John Rush returns from Mexico with fireworks, reflections, and a wake-up call for America-hating Marxists. From top-tier resort service to the hidden costs of American freedom, John dives deep into what Independence Day really means—especially when celebrated better abroad. Plus, real talk on the Texas floods, how to survive them, and why weather hype is making us all dumber. Oh, and if you still think the U.S. didn’t change the world? John dares you to prove him wrong.
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All right. Happy Monday. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. The Monday after the long 4th of July weekend, Independence Day weekend. Some of you maybe had more time off than others. Some may have taken several days off like I did. Some might not have taken much off at all. Lots of things did happen. Though we’ll talk about a lot of those things today, including the flooding in Texas. I had several people texting even and knowing we do ready radio on Fridays asking, could we even talk about some of the things that you should or shouldn’t do if you’re caught in a particular situation like that? We’ve had flooding in Colorado and it can definitely happen here or really anywhere in our listening audience when there’s mountains or in the case of Texas flatland. Yeah, flooding can happen depending upon, you know, storm tracks and things along those lines. So, yes, we will definitely get into that. That was my plan today, but I appreciate you guys, you know, asking that because it, A, means that what I had for today fit in well anyways, and I appreciate you asking. And I will, if I don’t get all of it covered today, and I probably won’t, I can get into more detail on that. We’ll have a full hour on Friday on Ready Radio from 2 to 3 right here that myself and Bill Anderson, he’ll join me as well. We can get into some of that on Friday. Real quick question of the day today. It wasn’t one from Friday because it was a holiday, of course, Independence Day. Why do so many country names end in Stan? Why do so many country names end in Stan? That is the question of the day today. Answer that on our Facebook page. And then Charlie always asks me, and we haven’t really discussed much yet because I just saw him a few seconds ago before coming into the studio, but, you know, what did I learn from vacation and went to, no secret, went to Mexico, which I enjoy doing. quite honestly because the service there is second to none better than anything here and i mean that sincerely and some would say gosh why would you go to mexico for something like an independence day celebration knowing that you’re going to a foreign country well let me give you guys all a little tip They actually – now, I don’t know if every single resort is this way, but we’ve been to several different resorts over the Fourth of July holiday, over the Independence Day holiday, over the past several years. Because for me, it’s a great time of the year to take off because the week prior and even like today, I had several guests lined up for today’s program that – canceled because things from the weekend run long and even charlie was talking about before coming on air there’s so many people traveling even today coming back from the weekend that again i had people scheduled for today that are not here because they got tied up and i had to schedule them for later in the week but all that being said I will tell you right now that, again, the resorts that we have stayed at in Mexico, and we’ve been in different areas of Mexico from Cancun to Cabo, and I will tell you they do a better job, and this is not an exaggeration, they do a better job of celebrating Independence Day than any resort. Well, maybe not any because I’ve been to all the resorts in America, of course, but I would say on average they do a better job of celebrating Independence Day than most resorts in America do. which is really sad and shouldn’t be that way. The resort we were at, they even did a little speech during the day where they got on the loudspeaker and talked about how grateful they were for all of the people that were there and for the USA and the fact that if it hadn’t been for those early founding fathers and the sacrifices that they had made, our country wouldn’t exist. And I’m thinking to myself that entire time, by the way. Number one, these are people that know their market. They know the majority of the people that are staying at their resort. Yes, a lot of Europeans go to Mexico, but the majority of people that go to Mexican resorts are Americans. And they know their market. Andy and I were texting early this morning proving the point that you need to know your market if you’re going to succeed, something that at times I’m not sure our political party really understands, especially in this state. They don’t know the market. Well, in this case, they do. And celebration was great. I will tell you straight up, one of the best Fourth of July celebrations that I think I’ve been involved in in quite some time. The fireworks were great. The decor was great. The little speech that, you know, you hear a Spanish guy that’s got broken English, you know, talking about the sacrifices that our founding fathers made to make this country great, make it what it is today. And then throughout the years, all the sacrifices that have been made. I’m thinking this guy gets it better than a lot of liberals in this country do. And he doesn’t even live here. Now, did he have to say that? Maybe he’s a worker. Maybe he was supposed to. But it didn’t sound like it was something that he was just reciting. It sounded like it was something he was actually saying and not reading from a script. Because you could tell there was a couple of times he made a couple of errors in what he was trying to get out, and he had to correct himself because of his, again, broken English. But just did a phenomenal job. And I thought to myself, A, they know their market, right? And the other thought