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SPEAKER 08 :
All right, we are back. Hour number three, Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush. I said earlier, Jersey Joe is going to join us. And Joe, I know you sent me some clips and stuff, but… I was talking about a topic a moment ago that I want to continue on with because I think it’s really important because I think the ramifications of these sorts of things that cities and counties and governments do, I think, have long-lasting implications that, frankly, even individuals like myself, I don’t want to see these things happen. And yet, in this particular case, the— The city of Denver, of course, is going to tell you that they’re coming into this strip club to save the day. They’re going to save all of these girls from the oppression of how they’re having to work and so on. And that’s this article that’s actually in 9 News. It’s in a lot of other places today as well. But basically, the Diamond Cabaret is facing not only, Joe, their their business license, but their liquor license and all sorts of things, because the city of Denver thinks the way they pay their employees, quote unquote, employees. They’re not employees, but the way they pay their people is completely wrong. They’re fining them a huge dollar amount and essentially want to shut them down at the end of the day.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, John, I actually happened for years, by the way, I actually used to teach labor law to some of the companies, my partners and I have invested in. And I’ve actually done extensive study on on this topic, along with like Uber drivers. And so we need to go back to the IRS definition of the difference between employee and a contractor. By the way, in the study, many of these places actually charge the dancers like a $10 per 15-minute fee to use the stage. Correct.
SPEAKER 08 :
And really quick, I don’t want to get into too many details, but I’ve had in the past, Joe, believe it or not, some of you may not believe this, but I’ve actually had some clients that were ex-dancers. strippers that gave me a lot of insight into that world that, Joe, I would have not known anything about had I not had that particular relationship. And I learned a ton. It was very eye-opening and to the point where, like you’re saying, there’s a lot of things that go on on the pay side that most people know nothing about. And I will tell you straight up that they are truly a contractor when it’s all said and done.
SPEAKER 15 :
Right. If you get to set your own hours, you can work for more than one employer. Now, if you can work at the Diamond Cabaret on Monday and Tuesday and work at a competitor’s business you know, three other days.
SPEAKER 08 :
John, if you could… And really quick, Joe, and this is something that most of you may not know, a lot of them will do that. In fact, some of the girls prefer to work some of the daytime places because the crowd is actually better and tip better than, believe it or not, Joe, some of the nighttime crowd does. So to your point, yes, they will, in fact, work at multiple locations because of what you’re saying.
SPEAKER 15 :
Right, and actually in there, some of the more famous ones, actually, John, they travel in. They go from city to city.
SPEAKER 08 :
That’s right. That’s correct.
SPEAKER 15 :
But if you get to set your own hours, you have to pay the owner or the establishment a fee to use the stage. You can decide to work or not work whenever you choose. If you don’t want to work, if you want to take the next week off— You don’t come in.
SPEAKER 08 :
Take the next month off. You can take the next month off, Joe. They don’t care.
SPEAKER 15 :
Take the next month off. Right. You’re not getting any health insurance.
SPEAKER 08 :
The only thing you have to worry about, like any other contractor, Joe, is if you take that month off and somebody else comes along that’s better than you, you may not have that job any longer.
SPEAKER 15 :
Right. But they are, by every definition, every IRS definition of the difference between an employee. In other words, your employer sets your hours. Your employer provides the tools.
SPEAKER 08 :
Provides the customers, on and on we go.
SPEAKER 15 :
Right.
SPEAKER 08 :
Which, remember, Joe, that’s the other thing, too, that most people don’t realize, not to get into too many details here, but a lot of these girls have followings, and they’re actually bringing their own customers to the club. That’s where some of these clubs prefer to have certain girls work for them because they know what I just said is correct.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah. So the city of Denver trying to claim that these women are employees are not even – They’re in a fantasy world because if they could read the IRS regulations, which clearly define the difference between employee and a contractor, these women fit to achieve the definition.
SPEAKER 08 :
That’s right.
SPEAKER 15 :
Just like an Uber driver. By the way, an Uber driver can also be a Lyft driver.
SPEAKER 08 :
That’s right. They can do both.
SPEAKER 15 :
They can do both.
SPEAKER 08 :
That’s right.
SPEAKER 15 :
They can decide to work today.
SPEAKER 08 :
Joe, one other thing they can also do, if they want to go out and drive for an actual limo company on the side, they can do that also.
SPEAKER 15 :
That’s right. And if they don’t want to work today, they just don’t turn their phone on.
