The Troubleshooter 8-23-24

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, ripped off, need.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Advice, so you don't have.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
You come running.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Just as fast as we can.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Shooter's gonna help come.

Speaker 4 (00:18):
Man Dix is the Troubleshooter Show.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Now Tom Martine, Hey, it's car Day today. I'm Tom Martino.
That doesn't mean we'll only talk cars, but we will
talk cars quite a bit. It'll they'll have priority three
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two five five. In case you're just tuning in, this

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is a consumer show about everything near and dear, to
our hearts and pocketbooks, the things that make us tick
and the things that tick us off, and we talk
about everything everything. By the way, I just want to
tell you that there is a surge of COVID nineteen

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and people are being urged by the CDC to get
their vaccinations. And the symptoms are sniffles, there's not a
coffe yet, and a slight sore throat, sometimes body aches
and pains, otherwise known as a common cold. But now

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you get a vaccine. And let me just tell you
there are thousands of strains of the cold virus. The
coronavirus is one of them, which mutates almost daily. But
as every virus in the world mutates. Just these are
just facts. You can't get sanctioned anymore for facts. You

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see the social media used to sanction us for facts.
COVID was a dangerous virus and mutated to a less
dangerous That's what all viruses do, bar none, all history,
viruses have never started out weak and gotten strong. They
start out strong and get weak because they want to
keep their hosts alive. And no two viruses that you

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get are the same. Ever, so when people said they
had COVID three times, they had three different strains of
the virus three different times. They could have been three
serious times. It could have been three minor they could
have been one minor one serious. But right now there
are no serious strains known to be out there, and
all the rest of them are pain in the ass.

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So you don't have to wear a mask, you don't
have the distance. You just use your safe practices like
you would any cold. But now since COVID, the teeth
have come out of COVID and there's nothing to scare
and control you with. They're now turning their attention to
West Nile again and something called the monkey virus and

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some other things which are could be serious. I guess
if everyone got it right now there are very very
few cases. But it's just very interesting to me how
it's become, in my opinion, a matter of control. That
is exactly what disease is being used. If you look

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at the plan for the country under the World Health Organization,
we as a country under the current administration, have agreed
to give away our sovereignty in the event of an
next pandemic, where the World Health Organization will make all
of their all of our decisions. So that's just a fact.

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They'll make all of our decisions about shutdowns and masks
and vaccinations and all of that. Just so you know.
By the way, it was funny because I remember in
New York you had to show a card in order
to get into a restaurant. States started that. But for

(04:02):
some reason, and I need to know this, and none
of this is political. These are all facts. They built
a fence around the Democratic Convention to keep people they
didn't want out, and in order to get in you
had to show ID. But what I need to know,
I swear to God, I get on the radio every
day with a quest to learn, not to preach, not

(04:25):
to pontificate. I see plenty of reasons why people want
to vote for Trump and plenty of reasons why people
want to vote for Kamala. I mean, I can see
both sides. I don't want to give you my opinion.
It doesn't matter what I think, but I look, I'm
not trying to make you vote one way or another.
But here's what I have to ask. I swear to God,
I have to ask this question. And I have not once,

(04:47):
not once, in all social media or discussions, have I
heard the answer. Why do some people, mostly Democrats, why
do they oppose checking identification before you vote? Please tell

(05:12):
me why? I, honest to God, don't know, and I
mean that sincerely now. But no, no, doc, I'm not
gonna let you. I'm not gonna let you make a
propertige because I know what you're gonna say. You were
going to say that's because the Democrats want illegal people
to vote for them. I mean, is that truly that obvious?

Speaker 5 (05:29):
No?

Speaker 1 (05:30):
I don't think. So there's got to be another reason.
Why is it that you have to show an ID
to get to concerts, aircraft, almost everything we do in life?
But why is it that Democrats do not want any
kind of identification verification for voting. Okay, what were you

(05:50):
going to say? Doctor? What I thought? Because they want
illegal immigrants to vote for.

Speaker 6 (05:54):
Them, and also whatever, people haven't gotten the means to
get identification, all those people, for instance, low income people
who don't have IDs.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
You're turning that on and that is that? Yeah? Is
his mic on or not? Okay? Talked?

Speaker 2 (06:20):
It's because they want it's not.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
Coming on what Doc is saying. You know, they just
want indigence and illegal immigrants to vote for them, and
they don't want them hindered at the polls. That's that's
it in a nutshell. Now, I feel for people who
are homeless or indigent, people who don't have the means
to get an ID. I think that could be remedied
a bit. I don't know. But but listen, is it

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why is it considered Again, I'm going to use the
word hateful because hate is the word they use to
to censor and to cancel you. And why is it
considered hateful to require some form of identificy. I don't know.
I'm wanting some I promise you, I won't interrupt anyone.

(07:07):
I want someone to tell me, Please tell me now
I have probably my emails are flooded with more liberal
emails than anything, and they always holler at me and
give me their arguments off the air. So I'm going
to ask one of them, one of them, to please
call in and explain to me the harm for asking

(07:32):
for identification for voting. I really want to know, I
really do. I don't know what it is I'm waiting
to hear. I've read and read and read and read
in nothing, nothing anywhere in any social media. Has anyone
ever given me a reason. All they say is that

(07:52):
Republicans want to restrict your right to vote. That's exactly
what they say. And Republicans say all they want is
to have illegal immigrants vote, and they don't want them
to be held accountable. I want to know. Is that
truly that simple? I don't think so. I don't think
Democrats truly want illegal votes? Do they want? Then tell

(08:15):
me if you're a Democrat. I know I have Democrats
listening because I don't harp on anyone party. I just
help people. So here's what I want to know. Please, please, please,
please tell me the reason why you think it's hateful
or wrong to have identification for voting, and then tell
me why they have to give identification for flying airplane?

Speaker 7 (08:36):
Why?

Speaker 1 (08:36):
Why if I want to pay and sit on an airplane,
why can't I do that? Why do I have to
show identification? Why do I need identification to drive a car?
Why do I need identification to enter a concert? Why
do I need or to buy tickets sometimes? Why do
I need identification for a myriad of things in this world? Why?

(08:58):
But not for voting? That's the You should not have
identification for voting. Someone please educate me. I am begging
for education. You see, I'm not like other hosts who
say rarah and then pretend to know. I don't know
your stance. I don't want to vilify you. I truly

(09:21):
and I mean this. I truly want to know why
it is considered wrong by most Democrats to ask for
identification for voting. Please tell me. Okay, I'm going to
go to the phones. Margareth has a twenty twenty two

(09:45):
subaruin Presa with leaks. I'm assuming oil leaks. Is that right?
Oil leaks, Margaret?

Speaker 3 (09:54):
I'm here, not oil leaks.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
No.

Speaker 3 (09:57):
I was told that the both front swaybar bushings were
leaking and needed to play.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
Okay, the front end need.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
To know if the dealer that tells me there is
no liquid in those bushings they cannot leak? Is correct?

Speaker 8 (10:16):
If so?

Speaker 3 (10:18):
Would I need it?

Speaker 9 (10:18):
All?

Speaker 7 (10:19):
Right?

Speaker 1 (10:19):
You hold on. Margaret's will come right back to I promise, Okay,
we'll talk about those bushies. She's talking about the front end,
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three or three seven one three talk seven one three
eight two five five. Margaret wants to know about the
front end. Did they mention struts to you, Margaret on
your Subaru? Is that what they mentioned was leaking?

Speaker 3 (11:21):
The thing that I got was both from swaybar bushings
were leaking.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
Okay, you needed to be sway bar bushings. Okay, let's
talk about it on a twenty twenty two Subaru and Preso.
We have Jesse's Schillinger with us from Honest Accurate Auto
and Colorado Springs. Jeff Fick kimmera transmission. Guys, what's these
front bushings they're talking about? What is that to begin with?

Speaker 10 (11:42):
Yeah, so the sway bar bushings aren't filled with fluid,
but the control arm bushings, if they're talking about those,
they do have a liquid inside.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
Now is it a liquid or a grease?

Speaker 10 (11:53):
It's a grease solivent, but it looks like an oil
coming out because it's blacken.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
And it does it come out in natural or does
it mean a seal is broken? Correct? It gets cracked
into a leak out of a you know the crack.
Does that mean replacement? Yes? All right, hold on a second, Okay,
hold on Because I asked these guys. I gave these
guys a hard time. I wanted them to call in. So, John,
you have a comment on IDs and voting, and I
promised to let people write through on that just because

(12:20):
I'm really curious. Do you have the answer, John, Yes,
do you have the answer. Why do people oppose IDs
for voting, Well.

Speaker 11 (12:31):
Because it gives them the ability to sway the election.
Here's what I did, Tom on the last a rap
a whole election.

Speaker 7 (12:39):
I filled out my.

Speaker 11 (12:40):
Bellet and I signed it with a straight line, and
I got an email from It was a text or
an email from Rappo County that they received my belt
and they would let me know when my signature was verified.
And I get another communication from them and it says
my signature was verified. So the stuff that they tell

(13:03):
you that there's checking every signature just is not true.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
I don't think they can check every signature, but I mean,
I mean, look, I don't.

Speaker 12 (13:14):
Think probably compare it to whatever's on with DMV electronically.
It's not like they're looking at it.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
I'm just curious about something though, John, And obviously you
know you think they want to sway elections. I wanted
to talk to someone who is opposed to IDs for
voting so I could find out why. But I understand
what you're saying, John, they don't do a very good
job verifying. And I'm wasn't even talking about verifying so

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much as just casting the initial ballot. But Eric and
I don't know the answer John to how they verify signatures.
Maybe someone else can tell us. These are ultimate consumer issues,
though not political consumer. Eric, what do you think? Do
you have a reason or you're just you're going to
give the conservative side that they want illegals to vote?
What are you going to say?

Speaker 13 (14:02):
No, I just I believe that it goes to like
taxation without representation is probably the argument. And I'm probably
not the best person. I'm not well studied in this.
I don't have a dog in the fight, but I do.

Speaker 14 (14:16):
Have a belief that Okay, we look the other way.

Speaker 13 (14:19):
You know, most days of the year, people go about
their business. We buy our groceries, we get our food,
and we don't ask anyone for ida who's giving.

Speaker 9 (14:27):
Us those services.

Speaker 13 (14:29):
But then when it comes time for them to vote,
they say, okay, where's your ID? And there's you know,
they go try to go get a legitimate ID. In theory,
they're gone, They're going to beet deported or whatever. I
don't know if that really happens in the real world.

Speaker 8 (14:45):
I doubt it.

Speaker 1 (14:46):
Well, there are people who feel there are people who feel, yeah,
it will prevent immigrants from voting who are here illegally
and they should be able to vote because they're working
and they're here and they.

Speaker 15 (14:59):
Should pay and taxes. Who cares if they're working.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
Well, Mark, all I'm saying is I believe.

Speaker 13 (15:04):
Here's the thing. I do believe that they are paying
into your social Security and my social Security, and it's
the benefit they'll never collect, Thank goodness, because that's what's
popping up the whole system to begin with.

Speaker 1 (15:15):
Yeah, is that we have a lot of well that's providing,
that's providing, they're on payroll. A lot of them are
not on payroll.

Speaker 13 (15:23):
Correct, correct, But still a lot of the folks that
aren't on payroll or that are knowledge they're working for
a lot of them are working for very big businesses.
Or agriculture is built, you know, meatpacking, produce.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
All catchings everywhere.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
So, Eric, do you think it's reasonable to ask for identity,
proof of identity or citizenship or some kind of ID at.

Speaker 13 (15:48):
All, if that if an identification was attainable to them.

Speaker 16 (15:53):
But I don't think identification.

Speaker 14 (15:54):
Is really made attainable to them.

Speaker 13 (15:55):
I think it's a way to keep the services here
coming towards us.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
Attainable to who do you mean I think ideas are
attainable to Don't you think ideas are attainable for every
citizen in the world here? And I mean every citizen.

Speaker 13 (16:11):
Again, I'm not super well say it, but I don't
know that if you're here without documentation and you've come
you can just walk into the.

Speaker 17 (16:19):
DMB And no you can't.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
That's the whole point. No, No, that's right. I don't
know why we're Chris Eric, You're right. If you're not
here legally, you can't easily get identification. You have to
be here legally to get identification. But I do know
people who are here on asylum that can get a

(16:43):
driver's license. Now, if they get a driver's license and
showed that at the polls, is that adequate what is
considered idea at the polls? See? I don't really know
this because no articles are clear. Most articles simply pontificated
and preach and make stands, and they're either conservative or

(17:04):
progressive or liberal. They're not factual. No one talks about
what the id would look like because I know people
here illegally who have driver's licenses, So it can't be
a driver's license that doesn't prove citizenship. What proves citizenship?
I don't know anyway, thanks for calling guys, Margaret. So
if these things are leaking, they need to be replaced.

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So Margaret, did they say, but how many miles on
your Subaru?

Speaker 3 (17:31):
Okay, my Subaru has twelve thousand miles?

Speaker 18 (17:33):
Soon?

Speaker 1 (17:34):
Oh my telling me wait, wait, only twelve thousand miles?

Speaker 3 (17:37):
Yes, and they tell me there's no reason and no,
that doesn't need to be replaced because nothing happens under
way more milestone.

Speaker 8 (17:46):
What would I have home?

Speaker 3 (17:48):
And I need to know who's right? And am I
safe to keep driving that car without well, if they're.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
Truly broken seals, I don't know, Jesse. It's not that
it's unsafe to drive. But the bigger question is with
that lower mileage, is subrew not trying to cover it
due to a warranty issue? Is it under warranty Margaret.

Speaker 19 (18:07):
Until September sixth?

Speaker 1 (18:08):
Yes, and make them change them.

Speaker 10 (18:11):
You just have to get proof from wherever you go.
They just need to take some pictures and give them
to you with the estimate, and you need to take
it to suber. If it's under warranty, they need to
do it. There shouldn't be a question is the.

Speaker 1 (18:20):
Dealer, the one that is the dealer, the one that
told you you needed them.

Speaker 3 (18:24):
No my mechanic.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
Okay, go to the dealer. You should have them replaced.

Speaker 3 (18:29):
Listen. I sent the picture to the dealer and the
dealer said, those are normal picture, there's nothing wrong and
you're fine, and how do I make them replace it?

Speaker 1 (18:41):
You can pick a different dealer to go to that.
What dealer did you go to?

Speaker 3 (18:45):
I went to the automation dealer on Colfax, and then
I went to the Grove Group Groove something.

Speaker 1 (18:51):
You went to two dealerships, yes, and they both told
you they're fine.

Speaker 3 (18:57):
The second dealer said, I don't even want to waste
time at this car that ah that year. There's nothing
wrong because there is no liquid in those bushings and
they cannot leak.

Speaker 1 (19:11):
All right, hold on, they might be look at Margaret.
All I can do is send you to another shop
that I know, and then I would definitely know from
the people I know. Where are you located?

