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Speaker 3: No Tom Martino, Hi, Tom Martino here, Welcome.
Speaker 2: To the show. Today is car Day, but that.
Speaker 3: Doesn't mean we only talk about cars, and we have
Speaker 3: experts standing by. Although we have no experts in house. Today,
Speaker 3: we have Deputy Day. I have all four of my
Speaker 3: deputy's in house, which means extra pizza. Then we have
Speaker 3: Shannon at the controls, and we have Loopy Kachina Calori
Speaker 3: taking your calls and producing the show.
Speaker 5: And Tom is actually paying for the pizza.
Speaker 2: Hold on, why am I Loopy?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 3: I don't want to get into that right now. Oh okay,
Speaker 3: I'm not sure we can.
Speaker 2: Actually we can.
Speaker 3: Mimosash one oh Dragon said one. Okay, okay, I guess
Speaker 3: I guess those empty glasses were for show?
Speaker 2: What he said you had four? What for mimosas?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 7: Yeah, like I could function on four mimosas three h three.
Speaker 2: Seven one three talk. You know.
Speaker 3: I got a drunk call once from Kelly.
Speaker 2: I won't I won't.
Speaker 3: Get into it. It was a long it was funny.
Speaker 3: It was actually funny. Oh you see, she don't even
Speaker 3: remember it? What okay, Kelly, I won't talk about it.
Speaker 3: Chen and YouTube says, no sense. Have you ever made
Speaker 3: a drunk call or a drunk text? Have you ever
Speaker 3: done that and then regretted? It happens? You know, seriously
Speaker 3: there it's a thing, a drunk call. You get drunk,
Speaker 3: you think of a friend say oh oh you know,
Speaker 3: or you text an old flame or something. I've never
Speaker 3: done that, but I hear about it. By the way, morons,
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Speaker 3: for old people. I'm told David has a problem. Oh no, actually,
Speaker 3: wa wait a minute, get my dinger ready. He's got
Speaker 3: good news, he said, what's happening, David? Is this from
Speaker 3: a previous call.
Speaker 2: Yes, Tom, how are you today? Good? How long ago
Speaker 2: did you call? David?
Speaker 1: I think it was uh, I think it was three
Speaker 1: weeks ago. My wife thinks.
Speaker 8: It was three weeks ago.
Speaker 2: I'm looking.
Speaker 1: You're not a rental that I had obtained a rental
Speaker 1: car in Houston, Texas on a.
Speaker 2: Two days where it was it in Florida?
Speaker 1: No, I live in Florida, but I was And it.
Speaker 2: Was six Oh, it was si XT. The rental car
Speaker 2: company was called.
Speaker 1: Sixth That's that's correct.
Speaker 3: And you sent us picks and they assessed you damages
Speaker 3: for regular little, tiny, tiny road rash that every car
Speaker 3: in the world has. And how could they possibly say
Speaker 3: you did all of those in one rental and not
Speaker 3: only that charge you for it. I'm positive that this
Speaker 3: is a scam. And we had other calls since then
Speaker 3: from Sixth and what what happened?
Speaker 2: Really?
Speaker 1: So that's interesting that you've had other calls.
Speaker 2: Yeah, since your call, we had others.
Speaker 1: Wow, Okay, So anyhow, I wrote them a letter saying
Speaker 1: I'm disputing their allegations that I did this damage and
Speaker 1: so on, and I did point out to them, I said,
Speaker 1: if you notice that the two headlights they have similar
Speaker 1: marks on either side, not on the vertical panel, but
Speaker 1: on a horizontal area. I said, it looks to me
Speaker 1: like it was a car washing issue or something like that.
Speaker 1: It's so small you'd never notice it. And they wanted
Speaker 1: to charge one thousand, three hundred and seventy one dollars
Speaker 1: for all the little blanshes. Yeah, yeah, whatever. And so
Speaker 1: the other day I got a letter from them saying that,
Speaker 1: dear madam or sir, we're writing to inform you that
Speaker 1: sixth a car rental agency, has decided to close the
Speaker 1: file and will no longer pursue financially for the damages
Speaker 1: to the guy.
Speaker 2: So they're giving up the ghost.
Speaker 1: They're giving up the ghosts. They apologize for any inconvenience.
Speaker 9: Would like to think, Wow, wow, are we allowed to
Speaker 9: give callers a dinger he needs?
Speaker 2: I think they heard about it on the show.
Speaker 3: I told people to call them, and I kept giving
Speaker 3: out the name and numbers. So let's do the dinger
Speaker 3: for everyone involved the caller the show.
Speaker 2: Do it.
Speaker 3: Channon, thank you very much too. So really that's good news.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that. David. Now you can have success as well.
Speaker 3: All you have to do is call us with a problem.
Speaker 3: Now not I can't help everyone, and uh sometimes I can,
Speaker 3: sometimes I can, depends on the problem. So what's on
Speaker 3: your mind today? Give us a call three oh three,
Speaker 3: seven to one three talk three oh three, seven to one,
Speaker 3: three eight two five five.
Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you what's on my mind.
Speaker 3: Two more apartment buildings have been taken over by gangs.
Speaker 3: Venezuelan street. Gangs are having their way with our law enforcement,
Speaker 3: our governor, our mayors.
Speaker 2: It is amazing. It's just amazing.
Speaker 3: So add to shoplifting and smashing grabs. Now add to
Speaker 3: it seizing personal property, going door to door collecting rent
Speaker 3: or kicking people out of their apartments illegally. How can
Speaker 3: that happen? Well, in Colorado, it's pretty easy. And in California.
Speaker 3: You know, here's what's weird. Both of those those states
Speaker 3: are a mirror of each other. That's because Polis, I
Speaker 3: think secretly admires Newsom and wants to be just like him.
Speaker 3: He doesn't quite have the hair, but he has everything else.
Speaker 3: I think that I think there's a little bromance going
Speaker 3: on there.
Speaker 2: I think he thinks that this.
Speaker 3: Guy is just fabulous, so he copies everything that happens
Speaker 3: in California.
Speaker 2: Have you noticed that?
Speaker 3: If we want to know what's going to happen in Colorado,
Speaker 3: look at California.
Speaker 5: Look so we're gonna go bankrupt too, Tom.
Speaker 3: California's not bankrupt, But a lot of people are leaving
Speaker 3: California and a lot of people are going.
Speaker 2: To leave Colorado. A lot of people are leaving Colorado.
Speaker 3: But I mean it's going to get to a point
Speaker 3: where more people are leaving that are coming in. But
Speaker 3: I mean, why is law enforcement letting this happen?
Speaker 2: Why? Why?
Speaker 3: I mean it's private property being seized by gangsters.
Speaker 2: Why is that happening? And what message is that sending?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 10: I don't understand is the mayor of Aurora is a
Speaker 10: lawn order guye.
Speaker 2: You know what?
Speaker 3: I don't understand it at all. And no local media
Speaker 3: have you noticed it? No local media is covering No,
Speaker 3: I haven't. Has anyone seen it on local media? You
Speaker 3: won't see it on nine DNC news that's Democratic National Headquarters.
Speaker 2: It went viral. What it went viral? But did nine
Speaker 2: News cover it? I don't think so.
Speaker 3: You won't see it, But you don't see what's that.
Speaker 7: Fox News covered it, CNN covered it. Yeah, it literally
Speaker 7: went national.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think you'll see it though in Denver.
Speaker 3: You won't see it in Denver. Let's see, I'm on
Speaker 3: nine news website.
Speaker 2: Is there one? Well?
Speaker 3: Actually no, no, no, no, hold on, there's I gotta
Speaker 3: be fair here.
Speaker 2: Nine news dot com.
Speaker 3: Aurora Mayor Mike Coffin and Denver Mayor Mike Johnson respond
Speaker 3: to concerns about Venezuelan gangs after a video at a
Speaker 3: Roar apartment complex circulated online. See they didn't see that's
Speaker 3: a sneaky way of covering it. They're covering a reaction.
Speaker 2: But they did.
Speaker 3: They never told us about the situation. Let's see what
Speaker 3: it says here. A video showing people carrying guns in
Speaker 3: the hallway of Aurora apartment complex is making rounds on
Speaker 3: social media. And listen to this and conservative media outlets
Speaker 3: with the narrative that the Venezuelan gang is taking over
Speaker 3: the building.
Speaker 2: Do you notice they made it.
Speaker 3: They diminished it right there, saying it's conservative media outlets
Speaker 3: making the case that the Venezuelan gang is doing it.
Speaker 2: Wow, oh, this is why they're covering it. Nine News.
Speaker 3: The Democratic National Committee is saying, Mike Kaufman and Mike
Speaker 3: Johnson said the situation is being exaggerated by the way
Speaker 3: Tom Yes.
Speaker 7: Dan Kaplis is actually going to have Mike Kaufman on
Speaker 7: today in studio.
Speaker 3: Good good to know that a former tenant shared a
Speaker 3: video of people carrying guns. Police have had this video
Speaker 3: for days and they have not said it shows members
Speaker 3: of the gang. See nine is an apologetic news organization.
Speaker 3: They haven't angled their local CNN. I swear to god,
Speaker 3: I have never seen more blatant bull crap in my life.
Speaker 3: Kaufman acknowledged that the residents of two or three apartment
Speaker 3: buildings are being intimidated by a Venezuelan gang, but said
Speaker 3: Aurora police are handling the situation and making arrests. Police
Speaker 3: said gang activity is isolated. Denver and Aurora leaders have
Speaker 3: said for weeks that trend drgoa however you pronounce it
Speaker 3: is in both cities, and that police are working to
Speaker 3: determine the extent of their operations. I'm reading from nine
Speaker 3: News the Democratic National Committee Thursday, after twenty four hours
Speaker 3: of intense national media coverage, Coffin and Johnson said the
Speaker 3: exaggerated and inaccurate news coverage is creating new risks it's
Speaker 3: overwhelming our nine to one to one system.
Speaker 2: See this is why nine is now covering it.
Speaker 3: They didn't cover it as a news story because they're
Speaker 3: gonna deny it, like they denied the Hunter laptop story,
Speaker 3: and how they deny everything against their narrative and during COVID.
Speaker 2: I mean, nine News has become a.
Speaker 3: Piece of trash. It wasn't organized and it had some
Speaker 3: detrimental effects. Oh that's all it is. I hope Dan
Speaker 3: really really holds his feet to the fire and then
Speaker 3: somehow that was gang activity. The fet the threat from
Speaker 3: TDA in Denver is smaller than many other criminal networks.
Speaker 2: So see nine news diminishing this.
Speaker 3: Don't worry, folks, they're only taking over one building or
Speaker 3: it's exaggerated.
Speaker 2: Hold on. I think both sides are in for a
Speaker 2: new awakening. Johnson said.
Speaker 3: The folks that came here looking for the American dream
Speaker 3: will find it. But those who came looking for chaos,
Speaker 3: I think they will have their worst nightmare. That's good,
Speaker 3: that's good. I mean all talk though, and of course
Speaker 3: they would appear on nine News because that is their narrative.
Speaker 3: It's you know, and here's what's really funny. I swear
Speaker 3: to God they will deny it, deny it, deny it,
Speaker 3: that their coverage is slanted. Yet every single person in
Speaker 3: the world cannot look at nine News and say that
Speaker 3: it's unbiased news.
Speaker 2: Ever, Ever, the.
Speaker 3: Closest to independent news you get here in town is
Speaker 3: Fox thirty one, Channel four, somewhere in between goes back
Speaker 3: and forth.
Speaker 2: Channel seven. I don't even know where channels is.
Speaker 10: One of our morons said that CBS Channel four has
Speaker 10: had the story on from the Penny for the past
Speaker 10: three days.
Speaker 3: Good, I mean, are they covering it accurately? Let me
Speaker 3: look at him?
Speaker 2: Are they?
Speaker 5: I didn't look at it, just I just relayed the message.
Speaker 3: Let's see, let's see. I mean, I guess I had
Speaker 3: a look before I criticized him.
Speaker 10: You know, one of my friends had his house robbed
Speaker 10: by a professional Venezuelan gang for over one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: How do you know it was? How do they know?
Speaker 10: Because they left the house and the only way they
Speaker 10: could have gotten in was through the highline canal, so
Speaker 10: they crossed town. Gang well because the cops holdman probably was,
Speaker 10: but they were so professional that they use they were
Speaker 10: able to get rid of the alarm system, they crossed
Speaker 10: the canal and actually had booties on, so they didn't
Speaker 10: bring any money into the house so it couldn't be tracked, and.
Speaker 5: All sorts of other things that pointed professional with Jay.
Speaker 2: What do you have to say?
Speaker 3: Jay?
Speaker 2: I know I got to take a break. What do
Speaker 2: you have to say, Jay?
Speaker 11: Oh, you might want to wait till after the break.
Speaker 2: If you got all right, I will hold on. We'll
Speaker 2: come right back.
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Speaker 3: two five five. Well we talked about this Venezuela and
Speaker 3: gang happening. Nine News diminishes it in their story. Of course,
Speaker 3: along with the politicians, they're carrying the narrative that is
Speaker 3: exaggerated and that it's not really happening, and that conservative
Speaker 3: conservative news outlets are the ones really spreading this false story.
Speaker 2: Jay, what's your comment?
Speaker 5: Thanks Tom, because this goes back aways.
Speaker 1: I was absolutely called a liar, screamed at, and hung
Speaker 1: up by one of the top.
Speaker 11: Show hosts on your station. When I said, I simply
Speaker 11: was quoting a friend of mine, and he is, in fact,
Speaker 11: and still is in fact, a deputy sheriff for Jefferson County.
Speaker 11: We were talking about how bad Aurora had gotten. It's terrible,
Speaker 11: it's beyond that. And he and I were talking and
Speaker 11: he said, you know, they're gang problems so bad, there's
Speaker 11: the death of these gangs. And I was speaking with
Speaker 11: your top show host on that passion there of yours,
Speaker 11: and he called me a liar.
Speaker 3: Well, I can't, I can't, Okay, I can't go back
Speaker 3: and talk about what they do on their show or.
Speaker 11: How Now, So now it's coming up that very top
Speaker 11: show host has to talk to the mayor after calling
Speaker 11: me a damn liar, hanging up on me, yelling at me,
Speaker 11: and the gangs are absolutely taken over. I want to
Speaker 11: hear this force and you can't even imagine.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you were hung up on well.
Speaker 6: It's horrible.
Speaker 11: Look what's going on is really bad and people.
