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Speaker 1: All right, let me let me cut to the chase.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the radio home of Ron and Anian the

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Speaker 1: Car Doctor, since this is where car owners the world

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Speaker 1: But I am here to take your calls at eight

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Speaker 1: talking about if you went to Tom race house where

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Speaker 1: the house. Because I'm thinking about this right, what about

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Speaker 1: I just see so many long range repercussions and changes coming.

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Speaker 1: Um if if this is actually allowed to happen that, Um,

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Speaker 1: doors open early. Go to David in Pennsylvania. You know,

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Speaker 1: if you guys call in and I don't, I don't

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Speaker 1: How are you doing good? What's what's on your mind? Kiddo? Well,

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Speaker 1: use up. Why is everybody, including the dealers, telling me

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Speaker 1: If the vehicle is rated for E fifteen on a

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Speaker 1: the things like a seventy seven trans am and it

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Speaker 1: just makes me sad because I absolutely know. I hope

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Speaker 1: I'm here in thirty years because I want to see

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Speaker 1: somebody come in and go, wow, is that a Tesla three? Wow?

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Speaker 1: I remember when those things actually ran, when they had

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Speaker 1: computer software. You know, of course that will never happen

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Speaker 1: because they'll all be crushed up into plastic, but you

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Speaker 1: know we'll be using it for tupperware bowls. Let's let's

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Speaker 1: go over to Jerry in Iowa, Markis and some electrical

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Speaker 1: gremlins I'll look called gremlin's are my friend? Yes? Yes, Jerry?

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Speaker 1: How can I help you? Today, Sir Ronaldini and at

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Speaker 1: your service. Well, um, turn signals flash at different speeds

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Speaker 1: depending on right or left um. And this problem showed

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Speaker 1: up in the middle of last winter during a cold spell,

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Speaker 1: extreme temperatures, a lot of wind, the vehicles parked outside.

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Speaker 1: So I originally assumed it was a moisture problem and

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Speaker 1: got into the circuit or something. And when I started

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Speaker 1: checking things, all the lights work, they functioned their cycle. UM.

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Speaker 1: So I was confused on why one side of the

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Speaker 1: car flashes at a faster rate than the other side.

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Speaker 1: Do they have do they have the same luminosity or brilliance? Yes?

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Speaker 1: Okay UM. I bought the car used several years ago

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Speaker 1: and it was just the vehicles to get tuned from work, uh,

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Speaker 1: and retired within the last twelve months, so it hasn't

447
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Speaker 1: gotten as many miles on it as it used to.

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Speaker 1: But uh is the car was in good shape when

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Speaker 1: I bought it. And I used to be a car

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Speaker 1: mechanic along time ago, um, back when I first got

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Speaker 1: out of high school. But um, my first thought was,

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Speaker 1: as well, it's got cheap lights on one side. Someone

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Speaker 1: replaced one with some knockoff cheap lights. So the impedients

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Speaker 1: is different on the draw in the system, but I

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Speaker 1: haven't gotten any farther to check on that. I figured

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Speaker 1: give you a quick buzz um. This car has got

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Speaker 1: more computers in it than the stuff from the past.

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Speaker 1: Its so um, maybe there's something else going on that

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Speaker 1: I'm not thinking of. Well, I think you're thinking in

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Speaker 1: the right direction. You know. My thought is always you know,

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Speaker 1: do we have correct current raw? You know, I'd be

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Speaker 1: curious if can you duple it? Is it first one

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Speaker 1: side then the other? I haven't tried changing light bulbs

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Speaker 1: around to see if that makes a difference. Well, well

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Speaker 1: know what I would be the quickest way to do it,

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Speaker 1: or put a tester on it. Well, listen, before we

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Speaker 1: go anywhere, my first question is is it first the

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Speaker 1: left side blinking fast? And then and the right side

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Speaker 1: is okay? And then a couple of days later the

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Speaker 1: right side starts blinking fast. No, it stayed the same.

