In this episode of Rush to Reason, host John Rush dives deep into the realities of navigating change with guest Richard Battle. Together, they explore the nuances of change management, the historical dynamics of innovation, and the rapid evolution of market demands. Richard reveals the essence of being a change agent in today’s world and discusses the paradigm shift between progressives and conservatives in understanding change. Listeners are reminded that often, comfort is the enemy of progress. With examples ranging from Sears’ missed opportunities to Blockbuster’s downfall, Richard and John illustrate the critical importance of anticipation, adapting strategies, and
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And we are back. Hour number two, Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Appreciate you all listening today, by the way. Had a great health and wellness Wednesday. And, of course, now we’re going to continue on with hour two. We’ve got another hour coming up after this as well. Richard Battle joining us now. Richard, welcome.
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Good afternoon, John. Thank you for having us again.
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Always, always a joy successfully navigating change in an ever-changing world. And I will say, and you know this as well, Richard, some people, myself, are like change agents and embrace change, and there are others who hate it.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, that is very true, but it is inevitable. And we talked about this three or four years ago, but I thought it was a good time to discuss it again with all the angst about federal employees returning to the office and some of the other changes going on. And so I thought it’d be good to review how we can best navigate it.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, let’s get into it. And, again, this is more of a – how should I say this for those of you listening? Probably a refresher, I guess, on my part, Richard, although, as I said, and I get accused of this at times where it’s almost like, can we just leave things alone? And my answer is no, because when we do, we die. We have to keep changing and moving forward.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, the most fascinating thing that’s going on right now is historically the liberals and progressives have pushed change, and the conservatives have wanted to maintain things that worked and have proven themselves. And now the shoe’s on the other foot where the conservatives are pushing change and a return to previously successful methods. And the liberals are going nuts about any kind of change at all right now.
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Absolutely. All right. Give us the five skills essential to lead our team. And by the way, I say our team. Richard, this could be your church team, your work team, your family team. All these apply.
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Absolutely, individually, as part of a team. And so I came up with an acronym to try to help, and it’s RAPID. And the first one is we have to recognize change is inevitable. And it seems so trite and obvious, but yet how often do we react when there’s a change like we didn’t think it could happen?
SPEAKER 13 :
Good point. All right, let’s get into it. Tell us what this is.
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Well, and so the interesting thing right now, we see a change with administrations, and it’s a night and day situation. So even though the campaign talked about change, how many people acted like it showed up with little or no warning once President Trump was inaugurated? Good point. And so we can’t control, for example, the high-tech changes. You being in the automotive world, just imagine a mechanic saying, who never learned to work on an automatic transmission and could only work on manual transmissions. Where would they be today?
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There’s not very many produced, so not very well at this point in time. And the same could be said, Richard, in my field of everything from if you never learned how to work on fuel injection, given there’s no carburetors left, and, and, and. Reality is change is coming. It’s inevitable. It’s not going to stop.
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Yes, and so the second thing, the A in RAPID is, anticipation. Anticipate, challenge, have the vision so that you can see what’s coming as early as possible and prepare for it. And so we want to be able to control what we can control and not worry about what we can’t. And the seven Ps that I always like is proper prior planning prevents pitiful, poor performances.
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There you go. And just as a side note, too, for a lot of you that are listening, and Richard, I know we’ve got all walks of life. I’ve got folks from both sides of the aisle, young, old, some that have been in a job forever, maybe some that have just started a job, some that own their own business and so on. And I talked about this with another guest the other day. I read something the other day, and I didn’t necessarily – I mean, I understood the premise, but I don’t necessarily agree with the premise. And this was that – If you have a plan B, you won’t go after plan A as hard because you always know you’ve got that backup plan hanging out there. I don’t look at it that way. If you’re a really industrious type individual, you’re going to do everything possible to make sure plan A works, knowing you don’t want to go to plan B. But I am one to say you need to have a plan B just in case. And I think that’s kind of what you’re talking about here when it comes to anticipating those challenges, have some of that vision. And if something does come up, what’s next?
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Well, yes. And so I believe you’re going to go after plan A as hard as possible, even if you have a plan B or C. But I’m also a believer in always preparing and always preparing plans B, C, D, etc. Right. So that I have multiple options, as many options as I can think of in my arsenal, because we never know which one of those options will be the best one to implement when we’re forced to.
