Join John Rush as he sits down with Troy Anderson, author of ‘The Trump Code’, for a captivating discussion on the intersections of prophecy, politics, and power. Troy delves into the mysterious 19th-century novels by Ingersoll Lockwood, exploring their eerie connections to modern-day events and what they might mean for the future of America. Coupled with insights into current world events and their prophetic implications, this episode is a thought-provoking dive into the mystical and the political.
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Hour three, Rush to Reason. Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Thanks for joining us, by the way. Troy Anderson joining us now. Welcome back, Troy. How are you?
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Hi, John. It’s great to be back on your show.
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Always appreciate it. Zelinsky, we saw what happened last Friday. We also saw or heard, I should say, heard and saw Donald Trump Tuesday night talk about the fact that he wants to come back to the table and reconvene. What are your thoughts?
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Yeah, I mean, that was quite a thing to see, that Zelensky and Trump meet at the Oval Office, that big brouhaha we saw, and what appeared to be a big falling out. But I think we need to remember that Trump is the author of the art of the deal, a master negotiator. And so, I mean, I think it’s very telling that as soon as he turned off the spigot of money to Ukraine, all of a sudden Zelensky wanted to make a deal. And so hopefully President Trump and Zelensky and Putin can all
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bringing into this this very tragic war that’s that’s unfolded over there troy is also author of the trump code exploring time travel nikolai tesla and the trump lineage and kate we’ve talked about this before too and it’s been a little bit since we’ve been together troy given all that has happened the election the win the inauguration where we’re at today a lot of the things that trump has even done in the first you know four weeks of being in office a lot of the cuts and things that have happened how does this fit into your book
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Yeah, so the Trump Code largely explores these curious 19th century novels by Ingersoll Lockwood. He wrote these books called the Barron Trump Collection, and the drawing on the cover, this is the 1890s, the drawing on the cover of the book shows this little boy named Barron, and it looks strikingly like President Trump’s son, Barron Trump, and he lives in Castle Trump on Fifth Avenue in New York City, where Trump Tower now stands 130 years later. And there’s been stories in Newsweek and Politico about this. And, you know, it could be sort of prophetic in nature, like George Orwell’s 1984. And what really caught people’s attention is the final book was called The Last President. And it says this populist president is elected and the anarchists and the socialists converge on Castle Trump, shouting death to the rich man and chaos unfolds and so on. With Trump’s, you know, re-election, this historic comeback re-election, it seems prophetic in nature. And so the Trump ghost sort of unpacks this whole thing, how it fits in the unfolding Bible prophecy and that kind of thing.
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And again, I get it. None of us have a crystal ball, and you and I have talked before, and no, you don’t either. I mean, I wish I did, Troy, and I wish you did. I mean, I would love to know. I think everybody would love to know what’s going to happen tomorrow. The reality is we don’t. We continue to live the life that we need to and be the best examples we possibly can, followers of Christ and so on. At the end of the day, we don’t know what tomorrow holds. But with all that said, there still are, and Scripture even talks about it, Troy, there are signs and things that we can look at to know what’s coming.
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Yeah, I spent four decades studying Bible prophecy, and I’ve read probably thousands of books on this topic and interviewed hundreds of highly credible people. And what Bible scholars tell me is about 2,000 of the Bible’s 2,500 prophecies have come true in exacting detail, and so it stands to reason the rest of them will at some point come true. Could it be that we’re in this end-time period the Bible talks about, only God knows the day and hour? But I think the important thing, the important message in all my books, and why I wrote these, is to help wake up to the world to the fact of what’s really going on. We’re seeing these things the Bible predicted perhaps unfolding, but now we’ve seen this miraculous intervention with God helping Trump get re-elected, and now he’s working, he and his team, to turn things around. We’re seeing pockets of revival break out across the country. I just saw a report come out saying that young people are reading the Bible again and getting baptized, and so I think there’s signs of hope even amid all the crazy things we’ve seen happening in the world today.
