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Speaker 2: cooking today. Time's getting his headphones plugged in. He's gonna
Speaker 2: be here in a second. I do want to talk
Speaker 2: about a call that we got. Yes, did you guys
Speaker 2: happen to hear the guy that bought Kevin? I had
Speaker 2: you on? Who was that? What was that dealer? Was
Speaker 2: a Mike Shaw? I forget who it was? Yeah, so
Speaker 2: the guy buys a vehicle. Yeah, listen to this. Listen.
Speaker 2: Jfr Cars is in the house with us. Rodney. Of
Speaker 2: course we got Jeff vic I was thinking Tom was
Speaker 2: going to start, so I literally have nothing up on
Speaker 2: my screen. Jeff Vick, kimmera transmission, and then our leasing
Speaker 2: expert we have in studio two, and I apologize, man,
Speaker 2: I don't have my cheat sheets. Bob, Bob, Bob Perry
Speaker 2: correct yep, And Bob, who are you with? I mean
Speaker 2: really yourself? Right now?
Speaker 3: I'm with JFR Cars.
Speaker 2: All Oh, you're with JFR. Okay, I probably asked you
Speaker 2: that ten times, but very cool. Perfect. So we got Bob,
Speaker 2: the leasing guy, Rod Greer, Kevin Kulkin.
Speaker 4: Jeff Vick.
Speaker 2: So this guy buys a vehicle eighteen miles on it.
Speaker 2: I want to know this from JFR Cars right now.
Speaker 2: I really want an honest opinion. They buy, they pick
Speaker 2: it up cold day. This was like January fifteenth, cold
Speaker 2: as hell, turns it on, picks it up from the dealership.
Speaker 2: I think it's Mike Shaw'll verify that drives away, cannot
Speaker 2: get it to blow heat no matter what, no heat whatsoever,
Speaker 2: drives it right back. So he drives nine miles away,
Speaker 2: lets it warm up, no heat drives it back. They
Speaker 2: have it for a week or so. They tell him
Speaker 2: it needs a cooling flush, so they go ahead and
Speaker 2: do a cooling flush. He comes, picks it up, leaves
Speaker 2: same exact thing. No heat. They tell him it needs
Speaker 2: a heater core, and I don't think they did the
Speaker 2: heater core. They wanted the charge him for the heater core.
Speaker 2: He's sick and tired of him. He brings it somewhere else.
Speaker 4: Well, that was after two months.
Speaker 2: That was after two months, you're right, Kevin. And then
Speaker 2: so here's what we find out. It needs an engine.
Speaker 2: The whole thing needs an engine. It's either got a
Speaker 2: cracked head or needs a head gas hit. It needs
Speaker 2: an engine.
Speaker 4: Well loaded with stoplingk And when they.
Speaker 2: Were putting the coolant flush in it, we started putting,
Speaker 2: you know, two and two together. Whether or not this
Speaker 2: is true or not, we don't know. But the mechanic
Speaker 2: that actually looked at it, who we trusted at this
Speaker 2: point in a real shot, said hey, this head has
Speaker 2: been off real recently. And I talked to Kevin yesterday
Speaker 2: and he's like, yeah, you can you can tell by
Speaker 2: looking at this that the head was off by you know,
Speaker 2: where the dirt is, where the grime is. This had
Speaker 2: has recently been off, and there was stop leak everywhere
Speaker 2: in the system. So the guy bought a car Okay,
Speaker 2: a used car granted a used car for twenty four
Speaker 2: thousand dollars twenty seventeen. Jeep Wrangler bought that car, got
Speaker 2: zero use out of it, and now what they're telling
Speaker 2: them is too bad, so sad, we're not going to
Speaker 2: do a damn thing. An engine or a head job
Speaker 2: is going to be five six grand. So I'm just curious.
Speaker 2: JFR Cars, how would you guys handle that? How would
Speaker 2: you handle that? Literally, you sold it needing an engine?
Speaker 4: We probably get close them.
Speaker 3: I know it needed an engine, though, did they know
Speaker 3: it needed an engine?
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know if they know, Tom, But who cares?
Speaker 2: It needed an engine.
Speaker 4: And it's still in a warranty.
Speaker 2: Okaytry warranty. No, there's no warranty at all.
Speaker 5: Warranty at all.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying they did anything illegal. I'm saying these guys,
Speaker 2: in my opinion, it's the most immoral thing I've heard
Speaker 2: in a while. The guy had nine miles on it,
Speaker 2: no heat, They had it for eight or twelve weeks,
Speaker 2: whatever the amount of time was, and they find out
Speaker 2: it needs a complete engine. And he literally bought it
Speaker 2: that day for twenty four thousand bucks and they won't
Speaker 2: do a damn thing about it. Wow, So what do
Speaker 2: you think, Tom?
Speaker 3: I don't know, man, I think that obviously something has
Speaker 3: to be done. I don't know. What do you well,
Speaker 3: what do you think jefr Cars you sell cars riding?
Speaker 2: What do you think?
Speaker 5: Well, I guess we would have yet, we would have
Speaker 5: definitely did the inspect and before it's before we sent
Speaker 5: it out first of all. But we've never I've never
Speaker 5: been in a situation where we've left a client hanging
Speaker 5: without any kind of answers and avoiding.
Speaker 2: Their answer is at six grand to fix it?
Speaker 4: Well, that's not the answer I'm thinking.
Speaker 5: I'm thinking we would, you know, do something to compensate
Speaker 5: and maybe help them out.
Speaker 2: Here's what I'm thinking. Even if they did, I don't
Speaker 2: need What do you think you guys, Kevin Jeff repair
Speaker 2: shops here, just off the top of your head, to
Speaker 2: fix that at cost? At cost three grand? Two grand?
Speaker 2: You're talking what head? Gasket machine shop? Who knows if
Speaker 2: there's salve.
Speaker 6: There, worst case snary you replace the head. So at
Speaker 6: costs you're probably about three grand.
Speaker 2: So grand with heads. So if they if they threw
Speaker 2: in the labor, did the heads for three grand I
Speaker 2: think that would be fair. And I'll tell you why, Tom,
Speaker 2: Because he's got a rebuilt engine at that point, right the.
Speaker 4: Upper end anyway, Yeah, the upper answer.
Speaker 2: And he should be able to get a lot of
Speaker 2: time off that compared to what he could have had.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Now in any case, are they willing to do anything?
Speaker 2: Mark? No, apparently they're not. But we have a deputy
Speaker 2: on it. I forget who I assigned it to right now,
Speaker 2: but we have someone working with them. But I just
Speaker 2: can't believe it. I mean, they literally sold them a vehicle.
Speaker 2: In fact, I'll say in my opinion, but honest to God,
Speaker 2: I mean I can't believe he could have overheated it
Speaker 2: in nine miles. I don't think he could have caused
Speaker 2: a head gasket problem in nine miles leaving the dealership,
Speaker 2: and then to find out they put stop leak in it,
Speaker 2: or somebody put stop leak in it, and then to
Speaker 2: find out they pulled the head after having it eight weeks.
Speaker 2: All right, unconscient, Now go down.
Speaker 3: I don't want to. I don't want to start a
Speaker 3: fight with Mark, but I want to say something, and
Speaker 3: and honest to goodness, I truly feel the elections went
Speaker 3: the way they should have and all of that.
Speaker 2: But I had Liberal Times coming out.
Speaker 3: Oh it is not liberal, Tom, But listen, you do
Speaker 3: a news conference about a tragic air collision in Washington,
Speaker 3: d C.
Speaker 7: YEP.
Speaker 3: I watched it, okay, and Trump's entire speech was about
Speaker 3: DEI Now, I do believe, I want to say this,
Speaker 3: I do believe diversity, equity and inclusion policies can be
Speaker 3: destructive and stupid and all of that. But to make
Speaker 3: the entire conference about that almost as if he was
Speaker 3: assuming he did it those in the traffic control and
Speaker 3: Mark really, honest to God, I'm not trying to get political.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying I'm liberal.
Speaker 2: I'm not.
Speaker 3: I'm really not liberal. Okay. But at the same time,
Speaker 3: I mean, my God in Heaven, before anything is known,
Speaker 3: he's blaming. And he literally starts naming things that he
Speaker 3: thinks is to blame, and and I mean it to me, well,
Speaker 3: I mean he talked about hold on, he talks about okay,
Speaker 3: this includes hearing vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy,
Speaker 3: severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability, and dwarf ism. He threw
Speaker 3: the poor dwarfs in with him. I mean, come on,
Speaker 3: Dwarfs are completely one hundred percent find people, except they're small.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't understand, Mark, did you come on,
Speaker 3: did you cringe a little when you heard it?
Speaker 2: Not at all? So a couple things one to think
Speaker 2: he doesn't have more information than we do about this incident.
Speaker 3: Get those damn dwarfs out of the contra.
Speaker 2: Absolutely. Do you even know why he was talking about
Speaker 2: dwarfs because that was part of the DEI hiring. In
Speaker 2: other words, if you didn't fall into those categories, like
Speaker 2: the thousand white men that didn't get jobs at the
Speaker 2: FAA under the Biden administration, they were turned away because
Speaker 2: of their race. Now, hold on, hold on, And that
Speaker 2: tower had nineteen people in it and it should be
Speaker 2: staffed at thirty. But because the people didn't fit into
Speaker 2: the box that Brandon basically had, wasn't enough people to
Speaker 2: work it.
Speaker 3: Okay, now I can get I can grant you that.
Speaker 3: And under no circumstances do I want people saying, oh, Tom,
Speaker 3: you know, he's just saying, you know what's wrong with diversity,
Speaker 3: equity inclusion. What I'm saying is this, I just thought
Speaker 3: it was truly inappropriate. Now that might be a reason
Speaker 3: for all of our deficiencies. And I do believe in
Speaker 3: merit based I do believe in it. I honest to god,
Speaker 3: I do. And he was saying, if you heard him,
Speaker 3: you know, we should it should be color blind, it
Speaker 3: should be ability blind, it should be merit based. I
Speaker 3: totally agree. And I do agree that going outside and
Speaker 3: literally turning down clients in order to bring in someone
Speaker 3: less qualified because they fit in a box. And I
Speaker 3: don't mean that against ors, but what I meant was
Speaker 3: it it is not a good thing. And again I
Speaker 3: joke about dwarfism, but truly I've known many, honest God,
Speaker 3: I have. My wife wrote a book about it because
Speaker 3: she she worked with them. And let me just say something,
Speaker 3: it just seemed weird to me. Now, now, come on,
Speaker 3: no matter who you are, you had to have thought
Speaker 3: it was a little weird. But I don't want to
Speaker 3: all I want.
Speaker 2: He was reading, He was literally reading from the the
Speaker 2: Obama Biden agenda and who they would hire. That's why
Speaker 2: it was in there.
Speaker 8: Said something.
Speaker 9: Now it is, but listen, walk you know, I'm pro Trump,
Speaker 9: as you know, but I think after something like that,
Speaker 9: it's more important for the president to come out with
Speaker 9: a message of condolences.
Speaker 3: And leave the blame. He did all that, Doc, he
Speaker 3: did all that.
Speaker 2: Denny did know. There's no reason to leave the blame.
Speaker 2: I totally disagree with you. I'm glad you feel that way,
Speaker 2: though I'm happy for you. Hold on a second, I'm
Speaker 2: not he did come out and say all that. I
Speaker 2: just think he concentrated too much on DEI and.
Speaker 3: Railed high country. What a problem it is, But it
Speaker 3: may not have anything to do with this incident. And
Speaker 3: I don't think just.
Speaker 2: The fact there was only nineteen people. Instead of having
Speaker 2: one for the helicopters and one from the airplanes, it
Speaker 2: was one guy doing the job of two and they
Speaker 2: turned away. And there's a class action lawsuit against the
Speaker 2: federal government, the FAA right now from numerous people that
Speaker 2: couldn't get hired because they were white.
Speaker 3: Now, I really want to do something. I want to
Speaker 3: take a break, but I want to ask sus. No,
Speaker 3: I'm serious, I'm gonna ask sus sus not talking politically,
Speaker 3: did you think that speech was a little off base,
Speaker 3: concentrating on DEI? I mean, you know, and she's not
Speaker 3: going to agree with Mark just to agree with him,
Speaker 3: so if she does, I'll take that as an observation.
Speaker 10: What do you think, Tom, I just absolutely love how
Speaker 10: transparent Trump has been since he's been in office. So
Speaker 10: I thought he did a fine job. But that's just me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when's the last time Biden came out? Now he's gone. Now,
Speaker 2: you know many times he would have talked about something
Speaker 2: like that, not once. Now that we have a president
Speaker 2: that comes out, you might not like what he says,
Speaker 2: but god dang it, you know what's going on in
Speaker 2: the country. You know who's leading it. You know the
Speaker 2: vision he has. It's not some secretive black ops operation
Speaker 2: and the god dang White House.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Hey, by the way, did anyone notice he got the
Speaker 3: BS word out over the air?
Speaker 11: Sure?
Speaker 3: Did Network TV and everyone. Wow, it's almost fighting.
Speaker 2: It's almost like Shannon or a dragon were running his board.
Speaker 3: They didn't run it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So anyway, we do have to take a break three
Speaker 3: oh three, seven to one to three talk. And again,
Speaker 3: I didn't want to make this political, but one thing
Speaker 3: I can tell you, and I'm serious about this, there's
Speaker 3: two people in this audience on this show, me and
Speaker 3: Chopper who are qualified to talk about this. From the
Speaker 3: Chopper point of view the helicopter. I have thousands of
Speaker 3: hours in the air now thousands as a helicopter pilot.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to brag about this, but I'm going
Speaker 3: to tell you there are some things that are totally
Speaker 3: being overlooked. So Chopper, if you want to chime in,
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Speaker 3: sixteen twenty two. Hi Tom Martino, you're a troubleshooter. You know,
Speaker 3: all of these comments by people about the helicopter, they
Speaker 3: have one thing in common. Most of them none of
Speaker 3: them flew helicopters, or fly helicopters, or go around the
Speaker 3: country through what's called TCAs or Class A, Class C,
Speaker 3: Class BIS airspaces. Let me just explain something. Okay, there
Speaker 3: are corridors sometimes sometimes there are corridors.
Speaker 2: Through busy airspace.
Speaker 3: Like in New York, there's what's called a VFR corridor,
Speaker 3: which means, no matter what's going on around you, if
Speaker 3: you stay in that corridor, it's seen and be seen
Speaker 3: and you do anything you want.
Speaker 2: Literally.
Speaker 3: Okay, you can fly through that corridor and you can
Speaker 3: just stay in that corridor, and then it's up to
Speaker 3: you to look out for other VFR traffic in that corridor.
Speaker 3: It's called a VFR pathway or corridor. Okay. Now Denver
Speaker 3: doesn't have one, but well kind of they do, but
Speaker 3: it's not named that. Like if you stay below control airspace,
Speaker 3: above controlled airspace, or outside of controlled airspace, I guess
Speaker 3: theoretically you could call it a VFR corridor. Now, as
Speaker 3: Chopper will attest, when you're flying a helicopter, they usually
Speaker 3: allow you to do things no other airplane can do.
Speaker 2: Aircraft.
Speaker 3: They allow you to go under and over, they allow
Speaker 3: you to stand still, they allow you to do circles,
Speaker 3: they allow you to wait. But one thing they do
Speaker 3: is they want you to see and avoid so many times,
Speaker 3: no matter what altitude unless they assign you on altitude.
Speaker 3: You can fly at what you want as long as
Speaker 3: it's not violating airspace, so top flying.
