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Speaker 1: Now Tom Martine, Hey, it's car Day today. I'm Tom Martino.
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Speaker 1: tell you that there is a surge of COVID nineteen
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Speaker 1: there are thousands of strains of the cold virus. The
Speaker 1: coronavirus is one of them, which mutates almost daily. But
Speaker 1: as every virus in the world mutates. Just these are
Speaker 1: just facts. You can't get sanctioned anymore for facts. You
Speaker 1: see the social media used to sanction us for facts.
Speaker 1: COVID was a dangerous virus and mutated to a less
Speaker 1: dangerous That's what all viruses do, bar none, all history,
Speaker 1: viruses have never started out weak and gotten strong. They
Speaker 1: start out strong and get weak because they want to
Speaker 1: keep their hosts alive. And no two viruses that you
Speaker 1: get are the same. Ever, so when people said they
Speaker 1: had COVID three times, they had three different strains of
Speaker 1: the virus three different times. They could have been three
Speaker 1: serious times. It could have been three minor they could
Speaker 1: have been one minor one serious. But right now there
Speaker 1: are no serious strains known to be out there, and
Speaker 1: all the rest of them are pain in the ass.
Speaker 1: So you don't have to wear a mask, you don't
Speaker 1: have the distance. You just use your safe practices like
Speaker 1: you would any cold. But now since COVID, the teeth
Speaker 1: have come out of COVID and there's nothing to scare
Speaker 1: and control you with. They're now turning their attention to
Speaker 1: West Nile again and something called the monkey virus and
Speaker 1: some other things which are could be serious. I guess
Speaker 1: if everyone got it right now there are very very
Speaker 1: few cases. But it's just very interesting to me how
Speaker 1: it's become, in my opinion, a matter of control. That
Speaker 1: is exactly what disease is being used. If you look
Speaker 1: at the plan for the country under the World Health Organization,
Speaker 1: we as a country under the current administration, have agreed
Speaker 1: to give away our sovereignty in the event of an
Speaker 1: next pandemic, where the World Health Organization will make all
Speaker 1: of their all of our decisions. So that's just a fact.
Speaker 1: They'll make all of our decisions about shutdowns and masks
Speaker 1: and vaccinations and all of that. Just so you know.
Speaker 1: By the way, it was funny because I remember in
Speaker 1: New York you had to show a card in order
Speaker 1: to get into a restaurant. States started that. But for
Speaker 1: some reason, and I need to know this, and none
Speaker 1: of this is political. These are all facts. They built
Speaker 1: a fence around the Democratic Convention to keep people they
Speaker 1: didn't want out, and in order to get in you
Speaker 1: had to show ID. But what I need to know,
Speaker 1: I swear to God, I get on the radio every
Speaker 1: day with a quest to learn, not to preach, not
Speaker 1: to pontificate. I see plenty of reasons why people want
Speaker 1: to vote for Trump and plenty of reasons why people
Speaker 1: want to vote for Kamala. I mean, I can see
Speaker 1: both sides. I don't want to give you my opinion.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what I think, but I look, I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to make you vote one way or another.
Speaker 1: But here's what I have to ask. I swear to God,
Speaker 1: I have to ask this question. And I have not once,
Speaker 1: not once, in all social media or discussions, have I
Speaker 1: heard the answer. Why do some people, mostly Democrats, why
Speaker 1: do they oppose checking identification before you vote? Please tell
Speaker 1: me why? I, honest to God, don't know, and I
Speaker 1: mean that sincerely now. But no, no, doc, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna let you. I'm not gonna let you make a
Speaker 1: propertige because I know what you're gonna say. You were
Speaker 1: going to say that's because the Democrats want illegal people
Speaker 1: to vote for them. I mean, is that truly that obvious?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: I don't think. So there's got to be another reason.
Speaker 1: Why is it that you have to show an ID
Speaker 1: to get to concerts, aircraft, almost everything we do in life?
Speaker 1: But why is it that Democrats do not want any
Speaker 1: kind of identification verification for voting. Okay, what were you
Speaker 1: going to say? Doctor? What I thought? Because they want
Speaker 1: illegal immigrants to vote for.
Speaker 6: Them, and also whatever, people haven't gotten the means to
Speaker 6: get identification, all those people, for instance, low income people
Speaker 6: who don't have IDs.
Speaker 1: You're turning that on and that is that? Yeah? Is
Speaker 1: his mic on or not? Okay? Talked?
Speaker 2: It's because they want it's not.
Speaker 1: Coming on what Doc is saying. You know, they just
Speaker 1: want indigence and illegal immigrants to vote for them, and
Speaker 1: they don't want them hindered at the polls. That's that's
Speaker 1: it in a nutshell. Now, I feel for people who
Speaker 1: are homeless or indigent, people who don't have the means
Speaker 1: to get an ID. I think that could be remedied
Speaker 1: a bit. I don't know. But but listen, is it
Speaker 1: why is it considered Again, I'm going to use the
Speaker 1: word hateful because hate is the word they use to
Speaker 1: to censor and to cancel you. And why is it
Speaker 1: considered hateful to require some form of identificy. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm wanting some I promise you, I won't interrupt anyone.
Speaker 1: I want someone to tell me, Please tell me now
Speaker 1: I have probably my emails are flooded with more liberal
Speaker 1: emails than anything, and they always holler at me and
Speaker 1: give me their arguments off the air. So I'm going
Speaker 1: to ask one of them, one of them, to please
Speaker 1: call in and explain to me the harm for asking
Speaker 1: for identification for voting. I really want to know, I
Speaker 1: really do. I don't know what it is I'm waiting
Speaker 1: to hear. I've read and read and read and read
Speaker 1: in nothing, nothing anywhere in any social media. Has anyone
Speaker 1: ever given me a reason. All they say is that
Speaker 1: Republicans want to restrict your right to vote. That's exactly
Speaker 1: what they say. And Republicans say all they want is
Speaker 1: to have illegal immigrants vote, and they don't want them
Speaker 1: to be held accountable. I want to know. Is that
Speaker 1: truly that simple? I don't think so. I don't think
Speaker 1: Democrats truly want illegal votes? Do they want? Then tell
Speaker 1: me if you're a Democrat. I know I have Democrats
Speaker 1: listening because I don't harp on anyone party. I just
Speaker 1: help people. So here's what I want to know. Please, please, please,
Speaker 1: please tell me the reason why you think it's hateful
Speaker 1: or wrong to have identification for voting, and then tell
Speaker 1: me why they have to give identification for flying airplane?
Speaker 7: Why?
Speaker 1: Why if I want to pay and sit on an airplane,
Speaker 1: why can't I do that? Why do I have to
Speaker 1: show identification? Why do I need identification to drive a car?
Speaker 1: Why do I need identification to enter a concert? Why
Speaker 1: do I need or to buy tickets sometimes? Why do
Speaker 1: I need identification for a myriad of things in this world? Why?
Speaker 1: But not for voting? That's the You should not have
Speaker 1: identification for voting. Someone please educate me. I am begging
Speaker 1: for education. You see, I'm not like other hosts who
Speaker 1: say rarah and then pretend to know. I don't know
Speaker 1: your stance. I don't want to vilify you. I truly
Speaker 1: and I mean this. I truly want to know why
Speaker 1: it is considered wrong by most Democrats to ask for
Speaker 1: identification for voting. Please tell me. Okay, I'm going to
Speaker 1: go to the phones. Margareth has a twenty twenty two
Speaker 1: subaruin Presa with leaks. I'm assuming oil leaks. Is that right?
Speaker 1: Oil leaks, Margaret?
Speaker 3: I'm here, not oil leaks.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: I was told that the both front swaybar bushings were
Speaker 3: leaking and needed to play.
Speaker 1: Okay, the front end need.
Speaker 3: To know if the dealer that tells me there is
Speaker 3: no liquid in those bushings they cannot leak? Is correct?
Speaker 8: If so?
Speaker 3: Would I need it?
Speaker 9: All?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 1: You hold on. Margaret's will come right back to I promise, Okay,
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Speaker 1: two zero sixteen twenty two. Hi Tom Martino, your troubleshooter
Speaker 1: three or three seven one three talk seven one three
Speaker 1: eight two five five. Margaret wants to know about the
Speaker 1: front end. Did they mention struts to you, Margaret on
Speaker 1: your Subaru? Is that what they mentioned was leaking?
Speaker 3: The thing that I got was both from swaybar bushings
Speaker 3: were leaking.
Speaker 1: Okay, you needed to be sway bar bushings. Okay, let's
Speaker 1: talk about it on a twenty twenty two Subaru and Preso.
Speaker 1: We have Jesse's Schillinger with us from Honest Accurate Auto
Speaker 1: and Colorado Springs. Jeff Fick kimmera transmission. Guys, what's these
Speaker 1: front bushings they're talking about? What is that to begin with?
Speaker 10: Yeah, so the sway bar bushings aren't filled with fluid,
Speaker 10: but the control arm bushings, if they're talking about those,
Speaker 10: they do have a liquid inside.
Speaker 1: Now is it a liquid or a grease?
Speaker 10: It's a grease solivent, but it looks like an oil
Speaker 10: coming out because it's blacken.
Speaker 1: And it does it come out in natural or does
Speaker 1: it mean a seal is broken? Correct? It gets cracked
Speaker 1: into a leak out of a you know the crack.
Speaker 1: Does that mean replacement? Yes? All right, hold on a second, Okay,
Speaker 1: hold on Because I asked these guys. I gave these
Speaker 1: guys a hard time. I wanted them to call in. So, John,
Speaker 1: you have a comment on IDs and voting, and I
Speaker 1: promised to let people write through on that just because
Speaker 1: I'm really curious. Do you have the answer, John, Yes,
Speaker 1: do you have the answer. Why do people oppose IDs
Speaker 1: for voting, Well.
Speaker 11: Because it gives them the ability to sway the election.
Speaker 11: Here's what I did, Tom on the last a rap
Speaker 11: a whole election.
Speaker 7: I filled out my.
Speaker 11: Bellet and I signed it with a straight line, and
Speaker 11: I got an email from It was a text or
Speaker 11: an email from Rappo County that they received my belt
Speaker 11: and they would let me know when my signature was verified.
Speaker 11: And I get another communication from them and it says
Speaker 11: my signature was verified. So the stuff that they tell
Speaker 11: you that there's checking every signature just is not true.
Speaker 1: I don't think they can check every signature, but I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean, look, I don't.
Speaker 12: Think probably compare it to whatever's on with DMV electronically.
Speaker 12: It's not like they're looking at it.
Speaker 1: I'm just curious about something though, John, And obviously you
Speaker 1: know you think they want to sway elections. I wanted
Speaker 1: to talk to someone who is opposed to IDs for
Speaker 1: voting so I could find out why. But I understand
Speaker 1: what you're saying, John, they don't do a very good
Speaker 1: job verifying. And I'm wasn't even talking about verifying so
Speaker 1: much as just casting the initial ballot. But Eric and
Speaker 1: I don't know the answer John to how they verify signatures.
Speaker 1: Maybe someone else can tell us. These are ultimate consumer issues,
Speaker 1: though not political consumer. Eric, what do you think? Do
Speaker 1: you have a reason or you're just you're going to
Speaker 1: give the conservative side that they want illegals to vote?
Speaker 1: What are you going to say?
Speaker 13: No, I just I believe that it goes to like
Speaker 13: taxation without representation is probably the argument. And I'm probably
Speaker 13: not the best person. I'm not well studied in this.
Speaker 13: I don't have a dog in the fight, but I do.
Speaker 14: Have a belief that Okay, we look the other way.
Speaker 13: You know, most days of the year, people go about
Speaker 13: their business. We buy our groceries, we get our food,
Speaker 13: and we don't ask anyone for ida who's giving.
Speaker 9: Us those services.
Speaker 13: But then when it comes time for them to vote,
Speaker 13: they say, okay, where's your ID? And there's you know,
Speaker 13: they go try to go get a legitimate ID. In theory,
Speaker 13: they're gone, They're going to beet deported or whatever. I
Speaker 13: don't know if that really happens in the real world.
Speaker 8: I doubt it.
Speaker 1: Well, there are people who feel there are people who feel, yeah,
Speaker 1: it will prevent immigrants from voting who are here illegally
Speaker 1: and they should be able to vote because they're working
Speaker 1: and they're here and they.
Speaker 15: Should pay and taxes. Who cares if they're working.
Speaker 1: Well, Mark, all I'm saying is I believe.
Speaker 13: Here's the thing. I do believe that they are paying
Speaker 13: into your social Security and my social Security, and it's
Speaker 13: the benefit they'll never collect, Thank goodness, because that's what's
Speaker 13: popping up the whole system to begin with.
Speaker 1: Yeah, is that we have a lot of well that's providing,
Speaker 1: that's providing, they're on payroll. A lot of them are
Speaker 1: not on payroll.
Speaker 13: Correct, correct, But still a lot of the folks that
Speaker 13: aren't on payroll or that are knowledge they're working for
Speaker 13: a lot of them are working for very big businesses.
Speaker 13: Or agriculture is built, you know, meatpacking, produce.
Speaker 2: All catchings everywhere.
Speaker 1: So, Eric, do you think it's reasonable to ask for identity,
Speaker 1: proof of identity or citizenship or some kind of ID at.
Speaker 13: All, if that if an identification was attainable to them.
Speaker 16: But I don't think identification.
Speaker 14: Is really made attainable to them.
Speaker 13: I think it's a way to keep the services here
Speaker 13: coming towards us.
Speaker 1: Attainable to who do you mean I think ideas are
Speaker 1: attainable to Don't you think ideas are attainable for every
Speaker 1: citizen in the world here? And I mean every citizen.
Speaker 13: Again, I'm not super well say it, but I don't
Speaker 13: know that if you're here without documentation and you've come
Speaker 13: you can just walk into the.
Speaker 17: DMB And no you can't.
Speaker 1: That's the whole point. No, No, that's right. I don't
Speaker 1: know why we're Chris Eric, You're right. If you're not
Speaker 1: here legally, you can't easily get identification. You have to
Speaker 1: be here legally to get identification. But I do know
Speaker 1: people who are here on asylum that can get a
Speaker 1: driver's license. Now, if they get a driver's license and
Speaker 1: showed that at the polls, is that adequate what is
Speaker 1: considered idea at the polls? See? I don't really know
Speaker 1: this because no articles are clear. Most articles simply pontificated
Speaker 1: and preach and make stands, and they're either conservative or
Speaker 1: progressive or liberal. They're not factual. No one talks about
Speaker 1: what the id would look like because I know people
Speaker 1: here illegally who have driver's licenses, So it can't be
Speaker 1: a driver's license that doesn't prove citizenship. What proves citizenship?
Speaker 1: I don't know anyway, thanks for calling guys, Margaret. So
Speaker 1: if these things are leaking, they need to be replaced.
Speaker 1: So Margaret, did they say, but how many miles on
Speaker 1: your Subaru?
Speaker 3: Okay, my Subaru has twelve thousand miles?
Speaker 18: Soon?
Speaker 1: Oh my telling me wait, wait, only twelve thousand miles?
Speaker 3: Yes, and they tell me there's no reason and no,
Speaker 3: that doesn't need to be replaced because nothing happens under
Speaker 3: way more milestone.
Speaker 8: What would I have home?
Speaker 3: And I need to know who's right? And am I
Speaker 3: safe to keep driving that car without well, if they're.
Speaker 1: Truly broken seals, I don't know, Jesse. It's not that
Speaker 1: it's unsafe to drive. But the bigger question is with
Speaker 1: that lower mileage, is subrew not trying to cover it
Speaker 1: due to a warranty issue? Is it under warranty Margaret.
Speaker 19: Until September sixth?
Speaker 1: Yes, and make them change them.
Speaker 10: You just have to get proof from wherever you go.
Speaker 10: They just need to take some pictures and give them
Speaker 10: to you with the estimate, and you need to take
Speaker 10: it to suber. If it's under warranty, they need to
Speaker 10: do it. There shouldn't be a question is the.
Speaker 1: Dealer, the one that is the dealer, the one that
Speaker 1: told you you needed them.
