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trademark
A trademark is a legal way to protect a brand name or logo. It helps people know who made a product, and it can be used to stop other companies from using something confusingly similar.
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consumer confusion
Consumer confusion means people might think two products are connected or made by the same company. Trademark law often focuses on preventing that kind of mix-up.
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intellectual property theft
Intellectual property theft means someone is using or copying something that’s legally protected, like a brand or creative work, without permission.
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category specific
Trademark protection usually depends on what kind of product or service you’re talking about. A brand protected for clothing might not automatically cover other categories like hair products.
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negotiation
Negotiation is the part where you and the dealer discuss the final price and deal details. The point they’re making is to stay logical and make sure it fits your budget.
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preemptive numbers
“Preemptive numbers” means looking at payment/price estimates before you’re truly ready to buy. The risk is you might get pressured into a decision that doesn’t really fit your situation yet.
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MSRP
MSRP is the price listed on the car’s window sticker by the manufacturer. Dealers may sell for more or less than that number, so it’s mainly a reference point for what you might pay.
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buyers remorse
Buyer’s remorse is regret after you buy a car. It usually happens when you didn’t think it through enough, and then later you realize it wasn’t the right choice for your life or budget.
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upside down
“Upside down” means you owe more money on the loan than the car is worth. If you need to sell or change cars later, that can put you in a tough spot financially.
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pre-purchase inspection
A pre-purchase inspection is when a mechanic checks a used car before you buy it. It helps you avoid buying something with problems you can’t see right away.
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competition
“Competition” here means getting quotes from more than one dealer. When dealers think you’ll buy elsewhere, they’re more likely to offer a better price.
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final price
“Final price” means the total amount you’ll pay at the end of the deal. The tip is to make sure that number is the real all-in total—not just a starting point.
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tire kicker
A “tire kicker” is someone who looks around and seems interested, but probably won’t buy. The advice here is to show you’re serious so the dealer takes you more seriously.
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car salesman
A car salesman is the person at a dealership who helps you buy a car. This episode is talking about whether customers can trust them, especially when pay is tied to making more money on the deal.
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gross profit
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divided interest
A divided interest means the salesperson might benefit from you spending more, even if that’s not what you want. It can make it harder to trust that they’re always looking out for you.
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commission sales
Commission sales means the salesperson gets paid more when they sell a car (often more when the deal is bigger). That can create pressure to push you toward a more expensive option.
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third party
At a car dealership, the “third party” usually means the manager. The manager can approve discounts or deal changes that the salesperson can’t, so it can change what price you end up with.
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walk away
“Walk away” means you’re willing to leave the dealership if they won’t meet your price. It’s a way to show you’re serious and not stuck negotiating forever.
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Mazda Cx90
The Mazda CX-90 is a larger Mazda SUV with three rows of seats. Here, it’s mentioned as one of the cars the speaker owns and uses for daily life.
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Mazda Cx70
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0% 1.9
“0%” and “1.9” are interest rates on the loan to buy the car. A lower rate means you usually pay less money overall.
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IAHS
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bmw m5
The BMW M5 is a powerful, sporty version of the BMW 5 Series. People like it because it can be comfortable for normal driving but still feels fast and exciting.
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car buying experience
They’re talking about a car-buying service that tries to make the whole process easier. Instead of you doing everything at a dealership, a team helps line up the deal and options so you don’t feel pressured.
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financing
Financing means getting a loan to pay for the car. The dealership or service helps set up the loan terms so you can buy the vehicle.
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leasing
Leasing is like renting a car for a few years with monthly payments. You usually don’t own it at the end unless you choose a buyout option.
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market as a whole
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negotiating
Negotiating is the back-and-forth to get the best deal terms. They’re saying they try to get competitive offers by working with different markets, not just one dealership.
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38 offers
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Welcome to the carpool podcast with Kelly and you know my husband's like we're
putting all the expenses on one debit card and I want to track how much we
spend here and see if it's less than the plane tickets or what it costs to get
us to Florida. I'm like okay you're taking the fine out of it.
And Liz. I get I get a pregnancy and like postpartum laugh where I find things to
be really more funny than they are. Your mom time off starts now.
Welcome back to the carpool podcast with Kelly and Liz.
Happy Wednesday. Happy Wednesday. How are you doing
today? How am I doing? I'm doing great. I'm on vacation.
I'm assuming I'm doing great two days from now when this podcast releases.
Yeah for sure. The stumpies are going on vacation we
really we we're we're due for a family vacation.
Like we're not family vacation people. Like I think some people like take
multiple of I mean not some people. The influencers I'm watching online are
taking like multiple yeah multiple vacations. We haven't taken our kids
anywhere. Yeah. You know we were going to go to
Florida. We did this should we shouldn't we. Flights are so expensive right now.
I wouldn't know I'm not looking at flights. They're expensive. Well it's
summer. No and I think there's something with like oil.
There's something until you're feeling and like you know gas is expensive.
And we would need seven plane tickets. Like that's a lot of plane tickets.
Yeah. So anyways all to say is like we were thinking about
Stumpies are driving somewhere. I'm sorry I'm sorry for being the car mom.
My desire to do a road trip to do like a 14 hour road trip to the beach is like
negative 10. Like I'm sorry we're not going to the beach.
It's kind of my it's assumption. But we're so blessed because we
have a lake house. Well we don't have a lake house but
my grandpa bought a lake house and now like the four siblings. So my dad and
his three siblings have taken it over. So it's like our family's lake house but
we only get it every four weeks when it's like a time share with our
extended family. With our same thing when it's our dad's week.
So anyway that's what that's what we're doing. So no one was using it.
So we're making this our vacation and you know my husband's like we're putting
all the expenses on one debit card and I want to track how much we spend here
and see if it's less than the plane tickets or what it costs to get us to
Florida. And I'm like okay we're kind of taking the
fine out of it. Yeah the moment you said we're tracking our expenses on
vacation you kind of lost me but I get it. No that will make you
feel better. And I do think our kids do want to see
the beach and we will take them there. I think we are going to go next summer.
But also say is we're like we're just going to be like we're just like little
lake bugs you know. Well and you know what they will be
even more excited next year to see the beach like.
Well and like one of my best mom hacks and this is like I kind of shared this on
my stories and it was just kind of like one of my hottest takes
is like sometimes instead of like paying for an experience or like taking them to
like you know a water park it's like have you just like bought them a new toy.
And like some not all the time when your kids are old this won't work so like
we're going down to the lake so what did I do I went to Savers the thrift store
and I bought so many toys. And guess what we're gonna play like
they're gonna be new I didn't spend a lot of money they're gonna be new they're
gonna be fun I actually did really good there. I would say the toys that you got
are less like toys and more like activities. Sure that's fine.
