Amid growing concerns over political scandals and their implications, this episode dives deep into the tactics and strategies shaping future elections and policies. Explore with John Rush and guest Jim Paff the intricate dance of accountability in the political arena, emphasizing the critical need to focus on substantial economic reforms. Discover how tax strategies and regulation cuts can drive business growth, supporting a robust economy despite the political turbulence.
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And we are back, Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560, Hour 2. Jim Paff joining us now from Conservative Caucus. Jim, how are you? I’m doing well. How are you doing, John? Doing good, sir. Doing good. How is your week and how are things in D.C.?
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, you know, D.C. sucks. I just have to tell you that. I come in voluntarily. to try to hopefully do a little bit to save the world, but sometimes it doesn’t feel like you can do a whole lot of that. Certainly though, it’s even more interesting right now for MAGA Republicans as they’re looking at the whole Epstein file thing in light of some of these other issues that are swirling about, which, frankly, are more important.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, and I don’t want to spend a – I spent some time earlier in the week on the Epstein thing, had some customers, had some listeners, I should say. I guess they are my customers, but had some listeners that – called in that were, you know, extremely upset. And I try to be, you know, quote unquote, the voice of reason. I had some messages even coming in today along those same lines because we play the National Crawford Roundtable that we record on Wednesdays. And we had a conversation there about that. And where I’m coming into this, and I want to make sure I’m very crystal clear on this to everybody listening. Do I believe in the abuse of kids? And would I ever stand for that? And Jim, you know, my answer is going to be absolutely, positively no. Now, with all of that being said, i don’t know all of the ins and outs and everything that went on i don’t know who was where i don’t know what happened i don’t know who was with whom and i’m not one that’s going to speculate jim i guess because of me sitting in this chair for as long as i have i have learned that i am not going to let my emotions get involved in certain things along those lines i will let the facts work their way out i know there’s a lot of people upset because they felt like a lot of the facts would come out And I guess, Jim, I’m always one that it’s like, OK, when they do, I’ll address it then. But I am not going to lose an ounce of sleep over anything that hasn’t made it out into the public yet. And nor am I going to be mad at anybody in the process because I’m not there and I don’t know all of the inner workings. Do I feel like there’s a big cover up going on? Here’s what I’ll say on that, Jim. Things always have their way of working out. If that, in fact, is going on, we will know. And I am not going to lose any sleep this week over it one way or the other.
SPEAKER 08 :
No, and listen, I think there are some very important things related to the whole Epstein drama. And certainly you want to know what’s going on and deal with it because there are apparently people who did bad things and they may be in positions of authority. But I’ll tell you what really bothers me the most and concerns me the most above that is what we’ve begun to see from the Radcliffe memo, which confirms with some declassified information The extent to which John Brennan and James Clapper and even Barack Obama were coordinating to take down Donald Trump’s first presidency. And this is very concerning. There have been some people on Capitol Hill, Rick Crawford, who’s over HIPC, the House Intelligence Committee. He he says that there was a bit of whitewashing on this memo. OK, fine. I don’t want to get into that debate and go at it, Rick, because we want to find out any more than we need to find out. But what it reconfirms for those of us who knew without seeing it all is that there is a coordinated deep state, if you want to call it. of people who are doing things to undermine the will of the American people. Whenever you are undermining an elected president, you are undermining the will of the people. In some cases, that would be treasonous. In others, it would just be basically criminal in other ways. But it is immoral and and wrong for that sort of thing to happen, and that’s what needs to be attacked. And I also appreciated Donald Trump staying focused on the things that he’s working through, what’s going on in Texas, what’s happening internationally, some of the other things in the Cabinet meeting. I mean, that seems like a big put-off when he responded the way he did in the Cabinet meeting, but he also is just trying to stay focused on what really matters, and I appreciate that about him.
