In this episode, host John Rush dives deep into the realities of remote work as companies begin recalling employees back to offices. He shares insights on how recent economic policies affect both paychecks and corporate strategies. Special guest Linda Hanson from Prosperity 101 talks about the shift from corporate wokeness to more traditional policies, highlighting the impact of public opinion and economic realities on business decisions. As John explores these shifts, listeners are reminded of the vital connection between policy and economic prosperity, urging both employers and employees to understand the broader impact on the workforce.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. And we’re waiting for Linda. And again, she’s very busy and could very well have gotten tied up. We were waiting for her to call us. But you know what? As I always say, the show goes on. I got plenty of cover anyway, so not a huge issue there whatsoever. So let me do this. Linda was going to talk about, you know, the wokeness in corporate America, what’s happening there and so on. And I… Well, yeah, you know what? I’m going to move this up. I had this in my notes for a little bit later this hour, so I’m going to move this up. I’ll talk about this now. If Linda calls in, we can still kind of coincide this into this particular topic anyways. And that is remote work. And I read several different articles today about – and one of them is in the Wall Street Journal – regarding remote workers in the fact that they are now starting to be terminated for not showing up to work. In other words, in some of these cases, people moved across the country and thought i guess that this is going to be some sort of a permanent thing so remember all the way back in covid andy and i even talked about this numerous times you know people were being you know because of covid they were allowed to work remotely and it was going to be the new trend and it even affected commercial office space and the vacancy rate and on and on and on we go andy and i at the time said this won’t last now i will be the first to admit it lasted longer than i thought by about two years. I really felt like by now even, there’d be a lot more people back at work, but that’s not the way it turned out. And at any rate, A lot of those people now have refused to come back and are now, let’s just say this, they’re going to be looking for other work. I’ve got some examples of that I will talk to you about in this particular article as well. But I believe Charlie’s getting Linda for us as we speak. So we’ll shift gears here and I can come back to that. But there’s some things in that I want to talk about as well. So we’ll come back to that here in just a few minutes. And real quick, we’ll switch gears. Let’s go to Linda real quick. Linda Hanson, how are you?
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I’m just great. Thank you so much.
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You’re very welcome. Welcome back. Prosperity 101. Let’s talk about from woke to what. In other words, and I’ve read it. We talk about this on the program quite often. A lot of these companies that literally were on the DEI train have either shifted gears. The train’s not even on the track any longer. I mean, they’re going completely. different direction. Some of that, I believe, Linda, because of public outcry. But in other cases, I think they’re finally figuring out this isn’t working.
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I would say, yes, it’s not working. You know, we really don’t need to judge surgeons and pilots and plumbers by the color of their skin or their gender. You know, we need people who are skilled at the work that they do. And I think that the American public has awakened to to this incredible lack of common sense, and companies are being forced to wake up as well.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, and I had said this one as well. I was talking a moment ago about the people coming back or supposed to be coming back to work that aren’t, that are now losing their jobs. The return to work thing has gotten to be a big deal. And folks, I guess, finally have, you know, folks that moved even some cases across either state lines or multiple states to work remotely are now figuring out that, oh, they want me back in the office. I mean, once again, the bottom line profit, Linda, as you know, when it comes to companies is, That has a lot to do with what they do day to day, especially companies that, for lack of better words, I guess I should say, Linda, have to answer to the public, the stakeholders, and so on. When they start to not have very good returns, people get antsy.
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Yes, they do. And one of the problems that we have in America is that people don’t really understand how much policy affects their paycheck. And consumers don’t understand how much policy affects the final price of their product, that their product or service they’re buying. And so, you know, we can see these changes, but unless we absolutely educate people in the workforce now, I think it can be kind of a flash in the pan that we have this opportunity to really drill in and help people understand the greatness of our system of government, the greatness of our Constitution. the greatness of our opportunity to create prosperity, which is human flourishing and freedom. But unless we help them truly make the connection between these things, we could end up in another wave of these crazy policies that make no sense.
SPEAKER 12 :
No, I agree. I said this. It’s funny. I was talking about this a couple of days ago that there’s this window that we have right now whereby we can do some of the things you just mentioned. We can train not only the employees but the customers and so on and really take this opportunity and do something with it. And my fear is if we don’t, we’ll be right back where we started from.
