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I doubt it has much to do with me, rather I think karma is much more alive and well than some people quite realize. But it seems like every time someone goes out of their way to help me, I end up reading about something good that happened to them not long thereafter.

I bought a car the week before Podcast Expo and drove it around LA just enough to feel safe in using it for the fifty mile trek out to Ontario for the Expo. As my luck with cars would dictate, it turns out my car had a slight hidden tear in a hose which didn't manifest itself until I was on my way to the Expo and it decided to start overheating. Odds of finding an honest mechanic in a sleepy town like Ontario, California on a weekend? About the same odds of finding the time to get the car to a mechanic while exhibiting at the Expo.

Enter Walter of TresJefes, who I've known through LA Podcasters events for awhile. Walter decides he's going to help me figure out what's wrong with the car, and spends the better part of an hour, running water through the radiator to find the leak, then fills me in on exactly what hose I need to go get from the auto parts store, effectively saving my hide and allowing me to get back to focusing on the Expo.

Today the latest issue of Podcast User Magazine came out, and there's Walter right there on the front cover with the rest of TresJefes. Pure karma, gang. And come to think of it, the other two Jefes, Fonz and Erik, gave me a ride to the train station after an LA Podcasters meeting a few months ago. See what happens when you're nice to me, folks? ;-)

Seriously, is there another industry where the guy who's about to be featured on the cover of a magazine is willing to stand there in a parking lot and help you figure out what's wrong with your car? And you wonder why I love the podcasting community so much.

Does this mean that NOLA Trey, who took me to an auto parts store after the Expo and installed my new hose for me right there in the parking lot, will be on the cover of a magazine next month? I'm just saying.