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05/14/2025 Ask the Expert with Larry Dawson · WCHS Network Podcasts

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Speaker 3: And very plus to Good morning to you. You're listening
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Speaker 3: to ask the expert WCCHS the Voice of Charleston. I'm
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Speaker 3: Del Cooper. Thanks so much for tuning in. It is
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Speaker 3: a Wednesday morning here in the city of Charleston, in
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Speaker 3: the state of West Virginia, in the country of the
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Speaker 3: United States, and Larry Dawson is in the studio with
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Speaker 3: me this morning. Larry, good morning. How you doing this morning?
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Speaker 2: Man?
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Speaker 3: I'm doing pretty well. I have no complaints about how
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Speaker 3: things are going. Man, it's a nice.
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Speaker 4: Morning, and you have a beautiful studio.
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Speaker 3: It's nice, isn't it.
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Speaker 4: I'm very nice.
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Speaker 3: I've been telling folks Sean.
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Speaker 4: I think I started O two coming here and for
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Speaker 4: the longest time, I did two times a month, and
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Speaker 4: when I semi retired and kicked it back to one.
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Speaker 4: But I've seen a lot of changes, more changes in
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Speaker 4: the last year, that be correct. Oh yeah, and it's uh,
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Speaker 4: it really looks good.
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Speaker 3: The amazing thing is was with someone like yourself, you've
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Speaker 3: actually seen the changes. Now. I've been here a little while,
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Speaker 3: and I've been here on a couple of different tours,
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Speaker 3: so I've I've seen quite a few of them. But
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Speaker 3: a lot of the people that work here, you've actually
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Speaker 3: seen the changes more than the people that are actually
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Speaker 3: still employed in this building, because a lot of them
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Speaker 3: haven't been coming here since two thousand and two. So
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Speaker 3: you've seen, you've you've taken the ticket man, you've seen,
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Speaker 3: you've seen the entire thing. You've taken the ride.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I've been in the loft.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I think Paul Howard took me up.
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Speaker 3: Take out there. It's a fun time out there.
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Speaker 4: I can't remember. Somebody took me downstairs in the basement
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Speaker 4: told me the story.
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, there's a we've been having engineers working here,
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Speaker 3: and some of the engineers we've had some turnover in
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Speaker 3: the engineering in the company and so some of our
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Speaker 3: new engineers have been relearning our building and things like that,
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Speaker 3: and so they're rediscovering the legends of the building as
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Speaker 3: they're coming along. You know, some spooky stuff downstairs. There's
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Speaker 3: some spooky stuff down there.
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Speaker 4: Well, you never know what's behind the wall.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's exactly true. Yeah, unless there's something written on
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Speaker 3: the wall that tells you what's behind it.
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Speaker 4: Did you see I caught a glimpse of a hidden
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Speaker 4: stairway at the Capitol in d C. Did you see that? No,
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Speaker 4: in one of the rooms, they pulled back a area
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Speaker 4: rug and there was and I think it was not
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Speaker 4: a secret, but not well known, right, okay, And there
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Speaker 4: was a I guess a door that you lifted, and
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Speaker 4: there was a stairway that went down into other areas
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Speaker 4: like beneath the Capitol. Now once again, I don't think
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Speaker 4: it was kept a secret. It just wasn't used. But
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Speaker 4: they've opened it up.
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Speaker 3: I love stories like that.
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Speaker 4: I love stories like that. I think if I went
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Speaker 4: to the Capitol, if I could ever get a tour,
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Speaker 4: I'd let me see the stairways.
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Speaker 3: I was when I was a kid, I was obsessed
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Speaker 3: with like secret passages and stuff you know, growing up,
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Speaker 3: all of those old movies that were filmed in like
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Speaker 3: the like the fifty sixties and seventies that you would watch,
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Speaker 3: especially like daytime TV or something d you know, there
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Speaker 3: would just be these old movies on Turner Classic or
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Speaker 3: TBS or whatever it is, and there would be these
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Speaker 3: like these old gothic movies to set in these big
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Speaker 3: mansions or whatever, and there was always like secret passages
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Speaker 3: or suff where people could get around, or old Abbot
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Speaker 3: Costello shows where there were secret passages and there were
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Speaker 3: some goof on it or whatever, or Scooby Doo even,
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Speaker 3: you know, I was just obsessed with secret passages. That
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Speaker 3: story immediately got my attention, and it also makes me
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Speaker 3: wonder if maybe Nicholas Cage couldn't use it to break
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Speaker 3: into still the Declaration of Independence or something.
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Speaker 4: When they first opened the Bunker at the Greenbrier to
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Speaker 4: the public, and I'm going to say this was around
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Speaker 4: ninety nine, I'd test to check me on that, but
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Speaker 4: I was within two weeks of the first tour. In
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Speaker 4: other words, I've got to I got to see the
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Speaker 4: real deal. I have since went back and it is
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Speaker 4: nothing compared. Listen, when I went through when they first
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Speaker 4: opened it up and shared the story and let us
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Speaker 4: see it how you entered into the Bucker. It was
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Speaker 4: an amazing event. It was it would be something in
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Speaker 4: my life that I'll carry with me because it was.
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Speaker 4: It was spectacular what they did, kind of under the cover,
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Speaker 4: so to speak. I think there was always talk about that,
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Speaker 4: but no one really talked about it. And then when
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Speaker 4: it finally got out, I believe it was in ninety nine.
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Speaker 4: It's about right, Okay. I went there and got to
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Speaker 4: tour it, and it was a very very educational tour.