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Absolutely. Absolutely. And I have seen the effects of working in the workplace to help employees understand how basic policy affects their paycheck. One time I was doing a workshop at a company where they did Prosperity 101 days across their company throughout every facility. I trained the managers, sent them out, right? And then I was at like the home office or one near there with the owner. And some union employees were part of this presentation. And there was one person in particular who didn’t want to be there. He was very intimidating. He kind of, you know, made me, like I said, intimidated a little when he walked in the door. And I just said a silent prayer, Lord, I want that one. Right. And throughout the conversation and the presentation, his body language opened up and he got more curious. And at the end, he raised his hand and said, let me get this straight. If those policies up there make it hard for Jim over here to pay my paycheck and my benefits, why do I want to vote for someone who supports those policies? Which I wanted to jump up and down and say, yes, that’s why I’m here. You’re getting it. Yes, and one of the posters I have on my website that I offer for… people to use in their workplace is simply the Bill of Rights. And underneath it says, are you voting for a person who will protect your rights? So many people have come through the public education system these years. They’re in their 20s, 30s, 40s. Like you were talking about, they’re being entitled, you know, they have to go back to work. Right.
SPEAKER 12 :
I got to go back to the office? How dare you?
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I can’t go in my pajamas? Yeah, anyway. But they’re in their 20s, 30s, 40s, and they really don’t understand that it takes healthy businesses to drive the economy. The government has nothing until we give it to them first. They don’t understand how it all works, and they’re in the workforce now. They’re through their school. They’re done, and they have come through, and they’ve been taught to hate America, and to hate capitalism while they hold their Starbucks and their laptops. And so I say if employers don’t help educate them with some basic civics and basic information, who will? And we’ll be right back in that section.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, and I really appreciate having you on, because I believe wholeheartedly in what you’re saying. The education part of it is huge, because you are correct. Most, I mean, there are some rare exceptions of kids that go to, you know, private school, Catholic school, Christian school, homeschooled, where they may be getting some of these civic things, and it’s different on their level. But generally speaking, and some of this… Linda, I know because, A, I’m an employer, and, B, I talk to a lot of young people. And I will, on purpose even sometimes, get into some of these questions and answers, if you would, on some of the things you and I are talking about just to see what level are they at and what have they been taught. And I’ll just say it straight up. I can tell where these kids have gone to school. Let me just say that. Okay.
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Absolutely. Absolutely. And so that’s why I love what I do with Prosperity 101, because I really want to empower employers to be able to get these people reeducated. And it’s not telling them who to vote for or what party or anything. It’s reintroducing them to the documents that protect our God-given rights. reintroducing them to that, reintroducing them to, well, or introducing them for the first time to the policies that drive our economic system and allow for us to have, you know, that capitalism and the free enterprise and the opportunity to build and create wealth. and then how to protect that by becoming informed, involved, and impactful. So what I want to encourage every employer to do is just join the movement and help re-educate or educate for the first time some of that basic civics, basic economic policy that all of these people should have learned in fifth grade because they didn’t. We’ve had these years of absolute chaos and confusion. And I think that if we just begin the conversation and then also when employers do that in such a way that it lets the employee know they’re mentioning these things because they care about them, they really want them to have. Yeah. You know, Linda, really quick.
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I mean, I’ve always wanted as an employer to see my employees be as successful and as prosperous as possible, because when they are, they become a lot more, you know, loyal to me. And we’re all in this together. You know, if they win, I win. And so I’ve always told them, you know, if you guys are winning as employees, that means I am as well. And together we keep building what we’re doing.
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Absolutely. Absolutely. You know, that kind of communication builds that loyalty, engagement, retention. That helps an employer’s bottom line. That helps everybody’s bottom line. You know, all the ships rise when the water rises, right? And so this is why this is so important. And like I said, I have seen this change constantly. perspectives and change lives. And that’s why I love what I do. So if people, you know, obviously they can contact me at prosperity101.com and learn more. I even have just a free ebook people can get with ideas of how to even start a conversation in the workplace. But I truly believe that employers are like a last frontier for educating these people to understand how policy affects their paycheck.
