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Speaker 1: Ron and Nanny and Danny and I have our next

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Speaker 1: business venture. Danny, my mechanic and I have our next

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Speaker 1: business venture, Danny's Taco truck. All right, we're gonna sell

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Speaker 1: and then we're gonna have an express lang reason why

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Speaker 1: munchies to you sleep Jesus at a railway station. The

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Speaker 1: car Doctor. I learned something this week. I learned how

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Speaker 1: to be a thief. And they kept selling them alignments

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Speaker 1: and kept charging. The tragedy is the vehicle doesn't have

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Speaker 1: a problem. Welcome to the radio home of Ron and

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Speaker 1: Nanian the car Doctor. So it's this is where car

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Speaker 1: owners the world overturned to for their definitive opinion on

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Speaker 1: automotive repair. If your mechanics giving you a busy signal,

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Speaker 1: pick up the phone and call in. The garage doors

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Speaker 1: at eight five five and now running. Oh yeah, Danny's

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Speaker 1: what could be. Let's let's go right to it. Let's

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Speaker 1: get right to the calls. Paul and Vermont. Let's open

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Speaker 1: this hour. Paul Ronaninny in the car. Doctorate your service, sir?

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Speaker 1: How can I help? Hey? Ron? How you doing it?

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Speaker 1: Been listening to every long time? So you seem like

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Speaker 1: you know what you're talking about? Either that everybody an

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Speaker 1: old little guy. I'm still here, so old school guy. Uh,

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Speaker 1: I've had Camaros Firebirds and my brother was like three

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Speaker 1: the engine was blown, so I get this brand of

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Speaker 1: mine had a seventy three Nova Um three oh seven

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Speaker 1: And I dropped the engine in engine runs like the top.

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Speaker 1: But when I put it in gear, the engine shutters, shakes,

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Speaker 1: and I'm thinking that turk converter. What do you think

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Speaker 1: when you say it shutters and shakes? Well, first of all,

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Speaker 1: this car? And what that's my first question? Zero? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: four barrel truck. Now it was a three oh five,

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Speaker 1: but I put it in a seventy three. Ok So,

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Speaker 1: but it was it was, it was. It was a

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Speaker 1: a small block with a four barrel. Two barrel? Okay,

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Speaker 1: two barrel. Who's whose balance or did you put on

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Speaker 1: who's all the one that came originally with the nova? Okay?

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Speaker 1: All right? If you if you disconnect the torquet, well

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Speaker 1: How like a vibration a low level vibration or the

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Speaker 1: the engine actually stops to miss it. It's it kind

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Speaker 1: Well does it does it stall out? Or does it

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Speaker 1: kind of stall out? Which is it? It's just kind

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Speaker 1: of like shape, all right, But I got the engine

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Speaker 1: tuned up perfectly, but sounds I put it. So as

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Speaker 1: soon as you put it under load, what makes you

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Speaker 1: think it's a torque converter? Wow, that's what I've heard

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Speaker 1: it gone is fine. But at idle. It's real rough. Okay,

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Speaker 1: if you do you double pump, do you do you

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Speaker 1: you have it idoling at? What's your IDOL speed? In gear?

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Speaker 1: it's what a thousand? Yeah? Yeah, too high? Too high? Listen,

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Speaker 1: a running condition in the engine. It has nothing to

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Speaker 1: We're that engine idol in that seventy three Nova? Do

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Speaker 1: you remember, yeah? Six seven? Do you think do you

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Speaker 1: So my first thought is because it runs better off vidal.

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Speaker 1: just has a rough idal to it. Well. When it's

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Speaker 1: know I'm thinking about a vacuum leak. I'm thinking about

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Speaker 1: just general state of tune. When you say it's tuned perfectly,

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Speaker 1: and understand you've already seen is too high? Huh right? Right,

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Speaker 1: So you know, a small block running well with no

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Speaker 1: emission controls on it tuned properly. Heck, you can idle

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Speaker 1: depending upon the cam. And this unless this nova has

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Speaker 1: got some erradic cam in it, you know it. I

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Speaker 1: so and it's it's all stock, just the stock three

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Speaker 1: oh seven? Right, what are you running for? Base timing?