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Speaker 3: When I lived out of state, I moved out of
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Speaker 3: state in the mid nineties, and it's funny that my
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Speaker 3: h of course, I had family back here, so I
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Speaker 3: visited it very often. But my attachment to the state
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Speaker 3: that I remember in those times that I lived out
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Speaker 3: of the state revolves around stories like that, because that
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Speaker 3: was actually a pretty big story, you know, And so
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Speaker 3: I was reading about that, and it was always for
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Speaker 3: a guy that lived in West Virginia for most of
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Speaker 3: his life up until that point and reading about the
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Speaker 3: state and very neutral church, it's like, hey, this is
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Speaker 3: a cool story. This happened here, you know. It's not
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Speaker 3: like the stereotypical thing. Oh this is a you know,
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Speaker 3: a bad representation of West Virginia, or I was looking
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Speaker 3: for something for the football team or something. It was
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Speaker 3: just a story about West Virginia with the neat thing
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Speaker 3: at the Greenbrier, with the bunker and everything there, and
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Speaker 3: how it was open to the public and stuff. It was.
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Speaker 3: I think it was in the Free Press or something,
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Speaker 3: you know. I mean, maybe it was an AP story
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Speaker 3: that they picked up, but it was still kind of interesting,
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Speaker 3: and even people in my office were talking about it
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Speaker 3: like just little water cooler talk or whatever. It was
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Speaker 3: kind of interesting, you know. And that's a fact. I've
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Speaker 3: never done it, and I had planned on doing it.
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Speaker 3: There was a time several years ago after I first
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Speaker 3: moved back that I was planning on going down there
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Speaker 3: with some friends of mine, and I just never made it.
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Speaker 3: I want to really do it, because that is a cool,
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Speaker 3: cool thing. You say. It's different now though, than what
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Speaker 3: it was. It's been more mused ZM five Exactly. Yeah, right, yeah,
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Speaker 3: lost your authenticity from it. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: When I went in, it was within two weeks of
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Speaker 4: the discovery and it said okay, we're going to show
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Speaker 4: it all. Wow, I'm just so glad I got to
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Speaker 4: do it. And I don't recall even what prompted me
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Speaker 4: to do it, other than that this is one of
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Speaker 4: those things that you do and you go, wow, I'm
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Speaker 4: very glad I did that. Gonna talk about hell damage.
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Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, gracious, I know that I had a
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Speaker 3: thing happened to me one time. You know, I worked
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Speaker 3: for Enterprise rent a car and we used to have
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Speaker 3: to you know, we move cars all over the state
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Speaker 3: or whatever you need them. One of the things we
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Speaker 3: rented out were cargo vans. I mean, you know, they're
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Speaker 3: nice and useful. Nothing wrong with a cargo van. They're
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Speaker 3: actually very a lot of utility behind those. Those were
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Speaker 3: very useful vehicles. But I was I had to go
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Speaker 3: pick up a vehicle in Detroit one time. I was
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Speaker 3: leaving from Lansing, and so I was taking a cargo
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Speaker 3: van to leave it there because we didn't need it,
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Speaker 3: and I was picking up the car that I needed
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Speaker 3: to drive and drive back. You had a fleet management,
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Speaker 3: you always had to do stuff like this. And I
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Speaker 3: was about halfway to Detroit and this incredible health storm started,
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Speaker 3: just an incredible helstorm. Now I've driven through helstorms before
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Speaker 3: and it's not fun. Never, it's never fun. I've been
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Speaker 3: in Helstone. I'm just never fun to be in a healthtorm.
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Speaker 3: Being in a helstorm in a cargo van might have
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Speaker 3: been one of the worst experiences of my life. It
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Speaker 3: was like you're at a wars. I mean, I don't
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Speaker 3: mean I've never been in a wars and so I'm
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Speaker 3: not trying to to the stony valor there. I'm just
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Speaker 3: saying that it was like bam bam, bam, bam, bam,
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Speaker 3: bam bam all around you, man, and it messed up
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Speaker 3: that cargo van. So not only was it loud where
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Speaker 3: it felt like you were being shelld I'll pull under
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Speaker 3: a bridge and wait until it passed. It did tons
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Speaker 3: of damage to that thing. And that's all panels. It's
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Speaker 3: all panels. It's nothing but damage on that.
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Speaker 4: It's a metal box wheel.
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Speaker 3: Exactly true. Yeah, right, So we had a huge issue
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Speaker 3: with hell damage here a couple of weeks ago.
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Speaker 4: Well we had it hit the valley a little less
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Speaker 4: than a month ago. And unless you've been under rock,
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Speaker 4: I mean, if you didn't get affected, you know someone
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Speaker 4: got effect. Between the roofs and the fences and the windows,
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Speaker 4: especially the.
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Speaker 3: Cars, my mother and dolls. My mother in law's yard
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Speaker 3: looks like somebody threw like shrap it on into the yard.
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Speaker 3: It just like obliterated her planners and everything else. It's
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Speaker 3: incredible the damage.
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Speaker 4: It did a lot of damage to the car, which
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Speaker 4: threw a lot of insurance money into the valley. And
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Speaker 4: when anytime you throw insurance money into the valley, there's
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Speaker 4: going to be activity. Either it is going to be
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Speaker 4: the body shops or someone decide they want to trade it.
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Speaker 4: I'm seeing and getting calls from individuals that has a
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Speaker 4: car that has substantial bountle of damage, but they really
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Speaker 4: was looking for a reason to purchase their next car,
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Speaker 4: and he go, well, I could use this money instead
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Speaker 4: of fixing the car, you know, is to buy the
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Speaker 4: car or maybe pay down to debt. And there's the
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Speaker 4: list goes on and on. But there is a tremendous
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Speaker 4: amount of damage in the valley. Now they had brought
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Speaker 4: the storm chasers in and you have to be patient
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Speaker 4: if you elect that you want to have it repaired,
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Speaker 4: and they do excellent job. I'm not discouraging anyone, but
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Speaker 4: if you have a car that has been damaged, its
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Speaker 4: right there on the aging process where you had been thinking,
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Speaker 4: and it's a paid off car. Therefore you receive the check,
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Speaker 4: you can sell me your car. I'll buy your hell
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Speaker 4: damaged car, and you can take your money and you
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Speaker 4: can put it in your pocket, or be he'll buy
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Speaker 4: you another car, or see, do whatever you want to
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Speaker 4: with it. The cost of ownership has risen. I was
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Speaker 4: reading out in the parking lot an article Dave Allen
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Speaker 4: and pulled in said come on, I'm going the back
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Speaker 4: door and said I'm reading an article here. And I
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Speaker 4: didn't realize because I am still under a dealer policy.
