First,
we want to see if he put a used engine in it. How
many miles were on this engine? He said, one hundred thousand. Wait
a minute, you paid forty three hundred to have one hundred thousand mile engine
put on that car? Why? And that I didn't know at the time.
He said he's just getting an engine from Iowa and it was broken English
and stuff. So, I mean it was hard to understand, Ah Troy
this man. First of all, if he did listen, if he put
a used engine in there with one hundred thousand miles, you may have gotten
exactly what you paid for. He maybe didn't do anything wrong. I mean,
was there any guarantee on this engine? He didn't even say he didn't
give me payperwork or nothing. Yeah, but what did you Why didn't you
demand it at least? So you have no warranty whatsoever? Do you even
know? Truly if it's a new engine, a different engine. Okay,
I gotta take a break. Pay depit doc. Can we call over to
Garcia's. We need to talk to this guy. I'm serious. Let's call
over there right now if we can. This is ridiculous. Three O three
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three O three seven one three eight two five five welcome to the show.
Okay, if you're seeing like periodic pictures flash up of not the show,
it's uh Mark logged into YouTube showing stuff. I think it would be better
if we had a little context with it, but it's uh randomly showing up,
so there's nothing I can do about it. Three oh three seven one
three talk seven one three eight two five five. We have Kevin Colkin with
us, and I wanted to basically, uh get a handle on this Kevin
a couple things. Are you there, Kevin? Yeah, I'm here all
right. If you saw oil and water underneath a car, what is it
and the car doesn't start? What does it tell you? Oh? Oil
in Wait? Wait, Troy, is it? Is it water or cooling
or what? What are you actually seeing? Are you still there, Troy?
It's a two thousand and six go ahead? Is it? Is it
oil mixed with water or is it coolant? Or what do you see on
the on the ground? Are they two separate puddles? Are they mixed together?
Tell me about it. That's all mixed together and it looks like,
you know, like coolant and water and a little bit of oil because you
could see, you know, the stuff on top of it, so you
could have water gets on or oil gets on water. Okay, how do
I try to say of these pictures of it too, Kevin? How do
you have a lot of coolant hoses? I mean like more than most cars.
So it could be as simple as they use his little plastic wys for
connectors and all kinds of stuff. So it could be fun, okay,
because he just had an engine put in, albeit an engine with one hundred
thousand miles on it. He actually paid forty two hundred bucks for this guy
to take out his old engine and put in one with one hundred thousand miles
on it. And he has leaks all over the place. But Troy,
you said it doesn't start either, right, that's correct. The battery's dead
and everything. Did you try? Did you try? Did you check the
oil level? No? I haven't done anything to it. I've been so
mad. Yeah, okay, so you didn't check the oil level and you
didn't try to jump it? Right? Was a new battery put in there
or is it your old battery? Well it was new a week before,
okay, got it before the engine? All right? Yep, Kevin,
I mean it could be a million things, right, It could be a
million things. I mean the biggest turn I have. I was listening earlier
that you know, no invoice. That's that's crazy with you got nothing,
deputy doc. Did you try calling over their doc? I did try calling
over there, and what happens is it starts to go to voicemail and then
it immediately hangs up. Huh, So you can't even leave a message.
So Troy, listen, it's hard to get a car moving when like that.
I mean, if you want to inspect it, that's what I would
do. I would not go back to this place without knowing what's wrong with
it. I mean you could have there could be so much wrong with it,
or maybe something simple. But what's really puzzling is it doesn't start and
you're seeing a bunch. When you say a bunch of leaking, I mean,
are we talking about like a bunch? How much does it look like
a cup or a pint? A gallon look like? Huh? It's as
white as the car, and it goes the whole length of the car.
