President Trump has inked a Trade Deal with the EU over the weekend. Alina Habba is still in office in NJ after getting fired by a panel of judges. Jon floated the idea of President Trump possibly giving out Tariff rebate checks to American's because of how much the USA is making with it. President Trump complimented Jon Decker on his question about the Rebate Checks. How are people dealing with car repairs nowadays? Ron Ananian explains how when you are looking to get your car maintained and repaired, sometimes the cheapest option may not be the best one.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Monday. Man, is it gonna be hot. It's
gonna be hot all week. And I wish I would
have known before I left home today how hot it
was going to be. Do you know how you get
outside and it's way too late to run back inside
and get changed, and then it is just oppressive outside.
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And I'm talking like three in the morning, it's already oppressive.
And I thought to myself, Oh, you know what, I
should have checked the forecast. And I'm dressed like it's September.
I am too, I think I because you don't always
check the forecast over the weekend, you know what I mean.
You want to know what it's gonna be Saturday and Sunday.
You don't think about Monday. And now you should have
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thought about Monday. I'm talking to myself here. You should
have thought about Monday because it's gonna have a heat
INEX near one hundred. The regular high with the without
the heat index is gonna without the humidity is going
to be ninety four Tomorrow. It's gonna be close to
one hundred. Man, we're gonna have we're hoping to race
agic do an extended forecast coming up. But you know,
(01:03):
just stay inside if you can. This is a great
This is a great excuse for remote work. See if
that works with your boss, say it's too hot.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Too hot, But at least you gave them fair warning
to dress appropriately.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I know, unlike me. I wish I wish I had
somebody on the radio would have told me to dress
right in the Big Three today, Well, what a big
achievement for the Trump administration. Days before the August first deadline,
President Trump strikes a trade deal with our biggest trade partner,
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the EU, the European Union. This is probably the biggest
deal ever reached in any capacity trade or beyond trade.
It is, let's a it's a giant deal with lots
of countries. Yeah, well the EU. There's you know, well
over a dozen countries that are involved. This is by
far the biggest trade deal. It might bring as much
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as three trillion dollars into the country. What euse Correspondent
John Decker is going to be with us at eight
thirty five to give us details on the deal and
tell us what deals might be next, because apparently there's
three or four still in the works to get done
before that or August first deadline. New Jersey US Attorney
(02:22):
Alena Hobba was fired by a panel of judges, right,
so why is she still in office and why does
she say she's not leaving.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I think anybody that's known me in this public sphere
for the last four years knows I'm not a coward
to a fight. So I have obviously been doing my job.
I do my job irrespective of who you are, what
you are, what your politics are.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
I'll tell you what. The fight's not going away. This
just started. So anyway, the Trump administration fired the woman
who the judges appointed to replace her, and then swore
Habba in again, this time as acting US Attorney, meaning
she has another two hundred and ten days before she
has to go through any nominating process. If she goes
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through a nominating process. New Jersey columnist Mike Kelly will
be here at seven oh five with more on the
fight for New Jersey's US attorney US Attorney's office. And
now Congress wants to talk to Julane Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's
sex trafficking conspirator, and.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
She is serving a twenty year sentence for child sex
trafficking and so her character is in some question. But
if she wants to come clean now, that would be
a great service to the country, and we'd like to
know every single bit of information that she has. I
certainly hope she's telling the truth.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
When asked if he was going to pardon Maxwell, he
responded first he got offended that he was even asked.
Donald Trump responded, I haven't even thought about it yet.
In Gaza, the UN is warning of a humanitarian crisis.
They say food is not getting to a starving population.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
It's almost impossible to put into words how terrible this is.
Situation is patients dying of malnutrition. My friends and colleagues
who I'm named for years, some of them I barely
recognized as they'd lost so much weight.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, we'll have Jordana Miller coming up live from Israel
at eight oh five. Benjamin net Yahoo came out and said,
anybody who's blaming Israel for this is lying. And of
course those ceasefire talks continue. We thought we were so close,
and yet there's a couple of sticking points. They just
can't get pasted. Anyway, Jordana is coming up at eight
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oh five, And congratulations to New York City mayoral candidate
Zorin Mamdani. He celebrated his marriage to a twenty seven
year old Rama Duaji, a twenty seven year old artist
and film animator, in a lavish three day ceremony over
the weekend in the Uganda city of Kampala. Now they
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got married back in February. Then they had another ceremony
a couple of months ago in Dubai with her parents.
Now this is the Mam Donni family celebration. And so
he's a socialist, right that wants to help the poor
and once to go after the rich. He hates the rich.
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He thinks they don't pay their fair share. Well, Mam
Donnie may be one of the richest socialists in the world.
Did you see the house that they live in. It
is It makes like the Hearst Castle run away in Shame.
It is an enormous place right on Lake Victoria. It's
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got to be worth millions, hundreds of millions. I mean,
it is an amazing place. And the whole area that
it's in, all the houses go for at least two
million dollars. And all these people were driving up. They
have showed the cars outside. They drive it up in
their Mercedes. They drived up in their Lamborghinis and their
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range rovers. It was all rich. It was the richest
socialists all getting together to laugh about him fooling New
York City.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
It.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Oh, by the way, the guy that's against the police, right,
he won social workers. He didn't have social workers guarding
his wedding. He had a couple of dozen masked Special
Forces style guards for security. They also had a phone
jamming system set up just in case, you know, anybody
tried to show anything live or snuck their phones in
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because the phones had to be confiscated. They had three
staffed security gates to get into this thing. So much
about this shows what a hypocrite this guy is. This
guy has lived rich and lavishly his whole life. Now
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we know who was paying for all this. His mommy,
the successful Ugandan director. And by the way, her parents
aren't doing too bad off either. They're Hindu, by the way,
an Indian. And as you watch this, as you see
the pictures of what was going on there, you understand
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what a hypocrite this guy is. It is amazing to
me that he's getting away with this. I'm just a
guy from the streets, and you know, I just think
we all need a fair shake, and I'm going to
take on the rich and the powerful, and everybody that's
supporting me is just like me. They're you know, they're
all just giving me ten hours or one hundred hours,
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whatever they can afford. And I'm not taking money from
any of those rich cats. Now. Mommy has been financing
his campaign all along. I think he's got a lot
of answering to do when he comes back because everything
he espouse to was shown as being exactly opposite of
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how he lives or how he lived, or what he
likes to go back to. So I mean, you can
understand now, I get it, I get it why all
of these people are reluctant to endorse him, the biggest
Democrats in the state reluctant to endorse him. It's funny.