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Speaker 4: I still have a dealer insurance under my company. How
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Speaker 4: high car insurance has arisen. I just didn't grasp that.
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Speaker 4: You know, I've been out of the retail market now
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Speaker 4: for eighteen months. So the objections why someone might be
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Speaker 4: hesitant about buying car, you know, I could relate back
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Speaker 4: to eighteen months ago, and sometimes it was insurance. They go, well,
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Speaker 4: let me check my insurance, and sometimes they got surprise.
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Speaker 4: Certain models which I was shocked at. A Honda I
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Speaker 4: think it was a CVR. CRV has went up. Tesla
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Speaker 4: has went up twenty five percent, twenty five percent, and
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Speaker 4: it was naming the states. Now West Virginia was not
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Speaker 4: in the state of the large increases, but we all
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Speaker 4: are getting increases. So you think your insurance is high,
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Speaker 4: now you wait until these hell climbs get paid out.
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Speaker 3: Yeah right, Yeah, that round is going to create more adjustment.
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Speaker 3: Of course, insurance companies are great as long as you're
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Speaker 3: paying the money. They actually don't have to fix anything.
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Speaker 3: Once they actually have to do their job, it's like, oh,
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Speaker 3: we need to reevaluate our income model here because sudden
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Speaker 3: we were having to pay out. I've seen this happen
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Speaker 3: a lot, and man, the hell damages can be pretty
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Speaker 3: robust on a vehicle. And Tom Payton was in here
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Speaker 3: talking about this a little bit. I think it was
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Speaker 3: last week too. But it can put people in kind
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Speaker 3: of a weird situation where they're not actually ready to
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Speaker 3: total their car, and the damage on the car could
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Speaker 3: be such where the insurance company wants to total it. Now,
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Speaker 3: you might be able to work through that and figure
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Speaker 3: it out, but it really could put some people in
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Speaker 3: a bad situation where they have a car they like,
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Speaker 3: they have it paid off or whatever the course might
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Speaker 3: be on it, but then they may not be able
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Speaker 3: to make it whole again, you know, they may there
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Speaker 3: may not be a perfect solution for them selling that
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Speaker 3: car if they have it, especially if they have it
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Speaker 3: paid off. In that regard, it may be restarting isn't
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Speaker 3: a bad solution. No, it's not.
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Speaker 4: And that's why I came today to speak of that,
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Speaker 4: because I don't think that the John Q public thinks
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Speaker 4: of that. You know, they see their damaged car, like,
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Speaker 4: no one's going to buy this car, these dents all over.
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Speaker 4: I gotta get fixed. I gotta get fixed. Will you
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Speaker 4: have option B? You can sell me your car?
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Speaker 3: So if you get a let me see if I
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Speaker 3: can if you can correct me here if I'm wrong,
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Speaker 3: if your car is total through the insurance company, not
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Speaker 3: total or not total, not total, but if you're if
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Speaker 3: you're not happy with with having to repair that, the
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Speaker 3: insurance company probably will still give you a check to
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Speaker 3: repair the field if the car's paid off. If it's
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Speaker 3: paid off, so you could choose not to.
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Speaker 4: Do that correct and sell the car that is correct.
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Speaker 3: So then you would get your payoff for or you
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Speaker 3: would get your amount of repair, and you would have
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Speaker 3: the amount that you would sell it to Larry Dawson
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Speaker 3: for that you could turn around and either buy a
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Speaker 3: car or a hefty down payment on a new car.
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Speaker 4: Well, I tell you something else. What I'm hearing now
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Speaker 4: I had no held image. But what I'm hearing by
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Speaker 4: talking to everybody in my area the god held image.
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Speaker 4: The insurance companies are paying retail plus. Okay, So you
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Speaker 4: have an opportunity.
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Speaker 3: That's a consumer benefit. That is a benefit.
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Speaker 4: So you might want to take advantage if you have
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Speaker 4: thoughts of lessening your inventory. Let's say you have three
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Speaker 4: cars and you go, you know what, that car is
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Speaker 4: set there and got damage, and the other twos in
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Speaker 4: the garage and I really don't need it. Here's a
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Speaker 4: great opportunity because if you take my check with that
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Speaker 4: insurance check, I would safely say this gonna be much higher.
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Speaker 4: Then let's take the hell scenario out just my check.
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Speaker 3: That's a great idea.
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Speaker 4: Now, yes it might, I would value weight.
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Speaker 5: What.
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Speaker 4: Look, here's an example. In the last week, I bought
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Speaker 4: a CenTra with hell damage and I bought a nineteen
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Speaker 4: models Chevrolet truck with hell damage. Both of them are black,
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Speaker 4: which really stands out. You'd like to get a white one.
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Speaker 4: But anyway, they were both both were black, and I
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Speaker 4: can't tell you if that was the deciding factor, but
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Speaker 4: I can tell you that was probably the deciding factor
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Speaker 4: of why they chose to sell. It's a great opportunity
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Speaker 4: if you have a paid off car and it's maybe
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Speaker 4: the extra car you was thinking about getting rid of it.
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Speaker 4: You didn't want to go through. The other thing that
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Speaker 4: it always happens when it gets warm is your air
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Speaker 4: conditioner that you had in the fall you don't have
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Speaker 4: in a spring. Other words, you go out tore Mare's
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Speaker 4: not bloe cold well. I don't know if you've went
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Speaker 4: to a service to get ac repair. They've changed the gas.
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Speaker 4: The old gas is not around. Sometimes they got to convert.
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Speaker 4: It's not inexpensive any longer. Listen, you're lucky. You know
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Speaker 4: it might be one pound low. And yes, we're a vial.
