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Speaker 4: taking up most of the less screen. There's Uncle Kevin
Speaker 4: and he's to the left, and then Deputy Doc Thank Goodness,
Speaker 4: is almost off screen completely. Then we have front and
Speaker 4: center Major Mark Major, and of course Lovely sues the
Speaker 4: producer over there sitting down well, my beautiful wife, you're
Speaker 4: referring to yes, yes, blessed you are. Now, what do
Speaker 4: we want to talk about today? About cars. I'm going
Speaker 4: to take your calls no matter what they're about. But
Speaker 4: today is car Day and we like to emphasize cars.
Speaker 4: And I do have some texts that I've saved, and
Speaker 4: this is one that goes back. What I mean by
Speaker 4: goes back is it's not the first time we've had
Speaker 4: this question. But somebody asked me this. They heard me
Speaker 4: talking about leasing a car for the first time. I
Speaker 4: because I don't put on that many miles and I'm
Speaker 4: pretty easy on cars now, and maybe I'm a candidate
Speaker 4: for a lease and I don't have to put out
Speaker 4: all that capitals. Somebody said, okay, Tom, what is if
Speaker 4: you had to pick it, I'm asking Mark, I'm asking Sues,
Speaker 4: I'm asking your car people and your deputies. Notice they
Speaker 4: left Shannon o't thank goodness because Shannon does no crap.
Speaker 4: But if you were to pick the best, if you
Speaker 4: were to pick the best all around car and you
Speaker 4: had to have one, now, you don't get to have
Speaker 4: a sports car. You don't get to have an SUV
Speaker 4: and a pickup. You have to have one all around vehicle.
Speaker 4: What would it be model X plaid all the way
Speaker 4: around if I couldn't have a sports car. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 4: model x pled. That's a good answer. Actually, you know,
Speaker 4: I haven't taken the electric plunge, but I plan on it.
Speaker 4: I mean, I just think it's the way to go.
Speaker 4: And there's so much less maintenance. I mean, I don't
Speaker 4: want to take business out of Kevin's pocket, but so
Speaker 4: much less business and now more sensors are not only
Speaker 4: telling me that I have low tires all the time
Speaker 4: and they change and I have to I have to
Speaker 4: hit okay, okay, okay, and it says call roadside no,
Speaker 4: you know, contact the service center or your car will
Speaker 4: be whatever disabled in so many miles.
Speaker 1: Now, now guess what.
Speaker 4: Now I'm getting one saying my brake pads are dangerously low,
Speaker 4: pull over and qualitat that funny it is, but you.
Speaker 5: Still get that with an EV just because you don't
Speaker 5: have an engine.
Speaker 1: Now hold on, I'm my brake pads at twenty nine.
Speaker 4: No, No, I don't really make Kevin disable his car
Speaker 4: if they didn't, if he didn't bring it to the dealership,
Speaker 4: does I swear to God he sent me or or
Speaker 4: make an alternate or make an alternate.
Speaker 5: Arrangement about heart cell Dad.
Speaker 6: Can you imagine like being at a restaurant, Like if
Speaker 6: you don't order off that menu, we're gonna kick you
Speaker 6: in the face.
Speaker 1: So here's what I want to know.
Speaker 4: We were talking about the best all around car, but
Speaker 4: well I got off on a tangent, and that is
Speaker 4: why are they telling me my breaks? Since my break
Speaker 4: pads are low, it breaks perfectly. I mean, you know
Speaker 4: I'm not pushing it, but could my brakes be that bad?
Speaker 4: They're pushing a censor at twenty nine thousand, So he's
Speaker 4: got that SUV Kevin, it's a heavier one X twenty three.
Speaker 4: I do you think it's even possible?
Speaker 5: You got to be pretty heavy on the pedal twenty six, That's.
Speaker 1: What I said. Twy I got vehicles with. I got
Speaker 1: Santa Fez with seventy eighty ninety.
Speaker 4: Thousand I've had in the past. YEP, never needed breaks BMW.
Speaker 5: The brakes are oversized already, so I mean they're compensated
Speaker 5: for the size of that car.
Speaker 6: So well, what are you going to do if you
Speaker 6: find out Tom that you have seventy five plus percent
Speaker 6: left on those brakes.
Speaker 1: Oh I know, I'm well. Kevin's gonna check it out.
Speaker 1: I just haven't had a chance to get over to him.
Speaker 1: I have so much.
Speaker 5: You know, the sensor itself a heat defective.
Speaker 1: You know, breaks are fine, know, I hate sensors. I decided,
Speaker 1: what did we do before sensors? Old school breaks? We
Speaker 1: had to look at our car.
Speaker 6: Not long ago, there was a little metal tab and
Speaker 6: then yeah, and then the tab would hit the rotor
Speaker 6: in boom, it's time to get pads.
Speaker 4: Yeah, old school, so things side great metal. Now my
Speaker 4: car did squeak a little At one time. I was
Speaker 4: hearing some squeaking and then it went away. I thought
Speaker 4: it was a dirty rotor or something. Yeah, it could
Speaker 4: be just road dirty, because that.
Speaker 1: Squeak be indicative of of the rotor of the pad.
Speaker 5: No, just a little hot spot and then it wore past.
Speaker 5: It's normal.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 4: I'm really not heavy on breaks in cars anymore, like
Speaker 4: it used to be. Zero three seven, one three eight
Speaker 4: two five five. Okay, I decided what my ultimate car.
Speaker 1: Okay, hold on, let me say. Let me say something
Speaker 1: to everybody listening.
Speaker 6: I have driven with you many times, and granted lately
Speaker 6: I would agree with you what you said that you
Speaker 6: don't drive hard. But if we go down I'm like
Speaker 6: seven or eight years I remember driving to the springs
Speaker 6: with them one time.
Speaker 1: I was white knuckled the entire drive. But I will
Speaker 1: say I was that good. Hold on, explain this. I
Speaker 1: was that good. How come when you're in the Tahoe
Speaker 1: or what did you used to drive from Roly? What
Speaker 1: was that? The avalanche? The avalanche? The avalanche? Why would
Speaker 1: you drive like a sports car in that?
Speaker 6: But when you drove your Ferrari you would drive it
Speaker 6: twenty five miles per hour.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to ruin it.
Speaker 4: I know it.
Speaker 1: It's so crazy.
Speaker 7: Hey, tommy cell phone case. You and I drove up
Speaker 7: to Firestone four years ago. You drove like a gentleman.
Speaker 1: Oh god, good, thank you? Now?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, we went up there because that was that
Speaker 4: cell phone tower all in the backyard.
Speaker 7: It was a real eye sare remember that?
Speaker 1: And and Weld County snuck it through Weld County.
Speaker 4: They're so corrupt. I hate Weld County people. I know
Speaker 4: she's not the people. I love the people.
Speaker 1: I hate the government people. You know the government procedures.
Speaker 1: The car dealers.
Speaker 4: Well County stinks. If they were going to give an
Speaker 4: enema to Colorado, it would be right up Well County, absolutely,
Speaker 4: Weld County would be the place.
Speaker 1: Hey, I can't.
Speaker 8: Believe Kevin hasn't come on and told my break pad story.
Speaker 1: Okay, Kevin tell the story quick, go ahead? Did she
Speaker 1: not know what a break well?
Speaker 4: No, there's no uh, there's no uh no uh vippa
Speaker 4: vehicle Uh information privacy like hippa, there's no vippa go ahead.
Speaker 5: No, we were just getting texts. What was that Sunday
Speaker 5: about somebody's had a break issue?
Speaker 1: My son?
Speaker 5: Yep? And then pads and roads and the costs and
Speaker 5: what they were trying to do, and it's you know,
Speaker 5: it was brutal. They were overcharging.
Speaker 1: Where does he live though, California.
Speaker 5: And Arizona, isn't he Yeah? She just hit the phone.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I mean things in California are gonna be
Speaker 6: way higher anyhow, right or Arizona maybe.
Speaker 1: Not Arizona, sun s Inarosona. So you couldn't do the
Speaker 1: job anyhow.
Speaker 5: No, but Colorado's getting there with prices.
Speaker 6: I liked when Kelly asked me they bought one of
Speaker 6: my Fanta face last year two years wires and she
Speaker 6: she literally texted me, do I have to buy Hondai tires?
Speaker 6: And I'm like, what the hell's a Hondai tire. Hondai
Speaker 6: doesn't make tires. And she didn't realize that tires weren't
Speaker 6: four tires Chevy tires exactly.
Speaker 1: That's okay. I have to defend myself here, defend away
Speaker 1: good defense.
Speaker 4: I was.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call it Pamela for Kamala.
Speaker 9: I was.
Speaker 1: She asked one day, go ahead ahead.
Speaker 8: I was ill informed. You know, Adam said to me,
Speaker 8: you know we have to look for tires and make
Speaker 8: sure that you know everything is is good on the
Speaker 8: BMW tires. So I I interpreted that as BMW tires.
Speaker 8: So when we bought the SUSA, uh got it? I thought,
Speaker 8: Santa fe.
Speaker 1: Or I should that defense? Is nothing wrong with that?
Speaker 10: That was like biting.
Speaker 1: There's nothing offending himself for the debate.
Speaker 4: Hey, I was surprised when I found out they had
Speaker 4: tires for electric vehicles EV tires.
Speaker 1: By the way, we have to take a break.
Speaker 4: But I remember Kelly one time when they said she
Speaker 4: needed break shoes on an older car. She wanted to
Speaker 4: know should I do the socks at the same time.
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Speaker 4: Okay, I know, Mark, I know, I know I was
Speaker 4: asleep at the wheel. Go ahead, rub it in the
Speaker 4: Biden jokes.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, My got it any more? For my lawsuit?
Speaker 4: Hey, I want to I want to say something. Okay,
Speaker 4: take care.
Speaker 1: Already, but.
Speaker 4: I want to get Alan and then I have something
Speaker 4: to talk about. But three oh three seven one three
Speaker 4: eight two five five. Now you don't have to call
Speaker 4: just about cars. But today's car day. Alan wants to
Speaker 4: talk about hybrids. Now, my personal opinion, I just want
Speaker 4: to say this upfront. I know people get tired of
Speaker 4: hearing my personal opinions, but here's what it is. I
Speaker 4: love electric cars and I love regular cars. I don't
Speaker 4: like hybrids. It's a very simple theory I have. If
Speaker 4: you're going to go through the trouble of an electric
Speaker 4: car and converting and doing the charging, then have an
Speaker 4: electric car. You have one system to maintain the electric system, right,
Speaker 4: and then of course the normal stuff. But you don't
Speaker 4: have tranees or any of that. Once you get over
Speaker 4: to a hybrid car, you have two systems to worry about.
Speaker 1: Now, all of the electric and all of the normal crap. Alan,
Speaker 1: what is your question?
Speaker 11: Yeah, so My question is about hybrid's not a plug
Speaker 11: in hybrid, but a regular hybrid. And there's any degradation
Speaker 11: of the battery life. For someone uses a car on
Speaker 11: low miling, like three or four thousand miles a year,
Speaker 11: that's going to affect how the charging system works and
Speaker 11: how the battery maintains charge.
Speaker 4: You know, it used to be when you topped off
Speaker 4: batteries and used just a little, it did have a degradation.
Speaker 1: But what do you think, keV?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree, it's not near as what it was
Speaker 5: even ten years ago. But now I think it will
Speaker 5: affect it a little, but not to the extent that
Speaker 5: he's afraid of.
Speaker 12: Now.
Speaker 4: Mark will tell you this. Mark will tell you this.
Speaker 4: I have a Tesla only because it's my son's right,
Speaker 4: it's not mine. But Mark, my son says when he
Speaker 4: knows he's not driving a lot, he doesn't charge it
Speaker 4: up every single night.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's fine. I mean a lot of
Speaker 1: people do it that way.
Speaker 4: No, because he said he only charges when he gets
Speaker 4: below sixty percent.
Speaker 1: How do you feel that?
Speaker 4: Then?
Speaker 6: I kind of used to plugging it in, so I'm
Speaker 6: always at eighty percent, I mean always at eight.
Speaker 4: But it doesn't hurt anything doing that. Mark, what your
Speaker 4: son's doing? No, because I'm sure he's charging it like
Speaker 4: at least once.
Speaker 1: A week, right, Yeah, he's not letting it go over
Speaker 1: of course.
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, I don't think that's a problem at all.
Speaker 4: Can you set chargers, Mark? Can you set chargers to
Speaker 4: only go on and off at certain times? There's chargers
Speaker 4: you can buy that do that the Tesla. I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: I'd be shocked if they don't have that in the app,
Speaker 1: and they might have it in the app. Well, you
Speaker 1: can set it. You can set it for how high
Speaker 1: it goes, whether it charges to eighty ninety or olia
Speaker 1: write that on the fly.
Speaker 6: Yet the only time you charge at Tesla outside of
Speaker 6: eighty is if you're going on a long trip.
Speaker 4: Now, Alan, here's what I want to ask you. Just
Speaker 4: on an aside and listen, you're only gonna basically AI
Speaker 4: overview is yeah. Absolutely, a hybrid car is not driven regularly.
Speaker 4: It's bad sat ory can eventually die due to a
Speaker 4: process right self discharge. Right Now, here's what I'm asking you, Allan,
Speaker 4: why wouldn't you go with a straight EV if you're
Speaker 4: only going to do a few thousand a year.
Speaker 1: Why do you want a hybrid?
Speaker 11: Well, I'm asking you about specifically a non plug in hybride.
Speaker 4: Why.
Speaker 1: I don't want to write and I'm wondering why. What
Speaker 1: is your reasoning? I'm just curious what is your reasoning
Speaker 1: on that?
Speaker 11: Because I'm a long trips when I drives the vehicle,
Speaker 11: so do why?
Speaker 13: Man?
Speaker 1: My models has no problem, brother, no problem at all.
Speaker 11: How long are you charging that? A stop?
Speaker 1: I'd say, if I.
Speaker 6: Go from here to Omaha, I'm going to give you
Speaker 6: one that's somewhat of what we've done.
Speaker 14: What is that?
Speaker 1: Eight hours? Seven hours? I forget?
Speaker 6: We stop three times each time, we charge for about
Speaker 6: seven minutes.
Speaker 1: That's it?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 1: Mark?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 6: The superchargers. Now, remember if you buy a different car
Speaker 6: that you can't supercharge. That's why I tell you, Tom,
Speaker 6: you want a Tesla right now? I don't care. I
Speaker 6: know there's a million other ones out there. Doc loves his,
Speaker 6: but his Hondi and I love Hondai.
Speaker 4: You know that.
Speaker 1: But the only thing that.
Speaker 6: Supercharge is that fast is a Tesla. The only thing
Speaker 6: that has full self driving is a Tesla. No other
Speaker 6: electric has that stuff.
Speaker 1: Right now?
Speaker 4: Okay, so Alan again, is there a reason you would
Speaker 4: not go full electric, Well, I'm just in.
Speaker 11: Favor of the Toyota Grand Highlanders that are coming out.
Speaker 11: That's kind of what.
Speaker 4: I'm Oh, they're beautiful, They're beautiful, beautiful vehicles.
Speaker 1: It's hard to go on.
Speaker 4: What about just stay resales always there or what about
Speaker 4: staying with just a good gasoline car?
Speaker 1: Have you thought of that.
Speaker 11: Thought? The difference between gas or a hybrid? Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 11: but so the battery.
Speaker 4: You know, I'm surprised Tesla never went for a hybrid
Speaker 4: of some kind in any joke.
Speaker 1: I don't like hybrids at all. We had a little
Speaker 1: Sonata that was a hybrid. What is the best hybrid?
Speaker 1: What is the best hybrid?
Speaker 5: Probably the most popular is the pre well, the Prius, Yeah,
Speaker 5: by far, Toyota yep.
Speaker 15: Is What a difference between a hybrid and a plug
Speaker 15: in hybrid?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: One gets like forty to fifty miles without the engine
Speaker 6: kicking on.
Speaker 1: The other gets like maybe.