SPEAKER 08 :
That’s right. And really quick, the reason why this Diamond Cabaret one, especially for me, Joe, sort of got my dander up, I guess you could say, is there’s a lot of us. I’m an independent contractor with what I’m doing right now for Crawford Broadcasting. I don’t want that to change, Joe. I do not want to not be a contractor. I want to be one now. In my world, there’s advantages to being one. I don’t want to be an employee for lots of reasons. And there’s a lot of jobs out there, a lot of services, I guess, provided is what I should say, Joe, that are very much that way. And when I look at these sorts of things, they’ll use a strip club, which, by the way, a lot of even conservatives will look at and kind of look down upon because it is what it is. And so they know that they can kind of get everybody else’s you know, opinion on their side because it’s a strip club. The problem, Joe, is when they do it one time, they’ll keep doing it.
SPEAKER 15 :
It’s kind of a slippery slope. You’re setting a precedent.
SPEAKER 08 :
You’re setting a precedent for other businesses in town that may operate very similar, including your local barbershop or your beauty salon. Very well, that operates exactly the same way. The problem is they’re getting the nose under the tent here because it’s a strip club and they know, societally speaking, it’s easier for them to get the approval of society to do so.
SPEAKER 15 :
John, I’m glad you brought up barbershops and hair salons. In most hair salons… The ladies and even the guys, they rent a chair. That’s right.
SPEAKER 08 :
Booth rental, it’s called.
SPEAKER 15 :
Booth rental. They literally, so when you go to see your hairdresser, that hairdresser is not an employee of the salon.
SPEAKER 08 :
Only the franchise places do it that way. All of your independently operated, you know, barbershops, spas, you know, haircutting places and so on, even nail salons and so on, Joe, are very much that way.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, so the ladies and the guys and stuff, they’re literally, it’s a booth rental. They’re paying a daily fee to rent that chair. That’s right. That’s exactly right. So if they can do it to Diamond Cabaret, John, they can do it to your local airport.
SPEAKER 08 :
And, Joe, my whole point with this article, for a lot of you listening, because there’s probably a lot of you listening, some of you, you know, even, which, you know, I’m all in. I mean, I get the other side of the aisle on the whole strip club thing, which is not what I’m talking about, Joe. I’m talking about… Just the way that they’re employed and the way it’s structured and run and so on. My theory is when they can go in there and this is the other thing that’s in the article I didn’t mention yet. It’s an $11 million restitution that they want this establishment to pay. Joe, that would shut most establishments down. I don’t care how big you are. That is a huge chunk to pay. And my point is if they can get by with it there, who’s next?
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, yeah, we clearly put them out of business. Number one, they couldn’t afford it. And I guarantee you, by the way, they’re structured as an LLC, and they don’t have $11 million worth of assets. And then by changing the business model going forward, it wouldn’t be viable. So if I was Diamond Camaray, I would just shut down.
SPEAKER 08 :
Which I believe, Joe, is the end goal of the city here, if you ask me.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yep, probably is their goal. So they’re using government. Yep.
SPEAKER 08 :
They’re using the big stick of government to shut something down that they don’t like. And who knows, this could be somebody that doesn’t like strip clubs. It could be the fact that, hey, you know what, we’re going to start here because we know we can get this done. We can set a precedent. You know what, then let’s go after nail salons and hairstylists and spas and, and, and. And at the end of the day, they start doing more and more of this across town.
SPEAKER 15 :
Exactly right, John. And unfortunately, it’s not limited to just Colorado. You see this in blue state after blue state. And by the way, same thing with guns, by the way. We don’t like guns, so let’s go after guns. Let’s make it as difficult and as expensive as possible. to buy and, you know, to even buy a gun, own a gun, and even carry a gun. So it’s government, you know.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, and to your point, Joe, they know that if they can get that precedence set, then it is with anything. You get one done, guess what? Now we can go to the next one, the next one, the next one, until somebody stops it. That’s exactly what happens. Am I correct? Yep.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, absolutely correct, Joe. So, John, just on principle, You have to oppose this. Even if you don’t like strip clubs, you have to oppose this on the principle.
SPEAKER 08 :
Thank you, Joe. Thank you. You said that in a brilliant way. A lot of you listening, you may have an utter disdain for them. I understand that. I get that. I’m fully aware of that side of the equation. But you’ve got to look at my side of it in regards to the whole labor aspect and knowing where the city can take this to the next business. By the way, could be your business, could be your establishment, could be your nonprofit. It could be anything, Joe, on the other side of the aisle as well that might be structured similarly. Where does it stop is my point.
