In this episode, John Rush and his co-hosts discuss the intricacies of home maintenance during the winter months. They provide practical advice on handling window and door installations in cold weather and delve into the topics of expansion and contraction in construction materials, offering insights that could save homeowners time and money. Additionally, don’t miss their thoughts on the visually stunning, dialogue-free movie ‘Flow’, and what it reveals about friendship and survival.
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The same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try to take over the world. Stick a fork in me, Jerry. I’m done.
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Now, here is your host of Rush to Reason, John Rush. John Rush.
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All right, happy Friday. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Myself, Andy Pate, Charlie Grimes. How’s Andy? Doing well, sir. Beautiful day. Absolutely. Dave from Veteran Windows and Doors with us as well. Dave, welcome.
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Thank you, sir.
SPEAKER 13 :
How’s Dave doing?
SPEAKER 05 :
I am very well, thank you.
SPEAKER 13 :
Good. This is good window weather to get out there and start getting stuff done.
SPEAKER 05 :
It is. The guys are out there until the sun goes down.
SPEAKER 03 :
Dave, is that basically the way it is during the winter? You’ve got to find the pockets of time where you can really get a lot of work done?
SPEAKER 05 :
Pretty much. We do follow a cold weather protocol where they, instead of, I don’t let them go in and pull every window out and pray that they get them back in. You do one at a time, get it in, weather tight, insulated, and then move on. Where in the summer you could do multiples is what you’re saying, right? In the summer, yeah. In the summer it’s a lot easier. You have a lot more.
SPEAKER 13 :
Does that affect your scheduling and how some of that works also?
SPEAKER 05 :
Absolutely. Yeah. And if we do have those days where we have a snow day or something like that, it bumps everything out.
SPEAKER 03 :
Can I ask a really dumb question?
SPEAKER 05 :
There are no dumb questions.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, no, no. Believe in me. I can do a dumb question. Just things like expansion and contraction, heat, cold, you know, adhesives, the glass, all the materials that you use, even the plastics. Is it any different in the winter than in the summer for how you’ve got to adjust it? Because Honestly, I suspect that there are companies that don’t attend to all those details? That’s a great question, Andy.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, no, that is a great question. And yes, there are. You actually, in our foam insulation, for example, the propellant is what they call a winter blend. It has more of the, you know, a higher concentration of the actual propellant in there so that the foam… Yeah, so it doesn’t get too cold and start to gum up. Is there a temperature whereby you can’t do anything? We usually cut it off at around 25 to 30 degrees, and that’s more because some of the sealants don’t cure as quickly.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, so what happens if one of these window companies, and they’ve got the coupons out there, and they come through, and they don’t use that kind of a winter mix? What are going to be some of the results people are going to get?
SPEAKER 05 :
you definitely end up with a lot of air infiltration, a lot of movement around that window and through there. As you engineer the window, you have to take all of those things into consideration. What is the expansion, contraction, things of that nature.
SPEAKER 13 :
Okay, meaning, following along Andy’s line here, you buy a pre-done home, a track home. and maybe it had its windows put in in December or January, will they be as good as the windows in the same neighborhood that were put in in July?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, they may not if you didn’t pay attention to what you were using. We pretty much change up a lot of the caulking that we use, even the, as I said, the foam insulation is a winter blend. So you have to be cognizant of that.
SPEAKER 13 :
I don’t know, and I don’t want to throw anybody under the bus, but my gut feeling is most of what I just said probably aren’t varying anything from July to December.
SPEAKER 05 :
No. Unfortunately, we see that a lot. And honestly, it’s the installation in general because Colorado is considered high plain desert. Right. They’re not concerned with water mitigation. Right. So a lot of these companies don’t flash windows. They don’t adjust them, shim. I mean, some don’t even insulate.
SPEAKER 03 :
What about doors? I notice a lot of times that they stick more at different times of the year. There’s other times of the year when they’re just letting air in. What can be done or what do you do when you’re installing?
SPEAKER 05 :
So the same thing with doors. You have to make sure that the opening is properly prepped before the door even goes in. So make sure that you’re setting it in a bed seal, that you’ve put your ice and water shield in to protect the sub-sill and the flashing, all of that. When you set the door, you have to make sure that you’re shimming behind all of your hinge and strike points.