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Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries were having a news conference
yesterday on the Capitol right, and they were asked about
several different things about the Epstein, and you know, they
were going off on that. All of a sudden a
reporter asked them about endorsing mom Donnie, and they answered
quickly and they left. And I want you to listen
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carefully because after Schumer gives his quick answer and then
gets away from there, gets away from the podium. Only
time he's ever run away from a microphone. Hakeem Jeffries
is next to him. He gives it one word answer
and then they both get out of there. I'll just
say I had a good talk with Donnie last week
and I look forward to meeting with him in New York. Same, same,
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thank you, everybody, same. Nobody wants to talk about this.
And poor Corey Booker was doing a remote from the
Capital on MSNBC and the last question they asked about
Mom Donnie and it's like an old three stooges. But
he was like a haman ahaman, a haamanahaman.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
I need help keeping track of New Jersey politics. Your
politics are even more complicated over there. I need a
flow chart people losing a Democratic primary and running it.
So I'm staying out of your city. I'm focusing on
my state. At the end of the day, I want
to see a great mayor for the for the world's
most important city next to Newark, New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
You ever ever heard him stammer like that. He didn't
expect that question at all. Democrats are trying, except for
you know, the crazy Democrats like AOC and Bernie Sanders,
the other socialists, the the regular Democrats, the ones that
want to win in the midterms, are staying as far
away from Mom Donnie as they can. Anyway, we'll talk
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more about the race coming up, but right now, a
Yankee great is installed in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
We'll tell you who it is and who he gave
credit to for his success. And also Curtis Leewa just
wrapped up the animal vote. That's all next, plus take
us to see the off Broadway show Rolling Thunder at
seven to twenty five. Stay with us. So John Decker
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had an interesting weeknd John Decker waw R White House
and Washington correspondent, host of the new podcast The White
House Briefing Room with John Decker, which of course can
be found on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Good Morning John, Hey, Good morning to you, Larry. I
did have an interesting weekend, and that was because of
a number of questions I asked the President on Friday
that made a ton of news and so as a result,
you know, I'm getting a lot of calls and speaking
to a lot of stations. One of the questions I
asked the President, making a lot of news Larry had
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to do with a suggestion that I made the President,
and that is, with the tens and tens of billions
of dollars of tariff revenue coming into the US treasury,
had the President ever thought about providing a tariff rebate
check to American taxpayers? And you, Larry could see the
light bulb above his head when I post that question
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to the President. He loved the idea. And in fact,
Caroline levi Att, the White House Press Secretary, came up
to me after I asked that question and she said,
that's a brilliant idea. We're doing it, and so we'll
see whether indeed that becomes administration policy.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Wow, you are quickly becoming the president's pet. He really
does like you. You might like the teacher's pet. He
really does like you a lot. As a matter of fact,
I was getting all these notifications about you over the weekend,
and it was because of a back and forth you
had with the President. I'm going to play right now
that it's hard to heal her, but try to make
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it out and then we'll explain what happened. I went
to Penn and working, so I'm not do you understand, Oh,
you did go you want to get.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
I mean, you're a smarter guy than I even thought.
Speaker 7 (12:17):
And I know you're smart.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
You're a smarter guy than I even thought. And I
know you're smart. And that's because you told him you
went to Penn and you went to Wharton, which is
where he went. And so that's of course why he
thinks you're so smart. Did things you said you got
a few questions in? Was that before or after? You
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got a few questions in?
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Yeah, that was the first question. So I asked Larry
the question to the president is he concerned about the
decline and the value of the US dollar? And he
was explaining to me, Larry, why he believes a weaker dollar.
He said, is in America's best national interest. And then
he said to me, do you understand? And I said, yes,
mister president, I went to Wharton just like you.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Oh what a suck up?
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Smart?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
It was smart, it was smart.
Speaker 8 (13:10):
I'm sure the other reporters are like the other correspondents
are like rolling their eyes, Oh great, great, yeah, yeah,
But I'll tell you what, whatever works, he's gonna he's
definitely gonna always remember you now, just from.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
That moment, like you're gonna remember him, that's right, but
great idea. So what were your other questions?
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Well, I asked the President the two questions that we
just referenced, and then in addition to that, uh, you
know that Tulci Gabbert has sent to the Department of
Justice essentially a recommendation for charges being brought against former
President Barack Obama other aids to Barack Obama related to
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the Russia investigation. And I asked the President about the
Supreme Court last year weighing in on presidential immunity and
how he believes that may impact potential charges against Barack Obama,
and he gave me a very honest answer. He said,
this provides immunity for Barack Obama. He said that, and
he said he said to me as well that Barack
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Obama owed me that those were his words as it
relates to that Supreme Court decision handed down July of
twenty twenty four, So that immunity decision is not absolute immunity,
but it does provide immunity for official acts. And the
President acknowledging that Barack Obama will not go to jail,
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Barack Obama will not be charged with any aspect of
what it is that the DOJ will be investigating.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Let's talk about a couple of the big stories. By
the way, the Epstein thing's not going away, and I
know the President is frustrated by it, but it's not
going away. And it sounds like most of the Republicans
have now accepted the fact that Congress is going to
look at this as well.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Well, that's right. That's what members of Congress who are
in leadership have said, is that when Congress comes back
from its August recess in September, this will be on
the agenda. And in fact, as you know, late last week,
the House oversyche Committee voting to subpoena those Department of
Justice documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. So that
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will be something that the House Oversite Committee, we know
for sure, is going to look into.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Yeah, I'm getting now all of these bulletins. Is Donald
Trump speaking this morning? Because apparently he has said yeah, okay,
and then you heard the news that he said he's
getting fed up with Russia and he's not going to
give them their fifty days. He's going to shorten that.
