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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: and now he running. I go to the chiropractor once

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Speaker 1: thirty years. It's just something I do. And and you know,

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Speaker 1: It's such a nice day here in the Northeast today,

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Speaker 1: So I took the hot rod this morning. For those

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Speaker 1: I always think of that. That not not the stereotype this,

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Speaker 1: to to, you know, to fly authority like that and

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Speaker 1: to the phones. Let's go to Richard and Virginia. Richard's

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Speaker 1: You know, it's funny. Steve brings that up. I think

423
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Speaker 1: Steve wanted to talk about rejuvenating batteries. I had reached

424
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Speaker 1: out to Gary Mackie at Associate and we were talking

425
00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:43,800
Speaker 1: about it because the whole idea of rejuvenating batteries, to me,

426
00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:46,400
Speaker 1: is interesting, the idea that you can extend the life

427
00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:49,720
Speaker 1: of a battery by you know, using a desulvader and

428
00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:53,879
Speaker 1: breaking it down and recharging. And Gary, Gary wrote, oh

429
00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:58,760
Speaker 1: you're there, Steve. Okay, there we go, and um Steve

430
00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:04,040
Speaker 1: actually wrote back and he's said the caller with hey right,

431
00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:07,080
Speaker 1: the caller with solar equipment was talking about rejuvenating large

432
00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:09,920
Speaker 1: batteries by putting high voltage to break down the sulvation

433
00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:12,560
Speaker 1: on the plate is off base. Now this is coming

434
00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:14,960
Speaker 1: from Associated. As we all know, high voltage above the

435
00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:18,560
Speaker 1: recommended level by battery type will damage the battery. All

436
00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:21,960
Speaker 1: of our wheel chargers have a feature called deep discharge

437
00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:24,840
Speaker 1: Recovery mode. This rejuvenation mode works with our patent and

438
00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:28,000
Speaker 1: pulse technology mode, which hits the battery with one second

439
00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:30,040
Speaker 1: on one second off, which flexes the plates in the

440
00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:32,159
Speaker 1: battery and help knock off the scaling on the plates.

441
00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:35,000
Speaker 1: We can almost always bring back deeply discharged batteries to

442
00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:37,320
Speaker 1: voltage in the four teens, but that doesn't mean the

443
00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:39,760
Speaker 1: battery has the old C c A ratings. You really

444
00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:41,480
Speaker 1: need a load test or to see how well it

445
00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:46,760
Speaker 1: performs after charging. That makes sense to me, and that's

446
00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:49,040
Speaker 1: what I was. That's what I was kind of noodling

447
00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:51,879
Speaker 1: as I'm listening to everybody talk about rejuvenating batteries with

448
00:23:52,000 --> 00:24:06,360
Speaker 1: the sulvaders. What was your comment, Steve, Yeah, Hey, Steve,

449
00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:08,720
Speaker 1: I gotta, I gotta, I gotta tell Steve, I gotta

450
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:11,240
Speaker 1: tell you the phone's breaking up again. I'll tell you what.

451
00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:13,600
Speaker 1: Let's pull over and take a pause. Early Thomps even

452
00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:15,640
Speaker 1: get him back on a different phone line because I'd

453
00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:17,439
Speaker 1: love to hear Steve. I'd love to hear your input.

454
00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:20,120
Speaker 1: Just try and get on a better phone. It's it's imperative.

455
00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:22,840
Speaker 1: I don't want to torture everybody. Eight five five zero

456
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Speaker 1: nine zero running any of the car doctor. We're coming

457
00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:47,600
Speaker 1: back right after this sixty. It's in the sixty back

458
00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:49,480
Speaker 1: where I'm needing the car doctor here at eight five

459
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Speaker 1: five five zero nine nine zero zero. Let's see if

460
00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:58,800
Speaker 1: Steve's there. Steve, Are you there, sir, Steve? Steve much

461
00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:03,120
Speaker 1: much better than now, so good. So we're talking about

462
00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:08,399
Speaker 1: battery rejuvenation and recharging and rejuvenation mode and refreshes. What

463
00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:10,080
Speaker 1: what what are your thoughts on it, because I know

464
00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:14,520
Speaker 1: you have some comments. Well, my father taught me years

465
00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:17,040
Speaker 1: and years ago, like over forty years ago, how to

466
00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:21,359
Speaker 1: rejuvenate a battery, and I've been using that. I have

467
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Speaker 1: a emergency power inverter and I have a couple of

468
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Speaker 1: deep cycle batteries that I used to power that just

469
00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:33,400
Speaker 1: you know, just in short time emergencies. I like using

470
00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:39,399
Speaker 1: that instead of buying a a whole complete system to

471
00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:45,280
Speaker 1: do it well. Anyway, So these batteries naturally, because they

472
00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:49,280
Speaker 1: don't get used a lot will will over time sulfate.