SPEAKER 03 :
You see… You see, if I may, I just think so many people look at something like that and think it’s more like just do-it-yourselfers, you know. Hey, I can throw that in there. Just put in a door, and it doesn’t matter what company puts in the door. It’s all going to come out the same.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, we’ve replaced quite a few do-it-yourselfers. There is more to it. I mean, it’s not rocket science by any means, but it is.
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But there’s some tricks to the trade that you only learn by doing it.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, and it’s more just, you know, I always say how you do anything is how you do everything. And so pay attention, do it right, do it, and then stand behind it. That’s pretty much it.
SPEAKER 13 :
Which is what you guys do. Yes, sir. All right, so the month of December, folks want to get things done. Even if they can’t get the, pardon the pun, window of time handled on install, can they still take advantage of whatever the special is this month and apply that to when install would actually be?
SPEAKER 05 :
Absolutely, yeah, and that’s what we are doing.
SPEAKER 13 :
Because we are getting close to it. We were talking before coming on here. We’re close to Christmas and all of that. I mean, I pretty much could tell you that you buy a window Monday, you’re not getting it before Christmas.
SPEAKER 05 :
Negative. Not going to happen. No, not even. We’re starting to see things push out into the new year already. Okay. But that is for December. We’re doing entry doors at 40% off, and we are covering the installation on our end.
SPEAKER 13 :
Okay, so 40% off.
SPEAKER 05 :
Awesome. 40% off.
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Okay, so those of you listening, give Dave a call. I say it all the time. You don’t need to memorize any phone numbers or anything. Just go to klzradio.com. You can find him there. Rushtoreason.com, also find him there. So Dave’s easy to find. Don’t have to memorize any phone numbers or anything. And for a lot of you, this happens as well. If you want to get a hold of Dave and you forget all of that, you can always text me because people do, and I’ll forward you Dave’s info that way also. It makes it really simple. Very well. Dave, we appreciate it. Merry Christmas to you and your family, and thanks for all that you do for us.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes, and to you as well.
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And we’ll see you until the new year, probably.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right. Merry Christmas. God bless.
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God bless you, too. Thank you, Dave. Appreciate you very much. All right, and up next, Hi-Fi Plumbing. And, folks, if you need anything done plumbing-wise or electrical, because they do that as well, it’s 877-WE-HI-5.
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Suck it up, buttercup. Back to Rush to Reason. And welcome back to Rush Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560, John Rush, together with Andy Pate and John. Are you ready for a movie?
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Absolutely.
SPEAKER 03 :
It’s been a long week. You’re ready for a movie, aren’t you?
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
John, you like it.
SPEAKER 13 :
As we get this stretch going down to Christmas, it just seems long.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah.
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Even though it goes by fast.
SPEAKER 03 :
It does.
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So, yes, I’m ready for a movie.
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Absolutely. You like animal movies, right? Absolutely. Did you ever see Homeward Bound? Oh, yeah. Okay. Absolutely.
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Well, here we go. Great movie.
SPEAKER 03 :
How does Homeward Bound work when there’s no home left? Let’s find out in Flow. Flow. And that’s about all we’re going to play. Why? Because there’s no dialogue in this movie. Oh. It’s actually made in Latvia, I believe it is. That’s where this movie was made. Okay. And it’s cartoon. It’s all CGI. And it’s very interesting. Now, the star character in this cartoon is Kat. Okay. Cat. Okay, here we go. Cat had a nice life. He had a nice home, good family who clearly adored their cat. You can tell that because there’s like cat statues and cat stuff all over the place. Good times. But now his family is gone for some reason and Cat has the house to himself. So he’s just living life, has the house to himself. But John then tragedy strikes in the form of a flood. And this was more than a flood since all the people appear to be gone. Not just his family. All the people are gone everywhere. Only animals are left. Now Cat must survive the flood and climb to safety and survival while we watch. Well, meanwhile, Dog is getting by with other dogs, fighting over food, chasing cats, including Cat himself, and living wild. But when Dog is separated from the other dogs, he finds himself together with who? Cat! And some others, of course. They got, let’s see, a capybara, a lemur, and a bird. A big bird. Tall one. well cat you know he doesn’t like this at first but dog is much friendlier eventually cat warms up and besides they both need to survive this newly flooded world and the waters are just rising and rising over over mountains and everything i mean they’re really high and they got to do this along with the crew now why do i say crew because the cat dog capybara lemur bird they’ve all taken over a little sailboat A sailboat came along, so they all climbed on it one by one by one. And now this strange crew is floating to God knows where, facing dangers from nature in an apocalyptic landscape eerily devoid of people. What on earth literally happened? Well, in this journey, we see how truly different beings, very different beings, learn to work as a team when the stakes are high. And as we watch, perhaps we will learn a little about ourselves. And that is the story of Flo. What do you think?