Speaker 3: Mean but I understand that. But here's what happens in
Speaker 3: the news media. I'm just going to tell you what happens.
Speaker 3: There are some news media that will exacerbate and and
Speaker 3: and well they amplify what's going on if it looks
Speaker 3: bad for liberals and progress. Its very few, but they're
Speaker 3: you know, mostly Fox, and I think Fox thirty one
Speaker 3: locally is owned by.
Speaker 2: A conservative group.
Speaker 3: I forget what anyway, and I'm not saying that they're
Speaker 3: told to do it, but they just gravitate that way.
Speaker 3: And then you have the other news media, and they
Speaker 3: tend to exaggerate and amplify stories that make conservatives look bad.
Speaker 3: It's back and forth. I swear to you, it's back
Speaker 3: and forth. They each have their own narrative. If you
Speaker 3: look at the reporting about the Kamala Harris interview on CNN,
Speaker 3: you would think she's the second Coming. She's a female Christ,
Speaker 3: she is going to heal everything in the world, and
Speaker 3: she has momentum now and she's talking about issues and
Speaker 3: she is going to save America and turn the page.
Speaker 2: If you look at Fox.
Speaker 3: And a few others and listen to conservative talk radio,
Speaker 3: you will swear to God she was a bumbling idiot
Speaker 3: and couldn't put a sentence together. Neither one of those
Speaker 3: two things are true. But somehow we don't. We don't
Speaker 3: know how to filter.
Speaker 2: We don't.
Speaker 3: We pick a side and we stick to it, and
Speaker 3: then we go for what we call confirmation bias. We
Speaker 3: only gravitate toward people and news and reports that tend
Speaker 3: to support our position.
Speaker 2: That's the way we do it. That's just life.
Speaker 3: But I swear to God, I mean, by the way,
Speaker 3: CBS four did a much better job reporting on this
Speaker 3: Venezuelan street game and the previous stories than nine News.
Speaker 2: I don't know why. Here, here's what I believe.
Speaker 3: There's nothing wrong with a private news organization or a
Speaker 3: private I'm not even gonna call them news, a media outlet.
Speaker 3: There's nothing wrong with a media outlet wanting to push
Speaker 3: their agenda, nothing wrong at all, but they should be
Speaker 3: upfront about it. Nine News masquerades as journalism.
Speaker 2: It's not it's not.
Speaker 3: Oh, some of their stories are, by the way, some
Speaker 3: of their stories do pretty good. Other consumer kid he's
Speaker 3: he's a good kid. He does good stories. And they
Speaker 3: do other stories about you know, like fires and murders
Speaker 3: and crime.
Speaker 2: They'll they'll do that.
Speaker 3: But if the stories get anywhere near political, they take
Speaker 3: a side. Look at their coverage and tell me I'm wrong.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: They like bragging about there. You know how big they
Speaker 3: are and how they're number one the ratings and.
Speaker 2: All of that.
Speaker 3: But here's the deal. They are one sided. I don't
Speaker 3: care what you say. And then other outlets are one
Speaker 3: sided in other ways. That's that's just life. We're not
Speaker 3: going to have unbiased reporting anymore. We're never It's never
Speaker 3: gonna happen again. That's my prediction. It will never happen again.
Speaker 3: When I tell you, I, honest to God, don't care
Speaker 3: about any narrative whatsoever.
Speaker 2: I don't care.
Speaker 3: I just want to talk about things happening. I mean
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Speaker 3: don't purport to be. I'm an advocate. I go out
Speaker 3: and I pick people to help I I like to
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Speaker 3: I decide who side I'm going to be on.
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Speaker 3: Okay, let's talk about your life, liberty, and the pursuit
Speaker 3: of happiness. First, I want to talk about the worst cars.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: Consumer Reports and other consumer agencies, including market research companies
Speaker 3: like a mourning consultant and things like that. What they
Speaker 3: do is take sentiment of people who own cars, and
Speaker 3: they come up with a list of uh reliable cars
Speaker 3: and cars that people hate and the worst cars and
Speaker 3: the best cars and the reliability concerns have been published
Speaker 3: all over the place and they range from luxury cars
Speaker 3: to mainstream car makers.
Speaker 2: Ford and Chevrolet.
Speaker 3: Have basically the worst record, unfortunately so, but BMW, Honda, Subaru, Toyota.
Speaker 2: Not on the list of ugly hateful cars.
Speaker 3: Now according to Consumer Reports, the worst scores where the
Speaker 3: twenty twenty one PACIFICA It's a hybrid A Chrysler Pacifica,
Speaker 3: the twenty twenty one Jeep Wrangler and the twenty twenty
Speaker 3: three Nissan Frontier or the twenty twenty two guess what
Speaker 3: Rivian and the twenty twenty one Volkswagen Jetta. See, they
Speaker 3: get absolutely right down to the specific years. So evs
Speaker 3: are considered in general by consumers less reliable.
Speaker 2: That's what people feel now.
Speaker 3: Again, I don't know if they are, but the consumer
Speaker 3: sentiment is that they are less reliable.
Speaker 2: I feel exactly the opposite. Now.
Speaker 3: I don't own one, but I don't now well, actually
Speaker 3: I do own one. My son I got him one,
Speaker 3: and that car there's nothing to do to it. I mean,
Speaker 3: there's actually not even any regular service intervals. Doc, you
Speaker 3: just bought one, so you're kind of new. My what
Speaker 3: are your services like, Hynda? It's nothing just ten year,
Speaker 3: ten thousand. It's a ten year, one hundred thousand mile
Speaker 3: warranty on the battery and there's really nothing else that
Speaker 3: can go wrong except maybe breaks, which apparently we're down
Speaker 3: a little bit faster because of the weight of the car.
Speaker 3: But it says not a defect, it's just a routine maintenance. Now,
Speaker 3: according to consumer reports and their surveys. Now, remember, surveys
Speaker 3: are as accurate as people report. I don't think people
Speaker 3: lie on surveys, but I also think surveys tend to
Speaker 3: be responded to mostly by people with an axe to
Speaker 3: grind or they want to be heard normally, really truly,
Speaker 3: if in fact, you do not have a beef and
Speaker 3: you love something, you actually are less likely to respond
Speaker 3: to surveys because you have no concerns the wait, let's
Speaker 3: just talk to Steve and I'll go back to this. Steve,
Speaker 3: what's going on with you?
Speaker 6: Tea?
Speaker 12: I was just well, I've got a little issue.
Speaker 2: Don't you help me with some that is?
Speaker 12: I just got a call from a collection agency and
Speaker 12: pertaining to a date of service back in October of
Speaker 12: twenty twenty, and it appears that it's some doctors group
Speaker 12: acute care partners. I never received any invoices or any
Speaker 12: communication for anybody.
Speaker 13: They just went street to collections.
Speaker 14: I'm wondering, if I want to ask a few questions,
Speaker 14: is it a legit bill that I don't know you have?
Speaker 3: No, you don't recognize the bill at all. Ever, that
Speaker 3: you never went to the provider.
Speaker 14: As far as I know, back in October twenty. I
Speaker 14: don't remember ever going to provide this was October. It's
Speaker 14: a bill from four years ago. October you said, of
Speaker 14: twenty twenty, correct, okay?
Speaker 2: And what is it for? What in a service?
Speaker 12: It doesn't the invoys from the collection company, doesn't state
Speaker 12: what it was for, doesn't give me any details, doesn't
Speaker 12: show me any eob information.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 12: It just says U fifty dollars.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: I looked at it and they don't say what it's for.
Speaker 3: There's no information whatsoever. Have you contacted them.
Speaker 12: Well, they got they actually got me on the phone yesterday.
Speaker 3: And what did and did you ask for specifics? I
Speaker 3: sure did and what did they say?
Speaker 12: And the collection company said, we don't will have to
Speaker 12: get that information.
Speaker 5: We don't have it available.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: Now they have to give you documentation. They may not
Speaker 3: like it, but they have to now. If they don't,
Speaker 3: they might say something like this, we'll see you in
Speaker 3: court or we'll just collect it. But remember they can't
Speaker 3: collect a dime until they take you to court. No
Speaker 3: one can collect a dime from you. They have to
Speaker 3: get a judgment. So the good news is you're going
Speaker 3: to find out what it is and if it's legit
Speaker 3: or not, and if it's not, it's going to go away.
Speaker 2: That's the good news.
Speaker 3: So if it's a medical bill and it just surface
Speaker 3: from a collection agency, they don't have to notify you
Speaker 3: that it's going to collections. They don't technically even have
Speaker 3: to collect from you. If you have a bill doing
Speaker 3: owing and your insurance didn't pay it, or and you're
Speaker 3: responsible for it, you just have to be notified once,
Speaker 3: just once, and that notification could be, you know, given
Speaker 3: to you at the doctor's office. Even but people are
Speaker 3: under the false impression that they need to have multiple
Speaker 3: warnings or warnings before it goes to collection.
Speaker 2: In essence, collection is your warning.
Speaker 3: Now what I'm saying is you know whether you were
Speaker 3: warned or not doesn't matter, So forget that as your defense.
Speaker 3: And what I would strive to do is get documentation.
Speaker 3: And the way I approach these is very simple. I say, listen,
Speaker 3: I believe in paying all my legitimate debts. Simply let
Speaker 3: me know what this is. It may have it may
Speaker 3: have gone under the radar. I doubt it, but I'd
Speaker 3: like to see it and I'd be happy to.
Speaker 2: Pay it if it's legit. Any good collection agency will
Speaker 2: cooperate with that, and if not, it's not legit. Okay.
Speaker 3: If they don't give you a documentation, simply ignore it.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 12: What about the requirements for timely filing with the insurance
Speaker 12: and it's clearly passed you that if they.
Speaker 3: Don't have a requirement, they don't have a requirement to
Speaker 3: do anything you do.
Speaker 12: No, No, the provider accept that the insurance is a
Speaker 12: form of payment, and then there's a contractual agreement there
Speaker 12: that they'll file it.
Speaker 2: Listen, so many days, where where where is that agreement?
Speaker 3: You actually have an agreement because you said you didn't
Speaker 3: even know what it was.
Speaker 12: So well, most most most providers have you know, if
Speaker 12: they accept insurance, they have a contract with that insurance
Speaker 12: to accept certain rates for certain services and timely filing
Speaker 12: and all those I.
Speaker 2: Listen, here's what I'm saying. Listen carefully.
Speaker 3: This is really important if a provider decides to take
Speaker 3: it on the filing. Accepting and filing are two different things.
Speaker 3: When they have a contract to accept the insurance coverage
Speaker 3: and the approved amounts, they are not taking on the
Speaker 3: obligation to file it correctly for you.
Speaker 2: They will only do that if they tell you they're
Speaker 2: going to do that.
Speaker 3: And if they tell you they're going to do that,
Speaker 3: then obviously they should do it.
Speaker 2: But you're you're confusing things.
Speaker 3: An insurance company doesn't say to them, if you take
Speaker 3: my cover bridge, you.
Speaker 2: Must do this, this, and this.
Speaker 3: All they say is this, here's the approved amount for
Speaker 3: the procedure. Now, consumers can put in their own claims.
Speaker 10: But you can't balance tho. In other words, if a
Speaker 10: procedure normally costs US, say five hundred dollars, and you
Speaker 10: have an insurance such a through Medicare, and at page
Speaker 10: two hundred and eighty, the doctor cannot bill you another
Speaker 10: two hundred and twenty.
Speaker 2: They can't balance bill.
Speaker 3: They can't if they can't balance bill if they have
Speaker 3: a contract with the coverage except for Medicare, they can
Speaker 3: never do it in Medicare. But when it comes to
Speaker 3: United Healthcare, if they don't have a contract with United
Speaker 3: Healthcare at all and you go to them, they can
Speaker 3: hold you responsible for one hundred percent of it. But
Speaker 3: if you're asking, what if I end up owing the
Speaker 3: money and now it's too late for me to put
Speaker 3: it through my insurance.
Speaker 2: That could be a problem.
Speaker 3: Then you'd have to go back and re search why
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Speaker 3: He's at his shop today. Go ahead, and so is
Speaker 3: Jeff Pick. I believe Gary. What's going on, Jeers?
Speaker 15: I'm calling in regards to a twenty ten Kia Sorrento.
Speaker 2: What's going on at.
Speaker 15: Under a heart acceleration between first and second gear? Italy
Speaker 15: emit a white smoke out of the tailpipe for maybe
Speaker 15: five or ten seconds and then clears up.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, question is what it sounds? Okay?
Speaker 3: It sounds like obviously, and it's only under load right correct?
Speaker 3: All right, We're gonna get our expert on. I want
Speaker 3: you to hang on. Okay, let's get Kevin Caulkin on
Speaker 3: a Kachina or Jeff Pick or one of our experts,
Speaker 3: or we can get our smarts Wise Alex Wise guys
Speaker 3: from the springs. We got great guys down there as well,
Speaker 3: so stay tuned for that and more. I'm Tom Martinez
Speaker 3: three O three seven one three eight two five five
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Speaker 3: No Tom Martino, Hi, Tom Martino, You're troubleshooter. Three oh
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Speaker 2: Eight two five five. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 3: What is happening in your life? How can we help you?
Speaker 3: We'll get right to the phones now. On reliability studies
Speaker 3: for cars I was going to get to there are
Speaker 3: a lot of them on the non reliable scale, according
Speaker 3: to consumer reports and other consumer.
Speaker 2: Agencies and surveys. Audies have won two three four entries,
Speaker 2: the eight, the A three, the A six, the Q
Speaker 2: three and the E Tron. Buick has the encorees. Cadillac
Speaker 2: has the XT four.
Speaker 3: These are dissatisfaction among general dissatisfaction among owners are a
Speaker 3: majority or let's just say bad ratings. How about Chevrolet Blazer, Bolt, Cruise, Malibu, Subaru,
Speaker 3: Tahoe Traverse, the Chrysler Pacific Hybrid, Town and Country Dodge,
Speaker 3: the Grand Caravan Ford, the Escape, the Escape Hydrid Hybrid,
Speaker 3: the Explorer of the Expedition, the F one fifty Hybrid,
Speaker 3: the F two fifty, the Mustang GMC Arcadia, Akadia I
Speaker 3: mean Yukon, Yukon Excel, Hyundai's the Ionic, the Kona Electric,
Speaker 3: the Santa Fe, Sport, Sonata and Tucson.