Speaker 3: No my mechanic.
Speaker 1: Okay, go to the dealer. You should have them replaced.
Speaker 3: Listen. I sent the picture to the dealer and the
Speaker 3: dealer said, those are normal picture, there's nothing wrong and
Speaker 3: you're fine, and how do I make them replace it?
Speaker 1: You can pick a different dealer to go to that.
Speaker 1: What dealer did you go to?
Speaker 3: I went to the automation dealer on Colfax, and then
Speaker 3: I went to the Grove Group Groove something.
Speaker 1: You went to two dealerships, yes, and they both told
Speaker 1: you they're fine.
Speaker 3: The second dealer said, I don't even want to waste
Speaker 3: time at this car that ah that year. There's nothing
Speaker 3: wrong because there is no liquid in those bushings and
Speaker 3: they cannot leak.
Speaker 1: All right, hold on, they might be look at Margaret.
Speaker 1: All I can do is send you to another shop
Speaker 1: that I know, and then I would definitely know from
Speaker 1: the people I know. Where are you located?
Speaker 3: I mean I live at the Green Mountain area in Lakewood.
Speaker 1: Okay. You can go to Colfax west of Wadsworth a
Speaker 1: Sheridan Auto Tech. He'll take a look at it for you. Kevin,
Speaker 1: will take a look. Do you have those photos you
Speaker 1: can send to us? Those pics.
Speaker 3: I can have the mechanics send to you. They're in
Speaker 3: my phone. I can't find them anymore.
Speaker 1: Hey, Katschina. See if her mechanic can send those pics
Speaker 1: to us, tell her where to send them. But I
Speaker 1: would go to Sheridan Auto Tech on Wadsworth. Kiss me
Speaker 1: on Colefax west of Wadsworth three h three four five
Speaker 1: five forty two seventy two. Give him a call. All right,
Speaker 1: and Steve, what's going on with you? Steve? Welcome, what's happening?
Speaker 8: Well?
Speaker 1: Thank you, Tom, Hey, what's happening?
Speaker 19: Well? We have a water problem. I live at Brookdale
Speaker 19: Meridian in Inglewood and they test the water quality weekly
Speaker 19: and about two and a half weeks ago the nitrade
Speaker 19: level tested too high.
Speaker 1: Wait wait wait, wait when you say they test the water,
Speaker 1: what water system are you on?
Speaker 19: We're on Inglewood water Brooksaw.
Speaker 1: It's called Brookdale Meridian. Is it an apartment complex? A
Speaker 1: senior complex? What is it?
Speaker 19: Yeah, it's a senior it's a retirement home, okay, and
Speaker 19: called Brookdale Meridian Inglewood Okay. And it's right in Inglewood.
Speaker 19: And so for two and a half weeks.
Speaker 1: We have not down. Who tests the water?
Speaker 19: Well, it's either the city or the state.
Speaker 1: And did they tell you not to drink?
Speaker 19: They told not to drink it?
Speaker 1: Does this happen often?
Speaker 19: Nobody seems to know. I've lived here two years and
Speaker 19: it hasn't happened.
Speaker 1: Did they say how long you won't be able to drink?
Speaker 19: Well, they keep having meetings and they say another forty
Speaker 19: eight hours, another forty.
Speaker 20: Eight Why don't you hold on?
Speaker 1: Hold on a sack, hold on, Hey, I need to
Speaker 1: get Paul the waterman on. We got all these experts.
Speaker 1: We need to get on because they he will definitely
Speaker 1: have So Paul the water man on this one. I'm
Speaker 1: going to make it on the caller note, Paul doubting.
Speaker 1: I want to ask him about the the water, the
Speaker 1: water and that high What did he say that was nitrates?
Speaker 1: Let's ask them what can be done? Or what if
Speaker 1: he's heard of this before, He's usually hip on all
Speaker 1: of this stuff. Jim on a clear, bro very important question.
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Speaker 1: we do? Okay, good. I want to talk to Steve.
Speaker 1: Steve is living at a place called Brookdale, Meridian, and
Speaker 1: I'm going to bring up Paul the waterman, pauldowtywaterpros dot
Speaker 1: net h water expert. Paul, have you heard of high
Speaker 1: night rate levels in where is this? Steve? What? What
Speaker 1: an anglewood? Yes, you've heard of it, Paul not.
Speaker 16: It's not usual in city water, but it can happen.
Speaker 1: What are high nitrates from?
Speaker 16: Nitrates can be from uhrees rooch vegetation if you live
Speaker 16: in the foothills. Nitrates could also be from cross contamination
Speaker 16: of wastewater. But let me ask a question. How did
Speaker 16: he get the high nitrates? Did they did they send
Speaker 16: him a letter? Did someone come out and test it
Speaker 16: at his house?
Speaker 19: Well, the Colorada Border Health ran TISS and there was
Speaker 19: another company, Hillman Company, and both of them ran TISTS
Speaker 19: and the nitrate level was something like fifty milligrams per leader,
Speaker 19: and the safe level is ten milligrams per leader, so
Speaker 19: it was.
Speaker 16: Right, but it's worse than that because if you boil
Speaker 16: the water, then the nitrates that you know, don't boil
Speaker 16: out of water, so then the concentration levels, Yeah, I
Speaker 16: get higher. So it's actually worse. Yeah, that's really bad. Yeah,
Speaker 16: that's that's that's not a leaf. That's that's not So
Speaker 16: what can.
Speaker 15: He do right in his own place?
Speaker 16: Birth off?
Speaker 19: Well what let me Let me explain that they have
Speaker 19: supplied bottled water for drinking, and they've been doing that
Speaker 19: for two and a half weeks, and we have they
Speaker 19: still have water for showers and laundry and the toilet,
Speaker 19: but we can't drink the water. So they've given us
Speaker 19: plenty of bottle water every day. But it's been dragging
Speaker 19: on for two and a half weeks, and we keep
Speaker 19: getting we keep having meetings and they say, well, we're
Speaker 19: gonna have it fixed another forty eight hours, and then
Speaker 19: forty eight hours later.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, this is just a tip of the iceberg.
Speaker 1: We're going to see a lot of this in the future.
Speaker 1: But hold on, wait, wait, yeah.
Speaker 12: Wouldn't if it was the municipality that it would be
Speaker 12: affecting so many people.
Speaker 1: It's crazy.
Speaker 12: Is it possible, Paul, It's just something like in the
Speaker 12: building's pipes or something.
Speaker 1: Well, let's ask Steve, Steve, is it affecting the whole city?
Speaker 16: No?
Speaker 19: No, we've we've been told that it's not an Inglewood
Speaker 19: water problem in general. And what they're telling us here, Uh,
Speaker 19: there was, there's heat exchangers, and I don't understand all
Speaker 19: of this. There's and on one of the heat exchangers
Speaker 19: had a crack.
Speaker 1: Okay, so it is a local It is a local problem. Okay.
Speaker 16: I was going to guess cross. I was going to
Speaker 16: grasp gus cross contamination.
Speaker 19: Yeah, they did use that word cross contamination. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 19: just a problem fixed.
Speaker 1: Okay. But hold on, Steve, do you rent or own there?
Speaker 19: We just rent?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, Well this is okay, this is the landlord.
Speaker 17: Then this is not Inglewood, right, Inglewood, the city of Inglewood,
Speaker 17: they probably know about it, but they haven't been Okay.
Speaker 1: This is the management company, and they keep promising to
Speaker 1: fix it. You know, as long as they're supplying bottled
Speaker 1: water and you can shower and do other stuff. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure, there's much you can do about it. I
Speaker 1: imagine if you wanted to move, they couldn't oppose you.
Speaker 1: If you wanted to break your lease and get out
Speaker 1: of there, I'll bet you it would be a chance
Speaker 1: to do that. Do you want to do that?
Speaker 19: No, I'm not to that point yet, because you do
Speaker 19: lose money when when you move, because if you go
Speaker 19: to some other place, you had to put a three
Speaker 19: thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's Sarah. I want to ask Steve. I don't think,
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, I don't think there's anything
Speaker 1: we can do to speed that up. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: a major problem they have to fix. The only thing
Speaker 1: I can do is advise you can leave or you
Speaker 1: can just keep accepting their bottled water. Obviously, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: put a system in if I didn't own the place.
Speaker 1: But Paul, speaking of systems, would I'm just curious, do
Speaker 1: you have any systems that would, for example, get rid
Speaker 1: of nitrates.
Speaker 16: Yeah, your point of use for verse house MOSLUS would,
Speaker 16: and then they also could do if you wanted to,
Speaker 16: you could do a whole house system that would be
Speaker 16: you know, based on a water softener followed by an
Speaker 16: antin resume unit and the antin resin would remove nitrates.
Speaker 16: So I mean and be done that. You know, a
Speaker 16: simple point of u SRO would absolutely take care of it,
Speaker 16: and I recommend it. Today's for all Tom. Everybody should
Speaker 16: shoot the bubblegum about getting n ros.
Speaker 1: But no, absolutely, Like I told you, Paul, people buy
Speaker 1: organic food when regular food is available. People buy supplements
Speaker 1: when they're supposedly vitamins and foods. Why do they do
Speaker 1: all of this? They do it because they want to
Speaker 1: be healthier. And there's and water. Drinking water for God
Speaker 1: says you need. Even bottled water nowadays has microplastics in it.
Speaker 1: So anyway, Paul the waterman has this double system with
Speaker 1: both drinking water and softening for your pipes. You're plumbing
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Speaker 1: Talk Jim, let's talk about clearbras, and of course we're
Speaker 1: talking about car clearbras. Haha, joke. Anyway, guys, what do
Speaker 1: you think? I mean? What was your question? First?
Speaker 21: Don't you know if his car identifies as a transgender
Speaker 21: woman so she needs a clear bra?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe not, Jim, Jim, what what U
Speaker 1: is your actual question about?
Speaker 5: Well, I'm considering getting a clear bra on a new
Speaker 5: SUV that you purchased because we drive a lot across
Speaker 5: country and I'm trying to minimize paint damage.
Speaker 9: Yeah, priving states and highways.
Speaker 1: No matter what, paints nowadays are real hardy and hardier
Speaker 1: than they used to be. However, I'm a believer of
Speaker 1: clear bras. Having said that I don't have one, I
Speaker 1: don't know why the hell I don't have one. I
Speaker 1: should because I have nicks here and there. I believe
Speaker 1: in them. Now there are some people that don't. I
Speaker 1: don't know why they don't, because can't you got guys,
Speaker 1: can't you take them off when you're done using them
Speaker 1: if you want to resell your car or trade it
Speaker 1: or replace it with another clear bra? Yeah, definitely, So
Speaker 1: they don't really damage the paint.
Speaker 10: Right, No, Yeah, I just think the only thing that's
Speaker 10: when you take it off sometimes it's sun faded underneath,
Speaker 10: but replacing the sun faded where where the BRA would
Speaker 10: sit because it's the same sun.
Speaker 1: So wait, wait, wait, just the opposite right, what it
Speaker 1: would be. Yeah, it's it's shining underneath there. Because okay,
Speaker 1: so the clearbas actually filtering out the UV. Right, so
Speaker 1: the replacement seems like the better option, Like if it
Speaker 1: starts to feel, you would replace it with another one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I've it depends on your color. How much differential
Speaker 1: you'd see anyway, A lot of a lot of cars nowadays.
Speaker 1: The paints are just fantastic for UV protection and everything,
Speaker 1: but not for chips. They do help, they're not near
Speaker 1: what they used to be, and you hardly ever see
Speaker 1: a rest of the car ever, you know, like we
Speaker 1: used to see rest of cars all the time, so Jim,
Speaker 1: I would get one of ire You what suv is it?
Speaker 5: It's a twenty twenty three Tsarento. So I'm looking for
Speaker 5: a recommendation for a company. There are a lot of
Speaker 5: people in the Denver Do you know now that.
Speaker 1: I used to have We don't anymore. Mark, do we
Speaker 1: have any I don't. I think Mark still on his
Speaker 1: knee anyway, I don't know. I don't. I can't just
Speaker 1: I used to have some really good vendors that did clearbras.
Speaker 20: Most of your PDR company school.
Speaker 1: Clear braw h your paintless dent repair.
Speaker 10: Yeah, we have a good company in the Springs that
Speaker 10: actually did my motorcycle for me.
Speaker 1: Really with a substance of clearbra I don't have to
Speaker 1: worry about it. But I don't know anybody in Denver.
Speaker 16: Recommendations.
Speaker 5: As far as the kind of.
Speaker 1: Three M three M down, there's no there's no competition.
Speaker 1: They've been in at the longest. There are plenty of
Speaker 1: copies that are cheaper three M. Okay, I mean, don't
Speaker 1: even consider anything else. So if you find a three M,
Speaker 1: you know a person and there used to be a
Speaker 1: company is trim Line still a company. They used to
Speaker 1: go to dealers and they used to come to people.
Speaker 1: It was such a dependable company. Let me it was
Speaker 1: called that was the one I used to recommend trim Line.
Speaker 1: Hold on trim line, clearbra. Let me see, I don't
Speaker 1: And they didn't do just clear bras. They used to
Speaker 1: do stuff that went away, like pinstripes and all. I
Speaker 1: remember that kind. Nobody's that anymore. Let's see.
Speaker 7: No, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't see what trimline of reno. I don't see
Speaker 1: trim line anymore. I don't know. You might. You might
Speaker 1: want to call dealers, some dealers of these luxury card
Speaker 1: they'll they be happy to give you their vendor's name.
Speaker 1: It doesn't it's no skin off their back. Three M
Speaker 1: clear bra. Oh well on the hold on this one? One?
Speaker 1: Was this posted? This is uh three M clear bra.
Speaker 1: Trim Line did a great job. And I'm I'm but
Speaker 1: I don't know when this was posted. Oh no, never mind,
Speaker 1: never mind, never I never I that was ten twelve
Speaker 1: years ago. I don't think trimline is still around for
Speaker 1: what I can find, But look for three AM. I
Speaker 1: think you'll be world ahead. And I would ask maybe
Speaker 1: some dealers, or, as Jeff Fix said, a good body
Speaker 1: shop or a pdr O paintless dent repair place. I'm
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Speaker 1: No Tom Martino, Hey Tom Martino here, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 1: Three zero three seven one three talk seven one three
Speaker 1: eight two five five. So somebody asked about a clear bra.
Speaker 1: If anybody knows people who do clearbras, if you had
Speaker 1: one done, let us know now if you're gonna go
Speaker 1: ahead and do a clear bra. Do you guys like
Speaker 1: doing the rocker panels and stuff? I mean I've seen
Speaker 1: people now when I say rockers, okay, I'm talking about
Speaker 1: like below the door, not not where you below the door.
Speaker 1: I've seen some people with SUVs do the same color
Speaker 1: kind of rhino kind of stuff. Have you seen that
Speaker 1: where they they use the same color of the car,
Speaker 1: but it's a rhino. It's a like a spray on.
Speaker 1: I like it.
Speaker 20: We we actually happened h two in the shop. They
Speaker 20: did the entire vehicle in rhino.
Speaker 1: That's kind of that's ugly as hell. It wasn't attractive
Speaker 1: and it's heavy. Anyway, I want to talk to uh
Speaker 1: Ava real quick here, Hi, Ava, Deputy Doc was working
Speaker 1: with you and this is a show, by the way,
Speaker 1: for people listening where we attempt to solve problems. We
Speaker 1: have a number of very smart people on board who
Speaker 1: help people. But I don't know, I don't recall this.
Speaker 1: Let me let me look you up here, Ava, How
Speaker 1: what was this about? Doc? Okay, let me find let
Speaker 1: me let me find it here. God Tom thinks.
Speaker 22: About an engine replacement an Eagle Automotive.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember, yeah, and and so let me see
Speaker 1: was this. I'm trying to find the year of the
Speaker 1: actual notes. Anyway, what happened? Did anything happen since? Or
Speaker 1: are you just going to find out?
Speaker 22: Because no, no, no, I'm calling to give you the
Speaker 22: final update.
Speaker 23: Okay, unless they want to come around and do the
Speaker 23: right thing.
Speaker 16: But at this.
