The Troubleshooter 3-20-24

Yeah, ripped up, bad news. You need advice, so you don't have you come running just as fast as we can. Show Shooter's gonna help come Dix is the Troubleshooter Show. Now, Tom Martino, Hi, Tom Martino here, Welcome to the show. Three oh three seven one three talk seven one three eight two five five For all my streamers. I don't think our cameras are up yet in this studio, but we shall be there soon. I have with me a guest today and uh premiere window cleaning and pressure

washing. We'll talk about that and snow removal if we're gonna have any more. They do that as well. Whatever's on your mind? Three oh three seven one three talk three oh three seven one three eight two five five. What's going on in your life? How can we help you? And Mark let me know if you if you need me to reboot these cameras, and he's working on video time, I can reboot if he needs me too.

But anyway, so let's talk today. You know what's weird? The Supreme Court refused to block the law in Texas where Texas the state was arresting people who entered illegally. Now, the Biden administration and the Justice Department wanted the law blocked because of the profiling aspect of it. What first, they're saying, the federal government has purview over immigration, and the federal government is the

one that enforces immigration. And second, other people who are against the law say they're against the law in Texas saying you shouldn't profile people based on what they look like and then you know, basically ask for their papers and arrest them if they're here illegally. Now, the Supreme Court refused to block it. They didn't really hear the case on its merits. They just felt the state had the power to do it, so they refused to hear it.

Everyone took that as an approval of that law. But what the Supreme Court really did was sent it back to a lower court. The lower court, i believe last night, did block it. So now the lower court says, and it's a federal court. A federal judge said that they're putting a stay on this law until they can look into the constitutional aspects. But they're also it was a very quick stand. They're taking oral arguments on it in

the next day or too. Okay, that's good. The oral arguments with the Supreme Court, Mark, or with that with the Federal Court, with the Federal Court, and then the Federal Court will decide and then if they go against Texas, of course, then it'll go back to the Supreme Court to actually rule on Thank you now, Mark, Should I reboot the cameras? By the way, Yeah, I was just typing in there. Yours is just no good man, all right. I don't know what's going on.

But again, you know, these things happen. I just turned them off. I'll turn them back. You didn't do anything. Yeah, anyway, I want to talk to Greg with an IRS issue, and we have our experts on from Larsen tax Relief dot com. These guys are really good for people who have a lot of trouble. And there's always that point when do you call them? When do you not? And Michael isay call them

no matter what. And then you guys, you can you will honestly assess people's situation and tell them, hey, you know what, you don't really need us, or it may not pay to hire us. Here's what you should do. Isn't that what you have been done in the past. That's what I love about what you guys do. Michael is he there, Michael, Let's we just give them some guidance and let them go on their way.

Yeah, okay, So let's talk about this. And because my camera's not working, I can actually itch and pick my nose do whatever I want. Hey, I want to, Michael, I want to talk about this with Greg. Greg is calling for an employee. Okay, and Greg, why don't you explain the situation. I have your call here, but since you're on, explain to Larsen tax relief. What's going on? So? I have an employee who has not filed tax returns for I'm thinking decades.

He's been my employee for since I purchased the business approximately six or seven years ago. He has not filed a return in that time. He's set his withholding that five dependents which he does not have and so to minimize them. And recently he received a letter from the State of Colorado Revenue Department that he needed to pay one thousand dollars for SAX years eighteen and nineteen plus a two hundred and fifty dollars using round numbers fine or they were going to start garnishing

his wages toward the end of this month. Do you know why they flagged just those years, Greg, No, no idea. My suspicion would be and Larson would know better than I. But my suspicion is they'll go after those and then as soon as that's meant, they'll go after other years. Now, here's what I want to tell you. Here's what I want to ask you. This is important. You have been paying him and paying withholding on him, and you have been using his Social Security number? Is that

right? That is correct? So there is a file in the sky for this employee. Yes, So I have some basic questions for Larson tax relief Michael. When somebody is hired and an employer pays withholding on this person, and when there's a file in the sky, does that trigger the IRS or the state to eventually say where's the return? Yeah, and that could also trigger Tom the state or IRS to file a return for the taxpayer and start collecting on that return. When they file a return for the taxpayer in this

case, they were pretty accurate. Can you just do that year after year or do they eventually say, hey, dude, we're not your accountant. They'll do it in time, year after year, but eventually they'll just start levying bank accounts or garnishing waged, and that'll wake the taxpayer up and nudge him along to filing the remaining years or returns for the years that the state

or IRS did for him. Now in the year, let's just say the IRS is not overestimating or the State is not overestimating, but they're picking the past years as they go. What would would I be giving bad advice if I said, have the employees start filing from this year forward and then let the FEDS and the state worry about the past and pay as they bring it up. Is that bad advice? I don't think it is bad advice, Tom, because with the IRS, especially, there's a statute of limitations of

ten years. So say the IRS files are return for a taxpayer for twenty eighteen. The clocks start as soon as the IRS files that return for that person, so the ten year o'clock. If that person says, hey, I don't like the IRS's return, I want to do my own, and that taxpayer files his own return for eighteen, he resets the clock to start at ten years from that point. So if it's not overestimated, leave it alone. But I want to know this. The statutal limitations. That's only

if you file. So if this guy hasn't filed, let's say in thirty years, literally thirty years, can they go back twenty five, twenty eight years ago? No, they can't. Generally, the IRS will only go back six years. Tom states are different. Colorado, I've seen go back as many as eight, but generally okay. So let's say, worst case scenario, they go back eight years and he pays this bill because it's due, and then he just waits to hear from the IRS or the state.

Is it likely he'll hear from the state IRS since the state wrote him a letter about these years. Yeah, I mean that'll sometimes flag the system of the IRS. Where So if he just starts filing from this day, from this year forward, or twenty twenty three forward, or twenty four for whatever. If he starts filing and then as the past years come up, if they're not sadly over exaggerated, he simply pays them as they come up.

Will that keep him out of deep trouble? Generally? Yeah, so long as he stays current from this point forward, and if he gets billed for returns that the IRS previously filed, that would keep him out of trouble. That seems to me. Correct me if I'm wrong, to be more logical than to try to go back and file eight years all at once. What do you think? I agree with you, tom So, I'm glad we have him on to clarify this. Greg. Is he prepared to start filing

for let's say he has another month to file for twenty twenty three? Is he prepared to do that? Or does he spend every dime or what? Oh? I think he spends every dime. But you know, and I think the sad part is throughout this recent period we're talking about, there were so many state and IRS refunds and credits. He probably hurt himself financially, rather than by by not filing, he probably would have gotten money back. But no, but TA can go back, what is it, two or

three years and actually amend those. And if that's actually the case, wouldn't you still get those I don't want them to call him rebates but free COVID money? No? I think those I think those required filing on time. I did not know that I could be. And the listener in collect there mark and the timetrame for claiming refunds is three years Okay, So I think the battle plan, Greg is to have him go twenty three forward and then wait for the acts to draw the shoe to dropper or the pammer to drop

or however you want to put it on the previous years. Here's the thing. Okay, Greg, what kind of work does he do? He's a sand blaster. Okay, you should probably have him adjust his deductions as well if he spends every penny. Oh oh. I have this conversation with him frequently. Yeah, because he lives his life and fear and that's distress. Or you give him a raise. I hope he's not listening. But you

know how long has he been with you? Well, he's been with this company for a dozen years, and he's been with me since I purchased it. So I'm i'm I am willing to help him, and I'm willing to adjust his pay up to accommodate for the additional withholdings. But yeah, I'm looking for the best advice to get him on the correct path and not have

to live. Well, I'm going to tell you Larson tax relief for anyone with tax issues, and I'll give you the number and you can ask for Michael or anyone there really just to talk about it if you need to. But I think he's given you solid advice. It's Larson L A. R. S O N. Tax Relief dot com and the number is eight four four Larsen Tax. Thanks for calling. Three oh three seven one three Talk

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one three talk seven one three eight two five five with me Tyler. Tyler, somebody wants to know all ready, I got a text for you. So you're pretty popular. No, seriously, somebody wants to know on the text. And if you want to text the show, it's five seven seven three nine. You got to put Tom in it. And then it comes to me. So if somebody's going to do their own windows, you know not I'm not saying they're not going to ever hire you, but if they

want to do their own windows. What's the best solution? What do you think? Yeah, so we actually sell a solution that we have designed here in Colorado for people who want to do it themselves, really that they can purchase directly from us. All they do is put it inside of it. Is it really different than can you give me basic and grid? I look at it. We're not looking to take away business from you, but just give me some secrets. I wish things that you like. I wish I

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you guys for this and I'll give out your contact. But if they want to use something at home, what's the best thing at home they have? Now? Don dish soap and water, Okay, don dish oup and water we used. Is that a myth or what it's a it's a one hundred percent myth. They've said they lose paper and uh and vinegar. It doesn't work anymore. No, no, no, okay, So dawn is good.

What about in a weak solution of dawn? Right? You know when it says you r what what do you It's like two two teaspoons inside a in a five gallon bucket. You don't need? Oh my goodness, yeah, you don't know, So rags or squeegees or what? We use squeegees on a day to day basis. I would always recommend squeegees. What about soft brushes? Soft brushes can damage the window. The windows are very very soft. I would recommend if you don't have a squeege a mop you use

use like a surgical towel. Now you don't want to use you don't want to try to get the minerals off. Well, the minerals aren't going to come off with dawn, are they? No, the minerals aren't. That it's a special restoration. Yeah, that's a special restoration. I mean hard water, and well Nature's hard water can really put it do a number one thank you. And that's a Premiere Window Cleaning and pressure watching by the way, Denver. Wait wait, we gave it another number. We we we

got another website. What was the latest one we got? Uh, trust Premiere Window dot com. Trust Premiere Window dot com because I thought it was easier. The other one is Denver Pressure washed dot com. Yep, there's nothing wrong with that either, because they do that. Okay, let's go to the phone. So Rommie wants to talk about something with his business. Go ahead, Romie, Yes, Tom, thanks for taking my call.

Yes, sir, what's going on? Rommi? We have a life insurance and short term disability with Guardian and we've been using Okay, you have a life insurance policy with Guardian. Okay, and this is for our business. So that's for our employees in the business. Okay, So hold on. So Guardian provides insurance products for all of your employees, well, the full time staff is okay, got it. And we've been having trouble with them. We added you know, they dropped our short term disability last year.