It seems to me, it seems to me that he's
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always been losing patients with Putin, and he's come out.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
All said, And that goes back to a question that
I asked the President that angered him. Actually, just about
a week or so ago, I asked the President, why
are you giving fifty days to Vladimir Putin to prosecute
his war against Ukraine. He didn't like that question, But
now I think, you know, you see the results of
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a lot of criticism being leveled against that decision to
give an additional fifty days to President Putin in Russia,
and you know that fifty days would have taken us
up to September the second Larry. Now, obviously the President's
going to make a decision as it relates to Russia
a lot sooner than that.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Right, But we have no idea how soon, and we
have no idea what happens next. That's the more important question.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
So it runs out, then what do you do exactly exactly, Well,
he's spoken about this idea of at the end of
fifty days, if there's no peace deal, applying stiffer sanctions
to Russia, one hundred percent trade tariffs on Russia as
well as secondary tariffs, meaning any country that purchases Russia
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or will would also face those one hundred percent tariffs.
And we know some of those countries quite well. India, Brazil, China,
those countries would be impacted if the President goes ahead
and implements that threat that he had made just about
a week and a half ago.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Do all of his policies date back to one of
your questions, because it seems like that, Yes, yes, yes,
you feeling yourself right now and I kind of understand it.
I get it. Congratulations to you, by the way.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Yeah, it's an interesting time that we live in. Right.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Here's another bolton that just came across. Trump says his
priority is to ensure gosins are getting fed. He doesn't
go into any details on that, but I'm sure he's not.
He's not happy with Benjamin net Yahoo or what's happening
in Ghazo, or the lack of a ceasefire.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
Well, he's not, and with good reason. You know, the
President has pushed for a ceasefire between Israel and Amas
pretty much from the day he was sworn in in January,
and obviously he's not happy also with the fact that
you know, there are Palestinians living in Gaza that are
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not getting humanitarian assistants are not getting food, medicine, water
on a regular basis, and the President has expressed that frustration,
not only publicly, more importantly, he's expressed that frustration to
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Real quick on these tariffs. That that was a big
signing over the weekend in Scotland with the EU. Now
we have a few days before August first, the President
said something about three or four other countries that he's
talking to and maybe close. Do we know what those
countries are?
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Well, you know, if I had a guess, i'd guessed
one of them is South Korea. He still hasn't struck
a trade deal with South Korea. That's one of the
few trade agreements that he reached in his first term
in office. And I know that those conversations have been
moving along quite well. So we'll have to wait and see.
One other thing I asked the President. Did we touch
upon the trade tariff rebate check idea? That was a
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question that I posed to the President on Friday. I
asked the President, with the tens and tens of billions
of dollars of tariff revenue coming into the country, had
he ever given thought to providing a rebate check to
American taxpayers. And you could see Larry the light bulb
going off over his head when I proposed that idea.
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He likes it a lot, And in fact, the White
House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt said to me afterwards, that's
a brilliant idea. We're doing it. I'm talking to Steven Miller,
the White House Deputy chief of staff, about putting that
in motion. And also on Friday, after the President gave
that answer to my question, Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri,
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a Republican from Missouri, said he's going to introduce legislation
along those lines when this then it comes back from
its August recess in September. So that's another example just
my policy ideas by this administration. Pretty remarkable.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Oh, we're gonna lose you. You're gonna be part of the
policy team pretty soon.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
No, no, sir, you wouldn't take that job.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
You wouldn't take the job. Oh, come, all right, let's
see what happens when it's offered.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
All right.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
John Decker W R. White House in Washington correspondent. He'll
be back with us to tomorrow at seven oh five.
Thanks a lot, John, congratulations. That's really wonderful. So we've
all been here, right, especially with the cost of repairing
your car, we all look online to see if we
can find a part, maybe do it yourself. Does that
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put your safety at risk? We asked the Car Doctor
Ron and Nanian. Ron, you know what I have been here,
I've been on I've been at this point, not not
anything serious. But I had to replace some hubcaps. So
I went online. I looked for some hubcaps that would
fit my car, and I found four of them, and
they sent them to me. They were the cheapest things
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I ever got in my life. They didn't fit my car.
I just completely wasted my money. Now, I just can't
imagine if it was something serious. By the way, Ronananian
is the host of The Car Doctor, which is available
weekly on the iHeartRadio app, and owner of R Automotive
in Waldwick, New Jersey. Good morning to you, and I
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would imagine that the example I just gave you you've heard
many times before.
Speaker 7 (21:31):
I've heard many times. Good morning, Larry, Good morning to everybody,
and Larry. Even hubcaps can be a safety thing, right,
they can be a damaging thing. You get them to
go on and if by some chance those cheaper hubcaps
you bought online which sort of looked the same, they
stay on the wheel, and then you go down the
road and one pothole and the hubcap comes off and
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it goes flying. Maybe it hits your car, maybe it
hits somebody else's car. It causes damage in any event, aggravating. Right,
as you said, it's a waste of time. But expand that.
Now you go buy break parts online. Let's go right
to the meat and potatoes of this, and you think
it's the brand that they say it is, and you
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get a box that looks like the brand that's supposed
to be, and then you have nothing but noise problems
or stopping problems, and you find out that perhaps it's
a copycat or a counterfeit. And that's probably the bigger
problem buying parts online today. Yes the parts are cheaper,
and yes the parts are deceiving, but there's a lot
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to be said for going to your local mechanic, your guy.
Everybody has a guy, right, yeah, you know, going to
your guy and saying, hey, Ron, you know I need
brakes on my car because I know what I know
how to make the salad, I know what led us
to use. I know what tomatoes to use, I know
how to make that salad because I've done it before.
Buying online it's a gamble, it really is. There are
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some bargains to be had which you've really got to
be careful of what you picked.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Yeah, and that's only part of the equation. Right, So
now you buy something online, what are you going to
do with it? You're going to try to put it
on yourself. I mean it's not only dangerous because it
might be a cheap inferior part, but trying to do
your own work is even more dangerous.
