The WOR Saturday Morning Show with Larry Mendte - - 9 - 13 - 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is a podcast from wr uor Saturday Morning Show.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Here's Larry Minty, Hello and welcome this Saturday morning. Coming up,
Republican candidate for mayor Curtis Leewa, who has ten days
to decide whether or not he will drop out of
the race for mayor. Congresswoman Nicole mally Attakas on the
tenor of politics that may have contributed to the assassination

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of Charlie Kirk. The car doctor Ron and Nanian tells
us there is one thing you can do with your
car that will make it last up to three hundred
thousand miles at HR and career expert Greg g and
Grande on when is the time to switch jobs and
how do you tell your boss you're leaving. Now, let's

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start with my earl candidate Curtis Leewa, who we talk
to when the arrest of Tyler Robinson, the man who
is charged with assassinating Charlie Kirk, was taking place. Curtis,
good to see you, Thanks for coming in.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Oh my pleasure.

Speaker 4 (01:02):
You extended a microphone to me so often here at
wr so we can talk about what has been the
most interesting mayoral race ever internationally, nationally, regionally.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
And obviously the most important part locally.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah, it's getting a whole lot of national attention before
we get to the mayor's rays. And I know there's
a big deadline coming up in ten days that I
do want to talk to you about. But let's talk
about the big national story right now. They believe they
have their man now in Utah. What are your thoughts?

Speaker 4 (01:32):
Well, clearly, as having been a victim of gunshots myself
for exercising my write a free speech on the radio
at the time that John Gottisini was on chial, I
ended up getting shot five times at the hollow point bullets.
Very lucky to survive. This issue of Charlie Kirk being
assassinated should send shockwaves through our country, which is best

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known for free speech and democracy. And what he was
doing going from campus and campus and not just using
his bully pulpit, but having debates, forensic debates, always having
a challenger of note take him on the issues in
front of young people. This is what school is supposed
to be about, where you hear two different sides and
then you come to your own conclusions. And then to

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have him assassinated simply because of his point of view.
I mean that is I mean, that's happened in our
history here in America in the sixties when I was
growing up, remember JFK sixty three and then RFK and
then MLK Junior in sixty eight. It happened Maya Kahani
in nineteen ninety not far from me in midtown Rabbin

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in Israel, remember as Prime minister. So we've had a
series of these situations and violence never resolves these kinds
of situations. So I'll be actually a tending a visual
for Charlie Kirk. This isn't not political. He didn't have
to be aligned to him ideologically, but to try to
stop this violence because remember, it will replicate itself.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
All we copycat.

Speaker 4 (03:00):
So it's tonight right at Madison Square, bark Fifth Avenue
and twenty third Street, seven pm. It's the final forte
of the Young Republicans has asked me to speak.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
There'll be other people there.

Speaker 4 (03:11):
Also, just to say, put aside your political differences.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
We don't want anybody to be.

Speaker 4 (03:17):
Hurt in the process of espousing their views. That's what
America is known for. But there have been spurts of
violence in our history, and that's why it's very important
that people come together at this moment of Charlie Kirk's loss.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
One last thing about this before I move on. There's
been a lot of people out there, and there's been
some wild theories, and there's been some theories that make
sense about what motivated him. And more importantly, if he
acted alone. Do you think he acted alone?

Speaker 4 (03:46):
I would think so, But from what I've known of
radical left wing groups, more than likely it's just a
hunch of mind Antifa, because Antifa actually goes to gun rangers.
They train in the summer of George Floyd in twenty twenty,
I got my jaw broken in the streets of New
York City defending people when Bill Deblasio asked the police

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to stand down on June first and June second. If
you remember when Plywood was going up all over the city,
starting with Macy's and then over almost every storefront, and
yet still the rampaging mobs came out at night, Bike
Lives Matter and Antifa.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
They broke my joe with a claw hammer.

Speaker 4 (04:23):
And remember how Biden and also Gerald Nadler was saying
it's just a concept, it's not a reality. No, No,
Antifa is real and he seems to fit the profile,
but I could be completely wrong on this.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yeah, there's a nobody knows. We're going to know a
whole lot in twenty minutes. We're going to try to
take some of that live when the FBI have their
news conference from out in Utah. You got a big
deadline coming up. Yeah, it may not be a big
deadline for you because I think you've already made up
your mind. Oh yeah, yeah, And Leer's just explain ten
days you got to decide whether you're going to drop
out of the race or not. That's the deadline.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (04:56):
The President weighed in on this, and I had always
urged them publicly because I don't speak with the President
and he doesn't speak with me.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
Stay out of the Mayro race.