Because my driveway's got a slant, and let's go down you know the way
you're there? Oh my god, you don't want you don't want to try
and start that. If he wants to get a toe here, Tom,
I'd be happy to inspect it for him. Yeah, you need to inspect
that, Troy. You need to get it over there. But I would
not take it back to this other guy right now. I mean, you
don't even know what you paid for. At least get an idea. I'd
go over and get an invoice. So I would demand an invoice. Yeah,
go and see if you can get an invoice. Why did you pay
for it without an invoice? Well, because he said he needed money down
and his kid took the money because he wasn't there. And again it's broken
English, so I don't know if they were understanding me or what. But
you know, I did ask for something. My son was there and he
said, Dad, I don't think they're understanding. So I was going to
wait till the dad, just out of curiosity. Why would you go to
someone like that. I'm just so confused. Yeah. I try to people
around, you know, like a mama pop shot or whatever, try to
give them business insurance. I just trust people. But I guess, hey,
Tom, yeah, we have Garcia's online. Okay, good, Luis?
Would would he be kind enough ask him right now, if he could
hold so I can take him and give him more time. Ask him that
and then see, because I need to take this break. In fact,
I have to do it no matter what. Ask him, if you'd be
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three all three nine two zero sixteen twenty two. Hi Tel Martino your troubleshooter
three O three seven one three talk three oh three seven one three eight two
five five. Louise is uh with Garcia's auto repair, and he put in
a used engine in Troy's Audi and Troy says there's oil and water all over
the driveway and it doesn't start Louise, what's going on? Bus? Thank
you for being on. I appreciate it. Louise. Did this engine have
about one hundred thousand miles on it? I'm not quite sure. I'm Luisa's
son, but I'm the only one that's English, you know. Okay,
thank you. Listen. Do you guys warranty the work that you did?
He said, he just had it done. Yeah, we do a warranty
if it had something to do with us, you know what I'm saying.
Yeah, but he just had it done. He didn't even drive it.
He drove it home and it won't start. Yeah. So basically what we
had told him was we found the motor wasn't working, so we had to
put the used one in, and we told him that it wasn't going to
run to its full power due to that catalytic converters that were clogged. And
we had told him that, you know, and he was okay with it,
and then we never heard from him like that again, so we didn't
quite know, you know what I mean. Okay, so you let him
take it with a bad catalytic converter it because he wanted to get it home.
Yeah, Well, he wanted to take it home, right, I
get it. Now. Do you think that's what's causing the problem. It
could be that the motor it's you're not supposed to run the car kind of
pretty much like at all the convert the kind of converters are cloud It can
cause other problems in the motor, you know. He said, though there's
a bunch of oil on the on the driveway. Do you guys have a
way of getting that car over to you? Yeah, we do have SOTRA.
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This is the Troubleshooter Show now, Tom Martine, Hi, Tom Martino
here, Welcome to the show. Three oh three seven one three talk three
oh three seven one three eight two five five. If you have a problem,
question, complaint, give us a call. We'd love to help you
any way we can. And we've had a number of interesting calls over the
last over the last few hours, this one. Listen, people, there's
only so much we can do for people that basically screw themselves. And I
want to bring up the one here that happened to a guy that took his
Audi. He takes it to a place and I don't look at it.
I'm not saying these guys are ripoffs or anything. It's just the way they
do business is not the normal way of doing business. First, he takes
his car there because his engine is out or he thinks it is a two
thousand and six Audi A six. He bought it with a bad engine,
knowing he needed an engine he takes it to Garcia's auto. He doesn't even
understand these people. He doesn't know what they're saying Basil. He's, oh,
there's a language barrier. Okay, well, okay, Well you can't
have a language barrier, or you get someone who speaks Spanish to get past
it. The Sun speaks English pretty well, but he didn't understand completely what
was going on the consumer here. So Troy had them do a used engine.
He didn't know how many miles were on it. He didn't know anything
about the warranty. He has no idea what accessories they did or did not
do. He has no idea. Then he says they said he needed a
catalytic converter, and he didn't want to buy one, so he drove it
home without it, and when he gets home a few days later, it
doesn't start all. He says, there's a bunch of oil on the driveway
along with a lot of water, and the car doesn't start. The guy's
got a major problem. I said, do you have a warranty? I
don't know. I don't even have an invoice. He has nothing, So
he wants to know what to do. I don't know what to tell him.
