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Speaker 3: Man, This is the Troubleshooter Show now, Tom Martine.
Speaker 1: Hey, I'm Tom Martino, and I welcome you to the show.
Speaker 1: Three ozho three seven one three talk three oh three
Speaker 1: seven one three eight two five five.
Speaker 4: It's car Day today.
Speaker 1: Pretty soon I'll have the camera up, getting the studio
Speaker 1: peeps in if you're streaming the show, and uh, if
Speaker 1: you want to call in on car stuff, you can.
Speaker 1: But we talk about everything today, but cars is an
Speaker 1: emphasis on Friday. Mark's out today, Mark and Sues. We
Speaker 1: went to a function last night. Mark actually looked really good,
Speaker 1: really good. He dressed up, he cleaned up.
Speaker 5: Well, why do you sound surprised.
Speaker 4: Now, Well, he was doubting it. He doesn't like getting
Speaker 4: dressed up.
Speaker 6: He wore his nice Metallica shirt.
Speaker 1: Of course. Sue's always looks beautiful. She looked great, of course.
Speaker 1: And it was just a wonderful night. And it was
Speaker 1: a better Business Bureau function in Colorado Springs. And they
Speaker 1: seem to be really involved in the community down there
Speaker 1: a bit. Even though I do believe the organization is
Speaker 1: a bit of a dinosaur, and they seem like really
Speaker 1: nice people in the Springs, the people we met.
Speaker 4: Anyway, I also met.
Speaker 1: Two car dealers in the Springs that, speaking of car days,
Speaker 1: that we've never gotten a complaint about, never ever, ever, never, ever, ever,
Speaker 1: not once in my forty five years.
Speaker 5: Now do you find that hard to believe? I do.
Speaker 1: Especially one of them was a a use It is
Speaker 1: a used card dealer, McCloskey. Never not one complaint, not one,
Speaker 1: not one, not one. Then we have Bob Pankas. Bob
Speaker 1: Pankas has three brands and never a complaint. So that's
Speaker 1: pretty cool, huh. I mean you got to give credit
Speaker 1: where credits due, So I think that's pretty guys. And
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna get the uh, I'll get the camera up
Speaker 1: in run. But meanwhile I'm going to say hi to
Speaker 1: everyone and welcome. And I have Kevin Colkin on board.
Speaker 1: I also have, of course, I believe Jeff Fick is there.
Speaker 5: Yep, I'm here, Jeff.
Speaker 1: I got a transmission call the other night. I want
Speaker 1: to get the guy on. I want to run it
Speaker 1: by you again. I don't think I don't think the
Speaker 1: guy has a big argument because he's had the car
Speaker 1: for five years and it was.
Speaker 4: Used when he bought it.
Speaker 1: But he's had it for five years, and he put
Speaker 1: thirty thousand miles on it when he got it and
Speaker 1: had thirty thousand miles. He bought it in June twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: and it was a pre owned car.
Speaker 4: It's an Audi.
Speaker 1: Now, what do you know about Audi transmissions in general?
Speaker 5: Well, for the most part, they're actually pretty durable. You know,
Speaker 5: they've got probably a little bit higher life expectancy than average.
Speaker 1: Okay, Now, he said the car was tuned, and therefore,
Speaker 1: you know that probably caused the problem.
Speaker 5: For it possibly or if.
Speaker 1: Not, they wouldn't touch it. And he didn't know it
Speaker 1: was tuned when he bought it. He was upset with
Speaker 1: the used car dealer who sold it, and I said, look,
Speaker 1: used car dealers have no obligation to know if there's
Speaker 1: a tuning chip in there.
Speaker 4: Explain what tuning is? Can you well on on.
Speaker 5: Over vehicles, Yeah, there was a chip that you put in.
Speaker 5: Then later on you you literally have programs like so
Speaker 5: I e. Like Banks does a lot with the diesel
Speaker 5: trucks and whatnot, and you literally can just plug in
Speaker 5: the obed port and it alters the programming. Nowadays people
Speaker 5: are actually getting in with laptops and doing their own
Speaker 5: custom tuning. Well, you're literally changing software to make the
Speaker 5: car perform better or to get better fuel it.
Speaker 4: Can it cause problems?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, most definitely.
Speaker 4: I'll get him on there and see his name is Mark.
Speaker 4: Let me let me call him.
Speaker 1: I already cleared this with him. Let me just get
Speaker 1: him on here, see if he answers, and see where
Speaker 1: this is going, because I you know, he's he's a
Speaker 1: nice guy. He's a friend of a friend and Mark
Speaker 1: Mark Tom Martine, how are you.
Speaker 5: You're on the air right now? You say, yeah, Mark,
Speaker 5: are you there, sir? Mark?
Speaker 1: He doesn't hear me, Mark, Hello, Hello, Okay. For some reason,
Speaker 1: for some reason, he's not hearing me, and I don't
Speaker 1: understand why I normally make these calls all the time.
Speaker 5: I'll have to figure that out. But in any case, oh,
Speaker 5: I know why.
Speaker 1: I know why I don't have the audio turned on
Speaker 1: to that to that yet I had my never mind,
Speaker 1: I'll do it right now. So anyway, the bottom line is, uh,
Speaker 1: I think that what we're I think what we're finding though,
Speaker 1: we're finding more and more cases where people buying cars
Speaker 1: and how having problems and wondering even though it's a
Speaker 1: used car, is the manufacturer ever responsible?
Speaker 4: Guys, what do you think.
Speaker 5: In the case where if it's altered, then definitely not.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you've not when it's altered, just in general.
Speaker 1: Let me let me get Mark back. I think now
Speaker 1: he'll hear me. I apologize to him. Let me just
Speaker 1: do this again.
Speaker 5: Its smart Mark, Tom Martinez. Do you hear me now?
Speaker 7: I do?
Speaker 4: Thank you, Okay, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: You're on the air, by the way, So we were
Speaker 1: talking about your car, and as you said, you would
Speaker 1: come on the show earlier. So I just called because
Speaker 1: what we want to know is this. You bought the
Speaker 1: car with thirty thousand miles on it right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think of thirty or thirty two thousands.
Speaker 8: What year?
Speaker 4: What year is the car?
Speaker 7: It's twenty sixteen, okay, so and this was twenty nineteen
Speaker 7: ish when I think June of twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: Let me just get the bad news out and then
Speaker 1: we'll see what we can do to help you. The
Speaker 1: news is, you know, on a twenty sixteen car coming
Speaker 1: up on what's truly going to be you know, nine
Speaker 1: years old. The manufacturer has no obligation to anybody on
Speaker 1: anything on a.
Speaker 5: Car like that.
Speaker 1: Now, the place that sold it to you, I know
Speaker 1: you said you were upset that you didn't know there's
Speaker 1: this tuning chip in it, but it wouldn't have mattered anyway.
Speaker 1: The tuning chip in and of itself wouldn't have gotten
Speaker 1: you help anyway, I am. I'm going to be straight
Speaker 1: with you. AUDI would have done nothing for you one
Speaker 1: way or the other. They won't because you have eighty
Speaker 1: thousand miles on a nine year old car, So they
Speaker 1: would not have said, oh, by the way, yeah, let's
Speaker 1: participate and fix this for you. So your premise, and
Speaker 1: again I didn't call you to beat up. I want
Speaker 1: to give you some good news too, but I think
Speaker 1: your premise that you didn't know I had to chip
Speaker 1: in it, therefore you didn't get the benefit of a warranty.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't have had a warranty anyway, and no matter
Speaker 1: what OUTO is telling you, they wouldn't have stepped up
Speaker 1: and they wouldn't have done anything after nine years and
Speaker 1: eighty thousand miles.
Speaker 4: Guys, am I lying or my crying? I mean you
Speaker 4: know that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're spot on, they're straightforward.
Speaker 1: Yes, no one's gonna There were a couple of things
Speaker 1: that they see Auti America when when the service guys
Speaker 1: took it to Auti.
Speaker 7: America, they said, yeah, since the car only has eighty
Speaker 7: thousand miles, we would have participated in this significantly, but
Speaker 7: it's against our rules to go in once a car
Speaker 7: has had a tuning done. And I didn't even know
Speaker 7: what this was until I got into all of this.
Speaker 4: Mark, can I can I just cut you.
Speaker 1: I've done the research, Okay, I just I don't know
Speaker 1: how to put this other than tell you they're lying
Speaker 1: to you. I have never I have never known once,
Speaker 1: not once, for a manufacturer, especially Audi, to get involved
Speaker 1: with an eighty thousand mile car.
Speaker 5: That's nine years old.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I'm just going by what no, no, I
Speaker 4: get it.
Speaker 1: But what I'm getting is it's a fault. But your reasoning,
Speaker 1: and again this is not to beat up in you.
Speaker 1: I'm going to try to help you. The reasoning is,
Speaker 1: had you known back then it had a chip in it,
Speaker 1: what would you have done? A tuning chip.
Speaker 7: Well, this is a significant thing because at the time
Speaker 7: I purchased the car. Once that tuning is in there
Speaker 7: avoids the warranty on the car. So at thirty thousand miles,
Speaker 7: I would have had a warranty, but you did thousand
Speaker 7: But you did. But if I had, you asked me
Speaker 7: what I would if I had known that the warranty
Speaker 7: on that car was a voided, I would not have
Speaker 7: purchased it.
Speaker 1: But let me explain this to you. It would have
Speaker 1: done nothing for the situation today. That's the point I'm
Speaker 1: making is during the warranty period, you didn't have a
Speaker 1: problem where you did not have the benefit of a warranty.
Speaker 1: So it's like it could have It's like saying, well,
Speaker 1: it could have bothered me, it could have hurt me,
Speaker 1: but it didn't. So your premise that ohth I wouldn't
Speaker 1: have purchased it, so I wouldn't have this problem. Now
Speaker 1: it's not going to work. I mean, now you can go,
Speaker 1: you can try that. But that dealer wasn't even an
Speaker 1: AUTI dealer that sold it to you. They have no
Speaker 1: where They would have no way of knowing there's a
Speaker 1: tuning chip in there. They're not specialists, nor do they
Speaker 1: have an obligation. That's the most important part. There is
Speaker 1: no obligation on the part of someone selling a car
Speaker 1: to tell you that it's been tuned or altered in
Speaker 1: any way unless it is defective and they know it
Speaker 1: and they hide it. Three things they know it they hide. Okay, now, Kevin,
Speaker 1: I want to ask you something. When you do a
Speaker 1: used car check, do you check for tuned chips or
Speaker 1: anything like that.
Speaker 5: It'd be very difficult too exactly that.
Speaker 1: But now I want to get to the route and
Speaker 1: try to help them, Okay, because I told him in
Speaker 1: my text to him, I have good news and bad news.
Speaker 1: The bad news is I don't think you're going to
Speaker 1: do anything with Display as this four dealer you bought
Speaker 1: it from. You're not going to get anything from Audi.
Speaker 1: And the argument that nine years ago I bought a car.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, not nine but eight years ago whatever, whenever
Speaker 1: you bought it. You bought a car and it had
Speaker 1: thirty thousand miles and you didn't know how to chip
Speaker 1: in it. It was used and it was as is.
Speaker 1: So let's get to the issue. What can we do
Speaker 1: for you, guys? Jeff, it's stuck in reverse? They said
Speaker 1: he needs a new transmission. Isn't that what they told you?
Speaker 5: Mark?
Speaker 8: Or not?
Speaker 5: Am I?
Speaker 4: Am? I?
Speaker 7: Not?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 7: I actually took the car to three places, three different
Speaker 7: reputable places, all of them diagnosed the car essentially the same.
Speaker 7: When I finally took it to the service center AUDI Service.
Speaker 1: Where are the three places you took There were three
Speaker 1: reputable places.
Speaker 7: Christian Brothers in Castle Rock, simply Euro of Castle Pines,
Speaker 7: and the AUDI Service Center.
Speaker 1: When you took it to the first one is the
Speaker 1: Christian Brothers, okay? And then when you took it to
Speaker 1: the second, did you tell him what the first found?
Speaker 7: I said that I had someone look at this and
Speaker 7: they had told me it needs a new transmission.
Speaker 1: Okay, and that's always then you're never going to get
Speaker 1: another diagnosis. But okay, so the third time that when
Speaker 1: you went to the Audi Service Center.
Speaker 4: What did they tell you? What did you tell them?
Speaker 7: Well, they said that they thought they could fix it
Speaker 7: by replacing mectronic unit, and so they did that. First
Speaker 7: it did not take it did not take care of
Speaker 7: the problem. And then they came.
Speaker 5: Back and said, look, we.
Speaker 7: Obviously can't charge you for the mectronic unit. That's very nice,
Speaker 7: but it is Listen, the guys down at that Parker
Speaker 7: Service Center have been phenopen. They've given me a loaner car.
Speaker 1: They they sound good man. So they said, this didn't work.
Speaker 1: We can't charge you for it, but you probably need
Speaker 1: a transmission, right.
Speaker 7: Yes, yes, And so they gave me the quote on
Speaker 7: the transmission, which is how much you know it's out
Speaker 7: the door? It's about seventeen thousand.
Speaker 5: Guys, what do you think? Let's go one thing at
Speaker 5: a time.
Speaker 1: First and foremost, what do you think eighty thousand miles
Speaker 1: stuck in reverse?
Speaker 4: It's been tuned. Do you think it's very likely it
Speaker 4: could be a transmission?
Speaker 9: Check?
Speaker 5: Jeff, it's very possible. And Kevin, yeah, absolutely, especially when
Speaker 5: they did the electronics already.
Speaker 7: Okay, all right, now what about So the first bid
Speaker 7: that I got was for twenty one thousand. The second
Speaker 7: one doing a used transmission, was about fourteen thousand, and
Speaker 7: Aldi said, look, well, we're not going to charge you
Speaker 7: for the new electronic unit. It's in there, and we're
Speaker 7: going to discount the parts. And you know, at the
Speaker 7: end of the day, everything out the door is sixteen
Speaker 7: change about seventeen thousand.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 4: So guys, what do you think of that price?
Speaker 5: What kind of outy is this?
Speaker 7: It's an S six twenty sixteen.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that sounds on line.
Speaker 7: Oh wow, and it's it's you know, it's in perfect shape.
Speaker 7: So you know, to me kind of.
Speaker 4: How much did you pay for that car back in
Speaker 4: the day.