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Yep, and really quick, just in closing, for those of you that are listening, employers, one of the things that I’ve always done is when especially a a mistake has been made. So maybe it was costly, maybe it’s not so costly. What I mean by that, Linda, is maybe something didn’t make it to an invoice that should have, or maybe there was a slight accident and now the company’s got to pay out some money to handle said accident. I’ve always gone and said, okay, and I know it varies from company to company and what your bottom line is, but truly what is that mistake going to cost the company? In other words, how many sales, how many dollars do we now have to have come in to make up for what just happened? And sometimes, not always, but in most cases with employees, when you start saying, okay, that $100 mistake now means we have to do X We’ll be right back.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right, exactly. And this is just such good information for employers to share with their employees because, you know, in our personal lives, we can’t live with the kind of deficit that the government has. No. In business, we can’t do that. Not for very long.
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Ask Stellantis Motor Company right now how that’s working out for them.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right. And, you know, but we could see it in nations as well. And so… When we can give these people the common sense, basic civics, basic economics, and it comes from I care about you so you can learn about this, It’s so powerful. I’ve seen it time and time again, and it’s so powerful. And, you know, we can really take our country back. I mean, we have, in a sense, with the election, we have a window of time. And unless we think like statesmen, you know, politicians think like the next election, but statesmen think like the next generation. And unless we really, as activists, as employers… As voters, as citizens, unless we start thinking like statesmen, we are not going to be able to preserve that freedom for our children and grandchildren moving forward.
SPEAKER 12 :
That’s right. Linda Hanson, again, appreciate you very much. Prosperity 101, what’s the website folks need to go to?
SPEAKER 06 :
Prosperity101.com.
SPEAKER 12 :
Awesome. I appreciate it. You’re welcome back anytime, Linda.
SPEAKER 06 :
Thank you so much. You’re very welcome.
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All right, return to work. And I started the top of the hour that way, and then we had Linda call in, which I appreciate very much. Very gracious of her, by the way. There was a little miscommunication between her and her person that does the bookings and so on. But I appreciate Linda. Second time I’ve had her on, and I enjoy having her. So we’ll have her back in the future. But there was an article in the Wall Street Journal talking about this whole return to work. And one story that just caught my eye, there was a few, but there was one that caught my eye. And this is in the article, so I can say it without defaming anybody. This is just a story in the Wall Street Journal. Stephanie Pittman says she lost her remote job as a director of vendor management. She’s a lawyer, by the way, for a building maintenance company last month. She had worked from her home in Wichita, Kansas, since joining the California-based business last year. The company started calling employees back to its headquarters and hiring people who could work in person. Pittman, who is 51 and again, an attorney, had taken the job to escape a previous employer’s back to the office push and is anchored to Wichita by four children, her husband, who is a judge and aging parents who live only a mile away. Now, while I’m sympathetic to her situation. I understand what it’s like to have aging parents and all of that. I’m there right now. I get it. I’m very sympathetic to what her situation is. But I think her expectations of working remotely for someone are, frankly, too high. And being an attorney, I would think that her common sense would tell her so. Because she’s… This article goes on to say, her old job is now posted on an on-site position, or as an on-site position, with part-time legal work as a contractor. Pittman has maintained her income in the months since, but the outlook for another high-paying remote job is discouraging. She has gotten little traction on more than 100 applications so far, and she goes on to quote, saying, it’s just so frustrating, so demoralizing. Now… I know she’s an attorney, but Stephanie, I could have told you this was coming, and I did several years ago. It lasted longer than I thought, but I’m not sure why this is frustrating and demoralizing to you. You’re an attorney. You should have seen the handwriting on the wall. Remote work. I don’t want to say it’s completely dead, but for a lot of jobs and a lot of companies, it will be. And here’s why. And Andy and I have explained this many times. You don’t get the same production as a company out of remote workers you would if they were in the office. You don’t get the same collaboration. as if they were in the office. You don’t get the same ability to monitor what they’re doing when they’re not in the office. And there’s only but probably, I don’t think I’m exaggerating, one, maybe two percent of all workers, and I know that sounds like a low number, but bear with me, one to two percent