Join professional money manager Bill Gundersen for another insightful episode of the Best Stocks Now show. Today, Bill, alongside chartered financial analyst Barry Kite, dives into the current state of the stock market, highlighting significant movements in the NASDAQ, S&P 500, and the intriguing rise of Bitcoin past $105,000. With a focus on upcoming Federal Reserve decisions, the episode analyzes the potential quarter-point rate cut and its anticipated effects on various markets.
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He's been seen on CNBC, the Fox News Channel, and the Fox Business Channel. His articles can be found on MarketWatch, Seeking Alpha, thestreet.com, and many other places. He's the author of the weekly Best Stocks Now newsletter and the inventor of the Best Stocks Now app. He's president of Gundersen Capital Management. Here is professional money manager Bill Gundersen.
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And welcome to the Monday. It is the Monday, December 16th edition of the Best Stocks Now show with professional money manager Bill Gunnarsson, president of Gunnarsson Capital Management. I'm here with Barry Kider, chartered financial analyst. The market licking its chops. For our rate cut this week, get better, get one, Jerome. The NASDAQ is up 106 points right now, 20,033. What a trip, what a long, strange trip it's been in the NASDAQ since the big sell-off. back in 2001, 2002. The Dow is up 89 now, gathering a little bit of steam here. We're at 43,917 on the Dow. It has been above 45,000, however. The S&P 500 is up 20 right now. And the small caps are also up. So you've got across the board green in the equities market. Now over at the bond market, You've got a little bit of a rally in the bonds, not much, but the 10-year is up or is down. The interest rate is down a couple of points right now in anticipation, obviously, of a quarter-point rate cut this week. And then you've got Bitcoin above $105,000 right now on a nice rally to a new all-time high. So welcome to today's Best Stocks Now show. With professional money manager Bill Gunderson, president of Gunderson Capital Management. I'm here with Barry Kite, our chartered financial analyst. And we're here with no bull commentary, right, Barry, on what we observe in the market.
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The only bull right now is the market, I guess, right?
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Yes, the bull. There is a bull in the market, obviously, but a lot of bull out there in the media these days. We don't know what they are, but we know they're not any threat to us, you know, that kind of thing. All right, so here's where we ended the week last week. We had the NASDAQ up 24 points on Friday. It barely held on to its gains despite a huge day out of Broadcom. Broadcom had a huge day. And you also had a big hike in interest rates last week. You ended the week at 4.40 on the five-year. And we're down a couple of basis points here today. I think the inflation overall when you added the two together, the PPI and the CPI, what does that spell? A little too hot for Wall Street's taste. And that took a bite out of equities last week. Broadcom again was the stock of the day on Friday. And in fact, Broadcom closed at a trillion dollars for the first time. AVGO, let's just take a look at how it's doing today. Oh man, it's up another 10% today. Wow. It's got the AI fever right now going for it. You know, on the other side, you would think it would be lifting NVIDIA. But I looked at NVIDIA. NVIDIA is just sitting there on its support line. It's down another $2 a share today. It's down to $1.32 after hitting $1.52 just three weeks ago. So just dead in the water stock right now is NVIDIA. Not a lot of further around that one, huh? No. Well, I mean, is that the kiss of death to put it in the Dow? Maybe it is. Maybe that's the kiss of death. I don't know. I've noticed Sherwood Williams is way down, too, since they added it to the Dow. Okay. All right. So the FOMC, Federal Open Market Committee, in the last meeting of the year, is expected to deliver on Wednesday, usually around 2 o'clock, 2.30.
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A 25-point cut. And 230 will usually be that news conference, which will probably be, usually as is, the most important piece of the announcement. Right now we've got just over 95% chance of a quarter-point cut. And there's 4.6% of folks out there out on a limb who are saying no change.
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Yeah, and it's usually the guys that are always out on a limb and never right. That's usually the way that goes. Now, I mean, the FOMC, you know, has made some bad calls and some big mistakes. They called inflation transitory back in 2020. And then they went on that vicious rate cycle, four 75-point hikes in a row. They were way behind the curve. They had to catch up. And I think now, I don't think they want to go too fast here with rate cuts. I could see them slowing down next year. I'm sure the market's going to start expecting one in January and one in February. That'll be the expectations after Wednesday. But, you know, with those inflation reports last week, we're not down around two yet where they want to go, and we still have some of the hottest inflation in the world right now. Well, there's always earnings. There's going to be just a handful this week. BlackBerry, which was once a big star in the wireless, in the phone area. People using BlackBerrys way before they were using iPhones and Android phones. FedEx will report this week. Micron will report. They're always a little dicey. Both of those companies are dicey, FedEx and Micron. And Nike is dicey. It's been really dicey recently. They're going to report. Carnival's going to report. Accenture, General Mills, Lenar, ConAgra, and Paychex. Hopefully there will be one on Friday, Barry, you know, right in front of Christmas and all that. I hope my paycheck comes in the mail. You never know. Anyways, so those are some of the stocks that will be in the HICO. That's another good little aerospace stock. Red Cat, I've been watching Red Cat. It's in the drone business. And that's obviously been in the news here recently.
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Just a little bit.
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Yeah, I mean, okay, now listen, I'm just going to say something here. About three weeks ago, There's a stock that I never heard of heating up and breaking out. I go, what in the world is going on there? It was Mirion. M-E, I can't remember the symbol off the top of my head right now. Maybe it was, oh, it was M-I-R-I, I believe. M-I-R-I. And I go, what do they do for a living? No, it's M-I-R. M-I-R, yeah, I just found it. All right. They provide radiation detection. through applications in medical, nuclear, and defense markets and laboratories.
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That's the one you messaged us about.
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I did, and I put it out there on X. Yeah, well, okay, so this is not a company that makes nuclear energy or is coming in with the smaller reactors and whatnot. This is one that is out there that detects radiation. Okay. Why in the world is that stock going up? And, of course, the story that came out on Saturday, I believe, and Joe Rogan retweeted it. I did watch the video of the guy. He's claiming that there's a nuclear warhead missing somewhere up in the New Jersey area. And these drones are trying to find it by sniffing and looking for radiation leaks. So, anyways, look, I'm just saying. Now, I'm just going to also say, and if you go back to the newsletter, before COVID really broke, I saw a big movement in environmental protection clothing stocks and gloves and whatnot. And then the big news broke that COVID had come to America. You know, the stock market gets info. The stock market, a lot of times, there's a lot of sleuths out there and a lot of people that are connected in the stock market. And, you know, that Marion is hitting a new high today, MIR, which is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. And they detect radiation. Okay. Now, as we look around the world, it's slow. I see slow economies everywhere. I mean, we talk about China on almost a daily basis. how slow things are in China. Japan's factory activity shrinks for the sixth straight month. They're really slow. I mean, basically no growth. And German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, there's also trouble out there. They've got a divided government, and they're going to have a snap election. You have the same thing going on in France, but Germany's economy has been facing persistent headwinds with political parties disagreeing on how to boost growth. The economy contracted 0.3% last year, Barry. They had a negative economy for the entire year. And it's expected to decline 0.2% this year, 2024, and stagnate in 2025. So you have no growth Germany. You have political issues in Germany. You've got South Korea, which impeached their leader over the weekend. And you have issues in France, politically and economy. And the U.K. has gone into contraction. So anyways, I watch those around the world because they're indicators of what's to come down the road. We'll be right back. And welcome back here to the second quarter of today's Best Stocks Now show with just 15 days left in the year. We're watching the markets. The earnings season obviously over. There's still just a few laggards here trickling in. We're lining up earnings estimates for next year, 2025, and the year after that, 2026. I'll be at a bell-ringing ceremony, Barry, on Wednesday, and I hope it's not my bell getting rung, but we're going to close the NASDAQ on Wednesday. Nice, yeah.
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You talked about that last week, so I'm glad you're going to get to go. Yes.
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I'm in the group for Granite Shares ETFs. I've been interviewed by him, the CEO of Granite Shares. It's kind of a different concept. You know, what was the original purpose of ETFs? You didn't have single stock risk, right? And GraniteShares, a lot of their ETFs, yeah, spreading your risk so you don't, it's different from owning one stock. GraniteShares has gone in a direction where they'll take one stock, such as Tesla, create an ETF that is double long or short. So, you know, in a way, there is a big need for that because if you own an IRA, you can't do shorting. Well, you can buy the inverse ETFs, but now you can short select stocks if you're really negative on Tesla or if you're negative, I think, They've got several that they've chosen so far to go either long or short. And then they also have just some more traditional ETFs. But it's a pretty innovative company. They're a disruptor. Disruptors like to hang around with disruptors and they even have a disruptor ETF. So somehow they found me and we've been communicating and they've interviewed me on X and then they invited me to the my wife and I to the so the Wednesday's close of the NASDAQ. I don't know. Some of them film it. I think CNBC and Fox Business and maybe Bloomberg will be up there.
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I'll record it on a couple of channels and see if we catch a glimpse.
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Yeah, I hope it's not on the cartoon channel or something like that. But anyways... I've done it once before, the opening bell over at the New York Stock Exchange many years ago. Okay, now, back to business here. We've got, you know, everybody wants to kiss the ring now. You notice that? Trump's ring. You've got a couple big CEOs last week donating a hundred grand to, or no, a million to Trump's big party, his... His coronation. Another one is ponying up a million dollars today. Sam Altman, who is OpenAI's controversial CEO. He's the one that got fired by OpenAI. Microsoft hired him. And then OpenAI took him back. He's going to donate a million dollars to Trump's inauguration. He is basically, I mean, the biggest driver behind AI right now. And there's been a lot of controversy at that company. Recently, one of their developers committed suicide. He did not like the road that this OpenAI is going down. And that's why they fired Altman. And people quit because they were going down a road that he said he wouldn't go down. As far as I know, they're back to going down that road wherever it leads us. SoftBank's chief. Which has been around, I remember SoftBank when I first got into the business. It was his father back then. Now it's Masayoshi's son, who is the son of the founder of SoftBank. And just like the name, I mean, they are a bank. They invest their private equity mostly, but they do own a lot of publicly traded companies. They were one of the original venture capitalists investing in good companies. I remember they owned Yahoo and others way back when. They haven't done as well recently. You can buy SoftBank, S-F-T-B-Y. He's going to promise $100 billion in investments in America. during his visit to Trump. So he came and kissed the ring and met with Trump on Friday night. And brought a truckload of cash. Yes, and sushi. No, truckload of cash. You're right, $100 billion. Bitcoin, no, well, before we get to Bitcoin, also Tim Cook Friday night. Apple's leader sitting at Miralago at the head table. Tech leaders across the globe are shaking hands with the new president-elect as big tech looks to improve ties. Well, you know, they've all come around now, pretty much all of them. I haven't seen Bill Gates at the head table yet. I don't know that we'll ever see that, but it's supposedly going to be a more favorable environment for tech. Several of them are under fire right now from the FTC, the, you know, what's Google, who's going at, not the Department of Justice, but the antitrust department. is after them. Bitcoin surges above 106,000 as Fed decision looms. There just doesn't seem to be any stopping it. You know, it's the greater fool theory. It's just one guy buys it for a higher price and the next guy buys it and it lasts until the greater fool theory doesn't last anymore. could go to a million who knows it could be nary very near the top who knows there's really no way to value it other than its supply and demand and that's the way that works argentinian bank stocks attract wall street amid success of mele's shock therapy well I would just say that Argentina decided to do something drastically different, and he put government spending on a massive diet. Argentina is the best performing market in the world. Now, whether it's sustainable, whether it lasts, Argentina is up 65%. I own one of the little banks in the incubator fund. It's doing great right now. But Javier Mille, what he's done has just boosted the Argentinian stocks. Now, whether or not jobs and it's trickling down, I don't know any of that. But the bank stocks are up 151% so far this year. And one could say that we're doing a very similar thing here in the U.S. with the DOGE effort. Department of Government, what is it, Government Expenses?
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Department of Government Efficiency.
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Okay, I like that even better. We should be efficient in everything that we do. I believe in efficiency. As a CEO of a company, I believe in running an efficient company. Otherwise, you become Morgan Stanley or the government, you know. Okay, when we come back, some of the hottest stocks in the market, they just continue to pound out new highs. Where are they? Who are they? What are the best stocks now? We'll be right back. This is Bill Gunderson. Thank you for tuning in to today's Best Stocks Now, Best Inverse Funds Now show. I put several hours of research in during the wee hours of the morning each day to bring you the very best cutting-edge stories that I can. To get two free weeks of my newsletter, go to GundersonCapital.com. To talk to us about our fee-based only money management services, call us at 855-611-BEST. Now, back to the second half of the show.
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And welcome back here to the second half of today's Best Stocks Now show. And the market seems optimistic about a quarter point rate cut.
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Later this week, we've got the NASDAQ is up 151. The S&P is up 26. The Dow is up 64. And the small caps are up 9. And in the meantime, the 10-year is down a little bit. to 4.39. It closed at 4.40 on Friday. And of course, we've got crypto, Bitcoin right now, sitting at 106,020. That's a new all-time high on the Bitcoin, the crypto. Okay, stocks that will not stop. Full speed ahead. Tesla lands higher price targets from Wedbush. They're going from 515 to 650. Dan Ives said the firm believes the Trump White House over the next four years will be a total game changer for the autonomous and AI story for Tesla. Well, that's all I can say. He's sitting in a pretty good spot, is Elon Musk right now. Tesla's stock today is hitting a new all-time high, $446.77. We did a good job there getting in that stock after the election. We paid $354. So it's up almost $100 a share since we made that call on Tesla. And it is one of the chosen ones in the premier growth portfolio. You can't really – it doesn't make sense on evaluation on what's known today about the stock. I think they're buying it on what is unknown down the road about the stock, Barry. And with GM dropping out of the – the autonomous race that does narrow it down the race to uh three three companies really google tesla and that aura innovations so tesla is pounding out a new high today 447 it's up to 1.4 trillion who's the richest man in the world by far now Taking the big lead is Elon Musk. Target price from Wedbush today is $6.50. Wow, it's at $4.47 right now. No stopping Tesla. Maybe it'll end up in the Dow someday. Palantir to be added to the NASDAQ 100. That's another unstoppable stock. Palantir, we've done well with Palantir, really well with it. And now it goes into the NASDAQ 100. It's also in the S&P 500.
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That's pretty big that it's going in the NASDAQ 100.
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Yeah, that's a pretty select list of stocks. There is the NASDAQ composite, which is a lot of stocks, but that NASDAQ 100 is the nucleus of the NASDAQ. Palantir was an $8 stock in 2020. They came public the year of COVID, and now it is a $72.88 stock. It's not hitting a new high today, but we do own Palantir also. Added to the NASDAQ 100, who are they replacing? Supermicrocomputer, SMCI. which has been all over the map. I see Super Micros going for trying to float some shares. They need some cash. They need some money to continue their growth trajectory. Bank of America's top chip stocks for 2025. Well, you know what? I could have said this. NVIDIA, Broadcom, and Marvell. Those are the three stocks. And they're pretty much, I mean, those are the heavyweights out there right now. They also like LAM research on semiconductor and cadence design systems. But having said that. It's slow. Other than Broadcom breaking out on Friday in a big way, it continues to be a very, very slow. NVIDIA is just dead in the water. I think between the money going into Tesla and the money going into Bitcoin, there's no money left over to go into NVIDIA, Barry. Maybe that's the case. I don't know. That flow of funds has maxed out. Well, you know, I've seen a little bit of the bloom come off the rose in AI. In fact, I've seen some estimates that only 5% or 6% of the companies out there are going to really use AI for anything. So maybe we got ahead of ourselves. in this AI. But they like those three, NVIDIA, Broadcom, and Marvell. And MRVL, they made a big breakthrough in quantum computing last week, which was big news. The quantum stocks continue to do well. The biggest issue that the semiconductor chips have is China. Okay, William Blair, their top 2025 picks include Broadcom, again, Workday, and monday.com, also CloudFlare. Those are all pretty good stocks. I can't argue with those. Those are some very fast-moving stocks. Workday had kind of a weak report recently, but it's out there in the Silicon Valley. It should do okay next year. And Cloudflare has always been a very good stock, NET. They also like pure storage. I have issues with the storage stocks. I think they're too commoditized myself. Arm Qualcomm head to court over chip design license dispute. Well, Qualcomm's been a dead stock. Qualcomm seems to be kind of really looking anywhere they can for some kind of growth. They considered buying Intel there for a while. They turned away from that. I mean, there's no growth in Intel. And then they tried to do AI. That has not worked out. And Qualcomm is just scraping paint down there on the $150 area, going nowhere in a hurry. And they're looking for ways to grow, but it's not on anybody's list right now. Maybe they'll win this court case. I don't know if that helps or not. But anyways, Qualcomm seems to be pretty much dead in the water right now. They claim that iPhone, okay, so we've been saying that iPhone needs some kind of a catalyst in their next phone, and maybe this is it. I know I've been looking ahead for a bigger screen. How about a foldable, oh I see it's an iPad. I thought it was an iPhone. A foldable iPad. Okay, I don't see that as big a thing as a foldable phone. It's been Android that's come out with the, on Huawei. Huawei came out with the foldable phone. Apparently, Apple's next phone. Yeah, you highlighted it in that article that time. When Apple really came out with nothing on that day, Huawei came out with a foldable phone that you can fold up and put in your pocket. Apparently, Apple's next phone is going to be a lot thinner. Okay, a lot thinner. Maybe that's what they got to do first before they can get it down to where it will fold up. Novo Nordisk is parking $1.2 billion for new rare disease drugs plant in Denmark. That's another couple of stocks that have been pretty dead in the water here recently. Now, Novo was going down, going down. Finally, it bottomed out at $100. It's back to $109, but doesn't really look that exciting right now, even though they've got the weight loss drugs. And Lilly is looking better. It got down to $711. It's back to $791. It's up $80 per share in the last three or four weeks. It's up a little bit today. And it does seem that now I'm hearing that the new people going in to the health and human services and the CDC and all that, they are for the weight loss drugs. And, you know, I also read that the obesity rate in America has come down for the first time in many years. I mean, it's still way up there.
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That's pretty amazing.
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Yeah, I mean, that's like moving an aircraft carrier, right? And, you know, I just see all the benefits that come along with. Lily wanted a separate designation for sleep apnea, and they didn't get it. But, you know, I mean, look, it just makes people healthier to get the weight off. Okay, when we come back, I'm going to talk about a company. It takes a long time to enrich uranium. This is another race. This is almost as hot as the AI race right now. These nuclear stocks, getting nuclear reactors down in size. possibly getting them portable, building smaller nuclear reactors to run these data farms, and being able to enrich uranium at a much faster pace. There's a letter that came out from one of these companies today showing some pretty good progress. And that stock is up 19.4% today. We own it in the incubator account. We'll be right back.
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We'll be right back.
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And welcome back here to the final segment of today's Best Stocks Now show. Well, the short sellers have gone after ASPI. And it looks like they better run for cover because they're getting clobbered now. They're short selling as this stock continues to take off. Now, look, this is a small one. It's $420 million in market cap. It's not even a billion-dollar stock. That puts it down. It's not a micro cap, but it's a very small, small-cap stock. And they're the one that is coming up with a faster way. In fact, listen to this. This is a letter that the CEO sent out today saying, This is a letter from the CEO Paul Mann. As the year comes towards the end, I want to personally write to you to summarize some of the more significant milestones the company has achieved. during 2024 and discuss our future goals for 2025. The company completed the construction of two ASP isotope enrichment facilities, with one awaiting the delivery of feedstock, which is carbon-14, and the second currently in the commissioning phase, which is silicon-28. The company completed the construction of the first quantum enrichment facility, Whatever that is, I think it means it enriches it a lot faster. That's usually when I hear the word quant, quantum, it means fast, speed.
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Like quantum computing, yeah. Like that Google announcement last week.
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One of the radiation products that we're working on is Ytterbium-176. which is a precursor for the production of luteum-177, the active component of Novartis pluvecto, a potential blockbuster for the treatment of prostate cancer. So, yeah, I mean, obviously, radiation is used in the treatment of cancers. And they're also coming up with better, right, better types of the radiation treatments. The company signed two contracts with U.S.-based customers for the supply of highly enriched silicon-28 products. to enable the next generation of semiconductors for quantum computing, artificial intelligence, and large data centers. I mean, this stock, this little stock, is in all the hottest areas of the market.
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It does everything, doesn't it? Yes.
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Now, it's a long-term, it has no sales, no earnings yet, but obviously it looks like they're moving in the right direction. And the stock today is up 18.2%. That's one in the, I mean, obviously, where are you going to own a little stock like that? It's in an incubator portfolio that maybe someday, this is way down in the farm system, maybe someday this thing will start really advancing here. But they're definitely working in the right areas as ASPI. Okay, now we're going to look at the overall markets and just have a kind of a dive underneath the surface here. We're going to go to the NASDAQ. I want to go to the NASDAQ 100 here real quickly where we're getting a new member there. Let's see, who was the member of the, it is our friends at, not Cloudflare, but the other one, CrowdStrike. No, not CrowdStrike, the other one. You know, we just talked about it.
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Anyways. Palo Alto?
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Yeah, Palantir. Palantir. Okay, now. Palantir, yeah. All right, let's go to the NASDAQ components.
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Named off the whole cybersecurity group right there.
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I have so many symbols swimming around in my head. You know, sometimes they get clogged. Okay, now. The biggest winners in the NASDAQ today, and the NASDAQ is having a good day. I'm pretty shocked at the Broadcom. Wow. All of a sudden, you know, that thing was dead in the water for a long time, months and months last year. And it's like, you know, you can't count these big tech companies out. It's up 6.3 and it's tacking that on, I think it was up 20% or something on Friday. Micron's up 6.1% today. Micron's going to be reporting this week. The other one that has really woken up, with a vengeance, and we did buy it last week, is Alphabet. Pete Chai, the CEO, he was at the main table with Trump down in Mar-a-Lago. Alphabet is breaking out today, and that's a new all-time high. Alphabet, Google, is now $2.4 billion, despite a big antitrust case against it by the U.S. government. The current administration is after it. They better hurry up. I don't think they'll get that one done in time, and we'll have to see whether or not the Trump administration carries that one on. And then cadence design, which is pretty good. You know, that's out there on maybe the second ring of AI. Cadence design systems, they help with software for designing a chip, circuit design, etc., And then Tesla's up 2.5% today. So these are kind of the unstoppables right now in the market. Down at the bottom, oh, man, NVIDIA's down another 2% today. What is wrong? I don't see anything out there. other than maybe it got way ahead of itself. It's barely holding on to its support level here at around 132.
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Could folks be rebalancing? I wonder if there could be some big institutions rebalancing right at the end of the year where they've got it and essentially they're going to sell their winners and buy more of their losers?
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I don't know. Now, I would think in January you're going to see some selling. In the first few weeks of January, people putting off those capital gains. I mean, why would you sell now and log in?
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For another 12 months, right?
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That's what I would think. But, man, it's just dead in the water. It just came to a screeching halt. And it is under pressure, NVIDIA is. Okay, and then the other loser there are the losers. Starbucks is a loser, in my opinion. Walgreens is a loser. Microchip Technologies is a loser. Qualcomm is a loser. The losers continue to be losers. And even AMD is a loser, okay? There's only a couple of chip stocks that are doing any good at all right now. Now, if we look at the S&P 500, we'll go out... on this. Do we have time here? No, we don't have time. We're out of time. I just want to see what the biggest winner in the S&P 500 is. Well, again, it's Broadcom and Micron, those two. All right, now, we're going to continue the four-week trial, at least until the end of the year, of the live trading. I'm having a great time. I hope you're having a good time with it. You're getting a lesson on the market. Hopefully, you're getting some under-the-radar types of stocks here. And, of course, obviously, the above-the-radar investments that we make in the big companies. Go to GundersenCapital.com. And if you'd like to speak with us, set up an appointment about managing your portfolio, give us a call at 855-611-BEST. 855-611-BEST. Have a great day, everybody.
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And force could be a weapon policy, unpredictable and excessive taxation, fear, coercion, government induced inflation. The agendas of the World Economic Forum, these are all connected. The globalist elites, the United Nations, the Colorado State Legislature, this Colorado governor, the World Health Organization, land use codes, zoning regulations, force fees, and the list goes on and on. If something's a good idea, you shouldn't have to use force to implement it. Our word of the day is a great word of the day for today. It's venerate, and that is spelled V-E-N-E-R-A-T-E. And it could, number one, be to regard with reverential respect or with admiring deference, or number two, to honor with a ritual act of devotion. And we'll be talking with Doyle Glass. Did I spell it? Let me just do that. Make sure. V-E-N-E-R-A-T-E. And we'll be talking with Doyle Glass in the second segment. He is the author of Swift Sword, The True Story of the Marines of Mike 3-5 in Vietnam on 4 September 1967. And he is doing a national push with his book this week to honor our Vietnam veterans or venerate our Vietnam veterans. And so your challenge is to use the word venerate in a sentence today. Our quote of the day, because back in 1944, this was the beginning of the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. So I went to George Patton, General George Patton, for our quote. He was born in San Gabriel, California, in 1885. He died from injuries from a Jeep accident in 1945. He was a U.S. Army officer, was an outstanding practitioner of mobile tank warfare in the European and Mediterranean theaters during World War II. His strict discipline, toughness, and self-sacrifice elicited exceptional pride within his ranks, and the general was colorfully referred to as old blood and guts by his men. However, his brash actions and temper did lead to numerous controversies during his career. But he said this, if everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking, and that's General Patton. So another thing this day in history, 1773, the Boston Tea Party with the Sons of Liberty protesters throw tea shipments into the Boston Harbor in protest against the British imposed tea tax. And for the week of Christmas, we are pre-recording our shows and amazing guests, amazing interviews. So Colonel Bill Rutledge, you know him. He's retired, United States Air Force, 96 years young. We recorded a show regarding the Boston Tea Party, but there were other tea parties as well, and so you won't want to miss that. In 1864, in the Civil War, the Battle of Nashville ends with 4,400 casualties. 1918, German troops evacuate Finland. Give over Kiev in Ukraine to revolutionary forces and pull back from Estonia as Bolshevik forces move in. So there's that's another spot that there has just been unrest throughout history as Ukraine. As I mentioned, 1944, Nazi Germany launches a counteroffensive against the Allies in the Ardennes region of Belgium, beginning the Battle of the Bulge. 1950, U.S. President Harry Truman proclaims state of emergency against communist imperialism. and uh 2020 uh global warming ha a major winter storm hits u.s northeast resulting in at least seven deaths and binghamton new york received a record 41 inches of snow and so that's why they changed it back in the 70s they said that the world was going to freeze and when that didn't happen then it was global warming And when we realized that temperatures, weather does change, it became climate change. So that is why we would highly recommend you. And the whole climate change narrative is being used. The Green New Deal is being used to take our taxpayer dollars as well as borrowing from our children to put green into cronies pockets is what's happening there. And so be sure and check out climateconversation.com which is the documentary that i had the great honor to moderate it is walt johnson's project you can watch it for free at a climateconversation.com and it is um we're doing a whole podcast series as well and you can watch all that there so that's super important Several headlines to get through. First of all, so exciting for Travis Hunter from University of Colorado. And this is from Channel 7. Colorado's Travis Hunter wins the Heisman Trophy, second buff ever to do this. And Hunter hauled in, we mentioned this the other day, 92 passes and 14 touchdowns as a receiver, both tops in the Big 12 Conference. And his 1,152 receiving yards ranked him third. He also led the conference in passes defended and intercepted four passes. And the other CU buff who had won the award was Whizzer White. He went on to become a Supreme Court justice. And so pretty exciting. And congratulations to Whizzer. Travis Hunter. Next headline that I wanted to just hit. This is amazing. And I've got to get a list of these. This is from, let's see here, the Denver Post. Governor Jared Polis cuts through executive orders wielding a circular saw on his desk. Now, Colorado is over-regulated, and it still is. But you can see really kind of the brilliance, in a way, of the visual that he has of cutting through regulations, supposedly, with regulations on his desk. Let's find out what those regulations were. But yet there's all of these onerous things that are happening in Colorado. But the visual that this is for the... I don't want to say casual voter, but but the just everyday people that are just watching the news aren't really delving deeper into this because they're busy with their lives and their families is it's an interesting visual. So you can see that Governor Polis is trying to change his tune or appear to change his tune because of his he'd like to run for president at some point in time. And then number three, let's see. This is really of concern. This is from Insider, and we're concerned about these drones that are spotted over the East Coast. They're saying that they don't have a whole lot of answers on this yet. I think they probably do, but they're just not telling us. It says dozens of unidentified aircraft have been spotted over cities in the eastern United States. And some of these have been seen flying over military bases and airports. The FBI said Saturday it's still investigating but doesn't believe they pose a threat. Well, tell us why you think that they don't pose a threat. And then lastly, Doge, that is Elon Musk, and this is from the Tampa Free Press. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are taking aim at the U.S. Department of Education after that department spent $1 billion on diversity, equity, and inclusion. 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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter, and you can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice, and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues. through the lens of freedom versus force force versus freedom if something's a good idea you should not have to force people to do it and i wanted to mention the usmc memorial which is located right here in colorado this is the official marine memorial it's out at 6th and colfax it was dedicated in 1977 and paula sarles who is a marine veteran a gold star wife and the president of the foundation she and her team are working diligently to raise the money for the remodel of the marine memorial And as we're going to be talking with Doyle Glass here and his big push this week to honor our Vietnam veterans, a great thing to do would be to make a contribution also to the USMC Memorial Foundation. It is so important to honor those that have given their lives, have been willing to give their lives. for our liberty. And so that would be a great thing to do. That website is usmcmemorialfoundation.org. Doyle Glass is on the line with me, and he is the author of Swift Sword, The True Story of the Marines of Mike 3-5 in Vietnam for September 1967. Doyle Glass, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 09 :
Thank you, Kim. It's a real honor to be here once again, and thank you for all that you do.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, it's truly my honor to do so. And I have my copy of Swift Sword here in my hand, and I intend to read that over Christmas break. So I've got it. And it's an important book. So let's talk, first of all, about the book and then what you're doing this week nationally. So and I know that you've been on the show and we did feature on you on America's Veterans Stories. But for those of that might have missed those shows, tell us about the book.
SPEAKER 09 :
The book is about one day of intense combat during the Vietnam War. And back when we were honoring our greatest generation, our World War II generation, I had a realization that we needed to do the same for our Vietnam veterans who didn't get the welcome that they needed or should have gotten when they came home. And I realized that the historical record was kind of empty with those stories. So back in the early 2000s, I went on a mission to interview veterans of one particular representative action in the Quezon Valley in 1967. And the result is Swift Sword, a true account from the men who were there about what it was like there. to fight in Vietnam, the challenges that they had to overcome, the camaraderie, the honor, the gallantry, and to let all Americans know what these men did so that they can be honored and thanked.
SPEAKER 03 :
I think that is so important. And you're doing a national push this week on this as well, right?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes, we want this book to be a bestseller, and the reason for that is that we want the word out. It's time to thank our Vietnam veterans. It's time to know what they did. Most people don't even know what our Vietnam veterans did or have an inkling. This book does that, so we're doing a national push all week to get this book on a bestseller list. And really, to get the word out, you go to Amazon. There is a 99-cent special on the e-book. On my website, there is a paperback special price-wise. And the goal here is to know what these men did. Think about when we send any of our servicemen and women over to fight our wars. And most importantly, to thank our Vietnam generation. They're in your family, the uncles, grandfathers, to go up and just shake their hand and say thank you for what you did for our liberty.
SPEAKER 03 :
I would also recommend that if people have a veteran, particularly a Vietnam veteran in their family, is sit down with them and get your cell phone out and record their story for the family. I think that is so important. So many people, and there are those that might not want to do that. I get that. I had been referred to a Vietnam veteran once. uh just recently that had been in combat and reached out to him to see if and he's very active at supporting veterans if he would like to tell a story for america's veteran stories and he said no i don't think so because i don't want to bring those memories back up But there are those that it might be healing for them to talk about it. So you certainly want to honor if they don't want to talk about it. But I think that just asking your veteran if they would be interested, and if they do, get your phone out, your family member, because it really is a treasure. And I would suggest that people do that, Doyle.
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, absolutely. You bring up such an important point because, you know, when these men pass, their stories pass with them, and they won't be here for future generations. And, you know, I ran into the difficulty, obviously, and, you know, respected those veterans who did not want to talk. But to your point, a lot of them that did, it was very healing for them to speak about what happened. And they all felt safe. the mission of their comrades lost and honoring their memory about what they did was so important. Because once we have the stories, we'll have them forever. But if we don't get them now, pull out your phone like you just said, we won't have them, and we need them. Our country needs them.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, and so that's why your book, Swift Sword, is important because you interviewed, what, 49 different veterans for this book? Yes.
SPEAKER 09 :
Exactly. And also family members of those who didn't come back. Lieutenant J.D. Murray, who was the commander of my company on Operation Swift on September the 4th, gave me a charge. He said... This book needs to be like the book With the Old Breed by E.B. Sledge. Sledge was a Marine veteran who fought at Peleliu and Okinawa during World War II. The HBO miniseries The Pacific is based in part on his memoir. And Lieutenant Murray said, this book must be like that because that book is real. What we went through is real, and it has to be recorded for future generations. And that's what I set out to do was to create an authentic book. And on to that path, I interviewed – 50 was the number – an amazing journey for me personally to become friends with and talk to these men. It changed my life, my perspective on everything. So, you know, I hope that, and according to Murray, I accomplished my objective, which is what I wanted to do. And it's a real honor for me to just be a part to help preserve what these men did.
SPEAKER 03 :
You know, I'm looking at, I love pictures in books, and I'm looking at this, two pictures right here. The first one is, it says the second squad, second platoon, and if you will notice as you look at that, it's a very diverse group of young men, young men, let's say young men. But I think that that's so important to recognize that. But then you also have a picture of Lance Corporal Jack Swan, who was the point man. And just tell us a little bit about that story of Jack Swan.
SPEAKER 09 :
Jack Swan volunteered to be the point man. And the point man is the person who's at the tip of the spear of Completely. He's the one that's going to face the danger. If the enemy is out there, he's the first one to encounter that enemy. It's probably the most dangerous position to be in an infantry situation like this. So Jack Swan was the eagle eye, and he, like I said, he volunteered for this position. He was a little bit crazy. But as these men came over this bare knoll in the Quezon Valley on their way to provide reinforcement to another company of Marines that was under ambush, he looked out onto this calm rice paddy devoid of all life on a very sunny midday and thought he saw a bush move. He yelled back to his squad commander, said, hey, saw a bush move and squad commander said if it moves again shoot it that's exactly what happened the nva who outnumbered these men at least five to one were so well camouflaged that the men couldn't even see them in broad daylight until jack swan saw that bush move it was a veteran nba soldier incomplete camouflage and it opened up the ambush bottom line swan's actions save the company if they had moved completely into this large rice paddy the nba would have opened up the ambush and it would have overwhelmed the 164 men it would have been another alamo or a thermopoly battle the marines would have been wiped out but but for swan's eagle eye they were able to take a piece of high ground called the knoll, really just a small bare hill, and hang on for dear life as they fought back this incredible ambush.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, it's a remarkable story. And so, my friends, and if you're wondering what would be a good gift for that veteran in your family, purchase Swift Sword this week because this is the big national push. Your final thought, Doyle Glasson, thank you so much for writing this book.