SPEAKER 16 :
And I want to be careful because I’ve had people accuse me of not thinking it matters when it comes to keeping people accountable, when it comes to young kids being abused and so on. And, Jim, you and I, and I know you well enough to know this as well, you, like me, if there’s anything at all that somebody needs to be held accountable for in those regards, absolutely, I’m going to make sure that those things get done. Because, yeah, I am not for the abuse of kids or women, by the way, Jim. You know where I stand on both of those. The reality is— Those that are vulnerable, I don’t stand for anybody abusing them any way, shape, or form. And I think it’s insulting to me if somebody would say that I’m trying to brush off something or not bring something to light along those lines. That is not it at all. But, Jim, I also will say this. I’m not into group thinking. And I’m not going to go down a rabbit hole or go down a path just because a Tucker Carlson or anybody else along those lines is wanting to push an agenda and get more clicks and views and so on along those lines. I’m also not that individual. I’m going to look at every single thing, every single topic reasonably, and then come back at it depending upon what the outcome is accordingly, because that’s what I’m supposed to do here in this chair.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, there’s no doubt. And in fact, every one of us that is involved today, in what’s happening in our public policy and politics in this country which by the way should be every listener at some level however small We need to take all that into account and deal with it. We need to go straight at it, get the best information we can, and then focus on what really matters, which is what happens in elections and how we hold these elected officials accountable afterwards. That’s right. Because this is a government of we the people. It’s not a government of the government. It’s we the people. And we’re the ones they are accountable to. That’s right. Donald Trump all the way down.
SPEAKER 16 :
That’s right. So talk to us about some things that did happen. And some people, again, there’s criticism when it comes to even the big, beautiful bill. And, you know, more should have been done. And I’ve heard Elon Musk and others. And by the way, I’m on that same boat. I’m in that same camp. I wish we could do more as well. But I also understand in Washington that you don’t always get what you want. I would love to have our deficit fixed. cut. I would love to have a balanced budget. I would love to not have to raise the debt ceiling at all. I would love to start chipping away at that to where it doesn’t have to be raised because we’re lowering it on an annual basis. But Jim, I also know that those are all pipe dreams of mine. That’s not going to happen right now.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, let me say this about the big, beautiful bill. I mean, net-net, it sucked because there weren’t enough cuts, okay? Correct. That’s my point. That’s what every one of us are looking at and saying we’re frustrated with. That’s right. Internally, there were some very good things that we can be very glad of, for example. As you know, I spent many years on Capitol Hill.
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Yes.
SPEAKER 08 :
I never saw a tax cut made permanent. When they redid the Bush tax cuts in the early years when I was working on Capitol Hill, they made those not permanent. And then Donald Trump got his tax cuts in 2017, and they didn’t make them permanent. Well, this bill made them permanent. So any future Congress that wants to raise taxes literally on income literally has to go and pass a bill to do that very thing. But instead of this game that Washington plays, where they sunset these provisions and they know they’re going to have a big Donnie broke and everybody’s going to raise a lot of money because they’re screaming and yelling about this or that thing on either side of it. And then they end up doing something that isn’t good for the American people, but is really good for a lot of politicians. So they have their bank accounts full. I mean, that’s essentially what they do. That’s actually gone now. This expensing… First year expensing for small and large businesses for equipment and investment, that is huge. Absolutely, Jim. That is going to pay dividends over the next three or four years.