Now do you provide both long term and short term? Just short term? Okay? So you provide short term disability and life insurance yes, and they dropped last year, they dropped the short term disability from our plan, and we took us a while to figure out why they dropped it. They said, we we had we're small companies, so we don't have very many staff, and they said, we went below their minimum. But that took, you know, several months to figure out. So then we had to get

short term disability added back on. They added. I said, hey, can you when you're doing that, can you add me? Give me a quote so I can see how much it would cost to add me as an owner. The next thing we knew they were billing us for adding me to the short term disability hold on. But here's what I want to know. Before that happened, when they dropped your disability, did your premium go down? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, okay? And then did they add

back disability without you on it first? No? They added it with me on it, okay. And did you put them over the minimum? Is that why that happened? Or did they make a special exception? No? They I shouldn't have even been allowed as it turned out. No, I get it, but the fact that you were allowed, did that put your number of employees over their minimum correct, Yes, it did. Okay, So then what happened, Well, I had other employees I was trying to

add at the same time, and that's the part that was confusing. It's like, I have two employees I want to add and I need to quote from me they added me? And did they add another two employees? And then it started, you know, the rest of last year us trying to work out, Hey, drop me off the plans so I can have these other two people. Now when you said you can't be part of it, is that part of the law you say you can't be part of it? Or what do you mean? You for their guidelines? For their guidelines?

Okay, but there's no law I know of that says you can't be correct correct. Yes, it was just you know that we weren't. Whoever the underwriter changed our plan agreement and okay, so where do we stand today? What do you need done? What I need is feedback so from you or advice from you. So we've now added another employee to the short term disability and they back build this nine months of short term disability and I said, now, wait, back build you nine months for the people that you added,

saying they were there the whole time or nine. Why did they retroactively bill you because they said, though it's three months after the start date. Is what you know, our contract says we can we can back and bill you. Okay, then last April. So when you added let me get this straight. Then when you added the new people, they go back ninety days on each one you add, they go back three months after their start date. Why that's what they say. The plan is. So there's you

know they have, But what's the purpose of that retroactive billing. I don't get it. Are you getting covered for that? Well, that's that's the reason why I was having a problem, Mark Ronnie. Are they saying theoretic? Are you saying so if somebody I got to get this straight. If somebody starts at the end of March and you add them to the policy, they go back and bill you as if they were working for you January,

February and March. The way it works is usually that there's a three month waiting period, so they won't cover anyone during that three month waiting period. Got it, I get it. So it's really it's really priming the pump. And I totally get it. And it's contractual. What they're saying is we want you to spool up with three months of premiums before we cover the person. So and also they want to make sure that and this happens a

lot with disability. By the way, people get disability and that's the last time they ever work, or they go right off and collect it. So that waiting period allows them to ferret out the fakers. Get it. It's legal and it's been held up. I know this for a fact because we've handled these before. However, However, what I don't understand is this, and I want a clarification. So if someone starts April first, they bill you from January, February and March for that retroactivity. But then does that

mean that the person hired April first is immediately covered? So let me let me clarify something. So they're not billing us during that three month waiting period. They only start the billing period. After the three month billing period, they say they're not eligible. I get it, But after three months, are you retroactively built for all three months? No, Well, we haven't added because of the problem last year. We haven't. Here's what I want

to know, Ronnie here's what I want to know. You just told me that they bill you retroactively. So do they or don't they bill you retroactively. They billed me retroactively for the period of time after that three month start period. So we told them, or my broker told them the start that was January of twenty three and so they went three months after that and said, okay, you os April of last year through February of this year.

I get it. I get it. Okay, I get it. But they but they weren't technically named on the policy, but they're still billing you for it. They're still billing me for it. And I'm like, well, you didn't cover that person, wasn't covered during that time? Well they were covered, and they were covered. They were covered. Okay, hang on, and we'll talk about that coming up. I want to get Compass

Insurance group on. Hang on. I think you're missing. I think I know what's going on, and it's only because we've handled plenty of these. But we'll we'll tell you how to get to the bottom of it right after this. Hi, Tom Martino here three three seven one to three talks seven one, three, eight, two five five. Let's talk where we're going to wait for comm compass before I bring romy back up. I want to get some expert opinion. But right now I want to talk to Fernando.

He has a comment on that other issue. So a guy calls in for his employee, says, he hasn't filed taxes in dozens of years. Now he's getting a letter and he's worried, and we gave him advice. We gave him advice, and the advice was just start current, stay current, and then as the other pass notices come up, if they're not sadly exaggerated,

just pay the tax, go ahead. Fernando, all of tom, I just wanted to add some advice his employees shoot file previous years, because the IRS is going to charge file a tax for him based on just what the employer reported paying him. That's right, Well what he need, Yeah, but they're not going to give him credits that he might deserve for it, like what maybe like maybe he's married, give him an exemption for his wife, maybe he has kids, there's another exemption to reduce his tax.

So they're just going to base it on him being single and he might deserve other tax credits. Okay, you're right. If it turns out it's for him to file previous years. And that's I guess what I meant when I said, if it's not exaggerated and you don't mind the tax bill, he could do some math to see if he'd better be better off doing an amendment. He could do that exactly well, doing the original he didn't file. Well that's what. Okay, you're right, but it's an amendment. Hold

on, it's still considered an amendment since the state filed for him. Well, that's the thing is, I wasn't sure if you were talking about the IRS or state what it is. Right now we're talking about the state. But I agree with you, Fernando, I agree totally. Fernando's message is this, don't just let the past wait until they contact you. Well, I believe you should. But what Fernando is saying is you still may want to file your own because your own may take into consideration other credits. However,

there is a statute of limitations. I was told if you don't file on time, you lose those credits and you lose those incentives. So really what you need to do is this, if you get a letter from the IRS, What you need to do is check with someone who knows about taxes to make sure that it's not an exaggerated amount. If you can do better filing an amendment to what they file, go ahead and do it. Fernando, thank you for that advice. Three oh three seven one three talk seven

one three eight two five five. Connie, you called into what a few months ago? Connie? Are you there? Can someone help me? She should be there? Okay, Connie, I need to know where we're at. If you if you don't say I'm here, I'm here, tell me what's going on? Okay? A few months ago I called you. Do you know when you called me? Connie? I'm looking for your call,

just roughly maybe three months ago? Okay, So what's going on? And I will and I could have called in a consilo because that's my given name, Okay, and the ha that I was having a dispute with Okay, and we had been down the road that's been going on since last August. Okay had a hearing. They have fined me. Now tell me what the original problem was with them. It was that they had we had a new president come into on the scene here and they went back into the deck pages

and discovered that no one should be able to toast the common areas. Oh, I remember you were landscaping in your town host Unity. Yeah, you were maintaining common property and you were credited HOA fees for doing it. So instead of so instead of paying the full HOA fees, they said, because you're doing this landscaping, we're going to credit you. Then the new board said no, no, not only do we want you to stop that, we're going to find you for doing it. And they find you fourteen hundred.

Then you said, hey, how about seven hundred and we'll call it good and I won't do it anymore. And then that you were going to go to mediation. We did that. What happened we had a mediation a week ago from Monday. I was able to talk for of course, we did it through zoom and so I explained to the mediator what my situation was. I gave her examples, pictures and whatever I could throw in there, which I've never been able to say. And this was in early March.

Yees, okay, okay. What was the result of your mediation? Was it a fair hearing? You think? Oh? Absolutely done. I did all the talking. She went back. She was gone maybe ten minutes. She came back and do you have to pay the full fourteen hundred? Oh? No, Now they want ninety three hundred from me. Wait wait, wait, wha, wha what what? Nine thousand? Why? Nine thousand, three hundred? That's why the lawyer fees. They want me to pay

the lawyer fees. You went to mediation, you offered to pay seven hundred when it was fourteen hundred, Yes, and now they want you. Did they have a lawyer at mediation? Yes? It is. Are you kidding? How are you ever going to come up with ninety three hundred? I'm not so After that phone call, I called him, their lawyer, and I explained to him. You know, I said, I offered five hundred in the mediation. I said I can give them five hundred and let's just

make this go away. And known that's when they came back and they said, nope, they want ninety three hundred from you, and I just kind of laughed. And so then I called him and I offered him fourteen hundred dollars. I said, I could do fourteen hundred dollars. That's all I can do. And my daughter so happened to be on the other line. We did a three way call to him and she asked him, why is that you know it's all for his lawyer fees. My question to you,

tom So, I did say I can do fourteen. He says, well, I'll present that to them. If not, we go to court. Well, you can't afford court. I don't want No, I don't want court. But I'm not paying them, you know not. Every time they look at him, he's you know, the ticker's running. This is the problem with Cho's. This is what happens. Oh, I know it's yearning. It could go if you go to court, it's going to go to twenty five or you're going to lose your place. You know that, right,

Yeah, And I'm not going to do that. I'm not doing it. I mean I will do whatever. Well, what happens if hold on the law is not always fair, No, it goes by whatever the law is. I hate HOA laws and structures the way they are right now. They should have a limit on attorney's fees and all that. They punish people for trying to stick up for themselves. They punish you, and I think they should take the attorney's fees provision out of it because it punishes people.