Speaker 2: And this happened where that helicopter was along the Potomac River.
Speaker 2: It was supposed to be at two hundred feet. It
Speaker 2: was at four hundred feet. The flight ceiling for that
Speaker 2: Blackhawk helicopter was two hundred feet. The last known altitude
Speaker 2: when it crashed was over four hundred feet. Mark.
Speaker 3: If they're listen, if the tower was talking to them,
Speaker 3: the tower knew exactly what height that helicopter was at
Speaker 3: exactly and would have said maintain at or below two
Speaker 3: hundred feet.
Speaker 2: They would have if.
Speaker 3: They did not say that then and they said to them,
Speaker 3: we have a heavy in sight, a number you're not number,
Speaker 3: but DC ten or whatever on final. I forget what
Speaker 3: it was, but uh, then what what would have been
Speaker 3: proper simply this a helicopter son sins such, uh, you
Speaker 3: know whatever airliner on final? Do you have traffic in site? Now? Now,
Speaker 3: I didn't hear the helicopter pilots say traffic in sight.
Speaker 3: I didn't hear the helicopter pilots say looking. I didn't
Speaker 3: hear the helicopter pilots say anything, so then it says
Speaker 3: pass behind the aircraft. That's common. You can be at
Speaker 3: the same altitude they say pass behind. So as a
Speaker 3: helicopter pilot, you would look at the tail of that
Speaker 3: plane and aim for it and then go to the back.
Speaker 2: They would be going forward.
Speaker 3: You would go and pass behind them, and that would
Speaker 3: be proper no matter what altitude you're at. The tower
Speaker 3: knew what altitude, but they keep talking about altitude. You know,
Speaker 3: altitude is either like I said, assigned by air space
Speaker 3: or you talk to the tower. The tower has you
Speaker 3: bust altitudes all the time. All the time, people fly
Speaker 3: above and below the airspace based on what the tower
Speaker 3: tells you. The tower takes precedent over the corridors. So
Speaker 3: if the corridor said that was a two hundred foot ceiling,
Speaker 3: and the tower knew where they were, the tower never
Speaker 3: told them to descend. I mean, it's possible that the
Speaker 3: tower didn't know what altitude they were at.
Speaker 2: That would be pretty stupid.
Speaker 3: It's also possible that that helicopter wasn't paying attention. It
Speaker 3: sounds to me like that did anyone and his chopper
Speaker 3: on or not, because it never ever ever does a
Speaker 3: tower ever say you have traffic on final? Pass behind it?
Speaker 3: Never they say helicopter for a zero tango hotel. You
Speaker 3: know you have a commuter aircraft, or you have a
Speaker 3: G five on final? Do you see the traffic or
Speaker 3: or G five at your twelve o'clock or ten o'clock
Speaker 3: or whatever. They wait to hear traffic in sight. If
Speaker 3: they don't hear traffic in sight, they don't tell you
Speaker 3: to pass behind it. They call you again and say
Speaker 3: do you have traffic in sight? I did not hear that. Again,
Speaker 3: is chopper on or not? I asked them that are listening,
Speaker 3: well chopper? You know what, man? I very seldom do
Speaker 3: I actually beg you to come on. I would like
Speaker 3: your opinion on this now. I'm telling you this is
Speaker 3: absolute experience. I've flown all over the country, all over
Speaker 3: the country in my helicopter in class in these in
Speaker 3: these class spare airspaces. And here's the deal. I'm not
Speaker 3: bragging or trying to be a big shot. I'm just
Speaker 3: saying it's not It's not as simple as people are
Speaker 3: saying it.
Speaker 2: Go ahead?
Speaker 3: What does Fred want to say? Go ahead? Fred?
Speaker 2: Oh Am? I not hearing for some reason.
Speaker 11: Go ahead, Fred Sagan, see you hear right?
Speaker 12: Now?
Speaker 3: Go ahead, sir, I can hear you.
Speaker 11: Yes.
Speaker 13: I have flown in the Reagan many times, and when
Speaker 13: you find that Mount vernon visual, you're planning to land.
Speaker 12: On runway one.
Speaker 13: But I think what they're okaying to do is trying
Speaker 13: to get a takeoff on zero one. So they told
Speaker 13: him to circle the three to three, so he's okay.
Speaker 13: Unfortunately there's a lot of lights, so there's no real
Speaker 13: the horizon is easily definable. But you're flying over the
Speaker 13: river and he's starting a left curvel in of your
Speaker 13: type approach to land on that runway, and I think
Speaker 13: you're going to find that baring anything unusual on the
Speaker 13: voice recorders, medical mechanical that the RJ was in a
Speaker 13: turn and could not see to their right in the helicopter.
Speaker 3: Well listen, but but but here here. I don't know
Speaker 3: if you're a pilot or not, or if you fly helicopters.
Speaker 3: All I wanted to ask you is this, Do you think.
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 3: Then then do you really believe you know when people
Speaker 3: say they were flying over the legal altitude? Well, I
Speaker 3: don't know of anything called legal altitude unless it's not assigned.
Speaker 3: Then you go by the chart. Isn't that right?
Speaker 13: Well, it's it's supposed to be at two hundred feet.
Speaker 13: And I don't see how you say the tower would
Speaker 13: know their altitude unless they reported it. He may have
Speaker 13: assumed they will no more than two hundred feet.
Speaker 3: Well, actually, actually you must have been out of the
Speaker 3: air a long time, because the tower knows exactly the
Speaker 3: altitude of every aircraft and it's called ADSB and they
Speaker 3: know exactly the altitude.
Speaker 13: Okay, but was he looking at it?
Speaker 12: Is my point?
Speaker 3: Well, when you look at okay, you look at the radar,
Speaker 3: they see the end number, they see the altitude, they
Speaker 3: see the speed. Come on, man, okay, look at put
Speaker 3: him on hold. I don't believe he. I don't believe
Speaker 3: you have the experience you said. I'm sorry, you wouldn't
Speaker 3: even be talking like that. That controller knew everything about
Speaker 3: that helicopter. And when you say VMC, you know what,
Speaker 3: here's the thing. We don't know the conditions they were
Speaker 3: flying under. If they were flying through a VFR corridor,
Speaker 3: they wouldn't even be talking to the tower. But they
Speaker 3: were talking to the tower. So I'm just thinking that
Speaker 3: people are talking out of their ass until we know.
Speaker 3: That's what I think.
Speaker 10: Topper's on, Tom, if you want to chat at him.
Speaker 14: Nobody said that.
Speaker 7: They just looked at the wrong lights.
Speaker 3: Wait, wait, hold on, I got to take a break
Speaker 3: and then we'll come back with more. Well, all I'm
Speaker 3: saying is is I don't understand people saying they were
Speaker 3: at the wrong altitude. The tower knew exactly where they were,
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Speaker 3: Tom Martino, your troubleshooter three O three seven one three
Speaker 3: talk three O three seven one three eight two five five.
Speaker 3: I want to go back to the phones and talk
Speaker 3: about your life, liberty in the pursuit of happiness. So
Speaker 3: let me take some calls here. Uh, I want to
Speaker 3: bring up for yeah, chopper, chopper, Yes, sir, So you
Speaker 3: flew helicopters for years and years and years and years
Speaker 3: and years. I've flown helicopters only about twelve years. But
Speaker 3: here's the bottom line. Listen, we both have thousands of hours,
Speaker 3: and I want to ask you this. Have you ever
Speaker 3: had a time when let's say, a certain altitude is
Speaker 3: on the chart that you have to stay below and
Speaker 3: the controller tells you to maintain a higher altitude.
Speaker 15: Oh, that happens all the time, Tom.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So altitudes are on a chart as general guidelines,
Speaker 3: and even in a VFR corridor, if the controller, if
Speaker 3: you contact, if the controller called that helicopter and said
Speaker 3: so and so is on final did you hear that
Speaker 3: helicopter pilots say traffic in sight.
Speaker 16: I didn't hear it, but I read a transcript that
Speaker 16: one of the national media has put on it, and
Speaker 16: it did.
Speaker 15: It wasn't in sight, but it was like, got it?
Speaker 16: I think, Okay, Tom, Honestly, I think he had the
Speaker 16: other plane that was ascending and turning.
Speaker 15: I don't think he had the uh one that was landing.
Speaker 3: He had the wrong traffic. He had the wrong traffic
Speaker 3: in sight.
Speaker 15: That's correct, That's what I think.
Speaker 3: And then, because how many times have you been told
Speaker 3: to fly above or below, or behind or to the
Speaker 3: left or to the right of traffic at the same
Speaker 3: exact altitude.
Speaker 15: Too many times to count.
Speaker 3: That's exactly right. So if there wasn't a sign cor
Speaker 3: or at two hundred feet and that helicopter was talking
Speaker 3: to the tower, wouldn't that helicopter have said descend at
Speaker 3: a below two hundred.
Speaker 15: You mean the controller?
Speaker 3: Of course, the controller was talking to the helicopter. The
Speaker 3: controller knew exactly what altitude the helicopter was at exactly.
Speaker 16: You also have to remember that the controllers probably know
Speaker 16: what the millery military does and you know, find the
Speaker 16: city's birds. They knew what we were doing, so they
Speaker 16: give you a little more lead weight, and that's probably
Speaker 16: what the controller was doing.
Speaker 3: So I don't understand any of this information that I
Speaker 3: don't know. I don't I don't understand any of the
Speaker 3: information that they're saying as far as uh, they didn't
Speaker 3: have the right they didn't have the right altitude. I
Speaker 3: just don't understand it, do you.
Speaker 16: I don't either, Uh, Tom, And you're a little bit
Speaker 16: newer with the newer equipment.
Speaker 2: So you guys think a black hawk is going to
Speaker 2: have it needs the same kind of equipment a Blackhawk.
Speaker 2: Let's remember what we're talking about here, as in stuff
Speaker 2: you guys flown like. In other words, any tower is
Speaker 2: going to know whatever a Blackhawk's doing at any time.
Speaker 3: Oh. Absolutely, every single military helicopter in the world has
Speaker 3: ADSB Absolutely positively, there is no two ways about it.
Speaker 3: They knew exactly where that helicopter was and how high
Speaker 3: it was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that make it easy to shoot down.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's well, that's life and that's what whether you
Speaker 3: like it or not. Mark, I will bet you any
Speaker 3: amount of money you want. Can they turn helicopter how
Speaker 3: to ideas? Can they turn it off? Yeah? You actually, yeah,
Speaker 3: you actually can turn it off. Now, Mark, I'm not
Speaker 3: talking about around the world as far as in war.
Speaker 3: I'm talking about in the United States as far as
Speaker 3: air travel. I mean, I don't know what happens in war.
Speaker 3: I mean, I imagine they have all kinds of stuff to
Speaker 3: keep them cloaked.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I have no idea they used.
Speaker 16: They use those birds to transport VIPs around the DC area,
Speaker 16: so they probably have everything.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well it wouldn't matter. I mean, the point is
Speaker 3: is there is no altitude that was wrong. What was
Speaker 3: wrong is that the helicopter pilot did not see an
Speaker 3: avoid It's it's very simple. Why. I don't know. I
Speaker 3: don't know. Maybe what Chopper said they had the wrong
Speaker 3: traffic in sight, or how Belt's saying.
Speaker 2: How about the fact generally there's two controllers, one for
Speaker 2: helicopters and one for airplanes, and at this point there.
Speaker 3: Was really one. Okay, okay, and I want to talk
Speaker 3: about that. That's really not true, okay now, and Chopper
Speaker 3: will tell you this. There is no such thing as
Speaker 3: an assigned controller for helicopters by law. What there is
Speaker 3: is a local need. So if Washington has a plethora
Speaker 3: of helicopters, they may have a local operation. I don't know,
Speaker 3: but I'm saying that in general around the country there
Speaker 3: are I would say less than a handful, if any
Speaker 3: of special helicopter handlers. Helicopter handlers in a tower would
Speaker 3: be a totally local decision. It is not a legal thing,
Speaker 3: It is not an FAA thing. It's nothing. Now, chopper right,
Speaker 3: I mean, have you ever heard of an assigned controller
Speaker 3: for helicopters.
Speaker 11: Well, let's put it this way.
Speaker 16: I've been on different frequencies and it's the same voice
Speaker 16: on different channels. So it's not unusual, Oh okay to
Speaker 16: handle a couple frequencies.
Speaker 3: And and and it's not yeah, and it's not a
Speaker 3: helicopter controller. It's a controller talking to a helicopter. Now,
Speaker 3: what Mark said is probably true, maybe in Washington, because
Speaker 3: everyone is saying it everyone and they can't all be wrong.
Speaker 3: Everyone is saying that Washington, DC has a slot for
Speaker 3: a helicopter controller, and it was it was not Philly
Speaker 3: with helicopters. You're right, and and I mean I'm not
Speaker 3: call I'm not saying they're wrong. They're probably right. I mean,
Speaker 3: I just know that it's not something I've ever heard
Speaker 3: of before. And I looked it up and it said
Speaker 3: it's usually done by need, So I think what we're
Speaker 3: looking at is need. Like they they assume that it's needed.
Speaker 3: So they do it, but there there is no normal
Speaker 3: staffing of what's called a helicopter. Uh yeah, so uh
Speaker 3: a helicopter what you might call it, uh, helicopter controller
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Speaker 3: sixteen twenty two. Hi, I'm Tom Martine. I want to
Speaker 3: correct something. Military aircraft and helicopters do have an option
Speaker 3: to take to turn off adsb out. That is basically
Speaker 3: adsb out is nothing more than a tattletale. It tells
Speaker 3: everyone where you are, how high you are, your end number, everything, okay,
Speaker 3: and all aircraft had to have it by twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: It was a mandate. A military helicopters had it before that.
Speaker 3: A military aircraft, however, they are exempt for certain things,
Speaker 3: obviously national security and special tactical missions. They turn that
Speaker 3: off because they don't want the enemy to know where
Speaker 3: they are. And then there are also special.
Speaker 2: Ops. Okay, So I.
Speaker 3: Don't know if that helicopter was on a special op.
Speaker 3: It's quite possible it was. I have no idea. And
Speaker 3: if it was on a special op of some kind
Speaker 3: where it did not want anyone to know where it was, then,
Speaker 3: But if they were on a special opp my question is,
Speaker 3: why would they be talking to the tower, So I
Speaker 3: mean and and you know, and then on the tower.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know about military operations at
Speaker 3: a towered airport. I mean, why would they even be
Speaker 3: talking to them if they're on a special mission. So
Speaker 3: that's all going to come out in the future. I'm
Speaker 3: not saying I know all. I just know that that
Speaker 3: they were talking to them, and it seems weird to
Speaker 3: me that they didn't ask for acknowledgment. Do you see
Speaker 3: the traffic? I mean, anyway, let's go to the Terry.
Speaker 3: What's going on with you?
Speaker 2: Terry?
Speaker 17: Just a quick point back to what you were saying
Speaker 17: earlier about DEEI. I'm a registered independence. Yes, I'm not
Speaker 17: planted one way. I agree with Monk. When Trump spoke,
Speaker 17: it wasn't about attacking minorities or little people. He was
Speaker 17: making it clearer how bad DEEI is the way I
Speaker 17: received it, And I think that with what I'm in medical,
Speaker 17: So whether it's medical, aviation, whatever, I think you want
Speaker 17: the best people. I don't care whether you're going trans, black, white,
Speaker 17: We just.
Speaker 4: Want the best.
Speaker 17: I think that's the point that people he was trying
Speaker 17: to make, and that's the way I received it from Trump.
Speaker 17: Trump just does thank you, very blunt, and that's my point.