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Do they ever say anything?
SPEAKER 03 :
Nope. These are not talking animals. So you are literally watching animals just interact with each other. I’m not kidding.
SPEAKER 13 :
Hmm.
SPEAKER 03 :
Interesting?
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
All right, let’s jump in. What works in Flow? First of all, John, very different cartoonistry. Really different.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, I saw the preview. It’s not what you would expect.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, it isn’t. The animals seem plain, don’t they? Very plain. Well, the landscapes are fantastic. So it’s like watching a simple group of tourists wandering through an art gallery.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, that’s a good way of saying it.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, and it’s so crazy watching this very simplistic-looking dog and cat and bird and all these, you know, interacting.
SPEAKER 13 :
And not a lot of features to them.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, they don’t have a lot of features to them.
SPEAKER 13 :
Almost like one-dimensional…
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 13 :
Is the way I would describe it, right?
SPEAKER 03 :
Right. But whoever did this movie, the artists must have spent, I mean, hundreds of hours watching film because all the little mannerisms are perfect. You see a cat acting exactly as a cat the whole time. You see a dog acting exactly as a dog the whole time. Each character is doing exactly what they do really in zoos and in real life, wherever they happen to be. And you’re watching them. operate together so it’s kind of crazy i i’ve never seen an artwork kind of like this now next thing that works the pace amazingly is solid now it’s not fast it’s not forced but it doesn’t drag for something so real this is more impressive since there is no dialogue the whole film is just animals The animals, however, John, are highly expressive. There are even moments of humor as they bicker and fight over simple things like kids would do. All right. I mean, it’s just it’s very interesting watching them fight and why they do and not only why they fight, but why they bond. And you’re watching this. It’s really something. Now, for the most part. This comes off kind of like a dream with flowing waters, flowing story, flowing character of development, hence the name flow, right? It just flows along. Okay. And you’re watching their lives flow along, mainly centered around cat. But it does more than flow. It touches our hearts as only simple animals can. And there’s something about watching real animals, just this feeling because they move and act so real, watching them embrace this apocalyptic thing that’s happening all around them, the flood and how they’re going to survive it. And there’s something basic about removing human dialogue and ambition. You know, animals don’t hide much. They live out loud even when they’re quiet. We always live life wearing masks. Do animals wear masks? No. What they think, what they feel, they let you know it. And it’s kind of interesting. You even get to see cats dream. at one which they do yeah they dream yes well the best part is the message of friendship these characters bond in a way that they even reflect their own kind and let me put it this way not reflect reject that’s better okay they even reject their own kind sometimes in favor of their new little group that they formed all right because this is their family now this is their family and this is their friendship it’s amazing to watch And one other thing that works in flow, maybe there’s a climate change agenda, but it’s hard to tell. I don’t see any. Nothing is forced. They don’t tell you at all why any of this is happening. There’s no talk of, and besides which, if it were happening because, you know, the ice is melting all over the world.
SPEAKER 13 :
In other words, you know, because even without dialogue, it could show the big bad power plant in the distance or things like that, right?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, it doesn’t show anything like that.
SPEAKER 13 :
Got it, okay.
SPEAKER 03 :
It doesn’t show anything like that. And by the way, even if that happened, that wouldn’t explain why all the people are gone.
SPEAKER 13 :
True.
SPEAKER 03 :
It doesn’t make any, and it doesn’t explain any of it.
SPEAKER 13 :
So that’s good.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right. It’s just they are gone, and you are watching this flow along as this cat is going through the story. And it’s surprisingly good. Now, what doesn’t work in flow? Well, naturally, the animals sometimes show a little too much ingenuity, and we’re left thinking, come on, animals wouldn’t figure that out. Not quite that well. They would figure some things out. They do. I mean, let’s face it. Animals, cats learn how to open doors that you had no idea that they could figure out how to open, right?