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Speaker 4: Like Kelly, my secretary, she got by it. She told
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Speaker 4: me it was only like sixty nine dollars to get
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Speaker 4: her little vial fixed, which was great. But the last
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Speaker 4: two of the cars I've purchased, guess what did work?
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Speaker 3: The air condition.
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Speaker 4: And I don't really have a boundaries on mouths. I
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Speaker 4: bought a twenty fourteen or fifteen Nissan Ultima last week
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Speaker 4: and we went and got it. Today's Wednesday. We went
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Speaker 4: and got it Monday. This car has two hundred and
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Speaker 4: thirteen thousand mouths.
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Speaker 3: That's pretty robust.
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Speaker 4: Looks like that little Krowley I saw you pull in. Meant, huh,
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Speaker 4: it's very now are it doesn't blow cold, and that's
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Speaker 4: probably why they decide that. You know, they're not going
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Speaker 4: to tell you why you just got figured out, but
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Speaker 4: you kind of know why it's getting hot. And they
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Speaker 4: probably had an estiment of upwards one thousand dollars. The
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Speaker 4: car did have two hundred and thirteen thousand miles, but
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Speaker 4: honest to good, I had my F one fifty in
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Speaker 4: the shop Monday and I got it back out Tuesday afternoon.
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Speaker 4: I drove that thing home. Actually I drove it to
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Speaker 4: KYMPS and then went home. And she has a pretty
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Speaker 4: little card. I said, you would not believe how many
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Speaker 4: mouses on that car. But it's it's something out here,
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Speaker 4: so I don't really have boundaries. So if you have
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Speaker 4: a hell damage lor, it's the hell. Okay. The Chevy truck,
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Speaker 4: the nineteen, you know, it's a twenty nineteen Chevy truck
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Speaker 4: that I bought from an individual one hundred and ninety
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Speaker 4: thousand with hell damage. So it's been a good truck, right,
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Speaker 4: and there's a market for that car, I mean vehicle.
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Speaker 4: I mean I kind of know where to put these
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Speaker 4: cars at. I don't buy them to gas. I buy
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Speaker 4: them because I know I have somewhere or something I
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Speaker 4: can do with it. But I really don't have any boundaries.
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Speaker 4: So if you have a hell damage car and you
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Speaker 4: like to put the money in your pocket, pay down
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Speaker 4: your credit card, you know, graduations right around the corner,
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Speaker 4: spring break, summer, it's vacation, put it in you know,
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Speaker 4: whatever you want to do. It's your money. Is it
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Speaker 4: an old saying it's your money?
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Speaker 3: But this is one of those situations where the silver
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Speaker 3: lining gives up potentially some opportunity where you could where
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Speaker 3: you can do something with that.
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Speaker 4: So you have a golden opportunity. And even if you
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Speaker 4: have a debt and you have that insurance is coming,
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Speaker 4: it can go to the to the lianholder. That's the
16:45
Speaker 4: only thing they're trying to protect is a lean holder.
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Speaker 4: You have it with Bank of Charleston, you know X
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Speaker 4: amount dollars, Well, you can't just take that money because
16:53
Speaker 4: they have a collateral interest in that vehicle, and so
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Speaker 4: they so they kind of force you to get it.
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Speaker 3: You could potentially, you could potentially get out from under
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Speaker 3: a payment because exactly you could declare to your lender
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Speaker 3: you're not going to fix it, however you want to
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Speaker 3: pay it off.
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Speaker 4: There you go.
17:08
Speaker 3: And so you could take their money, add it to
17:11
Speaker 3: your money, pay off the loan, and then if you
17:13
Speaker 3: want it out from under the car, you're out from
17:14
Speaker 3: under the car.
17:15
Speaker 4: You know, here comes Larry Man.
17:16
Speaker 3: Man, what a great idea. Look at this. This isn't
17:18
Speaker 3: even the financial planning show, and we're doing some help
17:21
Speaker 3: for you this morning. That's a great idea.
17:22
Speaker 4: I would say the majority, it would it would probably
17:25
Speaker 4: floor you of the negative equity out there. In other words,
17:31
Speaker 4: you owe more than yeah right, that's why they sell
17:33
Speaker 4: gap in short, because the majority has and the dead
17:37
Speaker 4: and it's more than the valuation of their car. But
17:42
Speaker 4: with instance like this comes along, you have an opportunity
17:46
Speaker 4: if you'll use your head and think just a little
17:48
Speaker 4: bit and I'll I'll walk you through it. I met
17:50
Speaker 4: a gentleman over here the other day. He called me
17:53
Speaker 4: at a parking building, in a parking building, that Sai,
17:56
Speaker 4: why I'll just come to you, I'm coming to Charleston.
17:58
Speaker 4: He said, really. He said, now I'm going to tell
18:00
Speaker 4: it front. It's going to Whole Link and there's not working.
18:03
Speaker 4: I said, I don't care. I mean, I'm glad you
18:05
Speaker 4: told me. I figured out anyway, So I went up there.
18:09
Speaker 4: I talked to him, and he told me what he's
18:11
Speaker 4: wanting to do. He said, I just want to sell
18:13
Speaker 4: you this car, and I'm going to buy. He has
18:17
Speaker 4: two little boys, and I want to buy something with
18:19
Speaker 4: a third row. We talked. He said, I've been looking
18:21
Speaker 4: around and I just feel like i'd be better off
18:23
Speaker 4: selling the car and buying a car. I said, perfect.
18:27
Speaker 4: I said, tell you what i'll do for you. You
18:29
Speaker 4: find a car in the valley, let me know what
18:32
Speaker 4: it is. If you want some insight on it, I'll
18:34
Speaker 4: help you. And if I know someone at that dealership,
18:36
Speaker 4: which I kind of do, I said, I'll get an
18:39
Speaker 4: introduction going on which is really easy to break the ice.
18:43
Speaker 3: What a great I mean, that's a concierge service man.
18:45
Speaker 3: I mean that's perfect.