So I do too. If you go to court, let's just say they won't settle. I need to ask. I just want to talk about some really hard facts right after this. Okay'd you just hang on? Do I I owe break, don't I? Shannon? All right? Just hang on three oh three seven one three eight two five five. Hi, Tom Martino, your troubleshoot your three O three seven one three talk seven one three eight two five five. I'm going to go back to that town home to the

HOA thing shortly. But I want to go to Diane. She had an issue with a car that she just has, an old ninety four Dodge Ram. I sent her for a second opinion to Jesse Schillinger over at Honest, Accurate Auto in Colorado Springs. Good people and we trust them, and I wanted to know is it a throttle body? That's what somebody recommended? And Jesse, what did you find? That's a good question because I don't know if I looked at this. What's the last name of the customer? Oh,

I'm sorry, Maybe I was just going to get you on. Yeah that's true. Yeah, Yeah, we're going to bring Yeah, we're bringing on as an expert. I'm sorry, okay, And we already did have somewhat of an expert opinion. She has a ninety four Dodge Ram truck. It started up one day but did not move. And when she presses on the gas, it doesn't rev the engine. It simply doesn't move, but to one mile or two mile an hour, no matter what she does. So when she presses harder on the gas, it still doesn't rev, but

it doesn't move faster. And somebody tested to her that it might be a throttle body. Is that right, Diane, Yes, it doesn't even move. In other words, if you keep pressing the gas, it eventually just and then you have to restart it and does the same thing. And how much did they quote for that throttle body. Well, I'm calling my internet places and stuff, and they're talking three four hundred dollars. I just don't have it. I'm a senior citizen. But that's a cheap that's a cheap

price. What we were gonna find out is a price on that Jesse. But we're running out of time. I simply don't have the time. I can get you right back and we'll call you back. So you don't have to stay on hold. We have more coming right up. Yeah, ripped news. You need advice, so you don't have to come. Run in just as fast as we can. Shooter's gonna help come man. This is

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like with soft cloths, yep, soft cloth. Uh. One needs to be damped, one needs to be dry, wash on the wet one, wash on wash off exactly, wash on white off like the karate kid. All right, now, let's go let's go to the phones now again and uh, we're gonna go to Connie and Connie, this is an hoa problem. By the way, I was just texted some information here on something that says attorney's fees aren't always awarded in mediation, but they're supposed to keep costs

down. But you know, I'm a little I don't understand how it's binding. Did they sign something at the very end of buying the mediation? Let's figure this out. Okay, let's figure it out. Connie, did you sign anything saying before, no, you would sign that before? It was this binding arbitration by the way, And was it arbitration or was it mediation? Oh, that's true? What was it? It was mediation? Well, mediation doesn't make an order? Was it arbitrarate? Like? Is there

an order somewhere? I mean, did they order you to pay this or suggested it? Generally? With mediation the ones I've gone to, and there's been more than you could imagine. You sit and you discuss everything. If you come to an arrangement, then it's written up by the mediator, everybody signs it, then the judge signs off. That's right, correct, yees, and is that what you did? We did the zoom thing. Well, I understand this, but here's what I'm asking you. It's very simple.

Did you sign an agreement prior to the mediation either or did you did you sign anything prior saying the outcome would be binding? I have to find that fable work. Did you sign anything at all anything? Did you sign anything before mediation? Yes? I did, because I have Okay, we need we need to have somebody look at that. Did you sign anything after mediation? No? I have not. Okay. I suspect that possibly what you signed ahead of time was a binding agreement. It could have been.

I don't know. I don't know yet. Okay, So you hang on and we'll figure it out. But you got to send that to us. But here's what I'm going to say. Okay, And I just wanted to hit people between the eyes with reality for a reason. Time after time, laws come before the legislature in this state trying to curtail the powers of management companies hoas and attorneys for hoas, and it's usually defeated, which, by the way, it baffles me because in a legislative climate with all mostly Democrats,

normally and I'm not taking sides with Democrats or Republicans. I'm speaking fact normally, with this kind of a government that we have now in Colorado, they're more pro the little guy than they are the big guy. Most of the time. They make, in fact, ridiculous laws sometimes for the little

guy. And you would think that they would be pro curtailing or they would before curtailing the powers of hoa's and management companies and helping homeowners, but for some reason they have not done it, which leads me to believe that they're in the pockets of hoa's and attorneys and management companies. We stand the HOA man who fights for HOA members all the time he's on and he says, Tom, we can't hardly, we can hardly get anything passed for the consumer,

for the homeowner. So here's what, having said all of that, I want. I hope people will get involved with their legislature and find out what laws are there, and then communicate with their representatives on what they want or don't want, because right now there are several bills people need to know about. More on that later, but right now, Mary, here's what I'm going to ask you. If there was an esay, Oh not Mary, I'm sorry. I got to get your right call here and I want

to talk about what just happened to you. Okay, So Connie, what we need to know is this. Let's say that you did sign barn binding arbitration or that you do have an award sitting out there they want you to pay of nine thousand dollars. Let's say, okay, now, if you can't pay it, you don't want to pay it. What do you think will happen? B put alen on my home? That's right? Then what do you think will happen? I'm not sure. I mean, they're going

to foreclose home, my home. They're going to foreclose. You're going to lose your home. You do understand that they hold all the cards if if truly you don't win, they hold all the cards rest and every time you fight them, it adds to your bill. See that is what I hate about HOA battles. Every time you fight them, it adds to your bill, whether you win or lose. By the way, whether you win or

lose, did you know that? Yeah? So maybe and I'm not suggesting you do it, but maybe it might be considered that you try to get a second or something and settle with them. Right. Well, like I said, I did call him and I did present it. I was going to email him this morning. But the question that before I ever forget I

pay into an HOA. We pay our ho fees every month. Right, My question is there is a lawyer where we pay for a lawyer to be on retainer through our hi as. Right, does that have any effect on I mean, I've literally repaid that. You don't pay. You don't pay for the attorney unless they build time. There might be you have to repay a retainer fee in our HOA duties. No, I don't. I don't think and if you do, by the ways, for normal business, what

the law firm has done, they take a look at the HOA. They took a take a look and have it come up with a retainer to keep them on retained. Truly, I'm going to tell you this, when it comes to attorneys, they're not gonna they're not going to manipulate. Normally, it's going to be a retainer paid to their trust fund and drawn against. But when a specific problem comes up, it's hourly. I'm sure the contract

says all of that. Connie if you're going to try to attack the fact that you all pay and you shouldn't have to pay again, it's not going to work. Okay, I'm just going to short circuit that. I'm trying to save you time and money. It's not going to work unless you're dealing truly with one hundred percent crooks and thieves. And I know people will automatically well I am, I am in this case, it is, but it isn't. Most of the time. They're they're abusive, they're ridiculous. I

can't stand them. But they're not liars and thieves. Okay, they're just manipulating the law. So I think you're caught. And what you need to do is send us a copy of anything you signed and we'll have our real estate attorney take a look at it. Brian Burns is with Compass Insurance Group. They do, by the way, free insurance checkups for the asking which can keep you, which is a good deal, by the way, And Brian Burns three h three nine ninety six nine thousand, I'd like to ask

you a question, Brian. Yeah, we have a situation I want to go back to, and this is with Romie. He has a situation with disability insurance. Are you familiar with disability insurance for business? You don't write disability insurance, but well, I'll do my best to try to out, but you're familiar with how they usually are written. This is short term.

So they're telling him that he added employees in twenty twenty three, right in twenty twenty three, And what they're telling him is, oh, no, actually they started I'm sorry, they started working for him in twenty twenty three. However he didn't report it and add them to the policy officially until this year. Now they're saying, well, what was their start date? And they went back to the start date they went ninety days forward, which is

a grace period. They don't allow people to have disability in the first ninety and then then said to them, well, you're going to have to pay from that date forward. And Rommy said, but why I just added them to the policy now, and their disability agent is saying, no, once they start working ninety days later, they're covered. I have a feeling they have a blanket contract that even though Rommy doesn't think they're named on the policy,

the fact that they're a full time employee makes them covered. Have you seen policies like that, Yes, And that makes absolute sense to me. If if that's how it works in there as far as how their their culture or their company policy is that, then they would be on the hook even if they haven't added them yet, they're on the hook if something happens, So they're always going to go back to that that a higher date plus ninety.

See, Rommy, that's what I was suspecting. I'm not saying that's the case with you, but if you look at your master contract, I have a feeling you have a blanket policy that covers your people ninety days after they're hired. And and Brian correct me if I'm wrong. Aren't there other kinds of like workers compets, of other kinds of policies written that way?

Exactly? That's exactly what I was going to say. And it actually is protecting the business owner because if he doesn't remember to go add employees when he hires them and they have a loss, he doesn't want to be responsible for these things. It protects the business owner in a sense. But you know, in this case, he's that he's going to have to pay the premium because they were covered. I mean, I don't know that. I'm god, no, no, no, that's what we're assuming. Is that possible.

I'm going to ask our caller now, Ronnie, is that possible? Yeah, I mean that's probably what it is. But you're not going to get out. You're not going to get out of it unless you cancel the policy. Well, I don't even think to get out of it. Will still come after cancel the policy. Here's the problem, Ronnie, here's the problem. So many people say, why am I paying retroactively? We had no claims, But the point is they had exposure, and insurance gets paid

for exposure even though there were no claims. It's like taking your car insurance. If I went to Brian and said, Brian, I haven't had insurance in so long, excuse me a claim in so long? I want a refund of my premiums. I mean, they're not going to do that because they had exposure. Who was talking? I'm sorry, was it you Brian or Rommie? Did you want to make a point? Brian? Go ahead? Whenever someone buys a is he cutting in and out? Is that what's

going on here? Shannon? Help me out here? Chatting? Well, okay, I'm not hearing but every other word, Yeah, if I can jump in real quickly, I know, And this is kind of what I was afraid of, Tom, But I contested that once I found out what it was, and I said, well, we weren't even sure because of the other problems we were having with short term disability, and they had canceled our policy of the year before that we were going to continue with them,

and that you know, we finally got that resolved, and then they back, you know, we've got to build for one thousand dollars, and I'm like, you know, if that would have made sense, I said, we'll go three months back, you know, or you can just start. But you don't get to rewrite the policy. You don't get to rewrite the contract. Ronnie, I want to ask you a question. Why are you offering short term disability to employees. That's almost a ticket to have them take

time off. Yeah, well it was as a klingon. We started a business with a partner and we had had short term disability. I just want you to know something, company, business owners, business owners, that we got break. Brother, Okay, let's take this break, and then I'm going to tell you business owners find it a scourge more right after this, Hi, Tom Martino three oh three seven one three talks seven one three eight

two five five. Okay, so we will go to the phones now once again, and we have let's see I think Brian, let's go back to you, Brian, with coverages. You were going to say something on these coverages, go ahead, I think we were well, I was just going to reinforce was then to reinforce the same thing you were saying. It's like when people call, you know, to tell me that they need to add a car and they and I ask, okay, what date did you purchase

it? And it was, you know, three weeks ago. I say, okay, well they're going to add it on as of the date you bought it. And sometimes people are frustrated because they said, well but I haven't had any claims. But the point is if you did, it would be covered. So they always go back to the date that you purchased at exactly. So romy did you want to make any Do you have any other questions? No? Do you think you know both think that we're going to

need to pay it. That's fine. I'll take your advice. If your contract says that they're automatically covered when they hit employment plus ninety, then yes they were covered. Yeah. But the part that this irritates me is, remember I think I told you they had terminated our short term disability, which was the only part of the insurance I wanted. I thought, like the dickens to get it added back on, and then they tried, if it was terminated, you don't have to pay for any period that was terminated.

