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Speaker 4: Well, Mark, what happened is I got the the.
Speaker 5: Virus like December seventh, eighth, something like that. Within a week,
Speaker 5: completely no smellsoever. And then so by the end of
Speaker 5: February I was thinking, Man, my coffee, really it.
Speaker 4: Just doesn't taste right.
Speaker 5: Maybe I just need to change it up now that
Speaker 5: my smell's coming back, and quickly realized everything went distorted
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Speaker 4: Made me want to vomit.
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Speaker 2: one three eight two five five. Hey Perry, what is
Speaker 2: going on with you?
Speaker 7: Man?
Speaker 8: Well? I bought it twenty nineteen Dodge Rebel from Larry
Speaker 8: Hmuller on the seventh seventeenth.
Speaker 2: Of February twenty nineteen, Dodge Rebel. I have never heard
Speaker 2: of a Dodge Rebel. Keep talking, I'm gonna look it up.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that was my dream truck. I always wanted one
Speaker 8: to them. Well, on the fifth March it caught fire.
Speaker 8: It didn't catch fire in the engine compartment and caught
Speaker 8: fire between the bed and the cab underneath. So and
Speaker 8: the fire department did come pretty quick and they put
Speaker 8: it out.
Speaker 2: Well, what did they say caused I'm dying here. What
Speaker 2: they say caused the fire?
Speaker 8: Was it just city o yet? And they don't know
Speaker 8: what caused the fire?
Speaker 2: And Arry was it helped me out a little bit.
Speaker 2: Was the vehicle on? Where was the vehicle?
Speaker 8: It was a county line in Santa Fe at a light, okay,
Speaker 8: and it died. Had my ninety two year old mother
Speaker 8: with me.
Speaker 2: Timing, jeez, it wouldn't start.
Speaker 8: So I got out, was flagging traffic around the truck
Speaker 8: and called Larry H. Miller to come and get it. Yeah.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 8: And while I was on the phone with them, I
Speaker 8: turned around the I've seen the flames coming up between
Speaker 8: the cab and the bed.
Speaker 2: Man. I hope you grabbed your mother.
Speaker 8: Hang because I hollered fired. And he's a little hang
Speaker 8: up and call nine one one. So I did they
Speaker 8: came and put the fire out. Now I'm having a
Speaker 8: problem with the insurance company.
Speaker 2: You know what? That is a whole on a second,
Speaker 2: that is an incredible story. A couple things. One, I
Speaker 2: assume your mother you got her out of the vehicle.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, so everybody was fine. How bad did it get?
Speaker 2: Did it like burn down to ashes? Did the firemen
Speaker 2: show up and put it out? I mean, is it totaled?
Speaker 2: What happened?
Speaker 8: Well, yeah, the fireman did show up and put it out,
Speaker 8: but we're not sure if it's told or not. Being
Speaker 8: the fire was underneath. I think it probably melted the
Speaker 8: wiring harness. So now I'm trying. I filed acclaim the
Speaker 8: next day on the sixth of March, and they have
Speaker 8: not done anything. They've been wanting pictures. Larry H. Miller
Speaker 8: did send pictures of the truck.
Speaker 2: So it's back at Larry H. Miller at there. Do
Speaker 2: they have a body shop or what do they have there?
Speaker 8: No, they don't have a body shop or anything there.
Speaker 2: Is he gonna need body work? Is it gonna need
Speaker 2: like a paint job or you just don't know.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm sure if it bust out the back window,
Speaker 8: it burnt the bed up pretty good. Wow, I'm sure
Speaker 8: it burnt the wiring hardness underneath.
Speaker 2: What insurance company do you have?
Speaker 8: It's uh state though that Mountain storm is the terrier?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, So what do they say three weeks? I
Speaker 8: filed on the sixth of March, Yeah, and still nothing.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you a few questions. Do you have
Speaker 2: rental coverage or are you in a rental?
Speaker 9: No? Larry H.
Speaker 8: Miller did give me a rental after after a complaint.
Speaker 8: So there you're paying for me a rental.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 2: What is safe co saying when you talk to him?
Speaker 2: Are they saying we still got to send somebody out there? What?
Speaker 2: What are they saying? What's the newest update?
Speaker 10: Uh?
Speaker 8: Saint pol has been wanting pictures of the truck. Yeah,
Speaker 8: and the dealership did go out and take pictures and
Speaker 8: send them. Okay, now they want more, Now they want
Speaker 8: more pictures.
Speaker 2: Well okay, And is the dealership doing their part.
Speaker 9: The Larry H.
Speaker 8: Miller, Yes, is doing their part. Well, I'm having a
Speaker 8: hard time getting the adjuster out there to actually look
Speaker 8: at it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so curious. The fire aspect of it. Who
Speaker 2: did you say your insurance broker was.
Speaker 8: Mountain State, Mountain Storm, and.
Speaker 2: The Mountain storm. So what do they say when you
Speaker 2: call them.
Speaker 8: Up, they see they are still trying to get the
Speaker 8: adjuster to come to some answers. They put it back
Speaker 8: on the adjuster.
Speaker 2: You know what, that would piss me off, man. That's
Speaker 2: why I use Compass insurance. And I'm not going to
Speaker 2: sit here and explain every reason why. I'm not going
Speaker 2: to turn it into a commercial, but let me. I
Speaker 2: want to see if we can get Brian on Kelly.
Speaker 2: I want to see if one of his people can
Speaker 2: call up on this guy's behalf. I assume you have
Speaker 2: your policy number or claim number. Yeah, we got a
Speaker 2: light of fire under their ass. I mean, really your
Speaker 2: mountain whoever should be doing this. But you know what,
Speaker 2: you called the right place. These guys will get through
Speaker 2: to them and figure out what's going on. I can't imagine,
Speaker 2: like how high were the flames coming? I mean, was
Speaker 2: it like englfed or what?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I could send you a video.
Speaker 2: I love that. I would love to see the video.
Speaker 2: In fact, I'm going to put you on hold get
Speaker 2: that to Kelly. I want to see that video big time.
Speaker 2: Maybe we'll put it up on our YouTube channel so
Speaker 2: people can see it. But I can't imagine they're not
Speaker 2: going to total it. I mean, if it looks like
Speaker 2: you're describing in golfed in flames, I can't imagine all
Speaker 2: the problems there could be with that. Every single wire
Speaker 2: running to the fuel pump, that back window goes out.
Speaker 2: How about the upholstery. Is it leather? What is it?
Speaker 2: Is it pleather? Leather? Is it cloth? Did it burn up?
Speaker 8: It didn't look too bad, and I think it's got
Speaker 8: a lot of smoke damage.
Speaker 2: Oh, the smoke damage could be absolutely insane. In fact,
Speaker 2: is it a cloth seatings? I don't even know how
Speaker 2: you would get rid of that much smoke.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I know it's kind of a combination cloth and vinyl.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that thing could be just saturated. I mean, this
Speaker 2: is insane. Hold on, Kelly's going to get that information,
Speaker 2: and then Kelly, let's see if we can't get Brian on.
Speaker 2: I mean he's talking the sixth. That's three weeks. I mean,
Speaker 2: I realize companies are a little slow right now. I
Speaker 2: happen not to like Safeco in general. I used to
Speaker 2: like them up until I had a claim with them,
Speaker 2: and they're a pain in the ass to work with.
Speaker 2: I had to hire Matt, I had to hire a
Speaker 2: public adjuster match just to get it done. They denied
Speaker 2: the claim right off the back.
Speaker 4: Oh, it's just with safe Co. We get these little checks.
Speaker 6: Every few months mark for having no claims and whatnot.
Speaker 4: I thought you would happy with them.
Speaker 2: Up until yesterday where our daughter got pulled over going
Speaker 2: up to backed up to law school.
Speaker 4: And layer me, can we still ground her?
Speaker 2: You know what, she's going to be an attorney this
Speaker 2: year and she's speeding. She said she had to change
Speaker 2: your bar application because you got to list every day.
Speaker 2: You've got it, yeah, updated, because you got to list
Speaker 2: every single thing. Look, we got one line open three
Speaker 2: oh three seven one three eight two five five three
Speaker 2: oh three. Martino, we got an issue with a loss check.
Speaker 2: In fact, I guess Bo's working on that. We're going
Speaker 2: to see what's going on there. And then Chris has
Speaker 2: an issue with the car insurance claim. That'll be too
Speaker 2: that'll be too right there. Maybe Brian can help with
Speaker 2: that too. Everybody hold on.
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Speaker 2: All right, three oh three seven one three eight two
Speaker 2: five five. We've got one line open. You need some help,
Speaker 2: I'd love to hear from you. Hey, Perry, here's the
Speaker 2: bottom line. Let me go to Perry Kelly. Put him
Speaker 2: back on hold. Please, Hey, Perry, look, I've got a
Speaker 2: call in to Brian. We're gonna have Brian reach out
Speaker 2: to Safeco. You know twenty days is not crazy. I
Speaker 2: know you want to get this thing fixed, and I
Speaker 2: know that aspect of the situation sucks. I mean, this
Speaker 2: is why we have insurance, not to sit around three
Speaker 2: weeks not knowing if we're getting a new card, not
Speaker 2: knowing if this is going to be repay But I
Speaker 2: kind of fight for this to be replaced after a
Speaker 2: fire like that. But I'm going to see what Brian's
Speaker 2: got to say about that. So Kelly's gonna grab your info.
Speaker 2: The second we hear from Brian, we're gonna call and
Speaker 2: reach back out to you. Sound good, sound good?
Speaker 8: Thanks?
Speaker 2: All right? Hold on, man, make sure she gets that information.
Speaker 2: And you know the other thing I could do, you
Speaker 2: know what, Kelly, I would like to try Petty Details.
Speaker 2: I would like to ask them a question on how
Speaker 2: can you get an insurance company to total it? Hey,
Speaker 2: you really don't want this fixed, do you? Berry? Don't
Speaker 2: you want to just go buy a new vehicle. If
Speaker 2: I had a vehicle that I just bought and all
Speaker 2: of a sudden it was in flames, I'm not so
Speaker 2: sure I would want that vehicle back. What are your
Speaker 2: thoughts on that?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 8: Oh, that you're correct, There's no way I want that
Speaker 8: truck back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, hold on, hold on. I want to ask
Speaker 2: someone at Petty Details. They're one of our experts on valuation.
Speaker 2: They deal with insurance companies all the time. And what
Speaker 2: I'm curious about, can you invoke a certain clause in
Speaker 2: that contract to where if you can prove the value
Speaker 2: of that vehicle I just got to ask Perry what's
Speaker 2: his first name, Susanne, what's Petty's first name?
Speaker 4: It's Justin Petty, Justin Petty.
Speaker 2: Let's try to get him on meantime, Hey, Chris, what's
Speaker 2: going on with you and Jamie? I'll come to you
Speaker 2: after that. Three h three Martino one line open Chris.
Speaker 11: Hi.
Speaker 13: Yeah, So March tenth, I was my wife was involved
Speaker 13: in an accent in a parking lot. She was pulling
Speaker 13: out of a spot and got hit by somebody attempting
Speaker 13: to go around her. I've already put stuff into the insurance.
Speaker 13: My insurance is kind of handling it, but at the
Speaker 13: moment they're showing it as like a shared liability or
Speaker 13: shared responsibility for both parties.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 13: However, after like reviewing photos and kind of just taking
Speaker 13: the time to look at things and analyze things, it
Speaker 13: definitely appears like the other party was speeding to the
Speaker 13: parking lot and was possibly on their phone or something
Speaker 13: and not paying attention because my wife was like completely
Speaker 13: out of the parking space.
Speaker 2: And where did she get hit? Describe where the damage
Speaker 2: is on both cars.
Speaker 13: So we drive a minivan. The damage was done on
Speaker 13: the back bumper of our minivan and what hit the
Speaker 13: back bumper hit their front bumper, So they were driving,
Speaker 13: she's backing out. That's going to be a tough one man.
Speaker 13: I mean, what videos do you have? What evidence? I
Speaker 13: understand you.
Speaker 2: Have pictures, But in other words, how would you prove
Speaker 2: that she didn't back out and that car was already
Speaker 2: there and when she backed out the bumper her back
Speaker 2: bumper hit his or her front bumper? How would you
Speaker 2: prove that.
Speaker 13: One is the location? Because it's not so much like
Speaker 13: directly in the back, it's more towards the side, like
Speaker 13: just right behind the rear tire. And then again in
Speaker 13: just in terms of like direction of travel, that's really
Speaker 13: all I have. And their damage is on the front
Speaker 13: of their bumper, not so much like on the side.
Speaker 13: Does that make sense?
Speaker 2: Yeah? But what what are they trying to do? A
Speaker 2: fifty to fifty to fifty one fifty? What are they
Speaker 2: trying to do?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 13: As far as I know now, they're trying to do
Speaker 13: it like fifty to fifty like shared liability. But I mean,
Speaker 13: just if you saw the pictures, you would you'd look
Speaker 13: at it and say, there's no way that it's like
Speaker 13: fifty to fifty. There's it's just it doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 4: Let's see the pics.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd like to see the pictures too. But here's
Speaker 2: the deal, man, I don't know how you're gonna convince
Speaker 2: is it doesn't happen to be the same insurance company. No,
Speaker 2: I okay, that's good. So who's telling you? Your insurance
Speaker 2: company is telling you it's fifty to fifty.
Speaker 13: Both insurance companies are telling me at fifty fifty.
Speaker 2: And they're telling the other driver the same. Did the
Speaker 2: other driver admit guilt on the scene, Not that that
Speaker 2: really even matters, but did they.
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 13: Honestly, the other driver was super hostile and it was
Speaker 13: difficult to get information from them. I mean we did eventually,
Speaker 13: but yeah.
Speaker 2: And then, of course, because it's private property, there's no
Speaker 2: ticket issued or anything. And you say speeding through there,
Speaker 2: I don't know how you'd prove that. I mean, really,
Speaker 2: the best you're going to do in this situation, man,
Speaker 2: I mean, if you send them the photos, there's no
Speaker 2: reason for your insurance company not to fight for you
Speaker 2: if they thought they could possibly win this. But they're
Speaker 2: looking at it from two stances. One is an economical stance.
Speaker 2: If the other insurance company is going, look, there's no
Speaker 2: way we're going to pay out on this. That would
Speaker 2: be a court battle under you know, you know we're
Speaker 2: not talking a lot of damage. It wouldn't even make sense.
Speaker 2: So from an economical standpoint, I don't know why they
Speaker 2: would go forward on this if they can't prove it.
Speaker 13: It ended up totaling out my vehicle.
Speaker 2: How the hell did it total out your vehicle?
Speaker 13: It ended up deploying our curtain airbag in our in
Speaker 13: our minivan, like it ended up deploying the airbag.
Speaker 2: What year is that thing?
Speaker 13: Twenty thirteen?
Speaker 2: And what are they valuing it at? It must be
Speaker 2: a really low value.
Speaker 13: They're valuing. I don't I haven't gotten a cash value
Speaker 13: from the insurance company yet. Yeah, they totaled it out
Speaker 13: at like seventy five dollars.
Speaker 2: And you do have coverage on your side, right, correct?
Speaker 2: So in other words, what's your deductible.
Speaker 13: Not deductible of one thousand?
Speaker 2: So you know the only thing you're going to lose
Speaker 2: out on here is that deductible. What you could do, honestly, Chris,
Speaker 2: and this is probably what I would do if you
Speaker 2: really have those pictures, and the pictures are speaking for
Speaker 2: what happened. I mean, if they actually tell the tale.
Speaker 2: Here's the deal. You go through your insurance company, you
Speaker 2: get that check for a seventy five hundred and sixty
Speaker 2: five hundred whatever it is. Then you go after the
Speaker 2: other driver individually in small claims court for the thousand dollars.