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Speaker 1: One side's different another okay, so so one side blinks fast, yeah, right,

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Speaker 1: like it's It reminds you of the old systems that

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Speaker 1: existed can fift years ago that once the light bulb

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Speaker 1: burned out and it would flash fast, and I went

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Speaker 1: looking for it burned out bulbs there, None of them

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Speaker 1: are burned out. It was like, why is it flashing faster?

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Speaker 1: The only other thing I could come up with is

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Speaker 1: a cheap flash or unit. Well why is one? Why

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Speaker 1: is it cheap flash or affecting one side not the other? Well,

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Speaker 1: that's that's just it's where I started. Any more, I

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Speaker 1: thought about it, Well, they shared the same flash unit.

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Speaker 1: That doesn't have an answer. So telling the other thing

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Speaker 1: that possibly coming it is like I have a ground

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Speaker 1: problem because it's going through a different pathway it could

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Speaker 1: be and have to look at a wiring diagram. That's

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Speaker 1: a fair point. But before we go that far, have

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Speaker 1: you pulled the bulbs out of the sockets on the

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Speaker 1: side that blink flast fast front or back? Uh? Not yet?

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Speaker 1: Well I pulled half of them out. The other half

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Speaker 1: I haven't gotten to yet. Well how many bulbs you

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Speaker 1: how many bulbs are we taking out? Jerry? There's only

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Speaker 1: you know, there's what there's maybe two directional bulbs in

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Speaker 1: the back and one up front. Yeah, I'm not worried

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Speaker 1: about I'm not worried about the parking light bulbs. You know.

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Speaker 1: It's I don't unless unless a wiring diagram shows me

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Speaker 1: some kind of involvement. But you know, if the car

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Speaker 1: is broken right now, you're telling me the left side

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Speaker 1: blinks fast and the right side blinks normal. Yes, then

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Speaker 1: I'm going to take a look at the bulbs that

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Speaker 1: are affecting just the left side flash. I'm gonna take

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Speaker 1: a hard look at the sockets. Of the sockets show

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Speaker 1: any kind of corrosion. You know, it doesn't take a

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Speaker 1: lot of current to make a difference. I'll even go

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Speaker 1: so far as if if I put a test light on,

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Speaker 1: you know, pierced the wire, making sure that I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: remember where I pierced it and repair it properly with

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Speaker 1: with some sort of a liquid electrical tape or something. Um,

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Speaker 1: I'll take a test light and plug it into the harness.

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Speaker 1: Does that make the circuit blink normal? Because now I'm

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Speaker 1: making the test light blink because current has to go

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Speaker 1: across that that bulb as well. Right, I've added a

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Speaker 1: bulb to the system. If that makes the system blink normal,

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Speaker 1: then I'm dealing with a poor connection at one of

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Speaker 1: the bulbs, the sockets, or as you say, an external ground.

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Speaker 1: It's it can't be anything more complicated. Than that, because

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Speaker 1: the car is a two thirty miles. I could see

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Speaker 1: where we had a ground strap ground fall problem. That

518
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Speaker 1: was different because those straps are there's probably a dozen

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Speaker 1: I scattered all over the car to pay and work

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Speaker 1: part of the circuity tap into and all it takes

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Speaker 1: is for some of them to get old and they

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Speaker 1: don't work like you did. Do you have a wiring

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Speaker 1: diagram for the car, Jerry currently, but I can probably

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Speaker 1: step one step one. You want to you want to

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Speaker 1: take a look at how that wiring circuit works and

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Speaker 1: what those lights hold for you as far as ground circuitry,

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Speaker 1: and kind of work your way out from there. Do that.

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Speaker 1: Take a look at that. Like I said, consider sockets,

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Speaker 1: consider bulbs. You want to move bulbs left to right,

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Speaker 1: but we're only worried about at this point, we're only

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Speaker 1: worried about the directional bulbs. And we want to make

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Speaker 1: sure when we look at a light socket or wiring

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Speaker 1: diagram rather that it's just those light sockets. And then

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Speaker 1: we'll go from there. Call me back if you need more, Kiddo.