Speaker 3 (19:23):
I mean I live at the Green Mountain area in Lakewood.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
Okay. You can go to Colfax west of Wadsworth a
Sheridan Auto Tech. He'll take a look at it for you. Kevin,
will take a look. Do you have those photos you
can send to us? Those pics.

Speaker 3 (19:40):
I can have the mechanics send to you. They're in
my phone. I can't find them anymore.

Speaker 1 (19:45):
Hey, Katschina. See if her mechanic can send those pics
to us, tell her where to send them. But I
would go to Sheridan Auto Tech on Wadsworth. Kiss me
on Colefax west of Wadsworth three h three four five
five forty two seventy two. Give him a call. All right,
and Steve, what's going on with you? Steve? Welcome, what's happening?

Speaker 8 (20:07):
Well?

Speaker 1 (20:07):
Thank you, Tom, Hey, what's happening?

Speaker 19 (20:11):
Well? We have a water problem. I live at Brookdale
Meridian in Inglewood and they test the water quality weekly
and about two and a half weeks ago the nitrade
level tested too high.

Speaker 1 (20:27):
Wait wait wait, wait when you say they test the water,
what water system are you on?

Speaker 19 (20:33):
We're on Inglewood water Brooksaw.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
It's called Brookdale Meridian. Is it an apartment complex? A
senior complex? What is it?

Speaker 19 (20:41):
Yeah, it's a senior it's a retirement home, okay, and
called Brookdale Meridian Inglewood Okay. And it's right in Inglewood.
And so for two and a half weeks.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
We have not down. Who tests the water?

Speaker 19 (20:56):
Well, it's either the city or the state.

Speaker 1 (20:58):
And did they tell you not to drink?

Speaker 19 (21:01):
They told not to drink it?

Speaker 1 (21:02):
Does this happen often?

Speaker 19 (21:07):
Nobody seems to know. I've lived here two years and
it hasn't happened.

Speaker 1 (21:10):
Did they say how long you won't be able to drink?

Speaker 19 (21:14):
Well, they keep having meetings and they say another forty
eight hours, another forty.

Speaker 20 (21:18):
Eight Why don't you hold on?

Speaker 1 (21:21):
Hold on a sack, hold on, Hey, I need to
get Paul the waterman on. We got all these experts.
We need to get on because they he will definitely
have So Paul the water man on this one. I'm
going to make it on the caller note, Paul doubting.
I want to ask him about the the water, the

(21:43):
water and that high What did he say that was nitrates?
Let's ask them what can be done? Or what if
he's heard of this before, He's usually hip on all
of this stuff. Jim on a clear, bro very important question.
If you can hang on, we'll come right back to
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we do? Okay, good. I want to talk to Steve.

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Steve is living at a place called Brookdale, Meridian, and
I'm going to bring up Paul the waterman, pauldowtywaterpros dot
net h water expert. Paul, have you heard of high
night rate levels in where is this? Steve? What? What
an anglewood? Yes, you've heard of it, Paul not.

Speaker 16 (23:49):
It's not usual in city water, but it can happen.

Speaker 1 (23:53):
What are high nitrates from?

Speaker 16 (23:57):
Nitrates can be from uhrees rooch vegetation if you live
in the foothills. Nitrates could also be from cross contamination
of wastewater. But let me ask a question. How did
he get the high nitrates? Did they did they send
him a letter? Did someone come out and test it
at his house?

Speaker 19 (24:18):
Well, the Colorada Border Health ran TISS and there was
another company, Hillman Company, and both of them ran TISTS
and the nitrate level was something like fifty milligrams per leader,
and the safe level is ten milligrams per leader, so

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it was.

Speaker 16 (24:42):
Right, but it's worse than that because if you boil
the water, then the nitrates that you know, don't boil
out of water, so then the concentration levels, Yeah, I
get higher. So it's actually worse. Yeah, that's really bad. Yeah,
that's that's that's not a leaf. That's that's not So
what can.

Speaker 15 (24:59):
He do right in his own place?

Speaker 16 (25:01):
Birth off?

Speaker 19 (25:02):
Well what let me Let me explain that they have
supplied bottled water for drinking, and they've been doing that
for two and a half weeks, and we have they
still have water for showers and laundry and the toilet,
but we can't drink the water. So they've given us
plenty of bottle water every day. But it's been dragging

(25:22):
on for two and a half weeks, and we keep
getting we keep having meetings and they say, well, we're
gonna have it fixed another forty eight hours, and then
forty eight hours later.

Speaker 1 (25:31):
Well, you know, this is just a tip of the iceberg.
We're going to see a lot of this in the future.
But hold on, wait, wait, yeah.

Speaker 12 (25:37):
Wouldn't if it was the municipality that it would be
affecting so many people.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
It's crazy.

Speaker 12 (25:44):
Is it possible, Paul, It's just something like in the
building's pipes or something.

Speaker 1 (25:48):
Well, let's ask Steve, Steve, is it affecting the whole city?

Speaker 16 (25:53):
No?

Speaker 19 (25:53):
No, we've we've been told that it's not an Inglewood
water problem in general. And what they're telling us here, Uh,
there was, there's heat exchangers, and I don't understand all
of this. There's and on one of the heat exchangers
had a crack.

Speaker 1 (26:10):
Okay, so it is a local It is a local problem. Okay.

Speaker 16 (26:15):
I was going to guess cross. I was going to
grasp gus cross contamination.

Speaker 19 (26:20):
Yeah, they did use that word cross contamination. Yeah, I'm
just a problem fixed.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
Okay. But hold on, Steve, do you rent or own there?

Speaker 19 (26:29):
We just rent?

Speaker 1 (26:30):
Yeah, Okay, Well this is okay, this is the landlord.

Speaker 17 (26:34):
Then this is not Inglewood, right, Inglewood, the city of Inglewood,
they probably know about it, but they haven't been Okay.

Speaker 1 (26:42):
This is the management company, and they keep promising to
fix it. You know, as long as they're supplying bottled
water and you can shower and do other stuff. I'm
not sure, there's much you can do about it. I
imagine if you wanted to move, they couldn't oppose you.
If you wanted to break your lease and get out
of there, I'll bet you it would be a chance
to do that. Do you want to do that?

Speaker 19 (27:04):
No, I'm not to that point yet, because you do
lose money when when you move, because if you go
to some other place, you had to put a three
thousand dollars.

Speaker 1 (27:12):
Yeah, it's Sarah. I want to ask Steve. I don't think,
to be honest with you, I don't think there's anything
we can do to speed that up. I mean, that's
a major problem they have to fix. The only thing
I can do is advise you can leave or you
can just keep accepting their bottled water. Obviously, I wouldn't
put a system in if I didn't own the place.
But Paul, speaking of systems, would I'm just curious, do

(27:36):
you have any systems that would, for example, get rid
of nitrates.

Speaker 16 (27:42):
Yeah, your point of use for verse house MOSLUS would,
and then they also could do if you wanted to,
you could do a whole house system that would be
you know, based on a water softener followed by an
antin resume unit and the antin resin would remove nitrates.
So I mean and be done that. You know, a
simple point of u SRO would absolutely take care of it,

(28:04):
and I recommend it. Today's for all Tom. Everybody should
shoot the bubblegum about getting n ros.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
But no, absolutely, Like I told you, Paul, people buy
organic food when regular food is available. People buy supplements
when they're supposedly vitamins and foods. Why do they do
all of this? They do it because they want to
be healthier. And there's and water. Drinking water for God
says you need. Even bottled water nowadays has microplastics in it.

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Hi Tom Martino, you're troubleshooter three three seven on three
Talk Jim, let's talk about clearbras, and of course we're
talking about car clearbras. Haha, joke. Anyway, guys, what do

(29:38):
you think? I mean? What was your question? First?

Speaker 21 (29:41):
Don't you know if his car identifies as a transgender
woman so she needs a clear bra?

Speaker 1 (29:47):
I don't know. Maybe not, Jim, Jim, what what U
is your actual question about?

Speaker 5 (29:55):
Well, I'm considering getting a clear bra on a new
SUV that you purchased because we drive a lot across
country and I'm trying to minimize paint damage.

Speaker 9 (30:07):
Yeah, priving states and highways.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
No matter what, paints nowadays are real hardy and hardier
than they used to be. However, I'm a believer of
clear bras. Having said that I don't have one, I
don't know why the hell I don't have one. I
should because I have nicks here and there. I believe
in them. Now there are some people that don't. I
don't know why they don't, because can't you got guys,

(30:33):
can't you take them off when you're done using them
if you want to resell your car or trade it
or replace it with another clear bra? Yeah, definitely, So
they don't really damage the paint.

Speaker 10 (30:42):
Right, No, Yeah, I just think the only thing that's
when you take it off sometimes it's sun faded underneath,
but replacing the sun faded where where the BRA would
sit because it's the same sun.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
So wait, wait, wait, just the opposite right, what it
would be. Yeah, it's it's shining underneath there. Because okay,
so the clearbas actually filtering out the UV. Right, so
the replacement seems like the better option, Like if it
starts to feel, you would replace it with another one. Yeah,
and I've it depends on your color. How much differential
you'd see anyway, A lot of a lot of cars nowadays.

(31:17):
The paints are just fantastic for UV protection and everything,
but not for chips. They do help, they're not near
what they used to be, and you hardly ever see
a rest of the car ever, you know, like we
used to see rest of cars all the time, so Jim,
I would get one of ire You what suv is it?

Speaker 5 (31:38):
It's a twenty twenty three Tsarento. So I'm looking for
a recommendation for a company. There are a lot of
people in the Denver Do you know now that.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
I used to have We don't anymore. Mark, do we
have any I don't. I think Mark still on his
knee anyway, I don't know. I don't. I can't just
I used to have some really good vendors that did clearbras.

Speaker 20 (32:07):
Most of your PDR company school.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
Clear braw h your paintless dent repair.

Speaker 10 (32:12):
Yeah, we have a good company in the Springs that
actually did my motorcycle for me.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
Really with a substance of clearbra I don't have to
worry about it. But I don't know anybody in Denver.

Speaker 16 (32:22):
Recommendations.

Speaker 5 (32:23):
As far as the kind of.

Speaker 1 (32:24):
Three M three M down, there's no there's no competition.
They've been in at the longest. There are plenty of
copies that are cheaper three M. Okay, I mean, don't
even consider anything else. So if you find a three M,
you know a person and there used to be a
company is trim Line still a company. They used to

(32:45):
go to dealers and they used to come to people.
It was such a dependable company. Let me it was
called that was the one I used to recommend trim Line.
Hold on trim line, clearbra. Let me see, I don't
And they didn't do just clear bras. They used to
do stuff that went away, like pinstripes and all. I

(33:07):
remember that kind. Nobody's that anymore. Let's see.

Speaker 7 (33:10):
No, I don't.

Speaker 1 (33:11):
I don't see what trimline of reno. I don't see
trim line anymore. I don't know. You might. You might
want to call dealers, some dealers of these luxury card
they'll they be happy to give you their vendor's name.
It doesn't it's no skin off their back. Three M
clear bra. Oh well on the hold on this one? One?

(33:33):
Was this posted? This is uh three M clear bra.
Trim Line did a great job. And I'm I'm but
I don't know when this was posted. Oh no, never mind,
never mind, never I never I that was ten twelve
years ago. I don't think trimline is still around for
what I can find, But look for three AM. I
think you'll be world ahead. And I would ask maybe

(33:55):
some dealers, or, as Jeff Fix said, a good body
shop or a pdr O paintless dent repair place. I'm
Tom Martino. Today's car day. And by the way, Abe
has been working with Deputy Doc. We'll go and revisit
that follow up and we have a lot more to
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Come Man Dix is the Troubleshooter Show.

Speaker 1 (35:08):
No Tom Martino, Hey Tom Martino here, Welcome to the show.
Three zero three seven one three talk seven one three
eight two five five. So somebody asked about a clear bra.
If anybody knows people who do clearbras, if you had
one done, let us know now if you're gonna go
ahead and do a clear bra. Do you guys like
doing the rocker panels and stuff? I mean I've seen

(35:30):
people now when I say rockers, okay, I'm talking about
like below the door, not not where you below the door.
I've seen some people with SUVs do the same color
kind of rhino kind of stuff. Have you seen that
where they they use the same color of the car,
but it's a rhino. It's a like a spray on.

(35:51):
I like it.

Speaker 20 (35:52):
We we actually happened h two in the shop. They
did the entire vehicle in rhino.

Speaker 1 (35:56):
That's kind of that's ugly as hell. It wasn't attractive
and it's heavy. Anyway, I want to talk to uh
Ava real quick here, Hi, Ava, Deputy Doc was working
with you and this is a show, by the way,
for people listening where we attempt to solve problems. We
have a number of very smart people on board who

(36:17):
help people. But I don't know, I don't recall this.
Let me let me look you up here, Ava, How
what was this about? Doc? Okay, let me find let
me let me find it here. God Tom thinks.

Speaker 22 (36:30):
About an engine replacement an Eagle Automotive.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
Yeah, I remember, yeah, and and so let me see
was this. I'm trying to find the year of the
actual notes. Anyway, what happened? Did anything happen since? Or
are you just going to find out?

Speaker 22 (36:46):
Because no, no, no, I'm calling to give you the
final update.

Speaker 23 (36:50):
Okay, unless they want to come around and do the
right thing.

Speaker 16 (36:54):
But at this.

Speaker 22 (36:55):
Point, and I got to tell you, I really don't
like being on a radio show airing my problem. However,
with what happened to me at Eagle Automotive, they're good
lessons for other consumers.

Speaker 1 (37:06):
Yeah, you had the Kia Sorrento. Actually I gave this
the deputy dollar. This was not doc. That's why you
don't have notes on it. Doc. Here's what. Let me
tell people what happened. Let me just tell people what happened.
You say that you went to Parker to Eagle Transmission
and Diesel for a used engine. You paid fifty eight

(37:28):
hundred bucks. But the engine needs a timing chain and camscheft.
But as we I remember, a dollar called there. They
said this was not a this was a used engine,
I believe, But isn't fifty eight isn't fifty eight hundred
guys expensive for a used engine for a two thousand

(37:49):
and nine Sorrento?

Speaker 18 (37:51):
Is that nine?

Speaker 17 (37:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (37:53):
No, it's not. Yeah, I don't It doesn't sound over there.
I mean, Jeff, does this sound like a lot of money?

Speaker 20 (37:58):
It doesn't sound over.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
So if it was remanufactured, it would be way more
than a yeah, ten twelve? Oh what what come on? Installed?
It would be ten thousand.

Speaker 10 (38:08):
No, We've got a Subaru in the shop right now
that they're wanting to do an engine in and it's
like eighty five hundred used to put the engine in this?

Speaker 1 (38:17):
What year?

Speaker 16 (38:18):
At that?