SPEAKER 13 :
Very true.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, it isn’t that big of a deal anyway, but it is a little bit of a deal. There appears to be maybe a slight climate change agenda. I’ll just say slight. I don’t know. I don’t really care. While the pace is solid, it isn’t great. There are times things run slow due to watching animals acting, well, like animals. Animals don’t learn quickly, John. No, they don’t. They make the same mistake several times over. They just seem to grow comfortable with their environment and go from comfort with one environment to adapting and then growing comfortable in another environment. And guess what? That doesn’t happen instantly. And this film, while it’s not a long film, I don’t even think it’s an hour and a half. Okay. It’s right around there. It’s about like 127 or something like that. I don’t know. Yeah, 124. Okay, 124.
SPEAKER 13 :
You’re right on the money. It was short.
SPEAKER 03 :
And yet, it’s kind of hard to explain. It’s not rushed at all, obviously, but it’s also not so slow that you are getting bored. There were a couple times where I’m starting to feel it a little bit like, okay, move this along. I want something to happen. But then, guess what? In the next minute, something happens.
SPEAKER 13 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 03 :
So you have a lot of things happening in their world and, you know, dangerous things, scary things, and then also exciting things that happen in their world. All right. Rotten Tomatoes gave Flo 97%. That’s pretty high. Yes. I’m not going to go that high because… Here’s the thing. For me, it is. For me, this film was four and a half stars. But I’m not going to give it that. For general audiences, I think there are too many people out there who would see this film as being too arty, too natural, too flowy. Sorry, pardon the pun. I’m going to give it three and a half stars for general audiences. I do believe that this is one that people can watch. I think it’s a little slow for kids, for instance. However, there are a couple of kids in there and they seem fine with it. But, you know, they were just enjoying life. But you could just tell the little kid was loving the cat up on the screen. For me, this was very heartwarming. Very heartwarming, including the ending. And I loved watching this family build slowly over time in the way it did. And the way it almost at the end surprises each of them that they are a family. And I won’t explain any more than that. Trust me, I’ve given nothing away there. Political three, more religious, I’m going to give it a four. Okay. Because, well, obviously, you don’t have any bad things in it. Right. Right.
SPEAKER 13 :
And they’re building a family.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right. But they could have shown a lot more. Let’s face it. Wildlife can be horrifying. Oh, yeah. Yeah, they don’t go there, really.
SPEAKER 13 :
Some eat their young.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. Well, no, they don’t do any of that. But, I mean, you know, there’s a little bit of fighting. Let’s just say that. Oh, yeah. That happens. Yeah, yeah. But overall… There’s really none of that. And also, I just think the feeling of so often, let’s say that we feel detached from our own families, or let’s say you just move, you go in the military, you’re a long ways from home, and you have to form new families at the workplace, in this church, in this neighborhood or wherever. We all do this. We all, in our survival of life, form new families with those around us, a different kind of family. OK, and now you live in Colorado. That’s where your family is from. Everybody’s together. You know, not everybody’s been through that. A lot of people feel displaced. True. And so for them, this has a wonderful message of, hey, get to know each other. Let the rough edges smooth off and you can become a family, too. And you’ll find yourself bonding with people you never thought you would. Anyway, do I recommend people go to Flow? You know what? This is one of the most interesting, enjoyable little movies I’ve seen in a while, and it is unlike anything else that’s out during the holidays. So sure, why not?
SPEAKER 13 :
Good to know. Thank you, Andy. Appreciate that. Veteran Windows and Doors is next. We just heard from Dave a moment ago, the owner of 40% off entry doors, free installation. Give Dave a call today. Find him at klzradio.com.
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SPEAKER 03 :
And welcome back to Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560, John Rush, together with Andy Pate and John. Are you ready for another movie?
SPEAKER 13 :
This one especially, yes. looks interesting doesn’t it absolutely okay john uh you remember y2k very much so i laughed at people who were worried about it i was very involved with all of that because i was on air on the weekends back then yeah and uh just real quick side note no go ahead we have a couple minutes uh you know a lot of especially christians we’re really into you know y2k things are you know going to be a problem in computers and this that and the other and it’s almost that whole end of the world type You know, scenario. And so I was listening to several different programs, including even, you know, folks on the family, James Dobson, who I have a lot of respect for. But I’m listening one day and he has a guest on that’s talking about how your car won’t start the next day. And I’m thinking, okay, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, timeout, timeout. I’m a car guy and had auto shops that I owned at that time. Right. And I’m thinking to myself, there isn’t a single thing on that car that knows what day or year it is. Right. So it is definitely going to start the next day, which in turn, Andy, got me really researching. Is this thing really as big of a deal as everybody says? And the more I researched, the more I realized this has a lot to do about nothing.