But you said you had more than disability with them, So are they charging you for other stuff as well? The life? Yes, they're charging me for the short term disability and the life. But then again they're going back to April. I'm blast you. Here's what I'm asking. Here's just one question on those employees in question. Where they went back retroactively? Was the disability policy in effect when they re established the short term disability policy after they

terminated it, they you know, it went back past April. So yes, but everything again was retroactive. I just asked here, all that matters if that short term disability policy was in effect, and if those employees were covered under that plan, you need to pay for it. Okay, It's that simple. If they weren't, if you didn't have a policy you don't

have to pay for it, Brian, thank you very much much. By the way, if you need any insurance help, that's three or three nine nine six nine thousand, including a free insurance check up three or three nine ninety six nine thousand. I want to go to uh Rick, who's been waiting a while? Rick, what's going on with you? By Tom? Thank you? I got a stupid question for you regarding a LGTV. Okay, I's two years old. What's happening? Is? How old is it? Rick? How old? Like? Two years? It's got it.

It's a smart TV, big nice one whatever. When I turn it on, the little red light blinks on the bottom, and then anywhere from ten to a half hour, I'll hear a do do do do do, and the TV comes on and it works just great. Wait a minute, I can't when you turn it on with your remote it takes that long to come on. Yeah what Yeah, Yeah, it's really weird. I even called LG and they don't have a clue what's going on. I've so you. So you turn the TV on and all you see is that red light blinking

right. That's correct now and the screen's black right, And then you put down the remote and walk away, and it comes on ten minutes later. Ken, this morning, it was a half hour later. Yes, okay. But when you when you first turn it on and it doesn't come on, what do you do? Do you click it again? Well? I did it first when it first started, but now I don't because I know I have to wait now, Like it could be it could be a lapse

in your broadband. Really is it connected to your wireless or is it wired? It is nicked too. Wired with a with a Cat five cable? No, with the with the co x. Oh oh, oh, so you have Do you have Comcast? No? I have Expinity? Okay, okay, so you which which is kind of the same. So so it's coacts. Your cable comes in through the coax Is that right? That's correct? Okay, here's what I want to ask you. If you discourge, does this happen every time you turn your TV on? Yes? That doesn't

sound right. Then okay, have you rebooted? I got four others? Yeah, but here's what I want. Oh and they all come on immediately. Yeah, okay, then then forget what I was going to say. Okay, dang, yeah, Tom, maybe your listeners might have a clue. You know what, let's put Let's put it out there and put it out on my text as well. People can text it. Text us at five seven seven three nine. Put Tom in the message. Do you know what I would like to know if anyone has had this problem? Okay,

so hang on three oh three seven to one three talk. I'm gonna put that question out. Uh does anyone have a delayed in their LGTV turning on after they click the remote? I can't imagine if we'll have some people with ideas, So just continue listening on that and we'll figure it. We'll try to figure it out. Three oh three seven one three talk seven one three eight two five five. Okay, listen people, renew home innovations. You

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your troubleshooter three three seven to one to three talk. We have plenty of people that want to weigh in on this LG issue. The guy says, he clicks the remote, the red light blinks, but the TV doesn't come on for ten or fifteen minutes. Then it comes on and works fine. Now I'm getting texts, and some texts say could be a firmware update he needs, and somebody else says it could be the remote needs batteries. I don't know why that would matter. Why would it take ten minutes? A

power supply could be going bad. It's gotta be user error. So John, what do you think? John, You've got an idea? Jeez, can you hear me? Yes? Sir? Hey, So, I used to fix TVs for a living, and n LG's probably one of the cheaper parts inside of those TVs. They call it the PC board PCB. Those things are notorious for having botched firmware updates. You can get a flash drive and try and manually get that off of their website, but if it's consistently

happening, and it's getting longer every time. Everything's controlled by that board inside of the TV. So probably going to need to end up replacing that part. And depending on the size and the costs of the TV, it's going to be more expensive to repair it than it would be too. Now, how do you know this? I fixed TVs for a living. I worked for Geeksquad, I did repairs for so okay and so so that part. Do you know? What it costs? Depends on the TV and the size

of the television. If it's a lesser model, they're fit one hundred to one hundred and fifty bucks. Some of their more high endtvs it could be two fifty to three fifty. And how long does it take to replace it? By a couple of screws come off the back of the TV, and if you're technologically inclined, you can fix it in about an hour. And what is the part called. It's called the PCB or PC board. And is it just for the remote? No, it's it's for the television itself.

The remote has nothing to do with it. Just so if he went up and hit the power button, the same thing would happen. It should should have the same effect. Yeah, thank you, John, I appreciate your information. Let's talk to Jim, he says he might have an answer.

Go ahead, Jim, Well, hello there Tom. What it is is it probably in the power supply board, But think I was talking about the PCB is called the power supply and the capacitors go weak on those and corrupt the DC voltage to all the digital stuff ah to be delayed and coming on, so it's not reading the digital information correctly. So what it is. It's called the power supply. About one hundred dollars is about right for

a part, and it just requires taking the back off. It's generally right in the middle of the TV and you just pop it off, plugging you one in and it should be good to go. Wow. Do you do repairs to Jim? Yes, sir, I do. Who do you do it for? I do it for myself. I'm a self. I worked for Circuit City for many years before they went out of went out of business or bankrupt. But yeah, I've been you know circuit City. I had a nickname for Circuit City. I bet you what was it. Well,

let's put it this way. I can't say it on radio. I got you second word rhymed with City. Yeah. They were pretty bad on the on the associate side as well. They were pretty messed up. Company Circuit City. Yeah. Okay, Hey, Jim, what do you have your own company that you do TV repairs? Oh? I did. I don't

do it anymore. I'm kind of tired, okay, but I did all kinds of work for high definition television and stuff like that, and it would be nice to know somebody, yeah, a referral list who does stuff like that, because you know, people don't want to just drop something off at the squad. Go ahead, give listeners some information real quick on all these digital things, like all the new stuff, all the digital stereos and televisions.

When you start having intermittent weird problems like that, it's generally a capacitor that's going bad in a power supply and dry up and go bad over time or overheat. And once you replace those, I bitch, I'd go over that guy's house and replace a couple of caps in this power supply board, take it to a component level, and about about a being I'd have that TV up and running. Jim, I see, the days of having people that can do this are going away. Oh I know I'm pretty rare breed,

aren't I? Yes, you are honest to goodness. Thanks Jim appreciated. Three O three seven one three eight two five five. This is what's important. People to do things the right way, like for example, Frank durandereal estate man dot com. He'll do things the right way. He will come in and tell you free of charge, even visit you, measure, take pictures, check the neighborhood, the comps tell you what your house will self for. There's no obligation to list, truly, there is none,

and he will do it personally. Three oh three nine two zero sixteen twenty two. Frank Demand the real estate man dot com. Hi, Tom Martino, your troubleshooter. Three O three seven one three talk three oh three seven one three eight two five five. John, Sorry for the wait. What's going on with you? John? Which? Johnny? You talking about you? Okay? How much of the letter that I sent to your station did

you read? Or should I just go over the whole story again? Well, just because we have a radio show and we like people to hear in case they have similar problems, I'd like you to just tell us your story and then I'll ask questions. Okay, I had a three and a half year old bull Terrier and I had a normal vet here and in the morning he was growing up at four o'clock, so I went, he was how old? How old? You say? He was three and a half?

Okay, got it and perfectly health yeah, hard check, kidney checked, everything, stop not. So I went on my normal vet and I saw receptions I wasn't used to. She said, well, why don't you go to your regular vet? And I go, you guys are my regular vet, and she said, well, today's surgery day. So she said, let's go. Why don't you go to this other clinic. They used to own this clinic and it was a referral. So I went down there. They called me about twelve o'clock and they said, what's the name of the

vet? Okay, did you actually take your dog in? Yeah? I went to the referral and this is about five minutes away, and I went there and I said, I yeah, he's been throwing up and he's eaten grass and typical obstruction from what I've heard. Because did you take the dog with you? Oh? Yeah? Oh yeah, okay, so the dog you went to the vet with the dog, and they examined the dog. Uh not at the first one. They were so busy they couldn't No,

I get that, bro, I don't care about the first one. All I care about is the second, the one that you did take it to a vet that examined your dog. Right, yeah, okay. And I was work and they called me up and they said we found nothing on the X ray, which is a big buzzword right now. He said he probably has an upper gi irritation. They gave him an anti nausea. I said, how was He said, he was fine, picked him up, he was doing fine. Came home. He was drinking water and then he was

throwing everything up. He wouldn't take his food. They gave me antibiox. He wouldn't take anything. So all night he was thrown up. I put him in the crate. I got him out of the crate and he could barely get stanned getting out of the cratey. This was the next day. This was yeah, this was the next day, early, about six o'clock in the morning. I said, we better get you to the vet. So we got him in the vet. Went through a snowstorm out here.

Did you go to the same vet again exactly. They go ahead, and so he talked to the front reception. I said, hey, he's not doing well right, and they said, well, we'll try to get him into that. I said, you need to get him somebody out right now. So I don't know if he's going to make it. Got the appointment, so they said, well, let's get your room. So I'm sitting there about five minutes. Get a room. Go out to the car which is right in front of the door, open up the door, and he's

dead in the car. Oh my god, Oh no, what happened. So it's been a rough week, little level. Oh oh my goodness. And listen, I know how important that could be. So when you went out to the car, he was dead. Yeah, he had died on We think he died on the road down there. It was about a half hour drive. And I said, I yelled at it. I said, I think he just died. And so doctor came out put the cepiscope on him, and then she said she shook her head, so try like a

baby. And so I talked to my other it's a big bull terrier group. So what we figured out is the X ray only the text hard objects, bone anything, allick stone, things like that. If a dog eats the stone, that's that's he'll pick it up. They didn't do a barium, which is they give a dog barium and then they l's that's for intestinal blocks. Yes, yes, and they could find it out on the X

ray, but they didn't. They didn't do a barium, and they didn't do an ultrasound because they're quote unquote untrained on how to do an ultrasound for obstructions. And it was an interested disaster because they didn't even give me the option of would you like us to keep them overnight and observe them and see

if we'd have to maybe do an emergency surgery on them? Do you want to basically go to a better vet who can see thoftruc Because it was what they did while I was there, She said should we find out what it was? And I said, yeah, go ahead. So they opened them up in the other room and they found the obstruction. They didn't open it up. They didn't tell me what it was. They said they didn't want to. It's kind of an unclean thing of doing in the middle of the

room. So anyway, what what did it turn out to? Be it was some kind of it could have been a part of a toy or something. But he wasn't much of a cheer and I never never thought about that. Well when I was so he had a blockage, right, yeah, he had a It wasn't an GI obstruction. It was a blockage that they used an X ray to fine, didn't find it. Sent me off. Well hold on and I get it, bro, you got and then you came back. They in the autopsy they found it. They found it.