Speaker 9: Okay.
Speaker 2: Now, the other thing with your insurance company is they
Speaker 2: got to give you a fair price on that vehicle.
Speaker 2: I don't know what it is, but we might have
Speaker 2: Petty on. I always want to say Richard Petty, I
Speaker 2: swear to God, I always do not Tom Petty. Yeah,
Speaker 2: or Tom Petty. We're going to have Petty details on
Speaker 2: in a minute. If you want. We could ask them
Speaker 2: what that value is. But if they're not going to
Speaker 2: give you the correct value, but as far as proving it,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't even mess around with it since you have coverage.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's a fifty to fifty accident. I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't know what else you're going to do about it.
Speaker 2: It's really going to be up to your insurance company, man.
Speaker 2: And if they're agreeing with that, there's nothing you're going
Speaker 2: to do to twist their arm. Does that make sense
Speaker 2: to you?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 13: That makes sense. It's a it's the family van. It's
Speaker 13: got a sentimental value and we don't want to get
Speaker 13: rid of it.
Speaker 2: Well, the sentimental value is worth zero.
Speaker 13: It's fine.
Speaker 2: Now, Yeah, what are you gonna buy? You're gonna get
Speaker 2: another mini van.
Speaker 13: We're probably gonna keep the van, to be honest.
Speaker 2: Oh you're gonna buy. Now, why would you do that?
Speaker 2: I'm curious? Why would you do that?
Speaker 13: Well, we just spent seven thousand dollars last year replacing
Speaker 13: the engine. So it's got a brand new engine in it.
Speaker 2: Hey, hold on one sec. You stay on there, hold on, hey, justin,
Speaker 2: petty man, how are you doing good? Hey? Justin? Two thousand?
Speaker 2: Let me ask you because I have this guy up
Speaker 2: right now, twenty thirteen. Let me see what kind of
Speaker 2: van it was? Hey, what is it? Chris A twenty thirteen?
Speaker 13: What Honda Odyssey?
Speaker 2: And then how many miles on it?
Speaker 13: Well, it's got a brand new engine, but it's got
Speaker 13: one hundred and forty on the body.
Speaker 2: Now when you say a brand new engine, how much
Speaker 2: did you pay for the engine?
Speaker 13: Four grand?
Speaker 2: So you paid four grand? Who did it? Is it
Speaker 2: like a Jasper engine?
Speaker 13: I'm no master tech auto?
Speaker 2: And how long ago. How many miles.
Speaker 13: Are probably about twenty thousand miles ago.
Speaker 2: Well that's quite a while, Justin. I mean in that
Speaker 2: so question number one for you, does that engine bring
Speaker 2: any more value to that vehicle? A.
Speaker 14: I mean it's still it's still the van that it is,
Speaker 14: even with a new engine, with the Quilenz engine replaced.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well yeah, why was it? Did your other one
Speaker 2: throw a ride? Did it seize up or what happened?
Speaker 13: I get from what I was told the rearmain seal
Speaker 13: gave out while we were driving.
Speaker 2: Ye, And it's just the answer is it's old as hell. Justin.
Speaker 14: So, you said how many miles were on it? Again?
Speaker 14: You said it, but I missed that.
Speaker 8: Oh there was.
Speaker 13: There's one hundred and forty on the body, but about
Speaker 13: twenty thousand on the new engine. It was just a
Speaker 13: placed in January of last.
Speaker 2: Year, you know. I mean this goes with anything though, Justin.
Speaker 2: I mean, if I just put brand new tires on
Speaker 2: a vehicle and someone else smashes it into it and
Speaker 2: in totals a vehicle and the tires are a week old,
Speaker 2: I mean, do I get my money back on those
Speaker 2: tires as well as the value of the vehicle, or
Speaker 2: you've got to have tires on a vehicle, So it
Speaker 2: really doesn't bring anything extra. I have heard before if
Speaker 2: something is brand new, though, like a brand new set
Speaker 2: of tires that are a day or two old, you
Speaker 2: might get a little more. I mean generally speaking, how
Speaker 2: does that work?
Speaker 14: Yeah, you nailed it. I mean you've got to have tires,
Speaker 14: you've got to have an engine. If it doesn't have
Speaker 14: either of those, it's not worth anything. So but you
Speaker 14: don't you don't get the full value of the replacement
Speaker 14: cost of those things back. And of course it does
Speaker 14: matter when you put it on. If they're brand new, Yes,
Speaker 14: you're going to get a credit for it. If you
Speaker 14: just if you just put them on, you know, the
Speaker 14: two days before, you know, then yes, you to get
Speaker 14: some credit. Normally you get about you know, I don't know,
Speaker 14: fifty or sixty percent credit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because you had to have tires anyhow, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: and with the engine, this thing's already got twenty thousand
Speaker 2: miles on it, I would assume that brings almost no
Speaker 2: extra value to the vehicle.
Speaker 14: I mean, think about it yourself. Do you want a
Speaker 14: car that's got a replaced engine in it? It's hard
Speaker 14: to say, yeah, it's not something that adds a lot
Speaker 14: of value, but of course, yeah, the circumstances can be.
Speaker 14: You know who put it in, you know where did
Speaker 14: it come from? Was it brand new? All that kind of.
Speaker 2: Can you do me a favor? Let me I got
Speaker 2: to take this break. Let me put you both on hold.
Speaker 2: But justin can you do me a favor? They're they're
Speaker 2: totaling that vehicle. He got hit by somebody. Actually he
Speaker 2: didn't get hit. It was a fifty to fifty deal
Speaker 2: according to both insurance companies, which I want to ask
Speaker 2: you about because that seems to happen more and more.
Speaker 2: But can you look up the value of that vehicle
Speaker 2: now that you have it? It's a thirteen odyssey with
Speaker 2: one hundred and forty thousand? Can you give us an idea?
Speaker 14: I can all right?
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Speaker 2: want to jump back to Justin Petty with Petty details
Speaker 2: on our referral list. What is that Honda Odyssey worth
Speaker 2: so is it.
Speaker 14: Do we know the trim level?
Speaker 2: I bet he does? So on Oh, that was a
Speaker 2: great Channon, unbelievable, unbelievable. Let's get justin back up. Hey,
Speaker 2: what's the trim level of that? Chris?
Speaker 13: That's an EXL EXL.
Speaker 2: He's going to pull that up and we're going to
Speaker 2: figure out what it's worth. But here's the bottom line.
Speaker 2: And if your own insurance company is going to undervalue it,
Speaker 2: you understand that that engine probably didn't bring anything to
Speaker 2: the game rightly, and I wouldn't keep it, man, We'll
Speaker 2: ask our expert about that. But just doing this show
Speaker 2: for so many years, honest to god, Man, I don't
Speaker 2: know why you would keep that vehicle. It's probably going
Speaker 2: to need a transmission soon, it's probably gonna need other stuff.
Speaker 2: Why why wouldn't you think of just getting something else?
Speaker 2: You just love the fact that it's got that engine.
Speaker 8: Well, that's part of it.
Speaker 13: The other thing is, like, I've taken pretty darn good
Speaker 13: care of it. It's in really good shake.
Speaker 2: I know I heard you. I thought you were kind
Speaker 2: of joking about this sentimental value, but I think you
Speaker 2: were actually telling the truth a little worn't.
Speaker 13: You a little bit Yeah, I've taken really good care
Speaker 13: of it. It's been on a lot of adventures. He's
Speaker 13: been a lot of cross country trips with it.
Speaker 2: So let me guess you only drove it to churches, right, Yeah? Thanks,
Speaker 2: So justin it's a what is it again, Chris and EXL?
Speaker 2: Yesl EXL, sir.
Speaker 14: So you know eleven and a half thousand.
Speaker 2: Now, and he's thinking they're only going to offer him
Speaker 2: like seven. So what happens when you're dealing with your
Speaker 2: own insurance company and they're only going to offer you
Speaker 2: seven grand, and you've got an expert like you that
Speaker 2: does this for a living valuing cars, says it's worth
Speaker 2: eleven thousand. What's the next step?
Speaker 14: Yeah? Will you if it's your own insurance company, you
Speaker 14: invoke the appraisal provision of your policy and force them
Speaker 14: into a third party negotiation kick them out of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's what you do. You would represent them
Speaker 2: in that right, or at least that side. Rod.
Speaker 14: Yeah, they could hire us as their appraiser and then
Speaker 14: the carrier would have to hire their own appraiser and
Speaker 14: then you guys.
Speaker 2: Battle it out.
Speaker 14: Most of the time, we settle them pretty quickly.
Speaker 2: Yes, Yeah, So Chris, if they don't offer you what
Speaker 2: you should be getting for that, you call justin up
Speaker 2: and these guys charge what do you charge five hundred
Speaker 2: bucks out the door? Yeah, that's it, five hundred bucks.
Speaker 2: And in the case you're talking about, that's a four
Speaker 2: thousand dollars difference. So, no matter what, the guy is
Speaker 2: going to be able to get you more money. What
Speaker 2: do you think about keeping that vehicle? Justin He's like,
Speaker 2: you know, they took it on trips with the kids,
Speaker 2: and he's tied to it or married to it somehow,
Speaker 2: and you know it's a twenty thirteen odyssey. I mean
Speaker 2: I would take the eleven to five and go get
Speaker 2: a newer vehicle or something else. If they offer it
Speaker 2: to sell back to him, because they're totaling it, how
Speaker 2: do you figure out what that value is?
Speaker 14: Well, that'd be the only reason it might be worth it.
Speaker 14: It's going to have a salvage title, and then they
Speaker 14: might undervalue the salvage with the new engine and such
Speaker 14: in it. Ye, so you might be able to keep
Speaker 14: it for a better deal. But it would just be
Speaker 14: the intrinsic value, like you said, that would make you
Speaker 14: want to keep it. I wouldn't want to keep it.
Speaker 14: I would, I'd let him have it.
Speaker 2: I'd let him have it too. Now, when if he
Speaker 2: and folks had appraisal clause? Is that appraisal clause when
Speaker 2: he hires you? Will that also include negotiating a buy
Speaker 2: back price?
Speaker 14: It will include the salvage value it does if you
Speaker 14: can argue that as well, can't you? That's right? Yeah,
Speaker 14: we can determine what it's worth in its wrecked condition
Speaker 14: for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it had it didn't you say it had
Speaker 2: airbags go off? Chris? Yes, I mean I don't know, man,
Speaker 2: I mean, that thing could be just a nightmare to
Speaker 2: put back together. But let me give you his number.
Speaker 2: Let me give you Justin's number, Chris. You can find
Speaker 2: him at referral list dot com or go to diminished
Speaker 2: value expert dot com. That's the best website for it,
Speaker 2: diminished value expert dot com. You got any other questions, Chris?
Speaker 13: Uh No, that pretty much covers it all.
Speaker 2: Right, hold tight, that's about it. What go ahead, Seruly.
Speaker 5: I just didn't want you to let Justin go because
Speaker 5: we have Perry with the car fire.
Speaker 2: Oh god, yes, that's what we hold Justin. We I
Speaker 2: actually got you on for a whole different reason. Hold tight, man,
Speaker 2: and we can free up that line. Hold on three
Speaker 2: oh three seven one, three eight, two five five. We're
Speaker 2: gonna have two lines opening a minute three oh three Martino,
Speaker 2: than Jamie, I promise you're next. This one was crazy,
Speaker 2: if it's the one I'm thinking about. Her daughter got
Speaker 2: a check for like ten grand something around there and
Speaker 2: then lost it. It was a cashier's check, and this
Speaker 2: damn credit union wasn't doing a damn thing. They wouldn't
Speaker 2: cancel it and reissue it. It's a crazy story. I'm
Speaker 2: hoping we have it figured out, but I don't know.
Speaker 2: We'll find out together.
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Speaker 2: It's the same, all right, three oh three seventy one,
Speaker 2: three eight two five five three zero three Martino, we
Speaker 2: are going to have two lines open, one line right now.
Speaker 2: I'd love to hear from you. Here's the deal, though,
Speaker 2: I'm going to go back to Justin Perry. Hey, Justin Perry,
Speaker 2: or I'm sorry, Justin Petty Perry. The caller check this out.
Speaker 2: Man his vehicle at two Thoy nineteen Dodge fifteen hundred.
Speaker 2: Truck caught on fire at like a red light. Man.
Speaker 2: He jumped out, got his ninety two year old mother
Speaker 2: out of there so they're safe, and basically watched this
Speaker 2: thing become engulfed in flames. Fire engines showed up put
Speaker 2: it out. It's been sitting down at a dealership where
Speaker 2: he purchased it not too long ago, for almost twenty
Speaker 2: one days, and Safeco is the insurance company, and they're
Speaker 2: being really slow. I'm getting this thing checked out, but
Speaker 2: he doesn't want this vehicle back now. They haven't totaled
Speaker 2: it yet. They have asked for pictures. Then they called
Speaker 2: the dealership back up and asked for more pictures. But
Speaker 2: first question these days is at a long time twenty
Speaker 2: one days or that's like pretty much right on schedule
Speaker 2: these days.
Speaker 14: With a fire, that's probably that's probably regular, that.
Speaker 2: Is probably reasonable. Why is that? Why are fires harder?
Speaker 2: I don't get it.
Speaker 14: Well, they automatically flag them, and they involved assigning different
Speaker 14: people and a cause and origin experts. Okay, more administrative
Speaker 14: things that they have to do. I got his things
Speaker 14: lined up.
Speaker 2: So, Perry, I guess this is pre normal this time frame. Now,
Speaker 2: if they want to repair this thing, I can't imagine
Speaker 2: they'd want to it blew out the back window, the
Speaker 2: beds all kind of burn up, and the paints and
Speaker 2: the paints all nasty. Now, I mean, typically speaking a
Speaker 2: fire like he's describing, how would they fix that thing up?
Speaker 15: Man?
Speaker 2: I mean just like you replace the seats. I mean
Speaker 2: those things are gonna smell forever. Have you ever seen
Speaker 2: where there's been a substantial fire and they don't get
Speaker 2: rid of the vehicle, They don't total it.
Speaker 14: No, no suck flood. I mean, it's got to be
Speaker 14: very minor for it not to total it.
Speaker 2: Hey, Perry, I don't think it's going to be an issue,
Speaker 2: and I think the timeframe is right on now. I
Speaker 2: didn't even think of that they've got to hire different
Speaker 2: experts to figure out the origin, because let's say this
Speaker 2: was a factory defect from Dodge or something, they might
Speaker 2: go after Dodge on this. I'm not saying that's what's
Speaker 2: going on, but they've got to figure out why this
Speaker 2: fire started.
Speaker 8: Well, that's good to know. I was wondering about the
Speaker 8: timeframe on the claimant. Seemed like they were dragging their feet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought so too, up until Justin kind of
Speaker 2: enlightened us on that. Yeah, that's a whole different group
Speaker 2: of experts man, and he sent us a video Justin.
Speaker 2: I haven't looked at it yet, but apparently it's pretty bad,
Speaker 2: so they probably will totally. And I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 2: the same thing, Perry. If they offer you something, what
Speaker 2: did you pay for it? You said you bought it
Speaker 2: not long ago.
Speaker 8: They wanted thirty two and I traded the truck in
Speaker 8: and put five thousand down. About the extended warrant, Yeah,
Speaker 8: but what did you be kind of complicated?
Speaker 2: Hey, you know what, I wanted to ask you something
Speaker 2: on that, Justin. If someone bought an extended warranty or
Speaker 2: even a service plan, does the insurance company ever reimburse
Speaker 2: for that or just the vehicle.
