WEBVTT 00:00:00.010 --> 00:00:03.110 All right okay ready okay. 00:00:03.110 --> 00:00:08.990 Shall uh shall we just uh go then yeah okay here it comes love Blah, 00:00:09.010 --> 00:00:10.130 blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 00:00:32.830 --> 00:00:38.550 Welcome to Curmudgeon's Corner for Saturday, July 5th, 2025. 00:00:39.350 --> 00:00:42.810 It's just after 16 UTC as we're starting to record. I'm Sam Inter, 00:00:42.930 --> 00:00:44.210 Yvonne Bowes here. Hello, Yvonne. 00:00:45.030 --> 00:00:54.170 Hi. You know, we were supposed to do this together this week. That was my plan. 00:00:54.390 --> 00:00:58.430 We had thought about doing this in person, like right before or right after 00:00:58.430 --> 00:01:02.490 the meetup or something. But unfortunately, yes, what happened, Yvonne? 00:01:03.230 --> 00:01:15.430 Uh, I will say that now, with all the facts in front of me, after what happened, it's clearly my fault. 00:01:16.290 --> 00:01:17.230 Oh, no. What happened? 00:01:17.750 --> 00:01:22.490 Well, sometime late last year, during one of our last trips, 00:01:22.530 --> 00:01:29.670 I had noticed that Manu's and anybody on YouTube can see, 00:01:30.850 --> 00:01:36.170 use the Solo Beats headphones that he had gotten many years ago. 00:01:36.350 --> 00:01:42.850 And I say he had gotten because he had gotten to be, as my son closes the door 00:01:42.850 --> 00:01:44.130 on me because I'm bothering him, 00:01:45.920 --> 00:01:50.600 You know, he liked to travel, but he liked to use his iPad, and you can't really 00:01:50.600 --> 00:01:55.720 be traveling on an airplane without the headphones, okay? 00:01:56.180 --> 00:01:57.520 For the sound on the iPad. 00:01:57.600 --> 00:02:01.140 Right, exactly. And so, you know, it bothers the other passengers. 00:02:01.340 --> 00:02:05.540 It's actually, you know, they do have, you know, some rules related to that 00:02:05.540 --> 00:02:08.920 that said, you know, on the airlines that you can't, you know, 00:02:09.340 --> 00:02:11.140 just be blasting stuff, okay? 00:02:11.440 --> 00:02:11.580 Right. 00:02:11.580 --> 00:02:15.420 So, you know, I was like trying to get him to use headphones. 00:02:15.620 --> 00:02:17.900 I'd been struggling to get him to use headphones. 00:02:18.420 --> 00:02:25.380 Part of the reason is that my son, who has autism, doesn't have a lot of sensory issues. 00:02:25.680 --> 00:02:31.340 But the one that he has is stuff. 00:02:31.780 --> 00:02:32.700 No, no, no. 00:02:33.920 --> 00:02:38.060 Stuff touching his earlobes or ear. 00:02:38.640 --> 00:02:39.220 Okay. 00:02:39.220 --> 00:02:41.220 It's not the sound. He has no 00:02:41.220 --> 00:02:44.280 problem with the sound. Blast music all you want. Go to a party, whatever. 00:02:44.560 --> 00:02:50.100 It's the actual physical sensation against the ear itself, which also manifests 00:02:50.100 --> 00:02:53.080 itself as we had struggled to get him to learn to swim. 00:02:54.660 --> 00:02:59.140 Because any time that one of the parts about learning to swim is to dunk your 00:02:59.140 --> 00:03:05.760 head underwater, that was always something excruciating for him. 00:03:06.020 --> 00:03:08.360 Okay? Always was a problem. 00:03:09.380 --> 00:03:13.840 We've gotten to learn to swim. And, you know, the thing is that the biggest 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:18.380 thing about him learning to swim wasn't, hey, I don't want him to be a competition swimmer. 00:03:18.420 --> 00:03:21.460 I just want to make sure that if he falls in the water, since we have so much 00:03:21.460 --> 00:03:23.680 in Florida, that he can get out. 00:03:24.220 --> 00:03:25.520 Right. It would be safe. 00:03:26.020 --> 00:03:31.120 Yes. And that was the main goal. As he learned to swim, basically his entire 00:03:31.120 --> 00:03:37.520 thing, you could see that his main mission was to keep his head above the water itself. which is. 00:03:37.520 --> 00:03:38.620 Which is a reasonable. 00:03:38.620 --> 00:03:41.640 Mission which is a reasonable thing by the way when you're swimming as 00:03:41.640 --> 00:03:44.720 well by the way okay you know so that's not exactly that 00:03:44.720 --> 00:03:47.860 bad but it also manifested itself with headphones 00:03:47.860 --> 00:03:52.820 where he had been refusing to you know he had been but one 00:03:52.820 --> 00:03:56.740 day like years ago as i'm trying to get him to shop for headphones that actually 00:03:56.740 --> 00:04:00.180 was at the apple store about something else they'd been doing a demo of the 00:04:00.180 --> 00:04:05.100 the solo beats headphones and he went and ambled over to the table where they 00:04:05.100 --> 00:04:10.240 were doing the demo of this music app and whatnot and handing out people headphones. 00:04:10.840 --> 00:04:15.520 And lo and behold, he grabbed the headphones and he put them on and he put them 00:04:15.520 --> 00:04:19.280 on and he stayed there playing and listen, you know, watching the demonstration 00:04:19.280 --> 00:04:23.720 for a while. And I'm like, OK, how much are these three hundred something dollars sold? 00:04:23.980 --> 00:04:26.500 OK, I was like, I don't care what the fuck's the price I had. 00:04:26.540 --> 00:04:29.880 But I had been struggling to get him to wear any headphones up until then. 00:04:30.160 --> 00:04:34.640 I'm like, you know, they could have literally the guy could have told me, oh, it's $1,500. 00:04:35.420 --> 00:04:38.360 And I would have been like, okay, fine. Pack them up. 00:04:39.570 --> 00:04:46.290 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, so, so, you know, we got those and he's used them now for a long time. 00:04:46.530 --> 00:04:53.350 The, the, the problem is that I had noticed one of the last trips is that the, 00:04:53.530 --> 00:04:58.590 the, the cushions had started to break and flake. 00:04:58.590 --> 00:04:58.970 Yeah, yeah. 00:05:00.510 --> 00:05:04.090 So, I was like, look, I'll just get them new headphones. All right? 00:05:04.370 --> 00:05:12.530 So, I got them these that are beat solo, but they're not, they actually are very different. Okay? 00:05:13.290 --> 00:05:13.570 Okay. 00:05:13.670 --> 00:05:17.630 The cushions are not, they are really different. 00:05:17.830 --> 00:05:22.010 It's like a new model or something. So, they changed a bunch of stuff. 00:05:22.030 --> 00:05:25.750 All right. Well, look, I didn't realize this. 00:05:25.770 --> 00:05:26.390 And so, they weren't his headphones. 00:05:26.630 --> 00:05:29.870 So I didn't realize this was an, I didn't think that this was an issue because 00:05:29.870 --> 00:05:33.990 I had actually, when I got on them, I, I, I, I, he, he had them in his desk. 00:05:34.390 --> 00:05:37.150 I think he warmed for a little bit. And then I was like, ah, it's fine. 00:05:38.150 --> 00:05:42.550 Well, look, well, we're heading to the airport. Well, we had left for the airport very early. 00:05:43.450 --> 00:05:48.170 He got very sad and he started complaining about the headphones on the way to the airport. 00:05:48.690 --> 00:05:54.650 So I decided to try to go back to get the, all right, go get the white headphones. 00:05:54.770 --> 00:05:57.730 The right headphones. At least you hadn't thrown them away. No, no. 00:05:57.770 --> 00:06:02.370 I hadn't thrown them away. Which, yeah, I mean, I had thought about that, but no, I did not. 00:06:03.610 --> 00:06:09.590 So, well, actually, we had forgotten about three things. We had forgotten the... 00:06:11.390 --> 00:06:15.090 Well, he... First, he said about the headphones, and I'm like, 00:06:15.170 --> 00:06:16.250 no, no, no, we got the new headphones. 00:06:16.910 --> 00:06:21.550 No, we won't. And then he realized he didn't put on his Apple Watch. 00:06:22.390 --> 00:06:26.130 Now, was more important because look 00:06:26.130 --> 00:06:28.930 if he gets lost like you can find 00:06:28.930 --> 00:06:31.850 him and i'm like you know he doesn't like 00:06:31.850 --> 00:06:37.090 carrying his phone in his pocket it really like you know and i'm like fuck no 00:06:37.090 --> 00:06:40.090 we need to go and but we left early enough that we could do this and then my 00:06:40.090 --> 00:06:44.450 wife forgot this little thing for emotion sickness that she uses as well i'm 00:06:44.450 --> 00:06:49.850 like fuck well well that's the reason we'd been ready very early. We had left super early. 00:06:50.190 --> 00:06:53.350 We could turn around. We can get all this shit. Okay? 00:06:54.670 --> 00:07:01.170 But the moment that we got on the plane, because the last time we flew at night, 00:07:01.410 --> 00:07:06.750 we wound up being downgraded into coach on this airplane in an overnight flight. 00:07:07.030 --> 00:07:12.670 And I must admit that Manu got really tired and cranky near the end of that 00:07:12.670 --> 00:07:15.070 flight when we were coming from the West Coast. 00:07:15.770 --> 00:07:20.850 So I said, well, let's not do that again. And I splurged, I bumped us into first 00:07:20.850 --> 00:07:23.770 class, you know, because they wouldn't give me a free upgrade because there's 00:07:23.770 --> 00:07:28.190 only like, they'll only give you like, for example, like me and a companion. 00:07:28.390 --> 00:07:29.550 But if it's three of you, no. 00:07:30.070 --> 00:07:33.170 No, we're not going to give you three upgrades. Okay? We'll give you two. 00:07:33.410 --> 00:07:36.430 But the problem is if you're in a group of three, they won't even put you on 00:07:36.430 --> 00:07:37.610 the upgrade list. So I have to pay. 00:07:37.710 --> 00:07:41.610 I'm like, look, I'll pay for the damn upgrade. Just put us, you know, 00:07:41.670 --> 00:07:44.270 I don't want to deal with this. 00:07:44.330 --> 00:07:48.430 It's a flight that leaves at eight o'clock. It's going to get there at local 00:07:48.430 --> 00:07:51.730 time over here to something in the morning. 00:07:52.670 --> 00:07:56.690 You know, you know, it's let's just, you know. 00:07:57.690 --> 00:08:04.450 So we sit down and Manu starts after a little bit, starts getting really nervous 00:08:04.450 --> 00:08:06.650 about these headphones being around. 00:08:06.910 --> 00:08:10.090 He doesn't want it because I said, well, look, you'll use you'll use the white 00:08:10.090 --> 00:08:11.530 horse a little bit and you'll try the blue ones. 00:08:11.870 --> 00:08:15.810 I need to get off this plane. I need to get off this plane. I need to. I'm afraid. 00:08:16.050 --> 00:08:18.970 I need to get off this plane. I need to get off this plane. I need to get off 00:08:18.970 --> 00:08:20.990 this plane. I need to get off this plane. 00:08:22.050 --> 00:08:25.430 This was right after we boarded. We had sat down. We had had to. Yeah. 00:08:25.610 --> 00:08:28.870 Right, right, right, right. But even though you got the headphones you want, 00:08:28.970 --> 00:08:33.530 it was because you still had the other ones? Because you might make him use them. 00:08:33.670 --> 00:08:37.870 Yes. And I hadn't really thought that it was that bad. 00:08:38.230 --> 00:08:41.970 The thing is that at the moment, he wasn't saying it was about the headphones. 00:08:42.750 --> 00:08:43.110 Right. 00:08:43.210 --> 00:08:47.850 He just said, I'm afraid. I need to get off this plane. I'm scared. 00:08:49.690 --> 00:08:53.290 Crew tried to settle him down. Captain tried to settle him down. 00:08:53.610 --> 00:08:55.390 Had him sit down in the cockpit and everything. 00:08:56.230 --> 00:08:59.910 And, but look, he went out on the jetway and he was like, no. 00:09:00.550 --> 00:09:04.290 And, you know, we tried, my wife tried arguing with him. She didn't understand 00:09:04.290 --> 00:09:06.750 what the hell was going on because I was the one that was sitting right beside him. 00:09:07.230 --> 00:09:12.170 But I could see how, look, how afraid and how upset he was. And I told her, 00:09:12.250 --> 00:09:14.550 look, man, we're not going anywhere. This is not happening. 00:09:15.530 --> 00:09:21.810 This is just not happening. And so, you know, so we, customer service agent 00:09:21.810 --> 00:09:24.510 came up and asked, so what's the deal? What are we doing? I'm not going. 00:09:25.110 --> 00:09:32.670 So I walked back out and thankfully American, well, given that I'm a good customer, 00:09:32.890 --> 00:09:36.690 went and they canceled the, canceled the, canceled my segments. 00:09:36.870 --> 00:09:39.790 And if you cancel them right before departure, then you get your trip credit. 00:09:39.970 --> 00:09:42.010 You get everything back as a trip credit. 00:09:42.550 --> 00:09:47.970 So I did not lose any of that. And I did manage to call Marriott. 00:09:48.970 --> 00:09:53.130 And also, even though I was well past the cancellation, they did cancel the 00:09:53.130 --> 00:09:55.150 hotel in Seattle and everything. 00:09:55.450 --> 00:09:59.890 So Manu, it took a while for him to calm down from this because, 00:10:00.130 --> 00:10:05.950 well, in part, he was very upset with himself that he didn't fly because he likes to fly. 00:10:06.690 --> 00:10:12.250 Right. But the one good thing out of this story is you have determined that 00:10:12.250 --> 00:10:14.770 it is not a permanent fear of flying. 00:10:15.970 --> 00:10:20.290 Because, you know, I know that was a concern when this started. 00:10:20.470 --> 00:10:24.770 But no, it's not a fear of flying. He was actually very upset that he couldn't 00:10:24.770 --> 00:10:27.650 fly. He was very hard on himself later. 00:10:28.630 --> 00:10:30.090 I made a mistake. 00:10:31.210 --> 00:10:34.550 He was being super hard on himself. 00:10:35.450 --> 00:10:39.450 Then after he calmed down and they explained to me, I said, Manu, 00:10:39.650 --> 00:10:45.010 is it just about, was it just because of the headphones? Yes. 00:10:46.330 --> 00:10:50.150 So, well, okay, so good news. So I'm working. 00:10:50.350 --> 00:10:53.550 One of the things about this is that in order for many of these things with 00:10:53.550 --> 00:10:56.810 him, and this is for anybody, you know, a child with autism, 00:10:56.970 --> 00:10:59.770 in order to condition him to these things, One of the things that you do is 00:10:59.770 --> 00:11:01.990 you try to condition them to the device or whatever, 00:11:02.490 --> 00:11:05.490 taking some time in order for them to get used to it with some time. 00:11:05.610 --> 00:11:08.570 And so I'm working on that right now with him where he is actually. 00:11:09.510 --> 00:11:13.290 And I think he may have gotten not used to not. I don't know. 00:11:13.490 --> 00:11:15.050 He's really very fond of these headphones. 00:11:15.310 --> 00:11:19.430 So first thing is I did manage. Well, a friend of mine actually managed to find 00:11:19.430 --> 00:11:21.330 where they sell the little cushion replacements. 00:11:23.180 --> 00:11:27.900 So I'm getting those because these headphones are actually fine. It's just the cushions. 00:11:29.460 --> 00:11:33.180 So I managed to see a place where they sell those. And then what we're working 00:11:33.180 --> 00:11:38.540 is on some just conditioning where he is using them for a few minutes every day. 00:11:38.660 --> 00:11:42.220 He is touching the blue ones every day. He's working on them, 00:11:42.280 --> 00:11:45.620 which is something that I've done before with other things. And over time, 00:11:45.620 --> 00:11:52.640 he gets used to it and that fear goes away. But it does take time to do that. 00:11:52.700 --> 00:11:59.000 And I have not done that with the I didn't really think that the thing is that with Manu, 00:11:59.100 --> 00:12:07.280 it's so rare that he it that he gets like that over things that I just you know 00:12:07.280 --> 00:12:09.360 what? Didn't think about it. 00:12:10.120 --> 00:12:13.260 and so um so that goes on me 00:12:13.260 --> 00:12:17.460 because i should have known given 00:12:17.460 --> 00:12:20.620 how difficult it was for him to use headphones in the first place 00:12:20.620 --> 00:12:25.840 that's just changing out the headphones but but again you know i don't know 00:12:25.840 --> 00:12:29.880 man i got him a new tv i got him a new computer i got this stuff none of that 00:12:29.880 --> 00:12:38.140 was a big deal and he was fine yes right you know fine even for the most part you know It's like, 00:12:38.760 --> 00:12:45.960 but, but, but the thing is that he is really, you know, he has very few sensory 00:12:45.960 --> 00:12:53.160 issues, but the one that he does have that he's always had is related to the ears. 00:12:53.160 --> 00:12:56.200 And so it's something that you need to, you know. 00:12:57.400 --> 00:13:03.240 You know, us parents with children with autism are things that you have to be 00:13:03.240 --> 00:13:11.440 cognizant of these things and to deal with them in the best way possible. 00:13:11.440 --> 00:13:14.720 The one way that I've done this before with other items that Manu was scared 00:13:14.720 --> 00:13:18.260 of, there's a few items that he was scared of, like the hair trimmer. 00:13:19.480 --> 00:13:26.260 So I basically bought a hair trimmer and I left it in his room until he stopped 00:13:26.260 --> 00:13:28.580 being scared of it, around it. 00:13:28.820 --> 00:13:32.100 And then I started just trimming his hair a little bit at home and he would 00:13:32.100 --> 00:13:34.300 let me do it and he would touch it 30 seconds or whatever. 00:13:34.980 --> 00:13:41.220 But over time, over months, months and months, now he's like comfortable with a trimmer. 00:13:41.680 --> 00:13:46.840 or the hair or nail clippers for some reason. That's also one that he was scared of. Same thing. 