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Romeo In The Morning 9-10-26 · Romeo & Friends

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  Speaker 1: Hey, what's going on? It's Romeo.
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  Speaker 2: It's Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: We talked a lot today about your HVAC, your heating
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: and air conditioning. Want to make sure you guys get
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  Speaker 1: that straight. How much information do you really know about it?
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  Speaker 1: Your first job you ever had, how much you made.
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  Speaker 1: And of course, we talked about the NFL since the
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  Speaker 1: season did kick off. Let's get going. So we were
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  Speaker 1: talking about helping your kids out with money. Basically that
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  Speaker 1: first car. Good morning, how's it going on?
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Romeo.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, what's happening?
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  Speaker 5: So when I was 16, I got a job like
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  Speaker 5: a day after my 16th birthday, right?
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: And my mom was fortunate enough to have enough.
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  Speaker 3: Money to buy me a car.
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  Speaker 5: So my mom bought me a white BMW. It was older,
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  Speaker 5: but it was a nice BMW when I was 16
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  Speaker 5: years old. And my responsibility for the car was to
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  Speaker 5: pay her back. So monthly, I paid her $ 300 for
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  Speaker 5: my car, but she bought it cash.
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  Speaker 4: So I pretty much was just buying the car from her.
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  Speaker 5: That was like a big responsibility for me when I
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  Speaker 5: was 16, but I was also really grateful for it.
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  Speaker 5: And I feel like I would definitely do the.
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  Speaker 4: Same thing for my daughter. Well, I have a six-year-old,
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  Speaker 4: so I would definitely do the same.
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  Speaker 5: Thing for my daughter.
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  Speaker 6: If I could....
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  Speaker 5: You know, give my daughter everything.
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  Speaker 4: That my mom gave me when I was younger.
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  Speaker 3: I would feel glad.
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  Speaker 1: To be honest with you, your mom didn't give you
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  Speaker 1: a car. You paid for it.
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  Speaker 5: Well, she gave it to me because I only paid
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  Speaker 5: for it for like a year.
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  Speaker 7: Oh. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: But it was because also, I was, like, also responsible
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  Speaker 5: after that. Like, I paid for the car for about
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  Speaker 5: a year. And then after that, I was kind of like, well,
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  Speaker 5: I'll just pay, like, for the water bill or something.
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  Speaker 4: And my mom was like, okay. So it was more
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  Speaker 4: so just to show me, like, the responsibility.
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  Speaker 1: See, yes, I understand that. But a lot of these
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  Speaker 1: parents today... are charging their kids these ridiculous amounts for
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  Speaker 1: something that the kids really can't afford, and they're making
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  Speaker 1: them struggle, and that's not teaching them responsibility. I agree. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so your mom knew what she was doing. Your mom
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  Speaker 1: sounded like she was pretty smart.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, my mom was just teaching me the responsibility. And
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  Speaker 5: at first, I was like, okay, well, I guess I'll
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  Speaker 5: pay for it, you know? But then I also was like, girl,
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  Speaker 5: I got my own car.
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  Speaker 7: I'm paying these bills.
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  Speaker 4: I got a job.
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  Speaker 5: And I also thought I was hot ass. in high school,
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  Speaker 5: you know? So I had a BMW. There ain't no
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  Speaker 5: kid in high school who had a BMW.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, they all got them now.
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  Speaker 4: They all have them now.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm over here like, dang, they would have laughed
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  Speaker 5: at my little BMW. Got Range Rovers and Mercedes.
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  Speaker 1: I know, these kids today, that's funny.
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  Speaker 3: But I definitely would.
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  Speaker 4: I would give my daughter everything I could.
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  Speaker 5: Why would these parents want their kids to struggle?
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  Speaker 3: Because they're stupid.
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  Speaker 5: Understand it I don't understand it I would rather my
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  Speaker 5: kid be like my mom did everything.
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  Speaker 1: For us here's why I'll explain to you why they
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  Speaker 1: do that it's the same reason my mom did it
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  Speaker 1: because they had no other choice so what they do
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  Speaker 1: but these parents now is because they don't understand the
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  Speaker 1: fact that when they were struggling growing up it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: because your parents were trying to teach you a lesson
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  Speaker 1: it was because your parents had simply no other option
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  Speaker 1: but to struggle, okay? And people today are stupid. They
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  Speaker 1: think that that's the reason they turned out the way
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  Speaker 1: they are. It's not. It's because your parents taught you
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  Speaker 1: to be a certain way. The fact that you had
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  Speaker 1: to struggle is not.
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  Speaker 7: It's not the reason.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, my parents, they were together for most of like my,
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  Speaker 5: up until I was like a teenager. And then when
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  Speaker 5: I was in high school, they separated.
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  Speaker 6: So my mom worked three jobs.
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  Speaker 5: My mom worked three jobs to take care of me
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  Speaker 5: and my siblings.
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  Speaker 3: And there were five of us.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And so my mom showed me like, you're going to
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  Speaker 5: have to either get it yourself or you're not going
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  Speaker 5: to have it at all.
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  Speaker 1: Did any of the other siblings get a BMW?
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  Speaker 4: No. No.
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  Speaker 5: I'm the oldest of the siblings, and I'm also the
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  Speaker 5: most responsible.
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  Speaker 4: And I grew up really, really fast. I was never
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  Speaker 4: a kid.
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  Speaker 7: Sure.
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  Speaker 4: So, yeah, they didn't get BMWs, but, I mean.
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  Speaker 5: I taught them to be responsible young adults as well,
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  Speaker 5: and so did my mom.
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  Speaker 8: Nice.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 9: Well, thanks for calling.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 5: Have a good day.
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  Speaker 10: You too.
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  Speaker 1: But that's the point. I mean, that's the reason why,
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  Speaker 1: you know, is because you out here, you think that
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  Speaker 1: the struggle was why you turned out the way you
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  Speaker 1: turned out. And it's not. It's because your parents taught
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  Speaker 1: you to be good people. Okay? You guys are over
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  Speaker 1: here going, well, that kid's got to grow up. If
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  Speaker 1: my kid's going to be a good person, he's got
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  Speaker 1: to grow up like I grew up. No, he doesn't. No,
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't. She doesn't. Okay? Because times are different. It's
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  Speaker 1: not the same. You can't raise your kid based on
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  Speaker 1: how you were raised because we don't live in the
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  Speaker 1: same times, and you parents don't understand that. Hey, good morning, Rome. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I'm buying your teenager a car. It depends. If you're
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  Speaker 1: raising a child that listens and is making the effort
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  Speaker 1: to make the right decisions on his or her future,
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  Speaker 1: why not help them out? And not just with a car,
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  Speaker 1: but with anything else they need to start off in life.
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  Speaker 1: And also... in what you can afford as a parent. Yeah, that's,
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  Speaker 1: I agree with, I mean, yeah, absolutely. Why wouldn't you
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  Speaker 1: do that? Some people don't, the problem is, here's the
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  Speaker 1: real problem, is sometimes you meet these kids that really do,
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  Speaker 1: really are good kids. And they're in a situation where,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they, you know, they're in a situation where
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  Speaker 1: it's just, you know, their parents don't care about them.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I have met some really good kids over
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  Speaker 1: the years who their parents just seem to not care
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  Speaker 1: at all, which is so strange. I just, I don't
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  Speaker 1: get it. It's just really weird, you know? All right.
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  Speaker 1: All right, 8-4-2-5-4-7-7. But you're right, man. Do what you
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  Speaker 1: can for your kids to, you know, to keep them straight.
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  Speaker 1: You know, help them out as much as you can,
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  Speaker 1: as much as you can afford, but don't disregard them.
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  Speaker 6: I mean.
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  Speaker 1: Like you said, there's a lot of good kids I've
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  Speaker 1: done seen trying to make it on their own, what
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  Speaker 1: it appears to make it on their own, even though
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  Speaker 1: they have parents that appear to be legitimate people. So
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what to think about that. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I just, as it comes to the cars,
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  Speaker 1: I think some of you moms and dads, you guys
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  Speaker 1: are trying to teach your kids a lesson through finances, right?
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  Speaker 1: And I don't think that's where you need to teach
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  Speaker 1: them the lesson. Teaching them to be good people, teaching
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  Speaker 1: them to do the right thing, teaching them to work hard,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think you need to do that through money.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think just because, you know, we were having
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  Speaker 1: this conversation over the weekend. My first car was like
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  Speaker 1: a 79 pickup, and it was not. It was kind
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  Speaker 1: of a death trap. The brakes were suspect. The road
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  Speaker 1: bar in front was crooked. I mean, it was a
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  Speaker 1: suspect vehicle. It was a little 4x4. But it was suspect.
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  Speaker 1: And you think that built character? No, I was already
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  Speaker 1: a good kid. Me and my friends were already good kids.
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  Speaker 1: You know? But that was all my mom could afford.
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  Speaker 1: You know? Had my mom been able to afford more,
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  Speaker 1: my mom would have bought me a brand new car.
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  Speaker 2: So.
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  Speaker 1: It has nothing to do with the amount of money
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  Speaker 1: you have. You give your kids has nothing to do
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  Speaker 1: with whether they turn out entitled or spoiled or any
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  Speaker 1: of that. The way you raise them, you guys blame
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  Speaker 1: it on that. I know a lot of you will
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  Speaker 1: sit there and go, man, look at these kids, how
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  Speaker 1: spoiled and entitled they are. Okay. But their parents were
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  Speaker 1: dumb asses and didn't teach him responsibility and to be humble.
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  Speaker 1: That's the parent's fault, not the kid's fault. And it
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  Speaker 1: has nothing to do with money. R-A-4-2-5-4-7-7-yo-ro. My boss is
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  Speaker 1: renting out a room to his son for a thousand
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  Speaker 1: bucks a month.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: That's just... That's embarrassing. I mean, that's the problem. You guys...
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  Speaker 1: That just... I hate to say it, but it kind
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  Speaker 1: of shows how pathetic you parents are. You want to
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  Speaker 1: teach your kids responsibility, accountability... You want to teach them
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  Speaker 1: how to be humble, how to be good people. You
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  Speaker 1: don't do it through money. It's just you parents are greedy.
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  Speaker 1: You parents are, you know, you lack the ability to
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  Speaker 1: teach your kids. You know, I mean, that's the lowest
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  Speaker 1: common denominator. Make them pay. think that's what they're doing.
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  Speaker 1: That's what's teaching them. It's like, you know what it's like?
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  Speaker 1: It's like you guys getting mad at the schools for
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  Speaker 1: you not teaching your kids how to be good people.
