The Troubleshooter 3-15-24

Yeah, ripped up bad news. Who you don't have, come running just as fast as we can. Shooter's gonna help coming. Man, this is the Troubleshooter Show. No Tom Martino, Hi, Tom Martino here, Welcome to the show. And what I'm calling the great, the great snow exaggeration in history. Now, we got a lot of snow, but this was not a blizzard. Folks. If you've lived here in Colorado, you will

know this is not a blizzard. There were no white outs. There was gentle snow falling constantly, so we had deep, wet snow, but we didn't have freezing or sub freezing temperatures. We didn't have driving winds and whiteouts and drifts that were eighteen feet tall. Yeah, we had a storm, big fricking deal. The roads were totally passable in most places the entire time. By the way, kudos go out to the snow removing people. I'm

not saying people didn't have hardship. There were a lot of people without power and all this, but this was not, as it was built by one of the stations, the snow storm of the century. I'm sorry, I I I remember a snowstorm one time. You could not see three feet three feet in front of your car. In fact, you couldn't see anything was white out. Give us a call three oh three, seven one three talks seven one three eight two five five. What is that? That is our

number while we're here twenty four to seven. Even now, you can call three oh three Martino, three oh three six two seventy four six six. I want to hear about your snow stories. We got a lot of mamby pambies right now stuck at home still. I don't know what you're stuck for. Just your okay, welcome, it's just an excuse to stay home. No, there are some people where they can't get out of their neighborhoods even though the roads are clear. That's what's weird. They can't get out of

their neighborhoods. You know. I remember living in Franktown. I'd be like isolated and the whole world was buzzing around me. That's what Mark and Seuss are going through right now. They're isolated and can't get out. Here's the deal. It wasn't a blizzard. That's my only contention. It wasn't the snowstorm of the century. I'm sorry. It was a spring snowstorm, and

it's going to be clear. If it's not clear, it's clearing now and it's going to be totally clear later and this weekend it'll look like Florida. And maybe I'm just jaded from all of this. I'm so tired of hearing about the snowstorm of the century. Anyway, let me get I digress. Today's Car Day. Welcome to the show, but we'll talk about anything you want. Kevin Calkins shared an autotech Jeff Jeff Vick Kimmeer transmission. And there's

a question on it. Ask because there was a survey. There's a survey being taken. First, there was a survey on what cars look stupid? So I'd like to know that what are the dumbest looking cars you can find? Then the next one, what cars are driven by idiots? What cars are mostly driven by idiots? I'd like your votes, I'd like your information. What do you think? Bill wants to talk? Bill? What's going on with you? Bill? Hey, Hey, I'm going to answer your

question. There. The juke is the first one? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah? You know what isn't the juke the one that's non symmetrical? Is that the one that's not it looks different on the left than on the right. That was my first choice as well. Oh that's the juke now is kind of no the one you're thinking it was like? It not a scion. I can't think of the name of it. Oh, oh yeah, there's one that's non some metrical. We all want symmetry in life.

But anyway, go ahead, sir. What's happening with tell me what's going on with you? Well, I just I'm helping my niece and nephew out here there. They're doing they want to do their showers, and they've got the frame and they want to go frameless, and I just kind of wondered, you know, my brother and I will stript what do you mean by what do you mean by frameless? Do you mean the the frameless around the glass? Exactly? Like, I don't know how you Yeah, yeah,

they want self they want self supporting glass. They want self supporting glass, right, exactly, right, Yes, I don't know that's got one or two guys, have any installers. I don't need a it's not a back room makeover. Just went on redo. They existing there, but in front of self supporting, I guess what you want to say, uh, Southeast, Uh, like Centennial and the other ones in Parker, you might mark mark your your level mark hold on your level's really low. I didn't mean

to ignore you. Your levels really low? All right? And then can you pump him up a little bro things? And then Voalero Construction is someone that might do that? What do you think mark? Yeah, Valero for sure? Is that level better? Yeah, it's way better. Let me give that number for Valero on referral liss dot com seven to zero eight eight two twenty one thirty nine twenty one thirty nine. Okay. And then maybe handyman Hub is the other one. Handyman Hub another good suggestion, okay,

and any other other two. The other question was a Prius or a Dodge? A Prius or you mean driven by idiots? Right? The Prius and a Dodge? Yeah? Now why do you say the Prius is driven by idiots? Maybe man Bey Pambies, but I don't know about it. By the way, Handyman Hub is three zero three four to two seven twenty nine fifty five. Okay, So tell me about uh, you mean like Dodge, Hellcat chargers all that stuff, right? Yeah, you know what you

could have something there. You could have something there. Yeah, I was going to say that to you guys alone a little bit. But I mean I see them driving a lot of them and going I could get twice in my ways those guys are doing. Just just let me get your vote on this bill. Let me get your vote on this. Was this a blizzard or just a spring storm? Oh? Come on, Tom, I've lived here. My dad's in the military, so I've lived here since I've been

here in the fifties. I lived steady since nineteen sixty six. And come on, give me a break, right, that's what I thought. You said, This is nothing, That's what I thought. So Larry, what's going on with you? You got to comment on this? Yeah? Thank you? Well has heard a word on any weather reports about the effect of this stream down this storm downstream With all this snow going to melt in the next three or four days, the people in Fort Morgan and Sterling are in

for a flood, and I haven't heard anybody mention it. You know, this is a pretty wet snow, and I think you're right. But we all know the reason for the spring storm, right, do you know the reason? Larry? Well, it's typical. That's all I know. No, it's not. It's climate change. It's climate change. My got get off my show, Get off my show. It's climate change. Mike, what's going on with you? Sir? Hi? Mike, what's one of

the ugliest cars? Juke? I call it the joke the juke. Okay, I got to look that up because I'm trying to recall the juke. Nissan Juke is but that's the one. I don't know. That juke doesn't to me. I like kind of like the weird but okay, the soul is the soul, the one that's nonsymmetrical in the back. Anyway. So, Mike, what do you think if you had to pick out a car and they're acting like idiots? What kind of car would it be? Mm? Folkswaggens really hmmm? I m now I would think I'm going to rethink

the prius. I've seen nothing but kind people with priuses. I just think a Larry David every time. I love it. But they're usually doing anywhere from five to fifteen miles an hour under the speed limit. Oh and they're always in the left lane holding people up. Now I want to go for uh uh, let's see. I think I've seen jerks and audi's I have. Now I'm not saying all people who drive outis are jerks? Are we on YouTube yet? Mark? If somebody's asking her, well, I'm glad

you're asking. We are up on YouTube. But I need switch blade four brought up? How do I do that? You don't Jeff will switch blade four? Oh, Jeff's switchblade floor whatever that means? Anyway? Three oh three seven one three talk uh three O three seven one three eight two five five. This are brought to you by waterpros dot net. By the way, I love waterpros because you know, we had doctor Grossman on yesterday. By the way, Mark got a lot of positive email on that dot guy.

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three oh three seven one three eight two five five. Welcome to the show. We're here to help you solve problems. Answer question to take complaints. All right, what is the most annoying car? I don't know if I asked that, I asked the ugliest car, or I asked the one that's driven by jerks. Okay, Randy, it doesn't matter. You can weigh

in on anything you want. Go ahead, sir. The most annoying car in a particular municipality UH driven by boulder I suparous and boulders that have coexists stickers on the back of the super Us and boulders with the bumper sticker that says coexist. You know what's really funny is here's what's really funny. And I've said this before, this diversity crap and coexists. It's not crap. I actually loved true diversity. I truly do and truly coexisting. But they

don't really mean coexisting. What they mean is what they really mean is we want to be who we are, but we don't want you to be who you are. We want to be out there and do anything we want. But if you're regular, or that's even a bad word, if your mainstream, you know, they really don't want diversity. That's what's really strange. True diversity, honest to god, true diversity is wonderful if you have it. But I agree with you and I often wonder about the dichotomies in social

media and media and internet. Right now, you know this diversity, equity and inclusion. If it was true, it would be wonderful, but that's not truly what it is. Just like the Center against Digital Hate, it's the most hateful organization I've ever seen in my life. It should be the Center against Free Expression. But here's what's really We have a bipartisan committee trying to ban TikTok. I don't even know how that looks like when they do

it. But I'm against banning any social platform, and I'm against banning any speech whatsoever. Sorry, I'm against it. I don't care if it's hate speech. Let them hate all they want. I don't have to read it. It has nothing to do with the speech. So I know they say it has to do with spying. That's just an excuse. It's no, no, it's not. It's owned by the Chinese government. Tom they know everything. They told those kids on TikTok last week to enter their zip code

or else you couldn't get on TikTok. And when they did, their congressman's phone number called up, and these kids were calling the congressmen all around the country. Imagine if there was a vote in the House or something that had to do with going to war with China or protecting Taiwan. Do you believe it should be it should be banned the way it is in its current form. I'm one hundred percent there, okay. So if it was owned by how about jet If it's owned by anybody else, I could care less long

as it's not an adversary. I'm curious what Jeff thinks about it. Jeff, I'm with you, Mark, I think they should be Jeff, that's board, Jeff. Yeah, well both jeffs so Jeff and the other Jeff seriously, like, I'm honestly neither. Yeah, I can't Believesary own. I'm gonna be totally truthful here. I don't know enough about it, really, I really don't know enough about TikTok and who it's owned by. I

haven't been following it. Well, we already saw what happens when our own government tells people to take down news stories when it came to the virus and they got rid of our president. Remember they literally Twitter got rid of Donald Trump's account. I think Facebook did as well. So now you're talking not just our government, but the Chinese government that kind of control over data. Yeah, well, you know, we're gonna have to come to grips in

general, with with with speech and with everything with AI. I mean, we have a gay one man. Hey, we have challenging times that we really have challenging times ahead of us. Do you know how easy it would be to imitate people and to perpetrate scams? Hello, ma'am, this is Tom Martine, I'd like to I'd like to help you. You're the target of a scam. I need you to go buy some gift cards. Give me the number you can trust me. I've been on the air for forty

five years. Could you imagine that? John? Welcome to the show. What's going on? John? Hey? Tom Thanky taking my call? Yes, sir, I'm in the I'm in the process of doing a home renovation, and in doing that, I had to have my electrical panel upgraded from one hundred and fifty to two hundred amps. I use Core Electric out here. Elbert County issued the permit. CORR told me that they had to have

an engineer come out and inspect the transformer. Never saw anybody out here, I mean an engineer from ir Well, what's the name of your power company? Now? Uh, it's actually Core Electric? Oh it is Core Okay, I'm sorry, I thought you meant Core Electric as in a contractor. So is Core Electric the utility? Yes? It is, Okay, got it? So, Corn, So Cord needs to send someone out to look at the transformer to make sure it can take your upgrade. Right, they

did that, We did the work. Core is telling me they're going to charge me one hundred and fifty dollars to upgrade my panel from one hundred and fifty to two hundred amps. That's cheap, and that's way cheap, okay, but that doesn't but that doesn't include I mean, my electrician came out and did the work. Oh wait a minute, Wait a minute, wait a minute, hold on, you already had it done physically? Yes, yeah, I had my electrician come out. And so what what is that

charge for there? And is it a monthly charger just a one time charge. No, they're telling me it's a one time charge so they can maintain their transformers. So they're going to charge you an upgrade price, and what do you get for it? Nothing? Absolutely nothing. I mean they I haven't seen any report that the engineer was out here, that they're the inspection. The state's going to come out and do the final inspection of the panel,

and my electrician I've already paid. So it's just basically a junk fee of some kind. But I don't see how you get around it if it's an approved fee. Well, when they called me, they told me as of March first, they were charging this fee, and it just seems but it's just going to be one time. Let me get that straight. One time, one fifty. And that's for them coming out and inspecting the transformer. Well, that's I don't know. That's not what they told me.

