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Speaker 1: Let's get over to Donna in New York. Teen jeep

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Speaker 1: How can I help. I want your opinion of that

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Speaker 1: where I worry most about something like this, Donna, is

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Speaker 1: They tell me that a start stop starter averages eleven bucks,

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Speaker 1: be no Well, maybe I can wait another two weeks

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Speaker 1: right this second. And and and then there's the concern

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Speaker 1: at least getting to where they're going before it shuts

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Speaker 1: off again. Yeah, and I had to configure the car

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Speaker 1: mean configure it? Configure it? How I can turn that off? Manually,

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Speaker 1: but the next time I start to start up. UM.

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Speaker 1: But if you scan disabled start stop feature jeep UM,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure it'll come up that way. The other website,

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Speaker 1: you know you've got You've got to get something right

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Speaker 1: auto battery dot Com. There is, oh my gosh, so

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Speaker 1: I'll help you to understand that. So you might want

427
00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:38,400
Speaker 1: to go there and take a look at that as well.

428
00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:42,880
Speaker 1: I did Google this one time and they said that

429
00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:45,560
Speaker 1: this car has two batteries in it, and I would

430
00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:48,320
Speaker 1: have to disable that second battery, which I think is

431
00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:55,440
Speaker 1: a little one, okay, to get rid of that picture. Well, um, yeah,

432
00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:57,840
Speaker 1: i'd have to see that in writing. And that's why

433
00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:01,000
Speaker 1: I'm a little leary of why they want you to

434
00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:03,439
Speaker 1: get Well, now are they saying disabled that second battery

435
00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:05,280
Speaker 1: and start stop won't work, and you don't have to

436
00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:07,920
Speaker 1: plug anything into the O b D two part. Well,

437
00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:11,840
Speaker 1: they didn't mention the o b D two, but they

438
00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:14,800
Speaker 1: did say that every time I turn the car on, uh,

439
00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:17,760
Speaker 1: the dashboard was going to tell me that there's something

440
00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:21,160
Speaker 1: wrong with start stop. Yeah, And that's why I don't

441
00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:23,919
Speaker 1: want to do it that way. I My understanding is

442
00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:26,199
Speaker 1: that the companies that are out there trying to design

443
00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:29,760
Speaker 1: the workarounds have come up with a method that don't

444
00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:33,359
Speaker 1: put any warning lights on the dashboard, don't damage the

445
00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:38,760
Speaker 1: electrical system, don't ruin anything. They're they're approved bypasses. I

446
00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:43,040
Speaker 1: guess I'll say it like that, you know, so I would.

447
00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:45,480
Speaker 1: I would look at it from that. I think starts

448
00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:49,719
Speaker 1: stop is putting us on the road to more expensive

449
00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:53,720
Speaker 1: repairs later on in the life of the car, right,

450
00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:57,360
Speaker 1: and it just satisfies, It just satisfies the need. Now,

451
00:24:57,720 --> 00:24:59,840
Speaker 1: you know, everything is written to a spec. When it

452
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,120
Speaker 1: i's to an automobile, start stop is just that much

453
00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:06,960
Speaker 1: more because it requires the vehicle or everything. The battery

454
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,840
Speaker 1: has to be just so, the starter has to be

455
00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:13,360
Speaker 1: just so, the engine oil has to be just so,

456
00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:16,960
Speaker 1: because incorrect engine oil will prevent a start stop vehicle

457
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:21,800
Speaker 1: from working properly. So you know, everything has to be exact.

458
00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:26,880
Speaker 1: And I think they're over complicating what they're trying to achieve. Um,

459
00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:28,960
Speaker 1: and now I'm just gonna, you know, put the plug

460
00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:31,920
Speaker 1: in there. Just imagine when electric cars get here, all right,

461
00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:34,199
Speaker 1: because if they can't get an internal combustion engine to

462
00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:37,160
Speaker 1: do what they want and it's so complicated, imagine what's

463
00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:40,360
Speaker 1: gonna happen with electric vehicles. I don't see it getting simpler.

464
00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:43,720
Speaker 1: I see it getting more complicated. Donna. I appreciate the call,

465
00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:46,800
Speaker 1: and thanks for sharing thoughts. And you know, stop back again.

466
00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:48,720
Speaker 1: Let us know what you decide to do with this vehicle.