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Speaker 1: Should be fairly simple to solve, especially if it's broken

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Speaker 1: right now. Zero the car doctors coming back don't go Away,

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Speaker 1: welcome back, ran in the car dockery zero a couple

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Speaker 1: of things social media. Donald wrote in on Facebook he said,

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Speaker 1: RON heard your comments before about ethanol fuel and Marina's

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Speaker 1: and why it's why isn't it there or why isn't there?

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Speaker 1: Um ethanol fuel is or non ethanol fuel? Donald wrote,

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Speaker 1: is available at Marina's because boats don't tend to run

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Speaker 1: well on ethanol laced fuel. Fair point. And I think

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Speaker 1: there's probably going to be some concerns over well, there's

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Speaker 1: gotta be some pollution concerns, but that's neither here nor there.

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Speaker 1: But you know, part of the reason is they don't

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Speaker 1: seem to run well. Um, we could look for more

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Speaker 1: answers on that, and we could find out more if

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Speaker 1: we need to. But Donald is always I appreciate yours

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Speaker 1: and everybody else's input when we get questions like that.

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Speaker 1: And for Sue in Kentucky who wrote in RON as

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Speaker 1: a single woman always a widowed woman she recently lost

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Speaker 1: her husband, she said, UM, my four year old Toyota

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Speaker 1: is in need of a battery that's coming win there

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Speaker 1: and I'm trying to do my research. Now, can you

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Speaker 1: tell me what it is that I want to buy

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Speaker 1: and wear. What want to go get it? So you

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560
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Speaker 1: the battery works, with battery types. I mean I could

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Speaker 1: a battery for your vehicle. Good luck to you, and

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Speaker 1: uh you know we uh we wish you the best.

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Speaker 1: Let's uh let's talk about real quick. And Tom sent

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Speaker 1: me this. This goes back about a year and a

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Speaker 1: half now um that the President was talking about electrifying

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Speaker 1: the federal government. The federal government owns more than six

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Speaker 1: hundred thousand civilian vehicles, truck vans and passenger v hicles,

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Speaker 1: with a large majority running on gasoline on and this

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Speaker 1: goes back to what's the date on this. This was

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Speaker 1: January of twenty one. The President vowed to change that.

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Speaker 1: The federal government owns an enormous fleet of vehicles, which

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Speaker 1: we're going to replace with clean electric vehicles made right

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Speaker 1: here in America, the President said, at a new Buy

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Speaker 1: American initiative. So you see, it becomes political, and you know,

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Speaker 1: the article then goes on to talk about how President

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Speaker 1: Trump canceled Obama's Green car initiative in when Obama signed that,

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Speaker 1: and on and on and on and on, and as

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Speaker 1: much as we don't make a political thing out of this,

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Speaker 1: you've got to remember this. The electric vehicle future is

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Speaker 1: largely going to be dependent on who's in the White House,

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Speaker 1: because things change and things evolved, and and you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't know that it's gonna necessarily keep going forward

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Speaker 1: because if we get a different guy in there in

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Speaker 1: twenty four and he doesn't like electric vehicles or he

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Speaker 1: sees he's going to react to what the public is

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00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:55,800
Speaker 1: thinking about a lot of the things that are going

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Speaker 1: on right now. Politics change the automotive industry, not the

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Speaker 1: other way around. And uh, I think you're gonna be

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Speaker 1: You're gonna be surprised as some of the numbers as

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Speaker 1: they change and come around. So not to get political,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to be that, but I do want

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Speaker 1: to point out the common sense stuff that, depending upon

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Speaker 1: who's in the White House, will dictate and predicate what

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Speaker 1: kind of electric vehicle future we have. Zero the car

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Speaker 1: doctors coming back right after this, What this car is automatic?

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Speaker 1: It's systematic, it's hard, dramatic, what's breest lightning? Welcome back.