that can work remotely and be just as effective and productive and make the company the same money as if they went into the office. I mean that sincerely. And the reason is the majority of workers are not that disciplined enough to do that. Most workers from home. will take whatever advantage they can of doing so. The distractions will come. They don’t have the same routine. I go down the list of things that most remote workers won’t do to make them less productive and effective at home as if they were in the office. Now, some would say, well, yeah, but I get distracted in the office. I’m way more productive at home. You might be. And you might be. You might be one of those one or two percenters I was just talking about. But you’re the exception. Far too many say that, and yet the numbers would say that they’re very sorely mistaken because, no, they’re not as productive at home as they would be in the office. I’ll go one step further. Most people that can work effective remotely… and stay on top of things and make their company the same amount of money, could probably run their own business. Because that’s what it takes, by the way. You have to be working almost 24-7 when you run your own business. You really never stop. You’re doing something constantly. Your brain never shuts off. You’re always figuring out what’s the next thing that we as a company need to be doing to move things along. And if your mindset is such that you can do that from home versus being in the office, you’re a good candidate to own your own business. And again, that’s a rarity because most can’t. Most can’t. Most don’t have the drive, the wherewithal, the ability to work as many hours as I just said, and so on. And I’m not saying everybody that works remotely has to put in 60, 70, 80 hours. That’s not what I’m saying. But the reality is most that have even a 40 or 50-hour job that work from home probably aren’t working half that, actually working half that. Again, distractions come along. Oh, I got to go do a load of laundry. Oh, I need to go mow the grass. Oh, I need to go do X, Y, Z. Or I think I’ll do this or I’ll do that or I can go down the list. And those distractions are there. And trust me, I know I work from home. I’ve worked from home now since about 2010 or so. So 15 years almost. And started working from home as I had more businesses and locations and so on. I figured out that I could actually be more effective going to my home office and getting done what I needed to do and so on. And I will tell you that even that for me, and you guys all know how hard I work and what I do on a daily basis. And even for me, that was a shift. A, because you’re not around people. You don’t have the social aspect of it because you’re no longer around people in the office, so you’re doing it without all of that, which, again, sometimes that can be a distraction. Sometimes, though, it can be a help. Sometimes that can even be a motivator. So you’re at home working alone. You’re trying to make sure you put all these distractions aside so you can concentrate on the things that you need to get done, and yet you also know that, oh, man, I didn’t get this done yesterday, and I didn’t get that done this weekend, and I still need to get this done because you’re seeing all these things around the house that you know you need to get done, and they’re barking at you. And you’re thinking, well, I’m here. I could just take a half an hour and go do that really quick. Well, a half an hour turns into an hour and a half. And pretty soon you’ve not done any work because you’ve been over here doing this. And far too often on remote workers, what I just said happens. 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And we are back, Rush to Reason. Dan, what’s going on, sir?
SPEAKER 07 :
So, interesting you’re talking about working from home. I read an article today, or this week, where, you know, Doge, Musk, and… So… They’re looking at government remote workers, and I guess there was some person that was working two six-figure jobs for the government, and they were full-time jobs. Both of them were.
SPEAKER 12 :
Which means he’s not doing, and my guess is he’s doing neither probably, right?
SPEAKER 07 :
I don’t know. That was just interesting that, mean that’s it’s good that we got the whatever doge or whatever it’s called because i wonder how many other remote positions in government are the same way so good question and then and then i’m wondering like i i don’t i know you go up to the mountain some but all these uh high occupancy apartments like they’re popping up in silverthorne right i’m like well how can people afford to live in silverthorne i mean where’s all the jobs and it’s probably because People are working remote jobs, and they’re able to live wherever they want to live. So if it starts changing, I wonder if people are going to have to start leaving Colorado.
SPEAKER 12 :
You know, that is a really great question. I would not be, well, let’s just say this, Dan. I think there’s going to be a lot of shifting around of the workforce as time goes by. To your point a moment ago, because people did exactly what you said. In fact, I will tell you that a lot of the mountain towns, I know this firsthand, a lot of the mountain towns saw significant growth in their populations, Grand County being one of them, because of remote workers. And to your point, will they stay or will they be putting their homes up for sale and going somewhere else?