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  Speaker 1: You blame the schools for it. Oh, it's the teacher's fault. Oh, no,
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  Speaker 1: it's not. It's your fault. You just passing the buck
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  Speaker 1: is all you're doing. Or you're just selfish and you
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  Speaker 1: want your kids to pay you. That's the stupidest thing
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  Speaker 1: I've ever heard. It really is. They have plenty of
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  Speaker 1: time to figure out and how to make it in
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  Speaker 1: the world where they go rent their own place or
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  Speaker 1: buy their own house or buy insurance and car. You
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  Speaker 1: can teach them all that without forcing them to do
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  Speaker 1: it when they don't have to. How about giving them
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  Speaker 1: a shot in life? They're going to have to pay.
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  Speaker 1: That's a given. They're not going to be able to
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  Speaker 1: avoid that. But I will also say this. To some extent,
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  Speaker 1: some of you jackasses are making it worse for your
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  Speaker 1: kids because you're teaching them that money solves all their problems.
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  Speaker 1: That's a problem. Because it's not money. Money will solve
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  Speaker 1: a lot of problems. Don't get me wrong. But what
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  Speaker 1: you're teaching him is that, oh, if you just have money,
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  Speaker 1: you'll be fine. You can just pay your way out
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  Speaker 1: of everything. How about teaching him to be good people,
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  Speaker 1: to be humble, to be kind, to be respectful? You
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  Speaker 1: do not do that by charging your kid $ 1, 000 a
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  Speaker 1: month to rent out a room in the house he
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  Speaker 1: grew up in. That's not how that works. Where's Big
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: Boy when I need him? Big Boy got five kids,
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  Speaker 1: two of them successful, college graduates, living a good life,
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  Speaker 1: three more that are about to do the same thing,
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  Speaker 1: and Big Boy never forced them to pay anything. He
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  Speaker 1: takes care of the bill like a good parent. Him
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  Speaker 1: and his wife handle it. Yeah, you guys just lazy,
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  Speaker 1: selfish parents, man. Good morning, Al. What's going on?
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  Speaker 2: Big Rome!
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  Speaker 1: Good morning.
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  Speaker 7: Boy, I just seen a Superman. I just seen a
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  Speaker 7: Superman symbol in the sky. I need to call you.
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  Speaker 6: What's going on, bro?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm listening to your show, man. It's pretty interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Well, these people, man. I'm just tired of them laying
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  Speaker 1: the blame. Laying the blame on their kids for being
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  Speaker 1: not good people when the reality is they didn't teach
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  Speaker 1: them right. Here's what I think.
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  Speaker 7: And this is my opinion, man.
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  Speaker 1: So.
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  Speaker 7: I feel that, you know, if you can't afford the help,
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  Speaker 7: that's understandable.
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  Speaker 3: Sure.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 7: But if you guys can't afford to help your kids
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  Speaker 7: and you choose not to because, oh, nobody helped me growing.
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  Speaker 1: Up, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 7: That cycle of life is going to continue throughout your family.
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  Speaker 6: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: That's a good point.
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  Speaker 7: They're going to be miserable. You guys are not going
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  Speaker 7: to be happy. Your families are going to be miserable.
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  Speaker 2: I mean.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't.
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  Speaker 7: You know how I am, bro. I'm big, you know.
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  Speaker 7: I'm big on my kids and my family.
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  Speaker 6: You know, I try to help every time I can.
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  Speaker 3: I don't hold back, bro.
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  Speaker 7: But look, they're turning out to be great. You know
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  Speaker 7: what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they are. That's why I brought that up, because
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  Speaker 1: money is not what made them great, whether lack of
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  Speaker 1: it or more of it. It's the response. It's what
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  Speaker 1: you teach them.
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  Speaker 7: That's right. It all starts in the home, man. The
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  Speaker 7: parents are the guys. Yeah.
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  Speaker 11: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 7: Whatever you teach your kids morally is the way they're
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  Speaker 7: going to pursue life. Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: Period.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. Money has nothing to.
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  Speaker 10: Do with it.
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  Speaker 7: That's the way it is, man.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know. I mean, I was poor growing up.
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  Speaker 7: My parents didn't have much.
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  Speaker 4: We were all poor growing up.
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  Speaker 7: But they did what they could, and I was happy
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  Speaker 7: for it.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: I'm a 13-year-old Toyota four-by-four.
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  Speaker 12: Ha, ha, ha.
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  Speaker 7: It was on his last leg, but hey, I drove
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  Speaker 7: the hell out of it.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly.
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  Speaker 7: And they gave it to me in high school. I
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  Speaker 7: didn't have a license, so I don't do that. I
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  Speaker 7: don't do that with my kids, though. My kids get
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  Speaker 7: their cars the summer of their junior year going into
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  Speaker 7: their senior year. That's when we buy their cars.
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  Speaker 8: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 7: And I don't buy brand new cars. You know, they're pre-certified.
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  Speaker 1: I don't.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, but they're nice. You've seen the rides I've done.
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  Speaker 9: They're all nice rides.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're nice cars. But they deserve it.
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  Speaker 7: They've earned it, they deserve it, and I'm able to do.
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  Speaker 8: It, so why not?
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  Speaker 7: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: But that's what I'm saying, big boy.
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  Speaker 10: Parents need to understand it's not, they think they're teaching
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  Speaker 10: their kids responsibility by making them pay for something that
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  Speaker 10: the kids can't afford, when the reality is just teach
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  Speaker 10: them to be good people and the money is irrelevant.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, hey, well, my oldest, You know my older.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: You know what I mean? He's doing great.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: He paid me $ 500 a month rent for a whole
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  Speaker 7: house by himself.
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  Speaker 1: Well.
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  Speaker 7: Who gets to do that? I can get $ 2, 500 a
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  Speaker 7: month for that house. But my boss won't let me
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  Speaker 7: overcharge him.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Exactly. But he's a good kid.
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  Speaker 7: He don't need it.
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  Speaker 1: But that's my point. See, big boy, some parents will
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  Speaker 1: be selfish and go, well, let me recoup that money
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  Speaker 1: from my kid now that he can afford it, as
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  Speaker 1: opposed to going, man, I don't need his money. But
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  Speaker 1: you make him pay a little sum just to have
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  Speaker 1: some responsibility.
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  Speaker 7: So they're doing good, man.
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  Speaker 9: I can't knock them.
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  Speaker 7: They're all doing great.
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  Speaker 9: Well, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All right, big boy.
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  Speaker 8: Later, brother.
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  Speaker 7: All right, brother. You guys have a great day.
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  Speaker 1: But that's my point. My point is you parents want
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  Speaker 1: to pass the buck and sit there and go, well,
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  Speaker 1: I can't buy, I got to buy my kid the
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  Speaker 1: worst car ever because, you know, that's what I got. Well, okay.
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  Speaker 1: Times are different. First of all, when, when you got
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  Speaker 1: the worst car ever, that's all they had. Okay. So
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  Speaker 1: it's not like, you know, you got to think about it, man. We,
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  Speaker 1: I was having, I just having this conversation over the
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  Speaker 1: weekend too. Um, when you got your car it was
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: a 70 or an 80 something it was a 10
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  Speaker 1: year old car when you got your car was probably
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: in the 70s or was made in the 80s right
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  Speaker 1: a car a 10 year old car today is 2000
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  Speaker 1: uh what are.
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  Speaker 13: We in 2016 it's different times are different so and
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  Speaker 13: you parents gotta stop man Just teach your kids to
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  Speaker 13: be good.
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  Speaker 1: Humble, respectful people. Stop trying to use money to pretend
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  Speaker 1: like you're teaching them some lesson because you're not. You're
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: not helping them at all. You're passing the blame to them.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: And you think you're doing something. You're not. Talking about
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: buying your kid a car, right? The first car. And
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: some of you parents be going cheap, man. If you
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: can afford it, man, take care of your kids. If
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: you raise them right. Stop trying to make money the
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: reason that you think that's going to make them a
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: better human being. It's not. Forcing them to pay for
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: things that they can't afford, thinking you're teaching them a lesson,
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: is not teaching them a lesson. R-A-4-2-5-4-7-7. Yo, Rome, you're
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: not lying. My brother-in-law, his daughter just graduated high school,
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: and he wants to charge her $ 600 a month for
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: her room and give her a 10 o'clock at night curfew.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: She's 18 and he makes her pay her own car
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: insurance and registration and cell phone. And my wife's parents
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: did not do that with him at all. They bought
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: him everything and they let him live at home until
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: he was like 25. Well, now he's just being a selfish,
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: greedy dad. I mean, that's really all he's doing at
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: this point. He's just being a pathetic father at this point.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's horrible to do to your kids. Why
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: do you want to put... What do you think you're
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: teaching your kids by putting them behind the eight ball
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: and forcing them to pay for things they can't afford yet?
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: They're not there. You know? They're not... It's just ridiculous
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: what you parents do. I mean, that fool... What's he
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: teaching his daughter? To be broke? He's not helping her
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: out at all in life. By doing all of that,
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: if he's doing that and he can afford to not
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: do that to his daughter, all you're teaching your daughter
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: is to be broke. You're not teaching her anything. You're
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: teaching her that she's got to struggle to get by
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: at an age when she ain't there yet. She ain't
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: figured it out. And she shouldn't figure it out. She's
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: 18 years old. My God. She's got a few years
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: to get straight and you're not even helping her. That's
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: just sad, man. It's just pathetic that parents do that.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, big boy was right when he said, you know,
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: when you, uh, uh, when you, um, big boy's right.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: You know, if you can't help as much as you can,
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: But don't make it worse for them. Money is not
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: how you teach kids to be good people. Money is
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: not the way to teach them. Struggling is not the
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: way to teach them if you don't have to. Parents
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: back in the day didn't, like Big Boy. Big Boy's
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: parents didn't do that. Didn't teach him to struggle on purpose.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: They had no choice. But if you have a choice, man,
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: just teach them. Step up as a parent. Teach them
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: morals and ethics and respect and all of those things
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: that you think charging your $ 600 a month for rent
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: is doing. It's not. Yo, Rome, I charge my kid
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: $ 200 a month, but I don't spend the money. When
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: they get their own place, they have money for furniture
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: and things they will need for their own house. You know,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: I understand how that sounds like a great idea, and
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: it's a good idea. I don't want to disparage it,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: but you're not teaching your kid how to save for himself.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: You're doing it for him or her, whoever your kid is.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: You're doing it for them. So how is that teaching
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: them to save money on their own? But I get it.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: I get what you're trying to do. Hey, Rome, parents
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: are over here charging their kids rent and for bills
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: and their own car. I'm over here showing my boys
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: 9 and 10 how to change tires and oil. That's
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: a good idea. Yeah, kids should know how.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: To do that.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Hey, Rome, sounds like broke parents for doing that to
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: their kids. Small cell phone bill, that's okay. Yeah, that's okay.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Or their car insurance, but something out of pocket, like
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: over $ 500 is insane. Just say you're broke and you
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: have no option but to push your kid to help you.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Little responsibility, small bills to get them used to it,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: and responsibility is good. But, man, it sounds like broke
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: parents to me. That's what it does sound like. A
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: little responsibility to show that you have to pay something
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: every month is good. But what you parents are doing
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: is criminal.