I don't think you can do anything. That's the problem. You kind
of paint yourself in a corner and then there's not much we can do about
it. So what I did was I referred him to shared an Auto Tech
to get it looked at. I mean, that's really the only thing you
can do. But it's better to get a good shop up front. Three
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You can't be doing stuff like that. You screw yourself. Now, for
the guy in Alpaso County, he was pissed off he couldn't write in a
candidate on the Democrat ticket for the primary. Well, each and every jurisdiction
and party has a right to run their own election the way they want as
the primary, but the general election, you can write someone in. No
one can prevent you from doing that. Now, here's another thing we heard
about, and we're not sure why it happened. We're not sure if it's
a if it's a lone incident. But this one guy was having an open
house selling his home and someone from did he say from Georgia or no,
in Texas? Someone from Texas calls a tree trimmer to come and take the
tree down on the property. This is somebody, Troy, I mean the
owner. Alan doesn't even know this person. Supposedly Ron Peterson in Texas calls
a tree service and says, remove the tree. These people, without any
proof of ownership or anything, come and remove the tree from this guy's property.
So now this guy, he says that was a four or five thousand
dollars tree, and so I don't know what to say about that. So
I asked Bob Logan from Plumbline Services. He's with us today plumbing heat and
clearly elect Bob. Really though, have you guys ever gotten burned? I
mean, if you go to a house and I call somebody and say I
need a furnace or I need you know, my sewer worked on or something,
do you in each and every case, like, what do you do?
Do you say? Are you the owner? I mean, what do
you do we do? We asked him if they're the owner, if you
do that, if it's a l tenant situation, we ask for the owner
to be on site, and so we go through a verification process. There
have been have you ever cases where I've had a few cases where a tenant
will say they're the homeowner and have us do work and then not pay us
after work. Can you put you can still put a lien on the house.
Can't? Well, we end up suing the tenant. I mean it's
because they're the ones who approved the work. But it's yeah, I mean
that's we're talking about a very rare You have to but so many times verify
and also for liability reasons. I mean, even if a tenant wanted to
pay for it out of their own pocket, Uh, it's not their home,
so we have to verify this. You own the property that we're working
on and changing. Okay, even with auto repair, if you pull,
if you literally pull into a garage, nobody asks you if you own the
car. Nobody does. They don't ask, right, I mean, if
you think about it, there are so many ways businesses can get burned.
I mean, you you have a car, right, how many times have
you asked them? Well, do you own that car? Is yours?
Bill has a comment on Amazon, we were talking about online shopping. I
basically have switched. Ninety eight percent of everything I buy is online, and
I can probably get more than half of it the next right the next day.
But there I can't think of anything other than a few groceries now and
then that I buy at the store, and even a lot of that I
have delivered Retail's got to be hurting. I mean, think about it.
You can get it cheaper, better, faster, Bill. What's your comment?
Well, I just wanted to talk to you, Tom, about the
validity of some of Amazon's vendors, and one in particular that I'd like to
go ahead give your listeners a heads up on, sure, and that's k
Grill Shoes K A E g R E E L. It's a scam.
What do you mean by it? Amazon usually does away with those if they
know about it. Spell that again for me. I thought so too.
K A K A E g R E e L. Okay, and tell
me about k grill. What about them? Well, they they advertise all
over the internet, and they're very attractive shoes, and they're I see,
very well priced. I see it. But it's a scam. Well what
you tell me? Are you saying that k grill itself is not a real
company. That's exactly what I'm saying, Tom. Oh, come on,
kgrill dot com is a giant website here. Well, are you saying the
entire thing is a scam? I am, Oh, come on, give
okay, tell me, you'll look further. I think if you'll look further,
you'll see the same thing. What now, now, tell me what
your experience was, because I seek grill has Let's see what are there?
I'm trying to find. They're on an official They're an official Amazon, the
Amazon guarantees them. Well, I'm just tell okay, tell me your experience.
Go ahead, tell me your experience. You'll find out that I'm not.
I'm not sticking up for them. I just want to ask you your
experience. I I see, let's see k grill I see one star.
You're right, one star? Okayam tell me what you mean by a scam?
Though, if you order, you never get it, you get substandard
quality, you get what. Tell me what you mean by a scam.