Speaker 7: I think I traded in a car that they gave me. Actually, yeah,
Speaker 7: I think it was about fourteen thousand, and then I
Speaker 7: paid thirty six thousand, So it was pretty reasonable price,
Speaker 7: I thought.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you paid you said thirty right, thirty something right,
Speaker 1: and plus sixteen you put in it for plus eighteen
Speaker 1: or right?
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I think the original price tag on the car was
Speaker 7: in the high nineties, and I think I ended up
Speaker 7: paying about forty eight thousand if I remember mine.
Speaker 1: So right now, if it's in perfect condition, and the
Speaker 1: other good news is wow, You're not going to be buried.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, You're not going to be bared. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 5: and after you put this investment in fixing this transmission,
Speaker 5: before it leaves, you need to if that tune has
Speaker 5: been in question, it needs to be returned back to
Speaker 5: factory settings.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 1: They would probably do that automatically, wouldn't They would sure
Speaker 1: make sure.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I believe that's their intention. Now I also ask
Speaker 7: you them about, you know, what's the warranty moving forward,
Speaker 7: and they said, you know, you have a one year
Speaker 7: warranty on the transmission. But obviously with this history with you,
Speaker 7: we'll we'll be kind.
Speaker 5: Of watching out for you. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now I will say, let's see, I'm trying to find
Speaker 1: a uh, I'm trying to find a a comp.
Speaker 5: For you on that car.
Speaker 1: But it's hard to find, like on what that car
Speaker 1: would be worth once you do this work, and I
Speaker 1: am getting god, there's hardly here's the problem. There's hardly
Speaker 1: any even for sale. I don't know if that's good
Speaker 1: or bad.
Speaker 7: I mean, they're hard to they're hard to find.
Speaker 5: They are.
Speaker 7: It's the last year out.
Speaker 1: He did a You know what, from all my indications,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be a little tiny over a normal deal
Speaker 1: if you went out to buy one with it the
Speaker 1: same specs and mileage, which isn't I mean, you're gonna
Speaker 1: be over You're gonna be But if you like the
Speaker 1: car and it's gonna work, you're not overpay, You're not.
Speaker 5: It's not terrible, it's not terrible.
Speaker 1: I was hoping they would tell me they didn't think
Speaker 1: the price was right, and I was hoping they would
Speaker 1: tell me they didn't think that you you didn't need
Speaker 1: a brand new one. That's what I was hoping they
Speaker 1: would tell me. I got to take a break. I'm
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Speaker 1: two zero sixteen twenty two. Hi Tom Martino, your troubleshooter
Speaker 1: at three O three seven one three talks seven one
Speaker 1: three eight two five five. We got some quick follow
Speaker 1: ups here. First of all, we had Skyline Mitsubishi. The
Speaker 1: woman called she had a FOURD escape and if we
Speaker 1: recapped that problem, Dmitri, can you re recap that, sir?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 11: Meyra called U yesterday and she said she bought a
Speaker 11: used twenty seven escape from Skyline Mitsubishi, which broke down
Speaker 11: the same day that she bought it.
Speaker 1: And yeah, and I said, look, you bought it as is.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what we can do. But did they
Speaker 1: know about it? What's going on? And uh so, what's
Speaker 1: going to tell me about it?
Speaker 11: Well, you may recall that her biggest stumbling block was
Speaker 11: that Skyline, who also sold her or at least included
Speaker 11: a warranty with that car, a third party warranty needed
Speaker 11: nine hundred and fifty dollars to tear down the engine
Speaker 11: so that they can present the results to the warranty
Speaker 11: company in hopes that they louth their eyes a replacement engine.
Speaker 12: That was that was a stumbling block for Maras.
Speaker 1: So I call yeah, yeah, I mean because a warranty
Speaker 1: company wants to know that is their problem before they
Speaker 1: pay on it.
Speaker 11: Yeah, she was concerned that not only is it a
Speaker 11: lot of money, but if the warranty company declines the repair,
Speaker 11: then she'll still be on the hook for the night.
Speaker 4: So if we work out, so I spoke.
Speaker 11: With Grant, who's the service manager and a wonderful man
Speaker 11: over there at Skyline Mitsubishi and Thornton, and what he
Speaker 11: offered to do is to do the teardown so called
Speaker 11: on spec, so that they'll do the teardown at no
Speaker 11: cost to Mayra in hopes that the warranty company will
Speaker 11: approve the repair and the costs of the teardown if
Speaker 11: they don't. But well, then he said, which I didn't expect.
Speaker 11: This was all his idea. He said that they've already
Speaker 11: discussed this problem internally, and Grant said that they will
Speaker 11: work with Mayra to trade her out of that car
Speaker 11: into a different.
Speaker 4: Car, So if warranty doesn't cover it.
Speaker 11: She won't be responsible for the nine point fifty and
Speaker 11: she can either take the broken car back or they'll
Speaker 11: work with her to trade her into a different used car.
Speaker 5: Okay, and that's a really good.
Speaker 4: Start to the resolution. She's a good start.
Speaker 5: But that's great.
Speaker 11: But something more important is that Grant said that he's
Speaker 11: worked with this particular third party warranty company before and
Speaker 11: he thinks they're a solid company.
Speaker 12: He actually does expect them.
Speaker 11: His expectation is that they'll approve a replacementtention for this car,
Speaker 11: so it might not come to.
Speaker 12: Redoing the deal.
Speaker 11: So Meyra was very happy and Brent and Skyline were
Speaker 11: just really great.
Speaker 1: Speaking of car, Stevenson completed mechanical repairs at no cost.
Speaker 4: What is this one?
Speaker 11: Well, yeah, you may recall maybe a month or so
Speaker 11: ago a lady called because she was driving her Lexus
Speaker 11: which had recently been serviced at Stevenson Lexis, and the
Speaker 11: wheel fell off, and at the time Stevenson Stevenson denied responsibility,
Speaker 11: but following our inquiries or my inquiries to Stephenson Lexus,
Speaker 11: they agreed to and have already completed all the mechanical
Speaker 11: repairs at their expense, and last time I checked with
Speaker 11: a caller, they also agreed to do all of the
Speaker 11: body repairs at their expense and their own body shop.
Speaker 11: And furthermore, during that entire time, they provided her with
Speaker 11: a loaner vehicle.
Speaker 4: So Stephen was this called what.
Speaker 5: Was her name?
Speaker 12: Oh boy.
Speaker 13: Bad?
Speaker 11: Yeah, it was at least a month and a half ago,
Speaker 11: and I think her.
Speaker 12: Name was Well, I don't to see you here.
Speaker 11: Anyway, Jessica, Jessica, you're exactly right, Jessica twenty ten.
Speaker 4: Lexus, Yeah, so they are.
Speaker 11: They are fixing it for I think it's probably already
Speaker 11: been fixed. I mean he took him a few days
Speaker 11: to do the mechanical repairs and then they immediately sent
Speaker 11: it to their body shop. So uh, anyway, so Lexus,
Speaker 11: you know, really stepped up.
Speaker 1: Good.
Speaker 11: Alexas stepped up and that's good man.
Speaker 4: I mean that this is really good.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be I think I'm going to overuse my
Speaker 1: dinger today.
Speaker 5: I'm not sure.
Speaker 4: Let me see what else best Buy?
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, that's another one from the day before yesterday.
Speaker 11: You may recall Daryl called in because he bought a
Speaker 11: ton of electronics they had Best Buy in Longmont, including
Speaker 11: the two problems.
Speaker 1: And then he said he couldn't get the geek squad
Speaker 1: to his house.
Speaker 4: Instead, they sent a guy in a truck.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 12: I have no problem with a guy in a truck.
Speaker 11: But the problem was the guy has never installed a
Speaker 11: satellite system.
Speaker 4: So what happened?
Speaker 11: So I developed a contact at best By Corporate somewhere
Speaker 11: far away, and the lady I spoke with via email
Speaker 11: asked me for contact information for both Darryl, the consumer
Speaker 11: and the store manager.
Speaker 5: They reach out.
Speaker 11: Yeah, so Darrow and I spoke yesterday and he said
Speaker 11: he got a call from best Buy and they made
Speaker 11: him two great offers. One is he can have a
Speaker 11: complete refund if he doesn't feel comfortable with him. But
Speaker 11: they also asked him to please give best Buy another
Speaker 11: chance to install this stuff. They're going to find a
Speaker 11: crew that's actually experienced and knowledgeable and installing this kind
Speaker 11: of equipment. And Daryl was tickled pink by that because
Speaker 11: you know his goal is to get the equipment up
Speaker 11: and running.
Speaker 12: That's just to get a refund on installations.
Speaker 5: That is wonderful. This is a triple dinger.
Speaker 11: Well, thanks, you know, but there are a whole bunch
Speaker 11: of others that you know didn't work out, and you
Speaker 11: know there's still You may recall Michelle, who might be
Speaker 11: calling us again today with Brown Point Mortgage. She called
Speaker 11: in on the fourth of this month because Brown Point
Speaker 11: Mortgage took one of her insurance settlement checks and is
Speaker 11: now withholding the money.
Speaker 5: Yeah no, wait a minute, yeah yeah, I wasn't sure
Speaker 5: if that's a skit.
Speaker 1: Are you talking about the one that lady had to
Speaker 1: send back twenty three grand?
Speaker 12: No, that's another stong hold on.
Speaker 1: Hold on, all right, we'll talk about this coming up
Speaker 1: because I need to take a break. But let me
Speaker 1: get to this because I think everyone agrees that d
Speaker 1: deserves the dinger.
Speaker 4: That's one, two and three where there is you know
Speaker 4: that dinger gets tired.
Speaker 12: I would have settled just for the anchovy pizza.
Speaker 4: Okay, we got more coming right up.
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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show, and I do believe I have
Speaker 1: the ugly guys up on camera and I'll be going
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Speaker 4: Ain't here, and uh, I'll do it.
Speaker 1: In fact, they're probably up there now. Yeah they are.
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Speaker 1: the show. By the way, even if you listen to
Speaker 1: SEW on radio, which you should, you can always stream
Speaker 1: it or download it, I mean later.
Speaker 10: They're awesome.
Speaker 14: And Jeff has just said he's gonna buy me a purse.
Speaker 4: A purse, yes, yes, four.
Speaker 5: That's enough to handle my credit card because I.
Speaker 4: He's a foil line purse.
Speaker 14: No, no, no, no.
Speaker 4: Carry your flask.
Speaker 15: No, okay, oh I have a flask. No oh, I thought, interesting,
Speaker 15: that's that's news to me. No.
Speaker 14: No, Jeff has graciously honored to buy me.
Speaker 4: A Louis time Lois tongue.
Speaker 15: Yeah yeah, yeah, I don't know about Yeah, so the purse,
Speaker 15: so the pizza can be delivered in the purse.
Speaker 4: Okay, so yeah, all right.
Speaker 1: By the way, here's something I'm confused about, people, Maybe
Speaker 1: you can tell me. Of course, calls callers always take
Speaker 1: priority on the show, so I would go right to you.
Speaker 1: But three oh three seven one three talks our number
Speaker 1: or three oh three Martino three oh three, six, two seven, eight,
Speaker 1: four sixty six.
Speaker 4: So what am I confused about? I'm going to tell you.
Speaker 1: As you know, I'm involved in an investment now through
Speaker 1: my company. But I take a look at this S
Speaker 1: and P, and I mentioned the other day that the
Speaker 1: S and P is top loaded.
Speaker 5: In other words, the reason the.
Speaker 1: SNP is doing so great and showing such fantastic returns
Speaker 1: basically boiled down to just a handful of companies. And
Speaker 1: the number one value getter Navidia, it's just incredible. Number
Speaker 1: two Tesla, Number three micro strategy. Now you want to
Speaker 1: know the shock.
Speaker 5: Number four? You want to take a guess?
Speaker 1: The number four highest valued stock for increases in value?
Speaker 1: Come on, now you want to take a guess? Guys,
Speaker 1: come on, I'll take you overall on the S. Well, well,
Speaker 1: the S and P are the leaders in general, right,
Speaker 1: so then the top of the S and P Vidiot,
Speaker 1: Tesla micro Strategy and number four, my morons, you want
Speaker 1: to take a stab at this? I mean this to me,
Speaker 1: to me, it's shocking, game stop all, not again, it's
Speaker 1: it's not Here's what's weird. It never went away, it
Speaker 1: went that, that craziness went away, that when they racked
Speaker 1: it up. But it has always been doing well. And
Speaker 1: here's the thing. There's no value.
Speaker 5: People.
Speaker 1: Did you know that there's no value? There's no value?
Speaker 1: What do you I mean, how does that happen? So so,
Speaker 1: you know, I always say, you know, I come down
Speaker 1: on the investment industry. I don't like it so much.
Speaker 1: I say, it's it's crazy the way they're that.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 1: But but listen, if you go into a stock fund,
Speaker 1: even game Stop is helping you make money, right, so
Speaker 1: you can make some money. But if you buy game Stop,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, you can take a little ride up.
Speaker 1: But my god, it's it's really really a dangerous stock
Speaker 1: in my opinion, when you don't have value. You know,
Speaker 1: Warren Buffett says, go for value, go for value, go
Speaker 1: for true earnings, go for fundamentals. There are other people
Speaker 1: that say, go for the short rides up and down.
Speaker 1: If you're not going to babysit those short rides, be
Speaker 1: really careful, Okay, I know, seriously, sure you can make
Speaker 1: money doing anything. You can make money in Vegas, but
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean you want to right. So in other words,
Speaker 1: so oh, and after game Stop a company called super
Speaker 1: micro Computer, and then Planter and Plant or Paliner Palin
Speaker 1: Palent and then after that, well those are the main ones.
Speaker 1: But Amazon and Apple in the top one two, three.
Speaker 5: Four five six.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so Apple and Amazon always managed to stay up
Speaker 1: in the top ten. But you know who joined them recently,
Speaker 1: Trump Media and Technology.
Speaker 4: Wow, So those are the top performers.
Speaker 1: And as I said, even being in an S and
Speaker 1: P fund is not necessarily a great idea all the time.
Speaker 1: But the point is you need people who can help
Speaker 1: you through that. Okay, So don't I think unless you're
Speaker 1: a genius and you do this really, I mean you
Speaker 1: really really want to do it. There's nothing wrong with
Speaker 1: doing it yourself at all, if you know what you're doing. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we got more coming up. I'm Tom Martine. Three oh
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Speaker 4: Okay, So I got some texts about.