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Speaker 1: Um time degrees? Alright? Too much? Well, I'll say it

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Speaker 1: All right? And then what are you running for? A distributor?

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Speaker 1: Stock distributor, I got electronic, okay, So I took the

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Speaker 1: points out right ignition, I put it on electronic, all right.

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Speaker 1: So you converted. You converted a factory distributor. Right, so

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Speaker 1: you've changed Let me let me, let me point this

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Speaker 1: stocks back. You've changed the distributor from points to electronic.

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Speaker 1: All right. You've got your own timing speck in there,

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Speaker 1: all right. It shakes when you put it in gear.

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Speaker 1: And in your mind, I'm not picking on your brother,

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to get to a point. Is you think

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Speaker 1: it's tuned right? How do you know? How do you

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Speaker 1: know that maybe one of those measurements you've got is incorrect.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you gotta go back and look at this thing

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Speaker 1: and say, have the factory have it set up? All right?

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Speaker 1: You know, if the converter was at fault, all right,

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Speaker 1: it would physically stalled. That converter was locked on. But

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Speaker 1: it should not in eighty six, not without any electronic controls.

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Speaker 1: Are there any wires going into the transmission, any electrical

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Speaker 1: connectors Okay, so there's so there's no electrical lock up

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Speaker 1: lock up converter that I'm not aware of an eighty six.

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Speaker 1: I see no reason why the converter would cause that.

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Speaker 1: What I think you're experiencing is the is the load

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Speaker 1: it's giving it that shutter shake. Right, okay, right, you know,

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Speaker 1: but you should be able to get this engine to

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Speaker 1: six d. This is the same. This is the same

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Speaker 1: set up, all right as my seventy two Monte Carlo,

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Speaker 1: my monty idols at eight. When I put it in gear,

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Speaker 1: it drops the six seventy done. It doesn't know what

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Speaker 1: transmission it's soaked up to. It doesn't know what engines are,

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Speaker 1: what cards sitting in, It doesn't know what time of

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Speaker 1: day it is. It doesn't even know it's in New Jersey.

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Speaker 1: All right, That engine should idle under eight rpm without

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Speaker 1: a problem, not in gear. All they're sitting there standing

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Speaker 1: by itself, and if it doesn't, there's a problem in

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Speaker 1: the engine period, right, Yeah, Just think of it from

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Speaker 1: that perspective. What was the factory idol spec when that

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Speaker 1: thing's in park, why won't it idol a factory respect?

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Speaker 1: What's what's what's wrong with it that it won't do that?

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Speaker 1: And that's the question you gotta answer. All right, call

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Speaker 1: me back. You're welcome, no problem, You're very welcome. I'll

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Speaker 1: see you. Yeah, it's just let's break it down into

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Speaker 1: something simple, all right, and let's get away from the forums,

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Speaker 1: and let's get away from my uncle Bob said, and

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Speaker 1: my cousin Fred said. And you know, I had a

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Speaker 1: blue car that did this on Tuesdays, and that's gotta

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Speaker 1: be what's wrong with it? Give me a scientific reason.

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Speaker 1: Tell me why you think it's that. Ask yourself, why

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Speaker 1: do you think it's that? All right, tell me known good.

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Speaker 1: I'll show you what's bad. Tell me what you know

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Speaker 1: is good. I'll show you what's bad. Prove me wrong.

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Speaker 1: And that works every time. I got stories from this week.

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Speaker 1: But that's not what I'm here for to talk about that.

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Speaker 1: I'm here to talk about your problem. Let's pull over,

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Speaker 1: take an early pause. When we come back, we'll go

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Speaker 1: to Maryland and talk to Earl about his OH three Silverado.

