In this episode of Rush to Reason, John Rush hosts Sam Sorbo to discuss the critical issues facing today’s education system. From the controversial influence of schools on societal issues to the empowering choice of homeschooling, the conversation reveals eye-opening insights about the true state of American schooling. Sam Sorbo, an advocate for homeschooling, shares her experiences and expertise in helping parents navigate the complexities of educating their children outside the traditional school framework. As the author of ‘Parents’ Guide to Homeschool’, she provides practical advice for parents who wish to take control of their children’s education.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. We’ve got a special guest joining us here in just a moment. But before we go to Sam Sorbo, somebody texted in based upon all of what we were talking about last hour. Could I explain how to protect your deed on your house if your house is paid for? Because if it’s not paid for, there’s a mortgage. The chance of somebody stealing your deed with a mortgage on it is slim to none. I mean, it could have happened. Unlikely, but it could. But it’s very, very unlikely. So how to how to protect your deed if your house is paid for. So in a nutshell, go on your county’s Web site and you’ll find, you know, your account, your deed and so on. And to my knowledge, I don’t think there’s too many counties now that don’t have the ability to email you if any changes are made or submitted. So that’s the first thing to do is sign up for any kind of updates on your deed. That way, if somebody is trying to do something nefariously, you’d get an update on that right away. On top of that, I would do this on a monthly basis. Put it on your calendar. Go in and check monthly. Is everything still OK? You can go look again. It’s all public information. You can figure out what’s going on with your deed and so on. Very, very simple. So just remind yourself, hey, on the first of the month, I’m going to go check to make sure that everything’s good at the county when it comes to my deed. Now, on top of that, make sure you’ve got good copies, which you should already have. But as your house is paid for, you’ll have a copy of your deed and so on. Make sure you keep that and probably a couple of extra copies. I would have that in a really secure place and have a couple of extra copies. Put your original deed somewhere where it’s secure and then have a couple of copies kicking around. That way, if something were to ever happen… You can go right down to the courthouse and get things taken care of quickly because you’ve got proof that, yes, in fact, this is me. And no, I didn’t enter into any transactions to have this thing changed over. And again, if you’re watching things closely, no need, by the way, to pay for somebody to have a service. You don’t need to pay for a service to have this done. Everything I just gave you is no different than what somebody else is doing. You’re just paying them to do what you could very easily do yourself. So pretty simple. Just do that. on that end of things. And Sam, are you there now by chance?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes, I am.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay, Sam, I appreciate it. Thanks for listening to me kind of roll through some last minute things from the last hour. I appreciate it very much. Sam Sorbo joining us now. And okay, I’ll start off asking this because it’s in my notes, but it goes right along with the things that I talk about regularly. Are schools doing more harm than good?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, I think that much is pretty obvious at this point. I mean, we see the transgender movement that’s taken over in our schools. We see the, I mean, President Trump came out and said we are 40th in the world now. Out of 40 nations, we’re not even, like, just low on the list. We are at the bottom, and we are the United States of America. And that makes me angry because we should be still at the top, but we’re not because of our schools.
SPEAKER 10 :
Right. We are. And, again, I want to make sure I plug this. You are author of Parents’ Guide to Homeschool, Making Education Easy and Fun. And through COVID, Sam, as you know, there was a huge – when it came to homeschooling. I think the one thing that backfired for the other side was the fact that kids were home now. Parents were actually able to see exactly what kids were doing, what they were working on, what the homework actually looked like, what the daily lessons looked like. And they soon learned that, wait a minute, to your point a second ago, granted, my tax dollars are paying for this, but I’m not getting my money’s worth. I can do something way different. I could teach my kids at home, and a lot of people started doing that.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, that’s right, and it basically doubled overnight, the number of parents that were homeschooling and the number of children that are being homeschooled. And my concern is that they are just recreating school at home, which is not what you want to do. School is a failed experiment, and I want people to understand this. We’ve had about 100 years, maybe 120 years of school, as kind of as we know it today. It is a failed experiment. They failed to educate. So do not think of school as education. Think of it as training. It’s not even job training. It’s obedience training for you. And you are disobedient that you are willing to put your children in a school that made you feel incompetent to teach them.
SPEAKER 10 :
Good point.
SPEAKER 05 :
And that’s what we’re, right? No, you’re right.
SPEAKER 10 :
No, that’s a great point. No, you’re exactly right. And, again, you are in great company because I have an utter disdain for the public school system so much that all of the kids that I raised went to a private school. I wasn’t able to do homeschooling. Long story. I’m self-employed. I have a lot of things going on when it comes to that. And to be able to stay home and do things along those lines just wasn’t in the cards for my wife or I either one because we were running a business. But we still did the alternative to homeschooling. And I wasn’t going to send my kids to public school no matter what, Sam, for all the reasons you’re talking about.