Speaker 14: No, they're not going to pay for those things. But
Speaker 14: do those give you a pro rated Yeah?
Speaker 2: No, yeah, definitely, so rare Parry, you'll be able to
Speaker 2: get your money back a pro ration, which in your
Speaker 2: case is virtually the whole amount. So you got to
Speaker 2: deal with the dealer on that, and I don't care
Speaker 2: if it's a service plan or an extended warranty. Almost
Speaker 2: all the time, with very few exceptions, you should be
Speaker 2: able to get a pro ration back. And then the
Speaker 2: other thing, though, Perry, is if they're not going to
Speaker 2: offer you what you think that vehicle's worth, I want
Speaker 2: you to call up Justin Man because this guy's going
Speaker 2: to be able to get you the full value for it.
Speaker 2: And anybody out there listening you ever need help, called
Speaker 2: Justin Petty. When it comes to valuing a car. Maybe
Speaker 2: someone hit you and you have a diminished value. Claiming
Speaker 2: can help you with that, but it's diminished valueexpert dot com.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Justin. We got another hour coming. Three ZHO
Speaker 2: three Martino, Jamie, you're up next.
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Speaker 2: Complaints, try to make your life a little bit better.
Speaker 2: If you've been ripped off, there's a bad contractor in
Speaker 2: your life, bad landlord, I say landlord, because my goodness,
Speaker 2: we have dealt with so many of them. Or if
Speaker 2: you just have a problem, we're gonna go to Jamie
Speaker 2: a second. And I believe it was her daughter that
Speaker 2: got a cashiers check from an employer for some work
Speaker 2: done and basically lost the check. It happens, it was
Speaker 2: never cashed. My understanding was the bank acknowledges. The cashiers
Speaker 2: check was never cashed, but the bank didn't want to
Speaker 2: make right on it. So we're going to find that out.
Speaker 2: But first I need to tell you about Frank Duran,
Speaker 2: the real estate man. Frank sold our house in Castle Rock,
Speaker 2: and he was so great to work with. It's the
Speaker 2: secret sauce, and I mean that, here's what it comes
Speaker 2: down to. He's going to get you more for your house.
Speaker 2: He got us more than the same model anywhere else
Speaker 2: in that neighborhood at that time. He got us the
Speaker 2: most money and there was a lot of stuff for
Speaker 2: sale back then. And here's the bottom line. I'm not
Speaker 2: going to tell you how he did it, but he
Speaker 2: got a bidding war going and we chose from a
Speaker 2: lot of very good offers, and we went with one
Speaker 2: no contingency, basically a cash deal, and it just worked
Speaker 2: out perfect, and he helped us negotiate our other house
Speaker 2: that we bought in Franktown. In fact, Frank sells more
Speaker 2: homes listen to this, more homes in one month for
Speaker 2: more money than the average reeltor in Colorado sales in
Speaker 2: over a year. And those are real stats. That's incredible. Now,
Speaker 2: Jamie did I have that right. You are the one
Speaker 2: whose daughter had a cashier's check from her employer.
Speaker 16: Yes, sir, and it was actually it's her company. She
Speaker 16: had got the cashier's checked at the finish of a
Speaker 16: job from the customer.
Speaker 2: Oh, from the customer. I got it. And how much
Speaker 2: was it check for? It was close to ten grand
Speaker 2: eighty six dollars? Yeah, And then it was drawn off
Speaker 2: of some like Denver credit Union. What was it called?
Speaker 16: On the credit Union of Denver and Lakewood?
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I couldn't figure out for the life of
Speaker 2: me why you simply couldn't go down there and they
Speaker 2: cancel that check. It's a cashier's check. They can see
Speaker 2: if it's been cashed or not. And it hadn't been
Speaker 2: correct correct, And they told you to go out and
Speaker 2: get a bond, didn't they?
Speaker 16: Yeah, And this is what they explained to us. So
Speaker 16: they told my daughter to go get a bond. I
Speaker 16: went to my credit union and asked them for information.
Speaker 16: So my daughter looked up a surety company to get
Speaker 16: in a shurrety bond. Yeah, or the ashier's checks called
Speaker 16: the credit union backup?
Speaker 7: Is this the right one?
Speaker 13: Are we doing it?
Speaker 2: Yes? Yes, So she paid for it, and then she
Speaker 2: goes down there and presents it to them and they say,
Speaker 2: we can't take it.
Speaker 16: Yeah, and they she was sitting down there for almost
Speaker 16: two hours.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I said, they're morons. I mean literally, I
Speaker 2: can't believe how incompetent they are. This isn't even brain surgery.
Speaker 2: I don't understand why they simply don't cancel it. So
Speaker 2: if anybody tries to cash it, h it just doesn't
Speaker 2: get cashed. It's dead, it's gone, it's over, and then
Speaker 2: just issue a new one. So Deputy bo didn't he
Speaker 2: meet you down there or something?
Speaker 16: He did because he called the bank. We gave him
Speaker 16: a contact number and he called the bank and left
Speaker 16: I don't three or four messages and never got a
Speaker 16: call back. So he called me up and he was like, hey,
Speaker 16: can we just meet down there. It was on Friday
Speaker 16: at nine point thirty in the morning, so absolutely, so
Speaker 16: we met him down there and immediately we had a
Speaker 16: meeting with the bank president and one of the supervisors.
Speaker 2: So they happened to be there.
Speaker 16: Well, I think they were there because they knew we
Speaker 16: were coming in. I love it, So, I mean that
Speaker 16: was my impression, and.
Speaker 2: That was Friday.
Speaker 7: That was Friday.
Speaker 2: So were you there too or just your daughter? Who went?
Speaker 16: My daughter myself and we met both there.
Speaker 2: Excellent, So what happened?
Speaker 16: So we went into the meeting very uh the president
Speaker 16: was very apologetic. He was like, you know, we don't
Speaker 16: deal with us very often, and I mean he was
Speaker 16: I believe honest. He was like, quite frankly, I don't
Speaker 16: think the people you talk to knew what they, you.
Speaker 8: Know, were talking about.
Speaker 2: There were more.
Speaker 16: So they had taken it to their attorney and they
Speaker 16: didn't like the assurety bond that we had purchased, and
Speaker 16: they had an indemnent tea bond drawn up by their attorney.
Speaker 16: And so we we not weave My daughters find that
Speaker 16: and we we still have our assurity bond.
Speaker 2: How much did you pay for that? Wasn't it like
Speaker 2: five hundred bucks?
Speaker 9: Bucks?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 2: And basically all that for people out there don't know
Speaker 2: what that is. If somehow that check did get cash
Speaker 2: and it costs the bank that ninety eight hundred bucks,
Speaker 2: they would basically reimburse the bank on it. So how
Speaker 2: did this work? Did they charge you anything on whatever
Speaker 2: they wanted her to sign?
Speaker 16: No, they did not charge her.
Speaker 2: So what did it basically say that if someone cashes
Speaker 2: it that she's going to give them the money? What
Speaker 2: exactly did the paperwork say?
Speaker 16: It basically said that she would be held responsible for
Speaker 16: how long for I believe it was ninety days?
Speaker 2: Okay, that's nothing. So did they give her the money?
Speaker 16: So they also said that they had to call up
Speaker 16: on the customer who had originally was out of his account.
Speaker 16: My daughter this money. Yeah, so they called him up
Speaker 16: and he evidently went down there.
Speaker 15: And okayed, everything okay.
Speaker 16: And they called my daughter back up. My daughter and I
Speaker 16: went there or Saturday morning, right when they opened, and
Speaker 16: they had a check waiting for her.
Speaker 2: Thank god, you know what. And I'm still gonna go
Speaker 2: back what I said originally. Whoever they talked to at
Speaker 2: first over the phone, morons, whoever they dealt with when
Speaker 2: they walked into the branch after getting what the other
Speaker 2: morons told them to get, we're even bigger morons. Where
Speaker 2: she had to sit there for two hours. But thank god,
Speaker 2: this thing got done. I mean, thank god at least
Speaker 2: the branch manager or the president or whoever the hell
Speaker 2: it was it finally looked at this and got it handled.
Speaker 2: I mean think about that. It's a freaking lost check.
Speaker 2: It's not brain surgery. I am so glad we could
Speaker 2: help you out on that one. Jamie.
Speaker 16: Well, I just appreciate it so much. I told Bo,
Speaker 16: thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2: It's a great guy.
Speaker 16: I really know the reason all of a sudden, you know,
Speaker 16: walls are moving and everything was the Tom Martino trouble shooter,
Speaker 16: so was thrown out there and everybody decided something needed
Speaker 16: to get done.
Speaker 2: Thank god. I mean, it's just so crazy, and I'm
Speaker 2: sorry you guys had to go through that. I like
Speaker 2: how they say we never have to deal with it.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's a bank. They've never had to deal
Speaker 2: with a lost cashiers check. That's the craziest thing I've
Speaker 2: ever heard. It's it's insane. It's just crazy. Maybe nowadays
Speaker 2: people don't do it a lot. Everything's wires or achs
Speaker 2: or Venmo or whatever. But man, I really do appreciate that.
Speaker 2: And I'll make sure Bo knows. And I'm sure ding.
Speaker 4: Ding d very cool.
Speaker 2: We'll we'll give Bo a dinger on that one, all right,
Speaker 2: both three O three seven one three eight two five five.
Speaker 2: We got lines open. You've been ripped off. Got any
Speaker 2: questions We've got great attorneys that can reach in and help.
Speaker 2: But anything, I want to talk to you. Everybody, hang tight,
Speaker 2: we'll be back right after this.
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Speaker 2: Three oh three seventy one three eight two five five
Speaker 2: three over three Martino, First time today we got open
Speaker 2: lines you've been ripped off taking advantage of. In fact,
Speaker 2: we got to add that ten thousand, nine thousan eight
Speaker 2: hundred to our total of over three hundred million dollars
Speaker 2: in cash, merchandise exchanges refunds directly due to this show.
Speaker 2: To get that added. Chan and I hear you back there,
Speaker 2: carry the one and then boom, there you go. Now
Speaker 2: it's three hundred, three hundred, nine thousand, eight hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: That's a lot of money. Think about that over the years,
Speaker 2: and that doesn't include all the people that we've helped
Speaker 2: out when it comes to things like, you know, getting
Speaker 2: them an apartment. We had one lady. We got her
Speaker 2: a liver and I am not kidding you. I think
Speaker 2: it might have been for our daughter. We actually, back
Speaker 2: in the day, ran a big Facebook campaign looking for
Speaker 2: a match and it worked out very well. Hey, Susanne,
Speaker 2: let me ask you something, sure, what is the hardest
Speaker 2: contractor we have dealt with? We've been married thirty plus years,
Speaker 2: and think of all the people and all the projects
Speaker 2: we've done since our Parker House, Castle Rock, Franktown. What
Speaker 2: is Did you remember anything going particularly awry, something a
Speaker 2: bad experience.
Speaker 5: With any I can't think of any mark. We've had
Speaker 5: such great experiences.
Speaker 2: We had one way way back in Parker and I
Speaker 2: hired a guy to fix our furnace and I should
Speaker 2: have known, and I hate to say this, on the
Speaker 2: side of his truck it had some proverb from the Bible,
Speaker 2: and I was like, oh, okay, well, my god, if
Speaker 2: he's got if he's quoting the Bible. He's got to
Speaker 2: be a religious guy, and therefore he'd never rip you off. Right,
Speaker 2: worst contractor I ever had, Gosh, I won't make that.
Speaker 2: I won't make that again. How about the worst car
Speaker 2: we ever bought? We've been pretty lucky in general. You
Speaker 2: hated the Kia, but it was a good car, but you.
Speaker 4: Any man, and I didn't like it.
Speaker 6: I mean, I guess that was That's the one I
Speaker 6: hated the most.
Speaker 2: You didn't like it because it was a minivan.
Speaker 5: I did not like being a minivan mom, Sorry minivan moms.
Speaker 4: I was an suv mom.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I lost more money on that vehicle than
Speaker 2: any other vehicle. Well, that might not be true. I
Speaker 2: might have when I finally sell this model S I
Speaker 2: might have lost more money. But I've gotten a hell
Speaker 2: of a lot of good times out of it, So
Speaker 2: that's kind of a different Do.
Speaker 4: You remember the Mitsubishi Galant.
Speaker 2: I had all wheel drive, all wheel steering, yes, turbo, yes,
Speaker 2: all four tires turned when you were driving it. Yes,
Speaker 2: and it was badass. That vehicle we made money on, okay, fair,
Speaker 2: and you drove it for what two three years?
Speaker 5: Yes, But the problem was we could never find it
Speaker 5: was like there was a dead mouse or something in
Speaker 5: the vents, and I dealt with this terrible smell.
Speaker 6: I know it says, terrible smell.
Speaker 4: I dealt with.
Speaker 5: Five months and we could just never figure it out.
Speaker 5: And it was like maybe a little dead animal up
Speaker 5: in the vents or something. So that's the only thing
Speaker 5: that really sticks out about that vehicle.
Speaker 2: We had that car for three to four years, maybe longer. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and we bought it, I want to say for around
Speaker 2: thirteen thousand. We bought it used and once again it
Speaker 2: was called a VR four amidst a Bishi Galant VR
Speaker 2: four right all wheel drive.
Speaker 4: It was good wheel steering.
Speaker 2: It had a rack and pinion. When I sold it,
Speaker 2: I put it up and I put it up back then,
Speaker 2: probably on maybe it was Craigslist, maybe the Denver Post
Speaker 2: for that matter, or maybe the Rocky Mountain News. It
Speaker 2: was an older vehicle and we sold it for more
Speaker 2: than we bought it for. And the guy that bought
Speaker 2: it drove all the way from Utah and they turned
Speaker 2: it into a bake a racecar for Baja sand Yeah,
Speaker 2: because it had the all wheel steering and it had
Speaker 2: everything they needed and it was a standard.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, Mark, not to switch tracks, but I thought
Speaker 5: the worst vehicle you would have said we bought was
Speaker 5: that RX eight. You had so many mechanical issues with
Speaker 5: it because it had a rotary engine or something like that.
Speaker 2: That thing, guys. So my RX seven I had a
Speaker 2: few problems with and love. I love the wankle. It's
Speaker 2: a rotary engine. In fact, I don't think it's in
Speaker 2: anything else but mostas I mean, I really don't. And
Speaker 2: when I first bought it, this damn thing wouldn't start
Speaker 2: a few times it would just be a crank, no start,
Speaker 2: and the dealer had to come out and get it twice,
Speaker 2: and they said it was a computer setting from the manufacturer,
Speaker 2: blah blah blah, get it back and it did it again.
Speaker 2: But I'm going to share another part of that vehicle history.
Speaker 2: Someone ran over it, someone with less than four or
Speaker 2: five thousand miles on it. As soon as I had
Speaker 2: that other no start problem, crank, no start, someone got
Speaker 2: upset at me.
Speaker 4: And it wasn't me.
Speaker 2: It was not Susan. I'm contemplating whether or not to
Speaker 2: say who it was. I don't know why I wouldn't,
Speaker 2: but they did not like something I told them. The
Speaker 2: week before they did not like it. Someone asked me,
Speaker 2: and I'll tell everybody out there something. If someone ever
Speaker 2: says this to you, beware, whatever you can say in
Speaker 2: front of me, you can say in front of her. Now,
Speaker 2: if you ever hear that from somebody, have you ever
Speaker 2: heard that before? I think all of us have heard
Speaker 2: it at least once.
Speaker 17: A kind of version of that, a version.
Speaker 2: Yes, whatever you can say in front of me, you
Speaker 2: can say in front of her, she's my wife. There's
Speaker 2: a good example of that. And I happened to say
Speaker 2: something that was very honest, but they did not like
Speaker 2: it whatsoever.