SPEAKER 09 :
My final thought is to honor the veterans, say thank you. The reason we have these liberties and we're able to speak on your radio show and to have the freedoms we have is because of our veterans, especially our Vietnam veterans. Say thank you to them. They did not get the thanks that they needed when they came home. Get their stories out. Go to my website, DoyleGlass.com, to purchase the book at a special price. Amazon, Swift Sword, the 99-cent e-book. Go – this week to purchase it so that we can make this book a bestseller and we can honor our Vietnam veterans like we need to.
SPEAKER 03 :
Thank you, Doyle Glass. And again, Swift Sword, the true story of the Marines of Mike 3-5 in Vietnam for September 1967. So yes, let's make this a bestseller. Doyle Glass, thank you so much.
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Welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMonson.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter and you can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We are an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And thank you to the Harris family for their goal sponsorship of the show. They've been sponsors for many years and really appreciate their help in keeping our independent voice out there. On the line with me is Dr. Brian Joondepth. And you know him. You can find his articles at the American Thinker, at Rasmussen Reports. And he's got a great article here, Move Over, Tom Homan, Hillary Clinton for Borders Are. Dr. Joondepth, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 10 :
Good morning, Kim. Thank you for having me.
SPEAKER 03 :
You've been busy writing, but this is a very interesting essay or article because actually Hillary Clinton sounded like she was tough on the border many years ago.
SPEAKER 10 :
A lot of Democrats were. It's strange how positions shift. And it really illustrates the hypocrisy of Democrats that at one time they were fairly sensible. They've lurched very far left. And this just illustrates it. And I pose two theories. Part of it is Hillary was running for president when she gave these remarks and probably pandering to most of America at the time that was probably already concerned about an open border. But the party has lurched very far left. And I think that's Obama's doing. And now it's any type of border is terrible. They're even Biden administration is selling unused border wall parts and components that Trump is building a wall. Biden became president and the wall building stopped and they were still a lot of parts and sections of the wall that could have been built. And Biden's now selling them off at a pittance just to spite Trump and delay his building the wall. So it's really been quite a reversal. And it just goes to show that the Democrats have, the Republicans haven't. The Republicans have been squishy on the border for a long time. But Democrats have really lurched to the left on that, and they're now totally opposed to any type of national border.
SPEAKER 03 :
This selling off of the border wall, this Biden, the Biden-Harris administration, even though he parroted that it would be a smooth transition to Trump. the things that they are doing is really sabotaging, I think trying to sabotage Trump, which in turn is trying to sabotage the American people. And so the selling of the steel for the border wall, which was purchased by the taxpayers of America and then also by our children through the debt that has been incurred, is unconscionable, Dr. June Depth.
SPEAKER 10 :
It is. The will of the people... in electing Trump in a very overwhelming fashion is that we have a border wall. That's one of his signature issues. It was when he came down the escalator at Trump Tower in June of 2015. He's been very firm on that, building a wall. And to do that is just spiteful. The Biden administration is not doing a smooth transition. They're laying a lot of traps and roadblocks. They've changed employee classifications so that Elon Musk and Vivek can't go in there and fire a bunch of people. They're making that difficult. They've extended the COVID emergency for another five years, which is RFK can undo it with a stroke of the pen, but they're trying to do that. They keep stirring the pot in Ukraine and trying to get us into a hot war. They've meddled in Syria, and who knows how Syria is going to transpire, but U.S. definitely has a hand in that. So they're laying a lot of traps, and they're going to leave Trump with his handful of fires to put out before he can even start enacting his agenda. I don't think it's going to stop him or slow him. I'm sure he's anticipated this, and he sees what's happening, and he's got people that are going to hit the ground running. And he's got a lot of special envoys that are going to bypass some of the cabinet positions and keep some of these deep state agencies really on the sidelines. So I think he's well positioned to get stuff done. Having a border czar and having Rick Gannell as special envoy and envoys to certain hotspots around the world totally bypasses the State Department. Marco Rubio is not going to have much to do.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, and so explain the border czar, or what these czars are, and has any of the presidents used them before? Because they don't have to be confirmed by the Senate, as cabinet members do have to be confirmed by the Senate.
SPEAKER 10 :
The czars are unconstitutional, number one. There's no provision in the Constitution to have a czar. So ideally, we don't have them. But they started from Woodrow Wilson's days, and they've been around for 100 years. And Every president has had czars. Obama had 30 czars, and I don't recall much in the way of complaints when he had his czars. Joe Biden had Kamala Harris as the border czar, and she did absolutely nothing, and became very defensive when called out on that. Nobody really knew she was the border czar because she didn't do anything, but when she was running for president, that became an issue, and the media... went into contortions to deny that she was the border czar, even though a couple of years ago, they're all on record saying she's the border czar. And my article was a funny montage of how the media is doing backflips to deny what they said. But that being said, the border czar is non-confirmed, and they have... a lot of power. They're basically the president's special envoy, speaks for the president and carries out his wishes. And the Senate confirmation process has really become so convoluted that that's why I think presidents are appointing czars, because to get somebody advice and consent is not what the Senate's doing. The Senate should be making comments, suggestions, that sort of thing. But they're holding up nominees. And this happens on both sides. It's more the Democrats doing it, but the Republicans can do it as well. But they're preventing the president from surrounding him or herself with cabinet officials that they choose. They should have the cabinet that they desire. And The Senate can give advice. They can give opinions on it. But ultimately, it's the president's choice. The president was elected by the people. And by extension, their cabinet should be an extension of the president. And not all these senators preening about, oh, we're going to stop this nomination and we have questions about this and we're uncomfortable about that. That's not their role. And that's been abused to the point that the president has to appoint czars in order to get anything done. And all these special positions, these envoys, Trump has a bunch of envoys, Rick Grinnell being the most recent, but envoy to the Middle East and one to Ukraine. And these are people that are going to negotiate and speak for Trump and carry information back and forth as if it was Trump negotiating, which is going to cut the State Department, deep state, and all their interests out of it. So I think that's very interesting. And I think he's doing an end run because he's not going to, he probably wouldn't get a Rick Grinnell confirmed as Secretary of State. Marco Rubio is going to be an easy confirmation, and he'll be sidelined. So I think it serves a good purpose. It's unfortunate it has to be that way, and if Congress and, you know, they followed the Constitution and gave advice instead of holding up all these nominees for political reasons, you wouldn't need czars. But that's the way the system is now.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, the way I see it, Dr. June Depp, is we really have 18 months that we really need to be working, obviously Trump at the federal level, but us at the local, county, and state level, as well to get this country turned around to get government back in its proper role. And I think with Trump, the first time he was elected, he's a business guy, and he didn't come in and clean house. He tried to find out, I think, even here in Colorado, I think that there were those that were on the Trump team that really didn't put his best interest at the forefront. I'll just put it that way. But I think that he looked at the landscape and he looked at the leadership, Paul Ryan, and he appointed people into his – brought people into his administration and I think tried to play the political game. Paul Ryan, they didn't do anything. They had the majority didn't do anything regarding the border. They could have done something regarding the border. And they were just stalling. And I think Trump learned his lesson. And that's why there was an article I read just recently that Trump already is the president. He's acting like the president. He's being treated like the president internationally. It's almost hysterical to see all of these different people going to Mar-a-Lago that were quite vocal in their criticism of Donald Trump. It's fascinating to watch this. We're in such an interesting time in history, Dr. June Depth.
SPEAKER 10 :
We really are. I don't think Trump, he admits it, he didn't expect to win in 2016. And he tried to play nice with the Republican Party. He's not a Republican insider. He was a Democrat for many years. He wasn't in politics. So he picks Reince Priebus as chief of staff, and look at the people he picked. You know, Chris Wray for FBI director, and Chris Wray's done a horrible job. That's a Trump selection. Had Jeff Sessions, Ron Rosenstein, Bill Barr. They did nothing. And he really had bad choices. And I think he tried to play nice and tried to get along with the Republican establishment, but they stopped him at every turn. Congress did zero. Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell, they couldn't get Obamacare repealed. That was a big campaign issue, and that's something Republicans promised to do. Building the wall was a priority, and Paul Ryan would not allow it to be funded. And funding's what? Five billion dollars? We've sent, you know, a hundred times that to Ukraine and other hotspots of the world in securing their borders, but we can't secure ours. And Trump did learn his lesson, and he's not going to play that game again.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes, and that is so important. We've got to be taking action now. I think you know I work with some other people. We put together the Colorado 2024 Election Project. And we were able to raise the money to file two lawsuits, two different lawsuits, two different law firms. One is with United Sovereign Americans. that Colorado is not meeting the minimum standards that's set forth by Congress for our elections, and that's in the legal back and forth now. That was filed back in September, and then the other was filed in November before the election. And that is with Peter Berneger and his his team out of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Center for Election Justice, where has gone through voter rolls and the voter rolls are not clean. And that's the basis of those lawsuits. So we've got those hanging out there. And that's in that back and forth legal thing as well. But we can't be complacent. Right now, this is so important. We've got to be taking action. And if we do take action and engage in this battle of ideas like you do, shedding light on things, I think we will reclaim our country and we'll reclaim our state. But right here in Colorado, I even saved some of the... emails that went out from Republican establishment trashing Donald Trump after he lost in 2020. And he was really, there were Republicans here that were really undercutting him, Dr. June Depth.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yes. A lot of the Republicans don't like him because the Republicans are part of the donor class and they benefit from open borders and a lot of the stuff that Trump's supposed to. They're part of the problem, not part of the solution. And Unfortunately, Trump has cleaned house quite a bit. If you notice, Speaker Mike Johnson, he came out of nowhere. He's the Speaker of the House. And how many events has Trump been to that, well, there's Mike Johnson in the background. I think he was at the Army-Navy game. He was... on the plane when Elon Musk and RFK were eating McDonald's. Mike Johnson is part of it. He was at the Madison Square Garden, the fight. It's interesting that Mike Johnson has become part of Trump's inner circle, and he's Speaker of the House. You'd never see John Boehner, Paul Ryan, somebody like that. So Trump is playing it smart. He's got his allies involved. And that's going to make things happen.
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That's super fascinating. I'm talking with Dr. Brian Joondepth. And when we come back, we're going to talk about another one of his articles, one that's just coming out probably as we speak. It's Trump is flushing the expert class down the toilet. And so that's super interesting. We have all these discussions because of our wonderful sponsors. And for everything mortgages, reach out to Lorne Levy.
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Welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter and you can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues. through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And over Christmas break, I would highly recommend that you take the family to Pueblo, to the Center for American Values. It's located on the beautiful Riverwalk there. And there's over 160 portraits of Medal of Honor recipients with their quotes. And it is such a learning experience about our history for our children. And so check out their website. That's AmericanValueCenter.org. And you can make a day of it. There's wonderful restaurants there on the Riverwalk. If it's a pretty day, you can actually walk the Riverwalk. And so check out AmericanValueCenter.org. Dr. Brian June Depth is on the line with me. You can find his essays and articles at American Thinker and the rest, Muser Reports. And you're publishing one today. And the visual, the picture you have in it, just I'm shaking my head as I look back down memory lane. It's a photo of I think it's Lloyd Austin, isn't it? In front of the troops. He's got this plastic head cover.
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Yeah, face shield.
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She looks like Darth Vader. And then our troops all have masks on their faces. It's almost surreal as I look at this photo. But this whole expert class, your piece is Trump is flushing the expert class down the toilet. Has it published yet or when will it publish?
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Yes, yes. It's been American Thinker this morning. They weren't sure if it was going to be today or tomorrow. So that's why I hedged my bets. But it's there this morning.
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Okay. So unpack this for us, Dr. June Dept.
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Well, we're hearing about some of Trump's nominees that they're not experts, they're unqualified, and that's specifically Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegseth, and RFK Jr. They don't have the gravitas, the experience. You've got the 50 or 100, whatever it is, intelligence officials or Nobel laureates that are signing a letter saying, saying, oh, these are unqualified people. Well, we all remember the 51 intelligence officials that insisted Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation. Nine months earlier, the FBI knew it was legit because they were using it in court cases. They acknowledged it was legitimate. And you have intelligence officials that are lying through their teeth. But this is who's held out as the expert class. And I go through talking about what the expert class has done in the defense industry. They've botched up Ukraine. They botched up the Middle East under George Bush. They messed up the Afghanistan withdrawal. They're constantly doing bad things under false pretenses. And these are not experts. The Pentagon has not passed an audit in nine years. So where are the experts? And then on the medical side, Look at the statistics. I quote a bunch of health statistics of how unhealthy America is despite how much we spend on health care and how COVID and everything that was mandated and required turned out to either not work or make things worse. We're now learning about vaccine adverse events. We've learned that the more vaccines you get, the more vulnerable you are to COVID. Mass didn't work. Social distancing was arbitrary. Lockdowns didn't work. They made things worse. And then on the intelligence front. So it's much the same. All the experts have really made a mess of things. And it's time for a new wave of people, not one of these so-called experts. Tulsi Gabbard has plenty of experience in Congress. RFK has been at this healthcare stuff for decades as an attorney. And Pete Hegseth has 20 years in the military. Of course, he's got experience, two Ivy League degrees. And instead, we've looked at the clowns we have now. And some of the other pictures in the article are good examples of that. Rachel Levine, formerly Dick Levine, and the, you know, Sam whatever that stealing women's luggage. That's the expert class. It's a great photo of the two of them, and that exemplifies the terrible job the government under Biden has been doing. The people they've appointed, it's a clown show. And they have the gall to call Trump's nominees unqualified. Well, the experts have been running America into the ditch.
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They have. I think we should call it the inept class, actually. So we only have a couple of minutes left. Do you have any thoughts regarding these drone sightings?
SPEAKER 10 :
Oh, I wondered if you were going to ask that. I don't know. It's the craziest story. They're appearing out everywhere. Government officials, this, again, is your expert class. You've got Pentagon and other government officials, they don't know what they are, but they assure us it's not a threat. That's like all these young athletes dropping dead. We don't know what's causing it, but we know it's not a vaccine effect. So that's the so-called experts. I don't know. My best guess from what I've read is they're looking for something. Sniffer drones that are looking for nuclear chemical biologic weapons. that's about the only thing that makes sense to me. If they were a foreign threat, I would assume we'd be doing something about it because they're appearing everywhere. It was New Jersey, now it's California, it's in Atlanta. So I think perhaps there's credible intelligence that some nuclear weapons have gone missing from somewhere and they're looking for them. That's my guess. And again, it's just a guess. I base it on what's the most likely and not the least likely. What do you think?
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I think that, first of all, they know what they know. And if they don't know, you talk about inept. It seems like you'd shoot one down and you'd get that into forensics and you could find out. So I think they know what's going on. And this is so frustrating when they make a statement, then they say, oh, nothing to see here, nothing to worry about. I wish that they'd start to come clean with the American people, but that's not happening, I don't think, yet. Yeah, stay tuned. It's of great concern. That's for sure, Dr. June Depth. But we've got 30 seconds left. I want to say, first of all, your pieces are so good. And people can find them at American Thinker and Rasmussen Reports. And I wish you and yours a really Merry Christmas. And the other piece that we didn't talk about was, I think, confidence. People, I think that with the Trump election, I think people have confidence that the future is brighter. So Merry Christmas, Dr. June Depp.
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Thank you, you as well. And it's going to be a good Christmas for all of us. We got a big present named Trump under the Christmas tree, and I'm hoping for great things.
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Okay. Well, we will talk with you at the new year. Thank you so much. And our quote is from General George Patton. He said, no man can do anything without knowing what he is doing. Let the American soldier know what he is fighting for and why. When we let him know what has to be done, he will do it. So my friends today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you. God bless America. And stay tuned for our number two.
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Happy Monday, Kim, and what great information from Dr. June Duff.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter and you can email me at Kim at Kim Monson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. Something's a good idea. You should not have to force people to do it. The text line is 720-605-0647. And during the break, you heard the spot for Doyle Glass's book, Swift Sword, which is the true story of Marines of Mike 3-5 in Vietnam on 4 September 1967. And also, that just segues into support for the USMC Memorial Foundation as they are raising money for the remodel of the Marine Memorial Foundation. which the official Marine Memorial is located right here in Golden, Colorado at 6th and Colfax. It was dedicated in 1977. And Paula Sarles and her team, she's the president of the foundation, as well as a Gold Star wife and a Marine veteran, is working diligently to raise the money for that remodel. And so make a tax-deductible donation by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. Please dab on the line with me, Professor Cory Brettschneider. He has studied and taught politics and constitutional law for most of his adult life. He earned a PhD in politics from Princeton, has a law degree from Stanford. He's been teaching at Brown's Political Science Department as a visiting professor in the law schools at Fordham, the University of Chicago, and Harvard. And he focuses on teaching and writing on issues central to our democracy, like free speech, the role of courts in our system of government, and Religious Freedom. Professor Corey Brettschneider, welcome.
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Thanks for having me. Looking forward to the conversation.
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I am as well. And your recent book, The Presidents and the People, Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It. Fascinating. So where shall we start, Professor Brettschneider?
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Thanks for saying that. It's a book, I think, really about history, but also a book about history that gives us a lens to understand the current moment. For instance, it came out the day after the Supreme Court and Trump versus the United States decided its monumental immunity decision. And what that decision said for the first time in American history is not only that sitting president's couldn't be prosecuted for their official acts, or at least presumptively couldn't be prosecuted, but that even former presidents had that power. It expanded the power of the presidency enormously. Now, to go back to history, its relevance is that when you look at the founding, there was a warning that was issued that I think many of us ignored for a long time, but this immunity case really makes it relevant. And the warning was from Patrick Henry, who said, the revolutionary hero, he said, you know, give me liberty or give me death. But here what he says is don't ratify this Constitution. Why? He's worried that the Constitution assumes a good person in office. And he says, but what if you have a president who's guilty of crimes, a criminal president? The checks just aren't there. They won't work. Now, my book is really an attempt to grapple with these issues. And I take a more moderate line than Patrick Henry and others. And I say, look, It's true that we've had a danger inherent in the United States presidency, but it's a danger that's been met, not through the traditional checks and balances, not through courts, not through Congress, but through citizens taking the Constitution into their own hands. Some of the founders talked about the idea of common sense, of course, pain, for instance. And that's what this idea is, that citizens took the Constitution into their own hands using a kind of common sense approach to it and saved us from authoritarian threats at the hands of presidents who would have destroyed democracy.
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So, Professor Brett Schneider, those on the left really were decrying this decision by the Supreme Court. And I think there was, I understand concern, but this lawfare that has, accusing Trump of things that he didn't commit, or I took a look at, you know, they said that he'd been, convicted of 34 different counts. And I took a look at what those counts really were, and they were accounting. It would be like making an accounting ledger and things and then writing checks for that. And so this lawfare towards Trump is pretty unprecedented. So the Supreme Court responds to that, but maybe we're not looking.
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Sorry, I think we're a little confusing issues. The case is about January 6th, not about this isn't the Manhattan district attorney. So Trump was indicted by the Department of Justice for conspiring to undermine a process in Congress. That's the accusation. OK, that's the first thing. So then the second thing is now the court has to ask not whether or not he's guilty or not, but whether or not we're going to hear the evidence. about that question. So just getting the facts right.
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Okay. And explain that to me just a little bit more then. So this was undermining the process January 6th of basically the vice president certifying the election?
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Correct. That's the indictment by the federal prosecutors. Correct. By Jack Smith.
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Okay. So So clarify then for me, everything's so messy, Professor Schneider. I'm struggling because everything's so messy around all this.
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It's important to get the facts right. I mean, if you're going to talk about these questions, there are multiple cases that were brought against Trump, four of them specifically, one by Georgia, about an attempt to basically pressure the secretary of state. In that case, the indictment is about the pressure on him to not certify the votes, electoral votes, and to engage in a sort of coercion. That's the first. Is that the Fannie Willis case? That's the Fannie Willis. The second is the Manhattan DA case, which is about, I think what you were referring to, the payments to Stormy Daniels. And then there are two federal cases by the Department of Justice, and there's a special prosecutor that was appointed there named Jack Smith. And what those are, one, a case about the records, about basically illegitimately handling official documents. And then the fourth criminal indictment is about January 6th. The accusation is that Trump engaged in a conspiracy to undermine, essentially, the certification of electoral votes that takes place on January 6th, not just that there was a riot or violence, but that there was a wider scheme to undermine the certification of the votes.
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Okay.
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So then— And then the immunity—sorry, then the immunity case is about that in particular and whether or not that can go forward.
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Okay. Okay. So those on the left were very, very concerned about this. In your opinion, is that warranted?
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Sorry, I just really think if you're going to talk about these questions, you've got to get the facts right. So there's no left and right. This is a federal prosecutor who brought, you could think they're wrong, brought a series of claims. And then the Supreme Court weighed in on the question of whether or not the claims could go forward and whether or not we would have this trial or not. And what they did is they said that there's a legal issue about prosecuting a former president, and they gave immunity presumptively to the former president in that case.
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So do you think that was the right decision?
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I don't know what's left and right. I mean, it's not political. This is a legal question.
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Okay. Okay. I got it. Okay. Thank you. So do you think it was the correct decision?
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The immunity case?
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Yeah.
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Okay. Do I think that the immunity case was correctly decided? I think that there's been a very real question throughout American history about whether or not sitting presidents have immunity. And the Constitution doesn't say that explicitly. And there are arguments on both sides at the founding, for instance. James Wilson, for instance, at the Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention, says that a sitting president – is a citizen. And so there should be no difference really between a sitting president and someone else. And so the indictment should go forward. John Adams, who is much more an advocate of strong executive power, makes a different argument. He says, look, the job is really important. And so the importance of the job means that there has to be a kind of immunity, at least while the person is in office. So during Nixon, this came up again. And the question was whether or not, and I talk about this in the book, the grand jury, which wanted to indict Nixon, could they do it? And what the prosecutor convinced them to do was not to do the indictment, to delay it until after Nixon was president. And after Nixon was president, he said, OK, we could go forward with the indictment. Now, the pardon by Ford stopped that and was partly an attempt to stop this prosecution that was certainly coming. So why tell all this history? I think that's obviously a real debate. Do sitting presidents have immunity? But what no one and this is what's different about this decision, what no one really claimed until very recently. And the court did say this. So did Trump's lawyers. That's the law right now. But that former presidents have immunity. And the worry was by all parties, including Adam's. that you wanted to allow the immunity to give flexibility to the president in office, but not after the president left office. And the worry was in particular that what that might do is to allow someone, that was the point of the Patrick Henry thing, to commit crimes in a way in which they would never be held criminally accountable. Guilty or not, you couldn't even bring the case. That was the worry of the Nixon White House. Ford assumed that, of course— and of the founders. So do I think it was a good decision? No, I don't think so. I think it's not one grounded in law. I think there's all sorts of reasons why the court did this. I think they were worried, for instance, about what you said, about back and forth, about retaliation, about the sort of descending into one president prosecuting his opponents and then another president prosecuting their opponents. But is it a decision grounded in law? No, I don't think so.
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Interesting.
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Okay. You know what, Professor Bretschneider, let's go to break because when we come back, I'd like to go through these different presidents that you talk about in the book and what the people did. And I'm talking with Professor Corey Bretschneider, and his book is The Presidents of the People, Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It. And these discussions come to you because of all of our sponsors. And one of those is Lavaca Meat Company. And what a great treat to give one of their meat boxes to your employees or your family or friends for Christmas. And you can get more information by going to LavacaMeat.com.
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter and you can email me at Kim at Kim Monson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you shouldn't have to force people to do it. And do check out the Center for American Values. I would recommend that you take the kids down on a day trip during a Christmas break to Pueblo, Colorado, where the center is located on the beautiful Riverwalk. And they do a variety of things. One of those is honoring our Medal of Honor recipients. The center was co-founded by Drew Dix, who received the Medal of Honor for actions he took during the Vietnam War, and Brad Padula, who is an Emmy Award-winning historian. documentary maker. And they realized that we need to honor our Medal of Honor recipients. And then also they do these educational programs regarding these key values of America of honor, integrity and patriotism. You can get more information by going to AmericanValueCenter.org. Pleased to be talking with Professor Cory Brett Schneider. He is the author of the book, The Presidents and the People, Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and Citizens Who Fought to Defend It. And he's been studying and teaching politics and constitutional law for many years. He has a PhD in politics from Princeton and a law degree from Stanford. He has taught in Brown's Political Science Department and a visiting professor at law schools at Fordham, the University of Chicago, and Harvard. Professor Brett Schneider, your book, The Presidents and the People. Who are these five presidents and what were they doing and how did the people stop them?
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The first one is, you know, and I should say, too, that I began with this idea of the criminal presidency. And I'll talk about the we talked about the indictments against Trump. There also were criminal indictments against Richard Nixon. But that doesn't characterize all of them. And it certainly doesn't characterize the first person that I want to talk about is John Adams. And Adams, in many ways, is the most learned president that we've had and one of the most learned persons of his own time. But what's not understood about him is that he was a devotee and a defender of constitutional monarchy. Not absolute monarchy, but a limited kind of monarchy. And he thought, in particular, that the way to understand the president was as a kind of king, actually went analogous with the British king. And for him, the king certainly had done wrong, and that led to the revolution, but there was a kind of good king that would be upheld. So what did he do? In 1798, he signs the Sedition Act, which makes it a crime, and this is what's important in understanding why it threatens democracy, to criticize the president of the United States, but makes it perfectly legal to criticize the vice president of the United States. Now, why would you want to do that? It's because the vice president, and I hear you laughing, is a member of a different party. And it was really an attempt by Adams and his party to shut down the opposition. And the story that I tell of the citizens is that many of those citizens who were prosecuted, including journalists, used their prosecutions. And I should say journalists at the time were even more partisan than they are now. So these were political opponents. But they used their own trials as a way of putting Adams on trial and asking the country, you know, really, are we a monarchy or are we devoted to this newly enacted idea of free speech that says, You have not just a right to dissent, but even, and this was a radical idea at the time, to criticize the president of the United States. Now, the election of 1800, it wasn't courts, by the way, that resolved this, because the courts at the time were really on Adams' side. They wanted the Sedition Act. They saw actually to it that many of these editors were prosecuted. Samuel Chase, a Supreme Court justice, sat on one of their trials, the trial of Thomas Cooper, to make sure that he was convicted. So what happened is the editors won. They fought back. And we have this idea that, yes, you can criticize the president, not because of what happened in court, but they used the election of 1800 to elect Thomas Jefferson, who pledged to get rid of the Sedition Act. So when he says in 1800, in his first inaugural, we're all Federalists, we're all Republicans, he's really saying we're not going to do this shutdown of free speech anymore.
SPEAKER 20 :
Wow. Okay. Who's the next president?
SPEAKER 11 :
The second, and they all take different forms, is President James Buchanan, a one-term president, but an extremely important one because of his threat to democracy. Now, Buchanan played it off in a way. I talk about really the idea of the presidency compared to these five of George Washington is so different than each of the five because it's all about the idea of modesty and protecting the Constitution. It's the idea that I'm championing in the book and that many of these citizens were championing. tends to be George Washington. He says that he's going to be a figure that really leaves it to the court to decide things, and he'll leave them alone to do that, to decide on the Constitution. But as the Dred Scott case is pending, a case that I think actually is the most evil in American history, it says essentially that black Americans are not citizens, have no rights under the And what Buchanan did is he lobbied the Supreme Court to decide that decision in that way. And so the hero of that cluster is really Frederick Douglass, who many abolitionists, Lloyd Garrison, for instance, thought the decision was so bad that it showed that the Constitution had to be abandoned. But this is a book, of course, not about abandoning the Constitution, but about rescuing it in the same way that the newspaper editors rescued the idea of free speech. What Frederick Douglass really does is Rescue the idea of equality that is implicit in the American Constitution. He says, for instance, take the first three words of the Constitution. We the people. It doesn't say we the white people. It says we the people. And he says that's an egalitarian idea of democracy. Take the ban on the idea that you can inherit the punishments of the of the crimes of parents. what's called the corruption of blood ban in the Constitution. And Douglass says that is a ban on slavery. What is slavery but an idea of inheriting the status of parents? And finally, the most important thing that he does, and this really is so much a part of our culture now, we don't even realize where it came from, is he says you have to take the Declaration of Independence and its guarantee of equality and read that into the Constitution. And his point is that if you read the Constitution that way, you can see why Buchanan and the court that decided Dred Scott are wrong, and the Constitution ultimately is right.
SPEAKER 03 :
Refresh my memory. How is that – Dred Scott, how was that reversed? How did that happen exactly? Was it the Civil War?
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, it's really at the behest of Douglass. That's the incredible part of the story that I tell, is that Douglass is really resisting Buchanan and actually has to flee the country. Buchanan wants to see him prosecuted. And he's making these speeches about the idea of equality in the American Constitution. And over time, once Lincoln is elected, Lincoln is skeptical of Douglass at first, and they are opponents. In particular, Lincoln is saying that the war is not about slavery, it's about union. And Douglass is really trying to persuade him to read the Constitution as he does, to see it as about the idea of we the people, not we the white people, as I said. And slowly, over time, Lincoln comes to embrace this idea. And by the time of Gettysburg, think of the amazing... lyrics at Gettysburg. It's a speech, but really it's a poem as well, the idea of government for, by, and of the people. That really is Douglass' idea of taking the Declaration. He also refers in the beginning of the speech, of course, not to the creation of the Constitution, but to the Declaration, using the Declaration to read the Constitution and to sanctify Gettysburg, the battlefield, with the ideas of equality with Douglass's ideas, just as Douglass has urged him to do. Ultimately, Lincoln pushes the 13th Amendment through Congress, which ends chattel slavery. The 14th Amendment ends the idea of not just inferiority, but second-class citizenship by demanding equal protection of the laws and granting birthright citizenship. All of those are a tribute to Douglass's ideas and at his behest. And it's really Lincoln, I think, gets the credit certainly for the 13th Amendment. But many of the ideas that are pushed through by the radical Republicans, the 14th Amendment, also originally really come from Douglass. He's saying all of this in the 1850s well before anybody else does. So what we think of as the core of the American Constitution, the second founding is sometimes called the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments. Those are originally Douglas's ideas against the court of Dred Scott and championed by by Lincoln, the radical Republicans. And really, I think. If there's a hero of this time period, it's Ulysses Grant, who not only urges the passage of the 15th Amendment guaranteeing a right to vote, but uses that amendment to pass a series of laws called the Enforcement Acts that give the newly created Department of Justice the power to really protect black voters nationally. And more than a thousand cases are brought against Ulysses. white terrorists throughout the United States who had tried to shut down black voting. So it is a story of a citizen who just, like the editors, seems really a minority in terms of numbers view. I mean, very few people agree with Douglas at the time. And over time, he's able to bring on board two presidents and to really champion the passage of three amendments. And that's why the American Constitution is the one that we think of today, the one that we rightly defend and champion.
SPEAKER 03 :
So, Professor Brett Schneider, there are those that have said that the Constitution really addresses the usurpations or the grievances that are in the Declaration of Independence as a constitutional scholar. What's your thoughts on that?
SPEAKER 11 :
I think, you know, that is really the idea that we're talking about that both Douglas and eventually Lincoln came to share, that you have to read these ideas together. I think if you read them separately, there's a real danger. You could read the Constitution a very narrow way without values, really. And what the Declaration teaches us is that there are really two values that have to be understood throughout the Constitution and that they're not at odds with one another. They go together. And the really task of reading the document is to see how the values go together. And one is certainly the idea of freedom, such as the freedom of press. That's what we began with. And the freedom of speech. And not just in some abstract way, meaning the right to dissent, to even criticize the most powerful people in the country, like a president. And the second idea is an idea of equal citizenship, equality under law. And that's the idea, of course, that Douglas and Lincoln championed.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay. This is so fascinating. We're getting limited on time, but I'd like to hear briefly the other three presidents and the people on that. So who's our next president? Okay.
SPEAKER 11 :
The next, I'll say a little bit about, but it takes place in the midst of the story that we've been telling, that as the country has pushed for a 13th Amendment, Soon after it, Lincoln, of course, is fascinated. In his last speech, he really is paying tribute to Douglass. Douglass is actually in the audience as is Booth, the murderer of Lincoln. And in the audience, Douglass watches him say, you know, black soldiers have played a big part in this role on behalf of the Union. They have to be given the right to vote. But after Lincoln's death, the vice president, who Lincoln had brought on board as an attempt to kind of I don't know, national unity, I think you'd call it, Andrew Johnson, is really a devoted white supremacist. He's not going to try to reverse the gain of the 13th Amendment, but he really opposes Douglass's idea of equal citizenship. So the story there is about how Douglass is able to overcome that. And really, the election of 1868 is the moment where it's most successful, the election of Ulysses Grant and the defeat of this really pretty terrible president who tried to bring America back into an age of slavery instead of letting it move forward. The fourth president I talked about is Woodrow Wilson, championed as a peacemaker and the hero of World War I. And I tell a very different story, which is that what you have in Wilson is a dangerous combination of both nationalism and white supremacy. He really is the first white nationalist president. And What I've done is I went into the archives, which nobody else had done. Wilson, like me, taught constitutional law. In fact, he taught many of the same classes that as a graduate student, I helped teach at Princeton. And in those classes, he lays out his view of America. And it's so different from George Washington's. the view that we think of as three branches of government, co-equal. He says, no, the president is the first among equals, and really on a German model should be pushing an idea of national efficiency, eviscerating the role of the states for local government. And what's important, though, is not just that he thought that, and there are problems, of course, with that on its own, but that he combined it with white supremacy. And the way he did that is he said there was a chief impediment of efficiency, and that impediment is what he called friction. And in friction, he said we have the enemy of efficiency. What is friction? It's integration. And so he does a number of things, including for the first time since Grant, he resegregates the federal government. And as the federal government is growing, he's really spreading the idea of segregation. And the story I tell there is of William Monroe Trotter, Ida B. Wells, activists who really confront this president and say Trotter had supported him. And he said, you know, why are you doing this? You're making black Americans into second class citizens. And Wilson says, no, I'm just trying to avoid friction. And in fact, you're creating friction and confronting me. So Wilson is often championed terribly as a great leader, and I'm telling a very different story there. And the last we began with, and that's Richard Nixon, and the story that I tell there is of the vast crimes way beyond Watergate that were being investigated, including an attempt that you can hear actually Nixon talk about on the Watergate tapes to break into a safe in the Brookings Institution where he thought there were documents showing that he had conspired with the Viet Cong before the war to try to prolong it in order to basically get himself elected. And he was so worried that this document would come out that he orders a break in of that safe. Now, why don't you know about that or any of the other crimes of Richard Nixon, including the attempt to incapacitate Daniel Ellsberg, his critic on the Capitol steps? It's because the pardon basically wiped that all away. We never had a prosecution. And part of the importance, to go back to our initial theme, of allowing prosecutions, even if they fail, is for the truth to come out, that we would just have gotten to see all these documents about Nixon's vast crimes beyond Watergate. And so part of what I did is I talked to the Watergate prosecutors about what the ongoing cases were. I talked at length to Daniel Ellsberg before he died about the crimes that were related to trying to stop him, even kill him, on the Capitol steps. And, you know, part of the point of it is, like, why do we all not know this? This is all news to people, and it has to do with the pardon. The pardon really took it all away. And I think the immunity case, to come back to it, is a different version of the danger of the pardon. It hides the truth from coming out. And in a real democracy, Americans should know the truth even about what their most powerful leaders are doing. And that really is why, although in these past crises we did recover, from the Sedition Act, and we did recover from Dred Scott, and we did recover from Wilson to a large extent, the nationalization of segregation. But what we haven't recovered from is the fact that presidents are seen as above the law, that far from no person being above the law, the current state of the law is that presidents are above the law. And I end with that call to think about what these heroes did, the editors, Frederick Douglass, those who fought Wilson, and to think, too, about in the current moment what we can do to ensure that truth really comes out. And it isn't a book, of course, it's not a partisan book. It talks about Wilson as a Democratic president, and many of the champions are Republicans, such as grant. But there are ideas of American democracy that have to be championed by all people, regardless of party. And one of them is the idea that no person should be above the law. And that's not an idea that we've really settled on.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay. Professor Corey Bretschneider, your book, The Presidents and the People, Five Leaders Who Threaten Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It. Thank you so much. This has been super informative.