Well what did they tell you? They told me they it's a fee so that they can maintain their transformers. But but what different Okay, it's I'm sure it's an inspection fee. I'm sure that's but we'll call and ask him. A deputy doc is listening, Deputy Doc, let's call, I mean, uh or Kachina? Can you give this to doc? Is Kachina's still on right now? I don't know, because so many people are snowed in

today for what reason we don't know, but they are. And uh so, in any case, she snowed in, and I think she's working the Is she still working at Freddie? I mean she's uh, I mean Jeff, she's called him. I'm going to keep calling him Freddy then we can different they held you get Freddy fred You know what, Mark? It came into my mind, like a lot of things do. Like right now, two words are coming into my mind for you, but pizza. The second word is you. But I'm not going to say it on the air anyway.

Freddie, He's gonna be Freddie from now on because God, God spoke to me and he's Freddie. Why don't you give this one to Father? John? Okay, let's do that. And yeah, I'm just thinking it's just an extra junk fie sort of thing. Well, John, John, let's play this game. Yeah. Let's say they charge it to everyone, and it's an approved fee through PUC. And that's what they do when they send a guy out to look at the transformer, or allegedly send someone out,

or they say it's for maintaining. That's what they mean, by the way, maintaining, they send someone out to check it. Let's say it is. What do we do about it? Yeah, unfortunately, I'm just gonna have to pay it. But I mean, I don't know. I'm asking I'm asking everyone what do we do about you know, it's a good question, John, I'm not dissing you for calling about it. I mean, what do we do about it? Though? There are so many times? Okay, let me give you another example, John, Hoas have started

what's called a transfer fee. That means, if you live in an Hoa community and you sell your home. They charge homeowners upwards to four hundred and ninety five dollars to transfer one owner to another. Now what does an HOA do when they do that? They say, well, we have to maintain our records. So what do you do? I mean, we're we're we're inundated with these fees all over the place. So I really would like father, And it's not father, John, I'm just joking. I would like

father, deputy doc to check on this. So let me get how we're doing this. We got Freddy answering the phones. Then we have Kachina colorI at home, work in the fund, work in the deputies. And then we have Mark at home. Yeah she's there. Okay, good, thank you Kachina. Then we have Mark at home chirping on the remote. And then we have the two we have our two car guys in the studio.

So that's that's the run. That's the layout today. Okay, three oh three seven one three talks, Very very very good, Tom, Thank you. Frank Duran, the real estateman dot com says, if you need to know what your house will sell for, he will be happy to give you a complete, full report. This is not a drive by. This is a complete report. We're talking square footage comp's neighborhood interest rates, supplying demand and the market conditions. And it's a really good forecast to have if you're

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to get it checked out. Eight eight eight Heating dot com. So Vernon wants to talk and we have Kevin Calkin Jeffick our car experts de and he wants to talk about a transmission. Vernon, go ahead, Vernon, Hey, let me let me just summarize this real quick with Jeff So transmissions Jeff options. You rebuild the one that's in there, you exchange it for a reman a used one you can put in, or a brand new one or never brand new. It's very rare. You're going to get a brand new

one, remand used or rebuilt right on. Some of the newer models they may still have new programs going on, but once silka cores start coming through the rebuilds that come out on the shelf. With getting a new transmission, you got to buy a new truck to go with it. Burn your question. So I had my six L ninetye rebuild it went out. I had it rebuilt, and now the guy won't. He won't return my calls, he won't return my text messages. Where was it done? Mountain View Transmission

and Bertha mountain View never heard of him. I was ready to hear what's his face, Joppy or whatever? So Mountain View and berthed, Okay, do you live out there? I live in Platteville. Okay, well not far? Okay, okay, so you're not. What are the problems you're having? Okay? So he rebuilt it. He said the drum was out, the front drum was out. He rebuilt it. Now when he gave me a quote on it, he told me that everything would would be new in it. You mean rebuilt? Well okay, never mind, okay,

So do you have a receipt or something on this? I do? And what does it say on the workwater or the receipt? Okay, let me grab that real quick. Just curious about that. I mean, I'd like to know exactly what they talk about. Okay, yeah, like what do they talk about on that? So on this it says updated drum, new TCM. We need programmed over here. It's the six ninety What does all that mean? Jeff? What does all that mean? I mean, well, they did have a problem with the drum and crack in the back,

so they do have replacement for that. Yet does that sound like a rebuilt transmission? It doesn't to me. Well, he's starting to go through the list here. There a lot more. No, that's all he has. Yeah, so that's not a rebuilt. That's not that's not a whole lot there. I mean, there's no true definition of what an actual rebuilt has to consist of. But you know he did have it open. You don't ever put that drum on there, and if that drum was cracked, he

most likely had to put some fred what's going on with it now? More issues? Right? Basically the same thing that was going on with it before, which was which was it? It kind of slipped see but that's that drum wouldn't have had anything to do with that. Wow, tell me how, because that's that's where the clutches live there, you mean like a clutch correct? Okay, Okay, I'm thinking for some reason the drum as a

as the housing. Okay, so that should have stopped that, depending if that's where he was slipping at. Yes, well, vernon when you tall tell them, are they ghosting you? Basically? Are they not getting back to you? They're there, they won't even I mean, what did you Hey, what did you pay for this? This is going to be a real clue. What did you pay for this? Twenty dollars? Carry out? What did you chance? Mission out? Took it over to him? Is that does that sound like a regular A good price? Yeah, if

you didn't get THEE for sure. Okay, so who did the programming when you were done? Mike's automotive up here in Platte, So could the problem? We've had three? We have three? Wait, so they're the ones that took it out. Yeah, Mike's automotive took it out. I took it to Mountains Transmission. He supposedly fixed it. I went and picked it up after five weeks of calling in saying I get it on, I get that misery. So then what then you picked it up? And then Mike's

put it back in right right? And then Mike's did the U programming right? So whose fault is it? The installation or the rebu? I'll getting more into it. That's impossible to tell. I'd have to break that thing down. We'd have to take a look at the programming, make sure something didn't go to the programming. Programming could definitely be responsible or contamination, like

you said when they installed, if they and flush it out. I never recommend this walk in, walk out, do you know, because they can blame everybody else. Well, most shops, how you n Jeff didn't like to do them no good? The customers control. You don't want other people having control. I want to control the job because that way, you know, if something goes wrong, who's to blame? Vernon, you're not gonna

like this. You need First of all, it's a car driveable. I can drive it like to the gas station, you know, to go get Okay, you need a third part. You need somebody to look at this. Man, we can't do the magic. I mean, we need to know who's is it the installation and programming or is it the rebuild? Right? So we need someone to look at it. Okay, Now how far away you said you're up in up North? Okay? Yeah, how far? Probably twenty minutes fifteen minutes from him? And you're how far are you

from let's say Colefax and he's way far away? Right way way way far away from Yeah, I'm over. That's over now. Oh wait wait wait, hands on up in. How far away are you from Longmond? Oh I'm like fifteen minutes. Okay, hands on auto tech. Tom Man, he's a good guy and he's smart, unlike the guys in the studio today. Just kidding, I've actually I've actually heard of him. Yeah, I want, I want if you say to him, he's used to this, Martina. I was on the Martino Show and he said you should take a

look at this, and you really do need a third party. And I'm going to give you his number. Okay, But like Jeff said, it's probably going to have to be torn down Jeff for most shops like Tom's set up for that. Yeah, will you have to tear that down just to get a night possible? Yeah, very good possibility. And quite frankly, he's going to want to trailer it or tow it into Tom if he takes it over there, he's not gonna want to drive it. Why he can

cause more damage. No, if you haven't earned issue and you continue to force that thing to work, well now you are compounding the problems. I wonder what it's gonna take. We have to ask Tom what it's going to take. Yeah, listen, man, you're gonna have to get He's the closest one that we know and trust. But you need to ask him what it's going to cost and how much it's gonna take to do that. His number seven to two zero three four zero forty twenty four. Okay. One

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five five. Okay, now listen, we're talking about cars driven by jerks, and we're talking about the ugliest cars. Now, I'll I don't seem necessarily ugly cars. Here's what I see. I see mostly boring cars. Would you agree on that one? They're not like my car? It's boring. It's not ugly, not ugly at all. It's boring. And I used to have a cool car. I don't know why. I don't want to get into it. Okay, But in any case, there's a difference

between ugly and boring in my opinion. Would you agree? And so I think they all kind of look like this expression su v ish. They're just boring, Doc, Deputy Doc, what's going on? You're also at home like a big woosy like Mark and Kelly and all the others. What I want to I want to know, Jeff, Jeff Biggas still wear shorts? Do you have shirts on today? Well? If I took them off,

you'd be a surprise. He wears shirts every day. Somebody must have told them he had good looking calves or something, but I think they were talking to his literally his calves, his beef cabs. Anyway, Doc, what's going on? Oh? I got and touch you the Core Electric about John's issue? Yeah, now, Core Electric the utility out there at Elbert County, and he wants to know why that one hundred and fifty dollars charge. They said, look, man, you know that if it's approved, they

can do it. And what did they say, Doc? What did they say? Well, we called him engineering. He said he got the engineering told him that when we called him engineering, they had no idea what we're talking about. That he sent it to Billings. So I told John, he's going to the invoice after the inspection. I said, once he gets the invoice, it'll say specifically it's an inspection fee. You got to do that when you get a building permit, you got to do that for anything

you got. You go ahead. Well, I just told him, when he gets the invoice, call me because the invoice will say exactly what it's for. And if we think it's furious, we'll call up correlectionally. Well that's good, that's a good point. Are you working on anything else. You know, there was somebody I can't yet who was who wanted a refund from a I think it was a contractor. I don't remember his name. I can't. Okay, i'll find it. I'll find it anyway. He'll

go ahead, but keep going though. We got a refund minus I think two hundred dollars for a restocking fear or something. So he was happy with that. Oh that's wonderful. Okay, yeah, I'm trying to look at that one here. But in any case, that is good. Though I remember that he wanted some kind of an adjustment on that, and uh, anyway, thank you very much, Doc. We got more coming up. Three oh three seven one three dog three oh three seven one three eight two

five five. Get your calls in. We're taking car calls. So if you have a problem, question, com playing on a car or anything, give us a call and we'll try to take care of it for you. And we have Jeff Fick kimmera transmission, Kevin Calkins shared an auto Tech three oh three seven one three eight two five five Go with a sure thing Denver's Best roofer Excel roofing dot com. You don't pay a cent until you're content.

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credits and stuff. And that's a great price to start saving money. Probdenergy dot Com. Hey, there's some some somewhat big news that just came out. Man, listen to this time. I have got Frank Dran, the real estate man, digging into it because it's going to affect him and every other realtor out there. But they settled that issue. And what I'm talking

about is a six percent commission. So these people that represent millions of realtors across the country, the NAAR settled for over four hundred and eighteen million dollars. Talk about what the case was about. Well, here's what the case is about. When people list your house for sale, realtors use a thing called MLS, and I think it's I don't even know what it stands for, but it's multilist MLS. Yeah, and it's all over the country of

course, So they also put on there for the realtors. Remember, people don't use MLS. Realtors use it. So they put on there what the commission is for the people representing the buyers. So they're no longer going to be able to do that. According to this article, which is headline on CNN, they're saying commissions are going to fall up to fifty per market.