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Speaker 1: We're on na of the car doctors who kind of

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Speaker 1: wind things down this hour. You know, Um, one of

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Speaker 1: the things I'd like to leave you with this week

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Speaker 1: is how do you present yourself to the mechanic? You know,

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Speaker 1: it's hard, right, It's it's tough to walk into a

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Speaker 1: repair shop environment. There is you know, there's a bunch

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Speaker 1: of things that go on inside a repair shop and

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Speaker 1: some of them aren't necessarily consumer friendly, And uh, it's

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Speaker 1: the approach of the shop and it's the ideology of

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Speaker 1: the shop. You know, if if you've got a heart,

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Speaker 1: if you find it's hard, if you've got a tough

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Speaker 1: time walking into repair shop and you're you're under scrutiny

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Speaker 1: and you're not made to feel welcome, and uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe that's not the shop for you. It's it's what

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Speaker 1: are you looking for? And the mannerisms in which you

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00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:30,800
Speaker 1: carry yourself and they carry themselves, how well do they communicate?

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Speaker 1: And uh, you know, communication is key. And you know,

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Speaker 1: if you're not communicating with the shop, if you feel

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Speaker 1: like you know, you're you're getting nowhere in the conversation,

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Speaker 1: then maybe it's the wrong shop. I've learned about communication.

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Speaker 1: I've I'll tell you this story. I've I've learned about

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Speaker 1: communication from marriage. All right. We were we were redoing

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Speaker 1: the garden in the in the back of the house,

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Speaker 1: and we did a patio thing and a sidewalk thing,

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Speaker 1: and we had this patch of dirt area and I

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Speaker 1: said to my wife, I said, so you know, what

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Speaker 1: do you want here? Um, you know, it's just an area.

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Speaker 1: She said, Well, why don't we put some stone down

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Speaker 1: and we'll just, you know, maybe put a couple of

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Speaker 1: plants in but we'll do it with stone. And I said, okay.

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Speaker 1: So I went over the local garden center, you know,

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Speaker 1: and and this was actually the home Depot garden center

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00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:18,200
Speaker 1: and a couple of weeks ago, and I loaded up

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Speaker 1: the the truck with you know, the fifty pound bags

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Speaker 1: of rocks. I bought twelve fifty pound bags of rocks,

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00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:26,040
Speaker 1: and I put on a six hundred pounds and I

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00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:27,279
Speaker 1: put it on the truck and then I brought it

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00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:29,600
Speaker 1: home and I put in the backyard, and I brought

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Speaker 1: her over and I said, you know, look at the

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Speaker 1: where how do you you know? Where do you want

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00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 1: the rocks? And I don't want rocks, I mean, you

651
00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:39,240
Speaker 1: don't want rocks. I don't want rocks. I want a dirt.

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Speaker 1: You know, the two most important words in the marriage.

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Speaker 1: I said this before, yes dear so I you know,

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Speaker 1: yes deerter, and you know, picked the rocks up, put

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Speaker 1: the rocks back in the truck, to the rocks back

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00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 1: to the home depot. And by now it's late in

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Speaker 1: the day. It's it's the sun's coming out, and it's hot,

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00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 1: and it's I'm all the way down at the bottom

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Speaker 1: of the hell and I find one of those little

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Speaker 1: orange carts with the wheels that wobble, and I load

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Speaker 1: the six hundred pounds rocks back up and I push

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00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:04,040
Speaker 1: it back up the hill. And the guy in returns

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Speaker 1: looked at me and I said my wife, and he said,

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Speaker 1: say no more. Brother, I understand. And you know the

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Speaker 1: only thing I can leave you with is it's all

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Speaker 1: about communication. So if you don't want to find yourself

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00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 1: pushing rocks uphill in the sun, make sure you can

668
00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:17,920
Speaker 1: communicate with your mechanic, because if you can't, you might

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Speaker 1: get hit in the head with the rock and have

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Speaker 1: to carry it back anyway until the next time I'm

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Speaker 1: running any in the car doctor reminding you good mechanics

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Speaker 1: aren't expensive, they're priceless. Let's see you