Speaker 1 (38:19):
Two thousand nine? Yeah? So the two thousand and nine.
So I guess what we're saying, Ava is as I listen,
if they did a used engine, I don't know what
kind of warranty. Did they give you a warranty on
this work?

Speaker 22 (38:33):
Yeah? And let me go through and explain this way
that I that I sincerely felt that I was done
dirty at Eagle Automotive and Parkers. Let me tell you
from the very big and there's eight less.

Speaker 1 (38:46):
Just first tell me this though, did you get a warranty.

Speaker 21 (38:50):
Yes, I did.

Speaker 22 (38:51):
And here's part of the problem. He told me the
engine came with the warranty. But the fact is he
sold me the warranty, and not only did he miss
leave me on that, he sold me an inferior warranty
for parts only.

Speaker 1 (39:06):
And he will and will this warranty in this case
cover the timing and the camshaft.

Speaker 22 (39:14):
And that's the problem. And here's the other problem. And
this is a lesson for other consumers to learn. When
my get Eagle Automotives confirmed that this Mint engine needed
to be replaced, he quoted me over the thumb between
four and five thousand handle removed and install this use
engine that had sixty eight thousand miles in it. He said,

(39:36):
the engine came with the one year warranty. Now what
I was actually Bill Tom, was five nine hundred dollars
for this engine when he quoted me between four and
five and then it was.

Speaker 1 (39:48):
The extra money for a warranty.

Speaker 22 (39:52):
I guess, yeah, when you look at it, you clearly
build me for a warranty. But he made it sound
like it came with the engine. So that's lesson number
one with Eagle Automotive you need to get everything in
writing it. And you know, I thought I wasn't savvy
when it came to business. An I've done business with
a lot of people, but clearly I have to go

(40:13):
back to basics. And I don't know a mechanic shop.
If they tell me it's going to be a certain price,
I better make sure that they get it in writing.

Speaker 1 (40:21):
Well, you're right, Ava, You're right about that. You got
to get everything in writing. But I'm thinking that right
now though, Right now I'm thinking, how do we help
you do? Did you have the timing chain and camshaft
done or do we even know if that's really the trouble?

Speaker 22 (40:42):
Well, I believe them. I really don't know.

Speaker 1 (40:46):
Who told you you need a timing belt and.

Speaker 22 (40:49):
You need automotive. She's the one after I paid them
five nine hundred dollars to have a car and good
running order. Because I'm just trying to sell.

Speaker 1 (40:59):
This ID fifty nine hundred. Why do you believe them? Now?
If you said they didn't do you right, why do
you believe them?

Speaker 22 (41:07):
Well, a variety of reasons. Number one in the car's
not running. Number two, he told me that that this
additional work that is required on this engine exceeds well.
First of all, it doesn't cover the labor and the
majority of this additional thirty eight dollars he wants does
he's telling me so.

Speaker 1 (41:26):
He wants you to put thirty eight hundred into this
to get a timing chain and camshaft.

Speaker 22 (41:32):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (41:33):
Do you believe it even needs a camshaft?

Speaker 21 (41:35):
That?

Speaker 1 (41:35):
I don't even believe that.

Speaker 10 (41:37):
My biggest problem is if there's a warranty that's part
of the engine, and that's part of the warranty, that.

Speaker 1 (41:41):
He should not be able to get out of that. No, no,
they're saying. She's saying the warranty covers parts only. Yeah,
I've heard of those warranties. Here's the thing, ABA, I
never actually looked at your warranty. But if you, if
you bought this with a.

Speaker 22 (41:58):
Warranty, he won't let me. He won't give me the
name with a warranty company.

Speaker 1 (42:04):
He won't. Why don't you do this, abas, since all
hell is it's not worth investing in this car, Why
don't you just make a last ditch effort and taking
the small claims court for the price of that engine
and just say he sold you a useless He breached
contract by selling you a useless engine, and get him
and sue them for six six grand or whatever. Sue them.

Speaker 22 (42:27):
Well, that's what I'm gonna do, and I'm gonna dispute it.
But here's the other lesson for other consumers to learn.
In the small print, he basically has an out where
he says that you know, and I understand it in
certain cases, but in this case, I don't believe it applies.
He basically has an out saying that you know, whatever
the diagnos is, it may lead to additional parts and

(42:48):
labor involved. And I get it on a different situation.
But when you quote a customer a price for an
engine replacement, and then you come back and you tell
him you need another four thousand dollars when at this
point I'm exceeding the value on his car, of course
you are.

Speaker 1 (43:03):
Of course you are. That's why I recommend small claims.
Car Ava. Listen, man, there's nothing we can do about this.
But Eagle. As I looked them up, I thought Eagle
had a good reputation. No, I thought I looked them up.
What last time you called? In any case, look them up.
If you guys can Eagle Transmission in Dieselin Park or

(43:26):
see what he can find. Let me Ava, I would
do the small claims court issue, really would? I really would.
Now I'm going to go to Renee. Renee, what is
going on with your avas? Rene car?

Speaker 13 (43:39):
Why?

Speaker 24 (43:40):
Tom?

Speaker 14 (43:40):
I am?

Speaker 24 (43:42):
I was just wanting to ask a question. Here my
initial bill for renting a full size SUV for six days.
At the counter, they printed out fourteen sixty five fifty one.

Speaker 1 (43:56):
Wait, you're talking fourteen hundred yes, and this is for
a big well, yes, uv? And where where are you
renting it?

Speaker 24 (44:03):
By the way, Denver International Airport?

Speaker 1 (44:07):
Okay? Fourteen? And how many days?

Speaker 24 (44:12):
Fourteen sixty five fifty one for six days?

Speaker 1 (44:15):
Fourteen sixty five Okay, So I'm just trying to figure
out for fourteen days for six days. Oh, I'm sorry,
I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. Six days, okay, two forty
that sounds high. What kind of suv is it?

Speaker 24 (44:29):
Ford Expedition?

Speaker 1 (44:32):
What is that? What size is that? And that's one
of the big giant size yeah, yep, two four a day?
And does that what does that include unlimited miles? Right? Yes?
And then is that with insurance and all of that? Yes?

Speaker 24 (44:51):
On top of what they offered I opted for the
lost damage.

Speaker 1 (44:57):
No, I get it. Huh, but that's included. That's included
in the fourteen hundred something, right, I thought it was Well,
what do you mean you thought it was? Is it
or not?

Speaker 22 (45:09):
Well?

Speaker 24 (45:09):
I got I got a bill for seventeen oh one
ninety three.

Speaker 1 (45:15):
Oh man, So you already rented this, right, yes, and
you thought it was going to be fourteen something and
it turned out to be seventeen something.

Speaker 14 (45:25):
Yes.

Speaker 24 (45:26):
The agent at the counter there at the airport said,
you know what else is this?

Speaker 16 (45:32):
This it?

Speaker 24 (45:33):
And I said, I want an additional driver.

Speaker 1 (45:36):
And that shouldn't cost more. What cost you more is
the insurance. So they quoted you the fourteen sixty five whatever,
and then you added insurance after that. Yes, well then
that's what happened here. That's what you're paying for.

Speaker 24 (45:55):
And then they put a hold on the card for
two hundred.

Speaker 1 (45:58):
And fifty and yeah, that's normal.

Speaker 8 (46:03):
That.

Speaker 24 (46:03):
The reason I got the bill for seventeen oh one
ninety three was because they put the coverages on after
I drove it up and turned it in, and I said, what.

Speaker 25 (46:16):
Do you mean?

Speaker 1 (46:17):
No, they didn't put them on after you were covered,
but they charged you afterwards.

Speaker 24 (46:24):
Yeah. I asked Hassan, the person I spoke to, and
he said, I said, so we didn't have anything. What
if we'd been in an accident or whatever? He said, Well,
I said, you.

Speaker 1 (46:35):
Look at here's the deal. They obviously can't after the
fact put insurance on that would not have covered you.
But I'm not sure that's what they did. Does it
show coverage on your contract, your initial contract?

Speaker 24 (46:51):
Yeah, it shows the usual charge for not having the
extra which was two thirty two fifteen.

Speaker 1 (46:59):
Not sure what you mean by that. Here's what I'm
asking four. So this is a real simple question. On
the original contract with fourteen hundred dollars, did it show
that you had coverage for the lost damage waiver and
all of that.

Speaker 24 (47:15):
I thought it did, but apparently it didn't.

Speaker 1 (47:18):
Then you were not covered. How can they say you
were covered. They can't go back retroactively and say you
were covered if you weren't covered, right, And.

Speaker 26 (47:30):
I was surprised that I was Basically I know, I know,
I know you keep track of everything, but basically you
were talking about a difference of three hundred bucks, right
around three hundred dollars, and that three hundred dollars he's
saying is for coverage, Yet that coverage does.

Speaker 1 (47:43):
Not show on your original contract. I would contest it
with my credit.

Speaker 24 (47:47):
Card, right, So, tom my question is I was told
by Hassan the first rep blind transferred me to someone
I didn't even know he was transferring me.

Speaker 1 (47:58):
But then it doesn't it doesn't matter. What were you told.
All of that doesn't matter. What were you told?

Speaker 24 (48:04):
I was told that although I had the additional driver
coverage and I had the additional LDW Lost Damage Waiver,
that the reason I got a different bill is because
they had to add it in. So I said, well,
wasn't it added in? I mean I drove away without
having this perk and roadside coverage And he said, well,

(48:29):
you didn't have it, but we went ahead and got it,
and that's why you got the second bill.

Speaker 1 (48:34):
Well, they can't do that after you return the damn vehicle?
Did they wait? Did they do it after you return
the vehicle?

Speaker 27 (48:42):
Yes, they can't.

Speaker 1 (48:43):
I don't know how they can do that. Oh, yeah,
you were covered. How will you ever know if you
were covered or not if it wasn't on the contract.

Speaker 24 (48:52):
Well, here's how I think they did it. And then
they said I still owed the hold on the card
they needed to take the n money.

Speaker 1 (49:05):
The additional three hundred bucks. Have you paid it.

Speaker 24 (49:07):
Yet, they've already taken it from my card.

Speaker 1 (49:12):
Okay, can test it with your credit card right now,
here's what you're going to tell them. Keep this simple, Renee,
because you're getting very complicated. You really don't have to
tell as much as you're telling. Here's the story because
and it's the truth. You rented a car for six days.
There was nowhere on that contract where you were covered
for insurance, and they arbitrarily added it after you return

(49:35):
the car. Okay, Now you say, I wouldn't mind paying
for insurance if I had insurance, but the original contract
showed no insurance and I never got another contract, so
I would tell them I would contest it. You got
to do that first, that's the very first thing you do.
But your whole argument is you wanted it, yeah, but

(49:55):
you never got it, so you shouldn't have to pay
for it. So it's like they said, oh, if you
wanted insurance while you were renting that, let me charge
you now for it. But had you gotten in an accident,
they would have said you never took insurance out. I
wouldn't pay for it. I would contest it. Contest it,
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three oh three nine two zero sixteen twenty two. Hey,
I'm Tom Martino. You're a troubleshooter. We have monitors in here.
I have won the left. One is on CNN, cable
news network that used to stand for Remember and then
Fox News. And it's just freaking amazing to me. Now,

(51:05):
I know some of you are saying one is better. No,
they're not the one.

Speaker 7 (51:10):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (51:10):
The CNN everything good about Harris, everything bad about Trump,
Fox everything good about Trump, everything bad about Harris. I
don't care what you do. There's a spin and they
call it to no spins. No, it's a spin zone.
And now you might argue you need those to counteract
each other. Well, truth the way they report you do.
But you can't get the truth on either one of them.

(51:30):
You really can. Now you get some truth on each,
but no balance anywhere. There is no such thing as
balance anymore. Have you listened to Channel nine lately? No,
I'm serious, I'm serious now. No, they are literally they're
all night can offshoot of the Democratic Party. It's amazing
to me, not their news stories. I'm talking about everything

(51:51):
else they do. I think. I don't know.

Speaker 21 (51:55):
The ratings are amazing. Fox outc is CNN by about
ten to one.

Speaker 1 (52:02):
Oh well, and then MSNBC. Actually, MSNBC is coming up
above CNN a lot they've got.

Speaker 15 (52:10):
Miss NBC's got virtually no.

Speaker 1 (52:12):
But I thought they were beating CNN for a while though.

Speaker 21 (52:15):
That shows you how bad CNN is.

Speaker 15 (52:17):
No way I thought.

Speaker 1 (52:19):
I thought on some nights they beat him. But maybe not.
I don't know enough to say really, I haven't looked
into it, but no, Fox is a ratings monster. And
I'm wondering why if the country is split half and half,
the country is pretty much split half in half.

Speaker 21 (52:36):
Okay, it's an interesting phenomena.

Speaker 1 (52:37):
Now, Bill, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Doc, I got to
take Bill. Bill. What is your question, sir? Or your Yeah?
What is it?

Speaker 16 (52:44):
Hey?

Speaker 8 (52:44):
You never did talk about Google yesterday?

Speaker 21 (52:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (52:47):
Okay, and you know what, I have it on my
list Google question bottom line. Let me just tell you
real quick, and thanks for reminding me. I really mean it.
A federal judge says that they aren't violation of the
eighteen ninety Sherman Antitrust Act. That's the same act that
was used to break up the phone company. And this
is no small thing, by the way. It's a court

(53:09):
order from a federal district judge who says Google's market
dominance is not happenstance, as they say, it's not organic growth,
it's deliberate and internet and intentional misconduct. They must start
looking for ways to break up, and the court still
is going to come up with a plan. This is

(53:29):
the biggest news since ma Bell was broken up. And
this is true. I mean this is now. Back when
they went after Microsoft in two thousand and one because
of Windows and all of that, which I thought was
wrong because I didn't think Windows had unfair policies, but
they settled it for millions and millions, but Google, there's

(53:51):
no money they say that will settle this. They have
to break up the company into smaller companies. And by
the way, this was supported by all the attorneys general
and a lot of the states. And what's surprising is
even the liberal or progressive states or politicians were going
after Google too. And that is surprising because Google is

(54:14):
truly another tool of the Democratic Party. But it was
all their search algorithms and stuff. But guess what, they're
eating their own because they're going after them. And it
seems to be bipartisan. And so in your.

Speaker 8 (54:29):
Opinion, should I dump my Google stock?

Speaker 1 (54:32):
Well, now, I'm not going to give that advice based
on this. I know. You know, here's the deal Alphabet
is gonna I doubt they're going to devalue that much. Mark,
what do you think I mean based on.

Speaker 15 (54:44):
I mean, I don't I have Honestly, I have no idea.

Speaker 12 (54:47):
The next part of the Google deal is a new
trial to figure out what to do.

Speaker 15 (54:52):
I mean we're talking years and years.

Speaker 17 (54:54):
You know.