Speaker 2: With Jeep. Basically just says the Cherokee, Gladiator, Grand Cherokee
Speaker 2: and Wrangler, the Griffin. What's that I have? Oh? You
Speaker 2: do good?
Speaker 3: With the Kiya you have Nero and Soul Mas has
Speaker 3: a c X nine on it. These are bad cars
Speaker 3: or bad satisfaction ratings. Mercedes spends the C class. Do
Speaker 3: they give the years, Tom because.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they give, they give years.
Speaker 11: They do.
Speaker 2: I just didn't go through. All of them are really
Speaker 2: recent years.
Speaker 5: Mike ConA was twenty twenty one, not the new ones.
Speaker 2: You got a twenty twenty one dissatisfaction?
Speaker 5: Was it the twenty Oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, you're right, not the one I bore.
Speaker 2: Most of these are twenty threes. Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 3: I should give years. The Rivian for example, the twenty
Speaker 3: twenty two, the Tesla mode less they say, basically from
Speaker 3: nineteen to twenty one, the X from eighteen twenty two. Anyway,
Speaker 3: you can find these at MSN dot com as well.
Speaker 2: Summed up three oh three seven one three. Talk Gary,
Speaker 2: what's going on with you? Hello? Gary?
Speaker 3: I have Griffin with me, and Griffin ashes from Colorado
Speaker 3: Spring seas from action, I believe, and so let's talk
Speaker 3: Gary about your problem. Griffin's listening.
Speaker 15: Okay, it's a twenty ten Kia Sorrento.
Speaker 2: Twenty ten Kia Sorrento.
Speaker 3: Got it, and it emits you say it emits black smoke?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 15: Oh no, it's white smoke.
Speaker 3: I mean that's what I meant, white smoke when it's
Speaker 3: underload of acceleration. Correct Now, from what I can find out,
Speaker 3: that's could be oil leaking into the combustion chamber or
Speaker 3: even coolant.
Speaker 2: What do you think, Griffin?
Speaker 17: Yeah, so if I'm not mistaken, Kia Hundai had the
Speaker 17: kind of had a massive problem with engines on on
Speaker 17: those on that model on those model years. It was,
Speaker 17: it was over a period of years. I'm looking up
Speaker 17: some information right now. Is it does it have any
Speaker 17: lack of power or anything? Or does it drive good?
Speaker 17: Just put that a lot of smoke?
Speaker 15: No, that drives fine. There's no indication of any problem
Speaker 15: other than the smoke.
Speaker 17: Okay. And what kind of Kia was that?
Speaker 2: Sorrento I believe, right, Sorrento, Yeah, Sorrento.
Speaker 17: Oh yeah yeah, if it's he said it's a twenty ten.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, yeah.
Speaker 17: I'm not seeing an option for that here in my
Speaker 17: in my system.
Speaker 3: So that but in general, in general, what is it?
Speaker 3: In general? Is it an oil leak or a coolant leak?
Speaker 17: Yeah? So if it's white smoke, you know, be indicative
Speaker 17: that you're you're burning Coolant's like maybe you have a
Speaker 17: head gasket failure, and so a vehicle can run fine
Speaker 17: as a head gasket is failing and blow a bunch
Speaker 17: of white smoke out. Blue smoke would be an indication
Speaker 17: of burning oil.
Speaker 2: Okay, yes, so how.
Speaker 17: Is your coolant level?
Speaker 2: Have you.
Speaker 17: Have you noticed that you're having to fill it up
Speaker 17: or is it going down?
Speaker 15: No, there's been no problem on that. It has been
Speaker 15: known to use oil between oil chains.
Speaker 2: How much oil.
Speaker 15: Probably a quart in five thousand miles.
Speaker 2: That's not a lot, is it.
Speaker 17: No, it's that's fine. But what I the reason I
Speaker 17: wanted to do with the exact car is because I
Speaker 17: wanted to see if there was a technical service bulletin
Speaker 17: for it and and see if if you had to
Speaker 17: path forward there because they were warrantying these engines and
Speaker 17: people were they're getting a whole engine replacements from Kia.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I don't believe they went back that far
Speaker 3: to twenty ten. Yeah.
Speaker 15: I may be wrong on the year. It maybe at
Speaker 15: twenty and eleven.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I bet they're not going to go back more
Speaker 2: than you go back that far.
Speaker 17: It's over ten years. Yeah, I would. What I would
Speaker 17: do is have you actually looked at the at the coolants,
Speaker 17: not just the reservoir, but actually opened the cap and
Speaker 17: looked inside to see if if your coolant level is low.
Speaker 15: No, I've not done that. I've always looked at the
Speaker 15: reservoir to this point.
Speaker 17: Okay, Well, that's a good indication there, but nothing else
Speaker 17: is jumping out at me with with.
Speaker 2: But emitting smoke of any kind is not normal. Can
Speaker 2: we say that?
Speaker 17: Well, yeah, and you're just trying to figure out where.
Speaker 5: It's coming from.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's.
Speaker 17: Coming out the exhaust right.
Speaker 15: Correct kind of startup or just want to heart accelerate?
Speaker 17: Huh? Yeah, that that seems like that seems like it
Speaker 17: could be a head gasket issue, as when it's underload,
Speaker 17: it's working harder. That's in the coolant's really escaping through
Speaker 17: where that head gasket may be split and burning off.
Speaker 17: So that's you know, in any shop can run it's
Speaker 17: called a block test to go ahead and check if
Speaker 17: there's combustion fumes in the cooling system.
Speaker 12: Ah, all right.
Speaker 17: They want to tell that you want to get the
Speaker 17: shop as much information without overwhelming them as possible, so
Speaker 17: let them know, hey, this is when it does it.
Speaker 17: That way, they can try to mimic that would that throw.
Speaker 3: A code of any kind with that old of a
Speaker 3: car and that that symptom would that throw a code?
Speaker 17: Well, so codes go all the way back to you know,
Speaker 17: the eighties actually, but they became standardized in nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 17: So yes, it would have a code if it was
Speaker 17: if it had a driveability problem, it will set a code.
Speaker 17: Are you having any codes or any lights? Pop on?
Speaker 15: Nothing coming up on the dash. But I have not
Speaker 15: actually had the computer checked as to fit storing any codes.
Speaker 17: Yeah, so typically it's only going to store a code
Speaker 17: once it's set a code, unless it has an option
Speaker 17: for a pending.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it does well, Gary, where are
Speaker 2: you located, Littleton? We just go to referral list dot com.
Speaker 3: We got really good shops and uh you know, I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, just just look around your area there from
Speaker 3: referralist dot com.
Speaker 2: And Griffin ash by.
Speaker 3: The way, is with Action Automotive in Colorado Springs and
Speaker 3: he's a self proclaimed best looking auto technician.
Speaker 2: But Griffin, the jury's still out Bro's dispute.
Speaker 17: We gotta have a contest.
Speaker 2: Okay, we got more coming up.
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Speaker 2: And we also have I call it Deputy Day. It's
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Speaker 3: Him all in the same studio at the same time,
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Speaker 1: Then?
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Speaker 3: to three talk. I haven't checked in with my morons lately, says.
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Speaker 3: Somebody heard you say Doc can't remember when he took
Speaker 3: his last bath.
Speaker 5: Tell them I can't remember when I took my lest Somebody.
Speaker 3: Wants to introduce the people in the studio. Okay, So
Speaker 3: as you're looking at the camera, because I'm looking at
Speaker 3: I mean as you're looking at YouTube, I'll tell you so.
Speaker 3: In the foreground, the one with his the back of
Speaker 3: his head. That is dak or Chopper. Okay, that's Chopper.
Speaker 3: We call him that because he's a retired police helicopter pilot.
Speaker 3: And then as you go to screen left, you have
Speaker 3: in the foreground Scott or Deputy Dollar. And then to
Speaker 3: his left, which is the furthest to the left on
Speaker 3: the screen, but in the back that's Deputy Bow. And
Speaker 3: then you have Deputy Doc in the green shirt screen right.
Speaker 3: That's the screen shirt right, I mean the screen shot there.
Speaker 3: And then of course I'm behind the mic and you
Speaker 3: see him waving and.
Speaker 2: There's a delay. There's a delay.
Speaker 3: When you watch and you in the studio doing it live,
Speaker 3: but you guys are seeing it as I'm talking about it.
Speaker 3: Three all, three, seven, one, three eight, two five five.
Speaker 3: If you have a problem, question or complain, give us
Speaker 3: a call. And I'm also talking about other things like
Speaker 3: this one here Richard Simmons.
Speaker 2: I didn't know this.
Speaker 3: His autopsy showed at the time of his death he
Speaker 3: had a broken leg, multiple contusions.
Speaker 2: Cuts, and bruises. What's a contusion?
Speaker 5: Doc? Basically what we used to call black and blue mark.
Speaker 2: Why does he have all these bruises and bruises? Huh.
Speaker 5: I don't know what I left him.
Speaker 2: He was fine and a broken and a broken leg.
Speaker 3: Now they say he fell a couple days before or
Speaker 3: a day before and didn't want any medical attention, and
Speaker 3: and maybe he had broken his leg, didn't man anyway,
Speaker 3: no one is alleging he was beaten or anything. Uh,
Speaker 3: but they're saying he probably had multiple falls. And what
Speaker 3: I'm being told is.
Speaker 2: That falls are right up there with heart attacks and strokes.
Speaker 2: Falls are a big part of why older people die.
Speaker 5: Absolutely.
Speaker 12: True.
Speaker 10: They break you know, they break a hip, they go
Speaker 10: into the hospital, they get in pneumonia and they die
Speaker 10: from that.
Speaker 3: And with all kidding aside, I'm going to tell you
Speaker 3: something right now, because I am getting older and everybody is.
Speaker 2: By the way, everybody's getting.
Speaker 3: Older, right You remember Mark and Sue's had all those
Speaker 3: people come on from my seventieth last year, we'll do
Speaker 3: the math.
Speaker 2: It's a year later.
Speaker 3: So anyway, here's the bottom line. Your core is so
Speaker 3: important to you. Your core strength and a really good
Speaker 3: practice for you. If you can't do it, it's very
Speaker 3: difficult to learn how to do it afterwards if you haven't.
Speaker 2: Been doing it.
Speaker 3: But a really good practice to see your core strength.
Speaker 2: Is if you can get up.
Speaker 3: From a sitting position on the floor. You can sit
Speaker 3: any way you want on the floor. You can sit
Speaker 3: with your lake sideways, Indian squat, whatever you want, and
Speaker 3: then get up without using your hands. Now, if you
Speaker 3: can do that, you have superior agility and strength superior.
Speaker 3: There are a lot of younger people that can't do that.
Speaker 3: You sit on the floor anyway you want.
Speaker 2: You know, you can sit on your butt, sit on
Speaker 2: your side, sit any way you want, but get up
Speaker 2: without using your hands now or then next, try to
Speaker 2: use your hands as little as possible.
Speaker 3: And when it comes to to health, and I do
Speaker 3: this through research, through personal experience, and also through my
Speaker 3: many many years of just being compulsive about this studying
Speaker 3: this stuff. There are three components to health and fitness, okay,
Speaker 3: And one is pliability or stretching, because you can get
Speaker 3: as many injuries from not being stretched and pliable, so
Speaker 3: stretching is very important. That's why yoga's really good. And
Speaker 3: yoga does some strength training too, but yoga's really good
Speaker 3: for stretching. So long as you don't hyper stretch or overstretch.
Speaker 3: Stretching is really good. The next thing I will not next,
Speaker 3: I'm not putting these in order. Muscle strength, resistance training,
Speaker 3: muscle strength, so different parts of your body, of different
Speaker 3: muscle groups, you should work.
Speaker 2: You can do it any way you want.
Speaker 3: Then they should be rested at least the day in between,
Speaker 3: sometimes more the older you get. So if you do
Speaker 3: a combination of stretching and muscles, that's really good. And
Speaker 3: then the third one, of course, is what aerobic or
Speaker 3: breathing or vigorous exercise. It doesn't have to be underweight.
Speaker 3: It can be a cycle, it can be swimming, swimming
Speaker 3: streat it can be walking, but getting your heart rate up.
Speaker 3: Those three components are best for you. Those three components.
Speaker 3: In fact, I don't know if there's a fourth one
Speaker 3: is that. I mean, that's it now. One thing people
Speaker 3: do in they exercise too, is they don't exercise their
Speaker 3: small muscles. They exercise their big muscles. When you do
Speaker 3: bicep curls, triceps, when you do shoulders, when you do whatever,
Speaker 3: you do your your abs, your lads. When you're doing
Speaker 3: these exercises, a lot of times you're just doing the
Speaker 3: big muscles because that's all there is there. And to
Speaker 3: get to the small muscles, you would have to do
Speaker 3: something tricky like, for example, you stand on the flat
Speaker 3: part of a half circle. If you're just seeing those
Speaker 3: rubber half circles with the flat part, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean? A half a half ball, right, and that
Speaker 3: the half that's flat you stand on, so the ball
Speaker 3: keeps you a little off bound. You balance on that
Speaker 3: ball with two feet and then do an The weight
Speaker 3: of this is not important. This is for the small
Speaker 3: twitch muscles in your legs. You stand on that ball
Speaker 3: and you can use anything and do some bicep curls
Speaker 3: or do some overhead presses. That weight's not important here.
Speaker 3: You're not doing those muscles that you have. The weight
Speaker 3: in that's just to keep you off balance, so you're
Speaker 3: forced to balance, or you can stand there and just
Speaker 3: do arm movements. But you stand on that ball and
Speaker 3: that helps small twitch muscles in your abdomum and your legs.
Speaker 3: Another thing are these vibrating plates.
Speaker 2: They're wonderful.
Speaker 3: You can just stand on a vibrating plate and you
Speaker 3: can do squats. You can do one legged. You stand
Speaker 3: on one leg for thirty seconds, the other leg for
Speaker 3: thirty seconds. You don't have to do anything except stand
Speaker 3: on there. What that does is that vibrating plate is
Speaker 3: microscopically working your small twitch muscles. Small twitch muscles are
Speaker 3: very important because they trigger the big muscles and.
Speaker 2: They have to be strong as well.
Speaker 3: You can also so what you're looking for is balance
Speaker 3: as one of them. Vibration would be good for it,
Speaker 3: and anything like that you can do would help.
Speaker 2: You with the small and the big muscles.
Speaker 3: Three oh three, seven to one to three talks our
Speaker 3: number seven one, three, eight, two five five.
Speaker 2: There are a number of art.
