John Rush candidly discusses his journey of understanding and evaluating electric vehicles without bias. Alongside guest Richard Battle, they dissect historical success stories, underscoring the key traits necessary for modern triumphs. The episode doesn’t shy away from addressing societal perceptions and the dreaded potential of failure. Filled with personal anecdotes and expert insights, this episode delivers a blend of motivation and pragmatism essential for anyone eager to advance personally and professionally.
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And we are back. Hour number two, Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Richard Battle joining us now. Richard, how are you, sir?
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John, we’re doing great. Thanks for having us back with you.
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It is May. Things are rolling by. It’s graduation season. We’ll talk about that here in a moment as well. But speaking of that, the old three R’s were reading, writing, and arithmetic. What are the new three R’s of success?
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Well, and as I tell people, I’m glad I was educated before the Department of Education was instituted. And these three R’s were also taught to me. And one is resilience in failure, resourcefulness in identifying and adopting new ideas, and a relentless pursuit of our dreams. And those are the three we want to talk about.
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Okay, let’s get into it. Where do we start?
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Well, first thing is on failure. Worse than failure is regret. And generally regret comes from things that we don’t try because we’re afraid to fail or for some other reason. But the pain of regret lasts longer and is much deeper than the pain if we actually try something and fail at it. And so if we think we may fail and we’re not going to try, we might as well go ahead and try because we’ll know we gave it our best shot even if we don’t succeed.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, and what you just say, I can’t tell you how many times over the years, whether it’s talking to fellow business owners or now that I consult with some and coach some and so on, that mental – how do I want to say this, Richard? That mental block I think at times that people get in their head of, well, what if I try that and it doesn’t work? Okay, well, what if?
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Well, that’s exactly correct, and that’s the thing. They listen to naysayers. They have the self-doubt. If we have ten successes and ten failures, we only think of the ten failures. We don’t think of the ten successes. That’s our human nature. And so we need to proactively look at people because most of the super successful people in life and in history have all failed multiple times and use that as stepping stones to learn things to make themselves more successful in the future.
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Yeah, I’ve always said it this way, and I think you have as well. That person never failed, never did anything.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, that’s exactly correct, and we see that especially today in public policy and protests and things of that nature, in that most of the people that are complaining and protesting have never accomplished anything whatsoever. And give me someone who’s failed nine times and succeeded once, and I’d rather put my money on them to succeed the next time.
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I saw something along these lines, knowing what we were going to be talking about today, but I saw a social media post today. I can’t remember exactly where I saw it, but somebody said something to the effect of, you know, I would rather learn from somebody that has failed in business how to run my own business. I’d rather learn from somebody with a failed marriage what not to do in my marriage. In other words, going down the list of things that they could learn from others that have failed and then apply to their own life.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, that’s exactly correct. And there’s another benefit, I think. When we have fallen short or failed and then we come and succeed, normally we are more humble about it because we realize how close failure and success are sometimes. And when we see people who are not humble sometimes, it’s because they haven’t failed enough.
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Yep. I’m laughing with you because you know my story and some of my background, Richard. And, yeah, when you are knocking on your business death’s door, let’s just say it that way, you have a new appreciation for when things are doing well.
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Exactly. And I love a quote Walt Disney came up with. And most people know of the success of Disneyland and the movies and things of that nature, but they don’t know how hard his struggle was to succeed. And he said, all the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles have strengthened me. You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. And I think that is so important for when our children or grandchildren stumble and fail, for us to lift them up and let them know it’s okay and use that as a learning experience and don’t be ashamed or apologize for it.
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Yep. It is. Anyways, we could go on and on and on in this particular bullet point alone, Richard, because of the fear of failure. Well, if I do that and I fail, then what are people going to think of me? And I can’t do that because it’s just too big of a risk. And I mean, I can go down the list, Richard, of all the different things that I have personally heard and or thought of in my own mind, by the way, because we all do this. But at some point in time, you’ve got to be resilient enough to just say, OK, you know what? All of that, you know what? It doesn’t really matter at the end of the day. I’m still going to move forward.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, exactly. And another way I like to look at it is the only way that we are going to attain our highest achievements is fail at the level above that highest achievement. So if our last result is success… that means we didn’t reach for the next rung on the ladder.