00:13:47.860 --> 00:13:54.780 So, but it's, it's the, it's the little things that you have to have a tactic to, uh, to deal with. 00:13:56.160 --> 00:13:59.120 So bottom line, what my wife, 00:14:00.000 --> 00:14:05.400 She's in Vancouver. Look, she was going to an event. She was going to a convention in Vancouver. 00:14:05.840 --> 00:14:08.860 We were going, you know, the whole thing, my idea was, hey, well, 00:14:09.000 --> 00:14:10.860 Seattle and Vancouver are relatively close. 00:14:11.080 --> 00:14:15.380 Why don't I go to Seattle for a little bit, see Sam, we drive up, 00:14:15.740 --> 00:14:19.120 had a rental car, go to Vancouver, and then fly back from Vancouver. 00:14:19.660 --> 00:14:23.620 Well, I managed because I did get our tickets refunded and whatever and whatnot. 00:14:23.800 --> 00:14:27.360 Well, I put her on a plane to Vancouver on Thursday because one thing is that 00:14:27.360 --> 00:14:31.200 I wasn't sure. Now, Manu has promised me right now that if I fix the white headphones, 00:14:31.320 --> 00:14:32.400 he will get back on an airplane. 00:14:33.000 --> 00:14:33.320 Okay. 00:14:33.460 --> 00:14:36.820 He said that's no problem and actually has been asking, where can we go? 00:14:37.220 --> 00:14:39.260 And I'm like, look, we're not going to go right now. 00:14:40.140 --> 00:14:43.160 I do have the flight credits. I have tickets paid for. So it's not like it's 00:14:43.160 --> 00:14:46.820 that big a deal. It's not the money. I got paid for tickets. So I just, you know. 00:14:47.100 --> 00:14:48.600 But this was the time you had set. 00:14:48.600 --> 00:14:51.540 This was the time we had set. Exactly. That's the problem. Okay. 00:14:51.600 --> 00:14:56.780 This is the time that we had set. So, you know, I might take him with me on 00:14:56.780 --> 00:14:58.620 one of my next business trips. This is summer. 00:14:58.920 --> 00:15:02.060 I'll just, I just might take him with him. And since I got family, 00:15:02.260 --> 00:15:03.820 I got to go to Puerto Rico. Because I have family. 00:15:03.940 --> 00:15:06.820 I'll talk to my aunt and say, hey, can you, you know, if I got to go to a business 00:15:06.820 --> 00:15:09.000 meeting, go watch, watch Manu. 00:15:09.020 --> 00:15:12.740 Will I have to go to a meeting or something or whatever? I could probably figure 00:15:12.740 --> 00:15:16.260 out who, who can mine Manu. Will I, will I do some work? 00:15:16.880 --> 00:15:23.120 So that, that may be my, my next experiment. But anyway, it's my fault. we're not there. 00:15:23.740 --> 00:15:27.480 I messed up. And so, uh, okay. 00:15:27.720 --> 00:15:32.020 Well, and so sorry to the people who said they wanted to meet us for the curmudgeon's 00:15:32.020 --> 00:15:34.600 corner meetup. Maybe some other time we'll see. 00:15:34.720 --> 00:15:39.340 Oh, I think Manu wants to, Manu didn't want to go to Seattle. 00:15:39.520 --> 00:15:42.260 So I don't know, probably have to figure out to speak. 00:15:42.780 --> 00:15:48.080 Someday, someday, you know? Yeah. So, and we did have a couple of people who 00:15:48.080 --> 00:15:49.740 were going to show up. Yes. 00:15:50.260 --> 00:15:50.560 Yes. 00:15:50.840 --> 00:15:55.640 Anyway. Okay, I have a story. I have a story, too. So I'm actually going to 00:15:55.640 --> 00:15:58.420 dispense with the movies and books and stuff. 00:15:58.860 --> 00:15:59.200 We're dispensing. 00:15:59.920 --> 00:16:04.280 I've been doing two a week for a few weeks. So, you know, we will dispense with 00:16:04.280 --> 00:16:07.000 those and I will tell a story instead. 00:16:08.080 --> 00:16:12.360 And, you know, look, yeah, okay. So and then we'll see, like, 00:16:12.500 --> 00:16:14.380 there is newsy stuff to talk about. 00:16:14.720 --> 00:16:17.900 I'm not going to worry too much. We can squeeze that to the end of the show. It's fine. 00:16:18.900 --> 00:16:23.320 I mean, the world is, you know, fucked up. News summary. 00:16:23.700 --> 00:16:28.480 Our country is fucked up. The world is fucked up. Okay, here you go. News summary. Next. 00:16:29.120 --> 00:16:33.780 Okay, there you go. Okay, I'll tell my story. So last weekend, 00:16:34.020 --> 00:16:40.360 and this was happening probably not, well, it overlapped with the story you 00:16:40.360 --> 00:16:43.000 just told. So it was Sunday last weekend. 00:16:44.560 --> 00:16:51.260 So Brandy was going to go to one of like a pride parade in Seattle. Okay. 00:16:51.980 --> 00:16:56.020 So she was going to go and participate and help like carry the flag and do some 00:16:56.020 --> 00:16:57.780 stuff, meet some friends, do whatever. 00:16:58.400 --> 00:17:06.000 And so she didn't want to drive there because, you know, it was like a one-way parade. 00:17:06.220 --> 00:17:09.620 You know, you start in one place and you go like two miles and you end up somewhere 00:17:09.620 --> 00:17:12.620 else. She didn't want to walk back to get to the car, blah, blah, blah. 00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:15.980 all kinds of things. So the plan was that I would drop her up, 00:17:16.380 --> 00:17:19.380 drop her off, and then pick her up like late. Right. 00:17:19.880 --> 00:17:23.600 So I went to, so I drove her into Seattle. 00:17:23.780 --> 00:17:27.940 I dropped her off near the start of the parade route. And of course it gets 00:17:27.940 --> 00:17:29.020 crowded as you get close. 00:17:29.140 --> 00:17:33.340 So it didn't get quite as close to it as I wanted to, but I dropped her off and she went in. 00:17:33.500 --> 00:17:38.900 So I started to go home and And I went a little ways towards home. 00:17:39.500 --> 00:17:40.640 Car started overheating. 00:17:40.660 --> 00:17:41.220 Oh, boy. 00:17:42.200 --> 00:17:45.200 Yes. Car started overheating. Now, wait. 00:17:45.380 --> 00:17:47.020 Which car? We're driving your car. 00:17:47.280 --> 00:17:48.360 I was driving my. 00:17:48.360 --> 00:17:49.440 Which is a Subaru. 00:17:50.460 --> 00:17:52.880 It's a 2012 Subaru in front. 00:17:53.560 --> 00:17:55.820 2012 Subaru. How many miles on this thing? 00:17:56.160 --> 00:17:57.900 Like 151,000. 00:17:58.970 --> 00:18:05.430 Ah, well, okay. Here, so from what I know. 00:18:05.690 --> 00:18:07.730 I have a lot of story left to go. 00:18:07.870 --> 00:18:11.550 Well, here is. Okay, so based on the information you've told me, 00:18:12.490 --> 00:18:22.750 these Subarus of that vintage have issues specifically around head gaskets that 00:18:22.750 --> 00:18:26.190 cause coolant loss, that cause overheating. 00:18:26.390 --> 00:18:28.030 It's been a well-known thing. 00:18:28.970 --> 00:18:32.590 Okay. Well, we'll see if we get there. So good prediction. 00:18:32.870 --> 00:18:37.050 We will, I will tell the rest of the story and then we will see if you are right. 00:18:37.870 --> 00:18:42.890 Okay. So first thing I do is I'm like, I, this happened. 00:18:43.070 --> 00:18:48.370 It started overheating right before I was going to get on the highway. 00:18:48.750 --> 00:18:49.010 Oh shit. 00:18:49.010 --> 00:18:52.570 So so i say i'm 00:18:52.570 --> 00:18:55.670 not gonna get no highway no no i i 00:18:55.670 --> 00:18:58.910 say i'm not gonna get on the highway and so i 00:18:58.910 --> 00:19:01.690 i i pass the exit to the 00:19:01.690 --> 00:19:04.590 highway and i'm looking for like a parking 00:19:04.590 --> 00:19:08.890 lot i can pull over into or something like that um but 00:19:08.890 --> 00:19:11.690 the light goes out it looks like it's 00:19:11.690 --> 00:19:15.630 happy again i'm like okay well 00:19:15.630 --> 00:19:23.410 maybe it was something transient even for those of you who can't see Yvonne 00:19:23.410 --> 00:19:32.390 is shaking no no no no no so so you started you. 00:19:32.390 --> 00:19:33.770 Started wishful thinking. 00:19:33.770 --> 00:19:36.530 I started I started wishful thinking i 00:19:36.530 --> 00:19:39.650 did a big like 10 i i 00:19:39.650 --> 00:19:42.470 i did a big loop around the light didn't go 00:19:42.470 --> 00:19:48.350 on for like 10 minutes i'm like okay i'll i'll get on the highway so you went 00:19:48.350 --> 00:19:54.290 10 minutes which you could have used on the highway better i could have yes 00:19:54.290 --> 00:20:00.430 although where i was like it took a while to get back it's not like it's not like the highway. 00:20:00.430 --> 00:20:02.970 Okay and it depends on what the failure is. 00:20:02.970 --> 00:20:08.750 You've got more cooling because of the air flow. Yes. Okay. So anyway, I got on the highway, 00:20:09.690 --> 00:20:14.050 And the first thing I'm doing is I'm from, because of where I was in the route 00:20:14.050 --> 00:20:18.010 home, I was crossing the lake from Washington, from Seattle, 00:20:18.170 --> 00:20:21.210 Washington to Bellevue, Washington. So I was on like bridges and stuff. 00:20:21.790 --> 00:20:26.810 So I'm like on the bridge going across and I'm about halfway through and it 00:20:26.810 --> 00:20:29.730 starts like shuddering, starts going shuddering. 00:20:30.570 --> 00:20:32.650 No, it doesn't. What does it do? It's just the light. 00:20:32.650 --> 00:20:33.210 It's just the lights. 00:20:33.210 --> 00:20:36.010 It's just the lights, just the lights blinking on the dashboard. 00:20:36.230 --> 00:20:39.550 I have no other signs of this. Like there's no like. 00:20:39.550 --> 00:20:42.990 Okay, but the light came back on. 00:20:43.450 --> 00:20:48.390 The light came back on, and not only that, it started blinking between the red light. Oh, man. 00:20:50.010 --> 00:20:53.350 Which indicates not only is it hot, but the fluid levels are low. 00:20:54.930 --> 00:20:58.510 Okay? So I managed to get off the bridge. 00:20:59.230 --> 00:20:59.670 Park? 00:20:59.870 --> 00:21:06.270 I pull over. I find some place to park. It's actually near where we used to 00:21:06.270 --> 00:21:07.770 live before we moved to Africa. 00:21:07.770 --> 00:21:08.010 Okay. 00:21:08.270 --> 00:21:13.410 So I knew the area. OK, it's in Bellevue, Washington, for anybody who near here, 00:21:13.510 --> 00:21:15.250 it's like the Factoria Mall. 00:21:15.610 --> 00:21:18.350 I ended up at parked like near the Factoria Mall. 00:21:18.950 --> 00:21:22.570 Actually, the first thing I saw was a Jiffy Lube and I pulled into the damn 00:21:22.570 --> 00:21:26.170 Jiffy Lube just in case I'm like, OK, am I just out of fluids? 00:21:26.290 --> 00:21:27.830 They were closed. So it didn't matter. 00:21:28.810 --> 00:21:31.930 But so I ended up at a parking lot at the mall. 00:21:33.270 --> 00:21:37.810 And so no, a gas station. I went I went to a gas station next. 00:21:37.870 --> 00:21:38.210 Triple A. 00:21:38.410 --> 00:21:42.030 I'm like. Well, first, I'm like, you know, maybe I just have to, 00:21:42.030 --> 00:21:43.990 like, fill up the radiator or whatever. 00:21:44.230 --> 00:21:46.830 Fill up the core. Yvonne's shaking his head again. 00:21:46.850 --> 00:21:53.710 Oh, God, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Another no, no, no, no. 00:21:54.890 --> 00:21:56.370 Oh, you'll love the rest of us. 00:21:56.370 --> 00:21:57.010 Oh, God, no. 00:21:57.010 --> 00:21:58.450 We're not even close to the end. 00:21:58.550 --> 00:21:59.770 Oh, jeez, okay. 00:22:01.930 --> 00:22:08.770 So, first of all, I am like, you know, hey, I could just call AAA. Yes, yes. 00:22:08.770 --> 00:22:09.750 Yes. Yes. 00:22:10.010 --> 00:22:13.610 But no, I'm like, I'm at the gas station and they have some coolant. 00:22:13.890 --> 00:22:20.190 Like I, I, I, like, you know, I, I, I, you know, wait for everything to cool down. 00:22:20.810 --> 00:22:23.310 Okay. You didn't wait. Okay. Good. All right. At least you didn't do that. 00:22:23.490 --> 00:22:27.430 I didn't open it and have it explode in my face. I'm not in the hospital. 00:22:27.770 --> 00:22:28.010 Okay. All right. 00:22:28.350 --> 00:22:28.550 Good. 00:22:28.930 --> 00:22:33.950 Okay. Well, you're going to have the scary episode without being in the hospital, 00:22:34.250 --> 00:22:38.430 you know, as some people have, but okay. All right. So you didn't wait for it to cool down. 00:22:39.350 --> 00:22:44.050 I did wait for it to cool down. I added coolant. I read the whole thing. I waited. 00:22:44.310 --> 00:22:47.330 I, you know, I was looking up instructions on the internet on how long I should 00:22:47.330 --> 00:22:50.930 wait and what kind I should put in and all this kind of stuff. 00:22:51.010 --> 00:22:51.950 Cause of course I don't know. 00:22:52.290 --> 00:22:55.890 Cause yeah, I'm not a car person at all, but I'm looking up the, 00:22:56.110 --> 00:22:59.390 like what, what, what I should add, how much I should add, how long I should wait. 00:22:59.390 --> 00:23:02.910 So the number one thing that these people didn't tell you is like, Hey, you know what? 00:23:03.030 --> 00:23:06.110 This adding coolant thing doesn't really work. You really should just, 00:23:06.470 --> 00:23:07.950 you know, at this moment, we should just quit. 00:23:08.920 --> 00:23:13.060 None of these idiots on the fucking internet said this because that is the, 00:23:13.180 --> 00:23:16.680 you know, this is the thing that pisses me off about the fucking internet. 00:23:17.160 --> 00:23:20.400 The first thing they should have told you is, hey, you know what? 00:23:20.500 --> 00:23:25.500 Guess what? If you're at this situation, just quit while you're ahead. Don't do anything. 00:23:25.920 --> 00:23:34.180 Because if your car is low on coolant so quickly, something else is majorly wrong. 00:23:36.520 --> 00:23:41.880 Right. Okay. So. After waiting the appropriate time, I try to drive again. 00:23:42.480 --> 00:23:42.740 Uh-huh. 00:23:43.520 --> 00:23:49.780 So I make it, it goes like, I don't know, five minutes, less than five minutes. 00:23:50.560 --> 00:23:52.500 And then it starts overheating again. 00:23:52.580 --> 00:23:52.980 Of course. 00:23:54.360 --> 00:23:58.700 So, and then I'll leave out a couple steps here because there were some, 00:23:58.720 --> 00:24:00.200 you know, start and stop. 00:24:00.360 --> 00:24:03.700 But I ended up in the parking lot of the Factoria Mall. 00:24:04.340 --> 00:24:07.480 and, you know, I popped a hood, you know, ready to look again, 00:24:07.900 --> 00:24:11.840 ready to add more fluids. You know, because I hadn't... 00:24:12.740 --> 00:24:13.760 You did not. 00:24:13.760 --> 00:24:14.660 I hadn't filled it. 00:24:14.720 --> 00:24:15.660 Oh, you hadn't filled it. 00:24:15.880 --> 00:24:21.280 I'd add, I added some, but I bought like one gallon and it hadn't filled it entirely. 00:24:21.560 --> 00:24:26.080 So I'm like, okay, maybe I need to add more. And so I went and bought like two more gallons. 00:24:26.100 --> 00:24:27.200 Did you look to see if it was leaking? 00:24:28.400 --> 00:24:30.520 There was nothing visible under the car. 00:24:30.640 --> 00:24:30.760 Okay. 00:24:31.380 --> 00:24:34.920 Like there was not like a pool of stuff. Other than when I poured, 00:24:35.060 --> 00:24:37.920 like, the fluid and mist. 00:24:38.100 --> 00:24:39.160 Yeah, of course. Yeah, that does. 00:24:39.420 --> 00:24:39.780 Yes. 00:24:40.180 --> 00:24:40.640 I mean, yeah. 00:24:41.380 --> 00:24:44.820 Because, of course, the first time I did this, I didn't get a follow or anything. 00:24:45.720 --> 00:24:49.820 Show, Lord. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, all right. That's standard operating procedure. 00:24:50.000 --> 00:24:51.640 Yes, okay. All right, good. All right. I'm glad. 00:24:52.340 --> 00:25:00.600 Okay, so this time when I opened it, I noticed a very visible large hole in 00:25:00.600 --> 00:25:06.300 one of the radiator pipes. well that like it was a big big like okay so. 00:25:06.300 --> 00:25:10.520 So so so what are the what are radiator hoses popped. 00:25:10.520 --> 00:25:14.340 Yes not good yes not good, 00:25:17.100 --> 00:25:23.460 so then again again skipping again skipping a few steps because there were other 00:25:23.460 --> 00:25:32.220 thought processes and things that were going but and don't get me started on why this even like, 00:25:32.740 --> 00:25:35.300 crossed my mind what. 00:25:35.300 --> 00:25:37.240 Crossed your mind good lord. 00:25:37.240 --> 00:25:44.020 I was within sight of an auto parts store so i'm like this looks easy i'll just get the hose. 00:25:45.160 --> 00:25:46.980 Oh, my God. No. 00:25:47.080 --> 00:25:49.700 Yvonne is holding his head in his hands. 00:25:53.060 --> 00:25:57.840 What raging thoughts of delusion were crossing through your head? 00:25:57.840 --> 00:25:59.140 Well, first I was going to duct 00:25:59.140 --> 00:26:03.040 tape the hole. First I was going to duct tape the hole. You know what? 00:26:03.040 --> 00:26:08.180 That actually would have been probably a better idea. Given your skill set, 00:26:09.220 --> 00:26:11.240 probably would have been a better idea. 00:26:14.060 --> 00:26:19.840 So i bought the right hose i bought an a the wrench they told me i needed oh. 00:26:19.840 --> 00:26:20.640 God these guys. 00:26:20.640 --> 00:26:21.280 At the auto. 00:26:21.280 --> 00:26:24.720 Parts store are also a bunch of fucking idiots i'm like they're not looking 00:26:24.720 --> 00:26:28.880 at this guy do you even know what you're doing sir should be the first thing. 