Speaker 1: Cars, and this one is why why is the average
Speaker 1: stay at a body shop two months? I'd like to
Speaker 1: know that actually, because I don't know of anyone. I
Speaker 1: don't know of anyone for anything, that can take a
Speaker 1: car to a body shop and get it back in
Speaker 1: less than two months. Guys, it's just ridiculous. Come on,
Speaker 1: there's no more COVID. Come on, no, I think they're
Speaker 1: used to that. And there's a parts problem. I think
Speaker 1: it's a double problem. But there's no incentive for a
Speaker 1: body shop to do it though, because they want to
Speaker 1: be paid. They want a quicker turnaround than two months.
Speaker 1: Can you I mean imagine the storage problem. In fact,
Speaker 1: when I had my daughter's car recently fixed and I
Speaker 1: talked about it, it was there for two months. That
Speaker 1: was after I already pre ordered the parts and paid
Speaker 1: for them, had them delivered, then took the car in. Okay,
Speaker 1: So they have cars and rows and rows of cars outside.
Speaker 1: They can't That can't make them a lot of money,
Speaker 1: you know, having cars sitting there. So who's where? Where
Speaker 1: is the It's not them doing it? Who's doing it?
Speaker 5: A lot of it has to do with the way
Speaker 5: the parts trickle in too. I mean they'll they'll sell.
Speaker 4: They used to inventory a lot.
Speaker 1: And then what Kevin alluded to is during COVID they
Speaker 1: got they they said, wait a minute, the world didn't
Speaker 1: end when we had to put in a special order.
Speaker 1: When we get enough parts, when we get fifty we
Speaker 1: put in an order, or if we have to punch
Speaker 1: out some parts. You know, if I'm a manufacturer, the
Speaker 1: world didn't end, and people waited for them, and we
Speaker 1: saved money by not having carrying costs, and so, Kevin,
Speaker 1: you think they just thought, why go back to the
Speaker 1: old systems.
Speaker 9: They don't have to. They still sell the same number
Speaker 9: of parts with less overhead. But it's also insurance companies.
Speaker 9: We deal with them, you know, for like front end crashes,
Speaker 9: the stuff you know, when you hit a curb or something,
Speaker 9: and some of them they can take up to a
Speaker 9: week or two just to answer an email for a
Speaker 9: follow up. Come on, it's insanity, it's crazy. There's a
Speaker 9: couple we just want even to do any work with anymore.
Speaker 9: It's just too difficult. Oh man, you know, progressive is
Speaker 9: the worst. There's a lot of people with it. But
Speaker 9: we'll send an email out and you can wait easily
Speaker 9: ten days to two weeks to get an answer, and
Speaker 9: they want to answer the phone.
Speaker 4: So I looked up.
Speaker 1: We were talking off the air about cold calling people
Speaker 1: on the air, and there are FCC rules that say
Speaker 1: that you can be fined the average fine. There hasn't
Speaker 1: been many, by the way at all. Okay, in fact,
Speaker 1: there have been a handful in the entire country since
Speaker 1: the rule in two thousand and eight.
Speaker 4: Oh no, no, excuse me.
Speaker 1: Before two thousand and eight, the largest fine so far
Speaker 1: has been four thousand dollars.
Speaker 5: According to my AI. Now I don't know that shut.
Speaker 16: In twenty twelve, they were fined twenty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 4: Oh who was that?
Speaker 1: That doesn't it doesn't say here. It says four thousand about.
Speaker 5: Any broadcast law dot org. Okay, I looked at I'm
Speaker 5: looking at my.
Speaker 6: Chat broadcasts blog dot com.
Speaker 5: Excuse me? Okay, thanks.
Speaker 4: Anyway, the complaints were the complaints.
Speaker 1: Are necessary to provide necessary documentation and evidence, and the
Speaker 1: FCC does not investigate without a complaint. The complaint should
Speaker 1: be from the victim unless someone else has standing. I
Speaker 1: guess that would be if you called somebody's company maybe
Speaker 1: uh dragon, and then the owner of the company heard
Speaker 1: the guy the employee being embarrassed or something, so they
Speaker 1: have to have standing.
Speaker 4: So it's not like you just do it and you're fined.
Speaker 16: But you see, that's not the impending lawsuits from the
Speaker 16: person that's on the air.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: I was maybe if the YouTube wants if I called
Speaker 1: one of them and they complained and we split the
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty grand.
Speaker 5: Now I'm just kidding.
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Speaker 1: dot com. Today's car Day and we got somebody wants
Speaker 1: to talk about a car, two thousand and nine Chevy Silverado.
Speaker 1: And then we have a story that I promised to
Speaker 1: tell yesterday. Well, I didn't really tease it so much.
Speaker 1: I talked a little bit at a little bit about
Speaker 1: it off the air, about something sneaky I did in
Speaker 1: real estate that I don't think might have been totally allowed.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure. And I forgot to ask Brad O'Brien.
Speaker 1: So I'd like to get him back on today for
Speaker 1: a quick hit so I can ask him about it,
Speaker 1: because I was going to ask him about it yesterday. So, Kachina,
Speaker 1: when you get a chance, if you can get Brad
Speaker 1: O'Brien up for a few minutes, it would help.
Speaker 4: And I want to go over this ques this strategy.
Speaker 1: I did, and Deputy d reminded me of it and said,
Speaker 1: you know you You said you wanted to ask Brad
Speaker 1: O'Brien about it, and I never did. So, Adam, let's
Speaker 1: go to your nine Chevy Silverado.
Speaker 4: What's going on?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 13: Hi, good morning guys. So the other week I was
Speaker 13: under my truck. I had to replace the little plastic
Speaker 13: bushing that connected my gear shift to the transmission.
Speaker 3: It deteriorated and broke off.
Speaker 13: So I got that replace, but I noticed some oil seepage,
Speaker 13: no dripping yet nothing on my driveway, and I think
Speaker 13: it's Is it called the rear main seal? Is that
Speaker 13: between the engine and the transmission?
Speaker 1: Is that?
Speaker 18: Is that what that gast is?
Speaker 13: Yeah, exactly, Okay, My question really was I just want
Speaker 13: to kind of start saving up for this as a truck.
Speaker 13: I don't drive very often. I have a work truck,
Speaker 13: but uh, I was just wondering what a ballpark?
Speaker 4: Are you sure that's what it is?
Speaker 5: Are you sure that's where it's coming from?
Speaker 18: My best guess, I'm not a training mechanic.
Speaker 4: But how many miles?
Speaker 13: Pretty evident right there? One hundred and sixty, So.
Speaker 5: It's a good possibility. And you also have the oil
Speaker 5: filter adapter is right there. It's just too bolt and
Speaker 5: those are very very common for leaking. Okay, yeah, take
Speaker 5: a look at that. You know, as far as a
Speaker 5: rear main you're you're talking about nine and a half
Speaker 5: hours worth of work. Plus the kit and everything else.
Speaker 5: So you so you're probably looking roughly right in the
Speaker 5: neighborhood about seventeen hundred yeah, sev.
Speaker 13: Okay, really what My main question was kind of.
Speaker 5: Wow, that's a lot of money.
Speaker 9: That'd be real sure, because oil leaks, you got to
Speaker 9: start from the top and work down.
Speaker 1: I want to ask you something, how often do rear
Speaker 1: main seals go.
Speaker 5: It's actually pretty common. You know, you have to take
Speaker 5: the transmission out in order to access it. So we
Speaker 5: actually see quite a.
Speaker 19: Fettle common on all vehicles now, but he's probably over
Speaker 19: one hundred thousand mile vehicles.
Speaker 9: They don't go out frequently, but just a lot of
Speaker 9: cars have them.
Speaker 1: I have a leak there, Okay, So again it may
Speaker 1: not be a rear main seal though, Adam, do you
Speaker 1: hear what they said?
Speaker 5: It's very very common.
Speaker 13: Yeah, for sure, hopefully it is very very common.
Speaker 5: Okay, but no, there's no no, it's very very common
Speaker 5: for that oil filter adapter to leak. Yep. And it
Speaker 5: literally has two bolts. It's a piece of cake. You
Speaker 5: don't have to get fused.
Speaker 1: If you ever had people come in expecting they were
Speaker 1: going to have to do that whole damn thing. And
Speaker 1: then you said and then you said, no, no, you
Speaker 1: just need these two bolts.
Speaker 5: And end up popping them out the door for about
Speaker 5: two hundred bucks. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, make a new friend.
Speaker 4: Oh man, that makes people. Yeah, that would be awesome,
Speaker 4: thank you.
Speaker 1: No problem. That shared an autotech of course. Uh and
Speaker 1: Kimmeer transmission. So either one of those, you can always
Speaker 1: call off the air and get some help. Three oh
Speaker 1: three seven one three talk seven one three eight two
Speaker 1: five five. So I'm going to get my real estate
Speaker 1: guy on to talk about that thing that I mentioned
Speaker 1: the other day. I did something sneaky in real estate
Speaker 1: and I was later told Now I never really confirmed this,
Speaker 1: but I was later told it's not kosher to do it.
Speaker 4: And I don't know why.
Speaker 1: I don't know why I wouldn't be allowed, But we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about it has to do with a real
Speaker 1: estate deal.
Speaker 4: Okay, now that's all I'm going to say.
Speaker 1: Now let's get back to another, uh some other crazy news.
Speaker 1: They're because we're getting pizza today, Are you guys getting pizza?
Speaker 5: You are getting pizza?
Speaker 14: Yes, huh, yes we are.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 1: An angry wife convinced her husband to stab and disembowel
Speaker 1: a pizza delivery guy.
Speaker 4: Because they botched his order. You, I mean, my god.
Speaker 4: So this is a true story.
Speaker 1: It's kind of sad really, And so a woman and
Speaker 1: in Virginia was upset because the pizza was botched the
Speaker 1: order and she said to her husband take care of it.
Speaker 1: And the husband dutifully took out his knife and got
Speaker 1: into an argument with the guy and he sliced him up.
Speaker 1: And this is a true story. And the name of
Speaker 1: the pizza place is Maud Pizza and yeah, Seattle, Seattle, yep.
Speaker 1: The victim was stabbed several times in the back, in
Speaker 1: the front, and the torso all over and I hope
Speaker 1: that god did he die anyway. So this guy's he's
Speaker 1: up on felony charges of malicious wounding and brandishing a firearm,
Speaker 1: and his wife is charged with conspiracy to commit malicious wounding.
Speaker 1: So thank goodness, the guy didn't die. So I just
Speaker 1: I'm not threatening Anthony's pizza.
Speaker 5: I love these people.
Speaker 1: They've never botched an order, so don't please keep delivering
Speaker 1: the pizza.
Speaker 5: And don't think that's what I was doing.
Speaker 14: I'm an artist, stab dragon.
Speaker 4: There is a new procedure.
Speaker 14: I am seriously about to stab dragon a.
Speaker 6: Little mouse talking as that.
Speaker 16: Yeah, why but why because there's a little mouse talking
Speaker 16: right now, don't you hear it?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: Anyway, Okay, there's a new cosmetic procedure.
Speaker 4: For eyes.
Speaker 1: People are changing their eye color by having their eyes tattooed.
Speaker 1: And they put designs in them too.
Speaker 5: I didn't even know.
Speaker 4: No, it's true.
Speaker 1: It's a cosmetic procedure that involves changing the color of
Speaker 1: your eyes, and you can put tiny little designs in
Speaker 1: there like snowflakes. But experts are warm and warning it
Speaker 1: could it could leave you blind.
Speaker 4: Well duh.
Speaker 1: Now, obviously you don't go to a tattoo artist for this.
Speaker 1: This is done by doctors, and although there have been
Speaker 1: some people unauthorized to do it, and it's called tattooing,
Speaker 1: the American Academy for Arthomology says it's not a good
Speaker 1: idea and you can get some serious damage to the eye.
Speaker 5: But you you would.
Speaker 1: I thought they had contacts that could change your eye color.
Speaker 1: And remember I had those lenses done. Now, when I
Speaker 1: had those lenses done, I wonder if they could have
Speaker 1: changed my eye color with those lenses.
Speaker 5: Maybe not.
Speaker 1: Anyway, here's another one and I can't believe how many
Speaker 1: days I read about people who are disenchanted with their jobs.
Speaker 4: Now, you know, I can't.
Speaker 1: I read about all kinds of consumer news, and and
Speaker 1: this is something that I believe. Every day for the
Speaker 1: last year, year and a half, I've been reading stories
Speaker 1: about people disenchanted with working and their jobs. And there's
Speaker 1: every reason they can give, from politics to everything. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's just you know, after COVID, coming home, I mean
Speaker 1: coming from the home, going back to the office, and
Speaker 1: and there's there's millions of reasons. Now they so they
Speaker 1: say middle managers and employees are basically less productive and
Speaker 1: are fed up with their jobs. Okay, guys, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: ask you straight up. Have you noticed a difference as
Speaker 1: a result of COVID.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I mean, have you you know, the lack of employ
Speaker 5: available employees has been an issue, but typically when we
Speaker 5: get them there, they're eager to work.
Speaker 4: That's good to know.
Speaker 9: Well, they got to have time off too, though, I mean, like,
Speaker 9: you know, if these guys work too many days and
Speaker 9: too many hours, they just get burned out.
Speaker 5: So sure.
Speaker 4: We're not talking about too many hours or too many days.
Speaker 1: I think we're talking about people that are just I
Speaker 1: don't know what the hell's going on.
Speaker 4: They just don't like working anymore.
Speaker 1: I mean, what else can you say that they they're
Speaker 1: not happy with their jobs. And I think we all
Speaker 1: understand that working is part of life, right absolutely, But
Speaker 1: for some reason, fewer and fewer people want to work.
Speaker 4: So my question is what do they do?
Speaker 1: Oh? I know what they do? I just found another article.
Speaker 1: Guess what they aspire to be? Guess what most kids
Speaker 1: now ascer exactly when asked what they want to do
Speaker 1: for a living. What do most middle and high schoolers
Speaker 1: say they want to be? A YouTuber or influencer? Holy crap,
Speaker 1: I mean, how many could you have? You have to
Speaker 1: have somebody doing some production anyway. Somebody said on on
Speaker 1: my YouTube stream here they're not happy with their lives
Speaker 1: and not working is just a symptom. And then somebody
Speaker 1: else says, my wife absolutely hates her job. She's been
Speaker 1: working from home for three years. But eighty percent of
Speaker 1: the workload. People get lazy working at home. Okay, she
Speaker 1: is carrying too much of the workload, he's saying, But
Speaker 1: a lot of other people get lazy working at home.