SPEAKER 08 :
That’s right. That’s right. What about the resourcefulness that there is there in identifying and adopting, I should say, or could be adapting even new ideas? In other words, being resourceful enough to say, okay, I’m going to be resilient. I get it. I may fail. Okay, that’s fine. But you know what? I may learn some things along the way that I may be resourceful enough now to apply. Right.
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Well, yes, and we have the wisdom of the ages at our fingertip. And one of the things that’s such a threat to young people today is this nonsense notion that human nature evolves. And if human nature evolves, we’re different people than our ancestors were, which means the things they learned are not beneficial for us. And as you and I have talked about, we believe human nature has evolved. not changed over the millennia. And that makes all lessons of all people before us beneficial for us. And as I’ve said, smart people learn from their experience, but brilliant people learn from the experience of others.
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Yeah, and then you just said a moment ago, I think is really important. And I will say this, I do think there are some young people out there that really do understand the wisdom of the ages and even the wisdom of those that are older than them. And they’re willing to, in a way, if you would, Richard, suck up to those people and really understand that, wait a minute, if I can get close to this person, rub elbows with them and have them rub off on me, the amount of things that I can learn from them will be greater than I would ever get out of any kind of a classroom, textbook, YouTube, you name it. In other words, I could learn a lot more from them than I’ll ever learn anywhere else. I do think there are those out there that know that. Unfortunately, there’s not enough of them.
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Well, that’s correct, and I would encourage young people, get close to your family and friends, meet people, deepen relationships early. I didn’t understand the value of that as early as I wish I would have, but lifetime relationships. When you’re older and those people are in positions of power, you will have known them since you were young and you were both coming up, and that relationship and connection will be much more powerful than one developed with anyone later. And there are so many people that want to help us succeed and look for ways to help us succeed if we show that we’re out for helping others and trying to help those that come behind us.
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I, and this is where I was probably a little bit more mature for my age than I actually was, but I guess growing up in a family business and you start hanging around older people at a younger age. And I soon realized that, you know, there’s somebody that actually was pretty successful and did well. And I want to learn from them. And I did my very best, even if it was Richard at times, just sort of, you know, being around the corner and listening into conversations that maybe nobody even knew you were listening into. But the things that you could learn from that, I will just tell you to this day, I still remember some of those conversations.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, yes, and what our culture encourages is for us to not take advantage of those situations, focus on one fault or failure a person had, and then discredit that person versus looking at the positive side of it and what can I learn going forward from that particular person and their experience. And I always say it’s amazing that if experiences – uh the best lesson and if hindsight’s 20 20 then why do the people that have neither not listen to the people that have both that’s a that is a great question uh you’ve got something in here about wright brothers as well which i’m
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I always am just enamored by some of those old inventors and the things that they did, the risks that they took, not only physically but financially, because in some cases, Richard, you know as well as I, by the time they got to that invention’s success, they were darn near broke, if not broke.
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Well, absolutely, and the Wright brothers are great examples of the Americandu spirit, and they had no government funding. Many of the competitors trying to put motorized aircraft in the air first, not only the U.S., but other countries had government funding. They refused it. They were self-taught. They had a bicycle shop and had a dream to fly a powered airplane, and they studied, invested their own money, sacrificed money, and persisted until they succeeded ahead of other people. And it’s a great example that we don’t need the government to take care of us. We can do things, and we can learn and become better people than we are today.
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They were somebody also, and it’s our next one, had a relentless pursuit of a dream. You just mentioned that a moment ago. They were going to do it without the help of government because they wanted to pursue it on their own, not because of Uncle Sam.
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That’s exactly correct. And we have to honor and respect that. And again, that’s such a great example for anyone who wants to chase that dream. We don’t have to wait for somebody at the government to give us a grant or tell us it’s okay. Like our ancestors, we can take off and pursue it. And if we fail, we can continue to pursue it afterwards or another dream that’s taken its place.
SPEAKER 08 :
Very, very well said. Okay, close us out. What’s the last thing we should be doing?
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Well, one example I think of today that everyone can relate to, although most people don’t know, they see Mark Cuban and they see him as a super successful businessman. But they don’t realize that he failed in computer sales. He failed as a short order cook. He failed in the newspaper business as a bartender and selling garbage bags. He failed a handful of times or more before he became successful overnight. And so that’s the example that we ought to emulate, not the person who fails once and quits.