That's kind of what like it's like a like a puzzle and like those big blade
things like it's an activity. You didn't see all of them.
Oh okay. I just also bought some junk. Okay sure.
But I didn't spend a lot of money and like they're new I'm able to like bring
something new and fun which which does make it an activity but even sometimes
at like home it's like you know you could take them somewhere on a Saturday
or because you're like take them to like once upon a time you're never gonna
like pick out a new toy like sometimes that's also fine.
Okay sure. So also say we're at the lake I have
honestly crushed the food prep too I don't know if you want me to like
dive into that. Sure and then we can talk about James's birthday party and I
could just take a break for a while. Yeah please.
Made a poppy seed chicken obviously so kind of our plan is
breakfast at home obviously lunch out on the water
dinner at home. So like we're having to do all lunches out is kind of our plan as
of now which sounds fun. Poppy seed chickens on deck taco night on deck
and then I have a bunch of frozen meatballs like good like homemade frozen
meatballs spaghetti night garlic bread the works
primal kitchen Caesar like I'm gonna do it upright
and then hibachi on the blackstone one night. Now I do hope you're tracking
the grocery expenses because when Tyler sees how much you're saving
going to the lake I fear you're never going to the beach if you're doing
shoot you're so right you kind of need this is gonna backfire for me it's gonna
backfire you need to like buffer up a little bit like
you need to add some work expenses because he's gonna be like
well you know we save this much money we can never go to the beach like he's
such a money like a analytical finance person that
Tyler loves an excel sheet oh my she loves an excel sheet
them like the worst nothing tests our marriage more than at the end of the
month where he makes us go through every transaction and he has to categorize it
and he'll be like what's abber combi
he knows what abber combi is healthcare there was a medical bill
medical
so anyways that's what that's what I'm up to and then you know we're doing tie dye again
I'm bringing like some fun yard stuff to do pretty jazzed about it
it sounds like a lot of fun I'm not going on any family vacations this summer
it just kind of feels like by the time the auto show is over and like we could conceivably
like maybe go to the lake or do something I'm just too pregnant to do any of that
totally so um but I am really happy for you and excited to just see you guys absolutely
thrive I love the best memories we have our man at the lake so I also don't feel bad about
your kids not going to the beach because I have way better memories at the lake than I do at
any beach oh no for sure my kids are fine um lots of kids don't I'm sorry but this was fun so last
night we were like packing up and we were getting ready and then the kids were like can we just go
now can we just go now and tell her like go ask your mom and so George and had he came to me like
literally with their with their hands folded under their chin and they're like mom dad said if you
say it's okay we can put our jammies on and drive to the lake tonight and like tell her I were
already taking two cars I had to work this morning so I was I this was not included to me
and I and they were totally expecting me to say no and when I said yes
yeah they squealed well and that's another good hack too it's like you guys could have had that
pre-planned and just tell them oh that's right I told Tyler yeah like in the future like we're
gonna go early we're going like it's so exciting there's adds another layer of excitement to it
totally yeah I'm really excited so that's after this podcast I'm headed I'm lake bound and headed
there I love it well we had James's third birthday extravaganza this weekend and it was
so much fun it made me so emotional it felt like the first real birthday I am not the kind of mom
that likes to plan birthdays like my kids aren't gonna wake up with streamers outside of the door
with balloons on the ground like I'm not making a paper chain like that kind of stuff I admire
so much to moms who do that it does not bring me joy so therefore I don't do it I wish I was I
wish I was a Pinterest mom I wish I was creative in that way just like doesn't bring me joy at all
totally um and like my third my I had a birthdays for well one and two for James but like I felt
kind of almost silly doing them because I'm like he's never gonna remember this um but you know
it's a good excuse to get family together so it's fine but this one really felt like okay he's obsessed
with dinosaurs um he's gonna remember it like he's gonna be wowed by a cake and by decorations like
I got very excited to get into it so it was dinosaur themed I had the most insanely beautiful
cookie cake ever made by sweet treats by Whitney if you're in st. Louis um and we were able to use
our new patio or new backyard it's still a little bit under construction so I haven't shared much
about it on Instagram like we got a new patio um some new furniture and it was exciting to actually
have a host at my really hosted since my renovation too like I have not had yeah a full blown party
at my house really since I've moved in and like gotten to use my new kitchen and my new patio so
that was really fun and then just the absolute highlight of his birthday party is we did this
dinosaur dig and it's this new company in st. Louis and I actually we kind of got the exclusive
like one of the first parties because my brother-in-law um works with the guy who's starting it and um
yeah so you got the soft launch the trial I got the soft launch so it's like he was you know the
guy was telling my brother-in-law about it he's like yeah I'm gonna do this dinosaur excavation
for birthday parties and he's like do I have the perfect kid for you because like James the perfect
kid so um that was really cool and so they're called dinosaur dig company and it's two brothers
one of them is a retired principal and the other one is a teacher so they're like very and they
both are dads so they're they're very good with kids like they they were like teaching the kids
stuff like they they're just their teachers like they're just good with kids like they're not just
these like random guys you know yeah um but it was so cool they've built this triceratops skeleton
out of some sort of like light foam board I don't know if it's foam board it's not I don't know what
it's made I don't think it's very 3d printed it is what I know they didn't 3d print it he made it
whoever said that was wrong um anyway it's super impressive it was super fun James was so into
it and for me like I wasn't sure how into it he was going to be just because a three-year-old is
like can get really distracted um Fred was not into it Fred was not into it James was it it was
like what 45 minutes long um and James is like hooked the entire time and it made me really
emotional because I've never seen James in an environment where like enough he's working like
the kids all work as a team and he was like working as a team with the other kids and he was like
listening to the instructions of another adult and it kind of like gave me a little glimpse
into what it might be like when he does go to preschool or kindergarten and I was just like
oh my gosh my little boy is growing up so much and it was just I'm sure James will not remember
this birthday but like I will remember this birthday for the rest of my life and that's where
it kind of hit me that like these first and second birthdays that I haven't cared about
it's never for the kid it is for the parents this third birthday was for me and for Maddie
and it was just so great that's awesome and our food was great I did a Caesar salad primal
kitchen because I'm inclusive um and you don't know primal kitchen doesn't have anchovies so I
can oh yeah it doesn't have anchovy so Kelly won't have an allergic reaction um I got domino's
pizza and I got wings from the local barbecue place near me and the food was great and an
amazing cookie cake my favorite thing which you've totally left out so I'm gonna tell it for my pov
was yeah we also played one more game where Liz had silhouettes of different dinosaurs and like
not like t-rex like no like hard dinosaurs there was a polycephalosaurus on there and she's like
James can identify all of these silhouettes so and like pronounce it so like we played a game
like can you guess it and I got six which did feel good like luckily George did Dimetrodon saved me
because like I do remember that one from like the couple months that George was in the dinosaurs