Yes, But here's what I want to know. Under normal circumstances, right, would an X ray show it? No? What would they have had to do to find it. They would have had to have somebody who was qualified to use an ultrasound, not like these ultrasounds for fetles they check for puppy numbers and help and things like that. But I asked the doctor who owned ron wait, wait, wait, wait, John, I need we need to get deeper into this. You're you're kind of there's certain things you're

glossing over that I need clarification for. I want you to hang on because there's a fine line between malpractice and not and then also there's a question of damages. So hang on. I'm Tom Martine more coming up and I heard Deputy Doc wanted to chime in as well. Three O three seven one three eight two five five. Yeah, RiPP you need advice? Who you don't have the come run into sustas as we can. So shoot is gonna help come. This is the Trouble Show. No Tom Martino time, Tom Martino

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name by the way, though it truly is remarkable the drone technology. Do you have that now? Yeah, so we have it right now. We're working on being able to object solutions and stuff. So wait a minute, not only is it carrying the damn wand, but you have to have the hose almost be like a light a lighter weight hose, right, Yeah, so we use an ultra light hose. It weighs nearly nothing. So when we fill the wand is pretty light too. Yeah. Yeah, so it's

no, the one's actually built into the machine. It just yeah, it just has a little nozzle thattually. So you you hook the hose to the drone, yep, you look it up to the bottom of it, it flies up and then it kind of makes ain. No, Nope, it's pretty so we can so we can, we can maneuver it. However we can be we have to be about ten foot off the building. So we just we just set the set the height and just let it go from there. It's just really then it's automatic. Yeah, it's really really cool.

Oh man, I gotta see I really have to see this. I didn't. I didn't even know they exist. Yeah, try to give me an internet link to look at that. I don't know if other people knew about it, Mark, have you? He said he hadn't heard about it. Mark. Do you still fly your drone? I haven't flown it for a while. No, I really have it. Okay, now do you do Tyler? Do you do residential power washing? And what would that be? Yes, we do driveway sidewalks, patios. What else is there? Driveway

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eight. I'm gonna put up a link if people want to see that, though, Drone, I'd love to see it. Now John wants to talk about his dog, and this is sad. This is really sad, and we've had similar calls about stuff. But a three year old bull terrier was throwing up. He took to a vet. They didn't examine some x rays and said, we don't find anything. Here's some meds. He takes the dog home. The next day he could hardly move or stand, so went

back to the vet and the dog died on the way apparently. And they did an autopsy and they found something lodged where John just been. An intestinal track came now exactly. Now, what I want to know is how would they have found it? Well, usually you can tell this is doc talking, go ahead, Doc a block as usually you can see on an X ray their patterns. Why did their X rays not show it? I don't know. It might have been a misinterpretation of the X ray. And you

know, I'm just talked about any humans. I don't well, I know, but it wouldn't be any different, would John? You mentioned that? Here's what you mentioned you said an X ray would not have shown an intestinal blockage. Who told you that, No, a faft blockage. It's not dense enough for the X ray to pick it up. That's why they would use barium to watch it go down the intestinal track and watch it stop.

And they said, but hold on, would it be okay? But do they if they do an X ray and they can't see anything obvious, would would normal standard of care call for a barium? Yes? Yes? Why is our typical thing? Well, because if they're if their their tools are multrasounds with a trained technician or doctor, X rays or basically an exploratory So you believe in a nutshell, the VET did not go far enough in their

test in their diagnostics. And the thing is that what I've been advised of is that he was He took the Syrian, which I guess is an anti nausea farian, masked his nausea, so he appeared to be everything I always thought thought he would be. And then as soon as the Theian wore off, is when he started trying to drink water, his nausea re emerged and he just couldn't hold anything down. And that was something I was hoping that

the option is that if you can't handle. And I'm not trying to sound like a movie, but if they were not able to do a full diagnostic on Jojo, then I would think they would send me in tot an emergency care and say this is out of our hands. X rays will only go so far, and they would have set me off to mercy Clembic. I would have had him opened up. Okay, what I'm going to do is take you at one percent, for argument's sake, right, one hundred percent.

Right, Let's say they didn't go far enough and they didn't re for you, and they made a mistake. Let's just say that, Yeah, here's the major problem we have, the major problem we have. What do you want? I knew you'd ask me that. Okay, I was unaware of this particular situation. If I would have sourced my other people, I probably would have been told, we're not going to change the industry. Just

so you know, we're not going to change. Okay, and I don't want it, but I want people who own dogs, who may have a cheer or a swallower to be aware that when they hit the vet, that that there's options they need to go through and not just basically to follow what the VET said. Sometimes you, obviously, with this situation, go with your gut. Because that portal guy, he couldn't tell me where it was,

He couldn't tell me what it was. So I should have gone and said, okay, I should have known what they couldn't do, and then I should have left and gone to emergency cress. But do you think that? And I'm not trying to bait you because we have this discussion and when it comes to animals, they're considered personal property and valued very low. Only one court recently, when I say recently, within the last five or ten years, did rule an additional pain and suffering damage, which is not common.

But what I want to know, what do you like? And again, you're not even trying to get damages? You know, Tom. The weird thing is that I go there and I pay my three hundred and seventy one dollars on Tuesday for a bad diagnostic, and then I drive him back because he didn't the right job. They charged me three hundred and something of dollars for the cremation, and I'm thinking, you know, you guys, Yeah, it's kind of nervy too. Okay, well did they did you

ask at least for a courtesy credit? No, I have not asked for that. Well, we should ask before we diss them. And you know, I think at the very least, look, if they truly did screw up and it's beyond the standard of care, if you could get another vet to say automatically when a dog comes in like this, we would have done an X ray and then we would have done it. Well, excuse me, the X ray. Is barium is an X ray ray, it's just with the added barium. Is that true, Doc? Or not? Oh?

Sorry, Yeah, that's true. Okay, So so it's not that they did the wrong disno procedure. They didn't use barium. And is burium a highlighting fluid? Doc? Is that what that is? It shows up in the X ray? Doc? Mark can you do the dissibulatorium shows up as bright white when you swallow it, So you can trace the the the course of the of the barium through the intestinal track and see if it flows all the way through or where it stops, and if it stops or surrounds

something that could be a soft blockage. Absolutely, Okay, you know, John, you should ask you know what before we before we just dismissed this. You should ask on the record a few veterinarian veterinarians here and say, look, is this normal standard of care not to do the burier or would you have done the bariu? If you can get two other vets to say we would have done barring. How does Colorado see damages on a dog these

days? Well, I'm not That's not where I'm going right now. But they did have one ruling for pain and suffering in the last I'm thinking it was last five years, But that doesn't mean it changed that one precedent didn't necessarily change. That was an egregious violation mark where the dog was let out by the house cleaners by mistake, and the dog got hit by the car by a car and was dying, and they took the dog and put it underneath the tape where it sleeps as if it was sleeping, and did not

tell the owner, So that that was an extra step of egregiousness. I don't know if under normal circumstances you would get more than the actual value of the dog. What were you going to say, doc Oh, I just want to know if that case was in Colorado. Yeah it was. Okay, Yeah, So here's what I'm here's what I'm asking. Here's what I'm

asking. Yeah, if you can or saying, and if you can get a couple vets to say this is beneath the standard of care, I would be inclined to maybe go to small claims court, not for damages, but for a refund because they did not do it properly. I'm on the money up that water a little bit. He was a stud dog and he was starting to be chosen to do his obligations. He might say, so that was all that future income. I was on the left, you too, So okay, hold on a second, hold on? What value would a

professional put on that dog? I don't know, but every time he gets studded it's like two thousand dollars? Well, hold on, was he that good of a specimen? Oh? Yeah, he was a grand champion. I know the feeling. Okay, here's what we do. We should truly, you should get the dog value. I mean, obviously you have to

do it posthumously, but you get him value. Okay, as what could have been some income here may look, but you're gonna have to do the legwork here you and look at I don't even know if there is such thing as malpractice in veterinarian medicine, but I do know that if you got beneath the standard of care, they breached their contract with you, and you paid and you lost. I'm serious. There was an attorney that does dog law or pet law, right Mark, and she got pissed at us. She

won't She got really upset with you. Oh yeah, Oh, go chime in there, Susan. Hey, but you remember, Susan, do you remember why she got so pissed at me. Uh? I think because we were helping some another caller and she's a breeder, yes, and she did not agree with that. She represented the breeder. That's right. She was an attorney and represented the breeder and we thought the breeder was wrong. Hey,

John, one more thing. Make sure you get a copy of the records, because if you go to a vet and try and explain it without showing him the records or or the records, they're going to say, we need to look at the records, so fabels. They're going to want to know how the dog was presented, it's and how it was treated. So make sure you get a copy of the records for which you aren't titled. In other words, if you did not present it properly, that well they

still had an opportunity to examine the dog. But still they want to know a little bit of everything. So ask for all the record. Don't don't uh, don't expose your hand on what you want to do right now, but just do that. This is very interesting. Stay in touch with us three O three seven to one three talk. We'll give you step by step

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a really cool drone though, Man, I got admit it. It is the Dinkity dnk Dink And they use that drone and they actually own one then do it. So that's uh premiere window cleaning and pressure washing. Okay, Now let's talk about some other stuff that I wanted to talk about, and then I want your calls at three oh three, seven to one three talk three oh three, seven to one, three eight, two five five. Now listen. What do you think the consensus is truly or do you think

it comes down to party lines? On Jared Polis? What do you think do you think maybe even some of his own party is a little disgusted with him? Or do you think it's right down party lines? Almost half and half? What do you think? Well, it's not half and half in Colorado. I think conservatives or Republicans are outnumbered and liberals or Democrats outnumber. Again, this is a wide open discussion of not trying to change your beliefs. I'm trying to ask you a question. I also want to know this.