473
00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:53,399
Speaker 1: So here's the method I use, in the method I

474
00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:59,000
Speaker 1: was taught. The first thing is to discharge the battery completely.

475
00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:03,720
Speaker 1: I use like a seven light bulb wire again where

476
00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:07,200
Speaker 1: you've got two elements burning and you could use the

477
00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:13,520
Speaker 1: headlight or anything. So you you discharge at battery completely.

478
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:16,720
Speaker 1: In my case, it takes about twenty four hours to

479
00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:21,119
Speaker 1: completely discharge it. Then the second that the second thing

480
00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:25,520
Speaker 1: you do is remove the caps, add water as needed,

481
00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:31,760
Speaker 1: and leave the caps off. And then don't use an

482
00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:36,479
Speaker 1: automatic charger. Don't use one of these new fangled deals.

483
00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:42,040
Speaker 1: Just use basic six amp charger. UH probably best would

484
00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:45,280
Speaker 1: be one of those that you have two choices, two

485
00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:49,439
Speaker 1: amps or six hamps, because a completely dead battery sometimes

486
00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:51,440
Speaker 1: if you start out with six hands, it will break

487
00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:57,960
Speaker 1: blow the circuit breaker in the charger. So you basically

488
00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:02,960
Speaker 1: charge it at six amps for twenty four hours is

489
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:08,200
Speaker 1: about the normal time. And it starts out un naturally

490
00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:12,400
Speaker 1: not being overcharging, but it becomes a case where it's

491
00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:16,280
Speaker 1: overcharging the battery. That's not a bad thing. That helps

492
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:21,720
Speaker 1: to the sulfate the battery. And then after twenty four

493
00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:26,960
Speaker 1: hours at charging, let the battery. UH. Let the battery

494
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:31,160
Speaker 1: sit for another twenty four hours before checking your standing voltage.

495
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:35,560
Speaker 1: If at that time it's twelve point five volts or more,

496
00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:41,720
Speaker 1: you're done. If it's less than twelve point five volts,

497
00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:45,159
Speaker 1: repeat the process. You can do this as many times

498
00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:48,639
Speaker 1: as you want to. It doesn't hurt the battery, unless,

499
00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:51,520
Speaker 1: of course, you didn't add water to a low cell.

500
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:58,680
Speaker 1: And it works perfectly good. It's not costly and doesn't

501
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:01,560
Speaker 1: hurt anything, and it will bring a battery back to

502
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:05,159
Speaker 1: almost new life. I think this debate is going to

503
00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:08,440
Speaker 1: go on for some time, Steve, because I'll leave it

504
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:10,680
Speaker 1: here for today, and I appreciate your input. And I'm

505
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:12,880
Speaker 1: not saying you're wrong, because I'm sure what you did

506
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:14,960
Speaker 1: works and it works for you. I don't you know,

507
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:17,960
Speaker 1: I don't discounter or discourage something somebody says it works,

508
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:23,120
Speaker 1: it works, right. My My thought is because I part

509
00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:25,120
Speaker 1: I agree with what you're saying, but I also agree

510
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:27,000
Speaker 1: with with Gary saying I'd love to see a load

511
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:29,960
Speaker 1: tester on that battery, and how does that battery hold

512
00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:32,760
Speaker 1: up on a c C A load test because to

513
00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:35,639
Speaker 1: me that I have not load tested the batteries, but

514
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:38,760
Speaker 1: I couldn't answer that one. But if you're telling me, now,

515
00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:41,560
Speaker 1: are you using these batteries to start a vehicle or

516
00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:43,840
Speaker 1: power something in your home and the event of an

517
00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:49,440
Speaker 1: electrical failure, it's it's for emergency use. For instance, to

518
00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:57,120
Speaker 1: have a slash three thousand peak UH inverter I use

519
00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:01,160
Speaker 1: that UH in the summertime if we have a power outage.