SPEAKER 03 :
You know, one thing we’ve got to talk about soon is why do so many people in the Christian community and also the conservative community, both of which we’re in, the liberty community, buy into every conspiracy kook theory that comes down the path.
SPEAKER 13 :
They did on that one.
SPEAKER 03 :
It drives me crazy, John. It drives me crazy.
SPEAKER 13 :
Me too. We agree on that. And anyway, long story short, I was on air for several Saturdays, every Saturday, for the longest time leading up to Y2K, basically saying, guys, live your life, go have fun, enjoy your evening, enjoy that New Year’s, because it’s going to be a lot to do about nothing. And I had some naysayers that thought I was loony because I had gone off the deep end because I wasn’t on the reservation enough. the conspiracy reservation any longer, Andy, and I had people really mad at me for saying those things, but yet, guess who was right?
SPEAKER 03 :
See, I didn’t care. I know where I was. I was at a casino. I was working.
SPEAKER 13 :
I was at the Neil Diamond concert that night because he was in town.
SPEAKER 03 :
New Year’s Eve, man. You had to work over that night. Everybody had to work. Absolutely. And it was packed. Obviously, if anything like that had happened, I was working in a place that was nothing but machines. It would have been a meltdown. There was nothing. And we knew there would be nothing. So anyway, shall I jump in?
SPEAKER 13 :
Go for it.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, John, what if all the Y2K doomsday scenarios happened? What if they had actually happened? Well, let’s go to a disaster film in Y2K.
SPEAKER 08 :
Ladies and gentlemen, we are releasing our final report on the Y2K computer problem.
SPEAKER 06 :
Everyone’s here.
SPEAKER 08 :
We will experience no major national breakdown.
SPEAKER 02 :
Someone’s on the net.
SPEAKER 06 :
Let’s pimp this out.
SPEAKER 04 :
You’ve got mail! Break that! Break that! Break that! Break that! Break that! Break that! Break that! Break that! Break that! Break that!
SPEAKER 12 :
Y2K! Y2K! Y2K! Y2K! Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-
SPEAKER 03 :
I think they’ll still do graduation. And that is Y2K. What do you think, John?
SPEAKER 13 :
Again, this is one I wouldn’t mind seeing just because I remember that time so vividly.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, let’s jump in. Remember poking fun at all the panic mongers during Y2K? Of course, both of us do. They said planes would be falling from the sky, all hell was going to break loose, and most of us just laughed. Well, in Y2K, the movie, Jaden Martell and Rachel Zegler, they star as Eli and Laura. They’re a couple young people, and they’re ready to hook up at a party on New Year’s Eve 2000. Well, Eli is always fond over Laura, while Laura is the popular smart girl coming off a tough breakup. Hey, that’s an opportunity, right? Hey, she’s ready. Well, there’s a big bash going on, and then you’ve got all the expected hijinks of young drunks, right? Okay. But then we see a complete retelling of history, John, as the nightmare scenarios start happening. All the electronic devices are rebelling, killing our young party goers. You remember Skynet from Terminator? Yeah. Well, what if the machines and appliances really malfunctioned on 1-1-2000 and then rose up to attack us? Well, needless to say, John, it would be gory, right? Machines are soulless, so they would cut us to pieces and strangle us without hesitation, declaring their supremacy over us shallow humans, because that’s all we are, right? They wouldn’t care. A machine wouldn’t think twice. They’d go right through us, and this is what’s going on. Well, back to the party. As the machine starts slicing and dicing, the remaining few panic and they flee into the forest. Remaining few people, that is. They panic. They flee away from any technology. Well, they meet a local stoner named Garrett. And we actually saw him earlier in the film, but we see him again. And he helps them survive and put together a plan. Is there any way to fight back? Can they survive? Well, Laura is a computer genius. So maybe she can overcome all the machines in some way that all other smart people can’t. And hey, why not, John? She’s hot. So why not? And most importantly, can a movie like this hold up or will we hope for the apocalypse? And that’s the story of Y2K. What do you think?