There's all kinds of ways to say scam. All of the above. The
product is not as represented, the fitting is improper, but mostly and most
of the time, you receive nothing. And if you try to contact god
the store or the website through their through their report, you know you're absolutely
right. Everywhere I'm looking, every single place i'm looking, there are one
star. I don't think there's anything more than one star. And yet you
say they're in Amazon. What did you call it? Yes? Why is
that? I rest my case? But no, no, why would Amazon?
But Amazon has to guarantee usually Amazon. I know this for a fact
because I went on Amazon and I found this company, and then all of
a sudden, I get a refund and it says your shipment is not coming.
And you go on and log into the message and it says that it
did not they were not up to their standards. But this one says.
I'm looking at k Grill all over Amazon and the what's really amazing is the
k grill on these on this Uh, they have great ratings on Amazon.
I wonder if Amazon actually knows about it? What do you think? I
don't know. It's quite a conundrum, isn't it. I didn't realize that
Amazon. I'm looking behind them because actually, oh wait, wait wait,
I'm looking at k grill and it brings you to a page. But then
when I actually look, they're not actually ha grill shoes. I don't think
you can find k grill anymore on here. I don't Oh wait, wait,
there's one, there's one right there. Hold on I want to go
and see what their ratings are. I find k Grill right here, and
k Grill on Amazon has no ratings whatsoever, not bad or good. And
it says, oh, I actually got this thing called a new seller alert,
And then you know, I have something. I have some things on
Amazon that actually give you what's called an alert, and mine says that this
is to be cautioned. But it doesn't say it's a scam. It's called
you know what I have. It's something called fake spot. I don't even
know what it is. I must have put it on my I put it
on my Amazon account. It's like an extension to Chrome. And it doesn't
go just on Amazon, but it goes on other sides as well. But
in any case, you're absolutely right. There are zero reviews on Amazon for
any kgro product at all. How did you discover this? Did you try?
Okay? Did you actually pay? Oh? Yeah? Yes? And
I've called my credit card company and they've credited me the oh good yet charge
and they're going to go back against the company. I don't think they'll have
much luck. But I don't think the company will answer either. I just
can't believe that there's not one not one good rating anywhere, not one scam
or I wonder if it actually I wonder if the company actually exists somewhere.
I mean, I just don't know. I mean, where are they located?
Springfield or Springfield, Michigan. You're sure of that? And if you
go and you look, we should call that. I think bring the older
spring Dale. I'm not sure. But anyway, they show up a picture
of supposedly their manufacturing plant. But that's a scam as well. You know
what we should they have a coast south Field, Michigan, Southfield, Michigan.
Yeah, google Cragel Southfield, Michigan. I got it. Yeah.
You know what else I can't believe. I can't believe though that that.
Yeah, there is no phone number. Yeah, there is no phone number.
And I'm wondering if anyone actually has called them or talked to them about
it. I wonder if anybody's confronted them. I don't know how you do
it as a consumer. Okay, thank you very much for that. You'll
go three seven one three talk seven one three eight two five five Trust Pilot,
which I find pretty good. They have them down at a one point
eight rating, but that's sixteen reviews and there's only one point eight site.
Jabber has them at one. Google doesn't have any ratings. I mean,
you can't. I can't believe it. This guy's right, how many?
How much can you do? I'm almost secure. I'm almost tempted to call
these people. You know, if you can get a number for them,
that would be very interesting to call them and say, you know what you
have, like no ratings or one rating? It's a scam, it says,
I would give them no stars, but you can't do that. I
ordered in December, not gotten my shoes. Worst company ever. Didn't let
this company take Don't let this company take your money. They'll hold it.
You'll never get it back. I've been waiting three months. I've been waiting
for a shipment over ninety days. That's another one. Another one says total
scam. I ordered boots and never got them. Wow, horrible customer service.
There's not one. I mean, I have never seen universally a company
with this many bad ratings. Craig kgro it's ka E G R E E
L dot com. If anyone can get a phone number for them, please
let me know. I would love to call these idiots right now. I'd
love to call them if you can find a number. I can't find one
right now. We got more coming right up. Go with a sure thing
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two. Hi Tom Martino, you're troubleshooter three all three seven to one three
talk three all three seven one three eight two five five. Okay, So
I have bob Logan with us from plumb Line Services. By the way,
we've been talking to and we've been going over some of the stuff that has
tripped people up. I want to go over some other stuff that's important.