SPEAKER 05 :
That’s awesome. Can I speak to that for just a moment?
SPEAKER 10 :
Absolutely. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 05 :
So you think that you’re not capable because you think of school as education, but it’s not. The education that you could have offered your children is an education in being a small business person, being an entrepreneur, doing it yourself, understanding how business works. You had so much that you could have taught your children. And I didn’t think I just did both.
SPEAKER 10 :
I guess you could say, yeah, I did both sides. I mean, you know, one of the one of the rules in our family was when our kids started to be old enough to sweep the floors and do things along those lines. Sam, they were in the business. Trust me.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right. Sure.
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Absolutely.
SPEAKER 05 :
And so, which is great because you have that mindset already, right? But most parents, they say, so many parents say to me, I could never homeschool. And I say, why? Oh, I don’t even know where I’d start. I say, well, what do you think homeschooling is? And they have no idea. They just think they can’t. Why? Because they went to school. And what we learned in school is that we can’t do anything that we didn’t get an A in.
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Great point.
SPEAKER 05 :
Which is, A debilitating. It is purposely debilitating us. And so I’ve reached this point where I’ve understood, listen, children are intrinsically curious. If you give them the tools to teach themselves, they will learn far above and beyond anything that you can possibly imagine.
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Absolutely.
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And that’s what the book is about. Absolutely. It’s a parent’s guide to homeschool. It really is about setting the parents free from the enslavement of our modern schools, this paradigm that we think that we are beholden to somehow, and we’re not.
SPEAKER 10 :
No, no, we’re not. No, we are not. And as you know, too, and this is something, again, you’re more familiar with than I, although I interview a lot of different people from the homeschooling end of things on an annual basis, and the amount of tools for those people that don’t think that they’ve got the ability to do this, the amount of tools now at their disposal today, Sam, even what was around a decade ago and even two decades ago, it is night and day. I mean, to your point, things just exploded during COVID. There is more resources today than there’s ever been.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, there’s so much out there. It’s almost overwhelming. And so in my book, I go through the basics. And the basics are children are already curious. Feed their curiosity. Give them classic literature. Give them founding fathers documents. Give them the real stuff. Give them the Bible. And from that, they will learn far and above anything that you could possibly imagine. But be careful with the new stuff. Be careful with all of this newfangled curricula that purports to teach your child things because the new curricula has also been taken over. The producers are producing for the schools. They want to get in the schools because that’s the big ticket item to sell to a school. And so you do have to be careful with the curricula that you choose out there. And I put a list in the back of the book also of of ideas for curricula for the kids and stuff like that. But I want parents to understand education is parenting. The job, the role of education in the child’s life, education should bring the child into adulthood. You as the parent are perfectly capable of training your child to be a good person, to be an adult, to be responsible, to know how to give, to know how to forgive, to know how to ask for forgiveness. Like you have all those tools. And so, for an example, I want to point out, I was at an event, and there was a multi-platinum Grammy-winning artist, singer-songwriter person. You would know him. He’s super famous. And he very proudly said that his child was attending some big-fangled university for music production. And I’m looking at this guy and going, those kids at that school would pay twice as much to study under you. But you’re sending your own child… to idiots who can’t do it and only teach it to learn what you know in your little finger.
SPEAKER 10 :
Good point.
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You see what I’m saying?
SPEAKER 10 :
I agree with you 100%. Absolutely. Yes, exactly. You know, there’s that old saying, nothing against teachers. I’m going to make sure I always preface that because there are some really great teachers out there, Sam.
SPEAKER 05 :
I’m with you on that.
SPEAKER 10 :
I never want to be against them, but I will say this. There’s an old saying, you either do or you teach.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, well, and there are people who love to teach, and that’s great.
SPEAKER 10 :
That’s right.
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And there’s a place for them, but it does not supplant the parents.
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Agree.
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And by the way, good teachers will tell you that. And they will, absolutely. And so what we have to do is we have to take back our schools. Now, how do we do that? I have an initiative to put parents on all the school boards. School boards should be comprised of parents.
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Agree.
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They used to be comprised of parents. It used to be that parents would go And and hire. They would go in community. They would get together and they’d say, we need a teacher to teach our kids. And that was how the one room schoolhouse came about. And the parents would band together and they would hire the teacher. By the way, homeschooling does not cost that much. I don’t know what people are smoking that they think that homeschooling your child costs an inordinate amount of money, but it doesn’t.