SPEAKER 15 :
Right. And, John, I don’t, you know, there’s some dispute over who said it, but they’re saying it goes back to the founding of the country that the government that, governs best, governs least. Good point. So do we really need this regulation? How is life going to be better if they’re successful in shutting down the diamond cabaret? How does that make life better for the citizens? It might, by the way, it might put some of these women out of work. You know, right. And now they’re you know, what are these women? What other job skills do they have?
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, and this is something else I learned, which most people in town probably don’t know. I was telling Charlie it at the break because I did not know this. That’s actually the highest establishment that a lot of those girls in that industry, they do their best to try to get a spot there because that’s the best one in town from what I understand. And I don’t know that personally. I just know that from what I’ve been told.
SPEAKER 15 :
I have no reason to suspect it wouldn’t be. I’ve never been there, John, but I’ve seen it. I’ve driven by it.
SPEAKER 08 :
And this is my other fear, Joe. If they’re going to do it there, they’re just going to go down the line of all the rest of them in town. And again, who knows who’s behind this? That’s not my concern. My concern is the precedent that it sets and the amount of other businesses this will affect.
SPEAKER 15 :
You’re 100% correct, John. So again, on principle, folks, even though if you don’t like strip clubs, you’ve never been to one, you don’t plan on going on, just on the principle of Government overreach. You need to oppose this message.
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Absolutely. If you want to shut them down, do it some other way. Don’t do it that way. Exactly. That’s my point. All right. Tell you what, let’s take a quick break. You got time. I want to come back and actually play your target enslaved her ancestors clip. Can we do that? Yes, we can. All right. Take a quick time out. We’ll be right back. Geno’s Auto Service is next. Speaking of air conditioning, because Joe is in that world as well or came from that world, if you’ve got a problem with your air conditioning on your car, go to Geno’s today, genosautoservice.com, and Geno’s starts with a J.
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This is Rush to Reason on KLZ 560.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Jersey Joe with us. Joe’s going to be joining us, by the way, every Thursday at this same time, providing everything goes as planned with time off and things like that, Joe. But we’re going to do our best to do this every Thursday at 5. So those of you that enjoy listening to Joe, you’ll be able to tune in at this time and hear him. All right, tell me about this little clip before I start playing it.
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All right, three things about this clip. One, I normally wouldn’t mention this if it wasn’t relevant enough. But it is, this woman happens to be black, and the only reason I mention that is that she makes race an issue. And if she hadn’t made race an issue in this clip, I wouldn’t even mention the fact that she’s black. Number two, listen, and what she’s doing is she’s telling this interviewing, she’s rationalizing and advocating why black people, why it’s not a crime to be stealing from stores like Target. And if you listen carefully here, She uses the euphemism instead of the word stealing. She says it’s resourcing. We’re not stealing. We’re resourcing. And then the third thing you’ll hear in the middle of this clip, she makes the claim, well, we don’t steal from our own local stores. We don’t steal from black and stores owned by black and brown people. And then in the middle of this clip, there’s a quick cut to a news clip of where somebody is just pulled off a robbery at a local bodega owned by a local resident. So those are three things. She’s a black African-American woman. She’s making race an issue. She refers to stealing as resourcing. And then there’s a clip cut, a quick cut to a news story about a little locally owned business being rubbed. So let’s go ahead. All right, let me play. Here we go.
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Personally, I don’t look at a crime. If you’re going into Target, a multi-billion dollar company, and stealing clothes, it’s not a crime. You’re resourceful. Not a crime? Hell no. You’re resourceful. You’re homeless.
SPEAKER 06 :
That’s where we disagree, I think.
SPEAKER 05 :
You’ve been displaced. I mean, because you’re white and I’m black. There’s a whole other socio-economical piece that I have never had access to. You can go into any single place and put your name on a piece of paper, apply for that job. You’re not worried about if your name sounds too black. You’re not worried about if when you show up, you got to do something with your locks because it’s inappropriate. Target enslaved my ancestors a year ago. Target? Target. What did Target do? We really want to break down every single system that has truly impoverished our community, enslaved us, taken money from our families, and then displaced us as if now we’re the burden to this entire city that was once 40% black.
SPEAKER 06 :
But what did Target do? And at what point do we not uphold any values?
SPEAKER 05 :
And what point do we not uphold Target to then give back all of their funds that they can easily give back?
SPEAKER 06 :
But if we steal from Target, then we steal from CVS, then we steal from Walmart, then the Walmarts leave. But we built it. But then all we have are corner stores in Oakland when we run out all these large businesses, right?
