HR3 Rush To Reason March 19, 2025 by John Rush
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All right, welcome back. Hour number three, Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Our next guest, Teddy Price, joining us now, author of, and I want to make sure that I get this right, it’s author of The Throne, DeVos, Save America. Is that correct, Teddy? Yes. Yes, sir. That’s correct. Dethrone Davos. Dethrone Davos. All right. So talk to us about the book. And I always ask this to begin with, Teddy, until a book comes out. First off, why the book?
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Well, hey, you know, I know I’m in good company here with reasonable folks and common sense, and so this is going to be right up your audience’s alley. You know, we’ve been sliding downhill for 50 years in this country, culturally, economically, politically, and Of course, the last 10 years feel like we’ve found the edge of the cliff. And so really coming from a philosophical background and kind of my area of expertise, I was looking around saying, well, I can see these signs clearly. I can see who’s behind it and what’s driving it. Am I the only one? Maybe I’m not the only one. You’re not. Certainly wanted to address these major pitfalls. And everybody is saying, man, I’m seeing it, and make it make sense. Make it make sense. And so that was really just the whole advent and desire to write the book was to say, this is what’s happening, and this is what we can do to solve this problem.
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And it’s Teddy Pierce. I’m sorry. I said that wrong earlier. Pierce, not Price. So Teddy Pierce. And again, Teddy, appreciate you joining us. And yes, no, you are in great company. We talk about these things on a routine basis. Although it’s nice when when I make sure I use my words here correctly. Teddy, it’s nice when you can get a nice, concise synopsis, I guess I could say, of what’s actually going on. And then what is the fix for that? And it’s always nice to have that.
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Oh, yeah. Yeah. And I really do. You know, Trump’s second term has been better than expected, I think, for most everybody who’s tracking it and just couldn’t be happier. And, you know, it’s nice to be able to say, I told you so sometimes. And so seeing a lot of the predictions that I made for this upcoming year coming true in real time is deeply gratifying, but also makes me feel like, hey, We’re on the right path, but we’ve got a long way to go.
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We do, and in my notes as well, and this is no secret, the Canadian Prime Minister, the new one, Mark Carney, he is actually very much – let me ask you this, Teddy. Is he Trudeau 2-0, or is he better than Trudeau, or is it the same all over again?
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It’s going to be, I guess time is going to tell in the end, but the Canadian government, it’s a fake democracy. They have a bunch of problems with their government, but one of the things that comes into whether you’re even eligible to work as a government official or not means that they are deeply captured by that globalist ideology that pervades the world and flows out of Davos, Switzerland. through the World Economic Forum. And so either way, he’s going to sound like the same little puppet that Trudeau is that tells his nice little talking points.
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Well, because at the end of the day, that’s essentially what he is. This is where I always remind folk of different topics that are out there. And I’ll get all sorts of different things sent to me internally, externally, and so on. And I’m always quick to remind people that, okay, first of all, let’s look at the source of where this is coming from. And the first thing I always look at, Teddy, is the person that is either writing this, behind this, or whatever, whatever their involvement is, are they looking at this from a fundamental American nationalist, looking at it the way we do here in this country, versus a globalist, because that tells you a lot about where their thought process is, one from the other. Am I correct?
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spot on, and just to carry that forward a little, and something that I really focus on in the book is that fundamental divide. We’re a very unique country, even among the countries of the West, and the denigration of religion and the loss of faith and beyond that the basic philosophical concept of the unmoved mover, you know, the creator, as we talk about in the Declaration, those have been eroded over time, and it’s on purpose, and it’s been done by these globalists who are espousing a philosophy of relativism, or saying, you know, there’s no the Truth, capital T Truth, it’s just your truth and my truth, you know, my lived experience, and how I… And of course, all that does practically… You get past the philosophical terms. And at base, exactly what it is, is it destroys morals, it destroys standards, it destroys civility, and it just becomes a power struggle. And that’s exactly what these globalists want, because they’re the ones with the money and the power.
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Yeah, and I say it this way always, Teddy. They want to replace God with themselves, because they want everybody to look at them the same way we and you and I look at Almighty God.