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Well, and I’ve been watching the same things, by the way, and I appreciate you saying that and bringing that to light. And by the way, I do think those are some positives. In a very negative world at times, those are some of the positives. And I’m also one, Troy, and I think last time you and I talked, I’m still one that believes that If we do the right things and we change course, and I know God’s all-knowing. He knows exactly what’s going to happen and so on, and that’s a bigger, deeper discussion probably for another day that we could have you on. But the reality is I am one that believes that, yes, we have free will, and, yes, we can still do things according to our will that also align with him and change the course of history in doing so.
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Yeah, I agree completely. I did this interview with Billy Graham back in 2013, and he said when God sent the prophet Jonah to Nineveh to warn in judgment, the king and the people repented. He believed the same thing could happen again this time in America. I was so inspired by that. We called for a National Day of Repentance. It actually happened. It was on the National Mall. Forty-two million people watched it. President Trump flew over Marine One. It’s your proclamation for a day of prayer and return. First president to do this since Abraham Lincoln. And then right before this election— I wrote a story for Charisma. It’s just our minimum moment, our chance to turn back to God. We called for 40 days of prayer, fasting, and repentance. Millions of people, probably many of them have never even heard of me, you know, were praying, fasting, and repenting before this election. We saw Trump’s re-election, and then we called for 37 days to take back America, keep praying, fasting, and repenting. People kept on doing it. And then we live here in Orange County, and we go to different churches. We went to Saddleback Church, you know, Rick Horn’s famous church. and they were calling for prayer, fasting, and repentance there. In fact, they had the return gathering, the Sacred Psalm Assembly here a few weeks ago at the church, and they have impact over the global church. So I think the Holy Spirit is doing something amazing, and I just encourage people to join in what God is doing to help turn things around here.
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I appreciate you saying all of that, and yes, by all means, because I do keep talking about this on a daily basis, Troy, and I believe this wholeheartedly. I’ve been talking about this for the past decade plus. This literally is a battle between good versus evil, and I don’t care. Anybody wants to sum it up, the Marxist movement is evil, and we have to fight against it.
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Yeah, I think maybe that’s why we had this administration. God allowed President Biden to be in there so we could see how evil and corrupt everything is. I mean, think about what’s coming out now. Hundreds of billions of dollars in fraud, waste, abuse, trillions of dollars missing. I mean, probably most likely our 30-plus trillion national debt probably equals everything that’s been robbed from us by everybody that could line their pockets over the last few decades. And so… It’s a gigantic mountain to overcome, but thank God President Trump got back in there and they’re now working to try to right this ship.
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When you’ve talked to all these different individuals and you’ve looked at things that we’ve already gone through and to a point, Troy, again, you, like anybody else, have to kind of be looking at the future and there are signs out there and so on. I mean, is there anything that you can look at today and say, you know, I can see this on the horizon or are you like me where you just go one day at a time?
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Well, you know, I just talked to one of my co-authors today, Pastor Paul Bagley. He’s got a big YouTube show, like 200 or 300 million views or something like that. We wrote a book called Revelation 9-11 that came out about a year ago. And he has an interesting guy on the show from time to time called a codename Mike from around the world. And so apparently he just said on the show the other day that the government and the elite around the world are aware of something very significant that might occur in 2027, maybe involving the astronomical phenomena. And apparently the the elite are building bunkers around the world. So I don’t know. It’s not confirmed. It’s just something said on the show. But that’s just something I just talked to Pastor Bailey about today that’s rather interesting.
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Very interesting. All right. How do folks buy the book?
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Yeah, so the Trump Code is available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. It’s been a number one bestseller multiple times. Or you can go to my website. It’s TroyAnderson.us. We have a bunch of great newsletters people can sign up for also.
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And, Troy, again, that’s S-O-N, by the way, for all of you that are going to type that in and go there. Troy, I appreciate it. It’s always a joy having you, and I appreciate your time today.
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Yeah, thank you so much.