SPEAKER 11 :
Thank you. Thanks for having me. And I hope readers read the book. Thank you.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter and you can email me at Kim at Kim Monson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And text line is 720-605-0647. And call-ins, we're taking call-ins, 303-477-5600. I'm going to go through some of the text messages that have come in. And this is from the first hour when I asked Dr. Joondepth about the drones. Lynn, one of our listeners, said that it may be that the government is creating the situation so they can use it for an excuse to create more regulation. That's a possibility. Something is going on. If the FBI says they've investigated it and there's nothing to worry about, that makes me very worried. Let's see here. This is from Gammy. She said it is a left and right issue, she believes. And then that everything is politically driven. And number three. Okay. I don't know exactly what she's talking about, but she mentions that there's a lot of complicity that's going on. Let's see. Oh, and then another listener said, aha, corruption of blood that the professor spoke of. That means reparations are wrong and perhaps illegal. I was thinking the same thing as he was saying corruption of blood. The idea... that there are those out there that are advocating to take from one person that has never owned slaves to give to another person who's never been a slave is beyond belief. And so, again, that's another thing that I'm going to do over the Christmas break is I'm going to sit down and go through the Declaration and the Constitution. It's been a while since I've done that, and so I want to do that as well. Let's see here. I wanted to get through just a few other little comments regarding January 6th. It seems that Professor Brettschneider had said that this immunity question was regarding January 6th. As we know, there's all kinds of political stuff around this whole January 6th, quote unquote, conspiracy theory. And if you watch what Trump said is for the people to go down, stand outside the Capitol and make their voices heard regarding Mike Pence certifying the electoral college votes. And there's to me, there's nothing conspiratorial at all about that. In fact, to me, that is the same thing as what Professor Schneider was saying, as we the people have made a difference. And the reason and I had had Shortly after January 6th, I had taken my rig and gone up and did a podcast with John Eastman, who was the visiting professor of conservative thought and policy up at CU and was also a Trump attorney. What what he said was, is that and he said that he and Trump and this was a few days before January 6th and Mike Pence, Mike Pence's attorney, Mike Pence's chief of staff said. and basically the question on the table was could Pence overturn the Electoral College, again, I'm doing this from memory, designations. And Eastman said no, but you could delay certification until these different state legislatures could get into session to review what had happened regarding their elections. You could delay it. And that was what Trump was asking the people to ask Pence to do. And it seems to me, and Trump is on tape, is saying peacefully assemble and have your voices heard. And so that seems to me like that is along the line of Professor Brett Schneider's book as well. But then we know, well, we kind of know what happened. Then we had the January 6th commission, which was very, very partisan, even though they had some Republicans on that commission. And so we're in a time right now when Dr. June Depth and I mentioned that we are in such an interesting time in history. And this is a time that we, the people, have to step forward and get government back into the proper roles, the proper boxes that the Declaration and the Constitution says that they're supposed to be in. I do think that what's going to happen is doubling down and pushing these radical agendas at the local level, municipal, county, and state. So we're going to work on starting our own DOGE Colorado on that. And I think one of the first things to do is the federal government has to stop these grants that are being awarded in all of these different areas. And that's, I think, the first place to start. and once we uh you know rein in the money and we don't have the money we have all kinds of debt we're running deficits that would be a first step and i think that that would be highly successful our quote for the end of the show is from general george patton and the battle of the bulge uh started on this day in 1944 and then in um let's see and the um boston tea party started this day as well but patton said this no man can do anything without knowing what he is doing let the american soldier know what he is fighting for and why when we let him know what has to be done he will do it and i think you could say the same regarding the american people so my friends today be grateful read great books think good thoughts listen to beautiful music communicate and listen well live honestly and authentically strive for high ideals and like superman stand for truth justice and the american way my friends you are not alone god bless you and god bless america
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This compelling episode brings forth the story of a man who became a jungle instructor amidst the chaos of Vietnam War—a role that brought him close to many dangerous engagements and expanding his knowledge through deep connections with Army Special Forces. With memories of intense battles, including the infamous Cottey River Bridge, Carl Leppard narrates his gripping experiences, the courage required to face relentless challenges, and the indelible mark these events left on his life.
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World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War, Afghanistan, and our other wars and conflicts. America's fighting men and women strapped on their boots and picked up their guns to fight tyranny and stand for liberty. We must never forget them. Welcome to America's veteran stories with Kim Munson. These stories will touch your heart, inspire you and give you courage. We stand on the shoulders of giants. Here's Kim Munson.
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And welcome to America's Veterans Stories with Kim Munson. Be sure and check out our website. That is AmericasVeteranStories.com. And the show comes to you because of a trip that I took in 2016 with a group that accompanied four D-Day veterans to Normandy, France, for the 72nd anniversary of the D-Day landings. And returned stateside realizing that we need to know the stories of our military. We need to record them and broadcast them and archive them. So, hence, America's Veterans Stories. I'm pleased to have on the line with me Carl Leppard. He is a Vietnam veteran. Carl, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 04 :
Thank you. Thank you very much.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, Carl, let's begin at the beginning. Where did you grow up? Tell us a little bit about you.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, Dallas, Texas, principally. I went to Bryan Adams High School, et cetera, joined the Marine Corps there. On my 17th birthday.
SPEAKER 10 :
Oh, my gosh.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, it is what it is. That was a serious experience in January of 1963. It was colder than blazes out in California at San Diego.
SPEAKER 09 :
So your 17th birthday, oh my gosh, you were, so the day before you were 16 years old. So did your parents have to sign for you to join the Marines at the age of 17?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, actually they did. I joined when I was 16, but until I became 17 on December the 6th of 1962, I then I could not get into service. And when I did in 1962 in December, there were not enough Marines to form a platoon. So I was there actually through December of 62 until the company was formed on January the 3rd of 63.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, Carl Leppard, why did you decide to join the Marines, particularly at such a young age?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, to be blunt, my family, my mother had remarried, and that wasn't satisfactory to me, shall we say. And I predicted that... There was a war coming somewhere, but if I got into the Marine Corps and got out, theoretically, I would have the GI Bill go to college and proceed on. like I knew what I was doing. The only problem, of course, is we got into a war, and then second, after I got out, I found that the GI Bill was worthless.
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, really? Okay. Well, you were right. The war was coming. So set this up. Many of us don't quite know the history of how we got into Vietnam. And, of course, you were there during, I think, the really hot times as well. But you're in in 63. So what happens after that, Carl Leppard?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, I mean, I went to recruit training at San Diego and then at infantry training on Camp Pendleton. Actually, we had a very good unit. The way the Marine Corps worked, at least at that time, is you had two different divisions, one on the east coast, one on the west. One went to the Mediterranean on their normal, as we say, cruise. And the other goes to the 3rd Marine Division on Okinawa for further training and so forth and protection of that particular area. So we trained with Marines that had returned from Okinawa tour. Generally those gentlemen went out and were discharged and we prepared, they helped prepare us. And then we rotated over to Okinawa later in the year of 1964. So we had been training for, oh, I'd say 10 months or so. And then we went afloat, as they say, and we went by ship, the USS Mann, over to Okinawa. and replaced a Marine unit over there, and we changed our company from Delta Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Marines. We became H Company, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines. Sorry, 3rd Marines, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 04 :
We then trained on Okinawa.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, and I bet many of your instructors were World War II veterans, yes?
SPEAKER 04 :
No, we had a few. Very few. We had some that were Korean veterans.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 04 :
If we back up a little bit of a second, I have to blame some of my experience on the Boy Scouts. I think the Boy Scouts are one of the reasons I'm alive today. A lot of people came from cities and so forth and so on. They were not comfortable in jungle conditions or, put it this way, living off the land or knew a little bit about themselves, right? And so you had to learn that. But my interest early on was in scuba diving, which was quite rarely done at that time, and also parachuting. Actually, while I was at 1st Battalion, 1st Marines, there at Camp San Mateo on Camp Pendleton, I had my own dive equipment and my own parachute. Oh, my gosh. I was a curious guy, and I jumped with people over at Force Recon Marines and other Marines over at Lake Elsinore and became acquainted with them. Fast forward, if I can try to catch you up here a little.
SPEAKER 10 :
This is great.
SPEAKER 04 :
They sent me to Map and Aero Photo School.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 04 :
Map and Aero Photo School, what happens is that the Marines are generally not provided with what we call FOs, Forward Observers. Okay. We actually had one in Vietnam. I communicate with him every day. As a matter of fact, he sends me a prayer, as I got this morning, every day. Captain Wilson. So I appreciate Captain Wilson. I never saw him in Vietnam. He was in the headquarters with the company commander all the time. And I never saw him. But... what happens is uh people that are trained at map and arrow photo school if you need artillery or or something of that nature you have at least one experienced person right that's capable of doing that and that would be me so due to some other uh instance it'd probably take a little bit of time they had an opening at force recon at at Del Mar camp there on the coast at Oceanside. And I was sent there to become a force recon marine. Upon my return back to battalion to remove my effects, some of those effects that I had left, I was asked to join our unit as an aggressor in a night operation in which I was shot in the face. and blinded there for, oh, probably six weeks. So I did not return to force recon. And so when we landed and my eyes became better, I didn't lose my eyes. Thank God for that. And my company commander elected to take me along on our transfer to overseas. And when we arrived, within a couple of days, the sergeant major of the battalion, Sergeant Major Potts, called me to the office and essentially apologized for not sending me to force because of my eyes and that sort of thing. He thought I was best suited to be a jungle instructor and so forth, so they sent me to jungle instructor school and then I began teaching special forces and all marine units on Okinawa came through that school.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay, so Carl Leppard, you must be exhibiting something that your company commander thinks is important, that he's first of all going to apologize and then he wants you to become an instructor. What is that exactly that's special about you?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, that probably could be self-serving comment, I guess. I was also a karate person.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 04 :
And I used to run barefoot at about three miles per day on my own. We had what we call a makawara. It is a Japanese punching board that you plant in the ground. And at the end, I would exercise on that. Well, in a very quiet setting, you could hear whack, whack, whack across the entire regiment. Everyone knew who was making that sound. Okay. So that's why. A little bit kind of different, and plus— I had my own firearms and I shot my own firearms regularly. I was probably the only person in the regiment who actually had a range card, which means that I can call the provost marshal and take a range hot on my own. I can schedule a range for my shooting at any time. Because I was certified for that purpose, and they would make it so the entire base knew who was on this range firing ammunition on a Sunday. Okay, okay. So everyone kind of, I guess, I'm sorry to say it, they pretty well knew, no, everyone knew who I was. Okay. To the point that it was such an aggravation that the regimental guard was ordered to cut my macawara down to the ground. Okay. to give some people some relief on a Sunday or on a Saturday or when everybody else was on liberty.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 04 :
So, yes, I mean, you had someone that went to Mapinero Photo School. You had a person that had his own dive equipment, his own parachute, that had his own guns, that loaded his own ammunition. that shot frequently when everybody else was going some other place and doing something else. So, yes, looking back, I think I was kind of strange.
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And welcome back to America's Veteran Stories with Kim Munson. Be sure and check out our website. That is AmericasVeteranStories.com. I'm talking with Carl Leppard. He is a Vietnam veteran. He's a Marine. And we were talking about how you were best suited to be a jungle instructor. And you said during break that you'd left out a detail. What detail is that?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, when I mentioned force recon, that's a very restricted unit. At that time, there were two openings there. Marines from all over who might want to join that unit are put through a rigorous test. It is very difficult to get into a force recon unit, all right? And so, but what I missed and didn't say What happened was is that when we had all of these Marines returning from Okinawa who had rank on all of us who were there at Camp San Mateo, it blocked our increase of rank. And we were not happy. So I called for a little meeting of people who wanted to chat about it at 1600. That's when normally we get off. Outside my squad bay. And lo and behold, we had about 100 men there. Uh-oh. So somebody saw this gathering and sent down the regimental guard and had us disperse. Okay, so they called me up to battalion with a loose charge of mutiny.
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, my gosh.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. You don't call Marines. I said, look, I didn't call these guys out. I said, we need to chat about this situation or whatever, and everybody showed up. And we did have the officer of the day standing right there next to me, so it couldn't have been a mutinous activity. So in any case, they were getting ready to fry me for breakfast. And so the Sergeant Major intervened and thought that perhaps because of my, quote, leadership skills and my ability to jump and scuba dive and been to Mapnero Photo School and was a karate expert hand-to-hand, etc., etc., that maybe I would be better suited for force recon, which was exciting.
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Okay.
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So nothing happens by mistake in the Marine Corps or casually. You just don't up and move. Someone has to move you. So when we arrived on Okinawa, naturally the sergeant major sent for me and said, I was sorry because I got shot in the face and was not allowed to return to my unit, etc., and thought I would be excellent over there as a jungle instructor, in which I was. So while our battalion did a number of things and moved off and went to... Mount Fuji in Japan and so forth and so on I was training Special Forces and First Special Forces in Okinawa and all other battalions of Marines and so forth that went through jungle school These are a live fire situation Wow So I also Which probably is important at this juncture to know is that Part of my duty was handling the ranges that we had. These ranges were for artillery and for airstrikes. So basically I would monitor these ranges within 1,000 yards by heavy binoculars and so forth. I would use my rifle because I was an expert rifleman. I would remove people from the impact zone using a .308 M14 rifle at often 1,000 yards.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay, so question, you said it was live fire, but how did you remove them?
SPEAKER 04 :
By putting rounds around them.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay, got it. Without hitting them. Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, I don't think I say much in my book about that because it's probably a little sensitive.
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You think?
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It does also, it does talk about us being ridge runners. We had an additional piece of duty at night. Major McMillan was my commanding officer. He was the only one to sweep the 1962, I think, Olympics. He had no one with him that could not shoot offhand with a rifle at 500 yards. Today, I hold world records at 1,600, 500, and 200 yards open sight with a pistol, my own design. Wow. I shoot fairly well.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, it sounds like it.
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Yeah. But the ridge runners, what would happen is I would call. We may have an airstrike coming in, and I would have to communicate then that we had high-angle artillery in their area and so forth control their firing, and I would make a record of what detonated and possibly what did not. The villagers would hide in ravines and in between firing would run out into the impact zone and grab unexploded ordnance and run back into the ravines. And then we'd take them into town or a village somewhere and disassemble those and sell the parts and the gunpowder or whatever and C4, whatever. And occasionally one part of a village would blow up. So we needed to interdict this. So we had McMillan Ridge Runners, and we would get in our trucks, and they would drive along the trails and so forth, roads and so forth up in there at night, and we'd roll off the tailgate, and we'd go down into these ravines with generally an entrenching tool, and we would wait, and they would come down like a parade with their... gatherings or whatever, and we would educate them with our entrenching tools, you know, reclaim all the undetonated ordinance and, you know, bring these people back to, quote, justice.
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Wow.
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So that was kind of interesting and People don't know much about that. But in Vietnam, then, it explains a little bit more about a battle I was in over there. So, yes, I talked the slide for life, which was a manner in which you rapidly go from, say, a high cliff to an ocean setting if you needed to get off it. that beach or that area quickly, rappelling with ropes sideways, backwards, forwards, a number of different ways with wounded and so forth and so on. Rope bridges, I taught how to build all of those, demonstrated all of those, rappelling off of those, explosives, mines, etc., Then we had live fire areas where we'd carry you through. We had pop-up targets in the jungle and teach jungle mines and booby traps and things of that nature to bring everybody up to speed on those and how to make them. So it was a very good piece of training for all the Marines, for sure.
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So it seems like I had interviewed Colonel Bob Fisher, and he realized early on that guerrilla warfare would be very important if we got into a war with Vietnam. And he said that some of the higher-ups didn't believe him, but clearly you probably were teaching guerrilla warfare in this jungle training, correct? Yes.
SPEAKER 04 :
That is correct, but let me back up a second. In the United States, each regiment, which is roughly 3,000 men without attachments, okay, they compete. They compete in all manner of things and so forth. You know, platoon formations, your effectiveness to engage an enemy force, all the way down to driving a Jeep if you're a Jeep driver in the company. Bottom line with that is that the very best of that regiment, one company is made a raider company. They then, that is the very best, and they then take on different types of training that the other units do not. And that is submarine training, rubber boat training. They are an elite unit, okay? And so they are super trained, if that's a word for that. If there is a problem, they're the boys that get it. And so if you're in trouble, that's the boys who come to your relief. And everybody knows who they are. So when we're now back on, say, Okinawa, jungle instruction and things of that nature is paramount. Marines train all the time, heavy all the time. But when you're in a particular area, If you're in, let's say, the Mediterranean, your training is a lot different. When you're in the area of Okinawa and so forth and so on, now you're in jungle training. And so your jungle instructor is the guy that they call on if we're in Vietnam in a particular area, position, or things of that nature. If something needs to be booby-trapped, mined, This or the other, he's the guide. He's the guy that you go to. So we had one jungle instructor in our company. I don't know if we had any others that went to Math and Aerophoto School or not. Obviously, I was, and often used. Okay, so...
SPEAKER 09 :
Wow. This is absolutely fascinating. I'm talking with Carl Leppard. He is a Marine veteran, served during the Vietnam War. How many years were you in the Marines, Carl?
SPEAKER 04 :
Four.
SPEAKER 09 :
Four.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, I needed to get out, actually. I needed surgery pretty bad. I was wounded, well, if you count, 15 times or so, but only about seven were fairly serious. Wow. The Marines didn't know where I was. I've learned that in recent years. I didn't know back then. But I was asked to leave. I was just not in good shape. I had a bullet drain in my trapezius. My shoulder was damaged. I had shrapnel in my throat. I had a bullet drain in my side. So I was kind of, I needed to come down.
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, it sounds like it. And your book is The Warriors, the United States Marines, and people can find it on eBay. And it was first printed in 1984 and looks like a very important book. So we're going to continue the discussion. and they realized that we need to keep the stories of our Medal of Honor recipients alive, and we need to instill in ourselves these values, American principles of honor, integrity, and patriotism. So I would recommend that you take a trip down to Pueblo, which is known as the home of heroes, because there's four Medal of Honor recipients that grew up there, and visit the Center for American Values. For more information, you can go to AmericanValuesCenter.org. That's AmericanValuesCenter.org. We will be right back with Carl Leppard.
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and welcome back to america's veteran stories with kim munson be sure and check out our website that is americasveteranstories.com and as many of you know another non-profit that i really support on both my shows is the usmc memorial foundation and we have the official marine memorial right here in colorado In Golden at 6th and Colfax, it's time for a remodel. It was dedicated in 1977. So Paula Sarles, who is a Marine veteran, a Gold Star wife, and president of the foundation, and her team are working diligently to raise the money for the Marine Memorial. And so more information, you can go to USMCMemorialFoundation.org. That is USMCMemorialFoundation.org. And I am talking with a Marine veteran, and that is Carl Leppard regarding the Vietnam War. And so you've done all this training on Okinawa. What else should we know about your time in Okinawa, Carl Leppard?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well... I became very close with some Army Special Forces people. What happened was my battalion had gone to the Philippines, and then it went on to Japan. I'm stuck but don't know anything about that at the time, but I'm stuck doing instructive business. We had two areas of major training. One was northern training area, heavy jungle, very wet. And then we had the middle of the island off of Camp Hanson there where I trained and another school. We had three different ones and I trained people in all three schools. But that included First Special Forces Delta Company who had their own, you know, Viet Cong or Vietnamese village built on a beach there. And they trained from using bows and arrows, actually, snipers like that, live fire operations. And so I was their jungle instructor. So I jumped with Delta Force, 1st Special Forces, at Yantan Airfield, an old airfield there, Japanese airfield. And until the commanding general of 5th Forces arrived, looked up and saw there was somebody with an odd parachute jumping with boys. And he wanted to know, who in the hell is that? So he called his colonel over and said, who is that? I'm trying to think his name was... Shoot, I can't think of his name now. Okay. Was it Paxton? But in any case, the general said, over 5th Special Forces Group was standing there, and so he brought the colonel over to Special Forces and said, who the hell is that? And he said, oh, well, that's their jungle instructor. So he brought me over there, and I'm a Lance Corporal at the time, and he looks and says, what? And, you know, he was mystified. Bottom line is, is that until his death, I sold him guns to him as a civilian and his sons, his three sons, et cetera, et cetera, until he passed away. But in any case, I'm just thinking of him now. So that gentleman that I associated with then became command sergeant major of all special forces, and I still see him today. So in any case, I came in from jungle. Normally we would come in around noon. The men at the jungle school would retire to eat, et cetera, and we came in to change clothes. Our clothes were often ripped and, you know, in bad condition. We'd strip right on the floor when we came back into barracks. shower quickly, change into new clothes, go back to the field like nothing had happened, and do it again. Meanwhile, we had Okinawans that would repair our clothing, clean our clothing, starch press, do everything for us, etc. On one of these returns, I had just put on, or was finishing putting on my utilities, which are your fatigue uniforms, if that's what you call those, and three helicopters landed in the yard of our facility, and a reasonably short fellow to me came in, and he had one star on his collar, a brigadier general. Didn't know his name. And he had only one decoration on his chest. Medal of Honor. For years, I never knew who this gentleman was. Never knew his name. He wasn't introduced. And so bottom line is, it says in my book, he handed me a folio, I think. A brown envelope. And he said, you are ordered to return to your unit in Vietnam. You were to board my helicopter now. So you reach up, you grab your field transport pack, and I grabbed a few items that I used, trip wire, some other things for booby traps and stuff like that, put them in my grenade pouch, and then stepped on his helicopter to Kadena, looked around for... a transport aircraft, a KC-130, as it turned out, and there were some recon Marines that were boarding that helicopter, and I asked the lieutenant if I could join him. I had orders to go to Vietnam, etc. Now, these are verbal orders. You know, I never talked to our company commander. I never talked to a SOLE. So we boarded on a hell, you know, your order to go to China, you go, I mean, and you find your way that's expected. So in any case, what's interesting about this is the man's name, the officer I was speaking to was Lieutenant Reisner. I boarded with that recon group. And we went to Vietnam. The prisoner died shortly thereafter, a month or so later, Medal of Honor. Okay, so now we arrive in Vietnam. It's hotter than Hades, and my battalion is company. My battalion is nowhere to be found. Actually, they're afloat, right, and they are down in Thailand. And they were on their way back to the Philippines when they were instructed to turn left and to land off of Da Nang. Well, I was already there. So with nothing to do, I think it was called, shoot. Well, we had the recon guys, but there was a Navy contingent there. Our business was doing depth samples and checking the beach landing area. thousand yards wide, 500 yards deep, clearing it of any mines, anything of that nature, in preparing for our company to land on the beach. So I aided those guys, happy to be with them and to stay with them, et cetera, until my unit arrived. Here they land on the beach, and I'm already there. So we moved in fairly rapidly across the Bryan area there, came under attack from mortars from a place called the French Fort, which is about four miles north of Da Nang and probably four miles inland, on the Cottey River itself, the northern river boundary of Da Nang. So we diverted some withdrew back to Highway 1 and were able to gain some truck transportation to a particular area. I plotted all naval gunfire registrations to protect the battalion on its left flank. And those are, unfortunately, or well, fortunately maybe, you don't write on a map, right? But I had my own map case after map and aerial photo school. I had an original map in my grenade pouch. I plotted all of the impact zones. If we got hit, my job was to obliterate everything on our southern flank. So those are recorded on the map in a, as we say in the book business, if that's the word, a double truck, meaning a left and right page is that original map. It has the original coordinates of gunfire registrations in Vietnam, the first ones ever recorded, certainly by the Marine Corps, which is kind of interesting. So now we're there, and we found ourselves at the bottom of a hill called 312 to our south on that same hill. mountain ridge line with Hill 327 we had another battalion down there which became 39 people rotated in and out and so we protected the northern northwestern quadrant of the Da Nang area there it was interesting what we were told is that we would probably be in there 30 days. I didn't think that that was the case. It's kind of hard to do a landing with all your assets, tanks, machinery, everything to bulldozers, everything, on a beach and then turn back around and go back out the same way. Didn't figure 30 days was going to work. But in any case, as we've learned later, General Walt, as General Green told me, the commandant of the Marine Corps told me, that they had planned to get out by December of 65.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 04 :
So this is all a very temporary thing. Essentially, you had a bunch of Doberman pincers out here in a fixed position and chomping at the leash, and you needed to do something. So from a beach landing, it became an incursion, which is a little different. And we are protected by Navy ships while we get settled in and get our own artillery located, et cetera. So our ships were generally destroyers. We had two at that time, the USS Craig and the USS Stoddard. And they were under the direct command of General Wallace Green. which is very important, I think, to know at this time. So we had some difficulty with some Viet Cong, and we had quite a few of them in the area. Just below Da Nang, across the river there, we had about 6,000 Viet Cong in that area. And then spread out directly south down to the Chula area, we had Kamala Sea. There were about 7,000 there. In total, there were 16,000 massed below us. Wow. So at that time, we had two battalions. That's about 2,000 Marines. We can generally handle five to seven to one, so we're not too bad if they only aggress us with 5,000 or so. We can generally kind of handle that. But we were spread very thin, and we had extreme restrictions. We had a tactical area of responsibility. That means you don't go beyond that line. The northern part of that tactical area was called the Cottey River. There is a bridge there called the Cottey River Bridge. You go across it to go up the coast of Vietnam to a number of other areas. And to the south of Da Nang, and I'm sorry, that bridge, i think it's a too long river there's a number of little bitty rivers that all join it so specifically there is a bridge there we were not able to cross it there's an infamous town that was located right there called cam knee on the south side and so um We had a lot of trouble out of that village, and they were resupplied every night, and we'd fight them every day and so forth. So at some juncture then, I moved down there. But I was with 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines. We ventured to the edge of our tactical area of responsibility, which is about 10 miles inland with a high mountain called Dong Din. The enemy, of course, they hide in the mountains, and they come down in the villages and so forth generally at night, get resupplied, and go back out. It's kind of like vampires.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay. Hey, Carl, let's go to break. We've got one more segment after this. This is absolutely fascinating. I'm talking with Marine veteran Carl Leppard, and his book is The Warriors, the United States Marines. And we will be right back.
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From the mountains to the prairies,
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Welcome back to America's Veteran Stories with Kim Munson. Check out our website. That is AmericasVeteranStories.com. I am talking with Marine veteran Carl Leppard. And I realize as we, during this break, that we will have to have a part two of an interview with you because we have not even uncovered a whole lot of the information. So this is part one. And let's talk about this battle, the Coddy River Bridge. Talk a little bit about that, Carl Leppard. Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, the County River Bridge was the northern weakest point, but also the end of our tactical area of responsibility. In other words, the government of Vietnam, the warlord, General T., in that area, allowed us only a specific area that we could go into. So an enemy essentially could run across the Coddy River Bridge, and we couldn't touch them. We couldn't pursue them. Okay. But on our northern end, which is fairly secure for Da Nang, there's nothing below Da Nang but just brine and nothingness, right, all the way to Da Nang Airfield, which is about four miles away. But we needed it protected. Okay. Okay, so they sent the 3rd Platoon elements of the 3rd Platoon of Hotel Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines under Lieutenant, 2nd Lieutenant Reeder to set up on the south side of that bridge to keep that bridge not only from being blown up, but to interdict anyone trying to cross it. So we had it heavily mined along the... railroad track itself in the footbridge. So in any case, our regimental commander at the time was Colonel Wheeler, General Wheeler later. He drove down to the bridge and told Lieutenant Reeder, our company commander, to not lose that bridge. Actually, if he lost the bridge, we'd all be dead anyway, so including the man giving me the order. But he wanted to stress to take whatever precautions he needed and to be sure. What we did not know at the time was that there was a unit called the 7th VC Battalion. It was a strike force, and it pulled an envelopment. In other words, it went from the south, below the South River there, Tucson, around our west flank and came down through the mountains on the open plain on the 28th of July, 1965, an entire battalion. This was a strike force, a killing force. They all carried fully automatic weapons. They also had a mortar contingent, which makes it heavy. And so, be that as it may, Lieutenant Reeder sent me across the other side of the bridge, which was illegal, but to give adequate warning and to stop anybody on the other side of that bridge and to let them know if someone was trying to pass and so forth, etc. I was attacked in the early areas of darkness there. And as it turned out, a very large force. I called in a mayday, mayday, mayday. General Walt sent me the USS Craig first. She came in shooting. With its illumination, we identified more than 600 enemy who were trying to cross that bridge. They were formed in a manner of march. I engaged that enemy, and then during the ensuing battle there, the USS Craig was joined by the USS Stoddard, and those two ships assisted me in destroying the 7th VC. We killed all of them to the man. So that ended about 3 a.m. It started around 9. So they fired from me until the ship, Craig, ran out of ammunition or very extremely low on it, and the rest was the Craig. But the final element of this battalion, I put 250 rounds of HEVT, or in the words of the Navy, fused quick on top of the remaining enemy force until they were all eliminated so okay during break you said that you uh had found some orders from the um the enemy yes at the time i had no earthly idea i mean we're marines we don't care about such things yes there was a lot of enemy as it turned out but we do our job i mean it's not you know uh but I had no idea about this battle. I mean, nobody asked for a debriefing. I took after-action photography from a three-story building, showing the damage and so forth and so on. Kept it. No one ever said a thing. I never really paid much attention to it. It's my job. In my book, it talks about the battle, but doesn't go into much detail, really. The book is not about me. It's about points that I want to make. But in any case, by accident, someone, Bill Scott, as a matter of fact, heard someone, Sergeant Davis, talking about this battle, and he had my book open to that audience. to that page and queried him about it. How is it that this happened in a way he knows about it type thing? So in any case, if I'm trying to make it short, we investigated it now because back in 1980 when I first contacted the Navy trying to find out the ships that supported me, it was very difficult. Their records were not available. And so Texas University now, they have all of the, or most all, of all of the Vietnam records there. So we were able to access it, and we found that this battle was intentionally hidden. As it turned out, and unknown to me really at the time, half of that battalion were Chinese. The rest were NVA. This is North Vietnamese Army. And so now we know that this was a real bad thing. Had they got beyond me, we only had 20 Marines there. There was no one between us and the Da Nang Air Base and the 3rd Marine Headquarters. And if they put 6,000 men across that damn bridge to the south and we get engaged by a battalion from the north, we're done here. I mean, we are done here. So in collecting this information, I was researching the commanders that I was against, and I came across a document in a Vietnamese historical record that I found today on the Internet, which obviously you couldn't do in the 80s or even 90s. And this document I turned over to Texas University because they didn't have a copy of it either. And this one is an official Marine Corps document, intelligence document, and it clearly states their purpose. It says that they intended to lose 5,000 men, and they would kill every living thing breathed air on that base. Okay. So all that had to happen is this battalion to cross that damn bridge, blow the bugle, because communications they didn't really have. and to hit that base from the north, and we'd been done. Now, there were 16,000 of them down at Chuai, which is probably, oh, 15 miles south or so. We had two battalions down there well spread apart. Again, 16,000, you don't have a chance.
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Well, hey, Carl Leppard, we're out of time. We're going to have to keep this as a cliffhanger for your next interview, and we will get that scheduled. I truly appreciate you taking the time to share this with our listeners. Thank you.
SPEAKER 04 :
My pleasure.
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Okay, my friends, indeed, it is apparent we do stand on the shoulders of giants. So God bless you, and God bless America.
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I do my best to stay positive. How can I not be happy? I'm with friends, family. I'm in the upstate of South Carolina where I needed an ice scraper for my window this morning. We don't have ice scrapers in Florida. So I didn't bring an ice scraper with me. But, boy, it's chilly here. But it feels good because it's making the blood rush. And I'm feeling Christmassy. And I start the day today. By getting to share with you, we have exceeded our Prison Fellowship Angel Tree Christmas campaign. Right now we have 5,431 children sponsored. They're going to get Bibles, Christmas presents, and a message from their incarcerated mom and dad. mom or dad. The goal was 5,416. We're already at 5,431. We've never hit the goal this close or this early. So thank you. Let's keep the momentum going. Heck, maybe we'll get, I don't know, 6,000, 7,000. Thousands of children are going to receive the love of God and the love of their parent. And unbeknownst to that child, It's not the mom or dad sending the Christmas present. It's you. You're doing this. So thank you for getting us over our goal just two weeks into the campaign. I am overwhelmed with gratitude. So I try to stay positive. I have so much to be grateful for, and I am in an eternal state of gratitude for this job, for this show. Look, we're like one big dysfunctional family. We normally agree. Sometimes we don't agree. Yesterday there was a caller, Gwen, that I mixed it up with pretty good. I got feedback that somebody in Portland, Oregon, was rattled by my exchange with Gwen. And as Christian from my team said, wait a minute, they live in Portland, Oregon, and a feisty phone call rattles them? That's what upsets you? Look, be safe, Portland. When you're driving around downtown, you better roll your windows up and lock the doors. I'm not sure me getting into a heated exchange with a Kamala supporter who hates Donald Trump should rattle you. You need to maybe take a breath and think about perspective a little bit. But this rattles me. You want to talk about being angry? It's been reported and revealed that the Biden administration... is racing to sell pieces of the border wall at about $5 a clip in order to sabotage Trump's efforts to seal the border. In the final days of the Biden... You let that sink in. You let that sink in that in the final days of the Biden administration... They're selling unused border wall segments for $5 each at government auction. It's pure sabotage by Joe Biden and his henchmen. They want to deliver a last blank you, as Charlie Kirk perfectly put it, to Donald Trump and the 76 million Americans who elected him to protect our border. This is Biden's legacy. Joe Biden is going to go down as one of the most disgraceful, miserable, despised presidents of our lifetime. Biden makes Jimmy Carter look like Ronald Reagan. Weeks before Trump takes office, Biden is racing to auction off unused border wall materials. Now, I saw the Texas lieutenant governor. Dan Patrick is declaring that Texas is prepared to bid on every piece being sold by the Biden administration and then give it directly to Donald Trump. I mean, I am so sickened by the lack of accountability by this administration, and I am physically sick. This is what Biden wants to do to the American people. He's not doing it to Donald Trump. He's not doing it to the border czar. He's not doing it to the incoming administration. Charlie Kirk is right. They're sticking it to the 76-plus million Americans who want the border secure. And I am... It is a grotesque... A grotesque confirmation... of the destroyed legacy of Joe Biden. I don't even know if he's making these decisions. Who knows? Who cares? We've got a few weeks to go before the inauguration. And incidentally, we'll be at the inauguration. Joey Hudson's coming with me. Joey's going to be reporting from the ceremony. I'll be in our Mike Gallagher Show studios in Virginia. We're going to go to the ball. You have a chance to go to the ball, too. Do you have that liner, Eric, from the dock cut? Let's play that for everybody to let them know how you might be able, you could attend. Some lucky winners are going to get to attend President Trump's inauguration on January 20th.