and then it was so cute because then James like was the key so then listen point to silhouette
silhouette and like hearing James say Parasaurolophus like it was a we should
have filmed that because it was so cute it was cute and that also kind of broke me because then
the next day my brother-in-law's um my brother-in-law son wasn't able to be there but he's like 10
and he was a dinosaur kid he was like James and I said you better be able to get these
and he only got four of them and like all the dinosaur knowledge has just like left his
brain and I'm like no like I because it's filled with other stuff and like they don't care like
all James cares about his dinosaurs 100% of the time so I just like can't believe he's growing up
but I'm just like so sick to my stomach when I just see you're also pregnant yeah I'm also so
that doesn't well I mean that doesn't help but it was a lot of fun so much fun um guys today
oh sorry you had no you can go well I'm saying today's episode jam packs we have a really
funny interview like we were kind of belly laughing on our interview um yeah I don't know if anyone
else gets this I get I get a pregnancy and like postpartum laugh where I find things to be um
really more funny than they are and I get a different laugh than I would normally have
and I felt it coming out a couple of times during this um wait is it the laugh when you go like
kind of like I know and here's how I know so when I was pregnant with James we did one of those
videos where Maddie like wore the watermelon and the cantaloupes and me filming it I had the most
like crazy annoying laugh I'm like who is this like I cannot control it and then when we had the
hibachi party at my friend's house for her birthday this laugh kept coming out and I remember when I
was postpartum with James I had I like pushed for four hours like I had pain for weeks downstairs
and Maddie was the funniest person in the world to me because and he wasn't even doing anything
that was exceptionally funny it was just like this pregnancy and postpartum laugh and like humor
so I was like stop making me laugh because it it hurts like I'm in so much pain I can't so funny
so anyway I also say I clocked myself having this like annoying so who can spot it find the time
frame where I do that it's so annoying oh my gosh Elizabeth I don't know if anyone else experiences
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also I have a new micro hobby and it is the world cup usa thank you okay so that is something that
I wanted to talk about today the most I don't care about the world cup um I just cannot get into
sports man but my favorite most the most wholesome content that I have seen on the internet in
ages is europeans experiencing america it makes me feel so like patriotic I'm so proud to be in
american my favorite meme I saw was the world cup feels like a sleepover at your cousin's house
so you never see because your parents hate each other totally people are um just like blown away
by america they're like your food is amazing the free refills are amazing and and what's
really validating too is they're like the the way that america is painted to the rest of the world
is wrong and like you know like americans are this americans are lazy americans are
overweight like americans are all these things they're like americans are americans are mean
like americans are so nice like they're so accommodating great and it
just feels really good to see yeah I so I'm no I'm loving the world cup I'm getting in on all
like the lore I'm following my girl Simone's playbook she's a great follow she's just kind of
like she's doing it for the girls so I'm enjoying like but not in like a
here's what I don't this is just me here's what I don't need sports
dumb down so much like you're comparing it to love island like I don't need that I just need
it concise and she does a good job on that like don't don't belittle me and like act like I can't
comprehend what sports is like I don't need it compared to that I just slowed down and she does
a really good job Simone's playbook shout out so but no I'm incredibly into it also um our au pair
is so into it like for her country of course so then that gives you another country to cheer for
except I think our country's gonna be playing each other soon oh t t t yeah she's from the
country Columbia I don't know if I shared that um and Columbia is doing really well it's like she's
going to like all the bars and like I'm telling you like the videos that she's posting I'm like
it's this is this is like it's the stakes of the Super Bowl but it's like the Olympics that's
what somebody said I didn't come up with that like it is we are so into it and so yeah so we
do right now have two teams to cheer for if it comes down to it though I don't know which team I'll
choose well I think you should choose I think you should use America I don't know I might choose
Columbia I don't think they've ever won the World Cup yeah but then if they beat them then you can
continue on to cheer for Columbia just like yeah that's true that's true I'm just like so
obsessed with the World Cup which is like we're all part of something
yeah everyone's it's it's so fun and it's so funny just because like Americans are just
not as into it as the rest of the world just because like we have other sports other sports
but I did see some some stuff that was like before the World Cup they were like is America
going to have the infrastructure to house these like soccer these like elite soccer
stadiums because other countries have had to build stadiums or have you know they're a really big
football um country so they have the stadiums and then they're like yeah no we do have the
infrastructure and also this is just like a university like this is not even a professional
steam and it's like because America's just we're a little extra we're big everything's bigger baby
so anyway I'm loving the World Cup I'm loving to see like America through other people's eyes
it's really fun and it's really wholesome and and darling I did see this one real though that was
he was like the the sunsets in America are just so incredible and then it was like
stitched with an American and they're like do you guys not have anything like come on like it's a
sunset like to a certain point you're just romanticizing the wrong stuff like well I
do have to be careful because now like that these are trending like people are just pretending
yeah yeah they're being dramatic and I was like this I was this Frenchman talking about air
conditioning and then I looked at his profile and he's like you taught dad and I'm like you were
just making your accent oh gosh like it wasn't real yeah no but you can tell which ones are
authentic and which ones are just stay just stay alert is what I'm just telling you it's good
content um but anyway I think that's all we really have to talk about because we have an interview
I have to go I'm kind of like need to get on the road okay yeah you've got a family to make to
go meet up with I know what it was what else was I gonna say is there anything I'm up up to
are you buying anything on prime week um well there actually is I'm happy to report some great
car seat deals I am covering them all my stories like and there is the last couple of primaries
have been stankers for car seat deals yeah like they've been like a joke these ones are good
a lot of boosters okay T so definitely be on the lookout so I'm doing that I am oh I'm buying
an ice maker oh okay did you decide what what are you buying I decided what I'm buying I talked to
my husband about it he was he was aligned and again we're not going to Florida so budget for an
ice maker if you don't know I want an ice maker for my birthday because we go through too much ice
my freezer can keep up so I'm doing the one I got actually you can do you can actually adjust the
thicknesses of the ice okay which is kind of fun and like they are they're optimized for different
things but it is it's like a square with the hole in the middle yeah but not a full hole yeah you've
seen the type oh I know what you're talking about yeah okay and I'm thinking I'm gonna put on the
thinnest setting actually because they said that's optimal for cocktails and ice coffee which is what
I'm looking for yeah yeah yeah um what size is it is like sit in your garage or like sit on your
countertop it's gonna sit in our downstairs laundry room okay so it's big
I I don't I don't know dimensions it's like I don't know about the size of two car seats sitting
next to each other oh that feels big how two slim fits yeah okay two slim fits does anyone can