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All right, Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Thanks for joining us today. No other guests the rest of the hour. If you’d like to call in, feel free to do so. 303-477-5600. 303-477-5600. Something that I wanted to talk about last hour. And I’ll go ahead and just put it in now because I was watching this yesterday. I don’t normally sit in regular boulevard traffic. I’m typically on the highway. I’m fortunate to where I pick up the highway to come down here, and I don’t have to come super far down Parker Road once I’m off of the highway to actually get to the station. So I don’t have to sit on quote-unquote boulevard traffic very much. But I had a meeting yesterday where I actually had to go down Havana in this case. And in the process of and my wife has told me about this and I’ve really never really experienced it. Maybe Charlie has and a lot of you maybe have, but I haven’t. But there’s an article right now on Fox 31 talking about drivers frustrated with aggressive window washers. And no, these are not the window washers that come built in on your car. These are those window washers that are most likely illegals that have found their way here that are hanging around the street corners. And by the way, it’s not just window washers. They sell flowers. They have cardboard signs begging. They have everything. And I experienced that yesterday about, oh, I don’t know, half a mile from the station here. And I will be quite honest with you. I was a little shocked. My wife has told me about this and not saying I didn’t believe her, but I’ve never experienced it for myself. And as I’m sitting there and I’m looking at how this is going on, first I’m thinking these people are going to get run over. I mean, they’re out in the middle of traffic and I’m not exaggerating. I’m thinking to myself, you’re a knucklehead. You’re liable to not make it by the end of the shift. And then the second thought I have is you’re actually disrupting traffic because when the light turns green and they’re still dinking around with cars and people don’t want to run over them, I’m thinking to myself, now, get out of the way. Traffic’s moving. And then lastly, of course, I look at this and think, personally, don’t touch my car. Yeah, I’m that guy. You already know who I am as far as that goes. Don’t touch my car, period, at all. Nada. You’re not getting next to it. I don’t want your ugly mug in my windshield. Nonetheless, you running your squeegee and your dirty clothed body and everything else up against my car. Sorry, I don’t want that. Stay away. Fortunately, I was far enough back in line where I didn’t have to deal with anybody because I’m not sure exactly how that would go. Because from what I understand, you can wave them off, tell them no, and they keep at it. They will spray the window. They will get the squeegee out. And it’s interesting that in this article, it talks about how the service stations, the gas stations, the C-stores, there’s no more gas stations, but you know what I mean, the C-stores, that are around have to replace their squeegees several times a week because these folks steal them. So they can go out on the corner and Wash your window, which, again, why are they doing this? They’re looking for a tip at the end. They’re hoping they’re going to get a little money out of this, a buck or two or whatever it is for washing your window, which in this day and age is the other thing I’m always curious of. We live in a day and age where less and less people carry cash. Do these people not know that? I mean, literally, we live in a day and age where very, very few people actually carry cash in their pocket. So are they Venmoing these people? I mean, how are they actually a cash app? I mean, what are they actually doing to, they swipe on your credit card? I mean, what are these guys actually doing at the corner to get paid? Because I’m guessing probably half of the people, and Charlie, I might be off on that, but I’m guessing half the people have no cash. So are they working for free? Bottom line, they’re becoming a nuisance. In my opinion, they’re already a nuisance, not becoming one. They already are one. The cities, and this is, of course, Aurora, they need to do something about this because eventually something’s going to erupt. That’s my prediction. Something’s going to erupt. Somebody’s going to get run over. Somebody’s not going to be happy. Somebody’s going to open a door into one of them. I mean, something’s going to happen, and it’s not going to end well. And the cities are going to come back and basically take no responsibility because they don’t ever want to take any responsibility, but they need to now. Oh, Charlie says, turn on your windshield wipers when they come at you. Well, see, I’m that also. You guys already know I’m weird. I talk about it all the time. I’m not turning my wipers on because then it’ll leave a streak and it wipes the dust off and that can scratch the glass. And yeah, I’m not going to spray it either because now