520
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:04,600
Speaker 1: It keeps my freezer in the garage. It keeps my

521
00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:09,560
Speaker 1: refrigerator freezer in the house, keeps them cold, so we

522
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:12,200
Speaker 1: don't you know, if it's a three day power outage,

523
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:16,760
Speaker 1: that we don't ruin anything. In the wintertime, I have

524
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:19,960
Speaker 1: a gas fireplace, but the fan won't work if there's

525
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:23,160
Speaker 1: no power, So I'll power that that fan and then

526
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:26,960
Speaker 1: end up UH. Everybody else is shivering in their houses

527
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:30,160
Speaker 1: when there's a power outage. I'm just toasty warm. So

528
00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:32,720
Speaker 1: it's just and and there's another reason why you do

529
00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:37,800
Speaker 1: it that way. Any of these other UH systems are one,

530
00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:41,760
Speaker 1: they're very expensive. If you've got a portable system, you

531
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:45,520
Speaker 1: have the situation where it fits and the gas gets

532
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:49,320
Speaker 1: old in it. With this system with two batteries, if

533
00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 1: one of the batteries goes down at the meat you

534
00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:56,720
Speaker 1: can put that on your car. You have two cars

535
00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:58,920
Speaker 1: in the garage, you have two tanks full of gas.

536
00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:04,400
Speaker 1: You can sit and charge up the depleted battery while

537
00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:08,280
Speaker 1: you use the second battery to keep your house going right.

538
00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:12,680
Speaker 1: And it's it's inexpensive. I mean, this inverter costs like

539
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:16,360
Speaker 1: a hundred and forty I wonder how that battery would

540
00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:20,120
Speaker 1: you know, hold up everyday use in an automobile. You know,

541
00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:23,920
Speaker 1: as I've as I've said before that I think if

542
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:28,400
Speaker 1: the technology was viable for the automobile on a continuous basis,

543
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:31,760
Speaker 1: they would have applied it by now the you know,

544
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:33,440
Speaker 1: short of hey, we want to sell you a new

545
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:36,320
Speaker 1: battery every four to six years. I think it would

546
00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:39,160
Speaker 1: be a big boon to the environment that we wouldn't

547
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:42,360
Speaker 1: have to be dealing with recycling batteries, taking things apart,

548
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:47,240
Speaker 1: and you know, re remanufacturing another battery for that one's replacement.

549
00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:50,640
Speaker 1: But I think perhaps in your scenario where and for

550
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:52,920
Speaker 1: everyone else that's using it the power and inverter or

551
00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:57,200
Speaker 1: something around the house, that electrical failure backup system, maybe

552
00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:00,320
Speaker 1: it does work. So I won't I won't disc counted.

553
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 1: I will say that for Gary to say that regarding

554
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:09,960
Speaker 1: how Associated sees it. Associated Equipment is one of the

555
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:14,320
Speaker 1: industry's leaders, and they I don't see where they profit

556
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:19,240
Speaker 1: from selling batteries. They profit from charging batteries and testing batteries.

557
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 1: That's their thing. And I don't think they have any

558
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:24,880
Speaker 1: skin in the game to say, hey, don't buy a

559
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:28,000
Speaker 1: battery charge and I think that doesn't matter to them. Um,

560
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:32,040
Speaker 1: you know, I will say that also. I want to comment,

561
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:34,400
Speaker 1: and I'll leave it here. I'll just ask you the question,

562
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:37,640
Speaker 1: real quick answer in thirty seconds or less. How many

563
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:40,480
Speaker 1: people do you think would put up with recharging a

564
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:43,040
Speaker 1: batteries such as you're describing today? You know, it takes

565
00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:47,120
Speaker 1: a lot of patients to do that, right, You're probably

566
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:50,239
Speaker 1: not a lot, and so I got a lot of time, right,

567
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:53,520
Speaker 1: you know. It's it's people get aggravated when their cell

568
00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:55,640
Speaker 1: phone doesn't work after three months and they're screwing for

569
00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:57,560
Speaker 1: a new one. So to expect them to take the

570
00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:02,280
Speaker 1: responsibility and you know, recharge a battery, Yeah, not so much, Steve.

571
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:05,600
Speaker 1: I appreciate the calling, calling back and your thoughts, sir,

572
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:09,440
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Ye, thank you, You're very welcome.