SPEAKER 05 :
Our corner stores are mom and pops own. They’re black and brown owned. We don’t steal from our corner stores. That’s the crazy part.
SPEAKER 04 :
Security footage shows a man walking into Ideal Market in Oakland and seconds later ripping out the store’s ATM. It happened around 10 p.m. Thursday night while the store was still open with an employee inside. We have ATM as a convenience for the neighborhood, for the customers that come here.
SPEAKER 07 :
But we could rock into Walmart’s in Chicago. OK, they’re gone. Why are they gone?
SPEAKER 05 :
Whose fault is that?
SPEAKER 07 :
People stealing from Walmart.
SPEAKER 05 :
Why did Walmart come into an urban city already and displaced thousands of black people in an area where we needed housing first? Once we have housing, you can sustain yourself from there on in. Walmart.
SPEAKER 08 :
All right, I’ll leave it at that. Joe, I can’t understand that. Well, I can understand that mentality because she’s been fed a line of crap for her entire life thinking that that’s an okay thing to do.
SPEAKER 15 :
My question is, she said, Target enslaved my ancestors.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, how did Target do that, by the way?
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, I’ve been going to Target for 940, 50 years. I don’t ever recall seeing any slaves working in Target. Have you?
SPEAKER 08 :
No, and they haven’t been around long enough to even be close to doing anything along those lines, Joe, as you know.
SPEAKER 15 :
So, yeah, so, I mean, is she delusional? Does she believe this stuff? Does she know she’s lying?
SPEAKER 08 :
Or I think there’s some people, Joe, and I can tell from the look on her face, she genuinely believes in this. She is justifying her actions.
SPEAKER 15 :
And she’s advocating that other people in her community. This took place in Oakland, California, which, by the way, is drying up because, you know, the stores are closing and moving out. She’s advocating that other people like her continue to do this or if they haven’t start doing this. Well, guess what? Just like Chicago, your business is going to close up. And then they’re going to complain about, well, it’s a food desert. There’s no grocery stores within. And a lot of people in the inner cities don’t have cars. So if there’s no grocery store within either on a bus route or within walking distance, you’re basically screwed when it comes to doing grocery shopping.
SPEAKER 08 :
Right.
SPEAKER 15 :
And they create their own food deserts.
SPEAKER 08 :
They do.
SPEAKER 15 :
And that’s what’s going to happen.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay, one other thing I want to get your opinion on before I let you go, because I did talk about the city of Denver. You know, they’re not going to buy any of their asphalt products from Suncor, the refinery that’s literally their next-door neighbor. And I had all sorts of text messages coming in kind of as a follow-up that I hadn’t even thought about, which I should have, Joe, and that is, The asphalt product itself, that even the plant in northern Colorado is now going to ship back down to Denver, most likely the emulsifier and some of the things that it takes to even make, that’s probably coming from the refinery anyways.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yep. Suncor is just going to ship it up there.
SPEAKER 08 :
How stupid, Joe.
SPEAKER 15 :
By the way, you know, and of course, you know, the city of Boulder has a lawsuit against the big oil companies, right?
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, yeah, I saw that. How dumb.
SPEAKER 15 :
But here’s the thought. It is not the production of these fuels that is primarily responsible for, you know, greenhouse gases. If you just produce it, yeah, producing it generates a little, you know, a little methane, but if you just produce it and put it in a tank, you’re not creating, you know, millions of tons of CO2 and whatnot. It’s the use of those products. So rather than sue the producers… And some of that stuff can go to make shingles. Oh, yeah, that’s right.
SPEAKER 08 :
All kinds of stuff.
SPEAKER 15 :
Absolutely. That doesn’t create greenhouse gases. So shouldn’t they be suing the users, which would include the city of Boulder? Good point. Who continues to buy and operate internal combustion engine vehicles.
SPEAKER 08 :
Great point, Joe. Great point. So they should be suing the users, not the producers. Absolutely. Absolutely. I mean, that whole story just, you know, A, it got me upset. The Diamond Cabaret story was one thing that really upsets me because of the things we talked about earlier. But then the not buying from Suncor is another one. It’s like, I’m speechless, Joe, because I can’t believe these people get elected.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, I mean, are they truly that stupid?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yes, they are.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, because as you point out, SunGore is going to not reduce its output, you know, by even one.
SPEAKER 08 :
One iota, Joe, not an ounce.
SPEAKER 15 :
Not an ounce. And all you can do is drive up the cost.
SPEAKER 08 :
Which they are.