SPEAKER 16 :
That’s right. That’s really good, too. I talked about that a couple of days ago. I mean, yeah, for business owners like myself, those things are huge. For all of you listening that maybe don’t quite understand, understand how that affects things and even affects the economy overall. When businesses understand this is what I’m now locked into tax-wise, and I know what I can look at over the next several years until they come along and change the tax code, which at this point is probably going to be quite some time, Jim, knowing what you just said a moment ago and how these things are now solidified, reality is they probably won’t get changed for quite some time. When you’ve got the ability to do accelerated depreciation, which is what we’re talking about right now, And businesses can look at that, especially towards the year end, and say, wait a minute, I’ve got some decent income this year, and I’d like to offset that. What can I buy to offset that income? That’s exactly what they start thinking about. And when they do, and they do go and buy something, yes, their tax burden is lowered. But, Jim, they just drove the economy by the purchase that they made. Having that money just sit in the bank, and no offense, and or turn that into a tax bill doesn’t help the American economy out at all.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, and in fact, that is one of two major things that truly make an economy grow. Tax cuts truly do that. The Laffer curve, which says you get more revenue and more activity when you reduce taxes, that absolutely does exist. And so lower tax rates is always helpful to an economy. But the thing that makes an economy go big is two things. this investment that we just talked about, which builds productivity in businesses. And a building of productivity goes not only right to the bottom line, it goes right to efficiency in the economy overall. Second thing is this, though, and Donald Trump does this, Ronald Reagan did this, is great reductions in regulation, because that also frees up business.
SPEAKER 16 :
That’s right. That’s right.
SPEAKER 08 :
Donald, I’m convinced that both Ronald Reagan’s economic success and Donald Trump’s economic success were largely due to the massive reductions in regulation that each administration undertook. And the tax cuts were helpful in both cases as well, but it was the regulatory reform that really made the difference. He’s on that track again. So this expensing thing is good for five years, so you’re going to have massive investment in businesses over five years because everyone’s going to scramble to do the very thing they’ve been dreaming of that they’ve been planning for because they don’t have to wait 30 years to make the money back on it.
SPEAKER 16 :
That’s exactly right.
SPEAKER 08 :
And that’s going to really help the economy in the short term.
SPEAKER 16 :
That’s exactly right. No, Jim, it’s huge. And I don’t think people are giving enough credit in some of these particular areas. Areas as they should be in and like you said earlier and again I’m not trying to minimize anything that happened on any of the Epstein things But I think I also you don’t want to make sure they mention this people are talking about how you know We need to prosecute we need to this we need to do that. Okay, I know know enough, and I’m not an attorney, Jim, but I know enough to know that to prosecute crimes, you’ve got to have viable evidence of when that crime actually took place, where did it take place, who were the victims, who was the perpetrator, all these different things. So there is a lot that would have to be gone through to determine where did these crimes even happen, were they on American soil, were they not on American soil, and quite frankly, folks, those of you that are saying that they were, you I hate to say this, but you don’t have the foggiest idea. You weren’t there. You don’t have any idea to know when or where these crimes were committed. And by the way, there’s crimes committed daily on a regular basis anyways, Jim. But in this particular case, you’d have to have all of your ducks in a row as a prosecutor to make sure that you can actually prove those things. Otherwise, there’s a lot of tax dollars spent for nothing. Right.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, and I don’t want to encourage people, just to build on what you just said, I don’t want to encourage people to not be skeptical in any manner, just kind of let it go. It’s important. I just saw a podcast of my friend Peter Schweitzer on their Drill Down podcast. He also mentioned the fact that JPMorgan Chase had turned over a lot of evidence right after Epstein died that he very well may have been trafficking people. and doing money laundering in his bank accounts. And I had forgotten about that, but Peter talked about it on his podcast. In fact, I texted him afterwards. He became a really good friend of mine thanks to when I used to sit in that chair back in 2006 because I interviewed him, and we turned into fast friends afterwards. But I’m going to have him on a podcast. soon to kind of flesh that out more. So it’s not like we don’t want to, we would just lay it over to the side and say, just trust Trump and don’t worry about it. I mean, I think there’s a lot of reason to trust Trump, but there’s no reason to just say, hey, government, no big deal. You said it’s fine, so okay. That’s how we got in this mess to begin with. I agree. Thank you. And I agree with that.