Speaker 4: Now, you know that can go either way. I've heard
Speaker 4: this both ways.
Speaker 1: I've heard that some people are really more productive remote
Speaker 1: and other people aren't. So we have more coming up
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Speaker 5: Hi Tom Archino, I got a text here.
Speaker 1: I want to give a shout out to John Fuller.
Speaker 1: He's doing a great job for me and my family.
Speaker 1: That's good to know. Kachina. How are we doing on
Speaker 1: getting Brad O'Brien up?
Speaker 14: I have a text out him?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay, Dragon, would you give us the lowdown since we
Speaker 1: don't have a camera in the control room?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Does is she napping or is she actually there?
Speaker 6: He's on her fifth mimosa, so she told us.
Speaker 14: In the break No, now it's six see there you go?
Speaker 1: Okay in any case three oh three seven one three
Speaker 1: talk seven one three eight two five five. Got a
Speaker 1: question for Kevin on an electrical issue. Do electrical issues
Speaker 1: show up in codes like regular problems something?
Speaker 7: Do?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Absolutely? Okay?
Speaker 4: Does it show you the actual problem or where to look?
Speaker 5: What is this? Show?
Speaker 10: Code?
Speaker 9: Only is the starting point, that's a jumping off point
Speaker 9: to to you know, isolated system.
Speaker 5: That's all the code is.
Speaker 1: Okay, I have another one, and this one I saved
Speaker 1: and I found it. How do you Is there a
Speaker 1: procedure or where do they start to track down? And
Speaker 1: they don't say where it is a bad ground? I
Speaker 1: have no idea what they mean.
Speaker 9: Well, depending on the circuit. First you have to locate
Speaker 9: the grounds and then.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well okay, so that's what I mean.
Speaker 1: So, first of all, what would give someone an indication
Speaker 1: they have a bad ground to begin with?
Speaker 4: Intermittent power weirdness.
Speaker 9: Anything like that. Sure, you know, and grounds are a
Speaker 9: very common problem. They're more common than power problems.
Speaker 1: So really, when you have a missing ground, it's like
Speaker 1: having a broken wire because you're not completing a circuit.
Speaker 9: Is that it is, or it's very very corroded, so
Speaker 9: you're losing the surface where the ground is.
Speaker 1: Okay, But the point is, though, what you're trying to
Speaker 1: do is you are trying to complete a circuit and
Speaker 1: if it's not to ground, it doesn't complete.
Speaker 5: Correct.
Speaker 4: Okay, So don't cars, I know.
Speaker 1: And again I don't want to get technical, but with airplanes,
Speaker 1: for example, which I'm very familiar with because I do
Speaker 1: a lot of my own work legally.
Speaker 5: By the way, I wonder.
Speaker 1: We have grounding blocks, so when you're tracing a ground
Speaker 1: you don't have to trace sixteen different screws in a frame.
Speaker 5: Get it? Yep?
Speaker 4: Well are cars like that?
Speaker 5: Though? I wish they were.
Speaker 1: So they literally will. Different things will ground in different places.
Speaker 9: Yeah, especially if you get a car back from a
Speaker 9: body shop. It's the first thing you look for because
Speaker 9: when they remove panels sometimes they'll cut the ground not knowing,
Speaker 9: you know, and then put it back and maybe a
Speaker 9: tail light doesn't work or something because of ground right.
Speaker 5: Wait, wait, so they really don't.
Speaker 1: So they really run power wires and then grounds They
Speaker 1: ground to the closest frame.
Speaker 4: Yes, even in today's modern.
Speaker 1: World of highly sophisticated electronics, they don't have a grounding
Speaker 1: wire to a block.
Speaker 5: No, okay, no, wow.
Speaker 1: So I'm asking this out of ignorance. Is there a
Speaker 1: quality of grounding? In other words, are all parts of
Speaker 1: the frame equally grounded?
Speaker 5: Definitely?
Speaker 8: Not.
Speaker 5: No, So you definitely have certain areas do you want
Speaker 5: to go to and you don't want to go to,
Speaker 5: And even just going down the road to some of
Speaker 5: your main grounds. Your body, the body of that vehicle
Speaker 5: is just a big static electric battery. Creating electricity, so
Speaker 5: you've got to actually absorb that back into the system
Speaker 5: so it doesn't affect other problems.
Speaker 1: Gosh, so people what we're talking about, since it is
Speaker 1: car Dan again, if this is going over your head,
Speaker 1: if you're from Arkansas, just hang on. But I'm just
Speaker 1: let me explain. And I'm joking, by the way about Arkansas.
Speaker 1: I have friends from there, That's why I say it,
Speaker 1: and they listen all the time. So anyway, here, here's
Speaker 1: what we're talking about. Basically, a car is is has
Speaker 1: a lot of electrical stuff going on, including a charging
Speaker 1: circuit and everything else. And in order to complete circuits,
Speaker 1: you have to have well, you know, a ground, which
Speaker 1: is one and all. A ground is is a common
Speaker 1: to everything, and then you have the power and the
Speaker 1: reason the ground I think it was who was And anyway,
Speaker 1: the the the controversy with with grounds there there were
Speaker 1: a couple of ways of doing it. There were people
Speaker 1: that believed that you should have common ground. Others say, no,
Speaker 1: just ground where you are. That was Tesla because Tesla
Speaker 1: was all about efficiency and saving money, and he came
Speaker 1: up with the system for common grounds. I excuse me
Speaker 1: for for yeah, for common grounds whereas Edison was all
Speaker 1: about direct grounding, So that was a controversy back and forth.
Speaker 1: So in a car, you have ground circuits and you
Speaker 1: have power circuits. Power circuits have a fuse in them.
Speaker 1: Grounding circuits are ground are grounded to the frame I
Speaker 1: get and so so it adds a common element to
Speaker 1: the second leg of your circuits. But here's the problem.
Speaker 1: They go bad easily. Mostly they go bad before power
Speaker 1: circuits go bad, unless you have a rabbit in there
Speaker 1: chewing up. They just chew up indiscriminately. But it's one
Speaker 1: of the craziest things to try to troubleshoot, Kevin.
Speaker 4: Is there any magic to it?
Speaker 5: What do you do?
Speaker 9: And it's sporadic because they all act differently, and resistance
Speaker 9: across the ground is very hard to figure out sometimes
Speaker 9: to where the ground is there, but you don't have
Speaker 9: a solid ground, so you're too much resistance. It's causing
Speaker 9: all kinds of circus to go kind of hate wire,
Speaker 9: if you will. So yeah, grounds are challenging.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 1: We have a question here from JR. On the YouTube thing.
Speaker 1: I just noticed it, so he doesn't have to call in.
Speaker 1: Kennedy wants he wants to know how dangerous hydrogen engines
Speaker 1: are that are coming out?
Speaker 4: First of all, are they really coming out? Hydrogen? I
Speaker 4: I that's.
Speaker 5: Going to be your next wave coming out both Toyota and.
Speaker 4: Che Okay, So what are we talking about? Hydrogen engine?
Speaker 5: What is it? Actually they're literally separating water molecules and
Speaker 5: creating or using the hydrogen.
Speaker 19: Itself, which is what's going to be our fuel, hydrogen
Speaker 19: its combustion.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So where do we get hydrogen at a station?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: You mean fuel for cell? Is it a fuel cell?
Speaker 4: Is it a gas?
Speaker 5: How do we fill up fuel cell? Okay?
Speaker 1: So it converts the fuel cell converts to hydrogen gas,
Speaker 1: which canbusts right yep. Okay, is it going to be
Speaker 1: dangerous because there I know he texted me earlier too
Speaker 1: and he was talking about, you know, batteries are dangerous.
Speaker 4: All kinds of things are dangerous.
Speaker 5: Yeah, anytime you're dealing with something that you know it's combustible,
Speaker 5: you obviously have a certain amount of danger there. But
Speaker 5: you know, the development is going into this, it's going
Speaker 5: to be just as safe as any other car on
Speaker 5: the road.
Speaker 1: Now, I know I have to take a break, but
Speaker 1: I have Brad O'Brien on, and I don't want to
Speaker 1: break while he's on, So I'm going to take him
Speaker 1: right now, real quick. I'm sorry, I'm Shari Dragon, Brad O'Brien.
Speaker 1: I want to ask you if this was a if
Speaker 1: this is illegal or wrong? Okay, this is something that
Speaker 1: was done years ago. I did many many, many many
Speaker 1: years ago. Somebody said it wasn't proper, Okay, So I
Speaker 1: loaned a guy some money.
Speaker 4: No, no, I know what I did.
Speaker 1: I financed the sale of land to a man right
Speaker 1: and so I had a first deed of trust on
Speaker 1: the property, meaning that if he didn't make his payments,
Speaker 1: I could go through a foreclosure procedure. But on the side,
Speaker 1: what I did was I had him sign I said,
Speaker 1: if you really want to do this, I'll do it,
Speaker 1: but you have to sign this quick claim deed to me.
Speaker 1: So if you ever stopped paying, I don't want to
Speaker 1: go through foreclosure.
Speaker 5: I'm just going to file this.
Speaker 4: Was that illegal or wrong?
Speaker 1: I mean at the like I said, this is so
Speaker 1: many years ago, but I'm just curious about it. When
Speaker 1: we were talking about deeds of trust yesterday and quit
Speaker 1: claim deeds and all of that kind of stuff, is
Speaker 1: that improper. Can that get you in trouble.
Speaker 20: It's unusual, but it's not illegal. Sometimes people do take
Speaker 20: a quick claim deed to hold it in a drawer
Speaker 20: as a form of mortgage. You know, that's historically been done.
Speaker 20: Parties can't agree to hold extra security for I did
Speaker 20: that by getting this quick claim deed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, somebody told me, oh, you're not supposed to do that.
Speaker 1: You're supposed to go through the whole process. Because at
Speaker 1: the time the guy did stop making payments and I
Speaker 1: filed the quit claim deed.
Speaker 5: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: He was pissed off saying, you know, you didn't go
Speaker 1: through the proper and then he had an attorney right
Speaker 1: to me saying I didn't go through the proper foreclosure.
Speaker 1: But then it never went anywhere, So so technically, I
Speaker 1: mean I did both a deed of trust and a Technically,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't need the deed of trust if you did that,
Speaker 1: would you.
Speaker 20: Yeah, that's kind of Belton suspenders to do it that
Speaker 20: way to get a mortgage plus a quickly indeed to
Speaker 20: call to security.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, well, thank you very much. And that's
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Speaker 1: I'm Tom Martinez, your troubleshooter three all three seven one
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Speaker 1: five five. So a quick question here on transmission rebuilds.
Speaker 1: When they want to know is it really a rebuild
Speaker 1: or is it an exchange?
Speaker 4: They want to know? Then I think it can be either, right.
Speaker 5: It depends on where you're going to. I mean, you know,
Speaker 5: we rebuild right there in the house, so we've got
Speaker 5: them stripped down. You know, the average transmission probably has
Speaker 5: about six hundred individual parts and we go through wherever
Speaker 5: you want.
Speaker 4: What's better to do a replace?
Speaker 5: That all depends on the individual situation. I mean what
Speaker 5: the majority of the time we're able to, you know,
Speaker 5: do the same thing that you buy out of a box,
Speaker 5: but we do it in the house for what you
Speaker 5: need and not what everybody needs out of that box.
Speaker 5: So if if the cost of rebuilding yours is going
Speaker 5: to cost more than the one that's already rebuilt, then
Speaker 5: we'll back up the cost trash, we'll put in another one.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 5: But in most cases, what they're the idea is we're
Speaker 5: getting it apart. We're giving you the same product you
Speaker 5: get out of a box at a better price. All right.
Speaker 1: Now, there was something we talked about we want to correct, right,
Speaker 1: so because my YouTube moron, one of them corrected us.
Speaker 1: We were talking about hydrogen and you mentioned, Jeff, somebody
Speaker 1: h is used for combustions.
Speaker 5: It's actually creating electricity. It's actually a hydrogen powered electric vehicle.
Speaker 5: So it's just an EV right, yeah, yeah, just without
Speaker 5: the big battery. All right.
Speaker 1: So you have an EV car and the EV car
Speaker 1: is simply powered by.
Speaker 5: Fish source.
Speaker 1: That's pretty That's like the best, in my opinion, the
Speaker 1: best of all worlds.
Speaker 5: I mean, right, yeah, you don't have to charge a battery.
Speaker 5: You just fill it up and go again.
Speaker 1: And when we say fill it up, that's where I
Speaker 1: get confused. What do you mean by phill like like,
Speaker 1: is it a a battery pack?
Speaker 9: Is it a uh No, there is no battery pack.
Speaker 9: That that's the advantage the weight. It's just a fuel cell.
Speaker 9: That the chemical conversion, so it puts off water vapor.
Speaker 4: Of fuel cell.
Speaker 5: Yep, Okay, what is a fuel cell? What is it?
Speaker 5: Fucking gas tanks? Bigger than a bread box? Tell me
Speaker 5: what it is.
Speaker 9: I don't know the size. Yeah, I don't know how much? Okay, yeah,
Speaker 9: still learning?
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, yeah, I guess it's all so new.
Speaker 1: What are you guys doing as far as or what
Speaker 1: are schools doing? What are they doing to train kids
Speaker 1: or turn young people?
Speaker 5: What like?
Speaker 1: Have they altered their courses to include evs and hydrogen?
Speaker 9: Yeah, we're seeing a lot of my guys go at
Speaker 9: least once a month. NAPA is pretty good about it.
Speaker 9: They give us a full length, a full selection class.
Speaker 1: When do they say that the actual hydrogen cars are
Speaker 1: actually going to be sold?
Speaker 5: I have no idea about that. One me either.
Speaker 4: Okay, here's what they say.
Speaker 1: A highydrogen high pressure tank is in a car, so
Speaker 1: you pull up and it's a gas and then they
Speaker 1: fill it with high pressure and then it reacts within
Speaker 1: the fuel cell. When it's released, it reacts with the
Speaker 1: oxygen in the air, generates electricity, which powers an electric vehicle.
Speaker 1: Now how that actually looks or the size, I have
Speaker 1: no idea. They say zero emissions. They emit only water vapor.
Speaker 1: So a man quick refueling three to five minutes, extended range,
Speaker 1: then more than regular batteries. This sounds like this sounds
Speaker 1: like a godsend. Think about this so well, Tesla as
Speaker 1: you think eventually switch over?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean right now they're saying that Honda Toyota,
Speaker 5: they're all real close to having them out on markets.