anyone else just like quickly figure that out I think I don't know I'm not gonna like share I
want to like give it a once over it was before I share the link because ice makers here let me
tell you about an ice maker they're either 300 or 3000 okay we got the 300 okay I think it was like
278 but like how was one how was one's frozen water like I was kind of I was open to thinking
about spending like 500 on it 5550 like I wanted a nice one because I wanted more than
just because the nugget one's expensive how much is the nugget one well I think at its peak it was
like 500 let me tell you which is like let me tell you nugget ice maker and that's just a countertop
thing okay they're way cheaper now I'm so sorry all right but this one's 900 I'm just saying like
I'm a little confused on how some ice can be so much better than other ice you know
totally it's frozen water oh also proud of tell mary so good the auto okay unbelievable you're
into it okay okay I'm into that kind of stuff no I'm honestly like so into sci-fi like not me like
and I'm learning some things like okay I know some things about Celsius now oh I'm not and I won't
retain any of it I can just tell you know what I'm saying like I won't retain any of the science
knowledge I'm learning but the story in the audiobook is unbelievable and I'm just really
loving um just feeling so well read mm-hmm so I think this is going to be like a really
of course this is claire's pick Claire always has good picks for our book club
so I think this could be like our first like four or five star I think it's going to be our
highest rated book kind of like wow I'm really enjoying it um and then the pressure that it's
Tara's pick and then the pressure's back on for me mm-hmm okay so you got some time to think about it
yeah okay after my whole red pick from last time but anyway do you have anything else
no I think that pretty much wraps everything up for me okay well then if that wraps it that's
wraps it but the episode is not over because we have a great interview with Tommy mm-hmm who runs
a company called delivered who you guys wouldn't expect us to be friends like some people would
some people would try to pit us against each other but not me and Tommy no you guys have good
you guys have good synergy you both really respect what the other person's doing I only
have an enemy though you don't have an enemy but you have people that you don't agree with
that we won't talk about oh I'm so curious to know who you're thinking well you have you have
takes on some on some stay of takes on people this baby's kicking me right now everyone has takes
though yeah no you don't really have an enemy do you have a take on the Danny Austin Lindsey
Kirk drama uh you know what I saw like one real kind of talking about it I don't really know anything
about it what what is something to with the get your pink back yes so I want to start with saying
I don't have a dog in the fight I really don't but I do think it's I think it's interesting I think
it's the thing that could be studied in textbooks so have you heard get your pink back and like how
flamingos turn why then they get their pink back yeah yeah yeah so I guess Lindsey Kirk
she discovered like this no I don't believe she like discovered the science behind no no
she didn't discover the science but she she found that out that after flamingos have babies and they
turn this color and then eventually they become pink again and she kind of revolutionized the
get your pink back thing like she put that all together and she was like I learned this about
flamingos and that's kind of like what motherhood is like like she I think she kind of coined the
get your pink back term as well I know she so she has a trademarked oh she does have a trademarked
she has a trademarked I have heard mixed reports on like if she made it up or like if she was just
the one to trademark because like that's a thing too like I guess I don't really know I mean I have
a couple of trademarks and I do I'm surprised that she could get that trademarked no I really think
I I saw a video of her and she said I read this about flamingos and it's kind of like mother
like I didn't know that when I when I saw this video I was like oh my gosh she actually like
was the one who put this all together okay that's my perception of it I don't know anyone
have said get your pink back in relation to motherhood and flamingos before Lindsey
so anyway then it became and I think maybe what's confusing about it is then it just
it's a really beautiful sentiment so I think whether like I feel like I have heard it I don't
know if I've heard it from her but I'm also not doubting that maybe she is the one who made it up
and like then you know it just spread like wildfire because it's a very beautiful statement
well she got she was the first one to have like merch with it like yeah for sure I didn't know that
I really I did not know it was her I know who she is I've seen her videos I was not a follower of
her and I've heard get your pink back I now I'm putting it all together okay and I I've always
associated it with her okay so they're 22 different so then Danny Austin launches a dry
shampoo a pink bottle dry shampoo and she quotes get your pink back or something to get my pink back
now I don't know if it went then I'll be honest I kind of stopped caring because
then I don't know I guess maybe she sent Lindsey I'm sorry I should have brought up
because I don't have all the information should you look it up really fast yeah well now I'm
kind of interested in it because I don't know I don't think her making a video saying it
is that big of a deal but
I could also see me being a little irked like if someone else was like selling a product and said
because clean cars drive better like I'd probably be pissed okay this is the AI overview overview on
google so no one get mad at me if the information is incorrect they get your pink back controversy
stems from trademark dispute between content creator Lindsey girk and fellow influencer
Danny Austin girk built a popular brand and movement based on the concept of from lingo's
losing their color all raising their young and using it as a metaphor for mothers regaining their
pre-baby identities the core of the drama the movement Lindsey girk created the get your pink
back movement hashtag a parallel line for postpartum mothers and register and successfully
registered for the trademark for clothing in April of 2024 so she has the trademark for clothing
fellow influencer Danny Austin used the phrase get your pink back in a promotional campaign
in social media reel for her hair and wellness brand divi fans and followers quickly accused
Austin of copying girk's intellectual property and the whole brand identity to try to sell dry
shampoo the resolution and reactions girk released a tearful but professional statement
addressing the situation she explained that as a trademark owner she is legally required to
protect her brand and prevent consumer confusion that's fair that's fair community response public
sentiment strongly favored girk with with audiences rallying around her more to smart
female founders against larger more corporate influencer brands legal limitations while the
community has widely supported girk's claims of intellectual property theft and sub legal
observes noted the trademarks are category specific girk's is for clothing making it
potentially complex to pursue legal action against Austin's hair product promotion all right
now that i have the ai overview here's what i think
i think that there's no legal course of action that Lindsay can take over this i don't actually
think that that matters i think that the followers and the perception of they have they're gonna have
a lot of overlap and followers is go is like more than enough i also don't think that like
that was a very like it's isn't the her dry shampoo just the same it's just like a different
scent like it's not what does that have to do with like getting your pink back
so i agree with you the legalness is one thing and like when we because we have clean cars
drive better trademarked but only for like we like not for like a car wash also has a trademark
so like i can never open up a car wash and say clean cars drive better because like that
trademark but like i could sell products that say it mm-hmm so i i i understand that um
yeah i agree like if i'm taking a side i don't think danny should have used it
because i think it is that girl's thing i think the bigger question is which i don't know if
we're gonna clear it on is like did danny know that and do it anyway or did she just like
is there a world where she just heard it it's just like a term that's like it's just like a term