SPEAKER 13 :
Makes sense.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. And obviously it’s supposed to be campy fun silliness, right? It’s a campy fun horror movie is what it really is, which the preview doesn’t really show. Preview comes off as something different. Well, what works in Y2K? First of all, Jaden Martell, he’s a very likable young actor. He conveys his part well. He’s not the big muscular guy. He’s the quieter type, the shyer type. He does a good job in conveying that. Okay. What else works in Y2K? Nothing. And I mean nothing. I’m just going to say it. This is one of the best jobs of putting together a trailer with nothing.
SPEAKER 13 :
Because the trailer looks good.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, this is one of the best. We always talk about this. The people who put together the trailer are not the ones who make the movie. These are people who are there to sell the movie, so they piece together whatever they can. They make it look like something that’s… And they did a good job, it sounds like. Yeah, they make it look like something that actually looks like you’re dealing with Y2K. No, this is just really a horror movie where… I mean, it is Y2K, but where all the machines go evil… That’s not what I predicted. What?
SPEAKER 13 :
That’s not what I would have predicted.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, it isn’t. But that could still be fun, right? Machines attacking you if you have campy fun. I love these campy, funny kind of horror movies. I mean, Scream, that is what that is.
SPEAKER 11 :
Right.
SPEAKER 03 :
All right. Well, John, what doesn’t work in Y2K? Yeah, it’s supposed to be campy, but these are the worst, cheapest special effects ever. I swear this was made with the money that was in the producer’s wallet at the time. Awful. The machines assemble into robot-like characters. They assemble into these with screens as faces, but they’re just actors walking around with wires and metal plates plastered on them. Awful. Awful. Do you remember Lost in Space when you were a kid? Yeah. Danger, Will Robinson. Yeah, yeah. Danger, you know, the funny robot that went around. This looks… about that serious. Actually, it looks less serious than that. All this would work if the movie were really funny, but it isn’t. Okay. I mean, this can’t be cheapy kind of special effects. Remember Wayne’s world, everything was cheap, a cheap set and all this, but it was hilarious. And so it worked anyway. Okay. This isn’t funny. The supposedly funny fat guy that they, you know, you have in almost every movie. He’s not funny. The lines by all the stereotypical characters, you know, you got the jocks, the stoners, the slutty girls, et cetera. They aren’t funny. The adults aren’t funny. The stars of the movie, the two stars, they’re not funny. I got more laughs with Platoon. All right.
SPEAKER 13 :
I mean… It’s just not funny.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, my gosh. I never even came close to cracking a smile. You heard that line at the beginning, you know, think there will still be graduation? That’s actually a pretty good line, right? Mm-hmm. Just the delivery of it, the timing of it came flat. It just didn’t work at all. Nothing did. Awful. The acting was flat-out awful. But it’s hard to blame the actors. They had nothing to work with here, John. I mean, serious. I don’t know… I mean, every one of them grabbed their check and ran screaming off the set. All right. This is unreal. The storyline was pointless. The dialogue was pointless. The kills. The kills were stupid. I mean, people basically just sitting there still waiting for the drill to go in their head or whatever. I mean, it was just there’s or walking into just getting chopped up. It was awful. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, getting a group of stoners together for a party going, woo, woo. That only works if something good happens. Otherwise, it’s a boring party. I mean, it’s like being the only sober guy at a raunchy party where barely conscious drunks, they laugh at these, you know, they’re making aimless comments and they think they’re hilarious and they’re not. And you’re the sober guy. And you’re having to watch this. That’s how you feel in the audience. And you’re trapped there because you’re hosting it. Or maybe you’re reviewing a movie. You know, unreal. I honestly didn’t think anything… Anything could make me hate Rachel Zegler even more than I do.
SPEAKER 13 :
Not bad, huh?