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: Romeo, I used to be against it, but I think
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: it has its benefits. Because my son, I used to
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: pay for everything for him, and I always told him, oh,
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: you don't have to worry, Dad. Once he turned 15,
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: he started working.
• 20:47
  Speaker 7: He's got two jobs. He's making a lot of money.
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: And he was wasting it, very wasteful.
• 20:52
  Speaker 8: But my wife asked and told him, you know, hey,
• 20:55
  Speaker 8: why don't you pitch in for rent?
• 20:57
  Speaker 7: And he did it willingly, but I think it's made
• 21:01
  Speaker 7: him more responsible, way more responsible now.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Well, he should have been responsible before then. That's on
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: you as a bad parent for not teaching him that responsibility.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: You believe that the responsibility comes from paying the rent.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: You should have already known that responsibility.
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: Experience builds responsibility.
• 21:17
  Speaker 8: You can't just tell somebody.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: To be responsible. Stop being a cop out. You did
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: a bad job. Just own up to what you did
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: and move on. Don't try to pretend like you did it.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Don't pretend like, don't pretend like, Don't rewrite history and
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: pretend like all this is what does experience is what
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: you take for response. No, it doesn't. No, it doesn't.
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: You can't tell somebody, but you can show them.
• 21:44
  Speaker 7: So that's what we're doing, and I disagree with you.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Well, that's because you're wrong, and you don't want to
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: admit that what you did was wrong. I mean, what
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: do you expect from a Raider fan? Hey, Rome, I
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: thought you said you were going to play the 49ers
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: song today since they played today. Oh, okay. Yeah, we
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: can get to that. Good morning. What's going on?
• 22:04
  Speaker 12: That's it.
• 22:04
  Speaker 10: Thank you.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: Hi, Romeo. Yeah. What's up? I, um, yes, I'm calling
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: in regards to like helping your kids with money. Oh yeah.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: What's up?
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: So, you know, you're so right though, because I was
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: helping my son cause I'm a single mom. And so
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: I was always making sure he had money. He's in college,
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: you know, don't go without la la la. And one
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: day he said, mom, it's okay. I need to go
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: through this so I can learn. I was like, what
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: the hell? It's our fault. It is our fault.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Well, no, but it sounds like you did something right
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: for him to tell you that, though. That's what I
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: got from your story. Not that you messed it up.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: It's that something about what you did taught him that
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: he needed to do it on his own. That's my
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: point about the conversation. So don't say.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: You messed it up.
• 22:54
  Speaker 8: Yeah, no.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: You're right, though. You're... I think that they need to
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: learn and they need to grow up and learn because
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: we always keep bailing them out and trying to save them.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Well, you're always going to bail out your kids no
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: matter what.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: So it doesn't.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: That's irrelevant to the fact. But but I'm just saying
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: it sounds like you did something right. If he had
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: to come to you and tell you.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he did.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: So that's OK.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: And I'll be like, OK, I backed off.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: And guess what?
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: He's at Texas Tech University in the mechanical engineering program,
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: and he's doing great.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Oh, now we're just giving shout-outs to our kids. All right.
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: Hey.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 23:32
  Speaker 7: You have a good day.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: You too.
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: Thanks.
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: Bye.
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: Bye.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it sounds like what she did was right,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: whatever it is that she did. That's my point. You parents,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: here's the problem, and this is where Raider Dave was
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: an idiot, is you think the money is your responsibility.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: It's not the money that teaches the responsibility. You can
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: pay for your kids and still teach them responsibility. Now,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: for most of you, you're not good enough parents to
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: do that. So what do you do? You take the
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: easiest route possible, and that's just throwing the weight of
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: the world on them and hoping they sink or swim.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: And then you feel like you did a good job because,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: for the most part, kids are pretty resilient. They'll come up.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: I mean, but you make it so much more difficult
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: on them than you actually had to because you didn't
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: want to do the work. Just lazy, selfish parents is
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: what it comes down to. Hey, Rome, it's CeeLo. Week
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: one of the NFL started just like the season ended
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: last year.
• 24:39
  Speaker 9: Boring.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that game last night was not a very good
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: football game. But, you know, apparently the starters didn't play
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: in the preseason, so it basically looked like a preseason game.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: I don't know what it would have looked like had
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold not gotten hurt. But, yeah, I guess Seattle
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: ended up winning that game because Drake Mays, terrible, terrible quarterback.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: This game will be better, right? You got the Rams
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: and the Niners going at it. Hopefully that'll be a
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: better football game. Then we'll see what happens on Sunday.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Talk about Sunday's football, I guess, tomorrow. But, yeah, tonight
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: you got a game in Australia, which is interesting. Yeah,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: we'll see what happens. I think the Rams are going
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: to go out and put it on the Niners. I
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: don't think the Niners are that good, but, you know, God,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: that game. You're right, though, Cee-Los. That game last night
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: was straight garbage. I actually had to change the channel
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: and go watch Texas and SMU play volleyball. That's how
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: bad that game was. I mean, I guess fortunately for Seahawks,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Seahawks pulled it off. But, oh, those teams. Based on
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: what you saw last night, neither one of those teams
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: are going to make it to the Super Bowl again.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: It was garbage.
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: R-D-4-2-5-4, 7-7-8, Rome.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: I missed it yesterday. My buddy told me that you
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: had a new Raiders song. Oh, yeah, the new Raiders song.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Then that we need to talk about, and you guys
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: have been hearing me tell you about M-Core Services Hillcrest. Now,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: they're an HVAC company. They service HVACs. They sell HVACs.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: For those of you that don't know what HVAC is,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: heating and air conditioning. Absolutely. And Steve is here. What's
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: your fancy title? Comfort Advisor. Comfort Advisor. Yeah, Comfort Advisor. Now,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: there is a lot of things to talk about heating
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: and air. And I know people are going to be
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: listening and going, well, why are you talking about heating
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: and air? Because, damn it, every one of us has one,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: and they're expensive, and sometimes your rooms are cool, and
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: your living room's hot, and your bedroom's cool, and the
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: kids are great, but you're not, and.
• 27:01
  Speaker 14: It is hard to make AC sexy, right? It's hard
• 27:04
  Speaker 14: to make AC sexy.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: It's sexy when it's 104 today and you want to
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: be in your house.
• 27:09
  Speaker 14: Nobody thinks about air conditioning, right? We go in, we
• 27:12
  Speaker 14: turn it on, we set the thermostat. As long as
• 27:14
  Speaker 14: we're cool, everything's cool, right? But as soon as that
• 27:17
  Speaker 14: thing goes out, oh my gosh, it's panic time. Mom
• 27:19
  Speaker 14: is mad, the kids are upset, you're mad, and then
• 27:22
  Speaker 14: you want to get it fixed right away.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. And that's why we're here. Now, yeah, that's why
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: you are here. is because MCOR, Services Hillcrest, has been
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: in town forever. They used to be just Hillcrest.
• 27:34
  Speaker 14: Yeah, 76 years this year, so something we're very, very
• 27:38
  Speaker 14: proud of. Started as a family-owned business for the first 50.
• 27:41
  Speaker 14: MCOR came in, and we have expanded and grown tremendously
• 27:45
  Speaker 14: since then for the last 26 years.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: And one of the things, everybody is local. They're unionized. Yeah,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: that's the great.
• 27:51
  Speaker 14: Thing about our company. All of our installers, all of
• 27:53
  Speaker 14: our technicians, they're union trained. And so, like, when we
• 27:56
  Speaker 14: pull these technicians out of trade school or whatever, that's
• 28:00
  Speaker 14: like high school, right?
• 28:01
  Speaker 10: Yep.
• 28:01
  Speaker 14: And then when they sign up with us, they're going
• 28:03
  Speaker 14: to university. They're committed to five years of additional training
• 28:07
  Speaker 14: through the union. to come to work for us. And
• 28:09
  Speaker 14: that's a great thing. Ongoing education for you and me even,
• 28:12
  Speaker 14: I mean, even in our lives, right? But when you're
• 28:15
  Speaker 14: talking about something technical like this, it's just so important.
• 28:18
  Speaker 14: And we believe that gives our technicians an advantage.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Now, one of the things is it's supposed to be
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: 140 days. Is that what I saw? Yeah, man. I mean,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: so our ACs are working... Overtime. They've been working overtime since, what,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: probably May, April, May, June, May, maybe? We've got about
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: seven months of air-conditioned weather.
• 28:37
  Speaker 14: It's one of the biggest, the longest cooling times in
• 28:41
  Speaker 14: the United States, right? So they've been working hard. Last week,
• 28:44
  Speaker 14: we had a false fall, right? Because we had some
• 28:46
  Speaker 14: hurricanes off the coast. You saw the damage along the
• 28:49
  Speaker 14: California coast. But that really did affect our weather, and
• 28:52
  Speaker 14: it kind of cooled everything down.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Summer's not over. You and I know that.
• 28:54
  Speaker 11: Not even close.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: It's going to be 100 degrees during the fair. I
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: see you going last night when I was in bed thinking, oh,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: so nice and comfortable. Right, right. Well, let's talk a
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: little bit about... Now, you guys, complete systems, you guys do.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: And I got to believe now, a lot of people...
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: HVAC will last them 20 years, right? Or what does
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: it last? So I have a saying, man.
• 29:14
  Speaker 14: If you have an air conditioner that's old enough to drive,
• 29:17
  Speaker 14: it's lived a tremendous life.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: If it's old enough to vote, it's lived an amazing life.
• 29:22
  Speaker 14: If it's old enough to buy a beer, it has
• 29:25
  Speaker 14: lived like George Burns-style life.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's hilarious, dude.
• 29:30
  Speaker 14: So, I mean, 10 to 15 years is when you
• 29:32
  Speaker 14: got to start thinking about replacement, especially if you guys,
• 29:36
  Speaker 14: if you have spent some money on repairing it over
• 29:38
  Speaker 14: the last few years. then it's really time to think
• 29:41
  Speaker 14: about it because it's out of warranty after 10 years.
• 29:44
  Speaker 14: And now you're paying for parts and labor to get
• 29:46
  Speaker 14: that thing fixed and getting a new one.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: It could be the right answer.
• 29:50
  Speaker 14: And that's why I'm here to come and just give
• 29:51
  Speaker 14: you all your options and tell you what to do.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: One of the things, I know you guys are running
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: a special right now, kind of a $ 95 maintenance. How
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: often do you need to maintenance these things? We recommend
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: twice a year. Twice a year.
• 30:05
  Speaker 14: Once in the spring to get it ready for summer,
• 30:07
  Speaker 14: and then once in the fall to get it ready
• 30:09
  Speaker 14: for winter.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Does one work harder than the other, the heater versus
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: the AC? Oh, absolutely. Absolutely.