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You know what? And again, there’s others like him. That’s a great example, though, because people can still relate to him because he’s around even to this day.
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Absolutely, and I don’t like all the things he does, but I have a great deal of respect for him because of what he’s done.
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That’s right. Yeah, I don’t agree with all of his politics and some of the things that he does along those lines, but I do respect what he’s accomplished.
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Absolutely. As long as we have breath, we have limitless possibilities, and that’s the thing we need to make sure we take advantage of every day.
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Amen. Amen. All right. As we close things out, Richard, richardbattle.com. And yes, as I said earlier, there’s a graduation time of the year, and folks are gearing up for that, wondering, what do I even get that graduate in my life? And your website could be a great resource for them.
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Well, we appreciate that. And Americans Who Made America, 18th Century Birth of the Republics, our latest book out, it is great for high school or college kids. I’ve even had somebody that takes one of the profiles and teaches their seven-year-old kid once a week. And so it’s a great way to make up for the schools not teaching civics and history. is teach these young people the Americandu spirit and these great examples from our founding period.
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Awesome, Richard. As always, I appreciate it very much. I miss the weeks. We don’t get a chance to talk, but always make up for it when I get back, and I appreciate you. We appreciate being here, and God bless America. God bless you, Richard. Have a great rest of your day. Up next, it’s Golden Eagle Financial. Stay tuned. Al’s got a great little bit that he did with an interview with Travis to explain what he can do for you.
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Al Smith from Golden Eagle Financial and the show you love, Retirement Unpacked, is here with me. How are you today, Al? I’m doing great. How are you, TJ? I’m doing great as well. I have a couple questions for you. As a financial advisor, do you also do taxes?
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No, I don’t prepare my clients’ taxes. I do, however, spend a lot of time talking to them about taxes. To use a sports analogy, tax preparation is like doing a recap of the game. What I do is more like creating a game plan and then following up over time to see how it’s working.
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And how much are taxes a part of that game plan that you create?
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Well, with so many different taxes we’re faced with, it becomes an important thing to take into consideration. It’s not how much income you have, but how much you get to keep. In addition to federal and state income taxes, there’s property taxes, state and local sales tax, and fees. And they all play a part in shrinking our income.
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What about people who already have really healthy balances in 401ks, IRAs? Won’t they be facing significant taxes as they draw income from those accounts?
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Well, it depends. Everybody’s situation’s a little bit different. There’s no one size that fits all when it comes to tax planning. But often when I work with people, we’ll create a strategy where we will convert traditional IRAs to Roth over time. And that not only reduces taxes in the future, but it will also lower the tax they’ll be paying on their Social Security.
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Is that kind of strategy really only for the wealthy?
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Not at all. Many of my clients who have modest IRAs have chosen to convert to Roth over time. They enjoy the freedom of having a tax-free nest egg that they can access on their own timeline rather than an RMD schedule.
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Well, that is excellent. And how can people reach you if they want to learn about their own taxation in retirement?
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You can reach me through KLZ or contact my office at 303-744-1128. And when you call, I’ll provide you with a summary of all the tax changes for 2025.
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You heard it here, folks. Good things from Golden Eagle Financial and Al Smith. Again, you can reach them at 303-744-1128 or just find them on the advertisers page at klzradio.com.
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Putting reason into your afternoon drive, this is John Rush.