Speaker 4: Are you offended somebody?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yes, mark you. So the very next week I happened
Speaker 2: to go over to my friend's house again and that
Speaker 2: person was there. That person was not expecting me to
Speaker 2: show up. When that person saw me, they immediately started
Speaker 2: crying and kind of yelling and hopped into their suburban
Speaker 2: and the RXA. It's a very small car. It's a
Speaker 2: little sports car. It's not much bigger than a Mazda Miata.
Speaker 2: She put it in reverse and ran her suburban or
Speaker 2: maybe it was an expedition. I forget. It was massive
Speaker 2: right up on top of my car that had four
Speaker 2: or five thousand miles on it. I had to call
Speaker 2: Suzanne to come get me because literally my vehicle was smashed.
Speaker 2: That vehicle cost me about sixty thousand. I bought it
Speaker 2: on the showroom floor. She did forty thousand dollars worth
Speaker 2: of damage. And the worst thing that ever happened to
Speaker 2: me was getting that thing fixed because it was never
Speaker 2: the same. That vehicle had every problem known demand afterwards,
Speaker 2: it made strange noises. Sometimes it wouldn't start again. I
Speaker 2: was afraid to drive it after I got it back.
Speaker 2: I fought with that insurance company to no end, and
Speaker 2: I could not get them to repair it or I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: I could not get them to total it. And it
Speaker 2: was a nightmare. And that is my we'll call it
Speaker 2: call it gold digger story.
Speaker 4: Mark the RXA. I don't think we ever saw it again.
Speaker 2: Really, you know what we did? This is interesting. You guys.
Speaker 2: Have you ever traded a vehicle with another person? You
Speaker 2: remember what we traded it for. I traded that RXA,
Speaker 2: straight up, man. I traded it for the van that's
Speaker 2: from Dumb and.
Speaker 6: Dumb, just like you did the Nintendo cartridges for my
Speaker 6: first wedding ring.
Speaker 2: That's very true.
Speaker 6: What did you trade?
Speaker 2: I didn't remember. Why would you bring that up?
Speaker 6: Because you're a trader, you're barterer, that's why.
Speaker 2: So listen. I traded that RXAD. I couldn't stand it
Speaker 2: anymore for literally a I think it was a Lincoln Navigator.
Speaker 2: It was a big ass truck. It was huge and
Speaker 2: a five hundred cc two stroke Yamaha dirt bike, fastest
Speaker 2: dirt bike I think ever made on the world. This
Speaker 2: thing scared the hell out of me, and I sold it,
Speaker 2: and then I sold I had trouble selling that damn car.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, when people pull up a car
Speaker 2: fax and there's forty thousand dollars worth of damage, it's
Speaker 2: hard to sell a car. So I traded the car
Speaker 2: for the truck in the motorcycle. Then I sold the
Speaker 2: truck in the motorcycle and actually ended up making more
Speaker 2: than what I could have made on the car even
Speaker 2: if I didn't have the accident. But you're right, that
Speaker 2: was the worst car we either had.
Speaker 4: I was, yeah, I thought maybe that would.
Speaker 2: What's the worst car you ever had?
Speaker 4: Scott Tiputy Dollar, Yeah, I mean, my god, what is it?
Speaker 2: What's the worst car you ever had?
Speaker 18: I think when I was a teenager, I had a
Speaker 18: Triumph Sportscar.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I thought people loved Triumphs.
Speaker 18: Well they did, Yeah, but you know I paid five
Speaker 18: hundred bucks for it and it was not the best car.
Speaker 2: It's just always problems.
Speaker 18: Yeah, it's you know, it's English though.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Chopper.
Speaker 17: My dad bought me when I was sixteen a Dolphine
Speaker 17: never heard of. It is a French car.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. It was horrible. I assume they don't
Speaker 2: make him anymore.
Speaker 17: If they do, it's over in France, my John.
Speaker 2: I'll come to your car question in a minute. At
Speaker 2: or insurance issue. My dad bought me my first car, okay,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, nineteen seventy nine Ford Granada. A nineteen seventy
Speaker 2: nine Ford Granada. The car was so ugly. I went
Speaker 2: to my parents' house. I didn't live. I was out
Speaker 2: of the house, like around sixteen. I drove to their
Speaker 2: house from my apartment one time with Suzanne and we
Speaker 2: parked at their house to do something, probably feed the
Speaker 2: cat or something when they were out of town. This
Speaker 2: car that my dad bought me was so ugly. You're
Speaker 2: ready for this. The neighbors called the police because the
Speaker 2: car did not belong in that neighborhood. I swear to god,
Speaker 2: I was profiled one hundred percent in my parents' neighborhood. John,
Speaker 2: y're on after this, we got two lines open, three
Speaker 2: zero three, Martino. I'd love to hear your worst car,
Speaker 2: really making me think of cars, Hecker, not a suck, Suzanne.
Speaker 2: That one got towed real quick. Yeah, remember when that
Speaker 2: got towed from our apartment. Yes, those bastards. Listen, man,
Speaker 2: My friend Lonnie came over and we had to fix car.
Speaker 2: How much money did we have back then? My god,
Speaker 2: if we had a Hamburger, we were happy. Literally, we'd
Speaker 2: go out once a week for a Hamburger and that
Speaker 2: made us happy as hell. So my friend Lonnie comes over.
Speaker 2: My transmission went out. I still remember it had a
Speaker 2: sea for transmission in it. I bought one from a Junkyard.
Speaker 2: He came over. We jacked a car up and we're
Speaker 2: going to swap out to transmission. We get halfway done
Speaker 2: and something happens. We got to run down and get
Speaker 2: another part. Those bastards at the apartment complex. Those bastards
Speaker 2: towed my car because we added out working on the
Speaker 2: parking lot. They towed it. We had no car. Suzanne
Speaker 2: and AI were down to our cake bus. Yes, we
Speaker 2: had a big Hostess truck that was our own brand,
Speaker 2: but it was an old Arra members not members Mark
Speaker 2: ar Mark van the size of a Hostess van, an
Speaker 2: old school one. So you know what I did? Damn it. Listen,
Speaker 2: you want to know why I do this job right now?
Speaker 2: You want to know why I love helping people. Should
Speaker 2: have I been working on that in the parking lot.
Speaker 2: Hell no, I shouldn't have. But you know what, we
Speaker 2: had no money and I had to get that car back.
Speaker 2: That's the only thing we had besides our cake van,
Speaker 2: which all we use that for is delivering It cost
Speaker 2: a fortune to drive. You know what we I did.
Speaker 2: I took out tape. I forget what color. I think
Speaker 2: it was black electrical black electrical tape, and I put
Speaker 2: vector properties the manager of Sugarberry Apartments will tow your car,
Speaker 2: do not sign a lease here. And I brought it
Speaker 2: right up to the front, right up to the front
Speaker 2: where the leasing agent was, and I parked it right there,
Speaker 2: and every damn person that walked in there on the
Speaker 2: weekends I had a conversation with asked me how long
Speaker 2: it took me to get my car back paid two days,
Speaker 2: two days, two days a Saturday Sunday. They agreed that
Speaker 2: not only have it towed back, but they actually had
Speaker 2: it fixed and put the transmission in because they knew
Speaker 2: I wasn't going away. Hold on.
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Speaker 2: All right, three oh three seven one three eight two
Speaker 2: five five. I was thinking of all the uh, all
Speaker 2: the different things. It's kind of weird, all the different
Speaker 2: things that kind of led me up to where I'm
Speaker 2: at now, and it's just nuts thinking about it. Putting
Speaker 2: that on the side of our CA croud van and
Speaker 2: getting the apartment complex to be decent people was one
Speaker 2: of probably one of the first.
Speaker 4: Things, it is your first troubleshooter event.
Speaker 2: I mean it really was. If you hear Tom talk
Speaker 2: about the story, he basically got ripped off buying a car.
Speaker 2: He sold a car and basically the lady ripped him off,
Speaker 2: which was very curious. But anyhow, Hey John, what is
Speaker 2: your question on car insurance?
Speaker 10: Good after a good morning? Good morning, sir, So, I
Speaker 10: had an accident. I just bought a Vovo X forty
Speaker 10: in November, brand new, nice and in January a guy
Speaker 10: came across my lane and sideswiped me and then he ran.
Speaker 10: So I have no no recourse with the guy that
Speaker 10: hit me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you had I assumed he had full coverage, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: yeah I did.
Speaker 10: So I'm with Progressive yep. And what is it. They've
Speaker 10: fixed the car, but the front wheel was scuffed up
Speaker 10: and scratched up real bad in the accident. And what
Speaker 10: they're saying is they're going to give me a remanufactured wheel.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Now, the problem is is that Volvo, in repairing the car,
Speaker 10: says that they will not put a remanufactured wheel on
Speaker 10: because it's against Volvo's policies to do that. Well, they're
Speaker 10: stupid and they're.
Speaker 2: That's the dumbest thing I ever heard. Why they why
Speaker 2: they wouldn't put that on Basically a refurbished rim. It
Speaker 2: might be something that has maybe a little bit of
Speaker 2: road rash on it or something, and they send it
Speaker 2: out to a company. I've done this a million times
Speaker 2: when I had my Goodyear stores. They'd come in, I
Speaker 2: send it out to a refurbishing company. They come back
Speaker 2: and they look like new. It's the exact oem rim
Speaker 2: that they make look brand new. So, for the life
Speaker 2: of me, for Volvo saying they won't put it on,
Speaker 2: I just don't understand that I would bring it somewhere
Speaker 2: else because most insurance companies that's exactly what they're going
Speaker 2: to do on a rim, and it's going to look perfect. Man,
Speaker 2: And if it doesn't look perfect, you don't have to
Speaker 2: accept it. But that dealer, that that dealer is not
Speaker 2: doing the right thing here. I don't understand why they
Speaker 2: would have a problem with it.
Speaker 10: Well, it's kind of I kind of agree, But they
Speaker 10: claim that they don't know the quality of the refurbishment
Speaker 10: and that there could be micro cracks.
Speaker 2: And at that point, but what are they trying to
Speaker 2: do sell you? What are they trying to do sell
Speaker 2: you directly a rim, or are they trying to fight
Speaker 2: for you to get the insurance to cover it? I mean,
Speaker 2: what are they doing?
Speaker 15: Well?
Speaker 10: The adjuster says that they're going to give me a
Speaker 10: refurbished rim because my policy says that they can do that. Yes,
Speaker 10: I checked my policy and I can't find word says
Speaker 10: they can do that.
Speaker 2: John, I'm pretty sure almost every policy says that. But
Speaker 2: let me ask you something I want to understand some
Speaker 2: before we go any further. Do you care if the
Speaker 2: rim comes in and it looks perfect. I mean, it
Speaker 2: looks like a brand new rim, you could most likely
Speaker 2: care less. Right, I'm not saying if it comes in
Speaker 2: and it doesn't look like a new one, But if
Speaker 2: it comes in and it looks perfect, do you even care?
Speaker 10: Only if I knew for sure that there wasn't any
Speaker 10: damage that's unseen, Yeah.
Speaker 2: And there's not going to be if it was sent
Speaker 2: to a real refurbisher. So my issue with this is
Speaker 2: the dealer. And I assume what dealer is it at?
Speaker 2: Where this body shop is it's doing this work.
Speaker 10: It's Rickenbaugh.
Speaker 2: I don't understand why Rickenbaugh has any issue with this
Speaker 2: I just can't. I can't understand. Chopper, you want to
Speaker 2: call over there for me? I mean, John, do you
Speaker 2: mind if we call over and talk to the service
Speaker 2: writer over there so we can get a better understanding.
Speaker 2: I mean, maybe there's something I don't understand about this
Speaker 2: particular rim, But honest to God, man, I mean these
Speaker 2: people that rebuild these these rims or refurbish them, the
Speaker 2: good ones, they're perfect. They look for stress cracks. Hell,
Speaker 2: some of them can run them through like almost like
Speaker 2: an MRI for lack of a better word, and see
Speaker 2: if there's any cracks in them. I mean, this thing
Speaker 2: should be perfec thick coming back.
Speaker 10: Well, my question is how do I know that? Because
Speaker 10: they're going to put on a rim and it has
Speaker 10: nothing to do with my purchasing, and it would be
Speaker 10: and well and the vocal delar.
Speaker 2: Won't put it on.
Speaker 10: Yeah, you can call them. I'd appreciate it. You know,
Speaker 10: between a rock and a hard place, because well, I.
Speaker 2: Don't even understand why you're between a rock and a
Speaker 2: hard place. Well, that's true, I guess you are, because
Speaker 2: the dealers saying, listen, no matter what, we're not going
Speaker 2: to put on a refurbished rim, which is asinine in
Speaker 2: my opinion, but maybe they have a better reasoning that
Speaker 2: I can think of. And then you have your insurance
Speaker 2: company going, we're not going to give you a new rim,
Speaker 2: So you're right unless you want to come out of pocket,
Speaker 2: which is crazy. Yeah, hold on, man, let me let
Speaker 2: me put you on hold. Kelly, please do me a favor.
Speaker 2: Get Rick and Balls, get his service advisor's name and
Speaker 2: then get the number over there and Chopper, will you
Speaker 2: go call during break?
Speaker 17: Yeah, I'll think of it, no problem.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just figure out. I mean, this seems so
Speaker 2: straight up to me. I can't. But that's just how
Speaker 2: things work. I mean, that's how they work. You get
Speaker 2: a refurbished rip, Susan, when's the last time I got
Speaker 2: a refurbished rim? Wait till you hear the answer to this.
Speaker 2: Yesterday yesterday for my tesla, And my tesla does two
Speaker 2: hundred miles an hour, and I'm good with the refurbished rim.
Speaker 2: Think about that, and it looks perfect. It looks absolutely perfect.
Speaker 2: Everybody hold tight. Mike has got a question or comment
Speaker 2: on the Great Colorado Payback, and then Tammy's got to
Speaker 2: comment on bad cars. Everybody hold tight. One line open
Speaker 2: three zero three Martino. And by the way, Kelly, did
Speaker 2: we ever hear back from Brian Burns? Did he text back?
Speaker 2: Try him one more time? Because I'm pretty sure almost
Speaker 2: every insurance policy out there, almost everyone out there, a
Speaker 2: refurbished part, especially a rim, is not a problem. But
Speaker 2: I that guy did bring some up. He said he
Speaker 2: read his policy and he didn't see that anywhere. But
Speaker 2: I want to ask Brian.
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Speaker 2: All right, three oh three seven one three eight two
Speaker 2: five five. You know what do you do when you
Speaker 2: find out I got a rim? I had to buy
Speaker 2: a rim. I just said it a refurbished rim. And
Speaker 2: let me tell you something I've never seen a rim
Speaker 2: that's got a crack in it like this before. And
Speaker 2: this all started last week and I bring it up
Speaker 2: to Discount Tire and basically a day later, I find
Speaker 2: out it's the rim leaking. I have a tire on
Speaker 2: order because they said I had to get a tire,
Speaker 2: but I'm not going to get into that part. I
Speaker 2: could care less about that. So Sunday I bring it
Speaker 2: up to Walmart because Discount's closed, and I'm thinking, well,
Speaker 2: maybe they can find the leak or something because I'm
Speaker 2: sick adding air to it. And they bring it out
Speaker 2: and the RIM's got a crack in it, a hairline
Speaker 2: crack in the back. I'm like, I have never seen
Speaker 2: an aluminum rim get a crack in it. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's just the craziest thing I've ever seen. How is
Speaker 2: that possible? So I was talking about it all day yesterday.
Speaker 2: Then I had to find a rim the next day.