that I had, which I’m weird, I think about certain things at certain times and it’s just the way my brain works, but I’m thinking to myself, you know, without America and capitalism that came with it, really, and yes, I understand there’s other countries and there’s money that are made in other countries and so on, but realistically, it’s because of America and capitalism and the wealth that we as a country have that there are even resorts all around the world, including Mexico. A lot of those places, even these workers, which I do think the workers do understand this, if it wasn’t for Americans coming down there spending their money, they wouldn’t have jobs, or they’d have a lot less job than they have there, which in the case of most resorts, they make a really good base wage, and if they work on tips any way, shape, or form, depending upon how well their service is, which typically is very good jobs, they actually do fairly well for themselves it’s the reason why uh one resort we go to in particular i’ve been going there for well over a decade and been seeing the same faces since then to the point that they know me when i come in that’s impressive and i’ll tell you that service just doesn’t exist in most places in america i’m sorry to say it just doesn’t exist here People don’t care. I think a lot of people, even in that industry, don’t particularly care for their job. They’re doing it as a stepping stone to go someplace else. Whereas in other countries, i.e. Mexico, it is their main form of income. They enjoy what they do. They like the income that they’re making. No, they don’t want to pack up and come to America, because if they did, they would have. They’re fine with what they’re doing. They enjoy their life. They enjoy their family. And by the way, some of that I know because I ask. I’m one of those people where I’ll just straight up ask, you know, have you ever thought about coming to America? Oh, no, I like it here. I like my family. This is where my home is. You know, a lot like the rest of us are with our homes. And I think there’s this misconception that everybody outside of the U.S. wants to come to the U.S. That’s not the case. Some do, yes, but not all. And my whole point a moment ago was without America and our freedoms and the things that we have generated over the last 250 years, it’s because of that and even what our founding fathers did early on. You heard the stand a moment ago and Mr. Crawford Sr. talking about that. Had it not been for America and what we have done, most of these places that are around the world resort-wise, frankly, I don’t think would exist. The world today would look completely different than it does. And for those of you that are on the left that don’t believe me, think about this. And I’ve talked about this many, many times on this program. You wouldn’t have had all of the technological advancements even that the world now enjoys had it not been for the United States of America. Period. No, Europe wouldn’t have done it. No, China wouldn’t have done it. No, Japan wouldn’t have done it. No, Germany for sure wouldn’t have done it because if they hadn’t been defeated in World War II, most of the world would be speaking German and we’d still be stuck in that era. Because the reality is they weren’t thinking long term, and they didn’t believe in freedom the way we do, and no other country has. And we’re slowly losing it. We’ll talk about some of that today. But the reality is we need to get some of that back, and we need to remind people of some of the things I just said a moment ago, that even other countries – wouldn’t have what they have if it wasn’t for the United States of America. And as I was sitting there listening to this young man, and you can tell he wasn’t very old, talking the way he was, I was thinking to myself, these resorts and the things that we all get to go and enjoy, they wouldn’t be there if it wasn’t for the United States of America. The wealth that we have provided as a country that has literally spread worldwide wouldn’t exist otherwise. had our founding fathers not did what they did some 250 plus years ago. So as you go through even kind of reflection upon, you know, Friday and even head into next year, which is going to be a big one, 250 years next year will be the biggest celebration we probably have had in a country in a long, long time. And it’ll be interesting to see how things develop, what certain cities do, who gets on board, who doesn’t. I can tell you right now, most likely red cities will be all on board, red states, and the blue ones won’t do much of anything. Because it’s the way it is. Because the blue side, sorry, the Marxist side, it hates America. It wants America to fail. It would argue with everything that I just said to a very large extent and wouldn’t believe anything that I just said when it comes to how America has helped the rest of the world. The Marxist movement doesn’t believe that at all. They are so anti-American. It’s ridiculous, and I’ll talk about a few of those things today. So I’ll take a break. We’re going to come back. I am going to talk about the Texas floods and some of what you guys texted and asked me. 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God. Country. Reason. Now back to John Rush.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Joe, what’s going on today?
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John, when you were talking about how the rest of the world has benefited from the United States, Over the weekend, I was listening to a recount of the Revolutionary War and how close the colonists came to losing that war. And then it dawned on me about fate. Do you think the only reason we won World War II was because of the unrivaled industrial might of the United States? And do you think if we had lost the Revolutionary War and the United States or the colonies were still under the control of England, that you would have had the Henry Fords and the Carnegies and the Vanderbilts.