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Speaker 1: I'm runing any in the car doctor. I'll be back

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Speaker 1: right after this. For the best in car advice. Give

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Speaker 1: Ron a call eight five five five zero nine nine

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Speaker 1: zero zero. Now back to Ron. Hey, let's get over

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Speaker 1: to Earl and Maryland. Earl, Welcome to the car doctor,

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Speaker 1: sir Roniny and at your service, how can I help? Hey? Ron,

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Speaker 1: thanks for taking my call. I bought an oh three

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Speaker 1: Chevy Silverado about three years ago with an eight point

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Speaker 1: one to Dooley snow with it. It runs just a

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Speaker 1: little hot. It basically runs to tin all the time,

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Speaker 1: but with my snow plow on it'll run two thirty

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Speaker 1: five and it's cracked three D eater once in it already.

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Speaker 1: I've done flushed the system out, new thermostat, new radiator,

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Speaker 1: all new hoses, new clutch fans. I don't know where

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Speaker 1: to go next. And there's no place. Is there anywhere

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Speaker 1: on the inside. Maybe this isn't the one you know this?

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Speaker 1: Does it? Is it a stick or an automatic? Automatic? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: We had we had a We had a customer with

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Speaker 1: an eight one Silverado with a stick. It was the

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Speaker 1: neatest truck in the whole world. We love that truck.

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Speaker 1: It was great. Yeah. Um, is there any place you

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Speaker 1: can mount an electric cooling fan? I'm thinking on the

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Speaker 1: inside where the blade is there, but on the outside,

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Speaker 1: you know you've got para string cool or because I

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Speaker 1: got everything layered up there. Uh you know. And the

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Speaker 1: problem is when you only got a five Okay, it's

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Speaker 1: only got a five blade fan on it, and I

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Speaker 1: got a Dermax got a ten blade on it, and

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Speaker 1: I don't know if somebody has cross reference for a

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Speaker 1: bigger fan blade. Well, say they make a severe duty

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Speaker 1: clutch fan. I don't know where to go with this thing.

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Speaker 1: It's funny you say that because I remember back in

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Speaker 1: I'd have to go find it where they talked about

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Speaker 1: increased the size of the fan. Whether they added a

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Speaker 1: blade to it or not, I don't remember exactly. It's Bolton's.

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Speaker 1: I remember the Bolton coming out and no five though

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Speaker 1: my dealer told me that too, but they couldn't find

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Speaker 1: it either something Yeah, um, but I would tell you

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Speaker 1: up a second. Is it's it's perfectly fine without the

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Speaker 1: plow on it, right. Still, everyone's too tan all the time,

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Speaker 1: It turns out Maury is this guy from me. That's

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Speaker 1: is his passion? The field is so broad today and

424
00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:59,439
Speaker 1: so varied. I don't think you can just say I

425
00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:01,600
Speaker 1: want to work on cars. I don't care what it is,

426
00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:06,120
Speaker 1: because each thing has its own unique characteristic. It's very

427
00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:09,720
Speaker 1: different than when I started. You know, truth beat told

428
00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:11,880
Speaker 1: myself and a lot of guys like me, we got

429
00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:14,320
Speaker 1: into this because we like working on hot rods as kids.

430
00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:18,000
Speaker 1: And yeah, my dad was a master mechanic and worked

431
00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:21,920
Speaker 1: for board in Toyota and and and did. So he's

432
00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:24,440
Speaker 1: my third kid. So the strange thing is the first

433
00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:27,199
Speaker 1: two kids had nothing to do with the cars, and

434
00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:30,800
Speaker 1: then you get the third kid, and he's all about cars.

435
00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:34,200
Speaker 1: And he's got a little souped up SUPERU and and

436
00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:36,680
Speaker 1: you know, does thing with it and and change his

437
00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:41,000
Speaker 1: parts every other day in my garage. Um, so I

438
00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:43,879
Speaker 1: you know, in talking to him, it's almost like he,

439
00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:46,919
Speaker 1: you know, I he wants to do more with the

440
00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:54,560
Speaker 1: the you know, the the auties and the higher price cars. Obviously,

441
00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:56,800
Speaker 1: if you're gonna work in a shop, you want to

442
00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:59,200
Speaker 1: work in one of those shops that are higher priced,

443
00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:03,520
Speaker 1: more money that you make for being attacks. So I

444
00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:06,639
Speaker 1: just didn't know. I mean I just remember that conversation

445
00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:08,960
Speaker 1: you were having with somebody and saying that there was

446
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:12,000
Speaker 1: no new kids that were coming up, and you know,

447
00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:14,920
Speaker 1: it just kind of was like, Wow, here's a kid

448
00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:19,560
Speaker 1: that is trying to get into the business and do

449
00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:22,400
Speaker 1: his thing. But I just don't know where to send him.