Speaker 4 (05:06):
You got more important things to deal with, peace between
the Ukrainian Russia, and peace and Gaza. Because every day
that war goes on between Hamas and Israel is a
good day for Johan Mandami. That's how he's gotten a
lot of his gen Z and millennial support. In fact,
you saw the New York Times survey. For the first time,
New Yorkers were more sympathetic to the Hamas couse the

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Palestinian cause and the Israeli cause, and that's.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
Reflected in people who are going to vote.

Speaker 4 (05:32):
And I got to warn everybody out there, I'm a
baby boomer like a lot of you, but we are
no longer the majority, the majority of the population or
millennials gen zas. The majority of the voters are millennials
and gen zs. That's how the president can have an
impact on this election, because if he would bring peace
to Gaza, which he has the potential to do, that

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would take a major campaign plank right away from Zohamandami.
He doesn't want to talk about local issues. He wants
to run against Donald Trump. He wants to talk about
the Palestinian course, anything to distract because on the local issues,
especially crime and public safety, he's extraordinarily weak. That's his
achilles heel, and that's what I constantly go at him at.

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But every day that the press and the candidates talk
about who should drop out is another good day for
Zara Mondami because he doesn't have to talk about issues.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yeah, I get it all, but you have a tough
road to hoe, don't you. First of all, you're Republican,
and so people aren't gonna like you right away because
you're a Republican. It seems like Eric Adams may either
drop out of the race, but he's going to be
a non factor, so they're not going to split the
vote like you hope they would. What is your path
to victory?

Speaker 4 (06:41):
Well, with Eric Adams, I get vertigo. I mean every
other day it's a drama, soap opera, novella. Please for
your own supporters, stay in or get out. You know
he's probably loving every second of this. But again, another
great day for Zara Mandami because nobody's talking about the issues.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
I'm in it.

Speaker 4 (06:59):
When the ten days ends, I'll be opening up my
third headquarters and the fly posh section of Brooklyn. I've
opened them up in Brownsville, Brooklyn. No, no Republican ever
had Brownsville, Brooklyn, Howard Beach, bay Ridge, Bonks. I don't
see Cuomo opening up any headquarters and sid I mean
that's it. But in the case of Eric Adams, his

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his campaign has.

Speaker 3 (07:22):
Collapsed to do what do you want?

Speaker 4 (07:24):
But I have also the independent line protect animals, and
that calls for no kill shelters and for putting animal
abuses in jail, and that resonates with a lot of
women who might never vote for me as a Republican,
but they say, I'm going to vote for you because
nobody else is talking animal rights issues except for Critical
Lee and his wife Nancy, who was featured in our

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first commercials.

Speaker 5 (07:45):
Great.

Speaker 6 (07:46):
She was wonderful. You should have her out in front more.
Not only that, notice I didn't say a word in
those bold a miracle, yep, exactly. That's the best part
of being asleep was my wife Nancy.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
She was wonderful. She could do voiceover work that she
has a great voice. Thanks so much, Curtis Lee. Come
back again anytime you want. We'd love to have you.
We're pulling for you. Thank you so much, my pleasure,
Thank you, though still to come. Career advice expert Greg
g and Grande says you should always be looking for
a new job. That's when Saturday Morning continues.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
Now more of the WOOR Saturday Morning Show and Larry Minte.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
Are you thinking about looking for a new job? Career
advice expert Greg g and Grande is here to help.
In fact, he encourages it. So this is a great topic.
Greg and I know a lot of people that want
to try something else and maybe the career they're in
isn't the one for them. You tell me, what are

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the top reasons that people pivot in their careers.

Speaker 7 (08:53):
Well, first of all, it is very common to change
careers more than throughout one's working career. I mean, so
that should give people confidence to know that it's common
and people do it all the time. The common reasons why.
The most common that I hear is they got into

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something that wasn't necessarily their passion and they're burnt out.
They don't find any meaning or purpose in their work,
and they finally want to get to something that they've
always wanted to do. So that's the most common reason.
Other reasons is if the role that they're in is

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a dead end or those jobs aren't going to be
plentiful any longer, and someone wants to stay marketable, and
so they're thinking about, okay, well what are the jobs
of the future, and then how do I transition to that?
Those would be the two most common.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
But it's not only successful, is it. I Mean? I
think it's a really difficult choice to make sometimes.