Speaker 5: Some models may be available as early twenty twenty four.
Speaker 5: They say the Honda's CRV E f CV is available
Speaker 5: for limited leases in certain quantities. Thank you.
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Speaker 1: sixteen twenty two. Hi Tom Martino here, let's talk to Deborah. Deborah,
Speaker 1: what's going on with you?
Speaker 21: Hi, mister Martino, I ad a contractor. Come out.
Speaker 1: In July.
Speaker 21: We signed an estimate for twenty five thousand dollars to
Speaker 21: build a garage and we are now in November. The
Speaker 21: garage is still not complete, has not passed final inspection,
Speaker 21: has some work that still needs to be done. I
Speaker 21: heard from him yesterday, but prior to that, I haven't
Speaker 21: heard from him since October twenty eighth. So I went
Speaker 21: ahead and hired somebody to complete some of the work
Speaker 21: that needs to be done to do the final inspection.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when did you first When did you first enter
Speaker 1: into the contract?
Speaker 8: July sixteenth?
Speaker 21: I believe it was.
Speaker 1: Okay, And what I want to know is this, do
Speaker 1: you have a contract.
Speaker 21: I'm sorry, it was July eighth, and it was an estimate?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what. Did you ever have a contract?
Speaker 22: The estimate?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 21: We approved, We both approved the estimate.
Speaker 1: Okay, So you hired a contractor on July eighth with
Speaker 1: a twenty five thousand dollars approved estimate.
Speaker 5: Correct? Okay.
Speaker 1: Now what I'd like to know is did you pay
Speaker 1: anything so far?
Speaker 22: Yes?
Speaker 5: Okay? How much.
Speaker 22: All of it?
Speaker 5: Oh my god?
Speaker 4: Why?
Speaker 5: Wait? Wait?
Speaker 4: Why did you pay.
Speaker 5: All of it?
Speaker 8: Well?
Speaker 21: Because he he was going well, he wasn't going fast,
Speaker 21: but it was getting done, and so I gave him.
Speaker 4: Now does he Here's what I want to know.
Speaker 1: You paid one hundred percent of the estimate, and then
Speaker 1: how much of the job is done.
Speaker 4: If he gave it a percentage.
Speaker 21: Probably eighty.
Speaker 1: Okay, Now does he acknowledge that eighty percent is done
Speaker 1: or does he think it's all done?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 21: So I got to text from him yesterday because he
Speaker 21: had left two ladders here, and he texted.
Speaker 8: Me saying, can I go by and pick up the ladders?
Speaker 8: So of course they're his.
Speaker 21: I put him out on the side of the house
Speaker 21: and let him take them, and then he sent me
Speaker 21: a text saying some I can't remember what his response was,
Speaker 21: thanks for putting the ladders out, and I could go
Speaker 21: buy and finish the hour's worth of work for the
Speaker 21: final inspection.
Speaker 5: How much?
Speaker 1: But okay, this guy only thinks there's a few little
Speaker 1: items here and there.
Speaker 4: Yes, okay, so tell him.
Speaker 21: It says part of the estimate says this money was
Speaker 21: for city permits, site prep and cement pad installation, new
Speaker 21: installation of underground plumbing, new framing, structural and rough new roof,
Speaker 21: new gutters, new garage door and front door and window,
Speaker 21: new electrical installation.
Speaker 1: See, yeah, you don't have to read the whole thing.
Speaker 1: Here's let's just cut right to this Deborah, Does this.
Speaker 5: Guy believe that you owe more money?
Speaker 21: No, but he's trying to get so. There was a
Speaker 21: bow in the roof and my neighbor and I told
Speaker 21: him there's a bow on this roof. So two days
Speaker 21: later he comes out with this huge, huge beam and
Speaker 21: puts it in the garage.
Speaker 8: And now he's trying to get me to pay for that.
Speaker 8: All right, Number one.
Speaker 5: Problem, we need one.
Speaker 1: We need to have someone. Okay, we need to have
Speaker 1: someone take a look at this. What's the name of
Speaker 1: the company.
Speaker 21: Our Amiho Construction, Our Amino, Our Amiho A R M,
Speaker 21: I J O.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, I'm okay, hold on and we'll come right
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Speaker 1: have Jeff Vick camera transmissions, and we're talking about anything
Speaker 1: to do with your car, of course, and anything else
Speaker 1: you might have. And we left off with a problem
Speaker 1: that is pretty common when it comes to construction, and
Speaker 1: that is a misunderstanding.
Speaker 5: Oh did she hang up?
Speaker 14: We had to go yes, okay, let's keep this. We
Speaker 14: but we're passing.
Speaker 15: It on to Deputy Doc Good Good.
Speaker 1: I want to recap this problem. She hired a contractor
Speaker 1: on July eighth with a twenty five thousand dollars approved
Speaker 1: estimate to do a garage. She paid the entire amount,
Speaker 1: but only eighty percent of the garage is complete. But
Speaker 1: the contractor claims it's all done except for a few things.
Speaker 1: So that's a major disconnect. And he dropped off some
Speaker 1: kind of beam or support that he wants her to
Speaker 1: pay for extra because the roof was sagging or something.
Speaker 4: But we'll get to the bottom of that.
Speaker 1: Deputy Doc is working from home today, so we put
Speaker 1: him down for that. One three zero three seven one
Speaker 1: three talk seven, one, three, eight, two, five five, And
Speaker 1: I do have a text here, Tom. When it comes
Speaker 1: to investments.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 1: That people have said that cars can be an investment.
Speaker 1: If you buy the right car, they go up in value.
Speaker 1: I have, never, by the way, seen that or heard
Speaker 1: that in my life. Now I know of people, and
Speaker 1: I know where you're going with this. I know people
Speaker 1: who say cars are an investment when they're selling them,
Speaker 1: they're full of crap. Okay, there is actually an investment
Speaker 1: group that a while back that they are investing in
Speaker 1: classic cars, holding and selling them, claiming that it was
Speaker 1: an investment. And then if you belong to this investment group,
Speaker 1: you got to use it a little. That's a bunch
Speaker 1: of crap. Okay, just call it what it is. It's
Speaker 1: a boy toy fund or toys, and maybe not just
Speaker 1: boy toys.
Speaker 4: But it's it's toys.
Speaker 1: Okay, you have a club that uses toys, But don't
Speaker 1: call it an investment. I mean, yes, you can buy
Speaker 1: a car, and there are so many people that bought
Speaker 1: cars new, you know, like the porthole two seat Thunderbird
Speaker 1: or the old Corvette, and they put it in a garage.
Speaker 4: But that's not an investment.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's that's speculative and it can make you money,
Speaker 1: but it can never make you real money. Okay, guys,
Speaker 1: can you think of anything at all?
Speaker 9: You know, really just extremely top end stuff, but yeah,
Speaker 9: nothing common, but.
Speaker 1: Even that, guys, extremely top end. Really can you really say,
Speaker 1: ever that it's an investment?
Speaker 5: No, I don't think.
Speaker 16: I mean, you know, unless you're buying a junker and
Speaker 16: then fixing it, then right.
Speaker 5: You almost never get your money out of those projects.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then you have celebrity cars like Elvis's Cadillac.
Speaker 4: I mean you can always buy and sell Okay, hey
Speaker 4: out of profit.
Speaker 1: That doesn't make it necessarily an investment. Okay, So I
Speaker 1: would say, don't ever get hooked on that. There was
Speaker 1: actually some guy one time that was telling me he
Speaker 1: was getting involved in an investment group and they were
Speaker 1: buying classic cars. Come on, don't please, don't ever do that.
Speaker 1: Three O three seven to one three talk or three
Speaker 1: oh three Martino? Now what age group owns most of
Speaker 1: the stocks and bonds equities?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 4: Who owns them?
Speaker 1: Did you know that the vast majority of stocks are held.
Speaker 5: By people who are fifty five to sixty nine?
Speaker 1: Now, believe it or not, the group right older than
Speaker 1: them would be my group seventy and above actually is second,
Speaker 1: so forty one percent of all investments publicly. You know,
Speaker 1: we're talking about normal publicly traded investments.
Speaker 4: Forty one percent.
Speaker 1: Owned by fifty five to sixty nine year olds forty
Speaker 1: one percent and thirty eight percent. Just three percent behind
Speaker 1: them are the seventy year old and above they own
Speaker 1: thirty eight percent. So think about that. So from fifty
Speaker 1: five on up, they account for seventy nine percent of
Speaker 1: all investments, nearly eighty percent of the entire investment world owned.
Speaker 1: Or when I say the investment world, the stock exchanges
Speaker 1: and publicly traded stocks and bonds and equities, and which
Speaker 1: are stocks and other things? Of course, fifty five on up. Now,
Speaker 1: people who are forty to fifty four they own sixteen percent,
Speaker 1: sixteen and those who are up to thirty nine years
Speaker 1: old only five percent of mark out five pent of
Speaker 1: the market.
Speaker 4: Now here's what's interesting.
Speaker 1: The people seventy and above have been growing their shares
Speaker 1: as people fifty five to sixty nine. And I think
Speaker 1: what that is is, I don't think that group's been
Speaker 1: growing at shares. I think what's happening is the people
Speaker 1: who had stuff grew older and kept it. But there
Speaker 1: is a shift, definitely almost half down those forty to
Speaker 1: fifty to fifty four.
Speaker 4: Listen to this.
Speaker 1: Back in nineteen ninety those in that group from forty
Speaker 1: to fifty four, that group owned about thirty some odd
Speaker 1: percent thirty two percent. Now they own sixteen. They were
Speaker 1: cut in half on what they own right now when
Speaker 1: it comes to investments, and I think that's because that
Speaker 1: group is the one most hit by everyday life and
Speaker 1: therefore has less discretionary income.
Speaker 4: So this teaches us some lessons.
Speaker 1: First and foremost, try try to get income to invest,
Speaker 1: but don't ever let it ever fool you. For example,
Speaker 1: don't bother investing. I'm going to tell you this right now.
Speaker 1: If you have twenty thirty forty thousand dollars in high
Speaker 1: interest that, don't even bother investing money until that's paid off.
Speaker 1: You make more money paying that off than investing every
Speaker 1: single time.
Speaker 4: Every single time, First.
Speaker 1: You don't have the payments, and then you don't have
Speaker 1: the accruing interest even though you're not making money in
Speaker 1: the stock market. Please, you got to pay off high
Speaker 1: interest debt.
Speaker 4: Offset your high interest debt.
Speaker 1: Then if you have money left, make sure you have
Speaker 1: money for an emergency if you need it, or be
Speaker 1: in investments where you can get the money quickly if
Speaker 1: you need to. Then that can serve the same purpose
Speaker 1: an emergency fund and investments.
Speaker 4: But don't just invest money.
Speaker 1: So many people ask me Tom, you know, or they
Speaker 1: say I have this much or that much, and they
Speaker 1: want to start investing, and I say, wait, wait, wait
Speaker 1: a minute, wait a minute, what is your debt picture like?
Speaker 5: Or what is this like?
Speaker 1: And I don't do that to be a busy body,
Speaker 1: but it's logical. You want people that'll look at your
Speaker 1: whole picture.
Speaker 4: You really do. And that's why I'm.
Speaker 1: So upset with the industry because all they give a
Speaker 1: damn about is getting your money under management, and they
Speaker 1: don't care about your life. You need people to care
Speaker 1: about your entire life. So please keep that in mind
Speaker 1: when it comes to any kind of investment advice. Now,
Speaker 1: when it comes to home improvement, we just had this
Speaker 1: other one, right, she paid one hundred percent of the
Speaker 1: contract even though it wasn't done. The guy's making progress.
Speaker 1: She felt good, so she figures, I'm gonna pay for
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Speaker 1: don't pay ahead of time. And god, I mean, contractors
Speaker 1: have no idea how to manage money. I swear to God,
Speaker 1: they're one of the worst people when it comes to
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Speaker 1: wants to know car guys, and if you're just joining
Speaker 1: us this car day today? Does a catalytic converter cleaner
Speaker 1: like liquid Mollie do any good on older cats? I
Speaker 1: never even heard of catalytic converter cleaners.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's a bunch of them out there. You know.
Speaker 5: It's it's kind of hit and miss. It depends on
Speaker 5: what's wrong.
Speaker 4: Where do you put it to clean it? In the
Speaker 4: gas tank?
Speaker 5: Gas tank?
Speaker 9: Yeah, it'll supposedly burn off any contaminants that have you know,
Speaker 9: coated your your catalyst.
Speaker 5: Okay, you so, what do you think Jerry's at fifty
Speaker 5: to fifty? Yeah, it's a it's a coin toss.
Speaker 4: How about BEG? They make good products. Do they make one?
Speaker 5: No, they don't.
Speaker 1: Ah see BG, they're reliable, so that tells me they
Speaker 1: don't believe in it. Yep, Shila, you have a twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one jeep Grand Cherokee.
Speaker 4: What's going on, Shila?
Speaker 8: Well?
Speaker 18: It intermittently.
Speaker 8: I will not start, and I have to shut the
Speaker 8: whole car down and lights come on when nothing's going.
Speaker 8: And oh my dealer that I got it from petted.
Speaker 5: Now how intermittent? I mean?
Speaker 4: Is it cold?
Speaker 5: Is it hot? Is it at the beginning of the day,
Speaker 5: during the day.
Speaker 8: During the day.
Speaker 24: Day before yesterday, three.
Speaker 8: Times from five pm till probably eight it would not start.
Speaker 4: What does it do?
Speaker 18: It It started?
Speaker 8: Just spin spin, spins, and I have to shut the
Speaker 8: whole car down and retry it and then it'll start up.
Speaker 8: But yeah, crazy.
Speaker 4: And then once it runs, does it run fine?
Speaker 8: It runs great?
Speaker 1: And have you ever been out at a supermarket or
Speaker 1: a store and can't get it started?
Speaker 22: No?
Speaker 8: I have not, because I mean, it won't start the
Speaker 8: first time.
Speaker 24: Then I have.
Speaker 8: To shut the whole system down and retry it, and
Speaker 8: then it'll.
Speaker 24: Start back up.
Speaker 4: That's what I mean.
Speaker 1: Once it started and run for the day like you right,
Speaker 1: somewhere the rest of the day is fine.
Speaker 24: Not if I said it down again.
Speaker 18: No, not necessarily.
Speaker 24: It's multiple times of day, all.
Speaker 1: Right, And how long does it have to set before
Speaker 1: it gives you trouble?
