Category: Podcast Episodes

End of Year, PTA Bath, and the Mentally Ill.

Happy New Years! With Eric absent due to being under the weather, Jake, Mike, Ali, and Kevin talk about an ideal world where Service Advisors are replaced by iPads, a flooded office, doing the Heimlich, shop workflow or lack thereof, semantics, mobile service, some spicy chips, and of course many tangents! Check us out on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Cast, IHeartRadio, YouTube and many other streaming platforms! Twitter and Instagram @Customer_States, Email us at CustomerStatesPodcast@gmail.com to send us a voice memo, Listener Mail, topic idea or picture, or to get your very own #SellTheBell and our Customer States… Stickers! Check out our website at www.CustomerStatesPodcast.com! Find us on Facebook at Facebook.com/CustomerStatesPodcast, YouTube by searching Customer States… Podcast, and help support us at Anchor.fm/customerstates Big thanks to Bruce Vayn for the amazing original music! Check him out: FB @Bruce Vayn, @brucevayn on IG, @bruce_vayn on Twitter, and email him for all your musical needs at brucesvayn@gmail.com

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Happy Holidays, Come for The Podcast, and Stay for The Tangents.

In this festive episode, Jake (happy birthday), Mike, Ali, and Eric jingle the bells, complain about wild customers and their equally wild concerns, Eric’s near-death experience, sexual harassment training, driving like a peasant without cruise control, our favorite Christmas movies, the woes of being a working shop foreman, recalls and reprogramming, birddogs, YouTube bakers, a special holiday gift from Ford, and many many tangents. Thank you for hooch Travis Farris! And as, please drink responsibly. Check us out on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Cast, IHeartRadio, YouTube and many other streaming platforms! Twitter and Instagram @Customer_States, Email us at CustomerStatesPodcast@gmail.com to send us a voice memo, Listener Mail, topic idea or picture, or to get your very own #SellTheBell and our Customer States… Stickers! Check out our website at www.CustomerStatesPodcast.com! Find us on Facebook at Facebook.com/CustomerStatesPodcast, YouTube by searching Customer States… Podcast, and help support us at Anchor.fm/customerstates Big thanks to Bruce Vayn for the amazing original music! Check him out: FB @Bruce Vayn, @brucevayn on IG, @bruce_vayn on Twitter, and email him for all your musical needs at brucesvayn@gmail.com

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The Warranty Hammer of Justice, Software Updates, and Topical Creams.

Jake, Mike, Ali, and Eric bring you topics such as new Mobile Service Vans, video multipoint inspections, updates to multiple ongoing projects, and an absolute ton of tangents and tomfoolery. Check us out on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Cast, IHeartRadio, YouTube and many other streaming platforms! Twitter and Instagram @Customer_States, Email us at CustomerStatesPodcast@gmail.com to send us a voice memo, Listener Mail, topic idea or picture, or to get your very own #SellTheBell and our Customer States… Stickers! Check out our website at www.CustomerStatesPodcast.com! Find us on Facebook at Facebook.com/CustomerStatesPodcast, YouTube by searching Customer States… Podcast, and help support us at Anchor.fm/customerstates Big thanks to Bruce Vayn for the amazing original music! Check him out: FB @Bruce Vayn, @brucevayn on IG, @bruce_vayn on Twitter, and email him for all your musical needs at brucesvayn@gmail.com

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Will’s Redemption, Dirty Rotten Slackers, and Bitter Betty.

With Jake out sick, Mike, Ali, Eric, and special return guest Will Tomczak laugh about archaic dealership technology, mechanic 101, how CHRISTIAN SHOULD DO HIS JOB!, warranty administrator relationships, shop meetings, high octane situations, body shop project update, missed diagnoses and having to pick up the slack, stupid cost cap tools, and a very special Listener Mail! Check us out on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Cast, IHeartRadio, YouTube and many other streaming platforms! Twitter and Instagram @Customer_States, Email us at CustomerStatesPodcast@gmail.com to send us a voice memo, Listener Mail, topic idea or picture, or to get your very own #SellTheBell and our Customer States… Stickers! Check out our website at www.CustomerStatesPodcast.com! Find us on Facebook at Facebook.com/CustomerStatesPodcast, YouTube by searching Customer States… Podcast, and help support us at Anchor.fm/customerstates Big thanks to Bruce Vayn for the amazing original music! Check him out: FB @Bruce Vayn, @brucevayn on IG, @bruce_vayn on Twitter, and email him for all your musical needs at brucesvayn@gmail.com

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Choosing The Parts Life, Blame It On The Apprentice, and Trail Fix.

Jake, Mike, Ali, Eric, and special guest Tommy De La Cruz talk about molding new employees, how to blame everything on your apprentice, processes, uneducated customers, a “sexist” advisor, intergalactic backorder parts, a follow up on VW diagnosis time discrepancies, the team environment, guessing ages, venting about work, fresh moldable employees, the Transit engine update, car graveyards, and many horrible jokes. Special shout out to Sydney and Emily aka Laverne and Shirley! Check us out on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Cast, IHeartRadio, YouTube and many other streaming platforms! Twitter and Instagram @Customer_States, Email us at CustomerStatesPodcast@gmail.com to send us a voice memo, Listener Mail, topic idea or picture, or to get your very own #SellTheBell and our Customer States… Stickers! Check out our website at www.CustomerStatesPodcast.com! Find us on Facebook at Facebook.com/CustomerStatesPodcast, YouTube by searching Customer States… Podcast, and help support us at Anchor.fm/customerstates Big thanks to Bruce Vayn for the amazing original music! Check him out: FB @Bruce Vayn, @brucevayn on IG, @bruce_vayn on Twitter, and email him for all your musical needs at brucesvayn@gmail.com

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Too Marinated, A Horse, and What Tangent?