Speaker 2: So yesterday I'm looking around. I finally find a guy
Speaker 2: that's got a refurbished one. Go down there and buy it.
Speaker 2: It's like four hundred bucks, saying a cheap rim. Nothing
Speaker 2: cheap about this, nothing cheap about it. So then we
Speaker 2: go back down and I get to tire change over.
Speaker 2: Everything's great, but I still can't stop talking about it.
Speaker 2: I'm talking to Tom yesterday, Say, damn it, Tom, I'd
Speaker 2: never seen anything like it. It's got a damn crack
Speaker 2: in it. I've never seen a rim with a crack
Speaker 2: in it. I sold rims. I have probably out of
Speaker 2: the five stores I owned, sold a million tires. Think
Speaker 2: how many rims we have dealt with. And I don't
Speaker 2: remember seeing a hairline crack on a rib like this before.
Speaker 2: Well then I found out yesterday with no cause. I
Speaker 2: saw a lot of bad rims, but not one where
Speaker 2: there was never anything involved, like a pothole or a curb.
Speaker 2: So last night, Suzanne, who I've been married to for
Speaker 2: over thirty years and trusted with my children of course,
Speaker 2: or her children too, guess what she told me last night? Yeah?
Speaker 2: What did she tell me last night? I'm just curious.
Speaker 6: Well, here's the only thing, Mark, we don't know for sure.
Speaker 4: That's what cost it. I'm just going I could have
Speaker 4: casted that.
Speaker 2: By doing what By hitting a curb? Oh, isn't that crazy?
Speaker 2: The same wheel hit a curb a few days ago,
Speaker 2: and the mystery was solved. So for forty eight to
Speaker 2: seventy two hours. Friends, imagine knowing something for forty eight
Speaker 2: to seventy two hours in your spouse, who you love?
Speaker 6: I came clean, Mark, I came clean.
Speaker 2: Doesn't say anything.
Speaker 17: I'm in a little confused.
Speaker 2: No, she doesn't use auto drive. But let me tell
Speaker 2: you something, Shannon, she is no longer allowed to drive
Speaker 2: the Tesla unless it's in auto drive.
Speaker 4: What are you chop?
Speaker 17: Well, that's what I thought. It's an autel drive car.
Speaker 17: She doesn't use it, Sue, you should have.
Speaker 2: Blamed the car. She did it because she hates elon. Hey, Tammy,
Speaker 2: what's your comment on bad cars?
Speaker 7: Hello?
Speaker 2: Hello, Tammy? How are you?
Speaker 7: How are you? You're so funny?
Speaker 2: Thank you?
Speaker 7: I had a call because.
Speaker 2: That I like how you say. My wife didn't tell
Speaker 2: me anything for seventy two hours. I had to drop
Speaker 2: three or four underd bucks on a rim and I'm funny.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Tammy, I'm kidding with you.
Speaker 7: It's all good. The worst car I ever had was
Speaker 7: a sixty seven uh Barracuda.
Speaker 2: Barracuda, I do you remember that? Yeah? What was so?
Speaker 2: Hold on, Tammy, that's that's the hard music. I have
Speaker 2: no choice I know you've been holding a little bit.
Speaker 2: I promise I'll do that. And then we've got an
Speaker 2: issue with Max and a trash company and a comment
Speaker 2: from Mike one line open three oh three, Martino, got
Speaker 2: a lot coming up, Hold tight.
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Speaker 2: That's what we do best. I got two deputies here
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Speaker 2: a refurbished rim on. I've never heard of anything like
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Speaker 2: back to ten me real quick. Tammy called up. We
Speaker 2: were talking about bad cars. My dad bought me a
Speaker 2: nineteen sixty nine Granada. That was my first car. You know,
Speaker 2: my kid's first cars. They were brand new cars, weren't they.
Speaker 5: Yep, if they got their black belts third degree, they
Speaker 5: got a new car.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we told him, you get your third degree black belts.
Speaker 2: And they were both right about sixteen when they got him,
Speaker 2: so they would get new cars. But they were both
Speaker 2: in taekwondo for oh my god, fifteen years, sixteen seventeen years.
Speaker 2: They were in taekwondo forever. We treated it like school
Speaker 2: and you had to go. That's just how it was.
Speaker 2: And I was thinking about what my parents bought me
Speaker 2: for my first car nineteen seventy nine for Granada. Yikes,
Speaker 2: it was not a good car. It was not a
Speaker 2: good car. And at this point, that car, when I
Speaker 2: got it, it was already twenty years old. What did
Speaker 2: you get your kid for his first car? Dragon? He
Speaker 2: got our leftover. So it was a Buick, a two
Speaker 2: thousand and three Buick. So how old? How old? What
Speaker 2: year was this?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 2: This was two eighteen, so it was like a fifteen
Speaker 2: year old car exactly. I got like a twenty plus
Speaker 2: year old car. Actually it was more than that. It
Speaker 2: was the ugliest dam thing anybody's ever seen. But Tammy,
Speaker 2: you said a Barrakudah?
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, this thing was a sixty seven, had that
Speaker 7: lousy two twenty five plant six in it, and had
Speaker 7: the distributor on the bottom, So every time you hit
Speaker 7: a puddle, the damn thing, would you know?
Speaker 15: Cut out right.
Speaker 2: I just looked one up. This isn't what I thought
Speaker 2: it was. This is kind of an ugly car as well.
Speaker 2: A Plymouth Barracuda.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, sixty seven to twenty five plants six.
Speaker 2: So you're telling me if you would hit a puddle,
Speaker 2: it would literally stop running because a distributor was mounted
Speaker 2: on the bottom.
Speaker 7: That's right.
Speaker 2: Why why would they do that, I mean, why would
Speaker 2: anybody do that?
Speaker 7: Well, you know that was back in sixty seven, you
Speaker 7: tell me, because.
Speaker 2: They were smoking dope and listening to the Beatles.
Speaker 7: Yeah, there you go, you know woodstock, right, yeah.
Speaker 2: Dropping acid smoking though. All right, Hey, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: It was a good call. And uh, I don't know
Speaker 2: why I was thinking that was like a I was
Speaker 2: thinking more of like a road runner.
Speaker 12: What's that, Timmy? One more thing?
Speaker 2: What go ahead?
Speaker 7: Yeah? I got to go back to one more thing
Speaker 7: because you said about the granada. So I have right now,
Speaker 7: seventy seven granada.
Speaker 9: It's got a little.
Speaker 7: Windsor in it, and that thing runs like a bad habit.
Speaker 9: It's you think, So it's a tudor.
Speaker 7: So I get a lot of well not a lot,
Speaker 7: but I get you know, people that are old school
Speaker 7: and they like it. They like you know, I like
Speaker 7: they like it.
Speaker 2: I'd like, Okay, I'm calling bs. There's no way anybody
Speaker 2: likes a granada. Woo, give me a name, give me somebody,
Speaker 2: you know what. I'm putting her on hold, Kelly. I
Speaker 2: want her to give you a name of one of
Speaker 2: these people that like her granada, and I want to
Speaker 2: talk to him. I'm calling her out. I'm calling Tammy out.
Speaker 2: Everybody out there when you're not driving Google a seventy
Speaker 2: seven Granada. It looks just like mine basically, and I
Speaker 2: had the same thing. So instead of being a four door,
Speaker 2: they decided to make these doors the size of two
Speaker 2: doors on both sides. It's absolutely crazy. Hey Max, what's
Speaker 2: going on with this trash company?
Speaker 15: Hello?
Speaker 2: Hey Max? What's up?
Speaker 19: Hey?
Speaker 15: I just called in. I saw Tom Martinez always take
Speaker 15: care of me. Maybe you could take care of me.
Speaker 15: I got a trash company that's taking advantage of my
Speaker 15: elderly father. They just raised the race. I mean, for
Speaker 15: what we get the two yard there, we could charge
Speaker 15: some other trash company would only charge this eighty five dollars.
Speaker 15: These people have been they've raised it to one hundred
Speaker 15: and twenty nine, and now they've raised it to one
Speaker 15: hundred and sixty one. And this it says here, this
Speaker 15: is future endpoints. Voices may contain a nominal increase, so
Speaker 15: they're threatening that they could raise it even more. This
Speaker 15: is just malice.
Speaker 2: Well why don't you go to wait? Wait, Max, why
Speaker 2: don't you simply go to another trash company? Are they
Speaker 2: trying to hold you to some contract while they're raising.
Speaker 15: Because they got me on a contract when when I
Speaker 15: my dad had almost lost all his properties all his
Speaker 15: his bills were in the rear, so I got everything
Speaker 15: caught up. I was doing everything I thought I was,
Speaker 15: and I signed over it. What is it on the
Speaker 15: internet or you know online?
Speaker 2: Yeah? What is the name of the trash contract?
Speaker 15: And they got me in there for five years.
Speaker 2: What is the name of the trash company?
Speaker 15: Waste Connections of Colorado.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're a pretty big one. I dealt with them.
Speaker 2: It was a commercial dumpster I had years ago. It
Speaker 2: is and shop I had, and I remember having a
Speaker 2: problem with the contract, but it kind of went the
Speaker 2: same way. They kept raising the price, so I decided
Speaker 2: to start shopping around, and then I found out that
Speaker 2: I was kind of locked in a contract with him.
Speaker 2: When is your contract up?
Speaker 15: It's up in like sixteen months.
Speaker 2: And what's the early out run.
Speaker 15: You It would cost about eight hundred bucks.
Speaker 2: And they're not willing to do anything when you talk
Speaker 2: to him.
Speaker 15: No, No. I called the guy. They have managers that
Speaker 15: call you back. His name is Greg Rau, and I
Speaker 15: called him and I said, hey, this is ridiculous, and
Speaker 15: I told him I want to go with another trash company.
Speaker 15: That's when he surprised me with no, you're not here,
Speaker 15: and he sent me the contract.
Speaker 2: What does it say? What did the underlying or highlight
Speaker 2: in there? What does it actually say?
Speaker 15: Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't have well, I mean you don't have to
Speaker 2: read it verbatim. What does it say, this is a
Speaker 2: contract we can base raise prices. I mean, I find
Speaker 2: it hard to believe the contract really said that they
Speaker 2: could raise prices all the time and you can't get out.
Speaker 2: But are you saying that's basically what it says.
Speaker 15: Well, I haven't read through the contract enough, but basically
Speaker 15: what he highlighted was that it would cost me six
Speaker 15: times the rate of what they're currently charging. Well, if
Speaker 15: they keep raising it, that's going to be outrageous. It's
Speaker 15: probably going to cost one thousand dollars to get out
Speaker 15: of this contract. And it's just the raping. They're taking
Speaker 15: advantage of me and my father.
Speaker 2: Well, what area is he?
Speaker 15: By the way, he's in Fort Lufton.
Speaker 2: I wonder how is it his property?
Speaker 15: Yes, it's his property.
Speaker 2: Now what does he have?
Speaker 12: Man?
Speaker 2: I mean, how collectible is he? Let's just play a
Speaker 2: game real quick. If you just said, hey, come get it,
Speaker 2: we don't want it anymore and never paid them another
Speaker 2: nickel I mean, what would happen, what would they what
Speaker 2: could they go after him for? Does he have a
Speaker 2: lot of money?
Speaker 15: Well, no, he's not rich, but he's got some property.
Speaker 15: He's got his property, he's got some.
Speaker 2: Rental, so he is collectible. Yeah, okay, that's what I
Speaker 2: was trying to figure out, if he was collectible or not,
Speaker 2: because you were talking about how you kind of helped
Speaker 2: him get back on here. I think let's call over
Speaker 2: there with a fresh set of eyes, Scott, Deputy Dollar,
Speaker 2: call over there and deal with them. And what I
Speaker 2: would also like to see. Could you send me that contract? Man?
Speaker 15: I sure I could.
Speaker 2: I want you to email that contract they sent to you.
Speaker 2: Kelly will give you the information, but I really do
Speaker 2: want you to do that. Hold on, Jeff Fix got
Speaker 2: a comment on this. Hey Jeff, what's going on?
Speaker 9: Oh? You know, just making friends and losing money.
Speaker 2: I'm doing good. So do you have waste connections over
Speaker 2: at the shop or at home or what?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 9: I do do. And you know, when you sign up
Speaker 9: for those contracts, they have provisions in there that if
Speaker 9: you if you early have you pretty do the end
Speaker 9: of it. They quote unquote aside their contract. They cannot
Speaker 9: think how much the rector losing.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 2: It's unconscionable though, I mean, it really is. If they
Speaker 2: continue to raise the pricing all the time. This guy's
Speaker 2: making it sound like they're raising the damn price every
Speaker 2: five or six months on them. Have you ever successfully
Speaker 2: got out of one cost?
Speaker 9: But you know, when it comes up near where that
Speaker 9: contract is new, then you can dot uh and they'll
Speaker 9: send up in the contract.
Speaker 8: But be careful.
Speaker 9: There is an auto renewal in the side there, and
Speaker 9: usually two to three months before your renewal date, automatically
Speaker 9: pop that into computer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then they're going to say you're renewed, and
Speaker 2: then you can't get out of it again.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you're stuck for another three years or five years
Speaker 9: or what you signed up for.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 2: The only thing worse, and I don't know if it's
Speaker 2: still the same way, but the only thing worse in
Speaker 2: trash companies and they're contract especially on commercial stuff like
Speaker 2: you're talking about, is the damn uniform companies. Trying to
Speaker 2: get out of a deal with a bad uniform company
Speaker 2: is so hard, man, And I've had uniform companies in
Speaker 2: the past. It just sucked. I mean, people just simply
Speaker 2: wouldn't get stuff each week, and you can't get out
Speaker 2: of the damn contracts.
Speaker 9: As long as they respond within twenty four hours, they
Speaker 9: fulfill their obligation.
Speaker 2: Yeah they do. Hey, I appreciated Jeff. That's Jeff Vick
Speaker 2: Kimmer transmission. Max, grab all of his information. I want
Speaker 2: to copy of that contract in Scott. I want you
Speaker 2: to call over and see if you can't figure something
Speaker 2: out with waste connections. It's a shot in the dark, man,
Speaker 2: but I would like to see that contract. I'd like
Speaker 2: to see how it's written, and then I'd like to
Speaker 2: have one of our attorneys look at it. Look, you
Speaker 2: can have someone sign a contract. And my understanding is
Speaker 2: Max said he did it online. So that brings up
Speaker 2: a secondary question I have for an attorney. But you
Speaker 2: can't have something unconscionable in a contract. I can't say
Speaker 2: I get your first born and then you sign it
Speaker 2: and I literally get your firstborn. Now I'm bringing that
Speaker 2: to the to the nines there. But what I'm saying
Speaker 2: is if you had a contract that says we're gonna
Speaker 2: do your trash for the next hundred years, and we
Speaker 2: can raise the price anytime we want to, no matter
Speaker 2: how much we want, and if you ever get out
Speaker 2: of the contract, you owe us the full amount for
Speaker 2: one hundred years. You simply can't do that. Any judge
Speaker 2: in the world, any anybody with any sense of normalacy,
Speaker 2: would know that that's not a good contract. So I'm
Speaker 2: not sure what this contract reads. But we have dealt
Speaker 2: with a lot with waste connection and I don't like
Speaker 2: these guys. Three oh three seven one three eight two
Speaker 2: five five. We got two lines open three zero three Martino.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'm still waiting to hear Kelly, did you reach out?
Speaker 2: Tammy said she was going to get this uh person
Speaker 2: on that loves Ford Granada's along with her I can't
Speaker 2: hear you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I loved him a message.
Speaker 2: So yeah, do you think it's a real person.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'll be curious, boy, sail and everything.