Are you saying that prior to this ruling? Tell me what's different after the biggest difference is if I'm representing a seller I'm a buyer, I'm the buyer's agent, and they're looking for a house. I go on MLS and I see fifteen homes that meet the criteria they want. Right, those fifteen homes also show me that I'm going to get a three percent commission, or a one percent commission, or a half a percent. So the problem with that is a lot of realtors and I ran into this with the realtor I use

or did use in New Orleans when we were looking out there. What they do is they simply glanced by the ones that don't pay that three percent. So therefore there's a lot of homes that the buyer never even really gets deceived because their realtor could be and I'm not saying Frank or Stephanie or people we know would do this, but when they show how much commissions there, the ones with not a lot of commission generally don't end up getting shown a lot.

So this ruling MLS is no longer going to show case. Michelle Les used to show what the co op would be. Probably, yeah, they did show what it is, and basically, I mean this starts off the six percent commission is gone. They're saying it's going to be less. They're also saying that, and if I'm reading this correctly, they're saying that the seller is not going to be paying the commission anymore. In other words, it's not going to come out out of the seller's clothing, which is crazy.

Well, hold on, hold on, Mark, money is money is money. You can say it's coming out of the moon, but yeah, it's going to come out of the transaction. So if they say the seller's not going to pay it, what do they actually mean by that. Well, they're saying that, Well, I'm assuming they're saying the buyer would have to pay it. The buyer would be building it into their new loan instead of the seller paying it. I mean, I agree with you. You

can argue it either way. Who's paying it right now? Ultimately it doesn't care because they can negotiate it. But generally how it works right now, if I'm selling my house, I end up paying my realtor and I end up paying the other person's agent a realtor. I want to know. I want to know if Brad O'Brien has a spin on this. Do you this just came out? I know Frank he was a little shocked when I read him the first paragraph. He's deep digging into it. But let's at least

Kelly, I know you're listening. Email or call all Brad and give them a heads up. Just tell them to go to CNN. It's like the number one thing in the truck. I'm reading it and it's really it's not clear the way they wrote it here, I mean not totally clear. No, I agree with you, man, but you know the big things I take away. Fifty percent twenty five to fifty percent less commissions is what they're

talking about, which is that's massive. Imagine if you're a realtor and you're looking at, you know, making half of what you did last year. So home sellers bought the lawsuit because they argued that the cost of the buyer's agent commission should be paid by the buyer, not the seller. That's the buyer's part. And usually in other words, the I called it a co op. In other words, if there was a six percent or seven point, but whatever the percentage was, a certain percentage went to the other buy

the other real estate oh broke. So let's say Frank listed a property and someone who doesn't work with Frank brings a buyer, Frank would give them part of that commission, and typically it's six percent. So typically the seller's realtor makes three percent and then the buyer's agent makes three percent. However it worked. They're saying that if the seller's broker comes to that deal, why should it come out of the seller's end part of it? And I guess I

got that argument. But the biggest problem that I see with this, I remember when Susanna and I bought our first house in Parker. It took everything in the world to scrape together ten thousand dollars to put down on it,

which was ten percent the house was only one hundred grand. But listen to this man, if we had to come up with another three thousand dollars in order to pay our agent who's helping us find a house, I don't know if we would have gotten our house that quickly, right, I understand that. But that's the only real part that I see being being crazy is that well not listing that on MLS. Most realtors are going to say that's huge, because now how are they going to know how much they're going to get

paid. Let's just look at it that way. They used to list what the co op is. Yeah, now no more. The co op is one hundred percent at least according to this article. It's not going to be there anymore more on n mL because they don't want real estate people leaning toward the higher co op listings only. And I tell you what one of the

homes Suzanna and I really loved in Saint Parody. I'm telling you right now, the only reason our realtor didn't show us at house and I found it on Zillow or realtor dot com is because they were selling it themselves and only offering half a percent. But I know she knew it was out there, but she did not even show it to us. Oh yeah, because some some for sale by owners will say in the ad, we'll pay co op, but if you don't pay enough co op, the real estate people say,

we're not going to show that house. So now I don't even know if it matters if they listed on MLS, because it sounds like if I'm looking for a house, I'm going to end up paying my realtor to help me find a house, not the seller. That's what it sounds like to me, which is a massive change in the entire thing. I'd love some realtors out there. Like I said, Frank's digging into it. Hopefully Bradley O'Brien digs into it, but i'd some long term realtors. Let us know

your thoughts on that. That's a really good topic to do. Now, Mark, I know you like to make political bets, so I'm just going to put one out there right now, and I'm going to go public on this one because normally you harangue me into it and I don't really agree to it. But this is one I'm going to agree to, and I want my YouTube morons to testify to this. I want to bet you one thousand dollars that on the elections today Russia that Putin will win. I'm gonna bet

you a thousand? What what are you guys laughing at? Yeah? No, kidd man, that's great. Oh damn. I decline that he's running against three dead guys. Are they all dead? They're not yet? Uh is running against somebody three people in prison anyway? So uh, yeah, Putin's running for reelection and uh, I think he might be re elected now, and I bet you Kim Jong un remains in power till he dies Okay, that's right, You're right. You want to bet on that one anyway?

Three oh three seven one three eight two five five In other news, Okay, oh, I didn't ask you mark the ugliest car. What do you think you mean, like new ones are like in the past. Well, you know what, Actually it doesn't differentiate if you look, if you look back at like the Ford Granada, the Pinto, bet the Pacer. The Pacer was the Pinto. Basically, do you know that Stephanie had a

Pacer. My parents had a Pinto and her Pacer. Oh, she'll hate me for some it was a Southwest model, you remember that with the wood panel on the side and then the bright colors, and then the inside had that the fabric you know, with the Southwest like the Grewall station. Wow, anyway, but current models ugly cars. I don't like that square one with the hamsters in the commercial. I don't know even do you agree with me that most of the time the cars are not so much ugly as they

are boring. I would someone, hold on, I had one, come in here, let me see what it's morons. Don't take that. You can't take that with a grain of salt and morons here. This guy says BMW's yeah, they're black. They're all boring. They took one design and made tiny medium or tiny small, medium, medium, large, large, extra large. I mean it's so stupid. They're so well they all wait a minute, it Hondai does that. They have the Kona, then they

have the two sign they look the same. Well, the Tucson in the Santa Fe. I mean they've changed this year, but in generally they do what are they the x one x three x five x x seven. Yeah, I mean it's ridiculous. Yeah, but I'm saying everybody does that. Honda's got So they've got the Kona, the Tucson, the Santa Fe, and then the palisade. I mean there's four bit bigger. We have a real estate guy on Robert, go ahead, what's your comment on this?

And or how do you interpret this ruling? So it's real tour, not real tour, it's real tour, Okay. The the way I see it affecting is going to affect poor people the most that can't come up with that that commission to pay their real tour, and so the poor people are going to be sol I see maybe banks allowing buyers to put that commission into their but I see it affecting poor people. To interpret this ruling, because I mean, we don't really fully get it. So to interpret this what what

do you see this ruling doing? To begin with? I don't mean it's a fact, but what what does it actually say? I didn't read the ruling, but I've been following the case. Okay, what in your in your opinion, what does this ruling do? This ruling was meant from the outside perspective, so non realter perspective. It was to lower commissions, and so they have done that. But but in what way I'm asking you,

how is it actually going to take effect? Not the effect that we'll have on people, but what do you mean, like, like, what does it actually do in the transaction? It takes away that co op seller, the seller will pay their agent, the selling agent and the buyer's agent will commission will be unknown. That's up to the buyer and the buyer's agent, which should be negotiated prior to going out looking at That's right, that's right.

So what about this thing about what about the multi works less than this amount? What about the multip list? So most of them haven't adapted yet, but they're going to get So. I belong to two different mlss, and so one of them said, we're just going to get rid of it, and it's up to the buyer to negotiate with their agent and have their agent negotiate with the selling agent, saying, this completely changes the way we've been buying and selling. Hold on, hold On, Robert, I have

a question. Normally, a listing agent, when they write up a contract, put a commission in there, knowing they will share some of it with a right. Okay, well, does that mean that a listing agent will now charge less on that initial contract? They will charge whatever they want on their side, and then they'll advise their client. Hey, to attract people, we're going to need to incentivize them. How much do you want to

incentivize them? So I eventually see it all coming back to hey, whatever five six, seven percent the seller is willing to offer, and then negotiate once you get an offer with that agent individually, instead of hey, we're offering three to four percent. Now here's what I see happening. I see happening simply, this is what I think will happen people listing homes will simply charge a listing and selling commission and have no co op and offer no cop

obviously, and they won't even name what the co op should be. And then those looking for a home, they could get it for one percent to their real estate guy, if their real estate guy or gal is willing to work for one percent or or Tom what happens is guys like Brad O'Brien people go out find their own home and they close with an attorney for a thousand bucks instead of paying any commission. That could be true. And Robert,

you were talking about real tours. Not all, as I understand it, real tour is an organization, and not all brokers and agents are real tours. Is that true? True? So to get your license with the state of Colorado, you get your real estate license, and then if you want to join the trade organization that advocates for you, you joined the National Association of Realtors, the Colorado Association Right right right, and the Denver Association of

Realtors. And that's who settled that thing. Tom Naar, the Nationalist, the one that coughed up a half a billion. We got more coming up. Go with a sure thing. Denver's Rufer Excel roofing dot com. You don't pay a cent until you're content. Time for an insurance checkup free, no obligation. Comparison call Compass Insurance paying too much your coverage at dozens of insurance companies find out now three oh three seven to seven to one help.

