The Troubleshooter 10-29-25

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, rids, so you don't have.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Come running. Just as fast as we can.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Shooter's gonna help come, Man Dix.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
Is the Troubleshooter Show. Now, Tom Martino, Hey.

Speaker 4 (00:26):
Tom Martino here, Welcome to the show. We are broadcasting
live from the remote studios. I'm here at my home.
I'll be tuning into Mark in one second. Here I
have alongside me Paul the Waterman. We'll be talking about water.
Let me transition over to Mark and Mark welcome. What's
going on?

Speaker 5 (00:45):
Mark? What is on your mind today? Well?

Speaker 6 (00:49):
Not much? Man, what's on your mind?

Speaker 5 (00:51):
Okay? I don't understand this, but I want to bring this.

Speaker 4 (00:55):
Up before we talk about water and other things. This
is what I don't understand. Consumer confident, consumer confidence. I
looked at a chart. It's very very telling. This consumer
confidence study has been going on for years and years
and years and years, and what they do is they
take trends of what consumers how consumers feel. Now, I

(01:20):
brought up a chart and this is interesting and there's
no rhyme or reason, but I'm I'm going to read
it here. What I mean no rhyme or reason is
it was really really high during the Trump administration, extremely
high in twenty sixteen when he was elected. It went
up twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, twenty twenty. Then it crashed

(01:45):
when Biden was elected.

Speaker 5 (01:47):
That's just a fact.

Speaker 4 (01:48):
But then Biden masaged to climb it back up to
almost where Trump was at an all time high. And
now it's going back down again. And uh, well it
went back down again with Biden and Trump took over.

Speaker 5 (02:04):
It was very low, and now it's going even lower.

Speaker 4 (02:07):
I what I'm seeing here is a trend that seems
to be ticking up just a little. But in all
consumer confidence is it's it's it's waning, it's it goes
up and down. But the overall trend is going down
a bit as opposed to up a bit. Again, all

(02:29):
of the indicators. Here's what's funny. The indicators in the
economy are actually not bad as far as the stock market.
The rate of inflation not bad. But consumers seem to
be putting off major purchases, which would tell you that
the ETFs and stocks for for consumable goods or durable

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goods are.

Speaker 5 (02:55):
Down a bit.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
Uh, And that's somewhat of a leading indicator. Sometimes when
it comes to stocks, what are durable goods doing. But
in any case, the message is this, the economy is
showing strong signs in every area except consumer confidence and jobs.

(03:18):
Even though the rate of unemployment is very, very low,
it is still a tight job market.

Speaker 5 (03:27):
Now.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
You know, I look at people and I wonder what
are they trying to What are they trying to get
as far as jobs, because everywhere I see people, I
see them working in better jobs than ever before.

Speaker 5 (03:42):
Mark, what about you? Now? Your kids killed it? Your
kids killed it.

Speaker 4 (03:47):
And I think on an individual level, a lot has
to be said for the generation in general. I think
this generation is slower to accept jobs anyway.

Speaker 6 (04:00):
You mean slower to grow up? What do you mean
by that?

Speaker 5 (04:03):
Okay? What I mean by that is this generation.

Speaker 7 (04:06):
Let's let's give it an age and define this generation generation.

Speaker 4 (04:11):
What I'm gonna do, I'm going to define it more
by age. Right now, kids who are twenty one to
thirty right now are highly selective on where they work.

Speaker 6 (04:22):
They want big rewards, that they're holding out for management.

Speaker 4 (04:26):
They yeah, exactly, they seem to be holding out for
management or they seem to be almost feeling like they
deserve more than out there. And I tell, I tell
young people When I talk to them, get your foot
in the door, do what you can, and they say, no,
we don't believe in that. Once you get your foot in.

Speaker 5 (04:42):
The door, they never raise you, they never help you.

Speaker 7 (04:45):
When you say they're just lazy, though, doesn't it come
down to they're just lazy as hell?

Speaker 4 (04:50):
You know, Mark, I'm I'm wondering about that. Why are
they lazy though? Why their parents? Their parents gave it everything? Possibly,
I don't know. Paul the Waterman, why do you think
kids are late? Do you think kids are lazier now
or not? How do you feel.

Speaker 5 (05:07):
You're when you hire people? What? What do you feel?

Speaker 8 (05:10):
I think I think there's an entitlement, with immigrant entitlement.

Speaker 4 (05:16):
We're not overusing that word, yes, okay, so my thought
is that there is an entitlement. But overall kids are lazier.
And anyway, the unemployment rate is not bad. It's right
now at four point something four point three.

Speaker 5 (05:37):
That is an excellent unemployment rate.

Speaker 4 (05:40):
In fact, if it goes down too low, prices go
up too fast, and then we have inflation. If it
goes up too high, that's when people start holding off
on major purchases.

Speaker 8 (05:52):
Anyway, I think I think it's also the education system.
Tom when you go to the you know, these teachers
or kids are coming out of school with you know,
an anti business mindset, and you know, I get accused
by people that we're interviewing or we're hiring and we're
testing out that you know, all we care as a
business is about money.

Speaker 5 (06:12):
Well, but that's you need that to keep going.

Speaker 4 (06:15):
See, I would love to find people who want to
work on entry level positions and then move up as
opposed to moving in right away wanting six figures. And
there are kids that want to do that. But there
is a there is a slowdown in the job market
that there's no doubt about it. According to the Bureau

(06:36):
of label Labor Statistics, payroll growth in twenty twenty five
was flat and it's going down since then. And there
seems to.

Speaker 5 (06:46):
Be a broader freeze in hiring. The hiring.

Speaker 4 (06:50):
The trends are slow to know when it comes to hiring.
Layoffs are expected to be more than ever coming in
twenty twenty six. Much to do about a I Well.

Speaker 8 (07:04):
That's why I was gonna ask you, AI is going
to eliminate a lot of white collar jobs. I think
you're going to see a shift away where you know,
blue collar jobs, you know, labor jobs, but there's gonna
be a huge boom bus they're in white collar jobs.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
There is, by the way, a trend mark for younger
people who do want to kill it. They are going
into trades, plumbing, electrical, HVAC, text and things like that.

Speaker 5 (07:32):
And they are doing doing very well.

Speaker 4 (07:35):
Some computer coders are doing well, although AI is taking
some of that.

Speaker 5 (07:39):
You don't have noticed, So Tom, what's that doc? Well,
you know, if you look.

Speaker 9 (07:44):
On Reddit, which sometimes it is fun to stroll through Reddit,
but it's amazing the number of posts on Reddit about
people who can't find jobs. It's over and over again
about people looking for as they're out of work two three,
four or five six months, two years and then's just

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nowhere for them to go.

Speaker 4 (08:06):
Now, absolutely, that's one. That's one aspect. Here is something
that's happening with AI. And again I don't know when
AI or if AI implodes, because we talked about this.
When you have a like a family and their geniuses
and they live on an island and the geniuses intermingle

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and inter and and it's incestuous, and they have generations
of kids, they get more stupid because you don't have
new stuff into the gene pool. If you look at
our collective intelligence, even though it's massive as a gene
pool on the Internet, okay, because that's where all the
knowledge is that AI gets.

Speaker 5 (08:50):
That's that's all it is.

Speaker 4 (08:51):
Okay, the Internet or people that are trained to feed AI,
and they hire, by the way, believe it or not,
they hire people in third world countries to sit there all.

Speaker 5 (09:03):
Day and train AI.

Speaker 4 (09:06):
They look at photos and they have to rank photos
as vulgar or non vulgar, sexual or non sexual, medical
or whatever, and they click through these every day. But
needless to say, most of the information ninety percent of
all information on AI comes from the Internet. So if

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you take this body of knowledge and you use it
and use it and use it, and then you regurgitate
it back into the Internet, you have an incestuous pool
of information. And I can't help but believe eventually AI
becomes stupid. I mean not stupid, but it becomes less

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and less viable because you're not adding new information. The
more we depend on existing information and rehash it and
put it back into the pool, the more we're getting
a regurgitation of the same stuff. So where will the
new information come from. If we don't have people doing
their own research and development and feeding back into the Internet,

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then we start getting an incestuous pool of information that
will eventually not be as dependable. But in any case,
here's the immediate Here is the immediate outlook. People who
do proofreading, they're out. Publishers aren't even using them anymore.
No more proofreading, no more editing. These jobs are out. Also, troubleshooting,

(10:33):
troubleshooting systems and codes out. All of this information can
be done by AI in split seconds. They don't have
to worry about AI wanting to take a vacation or break,
but anything that has to do with analyzing information.

Speaker 5 (10:51):
Actual areals that used to be.

Speaker 4 (10:53):
One of the most highly paid positions. Mark, do you
know what an actual areal actually does? I mean they
actually they actually predict what risk levels certain things are at,
and then they help price insurance or help assess risk.

Speaker 5 (11:12):
By knowing risk, you know what to price your product
or service.

Speaker 4 (11:17):
And you know what and then insurance knows what to
ensure and how much to ensure it for If something
hardly ever goes wrong.

Speaker 5 (11:24):
The actuarreals say, you.

Speaker 4 (11:26):
Got a really good score, you get really good cheap insurance.
If the actuar areals say it's high risk and a
good chance of something going wrong, then you pay more
for insurance.

Speaker 5 (11:37):
These jobs are out the window.

Speaker 4 (11:39):
You can forget about actual arial jobs right now. And
they were some of the highest paid jobs on the market.
By the way, I'm Tom Martine three h three seven
to one three talks seven one three eight two five five. Jennifer,
what is your issue? I'll tell you what Jennifer Kachina
Teller will come right back to her. She's next on
the Troubleshooter Show. We'll talk about Hoa's one of the

(12:02):
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that's not just hoas, but what I call runaway management companies,
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(13:05):
but I want to go to Charles first comment on jobs?

Speaker 5 (13:08):
What is your comment on the job market? Right now?

Speaker 4 (13:11):
Charles, Charles, your comment?

Speaker 5 (13:18):
Please?

Speaker 10 (13:19):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 5 (13:20):
Yes, sir? Go ahead, sir.

Speaker 10 (13:22):
Yeah. I have friends that work for companies like Brandon
Sand and Gravel. Yeah, can get any drivers. They have
Brandon trucks and all work. So there's just people don't
want to work.

Speaker 5 (13:36):
Well, Charles don't. Here's what I think it is.

Speaker 4 (13:38):
I think some areas they we've overemphasized education as skills
in certain areas over the years, and some of these
down to earth truck drivers and plumbers and electricians and
tradesmen in general are are suffering a shortage and That
is why I think you find certain jobs hard to

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phil and other jobs there's a glood of people waiting
for the dream job.

Speaker 5 (14:03):
Thank you for calling. Charles.

Speaker 4 (14:05):
Jennifer has an HOA issue. Jennifer, what's going on with you?
What's happening?

Speaker 11 (14:11):
Oh hey, good morning, Tom, good morning.

Speaker 5 (14:14):
Yeah, it's happening.

Speaker 11 (14:16):
Oh hey, Well, I'm not even sure where to start.
There's a kind of an overarching community problem.

Speaker 5 (14:23):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (14:25):
And when you say a community problem, are you talking
about the community itself or the management of the community, the.

Speaker 11 (14:31):
Management of the community.

Speaker 5 (14:33):
Okay, tell your story. What caused you to call something?

Speaker 4 (14:36):
Must have?

Speaker 5 (14:37):
Really? Something's buggy?

Speaker 12 (14:38):
You?

Speaker 5 (14:38):
What is it?

Speaker 11 (14:41):
Quite literally? Actually, So, the overarching issue has to do
with our current board, I think potentially doing some shady things.
We no longer have a professional management company, and so
our board, in our whole community is being basically by
one person.

Speaker 4 (15:03):
And is that one person on the that one person
on the board, or is that one person a hired manager.

Speaker 11 (15:09):
No, that one person is a volunteer. She's the co
VP on the HOA executive board.

Speaker 4 (15:16):
Okay, And so why why is she why does she
have so much power?

Speaker 11 (15:23):
Because there's a real lack of interest from the community
and participating in the way. It's a very small community.
We've got a lot of older folks who got work.

Speaker 5 (15:33):
How many people live there?

Speaker 4 (15:34):
How many units our individual units are there?

Speaker 11 (15:38):
Fifty one units?

Speaker 5 (15:40):
Okay, so that's not that small.

Speaker 4 (15:42):
But let me just tell you something, Jennifer, and this
happens a lot. I'm gonna I'm gonna give you two scenarios.
One is the HOA starts losing interest and then the
management company says, hey, you know, we're coming up for renewal,
and they present the HOA with a contract and they
don't really read it, and the HA basically signs what

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amounts to a perpetual contract that is self renewing.

Speaker 5 (16:07):
And then the HA.

Speaker 4 (16:09):
Backs out and the management company literally is a runaway
management company. They do whatever they want. In fact, they
collect proxies in order to vote what they want, and
they become really and truly the only.

Speaker 5 (16:22):
People that know what's going on.

Speaker 4 (16:24):
And the HA members fade and the people don't.

Speaker 5 (16:27):
They have a lot of apathy.

Speaker 4 (16:29):
Now you have a similar situation where you have apathy
where you have a board that does this, and what
happens is the board they either don't know what they're
doing or they're lazy, and one of the board members
or executive committee members start. They start just kind of
doing things and by default they become like the manager

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and people simply ask them. There is no declaration saying,
you know, Susie is now in charge. It just happens.
And then the worst part about it is Susie, when
she's in that position of power, probably gets the proxies
from the board members, and board members can get proxies
from others.

Speaker 5 (17:11):
Proxies are very very bad.

Speaker 4 (17:13):
What a proxy is is being part of an HOA
and basically saying I don't want to be involved in
the issues. You take my vote and vote for whatever
you think is right. So that's where you have what
I call a super member. The super member becomes in
charge of everything.

Speaker 5 (17:33):
So how is this affecting?

Speaker 4 (17:35):
I mean, do other people in the community know this?

Speaker 5 (17:37):
Do they have they talked about it? Are you the
only one tell me about that?

Speaker 11 (17:43):
No? I'm definitely not the only one. So this person
decided to She basically bullied the previous board president into
quitting through a loud uh huh public exchange during a
HA meeting last year.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
Because so she.

Speaker 4 (17:59):
Must everything she wants. Does she have a lot of
proxy votes? Do you know?

Speaker 11 (18:05):
I don't know the answer to that. But she did
fire our professional management company for you know, having some
of the same concerns that you.