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I hope you win. I hope everybody gets to appreciate how everything is going to change. And everything is changing. But to watch the Biden administration try to do a last-minute blank you to the incoming Trump administration, it is positively grotesque. And that's perhaps why I get fired up with people like Gwen yesterday who want to call a show and claim that Trump is a rapist and a convict and a con man and Kamala would have been the hope and joy of America. Yeah, this is real hope and joy. Sell off at auction. The auction website shows that the sales occurred as recently as December 4th. They are, it is insane. And look, Dan Patrick, here he is, cut 17 last night with Laura Ingram on Fox News. The state of Texas is absolutely prepared to buy up every piece of that unused border wall. Here's what the great lieutenant governor of Texas told Laura last night.
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We mean business in Texas, and Tom Holman means business, and President Trump means business. And I don't know if you heard the latest today, Laura, but Joe Biden is now hauling off the border wall that's been lying down for years, and he wants to auction it off starting at $5 apiece. Message the White House right now. I will bid on all of that wall, and we will buy it in Texas, and we will give it to Donald Trump. So I'm going to find out first thing in the morning where we're going to take the bid. I've got a billion dollars in my pocket to do it. I write the budget with Senator Joan Huffman. We have the money. We're going to have about six billion in our budget for border security.
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Don't drive up the cost. Don't drive up the cost. The first bid is only five bucks, five bucks a piece of the wall. And I will go in and buy it all. I'M NOT GOING TO DRIVE UP.
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WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU?
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WHAT DOES THIS TELL YOU ABOUT THE BIDEN PEOPLE?
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They're despicable what they're doing to the American people. And the American people obviously aren't going to tolerate it. That's why they were thrown out. But the idea, we've been trying to buy this wall from them for four years and they wouldn't sell it to us. And you know what? I'm going to check in with our Department of Public Safety. Maybe we need to start pulling over these trucks to be sure they don't have too much weight on those trucks. Maybe these trucks need to be slowed down. We need to do everything we can in Texas to stop them. The taxpayers paid for this and they want to stop. President Trump in 38 or 39 days from rebuilding the wall. I want to this the legacy of Joe Biden. He lets off his son. He's letting off all these criminals. He's doing everything he can with these blue state governors and mayors to destroy this country. They are traitors to this country, leaving terrorists. leaving murderers, leaving rapists in this country, and now he wants to sabotage this president before he takes off. It is disgraceful and disgusting. He will go down as the worst, most despicable president in the history of this country because no one has done more to damage this country and hurt American citizens.
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Is there anything that you just heard Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick say that you disagree with? Isn't he right? Isn't it true that with this move, desperately auctioning off the remaining pieces of the unused border wall just to stick it to Donald Trump? Isn't he going to go down as the most despicable, despised, failed president in American history? 800-655-MIKE. Again, I want to stay positive. Things are changing. January 20th, we'll be here in the blink of an eye. It's going to be here before you know it. This is, after all, Friday, December the 13th. But let me get your reaction to this. Well, it ought to be shocking news, but considering this bunch of Democrats, it's not that surprising. Selling off unused border wall just to screw the American people. I am sick to my stomach. 800-655-MIKE. We hope you join us. Call or text. We're in the beautiful upstate of South Carolina, like I said, in the studios of 98.9 WORD, the voice of the Carolinas. So great to be back home again. Big Christmas party tomorrow night for the station. I can't wait to catch up with friends. And our colleagues here at WORD. And what great hosts here. I'm always reminded of the lineup. Tara, Bill Frady, who is just magnificent. Charlie James, who's extraordinary. Tara's great in the mornings. Joey Hudson and yours truly, Mike Gallagher, part of the WORD lineup. So proud to be able to celebrate Christmas. with our colleagues here in the upstate of South Carolina. So welcome in to the Relief Factor studios. Again, join us. Give me your reaction to this news about the Biden administration and what they're doing. 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. What happens when the power is out, your phone says no service, and the grid is down? Do you have a backup plan? If you don't have a satellite phone from sat123.com, you're risking way more than just missed calls. A satellite phone from sat123.com keeps you connected no matter what. You could be miles from civilization or in the middle of a natural disaster. This phone works when everything else fails. It's your lifeline when the world goes dark. And let's be real. These days, anything can happen. But with Sat123.com, you're prepared. Sat123.com is committed to American values. They believe in reliability and quality that you can trust when it matters the most. Don't wait until it's too late. Head over to Sat123.com. Use the promo code Gallagher for $25 off. Gallagher, G-A-L-L-A-G-H-E-R, Sat123.com, promo code Gallagher for $25 off. Protect yourself, protect your family, and stay connected with Sat123.com.
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With a corncob pipe and a button nose and two eyes made out of coal.
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Mike Gallagher. Text message on the MyPillow text line. Obama is behind it all. He's been selling out this country since he landed on the scene. Of course, can't let his puppet Biden off the hook. They are traitors. How else do you describe the auctioning off of remaining unused border wall at $5 a pop right before the Trump administration comes into office, when Biden knows what Trump is going to do, it's sickening. It's beyond sickening. Is traitor too strong a word? Is traitor too difficult? Or a bridge too far? 800-655-MIKE. Let's start with Pat up in Connecticut. Hey, Pat, welcome to the Mike Gallagher Show. How are you?
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Is that me?
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That's you, Pat. How are you?
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Hi, I'm in Pennsylvania.
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Oh, I'm sorry. I got Connecticut on the screen. Sorry, we got some lines messed up.
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My phone is from Connecticut.
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Oh, I got you. Well, welcome, Pat, from PA. How are you?
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Nothing shocks me. I feel that when a new administration, when they win on November 5th, the old administration that's there should not be able to make any decisions that will affect... The United States for way after they're gone.
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Oh, Pat, you know what it's like?
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They're allowed to do that.
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Yeah, you know what it's like? It's almost like when somebody gets fired from a job, and let's face it, the Democrats got fired, they got shown the door, they got trounced, they got walloped, and they're still griping about it. It's like somebody taking a sledgehammer to the office, and on their last day on the job, before they get escorted out the door, They break everything in the office. That's what Biden's trying to do. He's trying to break everything in the office on the way out. Selling off unused border wall? Are you kidding me? And they are. They are having a tantrum. Check out Don Lemon. He was the fired CNN host who now, I guess, is all over social media and Instagram or whatever. Here's his temper tantrum. Cut number seven. Here's Don Lemon upset about Time magazine selecting Donald Trump to be person of the year. This is classic.
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If they wanted to make someone person of the year, I don't know, they could have done it to, with any person, people, they could have done it to someone who actually stood for democracy, who stands for democracy in the country. Let me ask you, Time Magazine, what do you say to the women who, I guess, still read Time Magazine? Or the women who are, don't they do like a whole Time 100 thing or something, which, you know, What about the women who are on that list? What about that? I'm sure some of them will have had dealt with issues that women have to deal with, like discrimination in the workplace, SA, all kinds of things. You have someone on the cover of your magazine who is an adjudicated assaulter. You have someone who inspired an insurrection. You have someone who, without a doubt, the evidence is there, tried to overturn A free and fair election. You had someone who had multiple criminal counts and found guilty on multiple criminal counts. And you named them person of the year? Is this a joke? Did we get something wrong? Did someone scam us?
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I have to admit, I enjoyed that way too much. I enjoy their tears way too much. I enjoy their whining. I enjoyed Gwen yesterday, the caller, who's just like Don Lemon. They're throwing a temper tantrum, and they just don't know what hit them. You know what hit them? The will of the American people. 800-655-MIKE. What happens when the power's out, your phone says no service, and the grid is down? Do you have a backup plan? If you don't have a satellite phone from sat123.com, you're risking way more than just missed calls. A satellite phone from sat123.com keeps you connected no matter what. You could be miles from civilization or in the middle of a natural disaster. This phone works when everything else fails. It's your lifeline when the world goes dark. And let's be real. These days, anything can happen. But with Sat123.com, you're prepared. Sat123.com is committed to American values. They believe in reliability and quality that you can trust when it matters the most. Don't wait until it's too late. Head over to Sat123.com. Use the promo code Gallagher for $25 off. Gallagher, G-A-L-L-A-G-H-E-R, sat123.com, promo code Gallagher for $25 off. Protect yourself, protect your family, and stay connected with sat123.com. I continue to be just astounded that you have contributed enough to sponsor over 5,400 children in our prison fellowship campaign. We're over our goal, and let's keep it going. Let's see. Now the fun will be how far over we can go. Right now we're at 5,456 kids who are going to be blessed with a Bible, a Christmas present, and a personalized message from their incarcerated parent. It's a ministry that ministers to the families of those who are in prison. It changes these kids' lives. Thank you for helping us hit our goal. And, hey, let's not stop now. I mean, it's Friday, December the 13th. There's still time to bless more children. And it's just astounding, astounding to see your generosity come through again. I wasn't sure we'd hit it. We're at 5,456 kids. You did it. We've raised over $162,000 in two weeks for the Angel Tree Prison Fellowship Campaign. So you have blessed us once again. You've made us feel so, so happy. Not everybody's happy. I shared with you Don Lemon a few minutes ago and his whining. How about Joy Reid over at MSNBC? I told you when Time Magazine decided to make Donald Trump person of the year, they would melt down. Well, she never disappoints. You can always count on MSNBC's Joy Reid for a little comic relief.
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Better or for worse is not much of a ringing endorsement, and we all know which one Trump falls under. And let's remember who else has been given this title in years past in the same category. Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Ayatollah Khomeini, and Vladimir Putin. In fact, Stalin won the distinction twice, just like Trump. Regardless of the company he keeps, we know how important these magazine covers are to Trump. Just look at this tour he gave the Washington Post in 2015 of his Trump Tower office with a wall adorned with his various cover appearances.
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Oh, man. Again, I'm enjoying this too much. It's like the goofy caller yesterday, Gwen, who claimed that she pushed the wrong button. She was listening to trying to find a country music station and found the Mike Gallagher show. And nobody believed that. She listens every day. She called. She was on hold. And she, you know, is a big Kamala Harris supporter. And by the way, I guarantee you, we kind of made – where was she from? Was she Iowa? I think she was Gwen from Iowa. And it just gives me – joy to see how miserable. And I shouldn't be that way. I know I shouldn't be that way. But they've done so much damage to this country. There's a essay that's real lengthy, and I can't read the whole thing. Tracy, let's post it at mikeonline.com from the free press. Neil Ferguson, the vibe shift goes global. Here at home, here in America, he writes, Yale Law School and DEI committees are out. Abroad, strength and escalation are in. The American electorate decisively re-elected Donald Trump. Canada felt the vibe shift when Trump threatened to impose a 25% tariff on both Canada and Mexico on his first day in power unless fentanyl and illegal migrants stopped crossing into the United States from their territories. Four days later, Justin Trudeau was having dinner at Mar-a-Lago. The Canadian Prime Minister soon realized he'd bought a ticket to be trolled when Trump suggested that Canada become the 51st state. The vibe shift had effects in Europe, too. Within days of Trump's election, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed that Europe should buy more liquefied natural gas from America in order to ward off new tariffs on European exports to the United States. All over the world, Neil Ferguson writes, from Romania to South Korea, the vibe shift reverberates. And then, of course, The best example of the global vibe shift by far is the Middle East. Biden wants you to believe it's his doing. But who deserves credit here, asks Neil Ferguson. Surely not Biden. If anyone has weakened Iran and Hezbollah, it's Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The reality is that we're witnessing the complete and total unraveling of the disastrous foreign policy that began under Obama and was picked up again by Joe Biden, the perverse effect of which was to strengthen both Iran and Russia. The series of blunders that consigned Syria to a hideous and protracted civil war and opened the door to Russia in both Syria and Ukraine began in July of 2012 and August of 2013 when the White House said that if Assad used chemical weapons, he would be deemed to have crossed a red line. Remember that? They use chemical weapons anyway. and the White House's threat was empty. Obama called off the planned retaliatory airstrikes. Worse, Obama then allowed the Russian government to broker a deal in which Assad handed over some of his chemical weapons. Look, there is a sea change. This is a great piece. It's lengthy. It goes on and on about the change, the vibe change. We've got it posted for you at mikeonline.com. You want to read it. It's very important. This is Neil Ferguson, who's a columnist for the Free Press. 800-655-MIKE. Incidentally, I... When we hit the goal earlier, I played sit down, you're rocking the boat. I'm not going to play it anymore because people get agitated. But I had fun on the cruise last week, even under the very difficult circumstances of covering for the great Dennis Prager, who's recovering in a Los Angeles hospital from a very serious fall. There is just nothing like a vacation on a cruise ship. And I'm trying to make sure I give you a heads up because I think the second Patriots Alaska cruise featuring yours truly, along with the great Larry Elder, Joe Piscopo from New York, Jen Horn from Los Angeles, we're going to sail the inside passage of Alaska. We're going to depart from Seattle August 16th through the 23rd of next year. We've already got around 100 people signed up, and I don't want you to miss out on this. This isn't just any cruise. It's a Patriots Alaska cruise. We'll have events on the ship. And I want to remind you, you've got to book through us in order to have access to all of our onboard activities. But we're going to see beautiful wildlife and bald eagles and fjords and glaciers on a beautiful cruise ship with a... spa and a casino, the beautiful Euro Dam from Holland, America. For details, don't put this off. The deposit's only 300 bucks. You can lock in your stateroom now for the Patriots Alaska cruise. Travelwithsalem.com. Travelwithsalem.com. Go to travelwithsalem.com. Coming up, Amazon gives a million dollars to Trump's inaugural fund in what people are saying is a reset, a start over, a do over. Stick around. More of the Mike Gallagher Show from South Carolina on a busy Friday coming up.
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So you, Joe Biden, and your sob story about your rich, spoiled presidential kid, Hunter Biden, and how he's been singled out because I know I speak for millions of people who have an addict in their family who did something they're not proud of, who could never get out from under it. We have no sympathy for you, Hunter Biden, and even less for you, Joe Biden, because you enabled all of it.
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In the relieffactor.com studios, here's Mike.
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All right, there's some breaking news out of an overseas trip that former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was involved in.
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Breaking now on the Mike Gallagher Show.
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Nancy Pelosi apparently suffered an injury and has been admitted to a hospital in Luxembourg. Fox News has confirmed that the 84-year-old California representative was traveling to Luxembourg for the Battle of the Bulge remembrances. The extent of Pelosi's injury is unknown at the time of the reporting. It's a developing story. But again, Nancy Pelosi apparently has been hospitalized in Luxembourg after having suffered an injury. You know, I'm interested in my own emotional reaction to this news. I find her so appalling and so destructive, I'll never forget her ripping up Trump's State of the Union speech. It was one of the most disgraceful acts I have ever seen. There are few Democrats with whom I agree with. You want to know what my first personal, instinctive reaction was in hearing this news? Oh no, I hope she'll be okay. I hope she's going to be okay. I don't want anything bad to happen to my political opponents. When people are celebrating the assassination of a CEO or hoping that Trump gets killed and cheering on the would-be assassins in Butler, Pennsylvania or on Trump's golf course, there is such a, like this columnist wrote, a dehumanization. There's a lack of soul there. There's a darkness. And the very first thing I thought of when I saw this news is I hope she's going to be okay. I hate that for her. I don't want anything bad to happen to some 84-year-old Democrat named Nancy Pelosi. It's the last thing any of us should think. We don't think that way. We shouldn't think that way. We should be thinking about health. And I want Joe Biden to live to be 100. And I am so angry right now at his scheme to sell off pieces of the border wall at $5 a pop just to sabotage Donald Trump, just to sabotage the securing of the border. It makes me sick to my stomach. But I don't want anything bad to happen to them personally. And if you think that way, if you think a health insurance CEO's death is sort of understandable or justifiable or, you know, the chickens are coming home to roost or, you know, like Elizabeth Warren said, people taking matters into their own hands because you can only push people too far, you've got something seriously wrong with you. There is a blackness, a darkness in your soul. There is a deep, deep misery you must suffer from. Mitch McConnell, people laughing about him falling down. Who wants anything to happen to somebody who gets hurt, regardless of their political affiliation? And McConnell fell the other day, and he's recovering from a fall. He had a big Band-Aid on his head and bruises all over the place. Nobody wants anything like that to happen to anybody. You shouldn't think that way. And again, I am just still so grateful for the extraordinary effort that you've put forth in supporting our Christmastime Prison Fellowship campaign. We're at 5,500 kids. Wow. 5,500 children are going to get a Bible and a Christmas present and a personalized note from their parents. incarcerated parent. Thank you so very much for supporting our efforts. And you did it again. You just did it again. Here's Kim in Atlanta, Georgia, reacting to Elizabeth Warren's disgraceful remark. Well, you know, Brian Thompson's, we don't condone murder. And she's saying that because she thinks she has to say that. But when you say, well, people take matters into their own hands when they've been, you That's like the guy yesterday, the guy from Long Island. Well, you know, what can people do? Kim in Atlanta, Merry Christmas. How are you?
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Merry Christmas, Mike. I'm great. How are you?
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I'm doing great. Glad you could join us. What do you think?
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Well, when she says you can only push people so far before they do something, this is jerk that shot Brian Thompson. He's a rich kid. He's a spoiled rich kid. He wasn't pushed too far. He could afford any insurance premium. So she's just twisting it to fit. She's twisting it to fit her narrative like they always do. That's what they do every time. They try to make... Yeah, yeah. She's such a liar. So anyway, it just really got me going this morning.
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Well, me too. I hear you. Thanks, Kim. Todd in Anderson, South Carolina, not too far from where I am. Todd, why did you guys make it so cold for me to come here today? Good Lord, it's chilly here.
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I tell you what, it's crazy weather we're having right now. Yeah, but it feels like Christmas, so that's a good thing, right? You got that right, man. Last week it felt like Halloween with just the wet and cold. maybe a little bit of snow christmas day would be nice that would be incredible that would be incredible so what's up what do you make about uh you want to react to the news of nancy pelosi being injured and hospitalized in luxembourg well this this does go into the nancy pelosi i called in about the ceo but it all comes together just like how you just put it together is if you celebrate An innocent man, and whether you like it or whatever the man's job was, he's still an innocent man. He was shot in the back. The kid didn't approach him to the front. He approached him to the back because he was a coward. If you celebrate that man getting shot, in my book, you're no better than people that celebrate law enforcement officers getting shot or even up to the point of celebrating the 9-11 attack.
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And there are people that celebrate when cops get shot. There are people who celebrate. They hate law enforcement. And if you hate police because of the job they do, I guess it stands to reason, well, if they get killed, you're so twisted, you think that's a good thing. And you're right. It's the same kind of person. I love that essay from what that guy wrote on social media. If you're part of a system that they don't agree with, they'll justify violence committed against you. And that's awful. Appreciate it very much, Todd. Thank you. One open line, 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. Time for one more quick, Michael in Dallas. Michael, happy, Merry Christmas. How are you?
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I am doing great. Merry Christmas to you. And I'd love to say a special prayer for my rabbi, Dennis Prager. I hope he's doing better.
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Um, amen. Thank you. And we're, we're watching carefully and we got some good news. His breathing a little bit has improved a little bit and he's, he's got a long haul, but, uh, you know, suffered, uh, a terrible fall and a, and a serious spinal injury, spinal cord injury. And, uh, so thank you. We're all praying for, for Dennis and thanks for that reminder, Michael, very important.
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And, and thank you. And I love what you do. Uh, My only, I guess, issue with what you're talking about is the CEO that was shot. Nobody knows if he was a good or bad person. That's awful. It's really awful. Nancy Pelosi.
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Did you hear the limo driver we had on yesterday who knew him and said he was a great guy? Warm, generous, giving?
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I did, and that's great, but Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden are evil, corrupt people.
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Spirituality is absolute and based on the filling of the Holy Spirit. Spiritual maturity is based on the content of the Word of God stored in your soul. The more of the Word of God you learn and store, the sooner you will reach spiritual maturity. As we assimilate the thinking of Jesus Christ from studying the Bible, we build a frame of reference called a divine viewpoint. We are called to have the mentality and the intentionality of Jesus Christ.
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You live your spiritual life in your mind. A divine viewpoint is understanding how God thinks. “We have the mind of Christ” (1 Cor 2:16). The Bible is the mind of Christ, and this is why it is so important to study the Word of God under the ministry of a well-qualified pastor who can teach it to you. You defeat Satan's strategy toward you by thinking with the mind of Christ. God wants you to have a FLOT line in your soul to combat the satanic invasion of your mind. “You will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on You” (Is 26:3). If you are occupied with Christ, problem-solving device number 10, you can have perfect peace.
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Oh, that's fine. Not a problem. Glad you're here.
SPEAKER 12 :
Anyway, all right, thank you. Just a couple questions. The first one I have is, I've heard you say on the show before that you put synthetic oil in everything.
SPEAKER 04 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 12 :
Is that true? Do I remember that right? Yep. Okay. So that would include a Yamaha golf cart, a gas-powered Yamaha golf cart.
SPEAKER 04 :
My lawnmower, I still use synthetic oil in.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, okay. So if I'm just using what they call for, the right weight and small engine oil.
SPEAKER 04 :
Absolutely. Then I'm good to go. Honestly, this is a great question, by the way, Ivan, because I don't think people really think through this well enough. Especially on some of the things that you're mentioning now. They do not have the filtration and tolerances and so on inside of them like a regular car engine would have. In my opinion, those things especially should have synthetic oil in them. And why they don't come factory fill is beyond me because most of those engine manufacturers are cheap. Yep. Yeah, okay. So snowblowers and lawnmowers and all of the like, yes. They don't have a cooling? No, they have nothing. I would put synthetic in those especially.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, yeah, because you're right. It does not have a filter. It's air-cooled, all that stuff, right? Absolutely. Okay, good. Good to know. The other question I had was, with the manufacturer's recommendations for transmission – and rear-end and front-end oils, transmission oils, gear oils, whatever. Do you recommend following what they say? For example, I've got a 2021 Trail Boss, Silverado Trail Boss, and I think it says in there that you don't have to do anything for the transmission ever, it seems like. And then with the Durango, I haven't checked that one, but they both only have like 30,000 miles on them. They're not driven a lot. But when do you recommend... transmission and rear-end and front-end oil swap-outs, filters, whatever.
SPEAKER 04 :
On the Durango and the Trail Boss, both, I'd do them at $50,000.
SPEAKER 12 :
At $50,000. So I got a little bit of time, but I'm sure at $50,000.
SPEAKER 04 :
But I'd do the whole drivetrain at $50,000 if it were me.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay. All right. Yeah, because I think that When I looked at the manual, the Silverado said like 100,000 miles before you do anything to the transmission.
SPEAKER 04 :
And I talked – we had a caller in the first hour kind of talking about the recall that's on those trucks and the potential for the valve body to actually have a problem, lock it into gear, which then locks the diff and so on. I mean, that's what the whole recall is about. And I'm not saying that it can't happen on some of the new models because I've had some listeners even text me and say, hey, I've had a problem on a brand-new truck. So I'm not saying it's not limited to just trucks with miles on them because they've had some new truck issues as well. But I think once a vehicle starts getting miles on it like yours has, if, in fact, people would change the oil in the transmission, do the transmission services like they should be, I don't think some of that recall would be as big of a deal personally. I got you.
SPEAKER 12 :
You're saying the 2021 Trail Boss has a recall?
SPEAKER 04 :
That one, I think, falls into that. I'd have to look. Here's what to do. For any of you that are in that realm on any vehicle, this is true with anything. It doesn't have to be a Ford or a Chevy or whatever that have some of the transmission recalls that are out there. Go to the NTHSA's website, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's website. Put your VIN number in, and it will tell you if there's a recall or not.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 04 :
You don't even have to call a dealer. It'll tell you right there whether there is or isn't. Okay. What was that website called again? National Traffic Highway Safety Administration.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh.
SPEAKER 04 :
And THSA. THSA.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay. Gotcha. Okay.
SPEAKER 05 :
You know, I just did the same thing on my truck. I hit the 50,000. Yep. And this time I went ahead and I made sure I used the factory oil. Right. Just because there's a little problem, you know, with the oils, getting a good oil for that particular one with this. Yep. With this problem. And I think that's the way to do it.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay. Okay. Good to know. All right. Thank you, gentlemen.
SPEAKER 04 :
You bet. No, great questions, Ivan. Thank you, by the way, for that very much. Russ and Cheyenne, you're next. Go ahead. Hey, good morning. Good morning.
SPEAKER 14 :
Tool idea. I discovered rivet nuts.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, yeah. Nut zerts, we called those back in the day. All of us had tools for those. What a great invention, aren't they?
SPEAKER 14 :
They're pretty cheap. You can buy a decent kit for them. Man, those things are indispensable.
SPEAKER 04 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 14 :
So that's one thing.
SPEAKER 04 :
For everybody listening, what that is is it's like a rivet gun, but instead of actually putting a rivet in with the pin and that's all it does, these actually put a threaded nut, all different sizes, depending upon what you're trying to accomplish and what you're trying to fasten and so on. It's like a rivet with threads inside.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, and only one, I guess one quick tip I've kind of discovered with them is sometimes it's easier just to run a tap through them.
SPEAKER 04 :
Good idea. Yeah, great idea. Chase them a little bit. Yeah, good idea.
SPEAKER 14 :
Every now and again, it kind of boogers them up.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, and that way it keeps that from having any issues twisting and getting stuck or anything along those lines. That's a great idea.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, yeah. So I have a good problem and a bad problem, I guess. I bought WeatherTech mats, and I absolutely love them. But my Hydro Boost started leaking inside my truck, so I didn't notice it was leaking until it started running over the rail on the side. So I've ruined my carpet on that side of the truck because of it. But I'm wondering with the Hydro Boost, are those rebuildable, or do I just need to buy a new one?
SPEAKER 04 :
I would not buy. There's some guys out there that will rebuild Hydro Boost. I wouldn't do that. I would buy a new one. Okay.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay. And you wouldn't do a reman.
SPEAKER 04 :
You would do a new. New only. Yep.
SPEAKER 1 :
New only.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 14 :
Because, I mean, my truck's 20 years old. I've never had issues. Between this and the steering box, I don't know if they were correlated or what.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, the same fluid runs through all three. Right. So power steering pumps running the hydro boost and the power steering pump both. Or power steering gear both, I should say. The pump, power steering pump is running the brakes and the steering.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, and I mean, I've always been good about flushing my power steering fluid. So I've never let it just go. It gets changed when I do my training.
SPEAKER 04 :
And sometimes, I mean, as the boosters age, especially if they're not driven regularly, you might actually have more issues with the hydro boost than ones that are driven daily.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah. Well, I've noticed that I guess it leaks when I step on the brake. Yeah. More than just normal. Very common.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. Very common.
SPEAKER 14 :
So, yeah. Okay, that's what I just wanted to know if I should bother with a reman or if I just should buy a brand new one.
SPEAKER 04 :
That is one of those items that, you know, and again, Hydroboost has been around for a long time. People may not know that, but they've literally been around since the 80s. It's been a system that's been used by GM, I think, first on that end of things, and it kind of came into some of the other manufacturers as well, and even some cars now use a form of a Hydroboost, so it's become more and more popular as time has gone by. But even back then, I would not put anything. I mean, even in the 80s and 90s, I wouldn't put anything on back then that was remanned, and I won't today.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay. Okay. Okay, same with the power steering pump because I figure I'm going to change the booster.
SPEAKER 04 :
Same thing. Even from the late 80s, that hasn't changed. Even back then as a shop owner, I wouldn't put a reman or a rebuilt power steering pump on. And sometimes you didn't have a choice because there wasn't anything else around at the time to actually get your customer up and running and never failed, Russ. Those were the ones that always came back and bit you. You ended up doing twice. Yep.
SPEAKER 14 :
I couldn't afford the brand-new steering box, so I bought a reman, and I absolutely regret it. Yep.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, same thing. I mean, again, some of these things, that's in a way frustrating because in all of this time, in four decades— we haven't improved and maybe even gotten worse when it comes to the rebuilding of some of the components that you're talking about. And in 40 years, you'd think we could have come up with a way to rebuild a steering gear properly, and yet, Russ, we haven't. Isn't that crazy? It's amazing.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, I mean, I hate to, you know, because I spent basically half on a reman of what the new one cost, and I mean, I just absolutely hate it. I hate the feel of it.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, they're junk. I mean, I have no other way to explain it. They're just junk.
SPEAKER 14 :
So I figure I'm not going to make my wife happy, but when I do it, I think I'm just doing the system, and I'll get another 20 years out of it without any trouble.
SPEAKER 04 :
You know, given the fact really all you're going to end up doing is another gear, which you don't like the one you have anyways, I would. And hoses. Do the hoses and everything at the same time. Do everything. Yeah, the whole system. I would, too. Do the lines and all.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, I put new hoses on it when I did the box. Okay, cool. But, yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
You might as well, too, though, while you're at it doing all of this, you might as well look at the master cylinder since you're going to be doing all the rest of it. You're more or less going to have it all. I think I would do it, too, Russ.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay. It's time, huh?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. I mean, you're there. You're doing everything else. Why not? Well, that's what Dad said. Any job worth doing is worth doing well. Your labor is already there. You're buying a cylinder is really all you're doing.
SPEAKER 14 :
Right. Well, I mean, the deal is, like I said, I've had the truck 20 years now. I've really not had to put any money into it other than basic repair, you know, maintenance. It will cost me less than a truck payment. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 1 :
100%.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, when a new diesel or, you know, even the high-end gas, you know, three-quarter tons and one tons are 80K starting.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, no, I'd love a new diesel. I'd absolutely love a new Duramax, but I just... Yeah, 90K now. Crazy expensive.
SPEAKER 1 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay. Well, I just wanted to know which way to go.
SPEAKER 04 :
There you go. I appreciate your help. Great questions, by the way. Thank you, Russ. Somebody texted and asked, okay, since we're talking air filters earlier in the show, not to mess with them, when should you? Great question, by the way. So we'll answer that as soon as we come back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 04 :
All right, we are back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. John and Cheyenne, hang tight really quick. Somebody asked a question. If you're not supposed to mess with the air filter and the air box and all of that, then when should you? I am of the belief and try to teach the shops even that I coach and consult with to make that a service, not just an inspection, but an actual service based on time and or mileage, mainly mileage, because time is really not affecting an air filter. And this is where it comes back to knowing your customer. So where do they drive? Are they on a dirt road? Do they live out in the country? Are they in the city mostly? Are they a construction worker? Are they around the construction sites more and there's more dust blowing in and so on? And so I would know, A, your customer, and then base that upon how often should we be inspecting the air box on this particular vehicle. Now, if you're a home do-it-yourselfer and you're doing your own vehicle maintenance and so on, Honestly, 30K, you really don't have to mess with the majority of air filter and cars that are on the market today. If you're starting fresh, you really don't need to mess with that thing for at least 30K. And I'm not exaggerating at all. And there's probably some people that might debate me on that. Go for it. Prove me wrong. I don't think you will because the reality is even though it may look dirty, it's flowing more air than you really think it is at that point. And is it really degrading from the performance of the vehicle? Probably not. So I would do it more based upon mileage of the vehicle. I'd look at it at 30K, and here's the deal. If you're going to look at it and it's 30K, just put a new one in. My advice on air filters is more along those lines than it is opening the box every time you change. an air filter, and I don't. On my own vehicles, I don't. In our fleet shop, we don't. You guys have heard the stories on that and as to why, because I am still one that feels the more you open it, the worse you are. You're better off just leaving it alone, changing it when it's needed, and then moving on. But that was a great text question a moment ago, because, you know, when do you? That's my advice. Now, if you're I have a vehicle, and you're in a really clean environment and do mostly highway driving, for example. You're hardly in the city at all. You don't have the same contaminants. It's a larger air filter box, and you know what I mean by looking at it. You know what? You might be able to go to 50K. And that would be one where if you opened it at 30, everything looks nice and clean. Vacuum it all out, by the way, before you put things back together. Maybe tap on the filter some to get some of the loose stuff back out of it, which it shouldn't have a whole lot anyways. If that's the case, put it back in, run it another 20K, check it and replace it at 50K and call it good. And some of the larger air boxes, you guys know what I mean by that. In some cases, and really based upon the volume that the engine is using airwise as to how they fit the airbox to the vehicle. So a smaller four-cylinder car, of course, is going to have a smaller airbox. Keep in mind, it's not moving as much air, but it is a smaller air filter. So that's one that you're probably going to be in that 30K mark when it's all set. And I know for everybody listening, I am probably saying things that most... shops and others out there would never say but for me i've learned a lot of this from having machinery and equipment that runs in very dirty elements all of the time and through the years i've just learned this and have reduced and have never had an engine failure due to you know dirt and contaminants that way which means how i'm doing it must be working or we would have other issues and we don't so there's my answer on all of that john and cheyenne you're next
SPEAKER 09 :
Hey, John. So you just changed totally what I was going to ask you because where I live is, as my cousin calls it, an unimproved goat path up to the house. There you go.
SPEAKER 10 :
A little dusty.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, a lot. Southeast Wyoming, it's all dust.
SPEAKER 04 :
There you go. Yeah, and your wind, of course, is another factor, John, for you. You have more debris and things that are blowing around. And, yeah, you would be less time than some of what I mentioned a moment ago, although even in your case, you could probably go 20K pretty easily.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, but here's the other thing. I have found in the past that at certain times of the year, and I don't know how they get in there, but mice get in there and start building a nest in the bottom of the box.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 09 :
That's why I have a spare for mine and my wife's truck in the garage now, and I will open it up when I do change the oil just to make sure there's not like a rat's nest or something in there.
SPEAKER 04 :
Now for you, and if you've had issues of this and everybody else listening, if it were me, I would take some chicken wire, tight type wire, and I would adapt that to the intake portion of that air cleaner, and then they would not be doing that any longer.
SPEAKER 09 :
I will try that.
SPEAKER 04 :
The fresh air intake. The fresh air intake, yes. Don't put it on the outside. The hole that the air is coming into the air box itself, I would wire mesh the front of that.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, and that's the two rams that we've had the issue on. But they got my wife on Wednesday, John. Middle of the day, hotel parking lot, they got her catalytic converter in Plano, Texas.
SPEAKER 04 :
Great.