SPEAKER 10 :
No, and in fact, that’s one thing I haven’t discussed for a while, Sam, but the last time I checked, and again, you would know this better than I, but you can homeschool a student curriculum and all for under a couple thousand bucks. Am I still correct in that?
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, yeah, it’s like a thousand. It’s definitely under $2,000.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay, that’s what I thought. Okay, all right.
SPEAKER 05 :
Without a doubt. Now, if you’re signing up for online, the online programs have accelerated and increased their pricing because we have the school choice movements. And the school choice movement is the government’s attempt to enter into all the private institutions so that there are no more private institutions to compete with the government institutions that are failing so abysmally. Right. That’s their way of taking out the competition. And so all these school choice movements, you know, they say, oh, the money follows the child. No, no. The government follows the child. And, oh, it’s no strings attached. Oh, so you’re for fiscal irresponsibility in our government? Are you really saying that to me? That’s the school choice movement.
SPEAKER 10 :
Good point.
SPEAKER 05 :
It’s a very dangerous movement. They implemented it in Sweden, and 10 years later, homeschooling was outlawed.
SPEAKER 10 :
Wow. Yeah, I would.
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Private education.
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Yeah, you’d have to be very, we don’t have it in Colorado, even the few movements that have tried to get any traction here. We are so blue, Sam, that I don’t see, unless it’s mandated on a federal basis, you know, through some other means, you’re not going to see Colorado ever do what you’re talking about because we’re too blue to even start down that path, even though, to your point.
SPEAKER 05 :
It’s funny because it’s a socialist issue. Like, it’s super socialist. for the government for parents to go to the government and say hey government give me some money please and the government to redistribute its funds only to parents right right is a super socialist idea but they somehow they’ve sold all these conservatives on it it is not conservative at all it’s obamacare for school gotcha gotcha so you don’t feel at the end of the day that does any good whatsoever Unfortunately, it does good for like three years, and then all hell breaks loose, and we lose private education for good.
SPEAKER 10 :
I’m assuming that would even, because you’ve got government money now coming in, it even affects a private institution, parochial, Catholic, Christian schools as well, right?
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, the government money, look, they said in Florida, no strings attached. The first year you got the money, you could go buy a flat screen TV with the money, you could buy tickets to Disney World for the year, you could do all kinds of things. with the no strings attached money. You couldn’t buy a laptop for your child, though, for some reason. But still, no strings attached, apparently, right? And then the next year they said, oh, but we do want test scores. What are they going to do with those test scores? I don’t know, but they paid for them. They bought them. I mean, this is child trafficking, right? The government pays you for your child. So… And so that was the second year. And pretty soon the government’s going to say, oh, but you have to teach LGBTQ parents in the state of Illinois.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, because they can put the strings attached as to if you don’t do this, your child doesn’t get a diploma at the end of the year, basically, or the end of their senior year, basically, right? Right.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, or you don’t get the money.
SPEAKER 10 :
Or you don’t get the money that way. That’s true, yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
Once you become dependent on the money, come on. So these little private, these little tiny Christian schools, they become dependent on the money. And then they grow. And then they hire more teachers. And then the government says, oh, but you’ve got to do LGBT. What are they going to do, fire all those nice little Christian teachers that they just signed on?
SPEAKER 10 :
No, you bring up some great points that I don’t think a lot of times get thought through, because to your point, it’s an old saying. The old saying of the golden rule, Sam, it’s the guy with the gold rules. It’s not doing to others. It’s the guy with the gold rules, right?
SPEAKER 05 :
That’s right. What we ought to be doing is divesting the government of education. Hey, government, butt out. We’ll take it from here. Thanks for playing.
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And by the way, I would love that, especially as a person that pays a lot of property taxes on an annual basis through all the different properties I own and so on. Sam, it’s an absolute, it’s ridiculous the amount of money that we fund. school systems with, and to your point, as we opened up with, the results that we actually get, we ought to all be crying to the rooftops, I want my money back because I’m not getting my value at all.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right. It’s absurd.
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I mean, I can tell you as an employer, I’m not getting my money’s worth when people come and apply for a job. Of course. Young people, I should say. Well, you know what? It’s not just young people because we’ve been doing this now for decades. It’s young and old. I used to say it was only the young people that were coming out of school that were that way. Sam, it’s multi-generational now.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, that’s a cultural issue, right? And that’s because we stopped teaching character in the schools. So part of my initiative is to reinstate character building in the schools. And because here’s the thing. You cannot teach academics to a child who lacks character.
SPEAKER 09 :
True.
SPEAKER 05 :
Why? Because he doesn’t see the point in learning the academics. True. He has no character, so he doesn’t trust you.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 10 :
You’re right.
SPEAKER 05 :
And by the way, character is from the parents.