SPEAKER 07 :
I don’t know cause I don’t think Colorado has, well, we need to have a government regime change, right? Um, because they’re not doing anything to create jobs. They’re just taking more money from us and, and you’ve met on illegals and what, what not. So I guess we got a new something starting January 1st. I imagine you talked about it about, I don’t know what healthcare or something that Colorado is doing now. Um, I can’t remember. I read it. Where did I read it? I don’t remember. All I could think was, oh, here’s another government agency that we don’t need. Yeah, you know what?
SPEAKER 12 :
I have talked about that. I’m going to have to go look that one up. Top of my head, I can’t remember the exact name of that. But, yes, we have a new agency in Colorado for health care, basically.
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Yeah, and it’s like, I don’t understand why. the mentality of the liberal mindset, I don’t have a hard time trying to understand, well, let’s just keep taxing ourselves and we’ll create more government agencies and more inefficiencies because there is no profit motivation for a government agency at all. And so because there’s no profit motive, there’s no reason for them to be efficient and effective.
SPEAKER 12 :
You are correct. That’s why government doesn’t do anything well at all, Dan, because to your point, there is no incentive to.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. And another question, I’m just all over the place. How did Joe Biden make all his millions of dollars?
SPEAKER 12 :
Uh-huh. So…
SPEAKER 07 :
And I’m wondering if the funding of the Ukrainian war, if he hasn’t made money through it.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, guaranteed he has. I mean, I can’t say that with valid proof that I could show anybody. But, Dan, I mean, you’d have to be an ostrich with your head buried in the sand to think that Joe Biden isn’t profiting off of Ukraine.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, he is. He is. So…
SPEAKER 12 :
Given the history that Hunter had and Burisma and, and, and, and, and, you know, to sit out there, no matter what side of the aisle you’re on, if you think for one second Joe Biden hasn’t profited from that, you have a screw loose.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
You’re in denial. I mean, Dan, literally, you have a screw loose because you’re in total denial of reality, meaning you have a screw loose.
SPEAKER 07 :
I agree. And so… Did Biden allow the war in Ukraine to happen so that he could line his pockets with money? I think he did.
SPEAKER 12 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 07 :
And think about all the young men who have lost their lives.
SPEAKER 12 :
That and the citizenry of both countries that have gone through some of those things as well. Shows you, Dan, I say it all the time and I’ll continue to say it because I mean it, the left, the Marxists, don’t care about people at all. I might have lost you, Dan, but living proof that they don’t care because if they did, Dan, I think I lost you. You must have gone into a bad spot on the cell. Regardless, yeah, no, they don’t care about people because if they did, you’d see things being done differently along those lines. We’ll take a break. Flesh loss coming up next. Civil, criminal, you need representation. Kevin is there for you. 303-806-8886.
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It’s time to leave your safe space.
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This is Rush to Reason on KLZ 560. All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. And Dan, again, thank you for calling in. I had a video I was going to play today from John Stossel. I think Joe sent me this, but I’ve seen it as well. Why government can’t build anything. And I don’t have the time now. We’re getting short here as we get towards the end of the hour. I’ll probably do that either Monday or Tuesday because it’s really solid. In fact, it talks about some of the things that I believe and don’t know for sure because I’m not them, but I believe that Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk will do their best to help fix because I’m sure it’s frustrating. And any of you that haven’t. done this should. Elon Musk has all sorts of different videos out there, YouTube and so on, on X, where he talks about the inefficiencies of government, some of the things that he has experienced with SpaceX, for example, and just different things along those lines, building his data centers and all these different things that he has to go through and all the hoops he has to jump through regulatory-wise. It’s worth watching. You know, I think one of the things that a lot of folks don’t give him enough credit for is the fact that he’s been through some of these things. He knows firsthand how difficult some things can be because government says so. Even though there’s no rhyme or reason for it, it’s just because government says so. So he’s looking at this thinking, well, wait a minute, we’re trying to do all sorts of things, technologically speaking, and advance the world and be the superpower that we are, and yet we’ve got government coming in and getting involved and basically hamstringing that, making it difficult for that to happen, which isn’t the way it’s supposed to work. Government should be there to aid in that and make that stuff jettison forward, not the opposite. Unfortunately, when