SPEAKER 23 :
So...
SPEAKER 09 :
I called that shop you recommended, Paul, is his name? Yep. And he told me he doesn't do that. And I found a muffler shop, an exhaust shop in the area. Okay. And come to find out that's a catalytic converter that was on that Sportage. I don't know because it was bought in Cheyenne, but I wonder if it was built for California because he said it was a California-compliant cat. Could be. To put a new cat on and a new O2 sensor was $800. I thought that was a reasonable price.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, that's not bad at all.
SPEAKER 09 :
Because the cat was five.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, that's not a bad deal at all. You'd be hard-pressed to get that done for that here.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. Well, in Colorado, yeah. I think in Wyoming I'd probably get it about the same, maybe a little more. But the big thing was they – broad daylight, Plano, Texas, hotel parking lot. She parked on the side of the hotel where right by her room, she comes out, she starts it up to go have dinner with her brother. And she said, it sounded like it was going to die.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yep. Like it was so loud.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 04 :
Shameless. And, uh,
SPEAKER 09 :
And had the check engine light, of course, because they cut the wire on the O2 sensor. That was the other thing. So I thought 800 was really reasonable.
SPEAKER 04 :
With an O2 and everything, yeah, that's not bad at all. That's very reasonable.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. The other thing I wanted to remind everybody by telling that story is they're still out there stealing cats.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, they are.
SPEAKER 09 :
And, yeah, because the guy I called, he goes, I thought they were done with this nonsense. The price of metals went down around here.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, it's still, I mean, even though it has, it's still easy money. I mean, no offense, even if they're only getting 50 bucks out of it, it's easy money.
SPEAKER 09 :
And the high clearance, the higher clearance vehicles are easy because they don't have to jack up or anything and just lay underneath.
SPEAKER 04 :
You are correct.
SPEAKER 09 :
So, last thing, my 80 Chevy, the front seat had given up the ghost. I took it in. He had to redo all the springs, replace the foam, and then reupholster it, the whole thing. The guy in Cheyenne, he's not done yet. He's going to charge me $1,000. Is that reasonable?
SPEAKER 15 :
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 09 :
I think so. I thought so, but I just was asking. Is it a bench seat and a pickup?
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah. What is the seat that you're working on? Is it a bench seat?
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, it's an 80 Chevy three-quarter ton bench seat. You know, regular cab. And I pulled it out myself. And, you know, old school, four bolts. You don't have to worry about popping an airbag.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, that's perfect. You definitely couldn't replace that seat for less than $1,000. You could not.
SPEAKER 09 :
No, and I went online to a couple of the CarDash parts to look, and... For something in good shape, they were wanting at least $1,000 and would have had to pay shipping. So I thought that was a reasonable price. Guys, if I don't talk to you, John, have a Merry Christmas. You too.
SPEAKER 04 :
Everybody, Merry Christmas. Appreciate you, John. Merry Christmas to you too as well. Okay, I think I can squeeze this in before we get to the bottom of the hour, and that is somebody texted me and was asking on an older vehicle. So everybody with a newer type vehicle, this doesn't apply, nor would you need to do this. But some of you that are driving... Older vehicles. In this particular case, it's a 90s-style Chevy truck, and those doors are very heavy. So the question is, the doors are starting to sag. They're hard to get shut. He's got to slam them to actually get shut. What's the fix? And he said there was somebody on one of the social media channels talking about how to use a particular device to adjust it and so on. And I'll tell you the simplest, easiest way to do it. And I told him I would do this on air. And again, this is for him. Not for everybody else, although this can work on other types of things. But the easiest way to adjust those, first of all, make sure the hinges are in good shape. Because if the hinges are all worn out, you may actually have to put hinges on it, depending upon how worn the actual pins and stuff are. But if they're not too bad, what you do is get yourself a floor jack and a couple of 2x4s. And you open the door just enough to where the jack and the 2x4s will go to the bottom edge, back edge of the door itself. And you want to use a fairly long 2x4 because we don't want to bend the door by doing this. But you get to the underside of the door in between the actual outside skin of the door and the jam itself. There's a nice little lip there. Put the 2x4s right underneath there. And what you want to do is jack the door up. And you'll kind of know just through trial and error, have I moved the door at all? And sometimes you actually have to jump on the truck a little bit and pull the body some to get that door to kind of come up a little bit. But if you'll do that, you'll get the door to adjust up some. We're kind of tweaking the hinges by doing this a little bit. The door will naturally come up. It should hit the striker where it's supposed to. It won't drag anymore and should close nicely by doing that. So that's my trick. You don't need to go spend any money. Go buy anything. If you've got any kind of a jacking system, bottle jack, floor jack, and some 2x4s, you can do exactly what I just said and don't go do anything. And I don't know what they're saying online because I've not watched the video, and that's how I've always done that. Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, basically you're saying these hinges have sagged and bent a little bit down, and you're going to re-bend them back up. And if that doesn't work, you can always replace the hinges.
SPEAKER 04 :
You can put hinges on it. But if you're just trying to move it a little bit to keep it from dragging on the striker, it's a really quick way of doing a door adjustment. And it works on especially those older type vehicles. And so if you're listening to that and you sent me that text message, please let me know you heard it. And it's a really simple way to do what you're saying. And I guess I should start my own. channel and show some of this because i don't know what's out there what people are showing but this is much simpler than i would think any other way of oh for sure doing it because i don't know whether a device you would even use besides what i just explained so all right it just can be hard so and the door adjustments can be as well but this is a really easy quick way of doing things along those lines so all right guys we'll be right back other questions 303-477-5600 we'll be right back drive radio klz 560.
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All right, we are back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Thanks for joining us today. Myself, Pat Schneidt from Alltech Automotive up in Fort Collins. Steve Horvath, of course, from Geno's Auto Service. And Conrad, what's going on, sir?
SPEAKER 11 :
Hey, guys. Good show, as always. Getting ready to head over to see Rob on the engine build for the Torino.
SPEAKER 04 :
Nice.
SPEAKER 11 :
That's what I called about. I'm taking a buddy up to South Dakota after the first year to get a pickup that he's going to buy. And we're going to go on my F-150. Now, it's got close to 300,000 miles on it, but I keep it serviced. I know how you do things. Yeah, and I use that Ford full synthetic 520 in it. Anyway, I was wondering, I've been taking it over to Olds Garage to have them check it all out and get it serviced on Tuesdays. Anything else you can tell us? Do you think I could make that trip all right without anything worrying about breaking down?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, absolutely.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay, yeah. It's never really given me any trouble, just some little minor things. It's been a really good vehicle.
SPEAKER 04 :
I mean, Conrad, the way I know you, the way you take care of things and so on, have a good once-over done on it, and as long as there's nothing that crops up as a red flag, go.
SPEAKER 10 :
But you've had that truck for a while, so you know it. I mean, if you feel any funny noises or vibrations, get it taken care of before you go. Otherwise, you're going to be fine.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, no, I haven't had anything like that, for sure. And like I said, I never let it go over 5,000 on an oil change. Usually I try to do around 2,000 to 3,000.
SPEAKER 04 :
Like I say, I know you, so you won't have any issues. What year is the F-150? It's a 2010.
SPEAKER 11 :
We've got the 5.4 Triton engine.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yep. If you have any issues, you'll be great. Yep. Have fun. All right, guys. Don't worry and have fun.
SPEAKER 18 :
Merry Christmas.
SPEAKER 04 :
You too, Conrad. Merry Christmas to you too. No, I know Conrad. I know he takes care of things and all of that. So, yeah, go have fun. Get it checked and then go and have fun. James, you're next. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 08 :
Hi, John. My wife wanted to buy a car from Carvanis. And I don't know if it's appropriate to ask you what you think of that.
SPEAKER 04 :
Very appropriate to ask me. I'm not a Carvana fan. I mean, be careful. I don't want to slander anybody. But Carvana has been known, especially in Colorado, and they have been reprimanded from the state on this end of things. They are very well known for not delivering the paperwork like they should and also selling branded products. cars as non-branded, and that is one of the problems I have with Carvana specifically, James.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay, and when you say branded, what do you mean by that?
SPEAKER 04 :
Salvage title. They'll wash the title somewhere else. The car actually is a salvage title car, but they wash the title and still bring the thing into Colorado and sell it as a non-branded, non-salvage titled car. okay and what does it mean when they say it's a certified that doesn't mean much of anything doesn't mean diddly squat i mean and this is true by the way with anybody and here's my here's my feeling on great question this is universal to anybody out there buying used cars Certified means by whom? Now, I get it. Toyota has their – it's going through this many inspections and so on. But, James, really, at the end of the day, it comes down to who's in the used car department at that time, because that's typically not their regular service department doing the certifications. It's their used car department. repair side that's doing this because they're certifying non, in the case of Toyota, non-Toyotas, you know, now they're certifying Toyotas as well, but they're doing this quote-unquote, you know, certified inspection. Now, when it comes to like Toyota, for example, to be certified, it even has to have a certain amount of, you know, under a certain amount of miles and so many owners and so on and so forth. So that's a little bit different. But as far as the actual checking of the vehicle, it really comes down to who did it. How thorough were they? And every technician could be a little different in the things that they're actually looking at and so on. When it comes to Carvana, I have no idea what their specifications on that are. No clue.
SPEAKER 08 :
Right, and you don't know what you're getting, really, right?
SPEAKER 04 :
I have no idea. And again, I really want to be careful that I'm not trying to slander or say anything bad about Carvana, but what I'm telling you are known problems that they have had across the country in multiple states, not just Colorado, and they have been known, James, to go as long as 90%. right right it's not fair
SPEAKER 08 :
And what about the other thing like Carfax?
SPEAKER 04 :
Carfax will tell you. Another great question, by the way, James, for all of you that are listening, please pay attention to this. Looking at used cars. Carfax is a indicator of what's been done on the car. And now the part of Carfax that's always going to be pretty true is who bought it, when did they buy it, And where was it registered and when? That's pretty accurate on Carfax because all of the states report that end of things. Beyond that, it comes down to did the shop, you know, did the car go to a shop that actually reports those things? Because not all do. And or if an owner even does things, you know, like, for example, James, on the truck I'm driving right now, I've done two oil changes myself. That will not be on a Carfax. It's not going to show up as having changed. I could manually go in and build a... a report in Carfax if I wanted to, but you know, who's got time to dink with all of that? So the reality is, even though mine's been done twice, if you were to look at Carfax, it's not going to show that. So Carfax is a indicator, but it is not the Bible as far as what's been done on a car. That's why every used car that gets purchased or is about to be purchased has to have a used car thorough inspection done on it, no matter who the dealer is and what they're saying about the car.
SPEAKER 08 :
In other words, I should take it to my mechanic.
SPEAKER 04 :
Absolutely. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay, before you do anything.
SPEAKER 04 :
And I'm saying this, James, and I tell this to everybody all the time. It has to be a pre-purchase inspection, not a post-purchase inspection. Because in the state of Colorado, once you've bought it, you own it, and you want to know the problems on the car prior to the purchase.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay, so anything your mechanic writes down, like they want you to stay there if you're bringing a car in for inspection so they can point stuff out to you.
SPEAKER 04 :
It depends. I mean, when I was doing this back in the day when I owned my shops, a lot of times even the used car dealer themselves would drop the car off. You would pay me through... You know, our system of payment, usually a credit card over the phone at that point. I would only give you as the potential buyer that report, the used car place or the new car place, even that maybe had a used car department would come and pick the vehicle up and take it back to themselves. But I would give you the report, not them.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay. The other question I have is I'm looking up at the Ridgeline Motors, and everything they sell is pretty dependable and checked out, isn't it?
SPEAKER 04 :
They put a warranty on each car. Because they have their own repair shop, yes, they're thoroughly looking at the vehicle and in some cases doing repairs on the vehicle because it needs it before they actually feel comfortable about selling the vehicle. And then on top of that, you know, they can do the financing, and if you want to do an extended warranty or anything like that, they can handle all of that as well. But, yeah, their cars automatically come with a 30-day warranty.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay, and I have one more question too.
SPEAKER 04 :
These are great questions, so keep them coming, James. These are all good.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay, well, yeah, part of it was if... you got something from them, they would be looking at it that way.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, and I'm glad you asked that because Josh and I, who's the owner there, we've talked about this many times, and he has said this openly on air. If you don't trust them being the persons that have inspected and certified, quote-unquote, the vehicle, and you want to take it to your own mechanic, he doesn't care. Be their guest. And I was going to say that to say this, James. If any of you listening are looking to buy a used car from anyone and they will not allow you to have it inspected, walk away.
SPEAKER 08 :
Walk away as soon as you can.
SPEAKER 04 :
That tells you that they're not comfortable in how they're presenting the car to you.
SPEAKER 08 :
Now, is that the same true if you go to a dealership? Yep. I don't care who it is. I don't care who it is. You should be able to drive it and take it to your mechanic. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 04 :
When I say I don't care who it is, I don't care if it's your brother-in-law. Have it inspected. Right, right.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, I'm glad I got a hold of you.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, because hopefully, James, through this process, we'll save you a lot of potential headache. Yep. Well, I appreciate it, and I'm going to pass that along to my wife. There you go, James. Great questions, by the way. Thank you so much for calling in because a lot of folks this time of year will be looking at doing different things along those lines, you know, trading, trading up, trading down, even depending upon financial situations or what you're looking to do. Maybe there's a new driver coming on board early next year, which, as a side note before we go to break, if you have a new driver coming on board, teenager, I mean, and I think in Colorado now they can start driving at 15. I think they have to have driver's ed and some other things, but I think they can start at 15 now, not the 15 in six months or so, but I think they can even start now with mom and dad at 15. I'm a big proponent, and I've raised many a kid, And I'm a big proponent on putting your child in the car they're going to be driving once they're driving. Teach them how to drive in the car that they're going to be driving. Now, some would say, no, they need to learn how to drive everything. Well, and I'm not against that, and I'm not against them driving other cars as well, but I really want that teenager that's going to be 16 driving on their own by themselves. And statistics show you... that the majority of accidents that happen in the United States of America are between that 16 and 18 years of age because they're new drivers. They don't have the experience all the rest of you that are listening have. So I'm a big one on if you've got a new driver and you're going to place them in a car, maybe you're going to pass your car down. Okay, great. So be it. If that's the way it's going to work, teach them in that. Pass it down when it's time. Fine. But if you're going to put them in a car of their own – Get that car as soon as they start driving with you, and that becomes their car they're going to drive down the road when they turn 16. That's the way I look at it, and both of you guys are agreeing. So that's how I would do it. So, guys, we'll come right back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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All right, last segment, Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Thanks for joining us today. Again, Pat Schneidt from Alltech Automotive up in Fort Collins with me, and, of course, Steve Horvath from Geno's Auto Service as well. Vic and Thornton, you are next, sir. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 07 :
Hi, John. I've been trying to winterize my rototiller, and I'm afraid I waited too long, and I got kind of a varnish-y smell in the gasoline. I was wondering what you could recommend for that.
SPEAKER 04 :
If you're starting, this is for all of you listening. If any vehicle you have or even any piece of equipment starts to get that varnish smell, you need to get that fuel out of it as quickly as you can. There's no treatment you're going to put in it to get rid of the varnish. The gas is starting to go bad is where I'm going. That's where the varnish smell is coming from. And the only way to get rid of that, Vic, is to get all of it out or as much of it out as you can and put fresh fuel back in it. since it's a vehicle that evidently must sit quite a bit, put some BG Supercharge in it to keep the fuel from going bad. And I've literally had fuel last up to two years long with the BG Supercharge in it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Did you say B?
SPEAKER 04 :
BG, which is one of our sponsors. BG, it's a product called Supercharge.
SPEAKER 07 :
And where will they get that?
SPEAKER 04 :
Napa.
SPEAKER 07 :
Napa.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yep, in retail.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay. I suppose the directions are on it as to how much... Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER 04 :
If you've got... For example, Vic, I went and got a five-gallon can filled up the other day because I had some equipment at home I needed to run through the winter and so on, and that five gallons will sit all the way through the winter and probably early summer. I went ahead and looked at the bottle and added as much of the BG supercharge as I felt that five gallons needed just to have it treated through the winter and Whether I use it up or not isn't going to hurt anything anyways. A BG supercharge is just a nice cleaner as well, but it will stabilize the fuel and make it last.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, so once I get the fresh fuel in, don't try to start it.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, I mean, once you get fresh fuel in it, you can start it and run. In fact, that'd be a good way to get some things cleaned out and so on. And the supercharge in that fuel will even help with some of what we're talking about. So, no, once you get the fuel down and you get fresh fuel in it, start it and drive it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yep. So that's better than the... Oh, it's kind of red stuff. I can't think of the name of it. It's a fuel saver.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, a stable. I like the BG product better than the stable because it's got some other properties that do some fuel system cleaning that the stable does not have.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, well, I'll get that stinking gas out.
SPEAKER 04 :
There you go, and it is stinking. Now, also, Vic, for you and everybody else listening, a lot of people want to know, what do I do with that bad gas? Where do I take it? Anybody, anybody, shop or otherwise, that has a waste oil heater to heat their shop can take that old fuel and burn it in their waste oil heater, and they'll just take it off your hands for free.
SPEAKER 07 :
Cool. Okay.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay? Just something to know.
SPEAKER 07 :
I knew you'd have the answer.
SPEAKER 04 :
There you go, Vic. Appreciate you very much. Have a great... Yeah, for a lot of you that are listening, and most people don't know this, but if you've got a waste oil heater, and a lot of us do. I have a waste oil heater in my fleet shop, even, that we heat it with. And a lot of shops, automotive shops, will have a waste oil heater, fleet shops as well, because they get a lot of oil that comes in. Yep. And rather than trying to pay to dispose of all of that, they'll use it for heat. They burn it, use it for heat. It works extremely well. These heaters are very, very efficient. You won't even notice anything coming up out of the stack at all because they're literally burning everything up, and it works extremely, extremely well. Keep in mind, back east, there's a ton of people heating homes. Off of oil. It's not much different in that regard. And a waste oil heater, again, that bad fuel that won't burn in your vehicle mixed in with enough other oil and things will burn just fine, and it'll run right through that waste oil heater no problem, and it works extremely well, and it's a good way to not have to pay somebody to dispose of your old varnished vehicle. So for some of you that may end up with some of that, that's a really great way to get rid of some of that. And then also, too, Napa and a lot of places will also take your old oil, your recycled oil. But I will tell you that a lot of facilities that used waste oil to heat their facility with, they will love you to no end if you drop your oil off of them. because you're helping them heat their building, and in a lot of cases they need as much of that oil as they can get throughout the winter months especially. So like right now where they've already been running the furnace through October, November, and now December, they will take that waste oil, no problem, no questions asked, as long as there's nothing that is... How should I say this, guys? Hazardous, I guess you could say, in that oil. I mean, you can't have old carb cleaner, which has now become really tough to get rid of. Some of you guys even have those five-gallon cans of the old chemical carburetor cleaner. Yeah, that stuff's really hard to dispose of. Outside of that, a waste oil furnace will burn automatic transmission fluid, power steering fluid, cooking grease out of your frying pan. I mean, I can go down the list. I mean, literally, if it's any kind of an oil along those lines or bad gas, it will burn it up. No problem. You guys get some diesel fuel even that might have a little bit of... you know, buildup inside of it or it starts getting some algae buildup, it'll burn that as well. So anything that you're trying to dispose of that's an oil-type product, anybody with a waste oil heater will take. Now, for some of you that have your own home shops, I mean, Barnes maybe is a better way to say that. These are also things that as long as you've got the ability to fuel that waste oil heater, you've got enough waste oil around and so on, and you feel you can feed that, I guess the best way to say that. For those of you that have built barns and things like that, and you're trying to figure out a good cost-effective way to heat them, I just gave you the answer. They work extremely, extremely well. And again, a lot of shops, I don't know if you two guys have them, but you do. Okay, so Pat has one. So yeah, they work extremely well. There's a little maintenance on them that we on our end have to perform on typically either an annual or semi-annual basis. But if you've never been around one, most of the time you don't know a shop has one because you can't smell it. You don't know it's there. You don't know it exists. It works just like any other furnace would. They have a thermostat on them just like a normal furnace would have. And They work. Pat's over here shaking his head. They work extremely well, right?
SPEAKER 10 :
They do, and they're actually quieter than the forced air furnaces that we use, too.
SPEAKER 04 :
And you don't feel so bad about turning the heat up when you have one of those. That's right. Because you know that what you're really the only thing it's costing you is the electricity to run the fan and the pump. Other than that, again, most of the waste oil in shops is coming in, you know, free gratis from what you're actually draining out and so on. And it works extremely well. So just a side note for those of you that are trying to dispose of some old fluids and so on. All right. Hope you guys had a great day today. Charlie Grimes, of course, our engineer. Larry Unger in there answering phones. Appreciate him as well. Pat, thank you very much. Give folks your phone number on how to get a hold of you.
SPEAKER 10 :
You bet. Alltech Automotive at 970-224-9718. And Steve Forbath from Geno's, you as well.
SPEAKER 05 :
Thank you.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, you want the phone number too?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, please. 794-6700.
SPEAKER 04 :
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Hey, good morning.
SPEAKER 20 :
Merry Christmas. It's a great day to drive down anyways. Oh, beautiful day today. Gorgeous. So, yeah, not any better than that. So, appreciate you taking time out of your day, which, given that it's so nice outside, you guys are making a big sacrifice. So, thank you. We could be golfing. You could be doing lots of things outside besides being here. We appreciate you being here. And those of you listening, again, give us what your ideas are for great gift ideas for the Motorhead in your world. On top of that, of course, Larry Unger is answering phones for us today, and Charlie Grimes, our engineer. But when it comes to some of those gift ideas and the reason why we're doing that today, and depending upon how far we get along, might continue this into next week. We'll just see how it goes. But bottom line. we know we're hard to buy for okay i will be the first to admit that and when you're one of those individuals that you know what's that old saying you have tools to fix tools which most of us do yeah it's hard to go buy another tool that you know that individual will actually enjoy although during fix it radio we had lots of great suggestions from not only the the callers and listeners that you know called in but i had a pretty good list of items that we'll continue on with next week as well so again what is that great gift idea for that motorhead in your world and we'll take those calls 303-477-5600 but i'll start with you guys any anything that you want to add to the list pat we'll start with you you bet i got one uh so this is colorado and the average day it could go from 20 degrees to 70 degrees and back to 20 again so in almost every car i just keep a car oriented hoodie sweatshirt when uh when it gets cool pull it out and let's go Yeah, it's not a bad idea. Again, that's another great – I talk about this on some of my other programs. There are some items that, for example, tape measures and flashlights. Can you ever have enough of? No is the answer because you will stick those in each car. You'll put them in each toolbox, tool bag. You'll have them in a drawer in the garage. house. You'll have one in your nightstand. I mean, the reality is when it comes to, you know, flashlights especially, you never have enough. And the hoodie thing that Pat just mentioned as well, kind of the same deal. Okay, so you have an extra one you go throw in the car and it's always there because I do the same thing, Pat. I've actually got one in the truck that i keep in the back underneath the seat at all times so you've got it no matter what if you need it it's there uh they're easy to you know they're easy and cheap and in my case uh you end up getting some that are given away at times from promotional things and so on so you know when i have one of those i just go throw it in the back like you just said yep i have those little have you seen those little magnet lights that they charge up and you can they click anywhere you want to put them and they you can kind of adjust them they're really small they're cheap
SPEAKER 04 :
And you know what the problem is, you always leave them on a car. And the car comes back like two months later, three months later, and it's still there. Oh, that's hilarious. It's still there, but I've lost a few of those. You do lose those.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yeah, and tape measures, they get legs and walk off as well. I'll just say straight up, those are some items that even if you know somebody has a lot of items, Will they ever refuse another tape measure or flashlight headlamp, the little stick-on lights that Steve was just talking about? Literally, anything along those lines. Will they ever refuse anything like that? No, they will never refuse those. All right, let's get started on questions. Rich in Nevada, go ahead.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes, I've got three or four questions here. Sure, go ahead. One thing is I've got one of these slime digital tire gauges. I also have a pump that shows a gauge. You stick it on and pump up the air. And then I also have a stick, and all three of them give me a different reading, as much as five pounds difference. Which would be the most reliable, would you think?
SPEAKER 20 :
Which one's the most expensive of what you own? Oh, really? Is that right? I'm not. And by the way, the old sticks are usually fairly accurate, the way those things are designed. As long as it's a professional type stick, you know, pressure gauge, what I'm trying to say there. As long as it's a professional, you know, there are some really inexpensive ones that are out there. You know, what I'm talking about is if it's the heavy steel, you know, you pick the thing up and you know there's some robustness to it. Those are going to be, even though they're not digital, they're accurate, Rich.
SPEAKER 09 :
Is that right? Okay, good.
SPEAKER 20 :
Now, if it's a cheesy aluminum one, they're not as accurate.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay, then. And then also on oil, does oil age out by just sitting there? Should you dump it every six months regardless of mileage, or what would you recommend?
SPEAKER 20 :
Once it's in the car, it can age out over time, and rule of thumb is you should change at least once a year, even if it's a vehicle that you don't drive much. Now, there's a caveat I'll add to that. If you have your vehicle, and a lot of you listening do, if you've got a vehicle and it's in pretty climate-controlled space, in other words, it doesn't get super hot in the summertime, doesn't get super cold in the winter, stays above 50 in the winter and stays below 90 in the summer, you don't have a lot of temperature variation, honestly, Rich, in that case, you could even probably stretch that with the new synthetic oils we have. You could stretch that to probably once every other year if you don't drive it at all. I mean, some people don't drive... you know, 100 miles a year, for example. In that case, yeah, you could stretch that out for a couple of years. Otherwise, if you're driving, you know, 3,000, 4,000 miles a year, that oil's really not aging out per se, but the type of trips you're using and so on, you need to do an annual oil change.
SPEAKER 06 :
Rich, are you talking about in the car or in the bottle?
SPEAKER 09 :
Is the oil still in the bottle? In the car.
SPEAKER 06 :
In the car, okay.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yeah, in the bottle, it never ages out. Right. It'll get too old for the SFI spec before it ages out.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay. And then on a turbocharged engine, how often would you recommend having that oil change on that?
SPEAKER 1 :
4,000.
SPEAKER 09 :
Every 4,000?
SPEAKER 20 :
On a turbocharged engine, yes. Because it's most likely direct injection, meaning we need to do the full synthetic, the EPR treatment from BG, the MOA, which is the mortar oil additive, and the 44K, and you want to do that at every oil change. And that's going to keep carbon deposits and things inside of the engine down, therefore giving you better longevity and and saving money down the road. And there's all sorts of, for all of you listening that have direct injection engines, there's all sorts of videos now out there of guys even that do engine rebuilds and so on that will show you what happens inside the engine not doing the things that we're recommending.
SPEAKER 09 :
And you should do that every oil change. Really, is that right? Wow, okay. And then also, I've got an F-150 2011 model. And I had the first time I've ever done an engine restore, you know, that you talk about where they clean out the carbonation. And I've actually seemed like I've actually lost one or two miles per gallon after that. Could that have caused that or not?
SPEAKER 20 :
No. What specific product did you use, Rich?
SPEAKER 09 :
I'm not for sure.
SPEAKER 20 :
It wasn't a BG or anything like that. Okay. And again, if you could maybe even email me at a later date what particular product they used, I can do a little bit of research on that. But the BG product we talk about, You will generally, I mean, it's not a guarantee, but you will generally pick up some mileage with what we recommend because of what it's doing inside to the rings and so on. You will normally pick up some mileage when it's all said and done. So to lose mileage, that's where I want to know exactly what did they do and see if there's any correlation. There shouldn't be, but I don't know in your case because I don't know what they did.
SPEAKER 09 :
Sure, sure. And back to the turbocharged engine, how often should you change that air filter? I understand that... Only when it's needed.
SPEAKER 20 :
Only when it's needed, and that's one of those items. I'm glad you brought that up. We don't talk about this near enough. Most air filters are changed far too often. In fact, I'm one that believes that... Unless you've got significant mileage and or you've been driving in really dirty areas, don't even touch the box. I am not a fan of opening the box every oil change because, frankly, they don't need it. Air filters will run 30,000, 40,000 miles fairly easily, especially in all the modern filters we've got today and the good air boxes and so on. If you're using a good quality filter, I guess I should start off by saying that. If you're using a premium filter, they'll go that long. But I am not somebody that says they need to be checked every single oil change because, frankly, every time the box is opened, there's more risk of getting debris into it then than if you just left it alone.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 20 :
And that's coming from somebody that has a fleet of street sweepers that run in very dirty elements all of the time. And, Rich, we don't touch them until we know for sure it's at a point where they need replaced or cleaned because what I just said applies to that area especially, but it really applies to every single engine out there. Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay, then. Okay, well, thank you very much. Appreciate your help.
SPEAKER 20 :
You're very welcome, Rich. And that is something over the years that I learned. And that, by the way, is a little bit opposite of what they teach us in the automotive world. Because I grew up where every oil change, you check the filter. Of course, I grew up in the 70s to where you almost needed a filter about every other oil change. It was a little different time. But as we've gotten to where there's the enclosed air boxes. And we've got a flat filter. It's not a round filter anymore that goes around the carburetor. It's a flat filter inside of an air box. They're typically positioned in a spot, by the way, where there's not as much dirty air coming into it in the first place. Back in the day, you were sucking air right off the engine. As time went by, got into the early 80s or so, they kind of started ducting even the air cleaners then kind of out to the front grill area of the vehicle. When we moved into the actual air boxes where the inlet of the air box is typically right up front by where one of the headlamps or the grill area is at, we are literally now sucking much cleaner air into the engine than what we ever did. And the problem is... Yes, there still can be some dirts and bugs and some contaminants and stuff in there. And remember, every time that box gets opened, some of what I just mentioned can naturally fall into the area that will then get sucked into the engine. So unless a technician is super diligent. And they've got, frankly, and I talk about this on Fix-It Radio a lot, one of the little portable shop vacs that's really handy to have that are cordless. Unless they're vacuuming all of that out really well and putting everything back together, which, by the way, most don't. And I'm not criticizing anybody. If you go to QuickLoop, by the way, none of what I just said is happening. They're opening it up. They're looking. They're putting it back together, and off it goes. And, frankly, you're doing more disservice on that engine than you would be if you just left it alone. And the other misconception, and, by the way, you don't hear it as much anymore. but used to be people talked about changing the filter and picking up fuel economy. That is actually a lie. On modern vehicles that are computer-controlled, a dirty air filter means there's less airflow going to the engine, meaning that the fuel-air ratio is going to change, meaning you're going to cut back on fuel, not add fuel. So it's actually the opposite. Putting a new filter in might actually decrease fuel economy, then increase it because power is going to increase and so on. So, again, that's one of those things where if you hear any ad out there, from any auto shop saying, yeah, change your air filter and improve mileage. You don't go there because they have no idea how things on the actual car itself work. And they're essentially misleading in the advertisement because nothing could be farther from the truth. And yet in our world, even a lot of old technicians will tell you what I just said is wrong, that changing an air filter will actually improve mileage. things um yeah no it doesn't been around it far too long and no it does not so lucy jerry you guys hang tight we have one line open 303-477-5600 pat from fort collins and steve from geno's we'll be right back this is drive radio klz 560.
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SPEAKER 20 :
All right, we are back again. I should add, too, on the air filter end of things, we were talking through the break, Pat, Steve, and I were. Also, the other big no-no, and some folks will still do this from time to time, never blow an air filter out with compressed air, period. This is not your furnace filter. This isn't the lawnmower air filter. I mean, we're doing, you know, this is a very high-end thing that's in most modern cars. The age of the fleet is about 13 1⁄2 years now. And these guys can answer this better than I. The average engine replacement cost, guys, is how much? 10K or more? Yep, north of 10. Okay, north of 10K. So you're going to blow an air filter out and risk, in some of what I just mentioned in that last segment, risk damaging a $10,000-plus component on the vehicle. Yeah, not worth it, folks. So, yeah, just don't go down that path. Lucy, you are next.
SPEAKER 12 :
Hi, John.
SPEAKER 20 :
Hey, Lucy. Hi.
SPEAKER 12 :
In October, I purchased a brand new 2025 Subaru Outback. Beautiful. Okay. Crystal pearl, warm ivy interior.
SPEAKER 18 :
Very nice.
SPEAKER 12 :
I'm going to upgrade it. I'm an avid listener, so I put a clear bra on it. Nice. I tinted the windows. And that ceramic coating, I learned about that on your show. It's amazing. Yep. The snow just falls right on.
SPEAKER 20 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 12 :
And the car looks like... I'm back from when they put clear coat on cars years ago, and that's what it reminds me of. The color looks deep.
SPEAKER 20 :
Very... Everything you just said, you are the testament, so thank you. Nice.
SPEAKER 12 :
Um... This is the thing. I drove a Lexus previously, and this is a very practical car that's comfortable and handles beautifully, but it's not my style. I want to put it on the market, and I want to know what selling platform you suggest. I only want a price fair to me and the buyer. But this is such a new car, it's different than selling a used car. So what do you suggest?
SPEAKER 04 :
That's a tough one. It is.
SPEAKER 20 :
It is. And the reason I say that is because most people buying this car that would be buying it on the used market will need to get it financed. You actually, Lucy, would be best off calling Josh and Justin up at Ridgeline Auto Brokers in Boulder, having them consign the vehicle. They've got the ability to help somebody get financed and handle that whole end of it. and still get you top dollar when it's all said and done, and you're not messing with somebody coming and driving and are they legit or not. And the transactional side of it would be so much easier. Safer. And safer, yes.
SPEAKER 12 :
And I'm actually buying the vehicle I'm replacing this with from Ridgeline Auto.
SPEAKER 20 :
Oh, perfect, perfect. Then just tell them what you want to do and let them handle the whole thing.
SPEAKER 12 :
But I was under the impression they only handle cars up to $25,000.
SPEAKER 20 :
That's their normal, but they will do other cars. I mean, I talk to them weekly, so, yeah, they will. I mean, their advertising and what they specialize in is that $10,000 to $25,000 range. But, no, they've sold and they have at times vehicles that are much higher in price than that, all the way up to $100,000 or so. So, yeah, they've sold many a vehicle in that upper price range.
SPEAKER 04 :
And they may have somebody already interested.
SPEAKER 20 :
On that particular car, Lucy, they may very well have somebody interested. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 12 :
And I'm willing to take a hit on it. I know the minute you drive off the showroom floor, it loses a little value. But I'm just at the point in my life where I want a car I absolutely love.
SPEAKER 20 :
Can't blame you.
SPEAKER 12 :
I don't want to just have transportation. Don't settle.
SPEAKER 20 :
No, don't settle, Lucy. I'm not going to argue with you on that. I can't blame you at all. But you've also put some nice features on this car, too. Sure. That'll upgrade it as well. Absolutely. What are you going to buy?
SPEAKER 12 :
A Lexus, and I've always driven a Lexus, and I got used to the Lexus product, which is incredible.
SPEAKER 20 :
It's a fine product. There's nothing wrong with them at all, Lucy. We talk about them. Even the ones I test drive and we give reviews on, they're just solid vehicles. There's not a thing wrong with them.