You'll think you're his only customer when you choose Frank durand the real estate Man dot com to list your home with Remax Alliance three oh three nine two zero sixteen twenty two. Hi Tom Martino here three three seven one three talk seven one three eight two five five. Welcome something that directly affects all of us. By the way, you can call about the ugliest car, the car

driven mostly by idiots. They don't have to be the same. The next thing I want you to call about is uh this new real estate ruling that the National Association of Realtors were sued by consumers, and in general, it says no longer will buyers accuse me sellers pay all the commission. Sellers are only responsible to sell and pay their commission, and the buyers who bring people

will have to pay their own broker or agent. See this is the way it works now is you hire somebody like Frank Duran and he lists your house. Now, Frank sells mostly his own stuff. But let's just say that someone else comes to Frank from another company and says, I have a buyer. That commission is split in a certain way between the listing broker and the selling broker or the buying broker, and then now it's going to be all They're each going to do their own thing. So if you negotiate with your

buyers broker to get one percent, that's what they get one percent. If you negotiate with them to get more, they get more. And the selling broker negotiates what they're willing to pay to get the house sold. And the other thing is they say that, then there's not going to be co ops advertised anymore on multilists. So you're not going to have buying brokers picking and choosing only the houses to show you that have higher commissions, so they're not

going to be shown. And really, if you think about it, if it does work that way, there's nothing wrong with that. If someone buying a house negotiates a commission on their end, and because really, Mark, you said, we wouldn't been able to pay that extra one or two percent. But if it comes out of your side and it lowers the other side, it's all going to come out in the wash. It's just who I know, it's it looks like no. What I'm reading is they're saying that

the buyer is going to end up paying something as of this second. The buyer doesn't pay. Well, I'll argue the buyer does, and Okay, then you're saying it's built into the price of the house exactly. But they don't. But they don't have to come out of pocket. So how's that going to work with an appraisal. So when the appraisal's done and the house is a million bucks, where is the extra thirty thousand dollars going to come

from? Well, here's what I'm saying is that it's going to be priced accordingly because the seller theoretically is going to be paying less commission, so the house won't be marked up as much as it would have been had they had to pay the whole commission. I'm just saying that with numbers, if all of a sudden, I pay less to sell my house, I might charge less to sell it. Well maybe so, But they're saying that. What stuck out to me in the CNN article was realtors are looking at losing up

to fifty percent. Now they're saying twenty five to fifty percent less. If I was making one hundred thousand last year and now making possibly fifty thousand, I might rethink what I'm doing. Now here's how I think it can affect real estate people directly. Take someone like Frank Duran, the real estateman dot com. Frank sells most of his own listings because he's so aggressive, and he outbound markets and he's really good at what he does. So let's just

say there's a six percent commission. Frank doesn't have to split that with somebody coming up and buying that house. If he sells it himself, he just has to pay his managing broker, and then he gets the rest. Everyone

pays their managing broker. But here's the point is that with Frank, if now that commission is cut because the sellers are saying, we're only going to pay the selling commission, we don't have to pay the co op anymore, and they cut the co op out of that commission and Frank ends up selling it, then he screwed. Unless now selling commissions. Maybe it would be written this way. If I sell it directly, you pay this much, and if I and if I sell it through someone else, you only pay

this much. I think I think you're leaving out. Though. If I go to sell my house now, I would never give my broker six percent. I'd be like, you're crazy, Now give you no. I know that. I know that because now the other party is going to come with their own commission. I agree with you, And that's where it hurts people who have traditionally sold most of their own listings. It's going to really screw them up. And I think that's it hurts the most prolific and the most

productive real estate people. In my opinion three three seven one, three eight, two five five, I'd like to know your opinion. Plus, it's car Day and we are talking about ugly cars. And as I contend, it's not that most cars are ugly. I think they're boring to say the least. But Kenny, I got to take a break, but I want to start. What is this? Are you looking for a good mechanic in Loveland? Is that what you're looking for? Yeah, you had run on

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Uh, the best guy in the world is on the phone. Frank demand the real estate man. Commenting on this ruling, Now, Frank, to sum it up, what we think it says is that you no longer

have to split your commission. Maybe I mean what they're saying is you have a listing commission, and people who hire a real estate person to find a house, they have a selling commission, and they so the buyers pay their own and the sellers pay their own Is that the basic of it or not basis they're not you know, Tom, everything I'm seeing sure looks that way. And this is what I would tell you. I think what's gonna happen,

And this is just my opinion. I think it's gonna knock a lot of bad agents out of the business, which is not going to be a bad thing, Tom. I think the real good agents that know their stuff, that can really serve with great value to people, those are the ones

that are going to do well in a market like this. I think that the people that are just kind of the flavor of the month or just kind of in this halfway half half in, half out kind of thing, I think you're going to see a lot of those agents get out of the business. Why is that, Frank, So Frank, let me get this straight.

Then, when you list a home and you do a contract prior to this ruling, when you did a contract, you put a commission in there, knowing you may have to share that with a buying guy, right, absolutely, and Tom, that's always been negotiable. In fact, what we tell our sellers is, look, you know, you don't have to offer any co op let's talk about the pros and cons both ways. Let's look at what we typically see out on the market, and I show this to

them on the screen. I'll show them, Okay, look you your competition. There's ten homes two point a two point five two percent nothing, And we talked through this and discuss the best strategy to take. But I so prior to this, you would advertise what the co op is on multilist. Yeah, and they would know that going up front before we put the home on the market. But that co op comes out of the commission you negotiated,

right, correct. In other words, they would invest a certain percentage into me, and they would know upfront that I would take a certain percentage of that and put it out to the market to create demand. And that's what we would do, is push it out to the rest of the market, to all the companies. Okay, but if, for example, you charged six percent, or anyone charged six percent and they only offered a one

percent co op, then theoretically you would get to keep five percent. I know you share with a managing broke, but I'm talking about your side would get to keep five percent. Correct, Although I would never do it like that. But you're right that scenario would be correct if they were doing it like that. Sure. Now, hey, Frank, we've talked about this because of what I told you about the realtor I was using in Louisiana.

Sometimes, when people either list the home themselves or through redfin or whatever, there's some way of cheaply doing it. It might only show a half a point or maybe a one percent co op to the buyer's agent. And there's a lot of realtors that don't even look at those, right, I mean, they skim right by them because they're not making anything that's right, Mark, I mean, and that's you know, and that's I don't think that's anything new. I think you know that. I mean that they've been out

there for years. And you know what I always tell people is just consider this. Is it is it the commission an agent says, or is it the final outcome we're looking for here? If it's the final outcome, let's look at that. If it's a number, somebody says, well, so what. There's plenty of people out there that offer very low commissions, flat fees. There's others that charge more. But the issue is what is going

to be in your pocket in the end. How do you see yourself right now if I hired you to sell my house, which when I sell it, I'm going to do. What would you now present to me? How would you how do you see yourself conducting business as a buyer's agent in over the next year. Well, you know, Mark, that's a great question. I mean, I'll tell you the first thing we do. We'd sit down and talk about the services I'm going to render to you and show you

how this gets done. And then we would discuss and make sure it's a fee that you feel is fair and it's we could work the deal for you and make sure it's realistic to to make sure that we can get you out there in the market and get you Okay. But is it true, Frank, with this ruling that you no longer have to pay a co op the co op is paid on the other side. Is that true? Well? Tom, you know, keep in mind, this all just popped out. I'm still studying it. From what I can tell, that's what it looks

like. In other words, that's a buyer agent would negotiate something with their buyer to possibly pay the fee. And I'm still honestly all this just came at so quick. We're just want to make sure we get all the facts. But that's my understanding right now. We're still learning, though, Frank. Do you think that there are people in the industry, as Mark alluded to, that would would overlook listings that paid less co op? I think

so. I mean, my gosh, there's so many different varieties of agents out there, some paid great attention to details, some just kind of don't. And I think you do see that sometimes, okay. And then as far as multilists up till now, you could go on multilist and see what the co op is right, that is right, Yes, typically it'll show whatever is it there today? Or when do you think it'll actually make the market? Well, you know, I'm My understanding is this is all going

to change in July, this July of twenty four. Now there was talk before this was going to be tied up in the course for years. No way. I mean, this got settled pretty quick, So we're going to see these changes. I believe in July I will be checking with my MLS service to talk to them a bit. I don't in fact, I'm on MLS right now. I don't see any notes or anything like that for the l US as of yet? Do you still see the co op though? Oh yeah, I'm looking at them all right now, and I'm seeing co

ops on listings. So nothing has just gotten suddenly change or anything of that nature. But these are the things we're going to be investigating and checking into and making sure we're doing things. Mark, what's the I mean, Frank, what's the lowest co ops you see in the Tom? I was thinking the exact same question. What's the lowest and the highest? You see? Guys? The lowest I've seen people offer zero to be honest. Then okay, here's what I want to ask you. Then, if someone offer zero,

why would anyone show that property as a buyer's agent. Well, that's a great question. It'd be very hard because how does that buyer agent get paid? So I think they'd have to have a conversation with their buyer and say, look, if the seller is not willing to pay a cooper or whatever, the ellustiage is not willing to split it, then how do we

work this out going forward where he gets paid? I think to go to that exact thing, though, Tom and Frank, I think it's very unethical if you hire a realtor and they see a zero percent and they don't even tell you about it, I think it's up to that person to have a real discussion with that buyer. What are we going to do about it? Because I'm telling you that happens way more than your thinking. And the reason

I think it sucks is they weren't good at communicating to their buyer. Hey, there's some properties that might fit you perfectly, but quite frankly, I'm not going to get paid on so I'm not going to show them to you. Hey, frank I'm going to ask some inside information here, and you don't have to answer this. But in the industry, when you list a commission in your contract and you sell your own listing, you get to keep more right or do you ever have deals where if you sell it directly you

charge less? You know, Tom, that's a wonderful question, and that for me has always been a point in negotiation that we have this conversation upfront with our sellers and we say, look, some of this depends on the amount of work you have to do, Tom, because not every deal is the same. I mean, my gosh, some of them. It does require more work and we tell them that in front of we have to do X, y Z, then it's going to be this. If it's going

to be a lot easier or quicker, it's going to be that. And so those are things we discuss upfront, so there's no surprise this later. And I'll tell you something too, Mark, you brought up a good point about you know, you wouldn't be surprised that agents do it. I'll tell you this is an industry. This is the funny thing about this industry in real estate. There's a number of people in this business that just boy, I don't know that if they put the time in, the work in or

whatever it is. But the people that really take this business series and really take the time and study their contracts and I mean make that something that's very important in serving your clients, those are the ones I think are gonna do well regardless of what the commission. Right, I gotta say, I gotta take this break, Mark, hold on go with a sure thing Denver's Best roofer Excel Roofing dot com. You don't pay a cent until you're content.

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oh three seven one three eight two five five. You know, I really believe in a nutshell it's not going to have a serious effect on the real estate industry. I think it's going to be massive. I don't think so, because I think, like what Frank said, it's going to be the you know, the the neighbor that you knew that got their license last year, that kind of thing. But I don't understand how it affects anyone. I just don't, because all it's saying is the buyers come with a broker,

they pay their own broker. I don't. I think where it's going to affect is the total cost of buying or selling a home is going to go down, so you're going to have to make it up in volume. That's where I see it going How does it go down though, Because now you're not going to sit down and your realtor's not going to tell you as a seller that you're going to be paying six total with the co op. They're gonna be sitting down and selling your house for two or three percent.

Oh okay, you're right, you're right. It's just gonna I think it's just gonna change. So when that house goes down and they sell it for so the seller is only paying let's say three percent, then the buyer is going to have a lower price, and you're gonna have to work out a deal. Yeah, exactly, exactly. Coming up. Also, I still want nominations for ugly cars, but I think we're running across the same thing that I suspected, and that is they're ugly, not they're not necessarily ugly,

they're just boring. So what's not boring? I got everybody saying the truck I'm looking at and the one you're looking at, it's ugly, ugly. Fus do you know what? I I like it? I like it the I like it. I don't know what to say. I like cyber truck, Yeah, I do. I like the way it looks. I think it's cool and it's bulletproof, so we can go to Denver. But

is it really bulletproof? Marn't. Yeah, like Kevin said, I'm sure it's like, you know, maybe a nine millimeter in below in any case, So coming up, what I was gonna say is, I'd also like to talk about the thirty two hour workweek. That is such a sham. I mean, how anyone thinks that's going to make a difference. Because I know business owners and here's what they'll do. They're not you know, they're

gonna they say, you got to pay the same. Well, when they hire somebody, knowing that person will now work thirty two weeks instead of forty. In their mind mentally, they're not gonna pay the same as they have been paying. I don't care what you say, and think of what it's going to do to inflation. A happy mail's going to be seventy five bucks. You know, As I said, life is its own teacher. I've said that a million times and I mean it. You can't screw with things

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to one help. You'll think you're his only customer when you choose Frank durand the real estate Man dot com to list your home with Remax Alliance three all three nine two zero sixteen twenty two Yeah, RiPP of bad news, dedet Advice. You don't have the come running just as fast as we can show. Shooter's gonna help. Come man, This is the Troubleshooter Show. No Tom Martine, Hi Tom Martino here three oh three seven one three talk three

oh three seven one three eight two five five. Welcome to the show. We're here to help you solve your problems and help you make the best of your life. If you have a problem, question or complaint. We're going to talk about topics near and der, toy r, heart and pocketbook. One of the things I want to talk about the thirty two hour workweek, Today's car day. Though we have Kevin Cokin with us from Sheridan Auto Tech Jeffic Kimmeer transmission. We're talking about some ugly cars. I got some votes.