Speaker 7 (10:01):
It it can be, and the degree of difficulty and
success is really very personal. I know people who've said,
you know what, I've always wanted to start a beer
brewery or.

Speaker 4 (10:15):
My own.

Speaker 7 (10:17):
You know whiskey, uh, you know, making distillery. Uh. And
they gave up a career doing nothing like that at
all to try that. One person was successful and they're
still doing it. And another person said, I need to
get back to the corporate world so I can get
a paycheck. It depends on how big the ambition is,

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how big the pivot is, and how much preparation you
do to give yourself the best chance for success. The
important thing is to make sure you have a plan,
you really think it through, and you don't make any
rash decisions you have it. If you have a job
and you're collecting a paycheck and you need that income,

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don't be too quick to give that up before you've
really laid out what does the next one to two
years look like if I'm making this pivot.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
But I can imagine that sometimes it works out better
than people could even imagine. I imagine that sometimes it's
extremely rewarding. Do you know stories like that.

Speaker 7 (11:19):
It happens all the time. And sometimes the pivot isn't
like completely abandoning where you are and the role that
you're in and starting something completely new. Sometimes it's just
moving to a different function. So let's just say, for example,
you worked in human resources and then you decide, I
don't want to work in human resources any longer. I

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want to work in marketing. So it could be another
function and then it's not necessarily as big a change,
and you can try to do that within the employer
that you work for. The idea is to look for
your transferable skills. See what skills you have in what
you've developed over your career, and how they transfer to
something new, and then look for the strategy for how

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do you then sell yourself for a new job using
those skills.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
I That all sounds extremely reasonable, and you want to
be realistic, right it's like tomorrow, I'm not going to
be a ballerina.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
You know.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
You have to be able to say I'm going to
do something that I know I can do or you're
going to just be.

Speaker 7 (12:23):
Frustrated, definitely knowing what I mean. Your passion could be dancing,
but if it's even for the best dancers, being successful
having a successful career is extremely difficult. So you have
to be honest with yourself and maybe getting getting an assessment,
having people you trust give you some feedback. Definitely, don't

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do this without getting feedback from people who really know
you and getting advice from people who are in that
field that you're trying to get into, so that you're
not just being emotional about this, but really creating a
good plan. That's what gives you the best chance of
success and being true to yourself of what you're actually

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really good at.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
I love this term reskilling, and I know I know
a lot of people that are trying to have learned
the skill of AI. But it's more than that, isn't it.

Speaker 7 (13:18):
So everyone needs to pay attention to this because this
is the big big item for education for the next
ten years. The government is going to be talking about
this more and more. Employers and institutions of higher ed
are going to be expanding their continuing education program. Because

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technology is disrupting so many jobs, people are going to
have to reskill. So there are going to be many
more resources than ever before that give people the opportunity
to take workshops, to get certifications, to get badges in
certain things, and even get experiential training because what you're

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doing today, you're very unlikely going to be doing five
years from now in the same way, and you're going
to meet new skills. So this is the big, big
push and the big change for education for the next decade.

Speaker 2 (14:15):
I know there's a whole lot of people listening that
would love to get out of what they're doing right now,
are afraid of the future maybe, and one to reskill
give them a little bit of a pep talk to
end is tell them it's possible.

Speaker 7 (14:30):
It's not only possible, it's common. People do it all
of the time, and you should really follow. You can't
wake up every day and for the rest of your
working career if you're unhappy. That's not a way to
spend your life. So the most important thing is doing
something that you find fulfilling. People are doing it everywhere

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and there's no reason why you can't do it. The
first step is just identifying what is it that you
want to do that's going to give you happiness and
that just take that first step. If you think about
where I am and then at the end of where
you're going to be, it seems like a large mountain
to overcome. Don't think of it that way. It's just

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one step at a time, and you can do it
because people are doing it every day.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
Career advice expert Greg gan Grande. Check out his website
at go to Greg dot com. Did the current political
climate cause the assassination of Charlie Kirk? We'll ask New
York Congresswoman Nicole Mallyotakis. Do you want to keep your
car running for years and years, then you have to

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keep it running smoothly? And there is one easy way
to do that. Ron and Nanny and the Car Doctor explains.
Coming up on Saturday morning, here's.