Speaker 7 (23:19):
You know, go back to I'll go back to this
list weekend's show, right, Larry. When we did the broadcast
show on Saturday, we had a sixteen Ford Fusion and
one of the problems that car had was a possible turbocharger.
Turbocharger is a big ticket item, probably about three grand
for the part. Now you go out and you save
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a few bucks, you go find it online and there's
other sources other than maybe buying it from Ford. You're
going to buy a cheaper aftermarket quote unquote turbocharger set up.
Maybe it's half the price. You've got to get to it,
you've got to put it on. Turbochargers can be complicated
and difficult to replace because of their low Sometimes studs
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that mount the turbo have heat cycles, so to speak,
and you need special drill bits to drill things. And
so you can buy the part, you still got to
find somebody to put it on. And most mechanics understand
the liability of you know, hey, you know, Ron put
this turbo on for me. Ron put these brakes on
for me. My standard expression is I like living in
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the house I'm living in. So you know, when something happens,
I don't want to be standing in front of the
judge and the judge is going to tell me Ron,
you're the professional. You know better than to put on
parts for somebody else because of the liability factor.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
But you understand why people do this, right. You understand
that there is that they're fearful of how much it's
going to cost, and how do you deal with that.
Speaker 7 (24:46):
You try and gain their trust, You try and explain
the ups and the downs. You know, Auto repair. Ort
to repair to me, Larry is like dating, you know,
it really is. It's it's just you've got to establish
a relationship. You've got to convince them that you know
what you're doing is in their best interest, even though
at first it may seem expensive. And you've got to
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educate people all the time. You've always got to be
teaching people. Here's why we do what we do, and
here's why it's so complicated, and maybe you want to
let us do that. Probably the best thing you can do.
And it's back to that dating thing. Let them do
some of their own repairs, let them go date somebody else.
They figure it out real quick. Either the grass isn't
greener or the grass is greener. It's one or the other.
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And it makes everybody's life a lot easier.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
So you don't think, once you have a guy that
you trust, you don't think it's still a good idea
to maybe get two estimates.
Speaker 7 (25:39):
No, why.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Well, because you might be able to get it done
cheaper somewhere else.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
But is cheaper always the answer if you've got a
guy you trust, Larry, let me tell you something. There's
always somebody cheaper to do an order repair job. Always,
there's always somebody that's going to be less expensive. Are
they doing it the same way? Are they giving you
the same quality? Do you a do you have a
restaurant that you go to Larry that you like the
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great take sure and are they kind of expensive?
Speaker 5 (26:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (26:12):
Moderate, Yeah, Why do you keep going back? Why don't
you try and find a cheaper steakhoffs?
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Because I know the owner. That's the whole reason.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
It doesn't give you a digestion, right yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
And also, but you're right, getting back to your personal relationship,
it's because I know somebody there. That's exactly why I go.
It's good too. I mean, I wouldn't go back if
it wasn't good, but I know.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
Somebody right right, it's it's and you've got a guy
to talk to. And buying parts online. Going back to
that buying those parts online, Let's say you get the parts.
Let's say you're able to put them in, or you
find somebody willing to put them in, and then three
months later that part goes bad. You get to have
your mechanic take the part off, you get to send
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that part away, buy another part, maybe it's under warranty,
maybe it's not, and then you get the pay your
mechanical all over again to put the same part in
because there's no warranty on the part. There's no warranty
on the labor. He's not guaranteeing anything. He can't. It's
not his part. He doesn't have a liability for it anymore.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
I guess what's just safe. What's interesting is you you
talked about having a social relationship as being the relationship
between a customer and either a mechanic or somebody that
owns the shop. Like you do that you go into it.
It's when you first go in that's when it can
be that when that's when there's this trust. That's when
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you have to build trust. And how does that work?
I mean, how do you know how to trust someone
if it's your first time there?
Speaker 7 (27:42):
Start with something simple? I think again, it is like dating.
It really is. Where'd you go on your first date, Larry?
You went someplace simple and basic, right and got to
know each other?
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (27:53):
Absolutely, yep, same thing.
Speaker 7 (27:56):
Bring him an oil change. See how they do on
an oil change. Don't judge them on the price of
the oil change. Judge them on the quality of the service.
Look at the environment. Sit there, ask for a weight
oil change. People love to sit in my shop and
watch us do an oil change, and not that they
get to see us so much because they're in the
waiting room off to the side, but they experience people
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walking in and walking out smiling and happy. They get
the energy of the place right there's a certain vibe
and I think that goes a long way because they
realize that, you know, maybe they found somebody that can
keep them safe on the road. And I always tell everybody,
don't judge me by one repair. Judge me after a
year when you realize I didn't have to go back
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three times for something. And that's how you build trust,
and you start with the basics every time.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Yeah, this can be emotional, can it. I mean when
you're dealing with somebody, and especially when it's going to
be expensive, they can get emotional.
Speaker 7 (28:51):
Yep, it get it can get it can become emotional.
But I think it also comes down to Larry, you
bring me your car, I hold your life in my hands.
We had a young girl in here Friday from Philadelphia.
Her father's a regular customer who's been here time and
time again. The daughter came up from Philly. She's been
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getting the car serviced in Philly. It's a twelve year
old Honda and it had a ball tire on it,
I mean balled dos a billiard ball as they say, right,
she had one bad tire on the car. The right
front tire had cracks in the tread. The left front
tire had where not as bad. I mean, this kid's
driving two and a half hours up the turnpike on
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bad tires, but she's getting the car service regularly. Who's
taking care of that, right, you know? And that's how
problems happen. So you've got to find somebody that's going
to explain it to you. I always tell everybody it
may not be what you want to hear, but it's
what you need to know. And that's how you build
trust for somebody that's looking to get work done and
be safe. And that's the bottom line. You got to
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be safe in a car. It's a two ton missile
travel in sixty miles an hour.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Well said, if you're near Waldwick, New Jersey, the place
to go would be r A Automotive where Ron and
Anian works. You can deal with him. He's also the
host of the Car Doctor Ron Good to talk to
you
Speaker 7 (30:08):
You too, Larry be Well,
Welcome to Monday. Man, is it gonna be hot. It's
gonna be hot all week. And I wish I would
have known before I left home today how hot it
was going to be. Do you know how you get
outside and it's way too late to run back inside
and get changed, and then it is just oppressive outside.