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No, they wouldn’t have existed, Joe. Those men would have, because as you know, Joe, and for all of you that are on the left listening to this, please hear me out when I say this, when there’s no incentive, Joe, humans do nothing.
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Right. So it dawned on me, talk about fate. Had Great Britain defeated the colonists, they probably would be under German rule today.
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Today, absolutely. Absolutely.
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And I have no doubt in my mind, John, because all of those people that I mentioned, you know, at one point during World War II, Ford was turning out one B-24 bomber an hour. That’s right. One twin-engine bomber every hour. That’s right.
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Every hour. Yep. I believe, Joe, that it could very easily have – really, the Man on High Castle is kind of a great example of this country having half of it ruled by Japan, the other half ruled by Germany. But I think you could have even seen potentially an entire world split in halves along those same lines.
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Right. And by the way – The carrier air conditioning factory in Syracuse, they were building Sherman tanks.
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Amazing.
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And then you think, okay, what if England had won the war? They probably would have, you know, the United States wouldn’t have been the industrial powerhouse that it was when World War II… No, no. And if it wasn’t for our industrial might in terms of building ships and tanks and bombers and fighter planes, I think this world would be very, very different. Thank God… And I am seriously, when I say God, I truly am thanking God that the colonists won the Revolutionary War, because if not, we might all be speaking German today.
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Joe, I was talking to a guy on vacation. I’m one of those, I just talk to everybody, so I just… Some of it I do because I like to kind of do a little research and learn and learn what other people do and so on. This was a particular gentleman that worked inside of government for a very long time. He started off from Air Force Academy, worked his way on up, went into private defense afterwards, just retired here not that long ago. And he was talking about some of the same things we’re talking about because it happened to be. 4th of July, that day that we’re actually having a conversation. We were just talking about some of the things even we’re talking about on air right now. And some of the things that he said, to your point, Joe, in the ability for us as a nation to have even the defense mechanisms, the weaponry and the things that we have. I mean, this guy was talking about things, Joe, that it’s like he’s like, there’s things I can’t even talk about because of the the seriousness of and the secrecy that goes along with it, but the weapons systems and the things that we not only have now, but they’re going to be coming online in the not-too-distant future, he said, you know, there’s not another country out there that even comes close to rivaling what we have.
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And you look at the B-2 bomber raid on Iran, you know, 37 hours in the air, they never— Never saw them coming, never saw them leaving.
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Just an incredible— This guy was telling me about that, too, about how the actual pilots are sitting in there, how many hours they actually have to sit. They have special suits that allow them to use the restroom in the suit. Yes, there’s a bathroom on the plane if need be, but they actually—most of that’s done through the specialized suit that— that they have, and anyways, all sorts of things, Joe, that this guy was telling me that I just found fascinating, and again, to the point where we have things nobody else has.
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And only because this country has embraced capitalism, and I’ve said this before, people complain about wealth inequality. Wealth inequality, I think, is a symptom. You want to see wealth inequality because it means you’re living… in an environment where risk-taking is rewarded and encouraged.
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Yeah, in fact, if it weren’t equal, then of course we go to the whole Marxist-Communist end of things, Joe, to where everybody’s equal and the only buddy that’s succeeding are those that are very top that are oppressing everybody else that’s below them. But if you can incentivize human beings to do more, then there’s always going to be a gap. And Joe, we’ve talked about this many times. The reality is while we are all equal under the law, We are not all equal, Joe. You have talents that I don’t have. I have talents that you don’t have. Charlie sits on the other side of this glass window that I sit in front of on an almost daily basis, and he’s got talents on that board, Joe, that I look at, and I’m like a monkey reading a roadmap. I mean, the reality is we all have different talents and different things that we do.
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And not only talents, John, but in terms of effort and motivation, you’ve got different talents, different intellects. different motivations. Some people are willing to work harder than others. Other people are just willing to work hard enough just to get by. And again, once you get that and understand that, hey, those are willing to innovate, take risk, hard work, you’re going to create wealth inequality, and I think that’s a wonderful thing. I don’t ever want to live in a society where there is not wealth inequality, because that means I’m living in North Korea, Somalia, Cuba, Venezuela. I don’t want to live in that.
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And even there, Joe, because the way humans are, while it may not be as prevalent as it is in the United States of America, trust me, even where they try to keep things equal, they’re still not, Joe.
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No, yeah, there’s always going to be an underground economy.
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Yeah, I mean, you just mentioned Somalia, for example. I can go to Somalia and find people that are doing well, you know, way better than, not in comparison to you and I, of course, but doing way better than their neighbor may be, all based upon what you just said.