Speaker 4 (18:15):
Just mentioned, right, So what can you get other But
if you can get other members of the HUA to
be upset about it, they can start attending meetings. Do
they have regular meetings?

Speaker 11 (18:29):
The meetings are held every two months in a what
it's supposed to be our community room, which is actually.

Speaker 4 (18:37):
A non Does anyone show up?

Speaker 11 (18:41):
Very few, very few people.

Speaker 4 (18:42):
Okay, I have some recommendations, here's and then I'll get
to whatever you called about your specific questions. But if
I were you in this situation, and I know that
there's about fifty some odd houses and they're all being
ruled by a super member who weaseled her way.

Speaker 5 (18:58):
In, what I would do is this.

Speaker 4 (18:59):
I would do a one sheet flyer saying, do you
know that most of our decisions are made by one
member and we need to take control of our HOA
to have a more democratic system. Please attend the next
meeting with me, and let's call for nominations for a
new board or whatever. Look at the bylaws and find

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out what's required. But you need to get other members
interested in this. Now, how is this negatively affecting you,
the super member? How is that management of the super
member affecting you?

Speaker 11 (19:36):
Okay, so this is this is the ugly.

Speaker 5 (19:39):
Gim me the main give me the main issue you
called about.

Speaker 11 (19:42):
Yes, I have found bed bugs in my unit repeatedly
all last uh you know, eleven years And okay I
did when I moved in. I was a renter. I
reported to my landlord, They in turn reported to the HOA. Yeah,
no follow up. My building has four units lack.

Speaker 4 (20:04):
So let me ask you something, Jennifer straight out. Are
you calling simply because you're sick and tired of the
bed bugs? Or truly is this a community wide problem
and other problems added to it as well? Or is
this just you're just tired of the bed bugs because
you can get those eradicated with a good exterminator.

Speaker 11 (20:24):
Well, yes, that's exactly right, and I have already done
that twice and I'm about to do it a third time.

Speaker 4 (20:30):
So are you saying you're being cross contaminated because others
have it and it's more of a community wide problem?

Speaker 11 (20:37):
The person who lives in the unit next door to
me had what was a hoarder, and oh god, the
COVP who lived on the other side of that person
right started getting bitten by bedbugs. Then she addressed the problem,
and she forced the woman who lives next door to
clean out per unit literally ninety q.

Speaker 4 (21:02):
Okay, so what's causing the problem now? Called what's causing
the bed bugs?

Speaker 5 (21:06):
Right now?

Speaker 11 (21:09):
They're still in the building because the building as a
whole has not been treated the.

Speaker 5 (21:12):
Addict coming in.

Speaker 4 (21:14):
Are all fifty units in that building or are they
divided up?

Speaker 11 (21:18):
There are four? There are four units in the building
that I live in.

Speaker 5 (21:22):
Well, that's good news.

Speaker 4 (21:23):
Then that's good news because that's not a big What
I'm saying is that's not going to be a big
problem if there's only four units.

Speaker 5 (21:30):
So have you have you asked the board to take
action with pest control?

Speaker 11 (21:39):
Yes? So here's where it gets weird, though, I believe
that the KVP forced the sisters unethically to clean out
their unit.

Speaker 5 (21:52):
You know that's water under the bridge.

Speaker 11 (21:54):
Now, Well, I know, But she's obsessed with saving money,
and so she also didn't like the fact that I
kept asking questions because we don't have a professional management company,
and she the KVP, has encouraged people to contact her
directly with questions and concerns. So I did so, and

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I continue to follow up all summer. This started in August.

Speaker 5 (22:22):
Okay, so where is where does this stand right now?

Speaker 4 (22:25):
Is she addressing the bed bug problem?

Speaker 11 (22:28):
She sent a seventy two hour notice to kill a
violation to me. She had it served taped to my
house in September. First of all, that.

Speaker 4 (22:37):
Is not a thing that is well, hold on a
seventy two hour notice to do what?

Speaker 11 (22:44):
Take care of the infestation in my unit and pay
for half of her unit and the other person.

Speaker 4 (22:51):
So she's saying it's your problem. She's saying you're the
one that caused it.

Speaker 11 (22:57):
She's saying that I yes, that is correct, which is
all right.

Speaker 4 (23:00):
Listen, hold on a second. You know what I want
to do. I want to get to the bottom of this,
Deputy bo.

Speaker 5 (23:06):
Yeah, I'm here. I want you.

Speaker 4 (23:10):
Really to contact and basically just sift through the nonsense
if there is any, and let's figure out why Jennifer's
being pegged for this when she's been complaining about it. Jennifer,
it sounds like we've exhausted the topic on radio. Basically,
here's what it boils down to. You have a super

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member dictator, you have a bedbug infestation of your unit,
and you believe it's a building problem, and there's four
units in the building, and you're saying, instead of addressing
the problem from an HOA standpoint, she is saying, you're
the one that has to take.

Speaker 5 (23:51):
Care of it.

Speaker 4 (23:52):
So bo, that's where you're starting from. Let's figure out
what they have and if they would allow maybe one
of our inspectors, one of our companies to go look
at it and try to determine where it's coming from,
offer that service to them, and I'll get somebody from
our referral list to do it.

Speaker 5 (24:09):
I really will. But that's where that's where we have
to start.

Speaker 6 (24:12):
I'm chanter, Jennifer.

Speaker 13 (24:14):
Call the car out of the Department of Health if
there's bad bugs, because they'll invest in.

Speaker 5 (24:18):
That's good too.

Speaker 4 (24:19):
But to find where they're coming from and who's that
fall But first start with the HOA supermember and see
and not from a confrontational point of view, but from hey,
we want to help you point of view. Miguel, I
can start your problem. Then I got to take a
quick break. But what is going on with waste management? Miguel,
what's happening?

Speaker 14 (24:40):
Well, good morning, Tom, Hey Hey, So yeah, simple, I
had a waste management truck that came by to picked
up pick up some trash from my neighbor. That's yeah, yes,
So as I was leaving the property the area, the
driver must have not seen the cable that was attached

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from my roof to my neighbor's roof. So as he drove, he.

Speaker 10 (25:04):
Pulled with the truck.

Speaker 14 (25:06):
He pulled the wire, which damaged my roof, my gutter,
and I have been trying to contact the company. They
keep telling me that someone was gonna.

Speaker 5 (25:16):
Get with me.

Speaker 4 (25:17):
So when when when he drove away and pulled? When
he drove away pulling this line?

Speaker 5 (25:23):
Did it? You said? Was it that attached to a
mast on your house? A big pole? Was?

Speaker 15 (25:30):
It was?

Speaker 14 (25:30):
Actually it's actually a cable internet wire and it was
going from the from my neighbor to I guess the
internet cable company must have rigged it that way. So
that's what was.

Speaker 4 (25:43):
But how does it connect to your house? How does
it connect to your house?

Speaker 16 (25:47):
Oh?

Speaker 17 (25:47):
It was, it was it was staple or fully attached to.

Speaker 14 (25:51):
The wire to my house by the cable company.

Speaker 5 (25:55):
All right, hold on and we'll talk about this coming up.

Speaker 4 (25:57):
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(27:06):
troubleshooter with Mark Major, and we are solving problems and
taking complaints. Miguel's talking about waste management. Miguel, this seems
pretty simple. They're not denying they did it, right. I
mean that so we don't have to go back to
the beginning. They know they did it. They're just putting
you off by the truck pulled the cable.

Speaker 5 (27:25):
Down and did some damage.

Speaker 14 (27:28):
Yes it did.

Speaker 4 (27:30):
Okay, let me ask you this. What did it do
as far as services? Did it break the cable or
is the cable still working?

Speaker 2 (27:37):
Well?

Speaker 14 (27:39):
It brought the cable and had to call the cable
company to come in and do the repairs, which they
already did, thank god.

Speaker 5 (27:45):
Okay, okay, so you got that.

Speaker 14 (27:47):
Yes, it damaged my gutter somehow.

Speaker 5 (27:52):
When the wild's being.

Speaker 14 (27:53):
Pulled, it disconnected. It twisted the gutter, Okay, got it's
connected directly to to the flat roof.

Speaker 5 (28:02):
Uh huh.

Speaker 14 (28:02):
So I brought in the roofer because my roof is
brand new.

Speaker 5 (28:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (28:06):
Uch?

Speaker 4 (28:06):
How much did they tell you? Basically, that's all I
care about. We don't need the details of the injury.
How much will it cost to fix these damages?

Speaker 17 (28:14):
Well, my roofer told.

Speaker 14 (28:15):
Me it's gonna cost me over three thousand.

Speaker 4 (28:17):
Dollars. Okay, so they're gonna have to and that's for
the gutter and the roof. Yes, okay, So what is
the last response the most recent communication you had with
waste Management? When was the communication and what did they say?

Speaker 17 (28:36):
Well, yesterday I spoke with a mister Richard Collins. I'm sorry,
mister Mark Collins at the main office. He basically told me, Hey, Miguel,
give me give me a day, which was yesterday. He
told me, hey, give me a day. I'll reach out
to the.

Speaker 14 (28:53):
Rock manager, which is Chris Patino.

Speaker 16 (28:57):
Here's the guy that I spoke to.

Speaker 14 (28:59):
Well, the whole thing took please.

Speaker 4 (29:00):
Yeah, so what what What did Mark basically tell you
he's going to do or whoever you talk to.

Speaker 14 (29:06):
Yeah, Mark told me that he was going to reach
out to the area to the route supervisor or manager,
and that the route manager was going to get in
contact with me.

Speaker 5 (29:16):
Did the route manager get in contact with you?

Speaker 15 (29:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (29:21):
The route manager is Chris Patino.

Speaker 4 (29:24):
And okay, what did the route manager. I need to
know the response you got from waste Management.

Speaker 5 (29:30):
I don't care about the in between.

Speaker 4 (29:31):
I want to know the final response you got from
them and how they're going to deal with it.

Speaker 5 (29:35):
What did they say? Who just said it?

Speaker 17 (29:38):
Well, Mark Mark Collins, the individual that I supposed to
yesterday at the main office, told me that he was
gonna reach out to me yesterday with an answer or
some kind of resolution. So it's been yesterday went by,
okay from anyone else.

Speaker 4 (29:58):
So he said he would reach to you with an answer. Okay,
we're gonna call this guy. We're gonna call this guy.
Deputy Doc's gonna call this guy. Uh and let's just
get to the bottom of it.

Speaker 18 (30:09):
Doc.

Speaker 4 (30:09):
Can do you have enough on your plate? Do you
do you have too much on your player? Can you handle?
Let's okay, cool, Deputy Docal call over there.

Speaker 5 (30:17):
Let's just call over there and say what is going on.

Speaker 4 (30:19):
Sometimes all it takes is a little nudge or phone
call from us. So thanks for.

Speaker 5 (30:24):
Letting me know.

Speaker 4 (30:26):
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(31:27):
Tom Rtino, your troubleshooter three oh three seven three eight
two five five. Kim has a comment on jobs and
uh the president.

Speaker 5 (31:35):
Go ahead, Kim? What is your comment?

Speaker 2 (31:38):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (31:39):
Hi, this riddle bell, I gotta use that.

Speaker 15 (31:45):
At Butcher. Second, what is this?

Speaker 5 (31:48):
Is this? I don't know?

Speaker 4 (31:49):
I have no idea? Is this Kim?

Speaker 6 (31:55):
I don't know?

Speaker 4 (31:56):
But Kim, he said he had something to do something
to do with using the head.

Speaker 5 (32:02):
Uh, that's why we're hearing all those echoes.

Speaker 4 (32:04):
So, Kim, do you have a comment, to make on
he just flushed the toilet.

Speaker 5 (32:09):
We're okay, that ain't flushing.

Speaker 4 (32:12):
Now that flushed, So Kim step out of the bathroom
to so that echo.

Speaker 5 (32:19):
We what's Kim? What's going on?

Speaker 6 (32:22):
And why is Kim in the bathroom?

Speaker 5 (32:24):
Why you had to use the bathroom? Kim? What is
your comment? Sir?

Speaker 4 (32:33):
What the hell? Okay, Kim, do you have something to say?
And okay, that's a good choice, Kim, that's a good choice,
speaking of okay now three O three seven one three
talk three O three seven one three eight two five
five we have yes.

Speaker 5 (32:55):
Can I wish my son a happy birthday today? No?
Not today? You got to do it.

Speaker 4 (33:01):
You can't do it. You can't wish him happy birthday?
How old is he?

Speaker 9 (33:05):
He's thirty nine.

Speaker 4 (33:07):
And today is his birthday. And you want to wish
you as a father, a proud father, you want to
wish him happy birthday?

Speaker 5 (33:14):
You got it? Well, think about that, Doc.

Speaker 4 (33:17):
If we let you say happy birthday, Eric, it's Eric right, correct.
If we let you say happy birthday, Eric, say it,
happy birthday, Eric. If we let you say it, now,
everyone's going to want to say it. So we can't
do it.

Speaker 5 (33:31):
But it was worth a try. Okay, yeah, we can't
do it.

Speaker 4 (33:37):
So but everyone everyone has a birthday, so we would
have a birthday every day, right.

Speaker 5 (33:42):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (33:42):
By the way, Paul the Waterman's here, and here's something
that I looked up. And again I look at water as.

Speaker 5 (33:50):
Much as I do food.

Speaker 4 (33:51):
I mean, in fact, actually more. We consume more water
than anything, even if we don't think we're consuming it,
and we're absorbing it in showers and stuff.

Speaker 5 (34:03):
But here's the thing. These PFIs, these.

Speaker 4 (34:06):
Permanent chemicals have been found in virtually every water system
where they were tested.

Speaker 5 (34:13):
Now that's the key testing.

Speaker 4 (34:17):
You see, there is no requirement for PIFI testing in
many areas, isn't that right?

Speaker 3 (34:24):
Right?

Speaker 8 (34:24):
VPA created standards that are not implemented yet.

Speaker 5 (34:29):
But the research I've done.

Speaker 8 (34:31):
Is everybody in the United States has p fas in
their body right now.

Speaker 4 (34:34):
Yeah, forever chemicals, and they have shown up. By the way,
these chemicals don't break down and they're accumulative in.

Speaker 5 (34:43):
Effect, so you are actually you don't get rid of them.

Speaker 4 (34:47):
They accumulate in your system. In some autopsies, there were
alarming levels of pfas they're associated and this hits close
to home for me with many cancers, thyroid disease and
your immune system to.