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All right. One of you sent me an article over the evening into today, which I appreciate greatly, and a lot of you do from time to time. And I’ve said this numerous times. I’ll continue to say it. I may not always recognize or say that somebody sent me such and such, but I will say this. I do… read, and everything that you send me, yes, I look at each one of those things. I may be able to work it into my program at a later date, or I may not. It doesn’t mean that I’m offended by anything that you’ve sent or anything along those lines. It’s just a matter of what works into particular shows and so on. But I’m always thankful for what you send me. Charlie finds articles. I’ve got other individuals out there that Find articles and send family members that send me things. And I’m always, always appreciative of the things that are sent to me because either, A, I may not have seen it. I may have, but I may not have seen it. And it gives me a little bit of an up, if you would, on what’s going on. And I appreciate that greatly. So this was an article that was sent to me coming out of Zero Hedge. 35 House Democrats join Republicans to kill Biden’s preposterous EV targets. Now, I’ve talked about EVs, you know, a ton in the past on this program. Probably as much. I think it’s fair to say that I have talked about them as much, if not more, than probably any other publication, talk show, radio, TV, etc., mainly because of Drive Radio and what I do on three hours on Saturday. plus the fact that I own one because of the Drive Radio program, plus what I do here, and I’ve even done lots of interviews with different people along those lines, and I think most of you will understand and recognize, I think Charlie does for sure, that even the quote-unquote experts, when I bring them on to talk about an EV, and this is not to boast at all, please, I don’t want it to be that way, but because of owning one, and I’ve owned one since 2020, And knowing the ins and outs of them like I do, generally speaking, I know more about them than the quote-unquote expert that has come on as an expert to talk about EVs. And that’s just because I own one. I don’t know if there’s a quote that goes along these lines, Charlie, but when you own something and you do something with it on a regular basis, you typically start understanding far more about whatever that is than anybody else because you’re in it. You’re doing it. And I looked at EVs completely different than probably anybody else from either side of the aisle. I didn’t look at them as God’s gift to mankind and we’ve got to go this way to save the earth. That’s not the side I came from, as you guys all know. I also didn’t come from the side that a lot of conservatives come from, that they’re evil and they’re out to destroy us and our economy and everything else. I didn’t look at it either way. I really came at it as it’s a car. It’s a piece of technology that, yes, is different than what we’ve been used to having in the past. And I’m going to approach this very neutral to determine, is there a good, a bad, an ugly? Where are they in the grand scheme of things? And that’s exactly how I approach it. I didn’t have any confirmation bias one way or the other when it came to EVs. I really looked at them open-mindedly from both sides. And you guys know my feelings on that. No, they shouldn’t be mandated. And I’m glad that, you know, some Democrats sided with Republicans to kill some of the mandates because, no, they shouldn’t be mandated. They also shouldn’t be subsidized. I’ve talked about that numerous times in the past. Nobody should be subsidizing somebody else to buy something, especially in this case. Government should have never forced these, which is what they did through subsidies and through tax credits and so on. They never should have done that in the first place to get these things sold. If they were going to sell, they’ll sell on their own, which I’m a believer that they would have had government not did what they did. Had government not done them to be a big push for, quote-unquote, the environment, I think they would sell. And probably, my prediction is, we don’t know because we screwed it up, but my prediction is they would have sold better now than they would have otherwise. Because once people realize how exhilarating they are to drive, how convenient they actually are, if you’re the right person that can own one and you can pull in your garage and charge overnight and so on, if you’re one of those individuals, you will soon find that they are extremely convenient. Extremely convenient. And I mean that with all sincerity. There are some good sides to EVs, no matter what type of conservative would say otherwise. On the same token, they’re not as glamorous and they’re not the fix for everything like a lot of folks on the left would think. It’s somewhere in the middle. And I’ve talked about that many, many times. So my point with this particular article and what somebody sent me was, yeah, we’re going to see some of these mandates changing, not only under Trump, but because I think even a lot of Democrats are starting to realize that. Wait a minute. If I stick with these mandates and I continue to push this stuff, my constituents. which, by the way, can’t all afford one, and no, they’re not ideal for every one of my constituents. I think what a lot of folks are starting to realize, a lot of politicians are starting to realize, is this isn’t boding well for me and my political future if I continue to ride this horse. I probably need to take a little different stance on this because they’re not panning out to be as great as what everybody said they were because they do have limitations. And a lot of the left would come out and say, well, yeah, that’s just because we don’t have enough, you know, we haven’t paid for and put enough charging stations in across the country to make them work. No, folks, that’s