Speaker 3: And and you're right, he is very blunt and and
Speaker 3: I think that's what Mark meant as well. I don't
Speaker 3: think it was meant as a slam. I just thought
Speaker 3: it was weird. And again we have a difference of
Speaker 3: opinion on that one, but I agree. I don't think
Speaker 3: he was trying to slam people. It just came off
Speaker 3: a little unbalanced in my opinion. Lee, what is your comment?
Speaker 16: Go ahead, Lee, Honey, Tom, Yeah, you nailed it.
Speaker 18: Uh, you're a pilot.
Speaker 12: I'm a pilot.
Speaker 19: For many years there was at least four There was
Speaker 19: at least two pilots in command that were at ON
Speaker 19: that see and avoid, and both in the airliner was
Speaker 19: on a visual cleared for a visual the helicopter pilot
Speaker 19: and make it see and avoid.
Speaker 11: It's simple.
Speaker 19: You don't ever rely on ATC for anything except for
Speaker 19: just big the big picture.
Speaker 3: I just don't know what happened. I really don't. It's
Speaker 3: really puzzling to me. And again I'm not trying to
Speaker 3: try to make believe.
Speaker 2: I know everything.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's so much unknown out there. But thank you.
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Speaker 3: No Tom Martinez, Hi, Tom Martino here, Welcome to the show.
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Speaker 3: I'm going to get to so I'm gonna take people
Speaker 3: been waiting, and then we'll go to our car questions
Speaker 3: and all of that. And I do want to delve
Speaker 3: into leasing a little. I've always felt, I don't know
Speaker 3: that it was a bad thing. And the more I
Speaker 3: looked into it and all the capital I've tied up
Speaker 3: over the years, I can see why a lot of
Speaker 3: people go for leasing. Again, it's not for everyone. And
Speaker 3: I think the weakness of leasing has nothing to do
Speaker 3: with leasing. The weakness of leasing has to do and
Speaker 3: Bob really quickly, if you want to chime in. I
Speaker 3: think the bad name that leasing gets is for two
Speaker 3: main reasons. In my opinion, it's an excuse by the
Speaker 3: guy selling the car or you know, leasing the car,
Speaker 3: to stack the invoice because the payments are a little
Speaker 3: artificially low, so they pack it and then the other
Speaker 3: one is stealing the.
Speaker 2: Equity of a trade. Would you agree?
Speaker 3: And the lease itself, when done properly, is pretty damn good.
Speaker 3: What do you think?
Speaker 20: Yeah, No, they can't really stack the price because probably
Speaker 20: twenty five years ago they came out with the it's
Speaker 20: called a regam lease contract, so they have to disclose
Speaker 20: cap costs, they have to show your equity, so there's
Speaker 20: no secrets anymore.
Speaker 3: Okay, so you're saying that doesn't happen at all anymore.
Speaker 3: I mean it shouldn't.
Speaker 2: No, shouldn't.
Speaker 20: Well, the nice thing about Melsing is that someone else
Speaker 20: is taking the risk on the future value of that car.
Speaker 3: And I've always said, if.
Speaker 20: Someone else is willing to do that, let them, because
Speaker 20: predicting the future on a car is hard to do,
Speaker 20: and in today's world even harder.
Speaker 3: So the lessie Mark and I. Mark and I have
Speaker 3: always done the same thing. We've paid cash and then
Speaker 3: gotten rid of it before it goes to dirt. But Mark,
Speaker 3: would you even rethink that.
Speaker 2: I can't. Man, I listen, I put forty two thousand
Speaker 2: miles on my Tesla in eighteen months. What the hell
Speaker 2: kind of lise am I going to get?
Speaker 3: I mean, they would do wrong. I didn't know you
Speaker 3: still drove a lot, that's right. Now, He's right, he
Speaker 3: does drive a lot. But that's what depreciates the car
Speaker 3: the most is the miles. Yeah, so you do have
Speaker 3: to be able to control or predict your mileage before
Speaker 3: you do a lease, sure, because to get that future.
Speaker 20: Value, you need to know how many miles are going
Speaker 20: to be on it in three years or four years,
Speaker 20: whenever the lease is up right, that's right, So they
Speaker 20: need to know how much.
Speaker 3: Let's talk to Jay. I'm sorry, Bob, I'm sorry. That's okay. Now,
Speaker 3: now we're going to go to Jay, who has a
Speaker 3: there's a follow up, Mark, did you take this call
Speaker 3: from Jay?
Speaker 2: I did, but I don't remember how far we got
Speaker 2: on it.
Speaker 10: Mark, just so you know, you want to Dan mackenzie
Speaker 10: on for the call. Who can't come on until Monday?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 10: Yeah, we need It's an interesting call though.
Speaker 3: Okay, So some of the siblings are One of the
Speaker 3: siblings is the executor of the estate, the house was sold,
Speaker 3: and the house was sold for five hundred grand more
Speaker 3: than the estate. I don't get with this.
Speaker 2: Here's the bottom line. So his sister, Okay, his sister
Speaker 2: was in control when the when the mother passed away,
Speaker 2: she apparently sold the house. She was in charge of
Speaker 2: the estate. She sold the house, liquidated it, and then
Speaker 2: split the money up. The contention of the caller is
Speaker 2: she sold it to their other sister for half a
Speaker 2: million to seven hundred thousand dollars below market. Then he
Speaker 2: got his share based on that very reduced amount. Then
Speaker 2: the other sister sold the house for one point three million,
Speaker 2: and her and the other sister pocketed the difference. Oh
Speaker 2: my god, Ah, and it all happened. It all happened
Speaker 2: not that long ago. So what I wanted to know
Speaker 2: from Dan mackenzie, You know, can they go back look
Speaker 2: into this? I mean, what does he do at this point?
Speaker 2: If all this is correct, there's a big problem.
Speaker 18: Now.
Speaker 3: My my hunch, Mark is that if they let themselves
Speaker 3: be taken advantage of, unless they were lied to, I
Speaker 3: don't know. Let's talk to Jay, Jay, Jay, Harry R.
Speaker 12: Tom. I think I'm mar hey.
Speaker 3: Jay, And now did Mark summarize that accurately pretty close.
Speaker 18: Here's what happened. I got contacted by one of my
Speaker 18: brothers because we have no control over anything one sister
Speaker 18: does and she's always infos with another sister, so four
Speaker 18: kind of left out of everything, and we have no
Speaker 18: legal standing. My mom left everything to my other sister's discretion.
Speaker 18: So here's what happened. He's very very suspicious. So am
Speaker 18: I now really suspicious?
Speaker 12: My mom dies.
Speaker 18: Ultimately, the house sells for six nineties and then like
Speaker 18: ninety days later it sells for but it was.
Speaker 3: Sold to wait, wait, but it was sold to a sibling, right,
Speaker 3: it was sold to a.
Speaker 18: Sibling nefariously to one of their friends to wash it
Speaker 18: and then they all get a real price.
Speaker 3: Okay, so hold on, let me just get this straight.
Speaker 3: Jay Jay, Okay, Jay, I need to ask some questions
Speaker 3: because I'm understanding this wrongly. Then it was described, then
Speaker 3: you can do your story. Mom died, sister was the executor.
Speaker 3: The sister sold it to a friend, not to a sister.
Speaker 18: It is believed, and nobody knows who it was originally
Speaker 18: sold out of the escape to. My brother does not
Speaker 18: want to get involved. He's peeved beyond belief.
Speaker 3: Jay, you didn't answer my question yet, and I'm sorry,
Speaker 3: but I need the answer. The house was sold to who, That's.
Speaker 18: What we're trying to find out. We are positive it
Speaker 18: was the farious We can't find out. But my one
Speaker 18: sister is a very unscrupulous person, seem to have everything
Speaker 18: on earth to do with the house.
Speaker 3: And he but you don't know who. You don't know
Speaker 3: who it was sold to. So you don't know it
Speaker 3: sold to a sister. Okay, got it? And you thought
Speaker 3: and you think it's it's like you think whoever it
Speaker 3: was sold to, there was an inside deal.
Speaker 18: Yes, And I think he's right, that's what he thinks.
Speaker 18: And after looking it over, I think he's right.
Speaker 3: Okay, got it. And then that then that insider that
Speaker 3: bought it sold it.
Speaker 18: Yeah. I think there was a little a little git
Speaker 18: together among people and everyone said, hey, there's a chance.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a lot of money, right, So that then
Speaker 3: the insider sold it.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 3: Wow wow, So that's pretty dirty. And how much did
Speaker 3: the house sell for the second time?
Speaker 18: About forty percent more sold for a million one seventy
Speaker 18: five shifts under, or just around ninety days, right.
Speaker 3: One million point seventy five. Oh my gosh, yeah, a huge,
Speaker 3: huge wow. Well, so what happened was, well, one point
Speaker 3: seventy five is way more than double of six nineteen.
Speaker 18: Six ninety six.
Speaker 15: A couple months.
Speaker 13: Well, way over a million, way over a million.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So now where are you in your search? That
Speaker 3: should be public information to you, guys, where the house
Speaker 3: was sold?
Speaker 18: I've been on Colorado, Dot Cove and everything else on Earth.
Speaker 12: I spent luck.
Speaker 3: No, no, why doesn't the sister hold on? If you're
Speaker 3: an air? Are you an Air?
Speaker 2: Are you an Air? Then you have a legal right
Speaker 2: to see the probate.
Speaker 18: There is no probate. It was all in a irrevocable trust.
Speaker 12: No probate.
Speaker 21: She simply got it over.
Speaker 13: That was my mother.
Speaker 3: Okay, so she was actually not the executive. She was
Speaker 3: the trustee, a trustee, yes for its matter? Okay, okay, okay,
Speaker 3: got it?
Speaker 18: Wow, share money any information with us? Peon brothers and.
Speaker 3: That's really too bad.
Speaker 18: Yeah I am the black sheep.
Speaker 3: That's really too bad.
Speaker 18: And I'm my apples are way up, Thomas smell.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is too bad. So here's what we have
Speaker 3: to do. We have to talk to McKenzie. I think
Speaker 3: that's true, and see what he says. You know, it
Speaker 3: might very well be with an irrevocable trust and her
Speaker 3: being in charge. I'm not sure what rights anybody has,
Speaker 3: but let's try to get McKenzie on and I think
Speaker 3: we can do that on Monday. Okay, thank you. I'm
Speaker 3: sorry about this, man. I don't blame you it it
Speaker 3: sounds pretty damn dirty. Mike your turn. What's going on?
Speaker 2: Mike?
Speaker 3: Welcome to the show. I'm Tom Martino. We lost Mike. Okay, Mike.
Speaker 3: Then I have a question. We were talking about leasing.
Speaker 3: Rob excuse me, Bob Parry, Bob. We I had a
Speaker 3: text and by the way, those who want to text
Speaker 3: me can text me at seven four seven nine eighty.
Speaker 3: You can also text me at the iHeart short code
Speaker 3: five seven seven thirty nine. The question I have is
Speaker 3: about hold on, dog on it. I just had it
Speaker 3: about leasing. Oh what what do you find is the
Speaker 3: most common term for a lease?
Speaker 20: I mean, manufacturers or special programs are usually thirty six months,
Speaker 20: sometimes thirty nine forty two, but probably thirty six would
Speaker 20: be the most common.
Speaker 2: With what kind of mile? Okay, what do you recommend?
Speaker 3: So well? The stand, But do you recommend well, So
Speaker 3: that depends on the program.
Speaker 20: Sometimes the payment will be higher on a longer term
Speaker 20: because they try and get people out of cars in
Speaker 20: three years where they still have some value. So as
Speaker 20: standard lease is two years, even better, not necessarily because
Speaker 20: the biggest part of a lease payment is depreciation, and
Speaker 20: a card depreciates the most as soon as you drive
Speaker 20: it off the lot, So if you average it out
Speaker 20: over three years, the payment is pretty reasonable.
Speaker 21: Reason.
Speaker 3: Okay, got that? So three years and what's the most
Speaker 3: average miles?
Speaker 20: So standard lease is fifteen thousand miles a year. They
Speaker 20: do twelve thousand, ten thousand, seventy five hundred, five thousand,
Speaker 20: and then anything over fifteen thousand you just adjust for
Speaker 20: and you can do it depending on the lender. Sometimes
Speaker 20: you can do thirty thousand miles a year, forty miles
Speaker 20: a year a year.
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Speaker 3: I want to know, Mark, will you ever consider leasing
Speaker 3: a car? I was many miles right.
Speaker 2: I would not I mean, if I to the miles, yeah,
Speaker 2: I just can't imagine it. I just end up paying
Speaker 2: too much. I mean, and if you really did, what
Speaker 2: if you what if you what.
Speaker 3: If your life changed?
Speaker 22: Well?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean if the mileage fit. I trade cars
Speaker 2: in often enough, it would probably be a great deal.
Speaker 2: But Bob, if I wanted if I came to you
Speaker 2: and said, hey, I want to lease, say I don't
Speaker 2: know whatever, blah blah blah, and I want to have
Speaker 2: I have thirty thousand miles a year on it, and
Speaker 2: I want a three year deal. That means I'm turning
Speaker 2: it in at ninety thousand. What the hell am I
Speaker 2: going to say? From just paying cash for it or payments?
Speaker 3: Well, I mean then, well anything, I will say this,
Speaker 3: anything's possible. But you'll pay for it, right, Bob.
Speaker 20: Well, you pay for it no matter what miles depreciated car.
Speaker 2: Sure.
Speaker 20: The nice thing about a lease is if you did
Speaker 20: write ninety thousand miles in it and it's not worth
Speaker 20: the residual value, you can give it back. If it's
Speaker 20: held its value, you have the option to purchase it
Speaker 20: and trade it and do whatever you want. So you
Speaker 20: have the upside potential without the downside risk allway.
Speaker 2: I guess what I'm asking though, is could it put
Speaker 2: the lease payment it over what a normal financing payment
Speaker 2: would be. But at the lease, at the end of it,
Speaker 2: I got to turn it in. I have nothing to
Speaker 2: show for it. But at the end of there, if
Speaker 2: the payments are actually lower than what the lease payments are,
Speaker 2: I've got some residual that I can turn around and sell.
Speaker 20: But when you buy it, you make higher payments than
Speaker 20: you do on a lease. At lease made lower payments.
Speaker 2: Even with a ninety thousand mile dear. Okay, yes, okay, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: So there's no magic to buying or releasing a car.
Speaker 20: If you look out the window and pick out any car,
Speaker 20: that car doesn't know if you paid cash, finance it,
Speaker 20: or lease it. If you owe more on it than
Speaker 20: it's worth, it's because you put less of your own
Speaker 20: money into it. If you owe less on it than
Speaker 20: it's worth, it's because you put more of your own
Speaker 20: money into it. If you want five thousand dollars equity
Speaker 20: in your car, just write a check for five thousand
Speaker 20: dollars at your money.
Speaker 3: It's not magic, now, I think that is well put.
Speaker 3: And you're telling me and Bob, I think you're telling
Speaker 3: me it's impossible to get screwed on a lease. Come on, man,
Speaker 3: they can pack that you're saying. I'm reading examples where
Speaker 3: you pay more for the acquisition cost than you could
Speaker 3: somewhere else. So there is a I mean, obviously you
Speaker 3: want to go to somewhere that's going to give you
Speaker 3: the best acquisition.
Speaker 20: Cost, right, Well, sure, I mean you know, I'm gonna
Speaker 20: say it's up to whoever you're dealing with and whether
Speaker 20: you read the paperwork. Because the cap cost is your
Speaker 20: sale price. It should be the same whether you buy
Speaker 20: it or lease it.