SPEAKER 15 :
And then you’re going to increase pollution or CO2 because. it’s then going to have to be, first of all, that the raw products are going to have to be driven up to— Truck twice. Truck twice. Driven up to the asphalt plant in northern Colorado and then driven back into the city of Denver.
SPEAKER 08 :
Correct. So it’s twice.
SPEAKER 15 :
So you’re— Unbelievable, Joe. You’re accomplishing the exact opposite of what you claim you want to accomplish.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah. At the end of the day, all you’ve done is added to the problem you thought you were solving in the first place.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yep. Government isn’t the solution. Government is the problem.
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I’m doing well. And by the way, I love that everyone rules the world song. There’s so much there that we need to pay attention to.
SPEAKER 08 :
Absolutely. All right. Talk to us a little about Trump, his Middle East tour, things happening in Washington as well.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, listen, this is probably the most significant week any president has in the United States has ever had. Maybe a handful of others or less. Because not only did we have the whole prescription drug EO go out before he left, and the resolution that he negotiated between India and Pakistan. And the China deal. And the China deal. This amazing tour of the Middle East that really is totally resetting how we deal with our international relations. And I’m very hopeful that future presidents will stick with it. I think future Republican presidents will. Democrats may be stupid again, like Joe Biden was, and so there’s always risk. But this is an amazing tour de force by Donald Trump, particularly in Saudi Arabia. I mean, you know, it was great in Qatar and Abu Dhabi, but what happened in Saudi Arabia is significant, and particularly as it seems may be happening, if he can get Saudi Arabia to sign on to the Abraham Accord, it radically transforms the Middle East in a huge way.
SPEAKER 08 :
Absolutely. No, I agree with everything you said there, Jim. I think it’s been a very substantial week. I think most people, especially the press, well, you know the press, the They care, but they’re never going to admit that he does anything well, any way, shape, or form, whether that was some of the deals you talked about with Pakistan and India or the deal with China and some of the tariff negotiations that are going on or what he’s done overseas. I mean, he’s getting criticized right now, and for everybody listening, please know this. And if you have any conversation with family or anybody around the water cooler, Donald Trump himself has not, will not, cannot accept a plane from Qatar, That has to go through the proper channels, which it is, by the way, Jim. It will not be his personal plane. And I’ve said this before, and I’m going to make sure I’m clear on this, though. It is, in addition to the Air Force One fleet that is aging, that we’ve got to get something done on, that Donald Trump tried to do the last time he was in office, and Boeing has just been slower than Christmas getting these things out. And I’m not exaggerating, Jim, when I say that. The reality is they’re dragging their feet, and I have no idea why. So this literally is a cheap, inexpensive plane. Less expensive, I should say, not inexpensive, but less expensive stopgap in that particular arena. Am I correct?
SPEAKER 14 :
No, you’re absolutely correct. And we’re still going to have to spend millions of dollars to get it retrofitted and everything. But the other thing about this, and I haven’t been able to track it down, but I heard Senator Mark Wayne Mullen make the claim that this was actually in negotiations with Cutter. But in the Biden administration, this is just the culmination of it. And I don’t know for sure that that’s true yet, but he made that assertion. If it is true, it totally blows that narrative away. But I think that it’s a necessity. Like, there is a very big problem right now.
SPEAKER 08 :
with uh with the air force one fleet and by the way really quick jim i talked about this the other day the reality is they get old those things put a lot of miles on 747s as you know are old in general they haven’t even think the last one of those rolled off uh years ago so 23. That’s right. So it’s been two years since they’ve even built any of them, and they were really getting lower in production as it was anyway. So reality is there’s not that many of them around. It’s diminishing. You’re going to see less and less of them flying, even as cargo planes. So the reality is, yes, Air Force One, our fleet, is getting older and older by the day.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, and here’s the other factor, and I was talking to a military expert on this just this week, that there is a requirement in a rational one that you have a four-engine aircraft. That’s right. We don’t make four-engine aircraft domestically anymore. We do not. Everett Washington Boeing plant stopped rolling out these 747s. So that becomes really, really important as well, and we’re going to have to find a long-term solution. solution to that in the future. But in the short term, that’s another good reason. There are a lot of good reasons to do this. Yes, it feels a little icky at first, but when you start listening to the rationale and the reasoning behind it, it starts to make a lot of sense.
SPEAKER 08 :
What’s that old saying, Jim, don’t look a gift horse in the mouth?