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Yep, yeah, they’re innovative, they’re hardworking, they’re shrewder. And they all benefit. You know, they probably eat better, you know, than their neighbors. That’s right. And they’ve got warmer clothes than their neighbors.
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That’s right. That’s right. So bottom line, and I meant what I said earlier, and as I was sitting there, you know, in a Mexican resort, Joe, just, you know, thinking to myself, this wouldn’t exist. Literally, yes. I know it was built in Mexico with Mexican workers and money and so on, but it – well, in some cases, it’s American money that built those resorts, but that’s another story, Joe. But regardless, those would not exist without the good old U.S. of A.
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100% correct, John, because, again, it’s our tourism – and maybe even some of our investment that makes those things possible. Because without U.S. tourism, John, half those places at least would just be… And, Joe, I could go around the world, even to European countries.
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We could go to African countries. We could go to, you know, anywhere in the Middle East. We could go anywhere you want, Joe, and that same thing would apply because a lot of the, especially tourism and resorts that have been built, have been built because, yes, I know Europeans and others travel, but not like we do, Joe.
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Right. And by the way, if you want proof of that, for those who haven’t been, you go to any airport in Europe, and every sign has the native language and English. Yep.
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Yep.
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Proving the point, Joe. I don’t care if you’re in Amsterdam or Berlin or Paris or Madrid, every sign in that airport will also be in English.
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That’s why it is the quote-unquote universal language. You’ve got it.
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All right, John.
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Joe, appreciate you very much. And you all that are out there listening on the left especially, prove me wrong. That’s my challenge to you. Prove me wrong. Now, I know you can’t because you can’t go back and change history, but I think Joe said a lot of things that were spot on. Reality is, had we not broke away from England— had we have not just won in some cases by literally a hair, by the skin of our teeth, literally it was providential in the fact that this country became the free land that it did some 250 years ago. Had it not been for that, a lot of what all of us enjoy, including those of you on the left, you wouldn’t have it. You wouldn’t be enjoying the things that you have right now. And for a lot of you out there listening on the left that think it’s just one great, you know, one big, huge, great idea to steal from one to give to another. Guess what? You wouldn’t have anybody to take from if it wasn’t for the good old USA. Period. It wouldn’t exist. You wouldn’t have that ability. I’ve got other things I want to talk about along those lines today as well. When I do come back, though, we will do the Texas floods. I promise I’ll get into that. There are several things there that I want to address. So we’ll come back and do that here in a moment. Dr. Scott Faulkner is coming up next. He did a great job, by the way, last Tuesday filling in for me. There was a special health and wellness conversation. Tuesday, not Wednesday. And Scotch is a great guy. He is, of course, Colorado raised, and he is a doctor that wants to do what’s best for you, not the insurance company or a big pharma. 303-663-6990.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Yes, I am live today. It is July the 7th. Several of you asking if I’m – yes, I’m live today. I wouldn’t be talking about some of the current news events if not. So, yes, live today. So if you want to text in or even call in, feel free to do so. And unfortunately, yes, big flood that happened in Texas. It was in Kerr County, the Guadalupe River, and – Despite what a lot of the left will say, the weather reporting and all of that, if there was any snafus, and I’ll get into that in a moment, has nothing to do with anything that the current administration has done cut-wise. Zero. In fact, there were extra people staffed over the weekend. So, yeah, no, if you’re on the left and you’re using that as an excuse, stop. You’re wrong. Go do some research before you start spouting your mouth off. And I get after our side for doing the exact same thing. Actually, I’ve got something along those lines I’ll talk about here after I’m done with this, criticizing our own side. But, yeah, before you start spewing things out, go do your own research. And, unfortunately, your side is just as bad about that as our side is. Eighty-two fatalities, 68 in Kerr County, 40 were adults, 28 were children. This is of this morning. Some of these numbers, by the way, could have changed by now. So if my numbers are off a little bit, it’s because I did this research at about 9 o’clock this morning, and things by now at 3.30 could have changed. So if I’m off a little bit and there’s been a few more deaths, that they have found. Unfortunately, this number may go up, so I could be off some. Unknown number of people remain missing. Again, some of these numbers may climb, including 10 girls and a counselor from Camp Mystic. And this is also something that happened over the