Speaker 3: Okay, So let's talk about that the cap costs, meaning
Speaker 3: the the the acquisition cost.
Speaker 20: Well, so the cap, what do you look is the
Speaker 20: sale price. Leases have an acquisition fee, and then that
Speaker 20: would be your cap cost.
Speaker 3: Any down payment, any rebates or whatever would be the
Speaker 3: adjusted cap.
Speaker 20: So if you've got to rebate when you bought the car,
Speaker 20: and you got to rebate when you lease the car,
Speaker 20: the adjusted cap and your sale price should be the same.
Speaker 3: I mean, not all.
Speaker 20: I mean, if you don't read your paperwork, which a
Speaker 20: lot of people don't, you may not know that.
Speaker 3: Okay. So then again I want to make this across.
Speaker 3: They can go to you, or they can go somewhere else.
Speaker 3: They're not always going to get the same deal, though,
Speaker 3: I want to be straight on that.
Speaker 20: And when you say the same deal, you're talking about
Speaker 20: just the price of the vehicle or I'm not sure what.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm talking about everything, their payment, the price, everything,
Speaker 3: I mean, are mileage they can't screw with. You're saying,
Speaker 3: is that right?
Speaker 20: Well, I mean we would ask you how many miles
Speaker 20: per year you're going to drive, because I tell people
Speaker 20: assume you're going to Lisa Car and turn it in
Speaker 20: at the end. So you don't want to do a
Speaker 20: five thousand mile of year lease when you drive fifteen.
Speaker 3: That doesn't benefit you.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: So again what we're saying is there are ways I'm trying.
Speaker 3: What I'm trying to get across is this, and maybe
Speaker 3: I'm not doing it right. I can't believe that if
Speaker 3: I go to Lisa Car, everywhere I go is going
Speaker 3: to be exactly the same exact acquisition, exact cap costs,
Speaker 3: exact interest, exact payment, exact everything. Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 2: Well, a lot of times, so, Bob, I mean, I
Speaker 2: I just need to know that Likendi Hondi might have
Speaker 2: a special lease program. If you go through Hondi Motors
Speaker 2: a special lease thing, you wouldn't be able to do that.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about like people like so you can do
Speaker 2: the same thing as the manufacturer's stuff.
Speaker 20: So what we do is try and put you in
Speaker 20: the best vehicle at the best terms. The lowest lease
Speaker 20: payment isn't necessarily the best lease because it may have
Speaker 20: a higher residual, it may have a higher money factor
Speaker 20: to get.
Speaker 3: You that lowest payment.
Speaker 4: Got it.
Speaker 20: But you know, we do the math and show you
Speaker 20: the difference between them, and it's not always the manufacturer
Speaker 20: that has the best lease. And we can do that one,
Speaker 20: or we can do an independent like a credit union
Speaker 20: or a bank that may have a better program than
Speaker 20: the manufacturer.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay. So basically it's what we're talking about is
Speaker 3: somebody who's going to be honest. Somebody is going to
Speaker 3: be straightforward and tell you the numbers and have you
Speaker 3: seen where a purchase.
Speaker 20: Go ahead, sir, No, I'm just going to say in
Speaker 20: you know, in a dealership, their biggest profit center is
Speaker 20: their finance office. So once you've been out on the
Speaker 20: showroom for hour, many hours and made your deal. Then
Speaker 20: you go to finance, and that's where they make all
Speaker 20: their money, and so they can mark up the money factor,
Speaker 20: which is equivalent of interest, because that's how that guy
Speaker 20: gets paid. So they won't all necessarily be the same
Speaker 20: from dealer to dealer.
Speaker 3: Okay, So have you have you ever seen where cars
Speaker 3: are ever better purchased, better deal than leasing? Or do
Speaker 3: you think leasing if you can stay within the mileage
Speaker 3: I'm saying now, do you and you stay within the term,
Speaker 3: no early terminations, do you feel that it is better?
Speaker 20: I always I do, and I always have because of
Speaker 20: the fact leases have an end, they have an out,
Speaker 20: so it worst cases, you keep us at the end
Speaker 20: of the lease and turn it back in. As I
Speaker 20: said before, you know, the lenders are predicting the future
Speaker 20: value of a car. Who knows what that is, especially
Speaker 20: now electric hybrids, plug in hybrids, hydrogen. I mean, who
Speaker 20: knows what's gonna it's gonna look like in three years
Speaker 20: from now. So let somebody else take that gamble on
Speaker 20: the future value. If they're right, then then you can
Speaker 20: buy that car. If they're wrong, then you give it
Speaker 20: back to them and let them take the loss.
Speaker 3: Okay, I like what you're saying anyway, three oh three
Speaker 3: seven one three talks three oh three seven one three
Speaker 3: eight two five five. Now I have calculated my mile ageuice,
Speaker 3: and I put an average for this actual car, and
Speaker 3: I've not scrimped or nothing. Eight hundred eighty six miles
Speaker 3: a month, which comes out to ten thousand, six hundred
Speaker 3: miles a year. So well, what do I do with that?
Speaker 3: If I want a lease? Do I go up to
Speaker 3: twelve thousand? Can I go to eleven thousand? Or do
Speaker 3: I go back to ten thousand and try to curb
Speaker 3: it a little? What would you do?
Speaker 8: So?
Speaker 3: You know, as I mentioned, the fifteen is standard.
Speaker 20: They do twelve ten seventy five hundred, five thousand mile
Speaker 20: of your leases, So I would say to go to
Speaker 20: the next highest one to give you a cushion. You
Speaker 20: don't ever want your lease to dictate whether you go
Speaker 20: get milk or not. You know, you don't want to
Speaker 20: have a lease scene yeah, or twelve because you said.
Speaker 3: You do how many a month? Eight eighty six? So
Speaker 3: I mean twelve thousand would work.
Speaker 20: But I think you want err on the high side,
Speaker 20: you unless the payment is that critical, But then then
Speaker 20: you're going to pay at the end. So you know,
Speaker 20: if you turn it in with more miles, they're going
Speaker 20: to charge you so many cents per mile that you
Speaker 20: were over.
Speaker 3: What does it always turn out to be upfront with
Speaker 3: the mileage or to pay the penalty? Well, I mean,
Speaker 3: so you know I'm always upfront.
Speaker 20: The day you sign the lease, you know how many
Speaker 20: miles you're allowed in the contract, You'll tell you how
Speaker 20: much your excess miles are, So there's no surprises.
Speaker 3: Now if I trade in my car, and I don't
Speaker 3: even want to talk about trades. Mark was talking about
Speaker 3: how his how the new car went down as soon
Speaker 3: as he bought his. I can't believe the depreciation of
Speaker 3: my car. I can't believe it. I just don't only
Speaker 3: want to talk about it makes me sick. But that
Speaker 3: equity would be applied to the cap costs and reduce
Speaker 3: the monthly payment. Or is it better to sell it
Speaker 3: and just keep the money. What is it?
Speaker 20: What's it better to do? I mean, you know, that's
Speaker 20: a personal choice. So if you put money down on
Speaker 20: a lease, it cuts into the depreciation on that car.
Speaker 20: It doesn't change the end value or anything else. So
Speaker 20: if you don't mind what the payment is. Keep the
Speaker 20: equity if you're concerned about the payment of eyes, or
Speaker 20: use a tor it. But it doesn't change the end
Speaker 20: value at all because the lender is still again no
Speaker 20: of course future value, so that won't change it.
Speaker 2: Of course you do it.
Speaker 3: But it will lower the payment, It will lower the pins. Yes,
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Speaker 2: All right, let's.
Speaker 3: Uh go to the funds. We've been talking about leasing
Speaker 3: and I think it's I think it's so enlightening. But anyway,
Speaker 3: Brenda wants to talk about a contractor go ahead, Brenda.
Speaker 3: What's going on with you?
Speaker 23: Well? Tom, I I came to Colorado because of cancer reasons,
Speaker 23: and so I came here for treatment. I bought a
Speaker 23: house here. I still have interest back in the stake?
Speaker 24: Am I?
Speaker 15: Am?
Speaker 23: I on the radio?
Speaker 2: Or no, yes you are?
Speaker 3: Yeah? So you bought a house in the Denver area.
Speaker 3: Did you buy a house in the Denver area in Parker?
Speaker 3: And where are you getting your treatment? In?
Speaker 23: Either Loan Tree or Highland's Ranch, depending on which one.
Speaker 23: I mean, it's through you the age.
Speaker 3: Okay, So what's going on?
Speaker 17: Well?
Speaker 23: I have had hail damage on May the tenth of
Speaker 23: twenty twenty three, and the people have just that I've hired,
Speaker 23: which were recommended by another person in the neighborhood, have
Speaker 23: just dragged your feet and drag your feet and dragged
Speaker 23: their feet and done.
Speaker 3: Now, hold on, you had hail damage, so you're saying,
Speaker 3: you're saying the roof, the roofers are dragging their feet.
Speaker 23: Okay, they did. There was more damage than just the roof.
Speaker 23: There was the roof, and then there was there's some windows,
Speaker 23: there's there's they're gonna have to repaint some stuff, garage doors,
Speaker 23: a lot of this stuff. So far, they've done the
Speaker 23: roof and there's just been.
Speaker 3: Who is the company? Who is the company?
Speaker 23: Do I have to say that online right on air
Speaker 23: right now?
Speaker 22: Well?
Speaker 3: No, but we like to know because if it's a
Speaker 3: common problem, I'd like to let people know. I mean,
Speaker 3: you're not going to get in trouble for telling the truth. Listen,
Speaker 3: if this happened in May, when did you contract? When
Speaker 3: did you contract with them?
Speaker 23: What happened in May of twenty twenty three?
Speaker 2: Tom?
Speaker 3: But when did you contract with this company that fall?
Speaker 23: That's fall? Shortly just a few months afterwards, I think. Okay,
Speaker 23: I can't remember, it's July. It was not too long
Speaker 23: after the hail damage, okay, And so far we got
Speaker 23: replaced and the roofers damage some aliding year and nobody's
Speaker 23: come back to fix that. I was not told the
Speaker 23: correct time that the roofers were going to be here,
Speaker 23: so they were here, pounding, pounding, pounting.
Speaker 3: Well, who recommended who recommended the roofers to you?
Speaker 23: It's just one of the neighbors in the neighborhood. And
Speaker 23: I wouldn't want to give their name because I wouldn't
Speaker 23: want I haven't asked their permission to do that, so
Speaker 23: if they gave their permission, it'd be great. But just
Speaker 23: one of the neighbors.
Speaker 3: I don't care about that. I just meant it is
Speaker 3: this someone you know and trust?
Speaker 23: Yes, it is somebody I know and trust.
Speaker 3: Okay, now here's what's really important. Here's what's really important.
Speaker 3: You paid for the roof and got the roof. Did
Speaker 3: you pay a head for anything? You have not gotten?
Speaker 23: The thing of it is, Tom, I have paid. I'm
Speaker 23: not sure how many thousand dollars. I had a fairly
Speaker 23: high deductible twenty one thousand dollars. I've paid that, and
Speaker 23: an insurance company suit some money that the contractor has
Speaker 23: and then they recently.
Speaker 3: Here's what I need to know. This is too complicated.
Speaker 3: I need to know the total amount of money that
Speaker 3: was paid to the contractor, not to you. I need
Speaker 3: the total amount of money the contractor.
Speaker 23: Was paid totally, and I'm trying to get that from
Speaker 23: the insurance company right now. I'm in the process of
Speaker 23: working on that. So should we Should I get get
Speaker 23: back with you when I get that?
Speaker 14: No?
Speaker 3: No, that yeah? Probably who's your insurance company?
Speaker 23: American National?
Speaker 2: Okay, terrible company?
Speaker 3: So oh wait, wait American I'm sorry, I'm sorry, it's
Speaker 3: not I was thinking American Family, but you're saying American National, American.
Speaker 23: National, and they're I think they're pulling out of Colorado
Speaker 23: as of next month, because.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but they're not terrible. Yeah, They're not terrible. So listen,
Speaker 3: what I want to know is this, does the roofing
Speaker 3: company openly communicate with you?
Speaker 23: They have not been openly communicating with me. And there
Speaker 23: we are scheduled to have a meeting Tuesday afternoon or
Speaker 23: two's your wid you.
Speaker 3: Let me explain something. Let me explain what you're in
Speaker 3: danger of, Okay, losing all of your rights to go
Speaker 3: after that? Okay, did this roofing company say, did this
Speaker 3: roofing company say they would take care of all of
Speaker 3: the damage.
Speaker 23: They we're supposed to be taking care of all the damages. Yes,
Speaker 23: that was my understanding.
Speaker 3: Okay, do you have a Do you have a written contract?
Speaker 14: I do.
Speaker 23: I'm going to have to dig it out, but yes,
Speaker 23: I do. You need to send it to us, Okay,
Speaker 23: and it's probably going to be next week before I
Speaker 23: can get it sent to you.
Speaker 3: Just because I have Do you know how much money?
Speaker 3: Do you know how much money you paid the contractor
Speaker 3: not the insurance, but you directly.
Speaker 23: I was twenty some thousand dollars that I paid. It
Speaker 23: was my deductible. I think.
Speaker 3: You said twenty seven right, it's probably ACV, which is.
Speaker 23: Something twenty something. I don't know exactly tall.
Speaker 3: Okay, so you paid. Okay, but this is good because
Speaker 3: I'm letting you. I'm letting I am letting you know
Speaker 3: what you need to get. So I need to know
Speaker 3: the contract and I have a copy, and I want
Speaker 3: to know how much you paid them so far, and
Speaker 3: then how much your insurance company paid.
Speaker 14: Okay, Okay, she.
Speaker 23: Need to copy the contract, how much I paid, how
Speaker 23: much the interest is paid, and what else did you say?
Speaker 23: I'm sorry, I want the.
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Speaker 3: did we?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 3: So we got the name of the contractor. She's getting
Speaker 3: us that information. Yeah, we're going to try to help her.
Speaker 25: We have the name of the contractor and the name
Speaker 25: of the company. I tried to call over there and
Speaker 25: unfortunately the voice mailbox is full.
Speaker 3: Hmm. I wonder what that's going to mean. Well, let's
Speaker 3: talk to the Uh just put this.
Speaker 9: On hold until Wednesday, after she has a meeting, so
Speaker 9: we can look at the contract and we can have
Speaker 9: definite information about what the contractors says to her.
Speaker 7: Does that sound reasonable?
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, but I want to see it the contract
Speaker 3: as soon as possible. I don't have to wait till Wednesday,
Speaker 3: but I get it. We can put it on hold
Speaker 3: right now. Three three seven one three talk seven one
Speaker 3: three eight two five five. Here's the deal. You got
Speaker 3: to take control. Don't let your insurance pay anyone until
Speaker 3: you know they should be paid. And if you have
Speaker 3: multiple damage like that, I say check with an insurance adjuster.
Speaker 3: It will never hurt you to do that, ever, and
Speaker 3: we recommend someone here Paragon Services. So also, I wouldn't
Speaker 3: pay any money up front period. If you can't do
Speaker 3: the work, people, then get out. And I'm not paying
Speaker 3: you upfront, not just to put my name on paper.
Speaker 2: Nope.
Speaker 3: If you show up, if materials are delivered, I'll pay
Speaker 3: as I go, but I'm not paying you money upfront. Now,
Speaker 3: somebody wants to know from JFR Cars Rodney, how does
Speaker 3: your consignment program work for selling a.