Speaker 3: Now I'm going to talk about some intellectual property IP.
Speaker 3: Intellectual property, there's something called public domain and fair use.
Speaker 3: That's when you can use something or quote from it
Speaker 3: or musical clips in what's called fair use. Fair use
Speaker 3: would be if I said I love Paul McCartney and
Speaker 3: you know, he's just such a good songwriter, and in
Speaker 3: the background you hear Paul McCartney song, that's fair use.
Speaker 3: You only use a certain amount of it, and you're
Speaker 3: talking about him, you're not using it. For example, if
Speaker 3: I said I love Paul McCartney and Shannon starts playing yesterday,
Speaker 3: he's such a great songwriter, this is one of his
Speaker 3: best songs.
Speaker 2: That's fair use.
Speaker 5: Is it for informational and educational purposes.
Speaker 2: You're talking about it.
Speaker 3: But if I said, I remember when I was a
Speaker 3: young man and I was facing many challenges, and then
Speaker 3: Shannon starts playing Yesterday, that is enhancing me and my presentation,
Speaker 3: that's not fair use.
Speaker 2: See, there's a difference.
Speaker 3: Fair use is when it's in context with what you're
Speaker 3: talking about, not used to enhance what you're doing. Now,
Speaker 3: why do I bring this up Because virtually every single
Speaker 3: star and composer and musician, virtually every one of them
Speaker 3: except Lee Greenwood is suing Donald Trump for using songs.
Speaker 3: Not one of them wants him to use their songs
Speaker 3: in his appearances.
Speaker 2: He's used.
Speaker 3: Let's see, hold on, I'm coming, hold on, I'm coming,
Speaker 3: okay from Isaac Hayes.
Speaker 2: Isaac Hayes is passed away. His estate is suing but
Speaker 2: I looked into it.
Speaker 3: He is facing court action or demand letters for to
Speaker 3: cease and desist from.
Speaker 2: Every single artist.
Speaker 3: God, that's how much they hate him, every single one
Speaker 3: except Lee Greenwood, who, of course, I'm proud to be
Speaker 3: an American.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: Kid Rock, I didn't Actually I don't know about kid Rock. Actually,
Speaker 3: I mean do they? I mean Kid Rock's not suing him.
Speaker 3: But I mean, does he use kid rock music?
Speaker 2: I think he does. I wonder what he uses from
Speaker 2: kid rock. That would be apropos.
Speaker 3: But in any case, it's it's a big deal. Hollywood
Speaker 3: is up in arms. I don't know if you call
Speaker 3: it Hollywood. But wherever music I don't know what the
Speaker 3: music capital is, but they're up in arms. Nashville, not
Speaker 3: yeah for some of it, Detroit for some, What are
Speaker 3: some other New Orleans? What are some other music capital?
Speaker 3: There are a lot of music capitals, aren't there? Chicago,
Speaker 3: New York, I guess anyway, So they say they never
Speaker 3: gave permission and they do not want him using anything
Speaker 3: to do with them. Now, this is something that I
Speaker 3: find shocking. You remember I said I want either an
Speaker 3: electric vehicle or a gasoline vehicle.
Speaker 2: I don't want a hybrid.
Speaker 3: Why did I say that? Because I don't want to
Speaker 3: worry about two systems?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 5: Two systems?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 3: According to this study from Consumer Reports, electric total electric
Speaker 3: vehicles have seventy nine percent more problems than gasoline vehicles.
Speaker 3: I don't I don't get it. What could it possibly be?
Speaker 3: I mean, an electric car is a battery and a motor.
Speaker 3: How can they have seventy nine percent more problems? Now
Speaker 3: I don't look at I can't say I disagree because
Speaker 3: I don't have any data.
Speaker 2: Now, listen, is hybrids.
Speaker 3: Have twenty six percent fewer problems than gas vehicles.
Speaker 2: Now, how can that be.
Speaker 3: If they're gas and have twenty six percent fewer problems?
Speaker 3: Yet they have electrical systems and electrical cars have seventy
Speaker 3: nine percent more problems. How does a hybrid taking both
Speaker 3: of them have twenty six percent fewer problems?
Speaker 2: That? I just don't understand it at all.
Speaker 3: However, here's the one big caveat with hybrids. A plug
Speaker 3: in hybrid is a totally different animal. I didn't even
Speaker 3: know there was. I knew they call them hybrids are
Speaker 3: plugged in. I didn't know that two different things. A
Speaker 3: regular hybrid doesn't get plugged in. It charges. When you
Speaker 3: drive a plug in hybrid, you can plug it in
Speaker 3: and charge it, right, That's the difference.
Speaker 5: That's why they call it a plug in hybrid.
Speaker 2: Yah, that's what I mean. But I mean it charges.
Speaker 9: The Chrysler Pacifica is a plug in and Toyota has
Speaker 9: a plug in on the Sienna, but they have normal
Speaker 9: Toyota has a normal hybrid, is a Prius a plug
Speaker 9: in I don't know about Prius, but listen to this.
Speaker 2: This makes no sense.
Speaker 3: So you have hybrids with twenty six percent fewer problems
Speaker 3: than gasoline vehicles, electric vehicles all electric seventy nine percent
Speaker 3: more problems than gasoline vehicles, but plug in hybrids one
Speaker 3: hundred and forty six percent more problems than all of them.
Speaker 3: Make No, it doesn't make sense. And this is why
Speaker 3: I'm going to tell you this happens. They do it
Speaker 3: totally based on surveys, Garbage in, garbage out. Here's why
Speaker 3: someone with a plugged in hybrid, it's a much more
Speaker 3: complicated car. Therefore, I believe you're going to have more
Speaker 3: surveys saying why a lot of them just don't get it,
Speaker 3: or they didn't plug it in, or they overcharge it, whatever,
Speaker 3: So you got one hundred and forty six percent more
Speaker 3: with all electric vehicles. I don't believe a lot of
Speaker 3: people understand how to use them. They don't charge them
Speaker 3: often enough or proper enough, or they have to charge
Speaker 3: for a half hour because they didn't.
Speaker 2: Do it one time for ten minutes. I don't know, Well,
Speaker 2: what's the source of that survey that you just no.
Speaker 2: No consumer reports does everything on survey reports.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they don't go out and research like a Carfax
Speaker 3: does based on report. Well, those are technically surveys, but
Speaker 3: they come from repair shops and all of that. They're
Speaker 3: asking consumers about their cars, and for example, twenty six
Speaker 3: percent fewer problems with hybrids. I think people like their hybrid,
Speaker 3: they're getting good gas mintage, and they give positive reports.
Speaker 3: I just have never believed totally in surveys when it
Speaker 3: comes to asking people. I mean, yeah, they are somewhat accurate,
Speaker 3: but I believe the people who are taking the survey
Speaker 3: and own something don't really necessarily know if it's owner
Speaker 3: operator error or if it's truly a defective product. That's
Speaker 3: what I think. Well, I gotta take this break, Megan.
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Speaker 3: nine two zero sixteen twenty two. Hey Tom Martine here,
Speaker 3: Welcome to the show. Megan's got a problem with a
Speaker 3: window contractor. And then I want to ask people to
Speaker 3: look up online the Ineos I n EOS Grenadier. There's
Speaker 3: a dealership in Colorado Springs. It looks like a g
Speaker 3: wagon or a jeep or a range robe kind of mixture,
Speaker 3: and but I don't know if it has a rough ride.
Speaker 3: I'd like to know from people who have one. I've
Speaker 3: seen them around. They're pretty cool looking. You know, it's gasoline.
Speaker 3: They've been making them for a long time. I just
Speaker 3: like to know if anybody has one of what's the rides? Like, Hey, Megan,
Speaker 3: what's going on with your window? Who's the window contractor?
Speaker 8: Wow? Uh jk R windows jk R.
Speaker 3: Now who are they the Are they the maker of
Speaker 3: the window or the installer?
Speaker 8: They are the company out of Saint George, Utah that
Speaker 8: came into our area around the end of spring with
Speaker 8: a legitimate you know, cells individual so.
Speaker 3: They did windows and installations. So they did the whole
Speaker 3: package for you.
Speaker 8: Unfortunately, we haven't gotten to the installation. It's it's beyond
Speaker 8: you can't even make this stuff.
Speaker 3: Oh wait a minute, Megan, hold on, I want to
Speaker 3: ask a few questions before you go on.
Speaker 2: You signed the contract.
Speaker 8: When, oh gosh, i'd have to go home. I'm at
Speaker 8: Worth just rough the end of the spring, correct, okay.
Speaker 3: So an end of this spring, like just just this
Speaker 3: past spring, right, you got it?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 3: Now, it was for a house full of windows or
Speaker 3: a few windows?
Speaker 8: Correct?
Speaker 2: Oh, a house full of windows?
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 2: And did they knock on your doors at how it happened?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 2: Uh, yep.
Speaker 8: They're new to the area. They've been in Saint George, Utah, Arizona, Idaho.
Speaker 8: Their website is amazing and they were.
Speaker 2: Just what kind of windows are they supposed to be?
Speaker 8: What is the brand of that window?
Speaker 2: And was it was the window a vinyl window?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 3: Okay, for vinyl replacement? Okay, next question? What went wrong?
Speaker 11: Uh?
Speaker 8: Oh? So their new office is up and running. It's
Speaker 8: in there in Fort Collins. It has a phone number.
Speaker 2: Oh, they have a Colorado office in Fort Collins.
Speaker 8: Did oh so they ordered all the windows. They communicated
Speaker 8: things they're not Wait did.
Speaker 2: They did they pack up and leave?
Speaker 8: Well, that's where things get interesting. I didn't. This just
Speaker 8: happened probably in the last two weeks. They sent a
Speaker 8: professional out. He was great. He measured all the windows.
Speaker 8: They communicated and said, your windows are going to be here.
Speaker 8: All the windows showed up.
Speaker 3: Oh there they thank goodness. Hold on, now, Megan, how
Speaker 3: much have you paid so far? How much is that?
Speaker 8: It's embarrassing? Twenty five thousand?
Speaker 3: Okay, now hold on, did you get all the windows?
Speaker 8: They were all improperly measured. They've installed one, two, three, four, five, six.
Speaker 8: And then when they got downstairs and realized how.
Speaker 2: Many total windows? How many total windows by the.
Speaker 8: Way, I think we would have had twenty.
Speaker 2: For twenty and then and only six had been installed.
Speaker 8: Well yeah, because some of them upstairs fit. But when
Speaker 8: they got downstairs they had they did a terrible job
Speaker 8: installing them, so they had to lead.
Speaker 3: So they did install more than six. You're saying there's
Speaker 3: only six that work. How many did they install totally?
Speaker 8: One, two, three, four or five six? Seven?
Speaker 2: So they installed one window? Wrong?
Speaker 3: No, you said they installed six when okay, so all
Speaker 3: the windows they installed are wrong.
Speaker 8: At this point, yes, but three of them. I told
Speaker 8: them to stop working because of all the.
Speaker 3: Three of them, in addition to the seven or three
Speaker 3: of them in the seven.
Speaker 8: The eight upstairs seemed to look good and fit. But
Speaker 8: when they got downstairs.
Speaker 3: Okay, hold on, you said eight upstairs seemed to look
Speaker 3: good and fit. I asked you how many did they install?
Speaker 3: And you said seven? So I'm not oh, I'm trying
Speaker 3: to get numbers here. I'm trying to get a handle
Speaker 3: so we can hand this off and call these people.
Speaker 3: How many total windows I'm not yelling at you, by
Speaker 3: the way, this is for emphasis. How many total windows
Speaker 3: have been installed?
Speaker 2: Totally?
Speaker 8: Okay? Total? So seven upstairs, three downstairs?
Speaker 3: Ten windows correct? How many need to be stopped? Ten
Speaker 3: out of twenty windows have been installed?
Speaker 2: Okay? How many of those ten windows have to be redone?
Speaker 8: According to them, the three downstairs. So they had to
Speaker 8: reorder everything because the guy measured everything long. But they
Speaker 8: were able to pull off the upstairs somehow. Don't ask
Speaker 8: me how well.
Speaker 2: They just trimmed it or something. I want to ask
Speaker 2: you something.
Speaker 3: But then the ten windows, the three they have to
Speaker 3: replace within that ten, then they have ten more to go, right,
Speaker 3: did they?
Speaker 2: Are they on site as well?
Speaker 8: No? No, because now when I called the salesperson, he said,
Speaker 8: I left the company. It's declining. It's awful. The next
Speaker 8: guy who's managing the Fort Collins office is no longer there.
Speaker 8: They got a new guy in who said I'm going
Speaker 8: to take care of this, and just this week he
Speaker 8: suddenly is no longer there. So then I called the Utah.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I have a headache. It's so bad.
Speaker 8: It gets worse. They shut the Fort Collins office. They've
Speaker 8: outsourced their answering service for all their offices in Saint George,
Speaker 8: Utah to a out of the country kind of answering
Speaker 8: service who told me that the phones are blowing up.
Speaker 8: They cannot they have so many complaints and you can
Speaker 8: now not get a hold.
Speaker 3: So how long has it been since you heard from them?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, have you guys looked this up yet? Have you
Speaker 3: looked up the online jkr?
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's a fantastic website. They have decent ratings. But
Speaker 8: I was joking. I said, maybe the owner went off
Speaker 8: the deep end. Well, I find out he has a podcast.
Speaker 8: He's this big shot who has recovered drug and alcohol
Speaker 8: addiction and somehow created this multi million dollar company. And
Speaker 8: I'm thinking either we got scammed or this guy with
Speaker 8: this podcast, whoevercame a drug and alcohol addiction relapsed in
Speaker 8: the whole company went down in flames and we're out.
Speaker 8: We have two toned windows in the whole house.
Speaker 3: Right hold on, just hold on. We got to give
Speaker 3: this to my hang on will come very pey. Go
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Speaker 3: people you can trust. Hey, Megan, Okay, we're going to
Speaker 3: give this to somebody to work on it. But I
Speaker 3: want to I want to call. I want to narrow
Speaker 3: it down. So the contract was signed the company, Uh,
Speaker 3: you're supposed to do twenty vinyl windows. You paid half
Speaker 3: and they installed ten. Three have to be reinstalled. The
Speaker 3: other ten aren't even there, and they shut down their
Speaker 3: Colorado office. And when was the last time you heard
Speaker 3: from them?
Speaker 8: They do not reach out to me. I had. I
Speaker 8: called the installer guy that they had in the area,
Speaker 8: and he's been great about Is.