SPEAKER 14 :
Absolutely. And by the way, it’s not like we’re already aren’t already receiving money from Qatar. They spent eight billion dollars to build that military base, that Air Force base that we have there. And they pay for it on a consistent basis when we make updates to it. So, you know, we’re already getting that through the military from there. So this is consistent with what we’ve been doing already.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, the State Department will tell anybody, and this is even under the Biden administration, that Qatar is not an enemy of the United States. You’ll hear that from the media, by the way, on the left. It’s interesting. Interestingly enough, Jim, all of a sudden they’re an enemy of the state. When I would tell you that six months ago when Joe Biden was president, they wouldn’t have been considered that by the White House or the media or anybody else for that matter. But all of a sudden they are because, you know, Donald Trump’s in charge and we’re now going to receive a plane from them. But to your point, yeah, there’s a lot of things that go on. And, you know, is… Is Qatar one of those countries that I think, or Qatar, I should say, is it one of those countries that I think as time goes by continues to learn that, you know, rather than us buttering the bread of terrorists, we probably would be better off buttering the bread of the United States of America, because in the end, it benefits our country far more than those terrorists do. That’s my thought, Jim.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, there are a lot of negatives with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, all these wealthy Arab countries. There are potential concerns, certainly in their populaces, about terrorism and stuff. So this is the risk. But isn’t that really kind of the point? Like, if you take the opportunity in a… proper manner where you’re dealing with it in trade and not injecting the CIA into everything. It happens so often they’re screwing things up. Isn’t that the point to try to draw these countries away from exactly what you’re doing?
SPEAKER 08 :
Absolutely. Jim, I think it’s very similar to… At one point in time, the whole overpopulation of the earth, and we’re going to get to the point where we’re not going to be able to feed everybody. When I was younger, that was the big thing back in the day was we’re just overpopulating, overpopulating, overpopulating. And then I read a book, a really interesting book. I was in my early 20s, and I read this book where – I can’t even remember now the name of the book, Jim, but basically a gal wrote it. And the premise was that the richer a country gets – the less population they will have anyways. So at the end of the day, if you’re worried about overpopulation, make every country out there wealthier, and it will take care of itself. And guess what? That’s exactly what has happened. My point with these Middle Eastern countries are the more wealthy they get and the more first world they become, some of those quote-unquote terrorist concerns in my book start to diminish because they start realizing that, you know what, there’s a better way to do things.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, you can’t become wealthy without doing the sorts of things that bring about that end result that you’re talking about. So, you know, you’ve got to try. There’s a lot to deal with on the correlation causation argument. But in reality, you can only be a wealthy country if you’re a stable country. That’s right. You can only be a stable country if you undertake a certain moral code where you have the rule of law. Because you can’t have… any economic success without the rule of law. I mean, in a serious way.
SPEAKER 08 :
Not really, no. And, you know, great example of that, not to pick on our folks in the southern, you know, to the southern part of the country here, Jim, not to pick on them, but when cartels run Mexico, it’s a reason why it’s a second-world country, not a first-world country.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, that’s exactly right. To your point. And again, you don’t have rule of law in that circumstance because you’re submitting your country, and this is getting worse in places like Colombia and Venezuela and South America as well. You have some extra governmental thing ruling your country, and the only way they can do that is through corruption. You can’t have that kind of influence without some form of serious corruption. We have corruption in our government. We’ve been, you know, following that for months now and years now. But it’s not of the same sort with something that we can fix and something we can deal with. In those situations, you can’t. And some of these Middle Eastern countries are also figuring that out because they’ve got to do business or doing international business. And they’re finding that they have to abide by certain rules. Like it’s not just we’re extracting oil out of the ground.
SPEAKER 08 :
That’s right.
SPEAKER 14 :
And we’re doing it on our own, and you can’t stop us. They have to now interact, and that always does tend to bring about positive things.