Speaker 1 (54:55):
Their revenue went from twenty fourteen to twenty twenty one,
from forty seven billion in advertising revenue to one hundred
and forty six billion. Now, they really are the only
game in town. They truly are when it comes to Google,
to the add words and all of that, and they
just they just crush the competition with their trade practices.

(55:18):
I mean they really do. And well, you know, and
they manipulate search results based on your your search results
based on what you spend with them.

Speaker 8 (55:28):
What were you going to say they are best? Search is?
Like you said, you know, I bought I bought a
couple of thousand dollars worth of the stock I don't know,
five years ago, and it's worth about one hundred thousand
dollars now.

Speaker 1 (55:41):
So really, Bill, you really made seriously that much money?

Speaker 8 (55:45):
Yeah, I looked. I looked just before.

Speaker 1 (55:46):
I about how much did you? I mean, did you
actually realize the game yet or do you still just
have it sitting in your portfolio?

Speaker 8 (55:53):
It's just sitting there right now.

Speaker 1 (55:54):
So how much did you act? Do you remember exactly
what you spend? I'm curious about it.

Speaker 8 (55:58):
I'm sure it was one in a couple of thousand dollars.
Come on, I want to spend that much more on
So you.

Speaker 1 (56:04):
Think you spent two thousand and it's now one hundred thousand.

Speaker 8 (56:09):
Pretty close to that.

Speaker 1 (56:10):
Yep, holy crapy Yeah, well.

Speaker 8 (56:13):
I'm making a killing. It's time for me to dump everything.

Speaker 1 (56:16):
Well, hold on, you know there's taxes, they call it.
And by the way, if the Democrats had their way,
you'd be taxed on that unrealized gain.

Speaker 8 (56:24):
I know. That's why we don't need her at all.

Speaker 12 (56:26):
No, that's not true. What do you mean that's only
certain individuals and certain dollar amounts.

Speaker 1 (56:34):
Tell me about it.

Speaker 12 (56:34):
Go ahead, Mark, Well, the last thing I heard they
were proposing is if you have over five hundred million,
and I assume this gentleman doesn't have five hundred million.

Speaker 1 (56:43):
Wait, so that's the only time you're taxed on unrealized gain.

Speaker 12 (56:47):
That was my understanding. It's mainly for big corporations and
of course with a handful of billionaires.

Speaker 8 (56:53):
Sound like that, It sounds like any kind of.

Speaker 1 (56:56):
On That's what I thought of it. Again, I to
be honest with you, it is something I have not
delved into, so I really can't tell you that. But Mark,
did you actually read about it?

Speaker 15 (57:09):
Yeah, I mean this is months and months ago.

Speaker 1 (57:12):
Yeah, okay, well, okay, thanks Bill, Thank you for calling
three three seven to one to three.

Speaker 28 (57:18):
Talk.

Speaker 1 (57:19):
Andy's got a comment on inflation. Go ahead, Andy, what
about inflation? Sir?

Speaker 9 (57:25):
Yeah, I meant to call it yesterday, but I didn't
have time yesterday.

Speaker 1 (57:28):
Yeah, I asked yesterday we were talking about inflation, saying
is there any legitimacy to the claim from Democrats that
much of the inflation is due to greed and price gouge?

Speaker 9 (57:42):
And go ahead, Well, I mean what I didn't notice.

Speaker 15 (57:46):
I mean, hey, hold on, let me interrupt you real quick.

Speaker 12 (57:49):
The budget proposes a new minimum tax of twenty five
percent to unrealize capital gain for taxpayers with more than
one hundred minus million in total wealth.

Speaker 29 (58:03):
Okay, Andy, Yeah, I was just saying that when Biden
started his term, when he basically said that he was.

Speaker 19 (58:14):
He was at war with the fossil fuels.

Speaker 9 (58:17):
Yeah, I mean I noticed the the natural gas builds
just I mean, we use the natural gas fireplace to
heat part of our home. Yeah, and when we installed that,
you know, four years actually no, it was like six
years ago. We're using it and you know, didn't see

(58:37):
a huge cost increase on that. But when he created
the war and fossil fuels, I mean that that went
through the the RUF that build it.

Speaker 1 (58:46):
And that so do you think though, No, but do
you think it did so due to the anticipation of
supply and demand uh strain or do you think it
was to cash in on on greed.

Speaker 29 (59:02):
That's what I mean.

Speaker 9 (59:03):
All I know is that when his term started, I
saw the prices increase. And you know, whether that was,
like you say, other cause by you know, being squeezed
energy wise, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (59:19):
But sometimes prices come go up in anticipation of a trend.
I know oil and gas used to do this a lot,
where they would say when gas prices went up or
oil supplies went down, more than anything, the supplies that
they had in stock went up, even though the basis
on those barrels were lower. You can have a lower

(59:40):
basis on stuff in stock than the new stuff. But
the reason they charged more was because their replacement costs
was going to be more. But here's the evil thing
that oil.

Speaker 12 (59:50):
They're like the highest day've ever been man, Natural gas
like in twenty twenty was around I'm looking at a
chart here, two and a half three bucks per whatever
this is mmbtu and now you're talking nine plus man.

Speaker 21 (01:00:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:00:06):
Now, but speaking of what oil companies did a while back,
they were getting away with this, they would say okay.
They immediately would raise gas prices and oil prices because
they said, well, oil prices went up, and even though
our stock has a lower basis, we bought it cheaper.
Are replacements going to go up? But before they had

(01:00:29):
to replace it, prices went back down, so they really
didn't have the higher replacement cost as anticipated. Yet they
were able to justify the price increases based on the
fear of the replacement cost being higher. So again, was
that greed or was that fear or was that anticipation

(01:00:52):
that did not come to fruition. There's all kinds of
ways to look at it. But I mean, again, Democrats
have always and again I always say Democrats because I'm
not talking about Republicans now, but I talk about Republicans too.
Democrats have always villified wealth, always, always, always, always villified wealth.

(01:01:14):
It is something that is evil and wrong. I don't
know why, but it is. And that is the same
theory in socialism and especially communism. However, I don't think
Democrats resemble communists at all. I think Trump is totally
wrong when he says that that she's like Kamela is

(01:01:34):
like Kamala is like a Marxist. She's not nothing even
close to being a Marxist. She's she's definitely a socialist,
but not a Marxist. I mean, that's just inaccurate. Marxist
was more of a utopian dreamer. He was a weirdo,
a total weirdo. He didn't want any state, any politics,
any government. He wanted committees running things based on the

(01:01:57):
ownership of everything communally through the government. It was crazy,
and that.

Speaker 12 (01:02:02):
Every well Google Google says, Marxists are critical of capitalism.
Of course, you're concerned with issues such as the struggling
of the working class and the conflict between social classes.

Speaker 18 (01:02:15):
Mark.

Speaker 12 (01:02:15):
I'll be damned if Google doesn't have that. It might
as well have a picture of her to.

Speaker 1 (01:02:19):
Mark, Mark, while she shares those traits, trusts me when
I tell you that I've studied extensively Marxism and the
Manifesto and socialism and communists do that. Yes, they believe
in that, but they do not believe in any classes,
nor do they believe in any ownership at all, no government,

(01:02:40):
And the working class they believe should overcome the middle
class completely. The middle class, the bourgeoisie were middle class people.
They believe anyone above a worker, an hourly worker is evil,
and that hourly workers should control everything through their committees
and unions.

Speaker 21 (01:02:58):
But Tom to the people don't understand a distinction between Marxism, socialism,
and communism, and they use the terms interchangeably, you.

Speaker 1 (01:03:08):
Know, to identify because as Mark pointed out, there are
certain similar characteristics, but those go far. There's way more
similar circumstances with socialism. Socialism believes in a strong government
that controls everything.

Speaker 21 (01:03:22):
How many people do you think make that distinction.

Speaker 1 (01:03:26):
Well, not many, and and so they truly democrats truly
align more with socialism than communism and socialism, meaning a
strong centralized government that controls the means of production and
ownerships and distributs wealth. That's truly what they believe in.

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go back to the phones. Did I take Andy's comment?

Speaker 30 (01:04:53):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:04:53):
Yeah, I did, say Andy's gone. Let's let's talk to
UH Kirk, who has a problem with UH an issue
with Tesla Solar. This is, you know, Kirk, we don't
get a lot of complaints about Tesla's Solar. What's going on?

Speaker 14 (01:05:08):
I'm actually kind of surprised. So basically what's happened is
Tesla took over Solar City, who initially put these panels
on my roof.

Speaker 1 (01:05:19):
I think they were always Solar City. Yeah, they just
rebranded it.

Speaker 14 (01:05:26):
Okay, So I purchased the house and I had to
take the contract to this Solar or I had to
walk away from the house kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (01:05:38):
Anyway, Wait, wait, so this was on the house when
you bought.

Speaker 14 (01:05:40):
It, exactly exactly. It's a very one sided lease deal, right,
but you had to.

Speaker 1 (01:05:48):
Do Wait you didn't, you didn't have to take the house.
But you inherited it, right exactly. Okay, so what about it?

Speaker 14 (01:05:57):
So over the past three and a half years, the
panels would go out, so call them out and they're saying, ah,
it looks like you got a squirrel issue. Come out
look at it. And they fixed it, and they said,
you know you got a squirrel issue. Everything's good, You're
good to go.

Speaker 1 (01:06:16):
So you actually took over the lease. You didn't just
buy it out right right?

Speaker 13 (01:06:22):
Correct?

Speaker 14 (01:06:23):
Correct, no choice? And in its lease.

Speaker 7 (01:06:27):
I had.

Speaker 14 (01:06:30):
Some legal advice look over it and they said it's
like a very one sided lease.

Speaker 1 (01:06:36):
Okay, well then that would that would have told you
not to do it.

Speaker 14 (01:06:39):
Then, Well, at the time I didn't know it was.
It was like it was when I bought the house.
They're like, hey, you know the slower comes with it.
It'll take your money, you know. And at the.

Speaker 1 (01:06:53):
Time, Kirk, I get all that, bro, I get all that.
But the bottom line is you accepted it as it was.
In fact, Okay, yeah, in fact, you had an attorney
look at it who told you it was a bad lease.
Well no, no, just now, oh just now, So back

(01:07:13):
when you inherited it, you didn't have anyone look at it.

Speaker 14 (01:07:18):
No, No, the prime market where it's like you're putting
in you know, way over price on a house.

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Tom Martine here three all three seven one three talk.
I want to go right back to them and and
see what we can do. So, Kirk, I just want
to ask you, and I'm going to continue this, but
I want to ask you, bottom line, what do you want?
Are you insinuating at all that because it's a one
way lease or it's a bad lease, you should be
able to get out of it. Or what is your
main contention?

Speaker 14 (01:08:32):
Oh, well, to see, there's there's a whole lot to
this story.

Speaker 1 (01:08:38):
No, I get it, But what is your main contention?

Speaker 14 (01:08:42):
Well, the main contention is is poor customer service.

Speaker 16 (01:08:48):
On uh deathless part.

Speaker 15 (01:08:51):
I can get it.

Speaker 1 (01:08:52):
Let's say everything you say is right. Let's say it's
a bad lease and poor customer service. Therefore, what.

Speaker 14 (01:09:00):
Well, there's damage to my house because of these solar paths.

Speaker 1 (01:09:02):
Therefore what.

Speaker 14 (01:09:09):
I I'm having, I'm fighting with them on trying to
get them fixed that. They keep referring back to this
leave that.

Speaker 1 (01:09:16):
It's like, you know, okay, okay, so let me let
me let me just get this straight. You're trying to
get all of this. I get it. We can probably
help your call them or try to rattle it a little,
but you're not trying to get out of the lease.
Is that right?

Speaker 16 (01:09:34):
No, I'm paying the leaf.

Speaker 14 (01:09:35):
I'm paying on it.

Speaker 4 (01:09:37):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:09:37):
You just want you just want them to hold up
their part.

Speaker 14 (01:09:43):
Well, yeah, that's that's the problem with the lease is
because every.

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We've had some car call call problems. Right now we're
talking to Kirk and Kirk. Bottom line, I think you're
being screwed if what you're telling me is true. I
talked to you off the air, and here's the bottom line.
You're telling me that you've had very little service, very
little actual power generated due to the the the undependability
of this system. And they always blame other things like

(01:11:50):
squirrels and crap like that, but the bottom line is
they shouldn't blame anything. You've probably not had your money's worth.
And you said back in April they took the panels
off and you haven't had them since April. So you've
been without panels April, May, June, July, August five months
and you've been paying on your system.

Speaker 14 (01:12:13):
Yeah, this is that's correct.

Speaker 1 (01:12:15):
Well, you got it. I think I think you know what.
I think you may have grounds to get out of
the damn lease. I think they suck. I'm serious.

Speaker 9 (01:12:24):
I'm not gonna dispute that with you.

Speaker 14 (01:12:25):
I think they totally suck. They got a three.

Speaker 7 (01:12:28):
Point two customer rating.

Speaker 14 (01:12:31):
You can go all over the internet and see how
many people. I mean, you get a lot of people
that say that they're good.

Speaker 1 (01:12:36):
But really, right now, though, where are the panels? Are
they sitting on your yard and you're in your yard?
Where are they?

Speaker 14 (01:12:44):
Yeah, they're in my backyard. And I even told them,
I'm like, this is kind of dangerous for you know,
my animals.

Speaker 1 (01:12:49):
Well, let me ask you. Do they expect you to
keep paying on this damn thing?

Speaker 14 (01:12:56):
That's why I keep saying this lease, they keep referring,
they keep referring to the like, yeah, but.

Speaker 1 (01:13:01):
You're not generating. It's not operational right now, it's off.

Speaker 7 (01:13:07):
Correct.

Speaker 1 (01:13:09):
Did the attorneys say you can get out of this
lease because of the bad service?

Speaker 14 (01:13:15):
The one attorney that I did talk to, he just said,
stop paying on it and start becoming a squeaky wheel.

Speaker 1 (01:13:20):
Well I would stop paying too. I would say I'm
not paying because I ain't. It's not producing anything.

Speaker 14 (01:13:29):
Now can they what about my credit?

Speaker 2 (01:13:30):
So that's well, see.

Speaker 1 (01:13:31):
That's the problem. You're gonna have a little war with him.
Probably I don't. But unless you do something, these people
are basically collecting money for nothing. Do you actually pay
Tesla or is it a separate company that financed this?

Speaker 14 (01:13:45):
Oh, it's it's it's it's Tesla.

Speaker 1 (01:13:47):
Do you have a contact at Tesla? And where is
the Tesla Corp? That you're calling in Texas?

Speaker 14 (01:13:54):
Well, here's the best part of it is, I've got
many contacts. And the only way that you can talk
to somebody is through a chat or an email. There's
no you can't ever talk to anybody live. And when
you do talk to somebody live, they keep referring back
to the contract.

Speaker 1 (01:14:10):
And then they when they come out to your house, supervisor,
When they come out to your house, who comes out.

Speaker 14 (01:14:18):
A technician usually?