Speaker 2: He still with the company.
Speaker 8: She says that he is, and he says, oh, your
Speaker 8: windows are ordered. Oh yeah, they're ordered.
Speaker 2: Good. You have a name for this guy and a number.
Speaker 3: Right, I do, But there's no office here in town
Speaker 3: anymore or in Colorado.
Speaker 8: Correct.
Speaker 3: Oh no, this is terrible, This is terrible. We looked
Speaker 3: up the website, we looked him up online. We're looking
Speaker 3: up the whole thing. I'm going to give this the
Speaker 3: Deputy Chopper, that's his nickname.
Speaker 2: We're going to be a calling.
Speaker 3: We're going to want your contact information, now do you
Speaker 3: have that on you? Rs at at home?
Speaker 8: My contact? Well, I've got the owner's number. Now the
Speaker 8: people have quit are giving me more information. His mailbox
Speaker 8: is full, you know you you name it. It's happening, and.
Speaker 3: You're saying that this owner, his story is, he's a
Speaker 3: he's a recovering drug addict.
Speaker 8: He has a podcast, he's a big shot.
Speaker 2: What's his name? What's his name?
Speaker 8: Jefferson Rogers. You won't believe this when you.
Speaker 3: See it, Okay, Rogers, hold on, Jefferson Rogers. I'm going
Speaker 3: to give this the deputy chopper, but I want you
Speaker 3: to hang on. We'll get your information. I'm Tom art.
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Speaker 15: Come?
Speaker 4: Run anxious as fast as we can. Shooter's gonna help.
Speaker 16: Come, man, this is the Troubleshooter Show.
Speaker 3: Noo, Hi, Tom Martino here, Welcome to the show. Three
Speaker 3: oh three seven one three talk seven one three eight
Speaker 3: two five five. Today is Car Friday. That doesn't mean
Speaker 3: we talked just about cars. Are experts make it in today?
Speaker 3: There were various obligations for the holiday, but we have
Speaker 3: all of them available on phone if you have car problems, questions,
Speaker 3: complaints and speaking of cars, I want to know if
Speaker 3: anyone is familiar with the ineos. I think I'm pronouncing
Speaker 3: it properly ineos ineos. I knows it's I n EO
Speaker 3: S grenadeer g r e n A d i e
Speaker 3: r ineos grenadeer.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: It's funny. Uh, I just I swear to guys.
Speaker 3: I was looking at it online and it says starting
Speaker 3: from seventy five thousand, and it changed right before my
Speaker 3: eyes I swear to you right before they must have
Speaker 3: been doing like an update and it says now eighty
Speaker 3: six eighty six thousand. So in any case, they look
Speaker 3: you can get them with a little pickup bet or
Speaker 3: four door pick up with a pickup bed, or you
Speaker 3: can get them four doors.
Speaker 2: They look a little.
Speaker 3: Like a g Wagon, Jeep and Bronco rolled into one,
Speaker 3: maybe even a hummer, and they're obvious. Wait wait, wait, okay,
Speaker 3: it does say seventy five grand for the station wagon.
Speaker 2: Special deal just for you, Tom and the Quartermaster. The
Speaker 2: one with a pickup starts at eighty six nine and
Speaker 2: then the limited starts at eighty six nine fifty. So
Speaker 2: what air ring? All I want to know is what's
Speaker 2: the ride? Like? I have no idea.
Speaker 3: Maybe we should call down there, you know what, Kachina,
Speaker 3: Let's call down to Grenadier. I don't know what the
Speaker 3: name of it is in Colorado Springs, but they have
Speaker 3: a dealership in Colorado Springs. Let's call down there and
Speaker 3: ask them if they'll come on and talk about it.
Speaker 3: Of course they're going to tell us the rides wonderful,
Speaker 3: but you know what, I think they'll be honest.
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 3: So they're in Colorado Springs. Find a dealer here it
Speaker 3: is find a retailer so Colorado Springs.
Speaker 2: Here, it is right here in Colorado. There it is.
Speaker 2: It's called I'm going to give you the name.
Speaker 3: Okay, it's called Red noland Ineos Grenadier, and I'll give
Speaker 3: you the number.
Speaker 2: Even say I'm doing your job. Is she listening to me?
Speaker 2: For God's sakes? Or I might be not? Am I
Speaker 2: being ignored? Come on, man, hey, Kachina, is that four
Speaker 2: four four number?
Speaker 3: It's the yes, thank you, seven to one nine, thank you?
Speaker 3: Can you write that down for And by the way,
Speaker 3: what's she doing? She has a few mimosas and you
Speaker 3: think the world's gonna You know, we gotta have a
Speaker 3: rule no alcohol.
Speaker 2: In this freaking studio anymore.
Speaker 3: They had a birthday party and somebody had a few
Speaker 3: too many mimosas. If you want to ask me, she's
Speaker 3: walking around in a.
Speaker 16: Stupid with the bottle.
Speaker 2: She's walking around in a stupor. She's working.
Speaker 3: It's a holiday weekend, and she thinks it just started,
Speaker 3: like when my show started.
Speaker 2: Does she working?
Speaker 3: Capitalists say hey, this will be fun, of course, yeah,
Speaker 3: it'd be great. Oh, it'll be way fun. Anyway, have
Speaker 3: any of my youtubew by the way, I was sold
Speaker 3: the YouTube audio is off again. It's something they say
Speaker 3: they're getting bleed over from another station.
Speaker 2: Is that right? Child?
Speaker 1: Just got here?
Speaker 2: It sounds fine when I just sound fine? Okay?
Speaker 3: Any of my YouTube morons? Do you know about the ineos?
Speaker 3: Somebody said it looks like they're using a BMW engine.
Speaker 2: Well, that would be cool.
Speaker 3: The I like BMW's performance. Again, I just want to
Speaker 3: know what it's going to drive like, That's what I
Speaker 3: want to know. And I imagine we have a best
Speaker 3: of on Monday, don't we Okay?
Speaker 15: Uh?
Speaker 2: Three three seven one, three eight two five five is
Speaker 2: the number. I'm gonna go.
Speaker 3: Chopper right now is calling this window company, which is
Speaker 3: jk R. They installed a roughly half the windows. Some
Speaker 3: of them have to be redone the other ten. She
Speaker 3: doesn't know where they are. They close their Colorado office
Speaker 3: JKR Windows and they're out of Utah. The guy brags
Speaker 3: about being a recovering addict and he has four point
Speaker 3: nine stars. They say, uh, and he seems look his
Speaker 3: video seem good. The guy does a podcast. He supposedly
Speaker 3: he supposedly a legit guy, but we'll see. They say
Speaker 3: they have areas in Utah, Boise, Vegas, Seattle, Phoenix, Grand Junction, Denver,
Speaker 3: Fort Collins, Billings, And they do have some numbers, you know,
Speaker 3: for the local for Fort Collins. But anyway, three zero three,
Speaker 3: seven to one to three talk is our number. Now
Speaker 3: in the news, there are a number of people who
Speaker 3: are buying listen to this. They're buying up unused patents,
Speaker 3: people who filed patents years ago and never made it,
Speaker 3: never did anything with it. And then they're going out
Speaker 3: and finding similar products.
Speaker 2: That come close to that product.
Speaker 3: And they are making demand letters for patent infringement. So
Speaker 3: they buy for pennies on the dollar. They buy a
Speaker 3: patent for a few bucks, or they have a patent.
Speaker 3: Then they go out and find similar products and threaten
Speaker 3: the hell out of these people to settle for them
Speaker 3: cash or take their product off the market, or they
Speaker 3: sue them. They're called patent trolls, patent trolls, and it's
Speaker 3: happening more and more.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: In twenty thirteen, Barack Obama actually said that he wanted
Speaker 3: to get rid of people who have patents that don't
Speaker 3: produce anything, and they're simply leveraging and hijacking ideas.
Speaker 2: In order to extort money.
Speaker 3: However, they did have some success in the courts, ruling
Speaker 3: that if you have no intent to make anything and
Speaker 3: you solely exist to extract money, it could be ruled invalid.
Speaker 2: But there are still people doing it.
Speaker 3: They have first of all, they try to enforce a
Speaker 3: patent by asking you to pay licensing fees, or they
Speaker 3: simply go against you for damages, claiming that now they're
Speaker 3: not going to be able to make what they wanted
Speaker 3: to make, and they basically are trolling products. And what
Speaker 3: the government feels, even though they haven't been successful in
Speaker 3: shutting it down, is that it's wrong to do if
Speaker 3: you're not going to produce anything. But the government itself
Speaker 3: actually made it advantageous to be a patent troll.
Speaker 2: And here's why.
Speaker 3: If you hear about a patent, or if you have
Speaker 3: a patent and somebody else has something, if some bod
Speaker 3: he's been using or producing something for many many years
Speaker 3: and it's been in public domain, it can't be patented.
Speaker 2: But if both people, if two people.
Speaker 3: Have an idea, it's the first one to the patent
Speaker 3: office that gets the patent. It's not the first one
Speaker 3: who thought of it, or the first one who produced it,
Speaker 3: but the first one to the patent office, except when
Speaker 3: something is public domain. Once something becomes public domain, it
Speaker 3: can never be patented unless it's altered in such a
Speaker 3: way that it becomes almost something new or has a
Speaker 3: different function. So beware of patent trolls. Meaning this, if
Speaker 3: you have an idea for something that you want to
Speaker 3: bring to market, do not show it to anybody, even
Speaker 3: with a non disclosure. If you do, it could be
Speaker 3: considered disclosure, it could be considered public and it could
Speaker 3: start counting the clock on public domain before it Because
Speaker 3: if you don't bring it to the patent office within
Speaker 3: a certain amount of time, you lose your right.
Speaker 2: So here's what I recommend.
Speaker 3: There's something called a provisional patent that can be gotten
Speaker 3: immediately by filing. Now you may say, how can you
Speaker 3: do a provisional patent if in fact you haven't done
Speaker 3: a patent search and you don't know what's out there
Speaker 3: and you don't know where you stand on the product.
Speaker 2: Here's what a provisional patent says. Here's what it says.
Speaker 3: It's provisional and it's contingent on a few things. First,
Speaker 3: it's contingent on you being first in line, which means
Speaker 3: that if someone did a provisional patent last year and
Speaker 3: you do one this year, their provisional patent takes precedent.
Speaker 2: But if no one did, you at least are in line.
Speaker 3: It also says it's contingent on you having a unique product.
Speaker 2: You see, the reason they don't.
Speaker 3: Require a patent search is because if you go to
Speaker 3: the patent office with a provisional patent and it turns
Speaker 3: out that this has been invented before, no harm, no foul,
Speaker 3: because it's only provisional.
Speaker 2: It never becomes permanent.
Speaker 3: So it's contingent on you being first or in front
Speaker 3: of other provisional patents. It's contingent on you being original
Speaker 3: that there's no other thing out there that's already been patented,
Speaker 3: and it's contingent upon you coming up with a prototype
Speaker 3: to do it. So when you file a provisional patent,
Speaker 3: it's a place in line and it says, if I
Speaker 3: can prove these elements, it's going to be my patent
Speaker 3: and no one can get in there first. And that's
Speaker 3: important because if you don't do that now, that then
Speaker 3: the provisional patent becomes a real patent. If you don't
Speaker 3: do that, you run the risk of someone beating you
Speaker 3: to the patent office with the same idea.
Speaker 10: Tom. There was a great documentary about that with Alexander
Speaker 10: green Bell and Telephone. There was a scandal because apparently
Speaker 10: they paid off the clerk in the patent office to
Speaker 10: put his patent before someone else's so that he got
Speaker 10: the credit for it.
Speaker 3: That's right, that's exactly right, which goes exactly what you say. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and nowadays it's getting even worse because things are invented
Speaker 3: all the time and they keep it under wraps. Go
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Speaker 3: Now we uh, we go out to eat a lot,
Speaker 3: my wife and I just two of us. Sometimes it
Speaker 3: doesn't pay to cook. And uh, I haven't noticed a
Speaker 3: lot of obnoxious people. But I hear that it's a
Speaker 3: growing trend of noxiousness in restaurants and people's come up this.
Speaker 3: This travel magazine came up with the most deplorable habits
Speaker 3: in a restaurant. They surveyed staff. So what do you
Speaker 3: think is the number one complaint of staff? And sometimes no,
Speaker 3: that's number two.
Speaker 2: It's not screaming kids kids allowed to roam.
Speaker 3: I've watched that. Now to me, that's my number one bugaboo.
Speaker 2: Can you there are.
Speaker 3: Parents that I swear to God, their kids just get
Speaker 3: down off the chair, walk around. I've seen them walk
Speaker 3: up to other tables and talk to people and bug people.
Speaker 2: What are you eating? You know? What? Why you know?
Speaker 2: I mean? Now, I I can.
Speaker 3: Say I don't see it very common. I don't go
Speaker 3: to a lot of kid restaurants that are kid friendly now, not.
Speaker 2: Because I don't like his We just don't. But I
Speaker 2: don't blame you. Here's the deal.
Speaker 3: The number one is people who refuse to pay for
Speaker 3: a dish because it was.
Speaker 2: Bad, but they ate like ninety percent of it.
Speaker 3: Because normally, if you don't like something right off the bat,
Speaker 3: you say, I'm sorry, there's something wrong with this. There
Speaker 3: was a taste, this fish doesn't taste right, or it's
Speaker 3: not cooked to temperature or something. You just you usually
Speaker 3: do it right away, and the wait staff has never
Speaker 3: given me a hard time.
Speaker 2: And I don't do it often.
Speaker 3: But if something isn't right and you bring it up
Speaker 3: right away in a kind way, you know.
Speaker 2: It's not a bad deal. Right.
Speaker 3: They don't do it, but they say when people eat
Speaker 3: about ninety percent of it and then do that, they
Speaker 3: really get pissed off. My tom My daughter works at Starbucks,
Speaker 3: and she gets irritated.
Speaker 5: She serves the coffee and they go.
Speaker 10: Out and walk around and come back when the coffee's
Speaker 10: like three quarters empty, and then they they said it
Speaker 10: wasn't right and they want a new coffee.
Speaker 2: She gets that a lot at the Golden Starbucks.
Speaker 5: They should just say right now, I heye, the coffee's
Speaker 5: not good.
Speaker 10: But they take the coffee out, drink it, and come
Speaker 10: back and say, say the coffee's bad.