SPEAKER 08 :
What’s interesting to me, Jim, not to belabor this, but those same people – that would complain about us getting a $400 million plane from Qatar. If I was a man on the street and they would give you some flack for that, you could turn around and say, well, would you feel more comfortable if it was coming from our neighbors to the south from Mexico? And most of them would probably say, well, yeah, I don’t think there would be any issues there. We have a good relationship with Mexico, sure. Yet at the end of the day, Jim… We are having far more destruction coming across and have had coming across our southern border in regards to drugs and fentanyl and so on. And the cartels literally run that entire country. And I’m not exaggerating when I say that. And yet there’s people on the streets here in the United States of America that would say, sure, it’s fine to take that plane from Mexico, but it’s not OK to take it from from Qatar.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, in any event, the methodology by which they are approaching this is to put it under the military service for a specific use purpose, Air Force One. Correct. And that’s the proper way to do it. But never forget, whether it’s Donald Trump or anyone else. 6,000 years of recorded human history proves the radical corruption of mankind. This is our basic problem with politics. So we do have to keep our eyes on how this goes about and what happens. And there’s always a risk of some kind of corruption just because we’re dealing with human beings. But after… All that Donald Trump has gone through in his first administration and since then, and kind of the anal exam that he’s been given through these irrational court legal actions and everything else, you find the man to be one of the more ethical politicians. in American history. That doesn’t mean he’s perfect, and someone’s going to find something in here that I said this, and they’re going to say, yeah, well, what about when he committed, when he had a bankruptcy on one of his things back in the day? Okay, whatever. But the point is that nothing’s perfect, but he’s far better. I trust his moral, ethical behavior. Far more than I trust Joe Biden’s. Far more than I trust Bill Clinton’s. Far more than I trust George W. Bush’s. And I think that that is a story that no one wants to accept, but I think is objectively true.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, and I would go a little bit further with what you just said and say that all of that is true because the simple fact Donald Trump is not a politician and everybody else you labeled off is.
SPEAKER 14 :
Correct. I think, well, I’ll give the Bushes credit. They did have some real business in the family. But yes, you are absolutely correct. They were committed politicians doing political things all their lives. And that is a more corrupting problem than anything else. Just look at what’s going on in Congress right now. You’ve got on both sides of the aisle a lot of corruption, and they’re almost all of them, not every one of them, but almost all of them corrupt. They’re merely politicians, not that they happen to be politicians, but that’s all that they are.
SPEAKER 08 :
And I think there’s far more corrupting behavior in someone that goes in politics all their life than someone that is. Oh, I agree. I talk about that all the time, Jim. Absolutely. All right. How do folks find the conservative caucus?
SPEAKER 14 :
They go to the conservative caucus dot org. They can find out everything about us. And obviously, people can follow me on X at Jim Path.
SPEAKER 08 :
Awesome. Jim, I appreciate you very much. Thank you.
SPEAKER 14 :
Thank you, buddy.
SPEAKER 08 :
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It’s time to leave your safe space. This is Rush to Reason on KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 08 :
All right, I have to go back to the whole Diamond Cabaret story just for a moment because Charlie and I were talking through the break, and this is kind of a sideline. And I, in the back of my mind, because I don’t trust government, especially I don’t trust the city of Denver at all, you’ve got to wonder who wants that whole corner, not only their building, but the other. There’s like two, three other buildings that are right next to where they are, right off of Colfax and Glenarm. You’ve got to start wondering what’s the ultimate goal here? What’s the ultimate goal? And by the way, I’m going to say this straight up because I believe this wholeheartedly. This is not, I repeat, this is not because the city of Denver cares about the dancers in that club. I can tell you that right now. That is not the reason. The auditor going in, looking at everything, he’ll tell you that, oh, yeah, or maybe it’s a she, I don’t know, but the auditor will tell you, oh, yeah, we’re just looking out for the best interest of these girls and the employees and so on, the bartenders, this, that, and the other. Yeah, that’s BS. Total BS. So I’m asking, I’m going to throw it out there, city of Denver, I know you guys don’t listen, but this stuff gets back to people, believe me. What we talk about on air gets back to people. What’s the end goal here? What are you really trying to do by doing what you’re doing? $11 million fine. What are you really trying to accomplish at the end of the day? You’re trying to shut the place down. I get that. But why? What’s the end goal here? Who wants that whole corner? Who’s got some inside edge with the city? Who’s paying people under the table at the end of the day to make all of this happen? And who wants this whole corner? That’s my question. Because trust me, this thing’s been running long enough in this fashion all these years to now all of a sudden some auditor’s going to come along and fine them $11 million. It’s total BS. And now you’ve got to start asking the question, who wants the corner? And is this their way of getting it for less money? Because if the business is gone, yeah, there’s value to the land and the building and such, but it’s not worth near what it was with the business operating. I can tell you that straight up as a business consultant. It’s not