What do you think? Have you heard about the new open meetings law that he next? Basically he exempts lawmakers from open meetings? What does that mean? Exactly? People were asking what does it mean? Quite simply what it says. It means that lawmakers no longer have to have meetings in public. They can meet, they can discuss, they can do whatever they want. What do you think about that? I don't know what the idea it was behind it. They want to provide. They want to just provide a

comfortable environment for lawmakers to meet without the scrutiny of the public. I don't understand that. I mean, it seems to me that the wide open, free societies should be what we have, especially in government. So what do you think any ideas? Do you think it's a good idea? Mark? Or do you not care? Do you not care? As soon as do you care that, Shannon? Do you care? Not that I care what you think? I think it's horrible, Tom, No, No, I'm

serious. Should everything should be transparent? Government. It's all of our taxes that pay for this stuff, so we should know what's going on now. Paulus noted that the bill applies only to the legislature and not the executive order. Didn't they do that in the middle of the night to if I recall, Yes, they can well anything it the entirety. Notice not one news station that I know of, Nora, Carl Clark or whatever his name is, that local guy. No, No one talks about it though, at

least not that I've heard. And you know what, Tom, I can understand if they want to have the meetings only observed. What you know, they don't want the public constantly interrupting or pricketing or asking questions. But the meeting should be open to observation. It's not interruption, right, And I want to know what people think of that, truly I do. Three oh three seven one three talk three oh three seven one three eight two five five

mins. Tom Martine here at three oh three seven one three talk three oh three seven one three eight two five five What's new in your life? Problems, questions and complaints we have, Jeff, we have a follow up and by the way, any problem it doesn't have to be any particular. We don't today is not Cardie or anything like that. You can call about anything.

And what I really want to know is if you have been lied to, cheated, or ripped off, because what we do here is keep track of that stuff and can tell you about the worst contenders, now the very worst or at Sleez Brigade dot com Sleezbrigade dot com. Hey, Jeff, what's going on with you? Well, I'm gonna have to look up Sleeve Brigade. Oh yeah, you look that up. You'll like it. What's going on? Jeff? Okay, you gave me a a referral to Laramie, Wyoming. I want to I want to wait, wait wait, I

don't know anyone in Laramie. I gave you a referral up in Laramie. Yeah, that an issue with Mike hey On had an issue with my catalytical burger. Oh oh oh, I know what happened. Mark gave you some some ill conceived idea and I'll explain this to people and I don't mean that. Wait, wait, what's a joke. It's a joke, Mark, It's actually good advice. And what Mark said was this, if you lost

your cat, your catalytic converter, you can. You don't have to spend a lot of money for the California one that they require here in Colorado they want you wait, total ripoff. Thank you, paulush No, no, no, no, I'm talking about the one here. Yeah. But what I said was, if you go to Wyoming, you could probably get it a lot cheaper, like half price, and get it installed and everything. And then people would always when when we talked about this in the past.

I don't know if it's still happening, but people would say, you know, Mark, you're telling people to do that and they're breaking the law. Blah blah blah. And there is no law that says you can't. There's no law. I mean, what I'm saying is and my best example to this is, Okay, I drive to Texas and someone steals my cat. What do I tow my car back or go buy a cat? Yeah? And no one checks cats at the border, No one does, No one does. Kay. Can you imagine? I bet we're getting close. So

did you go to Wyoming to buy one? Well? God, I first I called there was a shop in Laramie that did do that, and only one actually one place in Laramie. It's not a very big down and she told me the guy that was doing all that had retired. Oh well, there's other people in Wyoming, yet, what's the other I just always say Laramie because my kids in law school up there. What's the other one? Right down the road from Laramie, the bigger town, Cheyenne. Cheyenne's got

like fifty places, so I can maybe do that. Okay, Well wait a minute, Wait a minute, where are you going? Where are you coming from? Aurora, Colorado? Oh? Man, When he said Laramie, that was just that. He didn't mean that was the only place in Wyoming. Well, I didn't know. I just oh, I'm sorry for the misunderstanding. What he meant was you can go to you can go to Wyoming anywhere in Wyoming. Any auto shop in Wyoming. Okay, I'll have to just call Sam then, yeah, just look up, just google muffler.

Here's what I would google, muffler shops in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Okay, and then I would call three or four of them and tell them, Hey, I'm in Aurora, Colorado. I was gonna drive up either. You know, whatever day works for you. Guys can you guys replace my cat. That's it. That's exactly what i'd say, right. I thought I thought i'd go to shared An Auto Tech first to get a diagnosis. Yeah, yeah, it's so it's on paper. Well, they're not gonna

if you already know you need to. I don't know how you know. I don't remember the call that you need to, that you need the converter, but you either need it or not, Big O'tires said I did, I don't. Then I agree with you. I'd go to Shardan Autotech and make sure before you make that drive and replace it. That's the problem. I was just kind of getting a funny feeling from Big Oh. You know you get that feeling in your stomach. Yeah, no, no, no,

I know age every day. I know that feeling very well. It's called the gut feeling. I mean that's what That's why they call it a gut feeling, you know, when something doesn't seem right. Although we could be sometimes misled by gut feelings, I mean, you know, it's not a feeling. Yes, So it's good to verify and to check into confirm and all of that when it comes to everything. I mean sure, And speaking of that. Yesterday, we had a woman call and she said she

fell for a marine. Her name was Lucretia. And this guy this picture of the marine. I got all the correspondents and the photo. Oh my god, she sent so much stuff. And this guy's you know, he looks like a Oh my god, I mean, he looks like a stud as far as his body. He's got an eight pack, and he's got tattoos, and he's got giant muscles, and he's a marine and blah blah

blah blah. Anyway, bottom line, thank you for calling, by the way, and now moving on to this this thing she sent me all of the stuff he sucked her in, like open up a bank account, do this, do that, And now she's looking at a lot of debt because she, basically, without realizing it was a victim of a scam, she thought, well, I'm going to protect myself by opening up a new account, not my own and let him do stuff in my account. It's terrible,

it's terrible what happened. So I had this guy's picture, and what I want to do is I want to What I want to do is basically reverse search it on Google to see what it comes up. With but I think that would be fun, right, I'll bet you. I'll bet you the marine is a victim as well. I guarantee you he doesn't know that his picture has been used to scan people. I see this over and over again, that they just you serve pictures and the people the person who's picture

they use doesn't have any idea. Oh, you're saying that this particular guy. I guarantee you will see it's not him, all right. This is incredible though, the story behind it and what we'll see what I find out with this, plus your calls, problems, questions, complaints three ZHO three seven to one three talks seven one three eight two five five get your calls in with any kind of thing you might think as a ripoff. And by the way, eight eight eight heating dot Com they will do a free and

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can upload that picture to. Really what does it? Doom? Yeah? It does a yeah, reverse image search. It's called the ten I t I n E y E t I and ten I Okay, yep, okay, go to ten I in the verse image search. It just came up. Is it better than Google Search? Oh? Hell yeah? Really yeah? Oh yeah, it's awesome. Uh. The reason I know this site is because, uh, my aunt and my and my cousin who just passed away, they're addicted to these romance scams. My aunt she has lost hundreds

of thousands of dollars. And the way I explained it to a lot of people is it's like a heroin addict. Right. Wait, wait, when you say she's addicted, is she addicted to following them or addicted to she thinks someone's in love with her? Well? Yeah, and what she's doing is she's spending you know the quote unquote guy, hundreds of thousand dollars. Three. Wait a minute, Wait a minute, wait a minute, how old is your aunt? She's in her late seventies. Does she like Italian

guys? You know? Does she like guys on the radio? She said she likes single doctors. Yeah, she sends, She sends, She literally sends people. Wait a minute, are you serious? Your aunt has sent people hundreds of thousands of dollars. Yeah, she was in a serious relationship with a guy who made lots amounts of money, and uh, yeah, she convinced her boyfriend, real boyfriend to invest with this guy that she met

on the internet. Uh cost her. The relationship cost her hundreds of thousands of dollars, and now she's barely She went from a very nice house in a beautiful part of Maine to a apartment in Idaho that is being paid for by the government now. And every every yeah, every nickel she gets, she goes to these bitcoin ATMs, drops it in the bitcoin ATMs and sends it, uh to you know, this fantasy guy. I found this guy. I found this guy, but it his picture came up. It searched

sixty six billion images and it found him on Snapchat. So now what did so that could be the one that she that she did on Snapchat. I'm going to upload another one. No, yeah, what happens is, uh, so these scammers will find uh a very good look and a lot of military guys that or any good looking successful guy. I can't tell you how many how many people have used my picture? Go ahead, I'm just kidding. Go ahead, Tom zero, Yeah, go ahead. What happened?

Yeah? So, what what happens is, uh, you know, these good looking guys, especially from after they've done a deployment, they tend to get pumped up and uh, you know with muscles, you know, shows tight T shirts, lots of muscles, and yeah, uh they are they are very attractive, and they post a lot of pictures of themselves and these scammers in India and Nigeria will start harvesting those images and you know, building out a profile. And you know, I think we've talked before about ai

AI. You know, used to be easy to catch these guys because the grammar was crappy. Uh, you know, every everything was crappy. But here's what said. Your aunt. Your aunt literally has lost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Oh yeah yeah, and nobody can convince her. It's like she's a heroin addict. You're not going to convince a heroin addict to get off the heroin, and she is addicted to this delusion. It's a psychological problem that is being fed by technology. And you're so right. You know.