First of all, you just heard of K drill shoes. That's the first
time I've ever heard of them. I've never seen as a scam in my
life. And no, they're not a preferred vendor on Amazon, but they
are on Amazon. I'm surprised they haven't been kicked off yet. All Right,
we've been talking a lot about electrification and electric cars are all the rage.
Virtually every single manufacturers come out with them. And there's a list of
the lowest price ones that have the best ratings for the price, in other
words, the most affordable for the buck. And number one comes in as
where is it here? The twenty twenty four Nissan Leaf. It's a cute
little car and it's twenty eight thousand, and they they say it's just ranked
beautifully for everything. Now a little more than that the number two, and
I love this car. This is a cute car. The twenty twenty three
electric Mini Cooper. And that's a thirty thousand, nine hundred. Now that's
a lot of car for thirty thousand, nine hundred. Now here's the thing,
not all of them have federal tax credits. After they sell a certain
number of units, they no longer qualify for federal tax credits. So those
two aren't. The other one is the Kona Electric. That's probably that's a
very cool looking car. That's thirty two thousand, six hundred. The ConA
Electric A twenty twenty four. You know, I bought my kid on a
special he has he has a Tesla, but he doesn't have the He has
the little Model three and I got at the time tax credits for that.
That's a nice little car, that, the Model three, and I don't
see it on this list. The other one is the Now, i'd never
touch this. I don't care what they say. I wouldn't touch it.
The Fiat Electric, Oh my god, oh my Fiat or what yeah?
Yeah, Italian cars, my god, Italian and English. Hey Tombo pep
Ford to stop making them, and some other manufacturers have stopped producing electric cars
because they're not selling it all. Well, they have to though, they
have to because of government regulations. How about the Volvo. They came out
with one. Now, this is amazing. This Volvo is only thirty five
thousand to thirty five thousand dollars for a brand new Volvo Electric. That's pretty
it's a pretty nice car. The Chevy Equinox has an electric version for thirty
five. I would take that Volvo anytime before that. That Volvo looks really
nice. The Mini Cooper looks really nice. Okay, the Volkswagen, i'd
stay. I just I ever since that Volkswagen one of the years ago,
that problem. I just don't trust him. I don't trust Volvo. But
excuse me, Volkswagen. That's twenty it's thirty eight nine or thirty nine grand.
And then you have the Kia. That's a nice little car. The
Kia comes in at getting up there now, thirty nine six. And then
this is one this is like a new entry completely. You know, it's
not a regular manufacturer. It's it's made just for the electric car. It's
called the Fisker. See I've never heard of Karma. Fisker. They were
one of the original electric cars. Really fifteen years ago. I was fooling,
and they were not they yep, they they went out of business.
They were reacquired, I think. So this Fisker is thirty nine. And
then of course here's the Model three. Okay, the Model three is thirty
eight nine. Now what pisses me off is that they're way lower than they
were when I bought them. No, no, it is it's lower thirty
eight nine that pisses That really pisses me off. But uh, that's the
model three, and then the Mustang is thirty nine eight. The Mustang,
now, I've seen a lot of those around anyway. That's the way it
works now. The tax credits go by company because they cut off the tax
credits when they sell a certain number of units. Therefore, not Tesla was
one of the first ones to you know, to have the tax credits discontinued.
Three all three seven one three talk seven one three eight two five five.
If you are truly in the market for an electric car, though,
there's gonna be a lot more. Oh wait, what you mull call?