(00:20):
And I'm talking like three in the morning, it's already oppressive.
And I thought to myself, Oh, you know what, I
should have checked the forecast. And I'm dressed like it's September.
I am too, I think I because you don't always
check the forecast over the weekend, you know what I mean.
You want to know what it's gonna be Saturday and Sunday.
You don't think about Monday. And now you should have
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thought about Monday. I'm talking to myself here. You should
have thought about Monday because it's gonna have a heat
INEX near one hundred. The regular high with the without
the heat index is gonna without the humidity is going
to be ninety four Tomorrow. It's gonna be close to
one hundred. Man, we're gonna have we're hoping to race
agic do an extended forecast coming up. But you know,
(01:03):
just stay inside if you can. This is a great
This is a great excuse for remote work. See if
that works with your boss, say it's too hot.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Too hot, But at least you gave them fair warning
to dress appropriately.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I know, unlike me. I wish I wish I had
somebody on the radio would have told me to dress
right in the Big Three today, Well, what a big
achievement for the Trump administration. Days before the August first deadline,
President Trump strikes a trade deal with our biggest trade partner,
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the EU, the European Union. This is probably the biggest
deal ever reached in any capacity trade or beyond trade.
It is, let's a it's a giant deal with lots
of countries. Yeah, well the EU. There's you know, well
over a dozen countries that are involved. This is by
far the biggest trade deal. It might bring as much
(02:00):
as three trillion dollars into the country. What euse Correspondent
John Decker is going to be with us at eight
thirty five to give us details on the deal and
tell us what deals might be next, because apparently there's
three or four still in the works to get done
before that or August first deadline. New Jersey US Attorney
(02:22):
Alena Hobba was fired by a panel of judges, right,
so why is she still in office and why does
she say she's not leaving.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I think anybody that's known me in this public sphere
for the last four years knows I'm not a coward
to a fight. So I have obviously been doing my job.
I do my job irrespective of who you are, what
you are, what your politics are.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
I'll tell you what. The fight's not going away. This
just started. So anyway, the Trump administration fired the woman
who the judges appointed to replace her, and then swore
Habba in again, this time as acting US Attorney, meaning
she has another two hundred and ten days before she
has to go through any nominating process. If she goes
(03:04):
through a nominating process. New Jersey columnist Mike Kelly will
be here at seven oh five with more on the
fight for New Jersey's US attorney US Attorney's office. And
now Congress wants to talk to Julane Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's
sex trafficking conspirator, and.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
She is serving a twenty year sentence for child sex
trafficking and so her character is in some question. But
if she wants to come clean now, that would be
a great service to the country, and we'd like to
know every single bit of information that she has. I
certainly hope she's telling the truth.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
When asked if he was going to pardon Maxwell, he
responded first he got offended that he was even asked.
Donald Trump responded, I haven't even thought about it yet.
In Gaza, the UN is warning of a humanitarian crisis.
They say food is not getting to a starving population.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
It's almost impossible to put into words how terrible this is.
Situation is patients dying of malnutrition. My friends and colleagues
who I'm named for years, some of them I barely
recognized as they'd lost so much weight.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, we'll have Jordana Miller coming up live from Israel
at eight oh five. Benjamin net Yahoo came out and said,
anybody who's blaming Israel for this is lying. And of
course those ceasefire talks continue. We thought we were so close,
and yet there's a couple of sticking points. They just
can't get pasted. Anyway, Jordana is coming up at eight
(04:30):
oh five, And congratulations to New York City mayoral candidate
Zorin Mamdani. He celebrated his marriage to a twenty seven
year old Rama Duaji, a twenty seven year old artist
and film animator, in a lavish three day ceremony over
the weekend in the Uganda city of Kampala. Now they
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got married back in February. Then they had another ceremony
a couple of months ago in Dubai with her parents.
Now this is the Mam Donni family celebration. And so
he's a socialist, right that wants to help the poor
and once to go after the rich. He hates the rich.
(05:15):
He thinks they don't pay their fair share. Well, Mam
Donnie may be one of the richest socialists in the world.
Did you see the house that they live in. It
is It makes like the Hearst Castle run away in Shame.
It is an enormous place right on Lake Victoria. It's
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got to be worth millions, hundreds of millions. I mean,
it is an amazing place. And the whole area that
it's in, all the houses go for at least two
million dollars. And all these people were driving up. They
have showed the cars outside. They drive it up in
their Mercedes. They drived up in their Lamborghinis and their
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range rovers. It was all rich. It was the richest
socialists all getting together to laugh about him fooling New
York City.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
It.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Oh, by the way, the guy that's against the police, right,
he won social workers. He didn't have social workers guarding
his wedding. He had a couple of dozen masked Special
Forces style guards for security. They also had a phone
jamming system set up just in case, you know, anybody
tried to show anything live or snuck their phones in
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because the phones had to be confiscated. They had three
staffed security gates to get into this thing. So much
about this shows what a hypocrite this guy is. This
guy has lived rich and lavishly his whole life. Now
(06:57):
we know who was paying for all this. His mommy,
the successful Ugandan director. And by the way, her parents
aren't doing too bad off either. They're Hindu, by the way,
an Indian. And as you watch this, as you see
the pictures of what was going on there, you understand
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what a hypocrite this guy is. It is amazing to
me that he's getting away with this. I'm just a
guy from the streets, and you know, I just think
we all need a fair shake, and I'm going to
take on the rich and the powerful, and everybody that's
supporting me is just like me. They're you know, they're
all just giving me ten hours or one hundred hours,
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whatever they can afford. And I'm not taking money from
any of those rich cats. Now. Mommy has been financing
his campaign all along. I think he's got a lot
of answering to do when he comes back because everything
he espouse to was shown as being exactly opposite of
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how he lives or how he lived, or what he
likes to go back to. So I mean, you can
understand now, I get it, I get it why all
of these people are reluctant to endorse him, the biggest
Democrats in the state reluctant to endorse him. It's funny.