Speaker 22: Point, and I got to tell you, I really don't
Speaker 22: like being on a radio show airing my problem. However,
Speaker 22: with what happened to me at Eagle Automotive, they're good
Speaker 22: lessons for other consumers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you had the Kia Sorrento. Actually I gave this
Speaker 1: the deputy dollar. This was not doc. That's why you
Speaker 1: don't have notes on it. Doc. Here's what. Let me
Speaker 1: tell people what happened. Let me just tell people what happened.
Speaker 1: You say that you went to Parker to Eagle Transmission
Speaker 1: and Diesel for a used engine. You paid fifty eight
Speaker 1: hundred bucks. But the engine needs a timing chain and camscheft.
Speaker 1: But as we I remember, a dollar called there. They
Speaker 1: said this was not a this was a used engine,
Speaker 1: I believe, But isn't fifty eight isn't fifty eight hundred
Speaker 1: guys expensive for a used engine for a two thousand
Speaker 1: and nine Sorrento?
Speaker 18: Is that nine?
Speaker 17: Yeah?
Speaker 1: No, it's not. Yeah, I don't It doesn't sound over there.
Speaker 1: I mean, Jeff, does this sound like a lot of money?
Speaker 20: It doesn't sound over.
Speaker 1: So if it was remanufactured, it would be way more
Speaker 1: than a yeah, ten twelve? Oh what what come on? Installed?
Speaker 1: It would be ten thousand.
Speaker 10: No, We've got a Subaru in the shop right now
Speaker 10: that they're wanting to do an engine in and it's
Speaker 10: like eighty five hundred used to put the engine in this?
Speaker 1: What year?
Speaker 16: At that?
Speaker 1: Two thousand nine? Yeah? So the two thousand and nine.
Speaker 1: So I guess what we're saying, Ava is as I listen,
Speaker 1: if they did a used engine, I don't know what
Speaker 1: kind of warranty. Did they give you a warranty on
Speaker 1: this work?
Speaker 22: Yeah? And let me go through and explain this way
Speaker 22: that I that I sincerely felt that I was done
Speaker 22: dirty at Eagle Automotive and Parkers. Let me tell you
Speaker 22: from the very big and there's eight less.
Speaker 1: Just first tell me this though, did you get a warranty.
Speaker 21: Yes, I did.
Speaker 22: And here's part of the problem. He told me the
Speaker 22: engine came with the warranty. But the fact is he
Speaker 22: sold me the warranty, and not only did he miss
Speaker 22: leave me on that, he sold me an inferior warranty
Speaker 22: for parts only.
Speaker 1: And he will and will this warranty in this case
Speaker 1: cover the timing and the camshaft.
Speaker 22: And that's the problem. And here's the other problem. And
Speaker 22: this is a lesson for other consumers to learn. When
Speaker 22: my get Eagle Automotives confirmed that this Mint engine needed
Speaker 22: to be replaced, he quoted me over the thumb between
Speaker 22: four and five thousand handle removed and install this use
Speaker 22: engine that had sixty eight thousand miles in it. He said,
Speaker 22: the engine came with the one year warranty. Now what
Speaker 22: I was actually Bill Tom, was five nine hundred dollars
Speaker 22: for this engine when he quoted me between four and
Speaker 22: five and then it was.
Speaker 1: The extra money for a warranty.
Speaker 22: I guess, yeah, when you look at it, you clearly
Speaker 22: build me for a warranty. But he made it sound
Speaker 22: like it came with the engine. So that's lesson number
Speaker 22: one with Eagle Automotive you need to get everything in
Speaker 22: writing it. And you know, I thought I wasn't savvy
Speaker 22: when it came to business. An I've done business with
Speaker 22: a lot of people, but clearly I have to go
Speaker 22: back to basics. And I don't know a mechanic shop.
Speaker 22: If they tell me it's going to be a certain price,
Speaker 22: I better make sure that they get it in writing.
Speaker 1: Well, you're right, Ava, You're right about that. You got
Speaker 1: to get everything in writing. But I'm thinking that right
Speaker 1: now though, Right now I'm thinking, how do we help
Speaker 1: you do? Did you have the timing chain and camshaft
Speaker 1: done or do we even know if that's really the trouble?
Speaker 22: Well, I believe them. I really don't know.
Speaker 1: Who told you you need a timing belt and.
Speaker 22: You need automotive. She's the one after I paid them
Speaker 22: five nine hundred dollars to have a car and good
Speaker 22: running order. Because I'm just trying to sell.
Speaker 1: This ID fifty nine hundred. Why do you believe them? Now?
Speaker 1: If you said they didn't do you right, why do
Speaker 1: you believe them?
Speaker 22: Well, a variety of reasons. Number one in the car's
Speaker 22: not running. Number two, he told me that that this
Speaker 22: additional work that is required on this engine exceeds well.
Speaker 22: First of all, it doesn't cover the labor and the
Speaker 22: majority of this additional thirty eight dollars he wants does
Speaker 22: he's telling me so.
Speaker 1: He wants you to put thirty eight hundred into this
Speaker 1: to get a timing chain and camshaft.
Speaker 22: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Do you believe it even needs a camshaft?
Speaker 21: That?
Speaker 1: I don't even believe that.
Speaker 10: My biggest problem is if there's a warranty that's part
Speaker 10: of the engine, and that's part of the warranty, that.
Speaker 1: He should not be able to get out of that. No, no,
Speaker 1: they're saying. She's saying the warranty covers parts only. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've heard of those warranties. Here's the thing, ABA, I
Speaker 1: never actually looked at your warranty. But if you, if
Speaker 1: you bought this with a.
Speaker 22: Warranty, he won't let me. He won't give me the
Speaker 22: name with a warranty company.
Speaker 1: He won't. Why don't you do this, abas, since all
Speaker 1: hell is it's not worth investing in this car, Why
Speaker 1: don't you just make a last ditch effort and taking
Speaker 1: the small claims court for the price of that engine
Speaker 1: and just say he sold you a useless He breached
Speaker 1: contract by selling you a useless engine, and get him
Speaker 1: and sue them for six six grand or whatever. Sue them.
Speaker 22: Well, that's what I'm gonna do, and I'm gonna dispute it.
Speaker 22: But here's the other lesson for other consumers to learn.
Speaker 22: In the small print, he basically has an out where
Speaker 22: he says that you know, and I understand it in
Speaker 22: certain cases, but in this case, I don't believe it applies.
Speaker 22: He basically has an out saying that you know, whatever
Speaker 22: the diagnos is, it may lead to additional parts and
Speaker 22: labor involved. And I get it on a different situation.
Speaker 22: But when you quote a customer a price for an
Speaker 22: engine replacement, and then you come back and you tell
Speaker 22: him you need another four thousand dollars when at this
Speaker 22: point I'm exceeding the value on his car, of course
Speaker 22: you are.
Speaker 1: Of course you are. That's why I recommend small claims.
Speaker 1: Car Ava. Listen, man, there's nothing we can do about this.
Speaker 1: But Eagle. As I looked them up, I thought Eagle
Speaker 1: had a good reputation. No, I thought I looked them up.
Speaker 1: What last time you called? In any case, look them up.
Speaker 1: If you guys can Eagle Transmission in Dieselin Park or
Speaker 1: see what he can find. Let me Ava, I would
Speaker 1: do the small claims court issue, really would? I really would.
Speaker 1: Now I'm going to go to Renee. Renee, what is
Speaker 1: going on with your avas? Rene car?
Speaker 13: Why?
Speaker 24: Tom?
Speaker 14: I am?
Speaker 24: I was just wanting to ask a question. Here my
Speaker 24: initial bill for renting a full size SUV for six days.
Speaker 24: At the counter, they printed out fourteen sixty five fifty one.
Speaker 1: Wait, you're talking fourteen hundred yes, and this is for
Speaker 1: a big well, yes, uv? And where where are you
Speaker 1: renting it?
Speaker 24: By the way, Denver International Airport?
Speaker 1: Okay? Fourteen? And how many days?
Speaker 24: Fourteen sixty five fifty one for six days?
Speaker 1: Fourteen sixty five Okay, So I'm just trying to figure
Speaker 1: out for fourteen days for six days. Oh, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. Six days, okay, two forty
Speaker 1: that sounds high. What kind of suv is it?
Speaker 24: Ford Expedition?
Speaker 1: What is that? What size is that? And that's one
Speaker 1: of the big giant size yeah, yep, two four a day?
Speaker 1: And does that what does that include unlimited miles? Right? Yes?
Speaker 1: And then is that with insurance and all of that? Yes?
Speaker 24: On top of what they offered I opted for the
Speaker 24: lost damage.
Speaker 1: No, I get it. Huh, but that's included. That's included
Speaker 1: in the fourteen hundred something, right, I thought it was Well,
Speaker 1: what do you mean you thought it was? Is it
Speaker 1: or not?
Speaker 22: Well?
Speaker 24: I got I got a bill for seventeen oh one
Speaker 24: ninety three.
Speaker 1: Oh man, So you already rented this, right, yes, and
Speaker 1: you thought it was going to be fourteen something and
Speaker 1: it turned out to be seventeen something.
Speaker 14: Yes.
Speaker 24: The agent at the counter there at the airport said,
Speaker 24: you know what else is this?
Speaker 16: This it?
Speaker 24: And I said, I want an additional driver.
Speaker 1: And that shouldn't cost more. What cost you more is
Speaker 1: the insurance. So they quoted you the fourteen sixty five whatever,
Speaker 1: and then you added insurance after that. Yes, well then
Speaker 1: that's what happened here. That's what you're paying for.
Speaker 24: And then they put a hold on the card for
Speaker 24: two hundred.
Speaker 1: And fifty and yeah, that's normal.
Speaker 8: That.
Speaker 24: The reason I got the bill for seventeen oh one
Speaker 24: ninety three was because they put the coverages on after
Speaker 24: I drove it up and turned it in, and I said, what.
Speaker 25: Do you mean?
Speaker 1: No, they didn't put them on after you were covered,
Speaker 1: but they charged you afterwards.
Speaker 24: Yeah. I asked Hassan, the person I spoke to, and
Speaker 24: he said, I said, so we didn't have anything. What
Speaker 24: if we'd been in an accident or whatever? He said, Well,
Speaker 24: I said, you.
Speaker 1: Look at here's the deal. They obviously can't after the
Speaker 1: fact put insurance on that would not have covered you.
Speaker 1: But I'm not sure that's what they did. Does it
Speaker 1: show coverage on your contract, your initial contract?
Speaker 24: Yeah, it shows the usual charge for not having the
Speaker 24: extra which was two thirty two fifteen.
Speaker 1: Not sure what you mean by that. Here's what I'm
Speaker 1: asking four. So this is a real simple question. On
Speaker 1: the original contract with fourteen hundred dollars, did it show
Speaker 1: that you had coverage for the lost damage waiver and
Speaker 1: all of that.
Speaker 24: I thought it did, but apparently it didn't.
Speaker 1: Then you were not covered. How can they say you
Speaker 1: were covered. They can't go back retroactively and say you
Speaker 1: were covered if you weren't covered, right, And.
Speaker 26: I was surprised that I was Basically I know, I know,
Speaker 26: I know you keep track of everything, but basically you
Speaker 26: were talking about a difference of three hundred bucks, right
Speaker 26: around three hundred dollars, and that three hundred dollars he's
Speaker 26: saying is for coverage, Yet that coverage does.
Speaker 1: Not show on your original contract. I would contest it
Speaker 1: with my credit.
Speaker 24: Card, right, So, tom my question is I was told
Speaker 24: by Hassan the first rep blind transferred me to someone
Speaker 24: I didn't even know he was transferring me.
Speaker 1: But then it doesn't it doesn't matter. What were you told.
Speaker 1: All of that doesn't matter. What were you told?
Speaker 24: I was told that although I had the additional driver
Speaker 24: coverage and I had the additional LDW Lost Damage Waiver,
Speaker 24: that the reason I got a different bill is because
Speaker 24: they had to add it in. So I said, well,
Speaker 24: wasn't it added in? I mean I drove away without
Speaker 24: having this perk and roadside coverage And he said, well,
Speaker 24: you didn't have it, but we went ahead and got it,
Speaker 24: and that's why you got the second bill.
Speaker 1: Well, they can't do that after you return the damn vehicle?
Speaker 1: Did they wait? Did they do it after you return
Speaker 1: the vehicle?
Speaker 27: Yes, they can't.
Speaker 1: I don't know how they can do that. Oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: you were covered. How will you ever know if you
Speaker 1: were covered or not if it wasn't on the contract.
Speaker 24: Well, here's how I think they did it. And then
Speaker 24: they said I still owed the hold on the card
Speaker 24: they needed to take the n money.
Speaker 1: The additional three hundred bucks. Have you paid it.
Speaker 24: Yet, they've already taken it from my card.
Speaker 1: Okay, can test it with your credit card right now,
Speaker 1: here's what you're going to tell them. Keep this simple, Renee,
Speaker 1: because you're getting very complicated. You really don't have to
Speaker 1: tell as much as you're telling. Here's the story because
Speaker 1: and it's the truth. You rented a car for six days.
Speaker 1: There was nowhere on that contract where you were covered
Speaker 1: for insurance, and they arbitrarily added it after you return
Speaker 1: the car. Okay, Now you say, I wouldn't mind paying
Speaker 1: for insurance if I had insurance, but the original contract
Speaker 1: showed no insurance and I never got another contract, so
Speaker 1: I would tell them I would contest it. You got
Speaker 1: to do that first, that's the very first thing you do.
Speaker 1: But your whole argument is you wanted it, yeah, but
Speaker 1: you never got it, so you shouldn't have to pay
Speaker 1: for it. So it's like they said, oh, if you
Speaker 1: wanted insurance while you were renting that, let me charge
Speaker 1: you now for it. But had you gotten in an accident,
Speaker 1: they would have said you never took insurance out. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't pay for it. I would contest it. Contest it,
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Speaker 1: I'm Tom Martino. You're a troubleshooter. We have monitors in here.
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Speaker 1: balance anymore. Have you listened to Channel nine lately? No,
Speaker 1: I'm serious, I'm serious now. No, they are literally they're
Speaker 1: all night can offshoot of the Democratic Party. It's amazing
Speaker 1: to me, not their news stories. I'm talking about everything
Speaker 1: else they do. I think. I don't know.
Speaker 21: The ratings are amazing. Fox outc is CNN by about
Speaker 21: ten to one.
Speaker 1: Oh well, and then MSNBC. Actually, MSNBC is coming up
Speaker 1: above CNN a lot they've got.
Speaker 15: Miss NBC's got virtually no.
Speaker 1: But I thought they were beating CNN for a while though.
Speaker 21: That shows you how bad CNN is.
Speaker 15: No way I thought.
Speaker 1: I thought on some nights they beat him. But maybe not.
Speaker 1: I don't know enough to say really, I haven't looked
Speaker 1: into it, but no, Fox is a ratings monster. And
Speaker 1: I'm wondering why if the country is split half and half,
Speaker 1: the country is pretty much split half in half.
Speaker 21: Okay, it's an interesting phenomena.
Speaker 1: Now, Bill, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Doc, I got to
Speaker 1: take Bill. Bill. What is your question, sir? Or your Yeah?
Speaker 1: What is it?
Speaker 16: Hey?
Speaker 8: You never did talk about Google yesterday?
Speaker 21: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay, and you know what, I have it on my
Speaker 1: list Google question bottom line. Let me just tell you
Speaker 1: real quick, and thanks for reminding me. I really mean it.