450
00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:26,480
Speaker 1: As far as the schooling part, I mean it's kind

451
00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:28,240
Speaker 1: of hard because you know, if I sent him to

452
00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:33,080
Speaker 1: you know, well outy school or whatever school, I don't know. Well,

453
00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:35,520
Speaker 1: I don't think you need to send him to Outie school.

454
00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:39,080
Speaker 1: Audi will send him to OUTI school, all right. BMW

455
00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:42,080
Speaker 1: would send him to BMW school. You know, if he

456
00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:46,440
Speaker 1: likes Subarus and he knows Subaru, let him get a

457
00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:49,800
Speaker 1: job at a SUPERU dealership, let him learn the ropes there, right.

458
00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:53,520
Speaker 1: So he so he did an intern there for part

459
00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:56,840
Speaker 1: of his schooling was doing an internship at our local

460
00:24:57,080 --> 00:25:00,960
Speaker 1: SUPERU dealership. And that was awesome. He did great and

461
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:04,920
Speaker 1: everything was wonderful. And so just I don't it's so

462
00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:09,600
Speaker 1: hard to send your kid off to a place unbeknownst

463
00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:13,879
Speaker 1: to you know, in Pennsylvania or North Carolina or Arizona

464
00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:18,640
Speaker 1: or whatever and not know really what So do you think, uh,

465
00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:21,840
Speaker 1: a year off just working in a shop is the

466
00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:26,120
Speaker 1: better thing to do and then go get well, I'll

467
00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:28,920
Speaker 1: tell a teal like this, all right, I think that

468
00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:30,720
Speaker 1: for the price of what a U t I or

469
00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:32,280
Speaker 1: an A t I or any one of these others,

470
00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:34,879
Speaker 1: do you know what's the cost of the education is

471
00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:41,160
Speaker 1: my guests would be thirty or forty grand that's about okay,

472
00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:45,200
Speaker 1: So I'm off the mark. So it's a seventy dollar investment.

473
00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:47,840
Speaker 1: And then what's the return on investment. Where are they

474
00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:50,199
Speaker 1: going to place the kid? All right? You know, are

475
00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:51,760
Speaker 1: they going to put him in a job making a

476
00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:54,199
Speaker 1: hundred grand a year right off the bat? Or is

477
00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:55,760
Speaker 1: he gonna come out of Is he gonna come out

478
00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:58,000
Speaker 1: of there? You know, all of a sudden, he's making

479
00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:01,240
Speaker 1: fifty grand a year or four grandy years. A beginning

480
00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:04,639
Speaker 1: technician is a beginning journeyman. You know. The problem is

481
00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:08,640
Speaker 1: whatever he learns in school is gonna be over within

482
00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:11,679
Speaker 1: two years, maybe maybe three at the best, because it

483
00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 1: changes too quickly. Alright. My experience has been when I

484
00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:18,120
Speaker 1: was hiring technicians, they would send me a kid from

485
00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:20,080
Speaker 1: Lincoln Tech, and I would look at him and I

486
00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:22,400
Speaker 1: would talk to them. And I'm not picking on Lincoln Tech.

487
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:24,800
Speaker 1: But my knowledge is old. I have ten year knowledge.