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Bingo. Bingo. That’s exactly right. And so, yeah, we’re up against some very strong and powerful forces that have really set up an economic technocracy in the global economy and their control over it. Of course, the economy is more powerful than every country, basically, at this point. And they’ve captured a lot of these through the World Economic Forum and their global political leader program. They’ve captured a lot of governments, and it’s just all part of this big facet and game for a soft coup. They don’t want to sit on their thrones in Davos, and people know their names. They want to do just what they’ve done for the last 80 years, which is operate in the background and make everyone lulled to sleep and think that they’re all independents. except for in their future, in their great reset that they envision as a mandatory United Nations and a rule-by-expert class over it.
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Yeah, it’s a one-world government. Some of us have been talking about that for a very long time, and it’s where I always caution people, even when you start talking tariffs and things along those lines, Teddy. And I’m not saying that every tariff… is correct or being done the right way. Are we approaching it correctly? Right now, personally, I have no issues with anything that’s going on. I’m a little different than a lot. I think we need to show our strength. We need to be the big man on the block, if you would, and we need to get some of these other countries in line. And I think the only way to do that is doing what Trump’s doing. I know a lot of folks think we should be a lot more, you know, calculated and how that’s being done. My cohort here that’s with me on Tuesdays feels that way. My son feels like we maybe shouldn’t be doing them at all. It depends on what it is, and maybe we should be staging these in. I am like Trump. I’m like, listen, everybody else that’s out there, all you globalists, guess what? Get in line. Our GDP outside of China is all of, I can add it up here really quick, Germany, Japan, India, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Brazil, Canada, Russia, and I probably can throw Mexico in there as well. Bottom line is outside of China, it really is us against the world, Teddy, and China’s got a ton of their own problems, so I’m not worried about them.
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Yeah, that’s true. Well, and, you know, better than expected is what I characterized it as earlier, and we really are re-exerting America’s strength, and we’ve just been bullied by this modern liberal ideology that the American experiment is to incorporate every global idea into itself, and it’s evil and bad if it doesn’t try to do that. And of course, just like multiculturalism, the ultimate thing is, if it’s a million opinions… then it’s everything and nothing all at the same time, which goes right back to relativism and saying truth does not matter. Well, dang it, truth does matter according to the Constitution and according to the Declaration.
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That’s right.
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We’re going to have to reclaim that.
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Absolutely. Again, Teddy Pierce with us today. The Throne, DeVos, Save America. Where can folks get the book, Teddy?
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It’s on Amazon, paperback and hardcover, and even the illiterate don’t have an excuse. They get it on Audible.
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Awesome.
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And then the website is dethronedavos.com.
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Awesome. Teddy, I thank you very much. Appreciate it.
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Hey, thank you for having me.
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All right, got lots of text messages, by the way, over the past few minutes on Buc-ee’s and the Palmer Lake situation. And all of you agreeing with me that Palmer Lake is making a huge mistake, that most likely they’ll end up with something else there that they probably don’t like when it’s all said and done. And as many of you pointed out, the land won’t sit empty forever. It will get something built on it, especially—here’s the other thing that happens— When somebody like a Buc-ee’s comes along and they look at a piece of ground and there’s talk about that piece of ground being developed, other folk out there, other companies start paying more attention. Meaning this landowner, by the way, will benefit when it’s all said and done because other big companies look at that and say, hmm, if Buc-ee’s did an analysis on this and determined that they could put what they do there, so can we. In fact, they’ll dovetail into one another and in some cases not even go out and do a lot of the same studying that you might. I mean, they will still do their studies and so on, but they may not be as diligent with that as they would otherwise because somebody else already did. And I’m not exaggerating when I say that when one person gets interested. Others will follow. So, again, if these folks in Palmer Lake think they’re going to get by with no development coming in whatsoever, which, by the way, let me talk about that for a moment. We’ve got a situation happening over in my neck of the woods to where there’s a particular development that is trying to go in. And Jefferson County recently, I think it was last night but the night before, voted to go ahead and let the site start to be excavated and the dirt being, you know, getting things ready and so on. There’s a canal that has to be moved and so on. and the neighborhood around where I live is upset to the max. And frankly, they’re upset for the wrong reasons. Keep in mind, this was a industrial site that has been zoned that way for 60 years. 