467
00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:52,880
Speaker 1: I'm running any in the car doctor zero zero. We're

468
00:25:52,880 --> 00:26:11,840
Speaker 1: back right after this. Don't go away. We back. Let's

469
00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:13,480
Speaker 1: get over to Leney in Maine linning you around with

470
00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:17,240
Speaker 1: the car doctor. How can I help today? Hey? Uh,

471
00:26:17,359 --> 00:26:22,359
Speaker 1: I have a two thousand and ten Tundra and and

472
00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:25,320
Speaker 1: I had blinking lights across the dash. Oh my god,

473
00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:28,600
Speaker 1: I'll caught everything was blinking the full wheel drive for

474
00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:34,080
Speaker 1: a b F everything. So I go across. I said, well,

475
00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:37,120
Speaker 1: I'll fix it some time, and so I'm going it's

476
00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:40,320
Speaker 1: still run okay, and tapping out on the road and

477
00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:44,520
Speaker 1: were but anyway, I'm going across the bridge in between

478
00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:51,520
Speaker 1: the two towns and the ads. The sensors started working

479
00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:55,439
Speaker 1: on the wheel. Sensors for the that would be for

480
00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:59,720
Speaker 1: the air, right air pressure. You're you're saying, the tire

481
00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:02,920
Speaker 1: PRESSU your censor light started to go off? Yeah, okay,

482
00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:08,640
Speaker 1: So so they it goes, it shuts off, and all

483
00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:13,199
Speaker 1: my blinking light stop. So I get home and I

484
00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 1: ordered some sensors. I said, well, maybe I'll change all

485
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:21,320
Speaker 1: the sensors on the wheel with the wheel goes by

486
00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:24,840
Speaker 1: those sensors, right, A B S censor, Well, tire pressure sensors,

487
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:27,880
Speaker 1: not A B S sensors. Tire pressure sensors. You're talking

488
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:31,119
Speaker 1: about the sensors inside the tire, inside the wheel. No, No,

489
00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:34,199
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the ones on the on the you

490
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:36,440
Speaker 1: know the ones that you plug in. You put a

491
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:39,120
Speaker 1: plug into the A B S. Okay, Because we're talking

492
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:40,879
Speaker 1: about so we're talking about are we what are we

493
00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:43,720
Speaker 1: talking about? We're talking about tire pressure light off or

494
00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:47,679
Speaker 1: the A B S light went off? A S okay.

495
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:52,320
Speaker 1: So so I'm getting any change that center and that plug,

496
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:56,080
Speaker 1: that particular plug that side in the back, there was

497
00:27:56,119 --> 00:27:58,919
Speaker 1: a wire that was loose, you know, or it was

498
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:04,199
Speaker 1: cut kind of okay, I said, well, so anyway, I

499
00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:06,879
Speaker 1: spliced together the best I could, and then the lights

500
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:10,040
Speaker 1: all went out, no more lights on the desk and everything.

501
00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:14,000
Speaker 1: So then eventually I ordered the harness, that piece of

502
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:16,040
Speaker 1: harness for that side and had to replace it. I

503
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:18,919
Speaker 1: tried to buy just a pigtail. They don't sell just

504
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,720
Speaker 1: a pigtail. You gotta buy that right side of the harness,

505
00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:28,800
Speaker 1: you know, the piece of both from from that one time. Right,

506
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:33,480
Speaker 1: So what's your question? What's your u? No? That that

507
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:36,680
Speaker 1: that guy that would called you from Mango Abrule last

508
00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:39,480
Speaker 1: week and I tried to get your phone number the

509
00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:42,040
Speaker 1: call and tell you what happened because he didn't know

510
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:45,360
Speaker 1: what was going on with his vehicle. And I'm just

511
00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:49,240
Speaker 1: wondering if it was something like that, because because he

512
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:51,440
Speaker 1: had a lot of blinking lights going on and could

513
00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 1: have been it could have also it could have also

514
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:56,080
Speaker 1: been and I thought he mentioned how his carpeting was

515
00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:58,560
Speaker 1: wet on the right side. If it's the guy I'm

516
00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:03,640
Speaker 1: thinking of, um, could something the dash or something. Well, no,

517
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:05,560
Speaker 1: I think I think he was the one with the

518
00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:07,800
Speaker 1: wet carpet on the right side, And it could be

519
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:10,320
Speaker 1: that the A C drain and the evaporator was blocked

520
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 1: and water got on the carpet and then that that

521
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:16,280
Speaker 1: goes to underneath the right seat is the body module

522
00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:19,800
Speaker 1: on most toyotas around his particular Toyota, if it's the

523
00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:22,960
Speaker 1: caller I'm thinking of, And once water gets into the

524
00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:27,040
Speaker 1: body module and it's connectors, it will just absolutely drive

525
00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:30,840
Speaker 1: that car bonkers. So it just doesn't, uh, it just doesn't.

