and we're a better way to do this let me show you a better way that's a better way and we are alive i was a little worried there. A little spinny thing spun

longer than normal. I was afraid we weren't going to actually go

live, but here we are. The date, Tuesday, June

24th, at 2025, the episode 3,693.

Episode title of day, Critt crit before you commit let a i call the bluff

if you're like what is crit before you commit well you're going to find out today but this is going

to be fun um originally i was going to dig into this 100% from the angle of dealing with car dealership service departments.

But I thought about it more, and I'm going to make it a little bit more general, though I am going to tell you what I have done to a particular Toyota dealership a little bit more than I did yesterday and some of the feedback that I got from GPT.

And basically, my initial thought was I should really like stick the knife into these

people and turn the handle and then maybe go up a little bit and sideways and back down

and make a Z in the gut and then stab them in the face and make it about them.

But it's not about them.

You see, here's the thing.

A very, very long time ago, I came up with an idea for a business and I gave it a joke name

and it was like one of those things like, this could work if it was tweak right, but I know

I'm not going to do it.

And it was called my personal asshole.com, right?

Now, it might sound a little bit funny, and that's why it wouldn't have a good name.

But the concept was like this.

You're having something done, and you don't really know the space, the lingo.

Like, you know, you take your car in for a routine oil change, and next

thing you know, you're getting a text message with three line items on it that says needs

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