SPEAKER 10 :
That’s right.
SPEAKER 05 :
The parents teach the child character, but they stop teaching because they were surprised. They were just. you know, pushed aside by the school.
SPEAKER 10 :
Right, right. They were replaced basically at the end of the day. I had somebody just texted a moment ago too that said, and by the way, don’t forget the homeschooling can be done for a fraction of the time kids are spending in, you know, regular school, meaning there’s so many other things they could even be doing to learn life. And, yeah, I think that’s something else we need to always remind folk of is you can do what they’re learning, you know, in a seven-hour day at school or whatever it is now, seven, eight-hour day, you could do in a third of that time at home.
SPEAKER 05 :
Absolutely. And then your kid can focus on getting his pilot’s license or starting a business or, you know, rebuilding a car or whatever.
SPEAKER 10 :
Right, right. No, you’re right up my alley.
SPEAKER 05 :
Absolutely. This is why I wrote the book, because the ideas that we have about education are are completely wrong, because they have all been informed by our own schooling. And our own schooling was just obedience training, basically. And so you need to step outside that paradigm. When you get my book, that’s what it does. It brings you outside that paradigm. It helps you to focus on your goals for your children, and then you can understand that the education of the children is really about discovering who your children are, and helping them to be the best version of that that you possibly can. And then you have a lifelong relationship.
SPEAKER 10 :
In a lot of ways, Sam, your book is helping people get through their own, not the child’s fear, but your fear of not being able to do it. Am I right?
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, absolutely. Children aren’t afraid.
SPEAKER 10 :
Because I was going to say, the biggest thing I believe in all of this isn’t the kids being afraid. It’s the parent, right?
SPEAKER 05 :
No, the parent’s the one that says, I can’t homeschool my child. And it’s because they’ve been debilitated by their own schooling. Here’s a funny thing. You know, when you say, oh, I can’t do math, you say, I don’t have a math brain, right? That’s on me. I can’t do math because I don’t have a math brain. But if you learn how to do math, you credit your teacher. You say, oh, I had a wonderful teacher in school, taught me math, right? We personalize our failures. And yet we corporatize our successes to the institution of school because we know no other paradigm. And I’m here to tell you, if you’ve done anything, if you’ve learned anything outside of school, look at that and look at yourself and understand you are a lot more capable than you think you are.
SPEAKER 10 :
No, I would agree. I would agree with that. I’m very unique. I was very fortunate to, again, my folks put me, and this is before homeschooling even happened, went to a Christian school at a very early age. And unlike other types of schools, it was not through an additional type of school with a teacher up front. You did a lot of self-learning, Sam, to your point. And so for me. Right. I don’t ever say what you just said because I didn’t have a specific teacher that taught math, English, science, things like that. We were in a lot of ways, quote unquote, self-taught. It’s why I feel today I’m a very good reader because you had to do so much reading at an early age. If you didn’t read, you wouldn’t understand. You wouldn’t comprehend. You couldn’t apply. So I was very fortunate. And I feel today I was fortunate not because of the teacher, but the system I was actually in to be able to teach myself how to learn.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, that’s the paradigm, right? So that’s what we want to offer our kids. We want them to become lifelong learners, and we want them to know that they can teach themselves anything that they want at any time. So our job as parents is to teach our children how to learn. Right. And we can all do that because there’s always something you don’t know. Absolutely. So you pick the thing that you don’t know, your kid doesn’t know, and you show them how to go learn it.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, absolutely.
SPEAKER 05 :
And then you’re done. Absolutely. Like, stick a fork in you.
SPEAKER 10 :
Absolutely. Sam, it’s great. No, this is awesome. I appreciate you joining us and taking time out of your day for us. How do folks get the book?
SPEAKER 05 :
Just go to sorbostudios.com. That’s where everything is, the books, my podcast also. I do a podcast on education, and I could use more subscribers. You can go to sorbostudios.com. Also, I’m doing a homeschool trip to Washington, B.C.
SPEAKER 09 :
Nice.
SPEAKER 05 :
It’s going to be like a history tour. We’re going to see some of the monuments and stuff. It’s going to be a lot of fun. That’s next year, but you can find that on sorbostudios.com also.
SPEAKER 10 :
And it’s S-O-R-B-O for all of you listening that want to know how to spell that. And by the way, what you just talked about, we did as a family with our kids one summer and did that entire trip. I guess you could say that the circumference of all the things that you’re talking about, and I will tell all of you listening, you won’t have a more fun time in your life. It was a blast.
SPEAKER 05 :
It is. It’s so great. And we did it. That’s why I want to bring other people back, other families back to do it. That’s awesome. Hey, thanks so much for having me. Thank you, Sam.
