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Lonnie Brown from Browns Tire Shop · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: I saw something today on the Facebook today. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's a good point. Every now and then the internet
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  Speaker 1: has something good to offer, and that is once we
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  Speaker 1: get through you know, the where are we still level two? Zach?
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know if we're still level two in
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  Speaker 1: Franklin County with the snow emergency crap. But once people
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  Speaker 1: can get around and do stuff they need to know,
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  Speaker 1: we can do that. Do you have any idea still
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  Speaker 1: to two? So you can go out if you have to, basically,
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  Speaker 1: but but do this anything you need, if you can,
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  Speaker 1: if it's possible, if it's doable, if it's in the budget,
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  Speaker 1: support your your local owned small businesses. Look the big stores,
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  Speaker 1: the big stores will be okay. But just like schools
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  Speaker 1: have been closed and all this kind of stuff, the
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  Speaker 1: local owned businesses, man, they're if nobody can come out
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  Speaker 1: and partake of their wares and give them their dollars,
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  Speaker 1: then they are in trouble.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I have to revise that. Franklin County. It's level one,
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  Speaker 2: word one, So it's okay.
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  Speaker 1: So it's normal winter, it's normal. So you can go
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  Speaker 1: out and start spending your money again, so you know,
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  Speaker 1: the services you need, the food you eat, like that.
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  Speaker 1: If you can support a locally owned business, please do so, because,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, with the schools being closed and so forth,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's really taking a toll on them. Losing two
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  Speaker 1: business days in one week, especially this time of year
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  Speaker 1: a lot. Yeah, it is. I also want to tell
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  Speaker 1: you about Columbu City schools. With the schools being out
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  Speaker 1: yet again tomorrow, they've already pulled the plug for tomorrow,
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  Speaker 1: they are doing meals. And while I'm not a big
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  Speaker 1: fan of schools getting that involved in people's lives, there
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  Speaker 1: are some kids that I guess you know, eating the
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  Speaker 1: school lunches and breakfast and so forth, they don't have
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  Speaker 1: much else. And so tomorrow they'll be giving away meals
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  Speaker 1: at five high schools and I will give you those
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  Speaker 1: before this show is over tonight, so stand by for that.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, I want to talk about last night. As
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  Speaker 1: we were talking about snow and getting around so forth,
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  Speaker 1: snow tires came back. Zach's never had a snowtire. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think you never owned have you a set of
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  Speaker 1: snow tires?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 2: The only snow tires like in my neighborhood are like
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  Speaker 2: the studded snow tires yeah, that's just like.
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  Speaker 1: But you can't have those Canyon Ohio. I don't think so.
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  Speaker 2: No, they just they call them that because I put
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  Speaker 2: them on. Oh okay people, so they just say, there's
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  Speaker 2: a stuff, right you.
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  Speaker 1: And your fantasy world. Okay. So I decided in keeping
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  Speaker 1: with my you know, my my, my, my mission to
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  Speaker 1: bring you good, valuable, important information. And also what I
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  Speaker 1: was just talking about local business is going to my
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  Speaker 1: tire guy, which is Lottie Brown over there at Brown's
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  Speaker 1: Tire Sales. That they've got locations around central Ohio, been
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  Speaker 1: in business for a long time. They're connected, of course
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  Speaker 1: to my beloved West High School, which means they're they're
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  Speaker 1: near and dear to my heart. But Lonnie, snow tires,
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  Speaker 1: do people still get them? Do they buy them? Or
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  Speaker 1: do they do? They no longer exist?
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  Speaker 3: Hey, how are you okay? Yeah, there are still a
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  Speaker 3: lot of snow tires out there, but there is a
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  Speaker 3: difference between snow tires and studded tires. A lot of
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  Speaker 3: all train or snow tires. You can stud them yourself.
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  Speaker 3: It is it is either illegal to like run studded
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  Speaker 3: tires or here in Ohio you may run it for
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  Speaker 3: a couple of months, but it's pretty frown up pond
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  Speaker 3: because they don't want you doing it because it tears
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  Speaker 3: the roads, because we have lovely reds here.
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  Speaker 1: Anyways, what is what's the major difference is that the
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  Speaker 1: depth of tread is it the type the dreads is dns.
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  Speaker 3: The tread design. If you ever grab a snow tire,
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  Speaker 3: it is extremely soft, especially like the Blizzacks. They're they're
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  Speaker 3: awesome tires. They work really well.
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  Speaker 4: But then you know a lot of these better.
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  Speaker 3: Brand all season tires, you know they work just as well.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you don't really need the studs. Uh. I
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  Speaker 3: was just in West Virginia though, and people are still
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  Speaker 3: running chains there. I was watching people pull over and
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  Speaker 3: put the chains on, and the roads were terrible there.
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  Speaker 3: It was mostly all eyes, like pure eyes. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: there is a difference between a.
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  Speaker 4: Snow tire and all season entire. But it is the tread.