Speaker 5: Do you know?
Speaker 18: I really?
Speaker 8: I mean I drive a school bus, so I really
Speaker 8: can't tell you when I try and start it when
Speaker 8: I go home at night. Okay, many times it won't start.
Speaker 4: Guys think it could be a number of things.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you said you had it at a dealer and
Speaker 5: they've been trying to solve it.
Speaker 8: I've had it back to where I bought it seven
Speaker 8: times now and they're taking it again.
Speaker 13: On Monday.
Speaker 8: They replaced both the batteries, the auxiliary battery. They've had
Speaker 8: both my key fobs replaced. They've put something with the
Speaker 8: fuel system. Last week they put a tim to the
Speaker 8: center CPM center in it. Took it out of a
Speaker 8: huge jeep on their lot and put it in it.
Speaker 8: But you know, sure, and yeah, it's still not making
Speaker 8: any difference on it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's just the problem's got to be isolated.
Speaker 9: I mean, if it doesn't start that many times, they
Speaker 9: should be able to isolate whether it's fuel or spark
Speaker 9: that you're lacking.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm not sure.
Speaker 5: And if it's cranking, it's not. It's not the starter,
Speaker 5: no starter, battery, all that stuff's good.
Speaker 8: If it's cranking, yeah, it cranks fine, but it cranks
Speaker 8: NonStop and just won't kick.
Speaker 1: Over sound either air or fuel, right, Kevin, it's got
Speaker 1: to be spark or fuel.
Speaker 5: Yes, that's what I mean.
Speaker 8: Sparker.
Speaker 5: Well can it be air? Kevin must like you know
Speaker 5: master air Flois sort this malfunctioning coure too.
Speaker 9: Yeah, but it should be like I said, if you
Speaker 9: get it to die that often, they should be able
Speaker 9: to They should.
Speaker 5: Be able to go, They should be able to watch
Speaker 5: the ball.
Speaker 4: If they throw a code A twenty twenty one, we
Speaker 4: have a code.
Speaker 5: It may or may not throw a code.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, So what do you think it is?
Speaker 5: Guys?
Speaker 1: I mean, anything come to mind on these particular vehicles.
Speaker 9: Well, different crank sensors, uh, you know is the first
Speaker 9: thing with jeep. But yeah, the tip them they already covered.
Speaker 25: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Where Sheila, where are you? Where do you hang out
Speaker 4: most of the time, like with this Jeep? Where do
Speaker 4: you live?
Speaker 8: I live in Commerce City, I work in North Glint.
Speaker 8: I drive a school bus for Adam's twelve.
Speaker 4: So it's here, you know what Kevin's up on.
Speaker 1: Kevin's up on Coldfax just west of Brodsworth, just west
Speaker 1: of Brodsworth. I'll bet you they don't even have to
Speaker 1: tear into it to figure it out.
Speaker 24: I'll bet well.
Speaker 8: And I've I've also went onto a jeep forum and
Speaker 8: I understand there's a computer modular in the trunk they
Speaker 8: and they won't even look at that. And that's what
Speaker 8: the jeep forum people have the same issues.
Speaker 4: Why won't they look at it?
Speaker 8: Might be this I can't tell you, probably because it's pricey.
Speaker 8: But I said, you're pullin diamond yourself to death with
Speaker 8: not digging in, you know, because it's like I said
Speaker 8: seven times now, they've had it and they're taking it
Speaker 8: back Monday.
Speaker 1: Well, I I I think you ought to drive by
Speaker 1: Kevin and uh, Kevin, I'd be interested to know what
Speaker 1: it is. It's going to be something simple, Sheila, I.
Speaker 5: Could do it, I hope though.
Speaker 9: It could be something we would need the car for
Speaker 9: a little bit of time, you know, day or two
Speaker 9: or three. But you know, really, oh yeah, well you
Speaker 9: got to first, you got to experience the problem. So
Speaker 9: if she drops it off and it starts and starts
Speaker 9: and stars. We can't we can't do anything with.
Speaker 8: It, right, right, And that's what they had an issue with.
Speaker 8: And then they got it to do it and he said,
Speaker 8: I wasn't getting it back till it was fixed. And
Speaker 8: the very next day, same thing.
Speaker 5: It could be frustrated.
Speaker 4: Did they charge you for all of this?
Speaker 8: Absolutely not, It's just an inconvenience. I was out of
Speaker 8: a vehicle the first six times, and I told them,
Speaker 8: you guys got to get me a loaner because I
Speaker 8: can't keep doing this.
Speaker 1: By the way, By the way, loaners are a big deal,
Speaker 1: and and very people are stopping.
Speaker 4: I mean, loaners used to be plentiful.
Speaker 5: They're not doing them much anymore.
Speaker 1: Right, So, right, And there's one there's one thing I
Speaker 1: discovered recently. I mean maybe a lot of people have
Speaker 1: known about it. Thank you for calling, Sheila. We're gonna
Speaker 1: get you you good. Over to Kevin and he'll report
Speaker 1: to us. But turo t u r O. It's a
Speaker 1: peer to peer rental. Now a lot of you probably
Speaker 1: have already done it and know about it. But if
Speaker 1: you're renting a car, I mean, you can do it
Speaker 1: for any reason, whether you need a loaner or you're
Speaker 1: on vacation.
Speaker 4: Uh, this is not a commercial. I just happen to
Speaker 4: run across it. Toro.
Speaker 1: It's no I guess, like anything, it depends on who
Speaker 1: you get from, right, because it's peer to peer. But
Speaker 1: they're all rated, like Uber drivers and lyft drivers. And
Speaker 1: then I think customers.
Speaker 5: Even get raided.
Speaker 1: So the people renting out cars can see, oh my god,
Speaker 1: it was a way cheaper, way cheaper. I mean, I
Speaker 1: can't I don't want to give exact details, but I
Speaker 1: would say half at least at least half. Now they're
Speaker 1: not all brands banking new vehicles, but you get to
Speaker 1: choose with the vehicle you want for the price.
Speaker 5: There you can get into some of the extra cars
Speaker 5: exactly so.
Speaker 1: But but turo t U r O and and the
Speaker 1: people are well, I shouldn't say that people are all that.
Speaker 1: I only dealt with one owner so far. But at
Speaker 1: the process, I like constant communication. They remind you when
Speaker 1: your rides are up or your rental period is up.
Speaker 1: You can communicate through the app, and they even instruct
Speaker 1: drivers on how to do things seamlessly.
Speaker 5: They almost always.
Speaker 1: Will deliver the car to you at your door and
Speaker 1: when you want to turn it back. I was able
Speaker 1: to simply put a lock box on the you know
Speaker 1: the window. You know, you roll up the window and
Speaker 1: the lock boxes on the outside, so they can come up.
Speaker 5: And get their key and take off. They don't even
Speaker 5: want to see you.
Speaker 1: Everything's paid through the app, and then if you and
Speaker 1: I had a refueling charge, it wasn't much. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, it's not ridiculous like so I didn't get
Speaker 1: a chance to fill it up. So they fill it
Speaker 1: up and just send you a notice. It's just all
Speaker 1: friendly and cool.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 1: I imagine they have good owners only because I think
Speaker 1: that what they probably would do is not have people
Speaker 1: on there who get complaints, right, I mean to me,
Speaker 1: I looked at their ratings. They have great ratings. So
Speaker 1: it's just a good alternative in my opinion. Ran has
Speaker 1: a question on a twenty twelve Honda. Ran I got
Speaker 1: to take a break, but we'll get started.
Speaker 5: What's going on with it?
Speaker 25: My question is I drive for Uber and lift it
Speaker 25: out of twenty twelve Honds, and I want to know
Speaker 25: if you're guests offers any kind of like comprehensive package
Speaker 25: that I can bring my car in for to extend
Speaker 25: the life of the vehicle as much as possible, other
Speaker 25: than say oil checks.
Speaker 4: How many miles do you put on it a month?
Speaker 13: Oh?
Speaker 25: I mean probably ten grands a month? Yeah?
Speaker 4: WHOA, holy ten thousand miles a month?
Speaker 26: WHOA?
Speaker 1: Okay, hold on and we'll come back and answer that.
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Speaker 1: So brand wants to talk about his UH twenty twelve
Speaker 1: Honda accord and how to extend the life the fact
Speaker 1: is it a.
Speaker 4: Twenty twelve rand?
Speaker 5: Or is that what it is hey to having?
Speaker 18: Actually?
Speaker 25: I just did average two miles a month.
Speaker 1: Hold on, she's like ten, so rand your Honda Accord?
Speaker 1: How many miles on it?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 25: To sixty four?
Speaker 5: Wait?
Speaker 4: Did you just say two two.
Speaker 25: Earn sixty four thousand?
Speaker 7: What?
Speaker 25: Yeah?
Speaker 10: What you wait?
Speaker 1: Wait? Wait you have two hundred sixty four thousand miles
Speaker 1: on that car?
Speaker 18: Yeah, I do.
Speaker 5: I mean have you ever done the transmission? Yeah?
Speaker 25: Well I've had the fluid change. Yeah, I do that
Speaker 25: on a regular basis, and the oil change. But no,
Speaker 25: I mean, now that the car's getting this many miles
Speaker 25: on it, I wonder if there's things I'm not considering
Speaker 25: I need to do.
Speaker 4: You already did it, You already won.
Speaker 5: You already won the race. Man.
Speaker 26: Oh well, you know I.
Speaker 25: Want to get I've talked to other Uber drivers that
Speaker 25: drive that drive cars that like this, have gotten there
Speaker 25: are three hundred and sixty thousand miles, and.
Speaker 18: I really just don't.
Speaker 1: Jeff, have you heard of Kevin and Jeff? Have you
Speaker 1: heard of people doing this?
Speaker 5: Come on, man, yeah, he obviously knows how to take
Speaker 5: care of his car. That's the biggest thing. But you know,
Speaker 5: short of at it.
Speaker 9: Is, you know, like BG's and stuff like the MLA
Speaker 9: and the oil and different things. I mean, there's really
Speaker 9: not much you can do.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I just got to stay on top of that maintenance.
Speaker 5: You can't really get deferred when little problems pick up,
Speaker 5: you know, you got to take care of those before
Speaker 5: they become big problems.
Speaker 4: How can he not have done a transmission?
Speaker 5: It's pretty rare at that kind of mind.
Speaker 4: But oh you have I have done it.
Speaker 25: Oh yeah, I do that every thirty thousand miles.
Speaker 5: No, oh yeah.
Speaker 4: We're talking about rebuilding Rand.
Speaker 25: Oh no, no, I've never had a problem with this car.
Speaker 25: I had to replace the right front axle of course,
Speaker 25: the brakes, but other than that, it's been perfect.
Speaker 5: That's amazing.
Speaker 25: So I just I know that when it gets that
Speaker 25: many miles there's got to be some extra things I
Speaker 25: could do, because I definitely don't want to have to
Speaker 25: buy another car.
Speaker 1: Well, I hate to break this to you, Ran, but
Speaker 1: any car in the world's going to have to eventually
Speaker 1: be replaced.
Speaker 5: I mean, two hundred.
Speaker 1: And sixty four thousand, did you own it from New.
Speaker 25: I bought it with one hundred and ten.
Speaker 1: And who would ever think that he'd have it for
Speaker 1: another one hundred and ten or more.
Speaker 5: Yeah, nothing's guaranteed, but just stay.
Speaker 1: He kept saying, Oh, it's no big deal to Honda.
Speaker 1: In other words, he expects it. I've never heard of
Speaker 1: Honda's being that durable.
Speaker 4: Come on, bro, come on, he come.
Speaker 11: On, especially with regular fluid changes like he's mad like
Speaker 11: he's doing.
Speaker 12: That's critically important.
Speaker 5: But I'm not.
Speaker 11: Surprised to hear of an accord of that generation lasting
Speaker 11: at least that many times.
Speaker 4: Have you, Kevin and Jeff?
Speaker 9: You agree, Yeah, I've seen him that it's all driver.
Speaker 9: You know, it's driver owner. He's taking care of and
Speaker 9: he's driving it like he owns it, not you know,
Speaker 9: like he rented it.
Speaker 1: Okay, man, that's incredible to me. I'll tell you that
Speaker 1: right now. It's incredible. Three oh three seven one three
Speaker 1: talk seven one three eight two five five. So oil changes,
Speaker 1: fluid changes, nothing else, right, guys, I mean.
Speaker 9: A little BG and you know, the additives and stuff
Speaker 9: you know, certainly help.
Speaker 4: Okay, Now.
Speaker 1: We were talking about and get your calls in, by
Speaker 1: the way, we have a lot of time if you
Speaker 1: have any car questions. We're talking about the ownership of
Speaker 1: stocks and how the older people skew higher in ownerships
Speaker 1: of stocks as opposed to younger people. And there's been
Speaker 1: also a notable shift on home ownership. Now freewer people
Speaker 1: unfortunately are able to afford homes, and part of that
Speaker 1: is because of interest rates. So that's got to change
Speaker 1: or we're going to have some problems. Home Ownership, I
Speaker 1: think is one of the things that keeps people working
Speaker 1: hard and stable, and I think it's a good investment
Speaker 1: in some cases. Obviously, though, if mortgage rates are too high,
Speaker 1: it's going to drive people out of the market. So
Speaker 1: they expect a little adjustment and mortgage rate, but they're
Speaker 1: not coming down like people thought. The average home price
Speaker 1: has risen in from two thousand nineteen, so it's around
Speaker 1: what do you think the average home price is right
Speaker 1: now in the country. I'd say five ten, four twenty five,
Speaker 1: pretty close, pretty close.
Speaker 4: Now that's average, not median.
Speaker 1: Median means the same amount above and below average means.
Speaker 1: It's just all of the houses added together and divided.
Speaker 1: So that's a pretty high price. Do you remember when
Speaker 1: a half a million dollar house got you something? And
Speaker 1: I've actually heard people use the expression, oh, it's only
Speaker 1: five hundred thousand dollars. Think about where our brain is
Speaker 1: and our car's going that way? Is there going to
Speaker 1: be a time? I'm serious, guys, do you think there's
Speaker 1: a time we're not going to find many cars under
Speaker 1: fifty grand?
Speaker 26: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think we're getting there, wrapping.
Speaker 1: I think we are there now, don't Okay, what about
Speaker 1: seventy five grand?
Speaker 9: I think we've got a waste to go there. But yeah,
Speaker 9: they're they're definitely getting expensive.
