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your support. This is a piece by Mark Ostrike over

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at Reason dot com. Last week, President Donald Trump's administration

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turned its chainsaws on the Department of Energy, cutting, canceling,

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or pausing a handful of onerous regulations set to hobble

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households and commercial or sorry, set to hobble household and

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commercial appliances. All right, So there was a bunch of

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regulations that were fixing to come on the books, and

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they cut them. Anybody who has coughed up a small

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fortune for a barely functional appliance knows the stakes. And

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I can tell you I have seen this. It is

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it's offensive. It is offensive. The amount of money that

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is charged for appliances with a life span of eight

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years offensive. I saw a video. The other day. Some

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guy had a a freezer and set up a He

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pulled the door, He pulled the front door off of

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the freezer. He stuck a thermometer in the thing. And

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this freezer was like a fifty or sixty year old freezer. Okay,

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he has the freezer outside. I want to say you

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was in Tennessee. He sets the freezer outside, The door

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is off of the freezer. He hangs a thermometer and

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trains a camera on the thermometer in the freezer, and

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then run and then records NonStop for the entire summer

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last year, and then put it all together in like

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a super sped up time lapse deal. That freezer never

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stopped working and the ice inside of it never melted.

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It didn't stop running. I mean it was running non stop,

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full bore, constant. He's like, they don't make these like

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this anymore. No, I don't know. Maybe it was a

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deep bake, cheap baker whatever, fake I don't know, maybe

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it was I don't know. I just I get the sense,

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based on my own experience with various appliances, that they

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just don't build them like they used to. You know,

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I had an old washer and dryer that was in

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my very first house that I bought in two thousand

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and five. The washer and dryer that came with the place.

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I think we're manufactured. I think it was like a

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week after the invention of electricity. I think that's when

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these things were built. And aside from having to replace

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one of the bands, never had a problem with it,

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never had a problem with them. Refrigerators, dishwasher, Oh my gosh,

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do not even get me started. Okay, well, no, we're

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already started on the dishwashers. We have a dishwasher came

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with our house, supposedly brand new though it was it

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was brand new, and it's I will tell you it

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is a whirlpool. And that thing trips our circuit breaker

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about once a week. It trips the circuit breaker. Coffee

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pot and refrigerator trips a circuit breaker. Now maybe that's

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the circuit breakers because they implemented the stupid new gcis

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or whatever the ground faults or whatever. It's not it's

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not ground fault, hey h whatever, But like these it

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trips these these things. It's like, oh my gosh, it's gonna,

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you know, burn the whole house down kind of thing.

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But the amount of money for like, and I'm the guy,

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like the last new fridge or the previous new fridge

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that we bought. Because when we Christy and I bought

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our house down to the Steel Creek part of Charlotte.

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This was two thousand and nine, I think, and we

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bought our house, we needed a fridge. And I saw

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one in the parking lot at home Depot, you know,

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they had it out front. They were trying to sell it.

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So I walk up, I look at it, and the

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thing was and this is said, this is fifteen years ago,

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and the thing was reduced, you know, and it had

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a dent in the bottom of it, and I was like, eh,

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it's like forty percent off or something. I was like, yeah,

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still too expensive because it was like one thousand dollars. Like,

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I'm not spending one thousand dollars on a refrigerator. I

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don't need it to do all of this stuff. A

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week later, we go to home Depot. The fridge is

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now moved to the little vestibule area you know between

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the sliding doors, and we go in there. It's still there,

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and now it's marked down sixty percent. So now I'm

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looking at it like hmm. This is now getting down

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into my price point, you know. And a guy comes

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out and he's like, hey, you interested in this fridge.

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I was like I might be. I said, I see

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it's got a dent down there. He's like, I'll tell

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you what, I'll knock another thirty percent off. I'm like, sold,

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I will buy that fridge for that kind of price.

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And then it leaked a little bit. But whatever, like

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the point was, I like, it was way cheaper then.