It? Has a comment Michael on uh kgrill shoes. Go ahead, Michael,
what do you have to say? Yeah, I'm here in Phoenix,
Arizona. I first started listening to your show in Denver. I just love
your show. Thank you man. So I looked up So I looked up
on the internet and I found the phone number to k I think you call
it KA Gill g R E E L. No, you do have a
phone number. What's the phone number? It says at Scamdetector dot Com that
it's three four seven eight seven to one seven seven two six. That's three
four seven eight seven one seven seven two six. I called it and it's
a Google voice number, you know where you have to state your name,
but I do and they didn't answer. I let you do it. Well,
I didn't state my name and stay on. I figured, I bet
you do that. I don't want to go out too much attention. Hey,
Kelly, call them and say we had some questions about their shoes,
and we're a radio show and we're gonna give them some free publicity. Why
don't we do that? Okay, thank you very much for that. I
want to call them and see what they have to say about it. Three
oh three seven one three Talk is our number, and that's Kay Grill or
however you want to say it. But man, do they suck. Also,
let's talk about something that doesn't suck. Let's talk about a great company,
One Clear Choice Garage Doors. Do you know they come out twenty four
to seven to inspect your door if you have it. And I, like
I've said before, I've used them and I love them. One clear Choice
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all for eighty bucks to inspect it. Now they do any part of the
door and also Ideal Home Loans still doing home loans. Now here's why I
say ideal rates are going down. Ideal will refinance you of rates go down
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two. Hi Tom Martino, you're a troubleshooter three all three seven to one
Talk three all three seven one three eight two five five. Welcome to the
show, and what's on your mind today? Now I found something very very
interesting in consumer spending is at an all time high. Consumer confidence is at
an all time high. Now, I know people are bitching and moaning about
the economy and again I'm not. This is not like political, this is
economic. But do you know of all the spending right now going on,
sixty nine percent of it is emotional, it's fashion, it's design, it's
lifestyle sixty nine percent. And people are saying that the current atmosphere and climate,
and I don't mean literal climate, the political climate, whatever, spiritual
climate, just societal society making them want to comfort themselves. So more and
more people are spending money on emotional things, on things to make them feel
better. Some of them define that as activities. Other people define it as
furnishings for their homes, cosmetic surgery, things that make them feel better.
But they say the trigger is emotional and not need based, but emotionally based.
Now, Bob, this is foreign to you because your businesses all need
I mean, I don't think anyone out of an emotion says no. No,
they woke up today and said, well, I really want to buy
a furnace, or I want to get a plumbing leak for well, you
know that's the other thing. Plumbing leaks. No one waits on. If
they see a leak, they call you immediately. They'll when it comes to
electrical they'll put up with an outlet that doesn't work, but they'll never put
up ever with a plumbing problem. That's right. Although that electrical outlet that's
not working could be a safety no no, and it could be a problem.
Right. But anyway, so with emotional spending, there is no emotional
spend when it comes to home services, none, right. I mean it
could be from a water heater maybe to a constant flow or little I mean,
but let's face it. I mean, at the end of the day,
your your hot water, your filtration system, your air conditioning. That
does you know, drive emotional feelings? Right? You want to be comfortable
in your home. It's not just a matter of heating and cooling or hot
water. No, that's true. That's true. You want to be in
the summer when it comes to heat. But you're right. People do not
make an emotional typically, it's it's not a feel good and it's not like
going on vacation, buying a TV or a car, right exactly, right
now, Nelson, what's going on with home warranties? Man? Well,
Tom, I thank thank you for being there. I keep getting these letters
from it looks like from various agencies about home warranties I've never had one.
Don't get one. Don't get one. Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
No, you know what, Nelson. The short answer is don't get
one. And I swear to God, they don't know how to do business,
and that's their problem. Okay, And let me tell you the biggest
problem. It's called the exclusions. Okay, the exclusions. If someone came
I would buy a home warranty today. If someone came to my home and
inspected the systems in my home and then said okay, here's what's covered,
and I would pay the premium. I swear to God I would buy one
today. I think they would be a great deal, even if there's a
small deductible on each repair. So they inspect the HVAC, they inspect the
water heater, they inspect the dishwasher, everything, washingmage, whatever, and
they say, okay, Tom, here is what's covered based on our inspection.
And then I have a warrant and short of me taking a baseball bat
to one of the appliances or systems, it's covered. Okay. The problem
is they don't do that. What home warranties do? They say this,
pay us now and we'll tell you what's covered. Later. I swear to
God that's what they do. So if you have ten items that should be
covered, they base the premium on those ten items. But in a year
or two after paying that premium on ten items, let's say something goes wrong.