SPEAKER 10 :
I appreciate it very much. Have a great rest of your day. Appreciate you joining us. And for those of you maybe, again, that don’t know Sam, she’s actually very famous. She’s a person that has been on all sorts of other talk shows, and her husband is very famous. He’s an actor. Kevin Sorbo, the actor, and she’s done some acting and things as well. So just so you all know, she was at what was she on, Charlie? We were talking about Friday or Thursday, rather. Well, she had a national radio show, but then she was also in Hercules, I want to say. She was one of the voices in the Hercules series that was out for a while. And her husband was Hercules, so there you go. So, very famous, and appreciate her time joining us today, and that’s how you can find her. And yeah, if you want to subscribe to her podcast, absolutely help her out some. As you guys all know, education is a big deal to me. We talk about it on an ongoing basis. And she gave a completely different take on the whole school choice thing that, frankly, I don’t know that I’ve ever talked to anybody prior to having that exact feeling on things. And I’ll have to process that one. I can’t say as I disagree with her, and everything that she gave is a very good point on why we shouldn’t have school choice. I’m one that says, yeah, if you can get government out of schooling altogether, yeah, I’m all for that. The question is, how do you do that? So I’ll have to listen to her a little bit more. So we’ll be back here in a moment. Veteran Windows and Doors is next. 35% up to three windows, 40% four or more. Find veterans at klzradio.com.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Richard joining us now. There was a big event today. Actually, Charlie was even asking me about it a little bit earlier from Apple. And I thought we could take a few minutes today and just talk about some of the updates that they have coming out. Because it’s not just on phones. There’s several things they’re doing across their platform.
SPEAKER 14 :
You are correct. Yeah, it’s a decent-sized update, Dad, right? And this is their time of year where they come out with it, right? Their Worldwide Developers Conference. So this is different than their release of the iPhone. This is more of a release of their software, right? Because there’s kind of two parts of Apple. And this is always nice, Dad, because this is free. You know, this is the free… stuff that as long as you have an Apple device that can accept the update, you’re in a pretty good situation to receive that. And so what they came out with today, Dad, is, well, you and I kind of talked about it earlier, maybe the easiest way to talk about it is it’s more streamlined, I feel like, which Apple’s already really streamlined, right? They kind of have that piece down of their stuff goes really well together, fits really well together. It’s actually one of the names of their features, which is continuity. And so they’ve got quite a few different things. One of the new things, Dad, which depending on if you’re in Los Angeles or not and you need this feature, is live translation. And you can basically be talking on the phone to someone, and it will literally sense what language you’re talking in. translate it for the other person, and vice versa. And if it does work as they’re advertising it, that is a really cool thing, because there are a lot of devices on the market today that, you know, you put two earbuds into people’s thing, and it still uses your phone, but it uses an internet connection, and sometimes it’s slow, and it is clunky, right? And so if this works as They are intending, I actually think it’s got a potential to be a really, really cool feature that a lot of people use. Also, in messages, it’s supposed to do the same thing, because right now you can kind of select certain text and translate it, but this way it will do so automatically, which, again, I think is a really nice feature. You and I were kind of talking about some of this other stuff, which in today’s day and age, these two features I think are a big deal, which is hold assist, And call screening. And so what hold assist is, is just as it sounds, right? You call the airline or you call your computer company or anything these days, right? Credit card company.
SPEAKER 10 :
You get stuck on hold.
SPEAKER 14 :
It seems like you’re on hold for a minimum of 15 minutes, right?
SPEAKER 10 :
You get stuck on hold. You’re number 10 in the queue, whatever. They’ll come back and tell you that sometimes.
SPEAKER 14 :
Exactly. And sometimes, right, some of these places, you’ll have the thing where, you know, if you want to receive a call back, although I’m always skeptical of that because I feel like they don’t always call you back in the order in which your call was received. Even though they tell you that, I think they’re full of, you know.
SPEAKER 10 :
No, I usually just stay on the line because I don’t want that call back because, again, and that’s a whole other conversation because will I miss the call? Will I be on another call when they call back? I’d rather just hang on.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, precisely. And that’s the point of this is basically through Apple intelligence, and these are becoming more and more common, right? A lot of these AI demos, these artificial intelligence demos, you see essentially people calling restaurants for you. I think Google, they demoed that when they first came out with it, right? Where their computer will call the restaurant, it sounds like, sounds like you, whatever. Well, Apple’s basically doing that in this case, just through different means. So essentially, you’re on hold, it senses the hold music, and you can basically almost hang up the phone call. And you can go about your life, do whatever you want to do, use other apps, make other phone calls, do other things. And then when the customer service person comes back on the line, they will actually call you, which I think is a super, super cool feature. The other thing that they announced, Dad, is call screening. And I know you’re big on this because you get a lot of phone calls from people all the time. And today, I feel like everyone is, right? Because most of us don’t have home phones anymore. We’re not weirdos like you. And so we have just our cell phones, and we put those out to everything, and so you get all these spam calls, right? Right. Or even if you go give blood. Granted, I love the give blood people, but, man, they are brutal.