it messed up the car that is now clean. And yeah, I’m not doing that. Charlie’s laughing at me. Yeah, I’m not doing that. I’m that guy. I rarely ever use the squirters because that messes up a clean car. If it’s bad out and I need to see out, yes, I’ll use the squirters. But outside of that, I’m not one of those guys who just turns them on to turn them on. No, that’s going to mess up the clean car. And, yes, I rarely drive a dirty car. Let me say it that way. I think I could say it more accurately that way than how often I drive a clean car. I mean, I drive a clean car all the time, and it’s rare for me to not have it clean. And no, I do not want to turn the wipers on when it’s clean because now I’m messing up my clean car. That’s why I also don’t roll the windows down. I’m not doing that either. I know. People that ride with me think I’m crazy because of the things that I will not do. But it’s just me. Anyways, drivers are frustrated. And… This whole article is talking about what I’m talking about now and people trying to figure out what are we going to do about this because the reality is, and somebody’s even quoted in here saying, I feel like there’s a line crossed. Yeah, there is. They’re touching something that doesn’t belong to them without permission. Because in a lot of cases, they’re very aggressive. They just pop up, spray your windshield and start squeegeeing. And in some cases, you may have been looking down for just a split second and all of a sudden they’re there. And yes, I saw that yesterday. And then, again, on top of that, you’ve got the homeless person with the cardboard sign that’s now walking around blocking traffic. And every time I see one of those, and yes, my heart goes out to folks that are homeless, and there’s a reason they’re there. Unfortunately, though, when you give them anything, you’re enabling them to stay there. A dollar, a sandwich, a whatever, you’re not helping folks. I’m sorry to say, you are not helping those individuals at the corner. You’re making it worse. And I know this for a fact. There are plenty of shelters and places around where they could easily get off the streets, get a meal, clean themselves up, start looking for a job. Yeah, looking for a job. Key words there. And find their way off the street. Now, I also believe that there are X amount of those that want to be on the street because it’s easier than having a job. And yes, I’ve known some of those people as well. I’ve interviewed some of them, by the way, on this program. They’ve called in, believe it or not, because yes, they have a cell phone. Actually, in a lot of cases, some of those homeless people on the streets are doing better than those of you that are listening, and I’m not exaggerating when I say that. Think about the tax-free money. Just do the math really quick. If they stand out there for just eight hours, four hours in the morning, four hours in the afternoon, just eight hours, and let’s say they can somehow collect, oh, and I don’t think I’m exaggerating, let’s say they can collect 50 bucks in an hour. And again, I don’t think I’m too far off on that. I watch what people do at these corners and I watch the cash go out the window. Drives me crazy. But they do. So let’s say they can collect 50 bucks an hour. Well, that’s 200 bucks a shift. That’s 400 bucks a day. Yeah, thank you, Charlie. Tax free. And let’s say they just do that five days a week. Well, they made two grand that week. Add that up over 50 weeks in a year, and they’re making $100,000 of cash money. Charlie says he’s leaving. He’s going to go get his cardboard sign. Yeah, because it’s not a bad living. And I’m not exaggerating. And if you don’t believe me, I’ve told you guys the stories of where I’ve been out working. This has been years ago, but it’s probably worse now than it was then. I’ve been out working on – this particular case was a Saturday – And I was doing some parking lot maintenance and was on a parking lot all by myself. This has been, you know, 15 years ago. And I’m working away, and I’m doing my thing, and I’m looking around, and this was a situation where we had told the property owner we were going to be there doing some maintenance and so on, make sure all the cars are not there, it’s empty and so on, it makes our job easier, blah, blah, blah. And that was the case, except for one really nice new Tacoma pickup, red. I can still picture it in my mind. And I thought, that’s weird. Everybody else is gone. Why is this thing here? And I didn’t really think much about it. And I figured, well, you know, we’ll see how it goes. And I’ll get all the rest of the stuff done that I need to do. And we’ll just kind of watch it. And if it gets to the point where I need to call somebody to have it towed or moved, I’ll do that. But for now, I’ll just work around it. Well, I’m working away. And I started pretty early in the morning. And I’m working away. And lo and behold, about noon-ish or so, noon or one, I see somebody walking across the parking lot. And I had seen this individual prior as I was pulling in because