Speaker 1 (01:14:19):
And do you ever talk today?

Speaker 14 (01:14:23):
I have talked to you like one of the technicians
when they said they had to take the solar panels
off to fix it, he said he had to take
pictures and I asked him, ILF, so what's going on
and he said, well, you know, it looks like there's
some damage and stuff up there, but we got to
turn it to our higher ups to look at it.
And so they look at it and then they said, well,

(01:14:43):
we can't put them on until your roof fixed. I'm like,
wait a second, my roof is ruined by your panels
because your a batment system was only halfway installed, according
to your text, and so.

Speaker 1 (01:14:58):
They keep what you're a baitman system. What does that mean?

Speaker 14 (01:15:02):
Animal abatement system. It's supposed to keep things from getting
underneath the panels and they only halfway installed it, so
it trapped de breeze underneath the panels and rotted the shingles.
And they're trying to say that a squirrel.

Speaker 31 (01:15:18):
Did all that.

Speaker 14 (01:15:21):
And time to find out one of the events the
pump jacks from one of the roofers, because they asked
me to get a roofer to send over an explanation.
And he looked at it and he said, yeah, they
cut one of your pump jacks short for one of
your ventilations to your toilet. So being in Colorado, okay,
that's not a certain Okay, listen, we got it.

Speaker 1 (01:15:42):
Okay, So this is you. I think if here's all
I can tell you is what I would do, because
they're not they're not going to pay attention to you
at all. You're you're you're there punk right now. You
just keep paying and paying and paying. I would when's
your next payment?

Speaker 16 (01:15:57):
To all the first I.

Speaker 1 (01:16:00):
Personally would not pay. I would not pay, and not
only that, I would probably sue them for the back
payments you were making since the since the panels were
off your roof, and I would sue them in small
claims court. I really would. I would make their life miserable.
But I wouldn't. I would become a squeaky wheel, and
I wouldn't do anything. Do you have a But you

(01:16:22):
don't even have a phone number where we can call
and talk to them?

Speaker 14 (01:16:24):
Right, No, it's it's all chat and all email. I
mean you can talk to you.

Speaker 16 (01:16:31):
You can't find anything online, just difficult.

Speaker 10 (01:16:34):
All I can find is a email address and a
location in California and Texas, but no phone number.

Speaker 1 (01:16:42):
Man, is that a terrible thing to go to? Tesla?
It sounds like a terrible solar company.

Speaker 14 (01:16:47):
The worst cars.

Speaker 1 (01:16:50):
Everything is everything, No one I'm looking to. I'm going
to ask you, customer. I'm going to ask you to
stay in touch with us. We don't mind getting in
touch with them if we can at least find uh.
Let me see, I'm trying to find this customer service thing. Okay,

(01:17:14):
I found a customer service number for representatives availables at
Teslas Solar to talk to. Have you ever tried this
number many times? I'm going to give it to you.
Are you there? Listen an eight seven seven number? Have
you ever called it? Yep? And what do you get?

(01:17:35):
And what do you get?

Speaker 14 (01:17:37):
Basically you get a representative that is basically on a script.
And I went through many different ways to try to
talk to a supervisor and they're.

Speaker 1 (01:17:48):
Like, well you so when you call eight seven seven
seven nine eight thirty seven fifty two, Yeah, the representative
is on a script. Is they Are they trying to
you something?

Speaker 19 (01:18:02):
No?

Speaker 14 (01:18:02):
No, they just basically they they can look back at
your contract and they can turn around and say, well,
it's not in your contract. This is not part of
your contract.

Speaker 1 (01:18:12):
Well, certainly they can't say that it not working is
not part of your contract. Look at I'm going to
tell you something. There's nothing we can do, there's no
number to call. They've insulated themselves completely, so you're going
to have to get their attention. Then you can call
us back and I'll look up your case here, but
you need to get their attention. I would do two things.

(01:18:34):
I would sue them for everything, since April, since the
panels have been off. I don't care what the agreement says.
You've been producing zero power and you've had an electric bill.
Or are they paying your electric bill?

Speaker 7 (01:18:47):
Oh?

Speaker 16 (01:18:47):
I got electric bill, So.

Speaker 1 (01:18:49):
They're not paying you anything. They're not compensating you in
any way for this.

Speaker 14 (01:18:54):
Nope, they say that they review it every two years.
Last time they reviewed it, I got a check for
thirty three.

Speaker 1 (01:19:00):
Okay, I'm going to uh no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
you're gonna You're gonna sue them for your monthly payments
since April.

Speaker 21 (01:19:08):
I think that's the right.

Speaker 1 (01:19:09):
I think Tom donnay, and then you're not gonna and
I would take in the small claims for it. Then
I would stop paying. I would absolutely stop paying. Call
us back. I'm gonna mark this here. Hold on. I
just can't believe how bad your experience has been with
Tesla Soler. Look at I'm glad people are listening. Annie.

(01:19:30):
What's going on with you? Annie? You said you were scammed? Annie?

Speaker 27 (01:19:38):
This is Connie.

Speaker 1 (01:19:39):
Okay, I'll talk to Connie. Were you scammed with a
handyman or is this a totally different call?

Speaker 27 (01:19:44):
No, I don't I'm not Annie, I'm Connie. I'm an
elderly lady. Okay, and I hired.

Speaker 22 (01:19:52):
A gentleman to pick up my.

Speaker 29 (01:19:56):
Lawnmore.

Speaker 27 (01:19:57):
That's how it all started.

Speaker 1 (01:19:58):
Uh uh, you hired a guy to pick up your
lawnmower to fix it.

Speaker 27 (01:20:02):
Yes, okay, that's how it all began.

Speaker 1 (01:20:05):
And then what happened?

Speaker 27 (01:20:07):
Okay, he came to pick up the lawnmower and he
he took it with him and he cut the grass
for me.

Speaker 1 (01:20:21):
And wait, wait, wait he cuts grass for you with
your lawnmower or with his.

Speaker 23 (01:20:26):
Own, with his own Okay, I'm getting a little ahead
of myself. Okay, so overwhelmed because this guy referred me
to another guy. I had a fence and needed to
be repaired, and they all defended on me the same day.

Speaker 1 (01:20:44):
Well what do you mean by descending on you? Tell
me how it worked.

Speaker 27 (01:20:47):
Well, I had a fence, part of it was down.
I'm a recent widow.

Speaker 1 (01:20:54):
Oh I'm sorry about that, Connie. So listen. So you
had you needed fence repair or two and this guy
did this guy say, hey, I know someone who can
help you with that.

Speaker 27 (01:21:04):
Yeah he did, and he calls the guy.

Speaker 1 (01:21:07):
Yeah, and then.

Speaker 27 (01:21:08):
Wait, I gave the guy came the same day okay
that he called him okay and he was still here,
and he also called the person the spray for the
weed and anyway, Uh, the guy came and looked at
the fence, and he gave me an estimate okay for

(01:21:32):
one side of my fence and two front gates A
thirty one.

Speaker 1 (01:21:40):
Which what's the guy's name? What's the guy's name?

Speaker 27 (01:21:44):
His name is Charles Goulesby Charles, Charles Goulesby g O
O L S B Y.

Speaker 1 (01:21:55):
T oo l s e y he is and girls gules.

Speaker 27 (01:22:02):
O lsby Charles guls He owns the GFTs.

Speaker 18 (01:22:09):
Services l LC.

Speaker 1 (01:22:11):
WHA, my god, okay, So just Charles that you hired
to fix the fence.

Speaker 27 (01:22:16):
The fence, and then we ended up talking about my
front yard. Okay, I've had a hard time getting grass
to grow because of fine treats. And he says, well
I can do that too.

Speaker 19 (01:22:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:22:27):
But without going through each and every item, here's what
I want to know. Were you cheated by these people.

Speaker 27 (01:22:34):
Terribly? This begins with twenty eighth of May.

Speaker 1 (01:22:37):
How much money have you paid them in full?

Speaker 27 (01:22:42):
About five six.

Speaker 1 (01:22:47):
Thousand, and how much work did you get done for
that not much. Now did you pay did you pay
Charles the sixth grand or did you pay Charles and
the other guy?

Speaker 27 (01:23:00):
Well, Charles wonted twenty five hundred up front for the
yard and the fans, so you paid him, so I
like the full ideas. Okay, yeah, And that was the
twenty eighth around the twenty eighth of May.

Speaker 23 (01:23:15):
And my gate is still not finished, so okay.

Speaker 1 (01:23:20):
But the total you paid him was twenty eight hundred.

Speaker 27 (01:23:24):
No, I paid him forty nine hundred dollars.

Speaker 1 (01:23:28):
Oh my god.

Speaker 27 (01:23:30):
Yeah, no, this Charles Goolsby, and they have treated me
so badly. I have phone calls and messages and texts.

Speaker 1 (01:23:38):
Hold on, they go Charles Gouldsby. You paid and he
he took your money forty nine hundred. How much did
the other guy take? What was that guy's name?

Speaker 27 (01:23:52):
Four hundred dollars? But he was supposed to have come
back and helped, you know, put some to try to
grow the grass back in the backyard, but he never
did return to do that.

Speaker 1 (01:24:05):
So that's over the five brand. Then you've spent right, right, okay,
listen right, do you have a phone number for this?
The five hundred dollars I don't even want to bother
with right now. I want to just this Goulesby. You
have not gotten forty nine hundred dollars worth of work, right.

Speaker 27 (01:24:24):
I don't believe I have, because he hasn't finished anything.
And the plant said he planted on the landscape job.
Half of them are dead. They're dying. And he didn't
even finish the job.

Speaker 1 (01:24:36):
So Goulesby did more than fix the fence.

Speaker 27 (01:24:40):
Well, his company. He hired the immigrants to come in
and work. That's another thing. And I don't think they
were even trained. And they weren't paid either.

Speaker 1 (01:24:49):
I don't know. So you wanted to fix the fence
and do some landscaping.

Speaker 27 (01:24:55):
And do some landscaping on the front yard.

Speaker 1 (01:24:57):
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(01:25:43):
Hi Tom Martino here three O three seven one three
talks seven one three eight two five five. Okay, we're
going to We're gonna have Connie speak to deputy Doc.
We're going to try to call this contractor. Connie. Okay, Connie,
so hold on and I'm gonna get give you one
of our deputies who's going They're gonna help you by
calling these people? And what do you want them to do?

(01:26:05):
Do you want some money back? Er? Do you want
them to finish? What do you want? Connie? What do
you actually want?

Speaker 27 (01:26:11):
I would ideally I would like my money back and
just deal with other people. These people have wiped their
feet on me.

Speaker 1 (01:26:18):
You're right, you're right now, Connie. How long? How long
have you been widowed?

Speaker 27 (01:26:24):
My husband passd the third of September last year?

Speaker 1 (01:26:27):
Oh my goodness, this year? That yeah, almost a year.
And may I ask how old you are?

Speaker 27 (01:26:34):
Eighty four?

Speaker 1 (01:26:35):
Eighty four? Well, you know what the reason we asked
that is. We we there's a very special problem when
these people take advantage of people at risk, and when
you're over a certain age, you're considered a senior at risk.
So this sucks. This is bad. Connie. I'm happy you
called me. Hold on, uh Kitschina, get her information for

(01:26:57):
deputy doc. I can't stand it when the when these
a holes take advantage of older women like this, I
mean widows, come on. I mean, my God, that the
Bible even mentions widows and and and children. I mean,
come on, Scott, what is your question? Scott? Welcome? Hey, Tom,

(01:27:22):
how's going I'm doing okay? I just don't like hearing
about elderly woman being ripped off. What's going on with you?

Speaker 18 (01:27:28):
Bro?

Speaker 30 (01:27:29):
It is?

Speaker 16 (01:27:29):
Said? Okay.

Speaker 32 (01:27:30):
I you took a call the other day from somebody
that had two houses, yes, and one was oh yeah,
and he was trying to do uh.

Speaker 1 (01:27:39):
He wanted to get equity out of a house and
not pay it back. And I said, that's very difficult
to do, but there are ways to do it with
there are ways to do it, but you have to
give up the home.

Speaker 32 (01:27:53):
Yeah, And it kicked off something to me. I am
in the process of setting up a will for myself,
and my situation is I don't have a loan. I
don't have any relatives in.

Speaker 16 (01:28:07):
The state of Colorado. They're all further east of here.

Speaker 1 (01:28:10):
Do you have any relatives you care about?

Speaker 32 (01:28:13):
Yes, okay, five of them okay, and then they'll be
in the will. But they're all out of state.

Speaker 16 (01:28:20):
And if I was to pass here, it's my house
and my belongings. I don't want to burden them with
multiple trips. Whoever the executor is multiple trips in here?

Speaker 1 (01:28:35):
Tell me what is your house worth?

Speaker 16 (01:28:38):
About four a little over for me? And it is
completely paid off?

Speaker 1 (01:28:43):
Okay, So you have a four hundred thousand dollars asset
and they'll get a step up in basis, which means
when they sell it they'll have hardly any tax to
pay at all. So what is your question?

Speaker 16 (01:28:55):
Well, if I was to take a reverse loan on it.

Speaker 1 (01:28:59):
In the house, right, I would I bother you? How
old are you?

Speaker 16 (01:29:03):
Sixty three?

Speaker 1 (01:29:04):
Yeah, you're not gonna get as much as if you
were eighty three, but you'll get something. I mean, what
the hell, it's bretter than nothing. And if you don't
care about the leaving the house to anyone, just milk it.

Speaker 16 (01:29:15):
Yeah, do you know how it works?

Speaker 32 (01:29:21):
As far as everything in the house. If something were
to happen to be the Yeah, let.

Speaker 1 (01:29:26):
Me tell you how it works, let me tell you
or yeah, the best thing for you if do your
relatives care about inheriting your home? No, okay, got then
here's what happens. Here's what happens in a reverse loan.
You just take a reverse loan, and your only charged

(01:29:46):
interest on what you draw out, and then that interest
is your new balance along with the loan. So if
you take out ten grand, then the accrued interest, and
then you take out another ten or you take out
a lump sum. Whatever you do, you get and you
may get about one hundred and eighty grand out of
that house. You might get a little more, okay. So

(01:30:09):
you have to keep paying taxes and insurance, and you
can use some of those proceeds to do it. But
what you do then is you don't make a payment
and then you just live there. Now what happens is
this is going to accrue and keep accruing, and no
matter how long you live, they can't ask you to
leave and they can't ask for payback. Okay, but at
some point you're going to run out of the money

(01:30:30):
that you can draw out. But that's why you should
be judicious with the money and let it last you.
But once you do that, you're done as far as
paying back. You don't have to worry about anything personal
unless you want to, because when you go, your house

(01:30:50):
goes and somebody will come in from the lender and
the government and they will simply liquidate everything or throw
it away literally and then sell your house.