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I would think, and you’re more of a historian when it comes to major battles that we have won throughout the years, throughout history. We talked about the Alamo last week. And I would think, Richard, that good military leaders, yes, they’re going to focus on that plan A, plan of attack, whatever they’re going to do. But to your point, if they don’t have some other options, holy cow, that could be disastrous.
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Well, exactly, and during my career in the corporate world, and we were having product innovations and disruptive technology that whole time, every time we had product introductions, there were problems and challenges, and we had to do contingency planning and preparation to alter our course so that we could have a successful product launch. And it’s the same thing in any other type of change. Anticipate that you’re going to have to make changes to your plan, even if you’ve prepared a good plan.
SPEAKER 13 :
Absolutely. And I get it. This is easy for some and a little more difficult for others because, as you know, Richard, some don’t even want to think about change. I mean, I’ve done it this way for this long. I’m not changing. Well, you know, things might come along in life where you have to.
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Well, that’s exactly true. And this is the P in rapid. And so we see it today with people modifying company policies and return to work in an office type environment. I’ve talked about it three or four years ago during COVID that people who believe that working from home was going to be the new norm changed. and never change, I believe that they were going to be surprised. And the last of them now are being surprised with the federal workforce being brought back into offices. And so businesses, though, had the opportunity to analyze what worked because there may have been some people that worked in the office before who can work from home, and there may have been some people who worked from home before who now are going to find they have to go into the office. Whatever makes that business or organization most successful is what you have to implement.
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Yeah, and I think, Richard, this is where a lot of folks, businesses, including owners and so on, they get on that regular plan of attack and everything is going pretty well. They haven’t really thought much about Plan B because Plan B really maybe never needed to exist. And I can come up with all sorts of examples, but you’re selling a widget today. or you’re doing a service today, that all of a sudden some major market change happens, and all of a sudden, guess what? Your incandescent bulb that once was the rage has now been replaced with LED, and what do you do to still have an income?
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Well, I think that’s a good point. And to me, the most dangerous time is when things seem to be working well because that’s when people fall into a comfort zone and they just walk through the motions. And to me, the best example of that is if we look at Sears and Roebuck because Sears could have been the Amazon if they had – saw that ahead because they had the infrastructure ready. They had all the things they needed to become Amazon, but they didn’t see it. Amazon saw it and took advantage of that opportunity because they were hungry and didn’t have that comfort of success.
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Richard, I’ll go as far as to say some of these companies like them or Blockbuster, for example, why would anybody want to go and download a movie when they could just come here and pick one out of all the selections we’ve got out on the floor? I mean, really, those were some of the things that were said that were poo-pooing some of those types of services that are now absolutely huge. And to your point, look at where Sears is versus where Amazon’s at. Look at where Blockbuster’s at versus Netflix.
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Well, in Amazon, I’m laughing because I can remember going into blockbuster stores like we all did. And when the rumors started about streaming movies over the internet, and of course that was back when we were mostly using dial-up modems and trying to visualize that capability. And that is a great example because here the technology was better than we anticipated. And I tell people that our parents… couldn’t dream of some of the things we think are necessities today, and our grandparents couldn’t even conceive of them.
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That’s right. It’s funny, just a side note on, and I should have paid more attention, you know, being in the automotive world in Boulder, I had a lot of high-tech individuals that would come in, and I would hear all sorts of different things that were going on in the marketplace, and I heard about some of the streaming stuff probably long before it actually ever hit. In fact, I had one customer that had his own streaming, quote-unquote, device, his home in other words he had this huge server rack farm basically in his house whereby he had all these movie titles already all downloaded had created this interface whereby if he wanted to watch a particular movie all he did was go to the TV and click blah blah blah and he could watch you know dances with wolves if he wanted to because it was in his collection and he was like listen that’s gonna be the way of the future you’ll no longer go to the rental place and rent a movie you’ll just be doing what I’m doing only it’s going to be 1,000 times or 100,000 times larger than this, but that’s where things are headed. And I thought, hmm, is it? And I should have been smarter and invested in Netflix back in the day.