they were out on the corner of a fairly busy area. And this particular property was just off of the corner of this busy intersection in Boulder is Boulder, by the way, not not some other town, but Boulder. And I recognized that person because they were holding the cardboard sign out at the corner. So I noticed someone there walking across the parking lot. I’m thinking, okay, well, I guess they’re done. Maybe they’re going to go take a break or take a rest or whatever. And I really wasn’t paying a lot of attention until I saw the cardboard sign get tossed into the back of the nice new red Toyota pickup. And I watch them get the keys out of their pocket, and I watch them open it. Because I’m thinking, well, maybe they’re vandalizing it. Maybe they’re stealing it. Oh, no. I watched them get their keys out of the pocket, hop in, turn the ignition, start it up, and drive off. And all the while thinking, oh, my word, the rest of those people that gave this guy money are suckers. He’s laughing all the way to the bank. And that was a valuable lesson for me that day because I learned that the majority of those people standing at corners are there to collect cash. They’d rather do that than work. It’s free money. And by the way, these are people that probably because they have no record of working are getting Section 8 housing and all sorts of other help along the way, food stamps and so on. You get where I’m going with this. All the while making up to $100,000 a year or more cash. While you guys that are the suckers giving it to them, not you, my listeners, but people out there are giving them money and they’re laughing all the way to the bank. And I’m not exaggerating in the least. So that’s my story along those lines. And yes, these corners are getting worse and worse around town. Some of you may very well have noticed that. And, you know, I don’t know. My advice, I guess, is Charlie says turn your windshield wipers on if they start to approach you. I’m not sure what I would do. I fortunately haven’t been in that situation yet. Hope I never am. I’m one of those that’s liable to say something, and whether they’ll understand English or not, I don’t know, but I don’t want my car touched. I guess I need to learn that in a foreign language, I guess Spanish. I need to learn, don’t touch car. What is that, Charlie? You have to look that up for me. Don’t touch-o-me-car-o? 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Okay, Charlie, tell me one more time what I should tell them. No gracias. No gracias. And I think that would work, so thank you for that, Charlie. I will try to remember that. There also has been stories Charlie was telling me a moment ago about some people that have some really nice Cars whereby they say something along those lines and they get upset and kick the car or something along those. I just look at this whole thing as nothing but one big traffic hazard that needs to be disbanded. And why? I mean, I get it. Police have a lot of things going on. I’m fully aware of that. I get it. On the same token, you would think they would want to prioritize some of these things so that you have less issues on down the road at any rate. Yeah, I was very glad yesterday. I was far enough back that I didn’t have anything wrong. you know, I didn’t have anything to do with them and I was far enough away. Somebody texted in, if I were John Rush, I sure wouldn’t drive anything good to the station because we’re still in Aurora. Even the tech center isn’t great these days. And I mean, I drive my truck, so I feel fairly okay in driving that. And I’m very careful with, you know, where I park and Watch what I do and all those sorts of things. But, no, you are correct in that, by the way. When you come down this area, it is a little dicey at times, especially, you know, depending upon where you’re actually at and where you’re parking and so on. And the other thing that’s happening in most parking lots today, it’s not even, you know, the environment that you’re in. It’s the parking lots themselves. They’ve got the stinking. you know, parking spaces down so far that, yeah, any of us that drive a pickup truck, it’s getting harder and harder to find a place to park because they think everybody drives a compact car. They would like you all to drive a compact car. And no, I do not drive a compact car. Occasionally when I’ve got a press car, you know, maybe something smaller and so on, and that makes things a little bit easier. But no, normally when I’m driving, I’ll drive my And, you know, I drive other things occasionally as well. But, yeah, no, I get that. And that is something that, believe me, I’m very careful as to what I drag down this way because of some of the, you know, quote, unquote, riffraff that’s floating around. So, yes, I definitely do watch that. Dennis, you’re next. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 06 :
Hey, John. Hey. A thought occurred to me. Doesn’t ICE vehicles need their windows washed?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, that would help, wouldn’t it?