00:26:33.340 --> 00:26:36.020 So i i got the old hose off in like 00:26:36.020 --> 00:26:38.940 30 seconds i started putting the 00:26:38.940 --> 00:26:43.000 the new one on i i got the new one in place but 00:26:43.000 --> 00:26:46.180 the the the sort of friction brackets they 00:26:46.180 --> 00:26:49.180 had the tool they'd given me could not get 00:26:49.180 --> 00:26:51.960 them open enough to get over the hose to 00:26:51.960 --> 00:26:57.680 clamp it properly okay so these are the kinds of brackets by the way where it's 00:26:57.680 --> 00:27:02.100 not the kind with the little screw it's the kind that are like tension so they 00:27:02.100 --> 00:27:08.780 like they close out you have to like pull them open with a lot of force and 00:27:08.780 --> 00:27:10.920 then So these hose clamps were not like. 00:27:11.200 --> 00:27:15.340 They're not the ones that you tighten with a screw. These are actually tension 00:27:15.340 --> 00:27:16.880 ones. Okay. All right. Got it. 00:27:17.000 --> 00:27:22.100 Yes. Yes. Okay. And the wrench they gave me just kept slipping. 00:27:22.300 --> 00:27:25.180 It just could not produce enough force. It kept slipping. 00:27:25.840 --> 00:27:31.160 So after like trying this for like an hour, maybe more, I went back to the auto 00:27:31.160 --> 00:27:37.020 parts store and I was like, you know, this wrench is not doing the thing. 00:27:37.840 --> 00:27:40.840 and and so they they gave 00:27:40.840 --> 00:27:43.840 me they they exchanged it they 00:27:43.840 --> 00:27:51.180 exchanged the wrench they gave me a better more expensive wrench okay and at 00:27:51.180 --> 00:27:56.060 this point also this is a crucial thing they said you know it might be good 00:27:56.060 --> 00:28:01.320 also just get you know just get new of the clamps but they didn't have the right kind, 00:28:02.000 --> 00:28:04.800 They didn't have the right kind. They only had the screw kind. 00:28:05.480 --> 00:28:10.180 And they mentioned that, but the screw kind isn't recommended for this because 00:28:10.180 --> 00:28:12.920 it can't really handle the pressure. 00:28:13.220 --> 00:28:15.720 They'll come loose. They will come loose over time. 00:28:15.860 --> 00:28:16.780 It can't handle the pressure. 00:28:16.780 --> 00:28:21.460 Yeah, so like, now, here's the thing. I was never intending to make a permanent repair. 00:28:21.640 --> 00:28:25.660 I just wanted to get the thing so I could drive it to the shop instead of calling AAA. 00:28:27.900 --> 00:28:32.920 Which by the way this is the thing about your explanation why does this make sense, 00:28:34.160 --> 00:28:39.720 since all you're trying to do is to get into the fucking shop why the hell did 00:28:39.720 --> 00:28:42.940 you just have a toad to the fucking shop which you're already paying for triple 00:28:42.940 --> 00:28:48.300 a so it is free and then just take an uber home well. 00:28:48.300 --> 00:28:56.040 Well in part because by this point i'd already done half i i'd taken off the 00:28:56.040 --> 00:28:58.420 old hose. I'm like, oh, this would be embarrassing. 00:29:00.920 --> 00:29:06.480 This is what we're concerned about. Oh, okay. All right. This will be embarrassing at this point. Okay. 00:29:06.720 --> 00:29:09.960 You know, because I've done a half-ass bad repair. 00:29:10.000 --> 00:29:15.720 So, you know, you just don't want to look like a, you know, like an idiot. Oh, okay. All right. 00:29:16.260 --> 00:29:18.940 That's our biggest concern at this point. Okay. 00:29:19.300 --> 00:29:28.340 Right. So, anyway, so I take, oh, and so they had the screw ones that I, they were on the thing. 00:29:28.660 --> 00:29:35.180 I had them there and the, but because they were like, ah, these aren't good 00:29:35.180 --> 00:29:37.200 for this though. I'm like, okay, I'll just get the wrench. 00:29:37.400 --> 00:29:41.740 I'm not going to get the, the screw things and I'll go back. 00:29:42.020 --> 00:29:44.780 And, and they're, and they're, they're very friendly. They're very nice. 00:29:44.860 --> 00:29:48.120 They're like, if this doesn't work, come right back. Okay. But I went. 00:29:48.120 --> 00:29:53.720 And so what's i you know what time of the day is this by now okay. 00:29:53.720 --> 00:30:00.120 Well this whole thing started probably around. 00:30:00.120 --> 00:30:02.460 One one o'clock in the afternoon. 00:30:02.460 --> 00:30:05.200 But by this time it was like five. 00:30:05.200 --> 00:30:10.940 Holy shit we've been at this already for four or five hours yeah so wait okay 00:30:10.940 --> 00:30:15.580 so by the way what's what's brandy doing at this point you know brandy's still 00:30:15.580 --> 00:30:18.520 like okay brandy's still at the parade okay fine Why? Okay. 00:30:19.340 --> 00:30:21.800 And you haven't told her anything about this. 00:30:22.280 --> 00:30:24.220 No, no, no. I've been in constant communication. 00:30:24.240 --> 00:30:26.240 Oh, no. She knows. So she knows. Okay. All right. Fine. 00:30:27.000 --> 00:30:32.000 She knows. She knows. She knows all this is going on. And yeah. 00:30:32.120 --> 00:30:35.220 And, you know, there are a few places I said I skipped stuff. 00:30:35.380 --> 00:30:39.340 Like before I went to the auto parts star, I like went to like the target that 00:30:39.340 --> 00:30:43.260 was also in to see if I could get duct tape or see if I could get other things. 00:30:43.400 --> 00:30:46.960 And then I then I realized, okay, that's not going to do it. 00:30:46.960 --> 00:30:50.440 So then I looked, you know, is there an auto parts near store nearby? 00:30:50.600 --> 00:30:52.460 And it was like right across the street from where I'd park. 00:30:52.680 --> 00:30:54.740 So I was like, OK, I'll go over there, you know. 00:30:55.180 --> 00:30:58.740 Anyway, I'd left out a bunch of steps and walking back and forth and doing things. 00:30:58.980 --> 00:31:03.320 And at one point, you know, I was I was trying again, adding more fluid, 00:31:03.420 --> 00:31:07.760 but I needed to let it cool down again. So I went and had lunch at the mall, you know. 00:31:08.220 --> 00:31:12.360 So one of the few sensible things that you did, which is like at some point, 00:31:12.520 --> 00:31:16.380 you know, why don't I have lunch? I actually think that that was one of the 00:31:16.380 --> 00:31:18.820 few sensible things I've heard so far. Yes. 00:31:21.360 --> 00:31:28.700 So, anyway, with this new wrench, I got much, much further. 00:31:29.140 --> 00:31:36.020 I got one end of the hose basically on. 00:31:36.080 --> 00:31:36.300 Okay. 00:31:36.500 --> 00:31:41.800 I could tell it wasn't quite where it was supposed to be, but it was secure 00:31:41.800 --> 00:31:45.640 enough that I could not remove it by pulling it with my hand. 00:31:45.640 --> 00:31:45.860 Okay. 00:31:47.080 --> 00:31:51.840 Yeah, basically, if you know how these things work, there's a little lip where 00:31:51.840 --> 00:31:56.000 you stick the hose onto a metal part, and there's a little lip on that. 00:31:56.120 --> 00:32:00.240 You have to get over the lip, and then you clamp it on the other side of the 00:32:00.240 --> 00:32:02.200 lip so it can't pull off. Okay? 00:32:03.140 --> 00:32:07.920 And on the one end, I got it so the clamp was on the lip. 00:32:08.000 --> 00:32:08.200 Okay. 00:32:08.340 --> 00:32:10.440 Not past the lip, but on the lip. 00:32:10.440 --> 00:32:10.560 Okay. 00:32:11.020 --> 00:32:18.320 So it wasn't, I knew it wasn't how it was supposed to be. but it seemed okay. 00:32:18.760 --> 00:32:22.820 Okay. The other side for the life of me, I could not get on. 00:32:22.940 --> 00:32:23.320 No, boy. 00:32:23.660 --> 00:32:27.040 I could not, I could not get it over the lip. Okay. 00:32:28.080 --> 00:32:36.320 And so I, I tried and I tried and I kept going over and over and over again. 00:32:36.440 --> 00:32:41.660 Like I could, I could get the clamp on, I could get the hose on where it's supposed 00:32:41.660 --> 00:32:45.460 to be, but I could not get the clamp into position over where it is. 00:32:45.460 --> 00:32:50.780 And part of what this apparently is, as I have learned subsequently, the OEM parts, 00:32:51.360 --> 00:32:55.800 well, the non OEM parts, like the kind I got from the auto parts store, 00:32:56.020 --> 00:33:03.540 are slightly thicker and slightly stiffer than the name brand parts that you 00:33:03.540 --> 00:33:04.500 would have gotten from the factory. 00:33:04.940 --> 00:33:07.280 So they are harder to get on. 00:33:08.040 --> 00:33:13.360 You know, like basically the hose was just slightly too thick for me to get 00:33:13.360 --> 00:33:21.740 it over the lump. And like, I am sure an experienced technician with all the right tools and stuff. 00:33:21.900 --> 00:33:24.660 Yeah, they could have gotten it on. Right. Yeah. 00:33:25.260 --> 00:33:29.340 They could have gotten it on, but I could not fully. So, of course, 00:33:29.440 --> 00:33:33.220 the first thing I do is I try, I get it on as best I can. 00:33:34.060 --> 00:33:39.660 And I'm like, okay, I'll give this a shot. It's the best I can. 00:33:39.800 --> 00:33:41.240 I've been trying for hours. Yeah. 00:33:42.000 --> 00:33:46.400 I'm going to, I'll drive around the mall parking lot for a couple minutes, 00:33:46.400 --> 00:33:50.100 see if it seems like it's going, and then start going. 00:33:50.300 --> 00:33:52.460 So I drive around the mall parking lot a couple minutes. 00:33:52.820 --> 00:33:54.880 It's going kind of okay. 00:33:56.200 --> 00:34:03.260 So I decide to cross the street and go back to the gas station where I'd originally filled up the fluids. 00:34:03.800 --> 00:34:08.480 Because I'm like, yeah, I'm like, I'll just go short. I'll check it. 00:34:08.580 --> 00:34:10.000 And, you know, I need some oil, too. 00:34:10.120 --> 00:34:12.460 Maybe I'll buy some oil. Maybe I'll add some oil. Yeah, sure. 00:34:12.660 --> 00:34:14.680 The oil's going to fix this problem, of course. 00:34:17.120 --> 00:34:20.280 So I go across the street to the gas station. I get some oil. 00:34:20.400 --> 00:34:22.560 I pop the hood open. And guess what? 00:34:23.160 --> 00:34:30.120 The hose came off on the end that was not clearly on right. Which, 00:34:30.180 --> 00:34:31.320 of course, you would expect. 00:34:31.460 --> 00:34:32.920 It wasn't clearly on right. 00:34:33.460 --> 00:34:38.880 Yeah, I knew it wasn't on right. So then here is the next big mistake I made. 00:34:39.740 --> 00:34:40.180 Yeah. 00:34:41.100 --> 00:34:45.120 You know, those of you who are only listening to audio and not watching on video 00:34:45.120 --> 00:34:48.600 are missing out on all of Yvonne's facial expressions during all of this. 00:34:48.760 --> 00:34:57.080 I'm just, like, yeah, I'm just, every second of the story, it's like, 00:34:57.180 --> 00:35:00.720 I just hear Sam just sliding further and further into quicksand. 00:35:00.960 --> 00:35:05.180 That's all it feels like, you know? And he keeps, like, trying harder to get 00:35:05.180 --> 00:35:08.560 out of the quicksand, just keeps burying him further and further, yes. 00:35:09.120 --> 00:35:16.000 Hey, look, I was actually, like, I was proud of myself. I, like, 00:35:16.120 --> 00:35:17.480 kind of replaced the hose. 00:35:18.440 --> 00:35:22.420 I mean, it looked on there. It looked like it was on. 00:35:22.420 --> 00:35:22.720 Yeah. 00:35:22.900 --> 00:35:23.560 Right? Yeah. 00:35:23.860 --> 00:35:25.900 Yes. Well, not quite. 00:35:26.200 --> 00:35:30.960 No, no, no. But it's like if you were, like, 10 feet away, it looked like it was on. 00:35:30.960 --> 00:35:35.640 Yeah, yeah. Yes, yes. If you were 10 feet away, it would look like it was on. Right. 00:35:36.280 --> 00:35:40.680 If you looked carefully, you would realize one end was not fully secure. But, you know. 00:35:40.840 --> 00:35:43.600 You know, close enough. It's like horseshoes and hand grenades, 00:35:43.780 --> 00:35:44.620 you know? Yeah, you know. 00:35:45.380 --> 00:35:50.240 Anyway, so here's my mistake. Well, my next mistake. 00:35:50.480 --> 00:35:54.100 There are many mistakes in this story, and we're not done yet. 00:35:55.240 --> 00:35:57.740 But it was now 7 p.m. or something. 00:35:57.740 --> 00:35:59.500 Jesus Christ, six hours of this. Okay. 00:36:00.400 --> 00:36:04.460 The auto parts store closes at 8. Closes at 8. 00:36:05.520 --> 00:36:10.120 And at this point, I'm like, maybe those ones with the screw, 00:36:10.460 --> 00:36:13.120 I should have bought them while I was there. 00:36:14.060 --> 00:36:14.620 Okay. 00:36:15.580 --> 00:36:16.700 And because... 00:36:17.830 --> 00:36:23.230 Maybe they, yeah, they loosen over time, but they'd probably be fine for me 00:36:23.230 --> 00:36:24.090 to drive to the dealership. 00:36:24.110 --> 00:36:25.150 Here's the other thing that I 00:36:25.150 --> 00:36:28.430 realized is you told me that you had been in constant contact with Brandy. 00:36:28.930 --> 00:36:33.330 Brandy is a very do-it-yourself repair person. 00:36:33.770 --> 00:36:38.150 Yeah. So I'm sure that instead of like, if you would have asked me, 00:36:38.470 --> 00:36:42.730 which I would have said, get the fucking car, call AAA, put the fucking car 00:36:42.730 --> 00:36:44.090 in the tow truck, get it over there. 00:36:44.630 --> 00:36:47.210 Brandy was probably trying to guide you. 00:36:47.990 --> 00:36:53.510 She was encouraging me and being sort of like, she was like impressed that I was even trying. 00:36:53.530 --> 00:36:55.510 Exactly. So she was impressed that you were trying. 00:36:55.510 --> 00:37:00.450 Because I also, I am also not a do-it-yourself person. My natural inclination would have. 00:37:00.450 --> 00:37:01.710 The natural is to not, you know. 00:37:03.330 --> 00:37:04.850 But here's the thing too. 00:37:05.050 --> 00:37:10.150 So the thing is, it's not about being a do-it-yourself person or not, okay? 00:37:10.350 --> 00:37:13.610 The problem is recognizing the problem, okay? 00:37:13.750 --> 00:37:19.370 And how bad it is. Because, for example, I, the thing is, I don't. 00:37:19.670 --> 00:37:22.810 You would be immediately like, it's not just a hose. Exactly. 00:37:22.910 --> 00:37:26.630 I would be immediately, my diagnosis is, this is beyond my skills. 00:37:27.230 --> 00:37:32.770 Done. No, we're not even trying because I already know from experience, 00:37:32.770 --> 00:37:35.430 this is beyond my skills. Okay? 00:37:35.650 --> 00:37:39.910 This thing needs to be towed. There is no reason the car just loses, 00:37:40.170 --> 00:37:42.930 you know, a car, you know, 00:37:43.530 --> 00:37:48.750 the cooling system in modern cars, for any of you that don't know this out there, 00:37:48.990 --> 00:37:50.950 it's a sealed system. Okay. 00:37:52.390 --> 00:37:54.490 Unless there is some kind. 00:37:54.610 --> 00:37:55.430 You should never have to add some. 00:37:55.490 --> 00:38:01.690 You should never, ever need to add fluid. So unless there is some kind of leak 00:38:01.690 --> 00:38:07.670 or failure, the water pump failed, the main gasket failed, the hose failed, 00:38:07.910 --> 00:38:09.950 something failed in the system, 00:38:10.270 --> 00:38:14.930 you shouldn't need to add water at any point in time, okay? 00:38:15.130 --> 00:38:21.150 And the worst thing is that if the water is not visible, so say, 00:38:21.390 --> 00:38:27.890 hey, you're low, but it's not visible, okay? It means that it's something bad. 00:38:28.830 --> 00:38:34.450 It's really bad. Because one thing is, hey, you get to the front of the car 00:38:34.450 --> 00:38:36.690 and you see all the water running out. 00:38:37.090 --> 00:38:42.490 You know immediately, hey, the radiator broke, hose popped off. 00:38:43.150 --> 00:38:47.970 No big deal. You can just replace those in a second. But if it's low and you 00:38:47.970 --> 00:38:52.410 go look and you don't see any of it, that's when it's really bad. 00:38:53.830 --> 00:38:58.070 So anyway to continue the story i realized 00:38:58.070 --> 00:39:00.930 the hose had popped off when i went to add the oil i never 00:39:00.930 --> 00:39:09.190 did add the oil by the way at least now you got oil yeah well the oil did eventually 00:39:09.190 --> 00:39:13.270 get added just not by me we'll continue oh by the way i should mention by this 00:39:13.270 --> 00:39:18.270 point by this point at least twice good samaritans had stopped by to see what 00:39:18.270 --> 00:39:19.490 i was doing and see if they okay. 00:39:19.490 --> 00:39:20.750 Well that's good nice. 00:39:20.750 --> 00:39:23.610 So nice so like what good one guy 00:39:23.610 --> 00:39:26.610 came one guy came by and was like oh i've 00:39:26.610 --> 00:39:29.250 replaced this hose a few times myself here's a 00:39:29.250 --> 00:39:33.490 trick to get the tension thing and he tried to try the trick he's like because 00:39:33.490 --> 00:39:38.850 you can you can use zip ties to sort of grab it and help pull it together and 00:39:38.850 --> 00:39:43.270 he tried to do that and he did that and he spent like 15 minutes with me like 00:39:43.270 --> 00:39:47.170 working with it and he's the one who's sort of like hey this wrench they gave 00:39:47.170 --> 00:39:48.890 you the first time yeah so sucks. 00:39:49.110 --> 00:39:49.630 This is not good. 00:39:49.810 --> 00:39:53.710 It's, it's, it's broken. It's bad. It's like, take this back, get a different one. 00:39:54.050 --> 00:39:58.750 And then another guy came by and also sort of looked in and helped and, 00:39:58.750 --> 00:40:00.490 and taught, he didn't really like help, help. 00:40:00.590 --> 00:40:03.310 He didn't get his hands dirty, like the first guy, but he, he, 00:40:03.470 --> 00:40:06.670 he like, you know, came by and was like encouraging. 