Speaker 5: Car our consignment program. What we do is take up
Speaker 5: front a four to ninety nine fee to handle the
Speaker 5: mark inning, to handle the inspection and also including it
Speaker 5: as a full professional detail in that price.
Speaker 3: Now do I leave the car there?
Speaker 5: We would love you too, but sometimes a lot of
Speaker 5: people don't want to just because of the value of
Speaker 5: the car. But we have a secured lot that we
Speaker 5: can actually put it in. It is outside, however, but
Speaker 5: it's just so easier. It's much easier to have your
Speaker 5: your car on on site, just because we got about
Speaker 5: fifty brokers there that would love to sell your vehicle.
Speaker 3: Okay, so the four ninety nine is the upfront fee,
Speaker 3: then how.
Speaker 4: Do you do it?
Speaker 5: And then once we do the get the marketing, we
Speaker 5: will charge or I like to just charge a flat
Speaker 5: thousand dollars or twelve hundred bucks to do the deal
Speaker 5: as opposed to uh nine percent a percentage, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: a percentage. So and then we handle everything we are.
Speaker 3: You saying I'm going to pay Are you saying I'm
Speaker 3: going to pay under two grand no matter what.
Speaker 5: All day long, all day long, and with job, all
Speaker 5: the marketing, and we have all the financing that anyone
Speaker 5: would need.
Speaker 3: That is wonderful, honest to god. Jfur cars. Of course,
Speaker 3: we also have Kevin Colkin with us in the house
Speaker 3: and Jeff Vic and I see paper plates. They're already
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Speaker 2: Rod and Rob.
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Speaker 3: We're trying to solve every problem in the world when
Speaker 3: it comes to cars. We've been talking about leasing, and
Speaker 3: I love talking about leasing every now and then because
Speaker 3: it is truly, in my opinion, a wonderful option if
Speaker 3: you can live by the miles.
Speaker 12: Now.
Speaker 3: I've always been not a candidate because I drive too much,
Speaker 3: and I just wanted to be in full control. But
Speaker 3: now I'm only putting on about I don't know whatever
Speaker 3: I said per year, you said about yeah, not much,
Speaker 3: about no, no a month eight hundred and something. So
Speaker 3: I'm over ten thousand, just over ten thousand, and Rob says,
Speaker 3: maybe I'll go for a twelve thousand mile lease again.
Speaker 3: I want to know what you guys think. And then
Speaker 3: we talked about consignment, selling your car through them, where
Speaker 3: you pay a flat fee both up front to get
Speaker 3: it marketed and then a flat fee when it sells. Man,
Speaker 3: I don't see anything wrong with that. You don't have
Speaker 3: to worry about any of that. And I don't want
Speaker 3: to take phone calls and meet people and all that crap.
Speaker 3: That is the worst thing in the world. You know.
Speaker 2: I've sold a lot of cars in my time in.
Speaker 3: Aircraft, and it's dreadful trying to meet people and talk
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Speaker 2: We are helping you grow a neest egg.
Speaker 7: Now, hey, Tom, I have a question.
Speaker 2: Go ahead.
Speaker 9: If you sell a car person to person, how do
Speaker 9: you protect yourself. Let's say I'm buying a car from
Speaker 9: you and I want to thank you for a test drive.
Speaker 7: How do you prevent me from sealing the car?
Speaker 3: I've often wondered that, Mark, what have you done in
Speaker 3: the past when you sell Mark has sold cars individually
Speaker 3: more than anyone I know.
Speaker 2: Mark, What do you get a copy of their license
Speaker 2: before I even't meet him? Then I meet him at
Speaker 2: a bank somewhere, and if they want to go on
Speaker 2: a test drive, I go with them.
Speaker 7: Okay, so you do go with them on a test drive?
Speaker 24: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Absolutely, and Mark. Have you had people that want to
Speaker 3: get the car checked out?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's fine. We can drive to wherever they want
Speaker 2: and they can have a checked out. But actually, I
Speaker 2: actually Tom, I haven't for a long time because the
Speaker 2: cars I'm selling are one under manufacturers bumper to bumpers,
Speaker 2: so it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: Okay, I guess it could if it was abused or something,
Speaker 3: but I get it.
Speaker 2: Most of the time you have lower village. What I
Speaker 2: tell them to do is run the VN with a
Speaker 2: Honda or stop by a dealer before we even meet.
Speaker 2: They have the vin I say, you know, call up Hondy,
Speaker 2: call up one of the dealers and make sure the
Speaker 2: warranty is still intact. How many miles left? Blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: All right, now let's talk. We have Lloyd. Lloyd, welcome
Speaker 3: to the show. What's happening.
Speaker 21: Well, I've had problems with collecting money from a general contractor.
Speaker 21: And I'm the subcontractor. I've worked with me.
Speaker 3: Now, alright, so you were a subcontractor, right right?
Speaker 4: What did you do?
Speaker 21: And I'm an electrician, okay, places up stuff.
Speaker 3: Like that, and how much do they owe you?
Speaker 21: Fifty five thousand plus?
Speaker 3: And now how long you've been doing business with this
Speaker 3: and how long have you been doing business with the contractor?
Speaker 21: Like thirteen years?
Speaker 3: Okay, so then it's not like this guy just suddenly
Speaker 3: decided to rip you off. What is the name of the.
Speaker 14: Company US Steve Davis.
Speaker 3: Enterprises, And what does Steve Davis do?
Speaker 21: Well, he's the general. He gets to work and then
Speaker 21: you know, finds it up to get done, wrapped up
Speaker 21: with what's.
Speaker 2: The last project you did?
Speaker 3: You know? He said he'd been doing it for.
Speaker 21: Yeah, I shut down. When I finally sat down, I
Speaker 21: had like, uh nine or eleven going at that. I
Speaker 21: had to leave because he did what he pay I.
Speaker 2: Still have the same question, though, what's the last project
Speaker 2: you worked on under him?
Speaker 3: Where you got paid? Where you got paid no or
Speaker 3: didn't get paid?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 21: Well, well, like I said, Tom, they were like, uh,
Speaker 21: I know.
Speaker 3: Why he's asking when did you hold on? When? When
Speaker 3: was the last time you did work for him on
Speaker 3: any site? I know why Mark is asking.
Speaker 21: Go ahead, Okay, I'd say it was over a year ago.
Speaker 3: Yikes, Now Mark, tell them the problem there.
Speaker 2: Well, I was going to say, just lean the property,
Speaker 2: but you waited so long it's not even the properties. Okay,
Speaker 2: did you do everything? Did you do it right? Have
Speaker 2: you gone to court and got a judgment? So I
Speaker 2: take it since you've leaned the property, you now have
Speaker 2: a judgment in hand. Well, no, then you have gone
Speaker 2: way out of time. You might have done anything.
Speaker 3: So in other words, you're you're your leans are worth
Speaker 3: nothing right now?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you have to perfect those leans in sixty days
Speaker 2: I mean or sixty I'm sorry, No, I.
Speaker 14: Did do all that right.
Speaker 2: Well, then you have a judgment.
Speaker 14: Okay, I went, I went and got a lawyer's lawyers,
Speaker 14: and they didn't want to use my leans.
Speaker 21: They wanted to put in their breach or contract and
Speaker 21: I told him, no, I don't want.
Speaker 15: To do that.
Speaker 3: Lloyd, and Lloyd, here's what I want to ask you. Lloyd, Lloyd,
Speaker 3: let's cut this short so I can help you. I
Speaker 3: just need to know that. And it's a yes or no.
Speaker 3: Do you actually have any judgments?
Speaker 12: Well?
Speaker 21: I filed the leans, but that's as far as I've gotten.
Speaker 3: Okay, if you file the leans.
Speaker 14: Yeah and I got, doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: You find registered letters back, it doesn't It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: If you file the lean, it dropped away and you
Speaker 3: lost your right to foreclose. Okay, so what we have
Speaker 3: to do is something alternate. It doesn't mean they don't
Speaker 3: owe you the money. You have six years to collect money. Okay,
Speaker 3: here's what I want to know. How much you said
Speaker 3: it was fifty eight thousands.
Speaker 21: Fifty five thousand plus another He said, well, you'll be
Speaker 21: another eighteen percent for the year added on to that.
Speaker 3: Okay, so about fifty eight thousand. Okay, All right, let's
Speaker 3: just say fifty thousand. Okay, Now now this does this
Speaker 3: contractor owe a lot of other subs.
Speaker 2: Field.
Speaker 21: We worked the one on Panato out in the Cherry Hills,
Speaker 21: and the painter held him like eighteen thousand, and then
Speaker 21: the painter ended up taking like half of that nine thousand.
Speaker 21: And that's the only one that I know.
Speaker 3: That so is Steve Davis? Is Steve Davis Enterprise is
Speaker 3: still doing new work?
Speaker 12: Yes? Yes?
Speaker 3: And right now, what kind of work does he normally do?
Speaker 21: He like goes in and works for customers and say,
Speaker 21: you know, you want your house renovated, so he'd like
Speaker 21: gut the houses and then start all new with new
Speaker 21: and stuff.
Speaker 3: But he is still actively doing work, right, yeah? Is
Speaker 3: there a reason he gave for not paying you? I'm
Speaker 3: not asking if you agree with the reason, but have
Speaker 3: there been reasons given?
Speaker 21: He just said he didn't get paid, and I told him,
Speaker 21: I'm not working for them, I'm working for you.
Speaker 7: Great.
Speaker 21: So what he did was with the lawyers that I had,
Speaker 21: he said, well, we're not going to talk it to
Speaker 21: the lawyers. Take take the leads off. Well, then they
Speaker 21: get it. I didn't want to do it. And then
Speaker 21: it turns out that he doesn't. He just stopped. He
Speaker 21: just pult four houses with the last probably eight months
Speaker 21: for one point four million each. And I haven't seen
Speaker 21: any money at all.
Speaker 3: So you said he fix ups houses, but now you're
Speaker 3: saying he does spec houses as well. Does he do
Speaker 3: fix and flips.
Speaker 14: Well for people? He doesn't really do up for himself.
Speaker 21: I know he did like houses that he had personally
Speaker 21: in his own name, but and and we get all
Speaker 21: that stuff in there for him, and and he just sold,
Speaker 21: like I say, four of them. But he just works
Speaker 21: on people's houses like he probably got right now.
Speaker 3: Does he have a website? Does he have a website?
Speaker 21: I will say so.
Speaker 3: Is the name of his company actually Steve Davis Enterprises. Yes,
Speaker 3: he's not coming up anywhere that I can see wait,
Speaker 3: I see a Colorado Services and as Steve Davis, But
Speaker 3: that's not it. I don't see anything, Mark, can you.
Speaker 24: I was looking.
Speaker 2: I didn't see much either. I did want to explain
Speaker 2: real quick to just people listening. When when you follow
Speaker 2: file LEAN on a property to give the ten days notice,
Speaker 2: that's number one. But the important part to that is
Speaker 2: you had to have worked there within sixty days or
Speaker 2: finished the job at that point, or delivered goods in
Speaker 2: some occasions. Then you have six months from that time
Speaker 2: to actually enforce the mechanics LEAN, which is basically literally
Speaker 2: serving them, taking them to court, winning the court case
Speaker 2: and getting the judgment. Now you have a perfected lian. Now,
Speaker 2: if you have the kind of money it takes to
Speaker 2: go fore clothes on the property, you could do that.
Speaker 2: But that lian will sit there as long as you
Speaker 2: renew it when you need to renew it as well.
Speaker 2: But you didn't do any of that except for the
Speaker 2: actual probably the notice.
Speaker 21: Yeah, well they had all I still have them in
Speaker 21: my folders of that where they signed the mail registered
Speaker 21: letter and it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: Why do you keep saying that it doesn't matter that
Speaker 3: they signed it and they received it. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: It just tells that you file the lean. But if
Speaker 3: you just file a lien and don't do anything else,
Speaker 3: you're done.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 3: You know you keep saying that they sign for it.
Speaker 3: What does that mean?
Speaker 2: You have to literally sue them in court within six
Speaker 2: months of filing the lien in order to perfect the lien.
Speaker 2: If you don't, you don't have a lien.
Speaker 3: Okay, didn't your attorneys explain this to you when you hired?
Speaker 3: Didn't they explain it? No? They didn't, never, never, No
Speaker 3: one said, well, it's kind of late. That could be
Speaker 3: why they wanted to go with it.
Speaker 2: I think he nailed it, Tom, I think he was.
Speaker 2: When he finally went to an attorney, he already sent
Speaker 2: the lean paperwork in. They're like, you're already pasted all
Speaker 2: these deadline and said, we can't go this direction. We
Speaker 2: have to go a different direction, the breach of contract.
Speaker 7: Hey, can I ask a question?
Speaker 9: I thought, I if the homeowner has paid the general
Speaker 9: contractor in full, isn't that an affirmative defense against having
Speaker 9: a lean placed on the property.
Speaker 2: What does that have to do with it?
Speaker 7: Dial?
Speaker 3: Okay, No, No, Now that has nothing to do here.
Speaker 3: What doc is saying is under the lean laws in Colorado.
Speaker 3: If you have a primary residence and you contract with
Speaker 3: a contractor, and you can show you pay the contractor
Speaker 3: in full, it's a firmative offense, a defense against a lean.
Speaker 3: You have to be First, there has to be a
Speaker 3: written contract. Second, it must be your primary residence. Third,
Speaker 3: you must have paid it in full under those circumstances.
Speaker 2: But still none of that matters because the timeframe is
Speaker 2: come and gone, right, none of it matters.
Speaker 7: You're right, Mark, just asking general for future reference.
Speaker 2: You're absolutely right, Doc, that is an affirmative defense to
Speaker 2: a lean under the circumstances. Tom just spelled out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we got more coming up on the Troubleshooter Show.
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Speaker 22: Do you know here?
Speaker 3: Three oh three seven one three talks seven one three
Speaker 3: eight two five five. So we've been having some interesting
Speaker 3: discussions and I want to get you guys in on it.
Speaker 3: So give us a call about anything car related. I
Speaker 3: do have some texts that are car related. Three oh
Speaker 3: three seven one three talks seven one three eight two
Speaker 3: five five. And I love this one because you know what,
Speaker 3: I've had this question for any of our car guys.
Speaker 3: They want to know what do you do?
Speaker 2: What do you do when it doesn't.
Speaker 3: Snow all the time, there's not snow on the ground,
Speaker 3: You put your snows on because you had heavy snow
Speaker 3: now as dry as everything. Do you keep the snows
Speaker 3: on and wear them out? What do you do? Do
Speaker 3: you ever go back and change them out?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 3: What should they do? I often wonder about this. It's
Speaker 3: almost not worth having snow tires, guys. What do you think?
Speaker 6: Well, not as inconsistent as the weather spin here, but yeah,
Speaker 6: I mean typically you go by season, you don't go
Speaker 6: by snowstorms.
Speaker 4: So you put them on in November December, take them
Speaker 4: off in April.
Speaker 24: Yeah, I mean at the disadvantage too, is if you
Speaker 24: you know, if you're running like studded snows, you actually
Speaker 24: have a longer break distance. Now you don't have as
Speaker 24: good attraction on dry pavement.
Speaker 3: True, Okay, so you have them put on and you
Speaker 3: keep them on.
Speaker 2: Pizza's there.
Speaker 3: I mean it's not really practical to do that over
Speaker 3: and over. By the way, I didn't order pizza. But anyway,
Speaker 3: So what do you think, guys? Would you just get
Speaker 3: a good old weather and keep it that way? What
Speaker 3: would you do personally? Come on, tell me guys.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I wouldn't put snows on here.