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  Speaker 3: Design, it's the softness, and I'm sure it's a different
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  Speaker 3: type of rubber. A lot of these other companies are
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  Speaker 3: using like a fake rubber.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's hard to find, honestly, and I know it's
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  Speaker 1: not you of ault, it's the industry overall. It's hard
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  Speaker 1: to find good, long lasting, durable, dependable tires anymore. I
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  Speaker 1: just I don't know if that's Chinese materials come into
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  Speaker 1: play or what it is. But even the big name
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  Speaker 1: brands that we've known over the decades, Yeah, it seems
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  Speaker 1: like they'll they'll, I mean, the tread will just come
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  Speaker 1: off of some of these things.
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  Speaker 3: It is. It is all about profits now, and I
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  Speaker 3: do believe that you know a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Of them that are being made or you know they're
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  Speaker 4: not they're using.
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  Speaker 3: Different kind of rubbers, and you can read out on
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  Speaker 3: the sidewall, and you know, I'm sure you do your
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  Speaker 3: research and find a better brand hire, but you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's still very simple to go buy you know, eighty
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  Speaker 3: five dollars branding tires.
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  Speaker 4: Still, you know, I don't know how well it's going
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  Speaker 4: to do.
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  Speaker 3: And it's twenty three degrees outside or negative too. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, there's plenty of options out there, and it
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  Speaker 3: just depends on.
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  Speaker 4: Your budget and what you're using your vehicle for.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of people don't have to go out with
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  Speaker 3: this brother.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and generally, quite frankly, I will put more
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  Speaker 1: money into tires that go on something that's transporting the
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  Speaker 1: family than I will myself. Right, That's just how I am.
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  Speaker 1: And how is there anything as far as American tires?
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  Speaker 1: Are there any tires that are still made here entirely
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  Speaker 1: in the US? Are they all foreign?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: I know there is still some here. You know, we
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  Speaker 3: were doing a whole lot of Cooper and Cooper masscraft
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  Speaker 3: were made here in America, and then Goodyear bought them,
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  Speaker 3: So now I think they're being made overseas. But there
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  Speaker 3: are still quite a few American made tires. And then
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  Speaker 3: you see a lot on the.
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  Speaker 4: Side of saying like USA.
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  Speaker 3: But then you look at it, it says like design
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  Speaker 3: in USA, and it's like manufactured in Taiwand of course,
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  Speaker 3: of course.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so you know, look into what you're buying.
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  Speaker 1: In your estimation. I mean, because this is the first
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  Speaker 1: time we've had a really serious snow since twenty fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: Are you are you better off just spending the money
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  Speaker 1: on a good set of all season radios or do
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  Speaker 1: you go a little cheaper on those and keep a
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  Speaker 1: set of snow tires in the garage and run over
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  Speaker 1: the Browns tires.
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  Speaker 3: I think you're finally all season tires again. It you know,
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  Speaker 3: you get on ice, you could have a five hundred
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  Speaker 3: dollars tire on ice and a thirty dollars tiro on ice,
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  Speaker 3: and you're gonna slide, you know, get through this big.
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  Speaker 4: Snow without four of the drive.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't really matter, you know. I you can't use
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  Speaker 3: your car as a plow. But again it depends on
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  Speaker 3: what you're doing. If you're gonna be out in Veinsville
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  Speaker 3: going up and down hills all day long and you're
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  Speaker 3: driving a you know, a little BMW or something, then
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  Speaker 3: I would recommend you do snow tires if you plan
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  Speaker 3: on driving all winter long and we'll get snow like this.
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  Speaker 3: But I've never seen snow like this, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: my thirty.
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  Speaker 4: Five years I've been alive.
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  Speaker 3: But really, when you get too much snow, nobody lose
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  Speaker 3: a house. You just can't get through it. You know.
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  Speaker 3: It's really like the good two three inches that you're
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  Speaker 3: making the right hand turn and you realize that you
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  Speaker 3: need tires to give you slide into the next plane.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and that'll give it away right away. With
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  Speaker 1: these these front wheel drive cars today too, you know,
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  Speaker 1: all the wheels spinning when things get like this. Yep,
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  Speaker 1: do you need to step up your rotation timing. Should
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  Speaker 1: you maybe do it a little sooner than it is?
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  Speaker 3: It's so important. I see so many vehicles come in
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  Speaker 3: here and they have brandy tires on the rear and
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  Speaker 3: you know, baldle was on the front and they don't
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  Speaker 3: understand because they just bought the tires six months ago
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  Speaker 3: and they didn't runs get any one time. You know. Again,
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  Speaker 3: it depends on how much you drive. So you can
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  Speaker 3: have tires for three years. But if you only drive
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  Speaker 3: six thousand miles.
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  Speaker 4: You know, and that time doesn't really matter.