use nowadays use nowadays and i know like people would be like oh she had to have no she had a
team and it's like i mean maybe but like that's where i'm just like but danny's not say what you
will better she's not stupid like she didn't want this backlash mm but so now is it more just like
the reaction though because then like girk like i haven't seen like a apology video on the other side
an apology from danny yeah for using it mm yeah it's interesting um i think this is about as far
as i care about it i know i totally agree yeah i don't know it's it's interesting i yeah i probably
she shouldn't have used it but it is like a beautiful sentiment well she actually shouldn't
have used it because it whatever it is it's not worth this the backlash um and it
just didn't really i think add to the promotional like campaign in general because it's like well
and i think people are feeling like it's a bit it's a is it a bit of i'm not saying i feel this way
but things i've seen is it's a bit of a stretch to sell dry shampoo yeah i agree that's i guess
that's what i'm trying to say that's what i'm trying to get at too it's like lindsay's is
like this like but you know lindsay's selling t-shirts but i guess the t-shirts i mean more
mm but they're both just selling stuff they're and they're both just selling stuff but i think
lindsay's is more there i mean she built a whole brand around it i guess mm-hmm i agree i also
haven't seen the ad like i don't know how like it did she just happen to say get your pink
back in one video or is it like on the bottle you know that's so she said it in a video but
then i don't know if there's like it was like sending like pr packages and like i think like
lindsay like got the pr package or something and i thought it was like oh that would hurt that would
i would kind of be offended by that and i'm putting myself in the shoes like if someone
made use clean cars drive better
i would well i'd be like yeah you're copying me yeah no yeah and we don't even have any shirts
that say that you know it's like she's and i think some people just have like they feel there
is there it's obviously a very emotional phrase for lindsay yeah because i feel more emotional
about clean car drive better we're like if another influencer made merch that i didn't expect to get
on my car i probably wouldn't care that one doesn't i mean i love that phrase i say that phrase all the
time but lindsay does seem to post a lot more like um heartfelt like emotional content too like
she really i mean i know danie showed her literal entire entire birth but i do feel like um lindsay
gets a little bit more like emotionally vulnerable on her stuff i mean i don't follow either one of
them super duper closely but i've definitely seen lindsay you know cry and post more stuff on the
internet like that like in a way that resonates and a way that resonates with me i don't know
and i do agree that she had to tell her audience that it wasn't her brand yeah like that was fair
baby it's just okay sorry that way i was a side quit i just kind of wanted to get your your take
on that okay well yeah i don't know kind of normalize like you don't have to have such a visceral
take on it either you know you can just kind of like have the info and kind of go about your day
yeah i was just like you know it's something new to talk about it's like with you know it's drama
that doesn't is an associated with me but it's like with people that i feel like i kind of loosely
know well and i don't watch summerhouse so i've like hadn't been left out of all of the summerhouse
drama i don't watch summerhouse i know you know so like it's kind of what we're working with i don't
watch summerhouse um i don't really watch the mormon wives so like there's just been a lot of like
you know big drama that i feel like i couldn't participate in okay well that's our take i guess
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you so much for having me i'm so excited tommy are kind of like i would say we're like kind of
internet friends i think this is only our second in second conversation though but it feels like
we know each other better we talked for a while the first time we talked and i think we got a
lot done and i and we've texted back and forth yeah true true true um so if you guys don't know
tommy owns a company called delivered let me just try let me try the new question i don't know i know
what it is i just let me try tommy and then you can fill in any gaps okay you know what let's let's
go i'm ready and essentially you guys are incredible customer advocates who help people
negotiate and secure cars i mean nailed it exactly we take care of the car
buying process for you most people don't enjoy buying a car i think a lot of people like shopping
for a car which is why they like your channel but they don't like the actual dealership part so we
take that part on for you tommy and i have such synergy and i don't know if everyone would expect
us to like enjoy each other's content but the thing about me and tommy and elizabeth
elizabeth is here too sorry sorry eliz it's okay we're we're just people who get it like at the
end of the day all i want is the auto industry industry to succeed but the problem with a lot
of dealers is they just can't get out of their own way to like see what they're doing so tommy i would
imagine why don't you kind of tell us about dealer's perception of you the good and the bad
yeah i i think it's a mixed bag i think some people think we're a necessary evil
because we have such a strangle on the market that dealerships have to accept us there is a
small minority of dealers that wish you know i just wouldn't post another video ever again
but i think the vast majority of dealers actually like us they you know one of the things because
i was in the industry i try to make deals really fast and efficient for them yeah while working
for our clients so because of that it makes it easier they understand it's a quick easy deal
even though it might not make them a lot of money yeah you're you're also not trying to like contribute
to the back and forth because i do think a lot of consumers and dealers like one of the biggest
critiques of the industry is this back and forth and like no one wants to show their hand and i think
we are aligned in the theory where it's like no i'm actually okay to show my hand but like this is
my hand so like take it or leave it you know and people get mad about that because i'm very short
with it and i'm like this is it take it or leave it and people are like you're so mean you're so
condescending and i'm like no i'm just showing my hand this is what you guys want i'm just being
honest if you get this number i buy your car we move on with our day but there always has to be a
game because the game is profitable what do you think is the biggest uh bad piece of car buying
advice that you hear other like car coaches or car brokers or whatever you want to call them
what's like bad car buying advice that you see put out there a lot well for a while it was your
presence's power and even car buying advocates were saying that as well like you need to go and
store it shows you're serious and i think we kind of made this wave after covid recently to say like
nope that's not your power anymore so i i think that's like generally the worst advice i think
buying a car is an emotional decision you know anytime you see a car that you've been saving up
a lot of money for it's really hard to say no especially when you have somebody that's trained
on the other side to convince you to say yes so i always say stay at home go test drive the car
make sure you like it but when you negotiate stay at home and make it all analytical make sure the
numbers line up make sure your things are affordable because the last thing you want to do is overspend
on something the second biggest purchase of your life i i think that's really great advice i always
tell people also i think for a lot of people you really shouldn't even start the process until
you're ready to buy a thousand oh my gosh the amount of people that will try to go to number it is
you you do not want to try to get like preemptive numbers to figure out what things are affordable
i always say look at the msrp take seven to ten percent off that's roughly where you're going
to be but yeah do not it makes it worse for the dealership because they'll remember you later
because you wasted their time and it's just a lot of stress for you for no reason yeah or you get
sold and then you make a bad decision before you're ready and like buyers remorse is the