Speaker 2: It snow's on one of our vehicles every single year.
Speaker 6: You know, you lived out in the country like that,
Speaker 6: you get a lot of open exposed roads, a lot
Speaker 6: of ice, and a lot of different things, not just snow.
Speaker 6: So it just depends on your situation. If you're just
Speaker 6: cruising around Denver and you don't hit a lot of
Speaker 6: snow and ice, I don't worry about some tires.
Speaker 25: I will give a shout out to Mark right now
Speaker 25: for taking care of a Hyundai Santa Fe.
Speaker 2: Who sold you or Mark? Yeah, what do you mean
Speaker 2: by taking care of it?
Speaker 10: Oh my gosh, so.
Speaker 2: Is your bag it's marks?
Speaker 3: Did you sell her a Santa Fe?
Speaker 10: Yeah, like a year ago, Tom, Yes, And yeah, because
Speaker 10: you take.
Speaker 2: Excellent care of their car.
Speaker 25: Because of the snow storm yesterday when we were sliding
Speaker 25: all over the place.
Speaker 10: The tires that you told Adam to put on were perfect.
Speaker 2: Okay, so.
Speaker 10: The place, I mean, it's very rare. But I'm giving
Speaker 10: you a compliment.
Speaker 2: Wait wait, you said you were sliding all over the
Speaker 2: place yesterday.
Speaker 10: In our in our neighborhood.
Speaker 25: But once we got out of the note because it
Speaker 25: was really snowlling, really bad yes esterday morning.
Speaker 2: Boy, I tell you, Kelly, your your ability to give
Speaker 2: a compliment, yeah, is something. I appreciate that we did
Speaker 2: takeing good care of that exactly. But I think like
Speaker 2: every Santa Fe I've sold in the past ten years,
Speaker 2: that thing was under a bumper to bumper warranty when
Speaker 2: I sold it to and you even.
Speaker 25: Told Adam when he needed to get service on a
Speaker 25: certain thing so the warranty wouldn't expire.
Speaker 10: So appreciate that. So I'm giving you a compliment, and I.
Speaker 2: Love every second of it. I just wanted to verify
Speaker 2: a work compliment.
Speaker 3: All right, three oh three seven one three talk seven
Speaker 3: one three eight two five five. People got very upset
Speaker 3: with me for talking about de EI, and they say
Speaker 3: it's too political. And I personally have not encountered DEI
Speaker 3: over my career. Obviously, I'm too old for that, I think.
Speaker 3: And I think there's nothing wrong with trying to have
Speaker 3: a diverse workforce and equity and inclusion, but you shouldn't
Speaker 3: force it if somebody's not capable. That one police or
Speaker 3: fire chief during the LA fires, did you remember what
Speaker 3: she said that she says when somebody comes to save me,
Speaker 3: people want to see someone that looks like them. Do
Speaker 3: you really do? Come on, No, When I want somebody
Speaker 3: to save me and I'm in trouble, I want a
Speaker 3: six foot eight, two hundred and forty pounds, strapping frickin'
Speaker 3: muscleman or some agile females who are strong. I mean,
Speaker 3: come on, do you think I care if there's a
Speaker 3: five foot nine, one hundred and fifty pound guy who
Speaker 3: looks a little Italian coming to save me? What the
Speaker 3: hell are they talking about?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 3: I think we actually sow seeds of discontentment and different.
Speaker 3: I mean they play on the differences among us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's called deliberates.
Speaker 3: You're right, they play on I mean everything is about
Speaker 3: how are you different? Not how are we all the same,
Speaker 3: but how are you different? I just hate it.
Speaker 7: And did you see what she.
Speaker 9: Said about if she has to carry somebody out of
Speaker 9: a burning building, it's his fault for being in that
Speaker 9: particular place.
Speaker 3: No, I never heard that.
Speaker 11: Come on.
Speaker 2: That that was said?
Speaker 3: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 7: It is his fault for being there somebody?
Speaker 3: Oh, because they should Yeah, if he should leave when
Speaker 3: they're told to leave.
Speaker 6: No, if he's too big and then a woman comes in,
Speaker 6: they cannot pick him up, it's his fault for being
Speaker 6: in the position he's in.
Speaker 3: Oh, bull crack said, find that sound but somebodys NBC.
Speaker 4: But said not by the chief, assistant chief or something. Okay,
Speaker 4: well it was.
Speaker 7: It was in the same SoundBite as the one you're
Speaker 7: talking about.
Speaker 12: Tom.
Speaker 3: Okay, I didn't know that. Man. We some of this
Speaker 3: stuff is hard to believe. Anyway. When it comes to cars,
Speaker 3: we've been talkings versus buying. We've been talking about snow tires,
Speaker 3: we've been talking about Now let's talk about maintenance. There
Speaker 3: is such.
Speaker 2: A weird.
Speaker 3: Philosophy on maintenance. You know, our dads used to say,
Speaker 3: every three thousand miles change the oil. No one does
Speaker 3: that anymore. Are there cars where you should? Are there
Speaker 3: cars where you shouldn't? And then what about this lifetime
Speaker 3: free maintenance? There's no I don't believe there's anything made
Speaker 3: that has a lifetime of free maintenance.
Speaker 24: Ever, we'll talk about that.
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Speaker 3: sixteen twenty two. Hi Tom Martino here, I want to
Speaker 3: talk to Anthony. We're gonna play a sound by soon,
Speaker 3: but I want to talk to Anthony right now. It
Speaker 3: is a question about emissions. Go ahead, Anthony, Hi, really
Speaker 3: quick question.
Speaker 11: Now, honestly don't know the answer. So I got a
Speaker 11: twenty fourteen Forward Focus had an emissions tests done last year.
Speaker 11: I had passed, which is unbelievable because the check enginel
Speaker 11: it was off and on and off and on happened
Speaker 11: to be off.
Speaker 22: When I had it.
Speaker 11: Tested, it was awesome. They wanted to retested this year.
Speaker 12: Is that an error?
Speaker 11: Do they want cars test tested annually for any reason?
Speaker 11: I thought it was like four years.
Speaker 3: We're supposed to be every pore. Well, how do you
Speaker 3: know they want it tested?
Speaker 11: It's a little card. Little card comes to the mail
Speaker 11: says emissions test has required a stupid little postcard.
Speaker 3: And sometimes why do you think he got that?
Speaker 24: If generally, unless I get flagged for something, it should
Speaker 24: be every two years.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's every two years for eighty two and newer.
Speaker 11: I wonder how it could have gotten flagged.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 11: Like I said, the check angelight was on last year,
Speaker 11: so it's unbelievable that it passed. I'm glad it did.
Speaker 11: Now the check engine is kind of on continuously. It's
Speaker 11: a backup car. It's not my main driver, but I
Speaker 11: do need to need the backup, so I want it
Speaker 11: as an error. I can go just try to do
Speaker 11: the plates and they won't notice.
Speaker 24: Or no, they'll definitely notice. You'll have to have it
Speaker 24: in the system. Even if you use the Kiosks and
Speaker 24: King Supers or something. They know they'll find it in
Speaker 24: the system that they're supposed to have an emissions it
Speaker 24: will not let you through. So I mean you may
Speaker 24: have passed by one of the roadside ones or something
Speaker 24: that caught you and smogged you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, try try a roadside you know.
Speaker 24: That might be the reason why he got it too, though,
Speaker 24: because they'll they'll flag a car just didn't pass.
Speaker 4: I got you.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I didn't know passed the roadside.
Speaker 6: Yeah you went past, you didn't pass it. It flagged
Speaker 6: went by the roadside.
Speaker 4: Well, let me ask you some.
Speaker 3: Are they hiring. Are they hiring any dwarfs at the
Speaker 3: emission center?
Speaker 24: Could be just to get under the truck for cash.
Speaker 3: I'm just listen, I don't mean listen. I don't mean
Speaker 3: to be an idiot. I'm just joking. I love people,
Speaker 3: and I'm just I'm just talking about that news.
Speaker 11: Conference and it's like a circus. No, I'm kidding.
Speaker 3: Uh, But in any case, so what I'm getting at.
Speaker 3: Is this.
Speaker 2: What I'm getting out? It's like a circus.
Speaker 3: You mean the emissions people.
Speaker 11: Well no, I just mean you were talking about about
Speaker 11: midgets and whatever, and uh, unarmed.
Speaker 2: Tom's making fun in midgets.
Speaker 3: You mean I wasn't making fun and I don't like
Speaker 3: that term.
Speaker 2: What I was doing.
Speaker 3: I was just making fun of something we talked about earlier. Yeah,
Speaker 3: about that, about that news conference where people were saying,
Speaker 3: you know, never mind, I don't want to get into it.
Speaker 3: And again, I'm seriously Anthony, as far as you being
Speaker 3: you needing a test if they say you do it, yeah,
Speaker 3: you do, right, guys. I mean, have you ever heard
Speaker 3: of those being sent out in error?
Speaker 6: I'd never But I mean you can go online and
Speaker 6: try to register it. If it takes it, it takes it.
Speaker 6: If it doesn't it, ask me. Now, that's what I
Speaker 6: would do. At least, just go on the online portal
Speaker 6: and see if it'll take it.
Speaker 3: That sounds good, sorry, three oh three seven to one
Speaker 3: three talk seven one three eight two five five. Here's
Speaker 3: the text tome I bought a car. Go ahead, I
Speaker 3: bought a car, and they said I never have to
Speaker 3: change the oil. Should I believe them. It's an Oh,
Speaker 3: never mind, it's a model. Why yeah, Oh man, guys,
Speaker 3: are you guys, what are you doing about evs? Are
Speaker 3: you guys morphing into some of some people being trained
Speaker 3: for that or are you just gonna relinquish that trade
Speaker 3: and you don't think it's going to be a big
Speaker 3: deal going forward for a while.
Speaker 4: What do you think we're starting.
Speaker 6: We're definitely taking classes on it, but you know, we're
Speaker 6: we're also not one hundred percent of what technology we're
Speaker 6: going to have in three to five years, so it's
Speaker 6: hard to jump in too deep right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, when it comes to like window regulators or
Speaker 2: tire breaks, they're all the same, right, Yeah, all those
Speaker 2: things are the same. Yep, starters, alternators, fuel pumps, but
Speaker 2: lubrication point have to be different, or the front ends
Speaker 2: all the same.
Speaker 6: Everything is slightly different, but it's just like from manufacture
Speaker 6: to manufacture they're different too. So yeah, it's just but
Speaker 6: the the geometry is the same.
Speaker 7: All right.
Speaker 2: Listen, you've got to listen to this, man, Just listen
Speaker 2: to this real quick. This is the fire chief.
Speaker 26: You want to see somebody the response to your house,
Speaker 26: your emergency, whether it's a medical call, or a fire
Speaker 26: call that looks like you. It gives that person a
Speaker 26: little bit more ease knowing that somebody might understand their
Speaker 26: situation better.
Speaker 3: Is she strong enough to do this?
Speaker 26: Or you couldn't carry my husband out of a fire,
Speaker 26: which my response is he got himself in the wrong
Speaker 26: place if I have to carry them out of a fire.
Speaker 2: That's literally from the audio she made. What I'm so shy?
Speaker 4: Is god?
Speaker 2: The first time you've heard this?
Speaker 3: No, I've heard of the one about somebody that looks
Speaker 3: like you.
Speaker 2: I didn't hear the part the DEI stuff is like
Speaker 2: so they went so overboard it's insane, like like who
Speaker 2: who here wakes up going I'm going to get myself
Speaker 2: into a fire today.
Speaker 9: But if you are, if you're unconscious because it's smoke inhalation,
Speaker 9: it's your fault for being unconscious due to the smoke.
Speaker 3: Could someone be that stupid to say that?
Speaker 2: Seriously? I'm sorry when we play that is that not
Speaker 2: her talking? Dragon? Who is is her talking?
Speaker 24: That is her?
Speaker 4: That's the assistant fire chief.
Speaker 3: Is that person still employed.
Speaker 4: Promotions?
Speaker 2: Oh it's California, of course she is. Well not if
Speaker 2: they want money, we'll see if she's employed.
Speaker 3: Now getting back getting back to that, the discussion on
Speaker 3: the crash, and I was waiting in on it as
Speaker 3: a helicopter pilot and also as a pilot. If you
Speaker 3: go to the airport where that was involved on the Potomac,
Speaker 3: there is the there is no two hundred foot corridor
Speaker 3: that I see. All that I see is from the
Speaker 3: surface to ten thousand feet there is to be no
Speaker 3: uncontrolled traffic. So in that space, no matter who you are,
Speaker 3: no matter what altitude you're at, you have to be
Speaker 3: under a controller, under a controller period. It's it's totally different. Mark,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, but I'm not. If you Mark, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: If you are in an airspace, whether you are military,
Speaker 3: whether you are military or not, you have to abide Mark.
Speaker 3: You have to abide by the airspace requirements unless otherwise
Speaker 3: cleared by a controller. What is hard to understand, I'm
Speaker 3: not talking about a black ops operation. I have nothing
Speaker 3: to do. I have no idea about that.
Speaker 2: I mean the fly dignitaries to and from the White House.
Speaker 2: They do not broadcast where they are when Putin's in
Speaker 2: the helicopter. That's what those guys were training for.
Speaker 3: Okay, if they were all I'm saying is this, there
Speaker 3: is a requirement that if you're from the surface to
Speaker 3: ten thousand feet in that area of the airport and
Speaker 3: all along the Potomac, that in that airspace you must
Speaker 3: be in control. You must be in contact with a controller. Now,
Speaker 3: if there are special ops for dignitaries flying in a helicopter,
Speaker 3: why would the tower even be talking to them during
Speaker 3: a special op? No idea, I mean neither would I
Speaker 3: I don't either. Now. I imagine there are plenty of times,
Speaker 3: for God's sakes, that there are clandestine and black ops
Speaker 3: that no one knows about. But when you're flying, he
Speaker 3: literally was flying over the runway, over the final approach
Speaker 3: of a runway. And I don't care who you are
Speaker 3: or what mission you're on. If you're if you're in
Speaker 3: the vicinity of an active runway, you in a Class
Speaker 3: B air space, you are going to be in contact
Speaker 3: with a controller. And that that helicopter was in in
Speaker 3: a contact. And what I don't understand is if the
Speaker 3: tower said pass behind the plane, why they crashed into it.
Speaker 3: I think Chopper gave a logical explanation, and that is
Speaker 3: when you have traffic in sight, you may have the
Speaker 3: wrong traffic insight. I mean, that's a very very busy area,
Speaker 3: a very busy area. And then as others have brought
Speaker 3: out in that area because there are so many helicopters,
Speaker 3: apparently there is a special person they have that keeps
Speaker 3: track of helicopters, and that wasn't in the tower at
Speaker 3: the time. That person wasn't in the tower at the time,
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Speaker 22: have a twenty sixteen contract Subaru. Just last night all
Speaker 22: the lights went crazy, and to go over to my
Speaker 22: mechanic victor to my house and he said it's my transmission,
Speaker 22: and he said, uh, get one, we need a new one.
Speaker 22: We'll talked about ten grand, he said, as one.
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Speaker 27: This is the Troubleshooter Show Now, Tom Martinez, Welcome, Welcome
Speaker 27: to the show, the only show of It's kay.
Speaker 2: We're here to solve problems, answer questions, take complaints. Our
Speaker 2: goal in life is to make your life just a
Speaker 2: little bit better. I want to get right back to
Speaker 2: the phones. Brian has a problem with his transmission. I
Speaker 2: think it was the Subaru. Where did we leave off
Speaker 2: with you, Brian, You guys had.