one and the same. It changes the value. So if they can get that thing completely shuttered and it’s gone and it’s now vacant, the price drops. Yeah, and Charlie’s telling me in my ear, those people that you claim to be helping, the girls and so on, bartenders, et cetera, those folks that you claim to be helping, they’re now out of a job at that location. Which, as I said earlier, what I learned is that’s the best location for that type of work in town. It’s the highest-end establishment that’s there, period, that those girls can go to, the dancers and such can go to, and actually make the most money and have the best environment out of any other place in town. So, again, trust me, folks, this is not about them. This is about punishing the owner to the point that he’ll have to close up and somebody can swoop in and buy that corner. And my gut feeling would be there’s three other buildings there. One of them is kind of attached to each other, so there’s really three buildings on that corner. Who wants the corner? That’s the question I have. I pulled up Google Maps just to – because my curiosity is getting me going here as to, okay, what’s really – what’s the end goal here when it’s all said and done? Because this city of Denver auditor doesn’t care about the people. I can tell you that right now. 100%. So what – and you’ve got to ask yourself the same thing. What’s the end goal here? What are they really trying to accomplish? And as I said earlier as well, what other businesses at the end of the day is this going to affect, and where else can they go and do this same thing? Where else can they pull this kind of nonsense? And, again, I’m going to make sure I, you know – Full disclosure, I don’t know who owns the establishment. I don’t know anybody at the Diamond Cabaret. I’ve never talked to anybody there. If I know somebody there, I don’t know that I know them. So it’s not like I know the owner and I’m trying to help this owner out. I have no idea who owns it. No clue. And frankly, it doesn’t matter. I’d be saying the same thing whether I knew somebody there or not. Reality is this is not the proper role of government. It’s not the way things should be handled. Whether you like strip clubs or not, that’s not the point. The point is government is doing something that they should not be able to do and are going to end up most likely shutting a business down. They have no business shutting down. That should make you mad. Whether you like the establishment or not is irrelevant. That whole thing I just said should make you mad because it’s not the proper role of government. Denver, the city, is overreaching, and there’s an ultimate goal here that they’re not telling you what it is, and I’d love to know what that end goal is. We already know the city of Denver doesn’t know what it’s doing. I explained that in regards to the whole Suncor debacle. So they don’t know what they’re doing. That’s very apparent. But then you’ve got to ask the question, in this particular scenario, who’s behind this? Who’s pushing it? Who’s fronting it? Who’s making it happen? Who’s pushing it forward at the end of the day? Because I guarantee you that, again, it’s not because of these particular individuals that work at this particular facility, this particular business. There’s more to it than that. And here’s how I know. There’s a CBS Colorado investigation. that is finding out that Democrat Mayor Mike Johnston, he has directed his staff to use and move over to a messaging service that auto-deletes all of their messages so that if the Trump administration comes in and tries to recover any messages, they’re gone. By the way, that’s against the law to do, but he’s doing it anyways. So, again, you all are thinking, oh, John, you’re just against City of Denver because. Well, yeah, because here’s another example why I should be. These guys are absolute scumbags. Literally. They have no idea what they’re doing. They’re going to run the city into the ground. And some would say, well, you don’t live there anyways, John. Why do you care? Because what happens in Denver proper affects all of us around Denver. It affects the whole state. Right? And some of you have messaged me across the years and have said that. While I don’t live in Denver and a lot of you listening don’t live in Denver, what Denver does affects all of us. It has that type of an effect because it’s the capital of our state and it has a bearing upon everything else we do across the state. So, yeah, we’ve got a mayor, Mike Johnson, who’s basically saying, hey, staff, use this messaging app that will automatically auto-delete anything we talk about so that no one else will be able to come back in and check on what we’re doing. Which, again, now it goes back into some of what I’m talking about in regards to this audit of the cabaret. Are they using this app to do that as well? Are they communicating back and forth along those lines as well? And, again, I don’t know. Wouldn’t shock me if they are. But I don’t know. Here’s my whole point. I don’t trust the city of Denver and anybody that’s running it at all. Don’t trust the council. Don’t trust the mayor. Don’t trust anybody that’s around the mayor. 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We are back getting things closed up. Somebody asked if we had a weather station or weather radar thing here in our studio since we’re an emergency broadcast station. No, we do not. We just follow their guidelines, and when something happens, we know according to that. But no, we do not sit here and watch the weather radar. Charlie and I are far enough up here in the tower where we can pretty much look out and see things coming our way from pretty much all directions, which we’ll do from time to time. But, no, we do not have weather radar here in the studio at all. All right, tomorrow we’re going to change things up a little bit. We’re actually going to do rental hour in the first hour, and that’s going to be the art of the deal, trades and deals in movies. And then hour two, Andy’s going to do reviews of Final Destination, Bloodlines, and Hurry Up Tomorrow. Have a great night. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