SPEAKER 06 :
It certainly would. And they’re not hard to find.
SPEAKER 08 :
True. Hey, but really quick, by the way, did you see, you made me think about something. I was watching or reading some stories last night, and one of the things that we’re now struggling with at the border is the cartels now have cloned border vehicles, and they’re trying to drive through and look like they’re actually a border vehicle when they are not.
SPEAKER 06 :
Interesting.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, I read that last night. I actually saw a picture of one, and it is a spitting image, Dennis. You wouldn’t hardly know the difference.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, and you know, I used to have a career, and we pulled up to DIA one day, and they wanted to go through the fire truck. And I asked them why, and they said because people have been pulling up to the access gates to Oh, yeah. Okay.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, that makes sense.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yep, that makes sense.
SPEAKER 08 :
That does not shock me at all. Well, point being, Dennis, they’re doing it at the border now.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, absolutely.
SPEAKER 08 :
And I don’t know if they, at least in this article, didn’t get into the details of how other border agents know these are counterfeit vehicles that I didn’t get into, but I did see a picture of one of them, and I’m going to tell you what, they have got the graphics down. It’s a twin. Yes.
SPEAKER 06 :
I don’t think that would be hard to do, but you could tell probably from the interior.
SPEAKER 08 :
I would think so. And probably the person driving. Although, Dennis, they’re probably pretty good at even putting a person in uniform and masking that. Keep in mind, the cartels aren’t dumb.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, and I watch a lot of… Oh, true-to-life shows. And it’s amazing how many ICE and border agents are Hispanic.
SPEAKER 08 :
A lot. A lot. And by the way, Dennis, I think in some part because they find people that can speak the language, that can actually relate to those individuals and so on, I think at the end of the day there’s actually an advantage there. But, yeah, no, you’re spot on. I watch the same thing. You’re 100% correct.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, so, you know, just looking at a phony Border Patrol vehicle with a Hispanic driver.
SPEAKER 08 :
Doesn’t mean anything.
SPEAKER 06 :
You wouldn’t be able to tell.
SPEAKER 08 :
No, you would not. You’re 100% correct. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 06 :
Hey, John, on Saturday, I need to talk to you about Napa and their failure to honor a warranty. Sure. Call in. I think it would be a service to all your listeners because they’re trying to pull a fast one on me.
SPEAKER 08 :
Give me a call. I’d be happy to help. Thanks, John. All right, Dennis, have a good day, and I appreciate you calling in. And, yeah, it’s not a bad idea. Just, you know, roll an ICE vehicle through there, and they most likely won’t be around much longer. No, the story I just told about the border vehicles, they literally, a cartel is cloning those vehicles to where you literally – You can’t tell, and I’m not exaggerating. Go look that story up, and Dennis just reminded me of that. All right, another article. And this one I was going to talk about yesterday. I just didn’t get a chance to get to it, so I put it in today’s notes. Why are so many Denver restaurants going belly up or moving out of the city? Now, before I even get into the article, I can tell you why. Part of what I just got done talking about. is part of that reason why. Parking already stinks. Tons of homeless running around. People don’t want to go downtown unless they absolutely have to, unless they’re forced to, to be honest with you. If they’ve got the option to go somewhere else, and frankly they do, they will. So in turn, if you’re a restaurant that’s in that area that is being affected by all the things that I just said, well, of course you’re not going to make it. I mean, yeah, this is an article, and I get that people are talking about this, but I’m a little bit confused as to why anybody would be shocked that this is happening after the things that I’ve talked about on this program for the past couple of years or more. Really, since COVID. According to the Denver Department of Excise and Licenses, EXL, records show a drop of about 24% in overall food licenses associated with restaurants since 2023. So a 24% drop in two years. To better understand the trends, Denver 7 is taking a 360-degree look at the struggling industry and what owners are doing to stay afloat. And again, by the way, I’m not even going to read this entire article off of Denver 7 because I can