Speaker 5: Five and the other one charges as you're driving. Yeah,
Speaker 5: that's the that's the biggest advantage. But if you don't
Speaker 5: have a plug like apartment living or something like that,
Speaker 5: A lot of people go for the hybrids because you
Speaker 5: can't plug it in it night.
Speaker 4: Okay, if I didn't have somebody else, tell me what
Speaker 4: is what are the new genesis they call electrified GV
Speaker 4: seventies What are they?
Speaker 1: Are they electric? Or are they hybrid? Or are they electric? Wow?
Speaker 1: Are you they're beautiful? Yeah? We have a GV eighty
Speaker 1: and we love it, but it's gas.
Speaker 5: That's got a mark.
Speaker 1: Here have you looked at the GV seventy electric?
Speaker 6: Here's where we go again. First of all, to me,
Speaker 6: i'd never get it. It doesn't have self driving. But
Speaker 6: more importantly, it's only got a range of two hundred
Speaker 6: and thirty six.
Speaker 4: That trip I was talking about that we took three
Speaker 4: stops five to seven minutes. You'd be talking probably six
Speaker 4: seven stops, and you'd be there for fifteen.
Speaker 6: To twenty five minutes a time. I mean, you would
Speaker 6: add four hours onto your journey.
Speaker 4: May I ask something? You keep talking about this the
Speaker 4: full drive whatever? Why is that so important to you?
Speaker 4: Because I use it all the time? Man, I use
Speaker 4: it this morn Well, Well tell me tell me what
Speaker 4: you mean by that. Okay, you're coming to the station
Speaker 4: from home.
Speaker 1: When I drive you out, I'm in my driveway.
Speaker 4: I put in work, and I hit a button on
Speaker 4: my steering wheel and I take my hands off the
Speaker 4: wheel and I tune into Fox News. And when we
Speaker 4: get to work, it parks my car in the circle.
Speaker 4: And then I come in to work, Mark, come on
Speaker 4: you wait wait, wait, When you come up to a
Speaker 4: stop sign, what does it do?
Speaker 12: Uh?
Speaker 1: Stops when you.
Speaker 4: Don't have to do It comes to a circle, It
Speaker 4: goes in a circle. It knows everything. Are you kidding me, Susan?
Speaker 4: What about alight?
Speaker 1: Tom? No, listen, here's what I want to know.
Speaker 4: Wait, okay, when you're at a stop light, we just
Speaker 4: came back last your name from Woodland Park. We were
Speaker 4: up in Woodland Park, up by you know, past Colorado Springs.
Speaker 1: And it doesn't matter where you're at. You just put
Speaker 1: in wherever you're going and it drives you there. But
Speaker 1: does it stop it?
Speaker 4: Okay if it stops at a stop light and then
Speaker 4: you want to go straight, but some guy's pulling in
Speaker 4: front of you making a left turn doesn't know enough
Speaker 4: to yield.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: It sees the cars everywhere, man, So you probably haven't
Speaker 6: been in your son's when you had the FSD. But
Speaker 6: it's pretty crazy. So instead of seeing just a few
Speaker 6: cars or people in your little dash. You see, like
Speaker 6: if there's twelve lanes of traffic, you'll see twelve lanes
Speaker 6: of traffic, and it sees much much, much further, so
Speaker 6: it knows everything coming.
Speaker 4: If you're coming up to a collision here and it's
Speaker 4: got to hit a nun or a collie or a
Speaker 4: girl scout?
Speaker 1: Yes, who does it hit? Those expensive cookie people?
Speaker 16: Man?
Speaker 1: You know, didn't they say so? Anyway?
Speaker 4: I digress, but they say that they literally have to
Speaker 4: plug some morality into it as to who they hit.
Speaker 6: We have deer everywhere in our neighborhood, as you know,
Speaker 6: and you see the deer, you see people, you see
Speaker 6: whatever it is, man, it's pretty lay.
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Speaker 4: I just heard someone using my name Mark was pretending
Speaker 4: to be me. Of course, I don't know why, what
Speaker 4: dastardly deed he's up to, But I have a story
Speaker 4: to tell and I don't even understand it, and maybe
Speaker 4: people can figure it out.
Speaker 1: I hate door locks. I hate keys. I lose keys.
Speaker 4: Or what's worse than losing a key is I have
Speaker 4: a key ring with keys, I have no idea where
Speaker 4: they go. Now, I've been carrying them for years, and
Speaker 4: I look at them and say, what's this key for?
Speaker 1: And I try everything. The only way the only way you'll.
Speaker 4: Ever find out what that key is for is if
Speaker 4: you throw it away, and then sure is crap you'll
Speaker 4: need it. But I'm done with keys, right. I would
Speaker 4: like a car with a keyless entry. You know, Oh,
Speaker 4: I have the key fob, right, But I'm talking about
Speaker 4: like with the combination. Anyway, on my hangar, I have
Speaker 4: a combination lock. And by the way, if you want
Speaker 4: to know what the number is is, I'm very I
Speaker 4: know people expect one, two, three, four five.
Speaker 1: No, I don't do that.
Speaker 4: I do five four three two one to trick them.
Speaker 4: So anyway, I bought a new lock from my front door,
Speaker 4: and it's made in China. I realize that.
Speaker 1: I just I looked at it. It's so cool.
Speaker 4: It takes a fingerprint or a code, and it wants
Speaker 4: to go to your WiFi in your house.
Speaker 1: It's a smart lock, but it's made in China.
Speaker 4: Well, Dmitri, who I think is a little more paranoid
Speaker 4: than the average person, he calls it more sensible and
Speaker 4: more aware. He says, Tom, you wouldn't believe what certain
Speaker 4: smart devices want to know. And I said, Dimitri, I
Speaker 4: have to admit my lock that I'm installing is made
Speaker 4: in China.
Speaker 1: What do you think? He says, I won't use it?
Speaker 4: And I said, Dimitri, I was gonna program it because
Speaker 4: he comes here every morning, and I was going to
Speaker 4: program it for your fingerprint. He said, I won't put
Speaker 4: my fingerprint on that. He said, they're going to keep it,
Speaker 4: They're going to do something with it. And I said,
Speaker 4: you really believe that the Chinese are gonna through the
Speaker 4: internet take my data off that lock and use it.
Speaker 1: He says absolutely. Now I look further.
Speaker 4: Into that lock and I don't want to say OMG,
Speaker 4: but OMG. I looked at the small print Mark. Why
Speaker 4: would a front door lock listen to this want access
Speaker 4: to all of your photos, your contacts?
Speaker 1: Why to have the data? Why does that's exactly? Why
Speaker 1: just to have the data they want? Now, this is
Speaker 1: a lot on your front door, that's every app you have.
Speaker 4: Why is everyone collecting everything?
Speaker 1: Because they want to know about us, to know what
Speaker 1: we buy and had to pitch to us. Do you okay?
Speaker 1: So you think it's for commercial reasons, not nefarious reasons.
Speaker 6: Well, of course, I mean Shlade is not going to
Speaker 6: try any d break into your house from them.
Speaker 1: What do you think the play is d Oh, well.
Speaker 17: That's pretty easy. I think it's more nefarious than what
Speaker 17: Mark says. What do you think a black company is
Speaker 17: going to market to you. But you know, the Chinese
Speaker 17: have a long and sordid history of blackmail. And if
Speaker 17: they feel that they can benefit by accessing somebody's photos
Speaker 17: and looking for illegal images.
Speaker 1: That you know, illegal images? What do you have on
Speaker 1: your phone?
Speaker 14: Oh?
Speaker 1: I don't illegal images.
Speaker 17: But you you periodically hear about these scandals exploding about it.
Speaker 4: Do you think that the Chinese would look and if
Speaker 4: they see something crazy, they might reach out or they
Speaker 4: might have somebody blackmail that person.
Speaker 17: If they feel that you are becoming a threat to them,
Speaker 17: or if they feel like you're about to become a
Speaker 17: valuable asset to them, they will reach out to you
Speaker 17: and they'll share these images with you, and they'll threaten
Speaker 17: to send them to the US Attorney's office unless you
Speaker 17: do their bidding.
Speaker 1: What else do you think they want? Why do they
Speaker 1: want my contacts?
Speaker 15: I want you to give me one example of that
Speaker 15: ever happening.
Speaker 1: Well, you don't know if it happened. How would you
Speaker 1: know if.
Speaker 4: Someone blackmails someone, you don't know where they got the information.
Speaker 17: Well, also, the blackmailing victim has an incentive to remain
Speaker 17: mom because he or she is not going to admit
Speaker 17: that the Chinese have let me ask.
Speaker 1: Porn that they downloaded from your network.
Speaker 4: Doc Let me ask you something, Bro, tell me tell me.
Speaker 4: And I don't know I'm asking. I'm truly asking you.
Speaker 1: So I want to know. What do you think the
Speaker 1: reason is for them collecting all that information?
Speaker 15: Target marketing?
Speaker 1: You think it's all commercial?
Speaker 4: I I do, I do?
Speaker 1: So tell me this. Why do they want to know
Speaker 1: all of my contacts? And what else?
Speaker 5: I say?
Speaker 1: They want to.
Speaker 6: They want information every app you have? Tell me one
Speaker 6: app you have that doesn't app for that?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 17: Mark, you know a few months ago I downloaded a
Speaker 17: new flashlight application to my cell phone and it requested
Speaker 17: access to my contact Yeah.
Speaker 1: That's right, Mark is saying. That's what Mark's saying.
Speaker 4: Everything.
Speaker 17: I was here a few weeks ago to help Tom
Speaker 17: set up his new television set, and it's a big
Speaker 17: LG machine and it wanted to know Tom's birth date.
Speaker 1: When we first turned, I got I swear to god,
Speaker 1: did you guys just crawl out of nineteen seventy?
Speaker 4: Now, Mark, this is called having a discussion. Now you
Speaker 4: see if the radio show and I assume guys, body,
Speaker 4: it's not just so, this would be marketing the radio show.
Speaker 4: Everything collects everything. End of discussion.
Speaker 1: Let's move on. I mean, what I'm saying is it's
Speaker 1: called a discussion.
Speaker 4: I'm marveling at it, and I'm wondering out loud why
Speaker 4: And I'm hoping the only.
Speaker 1: Thing I'm saying is you're you're just saying this one
Speaker 1: particular app. I'm like one app. It's no.
Speaker 4: No, I'm not No, I'm not, of course, Mark, and
Speaker 4: I'm not. I'm not saying it's not every single app.
Speaker 4: What I'm asking is.
Speaker 1: Why to market? And I'm curious why.
Speaker 4: Okay, is target marketing that important that they I mean,
Speaker 4: maybe it is.
Speaker 1: I absolutely love target marketing.
Speaker 6: I do because I don't want tampon commercials coming over
Speaker 6: while I'm watching YouTube.
Speaker 1: Least, I don't mind target marketing.
Speaker 4: There are Mark, there are many times that I was
Speaker 4: looking at something and I had forgotten I've been looking
Speaker 4: at it and it comes back up again. No, I
Speaker 4: don't mind target marketing. But but, but but do you
Speaker 4: believe that's the only.
Speaker 1: Reason they're collecting data. Doc seems to think. Doc doesn't
Speaker 1: have a paranoid bonus body.
Speaker 4: He'll give him, he'll give him his fingerprints, he'll give
Speaker 4: him everything in the world.
Speaker 1: I won't, but I I don't know why I won't.
Speaker 1: I just don't. It's all target marketing.
Speaker 6: Look, I'm not saying there's not nefarious apps out there,
Speaker 6: guys that do steal your stuff.
Speaker 1: I know China does that stuff.
Speaker 4: But I'm saying main apps from companies we've heard of, uh,
Speaker 4: you know, Walmart, slade Locks. I mean, we've got a
Speaker 4: punch k shlade Lock. I mean, yeah, they it's target marketing.
Speaker 6: They want your contacts because then they know they're friends
Speaker 6: of yours, but they tho friends of.
Speaker 1: Yours, they can start sending out target marketing to They make.
Speaker 5: Money from the context by selling them to others market where.
Speaker 1: They sell your data to another company. Yes, okay, Mark
Speaker 1: uh is saying that's only part of it.
Speaker 17: Part of it there is just because and we do
Speaker 17: agree that they use this material primarily for target marketing. However,
Speaker 17: that does not preclude the possibility of the chicoms agree
Speaker 17: using your data for nefarious purposes.
Speaker 4: The only thing I say, shy Colm, the only thing
Speaker 4: I would argue with that is they have broken into
Speaker 4: our Social security administration. They already have all the data
Speaker 4: they need, and they already have all the data they
Speaker 4: need from TikTok. That's right, Okay, I got to feed
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Speaker 1: Ever have privacy?
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Speaker 4: gonna give it anyway, Hi, Tom Martino, you're a troubleshooter.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 4: We were going to get a Corvette one time and
Speaker 4: share it with somebody chickened out.
Speaker 1: We would have had that boy good who's going to
Speaker 1: be the first mid engine remember? Yeah, but you chickened out?
Speaker 16: Man.
Speaker 1: Well, I bought a Tesla Beyond, I bought a real car.
Speaker 18: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But but Mark, we were going to own the other
Speaker 4: one for fun together, I know. But I had a
Speaker 4: friend then, Jared. What's happening, man?
Speaker 1: What's going on?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 19: Hi, so kind of a long story.
Speaker 14: I've condensed it.
Speaker 19: Can you hear me?
Speaker 14: Yes?
Speaker 1: I can go ahead, sir.
Speaker 19: Okay, So, my wife filed for FMLA back in January
Speaker 19: of twenty three. The job that she was in at
Speaker 19: the time had basically weekly deadlines. She was able to
Speaker 19: do she'd been doing it for years.
Speaker 1: Do you have to have a reason for FMLA or
Speaker 1: do they just let you do it?
Speaker 16: No, you have to have a reason.
Speaker 19: She filed for depression and anxiety issues. So she was
Speaker 19: going going to outpatient therapy and therapy counseling and things
Speaker 19: like that. Okay, so, yes, it was going to be
Speaker 19: like a once or twice a week thing. So once
Speaker 19: she filed to do it, she was going to be
Speaker 19: able to keep up with her work that she was
Speaker 19: already doing. I believe, literally the day after she filed.
Speaker 1: Me, may I ask you something?
Speaker 4: I'm not familiar with the brand new FMLA, and I
Speaker 4: know Kevin is because he's an employer, But may I
Speaker 4: just ask this? Kevin is FMLA for medical stuff and
Speaker 4: for personal stuff? Right?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, if you have a baby, the father can
Speaker 5: actually have leave for bonding purpose. Okay, thanks, Yeah, but if.
Speaker 4: You are going through anxiety and depression and want and
Speaker 4: you want to take a break and have the treatment,
Speaker 4: that would qualify, right, yes, absolutely, Okay, then during this
Speaker 4: time and now I'm asking Jared because I just don't
Speaker 4: know the rules.
Speaker 1: Are you supposed to get paid, jareditors without pay?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 19: I believe it's supposed to be without pay.
Speaker 1: Okay, got paid?
Speaker 19: If that's the case.
Speaker 5: Colorado, correct Colorado?
Speaker 1: Yeah, there are two, So keep going, Jared. What happened?
Speaker 19: What happened twenty thirty or twenty three?
Speaker 16: In January?
Speaker 19: They transferred her into a new job the day after
Speaker 19: she filed for FMLA.
Speaker 1: The new job do you think they did that as
Speaker 1: on purpose?
Speaker 19: I think they did it intentionally when you hear the
Speaker 19: rest of the story. For the last two years, they
Speaker 19: were definitely trying to set her up.
Speaker 1: So set her up for why.
Speaker 19: To fire her because she got new bosses. They reorganized
Speaker 19: her office and got new bosses.
Speaker 4: Mark, I mean, Kevin, are you allowed to fire people
Speaker 4: if you can't do without them?
Speaker 5: Not on the Colorado and No and back. You're required
Speaker 5: to keep maintain their job, opening for it only if
Speaker 5: it's over.