Speaker 1 (15:50):
Larry Minty with more of the WOOR Saturday Morning Show.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
The assassination of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk has put the
tone of our politics in the spotlight. Would toning it
down a little save lives? We ask New York congress
Woman Nicole Malatakis. We've had a lot of political violence
over the last year, and I was wondering if you

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feel like there is any way, and I know this
is going to be a big topic on Capitol Hill,
if there is any way to tamp down the political rhetoric.

Speaker 5 (16:26):
Look, I think each of us has to be responsible
for the things that we say and do in political forum,
not just elected officials but civilians as well. But certainly
in when you're an elected office, you have a responsibility
to set an example. I choose not to engage in
that trite type of vitriol. I don't go after my

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colleagues personally or name call or lie and misrepresent what
they voted for. I mean, this is things that we're seeing.
Right when people go out there and say that Republicans
are stripping medicaid from all these people, which is simply
not true, that is a dangerous rhetoric, right. It could

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lead to something horrific happening in the future when people
go out there and call somebody racist or a Nazi
or a fascist. That has turned from debate on policy
to hateful rhetoric and spreading these types of this hate

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and lies is really I think what got us in
this to this point. And we can never be a
nation where people are afraid to speak their view, to
present their side their opinion, and unfortunately it seems to
be happening here in the United States. I mean, this
is a country where we're freedom of speech is fundamental

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to our nation, and people cannot fear for their lives
when they're discussing issues that affect national policy. And we
see this happening in other countries and look at their government,
look how destroyed their countries are. That is why we
need to make sure that we preserve that here in
the United States.

Speaker 7 (18:07):
But that yes, we do it.

Speaker 5 (18:08):
In a respectful manner. And I believe Republicans are right
on debate. We do win on merit, and there's no
reason to be engaging in the way that could be
heated rhetoric. I think we just need to take a
step back here. We need to actually think about where
we were as a country on September twelfth, two thousand

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and one. How we were brought together. We were all Americans,
and we were unified, and I think that you know,
I certainly missed those days when we were a unified nation.
I think it's difficult now because there's just different ways
people want to take our country in different paths, and
I think that that has really I think made people

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feel very passionate. But we still can never never express
that with tate in violence. It needs to be done
in a respectful manner on debate and merit.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
I will say this that because they're in the opposition
right now, because they're in the minority, most of what
I'm talking about is from the democratic side. When you
call people, as you mentioned, Nazis, authoritarianism, when you call
talk about the threat to democracy, they are all triggering words.
I mean, you're talking about a takeover of the government.

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When they talk about Donald Trump trying to fight crime,
that he's going to come over, come in and take
over cities, and that he's going to send troops to
the streets of cities, those are images that call to
authoritarian governments and back even to Nazism. That stuff is
dangerous and nicole.

Speaker 5 (19:46):
It's absolutely dangerous, and you hear it. You hear it
a lot when you compare Ice to the Gestapo. I mean,
give me a break. I mean this is like, this
is terrible stuff. But the truth is and let's let's
let's also point out how it diminishes.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
History, right, yep, good point.

Speaker 5 (20:03):
When you just throw around the term Nazi, or when
AOC compared what was happening at the border to concentration camps,
talk about diminishing history and the Holocaust, I mean, it is,
it is atrocious and it should not happen. It is
so irresponsible coming from an elected official in particular. Look,

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I just hope that people take a step back and
see that everybody's responsible, you know. Unfortunately, politicians are so
encouraged to get you know, more clicks, more likes, more
donations online, you know, and I think that sometimes they're
motivated by the wrong.

Speaker 2 (20:41):
Thing, which makes it more evil, Nicole, that makes it
more sinister. Representative Nicole Meliatakas, thanks so much, US representative
for New York's eleventh Congressional District in Staten Island and
southern Brooklyn. Do you want to keep your car running
for years and years, then you have to keep it
running smoothly, and there's an easy way to do it. Ronananian,

(21:03):
the car Doctor, explains coming up on Saturday morning.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
Back now to the WOR Saturday Morning Show with Larry Minty.

Speaker 2 (21:12):
There is one thing, just one simple thing you can
do to keep your car running smoothly for up to
a few hundred thousand miles. What is that one thing?
Here is the car Doctor, Ronananian. Now I know what
you're talking about today, Ron, and listen. I just want
to tell you a quick story. It was about twenty

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years ago and I had I got a brand new
Ford Expedition and I loved it. I really did love it,
and I was I was driving it for a few months,
and all of a sudden it just broke down. And
it was brand new. It was just a few months
and it broke down, and I brought it to the dealership,
and you know, I had a toad to the dealership,
and the dealership said, have you changed the oil in this?