• 30:15
  Speaker 14: The air conditioner is the largest consumer of electricity in
• 30:17
  Speaker 14: your home.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: When that condenser.
• 30:20
  Speaker 14: turns on, that's when your electricity bill is going to
• 30:23
  Speaker 14: go up. With your heater, if you have a traditional
• 30:27
  Speaker 14: gas furnace, it turns on and just runs that fan.
• 30:30
  Speaker 14: It's just blowing hot air through your house. Kind of
• 30:34
  Speaker 14: like when you walk into the... Yeah.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: All right. Steve's here from MCOR. Services Hillcrest, I got
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: a lot of questions because like the rest of you,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: we just really don't know everything about it. We just
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: turn it on.
• 30:48
  Speaker 12: Right.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: We just turn it on and hope that it works
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: and see the bill that month. And so we got
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: to talk about how to keep them efficient. We got
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: to talk about how these guys can help you have
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: better service. What's the phone number? 661-335-1500. Or you can
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: go to mcorehillcrest.com. Absolutely. You can check them out while
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: we're talking about Sunday. All right, so Steve's here from
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: M-Core Services Hillcrest. I want to make sure I get
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: the name right. And he's some sort of specialist or
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: the specialist that is going to make sure that you
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: guys are not throwing money away. Your air conditioning, your
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: heating is the most efficient that it can be. And
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: you guys... will solve some problems for an older system,
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: even if they may not need a new system, but
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: they still got some issues with their older system. Yeah. Let's,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: let's talk about priorities first with your air conditioning.
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 31:38
  Speaker 14: So service is the number one thing twice a year,
• 31:41
  Speaker 14: twice a year, once in the spring and once in
• 31:43
  Speaker 14: the fall that lets us predict if something's going to.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Go wrong before the real heat hits.
• 31:48
  Speaker 14: You know, our guys do a 20 point comprehensive service
• 31:52
  Speaker 14: on your unit. We clean that outdoor unit for you,
• 31:55
  Speaker 14: make sure it's going to run great. The number one
• 31:58
  Speaker 14: thing that homeowners can do is change those air filters monthly.
• 32:03
  Speaker 14: I change mine every time I cut a check to
• 32:05
  Speaker 14: PG & E.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: PG & E is getting paid. I'm changing my air filters.
• 32:09
  Speaker 14: Now, not everybody needs to do that, but at least
• 32:12
  Speaker 14: check them every 30 days. That is the most cost-effective
• 32:14
  Speaker 14: way to extend the life of your heating and cooling equipment.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: Now, when you talk about a servicing twice a year,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: what is that range? Just the... out of pocket to
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: save versus if you don't service, how much it could
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: cost you for a new system.
• 32:28
  Speaker 12: Oh, it's a, it's a pay me now, pay me later.
• 32:34
  Speaker 12: So we charge our regular price is $ 125.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: And we bring you a filter. $ 250 a year to
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: make sure to maintain. To make sure it goes great.
• 32:45
  Speaker 14: Right now we're running a special, end of summer special,
• 32:47
  Speaker 14: $ 95 to make sure everything is working properly. If you
• 32:53
  Speaker 14: don't service it, that would be like not changing the.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: Oil in your car. We just don't think about that, though.
• 32:59
  Speaker 11: I know.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: We don't.
• 33:00
  Speaker 14: I mean, your AC is an appliance, man. We don't
• 33:02
  Speaker 14: service the refrigerator. We don't take care of our dishwasher.
• 33:06
  Speaker 14: I mean, yeah, we throw some things in our high-efficiency
• 33:09
  Speaker 14: washing machine to kind of clean it out, but we
• 33:11
  Speaker 14: don't have a guy come out and spend an.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Hour on our washing machine twice a year.
• 33:15
  Speaker 14: You've got to do that with your HVAC system. You
• 33:19
  Speaker 14: just have to do it. And it's the best way
• 33:21
  Speaker 14: to save money in the long run.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they– I'm sorry, I just lost my train
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: of thought. That's okay. Well, I was thinking about saving
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: money because anybody who's ever had to buy a new
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: HVAC system, and we know they last a long time,
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: but you buy your new house or you buy a
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: used home, and then all of a sudden it comes
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: with the HVAC, and you don't know how it's been monitored.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: You don't know how it's been taken care of. And
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: then all of a sudden you have a problem.
• 33:45
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: And you go, oh, I got to get a new.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: I think that's probably most people's fear that own homes
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: that actually know what they're doing. is replacing the HVAC
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: because it can be very pricey.
• 33:56
  Speaker 14: It can be. It's the most expensive appliance in your home.
• 33:59
  Speaker 14: And it is a 10 to 15 year usage out
• 34:03
  Speaker 14: of that thing as long as you take.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: Care of it. So let me ask you this. If
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: somebody has a home that was built in, let's say, 2020, 2019,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: somewhere around there, is the HVAC unit that's in that
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: home today less efficient than the HVAC unit you guys
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: can put in my home tomorrow? It depends on what
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: you have.
• 34:25
  Speaker 14: If it is just the standard builder's model, more than
• 34:28
  Speaker 14: likely there are some options that you can take advantage
• 34:31
  Speaker 14: of that are going to be more efficient. Everything since about, gosh,
• 34:37
  Speaker 14: I think it's been five years now, when there's a
• 34:40
  Speaker 14: new construction home, it's going to be a heat pump,
• 34:43
  Speaker 14: which is all electric. So you remove the gas out
• 34:46
  Speaker 14: of it, and now it's just air conditioning, and electric heat.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: Oh, the heat's running off electric, too.
• 34:51
  Speaker 14: And when I say electric heat, it's not like a
• 34:54
  Speaker 14: foot heater in your office, you know, that glows red.
• 34:56
  Speaker 14: A heat pump is the same components to heat your
• 35:00
  Speaker 14: home as it is to cool your home. Oh, really?
• 35:03
  Speaker 14: Just the refrigerant flows in the opposite direction. That technology,
• 35:07
  Speaker 14: it's nothing new, Romeo. That technology is nothing new. It's
• 35:10
  Speaker 14: been around for years. The thing that's new about it
• 35:13
  Speaker 14: is the efficiency level that they can reach now with
• 35:16
  Speaker 14: those heat pump units.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: I see the dollar signs just going out my house
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: right now with ACs. Absolutely.
• 35:23
  Speaker 14: So a heat pump system, a high-efficiency heat pump system,
• 35:25
  Speaker 14: that would be the top of the line in.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Efficiency right now. But to answer your question, yes, there
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: are options.
• 35:33
  Speaker 14: Even if your system is only five or six years old,
• 35:35
  Speaker 14: there are more high-efficient options.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: So when you guys come in, though, let's say my
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: unit's five or six years old, but I'm not getting
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: the best out of it. It's your quote on, what
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: did you say, the builder's whatever? The builder's model. Can
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: you guys come in and help me with that? Are
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: there things that you guys can do to help me
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: with my builder's model become more efficient or become better?
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 35:57
  Speaker 14: 100%, absolutely. So free home assessment is what I do.
• 36:01
  Speaker 14: I go out and I assess your home. I listen
• 36:04
  Speaker 14: to what you say. Hey, man, my kid's room is
• 36:07
  Speaker 14: about 5 degrees, 10 degrees hotter. I can go and
• 36:11
  Speaker 14: assess that duct work, and that's all free of charge.
• 36:14
  Speaker 14: Come out, spend about an hour with you, find out
• 36:16
  Speaker 14: what your wants and needs are.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: Oh, wow, really?
• 36:18
  Speaker 14: Yeah, and then I can see how the design was.
• 36:21
  Speaker 14: Maybe there's a detached duct up in your attic that
• 36:24
  Speaker 14: you're not getting up in there. You should check it out.
• 36:27
  Speaker 14: I will go and do that for you and see.
• 36:31
  Speaker 14: Maybe it's undersized. Maybe the system's undersized that's causing your uncomfortability.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: I don't even think I know where my attic is.
• 36:38
  Speaker 14: Your comfort is our commitment. That's what we're after. But, yes,
• 36:42
  Speaker 14: there are ways that we can help you out with that.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: Well, I don't think people understand the fact. I don't
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: know the most homeowners understand the fact that When you
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: do something like that, this is something that can fix
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: a problem for years. For years. You're dealing with it
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: for years because you think you don't have any clue
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: what's going on up there. How many people go in
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: their attic? I don't even think I've been in mine.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: And then you've got to have guys come out and
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: check it out. That's why we started talking with MCOR Services, Hillcrest,
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: because this is something, especially in Bakersfield, that's really important
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: for your comfort. And it's going to be $ 140, 000. It's
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: the middle of September.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: All right, Steve, hold on a second. Cool. mcorservices.com. Oh, no, mcorhillcrest.com
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: or something 1500. You can call. Check this out.
• 37:35
  Speaker 14: So you can call or text us.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: 335-1500. You text us. A real person is going to
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: text you back.
• 37:42
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: But text before 6 because Steve ain't going up in
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: your attic at 4. It's on 94.1. HVAC systems. That's
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: what we're talking about right now. And Steve is here
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: from MCOR Services Hillcrest. He's the guy that can help
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: you answer all your questions. He's the guy that can
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: come into your home and fix whatever issue you have. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
• 38:08
  Speaker 12: You are overselling it, Romeo.
• 38:12
  Speaker 14: You are overselling it. I've got a team of guys
• 38:15
  Speaker 14: that can help us do that.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: Well, you're the guy. You start it. You get the
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: ball rolling. You get the ball rolling. For sure, for sure,
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: for sure. Uh, Hey Rome, somebody texted me. Hey Rome,
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: what's the guy's name and number? Well, his name's Steve.
• 38:26
  Speaker 6: Steve.
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 38:28
  Speaker 14: And your number is six, six, one, three, three, five, 1500.
• 38:31
  Speaker 14: You can call or text us.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: Yes. So you can talk to him about what your
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: issues are. Um, Steve and I were just talking about
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: 100 different things right now. I want to talk about
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: the one last thing I remember is does brand matter?
• 38:43
  Speaker 14: You know, brand, if you're a Chevy or a Ford guy,
• 38:47
  Speaker 14: I get it, right? But brands, when it comes to
• 38:50
  Speaker 14: HVAC systems, there are about 80 different brands of air
• 38:55
  Speaker 14: conditioners in the United States. There are eight manufacturers of
• 39:00
  Speaker 14: air conditioning components. So it's how it's put together. I mean,
• 39:04
  Speaker 14: you have to trust your contractor. Um, the number one
• 39:08
  Speaker 14: for us is ream or rude.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: R U U D. Oh yeah. We, we just, we, wait,
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: that's how you say that. Some people call it Rudd.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: We all call it Rudd. I don't like saying Rudd
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: because it reminds me of Paul Rudd. And I don't
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: want to think about, I don't want to think about
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: that dude. Oh, that's hilarious. But yeah, those are the
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: brands that we like.