6-0, not 6, 60. And there’s no change, by the way, in that zoning. The developer or the seller of the land and the developer that’s trying to develop some things on it is just going along with what it’s already been zoned. And the neighbors are mad, partially because most of these neighbors move in. They see an open area, and they think, wow, wouldn’t it be nice to live next to that? So they move in, thinking nothing will ever change. And unfortunately, they don’t do their due diligence and realize that, yes, this is, in fact, a commercial property. Yes, in fact, it has been zoned this way for 60 years, and most likely at some point in time, somebody will develop it out. But frankly, people aren’t very smart. And I think they get this whole entitlement mentality of, well, it’s open space now. It should just stay that way. Well, you don’t own it. If you’d like it to stay open space, then pony up and write the check. I actually told somebody on a forum that not long ago on this particular property that if you’d like it to stay open space, then write the check. Be my guest. But until you do that, you don’t have any right to tell that owner what they can and can’t do with said property, providing it’s within the zoning requirements and so on, which that’s a whole other conversation we could get into on maybe another show down the road. But Ken and Bertha, you’re next. Go ahead.
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Yeah, you know, I didn’t hear when you talked about Buc-ee’s, but I just wanted to share something about the Palmer Lake area.
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Yeah.
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that happened quite a few years ago. My wife and I used to go camping a lot. Now, you won’t call this camping or roughing it, but in the Palmer Lake area, a company had this campground that it had a place for RVs. It had a place for open area for tents. They had another place that it was more wooded, and then you had outhouses. They had everything.
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I call that camping. Ken, you’re correct. That’s camping.
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But then they had a swimming pool that was heated, and a heated hot tub beside it.
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That’s all right.
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They had putt-putt golf. They had this big barn fire pit that every Friday night all the campers were to come together, and they’d give you sticks so you could roast hot dogs and marshmallows on it and get to know all the neighbors. Sure. They would first bring you around to let you pick out your sight, and they’d put you on a golf cart, and they’d bring you around. Okay. And then on Sunday, they had at the main office place, they would cook hamburgers and hot dogs for everybody. And they also had Sunday night was movie night. I mean, this was like the ultimate campground for people that maybe don’t want to go to a motel but aren’t quite ready to rush it. It just had everything. Anyway… So Palmer wanted them out. They wanted the land. They wanted the whole land that all of it was on. So they decided to cut off water to them.
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Oh, geez.
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So they had to start trucking it in. Well, guess what? That campground is not there anymore.
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I can imagine, yeah, because that is like one of those essentials. Power and water, Ken, you can get by without a lot of other things, including, like you said, outhouses, things like that. Power, water, those are pretty essential.
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So maybe add this into your story. They are a different way of thinking down there, the ruling group.
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Yeah, well, they are very mistaken, and I think this is a very selfish move on their part, and this is one of those moves that I feel down the road, Ken, is going to come back to bite them. As I’ve been saying, areas get developed, period, whether you like it or not. It is what happens when you’re in… in any kind of a metropolitan area like we are here in this Denver Front Range. I mean, at one point in time, we had a governor that said, if you don’t build it, they won’t come. He was dead wrong.
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Yeah, I follow you.
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You know?
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But I also look at, yes, I look at this. If you keep, you turn down the best places, and you’re going to end up with the not best places.
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That’s right, with the dumps. You’re right. You’re 100% correct.
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Yeah, something’s coming in, you know, and… It’s just the way it is. But also how how restrictive they were. If at that campground, a train runs right through it. Well, Palmer required them to toot the horn. I think it was three times as they’re coming into town and going through it. Wow. And it was just just in other words, they didn’t want that campground there. You got it.
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That’s the bottom line.
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You got it. And they got rid of it, and they did it. They accomplished it. But that’s the Palmers. The family apparently, at least then, was still in control of the whole town.