18:46
Speaker 4: I said, I'll do that for me. He said, oh really,
18:48
Speaker 4: and I said yeah. I said, Now, I don't know
18:50
Speaker 4: every store everybody, I said, but I've got to select
18:54
Speaker 4: person in a store that I can lead you in
18:57
Speaker 4: and you can walk in and I'll let them know
18:59
Speaker 4: you're coming, and that maybe that will you know, that
19:02
Speaker 4: ice breaking the first fifteen minutes.
19:04
Speaker 3: Solop the gears a little bit, you know, I'm making
19:05
Speaker 3: it a little easier.
19:06
Speaker 4: And he said, well, so we've been communicated. And I
19:09
Speaker 4: actually he was with my nephew the other date. I
19:12
Speaker 4: checked on him and he's you know, once again, he said, yep,
19:15
Speaker 4: we're going.
19:16
Speaker 3: To do this.
19:18
Speaker 4: So that's you know, it's my service. It's a free service.
19:21
Speaker 4: It's it's hard to get into what I deem a
19:24
Speaker 4: professional when I think, after almost fifty years, maybe I'm
19:27
Speaker 4: in that category that if I can help you along,
19:29
Speaker 4: maybe you'll help me along with selling me your car.
19:32
Speaker 3: And then that's we've been talking about it forever on
19:34
Speaker 3: this program. That I mean, when you do things the
19:36
Speaker 3: right way, things tend to come back to you the
19:38
Speaker 3: right way, or at least that's the business practice that
19:40
Speaker 3: you've been into place.
19:41
Speaker 4: Well, when I stepped out and Stevens took the dealership
19:46
Speaker 4: over and I went next door, and I've said this,
19:49
Speaker 4: I did want to expire. I just wanted to retire.
19:52
Speaker 4: I'm kind of a solo practitioner. Yes, I got, you know,
19:55
Speaker 4: some assistance, some help, but it's now on my terms.
19:59
Speaker 4: I'm not in a hurry no longer. I had lunch
20:02
Speaker 4: the other day with Mike Wendell, which is Lou Wendell's son.
20:05
Speaker 4: Lou's been running at Marine. I actually I bought a
20:07
Speaker 4: pontoon by one good family good dealership, and Mike his son,
20:12
Speaker 4: which is probably eight nine ten years younger may He
20:15
Speaker 4: looked at me. He said, you're different, Larry. I said,
20:18
Speaker 4: what men? He said, you're not up tight all time.
20:21
Speaker 4: He said, you've been walking in here and I said,
20:23
Speaker 4: I said, it didn't happen overnight. But I said, I'm
20:26
Speaker 4: not in a hurry any longer.
20:27
Speaker 3: Hey, I deserve it, though, I mean, you'll be able
20:29
Speaker 3: to do what you like and semi return whatever you
20:31
Speaker 3: wanted to define it as. It's worked out really well.
20:34
Speaker 4: So to me, it's not a business, it's a service.
20:37
Speaker 4: And if I can help you buy your sell your car,
20:40
Speaker 4: I'll buy your car. And sometimes I can't buy your car,
20:42
Speaker 4: maybe we can't get together. Most generally, if I get
20:45
Speaker 4: a reasonable person that understands that you're not going to
20:50
Speaker 4: go that computer and go to the top figure the
20:53
Speaker 4: retail plus plus not deduct for anything your car needs,
20:57
Speaker 4: and that's what you're going to get. Now. I'm not
21:00
Speaker 4: gonna be able to help you, and I'll tell you
21:01
Speaker 4: that up front. You know, if you've been searched around,
21:04
Speaker 4: you're you're just zoomed in on one figure and it's
21:08
Speaker 4: normally on a left hand column where it says extra clean.
21:11
Speaker 4: We're probably not going to be able to get together
21:13
Speaker 4: because I honestly, extra clean cars in my definition maybe
21:18
Speaker 4: one in one hundred.
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Speaker 6: Right.
21:20
Speaker 3: It's tough to find something to something like that, you know.
21:23
Speaker 4: And the thing that we see when I say we
21:26
Speaker 4: we car people, and most of them, I think all
21:30
Speaker 4: of them will tell you this is that deduction for
21:34
Speaker 4: miles is not enough. In addition for moles isn't enough.
21:38
Speaker 4: In other words, what the valuation guide will tell you
21:41
Speaker 4: on a computer, did you duck for high mallets. I've
21:44
Speaker 4: always told people double that or the low end. If
21:48
Speaker 4: you've got a really nice car with very good you
21:50
Speaker 4: know miles, like teenage miles, and let's say it'say seventeen model,
21:54
Speaker 4: which is rare, you may want to add more than
21:57
Speaker 4: what it's telling you because there it's just the market itself.
22:01
Speaker 4: Now that computer is based up on sales of all
22:06
Speaker 4: might be a brown one that had hell damage and
22:09
Speaker 4: got sold and that figure got computed into that analysis
22:13
Speaker 4: of the vehicle. The other one might be a really nice,
22:16
Speaker 4: i mean, priesting, smoke free, pet free, one owner, little
22:21
Speaker 4: lady car that brought the ultimate price. You average those out,
22:26
Speaker 4: you take the good with the bad, and that's how
22:28
Speaker 4: they come with the valuation. They're not all extra coly.
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Speaker 3: Ye, that's a spectrum. There's not a like an exact
22:33
Speaker 3: science that goes to it. Yeah, that's a very good
22:36
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Speaker 3: to this. John d Toon, Larry Dawson is inestuning with us.
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Speaker 3: You know for years, I'm gonna have to change our
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Speaker 3: music now a little bit. I think coming in and
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Speaker 3: out of breaks because for years, the way that our
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Speaker 3: studio was positioned, you actually couldn't hear the production coming back.