weekend. There were some reports early on that they had found some of these missing girls, and it turned out that no, that was not the case. Once again, people not doing their fact-checking and determining whether the news being reported was actually accurate or not, and a lot of people jumped on that bandwagon and then looked like they really ended up having egg all over their face because they were completely wrong, because they didn’t verify their sources before spewing that information out. Again, something that I hear, and I’m not a journalist by any means, but I do my best to not throw anything out there that we cannot verify. And if I do and I make a mistake, I will tell you right away that we screwed up. That’s why Charlie has a rule for me that we just don’t talk about some of these things until there’s more than enough information to cycle through to really determine what’s going on. In this case, we knew what happened. Big flood, of course. But this was interesting. A Houston pediatrician, Dr. Christina Probst, she’s now been fired. because she posted that the 80-plus Texas flood victims, including children, were Trump supporters who got what they voted for, prompting, of course, swift backlash or heavy backlash and swift termination by bluefish pediatrics. Good for them. She should have been canned for that. Now, will she sue them for wrongful termination? Wouldn’t surprise me because she’ll come back with, well, it’s my right to say so, free speech, so on and so forth. Well, yeah, but not in this particular case when it has a direct effect upon their practice, which it would have by you saying that they had no choice but to fire her. It goes to show that even though you’re an employee, when you say things outside of your employment that can be detrimental to your employer, you’re still going to get canned. Newsflash. Now, Charlie and I were talking about this a little bit prior to the show today, or I think through one of the breaks, actually. How heartless do you have to be to even say something like that? These are people that lost their lives. lot of things and we already know what happens when you assume so not real bright on her part to do so and unfortunately she wasn’t the only one being stupid with her comments and what i’ve learned through the years is it doesn’t matter what side of the aisle somebody is on politically speaking death is tragic period i don’t care what side of the aisle you’re on I’ve been to funerals of individuals, including family members, where they did not think the same way I do, where their political beliefs were probably completely opposite of mine. And yet you still go and pay respects and give, you know, homage to the family and so on and do what you need to do as a human being to another human being, regardless of their politics. That’s what human beings do. It’s why a lot of you that are on the left, you’re not. You have a mental illness. Unfortunately, this pediatrician has a mental illness because you can’t make those kind of comments without a mental illness. Sorry, folks, you just can’t. You don’t say those sorts of things without having a screw loose. So some of you asked me, okay, what do you do if you’re caught in a flood? And before we get to that, sorry, I’m going to stop for just one moment. The whole National Weather Service thing, there’s been a lot to do over that, and people talking about it being underfunded, and there’s this and there’s that, and there’s staff cuts. I just went over that a moment ago. No, there wasn’t, not in this case. Now, one thing I will say, and this is, I guess you could say, a criticism of the National Weather Service, far too many alerts. Far too many. For example, tomorrow, 9 News. This is on 9 News today. Denver braces for near record heat as temperatures climb. It’s July, 9 News. It’s July. I’ve lived here my entire life. It’s what it does this time of year. That is not newsworthy. And so my problem with a lot of these… news stations, and so on. Number one, they’re looking for anything they can get weather-wise. One thing that everybody always talks about is the weather. So they know if they can push things out on the weather, they get more clicks, more whatever. And it’s a way to bait you in, if you would. Come look at this, because you’ll get other ads and other things. And by the way, if you go look at a site like Nine News with all of their stupid ads and junk that comes up, it’s just relentless, and they’re making money on all of that. and off of our eyes looking at it. But my point with the National Weather Service is, when you read headlines like this for tomorrow, near record. Keep in mind, it doesn’t say we’re going to break the record, which is 100. We could come close, but near record. And again, it’s July, folks. This is, in my opinion, this is non-news. Unless in Colorado we’re going to have like a 110-degree day, it’s not newsworthy. It just isn’t. Again, I’ve lived here my entire life, and even when I was a kid, did we have high-temperature days? Yes, we did. Absolutely. Yeah, I know, because we didn’t have air conditioning. I can guarantee you we had high-temperature days. And we just learned how to deal with it. So, again, to me, this is non-news. And what happens, in my opinion, with the National Weather Service is they cry wolf so many times that people start to ignore them. I can tell you right now, I do at times. I’ll get an alert, National Weather Service, and I take a peek at it, and it’s like, okay, so there’s lightning in the area. Okay, yeah, I can see. Duh. It’s going to be heavy rain. I can look to the west right now and look out over the foothills