already tell you as a businessman myself what the answers are. And I can also tell you that as a consumer because prior to COVID – My wife and I, we would go downtown and we would do some things even through COVID. We would do some things along those lines. You would actually try to find some restaurants that were even having some outdoor seating that you could help, you know, help out because we wanted to make sure those restaurants stayed alive and so on and so forth. And I will tell you that we would do some of those things. At one point in time, it was a destined or you are a destination to go to 16th Street Mall. Not anymore. Not anymore. I will tell you that there is one restaurant that my wife and I will sometimes frequent that are on the outskirts of downtown. And we do that just because we like this particular restaurant. But if it wasn’t for that particular restaurant, we wouldn’t even go there. So for us, this is pretty much a no-brainer. We don’t go. There’s not a single restaurant outside of the one I just mentioned that we will take any time to go visit. And it’s all because of what I explained to you earlier in regards to the homelessness, the homeliness of the city itself and how it looks, by the way, the filth that’s around. I mean, I just go down the list. Anytime you have that much homelessness, it gets filthy. And It’s worse. I mean, I can remember it being bad when I was a kid. You know, we would go down to the convention. At that time, it was the Corrigan Hall, the convention center we had. And there was car shows and different things you would go to and so on. And my dad would take my brother and I and my sister, and we’d go. And, you know, there was at that time, even there were still some homeless people and bums. My dad would call them here and there. You can’t call them bums anymore. I guess that’s not the right word, is it, Charlie? You can’t call them bums. They’re homeless. Oh, unhoused. Yeah, thank you. I’m not even using the right term when I say homeless. It’s unhoused. I will tell you, though, it is by far worse today than it was even when I was a kid. I get it. The city is much larger than it was. I mean, our population has doubled since I was a kid, but there really isn’t anything. And again, I’m not going to read the rest of this article because it doesn’t matter. I can already tell you why these restaurants are leaving. If I were an owner, I would be leaving. Even if my… Customer base was still there and was still rolling in. I don’t know that I could handle all of the other nonsense that goes along with doing business in the downtown area. And by the way, the cost of doing business in the downtown area continues to skyrocket as well. I’m sure that’s another factor in all of this. But at the end of the day, yeah, I am not shocked that there is a 24% decrease in that area. In fact, I would tell you that it’s going to get worse before it gets better because we have a mayor that’s totally clueless. You can see that on Capitol Hill. This guy is absolutely clueless, doesn’t have any idea what he’s doing. So we’ll come back. Don’t go anywhere. Do you want to do group insurance analysts next, Charlie? Let’s do that. So e-gia.com.
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It’s time to leave your safe space. This is Rush to Reason on KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 08 :
We are back. Walt, you are up next. Go ahead, Walt. How are you, John? I’m good, sir.
SPEAKER 05 :
Good. So, hey, have you driven East Colfax lately from Broadway South or Broadway East?
SPEAKER 08 :
It’s been a little while, but I’m guessing, is it all tore up under construction yet? Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
It’s all bike lanes now.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, they’re changing that around, too. You know, the huge project is they’re going to put bus lanes down the middle.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yep, exactly. And then with the bike lanes as well.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 05 :
I was down there the other day trying to have lunch. I had to literally walk two and a half blocks, almost two blocks, just to get to the establishment trying to get something to eat. And it’s just a holy mess down there. And I think it’s just… You know, to me, and I even talked to one of the individuals that was running the establishment. She said, yeah, I’m losing business. On the average of 60% to 65% of my businesses, there’s nowhere to park. Wow.
SPEAKER 08 :
That’s big. They’re not going to make it if that’s the case. No, she’s struggling. Yeah, they won’t make it.
SPEAKER 05 :
She’s struggling big time. And I felt so bad for her. And I wish there was something we could do, but… Unfortunately, we can’t because it’s all, you know, it’s all done through, you know.