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Shouldn’t we all? And so another great example of a business plan I can’t even imagine years ago is if you look at a Topgolf facility. Oh, yeah, yeah. And you had a driving range where you’d go hit a bucket of balls and have a Coke or a drink. And who would have ever conceived that Topgolf, I know in my area, it’s one of the top liquor sales tax revenue sources in the county every month. And it’s just incredible how many people that don’t play golf go to that.
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Don’t play golf, and by the end of the day, they’re spending $100 each to go play golf.
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Yes, exactly. And so now on the good side of that, if we start thinking ahead, we may come up with that better mousetrap of some idea that can propel us to independent wealth as well. And so that’s what I would like to encourage people to do. What problem is there? Who’s not serving the market as well as an idea that you may be able to think of?
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Yeah, that last one, dash to act. In other words, go figure out what these things actually are and start solving them.
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Yes, because change is asymmetrical. People are cautious. If we’re able to see it faster and we’re able to act, then we can take advantage of it. make a profit off of some of these changes, whether we invent it or else, whether we adopt it and participate in it. And so that adaptability and flexibility will help us see that faster.
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It’s funny, in closing, I happen to be, my father had a stroke last night, so ended up in the hospital. He’s back in his memory care facility this morning or today, so things are are good. So we had a kind of a rough night, but a good night all at the same time. But while I’m there, I’m looking at all of the, you know, all of the equipment in the room. And around here, very familiar name is Stryker because they, as a family, or Pat, the third owner of the Ayers, was very instrumental in the Democrat end of things here in Colorado. And in changing a lot of things politically speaking anyways all that being said I’m like okay let’s go look up really quick you know how all this took place go back and look at the history of the of the striker family and so on in in Richard this is exactly their whole family history mister striker was actually an orthopedic doctor in realized I don’t have the tools I need for my patients, and nobody is inventing them, so guess what? I will, and that’s how the Stryker Company was formed, and it’s now one of the largest medical device suppliers to hospitals and so on in the world.
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Well, that’s a great example, and it just goes to show that ideas can come in any place. in our personal life, our business life, and it doesn’t matter what our position is, we may find an idea that makes that change to help others and we can prosper from.
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That’s right. Richard, as always, I appreciate you. How do folks get your books, especially as we head down the stretch into graduation time?
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Well, we appreciate that. Our website’s richardbattle.com. All 11 books are there and signed if ordered there. If you want one inscribed, email me richard at richardbattle.com after. We’re happy to do that for gifts. And everything’s at Amazon, including audio and Kindle versions.
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All right, Sunny Kutcher will be joining us here shortly. In fact, I’ll make this quick because she’ll be joining us here at about the 4.30 mark. And Charlie was just telling me, based upon my conversation about Stryker and all of that, and if you don’t know Stryker, that’s with an I. If you don’t know Stryker, go look it up. And Pat Stryker was very influential in Colorado politics on the other side of the aisle and was the gang of whatever it was, Charlie, 8, 6, 5, I don’t remember what the actual story was now, but she was very instrumental in changing a lot of what we have in Colorado to not just purple but solid blue. Stryker with a Y, yes, not an I with a Y, S-T-R-Y-K-E-R, Stryker. Again, it’s a medical device company out of, well, their headquarters I think still are in Fort Collins, but they do things on literally a worldwide basis. It’s a multibillion-dollar company. It is an interesting story, actually, to go back and read the history of and what I think her grandfather actually did and what he created, which I didn’t even know until reading it. He actually invented the first reciprocating saw that would cut off casts but wouldn’t touch and harm the skin. And he did that all the way back in the late 50s, early 60s, and was the inventor of patented and so on, and just a few of the things that he invented over the years. And, of course, the bet I’m looking at that my dad in is, you know, got Stryker, which my point with that was I hate looking at that name, knowing what it did to Colorado politics. On the same token, you can’t fault the company for what it actually did in its – life-changing devices. Literally, it does all sorts of things today in regards to orthopedics and hips and knees and different things along those lines and then the beds and on and on we go. And