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I think it was like an a fifteen hundred dollars

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fridge and we got it for like five hundred or

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four hundred something like that. But when we went to

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look at refrigerators for the house that we're in now,

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we were shocked at the amount of money. And here's

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the thing, Like, I don't need a fridge to do

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all of this stuff. I don't need it to be

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connected to my WiFi. Why would you need that? Why

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do you need Wi Fi? Oh so I can look

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in and see if I need something when I'm at

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the grocery store. Yeah, that's what lists are for. You

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write a list and you put it on the fridge

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and then you take the list with you or you

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have your wife, send you a picture of it. If

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you're already at the store, like, that's what you do.

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And here's the thing. If you forget to buy something,

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then yeah, you're gonna have to go buy it again.

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Go to the store again and buy it. Then that's

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okay too. You don't need Wi Fi in your fridge.

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This author at Reason says my thirty year old Bosh

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dishwasher was a marvel. This is the thirty year old

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one efficient precise scouring dishes in forty five minutes like

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a Prussian drilling drill sergeant on a deadline. Last month

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it died. I had to drop eight hundred dollars on

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a sleek successor, expecting progress. Instead I got a two

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hour grease smearing farce that leaves forks like my optimism

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caked in the grime of dashed hopes, a victim of

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the Department of Energies regulatory straight jacket. That's the thing too.

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The dishwasher we have at our house now is a

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quote high efficiency one and it runs for three hours.

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Three hours. I thought it was a mistake. I was like, oh,

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surely that's like a certain that's like a sanitization cycle

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or a pots and pans cycle or or like a

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double cycle, like there's why would it run three hours?

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That doesn't seem high or efficiency, well, does seem like

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a high time count. Why would you do that? And

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then this stuff comes out and it's like this some

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of the stuff doesn't even look like it's been cleaned.

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Like you have to set everything up exactly correct, and

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you're like, oh, you don't have to wash the dishes.

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It has a sensor. There's a sensor that will know

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how dirty your dishes are. Like, just wash them the

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same way every time, because I'm not like, I'm not

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like super cleaning the dishes before they go in the dishwasher,

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nor am I just leaving them all caked on with

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all the crud. It's always the same kind of level

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of stuff on the dishes I put in there. I

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don't need a sensor in there. I couldn't buy a

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dishwasher though without one of these fancy sensors. It's just

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something else that breaks. Don't even get me started on

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the dryer. Okay, I am started on the dryer. The

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dryer has been sending us error messages like every six

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months telling us that there's a clog in the line

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and it still runs like, no, we don't have pets, right,

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it's just two of us. We're not drying that much

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stuff that it should be. And what's gone wrong is

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this is a Samsung and it's running all of the

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lint traps. It's all of the lint is bypassing the

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stupid lint trap. And I've had them out to the

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house and now they're wanting to charge us like two

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hundred dollars service calls each time. I'm like, well, after

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like three calls, I could just buy another dryer. And

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That's what I'm going to be doing. And I'm going

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to be looking at all the yard sales for all

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of the nineteen seventies era models because I have lost

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confidence in appliance makers. Well but maybe things will get

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better now. Now, maybe things will get better because of this,

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jump over and talk to Earl. Hello, Earl, Hello, how

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you doing good?

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Speaker 2: What's going on on this manufacturing job? If they bring

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all these jobs back, who's gonna work on me? Let

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me gave a little history. I used to work in

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the mid nineties that one of the top auto manufacturers

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in the United States, and back then there was waitlists

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of thousands of people wanting to work in that manufacturing

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phrase because the pay was very good, the bid at

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this was great in everything. Now said today we can't

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find they can't find people to work in the manufacturing jobs.

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Young people do not want to do that. They actually

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was at a position a few years ago. They were

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calling back older try reads to come and see if

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they could work on the line. And the pay is

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very good, but they can't get young people. They don't

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want that. They can get more money. And I and

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working in TikTok, they're working on an assembly line.

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Speaker 1: Well, this is the question I was asking in the

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last hour, is you've got right now? The stat is

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that there's half a million unfilled manufacturing jobs per month

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in America. So half a million unfilled jobs. And this

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is and I've heard this in like the auto tech

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you know, for you know, people working in the in

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the garages like and those are skilled labor and you

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can make good money doing that work. And they have

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problems filling those those jobs. So if the idea with

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the tariff strategy is to you know, ignite this manufacturing

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renaissance in America, then do Americans actually will they even

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work those jobs? If you create them here.