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Well, somebody and a lot of other residents are still in that same mindset. I got a text message a moment ago, and I don’t know if this is tongue-in-cheek or not, but why build a Buc-ee’s with over 100 gas pumps? We need 100 EV chargers. And I don’t know if this is being funny or not, but I replied with, well, not until people stop buying gas and diesel engine cars and trucks. The market dictates. And again, Buc-ee’s, believe me, has done enough studying to know that they can put a unit, you know, they can put a stop there, they can put a store there and have it be successful or they wouldn’t do it.
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You know, see, and that’s the thing. You know, I’ve learned something, and this is one thing I think the average person in America just doesn’t get. The higher-ups in a business… are there for a reason. They are smart. Every layoff I have ever seen, productivity went up. I don’t know how they know who to lay off. I don’t know how they do it. But guess what? They know who to lay off and they’re smarter than me because I thought they were wrong many times. But productivity per person skyrockets when they do a layoff.
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Interesting. Well, and I think, you know, to your point, you know, these companies like Bucky’s, for example, or a Walmart, and I can go down the list, Ken, of all these different types of stores and things that are out there. And I’ll be the first to say that they’re not all… us smart and they’re not all perfect. There’s some that are run very poorly and are struggling. And by the way, they’re the ones that do happen to struggle. And I’ll name a name right now, Advanced Auto Parts, which I’m in the automotive industry. You look at all the auto parts stores out there that are flourishing and doing well, Napa, O’Reilly’s, and so on. Why is Advanced struggling so much? And I’ll just tell you straight up, Ken, because they got a bunch of knuckleheads running it that frankly don’t have any idea what they’re doing. My point is, it doesn’t take long for the ones that don’t know what they’re doing to be found out.
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I’ll give you a good example on that if you like. Our son just ordered a part for his car from Advanced Auto Parts, and they said it would come into Fort Collins, which he lives in Longmont. He drives up there. They forgot to put it on the truck. So he orders it again the next day to come into Longmont and goes there. They forgot to put it on the truck.
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It goes back to my point.
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Exactly, exactly. You know, and that’s the same thing that happened when Circuit City was dying. If you’d go into the store and you’d go to look at a product, they would have people that were just so immature, they would tell you where you might get a better deal. Well, that’s not going to sell anything. And Sears had the same problem around here. The employees, you can hire, you know, the one Kmart, they were all making money, they said, around here. But I saw this couple come up on bicycles. And so they had the outer doors and the inner doors, and they wanted to park them between the two sets of doors. The manager came up and chewed them out. Now, you want to tell me something? There’s going to be a lot of people that never go back to that store.
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Right. Right. Exactly.
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I’m with you on that.
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Again, well, I appreciate your phone call, by the way, very much. And I can tell you the other text message I’m getting on the EV stations versus the gas pump is real. And, you know, we should be the leader as a state and require Buc-ee’s to do EV charging stations instead of gas pumps. And no, folks, I’m sorry. I’ll just be straight up honest. This isn’t this isn’t an attack. I’m an EV owner. It’ll never work. Not enough revenue in that. You can’t make enough money for them to do what they need to do by putting in 100 charge stations. I’ll be quite frank. There’s not enough EVs on the road rolling up and down that stretch of highway to even support 100 charge stations, and I mean that sincerely. So as much as people would like to force some of that upon the people, and government has tried, and it’s failed. Reality is EVs work for some, not for all. And I know because I own one. I’m actually one of the few. I’ll brag for a