SPEAKER 03 :
Until now. I mean, before this, I just wanted her movies to fail because of how mean she is. You know, I hope Trump supporters know no peace. You know, blank Trump and all this kind of stuff. Now I want her deported. And she’s a citizen. I don’t care. Okay? Rachel Zegler wasn’t even very good in this movie. Really? Yeah, between this awful movie and the fact that she has utterly destroyed Snow White coming up. I mean, she has done a one-woman job of mangling Snow White. I don’t know what her career is going to look like going into 26 after this next year. I mean, my goodness. But anyway, Rotten Tomatoes, for reasons that are beyond me, actually was able to work up to 47%. Now, the early reviews… which I think they were a bunch of no-name reviewers, and I think they knew the studio or something. They were all giving it, you know, tomatoes. Everything that came out since went against it. So it went from, you know, like 70, 60, 50. Once the real folks showed up. 57, 52, now 47. And it just kept going down. It’ll probably go lower. What a bomber. Oh, yeah. This is my worst movie of the year, bar none. And you know how every year I will have, at the most, one or two movies with a goose egg with zero stars. This is it. Wow. Zero stars for quality. This is some of the worst writing, cheapest sets, cheapest set designs, worst costumes, terrible special effects, no story, not funny, nothing. There is nothing I can recommend about Y2K. And what really gets me is it is nothing like its trailer. Now, for political, I’m only going to give it two stars. Not that it said much, but just because Rachel Zegler was in it. For that alone, I’m giving it two stars. John, I’m going to be biased here. Actually, I don’t know. There’s got to be something in there. More religious, zero. You know, it shows a really porny scene with some real porny stuff going on. And you’re just like, sure, why not? Nobody’s going to go to this movie, so you’re not going to corrupt anyone. And you’re just like, my gosh. This was a movie. Ordinarily, I would walk out midway through the movie. But this was a car crash. I had to watch.
SPEAKER 13 :
No matter what, you just keep watching.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, yeah. What’s next?
SPEAKER 13 :
I slowed down my car. How much worse can it get?
SPEAKER 03 :
John, I slowed down my car. People behind me were furious. They were honking their horns. But I’m just like, I have to watch this. All this twisted metal and wreckage. Which I could call the career of Rachel Zegler. I’m watching this, and I’m just like, why did you make this? Awful.
SPEAKER 13 :
That’s not what I anticipated.
SPEAKER 03 :
It looked like it was written by some stoner teenagers who thought they were funny at the time, and then they came out of it.
SPEAKER 13 :
Kyle Mooney and Evan Winter, whoever they are.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, gosh. Whoever they are.
SPEAKER 13 :
Have you ever heard of them before, Charlie? No, he says no.
SPEAKER 03 :
You know, they’re probably writers for SNL or something where they’ve got some kind of a… One of them actually was on Zoolander 2. Well, yeah. Well, Zoolander 2 wasn’t as good. No, that wasn’t too good.
SPEAKER 13 :
But… Anyways.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. Yikes. Y2K, worst movie of the year. And it took me all the way to December to see my worst movie of the year. There we go. Awful.
SPEAKER 13 :
Hmm. Do I recommend going to see it? No. This isn’t even worth watching when it’s rentable.
SPEAKER 03 :
I mean, if you want to watch a train wreck.
SPEAKER 13 :
Even when it’s free, it’s not worth watching.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, if you’re just curious about a train wreck.
SPEAKER 13 :
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SPEAKER 13 :
All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Yesterday’s impossible question, or sorry, Wednesday’s because we were off yesterday. We had our Christmas party yesterday. So if some of you were wondering why we had a replay show, that’s why. But the question of the day from Wednesday, name the Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the year for 2022 and what does it mean? It’s goblin mode. and it’s a type of behavior which is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy, typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations. I’ve never heard that phrase. Nope, that’s a new one on me. Goblin mode. Goblin mode. All right, today’s impossible question. What are the names, Charlie will know this, of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s kids? You know them all, Charlie? He says he knows their city names.
SPEAKER 03 :
Names of cities. So probably Berthoud. There you go.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah. There you go. Guys, I would not know this one because I don’t keep up on the Kardashians.
SPEAKER 03 :
I could see naming a daughter Cheyenne. That’s okay. Yeah. That works. Right. Or Denver.
SPEAKER 13 :
It’s all right, too.
SPEAKER 03 :
I probably wouldn’t name my daughter Boulder.
SPEAKER 13 :
That doesn’t really work. Yeah, probably not.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, okay.