00:40:06.690 --> 00:40:09.590 I don't know what he was, but anyway, like at least twice, just, 00:40:09.990 --> 00:40:13.110 you know, random people coming by the parking lot came by to help. 00:40:14.130 --> 00:40:17.110 so anyway so at this point 00:40:17.110 --> 00:40:20.110 after i got the oil at the gas station and the hose popped 00:40:20.110 --> 00:40:23.870 off it's 7 p.m the parts 00:40:23.870 --> 00:40:29.530 shop closes at 8 i i i could have gone back and gotten those the the ones with 00:40:29.530 --> 00:40:34.930 the screws but here's the thing you know we we talked a little bit earlier in 00:40:34.930 --> 00:40:40.610 the show about autism now we can talk about mine i was in an autistic spiral 00:40:40.610 --> 00:40:43.530 at this point because here's the deal. 00:40:44.150 --> 00:40:50.690 Like if I had never tried at all, if I had originally just said I'm calling 00:40:50.690 --> 00:40:52.710 triple A, we're done here. 00:40:53.710 --> 00:40:57.390 Then I would have been, you know, AAA would have picked me up in an hour or 00:40:57.390 --> 00:40:58.510 whatever. We would have been cool. 00:40:58.890 --> 00:41:02.610 But because I had started to try to get this damn hose on. 00:41:02.610 --> 00:41:07.310 You were like on a mission from God to get this damn hose on. 00:41:07.910 --> 00:41:12.810 That's right. And I could not think of anything else. 00:41:13.790 --> 00:41:17.950 So I kept trying over and over and over again. And I'm like, 00:41:18.050 --> 00:41:21.010 the auto parts store is closing in 15 minutes. 00:41:21.190 --> 00:41:25.390 The auto parts store is closing in 10 minutes. I'm like, I should stop this 00:41:25.390 --> 00:41:29.050 and go get the other brackets because with the brackets and a screwdriver, 00:41:29.150 --> 00:41:30.710 I might actually be able to do this. 00:41:31.330 --> 00:41:34.470 But no, I kept trying and trying, trying. The auto parts store closed. 00:41:35.070 --> 00:41:36.950 I kept trying and trying and trying and trying. 00:41:38.470 --> 00:41:42.610 I once again got it to sort of the best I could possibly do. 00:41:43.590 --> 00:41:49.110 I drove it a few hundred feet across the thing again to the mall. 00:41:50.030 --> 00:41:55.710 It did pop off again, which was not unexpected. I did. I knew I hadn't gotten it on any tighter. 00:41:56.270 --> 00:42:01.130 I I'm talking, I I'm talking to my wife again. The parade is now over. 00:42:01.690 --> 00:42:07.430 She, so, and, and, and, and she's like, are you going to call triple a at this point? 00:42:07.790 --> 00:42:10.090 I'm like, I don't know if I can. what. 00:42:10.090 --> 00:42:10.790 Do you mean you don't know. 00:42:10.790 --> 00:42:16.550 If you can well cause I'm in this autistic spiral I can't stop okay I can't 00:42:16.550 --> 00:42:25.070 stop I'm like I gotta do this and so like so anyway, 00:42:26.230 --> 00:42:31.070 she she's like yeah do you need my help i'm like i think yes, 00:42:33.890 --> 00:42:36.330 okay um like an uber so send. 00:42:36.330 --> 00:42:37.090 Me where you are. 00:42:37.090 --> 00:42:42.430 No no so actually she had taken the train up north my daughter had picked her 00:42:42.430 --> 00:42:51.110 up okay so what she did was she she she my daughter picked her up They went 00:42:51.110 --> 00:42:53.250 home again, left my daughter at home. 00:42:55.170 --> 00:43:00.530 She went and found someplace that sold the screw things. 00:43:01.170 --> 00:43:04.730 And she got some at a local store. 00:43:05.250 --> 00:43:09.190 Now, it wasn't an auto parts store. I think these were the ones actually meant 00:43:09.190 --> 00:43:11.070 for, like, dryer hoses or something. 00:43:11.310 --> 00:43:16.510 I'm like, oh, my God, she got some. Great. Now we're down to using house parts 00:43:16.510 --> 00:43:19.230 for a car. Okay, good, good, good. 00:43:19.970 --> 00:43:20.850 We're heading in the. 00:43:20.850 --> 00:43:22.810 Right direction here yes there you go. 00:43:22.810 --> 00:43:27.050 And so anyway, 00:43:27.650 --> 00:43:32.910 so she gets that and then comes to me now with all the round trips and back 00:43:32.910 --> 00:43:37.750 and forth by the time she gets to me and she brings Alex with her because Alex 00:43:37.750 --> 00:43:40.010 wanted to witness this to make fun of his dad, 00:43:41.370 --> 00:43:45.810 good man good man because he loves to mock me for things like this good man 00:43:45.810 --> 00:43:51.370 yes anyway by the time they got By the time they got to me, it was about 10 p.m. 00:43:51.590 --> 00:43:54.890 Oh, my God. Holy shit. 00:43:55.270 --> 00:44:00.570 You see, this is the reason I said that that moment, the one moment of clarity 00:44:00.570 --> 00:44:03.670 that you had this whole day, I'll go eat lunch. 00:44:06.130 --> 00:44:09.050 That was the one moment that I said you had clarity because, 00:44:09.410 --> 00:44:13.850 fuck, if you had not, by this moment, you would have been just dying. 00:44:14.710 --> 00:44:19.870 Yes. Yes, absolutely. Absolutely. So I, I, I, and, and, you know, 00:44:20.010 --> 00:44:25.410 I went to, there was a Red Robin in the mall. I went to the Red Robin, had a nice burger. 00:44:25.610 --> 00:44:26.410 There you go. Nice. 00:44:26.690 --> 00:44:31.310 Nice burger. Yeah. So anyway, she got there. 00:44:31.910 --> 00:44:36.290 She, she brings the rings. She brings like some other tools. 00:44:37.090 --> 00:44:41.230 She, she tries for a few minutes to do it the same way I had been doing it. 00:44:41.310 --> 00:44:42.950 She's like, you're right. Can't do this. 00:44:43.570 --> 00:44:46.330 It's not going to work. but let's try 00:44:46.330 --> 00:44:49.310 these okay so we get those 00:44:49.310 --> 00:44:55.070 on it and and and it you know she does this of course she did yeah at this at 00:44:55.070 --> 00:45:00.450 this point she's taken over because i'd been trying for hours and hours now 00:45:00.450 --> 00:45:05.250 i admit towards the end of this i began to be defeated and in between tries 00:45:05.250 --> 00:45:07.510 i would just go sit in the car for 15 minutes, 00:45:09.000 --> 00:45:12.200 And then I'm like, okay, I'm going to try again. You know? 00:45:12.600 --> 00:45:17.660 Because at this point also, I'm sore. I've been using muscles I've never used before. 00:45:18.380 --> 00:45:21.660 I mean, well, it wasn't hot outside at least, right? 00:45:22.060 --> 00:45:25.420 It was hot. Well, it was hot to me. 00:45:25.760 --> 00:45:26.280 What was the temperature? 00:45:27.060 --> 00:45:28.140 It was like 80. 00:45:28.260 --> 00:45:31.460 Shit. Okay. So it was kind of, yeah, that was kind of warm for you. 00:45:31.540 --> 00:45:33.620 Okay. Yeah. Out there all day, 80 degrees. 00:45:33.800 --> 00:45:38.020 But remember, it's not just 80 degrees in the sun and doing work. 00:45:38.020 --> 00:45:41.280 Yeah yeah yeah and do physical yes 00:45:41.280 --> 00:45:44.160 okay yeah where and physical work 00:45:44.160 --> 00:45:47.000 where i'm like to squeeze this thing together to get 00:45:47.000 --> 00:45:49.760 the ring open you're you're exerting quite a bit 00:45:49.760 --> 00:45:52.720 of force not just you know yeah 00:45:52.720 --> 00:45:55.540 i was like fighting with this 00:45:55.540 --> 00:46:00.120 thing for hours and hours and hours okay anyway 00:46:00.120 --> 00:46:02.920 we get the hoses on we we get the hose on 00:46:02.920 --> 00:46:06.080 properly we get the clamps on it seems pretty secure 00:46:06.080 --> 00:46:09.780 we add we add more fluids back in just 00:46:09.780 --> 00:46:12.740 in case you know whatever she puts 00:46:12.740 --> 00:46:20.120 the oil in you know because of course it was also okay yeah and and and it definitely 00:46:20.120 --> 00:46:25.460 needed oil as well um what was the last time you got the car serviced it was 00:46:25.460 --> 00:46:30.900 it was uh it was a thousand miles overdue for the for the thousand overdue. 00:46:31.060 --> 00:46:31.740 A thousand. 00:46:33.460 --> 00:46:34.060 About. 00:46:34.340 --> 00:46:39.440 You know, for a 150,000 mile car, that's a lot. 00:46:40.220 --> 00:46:44.040 Well, you know, okay, fine. 00:46:44.300 --> 00:46:50.380 Anyway, I had made a note that I had hit the number that I should be calling 00:46:50.380 --> 00:46:52.660 them, and I kept forgetting. 00:46:54.040 --> 00:47:00.640 And so, yeah. Anyway, so we're like, okay, let's Let's try this. 00:47:02.230 --> 00:47:08.250 Because the dealership where we were going to drop it off, about 20 miles away, 00:47:08.930 --> 00:47:12.250 about 20 miles away, we made it about 10. 00:47:12.630 --> 00:47:13.990 And what happened at the 10? 00:47:14.410 --> 00:47:17.210 So we did make it 10 miles before it started overheating. 00:47:17.210 --> 00:47:19.870 Okay, so the hose stayed on. 00:47:21.910 --> 00:47:28.090 Yeah, after it started overheating again, we carefully chose our route to not 00:47:28.090 --> 00:47:29.650 have to go over any of the bridges. 00:47:29.650 --> 00:47:37.510 We were going to go extra distance to not risk being immobilized on a bridge. Right. 00:47:39.010 --> 00:47:43.510 So at the moment it overheated, I took the next exit. We found like a parking 00:47:43.510 --> 00:47:45.350 place at some elementary school somewhere. 00:47:46.430 --> 00:47:49.330 And I popped the hood and the hoses did stay on. 00:47:49.510 --> 00:47:50.350 Go brandy. 00:47:50.410 --> 00:47:51.430 But it was still overheating. 00:47:51.590 --> 00:47:52.270 Go brandy. 00:47:53.110 --> 00:47:56.790 Yes, go brandy. Absolutely. But it was still overheating. So obviously, 00:47:57.010 --> 00:48:00.090 as you said at the very beginning, something else was going on. 00:48:00.230 --> 00:48:03.250 It wasn't just the split hose or whatever, right? 00:48:04.730 --> 00:48:09.130 And it's quite possible, by the way, that the hose wasn't split the first time I added fluid. 00:48:09.310 --> 00:48:13.470 No, what probably happened is at some point after it overheated a couple of 00:48:13.470 --> 00:48:21.550 times, this is like a resultant thing that happened because of the overheat that the hose split. 00:48:21.710 --> 00:48:25.770 But this wasn't the source of the problem. This was a secondary problem. 00:48:26.010 --> 00:48:35.370 Yes so anyway at this point it's like after midnight we're in the parking lot, 00:48:36.150 --> 00:48:43.630 i finally call triple a 11 hours later it takes two hours for triple a to get to us, 00:48:44.350 --> 00:48:49.790 triple a takes the car away you know takes it takes it to my dealer that you 00:48:49.790 --> 00:48:54.030 know i've got I've gotten all the services and repairs and blah, blah, blah. 00:48:56.110 --> 00:49:02.850 So they, they, they, they, they text me in the morning to let me know what was going on. 00:49:03.190 --> 00:49:05.890 So let me see. Okay. 00:49:06.910 --> 00:49:10.110 Was your initial diagnosis correct? 00:49:10.530 --> 00:49:15.450 Let me read you what the person said. His name is Carlos, by the way. 00:49:15.690 --> 00:49:17.310 Carlos has worked with me for years. 00:49:17.870 --> 00:49:20.250 Sam, not good news, man. 00:49:22.610 --> 00:49:26.070 The oil is mixing with coolant from the car running hot. 00:49:26.890 --> 00:49:33.190 This indicates internal engine gasket failure or possibly a major engine component 00:49:33.190 --> 00:49:35.410 failure, cylinder head or block. 00:49:35.950 --> 00:49:42.950 The next step would be engine disassembly. Maybe time to move on from this car? 00:49:43.710 --> 00:49:46.090 So I was right. It's exactly what I said. 00:49:46.210 --> 00:49:46.450 You were right. 00:49:47.110 --> 00:49:51.430 These cars, unfortunately, I know you had a Subaru, but unfortunately, 00:49:51.810 --> 00:49:58.030 unfortunately, yes, Subarus over the last 15, 20 years have gotten a really 00:49:58.030 --> 00:50:01.610 bad reputation because they all fail in this same way. 00:50:02.530 --> 00:50:07.230 And from what I understand, like, from conversations a few years ago, 00:50:07.350 --> 00:50:14.970 not like right now, the particular years surrounding the 2012 were particularly bad for this problem. 00:50:15.790 --> 00:50:19.430 Like, I gather it's, you said they're still having the problem, 00:50:19.530 --> 00:50:21.110 but I gather it was worse. 00:50:21.250 --> 00:50:24.470 Well, one thing is, obviously, what do we know about the recent ones? 00:50:24.670 --> 00:50:26.630 Like, you know, I don't know. They're not that old. 00:50:26.670 --> 00:50:27.730 Yeah, because they're not old enough. 00:50:27.730 --> 00:50:34.650 But the reality is that they haven't really, really, really redesigned that engine that much. Okay? 00:50:34.970 --> 00:50:40.630 So it's not like they've done something major to make this not happen again. Okay? 00:50:41.870 --> 00:50:47.130 So, yeah. And that's the reason why I mentioned about why this was catastrophic. 00:50:48.050 --> 00:50:53.090 Because you didn't see the damn water outside. Right. 00:50:53.910 --> 00:50:58.990 The only fucking way it could be is it's because it's mixing up with the fucking engine oil. 00:50:59.190 --> 00:51:01.930 OK, that's the only place where it could be. 00:51:02.290 --> 00:51:06.470 OK, there is no other place it's going. It's not, you know, it's not disappearing. 00:51:06.950 --> 00:51:12.310 It's going into the engine. It's mixing with the oil that turns it into. 00:51:13.330 --> 00:51:18.550 Man, it looks like a milkshake when it's in there, unfortunately. 00:51:18.550 --> 00:51:26.010 And so, so the bottom line, the best case scenario, and the worst just goes 00:51:26.010 --> 00:51:29.850 up for that, would be like seven grand to deal with this thing. 00:51:30.030 --> 00:51:30.530 How much? 00:51:30.670 --> 00:51:31.590 The car is not worth. 00:51:31.630 --> 00:51:32.350 How much is the car? 00:51:32.450 --> 00:51:37.530 It's not worth even remotely close to seven. So basically, I'd be lucky if it's worth a thousand. 00:51:37.530 --> 00:51:39.330 You've got to junk it. You've got no choice. 00:51:39.330 --> 00:51:46.290 You know, because here, like, look, not only is it a 2012 Subaru Impreza, 00:51:46.410 --> 00:51:51.110 it's a 2012 Subaru Impreza where the backseat has been eaten by rats and not replaced. 00:51:51.870 --> 00:51:55.450 So, like, it's, well, not entirely, but there's a hole. 00:51:55.590 --> 00:51:56.230 There's a hole. 00:51:58.150 --> 00:52:02.130 Like, we put a seat, at a certain point, we decided it's not worth fixing the 00:52:02.130 --> 00:52:05.070 backseat because that would cost $3,000. We'll put a seat cover on. 00:52:06.320 --> 00:52:09.920 And I've been good about putting in, like, the little rat repellent and stuff 00:52:09.920 --> 00:52:12.900 every few months. Well, I haven't been good right now. Well, 00:52:12.960 --> 00:52:14.000 oh, well, it doesn't matter anymore. 00:52:15.600 --> 00:52:18.860 Anyway, so, like, yeah, I'd be lucky if the damn thing's worth $1,000. 00:52:19.280 --> 00:52:22.400 You know, I'd probably have to pay to get the thing, like, taken away. 00:52:22.740 --> 00:52:26.020 You know, I mean, there might be some parts that it could be sold for. 00:52:26.080 --> 00:52:30.020 I don't know. But, like, it's probably. I will probably have to pay to take it. 00:52:30.020 --> 00:52:33.220 The car is worth junk value at this point. They'll take it because, 00:52:33.300 --> 00:52:38.960 look, if your doors are in, you know, if your doors are in decent shape. 00:52:39.160 --> 00:52:45.740 The hood, nothing's in decent shape. This is me you're talking about. 00:52:45.740 --> 00:52:49.740 I mean, what I'm saying, are they rusted through, you know, or something? 00:52:50.220 --> 00:52:51.400 Probably not rusted through. 00:52:51.400 --> 00:52:55.500 Well, that's what I'm saying. You know, somebody has got to beat her car, 00:52:55.720 --> 00:52:58.520 wants a hood, you know, whatever. 00:52:59.000 --> 00:52:59.240 Gotcha. 00:52:59.240 --> 00:53:00.640 You know, I mean. 00:53:01.180 --> 00:53:04.480 You know, they're not pretty. Everything's scratched. 00:53:04.560 --> 00:53:08.140 No, well, they're going to have to paint it, whatever. But if it's if it's not 00:53:08.140 --> 00:53:09.920 rusted through, somebody needs to use. 00:53:10.320 --> 00:53:13.080 I've got tape permanently attached in various places. 00:53:13.260 --> 00:53:19.320 OK, so basically. Sam is cooked. Sam is once again cooked another car. 00:53:19.460 --> 00:53:23.760 Just just to just to be clear that taped, not because I'm like holding parts 00:53:23.760 --> 00:53:26.240 of the car together, taped because at one point or another. 00:53:26.240 --> 00:53:33.220 Well, at one point, Alex bought some stuff at Lowe's that didn't fit inside 00:53:33.220 --> 00:53:36.540 the car, and so he attached it to the car with scotch tape. 00:53:36.540 --> 00:53:39.460 Can I give you the worst news? Can I give you the worst news? 00:53:39.520 --> 00:53:39.740 Yes. 00:53:40.120 --> 00:53:43.540 If you would have called me immediately when this happened—. 00:53:45.430 --> 00:53:46.650 You would have told me. 00:53:46.890 --> 00:53:51.030 No, I would have told you to stop immediately because I suspect that it has 00:53:51.030 --> 00:53:53.290 to be the head gas. And here's the thing. 00:53:53.470 --> 00:53:53.710 Yes. 00:53:53.970 --> 00:53:58.370 Can I tell you the worst news? That if you probably had stopped driving at that moment. 00:53:58.390 --> 00:53:59.310 I might have made it worse. 00:53:59.610 --> 00:54:00.870 No, you didn't. No, no, no. 00:54:00.870 --> 00:54:01.750 You didn't. I probably made it worse. 00:54:01.850 --> 00:54:04.250 You made it worse. Unfortunately. 