moment. I’m one of the few journalists or talk show hosts or what have you in media that actually owns an EV that understands all of its inner workings, the good, the bad, the ugly, range, the whole nine yards, how to charge it, you name it. I understand that. I’m telling you because I’ve interviewed a lot of folks. I understand it better than most of the people out there do, including some of those that are trying to sell them, and I’m not exaggerating. There’s probably only a handful of people that understand EVs better than I, because I’ve owned one now since 2000. Five years I’ve owned an EV. And I bought one originally just so I could say what I just said. I wanted to know firsthand, how do they work? What’s the good, the bad, the ugly? Are they for everybody? Could you have this vehicle just on its own? And I can run down the list, and the reality is, no, you can’t. Not if you want to travel any kind of a distance. And I don’t care how many charge stations you put along. The reality is, no, you can’t. They’re not a car meant to go coast to coast. They’re an around-the-town vehicle. And for a lot of people, it needs to be the second around-the-town vehicle, not your, you know, not your, well, it can be your primary as long as you’ve got a backup because there’s going to be situations where you’re not going to drive that car. Period. And or if you’re leaving the city, you need other forms of transportation to get there because you’re not going to use your EV. And for some of you that are out there questioning my opinion on that, well, it’s not an opinion. It’s a fact. I own one. I know what it’s like. I drive one. And I’m not against them. I’ve said that over and over and over again. I love technology. I actually like EVs. I like driving them. If you’ve never driven one, go drive one. They’re exhilarating. They work great. Instant power. There is no waiting for an engine to build up torque and horsepower and so on. It is instantaneous. One of the funnest cars you’ll ever drive, and I mean that sincerely. But is it a car for everyone? No, it is not. There are limitations to what it can and cannot do. And frankly, what’s happening is without subsidies on them, I’ll just be straight up honest, they won’t sell. The price of them will be at a point where people will pick the gasoline-powered vehicle over the EV just for the simple dollars and cents. And I’m not just saying C-E-N-T-S. The dollars and cents of it. Because for most people, you can drive the gasoline-powered engine much farther, much easier. All of the things that come around it, yes, there’s some maintenance needs to be done. There is on EVs as well. That’s another misconception that EVs never need maintenance. Yes, they do. They’re tire eaters as well, which a lot of people in that world forget. So there’s a lot of good, bad, and ugly when it comes to EVs, and yes, I know all about that because I own them, and I have now for half a decade. Again, longer than probably any other journalist out there. In fact, I would like to find somebody that’s in my world that’s owned an EV longer and understands it as well as I do, especially coming from the automotive background that I have. I’d like somebody else to actually talk about that the same way I do. As a matter of fact, I don’t think you’ll find any. I have interviewed experts on both sides of the aisle when it comes to EVs. And I think Charlie can attest to this. Rarely do they know more than I do. In fact, I don’t think there’s been a time. Again, I’m not trying to brag here. I’m just being 100% honest with you when it comes to our knowledge of EVs. I don’t think we’ve interviewed anybody yet that knew more than we did. Period. Again, because I own one, drive one, understand it, all of that. I’ve got clients that work on them, all of the above. I mean, I know as much about them as probably anybody out there, maybe minus Elon Musk who builds them. There’s a lot of folks even inside of the manufacturing end of things that, frankly, don’t know them like I do, and I’m not exaggerating when I say that. So, no, a Buc-ee’s with 100 charge stations in it, yeah. Yeah. No, not productive, not profitable. They’ll never do that. And by the way, just a stupid idea in the first place. So Roof Savers of Colorado coming up next. And if you’re looking at your roof, you think, hey, I need to get that inspection done, or I’ve got a leak, or I’ve got a problem, or we had some bad wind, whatever it is, Dave can help you out with that. And a complete roof replacement right now, Dave is about 40% less than his competitors. Yes, that’s a big number. Call Dave today, 303-710-6916.