SPEAKER 13 :
Anyways, answer that on our social media page on Facebook. I would not get this at any rate. So that’s the question of the day. And a lot of you participate in that. Thank you, by the way, for doing that. Thank you, Producer Ann, for putting all those out. That is an endeavor on a daily basis to make that happen. So I do it once a week for Drive Radio, and that’s hard enough for me. So every day is a lot. You were talking about a story a moment ago. Go ahead. Give everybody an update, because I did not know much about this particular story.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, yeah. For those who are wondering about the Daniel Penny trial that’s been going on in New York, Daniel Penny obviously is an ex-Marine. In the subway, a guy comes in. I believe it was a black gentleman. Is that right, Charlie?
SPEAKER 13 :
That’s what Charlie said, yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, okay. And he was threatening to kill everybody. He said he was going to kill people, and he wanted to go to prison, and he didn’t care. What happened to him and he was going to kill them. And Daniel Penny snapped into action and got him down and like a headlock kind of thing vice grip for six minutes or so wound up the guy died. Now the guy did have drugs in his system. And so there’s some gray area as to whether the headlock itself caused the death or whatever. Anyway, the people on the subway are saying, this guy’s a hero. He saved our lives. This was a mortal threat to us. And also, it was a guy who’s crazy and has a real history. All right? Okay. Penny has no history of doing anything wrong. They have been deliberating on this now for quite some time. And… It’s become a real kind of left versus the right thing. The people on the left want him basically strung up, and people on the right are saying, you’ve got to be kidding. This guy is clearly innocent. All you need is reasonable doubt. You’ve got tons of that. One Fox News guy just said, this is just showering reasonable doubt everywhere. Anyway, bottom line, the top charge, manslaughter has been dropped. by the jury failed to reach a verdict, so they dropped the top charge. They couldn’t agree on this. It’s incredible to believe that this guy… purposefully committed manslaughter, like he was hunting this person or whatever.
SPEAKER 13 :
He was there defending the rest of the folks that were there.
SPEAKER 03 :
He was defending the rest of the folks. I’m just going to say, and now the worry is, is that they’ll get him on a lower charge. This is the same, you know, DA who went after Trump.
SPEAKER 13 :
Idiot.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay. And he went after this guy. And I’ll just say this, John, I wouldn’t want to go into any liberal city and being a conservative white male.
SPEAKER 13 :
Me neither.
SPEAKER 03 :
Because no matter what happens, if I try to protect me, my wife, or other people, I could get nailed for it. So there you go.
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SPEAKER 13 :
Live and local, back to Rush to Reason. All right, we had Joe on the horn there for a minute. He was going to give us an update on that particular case, but we’ve got about a minute left here is all. And this is one of those, Andy, to your point a moment ago, where if you take a case like this and don’t rule it correctly, people will not interfere any longer. Oh, yeah. They’ll just say, you guys are on your own. I’ll handle myself, but you’re on your own.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, no one’s going to want to protect anyone.
SPEAKER 13 :
Which is not where we as a society should be.
SPEAKER 03 :
But once again, there is a racial kind of thing about this because of Elvin Bragg being the one who targeted this guy.
SPEAKER 13 :
Which there shouldn’t be.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right, there shouldn’t be. It shouldn’t matter. I don’t care who you are, what you are.
SPEAKER 13 :
This guy was there as a menace on the train. He protected all the other people that were there.
SPEAKER 03 :
But John… If you’re downtown, you know, like outside a Bronco game or whatever, and you’re in one of these situations and you have to protect a group and you do what it takes to protect the group, right? Maybe this person’s a mortal threat and you draw a weapon or you do something. Do you feel safe? I mean, do you feel safe with a group of Denver jurists ruling over John Rush?
SPEAKER 13 :
No. No. Here? Absolutely not, Andy. You should, though.
SPEAKER 03 :
You should feel safe. Because why? Because you’d be innocent. It doesn’t matter. It is really a scary time right now, John.
SPEAKER 13 :
It is when it comes to these sorts of things because it’s no longer really a jury of your peers. So we’ll leave it at that. We can talk maybe more about this on Tuesday. Sure. Throw that into our notes for Tuesday and we’ll do that, guys. All right. Hour number two is coming up next. NFL picks plus the wildest liberals that are actors and actresses, right? Yeah. They do make some good movies. And we’ll talk about that as soon as we come back. Hour two is next. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 1 :
I’m a rich guy