government gets involved, they slow everything down. And much to what Dan was saying a moment ago, it’s because the majority, not all, but the majority of government workers have no incentive to do otherwise. If you know, and this is human nature, by the way, if you know that your job is secure tomorrow, having nothing to do with how well you perform today, where’s the incentive to get more done today so that you’ve got less to do tomorrow? As you can tell, there isn’t any. And human nature is if you can put that off and procrastinate and not deal with it, you will. And this is not being, you know, judgy towards anyone. It’s just human behavior. If you don’t have to do it, you won’t. So when it comes to government, and I get it, there is some accountability in some agencies and so on, and there are some things that have to be done and goals have to be met and so on, but not often. In most cases, that’s not how it works. You show up, put in your time, fill out your time card or punch the clock or do whatever you need to do. As long as you’re there and you’re getting a quasi-fair amount of work done, you’ll have that job for life. You don’t have to perform like in the private sector. at all to keep your job. And guys, I’m not saying anything that people don’t know. I mean, there used to be an old joke, Charlie, where people would talk about a government job, or there was some slang that went along with that to where everybody knew that if you worked for the government, you didn’t have to work as hard. And frankly, that’s gotten worse, not better. We have less accountability in that now than we’ve ever had. Not more accountability, less accountability. And again, I’m not trying to pick on government workers. We have some that listen to this program. And by the way, some government workers I don’t think get near enough credit. I think that exists as well. I think some people might even carry their whole office because they feel like they should be doing what they need to be doing. And they are doing it. And yet most of their coworkers aren’t. And for those of you that are listening to me that fit into that description, congratulations. Thank you. I appreciate it. And you probably don’t get enough of that. In fact, you may be one of those people that you do all the work and watch your boss in government get all the credit. And I feel for you. And yet you don’t want to rock the boat because you enjoy your job and your paycheck and your pension and so on. And you don’t want to screw that up. And I can’t blame you. And again, thank you for what you do. But you probably are, in some cases, carrying the whole office. Which, like I said, you don’t get enough credit for. So I’m sure there’s both in government. I’m not saying that every government worker is a slouch, but there’s far too many. And part of that is because we make government jobs unaccountable. We, we as, in other words, the people. And remember, there’s a lot of appointed bureaucrats that never get elected. that once they get into quote-unquote power, they can write their own ticket. They’ll be there forever. There literally is no accountability. If they chair jockey correctly, that’s what I call it. In other words, you jockey from this chair to the next chair to the next chair. If you’re a good chair jockey and you know how to move up the ladder, you could very easily do so and have a job for life. And a lot of people play that game. And, again, I’m not criticizing. It’s just what they do. It happens in the private sector as well. I get that. There’s some chair jockeys and big corporations that do the same thing, and I understand that. But trust me, by and large, it happens way more in government than it does private sector. And when I say government, I mean everything from local towns all the way to the feds. And everything in between. And some of you are going to say, well, John, how do you know this? I mean, you don’t have any proof of this. Well, actually, yeah, I do. You know, at times I think people forget all of what I’ve done in my career. When you grow up in the automotive world, and I started out in a car dealership and then had my own shops and so on, and I was around a lot of different people throughout the years. A lot of different people. And still am. But in that realm, I was around a ton of people. where I had my facilities, people that were professors at the college, people that worked for Ball Aerospace, folks that started Level 3, people that started Crocs. I mean, I can go down the list of the different people I’ve known over the years that have done a lot of high-end things, including a lot of people that work in government. And I can tell you straight up some of the stories, some of the people that I knew that could verify everything I’ve just said. I’ve watched some of them do that. 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We are back. Just a few seconds left of this particular hour. Tomorrow, movie reviews. Andy will have Kraven the Hunter and Lord of the Rings, The War of the… Rorim? Am I saying that right, Charlie? Rorim? I can’t say it right. And then we’re going to continue on with last week’s loony lefties movies. So those of you that have actors and actresses that are loony on the left and you’d like to add that into our list, please, you can text me and do that. And we’ll talk about that tomorrow during our Friday edition. Have a great night, folks. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