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All right, we are back. Somebody texted in, too, and said that Bucky’s up in Johnstown has about 10 EV chargers that this person lives very close and says at most maybe half or full at any given time, and that’s the most they’ve ever seen. So even all 10 of those aren’t getting used. So to put 100 of those in would be absolute business suicide. And this particular person is texting me, by the way, I’ve enjoyed the text back and forth. You’re very mistaken, I hate to say, and I already can tell where – your thought process is coming from because your claim of until we force EVs upon people and charge stations, they’ll never work. See, there’s the difference between what you think and what I think. And I say when you force something, it never works, and it doesn’t. And that’s the difference between the two sides, by the way. Force versus freedom. Kim Munson talks about that all the time. Force versus freedom. I believe in freedom. I don’t force anybody to do anything. If you want to do it, more power to you. You figure it out. We’ll give you all of the incentives and the basis to do so and help you along the way and so on. But you have to make the decision at the end of the day what you want to do. And I’m all for having the freedom of choice. In this case, you can drive a hybrid. You can drive an EV. You can drive a gas engine car. You can drive a big diesel truck. You can drive whatever you want to. I really don’t care. Whatever suits your fancy. At the end of the day, you buy whatever works best for you. I’m not going to force you to buy anything. Forcing things, again, never works. Now you sound like a Marxist, which you probably are. Because anytime somebody wants to force something on someone else, you have a whole different ideology of how life works than I do. It’s what I stand against on a daily basis on this program. I personally don’t want to be forced to do anything. In fact, I’m the kind of guy where you force me to do something, we’re going to have a problem. we’re literally going to have a problem. That’s why I’m self-employed and have been since I was 22 years of age. I can’t work for anybody else. And some of you think, well, why are you here? Don’t you work for the station? No, I’m a contractor. I don’t work for the station. I don’t work for Crawford Broadcasting. I am independent. It’s why I come on air and talk about whatever I want to every single solid day. And there is no one above me saying, John, you got to talk about this today. John, you got to do this today. John, you got to do that today. No, that’s not how this works, nor would I do it that way. I can’t, folks. I’ve been independent and on my own doing my own thing for far too long. I can’t have a thumb on top of me, nor will I. So, and by the way, for all of you listening, your inner human desire is the same. No one, no one wants to be forced to do anything. That’s why communism doesn’t work. And if it does, the only way it works is to oppress your people to the point where they have no other choice. They can’t leave. They can’t do anything outside of what they’re doing. Only the elite get to the top. Everybody else is basically a slave to the state. And I’m not exaggerating in what I’m saying. Go look it up. Go tell me I’m wrong. Go look at any communist society throughout history and tell me I’m wrong. Go look at China today. Tell me I’m wrong. If you think you live in China and you’re free, think again. You’re not. They’ve even got their social score over there now that has a lot to do with all sorts of things outside of what you do, even purchasing-wise and so on. So do I want that in this country? Never. Never. I don’t want to be forced to do anything, nor do I want to force anyone else to do anything. And that’s the problem, by the way, that EVs have had all along. Government has tried to force them. literally force them, because what they’ve done is they’ve gone to, let me explain what I mean by that. They’ve gone to the manufacturers and said, if you don’t build this many, then we’re going to penalize you. In fact, if you don’t build this many and get your cafe rating up, we’re going to penalize you, and the only way you can offset that is go to Musk and buy credits. One of the biggest revenue generators right now that Tesla has is credits that they sell to all of the other manufacturers, by the way. And no, that’s not something that he set up. That’s something the government set up. Again, because it was a way to force manufacturers into building EVs. It wasn’t by their own choice. Now, some, Tesla, General Motors, they got into kind of that EV thing early, Tesla especially. But General Motors did as well. General Motors was in it long ago and started down that path, had a few vehicles even out. The Volt with a V, as in Victor. That was one of their first sort of hybrid EVs, if you would. It was a plug-in hybrid, essentially, is what it was. They wouldn’t tell you that, but that’s really what it was. It had an onboard engine that charged the battery. It ran off a battery propulsion, and you could charge it through a wall charger, but it still had an engine with a gas tank and an engine and so on that charged the battery. You get the drift. So General Motors has been in the EV space for quite some time, but even with all of that and all the money that they spent, I don’t know that outside of Tesla anybody’s made money with them yet. If you don’t believe me, go look at the results from everybody from Lucid to Rivian to on down the line we go when it comes to the EV makers that are out there and all of the major manufacturers. The only reason why they’ve been able to do what they’ve done is because they’ve got all of the gasoline diesel engine sales from cars and trucks that can offset