• 39:27
  Speaker 14: We also like the Bosch brand carriers and another good one, too.
• 39:32
  Speaker 12: Okay.
• 39:32
  Speaker 14: But for us, that is because that's the support we
• 39:35
  Speaker 14: get from the factory. That's the support we get from
• 39:36
  Speaker 14: our local distributors that back us up when something does
• 39:40
  Speaker 14: go wrong. And that's really the difference between a company.
• 39:45
  Speaker 14: There's about 200 air conditioning contractors in Kern County.
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: Oh, wow.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: That's a lot, man. That's a lot. That's a highly
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: competitive industry.
• 39:52
  Speaker 14: But everybody can install a new system for you. But
• 39:56
  Speaker 14: if something does go wrong, something goes sideways, who's going
• 39:58
  Speaker 14: to be there for you to back it up?
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: I think that's really what it comes down to, the
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: company that's going to be there. Because if something happens, if,
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, for some reason, air conditionings always go out
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: at 10%. between 10 and 2 for some reason. They've
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: never broken at noon. Right. So you need somebody who's
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: going to come in and help you out. For sure.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: We haven't talked about two-story houses.
• 40:19
  Speaker 12: Oh, boy.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: You've got a unit upstairs. You've got a unit downstairs. Now,
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: explain to me, Steve, if this is right. What determines
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: when your house is at the temperature so it shuts off?
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: When you pre-program... What's it called? Your thermostat. The thermostat.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: That's what determines it?
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: So when that thermostat feels the temperature it's at is
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: when it shuts off. That is correct. Right in that location.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: So if my thermostat is in my truck... Yes.
• 40:50
  Speaker 10: Yes.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: It's going to run all day. How often do.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: How often are they wrong? Who pays attention to put
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: these thermostats where they need to be for the comfort
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: of everybody in the home?
• 41:02
  Speaker 14: That's a great question. Code is that it goes right
• 41:06
  Speaker 14: below or right near your return. That's where you put
• 41:08
  Speaker 14: your filter. That's where all the air is being drawn.
• 41:12
  Speaker 14: All the warm air is being drawn into your unit
• 41:15
  Speaker 14: through that return. That air is passing by that thermostat
• 41:19
  Speaker 14: at its warmest point. And as soon as that air
• 41:23
  Speaker 14: becomes now cool to whatever setting you set on your thermostat,
• 41:27
  Speaker 14: then it shuts off.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: Now, there is a plus or minus. Sure.
• 41:30
  Speaker 14: You know, five degrees, three degrees. There are some that
• 41:32
  Speaker 14: are dialed in. That's the higher-end thermostats. And whenever we
• 41:36
  Speaker 14: do like a new unit replacement, I'll come in, and
• 41:40
  Speaker 14: it's my follow-up with my customer, right? And so I
• 41:42
  Speaker 14: bring them all the paperwork, everything, tell them thank you.
• 41:46
  Speaker 14: We hug it out, you know, and then I calibrate
• 41:48
  Speaker 14: their thermostat for them to make sure– that the humidity
• 41:51
  Speaker 14: is correct and that the temperature is correct before this
• 41:55
  Speaker 14: thing is just set off into the world and it's
• 41:57
  Speaker 14: going to keep you comfortable for the next 15 years.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: Now, let's talk about some of these houses, these two-story houses,
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: you know, maybe a 33,000 square foot home, two-story. And
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: is one upstairs and one downstairs enough to work for, say,
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: your bedroom? You know, you got the master maybe downstairs
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: and a bedroom upstairs, a few, however many bedrooms upstairs.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: Does that, is that enough for, is that? two thermostats
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: enough to keep all the house at the temperature that
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: it needs to be? For that size of home, for sure.
• 42:30
  Speaker 14: It really does depend on the size of the units
• 42:32
  Speaker 14: that are controlling the upstairs. And that's something we can
• 42:35
  Speaker 14: do with our assessment to make sure it's sized properly.
• 42:38
  Speaker 14: Because when we hear about hot spots in the house, like,
• 42:40
  Speaker 14: oh man, my kid's bedroom or our master bedroom is
• 42:44
  Speaker 14: just a little hotter than the rest of the house,
• 42:45
  Speaker 14: that's usually an airflow issue. So it's either not pulling
• 42:48
  Speaker 14: enough air out of that space and it or it's
• 42:51
  Speaker 14: not pushing enough air into that space. And that can
• 42:54
  Speaker 14: be easily fixed with adding a return. That's really the
• 42:56
  Speaker 14: most common thing that we see now, especially with new
• 43:00
  Speaker 14: units on older homes that we're gonna have to add
• 43:03
  Speaker 14: a return somewhere in that house to make sure one,
• 43:06
  Speaker 14: that the unit is breathing properly And you're getting the
• 43:09
  Speaker 14: comfortability in that room that you require. When you say return,
• 43:12
  Speaker 14: what do you mean by that? So it's called a
• 43:13
  Speaker 14: return air. That's where the air is getting sucked into
• 43:16
  Speaker 14: the unit. Then it gets conditioned, right? Either heated or cooled.
• 43:20
  Speaker 14: And then it's pushed back into your home. So the
• 43:24
  Speaker 14: registers that you see in every single room, those are
• 43:27
  Speaker 14: the supply. So that's where the cool air or the
• 43:30
  Speaker 14: warm air is coming into. Then you have a return. See,
• 43:34
  Speaker 14: that's a supply. And this is a return. So this
• 43:38
  Speaker 14: is drawing air in. That would be where the filter
• 43:41
  Speaker 14: would go. That would be where the filter was going.
• 43:44
  Speaker 14: On a building like this, your filters are up at
• 43:46
  Speaker 14: the unit on the roof.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: Oh, I was going to say there's no filter there.
• 43:49
  Speaker 14: Now, most residential homes have their filters right there at
• 43:53
  Speaker 14: the return register.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: Wow. Who knew?
• 43:57
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 43:58
  Speaker 14: And that's really, it's generally an airflow issue or a
• 44:01
  Speaker 14: design issue when you're having hot or cold spots in
• 44:05
  Speaker 14: your home.
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: And they would, and you guys would, you guys come
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: in and just knock it all out. Make sure that
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: everything's running properly.
• 44:12
  Speaker 14: So what I do is I can assess everything to
• 44:15
  Speaker 14: make sure everything is sized properly.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: I can look at the duct work to make sure.
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: What do you mean by sized properly?
• 44:21
  Speaker 14: So when we're talking about the size of an air
• 44:24
  Speaker 14: conditioning unit, they're, they're, sized in tonnage. So when you
• 44:30
  Speaker 14: start with a one ton up to a five ton unit,
• 44:32
  Speaker 14: that's the largest you can get in a residential home.
• 44:35
  Speaker 14: And basically what that is, is the amount of air
• 44:37
  Speaker 14: that it pushes. So it's 12,000 BTUs is one ton. 60,000
• 44:43
  Speaker 14: BTUs is five tons.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: So if you have about anywhere from a.
• 44:47
  Speaker 14: 1800 to 2200 square foot home, then more than likely
• 44:52
  Speaker 14: you're going to have a five ton.
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: If your home is three tons, it's a two story.
• 44:55
  Speaker 14: You're probably going to have a four ton to do
• 44:57
  Speaker 14: the majority of the house and throw a three ton
• 45:00
  Speaker 14: in there to take.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: Care of the upstairs. All right, Steve, hold on a second.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: I got some more questions for you. Oh, they want
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: to know, somebody wants to know what time they can
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: call you.
• 45:08
  Speaker 14: We're open from 7 to 4 each and every day.
• 45:10
  Speaker 14: You can call or text us. If you call us
• 45:13
  Speaker 14: after hours, there will be a human being that answers
• 45:16
  Speaker 14: the phone if you have an issue or if you
• 45:18
  Speaker 14: want to make an appointment.
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: Well, there you go.
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: Call them right now. Yeah, you can do it. Steve
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: is here from MCORS Services Hillcrest. That is our local
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: HVAC company that's been around for how many years you
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: guys been here? 76 years this year. 76 years this year.
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: You guys are local. You guys have been doing it
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: for 76 years.
• 45:40
  Speaker 8: Long time.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: And, you know, we really do need to take care
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: of it. I got a couple more questions.
• 45:44
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: A couple I already forgot. Yeah. I know we've got
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: some from some listeners.
• 45:49
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, yeah.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: I'm glad.
• 45:50
  Speaker 12: Right here.
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: Good morning, Rome. Hey, can you ask him what level
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: filter slash MERV 1 through 16 rating he recommends and
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: thickness of filter like 3-inch versus 1-inch?
• 46:02
  Speaker 12: Okay.
• 46:03
  Speaker 14: So my recommendation for Joe Sixpack, right, the average guy,
• 46:10
  Speaker 14: is going to be the 1-inch filter pleated and a
• 46:13
  Speaker 14: MERV 10 or 11.
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: When we see it getting.
• 46:16
  Speaker 14: Above higher than a MERV 10 or MERV 11, it
• 46:20
  Speaker 14: does really start restricting airflow.
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: And that unit needs to breathe. It needs to breathe.
• 46:26
  Speaker 14: And I really do like the top hat, the three-inch filters,
• 46:29
  Speaker 14: because you kind of set them in there and forget
• 46:31
  Speaker 14: about them. But don't forget about them too long because
• 46:33
  Speaker 14: they can get clogged up as well.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: Oh, they get clogged up.
• 46:35
  Speaker 14: And you can cause some problems, you know, pretty quickly.
• 46:38
  Speaker 14: Those one-inch filters are readily available. Financially, it's not a
• 46:42
  Speaker 14: big burden. I was going to ask you that. They
• 46:45
  Speaker 14: are the most cost-effective. And changing them every 30, 45 days,
• 46:50
  Speaker 14: it's not going to break the bank.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: But those three-inch filters, they do a good job.
• 46:55
  Speaker 14: But we don't want to go any higher than a
• 46:56
  Speaker 14: MERV 10, MERV 11 because it'll restrict airflow a little
• 46:59
  Speaker 14: too much.
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: So I was going to say, you're going to have
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: to go by price for me. I see all these
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: air filters when I walk into Home Depot and I think, okay,
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: these ones look cheap. These ones look more expensive. So what, what,
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: Like $ 10? Go to the middle. Go to the middle.
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: Go to the middle.
• 47:17
  Speaker 14: You don't want to go with that cheap one because
• 47:18
  Speaker 14: it's not filtering anything.