SPEAKER 08 :
That was a big project. I talked about that. Oh, gosh. Six months or more ago, I was talking about that before things got geared up and how ridiculous that entire plan was. And the fact that I predict that when it’s all said and done, Walt, they will realize that’s just a big boondoggle. And in a decade, it’ll be back the other way. It’s a waste of taxpayer money. It’s a total waste of taxpayer dollars, Walt. Total. And harming those businesses along the way at the same time. Well, it is. And that’s what they want. Yeah, that is what they want. Charlie was just telling me through the break that Denver, you know, they’re going to now, once 16th Street Mall is redone because they’re going through and redoing all of it, they’re then going to spend a million bucks or more to have live bands and people there so that they can try to lure some people back. And, Walt, until they clean up some of the things I just mentioned earlier, it ain’t going to matter. I agree. No one’s coming back. I totally agree.
SPEAKER 05 :
Nope, unfortunately. But, you know, unless something happens in the next five years, I’m speculating. Because right now the capital is dominated by it. House and Senate Democrats. There’s no balance there.
SPEAKER 08 :
No, there’s not. You’re right. Zero. No balance. You’re right. Thanks, John. Walt, I appreciate it very much. He’s just solidifying what I was saying. I got a text message a moment ago and I can I will second this message. I’m going to paraphrase. But basically, this message says, because Denver is such a rat hole. That there is no reason to go down there for anything, shopping, 16th Street Mall, whatever. Maybe you want to go to a particular store there, etc. It is such a rat hole that this particular texter said it is easier to fly to a place like Phoenix and actually shop and do what you want to do there and fly home. than it is to actually dink around with going to downtown Denver. And yeah, I’m living proof of that. I will do the same thing. Now, I will combine that with seeing relatives because we’ve got relatives there and so on. So we’ll combine that. But yeah, my wife and I will do the exact same thing. We do not shop in downtown Denver at all. In fact, we don’t shop. in even some of the suburb areas much because some of those aren’t much different, to be honest with you. There are some better places than others, but first of all, I’m not a brick-and-mortar guy anyways. I will typically, if there’s something I want, Charlie knows this, I’m more of the online, Amazon, whatever, and I will pretty much find what I need and go that route because, frankly, I can do that faster, cheaper, and a better tax rate, sales tax rate, because of where I live and having it delivered to the house, I could actually save money doing that than I can running around trying to find what you need at brick-and-mortar stores. The only exception to that might be some of the home improvement like Lowe’s or Home Depot or something that you need right away. But outside of that, yeah, I do not shop personally. I do not shop much at brick-and-mortar stores. Speaking of, this is news that my son Richard sent me just a moment ago. Walgreens, which you all know, I think this is a good thing, by the way. They just put enough money together, $10 billion, they’re taking it private. It will no longer be a public company, which, by the way, will help Walgreens. Because part of their problem of late, I think, is total mismanagement, wokeness, and a bunch of nonsense from the folks that have been running it as a public company. And I know a little bit about even some of the maintenance things they do outside of what you’ll even read in the news and so on. And I will tell you that it has been a screwed-up mess for a while. And I hope taking it private will cure a lot of that and revive them, because the last thing you want to do is see thousands of Walgreens close up across the country. So hopefully this will be a fix for them. All right. Adventures of Jimmy and Andrew, if you’ve got a yearning to help young kids learn how to read, which I believe all of us do, our literacy rate in the United States of America is at an all-time low, you can help that by buying either your own family, neighbors, kids that you might know at work, whatever the case might be, Jimmy and Andrew. It is the American Stonehenge by Mike Goldstein. We interview Mike all the time. He’s got a real burden to help kids learn how to read. Just go to jimmyandandrew.com.
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All right, tomorrow, movie day, Mickey 17 and The Lost Lands, and then it’s going to be your favorite short actor or characters in our number two. So we’ll see you tomorrow. Guys, have a great night. Be safe. This is Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. We’ll be right back.