and up even towards where I live, and I can tell you right now that, yeah, be careful. It’s raining. I can see it. And one thing about living in Colorado, which, again, those of us that are Coloradans should know this, and if you’re new to this area, listen up. We can get flash floods in Colorado anywhere, anytime, anyplace, and it can take a life in a heartbeat. You take the deep-veed canyons that we have around this state, even at our lower levels, and you get enough rainfall coming down at one particular moment in time, and think of it as a – literally, it’s a funnel – where all of that water is draining down into the bottom of that canyon. It starts uphill, and gravity, yes, I’m not a flat earther, and I believe in gravity. Yes, gravity is there, and that water starts to run faster downhill. And the farther downhill you get, the worse it gets. That’s why in this state there will be signs all over the place talking about how if there’s heavy rain, go to high ground. Run up the mountain. Do whatever you can to get out of its way. Now, in a low-level situation, this is where people are asking me, what do you do in a situation like that? That’s a lot tougher. I’ll be the first to tell you. Now, one thing that I will say, and I think I’m okay in saying this, and I have no fault on anybody. I can’t direct blame on anybody because I wasn’t there. I don’t know what was going on even inside of the children’s camp. I don’t know what people were saying. I don’t know what they were talking about. I don’t know if they were talking about potentially moving the kids the next morning. Keep in mind, the flooding happened somewhere between 4 and 6 a.m. And so it was dark. Night, if you would. Some people got knocks on the doors after they had fallen asleep to heavy rain and then were woken up just in time to be able to leave and escape. Others were not able to. I read one story to where there was a family staying in multiple cabins, and in this particular case, the parents were able to leave their cabin, but the lower cabin that some of the other members were staying in, they were not. Tragic. Tragic. So, you know, what do you do in situations like this? Number one, pay really close attention to what’s going on around you at all times, and watch the sky. Now, I get that it can be dark and it’s hard to see what the sky is doing and so on. But I can tell you this much. There are now so many free weather apps that you don’t even have to rely on them to tell you what’s going on. Pull it up and look at what the radar says. It’s not that difficult. What does radar say? What’s it look like? What’s happening around you? And again, whether these folks there were doing that or not, I don’t know. I don’t know. Somebody asked me during a text message, and I’ll get into this here in a moment, should you stay in your vehicle or get out of your vehicle? I’ll talk about that here in a moment. Let me talk to Bob first, though. Go ahead, Bob.
SPEAKER 05 :
John, well, you’re old enough. Well, maybe you are, maybe you’re not. Do you remember the 1976 big Thompson flood?
SPEAKER 11 :
Like it was yesterday.
SPEAKER 05 :
You do? Oh, okay.
SPEAKER 11 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 05 :
You’re younger than I thought. That was about three years after I moved here from Buffalo, New York. You know how much warning there was for that?
SPEAKER 11 :
Zero. Yeah, well, let me tell you this, Bob. I have my own story along those lines. Maybe, maybe not. As a kid, I can remember this because we were at my grandmother’s house and there were some folks that had come in from out of town. They were from the Missouri area, which is where my mom’s side of the family was from. And we all went out into the street and looked to the west because we were down in Boulder up against the foothills. And the clouds, Bob, were as black. I don’t think I’ve ever seen them as black as they were that particular day. That’s how vivid that day still is in my mind. I can remember how black the clouds were. And all of my family, my dad included, talking about how, wow, that looks really, really bad. So there may not have been any warning along the lines of, you know, sirens and things like that. But holy cow, Bob, all of us knew something bad was coming.
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, wow. You know, that was a 24 to 26 foot wave coming down the Big Thompson. And I was here. And I don’t remember any of the news channels around here saying that was going to – yeah, they said there was going to be rain, but not like that. Do you know they found bodies a year later in Nebraska from that?
SPEAKER 11 :
Yep, they did. Bob, there were, and again, being in the car world like I was at that time, literally there were cars that were flooded, dead bodies in cars. There were, of course, propane tanks that were floating down the canyon, exploding against rocks. There was all sorts of things that happened in that particular event. And park rangers losing their lives from going door to door in campsites, trying to get people to leave that wouldn’t. It was tragic, Bob, tragic.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, in… To give you a little bit of my experience, I came from Buffalo, New York, here in 1973, and they used to protect snowfalls there in the feet days ahead of time, and people would ignore it, and they would try and drive or leave the house or whatever, and they found dead bodies everywhere, and they had four to five days’ notice.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yep. Yep. I’m not surprised by that, Bob.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right.