Speaker 1: A federal judge says that they aren't violation of the
Speaker 1: eighteen ninety Sherman Antitrust Act. That's the same act that
Speaker 1: was used to break up the phone company. And this
Speaker 1: is no small thing, by the way. It's a court
Speaker 1: order from a federal district judge who says Google's market
Speaker 1: dominance is not happenstance, as they say, it's not organic growth,
Speaker 1: it's deliberate and internet and intentional misconduct. They must start
Speaker 1: looking for ways to break up, and the court still
Speaker 1: is going to come up with a plan. This is
Speaker 1: the biggest news since ma Bell was broken up. And
Speaker 1: this is true. I mean this is now. Back when
Speaker 1: they went after Microsoft in two thousand and one because
Speaker 1: of Windows and all of that, which I thought was
Speaker 1: wrong because I didn't think Windows had unfair policies, but
Speaker 1: they settled it for millions and millions, but Google, there's
Speaker 1: no money they say that will settle this. They have
Speaker 1: to break up the company into smaller companies. And by
Speaker 1: the way, this was supported by all the attorneys general
Speaker 1: and a lot of the states. And what's surprising is
Speaker 1: even the liberal or progressive states or politicians were going
Speaker 1: after Google too. And that is surprising because Google is
Speaker 1: truly another tool of the Democratic Party. But it was
Speaker 1: all their search algorithms and stuff. But guess what, they're
Speaker 1: eating their own because they're going after them. And it
Speaker 1: seems to be bipartisan. And so in your.
Speaker 8: Opinion, should I dump my Google stock?
Speaker 1: Well, now, I'm not going to give that advice based
Speaker 1: on this. I know. You know, here's the deal Alphabet
Speaker 1: is gonna I doubt they're going to devalue that much. Mark,
Speaker 1: what do you think I mean based on.
Speaker 15: I mean, I don't I have Honestly, I have no idea.
Speaker 12: The next part of the Google deal is a new
Speaker 12: trial to figure out what to do.
Speaker 15: I mean we're talking years and years.
Speaker 17: You know.
Speaker 1: Their revenue went from twenty fourteen to twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: from forty seven billion in advertising revenue to one hundred
Speaker 1: and forty six billion. Now, they really are the only
Speaker 1: game in town. They truly are when it comes to Google,
Speaker 1: to the add words and all of that, and they
Speaker 1: just they just crush the competition with their trade practices.
Speaker 1: I mean they really do. And well, you know, and
Speaker 1: they manipulate search results based on your your search results
Speaker 1: based on what you spend with them.
Speaker 8: What were you going to say they are best? Search is?
Speaker 8: Like you said, you know, I bought I bought a
Speaker 8: couple of thousand dollars worth of the stock I don't know,
Speaker 8: five years ago, and it's worth about one hundred thousand
Speaker 8: dollars now.
Speaker 1: So really, Bill, you really made seriously that much money?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I looked. I looked just before.
Speaker 1: I about how much did you? I mean, did you
Speaker 1: actually realize the game yet or do you still just
Speaker 1: have it sitting in your portfolio?
Speaker 8: It's just sitting there right now.
Speaker 1: So how much did you act? Do you remember exactly
Speaker 1: what you spend? I'm curious about it.
Speaker 8: I'm sure it was one in a couple of thousand dollars.
Speaker 8: Come on, I want to spend that much more on
Speaker 8: So you.
Speaker 1: Think you spent two thousand and it's now one hundred thousand.
Speaker 8: Pretty close to that.
Speaker 1: Yep, holy crapy Yeah, well.
Speaker 8: I'm making a killing. It's time for me to dump everything.
Speaker 1: Well, hold on, you know there's taxes, they call it.
Speaker 1: And by the way, if the Democrats had their way,
Speaker 1: you'd be taxed on that unrealized gain.
Speaker 8: I know. That's why we don't need her at all.
Speaker 12: No, that's not true. What do you mean that's only
Speaker 12: certain individuals and certain dollar amounts.
Speaker 1: Tell me about it.
Speaker 12: Go ahead, Mark, Well, the last thing I heard they
Speaker 12: were proposing is if you have over five hundred million,
Speaker 12: and I assume this gentleman doesn't have five hundred million.
Speaker 1: Wait, so that's the only time you're taxed on unrealized gain.
Speaker 12: That was my understanding. It's mainly for big corporations and
Speaker 12: of course with a handful of billionaires.
Speaker 8: Sound like that, It sounds like any kind of.
Speaker 1: On That's what I thought of it. Again, I to
Speaker 1: be honest with you, it is something I have not
Speaker 1: delved into, so I really can't tell you that. But Mark,
Speaker 1: did you actually read about it?
Speaker 15: Yeah, I mean this is months and months ago.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, well, okay, thanks Bill, Thank you for calling
Speaker 1: three three seven to one to three.
Speaker 28: Talk.
Speaker 1: Andy's got a comment on inflation. Go ahead, Andy, what
Speaker 1: about inflation? Sir?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I meant to call it yesterday, but I didn't
Speaker 9: have time yesterday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I asked yesterday we were talking about inflation, saying
Speaker 1: is there any legitimacy to the claim from Democrats that
Speaker 1: much of the inflation is due to greed and price gouge?
Speaker 9: And go ahead, Well, I mean what I didn't notice.
Speaker 15: I mean, hey, hold on, let me interrupt you real quick.
Speaker 12: The budget proposes a new minimum tax of twenty five
Speaker 12: percent to unrealize capital gain for taxpayers with more than
Speaker 12: one hundred minus million in total wealth.
Speaker 29: Okay, Andy, Yeah, I was just saying that when Biden
Speaker 29: started his term, when he basically said that he was.
Speaker 19: He was at war with the fossil fuels.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean I noticed the the natural gas builds
Speaker 9: just I mean, we use the natural gas fireplace to
Speaker 9: heat part of our home. Yeah, and when we installed that,
Speaker 9: you know, four years actually no, it was like six
Speaker 9: years ago. We're using it and you know, didn't see
Speaker 9: a huge cost increase on that. But when he created
Speaker 9: the war and fossil fuels, I mean that that went
Speaker 9: through the the RUF that build it.
Speaker 1: And that so do you think though, No, but do
Speaker 1: you think it did so due to the anticipation of
Speaker 1: supply and demand uh strain or do you think it
Speaker 1: was to cash in on on greed.
Speaker 29: That's what I mean.
Speaker 9: All I know is that when his term started, I
Speaker 9: saw the prices increase. And you know, whether that was,
Speaker 9: like you say, other cause by you know, being squeezed
Speaker 9: energy wise, I don't know.
Speaker 1: But sometimes prices come go up in anticipation of a trend.
Speaker 1: I know oil and gas used to do this a lot,
Speaker 1: where they would say when gas prices went up or
Speaker 1: oil supplies went down, more than anything, the supplies that
Speaker 1: they had in stock went up, even though the basis
Speaker 1: on those barrels were lower. You can have a lower
Speaker 1: basis on stuff in stock than the new stuff. But
Speaker 1: the reason they charged more was because their replacement costs
Speaker 1: was going to be more. But here's the evil thing
Speaker 1: that oil.
Speaker 12: They're like the highest day've ever been man, Natural gas
Speaker 12: like in twenty twenty was around I'm looking at a
Speaker 12: chart here, two and a half three bucks per whatever
Speaker 12: this is mmbtu and now you're talking nine plus man.
Speaker 21: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now, but speaking of what oil companies did a while back,
Speaker 1: they were getting away with this, they would say okay.
Speaker 1: They immediately would raise gas prices and oil prices because
Speaker 1: they said, well, oil prices went up, and even though
Speaker 1: our stock has a lower basis, we bought it cheaper.
Speaker 1: Are replacements going to go up? But before they had
Speaker 1: to replace it, prices went back down, so they really
Speaker 1: didn't have the higher replacement cost as anticipated. Yet they
Speaker 1: were able to justify the price increases based on the
Speaker 1: fear of the replacement cost being higher. So again, was
Speaker 1: that greed or was that fear or was that anticipation
Speaker 1: that did not come to fruition. There's all kinds of
Speaker 1: ways to look at it. But I mean, again, Democrats
Speaker 1: have always and again I always say Democrats because I'm
Speaker 1: not talking about Republicans now, but I talk about Republicans too.
Speaker 1: Democrats have always villified wealth, always, always, always, always villified wealth.
Speaker 1: It is something that is evil and wrong. I don't
Speaker 1: know why, but it is. And that is the same
Speaker 1: theory in socialism and especially communism. However, I don't think
Speaker 1: Democrats resemble communists at all. I think Trump is totally
Speaker 1: wrong when he says that that she's like Kamela is
Speaker 1: like Kamala is like a Marxist. She's not nothing even
Speaker 1: close to being a Marxist. She's she's definitely a socialist,
Speaker 1: but not a Marxist. I mean, that's just inaccurate. Marxist
Speaker 1: was more of a utopian dreamer. He was a weirdo,
Speaker 1: a total weirdo. He didn't want any state, any politics,
Speaker 1: any government. He wanted committees running things based on the
Speaker 1: ownership of everything communally through the government. It was crazy,
Speaker 1: and that.
Speaker 12: Every well Google Google says, Marxists are critical of capitalism.
Speaker 12: Of course, you're concerned with issues such as the struggling
Speaker 12: of the working class and the conflict between social classes.
Speaker 18: Mark.
Speaker 12: I'll be damned if Google doesn't have that. It might
Speaker 12: as well have a picture of her to.
Speaker 1: Mark, Mark, while she shares those traits, trusts me when
Speaker 1: I tell you that I've studied extensively Marxism and the
Speaker 1: Manifesto and socialism and communists do that. Yes, they believe
Speaker 1: in that, but they do not believe in any classes,
Speaker 1: nor do they believe in any ownership at all, no government,
Speaker 1: And the working class they believe should overcome the middle
Speaker 1: class completely. The middle class, the bourgeoisie were middle class people.
Speaker 1: They believe anyone above a worker, an hourly worker is evil,
Speaker 1: and that hourly workers should control everything through their committees
Speaker 1: and unions.
Speaker 21: But Tom to the people don't understand a distinction between Marxism, socialism,
Speaker 21: and communism, and they use the terms interchangeably, you.
Speaker 1: Know, to identify because as Mark pointed out, there are
Speaker 1: certain similar characteristics, but those go far. There's way more
Speaker 1: similar circumstances with socialism. Socialism believes in a strong government
Speaker 1: that controls everything.
Speaker 21: How many people do you think make that distinction.
Speaker 1: Well, not many, and and so they truly democrats truly
Speaker 1: align more with socialism than communism and socialism, meaning a
Speaker 1: strong centralized government that controls the means of production and
Speaker 1: ownerships and distributs wealth. That's truly what they believe in.
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Speaker 30: No?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I did, say Andy's gone. Let's let's talk to
Speaker 1: UH Kirk, who has a problem with UH an issue
Speaker 1: with Tesla Solar. This is, you know, Kirk, we don't
Speaker 1: get a lot of complaints about Tesla's Solar. What's going on?
Speaker 14: I'm actually kind of surprised. So basically what's happened is
Speaker 14: Tesla took over Solar City, who initially put these panels
Speaker 14: on my roof.
Speaker 1: I think they were always Solar City. Yeah, they just
Speaker 1: rebranded it.
Speaker 14: Okay, So I purchased the house and I had to
Speaker 14: take the contract to this Solar or I had to
Speaker 14: walk away from the house kind of thing.
Speaker 1: Anyway, Wait, wait, so this was on the house when
Speaker 1: you bought.
Speaker 14: It, exactly exactly. It's a very one sided lease deal, right,
Speaker 14: but you had to.
Speaker 1: Do Wait you didn't, you didn't have to take the house.
Speaker 1: But you inherited it, right exactly. Okay, so what about it?
Speaker 14: So over the past three and a half years, the
Speaker 14: panels would go out, so call them out and they're saying, ah,
Speaker 14: it looks like you got a squirrel issue. Come out
Speaker 14: look at it. And they fixed it, and they said,
Speaker 14: you know you got a squirrel issue. Everything's good, You're
Speaker 14: good to go.
Speaker 1: So you actually took over the lease. You didn't just
Speaker 1: buy it out right right?
Speaker 13: Correct?
Speaker 14: Correct, no choice? And in its lease.
Speaker 7: I had.
Speaker 14: Some legal advice look over it and they said it's
Speaker 14: like a very one sided lease.
Speaker 1: Okay, well then that would that would have told you
Speaker 1: not to do it.
Speaker 14: Then, Well, at the time I didn't know it was.
Speaker 14: It was like it was when I bought the house.
Speaker 14: They're like, hey, you know the slower comes with it.
Speaker 14: It'll take your money, you know. And at the.
Speaker 1: Time, Kirk, I get all that, bro, I get all that.
Speaker 1: But the bottom line is you accepted it as it was.
Speaker 1: In fact, Okay, yeah, in fact, you had an attorney
Speaker 1: look at it who told you it was a bad lease.
Speaker 1: Well no, no, just now, oh just now, So back
Speaker 1: when you inherited it, you didn't have anyone look at it.
Speaker 14: No, No, the prime market where it's like you're putting
Speaker 14: in you know, way over price on a house.
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Speaker 1: I want to go right back to them and and
Speaker 1: see what we can do. So, Kirk, I just want
Speaker 1: to ask you, and I'm going to continue this, but
Speaker 1: I want to ask you, bottom line, what do you want?
Speaker 1: Are you insinuating at all that because it's a one
Speaker 1: way lease or it's a bad lease, you should be
Speaker 1: able to get out of it. Or what is your
Speaker 1: main contention?
Speaker 14: Oh, well, to see, there's there's a whole lot to
Speaker 14: this story.
Speaker 1: No, I get it, But what is your main contention?
Speaker 14: Well, the main contention is is poor customer service.
Speaker 16: On uh deathless part.
Speaker 15: I can get it.
Speaker 1: Let's say everything you say is right. Let's say it's
Speaker 1: a bad lease and poor customer service. Therefore, what.
Speaker 14: Well, there's damage to my house because of these solar paths.
Speaker 1: Therefore what.
Speaker 14: I I'm having, I'm fighting with them on trying to
Speaker 14: get them fixed that. They keep referring back to this
Speaker 14: leave that.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, okay, okay, so let me let
Speaker 1: me let me just get this straight. You're trying to
Speaker 1: get all of this. I get it. We can probably
Speaker 1: help your call them or try to rattle it a little,
Speaker 1: but you're not trying to get out of the lease.
Speaker 1: Is that right?
Speaker 16: No, I'm paying the leaf.
Speaker 14: I'm paying on it.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: You just want you just want them to hold up
Speaker 1: their part.
Speaker 14: Well, yeah, that's that's the problem with the lease is
Speaker 14: because every.
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Speaker 1: We've had some car call call problems. Right now we're
Speaker 1: talking to Kirk and Kirk. Bottom line, I think you're
Speaker 1: being screwed if what you're telling me is true. I
Speaker 1: talked to you off the air, and here's the bottom line.
Speaker 1: You're telling me that you've had very little service, very
Speaker 1: little actual power generated due to the the the undependability
Speaker 1: of this system. And they always blame other things like
Speaker 1: squirrels and crap like that, but the bottom line is
Speaker 1: they shouldn't blame anything. You've probably not had your money's worth.
Speaker 1: And you said back in April they took the panels
Speaker 1: off and you haven't had them since April. So you've
Speaker 1: been without panels April, May, June, July, August five months
Speaker 1: and you've been paying on your system.
Speaker 14: Yeah, this is that's correct.
Speaker 1: Well, you got it. I think I think you know what.
Speaker 1: I think you may have grounds to get out of
Speaker 1: the damn lease. I think they suck. I'm serious.
Speaker 9: I'm not gonna dispute that with you.
Speaker 14: I think they totally suck. They got a three.
Speaker 7: Point two customer rating.
Speaker 14: You can go all over the internet and see how
Speaker 14: many people. I mean, you get a lot of people
Speaker 14: that say that they're good.
Speaker 1: But really, right now, though, where are the panels? Are
Speaker 1: they sitting on your yard and you're in your yard?
Speaker 1: Where are they?
Speaker 14: Yeah, they're in my backyard. And I even told them,
Speaker 14: I'm like, this is kind of dangerous for you know,
Speaker 14: my animals.
Speaker 1: Well, let me ask you. Do they expect you to
Speaker 1: keep paying on this damn thing?
Speaker 14: That's why I keep saying this lease, they keep referring,
Speaker 14: they keep referring to the like, yeah, but.
Speaker 1: You're not generating. It's not operational right now, it's off.
Speaker 7: Correct.
Speaker 1: Did the attorneys say you can get out of this
Speaker 1: lease because of the bad service?