488
00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:26,840
Speaker 1: Has been a while since I talked to anybody. But

489
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:29,240
Speaker 1: they were teaching kids twenty years ago how to rebuild

490
00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:34,040
Speaker 1: carburetors and starters and alternators, useless information. Alright, All that

491
00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:38,160
Speaker 1: stuff was gone by then. All right. I think today

492
00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:41,960
Speaker 1: the technician of today, I think it's about aptitude. What's

493
00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:45,280
Speaker 1: he got the ability to do today? What's his ability

494
00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:49,720
Speaker 1: to change into tomorrow? Because the revolution is coming, all right,

495
00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:54,320
Speaker 1: and you know it's it's I always looked at I

496
00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:57,439
Speaker 1: always looked at the kid's attitude, all right. I always

497
00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:00,399
Speaker 1: looked at their persona of the person. You know, if

498
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:02,640
Speaker 1: I was sitting there sweeping the floor, and I usually did,

499
00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:04,600
Speaker 1: one of the tricks I always did was I'd always

500
00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:06,919
Speaker 1: sweep the floor while I was interviewing the person. I

501
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:08,879
Speaker 1: wanted to see how they felt standing in the shop

502
00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:11,919
Speaker 1: while the boss was working. And the one that I

503
00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:13,560
Speaker 1: would hire would be the one that would grab the

504
00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:15,439
Speaker 1: broom and figure it out and help me. The one

505
00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:19,200
Speaker 1: that I never hired was that well, you know, well

506
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:20,800
Speaker 1: the one that or you know, while I was waiting

507
00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:22,479
Speaker 1: for the dust pan, the one that would lean down

508
00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:24,240
Speaker 1: and get the dust pan for me. The one that

509
00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:26,240
Speaker 1: I wouldn't hire was the kid that flicked the cigarette

510
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:28,200
Speaker 1: but on the floor while I was talking to him.

511
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:31,919
Speaker 1: So I think the answer to the question is, you

512
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:33,560
Speaker 1: know what, it's not gonna heard him to take a

513
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:36,000
Speaker 1: year off. He can always go back to school. My

514
00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:39,680
Speaker 1: personal opinion, if he's in the right shop, the right environment,

515
00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:42,760
Speaker 1: they're going to teach him more about real world than

516
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:44,760
Speaker 1: anybody else. As long as they have the ability to

517
00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:47,360
Speaker 1: send him back and continue to send him back for

518
00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:51,080
Speaker 1: further education, because I guarantee you further education is the

519
00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:53,880
Speaker 1: future of this business. I appreciate the call. Good luck

520
00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:57,960
Speaker 1: to your son. Call me if you need more. Zero

521
00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:12,400
Speaker 1: The car Doctors coming back right after this. Yeah, back

522
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:14,960
Speaker 1: on the card oculates real quick. Over to Patrick and

523
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:17,720
Speaker 1: Maryland eighteen Dodge Journey. Patrick, you're on with the car Doctor.

524
00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:21,040
Speaker 1: How can I help? Hey? First of all, is this

525
00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:23,160
Speaker 1: want of let you know I'm a big thing at

526
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:27,800
Speaker 1: I listen in the show every week. Um, I'm not

527
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:30,960
Speaker 1: a gearhead per se. That's okay, I'll make you one

528
00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:37,199
Speaker 1: go ahead. Uh So, Uh, I'm a healthcare provider and

529
00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 1: I ended up getting stuck with this Dodge Journey through

530
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 1: a divorce and uh, I only have started one thousand

531
00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:53,840
Speaker 1: miles on it, and it's suddenly out of nowhere. Um

532
00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:59,600
Speaker 1: just started shaking into like short terns and then it

533
00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:03,400
Speaker 1: start it got worse and worse and started screaming. So

534
00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:08,240
Speaker 1: I took it to a local Dodge dealership and um,

535
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 1: they said it was a stirring pump. And that's what

536
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 1: that makes sense, that's you know, that's what it's doing.

537
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:26,440
Speaker 1: What Patrick in turns shuddering. It's the steering wheel shake

538
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:32,840
Speaker 1: and like screaming in what like like parking lot back

539
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:36,560
Speaker 1: in and out of a parking space. Mm hmm. Well,

540
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:42,160
Speaker 1: eventually it came to that, but originally it was just

541
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 1: like sucking out to the end of the street, and

542
00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:51,600
Speaker 1: then when I turned very low, like five, it would

543
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:58,560
Speaker 1: shake and there would be like some like screaming like that,

544
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:03,040
Speaker 1: like like the power steering system was was working harder

545
00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:07,800
Speaker 1: than it needed to, like a hydraulic pump straining right right, okay, right,

546
00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:09,960
Speaker 1: so so quick because we're gonna run out of time.