Deputy Doc says the Pougeot or the Citron. Someone else said the Pontiac Aztec. I second that one. Yeah, that's an ugly car. What about newer cars? What's ugly? I think this is like, this is a dichotomy. The cyber trucks ugly by every To me, it's ugly, but I like it. I don't know why. Looks a little like a blown up DeLorean, right, I love the cy huh mark. You like the way it looks. I do. It's kind of ugly. I mean, I'm not gonna argue that, but it's also really cool. No,

that's exactly the way I feel. I'm wondering if I'm gonna be sorry if I take one of the first generations. I like the whole idea of Like, they're all the same color. I like that steel. Actually they might have a white one. No, I don't think so. They're all the same color that. I don't think it'd be hard at all to get that painted oh Man salad steel like that? I don't know. Oh, hold on, is it actually steel. When you say steel, is it steel?

It's it's bulletproof. It's gotta be steel. Well, I saw this picture of people shooting it up. So what kind of steel is it? I mean what? Truly? It must be a heavy son of a gun. I don't know much about it. I really don't. And when are they actually going to be out? Wait? Here's what it says. It's a corrosion resistant three millimeter or point one one eight inches sheet stainless steel. So it's a three millimeter thick. So it it is like a DeLorean stainless

steel. Yep. And have you seen the inside at all? I haven't seen anything. I saw pictures, yes, and really beautiful. Well yeah, they're not like like you can of the cars. They're more of a rendering of the inside directly. And I think it's five hundred I want to say it's five hundred miles on the long version. I wonder how they'll do in snow and stuff that's all going to be in those tires. They're heavy enough, I can't imagine than a typical truck. So you're going to cut

that snow a lot easier? Yeah, definitely driver to do with So a thirty two hour work week. So if you hire someone, now you know what you're going to pay them based on forty hours. If you hire someone knowing you have to pay what they say is the same for thirty two, you're not going to What is the government going to say, Well, you're hourly, it used to be this, you got to keep it that way. Yes, they do, that's in the bill. You can't pay them any less. Yeah, but okay, Mark, what that means is you

can't pay your current workers. What's to prevent Okay, so what are you saying there? You just fire everybody and start over. No, but attrition, Well I don't know, imagine there's something in the bill about that. But with attrition, what's going to prevent you from lowering your pay? Well, because big corporations, and where I see this affecting are places in retail

like McDonald's or maybe Target and car workers. And then yeah, where you have to have people McDonald's, if they're open twenty four to seven, someone has to be there. You're not going to increase productivity because that's going to be the argument, you're going to get better productivity. But productivity doesn't matter if McDonald's, it simply doesn't matter. You got to have someone there.

They can work a thousand times harder than they do now, but they can still only work thirty two hours and the stores open twenty four to seven. So that's the main problem I see, and places like that Tom they pay the same amount generally for every position. Walmart in Colorado, if you start out as a cart pusher, probably pays the exact same amount to every one

of those cart pushers in the state. I don't think they hire. I mean, think of the arguments that would bring one guy's making twenty bucks an hour one guy's making ten. Now, where does thirty two hours? Where did forty hours even come from? I looked it up in Britain the nineteenth century, the eight hour work week. I'm pretty sure the French only work three hours a week. The first implementation implementation of the eight hour workday was

in America. In America was by Ford Motor Company in nineteen fourteen, and then it became part of the Fair Labor Standards Act of nineteen thirty eight to set a work week at forty hours, So that became law in nineteen thirty eight. A forty hour work week with overtime starting above that. So now are we to believe then if there is overtime to be paid, it would be kicked in if passed at thirty two hours. That's the theory. Yes, all right now Eric has a comment on the cyber truck go ahead?

Eric, Yes, hey, so on your cyber truck? Why would you buy something that's not hold value? There was what that's not what? Last weekend? I didn't hear you with that? Can you hear me now? Yeah? Yeah, you said, why would I buy? Go ahead? Why the cyber truck if not apparently holding its value? There was one listed in the Meekam auto auction last weekend. Not only did it not make reserve, but it never even got close to the original sale price. Well I

never I didn't even know they. Are you telling me they were outlaw that there are some for resale right now? Well? What it is? So apparently if you sell it now because there's still like a moratory amoth selling it, you lose some stuff through tesla. I forget what the deal is? What do you mean sell it now? Sell what now? People? Because there's like a moratorium on reselling vehicle? Eric, I'm asking you this has anyone actually taken delivery yet. Yes, okay, I didn't know that.

There's three of Yeah, there's three of them here in Colorado. There's one that's wrapped in Camo. I did not know that. Yeah, yeah, and I and yeah, there's there's aday of that here. I've seen two of them. To your to your point, though, Eric, to your point, Eric, I'm sorry, what car can I go by that doesn't drop instantly? Either? Well, but this is supposed to be a high demand vehicle that can't sell for its value. What do you mean it's value?

Don't I don't even know what they sell for you. Okay, So you pay one hundred and ten thousand dollars for this vehicle, and the one at Mikamoto auction last weekend did not make reserve and the highest bid was below the original purchase price. But Eric, how much I don't even know how much? How much below the purchase price was it? I don't remember, because I'll make the argument that any car will will go less than the origin. But I just said any car you buy the second you drive it off

the lot. But this is a vehicle that's a high demand vehicle that supposedly everybody wants and it's and it did not sell. Because here that's easy because everyone wants everyone wants a new one. But this is this was a brand new You'd have to look up the dealer. Tesla does not. Tesla makes you register it. When you that money that I put down on the cyber truck, I cannot transfer that name. It has to be me. So

therefore it was a used vehicle. You can buy the vehicle now, but if you resell it within a certain period of time, you lose some once you take delivery. If you sell the vehicle within a certain period of time, Tesla holds against you. I forget the specific. Well, how do they do it? How do they? Ford? Ford does that too on their Is there wait a minute, how do they keep you from selling it?

What do the contraction? It's contractual in the agreement when you put the money down, it's contractual that if you sell it then you don't get a rebate or something. Yeah, Ford's been doing it for years on their not their on their GT. It's on the GT. It's on the GT forty

with Ford. And if you sell it within three years then you can never buy another one, and you are I forget the specifics of it, because when the brand, when the new g T forty first hit the market a couple of years ago, it took three Jay Leno bought one of the first ones, and they specifically said in the thing on it that he could not sell it for three years, and it took three years before the first one show up at Barrett Jackson all right to be re sold. Here are some.

There are some used twenty twenty fours for sale private sellers who just took delivery and they're listed as good deals. And did did Eric hang up? Eric? Yeah? How much are they? One hundred and eighty nine is one? Another one with seven hundred miles is one hundred ninety five. Now, I don't know if they've sold. There's one for there. They're all going for about one nine to two hundred and fifty to two hundred and twenty five. You and I are going to be looking around eighty ninety grand when

we get ours tops. Now, there are some white ones. This is a brand new one, brand new white that must have been repainted or something. There's one for two hundred and fifty five thousand. It's probably wrapped. No, it's just a but but they're allover cars dot Com, all over and car gurus. Yeah, those people ordered them, they were first in line, they got them. Now they're trying to make a few bucks. But do you think why would people overpay like that? Because they want it

right away? You know, people want that. Would the guy just say there's three in Colorado? I mean, you know, people like having the first thing. Same with corvettes. I mean you remember Rollie. He had some customers that would pay anything for some of these corvettes. Yeah, so I don't see where these can't sell. I mean, let's put it this way. They may not be selling at two hundred and seventeen or one ninety,

but I and I listen, I lost doubt first of those. I doubt the story that a brand new cyber truck was not selling for the purchase price, the original purchase. I doubt it. If he bought it for one hundred and ten, there's no way in hell he couldn't sell it for one hundred and ten. There's no way. I mean more and more, the more I look at these, you guys look them up online. They

are set well. I don't know if they're selling, but they are listed for all kinds of prices near two hundred thousand, and now when is the other one going to be out? The Roadster? That one? Those are special order. Man, they're thinking they might start dropping in twenty twenty five. I don't know if that's correct. The last time the Roadster was out was like twenty eleven or something. But they're they're a screamer, man, zero to sixty in point nine seconds, I mean sixty, I mean,

it's absolutely insane. I bet they're gonna top a quarter though. You're gonna pay two fifty to three hundred for that, maybe four hundred. Yeah, and we're not talking about practicality now, and yeah, but that's in their value mark. It's gonna be the fastest car on the planet. There is no there is nothing even close to that price that can come close to that speed. So in a lot of ways, it's a bargain. By the way, three oho three seven one three talk three oh three seven one three

eight two five five. Speaking of cars that don't hold value, I'm telling you that you can buy use Tesla Model s's for pennies on the dollar compared to the new price. It's amazing to me, brand new, brand new, now they start, and you know how that works. But brand new, there're seventy five thousand. When I bought mine brand new, it was ninety five, so that alone is bringing down the price. But then the then the used ones, Oh my god, they're just so. Why is

Tesla so bad at resale? I wonder well, I mean, I'm looking at them here. I mean I don't. I don't think it's horrible at resale. I don't know what you're looking at, but I'm looking at modelsues on cars dot Com selling for what years? O. I mean, let me see here. Twenty twenty two's okay, I mean so so not many miles on them, though. What's the ugliest car? Mike? Go ahead, cars Welsomers, not high end days. Mark likes to say, but

Hyundai Sonata and the Elantra. Do you think the Elantra's ugly? You just called Tom's daughter's car ugly. I don't think it's ugly. Well, I don't think so either. Mike's a moron though, Why he just always calls up just I don't know why he's a moro on his parents? Maybe oh, because he made fun of the way you say hi, unday, hidy Mike your you're Mike. Are you there? Yeah? Okay, Mike, tell me about you told me the ugliest car? What car is driven by?