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Speaker 2: No, this company they were charged me. They will hard.

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These people making eighty grand a year, these eighteen, nineteen,

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twenty twenty year olds, they don't want that. They don't

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want to do that kind of work.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, No, it's because it's difficult work. And they've been

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told by their older generations that, you know, I want

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a better life for you, so you're going to go

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to college. I heard it, you know, my you know,

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my nieces and nephews have heard it from their parents.

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Like that's that's always been this sort of narrative that's

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been advanced because that was how you got out of

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a lot of the really backbreaking types of work in

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years and decades ago. And so now the manufacturing jobs

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are Yeah, they're difficult in their taxing physically, but I

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don't believe they're probably a lot of them. Some of

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them will be obviously, like your oil riggers and stuff

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like that, that's going to be very difficult work. But

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but there's a lot of other manufacturing jobs that are

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not necessarily backbreaking work anymore. But it can be tedious,

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you know, and you're standing in one place for on

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your feet all day long, like that might be yeah,

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like that and people think it's beneath them. So yeah, Earl,

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I appreciate it. Man, Thanks all right, take care you too.

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All right. Let me go over and talk to Ralph. Hello, Ralph,

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how's corn Pete?

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Speaker 2: All right with sage and everything?

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Speaker 3: Uh?

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Speaker 1: Trump, Ralph, your connection is breaking up? Are you on

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a speakerphone?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: And everything?

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Speaker 3: Uh? Let me.

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Speaker 2: I'm inside of of the Meca bork Kender interested.

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Speaker 1: Tell them we said hello. Yeah, No, that's all right,

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that's right, give me a call back, that's fine. In February,

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Donald Trump's Department of Energy postponed three efficiency rules from

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Biden that were related to central air conditioning, heat pumps,

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walkin coolers, freezers, gas tankless water heaters as well. It

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also carved a special regulatory category that would free up

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the tankless heaters from Biden's near ban. Just last week,

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the Department of Energy cut four more rules outright, impacting

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ceiling fans, dehumidifiers, external power supplies, and the electric motors

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that power almost everything. This isn't just red tape that

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is slashed. It is a rare win for choice and

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function over dogma. What did we dodge, Well, we dodged

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quite a bit. The electric motor mandates. Specifically, these rules

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everything from your blender to your garage compressor, like all

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of it. Ostensibly, the goal was to reduce electricity use

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and emissions. Sounds noble, right until you realize what it

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does to the products that we actually use, because the

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motors have to skimp on low end torque, which then

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hobbles the appliances that need a quick jolt. Think about

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your AC unit, you know, gasping as it kicks up

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on a hot day, or a blender that stalls when

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it's trying to chop up the ice, right, and then

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what it has to run longer? Right, It's like the dishwasher,

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I got to run it again. It's like the low

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float toilets, remember that. They're like, oh, yeah, we're going

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to reduce the water consumption. Yeah, except now I gotta

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flush twice every time because it doesn't it doesn't all

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go down. I waited to do this topic in the

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third hour so people would be done with their lunch breaks.

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You're welcome. Ralph is called that? Hey Ralph, Ralph? Oh no,

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that's not Ralph. Carol. Hello, Carol, Hey there, Hey, what's

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going on?

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Speaker 4: So you know we have your your washing machine, and

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it's got all the sensors and all the bells and whistles,

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and weirdly, the the agitator just kind of like stopped.

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You could see it was trying to work. And my

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boyfriend is very very handy, was going to fix it,

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and he's just like, you know what, He's like, I

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can't fix this new stuff. So we went on marketplace

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bought one. It only has two settings for sixty dollars.

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This thing works like a charm. It does this close

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in like half the time. I'm serious, I mean it,

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I believe it. And you were saying about the dishwasher.

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Our dishwasher, for it to dry so it dries thoroughly

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has to run over two hundred minutes.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, ours runs for I think that it automatically sets

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up at two hours and fifty eight minutes for one cycle.

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That's the normal cycle, three hour cycle. That's crazy.