SPEAKER 12 :
And ideally, I'd like a 1984 911 because I'm from the— Oh, yeah, you and me both.
SPEAKER 20 :
I'm with you there, Lucy.
SPEAKER 06 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 20 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 12 :
So there's my wish list.
SPEAKER 06 :
No, that's a good one as well. Absolutely. You might need to have two cars.
SPEAKER 12 :
And I was willing to compromise, but I tried it and it didn't work for me.
SPEAKER 20 :
And really quick for all of you listening, Lucy, and I've driven plenty of Subarus over the years on test vehicles. I've never owned one. And I can fully understand what you're saying. While the Subaru is very practical, they drive well. It's a great car for the majority of people. We'll go from A to B, especially in our snow and all of that. They have one of the best four-wheel drive systems out there for that end of things, and they're fabulous. But it's not a Lexus. That's right.
SPEAKER 12 :
My thought exactly. And I tried it and it didn't work. And, you know, at least I tried it. But once you drive something like a Lexus, you know.
SPEAKER 20 :
And for all of you listening, I mean, Lucy and you know, but for folks listening that may not, I mean, this is everything from the creature comforts, how it sounds inside, the driving factor as far as the way it feels and steers and so on. They're just not in the same category of cars.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, and my interiors were mahogany and real wood. And I walked up to my car, and I would just be so happy and proud to be getting into a Lexus. And I just don't have that feeling. And I'm at the age where life is too short to not be happy.
SPEAKER 20 :
Absolutely. I fully agree with you, Lucy.
SPEAKER 12 :
So a few extra thousand dollars in the grand scheme of things is nothing if I'm happy with the vehicle. But I'm delighted you recommended Ridgeline. They have so much integrity and professionalism, and I've loved working with them. I've worked with them before.
SPEAKER 20 :
And Justin will be around even today, Lucy. Call Justin. And sooner than later, because this time of the year, people look to do things at end of year for all sorts of different reasons. So on this one, especially, sooner than later. agreed and it doesn't have a scratcher doorman perfect perfect far away from everything it's perfect and i the sooner i i am unable to sell it the better absolutely john thank you lucy no program thank you so much appreciate you very much merry christmas to you and uh... yeah they will probably listening to if you're looking for a new used car or you're looking to do something even like what lucy just mentioned a moment ago uh... ridge line auto brokers and its legacy auto repair as well they now have three locations as far as the service end of it goes so they can take your your vehicle in multiple locations and then as far as the sale of it goes they can handle that as well they can sell you a new a new used car in the boulder area or they can do it up north in fort collins doesn't matter just give them a call and with lucy being in golden not that far of a drive to boulder and she's already used them but for those of you listening doesn't really matter where you're at they will help you with that purchase and yeah it's a way different experience than going to your typical dealership in buying something new or used i'll just tell you that straight up so jerry and greely go ahead
SPEAKER 16 :
I've got a Craftsman brand clicker-style torque wrench that I bought about 40 years ago. I don't know why, but it's out of calibration now. It happens.
SPEAKER 20 :
It happens.
SPEAKER 16 :
And I've been on the Internet trying to figure out how to calibrate it. During my research, I find these people giving advice to exercise the wrench. They say run it all the way up to the top end of the scale and then back down three times.
SPEAKER 20 :
That's the way you're supposed to do it. Back in the day, we would do that, yeah. Nowadays, with the newer digital units and so on, Jerry, they have changed immensely from the one that you have. And I would just tell you straight up. They're imported, but for those that don't need them on a daily basis and don't need to spend $500 on a torque wrench, you literally, Jerry, could buy a new digital imported, wherever it's coming from overseas, buy one for less money than calibrating yours.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, I'd never heard of this exercising thing, and the instruction manual that came with the torque wrench new doesn't say anything about it.
SPEAKER 20 :
No, that was kind of an internal thing in the industry we just all knew to do back in the day. And again, they've changed so much from the one that you have that, and I still have some of the old ones like what you've got, Jerry, but most everything now has been modernized like a lot of other tools and much different than what you're using. And really quick, there's even some, you can watch some videos on this for those of you listening. A lot of those click type units are actually not torquing it to even the exact specifications that you're setting. So let's say you're setting 60 pounds on the torque wrench. I've seen videos on this even Snap-on's got a great video on this is how this works. As you're getting ready to click, when it goes to the click, you could be at 59, you could be at 61, you could be at 62, you could even be as high as 65. The new modern high-end wrenches, Jerry, that a lot of the guys use in the engine you know, the engine rebuilt, you know, remanufactured world and so on. They're using wrenches that will actually give a tone. You go slowly and it'll tone it as soon as you're at the spot you're supposed to be. There's no click anymore because that break over click is where things can get out of adjustment on what you're trying to torque. The new modern wrenches that are very expensive and do the toning that I just explained are a lot more accurate and used in that engine. Typically in the engine end of things is this much more precise there than what you would need other places.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, something else that's new to me that I've stumbled across is the electronic adapters, where I guess you can put them on any wrench. And what do you think about those?
SPEAKER 20 :
They work very well as well. Same principle. They're putting the device between a regular ratchet, per se, or breaker bar, per se, and the socket that you would be on. The other thing you have to remember about torque wrenches, and most people that use them know this, but you can't use any kind of... extensions or anything along those lines when you're using a torque wrench because it's going to change the torque value going through the extension and a lot of people a lot of home you know a lot of guys working out of the garage don't know what i just said don't understand that you can't use an extension and you even have to be careful how long your socket is and what kind of socket you're even using to make sure you're accurate when it comes to that impact sockets being the best because there's less movement in them right and what are you using the fork wrench for mostly
SPEAKER 16 :
Torquing my wheels down when I rotate my tires.
SPEAKER 20 :
In that case, I mean, if you're off a couple of pounds, it's not going to make a hill of beans bit of difference, Jerry. That's one where it's not as big of a deal. Now, something else you can think about, and they're very accurate, and they work very well, and they're not as expensive as they used to be, just get what they call a torque stick. So you buy a torque stick that actually goes on the end of an impact gun, which most of us have even at home now because they've gotten so inexpensive. And if you use a torque stick to whatever that specification is supposed to be, they're all colored. You can buy them in a kit or you can buy just the one that you want. And if you do that, you don't ever have to torque them.
SPEAKER 1 :
Got it.
SPEAKER 16 :
All right. Well, I appreciate the advice as always, gentlemen.
SPEAKER 20 :
You're very welcome, Jerry. Appreciate you very much. Yeah. And the torque wrench thing, we don't get into a lot of this because most homeowners and even DIYers aren't doing that much anymore with torque wrenches. And unless you're doing some engine rebuilding type stuff or even like differential work or things like that, very seldom are you getting into where you need a torque wrench and even a lot of technicians anymore. Would I... As a shop owner, would I require a technician to have a torque wrench? I'd probably buy that as a shop tool now just because you're using it so – other than wheels and things like we just mentioned, we're using torque sticks typically for that anyway. So, yeah, as far as a torque wrench in a shop goes, do you need one per technician? No, you could use one per shop and be just fine. Am I wrong, guys?
SPEAKER 06 :
You share it back and forth, and I think what you also said is the more precise the job, the better tool you need.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, and when you're doing engine stuff, you're using the degrees, right? So we're torquing to 33 pounds, and then we're turning it 180 or 90.
SPEAKER 20 :
Way different than what it used to be back in the day. But for those of you that even do a lot of your stuff at home, as far as the torquing of the lug nuts and all that goes, honestly, to make it nice and fast, if you do a lot of that yourself, just get yourself a set of torque sticks. Typically, they'll come in, what, four or five different torque sticks. Most of them are four, I believe, and they've all got the different poundages and stuff. and the nut size that you would need for each, and off you go. And we've been using those in the industry for, gosh, how many decades now, guys? Two or three decades now.
SPEAKER 04 :
Two or three, yeah.
SPEAKER 20 :
They've been around. So anyways.
SPEAKER 04 :
Mine are all worn off. I can't tell the color anymore.
SPEAKER 20 :
Food for thought. So just something to think about when it comes to that end of things. Again, we're asking for great gift ideas for motorheads, and I just gave you one, by the way. The Torx sticks for if you know somebody that does a lot of this at home. Maybe they're even doing your rotations for you. You take it over, they do it, whatever. Yeah, these are great ideas as far as that goes because they're very handy to have around even in your own shop at home, and they're not as expensive as they once were. Another one of those items that has come way down in price from what they were a couple of decades ago. So we'll be right back. Drive Radio is, of course, what you're listening to. The website, drive-radio.com. This is KLZ 560.
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They sell worldwide, but their showroom is right here. here in Denver. Find them today at worldwidevintageautos.com or call 877-378-4679 and make sure you tell them John Rush from Drive Radio sent you. All right, we are back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Question of the day. Great gift ideas for that motorhead in your world, that do-it-yourselfer. Again, Pat Schneidt from Alltech Automotive with us today from Fort Collins. There's two locations up there to service you. And Steve from Geno's. It's on the other end of the spectrum, all the way down south here, Geno's Auto Service. So either way, if you want to find those guys, just go to drive-radio.com and Find them there. And Larry, who just walked in at the break and said, here, here's a great gift idea. Now, this one I get a lot of. Questions, even. I'll get text messages on this one. What do I buy? And it's jump box. So we've started talking about jump boxes, gosh, guys, probably a decade ago, and I'm not exaggerating when I say that. Advising people, throw your jumper cables away. If you want to keep them in the back room or whatever, and you had to go jump start your tractor or something, whatever. Okay, fine. Go for it. On modern cars, don't use jumper cables. The risk of having things get hooked up incorrectly, you've got a helper there, something happens, then wiping out a computer and other things, it's there. It happens. These guys are shaking their heads because they see it happen all the time. So use the jump boxes. All of the good ones, which for the most part now is almost everything. have a circuit protector in them where you can't hook them up backwards. If you do, they'll just not do anything. They're just, hey, I'm hooked up backwards and I'm not going to do anything. So there's some internal protection as far as that goes. And then you're also, you're just not worried about having these cables running around. You're not pulling up next to the car. All of the stuff that can go wrong jump-starting a car, you eliminate with a jump box. And when I say jump box, we in the shops use an actual box. It's like a lunch box, kind of small igloo-sized lunch box. It has a battery pack in it, and you can use that to start pretty much anything, including big diesel trucks and so on. Sort of what we use in the shop world. That's overkill for most people at home. Unless you've got a big diesel truck, most of you guys can go buy the Norcos or whatever other brand. There's a lot of them even sold at Napa. Pick your poison. The biggest thing there is they're really kind of rated for what car are you trying to start and what engine is in it. The bigger the engine, the bigger the starter, the more amp draw we have, and so on. And so that's one of those where you really have to kind of determine what do you own, who are you maybe even helping at times, and what size jump box do you need in that process. So a lot of this I always tell people, well, my number one question typically back is what are you driving? because then I can help you with what size of a jump box to actually go by. Because, again, if you're driving a diesel truck, you're going to need something much, much more than the guy driving a Civic with a four-cylinder engine. Literally, you're going to be two to three times as much on the one end of the diesel than you would be on the four-cylinder Civic. So that's one of those where, yes, great idea. It could be a great gift idea, although if you're going to do it as a gift, you need to kind of know what you're buying first. for the gift because you don't want to undersize it because if it's undersized, it's a paperweight. You're not going to get any use out of it at that point. Now, also, really fast, Larry said, some of these also come with a built-in air compressor. Yes, they do. So that's another one of those where look at it, what's the size and so on, and how does that work? I'm still a guy where I love the Milwaukee air inflators. They're small enough, and they work with some of the batteries that you probably already have kicking around, and other brands have them as well. Those things work like, I mean, they're so slick, they're just... Built-in gauge, the whole nine yards. They just work fabulous. So, Darrell, you're next. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 07 :
Hi. I got an auto insurance question. Okay. And body damage. My car was rear-ended. Not too bad of damage. Took it to the body shop. The at-fault vehicle that hit us is going to fix it. They were going to pay it. And then the body shop delved into it deeper and put in a supplemental claim.
SPEAKER 20 :
Supplemental claim, that's normal. Yeah, that happens.
SPEAKER 07 :
Which put that up above their threshold, and now they want to total it. It's a 24-year-old car.
SPEAKER 20 :
Not surprised. What is it? What's the vehicle, Daryl?
SPEAKER 07 :
It's a 2000 Toyota Camry.
SPEAKER 20 :
Okay. What's the total claim now up to with the supplemental claim?
SPEAKER 07 :
It was getting upwards of right around about $3,200. Okay.
SPEAKER 20 :
What do you feel the vehicle is worth?
SPEAKER 07 :
That's tough to say on a car that old. Their offer is, they gave two offers. One is if I surrendered the vehicle. Mm-hmm. And one is if I didn't surrender the vehicle. Well, I'm keeping the vehicle. I just put $1,400 worth of work into it, and it's drivable.
SPEAKER 20 :
And that's beside the point, and I'll tell you why in a moment. What are the two offers? Give me the offers.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay. One was $3,200, and the other one was $3,500. $3,200, you keep the vehicle. $3,500, you don't.
SPEAKER 20 :
Correct. Keep in mind, with the $3,500, the other thing that's going to nick the car, not that it matters if you're going to keep it long term, is you'll have a salvage title when it's all said and done.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes, and they won't cut a check until apparently I can get on the Colorado DMV website and change the title myself to a salvage title.
SPEAKER 20 :
I think you can. Bottom line, you're not going to get a check until it is. That's how they do that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, so that's standard.
SPEAKER 20 :
Now, here's the other thing. I think they're too cheap. The buyout is not enough money. That car, if it's in good condition, you said you just put $1,400 into it, which should be taken into account. If that car is very roadworthy, interior is good, paint is good, it's not all beat up, dented up, and so on, it's worth more than $3,500. Agreed. You could replace it for that one.
SPEAKER 07 :
No. Is there like a website that I could kind of verify any of that stuff? Nope.
SPEAKER 20 :
The best thing to do, I've got a sponsor. We interviewed him last week on Fix It Radio. And your best bet is to call Burke Payne. At BP Appraisals, he does this all the time in this arena because the other thing you need to make sure that you're getting full credit for is the money you've already put into the car. He can help you with all of that. He's got a process whereby he'll get receipts and things from you, and he will give you an actual certified appraisal that you're going to go back to the insurance company with. And believe me, they will pay off of that or you go get an attorney, one of the two.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, okay.
SPEAKER 20 :
So we'll get you more money out of this when it's all said and done, by far, Daryl. Thousands more than what you're getting right now. You're not getting near enough. Okay. All right, his number. You ready for his number? Yeah, I've got it there. 720-295-10... Or, sorry. 720-295-0108. Tell him you listened to me, and I told you to call him, and he will do the rest. Great. Now, he'll have a fee, because he's going to give you a professional appraisal out of it. But believe me, the fee you pay him versus what we're going to get out of the insurance company will far surpass what it costs you to do this.
SPEAKER 1 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay. Excellent idea.
SPEAKER 20 :
Is it a flat fee, or is it a percentage? No, he does a flat fee, and he'll help you. And he'll even help with the insurance side, in some cases talking to them for you if need be, Darrell. Nice.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, well, great. I appreciate it very much.
SPEAKER 20 :
You're very welcome, Darrell. Great call, by the way. And for those of you listening, yes, BP Appraisals. I interviewed them again on Fix-It Radio last week. I haven't interviewed them on Drive Radio just because we did Fix-It Radio last week and spent almost half an hour with them. You always go back and listen to that. But I will tell you, for all of you listening, any kind of an accident, especially when it's not your fault, but it could even be your fault. Maybe you're dealing with your own insurance company and you're not getting enough money out of what your car is actually worth. This is where Burke comes into play because he can give you that certified appraisal because he's a certified appraiser. And when he does that, the insurance company all of a sudden starts paying more attention because they've got some real documentation as to what the vehicle is actually worth versus you arguing with them. So give Burke a call. He'll take care of that for you. This includes classic cars, modern cars, wrecked cars, whatever the case may be, an estate, you name it, Burke can do all of that. And he's, again, on our website. Just go to drive-radio.com, but his direct line is 720-295-0108. We'll be right back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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All right. Merry Christmas, everybody, as well. Myself again, Pat from Alltech Automotive up in Fort Collins with us today. Steve Horvath from Geno's Auto Service with us as well. Thank you for all the calls, by the way. I apologize. I haven't checked the text line here. We've been chatting so much with callers. I will do that here momentarily. But we're asking the question to give us some great gift ideas for those, you know. Hard to buy for folks in your life. Maybe they're gearheads or just do-it-yourselfers, whatever. You know, what is a good item to buy them? 303-477-5600. And really quick, I was going to say this anyways. So kind of the segue into we've had Lucy call in about, you know, changing cars and so on. And the last call we just got on what's that value of that used car and so on. Some of you will be thinking about buying a car as we head down the stretch into the new year. And some of you may be doing it for business purposes, tax deductions. Some of you may just be doing it because it's a good time to do it. Maybe you're getting some bonuses or whatever the case may be. You might even have a new driver coming up in the family. So here's where I wanted to go with this. Number one, there are some great deals right now. Now, prices of used cars are down because the price of new cars are also. Now, in all in all, they're up. I understand that. But they're down from where they were a year ago. You're no longer paying full list price for a new car. There's a few rare exceptions to that. If some dealer is trying to sell you a car at list price and it's a regular everyday car and you see 10 of them on the lot, go somewhere else. That car is not worth this price, and they will have to discount that car to get it sold. Now, the best week of the year always, always, always is between Christmas and New Year's. Here's the reason. Most dealers get what we call discounts on the cars based upon volume, not just for the month, but especially for the year. What they pay for models coming in even after the first of the year will be heavily based upon what they did in 2024. So in some cases, and I've had it happen to me, in some cases you can buy a car at a little bit of a loss even for the dealer if they're so close to their numbers that that one or two car sales is going to put them over for the year and help them with future discounts. You can sometimes take advantage of that. So I'm not joking. The best week. Of the entire year, to always buy a car is the last week of the year. That week between Christmas and New Year's is the best time to buy a car because of what I just said. So for those of you that might be in that market, car, truck, whatever, and you're looking at popular models, I mean, I'm not talking about a one-off. You're not going to go buy a Ford Raptor R. No, that's a whole different situation. But regular, everyday vehicles. If you look at any of the lots, and there's a plethora of, you ought to be able to get a really great deal on that vehicle. I mean, all the way down to almost what invoice is or less. If you're anywhere in that list price area, go somewhere else.
SPEAKER 04 :
Now, taxes, too, don't they, if they have that inventory still kept on their lot after the first year?
SPEAKER 20 :
In Colorado, it doesn't change anything.
SPEAKER 04 :
It doesn't change, okay.
SPEAKER 20 :
It doesn't matter. Rob, really quick, we'll come back to that, by the way. But, Rob, go ahead. I want to get you in before the top of the hour. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 08 :
Good Christmas present for anybody is those Napa glass cleaning microfiber cloths.
SPEAKER 20 :
Absolutely. Great, great tip.
SPEAKER 08 :
Keep one in the car. It's a safety thing. Great, great tip, Rob.
SPEAKER 20 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 08 :
And if you can maybe tell me on the other side of the break, do you have any ideas on how to reset the tire warning indicator on a 2008 Dodge Charger? It was the spare, and I was able to reinflate it, but the warning indicator is still on there.
SPEAKER 04 :
Probably the batteries are down on one of the other tires, I would guess. Or that one.
SPEAKER 08 :
Or that one, yeah. It was just the only one that was down was the spare.
SPEAKER 20 :
Has anybody looked at it to see what the charge of battery is like in that spare tire? Being an 08, I'd be shocked if it's not dead.
SPEAKER 08 :
There's that. They're not the original. The tires have been replaced once, but you're probably right. Well, I'll just have to take it to the shop then.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yeah, I mean, I don't think, Bob, where I'm going with this, Rob, is I don't think that's a reset issue. If that battery in that particular sensor is down, it's never going to go away.
SPEAKER 04 :
I would agree. Well, you're in Centennial. I have a little thing that will tell us if they're even registering. Yeah, if even they're sending a signal. If you want to swing by sometime.
SPEAKER 08 :
Steve, we're old friends. If you want me to do that again, I'll be glad to see you.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yeah, please. Rob, that would be the way to do that because that one may not even be sending out a signal.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, I can just put a little thing on it and tell me if it... If you don't use a power tool often, think about corded. If you can still get corded, it's those batteries going dead on you because you're not using the thing that much, and the batteries are not being titled and everything else. If you can get just cheap corded, it's an awfully good way to solve the problem. I have a little tire inflator I bought from Home Depot. I use that to power the sewer blaster tool I bought from Amazon to clean out my drains with it. It worked beautifully. But it's corded. I don't have to worry about the batteries going flat. You are correct. Anytime I just plug it in.
SPEAKER 20 :
You are correct.
SPEAKER 08 :
By the way. I couldn't agree with you more about the batteries, but by gosh, the corded stuff works.
SPEAKER 20 :
No, and Rob, as a side note, for a lot of you listening where you may be on a really tight budget, but you still would like to have some of these amenities, a lot of these secondhand stores, Rob, will have the very things that we're talking about with a cord on them because most other people don't want them and they will donate them away.
SPEAKER 08 :
It saves an awful lot of suffering.
SPEAKER 20 :
Oh, you guys are talking so much common sense. Rob, no, thank you very much, by the way. I appreciate that. Yeah, so side note, back to Rob's initial question of the tire sensor. It's an older car. He's gone through and he's called plenty of times. This is a family member's car that he's gone through and done some things with and so on. Yeah, when you've got even a spare and it's an 08, I can almost guarantee you, I'm not a betting person, but I can almost guarantee you or bet on that that sensor is no longer sending a signal out because those batteries are typically good for, I don't know, five to seven years. Yeah, if it's car is parked.
SPEAKER 10 :
Maybe 10.
SPEAKER 20 :
It doesn't get used a lot. They could go as long as 10 because the battery's not being used much. It's really not.
SPEAKER 06 :
It's just hanging out.
SPEAKER 20 :
It'll kind of go to sleep, if you would, because it's just hanging out. But if it's being driven at all, six, seven years, Steve's .10 max. So in that case, that would have been 2018. So, yeah, I would say that most likely that is dead, and that's an issue there. I agree. And we forget that they have batteries.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, in most repair shops, and certainly every tire shop has a tire pressure monitoring system tool that you can just hold up next to the tire sensor and see if it's still putting out a signal or not.
SPEAKER 20 :
Which is exactly, in this particular case, what you really need to do. Now, so for some of you listening that are... Do-it-yourselfers at home and so on. That's another one of those things where back in the day, TPMSs first came out. All the tooling was super expensive. Tool dealers were kind of the only place you could go buy that or from the dealer itself. And they were very, I mean, I'm talking thousands of dollars back in the day to get equipped to do TPMS. you could shave an entire zero off of that today or less correct there are tools out there even universal type tools not for all cars get to some of the exotics it's going to get a little weird but for the type of vehicle we were just talking about on that charger you can literally go out and buy some aftermarket stuff have it at home in your own home toolbox for relatively uh 50 60 bucks even and and find everything you need to do for that particular end of things again As technology gets improved and more companies manufacture those things, the less of the price there is and off you go.
SPEAKER 04 :
And the designers are better on the car end because that used to be the biggest problem is you could never get them to work right, even when it was more on their side, the automotive manufacturers.
SPEAKER 20 :
The longer they're out, the better things get. All right. That's it for this first hour. We've got two more hours coming your way. We're asking, again, for some of those tips of things to buy that hard-to-buy person in your automotive world. Give us a call. We'll take some of those calls as well, 303-477-5600. But this is Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 17 :
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In this episode of Drive Radio, our hosts delve into the intricacies of maintaining a diesel engine, offering listeners valuable tips on fuel system care and the importance of lubricity. Whether you're a diesel owner or just love automobiles, this discussion is packed with insights that keep your engine running smoother and longer. Elaborating on the significance of diesel treatment, our experts explain how proper maintenance can lead to a trouble-free driving experience.
SPEAKER 27 :
Being an expert on general automotive knowledge, what would the correct ignition timing be on a 1955 Bel Air Chevrolet with a 327 cubic inch engine and a four-barrel carburetor?
SPEAKER 23 :
It is a trick question. Watch this. Because Chevy didn't make a 327 in 55. The 327 didn't come out until 62. And it wasn't offered in the Bel Air with a four-barrel carb until 64. However, in 1964, the correct ignition timing would be four degrees before top dead center.
SPEAKER 03 :
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SPEAKER 07 :
All right, we are back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Again, myself, Patch Knight from Alltech Automotive up in Fort Collins. Steve Horvath from Geno's Auto Service down here in Centennial as well. Lines are open, 303-477-5600. We're talking about, of course, Christmas gifts and items to buy and so on. You've got this weekend and next to get done whatever you're going to do. And then Christmas is here, so it's much faster. We hear much faster than what... Most of us think somebody texted also and said, can I talk about how to care for a late model commons engine instead of just saying don't buy one, which a lot of you already own one. So at that point in time, there's nothing you can do. And I do, too. I still own some of these as well. This is a twenty two with sixty five thousand trouble for your miles, which, by the way, good for you. So, number one, if you've had trouble for your trouble free miles, you must be doing something right already or you wouldn't have had anything. any issues now one thing that you can do and this is true with you know all diesel engines not just the cummins end of it but given that we have low lubricity in our fuel today across the country running a additive whether you want to do it every tank or not is up to you but periodically running an additive that will add some lubricity to it and do some cleaning of the fuel system and such at the same time not a bad idea some people i know do it every single tank Others will do it once every third or fourth tank. It just depends on you and what you want to do and so on. But I would say on this particular unit at 22 model year with 65,000 miles, yes, I would be running some diesel additive into it. And then on top of that, make sure you're doing your oil changes in a timely manner like you should. Don't forget your fuel filters and such, which, again, if you've got 65,000 trouble-free miles, you're probably already doing some of those things. Outside of running some fuel treatment periodically, BG's got a great product. There's other products on the market as well, but BG has a really great product that we highly recommend. You can find that on their website, bgprod.com. Napa sells a lot of that up and down the front range now. So, yeah, that'd be one of those things that I would do. Outside of that, really, there's not much else you really need to do. So what is the lubricity doing? In the fuel, the lubricity would help lubricate the injector pump because all diesels have an injector pump that is, and modern diesels now are running that pressure way up. It's even different than what you used to have in a mechanical pump on diesel. some of the old tractors and so on, but they all have an injector pump, which is increasing that pressure way up there. And the way that pump works, and if you look online, you can get a breakdown of how these pumps actually look inside. Those of you that are listening, you can look at a CP3, CP4 pump and see what they look like on the inside. but they literally have internal components that the fuel, of course, is the only thing lubricating what's inside there. And when you have a low-lubricity fuel like we have today, there can be scoring and other things that happen inside of the pump, which is where then they come apart, they get into the injectors, and you have big issues, and you're doing complete fuel system replacements and so on. So the longer you can keep that pump lasting... And the late model pumps are worse about that than some of the earlier model pumps were. Less forgiving is what I should say. And this is not limited to a particular engine brand, is it? This is all late-model diesel engines. Bosch does the majority of injector pumps out there for a lot of diesels, period.
SPEAKER 12 :
So, Permax, Cummins.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, reality is that lubricity is really key in keeping those injector pumps going. So, yeah, for any of you driving diesel engine trucks, yeah, I would look at doing something along those lines. And, again, the light-duty diesels are way different than even the over-the-road type vehicles. engines and so on, way different as far as all of that goes. Now, one other thing you should do. I was thinking about this a second ago when I was saying there's really not much else you should do. Actually, there is. When it comes to the diesel trucks and the exhaust systems that they have, the DPF, the filters, and so on, and again, BG makes a cleaning solution for those as well. that i would periodically probably once a year run through the truck just to make sure that you're keeping that system as clean as possible because that's another super expensive item that you can have if in fact that goes bad now there's warranty on those not a 22 I believe you're 8 and 80, so you're getting up there, getting close to bumping up against the warranty on that. Even though it's a 22, a 65,000, you're going to bump up to the 80 faster than you're going to run out of time. So just something to think about there as well. Somebody said repeat the info about how to repel rodents and keep them from entering. Okay, I'll do that here in a moment. Let me get Mike in first. Go ahead, Mike.
SPEAKER 17 :
Hey, gift idea. Garage floor mat. I don't know if anybody mentioned it.
SPEAKER 07 :
They did not.
SPEAKER 17 :
There you go. That's all I got. That's a good one, too, Mike.
SPEAKER 07 :
And I forget about that, even though I park on one all the time. And that's another one, too, Mike, that originally those things were a couple hundred bucks, 300 bucks. I think he's even the first one that I bought. You can now buy them for 100 bucks.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, exactly. Exactly.
SPEAKER 07 :
Way less than they used to be. Yeah. Mike, appreciate you very much. All right, appreciate you. We've got another call coming in. Really quick, repelling the rodents and keeping them from entering the house. And again, everybody's got their own way of doing this. And number one, seal up your holes as much as you can. If you know you've got a known hole, seal those up. That's the number one. I have really great luck in my barn and even in my garage with the electronic rodent repellents. They're about the size of a half dollar. You can typically buy them in a three-pack. They're either round or square, and you find an outlet nearby, plug it in, and it emits a signal that they don't like. Now, will it eliminate all of them? It eliminates a good portion of them. I'm not saying you're going to get rid of every single mouse, but you'll get rid of a good portion of them. Now, the other thing that I still do, and, yes, I have animals, so I use the enclosed ones. I still do the poisons. You can put the block of poison in a little square box to where your dogs and cats can't get in there and eat it. But for those that the electronic repellent doesn't take care of, the block will. They will find their way to it. I don't know how. Must be able to smell it or something. But they will find their way to it. And once they eat some of that, it's all she wrote. That one is done.
SPEAKER 12 :
That's a good tip. That's how I do it. I'm a little more old school. So at our house, we have two cats that are excellent hunters.
SPEAKER 07 :
And then...
SPEAKER 12 :
If they get past the cats, then we have old-fashioned mouse traps.
SPEAKER 07 :
Again, they work as well also. Again, to each his own. The thing about the traps that's nice is they don't go off and die and stink. My way, they can. Now, in my barn, it's not as big of a deal because it stinks for just a little bit, and then it's not any longer. but i will tell you though the electronic devices that i use because i'm i'm in the you know i'm in the rural area and have fields and things around me and so on and i have used those now for years and have very little problem rodent wise uh by using those so just just a side note jim and centennial you're next hey how you doing today good jim i've been listening to you for i don't know 20 plus years now thank you so i really appreciate your show and stuff um
SPEAKER 11 :
I had a quick question. My daughter bought a new Mazda CX-50. Okay. And it's the turbo car. Do I need to be running?
SPEAKER 07 :
Are you there? We lost you, Jim.
SPEAKER 11 :
Oh, I'm there.
SPEAKER 07 :
Should you be running and I lost you?
SPEAKER 11 :
EPR, every oil change on the turbo engine?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes. On the Mazda? That's a direct injection engine as well. In fact, Mazda's been direct injection for a while because of their configuration and what they're doing with compression ratios and so on. That, Jim, of all cars is probably one of the highest cars on the list for doing what we're talking about.
SPEAKER 11 :
Oh, carbureting up and stuff?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, just because the way they handle their compression ratio and so on, that's a very high compression engine that they run in that, and the way they're achieving that and such, yes, I would be running EPR in that every oil change.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay, 44K as well?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yep, 44K, the MOA, all of that.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay, all right, all right. I just did my first oil change on it, and I already did that, so I'll just do it every change and every 5,000.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yep, you'll be in good shape if you do that. All right. Thank you, sir. Jim, thank you very much. I appreciate it. Pat, you want to add any of that? No, I was just going to say, I was wondering how you like that MX-50. We like that car a lot. Yeah, that's a great car. And Mazda builds a fabulous car, as you guys know. I'm not going to knock those cars at all. They've been a great solid car for years and years, solid platform. They do a great job, good fuel economy, great power. They've got some luxury features inside that even a lot of other vehicles in that class don't have. They do a great job. So congratulations, Jim. Do that. You'll have a car that will really literally run as long as you want to keep driving it. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that. So, all right, guys, we'll be right back. Don't go anywhere. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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All right, we are back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Thanks so much for listening today. We appreciate it. Aaron and Golden, go ahead.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, on your air filter conversation this morning.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 19 :
A couple years ago, I took my 2004 Ram 300,000 miles into the dealer for the airbag recall. The closest dealer to me here calls me and says, oh, your air filter's dirty. Can we change it for you? And I'm like, no. It has an air filter minder. Yeah, why are you even looking?
SPEAKER 07 :
Thank you.
SPEAKER 19 :
It's got an air filter minder.
SPEAKER 07 :
You're proving my point, Aaron. I mean, again, technicians even, I hate to say this, even in our own industry, don't understand what I mean by this.
SPEAKER 19 :
And then same dealer, I have a 22 Ram that I got, a company truck, take it into the same dealer at about 10,000 miles for an oil change, oil and fuel filter. They call me back and say... We looked at your air filter. It's dirty. Can we change it for you? Like, no. It's at 10,000 miles.
SPEAKER 07 :
And what's the gauge say? It's fine.
SPEAKER 19 :
What's the gauge say?
SPEAKER 07 :
I mean, I can already tell you on that truck, until it gets up to about 50K, it's probably fine, as you know, Aaron.
SPEAKER 19 :
Right. So I'm like, no. It has 10,000 miles. It doesn't need an air filter. So on the 22 Ram, I've got 30,000 miles on it now. After that experience with the dealer, I now take the 22 Ram over to Arvada West and just have them do the 10,000 mile oil filter, fuel filter, and just, you know, I don't need the dealer.
SPEAKER 07 :
I agree with you. I mean, again, as you know, you're just proving my point.
SPEAKER 19 :
So then... The 22 RAM, I'm on a road trip up in Granby, and it goes into the don't stop because your DPF is going to plug up. You've got to keep driving. And then finally, when I make it back to my house here in Golden, it finally clears itself. But then it has some temperature. It's got a code. I check the code. I call the dealer, and they're like, and this is about the time when they come out and say that there's a sensor missing on that DPF. And so I called the dealer, and they're like, well, have you changed the air filter? I'm like, what?
SPEAKER 07 :
Nothing to do with it.
SPEAKER 19 :
Nothing to do with it. But so on that Cummins, the 22 I found with the DPF, and, you know, a short trip for me is still 20 miles one way down the canyon and back up. If I all drive and put six hours of run time on it, Watch the DPF gauge. It'll go into region every six hours. If I, if I just do short trips like that.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 19 :
But if I, if I get out on the highway and do 200 miles, it'll go 24 hours of runtime before, you know, then it hits this mandatory region. Right. And, and he, unless, unless I hook up to a trailer and really put it under a load, uh, You know, the DPF just goes into regen all the time.
SPEAKER 07 :
One thing you might try, too, on that, because this is something that, again, learned through our BG person that we had on here a few weeks ago. You might try running. There's a two-step cleaning solution that they've got that you can run, Aaron, and you might try that and see if it changes some of that for you.