Speaker 8 (35:05):
Get into the fatty sales of the body and they stay, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (35:08):
They don't.

Speaker 5 (35:08):
You don't get rid of them.

Speaker 4 (35:10):
So basically, Mike, now the the next biggest thing, microplastics.

Speaker 5 (35:17):
We're going to talk about that.

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No Tom Martino.

Speaker 5 (36:25):
Hey, I'm Tom Martino.

Speaker 4 (36:27):
Welcome to the show with Mark Major here solving problems,
answering questions, taking complaints. Some of the things that came
up today which are worth talking about again. H OAS.

Speaker 5 (36:40):
I got a couple.

Speaker 4 (36:41):
Texts about this, and by the way, I should give
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I'll get it five seven seven three nine.

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we got some text concerning what we were talking about,

(37:12):
and UH some of the UH some of the chemical
uh contamination of water.

Speaker 5 (37:20):
And we talk about pfas.

Speaker 4 (37:23):
There is an actual study done, a randomized controlled study
of two hundred and eighty five firefighters.

Speaker 5 (37:30):
Listen to this.

Speaker 4 (37:32):
It found when when they donate plasma every six weeks
to twelve months, it will reduce the PIFAs because your
new blood comes in without pfas. So if you systematically
donate blood, you can keep pfas from accumulating in your system.

(37:54):
Paul the Waterman's with me from waterpros dot net. How
many people are really give a damn about PIFAs? I mean,
how many people of you have called you and said,
you know, Paul, we'd like to get rid of forever chemicals?

Speaker 5 (38:05):
Is that?

Speaker 4 (38:06):
Do they even know enough to say that? Do they
know enough to care about it? And I mean that seriously.
It's increased in the last year.

Speaker 8 (38:14):
There's a lot of news stories coming out regarding pipos. Now,
this is the problem that's coming back since nineteen sixty
one is when they first studied and tested for it,
so they knew about it, and then lawsuits happened in
nineteen ninety. Okay, what are they? Where do they come from?
So where they come from, it's teflon, it's it's DuPont

(38:35):
in three M. It's a byproduct that they teflon, and
teflon was made by mistake.

Speaker 5 (38:40):
So they were doing working on nuclear.

Speaker 8 (38:42):
Bombs and they found basically the forever chemical pifos, the
uranian acid in engineering a nuclear bomb, was corroding.

Speaker 5 (38:49):
The pipes in the factory.

Speaker 8 (38:50):
So pifos was a coding that they inserted inside these pipes.

Speaker 4 (38:53):
That keep from from deteriorating right, keeping from deterirat. And
then they found out, well, we can do this for Cookwar, right.

Speaker 8 (38:59):
So then they started dumping the byproduct in the lakes
and streams.

Speaker 5 (39:02):
And and also.

Speaker 4 (39:04):
They didn't know they were contaminated, really didn't they know.

Speaker 5 (39:07):
They did.

Speaker 8 (39:07):
They knew about it because the eternal testing. And so
now what's happened is is long story short. For over
seventy years, they've been contaminating the world where forever chemical are.

Speaker 4 (39:15):
These still being produced, these coatings.

Speaker 5 (39:17):
They're still being produced.

Speaker 8 (39:18):
And the problem is the current EPA gen x is
A is a forever chemical that was created to replace
the pi FIS, but it's just as bad. And so
it was on the list of you know, hey, we
got to.

Speaker 5 (39:30):
Get rid of this DPA.

Speaker 4 (39:32):
In other words, we're talking about Cookwar basically or wherever techoloiz.

Speaker 5 (39:37):
Anything that water for wires.

Speaker 8 (39:39):
And it's huge waterproofing is a p FOS contaminant.

Speaker 5 (39:43):
And so it's something that anything that's waterproofed absolutely correct.

Speaker 8 (39:47):
You know, Scotch guard DuPont in three m knew what
they were doing. They kept doing it, and then they
have other countries that are still doing it. It's it's
basically a biochinelic contament, meaning it's everywhere. We're never going
to get rid of them. No, so what do we do.
We're never going to get to treat your water, is
what you can do. I mean, it's gonna it's gonna
take generations for this to basically be removed. It's you know,

(40:08):
if it's into plants, the animals eat plants, weat the animals,
it's in the vegetables we eat.

Speaker 4 (40:14):
We have three main problems with water. Three main problems.
We have forever chemicals, which comes from teflon and other
kinds of coatings like that. Then we have microplastics. Microplastics
are showing up even in well water.

Speaker 5 (40:32):
How does that happen?

Speaker 8 (40:33):
Well, microplastics are all over the world as well. Because
it's plastics don't deteriorate, they last forever.

Speaker 4 (40:39):
So when we drink water out of a plastic water bottle,
are we getting microplastics?

Speaker 8 (40:43):
Absolutely, you're getting microplastics. You're getting the manufactured the bottom
water industry. Uh, their manufacturing practices alone create the microplastics
in the water.

Speaker 5 (40:52):
To place microplastics in your brain.

Speaker 8 (40:54):
Right now, Tom, you have enough microplastics in your brain
to make up a plastic fork.

Speaker 4 (41:00):
Come on, man, story, I think a whole set of
plastic ware.

Speaker 5 (41:04):
That's right.

Speaker 8 (41:04):
Box News broke that story of Father's Day this year,
so it's okay. Microplastics can bring in bacteria and cursive chemicals,
microplastics and the other one.

Speaker 6 (41:17):
So listen, listen to these.

Speaker 7 (41:19):
So the Hunta, Colorado primary contaminants nitrates one hundred and
five EPA violation points highest in the state, nitrons, nitrates
three point seven times higher. Then we go to Fountain, Colorado,
where I guess the military Peterson Air Force Base has

(41:42):
been dumping stuff and a lot of the wells. So
even if you have well water out there, the private
wells are i e. Fas and all kinds of stuff
and plastics. Listen to this one, this place, to your
steamboat springs. The water actually kills plants. They have to
use bottled water. And it's been going on for a

(42:04):
long long time. Colorado City wherever that is dissolves solids.
I'm not gonna it's brown, smelly water. I mean, that's unbelievable. Paul,
I guess I didn't realize that you can have Oh
here's here's a Thornton Aurora, Commerce City, Adams County groundwater

(42:26):
wells UH contaminated because of Suncore refinery dumping thousands of
times EPA limits. So I guess you can basically get
away with just dumping anything anywhere, right, I mean, yeah,
these places aren't out of business.

Speaker 8 (42:42):
The e p A has this five ole three world
right now that that's allowing this to happen. Here's the
other contry. What does that mean allow that they're dumping.
They're dumping contaminant waste into down the drain that goes
into the septic system, the septic systems in base on
the Wayne.

Speaker 5 (42:59):
Stream waye streaming.

Speaker 8 (43:00):
All the human waste is gathered and given to farmers
and spread all over the fields.

Speaker 5 (43:05):
They don't test crops, that's it.

Speaker 8 (43:07):
So you've got millions and millions of farm makers that
are contaminated with microplastic.

Speaker 4 (43:12):
P fie microplastics p fas, which are forever chemicals.

Speaker 5 (43:16):
And the one we.

Speaker 4 (43:16):
Haven't even talked about yet, pharmaceutical.

Speaker 8 (43:18):
Pharmaceuticals is a big problem because you know your body,
once you take a medication, your body is going to
do everything it can to get rid of It's a
foreign substance. So once it leaves the body. It metabolizes.
It's a metabolic it doesn't dissolve in water. The ep
doesn't test for it. We have a huge issue that
we ask a three.

Speaker 5 (43:35):
Big things about that.

Speaker 4 (43:36):
Absolutely, what I want to know is to get rid
of the forever chemicals, the plastics, and the pharmaceuticals. Those
are the three, not even to mention the chlorine. But
let's talk about the three main contaminants. Would you consider,
by the way, chlorine a contaminant.

Speaker 8 (43:51):
Well, it's yeah, it's a contaminant because it gets a
cancer causing agent.

Speaker 5 (43:55):
Chlorination is a chronline. Denver Metro and.

Speaker 8 (43:58):
All the surrounding communities use amone, a chlorin mixer called
a chloromine. They create carcinogens. One of them, the big
one is try helmentthanes. That's a cancer causing agent. It's
in the water, we drink it and you also can
breathe it in when you take a shower.

Speaker 4 (44:11):
It says here that even regulatory regulatory measures mean nothing
because there is not even technology yet.

Speaker 5 (44:20):
Correct to do it.

Speaker 4 (44:21):
So how does the EPA, on one hand put out
regulatory issues regulatory mandates that you have to do this
and you.

Speaker 5 (44:31):
Have to do that. And you have to reduce this,
and you have to reduce.

Speaker 4 (44:34):
That, and the damn technology doesn't even exist to do it.

Speaker 8 (44:40):
I mean now that it doesn't exist on a mass
municipality scale.

Speaker 5 (44:46):
It does point of use for your home, right, but
they can't.

Speaker 4 (44:49):
They don't go in and tell the homeowner you must
do this, although I okay, that's another topic. But so
they tell municipal water systems you must do this. We
Paul is saying right right now, is the problem is
so massive that you have to do it at the
point of use.

Speaker 5 (45:05):
Correct, you have to treat It's impossible right now, This
is our message.

Speaker 4 (45:11):
There is no technology that exists on a centralized basis.
You cannot centralize the treatment of water to get rid
of these three main contaminants. So the quiz today is
what are the three contaminants? We have microplastics, we have
forever chemicals, and of course we have the third one.

(45:32):
What's the third one? Pharmaceuticals. So when you have these
contaminants and you can't remove them on the water system level,
you have to do it on the point of use.
So do you think there will ever be requirements?

Speaker 5 (45:47):
Right now?

Speaker 4 (45:48):
There are requirements that we have in our home, Okay,
I mean there are certain requirements, you know, like some
of the things we furnish our homes with, some of
the carpeting, all of the additive for certain things. Will
there ever be any kind of mandates? Do you believe
that every home has to has to have a system?

(46:08):
I mean, think about it. I guess. I guess they
can't do that because technically they don't even mandate furnaces.

Speaker 5 (46:15):
I mean, what, my god, they tried to get Tom.

Speaker 6 (46:19):
They wanted to get.

Speaker 7 (46:20):
Rid of gas ovens up till Trump. I mean, they
try to mandate everything. Low flow shower heads, low flow toilets.
You couldn't even buy a damn toilet that would flush
normally for a while.

Speaker 5 (46:33):
They can't.

Speaker 6 (46:33):
They can't mandate right now.

Speaker 7 (46:37):
Wait wait, wait, why couldn't Denver vote to mandate any
new home being built has to have a water system.

Speaker 5 (46:43):
I think you.

Speaker 6 (46:44):
Guys live in an entirely different world.

Speaker 5 (46:47):
No, here's the thing.

Speaker 6 (46:48):
They mandate things all the time, Paul. They mandate the
dumbest things I've ever heard of.

Speaker 5 (46:53):
But then they have to admit that the water is bad.

Speaker 4 (46:56):
No, no, Paul's not against it.

Speaker 5 (46:57):
He's just saying they won't do it.

Speaker 8 (46:58):
Yeah, they have to. They're gonna have to admit it.
For them to do that, then they're gonna have to
be truthful and tell everybody that the water's unsafe to drink.

Speaker 5 (47:06):
That's the truth.

Speaker 4 (47:08):
I'm with Mark, though they do mandate things, and actually
they mandate things that are not as important as water. Water.

Speaker 5 (47:15):
I totally agree. I'm just saying they're not going to
do it.

Speaker 4 (47:17):
But but I can see a world where eventually they
can't deliver potable water.

Speaker 8 (47:23):
I think we're at that state right now from moms opinion,
with all the research and studying that I'm doing with
the contamination level, here's the thing, Mark, the EPA has
a laundry list of unregulated contaminants that they know is
in the water, but that means.

Speaker 4 (47:38):
They don't even measure for those because there's nothing they
can do with it.

Speaker 8 (47:42):
One of them is called one four docks and that's
that is an industrialized stabilizer that's been in the water
supply since they had, you know, nineteen hundreds.

Speaker 5 (47:51):
Okay, here's the message. Here's the message.

Speaker 4 (47:54):
The only way you're going to get rid of this
stuff is on an individual point of view, spaces that's it.
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Speaker 5 (49:14):
All right.

Speaker 4 (49:15):
So basically, donating bud can lower contaminants in your system.
When it comes to homes, you can get systems to
take out all this stuff at the point of use.
You can't get it on a municipal level. And that
is one of the main main things that people want

(49:35):
to know. Why doesn't our water system actually take care
of it?

Speaker 5 (49:41):
And it just can.

Speaker 4 (49:42):
On consumer stuff, somebody asked what is consumer confidence exactly?
It is actually done by the government too. It's called
the US Consumer Confidence Index, And why should they care
about it? Well, if consumer confidence is low, then purchasing

(50:02):
is usually put on hold, especially big ticket items. They say,
you know what, I'm going to hold off. I'm not
going to do it that much. So as they hold
off for maybe major purchases, then manufacturing slows down a bit.
And when that happens, then there's a lack of hiring
and in some cases even laying off. Right now, we're

(50:24):
not on the laying well, I guess we are getting
layoffs not because of the lagging demand, but mainly because
of the job's AI. The job's AI is taking is
causing some people to lay off. Amazon justified it by
saying they'll be leaner and meaner and be able to
hire people in other areas. And Facebook is also meta

(50:48):
is also laying off a lot of people. If you
have a tech job right now, unless it's very very specific,
you're going to have a tough time when it comes
to when it comes to really keeping a job, it's
just going to be hard. By the way, this is
something Mark loves talking about stocks and things. There's there's

(51:09):
a trend right now where the global denim market has
grown almost doubled.

Speaker 5 (51:17):
Denim Mainking blue jeans.

Speaker 4 (51:20):
People are going to blue jeans for almost everything when
it comes to fashion, everything from formal wear to just
casual wear. Denim is making a big comeback, and right
now stocks people who own stock in denim related companies
have almost doubled.

Speaker 5 (51:40):
I liked you.

Speaker 4 (51:41):
I love looking at what is making money and what's not. Mark,
do you want to talk about what's making money and
what's not because do you.

Speaker 5 (51:49):
Want to share anything or not?

Speaker 6 (51:50):
Well. Tesla is still doing great, man, they might hit
They're all touch high are pretty close here quickly. But
there's some other socks that just made killing Nokia yesterday.
Man I did great at Tokyo.