Speaker 3: Now here's the deal. The number two is letting kids
Speaker 3: run free. Number three debating prices of the menu, with
Speaker 3: the staff saying, why is this so much? Can I
Speaker 3: get it for this? I have never heard that ever,
Speaker 3: I've never seen that. I find that hard to believe.
Speaker 2: They say that.
Speaker 3: Well, let's see respondents deemed unacceptable hold on eighty four percent. Oh,
Speaker 3: they don't say it happens that all. Well, it says
Speaker 3: just to be behaviors. Ninety percent hate the not eating
Speaker 3: the dish or eating most of the dish and then
Speaker 3: saying okay. And then ninety percent say they hate when
Speaker 3: the kids run free. Eighty four percent say they hate
Speaker 3: when people debate prices. I've never seen people debate prices. Now,
Speaker 3: this is another one that I've never seen that the
Speaker 3: staff says that people stay past closing time and linger
Speaker 3: past closing time.
Speaker 2: I don't even like going in.
Speaker 3: I don't know how you feel about this, but have
Speaker 3: you ever I won't go to a restaurant fifteen minutes
Speaker 3: before they close or twenty minutes although technically they're open.
Speaker 2: I don't like it.
Speaker 3: I don't feel right about it, because you're going to
Speaker 3: go in, you're going to order, and you know you're
Speaker 3: going to stay past closing. Now, most of the time
Speaker 3: they account for that anyway, don't they. I mean, if
Speaker 3: you're going to be let's say you're open till nine
Speaker 3: and somebody goes in eight forty five, you know that
Speaker 3: it's going to be more than fifteen minutes, right, So
Speaker 3: I don't I don't know.
Speaker 2: But yet you have to have a closing time. So
Speaker 2: what do you do? Do you stop seeing, you.
Speaker 3: Stop seating I would have a sign saying stop seating
Speaker 3: at right, then you stop seating at nine rather than
Speaker 3: closing at nine. Then you close at ten maybe, or
Speaker 3: you close at nine p thirty. But that would be
Speaker 3: a better way to do it. It's just a stop
Speaker 3: seating at a certain time, and then people don't get
Speaker 3: pissed if they come in and there's twenty minutes left
Speaker 3: and they're about to close, I think anyway, So staying
Speaker 3: past closing time is another one. The other thing is
Speaker 3: when they snapped their fingers at weight people.
Speaker 2: Have you ever snapped your fingers? I've never ever done that.
Speaker 2: I've never done that one hand, I've never done that.
Speaker 3: I've sometimes wave, you know, I wave a little, but
Speaker 3: that's only first you guys.
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Speaker 3: three nine two zero sixteen twenty two. Next year, I
Speaker 3: have well, I don't know why, because phone calls, people
Speaker 3: are out, people are out of town, are going out
Speaker 3: of town. But I got a whole crapload of texts
Speaker 3: that came into my Google number seven four seven nine
Speaker 3: nine fifty two eighty. So on that topic, we talked
Speaker 3: about reliability of cars. I wondered why plug in hybrids
Speaker 3: have such a bad reliability rating according to consumer reports
Speaker 3: surveys they do surveys, they set one hundred and forty
Speaker 3: six percent more than regular cars, and the electrical ones
Speaker 3: have like a seventy nine percent more problems. And somebody
Speaker 3: here said, I rented a plug in hybrid in North Carolina.
Speaker 2: For a weekend. At first, it was a kind of
Speaker 2: pain in the ass.
Speaker 3: I had to literally read instructions on how to charge it,
Speaker 3: because it's not like a typ of a car in
Speaker 3: any way. And it was the first time I've used it.
Speaker 3: I had never rented or been around one. I had
Speaker 3: to figure it out. My guess is a lack of
Speaker 3: knowledge of the car is a problem.
Speaker 2: It is why they had the week reviews.
Speaker 3: And because remember these are done on surveys, they're not
Speaker 3: actual numbers, it said. And then we have another one
Speaker 3: with a picture. Listen to this republic sanitation are now
Speaker 3: they now have EV trash trucks. How can a battery
Speaker 3: lass on those suckers?
Speaker 2: You know how much energy they use to crush garbage.
Speaker 2: There's a picture of one. They have EV trash trucks.
Speaker 3: And then somebody said on the apartments the Venezuelans that
Speaker 3: Channel thirty one has been following it first and foremost
Speaker 3: Fox thirty one News that because a lot of the
Speaker 3: local news I accused of ignoring it, Channel nine ignored
Speaker 3: it until they could write a puff piece on how
Speaker 3: it's exaggerated and only conservatives are saying it's happening and
Speaker 3: that other people aren't.
Speaker 2: Then there's another recommendation.
Speaker 3: Okay, somebody wants to know who do I recommend for
Speaker 3: my surgery, the back surgery.
Speaker 2: Okay, here's what I'm saying.
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Speaker 3: Now, they did hundreds before me, but I'm talking about
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Speaker 3: so it was great. So obviously I like him. Now
Speaker 3: here's another one. Now, Oh, how do you get the
Speaker 3: ten percent off your electric bill?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 3: I talked about it yesterday? Have you missed it? I
Speaker 3: delayed a lot before I talked about it. I said
Speaker 3: I'm going to talk about it, and I didn't get
Speaker 3: to it till the third hour. There are solar farms
Speaker 3: right now being built by individual concerns, either co ops, corporations, partnerships, neighborhoods.
Speaker 3: What is the solar field. It is a giant field
Speaker 3: of solar panels.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 3: They build the solar field in order to get tax
Speaker 3: credits and grant money and in order to sell back
Speaker 3: to the grid. They make money by building a solar field.
Speaker 3: Excel Energy now they sell virtual shares of.
Speaker 2: That solar field to you.
Speaker 3: They don't really sell it to you where you own
Speaker 3: it forever, but they kind of let you in on it.
Speaker 2: And by letting you in on it.
Speaker 3: What Excel hopes to do, and this is not really
Speaker 3: public and published, but this is the real truth. What
Speaker 3: Excel hopes you to do is to take advantage of
Speaker 3: this program and accept an ownership share, no obligation whatsoever
Speaker 3: in this solar field, and get a ten percent reduction
Speaker 3: on your bill. There's no gim it's no gimmick, it's
Speaker 3: no scam. If you sign up for a solar field
Speaker 3: near you, if there's one near you and you sign
Speaker 3: up for it, you will get ten percent.
Speaker 2: Off your electric bill. Bar none.
Speaker 3: They don't install anything on your house. You don't get
Speaker 3: the power actually from that grid. It's just a virtual ownership.
Speaker 3: And for owning it, for being part of it, I
Speaker 3: mean like being a member of that solar field, you
Speaker 3: get ten percent off your electric bill.
Speaker 2: Now why would Excel do this? Well, first I told
Speaker 2: you why the solar field people do it.
Speaker 3: A bunch of people can get together and put in
Speaker 3: a solar field and literally make money from it. They
Speaker 3: make hundreds of thousands a year by selling power back
Speaker 3: to Excel. They do, and they also get tax credits.
Speaker 2: It's a wonderful business.
Speaker 3: Build a solar field, make money, You initially get tax
Speaker 3: credits and then you get grid money for selling money
Speaker 3: selling power back to the grid. Okay, that's why they
Speaker 3: do it. Why does Excel do it?
Speaker 2: Anyone want to take a guess.
Speaker 3: Why would Excel give you a ten percent discount for
Speaker 3: being part of the solar field?
Speaker 2: Why do they care?
Speaker 9: Somehow they get it back from the government.
Speaker 10: Nope, decrease demanded peak hours Nope.
Speaker 2: Here's why they do it.
Speaker 3: Excel knows people interested in solar will.
Speaker 2: Bite on this.
Speaker 3: And it might appease them enough to where they don't
Speaker 3: put in their own system. Now, why does Excel care
Speaker 3: about you? Putting in a solar system. As much as
Speaker 3: Excel says that they want alternative power, they don't want
Speaker 3: you to go away because if you put in a
Speaker 3: solar system, they lose major revenue from you. Plus they're
Speaker 3: obligated to buy energy from you if you obligate it.
Speaker 3: They don't have a choice. They can't say to you,
Speaker 3: we have enough energy. If you have a net meter
Speaker 3: and you produce more than you're using, not only do
Speaker 3: they lose you as an electrical customer, but they also
Speaker 3: have to pay you for producing electricity. So Excel would
Speaker 3: rather have a bunch of people they give a ten
Speaker 3: percent discount too, then have a bunch of people go
Speaker 3: off the grid, so to speak.
Speaker 2: Makes sense. It's happening.
Speaker 3: So if you find out about these solar fields I found,
Speaker 3: I have a brochure for one, I'm.
Speaker 2: Going to do it.
Speaker 3: You'll get ten off your electric and there and it's
Speaker 3: not a gimmick. You can get out of it anytime
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Speaker 2: Hi Tom Martino, You're a troubleshooter. Three o three seven
Speaker 2: one three talk three oh three seven one three eight
Speaker 2: two five five Another text God, I can't believe what
Speaker 2: where people.
Speaker 3: Texting from their cars? Because uh okay, here's here's what
Speaker 3: it says. It's weird. Have you turned into a trumper?
Speaker 3: God almighty, I'm far from that. I'm not a Harriser either,
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Speaker 3: not anyway when you say you haven't. The guy's a
Speaker 3: criminal in disrespects the military almost every week with words
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Speaker 2: It's very sad. Man. I don't know who the hell
Speaker 2: you're talking to, but it ain't me. Three oh three
Speaker 2: seven to one three talks seven one three eight two
Speaker 2: five five. Here's another one.
Speaker 3: This one wants to know about umbrella coverage. They want
Speaker 3: to know does umbrella coverage on insurance on your house?
Speaker 3: By the way, you don't get it on your house.
Speaker 3: Let me explain this to you. You get umbrella coverage
Speaker 3: on yourself. You as a person, have umbrella coverage. The
Speaker 3: umbrella coverage by default extends to your homeowners and it
Speaker 3: extends to your automobile coverage except for one part of
Speaker 3: your automobile coverage. And you better listen carefully. If you
Speaker 3: have liability, it will extend to lie ability. So if
Speaker 3: someone sues you and for some reason they have massive
Speaker 3: losses and they won't settle for your insurance premium, excuse
Speaker 3: me your insurance limits, they may choose to sue you.
Speaker 3: Your umbrella coverage kicks in. So if you have five
Speaker 3: or ten million in umbrella coverage, you're pretty well insulated
Speaker 3: from damages.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: It will cover you with homeowners liability and your automobile liability,
Speaker 3: but it doesn't extend your uninsured motorist coverage to you.
Speaker 2: Let me give you an example of what I mean.
Speaker 3: If you get in a car accident with someone who
Speaker 3: doesn't have insurance or who is under insured, and you
Speaker 3: have pain and suffering and economic losses totally a million
Speaker 3: dollars and they only have one hundred thousand dollars in coverage.
Speaker 2: Your UM coverage will cover you. Your UM not your umbrella
Speaker 2: will cover you up to a certain assent. So let's
Speaker 2: say you have UM coverage of five hundred thousand, so
Speaker 2: you'll get one hundred.
Speaker 3: From them and five hundred from your UM for a
Speaker 3: total of six hundred. But if you have a million
Speaker 3: dollars in true provable losses, can you get the other
Speaker 3: four hundred from your umbrella No, not automatically. Umbrella coverage
Speaker 3: is to protect you against liability for others.
Speaker 2: It can, however, extend to.
Speaker 3: Your underinsured and uninsured motorists coverage for your own pain
Speaker 3: and suffering.
Speaker 2: It can if you have a special riot. It's called
Speaker 2: a UM rider.
Speaker 3: So make sure if you get an umbrella coverage and
Speaker 3: you wanted to cover you, you wanted to cover you
Speaker 3: not just for liability to others, but you wanted to
Speaker 3: extend to your UM coverage your uninsured motor coverage. In
Speaker 3: that case, you have to have a special rider. That
Speaker 3: is very very important. Now why would anyone do that well,
Speaker 3: Because if you're worth a lot of money, or you
Speaker 3: make a lot of money and someone injures you and
Speaker 3: they don't have a lot of liability coverage and you're
Speaker 3: stuck without work or your misery, you're miserable, you want
Speaker 3: to make damn well sure that you're taken care of
Speaker 3: as if the other person had insurance. And you normally
Speaker 3: don't cover that much UM coverage. So in addition to
Speaker 3: the UM coverage, if you have an umbrella policy and
Speaker 3: that umbrella policy carries a special UM rider, it will
Speaker 3: then extend to your under insured or uninsured motorist coverage.
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Speaker 5: Tom?
Speaker 18: I sure hope you can't. You have your wand today?
Speaker 2: Oh what happened?
Speaker 5: I don't know if you still.
Speaker 18: Have any contacts with Centurylinklomen they're totally incompetent. I live
Speaker 18: in Denver with my wife and my family by in
Speaker 18: laws live in Thornton. They're in their upper eighties. They
Speaker 18: have what you would expect from medical issues and beyond.
Speaker 18: They rely on a landline.
Speaker 3: Okay, any day did they ever call us before?
Speaker 2: No? Okay? Because I got a call from an older couple.
Speaker 2: It wasn't them, Okay, and go ahead tell me about it.
Speaker 18: I found out that we tried to contact them because
Speaker 18: we're always in touch with them, on last Friday, and
Speaker 18: what wasn't getting through. No signal, no, no a thing.
Speaker 18: I did a troubleshooting online via Century Links their software.
Speaker 18: The test was failing. So we came out on Saturday,
Speaker 18: spent all day Saturday and all the day Sunday. I
Speaker 18: took a look at the network interface, determined that it
Speaker 18: was getting power and determined that it was the fiber
Speaker 18: optic line that was going to the interface. So they
Speaker 18: have fiber to the interface and then it's a twisted
Speaker 18: pair from there into their house, so I know that
Speaker 18: it's the fiber line somewhere, you know, centry link stuff.
Speaker 18: So Monday was the first time I could actually talk
Speaker 18: to somebody to schedule it, schedule the repair. So I
Speaker 18: called them.
Speaker 2: I told them that it can Illoyd.
Speaker 3: While while you're saying all this, I want to explain
Speaker 3: something to you. And you can still explain it, okay,
Speaker 3: And I don't want you to think I'm unfeeling or
Speaker 3: uncaring a change in regulations.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: It basically says that Century Link no longer has to
Speaker 3: provide landline service. Now, listen to what this means, because
Speaker 3: I know what you're going to say, Well, if we're
Speaker 3: paying for it, they should supply it.