SPEAKER 19 :
I think it's just that anymore, if I'm just doing a short trip, I take one of my other trucks.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yep. Yeah. Can't argue that. Yeah. Sure.
SPEAKER 19 :
I mean, I just did a – I had a job out in Grand Island, Nebraska, you know, a six-hour drive. I drove out there and back, and it never went into regen.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. Yep.
SPEAKER 19 :
And, you know, it's just these trucks just, to meet the emissions, just driving around empty –
SPEAKER 07 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 19 :
Just never gets hot enough.
SPEAKER 07 :
You're correct. You are correct, Aaron. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 19 :
And, you know, I have the job where I need to go out of town and do road trips, so that helps. And I can also hook up to a trailer and haul a skid steer somewhere and really put a load on it. So I think that's. You know, it helps this truck out.
SPEAKER 07 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 19 :
But somebody buying one of these to just drive around town and maybe just haul kids here around town.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, don't. Buy a gas truck if you're going to do that, Aaron. I mean, honestly, I mean, don't buy that truck. We say that all day long, too. These are not good. If you're not going to haul and do things with it and you need to do heavy work with it, don't buy it.
SPEAKER 19 :
And heavy work is then, like, going down the highway for two, three hours at a time.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right.
SPEAKER 19 :
Like, just hauling a skid steer around town isn't going to load that engine enough.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. One of the things we struggle with, Aaron, and I can't do anything about it, is, you know, we plow snow, as you know, and worst thing you could ever do when it comes to what we're talking about on the emission side of the fence. But, again, I don't have any choice, and those trucks do enough other stuff outside of snow that we need the diesel end of it. And, man alive, do we struggle in that area. I bet you do.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, yeah. Pound snow, I mean, people think that that loads the engine a lot.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, it just fills it full of soot, and you have a hard time getting it cleaned out.
SPEAKER 19 :
If you're plowing snow right, you're not putting a lot of load on it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Nope, you are correct. Yep. And again, it is what it is. I mean, nothing I can do about it. Unless you choose to afford two trucks. We've bought some gas trucks for that very reason. The problem then, Aaron, as you know, is when you do have a nice heavy load on them and you're doing real work with them, the diesel comes in so much more handy, as you know.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I mean, this 3500 single wheel, I can haul 20,000 pounds around and you know it's there, but it does it and
SPEAKER 07 :
doesn't overheat doesn't you know just yep it just goes and it doesn't even have a good transmission good for you so aaron i appreciate it thank you no i appreciate that very much just really solidifying some of what we talked about earlier all right let me see if i can squeeze one more in here before we go to the bottom of the hour steve up in mead go ahead hey i've got a 2021 chevy with the baby duramax in it and i'm calling about the 10 speed transmission and the uh
SPEAKER 14 :
You can be going down the highway and it'll jump from fifth gear down to second gear and lock up the rear end.
SPEAKER 07 :
That's the recall, yes.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yes. So I'm wondering, do I try, if I can find one, get a transmission valve body to have on hand? I don't know if they'll sell me one without a core, but I'm worried. It's not happened to me, but if it does... My truck's probably going to be in the shop for months waiting for a
SPEAKER 07 :
valve body do i get rid of it i mean i'm probably this has got to be detrimental to the value of the truck it's not helping them at all i mean they will fix it as time goes by as we know but you know as of right now you are correct and yes it's going to affect the value of those used trucks i will say steve and this is my own personal belief i can't verify this but common sense would tell you that if you're keeping the fluid in it clean doing the services on it as needed I would still go ahead and at least do their software update for now that will eliminate the thing actually locking up the rear diff, which that's all they're doing is a software programming right now to help with that. Eventually, I do believe it will need a valve body. You won't be able to buy a valve body, by the way. They can't get enough to even handle the warranties. They've got nonetheless selling you one. But I would say, and how many miles, Ron? I didn't ask that. How many miles?
SPEAKER 14 :
Under 50.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, if you would do a service at 50 and keep doing those at 50, honestly, I highly doubt you'll have much issue with it, period. My feeling is the folks that have had issues, and I get it, some have had issues with them from the start where the transmission's almost brand new and have had issues. But in your case where it's gone this many miles, I feel, Steve, if you just keep servicing that, highly doubtful that thing will ever lock up.
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, well, that's reassuring. The other thing, I heard you talking about the diesel. Now, this is the baby one, and I heard it's more like an automotive than a truck diesel, but I kind of went back to work, and I'm doing some deliveries, and I might make 40 stops in a day. That's probably not going to make that motor very happy.
SPEAKER 07 :
It's not the same as the heavy diesels that are in the heavier 2,500, 3,500 trucks. So it's not the same on that. The thing on that truck, honestly, that you really need to look at, and this is where if I owned one of those, and they're great. We have as a fleet even, we've had some of those. The thing to remember on that one is it has a timing belt for the oil pump that's on the back of the engine that requires transmission removal, and that's due at about $100,000. So in my... belief on that truck, I wouldn't own it that long.
SPEAKER 14 :
You wouldn't want the truck that long?
SPEAKER 07 :
Nope. I'd have it gone before $100,000. So that you wouldn't have to do that repair. Right.
SPEAKER 14 :
You would sell the truck?
SPEAKER 07 :
Before then, because I don't want that expense at that timing. At that point in time, it's a very expensive maintenance slash repair. I would have it gone before $100,000. You said the transmission has to come out? Yeah, it's on the back of the engine. It requires transmission removal to do it.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, I knew about that, and that was disappointing. I probably wouldn't have bought it if I knew that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Most didn't, yeah. But now, again, as far as that goes, Steve, there are people looking for that particular vehicle with that engine in it, and you've got fairly low miles considering. You do have value in the truck, and the new trucks are pretty – they're discounted right now a lot, some good deals on them. So if there's ever a time to look at making a change, you're there now.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, it's hard to know what to get. I mean, I don't really, I'm not interested in a turbocharged four-cylinder. I think that's just driving around a little hand grenade. I think you're working that.
SPEAKER 07 :
I'd buy a V8, personally. That's just me. Well, that's what I own, so I'd buy a 6.2 or a 5.3.
SPEAKER 14 :
I'm kind of back to, I just want a key and a heater and AC and maybe power door locks.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, good luck with that. Those days are gone. Don't we all.
SPEAKER 14 :
Find something old. Mm-hmm. All right, guys, thank you.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, Steve, no, appreciate it. Great questions, by the way. Hope I answered that well for you. Gary, Eric, you guys hang tight. We'll come right back. I've got a review coming up next on a 2025 Genesis GV80. Stay tuned. We'll be right back. This is Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Richard, you recently drove a 2025 Genesis GV80 3.5 Turbo Prestige all-wheel drive.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, so this is kind of a mouthful, Dad, but yeah, 2025 GV80, there's several different trim levels to choose from, as you know and as some of the listeners know. Genesis sort of does it kind of, you sort of buy the trim level, right? There's not necessarily additional add-ons and stuff you do. They're definitely available, but you kind of buy the trim level you want. And you can get this car, Dad. For less than $60,000, if you want to opt for that a little bit smaller engine, the four-cylinder turbocharged, which still works great, or you can kind of go to the higher end, which is where we were at, which is the V6. that twin-turbo V6, I should say, which worked really, really well. Fuel economy, 16 and 22 for an average of 19. And, Dad, the one we had is right up there, because this class of car, this not-extra-large SUV, but I'm still going to call it a large SUV, right? This larger-size SUV class that doesn't necessarily have the third row, but it's got plenty of room in the second row, is becoming a very, very competitive class. It is. Especially in the luxury segment, which is where this Genesis is meant to be. And at $81,000, you would expect that. And some of you listeners, Richard and John, $81,000. What I would say, folks, is look at some other competitors. And for a car similarly equipped, you're going to be $10,000, even $20,000 higher for a very similarly equipped car. So what has Genesis done, Dad? Well, they introduced this car, let me see here, back in 2021, kind of the first GV80 generation. So this year, not a whole lot's changed. some subtle exterior um and changes enhancements whatever you want to say it and the instrument cluster is nice and now nice one nice big 27 inch display it's got a lot of the creature comforts that you would expect on a vehicle of this you know price points inside massaging front seats heated and cooled you've got heated seats in the back i think you've got cool cooled seats in the second row. This one, Dad, was outfitted not with the third row, but sort of with the... I'm going to call it, and I'm probably going to butcher it, so my apologies, Genesis. I'm going to call it the chauffeur's second row. And what I mean by that is basically the second row is more of a... Well, it's more of a you can have it as a chauffeur car, right? If you're an executive, you want someone to drive you around, it's got the ability to do that because the second-row passenger can actually move forward the front passenger seat if they desire, give them some more legroom. They can actually recline those seats a little bit. It's got your color-changing interior. It's got a fragrance dispenser in it. I could go on and on, Dad, about the list of technology in it, but Genesis has done that. And you see this badge? And honestly, Dad, you see this car, and I'll say it, even at $80,000, you think this car's worth a lot more money than that. And they've done a phenomenal job at it. They really have some cool tech, Dad. And you can sort of speak to this as far as suspension-wise goes to where it actually has cameras. that search the road in front of you and find, basically, find potholes, whatever it might be, and essentially prepare the suspension for said, you know, for said environment, right, that it's ready to go over. So, yeah, so maybe the right side is going to go over a bump. Well, it can actually anticipate that, have the suspension system plan for that just on the right side and keep you going as smoothly as you can. And I will say this, Dad, driving down the road in this car, It is smooth. It is quiet. And it's just something that you get in this car and you feel luxurious. It's even got this mode where it sets the mood or lets you be in this zen mode where you can sit in the car and it can massage you and it plays this relaxing music. So you can just kind of veg out for a second, to be honest with you. So it's a really cool vehicle. You've driven some Genesis over the years, and they tend to impress every time you get in them, don't they?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, you know, Genesis is a brand that for a lot of folks, and they're becoming more and more popular because you get a lot of car for the money, and I've said it numerous times, you know, you're going to go spend in a lot of cases, you know, depending upon the model of Genesis and so on and what you're competing against, but anywhere from $20,000 to $50,000 more to go find another like luxury vehicle like the one you're looking at on the Genesis side. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that. That's how much of a better value they are than some of the other vehicles that are on the road. And for those that are listening, yes, Hyundai is the parent company, but there is no other Hyundai Kia that matches what Genesis is doing. It literally is its own line. It's a lot like what some of the other luxury car makers do that are out there as well. So, no, it is not like the other sister companies that are there underneath the Hyundai brand or the Hyundai label, if you would. Richard, Genesis is its own deal, if you would, and they build a very nice luxury car for a very great value.
SPEAKER 04 :
They do. And the other thing is, we've talked about this before, they're willing to stand behind it in terms of their warranty, right? Right. Like on standard, the Genesis warranty, five-year, 60,000-mile new vehicle warranty, 10-year, 100,000-mile powertrain, seven-year, unlimited-mile anti-perforation warranty. This is on top of some complimentary rate maintenance and some service valet that you get by buying the Genesis, which, like you said... is in direct competition to some of the other manufacturers, some of the other luxury brands that are kind of doing some of that. So overall, I was pleased with it. Like you say, business is getting to the end of the year. I don't know if it necessarily fits your requirements, whatever you're looking to do, but I would strongly encourage you, if you're looking for a large luxury SUV or whatever you want to refer to it as, enough for four full-size adults without any issues at all, I would encourage folks, head to your local Genesis dealer, test drive it, get out and experience this car. And if it's been a while since you have, I really encourage you to do that because I think you'll be really happy. And when you do that, let them know that John and Richard Rush from Drive Radio and Rush to Reason sent you.
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SPEAKER 07 :
All right, we are back. Eric and Aurora, what's going on, sir?
SPEAKER 16 :
Hi. Two things, or three things. Sure. First, are there any legitimate ways to, I guess they call it, decarbonize catalytics?
SPEAKER 07 :
No. No.
SPEAKER 16 :
I didn't think so.
SPEAKER 07 :
Steve, even a struggle for, you know, we were talking diesels a minute ago, Eric, and there's been some devices and some people that, you know, claim to even be able to clean, you know, the DPFs and so on, and I will tell you, even on those, it's sort of hit and miss, and most of those didn't turn out near what the manufacturer of those machines said they would do, and they don't fulfill it either, to be honest with you.
SPEAKER 16 :
Right, right. That's what I suspected. That's why I phrased it as legitimate.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yep. Right. Anybody claiming they do that is probably lying.
SPEAKER 16 :
Right, right. Now, along those lines, as long as I buy a California compliant catalytic, are there any reasons why the backyard mechanic would not be allowed to replace his own catalytic?
SPEAKER 07 :
No, there's no law against that. None.
SPEAKER 16 :
I didn't think so, but somebody told me that. No, they're lying. I've never heard of it.
SPEAKER 07 :
They're sorely mistaken. Let's just say it that way.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, they're mistaken. They aren't a mechanic.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, they're sorely mistaken.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah. And then the other is I, you know, in the past I've told you I have the two Toyota Highlanders 2006 model year hybrids. And at 300 and some thousand miles, 18 years. It looks like I may have lost my primary hybrid battery pack in one of them.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 16 :
So that's a good lifespan.
SPEAKER 07 :
Not bad.
SPEAKER 16 :
That's good. Yeah. Now, I do... I did have a load in the car, and some of it had fallen down into that footwell area where the vents are.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 16 :
So it's a possibility that maybe it was just indicating reduced air flow. So before I... Officially declare it dead and consider whether or not I want to replace it at $4,000, you know, with 300,000 miles on an engine. I will do more, you know, hook up the scan tools and clear all the vents, you know, vacuum any filters, all that, just to make sure. And then, of course, the scan tool I have can look at the individual battery cell volts.
SPEAKER 07 :
Nice. Nice.
SPEAKER 16 :
I just wanted to say, hey, 18 years and over 300,000 miles.
SPEAKER 07 :
I'll add to that also that Legacy up in Boulder, Josh and the guys, if you go to rebuild that battery, Eric, he's a good resource on that to help you if you decide to go that route.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay. He does that. With all my electronics background, I've got the ability. I know I don't have the time.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. And some of that is even having the right, getting it in and out of the car and lifting mechanisms and so on. But yeah, if you decide to go down that route, call him and at least talk to him.
SPEAKER 16 :
Copy that. Yeah, well, do you have anything down in Colorado Springs? No.
SPEAKER 07 :
Sorry.
SPEAKER 16 :
I live and work down there. I do not.
SPEAKER 07 :
I don't even know anybody down there doing that type of work. Even the one person I know that I do send a few people to, I don't think he does any of that. So I don't have anybody at all, Eric.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay. Yeah, so I'll consider that legacy in Boulder, correct?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, because he's doing a lot more of that and even getting into a lot of the EVs and so on. So, yeah, they can do a Tesla repair and all that also.
SPEAKER 16 :
Speaking of Tesla, my wife just bought a brand new one.
SPEAKER 07 :
Nice. Good for her. Congratulations.
SPEAKER 16 :
So I inherited her minivan, and that's the one that's got catalytic indicator on it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Now you can replace that. You're fine. You can do that.
SPEAKER 16 :
Right on.
SPEAKER 07 :
You'll be fine.
SPEAKER 16 :
All right, John.
SPEAKER 07 :
Good man, Eric. Thank you very much, by the way. Appreciate you always listening and calling in. Your wealth of info has helped me out on some of my other shows as well, so I appreciate Eric greatly. So, Gary, you're next. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 18 :
All right, John. Happy holidays.
SPEAKER 07 :
Hey, happy holidays to you, too.
SPEAKER 18 :
A pretty pedestrian issue, our favorite check engine light. Okay. Okay. I went, and it almost seems like it's a, I bought my car new in 15, paid cash because I hate car payments. Right. But it seems like every year my car payment is when I have to get the check engine, like, diagnosed. And it's always, you know, it's that time of the year. It happened a year ago. And, you know, I went and had them pull the code, and it's the same code. It always is. It's P01. 456 EVAP system leak detected.
SPEAKER 07 :
I almost said EVAP before you said it because that's what it was a year ago.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, and so, you know, the light's on. I usually, you know, I hate this light staring at me, so I try to get it diagnosed and fixed.
SPEAKER 07 :
Which you should. Good for you.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, and it usually is, you know, $500 to $1,000 depending on what they find.
SPEAKER 07 :
And I don't remember, Gary, what they find last year. I'm sorry, I don't remember. What did they do last year?
SPEAKER 18 :
um i don't remember it i know that they had to do like a smoke test yeah something sounds right and they asked me to bring it in when it was uh less than half full and gas right right um i i don't know i i don't remember that stuff but i'm gonna bring it in you know get it yeah but is this my i guess my question is you know my car is almost 10 years old is it For this particular EVAP issue, is it just something that you should expect because things wear out and it'll trigger this problem?
SPEAKER 07 :
Depends on the car.
SPEAKER 18 :
What kind of car is this, by the way? It's a Kia Forte Coupe.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes, on that one. Now, tip for you and anybody else that has this code on an older vehicle like what you have, Gary, before you do anything else, go buy a high-quality gas cap and install it and see what happens.
SPEAKER 18 :
Where do you buy those gas caps?
SPEAKER 07 :
Napa. Or dealership. Or the dealer, but Napa will have that. Napa will have it. And they'll have a high-quality cap, so buy a high-quality cap. Don't do an online rock auto, whatever. You'll buy a high-quality cap, put it on it, and see what happens.
SPEAKER 18 :
I know that they test for that when I bring it in. They've tested it in the past, and they haven't found a problem with the cap.
SPEAKER 07 :
Again, being it's 10 years old, I would just put one on it, Gary. Right.
SPEAKER 18 :
All right, I'll try that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Do that and see what happens. If it turns it off, then we're ahead.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yeah, they seem to replace a lot of charcoal canisters on that one.
SPEAKER 07 :
That one too.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, the funny thing, you know, replacing a cap used to be easy. Now it's attached to some wire.
SPEAKER 07 :
Got the little tether on it. The keeper. Yep.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah. So, you know, for someone like me, detaching a wire is a challenge.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, what you could do on that one, because it's pretty simple, worst comes to worst, take a pair of scissors, cut the tether off, put the new cap on it, and call it good. All right, I'll try that. It's not hurting you.
SPEAKER 18 :
All right, thanks, John.
SPEAKER 07 :
You bet, Gary. Appreciate you very much. See how that works and let us know. All right, Ivan and Paul, guys, hang tight. We'll come right back. Drive Radio KLZ 560.
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All right, we are back. Myself, Pat Schneipp from Alltech Automotive up in Fort Collins. Steve Horvath from Geno's down here in Centennial. Ivan and Parker, you are next. Ivan, are you there? I know he's holding a while. Ivan, we'll give you one more chance. Otherwise, I'm going to move on to somebody else. All right, let's do this. I'll put him back on hold. You can find out, Larry, where he's at. Paul in Black Forest, you're next. Hey, good morning, John. Good morning, Paul.
SPEAKER 15 :
It's really great to hear Larry back on the line again.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, awesome.
SPEAKER 15 :
He even remembers me, and I don't call that much.
SPEAKER 07 :
There we go.
SPEAKER 15 :
Good job. Hey, on that 2012 Subaru I just picked up for my daughter and my little grandson to run around in up in northern Idaho, I texted you about it. It's a 2012 with 21,000 miles on it. That's awesome. Nice. and uh pristine pristine condition that's a little minor hail things but uh i texted you you know whenever i'm not sure i want to dig into something i text you and just like my dad you say yeah do it and so i'm doing uh when i first got this thing i'm going through it and inspecting it and holy cow this thing is really nice i put some sound insulation in the back and And in the back, a little funny story reading into my question, in the back there's this gasket package, you know, typical MOLLE like a Felpro thing with a big old ring and a couple collars. And I'm thinking, well, what the heck is that doing in there? I didn't think much of it or really even analyze what it was for. So I drive it a little bit. They gave me a 1,000-mile warranty on it. So I'm doing the plugs after your recommendation. Go ahead and do them. You know, it's got the brown town car. And, you know, the Subaru is so easy to work on most things, but the plugs are real tight up against the frame rails. I got the passenger side done no problem. I'm doing the driver's side. I get the front plug out, and the coil is just coated in oil. And I'm going, oh, man, you know, now I got mission creep here. My quick spark plug job has now turned into pulling that. It's really a top cap style valve cover on that non-turbo 2.5. So I kind of think back and say, wait a minute. What about that gasket that's still in the spare tire well? I pull that sucker out of there, and sure as heck, there was an extra gasket with the car for that side. Oh, boy.
SPEAKER 07 :
Figures.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, somebody does. I think they call that deferred maintenance.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yep. Yep.
SPEAKER 15 :
But the question I've got on that thing, I pull the plugs out, and they definitely look like it had more than 20,000 miles, lots of hours of around-town driving. But all the threads on the plugs look like you'd get out of, you know, like, say, maybe a chainsaw or a car that's been flooded. And, you know, a lot of fuel residue, you know, kind of varnish around the plug threads, really, really a deep set plug. And I noticed when I've had it in my shop running, that thing will high idle in 11, 1200 RPM for like three or four minutes. I keep the shop at 55, 60 degrees. And the exhaust is really, really rich. I mean, it's worse than my emission-controlled diesel to run in the shop. I've got to crack a door right away. But I've got no check engine lights. Again, it gets 26 miles a gallon. Is there anything off the top of you guys' head that would cause that thing to high idle for so long?
SPEAKER 12 :
Maybe engine coolant temp sensor?
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, that's what I was thinking. Back in the day when emissions and engine management was primitive, and so was antifreeze for that matter, we'd pull out a coolant temp sensor and it would have a layer of jelly around it. But could an O2 sensor with a bad heater cause that and not set the light?
SPEAKER 07 :
I think you'd be getting some codes. Yeah, you don't find that that often anymore. To Steve's point, without throwing a code or something, it would tell you that, Paul, typically.
SPEAKER 15 :
So when you get an O2 sensor code, it's also checking whether or not your heater's working. Yes.
SPEAKER 20 :
There's different codes for different parts of the sensor, yes.
SPEAKER 12 :
But you're saying right now with the high idle or extended high idle, it does not have any lights or codes?
SPEAKER 15 :
Nope, nothing. I haven't had a check engine light since I got it. But it stinks to high heaven. Yeah. Yeah, it's real run and rich, which I think explains the fuel residue on the plug. That would make sense. Once it warms up. Once it warms up, it's fine.
SPEAKER 20 :
What's the mass airflow sensor on that one? Do you remember? Is it just a single wire type? I don't remember.
SPEAKER 15 :
No, it's multiple wire. It's like a five-wire. So it's heated, too.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yeah. I was just wondering if there was a little carbon gut on it or something like that.
SPEAKER 15 :
That's worth checking. Yeah, that's worth looking at. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 20 :
You can buy that mass airflow cleaner and just spray it. Actually, it would be a good idea just to do as maintenance anyway. It wouldn't hurt.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, that wouldn't hurt anything.
SPEAKER 15 :
I've got some of that. Good idea. I've got some of that. I ran into an old Buick on a friend of mine's car like that. The doggone spider he got there and built it.
SPEAKER 20 :
Absolutely, Paul. I don't know how many cars got fixed that way. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, that's... wild little car and of course being 12 years old i know john you're kind of objective about old low mileage cars versus new but i was i don't mind the older ones they're a little easier to work on i can buy them right yeah no as long and again a lot of that comes back down to all used cars by the way how's it being cared for absolutely yeah absolutely and of course the only bloody light i do have on the darn thing is the tpms so i gotta go back to the calories yep that's normal Yeah, that's a real pain in the neck. And I also want to give a shout-out to local guys. You probably have guys in Denver, too. But I've talked to you before about that 07 Mercedes I picked up with 47,000 miles on it. Yeah. The E550 sedan, 4MATIC, and that thing, 380 horse. It goes like a stall dog. Oh, yeah, they do. And I'm getting 25, 26 miles a gallon with that, too.
SPEAKER 07 :
Those were decent cars, actually. Yeah.
SPEAKER 15 :
And no turbo, no timing belt, none of that stuff to – But, boy, I had a vibration in that. I think I talked to you about that a while ago, and I couldn't find anything in the driveline. I finally got it up on the rack. You know, it's 4MATIC. I could get all the wheels off the ground, even though mine's a runway. And the two right-side wheels, I swear they're bent. It's half-inch. Yeah. Half-inch to three-quarters of an inch. I can't believe it drove that smooth, but the wheels that bad.
SPEAKER 20 :
Wow. So the rims are actually bent.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, you know, they have such a high offset. They're almost flush mounted to the outside of the wheel, and the whole wheel extends in towards the car. And, you know, our lovely Colorado roads.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, somebody curb checked it probably.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, you got potholes here. Potholes and curbs.
SPEAKER 12 :
Interesting.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, but I found a place called Alloy Wheel Pros here in Colorado Springs. Very reasonable. I couldn't find any used rims for it anymore. It's too old. Yeah, and they'll fix them. Nice. They round them back out about 100, 125 a wheel. Two of them have a little curb rash. They're going to take all that out. That's all right.
SPEAKER 07 :
Good. Way less than half the cost. Good. No, that's awesome. That's a good tip for us even. Paul, thank you for that. That's a good tip. Yeah, it's a good story.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah. Well, they mostly do work for dealers, but even my little shop up here in Monument, they come pick them up, take them to the shop. They'll bring them back.
SPEAKER 07 :
Very good.
SPEAKER 15 :
And have the new tires put on. Very good. Super nice guy.
SPEAKER 07 :
That's awesome. That's good to know.
SPEAKER 15 :
And even with my little home hobby shop, they're giving me their commercial wholesale discounts.
SPEAKER 07 :
Good deal.
SPEAKER 15 :
Alloy Wheel Pros down here in the States.
SPEAKER 07 :
I'll write that down.
SPEAKER 15 :
Super guys.
SPEAKER 07 :
I'll write that down. I'll let you run. Paul, thank you very much. We'll take a top-of-the-hour break. Ivan, I will take you first as soon as we come back. Russ and Cheyenne, you guys hang tight. Again, yes, somebody texted a moment ago and said, is this the text line I can ask a question? Absolutely. 307-200-8222. You can either call us directly on the main line or you can text us on the line I just mentioned a moment ago. Our main line here in the studio, 303-477-5600. Pat, myself, and Steve, we'll be right back. This is Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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Join the Fix It Radio crew as they delve into the world of DIY gift-giving right in time for Christmas. Get inspired by the gift ideas discussed, each tailored to fit the hands-on individuals in your life. Discover the best places to shop and how popular magazines like Popular Mechanics offer insights into the latest tools and gadgets. Throughout the episode, Steve also addresses common homeowner headaches such as warranty issues and handling concrete cracks. Learn about the legalities surrounding warranties to ensure you protect yourself and your investment. Whether you’re buying for others or dealing with property matters, gain knowledge that promises to aid both your holiday shopping and homeowner challenges.
SPEAKER 06 :
Walter? Upstairs! Are you alright?
SPEAKER 08 :
In the floor behind the chair.
SPEAKER 10 :
This is America.
SPEAKER 02 :
Does everybody know what time it is? Fix It Radio.
SPEAKER 16 :
And it is that time, Fix-It Radio, KLZ 560. Thanks for joining us today. Myself, Steve Horvath, with me today from Geno's Auto Service. Good morning, Steve.
SPEAKER 17 :
Good morning.
SPEAKER 16 :
And, of course, Larry Unger on the other side of the glass, along with Charlie Grimes. So, Larry will be handling all the calls coming in today. Throughout the four hours, we're here. I know if you're listening to this as a replay on Tuesday, no, it's just the Fix It Radio part. We do Rush to Reason right after. But on Saturday, we do Drive Radio right after this. So we're here for a total of four hours. So if you guys have any questions at all, please let us know, 303-477-5600. You can call or you can text us as well. I should say 307-477-5600. 282 22 307 282 22 which i've already been answering a few questions on the text line uh this morning so you can always do that and given that we're you know getting closer to christmas this weekend and next that's really all you have left for christmas is this weekend and next meaning there's a full business week left is all and we're winding things down. So get your presents and shopping and all of that done as much as you can this week. In light of that, here in a moment we will get into some great gift ideas for that DIY person in your life. I thought I'd do that today because a lot of people struggle with, you know, what do I get, you know, so-and-so, and people need ideas. And so we've got some ideas for some of you because all of us have, and I am one of these, you know you're the hard person to buy for very much a lot of us men especially are because we you know myself included if I need something I just figure out what I need and it's done and go get it and I get it yeah I I don't um uh how should I say Steve when it comes to the gift giving end of things there's not a lot of things that I really need well that shows me too we don't need we get to our age we I've got everything yeah I don't really need much of anything else at this point so But anyways, we're going to talk about some of those things. But if you have a question for anything around the house, and a lot of times you guys do, especially as we head down this stretch into the end of the year, given the way the holidays will work, just so you all know as far as questions and answers and getting calls in and so on, we'll be here this weekend. this Saturday and next. And then through the holidays, we will be off. So you'll hear best of shows while we were off over the Christmas, New Year's holiday. We'll give everybody some time off, Charlie included. So reality is you've got this Saturday and next if you've got questions on not only around the house, but the car as well. And in Drive Radio, just a little teaser there. Get into a little bit today about, you know, buying cars. It's the end of the year. There'll be some good deals out there. Some of you may want to know, you know, how do you do that and what's the best approach and so on. And there's tons and tons and tons. And I mean, I can't exaggerate enough or stress enough how much inventory is on a lot of dealer lots right now. Yeah, there's a few specialty models that you might find in short supply. But in general, there is a lot of inventory. And I'll talk a little bit about that. and drive radio as well. But if you have questions for us, by all means, let us know. Again, 303-477-5600. But buying things for that DIY person in your life. And I was going through some of these this morning. I found a good site on, of course, how should I say this? Popular Mechanics. So you would imagine that that's where there would be some good ideas for this. And that was a... a magazine steve just real quick back in the day that i don't know if you guys as a family but we did we had a subscription to and we read i mean i read a lot of things in popular mechanics back in the day oh my dad loved it oh mine too i remember he just read it cover to cover and we'd have you know multiple uh copies of or you know multiple issues of i should say kicking around in other words that you know you have this month, last month, the previous month, and so on. And, you know, you'd have a stack of them at times, you could roll back through and look at different things and cut out different articles and so on.
SPEAKER 17 :
That National Geographic.
SPEAKER 16 :
It seemed like those are the two things that came in. I don't know. We didn't do, we didn't have Geographic, but we had, well, because in my house, we had Hot Rod Car Craft, you know, Some of the others along those lines as well. And my dad was a big hunter-fisherman shooter, you know, shooting and all that. So we had all of the, you know, guns and ammo and shooting times and all that kind of stuff as well. So we kind of had this plethora. You know, keep in mind, you know, when Steve and I were young and a lot of you listening were young, we didn't have these fancy devices and laptops and iPads and the Internet and all of that.
SPEAKER 17 :
We had four TV stations. You had four TV stations.
SPEAKER 16 :
That's right. Four TV stations. That was it.
SPEAKER 17 :
PBS kind of counted as one.
SPEAKER 16 :
I guess five, but yeah. We didn't have what a lot of these young kids and what we even have today to go even research things. You had to have it in some sort of printed form, or you didn't have the ability to look it up.
SPEAKER 17 :
And consequently, you went out and played.
SPEAKER 16 :
So you did a lot of other things. That's exactly right. We spent a lot of time outside. Let's just say that. So I've got 41. I don't know if we'll get through all of these or not, but we will do our best. But 41 best tool items. gifts, gadgets, organizers, workshop accessories, and more. And some of these, I'll be straight up honest, are probably a little bit cheesy, and we'll explain some of these. And we'll put this article in our show notes, and Producer Ann will give you guys access to that a little later after she gets all of our notes done. So for those of you listening on Tuesday, that should be done by then. But let's get into it. So first one off, and this is, by the way, bye. Don't think this one is – how should I say? This would pretty much apply to anyone, pretty much apply to anyone. You know what? Let's do this, though. Let's take a call first, and I make sure that I'm ready to go here on my end. I think I can do this. Yep, Tom, go ahead, sir.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, good morning. Thanks for taking my call.
SPEAKER 16 :
You're welcome.
SPEAKER 08 :
Got a question. You know, over time, concrete gets these hairline cracks. They don't necessarily have any gap to it. Is there any sealant – You know, that's more clear on the clear side other than the gray and the sandstone colors to just put on top of that so it doesn't get any worse.
SPEAKER 16 :
I don't know of any clear type. In fact, there's even some different new products out now where it's even kind of a powdered product, Tom, that you actually... sort of sprinkle down into the crack, and then you just spray some water, you know, lightly out of a spray bottle. You don't use a hose or anything. You just lightly water the top of it, and it blends into the concrete. Now, that stuff matches pretty well where you don't really notice that you've got a big crack that you have fixed, but it's never going to be exactly the same color-wise. You're still going to know you did something there.
SPEAKER 17 :
What if you took a little bit of, you know, as you put it down while it's still wet, put a little concrete powder on it, maybe make a little bit of, like sand a little bit off, you know, might make it blend a little better.
SPEAKER 16 :
Maybe. Maybe. I mean, I'll just tell you, Tom, concrete getting color match and so on is probably one of the most difficult things there is. And by the way, it's why we're, you know, going to a lot of commercial properties and things like that where they go in and they redo the floor and stuff. You know, they'll take all those cracks and everything out, most of the imperfections, and then they stain and do other things color-wise with the floor because otherwise you'd see all those imperfections.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay. All right. I've got another item. Kind of related, in a way, to your comment on Drive Radio about not buying Ram trucks or Ford vehicles because of warranty issues. Right. I'd say never buy a Meritage home. We've had a problem with a new build over in Kipling Park West where, during the warranty period, they agreed to repair stairs that are pulling away from the porch and cracked stairs in the front, and now they're reneging on it.
SPEAKER 1 :
Really?
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah. So, in other words, they told you they were going to fix it, and now they're not?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah. And it's even in writing. They still, you know.
SPEAKER 16 :
That's one where, frankly, Tom, I would get a hold of an attorney, somebody like Kevin Flesch, who's one of our great sponsors, and have him review even the documents that you have and find out if there's the ability to move forward on that end of things. And sometimes it's just a simple letter from an attorney that will get things rolling along, and you don't have to do a whole lot. So in a lot of cases, it doesn't cost you a lot to get that done, Tom, and I would. I would proceed in that manner. Okay.
SPEAKER 17 :
That's a problem, too. They dig those foundations out, and they don't compact the soil back down so that you have to get it settling. But a lot of times you can do that mud jacking stuff that will lift it back up.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay. All right. You can. They use either the mud or the foam. There's multiple different ways, Tom, to do that. But bottom line, this should not be on you. If they agreed to do this and are now backing out of it, you need to hold them to the fire. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay, great.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, I appreciate your help. You're very welcome, Tom. Okay, thanks.
SPEAKER 08 :
You bet.