Speaker 2: Scott was just the reason we're talking about Ford Granadas
Speaker 2: is my first car is in nineteen seventy nine Ford
Speaker 2: Granada and it was just but ugly. And this woman
Speaker 2: calls up Tammy. Seems like a really nice person. So
Speaker 2: I'm kind of in gesture. But she's got one and
Speaker 2: she loves it. And Scott was reading about them when
Speaker 2: they were selling them. What does it say there? Scott?
Speaker 2: Very interesting. So if you look up a nineteen seventy
Speaker 2: seven or for that matter of seventy nine Granada, you
Speaker 2: can see what we're talking about. And it's far from
Speaker 2: what the advertising says about it's Scott.
Speaker 18: It says it's a smooth, comfortable, smooth riding executive salon
Speaker 18: with retro styling and thelure interior.
Speaker 2: Okay, so if you can picture a turd with two
Speaker 2: axles and the largest doors you've ever seen bolted on it,
Speaker 2: that is what a Ford Granada looks like. It is
Speaker 2: a horrible vehicle. Now I will say this, They will
Speaker 2: run and run and run and run and run. In fact,
Speaker 2: the one we had is probably still running. Whatever even
Speaker 2: happened to that, Suzanne, what did we do with that car?
Speaker 4: I can't remember.
Speaker 2: I have no idea what happened to that? That was
Speaker 2: an old are we got that Honda? You ran over
Speaker 2: me in we did we? I don't think we traded in.
Speaker 2: I don't know what happened to that car. We didn't
Speaker 2: bring it to Colorado.
Speaker 4: The Honda.
Speaker 6: Remember, you sold it to that Marty guy and he
Speaker 6: sued you later.
Speaker 2: Remember, thank you, Suzanne. You know, just when you think right,
Speaker 2: just when you think.
Speaker 5: Sorry, we've got no electric at the house and the
Speaker 5: dogs are in the bus.
Speaker 4: I'm dealing with that.
Speaker 2: So now now I've got to explain that because that
Speaker 2: sounds horrible. Here I am on the radio helping people,
Speaker 2: and Suzanne comes on and says, you, remember we sold
Speaker 2: it to Marty, who was an employee of mine, by
Speaker 2: the way, and he sued you over it. That doesn't
Speaker 2: sound good.
Speaker 4: No, they did, didn't he he did?
Speaker 2: So this is ridiculous. I'm even going down this road now.
Speaker 2: Thank you for that. Here's what actually happened very quickly.
Speaker 2: By the way, We've got some lines open. Three zero
Speaker 2: three seven, one three eight two five five. You need help,
Speaker 2: we'd love to get involved. I got two deputies here
Speaker 2: ready to jump on anything. Three h three Martino, bad, landlord, bad,
Speaker 2: contractor bad. I'll tell you what, landscapers that's going to
Speaker 2: be kicking in real good. But here was the deal.
Speaker 2: So I sold this guy the car and I had
Speaker 2: to get the title for it. We bought the car
Speaker 2: in Oklahoma and brought it out here, and I never
Speaker 2: got it registered out here because we sold it so quick.
Speaker 2: But anyhow, I had to go get a title for it.
Speaker 2: So that was going to take a little bit of time.
Speaker 2: So it didn't happen that quick, and he ran into
Speaker 2: something and he wanted out of the deal after he
Speaker 2: did damage to the car because I couldn't get him
Speaker 2: the title as quick as he thought he should get it.
Speaker 2: But yet there was no way that was going to happen.
Speaker 2: So he decided to sue me, and he did. He
Speaker 2: went down to small claims court and sued me. What
Speaker 2: he didn't realize is I had on a little dictaphone,
Speaker 2: this is going back twenty five thirty years. I recorded
Speaker 2: the conversation him and I had, and in that conversation.
Speaker 2: He literally said he would lie, cheat and do whatever
Speaker 2: it took in order to get that car, get the deal, undone,
Speaker 2: get his money back, and he wasn't going to pay
Speaker 2: any of the damage on the car that he caused,
Speaker 2: and he would lie to the judge and he would
Speaker 2: lie about anything, and there was no way he wasn't
Speaker 2: going to win in court. And he left that on
Speaker 2: my damn answering machine, one of those little cassettes. So
Speaker 2: I had a dictaphone and I hired my attorney. His
Speaker 2: name was Michael Kupez. Became a good guy and a
Speaker 2: friend over time, and we went down for court. So
Speaker 2: I was there and Marty was there with his attorney
Speaker 2: and my attorney. Michael pulled out that dictaphone and put
Speaker 2: it right on the table and said, Marty, you might
Speaker 2: want to tell your attorney about lying and telling the
Speaker 2: judge anything and every other thing you said on this tape,
Speaker 2: because this will be the first part of the first
Speaker 2: thing we put into evidence. And he goes, I suggest
Speaker 2: to you guys, talk and he tapped me on the shoulder,
Speaker 2: grabbed the dictaphone, didn't even play it, and we left
Speaker 2: the room. About five minutes later, Marty came out and said,
Speaker 2: you know what, just give me the title. I'm going
Speaker 2: to go ahead and keep the car. So that was
Speaker 2: Marty suing me. Yep, that sure was, And that was
Speaker 2: Michael Kopez. He played that thing like I've never seen
Speaker 2: an attorney play something so cool. He didn't even play it.
Speaker 2: We had it, he didn't even play it, which was
Speaker 2: probably even more scary because he wasn't going to play
Speaker 2: it until we were in front of the judge. When
Speaker 2: you're in small claims court, it's not like you go
Speaker 2: through discovery and you have to show everybody all the evidence.
Speaker 2: You don't have to do that at all. All right,
Speaker 2: three three seven to one, three eight five five. You're
Speaker 2: gonna help Max out? Right, Hey, I'm I'm good with Max.
Speaker 2: Scott's gonna call over, uh on, Max's behalf to waste Connections,
Speaker 2: and we're gonna try to help this guy out. Max.
Speaker 2: I need a copy of the contract, Kelly, That's what
Speaker 2: I need first from him. He can send it in
Speaker 2: a PDF to help and get it to me and
Speaker 2: Scott as soon as you get it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he's gonna do that.
Speaker 4: And then Scott, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Is gonna call over and talk to the guy that
Speaker 2: he called to and Scott throw around our weight says,
Speaker 2: you know what, this is crazy. I mean we get it,
Speaker 2: but it seems like a perpetual contract that's just gonna
Speaker 2: keep going on your raising prices. It seems crazy, all right?
Speaker 2: Three oh three Martino, we got lines open first time
Speaker 2: three zero three seven one three talk.
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Speaker 2: Man, this waste connection contract get These guys are like
Speaker 2: the mafia. Uh, this is crazy in my opinion. These guys,
Speaker 2: in fact, I know back in the day, at least
Speaker 2: in New York and Jersey and everywhere, they were the mafia.
Speaker 2: But this waste connection, this contract is brutal. Sixty months,
Speaker 2: sixty months, and then you go down. I'd never sign
Speaker 2: up with Waste Connections, folks. I simply wouldn't do it.
Speaker 2: And basically you can't even take them the court. They
Speaker 2: have an arbitration clause in here, and uh service changes.
Speaker 2: I mean basically they're saying it's under Article six rate adjustments,
Speaker 2: customer agrees that charges shall be increased from time time
Speaker 2: to time. I mean, this thing is basically saying they
Speaker 2: can change your fees all the time. So you sign
Speaker 2: up because they give you an offer of say, I
Speaker 2: don't know whatever, one hundred bucks a month, fifty bucks
Speaker 2: a month, whatever, a quarter, depending on the different services
Speaker 2: you have, and then they can increase it basically the
Speaker 2: next day, and they can increase it appears to be
Speaker 2: as often as they want. But yet you're still tied
Speaker 2: to the five years in this guy's case, sixty months.
Speaker 2: I'd personally never use these guys. I think this is crazy,
Speaker 2: absolutely crazy. I feel bad for this guy, Scott. I
Speaker 2: don't know if you're going to be able to do anything.
Speaker 2: I mean, they basically got they basically got them by
Speaker 2: the balls, man, I mean, they do It's nuts. I
Speaker 2: don't know what you're going to be able to do here.
Speaker 18: I know, just trying to negotiate with the trash company.
Speaker 2: I mean, why would they, That's just the other thing.
Speaker 2: Why would they? I'll tell you why. Because they don't
Speaker 2: want me me. They don't want somebody like me on
Speaker 2: here every day telling people not to use them, because
Speaker 2: these contracts are insane. We've gone through a lot of
Speaker 2: different trash companies. I don't remember anybody ever trying to
Speaker 2: hold us to a contract ever. Accept it one of
Speaker 2: my good years years ago. But other than that at
Speaker 2: our house, I don't remember anybody saying, oh no, you
Speaker 2: can't switch. I don't remember it ever happening.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't either at all, right, at all.
Speaker 2: In fact, one of them I did sue, Yeah you did.
Speaker 2: I did sue one of our trash companies, and I
Speaker 2: got back every nickol I spt.
Speaker 6: With them and the bins.
Speaker 2: Yeah, to keep the I literally suit them to keep
Speaker 2: the trash bends as well. I still have their trash
Speaker 2: binds and have a different trash company.
Speaker 17: I have the same company. And I've got to check
Speaker 17: because I didn't even know I had a contract Waste Connections.
Speaker 2: Yes, is it in a neighborhood though, is it like
Speaker 2: your HOA Now.
Speaker 17: No, it's in a neighborhood. We don't have an HLA.
Speaker 2: You probably do have a contract. And if it's anything
Speaker 2: like this one, I mean, I don't even know how
Speaker 2: you'd get out of it. To me, it's unconscionable, but
Speaker 2: I doubt it. Judge sees it that way.
Speaker 17: But they haven't raised the rates.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jerry's got a comment on cars. We've been kind
Speaker 2: of weaving in and out of our first car and
Speaker 2: the worst cars and uh, some car related topics. What
Speaker 2: say you, Jerry, You're going to freak on this one.
Speaker 19: I'm almost eighty three and my dad bought me. My
Speaker 19: first car was a fifty murk.
Speaker 2: A fifty Mercury.
Speaker 19: What Mercury?
Speaker 2: That's it that they didn't even have a name back then.
Speaker 2: It was just a Mercury.
Speaker 5: Ah.
Speaker 19: There was a line of cars like Ford, Mercury.
Speaker 2: Havy, That's what I'm saying. What kind of Mercury? Was it?
Speaker 19: Tudor?
Speaker 2: I'm looking at them. These are actually kind of cool though,
Speaker 2: Yeah they are.
Speaker 6: There's the Mercury eight, the Mercury.
Speaker 2: Coop, Yeah, which was yours?
Speaker 12: A coop?
Speaker 2: What was Mercury money, the.
Speaker 19: Tun door Monterey, and I took the shop and I
Speaker 19: chopped it. I put a full race engine in it, French,
Speaker 19: the haad lights, tail lights, lake pipes, tuck and roll inside.
Speaker 19: I mean, I really went through it.
Speaker 2: Why did you Why did you sell it?
Speaker 19: Well?
Speaker 2: Why did you sell it?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 19: I got I got older, Yeah, and I wasn't using it,
Speaker 19: and I went I bought a fifty seven Bird after
Speaker 19: that old teen. Yeah?
Speaker 2: What did you like better? In hindsight? Which one did
Speaker 2: you have more fun in?
Speaker 19: Well? The Murk I did because I was younger and
Speaker 19: wild and crazy and I was working like crazy when
Speaker 19: I got the Bird?
Speaker 20: But what.
Speaker 19: So I was? I was busy.
Speaker 2: What's the worst car you ever own? Gosh?
Speaker 19: I liked them all, man, I'm a car.
Speaker 2: Freaking What do you drive? If you what do you
Speaker 2: drive now, Jerry?
Speaker 19: I got Alexus?
Speaker 2: Well, kind of like an suv.
Speaker 19: No, that's one of the ones that's half electing, half gas.
Speaker 2: Oh hybrid? Yeah yeah, yeah those are kind of cool, man.
Speaker 2: I mean I had a hybrid at one point some
Speaker 2: lady t bone descent and ruined it. But yeah, it
Speaker 2: didn't save you much gas? Does you're save you much gas.
Speaker 2: In hindsight, I really looked it up. Mine was a
Speaker 2: Hondai Sonata Hybrid and it's still only got thirty miles
Speaker 2: to the gallon. I mean, it didn't do anything great.
Speaker 2: How about yours getting forty that's pretty good. Maybe they've
Speaker 2: come come aways.
Speaker 7: Hey.
Speaker 2: I appreciated Jerry. And wouldn't it be funny if you
Speaker 2: saw that car someday. Do you think it's still on
Speaker 2: the road that murk? Oh?
Speaker 19: I think it's in probably shows by now, because I
Speaker 19: mean it was it was chopped and everything. It was
Speaker 19: a nice show car I put back then. I put
Speaker 19: about eight grand in it, so you know it was
Speaker 19: a nice car.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like eight hundred thousand now. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean that is crazy. Eight grand in the in
Speaker 2: the fifties. Well, thank you, Jerry. I appreciate it. You know,
Speaker 2: Roly Purefoy used to come in a lot on Fridays
Speaker 2: and he loved old cars like that. I never got
Speaker 2: into it. You guys ever get into that kind of
Speaker 2: collect you did, Chapper, what did you have?
Speaker 8: Well?
Speaker 17: I had a well, not that. Oh I actually rode
Speaker 17: in that sixty three murk. That was what my dad
Speaker 17: had a sixty three. Yeah, it took me to school.
Speaker 17: But sixty nine back one is the oldest car I've had.
Speaker 17: What is that a Mustang?
Speaker 2: A Mustang mach one. I can picture that, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I can picture that. That's kind of a cool car.
Speaker 17: It was, but you know, compared to like the new ones,
Speaker 17: it didn't have any all the you know, all the
Speaker 17: nice things like digital dash.
Speaker 2: Whenever I see somebody so out in our neck of
Speaker 2: the woods, in Franktown, there's more collectible cars I don't
Speaker 2: even know who has. There's one guy in a barn
Speaker 2: out there. He's got probably ten or fifteen really old, restored,
Speaker 2: beautiful cars. But anytime I see people in them, I
Speaker 2: always go, man, that just looks so uncomfortable. I mean
Speaker 2: it really does. You know, they're not like super plush seats.
Speaker 2: They don't look that fast. You know, if they're refurbished,
Speaker 2: they've got probably like the original radio in them. I
Speaker 2: don't know if they have air conditioning, going back into
Speaker 2: the forties and fifties. I mean, I get the nostalgia,
Speaker 2: but they don't look I just have nothing.
Speaker 17: They don't have the comfort.
Speaker 2: They don't have a comfort for us. And then the
Speaker 2: fuel economy is another thing. I mean, if they're gasoline.
Speaker 2: I like my Tesla. My Tesla's my favorite car I've
Speaker 2: ever owned, the one I have right now. It is
Speaker 2: by far my favorite car. And we've owned a lot
Speaker 2: of cars, even over the Genesis. I had that beautiful
Speaker 2: G ninety, I had a G seventy Genesis, a G
Speaker 2: ninety Genesis. We have a GV eighty Genesis. And I
Speaker 2: still like that little model ass better than any other vehicle.
Speaker 2: And I'll tell you why. It's fast as hell. I
Speaker 2: never got to stop at a gas station. And on
Speaker 2: top of that, it drives me wherever I want to
Speaker 2: go and I don't have to do anything. When will
Speaker 2: you be picking up your new one? We're still debating.
Speaker 2: I'm waiting till five days from now. On the thirty first,
Speaker 2: Tesla announces all the new incentives. So if none of
Speaker 2: the incentives are going to change, we'll pick this one
Speaker 2: up on the thirty first. If the incentives, yeah, Monday.