topic that i that i feel really passionately about especially for families because a family
buying the wrong car you know it can be really expensive problem to have like you know if
you if you're a single girl and you buy a car and you ended up you know wishing you would have got
the red one like that's one thing you can live with it but when i have families who buy a car
and then in three years realize it's not the right car and then you know maybe they're upside down
or maybe they you know have to lower their payment it puts them in a bad position so i do totally
agree with you like just wait until you're ready and then go i was all right i was i
and then don't forget to like overly test drive the car i think people are afraid to test drive
like i tell people like forget the pre and plan plop plop bleh forget the pre plan path like go
like i always tell people to go on the drive you go to work or go to the drive that you're going
yeah to school whatever that is get familiar because you know that road really well if you have car
seats i know you say this but put them in the darn car uh you know i tell people to load up their
vehicle with everything they're going to and their heaviest load i will tell people to fill up their
car and then test drive and fill up this test drive car to make sure it's the right vehicle
yeah the last thing you want to do is right buy something that doesn't fit in three years down
the road you have to trade it in so you said that you don't think presence is the consumer's power
what do you think the consumer's power is in today's market to get the best deal is competition
competition i love it because it is like the superpower i will have dealers that will not
move at all and i would give them the number and i said well somebody down the street was willing
to do eight percent and everything switches everything they just told me about this was their
final price was like well if you show me that number we'll beat it uh competition a thousand
percent is the best way to get a good deal because dealers always want to beat each other because
the second you have numbers from one dealer they know you're serious which means you're probably
buying a car is it is it from them or is it from somebody else tommy i am like i am loving this
because i also feel so validated and a lot of i think the car buying advice that i share because
i always say like no like let them know the worst thing you want to be is a tire kicker like let
them know how serious of a buyer you are you're not going to get like you know some people will be
like you know go in there and act like you don't really want the car i'm like no do the exact opposite
be like i want this car so bad i know i want to sort of sienna that in fact i already have two
numbers from two different dealerships i'm buying one today that's how bad i want a car that advice
is from like our dad's 40 years ago is like just don't yeah don't say anything be mean to him yeah
like no you want to show excitement you want to show yeah energy but you need to be firm with it
yeah i had one of my followers i did a car buying consultation with her and she was so nervous to
car shop because she was nine months pregnant and she's like they're just gonna look at me and
they're gonna take advantage of me because they're gonna know i need a car and i'm like no sister
they're gonna know you're gonna tell them look how not look at me i'm nine months pregnant i need to
buy a car right now so like where am i buying it from i want the best deal like use that to your
advantage i love that yeah i think i think the the idea of you know we're talking about presence
is power we're talking about competition is power but understanding that they have a serious buyer
in front of them i think i think that is that superpower which i like you that you brought
up because the more people know that you're willing to buy a car today the more discount you can get
so tommy what is your background so i've been in the car industry for for about the last decade
i was in sales i did finance so the back office doing all the paperwork the person people hate the
most for six years and then for the last three and a half years i've been running delivered so
built the grand company from the ground up we're now doing 450 deals a month have 23 full-time
employees but that has been the majority of my time as of late but before that i was in car sales
in finance that's like that's like so many deals i didn't know because i just follow your
instagram so i always feel like i see you we're doing the deals i didn't know it was that big of
an operation that's amazing yeah so like the unique thing about us is that like the the operation
actually runs a little bit differently because people say on our team like hey i work for delivered
we're negotiating for a client the whole reason we have the content is i always wanted to create
this company where i really just didn't ever advertise myself i would teach people how to use
this i would teach people how to do the task and i would give people an offer so good that it would
almost be stupid to say no uh and that that's kind of been the whole mentality so i teach everybody
how to buy a car so i'm always negotiating as just a random person not as tommy the negotiator
because i want to teach people how to buy a car i want to give everybody the insight and if you
look at my page you really won't find like advertisements for my service i think i have a
pinned video from like three years ago uh and that's like all you'll see because really the main
point is i want to educate tell people how to buy a car because i don't think that this
that i have a magic wand or a secret sauce to save people thousands i'm good at what i do
but if you're willing to put the time in you can get a great deal yeah i also i think people
in your your customers probably really resonate with that um with that honesty because what
because you're right anyone can technically do what you're doing and you're actually teaching
people how to do what you're doing but a lot of people and then we see the same thing with our
audience a lot of people don't want or don't have the time to find the car you know negotiate the
deal and they just also want someone who they can trust to ask questions to and i think that
that's another thing that really grinds me gears about the auto industry is i feel like other
industries have kind of nailed like advocacy like people are comfortable asking their real
litter all sorts of questions related to home ownership people are not comfortable asking
their salesperson that and i think that's really freaking sad to be honest yeah that's interesting
yeah and i think there's a lot of different things to go about it but i think the gen i mean
because the gallup poll has rated car salesman rated at seven percent people trust a car salesman
which is crazy and that's for like 50 years but like one of the things that i've really
honed down on is right now the majority of car salesmen are paid off gross profit basically
the more money you spend and the more money they make the more money the sorry the more money you
spend the more money they make so they always have a divided interest so it's really hard to
trust somebody that has your best interest at heart when you know that they're one of their
major goals is to make you spend more money so i've been telling the car industry since day one
i think getting rid of commission sales and paying people a really good salary would go a long way
to consumers knowing that i have no incentive to sell you a car other than just taking care of you
i think that would go a long way yeah that's that's really interesting and
i it's not that i disagree with you but i also wonder like when i was selling cars
yes we were on commission but the problem was our managers never told us how much money were in
any of the deals that's true so like i actually never knew until the deal was done and they i
don't know if this how your dealership was but our dealership uh they would write the deal on the
board and the different colors like corresponded like what the front-end gross was so like red was
like a mini so like red was like 200 bucks then like blue green and then a multicolored was like
5k plus front-end gross so yeah i agree i think maybe or just dealers need to like kind of tight
lip that like i'm telling you i had no idea we never knew what our gross was it's and again it
depends with all the newer software that's come out as of but so when i first started selling
cars you couldn't see it but after all the new crms and software came out it was really easy to