Jerks? Any car? Mark truck? Okay, boom boom, Thank you, Mike, appreciate it. Eric, you you hold on, Eric, hang on, I gotta take this break. He called back to defend hisself himself on that story about a car cyber truck not selling for what the guy purchased it for. Every single one of the every single one of these cyber trucks are selling for one hundred and eighty nine and upwards on cars dot com. They can't be that far off. Go with a sure thing Denver's

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free refinancing. Three oh three eighty six seven seven thousand. Now Eric called back. This is what Eric said on his first call. Guy bought this cyber truck for one hundred and ten. He tried to auction out. Oh he he did not say that. What he said is it didn't even meet the buying price mark. He mentioned one hundred and ten. It didn't come out of my ass. He meant, I don't know how he did, but he mentioned one hundred and ten, and he said the guy couldn't even

get what he paid for. It. Is that what you said, Eric? Yes, and I will stand and I will correct myself because I found the article. The vehicle was a Foundation series cyber truck, which is a very limited edition. It was purchased new for one hundred and twenty thousand. Okay, I have bid offered it Meekham was two hundred thousand, which was below reserve. Oh well, truck, kay by god. If I bought a truck. If I bought a truck for one twenty and could sell it

for two hundred, I'd be satisfied. Now here's the other thing too, And you said it didn't value, Eric, I've made a mistake. Okay, I made a mistake. Now here's the other thing. Mark, you were asking about, what about what the penalty is with Tesla? Yeah, I was from the article. So if you try, if you, if a buyer resells the vehicle within one year, they are fined fifty thousand dollars by Tesla or a portion of the resale value, whichever is greater. Oh

my god. The only and the only way you can resell the vehicle on the secondary market in that first year is if for some reason, Tesla refuses to repurchase it. So wait a minute. All these people then on cars dot Com have to pay fifty grand. No, he said, only the first year. Oh, only in the first year. But the cyber truck

was just released at the beginning of February. Yeah, Mark, every cyber truck here is the first year that I'm seeing So if yeah, but Tom, look what they're asking for them, So they're willing to pay the fifty is what you're saying, well, yeah, if you can get two hundred fifty and paid one hundred and ten for it, right, But it's the fifty thousand or greater. The one that killed me is the roadster. So

the roadster. This is the craziest business model I ever heard. If I go order a cyber truck right now or a model less I know what the price is. You don't know what the price of their roadster is. And it's a non refundable fifty thousand dollars, so it could you might think it's a quarter million, and they all of a sudden price it at one point two million. You either buy it at one two or you lose your fifty that's crazy. A non refundable deposit, and you don't know what the end

retail will be, no idea what the price is going to be. Now that's only the roadster. Whatever do that? Well? I don't know. Hey, Eric, do you know the difference in models? What is the null model and what is the foundation model of these trucks? So the as far as my understanding is the foundation model is limited edition. That's like the

top the line. I wonder what makes the different if the first delivered so, and within this same article that I found, apparently the owner listed on a Tesla forum that he actually wanted two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the vehicle and the most he could get offered was two oh five. But still, if if let's say he paid one twenty, he sells it for two oh five, Tesla's gonna come back and want a greater Porsche. Great. Now, I understand that, but that's not that's not what you're I that's

not saying the truck doesn't hold value for goodness sakes. So, but the buyum right now, I'm on Tesla's it's either the rear wheel drive model of the cyber Truck is fifty eight thousand, the all wheel drive is seventy seven, and then the cyber Beast, which is eight hundred and forty five horse power, three motors, three hundred and twenty mile range, is ninety seven. Okay, now that's probably starting price. What what is it optioned? Well, I don't know, I'm not I already ordered one. I have

no idea. Yeah, but Mark, when you say you ordered it it was nothing more than a refundable deposit, No, no, no, no, no, there is no defund No, no, no, you lose your deposit. But it's not a lot of money. I made a deposit too, I didn't know I lost it. Yeah, it's gone, Joe, Oh I can Oh okay, I didn't know. The guy's absolutely right. So once, once you're picked in line where they build yours, you're

still going to be five or six months out. So you at that point they build it with whatever options you want, so I can pick all my I'm gonna lose my deposit no matter what, so I may as well pick one I like in case I want it, right. Yeah. So, uh, and you can't transfer that deposit, can you. No, you can't transfer the name. It's got to be in your name the vehicle.

You might be able to say, oh, okay, I'm going to buy a modeless instead that I don't No, I don't know why that would be an issue, but they're not going to let you say, hey, I want to give it to my son. It's gonna have to be registered in your name. By the way, the bet of this thing is pretty useless. I saw that too. It's like an El Camino. I mean,

it really is pretty useless. So it's a cyber truck. Yes, but man, I think he just did this to look crazy, just to look crazy, you know, I mean, and it really does look a lot like a DeLorean. Okay, what's on your mind? People? This would have to go in the category of one of the ugliest vehicles three O three seven to one three talks seven one three eight two five five. Don't forget you call three oh three Martino twenty four to seven three oh three six two

seven eight four sixty six. So we're discussing the ugliest cars. We're discussing the cars driven by idiots we're discussed or morons, or how about how about the ugliest shop owners? Well, we got them right here and they win. Oh and then we have we have the uh whatever you want to call it, the the thirty two hour work week and how that's going to work or if what do you think about it? I mean, I don't think you can cheat math. And then we're talking about the real estate commissions,

just like you can't cheat math. No matter what you legislate, people, will you know, money's going to seek its level. Consumers always end up footing the bill, always end up with the labor. Consumers foot the bill. It all there's no made up money. The government doesn't make up money, nor does it. It just doesn't or nor can it discount things. Everything is made up everything. It's just an election year. Money is the perfect system in that. What I mean by that is it's a perfect system

in that. No matter how you try to take away from one end, it adds to another. There's always he's a positive and a negative never ever, ever, ever, Even with inflation. You know, people say, well, inflation's bad, but people selling things for more money probably like it, but then they have to pay more with labor and more with everything else. And the same with deflation or recession, the same thing. It's cheaper,

but you have less money to go around. It's weird. Three oh three seven one, three eight, two five five Go with a sure thing Denver's Best Roofer Excel Roofing dot com. You don't pay a cent until you're content. Time for an insurance check up free, no obligation. In comparison, call compass insurance paying too much your coverage at dozens of insurance companies find

out now three oh three seven to seven to one help. You'll think you're his only customer When you choose Frank durand the real estate man dot com to list your home with Remax Alliance three oh three nine two zero sixteen twenty two. Hi Tom Martino here, three oh three seven one three talk seven one three eight two five five. All right? Have you ever done a wrong number? Like? Yeah, well we've done pocket dialing, right, but

actually wrong number where you think you're talling? Okay? Have you ever I just I just want to take a little temperature here, and I'm not admitting to anything. Have you ever called someone and while it's ringing, you forgot who you were calling? Oh? God help him, it didn't. It didn't happen to me, liar once in my life? Has that ever happened to you? Who did you just forget to call? No? No, I didn't. I'm just asking questions because something can't here. And then here's

another thing. This is the worst that could happen, and yet it happens. But I want to know if anyone had missed this. Have you ever been texting and for some reason, you're on the last text you did and then you get a new text, so you want to respond to that text, but you respond on the wrong yes text. Oh, but have you ever done it where for example, Mark's texting with me, right and he's

the last one, and then then I read okay. So then all of a sudden, I get a text from someone else and it says, you know what's happened and blah blah blah, and then you remark I can't right now. I'm on I'm texting Mark. He's an ass blah blah blah. Okay, No, no, I'm Sarah, I'm dead, Sarah. Have you ever I've done that once? Okay, I actually responded to someone talking

about the person who uh, never mind. My poor dad. I was texting back and forth with him before he came out for his eightieth birthday, which was I don't know, a few months ago. Yeah, so I was so frustrated. I was texting him in one text and Suzanne on the other that's right, And I was telling Suzanne, he's still not doing this. He's not going to bring out a sea pat machine. And I was getting very frustrated with my dad because of his health. Yeah, he's a

pain in the ass or whatever. He's a whatever. And I accidentally sent back to him what a pain in the ass he was, and I realized I did it after I said it, So the only thing I could come up with is, I said, Dad, I just get very frustrated with you when it comes to how you're taking care of yourself. And that was actually meant for Suzanne, and I'm sorry you saw it. So I'm not going to mention any names. So if somebody outs themselves, it's not because

of me. But I got one earlier today during the show, and it says, just get home safely. I love you very much and missed you. But it wasn't my wife. It wasn't your wife. No, it was somebody who did at my mistake, let me ask you. This was it Jeff sitting next to you and then and then it says, oh damn, this wasn't for you. And then I wrote I like the part miss you anyway, that's funny and if she can out herself if she wants,

but anyway, that's what brought it up. So to your first thing, though, I want to say this, three ZHO three Martino is one digit off from a electric company. So at a certain time of the month when electric bills are due or passed due, we probably get I mean up to thirty fifty messages from these poor people that think they're calling the power company. I know it, and I forget one time I got this is a true story. I get a phone call and it says stop I or some wait

wait wait, wait what happened? Oh, somebody called me by mistake, that's what it was. And she says he knows about us, you know, and it was a wrong number. And I said, what are you talking about? Just he and then all of a sudden I hear him yelling this guy and he grabs her phone and he gets on the phone and says, listen, I know who you are. I found out about this. It's going to end today. And he says, in fact, if you don't get over here, and we talked this out in like an hour,

there's going to be hell to pay, and hangs up. You got this? Yeah, holy moly. Now that poor had no idea he was supposed to be coming over And this wasn't This was before I don't believe it was a self. It was a long time ago. But it's God's honest truth. But it was. I didn't tapture number. It's like, it's not like I could call him back. So I was saying that, but this is not me. You know, you know, if I don't show up, I don't want your wife getting hurt. No, but seriously, I'll

never forget that call. Then another one, I get a call and the guy says, well, I thought this was so and so, and I says no, he says, and he thought it was a bottom line. He thought it was a sex line. But for some reason that morning, and I was in Franktown and it was a snowy day, I had gotten three or four of those calls. So somehow remember how they used to say lines were crossed. Yeah, but at a dollar ninety nine a minute, ninety nine stents, you said just a minute after that, I will talk

however you want me to. But I wasn't getting paid the nine hundred numbers. Anyway. We got more coming up. Go with a sure thing Denver's Best roofer Excel Roofing dot com. You don't pay a cent until you're content. Time for an insurance checkup free, no obligation. In comparison, call Compass insurance paying too much your coverage at dozens of insurance companies. Find out

now three oh three seven seven to one. Help. You'll think you're his only customer when you choose Frank durand the real estate man dot com to list your home with Remax Alliance. Three oh three nine two zero sixteen twenty two. Hi Tom Martine, you're a troubleshooter. Three oh three seven one three talk three oh three seven one three eight two five five. Okay, Oh, let's go to Kelly. Kelly, what are you calling in about? Pray? Tell o, Kenny, I accidentally tested you. I didn't out

you, okay, just so you know, I didn't mention. I didn't mention your name. Go ahead, it's been a weird day, okay. So out there listening, yeah with me. I told Tom I loved him, and hurry, and you talked about your uh, your your school. You're on the Monarch. You said, hey, they're playing like crap. Oh yeah, Purdue they were earlier. I had him on in the background.