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  Speaker 3: But if you are driving every single day, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I do rotate your tires. And depending on you know,
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  Speaker 3: if you have six thousand mile a tire or if
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  Speaker 3: you spent more money to get an eighty five thousand
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  Speaker 3: mile a tire, you know you don't you want to
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  Speaker 3: make them last. Rotating them makes you have a good alignment,
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  Speaker 3: makes your front ends tight. You know.
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  Speaker 4: That way you can make these tires last.
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  Speaker 3: The tire should be lasting you either years or the
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  Speaker 3: amount of mileage that the tires rated for it.
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  Speaker 1: I you know, I appreciate that information because, as I
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  Speaker 1: said last night, I was flying bled. I didn't even
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  Speaker 1: know if snow tires were still made. That was a
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  Speaker 1: thing Dad did. He kept them in the garage and
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  Speaker 1: he'd go out around Thanksgiving and the shop would flip
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  Speaker 1: them out. Yeah, he'd have him mounted around Thanksgiving and
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  Speaker 1: then you know, spring he'd go have them taken off
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  Speaker 1: and put the regular tires back on.
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  Speaker 3: Yep. And why I do see a lot a lot
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  Speaker 3: of snow tires for sale that have the ordered dots.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they're they're made, you know, twenty thirteen and stuff.
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  Speaker 3: You know. I see a lot of people do that
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  Speaker 3: because they do bring these tires already on rams and
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  Speaker 3: they just want to slapped on. The s tires are
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  Speaker 3: only being ran and typically they're stored insider basement or
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  Speaker 3: whatever it is. Typically we're being stored and only ran
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  Speaker 3: a few months the other season.
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  Speaker 4: So I do see a lot of those online.
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  Speaker 3: The sars are brand new, super old tires though, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I mean in the dry rocks of consideration, even
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  Speaker 1: if they haven't been used, if they've been sitting somewhere,
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  Speaker 1: that a tire is only going to be good for
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  Speaker 1: so long, isn't it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, And I think they're recommending now, like I
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  Speaker 3: don't know, like less than ten years in Ohio, but
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  Speaker 3: like start trade them out at six and seven years.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I've seen brand new tires come in. They're old,
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  Speaker 3: and people leave and they come back six months later
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  Speaker 3: and these tires are you know, busting bells and cracking apart.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is old rubber. I yeah, and.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to act like old rubber.
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  Speaker 3: That's what Yeah, that's what it does, yest.
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  Speaker 1: Lonnie Brown is you know, keeping it with my support
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  Speaker 1: local businesses. Lonnie brown Is is my man from Brown
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  Speaker 1: Tires And what do you got two or three locations now?
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  Speaker 4: So we have thirty six one Tribute Road, corner of Tribute, Hey.
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  Speaker 3: That's when we opened in twenty sixteen. We had the
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  Speaker 3: one that my dad opened in nineteen eighty one for
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  Speaker 3: my grandpa and my father. I ate thirty hares for
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  Speaker 3: Pike and the next door we have our mechanic shop,
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  Speaker 3: which is Oiler changes alignments, you know, all the front
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  Speaker 3: end stuff to make sure that tires lost forever. And
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  Speaker 3: that's right next door to our hands for Pipe Kitchen.
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  Speaker 1: You got a website or you just can they just
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  Speaker 1: call on Facebook and look you up.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, you can look me up on Facebook, Instagram. Brown
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  Speaker 3: Sire Sales or yeah is Brownstires dot Com.
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  Speaker 1: I raved about you on Facebook probably I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: six seven months ago because I was.
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  Speaker 3: Remember that, and I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: The queen got, you know, she she got a nail
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  Speaker 1: or a screw or something in the tire, and we
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  Speaker 1: you're like, do we get a toad? What do we
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  Speaker 1: do here? Lonnie shows up at the house and plug
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  Speaker 1: the tire for her at really nobody does that kind
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  Speaker 1: of stuff anymore. And that's that's one of the reasons
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  Speaker 1: I love what you do. And I'm glad that you
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  Speaker 1: are a West Sider and and you keep going.
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  Speaker 3: Well, thank you so much, man, I really do appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you too. Stay warm, line, you have a
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  Speaker 1: great night, and uh and hopefully you'll sell lots and
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  Speaker 1: lots of tires that don't require you know, the agility
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  Speaker 1: is snow regular tires for regular weather. We'll get out
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  Speaker 1: of this soon, man, I hope we do. Anyway, it's up.
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  Speaker 1: It's good to know that snow tires are still available
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  Speaker 1: to you if you need them. But as he said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, if you're just doing regular driving, a good
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  Speaker 1: you know, good all season all terrain radial tire should
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  Speaker 1: do you? Okay, so Zach that you know you're covered,
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  Speaker 1: you're covered. What is that? Did you just flip me off? What?
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  Speaker 1: What finger did you just hold up? What was that?
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  Speaker 3: What was it?
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  Speaker 1: My arm? Wasn't their finger attached to it? No, it's
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  Speaker 1: not one of those AI arms without fingers. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you're not gonna use studyed tires and you know it understood.
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  Speaker 1: Hah