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Speaker 3: We had to go off timing, so I was like
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Speaker 3: watching when it was time to come back, but I
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Speaker 3: actually couldn't hear because of just the unique configuration of
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Speaker 3: where we were before. Now, of course we have a
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Speaker 3: normal configuration, and I can hear the monitor as I'm
25:04
Speaker 3: supposed to it, so we can hear the music when
25:06
Speaker 3: we come back and stuff. One thing I wanted to
25:08
Speaker 3: bring up to you, Larry. I was reading an article
25:09
Speaker 3: about it and then I did a deep dib and
25:11
Speaker 3: ended up reading about three or four articles. I brought
25:13
Speaker 3: it up at some point last year because there was
25:15
Speaker 3: a couple of auto makers that we're thinking about doing this,
25:18
Speaker 3: and now I think it's all of them. The return
25:20
Speaker 3: of the button. We're going to see the return of
25:22
Speaker 3: the button. We need the button, Yeah, we're getting We're
25:25
Speaker 3: going to reduce the size and the things that are
25:28
Speaker 3: stored in that center screen console that I mean, who
25:32
Speaker 3: thought that this was a good idea anyway? Right? You
25:34
Speaker 3: have to look at a TV screen to manipulate something
25:36
Speaker 3: with your fingers while you're driving in order to change
25:40
Speaker 3: a radio station or whatever. It might be just not
25:42
Speaker 3: a great ergonomic layout anyway. When buttons are just so
25:46
Speaker 3: much easier, you reach over and you hit it and
25:47
Speaker 3: whatever it is. Every manufacturer I read quotes they went
25:51
Speaker 3: and talked to people at every manufacturer this article I
25:53
Speaker 3: was reading, and every single one of them, at some scale,
25:56
Speaker 3: some of them way more than other. Others are reduced
26:00
Speaker 3: to touch screens and putting buttons and switches back into vehicles.
26:03
Speaker 3: And man, I am here for that.
26:04
Speaker 4: I am too. I helped my younger brother get a
26:08
Speaker 4: new Bronco October for his wife's birthday, and I bought
26:15
Speaker 4: his Vovo X sixty ninety out on something I sold
26:21
Speaker 4: him like three years ago. Now, this was a fancy car.
26:25
Speaker 4: It goes up and down. It's gotta screen as big
26:28
Speaker 4: as your screen now. And for whatever reason, when I left, Oh,
26:34
Speaker 4: we were at his house when he gave it to
26:36
Speaker 4: her surprise. So I drove it home and then I
26:38
Speaker 4: drove it to work the next day, and I had
26:39
Speaker 4: to makes a couple of stops. I was forever. I
26:43
Speaker 4: just finally pulled over. Okay, somewhere there's a radio, Somewhere
26:47
Speaker 4: there's a heat and air. You know, I gotta get
26:49
Speaker 4: this thing. I mean it is, let's say, for a
26:53
Speaker 4: man in his sixties, it is a challenge.
26:56
Speaker 3: I grew up with computers, man, and I have a
26:58
Speaker 3: hard time with these things sometimes, I mean, settings are
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Speaker 3: buried underneath so many different menu options and stuff. It's
27:03
Speaker 3: like you can't just go directly to something. It's really
27:06
Speaker 3: frustrating sometimes when you get into those things. And I
27:09
Speaker 3: love the idea that you're just gonna be able to
27:10
Speaker 3: hit a button or turn a knob to turn down
27:13
Speaker 3: your air conditioner, for example. You know, I mean, I
27:15
Speaker 3: don't want to have to like set the actual temperature
27:17
Speaker 3: or like hit a thing a million times to get
27:19
Speaker 3: it to go down. Just give me a knob. I've
27:20
Speaker 3: been looking at that knob my entire life, the little
27:23
Speaker 3: triangle that gets bigger and smaller as you move that.
27:25
Speaker 3: I know how to read that. Just put that on there.
27:27
Speaker 3: It's fine.
27:28
Speaker 4: Isn't that some sense of what we're complaining about texting
27:33
Speaker 4: taking your eyes off thread exactly and trying to fumble
27:36
Speaker 4: through a scrien.
27:37
Speaker 3: The study that I read actually said that the screens
27:40
Speaker 3: were more dangerous than texting. Yes, that the accident occurrence
27:43
Speaker 3: rate was actually greater with those I think probably because
27:45
Speaker 3: of the frequency of use, But the use was actually
27:48
Speaker 3: more dangerous than texting. And we have laws against texting. Yes,
27:51
Speaker 3: you know, so get rid of the screens, guys, get
27:53
Speaker 3: rid of the screens. They're terrible. I mean I can
27:56
Speaker 3: see if like the back had a screen and maybe
27:58
Speaker 3: they manipulated things for like the entertain am a console
28:00
Speaker 3: or something, or maybe a screen would come on when
28:02
Speaker 3: you're in park and you had something that you can
28:04
Speaker 3: because some of them do have some limitations like that.
28:06
Speaker 3: But still, if you want to change the climate, control
28:09
Speaker 3: of the radio, some other settings that take place while
28:12
Speaker 3: you're driving and stuff like that, you have to manipulate
28:13
Speaker 3: a screen. We got to stop that, man. It's just
28:15
Speaker 3: a bad idea that always was.
28:17
Speaker 4: Yeah, when those screens blank, you know, everything shuts down. Yeah,
28:20
Speaker 4: and it's you know, it's a very expensive fix. When
28:23
Speaker 4: let's go back to the insurance. You know, you hit it,
28:26
Speaker 4: you know, you bump somebody and it cracks your screen,
28:29
Speaker 4: and it's not like your front bumper might be one
28:33
Speaker 4: thousand dollars fixed and your screen's three thousand dollars fix.
28:36
Speaker 4: Now you think about that for that little one light
28:39
Speaker 4: them and you know your insurance will cover, but it's
28:43
Speaker 4: going to evaluate in what it costs you monthly by
28:47
Speaker 4: the ven number or the vehicle identification number as to
28:52
Speaker 4: what you have. The world is very small. Now you
28:55
Speaker 4: can get most of the time. When I start a
28:57
Speaker 4: conversation with someone and I see it's going to go well,
29:01
Speaker 4: I normally asked him, I said, please send me a
29:03
Speaker 4: couple of pictures, send me a picture of validometer and
29:07
Speaker 4: send me your VEN and I will get back with you.