again, they’ve just done a fabulous job on that end of things and just shows that they found a niche. Back to Richard’s point, they found a need, a niche. learned how to fill it, and made a boatload of money, in fact, enough to where the heirs, there was three of them, that I think ended up just inheriting, this has been a while back, but they inherited around four to five billion apiece, I want to say, when all of that was divvied up. It’s a public company, of course, but those shares at some point got divvied up, and each of them got about four billion apiece, which some say four billion’s not much. That’s 4,000 millions. That’s a lot. It’s enough to never have to work again or go out and do whatever else it is you want to go do with that kind of money. And, yeah, that’s actually very big money. The other thing Charlie was telling me that I’m very insulated on, and I am, because as you guys all know, I don’t watch really any TV anymore. I’ll watch some different shows that might be streaming and things like that. And I don’t watch a lot of TV, period. Maybe… Yeah, network TV I don’t watch. I don’t watch commercials or anything like that. I don’t even have a subscription to network TV. So we’ll stream different movies or different things along those lines. And all in all, I’m guessing my wife and I probably at the end of the week, if we watch, I don’t know, five hours or so a week, that’s about it. And I’m not exaggerating. A lot of nights we don’t watch anything. It just depends on what we’re doing and what’s going on and so on. But what I don’t see because of that that Charlie was just informing me of are the productions, literal productions of big pharma ads. Yeah, I don’t see any of those. Charlie said they’re even getting into the veterinarian, you know, pharmaceutical ads now as well. I mean, this is where, and we’ll talk to Dr. Kelly and Steve tomorrow about the Steve House about this, is, you know, when or can we get those to stop? Because the amount of money that’s being poured into those is literally being used as not only leverage with these companies, the folks that the money is going to, which really is almost funding those networks. And I’m not far off in saying that, by the way. I would venture to guess that a lion’s share of their revenue is coming from Big Pharma, meaning any time the customer – has any kind of a power over said network because of the money they’re spending, that’s a problem. And believe me, they will have power because of the amount of dollars that they spend. So reality is that can affect small business, big business, you name it. When your biggest customer wants something, you typically agree immediately. to do it. That’s how the system works. 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Now back to Rush to Reason on KLZ 560. All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Sonny Kutcher joining us now. Sonny, welcome. How are you today?
SPEAKER 11 :
I’m doing all right. Busy news day as per usual. How are you?
SPEAKER 13 :
I’m good. Yeah, as always. And I guess let’s start with Andy and I kind of touched on this yesterday, but really didn’t get into it in depth. And that was, you know, Chief Justice Roberts criticizing Trump’s call to impeach judges. Although when you look at what some of these judges are doing. And I get it. I said this yesterday, Sonny, that, yes, we have a system whereby somebody brings a suit and that suit has to then get looked at and so on. But at what point do we get rid of these? I call them activist judges that literally are not acting on behalf of the law, but on their own will.
SPEAKER 11 :
Most definitely. And it is absolutely a breach of the freedoms that are protected by the Constitution and the powers vested in the executive branch. I think that the president and the administration are pointing out a check, a check, if you will, a check in the system of checks and balances whereby one district court judge is not higher than the executive officer of the executive branch of the federal government. And it really is, I think, that simple. Stephen Miller made a wonderful, poignant argument On I believe it was actually I believe it was CNN and he was going back and forth with the news anchor explaining exactly why what I just said is the truth, which is that the single a single district court judge does not have that power.
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Right. Well, and I think when you look at what this one was over, the simple fact that we had essentially terrorists, that’s what Trump had named them, which, by the way, that’s long overdue. They should have been named terrorists decades ago, Sonny, as far as I’m concerned. I’m not so sure that Trump shouldn’t have done that the last time around. But the reality is he did. He finally named some of these individuals. Some of them have even been in our Colorado Aurora area here in our own backyard. And the reality is, yes, indeed, that’s exactly what they are. They’re terrorists on our homeland. And anytime you’ve got a terrorist here, you ought to be able to extradite them to wherever they came from. No questions asked. And to have a judge come out and say now even, hey, I want to see exactly where that plane was when I gave the order. In other words, basically threatening that, you know, I want proof that they were actually over international waters when I actually gave that order. Otherwise, you know, heads will roll. What a bunch of garbage.