Speaker 14: To go to break and so basically I got a
Speaker 14: price costs from my.
Speaker 22: Mechanic, which is virtually a block away from my house.
Speaker 14: He claims that a new.
Speaker 22: Transmission had a dealership is right around ten. He's found
Speaker 22: one with thirty thousand miles on it for just under five.
Speaker 24: Well, I mean the five is definitely attractive. With thirty
Speaker 24: thousand miles, it was most likely a good unit. The
Speaker 24: ten grand for a unit installed, if you're getting a
Speaker 24: unit from the dealer, is perfectly reasonable in all actuality.
Speaker 7: You said it was just had.
Speaker 24: Lights on though you weren't having any driveability problems.
Speaker 14: Well, that's what's what's weird that it happened last night.
Speaker 14: The Life sent me a.
Speaker 22: Picture of the dashboard and had all the lights on.
Speaker 24: It comes on like a cyst.
Speaker 22: Yeah, it didn't have the check engine light though, but
Speaker 22: it did have the ABS and have the VRC or
Speaker 22: some VCR or something like that. It's the control module
Speaker 22: or whatever. Anyway, I did some research and they said
Speaker 22: it's possibly just a battery, So I actually replaced the
Speaker 22: battery last night. It still came on as soon as
Speaker 22: I put it in drive.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but does it do any In other words, you
Speaker 2: put it in driving, you drive and it acts perfect,
Speaker 2: but the light's on. That's what Jeff's asking, correct, That
Speaker 2: is exactly right.
Speaker 24: There's a very high likelihood that you don't need a transmission.
Speaker 24: We see a lot of soloid failures on them, but
Speaker 24: change out valve bodies for being worn out, and that
Speaker 24: fixes probably ninety percent of them. So you're looking, you know,
Speaker 24: probably somewhere between about twenty two to twenty four hundred bucks.
Speaker 22: Oh wow, Okay, I may have to go back and
Speaker 22: tell them, let's let's look at that direction.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, bring it over. If they're already
Speaker 2: telling you, Brian, you need a transmission, and let's say
Speaker 2: if you do, well, that's great, they did nothing wrong.
Speaker 2: But if they're trying to sell you a transmission right
Speaker 2: now and it might not need one, why would you
Speaker 2: ask them for a second opinion? I mean, with the
Speaker 2: exception you said they're right next door, why wouldn't you
Speaker 2: bring it over to Jeff?
Speaker 22: And that's true, right, condition right, that's yes, yes, Sarny, Hey.
Speaker 3: Brian, Yes, Brian, I think Mark is right. Why don't
Speaker 3: you bring it over, I mean, get a second opinion
Speaker 3: from people we know and love.
Speaker 22: Yeah, I agree, I'll have to uh, I mean it's
Speaker 22: not being worked on at this point. He said he
Speaker 22: had to go through the motions in order it sometime
Speaker 22: next week.
Speaker 15: If if it's a go, but watch.
Speaker 3: Out what you invest in a twenty sixteen car. Just
Speaker 3: please be mindful of the math when it comes to
Speaker 3: a twenty sixteen car.
Speaker 2: Hey, Jeff. In general, I don't care if it's this
Speaker 2: vehicle or anything. If if a check engine's light on
Speaker 2: and everything points to the transmission, but the transmission is
Speaker 2: operating perfect, I mean, is it ever the transmission and
Speaker 2: if so, what would it be Why why would it
Speaker 2: act perfect but yet have the light.
Speaker 24: If it is actually the transmission, you will have some
Speaker 24: sort of driveability complaint. Something, something's going to be going on. Now.
Speaker 24: If it's pointing at the transmission and everything's working great,
Speaker 24: then yeah, you're right. The likelihood is you've got something
Speaker 24: wrong in a circuit.
Speaker 3: Or you know, TCU.
Speaker 24: You could have a shared splice or shared ground that's
Speaker 24: causing an issue.
Speaker 3: Got it, okay, Brian, I gotta I want to bring
Speaker 3: something up with you. Brian, by the way, is an exterminator.
Speaker 3: He's a good guy.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 3: Stephanie calls him the mouse guy, and he got rid
Speaker 3: of some stuff with us and he's really good stuff,
Speaker 3: good guy. He knows you.
Speaker 2: What did you guys have?
Speaker 3: Well, we had an infiltration of little mice all of
Speaker 3: a sudden. It never had him before. This was at
Speaker 3: our other house and the Bonnie brayhouse, and I just
Speaker 3: don't know why, but Brian found some little areas they
Speaker 3: were getting in. He stopped it immediately.
Speaker 2: God.
Speaker 3: The thing I hated. I hated trapping him. I hated it.
Speaker 3: The ones that were in the house. We had these lot,
Speaker 3: these kind of traps that you know the hotels, not
Speaker 3: the snappers, but are now they might have been a combination.
Speaker 3: I don't want to get into it. But in any case, Ryan,
Speaker 3: but there's one area where Stephanie and I want to
Speaker 3: take issue with you.
Speaker 21: Now.
Speaker 3: And and I'm just kidding, kind of half kidding.
Speaker 2: Listen to this.
Speaker 5: Son was.
Speaker 3: No, no, my stepson or Stephanie's son. He's a great kid.
Speaker 3: He works, he's on his own, he has his own apartment.
Speaker 3: And you know what we're going to talk about. He
Speaker 3: went out and got a wild hair a few years ago,
Speaker 3: and he bought two rats. Yeah, and they they stink
Speaker 3: up the place and they're terribly messy and I hate it.
Speaker 3: And well, not that it matters. And then of course
Speaker 3: he's such a good guy. He well, no in a
Speaker 3: cage with no with him, and he has his own
Speaker 3: apartment and it's his own habitat. And no, no, he's
Speaker 3: very very responsible, you know, feeds him, takes care of him,
Speaker 3: cleans out the cage. But still you can't help but
Speaker 3: have oder here and there and and just you know
Speaker 3: what I'm saying, and the little papers that they shred
Speaker 3: come come out. And so anyway, to make a long
Speaker 3: story short, Stephanie's in a panic, thinking when are these
Speaker 3: things gonna die? You know, And jokingly she would say
Speaker 3: can I slip them some dcon although it was a joke, right,
Speaker 3: So anyway, Brian says, oh, don't worry, don't worry, you know,
Speaker 3: because what did you say, Brian.
Speaker 22: Typical non domesticated rats have a lifespan up to a year,
Speaker 22: maybe a year and a couple of months, so you're
Speaker 22: looking fourteen months.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you said, and you said, no matter what,
Speaker 3: they're going to be gone soon. Anyway from natural cause
Speaker 3: are domesticated. You can how long on those up to three?
Speaker 3: Well it's been how long now, Brian? Almost three years? Right?
Speaker 22: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 15: I was just gonn.
Speaker 22: I was thinking of that after when I thought I
Speaker 22: had a prognosis of them kicking the bucket not too
Speaker 22: long ago, when Stephanie said they're still alive, all right,
Speaker 22: I said, uhh yeah. I think they've adapted to the
Speaker 22: domestic life and that's what's causing them to stay alive
Speaker 22: a little longer.
Speaker 3: They're pampered, and again we were I don't want I
Speaker 3: don't want Grift to feel like we're praying for them
Speaker 3: to die or anything, but we are anyway, so domesticated rats,
Speaker 3: they say on the very very outside it's three years,
Speaker 3: but some with exceptional care, Oh dear Jesus, with exceptional
Speaker 3: care can live four years, although.
Speaker 2: It's very rare.
Speaker 22: Yeah, and that is true. If you'd really like, no.
Speaker 3: We can't, obviously I would. We never want to do
Speaker 3: anything sinister, like, hey, what do you do with prairies?
Speaker 2: Oh that's a different story, Mark, Well what do you do?
Speaker 2: Can you can? You can you kill them now? Or
Speaker 2: you still got to like protect them and buy him
Speaker 2: dinner or what's the deal.
Speaker 22: We just we've got so many big pray dog dog
Speaker 22: jobs going on right now. Some of them are doing
Speaker 22: a percolating machine, which basically emits copper monoxide into a
Speaker 22: hole and they just go to sleep. Other methods depending
Speaker 22: on what city or municipality we're in, we are under restrictions.
Speaker 22: But overall, big fields out in the middle of nowhere,
Speaker 22: we can use a chemical called fumatoxin.
Speaker 2: And they're nasty little suckers, aren't they aren't they? Oh? Yeah,
Speaker 2: just gross?
Speaker 22: Yeah, a lot of things that most.
Speaker 7: Pan What about uh oh what about Canada?
Speaker 3: Geese?
Speaker 2: Geese Canada?
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's skyrat Yeah, skyrats.
Speaker 22: Doing round um yeah, exactly. Well those are like pigeons too,
Speaker 22: you know a little uh where they call them morning
Speaker 22: or not morning pigeons.
Speaker 3: But one thing though, truly and all joking, all joking aside,
Speaker 3: of course, I wouldn't want to cause suffering for any
Speaker 3: of them.
Speaker 2: But but sometimes you just have to eradicate stuff. Man,
Speaker 2: what's the craziest thing you've based off? Man, Like like
Speaker 2: a monkey or something?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 22: No?
Speaker 3: Yeah, like, what's the crazy No, what is the craziest.
Speaker 22: Vermin you went after there was oddly enough, a marmot
Speaker 22: and aurora.
Speaker 2: I don't even know what a marmot a market.
Speaker 22: They live above tree line usually that's where their primary
Speaker 22: UH area is. And this guy went, man, they're cute
Speaker 22: over the weekend. Oh they can be. But this guy
Speaker 22: went back back and he was gone for a few
Speaker 22: days up in the fourteener and then he turned around
Speaker 22: and uh came home and parked his vehicle in the garage.
Speaker 22: And then the next day he saw a big, old
Speaker 22: gaping hole that was eaten into his UH is rough.
Speaker 22: So they called me out. I look up and I go, huh,
Speaker 22: that's that's that's not squirrel, that's not a raccoon. I go,
Speaker 22: that is a marmot. And he goes what he goes
Speaker 22: how to get down here? And I look at his
Speaker 22: bumpers from bumper and there was the styrofoam was chewed
Speaker 22: out on the ground, and I'm looking on I'm going
Speaker 22: he hitched.
Speaker 15: Right that hole.
Speaker 14: He ate right into the bumper and took a free
Speaker 14: ride home on I seventies, Brian.
Speaker 22: I didn't snuff it. I didn't stuff him.
Speaker 15: Just to let you know.
Speaker 22: I went ahead and I back up in the hill.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you something that's a paint in the ass
Speaker 2: Susanna and I had to deal with. I'm not going
Speaker 2: to get into the how. But woodpeckers, my wood.
Speaker 22: Northern flickers, nuthatches, downings are all down here now listen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you're not supposed to do anything.
Speaker 2: But my reason I got a guy.
Speaker 22: You can get a donvation permit. You can get a difference.
Speaker 3: What does that mean?
Speaker 22: Uh, you're basically right. We have a federal link.
Speaker 14: That allows the homeowner to get into that and get it.
Speaker 22: And apply for a permit, and then you we would
Speaker 22: be able to come out and set traps and we
Speaker 22: stick them over the hole so when they fly into it,
Speaker 22: they basically get caught and they're.
Speaker 2: Done and that they.
Speaker 22: Yeah, that's fatterally, that's.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, But I mean, are are the woodpeckers
Speaker 2: prevalent or is it just my neck of the woods,
Speaker 2: because they're they're horrible.
Speaker 15: What kind of do you have?
Speaker 22: The big tall ones that are grayish with a little
Speaker 22: red swash up on their head. Eric, exactly, Yeah, those
Speaker 22: are northern flickers.
Speaker 3: I want to tell you a true story, Brian. I
Speaker 3: want to tell you a true story. Tell me or
Speaker 3: it was told to me, and I want to know
Speaker 3: if it could be true. A dear woman we know
Speaker 3: heard noises in her addict. She kept putting it off.
Speaker 3: Then she hears some noises in her wall and there
Speaker 3: were there was a squirrel infestation that she tells us
Speaker 3: cost her around twenty two thousand dollars in damage.
Speaker 22: Is that possible it is if they neglected too long. Yes,
Speaker 22: because what you have to do is you have to
Speaker 22: remediate all the insulation out, take the down, removed it.
Speaker 22: Depending on if there's a lot of dead carcasses in
Speaker 22: there too, it's twenty two. Depending on how much they
Speaker 22: had to get done.
Speaker 3: I would have it was a big it's a big
Speaker 3: it's a big house, big house. Okay, did they do
Speaker 3: one of these big beautiful houses down in where was
Speaker 3: the castle Pines? Do you think it was a dress pricing?
Speaker 22: It could have been, because honestly, we go down there
Speaker 22: all the time and we do a lot of that
Speaker 22: clean out of insulation and addicts and.
Speaker 3: What do you do the rebuilding too? Or just to
Speaker 3: clean out? Do you do the rebuilding?
Speaker 22: We can, depending on how severe it is. If it's
Speaker 22: like we do stucco match as best as we can.
Speaker 22: We we can do if we want a perfect patch
Speaker 22: on something, Yeah, it'll take a little bit more time.
Speaker 15: Mark.
Speaker 2: Do you think like American Restoration does something like that.
Speaker 2: I don't think they get into vermits. I don't think so, man,
Speaker 2: I mean they would go in in not maybe the eradication.
Speaker 3: But I was thinking no, no, no, I'm not talking
Speaker 3: about that, the eradication or even the finding of it.
Speaker 3: I was thinking maybe of the aftermath the damages.
Speaker 2: But I would think you're calling like a best way
Speaker 2: insulation or someone to get up there. Fit's an addict,
Speaker 2: don't I don't know what Rock would do there. I'm
Speaker 2: sure he could do it, but I don't think that's
Speaker 2: their wheelhouse. Notice how I threw in the wheelhouse.
Speaker 22: I like that. We'll actually go in and we do
Speaker 22: remove insulation, but then we also advise the customer to
Speaker 22: get it reinsulated because we won't do the insulation at
Speaker 22: this point.
Speaker 3: Do you have any dwarfs that work for you in
Speaker 3: the small spaces anyway? Look at I'm just joking again.
Speaker 3: If you've been listening to the show, don't give me
Speaker 3: any crap. Don't give me any crap. I'm just joking
Speaker 3: from the other day and we're all having fun.
Speaker 2: I love people.
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Speaker 3: Tricia has got a comment on Woodpeckers. Man, you want
Speaker 3: to talk about an eclectic show? Hey, Trish, what's happening
Speaker 3: midgets woodpeckers?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we dwarfs Mark go.
Speaker 3: Ahead or in Southos like it.
Speaker 14: And we have.
Speaker 8: The Northern Flickers and they've nested it. We have stucco
Speaker 8: board that board.
Speaker 3: That looks like said, oh yeah, they and they have
Speaker 3: they love pretend stucco. They don't like real stucco.
Speaker 15: Yeah, okay, Yeah.
Speaker 8: By time we get anyone out there, they've nested and
Speaker 8: they've hatched. We've had two three roots in the last
Speaker 8: two years and try to fix that are covered up
Speaker 8: next to you know, they're back and we know they're
Speaker 8: famerly protected. And I heard that you just have someone
Speaker 8: that may have a light can trap them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, in fact he might still be on.
Speaker 8: May return every year.
Speaker 2: Well I don't think he traps them. Baby, Well, why
Speaker 2: don't you call Brian.