SPEAKER 10 :
And they are relentless. They are.
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, man, they are.
SPEAKER 10 :
They are relentless.
SPEAKER 14 :
I mean… Whoever those people are, credit where credit’s due, because eventually you just get me to give in. Well, Paul’s screening, and Apple kind of has this built in right now, Dad, right? Where you can sort of decline a call, but then you can kind of see the message they’re leaving. Well, this does one better, where you don’t even need to pay attention. If Apple senses that this call is from someone that’s important, for example, in their demo, they used a flower person, right? Flower guy’s there for delivery. He calls, says he’s downstairs. You don’t know the number. You ignore it. Guy leaves a message. Hey, this is John from Flowers R Us. You know, I’m here to deliver. Well, then once it senses that this person is legitimate, it will call you. You can then answer after seeing it and say, hey, you know, okay, great. You know, I’ll be right down or whatever it might be. So it really is a call screening, right? It’s like if you have a personal assistant there to help you.
SPEAKER 10 :
That’s kind of cool. actually.
SPEAKER 14 :
I think it’s kind of a cool feature. We’ll see. And then there’s filtering messages, live translation. There’s maps, which I know you’ve always talked about. You want those blasted speed traps reported a little bit more consistently, which certain apps do that versus others. And then you and I kind of talked about this, Dad, where So for some of your listeners, they don’t know this, but Apple’s systems, their operating systems, they’re kind of similar, but they all have their unique features, right? Your phone is kind of designed for simplicity. The iPad, right, the tablet is designed for a little bit more robustness, but it’s not quite computer, but they’re very similar looking and feeling operating systems. But then you get to the Mac itself, and while similar, Dad, it’s not quite 100% the same, and there’s Well, let’s just face it, right? Computers do a little bit more intense work than tablets or phones. And you and I have kind of talked about the future. We won’t get into that today. And so one of the things that they kind of introduced is, for example, the iPad operating system, they are getting it to be a little bit more – Well, it really is now becoming a combination of your phone operating system, Dad, and your computer. And for anyone who’s used an Apple device, and yes, we’ll give Charlie and Andy a hard time, right, because they’re on a greeny, the Android. There’s just something about their ecosystem, Dad, you and I have talked about this a lot, where stuff just functions really, really well together.
SPEAKER 09 :
It does.
SPEAKER 14 :
And it’s sort of hard to explain, but it just functions really, really well. And the way that they’re doing it is they’re now having the tablet act a little bit more like a computer. but you don’t necessarily pay the cost of the computer. So maybe you can save a little bit on that, but it’s still a seamless experience to go from the tablet to the computer, back to your phone, just certain things that way. And Apple has always prided themselves that on the ability to kind of make it everything really intuitive, right? To where, you know, if it feels like you should do that gesture with your, with your hand, um, then you do that gesture and it does what you want it to do. Whereas a lot of times with a lot of software, you’re going to have to learn a unique command for a specific task. And again, where Apple has prided themselves and they’ve always kind of done it is it just feels really natural. And I think that you and I both kind of think this is where it’s going, right? It’s really going to where everything’s kind of coming together and being one. And, you know, that has been a while since they’ve really made leaps and bounds on the software. You know, they always kind of come out with a couple of cool features each year. And I think that that’s where they’re at now. And maybe this live translation, some of this will be the wow feature that really takes over, but it’s been a few years since they’ve been able to say that.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, and frankly, it’s been a few years since any of them have come up with anything really game-changing, to be honest with you. And for all of you listening that aren’t Apple users, here’s the plus side for you all. Competition will add things even to your phones on down the road, and Charlie’s agreeing with me, because what Apple does, the rest will soon follow, Richard, in a lot of areas. I mean, Apple invented the smartphone in the first place, and look at where we’re at today with all of the other different makes and models that are out there. So I’m not against anybody that’s non-Apple, and some would say, well, I’m not an Apple user. I could care less what’s going on there. You should because, again, what happens there, Richard, as you know, and Charlie’s agreeing, it will filter into some of the other platforms that are out there as well. So, yeah, you should care because what one does, the rest will have to do as well.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, and that’s sort of how it goes, right? You know, Apple sort of becomes synonymous. A lot of Android people will give a hard time to Apple, right? They’ll come and say, well, you guys, you know, we’ve had that feature for forever. Well, again, what Apple has sort of become known for is they kind of take that feature, Dad, and they make it a lot better, right?