Gobble Gobble! In this festive episode Jake, Mike, Ali, and Eric give thanks for a very special mystery drink from a customer and talk about being in the “top percentile”, rodent repellent devices, getting the wrong engine, how you can’t make money if you don’t have parts, a scare on the drive, clocking overtime versus being efficient, modified exhausts, clearing your bay, selling tires, programming nightmares, and a few jokes from Jake and Eric. Oh, and tangents galore! Check us out on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Cast, IHeartRadio, YouTube and many other streaming platforms! Twitter and Instagram @Customer_States, Email us at CustomerStatesPodcast@gmail.com to send us a voice memo, Listener Mail, topic idea or picture, or to get your very own #SellTheBell and our Customer States… Stickers! Check out our website at www.CustomerStatesPodcast.com! Find us on Facebook at Facebook.com/CustomerStatesPodcast, YouTube by searching Customer States… Podcast, and help support us at Anchor.fm/customerstates Big thanks to Bruce Vayn for the amazing original music! Check him out: FB @Bruce Vayn, @brucevayn on IG, @bruce_vayn on Twitter, and email him for all your musical needs at brucesvayn@gmail.com

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Separating Hoods, HIT BBQ, and “I’ve Never Seen This Before”.

Jake, Mike, Ali, and Eric talk about how TSBs do not dictate warranty, customers who take their own cars apart, when brakes and broken, buy back processes and Lemon Law, a warranty truck engine, “hamburbers”, alliterations, alternative transportation claims, no cap, and a very special Listener Mail! Check us out on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Cast, IHeartRadio, YouTube and many other streaming platforms! Twitter and Instagram @Customer_States, Email us at CustomerStatesPodcast@gmail.com to send us a voice memo, Listener Mail, topic idea or picture, or to get your very own #SellTheBell and our Customer States… Stickers! Check out our website at www.CustomerStatesPodcast.com! Find us on Facebook at Facebook.com/CustomerStatesPodcast, YouTube by searching Customer States… Podcast, and help support us at Anchor.fm/customerstates Big thanks to Bruce Vayn for the amazing original music! Check him out: FB @Bruce Vayn, @brucevayn on IG, @bruce_vayn on Twitter, and email him for all your musical needs at brucesvayn@gmail.com

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Smiling Mixologist, It’s a Lemon!, and Half a White Claw,

This week Jake, Mike, Ali, and Eric bring you subjects like Mustang drivers, “professionals”, getting yelled at, witness marks, chasing the dollar, loving dogs, pizza parties, technical difficulties, being deformed from impact, used Miata’s, lots of jokes, and answering a listener’s question! Check us out on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Cast, IHeartRadio, YouTube and many other streaming platforms! Twitter and Instagram @Customer_States, Email us at CustomerStatesPodcast@gmail.com to send us a voice memo, Listener Mail, topic idea or picture, or to get your very own #SellTheBell and our Customer States… Stickers! Check out our website at www.CustomerStatesPodcast.com! Find us on Facebook at Facebook.com/CustomerStatesPodcast, YouTube by searching Customer States… Podcast, and help support us at Anchor.fm/customerstates Big thanks to Bruce Vayn for the amazing original music! Check him out: FB @Bruce Vayn, @brucevayn on IG, @bruce_vayn on Twitter, and email him for all your musical needs at brucesvayn@gmail.com

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Hot Dogs and Onions, Shop Drama, and Nope!

Jake, Mike, Ali, and Eric talk about “unsafe” working conditions, ultimate pranks, Pumpkin Spiced things, glizzies, how you gotta pay to play, customer perception, why it’s important to stay in your lane, value for cost of service, customer perception, consent, being certified and thrown to the wolves, pedestrians struck by customers, podcast structure, and Mike gets knocked out. Check us out on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Cast, IHeartRadio, YouTube and many other streaming platforms! Twitter and Instagram @Customer_States, Email us at CustomerStatesPodcast@gmail.com to send us a voice memo, Listener Mail, topic idea or picture, or to get your very own #SellTheBell and our Customer States… Stickers! Check out our website at www.CustomerStatesPodcast.com! Find us on Facebook at Facebook.com/CustomerStatesPodcast, YouTube by searching Customer States… Podcast, and help support us at Anchor.fm/customerstates Big thanks to Bruce Vayn for the amazing original music! Check him out: FB @Bruce Vayn, @brucevayn on IG, @bruce_vayn on Twitter, and email him for all your musical needs at brucesvayn@gmail.com

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Spilled Drinks, 7 Miles of Liability, and a Ford GT.

In this week’s episode, Jake, Mike, Ali, and Eric talk about inside jokes like “George Co’stand’za”, Jake actually being busy, tool trucks, happy retirement parties and the inclusion of pizza, rockslides, downed phone lines and corrupt files, driving expensive cars, and of course many tangents! Check us out on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Cast, IHeartRadio, YouTube and many other streaming platforms! Twitter and Instagram @Customer_States, Email us at CustomerStatesPodcast@gmail.com to send us a voice memo, Listener Mail, topic idea or picture, or to get your very own #SellTheBell and our Customer States… Stickers! Check out our website at www.CustomerStatesPodcast.com! Find us on Facebook at Facebook.com/CustomerStatesPodcast, YouTube by searching Customer States… Podcast, and help support us at Anchor.fm/customerstates Big thanks to Bruce Vayn for the amazing original music! Check him out: FB @Bruce Vayn, @brucevayn on IG, @bruce_vayn on Twitter, and email him for all your musical needs at brucesvayn@gmail.com

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