SPEAKER 11 :
Thanks. Thank you. And, no, Bob’s bringing up great points of the big Thompson flood that happened. I can’t remember exactly how old I was. Probably I’d have to go back and look at the timing of when that was, but I think I was 10 or 11 at the time. And, again, just vividly. It’s one of those events where when they ask you, you know, what were you doing at such and such a time, I remember exactly what we were doing, what the family was doing, almost what shirts and colors of clothing even my family, you know, had on as they were all standing out in the street looking to the northwest to see the cloud that was just so ominous. I can remember my family, you know, the elder part of my family talking about how bad that looked and then, of course, waking up the next morning to the news of – what had actually happened it was tragic similar to what this in this situation in texas is and i think this is where i i think period whether you’re camping living traveling anytime you’re near any type of water that moves lakes even things like that you need to be extra careful about what you’re doing there and what’s the weather doing at the same time Talked about last week, or week before last, I should say, about the folks that lost their lives up in Lake Tahoe over a freak storm that came through, and they weren’t necessarily prepared and probably didn’t have life jackets on. And it’s always tragic when somebody loses their life for something that is preventable. Now, in this particular case, how preventable was it as far as the loss of life? We won’t know until it could be a year down the road from now until we find more details out. I don’t know. As far as the kids camp goes, I don’t know what kind of preparations they were trying to make. If any, I don’t know what the conversations were. I wasn’t there. Neither was anyone else that would speculate on it. And until more details come out and there’s some eyewitnesses along those lines, the reality is we won’t know what they were doing. And again, I can’t fault anybody because I wasn’t there. Now, I will say because I’m either cursed or blessed, I don’t know which it is, I’m such a light sleeper that any amount of heavy rain at all would have woken me up. And I’m one of those to where if it’s raining that hard, I’m looking outside. And I’m also one of those where if I’m looking outside and it looks like, holy cow, there is a ton of water rolling through here and I’m that close to the river, I’m one of those that probably is going to get in the car and drive somewhere else. I don’t care if it’s 3 a.m. I don’t want to be stuck in anything like that. Now, that leads to the next question somebody asked me as to do you stay in the vehicle or do you get out of the vehicle? And that’s one where I will tell you it really depends, and it depends on what are you driving. And in some cases, it doesn’t really matter what it is. If the water’s coming through fast enough, you could be driving a semi-truck and it’ll still move it. You’ve seen those pictures where that happens. So a lot of this comes down to you having to have enough perception to see exactly what’s going on. And I say this all the time, even in the city here. If you don’t know how deep the water is and how fast it’s moving, don’t drive through it. The other thing that has happened on most vehicles minus trucks is we don’t build body-on-frame vehicles anymore. Like when we were talking to Bob, unibody cars didn’t even exist at that point in time. Well, maybe a few did, but not very many. Most vehicles back then were body-on-frame. And they were a lot heavier, is my point. A unibody car, I talk about this on Drive Radio a lot, really becomes a boat because the unibody itself, especially the way the doors and things are sealed today, they’re fairly airtight. And the reality is that thing will float. You’ve seen the pictures of it. You can see them in parking lots at times. You can see cars floating in a parking lot. Without even a lot of movement of water, they’ll float. Why? Because that thing is so sealed up that there’s nothing keeping it from floating. There’s air inside of the body. All the windows and everything are all rolled up. It’s full of air. It’s going to float. And they do. And in some cases, it’ll float with the people inside of it and they go right on down the river. And no, I wouldn’t want to be in that situation. For me personally, if I felt like I was in a situation where the car was at risk of going downriver, I would be out of it. You have a lot more control being out of the vehicle, even in fast-moving water, as you do being in the vehicle. What happens in the vehicle itself is that vehicle can get trapped. The water then starts rolling through so quickly that the pressure starts to build. There’s no way to break a window or do anything else to even get out, and now you’re stuck inside of a vehicle, and there’s no escape. That’s my problem with staying inside of the vehicle. I just don’t see that there’s any escape of the vehicle itself. It becomes the death trap in and of itself. Now, is it any guarantee that you’re going to float downriver and live? No. That’s a risk in and of itself. But you’ve got a lot higher chance of being able to keep your head above water and grab onto something at some point, a log, anything that’s got some sort of flotation to it to be able to stay above water than that vehicle. That’s my view on it. Now, some of you listening, you might have a different approach and a different idea, and I am all open for ideas as anybody else would be. I am not an expert. I have never been in a flood in fast-moving water like that. I do my very best to avoid those situations. So we’ll take a break, come back. There’s a call coming in as we speak. Cub Creek Heat and Air Conditioning coming up next. And they want to take care of you with all of your HVAC needs. Find them today at klzradio.com.
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SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, I had a couple of numerous topics today, just briefly. Go for it.