Speaker 1: Is this a big company?
Speaker 5: Well, it's over five employees or ten employees.
Speaker 6: I thought, if you I had to have back in
Speaker 6: my day when I had like forty nine employees, if
Speaker 6: I went over fifty, I'd have to follow a lot
Speaker 6: of these rules.
Speaker 1: But under fifty idea Colorado's Kay Jared, Jared, I don't understand.
Speaker 4: Are you saying that if they're indispensable, they're allowed to
Speaker 4: be to fill the job and fire them.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 19: No, they just transferred her into a new job. They said, nope,
Speaker 19: this is going to be your.
Speaker 4: Well, that's what I'm I'm getting at. That's what I'm
Speaker 4: getting at. What's why did they transfer her into a
Speaker 4: new job.
Speaker 19: I don't know, to be honest with you, I don't
Speaker 19: have that answer.
Speaker 4: Okay, So I'm gonna come back to you and we'll
Speaker 4: figure it out. I'm Tom Martino. Could it be a violation,
Speaker 4: maybe an issue. Maybe we're gonna deal with that and
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Speaker 4: one three eight two five five. Hey, today is car Day, people,
Speaker 4: and we've been talking about cars and all kinds of
Speaker 4: different cars, and with the best all around car, I
Speaker 4: don't think there is one. I think it in a
Speaker 4: perfect life you need to pick up an suv and
Speaker 4: a sports car. That would be a perfect life. But listen,
Speaker 4: here's the deal. There is going to be an E ray,
Speaker 4: a Corvette E Ray. And and here's what I don't understand.
Speaker 4: They're bragging about it. And the reason I don't understand
Speaker 4: the bragging about it is here's why mark to one
Speaker 4: hundred and six starting at one hundred and six, nine
Speaker 4: hundred bucks. And here's what they say. I want to know,
Speaker 4: what is the Tesla zero to sixty? The plaid one nine? Okay,
Speaker 4: this is two point five? Yeah, two point five. You
Speaker 4: could have a salad waiting for that, what would now?
Speaker 4: And an appetizer now?
Speaker 1: Now? The horsepower six fifty five?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Tesla is like one thousand and sixty. Yeah, but
Speaker 4: that's true. And I just want to say something. There
Speaker 4: is a little more to it than raw horsepower. There's
Speaker 4: weight to horsepower ratios. But I imagine Tesla's as light
Speaker 4: as a as light as a corvette.
Speaker 1: Anyway, But okay, what is the quarter mile?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 1: Let me look, I don't know Tesla plaid quarter hold on?
Speaker 1: What is it on that?
Speaker 4: Here's what the here's what the Corvette is the e
Speaker 4: Ray ten point five seconds? Uh?
Speaker 1: This one, well, this one is eight point five.
Speaker 4: Eight point five, so eight point five by that time. Well,
Speaker 4: also you can time it by by mark. Uh but
Speaker 4: I'm I'm not going to get into that detail. But yeah,
Speaker 4: Mark's about good for eight seconds and.
Speaker 1: Then so you'll figure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so you figure, you figure the the Corvette's ten
Speaker 4: point five on a quarter mile. You can knit a sweater,
Speaker 4: so I don't I don't understand. But anyway, let's go
Speaker 4: back to the phone.
Speaker 1: Share hold on one second. I want to say this man,
Speaker 1: the roadsure that's.
Speaker 6: Coming out, they're talking under one second, zero to sixty.
Speaker 6: What blows me away by that is the Lamborghini that's
Speaker 6: coming out and all these other top end ones they
Speaker 6: can't even touch.
Speaker 1: That isn't that amazing?
Speaker 4: But do you think it's true? I mean under one
Speaker 4: second that sounds like a crowd rocket.
Speaker 6: I don't know what they're now. I don't even think
Speaker 6: there's motorcycles. I mean there might be those Jennis or something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know those crotch rockets will beat a car
Speaker 4: every time. There's nothing faster.
Speaker 5: He thinks, I'm gonna look that up.
Speaker 1: That's curious. I think they are. Hey, So here's the deal, Jared.
Speaker 4: You started to tell us your wife applied for FMLA,
Speaker 4: which is a family leave to go to get some
Speaker 4: therapy and treatment, and then they switched her to a
Speaker 4: new position the day after. Now I'm not sure what
Speaker 4: you're why you even told us that, and how that
Speaker 4: plays into it.
Speaker 1: So finish your story.
Speaker 13: Okay.
Speaker 19: So that's that's just the precursor to the story basically,
Speaker 19: because the rest of the story comes from there. So
Speaker 19: the original job she was in had weekly duty that
Speaker 19: had to be done by the end of the week.
Speaker 19: She knew how to do it was able to complete it.
Speaker 14: The new job they.
Speaker 19: Switched her into required daily contact and customer interactions and
Speaker 19: had daily deadlines, which there was no way she was
Speaker 19: ever going to be able to meet because she wasn't
Speaker 19: going to be there one to two days a week
Speaker 19: at work.
Speaker 4: On top of that, But Jared, this is where I'm confused.
Speaker 4: This is where I'm confused. The whole idea of a
Speaker 4: family leave is you're gone. So what difference does it
Speaker 4: make if there were five minute updates, one day.
Speaker 1: Updates, or weekly updates. If you're gone, you're gone.
Speaker 4: Are you telling me that with this company, when you're
Speaker 4: on family leave, you still have to work.
Speaker 19: That's essentially what they were saying. So after two years
Speaker 19: of this, my wife finally went into mediation with the
Speaker 19: government and the media.
Speaker 1: I don't know, okay, Kevin helped me out here. And
Speaker 1: there's a hold on man, this is Jared hold on
Speaker 1: family Leave Act. I'm looking at it.
Speaker 4: You leave work, you don't work part time, you don't
Speaker 4: so Kevin, what is he talking about?
Speaker 1: You leave but you still work.
Speaker 5: He's talking on a federal level. I'm not sure because
Speaker 5: I'm only familiar with the colors noun.
Speaker 1: I looked it up. There is no way federal family
Speaker 1: leave where you.
Speaker 5: Work, Shunk.
Speaker 19: You don't have to take it in a block, Shunk.
Speaker 19: You can take FMLA. And she said, I'm going to
Speaker 19: every Wednesday. I have doctors and counselors and whatever appointments.
Speaker 19: So every wed I'm going, Oh, use my SMLA. So
Speaker 19: one day, oh week me.
Speaker 4: You can actually spot check FMLA. You can take a
Speaker 4: couple of days every week for FMLA correct up.
Speaker 19: To twelve weeks a year.
Speaker 9: I didn't know that that would be so disruptively a
Speaker 9: company twelve weeks off or it works where you can
Speaker 9: take individual days here and there.
Speaker 1: That's horrible. I just think it back when I was
Speaker 1: running a company.
Speaker 6: My god, if I had like someone at the front
Speaker 6: counter that wanted to take off Monday.
Speaker 1: And Friday, it would complete. I'd get him another job too.
Speaker 15: Let's hear the end of the story.
Speaker 20: I don't even know what's going on the job that
Speaker 20: she was in.
Speaker 1: She was able to, you know, Doc, Jocky Doc. Of
Speaker 1: course we're gonna hear the end of the story.
Speaker 4: But whether you like it or not, Doc, there are
Speaker 4: there is information he's giving that did not make sense.
Speaker 4: And that's why I'm comparing it. And I'm not gonna
Speaker 4: wait till the end of the story to clarify things,
Speaker 4: because that's not how people think. After doing the show
Speaker 4: for forty five years, people think day by day, minute
Speaker 4: by minute, one two, three four. They don't go one, two, three, four,
Speaker 4: five six, and then we go back to one. So
Speaker 4: what I try to do is get the story in
Speaker 4: order when they say it. If you want to do
Speaker 4: it another way, have fun. Now listen, here's what I
Speaker 4: need to know.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 4: They she put in for family leave to have one
Speaker 4: day a week off or two days.
Speaker 21: It.
Speaker 19: At first it was one and then eventually her parents
Speaker 19: moved in with us.
Speaker 18: They got six, so she was taking.
Speaker 19: Medical lead to take care of her parents right before
Speaker 19: they died, as well as using the FMLA, and it
Speaker 19: was one to two days. There were times where she
Speaker 19: was out a week. I totally agree with you. I
Speaker 19: run a business myself and some of the laws that
Speaker 19: have put in place are not set up for employers.
Speaker 4: But guess what, she's allowed to do it. According to
Speaker 4: the fine trendity, she's allowed to do it. She's allowed
Speaker 4: to schedule one or two days a week to use
Speaker 4: up her time. She can schedule one day every other week.
Speaker 4: By the way, it does not require point employer approval
Speaker 4: it okay. And it can even be unplanned if something
Speaker 4: comes up that is health related.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 4: So really basically what they're saying is the worker can
Speaker 4: do anything they want.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Almost, Well, then how did she get fired?
Speaker 19: She's not fired yet they're in the process. They've been
Speaker 19: documenting her and writing her up to fire her basically,
Speaker 19: which has caused I mean, she had to be hospitalized
Speaker 19: in April of this year for mental health issues. She
Speaker 19: was hospitalized for almost a week, got out of the hospital,
Speaker 19: wasn't able to work on Monday, went back to work
Speaker 19: on Tuesday. They expected her to get everything caught up
Speaker 19: for when she was out on medical leaves and FMLA stuff.
Speaker 19: She was able to get it caught up, so they
Speaker 19: came back and wrote her up for work she wasn't
Speaker 19: able to complete on time in April. They wrote her
Speaker 19: up in September for that. Yeah, I mean, there's just
Speaker 19: there's a myriad of things like that. After she went
Speaker 19: through mediation this November with the government. In the mediation,
Speaker 19: even though her boss knows she's been out for you know,
Speaker 19: dealing with stress and anxiety to depths in the family
Speaker 19: within six hours of each other of her parents, he
Speaker 19: sat there in the mediation and just said, well, I
Speaker 19: think Linda can get the work done.
Speaker 14: She's just not motivated.
Speaker 19: If Linda was motivated, she'd be able.
Speaker 4: To do this.
Speaker 19: So they think she's Jared.
Speaker 4: Jared according to the law they can take intermittent family leave,
Speaker 4: but they must be able to fulfill the requirements of
Speaker 4: the position or they can change the position.
Speaker 19: Now agains ask for a position change and they won't
Speaker 19: change her.
Speaker 1: So what do they say. Do they say they're going
Speaker 1: to terminate her or they're.
Speaker 19: Going to do what half they're on they're looking to you.
Speaker 1: Now, I'm not sure. I'm really not sure they can
Speaker 1: do that, but I think they can. I think. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know, because what there's you know what I wonder?
Speaker 1: So as soon if we have an attorney quick? Yes?
Speaker 12: When?
Speaker 4: When?
Speaker 19: So she went through this thing with the mediator. So
Speaker 19: with her boss, she does work for the federal government,
Speaker 19: So with her boss, mediators from the federal government. They
Speaker 19: sat there and had this meeting in November, their first
Speaker 19: meeting several a week or so later after she met
Speaker 19: with her boss. After she had that meeting, the first
Speaker 19: meeting she has with her boss, the first thing out
Speaker 19: of his mouth to her was, Okay, Linda, so moving forward,
Speaker 19: any work that comes in while you're out on your
Speaker 19: SMLA time you're not going to be responsible for. And
Speaker 19: we're gonna make sure all that's taken care of and done.
Speaker 19: You just have to take care of the stuff for
Speaker 19: the days that you are here in the office.
Speaker 1: You're you're not gonna want to hear the next thing.
Speaker 4: When you said she works for the federal government, listen carefully,
Speaker 4: really carefully.
Speaker 1: F m LA coverage for federal employees does not.
Speaker 4: Include intermittent leave spread out over a period of time.
Speaker 4: Intermittent leave is not allowed unless specifically granted.
Speaker 1: They must be.
Speaker 4: Able to do if it works continuously. Oh but did
Speaker 4: you just hear me and monitored for job performance. So
Speaker 4: here's what they're doing. Man, they're saying, yeah, you can
Speaker 4: take care to your minting time off, but only if
Speaker 4: you get the job done. Okay, that's what they're saying now.
Speaker 4: So it really comes down to this. Here's what it
Speaker 4: comes down to. They're saying, she's not getting it done.
Speaker 4: You're saying she is. Hold on, I got to take
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Speaker 4: five five. So right now, I don't think there's anything
Speaker 4: Jared can do because it's coming down to the question
Speaker 4: can she do the work or not? It has nothing
Speaker 4: to do with the execution of the FMLA. According to
Speaker 4: federal law, they're doing everything correctly. They approved her, they
Speaker 4: didn't have to that. Now they're saying, however, she's not
Speaker 4: doing the work. Jared, I don't know what else to
Speaker 4: tell you, man. Do they have an appeals process? You're
Speaker 4: going what are you going through right now?
Speaker 1: A review?
Speaker 19: Actually, right now she's still going. She's yes, going through
Speaker 19: some sort of reviews. She's still looking to try and
Speaker 19: get transferred. I was just really looking for I looked
Speaker 19: on your on your website and didn't see anybody that
Speaker 19: any attorneys that might you know.
Speaker 4: You know what, though I do have somebody you can call,
Speaker 4: or I do have somebody you can call. I don't
Speaker 4: know if they're on the referral list still or not.
Speaker 4: His name is Pete McGuire. Is he still Are they
Speaker 4: still up there? Sullivan, Sulimon and McGuire. I don't even
Speaker 4: know if they're still up there. They've been with us
Speaker 4: for years.
Speaker 6: If it has been on the listeners, one of them
Speaker 6: passed away, if I recall, right, right.
Speaker 1: That's right, Yeah, that's right, and then they slowed down
Speaker 1: quite a bit.
Speaker 4: But Pete is really good at federal employment stuff, including
Speaker 4: unemployment and workers comp and all of that. I would
Speaker 4: call Pete McGuire three oh three, shoot oh man, I
Speaker 4: used to memorize that number. Sullivan, Sullivan and McGuire. I
Speaker 4: don't even know if Pete. Pete might not even be
Speaker 4: practicing anymore.
Speaker 1: I think he is, Yeah, I think he is. And
Speaker 1: Tomatos show in the last couple months. I think so.
Speaker 4: Okay, here's the it's three oh three six nine one
Speaker 4: nine eight six eight Jared three oh three six nine
Speaker 4: one nine eight six eight, Thank you man. Three oh
Speaker 4: three seven one three eight two five five Tim, what's
Speaker 4: going on with you.
Speaker 1: Tim.
Speaker 22: Welcome, Hey Tom, how are you doing?
Speaker 1: Good man? What's going on?
Speaker 22: I have a twenty sixteen dodge Ram twenty five hundred
Speaker 22: trying to get the backup camera to work. Looked at
Speaker 22: a few videos. They tell you to take the wiring
Speaker 22: harness off and spray the connections, put some grease in there. Tried,
Speaker 22: that didn't work. I replaced the small wiring harness to
Speaker 22: the camera and the automatic hellgate lock. That did not work.
Speaker 22: Someone said it's the radio. When it comes up on
Speaker 22: the radio, it says camera system unavailable as a black screen,
Speaker 22: So I just say radio in it. It still doesn't work.
Speaker 22: Any ideas?
Speaker 4: Hey, Tim, I want to ask you something. How did
Speaker 4: it go out? Was it just not working one day?
Speaker 14: Just not working one day, just one.
Speaker 1: Day not working? Okay?
Speaker 4: When it was working right up to the point it
Speaker 4: did not work, was it blurry or any other any
Speaker 4: glitches at all?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Okay? What do you think, Kevin?
Speaker 5: Well? Any kind of work done? Any body work? Any
Speaker 5: accidents anything at all?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 22: No, it's been a great truck.
Speaker 5: Sure, yeah, because there's I mean, they do have harness problems.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: That short harness you replaced is very common that would
Speaker 5: have been the first thing.
Speaker 1: But you also sounds like he did everything well.
Speaker 5: You also have the harness for the haven tom where
Speaker 5: the tailgate pivot there.