But honestly, I didn't get to watch the show because I'm working here, you know, so I'm trying to back you know, Jacksey and everybody who's you know, well us who are snowed in and everything. Apparently Purdue one, So I'm happy about that. But it was really funny because when I texted back and I'm like to my husband, that's all you have? Nothing like off? Oh that he didn't answer you. I see, yes, yes, yes, and he goes and he goes, what are you

talking about? I would have answered the part. I would have answered the part about bringing home some uh, never mind. But it was so funny. No, no, no, what was read the whole text? No, it was. It was not a bad text. It was I can't talk right now, working are e? Oh our h o a f h o A f ing sucks and I'm tired of this. I don't know what. Oh the snow plow got it. Purdue is playing like blankety blankety blank blank blank blank. Oh my god, I'm over that. And I'm over

that too, sal safely. I love you very much and missed you. That was all I think. That's what people. Yeah, that was not a great time in my life at this day. But you know it's all good. O Kelly, thank you for owning it. I've done that, man, I've texted people before that. I said, oh God, did I just text that person? So I got to go on to mail. Now, mail, what's going on with you? You have an ugliest car? What is it? Well, I'm surprised. You haven't told this one

yet, But it's a Nissan Juke. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah? Is that the that's the first one people made. A lot of people hate the way that car looks over in England. They call it the joke. You know what. Someone else mention that too. I don't know what they have against it. I think it's kind of cute. What about that little what about that little electric Beamer? The little looks like a mini car almost people, Oh it looks so ugly anyway. Also, what about that

little Mercedes car? What do they call it? Anyway? You know that little tiny one looks like a half a car or a quarter of a car. More coming up, Go with a thing Denver's Best roofer Excel Roofing dot com. You don't pay a cent until you're content. Three time for an insurance check up free, no obligation comparison call Compass Insurance paying too much your coverage at dozens of insurance companies find out now three oh three, seven seven

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What is happening in your life? Today? Is car Day? We're talking about all kinds of stuff though, anything you want to talk about. We were talking about the ugliest car cars old or new, that you think. I think, as I said before, the newer ones I don't think so much are ugly as much as they are boring. And we're also talking about the cars driven by jerks the most. But Kenny wants to talk about car

insurance. Kenny, Hi, what's going on? Kenny? I'm looking for some good car insurance as cheap as possible, because they just keep raising it, raising it, raising it. Yeah, and there's there's really Okay, you're not gonna find cheap, but you will find some cheaper than others. Okay, if that makes sense. There is no cheap coverage anymore. And of course, if you are looking for cheap, you can find basic,

basic, basic coverage, but that doesn't protect you. Now, you may not need protection if you have a low net worth and no one will come after you. So what is your situation? Let's talk about that first. What is your situation. I'm gonna be sixty five and then I have my wife and I have a son, and you're gonna be sixty five. And do you have a lot of net worth? Enough? Like, tell me what you have? Do you have a house? Yes? And how much equity? A lot? Half a million dollars? And what about savings or

investments a little? You know, one hundred thousand dollars. Okay, So yeah, you need more than the minimum insurance and you know that right. Yeah. I guess my question is is all it's like AARP pulls up on the phone. No they're not good. No, no, no, none of it. You listen. You're going to run into trouble if you try to find online stuff. Okay, you need to talk to an agent,

a broker local. I want you to call Compass Insurance Group, okay, and I want you to talk to them because they represent about twenty six companies or so they're not beholden to any one company and they will shop the best for you and what you need. But you do not beware of low low price insurance. That's just gonna do. Like what is the state minimum right now? Fifteen and twenty five? Is that that smaller? Is it twenty five? I mean whatever it is. The first car accident you have,

they'll come after your house. I mean you do not want cheap car insurance now, is your right? I mean cheap? I meant no, I understand what is your what is your what is your car? Are you gonna do collision and comprehensive and liability right? Yeah, they're all like new. There's a twenty sixteen Silverado, there's the two seventeen Honda Civic. Yeah. Then you're gonna want all that coverage and you can get group coverage and then get your home. See, if you do this group policy, you're gonna

save money. What are you paying now if you take your three cars plus your house, what are you paying right now? I don't know what the house is. My wife's kind of takes care of that one. But you're gonna to get the best prices. To get the best prices, you should group them together, right right? No, Like I take care of the vehicles, she takes care of the house. What I mean is you should group the house and cars together to get the best rates. It is,

I just don't know what to is. Okay, got it, got it, got it. So here's what I want you to do. Ask for an insurance checkup at Compass three h three nine nine six nine thousand, nine thousand. Yeah, and you ask for an insurance checkup, tell them you talked with me. I would love to hear the results, what you're paying now and what they were able to find. That would be wonderful if you could do that for us. Okay, now it is Choppers turn. Deputy

Chopper. You have a follow up. What's going on? Man? Yes, sir? Actually, I guess these are what I would call a shout down to three different Uh. Do you want me to go ahead? Yes, sir, one at a time. Here, let me'll be check him out here, go ahead. Okay. Do you remember this one started in January of January teenth a poor guy had an RV problem and it's been in Texas since then. Yes, yeah, yeah, yes, yes, we're trying to find that one. What was his name his name that David,

but David, but the company was Rocky Mountain or No. Yeah, right, And I remember this guy. This guy had had a breakdown and it was down there and they couldn't get it fixed or something. Yeah, it was a mess. Yeah, the toe bill was too much to bring it. But now Ford has stepped up and he should be getting it back. The second one, Tom, well, that's good. I mean keep

us informed on that one. That was a really frustrating one. The second one was the guy that went to Firestone up there on one hundred and fourth then drove his car to work. What yeah, what's his will fell off? Is that where I remember that? What? What is his first name? Uh? Bryan Ryan? No, Brian with a beat? Okay, Brian got it? Okay, So go ahead. And what's going on with that one? I have talked and pushed and pushed. They play the game

of we'll get back to you, but they never get back. His car is still up there at Firestone and he's getting nailed with uh rental fees and everything. They did a they did four tires on his two thousand and nine Subaru. He has one hundred and sixty thousand miles on it. One went flat. They replaced the tire and on the same day that wheel fell off. Are they agreeing to fix it, it's just been delayed. Yes, they are agreeing to fix it. I used it an old technique that I

learned from you. They're willing to fix it and give them the car on an insurance claim. So, but they haven't done it. He's still waiting. Did they even start on it. No, No, we are just hoping they respond to the insurance claim that he had to fill out and then I have one more. Okay, now hold on on that other one. They're willing to fix it. Are they waiting for the insurance to pay. Maybe no, because we filed a claim with the its brick stone firestones,

they're insurance pay for it. But yeah, okay, we're doing it. Okay, We're going to have to step this up a bit, maybe have to uh ah, keys, I don't I don't know what to do on this one. This is okay, what's the next one? I got to think about that one. What's the next one? The last the last one happened clear back in October of twenty twenty three, and this is a solar company. You might remember this they what's her name or his name? Uh? I think was Mike and Kelly Mike. Okay, let's go. What

happened. The solar company is Ion Solar. Oh yeah, I remember something with Ion. They didn't qualify, so they went to another solar company which qualified him. They had the solar system put on. Now as of this week, Ion is sending them a letter saying, you're now qualified. We're coming out to put a solar system on. And I said, well that, well they can't do that. I mean bit in the contract expire for goodness sakes. Yeah, but they had some sort of little one sentence clause

in it about uh US five thousand dollars or else. But they haven't pushed for me. Do they still want the solar or not? No, they got the solar from another company that didn't Oh no. So now this company is saying that we're well, that's ridiculous. They didn't qualify, and so they went with another company. And then these jerks come back months later saying, now you qualify, Well, how long were they expecting to keep that contract open? That's that there's no way, There is no way, and

they so they want them to pay like liquid dated damages or something. I think that's how you would refer to it. Did you talk to them about it? Oh? Yeah, we've talked to them and they're not going to do it. And at least that Ion Solar has not pushed, you know, for their five thousand dollars. Here's what I would say. I want. I want them to stay in touch with us. If Ion tries to collect that money, let's just leave it alone until then. That's that's what

I said, and they will. That's all I've got. I'm working on some others, but I just wanted the listeners to know we don't give up. Well, okay, I wanted to ask you something. So we were joking around about going and rescuing Mark and Suzanne, and some guys said, well, you should just land the helicopter. Now, you said that if there's loose snow on the ground and you try to land a helicopter, you could get into big trouble. Isn't that right? I said, you could

get a whiteout condition, right. It probably wouldn't affect you, no, no, no, but you would stir up a lot and you could literally be blind. And when you're blind, you don't know where the ground is exactly and it can disorient you, right, that could be that could be true. Yeh. And so a lot of people don't understand that. Why can't they rescue people under certain conditions? They can if they stay farther above the ground, but if they don't, they actually cause a condition that's dangerous

to themselves and others. It's really weird. But the reason I'm talking chopper about and everyone has benches so they don't get down that low and cause that. Now, can that happen near the ocean too, with water or not? Well, the ocean is a little bit different story. But you lose your percessive on the horizon. Ah, that's what throws a lot of people off. You don't know where you're at because you don't know where the horizon

is sometimes and that happens more at night. And that's what they speculated happened to young John Kennedy that he wasn't that they said. They kept saying the weather was clear, the weather was clear, but he was truly in blackout conditions because he was in a clear sky, over clear water and a clear everything, and he didn't know where he was I mean, and he was gradually just getting lower and lower lower and lower lower. And that can happen

too. And you know with you with your bird or the bird I used to fly, you can go out east and lose all the lights at night. I had the same condition. That's exactly right. In fact, one of the things that they used to do with me in Florida and here for for your recurrent training is in Florida, they would head out to the ocean. They would head out toward the well. We were at the on the

Gulf side, so they would head west. You'd go off shore and it would be at night and then they'd make you do maneuvers complete black condition, not being able to see the horizon. And the same thing here at night. If you head east at night and it's not a really big starry night, you can totally be in pitch black. Yeah, that's uh, that's interesting. Thank you, chopper. I appreciate it. Three oh three seven

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nine two zero sixteen twenty two. Hi Tom Martino here three oh three seven one three talks seven one three eight two five five Plenty of time for calls also three oh three Martino three oh three six two seven eight four six six. We have Kevin Colkin with us from Sheridan Autotech, Jeffic Kimmeer Transmission. Let's talk about uh snow like this and it hasn't been extremely cold or Wendy. Does snow like this present any real problem to a car. I mean

I don't think it does, but does it well? I mean in any snow condition. I mean particularly Kevin's going to see a lot of people coming with curb shots herb shots out. Dude, what hitting curb spending the siding? When we get heavier snow like we got now, we'll start getting inundated with people who thought they could rock themselves out? What does that do to a transmission? When you're going back and forth and back and forth reverse to

drive, they're not rocking it properly. So they're taking a moving vehicle. So you've got six seven pounds, you're moving in one direction, and then you're immediately trying to change direction without stopping. So what does that do? It's just like any two parts if you're banging them together and trying to pull them apart, so it does slam. The gear will slam, overheat them when they sit there, and spin them. So is there a way to

properly rock I mean you want to use the momental the vehicle itself. I mean you'll get some natural rock and roll out of it. So if you're going forward, you're tipping into it. But you want to come to a total stop before you change or just you know, if you can even while it's stealing gear, because you've got a hydraulic slip, uh, you know, naturally and momental will bring you back and then you can try to change your momental. Can you hurt your car by spinning your wheels by trying to

get out, not rocking, but just spinning it grabs real hard? Uh, you could. You could strip gears, You could the planets the train. If you spin real hard and then all of a sudden it grabs, you can do damage. You can definitely do damage. And particularly most you know, differentials are what we call an open carrier. You don't have posi traction. So when you lose traction in one wheel spinning any other one state of stationary, well those gear the's got smaller gears in there, and they

are spinning at an incredible rate and they will eventually come apart. Oh my goodness, these are things we don't know. And that's even before you redline RPMs. Really they're not made for it. They just they're not made to stand it. So the RPM is the engine rpm, not the wheel rpm. Correct, Okay, any other things like that. Never knew about those

things. These are good to know. I mean, I I have an all wheel car or drive car that was pretty heavy, but it was wet snow, and I all of a sudden I found myself not being able to move on one section. So what I did was, wait a minute. This is an all wheel drive, you know, supposed to be a ballsy car. And and I was shocked. I was trying to come out of a parking space in this parking lot that was loaded with wet snow. And then so what I did is I was able to move forward, Jeff.