Speaker 1: It's crazy, incredibly expensive. I'm Tom Martino three O three
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Speaker 5: So I just got sick and.
Speaker 4: Tired of the industry. I don't know how else to
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Speaker 1: anyone familiar knows what I'm talking about. Too many fees
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Speaker 1: store for you. Hey, Eugene, let's talk. You have a
Speaker 1: two thousand and six Toyota Tundra. My goodness, guys, is
Speaker 1: it my impression or are more and more people hanging
Speaker 1: on to older cars?
Speaker 4: Guys, car guys, what do you think? Yes, no, Kevin, Jeff, but.
Speaker 5: It's been going on longer than you think. I mean,
Speaker 5: don't get me wrong. Some of the repairs on them.
Speaker 5: Because of the cost of replacement, people are more incentivized
Speaker 5: to put some more of these larger repairs into vehicles.
Speaker 5: But something like an six and that's not exactly spread.
Speaker 5: I'm surprised to hear about.
Speaker 1: All Right, so I'm gonna talk to Eugene right now. Eugene,
Speaker 1: go ahead, what's happening.
Speaker 25: Okay.
Speaker 27: I've got this six Tundra that I bought in two
Speaker 27: thousand and eight at twenty two thousand miles on. I
Speaker 27: got one hundred and thirty five on it now. And
Speaker 27: when I bought it, you know, they told me so
Speaker 27: you never have to change transmission fluid. Listening to you, guys,
Speaker 27: I think I need to do it, and I was
Speaker 27: wanting to know what you think about.
Speaker 25: That.
Speaker 27: They recommend that WS Toyota fluid and the only other
Speaker 27: fluid I find that's compatible that is Vale Lane, and
Speaker 27: I just wanted to know what he thinks about that,
Speaker 27: and also if I change it, what uh if I
Speaker 27: should put it Canada DG transmission.
Speaker 1: Well, guys, let's let's talk in there. Well, so you
Speaker 1: know how you feel about this.
Speaker 5: Yeah, certainly, there's certainly maintenances, you know, just like any
Speaker 5: other part of the car.
Speaker 4: I mean they say you never have to a lot of.
Speaker 5: The manufacturers went to this years ago because people inherently
Speaker 5: don't want to put that kind of money in their
Speaker 5: cars that we're not a pleasure purchase. So you know,
Speaker 5: by making things look like they were maintenance free, made
Speaker 5: the car and w look more attractive, so you buy
Speaker 5: the car. So but ultimately they're out of warranty by
Speaker 5: the time these parts are failing, so the manufacturer doesn't
Speaker 5: care yep. So I mean to do a typical transmission
Speaker 5: service where you're actually dropping the pan and making sure
Speaker 5: that there's nothing in there to stop you from doing
Speaker 5: a service if there's debris of any kind or or
Speaker 5: there's certain types of debris we expect to see, but
Speaker 5: if there's an abundant amount, if there's you know, brass
Speaker 5: filings or something like that to tell you to stop,
Speaker 5: then you know you want to do it that way
Speaker 5: as opposed to doing a flush where that's all going
Speaker 5: to get hidden. As far as the fluids concerned, I mean,
Speaker 5: there's actually plenty of fluids out there that meet those specs.
Speaker 5: So I mean, yes, every manufacturer out there is going
Speaker 5: to have their fluid that they want you putting in
Speaker 5: the car that they're going they're gonna charge too much for. Uh,
Speaker 5: you know, our bulk fluid is a semisynthetic that meets
Speaker 5: that and a multitude of other fluids out there on
Speaker 5: the market. Okay, so okay, so yes, the transmission service
Speaker 5: is warranted.
Speaker 27: Okay, But what I did do, since it's kind of
Speaker 27: a little bit of a process, I just I dropped
Speaker 27: the fluid out of the transmission, measured what I took out,
Speaker 27: took the pan off, replace it with a WIS transmission filter,
Speaker 27: and you know, put the same amount of fluid back
Speaker 27: in it. And I was just wondering if maybe I
Speaker 27: need to throw a can of that BG in there
Speaker 27: or another thing I was thinking about doing is maybe
Speaker 27: next spring when I changed the oil, is to drop
Speaker 27: the fluid, just drop the fluid, masure what I take out,
Speaker 27: and put back in the same amount.
Speaker 5: Again, Well, it's the thing, since you just changed it,
Speaker 5: I don't know what I'd worry about that for next year.
Speaker 5: Uh you know, what about every three years or thirty
Speaker 5: six thousand miles and just stick to that schedule, you know,
Speaker 5: as far as the BEG is concerned. Yeah, it's a
Speaker 5: good conditioner. I mean, you're not going to hurt it,
Speaker 5: that's for sure. There's other products out on the market.
Speaker 5: The other one that we use is also made by Loopguard.
Speaker 5: Either one of those would work nice.
Speaker 27: Okay, all right, Well that Eugene, when you trained the
Speaker 27: pans transmission, how Gene hold on a second?
Speaker 5: Go ahead?
Speaker 11: And Eugene, when you when you did the when you
Speaker 11: dropped the pan, how many quarts did you get out
Speaker 11: of it?
Speaker 27: Well? I got like four gallons out of it, or
Speaker 27: I mean four quarts, I should say in a gallon, So.
Speaker 11: You probably got about a third a third of the
Speaker 11: fluid out of there. So Kevin and Jeff, what do
Speaker 11: you think, like, should he shouldn't he just do that
Speaker 11: a whole bunch more times if.
Speaker 5: The fluid was still in decent shape, and I wouldn't
Speaker 5: worry about it. You know, some discoloration of the fluid
Speaker 5: is going to be normal. The red color is literally
Speaker 5: just a dit that they put in there, so you
Speaker 5: know what's hitting the ground when you have a leak.
Speaker 5: But if the food was actually in good shape, then no,
Speaker 5: I wouldn't bother flushing the rest of it out. Just
Speaker 5: go start doing regular maintenance. Yeah, because the filter's going
Speaker 5: to take a lot of the contaminants out. That was
Speaker 5: the purpose, get the filter in there.
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Speaker 1: two seven four seven nine nine nine eighty. Someone says,
Speaker 1: can you ask the guys what BG forty four k
Speaker 1: does exactly for a car.
Speaker 9: You put it in your fuel tank and it's a
Speaker 9: long term cleaner, so the length of that fuel tank
Speaker 9: and then beyond it'll slowly dissolve, you know, deposits.
Speaker 19: And stuff on your valves and your intakes and fuel injectors.
Speaker 19: Does it really work? Yes, Okay, it's not magic. I
Speaker 19: mean if you have major problems, you still do. But
Speaker 19: it's it's a maintainer. It gets everything clean and keeps
Speaker 19: it clean.
Speaker 1: Now, somebody else said, what do they care if their
Speaker 1: if their catalytic converter.
Speaker 5: Works right or not or clean if they clean it
Speaker 5: or not, why do they care.
Speaker 9: Only for emissions? If you can't pass emissions would be
Speaker 9: the only reason most people care.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 1: So in other words, it doesn't really do anything to
Speaker 1: the drive ability of the car.
Speaker 5: Oh, it most certainly can, yes, and particularly if you're
Speaker 5: plug because the two sensors are looking for particular readings.
Speaker 5: And if it's not working properly, you can run too
Speaker 5: rich or worse, too lean, and you can ruin an engine.
Speaker 1: Now, somebody has said you were talking about rear main seals,
Speaker 1: and they said that.
Speaker 22: I'm not.
Speaker 4: Let's see, if you don't seat that transmission correctly.
Speaker 5: It will always leak.
Speaker 4: Oh what does that mean? I mean that's that stands
Speaker 4: to reason. Isn't that obvious?
Speaker 5: It's completely accurate. It rides on the back of the crankshaft.
Speaker 4: It has nothing.
Speaker 1: Wait, so the rear main does not connect between the
Speaker 1: transmission and the engine.
Speaker 5: It's on the back of the engine. And then you
Speaker 5: have the flywheel or flex plate, and then and then
Speaker 5: transmission after that. Okay, pull the transmission to get to it.
Speaker 5: But it doesn't have anything to do with the transmission. Okay.
Speaker 4: And the next one here has to do with.
Speaker 22: Or is it?
Speaker 4: Oh, then never mind? This is uh, this is about COVID.
Speaker 1: They said, Tom, when you take a home test, I
Speaker 1: don't know how it's it's it that you have to
Speaker 1: report it.
Speaker 4: Now do you have to report if you have a
Speaker 4: positive home down?
Speaker 1: I mean, how the hell would they know? That's what
Speaker 1: I don't understand. So I don't know if that's true
Speaker 1: or not. I haven't taken a home I haven't taken
Speaker 1: a test in so long. I couldn't tell you that.
Speaker 1: As far as the COVID test goes, I do know
Speaker 1: if a doctor gives you a test and you're positive,
Speaker 1: they do report it. It's mandatory. But the home test,
Speaker 1: I don't see how that can be. We have more
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Speaker 1: eight two five five Frank, welcome to the show.
Speaker 5: What's going on? Frank?
Speaker 18: I have a bad memory. I cannot remember the thing
Speaker 18: that you said about three weeks ago of a streaming service.
Speaker 18: The Comcast is not that good anymore. And there's a
Speaker 18: streaming service that begins with the words you need and
Speaker 18: I can't not remember the name they be.
Speaker 4: There's a number now now now streaming.
Speaker 1: There's all Just so you know, when you say streaming service,
Speaker 1: everything is a streaming service outside of you know, regular channel.
Speaker 5: So so what I meant by Comcast not being so good?
Speaker 1: I would rather you just do broadband with Comcast, or
Speaker 1: with Sentry Link or with someone else that's just a
Speaker 1: pipe to bring in the Internet, and then go and
Speaker 1: get whatever streaming service you want.
Speaker 4: Now, let me explain something.
Speaker 1: Many people when they say streaming service talking about getting
Speaker 1: the local channels and some live programming in addition to Netflix,
Speaker 1: Hulu and all of that, and and there are two
Speaker 1: main competitors, although there are more than that, but two
Speaker 1: of the main competitors right.
Speaker 4: Now are Hulu Live and YouTube Live.
Speaker 1: So those two, yeah, YouTube and what YouTube does now
Speaker 1: it's not the regular YouTube although you get through You
Speaker 1: get to it through YouTube dot Com. But you go
Speaker 1: to on the side you select YouTube Live and what
Speaker 1: that is that is a streaming service that allows you
Speaker 1: to see all of the networks and live programming being presented.
Speaker 1: You can all but and then in addition to that,
Speaker 1: if you wanted movies and other things, then you would
Speaker 1: buy different streaming services just for those things. But YouTube Live,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, is the best value.
Speaker 24: I think that's the name that I've been looking for YouTube.
Speaker 18: Thank you, tom Hey.
Speaker 11: They're two really nice free services that I use for movies.
Speaker 11: You might want to check out to be TV. It's
Speaker 11: totally free. And then I also access free movies on
Speaker 11: a service called Canopy with a K and they require.
Speaker 4: A library number.
Speaker 1: But hold on when you he wasn't talking about streaming
Speaker 1: for movies though he was talking about local channels.
Speaker 5: I think I think he was. So why do you
Speaker 5: know I've seen too b It's on my smart hub
Speaker 5: and all that.
Speaker 4: Why does how do they do it free?
Speaker 5: Do they have have pree rolls?
Speaker 11: Okay, but my ad blocker works on that, so I
Speaker 11: don't see ad on two B because my ad blocker
Speaker 11: filters them out somehow.
Speaker 1: Anyway, if you're looking for though, like, are you looking
Speaker 1: for a way to see the local channels frank and
Speaker 1: all of that.
Speaker 18: Yes, I am, because the Comcast camps is getting worse
Speaker 18: the worst.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's very expensive. Yeah, you're still gonna need internet though,
Speaker 4: remember that.
Speaker 18: Oh yes, that's the that's the problem. Well, good internet's
Speaker 18: with Comcast.
Speaker 1: You can okay, but you can get just the broadband
Speaker 1: through Comcast if you want. Now you don't have to
Speaker 1: take the channels or you don't have to take anything else.
Speaker 4: However, h it may not be a good deal.
Speaker 1: That's why you're gonna want to look at whichever service
Speaker 1: gives you the best pipe. And that's what we call it.
Speaker 1: It's a broadband pipe to the Internet. And then whatever
Speaker 1: you go out and snatch off the Internet is up
Speaker 1: to you. And as I said, I would recommend YouTube Live.
Speaker 4: It's a good.
Speaker 1: Service and it really or excuse me, it's YouTube TV
Speaker 1: is what it's called. Thanks Tim, appreciate it. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's Hulu Live or YouTube TV is what it's called
Speaker 1: YouTube TV. Okay, and that's the app you want, and
Speaker 1: it costs I don't know, forty something fifty a month,
Speaker 1: but it's everything you want. Uh, and you can see
Speaker 1: all the local network channels and a lot of programming.
Speaker 4: Like Fox and all of those. And then for the
Speaker 4: other stuff.
Speaker 1: Uh, you just get whatever you want Netflix or Hulu
Speaker 1: or whatever, or get the free services. Three oh three
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Speaker 1: five Henry, what's going on with your landlord?
Speaker 5: Henry?
Speaker 24: Hey, what's going on?
Speaker 22: Man?
Speaker 5: How you doing?
Speaker 4: I'm doing good? What about you?
Speaker 5: What's going on with the landlord?
Speaker 22: Oh?
Speaker 24: Man, Ontino, Man, I ran into this I ran into
Speaker 24: this person and it's my children's mother.
Speaker 22: And you make a long story short, the landlord is
Speaker 22: basically undermining all the you know, requirements to actually go
Speaker 22: along with the renter.
Speaker 1: Now, Henry, let me get this straight. You're calling You're
Speaker 1: calling for your kid's mom.
Speaker 5: Is that right?
Speaker 24: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I'm and she's here with her.
Speaker 1: Okay, good, all right, so good? So is the landlord
Speaker 1: taking advantage of her?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Okay, tell me how tell me.
Speaker 22: How See, she didn't. Basically, it was not included into
Speaker 22: the There was no buying sign or inclusion in regards
Speaker 22: taking care of her fireplace or the gas, you know,
Speaker 22: because the fireplace is connected to the gas line. But
Speaker 22: there was a gas leak that took place in this place,
Speaker 22: Mark Tom that actually had to be cut off. And
Speaker 22: she's only been here since May this year, and she's
Speaker 22: already had properical you know causes that want her to, Okay, leave, Henry.
Speaker 5: Here's what I need to know.