00:54:04.470 --> 00:54:04.630 Yes. 00:54:04.710 --> 00:54:06.570 So if you had stopped at that moment. 00:54:07.110 --> 00:54:08.350 And immediately got in tow. 00:54:08.390 --> 00:54:15.330 Immediately got in tow. It may, may have been salvageable. But, but, but. 00:54:15.910 --> 00:54:16.530 Probably not. 00:54:16.590 --> 00:54:20.850 Probably not because the problem is you still have to replace the head gasket, 00:54:21.070 --> 00:54:25.050 which means tearing apart the engine, which means a couple of thousand dollar job. 00:54:25.190 --> 00:54:31.630 And if the car's not worth, you know, the car's probably still not worth the repair. 00:54:31.730 --> 00:54:35.070 One of the things is that these cars used don't get a lot of money. 00:54:35.690 --> 00:54:38.750 Don't get a lot of money because everybody is. 00:54:39.550 --> 00:54:45.890 We already, a few years ago, once, put more money into it than it was worth 00:54:45.890 --> 00:54:49.390 just to keep it going a few more years. Doing it again makes no sense. 00:54:49.570 --> 00:54:51.010 Not with this, no. 00:54:51.610 --> 00:54:51.850 No. 00:54:52.030 --> 00:54:57.890 The moral of the story that I will tell you, here is the moral that I will tell you, 00:54:58.570 --> 00:55:04.070 is that because of your driving and maintenance record, 00:55:04.730 --> 00:55:08.250 my suggestion is whatever the 00:55:08.250 --> 00:55:11.890 fuck car you buy right now please for the love of God make it be a Toyota, 00:55:12.950 --> 00:55:18.730 and I will tell you why look this isn't listen this isn't listen, 00:55:19.550 --> 00:55:25.070 fucking Toyotas this shit doesn't happen and not just that but they will they 00:55:25.070 --> 00:55:29.390 allow themselves to get abused and still be rescued anyway because the cars 00:55:29.390 --> 00:55:31.270 are it's a resale value thing, 00:55:31.930 --> 00:55:36.350 fucking Subarus have gotten such a bad rap over the years for this shit that 00:55:36.350 --> 00:55:40.950 the resale value of the used ones is zero because everybody knows that their 00:55:40.950 --> 00:55:44.770 engines are a ticking time bomb waiting to go off okay, 00:55:45.850 --> 00:55:51.850 but but a used toyota like this with these miles and this age probably without 00:55:51.850 --> 00:55:56.450 the rad hopefully you know it looks like that would have been seven thousand 00:55:56.450 --> 00:55:59.410 dollars eight thousand dollars, 00:55:59.990 --> 00:56:05.190 You know, at that age, they just hold value so much more because people know 00:56:05.190 --> 00:56:09.230 even if a psychopath like you, who knows nothing about maintenance, 00:56:09.810 --> 00:56:13.010 gets a hold of one of these, they won't be able to destroy it. 00:56:13.890 --> 00:56:18.610 Yeah, so, I don't know. Like, I don't particularly like the Toyota, so we'll see. 00:56:18.610 --> 00:56:22.050 Who cares about liking the car? I don't give a shit about you liking the car. 00:56:22.250 --> 00:56:27.450 I want you to get a fucking Toyota Prius. 00:56:28.030 --> 00:56:31.990 Okay? You know why? Because you will not break it. 00:56:33.250 --> 00:56:34.670 You will not break it. 00:56:34.670 --> 00:56:34.990 Anyway. 00:56:35.830 --> 00:56:43.070 A Corolla Hybrid. Whatever. But you will not break this fucking thing. 00:56:43.070 --> 00:56:45.150 And that is like my primary goal. 00:56:45.330 --> 00:56:47.470 My primary goal is not for you to like it. 00:56:47.730 --> 00:56:52.970 My primary goal is for you to go A to B, that if you forget your oil interval 00:56:52.970 --> 00:56:58.210 by 3,000 miles, the car won't give a shit. Because that's how Toyotas are. 00:56:58.870 --> 00:57:02.230 That's the reality. Listen, you will go through all the records. 00:57:02.410 --> 00:57:06.150 You see, you know, I keep watching all these videos of people with car repair. 00:57:06.290 --> 00:57:09.650 The reason I know about this is because I watch so many of these that I knew 00:57:09.650 --> 00:57:10.810 that this is a common problem. 00:57:11.310 --> 00:57:15.330 But the one thing that you watch in all of these, the common thread is that 00:57:15.330 --> 00:57:17.370 they got some guy that's like you, 00:57:17.590 --> 00:57:23.050 but was driving a Corolla and they went 5,000 miles over the service and they 00:57:23.050 --> 00:57:26.750 go in, they bring the car and they're like, motherfucker. It's like the car didn't care. 00:57:27.090 --> 00:57:29.470 It just kept going. It didn't matter. 00:57:29.910 --> 00:57:32.870 And you want to keep your car for 300,000 miles. 00:57:33.970 --> 00:57:41.170 Well, actually, my own, I mean, that would be ideal. My only criteria is I drive until this happens. 00:57:41.530 --> 00:57:43.410 Yes. But I would like it to be as long as possible before this happens. 00:57:43.410 --> 00:57:46.150 So the reality is that the only manufacturer 00:57:46.150 --> 00:57:55.110 that makes a vehicle that can withstand your use case is Toyota. 00:57:55.730 --> 00:57:58.230 I don't think you're understanding this. 00:57:58.970 --> 00:58:03.450 You don't really have an option. Unless you just like to go through this shit, 00:58:03.450 --> 00:58:05.510 I guess. Well, it makes for good content. 00:58:06.370 --> 00:58:12.090 It makes for good content. And it has been, what, 2012? And I think I actually 00:58:12.090 --> 00:58:14.130 bought it at the end of 2011. 00:58:14.910 --> 00:58:17.310 So what, that's 14 years? That's not bad. 00:58:17.310 --> 00:58:23.030 But it's only 150,000 miles, Sam. It really isn't that many miles. Not for a modern car. 00:58:23.730 --> 00:58:27.390 You know, I mean, I'm sorry. But, you know, like, I got rid of, 00:58:27.530 --> 00:58:33.330 you know, like, my BMW that has a, well, the thing is, the BMWs have a reputation for braking more. 00:58:33.430 --> 00:58:36.730 But the reality is that because I'm a pain in my ass, you know, 00:58:36.810 --> 00:58:41.390 like, I got rid of it with 170,000 miles, okay, you know, for example. 00:58:41.450 --> 00:58:46.730 But, you know, but a modern car going 200,000 miles isn't really like it used 00:58:46.730 --> 00:58:48.250 to be that was like an outlier. 00:58:48.990 --> 00:58:51.970 it has become far more common like with 00:58:51.970 --> 00:58:56.890 hondas toyotas even a number of like gm products but a lot of them the problem 00:58:56.890 --> 00:59:01.270 is that they're massively gas guzzling like chevy silverados or something like 00:59:01.270 --> 00:59:04.650 that that you know i mean you know you're getting like gallons for the mile 00:59:04.650 --> 00:59:08.990 and it's like not really conducive yeah so like. 00:59:08.990 --> 00:59:12.970 Look we we may talk more more car shopping. 00:59:12.970 --> 00:59:20.150 Well because you have to go to the office. You need a car. 00:59:20.390 --> 00:59:22.430 Yes. I need a car. 00:59:22.570 --> 00:59:24.350 I mean, like, you need a car like right away. 00:59:24.960 --> 00:59:28.600 This week, I already made an excuse and said, hey, my car's in the shop. 00:59:28.840 --> 00:59:32.680 I'm going to work from home for the next few days. And it was a holiday week. 00:59:34.520 --> 00:59:41.160 I need, you know, Monday, I need to be in the office. Now, that does not mean I need a car. 00:59:41.240 --> 00:59:45.240 But you can take the train. You're going to have to fucking take the train for a little bit. 00:59:46.200 --> 00:59:53.060 I'm going to have to get rides, take the train, take the bus. 00:59:53.060 --> 00:59:58.280 I will have to take one of those modes of operation that I have complained about 00:59:58.280 --> 01:00:02.660 in the past being horribly inconvenient, but I've got no choice. 01:00:02.780 --> 01:00:06.680 So I'm going to have to do that for a little while because I also don't want to rush. 01:00:06.840 --> 01:00:13.120 Like, is it physically possible that I could go out tomorrow and have a car by Monday? Yeah. 01:00:13.200 --> 01:00:17.480 This would be very simple if you just took the fucking common sense advice, 01:00:17.540 --> 01:00:24.340 which is don't go anywhere. Go to Toyota and get a fucking Prius. 01:00:25.200 --> 01:00:27.140 Don't even think about it. 01:00:28.000 --> 01:00:32.300 Go get a fucking Prius. That's it. 01:00:32.500 --> 01:00:37.520 You don't need any. By the way, the new Prius, by the way, looks really cool. 01:00:37.640 --> 01:00:38.280 Is improved? 01:00:38.360 --> 01:00:40.280 No, no, no, no, not just improved. It looks. 01:00:40.500 --> 01:00:42.300 Not the outside. I hated the interior. 01:00:42.320 --> 01:00:46.360 The interior is improved. The exterior is improved. How it drives is improved. 01:00:46.540 --> 01:00:49.300 The mileage is improved. right now it's rated as one 01:00:49.300 --> 01:00:52.220 of the best fucking cars there is it's not 01:00:52.220 --> 01:00:54.940 like before it was kind of like no no no no no 01:00:54.940 --> 01:00:57.980 this car now is a really fucking 01:00:57.980 --> 01:01:06.580 nice car it's cheap reliable and economical you cannot you know because i know 01:01:06.580 --> 01:01:11.200 that for you i'm like not saying get an electric car because you will be stranded 01:01:11.200 --> 01:01:15.760 without a battery in like inside like i don't know i don't think. 01:01:15.760 --> 01:01:22.380 No no i I definitely would go that direction if I could. I'm not worried about the battery. 01:01:22.420 --> 01:01:25.840 Well, you've got a Prius Prime. Here's the thing. I'll tell you what. 01:01:26.120 --> 01:01:30.540 The Prius Prime gets you 50, 60 miles on plug-in. 01:01:31.380 --> 01:01:34.940 The great thing about the Prius Prime is that even when it's not on battery, 01:01:35.020 --> 01:01:41.820 unlike some plug-in hybrids, it still gets excellent mileage that some don't. But that one does. 01:01:42.920 --> 01:01:48.660 And it's bulletproof. The cars are fucking bulletproof. You just need a bulletproof car. 01:01:49.800 --> 01:01:53.420 Just go get a fucking Prius. Just stop fucking digging around. 01:01:54.420 --> 01:01:56.860 Just don't, you know. I can't remember. 01:01:58.440 --> 01:02:02.360 Now from the slack. It's not. I think Ed and Ed have a Prius. 01:02:03.180 --> 01:02:05.720 I think several people have had Prius. 01:02:05.820 --> 01:02:06.520 And they all love them. 01:02:06.660 --> 01:02:09.020 Bob just got that Ionic. 01:02:09.120 --> 01:02:12.780 He likes the Ionic. The Ionic 5 is really cool. There's some really great deals on it. 01:02:13.520 --> 01:02:17.340 You know, the only thing about the Ionic is that it's not the same thing. 01:02:17.340 --> 01:02:21.100 you just had Prius yeah but no but the reason is because I know because here's 01:02:21.100 --> 01:02:24.300 the thing Toyota build quality is still far better than Hyundai, 01:02:25.330 --> 01:02:29.790 Okay, period. That's it. That's the reason. And right now, what I want is like 01:02:29.790 --> 01:02:32.190 something that is bulletproof. 01:02:33.490 --> 01:02:36.430 And Toyota build quality is still the best out there. 01:02:36.670 --> 01:02:42.350 There's just no, you know, every time that I see some old Toyota, 01:02:42.630 --> 01:02:44.830 people come in and it's like, holy shit. 01:02:44.830 --> 01:02:50.730 But, you know, it's just, they are just so reliable that, you know, 01:02:51.030 --> 01:02:57.530 for you, I would say, get a fucking Prius. They're cheap. 01:02:59.230 --> 01:03:04.070 Cheap is important, too. Like, my ideal price right now would be zero. 01:03:04.070 --> 01:03:05.270 Oh, well, you know. 01:03:05.690 --> 01:03:10.170 Now, but I know zero is not possible. 01:03:10.690 --> 01:03:16.190 I had been, like, for the last few months, keeping my eye on those Ionics, 01:03:16.330 --> 01:03:17.670 because they do look cool. They do look cool. 01:03:18.130 --> 01:03:20.970 But, like, size-wise... 01:03:20.970 --> 01:03:24.190 Listen, the Ionic is a good... The Ionics is... 01:03:24.190 --> 01:03:28.590 By the way, just saying, the Impreza, perfect size for me. 01:03:28.790 --> 01:03:33.130 Like, I don't want much smaller, I don't want much bigger. So, close to that size. 01:03:33.350 --> 01:03:37.750 The Prius is very close to that size. Yeah. You know... 01:03:37.750 --> 01:03:39.790 And so is the Ionic. The Ionic's a little... 01:03:39.790 --> 01:03:42.290 The Ioniq is a little bit bigger because it's more like a little wagon. 01:03:42.770 --> 01:03:45.850 John. John has a Prius that he loves as well. 01:03:47.810 --> 01:03:52.270 Anyway, so we'll be poking around. And, like, yeah, the Ioniq is also, 01:03:52.430 --> 01:03:55.230 like, price range would be stretched. 01:03:55.370 --> 01:03:57.610 Well, that's the thing. Whereas the Prius, it's cheap. 01:03:59.290 --> 01:04:03.870 Could probably manage it, but would have to be really sure about it. 01:04:04.190 --> 01:04:07.490 And also, like, you know, I'm not going to get into details on this stuff, 01:04:07.610 --> 01:04:13.130 but, like, you know, I'm still not feeling super secure in my employment situation. 01:04:13.130 --> 01:04:18.770 Toyota Prius, starting MSRP, $28,350. Okay? 01:04:19.010 --> 01:04:23.470 Here's the other thing about the Prius. I would say, the one reason why it's still— And the. 01:04:23.470 --> 01:04:24.670 Primes you mentioned start at. 01:04:24.670 --> 01:04:25.870 $33. Exactly. Here's the thing 01:04:25.870 --> 01:04:29.850 about why the Toyota in the end is cheaper anyway than the Ioniq by miles. 01:04:30.070 --> 01:04:36.230 It doesn't matter. If you get the plug-in, you're still eligible for the tax 01:04:36.230 --> 01:04:37.410 credit, okay? Number one. 01:04:37.790 --> 01:04:41.230 If you lease it, okay, then you could buy it out, whatever. But just to get 01:04:41.230 --> 01:04:43.150 the tax credit. That's what a lot of people do. 01:04:43.290 --> 01:04:46.790 Just because it's... By the way, you can still get those until September, okay? 01:04:47.730 --> 01:04:54.970 But remember also, like, I beat the hell out of cars and probably would go over the miles. 01:04:54.970 --> 01:04:55.730 No, no, no, no. 01:04:55.730 --> 01:04:56.230 No, no, no, no. 01:04:56.230 --> 01:04:59.590 No. The only reason, listen, you, listen, there are people literally that I 01:04:59.590 --> 01:05:02.130 heard at VW that were doing this. In order to get the tax credit. 01:05:02.250 --> 01:05:02.830 They buy it immediately. 01:05:03.130 --> 01:05:06.590 Exactly. They bought, they would lease it and they would buy it out immediately 01:05:06.590 --> 01:05:07.770 just to get the tax credit. 01:05:08.270 --> 01:05:09.370 Like seconds later. 01:05:09.570 --> 01:05:13.870 Yes, literally. Back-to-back transactions. Okay? Okay? Literally. 01:05:14.450 --> 01:05:16.530 And so that saves you $7,500. 01:05:17.610 --> 01:05:21.910 It's not two bits. Okay? It's a lot of money. All right? 01:05:22.530 --> 01:05:25.810 So, so that's important. And since it's going away, by the way, 01:05:25.890 --> 01:05:28.350 the credit's going away in September. 01:05:29.050 --> 01:05:31.850 So, I mean, this is the opportunity to get that. 01:05:32.680 --> 01:05:38.720 And look, man, I'm telling you, I honestly, I love this car. It's a great car. 01:05:39.040 --> 01:05:45.920 Anybody that has reliable transportation, Prius, fucking get the goddamn Prius. It's fucking great. 01:05:46.460 --> 01:05:49.080 You know, you will not be unhappy with this. 01:05:49.820 --> 01:05:55.520 And it will resist your abuse, which is more important than anything. 01:05:56.100 --> 01:05:58.580 And if you look at the interior in the pictures. 01:05:58.880 --> 01:06:01.560 But can I easily change the radiator? 01:06:01.560 --> 01:06:03.300 Ah, you won't have to. 01:06:03.460 --> 01:06:05.100 Because I want to do that like the first week. 01:06:05.140 --> 01:06:07.360 That's the first thing you're going to do. You're going to spend 12 hours out 01:06:07.360 --> 01:06:09.960 there in the heat again, like, you know, inserting yourself to death. 01:06:10.220 --> 01:06:14.780 If you look at the interior, the interior of this car, unlike before, it looks really nice. 01:06:15.260 --> 01:06:18.440 Everything is really nice about this car. There's nothing bad about this car. 01:06:18.940 --> 01:06:25.440 And you know what? Your fuel budget, what you spend on fuel in the first month, 01:06:25.460 --> 01:06:27.380 I guarantee you will drop like 80%. 01:06:27.380 --> 01:06:32.920 Because right now, your impress has got to do, what, 20-something miles per 01:06:32.920 --> 01:06:34.760 gallon, maybe, commuting to work? 01:06:35.260 --> 01:06:38.140 I probably lost at this point. It probably did that way. 01:06:38.280 --> 01:06:44.080 Yeah, so not even, okay? This will get 70, 80 miles per gallon. 01:06:44.080 --> 01:06:48.140 So you're going to be saving, probably, because you're driving now, 01:06:48.420 --> 01:06:50.960 how far is your commute every day? 01:06:51.500 --> 01:06:53.020 About 25 miles. 01:06:53.120 --> 01:06:57.280 So 50 miles round trip. I mean, think about this, okay? 01:06:57.380 --> 01:07:02.680 you're doing 250, you're doing 1,000 miles, you know, oh God, 01:07:02.820 --> 01:07:09.300 1,000 miles divided by 20, which is 50 gallons, 50 gallons times about over $3, 01:07:10.420 --> 01:07:13.400 150, close to $200 a month on gas. 01:07:13.780 --> 01:07:17.040 This thing will save you $150 on fuel easily a month. 01:07:17.360 --> 01:07:23.720 Just so whatever you're thinking about, you're going to save $150 on fuel at least a month. 01:07:25.400 --> 01:07:25.960 Anyway, 01:07:27.430 --> 01:07:31.550 We've been going a long time. We have like no time left for like news stuff. 