Speaker 4 (52:04):
Yeah, we don't have to talk specifics, but but what
did the actual individual stock do?

Speaker 5 (52:09):
What do you mean?

Speaker 7 (52:09):
It went up about twenty percent almost twenty five percent yesterday.
It's down a little from those highs yesterday, but it
was incredible. So one of the largest chip makers, and
VideA put A took a billion dollar stake in them
or a three percent. But everybody thinks in Nokia as
this old cell phone company a self exactly. Yeah, they

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build out five G and six G networks now.

Speaker 4 (52:37):
Okay, And because of the consumer confidence again, it's higher
than it was during Biden, but is lagging and going
down a.

Speaker 5 (52:46):
Bit with the tariffs and other things.

Speaker 4 (52:49):
And because of it, people expect the holiday market to
be a bit off as far as spending goes and
social media and other and other businesses expect increase profits
because they're cutting back on employment. So you have good
news on one hand and bad news on another. As

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far as real estate, there is a glut of homes
around the country and real estate prices are pretty sluggish
right now. If you're looking to buy. It's not a
bad time to buy. Prices have not adjusted necessarily. They
are still pretty high, but it's a buyer's market and

(53:32):
you might be able to negotiate some really good deals
on real estate if you're looking for that. As far
as vehicles go, another thing. Vehicles also inventory is high,
so you can make a pretty damn good deal on automobiles.

Speaker 5 (53:49):
Now, what about starting a business?

Speaker 4 (53:51):
One guy asks, is this going to affect me starting?
I think when you start a business it takes to
spool up anyway, and the state of the economy I
don't think should be the direct bearing, unless, of course,
you're looking to build new homes and there's a glood
of homes. But if you're looking for a service business,

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the main thing.

Speaker 5 (54:14):
You have to look at is copid.

Speaker 4 (54:16):
Not necessarily the economy, but competition, because with home services,
people are not going to put off things that they need,
like a furnace or a water heater. They can so
when it comes to plumbing and heating and cooling electric.

Speaker 5 (54:30):
These are steady.

Speaker 4 (54:32):
So it's not so much the economy that will affect
you starting your business, but competition. Many of these guys
that start the very first mistake they do is they
have a great idea, but they fail to compare themselves
to the marketplace and say, wait a minute, how am
I going to compete with this person? Or how am
I going to compete with that person? Now, starting out automatically,

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you have an advantage because you have lower overhead usually
and you don't have a lot of the growth expense.
I call it the infrastructure for growth. So in the
beginning you can be quite competitive with pricing, but over
time with the marketing budgets and the money you have
to put in over time, you have to be able

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to compete with the big boys, even though you're smaller
and you might have better pricing. You have to be
able to account for your marketing as a line item.
Don't just assume your phone's going to ring. And you
have to have an actual budget. I mean, put a
budget together and spend the money. Don't let it sit
there and word of mouth only goes a certain amount.

Speaker 5 (55:40):
You have to do marketing.

Speaker 4 (55:42):
Marketing is probably the number one thing people overlook.

Speaker 5 (55:45):
Two things people overlook.

Speaker 4 (55:47):
When they start their business their own time and marketing.
Those two things, Paul, we got something that says for
well water they want to know, what do you suggest
for well water? Do you actually have to keep have
to consider filtering out plastics and p fas in well
water if they're way out in the country.

Speaker 8 (56:06):
Absolutely, cause that's where your municipality gets the water from,
right They get it from you know, wells.

Speaker 5 (56:13):
They have their own wells.

Speaker 4 (56:14):
So you're saying that if you're putting if you have
a home out in the country, yep, with a well,
you still need to put in a system to really
deal with your water.

Speaker 8 (56:23):
Absolutely correct. The well water has the same issues that
municipality water.

Speaker 4 (56:27):
Has because it all comes from the same place, the ground. Correct,
So microplastics are actually leaching into the ground.

Speaker 8 (56:33):
Absolutely correct. It's microplastics are in rainwater. Microplastics tested in
every major bottle body of water in Colorado. I mean
it's there.

Speaker 4 (56:44):
What is if we had to list them in priority?
What's the worst? The microplastics, the pa fas, forever chemicals,
or the pharmaceuticals.

Speaker 5 (56:54):
What would you say?

Speaker 8 (56:55):
Well, I think microplastics would be the worst because they
carry in carcinogens and back area. P fis you know,
would be second because they're they a p FAS strain
is so large that you know, that's why it lasts forever.

Speaker 4 (57:10):
How it was in So you're saying that's the first concern.

Speaker 8 (57:14):
You think, Yeah, that and microplastics are tied neck and
neckt because plastics, when they get into your body, a
bacteria can attach itself to that microplastic. It creates a
film then over that bacteria, and that's part of the problem.

Speaker 5 (57:28):
God, it can.

Speaker 8 (57:29):
You can become antibiotic resistant bacteria.

Speaker 5 (57:32):
Because of it.

Speaker 4 (57:33):
And we're talking almost when you have these microparticles with
bacteria attaching to them, you're talking about tiny abscesses in
your system.

Speaker 5 (57:42):
Correct, So think about this.

Speaker 8 (57:43):
If microplastics have penetrated every aspect of the human body,
then you can have curse nogens attach itself to those microplastics.
You have the peber chemicals attach yourself to the fatty
tissues and fatty and fat you know, fatty cells of
the body. And that's in every aspect of the food
and water that we drink, the plastic wrapping of the food.

Speaker 5 (58:04):
Okay, Deputy Bow, you had a question. What's going on? Bow?

Speaker 13 (58:08):
Yes, Paul, since Halloween's coming up, I ever question about
cemeteries people and people living around cemeteries. Is there some
sort of agency or do you get involved. There's concerned
about chemicals like a bomber.

Speaker 4 (58:24):
Chemicals. Chemicals leach from cemeteries. I wouldn't think so, but
who knows. I mean, chemicals leach from almost anything coming
in contact with the ground. I mean eventually it makes
its way to ground water well being on.

Speaker 8 (58:37):
That so much cemeteries because everything's in that vault, a
smant vault. The biggest issue it would be in your neighborhood.
You live around a golf course. So if you guys
had wells here, what you don't all the herbicides and
sexicides and fertilizers you know that they, you know, used
to maintain a golf course. That or absolutely can leads
into your you know, your water supply.

Speaker 4 (58:57):
There was there was a study done of people in
proximity of golf courses, and I don't have that study
in front of me, but as I remember, there were
higher incidents of cancer for people in proximity to golf courses,
which is really incredible. I mean when you think about that,
that's kind of scary.

Speaker 5 (59:17):
Again, I don't know we can So here's.

Speaker 8 (59:20):
Here's something to think about. Municipalities that you know, do
you know any kind of water filtration, water treatment.

Speaker 5 (59:26):
What do you think that their.

Speaker 8 (59:28):
Wastewater goes to the wastewater goes right back into the
water source.

Speaker 5 (59:33):
So everybody is using reusable water. And in San.

Speaker 8 (59:37):
Diego, Castle Rock is thirty five percent reusable water. That's
right from the toilet right back to the tap. San Diego,
I think is they're what ninety ninety five percent reusable water.

Speaker 5 (59:47):
Reusable means sewer water being.

Speaker 8 (59:50):
Right, that's right, and now they're nearly is sanitizing it
and send it right back to you.

Speaker 5 (59:55):
So there's no water filtration.

Speaker 8 (59:58):
Mechanism right now that can remove the feb chemicals. The
microplastics are the pharmaceuticals from a municipal water supply.

Speaker 4 (01:00:05):
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By the way, got some reaction from the thermostat discussion
we had. Some people said they absolutely noticed a change
when they moved their thermostats.

Speaker 5 (01:01:14):
We were talking about why.

Speaker 4 (01:01:15):
Houses can overheat or never seem to be comfortable. The
placement of the thermostat is of utmost important importance. In
fact one HVAC text that I'm retired now, but we
used to place the thermostat in the room, in the
central room where the return air is. The return air
are those ducks that are lower on the wall, and

(01:01:41):
you have to sense the general ambient temperature if it's
placed in a hallway, or if it's placed too low
in a room or in a room that's not used. Obviously,
your house can overheat. You should keep all doors open.
You should not try to zone your your heat by
closing your and that will make the system more balanced,

(01:02:06):
that's for sure. Another one said, Tom, I have a
home for sale that was vandalized and my insurance would
not cover it. Can you ask Compass what's going on?
I don't have to ask Compass when you have a
home that's vacant for a lengthy time, I don't know
how long it was. There are clauses and homeowners homeowner's

(01:02:27):
insurance that will not cover the damage, especially if it's
from a broken pipe or something. But if it's vandalism
or people getting into the home, many times you will
not be covered for this risk if you have an
over extended vacancy. So make sure when you leave your
home that it is not that you have insurance that

(01:02:51):
will cover it. Okay, Now, one person said, I remember
Mark talking about this, and it happened to me and
the strat and he worked. He was in a car
accident and the hospital person was asking about medpay insurance
and he did not tell them he had medpay insurance,

(01:03:12):
but instead directed them to his health insurance. And that
is exactly what John Fuller tells us, because if you're
in an accident and you go to the hospital and
tell them you have medpay. They will immediately charge you
maximum rates and they put everything they can on the

(01:03:33):
medpay in order for you to exhaust that They want
to get that medpay first. If you tell him it's
health insurance, you can sort out what goes on medpay
and what doesn't, and you can actually negotiate better prices
and get more coverage for the amount of medpay you have. Okay,
co insurance penalty. This one came up because someone thought

(01:03:55):
they were saving money their home was not inspected for
a long time, and they want to know why they
are held responsible. In this particular case, the person had
a roof loss and just found out that they're not
going to pay for all of the roof loss because
the homeowner's insurance as a total was less than the
house value. And they said, how can we be held

(01:04:17):
responsible for this when we are not setting the value
but the insurance company told us what we have to.

Speaker 5 (01:04:23):
Pay every year.

Speaker 4 (01:04:24):
This is a little known part of insurance that you
need to be aware of. You are responsible for updating
the value of your home and the coverage you have
on your home. If you have less than the value
of your home and it's substantially less. When something comes up,
they're going to apply that percentage to the loss.

Speaker 5 (01:04:47):
So let's give an exaggerated example.

Speaker 4 (01:04:49):
If your home was worth five hundred thousand, but you
ensured it when it was worth two fifty. This is
just an exaggeration to make a point. So you're insured
for fifty percent of what it should be because over
time your house went up in value and you.

Speaker 5 (01:05:04):
Never reported that to insurance.

Speaker 4 (01:05:06):
Now you think you're getting away with something because you're
saving money on a premium, But what happens is when
you have a loss like a roof for something else,
they will take that same percentage and apply it to
the loss. So if you were fifty percent insured because
you did not keep up with the value of your home,
you're going to end up fifty percent of the roof claim.

(01:05:28):
So if your roof takes forty grand to fix, in
addition to your deduction or your deductible, they're also going
to pay you less, and it's called a co insurance penalty.
So if you have homeowners insurance right now and your
home went up substantially in value, you need to let
your insurance company know you're not getting away with anything. Now,

(01:05:48):
if it's ten or twenty percent, that's one thing. But
if your home went up like some of these homes
they go up in an extraordinary way in some of
these older Denver neighborhoods, you could very very well be
hit with a co insurance penalty three three seven one
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Most condo policies, by the way, won't cover sewer backups.

(01:06:12):
This is just another note on someone who said that
they just had this happen to them and they were
on the first floor, but it wasn't covered because it
was the mainline of the condo and they don't ensure
the condo building. So if you're on the first floor,
sewer backup insurance specifically for your unit might be a

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a poll on YouTube?

Speaker 5 (01:07:56):
Yeah, and you wanted to know the fault.

Speaker 6 (01:08:00):
I want to know you people think? Is it fault
for the government?

Speaker 5 (01:08:04):
Who do you think is responsible for the shuttle?

Speaker 6 (01:08:06):
By far? The Democrats.

Speaker 7 (01:08:07):
They refuse to sign the cr which is crazy because
I mean, everybody's always signed it, so they look at
it as they have to do it right now in
order to save Obamacare, which is just silly.

Speaker 4 (01:08:22):
Well, what they're trying to save are those things they
implemented during COVID. But somebody, Okay, this one guy that
always he always texts me. I don't read him much
because he's always on your case that you'd be pissed
off if you heard him. But it's only one guy,
and it's the same guy over and over and over,
and he says he always starts out by saying, ask
your friend Mark, Ask your friend Mark, Ask your friend Mark.

(01:08:44):
So he says, why is it that we can't extend
those benefits if people are still hurting?

Speaker 5 (01:08:52):
Why are you opposed to that?

Speaker 4 (01:08:54):
If people need healthcare, not everyone can afford it.

Speaker 6 (01:08:58):
Hey, I want a new Tesla Roadster. I don't see
anybody buying me one.

Speaker 5 (01:09:03):
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No Well Martino, Hello Tom Martino here, Welcome to the show.
Three zero three seven one three talk seven one three
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or swim with calls. But I do get texts and
emails a lot of people for some reason, they love
texting on this one line, and I love giving it

(01:10:20):
out now I get actually because it's open twenty four
to seven, I can't get to all of them, and
some of them are just making comments about me and
Mark anyway. But it's seven four seven nine nine nine
fifty two eighty and that seems to be very popular
because I get them at all hours. Seven four to
seven nine nine nine fifty two eighty one has to

(01:10:41):
do with basically, it's a it's a construction defect. But
I think the principles go way farther than construction defects.

Speaker 5 (01:10:49):
We'll talk about that.

Speaker 4 (01:10:51):
It has to do with a statute of limitations and
a statute of repose, which I don't think people understand
what it means.

Speaker 5 (01:10:59):
And I'm going to make it really simple. First, I
want to.

Speaker 4 (01:11:01):
Check with major Mark, Major, Major Mark Major.

Speaker 5 (01:11:03):
What's on your mind?

Speaker 6 (01:11:04):
What's happening, sir man, I'll tell you there's not much
going on today.

Speaker 7 (01:11:09):
It's kind of it's kind of a slow date. You
notice it's a little cold. Finally the last two Yes,
I like that.