what they’re losing on the EV side, Ford being a great example of that. So, no, anytime you force something, it never works because if the marketplace doesn’t want it, you can’t force it upon them. And that is true across the board. And I give example after example after example. I use the iPhone, the smartphone, as a great example. Nobody forced that on the public. Steve Jobs had an idea. Let’s combine all these devices into one. Let’s let you carry it around. Put it in your pocket. You can have your calendar. You can have your phone. You can have your texting. You can have all these other things, mapping and so on, all on your phone. Instead of carrying around 10 devices, you can do it in one. And literally the rest is history. Other companies even spawned off of that and came up with their own smartphones. That’s where Androids came from and so on. And the reality is it spun an entire industry off of something that he knew people would buy. And government didn’t force that. They did that on their own. And I think I would be fair to say that had government forced that upon people, would it have worked as well? I don’t think so. Things that happen organically always work better. And by the way, I can talk about that, whether it’s in advertising and how you find your employees. I can go down the list. Anything done organically works better than something that’s tried to be forced on. Relationships. Two parents want to make sure their two kids end up together, so they force that relationship upon both kids. And there are arranged marriages in the world. I get that. But is that true happiness at the end of the day? Rarely. Rarely. Anything forced doesn’t work very well at the end of the day. Affordable interest mortgages next. 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All right. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Got a text message in on Buc-ee’s. This is somebody from the Palmer Lake area, and I won’t use the name. But the problem with Buc-ee’s, and I made my voice heard in Palmer Lake, is that they serve oodles and oodles of meat and processed foods. I’ll give you my answer in a moment, by the way. They had no interest of serving locally sourced meat or produce or supporting a local farmer market in their parking lot to give back to the community. Well, of course they wouldn’t. That’s competition to them. Why would they do a farmer’s market in their parking lot? Duh. Good riddance. We don’t need trash Texas business here. They’re also going to use market rate utility power and not solar on their building or a fuel canopy again. So I don’t care. Who says they have to have solar? That crap doesn’t work half the time anyway, so who cares? I shouldn’t say it that way. I’m being a little harsh. But if they want to run solar, they can choose to run solar. If they don’t want to run solar, they don’t need to run solar. That’s their call. I don’t care what they do one way or the other. Also, did you know that they never close? Yeah, that’s a good thing, by the way. If the utility power goes out, they have a ginormous generator that would power the whole place, and it runs on diesel. Okay. So? Great. So do hospitals. So do a lot of other industrial buildings. So do we. Here is a radio station. If the power goes out, we have a big old generator down below that fires up, and we run on generator power, and off we go. How is that any different? I’m confused. And how often is the power really out to where that’s a huge concern? I mean, really, people. And I’m trying to be nice here, but those have to be the lamest excuses I’ve ever heard as to why to not let them in. And I mean that sincerely. I mean, I respect you, and I’m trying to be nice, but these are the dumbest excuses I think I’ve ever heard. And I will take notice with this. Calling them a trash Texas business is an insult. I’ve known people that have worked at Buc-ee’s, and frankly, they are extremely good to their employees. In fact, one of the gals that used to be here, Cam, who was one of my interns that was on air with me for a long time before COVID, he was from Texas, by the way, actually went to work for Buc-ee’s in Texas. One of the best jobs she ever had. She’s since moved on, got a better job from that, but she loved working there. They were great to her. The whole environment with their employees is great. It is definitely not a trash Texas business, and frankly, you owe them an apology for saying so. They’re actually a $15.3 billion a year business. I hardly call that trash. So, frankly, you owe Buc-ee’s an apology for saying that because I’ve been to them long before they even came to Colorado, and I would be the last person to ever call that a trash Texas business. And, frankly, I know your mentality now that you say it that way. Dave, go ahead.
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Yeah, John, that just reiterates what you were talking about earlier. guarantee that a majority of people that voted against the Buckeyes weren’t from that area. They weren’t, hate to use that term, native, or even somebody that’s been in the area 10, 15, 20 years. You know, these are recent arrivals who want to bring in their ideology, their foreign ideology from whatever state they’re fleeing from after they destroyed that state. And now they want to come and bring that same mentality here. You know, the farmer’s market and all that other nonsense, how about the jobs that would have been created and the ripple effect from those jobs that would have been created. That area would have had a boom of new investment just because of the jobs that these people would have created, and the money that those employees would have spent in the economy would have been greater, ten times greater, than that stupid farmer’s market would have ever done.