I've talked to so many of these people like your aunt. They just won't accept reality. That is so Yeah, it's sad in their own fantasy world. Yeah, it's sad man. Okay, thank you for calling. I did a reverse search. It's coming up all over Snapchat. Not sure what that means. I'm not finding it anywhere else. We have more coming up on The Troubleshooter Show. We'll delve into this and more three or three seven to one three talk. Yeah, bad news. You need advice,

so you don't have come running. Just as fast as we can, Shooter's gonna help come. This is the trouble Shooter Show. No Tom Martino, Hi, Tom Martino, your Troubleshooter. Three oh three seven one three talk. Three oh three seven one three eight two five five Welcome. What's going on in your life? How can we help you? Give me a call and let me know. Three oh three seven one three talk. We have our guest with us today. Premiere window Washing and pressure Washing, or the

actual name is premiere window cleaning and pressure washing. Okay, we've been talking about did I take Troy already? Is he the one that gave us that great sight? Or is as someone else? Okay, Yeah, we've been talking about scams and I asked this woman to send me all the details, and man, can I see why she was scammed? It's unbelievable. So somehow she's on Snapchat and she gets request to snap somebody who appears to be

some stud, some marine stationed in Turkey. He sent her all kinds of pictures over the time, you know, the typical one, the selfie in front of the mirror with his eight pack and muscles. And then they're always overseas or on an oil work tom Yeah, so because they can't they don't want to zoom, So that's right. And then he sent her all kinds of information. And if I go through this it, you know, he says, you know, it's out. You know, I think I'm falling

in love and all that stuff. So it gets really weird. But he says, I cannot believe that I manage hurt and break my heart such a beautiful creature like you or let's see, Oh wait, I cannot believe that I managed to hurt and break the heart of such a beautiful creature. I don't know what that means. I am a giant fool for not being more careful with my words and actions. I am terribly sorry. I regret everything. Oh, I don't even know. They must have had a fight or

something. I never inter to hurt your feelings like this. I am terribly sorry. Please forgive me. You are the son of my life, and with you missing, I have grown afraid of the dark jeeves. This is she didn't tell me they had a fight. And then some of the other texts I see, I don't even I don't get this. Here's one of the other ones. Millions of stars twinkling in the vast skies, but there is only one that is dear to me, good night and see you in

the morning, my love, My god. This guy is like over the top Tom. They have these things written out, and the people who are texting it just text from the copy that the bosses give them. Wow. See you look up whose picture it was? Yes, and all it says is found on Snapchat. But I had no information. I'm going to try Google again, but these are are you at the ATM now my love this guy. It's so I mean, I'm trying to Its hard to believe anybody

could fall for it is as silly as it sounds. Why is the card not working? Honey? Is it the same card they gave you? So I want to get to the part. I'm trying to get to the part where he says why he needs it. She didn't send that part. Wait, she didn't exactly send that part like where it started. It's saying like I've been waiting to at least hear your voice. I do not want any issue. See she never did talk to him, you know, of course

not. He says, basically on the texts that he stationed in Turkey, his wallet was stolen. He can't open an account and he needs her help. If if she gives bank account, if she establishes an account, then he'll deposit money or gives He originally wanted hers. But do we have her number to call her back? Didn't we get her number? Or is it in this email? Kachina? Don't we have her number somewhere? I believe

you we have it. Can you call her back? I mean, if we're going to be like if we're going to be like, well, let's say warning people about this scam. I want to make sure I get it right, because so he would get the money from the ATM or she would then what, oh, no, here's okay, I should mention for people that didn't hear the original call. So he said, I can't open an account. Can you give me access to your account and they'll deposit money.

Well, she was smart enough not to do that, so she thought, you know what, I'm not going to give you access to my account. So she opened up a brand new account, but it was in her name, so she sent him the information and he forthwith deposited money in a check. What I don't understand is they gave her immediate credit for that. I mean like they let her have access to it. So some guy sends a check to her account and she's able to draw it out with a debit card.

So he tells her, if you could help me draw out the money that I just sent and put it in some gift cards, that's the only way I can spend it. So she dutifully goes out and buys gift cards, then gives him the numbers. So what he does now is exhausts the gift cards. So he sends a five thousand dollars fake check. He gets five thousand dollars in real money, and she's the one holding the bag when the check bounces. So what's really sad is that now she owes the bank

five grand. Now he didn't leave that alone. He then sent her eighteen thousand dollars and wanted her to deposit that. Luckily, she did not deposit that, so that part at least she didn't do that, because that would have been a terrible thing, a terrible thing. So she's got that eighteen thousand dollars check. But I asked her to send me a copy of that too, and I don't believe I have it. But let me go to

Troy right now. Who's on? Who's calling in? By the way, I get your calls in at three oh three seven one three talk three oh three seven one three two five five Troy, what's going on with you? Hi? Troy? Hey? Tom. One other thing that happened last night that uh, the uh Colorado legislature, the Judiciary Committee pass a sweeping what is called asoul weapons ban right for Colorado. I heard about that on my

brown I'm not I didn't know the details. Right. What this is going to do is this is going to destroy of the gunshots in the state of Colorado. Gun dealers will not be allowed to sell quote unquote assault weapon. Now, this is just a bill that was introduced. It would it would ban the purchase, sale, and transfer of semi automatic firearms defined as assault weapons. Right. Isn't a lot of this going to come down to the Supreme Court though? I mean New York City tried this with any kind of

gun. Yeah, Mark, But the bill goes into effect one July twenty twenty. Yeah, but I'm just I guess what I'm saying is we know it's going to change. I don't even know why they're wasting their time. Well so I don't know why they're wasting their time either, but the impact that's going to happen to the small guys. So, you know, would what I've learned being in the gun business, if you want to make its devastating, what's devastating, you want to make a small time. So I

mean pretty much those are the guns people buy. And what he's saying is a smaller gun shop, especially ones hit specialize in assault weapons. Once this bill goes in even though. I'm sure it's going to be knocked down like these always are by the Supreme Court, but that takes time. You know, they're not going to be able to survive if they can't actually sell these weapons in the intern. I want to know something, kiss you were in the go ahead? Yeah? Mark? Uh so an assault weapon? Okay,

assault is a verb to I know, I'm just calling it. What everybody does. I get it, man, I own one. I don't care, right, But what's happening is we're normalizing that phrase. But to me, I appreciate what you're saying. But to me, it's not even a bad phrase. I don't care. Okay, keep going, but just make your point. I'm not sure the point you're making. Go ahead, right, that the legislature is using that phrase assault weapon as a bad thing.

A baseball bat's a weapon, a hoe is a weapon. So what's happening is they've identified firearms and they've made a shopping list of firearms that they want to ban. And now guns, even pistols the normal Colorado citizens carry for self defense are going to be on that list. So you will not be able to purchase or transfer or sell. Uh you know, you buy a gun, you use it, you don't like it, you can't sell it to your neighbor. So this is going to destroy the gun industry in

the state of Colorado. Well, can I ask something? Okay, hold on, no, I listen. I want to ask a question or two, and again I have to remind people when I ask questions, don't think I'm in for or in favor or against anything. I'm asking clarification questions. That's all I'm doing. Why do people want semi automatic multi fier weapons like that? I mean, what what is the allure to them? Do you think what is it to protect yourself from the government? Do you think that's

why people want that? Work? No? No, no, So I am a Colorado firearms instructor. Why do people want those weapons? Troy, Let's get to that part. Okay, So firearm is made of three basic components. Never mind, hold on, I'm not I'm not going through a whole history, lesson. I asked a very simple question. I know you want to make you want to make this a soapbox. I can't do it, bro, I just want to know what is the allure of these of

these rapid fire semi automatic weapons? Protection? The allure. Huh. Okay, but what will a shotgun protect your house? Sure it will. I mean, I don't know. I'm not I'm not making the argument against them. I'm just asking a question. When people come into your gun store, Troy, what is the reason they want those weapons? Okay? So a modern uh sports rifle an ar is very easy to assimbol very easy to take apart. I can make modifications to it. It is you know, parked

and pieces. Yeah, it's basically the Barbie Doll of guns. So it's they like it because they're easy and simple and and what what they Oh, they're very they're very easy to take apart, they're easy to modify, they're easy to fire. Is a very stable platform. So they just like them. They like it exactly. It's like why do you like one car versus another? So a semi automatic firearm is you press the trigger once if fires, wants press the trigger once if fires again. So it is no different.

It's all about the cosmetics, is what the legislature is going after. So I don't know what they're going after. What they're saying is it can do way more damage. I don't know. I mean, they're trying to make. Here's what they're trying You want to know the truth. It is an assault rifle, as they call it in the bill. Why are they calling it that and why are they going after that? Do they think it's any worse than a shotgun, a rifle, a revolver, a nine millimeter?

Do they think it's any worse? No, they don't. But they want to get their foot in the door. That's what they're doing. They're They're just trying to get their foot in the door and get people used to having at least one type of weapon demonized and controlled and outlawed. That's what I think. I don't think it has anything to do with the actual rifle. I think it has to do that. It's it's one of in their minds, the things against the Second Amendment. So everything they're trying to do

is just a waste of all of our time and making markets. And there are people, there are people who truly, honest to God, believe that the Second Amendment is old and should be revised. I'm not arguing that. What I'm saying is a lot of these things have already been visited and ruled on in the court. They're just simply doing this knowing it's going to be overturned. But there are two amendments that are coming under fire over the next

few years, the First Amendment and the Second Amendment. The First Amendment is under a sale assault right now, totally. The First Amendment in mispeech and expression, forget it. That is only if you agree with us, that's what that's. People want to ban everything else. But if it's against what we believe or against the narrative, then it should be quashed. That's just as dangerous as going after the Second Amendment or any other amendment. We have

more coming up. Hi, Tom Martine, your troubleshooter three oh three seven to one three Talk three oh three seven one three eight two five five. Welcome to the show. What is going on in your life? I have with me Tyler from Premiere window cleaning and pressure washing. We've been talking about the various aspects and if you haven't seen this, they use this drone that can Now how many stories can you go up with that drone? Right now at the moment, we've done seven stories. We have not went above.

They're saying it can go up to like thirty six stories. We haven't tested that far. Well, it's long hose. Do you have a hose? Do you have a camera? Does it show you? So there's a camera on the front. We're trying to figure out how to keep it clean because once solution comes on to it, we kind of go blind while we're up

there. So yeah, that's not it's not a good sitution. But it has an automatic button for parking right to come back and park yep where you took off from exactly mark, do you had in your drone that you had do you did you have an automatic come home button? Oh? God, yeah? Well? Or or simply if it ever lost connection, if I flew it too far, I would come home. One time I flew it too far Man and I would never condone. But I had a certain piece

of software. I could fly it as high as I wanted, not that I'd ever do it, but I totally lost it, had no idea where it was. It was far away and extremely high, and I thought it was gone, Tom, I honest to god, thought it was gone. I went back inside and you can picture my family room in the deck. So it took off from my deck on the coffee table outside and I was sitting there in about fifteen minutes later, she came back and landed right there. Man, I was so excited. God, how that was crazy?