(08:22):
Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries were having a news conference
yesterday on the Capitol right, and they were asked about
several different things about the Epstein, and you know, they
were going off on that. All of a sudden a
reporter asked them about endorsing mom Donnie, and they answered
quickly and they left. And I want you to listen
(08:43):
carefully because after Schumer gives his quick answer and then
gets away from there, gets away from the podium. Only
time he's ever run away from a microphone. Hakeem Jeffries
is next to him. He gives it one word answer
and then they both get out of there. I'll just
say I had a good talk with Donnie last week
and I look forward to meeting with him in New York. Same, same,
(09:05):
thank you, everybody, same. Nobody wants to talk about this.
And poor Corey Booker was doing a remote from the
Capital on MSNBC and the last question they asked about
Mom Donnie and it's like an old three stooges. But
he was like a haman ahaman, a haamanahaman.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
I need help keeping track of New Jersey politics. Your
politics are even more complicated over there. I need a
flow chart people losing a Democratic primary and running it.
So I'm staying out of your city. I'm focusing on
my state. At the end of the day, I want
to see a great mayor for the for the world's
most important city next to Newark, New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
You ever ever heard him stammer like that. He didn't
expect that question at all. Democrats are trying, except for
you know, the crazy Democrats like AOC and Bernie Sanders,
the other socialists, the the regular Democrats, the ones that
want to win in the midterms, are staying as far
away from Mom Donnie as they can. Anyway, we'll talk
(10:12):
more about the race coming up, but right now, a
Yankee great is installed in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
We'll tell you who it is and who he gave
credit to for his success. And also Curtis Leewa just
wrapped up the animal vote. That's all next, plus take
us to see the off Broadway show Rolling Thunder at
seven to twenty five. Stay with us. So John Decker
(10:34):
had an interesting weeknd John Decker waw R White House
and Washington correspondent, host of the new podcast The White
House Briefing Room with John Decker, which of course can
be found on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Good Morning John, Hey, Good morning to you, Larry. I
did have an interesting weekend, and that was because of
a number of questions I asked the President on Friday
that made a ton of news and so as a result,
you know, I'm getting a lot of calls and speaking
to a lot of stations. One of the questions I
asked the President, making a lot of news Larry had
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to do with a suggestion that I made the President,
and that is, with the tens and tens of billions
of dollars of tariff revenue coming into the US treasury,
had the President ever thought about providing a tariff rebate
check to American taxpayers? And you, Larry could see the
light bulb above his head when I post that question
(11:30):
to the President. He loved the idea. And in fact,
Caroline levi Att, the White House Press Secretary, came up
to me after I asked that question and she said,
that's a brilliant idea. We're doing it, and so we'll
see whether indeed that becomes administration policy.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Wow, you are quickly becoming the president's pet. He really
does like you. You might like the teacher's pet. He
really does like you a lot. As a matter of fact,
I was getting all these notifications about you over the weekend,
and it was because of a back and forth you
had with the President. I'm going to play right now
that it's hard to heal her, but try to make
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it out and then we'll explain what happened. I went
to Penn and working, so I'm not do you understand, Oh,
you did go you want to get.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
I mean, you're a smarter guy than I even thought.
Speaker 7 (12:17):
And I know you're smart.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
You're a smarter guy than I even thought. And I
know you're smart. And that's because you told him you
went to Penn and you went to Wharton, which is
where he went. And so that's of course why he
thinks you're so smart. Did things you said you got
a few questions in? Was that before or after? You
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got a few questions in?
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Yeah, that was the first question. So I asked Larry
the question to the president is he concerned about the
decline and the value of the US dollar? And he
was explaining to me, Larry, why he believes a weaker dollar.
He said, is in America's best national interest. And then
he said to me, do you understand? And I said, yes,
mister president, I went to Wharton just like you.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Oh what a suck up?
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Smart?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
It was smart, it was smart.
Speaker 8 (13:10):
I'm sure the other reporters are like the other correspondents
are like rolling their eyes, Oh great, great, yeah, yeah,
But I'll tell you what, whatever works, he's gonna he's
definitely gonna always remember you now, just from.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
That moment, like you're gonna remember him, that's right, but
great idea. So what were your other questions?
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Well, I asked the President the two questions that we
just referenced, and then in addition to that, uh, you
know that Tulci Gabbert has sent to the Department of
Justice essentially a recommendation for charges being brought against former
President Barack Obama other aids to Barack Obama related to
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the Russia investigation. And I asked the President about the
Supreme Court last year weighing in on presidential immunity and
how he believes that may impact potential charges against Barack Obama,
and he gave me a very honest answer. He said,
this provides immunity for Barack Obama. He said that, and
he said he said to me as well that Barack
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Obama owed me that those were his words as it
relates to that Supreme Court decision handed down July of
twenty twenty four, So that immunity decision is not absolute immunity,
but it does provide immunity for official acts. And the
President acknowledging that Barack Obama will not go to jail,
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Barack Obama will not be charged with any aspect of
what it is that the DOJ will be investigating.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Let's talk about a couple of the big stories. By
the way, the Epstein thing's not going away, and I
know the President is frustrated by it, but it's not
going away. And it sounds like most of the Republicans
have now accepted the fact that Congress is going to
look at this as well.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Well, that's right. That's what members of Congress who are
in leadership have said, is that when Congress comes back
from its August recess in September, this will be on
the agenda. And in fact, as you know, late last week,
the House oversyche Committee voting to subpoena those Department of
Justice documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. So that
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will be something that the House Oversite Committee, we know
for sure, is going to look into.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Yeah, I'm getting now all of these bulletins. Is Donald
Trump speaking this morning? Because apparently he has said yeah, okay,
and then you heard the news that he said he's
getting fed up with Russia and he's not going to
give them their fifty days. He's going to shorten that.