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Correct. And like I said, Dave, if I was running Buc-ee’s, would I allow a farmer’s market in my parking lot? No, you’re competing with what I’m selling inside the store. Why would I allow that?
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Exactly. And they’ve already got their business model figured out. You know, if it was… The reason they sell oodles and oodles of meat… It’s because that’s what noodles and noodles of people want.
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Exactly.
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It’s that kind of product.
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Yeah, thank you, Dave, for saying that. I was going to comment back that, you know, if you don’t like the meat they sell, then don’t buy it. But if somebody else is, that’s their choice.
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And it’s the same thing. The marketplace determines this thing, and people will decide what they want. A very simplistic example of that would be the whole thing with the Bud Light thing. was the number one beer brand in the United States, and it was more than likely going to stay there for many more years ago. Until they made a bonehead business decision that went against their core demographic. And when they did, they paid the price, and they’re still paying the price. These are business decisions, and just because you’re a NIMBY, or you’re a socialist from California or Seattle, or wherever it is that you fled, and you came to Palmer Lake… And you decided that, oh, I want to keep this in an idyllic situation. No. Progress happens. And they call themselves progressives, but they’re so anti-regressive when it comes to any kind of business. If anything, I would be angry if I was one of those folks down there who’s suffering through whatever kind of economic situation. You’re like, man, I just lost out on a job that may have paid me $20, $25 an hour with overtime and possibly benefits.
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Yep. And by the way, along those same lines, Dave, I’ve had several texters texting in about how they’ve either worked for Buc-ee’s, known somebody that’s worked for Buc-ee’s, done subcontract work for Buc-ee’s. So far, every single texter talks about what a class act Buc-ee’s actually is. And like I said, they are not some fly-by-night company. I did not know this. They are the 25th largest privately held company in the U.S.,
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And what do you think that means? That means they know what they’re doing.
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That means they’re doing it right or they wouldn’t be doing that, Dave.
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Exactly. And, again, that’s exactly the kind of company that you want coming to your area.
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Absolutely. Absolutely.
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And the thing is, you know, farmers markets, what does that run? Two, three months out of the year?
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You’re talking about three days out of the… Yeah, typically they start up to your point. Yeah, Dave, no, literally. They usually start around Memorial Day. They’ll run. So at that point, they’re running June, July, August. They close typically Labor Day weekend. So yeah, three months out of the year if you’re lucky.
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And something like that, you know, God bless those folks who raise their own crops, whatever else, but… They’re not serious farmers. They’re boutique farmers. That’s a boutique type of scenario.
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And, Dave, you can have a farmer’s market. Go pick an empty corner someplace. Go figure out how you can get access to that particular property for that length of time and go hold your farmer’s market. Just because Buc-ee’s doesn’t allow it isn’t any reason to hold anything against them. Good grief, people. This is business.
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Absolutely. And, again, like you’re pointing out, why are you trying to force this business to conform itself to you?
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That’s what marks us due, Dave.
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Exactly. The jobs, again, this is what gets me, is the job potential that was lost.
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Yep.
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And the ripple effect that that would have had on that local economy just by the creation of, you know, rough estimate, 100 jobs.
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Oh, at least. At least. Yeah, you’re right. At least.
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And that’s not talking about the construction jobs, the amount of concrete workers, electricians, carpenters, everybody else that worked building that place, and then not only that, maintaining that place.
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That’s right.
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They’re going to be handing that out to a local company to come in and fix their sewage system, to fix their electrical system, anytime they have any issues.
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That’s right.
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Those craftsmen lost out on a potentially lucrative…
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That’s exactly right. Dave, I’ve got to run with that. That’s perfect. I appreciate it. Somebody else said, a good friend of mine just texted in, Bucky’s has excellent barbecue sandwiches and great customer service. So there you go. I’m sorry, Palmer Lake person, but you’re dead wrong. We’ll be right back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, Veteran Windows and Doors is next. And remember, anything you need when it comes to your windows and doors, talk to Dave today. Find him at klzradio.com.
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Suck it up, buttercup. Back to Rush to Reason.
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All right, that’s it for today, folks. Have a great, safe evening. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