Speaker 14: The one attorney that I did talk to, he just said,
Speaker 14: stop paying on it and start becoming a squeaky wheel.
Speaker 1: Well I would stop paying too. I would say I'm
Speaker 1: not paying because I ain't. It's not producing anything.
Speaker 14: Now can they what about my credit?
Speaker 2: So that's well, see.
Speaker 1: That's the problem. You're gonna have a little war with him.
Speaker 1: Probably I don't. But unless you do something, these people
Speaker 1: are basically collecting money for nothing. Do you actually pay
Speaker 1: Tesla or is it a separate company that financed this?
Speaker 14: Oh, it's it's it's it's Tesla.
Speaker 1: Do you have a contact at Tesla? And where is
Speaker 1: the Tesla Corp? That you're calling in Texas?
Speaker 14: Well, here's the best part of it is, I've got
Speaker 14: many contacts. And the only way that you can talk
Speaker 14: to somebody is through a chat or an email. There's
Speaker 14: no you can't ever talk to anybody live. And when
Speaker 14: you do talk to somebody live, they keep referring back
Speaker 14: to the contract.
Speaker 1: And then they when they come out to your house, supervisor,
Speaker 1: When they come out to your house, who comes out.
Speaker 14: A technician usually?
Speaker 1: And do you ever talk today?
Speaker 14: I have talked to you like one of the technicians
Speaker 14: when they said they had to take the solar panels
Speaker 14: off to fix it, he said he had to take
Speaker 14: pictures and I asked him, ILF, so what's going on
Speaker 14: and he said, well, you know, it looks like there's
Speaker 14: some damage and stuff up there, but we got to
Speaker 14: turn it to our higher ups to look at it.
Speaker 14: And so they look at it and then they said, well,
Speaker 14: we can't put them on until your roof fixed. I'm like,
Speaker 14: wait a second, my roof is ruined by your panels
Speaker 14: because your a batment system was only halfway installed, according
Speaker 14: to your text, and so.
Speaker 1: They keep what you're a baitman system. What does that mean?
Speaker 14: Animal abatement system. It's supposed to keep things from getting
Speaker 14: underneath the panels and they only halfway installed it, so
Speaker 14: it trapped de breeze underneath the panels and rotted the shingles.
Speaker 14: And they're trying to say that a squirrel.
Speaker 31: Did all that.
Speaker 14: And time to find out one of the events the
Speaker 14: pump jacks from one of the roofers, because they asked
Speaker 14: me to get a roofer to send over an explanation.
Speaker 14: And he looked at it and he said, yeah, they
Speaker 14: cut one of your pump jacks short for one of
Speaker 14: your ventilations to your toilet. So being in Colorado, okay,
Speaker 14: that's not a certain Okay, listen, we got it.
Speaker 1: Okay, So this is you. I think if here's all
Speaker 1: I can tell you is what I would do, because
Speaker 1: they're not they're not going to pay attention to you
Speaker 1: at all. You're you're you're there punk right now. You
Speaker 1: just keep paying and paying and paying. I would when's
Speaker 1: your next payment?
Speaker 16: To all the first I.
Speaker 1: Personally would not pay. I would not pay, and not
Speaker 1: only that, I would probably sue them for the back
Speaker 1: payments you were making since the since the panels were
Speaker 1: off your roof, and I would sue them in small
Speaker 1: claims court. I really would. I would make their life miserable.
Speaker 1: But I wouldn't. I would become a squeaky wheel, and
Speaker 1: I wouldn't do anything. Do you have a But you
Speaker 1: don't even have a phone number where we can call
Speaker 1: and talk to them?
Speaker 14: Right, No, it's it's all chat and all email. I
Speaker 14: mean you can talk to you.
Speaker 16: You can't find anything online, just difficult.
Speaker 10: All I can find is a email address and a
Speaker 10: location in California and Texas, but no phone number.
Speaker 1: Man, is that a terrible thing to go to? Tesla?
Speaker 1: It sounds like a terrible solar company.
Speaker 14: The worst cars.
Speaker 1: Everything is everything, No one I'm looking to. I'm going
Speaker 1: to ask you, customer. I'm going to ask you to
Speaker 1: stay in touch with us. We don't mind getting in
Speaker 1: touch with them if we can at least find uh.
Speaker 1: Let me see, I'm trying to find this customer service thing. Okay,
Speaker 1: I found a customer service number for representatives availables at
Speaker 1: Teslas Solar to talk to. Have you ever tried this
Speaker 1: number many times? I'm going to give it to you.
Speaker 1: Are you there? Listen an eight seven seven number? Have
Speaker 1: you ever called it? Yep? And what do you get?
Speaker 1: And what do you get?
Speaker 14: Basically you get a representative that is basically on a script.
Speaker 14: And I went through many different ways to try to
Speaker 14: talk to a supervisor and they're.
Speaker 1: Like, well you so when you call eight seven seven
Speaker 1: seven nine eight thirty seven fifty two, Yeah, the representative
Speaker 1: is on a script. Is they Are they trying to
Speaker 1: you something?
Speaker 19: No?
Speaker 14: No, they just basically they they can look back at
Speaker 14: your contract and they can turn around and say, well,
Speaker 14: it's not in your contract. This is not part of
Speaker 14: your contract.
Speaker 1: Well, certainly they can't say that it not working is
Speaker 1: not part of your contract. Look at I'm going to
Speaker 1: tell you something. There's nothing we can do, there's no
Speaker 1: number to call. They've insulated themselves completely, so you're going
Speaker 1: to have to get their attention. Then you can call
Speaker 1: us back and I'll look up your case here, but
Speaker 1: you need to get their attention. I would do two things.
Speaker 1: I would sue them for everything, since April, since the
Speaker 1: panels have been off. I don't care what the agreement says.
Speaker 1: You've been producing zero power and you've had an electric bill.
Speaker 1: Or are they paying your electric bill?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 16: I got electric bill, So.
Speaker 1: They're not paying you anything. They're not compensating you in
Speaker 1: any way for this.
Speaker 14: Nope, they say that they review it every two years.
Speaker 14: Last time they reviewed it, I got a check for
Speaker 14: thirty three.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm going to uh no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: you're gonna You're gonna sue them for your monthly payments
Speaker 1: since April.
Speaker 21: I think that's the right.
Speaker 1: I think Tom donnay, and then you're not gonna and
Speaker 1: I would take in the small claims for it. Then
Speaker 1: I would stop paying. I would absolutely stop paying. Call
Speaker 1: us back. I'm gonna mark this here. Hold on. I
Speaker 1: just can't believe how bad your experience has been with
Speaker 1: Tesla Soler. Look at I'm glad people are listening. Annie.
Speaker 1: What's going on with you? Annie? You said you were scammed? Annie?
Speaker 27: This is Connie.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll talk to Connie. Were you scammed with a
Speaker 1: handyman or is this a totally different call?
Speaker 27: No, I don't I'm not Annie, I'm Connie. I'm an
Speaker 27: elderly lady. Okay, and I hired.
Speaker 22: A gentleman to pick up my.
Speaker 29: Lawnmore.
Speaker 27: That's how it all started.
Speaker 1: Uh uh, you hired a guy to pick up your
Speaker 1: lawnmower to fix it.
Speaker 27: Yes, okay, that's how it all began.
Speaker 1: And then what happened?
Speaker 27: Okay, he came to pick up the lawnmower and he
Speaker 27: he took it with him and he cut the grass
Speaker 27: for me.
Speaker 1: And wait, wait, wait he cuts grass for you with
Speaker 1: your lawnmower or with his.
Speaker 23: Own, with his own Okay, I'm getting a little ahead
Speaker 23: of myself. Okay, so overwhelmed because this guy referred me
Speaker 23: to another guy. I had a fence and needed to
Speaker 23: be repaired, and they all defended on me the same day.
Speaker 1: Well what do you mean by descending on you? Tell
Speaker 1: me how it worked.
Speaker 27: Well, I had a fence, part of it was down.
Speaker 27: I'm a recent widow.
Speaker 1: Oh I'm sorry about that, Connie. So listen. So you
Speaker 1: had you needed fence repair or two and this guy
Speaker 1: did this guy say, hey, I know someone who can
Speaker 1: help you with that.
Speaker 27: Yeah he did, and he calls the guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then.
Speaker 27: Wait, I gave the guy came the same day okay
Speaker 27: that he called him okay and he was still here,
Speaker 27: and he also called the person the spray for the
Speaker 27: weed and anyway, Uh, the guy came and looked at
Speaker 27: the fence, and he gave me an estimate okay for
Speaker 27: one side of my fence and two front gates A
Speaker 27: thirty one.
Speaker 1: Which what's the guy's name? What's the guy's name?
Speaker 27: His name is Charles Goulesby Charles, Charles Goulesby g O
Speaker 27: O L S B Y.
Speaker 1: T oo l s e y he is and girls gules.
Speaker 27: O lsby Charles guls He owns the GFTs.
Speaker 18: Services l LC.
Speaker 1: WHA, my god, okay, So just Charles that you hired
Speaker 1: to fix the fence.
Speaker 27: The fence, and then we ended up talking about my
Speaker 27: front yard. Okay, I've had a hard time getting grass
Speaker 27: to grow because of fine treats. And he says, well
Speaker 27: I can do that too.
Speaker 19: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But without going through each and every item, here's what
Speaker 1: I want to know. Were you cheated by these people.
Speaker 27: Terribly? This begins with twenty eighth of May.
Speaker 1: How much money have you paid them in full?
Speaker 27: About five six.
Speaker 1: Thousand, and how much work did you get done for
Speaker 1: that not much. Now did you pay did you pay
Speaker 1: Charles the sixth grand or did you pay Charles and
Speaker 1: the other guy?
Speaker 27: Well, Charles wonted twenty five hundred up front for the
Speaker 27: yard and the fans, so you paid him, so I
Speaker 27: like the full ideas. Okay, yeah, And that was the
Speaker 27: twenty eighth around the twenty eighth of May.
Speaker 23: And my gate is still not finished, so okay.
Speaker 1: But the total you paid him was twenty eight hundred.
Speaker 27: No, I paid him forty nine hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 27: Yeah, no, this Charles Goolsby, and they have treated me
Speaker 27: so badly. I have phone calls and messages and texts.
Speaker 1: Hold on, they go Charles Gouldsby. You paid and he
Speaker 1: he took your money forty nine hundred. How much did
Speaker 1: the other guy take? What was that guy's name?
Speaker 27: Four hundred dollars? But he was supposed to have come
Speaker 27: back and helped, you know, put some to try to
Speaker 27: grow the grass back in the backyard, but he never
Speaker 27: did return to do that.
Speaker 1: So that's over the five brand. Then you've spent right, right, okay,
Speaker 1: listen right, do you have a phone number for this?
Speaker 1: The five hundred dollars I don't even want to bother
Speaker 1: with right now. I want to just this Goulesby. You
Speaker 1: have not gotten forty nine hundred dollars worth of work, right.
Speaker 27: I don't believe I have, because he hasn't finished anything.
Speaker 27: And the plant said he planted on the landscape job.
Speaker 27: Half of them are dead. They're dying. And he didn't
Speaker 27: even finish the job.
Speaker 1: So Goulesby did more than fix the fence.
Speaker 27: Well, his company. He hired the immigrants to come in
Speaker 27: and work. That's another thing. And I don't think they
Speaker 27: were even trained. And they weren't paid either.
Speaker 1: I don't know. So you wanted to fix the fence
Speaker 1: and do some landscaping.
Speaker 27: And do some landscaping on the front yard.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, hold on, all right, hold on just uh,
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Speaker 1: Hi Tom Martino here three O three seven one three
Speaker 1: talks seven one three eight two five five. Okay, we're
Speaker 1: going to We're gonna have Connie speak to deputy Doc.
Speaker 1: We're going to try to call this contractor. Connie. Okay, Connie,
Speaker 1: so hold on and I'm gonna get give you one
Speaker 1: of our deputies who's going They're gonna help you by
Speaker 1: calling these people? And what do you want them to do?
Speaker 1: Do you want some money back? Er? Do you want
Speaker 1: them to finish? What do you want? Connie? What do
Speaker 1: you actually want?
Speaker 27: I would ideally I would like my money back and
Speaker 27: just deal with other people. These people have wiped their
Speaker 27: feet on me.
Speaker 1: You're right, you're right now, Connie. How long? How long
Speaker 1: have you been widowed?
Speaker 27: My husband passd the third of September last year?
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, this year? That yeah, almost a year.
Speaker 1: And may I ask how old you are?
Speaker 27: Eighty four?
Speaker 1: Eighty four? Well, you know what the reason we asked
Speaker 1: that is. We we there's a very special problem when
Speaker 1: these people take advantage of people at risk, and when
Speaker 1: you're over a certain age, you're considered a senior at risk.
Speaker 1: So this sucks. This is bad. Connie. I'm happy you
Speaker 1: called me. Hold on, uh Kitschina, get her information for
Speaker 1: deputy doc. I can't stand it when the when these
Speaker 1: a holes take advantage of older women like this, I
Speaker 1: mean widows, come on. I mean, my God, that the
Speaker 1: Bible even mentions widows and and and children. I mean,
Speaker 1: come on, Scott, what is your question? Scott? Welcome? Hey, Tom,
Speaker 1: how's going I'm doing okay? I just don't like hearing
Speaker 1: about elderly woman being ripped off. What's going on with you?
Speaker 18: Bro?
Speaker 30: It is?
Speaker 16: Said? Okay.
Speaker 32: I you took a call the other day from somebody
Speaker 32: that had two houses, yes, and one was oh yeah,
Speaker 32: and he was trying to do uh.
Speaker 1: He wanted to get equity out of a house and
Speaker 1: not pay it back. And I said, that's very difficult
Speaker 1: to do, but there are ways to do it with
Speaker 1: there are ways to do it, but you have to
Speaker 1: give up the home.
Speaker 32: Yeah, And it kicked off something to me. I am
Speaker 32: in the process of setting up a will for myself,
Speaker 32: and my situation is I don't have a loan. I
Speaker 32: don't have any relatives in.
Speaker 16: The state of Colorado. They're all further east of here.
Speaker 1: Do you have any relatives you care about?
Speaker 32: Yes, okay, five of them okay, and then they'll be
Speaker 32: in the will. But they're all out of state.
Speaker 16: And if I was to pass here, it's my house
Speaker 16: and my belongings. I don't want to burden them with
Speaker 16: multiple trips. Whoever the executor is multiple trips in here?
Speaker 1: Tell me what is your house worth?
Speaker 16: About four a little over for me? And it is
Speaker 16: completely paid off?
Speaker 1: Okay, So you have a four hundred thousand dollars asset
Speaker 1: and they'll get a step up in basis, which means
Speaker 1: when they sell it they'll have hardly any tax to
Speaker 1: pay at all. So what is your question?
Speaker 16: Well, if I was to take a reverse loan on it.
Speaker 1: In the house, right, I would I bother you? How
Speaker 1: old are you?
Speaker 16: Sixty three?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're not gonna get as much as if you
Speaker 1: were eighty three, but you'll get something. I mean, what
Speaker 1: the hell, it's bretter than nothing. And if you don't
Speaker 1: care about the leaving the house to anyone, just milk it.
Speaker 16: Yeah, do you know how it works?
Speaker 32: As far as everything in the house. If something were
Speaker 32: to happen to be the Yeah, let.
Speaker 1: Me tell you how it works, let me tell you
Speaker 1: or yeah, the best thing for you if do your
Speaker 1: relatives care about inheriting your home? No, okay, got then
Speaker 1: here's what happens. Here's what happens in a reverse loan.
Speaker 1: You just take a reverse loan, and your only charged
Speaker 1: interest on what you draw out, and then that interest
Speaker 1: is your new balance along with the loan. So if
Speaker 1: you take out ten grand, then the accrued interest, and
Speaker 1: then you take out another ten or you take out
Speaker 1: a lump sum. Whatever you do, you get and you
Speaker 1: may get about one hundred and eighty grand out of
Speaker 1: that house. You might get a little more, okay. So
Speaker 1: you have to keep paying taxes and insurance, and you
Speaker 1: can use some of those proceeds to do it. But
Speaker 1: what you do then is you don't make a payment
Speaker 1: and then you just live there. Now what happens is
Speaker 1: this is going to accrue and keep accruing, and no
Speaker 1: matter how long you live, they can't ask you to
Speaker 1: leave and they can't ask for payback. Okay, but at
Speaker 1: some point you're going to run out of the money
Speaker 1: that you can draw out. But that's why you should
Speaker 1: be judicious with the money and let it last you.