not it either. Even with more charge stations, they don’t charge as quickly as you can fill a car up with fuel. They’re not one and the same. And until that technology changes, Charlie sent me an article the other day where there is some technology coming down the pike that might change the time it actually takes to charge an EV, but we’re not there yet. Even a fast charge is 10, 15 minutes. You can fill up and be gone. You can fill up, use the bathroom, go get a Snickers, you know, do whatever else it is you want to do inside the convenience store and fill up and be gone faster than what it takes to do an EV charge, even on a fast charge basis. And cost wise, by the way, you can darn near fill. Well, you can fill the car up with fuel as cheap as you can with electricity. That’s the other side of the aisle or the other side of the equation that the left never wants to tell you. That cost at those DC fast charge stations is not cheap. It’s expensive. And when it’s all said and done, you can drive an ICE vehicle, an internal combustion engine vehicle, as cheap or cheaper, really cheaper than you can an EV. And when I say that, I’d be really careful because just like ICE engine cars, EVs vary vastly in cost. So that’s the other thing you’ve got to look at is when they’re comparing on a mile-per-mile basis a vehicle, an EV vehicle versus an ICE vehicle, you really have to look at, are they comparing apples to apples? Is it like vehicle for like vehicle? Because sometimes it’s not, because they can skew the numbers that way. They can make the EV look a lot cheaper if they’re not comparing apples to apples, is my point. So, again, while I am an EV owner, I am that middle-of-the-road guy. I believe in the technology itself as far as that is concerned. And what I mean by that is, yes, there is a place for them. No, it’s not saving the planet. Conveniently speaking, and the exhilaration of driving one, though, I’ll just tell you straight up, there is no comparison. never having to fill up at the gas station, having instant power that you’re not waiting for anything to wind up as far as an ICE engine is concerned. It’s instant torque. It’s there immediately. Most of them have even sport modes that make them extremely exhilarating to drive because they’re extremely fast. Again, if you’ve never driven one, don’t knock one. On the same token, are they for everyone? I’ve said over and over and over again on this program, no, they are not for everyone. Are they for some? I believe they would be even for more if more people were open-minded to them and if the government hadn’t done what they did to force them upon individuals. That’s why when I see these mandates go away, I actually look at that and think, okay, that’s a win for EVs themselves because as time goes by, they’ll actually get an uptick in sales from that. 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Now back to Rush to Reason on KLZ 560.
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And we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Sunny Kutcher joining us now from Young Americans Against Socialism. Hello, Sunny. How are you?
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Doing well. Glad to be back from our break.
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Yep, always a joy to have you. I miss talking to you. And we’ve got always something to discuss, by the way. There’s always something going on. And for those of you that, by the way, have not been to their website, Young Americans Against Socialism, Sonny did an interview here of late, a TV interview, by the way, which went very well. So those of you can go there and check some of those things out. But, Sonny, let’s talk about Trump. Yesterday there was a ruling from the Supreme Court that validates his – his mandate, if you would, when it comes to transgenderism in the military and the banning thereof?
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This is super important, I think, because it solidifies our values in this country. You know, we don’t have service members who have other disabilities, and this is for obvious reasons. I mean, we want our service members to be able to protect the homeland, protect our civilian population and our entire population. And And I think, unfortunately, you know, we do have a very, generations of people who are struggling with severe mental illness. And I would say that people who would think that they can change their gender or change their sex are struggling with gender dysphoria. This is something that’s commonly known. This is scientifically studied. And unfortunately, you know, that may be a hard blow for some people to deal with. But fortunately for people For America, we can stand by the fact that there are only two sexes and that should be represented as such in the military.
SPEAKER 08 :
I can’t agree with anything you said more. The reality is, and I’ve said this many times on this program, this should not be a shock to anybody listening. And by the way, Sonny, I want to make sure I say this off the bat. I love people, and I especially love people that have any kind of health issues that are going on. In this particular case, I, like you, believe that transgenderism, they have some serious mental things going on. I think it’s mental and spiritual. I talked about this a little bit on our podcast this morning that we recorded for the National And I look at this as a mental slash spiritual issue, which, by the way, sometimes, Sonny, those can run hand in hand, as you know. But the reality is I see it as I’m in the wrong body. God did this to me. I’m now going to go around God, and I’m going to fix this on my own. So, again, I look at it as a two-sided coin. Yes, it’s mental. Yes, it’s spiritual, but at the end of the day, do I love these people? Absolutely, but do I think they should be in positions of leadership, and in this case, defending my country, my homeland? Absolutely not.