So it lost connection, but inside remembered where it was. Yeah, and then I'll tell you what I remember. I just said that I had the ability to fly it as high as you possibly can. You're the one. You're the reason I really got rid of that software because I started thinking, you know, you saw mine. It's not that big. I could get so high in that thing you can't even see it. I'm not talking far,

I'm talking straight up. And the problem is, man, there's a lot of helicopters and planes, and you you're the one that told me. Man, if that thing ever hit a rudder, a rotor, right, you'd be yeah, or a roter, you'd be cooked. Man, I know it. It could really do harm. I wonder. I mean there are laws now, right, do they regulate drones through the FA or something? Right? Of course? But what do they regulate? Do they? Mark? Did you said you had a software hack that got it as high

as it wanted to go? Wait? Without that? Is there a limit built into them? Yeah? So most of them. I don't remember the altitude, but yes, right out of the boxes. Software just stops. You can't go any higher than that, and it's probably a good thing to be honest. I mean, it's pretty high, don't get me wrong. I don't know how many thousand feet it is. I'm sure we've got listeners

that know. But then you can override that in some but I don't know, like the brand new ones coming out, And I know I did register mine on an FAA site at one point. I mean I don't even know why. I guess in case if it does cause an accident or ends up somewhere, they can trace it back to you. But I put it under Tom Martine. Now, these drones are not issued numbers though, right I don't believe so. Right, So there's not an identifying number or anything like

on an airplane. I'm pretty sure there is now on some of them, not like a tail number, but they have whether it's a chip or something electronic or computerized, it has its own number, like maybe a Mac address. But I'm pretty sure they can tell exactly what that drone was and who it was registered to if it's registered, you know. And what gets me though, is how advanced they've become. The thing I think that turned the corner for drones is when they had the drones that when you take your hands

off the controls, it hovers in place. Yet that changed everything because before that, once you took off and they never hovered. You just took off and had to fly, and you could go slow or fast, but you couldn't literally just stay in place. And that changed everything because what happened with other people they would get confused. I mean, you had to constantly be moving, even if you're going slowly. You had to constantly be moving with

marks. I liked it because you could fly it and then just stop and it just stops. It sits there. One of the fun things you can do with it, too, is if you have a motorcycle or a car or a bicycle, you just you set it and tell you to follow, so you can get in your car and it'll follow your car at whatever you set it to do, which is really cool. I always thought it would be cool to do going down I twenty five, except as bridges. Then

you could always see traffic ahead of you and stuff. But by the way it is, the Bluetooth and the Wi Fi have Mac addresses, so they each drone is a unique has a unique identifier and those drones if you have the follow you, they avoid objects, right obviously bridges and tunnels. I mean, what the mind you can you can tell it only going forward. I don't know about all the drones out there, but mine. When you're moving forward, you can absolutely make it to or or won't hit anything unless

if you take it out of that mode. In other words, you can do Harry carry mode if you want to. Yeah, and they do that people race. Wait wait, that's not the word I want Harry carry. It's the well, it's the the suicide pilots. I mean it could do one of those if you wanted it to Kamakazi. Yeah. The cool part with ours, right is we bring it up to a certain level and then we stop it there and it can only move at that level side to side.

So it allows us to kind of keep control of what the drone's doing up inside the air, so we can get a good clean on it. Man, I can't wait till you can go building to building. Like in Dubai, you just hop on a you know, hop in a drone. There is no dry I we you uber a drum? Do they actually have

that in Dubai? Carrying people. Are you sure. I'm pretty sure they have that right now in Dubai because I would be really reluctant to be in something like that because what happens with a power failure, you know, I mean, because they haven't figured out. Well, actually, you can make them fool proof if you did some kind of parachute system. I guess that would be pretty cool. Yeah, I'm sweet. But did you see that Serrus accident? I think it was last week. Man, That parachute saved

the family. It was a guy, his wife, and I think what happened a toddler they lost. I don't know what happened, but he lost control and engine failure a little bit after takeoff and they were in a pretty wooded area under them, and as a last resort he hit whatever button it is, deployed the parachute and they all walked away from it with very minor injuries. But it's crazy that parachute saved them because that wooded area, they weren't going to be landed anywhere. Man. Yeah, I just saw this.

I just saw it, and they had a video of it. I don't know if the video came from someone's backyard or where, but you can see the pictures. I don't know if it was video or just the pictures, but the engine failed on takeoff, yeah, saving the people. It said two people on board. Maybe this is not the one, but I'm pretty sure that's it. And there March seventh, it says March seventh. This one was so I don't know, man, but yeah, that's an

amazing airplane. What people don't understand is when that parachute does get deployed, it totals the airframe. I mean, it's not like you can reuse it again. The airplane's toast, but people live. It was Santa Rosa residents, including a two year old child. Okay, then I didn't have the right one thirty eight year old adult. Let me see March eighth headed Santa Rose, so with two thirty eight adults. So it sounds like to parents and the kid, but it was a serious SR twenty two. You did

you have one of those? Yes? So how like what do you do? Is it like like a code you put in or eleven? What do you havebjects? You have a lever between the two seats that you reach it you reach and you pull it up. You first you have to pull it up and then pull it out and and you're not you you are not physically

doing it. What you're doing is releasing a shot an igniter that then then there's a blaster that blasted through the back of the plane, almost like an ejection on one of the jets for the Yeah, you have no, you you wouldn't have the physical strength to do that. You have to kill the engine before, like if there's a there's a deployment procedure, of course, and what it is is to yes, you should kill the engine and you should slow down and then do it. But in an emergency they say it

doesn't matter. I mean, if you're gonna die, you do anything. Because but then what happens is it shoots out the back what would be what would be the rear windshield of a car. There is no windshield there, but it shoots out that direction and then it pulls it rips cords out from the airframe at four points. So there's so when the parachute is rock there's a rocket, you fire. The rocket pulls the parachute up, and as it pulls the parachute up, it pulls these cords out in four points.

So it's a four point harness, and it's it's the front has two places and the back has two places, and then the parachute comes up in the center and then it just drops you down. It says, listen to this. The plane in parachute became entangled in the trees about one hundred feet off the ground, so the parachute got stuck and the plane got stuck. They were one hundred feet off the air. That's just insane. They said, it's a modern day miracle that these people walked away with a few scratches.

Yeah, And I've seen interviews with people. There was one guy that had a heart attack and lost consciousness, and they came and got him and you're, you know, man, all kinds of things scared, but he lost consciousness. How they hell did he deploy it? Well, no, right before he lost he did. And then there are people who say that pilots will take unnecessary risks when they have it. They say that it doesn't necessarily add the safety. I disagree. The same idiot that would take unnecessary chances

would be unsafe in any plane. But I think that if used properly in the way it's supposed to be used, it can save lives every single time. I mean if especially when people are in weather conditions and they lose orientation, they don't know where the hell. You know one that that scares the hell out of me. I thought about it was a private jet. I'm pretty sure the guy was a golf but I guess they lost oxygen because they were too high and then and then it flew and flu and flu into the

ocean. It died. He was a very famous golfer. That like freaked me out. I'm like that, that's my worst nightmare. On a commercial jet, You're headed to Hawaii. Somehow oxygen's gone, Pilots and everybody else are passed out, and that's it. You're done. Rich real quick. What's your comment on scams? Go ahead, Rich, Hey Tom, just real quick. You know how we all get disgusted at these people that wake

up and try to take advantage of older people and people. This great movie out called Beekeeper with Jason Stadium. It's called Beekeeper, all about scams. Yeah, he gets uh I love him by the way, I love you see this movie. He gets ultimate revenge on these people that take advantage, you know, through scams. Oh, I got a long story short, Oh, Yeah, he's living on a farm, just incognito like he normally does. Scammer calls the lady who owns the house he's at, and he

goes off on these people. Awesome movie. You won't believe it. Yeah, what a great idea for a movie. Thank you. I'm gonna look. I'm gonna look for it. Is it on Netflix or Amazon orware sree Keeper? Yeah anything. I watched it on Accnity, but uh yeah, Beekeeper, you should be able to find it anywhere. Thank you, I'm going to I appreciate it. We got more coming up, Tom Martino, you're troubleshooter three oh three seven one three talk seven one three eight two five

five. Tyler wants to do a special today for his window washing and pressure cleaning. Go ahead, Tyler, what do you want to do? Man? We're running one hundred dollars off for the month for the remainder of the month in March for any service, any service, so pressure watching, window washing, even if snow comes up, yep, now, snow removal. They don't have to have a contract with you. They can just calls yep. They can just call and you'll come one time do their driveway or do

their house. Yep, exactly. So you guys should keep this number handy just in case, because really there are very few snow removal people that'll just come out and do it they want. I could have used them last week, man, I don't think they could have made it out. I don't think that's the whole problem. I don't think they could have been. Who was telling me, Oh, Mitch Fleuria told me out at his house in Kittridge. I think that's where he is. Three feet. He measured three

feet. That's not that's not a drift three feet. Now, by the way, here's here's what it is. Trust Premiere Window dot Com or seven to zero three zero zero seven eight seventy zero nine five three zero zero seven eight one hundred dollars off any service. And that's good for the whole month of March. Well, we got another ten days left, okay. Anyway, let's continue here and we'll take your calls at three oh three, seven to one to three talks seven one three eight two, five to five.

Now, somebody said, Tom, you're right about assault rifles. They don't care about assault rifles. They just want to get their foot in the door as soon as they get one band, then they go to the next and then someone else said this Deputy Dollar, he said that that woman was definitely scammed. He looked at the pictures this morning. But what I want a Deputy Dollar to find out is why that bank gave immediate access to those funds

when she deposited or when he deposited a five thousand dollars check. That's the part I don't understand. Usually they wait a while before they give you access to those funds. But she was able to take those funds out and then got into trouble. Anyway, we got more coming right up. If you

talk finishing up things. Premiere is offering one hundred dollars off any service, whether it be pressure washing, window cleaning, or snow removal, till the end of the month, that is, and it's you can reach him at Denver CEO, pressure wash dot com or trust Premiere Window dot com either one or seven to zero nine five three zero zero seven eight. And we were having a spirited discussion off the air about Mark being a pillar of the community.

I don't even know what that means. But sus who called him a pillar or We're not going down that gentleman at a bar and Parker. Okay, so first of all, oh hell, he had to do it. This was twenty four years ago, which makes it more laughable. Oh yeah, because twenty four years ago he was a dredge of society. It was any anyway, I want to thank you guys for being here. Don't forget you, and this is important. Are we done? Was it? Oh four? I thought it was forty four? Okay, now it's okay.

I thought I thought it wasn't the is the is the album? Is it fifty eight? Oh four? At the last hour? All right, man, I'll see you