Speaker 1: But once you do that, you're done as far as
Speaker 1: paying back. You don't have to worry about anything personal
Speaker 1: unless you want to, because when you go, your house
Speaker 1: goes and somebody will come in from the lender and
Speaker 1: the government and they will simply liquidate everything or throw
Speaker 1: it away literally and then sell your house.
Speaker 32: Okay, Like like, say, I do get one hundred and
Speaker 32: eighty Could I take that one hundred and eighty and
Speaker 32: invest it with the Rocky Mountain Retirement Center of the
Speaker 32: Rockies or it stays.
Speaker 1: You mean, yes, you can invest it. You can do
Speaker 1: an annuity and that's not even a bad idea. You
Speaker 1: can do an annuity that will produce income to supplement
Speaker 1: your Social Security. Yes, you can do that. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of people actually do that. Now you might think, wow,
Speaker 1: that sounds dirty. How am I doing that? I'm going
Speaker 1: to be getting income, plus I'm not paying back the house.
Speaker 1: I mean, people do it all the time. That's what
Speaker 1: a reverse loan allows you to do. People the people
Speaker 1: who loan reverse loans, and the government knows a certain
Speaker 1: amount of people will not pay that loan back and
Speaker 1: walk away from the house.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 1: So let's say theoretically you took out a lumpsum just
Speaker 1: to even it out. Let's say your house is goes
Speaker 1: up there, it's more and you think, let's say you
Speaker 1: take out two hundred grand, and that two hundred grand
Speaker 1: you put in an annuity. And are you on Social
Speaker 1: Security right now?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 8: I am.
Speaker 16: What do you get a month the twenty one?
Speaker 1: Why'd you take it early? Why'd you take it early?
Speaker 16: I don't have an answer to that.
Speaker 32: I don't want to be living into my eighties and nineties.
Speaker 16: And that's where you.
Speaker 1: Now remember this, Remember what do you mean you don't
Speaker 1: want to be living into your agers?
Speaker 16: I don't want to end up in a home.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, so listen. What you do is, if you
Speaker 1: are sixty three, you got plenty of life, you really do.
Speaker 1: If you take care of yourself, so you can take
Speaker 1: the money after your sixty six, let's say, or sixty seven,
Speaker 1: that'll fester for a while. You'll get a pretty good
Speaker 1: chunk of money every month from that for the rest
Speaker 1: of your life.
Speaker 16: Okay.
Speaker 1: Make sure you've got to make sure it is a
Speaker 1: fixed indexed annuity.
Speaker 32: Okay, Okay, Now I'm already invested with the Retirement Center
Speaker 32: of the Rocky Yas.
Speaker 1: Okay, they're good people. They sell, they sell those. How
Speaker 1: much you have invested? Do you mind saying you don't
Speaker 1: have to, but how much you have invested with them
Speaker 1: up there?
Speaker 16: Yeah, I'm I'm over three hundred.
Speaker 1: Okay, well that's good. That's good. Then you add to
Speaker 1: that and you can do you don't put all of
Speaker 1: it in an annuity, but put some of it. They'll
Speaker 1: counsel you. They'll go over the annuities with you, and
Speaker 1: then how much it'll pay in five years and just
Speaker 1: do the math. The reason I say wait till you're
Speaker 1: sixty six, you have to wait because you're because you
Speaker 1: took Social Security early. You can't have too much income
Speaker 1: until your full retirement age or it'll count against But
Speaker 1: they know all that. They'll help you with that rpcenter
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Speaker 32: And you're saying, hold off on the reverse until I'm
Speaker 32: sixty seve, No.
Speaker 1: No, no, you don't have to hold off on the reverse.
Speaker 1: You can do the reverse now, okay. In fact, you
Speaker 1: the sooner the better, and then by the annuity as
Speaker 1: soon as possible. What I mean is you don't want
Speaker 1: to turn it into income until you're about full retirement
Speaker 1: age or older. Like if you could keep it from
Speaker 1: sixty three to seventy and then turn on the income
Speaker 1: at seventy, that would be awesome you'd make. You'll be
Speaker 1: surprised how much money you'll have to take out every month.
Speaker 32: You intercepted my question because I was going to ask
Speaker 32: if I drew it at sixty three the say two hundred,
Speaker 32: would it be charged as income on my taxes for
Speaker 32: next year?
Speaker 16: But you're saying no, No.
Speaker 1: A reverse loan is never taxed and the annuity is
Speaker 1: not taxed. All the earnings are tax free. The only
Speaker 1: time you pay tax on that annuity is when you're seventy,
Speaker 1: let's say, and you start taking income of three or
Speaker 1: four grand a month. When you start taking your income,
Speaker 1: you'll pay normal tax on it.
Speaker 16: Okay, okay com Yeah, I.
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Speaker 1: oh three nine two zero sixteen twenty two. Hi Tom
Speaker 1: Ortino here at three all three seven one three talks
Speaker 1: seven one three two five five, Patricia, what's going on
Speaker 1: with Vivid? Is this the home security company?
Speaker 7: It is?
Speaker 1: What's going on with it?
Speaker 21: Yeah?
Speaker 33: So basically we have been promised many things, meaning like credits.
Speaker 1: When did you get the system to begin with?
Speaker 33: So we've had it for a couple of years, okay
Speaker 33: at our old house, so we moved recently, and of
Speaker 33: course there's a fee for when they come out and
Speaker 33: take it out right put it back in right. So
Speaker 33: what had happened was both times we have just had
Speaker 33: issues with them coming out, like the when they were
Speaker 33: supposed to bring it put it in. They we have
Speaker 33: a four hour window and nobody came and we got
Speaker 33: to call. My husband got a call fifteen minutes before
Speaker 33: our window closed, saying, oh, I guess he called in
Speaker 33: six so nobody's coming. Yeah, like okay, well, you know
Speaker 33: my husband was kind of irritated. You know, I took
Speaker 33: off work and it was just you know. So the
Speaker 33: lady's like, well, if you call, you know, we might
Speaker 33: be able to you know, work with you and maybe
Speaker 33: give you some credits for the service calls. So I
Speaker 33: was like, okay, So they installed it.
Speaker 1: I called. When did they finally install it in your
Speaker 1: new place? How long did it take? June? So we
Speaker 1: moved in April and wait wait, wait April, mate, you
Speaker 1: didn't have to pay for those monitoring fees did you
Speaker 1: while you were moved?
Speaker 33: Well, we did, but they said that they will go
Speaker 33: ahead and credit us back and they finally did I
Speaker 33: see it maybe a.
Speaker 1: Couple Okay, good for the So you moved in April
Speaker 1: and the system was moved in June.
Speaker 33: Well, we moved in April and they came in April
Speaker 33: to take it out. So we didn't have any systems
Speaker 33: system until May or well they they were supposed to
Speaker 33: come in May.
Speaker 27: They did not come.
Speaker 33: That's when we had that issue. So then we called
Speaker 33: and so they were booked and everything. So we had
Speaker 33: to wait till June.
Speaker 1: Okay, so hold on now, what is Let's forget all
Speaker 1: about all that right now? Now you have Vivid. What's
Speaker 1: the problem now?
Speaker 33: Right now? So they will they keep going back. We
Speaker 33: were supposed to get those fees for their home, you know,
Speaker 33: for them coming out credited back to us.
Speaker 1: Is that because of wait wait wait, credited back because
Speaker 1: of those monitoring fees you had paid them, or.
Speaker 33: Is that in addition to that for so of the
Speaker 33: issues that we had with scheduling and it taking so long?
Speaker 1: And okay, so but let me get us straight. Though,
Speaker 1: you got a credit for the monthly payments you were
Speaker 1: paying for nothing, but now you want in addition to that,
Speaker 1: you want them to credit you for the installation fees.
Speaker 33: Well, yeah, so that's what that we were promised. I
Speaker 33: called a Joe and I wrote it all down and
Speaker 33: I told him our story and he's like, yeah, no
Speaker 33: that we're sorry about that. Yes, we can definitely take
Speaker 33: care of those for you and your months that you
Speaker 33: didn't have your service. I was like, oh, pay thanks, cool?
Speaker 1: How much does how much are we talking about right now?
Speaker 7: Three dollars?
Speaker 33: We were we were expecting a credit of three hundred
Speaker 33: dollars plus that forty one you know for the month.
Speaker 1: Wait, I thought you were I thought you already got
Speaker 1: that part the monthly feace.
Speaker 33: Yeah, we did. This was back in like, oh god,
Speaker 33: I went right.
Speaker 1: Now, if we call them and make a demand, it's
Speaker 1: for three hundred bucks.
Speaker 33: That's what we initially wanted. Yes, But now they're saying
Speaker 33: because they can't find the notes, they cannot find the recording,
Speaker 33: nobody knows of the Joe who promised me that. And
Speaker 33: then I called, we were calling me.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, wait a minute of so for the inconvenience,
Speaker 1: you don't have any record of the credit promise?
Speaker 33: No, And see that's the thing, like id when I
Speaker 33: was talking to Joe, I was like, can you please
Speaker 33: put in you know, the notes, so nothing happens, blah
Speaker 33: blah blah. He's like, I'm actually doing it right now.
Speaker 33: It was all peachy, but and then but yeah, I'm
Speaker 33: gonna behold now.
Speaker 23: I know, And now they cannot find they signed all.
Speaker 1: The others, so do they wait? So they flat out
Speaker 1: refuse to do anything else.
Speaker 33: And so like right now, I just called about like
Speaker 33: an hour ago. And every time I have called so
Speaker 33: many times I'm on the phone with them for over
Speaker 33: an hour now. They could only do one hundred and
Speaker 33: fifty when wait, wait, wait wait, were like.
Speaker 1: But hold on, so you at least got them to
Speaker 1: do one fifty.
Speaker 33: No, well, yeah they won't. They say that they'll do
Speaker 33: one fifty. But I but back in August when we
Speaker 33: were find no, I get it, I get it.
Speaker 1: I know, yeah, it went from three hundred to one fifty.
Speaker 1: But I want to ask something. Did you get any
Speaker 1: Why did they decide to do one fifty?
Speaker 33: That's all that they because there was no notes for
Speaker 33: this three hundred dollars promise. So the supervisors like, the
Speaker 33: best I could do is one fifty.
Speaker 1: Did you get a record of at least that one?
Speaker 33: They can't, wouldn't. Well I don't know if no, because
Speaker 33: every time I talk to somebody like I can't, I
Speaker 33: just thought.
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Speaker 1: three oh three nine two zero sixteen twenty two. Hi
Speaker 1: Tom Martine, your troubleshooter three oh three seven to one
Speaker 1: three talk Patricia, Hey, Kitschina. I want to get someone
Speaker 1: to call vivint and argue with them for Patricia, because
Speaker 1: I mean, this, this sucks. I think what they need
Speaker 1: to do? Where is it right now? Where does this
Speaker 1: stand right now?
Speaker 33: By the way, I called about an hour ago Intoman.
Speaker 1: That's when they said they'd give you the one fifty, right, one.
Speaker 33: Fifty, And then he's like, but I can maybe do
Speaker 33: another twenty five, and how about you one fifty this
Speaker 33: month and we can do the rest next month.
Speaker 1: Wait wait, wait, wait, one fifty this month. And when
Speaker 1: they say the rest next month, they mean twenty five
Speaker 1: next month or another one?
Speaker 33: No, no, just twenty five. There's no notes in for them.
Speaker 1: Let me let me ask you this. Let me ask
Speaker 1: you this, Patricia. I don't know how important this issue
Speaker 1: is to you, but are you willing to settle for
Speaker 1: the let's say one eighty five or excuse me, one
Speaker 1: seventy five.
Speaker 33: Yeah, when they promised this, we can't do three hundred,
Speaker 33: but we can do two, we were fine, and I
Speaker 33: was like, fine, just to get it over with, we'll
Speaker 33: pay the difference. I called on Monday and they I
Speaker 33: was like, I'm not giving another card because they are
Speaker 33: trying to charge my card. I just saw like one
Speaker 33: thousand dollars. Now, I don't know what they're doing on
Speaker 33: their side, but so he gave me the number. I
Speaker 33: was going to send a check and he's like, it's
Speaker 33: going to be updated in our system. You're two hundred
Speaker 33: dollars credit. But it's still not. But now, yeah, I
Speaker 33: call it and today now it's only one hundred and sixty.
Speaker 33: So they go back on their word. And so I'm
Speaker 33: willing to pay.
Speaker 1: But you know you're sick and tired. Well, I know
Speaker 1: what you're you're pissed off. I don't blame you. I
Speaker 1: don't blame you. Hey, yeah, Kachina, who do we have
Speaker 1: available to call Vivid and just say, look, we're watching this.
Speaker 1: It sucks. This woman's been banned. Who do we have
Speaker 1: that can call for her. We have bo or Chopper.
Speaker 1: Let's do it with bo. Okay, let's do this for
Speaker 1: Deputy Bo. Hold on, We're going to have somebody call
Speaker 1: you and reach out to you. It might be Monday,
Speaker 1: but we'll intercede and see what we can do for you.
Speaker 1: We have some pretty good luck with our standing crew
Speaker 1: of jeputies, even Doc Yeah, I know, even Deputy Doc. Hey,
Speaker 1: so get let's get that too. I'm putting it down
Speaker 1: for Bow. Now, what about a nineteen sixty eight Motorola
Speaker 1: record player? I call it junk? What do you call it?
Speaker 21: Bill?
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding, Bill. Yeah, you have a nineteen sixty
Speaker 1: eight Motorola record player.
Speaker 17: Wow, it's a five foot SiO AMFM oh I know
Speaker 17: what that is.
Speaker 1: You have the console?
Speaker 17: Yeah, the contole.
Speaker 1: Okay, hold on and we'll come back to you and more.
Speaker 1: Plus Demonica or yeah, Demonica or I think is Demonica
Speaker 1: wants to talk about an email scan Right after this,
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Speaker 4: Come Man Dix is the Troubleshooter show.
Speaker 1: No Tom Martino, Hi, Tom Martino your trouble shooter at
Speaker 1: three all three seven one three talk three all three
Speaker 1: seven one three eight two five five. I want to
Speaker 1: go right to a possible scam. After I talked to
Speaker 1: Bill about his sixty eight Motorola console stereo. I've looked
Speaker 1: it up. Oh my gosh. Now they can be used
Speaker 1: for boat anchors. But I'll tell you what, Bill, what
Speaker 1: do you need help with? Bill? You need help hauling
Speaker 1: it off to the dump or what? Bill?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 17: No, it's steel like brand noon have become wood cabinet
Speaker 17: the whole nine yards. Everything works on an a.
Speaker 1: MFM row Oh really very cool, AMFM radio stereo and
Speaker 1: TV right no TV oh that's even worse. Okay, So
Speaker 1: no TV, so it's just AMFM radio stereo as speakers, right, yes,
Speaker 1: So what's your question? What do you need help with?
Speaker 17: Well, I'm trying to find out who can fix it.
Speaker 17: Everything works on it, except they won't change the records automatically.
Speaker 17: I mean, it will work if you do them.
Speaker 1: You mean where you used to stack them and that
Speaker 1: they would drop down on that spindle. That's correct, I
Speaker 1: remember that. I remember that. And now the spindle stopped
Speaker 1: dropping the records or they yeah, but yeah, okay, and
Speaker 1: the arm stopped automatically moving over to where they record is.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 17: Yeah, it just won't do it automatically.
Speaker 1: When did it stop?
Speaker 17: Oh, I don't know a few years ago.