29:10
Speaker 4: I need to do a little research. I can bring
29:12
Speaker 4: up the window sticker of your car. I mean what
29:15
Speaker 4: it will originally calls to allow me to look at
29:17
Speaker 4: what options on them. Because a person might say, I've
29:20
Speaker 4: got an F one fifty, okay, what it has on? Oh,
29:24
Speaker 4: it's loaded. Then you bring up this F one fifty
29:28
Speaker 4: with really no options because power windows and power seats
29:32
Speaker 4: was normally standard, defrosters, air, you know, things like that.
29:36
Speaker 4: But do one. It might sound like it's loaded. Well,
29:40
Speaker 4: it doesn't have a large roof, it doesn't have the screen,
29:43
Speaker 4: doesn't have the twenty inch wheels and all that you've
29:45
Speaker 4: got to compute in evaluation, and it might just say
29:50
Speaker 4: F one fifty, excel tee. I bought, oh, two months ago,
29:57
Speaker 4: a seven thousand mile F one fifty, and this guy
30:02
Speaker 4: was slick. The badging on the side that said F
30:07
Speaker 4: one fifty XCEL. He took off and put F one
30:11
Speaker 4: fifty x l T. What Yes, he did?
30:15
Speaker 2: What?
30:16
Speaker 4: And I'm more. I got looking in that truck, I said,
30:18
Speaker 4: I don't think this is an excel T. So I
30:22
Speaker 4: I called my friend that runs a four dealership, let
30:25
Speaker 4: me give you a vent. I'm confused, I told I
30:28
Speaker 4: just sent a picture of the badging, seven picture of
30:31
Speaker 4: the truck, seven pictures of the wheel, which you know,
30:34
Speaker 4: he kind of could tail from there. He said, Bob,
30:37
Speaker 4: he said, somebody's put XLT badging on that.
30:40
Speaker 3: I can't. I mean, obviously I can believe it, because yeah, okay,
30:43
Speaker 3: I can see. I mean, anybody will try to do anything.
30:45
Speaker 4: But what then they put on on the back on
30:48
Speaker 4: the rear bedside f X four, which is an option
30:55
Speaker 4: and it's an expensive offer.
30:57
Speaker 3: Is that like the liner or something?
30:59
Speaker 4: It's more of if you like an LTZ or no, yeah,
31:05
Speaker 4: seventy one and Chevrolet and toehooks and maybe a differential cover.
31:10
Speaker 4: But it at FX four and I just kept walking around. Now,
31:13
Speaker 4: I will say this, they did an excellent job. They
31:17
Speaker 4: I won't say they could have fold me, but they
31:20
Speaker 4: made me think, well, the average person wouldn't.
31:23
Speaker 3: Have any idea, So did you call them out on it?
31:27
Speaker 3: How about the vehicle, because it was because of the price.
31:30
Speaker 4: I brought it up. That just kind of looked at me.
31:34
Speaker 3: They knew you made a point to know that you
31:36
Speaker 3: made a point to make sure they knew they weren't
31:38
Speaker 3: pulling one over when you but you found a deal
31:40
Speaker 3: acceptable anyway. Yeah, okay, that's good.
31:42
Speaker 4: And the person I passed along to had full awareness.
31:45
Speaker 4: I told I said, hey, let me share this with you,
31:48
Speaker 4: and you know, once again, I have a resource where
31:51
Speaker 4: I can pull the original windsticker.
31:52
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, exactly, you have that. You have that. I mean,
31:55
Speaker 3: I guess if you get the I mean, you did
31:57
Speaker 3: everything right and you passed it on to you to
31:59
Speaker 3: to the person you were dealing, so there's nothing wrong
32:00
Speaker 3: with that. The first time I went to New York,
32:02
Speaker 3: I bought a ROLEXX, and I mean I knew it
32:05
Speaker 3: was a ROLEXX, but man, it looked just like a
32:07
Speaker 3: ROLEXX or regular Rolex. But heck, I wore it around
32:10
Speaker 3: for a little while. Wasn't the greatest quality watch. And
32:13
Speaker 3: I was really too young to try to pull off
32:14
Speaker 3: a Rolex honestly, but I bought one. It was like
32:17
Speaker 3: forty bucks or something. It's a nice looking watch.
32:19
Speaker 4: You know, they've done a very good job with that.
32:22
Speaker 4: In the fake purses, yeah right, average trunk that used
32:26
Speaker 4: to sit over here. I remember he was selling those
32:30
Speaker 4: purses that are very Louis vatants. Yeah right, they were knockoffs. Actually,
32:34
Speaker 4: if I remember, I read an article. I think the
32:36
Speaker 4: Louis Vauton guy kind of wrote him a nasty letter said, hey,
32:41
Speaker 4: you're not supposed to be doing You're not supposed to
32:43
Speaker 4: be doing that.
32:44
Speaker 3: Not to not to hijack one stories, but I do
32:46
Speaker 3: have this guy. His name was Ricky, and I have
32:48
Speaker 3: so many great stories about Ricky. But there was this guy.
32:50
Speaker 3: When I ran a mortgage company, there was a guy
32:52
Speaker 3: that sold suits out of the back of his car
32:56
Speaker 3: in downtown Holt, Michigan, which is right outside of Lansing.
33:00
Speaker 3: And he did that all the time, and he would
33:01
Speaker 3: come over to us when we were getting there in
33:03
Speaker 3: the mornings, and he would like bring suits over to him,
33:05
Speaker 3: and he like, you got to try this, you gotta
33:06
Speaker 3: try this, you gotta try that. Eventually, I just offered
33:08
Speaker 3: the guy a job because he was relentless and a
33:11
Speaker 3: nice guy, and was, you know, for a really hard job.