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Speaker 4: If I don't if I don't want them completely dry,

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and then it kind of you know, they kind of

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like the heat dry or whatever, it's still one hundred

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and thirty three minutes. Yeah, it's insane. Is that? So

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we are very happy with our new washing machine for

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sixty dollars on marketplace.

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Speaker 1: How old of a machine? Is it like an old

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machine or is it a brand new one?

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Speaker 4: No, it's an older matex.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's got two settings. It's only small or extra large.

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You don't get to set the water, you know, temperatures

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or whatever. But here's the thing. If it breaks down,

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my boyfriend can fix.

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Speaker 1: Can fix it exactly, yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah, Carol, thanks

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for the.

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Speaker 4: Felt pain in Yeah, marketplace and fix it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. No, it's a it's a good lead. I appreciate

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the call, Carol, thank you.

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Speaker 4: You're welcome.

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Speaker 1: All I take care. Now, that's what we were looking at.

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We started looking at the Facebook, the neighborhood Facebook yard

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sale page. Maybe somebody's selling a you know, washer drive.

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All we need is the dryer washer is still working fine,

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and it has the censors and all of that stuff.

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Christy loves doing laundry. I'm not just saying that. No,

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I'm not just saying that. No, I'm serious. She loves

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doing laundry to the point where a couple of years

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ago I think she forgot that I actually do know

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how to do laundry. It's just she never lets me

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do it. She's always doing loads of laundry, really small ones,

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very color specific, very color like I did two I

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did whites and colors, and she has like pink, red, purple, brown, blue. Okay,

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I may be exaggerating a little bit, but it's not

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that far off. Here's a great idea. How about making

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memories that'll last a lifetime. I have some emails. This

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one is from Sin to Pete at Thepete calendarshow dot com.

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I hate Ken Moore. Sorry, I hate that Ken Moore

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is out of business. And I miss Sears so much. Yeah,

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of all companies to completely miss the mail order shift Sears.

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That's like, that's how you started. I remember doing this

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topic when the Sears closed up in Ashville and I

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went in there before it closed. It was so sad.

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But yeah, I mean we grew up looking through the

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Sears catalog But apparently towns used to collect up all

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of the Sears catalogs when they first started, and they

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would bring them to the town center and burn them.

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It burned them because they were like Sears is putting

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the mom and pops stores out of business. They viewed

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the Sears catalog as an existential threat. But I mean

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it's a case study in poor management, you know, over

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a very long time, because of any corporate entity that

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should have been positioned to become like you know, Amazon,

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Sears was it. Instead it was a bookseller. That's what

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Amazon started as, right, They just sold books at first. Anyway,

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Cindy says, I share your frustration with appliances. Basic washer, dryer,

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check out speed Queen, that's a brand. I was told

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by a salesperson at a big box store that Maytag

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is the choice now. He said, stay away from Whirlpool

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for a while because they're having issues and are always

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breaking down. Second choice would be ge and for refrigerators,

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stay away from Samsung. Yeah, I think our Samsung is

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the dryer. Yeah. Not happy. David says, Mom left not one,

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but two Ken more upright freezers to me when she

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passed away. The newer one is about twenty years old

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and the other is almost thirty. Neither one is fancy,

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but they both work like a charm and the one

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repair issue between them was a part that I replaced

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myself got a uh oh yeah, all right, well I'll

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see if I can figure this one out in a minute.

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It sounds like, hang on, yes, this is from Tim.

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It sounds like you have the arc fault. Yes, this

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is it. The arc fault circuit breaker AFCI instead of

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a ground fault circuit breaker GFCI. Any R or spark,

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any arc or spark will trip it when a motor starts.

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There are sparks inside. Right when we bought our house

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in Asheville, right before we came back to Charlotte, we

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were in the middle. So we closed on our house

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in Ashville, and then two days later I was offered

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this job. So we like moved stuff in and then

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like moved it all out. That we were in that

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house for like a month. Christy was I immediately came out,

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like I just we moved everything there, and then I

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came down to start working. So the first night we

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were in that house, we plugged in the television and

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it tripped to the breaker on half of the house.

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All three of the bedrooms and the living room all

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went out, and we finally got a guy to come out.

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It was under because it was a brand new home,

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so it was like under repair or under warranty and all.