547
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:11,560
Speaker 1: So the dealer put a rack in it, or they

548
00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:16,560
Speaker 1: put a pump in it. They replaced the pomp. They said,

549
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:19,680
Speaker 1: they said that the pump was bad, you know, thirty

550
00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:22,840
Speaker 1: thousand miles and I had thirty one thousand miles on it,

551
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:25,880
Speaker 1: so that it was out a warranty. They replaced the pump,

552
00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:30,080
Speaker 1: and I had it for about a day and it

553
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:33,600
Speaker 1: was running fine, and the same thing happened again on

554
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:37,160
Speaker 1: the back of the dealership and then they said, oh no,

555
00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:42,440
Speaker 1: the tank. It was the power tank. The reservoir. Yeah,

556
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:44,160
Speaker 1: all right, so they put one of those on and

557
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:46,080
Speaker 1: now it's still and now it still does it right,

558
00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:49,520
Speaker 1: and it's and it's still did it and it's back

559
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:55,080
Speaker 1: in the shop for the third time. And uh, they're

560
00:30:55,120 --> 00:31:00,200
Speaker 1: saying they think they're gonna have to replace the the

561
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:07,600
Speaker 1: rack like the rack, but they won't be able to

562
00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:13,000
Speaker 1: get parts for the rack for four or five weeks. Well,

563
00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:15,280
Speaker 1: let's worry about what it is first. You know, you

564
00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:18,040
Speaker 1: gotta you gotta ask them what's their diagnosis based on

565
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:19,920
Speaker 1: because you gotta say, listen, guys, look at it from

566
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 1: my perspective. I brought it to you twice, and you've

567
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 1: changed two different things, and now you're telling me it's

568
00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:26,920
Speaker 1: a third thing. Uh, you know, number one, what are

569
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 1: you gonna do for me? Because it seems like it

570
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:31,800
Speaker 1: seems like we're guessing here. All right, I don't know

571
00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:33,880
Speaker 1: what they're basing this on. You know, did anybody put

572
00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:36,320
Speaker 1: any pressure gauges on the power steering system to look

573
00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:39,360
Speaker 1: to see what power steering pump output is? Did anybody

574
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 1: look or consider could we have a restricted power steering hose?

575
00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 1: Could the hose cause a problem? All right? I'm not

576
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:48,640
Speaker 1: saying it's not the rack. I'm just saying, how did

577
00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:51,959
Speaker 1: they diagnose this? Because if these are your trusted mechanics.

578
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:54,240
Speaker 1: It sounds like they're throwing darts at the wall in

579
00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 1: the locker room, going well, it could be this, it

580
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:58,680
Speaker 1: could be that, all right, as far as the parts

581
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:01,720
Speaker 1: themselves as them. If there's a way they can special

582
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:04,000
Speaker 1: handle overnight it, you'll pay a little bit more of

583
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:05,640
Speaker 1: a premium, or they'll pay a little bit more of

584
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:08,040
Speaker 1: a premium. But the question is that the rack is

585
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:10,760
Speaker 1: out there. To find it in the Chrisier network, they

586
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:13,080
Speaker 1: have to put a priority handling on it in order

587
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:17,280
Speaker 1: to do so. Okay, So the first conversation Monday is

588
00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:20,240
Speaker 1: are you sure it's the rack? Do you know it's

589
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:23,239
Speaker 1: the rack? Are you changing the hoses as well? All right?

590
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:26,440
Speaker 1: Has anybody considered do we have a problem possible ball

591
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:29,760
Speaker 1: joints or somewhere in the suspension something is binding causing

592
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:32,239
Speaker 1: the power of steering to fail. Number one, Number two,

593
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:34,959
Speaker 1: number three was the vehicle ever in an accident. Just

594
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:38,320
Speaker 1: have them verify that nothing has bent, nothing is causing

595
00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:42,360
Speaker 1: the shutter, nothing is overstraining the power steering system causing

596
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:44,640
Speaker 1: it to react like it does. Get me the answers

597
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:47,320
Speaker 1: to those questions. Call me back next week and let

598
00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:49,120
Speaker 1: me know what happens. Good luck to you, Patrick, I'm

599
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 1: righting any of the Car Doctor. We're back right after this.