Speaker 22: Yeah, there's another harness. It's a longer harness that goes
Speaker 22: in to the tailgate and then goes into the bed exactly.
Speaker 22: And I was saying about replacing that, and then someone said.
Speaker 1: Now what about the cam itself? Yeah, what about the camera?
Speaker 22: My next that's my next step. It's four hundred and
Speaker 22: twenty five dollars, which, hey, if it works, that's fine,
Speaker 22: but I didn't really want to buy it unless I
Speaker 22: know I got a ninety chance of it working.
Speaker 1: Well, you just get one with a ram truck that
Speaker 1: we could swap the camera and see.
Speaker 5: But you can check for powers and grounds without you know,
Speaker 5: swapping all the parts because that's getting expensive. Uh, you
Speaker 5: know there should be wiring diagrams are pretty easy to
Speaker 5: find on that.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Could it be something something as simple as the ground.
Speaker 5: Yes, very very likely.
Speaker 13: You know.
Speaker 22: That's why I said, you could a locking tailgate on
Speaker 22: it and it works fine with the fob, so I
Speaker 22: think it would, and it goes into the same harness.
Speaker 5: But any harness that moves like in the door jams
Speaker 5: or the tailgates or anything is prone to breaking or separating.
Speaker 5: That's why you need to just physically trace that down.
Speaker 5: You could just use an own meter on each end
Speaker 5: of the plug and check very simply. This is a
Speaker 5: ten dollars oh meter that you have continuity in that harness.
Speaker 5: That's where I would start is in that longer harness
Speaker 5: from the tailgate to the bed.
Speaker 22: Right, So maybe make the camera your last resort.
Speaker 5: Yes, yep, right, because it's not seeing a signal, that's
Speaker 5: why it's getting the message.
Speaker 22: And that's what I thought that, you know, so that's
Speaker 22: why he started with the harness. Sure, but you know
Speaker 22: all the other wires go through the harnesses working the
Speaker 22: tailgate right, all the locking tailgate.
Speaker 1: But it does.
Speaker 5: They're not all the same though, I mean there is
Speaker 5: part some work with some work, you know, some are separate.
Speaker 5: So but again, anytime a harness moves and bends like
Speaker 5: in the tailgate is where they're prone to break.
Speaker 22: Yeah, all right, I'll try to longer harness.
Speaker 5: And like I said, just use an ometer, just check
Speaker 5: the continuity from one end to the other.
Speaker 4: Well, let's put it this way. After you do that
Speaker 4: the only thing left is the camera pretty much.
Speaker 22: Yeah exactly, I mean, I mean, you know green ninety five.
Speaker 1: Hey, how important is that back up to you?
Speaker 22: It is because I have a topper on it, and
Speaker 22: when you're backing up, it's hard to see, you know.
Speaker 4: I have I have learned to depend on these things
Speaker 4: and it's amazing to me how much you miss them
Speaker 4: when they're not there. There's something else I wanted to
Speaker 4: talk about, called the invisible trailer, and I'm going to
Speaker 4: do that coming up because this brings it up, and
Speaker 4: oh my gosh, when you hear about this, it's incredible.
Speaker 4: The Invisible trailer. I think you can look it up online.
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Speaker 1: He's got me all screwed up.
Speaker 4: Hey, I'm Tom Martine, your troubleshooter three O three seven
Speaker 4: one three talk seven one three eight two five five. Seriously, now,
Speaker 4: we got a lot to talk about, and I talked
Speaker 4: about the invisible trailer.
Speaker 1: But I'll take callers first. But uh, but you gotta
Speaker 1: look it up.
Speaker 4: Okay, specifically, I think it's called the Yukon Trailer Camera Transparent.
Speaker 1: Oh wait wait, the.
Speaker 4: Yukon might be the vehicles on there, but it's a transparent.
Speaker 4: It makes your trailer transparent with virtual views. It is
Speaker 4: the most incredible thing anyway.
Speaker 1: So who's next?
Speaker 4: Dan Your twenty fourteen Dodge pickup with an oil leak?
Speaker 1: Well, that sounds completely normal to me.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 23: What happened is I was driving home and as it
Speaker 23: as I exited the highway, this is done Tuesday, I
Speaker 23: headed down since then it's spring an oil leak. I
Speaker 23: didn't know it, but the low oil pressure came on.
Speaker 23: I got off the highway I had parked it and
Speaker 23: looked underneath and it was draining oil. And there's a
Speaker 23: big line of on the street leading to.
Speaker 18: And I saw it run as.
Speaker 23: Ipeak running out. The oil appeared to be leaking from
Speaker 23: right above the oil pan in a stream down. Any
Speaker 23: any idea what what the problem?
Speaker 1: Might be?
Speaker 23: A major minor or Kevin, Yeah, it could be the
Speaker 23: oil cooler.
Speaker 5: It's there, I mean a couple of things. Is it
Speaker 5: Once you shut it off, obviously it stopped leaking.
Speaker 23: It didn't immediately stop leaking.
Speaker 5: Right, but yes, you got an oil center and an
Speaker 5: oil cooler and everything on the right above the oil pan.
Speaker 5: It could be anything there.
Speaker 4: Hey, Dan, how did it just suddenly happen? What was
Speaker 4: the last thing that happened? Like, did you have a
Speaker 4: change anything different?
Speaker 1: An oil change?
Speaker 5: Did you go over a bump?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 23: No, nothing different. It had been running fine up to
Speaker 23: that point and had any signal of any problem like that.
Speaker 23: It just happened all of a sudden.
Speaker 1: What do you think, keV? What it could be? Anything?
Speaker 5: Like you said, it be a lot what engines?
Speaker 23: Isn't that it's the three point zero leader Eco Eco
Speaker 23: Eco boosts.
Speaker 5: There's a couple of coolers and a couple of cenders
Speaker 5: right there. You gotta be you know, it's just gonna
Speaker 5: have to be checked. I mean there's there's Like I said,
Speaker 5: I can think about four or five different things in summer,
Speaker 5: you know, fairly minor not a big deal.
Speaker 23: You have a recommendation or I might be able to
Speaker 23: take it.
Speaker 5: I live Broomfield, Broomfield, Yeah, take it to him either yeah,
Speaker 5: Sharton Auto Tech or hands is up there too?
Speaker 1: Oh hands on Auto Tech?
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, he's up there.
Speaker 23: You work on those eco boost ones?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, so does.
Speaker 1: So does a hands on auto You know it's Tom.
Speaker 1: He's a good guy.
Speaker 14: Many Where are you're located at?
Speaker 5: I'm a Colfax and Wadsworths in Lakewood? Okay?
Speaker 23: And where's hands at? I mean which one is closer?
Speaker 1: I think hands is in hands On?
Speaker 5: Hands On? This most likely? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Is it Loveland?
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, long Mon Yeah, Long Area.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let me see it's let's just if you go
Speaker 4: to the referral list, it'll have everything on there. But
Speaker 4: I think that, you know, and I think not that
Speaker 4: this matters much, but I think Tom is better looking
Speaker 4: than Kevin.
Speaker 1: But you know, who cares.
Speaker 4: Anyway, listen, man, hands on is a goot. They're good
Speaker 4: people and I think I have their address here it is.
Speaker 4: It's fifteen sixty six Vista you drive.
Speaker 1: And it's in Longmont.
Speaker 23: Okay, I know where that is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, fifteen sixty six Vista, you drive.
Speaker 23: I'll give them a callum through what they have to say.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Yeah, thank you man.
Speaker 4: Their phone number, by the way is seven two zero
Speaker 4: three four zero four zero two.
Speaker 23: Four three four zero four zero two four.
Speaker 4: Yep, our four zero two four four zero two four
Speaker 4: And make sure he gets that Katina three O three
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Speaker 1: Man. So, so this invisible trailer, did.
Speaker 4: You guys look it up since I've been talking about it. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I must have two cameras. It must have one on
Speaker 4: the back of the fifth wheel. It's incredible. Yeah, it
Speaker 4: kind of it's like a virtual invisibility. So what it
Speaker 4: does is yeah, so so no matter what trailer you
Speaker 4: have behind you. I'm talking about a solid trailer, not
Speaker 4: like a flatbed. So it looks like you don't have
Speaker 4: a trailer, but you see the outline of the trailer
Speaker 4: for safety, but it looks like it's invisible, you know,
Speaker 4: like a wonder Woman's jet.
Speaker 1: So so what you do? And I don't know how
Speaker 1: it does it? But there are all kinds of virtual views.
Speaker 4: Mark, You're tesla has a virtual view that looks like
Speaker 4: you have damn near a camera in a in a drone.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's cool.
Speaker 4: I mean, I know, it's a amazing how they can
Speaker 4: synthesize images based on other cameras. And do you think
Speaker 4: there will be a time when all technologies are going
Speaker 4: to be basically you know you know what I'm saying, like, well,
Speaker 4: all cars eventually have these and will we be able.
Speaker 1: To like in his car?
Speaker 4: I know this because my son somebody tpeed his car
Speaker 4: right Mark, he was able to back up video and
Speaker 4: see who did it. Yeah, it records it. It's a
Speaker 4: century event. That's pretty cool. Now this was a good humor.
Speaker 1: I mean it wasn't.
Speaker 4: They weren't trying to destroy his car, but they tpeed it.
Speaker 4: So or toilet papered it, and so it was fun.
Speaker 4: He was able to see it. So can you Mark,
Speaker 4: look at any event, I mean, if your car's parked
Speaker 4: at iHeart there, like, could you see, for example, if
Speaker 4: someone like me crayoned it.
Speaker 6: Oh my god, you don't even got to touch it.
Speaker 6: If they even walk by it or get to it,
Speaker 6: it creates a century event. And then you just hit
Speaker 6: the button and watch it.
Speaker 1: On the screen. Does it keep it in a loop? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so eventually it's gone absolutely. Okay.
Speaker 4: Wow, that would have helped me years ago when I
Speaker 4: had an idiot, I don't want to mention his name,
Speaker 4: hired people to wrap my avalanche. It wasn't you, Mark,
Speaker 4: by the way, I know a lot of people as
Speaker 4: soon as I said idiot thought that.
Speaker 1: But you know it was somebody else.
Speaker 4: You're just pushing it. You're pushing, you're poking the bear.
Speaker 4: It was someone else I worked with. I just didn't
Speaker 4: want him to think it was you. It was someone
Speaker 4: else I worked Did you remember that, Mark, when they
Speaker 4: wrapped my avalanche?
Speaker 1: I heard about it later on and I heard you
Speaker 1: were very unhappy. Well not on the radio. I made
Speaker 1: it fun fun.
Speaker 4: But here's what I was unhappy about it was kind
Speaker 4: of suggestive about a woman or something in big boobs
Speaker 4: or something like that.
Speaker 1: I remember it.
Speaker 6: Come on, I remember one day though you here, you
Speaker 6: started the show. This is back when you were in studio,
Speaker 6: and it happened to be April Fool's Day. And even
Speaker 6: though your wife told you a million times, don't let
Speaker 6: him get you again, he gets you every year.
Speaker 4: I know. I had you convinced your car was stolen
Speaker 4: and you were on with line. You really did, Mark, Mark,
Speaker 4: You really did. I swear to god, I was never
Speaker 4: but what I never know what's really But here's what
Speaker 4: was really strange. Why normally I wouldn't check my car
Speaker 4: till the end of the show, but for some reason.
Speaker 1: I had to go down and get some meds or something.
Speaker 1: Remember that, Yeah, you had like normally, how did.
Speaker 4: You expect when you did that joke, which was brilliant?
Speaker 4: Did you think I was going to discover it at
Speaker 4: the end of the show. How were you Because I
Speaker 4: walk out of the building together and I figured it.
Speaker 4: At first you would go, oh, I must have.
Speaker 6: Parked somewhere else, But then eventually you would figure out
Speaker 6: your car was nowhere to be found. But what happened
Speaker 6: was about ten minutes into the show, you had to
Speaker 6: run down to your car for something, and I had
Speaker 6: already moved it, and I'm going, oh, my goodness. So
Speaker 6: when you run down, of course I'm doing the show,
Speaker 6: so I'm doing the show, so I'm not seeing what's happening,
Speaker 6: but I know your car and there Jack, And when
Speaker 6: you came back up you walked into the other room.
Speaker 6: You look like a man that just found out something
Speaker 6: really bad. And you were on with nine to one one,
Speaker 6: which I didn't know at the time, and I know
Speaker 6: you felt so violated. That was the part where I
Speaker 6: started feeling a little guilty, but I wasn't going to
Speaker 6: break silence on that.
Speaker 4: But then we locked eyes. We locked eyes ever in
Speaker 4: a car ass and I've never had a car storm.
Speaker 4: But you do feel violated. I swear to God, it's
Speaker 4: like weird. It's like they have my stuff.
Speaker 12: You know.
Speaker 1: When we locked eyes, it took you about three seconds.
Speaker 4: And it like cause you were trying, I know, because
Speaker 4: you had that you have a look in your eye
Speaker 4: when you're trying to hold back a grin and the
Speaker 4: you know, it's kind of like you're trying not to
Speaker 4: laugh or say something gave and I went, you son
Speaker 4: of a you. Oh my god, I knew instantly. Oh
Speaker 4: but here's the deal. It was also the g Wagon,
Speaker 4: so it wasn't like, uh, you know, and I'm god,
Speaker 4: it was terrible anyway, Gott, what was the story?
Speaker 14: He did?
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Speaker 4: nine two zero sixteen twenty two. All right, Earlene, I'm
Speaker 4: going to ask you to hold on because Bo's going
Speaker 4: to do this follow up with you.
Speaker 1: But I want to take Brian right now. Who called in? Brian?
Speaker 4: What is your question on workers' compensation?
Speaker 1: Sir, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 14: What's going on with you, well, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 14: I'm yeah, I've been a I used to be a
Speaker 14: daily listener, but my job doesn't permit it lately.
Speaker 1: Ah quit the job.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I wish it was that easy. But about a
Speaker 14: year and a half ago, I got hurt, you know,
Speaker 14: at work. I contacted my direct supervisor and you know,
Speaker 14: to find out what urgent care I should go to.
Speaker 14: They didn't have one, so I ended up at excuse me,
Speaker 14: I'm a little bit winded. I'm recovering from the fluid.
Speaker 14: I'm an oxygen. But oh man, okay, yeah, it's been fun.
Speaker 14: But I went to Littletonnette Venis and at the time
Speaker 14: I told him it was a workers comp claim, but
Speaker 14: they didn't really you know, I didn't have a claim
Speaker 14: number or anything. They did all that, you know, they
Speaker 14: they treated me. You know, I subsequently went, you know,
Speaker 14: got follow up care and that got covered through workers' comp.
Speaker 1: How were you hurt by the way?
Speaker 14: I jammed my finger in the door and kind of
Speaker 14: shattered it broke, and you're really bad?
Speaker 1: Okay, So.
Speaker 14: You know, so when I did get a workers Comp number,
Speaker 14: I called, uh, you know, Little Tenet Venice back in
Speaker 14: the billing department and gave them all that information, but
Speaker 14: I got a bill I gave my boss that say,
Speaker 14: the copy of it. So, to make a long story short,
Speaker 14: they keep I keep getting built for the nine hundred
Speaker 14: and ninety five dollars for the initial visit. I've contacted
Speaker 14: my uh uh former and it's a former employer now.
Speaker 14: I contacted him back in November and related the situation.
Speaker 14: And it's not getting taken care of another three.
Speaker 1: Hey, by the way, when was this When was this treatment?
Speaker 14: When was it like October twenty two?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 4: Of the so, so right now you still are getting
Speaker 4: billed and it wasn't paid correct, and it's nine hundred
Speaker 4: and ninety nine bucks. N yes, do you have health
Speaker 4: insurance or anything that would have paid for it?
Speaker 1: And would it have paid for it?
Speaker 14: You know, I'm not sure how that worked back then. No,
Speaker 14: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 14: I think I was on Medicaid back then when I
Speaker 14: worked for them.