Speaker 4 (01:11:16):
Yeah, I do too. And speaking of that, people come
out of the woodwork trying to sell you stuff when
it's cold because you're a like what you know, well,
like furnaces, water, heage, Yeah, things like that. I mean
it's a really bad time. There are more and more
ripoffs done during this time because people don't prepare. You know,

(01:11:38):
this thing has always come up on statue limitations. When
do they start? When do they start? They start when
you discover the breach. That's whether it's a breach of
contract or whether it's a home defect or anything. Statute
of limitations really is something that needs to be there.

(01:12:02):
Otherwise you could have people suing for years and years
and years, and it would really make it impossible to
do business. So let's talk about very basically, this question
is about construction defects, but it really applies.

Speaker 5 (01:12:18):
To a lot of things, and there's a lot of misunderstandings.

Speaker 4 (01:12:21):
The statutal limitations is different on different things. But let's
just say it's two years or three years, or five
years or six years.

Speaker 5 (01:12:31):
Whatever the statutal limitations is.

Speaker 4 (01:12:33):
It is that means the law says, in order to
sue for this, you have this many years from the
date of discovery. Now you may think, well, then that
puts us way beyond the six years.

Speaker 5 (01:12:47):
What if I discover it in ten years?

Speaker 4 (01:12:50):
And that's where the statute of repose comes in. That
basically puts a master the ultimate time frame on it.
So many contracts, for example, you may have a three
year breach of contract claim, you have to bring it
within three years of discovery, but there's a ten year

(01:13:10):
time limit overall, which means if.

Speaker 5 (01:13:13):
You discover the breach after.

Speaker 4 (01:13:15):
Six years and you want to bring a lawsuit, you can,
but you can never go over ten years for discovery.

Speaker 5 (01:13:23):
So it's from the time.

Speaker 4 (01:13:24):
You discover it, but it has to be within the
statute of repose. So the statute limitations goes from date
of discovery to what the law allows. But the statute
of the post some absolutes though, that's right, that's go ahead.

Speaker 7 (01:13:41):
Well, like Florida ten years from completion of construction. They
could care less when something was discovered the builders off
the hook. That's right, ten years and that is that's
a statute limitations. Whats go ahead?

Speaker 5 (01:13:56):
Mark that you're right.

Speaker 4 (01:13:57):
The statute limitations can be written in such a way
that it includes this statute of repose.

Speaker 7 (01:14:04):
The irs has ten years to collect a debt.

Speaker 6 (01:14:08):
Ten years.

Speaker 7 (01:14:09):
After ten years, if they don't collect it, that's it.

Speaker 6 (01:14:12):
It's over.

Speaker 5 (01:14:13):
And mark that that's eighteen years.

Speaker 4 (01:14:15):
But it has well tell you about your construction defect.

Speaker 9 (01:14:19):
Don't all about my Technically, the parents of a child
had eighteen years to file a medical malpractice suit if
something happened that they discovered down the line, they could
do it up until the child was eighteen years old.

Speaker 6 (01:14:35):
That would be a good example of an absolute Yep,
that's right.

Speaker 4 (01:14:39):
And the absolute meaning the statute of repose can be different.

Speaker 5 (01:14:43):
But where it's not mentioned.

Speaker 4 (01:14:44):
There's a general statute of repose which puts the at
what Mark calls the absolute time limit on things. So
the statute limitations is from the data discovery onward, but
it is subject to the absolute that's a better name
for it, actually, But they called the statute of repose,
which is your absolute time limit, and.

Speaker 5 (01:15:05):
That can be extended.

Speaker 4 (01:15:06):
In fact, legislation can open up a statute of.

Speaker 5 (01:15:10):
Repose and rewrite it, like they did for.

Speaker 4 (01:15:13):
The sex assault cases against the Catholic Church. There were
some laws passed that allowed people to make different claims.
By the way, wasn't there one Mark, wasn't there a
woman who sued Trump because they they literally changed the
law for her to do it.

Speaker 6 (01:15:29):
She was your city.

Speaker 5 (01:15:31):
Yep, they actually changed the law.

Speaker 4 (01:15:34):
I believe that was the one that happened.

Speaker 7 (01:15:36):
Was worse than that because they only changed the law
for one year. You had a absolute date to file,
and then I think it was three hundred and sixty
five days later it reverted back. They literally opened it
up to go after Trump.

Speaker 5 (01:15:51):
You can't. They did it.

Speaker 4 (01:15:51):
So that's exactly right, and they were kind of wink wink.
If you have something against Trump, now's the time to
do it because we know that he might have done something. Okay,
So as Mark puts it, it's a good way of
thinking about it. There are absolutes, but within the absolutes
is the statute of limitations.

Speaker 5 (01:16:11):
Then there's a termu'al here.

Speaker 4 (01:16:13):
And this is especially for this one that texted.

Speaker 5 (01:16:16):
Me called tolling.

Speaker 4 (01:16:18):
Tolling is basically when things start counting. It's just the
time it's.

Speaker 5 (01:16:25):
And they call it tolling. But there is.

Speaker 4 (01:16:29):
Something that you need to know. There are sometimes extensions
made for like soldiers who are on active duty or
other cases. So it's really a case by case scenario
on when things are allowed. But always check the law. Okay,

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this is a no brainer. And I can't believe it
actually happened. And I almost think they said the landlord
literally changed the locks while I was at work and
they were.

Speaker 5 (01:17:00):
Six months without paying rent.

Speaker 4 (01:17:03):
Now I know that there are a lot of people
saying good for that landlord, But what do you think
is gonna happen?

Speaker 5 (01:17:11):
Well, I mean, what do you think is gonna happen?

Speaker 4 (01:17:13):
This person wants to know what their legal rights are? Well,
what advice would you give that person? Mark, they've been
back on rent for six months now. I'm not sure
if it's they were late or missed one and then
kept being called late, but they say that they're back
six months on rent and the locks were literally changed,
and it's almost like the landlord is daring them to

(01:17:34):
do something.

Speaker 6 (01:17:35):
Well, why they wait so long?

Speaker 7 (01:17:36):
One of the things you can still do as a
landlord in Colorado is if they're late on the payment,
you can start the eviction process. So whoever let them
sit there for six months and still didn't file the
intent to a victim is crazy. I mean, I know
they should have started it and they wouldn't be asking us,
so I would tell them start the eviction process right now.

Speaker 4 (01:18:00):
Anyway, this one came in my extended warranty won't cover
a transmission defect even though it's in the warranty.

Speaker 5 (01:18:08):
This is a used.

Speaker 4 (01:18:09):
Car and I bought They bought the warranty when they
bought the used car. It says bumper to bumper, but
it won't cover the transmission. Listen, here's what I have
to tell you when it comes to any warranty, but
especially on used cars. Okay, you can almost bet that
they're not going to cover most stuff. Really, and truly
used car warranties are very very restrictive because.

Speaker 5 (01:18:32):
Normal wear and tear.

Speaker 4 (01:18:33):
Normal wear and tear is simply not covered or owner abuse,
and that's going to happen most of the time. I
mean the idea of having a six or seven year
old car or a five year old car and having
a manufacturer's defect. They're far and few. You're not going
to find them. And the owner abuse thing includes previous owners.

(01:18:58):
So it's very very technical in nature. It's all dictated
by contract. So if your transmission, if you send it over,
we'll be happy to have somebody look at it. But basically,
extended warranties are very restrictive on used cars. My opinion,
I would never buy one. I would just never buy
one unless it literally would cover normal wear and tear,

(01:19:22):
because that's one of the most common problems with older
used cars is normal wear and tear. And then as
far as the one hundred and fifty thousand miles is
at an absolute, I have an absolute of one hundred
thousand miles. I would never ever advise you to buy
a car with more than one hundred thousand miles. What

(01:19:42):
I said about one hundred and fifty thousand for this texture.
Was not that I said, you will absolutely have problems
with one hundred and fifty thousand miles, And I said,
you're probably going to have problems with cars that have
one hundred thousand miles on them. Three seven one three
talk seven one three eight two five five more.

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(01:20:43):
I have Paul downing with me from water Pros and
getting back to that, I have I've discovered this map,
and this map actually shows the contamination.

Speaker 5 (01:20:55):
Levels of PIFAs.

Speaker 4 (01:20:57):
By the way, uh, it actually shows contamination levels. If
you hover over it, you can find out, for example,
it's it's done by cdph E dot Colorado dot gov.

Speaker 5 (01:21:10):
I don't know what that stands for.

Speaker 4 (01:21:12):
Cdp h E, but in any case, look at this map.
You hover over it, and it gives you the contamination
level of PIFAs.

Speaker 8 (01:21:23):
So, yeah, that's from the I think Colorado Public Health
and Environment.

Speaker 4 (01:21:27):
That's what it is, Okay, Colorado Public Health and Environment.

Speaker 5 (01:21:30):
So the places with the highest believe it or not.

Speaker 4 (01:21:35):
Of course, Denver County and Broomfield for some reason.

Speaker 5 (01:21:39):
Adams County.

Speaker 8 (01:21:40):
Yeah, Denver and Adams County were the first ones to
send a letter out to everybody letting them know that
the PFAS level exceeded the EPA's new limits.

Speaker 4 (01:21:49):
And then surrounding that well Boulder, Adams, Arapo, Douglas are
all moderate levels. The low levels are out in the
rural counties Moffatt, Real, Uncle, Root, Jackson, all around, kit Carson, Lincoln, Cheyenne, Delta.

Speaker 5 (01:22:05):
So those are all low.

Speaker 4 (01:22:06):
But this map is available and basically all you have
to do is hover over it to tell somebody wants
to know by email. This is an email I got
help at troubleshooter dot com. If the whole house system
will does it also include drinking water or is it

(01:22:29):
only for the rest of the house. In other words,
can you get drinking water at every fountain or at
every faucet, or is it basically just to remove the chemicals,
Because I know what they're talking about, reverse osmosis is
for drinking Where I think the question is really this,
Where does that system, the reverse osmosis water at the

(01:22:50):
kitchen sink, Where does that differ from the whole house
system to take away the chemicals and plastics.

Speaker 8 (01:22:58):
It's a nanofiltration the water down to zero point zero
zero zero one micron, So that's that that's extremely small
filtration for the for the drinking water, for the drinking water.

Speaker 5 (01:23:12):
So really it is a matter of filtration.

Speaker 4 (01:23:14):
But still the other parts of the house with the
whole house system would still have better drinking water than
they normally would.

Speaker 2 (01:23:21):
Well.

Speaker 8 (01:23:21):
Absolutely, you're taking out the total chlorine, the forever chemicals
to peep us. You know, also can remove lead. It's
back here.

Speaker 4 (01:23:28):
So if you were going to pick one, just one system,
I would take the whole house me too. Yeah, because
what you're doing is you're you're you're taking out all
the forever chemicals, You're taking out the pharmaceuticals correct in
your classics.

Speaker 8 (01:23:42):
Well, the other thing too, is you're not breathing all
that stuff in in the steam in the shower. I mean,
that's the that's to me, that's the bigger issue as
we get older, especially and you know, you don't want
to be bathing and breathing in total chlorine content.

Speaker 4 (01:23:54):
You know, when I think about all the causes of
of cancer that p file and plastics cause. Hey man,
when I look back, I mean, who knows how people
get cancer?

Speaker 5 (01:24:07):
Well, if you know what I.

Speaker 4 (01:24:07):
Mean, but water is one of the primary nutrients we use,
and not just drink, but use, like you said, in
showers and baths.

Speaker 8 (01:24:17):
If you go to our website right now, we have
a YouTube video up that we found is very good.
Up you know the p fives contamination, how it started
from beginning ten and where we are now. I think
people need to educate themselves to understand what the.

Speaker 5 (01:24:31):
Problem really is.

Speaker 8 (01:24:32):
So then the whole house solution eliminates that the drinking
water system is a compliment. So you got to look
at it. The ninety nine percent of the water we use, right,
it's for you know, showering is not for drinking, right,
it's just that one percent.

Speaker 4 (01:24:46):
So if you had to pick, So I'm telling people,
if you have to pick a system, get the whole
house system to get rid of the forever chemicals, the pharmacugals,
and the plastics that'll clean up the water even for drinking.
Then if you want to go the extra step, you
can then get the reverse osmosis for drinking. Now that combination,
do you do you have a special on that combination,

(01:25:08):
the whole house system plus the drinking water.

Speaker 8 (01:25:11):
Yeah, so right now we can do everything for forty
six ninety five installed.

Speaker 5 (01:25:15):
That's everything. Come on, yeah, forty that's with the drinking want.

Speaker 8 (01:25:19):
The drinking water forty six ninety five doll in every
forty six. Everything's made in the USA. All my competitors
are trying to power water filtration with the price of
a furnace in their conditioning replacement, I believe you know.
And so there's a lot of overhead they have that
we don't have to deal with, so our prices can
be very competitive.

Speaker 5 (01:25:40):
Okay, thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:25:42):
By the way, Tom, the dealer ordered a fifteen this
is another text, A fifteen hundred dollars protection package.

Speaker 5 (01:25:50):
After I sign the contract, can they do that.

Speaker 4 (01:25:53):
Well, obviously they can't, but I don't even know what
you mean. After you signed the contract, then your copy
of the contract.

Speaker 5 (01:26:01):
Would not have it on there.

Speaker 4 (01:26:03):
That's why when you sign something, you immediately asked for
a copy. If you didn't get a copy of the contract,
you could be screwed because it's going to be very,
very difficult to prove that they added it after you
signed it.

Speaker 5 (01:26:18):
So that's the number one reason.

Speaker 4 (01:26:20):
And I can't tell you how many people say, well,
they didn't give me a copy. You don't wait for
them to give you a copy. You demand a copy right.

Speaker 5 (01:26:28):
When you sign it.

Speaker 4 (01:26:30):
So when you're signing the papers, you sit there and
have them signed. Then you say I want copies of
everything I signed. Don't let them out of your site
until you get copies of everything you signed. Now, I'm
not saying a normal dealer is going to do this,
but I have found cases where these claims were made,
where people said, listen, there was something added after I

(01:26:50):
signed it, so be careful about that. The body shop
kept my car for three months and now they say
my insurance only cover or thirty days of the rental
they arrange for me. Well, again, it depends on how
it was done. If the body shop did the rental

(01:27:10):
and then loaned you the car, then you can be
covered for the whole thing. But if you rented the
car directly from the agency, you're going to be stuck
with the contract for however long you had the car.

Speaker 5 (01:27:23):
So it depends on how you do it.

Speaker 4 (01:27:26):
If the body shop says we give loaners and you
can show that in advertisements or something, and then they
supplied you the loaner, then they're on the hook it
whether it's one of their cars or whether they leased.