Speaker 32 (01:31:01):
Okay, Like like, say, I do get one hundred and
eighty Could I take that one hundred and eighty and
invest it with the Rocky Mountain Retirement Center of the
Rockies or it stays.

Speaker 1 (01:31:13):
You mean, yes, you can invest it. You can do
an annuity and that's not even a bad idea. You
can do an annuity that will produce income to supplement
your Social Security. Yes, you can do that. Okay, yeah,
a lot of people actually do that. Now you might think, wow,
that sounds dirty. How am I doing that? I'm going
to be getting income, plus I'm not paying back the house.

(01:31:34):
I mean, people do it all the time. That's what
a reverse loan allows you to do. People the people
who loan reverse loans, and the government knows a certain
amount of people will not pay that loan back and
walk away from the house.

Speaker 7 (01:31:51):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:31:52):
So let's say theoretically you took out a lumpsum just
to even it out. Let's say your house is goes
up there, it's more and you think, let's say you
take out two hundred grand, and that two hundred grand
you put in an annuity. And are you on Social
Security right now?

Speaker 7 (01:32:08):
Yes?

Speaker 8 (01:32:08):
I am.

Speaker 16 (01:32:09):
What do you get a month the twenty one?

Speaker 1 (01:32:14):
Why'd you take it early? Why'd you take it early?

Speaker 16 (01:32:19):
I don't have an answer to that.

Speaker 32 (01:32:23):
I don't want to be living into my eighties and nineties.

Speaker 16 (01:32:29):
And that's where you.

Speaker 1 (01:32:30):
Now remember this, Remember what do you mean you don't
want to be living into your agers?

Speaker 16 (01:32:34):
I don't want to end up in a home.

Speaker 1 (01:32:36):
Oh okay, so listen. What you do is, if you
are sixty three, you got plenty of life, you really do.
If you take care of yourself, so you can take
the money after your sixty six, let's say, or sixty seven,
that'll fester for a while. You'll get a pretty good

(01:32:56):
chunk of money every month from that for the rest
of your life.

Speaker 16 (01:33:00):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:33:01):
Make sure you've got to make sure it is a
fixed indexed annuity.

Speaker 32 (01:33:09):
Okay, Okay, Now I'm already invested with the Retirement Center
of the Rocky Yas.

Speaker 1 (01:33:16):
Okay, they're good people. They sell, they sell those. How
much you have invested? Do you mind saying you don't
have to, but how much you have invested with them
up there?

Speaker 16 (01:33:25):
Yeah, I'm I'm over three hundred.

Speaker 1 (01:33:29):
Okay, well that's good. That's good. Then you add to
that and you can do you don't put all of
it in an annuity, but put some of it. They'll
counsel you. They'll go over the annuities with you, and
then how much it'll pay in five years and just
do the math. The reason I say wait till you're
sixty six, you have to wait because you're because you

(01:33:53):
took Social Security early. You can't have too much income
until your full retirement age or it'll count against But
they know all that. They'll help you with that rpcenter
dot com. They'll help you.

Speaker 32 (01:34:08):
And you're saying, hold off on the reverse until I'm
sixty seve, No.

Speaker 1 (01:34:13):
No, no, you don't have to hold off on the reverse.
You can do the reverse now, okay. In fact, you
the sooner the better, and then by the annuity as
soon as possible. What I mean is you don't want
to turn it into income until you're about full retirement
age or older. Like if you could keep it from

(01:34:33):
sixty three to seventy and then turn on the income
at seventy, that would be awesome you'd make. You'll be
surprised how much money you'll have to take out every month.

Speaker 32 (01:34:44):
You intercepted my question because I was going to ask
if I drew it at sixty three the say two hundred,
would it be charged as income on my taxes for
next year?

Speaker 16 (01:34:55):
But you're saying no, No.

Speaker 1 (01:34:57):
A reverse loan is never taxed and the annuity is
not taxed. All the earnings are tax free. The only
time you pay tax on that annuity is when you're seventy,
let's say, and you start taking income of three or
four grand a month. When you start taking your income,
you'll pay normal tax on it.

Speaker 16 (01:35:15):
Okay, okay com Yeah, I.

Speaker 1 (01:35:18):
Wish you the best, bro, Thank you for asking, and
don't make a lot of mistakes. Go to trusted people. Okay,
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(01:36:04):
Ortino here at three all three seven one three talks
seven one three two five five, Patricia, what's going on
with Vivid? Is this the home security company?

Speaker 7 (01:36:14):
It is?

Speaker 1 (01:36:15):
What's going on with it?

Speaker 21 (01:36:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 33 (01:36:17):
So basically we have been promised many things, meaning like credits.

Speaker 1 (01:36:25):
When did you get the system to begin with?

Speaker 33 (01:36:28):
So we've had it for a couple of years, okay
at our old house, so we moved recently, and of
course there's a fee for when they come out and
take it out right put it back in right. So
what had happened was both times we have just had
issues with them coming out, like the when they were
supposed to bring it put it in. They we have

(01:36:51):
a four hour window and nobody came and we got
to call. My husband got a call fifteen minutes before
our window closed, saying, oh, I guess he called in
six so nobody's coming. Yeah, like okay, well, you know
my husband was kind of irritated. You know, I took
off work and it was just you know. So the
lady's like, well, if you call, you know, we might
be able to you know, work with you and maybe

(01:37:12):
give you some credits for the service calls. So I
was like, okay, So they installed it.

Speaker 1 (01:37:18):
I called. When did they finally install it in your
new place? How long did it take? June? So we
moved in April and wait wait, wait April, mate, you
didn't have to pay for those monitoring fees did you
while you were moved?

Speaker 33 (01:37:32):
Well, we did, but they said that they will go
ahead and credit us back and they finally did I
see it maybe a.

Speaker 1 (01:37:38):
Couple Okay, good for the So you moved in April
and the system was moved in June.

Speaker 33 (01:37:45):
Well, we moved in April and they came in April
to take it out. So we didn't have any systems
system until May or well they they were supposed to
come in May.

Speaker 27 (01:37:54):
They did not come.

Speaker 33 (01:37:55):
That's when we had that issue. So then we called
and so they were booked and everything. So we had
to wait till June.

Speaker 1 (01:38:00):
Okay, so hold on now, what is Let's forget all
about all that right now? Now you have Vivid. What's
the problem now?

Speaker 33 (01:38:08):
Right now? So they will they keep going back. We
were supposed to get those fees for their home, you know,
for them coming out credited back to us.

Speaker 1 (01:38:19):
Is that because of wait wait wait, credited back because
of those monitoring fees you had paid them, or.

Speaker 33 (01:38:25):
Is that in addition to that for so of the
issues that we had with scheduling and it taking so long?

Speaker 1 (01:38:31):
And okay, so but let me get us straight. Though,
you got a credit for the monthly payments you were
paying for nothing, but now you want in addition to that,
you want them to credit you for the installation fees.

Speaker 33 (01:38:45):
Well, yeah, so that's what that we were promised. I
called a Joe and I wrote it all down and
I told him our story and he's like, yeah, no
that we're sorry about that. Yes, we can definitely take
care of those for you and your months that you
didn't have your service. I was like, oh, pay thanks, cool?

Speaker 1 (01:39:00):
How much does how much are we talking about right now?

Speaker 7 (01:39:04):
Three dollars?

Speaker 33 (01:39:05):
We were we were expecting a credit of three hundred
dollars plus that forty one you know for the month.

Speaker 1 (01:39:11):
Wait, I thought you were I thought you already got
that part the monthly feace.

Speaker 33 (01:39:15):
Yeah, we did. This was back in like, oh god,
I went right.

Speaker 1 (01:39:19):
Now, if we call them and make a demand, it's
for three hundred bucks.

Speaker 33 (01:39:24):
That's what we initially wanted. Yes, But now they're saying
because they can't find the notes, they cannot find the recording,
nobody knows of the Joe who promised me that. And
then I called, we were calling me.

Speaker 1 (01:39:36):
Wait a minute, wait a minute of so for the inconvenience,
you don't have any record of the credit promise?

Speaker 33 (01:39:44):
No, And see that's the thing, like id when I
was talking to Joe, I was like, can you please
put in you know, the notes, so nothing happens, blah
blah blah. He's like, I'm actually doing it right now.
It was all peachy, but and then but yeah, I'm
gonna behold now.

Speaker 23 (01:39:59):
I know, And now they cannot find they signed all.

Speaker 1 (01:40:01):
The others, so do they wait? So they flat out
refuse to do anything else.

Speaker 33 (01:40:06):
And so like right now, I just called about like
an hour ago. And every time I have called so
many times I'm on the phone with them for over
an hour now. They could only do one hundred and
fifty when wait, wait, wait wait, were like.

Speaker 1 (01:40:18):
But hold on, so you at least got them to
do one fifty.

Speaker 33 (01:40:22):
No, well, yeah they won't. They say that they'll do
one fifty. But I but back in August when we
were find no, I get it, I get it.

Speaker 1 (01:40:29):
I know, yeah, it went from three hundred to one fifty.
But I want to ask something. Did you get any
Why did they decide to do one fifty?

Speaker 33 (01:40:39):
That's all that they because there was no notes for
this three hundred dollars promise. So the supervisors like, the
best I could do is one fifty.

Speaker 1 (01:40:46):
Did you get a record of at least that one?

Speaker 33 (01:40:49):
They can't, wouldn't. Well I don't know if no, because
every time I talk to somebody like I can't, I
just thought.

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(01:41:36):
Tom Martine, your troubleshooter three oh three seven to one
three talk Patricia, Hey, Kitschina. I want to get someone
to call vivint and argue with them for Patricia, because
I mean, this, this sucks. I think what they need
to do? Where is it right now? Where does this
stand right now?

Speaker 33 (01:41:55):
By the way, I called about an hour ago Intoman.

Speaker 1 (01:42:00):
That's when they said they'd give you the one fifty, right, one.

Speaker 33 (01:42:04):
Fifty, And then he's like, but I can maybe do
another twenty five, and how about you one fifty this
month and we can do the rest next month.

Speaker 1 (01:42:12):
Wait wait, wait, wait, one fifty this month. And when
they say the rest next month, they mean twenty five
next month or another one?

Speaker 33 (01:42:19):
No, no, just twenty five. There's no notes in for them.

Speaker 1 (01:42:23):
Let me let me ask you this. Let me ask
you this, Patricia. I don't know how important this issue
is to you, but are you willing to settle for
the let's say one eighty five or excuse me, one
seventy five.

Speaker 33 (01:42:36):
Yeah, when they promised this, we can't do three hundred,
but we can do two, we were fine, and I
was like, fine, just to get it over with, we'll
pay the difference. I called on Monday and they I
was like, I'm not giving another card because they are
trying to charge my card. I just saw like one
thousand dollars. Now, I don't know what they're doing on
their side, but so he gave me the number. I
was going to send a check and he's like, it's
going to be updated in our system. You're two hundred

(01:42:57):
dollars credit. But it's still not. But now, yeah, I
call it and today now it's only one hundred and sixty.
So they go back on their word. And so I'm
willing to pay.

Speaker 1 (01:43:05):
But you know you're sick and tired. Well, I know
what you're you're pissed off. I don't blame you. I
don't blame you. Hey, yeah, Kachina, who do we have
available to call Vivid and just say, look, we're watching this.
It sucks. This woman's been banned. Who do we have
that can call for her. We have bo or Chopper.

(01:43:28):
Let's do it with bo. Okay, let's do this for
Deputy Bo. Hold on, We're going to have somebody call
you and reach out to you. It might be Monday,
but we'll intercede and see what we can do for you.
We have some pretty good luck with our standing crew
of jeputies, even Doc Yeah, I know, even Deputy Doc. Hey,

(01:43:50):
so get let's get that too. I'm putting it down
for Bow. Now, what about a nineteen sixty eight Motorola
record player? I call it junk? What do you call it?

Speaker 21 (01:44:03):
Bill?

Speaker 1 (01:44:04):
I'm just kidding, Bill. Yeah, you have a nineteen sixty
eight Motorola record player.

Speaker 17 (01:44:11):
Wow, it's a five foot SiO AMFM oh I know
what that is.

Speaker 1 (01:44:18):
You have the console?

Speaker 17 (01:44:20):
Yeah, the contole.

Speaker 1 (01:44:21):
Okay, hold on and we'll come back to you and more.
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seven one three eight two five five. I want to
go right to a possible scam. After I talked to
Bill about his sixty eight Motorola console stereo. I've looked

(01:45:47):
it up. Oh my gosh. Now they can be used
for boat anchors. But I'll tell you what, Bill, what
do you need help with? Bill? You need help hauling
it off to the dump or what? Bill?

Speaker 7 (01:45:59):
No?

Speaker 17 (01:45:59):
No, it's steel like brand noon have become wood cabinet
the whole nine yards. Everything works on an a.

Speaker 1 (01:46:08):
MFM row Oh really very cool, AMFM radio stereo and
TV right no TV oh that's even worse. Okay, So
no TV, so it's just AMFM radio stereo as speakers, right, yes,
So what's your question? What do you need help with?

Speaker 17 (01:46:26):
Well, I'm trying to find out who can fix it.
Everything works on it, except they won't change the records automatically.
I mean, it will work if you do them.

Speaker 1 (01:46:38):
You mean where you used to stack them and that
they would drop down on that spindle. That's correct, I
remember that. I remember that. And now the spindle stopped
dropping the records or they yeah, but yeah, okay, and
the arm stopped automatically moving over to where they record is.

Speaker 7 (01:47:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:47:02):
Yeah, it just won't do it automatically.

Speaker 1 (01:47:05):
When did it stop?

Speaker 17 (01:47:08):
Oh, I don't know a few years ago.

Speaker 1 (01:47:11):
Like forty years ago. No, I'm just kidding. So okay,
I know that there was there was a guy that
specialized in old electronics. I'm trying to figure it out
right now. I used them once. Now, gosh, there, I
know there are geeks out there right now there, you know,

(01:47:32):
by the way, I know why you can find someone.
Even though the consoles are rare and far and in between,
there are still a lot of people who have turntables. Now,
there aren't a lot of automatic turntables. All the turntables
that came later in life, you would have to set
the needle on the record and do your own thing.

(01:47:56):
But they had a lot of really high end turntables.
And are you googling it? Jesse was? I'm just curious.
There's old fashioned. What do we would we call it? Vintage? No,
vintage electronics, vintage electronics? Vintage? I would say vintage electronic repair.

(01:48:17):
Maybe that's what we want to look for. You know,
what did you look on the internet, sir?

Speaker 25 (01:48:24):
Well?

Speaker 17 (01:48:25):
I tried to put the model number in Motorola model number,
but I couldn't get anything.