Speaker 4: Okay, then that would have paid it for sure. Wait wait, wait,
Speaker 4: how can you be on medicaid when.
Speaker 1: You're working.
Speaker 14: Or medicare? Excuse me?
Speaker 1: How old were you?
Speaker 5: Fifty five?
Speaker 4: Okay, listen, man, here's what I think. I think that
Speaker 4: they have to pay it, and I don't. Did they
Speaker 4: open up a worker's comp number or case?
Speaker 14: Well, yeah, after the fact, and I did supply that
Speaker 14: to them. And then now it went to this Common
Speaker 14: Spirit of Health and you can't talk to anybody. It's
Speaker 14: all just a big phone tree.
Speaker 4: Well, Common Spirit, they're all right people, They're just they
Speaker 4: own the clinic.
Speaker 1: Probably I think they took over Adventist.
Speaker 4: So you're telling me there's no one to talk to
Speaker 4: about getting this paid, either from the employer or.
Speaker 1: From the insurance.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 1: So here's what I would do.
Speaker 4: I think what I would do is have somebody on
Speaker 4: our side help you get through the red tape.
Speaker 11: Doc.
Speaker 1: Speaking of medical stuff, Doc, what do you think, Doc
Speaker 1: is pretty what pecularity?
Speaker 14: Did you go to Brian a little today?
Speaker 15: Okay, here's what I would do.
Speaker 1: First, go to the group. Go there and ask to
Speaker 1: see someone in the billing department.
Speaker 10: Tell them what's going on, face to face, and I
Speaker 10: guarantee you that will take care of it, all right, And.
Speaker 1: If not, you get back in touch and we'll put
Speaker 1: DOT on it. Oh up.
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Speaker 3: Dix is the Troubleshooter Show. No, Tom Martino, Hi.
Speaker 4: Tom Martina here, welcome to the show. We got all
Speaker 4: kinds of things happening here for you. We want to
Speaker 4: solve your problems. Let's geel right to the phones.
Speaker 1: We have Basically Earlen worked.
Speaker 5: With Bow.
Speaker 19: And Bo.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna put your mic on here. Bro go ahead,
Speaker 4: tell me Bo. Can you solve the problem?
Speaker 21: Yes, hier Lene, thanks for calling in. Uh soon called
Speaker 21: in on Friday to twenty fourth. She had several companies
Speaker 21: come out. She has no he Arlene has had no
Speaker 21: heat in her house since November.
Speaker 1: Was she renting?
Speaker 5: No, she's the homeowner.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I remember, Okay, and I don't know what
Speaker 1: the issue was there, Okay, but okay, I got it
Speaker 1: here right.
Speaker 4: So it's a single family home and it's an Aurora.
Speaker 4: Her old furnace broke down four months ago. She's been
Speaker 4: without heat and basically she doesn't have the money to
Speaker 4: replace it.
Speaker 1: You said, well, maybe we can get it to work. Yes,
Speaker 1: she has a daughter living with.
Speaker 4: Her who's sixty two, works a couple of days a week,
Speaker 4: two grandchildren, twins, and basically they're hurting. They're just hurting.
Speaker 4: And you wanted to go out to see if you
Speaker 4: could limp that thing along.
Speaker 1: Yes, I went out there.
Speaker 5: How many times have I been out there, Arlene?
Speaker 13: Four?
Speaker 3: Four times?
Speaker 15: I've been out there several times.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 21: The one of the contractors that were out there, we
Speaker 21: don't know who it is, but they pulled all your
Speaker 21: wires out.
Speaker 1: I really messed things up. You said they're trying to
Speaker 1: sell her a new system.
Speaker 21: Every one of them wanted to sell her a new system.
Speaker 1: But what I'd like to know from you, does she
Speaker 1: need a new system?
Speaker 5: No, she does not need a new system.
Speaker 1: What did you find?
Speaker 21: Companies that came out there said the parts were not
Speaker 21: available for the unit. Now, granted it's fifteen years old,
Speaker 21: maybe it should be of course of the age, but
Speaker 21: it's functional. So on my third visit, I was able
Speaker 21: to kind of rewire everything. It's like spaghetti in there.
Speaker 21: And being an older unit, earline, it did have trouble
Speaker 21: finding the parts you needed. An electric commutated.
Speaker 1: Veritable speed motive. Is that all.
Speaker 5: So, Earlene, I've been.
Speaker 1: Looking for weeks. I can't find it. Well, yes, it's
Speaker 1: been a struggle.
Speaker 21: But I got a hold of the train company, the
Speaker 21: train corporation or supply depot here in Denver, and they
Speaker 21: called me the other day Early they found the motor.
Speaker 1: It's a new Jersey. It's about an seventeen motor in computing.
Speaker 4: But here get sevente way way way cheaper than a
Speaker 4: brand new furnace.
Speaker 1: Well, Tom, it gets better.
Speaker 21: The train company hurt my plight about your situation early,
Speaker 21: how you could not afford a new furnace.
Speaker 1: You've had these little electric keaters. You're huddled in the bedroom.
Speaker 21: The train supply company the manufacturer is shipping the motor
Speaker 21: to Denver and they're not going to charge you.
Speaker 1: Ye what, Holy crap.
Speaker 21: I've been into business for forty years and I've never
Speaker 21: had a supplier. They're not a contractor, they're the actual supplier.
Speaker 21: They just felt bad for your case.
Speaker 1: They're bringing this engine in and they're going to an
Speaker 1: honest guard. That is so great. I feel so good
Speaker 1: about the train company. Oh my god, Earleen, this is
Speaker 1: like amazing.
Speaker 21: And I want to continue very amazing. So this thing
Speaker 21: has sixteen wires coming out of it. It's a little
Speaker 21: beyond my capabilities to install. But the train company is
Speaker 21: going to find one of their authorized dealers to donate
Speaker 21: their technician time.
Speaker 1: When the motor comes in.
Speaker 21: They're going to come out and they're going to install
Speaker 21: motor and you're not going to be charged a penny
Speaker 21: for it.
Speaker 14: Wow, do it?
Speaker 12: No charge?
Speaker 1: Okay? So who's on the board, Jesi, you're gonna dude
Speaker 1: dragon grab my dinger.
Speaker 21: We need yes, absolutely so early, and I'll call you
Speaker 21: when the motor comes in. We'll make arrangements and I'm
Speaker 21: gonna buy a few ignition parts for it, and we're
Speaker 21: gonna get your furnace up and running hopefully in the
Speaker 21: next week and a half.
Speaker 13: Bo.
Speaker 1: That was incredible, dude, incredible. We love you both, Thank you.
Speaker 11: Very much.
Speaker 1: Yes, Early, you're such you're such a nice Yeah, I'm looking.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so listen, we really do appreciate this. Bow then
Speaker 4: it's amazing though that train her this and says, you know,
Speaker 4: well the moment and they know you knew what you
Speaker 4: were talking about, and.
Speaker 21: They knew I diagnosed it to that area and it's
Speaker 21: a seventeen hundred No.
Speaker 4: Tell me what if somebody was foolish enough to work
Speaker 4: on an old furnace and to do this, what would
Speaker 4: this cost as a retail job of a company came
Speaker 4: out to replace that motor? You know, first of all,
Speaker 4: they'd probably mark up the motor by twice at.
Speaker 21: Least two and a half times, because this is below
Speaker 21: what I would pay for it's manufacturing.
Speaker 4: So so let's say the motor they would charge four
Speaker 4: grand forty five hundred.
Speaker 21: This would be probably a thirty nine hundred and forty
Speaker 21: two hundred dollars job.
Speaker 4: Okay, with labor with the label okay, the labor in
Speaker 4: the parts okay, okay.
Speaker 1: Wow, But there would be no point thank you man. Right, bo,
Speaker 1: if it's in the cost thirty of course, not on
Speaker 1: that old furnace, right, No, but.
Speaker 5: In your situation, well, she can't.
Speaker 21: She doesn't have nine thousand dollars in.
Speaker 1: New furnace, and I don't think we we could.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 21: Then she got a quote of nine I think it
Speaker 21: was she got three quotes from seventy eight hundred to
Speaker 21: nine thousand dollars.
Speaker 15: Early. Can't he afford a service?
Speaker 3: Call?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so this was a miracle.
Speaker 4: She called us three oh three seven one three talk
Speaker 4: seven one three eight two five five Drew, go ahead,
Speaker 4: what's going on?
Speaker 11: Hey?
Speaker 16: I was uh checking on the office filling.
Speaker 25: I am in the office.
Speaker 4: Manager for on South Color Boulevard, and you were doing
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I didn't get the I didn't get the
Speaker 4: first part.
Speaker 1: You were late, Drew, I didn't get.
Speaker 18: The first into my truck.
Speaker 16: Well, my girlfriend was in there, and don's damage. She
Speaker 16: offered me, he goes, I'll give you a hundred bucks.
Speaker 16: I took it down. I called my Ford dealership, UH
Speaker 16: Freeway for They sent me down to UH Dinos down
Speaker 16: on Santa Fe. They're the only people to work on
Speaker 16: aluminum trucks. I got eight thousand dollars in damage on
Speaker 16: my truck.
Speaker 4: Hey, Drew, Drew, what year? Tell me about the vehicle?
Speaker 4: What exactly is the vehicle?
Speaker 16: It's two was the nineteen Ford Lariat pickup truck.
Speaker 1: And it's it's aluminum. Aren't they all alluminum?
Speaker 16: That's why he told me.
Speaker 12: I went to Dinos and then then I went to
Speaker 12: Caliber to get another uh you know, estimate, and they
Speaker 12: don't work on aluminum truss.
Speaker 1: N Kevin, is there something? Is there something special here? Alluminum?
Speaker 1: What is he talking about?
Speaker 5: All Ford panels are aluminum through those years, you know, seventeen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it says military greater than It's just what is
Speaker 4: the big deal about working on them?
Speaker 1: I don't get it. What what can they not do?
Speaker 5: It's he treated, it's the painting is a little bit different.
Speaker 5: It is a little different, but most most body chefs
Speaker 5: work on them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it could be costly though.
Speaker 16: And then I went to a Caliber Collision to get
Speaker 16: a second you know, uh, you know, estimate on it,
Speaker 16: and they will work on it.
Speaker 1: So what I'm uh, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 16: I've got her plate okay, and I've got her on video.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But here's what's really important. The plate number is not
Speaker 4: the important thing. Here's what I need to know, Drew.
Speaker 4: Just listen and answer some questions real quick. When it happened.
Speaker 4: Was it on private property?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Did you get a police report? Done?
Speaker 23: Yes?
Speaker 12: I did one online?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 4: Good?
Speaker 1: Did you do it the same day?
Speaker 14: Yes?
Speaker 1: I did?
Speaker 5: Good.
Speaker 1: Now did did she do one?
Speaker 13: I do not believe so.
Speaker 1: Okay? Now does she?
Speaker 4: Do you have any proof with an email or a
Speaker 4: text or anything that she took responsibility? Uh?
Speaker 16: Yes, I have video and also I have audio.
Speaker 4: There you go.
Speaker 1: And your girlfriend was in the truck, right, Yes, I.
Speaker 16: Was inside checking on my office woman, but she.
Speaker 1: Was in the truck.
Speaker 6: You need to just turn this over to your own
Speaker 6: insurance with all that info, and they're gonna figure it out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, why don't you send it like do you have
Speaker 4: collision coverage?
Speaker 16: I got full coverage on my truck?
Speaker 1: Well, why don't you do it, like Mark said, through
Speaker 1: your insurance?
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 4: And then basically you're end up paying the deductible right now.
Speaker 4: But trust me, if you have that video of evidence
Speaker 4: and stuff, they're gonna go after and subrogate that claim
Speaker 4: and the very first dollar they recover will go to
Speaker 4: that deductible that you paid.
Speaker 1: Okay, and it won't and it won't effect in any way.
Speaker 6: It won't affect the price of your insurance because you're
Speaker 6: not at fault.
Speaker 1: No, that's right, Okay, that's what I needed to know, Drew.
Speaker 4: How long ago did this happen? There might be a problem.
Speaker 4: Did you ever report this before?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 1: How long ago did it happened?
Speaker 16: It happened on uh January twenty seventh. I was coming out, okay,
Speaker 16: in a handicapped spot.
Speaker 1: Got it, got it.
Speaker 16: I was in the line and I've got photographs of everything,
Speaker 16: and she wiped out.
Speaker 25: The side of my truck.
Speaker 4: Well, it's good that it wasn't that long ago. You
Speaker 4: should have called your insurance company. Call them right now,
Speaker 4: because they they might they might pull something because you
Speaker 4: didn't call them right away.
Speaker 1: Here's what you tell them. Listen carefully.
Speaker 4: You tell them that you thought you could work it
Speaker 4: out with the person who did it, but that is
Speaker 4: not going to happen. And you need to file acclaim
Speaker 4: because they're going to want to know why you waited
Speaker 4: several days.
Speaker 1: But it wasn't that long actually, But Drew.
Speaker 4: Let me just ask you that, though out of curiosity,
Speaker 4: have you ever asked her if she if she would pay?
Speaker 1: What did she say when you told her it was
Speaker 1: about a grand.
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 19: No, Uh, she offered me one hundred dollars at the spot.
Speaker 16: I'll give you a hundred dollars for your damn age.
Speaker 16: You're your truck.
Speaker 1: Yeah. But what happened after they get out of curiosity?
Speaker 1: Go ahead? Did you take the money?
Speaker 14: No?
Speaker 16: I did not take money.
Speaker 5: Did you give you proof of insurance while you exchange information?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 16: She would now give me your information.
Speaker 1: So you have no information on this woman.
Speaker 16: All I got is pictures of her car and her
Speaker 16: license plate number.
Speaker 1: Why wouldn't she give you information?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 16: She became very combative at the scene, crying and doing everything.
Speaker 16: Offered you know, one hundred dollars.
Speaker 24: And then.
Speaker 16: You know, finally, why.
Speaker 1: Did you not call? Why didn't you call the police?
Speaker 16: I'm on private property and I've got a broken hip,
Speaker 16: and that's why i was parking my handicap spot and
Speaker 16: I had my placard up everything. And then I you know,
Speaker 16: finally she was just going irate.
Speaker 1: Put in a claim, put in a claim with your
Speaker 1: insurance company. I gotta take a break.
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Speaker 4: oh three nine two zero sixteen twenty two. Hi tom
Speaker 4: Archino here three all three seven to one three talk
Speaker 4: seven one three eight two five five. Welcome here to
Speaker 4: help you, and uh we're going to go to the
Speaker 4: phones and figure out what we can do for you
Speaker 4: right now. Now, Tom's got a comment on that aluminum
Speaker 4: truck and why it's so expensive. And I thought illuminum
Speaker 4: panels were not unusual. Go ahead, Tom, what's your comment?
Speaker 13: Hi?
Speaker 12: Tom?
Speaker 20: I have a Hey fifty with uh alluming body and
Speaker 20: I went to Caliber Collision and Henderson and they fixed
Speaker 20: it no problem.
Speaker 1: And was it extra expensive?
Speaker 16: Al right?
Speaker 20: Seventeen thousand.
Speaker 4: For him?
Speaker 1: One thousand?
Speaker 14: What do you.
Speaker 1: Wow? They holy they had.
Speaker 19: UH hood and the roof.
Speaker 20: Well no, they fixed the roof finally, but the roof
Speaker 20: was and would have been twenty four There.
Speaker 1: Tom, is luminum unusual?
Speaker 4: I mean, is this truck like a rare breed because
Speaker 4: it has aluminum panels? No?
Speaker 20: My I had a twenty eighteen Ford and it was
Speaker 20: alluminum body. No, Ford is making all their trucks. Him
Speaker 20: to uh Ford a mile age epa milege okay or whatever?
Speaker 1: All right, thank you very much? All right?
Speaker 4: So hold on now, I think, well, no, we we
Speaker 4: took care of Drew, so we're done with him. Lee's turn, Lee,
Speaker 4: go ahead, what's going on with you? Lee?