Speaker 5 (01:27:39):
It and let you used it. But if you did it.

Speaker 4 (01:27:43):
And they simply referred you to Enterprise or someone and
you signed a contract, well you know, and you should
know that your insurance covers thirty days. They shouldn't be
the ones to interpret your insurance. You should figure that
out before you drop off your car. And by the way,
speak lookt this on an off topic. Peer to peer
renting unbelievable. My son's car had to go into the

(01:28:06):
shop one time. And I use turo, which is you're
renting someone else's extra car or whatever car they have,
and they rent it to you, so it's like a
direct rental. Peer to peer and it was at least
at least fifty percent cheaper than going to a rental
car agency. And it's way less hassle and if you

(01:28:29):
if you go on the Turo Guide, they even have
people that will deliver the car to you and then
you pay them directly through the app.

Speaker 5 (01:28:36):
It's a great idea.

Speaker 4 (01:28:37):
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sixteen twenty two. Hi tom Archino, here, I got a

(01:29:36):
by the way, for the Mark's camera is off, So
that's why I went to full screen for just Mikasa
Studio and I got a text message that says Jesus
is approaching and will be your order will be dropped
off momentarily. So I just wanted to let you know

(01:29:57):
that that Jesus dropped off my order today. Okay, three three,
seven one three talkers are number seven and three eight
two five five.

Speaker 5 (01:30:06):
Let me go to uh Mark, Mark? What's going on
with you?

Speaker 2 (01:30:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 15 (01:30:13):
This is this is Mark.

Speaker 11 (01:30:14):
Thanks Tom.

Speaker 12 (01:30:15):
Yes, sir, I'm I'm having a problem with Moses. Guilders
still Kingdom first construction.

Speaker 5 (01:30:24):
Oh my god, yeah yeah, yeah yeah. So what happened
with him?

Speaker 12 (01:30:28):
Well, well it took him a couple of weeks, but
he did come out.

Speaker 4 (01:30:31):
And by the way, for those listening, it was a
Kingdom first construction.

Speaker 5 (01:30:36):
His name is Moses.

Speaker 4 (01:30:38):
It sounds like, you know, he's playing off the Christian
thing to build a pole barn. He drilled the holes,
he poured concrete. But what happened The posts are up
in half of the wall and stringers are up. Did
he do anything more since then?

Speaker 5 (01:30:55):
No?

Speaker 12 (01:30:55):
In fact, I took back over the bill because he
came out and he looked at what we've done, and
he said, and he said, well, I think you absolutely
deserve a refund, and he goes, can we can we
talk about doing finishing some of the contract, And I said, well, yeah,
we can talk about that, but I said, what about
this week?

Speaker 5 (01:31:15):
So he let me get this straight.

Speaker 4 (01:31:17):
Though he was willing to finish it, because when Deputy
D talked to him, he said he was willing to
finish the job.

Speaker 12 (01:31:25):
Yes, but he had he he wanted more money to
keep going. And I, as far as I was concerned,
I pretty much paid him.

Speaker 4 (01:31:34):
All right, So how much? How much the whole? You
paid thirty four grand up front? Correct, but you're saying
that you only got about ten grand worth of work?

Speaker 15 (01:31:46):
Correct?

Speaker 4 (01:31:47):
But he wanted more money. Well, when you told him
that that the math doesn't work out, what did he say?

Speaker 2 (01:31:52):
I mean?

Speaker 5 (01:31:53):
Math doesn't lie?

Speaker 18 (01:31:54):
Did you?

Speaker 4 (01:31:55):
Is he claiming you got thirty four thousand dollars of work?

Speaker 12 (01:31:59):
No, he isn't. But he said he was going to
give me a refund.

Speaker 4 (01:32:03):
But then he wants more money to finish. It doesn't
make sense.

Speaker 10 (01:32:06):
It doesn't make sense.

Speaker 4 (01:32:08):
So what the well did you say Moses, this doesn't
make sense. Did you ask him that?

Speaker 12 (01:32:14):
What he said was he was going to write up
a contract. I said, let's let's get something going here,
and you said, I'm going to write up a contract
giving you a repayment schedule. And I said, okay, once
we get that started, then we'll discuss you maybe doing some.

Speaker 5 (01:32:32):
More work, but no more money.

Speaker 4 (01:32:34):
I hope you weren't going to give him any more
under any circumstances.

Speaker 12 (01:32:38):
No, not until, not until we have a contract. And
I knew what was what.

Speaker 4 (01:32:42):
The mark mark, mark mark. What you're talking about from
what I hear is this. You're saying that you got
ten thousand dollars worth of work and you paid him
thirty four thousand. So right now, he owes you fourteen
grand right now if he finishes the twenty four twenty

(01:33:03):
oh yeah yeah, I'm sorry, Harriet's twenty four to thirty four. Yeah,
so he owes you twenty four grand, and if you
let him finish the job, then he won't owe you anything.
But if he gives you a repayment schedule to pay
back the twenty.

Speaker 5 (01:33:19):
Four, isn't he also saying, in.

Speaker 4 (01:33:22):
Addition to that, he needs more money well.

Speaker 12 (01:33:26):
That was the more money was going to be negotiable
once he once he figured out what he want.

Speaker 5 (01:33:31):
Why would you give him a dime? Why would you
give him a dime.

Speaker 4 (01:33:35):
When if he's going to have all he can do
to repay the twenty four grand, why would you loan
him more? In essence, he's asking you to loan him more.

Speaker 12 (01:33:45):
Well, but that was going that was all going to
be negotiable in the contract. That wasn't going to be
like he wasn't going to give him another dime until
he burned up the twenty four thousand dollars.

Speaker 5 (01:33:54):
If he's okay, I got it.

Speaker 4 (01:33:57):
But I thought thirty four the ten plus the twentyfore,
I thought that was for.

Speaker 5 (01:34:01):
The whole job.

Speaker 4 (01:34:02):
It's not how much was the okay? How much was
the whole contract?

Speaker 12 (01:34:06):
For the whole contract was for about sixty.

Speaker 4 (01:34:09):
Okay, Now I understand it. Okay, So where are you
in the process?

Speaker 5 (01:34:14):
Okay?

Speaker 16 (01:34:15):
He came out.

Speaker 12 (01:34:15):
He said he was going to write a contract and
this and right, and he's gonna send you. He said,
he's gonna send a copy to me and a copy
to Dmitri to let him know that we were he
was he was trying to take care of this. Well,
we didn't hear from him for another two weeks, and
so then he texted us back, and we've been trying
to contact and he texted us back and.

Speaker 15 (01:34:34):
He said he was going to.

Speaker 12 (01:34:36):
He was figuring things out, and he was going to
send us five hundred dollars five hundred dollars check a
couple of days later to get just then, you know,
just to shows that he was in good faith, that
he was getting trying to get things taken care of.
And now he's ghosting me and I haven't heard from
him for another two weeks.

Speaker 4 (01:34:52):
Hey, okay U Kachina. Let's try calling him. Let's try
call calling Moses. He talked to d he'll probably talk
to us. I do want to get him on and
see another thing.

Speaker 12 (01:35:04):
In the meantime, I did hire another contractor.

Speaker 4 (01:35:08):
Well, you're certainly within your rights, and no one can
say that you breached the contract. So now that complicates things.
Hold on a second, and I'll find out what you
did with that other contractor.

Speaker 5 (01:35:20):
Again, that's got to be noted.

Speaker 4 (01:35:21):
But again, as long as you're documenting everything you should
be doing, all right, we'll come back to you and
more coming up?

Speaker 5 (01:35:28):
Did you have something that did somebody want to say something?

Speaker 4 (01:35:31):
I thought I heard somebody chime in anyway, three oh
three seven to one three talk. So Moses is basically
not coming through as he promised.

Speaker 5 (01:35:41):
We'll try to get him on the phone and then.

Speaker 4 (01:35:43):
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(01:36:26):
with Remax Alliance three oh three nine two zero sixteen
twenty two. Hi Tom Martine, here a trio three seven
one three talk seven one three eight two five five.

Speaker 5 (01:36:39):
I want to go back to Mark, and we have
Dimitri up.

Speaker 4 (01:36:41):
Mark said he paid a guy thirty four grand got
ten thousand dollars worth of work, and now Moses says,
let's negotiate. I'll do a repayment schedule and then on
the UH on the twenty four grand, because you only
got ten thousand dollars worth of work. And then I'd
like to finish the job. And then as I finish,

(01:37:03):
I want to be paid for it. So, Deputy D
can you add anything to that?

Speaker 19 (01:37:10):
Well?

Speaker 15 (01:37:10):
I can add that. You know.

Speaker 19 (01:37:11):
The day that Mark called us, I spoke with Moses,
and the way we left it was this, Moses said
that he would like to return to the job site
to finish up the project as agreed, right, and I
spoke with Mark about that offer, and Mark reluctantly agreed
to accept that offer and allow Moses to finish the job.

(01:37:35):
And then I said, Mark, if anything else goes wrong,
if the job isn't finished, give us a call and
we'll take it from there again.

Speaker 5 (01:37:42):
So okay, so that's where it is right now.

Speaker 4 (01:37:44):
I guess, I guess Mark, uh Mark? He said he
was going to write something up. How long ago was that?

Speaker 5 (01:37:53):
That was four weeks ago? About six weeks ago?

Speaker 4 (01:37:56):
Yeah, so you haven't you haven't heard from this guy
for six weeks No, it's.

Speaker 12 (01:38:01):
Been two weeks since I heard from him, because after
I kept hounding him. All right, so it's two weeks
and yeah, he actually the last time I talked was
two weeks ago when he said he hadn't He was
trying to work out some deals and figured it trying
to figure out how to write up the contract. In
the meantime, he said, I'll send you a five hundred
dollars just good faith check. So you know, I'm I'm

(01:38:22):
trying to get this.

Speaker 4 (01:38:23):
What impression now, Demitri, What impression did you get? What
impression did you get? You usually have a good gut
feeling when you talk to Moses.

Speaker 16 (01:38:33):
You know, I got a pretty good feeling about him.

Speaker 19 (01:38:35):
I mean, he really seemed sincere in.

Speaker 16 (01:38:37):
His desire to finish the job. Now, he did fall
on some kind of hard times, which she didn't tell
me about, but I can sense something went terribly wrong.
And I think that feeling is further supported by the
fact that Mark Major himself had used Moses in you know,
years ago.

Speaker 4 (01:38:54):
Wait a minute, Mark, is this is this the Moses
I used as well?

Speaker 6 (01:38:58):
Yeah, we both used him.

Speaker 4 (01:39:00):
Yeah, he was a good guy.

Speaker 7 (01:39:02):
Yeah, I mean, but think about it, Tom that was
pre COVID. He was a good guy then, but I
don't know him now.

Speaker 4 (01:39:10):
That is too bad, you know, Moses, truly, I mean,
he did a great job for me.

Speaker 5 (01:39:17):
Now, thanks for reminding me of that. D.

Speaker 4 (01:39:21):
I mean, like Mark said, though like our Mark said,
here he says, you know what difference does it make?
I mean, truly, you know he was, but now he's not. D.
Do you want to take another run at him to
see if we can at least get him to do
something you know what I think would be better my opinion,
And again we're going to go over that part. Mark said,

(01:39:41):
he hired another contractor. I think you should just get
a repayment plan for the money and not let him
do any more work. But this new guy you hired,
what has the new guy done? Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:39:55):
How much more?

Speaker 4 (01:39:56):
How much did it cost you to complete?

Speaker 12 (01:40:00):
It cost me nineteen thousand dollars to complete?

Speaker 4 (01:40:04):
Okay, so he owes you. He doesn't owe you the nineteen.
He simply owes you twenty four grand.

Speaker 12 (01:40:11):
Yeah, yeah, I paid that nineteen myself. So he ows Okay,
we've seen what work he did, and and what and
what and what.

Speaker 15 (01:40:19):
I paid right exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:40:22):
So Dmitriy this time you can tell him. You can
tell Moses he's he's done on that job. The job
is done, and now he just needs to pay back
to twenty four grand. I mean, you would hope the
guy could make payments on that.

Speaker 12 (01:40:37):
Well, and he seems he seems so nice.

Speaker 16 (01:40:41):
Yeah, well so is The question I have for Mark
is what happened to Moses' offer to come back and
finish the job?

Speaker 19 (01:40:50):
Did he tried to.

Speaker 11 (01:40:51):
Come back and finish the job and then disappear?

Speaker 16 (01:40:54):
Or did you hold on, hold on? Or did you
did he try to commend to do the job and
then you kind of ran out of patients with him
and told him to leave and never.

Speaker 15 (01:41:02):
Come back again.

Speaker 16 (01:41:02):
How did your relationship with Moses.

Speaker 12 (01:41:04):
M basically when when he came he called up, he
looked at what we had done, and he and he
got out of his trucking. Now I went out and
talked to beat him, and he goes, wow, you guys
got a lot done. He goes, I think you absolutely
The first words out of his mouth, he's, I think
you absolutely deserve a reef.

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Speaker 14 (01:41:53):
Yeah, Ri, you.

Speaker 4 (01:42:01):
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Speaker 2 (01:42:05):
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Speaker 1 (01:42:09):
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Speaker 3 (01:42:11):
Man Dix is the Troubleshooter Show. No Tom Martine, Hey, hey.

Speaker 4 (01:42:18):
Hey, this is Tom Martino along with Major Mark Major,
my partner in crime and partner and a lot of things.
If you really want another truth. But it's all legal,
at least as far.

Speaker 6 (01:42:31):
As we know most of it.

Speaker 5 (01:42:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:42:34):
Now, this problem we had it falls into that major category.
Money upfront, Mark, I can never I can't think of
one case where money upfront is justified.

Speaker 5 (01:42:49):
I mean, just money for nothing.

Speaker 4 (01:42:52):
You pay a guy thirty four grand that was half
of the sixty thousand dollars job, and he gets behind
there's too much of a temptation to use money when
you have it. And contractors are the worst money managers
in the world, the worst. So you pay that contractor

(01:43:15):
more than they should be paid for the work done,
and likely when they run into trouble, they're going to
borrow from that money and you're not going to see
it again. And I don't care who the contractor is.
I don't care who it is. You should never pay
a contractor upfront ever.

Speaker 5 (01:43:32):
Ever.

Speaker 4 (01:43:33):
Now, anyone wants to dispute that, I welcome you to
call me.