see what kind of profit was in a deal and just reverse the math but when i first started it was
the same way but eventually as new software came out it made it easier and easier for car salesmen
to kind of back around figure out what's worth it what's not yeah totally well and i think there's
also something that wasn't great about that because i also i had no information on the car on the trade
so like i was the girl who's like i gotta ask my manager i have to ask my manager and customers
only that either but i'm like no you don't understand like i can see nothing
what you can see i have no idea what we have in the car what i can give you for your car
and i one time had a guy be like you're not getting up you're telling me and i'm like buddy we can
sit here all day i have no authority to do that with you i do see that all the time i feel like
when i watch like these car buying videos that they're like don't let them go back to the manager
this is a sales tactic i know this wasn't a sales tactic in your experience kelly tommy was it a
sales tactic in your experience i mean you it's not that you don't want them to get up but i mean
it isn't there there is a time wasting part portion of it like the industry is built in a
way that it's supposed to take more time like the simplest answer would be why why doesn't the car
salesman have the ability to make all these decisions and the reason being is it's more
profitable because you have an outsider they're gonna become a moment just like it's emotional
for you to buy a car it's emotional for them to sell a car because they're trying to feed their
family so like they would be more willing i think car sales people would actually be more
willing to give away cars and give the discounts you're asking for so that's why you have the
third party which is the manager and that is a sales tactic itself but 1000% you need to get
them up because the car salesman can actually make a decision they can't actually do what they
need to so you have to let them get up but you need to go in with an offer uh and let them know
like you know i don't want to play the back and forth this is the offer take it or leave it and
don't be afraid to walk away so i want to hear your maybe strategies or maybe what delivered
offers because in terms of um what's the right word like uh car locating because that seems
like to be a really hot button issue with my audience especially especially my audience in
the new car market who are after either specific trim levels or you know we still have Toyota who
just like can't seem to get their inventory figured out for the life of them what do you
understanding especially like in the Toyota world there are pios and lios which are port
installed accessories some people get really picky on those if you're being a toyota or lexus
buyer understand you might need to have an extra set of floor mats you weren't planning on buying
or some mud guards don't be that picky um tell me what car do you drive i have two so i have a mazda
cx 90 um and a premium plus turbo which is our daily driver we put more miles on that car than
anything else i bought the cx 70 and i don't know about you guys i thought it was going to be a good
idea and then i realized that it was just a stupid car um it's just not our favorite it's not our
favorite again it just doesn't make any sense like why like why pay the same price without a third row
like it was it saved me money or i i was frustrated but you're a mazda guy huh yeah i i do like mazda
top three in reliability um or top five in reliability depending who you ask
but you get crazy incentive 0% 1.9 most awarded by the iahs mazda yeah absolutely it's a didn't
you just say that it passed more safety 100 that's yeah so so super safe car it's great for our dogs
we don't have a full family we just have dogs uh so it's great for them uh and then i have a bmw
m5 which is my like sports car that i drive once a week as just a uh date night car whatever you
know okay bmw m5 that's so fun you know i sold bmws oh i didn't know that yeah that's what i sold it
was um it was humbling it was hard i was like 22 i actually had like never bought a car in my life
everyone told me i was going to be so good at selling cars because i grew up in the business
i'm like no i my parents have never bought a car i've never bought a car in my life so i it was
a learning curve which which part was hard was it the customers and how they treated you was
that the dealership was a culture was it just the whole thing uh yes it was the customers like because
a lot of it was you know i wasn't dealing with like a lot of pregnant moms the first time car bars i
was dealing with a lot of like just older men older women who had just like bought more cars in my
life than i had sold like it was just they were really intense um and it was a lot of enthusiasts
and you know they start quoting like you know model numbers i'm like it's the m5 yeah but they're
like is it the fs and i'm like yeah i have no idea like you're gonna have to stop right there
um but it was but i learned a lot i mean i i actually loved i i loved selling cars i actually
thought it was really fun and i wonder if you had the same kind of um i mean did did you feel
like when you were in the industry you felt like slimy with what you were doing or did you feel like
you were a good egg no so so you know i was in phone sales before this and
long story short i left that and i was in car sales was supposed to be just a stop gap for me i
needed a job pay bills and i'm like i'll sell cars for a little bit they accept anybody um and i sold
my first car and i got i always say it's a high uh it is the craziest good feeling that you ever
have because you feel like you just made an impact in somebody's life uh and i think that feeling
over will make you justify doing everything you do because you're taking care of somebody
i never felt slimy bad it wasn't until my the last day where i realized that i
could never fix this industry for consumers from the inside i had to leave in order to fix it which
is when i left uh but i never felt like sliming the industry i never felt bad quote so to speak i
just felt like i was doing my job yeah i agree i i never felt that way either i mean there was
definitely sometimes you'd look at a credit app and you're like they have no business buying this
car but like that's not yeah that's not your problem that's there yeah yeah totally um okay
tell me tell us a little bit just quickly about like the delivered experience like kind of and
i think we should just put it out there i'm gonna kind of put you on the spot i do see a world where
it's like car mom x delivered like i do the consultation they decide what the car they want
they buy the car and then we tell them what car seats needs to go in that car i'm this is this
is a vibe and an idea and i love it because that's one of the things that people want to do and 60
percent of our audience right now and 60 percent of our client base are actually women really it's a
large portion because they feel so disenfranchised at the dealership uh but the model is really
simple you know my entire idea is to make this the world's best car buying experience ever so
we start off with and you you'll have five people working on your deal at any given time but you
only speak to two which the first person you talk to is your consult and your consult a little
different than yours is really going through just making sure you understand what's about to happen
here going through and explaining what kind of deals that are going to be on the car explaining
asking what kind of distance you're willing to travel we're not really talking about the car
itself but really talking about the delivered process making sure financing leasing making sure
that all of our ducks in a row after that we have an entire team of strategists that go through
and look at the market as a whole decide what makes the most sense for you and then we have
a team of negotiators that go out and start negotiating we negotiate with your local market
we negotiate with out of across the country and then we compile all of that data and we
have a deal specialist that comes through and actually goes through all of that information
with you we had a deal that had 38 offers the other day now that's a lot to go through we go
through and say hey there's 38 offers let me show you the three that matter and then if you want to
look at the rest of them you can what I love is you have a mobile app that's like super easy to
use you don't have to download anything no log in so you can literally click one link and you can
see every call that they're making every sheet that you get so it's a super transparent process