SPEAKER 11 :
Go for it.
SPEAKER 04 :
You know, that place in Kerr County in Texas, I’ve been there before.
SPEAKER 11 :
Oh, wow.
SPEAKER 04 :
There’s a town called Kerrville.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 04 :
And the place we stayed there, I don’t even know that it’s still standing. It was decades ago when I was there, but it’s a little surreal or something to think, hey, I was there and now it’s all decimated or at least parts of that, that Guadalupe river, you know, but, uh, so my other, and you know, it’s heartbreaking for the family, you know, but, uh, nothing we can do about that. But I wanted to ask you what you, I’ve been hearing some stuff online. Of course, the trend for AI is coming and it’s kind of here, at least in, you know, different fits and starts, uh, Do you see job elimination coming from that? I mean, we’ve heard that about the computer. We’ve heard it about China. We’ve heard it about deindustrialization. And they’ve all taken a dent out of our economy. They were all, including AI, preventable calamities. But I’m curious what you think. And then do you see the metro area changing? as being in a real estate bubble that’s about to burst? Again, I’ve heard that for years. Oh, the collapse is imminent. All good questions.
SPEAKER 11 :
No, all good questions. And I know we’re short on time, Ben. I don’t have any guests at the top of the Aris of Nibi. I can put you on hold and we can finish up even at 4 o’clock because I don’t have any guests. Like I said, all my guests I had today canceled, so we’ve got plenty of time. So let me go kind of through these one by one. AI to start with. Yes, I think AI, like when the horse and buggy went away and the car came along, it didn’t necessarily put people out of work. I mean, it did, but it changed where those people went to work. So instead of going to work at the horse and buggy place, they went to work for the likes of Henry Ford and others. So there was a changeover. I see AI, Ben, being very similar to that. Will it replace and eliminate totally some jobs? Yeah, I think in some cases it will. For example, Ben – And some people might argue with me on this, although I’ve talked to enough lawyers now where I don’t think I’m wrong. Take a paralegal, Ben, where a paralegal goes through and just does really a lot of research and things to help an attorney out. And maybe he’s got two or three of those on staff. Reality, Ben, is AI will take the place of two of those three pretty easily. Because it can. And frankly, Ben, probably do it better.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, you know, even lawyers, I’ve been to them for various things before. Cops, lawyers, judges, courts. And a lot of times there’s something, there’s a loophole or some other aspect going on. And before you know it, they’re like, oh, case closed. So I don’t know that you can eliminate that extra-dimensional thinking element. But the other side of it is I think in some cases you can. And I’m thinking a lot of the touchy-feely jobs… that largely women do. You know, they’re not out building roads and bridges. They’re like answering phones. Sure.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, let me give you another example on those lines, Ben. As you know, I coach other businesses. I coach all sorts of different businesses, including automotive businesses. And what I’ve got a lot of my automotive shops doing right now is taking a service advisor where there would normally be a lot of keystrokes throughout the day, inputting different things into, you know, what’s wrong with the car, what do we need to do to fix it, still getting a hold of the customer and having the one-on-one, which, by the way, I don’t see that changing. You’re still going to have a lot of that. But… In today’s world with AI, Ben, if they use it correctly, you can eliminate a lot of those keystrokes that that advisor would normally be putting through in a day’s time. Therefore, frankly, either freeing up their time to go sell more and do more, or instead of having a particular ratio of service advisors to technicians today, that will continue to grow, meaning an advisor will be able to handle more technicians than they do today because AI eliminates so much of those keystrokes.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, you can do like, what is it, speech to text?
SPEAKER 11 :
Exactly.
SPEAKER 04 :
So you could get a car in and say, analyze, engine, check.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, I’m even talking on the advisor side where they’re taking the information from the tech, building the estimate for you as the consumer, and normally having to type all of that out, it’s getting to the point where AI will do all of that for you by you just telling it what to do, speak to it.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, yeah. I mean, you’ve had that speech-to-text thing. Exactly. I haven’t used that much of it, but yeah. So to me, that’s just one more encouragement. All right.
SPEAKER 11 :
And I know you’ve got more. I want to talk more. So, Ben, I’m going to put you on hold. Hang on through the top of the hour or right up against the break. We’ve got, of course, our commentary news. We’ll come back here in a moment for the second hour. And, again, I have no other guests. My son Richard will join us here. At 4.30, we’ll talk some things along the lines of sports and so on and get some car reviews in. But that’s my only guest for today. We’ll be back, though, for Hour 2 in a moment. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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