Speaker 2: That's absolutely true. But here's what.
Speaker 3: I'm getting at, and I went through this the other day,
Speaker 3: and in the regulation, if they breach your contract to
Speaker 3: supply a landline that you're paying.
Speaker 2: For, your recourse is to stop.
Speaker 3: Paying for it and to get a refund for the
Speaker 3: time you were not served. Your recourse is not making
Speaker 3: them supply the landline, nor can you make them fix it.
Speaker 2: And I'm going to tell you why. It just they're
Speaker 2: no longer regulated that way.
Speaker 18: How How could they not supply a nine to one
Speaker 18: one service that we're paying for?
Speaker 6: How can they not.
Speaker 3: Maintain if you're paying for it? Listen, they're breaching your contract. Therefore,
Speaker 3: you really have to hear me, Floyd. You can't make them.
Speaker 3: You can't make them supply it. If you're paying for
Speaker 3: it and they are not living up to their contract,
Speaker 3: you have a right to get that money back that
Speaker 3: you paid while it is not working, and you have
Speaker 3: a right to not pay them anymore.
Speaker 2: You do not have a right.
Speaker 3: To make them fix it. I know it sounds weird
Speaker 3: and you're thinking, oh, no, they have to supply it. No,
Speaker 3: they do not have to supply it.
Speaker 6: When did this change happen.
Speaker 3: It happened in it's order numbers nineteen seventy two. It
Speaker 3: ended the requirement for telecon companies to supply, maintain and
Speaker 3: landline services of all kinds, including nine one one and this.
Speaker 2: I don't have a date. I don't have a date.
Speaker 13: How the heck does that work.
Speaker 3: For seniors on I find it vulable people, because hold
Speaker 3: on the way it works is this, when something's not available,
Speaker 3: it's not available. I mean, what if seniors wanted to
Speaker 3: move out to the country and they don't have a
Speaker 3: landline out there?
Speaker 2: The way you buy them cell phones.
Speaker 18: So I understand that they're not required to look at
Speaker 18: the load.
Speaker 2: By the way.
Speaker 6: I understand.
Speaker 18: I understand you're just giving me information. So, but there's
Speaker 18: a difference between moving to an area that doesn't have service,
Speaker 18: where it's not possible for them reasonably, you know, to do.
Speaker 18: And there are plenty of areas in the nation that
Speaker 18: are in that scenario. But this is an existing line
Speaker 18: that's been in existing first.
Speaker 2: That's rights right, that's right, Floyd, and they're longer obligated
Speaker 2: under the Telecommunications Act to maintain it.
Speaker 18: So let's go through the possibility of problem solving on this.
Speaker 18: So I put in an SEC complaint last night. Who
Speaker 18: knows where that's gotting.
Speaker 2: No one's going to make them fix anything.
Speaker 18: I put it.
Speaker 4: I put it.
Speaker 18: I'm just giving you the updates where it stands, and
Speaker 18: you could determine where you may be able to help
Speaker 18: or where you may not. Sure the SEC complaint is in.
Speaker 18: I had an appointment for Wednesday, I had another appointment
Speaker 18: for Thursday, and I appointments for this morning till noon.
Speaker 18: All three appointments have been missed. Never got a call
Speaker 18: from the tech I've had it escalated.
Speaker 2: I have no contact, Floyd. Do you know why for corporate?
Speaker 2: Do you know why?
Speaker 18: I know why they're incompetent. There's silent.
Speaker 2: That's not that's not true. That's not true. They're no
Speaker 2: more incompetent.
Speaker 3: They're no more incompetent than a company that used to
Speaker 3: offer blacksmith services that doesn't do it anymore. They just
Speaker 3: don't staff like they used to for a dying technology, Floyd.
Speaker 18: But there's enough ads of the tech's out there. They're scheduled,
Speaker 18: they are doing work. They may not have enough, that's.
Speaker 3: Right, they don't have enough. But there's another underlying Floyd.
Speaker 3: There's another underlying reason. And I I just want to
Speaker 3: tell you the truth because there's no sense lying to you.
Speaker 2: They don't want your landline business.
Speaker 18: Where do you have Let's move forward from this. Do
Speaker 18: you have any contacts in such really?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we do have contacts, But okay.
Speaker 18: If they don't have any contact with in corporate repair
Speaker 18: beyond the basic where they channel you, I've.
Speaker 2: Got we have what's called we have what's called the
Speaker 2: corporate angel. And here's what they use. What they usually
Speaker 2: what they usually do for us, they do.
Speaker 3: Sometimes they'll they'll escalate something and help. But I will say, if.
Speaker 2: It's in an area that has been abandoned, and this
Speaker 2: is not an efficient what's that?
Speaker 8: This isn't This is right in Thornton.
Speaker 3: I'm not talking about officially abandoned with a sign up.
Speaker 2: This is abandoned. They have inner workings.
Speaker 3: They're shutting down their land line business if.
Speaker 18: They upgraded the service here to they're making to maintain
Speaker 18: the fiber to the house to the interface in the
Speaker 18: hopes that the reason.
Speaker 3: They're doing fiber. The reason they're doing fiber, and that's
Speaker 3: good is for broadband where you can have an.
Speaker 18: Idea and I understand that.
Speaker 3: Do you have my house, boyd do you have fiber
Speaker 3: going to your in law's house?
Speaker 18: I told you they have fiber going to the interface.
Speaker 18: They have twisted pair from that point with two inside
Speaker 18: the house, so they have the fiber. I've already determined.
Speaker 18: The problem is.
Speaker 2: With the fiber.
Speaker 3: Okay, their fiber network. Let me just tell you what
Speaker 3: they're doing. They're upgrading to fiber so they can do broadband.
Speaker 3: And then those people who want a landline, it's never
Speaker 3: going to be the same landline. It will be an
Speaker 3: IP phone, yes, okay, and your parents, your in laws
Speaker 3: will have a similarity to what they have now once
Speaker 3: that transition is done. In the meantime, during this time
Speaker 3: of transition, there are going to be many areas abandoned.
Speaker 3: I'm not talking about officially abandoned. You're not going to
Speaker 3: see it written down anywhere, but they're not going to
Speaker 3: dedicate a lot of time and energy to fixing.
Speaker 2: It because it's going away.
Speaker 3: They're no longer going to maintain any twisted pears, so until.
Speaker 18: They don't have to maintain a twisted pair, I don't
Speaker 18: understand why you know.
Speaker 16: Maybe I'm Floyd.
Speaker 3: Actually I heard everything you said. I'm The problem is
Speaker 3: I heard you, Floyd. The problem is you think I
Speaker 3: don't listen. The problem is are you going to listen
Speaker 3: to me or not? If not, just hang off if
Speaker 3: you want to listen. You said, the problem is in
Speaker 3: the actual digital fiber is in the fiber.
Speaker 2: That's where the problem is. What I'm telling you, it.
Speaker 3: Is in the interface of the fiber to the twisted pair. Floyd,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, you're trying to resurrect a dead horse. Okay,
Speaker 3: there are ways around it, but you are hell bent
Speaker 3: on trying to make centry Link perform on a technology
Speaker 3: they are no longer required to maintain. You're asking for
Speaker 3: the impossible. It's terrible, and I am sure people who
Speaker 3: had telegraph service hated it, and people who had steam cars.
Speaker 2: It's terrible.
Speaker 3: They're not going to maintain it unless they maintain it
Speaker 3: just because they have enough time and energy. They're not
Speaker 3: going to go out of their way.
Speaker 2: They did.
Speaker 3: They know that there are other services available. I am
Speaker 3: not your enemy. I am telling you the state of reality.
Speaker 3: I swear to God that is the reality. Wait, you know,
Speaker 3: whether the problem is technically in the twisted pair or
Speaker 3: in the fiber network, the problem is where it feeds
Speaker 3: that that twisted pair or near it, and or it
Speaker 3: might be the fiber network itself.
Speaker 2: They'll get to that.
Speaker 3: But they're not rolling a truck because your in laws
Speaker 3: do not have landlines.
Speaker 2: I'm not happy about it. I wish I.
Speaker 3: Could wave my magic wand and fix it. I swear
Speaker 3: to God I do. I can't do it because they're
Speaker 3: they just aren't supporting it. Floyd, you know, please don't
Speaker 3: please don't hear this as me not wanting to help you.
Speaker 2: We're still gonna put in a.
Speaker 18: Call Tom, Tom, Tom, calm yourself.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm I'm by.
Speaker 3: Nobody tells me to calm myself. Go to hell, I'll
Speaker 3: get as excited as I want the last I have
Speaker 3: to You know what I used to have to take that.
Speaker 3: I don't have to take that anymore. It's called divorce.
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Speaker 2: Eight two five five. Okay, back to the texting.
Speaker 3: By the way, um, and by the way, I do
Speaker 3: look at the other text as well. Somebody asked me
Speaker 3: that five seven seven three nine, So let me go there.
Speaker 3: But people seem to be texting me, mostly on my
Speaker 3: Google phone, which comes right to my way to my
Speaker 3: cell phone and you can do that twenty four to seven.
Speaker 3: By the way, it hasn't been abused. People are asking
Speaker 3: decent questions. That's seven four seven. Now on the regular
Speaker 3: text I have one. Maybe with normal hybrids you have
Speaker 3: each system not working harder to move the car, and they.
Speaker 2: Support each other.
Speaker 3: Maybe that's why there's less problems with hybrids than with
Speaker 3: all electric or all gasoline.
Speaker 2: That could be. That could be.
Speaker 3: Now on a question here on Okay, this person we've
Speaker 3: heard about this. I don't know if you guys remember it.
Speaker 3: This person was notified by Uber that they owed for
Speaker 3: vomiting in a car, and they deducted from their credit card.
Speaker 2: Money for damages.
Speaker 3: Now, this happens to be something we've heard about, not once,
Speaker 3: not twice, but about three or four times.
Speaker 2: So I started looking into it.
Speaker 3: Now in other cities they call it the vomit scam.
Speaker 2: And there's a way to fight it. I'm not kidding.
Speaker 3: The vomit scam is where a rideshare driver puts in
Speaker 3: for extra money for so called damages, saying that you
Speaker 3: vomited in their car. What happens is they get extra money,
Speaker 3: and of course no vomit, no cleanup.
Speaker 2: They prockit the money.
Speaker 3: If your driver has a four or five rating, four
Speaker 3: and a half or five rating, you're not probably going
Speaker 3: to ever have to worry about that. And however, if
Speaker 3: you have a lower rated driver or medium grade driver,
Speaker 3: or the car seems a little sketch, or you have
Speaker 3: any doubts whatsoever, there's one easy way to combat this.
Speaker 3: Because your phone made it. Tags every picture, take a
Speaker 3: pic before you exit.
Speaker 10: Com do almost all the all of the clips I've
Speaker 10: seen on YouTube with Uber and Lyft, drivers have cameras
Speaker 10: on the inside of the car to protect themselves from
Speaker 10: allegations of misbehavior.
Speaker 3: Hold on, So I'm just saying, if the guy wants
Speaker 3: to do the vomit scam, if a driver wants to
Speaker 3: pull a scam, you think he's going to say, I
Speaker 3: have a camera that shows you doing it. If it doesn't,
Speaker 3: he's not going to mention his camera. He's not required
Speaker 3: to have the camera. Therefore he'll never mention the camera.
Speaker 3: And the driver. What's the passengers are going to say,
Speaker 3: I demand to see your camera. He'll say, I don't
Speaker 3: have one. I mean, yeah, they have they do have cameras,
Speaker 3: but they're only going to use it to their advantage.
Speaker 3: If they're pulling a scam, you're never going to know
Speaker 3: about it. I mean, if you get if you get
Speaker 3: a notification that you vomited in a ride share and
Speaker 3: you have to pay three hundred bucks for cleanup two
Speaker 3: hundred whatever it is, what are the che answers that
Speaker 3: they're gonna voluntarily when you say, yeah, well, I think
Speaker 3: you have a camera, don't you I want to see
Speaker 3: the video, They're gonna say, oh yeah, let me show
Speaker 3: you the video that doesn't show you vomiting. They're they're
Speaker 3: gonna deny it. I mean, these guys are scumbags. We're
Speaker 3: not talking about a normal driver. We're talking about someone
Speaker 3: who's so nasty that they make something up like this
Speaker 3: so they can get an extra one hundred and fifty
Speaker 3: three hundred bucks.
Speaker 2: Who knows.
Speaker 3: But it's called the vomit scam in other cities, and
Speaker 3: I've gotten now this is my fourth inquiry about it.
Speaker 3: This person's been charged for the for the vomit scam.
Speaker 3: I mean that's incredible to me. It's like, Wow, what
Speaker 3: kind of I don't know, I mean, what kind.
Speaker 2: Of person I got to just write this here Okay.
Speaker 3: Now, when you get on these rides heres, there's a
Speaker 3: lot of scams, but that's definitely one that when when
Speaker 3: you see when you hear one of them, you think, okay,
Speaker 3: maybe the guy didn't he doesn't even remember. But when
Speaker 3: you start hearing them over and over again, then a
Speaker 3: pattern develops. Ye pattern actually develops for your saying what
Speaker 3: the heck is going on? Three zero three seven one
Speaker 3: three talks seven one three eight two five five. Now
Speaker 3: somebody with a timeshare says, I'm not I was looking
Speaker 3: to get out of my time share, but now I
Speaker 3: got an offer to rent it. Okay, there's only one
Speaker 3: thing worse than having a time share, and that is
Speaker 3: renting your time share. Yeah, having two or renting or
Speaker 3: renting your time share through one of these agencies because
Speaker 3: they want them to pay upfront for the advertising and
Speaker 3: all of that.
Speaker 2: No, no, renting is hard enough, folks.
Speaker 3: I know a lot of people that have vacation rentals,
Speaker 3: but they have real vacation you know, they have a
Speaker 3: real home or a real condo of their own. They
Speaker 3: own it one hundred percent and they have a management
Speaker 3: company and they rent it out.
Speaker 2: I mean, I know a lot of.
Speaker 3: People who love doing that and they or they have
Speaker 3: other homes that they rent out, but they do it
Speaker 3: like a real rental. Don't ever go through these agencies.
Speaker 3: And this is something fair to say. Almost everything involved
Speaker 3: with time shares is a scam.
Speaker 2: How about that? Almost every single thing involved.
Speaker 3: That's the buying, the selling, the renting, the listing, because
Speaker 3: a lot of people will call you and say, well
Speaker 3: list it. We have a lot of buyers standing in line.