SPEAKER 09 :
Absolutely. I mean, I couldn’t agree more, especially from a spiritual standpoint. You know, I think young people are constantly searching for purpose. We’ve talked about that on the show, and you know, just how God always works, we don’t know the answers that we are searching for always. You know, they come to us, and I think There are people who would think that they can go and change their gender and that’s going to be the solution to their problems. And unfortunately, that’s just not how it works. That’s not how life works. And so they will find out that they’ve only just irreparably harmed their body, especially young people who are coming into this, which leads me to my next point, which is that a lot of these. trans-identifying people suffer from even medical disabilities or medical issues while they’re transitioning or after they’ve transitioned, quote unquote. And so why is it that now, you know, it’s the responsibility of our military to support these procedures or, you know, the things that come along with someone who is attempting to, you know, change their body. I mean, they are changing their body. And so it’s It’s just another, you know, responsibility that our military would have to take over paying for hormones, paying for surgeries. That’s just not something that, you know, we should be spending money on in the military. We’re trying to make our military more lethal, more just stronger and more of a threat to the other nations around us. And having, you know, people who don’t even know what gender they are is certainly not a representative representation of, you know, our strongest, best military.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, and Charlie and I, it’s funny, we were talking about this a little bit yesterday after the show. It might have been one of the top of the hours where we got a little bit of time in between hours where we discuss a couple of things. And we were just talking yesterday, Sonny, about, to your point, the actual cost, by the way. So there’s a cost to having all this done, which… I should have added one more thing a moment ago where I do believe this is a spiritual and a mental issue with these individuals, although we have an entire corrupt medical system that is a cash cow when it comes to the transgender end of things. That’s exactly how a lot of these, quote, unquote, providers and or healers are looking at this, Sunny. It is a tremendous cash cow. They are making a boatload of money off of these transitions. To your point a moment ago, this is something that for these individuals, they will continue to spend money on the remainder of their life, whether they stay transitioned or detransition. They will have medical bills that the likes of you and I will never see. And the reality is it’s a cash cow. So that’s a third part of it that I should have mentioned a moment ago. All the more reason why I’m against this and all the more reason to your point, why I’m against this in the military, because my tax dollars should not be paying for this.
SPEAKER 09 :
Absolutely not. Absolutely not. Uh, Like, you know, there’s just no way that you can logically justify that. I mean, and the thing is, we were doing it for years. And this is what drives me insane because we have, you know, four years to kind of turn around the psychosis and insanity that was taking place. And I really hope people understand that this is so much deeper than just an election. This is so much deeper than, you know, one side versus another. We talk about that a lot. because this is about our values. And you can just see the world around us, internationally, in this country, our values have crumbled. We have, honestly, sometimes I just think we’ve lost, I mean, we have lost our way. I think we have truly lost our way. There are people who are trying to get us back on track. We’re trying to course correct. But it is really quite saddening and frustrating that, you know, half the country is super excited about this executive order restoring common sense to our military procedure and, you know, representation. And then on the other hand, you have people who are genuinely up in arms and think that, you know, President Trump is is a complete, you know, is being a dictator, a tyrant. for discriminating against this group of people uh because because they’re delusional and what we’re supposed to complete we’re supposed to bankroll our our service members so that you can get gender transition surgeries like what it doesn’t even it’s just it’s it’s a from a dystopian novel you know so we have to be loud in our values we cannot cower we cannot when you cower and you get emotional, when you take logic out of the argument, that is when the left wins. That is their only recourse because they have no values. Their entire agenda is to destroy our values and create a one system where everybody just serves the collective because, well, that’s better for society. But that’s not the society that we live in in America. We live in an America that has Law and order, that’s what we were built on. Our values are from God. They are traditional, uniquely designed for men and women, and we cannot cower on that. We have to be strong, and that’s the only way we’re going to save our country, truly.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, and all well said, by the way. Now, what I want you to do is tie this back into, because I do think there’s a correlation. This is where I really wanted to get with you on this because of Young Americans Against Socialism. I, for one, firmly believe that I’m going to add one more layer to this. Yes, it’s a spiritual issue. Yes, it’s a mental issue. Yes, it’s a cash cow. But probably first and foremost, Sonny, this is part of, in my opinion, the doctrine of the Marxist socialist movement, because if they can get into the minds and hearts of individuals like this and even then apply that into our military, it’s just one more way to tear down the country. Am I right or wrong?