Speaker 1: Like forty years ago. No, I'm just kidding. So okay,
Speaker 1: I know that there was there was a guy that
Speaker 1: specialized in old electronics. I'm trying to figure it out
Speaker 1: right now. I used them once. Now, gosh, there, I
Speaker 1: know there are geeks out there right now there, you know,
Speaker 1: by the way, I know why you can find someone.
Speaker 1: Even though the consoles are rare and far and in between,
Speaker 1: there are still a lot of people who have turntables. Now,
Speaker 1: there aren't a lot of automatic turntables. All the turntables
Speaker 1: that came later in life, you would have to set
Speaker 1: the needle on the record and do your own thing.
Speaker 1: But they had a lot of really high end turntables.
Speaker 1: And are you googling it? Jesse was? I'm just curious.
Speaker 1: There's old fashioned. What do we would we call it? Vintage? No,
Speaker 1: vintage electronics, vintage electronics? Vintage? I would say vintage electronic repair.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's what we want to look for. You know,
Speaker 1: what did you look on the internet, sir?
Speaker 25: Well?
Speaker 17: I tried to put the model number in Motorola model number,
Speaker 17: but I couldn't get anything.
Speaker 1: I'll be a son of a gun. They're coming up here.
Speaker 1: Vintage electronics, Yeah, I got some here that came up.
Speaker 1: I don't know of any that's the problem. Now, if
Speaker 1: anyone listening could help us, we'll pass it on to
Speaker 1: uh Bill. We'll pass it on. Let's see vintage. Now
Speaker 1: there's vintage electronics repair in South Yeah, it's really hard
Speaker 1: to find the ones though some of them don't do
Speaker 1: the uh well, this one stereo repair services. They work
Speaker 1: on the electronics, but yours is more of the mechanical problem.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be That's what I believe you're Wait, this
Speaker 1: is showing Nope, this isn't showing. I'm looking at this
Speaker 1: one guy site, but it's not showing consoles or anything.
Speaker 1: It's showing more or less other kinds. Let's get MC
Speaker 1: call and see. Hey, do me a favor, Kachina, call
Speaker 1: this number, Call this number and see if If they do,
Speaker 1: I'm going to send it. Let's see. I'll just give
Speaker 1: you the numbers. Three oh three Are you there?
Speaker 21: She listening to me?
Speaker 1: Okay, three three seven, nine to four eighty thirty seven.
Speaker 1: Ask if they do any repairs on consoles, fast and
Speaker 1: affordable equipment. Wait a minute, Panasonic, Sony, Morans, Yamaha, Dinon
Speaker 1: and more. You're the end. More you have the Motorola.
Speaker 1: Motorola was one of the big places in the day.
Speaker 1: This is called venance repair or whatever. Maybe they know
Speaker 1: doctor Dan's Doctor Dan's Vintage Auto Repair. You ought to
Speaker 1: hop on the on Google and just look at some
Speaker 1: of these men put in vintage electronic repair. Bill. Just
Speaker 1: be careful, be careful, man, because I know a lot
Speaker 1: of people who have had things lost forever. People come
Speaker 1: and pick them up. You'd rather have somebody come to
Speaker 1: the house and try to fix it there. When you
Speaker 1: drop it off or they pick it up, you take
Speaker 1: a risk unless we can do some background checking on them.
Speaker 1: I'll be happy to help you pick the right place
Speaker 1: once you locate one, if you think you might, if
Speaker 1: you if you think you can find one, but try Katschina,
Speaker 1: did you call that number of the answering? Well, what's going? Okay,
Speaker 1: let me just see something. I'm just gonna ask. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna call on my cell phone here, damn it.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna call and ask three oh three seven
Speaker 1: ninety four eighty three. I'm gonna call and see hold on,
Speaker 1: hold on. The one I just called does not do
Speaker 1: the repairs. Oh okay, they don't the one you just
Speaker 1: go they don't do the on the consoles. Oh okay,
Speaker 1: never mind? All right. Then you said dance? Is that?
Speaker 1: Is that another one?
Speaker 20: Doctor dance?
Speaker 1: Doctor dance? But what they just say vintage audio repair.
Speaker 1: They're showing the regular sterios, They're not showing the consoles.
Speaker 10: What he says in here, it says their services include
Speaker 10: reel to real old tubes, amplifiers, vintage record players.
Speaker 1: Oh oh oh, are his favorites Dans and then.
Speaker 20: If you have a hold of them, you might want
Speaker 20: to tell him his website sucks.
Speaker 1: His website does suck. Wh God, some of these people. Man,
Speaker 1: Come on, get with the twentieth century, twenty first century?
Speaker 1: What am I? I'm ast century behind too? Hold on,
Speaker 1: I'm calling this guy Dans.
Speaker 2: I don't want it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna see what he says. He's gonna hang up
Speaker 1: on me. He hates me. Probably is this doctor Dan
Speaker 1: from Is this doctor Dan Vincace? Audio repair? Do you
Speaker 1: do a Motorola consoles? Like the automatic record feeder is
Speaker 1: not feeding records? Do you fix those?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 1: No, it's not. I I don't actually know. I'm yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: this guy knows. Hey, doctor Dan, I want to ask
Speaker 1: I want to ask something real quick. My name is
Speaker 1: Tom Martino, and a guy called my radio show. In fact,
Speaker 1: I'm on the air right now. You're not on the air.
Speaker 1: I have you on my cell phone. They can't hear you.
Speaker 1: Can we call you right back and get you on
Speaker 1: the air so you can talk to him? Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: it's not going to be hard, I promise I I'll
Speaker 1: go easy. It's no You're the only one we can
Speaker 1: find that even knew anything about it. All right, we'll
Speaker 1: call you right back, bro. Hold on, Okay, let's call
Speaker 1: him back. Here's his number of Kachina seven. Well, if
Speaker 1: I say it out loud, everyone's a call. Well go
Speaker 1: call him right now, seven to zero. She dialing to
Speaker 1: Okay seven two zero nine three thirty six eighty eight.
Speaker 1: Hold on, Bill, Well, we'll talk to you in a minute.
Speaker 1: Let's this guy sounds like he knows what he's doing.
Speaker 1: And as soon as you get him on, I'll get
Speaker 1: off of this call. But I want to start with Demonica.
Speaker 1: Demonica has an email scam? What's going on?
Speaker 25: Hey, Tom, thanks for taking the call. I forwarded the
Speaker 25: emails to the Daphne at Troubleshooter and if that's still
Speaker 25: a good.
Speaker 1: Email, No, Daphne, you Daphne still works with us. But
Speaker 1: but what what is the issue?
Speaker 25: Well, I got an email eleven fifteen this morning, so
Speaker 25: they're excited to confirm of the zte ax On forty
Speaker 25: ultra in the amount of two hundred and sixty fifty
Speaker 25: seven cents.
Speaker 16: Yeah, and there's a phone number right, And I'm like,
Speaker 16: what the hell is this?
Speaker 1: It's a scam. It's a scam.
Speaker 27: Oh, I know it is, So I dial this number
Speaker 27: and what did they say?
Speaker 14: This guy was so belligerent.
Speaker 25: He called me everything but a lady.
Speaker 7: And why now?
Speaker 1: Why did he call you names?
Speaker 19: Oh?
Speaker 1: Hold on, I got to go to doctor Dan. I'll
Speaker 1: come right back to you, I promise. Hold On, is
Speaker 1: Dan on? Zeon? She's getting on. Okay, I want to
Speaker 1: try to Okay, okay, doctor Dan, thank you very much. So, uh,
Speaker 1: let's see who is it? Bill called us and he's
Speaker 1: on the phone. You're on the air right now. So Bill,
Speaker 1: you have a nineteen sixty eight Motorole record player and
Speaker 1: has the turntable in it and the AMFM radio right right?
Speaker 20: Correct?
Speaker 1: Now? Doctor Dan said, a lot of those turntables, even
Speaker 1: though they're in Motorola units, are made by Zenith. Is
Speaker 1: that right, Dan?
Speaker 21: Correct?
Speaker 1: And do you work on those when the theater and
Speaker 1: the the.
Speaker 7: You know, I do you do?
Speaker 11: I do?
Speaker 7: I do work on them. And you don't need to
Speaker 7: bring in the whole console. You can remove the turntable
Speaker 7: from the console and just bring me the turntable.
Speaker 1: Does it unplug or does he have to cut wires out?
Speaker 30: Is that as unplugged? It does unplug? You need to
Speaker 30: remove the back and then on the top of the turntable,
Speaker 30: if you're looking at it from the top, there should
Speaker 30: be two bolts or three bolts, just screw heads, one
Speaker 30: usually about eleven o'clock, the other one at about four o'clock.
Speaker 30: And then basically you follow the bolts through the turntable
Speaker 30: by looking at the back, and those bolts will terminate
Speaker 30: with a little clip on it on the end.
Speaker 7: Huh, at a right angle to the bolt.
Speaker 1: Got it? Yeah?
Speaker 30: He just flip one side up on each of the bolts.
Speaker 30: You need to remove three wires.
Speaker 7: One's going to go to the motor and the other
Speaker 7: two or are for the right.
Speaker 1: And the left audio and they're plugged in. And they're
Speaker 1: plugged in, then that sounds easy, and then you can
Speaker 1: you can take it over to you, Bill, Bill, that
Speaker 1: might sound too much for you, bro, but maybe you
Speaker 1: can get somebody to help you. Do you think do
Speaker 1: you have any skill at all? Bill?
Speaker 16: I have a little bit, but it does.
Speaker 1: And we're going to give out his number. You may
Speaker 1: you may want to call him afterwards, or you might
Speaker 1: want to try try getting somebody who can help. It
Speaker 1: sounds pretty easy, he says. There's just a couple of
Speaker 1: bolts that go through and they have a clip on
Speaker 1: the end of him.
Speaker 7: And then he says, I talked people through it all
Speaker 7: the time.
Speaker 1: Okay, good, good, good, And I'm going to ask you
Speaker 1: something now that I have on your phone because this
Speaker 1: is fascinating. Do you stay busy with old crap?
Speaker 7: I mean, really, the pandemic is? What did it for me?
Speaker 28: Oh?
Speaker 1: You mean it slowed your way down?
Speaker 22: Well?
Speaker 16: Oh no, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 7: I was miserable during the pandemic. I didn't have time
Speaker 7: to sleep. Oh there were so many people that were
Speaker 7: at my door wanting my service.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 7: And since that, since it would be May of twenty twenty,
Speaker 7: because it didn't really start in March. That was the lockdown.
Speaker 7: But it was awful.
Speaker 21: It was just awful.
Speaker 7: It really was. I had to hire an assistance. Wow,
Speaker 7: I deal with a face mask thing and it just
Speaker 7: I'm a lot more direct now than I was four
Speaker 7: years ago.
Speaker 1: You have unbelievable ratings. You have really good ratings. How
Speaker 1: long you've been around.
Speaker 7: I've been around doing this in Denver for fifteen years.
Speaker 7: I've always found it as a passion. But it's very easy, Tom.
Speaker 7: They basically treat people the way you want to be treated. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 7: and it seems to work very well.
Speaker 1: Anybody listening. It's called Doctor Dan's Vintage Audio Repair. Now
Speaker 1: what does it not include? I mean, I see a
Speaker 1: lot of old stuff. What do you not work on?
Speaker 7: Basically, if it has an HDMI connector or any type
Speaker 7: of surround sound equipment, a good rule of thumb that
Speaker 7: it's made in the twenty first century. I basically can't.
Speaker 7: I don't like looking at them.
Speaker 28: They're harder to repair.
Speaker 7: So we go back earlier, right to the beginning nineteen twenty.
Speaker 7: But I'm getting out of that too. They're becoming a
Speaker 7: little too old for me.
Speaker 19: No.
Speaker 1: But basically, you work on old stuff up to up
Speaker 1: to two up to like ninety, well two thousand.
Speaker 30: Ninety two, work on several fers up to twenty ten, twenty.
Speaker 30: I just repaired one that was four years ago, a
Speaker 30: four month four years old, about two months ago.
Speaker 1: Oh man, thank you for taking that. They are Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Isaac. Thank you for taking my call and
Speaker 1: coming on on short notice like this my pleasure dot
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna give out Can can I give out
Speaker 1: your number?
Speaker 7: Absolutely?
Speaker 1: All right? So this is doctor Dan Vintage Audio Repair
Speaker 1: and it's seven to zero nine three nine thirty six
Speaker 1: eighty eight. If you got old stuff and he sounds me,
Speaker 1: do you know how? Like instantly he knew from a
Speaker 1: motorole in nineteen sixty how to remove the turntable. That's
Speaker 1: pretty damn in pressing. He knows right what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: Seven two zero nine three nine thirty six eighty eight?
Speaker 1: Did I do fifteen? Yet I didn't?
Speaker 29: Did I?
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Speaker 1: two zero sixteen twenty two. Hi Tom Martino, your troubleshooter
Speaker 1: three O three seven one three talk three oh three
Speaker 1: seven one three eight two five five So Dominica, Dominica, Dominica.
Speaker 1: Thank you, sorry, Dominica. That is a scam. When you
Speaker 1: called the guy dressed you down, he was really pissed off.
Speaker 1: Why did you tell him you knew it was a scam?
Speaker 25: Now, I said, I wanted to know what this was
Speaker 25: and he said, it's a bitcoin. Don't you know a
Speaker 25: guy by the name of Cooper Jackson.
Speaker 27: I said, I don't know who man. Oh that is no.
Speaker 25: And I didn't order any of this and he said,
Speaker 25: well too f and bad and you ken f and
Speaker 25: cancel it, and he went on and I said, stop
Speaker 25: talking to me like that. I don't even know what.
Speaker 14: You're talking about.
Speaker 25: I don't know anything about that.
Speaker 14: I know nothing about viitcom.
Speaker 31: We'll go to your computer.
Speaker 25: If you go to your computer, I can walk you
Speaker 25: through how to cancel it.
Speaker 19: And I said I.
Speaker 25: Don't have a computer and I'm not doing that.
Speaker 1: I didn't do any of this.
Speaker 25: And he continued to f ball me this and that,
Speaker 25: and I'm like, you don't talk to a lady like that,
Speaker 25: And finally, Tom, I just hung up on him. But
Speaker 25: like I said, I forwarded do the email. And as
Speaker 25: I'm looking at this email, it says that you will
Speaker 25: be sent a SMARTPHONEUS shift. If I don't cancel something,
Speaker 25: you don't have to.
Speaker 1: Cancel anything, just ignore it. No, Yeah, but I'm glad
Speaker 1: you told us about it. Seriously and I'm serious, I'm
Speaker 1: making a note of it. Paul's got a transmission question, Paul,
Speaker 1: what vehicle are we talking about?
Speaker 18: All My sister's in the market for a vehicle, and
Speaker 18: we're looking at like Toyota, Corollas and Kia Fortes, and
Speaker 18: they all these kind of budget vehicles have the CVT transmission.
Speaker 1: The CVT is it called, right?
Speaker 28: Yeah?
Speaker 20: Continue to say verbal transmission.
Speaker 18: Yeah, And I don't know I thought those have I
Speaker 18: thought those went away because they had much problems with
Speaker 18: them with Nissans.
Speaker 1: But you know, with such good cars like Toyotas, why
Speaker 1: do they use those transit? Is everyone going to? So?
Speaker 20: It basically all comes down to fuel economy. I mean,
Speaker 20: they can get better fuel economy compared to a regular transmission.
Speaker 18: So what if if my you know, help my sister
Speaker 18: per the vehicle, would you stay away from anything with
Speaker 18: a CVT or some better than others or.
Speaker 1: Will they all need to be rebuilt at some point?
Speaker 20: Pretty much? But pretty much what They all need to
Speaker 20: be rebuilt at one point or another.
Speaker 1: At one point when how long are they good for?
Speaker 20: Well, I mean you look at the Nissans. We commonly
Speaker 20: see those, you know, any anywhere from about ninety to
Speaker 20: one hundred and ten thousand miles.
Speaker 1: That's not terrible. What about okay, so what about Toyotas.
Speaker 20: The Toyotas, we don't see them near as often. You know,
Speaker 20: they're probably looking more harden forty hundred and fifty thousand, Jesse.