600
00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:08,480
Speaker 1: Welcome back round the name of the Car Doctor. Thanks

601
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:11,080
Speaker 1: for sticking with me today. We uh. I always appreciate

602
00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:13,240
Speaker 1: you guys being there and providing those questions and we

603
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:15,840
Speaker 1: can exchange our ideas and talk about cars and their problems.

604
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:17,880
Speaker 1: I've got a letter in front of me from Jim Labrek.

605
00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:19,400
Speaker 1: He's checking in. We haven't talked to Jim in about

606
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:22,120
Speaker 1: a year. Maybe it's time to reach out again, tom uh.

607
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:23,880
Speaker 1: Jim Lebrex's check in and he said, Hey, Ron, if

608
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:25,840
Speaker 1: your buddies in the auto industry figured out where they're

609
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:28,080
Speaker 1: going to get all the power to charge cars when

610
00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:30,640
Speaker 1: it takes and you know, this is staggering, one nuclear

611
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:33,880
Speaker 1: power plan for every one hundred fifty thousand cars plugged

612
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:37,480
Speaker 1: in at the same time. So um, you know that's

613
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:39,600
Speaker 1: what he said. This too, is that the last time

614
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:41,880
Speaker 1: he was on that they calculated that at the state

615
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:45,240
Speaker 1: of Maine went all electric, and this was a year ago,

616
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:48,760
Speaker 1: they would need seven nuclear power plants to generate all

617
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:52,480
Speaker 1: the electricity to power the current vehicle population just for

618
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:55,280
Speaker 1: the state of Maine. He then goes on to say, Ron,

619
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:57,800
Speaker 1: how about the electrical infrastructure. He's been listening to the show,

620
00:33:57,800 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 1: he knows we've been talking about this. How about the

621
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:04,680
Speaker 1: electrical infrastructure, wires, transformers, transmission and distribution system to distribute

622
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:06,640
Speaker 1: all that new load At the same time, we're adding

623
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:09,799
Speaker 1: a bigger load than transportation for heating our buildings. And

624
00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:13,360
Speaker 1: at what cost? When the heating and transportation load, and

625
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:15,359
Speaker 1: I think he's referring to in Maine is at its

626
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:19,719
Speaker 1: highest winter peak, wintertime solar capacity factor drops to ten.

627
00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:24,720
Speaker 1: It takes one thousand, three d and fifty wats solar

628
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:28,320
Speaker 1: panels at an installed cost of one thousand dollars per panel,

629
00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:30,319
Speaker 1: or a million dollars worth of panels to keep up

630
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:32,399
Speaker 1: with the heat delivered by burning one gallon of home

631
00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:35,120
Speaker 1: heating oil an hour in the wintertime. Try charging your

632
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:38,640
Speaker 1: car on that technology on a cold winter's night. Up

633
00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:40,680
Speaker 1: here in Main. We just shut down a nuclear sized

634
00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:42,799
Speaker 1: hydro project by the same people that are all for

635
00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:45,839
Speaker 1: solar panels. When mills and batteries New York and Massachusetts

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Speaker 1: are blocking me from getting a natural gas pipeline to us.

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Speaker 1: All of this green stuff is increasing our electric bills

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Speaker 1: the five cents per kill a watt hour, double what

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Speaker 1: it was fifteen years ago. I know our listeners in

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Speaker 1: New York. I can't speak for Connecticut, but I know

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Speaker 1: our listeners in New York or Massachusetts. I'm sorry, I

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Speaker 1: know our listeners in New York are struggling with their

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Speaker 1: electric bills right now. Um. On a personal basis, we

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Speaker 1: then double again, so it's getting really difficult to keep

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Speaker 1: up with it all. So good information from Jim. We

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. Jim, we'll be talking. I'm runing any in

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Speaker 1: the card actor, looking up, saying, gosh, I gotta go

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Speaker 1: until the next time. It's been a pleasure. Good mechanics

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Speaker 1: aren't expensive. Their priceless. See you