Speaker 4: There was a gas leak. Is the gas only for
Speaker 4: the fireplace?
Speaker 22: Yeah, this is basically connected to the to the fireplace.
Speaker 22: And come to learn that she had the same ordeal
Speaker 22: or problem before you know this, before me and the children's.
Speaker 24: Mother came into this place.
Speaker 22: Okay, at the same thing. She never fixed this gas,
Speaker 22: She never fixed this fire She never included this, She
Speaker 22: never included this in her you know lease agreement. And
Speaker 22: this is one of the you know attractions that one
Speaker 22: of the reason why you moved in this place in
Speaker 22: the first place. You cousted the fireplace.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, but maybe okay, here's what I need to know.
Speaker 5: I need to know this, Okay, is does she does
Speaker 5: she cook with gas as well?
Speaker 4: Or is that different? Is the gas only for the fireplace?
Speaker 22: Only for the fireplace? And boy she got electrical appliances.
Speaker 26: Okay, but it's just for the fireplace and they kind
Speaker 26: of learn the fireplace needs a new unit, okay, to
Speaker 26: actually replace you know, all right, hold on a second.
Speaker 4: Let's talk.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about that coming up because because I want to.
Speaker 4: Take this quick break.
Speaker 1: So she moved in or you guys moved in in
Speaker 1: May and you're already having trouble with the fireplace. That
Speaker 1: fireplace she knew about before you moved in and you're
Speaker 1: having a tough time getting it fixed.
Speaker 4: Is I got that right?
Speaker 7: So far?
Speaker 18: So far?
Speaker 5: Are you right? All right?
Speaker 4: Hold on, we'll come right back to I'm Tom Martine.
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Speaker 5: Move into this apartment.
Speaker 4: The gas is leaking from the fireplace.
Speaker 5: It wasn't fixed. Keep going, sir, what can we do
Speaker 5: for you?
Speaker 24: Yes? One of the things I want to say, Tom,
Speaker 24: was in regards to legal rights or less and it
Speaker 24: rights in the state of Colorado.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you got, you got, But let me just say this,
Speaker 1: you got way more rights nowadays than you ever had before.
Speaker 24: Keep going, okay, And I'm glad to know that. One
Speaker 24: of the things that actually, you know, really bothers me
Speaker 24: is the fact this landlord did not stipulate exactly what
Speaker 24: would we be actually looking at before we moved in here,
Speaker 24: when those things should have been included into her contract.
Speaker 24: Because it wasn't including the contract, and she moved her
Speaker 24: in here, she had all these problems where her water
Speaker 24: had to be cut off. We had to basically cut
Speaker 24: off this and cut off that, and then come to
Speaker 24: learn they didn't take care of what they were supposed
Speaker 24: to take care and she said everything was up to date.
Speaker 1: All right. Hold on, now let me talk to you
Speaker 1: about this. Okay, when you rented this place. When you
Speaker 1: rented this place, did it have did you see a
Speaker 1: model or did you see this apartment?
Speaker 22: The model was basically.
Speaker 24: That was this place. But when you came in here,
Speaker 24: everything was seen by vision by eye.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, Now was the fire hold on? Was the
Speaker 1: fireplace working when you looked at the place to rent it?
Speaker 24: No, sorry, it wasn't.
Speaker 22: Okay, it was not working.
Speaker 17: And beforehand, just to give you just paint a picture
Speaker 17: for you, you know, Tom, we smelt you know, it
Speaker 17: smelt real funny in here, okay.
Speaker 24: And make a long story short, come to learn just
Speaker 24: a couple months back ago and got that fixed. She
Speaker 24: should have tooken care of it, but she didn't. And
Speaker 24: come to find out there was two gas leaks that
Speaker 24: was basically taking place in this house.
Speaker 22: And because you know, all of this was actually taking
Speaker 22: had to be taken care of. When we was in here,
Speaker 22: she was basically coming at you know, Okay, she was
Speaker 22: His mother's name is Twinikadules. She was coming to her
Speaker 22: with disrespect and kind of all kind of yeah, but.
Speaker 1: Let's get right, let's get right my issue. Let's get
Speaker 1: right to the issue. And I have to just tell
Speaker 1: you the truth.
Speaker 5: Truth. When you rent a place and it has a
Speaker 5: gas fireplace in it.
Speaker 1: And the gas fireplace doesn't work, that it's not necessarily
Speaker 1: a condition of the lease. In other words, they should
Speaker 1: probably fix it, right, But I don't think. I don't
Speaker 1: think you can force it. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: in other words, you want the gas fireplace working because
Speaker 1: you like it. I get it, and that was one
Speaker 1: of the main reasons you rented the place. Now does
Speaker 1: the landlord say they are willing to fix it.
Speaker 24: No, they said they want They don't want to fix it.
Speaker 24: They don't think it's basically readily important.
Speaker 5: Okay, it does.
Speaker 24: Like you said, we did discuss the fact that.
Speaker 5: But there has been cases. Let me explain this.
Speaker 1: There have been cases in the past where people rent
Speaker 1: something with the fireplace in there or with something else
Speaker 1: in there, and then it doesn't work, and they make
Speaker 1: the argument that if you showed it with the fireplace
Speaker 1: in there, then the fireplace has to be operaal But
Speaker 1: here that's why I asked you. You said the fireplace
Speaker 1: did not work when you looked at the place. You
Speaker 1: said that, right, right, Well, then if you knew it
Speaker 1: didn't work when you rented it, why did you rent
Speaker 1: it if it was important to you.
Speaker 24: What I was basically going to say was that, okay,
Speaker 24: let's go back on this, because I will misunderstood what
Speaker 24: you was saying. Ye, we go back on this.
Speaker 22: We didn't know, Okay, we didn't.
Speaker 24: Know that was not operationable.
Speaker 4: Okay, we got it?
Speaker 5: Not no, got it?
Speaker 24: We did you know before we.
Speaker 12: Moved in it?
Speaker 24: We did not know that fireplace was not operationally Okay.
Speaker 7: Got it?
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, fine, here here's the best you can do,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, if she refuses to fix it, and
Speaker 1: it's important to you, I believe you can make the
Speaker 1: argument that it was shown and you were misled into
Speaker 1: thinking I had a fireplace, and now you'd like to
Speaker 1: get out of the lease.
Speaker 5: How long is the lease for.
Speaker 24: The lease is till next year?
Speaker 1: May I think you can probably I'm not positive, but
Speaker 1: I think you can probably use it to get out
Speaker 1: of the lease.
Speaker 4: That's my opinion. But is it that important really between
Speaker 4: you and me? Is it that important?
Speaker 24: No, see, my thing is this there are other issues
Speaker 24: that basically came along with that.
Speaker 5: No, Tom, like, okay, well.
Speaker 1: Let me ask let me just ask you straight up.
Speaker 1: Forget about the gas. Let's just talk about the apartment.
Speaker 1: Do you guys want out of the apartment? Do you
Speaker 1: want to get out of it?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 22: Okay, you definitely want to get out.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 1: So bottom line is you want to get out of
Speaker 1: that apartment. You're you're you guys are sorry you rented it?
Speaker 4: Is that true?
Speaker 18: Exactly?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 5: Now, next question.
Speaker 1: Did the landlord? Does the landlord know that? Did you
Speaker 1: ask the landlord if you could get out of it?
Speaker 22: Actually no, not so much as you know in that
Speaker 22: in that way to actually say we want to get out,
Speaker 22: that conversation has not actually been brought up yet.
Speaker 5: Okay, you should do that before we get involved.
Speaker 4: Just say, look, we.
Speaker 1: The fireplace isn't working, and there are a few other
Speaker 1: items wrong. I think the apartment was miss we were misled,
Speaker 1: and we want to get out of the lease if possible,
Speaker 1: And can we break the lease and we'll move out?
Speaker 1: Give her a date or we can work together on
Speaker 1: us moving out. Uh, and just ask straight up try
Speaker 1: to do it the friendly way. First, I don't think personally.
Speaker 1: I don't think personally unless the other defects are really serious.
Speaker 1: I don't think you're going to get out of the
Speaker 1: lease unless they let you out. Give me an idea
Speaker 1: other than the gas fireplace of another item that is
Speaker 1: kind of pissing you off, another item that you don't like,
Speaker 1: something wrong.
Speaker 5: Give me an item.
Speaker 24: Let me ask you a question. You know, the person
Speaker 24: that I mentioned, you know, outside of myself, would like
Speaker 24: to actually, you know, converse with you. If that's Aposamy?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, what's your name?
Speaker 24: And you can actually twenty cados?
Speaker 4: Okay, Tunika?
Speaker 22: Is it.
Speaker 24: Tados?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 4: I want to talk to her?
Speaker 1: Okay, hold on for a minute, yeah, three oh three,
Speaker 1: seven to one to three talk seven one three eight
Speaker 1: two five. We really got to get to the bottom
Speaker 1: line as to why she wants to leave and if
Speaker 1: she has a good reason, because if you don't have
Speaker 1: a good reason, you're not going to get out. Hi, hey,
Speaker 1: may I ask you a quick question. What do you
Speaker 1: feel is the most serious problem with the apartment?
Speaker 23: Okay, well, the most serious problem? I mean, I understand
Speaker 23: I don't know how he went about everything, but I
Speaker 23: actually I don't. They probably won't consider it seriously because
Speaker 23: it's coming from a fireplace. And this was all regarding
Speaker 23: a fireplace, and I was total was a luxury. But
Speaker 23: when upon moving in, we tried to you know, we
Speaker 23: tested everything. We noticed the fireplace wasn't working. He said, Oh,
Speaker 23: my previous tennists never used it. They were family members,
Speaker 23: of course, he said, but I will fix that before
Speaker 23: wester months, not knowing that it had a gas leak.
Speaker 23: So we end up calling Excel Energy that came out.
Speaker 24: They figured out the gas.
Speaker 23: Stik was coming from the main pipe to the fireplace
Speaker 23: in the furnace. So she did get the The plumber
Speaker 23: came out and fixed the furthest But since she was
Speaker 23: aware that Excel Energy turned off the gas to the fireplace,
Speaker 23: She's now saying, now that I know there's no gas
Speaker 23: to the fireplace, I'm not gonna worry about fixing the fireplace.
Speaker 5: Okay, now you know?
Speaker 25: Is that?
Speaker 5: Let me ask you something.
Speaker 1: I need to know this, really I need to know
Speaker 1: this because I don't think Henry said. Henry said, there
Speaker 1: were some other problems with the apartment. Are there any
Speaker 1: other problems because the gas fireplace? I'm almost sure is
Speaker 1: not going to be considered a necessary item or important
Speaker 1: enough for you to break the lease. Is there any
Speaker 1: other item that's serious?
Speaker 26: Well, actually, at this time, no, It's okay.
Speaker 5: Here's what I think, here's my true opinion.
Speaker 1: If you want to get out of the apartment, if
Speaker 1: you want to get out of the lease and move,
Speaker 1: if you don't like the place, ask them if you
Speaker 1: can do this in a nice way, in a non
Speaker 1: confront uh confront a confronting way, non confrontational. Just say,
Speaker 1: do you think we can get out of the lease?
Speaker 1: We're sorry, we rented it, we thought we would have
Speaker 1: a fireplace. We're We're not happy if they won't let
Speaker 1: you out of the lease. I'm afraid to tell you.
Speaker 1: I do not believe that you have enough to get
Speaker 1: out of the lease, and I think that they would
Speaker 1: try to hold you to it. That's all I can
Speaker 1: tell you. I just don't think the fireplace. You know,
Speaker 1: and believe me, there are a lot of renters' rights nowadays,
Speaker 1: but I'm not. I'm telling you this one. I don't
Speaker 1: think you'll win the argument. I don't think you can
Speaker 1: make the argument that this is a necessity and now
Speaker 1: you need it or you're or or you don't want
Speaker 1: to rent it anymore.
Speaker 4: I got, I got to take a break. Three oh
Speaker 4: three seven to one three A two five five.
Speaker 1: So did you know that one one in five adults
Speaker 1: get their news from influencers on TikTok and YouTube and
Speaker 1: Instagram and Facebook.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 5: That's crazy?
Speaker 1: Well, adults are eighteen and over. This is according to
Speaker 1: the Pure Research Center. I mean, you know, if you think, now,
Speaker 1: let me say something. I was going to make fun
Speaker 1: of that, but let's think about it. How much worse
Speaker 1: is it than MSNBC? Huh Rachel maydou or is that
Speaker 1: her name?
Speaker 5: And uh? How much?
Speaker 1: How much worse is it than CNN? Think about that,
Speaker 1: you know, and in some cases Fox, depending on the topic.
Speaker 1: I think that you can't trust news anywhere. I don't
Speaker 1: think you can. I really, honest to God, do not
Speaker 1: believe there is a such thing anymore as unbiased news,
Speaker 1: really and truly, and I mean that, do you guys
Speaker 1: think there's any unbiased news. I'd like to do an
Speaker 1: unbiased news service, but I don't trust myself.
Speaker 5: I don't think you can be completely unbiased, can you? Nope?
Speaker 1: Now here's how we used to slant the news back
Speaker 1: in the day when I was in TV, and I'm
Speaker 1: telling you the truth. This is inside information, and I
Speaker 1: really mean it, and I don't mean it was intentional,
Speaker 1: although it turned out that way. I mean, excuse me,
Speaker 1: it could seem it wasn't. It was what we covered,
Speaker 1: not how we covered it. It truly was what we covered.
Speaker 1: We would sometimes ignore stories, and I think that in
Speaker 1: a way as a slant is slanted coverage by what
Speaker 1: you decide to cover. But when we did cover things,
Speaker 1: I was called on the carpet. Not as a consumer
Speaker 1: advocate because that was a different type of reporting, but
Speaker 1: when I was a news reporter, I was called on
Speaker 1: the carpet if I didn't have facts, and I didn't.
Speaker 1: And by the way, I wasn't allowed. I could have
Speaker 1: never said the false reports or acute what do they
Speaker 1: say about when when Trump says who who wrongly claims
Speaker 1: he lost the election?
Speaker 5: Whatever.
Speaker 1: We weren't allowed to put modifiers in what people claim.
Speaker 1: We would just have to say so and so claims
Speaker 1: or so and so says. We were not allowed to
Speaker 1: be the ones that were arbiters as to repeated lies
Speaker 1: or inaccuracies. We weren't allowed to call them lies or inaccuracies. Ever, anyway,
Speaker 1: I'm Tom Martine.
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