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And he told us about this because I started looking

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through like electricians websites and like the chat rooms and stuff,

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and I didn't understand any of it, but they were

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all like raging about these arc fault interrupters. And you

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get like, if you get a bad box as an

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electrician and you're just putting in all of the breakers

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and you get a bad box, like the whole house

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could be tripping, and that's what was happening to us.

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So he came and he did all of the the

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fixes for us. But yeah, like it's just it's nuts

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the defective breakers, the amount of defective breakers basically from China,

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and so we're having that problem. So we probably do

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have an arc fault problem in our because and then

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I found out he was telling me that they just

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made it code in North Carolina to make the breakers

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required on the refrigerator circuits. So when your refrigerator kicks

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on and an ARC occurs, it's going to detect that

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arc and it's going to shut your fridge down. So

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let's just hope it doesn't happen while you're on vacation

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because that would really stink coming home to that. Dennis says,

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I got a dryer I bought used for sixty bucks

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back in nineteen ninety one and it works fine. My

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washer is a ken More that is forty years old.

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My dishwasher is seventy five years old. That means both

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my hands are still getting the job done. Very nice,

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well played, Dennis George says we needed a new washing

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machine after our high efficiency washer died after two years.

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We bought a refurbished washer from ra City Appliances in Morrisville,

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and I'm very happy with it. If you're shopping for

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a classic machine, you might give them a look. Only

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if that classic, I require that it have the flames

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painted off of the wheel wells. That's how I want

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my classic, all right. If you're listening to this show,

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you know I try to keep up with all sorts

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of current events, and I know you do too, And

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you've probably heard me say get your news from multiple sources.

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Why well, because it's how you detect media bias, which

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at check dot ground, dot news slash pete. I put

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more transparent. So we have a listener, longtime listener of

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the program. His name is Chris. He is looking for work.

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I read an email the other day. I've been trying

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to find it. I cannot find it. Somebody had emailed me,

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I think, and said that they had job openings they

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couldn't find people to fill. Chris is looking for a job.

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So I'm going to do this. Send If you are

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aware of a job opening Chris is looking please send

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it over to me and I can forward it to him,

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all right, So send me an email Pete at the

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peteclendershow dot com, and then I will forward it over

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to Chris and then he can go apply and he

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can make contact with you that way. So if you're

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you work someplace, you own a business, you're hiring, there's

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a listener who's looking for work, and so, I mean,

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you know he's a good person because he listens to

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the show. So send me an email Pete at Thepete

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calendarshow dot com. I'll keep looking through the emails Chris,

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but I just I've been looking during the breaks and

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I can't find it. So I don't know if it

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was an email, maybe in a tweet or something. I

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get a lot of communications. I had a lot of communications,

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but I apparently read something the other day and I

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don't remember when it was. So that's uh, that's the best.

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It's the best I've figured to do in the meantime.

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All right, let me talk to Keith. Hello, Keith, Keith, Hey, Pete,

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how are you doing? Oh? You know, getting by? What's

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going on?

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Speaker 3: Do you remember back during the of the Obama administration,

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the Energy Star ratings that they were putting on things.

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Speaker 1: Yep. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Do you remember that thing where the somebody submitted a

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gasoline powered alarm cloth that managed to get the rating.

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Speaker 1: I had not heard that now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I got to see a picture of it had

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a poll start on it and everything something based on

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a loophole and the rules about how much electricity it

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used nice and it didn't, so it made the rating.

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Speaker 1: So it made the rating. Yeah, right, I mean, like,

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I don't I don't ever look at that stuff. I

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know it's there, and I know they have the numbers,

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but I don't. I just I don't even I don't care.

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I don't care. I want to know, like, is the

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washing machine going to wash my clothes? Right?

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Speaker 3: Well, I've got I've got the same three hour dishwasher

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thing that just amazes me the first time I started it.

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And I've got a refrigerator in my house that is

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forty years old but I'm replacing right now. I've got

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one out in my barn from the mid sixties that

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has never stumbled or fall right, it runs great.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. We when we bought the fridge, one of the fridges,

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they told us, well, you know this will you know

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these things will run about, you know, eight to ten years.