01:07:31.850 --> 01:07:37.350 But we will probably discuss more car options on the Curmudgeons course Slack. 01:07:37.430 --> 01:07:40.150 I won't mention it there until this episode is out. 01:07:40.370 --> 01:07:45.330 Look at all this shit. Look, it's cool. It drives. It's economical. It's reliable. 01:07:45.610 --> 01:07:48.870 What the fuck else you want? And it's cheap. This is the one thing I keep getting. 01:07:49.050 --> 01:07:53.630 People going to the dealership. Well, we can't find a car for less than $50,000. 01:07:54.030 --> 01:07:59.250 No, no, no. You can. man, all you idiots just want to spend too much money. 01:07:59.770 --> 01:08:03.290 It used to be in the past that to get a nice car, oh, I have to, 01:08:03.470 --> 01:08:07.410 some features or whatever. You have to buy the luxury car. You have to buy the whatever. 01:08:07.650 --> 01:08:10.530 One of the things I'm having a discussion this week is that a lot of the mainstream 01:08:10.530 --> 01:08:16.030 cars now have so many of the features that used to be only exclusive to luxury cars. 01:08:17.550 --> 01:08:21.670 You know, wait a second. Is this, is this, wait. Oh, it just, 01:08:21.790 --> 01:08:23.030 is the handle just hidden? 01:08:23.210 --> 01:08:26.250 What do you mean the handle? It's a short knob. It's a short knob. 01:08:26.590 --> 01:08:29.110 It's not hidden. It's a stubby knob. 01:08:29.210 --> 01:08:34.230 Looking at the Prius Prime from a distance, it looks like it didn't have a back door. 01:08:34.310 --> 01:08:35.050 Oh, no, no, it's a hatchback. 01:08:35.270 --> 01:08:37.930 It didn't have a back handle. Well, yeah, I see that. 01:08:37.930 --> 01:08:41.610 All the cars now have the handles hidden in the back. They're all hidden in 01:08:41.610 --> 01:08:43.810 a little thing. Modern thing. 01:08:44.530 --> 01:08:44.970 Weird. 01:08:45.090 --> 01:08:53.070 It's not weird. Almost every modern car has that damn thing hidden in the back. Under the lip. Yeah. 01:08:53.150 --> 01:08:53.450 Under the lip. 01:08:53.450 --> 01:09:02.410 Like my wife's crv is that way my car is that way my my literally almost every oh i i. 01:09:02.410 --> 01:09:05.250 See the thing maybe i don't know anyway. 01:09:05.250 --> 01:09:09.750 Yeah oh so now anyway now now the decision will be made we will talk more on 01:09:09.750 --> 01:09:11.230 the curmudgeon score slack after. 01:09:11.230 --> 01:09:13.330 This is out yes what what are you. 01:09:13.330 --> 01:09:18.570 Laughing at now of course the key buying decision will be the it's right under 01:09:18.570 --> 01:09:22.150 the toyota logo it's right right by the right by the rear view camera. 01:09:22.530 --> 01:09:25.710 There you go. I can see it. There you go. In the back. 01:09:26.550 --> 01:09:30.830 There's a little in the back door. Oh, no, they're on the top right. 01:09:31.030 --> 01:09:33.690 No, no, no, no, no. The door handles are... 01:09:33.690 --> 01:09:34.630 Yeah, I found it. 01:09:34.830 --> 01:09:36.050 I found it. It's just weird. 01:09:36.070 --> 01:09:36.970 It's not enough. 01:09:37.830 --> 01:09:38.330 Aerodynamic! 01:09:38.710 --> 01:09:39.890 Anyway. Oh. 01:09:40.290 --> 01:09:44.650 Save fuel! Save the fucking planet! I know that the Republicans are, 01:09:44.690 --> 01:09:48.770 you know, just passed a bill that said, let's kill the fucking planet, bitches! 01:09:49.570 --> 01:09:51.470 We won't be here then anyway! 01:09:52.170 --> 01:09:53.410 Okay, okay. 01:09:53.830 --> 01:09:57.690 The new GOP slogan. 2026. 01:09:57.690 --> 01:10:02.390 So yes for anybody interested in giving me on advice on this chime in under 01:10:02.390 --> 01:10:08.430 curmudgeons corner slack probably like i said i we will probably do some looking 01:10:08.430 --> 01:10:13.350 at cars and i will look at a prius as and i'll probably also look at an ionic 01:10:13.350 --> 01:10:16.410 although it's probably spendy for me right now but. 01:10:16.410 --> 01:10:19.370 But you gotta remember the 7500 it looks cool you 01:10:19.370 --> 01:10:22.150 gotta remember the 7500 credit it okay you got 01:10:22.150 --> 01:10:24.970 whatever you do the thing that you do that i'm 01:10:24.970 --> 01:10:27.930 telling you the thing that you make sure you make sure to take that make 01:10:27.930 --> 01:10:31.570 sure you take that in the account and the way that you buy it out is 01:10:31.570 --> 01:10:36.910 quite simple recently i took you you joined the credit union that that the part 01:10:36.910 --> 01:10:41.950 of they offer excellent financing for these all you do is very simple you do 01:10:41.950 --> 01:10:45.730 the lease at the store you take that paperwork you apply to their credit union 01:10:45.730 --> 01:10:49.050 you want to buy out the lease you get the amount for the buyout you send it 01:10:49.050 --> 01:10:51.310 to them they'll do all the paperwork boom boom boom and all of a sudden, 01:10:51.510 --> 01:10:54.290 it's done. And you get your $7,500. 01:10:55.470 --> 01:10:59.070 Don't fuck around. I'll lose it. Do not, do not, do not. 01:10:59.310 --> 01:11:02.810 If you're going to get one of these, it qualifies it. Do not do the fuckable. 01:11:03.010 --> 01:11:06.950 No, I don't want to lease. No, fuck that. You lease it and you turn around and 01:11:06.950 --> 01:11:09.210 you fucking finance it immediately. 01:11:09.670 --> 01:11:14.970 Okay. We will talk more, Yvonne, offline and on the Slack. And if anybody else 01:11:14.970 --> 01:11:16.770 wants to give me advice, do it on the Slack. 01:11:16.970 --> 01:11:21.650 We will look at some cars this weekend, but we'll almost surely not actually 01:11:21.650 --> 01:11:23.490 buy this weekend, maybe next weekend. 01:11:23.870 --> 01:11:30.250 So, ah, of course the other possibility, I could just get like a really old 01:11:30.250 --> 01:11:31.910 beater, just as old as the one I have. 01:11:31.930 --> 01:11:37.090 Sure. And that will like last. Well, if it's an old beater Toyota, maybe. Sure. 01:11:37.910 --> 01:11:41.630 Get like a 20 year old Toyota, replace the 15 year old Subaru. 01:11:42.290 --> 01:11:45.870 A 20 year old Camry. I mean, they said that, you know, the earth, 01:11:46.030 --> 01:11:48.270 you know, you know, they, they will probably survive the flood. 01:11:50.650 --> 01:11:52.870 Okay, shall we actually take a break? 01:11:52.870 --> 01:11:53.870 Yes, and let's talk about something. 01:11:54.090 --> 01:11:57.290 Maybe spend 20, 30 minutes about something else and then wrap it up. 01:11:57.790 --> 01:12:03.670 Okay, here we go. It is, which break is it? It is this break. 01:12:03.850 --> 01:12:06.210 The one and only break this time, I think. Here we go. 01:12:42.800 --> 01:12:48.140 Okay, we are back. So what do you want to talk about? I talked about a car for 01:12:48.140 --> 01:12:49.680 an hour, so it's your turn. 01:12:50.480 --> 01:12:54.560 What do we want to talk about? Let's see what happened this week. I mean, 01:12:55.280 --> 01:13:02.260 the only subject that we really left on there is the fact that the Republicans 01:13:02.260 --> 01:13:06.460 passed up the big stupid bill. 01:13:07.060 --> 01:13:09.740 I mean, and that's really about the only thing. 01:13:09.740 --> 01:13:15.720 The one big, beautiful bill. One Big Beautiful Bill, which, by the way, 01:13:15.880 --> 01:13:18.260 they made the actual title of the bill. 01:13:18.420 --> 01:13:21.220 It's not just Trump saying it. I mean, it was Trump saying it, 01:13:21.220 --> 01:13:22.640 but then they made it the title of the bill. 01:13:23.260 --> 01:13:28.340 I mean, it's just the entire spectacle was disgusting. 01:13:29.780 --> 01:13:39.020 It is painfully clear from many that so many of the Republicans themselves hated 01:13:39.020 --> 01:13:42.460 this bill. But they were all scared of going against Donald. 01:13:42.740 --> 01:13:44.740 That's it. Nothing else. 01:13:45.800 --> 01:13:53.280 I mean, this bill doesn't really... I mean, it's... 01:13:55.420 --> 01:14:00.760 The only people that benefit is people that make a lot of money tax-wise. 01:14:01.460 --> 01:14:03.260 Everybody else gets screwed. 01:14:04.020 --> 01:14:11.540 Everything else gets screwed. Oh, and we did this incredibly ridiculous increase in ICE funding. 01:14:12.770 --> 01:14:13.490 Massive. 01:14:13.630 --> 01:14:19.250 Ten times. We're giving ICE ten times the budget it had before, 01:14:19.590 --> 01:14:22.550 which is absolutely just insane. 01:14:23.790 --> 01:14:27.550 By the way, how crazy is this? 01:14:27.730 --> 01:14:35.430 All the polling shows, 70% of people, are unhappy with this immigration campaign 01:14:35.430 --> 01:14:37.830 as it has been rolled out the last few months. 01:14:38.150 --> 01:14:43.510 Polling shows huge numbers of people against it. But that's what they put in the bill. 01:14:44.170 --> 01:14:49.010 Second thing, because the Republicans have realized that they could just say 01:14:49.010 --> 01:14:53.490 any lie, and most of their supporters will believe it. 01:14:53.950 --> 01:14:59.270 They keep saying that this cuts the deficit, whereas this will significantly increase the deficit. 01:14:59.750 --> 01:15:05.890 This bill is anything about—it actually does a whole bunch of things that stifle 01:15:05.890 --> 01:15:07.810 jobs, not actually create jobs. 01:15:07.810 --> 01:15:15.390 because there is no funding in here, for example, to incentivize any job creation. 01:15:15.730 --> 01:15:18.490 I mean, it's all trickle-down shit again. 01:15:19.850 --> 01:15:24.070 The funding bill cuts healthcare for a lot of people. 01:15:24.270 --> 01:15:29.970 And by the way, but more cynically, delays the healthcare cuts until a couple 01:15:29.970 --> 01:15:31.250 of years later so people, 01:15:31.530 --> 01:15:37.870 because to convince our gullible electorate that the republicans didn't do it 01:15:37.870 --> 01:15:44.430 so then if they lose they can blame the democrats for their health care cuts how cynical is that. 01:15:44.430 --> 01:15:47.430 Yes that and not 01:15:47.430 --> 01:15:52.250 only the health care cuts but other things are also delayed to after midterms 01:15:52.250 --> 01:15:59.210 uh basically basically anything that could have a negative effect that people 01:15:59.210 --> 01:16:04.390 would feel right away well not anything but lots of things with negative effects 01:16:04.390 --> 01:16:07.390 that people are delayed until after midterms. 01:16:07.790 --> 01:16:12.410 Whereas, of course, the things that they really want, you know, 01:16:12.490 --> 01:16:15.790 like the ICE funding, which will also have a negative effect on a lot of people. 01:16:16.110 --> 01:16:19.430 But just saying, those things come into play much more quickly. 01:16:19.570 --> 01:16:20.590 So I'm just... 01:16:20.590 --> 01:16:22.390 And the tax stuff. 01:16:22.390 --> 01:16:25.210 So it's just, I mean... 01:16:27.470 --> 01:16:32.010 Here, the biggest problem about this is that just like before, 01:16:33.670 --> 01:16:40.170 You know, these tax cuts to the rich don't translate into any economic boost. 01:16:40.550 --> 01:16:45.570 They never have. We've gone through this before already. We've tried this before. 01:16:46.270 --> 01:16:49.870 W did it. Trump did it. Reagan did it. 01:16:50.350 --> 01:16:56.930 None of these things translate into any general economic benefit. 01:16:56.930 --> 01:17:05.010 And Biden showed very clearly that if you do give money to, you know, 01:17:05.130 --> 01:17:10.670 people like in the from poverty to one to two times the poverty line, 01:17:10.930 --> 01:17:14.790 that that money does translate directly into economic impact. 01:17:14.910 --> 01:17:18.510 OK, for for the economy, because those people are the ones that are most in need. 01:17:18.550 --> 01:17:25.090 And when they get that money, they spend it right away because they need it. OK, they needed it. 01:17:25.550 --> 01:17:29.450 But this bill does the total opposite. It's going to make those people poor 01:17:29.450 --> 01:17:33.690 while, you know, giving money to the rich. 01:17:34.730 --> 01:17:38.550 And by the way, forget about this. At the same time, we're talking about all 01:17:38.550 --> 01:17:41.970 this tariff policy, which it appears that Trump is, you know, 01:17:42.210 --> 01:17:45.950 unless the courts finally decide on whether all these tariffs are illegal, 01:17:46.110 --> 01:17:48.350 which that is still in some kind of holding pattern. 01:17:48.510 --> 01:17:50.970 I'm not sure where that case is still still going through. 01:17:50.970 --> 01:17:54.870 All of these legal things will take a long time. 01:17:54.990 --> 01:18:01.750 Right now, Sam was asking me about the impact of tariffs and why haven't we 01:18:01.750 --> 01:18:05.110 seen them, and I was mentioning how difficult it is to gauge the timeline. 01:18:05.630 --> 01:18:09.950 Goldman Sachs came out with a note recently specifically talking about this 01:18:09.950 --> 01:18:12.110 that I had shared on the Slack. 01:18:12.590 --> 01:18:17.950 They basically said, listen, guys, these are going to happen. 01:18:18.190 --> 01:18:24.390 This is inflationary. This will take inflation back to levels that we had two years ago, okay? 01:18:25.130 --> 01:18:26.810 There is no... 01:18:27.750 --> 01:18:33.350 It's just it's just it's hard to go and tell you exactly. 01:18:33.570 --> 01:18:38.210 But their note said tariffs have not yet meaningfully affected broader inflation 01:18:38.210 --> 01:18:45.090 data, but the levies will soon cause inflation to shoot back up to the highest level since 2023. 01:18:45.770 --> 01:18:49.410 OK, that's the analysis from Goldman Sachs economists. 01:18:49.650 --> 01:18:55.030 Not exactly a whole bunch of left wing psychopaths over there at Goldman Sachs last time I checked. 01:18:55.030 --> 01:18:58.530 okay so no no 01:18:58.530 --> 01:19:01.310 no it's not a no no i i i 01:19:01.310 --> 01:19:04.670 know it's hard to believe so that's 01:19:04.670 --> 01:19:10.950 the thing like right now you've got i mean you're making poor people poor with 01:19:10.950 --> 01:19:16.990 health care and all these other cuts of whatever and at the same time you've 01:19:16.990 --> 01:19:21.750 done all of this that's going to make inflation go back to where it was a couple of years ago. 01:19:22.590 --> 01:19:26.130 I mean, this is a fucking, this is a disaster. 01:19:28.430 --> 01:19:35.410 And, oh, but the other big issue. Yeah, we're increasing funding of ICE by this much, right? 01:19:35.970 --> 01:19:37.850 What is that going to do to the labor market? 01:19:39.830 --> 01:19:42.290 Because, well, you're going to hire a lot of ICE agents. 01:19:42.650 --> 01:19:48.150 Apparently, we're going to hire a lot of ICE agents in order to basically reduce 01:19:48.150 --> 01:19:52.670 the pool of available labor on the other side, 01:19:52.670 --> 01:19:57.870 which will have a negative effect on economic growth and will also be inflationary. 01:19:59.170 --> 01:20:05.410 I mean, this entire thing is the worst combination of everything. 01:20:05.830 --> 01:20:14.470 And by the way, many Republicans know this and have said so in private. They know this. 01:20:14.570 --> 01:20:14.750 Right. 01:20:15.030 --> 01:20:20.190 And these fuckers just followed this idiot off the cliff, 01:20:21.700 --> 01:20:27.600 It's just, you know, and people are dumb. You know what? The other day I heard 01:20:27.600 --> 01:20:29.960 somebody, and I have to explain this again, and they didn't realize. 01:20:30.780 --> 01:20:33.880 I heard somebody say, you know, they know that all this is bad. 01:20:34.000 --> 01:20:37.320 And you know what they asked me? Well, why didn't the Democrats stop it? 01:20:38.200 --> 01:20:42.380 And I'm like, okay, do you under? Okay. And I have to explain. 01:20:42.380 --> 01:20:44.380 I said, without being condescending. 01:20:44.980 --> 01:20:50.200 Okay. I don't think you understand. But the Republicans control the House, 01:20:50.560 --> 01:20:52.320 the Senate, and the presidency. 01:20:52.720 --> 01:20:57.320 The Democrats cannot stop anything unless some Republicans join them. 01:20:57.760 --> 01:21:00.260 Really? Yes, really. 01:21:00.900 --> 01:21:03.860 But Sam, so many people. 01:21:05.100 --> 01:21:12.360 You know, it's like the same people that told me, well, why didn't the Democrats save abortion? 01:21:13.140 --> 01:21:18.580 It's, I'm sorry, if you'd wanted that. You needed Hillary in 2016. 01:21:19.200 --> 01:21:22.200 But even still, how, why did they, I mean, we haven't, you know, 01:21:22.280 --> 01:21:27.260 like I said, and the only time that the fucking Democrats have had a filibuster 01:21:27.260 --> 01:21:31.220 proof majority was so brief in the last 30 years. 01:21:32.220 --> 01:21:33.380 And they used that for. 01:21:33.480 --> 01:21:38.740 They gave us all healthcare. You know what? The thing is that I keep going to 01:21:38.740 --> 01:21:46.680 how stupid our electorate is because it's just, it's is so difficult to see cause and effect, 01:21:46.900 --> 01:21:50.600 the Democrats, when they held all the levers of power, 01:21:51.540 --> 01:21:56.320 gave us the biggest improvement in health care since Medicare was passed. 01:21:57.280 --> 01:21:57.700 Yeah. 01:21:57.980 --> 01:21:58.920 In the 1960s. 01:21:59.000 --> 01:22:03.740 They gave us the, Sam, they gave us the biggest improvement in the average health 01:22:03.740 --> 01:22:07.780 care of every American since Medicare was passed. 