Speaker 13: Lee?
Speaker 5: Lee?
Speaker 11: Hello?
Speaker 3: Hi?
Speaker 1: Hey, what's happening? Hi? Happening.
Speaker 26: Alright, I brinded ironic that during the why hold on,
Speaker 26: hold on now, we're getting like we're getting like a
Speaker 26: six second delay here.
Speaker 1: Do you have a bluetooth headset on?
Speaker 13: You're not?
Speaker 9: Now?
Speaker 19: I had rink speaker on, but I took it off.
Speaker 1: Okay, thank you. What's going on?
Speaker 26: I am dealing with all State? Yeah, I hear two
Speaker 26: commercials all State You're in good hands, but it's all
Speaker 26: but the opposite.
Speaker 10: With All State.
Speaker 26: I have suffered a tremendous laws. I get you assessed
Speaker 26: at my property, and I have a renter's insurance policy
Speaker 26: with them, and I've you know, followed everything per the
Speaker 26: policy requirements, submitted everything, and they're just being negligent to
Speaker 26: pay the claim and I'm suffering major financial hardshets because
Speaker 26: of it. I filed complaints, I got a lawyer involved,
Speaker 26: and I'm still just you know, being ignored by All State.
Speaker 26: And I'm really just I'm more than disappointed. I mean
Speaker 26: all I've heard two commercials about you're in good hands
Speaker 26: with All States since I've been waiting to talk to you.
Speaker 1: So, okay, I want to know about the loss. Tell
Speaker 1: me about the loss.
Speaker 26: Well, there was a burglary that occurred at my home
Speaker 26: and my you know, all my TVs and you know,
Speaker 26: electronic devices, a lot of personal stuff. My car, my
Speaker 26: Mercedes Benz was was taken. I mean just they wipe
Speaker 26: me out completely.
Speaker 4: It was.
Speaker 13: It was really a bad deal.
Speaker 26: It was so bad that, like I couldn't even continue
Speaker 26: to stay at the property because I couldn't even maintain
Speaker 26: our standard of living any longer because everything was just gone?
Speaker 1: So how did they hold on?
Speaker 4: Was anyone else triggered? Was was anyone else triggered with
Speaker 4: the crime in that area?
Speaker 26: Not that I'm aware of?
Speaker 1: How much did you lose altogether? If you added everything
Speaker 1: up fifty five thousand? Did you did you? Did they
Speaker 1: ever recover your car?
Speaker 20: No?
Speaker 13: Not yet?
Speaker 4: Okay, then okay, do you have your radio on? Let
Speaker 4: me just ask you that, do you have your radio
Speaker 4: on at all? No?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 4: Okay, we're getting like not one echo but two. But okay, so, Lee,
Speaker 4: you have a fifty dollars loss. I need to know
Speaker 4: why your insurance refuses to pay.
Speaker 26: There's no real good reason, Tom, and that This is
Speaker 26: what I'm trying to figure it out. Because I've sent
Speaker 26: demand letters and everything, and they're saying, Oh, they're saying
Speaker 26: that they are. I got a claim status letter on
Speaker 26: this a few days ago, and it said that they
Speaker 26: were waiting on proof of ownership. I had spoken of
Speaker 26: what for a few weeks ago, exactly of my property,
Speaker 26: I guess, which isn't a requirement of the policy because
Speaker 26: they don't require.
Speaker 1: That's to wait, you don't own Wait, you don't own
Speaker 1: the vehicle? Oh yes, I do. Well, then what are
Speaker 1: you talking about?
Speaker 10: That?
Speaker 19: They were very vague.
Speaker 1: Be a little more transparent. Is it titled in your name?
Speaker 26: Yes, the vehicle was registered in my name, and I
Speaker 26: don't careume that it's the vehicle that there's fine.
Speaker 4: Well, first of all, first of all, I just want
Speaker 4: to cut right through this rents insurance.
Speaker 1: Renters insurance does not cover vehicles, right, well, well, what
Speaker 1: do you mean?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 4: Yeah, right, so so, so subtract the vehicle from that.
Speaker 4: Renter's insurance does not cover your car, period.
Speaker 24: Right, And that's fine.
Speaker 26: You know, I wasn't expecting that they would. I included it, so,
Speaker 26: you know, because it was a list of everything that
Speaker 26: was taken for the police report.
Speaker 4: Right, I understand, though, do you have the regular car
Speaker 4: insurance on the car.
Speaker 26: No, I didn't have car entrance on the car. I
Speaker 26: wasn't driving it like I.
Speaker 4: Then you don't have coverage on that vehicle. Was was
Speaker 4: your car parked in a garage?
Speaker 13: Yes?
Speaker 1: Yes it was, and it was not registered, it was
Speaker 1: not current. It was correct.
Speaker 4: Okay, So let's move on to the other stuff that
Speaker 4: was taken. When you said fifty thousand dollars, that does not.
Speaker 1: Include the car, right, it does include the car? How
Speaker 1: much without the car.
Speaker 19: For forty forty five?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 5: Okay, it sounds like you're just donor bluff. They won't
Speaker 5: proof that she actually owned the stuff she's claiming.
Speaker 4: Okay, but hold on, what kind of stuff would they want?
Speaker 4: Proof of ownership? I've ever seen in the idea with
Speaker 4: forty grand worth of stuff? Sure, forty five I want Okay,
Speaker 4: let's take this break. I need to know exactly what
Speaker 4: they're asking about proof of ownership. The car is out
Speaker 4: of there completely. Let's talk about the other stuff. I
Speaker 4: don't think I can go through this house other than
Speaker 4: my drums and equipment, though I can't find if I
Speaker 4: added everything up, including my exercise equipment, I could not
Speaker 4: put together fifty grand worth of stuff I'm serious, I don't.
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Speaker 4: Three oh three nine two zero sixteen twenty two. Hey Connie,
Speaker 4: what's going on with you?
Speaker 11: Well?
Speaker 13: Tom, I'm an older woman. Just turned eighty last week.
Speaker 13: That makes me really older. But anyway, when I was
Speaker 13: a baby, Oh take sure. What I want to do
Speaker 13: is I want to present something to the Trump campaign
Speaker 13: in Washington, and I have no idea how to do this.
Speaker 13: I've had this and thought I was going to use
Speaker 13: it several times. It was used once for anyway, It
Speaker 13: won a contest for Mother's Day in nineteen forty seven.
Speaker 13: It could have been forty eight. BUS think it was
Speaker 13: forty seven in Cincinnati, Ohio. And since Jadie Vans is
Speaker 13: from there, I thought, well, I'll contact them. Will they
Speaker 13: push me on to you know, to call the people
Speaker 13: in Washington. But I didn't get through.
Speaker 4: So uh anyway, So Connie, are you trying let me
Speaker 4: get this straight. You're trying to donate something to Donald Trump.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I'd like him to use it. I mean, if
Speaker 13: he wants to give me a service dog.
Speaker 4: That was?
Speaker 1: And what exactly is it is it? Is it a
Speaker 1: vintage photograph?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 13: No, no, no, no, it won or was I don't
Speaker 13: know if it one it or they picked from what
Speaker 13: I heard from the family and they're all dead now.
Speaker 13: I maybe what the hell is is that it's a
Speaker 13: Mother's Day picture that was Cincinnati, Ohio's Mother's Day campaign
Speaker 13: for nineteen forty seven, maybe forty eight, I think it's
Speaker 13: forty seven.
Speaker 1: Are you in the picture at all? I'm just curious.
Speaker 13: I'm the baby. I'm the baby. I'm the baby. Oh
Speaker 13: take the picture was taken to my father at the
Speaker 13: end of the war. I was born in forty five
Speaker 13: and my Yeah, but what does this have to do
Speaker 13: with Trump? Well, let me let me finish. It won
Speaker 13: a contest for that year for Mother's Day. It was
Speaker 13: all plastered in on the back of there's a picture
Speaker 13: of me and my mother in the newspaper putting the
Speaker 13: first one up on it.
Speaker 1: I get it, car, I get it in forty seven.
Speaker 13: Okay, So the thing of it is, it's not just
Speaker 13: a nice picture there. There's a lot of beautiful pictures.
Speaker 13: I did have a water colored in to buy a
Speaker 13: famous watercolors years ago. Anyway, Anyway, that's another start, is it.
Speaker 1: Because it's forty seven? It was forty seven, forty eight?
Speaker 13: Well, it was born, and I mean I was born
Speaker 13: in forty five. The picture actually when the con I
Speaker 13: was three months old when the picture was taken. I
Speaker 13: was forty four years old when it won this when
Speaker 13: it won this contra.
Speaker 1: Who cares how old she was? She was in a
Speaker 1: picture for Mother's Day.
Speaker 4: It won a prize in nineteen forty sevens about the
Speaker 4: minutia the picture.
Speaker 13: Okay, we big the big milutia is is that ites?
Speaker 1: Pardon me, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 13: Go ahead, Oh, I guess shoes. I was in a
Speaker 13: baptism again and I think I don't know that's what.
Speaker 13: It's three months old, but at two years old is
Speaker 13: when it won the contest. It was all over and
Speaker 13: it was it was in their newspaper. They came out
Speaker 13: and took pictures. It was in their insert and so
Speaker 13: it's very documented. I'm not just but yeah, it's what
Speaker 13: it says. It's not the picture itself. There's a lot
Speaker 13: of beautiful pictures out there.
Speaker 1: I get it.
Speaker 13: What it says, it's day's mother love, the hope of
Speaker 13: the future. So in Denver, fifteen sixteen years it was
Speaker 13: used as a mother's day thing. A friend of mine
Speaker 13: took it and used it.
Speaker 1: I'm glad, I'll tell you that.
Speaker 13: Well, there you go.
Speaker 1: Anyway, I don't understand, I don't hold on this is
Speaker 1: this is a really.
Speaker 13: Well he's from Cincinnati that I thought I'd go that way,
Speaker 13: but that didn't work. But anyway, it would be a
Speaker 13: campaign that he puts out there uses a picture in
Speaker 13: the history of it that it's today's mother love is
Speaker 13: the hope of the future. I think that would really
Speaker 13: resonate with a lot of women so anti abortion.
Speaker 16: Loved it because.
Speaker 13: But anyway that it has some history to it. It's
Speaker 13: not just a pretty picture.
Speaker 14: I like it.
Speaker 1: I like the idea. Tom. I think she should send
Speaker 1: them over to you. Yeah, I liked it well, I'd
Speaker 1: like to see it. Can you email us a picture
Speaker 1: of the picture?
Speaker 13: I could, I can. I don't know how to do that,
Speaker 13: but I'll get my friend to do it. I mean,
Speaker 13: I'm technologically stupid. I don't care about it. I don't
Speaker 13: believe I said I never carry plastic. Tom twenty years ago,
Speaker 13: I'll never carry plastic.
Speaker 1: Yeah, never carry what plot plastic? Credit card?
Speaker 13: You have to carry no credit card? Plastic. Never carried plastic.
Speaker 13: I'm sorry I should have say you have to pull
Speaker 13: me back. I get off on tangents. But when you're old,
Speaker 13: you have a lot of stores.
Speaker 1: I made everyone else on this show.
Speaker 13: I really don't want me to be the forefront of
Speaker 13: this thing, because, for one thing, I want to enjoy
Speaker 13: my last hopefully ten twenty years I have left, and
Speaker 13: I don't want to be if this thing, I'll make
Speaker 13: it on its own if it's going to, because my
Speaker 13: name's all over it and I'll go viral. And I also,
Speaker 13: oh yeah, I think it will because of the history.
Speaker 13: I I just want to give it to him. I mean,
Speaker 13: if he wants to repay me and give me a
Speaker 13: nice protective service dog, that would be great. That's all
Speaker 13: I really. I mean, I'm on the government doll. I'm
Speaker 13: considered indigent, but I live, okay, I do okay, my
Speaker 13: kids help me out if I'm in big druggle or whatever.
Speaker 13: I can't be a light till or something.
Speaker 1: Do you live in the Denver area.
Speaker 13: I live in the Deer Trail, Colorado.
Speaker 5: Now get nice.
Speaker 13: I went well on me in a condo, sooint.
Speaker 6: But anyway, you know what I like about this conversation, Tom,
Speaker 6: is you're letting her talk.
Speaker 1: I mean, really, it is fascinating. It is fascinating, seriously, mainly.
Speaker 4: Mainly because I was trying to figure out the story.
Speaker 4: But everyone else was interrupting her this time, you and
Speaker 4: Dragon and everyone else trying to make fun of her.
Speaker 1: I was trying to get the gist of it. Them.
Speaker 6: I understand she's got a picture from nineteen forty seven.
Speaker 6: She was two years old.
Speaker 1: She was three month old.
Speaker 6: And I won like a Nobel Peace Prize or something,
Speaker 6: and we're going to send it to Trumps in exchange
Speaker 6: for a service animal.
Speaker 1: Can you guys shut up?
Speaker 13: If he wants to give me something, make it. If
Speaker 13: he says, what do you want, I'll say, oh, gee,
Speaker 13: get me a protection dog because I have PTSD from
Speaker 13: a man that beat me up for eight years. That's
Speaker 13: what I was forty years ago.
Speaker 1: Hey Connie, Connie, do you have any Connie? I want
Speaker 1: to ask you. Do you have any family?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: She said to you, A couple of kids. Are they
Speaker 1: close to you? They help her out?
Speaker 13: I have one.
Speaker 11: I went through.
Speaker 13: I went through what we used to call a nervous
Speaker 13: breakdown when I was a kid. Now it's anxiety.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you really want to I want to ask you,
Speaker 1: and you really you want a dog.
Speaker 13: For like a promoted I don't want to. I don't
Speaker 13: want to be the old Connie.
Speaker 1: I'm not asking about Connie.
Speaker 4: You don't have to talk about this picture again and
Speaker 4: how you don't want to be involved in how you
Speaker 4: want somebody to help you.
Speaker 1: I want to ask you about you.
Speaker 4: Do you want an emotional support animal or a protection animal.
Speaker 13: No protection, Definitely, protection has to be protection. I almost
Speaker 13: I got December the first time in almost forty years.
Speaker 1: I cry all the time, so I need Is someone
Speaker 1: trying hold on Connie? This is serious? If you can,
Speaker 1: could you do me a favorite Connie and just don't
Speaker 1: talk until I ask a question? How's put her on?
Speaker 1: Just put her on hold? Please put her on hold.
Speaker 4: Tell her I can help her if she would shut
Speaker 4: up long enough to answer some very basic questions.
Speaker 1: Okay, I heard her story. It is touching.
Speaker 4: I want to help her. I'm going to put her
Speaker 4: back up after the break, and I just need her
Speaker 4: to listen and answer some basic questions.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry that woman's gone. So what was I gonna
Speaker 1: ask her?
Speaker 4: If she would pause, like one second and take a
Speaker 4: breath in between words. She's an eighty year old woman
Speaker 4: who pose for an award winning of Mother's Day Pick
Speaker 4: in nineteen forty seven, that she wants to donate to
Speaker 4: Donald Trump. Just give me a couple seconds here.
Speaker 1: She wants to.
Speaker 4: Donate to Donald Trump, and one of the things she
Speaker 4: wants to do is get a protection dog. Now one
Speaker 4: has nothing to do with the other. He's not gonna
Speaker 4: take this picture and donate a dog to her. But
Speaker 4: I'm sure that if she is traumatized and has PTSD
Speaker 4: from some previous encounters of domestic violence or whatever. I
Speaker 4: was trying to truly get to the bottom of it
Speaker 4: as to where she lives, if she feels safe, the
Speaker 4: real need for this, I mean, or does she really
Speaker 4: need an emotional support antal or whatever, And I was
Speaker 4: unable to get answers.
Speaker 1: I just wanted some basic answer. She might be calling okay,
Speaker 1: So when she does, I truly will ask her some
Speaker 1: very basic questions. And sometimes people think I'm just trying
Speaker 1: to I don't know. I ask questions for the hell
Speaker 1: of it. I don't.