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And I realized I hadn't. In the engine? What do
they call it?

Speaker 3 (22:01):
Blocked?

Speaker 7 (22:02):
Seized?

Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yeah, seized?

Speaker 8 (22:04):
But how did it seize after four or five months?

Speaker 2 (22:07):
Larry, Well, maybe it wasn't four or five months. Maybe
it was a little bit longer than that. That was
a really good question. I've forgotten the why I was
talking to there for a second.

Speaker 8 (22:18):
Now, I'm going to put you through car doctor bootcamp.
There I go.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
Now I learned my lesson. That was a long time ago.
Now I believe me, I changed my oil when it
doesn't need to be changed. I am such a fanatic
about it. That's a big lesson to learn.

Speaker 8 (22:35):
Well, I'll tell you what. I don't think there is
a time when you can't or shouldn't change oil. I
still like the five to six thousand mile five to
six month interval, and I'll tell you why. It provides
vehicle longevity. And it also gives a qualified, trained mechanic
the opportunity to look around and make sure everything is okay.

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And that's key, and that's part of what an oil
changes about. And that's where our maintenance conversation is going
to start this morning.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
When you say five to six thousand miles, is that
different for every car or is it pretty much the standard?

Speaker 8 (23:08):
It's a it's a just a good rule of thumb. Listen,
you know some people are different. I have family members
who won't really be mentioned because I'm afraid they're listening.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
And you know.

Speaker 8 (23:19):
It's I have to give them the I have to
give them the short oil change sticker because I know
they're going to go past it by a thousand miles.
And their answer is, but I have you Yeah, But
that's not the point. The point has come in on time,
you know, it's it's like difficult, non real quick.

Speaker 9 (23:34):
And with that, a lot of cars these days have
you know, a gauge or a reminder since mine says,
you know, when you get to fifteen percent, bring it in.
But sometimes you know, I could be under or over
that five thousand miles or five months or what should
I look at? Should I do the old fashioned just

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bring it in.

Speaker 8 (23:56):
Do you own your car? Release it, Natalie, I own it, okay,
want to drive it forever? Yes, change change in every
five to six every five to six months. I mean
it's just that simple.

Speaker 9 (24:07):
So five to six thousand miles.

Speaker 8 (24:10):
Or months five to six months.

Speaker 3 (24:12):
With that, I'm hitting the five thousand first.

Speaker 8 (24:13):
But okay, right, oh yeah sure, and you know sometimes
you can stretch it. And here's that conversation with your mechanic.
What does the oil look like, how does the car feel?
What's the general overall quality of the vehicle. Oil changes
do a whole lot more than just change oil if
they're done properly and it's now listen. Some places use

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an oil change as a loss leader. It's to get
people in the door. Let's do the cheap oil change
and sell them thousands of dollars worth of work which
they may not or may necessarily need right away. Some
people do a practical oil change if if the shop
is one hundred dollars an hour, it's seventy five dollars
labor for an oil change plus material. That's realistic. The

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place that's doing the cheap oil change is using it
as a loss leader. It's just it's just math. It's
it's like the supermarket, right. How many times do you
go to the supermarket and say, how can they sell
me a gallon of ice cream for two fifty this week?
And I can buy two, but last week it was
six dollars because they played with the price of something
else somewhere along the way to make up the difference.
Oil changes are no different. But an oil change is

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the biggest, most efficient method of getting longevity out of
a vehicle.

Speaker 2 (25:21):
But that's not the only one. You talked about getting
your car to last a long time. There's many many
other things you need to do. I like the ill change.