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Well, simply put, they believe that they are essentially above the law, that these rules of the Constitution don’t apply because they’re sitting on a bench where they can make a moral argument to send the extent of the law in one direction or the other. And I just think that that is absolutely wrong. It devalues and completely negates the entire process. purpose and the intent of the judicial branch the judiciary and the bench itself what it means to be a judge uh you know when it comes to topics like packing the courts and and that’s you know that’s akin to what communist countries do that’s how they create what people call it quote unquote banana republic is by having these activist judges who who make decisions based on their own personal interests, essentially their own preferences, or perhaps even by coercion from bad actors who need them to make this decision because it fits their narrative, whereas in this case, It does fit the left narrative, ironically so, or maybe not so ironically. It does fit the narrative of them to want to protect illegal immigrants, which they have not only been protecting them for years, but especially the past four years of the last administration, but actually aiding and abetting their coming into this country. And now they’re actively blocking America, the commander-in-chief, from protecting its citizens. The commander-in-chief has a duty, a responsibility, and took an oath to protect the people of this nation and to protect our livelihood, our society, from a terrorist. As you said, they’ve been designated terrorist organizations, and they are willfully. And so I believe that these judges, you know, of course I will leave the impeachment to the people who do those things, but I definitely believe that he is guilty of… overextending and overstepping his powers, his authorities.
SPEAKER 13 :
I can’t disagree with that. And again, John Roberts basically would disagree with both you and I and say that that’s not really for Trump to call out and so on. And I would actually, and I know Chief Justice Roberts is probably a lot smarter man than me educationally speaking, but I’m not sure streetwise he’s as smart as I am because what he’s talking about, by the way, I fully, fully disagree with. This country was built on free speech, on the ability for people to speak their mind, for our president even to speak his mind. And frankly, John Roberts, if you don’t like it, maybe you should resign as chief justice and go find something else to do, because the reality is it’s also not his place to chastise Trump for saying what he said.
SPEAKER 11 :
Absolutely not. Yeah, I mean, I think this is all very petty and very, you know, just irresponsible. It just sets such a bad precedent. And it has. I mean, the decisions that have been coming out of the Supreme Court are honestly have been quite shocking and disappointing for, you know, conservatives and for American values. I think that, you know, when you have a judge like Judge Boasberg, who was the one who blocked those illegal alien gang members from, you know, that whole situation, which I’m just glad that they’re in that country now. And then again, I mean, this is called the alien enemies act. That’s exactly what they are. So I’m just, I, it’s almost so absurd that you can’t realize that this is happening. But for example, that judge, his daughter is, I, she works for a leftist NGO that, you know, helps illegal immigrants. So it’s just, it’s, it’s, I think his wife donated to the Democrat Party, which that is her right. But it’s when you put all of these things together, It doesn’t look very good, you know.
SPEAKER 13 :
No, I want to stop you for a minute, Sonny, because I want to stop you because it’s not just that it doesn’t look good. It’s not good. These judges should know. And I get it. It’s the daughter. It’s the wife and so on. But frankly, I, as the patriarch of my family, if that were going on and I were him, I would be saying, OK, guys, time out, time out. Look at what I do. The reality is you guys need to go do something else. We’re not going to donate. If we’re going to donate to one, then we better do the other so there’s no look of impropriety or anything along those lines. I mean, if we’re going to do $100 here, we need to do $100 there, that sort of a thing. And, yeah, daughter, whatever, you can’t be working for an NGO that’s helping in this particular area because at the end of the day, that could very much look like a conflict of interest inside of the family. And, yes, those things can be said and should be said, Sonny. The problem is that side doesn’t look at it that way.
SPEAKER 11 :
No, they don’t look at it that way. In fact, they encourage it. This is the playbook of the radical left, of do not be mistaken. These are not accidental occurrences or coincidences. This is all very thoughtfully crafted and played out. They have their marching orders, and that is, you know, when it comes to kind of switching topics here to the vandalism, the same logic applies. Perhaps this judge is Let’s give him the benefit of the doubt that maybe he feels like, you know, people are going to come after him for one decision or another. But that, again… Doesn’t matter.
SPEAKER 13 :
That’s his job. You know that going into it.
SPEAKER 11 :
You are supposed to be the moral referee to make decisions in this country regarding law and order that reflect the values and the freedoms protected by the United States Constitution, which he took an oath to uphold. And when it comes to law and order and cracking down on crime, which is what actually is required in order for society to properly function and flourish, what they are doing, what the left is doing in terms of manipulating and distorting the truth, what we are seeing with our own eyes. You have, you know, late night talk show hosts uh sarcastically condoning the vandalism at these tesla factories saying oh yeah i mean i was going to send you the link to play it because then i figured i don’t want to give it any air time but he says like you know oh yeah it’s really bad what you’re doing wink wink and what what they’re doing with these people this narrative that these people the far left is perpetuating is that this vandalism destruction violence chaos is absolutely okay when it When it solves their problem, when it when it when it aligns with what their interests are, it’s OK. But when, you know, people are protesting their right at the Capitol and then being targeted for years down the line, when Owen Troyer is being swatted in the middle of the night a week after Jamie White, also from InfoWars, was murdered. Right.