Speaker 4: There is always a reason for every single question I
Speaker 4: have ever asked.
Speaker 1: So you might want to remind Deputy Doc of that too.
Speaker 1: And what's going on with you about a motor home?
Speaker 1: What's happening? And Hi, Hi, Hello, what's happening? What's going on?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 24: You know I've got this Class C motor home to
Speaker 24: two thousand and seventy.
Speaker 1: Hey, what is the real quick? And before the break?
Speaker 1: What kind twenty seventeen?
Speaker 13: What great Hawk classy?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 13: With seven seven thousand miles on it?
Speaker 12: Wow?
Speaker 4: Hold on a second, And I know you want to
Speaker 4: know about selling it, right, I guess she does.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about it coming back. I'm Tom Martino.
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Speaker 1: Okay, hey, hey, I'm Tom Martino. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 4: Three oh three seven on three Talk seven one three eight.
Speaker 1: Two five five.
Speaker 4: Solving problems, Answering questions, taking complaints, making your life a
Speaker 4: little easier. And uh Annie had a question about selling
Speaker 4: a motor home. Well, Connie's back up looks like a
Speaker 4: pretty good Okay, I'll get it. Annie, you have a
Speaker 4: pretty nice motor home twenty seventeen Class C Greyhawk motor
Speaker 4: home with about seven thousand miles. They're going for some
Speaker 4: pretty good money, you know, like actually like eighty grand
Speaker 4: or so.
Speaker 1: Did you know that?
Speaker 24: Well, yes, but I have.
Speaker 13: I'm got a loan on it.
Speaker 1: Well, okay, what's your loan for? How much?
Speaker 24: Jalle seventy thousand?
Speaker 1: Okay, you're gonna get more than that? Well, maybe, I
Speaker 1: mean she might be that might be right around there.
Speaker 1: I mean I don't know, but but.
Speaker 4: Mark, she only has seven thousand miles on it everyone.
Speaker 4: I'm looking at everyone, I'm looking at it has forty
Speaker 4: or more for seventy two or I mean, maybe you're
Speaker 4: it's going to be close. So anyway, have you ever
Speaker 4: thought about consigning it?
Speaker 24: Yes, I have, I've actually thought about that. I thought
Speaker 24: about refinancing it. Also, don't drive it much.
Speaker 16: Why would you refrand children?
Speaker 1: Why would you? Well, then why would you ever refinance it?
Speaker 24: Make it affordable for my pocket?
Speaker 1: You're probably better off selling it. And then if you
Speaker 1: have to come to the table.
Speaker 4: But you're not, you're not even using it. I mean
Speaker 4: you're If you're not using it, refinancing it is useless.
Speaker 24: Well, I found that out. I was told I had
Speaker 24: to go back to the dealer to even refinance it.
Speaker 24: So it was off the table at that point, going
Speaker 24: all the way back up to I think it's love Loveland,
Speaker 24: somewhere along mount where I bought it.
Speaker 1: At lazy Days.
Speaker 24: So that's out of the question, and I thought maybe
Speaker 24: I'd have to come to the table with a little
Speaker 24: bit of money.
Speaker 1: I'm not even sure you have.
Speaker 4: To do that in.
Speaker 24: Oh, Okay, I guess I need to, But I think.
Speaker 4: I think you can probably get lazy. I think Lazy
Speaker 4: Days would buy it.
Speaker 1: Back from you.
Speaker 24: Okay, I'll get me try.
Speaker 1: Mark our contact up there? Is he's still there? No
Speaker 1: Lazy Days in Nope, nope, No, he went to Grand
Speaker 1: Junction to run a new deal. Okay, do we still
Speaker 1: have a contact at Lazy Days? Not really. Lazy Days
Speaker 1: is going through so changes.
Speaker 4: Did they stop on our Let's just ask straight up,
Speaker 4: I I I actually haven't noticed.
Speaker 1: You know they were century RV. We loved him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we had a long answer your question.
Speaker 6: We might be advertising again for him once winter's done,
Speaker 6: But I don't know because they are going through a
Speaker 6: lot of changes.
Speaker 1: I'm not kidding.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, and maybe maybe not. There's another one
Speaker 4: up there, r V America.
Speaker 6: Who's the guys in the Springs that own two or
Speaker 6: three Susanne. He's been on the show.
Speaker 5: They might.
Speaker 6: I think they buy stuff left and right. I think
Speaker 6: she's gonna be I think if she she's I think
Speaker 6: she can break even. Oh yeah, try cousins in the Springs.
Speaker 6: I think I think she can break even on this.
Speaker 5: I think.
Speaker 4: But whatever you do and what I do, here's the
Speaker 4: here's the only here's the only thing that really puzzles me.
Speaker 4: And and I should let it puzzle me, but it does.
Speaker 4: How you were equating selling it to re and and
Speaker 4: I don't how. I don't see how a REFI could
Speaker 4: benefit you. Were you talking about pulling cash out of
Speaker 4: it or getting a lower payment?
Speaker 24: Lower payment?
Speaker 4: Okay, so you thought if I have to keep it,
Speaker 4: at least I can have a lower payment.
Speaker 1: Now I've got an idea for you.
Speaker 4: It's a little outside the box, but that unit would
Speaker 4: qualify for it because of the price range. That there's
Speaker 4: a place called rv easy, and then there's some other ones,
Speaker 4: but RV share, r v easy you rent it.
Speaker 1: Out having I know Mark, but that's a terrible thing.
Speaker 19: But yeah, you never know what.
Speaker 14: Listen.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, that's another opportunity, okay.
Speaker 4: And she owes like she owes seventy grand I would
Speaker 4: never expose myself to that. Now, whatever happened to the
Speaker 4: woman with the thank you Anne, with the renter's insurance
Speaker 4: claim forty five thousand losses?
Speaker 1: She hung up.
Speaker 4: I was gonna help her, but okay, let's go back
Speaker 4: to Connie. Connie called and wanted to talk about an
Speaker 4: iconic picture and posters she was part of back in
Speaker 4: the day, she wanted to donate to Trump, and while
Speaker 4: she was speaking to us, she said that she felt like,
Speaker 4: you know, if he or anyone ever wanted to do
Speaker 4: something kind for her, she could use a protection dog.
Speaker 4: And I asked, do you mean emotional support of protection?
Speaker 4: And she said, no protection. And one of the reasons
Speaker 4: was she said she was abused for a while, and
Speaker 4: that concerns me. She's eighty years old and she still
Speaker 4: feels a little insecure, and I want to know why, Connie.
Speaker 1: How long ago was this abuse?
Speaker 13: Almost forty years. It was a husband. I ran, got
Speaker 13: to Colorado Springs. That's the story, and that's as far
Speaker 13: as I'm going to go. That was I made some
Speaker 13: really bad decisions and it's still affecting my life to
Speaker 13: this day. But I had a bad summer. But that's
Speaker 13: not why I'm calling. We can go into that. That's
Speaker 13: the service dog part. I should have ever mentioned it.
Speaker 13: I have one. I'm trying to train a last.
Speaker 1: Man, Connie. Connie, thank you for your answer, Connie, thank
Speaker 1: you for your answer. Put her back on hold. Thank you.
Speaker 4: I look at I can't do this, Okay, I really
Speaker 4: can't do this, So why don't we just try to
Speaker 4: take care of it off the air. I just I
Speaker 4: wanted to if this was an abuse forty years ago.
Speaker 4: I just need to know if she doesn't want to
Speaker 4: protection dog, fine, Okay, maybe you know. I'm very by
Speaker 4: the way alerted when older.
Speaker 1: People or wives, especially when they're talking about.
Speaker 4: Feeling unsafe or something and they need help. I just
Speaker 4: wanted to explore that if she's not in danger and
Speaker 4: having some emotional problems, I get it.
Speaker 1: I get it.
Speaker 4: The immediate concern. Though she's not in trouble. She doesn't
Speaker 4: feel unsafe right now, that's fine. So if she would
Speaker 4: just like someone to talk to, I get that as well.
Speaker 4: But try to find out if there's something we can
Speaker 4: do for her today. Is it to get this picture donated.
Speaker 4: We could probably figure out a contact for her if
Speaker 4: what she wants to do is donate this picture. Three
Speaker 4: zero three seven one three talk seven one three eight
Speaker 4: two five five. Peter, you have a comment on RVs,
Speaker 4: Go ahead, Peter.
Speaker 27: Yes, yes, Tom, I was in the trade for a
Speaker 27: while selling RVs, and uh, just a word of advice.
Speaker 27: If that woman goes back to that place, she's gonna
Speaker 27: have to bring money with her, because we call RV's
Speaker 27: rum vacations, not recreational vehicles. I can't tell you how
Speaker 27: many people have bought RVs and a year or two
Speaker 27: later they brought them back. I love mine, and it
Speaker 27: cost them a lot of the money.
Speaker 1: I absolutely love it.
Speaker 4: Hey, well, okay, I don't, Peter, I don't think it's
Speaker 4: pretty wild. I don't think you can just generalize ruined vacations.
Speaker 1: I call them.
Speaker 4: Because you do everything on your own time. I mean
Speaker 4: you say people would take them back. Probably they paid
Speaker 4: too much and they didn't think it through.
Speaker 27: Well, a lot of couples have gotten divorces after two
Speaker 27: or three years on the road.
Speaker 1: Okay, but that doesn't have much to do with our vs.
Speaker 27: Oh yes it does. We would always tell them, Tom,
Speaker 27: if you ever decided to get rid of it, come
Speaker 27: back and see us.
Speaker 1: Okay, we meet all kinds of great people and ours.
Speaker 13: Man.
Speaker 4: So are you saying, Peter, that there's a lot of
Speaker 4: buyer's remorse in the RV business?
Speaker 27: Absolutely?
Speaker 6: Yeah, we use ours at least i'd say twelve weeks
Speaker 6: out of a year, usually one long trip of four
Speaker 6: or five weeks.
Speaker 1: Harry, we better watch out.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm like cars better than most hotels.
Speaker 27: Well, absolutely, that's they are. But there's a lot of
Speaker 27: when you get two people in a small confined space
Speaker 27: like an RV.
Speaker 6: My god, Susanna and I have lived together and worked together.
Speaker 6: We're attached by the hip for thirty three years. Hold on, Mark,
Speaker 6: I think he's talking about most people.
Speaker 1: But Peter and Zanne don't have a typical RV. They
Speaker 1: have a beautiful, very expensive Peter.
Speaker 4: But but it's still it's still a relatively small place
Speaker 4: compared to you know, I know what he's saying. Peter, Listen,
Speaker 4: I think you're generalizing based on the bad experiences you've encountered.
Speaker 1: I mean, there are plenty of people. You're right.
Speaker 4: I mean there are people who will never be right
Speaker 4: for the RV style never ever ever, I mean seriously,
Speaker 4: and they appreciate it.
Speaker 6: I'd never buy a new one ever again. But they
Speaker 6: depreciate like a tesla basically.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But you know, here's the deal, Peter, I think you're right.
Speaker 1: It takes it.
Speaker 4: It takes special people, special couples, to get used to
Speaker 4: the R and B. Especially what's that I said you
Speaker 4: loved yours absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 6: I can literally work anywhere in the country at any time,
Speaker 6: anywhere in it, anywhere. It doesn't matter. If time's like,
Speaker 6: hey I've got I got to do something, boom boom boom.
Speaker 6: It takes me about one and a half minutes to
Speaker 6: set up my star link. If it's already not set up,
Speaker 6: I can pull over in a Walmart parking lot and
Speaker 6: do the show. So, I mean, we love that ability.
Speaker 4: I used to love so much going places and stuff.
Speaker 4: And look my current situation. I don't think it would work.
Speaker 4: She will remain nameless, but my.
Speaker 1: She could could.
Speaker 5: I mean she could.
Speaker 4: Well see that part we'd never have to worry about.
Speaker 4: But here's the point, she breaks out in a rash off.
Speaker 4: We're ten minutes away from a porcelain toilet.
Speaker 1: So I mean, it's like we we have.
Speaker 4: To be with luxurious, not luxurious. She's not spoiled that way.
Speaker 4: But I don't think camping. And I know she calls
Speaker 4: it camping. I said, honey, this is not camping.
Speaker 1: This is like a freaking it's a beautiful suite, but
Speaker 1: she doesn't look at it that.
Speaker 6: God, we've got some people that were in like a
Speaker 6: sixty five TV in every room.
Speaker 4: Mark Mark I had a pravo, for God's sakes, that
Speaker 4: that that stars by and she thought it was roughing.
Speaker 1: At that country. Who was the country Western guy had it?
Speaker 1: George Jones, Yeah, it was great. But also here's the
Speaker 1: deal man.
Speaker 4: And then I've had these big ones that they use
Speaker 4: on in the five hundred, the Indianapolis five hundred where
Speaker 4: they they're all on the infield, all the drivers. Here's
Speaker 4: the thing. It's people believe Mark. They say, that's that's
Speaker 4: roughing it. There are people who think that's roughing it.
Speaker 4: And you have a beautiful motor home and there's I mean,
Speaker 4: if you close your and not close your eyes, if
Speaker 4: you didn't know where you were, you think you're in
Speaker 4: a one of the best hotel rooms in the world.
Speaker 4: But people, for some reason get weirded when you talk
Speaker 4: about r vs. They all assume it's I don't know.
Speaker 4: They just make these assumptions that they're they're terrible and
Speaker 4: they have no idea what they're talking about. Now, we
Speaker 4: have more coming up on The Troubleshooter Show three oh
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Speaker 4: eight two five five sus we had a call about
Speaker 4: a backup camera. Somebody suggested to me, Hey, the guy
Speaker 4: changed everything out, just changed the damn camera.
Speaker 1: And you said you had some information.
Speaker 13: Yeah, So this gentleman called and he has a Dodge pickup.
Speaker 28: He said, uh, when it happened to his camera, he
Speaker 28: he went to the actual camera on the tailgate itself
Speaker 28: and took off the plate or whatever and made sure
Speaker 28: all the connections were tight, taking that tailgate up and
Speaker 28: down all the time.
Speaker 7: Tom can loosen those connections could be something as simple
Speaker 7: as that.
Speaker 1: In case the caller is listening, Okay.
Speaker 4: Cool, Yeah, and uh, I believe he said he bought
Speaker 4: a new harness even and he you know, so maybe
Speaker 4: he had done that, who knows. But in any case,
Speaker 4: here's another one. Tom, the guy calling about r VS
Speaker 4: is totally right. People are going wild on each other
Speaker 4: all the time at campgrounds.
Speaker 1: It's the sight of violence. You've got that. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I have never found that. I found people in
Speaker 4: such good moods. I've never found a grump.
Speaker 1: Ever, have you Guys? Most people are so.
Speaker 6: Some of the greatest people, you know. I know full timers.
Speaker 6: Full timers can be a little strange. Here's two different kinds.
Speaker 1: Of full timers.
Speaker 6: There's some that are they're out there maybe six seven
Speaker 6: months out of the year, but they've got a beautiful
Speaker 6: house somewhere for the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Then there's the ones that are legitimately full timers. And
Speaker 6: some of those folks don't seem as happy. I will
Speaker 6: say that.
Speaker 4: You mean the ones where they made the movies like
Speaker 4: that one they made a movie about like they're crazy people.
Speaker 4: And then they when they stop, they they don't just
Speaker 4: stand once budd either. And then when they stop, you
Speaker 4: know that some of them sell wares and it's they're
Speaker 4: like gypsies.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I can use that anymore.
Speaker 4: That I was told that's ethnically insulting to somebody, and
Speaker 4: I could be canceled for using the term gypsies. But
Speaker 4: in any case, uh, people we used to call people
Speaker 4: formerly known as gypsies.
Speaker 6: I can I can use that people experiencing gypsiness, you're
Speaker 6: experiencing something we would have called gypsies.
Speaker 13: You know.
Speaker 6: It's so in any case, I'm strange full timers, So, uh,
Speaker 6: it's kind of crazy.