Speaker 8 (25:30):
And one of those is so you go in, you
buy a new car, and you know they go through
the maintenance schedule with you. Look at that oil change list.
Is it manufacturer printed or dealer printed? And I'm not
giving away any trade secrets, but some dealers have created
their own maintenance schedules and they're correct, depending upon environment,

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depending upon application. Now we're into a trust thing. Is
this dealer really looking out for my benefit? To do?
I want to maintain the car as per them because
I want to drive like Natalie to four hundred thousand miles.
But then do I own the car release it? If
you notice, that was my first question, because if you
lease the car, I'm doing whatever the manufacturer says, not

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the dealer, not the repair shop. I'm doing what the
manufacturer says. In the three years i'm going to have
that lease, I'm going to do two and a half
oil changes, rotate the tires once, and out the door goes.
I'm not in it for the long term, but if
I'm driving it a long time, I'm doing that oil
change every five to six I'm going to rotate tires

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on a regular basis. When that vehicle approaches the fifty
or sixty thousand mile mark, I'm going to think about
other fluids. I'm going to think about fuel system cleaning.
I'm going to think about doing proper maintenance. Because where
this conversation started and what generated this topic for the
radio show this past week was I was in training

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class last week. I took another advanced class on cylinder
misfire diagnostics, because what else would you do on Wednesday
and Thursday night? And it became listening to the other
shops in the room. They're doing timing chains and catalytic
converters and transmission replacement and all this heavy, expensive engine work.
And they came around to me and they said, Ron,

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how much how many timing chains have you done lately? Zero?
You know, we don't do big, heavy engine work nearly
as much as we used to. And I couldn't understand why.
And then the light bulb went off. I do more maintenance.
And maintenance is the key to preventing that long term
big failure.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
And that gets back to a conversation we have a lot,
and that is you gotta find someone that you trust
to work on your car, because if you don't, it
could cost you not only in the long run, but
in the short term too.

Speaker 8 (27:51):
You know, Larry, I'm appalled by my industry to a point.
I spent a good fifteen minutes last week with a
new customer. I having a ten year old Dodge Charger
with ninety thousand miles on it, and it never had
a lick of maintenance other than oil changes. And I
told them, point blank, I said, you're on the crux

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of you know, what.

Speaker 5 (28:11):
Do you do?

Speaker 8 (28:12):
Do you begin the maintenance schedule. Now you got ten
years out of the car, you got ninety thousand miles.
We figured that where in the last six years he
spent seventy one dollars a month to maintain this vehicle,
and the national average is one hundred and fifty, you know.
And he said, Gee, nobody ever explained it to me
like this, And I'm upholled by that. It's the obligation

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of a repair shop to guide you as well as
to repair the vehicle. It's like coming to a doctor,
no pun intended. It's what we're supposed to do. We
hold your life in your hands, in our hands, and
the maintenance comes down to dollars. Is it worth spending?

Speaker 3 (28:47):
Well?

Speaker 2 (28:47):
How do they know? I mean, forget for the people
that live near Waldwick, New Jersey, they can go see you,
but not everybody lives around that area. How do you
know that this is the person to go to, This
is the person I can trust.

Speaker 8 (29:01):
You're gonna love, You're gonna love this answer. Go get
an oil change done? How do they handle something simple?
If a repair shop can handle this simple oil change,
give them something more complicated to do, and do it
before you have the disaster. Hey, Larry, when do you
want to go to the emergency room when you're having
the heart attack or when well, you know, I'm a

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little I'm hard to breathe and I'm getting a little
pasty looking. Maybe I want to find a doctor and
find out what's going on now before I have the problem.
Isn't that the better way? But we don't do that right.
We tend to a lot of us tend to rush
in at the last minute fix my problem. I've got
an issue. I think it's some pre planning helps us
along the way to find a good mechanic.

Speaker 2 (29:41):
But it can't just be the oil change. It has
to be they have to tell you we need you
to get in for this. We need you to get
in for this. We need you to get in for this.
But you need to trust that too.

Speaker 8 (29:52):
Yes, but you also need to apply common sense. Listen,
come by the shop later. I've got a twenty sixteen
jeep outside the rear top are as bald as a
baby's behind. And the answer I got when I said
you need tires is yet? But I only go to
home Depot on Saturdays with it to pick up lumber.
What kind of an answer is that? You know it's

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the screw that goes through the tire or the wet
road where you spin out of control. Doesn't care where
you're going, It doesn't care how many miles around the vehicle.
It just knows it has no traction.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
Ron and Anian podcast host of The Car Doctor, which
is available weekly on the iHeartRadio app. He's also owner
of Our Automotive in Waldwick, New Jersey. That wraps up
Saturday morning for this week. Thanks so much for listening,
and thanks to producers Peter Iolano and Natalie Vaka for
putting the show together every week. I'll be back Monday

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morning from six to ten for Mente in the Morning.
Hope you join us then This has

Speaker 3 (30:51):
Been a podcast from WOI