Speaker 10: What do you think of the same thing service maintaining
Speaker 10: and servicing your vehicle? CBTs still need to be changed.
Speaker 1: Well, that's not terrible, Paul. He's saying you can get
Speaker 1: over one hundred thousand miles on him.
Speaker 20: And in my opinion quite frankly Subar who has the
Speaker 20: best in the market. But when those do go down,
Speaker 20: they're also probably the most.
Speaker 1: Expensive expensive, but they last the longest. And do any
Speaker 1: regular sized cars have these or CBTs?
Speaker 20: Or what regular sized cars like a Super Forester?
Speaker 1: Okay, look so they Okay, what about American cars? Any CVTs?
Speaker 20: Yeah, there's plenty of them out there inside.
Speaker 1: What about Cherman cars? What a my luxury cars? All
Speaker 1: of the Mercedes, all of them. Do I have one?
Speaker 1: What do you have the X seven?
Speaker 20: I don't think so.
Speaker 1: No, so the only smaller or is it bigger too?
Speaker 1: Like like like, are they all going.
Speaker 20: To go to them? No, they're not all going to
Speaker 20: go to them. And Ansan he brought them up a
Speaker 20: minute ago. You know, they got a dirty name for
Speaker 20: him because they fall down all the time. They actually
Speaker 20: were in process of R and D to make one
Speaker 20: to go inside the Titan. But with all the problems
Speaker 20: that they had inside the smaller vehicles, so elected against it.
Speaker 1: What about now? Electric uses no transmission? Right technically technically
Speaker 1: no so, but they but they would be close to
Speaker 1: continuous I mean, in other words, because of the way
Speaker 1: those motors work. But they don't change gears, do they No,
Speaker 1: they just go directly off torque right correct? Okay, See,
Speaker 1: electric cars are a way to go. But hey, Paul,
Speaker 1: she's looking at used right. Uh, probably new Why doesn't
Speaker 1: she consider an electric car? Hey? Doc has one? He
Speaker 1: loves What was was it, Doc?
Speaker 21: I have a Hyundai Kona.
Speaker 1: You love it. It's great and for the price, it's
Speaker 1: an suv four wheel drive. It's one wheel drive, front
Speaker 1: wheel drive. Okay, it works.
Speaker 21: Great, three hundred and something miles on a full tank
Speaker 21: on a full.
Speaker 1: Charge, and it's got way way and it also has
Speaker 1: a single motor. Right, yeah, okay, so three hundred and
Speaker 1: something miles on a single charge. You you can and
Speaker 1: then tell me about the cost.
Speaker 21: Basically it was I picked, I paid twenty seven what
Speaker 21: before tax? You know taxes you have to pay it.
Speaker 7: I get.
Speaker 1: But you're telling me you can get those cars for
Speaker 1: twenty seven.
Speaker 21: Mind for twenty seven and it's beautiful. Yeah, it's great.
Speaker 21: And you know Hyundai has a ten year, one hundred
Speaker 21: thousand warranty on the battery.
Speaker 1: Paul, I don't know how you beat that. Man.
Speaker 18: Well, the only promise she's going to be moving to
Speaker 18: very rural Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: So what dy have electricity?
Speaker 18: I heard light bulbs, but I don't know about the
Speaker 18: infrastructure built yet. But we'll see.
Speaker 1: No, I mean, yeah, that's true, but I'll tell you.
Speaker 17: Uh.
Speaker 1: But they he said, suber is really good if you
Speaker 1: want that, But toyotas are pretty damn good too, So
Speaker 1: I think that you just got to have it checked out.
Speaker 1: Is there a way to check out those transmissions? Or
Speaker 1: do you just buy him?
Speaker 20: Just no, you can check them out?
Speaker 1: You can?
Speaker 20: How do you check it the same way you would
Speaker 20: any other transmission? I mean you're looking at fluids, you're
Speaker 20: looking at whether not there's any particuli the flee game,
Speaker 20: how's it working? You're looking for any codes, You're looking
Speaker 20: for any problem spots.
Speaker 1: So Paul, you want to do that a pre buy
Speaker 1: inspection for sure? And did you do you do previse?
Speaker 1: Jesse at Honesak Absolutely? What do you charge for those? About? Yeah?
Speaker 1: That's about Kevin over at Sheridan Auto take does about
Speaker 1: one to twenty and he goes through the entire system.
Speaker 1: So Ken wants to talk about a contractor coming up?
Speaker 1: Any other questions, give us a call three all three
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Speaker 1: Hey Tom Martino, you're a troubleshooter at three oh three
Speaker 1: seven one three talk. Hey Mike, Mike, what is your
Speaker 1: question on EV's? I think this doesn't have to be
Speaker 1: a long question. If it is, I'll take ken and
Speaker 1: come back to you. What What did you want to
Speaker 1: know about EV's?
Speaker 28: Well, it's good. Really, a question is more a comment.
Speaker 28: What do you think a few hours? A charge to
Speaker 28: go three hundred miles? How much time?
Speaker 1: No, I said a full charge. I didn't think. I
Speaker 1: said a few hours. I think I set a full charge.
Speaker 1: But I don't know. I don't know how long it takes.
Speaker 1: How long does it take talking?
Speaker 21: I really don't know. Because I plugged mine at night.
Speaker 21: I wake up in the morning and it's charged.
Speaker 1: You do you plug a regular outlet?
Speaker 19: No?
Speaker 21: No, you have to have a special two twenty put in.
Speaker 21: But when they built my house, they had one in
Speaker 21: my garage, so that that was a huge difference. I
Speaker 21: didn't have that. I probably would not have bought an
Speaker 21: Evy car.
Speaker 1: Now. Now, I will tell you this though, when you're
Speaker 1: on the road there it's not a few hours. They're
Speaker 1: supercharger that can do twenty minutes, but you're never going
Speaker 1: to be as fast as a gas car. I don't think.
Speaker 20: No way.
Speaker 15: Is that what you were?
Speaker 1: Go ahead?
Speaker 28: Yeah, yeah, that was my point. You know, to go
Speaker 28: three or a mile? How many minutes would it take
Speaker 28: to pump in gasolene into your car?
Speaker 19: What?
Speaker 28: Two? Three minutes?
Speaker 24: No?
Speaker 1: No, time wise, I think there's no argument that gasoline
Speaker 1: is more convenient. Right now, I think, I mean right now? Well, me,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Some people say, like Doc and my son,
Speaker 1: he plugs his car and every night or every other night, whatever,
Speaker 1: and he just never stops for gas, never changes oil,
Speaker 1: never does so to a certain extent, there's that, you know.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just don't know. I know this
Speaker 1: that my next car will be electric. I will not
Speaker 1: buy another gasoline car. I just won't.
Speaker 28: Yeah, if you like plugging your phone in every minute
Speaker 28: of the day, practically, well it's.
Speaker 1: Not that bad, it really is. Electric cars aren't that bad.
Speaker 28: It's irritating.
Speaker 1: Well, how do you wait? Wait, do you own one?
Speaker 18: Huh?
Speaker 1: Do you own one?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 28: I don't.
Speaker 1: But let me ask you this, Mike, why don't you
Speaker 1: think it would be pretty easy to just plug it
Speaker 1: in every night.
Speaker 28: No I don't. I say an induction charging.
Speaker 23: Do you know what that is?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you drive over a pad? Yes, yeah, that.
Speaker 28: Might be a different story. But I mean to physically
Speaker 28: and the doc.
Speaker 1: How long does it take you to plug it in?
Speaker 21: About fourteen and a half seconds?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's nothing. You get out of your car,
Speaker 1: you walk to the back and plug it in. Now,
Speaker 1: if you don't have a garage, if you're in a condo,
Speaker 1: I mean I can see areas where it would be
Speaker 1: inconvenient as hell, you know, or you keep your car.
Speaker 1: A lot of people don't have garages, you know. Ken,
Speaker 1: what's going on with your contractor?
Speaker 18: Oh?
Speaker 31: Thank you Tom? Yes, sir, I'm a seventeen year old
Speaker 31: homeowner that decided that I wanted to use a little
Speaker 31: savings to do a small improvement on my house. So
Speaker 31: I hired this general contractor for a total of fifteen
Speaker 31: thousand labor to put this on for me.
Speaker 1: Very what did you want to put on to do
Speaker 1: a good job? What were you going to put on.
Speaker 31: A cover over my He wanted to extend the roof
Speaker 31: over my back patio?
Speaker 7: Got it?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 7: So to think it more usable.
Speaker 1: Who'd you hire? So? Uh huh, pardon me, who'd you hire?
Speaker 16: Who?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 31: If he calls himself Colorado contractor and then his phone.
Speaker 1: Number, okay, got it. So what happened himself?
Speaker 8: Yeah, so.
Speaker 31: He's really slow getting it started. We started like in April.
Speaker 31: It didn't finish it chill July. He thought it would
Speaker 31: be two three weeks to get it. But that's kind
Speaker 31: of really not the issue. He must have burned through
Speaker 31: like eight subcontractors doing it, and I know he had
Speaker 31: trouble with them. At least three have more were very
Speaker 31: upset that they weren't paid what they were supposed to
Speaker 31: be anyway, So in his contract with me, he agreed
Speaker 31: that he would provide me with a lien waivers for
Speaker 31: any subs you know, during the project. Well he never
Speaker 31: did so in the very end when I paid him everything.
Speaker 1: Except by the way, a lean waiver. Just so you know,
Speaker 1: a lien waiver doesn't mean anything. Well it really doesn't, okay,
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, I'm telling you really don't. What
Speaker 1: a lean waiver says is that he promises you that
Speaker 1: if Aleen is on there, he's going to take care
Speaker 1: of it, which is his responsibility without a lean waiver,
Speaker 1: and he can't prevent liens from being filed. No one can.
Speaker 1: No lean waver between you and a contractor can prevent
Speaker 1: a third party from leaning a property.
Speaker 31: From leaning the property. Right, I think I'm on what you're.
Speaker 21: Saying, exculpatory.
Speaker 1: If he's paid the general, Tom, that's right, it's a defense.
Speaker 1: You can get the you can get the lean removed
Speaker 1: if you can prove a written contract, primary residence and
Speaker 1: full payment. Anyway, So keep going, Paul, So I mean ken.
Speaker 31: Sorry, okay, so all right, but nevertheless, end of his
Speaker 31: contract he agreed to provide those to me, which he
Speaker 31: never did, all right. And then so in the end
Speaker 31: I owed him about twenty four hundred in their last payment,
Speaker 31: and I said, you know, please just give me those
Speaker 31: lean waivers so that I can settle this up and
Speaker 31: pay and get you paid.
Speaker 1: Well, you're fighting over something useless. But okay, So did
Speaker 1: he give him to you or not?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 1: No, he seems I don't think. I don't think you'll
Speaker 1: be on solid ground withholding payment.
Speaker 31: Okay, I really.
Speaker 1: Don't I think that he I think he can actually,
Speaker 1: you know, ironically, he can lean your home.
Speaker 31: Okay, Well, here's the problem now, and I'm and I'm
Speaker 31: having trouble getting somebody to help.
Speaker 1: Sure, But.
Speaker 31: I told him, I said, you better not put a
Speaker 31: mechanics lean on my home for this, because I'm agreeing
Speaker 31: to pay you.
Speaker 7: Just get me.
Speaker 31: Just comply with the contract yourself, you know, because.
Speaker 1: I get it.
Speaker 31: Contract, Well, I get it. He didn't do. He hasn't
Speaker 31: put a mechanics lean. Instead, he calls me up and
Speaker 31: he says, you know, when can I stop buy and
Speaker 31: give you what I got? And I thought he was
Speaker 31: going to come with a handful of lean waivers from
Speaker 31: his subs. Instead, I think he sent his girlfriend out
Speaker 31: to give me a summons and containt that he filed
Speaker 31: himself in district court, suing me for between fifteen to
Speaker 31: fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: Now, why all that? And how much your own.
Speaker 31: Twenty four hundred?
Speaker 1: How does that get to be? Now? Why is he way?
Speaker 1: I don't get it. Why is he suing for so.
Speaker 31: I don't need it? I mean, the only thing I
Speaker 31: can think of is, and I'm just going to use
Speaker 31: the term.
Speaker 28: I think he's a litigation bully.
Speaker 1: Well wait a minute, does it look like a properly
Speaker 1: crafted complaint. Yeah, he still has to substantiate losses. He
Speaker 1: can't just make them. I mean, what is his I'd
Speaker 1: love to read the complaint? What is his main loss?
Speaker 31: Love des send it to you.
Speaker 1: I have not.
Speaker 31: He claims that he will show his losses at trial.
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Speaker 1: this is a terrible situation, you know, but I'm going
Speaker 1: to say something. Okay, Will he take the money you
Speaker 1: owe and drop the case?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 31: No, he thanks, He wants another five hundred for this trouble.
Speaker 1: Okay, Ken, listen the last email. Listen you had you
Speaker 1: had a breach of contract, but you had no loss.
Speaker 1: And I'm not giving you leal vice. I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: tell you you had no loss.
Speaker 20: What's that?
Speaker 1: But you don't you don't withhold payment on what could happen?
Speaker 1: You had a breach of contract with zero loss, zero
Speaker 1: and you took it upon yourself to withhold payment and
Speaker 1: you were dead wrong Now you don't think you were,
Speaker 1: And as a result, you're facing the consequence and you
Speaker 1: will have to pay something now more than what you owe,
Speaker 1: whether you like that or not. You can take it
Speaker 1: to the bank and you can, or you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to pay an attorney. Either way, you have lost because
Speaker 1: you had faulty reasoning. Okay, Yes, you wanted lean waivers, Okay,
Speaker 1: you didn't get them, but you didn't have a loss
Speaker 1: as a result of that, but you said not yet.
Speaker 1: So you're assuming you're automatically going to have a loss,
Speaker 1: and in anticipation of a loss, you're withholding payment. Do
Speaker 1: you really believe a judge's going to buy that? Do you?
Speaker 22: So?
Speaker 31: The judge is not going to contain it. He's breached
Speaker 31: his own contract, and that's right, simply asking him to.
Speaker 1: Comply to this, and Ken, and you still owe the money.
Speaker 1: He did the work, You still owe the money. The
Speaker 1: breach did not prevent the job from being done. Ken,
Speaker 1: You know what, talking to you doesn't matter. You're gonna
Speaker 1: have to learn the hard way. But guess what it'll be.
Speaker 1: It'll be an education. You want to make another side?
Speaker 1: Bet you're gonna lose.
Speaker 31: There's one other thing.
Speaker 7: What is that?
Speaker 1: What is that?
Speaker 31: Gotten a letter of intent from one of the three
Speaker 31: contractors he had problems with, saying that they are they
Speaker 31: intend to follow mechanics lean on my house if this
Speaker 31: guy doesn't pay them. Okay, I've already gotten that letter, Okay, Ken.
Speaker 1: Good luck to you. Okay, tell that to a judge.
Speaker 1: Tell that to a judge just prior to him rendering
Speaker 1: a judgment against you. Just tell him that. Okay, you
Speaker 1: still have no loss. What's that.
Speaker 31: I'll pay him what he's doing.
Speaker 1: Well, it's too late now. Now he knows he has
Speaker 1: you on the run. He wants he wants money for
Speaker 1: his filing. Listen, I don't I think that's being a jerk.
Speaker 1: The guy's being a jerk. But but you were, you
Speaker 1: were kind of being Listen. You weren't being a jerk.
Speaker 1: You were trying to insist on what you thought you
Speaker 1: had coming. What I'm saying to you is this, I
Speaker 1: listen carefully that yes, he probably should have provided those
Speaker 1: if he promised in the contract, but by not providing them,
Speaker 1: he didn't prevent the job from being done. It's called
Speaker 1: quantam Mariott. He he was marrowit. He I meant, he
Speaker 1: does deserve to be paid for what he did. You
Speaker 1: didn't pay him, You're going to lose. Let that be
Speaker 1: a lesson to anyone listening. You can't take the law
Speaker 1: into your own hands and think you know how to
Speaker 1: solve it. You will end up losing. We've seen it
Speaker 1: time and time again. I'm Tom martinro save all your
Speaker 1: problems for me.