Speaker 3: So don't pay any money upfront, not for any of them.
Speaker 3: And these people who promise to get you out of
Speaker 3: time shares, there are some legit people that.
Speaker 2: Can get you out of a timeshare, But did you
Speaker 2: know how they operate? Do you really know how they operate?
Speaker 2: How do you think they do this?
Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell you a story about the true inside.
Speaker 3: This is inside information on the timeshare liquidation industry. It's
Speaker 3: now an industry and you're going to be shocked because
Speaker 3: you can go into the business tomorrow if you want,
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Speaker 2: Three oh three nine two zero sixteen twenty two. Hey Adam,
Speaker 2: you want to sell your carm I do?
Speaker 13: Are you interested in a twenty four year old beautiful
Speaker 13: blue Jeep Grand Turkey ser.
Speaker 3: So, the GEF, the Grand Cherokee two thousand. That's just
Speaker 3: the regular SUV, right, I like what they call jeep jeeps.
Speaker 2: But no I'm not. But somebody listening right now? Is
Speaker 2: I know it? I can feel it in my bones.
Speaker 2: So what's the deal? What is it?
Speaker 13: It's a blue V eight jeep Grand Cherokee for looking
Speaker 13: for a site to sell them on Facebook or how many.
Speaker 3: Well, first of all, okay, I'm just going to tell
Speaker 3: you this. You set yourself up for ripoffs on Craigslist
Speaker 3: and Facebook Marketplace, two of the biggest areas of ripoffs
Speaker 3: in the world. Okay, that doesn't mean that doesn't mean
Speaker 3: you don't get a crap load of eyeballs and you
Speaker 3: can't possibly sell it. I would be foolish to say
Speaker 3: you can't sell it that way. It's just a pain
Speaker 3: in the ass.
Speaker 2: But you'll get a lot of people, just like with eBay.
Speaker 3: But you got to protect yourself. That the main thing
Speaker 3: is protecting yourself. Finding the eyeballs with today's technology is easy.
Speaker 3: It's going to be easy. So put it on marketplace,
Speaker 3: put it on Craigslist. But then know the difference of
Speaker 3: scams and a scam. There's so many scams. First of all,
Speaker 3: you only meet in public, and the second wall, you
Speaker 3: never let them take the car, and if they want
Speaker 3: to get the car checked, you have to go to
Speaker 3: their mcket. You can't let them take it. And then
Speaker 3: when it comes to when it comes to payment, it's
Speaker 3: got to be cash or you have to literally be
Speaker 3: at their bank with their cashiers check if they want
Speaker 3: to do a cashiers check. But then when you're at
Speaker 3: their bank, you can do cash or they can issue
Speaker 3: a cashiers check to you at the bank.
Speaker 2: That would be fine.
Speaker 3: Or you can wire funds, but most of the time
Speaker 3: people don't know how to really verify a wire, so
Speaker 3: that's not necessarily great.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't do venmo. How much do you.
Speaker 3: Want for this car before grand? Four grand? How many
Speaker 3: miles on it?
Speaker 2: Five? And what's been done to it?
Speaker 13: It's got new breaks, fuel ejectors, spark plugs, belt and whatnot,
Speaker 13: free shape, it's been garage most of it's black.
Speaker 2: But does that have a time though a change?
Speaker 5: It's got the timing change okay, so.
Speaker 2: You don't have to change it, okay? And is it
Speaker 2: in good? Does it look good?
Speaker 13: Does it's a great condition?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 13: Russ and whatnot?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 13: Limits is in the interior, but overall it's in great shape.
Speaker 2: All right. So listen, if we're if you're going to
Speaker 2: sell this for four grand, you shouldn't have you shouldn't
Speaker 2: have a problem selling it for four grand. I mean no,
Speaker 2: I mean not really, So what what part of town
Speaker 2: are you in.
Speaker 13: Southeast Aurora?
Speaker 3: I mean that, can you know? Finding a car for
Speaker 3: under five grand nowadays is a miracle.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 3: But it's got high mileage, there's no doubt about it.
Speaker 3: And that's just a little that's just a little. Uh Wait,
Speaker 3: is that that's not a V eight?
Speaker 2: Is it?
Speaker 13: Oh?
Speaker 2: That's not bad engine, that's not bad. That's a V eight.
Speaker 2: What do you think? What do you think they're selling
Speaker 2: for similar ones?
Speaker 17: Oh?
Speaker 13: On a KBB, which is always a hit or miss.
Speaker 13: He's saying anywhere from three to five thousands.
Speaker 3: So well, man, I don't know what you're looking at,
Speaker 3: but I'm seeing them for way more than that.
Speaker 13: Oh wow, okay, I mean I'm seeing them.
Speaker 2: You know. I love cars dot Com.
Speaker 3: They're pretty accurate and they cars dot com keeps track
Speaker 3: of everything, and what they do is then they give
Speaker 3: you a gauge on whether it's a good a good
Speaker 3: deal or not.
Speaker 2: And yours is an extra screaming deal. Did you know that?
Speaker 2: Maybe you didn't know that, bro.
Speaker 13: No, it's good to know. I'll check out cars dot com.
Speaker 13: That's very helpful.
Speaker 2: Tom.
Speaker 3: No, you know what, Yeah, I think I think it's
Speaker 3: understand But listen, if somebody right now, you leave your number.
Speaker 3: If somebody right now listening wants a two thousand grand share,
Speaker 3: one hundred and eighty five thousand miles been maintained, and
Speaker 3: I'm looking. I'm not trying to sell it. I'm not
Speaker 3: going to give it any I'm not going to say
Speaker 3: it's good or bad. I will say this, as far
Speaker 3: as price goes, I don't know, man, that is very
Speaker 3: Is it the Grand Cherokee L or Grand Cherokee Plane?
Speaker 3: Jaron Caerry XC which one?
Speaker 13: It's the Laredo Edition, so not the limited, but the Laredo.
Speaker 2: I wonder what designation that is? Is that the L?
Speaker 2: Maybe I don't know Grand Cherokee and.
Speaker 13: Go ahead, Hey this is about twenty four years old,
Speaker 13: so well if they had that in the tooth style, Yeah,
Speaker 13: so it's just a Laredos Maybe it is the L.
Speaker 13: That's a good point.
Speaker 3: But I will say this, Look, you are asking way
Speaker 3: under the market. Okay, I think you're underestimating. Well, I
Speaker 3: think you're underestimating what the self were right now. Okay, again,
Speaker 3: I'm not telling you to raise the price. I'd love
Speaker 3: one of my listeners to get a great deal, but
Speaker 3: I think you're.
Speaker 13: There's there's an incentive out there for people who are
Speaker 13: a low income can trade in an old twelve year
Speaker 13: old or older car for an EV and get six
Speaker 13: thousand from the state. So you know, here's almost someone
Speaker 13: does it, right, they could get an extra.
Speaker 3: CA hold on if they get to EV credit. Don't
Speaker 3: they have to get it for what they actually for
Speaker 3: the EV though?
Speaker 2: Right? They can't. They can't take an EV credit and
Speaker 2: buy another car.
Speaker 13: No, no, they would take They would buy this jeep
Speaker 13: and then trade it in for an EV. So it's
Speaker 13: just a step into the EV market if you will.
Speaker 2: Oh, I never thought of that. Why don't you do that?
Speaker 13: I'm unfortunately not low income, so knock on wood, I'm
Speaker 13: very fortunate.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, you know I'm looking at some of these
Speaker 3: that are as low as yours. No, no, they're they're
Speaker 3: all higher, but they're they're only a little higher. And
Speaker 3: then I'm looking at some that are way higher. So
Speaker 3: I don't even know how they're pricing these damn things.
Speaker 3: It might just be on condition and is your is
Speaker 3: your condition? Are the seats all good?
Speaker 15: Oh?
Speaker 13: Yeah, they really are. The seats are good, and interiors
Speaker 13: in great shape and whatnot. It's been very well made.
Speaker 2: Any ding, I mean, any big dents or any bodywork needed.
Speaker 13: Nope, nope, nope. There's a couple of little baby Danco
Speaker 13: car doors, but nothing major. It's honestly in good condition.
Speaker 2: Okay, let me ask you something. Do you want to
Speaker 2: give out your number?
Speaker 13: Give it off the air if that's okay, interested.
Speaker 2: If anyone's interested, okay, hang on.
Speaker 3: Hey, you know, folks, it's not the screaming screening deal
Speaker 3: of the century, but it's definitely below market. Four grand
Speaker 3: for that, I mean, if it's if it's in good shape,
Speaker 3: have it checked out, people, don't, don't rely on me.
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Speaker 3: all three nine two zero sixteen twenty two Hi, Tom
Speaker 3: Martino here three O three seven one three talk seven
Speaker 3: one three eight two five five. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 3: Today is Deputy day Man. We've had nothing but deputies.
Speaker 3: We've been sparse a little on calls, but we've had
Speaker 3: a ton of texts and other topics. And I did
Speaker 3: not I did not finish the bad restaurant habits. Okay,
Speaker 3: so hold on, so I said, first, they complained about
Speaker 3: their dish, but they ate most of it, Their kids
Speaker 3: roam free, they debate menu prices with the staff, they
Speaker 3: stay past the closing hours. Another one, they snapped their fingers,
Speaker 3: we said, for servers. Or they bring food or drink outside, oh,
Speaker 3: from outside into the restaurant. I've never seen that all
Speaker 3: once in a while would bring Starbucks into like a
Speaker 3: breakfast place.
Speaker 2: But then I still order.
Speaker 3: They show up fifteen minutes late for a reservation, or
Speaker 3: they leave a mess on the table, such as spilled
Speaker 3: drinks and food crumbs, Well, come on, all right then,
Speaker 3: Or they occupy a table for an extended period of
Speaker 3: time during very busy hours and just basically milk it.
Speaker 2: And then the other one is.
Speaker 3: They flirt with the staff. That's obnoxious. Come on, Stephen,
Speaker 3: what's going on? Or is it Stephan Stephen? Hey, what's happening?
Speaker 6: Oh? Yes, sir, I foller claim back in May about
Speaker 6: the State Farmer about my roof.
Speaker 3: Okay, now let me ask you. First of all, do
Speaker 3: you go by Stefan, Stefan or Steven?
Speaker 6: Everybody calls me Steve.
Speaker 2: Okay, Steve, listen, you're calling about your roof? Was this
Speaker 2: for a hell damage?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 2: Okay? And is the room finished? What's the issue right now?
Speaker 6: No? No, no, the roof doesn't. I received the the
Speaker 6: roof first estimate nineteen thousand dollars, pictures and everything, and
Speaker 6: State Farm sent their ad gesture out on the twenty
Speaker 6: ninth of June. And then they send me the the
Speaker 6: check for eleven thousand dollars. I guess that's what it is,
Speaker 6: or a voucher or whatever.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, but then they're going to give you the
Speaker 2: rest when it's done, right, yeah, I guess?
Speaker 6: So yeah?
Speaker 3: Okay, so State Farm sent you eleven grand to get started.
Speaker 2: Now what what else happened?
Speaker 6: What is it? Their deductibles? Three thousand?
Speaker 2: Okay? Did you okay, did you pay the roof for anything?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 2: Good? So what's your question?
Speaker 6: Do I? I guess I should wait till they call back.
Speaker 2: I guess, did you did you sign with this roofer?
Speaker 6: Huh?
Speaker 2: Did you sign with the roofer? Sign a contract?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 6: Good, I haven't signed anything.
Speaker 2: Good, don't sign anything. Who is the roofer?
Speaker 6: I just got I just got the rest of it. Picture.
Speaker 2: Who is the roofer? Who's the roofer?
Speaker 6: Uh? I can't remember the name, but just stay farm.
Speaker 6: They don't work for safe firm, but they furnished the
Speaker 6: a A company to come out.
Speaker 3: Okay, Steven, please listen to me. Don't use that roofer.
Speaker 3: I'm going to automatically tell you that if State Farm
Speaker 3: Insurance recommended the roofer, do not use them.
Speaker 2: I can just say that.
Speaker 6: As a jet.
Speaker 5: What's that I said?
Speaker 6: I haven't yet.
Speaker 3: I will give you the name of a roofer, one
Speaker 3: reliable where you don't pay one penny, not one until
Speaker 3: the job's completely done.
Speaker 6: Has that Red Rocks Roofing?
Speaker 3: No? Well, no, they do solo. They do red Rock
Speaker 3: roof and so it's Excel Roofing. Take down this number.
Speaker 3: I'm serious, Okay, I don't want to see anybody ripped off.
Speaker 2: I want you to call these people.
Speaker 3: Okay, just please call them and tell them Tom told look,
Speaker 3: I don't get a dime for that. I want you
Speaker 3: to call them, but tell them I told you to
Speaker 3: call and it's three oh three seven six one sixty
Speaker 3: four hundred and you.
Speaker 2: Have you will I can.
Speaker 3: I know that if I send you to them, I
Speaker 3: don't have to worry about anything.
Speaker 2: They're not gonna take any money. They're not gonna take
Speaker 2: a penny. They're not gonna do anything. All they're gonna.
Speaker 3: Do is is do your roof the right way, and
Speaker 3: when it's done, they'll collect.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 6: I'm supposed to do some got to repair.
Speaker 3: Too, they'll do that too. I'm telling you, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: just tell you this once. If you use the insurance
Speaker 3: come but he's preferred roofer, you will be screwed like
Speaker 3: it or not.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you that straight up front.
Speaker 3: Your insurance company does not, especially State Farm, does not
Speaker 3: have your best interest at heart.
Speaker 6: I know that too extensive.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's another thing. When you're done with State
Speaker 3: Farm in this claim, you should do an insurance checkup.
Speaker 3: And I'm serious, you make sure you're not paying too much. Sure,
Speaker 3: that's all right, Compass. See you've listened enough. You know
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Speaker 3: but not all the time. Sometimes they can't beat State Farm.
Speaker 3: Sometimes they can. It depends on the situation. And that's
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Speaker 2: So I just feel that.
Speaker 3: That I could have saved this guy in big trouble
Speaker 3: because what happens with a preferred roofer.
Speaker 2: A preferred roofer is preferred for.
Speaker 3: A reason because they're not going to argue with State Farm.
Speaker 3: So if State Farm says we don't need to do this,
Speaker 3: don't do that, new flashing, don't do this, don't do that,
Speaker 3: then they'll say okay, because they want to stay preferred.
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