526
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:34,400
Speaker 1: You know, It's it's over, game over at that point.

527
00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:37,200
Speaker 1: So but um, yeah, listen, Lenny, I appreciate the call,

528
00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:40,040
Speaker 1: Thanks for thanks for sharing the information. Let's get out

529
00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:43,480
Speaker 1: over and talk to David in Wisconsin. David, you're wrong

530
00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:47,280
Speaker 1: with the car doctor. How can I help today, sir? Okay?

531
00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:52,000
Speaker 1: Two tho Dakota four by four. I had the exhaust

532
00:29:52,000 --> 00:30:01,520
Speaker 1: system replaced. Okay, David, are you there? We lost David.

533
00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:06,520
Speaker 1: Something happened to David. David, you know what, Let's pull

534
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:08,720
Speaker 1: over and take a pause. Tom Let's pull over, take

535
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:11,960
Speaker 1: a pause. Five zero zero, run on any of the

536
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,000
Speaker 1: car doctor. When we come back we'll see if we

537
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 1: can find David wherever he went out into the cosmos.

538
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:28,719
Speaker 1: Stay tuned, Blood, Welcome back. We're on any of the car.

539
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:32,320
Speaker 1: Doctor David. You're still there, sir, Oh, yes, I am. Yeah.

540
00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:34,560
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what happened there. I think, um, you know,

541
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:36,600
Speaker 1: I think the cosmos got in the way. So how

542
00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:39,640
Speaker 1: can I help you today? Okay? I had to have

543
00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:43,360
Speaker 1: two thousand and six dodars da Kota before. It's got

544
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:46,240
Speaker 1: a hundred and twelve thousand miles on it, and I

545
00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:50,160
Speaker 1: had an exhaust system replaced, and there's a ground strap

546
00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:55,600
Speaker 1: from the frame to the front of the muffler clamp.

547
00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:01,040
Speaker 1: Is it necessary? Oh you have that one? No, I'm

548
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:03,719
Speaker 1: only kidding. That was common, they put, Yeah, that's it is.

549
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:08,120
Speaker 1: It is necessary. Um, ground strap on exhaust exhaust systems,

550
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:12,640
Speaker 1: believe it or not, will build up static electricity and

551
00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 1: that ground strap bleeds it off. And the idea here

552
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:19,960
Speaker 1: is we're trying to provide a neutral or safe path

553
00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 1: to ground for the static electricity because we don't want

554
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:26,200
Speaker 1: it to go where into all the electronics that a

555
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:31,040
Speaker 1: modern vehicle has on it. And you know, ground straps,

556
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:33,920
Speaker 1: ground straps everywhere are common. I mean, there's a lot,

557
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:36,240
Speaker 1: there's a lot of places they put ground straps. I

558
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:40,800
Speaker 1: remember the early nineties Chrysler products, late eighties Chrysler products,

559
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:45,200
Speaker 1: for example, had ground straps on the right front steering knuckle,

560
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:48,640
Speaker 1: and you would always find those broken. And in a

561
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 1: lot of cases you would find that broken ground strap

562
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 1: was also accompanied at some point shortly thereafter by a

563
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:59,600
Speaker 1: bad right front wheel bearing. The wheel bearing would actually

564
00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:02,840
Speaker 1: because the wheel bearing would generate enough static electricity that

565
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 1: without that ground strap there, it would build up, and

566
00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:07,000
Speaker 1: it would actually build up heating. It would actually weld

567
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:10,320
Speaker 1: the bearing together or the or it was the ground

568
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:11,880
Speaker 1: for There was also a case where it was the

569
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:15,560
Speaker 1: ground for the engine to the chassis and that was broken,

570
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:18,160
Speaker 1: and then it would seek ground through the bearing. That

571
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 1: was what it was. It was seeking ground through the bearing,

572
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:24,360
Speaker 1: and the bearing became the ground point on some of

573
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:27,200
Speaker 1: these chryslers, and it would actually weld the bearing and

574
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:31,600
Speaker 1: cause it the seas. So you know that ground strap.