SPEAKER 13 :
Right. Right. We said yesterday on the program, Sonny, it’s ironic that the side that talks justice and peace and equality and toleration and everything are the ones that burn down cities and Teslas and put swastikas on them and on and on we go. I mean, they are literally the party of violence. Anytime we go out and do anything, I mean, there’s a rare exception here or there, and I’m not talking about those. By and large, when our side goes out and protests, It’s done very peacefully. At the end of the day, we all go home.
SPEAKER 11 :
Absolutely. And I think I just think there’s a clear line drawn in the sand where there are some people who are clearly promoting values of peace, freedom, liberty and truth, justice, real justice. And honestly, that real justice just comes from following the law and maintaining order. That’s really it. All it requires is judges and people to speak the truth. But that is simply too difficult because, unfortunately, humans are very easily manipulated, corrupted, and coerced into doing things in order to advance their own personal interests.
SPEAKER 13 :
You’re right, 100%.
SPEAKER 11 :
And it’s just really sad because, you know, people like Elon Musk, he doesn’t need to be doing this. And, you know, he’s not a perfect scientist. man, and none of us are perfect. That is why we need the grace, right? The grace of our Lord and Savior. I think when you see truth that speaks for itself, the ideology falls into one bucket or another. When you have Marxism, which is the root of these ideologies, Karl Marx saying he’d like to destroy capitalism, dethrone God… everything that the left does operates under that modus operandi.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yep, I fully agree. Young Americans Against Socialism, talk about that for a moment, how folks can help out.
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SPEAKER 13 :
Always a joy. Sonny, I appreciate it. Have a great rest of your day.
SPEAKER 11 :
Thank you. Likewise.
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All right. And for folks who live down south, you will not be getting a Buc-ee’s. They have pulled their plans to do an annexation down that way and expand. And by the way, all of the people that threw a royal fit over that, all of you Palmer Lake people, you’re morons. I’ll just say it straight up. You’re morons. Dumb. You guys whining about, well, it’ll create too much of this and too much of that and too much traffic. This goes back to the conversation Richard and I had at the top of the hour. Change is inevitable, folks. If you think for one second that traffic’s not going to get heavier and things aren’t going to change and you’re not going to end up with somebody else in that spot and things won’t develop anyways, you’re a fool. It will. And why not have a nationally, well, I guess you could say national. It’s a regional, although becoming more national, Buc-ee’s. Why not have a destination that people want to actually go to, buy stuff, hang out, spend money? You guys are going to collect tax dollars off of that. You can go use that to do other things that you want to do in the city as far as that goes. But no, you put up enough of a fight where I think Buc-ee’s just said, they said they’ve got a technical issue. I think what they’re looking at is we have other choices. That’s really what that means. When they said we’re citing a technical issue, what they’re really saying is we’re going to find somewhere that’s more friendly to us than you are, like they found up in northern Colorado, by the way. So those of you that are down in that area, and I know most of you aren’t listeners. That’s probably other folk in that area and knuckleheads that are in that area. But you guys, some of you are going to say, well, we dodged a bullet there. No, you actually lost a real opportunity as far as I’m concerned. More than 300 Palmer Lake residents attended a December meeting that was hosted, by the way, by the Buc-ee’s development team, many of them opposing the idea of Buc-ee’s building in their town. Again, these are knuckleheads. They voice concerns over traffic problems, weather along I-25. What’s that? In fact, that’s actually a plus for Buc-ee’s if there’s bad weather. People can hang out there instead of going someplace else. Light pollution, property values, and impacts from wildlife mitigation. Folks, the wildlife will find their way around no matter what. That doesn’t matter. All excuses, and you guys are all dodo heads. You lost an opportunity. And believe me, folks like Bucky’s know that. They know where it’s going to be easy and where it’s going to be hard. And if all of a sudden they think, you know, too much pushback, you know what? We can go do this someplace else. By the way, they were going to put in a couple of different interchanges, help out the highway road system and so on. I mean, they were going to spend a boatload of money to put in a 74,000-square-foot bridge Travel Center at Interstate 25 