SPEAKER 09 :
They do. That’s right.
SPEAKER 14 :
And they, you know, they take that really rough translation feature and they just make it seamless. And then other companies kind of take it and, And they put it in the way that their users would like it. But like you said, competition breeds excellent. It’s one of the best things about Apple.
SPEAKER 09 :
That’s right.
SPEAKER 14 :
And I hope they continue to get better at it because, like you say, for a few years now, it feels like they’ve slipped a little bit. So hopefully this is the start of something good.
SPEAKER 10 :
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SPEAKER 10 :
All right, we are back. As I said a moment ago, we do car reviews each week, which this week, Richard, we’ve got a review again. What did you drive recently?
SPEAKER 14 :
so dad i drove actually one of my more enjoyable cars of the past few months and kind of some of you’re going to think well that’s kind of a weird thing to say but you know that’s what it is this is a 2025 volkswagen a volkswagen taos this is the s e dad which is kind of their middle uh sort of kind of middle value pick i guess you could say this car dad or i should say this suv As it sits with 31, 475, and you can get an S model for about 26, or you can get the SEL for about 36. So right there between kind of the mid-20s to mid-30s as far as that goes, Dad. This on it, I’ve got the window sticker here, so I’m going to give folks some of the features. This has the all-wheel drive, the 1.5-liter turbo four-cylinder engine, the start-stop system, 18-inch wheels. rain sensing wipers uh rear windowed washer and wiper all that sort of stuff illuminated mirrors front row charging ports it’s got cloud text and cloth seating surfaces which i’ll talk about in just a second it’s got a lot of other obviously kind of safety features as far as the digital cock digital cockpit and push button starts and remote engine start and all sorts of things that all these things for i guess at 31 475 and it also has that which this might be a nice thing 24-hour roadside assistance for three years and 36,000 miles, which I think is a really, really nice feature on that. All this to say that the reason it was one of my most enjoyable cars is because for the money, it is really hard to beat, and it was just a fun car to drive. You got in it. The controls were very functional. They were very intuitive. They worked really, really well. The soft tech that features or that… The cloth, kind of like material I mentioned, it kind of was like a suede, kind of like a leather, Dad, but you felt like you could beat it up a little bit more. And you know kind of what I mean, right? When you have kids especially, it’s not something that I worried about getting super dirty or anything like that. I felt like I could spill something on it and wash it off, right? And it’s not something that did happen, but I felt like it could. And especially here in Colorado, Dad, we see a lot of Volkswagens around. People take them off-road all the time, and it’s something I felt like you could do, and you didn’t have to worry about taking super, super great care of it. This is the updated Taos generation that was introduced in 2022. They’ve revised the styling a little bit. I already mentioned the engine. The all-wheel drive models do have a new transmission on it, Dad, and they’ve also updated it with a larger touchscreen, and so that kind of goes back to some of what I mentioned. Relatively quiet on the inside, Dad, right, for a car in the low 30s in terms of a price point. In this segment, Dad, and you can speak on this, kind of this, I guess it’s the small SUV, or Volkswagen kind of says it’s like the extra small SUV category. This is becoming a really popular category, and for this price point, I think the Taos fits really, really nicely.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, and again, for a lot of folks, that particular segment, as you know, Richard, is huge. And I mean, when I say huge, I mean huge. There are several, typically in a manufacturer, several different cars that fit in a particular lineup. And what I mean by that is, no, they’re not all the same size as the Taos, and Volkswagen will even have smaller, larger, and so on. My point is that… That midsize, small to large midsize SUV, end of things, Richard, is absolutely ginormous. It is a huge segment of the marketplace right now. It will continue to be a huge segment. And the reason for that is because the cars in that segment, the cars are so versatile that you find yourself not needing anything else other than that particular vehicle. That’s why they’re so hot right now and why everybody wants one.
SPEAKER 14 :
Absolutely. And especially, you know, I’ll go back to the kid side of stuff. I was able to get two car seats in here. Now, are you going to be able to fit two rear-facing car seats? Probably not. You’ve got to kind of move that front passenger seat up. But like you said, Dad, in terms of versatility, especially in an urban environment where you may be going into some tighter spaces, but you still want a little bit of room, this vehicle fits for that. Now, it’s not ginormous by any means, right? Right. you know, going to get a full sheet of plywood in the back, but I don’t think most people would expect that, right? They just want a car that’s reliable, works here in Colorado, that all-wheel drive is a great feature to have, right, for all of the weather that we do have. There’s a few other kind of, I guess, features on this car I really, really like as far as some of the visuals of it. It’s got a full LED bar that’s It makes this car really recognizable in kind of how they’ve done some stuff.