SPEAKER 16 :
Recognize what’s important. My biggest thing with all of this is, and I want to try to keep people focused, and you’ve brought it up today as well, is, hey, let’s make sure that we don’t forget about anything over here, but let’s also not get so distracted over here that we forget about what needs to happen over there. That’s my whole point with this, Jim, is I don’t want one item, an Epstein situation, to drive everything whereby we become so distracted we lose sight of the other things that are just as important, if not more important.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, and and that really gets into what is important right now. The Epstein file resolution is not going to keep Democrats from taking back Congress in 2026. That’s right. What we are now just about to embark upon. As we get past the August recess and into the fall season is suddenly these congressional races are going to start shaping up. We’re going to figure out who’s running and we’re going to have to focus on what we want to do about it in Colorado. The third district is going to be a big battleground. I think we’re going to hold that seat for Republican. But but there’s a primary developing there right now. So that puts it more at risk. And there and I’m not against it. I’m just saying that’s what’s happening.
SPEAKER 16 :
That’s right.
SPEAKER 08 :
But that’s a big effort that we have to be aware of because you don’t want to lose that seat, which it will be on the radar for Democrats. But I look further and I’m thinking a little bit about this America Party thing, which I think is a big thing. big problem i mean i love elon musk don’t get me wrong i have a great respect for him i have no negatives on him but this america party is just no matter how much money he puts into it it’s not going to really be able to get done what needs to be done unless he’s willing to commit half a billion dollars or more you know it’s just it’s not going to happen you’ve got to get ballot placement and you have to recruit candidates this is one thing nobody’s talking about that’s right candidates are going to recruit. You’re going to have a lot of Republicans who might otherwise be good candidates who would never take a risk to do that. That’s right. And so that’s one thing. But here’s what’s more important as we think about this whole 2026 outlook coming up. We need Donald Trump to stay focused on what works and what wins. We need Republicans to to push for rescission packages to come over. Mike Johnson, he says he’s doing two more reconciliation bills. And the reconciliation bill, like we just went through, addresses the non-discretionary spending, the stuff we’ve got to spend because someone qualifies for the program. They need to take another stab at going even further with reductions in a rescission bill. They need to do that for two reasons. First of all, for three reasons. First of all, Democrats have a base that’s never going away, but it’s not enough to win in 2026. But that base rises a little because voter turnout is lower in non-presidential years. So they get a little bit of a boost.
SPEAKER 16 :
That’s right.
SPEAKER 08 :
But what really needs to happen is the MAGA base and the Trump base and people who are against Democrat politics, They we need to make sure that they don’t become dispirited, which could allow Democrats to win a lot of seats or even just to be have a malaise about them. We need energy in that group of people. Here’s why that matters. It’s not going to matter everywhere. The Democrats have a challenge. They’re really screwing up badly and they’re not likely to get the get the American people to love what they’re talking about. They’re not going to change. But if you have a depressed turnout on the Republican conservative side of this, then suddenly opportunities we have in places like Orange County, California, where we have a few seats there that could be picked up. Suddenly, that’s a place where it doesn’t matter what the environment is. Democrats have great advantages for turnout. And then you lose those opportunities. Now you have to make the House does. Now you have to make up for those opportunities in other states. But if you have energy, suddenly Orange County becomes active again. Other places around the country where it’s kind of on the edge, you know, you need that extra energy to make sure that those Republicans can get over the top. And I think that Elon Musk will be far better served to go try to recruit good primary candidates, put a lot of money in those, and change the makeup of this GOP, which is the weak part of the Trump agenda.
SPEAKER 16 :
Taking words out of my mouth from yesterday, so we are right on the same page on that one, Jim. Conservative Caucus, how do folks find you?
SPEAKER 08 :
Go to theconservativecaucus.com, and you can find out more about us, donate, sign up for email, whatever you’d like to do, find out more about what we’re doing.
SPEAKER 16 :
Awesome. Jim, as always, I appreciate you, man. Keep up the good work. Thanks, John.
SPEAKER 08 :
You betcha.
SPEAKER 16 :
Take care. Have a great night. And that was Jim Paff. And again, Golden Eagle Financial. Al Smith did an interview here of late. Listen in. We’ll be back right after that.