Speaker 1 (01:48:30):
I'll be a son of a gun. They're coming up here.
Vintage electronics, Yeah, I got some here that came up.
I don't know of any that's the problem. Now, if
anyone listening could help us, we'll pass it on to
uh Bill. We'll pass it on. Let's see vintage. Now
there's vintage electronics repair in South Yeah, it's really hard

(01:48:55):
to find the ones though some of them don't do
the uh well, this one stereo repair services. They work
on the electronics, but yours is more of the mechanical problem.
That's gonna be That's what I believe you're Wait, this
is showing Nope, this isn't showing. I'm looking at this
one guy site, but it's not showing consoles or anything.

(01:49:16):
It's showing more or less other kinds. Let's get MC
call and see. Hey, do me a favor, Kachina, call
this number, Call this number and see if If they do,
I'm going to send it. Let's see. I'll just give
you the numbers. Three oh three Are you there?

Speaker 21 (01:49:37):
She listening to me?

Speaker 1 (01:49:38):
Okay, three three seven, nine to four eighty thirty seven.
Ask if they do any repairs on consoles, fast and
affordable equipment. Wait a minute, Panasonic, Sony, Morans, Yamaha, Dinon
and more. You're the end. More you have the Motorola.
Motorola was one of the big places in the day.

(01:50:00):
This is called venance repair or whatever. Maybe they know
doctor Dan's Doctor Dan's Vintage Auto Repair. You ought to
hop on the on Google and just look at some
of these men put in vintage electronic repair. Bill. Just
be careful, be careful, man, because I know a lot

(01:50:20):
of people who have had things lost forever. People come
and pick them up. You'd rather have somebody come to
the house and try to fix it there. When you
drop it off or they pick it up, you take
a risk unless we can do some background checking on them.
I'll be happy to help you pick the right place
once you locate one, if you think you might, if

(01:50:43):
you if you think you can find one, but try Katschina,
did you call that number of the answering? Well, what's going? Okay,
let me just see something. I'm just gonna ask. I'm
just gonna call on my cell phone here, damn it.
I'm just gonna call and ask three oh three seven
ninety four eighty three. I'm gonna call and see hold on,

(01:51:07):
hold on. The one I just called does not do
the repairs. Oh okay, they don't the one you just
go they don't do the on the consoles. Oh okay,
never mind? All right. Then you said dance? Is that?
Is that another one?

Speaker 20 (01:51:22):
Doctor dance?

Speaker 1 (01:51:22):
Doctor dance? But what they just say vintage audio repair.
They're showing the regular sterios, They're not showing the consoles.

Speaker 10 (01:51:30):
What he says in here, it says their services include
reel to real old tubes, amplifiers, vintage record players.

Speaker 1 (01:51:38):
Oh oh oh, are his favorites Dans and then.

Speaker 20 (01:51:42):
If you have a hold of them, you might want
to tell him his website sucks.

Speaker 1 (01:51:45):
His website does suck. Wh God, some of these people. Man,
Come on, get with the twentieth century, twenty first century?
What am I? I'm ast century behind too? Hold on,
I'm calling this guy Dans.

Speaker 2 (01:51:58):
I don't want it.

Speaker 1 (01:52:03):
I'm gonna see what he says. He's gonna hang up
on me. He hates me. Probably is this doctor Dan
from Is this doctor Dan Vincace? Audio repair? Do you
do a Motorola consoles? Like the automatic record feeder is
not feeding records? Do you fix those?

Speaker 9 (01:52:24):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:52:24):
No, it's not. I I don't actually know. I'm yeah, okay,
this guy knows. Hey, doctor Dan, I want to ask

(01:52:51):
I want to ask something real quick. My name is
Tom Martino, and a guy called my radio show. In fact,
I'm on the air right now. You're not on the air.
I have you on my cell phone. They can't hear you.
Can we call you right back and get you on
the air so you can talk to him? Yeah, man,
it's not going to be hard, I promise I I'll
go easy. It's no You're the only one we can
find that even knew anything about it. All right, we'll

(01:53:14):
call you right back, bro. Hold on, Okay, let's call
him back. Here's his number of Kachina seven. Well, if
I say it out loud, everyone's a call. Well go
call him right now, seven to zero. She dialing to
Okay seven two zero nine three thirty six eighty eight.
Hold on, Bill, Well, we'll talk to you in a minute.
Let's this guy sounds like he knows what he's doing.

(01:53:37):
And as soon as you get him on, I'll get
off of this call. But I want to start with Demonica.
Demonica has an email scam? What's going on?

Speaker 25 (01:53:48):
Hey, Tom, thanks for taking the call. I forwarded the
emails to the Daphne at Troubleshooter and if that's still
a good.

Speaker 1 (01:53:56):
Email, No, Daphne, you Daphne still works with us. But
but what what is the issue?

Speaker 25 (01:54:02):
Well, I got an email eleven fifteen this morning, so
they're excited to confirm of the zte ax On forty
ultra in the amount of two hundred and sixty fifty
seven cents.

Speaker 16 (01:54:16):
Yeah, and there's a phone number right, And I'm like,
what the hell is this?

Speaker 1 (01:54:20):
It's a scam. It's a scam.

Speaker 27 (01:54:22):
Oh, I know it is, So I dial this number
and what did they say?

Speaker 14 (01:54:26):
This guy was so belligerent.

Speaker 25 (01:54:29):
He called me everything but a lady.

Speaker 7 (01:54:32):
And why now?

Speaker 1 (01:54:32):
Why did he call you names?

Speaker 19 (01:54:34):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:54:34):
Hold on, I got to go to doctor Dan. I'll
come right back to you, I promise. Hold On, is
Dan on? Zeon? She's getting on. Okay, I want to
try to Okay, okay, doctor Dan, thank you very much. So, uh,
let's see who is it? Bill called us and he's
on the phone. You're on the air right now. So Bill,
you have a nineteen sixty eight Motorole record player and
has the turntable in it and the AMFM radio right right?

Speaker 20 (01:54:57):
Correct?

Speaker 1 (01:54:58):
Now? Doctor Dan said, a lot of those turntables, even
though they're in Motorola units, are made by Zenith. Is
that right, Dan?

Speaker 21 (01:55:06):
Correct?

Speaker 1 (01:55:07):
And do you work on those when the theater and
the the.

Speaker 7 (01:55:10):
You know, I do you do?

Speaker 11 (01:55:12):
I do?

Speaker 7 (01:55:13):
I do work on them. And you don't need to
bring in the whole console. You can remove the turntable
from the console and just bring me the turntable.

Speaker 1 (01:55:23):
Does it unplug or does he have to cut wires out?

Speaker 30 (01:55:26):
Is that as unplugged? It does unplug? You need to
remove the back and then on the top of the turntable,
if you're looking at it from the top, there should
be two bolts or three bolts, just screw heads, one
usually about eleven o'clock, the other one at about four o'clock.
And then basically you follow the bolts through the turntable

(01:55:49):
by looking at the back, and those bolts will terminate
with a little clip on it on the end.

Speaker 7 (01:55:55):
Huh, at a right angle to the bolt.

Speaker 1 (01:55:58):
Got it? Yeah?

Speaker 30 (01:56:00):
He just flip one side up on each of the bolts.
You need to remove three wires.

Speaker 7 (01:56:07):
One's going to go to the motor and the other
two or are for the right.

Speaker 1 (01:56:11):
And the left audio and they're plugged in. And they're
plugged in, then that sounds easy, and then you can
you can take it over to you, Bill, Bill, that
might sound too much for you, bro, but maybe you
can get somebody to help you. Do you think do
you have any skill at all? Bill?

Speaker 16 (01:56:28):
I have a little bit, but it does.

Speaker 1 (01:56:31):
And we're going to give out his number. You may
you may want to call him afterwards, or you might
want to try try getting somebody who can help. It
sounds pretty easy, he says. There's just a couple of
bolts that go through and they have a clip on
the end of him.

Speaker 7 (01:56:44):
And then he says, I talked people through it all
the time.

Speaker 1 (01:56:47):
Okay, good, good, good, And I'm going to ask you
something now that I have on your phone because this
is fascinating. Do you stay busy with old crap?

Speaker 7 (01:56:55):
I mean, really, the pandemic is? What did it for me?

Speaker 28 (01:57:01):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:57:01):
You mean it slowed your way down?

Speaker 22 (01:57:03):
Well?

Speaker 16 (01:57:03):
Oh no, no, no, no, no no.

Speaker 7 (01:57:06):
I was miserable during the pandemic. I didn't have time
to sleep. Oh there were so many people that were
at my door wanting my service.

Speaker 1 (01:57:14):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (01:57:15):
And since that, since it would be May of twenty twenty,
because it didn't really start in March. That was the lockdown.
But it was awful.

Speaker 21 (01:57:24):
It was just awful.

Speaker 7 (01:57:25):
It really was. I had to hire an assistance. Wow,
I deal with a face mask thing and it just
I'm a lot more direct now than I was four
years ago.

Speaker 1 (01:57:35):
You have unbelievable ratings. You have really good ratings. How
long you've been around.

Speaker 7 (01:57:42):
I've been around doing this in Denver for fifteen years.
I've always found it as a passion. But it's very easy, Tom.
They basically treat people the way you want to be treated. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
and it seems to work very well.

Speaker 1 (01:57:56):
Anybody listening. It's called Doctor Dan's Vintage Audio Repair. Now
what does it not include? I mean, I see a
lot of old stuff. What do you not work on?

Speaker 7 (01:58:07):
Basically, if it has an HDMI connector or any type
of surround sound equipment, a good rule of thumb that
it's made in the twenty first century. I basically can't.
I don't like looking at them.

Speaker 28 (01:58:19):
They're harder to repair.

Speaker 7 (01:58:22):
So we go back earlier, right to the beginning nineteen twenty.
But I'm getting out of that too. They're becoming a
little too old for me.

Speaker 19 (01:58:30):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:58:31):
But basically, you work on old stuff up to up
to two up to like ninety, well two thousand.

Speaker 30 (01:58:40):
Ninety two, work on several fers up to twenty ten, twenty.
I just repaired one that was four years ago, a
four month four years old, about two months ago.

Speaker 1 (01:58:52):
Oh man, thank you for taking that. They are Yeah,
I'm sorry, Isaac. Thank you for taking my call and
coming on on short notice like this my pleasure dot
and I'm gonna give out Can can I give out
your number?

Speaker 7 (01:59:05):
Absolutely?

Speaker 1 (01:59:05):
All right? So this is doctor Dan Vintage Audio Repair
and it's seven to zero nine three nine thirty six
eighty eight. If you got old stuff and he sounds me,
do you know how? Like instantly he knew from a
motorole in nineteen sixty how to remove the turntable. That's
pretty damn in pressing. He knows right what you're talking about.

(01:59:25):
Seven two zero nine three nine thirty six eighty eight?
Did I do fifteen? Yet I didn't?

Speaker 29 (01:59:29):
Did I?

Speaker 1 (01:59:30):
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(02:00:14):
three O three seven one three talk three oh three
seven one three eight two five five So Dominica, Dominica, Dominica.
Thank you, sorry, Dominica. That is a scam. When you
called the guy dressed you down, he was really pissed off.
Why did you tell him you knew it was a scam?

Speaker 25 (02:00:34):
Now, I said, I wanted to know what this was
and he said, it's a bitcoin. Don't you know a
guy by the name of Cooper Jackson.

Speaker 27 (02:00:44):
I said, I don't know who man. Oh that is no.

Speaker 25 (02:00:46):
And I didn't order any of this and he said,
well too f and bad and you ken f and
cancel it, and he went on and I said, stop
talking to me like that. I don't even know what.

Speaker 14 (02:00:58):
You're talking about.

Speaker 25 (02:00:59):
I don't know anything about that.

Speaker 14 (02:01:00):
I know nothing about viitcom.

Speaker 31 (02:01:02):
We'll go to your computer.

Speaker 25 (02:01:04):
If you go to your computer, I can walk you
through how to cancel it.

Speaker 19 (02:01:09):
And I said I.

Speaker 25 (02:01:10):
Don't have a computer and I'm not doing that.

Speaker 1 (02:01:12):
I didn't do any of this.

Speaker 25 (02:01:15):
And he continued to f ball me this and that,
and I'm like, you don't talk to a lady like that,
And finally, Tom, I just hung up on him. But
like I said, I forwarded do the email. And as
I'm looking at this email, it says that you will
be sent a SMARTPHONEUS shift. If I don't cancel something,

(02:01:38):
you don't have to.

Speaker 1 (02:01:39):
Cancel anything, just ignore it. No, Yeah, but I'm glad
you told us about it. Seriously and I'm serious, I'm
making a note of it. Paul's got a transmission question, Paul,
what vehicle are we talking about?

Speaker 18 (02:01:52):
All My sister's in the market for a vehicle, and
we're looking at like Toyota, Corollas and Kia Fortes, and
they all these kind of budget vehicles have the CVT transmission.

Speaker 1 (02:02:03):
The CVT is it called, right?

Speaker 28 (02:02:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 20 (02:02:05):
Continue to say verbal transmission.

Speaker 18 (02:02:07):
Yeah, And I don't know I thought those have I
thought those went away because they had much problems with
them with Nissans.

Speaker 1 (02:02:15):
But you know, with such good cars like Toyotas, why
do they use those transit? Is everyone going to? So?

Speaker 20 (02:02:21):
It basically all comes down to fuel economy. I mean,
they can get better fuel economy compared to a regular transmission.

Speaker 18 (02:02:29):
So what if if my you know, help my sister
per the vehicle, would you stay away from anything with
a CVT or some better than others or.

Speaker 1 (02:02:37):
Will they all need to be rebuilt at some point?

Speaker 20 (02:02:39):
Pretty much? But pretty much what They all need to
be rebuilt at one point or another.

Speaker 1 (02:02:43):
At one point when how long are they good for?

Speaker 20 (02:02:47):
Well, I mean you look at the Nissans. We commonly
see those, you know, any anywhere from about ninety to
one hundred and ten thousand miles.

Speaker 1 (02:02:53):
That's not terrible. What about okay, so what about Toyotas.

Speaker 20 (02:02:55):
The Toyotas, we don't see them near as often. You know,
they're probably looking more harden forty hundred and fifty thousand, Jesse.

Speaker 10 (02:03:01):
What do you think of the same thing service maintaining
and servicing your vehicle? CBTs still need to be changed.

Speaker 1 (02:03:07):
Well, that's not terrible, Paul. He's saying you can get
over one hundred thousand miles on him.

Speaker 20 (02:03:11):
And in my opinion quite frankly Subar who has the
best in the market. But when those do go down,
they're also probably the most.

Speaker 1 (02:03:18):
Expensive expensive, but they last the longest. And do any
regular sized cars have these or CBTs?

Speaker 20 (02:03:25):
Or what regular sized cars like a Super Forester?

Speaker 1 (02:03:29):
Okay, look so they Okay, what about American cars? Any CVTs?

Speaker 20 (02:03:33):
Yeah, there's plenty of them out there inside.

Speaker 1 (02:03:34):
What about Cherman cars? What a my luxury cars? All
of the Mercedes, all of them. Do I have one?
What do you have the X seven?