33:13
Speaker 3: I've never even heard of that job before. We were
33:15
Speaker 3: trying to sell knockoff suits out of the back of
33:17
Speaker 3: the car. They were very nice looking suits, rafflelaurn or whatever.
33:19
Speaker 3: They weren't real. I gave the guy a job. I said, man,
33:22
Speaker 3: you're you're hungry, you want to do jobs. Mortgages are great,
33:25
Speaker 3: but this was back in the before two thousand, so
33:27
Speaker 3: it was a great industry to get into. And the
33:29
Speaker 3: guy killed it. He was great. He was great at
33:31
Speaker 3: doing it. But there was just something about being able
33:33
Speaker 3: to sell those those knockoff suits out of the back
33:35
Speaker 3: of the car that made me think, you know, that
33:36
Speaker 3: guy has some talent. I bet he would be good
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Speaker 3: at doing regular sales. And he was. He wasn't bad
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Speaker 3: at it at all.
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Speaker 4: When I was in my early career in the automobile business,
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Speaker 4: I tell you who made very good salesman when you
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Speaker 4: brought him in as a career change as a coach,
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Speaker 4: because they were used to they were used to control,
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Speaker 4: working long hours, not for a lot of pay. A
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Speaker 4: police officer once again and working long hours kind of
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Speaker 4: have to keep control. But in my early days. Believe
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Speaker 4: or not, you had vacuum clean salesman. Oh door, the door.
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Speaker 3: That's because they're bulletproof. I mean I mean not literally
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Speaker 3: because that could be very dangerous. But they take all
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Speaker 3: the heat. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, So you get a thick,
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Speaker 3: thick skin when you do that job.
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Speaker 4: Rainbow sweeper.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. I had a buddy that did that man and
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Speaker 3: he had a thick skin.
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Speaker 4: Yes, if you could bring him in the automobile business,
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Speaker 4: they normally succeeded. And I think probably coaches did the best.
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Speaker 4: You know, a coach to love your job and to
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Speaker 4: want to coach normally normally younger people and being a
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Speaker 4: better person for society. And that's what coaching's about. I mean, yes,
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Speaker 4: there's skills, athletic skills apply, but coaching and automobile cells,
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Speaker 4: if you take it serious and you really want to
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Speaker 4: presum what you have, which in their case is guidance
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Speaker 4: and abilities, it's to follow the same route and they normally,
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Speaker 4: if they make the transition, they it sticks. Because I
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Speaker 4: can tell you over my career, you know, you get talking,
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Speaker 4: oh what did you do for a living, But I
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Speaker 4: used to coach. I coach somewhere and you know, let's
35:22
Speaker 4: face it, to high school and middle school coaches. I mean,
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Speaker 4: they're not the highest paid. I think our teachers are
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Speaker 4: way underpaid. I just I just think that at the
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Speaker 4: top the scale, they're teaching my children and my grandchildren.
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Speaker 4: I want, I want the best. I want to get
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Speaker 4: the best. Guess what you gotta do. You got to
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Speaker 4: pay them. You got to pay them. That's a different subject,
35:42
Speaker 4: that's politics. But anyway, I in the automobile career, and
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Speaker 4: I say tell you, the automobile career for a young
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Speaker 4: person wanting to start out doesn't matter male, female, If
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Speaker 4: you want to get into it, they really really need
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Speaker 4: young people. It is a great field to get into.
36:04
Speaker 4: This selling of automobiles how I was taught is completely
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Speaker 4: old school. They are now are doing by electronic leads.
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Speaker 4: You know, whether it be the Facebook, they buy the leads,
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Speaker 4: you do the follow up. Everything is through tech support.
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Speaker 4: Your information's there, and it's I think it's the clear.
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Speaker 4: There's no objection to the vehicle because you can do
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Speaker 4: so much research before you go in. And you know,
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Speaker 4: if you was get down to the price thing, if
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Speaker 4: you want shot price, you can scatter across all fifty
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Speaker 4: states and a shot price, but to service and everything
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Speaker 4: goes with it. The automobile business needs a young career
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Speaker 4: also in the mechanic.
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Speaker 3: End of it. Oh yeah, I could imagine that. That's
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Speaker 3: much like radio and engineering. We need people that know
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Speaker 3: how to fix things so bad.
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Speaker 4: You have a young son, grandson, daughter, granddaughter that she's
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Speaker 4: maybe strugg them with a career or what she wants
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Speaker 4: to do, you might want to look to the automobile business.
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Speaker 3: Not a bad idea.
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Speaker 4: Because the generations, the younger generations now has taken these
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Speaker 4: stores over. I mean the mister Holland that I've had
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Speaker 4: a lot of respect for now it's his grandson, Brett Holland.
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Speaker 4: So you have a thirty something year old and so
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Speaker 4: you can relate, you know, if you're in that vicinity
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Speaker 4: and that's what you want to do, I would suggest
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Speaker 4: highly that you might look at that career.
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Speaker 3: That's a great idea. And things change, you know, I
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Speaker 3: mean the way that that business and the economy and
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Speaker 3: the way that the job prospects and things that things change,
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Speaker 3: and that's a great idea because it is an industry
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Speaker 3: where there's been massive change and the changing of the
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Speaker 3: guard is going to require some people that learn from
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Speaker 3: the beginning, you know, that learned the new stuff from
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Speaker 3: the very beginning, and maybe don't have all the attachments
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Speaker 3: to some of the old ways of doing things.
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Speaker 4: My way still works, but it's not for everybody, right,
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Speaker 4: So I stay in my lane and do my thing.
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Speaker 3: And I kind of feel too that you're is like
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Speaker 3: classic that it will probably always work, and the new
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Speaker 3: way will always work. It's the intermediate, like the stuff
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Speaker 3: in the middle there that may have trouble translating. Sometimes.
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Speaker 3: That's why you need new people in the industry.
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Speaker 4: That's true.
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Speaker 3: That's very true. Larry Dawson. Larry Dawson's Larry Dawson, not honestly,
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