575
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:33,480
Speaker 1: I've always said this, as much as some of the

576
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:35,960
Speaker 1: things that car companies do leave me scratching my head,

577
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 1: they generally have a reason when they hang something on

578
00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:43,080
Speaker 1: a vehicle. If it costs them a quarter of a cent.

579
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:46,400
Speaker 1: Think about how many millions of vehicles they produced on

580
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:48,120
Speaker 1: what that costs them to put it there. And there's

581
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:53,040
Speaker 1: always a reason that sounds like a reasonable answer. You know,

582
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:57,240
Speaker 1: I did put it back on because the end was rotted,

583
00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:00,800
Speaker 1: went to the exhaust right and ended up getting another

584
00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:03,160
Speaker 1: connector and putting it out. Yeah, no, it's it's the

585
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:04,680
Speaker 1: right thing to do. And you know, if it was

586
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:07,520
Speaker 1: a welded system and you didn't have gaskets in between,

587
00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:10,280
Speaker 1: and you had good connectivity throughout, you could put it

588
00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:13,840
Speaker 1: anywhere on the exhaust system for whatever reason. I'm sure

589
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:15,800
Speaker 1: if we could pull up the blueprint for an OH

590
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:19,160
Speaker 1: six Dodge Dakoda four by four with that engine combination,

591
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:22,240
Speaker 1: if we could pull up the blueprint and look at

592
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:24,760
Speaker 1: the engineer's notes, I'm sure he's got a reason why

593
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 1: he put it at the front of the exhaust versus

594
00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:28,920
Speaker 1: the middle of the back um or why he went

595
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:30,840
Speaker 1: to the right side not the left, and that kind

596
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 1: of thing. There's always a reason they you know, car companies. Yes,

597
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 1: sometimes they do make mistakes, and we're not all thrilled

598
00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:41,080
Speaker 1: with some of the things they do, but you know,

599
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:44,760
Speaker 1: they are trying to sell a vehicle that meets and

600
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:49,880
Speaker 1: exceeds the need in a variety of places. Um, you know,

601
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:53,400
Speaker 1: in the extreme weather. You ever watch, um, what's that

602
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:57,200
Speaker 1: show on TV UM about Alaska with the family that's uh,

603
00:33:57,240 --> 00:33:59,200
Speaker 1: you know they're they're up in Alaska and they're they're

604
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 1: pioneering and ask I can't think of the name of it.

605
00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:04,760
Speaker 1: It's something a less yeah, um. And I look at

606
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:08,200
Speaker 1: the vehicles they use and the conditions they're used under,

607
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:11,920
Speaker 1: and I keep thinking how different it would be for

608
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:16,200
Speaker 1: the car salesman from Florida to go to Alaska and

609
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:18,759
Speaker 1: try and sell the vehicle he's selling from one to

610
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:21,480
Speaker 1: the other. And the extremes and you look at those

611
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:24,520
Speaker 1: temperature extremes, and you look at the weather extremes, and

612
00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:27,960
Speaker 1: you say, you know, that's why the car companies have

613
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 1: such a hard time to build the product they build

614
00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:33,319
Speaker 1: when you think about it, and the car companies are

615
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:35,560
Speaker 1: you know, they're they're they're kind of fun to pick on,

616
00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:38,680
Speaker 1: you know when we when we want to, but you know,

617
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:41,000
Speaker 1: when we really have to admit it, they really do

618
00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:45,759
Speaker 1: build some great stuff. It's just sometimes they just I

619
00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:48,880
Speaker 1: don't know, they don't they don't seem to think clearly,

620
00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:54,120
Speaker 1: um that it just you know, why did they do that?

621
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:56,520
Speaker 1: Why did they do this? But trust me the engineer

622
00:34:56,520 --> 00:34:59,239
Speaker 1: to put that ground strap on. He put it there

623
00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:03,439
Speaker 1: for a reason and if it wasn't there, they would

624
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:06,160
Speaker 1: have had other complaints and other concerns. And that's a

625
00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:09,040
Speaker 1: story for another day. David, thank you for the call,

626
00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:11,239
Speaker 1: and my best to you and yours up there Wisconsin Way.

627
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:14,319
Speaker 1: And good job putting the groundstrap back on. That was

628
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:17,200
Speaker 1: the right move. I'm nominating the car doctor, reminding you

629
00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 1: until the next time, each and every time. Good mechanics

630
00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:23,040
Speaker 1: aren't expensive, they're priceless. Let's see you