and County Road 40. Sorry, that’s up in Johnstown. That’s the 74,000 one. The one they were going to do down south was going to be about the same. But yes, they were going to go ahead and put in some overpasses and do some things along those lines to try to help that particular interchange. Not now. Doesn’t make any difference. They’re done. They’ll go somewhere else. Where will they go? I’m not sure. But we as Coloradans, not me, but we as Coloradans, have a tendency to shoot these sorts of things down all the time. And then we wonder why we don’t have some of the job growth and other things that we need in the state, and we end up with higher property taxes and higher this and higher that because there’s not enough people to actually support the things that we need to have go on, and we’re our own worst enemy. You end up with a boulder whereby there’s, you know, 10 square miles surrounded by reality. And I’m not exaggerating when I say that. There’s so much open space around Boulder that because of that, everything in Boulder property value wise just keeps going up and up and up and up and up because there’s no place else to go. They’ve created their own little island and in doing so raised prices to the point that no one can afford to live there. And yes, that’s my hometown where I grew up. I know I’m still a conservative. Yes, I always was one. Yes, at one time, by the way, Boulder wasn’t as liberal as it is now, believe it or not. We used to have all sorts of things that went on in Boulder at one time, like we used to call it the Pow Wow Parade, believe it or not. We had the Pow Wow Grounds. It was a big Fourth of July celebration, and we had a rodeo and all sorts of stuff. And yes, I know, Pow Wow, Charlie, is probably not even allowed to be said any longer. But yes, that was in Boulder at one time. So no, Boulder wasn’t always as weird as it is now. But, yeah, these folks in Palmer Lake, you know what? Be careful what you wish for. That’s all I’m going to say. Be careful what you wish for. A Buc-ee’s isn’t all that bad when it’s all said and done. In fact, I would go as far as to say that would have been a real treat to have had that down there. But you’re not looking at it the right way. You’re all knuckleheads, and you didn’t think through this whole process. Actually, you did. You’re just selfish. Not in my backyard. Not in my backyard. That’s what a lot of people do. And most likely these are probably people, and I can’t say this for sure because I’m not down there and I don’t know the area, but I’m doubting these are longtime natives. I’m guessing most of the 300 that showed up are transplants. I could be wrong in that. I could be wrong. But my gut feeling is most of those 300 are transplants and not locals to that particular area. So, anyways, they missed out. Buc-ee’s is going to go someplace else. Where will they go? You know, my gut feeling is because of the success they’ve had up in Johnstown, they will find another place. They will find another city that is accepting of them, and they will be putting – I would bet before it’s all said and done, you’ll see two or three of these things around the Front Range area before it’s all said and done. Somebody will – probably even invite them in and say, hey, we can figure out how to make this work in our town. And then Buc-ee’s will jump on that, and away you go. And that’s mostly what happens when it comes to those sorts of places. Walmart runs into the same thing. A lot of big retailers run into the same thing. We don’t want this in our town. Okay, fine. You’re dumb, but hey, whatever at the end of the day. Roof Savers of Colorado coming up next. Dave, actually, as I was saying earlier today, Dave was mentioning to me just yesterday that he is still, when he goes out and does bids on different roofs and so on, he’s about 40, in some cases 50% less than what his competitors are when it comes to the same roof, same material, same shingles, same everything. So before you do anything, talk to Dave when it comes to your roof because you don’t want to talk to anybody else. That’s Roof Savers of Colorado, 303-710-6916.
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SPEAKER 13 :
Good friend of mine sent me a text message, also said, have you seen what Buc-ee’s pays for their car wash managers and other staff? Yeah, a boatload. Again, these people in Palmer Lake, they missed out. This was a dumb move on their part. They’re going to wish down the road they had done this. And, again, like I said earlier, be careful what you wish for. And I’ve read a lot of the different forums and Facebook posts and so on, and I’ve even seen some conservatives post along these lines. It’s like, you guys don’t understand how this works, do you? You are completely out in left field, and you have no idea how the system actually works. Change is inevitable. You’re not going to stop it, but do your best to try. All right, another full hour coming your way. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