01:22:08.400 --> 01:22:10.780 And people don't understand that's what they did. 01:22:11.800 --> 01:22:16.340 And by the way, also in the probably people don't fully understand and won't 01:22:16.340 --> 01:22:21.080 for a while, if ever, is that this thing that just passed this week undoes a 01:22:21.080 --> 01:22:22.340 significant part of that. 01:22:22.340 --> 01:22:29.140 like not directly but by reducing funding for the medicare expansion a lot of 01:22:29.140 --> 01:22:34.520 that is going to go away there's you know it and and of course they're all gaslighting 01:22:34.520 --> 01:22:37.840 this too like there's like oh we're not touching yeah we're just cutting. 01:22:37.840 --> 01:22:38.660 Them off the money. 01:22:38.660 --> 01:22:44.400 You know right and and oh we're it's only we're getting rid of fraud and abuse 01:22:44.400 --> 01:22:50.760 no there are significant cuts the estimates are like Yeah, over 10 million people 01:22:50.760 --> 01:22:52.300 will lose access to health care. 01:22:52.300 --> 01:22:57.020 Now, here's the one thing. Now, but over a few years. 10 million people lose it. 01:22:57.480 --> 01:23:01.540 That is still better than when we were before the ACA. Okay? 01:23:01.780 --> 01:23:01.920 Yeah. 01:23:02.000 --> 01:23:02.800 That is still better. 01:23:03.040 --> 01:23:03.200 Yeah. 01:23:03.740 --> 01:23:07.000 But still, all they did is make it worse. 01:23:07.700 --> 01:23:11.040 Everything they do just makes shit worse. I don't fucking, I mean, 01:23:11.140 --> 01:23:12.980 for the average American, 01:23:13.640 --> 01:23:17.180 every time these guys pass some legislation, they 01:23:17.180 --> 01:23:19.960 make I mean what is it that they do 01:23:19.960 --> 01:23:24.560 to me I don't fucking Sam I don't fucking understand this how the hell could 01:23:24.560 --> 01:23:32.380 these guys just get away with at every turn at every turn make the average American's 01:23:32.380 --> 01:23:37.860 life worse and people don't get it they don't get it but. 01:23:37.860 --> 01:23:42.040 Yvonne they're gonna get rid of all the criminal. 01:23:42.040 --> 01:23:46.060 Rapist Mexicans criminal rapist Mexicans you know all the. 01:23:46.060 --> 01:23:49.780 Gangs and and they'll make it easier for you to get. 01:23:49.780 --> 01:23:51.660 Come ah oh. 01:23:51.660 --> 01:23:56.160 Did did you see one of one of the important things in this in this bill that 01:23:56.160 --> 01:23:58.700 just passed no sales tax on. 01:23:58.700 --> 01:24:03.000 Silencers i know that's how could wait how could they regulate sales tax at 01:24:03.000 --> 01:24:06.140 the state at a state level i don't what what i. 01:24:06.140 --> 01:24:08.200 I don't know i don't i heard that i could be wrong. 01:24:08.200 --> 01:24:09.640 I'm sorry. 01:24:09.640 --> 01:24:12.420 I i i think they did. 01:24:12.820 --> 01:24:16.240 Well, I mean, that sounds weird because, I mean, sales tax is a, 01:24:16.240 --> 01:24:18.740 you know, state and local thing. 01:24:20.020 --> 01:24:25.120 Let's see. Oh, it's the tax stamps on silencers. 01:24:25.960 --> 01:24:27.300 Yeah, because they're federal tax stamps. 01:24:27.460 --> 01:24:28.420 Tax stamps, not sales tax. 01:24:28.500 --> 01:24:29.720 That's what you bought. Like, okay, all right. 01:24:31.340 --> 01:24:32.440 Are going to do it. 01:24:32.500 --> 01:24:34.360 Yeah, not sales tax. Okay, all right. That'd make no sense. 01:24:35.680 --> 01:24:37.800 It's some tax. It's some tax. Yeah, well, okay. I was close. 01:24:38.260 --> 01:24:40.440 Okay, but that's fair to be good at the right tax. 01:24:40.640 --> 01:24:41.960 But this is important. 01:24:42.660 --> 01:24:48.360 You're reducing the price of silencers. I mean, they take away health care to 01:24:48.360 --> 01:24:50.460 give you gut silencers, Sam! 01:24:50.860 --> 01:24:52.840 The hell's wrong with these people? 01:24:58.350 --> 01:25:01.030 And this is another one of those things i mean 01:25:01.030 --> 01:25:04.890 we've talked one ongoing theme on this show is 01:25:04.890 --> 01:25:12.210 how you know you just talked about how the electorate just doesn't know what's 01:25:12.210 --> 01:25:17.830 going on there's there's part of that this basic education about civics knowing 01:25:17.830 --> 01:25:21.710 how government works and then another big part that we have talked about a lot 01:25:21.710 --> 01:25:24.090 is the democratic is the inability, 01:25:24.730 --> 01:25:29.070 Well, Democratic messages, but I was just going to say the inability to process delayed reaction. 01:25:30.850 --> 01:25:38.090 This bill is another bill that will have implications going out over the course of an entire decade. 01:25:38.650 --> 01:25:42.510 Some things will hit right away. Some things will hit after a couple years. 01:25:42.810 --> 01:25:48.670 Some things will hit after five or six years. Now, that does potentially mean 01:25:48.670 --> 01:25:53.850 that some future Congress and some future administration could undo it before 01:25:53.850 --> 01:25:55.550 we get to the end of the 10 years. 01:25:55.770 --> 01:26:04.770 But as passed, this has timed effects going out over an entire decade. 01:26:05.070 --> 01:26:09.790 And they specifically backload some of the things. 01:26:09.790 --> 01:26:18.130 You know, so some random thing hits in 2030, how many people are going to connect the dots and be, 01:26:18.350 --> 01:26:25.210 this is because of who I elected back in 2024, six years ago, you know? 01:26:26.230 --> 01:26:32.290 I mean, even those of us who pay lots of attention, it's hard to always connect 01:26:32.290 --> 01:26:39.490 those dots of like, oh, yeah, this is happening because of that law that was passed seven years ago. 01:26:40.510 --> 01:26:42.370 you know, or whatever. 01:26:43.550 --> 01:26:56.010 I'll also note there is significant undoing of a lot of the act with all the 01:26:56.010 --> 01:27:00.010 subsidies for renewable energies. 01:27:00.110 --> 01:27:05.970 Now, a number of them, at least, they gave them time. They didn't do, like, abruptly. 01:27:07.130 --> 01:27:09.670 Projects need to get kicked off by 2026. 01:27:09.670 --> 01:27:11.310 Some of them were cut out by the Senate. 01:27:12.090 --> 01:27:16.110 And, you know, so they've got time to kick off some projects and certain things. 01:27:16.790 --> 01:27:19.690 So at least the Senate didn't go and, like, end them abruptly. 01:27:19.890 --> 01:27:23.650 The one that ends the quickest is the car credit. 01:27:23.910 --> 01:27:26.050 That was set for September. 01:27:27.310 --> 01:27:31.510 September. So, yeah, back to my car thing. If I'm going to do something. 01:27:31.830 --> 01:27:34.090 Do it now. Yeah, you have to. 01:27:36.450 --> 01:27:42.490 But the car credit goes away by September. But there were others like for clean 01:27:42.490 --> 01:27:47.110 energy projects, I think they gave them a deadline of like 2026 that they had 01:27:47.110 --> 01:27:51.310 to get started by and some others like that, that they delayed certain deadlines. 01:27:51.490 --> 01:27:55.290 And like, like you mentioned, some of the health care cuts didn't start until 2027. 01:27:55.570 --> 01:28:00.990 So after midterms, they were very, this was pure political calculation. 01:28:01.950 --> 01:28:10.290 Yes. And, you know, even some of them, like, some Republicans in Congress have 01:28:10.290 --> 01:28:15.850 implied, well, like, Susan Murkowski or whatever, when she voted for the Senate. 01:28:16.030 --> 01:28:19.150 Said she hoped to— You combined Susan Collins with Lisa Murkowski? 01:28:19.150 --> 01:28:19.450 Did I get it wrong? 01:28:20.390 --> 01:28:21.870 Oh, I did. I did. 01:28:22.150 --> 01:28:22.370 I did. 01:28:23.710 --> 01:28:24.790 Well, kind of like. 01:28:24.870 --> 01:28:25.910 Well, you know, sure. I combined them. 01:28:26.150 --> 01:28:27.970 Why not? Same thing. 01:28:27.970 --> 01:28:29.310 Same thing, basically. 01:28:31.390 --> 01:28:36.750 Lisa Murkowski, I think, specifically said that she was not happy with the bill, 01:28:36.950 --> 01:28:40.590 even though she voted for it, but she hoped the House would fix it and it would 01:28:40.590 --> 01:28:41.790 come back to the Senate again. 01:28:42.170 --> 01:28:47.990 Of course, that didn't happen. But off the record, I've heard people reporting 01:28:47.990 --> 01:28:53.170 that at least some Republicans in Congress have been like, don't worry, 01:28:53.250 --> 01:28:56.510 it won't be that bad. At some point, the Democrats will fix some of this. 01:28:57.390 --> 01:29:00.130 So basically this is what they're okay so this is 01:29:00.130 --> 01:29:03.070 their thought process okay which it talks about the cynicism of 01:29:03.070 --> 01:29:06.050 these bastards because we have said this before that 01:29:06.050 --> 01:29:09.190 they're not interested in fixing anything they're not interested in legislation 01:29:09.190 --> 01:29:13.890 they're just interested in clicks so this is what you do you pass this whole 01:29:13.890 --> 01:29:19.430 damn thing that allows you know donald to have his his victory at this political 01:29:19.430 --> 01:29:23.050 thing or whatever you're allowed to go out there like claim how blah, 01:29:23.150 --> 01:29:24.210 blah, blah, all this stuff, 01:29:24.410 --> 01:29:32.030 and you do it knowing full well that a whole bunch of it's going to be undone, 01:29:32.130 --> 01:29:34.910 so therefore you didn't do it because you wanted to fix anything. 01:29:34.910 --> 01:29:36.570 You just wanted to do it to score. 01:29:38.230 --> 01:29:39.210 a political victory. 01:29:39.550 --> 01:29:45.970 I will add to that. I will add to that. If you do have a situation where the 01:29:45.970 --> 01:29:51.650 Democrats get back in power, even partially, like they take the House but not the Senate or wherever, 01:29:52.250 --> 01:29:58.310 and the bad effects start hitting after midterms, you can still blame the Democrats. 01:29:59.350 --> 01:30:05.190 And by the way, if the Democrats do try to fix some of the problems at some 01:30:05.190 --> 01:30:09.090 later point, you can blame them at that point for the problem they're fixing, 01:30:09.570 --> 01:30:11.890 and say they're messing with it. That's why it's bad. 01:30:11.890 --> 01:30:14.270 Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's all their fault. You see, they're fucking around with 01:30:14.270 --> 01:30:19.150 it. Right, you see? We passed the perfect bill. Now the Democrats are fucking it up. 01:30:19.890 --> 01:30:20.370 Right. 01:30:21.590 --> 01:30:29.290 Man, this is fucking... I, you know, I just... 01:30:29.290 --> 01:30:33.250 Yeah, look at shit, like, for example, I love this one, where the Wall Street 01:30:33.250 --> 01:30:39.270 Journal publishes a story, Wall Street worries as crisis-level deficits have 01:30:39.270 --> 01:30:42.770 become the government's default mode. Okay, for example. 01:30:43.070 --> 01:30:46.990 Because this is what that has been instituted. There's a chart that I shared 01:30:46.990 --> 01:30:50.970 from The Economist that showed that during the Biden administration, 01:30:51.450 --> 01:30:54.190 unlike what the Republicans have repeatedly claimed. 01:30:55.310 --> 01:31:00.030 Public debt as a percentage of GDP started going down steeply during the Biden 01:31:00.030 --> 01:31:04.110 administration, where it had been growing under the Trump administration. 01:31:04.110 --> 01:31:07.390 It had surged over the pandemic, 01:31:07.690 --> 01:31:12.750 but Biden had started to make that go down in a double combination because he 01:31:12.750 --> 01:31:15.170 had helped the economy grow stronger than it had been in a while, 01:31:15.350 --> 01:31:22.030 while at the same time, you know, spending had been managed in a more prudent way. 01:31:23.030 --> 01:31:25.790 you know and so this whole 01:31:25.790 --> 01:31:28.790 thing about the and and the projection is that 01:31:28.790 --> 01:31:31.830 it's going to go through the roof so you know 01:31:31.830 --> 01:31:35.750 it's just so frustrating 01:31:35.750 --> 01:31:38.470 with these people what all they do is 01:31:38.470 --> 01:31:41.310 just they lie and they just lie about it and 01:31:41.310 --> 01:31:45.330 lie and lie just oh it's going to cut the deficit oh it's going to do this oh 01:31:45.330 --> 01:31:51.270 no we're fixing you know the big the headline on the economist story was the 01:31:51.270 --> 01:31:57.450 big beautiful bill reveals the hollowness of trumponomics and that's I mean 01:31:57.450 --> 01:32:00.290 that that's really the that's that's the, 01:32:01.240 --> 01:32:04.600 Plain truth, it's just completely hollow. 01:32:05.000 --> 01:32:10.600 It's just all bullshit. There is no substance behind any of this whatsoever. 01:32:12.340 --> 01:32:17.680 Oh, and by the way, good news. Did you see that because of the cuts of the National 01:32:17.680 --> 01:32:25.760 Weather Service that, you know, our flash flood forecasting has gotten much inferior? 01:32:25.760 --> 01:32:31.660 And how many people, 20, you know, about 24 people got killed. 01:32:31.940 --> 01:32:35.280 At least 20 girls attending a summer camp are missing. And there's still a bunch 01:32:35.280 --> 01:32:38.060 missing. Okay. And by the way, this is not even us. 01:32:38.680 --> 01:32:46.660 Texas officials basically said this was all due to a bad forecast by the National Weather Service. 01:32:47.680 --> 01:32:54.440 This is what I say. But everything they do kills people, hurts people, 01:32:54.940 --> 01:32:59.560 hurts the country. I mean, there is what, Sam, what the fuck have they done 01:32:59.560 --> 01:33:01.600 that helps anybody other than themselves? 01:33:02.640 --> 01:33:05.840 Well, that's the point. They're helping themselves. 01:33:06.280 --> 01:33:07.940 They're not even their voters, Sam. 01:33:08.800 --> 01:33:14.340 Oh, I know. I know. What they give their voters is- Own the lips! 01:33:15.620 --> 01:33:20.020 We banned five transsexual athletes across the country, Sam. 01:33:20.220 --> 01:33:22.080 Five of them! Look at that! What? 01:33:22.420 --> 01:33:28.500 We protected all of you from the five transsexual athletes that you were scared of for some reason. 01:33:29.680 --> 01:33:37.360 The culture war stuff and on the libs is is the raw meat that the Republican base gets happy with. 01:33:38.260 --> 01:33:44.140 I saw someone repost some social media post from somebody that said, 01:33:44.320 --> 01:33:48.580 you know, I forget exactly what they were talking about. 01:33:48.580 --> 01:33:54.680 it was pre-fowl, but it was basically like, I'd be willing to pay like $50 for 01:33:54.680 --> 01:33:58.200 my like groceries or whatever, as long as we get rid of all those damn illegal 01:33:58.200 --> 01:34:02.540 immigrants, you know, for like an avocado or something stupid. 01:34:02.720 --> 01:34:03.720 Like imported. What a fucking liar. 01:34:04.020 --> 01:34:05.300 You know what? 01:34:06.040 --> 01:34:09.900 You know what? The worst thing about these people, they're just such liars because 01:34:09.900 --> 01:34:12.540 the moment that they go to the store and they see an avocado at $50, 01:34:13.060 --> 01:34:14.200 you know what they're going to be doing. 01:34:15.020 --> 01:34:16.780 They're going to be, they're going to be living. 01:34:17.780 --> 01:34:20.320 And you know this. It's just ridiculous. 01:34:22.340 --> 01:34:26.700 So let's see. I'm looking over here. So I found this thing. For example, 01:34:26.820 --> 01:34:29.440 let's talk about some of the cynical things in the bill. 01:34:30.140 --> 01:34:33.340 Tax cuts lasting only through Trump's term. 01:34:33.580 --> 01:34:36.380 Okay, this is a New York Times that a summary of this. Okay, 01:34:36.460 --> 01:34:38.680 just see how the cynical timelines on this thing. 01:34:40.480 --> 01:34:44.280 So no tax on overtime only lasts through the end of Trump's term. 01:34:45.180 --> 01:34:48.560 So look at how they're doing this, right? So if a Democrat wins, 01:34:48.760 --> 01:34:50.140 what's going to happen? What does it look like? 01:34:51.300 --> 01:34:52.060 What? Sorry. What? 01:34:53.000 --> 01:34:54.300 Stop typing. Okay. 01:34:54.520 --> 01:34:54.700 I'm sorry. 01:34:55.100 --> 01:34:56.040 Tax cuts. 01:34:56.120 --> 01:35:00.440 Stop typing. You know, I'm researching the damn part you were talking about. 01:35:00.440 --> 01:35:03.100 Take a short break because we only got a couple of minutes left. 01:35:03.280 --> 01:35:05.160 Tax cuts lasting only through Trump's term. 01:35:05.180 --> 01:35:05.340 Okay. 01:35:05.440 --> 01:35:11.900 Okay. No tax on overtime. Yeah. So think about this. Democrat wins. All of a sudden. Yeah. 01:35:12.040 --> 01:35:12.480 It goes away. 01:35:12.520 --> 01:35:18.640 No tax on tips. Also. Now, again, same thing. ends no tax on carload. 01:35:18.640 --> 01:35:24.700 No interest i will i will add i will add a lot of people to also all of these 01:35:24.700 --> 01:35:28.400 ones that you're running through if you look into the details of them, 01:35:29.020 --> 01:35:33.480 don't actually help the people who need the most very much because they're they're 01:35:33.480 --> 01:35:38.660 very low limits that you have to be below for them to apply there's some there 01:35:38.660 --> 01:35:41.260 there's some other technical my point is. 01:35:41.260 --> 01:35:43.020 The cynical timeline okay all right. 01:35:43.020 --> 01:35:44.340 Yes yeah other tracks. 