So I moved forward, put on my brake, then I put it in reverse and gunned it, and then I got out. But I mean, what do you do when you start slipping? You do not want to just spin. You don't want to just spin it. Quite frankly, you're going to make that slip condition worse anyway, because you're you're just creating ice or a slickery condition underneath the tires. All right, So we talked about spinning, we talked about rocking. What else? What are other things? Can

you get any problems from ice and snow accumulating underneath? Not really right? The only thing I've seen sometimes is to get up in the cooling fans. It was like if you're stuck in a drift or something, the snow will pack and your cooling fans aren't coming on. And I've seen it where it elastically ice up around the shift cable, where now it's actually stuck in whatever position it's at because it's frozen around it. Really, but don't do most

cars have cables now for shifting. These are starting to be fewer and fewer, but yeah, the majority of them still do. And those cables can freeze up. Yeah, okay, I will build up around them, just like anything, and snow melts and we have slushy wet conditions. Have you ever noticed in the spring This happens a lot in Colorado where you have like some intersections that gets so deep and people just barrel through it. Can you hurt your car? Depending on where that water goes? Yeah? Where do

you not want the water? Well, you don't want to go in any intake because it will hurt your age. You will lock an engine up, You're done, You're done. Why hydraulic lock? Yeah? It can't compress water, it can't, so it bends stuffy water. Is that strong for automotive purposes, A liquid cannot be compressed or for what we're trying, it has to be atomized like and explode, and the water when it's splashes,

we'll lock it up. So although liquid can be compressed, we're not running the kind of materials and the kind of compression that actually takes to do that. So is this why when you have cars that do a lot of off roading they have these high snorkel intakes to keep water and debris out of the engine, and they'll raise all their vents keep them out of the transmission, to keep them out of the differentials, and so on and so forth.

What about the actual exposure, not the intake, but the exposure of the elements of the engine and the lower part of the engine to water when you're driving through water. The only thing that's really susceptible be where they mount computer. Sometimes they're not, but there's no way water can get into an engine just driving through it. It's the intake you're worried about. Yeah, I suppose it's possible if that engine was hot enough and that water's cold enough,

you can start cracking components too. Now, I something I've seen videos at times, maybe youtubes where people have these aggressive four wheel drive trucks and these big giant snorkels. So the intake is totally protected and the engine is damn near half underwater. How do they run You're not running those hot temperatures.

It's in theory, Like I said, you could crack it. I mean, we've seen people crack things like hes by trying to wash their engines inside of the sea washing the engines are pretty much waterproof then otherwise things would be leaking out of correct sure, so you can barrel through that a bit. I mean it's not going to be the greatest. Now where does it start really affecting in the electrical part? Though you can't get water on that the

interior, you start getting water. Something you've put much a couple of inches on the floor will submerge computers. But manufacturers do a lot in order to try to protect electric components. There's all sorts of weather ceiling just on connectors themselves, on wires that go from we can do to further protect our cars from water, yeah, well from moisture. Out of it. From moisture.

What about the is there a spray or other things you can do to protect your car it's really not necessary as long as somebody else to do undone it normal operation, yes, okay. But the other thing is too is when all this is gone. Okay, I've been treating our rods with salt Brian and mad chloride, and it's extremely corrosive. After the snow is gone, get a car wash and make sure to get an undercarriage wash. Get that out of there. Yeah, because that's corrosive. It's corrosive. It's

rusting your car to bits. Okay. So when when I had a car, I wanted to really take good care of it in the past, and I would do all my own stuff these years. You know, look, we all had cars, we've nurtured like kids. Right do you remember gunk? M Okay, you spray it on the engine and clean it off. Is there any reason to ever clean your engine as an individual? Seriously? Now? Is there anything you want to do from I'm even making it look

good? Is there anything you help your engine by cleaning it out with a wand from the car wash or a hole you have oil? Because oil will stoften the coatings on the electrical and the houses and everything else. Engines probably won't happen. Probably won't have a leak. You won't have to keep you know, just blow it off with air if you to blow the dust off. And most cars I notice nowadays are shrouded to a point where they almost look like they're all like molded. Yep, some of them. No you

can't. So you guys have to take all that crap off just to look at it. In some cases it's as easy as pulling the oil cap and moving it out of the way. They're not held down with a whole lot. Oh okay, But this shrouding is that for cooling, for looks or for what cosmetics? Are a little bit of everything there, I mean, yeah, you want to keep one idea is you want to keep the individuals who own these vehicles out of the engine bank, right, They don't want

to touching stuff. Yeah, you can't get some more cool and effect from because your trapping errors is coming through. You are really just making it more aesthetically pleasing when you open it up. You really are, you really are. But the days of those engines, you open up the hood and can see right through to the ground and all around you don't see ever, no, ever, very few some trucks maybe, But yeah, anyway, we have more coming right up. Go with a sure thing Denver's Best roofer Excel

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Alliance three oh three nine two zero sixteen twenty two. Hi Tom Martino here three oh three seven one three talk three oh three seven one three eight two five five. We haven't talked about this in a while, but has supply of all of the repair parts and so are they back to normal? Is everything back to normal the supply chain? Are we still We can't possibly be feeling COVID anymore. I don't know if it's COVID or they just I think it's the new normal. It is not COVID. I think it's the new

normal. I think what happened was people realize the cost of stocking, the cost of inventory, the cost of all of this, and they just make people. Wait. I've never heard of any body shop yet since COVID, and I'm not going to blame COVID entirely, but you used to be able to get your car in a body shopping back in a week. That never happens ever until July one. To get my truck in, Okay, that's to get it in, Okay, I've waited months to get it in and

then it was a month to get it out. I mean, you just don't get things done in a week anymore. And here's what I said to the body shop. Don't have me bring my car, and this is a minor thing, don't have me bring it in until you have the parts. You know, I don't want to sit order the parts. And then they say, well, we don't know everything we need. I said, but you know pretty much what you need, right, don't you think, Jeff?

The most part. I mean, until they take it apart, there may be unseen damages, but you can at least get what you can see. Yeah. What about new car prices? Are they still at a premium or do you think they're more realistic? I guess it depends on the car, doesn't it I really haven't heard of people getting the outrageous premiums that they were getting over MSORP as of recent No, no, it depends you're right.

And of course cars like Tesla just dropped their prices and that pissed off a lot of legacy buyers, people who used to buy them and love them. They're saying, look, you just screwed my investment. But a lot of cars now, the electric cars. Are the electric cars selling? And what are you guys doing about that? Kevin? Have you you had to have given this thought. I know you're old enough, you might be retired and say, the hell, I don't know what you plan on doing with

you. Sure, we're taking a lot of different classes in different I mean you're going to have to learn it right exactly, because we do other work on the electric cars other than the electric part, you know, the suspension breaks, other things we're there. Are they all about the same as a gas car? Very similar? Are they lighter and different? You can't tell? And then Jeff, there's no transmission, right, there is no transmission

other pretty much a direct drive. So how does this affect you? And there's going to be so many you do most of the older work anyway. The fact of the matter is the electric car is not selling the way the government is trying to force them down people's throats. Do you have the electric Ford Mustang? They can't. They cannot keep those out there on the lot

because nobody wants to drive them. When Okay, So you're saying that even though the government says twenty thirty five, the consumer doesn't want it twenty thirty five. Is that unrealistic for one hundred percent until they build an infrastructure. Yes, we don't have an infrastructure that's going to be able to Is it five and the cars are electric now? Or three percent they have? You know, California had to tell everybody please don't charge your cars tonight. We

don't have enough power. I just googled one will electric cars take over? Actually it says here that by twenty thirty now listen, that's not a long time away. They say the global market will be near ninety percent. Do you really believe that? No, Well, we were also supposed to be underwater by now if you listen to Al Gore. But do you so? So? I don't know, but a lot of people are saying they they don't want electric cars okay, And what is the deadline? Is it twenty

thirty? I believe it is. President Biden's order was Oh, never mind, never mind. It says here fifty percent of all new vehicles by twenty thirty. That should be easy. No, in six years or not? Oh no, that might be. What is the percentage? What are the percentages right now? Do you know a percentage? We'll find that out. But people, here's what I want to know. What is keeping you right now from buying an electric car? You can text me as well threeh three

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two. So my first brand new car, brand new car. I was in college and I paid fourteen hundred and ninety five dollars for it. It was a Honda six hundred, A three cylinder or was it a two no, no, excuse me, two cylinder six hundred cc. I forget how many cylinder. It was a six hundred cc. That's why they call it the sixth some one that came with the blade so you could run over the grass. Right. Yeah, So anyway, this was a little Honda car. And I remember I said, I can't believe it. I'm going to

get my first new cars in college. I was in Florida, and I figured i'd use it, brought it home. You know, when you're in Florida and you go to college on spring break, you go home, you know, back north instead of coming back south. Anyway, do you know how much it costs me? It cost me to drive home with that car? Ten dollars in gas from Miami, Florida to New York. Ten dollars.

But during the depression, that was quite a bit of monthent Yeah, right, So anyway, so that might have been nineteen seventy five, right, No, no, earlier than that, I'm sorry, seventy three, seventy four. But here's the bottom line is that that Honda was the precursor of the Honda Company. And then but that was the first new car. What was your first new car? Your first new car? It was actually a two thousand and one Chevy Halftime pick up. And what was yours?

I was an eighty seven gmc picket so pickups, okay, and you were was that in Colorado? Yeah? Okay, so yeah, And I wasn't into trucks at that time. But in any case, the uh, what was the lousiest car you have ever purchased in your life? Mine was a SOB. It was an old Sab. That's what we call them sob stories. Oh my god, okay, good good boom boom. What about you? The lousiest car ever? Ah? It was a nineteen seventy four Chevy

Vega. Okay, I can see that. I had the Granada. The Granada okay, a neighbor's car I bought going away to college because it was cheap and I hated that car. Okay. What was the biggest car you ever owned? Mine was a pot Pontiac Catalina. Yeah, I drive a three quarter ton Chevy. Now that okay, I guess trucks would be what about car? Okay, that would have been a boat. And then the smallest car our mind was that Honda six hundred. What would be the smallest

vehicle you ever owned? That was also the Vega? What was the fastest vehicle you ever owned? I got in a lot of trouble in a shabelle ss. What is that chavell ss? Okay? So I had a sixty seven Mustang I mine is even there between the Corvette. It was a Greenwood Corvette and it wasn't really owned. It was traded with Purefoy at the time, and but but it was my car and at the time. And then a Ferrari and uh, the worst purchase I ever made was a Ferrari as

far as value and and people say why why? Why? Because it was stupid and it was expensive, and you couldn't drive it anywhere. You couldn't drive you couldn't put miles on it. It's exotic cars are the stupidest thing you can ever do in your life. And I was young and stupid. Say that. That is the story there if if you want to buy an exotic car, Corvette's the most practical at this point. So now, many years later, he's no longer. Well that's true. But even if I

that's right. But no matter what their stupid investors effort, they're not an investment. Don't ever call a car an investment ever. Okay, so, what was the slowest car you ever owned? Sixty five Volkswagon? Okay, I had a Carmen Gia. Mm I can't say I was over actually truly lacking for too much power ever, so no, okay, no, but my Volkswagen Bug was probably slower than a Karma Gia. But anyway, folks,

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