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Season 4 - Episode 204 - Zero miles to empty · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermindset coach, creative strategist, and also happened to
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  be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy into the world. So welcome to the Coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey, everybody. Good morning.
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  Good morning. So we have a great story to tell
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  you. Well, I don't think it was great
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  when it was happening, but so we want to share a bit of a funny
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  story. I have a friend, a very dear
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  friend here, and I was going to do a training for her team and
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  we were driving how far to where we headed?
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  It was about 90 miles an hour and a.
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  Half, yeah, not so far, but just far enough, right.
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  We So we were driving north from San Diego up to see her and we
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  were very excited. Got in the car, we left, we
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  stopped and got coffee. Yeah, everything was good.
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  Everything was great. Not much.
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  Traffic, not much traffic and, and this is a driving Miss Daisy
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  situation 'cause I'm not driving, but I did claim that
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  right up front that I was not going to drive out here.
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  I don't like driving out here. So we got to her place, we did
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  some recording, did training and then we got in the car and came.
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  We went to lunch. Right.
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  Yep. Then we had a lunch, a little
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  shopping briefly, which is unlike both of us.
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  Yes, but we did pass a shop that both our daughters absolutely
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  obsess on, which I still don't understand.
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  It's very floral, very smelly. It is.
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  It's, it's very, very girly. Regency bows and pearls.
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  Yes, it, I mean, but my daughter loves it.
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  Her daughter loves it. So we had to do a little
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  shopping and then we got in the car and we're heading home and
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  we're just talking and we're enjoying ourselves and then tell
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  them what happened. And and well, and we are
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  probably about two exits from the hotel when this happened,
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  maybe 3 exits at the most. At the most, we were very close.
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  And all of a sudden there was this Ding.
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  It was like an alert, like an alarm went off and it said
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  mileage to empty 00. Zero.
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  Now mind you, OK, we're both very diligent people.
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  Like I have a truck and when I got my truck, I got an extended
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  gas tank just because I may at some point be in a hurricane
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  evacuation situation where I need to have extended gas to get
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  away from it. And I can go 600 and 35 miles
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  with a full tank. So I pay attention to my gas,
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  but the. Problem is, is we actually
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  talked about our gas habits and I told you how I every Sunday I
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  go to Costco, I fill up even if I don't need gas.
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  I top off every Sunday, get a car wash and that's just my
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  habit. So when that happened, I was
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  like, oh goodness, like this is we're going to run out of gas on
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  the 15 freeway. And but anyway, we I quickly got
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  over, we got off the exit. You used Waze, you found?
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  The Waze, listen, Waze is a great tool for the emergencies
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  like this. And those of us who are paranoid
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  know you open Waze and immediately right at the top
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  there's a little button that says gas because we're not the
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  only people this ever happened to.
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  And .2 miles goes. Like .2 miles we filled up and
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  we, I mean, my heart was beating.
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  We were both shocked because here's the thing, the rental car
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  that we got was an Audi. Now why in God's name did it not
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  tell us sooner? Why was there not an alert
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  sooner? No pings, no Dings, no.
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  I'm assuming that someone else who rented the car must have
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  turned off alarms of some sort, but.
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  Can you really? I don't know, but I mean.
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  There's no way that it got to zero that fast.
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  Well, it happened and meantime I feel like we're in a Seinfeld
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  episode when Kramer decides to push the guy who's taking him on
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  a test drive to keep going and see how far we can go on empty.
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  I'm Googling while she's driving how far can an Audi quattro go
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  on 0 miles in the tank? Which amazingly, it said, oh,
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  anywhere from 20 to 40 miles when it says 0.
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  So is it really 0 miles? Why wouldn't it just say?
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  Over information is not reliable or something it's not.
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  It's and it said that information is not reliable
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  most. Cars give you like a 50 mile
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  warning or something like that. There was no warning, it just
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  went zero. Exactly My truck gives warnings
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  immediately like when you get to 100 miles to empty, it comes up
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  on the big screen right in front of you one 100 miles to empty
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  and then 75 miles to empty 50 miles to enter.
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  Now I've literally I've only seen that when Mark is driving,
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  not when I'm driving because I would never let it go that way.
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  But this is it was shocking that this thing didn't have an alarm
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  and I found. It very interesting, like you
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  said, two, you know, responsible people.
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  I mean, we, we figured it out really quickly, but it was one
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  of those things where the unexpected happened and we were
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  so close to home and I don't know, it seems like life.
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  Right, right. But that's exactly how it is.
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  It's like all of a sudden you're just cruising along.
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  We're talking, we're having a good time and then and we're
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  like, wait, what? You went what, 0 miles to empty
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  And we both were like panic. We both, but we both handled it
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  well. We were in that panic mode, but
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  we both handled it well. And you know, then we got gas
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  and we were laughing and we were both like, OK, now we're both
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  like can stop shaking because what's worse than being on a
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  highway like that stuck. But this is mindset handling it
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  in the moment, being cool. Like we handled it and then we
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  shook and then we came down from it and we got but again.
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  And now we're telling the world. Now if I was in the car alone,
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  no one would know this story. But we but we have to tell the
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  story because it happens to even the most of us that are most
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  prepared. And and of all the people that I
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  spend time with, you are one of the most prepared people, if not
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  the most prepared under me because I'm always being
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  prepared. So we just had to share the
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  funny story with you and like, you know, Hey, you should know
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  how your car gives you alarms for gas.
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  That's the point of the. Story it is, so it is.
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  You can laugh at our funny story today and we will see you all
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  tomorrow and we will have gas in the car.
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  We it's filled, it's full, we're good.
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  All right, everybody have a blessed day and we'll see you
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  tomorrow. Bye.