Speaker 5 (01:43:36):
Call me.

Speaker 4 (01:43:38):
I am telling you do not pay a contractor upfront. Mark,
this guy wrote to me. I'm trying to get a
feel for his politics, but he said, make sure you
read this to Mark about the government shutdown and then
see who he thinks. Please please read read this to
Mark a great explanation as to who is that fault

(01:44:01):
with the government shut down. So this is a scenario
the Republicans and Democrats are talking. First, the public says,
the public says, we need sandwiches. Republicans say, we agree,
you need sandwiches. The Democrats say, we agree you need sandwiches.

(01:44:28):
The Republicans then say we're voting Sunday at five pm
on a bill that gives us ham sandwiches and gives
everyone else poop sandwiches. The Democrats say, that's not going
to help anyone. The Republicans say, Democrats are opposed to sandwiches.

(01:44:52):
The media says breaking Democrats vote against the sandwich bill.
The public says, see, Democrats blocked all the sandwiches.

Speaker 7 (01:45:05):
Yeah, and on the one side of the aisle, this
guy's on, are you carry?

Speaker 4 (01:45:08):
And then the media then, well, I didn't know before
I started reading. What I meant was what I got
this text from him. I don't know where he stands.
Obviously after reading this me this is the first time
I'm reading. Then the media says, actually, here's the full breakdown.
Democrats opposed a bill that gave poop sandwiches to ninety

(01:45:29):
eight percent of Americans and ham sandwiches to the top
two percent.

Speaker 7 (01:45:36):
That guy needs to get AI to rewrite his stories.

Speaker 6 (01:45:40):
I mean, it's horrible.

Speaker 5 (01:45:41):
Hey, can I question something about politics? Tom So?

Speaker 4 (01:45:45):
Wait, what this guy is saying is, yeah, you can't.
What this guy is saying is the reason Democrats are
voting it down is because Republicans only want it for
themselves and the top two persons.

Speaker 7 (01:45:58):
People out there, listen, they don't want anything. They want
a continue resolution. We haven't had any form of a
full budget since like nineteen ninety seven. Both sides always
do a cr and then try to work things out.
It's very straightforward. The Democrats have not voted for it,

(01:46:18):
so therefore they have shut the government down. I don't
care if you agree with them shutting it down, but
they're the ones not voting for it. I don't know
what else to tell the ham Sandwich guy.

Speaker 5 (01:46:31):
Okay, now, what were you going to say, Doc.

Speaker 9 (01:46:34):
Well, this is for all the people who have Trump
arrangement syndrome. There was just an article in the news
that today Trump came out and said he agrees that
he cannot serve a third term. So for all the
people who are so got their undies in a twirl,
He's not running for a third term.

Speaker 4 (01:46:55):
I've had people look at me with a straight face
and say that Trump will not step down and it's
going to cause a revolution. He will not step down,
and his party and his followers want him to be
a forever dictator for life, and that we will not

(01:47:16):
have a presidential election again. Now, I swear to God,
I've had Mark. They're people that you know, and people
that are not crazy, well, they don't profess to be crazy.

Speaker 5 (01:47:29):
Who I'm not going to I'm not going to out
him on the air. I'll tell you who my son.
My son is one of them.

Speaker 4 (01:47:37):
He believes that Trump.

Speaker 7 (01:47:38):
We know a lot of people that just can't stand Trump.
We joke about it, but it's true. He could cure.
You know, they're mad that he's building the ballroom that
could be a cancer children's hospital and they'd be pissy
because it wasn't high enough or low enough, or it
just doesn't matter. The guy can do absolutely nothing right.

(01:47:59):
He's only he solved seven or eight wars. I mean,
come on, you know what?

Speaker 4 (01:48:06):
And I mean this sincerely, And I don't get highly political,
although I agree with Mark a lot. I want to know, truly,
and I mean this sincerely, what exactly is it that
they hate so much?

Speaker 5 (01:48:21):
Do they hate his personality? Just him? I mean, is unbalanced?

Speaker 7 (01:48:26):
Now, you don't what it truly comes down to is
it's the Arka First, more than anything, he was very
outright in twenty sixteen. America First, we're not a world government.
Get the hell out of this country. You remember all
this stuff, a lot of people coming over from Mexico
or drug dealers and.

Speaker 6 (01:48:44):
Murderers and all that stuff.

Speaker 7 (01:48:46):
I mean, that's really why the America first not a
globalist society. And the Democrats really did not like that,
or the Liberals. But a lot of those people, honestly,
of the generation, a lot of them is you know,
they're getting older, they're not going to have much of
a say, and the younger population is starting to see

(01:49:07):
that in order to have a country, you pretty much
have to have borders and you can't give people free stuff.
And I think that's really good. We saw a good
swing in the last election when it came to minorities
and when it came to young people starting to vote
Republican for the first time.

Speaker 5 (01:49:28):
Okay, and I went in to look at the people.

Speaker 7 (01:49:32):
Yeah, the number one group that's against Trump are going
to be educated white women in their forties. That's like
Numero uno that hates them, absolutely hates them more than
anybody else. Look at any kind of King's riots or
whatever they want to call their get togethers, the Anti
King or whatever, no King's rally in that if you

(01:49:54):
really look at it and break it down. They're all
women between like forty and up, and they're just that's it.

Speaker 6 (01:50:02):
That's the main people that hate him.

Speaker 5 (01:50:03):
So, Mark, do you.

Speaker 9 (01:50:04):
Think now that he's made that statement, the no Kings
rallies will go away?

Speaker 5 (01:50:10):
No, they don't believe her.

Speaker 7 (01:50:12):
I mean, I don't think. I don't think him running
for a third term. Anybody really believe, big deal. He
trolls people doc all the time. My god, I've seen
him in the Oval office so many times with the
hat that says Trump twenty twenty eight right on his
desk taking questions.

Speaker 6 (01:50:27):
I mean, he loves trolling people.

Speaker 9 (01:50:30):
I know, I know, but this is the first time
he actually came out and said that he's not going
to run for a third term.

Speaker 6 (01:50:37):
Well that big He's not going to be an astro
not either.

Speaker 7 (01:50:40):
I mean, I find it so crazy that people would
even think that was doable.

Speaker 6 (01:50:47):
I don't think he ever thought that.

Speaker 7 (01:50:48):
I mean, because some nutcase out there thought he was
gonna what Madge wave the magic Wand you know, if
he got enough people in Congress to vote and change
the rules, I think he would need three quarters or
whatever it is of Congress so he could run for
another term.

Speaker 6 (01:51:06):
Well, maybe.

Speaker 5 (01:51:07):
But I.

Speaker 4 (01:51:09):
Here's here's what some of the lefty news is saying
that Donald Trump may decide to run as a vice
president to JD. Vance's concusitionally, he could he could run
for vice president.

Speaker 5 (01:51:25):
Sure, I mean, is true.

Speaker 6 (01:51:26):
Any of people over the years that have been both.

Speaker 4 (01:51:30):
So that's what some of the liberals are saying now,
that his plan is to run as vice president and
then have JD.

Speaker 5 (01:51:37):
Vance step aside.

Speaker 7 (01:51:39):
Yeah, he'd be like the uh, you know, the shadow
puppet or whatever it's.

Speaker 5 (01:51:42):
Called, the shadow president.

Speaker 4 (01:51:45):
But what they're saying is though, they're saying that that
Vance would actually step aside for Trump to run the country. Now,
now I've never heard I've never heard that theory. You've
heard that theory before? Mark the vice president part?

Speaker 7 (01:51:58):
Well, yeah, of course, I mean and I've thought of
it myself. Why wouldn't he He can do that.

Speaker 5 (01:52:04):
Would you be opposed to it?

Speaker 2 (01:52:06):
Hell?

Speaker 6 (01:52:06):
No, why would I be opposed to it? There's no
I'm just curious about that, Okay, I.

Speaker 7 (01:52:11):
Mean really, how about were you opposed to John Adams,
were you opposed to Thomas Jefferson, were you opposed to
Martin van Buren?

Speaker 5 (01:52:22):
What were those what did they have in common.

Speaker 6 (01:52:24):
They were both. They were both, they were presidents, they
were both.

Speaker 5 (01:52:28):
But they went forward, Mark, not backward.

Speaker 6 (01:52:30):
They didn't write, Doc, I mean, what can I tell you?

Speaker 9 (01:52:34):
But it's a natural progression?

Speaker 5 (01:52:38):
What do you mean by that? But he has to
be an elected representative?

Speaker 6 (01:52:44):
Not forget about the last one. Joe Biden? Wait president?

Speaker 4 (01:52:48):
Oh wait wait you know he brought something up here
and went away.

Speaker 6 (01:52:53):
Joe Biden was both guys, Lyndon Johnson.

Speaker 7 (01:52:56):
George Bush, but Gerald Ford not back but not that esthetic.

Speaker 6 (01:53:01):
What does that have to do with anything?

Speaker 4 (01:53:04):
Well, what it means is what here's what Doc means
that it's tricking the system doing it backwards.

Speaker 6 (01:53:10):
That you're saying tricking? Where does it say it's tricking
the system?

Speaker 4 (01:53:14):
No, it's just a ploy to get back into the presidency.
That's it. That's I think that's what you mean, right.

Speaker 5 (01:53:21):
Doc, Exactly?

Speaker 6 (01:53:22):
It's legal.

Speaker 4 (01:53:24):
Well no, we're not saying it's illegal, but it sounds
like you're gaming the system when you've been president twice
and now to be president again.

Speaker 7 (01:53:32):
How about when president your entire life? Is that not
gaming the system? For Christ's sake, Seriously, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden,
these people that have been literally in the system for
fifty years. That's gaming the system. Trump's only been there
eight freaking years.

Speaker 5 (01:53:53):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:53:54):
Paul the Waterman brought something up and I didn't realize this,
but can you technically a point to Speaker of the
House that is not a representative.

Speaker 5 (01:54:03):
I don't think you can right now. Wait a minute,
they have to be an elected.

Speaker 6 (01:54:09):
We're missing something big here.

Speaker 5 (01:54:11):
Big.

Speaker 7 (01:54:12):
The Twelfth Amendment prohibits electors from voting for both a
president and a vice president from the same state as
the elector.

Speaker 5 (01:54:26):
I don't know what that means. I mean, well, I think.

Speaker 6 (01:54:29):
What it means is hold on, no.

Speaker 7 (01:54:33):
It says former presidents are constitutionally eligible to run for
a vice president. Yep, there is no ban, but they
would need to be elected on a ticket with the
presidential candidate. The presidential candidate would have to accept a
running mate who once outranked them. Duh, and public and

(01:54:55):
political perception would make this highly impractical. But I did
disagree with that because there's a lot of people out
there that never ever saw themselves voting for a Republican
and I'm one of them. I never voted for a
Republican in my life up till Trump think about that.

(01:55:15):
That is a very true statement. I don't know if
I would vote for any other Republican with the exception
of Trump and possibly JD and other people.

Speaker 5 (01:55:26):
Mark.

Speaker 4 (01:55:26):
Yeah, but with all your philosophy, your philosophical changes in
life in general, do you really ever see yourself being
a liberal? Come on, No, you're what I'm saying. I
would never have made that jump to begin with. Okay, now,
did you know you do not have to be an
elected member of the House of Representatives to be chosen

(01:55:51):
as Speaker of the House.

Speaker 5 (01:55:53):
So there you go. Yes, I knew that. I did
not know that.

Speaker 7 (01:55:57):
So literally, you don't have to be a judge or
even a lawyer to sit on the Supreme Court and
be a justice.

Speaker 5 (01:56:05):
No, I heard that.

Speaker 9 (01:56:08):
If you don't have if you don't have to be
an elected representative, does your vote still count? Actually, because
why can't How can a layperson vote on bills that
are coming before the Congress?

Speaker 5 (01:56:25):
Well, listen, here's another thing.

Speaker 4 (01:56:27):
If they don't have to be elected and they can
be voted, then what happens with the law of succession?

Speaker 5 (01:56:33):
You could actually become president.

Speaker 8 (01:56:35):
That's right, that's he could he could become president. The
speaker is voted by members of Congress, so he is
voted in members of the House.

Speaker 4 (01:56:43):
The elected speaker, so the speaker does not have to
be by the way, they don't get to vote doc.
They only get to be Speaker of the House.

Speaker 6 (01:56:54):
Okay, so they can't. But listen to this.

Speaker 7 (01:56:57):
Not only a Supreme Court justice, but I just I
just figured this out.

Speaker 6 (01:57:01):
Listen to this.

Speaker 7 (01:57:02):
There's no constitutional requirement for judges federal or state to
hold a law degree. So, in other words, anybody could
be a judge in Denver.

Speaker 4 (01:57:15):
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seven to one three talks seven one three eight two
five five. Here's a text that says, I think that
Mark is only voting with.

Speaker 5 (01:58:11):
His wallet, whatever the hell that means.

Speaker 4 (01:58:14):
And don't most people vote by wallet, but Mark, I imagine.
I imagine though, there are some issues where you vote
based on your feelings.

Speaker 7 (01:58:25):
For us, I've always liked what Mike Rosen used to say,
and I've come to really believe this. Over time you
vote party over person, you vote you line yourself up
with what makes the most sense for you. Do I
agree with everything the Republicans do? Hell no, But I
agree with a lot more on that side than the

(01:58:47):
other side.

Speaker 2 (01:58:48):
So yeah, And what.

Speaker 4 (01:58:52):
Rosen used to say is you're diluting your effort if
you split issues. You should go with the team that
has the most in common with you.

Speaker 6 (01:59:00):
Yeah. Well, and once again though, he really did say,
always vote that party over person, meaning you might not
like the person, but if he's in that party, that's
who you're going to have to vote for.

Speaker 5 (01:59:11):
Okay, I got this text.

Speaker 4 (01:59:14):
I canceled my gym membership in writing as required, but
they keep billing me. How do I stop this. Well,
first of all, there's a number of questions here that
I wish you would have called, and here is here.
It is by contract you might not be eligible to quit,
so you have to make sure that it took more

(01:59:37):
than just in writing. If you want to leave your membership,
you might have to do it in writing during a
certain time or prior to the renewal.

Speaker 5 (01:59:46):
And they keep billing you.