Speaker 20 (02:03:42):
I don't think so.

Speaker 1 (02:03:43):
No, so the only smaller or is it bigger too?
Like like like, are they all going.

Speaker 20 (02:03:48):
To go to them? No, they're not all going to
go to them. And Ansan he brought them up a
minute ago. You know, they got a dirty name for
him because they fall down all the time. They actually
were in process of R and D to make one
to go inside the Titan. But with all the problems
that they had inside the smaller vehicles, so elected against it.

Speaker 1 (02:04:04):
What about now? Electric uses no transmission? Right technically technically
no so, but they but they would be close to
continuous I mean, in other words, because of the way
those motors work. But they don't change gears, do they No,
they just go directly off torque right correct? Okay, See,
electric cars are a way to go. But hey, Paul,
she's looking at used right. Uh, probably new Why doesn't

(02:04:29):
she consider an electric car? Hey? Doc has one? He
loves What was was it, Doc?

Speaker 21 (02:04:34):
I have a Hyundai Kona.

Speaker 1 (02:04:36):
You love it. It's great and for the price, it's
an suv four wheel drive. It's one wheel drive, front
wheel drive. Okay, it works.

Speaker 21 (02:04:44):
Great, three hundred and something miles on a full tank
on a full.

Speaker 1 (02:04:47):
Charge, and it's got way way and it also has
a single motor. Right, yeah, okay, so three hundred and
something miles on a single charge. You you can and
then tell me about the cost.

Speaker 21 (02:05:00):
Basically it was I picked, I paid twenty seven what
before tax? You know taxes you have to pay it.

Speaker 7 (02:05:07):
I get.

Speaker 1 (02:05:08):
But you're telling me you can get those cars for
twenty seven.

Speaker 21 (02:05:10):
Mind for twenty seven and it's beautiful. Yeah, it's great.
And you know Hyundai has a ten year, one hundred
thousand warranty on the battery.

Speaker 1 (02:05:20):
Paul, I don't know how you beat that. Man.

Speaker 18 (02:05:22):
Well, the only promise she's going to be moving to
very rural Oklahoma.

Speaker 1 (02:05:26):
So what dy have electricity?

Speaker 18 (02:05:28):
I heard light bulbs, but I don't know about the
infrastructure built yet. But we'll see.

Speaker 1 (02:05:34):
No, I mean, yeah, that's true, but I'll tell you.

Speaker 17 (02:05:38):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:05:39):
But they he said, suber is really good if you
want that, But toyotas are pretty damn good too, So
I think that you just got to have it checked out.
Is there a way to check out those transmissions? Or
do you just buy him?

Speaker 20 (02:05:51):
Just no, you can check them out?

Speaker 1 (02:05:53):
You can?

Speaker 20 (02:05:54):
How do you check it the same way you would
any other transmission? I mean you're looking at fluids, you're
looking at whether not there's any particuli the flee game,
how's it working? You're looking for any codes, You're looking
for any problem spots.

Speaker 1 (02:06:04):
So Paul, you want to do that a pre buy
inspection for sure? And did you do you do previse?
Jesse at Honesak Absolutely? What do you charge for those? About? Yeah?
That's about Kevin over at Sheridan Auto take does about
one to twenty and he goes through the entire system.
So Ken wants to talk about a contractor coming up?
Any other questions, give us a call three all three

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seven one three talk. Hey Mike, Mike, what is your
question on EV's? I think this doesn't have to be
a long question. If it is, I'll take ken and
come back to you. What What did you want to
know about EV's?

Speaker 28 (02:07:22):
Well, it's good. Really, a question is more a comment.
What do you think a few hours? A charge to
go three hundred miles? How much time?

Speaker 1 (02:07:34):
No, I said a full charge. I didn't think. I
said a few hours. I think I set a full charge.
But I don't know. I don't know how long it takes.
How long does it take talking?

Speaker 21 (02:07:45):
I really don't know. Because I plugged mine at night.
I wake up in the morning and it's charged.

Speaker 1 (02:07:49):
You do you plug a regular outlet?

Speaker 19 (02:07:51):
No?

Speaker 21 (02:07:51):
No, you have to have a special two twenty put in.
But when they built my house, they had one in
my garage, so that that was a huge difference. I
didn't have that. I probably would not have bought an
Evy car.

Speaker 1 (02:08:01):
Now. Now, I will tell you this though, when you're
on the road there it's not a few hours. They're
supercharger that can do twenty minutes, but you're never going
to be as fast as a gas car. I don't think.

Speaker 20 (02:08:11):
No way.

Speaker 15 (02:08:13):
Is that what you were?

Speaker 1 (02:08:14):
Go ahead?

Speaker 28 (02:08:15):
Yeah, yeah, that was my point. You know, to go
three or a mile? How many minutes would it take
to pump in gasolene into your car?

Speaker 19 (02:08:24):
What?

Speaker 28 (02:08:25):
Two? Three minutes?

Speaker 24 (02:08:26):
No?

Speaker 1 (02:08:26):
No, time wise, I think there's no argument that gasoline
is more convenient. Right now, I think, I mean right now? Well, me,
I don't know. Some people say, like Doc and my son,
he plugs his car and every night or every other night, whatever,
and he just never stops for gas, never changes oil,
never does so to a certain extent, there's that, you know.

(02:08:47):
I don't know. I just don't know. I know this
that my next car will be electric. I will not
buy another gasoline car. I just won't.

Speaker 28 (02:08:55):
Yeah, if you like plugging your phone in every minute
of the day, practically, well it's.

Speaker 1 (02:09:02):
Not that bad, it really is. Electric cars aren't that bad.

Speaker 28 (02:09:08):
It's irritating.

Speaker 1 (02:09:09):
Well, how do you wait? Wait, do you own one?

Speaker 18 (02:09:14):
Huh?

Speaker 1 (02:09:14):
Do you own one?

Speaker 7 (02:09:16):
No?

Speaker 28 (02:09:16):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (02:09:17):
But let me ask you this, Mike, why don't you
think it would be pretty easy to just plug it
in every night.

Speaker 28 (02:09:23):
No I don't. I say an induction charging.

Speaker 23 (02:09:27):
Do you know what that is?

Speaker 1 (02:09:29):
Yeah, you drive over a pad? Yes, yeah, that.

Speaker 28 (02:09:33):
Might be a different story. But I mean to physically
and the doc.

Speaker 1 (02:09:38):
How long does it take you to plug it in?

Speaker 21 (02:09:41):
About fourteen and a half seconds?

Speaker 1 (02:09:43):
Yeah, I mean it's nothing. You get out of your car,
you walk to the back and plug it in. Now,
if you don't have a garage, if you're in a condo,
I mean I can see areas where it would be
inconvenient as hell, you know, or you keep your car.
A lot of people don't have garages, you know. Ken,
what's going on with your contractor?

Speaker 18 (02:10:02):
Oh?

Speaker 31 (02:10:02):
Thank you Tom? Yes, sir, I'm a seventeen year old
homeowner that decided that I wanted to use a little
savings to do a small improvement on my house. So
I hired this general contractor for a total of fifteen
thousand labor to put this on for me.

Speaker 1 (02:10:22):
Very what did you want to put on to do
a good job? What were you going to put on.

Speaker 31 (02:10:25):
A cover over my He wanted to extend the roof
over my back patio?

Speaker 7 (02:10:30):
Got it?

Speaker 1 (02:10:30):
Okay?

Speaker 7 (02:10:31):
So to think it more usable.

Speaker 1 (02:10:33):
Who'd you hire? So? Uh huh, pardon me, who'd you hire?

Speaker 16 (02:10:37):
Who?

Speaker 1 (02:10:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 31 (02:10:39):
If he calls himself Colorado contractor and then his phone.

Speaker 1 (02:10:43):
Number, okay, got it. So what happened himself?

Speaker 8 (02:10:46):
Yeah, so.

Speaker 31 (02:10:49):
He's really slow getting it started. We started like in April.
It didn't finish it chill July. He thought it would
be two three weeks to get it. But that's kind
of really not the issue. He must have burned through
like eight subcontractors doing it, and I know he had
trouble with them. At least three have more were very
upset that they weren't paid what they were supposed to

(02:11:10):
be anyway, So in his contract with me, he agreed
that he would provide me with a lien waivers for
any subs you know, during the project. Well he never
did so in the very end when I paid him everything.

Speaker 1 (02:11:26):
Except by the way, a lean waiver. Just so you know,
a lien waiver doesn't mean anything. Well it really doesn't, okay,
I mean, I mean, I'm telling you really don't. What
a lean waiver says is that he promises you that
if Aleen is on there, he's going to take care
of it, which is his responsibility without a lean waiver,

(02:11:47):
and he can't prevent liens from being filed. No one can.
No lean waver between you and a contractor can prevent
a third party from leaning a property.

Speaker 31 (02:11:56):
From leaning the property. Right, I think I'm on what you're.

Speaker 21 (02:12:00):
Saying, exculpatory.

Speaker 1 (02:12:02):
If he's paid the general, Tom, that's right, it's a defense.
You can get the you can get the lean removed
if you can prove a written contract, primary residence and
full payment. Anyway, So keep going, Paul, So I mean ken.

Speaker 31 (02:12:14):
Sorry, okay, so all right, but nevertheless, end of his
contract he agreed to provide those to me, which he
never did, all right. And then so in the end
I owed him about twenty four hundred in their last payment,
and I said, you know, please just give me those
lean waivers so that I can settle this up and
pay and get you paid.

Speaker 1 (02:12:33):
Well, you're fighting over something useless. But okay, So did
he give him to you or not?

Speaker 7 (02:12:38):
No?

Speaker 1 (02:12:39):
No, he seems I don't think. I don't think you'll
be on solid ground withholding payment.

Speaker 31 (02:12:49):
Okay, I really.

Speaker 1 (02:12:50):
Don't I think that he I think he can actually,
you know, ironically, he can lean your home.

Speaker 31 (02:13:00):
Okay, Well, here's the problem now, and I'm and I'm
having trouble getting somebody to help.

Speaker 1 (02:13:05):
Sure, But.

Speaker 31 (02:13:08):
I told him, I said, you better not put a
mechanics lean on my home for this, because I'm agreeing
to pay you.

Speaker 7 (02:13:14):
Just get me.

Speaker 31 (02:13:14):
Just comply with the contract yourself, you know, because.

Speaker 1 (02:13:18):
I get it.

Speaker 31 (02:13:19):
Contract, Well, I get it. He didn't do. He hasn't
put a mechanics lean. Instead, he calls me up and
he says, you know, when can I stop buy and
give you what I got? And I thought he was
going to come with a handful of lean waivers from
his subs. Instead, I think he sent his girlfriend out
to give me a summons and containt that he filed

(02:13:40):
himself in district court, suing me for between fifteen to
fifty thousand dollars.

Speaker 1 (02:13:48):
Now, why all that? And how much your own.

Speaker 31 (02:13:53):
Twenty four hundred?

Speaker 1 (02:13:54):
How does that get to be? Now? Why is he way?
I don't get it. Why is he suing for so.

Speaker 31 (02:14:00):
I don't need it? I mean, the only thing I
can think of is, and I'm just going to use
the term.

Speaker 28 (02:14:06):
I think he's a litigation bully.

Speaker 1 (02:14:08):
Well wait a minute, does it look like a properly
crafted complaint. Yeah, he still has to substantiate losses. He
can't just make them. I mean, what is his I'd
love to read the complaint? What is his main loss?

Speaker 31 (02:14:25):
Love des send it to you.

Speaker 1 (02:14:26):
I have not.

Speaker 31 (02:14:27):
He claims that he will show his losses at trial.

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(02:15:35):
this is a terrible situation, you know, but I'm going
to say something. Okay, Will he take the money you
owe and drop the case?

Speaker 7 (02:15:48):
Uh?

Speaker 31 (02:15:48):
No, he thanks, He wants another five hundred for this trouble.

Speaker 1 (02:15:51):
Okay, Ken, listen the last email. Listen you had you
had a breach of contract, but you had no loss.
And I'm not giving you leal vice. I'm just gonna
tell you you had no loss.

Speaker 20 (02:16:06):
What's that?

Speaker 1 (02:16:08):
But you don't you don't withhold payment on what could happen?
You had a breach of contract with zero loss, zero
and you took it upon yourself to withhold payment and
you were dead wrong Now you don't think you were,
And as a result, you're facing the consequence and you
will have to pay something now more than what you owe,

(02:16:30):
whether you like that or not. You can take it
to the bank and you can, or you're gonna have
to pay an attorney. Either way, you have lost because
you had faulty reasoning. Okay, Yes, you wanted lean waivers, Okay,
you didn't get them, but you didn't have a loss
as a result of that, but you said not yet.

(02:16:50):
So you're assuming you're automatically going to have a loss,
and in anticipation of a loss, you're withholding payment. Do
you really believe a judge's going to buy that? Do you?

Speaker 22 (02:17:03):
So?

Speaker 31 (02:17:04):
The judge is not going to contain it. He's breached
his own contract, and that's right, simply asking him to.

Speaker 1 (02:17:11):
Comply to this, and Ken, and you still owe the money.
He did the work, You still owe the money. The
breach did not prevent the job from being done. Ken,
You know what, talking to you doesn't matter. You're gonna
have to learn the hard way. But guess what it'll be.
It'll be an education. You want to make another side?
Bet you're gonna lose.

Speaker 31 (02:17:33):
There's one other thing.

Speaker 7 (02:17:34):
What is that?

Speaker 1 (02:17:35):
What is that?

Speaker 31 (02:17:36):
Gotten a letter of intent from one of the three
contractors he had problems with, saying that they are they
intend to follow mechanics lean on my house if this
guy doesn't pay them. Okay, I've already gotten that letter, Okay, Ken.

Speaker 1 (02:17:53):
Good luck to you. Okay, tell that to a judge.
Tell that to a judge just prior to him rendering
a judgment against you. Just tell him that. Okay, you
still have no loss. What's that.

Speaker 31 (02:18:08):
I'll pay him what he's doing.

Speaker 1 (02:18:09):
Well, it's too late now. Now he knows he has
you on the run. He wants he wants money for
his filing. Listen, I don't I think that's being a jerk.
The guy's being a jerk. But but you were, you
were kind of being Listen. You weren't being a jerk.
You were trying to insist on what you thought you
had coming. What I'm saying to you is this, I
listen carefully that yes, he probably should have provided those

(02:18:31):
if he promised in the contract, but by not providing them,
he didn't prevent the job from being done. It's called
quantam Mariott. He he was marrowit. He I meant, he
does deserve to be paid for what he did. You
didn't pay him, You're going to lose. Let that be
a lesson to anyone listening. You can't take the law
into your own hands and think you know how to

(02:18:52):
solve it. You will end up losing. We've seen it
time and time again. I'm Tom martinro save all your
problems for me.