SPEAKER 16 :
Merry Christmas to you, too. Appreciate you calling in. Yeah, and really quick, this is for all of you listening. Any kind of a, you know, warranty issue, doesn't matter whether it's on, you know, a new car, whether it's on your home. Now, there's different laws in the state of Colorado. So here, I'm talking Colorado. I don't know what it's like for our surrounding states. I can't tell you what the laws in Wyoming or Nebraska or Kansas are. are like, and some of you listening in other parts of the country, Oklahoma, Texas, and so on, Montana. We have a lot of listeners. Michigan, Minnesota. I mean, we have them from all over. So I don't know what the other states are like. Typically speaking, they're very similar because most states will sort of follow what the next is doing, but not always. So in this particular case on the home end of things, since this is Fix-It Radio, warranty-wise and so on, you really need to dial in what are the legal ends of things as a state. In other words, what is a builder required to do or not do because there are things that they're held accountable to even by law. And again, this is where even an attorney typically can look these things up for you or even may know off the top of their head. But in a lot of cases, you can look this stuff up for yourself and figure out exactly what are they supposed to do, not do, and so on. Now, on cars, it gets a little dicier. lemon loss for example we have a lemon law in Colorado and it's very specific it has to be a certain amount of times into the dealership in a certain amount of time for the exact same problem and what a lot of dealers will do and this is not knocking them it's just what happens what a lot of dealers will do is let's say that you've got a vehicle that has a I don't know vibration I'm using an example of what one of mine I had way back in the day has a vibration only at a specific time, specific speed, specific temperature. But it happens all the time and you can replicate it pretty regularly. What the dealership will do is when you take that vehicle in each time, they will write a little different description as to what the problem is. And according to Lemon Law, that means it's a different problem every time. So you literally have to be very specific in the wording and literally make sure that the service advisor, whoever's writing the invoice up, the repairer up is writing it in exactly the same description of complaint every single time because in colorado that's very important when it comes to the lemon law so something just to you know let you guys know i know it's fix it radio but it applies to other areas as well and folks just could include everything from you know tv problems appliances your home and so on every warranty is going to be a little bit different but follow what some of those things are and what some of the idiosyncrasies are and different uh industries in colorado especially will have different laws around some of those you know for example in colorado i say it all the time if you buy a used car from a dealer, you are going to sign a piece of paper by law that says, as is. In other words, it's yours. Yeah, you own it. You can try to go back on the dealer for that, but typically in Colorado on a used car, because you're signing that particular document that it's an as is transaction, you're not by law, you're going to have a hard time going back on the dealer if the engine blows up three weeks later, for example. Now, they may be able to do something for you and out of the kindness of their heart and so on. And again, it's really hard to prove that somebody was deceptive in that. And that's another conversation for Drive Radio. Point being, know your warranties. Know where you stand in this particular case on the home side. And he did a really good job. Tom did a good job. Document, document, document. If they have agreed to do something, make sure it's in writing, not something verbal. Or Something else you could do. If it's verbal, record it. Everybody now carries around this nice little video camera thing we call smartphones. All of them have some sort of a video capability. Record what's going on. Even if you can't get it in writing, if you're talking to the local foreman on site or whatever the case may be or a salesperson or what have you. In Colorado, by the way, again, I don't know about the surrounding states, but in Colorado, you do not need consent from the other person to record.
SPEAKER 07 :
Those conversations.
SPEAKER 16 :
Colorado is a one party consent. You're consenting. That's all you have to have. You don't need the consent of the other party to record the conversation. So now, by the way, that means if you're in that world, be careful what you're saying. And unless you can back it up, be careful what you're saying, because you could very well be recorded at that point in time. And by the way, there's all sorts of other recording devices, including doorbell cameras and so on. They may be catching some of these conversations. So those of you that are in that world, be very careful as well as to what you're promising because it could come back on you if it's something you can't fulfill. So just a side note for that side.
SPEAKER 17 :
So if you're buying a new home, and this is what I would think I would do, wouldn't you have a separate inspector come in? Yes. There's a guy that you follow on TikTok. I don't know if you see that guy.
SPEAKER 16 :
I would. Out of Arizona.
SPEAKER 17 :
I would. But personally, and then hopefully they catch the structural stuff.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, in this case where you've got concrete that has settled long after you've bought the home, that's something that the inspector even may not find on the front side, and that's one of those where in this case Tom's got an agreement that they're supposed to fix it, and now they're not wanting to. Yeah, that's not kosher. we're going to hold them to that and make sure that they do. And that's one of these where, yeah, have it in writing or video or even audio, whatever you need to do as far as that goes. You know, I would be doing that this day and age.
SPEAKER 17 :
Just more of a sidestep, but this is another way the builders are kind of doing something. So my sister built a brand-new house, but they put in the wrong cabinets. Ah, okay. But, you know, by the time they notice that, but what's happening is your loan's coming out of – because you only have that lock for, what is it, 90 days? So then you're kind of stuck because then now maybe interest rates have gone up. Right. You can't get that new loan. So then you're stuck buying those cabinets. You really didn't want, or else you can't get occupancy to own the home to get the loan. So it's, I don't think they, I'm not sure they're doing it as nefariously, but.
SPEAKER 16 :
And when it happens, you're stuck. You're stuck. Yeah, I hear that.
SPEAKER 17 :
And then they're not hurting because they don't have to buy new cabinets.
SPEAKER 16 :
Correct. We'll come back and talk about some of these items you can buy. If you've got another question like Tom had, by all means, let us know. 303-477-5600. Text line again, 307-282-22. We'll take a quick break. We'll come back, give a little bit long segment that way. Don't go anywhere. Myself, Steve Horvath from Geno's Auto Service. We'll be right back. This is Fix It Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 16 :
All right, we are back. Fix It Radio, KLZ 560. Website, by the way, fixitradio.com. You can add a dash in between the fix it if you want to, or fix it in the radio, but you don't have to. That one, we've actually got the no dash situation. I wish I could do that on some of the others, but I continually work on that. But for now, the other ones have a hyphen. Fix It Radio does not. It's all one word. And you can find us there. All right, so let's get started on some good ideas for folks in your life that may, you know, whether they're do-it-yourselfers. And some of these are just sort of universal. You don't even have to be a do-it-yourselfer. They're just good to have, period, like number one on this list. The mechanics wear tactical work gloves. Now, mechanics wear is a brand that's been around the automotive world for a long, long time. That's where they got started. I remember them being at SEMA, Steve, you know, years and years and years ago, one of our big trade shows in the automotive world. And they now since have expanded into most industries. Mechanics wear, that's why it's called mechanics wear is because it started in the automotive world. But literally, you see construction guys, you see a lot of people wearing it because they're made in a way that they're usually And they've got different variations, but usually they're very flexible on the backside but have either leather or a face to them for your palms, if you would. So when you're grabbing things and so on, you've got more protection for your hands, but yet they're very flexible. Old leather work gloves, you can't do anything with those. You couldn't hardly put a nut on a bolt, and I'm not exaggerating with a regular leather glove. So Mechanicswear came along. They were one of the first inventors of wearing gloves to work on cars because I grew up, and Steve did too, We didn't have that. You didn't have any gloves to wear at that time, and it's why our hands got all tore up and beat up, and today why some of us even have issues with our hands is because we didn't have any of that stuff back then. had a little gel sometimes in the palm so when you were using you know correct and that's great for building and stuff when you have that hammer and you're not taking those vibrations correct so again mechanics wear a great item and again this is one of those universal item store literally you could buy a pair of these for almost anyone and they're going to use them so this is almost a no-brainer as far as that one goes the next one is very cool and these have gotten to be more and more popular that is in this case it's a klein brand which klein is a very very good brand it's sort of the Snap-on, if you would, for electricians and that end of things. Klein, very good products. I own some of their tools, and they're very nice. They make a digital level and angle gauge. So if you're looking to make something level or you're trying to figure out an angle of something or so on, very handy tool to have. Now, with some of these, by the way, even mechanics where there are competitors to them so this just happens to be the brands that are in this particular listing that i'm reading you and i don't know whether there's a a kickback to popular mechanics on this or not i don't know exactly you know how that works but there's other brands of these as well so the idea is here's a idea for an item to go buy for that person you have a hard time buying for it doesn't mean you have to buy that brand you do do a little bit of your own research and find out what you want to do because in a lot of cases these will be sold by a lot of different people like the next one a this is a carhartt but they call it the carhartt legacy tool bag well there's a gazillion different tool bags made now everybody from you know milwaukee on down husky even i think that's the lowes brand everybody's got some sort of a tool bag and they become very popular and again for somebody that You know, either is, you know, wanting to do some things on a little bit more mobile basis and you don't want to carry your, you know, used to be guys carried metal toolboxes around. No one hardly does that anymore. Everybody's got some sort of either a bag or a backpack. that they typically stick all of their tools and because a they're more organized than what you could do in the toolboxes and they're not clanking around are not sitting down on the floor of the counters or whatever they don't lose better and you're not losing i'd always assume i didn't have a little bag mixes the bags make it simple and what i've even done is you can even divide the bags up into different things you may be wanting to do so i do my own kinda eighty work where if i need a cat five cable running an input on it and so on i've got a bag just for that kind of stuff that's different than, say, the bag I have to do plumbing stuff, which is different from the bag that I would use to go do electrical stuff. Because each one of those requires a little bit different tools inside, and why have everything in one when you can have little bags to go do whatever that little job is that you're trying to do? So that's how I've kind of organized my end of things. So, yes, I have a tool bag for doing some of the IT cabling and all of that computer stuff. I've got a bag for doing electric stuff, and I've got a bag for going and doing... plumbing stuff and it just makes it simple that way so just go pick up that bag if i know i need to go do x job because everything now is in that bag so even i need to go to somebody else's house you just go grab that bag and boom i've got what i need to go help that particular person and i'm not you know fumbling around trying to figure out exactly what i would need to take to go do you know xyz jobs so that's how i organize those things and it works out really well jeff in montana what's going on
SPEAKER 07 :
Hey, life is wonderful for me up here, especially now that we have a new boiler.
SPEAKER 16 :
Oh, nice. Definitely.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, we've been limping along on an old boiler that I had to go out and reset about half a dozen times a day. Excuse me or so. I kept getting a gas out there. Apparently, I had a hard time keeping a constant temperature. Oh, okay. So I'm looking at it right now, and I'm thinking life is great.
SPEAKER 16 :
Nice. Good job.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 16 :
That's what's better than boiler heat. Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER 07 :
Heat, period. Well, that's true, too.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, heat, period. You're right.
SPEAKER 07 :
Especially in an in-floor radiant heat system.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 07 :
It's pretty essential. Oh, yes. But, yeah, two things, two comments. First, my first subscription ever was to Popular Science.
SPEAKER 16 :
Oh, that's a good one, too. I forgot about that one. Yeah, good one.
SPEAKER 07 :
I like popular mechanics, but popular science, I was a science guy. I would like reading about it. But one of the articles in there, to kind of bring it full circle, was Smokey Unik. He wrote something for each month's edition, and that's where I learned so much about cars. The story I remember is that there was a guy who was working. They had no Willys Jeep, and it had a miss. And they asked him, you know, They took it to him to diagnose, and he took a quick look. He goes, okay, which of you guys dropped spark plug number four? And then they went, what? What are you talking about? He goes, yeah, one of you dropped it. Smash the electrode. It's not firing. So they took it out. Sure enough, they just readjusted the gap, and it worked just fine.
SPEAKER 16 :
I've seen some of those over the years. Don't see that much anymore, but back in the day, yes, you could see those occasionally.
SPEAKER 17 :
And they had to check them before you put them in.
SPEAKER 16 :
Right. Oh, yeah, gapped them before you put them in. Absolutely. Yeah, we actually had the, you know, a lot of us that were in that industry, you didn't even have the feeler gauge gappers. We actually had a tool that you actually, whatever the gap was, you put it in, crimped it, and off you went and made it really fast.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I still have some of the old feeler gauge.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, me too. Don't use them much anymore, but still have them. I guess nostalgic I've got them, but you don't hardly use them anymore.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right, kind of there with the timing light.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, that's kind of a, unless you're going to go work on your old 70-something or 60-something car, yeah, you don't really need that either.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. A couple ideas for gifts, though. One that probably most folks wouldn't think about for a guy, but a water distiller. We...
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, good idea.
SPEAKER 07 :
I don't like to get our coffee pots all calcified and everything.
SPEAKER 15 :
Great idea.
SPEAKER 07 :
Plus we're of an age where we use CPAPs and we have a humidifier. And so, you know, buying distilled water, $1.20, $1.50 a pop. Yeah. I bought this, and I didn't get the cheapest one. I got one that was good quality, and one of the reasons I did it was because they didn't boil it dry. And so I put over 250 gallons to it in a year, and I've never cleaned it out once. I've wiped it out. I've gotten rid of the little water that's left. That's a great idea. All the minerals. And we'll say it looks quite as good as new, but I have never had to clean it, so...
SPEAKER 16 :
Um, that was something that was hard plumb that in, or how do you do that, Jeff?
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, it's just the countertop thing. You just open it up. You pour a gallon in, come back in six hours. It's distilled important to a jug. And if you have more than one jug, you repeat the process.
SPEAKER 16 :
I had a family member at one time that had one of those, but it was a hard plum in and did everything that way. And, uh, it worked. Yeah. To your point worked extremely well.
SPEAKER 17 :
I have to run mine out in the garage because it's a little noisy. Okay. So I put it out there so it's quieter, at least in the house.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, mine's in the basement. Yeah. But it's not disturbing the noise. It's like a fan. Yes. That's all the noise is really is just the fans running to cool down the the distiller tube. So, I mean, it's not something you think of for a guy typically, but it is a really, really handy. No.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, and given even some of the things that we need to do, uh, around the house shop and so on having distilled water, for example, your iron or what you put in your cooling system and so on the ability to keep that water more stable and have a lot less issues with the water itself. For example, the calcification even that can come up in an iron using distilled water. And it just helps a ton.
SPEAKER 17 :
I suppose you're trying to clean your own windows and stuff.
SPEAKER 16 :
All that would help. Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. All of that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. Yep. And then, uh, the, uh, another idea would be the little roll around tool kits. You talked about bags. Right. And, uh, and I, uh, I have bags up in my shop, but, uh, just here at the house, I have a little three or four piece, uh, roll around kit that, you know, you have a toolbox on top and then various containers underneath it. And they, uh, And I just, it's my constant go-to thing. I have a drill down here that I use. I have all the screwdrivers and stuff.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yep. And even for guys at home, and this is something else for a lot of you that are thinking, what do I get that person that I never know what to buy for? The other thing along those lines, Jeff, that's really handy. In the automotive world, guys have been using them for years. And back in the day, we used to make our own because they didn't exist. But that's the tool carts. And a lot of them now have built-in drawers where you can put that thing in a place and have most of the tools you need for the majority of jobs you even do. around the house and so on instead of a full bore toolbox you use a you know four or five drawer six drawer you know tool cart lid closes and so on you've basically got everything you need inside that cart yep and really quick jeff they have gotten to be yeah i'm not saying going buying a snap-on or one of those because yeah they're super expensive but you can do the harbor freight napa and so on and buy those for oh gosh probably starting in the low hundreds yeah they're not too bad yeah yeah and now they've gone the other way too where we have these trays they're like a kind of like i always call my tv tray on wheels and you don't have anything on them so then you grab your fuel tools and then you run over and Sturdy. Yeah, and they're usually made out of like a polyurethane or something along those lines, correct?
SPEAKER 17 :
No, these are metal.
SPEAKER 16 :
They're metal, okay.
SPEAKER 17 :
Telescope and everything.
SPEAKER 16 :
Oh, nice, nice, nice.
SPEAKER 17 :
You can put a brick rotor on it. Okay, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. and something while you were talking, I thought, uh, that I have in every one of my cars. And that's one of those, uh, 13 and one screwdriver kits that you can get, you know, eight different, eight different bits and a bunch of different things for taking nuts off several different sizes. And that's my go-to tool for most everything. Uh, if I, if I can't do it without a head out to the toolbox, but, uh, more often than not, I can do everything with that too, with that one screwdriver. So, uh, And they're about 15 bucks, I think, now.
SPEAKER 16 :
And for those of you listening, you buy, say, we talked about Klein a moment ago, Jeff. You buy one of those that's a Klein. The way that works for everybody listening, it's not only that they've got all the different screwdrivers and so on. Some of them will even have Torx bits. And then on top of that, they're nut drivers as well, built in. So every kind of time you move that thing, tool or do something different with the tool you've got a different fastener you can actually you know work on jeff so to your point that one tool literally covers a ton yes and i've got the ones with the different bits in the handle and i those were kind of awkward to use this one they're all in the shaft that's right they're in the shaft that's right either ends
SPEAKER 07 :
And so you just pull them out and rotate it the way you need it. Yep, fabulous. But, I mean, it's a five-second job to get the tool you need.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, I have, you know, actually a couple of those kicking around, you know, the house tool bag, whatever, because to your point, Jeff, you literally can grab that one tool and do the majority of what you would need to do inside the house.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, and an example is out on the car, if I'm cleaning the battery terminals, usually I can just pull that out and find the right size and loosen the terminal, take it off, clean it, put it back on, and I don't even have to worry about finding anything else. So it's just really, really handy.
SPEAKER 16 :
Absolutely, absolutely. No, great gift ideas, I should say. And by the way, the water distiller, you got me going on that one because that's right up my wife's alley, Jeff, so you're probably making her day.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, this mine was about $250, I think, and you can get them for a lot less than that. But like I say, this is one I've never had to clean.
SPEAKER 16 :
Nice. Nice. Great suggestion. Thank you, Jeff.
SPEAKER 07 :
You bet.
SPEAKER 16 :
Have a great rest of your day and enjoy Montana. I didn't ask him how the weather was. Our weather today is absolutely pristine. We've got a little reprieve. Had some wind and a little cooler yesterday. Supposed to come back a little bit tomorrow and be kind of the same way. So enjoy your Saturday because the outside temperature today is, for this time of the year, and I've always said to, and I even tell my voices constantly, If it's not going to snow, have it be like it is right now. I am one where I absolutely hate when it's cold and it's not snowing. If it's going to go ahead and get cold, you know, it might as well snow at that point. All right, Larry's answering a couple of questions. So for those of you that are on the line, hang tight. Larry will get right to you. Although I think I know who's this next one. I'll go ahead and take it. Is this John and Cheyenne?
SPEAKER 05 :
Of course. There we go. That's easy. Go for it, sir.
SPEAKER 16 :
That one's easy. You don't have to go through, Larry. You can just come straight on.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, well, I missed saying hi to Larry, though.
SPEAKER 16 :
I know, I know. He's been on the phone for a little bit, so we'll let him keep talking.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, before I get there, to you, Larry, Charlie, and Steve, Merry Christmas.
SPEAKER 15 :
Merry Christmas to you, John. Appreciate you.
SPEAKER 05 :
So a couple of quick gifts that are great if you're doing chores around the house. Harbor Freight has a 52-inch straight-edge bar clamp that you can adjust to whatever width you need, and use it as a straight edge to rip a piece of board.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, good idea.
SPEAKER 05 :
And it's way cheaper than buying, like, if they call those new saws with the plate. You could use any saw with it. You just have to measure, you know. Yeah, yeah. I know on my saw it's one inch and three inch, depending on which way I'm ripping it. So you just have to measure over it. Great idea. But it gives you a perfect straight cut. without anything. Great idea.
SPEAKER 16 :
I'm stealing that idea. That's a great idea.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, and they're 52-inch long. They're Harbor Freight. If they're more than $20, I'll be shocked.
SPEAKER 16 :
Typically not there. Yeah, you're probably right.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, I've had mine for about five or seven years, and I know I paid less than $20, so it might have gone up. The other thing that I recommend everybody have if they're doing projects around the house, it's the old wooden folding six-foot measure. You know what I'm talking about? It's like a ruler. It folds up.
SPEAKER 16 :
Wooden ruler, basically. The folding wooden ruler.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, they're like six feet long. What they're great for is inside edges because you can use that, measure three foot, and then turn it around and measure, what, another four inches, and you get the exact measurement you need. without having to try to use a tape measure that's going to go in and out.
SPEAKER 06 :
Got it.
SPEAKER 05 :
You know what I mean? Last one, a drywall T-square, the 48-inch T-square.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, that's worth that. Yeah, I've had one of those. Definitely come in handy for all sorts of things.
SPEAKER 05 :
And they're great for drawing straight lines or measuring, or if you want to draw a straight line to cut whatever. A piece of two-inch foam board where you can draw the line and then run it. Now, question for you. This two-inch foam board is a pain in the butt to cut. What I did was I took my small battery circular saw and I flipped the blade around so it wouldn't rip it. It just cuts through because it spins. You got any better idea than that?
SPEAKER 16 :
Jigsaw. with a fine blade with okay and then use your use your same t you know your same 52 inch clamp you're talking about and use it as a straight edge and go yeah all right just use like a metal blade on it don't use a wood blade
SPEAKER 05 :
No, no, no. That's why I flipped that. I had a wood blade in my circular saw, and I flipped it around, and I'm getting good putts. It's just really messy.
SPEAKER 16 :
And by the way, the other one that works really well, you do need something to help guide it, and I don't know if I can explain this correctly, but... uh milwaukee and all of them now have the cordless saws and they've got the long different blades that you can put on them and they vibrate super fast and you can buy different types of blade depending upon what you're cutting those actually also john work fabulous I have one of those that has probably been one of the, you start talking about, you know, what's one of the best tools you've ever bought? And my boys got me this, you know, years ago. I can't remember, Father's Day, Christmas, something like that. And with all the different blade configurations they now have and how you can even put the blade in it. In other words, you can put it straight out. You can put it at a 45-degree angle, 90-degree angle, whatever you want to do. And the reality is that thing, I mean, there is 101 uses for it.
SPEAKER 05 :
And I had one, I bought one of those that was corded. A decade or more ago, I had to pull up a whole – we were pulling up carpet and padding to put down hardwood flooring, and you got all those staples and a metal blade on that, and you just – Well, my Ryobi set, I have an 18-volt one now. So, yeah.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, and that one with the right blade will do that foam board all day long.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, it's just, you know, it's met that foam board when you cut it with the circular saw. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 16 :
And this is what I just told you will cut that mess down immensely.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right. Well, I guess I'm going to head in. I'm heading into town anyway. Go to a couple of stores and get some blades.
SPEAKER 16 :
And there you go. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 05 :
I'm going right next to Harbor Freight. So I might as well run in there.
SPEAKER 16 :
By the way, Harbor Freight will have those blades also, John.
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, yeah. They usually have them in like a kit pack. That's right. That's right.
SPEAKER 16 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 05 :
So, John, you guys have a great day. You too.
SPEAKER 16 :
Merry Christmas to you, John. Appreciate you as well. Great suggestions, by the way, on things to buy. Bill and Lakewood, I'll take you before the break. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay. You're probably going to think we're both standing in New York City talking to you.
SPEAKER 16 :
That's all right.
SPEAKER 04 :
But anyway, hey, well, remember when I called you up about Toyota or Trailblazer, right, a couple of weeks ago?
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, uh-huh, sure.
SPEAKER 04 :
So my wife went out this week and drove them, and she liked the Trailblazer better. She thought the Toyota was noisier inside.
SPEAKER 16 :
You know, and I don't know that I could disagree with her on that. I think she is more than likely hearing exactly the same thing I would. I would agree with her on that.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, so we'll probably go with the Trailblazer, I think.
SPEAKER 16 :
And really quick, and this is something I've even complained when I've done some reviews on some of the Toyota products, and again, I don't know who gets to listen to those corporately speaking, but that's one of my complaints with the majority of their product line. Until you get into the Lexus line, it changes then. But in all of the Toyota line, maybe with the exception of an Avalon, they're very noisy inside, and I don't know why.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, see, you know, in 1972... I bought a brand new Datsun. And at the time, I went and drove the Toyota and the Datsun, and I liked the Datsun better. You know? I don't remember why, but... Sure.
SPEAKER 17 :
What kind of Datsun was it? A 510. It's a 510. That's a great car.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, I had three of them. But they don't last. Yeah. The bodies start rusting. But I was living out here, and I went back to New York for about six months. And I parked it in my parents' garage on Long Island, and it rusted up just sitting in the garage. And then it just, it was a good car for, you know, I paid $2,000 or something like that for it. And they ran good. They were great. But they just stuck to the road like crazy.
SPEAKER 17 :
That's why they lasted so well out here. I think because we had them quite a while out here.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, so, okay, just thought I'd run that by you guys.
SPEAKER 16 :
No, you're welcome. No, I appreciate that, and I can't disagree with you or disagree with her on that at all. Somebody asked me, too, for links to the water distillers. I actually found a nice product review site for them that I just texted a couple of you. I think one went by mistake because sometimes my texting thing is a little weird. So if you got that link and it wasn't you, I'm sorry, but that – the whoever asked for it i did just send that as well and that's one of those two just do a little research figure out what works for you uh i'm looking online and and to um uh to the point of what we were talking about a little bit earlier with with um jeff there are a bunch of those made so just do your own research figure out what you think works best for you they make them from little to large and you can spend a boatload of money or not a lot depending upon what you want with that particular unit so We'll be right back. Fix It Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 16 :
All right, we are back. Fix-It Radio, KLZ 560. Thanks, by the way, for a lot of you that have called in and given other ideas on things to buy for gifts for this year. And as I hope some of you listening, and if you're listening on Tuesday, you still have plenty of time to get these things prior to Christmas. This is why I wanted to do it today, and I didn't do it last week. I'll be honest. I, like a lot of other people, just didn't think about how close we were to Christmas last weekend. after going through this week and realizing there's really two business weeks before next week there's one i realized yeah we probably ought to get this squeezed in today plenty of time even for some of you that would want to order something you know online or whatever if you did something today this is saturday but even if you were doing this tuesday typically you're a week before christmas you probably gonna get it just make sure on your shipping into things you've got all of that you know, dialed in because we're getting closer and closer now all of the time. So yeah, we do not have a lot of time left prior to Christmas.
SPEAKER 17 :
I think this is the shortest distance between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
SPEAKER 16 :
Shortest I can remember in a long time.
SPEAKER 17 :
So generally we have an extra week.
SPEAKER 16 :
The way, yeah, the way. Thanksgiving fell and Christmas being on a Wednesday. It's always on the 25th. But Thanksgiving, you know, sort of floats, if you would, depending upon where that Thursday, you know, falls. And so this particular year, the way it fell was very, very, very late in November. And then given that just very short timing between Thanksgiving weekend was the last weekend of November. So literally we had three weeks before Thanksgiving. uh christmas is where we're at so yeah for a lot of you listening um you probably already know that but in case you don't there's a reminder now this is something that kind of coincides with john was saying a moment ago and the reason why i don't have one of the wooden stick you know rulers you know measuring devices the the fold up wooden tape measures i guess you could say And actually, this is the exact brand that I have. I own this exact one that's in this article from Popular Mechanics. I own the Bosch 165-foot laser tape measure. And I learned that from a good friend of mine years ago. And this particular individual was measuring different rooms and things like that. And I'm like, what is that thing? Well, it's just my little laser measuring thing. I'm like... really i said how accurate is it test it for yourself so i i did and then once i did i bought one this thing is it is spot on uh there are very few things that you cannot use this for and it's really handy when you're measuring long distances and you don't have somebody else there to hold the tape measure because it works off of a laser so you literally can kind of point it at what you're measuring and it will literally tell you how far that is i mean you golf um steve a lot it's a lot like a rangefinder only much more accurate and granted not going near as far as what a rangefinder would but on shorter things you know this one's 165 feet out there i mean that's a long way uh most people only have measuring tapes you know i have a hundred foot tape and with this i don't need any more because you don't need a hundred foot tape when you have this because you can literally stand there And as long as there's something that will bounce back at you, you can literally measure. Now, if you're just out in the middle of a field and you're trying to measure distance, you need to put a cone or something out there to determine that distance. But as long as there's something to bounce back at, you can measure with this particular device. So it's a great handy thing. They're not that expensive. This is one of those things that I would recommend most everybody have in a toolbox because it comes in really handy at times when you're trying to do especially longer measurements is what I should say. And you don't have that other person there to hold the other end. These things work out really, really well. Kyle in Dallas, you're next.
SPEAKER 09 :
Hey, John, how you doing?
SPEAKER 16 :
Good, sir. Welcome.
SPEAKER 09 :
Hey, I've called before on Drive Radio, but never had anything to add to Fix-It Radio. But I've got a tool that I bought about a year ago. They're 10-inch shears. They're made by Fiskars. Oh, yes. Best shear company out there.
SPEAKER 16 :
You'd say again? That's the best scissor shear company out there, in my opinion.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, well, they make these 10-inch shears on the handle. One of the loops is open, and they have serrated blades. And I've used this thing for so many things. I used to use a razor blade on. I was insulating some pipes down here recently, and I cut that. It's a foam core, and you can make your mark and just cut this. And I've used it on drip line in my flower bed. It's one of the best tools I've bought in a long time.
SPEAKER 16 :
Great idea. Like you, I have a pair of those and learned that years and years ago. I think for me, Kyle, at one point in time, way back in the day, I owned an upholstery shop. And in the automotive end of things, that's very common what you're talking about to have around the upholstery shops. That's kind of where I learned on cutting all sorts of things from foam to leather to Naugahyde to some of the things that you're mentioning, piping and so on. Handiest tool to have around. And that brand is, again, I think one of the best brands out there. yes i i agree it has a it has a metal hinge on it so you can really put some pressure on this and as you know kyle they make you know fisker makes a huge line of that type of product and some of them you know i will say they're a little bit less expensive and you know maybe not made to the quality of what even you have and they've even got some that are on the professional end that are super expensive
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. Oh, yeah. They make some scissors that can – they're very expensive.
SPEAKER 16 :
I have some of those left over from, you know, back in the day, which, you know, to your point, Kyle, these things are probably 40 years old.
SPEAKER 17 :
Really?
SPEAKER 16 :
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 17 :
I saw they're not expensive. Well, there's one that's 8 inches, under $20. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 16 :
And most of these, as you know, Kyle, you can even sharpen yourself like you would a knife, or if you can't do it, there's people out there that, you know, sharpen scissors and so on, and you never really have to buy another pair. Yeah. Make replacement.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, anyway, I just thought I'd just call in and just. That's great.
SPEAKER 16 :
Great idea. Absolutely. And again, most of the items, and Kyle, you included in this, most of the items we've mentioned today are not that expensive.
SPEAKER 17 :
Oh, yeah. The little Bosch thing is under $40.
SPEAKER 16 :
Exactly. So we're not talking about spending big money, Kyle.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, if I remember correctly, I think these were under $15, and they've been worth every penny. There you go. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 16 :
Great idea. No, that's perfect.
SPEAKER 09 :
All right, John.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, Merry Christmas. No, Merry Christmas to you, too, Kyle. Appreciate you very much. Okay, this one, next one that's on the list, we talk about a lot. And this is not just the automotive side. We've talked about it on the automotive side, and most of us in the automotive world have owned these for years, in fact. when they were super expensive we were buying them and i mean super expensive back in the day an infrared thermometer in the shops and i'm not exaggerating i think the first one i ever bought back in the day was 200 bucks it was a 200 they were super expensive you know they had plastic carrying case and so on they were really expensive like all technology not all but majority of technology the longer it's out and the more they get sold the cheaper it becomes you can now buy infrared thermometers for i'm not joking 20 bucks or so yeah hey the frac take a zero off of what i paid initially To the point where I own a couple different ones and even keeping them different parts. I've got one up towards, you know, in my house, one out in the barn, just depends on what you're doing. They're so handy to have, even for some of you where you're, maybe you smoke a lot or you cook a lot outside and you want to know what your temperatures are and so on. literally this will do all of that and tell you exactly, you know, what is my inside actual cooking temperature? You know, if I've got a griddle, you know, what's the griddle temperature right now? And on and on we go. I mean, so handy to have around for all sorts of things. And when you're looking at doing plumbing stuff, you know, where's the hot water line, cold water line, different things, you know, how hot is it actually getting? All sorts of things you can use it for. And again, as the technology has continued to improve and there's more and more companies making those, it's one of, Sort of like the scissors a minute ago from Kyle. One of the handiest items that you'll have around that you will typically use on an ongoing basis. And literally it's point and shoot. Wherever you can point that thing at, it'll tell you exactly what the temperature is. We use them in in our world for how cold is the temperature outside and how cold is the pavement itself at any given time because that kind of tells us when things are going to start freezing or not. So you literally can use it in that manner. How hot is that boiling water? On and on we go. You can really use it for all sorts of things, and it's one of the handiest devices. I personally would put that right up there with the – You know, the laser tape measure we were just talking about a moment ago and so on works extremely well. Carol has a question. Carol, go ahead.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes, I have aluminum wiring in an older house. A bathroom vent just went out, and I have a handyman coming to put a new vent in. My son is concerned. about installing a new vent with the aluminum wiring. Is there a problem or something?
SPEAKER 16 :
There's no problem. He just is the handyman, and he should know. Most handymen are not certified electricians, so you have to be careful and make sure this is being done right. But there is a special way to attach the copper that he'll have with the new fan to the aluminum wiring and there's even special wire nuts that you're supposed to use for that so make sure he's asked those questions do you know how to attach this to aluminum wiring properly where because what will happen on that aluminum wiring down the road is they get loose as time goes by and it'll spark and that's where fires and things like that can start that's that's what your family member is concerned about
SPEAKER 03 :
Right, okay. So I'm going to write this down. There's special wiring that comes with the vent, and then... The vent has just its own copper wiring, because that's where everything is now.
SPEAKER 16 :
There's special... It will not come with the right wire nuts. He'll have to have aluminum wiring wire nuts to attach everything and make it work.
SPEAKER 03 :
Aluminum wiring...
SPEAKER 16 :
Aluminum wire nuts, they call them.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 16 :
Wire nuts for aluminum wiring, but he'll know what we mean by that.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, okay.
SPEAKER 16 :
And Larry wanted to talk to you, Carol. I'm going to put you back on hold for a moment here, so let's do that. So there you go, Larry. And yes, for those of you that have aluminum wiring, I don't talk about this much on... fix it radio but there are in all areas of the country because aluminum wiring was very popular for a while it was going to be the new thing at one point in time and as time went by they learned that it's not it's not the aluminum itself that's the problem it'll carry the current all that just fine it's the connections in the aluminum wiring in the vibration that's occurring in those connections in the fact that a lot of cases you're attaching the aluminum to copper And in doing that, yes, that particular vibration between, let me just say it this way in simplest terms, the vibration at the connection can cause a problem. And there is special, again, not just wire nuts, but even I think there's some like grease or something.
SPEAKER 07 :
Like a bluish kind of stuff.
SPEAKER 16 :
it's not it's i want to say dielectric grease but it's not it's something like that but you put that on the aluminum and the copper and as everything goes together then you put the you put the right wire net on it and if you do that and those of you that are you know certified electricians you can text me and tell me if i'm correct but i believe that's the code way of actually doing it and there is a specific way of doing that even in the junction boxes and unless you know how to do that yes you could have problems down the road with you know sparking and issues that way which you know we do not want so yes so carol is on the phone with larry but yes those of you like carol that can be a very uh specific thing that you need to make sure is getting done correctly so that's it for today folks i think given the fact that we didn't get through all of my list i'll do some more of this even next weekend because you'll still have a little bit of time before christmas but that's it for today fix it radio klz 560.
SPEAKER 12 :
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