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I was like, what eight to ten years? It's a fridge,

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Like these things are supposed to My parents still have

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their original fridge in that house. Like, what are you

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talking about?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, refrigerator I put out in my barn was in

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our house when we bought it, and all life wanted

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a new one. So we bought a new fridge. It

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lasted about seven years, and bought another one. And how

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this one's dead but the one out in the barn

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still just kicking right along.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, uh, that's not a surprise, Keith. I appreciate

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the call, buddy, Hi, thanks brother. Let me see here

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I had, Oh, Pete, this is from good Wahoo. I

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still believe what I have said previously about the tariffs

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are negotiating strategy to get countries to lower actual tariffs,

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but more importantly, the non tariff barriers, the trade barriers,

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which are in effect much more onerous. These are state

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subsidies of domestic industries, regulations that are always too high

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to surmount, devaluing currencies, and outright theft of intellectual properties. However,

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I believe most of these initial high tariffs will come

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down substantially based on country by country negotiations, but some

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tariffs will remain, possibly ten percent, which the administration looks

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as a cost of doing business in our country for

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imported goods and as much needed a much needed source

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of long term revenue, which it won't be. By the way,

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if if you close the trade deficit, then you don't

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make the revenues right anyway, Uh, it's a shrinking pie.

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But Trump plans to use him to bring down tax

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rates and the thirty seven trillion dollars national debt. I

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mean again, this is Look, I appreciate all of the

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the speculation because that's all this is on what's really

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going on. But you don't know. I don't know. Nobody

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knows what's really going on. We're getting mixed messages from

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the White House itself, so nobody knows what's going on.

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So I appreciate the predictions. But we shall see, That's

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what That's what I keep saying, is like, we shall see,

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and he better be right, that's all. He better be right,

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because if he's not, it'll be a mess. Ross says,

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I call dibbs on working next to Pete if we

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both end up working the line in the Upton Sinclair

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novel or the Gulag type setting. Don't get me started

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on appliances. Nothing works as well or lasts as long

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as it used to. We haven't had a dishwasher last

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more than four years. But we have friends who bought

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a nineteen fifties house with original appliances in the late

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nineties and everything still works to this day. H VAC, kitchen, appliances, everything.

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Mark says, I disagree with what Caler Mike said. Put

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the mills in the right place and they will have

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plenty of people to work. I don't know. Yeah, I'm

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not sure that that Pete. I hear the Maytag repair

554
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man has lots of work to do, lots of work. Yes,

555
00:32:46,279 --> 00:32:51,599
planned obsolescence, says Carolina Bulldog on Twitter. It's a Pete tweet. Yeah,

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planned obsolescence, Like, we're going to make this technology, but

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we're going to make sure that you have to replace

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it after a certain amount of time or we're gonna

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have to put a kill switch in it. So as

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soon as the warranty period ends, we hit the kill switch,

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then it dies. So now you can't get the free

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replacement or repairs. So this guy at thereason dot com

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writing In what is this called about Trump's Energy Department

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saving our appliances? He says, every rule hits manufacturers with

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retooling costs, hits consumers with higher bills, and our homes

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with clunkier gear. His dishwasher, he says, as a poster child,

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a five gallon water limit strangles it. My old bosch

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used ten gallons at three seven kill awatt hours per

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year energy cap. It starves the heater and the pump.

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My German engineered jim used to shoot scalding hot water

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and dry dishes in minutes. New efficiency rules bloated cycles

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to more than two hours just to scrape at the grease,

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four hours when I have to double up on the

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wash right, because you got to run the thing twice

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because it's not getting this stuff clean on the first

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run through. Dozens more rules remain, though, rules that hike

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our prices, gut performance, and drive out American manufacturers in

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favor of compliant mediocrity. What a great term, compliant mediocrity.

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That is the state of our appliances in America. Compliant mediocrity.

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It is time to end this era of compliant mediocrity.

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If I do say so myself, I applaud Trump for

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all of the efforts to do that. All right, that'll

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do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening.

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I could not do the show without your support and

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the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast,

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so if you'd like, please support them too and tell

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patron at my Patreon page or go to dpetecleanershow dot com. Again,

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thank you so much for listening, and I don't break

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anything while I'm gone.

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