Speaker 2: If the incentives change and I want the new incentives
Speaker 2: compared to the old incentives, I'll forfeit my two hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty bucks and order another one.
Speaker 4: And I'm going to embrace self driving.
Speaker 17: Are they in the sitting on the lots now.
Speaker 2: Or what do you mean?
Speaker 4: They don't work like that? They're made to order.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you may order them. Well, I mean the Model
Speaker 2: Y and the Model three. I think you right. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they got a ton of those. But the S and
Speaker 2: the X you order.
Speaker 17: I think I asked you this once. But not on
Speaker 17: the earth do they have body shops for anybody?
Speaker 2: Now it's anybody shop. At first, Tesla's are really hard
Speaker 2: to get parts for it. Now you can get them everywhere.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 2: What's weird is I see everybody complaining about Tesla lighting
Speaker 2: them on fire and all this weird stuff. I find
Speaker 2: it's so crazy, isn't it nuts? These people on the
Speaker 2: left like they've gone that crazy. It's absolutely and it's
Speaker 2: not everybody by any means. In fact, I actually believe
Speaker 2: it's very few. I believe it's a very few nutcases
Speaker 2: that make this happen. In fact, I'll tell you something
Speaker 2: that's interesting. How come every time they catch one of
Speaker 2: these people throwing a Molotov cocktail or lighting it on fire,
Speaker 2: or is kying a car? How come every time they
Speaker 2: have like purple hair? Seriously, honest to god, anytime they
Speaker 2: catch any of these people. They're just odd people. I'll
Speaker 2: put it that way. That's probably the nicest way I
Speaker 2: can put it.
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Speaker 2: were talking by the way go karts, did you guys?
Speaker 2: You were talking about a mini bike chopper. A true
Speaker 2: mini bike had like a brigs and Stratton or a Tacumpsa.
Speaker 2: I think that was the other one, the Indian I
Speaker 2: think it was called Tacompsa and they were basically five
Speaker 2: horsepower little mini bikes that you could make even in
Speaker 2: shop class back in the day.
Speaker 17: They seemed to be all red in color too or
Speaker 17: black or black.
Speaker 2: Banana sea kind of what did you have, Scott?
Speaker 17: He had a blue one.
Speaker 2: You had a blue one. So our kids had like
Speaker 2: a little fifty cc Honda he learned on that had
Speaker 2: training wheel. I bought it fay Myers twenty years ago,
Speaker 2: and they kind of outlawed those. I forget why. Probably
Speaker 2: something to do with emissions, but I remember having a
Speaker 2: go kart. Go karts were really badass, and we had
Speaker 2: a little mini bike. But the first thing I drove,
Speaker 2: I was telling you guys in New Jersey till this
Speaker 2: day you got to be seventeen to get a driver's license,
Speaker 2: but you could get a moped license at fifteen.
Speaker 17: Yeah, fifteen.
Speaker 2: So the first thing I drove was a moped. It
Speaker 2: had to have pedals too. You couldn't have like a scooter.
Speaker 2: It had to be back in the day with pedals.
Speaker 2: I had a motor pecan. That's what it was, called
Speaker 2: a motor pecan. Here's the craziest thing. You could never
Speaker 2: pedal it anywhere. It was like pedaling a tank. It
Speaker 2: was crazy. It really was for a moped. If you
Speaker 2: couldn't pedal it, if the engine wasn't on, it was
Speaker 2: absolutely nuts. You couldn't go uphill on it.
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Speaker 2: has been there, this show's been a little strange. We've
Speaker 2: been talking a lot about cars, generally do that on Friday,
Speaker 2: and I mentioned mini bikes and we were all talking
Speaker 2: in here. I grew up in Jersey, so at fifteen
Speaker 2: you could get a moped license, and I had friends
Speaker 2: that had mopeds, and we had friends that had go karts.
Speaker 2: I had a go kart for a period of time,
Speaker 2: and I love the go karts. Suzanne, you never had
Speaker 2: any thing cool, did your brothers?
Speaker 20: One?
Speaker 5: Little motorcycles, you know, kind of like that one you
Speaker 5: and I had when we were kids that I ran
Speaker 5: into the bush.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was.
Speaker 6: Almost like little, wasn't it.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: It looked like a little uh chopper, like a Harley
Speaker 2: that turned into a chopper, but it was fifty CC's.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we had something like that for just a hot minute.
Speaker 4: But that was my brother's, not mine.
Speaker 2: You weren't allowed to ride it.
Speaker 4: No, I had two feet.
Speaker 2: I was an only child, so I had the only
Speaker 2: Oh you were an only child, dragon. Did you have
Speaker 2: siblings one.
Speaker 4: Older sister, one younger sister and it was not so
Speaker 4: much fun?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you were the only boy. Yeah, a lot
Speaker 2: of estrogen in the middle child. So I was always forgotten. Hey, Jay,
Speaker 2: what do you uh? What's your mini bike story? By
Speaker 2: the way, three O three seven one three A two
Speaker 2: five five any questions, we have a you know, attorney
Speaker 2: standing by, we've got insurance people, we've got deputies that
Speaker 2: are ready to help you out. But three O three
Speaker 2: seven one three A two five five Jay, go ahead, man.
Speaker 8: Mark. When I was growing up, we had a minibike
Speaker 8: that was really nice. It was under power. Then one
Speaker 8: day my dad shows up. Someone had given him this
Speaker 8: mini bike and this thing had power and it was
Speaker 8: like fancy and beautiful. We're like, who would give away
Speaker 8: mini bikes like this? But turned out to be John
Speaker 8: Hinckley Junior's minibike.
Speaker 2: John Hinckley Junior. Yeah, how did how did your dad
Speaker 2: come across that?
Speaker 20: This is no kid?
Speaker 8: He surveyed John Senior's property and spotted the mini bike,
Speaker 8: said hey, would that be for sale? And he goes
Speaker 8: that was that was juniors. You can get that out
Speaker 8: of here. So my dad loaded it up and we
Speaker 8: had John Hinckley Junior's mini bike.
Speaker 2: Man, that is absolutely nuts, isn't that something?
Speaker 20: Yeah?
Speaker 2: That's that's a great story. I don't even know what
Speaker 2: happened to mine. I had a little five horse power
Speaker 2: brigs and Stratton mini bike and just like you were saying,
Speaker 2: nder powered and I just don't remember. I probably broke
Speaker 2: it or got stolen or something. Hey, good story man.
Speaker 2: Appreciate to call three oh three seven one three eight
Speaker 2: two five five Troy? What is going on?
Speaker 9: Hey? Mark this Troy?
Speaker 20: Just call and give you an update on Cinnebel twenty
Speaker 20: five or three?
Speaker 2: Which one is that?
Speaker 21: Sure?
Speaker 20: Yeah? That's the gun band.
Speaker 2: No, you mean the clip, right, isn't it? It's like
Speaker 2: you can't. I'm gonna let you explain it. But my
Speaker 2: understanding is you can't buy a rifle or a gun
Speaker 2: that has a clip, which sounds crazy, unless if you
Speaker 2: go through some kind of class that the Sheriff's department
Speaker 2: puts on. Is that is that it?
Speaker 20: You're pretty close you're gonna be banned from buying any
Speaker 20: firearm that is gas operated, semi automatic, that accepts the magazine.
Speaker 2: That's like any gun out there, right, I mean, wouldn't
Speaker 2: that be it? Correct me if I'm wrong? I mean,
Speaker 2: I own a bunch of guns, but honestly, you know,
Speaker 2: I just I'm not like into guns. I've just acquired
Speaker 2: them over time. But I mean, I can't think of
Speaker 2: any gun I own that doesn't take a clip, including
Speaker 2: my shotguns, including my nine millimeters.
Speaker 17: Any wheel gun like a revolver wouldn't be included.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, I don't even own a revolver, So, but
Speaker 2: that is that correct, Troy, that would not be included.
Speaker 20: Yeah, the state legislature is trying to tell you that
Speaker 20: semi automatic pistols are operated by recoil. Well, the only
Speaker 20: way you can get recoil is through the combustion of gas.
Speaker 20: So this classes are going to make you take It's
Speaker 20: going to cost a state over twenty five million dollars
Speaker 20: to put this class together.
Speaker 2: But Troy, Troy, I want the update on it. But
Speaker 2: I every time someone tries something like this, eventually it
Speaker 2: always fails. And what I mean by that it gets
Speaker 2: overturned by a court, whether it goes all the way
Speaker 2: up to the Supreme Court, depending on which route it takes.
Speaker 2: But I mean, wouldn't this get overturned?
Speaker 20: Yeah, it's gonna get overturned. But what's going to happen
Speaker 20: is the state is going to steal twenty five million
Speaker 20: dollars from Colorado Parts and Wildlife to create this curriculum
Speaker 20: and course that you're going to have to go through it.
Speaker 2: So you think Polish is going to sign this.
Speaker 20: I think Polish is going to let it set up
Speaker 20: and sit on his desk and he won't have to
Speaker 20: sign it. Another stupid thing in Colorado.
Speaker 2: What do you mean he won't wait? Wait, wait, what
Speaker 2: do you mean he won't have to sign it? So
Speaker 2: you don't think what do you mean he's not going
Speaker 2: to veto it? Is that basically what you're saying.
Speaker 20: Correct, he's not going to veto it and he's not
Speaker 20: going to sign it. Okay, if a bill gets paused
Speaker 20: in the House, in the Senate, the governor has the
Speaker 20: option of not signing it and after thirty days it
Speaker 20: comes wall.
Speaker 2: Well I get that, But you don't think he's going
Speaker 2: to veto it?
Speaker 20: Then No, he wants to become president, so he's not
Speaker 20: going to be the guy that signed the you know,
Speaker 20: the biggest gunman.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but there's no difference. Basically, what you're saying is
Speaker 2: there's no difference if he signs it or doesn't as
Speaker 2: long as he doesn't veto it. So I mean there's
Speaker 2: no difference. How does that benefit of him? If he's
Speaker 2: going to run for pres.
Speaker 20: Yeah, well he's going to be the guy that didn't
Speaker 20: veto the largest gun down, so he's playing both sides.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's just I can't imagine he doesn't veto it.
Speaker 2: And basically just for this reason, I mean, the corks
Speaker 2: are going to kick it down. I mean, you might
Speaker 2: as well have something saying, hey, we're not going to
Speaker 2: allow anybody to purchase a gun that's got a barrel
Speaker 2: I mean, or it's got a handle, or if that
Speaker 2: has a trigger, We're going to ban it. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's that absurd.
Speaker 20: Yep, oh it is. That's horribly absurd. But this legislation
Speaker 20: is being sponsored by an out of town lobbyist group
Speaker 20: funded by Bloomberg.
Speaker 2: See, I got well that's not surprising. I've got more
Speaker 2: faith that police will veto this. You know, I got
Speaker 2: into an argument with somebody. I forget who it was.
Speaker 2: I think it was Dimitri, And you know, we argue
Speaker 2: all the time. I mean, we have fun just going
Speaker 2: back and forth, just like we do on the show.
Speaker 2: But Polis is vetoed more things than I thought he has.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think you're right. I think he's trying
Speaker 2: to come off as a little more moderate to make
Speaker 2: a presidential run at some point. But I can't imagine
Speaker 2: this getting brought up on this Senate bill you're talking about,
Speaker 2: and you think, I assume the House is going to
Speaker 2: have no issue with it.
Speaker 20: Yeah, the House passed it, yes, say so now before
Speaker 20: the State Senate, when do.
Speaker 2: They vote on it?
Speaker 20: Maybe today? Yeah, so they've got to approve the amendments.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 20: So after I left the Senate in the middle of
Speaker 20: the night, and when it was in the House, it
Speaker 20: basically changed the bill apirely.
Speaker 2: I want to say something about guns in general, and
Speaker 2: this really does drive me crazy. These people that say
Speaker 2: we shouldn't have guns. I mean, would it be a
Speaker 2: perfect world if we could just snap our fingers and
Speaker 2: bad guys, good guys. Nobody had guns, meaning even the
Speaker 2: government didn't have guns. I mean, the main reason we
Speaker 2: have a constitution that talks about the right to bear
Speaker 2: arms is in case where government rises up against us. Now,
Speaker 2: people can argue I was a million years ago, blah
Speaker 2: blah blah, but none of it matters. It's there. But
Speaker 2: what I don't get is people that want to ban
Speaker 2: everything in the world. I just don't get it, because
Speaker 2: when we do have school shootings. When we do have
Speaker 2: people that kill other people, they they're crazy. I mean,
Speaker 2: what else can I say? It doesn't matter. They could
Speaker 2: have done it with a knife. They could have done it.
Speaker 2: Hold on, Troy, they could have done it a million
Speaker 2: different ways. I mean, I get it. You talk about
Speaker 2: the one guy in Vegas. What did he have a
Speaker 2: bump stock? Is that? Are those legal now, Troy? Do
Speaker 2: you know whether they're legal or not?
Speaker 20: So the bump stocks if federally illegal, but this bill
Speaker 20: will ban bump stocks. Yeah, so from your point, on
Speaker 20: the knives, so you're playing on the knives Europe, it
Speaker 20: is very difficult to get farms in Europe.
Speaker 2: Same with Mexico unless you're part of the cartel.
Speaker 20: Yeah. Well that's another sort that the Europeans. They have
Speaker 20: knife crimes all the time, outrageous.
Speaker 2: No, they'll go around stabbing people and it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: We got people that push other people into the subway
Speaker 2: right in front of a train. We got people that
Speaker 2: blow people up. We got people who create molotov cocktails
Speaker 2: and throw them at Tesla's. Now they're all called nuts.
Speaker 2: So when people say banning the guns or certain kind
Speaker 2: of guns, it just never fixes anything. In fact, I
Speaker 2: rather have somebody with a gun when one of the
Speaker 2: nuts show up.
Speaker 20: Yep, yeah, that's the way, the depending against the guy
Speaker 20: with a gun.
Speaker 2: You know, kind of you're kind of in general, you're
Speaker 2: I don't want to say anti gun, but you kind
Speaker 2: of are, oh little, I'm not.
Speaker 4: And how's this.
Speaker 5: I don't I never want want to take somebody's rights
Speaker 5: away in our country for owning a gun. I don't
Speaker 5: like them. I don't want them in our house. I
Speaker 5: don't get my way on that.
Speaker 2: We've had guns in our house.
Speaker 5: I know they make me uncomfortable when I'm around them.
Speaker 5: Well I did have a guy come into our house
Speaker 5: with a gun, so that sort of bothers me. And
Speaker 5: they just make me very uncomfortable, I personally believe.
Speaker 4: And I'm going to.
Speaker 5: Catch some slack for this, but your own gun is
Speaker 5: more likely to kill you than someone else.
Speaker 4: So that's just how I feel.
Speaker 10: Man.
Speaker 20: So then I agree with you. If you are not trained,
Speaker 20: you have to take training. But the government instituting mandatory
Speaker 20: training that nobody was going to want to Troy.
Speaker 2: You know, it's funny, is she actually after everything she
Speaker 2: just said, I'm going to remind her of something she
Speaker 2: went through training and gotta and gotta concealed.
Speaker 4: Terry, how's this?
Speaker 5: I worked very hard to become comfortable with them. That
Speaker 5: was an effort of mine. And I'm just not comfortable
Speaker 5: around guns, and I'm uneasy with people who walk into
Speaker 5: an RB's with a gun.
Speaker 2: You don't have any You didn't have any guns in
Speaker 2: your history at all.
Speaker 4: Your parents they weren't anti gun. Were is to port
Speaker 4: to have a gun.
Speaker 2: That's really there's one reason, Hey, Troy, I appreciate that call.