but once you say yes to a deal we connect you and the dealership we make sure all the paperwork is
pre-printed you go to the dealership sign the paperwork and you're done wow that sounds like
a dream Tommy you honestly just kind of cosplay as like this like streamer who just like sits in
front of it like like seriously I totally agree with me like yeah I mean like you're that's what
like that's the front and then the back is like major tech company like who are you you have an app
yeah it's it is I have to show it to you it is so cool because what's also great is the
dealerships have their own app so like dealerships I know who we are can easily put in bids for clients
all of their information is private so dealerships are able to get faster bids over to the to our
clients our clients are able to see this in real time and we have like trust ratings with them if
we've done 50 deals with them if we've done one deal with them it's this really really cool ecosystem
that makes it so it works really well for us our clients have a very transparent car buying process
and again it's so easy because now they're the number just keeps going down and
it's almost a game for them that's so crazy I know how many so cool um okay Tommy before we let you
go we have a segment called ditch the drive-through so like after a long day of negotiating deals
first of all woof um what do you make when you like don't want to go get takeout like you just
want to eat at home but you're so exhausted what is your dish the drive-through okay so this is a
deep meal that uh what I've made for a long time it is one of the meals that I feel like I solidified
my fiance with uh she would make me make this like three times a week uh it's super simple Korean beef
and rice okay all it is I'm a big Korean guy I love Korean food I've always wanted to go to Korea
Korean barbecue is my favorite meal uh but this is like the easiest Korean meal you can ever make
if you want to explore some of the flavors and all you do is ground some ground beef 80 20 is fine
and then you're going to use brown sugar gochujang soy sauce sesame oil uh some sesame seeds I'm
missing something here um and you put a sauce all of that stuff together oh and ginger ground
ginger and red pepper flakes you put all that in sauce you let that go just like just make it just
like tacos but with those Korean flavors you put it over a bowl of rice and it's delicious
sounds delicious no it is sounds delicious and we're always talking about what things to do with
ground beef you know because it's like such like a go-to easy protein especially and it's a good
weeknight meal too like you brown the beef and you could even like brown that at a time you could
also freeze the whole thing like it's a 20 minute meal it's so quick so easy just put in the rice
cooker put that in by the time the rice is done your meat's done and then done love a new way to
make ground beef we're always talking about that a little bit ground beef and chicken I've heard that
adults are just finding different ways to make ground beef and chicken yeah I know it's like
what ethnicity is my ground beef or chicken going to be like that's all I love that oh my gosh I
totally agree well Tommy thank you so much for joining the Carpal Pod yesterday you guys can
find Tommy at delivered question mark on all socials deliver to me or deliver if you type
in delivery you'll find it but there's no spell it for us DEL IV already boom
what is the Harry Potter stuff oh so I'm so funny enough so when I'm Harry Potter I've
always been a big Harry Potter fan nerd and this is a custom painting that somebody made for me
and I just had in my last house because I wanted something nice and then when I moved studio I was
like I'm gonna elevate this so I put some nice books put the Wall Street Journal piece and I was
gonna put something else there and my audience lost it I could not like they were refusing to
watch me without the Harry Potter piece so I it's not even like hung there it's just sitting there
it's it's like they felt like I was losing my my tomminess by not having it there so
that is my Harry Potter my big Harry Potter nerd uh love it Tommy you don't know this about me but
I am not a Harry Potter nerd but I accidentally did something so Harry Potter coated oh so my
son's names are George and Fred whoops yeah it was spit his water out that one my daughter's name
Harriet oh my gosh I would never be able to say Ginny and I was gonna lose it Tommy Tommy I'm not
done oh and with my fourth daughter my fourth my youngest our name was Ginny like I was gonna
name her Virginia and call her Ginny and I was like I can't do this like I literally Elizabeth
right so I ended up naming her Elizabeth and we call her Libby which like literally just to put
the Harry Potter my dog's name is Tom like it's bad it would have been so great if you just didn't
know the entire time and just people would be gaslighting you and be like no you knew like I
promise you I didn't I know but Fred and George people do ask me like oh like Harry like the
Weasley's toys we didn't realize Fred and George until after I think Fred was born but then Harriet
Harry like that's how we put Harriet yeah
no that would be bad okay they're not really it's really been all in
accident they're not twins and they're blonde so like you know it's fine like we keep them separate
but yeah that's that's my accidental Harry Potter lore our mom was a big Harry Potter girl like she
read us all the books growing up yeah that's how I got into them I'm excited for when do you think
the good age to start Harry Potter like with my kids probably not to like 12 12 yeah 12 is good
I started reading them at like eight or nine because I was a nerd that was that was what but
like reading them it probably probably shouldn't have but yeah I'd say 12 is probably good where
you really understand and comprehend them yeah okay I agree so we'll we'll kick that hand on the
road well tell me sorry for that side quest but thank you so much for joining the Carball podcast
I mean seriously I'm I have so much respect for what you're doing I think you do a great job
I have some respect for you go follow Tommy on Instagram his videos are very entertaining
to watch just like love seeing you negotiate I know my husband is always watching your videos
so funny and like he has no my husband's never buying a car like like my husband will never
negotiate a car and he's like no same literally same I just love it thank you guys so much I
appreciate it all right thanks Tommy thank you for listening to the carpool podcast with Kelly
and Liz make sure you're subscribed so you never miss an episode and if you enjoyed
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About this episode
Negotiation and timing take center stage as Tomi from Delivrd breaks down the best and worst car-buying advice. They challenge outdated “show up and act serious” tactics, recommend staying analytical, using MSRP as a baseline, and leveraging dealer competition. Tomi explains how customer-advocacy changes the process—teams negotiate across markets, then present only the offers that matter, with paperwork pre-printed and bids visible in real time. They also discuss incentive-driven conflicts and why walking away can be powerful.
Original notes
Kelly is headed to lakehouse for a week-long family vacation with the kids. They opted for that instead of an expensive Florida vacation and her husband is tracking every cent they spent to see how much they save... sounds super fun... What WILL be fun are all the thrift store toys and activities Kelly got for the trip and her pre-done meal plan!
Over at Lizz's house, they're still reeling from James' amazing third birthday party. It was all dinosaur themed and the perfect first party for them to throw since the house renovations. The dinosaur dig experience she booked turned out to be a major win! But was this birthday more for James or Lizz and Matty?
Kelly has a new micro-hobby: the World Cup! She's been enjoying not only following along with the games, but the lovely posts from people that came other countries to enjoy everything the USA has to offer. Plus, what Prime Day deals you need to keep an eye on this year.
Then, it's time to chat with Tomi from Delivrd. He's helping consumers find the car the car they are looking for and negotiating directly with dealerships to get them the best deal. They discuss his journey to Delivrd and the consumer's power in today's market. Plus, the best and worst car buying advice. Learn more about Tomi and Delivrd at delivrdto.me
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