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 47:20
  Speaker 14: And really, if you want something like that MERV 16,
• 47:24
  Speaker 14: very well-educated listener there asking that question. Not everybody knows
• 47:28
  Speaker 14: what a MERV rating is. But even the ones you
• 47:31
  Speaker 14: pick up at Lowe's or Home Depot, on the bottom
• 47:33
  Speaker 14: of those filters, they're going to have a MERV rating
• 47:36
  Speaker 14: on there.
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: They're going to have that on there.
• 47:38
  Speaker 14: It's not going to be apparent to you because it's
• 47:41
  Speaker 14: going to be like 1,100, 1,250, 1,050. Those are the
• 47:43
  Speaker 14: big numbers that you're going to see. But on the
• 47:45
  Speaker 14: bottom of that, there's going to be a MERV rating there. Now,
• 47:48
  Speaker 14: if you are concerned with dust particles or anything like that,
• 47:53
  Speaker 14: or any kind of stuff that's floating around in the
• 47:56
  Speaker 14: air like viruses, you have the largest air purifier in
• 48:01
  Speaker 14: your home in your air conditioner. We can set up
• 48:04
  Speaker 14: a very inexpensive system that just basically plugs right in
• 48:08
  Speaker 14: and turns your air conditioner into a disinfectant.
• 48:12
  Speaker 6: Really?
• 48:12
  Speaker 14: You can purify that air throughout the entire house. You
• 48:15
  Speaker 14: don't have to go and buy... something that you plug
• 48:17
  Speaker 14: into a wall for just one room. If you're worried
• 48:20
  Speaker 14: about that with filtration, filter the dust, filter everything that
• 48:24
  Speaker 14: you can see with the naked eye. That's what a
• 48:26
  Speaker 14: MERV 10 or MERV 11 filter is going to do
• 48:28
  Speaker 14: for you. But that air purifier, we can hook that
• 48:30
  Speaker 14: up right into your system and purify the air.
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: Where do you find out that information? Oh, I mean,
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: who knew that?
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 48:40
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: Who knew that? Listen, huh? Who knew that there, these guys,
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: Emcor can get you guys an air purifier hooked up
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: to your system, the AC, which goes through your whole house. Yes, absolutely.
• 48:50
  Speaker 11: Wow.
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: That's incredible. Dual ionation, uh, air purification. So we can,
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: we can do that for you as well. Uh, one
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: of the things we have a problem with in Bakersfield
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: is dust, obviously.
• 49:00
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: Uh, People, allergies, people have, you know, kids need inhalers,
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: things like this because of particles in the air. When
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: you talk about cleaning out your ducts, you say, hey,
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: the duct, what is floating around in your ducts? All
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: that air that got through the filter?
• 49:17
  Speaker 14: Yeah, all the dust that either has passed by the filter.
• 49:20
  Speaker 14: or there could have been a leak at one time
• 49:22
  Speaker 14: inside of that duct that's drawn some of that attic
• 49:25
  Speaker 14: dust into there.
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: But we do live in a very dusty environment. Sahara Desert,
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: number one.
• 49:30
  Speaker 14: Kern County, when we're shaking almonds, like right now, number two, right?
• 49:35
  Speaker 14: And so over the years, it can just get settled
• 49:38
  Speaker 14: in there. And we have a duct cleaning machine. It's
• 49:42
  Speaker 14: called a Roto Brush. That thing is awesome. It's basically
• 49:46
  Speaker 14: a giant vacuum with HEPA filters on it. With a
• 49:49
  Speaker 14: spinning brush on the end of it, different sizes for
• 49:52
  Speaker 14: different sized ducts, it breaks off some of that debris
• 49:55
  Speaker 14: in there and sucks it right into that vacuum. Now,
• 49:58
  Speaker 14: things that we also do when we're doing duct cleaning
• 50:01
  Speaker 14: is we'll clean your indoor coil. And we'll seal up
• 50:04
  Speaker 14: any kind of air leaks around your supply registers in
• 50:07
  Speaker 14: your home. That's the ones that are going to be
• 50:09
  Speaker 14: in the ceiling or right above your bedroom door when
• 50:11
  Speaker 14: you walk in.
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: We're going to seal those up to prevent any dust
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: from leaking through there. Okay, so now this is going
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: to be a really silly question. I know it is.
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: No silly questions. It is a silly question. How often
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: should I do that? About every 10 to 15 years. Okay.
• 50:23
  Speaker 14: It's really like if you're moving into a home and
• 50:27
  Speaker 14: you've got kids with some breathing issues, asthma, COPD.
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: Yes, actually. We need to... We need to clean those
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: ducks to make sure. And start clean. Start fresh. All right.
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: Steve is here. MCOR Services Hillcrest, 335-1500 or mcorhillcrest.com. They're
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: open now. Like I said, all these questions are things
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: that you've probably never even thought of are happening in
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: your home right now. Steve is here from MCOR Services Hillcrest.
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: We're talking about your HVAC systems because it's something that
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: is very important, very costly, especially if you don't maintain them.
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: If you don't take care of them, it could cost
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: you big dollars and you don't want to do that.
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: That's why we have MCOR here. Just in case you
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: want to get a hold of them. 661-335-1500 or mcorehillcrest.com.
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: That's it. mcorehillcrest.com. They're open right now. I know you
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: got to get out of here, Steve. I do want
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: to mention one last thing, though, before we were just
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: talking about that filtration system.
• 51:26
  Speaker 7: Mm-hmm.
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: You might want to put that on a billboard. Yeah,
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: for sure. I mean, just because there's a lot of
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: kids running around, dust in their air, maybe have breathing problems,
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: maybe have some sort of allergy issues. And when you
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: can have your whole house as a filtration center. Air purifier, yeah.
• 51:44
  Speaker 14: So indoor air quality is so important, especially in this valley.
• 51:47
  Speaker 14: I mean, if you've lived here, you have some sort
• 51:50
  Speaker 14: of allergy. I'm one of the lucky ones, right? I
• 51:52
  Speaker 14: don't really get hay fever. My eyes don't get red.
• 51:55
  Speaker 14: Nose doesn't get runny. I don't know what it is.
• 51:57
  Speaker 14: Maybe they should take my blood and make some kind
• 51:59
  Speaker 14: of vaccination for this.
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 52:01
  Speaker 14: But yeah, we can definitely help you out with that.
• 52:04
  Speaker 14: If you're interested in that, call or text us and
• 52:06
  Speaker 14: we can come out and talk to you.
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: You should find out about it because there's a lot
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: of breathing issues in this town. For sure.
• 52:13
  Speaker 12: All right.
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: Hey, Rome, I got a question for MCOR. What does
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: the $ 95 preventive maintenance service include? And when should we
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: do it? Like this month? Yeah, for sure. So this
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: is our late summer special.
• 52:24
  Speaker 14: If you have not had your AC serviced through the
• 52:27
  Speaker 14: summer and it's been maybe just been working overtime and
• 52:31
  Speaker 14: chugging along, we can come out and do a full
• 52:33
  Speaker 14: comprehensive service on it for your air conditioning system. So
• 52:36
  Speaker 14: we'll do our standard air conditioning service for you. It's
• 52:39
  Speaker 14: just a special $ 95 right now. from us and it's
• 52:43
  Speaker 14: going to kind of let us know it's going to
• 52:45
  Speaker 14: give us a sneak peek if there is something that
• 52:48
  Speaker 14: is going to be going wrong or we need to
• 52:51
  Speaker 14: get fixed before next summer hits.
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah i was going to ask you that um you
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: know we're going to turn off our aces here for
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: a few months and what do we just kick them
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: on next year and everything's fine yeah don't do that.
• 53:02
  Speaker 14: So basically your air conditioning system, that outdoor unit, if
• 53:05
  Speaker 14: you have a split system, the outdoor unit and your
• 53:07
  Speaker 14: coil sit dormant for three, four, sometimes even five months.
• 53:10
  Speaker 14: You just don't want to click it on. So about April, man,
• 53:13
  Speaker 14: give us a call.
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: We'll come out.
• 53:14
  Speaker 14: We'll do our comprehensive service for you. We'll check everything.
• 53:18
  Speaker 14: We'll turn it on. We'll make sure everything is running.
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: And it'll be ready to go. Perfect.
• 53:23
  Speaker 14: And if there's any kind of maintenance repairs that need
• 53:27
  Speaker 14: to be made, maybe something that's not broken but is
• 53:29
  Speaker 14: something on the verge of breaking, we can tell that
• 53:32
  Speaker 14: with our sensors, right, and some of our equipment. um
• 53:35
  Speaker 14: like hey this thing's over amping we need to replace
• 53:37
  Speaker 14: it or when it's 110 this thing's gonna break gonna
• 53:40
  Speaker 14: fail we want to fix that before you know you're
• 53:43
  Speaker 14: having a pool party fourth of july party everybody's at
• 53:45
  Speaker 14: your house it's 110 degrees and the ac shuts off nobody.
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: Wants that no i don't care about that i care
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: about the when you're just in bed at midnight on
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: a tuesday and your ac shuts off Absolutely. What about
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: the heating side of it? Do we have to maintain that?
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: Do we have to do preventative maintenance on that?
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: 100%, man.
• 54:05
  Speaker 14: About October, about the middle of football season for Bakersfield,
• 54:09
  Speaker 14: that's when you want to get that heater serviced. It
• 54:12
  Speaker 14: is a different service, but we do a lot of
• 54:15
  Speaker 14: the same things. What we're checking this is really a
• 54:17
  Speaker 14: safety issue, right? We're talking burning natural gas getting blown
• 54:21
  Speaker 14: into your home. We want to make sure that those
• 54:23
  Speaker 14: flames are burning properly and No carbon monoxide is getting
• 54:26
  Speaker 14: into your house.
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: We just want to make sure it's a safety test
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: for you.
• 54:29
  Speaker 14: Make sure that inducer motor is doing its job. And
• 54:32
  Speaker 14: make sure that your heat exchanger is in good shape
• 54:35
  Speaker 14: before we, you know, give you the thumbs up.
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: It's ready to heat your house. Hey, this guy might
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: own his own AC company because he did ask one
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: more question. What percentage should your air humidity be inside
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: your house? This is the Merv guy. I think this
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: might be a plan. Yeah, this guy's trying to open
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: his own business.
• 54:54
  Speaker 14: So in between 35% and 45%. How do you set that?
• 54:57
  Speaker 14: You don't set it. It's what it is.
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
• 55:00
  Speaker 14: If your unit is not taking care of the humidity
• 55:03
  Speaker 14: in your home, that's what an air conditioning does. It
• 55:06
  Speaker 14: removes the humidity from the air and cools your home.
• 55:09
  Speaker 14: Removes humidity and heat and sends back out cool air.
• 55:12
  Speaker 14: One last thing before you go.
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: The thermostat.
• 55:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: Everybody goes and buys the cheapest thermostat. Is that good
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: or bad? It's okay.
• 55:22
  Speaker 14: If you just want to go over there and just
• 55:24
  Speaker 14: push the button, it's not the most efficient.