SPEAKER 09 :
Absolutely, absolutely. That is their entire agenda, to destroy our institutions from within, to destroy our values from within, to strip us of our humanity, of our identity, of what being a woman really is all about, what being a strong man is all about, just completely blurring the lines of what our values even stand for. And of course, from a practical standpoint, just completely deplete the strength of our military, which is actually really sad because these people are being used as pawns to destroy a country. If they even knew that, they would probably be really upset about the fact that they’re being manipulated and used as tools for the Marxist agenda, exactly what you’re saying. I mean, Marxism is all about, you know, blurring those lines. And as I mentioned, the collective over the individual, stripping us of our individual rights and our individual humanity to serve the collective because it’s the class of society, the classes that make up society that are the instigators for society’s ill. The problems that we have are because we have a class. That’s irrelevant, especially in America because the whole point of America is that you can become the person that you want to be. You can be… You can have the life that you want to live. You can live the dreams that you have. And so that is exactly what they want to destroy, because they don’t want good things for our country, for this world. They just hate God. They actually are just hateful, evil, depraved people. And, you know, you can’t sit around and be… promoting the mutilation of children and on the flip side, trying to say that, you know, you are supporting supporting them in any way that is child abuse. This is abuse. This is manipulation, as I mentioned. And we just have to be strong. People wake up to this every single day. Marxism and the history behind socialism and all these isms. is quite theoretical, because that’s exactly all it is, is a theory. None of this actually works, because all it is intended to do is to destroy humanity.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yep. Again, everything you’re saying, spot on. It does tie together, and I know a lot of folks out there listening would say, wait a minute, you guys have just tied in Basically, the transgender movement and what’s happening in the military along these lines and what the Supreme Court did yesterday in allowing Trump to ban these individuals from military duty, which, by the way, I’m all for. Some are going to say, man, that’s a long stretch to talk about that in regards to Marxism and socialism. Actually, Sonny, it’s not, because if you read through – and you know what I’m going to say here – If you read through the Marxist Manifesto and what they do to actually get a country to turn to them, mental illness becomes a very large portion of what they do, because they feel like, again, if they can take over for God and become Him in society, they then are allowed to move in and take over, because in their mind, government should be God, not the other way around.
SPEAKER 09 :
Precisely, and Despite the fact that it is so coupled with, you know, how they want to govern the society through the state and, you know, implement this state dependence, whether it be socialism or communism to an extreme level. You have to, like I said, strip away. A person of their critical thinking of their ability to feel independence, to make their own thoughts and their own beliefs based on what how they perceive the world around them, around them. When you are able to poison someone’s mind to the point where they’ll actually trust this third party doctor telling them to chop their body parts off and take hormones for the rest of their life. then you have all power to control them. It really doesn’t even matter what the next topic is. You can control them because they’re already dependent. So they actually need that dependence in order to survive, in order to maintain this perception that they have of the world, because that’s what’s given them their purpose. Like we mentioned, it’s a full circle. It’s all for full circle. And it really is just designed to have that control over people’s minds, their spirits, and their bodies, of course, restricting free movement and freedom of speech and all the freedoms that we cherish so much in our country. We just have to remember that. We have to remember that this is such a spiritual war, and that is what they’re intending to do is to strip us of our humanity and our independence and critical thinking skills to the point where, like, if they are able to do that, they can control anybody in anything.
SPEAKER 08 :
You’re exactly right. All right, Young Americans Against Socialism, how can folks find you?
SPEAKER 09 :
can find us on social media. If you type in Yas underscore America, that is our handle, Twitter Yas America, TikTok as well. We are just getting the message out there and we’d love to hear from you. You can go to our website, Yas.org. I did do my first news hit on OAN with Chanel Ryan. It was really fun. I’m excited for the more to come. And you can find that on our website, also YouTube, if you just, you know, type in Yas, also my name or socialism destroys freedom. So let us know what you think, and definitely support us if you can. We just want young people to wake up to the reality of what these isms, what these ideologies are all about, because, again, it’s all about control. And if you don’t give them that power, we can retain our freedom, and that’s the only way.