01:35:44.340 --> 01:35:47.260 Provisions for example but But those end there, 01:35:48.340 --> 01:35:54.980 you know, I mean, it's just that one that one was the one to me that that really 01:35:54.980 --> 01:35:59.980 just was just so cynical about how they they would they would go and like do that. 01:36:00.100 --> 01:36:05.960 But, hey, we'll do it. But, hey, Democrats in power, we can blame them for it immediately. 01:36:06.380 --> 01:36:10.660 You know, you're going to see. And that's what they're that's what they're negotiating. 01:36:10.660 --> 01:36:18.100 So anyway, all right, well, we're almost at our usual time. I think we need to be done. 01:36:18.840 --> 01:36:21.720 We're good. It's time to do the wrap up. 01:36:23.940 --> 01:36:31.500 And then, yeah, I will. I don't know. I have to deal with the damn car thing. 01:36:32.240 --> 01:36:35.220 I really didn't want to right now, but whatever. 01:36:36.540 --> 01:36:42.220 Okay. curmudgeon-quarter.com you can find all our stuff our archives, 01:36:42.460 --> 01:36:44.880 our transcripts all the ways to contact us, 01:36:45.520 --> 01:36:50.940 stuff I still have not linked the TikTok at this point I will next time I mess 01:36:50.940 --> 01:36:54.640 with the site I'll add the TikTok well apparently you shared we. 01:36:54.640 --> 01:36:56.840 Got a lot of views of the last TikToks. 01:36:57.660 --> 01:37:04.460 Yeah the last TikTok had a few let me see here I posted three videos one of 01:37:04.460 --> 01:37:10.720 them had 145 views One of them had 777, and the third one had 795. 01:37:11.440 --> 01:37:15.240 I mean, I see one here that you shared on my 780 views on one. 01:37:16.330 --> 01:37:19.090 Well, I just gave you the updated number. 01:37:19.190 --> 01:37:20.370 The number, you said it sounded lower. 01:37:20.470 --> 01:37:26.210 The one where the three numbers are 145, 777, and 795. 01:37:26.630 --> 01:37:28.030 Okay, I thought it was 770. Okay. 01:37:29.170 --> 01:37:36.690 795. Yes, and we got comments on two of the three videos, and we got likes on 01:37:36.690 --> 01:37:37.930 all three. Lots of likes. 01:37:39.010 --> 01:37:42.110 You always get a few of those, I guess. Whatever. 01:37:42.450 --> 01:37:49.150 Let's read. OK, so one is the one that got the most is the one where we talked 01:37:49.150 --> 01:37:54.830 about our disappointment in how elected officials. 01:37:55.010 --> 01:37:57.350 Ah, no, I just want the comments. I don't want to play the video. 01:37:57.790 --> 01:38:02.950 Here we go. Comments where we talked about our disappointment in establishment 01:38:02.950 --> 01:38:07.770 Democrats supporting Cuomo and the Mamdani stuff. 01:38:08.890 --> 01:38:13.290 So let's see. Somebody said. Let's do all comments. All comments. 01:38:14.910 --> 01:38:18.110 Somebody said we lost a good representative by getting rid of Franken. 01:38:18.790 --> 01:38:22.590 Because you talked about Franken. Somebody said, I wish I could explain why 01:38:22.590 --> 01:38:25.370 the leadership didn't understand this. 01:38:25.450 --> 01:38:30.110 Well, I know why. I just, it's stupid reasoning, but I know why. 01:38:30.110 --> 01:38:32.030 It's just not valid. Okay. 01:38:32.710 --> 01:38:37.810 We got someone saying, and you are both demonstrating critical thinking in real time. 01:38:37.810 --> 01:38:42.830 You are 100% correct to question why the establishment keeps running the absolute 01:38:42.830 --> 01:38:47.370 worst candidates, despite real people turning up in droves to support progressives 01:38:47.370 --> 01:38:52.070 like Bernie and Mamdani, politicians who are actually in line with the party's value. 01:38:52.870 --> 01:38:58.810 We had somebody say that the Dem charade is undeniable now and unsustainable. 01:38:59.610 --> 01:39:05.170 The young people see it so clearly. Exhibit A, support for Cuomo against a popular 01:39:05.170 --> 01:39:07.350 progressive and the progressive wins the primary. 01:39:08.030 --> 01:39:13.990 Establishment Dems need Trump and will continue to just hand wring as he dismantles democracy. 01:39:14.310 --> 01:39:18.770 Hatred fear of Trump is the Dem platform. They can't campaign on the party's 01:39:18.770 --> 01:39:22.130 ideals because they don't benefit the corporate donors. 01:39:22.850 --> 01:39:26.590 Republicans can rally their base and appease corporate donors at the same time 01:39:26.590 --> 01:39:28.170 because they want the same things. 01:39:28.770 --> 01:39:34.750 And then finally, the last comment on this one, Anthony Weiner, 2028. Just kidding. 01:39:34.910 --> 01:39:39.970 Oh, I'm sure. Just kidding. Are you kidding? I heard, I read somewhere that 01:39:39.970 --> 01:39:41.710 he was thinking about running for something. 01:39:42.330 --> 01:39:44.670 No, no, no, no. He did run. 01:39:44.790 --> 01:39:47.190 Oh, he ran for this one. I didn't realize he was a dude. 01:39:48.250 --> 01:39:50.270 And he did not do well. 01:39:50.470 --> 01:39:50.670 You think? 01:39:51.470 --> 01:39:52.750 I think it was this. 01:39:52.870 --> 01:39:53.790 I thought it was something else. 01:39:56.350 --> 01:39:59.330 Whatever he ran for, he did very, very badly. 01:39:59.930 --> 01:40:03.550 He got like just a couple percent or something. Anyway, he says, 01:40:03.650 --> 01:40:05.730 just kidding, but we've learned basically nothing. 01:40:06.710 --> 01:40:12.310 is his statement. And for some reason, that was only five, but it says there's 01:40:12.310 --> 01:40:14.470 seven comments. Let me... 01:40:15.480 --> 01:40:18.920 Let me check one more place, see if it's not showing up in one place, but it is the other. 01:40:19.140 --> 01:40:22.300 I don't know. No, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. We got more comments 01:40:22.300 --> 01:40:25.580 on the other one, too, with people talking about the economy and blah, blah, blah. 01:40:27.760 --> 01:40:31.520 Weird. Weird. Oh, does it? I don't know. I don't know why. 01:40:31.660 --> 01:40:36.640 Like, my dashboard here doesn't show all the comments, but there's more elsewhere. 01:40:36.860 --> 01:40:39.360 I don't know. Anyway, that's it for TikTok. 01:40:39.760 --> 01:40:42.360 And as usual, you can also go to our Patreon and give us money. 01:40:42.360 --> 01:40:48.020 if you like the show and appreciate it and want to help pay for my new car. 01:40:52.520 --> 01:40:57.960 The $25, $27 a month from the Patreon, I'm sure will go a long way towards whatever payment I need. 01:40:58.960 --> 01:41:01.480 Except, of course, we're saving that up for the next meetup. 01:41:01.720 --> 01:41:03.220 So never mind. Never mind. 01:41:03.940 --> 01:41:07.540 Or maybe I'll use it on my car. And that'll be my down payment. 01:41:07.540 --> 01:41:11.500 There you go. I'll be okay with that. That's fine. You need a car. 01:41:12.700 --> 01:41:15.700 I'm good with it. Yeah. That's good use of the money. 01:41:15.940 --> 01:41:18.240 Yeah. This month's $25. 01:41:18.680 --> 01:41:21.040 I support the $25 going towards Sam's down payment. 01:41:25.300 --> 01:41:29.860 Anyway, yeah. Go to our Patreon at various levels. We will mention you on the 01:41:29.860 --> 01:41:32.740 show. We will ring a bell. We will send you a postcard. We will send you a mug. 01:41:33.140 --> 01:41:37.260 And yes, I do still owe several people. I owe a couple postcards. 01:41:37.420 --> 01:41:42.140 I owe a mug, I think. I will eventually get to it. I have it on a list somewhere. 01:41:42.540 --> 01:41:45.800 I just keep never getting to the list, just like oil changes. 01:41:45.980 --> 01:41:46.960 Yeah, I noticed. 01:41:47.500 --> 01:41:50.120 So, you know, when I met Sam. 01:41:50.280 --> 01:41:54.440 He had the dashboard of this Dodge Colt that he had. Like, what do you say? 01:41:54.820 --> 01:41:55.740 It's still in the garage. 01:41:55.920 --> 01:41:58.900 Okay, this is the habit that I said. He had it in his dorm room, 01:41:58.900 --> 01:42:03.700 and the Dodge Colt died because of an oil. He just didn't have oil. Yeah. 01:42:04.730 --> 01:42:10.050 Yes. Well, nobody had told me I needed to put oil in the damn thing. I had no idea. 01:42:10.050 --> 01:42:13.830 I will say that the massive improvement from then to now is that you did see 01:42:13.830 --> 01:42:17.830 a light that said that you were missing something and you tried to put it in versus before. 01:42:20.070 --> 01:42:20.810 There you go. 01:42:21.050 --> 01:42:23.230 I mean, that's a huge, huge improvement. 01:42:24.450 --> 01:42:29.330 There you go. And look, I was proud we got, we ended up getting that hose on. 01:42:29.490 --> 01:42:33.010 And listen, I will admit that I'm impressed that we were able to get that hose 01:42:33.010 --> 01:42:36.470 on. Unfortunately, the problem is that the hose didn't really, like I said. 01:42:37.110 --> 01:42:42.110 It was a valiant effort to do repair that actually didn't fix any of the problems. 01:42:45.010 --> 01:42:47.990 Yeah, that should be the story of my life. 01:42:50.970 --> 01:42:52.670 Oh, well. Okay. 01:42:53.350 --> 01:42:56.290 Well, no, we got one more thing. We got one thing to slack. 01:42:56.850 --> 01:43:01.090 Oh, yes, yes. The highlight from the slack. Go ahead, Yvonne. 01:43:01.370 --> 01:43:02.510 Anthropics Claude. 01:43:02.510 --> 01:43:06.890 Oh yeah, we will invite you to, I didn't even say, we will invite you to Slack 01:43:06.890 --> 01:43:12.410 if you donate to the Patreon at $2 a month or more, or if you just ask. Okay, now. 01:43:12.410 --> 01:43:17.530 All right, Anthropics Claude stocked a fridge with metal cubes when it was put 01:43:17.530 --> 01:43:19.150 in charge of a snacks business. 01:43:19.850 --> 01:43:23.450 So if you're worried about your local potato convenience store may soon be replaced 01:43:23.450 --> 01:43:27.650 by an AI storefront, you can rest easy after Anthropics Claude AI had a hard 01:43:27.650 --> 01:43:29.490 time of running a mini fridge business. 01:43:31.190 --> 01:43:36.970 metal I mean you know what here's the thing I think you would be happy with. 01:43:37.650 --> 01:43:42.450 We've talked about those tungsten cubes on the show before you. 01:43:42.450 --> 01:43:43.050 Get to the. 01:43:43.050 --> 01:43:45.090 I have it on my Amazon wish list. 01:43:46.750 --> 01:43:49.130 Oh metal cubes look at that. 01:43:49.830 --> 01:43:54.290 Well look here I want to be fair like because they make fun of I've seen lots 01:43:54.290 --> 01:43:59.190 of people making fun oh look the computer water metal cubes blah blah blah no here's what happened 01:43:59.490 --> 01:44:05.070 They, they had an internal Slack group where employees could ask for things 01:44:05.070 --> 01:44:07.170 they wanted at the snack thing. 01:44:07.510 --> 01:44:10.570 And some smart ass said, I want the key. 01:44:10.590 --> 01:44:16.030 Well, if the AI were really smart, hey, you know what? That isn't food. 01:44:19.510 --> 01:44:22.350 But you know people might like it it's a. 01:44:22.350 --> 01:44:25.070 Veterinarian listen i will say that there is one thing 01:44:25.070 --> 01:44:28.110 i did get like a few years ago 01:44:28.110 --> 01:44:34.510 not metal cubes but for scotch for some reason like these little like cubes 01:44:34.510 --> 01:44:37.130 that i think were like kind of rocks that you're supposed to put them in the 01:44:37.130 --> 01:44:44.590 freezer to use those instead of ice to drink your scotch so we'll cool it down 01:44:44.590 --> 01:44:46.390 the The advantage, obviously, 01:44:46.690 --> 01:44:48.650 is that it won't melt. 01:44:48.890 --> 01:44:53.070 So it won't, you know, it doesn't mix water with your drink. 01:44:53.270 --> 01:44:59.310 So that's, so I guess, you know, this isn't like completely insane, 01:44:59.450 --> 01:45:05.090 but also, yeah, most people don't really need metal cubes in their fridge, I think. 01:45:05.990 --> 01:45:10.590 Yeah, yeah. No, but here's the thing, too. Like, it also made a bunch of mistakes. 01:45:10.710 --> 01:45:13.930 Like, it was selling some products at a loss, you know. 01:45:15.390 --> 01:45:20.230 You know, they cut it off when it, they gave it a certain amount of money to 01:45:20.230 --> 01:45:22.550 play with, and they cut it off when it lost $25. 01:45:22.550 --> 01:45:24.830 That's pretty bad. That's pretty bad. 01:45:25.330 --> 01:45:30.230 You know, it sort of, it dived initially, it lost a bunch of its money to start up. 01:45:30.350 --> 01:45:34.450 Then it started actually like, the curve started trending up a little bit, 01:45:34.490 --> 01:45:37.570 and then I forget exactly which thing. 01:45:37.650 --> 01:45:42.590 They said there was one particular decision it made that it just started plummeting. 01:45:43.640 --> 01:45:49.980 And, and like most of its losses were due to one particular purchase choice 01:45:49.980 --> 01:45:53.480 where it bought something expensive and was like giving it away. 01:45:53.480 --> 01:45:58.060 I love this. By the way, here's, I will say this, that it's pretty good at mimicking 01:45:58.060 --> 01:46:02.920 humans. I will say, because you get, man, let me tell you, I, 01:46:03.180 --> 01:46:05.620 one time I had to stop putting it. 01:46:05.720 --> 01:46:09.660 Listen, I took away all purchasing power from employees at the pharmacy when, 01:46:09.760 --> 01:46:13.180 when I took over, when I was like, when I, when I finished college. 01:46:13.180 --> 01:46:16.000 because, man, we had exactly that. 01:46:16.400 --> 01:46:20.940 Some people making these purchases of shit that was unsaleable, okay? 01:46:21.280 --> 01:46:24.720 And I'm like, I'm sorry. 01:46:24.900 --> 01:46:30.440 Why the fuck didn't we just fill up this shelf with this shit that doesn't sell? 01:46:30.860 --> 01:46:36.020 Well, the sales rep gave me a good, like, speech, and I'm like, nobody wants this. 01:46:36.300 --> 01:46:44.100 I had to, like, mark it down, like, 80% to get the shit to move because I just wanted it gone. 01:46:44.380 --> 01:46:47.480 Even if I just got 20 cents on the dollar at least, I got something. 01:46:47.760 --> 01:46:52.020 Instead of like it occupying an entire fucking shelf. So anyway. 01:46:52.560 --> 01:47:01.680 Yeah. Okay. Maybe I should start an AI run shop as my next venture. 01:47:02.020 --> 01:47:07.460 Like quit my job, open a little bodega somewhere, get one of those little kiosks 01:47:07.460 --> 01:47:10.220 in the middle of the mall and just have an AI run. 01:47:10.220 --> 01:47:14.260 Kiosk at the middle of the mall when she first when she first came to the states 01:47:14.260 --> 01:47:19.260 let me tell you yeah that's a tough that's a rough business let me tell you 01:47:19.260 --> 01:47:23.680 something that's a fucking rough business well. 01:47:23.680 --> 01:47:24.580 That's why i want to let. 01:47:24.580 --> 01:47:29.100 The eye run it you know you need us a little you know i i was just talking to 01:47:29.100 --> 01:47:34.120 people that we've got or we're selling these robotic kiosks now so basically 01:47:34.120 --> 01:47:38.520 just you know so people can walk up to the kiosk to go at a cell phone store 01:47:38.520 --> 01:47:41.120 so you can go over there, like do all your transaction talking to, 01:47:42.420 --> 01:47:46.740 some little like animated robot thing. So there you go. 01:47:48.020 --> 01:47:51.280 It's good. Well, you're selling it. It's gotta be good, right? 01:47:51.860 --> 01:47:54.760 Oh, no, it's fantastic. What are you kidding me? It's the best damn thing. 01:47:55.120 --> 01:47:57.500 Best damn thing we made. What are you kidding? It's fantastic. 01:48:00.900 --> 01:48:01.600 There you go. 01:48:02.780 --> 01:48:04.860 I'm like, yes, they're excellent. They're fantastic. 01:48:05.980 --> 01:48:14.140 Okay. okay we are done thank you everybody have a great week and we will talk 01:48:14.140 --> 01:48:17.420 to you next time goodbye bye. 01:48:48.440 --> 01:48:54.380 Hey, well, it's Sam from the future here, and I know several times during the 01:48:54.380 --> 01:49:00.380 show I asked for, you know, people to chime in on the Slack and maybe elsewhere 01:49:00.380 --> 01:49:03.260 on what I should do about my car. 01:49:04.040 --> 01:49:08.940 But, yeah, less than 12 hours after I recorded that and before I'm putting the 01:49:08.940 --> 01:49:12.160 episode out, I actually already bought the car. 01:49:12.500 --> 01:49:23.120 And I did indeed get an Ioniq 5. so it's been home almost 12 hours now i i drove 01:49:23.120 --> 01:49:28.040 it home i parked it i went to sleep i edited the podcast so i've only actually 01:49:28.040 --> 01:49:32.360 driven the new car once so far so far so good i like it. 01:49:33.760 --> 01:49:39.920 Anyway yeah i already bought it so if you have any thoughts feel free to chime 01:49:39.920 --> 01:49:44.220 in anyway but as a bonus of actually getting to the end of the episode, 01:49:44.440 --> 01:49:46.120 you know that I already did this. 01:49:46.680 --> 01:49:51.980 Yeah, so I, yeah, I recorded the show, did a couple other things, 01:49:52.200 --> 01:49:59.960 then my wife was in touch with somebody she knows from her work that owns a dealership, 01:50:00.420 --> 01:50:05.320 owns a Hyundai dealership, and we were there shortly thereafter, 01:50:05.760 --> 01:50:11.260 did a test drive, they set up the deal for us, and of course they treated us 01:50:11.260 --> 01:50:13.760 well because they're a friend of my wife, 01:50:14.560 --> 01:50:16.000 and we did all the stuff. 01:50:16.220 --> 01:50:19.640 I went back and forth with Yvonne and text a few times to make sure we had a 01:50:19.640 --> 01:50:25.100 good deal and we were doing something that made sense. But yeah, the car is bought. 01:50:25.820 --> 01:50:29.760 Yeah, so there we go. Thanks all. Bye for real.