Then they come and say, oh, no, that's previous damage,
or that's previous where and tear, or that's owner abuse or whatever. They
say. So now what you thought was covered, Now you only have nine
of those things covered. Yet you're paying the same premium you've paid. They
don't reduce the premium. They don't go retroactive and say, you know,
since we never covered that to begin with, we're gonna give you that money
back. You keep paying a level premium for the perception that these things are
covered, but you never know what's covered until it breaks. Then they tell
you what they'll pay for. Bob, Bob, have you guys gone out
and ever had I want to know something in all the years and tell you
if it's true. Fine, have you had furnaces replaced where you get paid
by a warranty company? Not a single time. And we do more furnace,
air conditioning, sewer line replacements than anybody in Colorado, not a single
time, not a single time, has a warranty paid for it? Nope?
How out of water here? Nope? Nothing? Not one repair you,
not a single Have you been to homes that have warranties? Oh yeah.
A lot of times people will say, oh, I got a home
warranty com but they don't pay and they find a reason. Exactly that's exactly
right, Nelson. What can I tell you how much for this home warrant
to you? One? Uh, it's not stated. They just wanted me
to call a number. There is no prelim stated in the two letters that
I haven't time to be right now. Well, that sucks and it's not
going to work. Now I got to take a break. Three O three
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John Fuller's going to talk about I'm going to spring something on him that I
found out about in It was in England, but I found out up at
this personal injury lawsuit that just blew my mind. And I want to ask
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him of course three oh three five eight six ten eighty six. I want
to go to John Fuller. He's a personal injury attorney. John, I've
heard this and I checked it out, and it's for real somewhere in England.
And this person, this woman won a Christmas tree tossing contest. Okay,
congratulations, she won the contest and her. She had a pending personal
injury lawsuit in the sports with a settlement offer on the table for eight hundred
and thirty thousand dollars. When she won the contest and it hit the newspaper
or wherever it hit, I don't know if it was a literal newspaper,
the insurance company withdrew the offer and she lost the case. What I want
to know is, have you ever had cases Well, obviously you won't take
someone who fakes it or lies or anything, But I'm wondering, have you
ever heard of cases in the States where insurance and I heard this with disability
insurance, they'll go out and investigate people. Do they do that with personal
injury? John? Absolutely they do, Tom. I could tell you some
stories from over the years. I mean, they don't do it on every
single case, but they absolutely will hire private investigators to go out and follow
people and video activities and stuff. And honestly, over the years, I've
had a couple of clients that were surprised to find out that they were caught
on video doing things they claimed they couldn't do as well as they, you
know, as they would like. Sure. So absolutely, yep, it's
a thing it's a real thing. I just couldn't believe it. And I
wonder if this person knew what she was getting into. I mean, because
she was claiming, according to the court documents, that she lost a lot
of the joy in her life, she couldn't pick up her child, and
so that's exactly it. I mean, the moral of the story is,
don't lie about your injuries and your limitations and stuff. If you're going to
claim that you can't do a certain thing, you can't really be surprised that
the insurance company is skeptical and sends out somebody to investigate. But if what
you do winds up on the television or the nightly news, as far as
your Christmas tree throwing proud us, then it's kind of fair game, right.
It's kind of like, you know, people that put out stuff on
social media and don't think that there are people sitting there watching everything that gets
posted. I instruct every client of mine right at the very beginning of the
cases that do not ever post anything about your accident on social media because people
just post the craziest things and it always comes back to haunt them down the
road. So hey, it's a thing we miss in this era where everything's
online. Absolutely, it's fair. Now, John, on the reverse side,
have attorneys ever used something that maybe an insurance company or an employer or
or excuse me, a third party says we've never had a problem with that
before. You must be clumsy. I mean, have you ever researched where
the media or private investigators were able to find dirt? Well, I don't
employ investigators to go find dirt on people that I rarely have an opportunity need
to use information like that. Yeah, I mean, I just don't have
the We have the burden of proof. We're proving that the other side was
negligent their propensity towards clumsiness and stuff. I guess it could be a factor.
No, what I meant was if they ever say, you know,
your client m fell but no one else has ever fallen there, or something
like that, Well, yeah, certainly we want to find other instances of
things happening. Absolutely, that's part of my job. By the way,
John, thank you for humoring me on that. I was curious. Three
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