SPEAKER 08 :
Absolutely. Young Americans Against Socialism. Folks, go check it out. Donate today if you can. Sonny, again, thank you so much. Missed talking to you, but we’ll be back again next week.
SPEAKER 09 :
Thanks, John. Talk to you soon.
SPEAKER 08 :
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All right, we talked about a particular case that the Supreme Court ruled on in favor of Trump and his stance when it comes to transgenders and military, a particular case that he has recently lost, although the Supreme Court may weigh in on this one in the not-too-distant future. A federal judge, Ninth Circuit judge, by the way, for those of you that don’t know what that is, that’s the western end of the United States, one of the most, if not the most, liberal circuit there is. And all sorts of goofy rulings come out of that court system on a routine basis. And anytime it says Ninth Circuit, I have to look at that and say, oh, yeah, a bunch of wacko lunatic lefties that run that particular court. So, you know, what does it really mean at the end? But a federal judge of the Ninth Circuit. has ordered the Trump administration to immediately resettle 12,000 illegal immigrants. This says migrants, even on the Fox News report, which it’s not necessarily migrants. These are illegals, in fact. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have been deported. And they have ordered that to happen in the next seven days. Now, again, along those same lines, there are some cases going through, or there is a case going through the Supreme Court right now asking how much power some of these federal judges actually have in these particular situations. So it’ll be interesting to see how some of this comes out. Now, this happens to be a judge, Judge Jamal Whitehead. He was appointed in 2023 by Joe Biden, nonetheless. Joe probably doesn’t even know he appointed him, Charlie. That was probably an auto pen thing when it’s all said and done. So Joe probably has no recollection of who this guy even is or that he appointed him. But reality is he did. And this guy really is. I’ll just say it straight up. If you look at some of the quotes and some of the things that he has said in regards to the Trump administration, what a pompous jerk. I don’t care if he’s a judge. He’s a pompous jerk. And the way he refers to Donald Trump and the White House, and again, I’m not surprised it’s coming out of the Ninth Circuit, but what a pompous jerk. And I’ll be careful I say this because I may end up in front of one of these guys someday, but… I’ll just say it straight up. I think most judges struggle with the God complex. I’m sorry. I’m just going to say it straight up. If you’re a judge and you don’t have one, congratulations. But I think a lot of judges struggle with the God complex. They sit on that bench. They have this, you know, quote, unquote, authority, this overreaching, in some cases, authority to decide what to do, not do. And in a lot of cases, it’s not even based on law. Definitely not based on the Constitution in a lot of cases. They just decide what they’re going to do on a whim, and they make that decision. And it really is a God complex. Doctors can get that. Attorneys can get that. Talk show hosts, by the way, can get that. And I know some of them. And I don’t ever want to be that. If I ever get to that point, somebody please just whack me upside the head. Charlie can do it. Anybody can do it. Because I don’t ever want to be that kind of a person. I don’t ever want to be that pompous person. That I’m that person. And a lot of these judges get to that point, and I believe this is one of those judges. Just some of the things that he has said and some of the things that he’s even saying back to Trump and the administration. Again, keep in mind, he is a total loony lefty. Otherwise, he wouldn’t be on this bench in the first place. But realistically, he’s trying to tell Trump and his administration these 12,000 in this particular case. And I don’t know where these 12,000 individuals are coming from. I don’t know why it’s just the 12. I didn’t get into the article and read all of that. Frankly, don’t care. These are these are most likely, quote unquote, refugees. And this particular judge is wanting them to have all of their full rights back, including medical and security authorizations and and and. In other words, he’s just giving them a blank check that you guys as taxpayers are going to write the check for and cover. And we’ve all seen that in a lot of cases, these quote unquote refugees are the farthest thing from. They’re not a refugee. They’re not fleeing anything that they need to be fleeing in the first place. They just want to have a better life in America. And I can’t blame them for that. I. would want that as well i’m never going to fault somebody for that but you got to do it legally you got to come through the proper channels and and not jump to the head of the line just because you think you’re being chased by some you know regime and you’re now a refugee because chances are no you’re no different than anybody else coming from any other country you just want a better life for yourself but in this case this is what this judge has ruled All right, that’s it for hour number two. Hour number three is next. Don’t go anywhere on this Wednesday. This is Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