It seems to me, it seems to me that he's
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always been losing patients with Putin, and he's come out.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
All said, And that goes back to a question that
I asked the President that angered him. Actually, just about
a week or so ago, I asked the President, why
are you giving fifty days to Vladimir Putin to prosecute
his war against Ukraine. He didn't like that question, But
now I think, you know, you see the results of
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a lot of criticism being leveled against that decision to
give an additional fifty days to President Putin in Russia,
and you know that fifty days would have taken us
up to September the second Larry. Now, obviously the President's
going to make a decision as it relates to Russia
a lot sooner than that.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Right, But we have no idea how soon, and we
have no idea what happens next. That's the more important question.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
So it runs out, then what do you do exactly exactly, Well,
he's spoken about this idea of at the end of
fifty days, if there's no peace deal, applying stiffer sanctions
to Russia, one hundred percent trade tariffs on Russia as
well as secondary tariffs, meaning any country that purchases Russia
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or will would also face those one hundred percent tariffs.
And we know some of those countries quite well. India, Brazil, China,
those countries would be impacted if the President goes ahead
and implements that threat that he had made just about
a week and a half ago.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Do all of his policies date back to one of
your questions, because it seems like that, Yes, yes, yes,
you feeling yourself right now and I kind of understand it.
I get it. Congratulations to you, by the way.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Yeah, it's an interesting time that we live in. Right.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Here's another bolton that just came across. Trump says his
priority is to ensure gosins are getting fed. He doesn't
go into any details on that, but I'm sure he's not.
He's not happy with Benjamin net Yahoo or what's happening
in Ghazo, or the lack of a ceasefire.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
Well, he's not, and with good reason. You know, the
President has pushed for a ceasefire between Israel and Amas
pretty much from the day he was sworn in in January,
and obviously he's not happy also with the fact that
you know, there are Palestinians living in Gaza that are
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not getting humanitarian assistants are not getting food, medicine, water
on a regular basis, and the President has expressed that frustration,
not only publicly, more importantly, he's expressed that frustration to
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Real quick on these tariffs. That that was a big
signing over the weekend in Scotland with the EU. Now
we have a few days before August first, the President
said something about three or four other countries that he's
talking to and maybe close. Do we know what those
countries are?
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Well, you know, if I had a guess, i'd guessed
one of them is South Korea. He still hasn't struck
a trade deal with South Korea. That's one of the
few trade agreements that he reached in his first term
in office. And I know that those conversations have been
moving along quite well. So we'll have to wait and see.
One other thing I asked the President. Did we touch
upon the trade tariff rebate check idea? That was a
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question that I posed to the President on Friday. I
asked the President, with the tens and tens of billions
of dollars of tariff revenue coming into the country, had
he ever given thought to providing a rebate check to
American taxpayers. And you could see Larry the light bulb
going off over his head when I proposed that idea.
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He likes it a lot, And in fact, the White
House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt said to me afterwards, that's
a brilliant idea. We're doing it. I'm talking to Steven Miller,
the White House Deputy chief of staff, about putting that
in motion. And also on Friday, after the President gave
that answer to my question, Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri,
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a Republican from Missouri, said he's going to introduce legislation
along those lines when this then it comes back from
its August recess in September. So that's another example just
my policy ideas by this administration. Pretty remarkable.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Oh, we're gonna lose you. You're gonna be part of the
policy team pretty soon.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
No, no, sir, you wouldn't take that job.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
You wouldn't take the job. Oh, come, all right, let's
see what happens when it's offered.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
All right.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
John Decker W R. White House in Washington correspondent. He'll
be back with us to tomorrow at seven oh five.
Thanks a lot, John, congratulations. That's really wonderful. So we've
all been here, right, especially with the cost of repairing
your car, we all look online to see if we
can find a part, maybe do it yourself. Does that
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put your safety at risk? We asked the Car Doctor
Ron and Nanian. Ron, you know what I have been here,
I've been on I've been at this point, not not
anything serious. But I had to replace some hubcaps. So
I went online. I looked for some hubcaps that would
fit my car, and I found four of them, and
they sent them to me. They were the cheapest things
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I ever got in my life. They didn't fit my car.
I just completely wasted my money. Now, I just can't
imagine if it was something serious. By the way, Ronananian
is the host of The Car Doctor, which is available
weekly on the iHeartRadio app, and owner of R Automotive
in Waldwick, New Jersey. Good morning to you, and I
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would imagine that the example I just gave you you've heard
many times before.
Speaker 7 (21:31):
I've heard many times. Good morning, Larry, Good morning to everybody,
and Larry. Even hubcaps can be a safety thing, right,
they can be a damaging thing. You get them to
go on and if by some chance those cheaper hubcaps
you bought online which sort of looked the same, they
stay on the wheel, and then you go down the
road and one pothole and the hubcap comes off and
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it goes flying. Maybe it hits your car, maybe it
hits somebody else's car. It causes damage in any event, aggravating. Right,
as you said, it's a waste of time. But expand that.
Now you go buy break parts online. Let's go right
to the meat and potatoes of this, and you think
it's the brand that they say it is, and you
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get a box that looks like the brand that's supposed
to be, and then you have nothing but noise problems
or stopping problems, and you find out that perhaps it's
a copycat or a counterfeit. And that's probably the bigger
problem buying parts online today. Yes the parts are cheaper,
and yes the parts are deceiving, but there's a lot
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to be said for going to your local mechanic, your guy.
Everybody has a guy, right, yeah, you know, going to
your guy and saying, hey, Ron, you know I need
brakes on my car because I know what I know
how to make the salad, I know what led us
to use. I know what tomatoes to use, I know
how to make that salad because I've done it before.
Buying online it's a gamble, it really is. There are
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some bargains to be had which you've really got to
be careful of what you picked.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Yeah, and that's only part of the equation. Right, So
now you buy something online, what are you going to
do with it? You're going to try to put it
on yourself. I mean it's not only dangerous because it
might be a cheap inferior part, but trying to do
your own work is even more dangerous.