Speaker 3: Why don't you call Brian and he can tell you
Speaker 3: how to do it legally and ethically. Listen, you know
Speaker 3: what one time somebody told me, listen to this, Oh,
Speaker 3: you can't do anything to them, so you have to
Speaker 3: put up these owl decoys. That keeps them away. So
Speaker 3: they send me a picture of their house, and their
Speaker 3: house looks uglier than if they had the woodpeckers because
Speaker 3: they have these owl decoys all over their beautiful stucco.
Speaker 3: And by the way, as I understand it, they don't
Speaker 3: go after the actual stucco itself, but they go after
Speaker 3: the drive it or the synthetic stucco that is on
Speaker 3: the trim and all of that. Is that true?
Speaker 8: Yes, right above the trim the tram gives to sit on.
Speaker 21: Why, well, it's not.
Speaker 3: Just something to sit on. It's softer. It's softer. The
Speaker 3: trim is usually over a foam and it's not a
Speaker 3: hard stucco, but the hard code itself on your flat walls.
Speaker 3: Do they ever do that on your flat walls?
Speaker 8: Yes, And they are where the chimney is, so it's
Speaker 8: been closed. They can't get in the attic, but they
Speaker 8: can get into that box around the chimney.
Speaker 2: Hey, let's get Brian back.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: What Brian said about him was it was pretty simple.
Speaker 2: He can direct her to the website, the government website.
Speaker 2: You fill out a form and then basically they issue
Speaker 2: a death warrant for the birds and then Brian will
Speaker 2: come out Mark take care of the birds.
Speaker 3: No, but I'm talking about the destruction. What's that?
Speaker 14: Oh?
Speaker 8: I was wondering what Brod's company is.
Speaker 3: I know, I don't know. My wife has it. Mark,
Speaker 3: he's not on the referral list, right, I mean we
Speaker 3: he just happened to call in one time and he
Speaker 3: was so busy on certain things.
Speaker 2: But I'll find it.
Speaker 3: I'll find it. Yeah, So here's the deal, though, I'm
Speaker 3: mainly interested in the damage they can do. Is it
Speaker 3: on only the trim or can they do it on
Speaker 3: the regular hard coat?
Speaker 2: And maybe.
Speaker 3: Maybe Mark Schamansky can answer that too. And Shannon, No, yeah, no,
Speaker 3: that's dragon Dragon. I don't understand the goat sounds. Now,
Speaker 3: that's totally not even in the same ballpark here, bro
Speaker 3: what are you trying to do if you want, if
Speaker 3: you want.
Speaker 2: To hear what's coming from her house. She's got a
Speaker 2: dog and a goat. We should have we should have
Speaker 2: woodpecker sounds. You don't have. Its actually shocked that you
Speaker 2: haven't killed me.
Speaker 22: Over what too?
Speaker 3: I love that. I love God, did I love that cartoon?
Speaker 18: Oh?
Speaker 3: Thank you dragon. That cartoon Woody Woodpecker got it was great. Honestly,
Speaker 3: was an instigator. I didn't like. I didn't like the
Speaker 3: road Runner. Okay, to be honestly, that just got tiring. Mean,
Speaker 3: but Woody Woodpecker was cool. But my favorite cartoon character
Speaker 3: of all times. And if you can guess at people,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna give you a fifty bucks gift card, so
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Speaker 3: I know I love him, but he was my favorite
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Speaker 3: don't know how anyone cannot love this character.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
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Speaker 1: There's no need to bear Underdog is here?
Speaker 3: Hey I loved Underdog three oh three seven one three talk.
Speaker 3: No one's gonna get the fifty dollars gift card my
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Speaker 2: Oh wait, Floyd, what is your guest? Go ahead?
Speaker 3: Floyd, Floyd Solid.
Speaker 21: Who Speedigan's Dolls or Foghorn Leghorn.
Speaker 3: Oh, I love them, but they're not my favorite, my
Speaker 3: absolute favorite. Drum roll, please, you don't have to do
Speaker 3: a drum roll is.
Speaker 2: Heavens to Murgatroyd.
Speaker 3: You know who that is?
Speaker 2: Exit stage left.
Speaker 3: I am sam No, no, I am. I am petrified,
Speaker 3: scared even the Snagglepus God. Snaggleplus is the greatest cartoon
Speaker 3: character that ever was invented and graced the screen. If
Speaker 3: you've never seen some Snaggleplus cartoons, I would laugh my
Speaker 3: butt off. It was so funny. Oh now, one of
Speaker 3: my favorite early TV shows. And uh, I was only
Speaker 3: in my I was like three or four. Then I
Speaker 3: started watching it. I kept watching the worst produced show
Speaker 3: in history, the worst acting, the worst lines, the worst
Speaker 3: everything there is. You could not get worse than this show.
Speaker 3: But my god, did I love it. So I wanted
Speaker 3: a lot of happy thoughts it. At night, I'm looking
Speaker 3: at these old shows, but even this one, I can't
Speaker 3: take too much of it, although I used to love it.
Speaker 3: And that's the Adventures of Superman. Those old black and
Speaker 3: white Oh oh man, are they terrible? But so much,
Speaker 3: Oh Mark, it is so silly and stupid now and
Speaker 3: then Christopher what was his name?
Speaker 7: Christopher Reeves.
Speaker 3: Christopher Reeves was the character, which is so weird because
Speaker 3: the newest character was Chris Reeves, right, or the one
Speaker 3: of the latest later characters. But anyway, oh wait, wait
Speaker 3: wait George, I'm sorry, you're right man, it was George
Speaker 3: ree You're right. Christopher is the one that was paralyzing
Speaker 3: and then died later. But George Reeves committed suicide and
Speaker 3: then also on the program. Though they're the worst, but
Speaker 3: I actually you have to buy it on Amazon. Uh,
Speaker 3: they're not free.
Speaker 2: So I bought it.
Speaker 3: But I had two other old shows that I absolutely
Speaker 3: positively love and now, because I want a lot of
Speaker 3: positive energy, I listened to them at night and fall
Speaker 3: Asleep is uh Andy Griffith or Andy Griffin?
Speaker 2: Right Griffin or Griffith Griffith?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Andy of Mayberry, You know god, what a funny,
Speaker 3: easy going show. And then the other one is mister ed.
Speaker 2: God. I love him.
Speaker 9: Hey, Tom, Can you imagine when when somebody went to NBC,
Speaker 9: whoever was, Hey, I want to make a comedy about
Speaker 9: a pow camp in World War Oh?
Speaker 2: That was so funny.
Speaker 7: Can you imagine going to somebody?
Speaker 3: Did anyone does anyone love Hogan's Heroes. Gosh, nothing, I
Speaker 3: I loved that show. Yes, oh god, it's so wonderful.
Speaker 7: Can you imagine going to the producer?
Speaker 3: No, I know, you know what, that could never get
Speaker 3: made now never.
Speaker 7: Ever.
Speaker 3: Anyway, thank you first.
Speaker 24: Thought it was too close to Vietnam to actually put
Speaker 24: it in Vietnam.
Speaker 3: Oh really, thanks for letting me, uh stroll down memory
Speaker 3: laying here with this ridiculousness. But and that's another show.
Speaker 3: I like Ridiculousness, although man, sometimes I do the ooze
Speaker 3: and ows you guys ever watch Ridiculousness. It's a show
Speaker 3: about It's on MTV. It's on MTV. Now listen. Here's
Speaker 3: what he does. The host I think, who's a skater?
Speaker 2: I'm not sure.
Speaker 3: But they found this host, and then and then some
Speaker 3: then they found some some you know modern stars, calmer,
Speaker 3: you know, recent stars on either social media or whatever.
Speaker 3: And they come in and comment on the videos, and
Speaker 3: then they comb the internet for stupid videos of people
Speaker 3: doing crazy things. They won't take submissions. They go out
Speaker 3: and find him, but it's called ridiculousness, and then they
Speaker 3: have themes. I like it, I really do. I have
Speaker 3: to admit that. And so the other one. I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, I'm giving away all this crap, but that
Speaker 3: that's a fun show and it is ridiculous and I
Speaker 3: love ridiculousness.
Speaker 2: So there it is.
Speaker 3: Let's talk to Lenny has a Corvette transmission question. Go ahead, Lenny,
Speaker 3: what's happening.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I just wanted to run something by your bench
Speaker 12: mission expert.
Speaker 3: There.
Speaker 12: I got a twenty one Corvette. It's got that new
Speaker 12: dual clutch transmission in it, and there's so much stuff
Speaker 12: going on about when to get serviced. But the Chevy
Speaker 12: book says they want the oil changed in that transmission
Speaker 12: every three years or forty five thousand miles, and they
Speaker 12: also have a DCT filter that they say it changed
Speaker 12: before seventy five hundred miles. So I've called about three
Speaker 12: Chevy dealers, and every Chevy dealer will quote you a
Speaker 12: different price and different things they want to do with that.
Speaker 12: I just wondering, if you're expert, if they do the
Speaker 12: C eight transmission and what they recommend it.
Speaker 24: Well, we really don't see a whole lot of any
Speaker 24: of them. I've got a little experience with them, but
Speaker 24: you know, typically I recommend every three years or thirty
Speaker 24: six thousand miles and quite frankly, I would include that
Speaker 24: filter with each interval.
Speaker 12: Okay, because this this car's got three thousand miles on it.
Speaker 12: So Wow recommended changing a fluid even though it's not
Speaker 12: even close to the forty five thousand miles. So I
Speaker 12: guess that the best thing is just to change it.
Speaker 24: I guess they're also worried about the moisture being absorbed
Speaker 24: from the air, which isn't too much of a problem
Speaker 24: here in Colorado because we're a pretty dry climate. But
Speaker 24: the fluid will absorb moisture over time and break the
Speaker 24: fluid down.
Speaker 2: Explain a double clutch.
Speaker 24: It's literally what it sounds like. So you've got to
Speaker 24: automatically controlled clutches by the computer. So it's the transmision
Speaker 24: mission itself is actually two transmission side by side.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 24: One side one, three, five, so on and so forth,
Speaker 24: the other side two for so it'll actually engage that
Speaker 24: could you know, Disengage one side, engage the other and
Speaker 24: it will.
Speaker 2: Self shift inside WO, I say it for more.
Speaker 24: There's a performance aspect, purely performed.
Speaker 3: Do the new ones do that? Do the twenty twenty
Speaker 3: fives do that?
Speaker 24: To the better part of my knowledge? So but Chevy's
Speaker 24: not the only one doing that. They've come out in Hyundai,
Speaker 24: They've come out in Audi Ford.
Speaker 12: Okay, all right, very cool. So you guys, don't you
Speaker 12: would you would not change your oil on that transmission.
Speaker 12: Just take it to a Chevy dealer and is that
Speaker 12: what you're doing.
Speaker 24: Yeah, I'd probably recommend that they're going to have it,
Speaker 24: have the stuff on hand. I don't see enough of
Speaker 24: them more. I'm gonna be able to be competitive because
Speaker 24: I'm just gonna have to buy everything straight from the dealer.
Speaker 12: Okay, all right, So I appreciate your help.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you man, appreciate you calling. We have
Speaker 3: more coming up on the Troubleshooter Show. If you have
Speaker 3: any old shows you love and I should watch, let
Speaker 3: me know. I love looking at some of these old
Speaker 3: shows that just make me laugh. Remember my favorite Martian.
Speaker 3: Oh you know, some of these shows are so lame
Speaker 3: they could never make today. Others I think are pretty cool.
Speaker 3: I think a new version Mister Ed would be cool.
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Speaker 3: I'm Tom Martino. My favorite reality show anywhere I'm gonna
Speaker 3: talk about after Dennis, Dennis, what did you want to
Speaker 3: talk about? Go ahead, Dennis.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I used to have an.
Speaker 12: Old show I liked.
Speaker 13: He just took it off the air a couple of
Speaker 13: weeks ago.
Speaker 18: But it was Green Acres.
Speaker 3: Oh god, oh my My favorite character was mister Haney.
Speaker 15: Oh yeah, as.
Speaker 3: He was the con man.
Speaker 2: He was the con man.
Speaker 3: He would always come around trying to sell something or
Speaker 3: I've got something for that. Yeah, mister Haney. I love him.
Speaker 3: Green Acres. How funny was that show?
Speaker 13: I did not like.
Speaker 3: I did not like that other one, uh, Petticoat Junction
Speaker 3: though that was kind of a spin off.
Speaker 2: I didn't like it at.
Speaker 3: All, But I did love Green Acres. Yeah. Man, that
Speaker 3: brings back some Memories. So even though they took it off,
Speaker 3: you can still buy it through Amazon. I'm sure. Hey,
Speaker 3: my favorite reality show ever and and look at it's cringey.
Speaker 3: It makes me laugh my ass off, and I can't
Speaker 3: believe these guys do it. It's called practical jokers. Oh, Mark,
Speaker 3: have you ever seen it? Yeah, I've no, but have
Speaker 3: you ever seen?
Speaker 18: Yeah?
Speaker 3: You don't like it? Oh no, it's impractice, I'm sorry, impractical.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: They said, do you like the Joe like walk up
Speaker 2: to that lady and blah blah blah whatever.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, some of the things they have to do,
Speaker 3: and they're all having a bunch of fun. I just
Speaker 3: think it's so much fun. And of course Jack Ass,
Speaker 3: oh man, come on getting kicked in the night. I
Speaker 3: don't know if that Jack gass to me, Jack asked
Speaker 3: to me was a little severe. I didn't like it.
Speaker 3: I don't like it. I mean, I can find now
Speaker 3: and then Yeah, that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: I think it's reckless.
Speaker 7: But that's me.
Speaker 24: Fire.
Speaker 3: So they really do that stuff? Oh god, yes, yeah,
Speaker 3: don't you think that's dangerous?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 24: Hell yeah it is.
Speaker 2: What's the craziest stunt I've ever done? There must have
Speaker 2: been something in your life. I rode off a roof
Speaker 2: on a bicycle into a swimming pool, for example.
Speaker 3: Mark, I think I think I was pretty boring. I
Speaker 3: think I was pretty boring as a kid. I maybe
Speaker 3: you call it chicken. I would not do anything like
Speaker 3: ballsy like that. I just wouldn't got it. My little
Speaker 3: brother did. My little brother did. We would tell him,
Speaker 3: you know what I would like, Here's what I like.
Speaker 3: I used to love making things like like machines, really
Speaker 3: like like I made. I took a swing set one
Speaker 3: time and put a motor on it from a go
Speaker 3: cart and wanted to make my own carnival ride where
Speaker 3: you'd strap into a swing and to go around and
Speaker 3: around like like really high and then really did it.
Speaker 3: What we would do, Me and my friend Paul would
Speaker 3: always ask my brother Jimmy, hey, Jim, try this out.
Speaker 3: And then you always knew it was trouble because we
Speaker 3: would strap him and then we go hide behind a rock. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and he would he would just do it, man.
Speaker 2: I swear to God.
Speaker 3: Or I'd say, hey, Jim, I just built this, would
Speaker 3: you plug it in for me.
Speaker 2: We had a big old tire we found, I mean
Speaker 2: a big tractor tire like eight feet tall, and we
Speaker 2: would get in that son of a bitch and we
Speaker 2: would go down a hill, a regular road in the
Speaker 2: neighborhood in the front, Oh my god, cut off traffic
Speaker 2: to make sure a car wasn't coming, and you'd get
Speaker 2: side so.
Speaker 4: Much on the tire.
Speaker 3: Hey, people, I want to tell you, don't forget. Oh.
Speaker 3: Somebody said, I dream of Genie. Somebody said Twilight Zone,
Speaker 3: outer Limits, Barney Floyd, the barber on Andy. Anyway, so anyway,
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