Speaker 2: Keep us updated on that. I gotta take this for
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Speaker 2: was thinking of the first like school shooting or something
Speaker 2: I remember, and it is Columbine. We had a friend
Speaker 2: who's Tony, Tony, I'm not gonna say his last name,
Speaker 2: but it devastated his family. His son was in the cafeteria. Son,
Speaker 2: thank god got away. It was one of the guys
Speaker 2: you saw running out of the cafeteria along with all
Speaker 2: the other kids. Totally devastating though it really did destroy
Speaker 2: I ultimately think a lot of the reason they ended
Speaker 2: up getting divorced and had some problems later on is
Speaker 2: because of that. I think Columbine for people that lived
Speaker 2: through it but didn't necessarily lose a loved one, it
Speaker 2: still affected these families and ways it almost no one
Speaker 2: can think about it. I think it kind of destroyed
Speaker 2: that family back then. But I was asking you, Chopper,
Speaker 2: were you a cop at that time? Yes, I was.
Speaker 2: Did you guys end up going down to Columbine?
Speaker 17: Never did, but they stayed around on the outside, and
Speaker 17: it destroyed a couple of our didn't destroy them, but
Speaker 17: a couple of our officers had kids in there. Yeah,
Speaker 17: and Jeff go wouldn't allow them to go on in
Speaker 17: because back then the policy was a lot.
Speaker 2: Different than it is.
Speaker 17: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, and actually that policy as it what changed? Well, Yeah,
Speaker 2: But the one that I think about when it comes
Speaker 2: to the policy, I guess Columbine is a big one
Speaker 2: because if you recall, they didn't go in for a
Speaker 2: long time, and then ultimately they got somewhat lucky. We
Speaker 2: all got lucky because some of those bombs didn't go off.
Speaker 2: I mean, that would have been another level if we
Speaker 2: couldn't even understand different. So that was crazy. But Greg
Speaker 2: worked for us, and he called us up. He opened
Speaker 2: up one of my computer stores and he called up
Speaker 2: and he goes, I got to leave right now. I
Speaker 2: got to lock the door. Something's going on in my
Speaker 2: kids' school. And he hauled ass down there, and I
Speaker 2: turned the news on and it just started unfolding. It
Speaker 2: went crazy. But we were talking during the break. I
Speaker 2: mean my high school in New Jersey talk about a
Speaker 2: liberal state. We had a shooting range in the school.
Speaker 2: The middle school I went to next to the high
Speaker 2: school in Oklahoma, you would see kids parked all the
Speaker 2: time that had their shotguns and their rifles right in
Speaker 2: their pickup trucks. I mean they'd show them off. It
Speaker 2: was nothing, but none of I don't remember any school shootings.
Speaker 2: I don't remember anything like that back then.
Speaker 17: It was when I first started as an officer. It
Speaker 17: was not unusual stop cars that had shotguns and rifles
Speaker 17: in a pickup.
Speaker 2: Everywhere in their rack and schools had shooting clubs.
Speaker 17: Yeah, you didn't really in claud about it.
Speaker 2: No, A lot of people were just kind of brought
Speaker 2: up with guns. I just never understood, you know, the argument, well,
Speaker 2: it's an assault rifle, why does anybody need that? Well,
Speaker 2: where do you draw the line then, if it's not
Speaker 2: an assault rifle? I mean, when do you work your
Speaker 2: way down to no one needs a twenty two pistol?
Speaker 5: Then well, but then the other side of that is,
Speaker 5: do you got to own like a cannon?
Speaker 2: I mean, well, why who cares?
Speaker 4: It's just crazy.
Speaker 2: I'm being serious. What's the difference. I don't even understand
Speaker 2: why machine guns quite honestly, dearly.
Speaker 5: Okay, should you have a gun that causes mass destruction
Speaker 5: or mass uh you know, killings?
Speaker 2: I mean, is that any Isn't that any gun?
Speaker 5: I don't know, like an automatic ar or a cannon
Speaker 5: gun that kill way more people then let's say a
Speaker 5: nine millimeter I'm just asking.
Speaker 6: I'm not proposing.
Speaker 2: I don't. I think I don't care what it is.
Speaker 2: If you got enough clips, it's not going to matter
Speaker 2: what it is. I just don't think it matters. And
Speaker 2: only certain people that have gone through that have certain credentials,
Speaker 2: is a better way to put it. Can have a
Speaker 2: true machine gun.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but there's these gun rights folks that think you
Speaker 5: should be able to have a tank and whatnot to
Speaker 5: protect yours.
Speaker 2: We've got a friend that bought a deuce and a half.
Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know where's that line where it's like, okay,
Speaker 5: that's a little overboy, I.
Speaker 2: Don't know where that Okay, let's ask the X cop
Speaker 2: where is that line? Because you're coming from the law enforcement.
Speaker 17: I don't know. But you talked about your son having
Speaker 17: a fully automatic shotgun.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and I didn't fully automatic. It's semi automatic.
Speaker 17: But it becomes you know, like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when he moved to Nebraska, when he moved out
Speaker 2: of the house, that's exactly what I did. I went
Speaker 2: out and bottom. It's called an escort. Literally, it's called
Speaker 2: an escort.
Speaker 17: I'm not a big one for everyone having a AR fifteen.
Speaker 17: Why because they're so dangerous in the wrong hands.
Speaker 2: Well, okay, how often how often does someone that did
Speaker 2: something horrible, some kind of shooting excuse me, one second,
Speaker 2: had to hit coughbun? How as a cop, I'm talking
Speaker 2: to you as a cop. How often did someone go
Speaker 2: out and buy the gun properly and then then do
Speaker 2: the crime? Nathan Dunlap I think of that one. I
Speaker 2: think of the Columbine. How many times do people go
Speaker 2: out and it's the guy that bought the gun properly,
Speaker 2: the guy that learned how to use it, the honest citizen.
Speaker 2: How often are they the ones or where do most
Speaker 2: of these criminals get their guns? Most of them aren't
Speaker 2: even supposed to have guns. Columbine, they weren't supposed to
Speaker 2: have guns. They had some didn't they have some woman
Speaker 2: to buy them for them. You think about all these
Speaker 2: I'm saying it never happens, but generally they're what stolen guns.
Speaker 17: Well, lately it's been parents that bought guns for the shooters.
Speaker 2: In the past, well that's happened. That's definitely happened.
Speaker 5: That Sandy Hook guy bought his guns legally he did.
Speaker 2: He was a nut. Yeah, that dude was a nut.
Speaker 2: He killed like little kids. But it wouldn't have mattered
Speaker 2: if he walked in there. They were little kids. I
Speaker 2: mean we're not even talking like high schoolers. These were
Speaker 2: little kids. He could have killed them in a hundred
Speaker 2: different ways. I guess is all I'm saying, I just
Speaker 2: I don't know the difference between a fully or a
Speaker 2: semi automatic nine millimeter pistol like a glock that you
Speaker 2: have ten clips for and having the assault rifle. What's
Speaker 2: the difference going to be? I mean, I guess the
Speaker 2: assault rifle, if it held more AMMO, might save you
Speaker 2: a second. But I mean, honestly, I don't know what
Speaker 2: the difference is. I just don't know. I gotta take
Speaker 2: this break, you know, I just I don't know the
Speaker 2: answer to it. But it's coming from someone like you.
Speaker 2: Chopper is a cop, though I mean hearing that, I
Speaker 2: think most cops are pretty pro gun. Would you agree
Speaker 2: with that?
Speaker 17: The street cops are probably pro guns, the command probably aren't.
Speaker 2: Aren't not a high level interesting? I'll take.
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Speaker 2: The name of the company, by the way, Joe is
Speaker 2: CMG Financial, and John Clace I'm pulling up his information.
Speaker 2: He had a comment at who's a direct lender and
Speaker 2: what is a direct lender? Well, CMG is a bank.
Speaker 2: In fact, they're i think in every state. They can
Speaker 2: do loans in every state, but they can do reverse mortgages.
Speaker 2: And when you go through a broker, they generally shop
Speaker 2: around and where they make their money is on the spread.
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Speaker 2: Good people. Anthony's got to comment on guns. I'm not
Speaker 2: even sure where we got off on that subject, but
Speaker 2: it's very.
Speaker 4: Your Senate Bill of the Training that they're we.
Speaker 2: Were talking, Anthony, I'll go to you just second though.
Speaker 2: We were talking some very interesting you follow us on
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Speaker 2: I'm done with the live commercials. But Suzan brought something
Speaker 2: up when he came the motorcycles and even guns. Now,
Speaker 2: our kids kind of grew up with motorcycles. My kid's
Speaker 2: first motorcycle was a little hont of fifty, had training
Speaker 2: wheels on it. He was three years old when he
Speaker 2: learned to ride a motorcycle and learned to shift gears
Speaker 2: on that little thing, and then we took the training
Speaker 2: reels off, probably when he was four. He might have
Speaker 2: drove that before. Now he drove a regular bike first,
Speaker 2: I think. But same with our daughter. They were just
Speaker 2: always on this. In fact, Addie, not last summer, the
Speaker 2: summer before. And she's tiny, petite girl. She'll hop up
Speaker 2: on our two fifty Suzuki that we put on the
Speaker 2: bus sometimes. And it's a tall bike. I mean it's
Speaker 2: a tall bike. She can't even touch the ground. But
Speaker 2: she can ride the bike good enough to where when
Speaker 2: she comes to a stop she can balance it even
Speaker 2: if she's got to hop off. But she can ride
Speaker 2: this bike. They just grew up on motorcycles. But he
Speaker 2: never went out and bought like a crow rocket.
Speaker 18: Yeah.
Speaker 5: He didn't turn like eighteen or nineteen and say Mom,
Speaker 5: I'm going to go buy you know, a fast, dangerous motorcycle.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 2: He learned to respect bikes as a kid, you know,
Speaker 2: wearing the helmets, and he had some accidents and it
Speaker 2: was never a thing. But I was a complete opposite.
Speaker 2: My parents would never allow me to have a motorcycle.
Speaker 2: And when we lived in Oklahoma, everybody had it. I
Speaker 2: had a goat cart and a little mini bike, but
Speaker 2: I couldn't get a three wheeler was a thing back then,
Speaker 2: or a dirt bike or anything like that. I just
Speaker 2: simply wasn't allowed to have that stuff. And the second
Speaker 2: I was escorted out of that house, one of the
Speaker 2: first things I bought was a crowd rocket and I
Speaker 2: drove it like crazy. And a gun, that's right. And
Speaker 2: my parents weren't into guns at all. I never had
Speaker 2: a gun growing up. My mother totally anti gun, I
Speaker 2: mean to the point of, you know, the lefty left.
Speaker 2: Till this day, she's still anti gun big time. And
Speaker 2: I swear to God, the first thing I did when
Speaker 2: I was out of the house. I walked into Walmart
Speaker 2: and I was sixteen years old old. Back then you
Speaker 2: could walk into Walmart and buy a gun at sixteen
Speaker 2: years old, at least in Oklahoma. And I bought a gun. So,
Speaker 2: I mean that was that. And I've collected a lot.
Speaker 2: And our kids, because they grew up around all this stuff,
Speaker 2: they're not running out buying this stuff. They were used
Speaker 2: to it. I mean, it's it is quite remarkable. It is.
Speaker 2: That was a very interesting comment you made there, Susanne Anthony.
Speaker 2: What's your comment, Hillo Leon, Yeah, you're on Anthony.
Speaker 21: Oh, very good for you're talking about second and then
Speaker 21: so the second and Amendment, it's sort of dark as
Speaker 21: a sound. It was so people could stand up to
Speaker 21: the government. It was for military weapons, but of course
Speaker 21: have a case. It was for cannons. You allowed to
Speaker 21: have candular have muskets.
Speaker 2: It was, yeah, it's in case if the government turned
Speaker 2: on you and wanted to kick you out of your
Speaker 2: own house and off your own property and enslave you
Speaker 2: or whatever the hell they wanted to do. You're absolutely right.
Speaker 2: That's why the Second Amendment is there. Because we didn't
Speaker 2: want we didn't want to happen with uh, well keep going,
Speaker 2: I'll let you go ahead. Well, no, you're good.
Speaker 21: It was for you know, it was specifically for military weapons.
Speaker 21: And uh, the you can have a militia that's well
Speaker 21: regulated guard exactly. Anybody could do a militia that was regulated.
Speaker 21: Most of the Civil War was militious. Most of the
Speaker 21: Civil War wasn't the South, which ironically was Democrat. Ironically
Speaker 21: they fought the government.
Speaker 8: They oh, they.
Speaker 21: Had military weapons and militias and fought the government. And
Speaker 21: they who were the Democrats? Are they they're pro black
Speaker 21: I believe, aren't they? Or they were?
Speaker 5: Then?
Speaker 21: Uh, when Lyndon Johnson we get this passed as far as.
Speaker 2: Oh hey hey, just let's talk just on that line, Anthony,
Speaker 2: real quick. Let's talk something that happened just while Biden
Speaker 2: was in office. Do you remember whose funeral he went to?
Speaker 17: Uh?
Speaker 2: Bird?
Speaker 8: The bird?
Speaker 21: Who was bird?
Speaker 9: Which one?
Speaker 2: He was like he was like one of the the
Speaker 2: heads of the KKK.
Speaker 21: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, well yeah, well Biden was pro
Speaker 21: clan really his.
Speaker 2: Those were the Democrats back in the in the thirties forties.
Speaker 2: They were They were about as bad as you could get.
Speaker 2: I don't know when they changed.
Speaker 21: Well, didn' Lyndon Johnson say if we met welfare past,
Speaker 21: will have those nwords voting for us for the next
Speaker 21: hundred years.
Speaker 2: It wouldn't.
Speaker 21: I I'm not sure it probably that quote is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's probably. It's probably somewhat true. I don't know
Speaker 2: if that's verbatim, but probably.
Speaker 21: And then why are people in the Ukraine allowed to
Speaker 21: defend themselves with these horrible weapons but we're supposed to
Speaker 21: be disarmed?
Speaker 2: So well, hey, listen, by the time when when any
Speaker 2: of these when any of these things get to the
Speaker 2: Supreme Court, they're generally all overturned. So, I mean, it's
Speaker 2: just remarkable they put all this time and effort to
Speaker 2: something that is not going to change anything. I mean,
Speaker 2: it really just kind of that part of it drives
Speaker 2: me crazy. Anthony. You know, my best friend growing up
Speaker 2: we called Antony. Do people call you Antony out of
Speaker 2: the curiosity?
Speaker 21: Any No? No, no, Anthony Tony sometimes growing up more?
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, man, you got anything else, sir?
Speaker 21: No, that's just it was the protection against the government,
Speaker 21: protection against the government. Uh, I don't it's complicated though.
Speaker 21: We're not in the same we're not in the same
Speaker 21: error that we were then.
Speaker 5: Oh no, they didn't foresee technology and whatever else that
Speaker 5: came up, like now it's easier to print ghost guns.
Speaker 2: Hold on a second to what does any of that matter?
Speaker 7: Though?
Speaker 2: Why does that matter? You can take an airplane and
Speaker 2: kill one hundred thousand people. You can take a dump
Speaker 2: truck and roll it down New Orleans during Marti Gras
Speaker 2: and kill thousands of people. So yeah, things change. When
Speaker 2: they came up with all that. There wasn't airplanes, but
Speaker 2: yet nine to eleven happened and killed more people than
Speaker 2: any school shooting I really heard.
Speaker 5: Let's let people do nuclear stuff if they can figure
Speaker 5: it out. Why not?
Speaker 2: If they can figure it out, Hey, I Ram's been
Speaker 2: trying to figure it out for one hundred and fifty years.
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Speaker 22: I just applied for my CCW here in Colorado today
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