SPEAKER 10 :
I see that. It’s a really good look. I mean, their update, it’s a good-looking car. They’ve done a good job on it.
SPEAKER 14 :
And, again, for folks who haven’t driven one, Dad, or maybe they’ve seen these from afar and you’re not sure what it is, I encourage you to check it out because, again, if you were in the market. for that extra small kind of SUV type of a vehicle. Like you said, Dad, the options are sort of endless. And I was actually talking to someone about this this past week. When it comes to a car, folks, we don’t tell you a lot of times, you know, yes, this car is for you. No, there’s lots of options. You have to be the judge, right? Do you like the styling? Do you like the fit? You may like what we have to say about a car. You may not like what we have to say. We’re just trying to give you a very overview perspective to see if it maybe piques some interest that you have, Dad. And I think that this, again, the 2025 Volkswagen Taos will do that for a lot of people. So encourage people. Go check this vehicle out, Dad. Last thing I’ll tell people real quick is fuel economy. It’s got an average of 25 and 33 for an average of 28, so almost 30 miles per gallon, Dad, in this car, which is really fantastic. Yeah. Again, check it out at your local Volkswagen dealer. Let them know that John and Richard Rush from Drive Radio and Rush to Reason sent you.
SPEAKER 10 :
All right, last but not least, and I’ll talk a little bit about this in the next hour. I’ve got a special guest at 5 o’clock, but I’ll talk a little bit about it. But I figure we’ve got a couple of minutes here, Richard. We can talk about what’s going on in L.A., the riots, the National Guard. And there’s a lot of confusion, by the way, even from those that are on the left when it comes to the National Guard, what they’re doing, their presence there. There’s even been some Marines now that have been called up, and they’re there to protect L.A. our federal buildings and so on, which, by the way, all of what is being done in that regard is 1000 percent within the purview of the president. He can do that. So all of you out there listening that are on the left that would accuse Trump of doing something that he is not allowed to do. And it’s the end of democracy because he’s done this. First of all, you don’t know how things work. You don’t know the Constitution. You don’t know the setup. And shut up because you don’t know what you’re talking about.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, and furthermore, Dad, you and I were talking about this earlier. Yes, in a city of 10 million, this is few and far between. And maybe that is the case, Dad, but like we talked about with Boulder, right? Boulder is several hundred thousand people. Twelve to 15 people were injured by the crazy terrorists, right? But it still matters, right? Those things still do matter. And you’re doing damage, just like the Black Lives Matter protest, Dad, right, where people You know, it wasn’t everywhere. You know, it’s not like you walked down every single street and it was there. That doesn’t matter that it’s not everywhere.
SPEAKER 09 :
That’s right.
SPEAKER 14 :
It’s not something that should be happening. Trump has every right to secure federal buildings, federal property. And if the governor in the city is not going to do anything about it, which, mind you—
SPEAKER 10 :
Really quick, one other thing, too, that I think is getting missed here. He also has the ability and the right to protect ICE agents any way he needs to. So in other words, those that are saying he can’t do this, absolutely he can. If it is protecting another federal function, which is exactly what they’re doing, he absolutely can call them in.
SPEAKER 14 :
Absolutely. One last thing, Dad, and then we’ll run. I saw this thing. There’s this Twitter account, X account, called LA Scanner, and it’s basically the biggest leftist thing you ever seen. I don’t know if you saw that. It basically got shut down because they were giving reports of where ICE agents were at, and it’s like… There’s an old phrase, Dad, right? Play stupid games, you win stupid prizes. It would not surprise me if the person behind that account ended up bringing up on obstruction charges for doing certain things like that because, again, this is federal stuff that these people don’t want to mess with, Dad. They have no idea what they’re doing.
SPEAKER 10 :
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Now back to Rush to Reason on KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 10 :
All right, we are back. And just wrapping things up from this second hour. Next hour, we’ve got a couple of guests joining us. Actually, our first hour guest was able to reschedule into this next hour. 530 Christian Briggs will be joining us. And again, we’ll get into some more of that crypto stuff I was talking about earlier. But he’ll come in on a different angle of that, by the way. And then Elaine Parker is going to join us at 5 o’clock. She is the president of the Job Creators Network Foundation. We’re going to talk about some of the data that came out of late as to what small businesses think when it comes to the economy and so on. So we’ll talk to her next. Don’t go anywhere. Hour three of Rush to Reason is next right here on KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 1 :
I’m a rich guy.