Speaker 7 (23:19):
You know, go back to I'll go back to this
list weekend's show, right, Larry. When we did the broadcast
show on Saturday, we had a sixteen Ford Fusion and
one of the problems that car had was a possible turbocharger.
Turbocharger is a big ticket item, probably about three grand
for the part. Now you go out and you save
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a few bucks, you go find it online and there's
other sources other than maybe buying it from Ford. You're
going to buy a cheaper aftermarket quote unquote turbocharger set up.
Maybe it's half the price. You've got to get to it,
you've got to put it on. Turbochargers can be complicated
and difficult to replace because of their low Sometimes studs
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that mount the turbo have heat cycles, so to speak,
and you need special drill bits to drill things. And
so you can buy the part, you still got to
find somebody to put it on. And most mechanics understand
the liability of you know, hey, you know, Ron put
this turbo on for me. Ron put these brakes on
for me. My standard expression is I like living in
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the house I'm living in. So you know, when something happens,
I don't want to be standing in front of the
judge and the judge is going to tell me Ron,
you're the professional. You know better than to put on
parts for somebody else because of the liability factor.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
But you understand why people do this, right. You understand
that there is that they're fearful of how much it's
going to cost, and how do you deal with that.
Speaker 7 (24:46):
You try and gain their trust, You try and explain
the ups and the downs. You know, Auto repair. Ort
to repair to me, Larry is like dating, you know,
it really is. It's it's just you've got to establish
a relationship. You've got to convince them that you know
what you're doing is in their best interest, even though
at first it may seem expensive. And you've got to
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educate people all the time. You've always got to be
teaching people. Here's why we do what we do, and
here's why it's so complicated, and maybe you want to
let us do that. Probably the best thing you can do.
And it's back to that dating thing. Let them do
some of their own repairs, let them go date somebody else.
They figure it out real quick. Either the grass isn't
greener or the grass is greener. It's one or the other.
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And it makes everybody's life a lot easier.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
So you don't think, once you have a guy that
you trust, you don't think it's still a good idea
to maybe get two estimates.
Speaker 7 (25:39):
No, why.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Well, because you might be able to get it done
cheaper somewhere else.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
But is cheaper always the answer if you've got a
guy you trust, Larry, let me tell you something. There's
always somebody cheaper to do an order repair job. Always,
there's always somebody that's going to be less expensive. Are
they doing it the same way? Are they giving you
the same quality? Do you a do you have a
restaurant that you go to Larry that you like the
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great take sure and are they kind of expensive?
Speaker 5 (26:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (26:12):
Moderate, Yeah, Why do you keep going back? Why don't
you try and find a cheaper steakhoffs?
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Because I know the owner. That's the whole reason.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
It doesn't give you a digestion, right yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
And also, but you're right, getting back to your personal relationship,
it's because I know somebody there. That's exactly why I go.
It's good too. I mean, I wouldn't go back if
it wasn't good, but I know.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
Somebody right right, it's it's and you've got a guy
to talk to. And buying parts online. Going back to
that buying those parts online, Let's say you get the parts.
Let's say you're able to put them in, or you
find somebody willing to put them in, and then three
months later that part goes bad. You get to have
your mechanic take the part off, you get to send
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that part away, buy another part, maybe it's under warranty,
maybe it's not, and then you get the pay your
mechanical all over again to put the same part in
because there's no warranty on the part. There's no warranty
on the labor. He's not guaranteeing anything. He can't. It's
not his part. He doesn't have a liability for it anymore.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
I guess what's just safe. What's interesting is you you
talked about having a social relationship as being the relationship
between a customer and either a mechanic or somebody that
owns the shop. Like you do that you go into it.
It's when you first go in that's when it can
be that when that's when there's this trust. That's when
(27:34):
you have to build trust. And how does that work?
I mean, how do you know how to trust someone
if it's your first time there?
Speaker 7 (27:42):
Start with something simple? I think again, it is like dating.
It really is. Where'd you go on your first date, Larry?
You went someplace simple and basic, right and got to
know each other?
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (27:53):
Absolutely, yep, same thing.
Speaker 7 (27:56):
Bring him an oil change. See how they do on
an oil change. Don't judge them on the price of
the oil change. Judge them on the quality of the service.
Look at the environment. Sit there, ask for a weight
oil change. People love to sit in my shop and
watch us do an oil change, and not that they
get to see us so much because they're in the
waiting room off to the side, but they experience people
(28:18):
walking in and walking out smiling and happy. They get
the energy of the place right there's a certain vibe
and I think that goes a long way because they
realize that, you know, maybe they found somebody that can
keep them safe on the road. And I always tell everybody,
don't judge me by one repair. Judge me after a
year when you realize I didn't have to go back
(28:38):
three times for something. And that's how you build trust,
and you start with the basics every time.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Yeah, this can be emotional, can it. I mean when
you're dealing with somebody, and especially when it's going to
be expensive, they can get emotional.
Speaker 7 (28:51):
Yep, it get it can get it can become emotional.
But I think it also comes down to Larry, you
bring me your car, I hold your life in my hands.
We had a young girl in here Friday from Philadelphia.
Her father's a regular customer who's been here time and
time again. The daughter came up from Philly. She's been
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getting the car serviced in Philly. It's a twelve year
old Honda and it had a ball tire on it,
I mean balled dos a billiard ball as they say, right,
she had one bad tire on the car. The right
front tire had cracks in the tread. The left front
tire had where not as bad. I mean, this kid's
driving two and a half hours up the turnpike on
(29:31):
bad tires, but she's getting the car service regularly. Who's
taking care of that, right, you know? And that's how
problems happen. So you've got to find somebody that's going
to explain it to you. I always tell everybody it
may not be what you want to hear, but it's
what you need to know. And that's how you build
trust for somebody that's looking to get work done and
be safe. And that's the bottom line. You got to
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be safe in a car. It's a two ton missile
travel in sixty miles an hour.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Well said, if you're near Waldwick, New Jersey, the place
to go would be r A Automotive where Ron and
Anian works. You can deal with him. He's also the
host of the Car Doctor Ron Good to talk to
you
Speaker 7 (30:08):
You too, Larry be Well,
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