573
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:13,120
Speaker 1: You take good care. Nine zero running any of the

574
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:22,200
Speaker 1: car doctor coming back right after this. Welcome back? Want

575
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:25,360
Speaker 1: any of the car doctor Let's get over too. Is

576
00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:30,440
Speaker 1: Walter there, Walter? Are you there, sir? I think Walter

577
00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:32,400
Speaker 1: went away. Look at that we had Walter from Hawaii

578
00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 1: o schedule to go, and I think I think Walter

579
00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:38,520
Speaker 1: ran away. Um, how could that possibly happen? So let

580
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:40,400
Speaker 1: me jump onto the next thing here. I actually wanted

581
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:42,120
Speaker 1: to talk about this hour anyway. I wanted to get

582
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:43,959
Speaker 1: this out of the way. UM, I want to talk

583
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:45,560
Speaker 1: a little bit about an article I got from Mica

584
00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:48,920
Speaker 1: up in Maine, and I always appreciate Mike's Mike's input

585
00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:52,960
Speaker 1: like everybody else. It's an article that appeared in Auto

586
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:56,720
Speaker 1: Trader and it talks about advanced driver assistance could be

587
00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 1: to blame for distracted drivers. And the article goes on

588
00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:02,880
Speaker 1: to study. It's a study from Virginia Tech Transportation Institute

589
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 1: reports a few keep findings, including how driver behavior based

590
00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:10,680
Speaker 1: on technology and their cars is creating accidents. It defines

591
00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:13,800
Speaker 1: driver raids. What are driver rage? Driver aids are things

592
00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 1: that you know, adaptive cruise control, lane keeping assistance, you know, uh,

593
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 1: some of the things self steering that we you know,

594
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:23,040
Speaker 1: we've kind of becoming commonplace now. Right, it's things that

595
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:26,440
Speaker 1: are keeping us on the road and keeping us safe

596
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 1: and keeping us pointed in the in the right direction.

597
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:31,600
Speaker 1: And the issue the article goes on to talk about

598
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:35,840
Speaker 1: is that a lot of times it's drivers are doing

599
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:38,840
Speaker 1: a variety of things, were either counting on the technology

600
00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:42,160
Speaker 1: too much, it takes us too long to get the

601
00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:45,880
Speaker 1: technology to work, or we're fascinated by it such that

602
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,200
Speaker 1: we're playing with it on the road and we're distracted

603
00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:50,800
Speaker 1: to the point that we actually have an accident. And

604
00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:54,680
Speaker 1: you know, it's a problem. Listen, it's hard. Right. I

605
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:58,960
Speaker 1: went to Baltimore two months ago and my daughter's escape

606
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:01,320
Speaker 1: and she's got adaptive cruise control and it is kind

607
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:03,880
Speaker 1: of fascinating. Right, It's at the cruise control for sixty

608
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:06,360
Speaker 1: two or whatever the speed limit was wherever we were

609
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:09,279
Speaker 1: on and it would slow down and keep up, and

610
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:11,880
Speaker 1: slow down and keep up, and you can make good time,

611
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:15,800
Speaker 1: but you're you're kind of watching the spirometer you have.

612
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:18,000
Speaker 1: It's it's a mental thing where you have to stop,

613
00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:21,200
Speaker 1: stop and you know, don't argue, you're you're you're fighting

614
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:24,279
Speaker 1: looking at the spirometer as the car does its thing

615
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:26,480
Speaker 1: in the in the adaptive cruise control kicks in and

616
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:30,360
Speaker 1: does what it wants to do. And it makes me

617
00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:35,640
Speaker 1: think that perhaps, well, maybe I know that we've we've

618
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:39,359
Speaker 1: over technologized. We put too much technology in the car.

619
00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:41,600
Speaker 1: People aren't ready for this. How much of this do

620
00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:44,120
Speaker 1: we need? You know, we're gonna have to give it up. Look,

621
00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:46,920
Speaker 1: we're not flying to Mars. We're going down to the

622
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:51,320
Speaker 1: local stopping shop to buy groceries. And it's a question

623
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:54,239
Speaker 1: of do we need all this technology to take the

624
00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:57,560
Speaker 1: trip around the block, or are we slowly making it

625
00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:00,880
Speaker 1: so complicated nobody's gonna be able to do it. I

626
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:04,120
Speaker 1: had a conversation with somebody today that kind of referenced,

627
00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:06,479
Speaker 1: you know, is the car so complicated that nobody's gonna

628
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:09,040
Speaker 1: be able to afford to drive them, much less fixed them?

629
00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:11,520
Speaker 1: And I said, or we're making them so complicated nobody'll

630
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:13,839
Speaker 1: be able to do either. Something to think about. I'm

631
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 1: running any in the car, doctor, reminding you this time,

632
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 1: every time, each time, for a good time. Good mechanics

633
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:21,759
Speaker 1: aren't expensive, they're priceless. See you