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: That's what I mean. The most efficient. I would say like,
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: so smart thermostats. I still got the dial. Okay. Wow.
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: We need to come out to your house.
• 55:35
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 55:36
  Speaker 14: Smart thermostats are great. What I prefer is a Wi-Fi-enabled thermostat.
• 55:42
  Speaker 14: So it's kind of like the best of both worlds. Wi-Fi-enabled,
• 55:46
  Speaker 14: you can go over there and you can turn it
• 55:48
  Speaker 14: up and turn it down at your leisure just like
• 55:50
  Speaker 14: the cheap thermostats. Or you can have an app on
• 55:53
  Speaker 14: your phone where you can set a program where it
• 55:57
  Speaker 14: turns on and turns off at certain times. The smart
• 56:00
  Speaker 14: thermostats tend to learn a little bit. And sometimes... You know,
• 56:05
  Speaker 14: maybe your patterns aren't the same each and every week.
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: Sure. They can learn and they're turning it on when
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: maybe you're not home.
• 56:10
  Speaker 4: Oh, really?
• 56:11
  Speaker 10: Oh, okay.
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: But I kind of like the best.
• 56:12
  Speaker 14: All thermostats are great if they're programmable and they're Wi-Fi enabled.
• 56:18
  Speaker 14: And if the smart home is your thing, man, those
• 56:21
  Speaker 14: are great. But those programmable thermostats are really going to
• 56:25
  Speaker 14: help out with your energy consumption.
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: All right, Steve. Man, thank you so much, Romeo. It's
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: been a great, great time in here. mcorehillcrest.com or 661-335-1500. Steve,
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: we'll answer all your questions. Just call them, text them.
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: You guys get it looked at. I mean, they come
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: out and they look at it for free. Absolutely. And
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: then they'll figure out how to make you more efficient. Yeah,
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: free home assessment.
• 56:46
  Speaker 14: Now, if we need something that concerns a technician, then
• 56:49
  Speaker 14: that's a different story.
• 56:50
  Speaker 7: Sure.
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: So Steve will just come out and look around your house.
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: Look around.
• 56:53
  Speaker 12: Hey, what's happening?
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: Steve, thanks for stopping by. I appreciate it. Thank you, Romeo. Hey, Rome,
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: it's Gilrod. I was listening to you guys talk about HVAC.
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: I never thought I would say this at the beach,
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: but it's actually a little warm. Yesterday in Santa Cruz,
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: it hit like 98 degrees. 98 degrees. I mean, it's
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: going to be hot today. I mean, we, yeah, the
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: guys at MCOR, Steve and the guys over there at
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: MCOR Hillcrest, or MCOR Services Hillcrest. I want to make
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: sure I get the name right.
• 57:21
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: We'll be keeping them around a little bit. You know,
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: help you guys out. Save some money. Those HVAC systems
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: can get very expensive if you don't maintain them, take
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: care of them. I mean, maybe it's not working efficiently,
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: but yeah, get those guys. We'll keep talking. We'll have
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: Steve back so that we can talk more about it.
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: Let's see here. What do we got? Seahawk Lou still
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: trying to do. Seahawk Lou should still be passed out
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: from last night's game.
• 57:52
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: Tonight we got another game. The NFL started. It was terrible.
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: For those of you that don't know, the NFL kicked
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: off yesterday. It was awful. Why they start on a
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: Wednesday first off. And then for it to be such
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: a horrible game. Yeah, it was just a joke. Yesterday
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: was kind of a joke. They thought they were going
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: to have a rematch of the Super Bowl. It was, yeah,
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: it was terrible. But tonight, hopefully tonight's a better game. Although, isn't,
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: so I think there's high school football tonight also. Yeah,
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: tonight's a better game. I would hope that the Niners
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: and the Rams would be a better game, at least
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: more appealing to at least Bakersfield, right? More Rams fans
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: and Niner fans in town than Seahawks fans and Patriot fans. Yeah.
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: We'll see what happens. Time's the game kickoff, 530. I
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: think it kicks off at 530. We'll check it out.
• 58:43
  Speaker 8: I was so wrong, Seahawks Lou, man.
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: Hey, what up, Lou?
• 58:47
  Speaker 6: How you doing?
• 58:48
  Speaker 11: Good morning.
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: I am doing great.
• 58:52
  Speaker 6: It's good to hear, Rome.
• 58:53
  Speaker 11: It's good to hear.
• 58:54
  Speaker 6: Hey, man, I agree. Yesterday's game was pretty whack, man.
• 58:58
  Speaker 8: It was boring.
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: It was garbage.
• 59:01
  Speaker 7: It was boring to you guys.
• 59:04
  Speaker 8: It was for me.
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: That's because you're a moron.
• 59:08
  Speaker 3: But no.
• 59:12
  Speaker 9: Today's game should be more interesting.
• 59:14
  Speaker 6: A bunch of bandwagon fans and Rams.
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: Fans around here in.
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: Vegas.
• 59:20
  Speaker 11: We don't know.
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: Which fans on which bandwagon, though. I don't know, man.
• 59:27
  Speaker 6: I see people with a Seahawks jersey in Wasco.
• 59:29
  Speaker 4: I'm like, what?
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: You saw somebody with a Seahawks jersey in Wasco?
• 59:34
  Speaker 7: Yesterday at the Wasco Walmart.
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: Are you serious? You got bandwagoners too?
• 59:40
  Speaker 11: Yeah, and I was.
• 59:41
  Speaker 6: Like, what?
• 59:42
  Speaker 7: So I went over there to question the guy.
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, you know, we're good.
• 59:47
  Speaker 6: It's a good team.
• 59:47
  Speaker 7: I'm like, well, who was your quarterback before Sam Darnold?
• 59:53
  Speaker 11: You know, I forgot his name.
• 59:55
  Speaker 7: And I'm like, oh, come on, man.
• 59:57
  Speaker 6: You know what I mean? Like, that's not a real fan.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 6: That's just a bandwagoner.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: Well, welcome to Bakersfield.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 8: I guess so.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: Welcome to Kern County.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 6: Kern County.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: I just want you to understand one thing, and you
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: better admit to this. You guys could have lost last
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: night because you lost your quarterback. You're lucky that the
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: other quarterback's far worse. and see why I tell you
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: you guys are morons for making predictions, long-term predictions in
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: a league where people get hurt?
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 8: No, yeah, you're right.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold may not come back for who knows how long.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 11: But you know what?
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 6: You got to admit to this too, Rome. I said
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 6: the Seahawks were going to win the Super Bowl with
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 6: Sam Darnold.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: How long have you been telling me the Seahawks were
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: going to win the Super Bowl? Yeah. How long? How
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: many years?
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 7: Been years, man.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 11: Years.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: Over at least 10?
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 7: And so it finally happened, right?
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: So you got lucky.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 3: You know what?
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: You know what they say about Indians, right? They dance
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: till it rains. They don't do a rain dance. They
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: dance till it rains. Okay?
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 7: I'm going to keep dancing out here in Wasco if
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 7: you want to join me, bro. You're the perfect guy
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 7: to join me, man.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: Well, I am Indian. Get out of here.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 4: All right, bro.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: I don't even know what to say about that game.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: I want to make fun. I was watching that game
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: last night for a little while, and all I thought was, oh,
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: I can't wait till I get to work tomorrow so
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: I can tell Seahawk Louie lost the starting quarterback and
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: see what happens when you lose your starting quarterback. But then,
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: Apparently the Patriots suck even more and lost to the backup.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: What a joke. That game was a joke. Then again,
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: we got another one tonight. Oh, my God. Another one tonight.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: The Niners and the bandwagoners.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 8: Oh, wait.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 7: No.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: The Rams and the bandwagoners.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 10: Oh, no.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: They're both bandwagoners. Who knows? Hey, good morning. Yesterday's game
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: was trashed. So for that reason, play the new Raiders song. Hey,
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: you haven't cheese fan. These bandwagon Niner fans in Bakersfield.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: Niners even have a bandwagon Niner player. Yeah, the Niners
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: got fake-ass fans and fake-ass players. Hey, Rome, how about
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: them Cowboys, Rome? They play Sunday night. Don't nobody give
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: a damn about the Cowboys. The Cowboys are going to
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: do what they do every year, win just enough games
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: to be losers. Let's talk about your first job, right?
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: You remember your first job? What was it? R-D-4-2-5-4-7-7. My
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: first job was awesome. Okay. Now, I worked for a
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: guy who owned a video store back in the day
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: when they sold videos, VHS tapes. And I worked for
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: a guy who sold videos. He had a video store
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: right next door. He had an ice cream parlor. So,
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: And there was a hole cut in the wall so
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: you can go, you know, go between both. So an
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: ice cream parlor, ice cream parlor, you know, milkshakes. What
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: do you have? Soft serve, chili dogs, just some nachos,
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: things like that. Simple things like that you can do.
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  Speaker 1: And I worked at a, that was my first job.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: It was awesome. He was a great guy. Very, very,
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: very good man. And he hired a Uh, me and
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: another friend of mine, we were in high school. Yeah,
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: we were in high school at the time. Uh, but yeah,
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: it was great. That was actually the first time, by
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: the way, I ever saw a porno because one night
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: we were closing and my friend, she, uh, just my friend.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: Don't think anything into it. You sleazebags. Um, we were
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: in high school together and she wanted to check out
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: a porno. So as we were cleaning up, she put
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: on a porno. It was kind of funny actually. It
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: never occurred to me, by the way, to watch one
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: all the time that I had worked there.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: You remember your first job? And we used to eat
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: bubblegum ice cream. Oh, so good. So good. You guys
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about. R-8-4-2-5-4, 7-7. What was your
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: first job? Oh, your first job. Do you remember your
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: first job? Do you remember how much you got paid?
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: Good morning. What's going on?
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  Speaker 4: Hey, what's up, Ron?
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: Hey, what up, man?
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, man.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 6: Talking about those first jobs.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 7: My first job that I got.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 3: Paid from was actually.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 7: Cutting grapes, brother.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: Cutting grapes?
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 8: Yeah, grapes, man.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 7: Cutting grapes.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: That sounds like hard work.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 7: It is hard work, but I wish all the kids
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 7: now had to do that, bro, to show them the meaning.
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 14: Because my kids are so dang spoiled, they think everything's
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 14: supposed to be given to them.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: In order for me to get school clothes, I had
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: to get into great fields, bro.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 7: We're talking about back in the 70s.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 8: Wow.
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  Speaker 11: My best being.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 7: Job was worked.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 6: At a liquor store in L.A.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 7: At 16. And minimum wage was $ 1.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 6: 75, and I got $ 5 for that one, bro.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: How much did you get paid for picking grapes? Do
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: you remember?