Speaker 4 (01:59:48):
That could just be a bank issue or an auto
billing thing by mistake. So basically the first thing you
do is contact the club and if they say, well,
you didn't do it right way, ask them to highlight.
I always say this, this is a really good thing
to say. Ask them to highlight in your contract where
it requires that, and you'll be happy to comply. I

(02:00:09):
think where people get sideways is when they just insist
on something but don't ask for credible evidence. I always say, listen,
if I committed to this, I'm going to live by it.
I just need to see where I committed to it
and where the agreement says that. And that is really
something to really be mindful of.

Speaker 5 (02:00:31):
And always, of.

Speaker 4 (02:00:32):
Course, get a copy of what you signed. By the way,
a contractor took half of my money up front and
never even started the work.

Speaker 5 (02:00:43):
Tom.

Speaker 4 (02:00:44):
I tried to get the district attorney to move on
the Contractor's Trust Act, and I swear to you the
investigator said, we don't handle those cases. So how do
we get the contractor? I'm serious about this, Mark, how
do we start a movement or get get these prosecutors

(02:01:05):
to take this seriously? Because the Contractor's Trust Act? How
many times a month would you say we come across
violations of the Contractor's Trust Act?

Speaker 5 (02:01:16):
Really? Mark, what would you say?

Speaker 7 (02:01:17):
But all the time. But we'd have to have a
lot of help. You got to vote in the right das.
Right now, we have DA's that basically cut people loose.
So I mean, the last thing they're going to do
is go after you know, Ma Pa contractor who never
showed up to do the job.

Speaker 4 (02:01:35):
Okay, this one, I ordered a sofa online. The color
is completely different from the photo. The seller says, the
color is what it is, it's named for what it is,
and they don't have to make it look exactly like
the online photo. They even claim that possibly your monitor
might be off, and you know that's true. I think

(02:01:57):
the name of the color is the name of the
color or she got, and she's saying it's not anything
like the photo. But I mean, truly, haven't you seen
pictures online? You look at it on your phone, it
looks one way you look at it. You look at
it on your monitor at home or your laptop, and
it looks another way. What I would say is this,

(02:02:20):
if you got the right color, meaning the name of
the color online was the name of the color you got,
I don't think you can hold them to being to
adhering to your rendition of the photo.

Speaker 5 (02:02:34):
I just don't think you can.

Speaker 4 (02:02:36):
I think in a catalog it would mean much different
if it was a hard printed catalog like Abercommering and
Finch or Fitch or whatever you can get. I think
that the catalogs hold more weight than saying it doesn't
match the picture online. Okay, who was it? This is
another one? Who was it that said Costco has return policy?

(02:03:01):
Because I did not find that to be the case
with a snowblower. Mark, did you experience Are you a
Costco member or Sam's Clubs?

Speaker 6 (02:03:10):
Got Yeah, since like nineteen ninety seven.

Speaker 4 (02:03:13):
And I think as a corporation we do it too right, Mark,
don't we buy all that stuff for our offices through them.

Speaker 6 (02:03:20):
So yeah, we've always yeah, yeah, exactly did.

Speaker 4 (02:03:23):
You experience anything on the on the return policy? I
think years ago Deputy Dan said he was blown away
by how liberal their return policy was.

Speaker 5 (02:03:33):
He loved it. Did you ever experience it personally?

Speaker 6 (02:03:38):
They had a negative experience?

Speaker 4 (02:03:40):
No, no, a positive experience, Oh my god.

Speaker 6 (02:03:43):
Yeah, I mean absolutely, man, absolutely, absolutely absolutely, we had.

Speaker 5 (02:03:49):
We had one person.

Speaker 4 (02:03:50):
Now, I don't know if I can believe that they
had a big screen TV more than a year, you know,
big screen that's old schools saying. But they had a
big LCD more than a year and returned it because
it was glitching, and they gave them a new one
off the floor. They didn't even have the same kind,
and they gave them one better.

Speaker 7 (02:04:11):
Now, with the exception of like, I know, some of
their appliances have limited returnability, but I think a snowblower.
I'm almost sure a snowblower would fall under the one
hundred percent satisfaction satisfaction guarantee with no time limit period,

(02:04:33):
So I don't know what kind of problem they would have.

Speaker 4 (02:04:37):
Yeah, and that was that flies in the face of
all the other positive reports we get so I'll look
into that, Mohan. We'll come up to you next. We
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Martino with Mark Major. We are here helping you solve problems.
Answer questions taking place red. What is your comment on costco.

Speaker 5 (02:05:47):
The red? Yeah, yes, go ahead.

Speaker 18 (02:05:51):
About five years ago, I had a treadmill that the
motor burned out on. I went to Costco and and
they said bring it back. I only had it for
seven or eight years?

Speaker 4 (02:06:05):
Are you kidding me? And did they give you a
refund or another one?

Speaker 18 (02:06:10):
They gave me a cash refund and I went back
in the back got a new new treadmill, and went
out and checked out, and I had a brand new treadmill.

Speaker 4 (02:06:22):
You know that.

Speaker 5 (02:06:23):
That is such a cool story.

Speaker 2 (02:06:24):
Tom.

Speaker 7 (02:06:24):
Why do you think I buy all my clothes there
and you wear out? I can bring them back?

Speaker 2 (02:06:29):
Now?

Speaker 5 (02:06:30):
They don't do that with clothes, do they?

Speaker 6 (02:06:32):
Of course?

Speaker 5 (02:06:33):
Oh? My god, Mohan?

Speaker 6 (02:06:34):
Pretty much? What's the clientss and electronics?

Speaker 7 (02:06:37):
I think it did and I will say this as
of twenty twenty five on gas powered stuff ninety days,
so they did change that this year.

Speaker 5 (02:06:48):
Mohan. What's happening with Walmart?

Speaker 15 (02:06:53):
Yes, my name is George Mohan.

Speaker 4 (02:06:55):
J George, what's going on?

Speaker 15 (02:07:03):
You helped me out in the past with Now I
have a problem with.

Speaker 5 (02:07:09):
The Warmont Okay, what's.

Speaker 15 (02:07:12):
My car in the I poked my car in the
Warmont parking lot and the truck mule driver, uh was
pushing the cart on the river side.

Speaker 4 (02:07:29):
That's exactly what Mark said. Mark, I can't believe what
you just said. So your car got damaged in the
parking lot, yes, sir, and it was a Walmart truck
that did it or a Walmart vehicle of some kind.

Speaker 15 (02:07:46):
I think you said a car, Warmont truck mule?

Speaker 5 (02:07:51):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (02:07:52):
But who was controlling the cart at the time.

Speaker 15 (02:07:56):
And the Warmont employee?

Speaker 4 (02:07:59):
Where the did is that where they were bringing all
the carts in?

Speaker 5 (02:08:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (02:08:03):
And were you backing out? Was your car in motion?

Speaker 15 (02:08:08):
No? It was? I was, So they hit you?

Speaker 6 (02:08:12):
How do you know they hit it? Did you witness it?

Speaker 15 (02:08:16):
No? I hear the bang, big.

Speaker 5 (02:08:18):
Bang and okay.

Speaker 15 (02:08:21):
Down.

Speaker 6 (02:08:22):
So you're saying, do they acknowledge it?

Speaker 4 (02:08:25):
Mohan?

Speaker 15 (02:08:26):
Yeah, they came out okay.

Speaker 6 (02:08:29):
So then what's the problem.

Speaker 7 (02:08:30):
I can't imagine if a Walmart employee using the little
cart push er thing ran into your car and caused
damage that they wouldn't pay for it.

Speaker 6 (02:08:40):
So what's the agreed?

Speaker 5 (02:08:42):
Agreed?

Speaker 15 (02:08:45):
I backed into the cart. My point is.

Speaker 7 (02:08:51):
They said that you asked him you hit crazy or
did I not say? Were you in motion? Were you moving?
And you said no.

Speaker 15 (02:09:00):
No, I was normal in motion and car I was.

Speaker 6 (02:09:04):
But they're saying you were backing up.

Speaker 15 (02:09:08):
And they're saying, I'm backing up into.

Speaker 6 (02:09:11):
Their Okay, Well, I'll tell you one thing. I'll tell
you something, and you're not gonna like this. I guarantee
that store manager or whoever was their acting store manager,
looked at the.

Speaker 7 (02:09:22):
Video in the parking lot and knows what happened. There
would be no reason, if you weren't moving, why they
wouldn't simply have.

Speaker 6 (02:09:30):
Your car paid for.

Speaker 7 (02:09:31):
They are the largest company in the world, so I
have no idea why they wouldn't do that unless you
were moving. Now you're gonna say they won't let me
see the video, Well you can sue them and make
them bring that into discovery.

Speaker 15 (02:09:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:09:48):
So, George, how much damage? How much are we talking about?

Speaker 15 (02:09:53):
I'll only six and fifty dollars.

Speaker 5 (02:09:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:09:57):
I can't see Walmart giving you a hard time for
that amount unless they were really convinced. George, did the
store manager talk to you? Who talked to you and
actually turned it down?

Speaker 15 (02:10:09):
The influence.

Speaker 5 (02:10:14):
Lady, the insurance adjuster.

Speaker 15 (02:10:17):
Yeah, and her name is Stacy, she said, And.

Speaker 5 (02:10:21):
Did she did Stacy say? Did Stacy say they had video?

Speaker 15 (02:10:28):
And they have a video, but they won't let me
see it. I said, I want to.

Speaker 4 (02:10:33):
Well, let me ask you straight.

Speaker 5 (02:10:34):
Do you think, George, do you think they're lying?

Speaker 15 (02:10:39):
I think they're trying to cover up.

Speaker 5 (02:10:41):
For I am.

Speaker 4 (02:10:42):
I don't think for six hundred and fifty dollars for
six hundred and.

Speaker 6 (02:10:45):
Fifty thing I've ever heard.

Speaker 4 (02:10:50):
Yeah, but I don't think.

Speaker 15 (02:10:55):
Why did they can't show me the video? Because I
am convinced myself.

Speaker 7 (02:10:59):
That I don't know if it's Mohan or George. But
I'll tell you why it's George. Why you're not going
to be able to see the video is because then
everybody and their mother that ever had any kind of
issue in a Walmart parking lot would be demanding to
see the video all the time. They would literally have
to hire someone just to show a people video.

Speaker 5 (02:11:22):
What store was it?

Speaker 15 (02:11:25):
I do the store in Quincy? And yeah, Goodsey and Belod.

Speaker 5 (02:11:34):
Bellevue and what.

Speaker 15 (02:11:37):
Could and see.

Speaker 5 (02:11:40):
Mark? Can you Regie?

Speaker 4 (02:11:41):
Can you Quincy?

Speaker 5 (02:11:43):
Got it? Quincy got it? Okay? Here's okay.

Speaker 4 (02:11:47):
I want somebody to call over there just see if
they can, just just see if they have any kind
of still they can send up the video or something.

Speaker 6 (02:11:57):
There's no way or were you in your car?

Speaker 4 (02:12:03):
Were you in your car? Why were you Why? Let
me ask you, why were you in the car?

Speaker 15 (02:12:11):
I was about to start in my car.

Speaker 4 (02:12:13):
To okay, but your car, you were about to start
it to leave, but you had not yet started it.

Speaker 15 (02:12:22):
No, it does well within the marked line.

Speaker 4 (02:12:26):
No, I'm not asking that.

Speaker 6 (02:12:27):
But and you were well with the line.

Speaker 4 (02:12:30):
Well he wasn't. He was parked legally. But your car
was not on when it got hit. When you heard
that bang, was your car running?

Speaker 15 (02:12:41):
No, it does not running at her?

Speaker 5 (02:12:44):
And they said that you backed into the cart.

Speaker 15 (02:12:48):
Yeah, no, no way it did you know the car
about to start?

Speaker 6 (02:12:55):
But where did it hit your Wait?

Speaker 5 (02:12:58):
Wait?

Speaker 6 (02:12:59):
Where was the damage on your car?

Speaker 15 (02:13:02):
On the back side of the.

Speaker 6 (02:13:04):
Car, like the license plate?

Speaker 15 (02:13:06):
Where no red light?

Speaker 6 (02:13:10):
Red light? What the hell's that meaning?

Speaker 5 (02:13:12):
Near his tail light? Oh?

Speaker 6 (02:13:14):
His tail light? Break lights? So but your car? Was
your car surrounded by other cars?

Speaker 15 (02:13:23):
Yeah, on the left and the right.

Speaker 7 (02:13:25):
And how many cars? How many carts was the guy pushing?
Was it just one cart? Or he had the little
thing that pushed a bunch of them?

Speaker 15 (02:13:35):
Yeah, he had munch of them. He was pushing the
car and Montor.

Speaker 4 (02:13:43):
I believe him. I believe him. I think I don't
think they're trying to screw them. I don't think they're
trying to screw Mark, but I think they may have
made a mistake. I mean I don't I wouldn't mind
having somebody who in the studios.

Speaker 7 (02:13:56):
But if you think Walmart is going to give a
crap paying out six hundred bucks, I mean that's just insane.

Speaker 4 (02:14:01):
No, no, no, I don't think that's why they're doing
a Mark. I don't think they're trying to get out
of paint six hundred at all. I think that that
they might just be making a mistake. George sounds pretty
credible to me. I mean he said, Look, he was
sitting in his car, his car wasn't even running and
and the cart ran into him.

Speaker 6 (02:14:18):
I mean, George, I mean, he can hire an attorney, yeah,
and I.

Speaker 4 (02:14:22):
Don't think it's going to be worth that. Obviously, he
can go to small claims.

Speaker 5 (02:14:26):
Court, like Mark said, to see a video.

Speaker 4 (02:14:29):
No, you said that if he goes to court, he
could ask for the evidence.

Speaker 6 (02:14:33):
Right, there's no discovery in small claims.

Speaker 4 (02:14:36):
Okay, he'd have to step it up to county court,
which is not that common.

Speaker 7 (02:14:40):
You better warn them right now to preserve that evidence.
I don't know how long it's been.

Speaker 4 (02:14:45):
When, George, when did this? When did this happen? Two
weeks ago? You might you might.

Speaker 7 (02:14:51):
Want to wait, and I want to go back to
something he said. He said that the adjuster, which I'm
sure was in house because their self insured. You said
they said they saw a video, right, Yeah, so we
would have to once again believe that they're outright lying.

Speaker 4 (02:15:10):
Unless the video's unclear that I don't know, I don't know,
it just sounds. I don't George. We got to take
this break though. Hold on, George, jepanty Dock's going to
take your case and we're just going to do some hunting.
We can't promise anything more right after this