Speaker 1: And we were talking to Kevin.
Speaker 6: So generally when Suzanne or I we have certain destinations,
Speaker 6: like we might be going to the Oregon coast and
Speaker 6: we'll stay right on the ocean for a week.
Speaker 1: That's the destination.
Speaker 6: But getting there, we'll still have to stop at like
Speaker 6: a Koa overnight or somewhere where I don't have.
Speaker 1: To drop the car and all that.
Speaker 6: So those places are one thing, But the destinations are
Speaker 6: always beautiful, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Yes, I mean we've still used in Walmart parking lots
Speaker 1: for my God's sake. Yep.
Speaker 4: In the West Coast, on the West coast up there, northwest,
Speaker 4: have you ever seen was it?
Speaker 1: Canyon Beach was the most beautiful beach I've ever been to.
Speaker 1: I don't think. Then there was another I think you have,
Speaker 1: I think you have. You were up in Oregon, right,
Speaker 1: We stayed at a park in Oregon.
Speaker 6: Literally we would walk out onto this private beach that
Speaker 6: was probably four miles long, and Suzanne, myself and the
Speaker 6: two dogs were basically the only only people on the
Speaker 6: beach every day.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's Canon Beach, yep, Oregon. And then the other,
Speaker 4: the other one. I don't know if that's what you
Speaker 4: were talking about, but that's where it is. And then
Speaker 4: a moral rock that sounds fun.
Speaker 6: Have you ever heard of there's one in I think
Speaker 6: you've been to this one, the one in Vegas, Las
Speaker 6: Vegas Motor Coach.
Speaker 4: Well that that's like a freaking resort that you know,
Speaker 4: the one where they come out. There's one where they
Speaker 4: come out and inspect your motor home before they let
Speaker 4: you in.
Speaker 6: Almost everyone have cup. Almost everyone have cups. Stay in
Speaker 6: or it's got to be a A class, can't be
Speaker 6: anything else A class. It's got to be ten years
Speaker 6: or less or newer or unless unless it's a certain model,
Speaker 6: like you know, like a Prevost that's fifteen years old,
Speaker 6: it's in good shape.
Speaker 1: They're not going to care about and they make you.
Speaker 1: But but they they come out and they go around.
Speaker 1: They go around it with a clipboard.
Speaker 4: I can you imagine what if a guy comes up
Speaker 4: to you and says, sir, can you use that turnaround?
Speaker 1: Tyger ve time? Well in line a.
Speaker 6: Tiger run where someone was trying to get into there
Speaker 6: with like a thirty five foot unit and they were like, beat.
Speaker 4: It, jack and it was simple as that. Now in
Speaker 4: Canon Beach, that rock is not Moro. There is a
Speaker 4: Moral Beach with a Morral rock. This one is Haystack
Speaker 4: Rock and it looks like a giant haystack on Cannon Beach.
Speaker 4: And some of these places are absolutely beautiful. And then
Speaker 4: we used to take an ferry on the take the
Speaker 4: motor home on a ferry out to the islands. What
Speaker 4: are those islands called off the Northwest?
Speaker 1: But we would go out there and they would have
Speaker 1: RV parks. There was an RV park on the actual island.
Speaker 1: Then they had what was it, oh, where you're listening
Speaker 1: to this.
Speaker 4: Your RV gets parked on deck and becomes part of
Speaker 4: the cruise. It's not like a long cruise like the
Speaker 4: ocean cruises, but it's like these giant river cruises and
Speaker 4: you stay in your RV, but you are on and
Speaker 4: you hook up, but you are on this cruise. And
Speaker 4: then they have another one where you do a train.
Speaker 4: Your RV goes up on a car and I think
Speaker 4: there's a couple two cars to a car, and then
Speaker 4: you can walk between them. You can't walk into people's RVs.
Speaker 4: There's common cars, but then there's r Then your RV
Speaker 4: is where you stay. There's some really creative vacations with
Speaker 4: RVs that people uh have to explore.
Speaker 1: They're crazy, but it's which ice.
Speaker 16: That.
Speaker 4: The biggest downfall of RVs that I have found is
Speaker 4: the time between trips. You know, as you get older,
Speaker 4: obviously that means something right. Some people enjoy the journey
Speaker 4: and the destination. Others just want to get there. If
Speaker 4: you just want to get there, don't do an RV.
Speaker 4: I mean an RV is where when you leave your home,
Speaker 4: you're happy because you're on the way.
Speaker 1: I used to feel that way.
Speaker 4: I never had to get there. The whole journey that
Speaker 4: I planned out was part of the trip. And that's
Speaker 4: the right kind of attitude for an RV. So you're
Speaker 4: not in a hurry ever, and you get the entire hurry.
Speaker 4: It's too big to be in a hurry. Seriously. Yeah,
Speaker 4: well not just in a hurry like speed wise Mark,
Speaker 4: but like psychologically, oh you know, you got to get there,
Speaker 4: got to get there, got to get there. So the
Speaker 4: real deal is enjoying every minute of it. And it
Speaker 4: takes a special person to do that.
Speaker 1: We love it.
Speaker 6: So we're to the point now where I'll only drive
Speaker 6: maybe maybe five hour stops, but four hours. We're going
Speaker 6: to make our way. Probably not this year, we're going.
Speaker 6: If we go, we're going to go somewhere else. But
Speaker 6: I want to do all of Florida.
Speaker 4: You realize, like Key West has some of the most
Speaker 4: beautiful You get a boat slip, you got a full
Speaker 4: outdoor living quarters.
Speaker 1: I mean it's like it's like a true true resort,
Speaker 1: oh for sure.
Speaker 4: And anyway, I think it's one of many vacations. There
Speaker 4: are people who love you know what I always thought. Now,
Speaker 4: now don't think I'm crazy, but I really believed if
Speaker 4: you could cater to kind of fantasy vacations, you know,
Speaker 4: like they did with the cattle rustlers, right, or you know,
Speaker 4: be a cowboy for a week or something like that.
Speaker 4: I thought, Now, listen to this and don't think I'm nuts.
Speaker 4: I'm going to take a break. I want to ask
Speaker 4: you this though. Think about this as a vacation. You
Speaker 4: have a freight train, a fake freight train, and you're
Speaker 4: a hobo and you get to hop a car and
Speaker 4: you can just stay on that car. No, would that
Speaker 4: be like crazy? And it's you get to live the
Speaker 4: life of a hobo for a few days. Is that
Speaker 4: what they call hobos? Is that even acceptable anymore? Who
Speaker 4: whoever knows in a hobo? You think the host could
Speaker 4: be offended by that? So and when you say hobo anyway?
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Speaker 18: I need my doorbell is stop working and I am
Speaker 18: so tired of not working for four months, and so
Speaker 18: I would sign out.
Speaker 1: What kind is it? What kind of.
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 1: You mean just a regular doorbell?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Lit it up?
Speaker 14: Lit it up?
Speaker 18: A doorbell?
Speaker 4: Yeah, like a button like in an old house, a
Speaker 4: button that lights up at night. You press the button
Speaker 4: and it goes ding dong.
Speaker 1: Just buy a new one. Have you ever thought of
Speaker 1: putting in like a ring doorbell?
Speaker 18: I did, and I got I took that off because
Speaker 18: it has problems because you have to pay for certain
Speaker 18: you can buy.
Speaker 4: Oh no, you got to pay yeah, right, you got
Speaker 4: to pay a subscription if you want to keep it
Speaker 4: log Yes.
Speaker 6: There's wireless ones on Amazon that have two plugins. You
Speaker 6: put one in say your bedroom, you put one in
Speaker 6: the kitchen, wherever you want in your house, the hallway,
Speaker 6: and then the part outside is wireless. There's you know,
Speaker 6: no photographs, nothing like that. But it's no subscription, nothing.
Speaker 6: And there's seventeen dollars.
Speaker 7: And you can pick your your ring bell, your chime,
Speaker 7: it's fun, train whistle, whatever, dog bark whatever.
Speaker 18: I already bought a new brand doorbell ringer in my house.
Speaker 18: It's nineteen inches long, kind of fancy, made out of wood.
Speaker 1: And then all I just want to and I don't know.
Speaker 18: If I burnt out the trans transformer, so I wanted
Speaker 18: somebody to go out and try to change it for me.
Speaker 4: And uh, okay, but what you don't man, that's a
Speaker 4: low voltage system. That's a low voltage system. Electricians will
Speaker 4: be very expensive for stuff like that. I would call
Speaker 4: a handyman. You'renest to god it an electrician.
Speaker 1: I don't know. That's what I'm trying to think, Mark,
Speaker 1: no Is. They do a good job, don't they. Okay,
Speaker 1: how do they work jobs?
Speaker 15: Yeah? I just call up no Is arc dot and
Speaker 15: ask them how much you'll.
Speaker 1: Be But Mark, I mean, but Doc, are they are
Speaker 1: they on our referral list?
Speaker 15: Yeah? That's all I got them?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what I mean. But I mean, I I'm
Speaker 4: trying to look for him. I can't find him. I know, Mark,
Speaker 4: Noah's Ark.
Speaker 1: It's not ringing a bell, Doc, Noah's Arc.
Speaker 18: I mean, I need to get on those.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know what is the referrals?
Speaker 7: Yeah, Noah's Ark painting from down in the springs.
Speaker 1: They were the couple in the springs. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but they came up here.
Speaker 5: I remember.
Speaker 1: But they they're not on there Tennessee. They're in Tennessee.
Speaker 1: They were good.
Speaker 4: God, you know we're still Mark. We're so hurting for
Speaker 4: good handymen. Honest to God, we really are. Is handyman
Speaker 4: hubs still on there?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, I have.
Speaker 15: A great handyman who let me think what his name is?
Speaker 1: Definitely cool, Kelly, You'll give you the number.
Speaker 4: Think about something. This man delivered babies.
Speaker 1: At one time two thousand plus easily handyman hub. Yeah,
Speaker 1: an you call. They're good people. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Three oh three, four two seven, twenty nine to fifty
Speaker 4: five handyman hub.
Speaker 1: That's Bolero. That's the other one. Oh Greg.
Speaker 15: Greg is the name of the guy that I use
Speaker 15: who's really good.
Speaker 4: Valero is seven tows? Would you Valero? He'll come into den.
Speaker 1: Get a phone number place, Hilario? Will do you have
Speaker 1: a phone number? Doc?
Speaker 15: I do have a phone number. Three oh three seven
Speaker 15: two one eight eight four eight. His name is Gregg.
Speaker 1: But what does he do?
Speaker 15: And what does he do everything?
Speaker 1: How'd you find him?
Speaker 15: I've used him for years. He was a handyman for
Speaker 15: a friend of mine.
Speaker 1: He delivered him. You know you shouldn't. Literally, you gotta
Speaker 1: be careful. You gotta be careful copying those numbers down
Speaker 1: from the steam bath. This could be I've known for
Speaker 1: ten years.
Speaker 12: Tom.
Speaker 15: He's excellent.
Speaker 1: Okay, he met him at this Steed call. He went
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Speaker 4: five five Mark, let's talk about this uh truck repair
Speaker 4: or a comment has.
Speaker 1: Left the building.
Speaker 7: Doc, it's a caller named Mark.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Hey, yea, so buddy, to make sure that
Speaker 4: Doc has his meds? Hey Mark, what's going on with you?
Speaker 16: Oh?
Speaker 14: Not too much.
Speaker 25: I was listening to your show earlier about the guy
Speaker 25: with the aluminum body for truck, and it's not that bodies.
Speaker 25: Most of it's not because body shots can't work on them.
Speaker 25: You go into a body shop. Most your cars are
Speaker 25: made of steel, and you're grinding on steel and getting
Speaker 25: iron filings. Well, you bringing okay, body truck man, and
Speaker 25: you're grinding on aluminum. If you mix aluminum and iron
Speaker 25: filings together, you've got a bomb. What Yes, google it
Speaker 25: Google mixing aluminum and iron filings together.
Speaker 11: You have to have this.
Speaker 1: Material is called thermite. And then what does it do? Well?
Speaker 4: If you took aluminum like aluminum dusts are filings and
Speaker 4: steel and put them.
Speaker 1: Together, what would happen thermite? Would it be like differential
Speaker 1: metals having electrolytic ring?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 17: No, you still have to ignite it. It's very very
Speaker 17: difficult to ignite it. But when you do, it will
Speaker 17: burn and it will melt through steel ol metro area.
Speaker 17: That's what That's how they do underwater welding. The use thermal.
Speaker 1: That is that what you're talking about, Mark, They.
Speaker 15: Have to have magnesium.
Speaker 25: Why body shops have to have separate areas these different vehicles?
Speaker 1: Really very I had no freaking idea.
Speaker 25: It's very expensive to add a separate area to do
Speaker 25: you know, Audias Fords, anything with aluminum parts, you have
Speaker 25: to keep them separated.
Speaker 4: Here's another thing I want to ask. Isn't it very
Speaker 4: very difficult to to weld aluminum? No, you welled aluminum,
Speaker 4: but I hear it's really I hear it's really difficult because.
Speaker 5: Why I think it's easier to weld aluminum if you're
Speaker 5: set up.
Speaker 1: For it well because the lower temps.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it flows better.
Speaker 25: Yeah, you can use a spool welder. You can do
Speaker 25: tig welding.
Speaker 5: The tig is really cool with illuminuminum.
Speaker 4: In any case aluminum. How many cars have aluminum panels?
Speaker 25: I know, Audi, I know, uh, the Chevrolet Bolt, the
Speaker 25: earlier models had aluminum hoods.
Speaker 4: Aren't more and more cars though going to composites and plastics.
Speaker 25: I don't think so. On the X Terrier, you know
Speaker 25: anxterior there now and the xterior they're you know, steel
Speaker 25: or aluminum. But they'll do composites for reall liners and
Speaker 25: stuff like that.
Speaker 10: Hey, Mark, I have a question for you. If you
Speaker 10: have pure aluminum, pure iron, it won't burn because as
Speaker 10: far as I know, I just looked it up, you
Speaker 10: need an oxide of metal.
Speaker 1: So you would need.
Speaker 10: Iron oxide, magnesium or magnesium oxide because you have to
Speaker 10: have some some source of oxygen. So just iron filings
Speaker 10: and aluminum filings would not have any oxygen to burn.
Speaker 25: Yeah, but if you're grinding, you're using usually an oxide disc.
Speaker 10: Well, but the filings wouldn't have enough oxide just from
Speaker 10: filing it down. It would have to be an iron
Speaker 10: oxide that you're grinding down.
Speaker 25: Yeah, But if you're using an aluminum oxide standing disc,
Speaker 25: you've got inside, you've got oxides in the disk.
Speaker 4: Can I ask you something when you're actually doing the work,
Speaker 4: could it explode?
Speaker 1: It can't, right, Doesn't it have to be ignited pretty heavily?
Speaker 25: I believe so. I just I have a good friend
Speaker 25: who's a body man, and he's commented that in their
Speaker 25: body shop they had to have two separate areas for
Speaker 25: them just because of that that fact.
Speaker 4: Wow, that's that's strange. Well, thank you for that little
Speaker 4: known fact. But I think it's more or less. I mean,
Speaker 4: I understand that they might have to have separate shop
Speaker 4: areas and all of that, but also, when you think
Speaker 4: about it, it's a skill level. Aluminum is more difficult
Speaker 4: to work on than steal and you can't body fill
Speaker 4: it as easy, ken you Kevin, I don't think you
Speaker 4: can use fillers.
Speaker 5: On a limb. Sure, it's a lot of replacement.
Speaker 4: And I was always told, although you just said no,
Speaker 4: I was always told it is much more difficult to weld.
Speaker 1: But you don't think so, No.
Speaker 5: I like welding ILLUMINU. If I had the twos between
Speaker 5: the two, Wow, Yeah, it's just okay. Tow trucks they
Speaker 5: had the aluminum flatbeds are always welding something on them,
Speaker 5: and it's just it's I found them much simpler, you know,
Speaker 5: with the right setup.
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