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 7: Oh, my God.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 6: Picking grapes was horrible, bro.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 9: You're out there in the powder dirt.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: You got to be there at 5.30 in the morning.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 9: You get up early in the morning.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: You don't remember what you got paid?
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 9: No, I don't remember when I got paid because my
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 9: mom took the check.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 7: And not just that, man.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 6: You know what I mean? I got the worst whoopings
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 6: in the great people.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: The worst whoopings ever.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 6: Bro, with switches.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 14: My mom kept three switches brained together, and I got
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 14: the worst whoopings.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 7: You got to keep them trays on, keep your row up.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 6: I'm stopping eating.
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 7: Brain's got stomachache, and I'm getting my back whooped. So
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 7: I hate it. Thanks, y'all.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: Never say your mom. Made some wine with your ass
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: when you got in trouble.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 7: Oh, my God, bro.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 6: But you know what, though?
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 7: It made me appreciate a good job.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 14: It made me appreciate things in life, man, because we
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 14: was dirt poor, so I had to get in the field, brother.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: That's awesome, man. That's great.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 3: All right, man.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: Thanks for calling. I appreciate it.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 6: Have a good morning, man.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: All right. Your first job. Anybody remember it? What do
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: you remember your first job as? And do you remember
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: how much you got paid doing it? 842-547-7. Talking about
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: that first job. Do you remember your first job? Do
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: you remember your first paycheck? That's another thing.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 12: 842-547-7.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: Good morning, Hop. What's going on?
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 11: Hey, what's going on, Rome? Hey, this was one of
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 11: my cousin's first job.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 8: She was working at VideoZone. I don't know if you
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 8: remember it.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember VideoZone.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 11: So me and my brother, we don't look alike. So
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 11: he would be on one end, and I'd say, oh, sir,
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 11: did you leave this movie here, Slutty Professor? Or I
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 11: would tell him, oh, or this other one, Beefy Guys
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 11: with Buns of Steel. He would get so embarrassed.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 6: You guys get out of here.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 9: You guys are.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: Going to get me fired. That's really funny. That's really funny.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: That's awesome.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 4: Later, brother.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: All right, man.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 4: Later.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: Video stores were the best. R-D-4-2-5-4-7-7-8-0. My first job was
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: at Billy's Bamboo Chaw Sticks. It was a good place
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: to work. A lot of older customers, so we always
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: got tips. You know, I have spent, over the last
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: 30 years in Bakersfield, I have spent so much time
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: at Billy's at that bar that I feel like I
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: worked there, to be honest with you. In fact, I
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: probably spent more time at that bar than I have
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: in this studio. Imagine, Romeo, the innocent mind we had
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: back then. Nowadays, a girl tells us, let's watch a porn.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: That's a straight hint. She's going to end up doing
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: something else. Yeah, it was completely innocent. We were just,
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: you know, we were probably juniors. I think we were
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: juniors in high school. I mean, we were in the
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: same class. Um, maybe we were sophomores. I don't remember,
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: but she wanted to check it out. I, you know,
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: to be honest with you, I, at the time, if
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: I remember correctly, I was vacuuming cause we were closing
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: up the store and I don't even think I was
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: paying attention to what she was doing. She just said it.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: And I went, looked up and kept doing my job,
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: but I was a very innocent person. I was a
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: very innocent kid. Um, yo Rome, my first job was
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: picking oranges at the age of 14. Wow. How much
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: did you make? Do you remember?
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 8: Good morning, Romeo.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: Hey, what's.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 2: Up?
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 6: I remember my first job.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 9: What was it?
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: My first job was in 93, and I worked for
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 2: Olin Mills Photography.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 6: I was a live robocaller.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: Wait, wait, what?
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 6: I was a live robocaller. You know, I did the telemarketing.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 6: We would call, like, customers.
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 2: I guess they had already took pictures or gave referrals
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: for their family to come take pictures or whatever. I
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: did the cold calling.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: In 93? What was that like doing that in 93?
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: Were people... Well, because they had to answer the phone.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 6: Yeah, everybody had a phone back then.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 2: I mean, a few people had cell phones, but on
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: the list, we weren't calling cell phones, but... About the
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: time when I worked there, so it had to be
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 2: after school. So we're cold calling people during dinner or that.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 6: So you get the ladies after one. They'd be like, hello.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 6: And you'd be like, hey, this is, you know, Shelby.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 6: You're calling with Olin Mills. And they'd be like, do you.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 11: Know what time it is?
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 4: We just sat down for dinner.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh. That is so old. Olin Mills is
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: so old.
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 7: Yes!
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 6: And I was making like $ 4. 25 an hour.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: Did it ever work? Did you ever get people to
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: listen to your spiel?
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, there's some diehard lovers back then. You know,
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: they took their Olin Mill pictures.
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 11: And stuff, you know.
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 6: So, you know, you had people.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: That were somewhat happy when called, like, what special do
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: you have.
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 4: And things like that.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 6: But it was hard.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: I mean, you had a whole bunch of people that
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: would cuss you out or hang up in your face or.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: That's insane. That's crazy. You know what's funny? Is there
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: kids today that will have no idea how important photo
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: studios and pictures were back then? They were a big deal.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, especially back then when you had like your first
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 2: baby or first birthday or your engagement pictures.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 6: Everybody went to Olin Mills.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's so funny. We didn't go to Olin Mills.
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: We were poor. We had to go to Sears.
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 6: Or JCPenney's.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: Oh, JCPenney's. All right. Thanks for calling. That's great. Thanks
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: for calling. You know, with everybody having a camera, with
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: all of you walking around with a camera right now,
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: you have no idea how important pictures were. These photos,
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: you go to, like she said, Montgomery Ward's, JCPenney's. Glamour Shots.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: You guys don't even know what Glamour Shots are. Now
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: they got filters on phones. Glamour Shots was a filter,
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: a place you go in the mall to get your
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: pictures taken with filters before you had filters. Okay, that's what.
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 2: It was.
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 11: 842-54-727.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: What was your first job? Do you remember?
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: Oh, Rome.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: I also got my checks taken from me my first job.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 12: Oh, okay.
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: Your first job, what was it? What'd you do? How
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: much did you make?
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 7: Do you remember?
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 10: 842-547-07.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: Hey, Rome, my first job was sophomore year when I
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: lived in San Diego. Mom got me a job in
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: the mailroom where she worked, making $ 10 an hour in 2005.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: I was balling. $ 10 an hour in 2005. Was that
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: a lot of money?
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 7: Um....
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, was that a lot of money? $ 10 an hour, 2005.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: That was 20 years ago, 21 years ago. I'm trying
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: to think now. I was doing this radio show 21
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: years ago. I can't even remember how much money I
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: was making. That might have been what I was making
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: an hour. Yeah, it might have been good.
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 8: I don't know.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 7: R-A-4-2-5-4, 7-7.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: Do you guys remember? Do you remember your first job?
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: What kind of cash you were making?
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 9: Yeah, we're talking about our first jobs that we ever
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 9: did and how much we made. All right, so my
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 9: first job was in 07, I want to say. I
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 9: worked at Burger King.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 7: I was 18.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 9: And I was making 7, I want to say.
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 7: 750 or 725.
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 9: That's how much I used to make back then in 07.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 9: That was minimum wage, I believe.
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: Working at Burger King?
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 10: Okay.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: That's not bad. That's not bad.
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 9: That was my first job, man. You know, the main
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 9: thing is I'd get there in the morning, rotate the
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 9: stock when the truck came, and then just paint the
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 9: whole spot up, and then moved on up, you know?
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 9: That was my first job, man.
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 11: $ 7.
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: I remember that.
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 9: $ 7 an hour.
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 6: All right, man.
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: Thanks for calling.
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 6: Later.
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 10: Bye-bye.
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, he started off on fries. Next, he's going
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: to be cashier. Then he's going to be assistant manager.
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: All righty, four, two, five, four, seven to seven. Hey, Romeo,
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: my first job. What do you got here? First job.
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: I worked at Rally's. I was the cook. Every order
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: I would make a cheeseburger and make me a big
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: Buford and eat it or hide it under the cooktop.
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: I was making 20. What are you making? 425 an hour.
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: That's funny. Hey, Romeo, first job was the mascot for
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: the Bakersfield Blaze. Wow, what an awesome job. No, number one,
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: knew who I was. Oh, no one knew who I was.
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: So when I seen people, I knew I would be
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: messing with them through the whole game. $ 25 a game,
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: the Bakersfield Blaze. That's awesome. It's Romeo.
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 9: Man, Romeo, you guys don't know how good you guys
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 9: got it.
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 7: Raider Dave's first job was 29 years ago. And I
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 7: was making 38 cents an hour.
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 8: It was, you know, you got to start somewhere.
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 9: But it was a tough job.
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 8: I was working at Corcoran State Prison.
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 10: I was a porter.
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: Okay. Well, once again, very impressive.
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 9: Yes, sir.
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 7: Came a long way.
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just.
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: At least we haven't heard from Seahawk Lou in a while.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: But I don't think these guys hear what they're saying.
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: You know, there's some stuff that you guys should keep
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: to yourself because it's embarrassing. And, yeah, it's embarrassing.
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 3: Good morning, Al.
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: What's going on?
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 7: Hey, what's up, bro?
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 9: Hey, Ruben.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: What up, man?
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 8: Man, my first real job, bro, we didn't get paid.
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 8: The guy that raised me, he would say that, you know,
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 8: you work too easy.
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 7: You know what I mean?
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 8: You got to pay the bills. All the money goes
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 8: to the house. But I used to do my own
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 8: little houses around the neighborhood, like mow the yards and stuff.
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 9: Okay.
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 8: And there was this older lady. She wasn't older, but,
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 8: you know what I mean, older to me. Her name
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 8: was Josie Martinez Roman. I never forget her because, man,
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 8: she used to pay me fat to mow her lawn.
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 8: I used to mow it once a week, 40 bucks
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 8: every time. So when I went to school, even as
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 8: a freshman, everybody, you know what I mean, I had
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 8: money to buy the Frito Boats and, you know, the
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 8: sodas and everything for me and my friends. So, you
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 8: know what I mean, like... But I made $ 40 a yard.
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 8: But I had, like, five houses that I would do
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 8: around the neighborhood. So I made some good money. But
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 8: that lady, Josie Martinez, she would even go and buy me, like,
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 8: a real nice pair of shoes, my first 501 Levi's. So,
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 8: you know, shout out to her.
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 11: Damn.
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: Everybody, you guys are so stupid when you like to
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: name drop people that nobody knows. It amazes me.
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 8: Actually, she's really well known in.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 7: The food district.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: I'm sure everybody knows her. I've been doing this show
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: 30 years. I have no idea who she is.
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 3: But all right.
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: All right, bro. You guys, all you cats do that.
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: You drop names like we're just all supposed to know
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: who these people are. Romeo in the morning.
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 14: Every morning.
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 4: 94.1.