SPEAKER 07 :
This is TJ with KLZ Radio, and I’ve got Al Smith from Golden Eagle Financial here in the studio with me. Al and I were just talking about how in retirement he helps his clients to stretch the time in their retirement. Al, what do you mean by that? Tell us a little bit more about how time works in retirement.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, when you think about leaving the working world, you think about, well, it’s still going to take money to live on once I’m retired. And that nest egg, whatever that is, that’s going to permit you to do what you want to do with the time that you have sort of earned for yourself. So the nest egg is not only in dollars, but it’s also in the time that you have to do the things that you believe will be fulfilling in retirement. And when I have a conversation with people, I think it’s equally important to think about how they’re going to be spending their time as it is to accumulate a nest egg.
SPEAKER 07 :
You’ve got to have some pretty good examples of things that people do in retirement. So open the door for us. What sort of things can we expect?
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, sure. I have one gentleman who is very much into aviation. He owns his own small plane. He actually works on that small plane. He’s within a few years of retirement. He’s retirement age. But right now, while he’s working, he takes his small aircraft, flies to locations where he investigates air disasters. I also have some people who spend a lot of time with their grandkids, some of whom live nearby and some are a little farther away. I have some who are incredibly involved with their churches and go on missionary trips and so forth.
SPEAKER 07 :
How do people get in touch with you if they want to stretch that time out in their retirement?
SPEAKER 12 :
They can reach me at 303-744-1128. And if they’re driving when they hear this, you can contact KLZ and they’ll put them in touch with me.
SPEAKER 07 :
Of course, as always, you can find Golden Eagle Financial on klzradio.com slash advertisers and get right in touch with Al if you’re driving and can’t write that number down. Al, thank you so much for joining us today.
SPEAKER 12 :
You’re welcome.
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putting reason into your afternoon drive. This is John Rush.
SPEAKER 16 :
All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Got to take a break here in just a couple of minutes here, so we’ll do that. But before that, I did want to just kind of touch on what Jim and I were talking about in regards to all of the Epstein stuff. I talked about it the other day. I guess I need to talk about it again. I talked about it on the podcast that played right before the show today. I got a couple of people, I guess, maybe a little bit riled up because some people feel like I’m brushing off All of what happened there, folks, that is not the case at all. I’m simply saying I won’t get involved in groupthink. I never have. I never will. And I’m not going to get on some bandwagon just because an Alex Jones or Tucker Carlson or anybody along those lines says to. It’s not me. It’s not what I do. You guys know that by now. I will let the facts work their way out. Am I calling for Pam Bondi to be fired tomorrow? No, I am not. Let’s see how things shake out. I don’t know what’s in those records. By the way, neither do any of you. I want to make sure I’m very crystal clear on that. Neither do any of you. So do I feel like people that were involved in that need to be held accountable? Absolutely, if possible. And when I say if possible, and I’ve said this before, I’ll say it publicly. because this is really what i feel is there a list i’ve never thought there was one I’ve never thought there was one. Everybody’s waiting for some grander list that shows every single person that ever went to the island, the time, the dates, what they did, and so on. If that’s what you’re hoping for, I’m sorry to say, I don’t feel like it exists. I don’t think it ever did. I don’t know why somebody in his position would ever do that and have the trust factor that he had among all of the rich and powerful people that he had going to and from the island. If they knew for one second he was keeping those sorts of records, they would have never went. Folks, this isn’t that hard to figure out. And a lot of you are going to say, well, there’s got to be video. There’s got to be this. There’s got to be that. Once again, I highly doubt it. I highly doubt it. Now, do I believe Jeffrey Epstein might have had some videos himself of some things that he was doing and or things that he may have done personally? Sure. That does not surprise me at all. Do I believe there could be those sort of things that incriminated him? Absolutely. Absolutely. Do I believe he had tapes or there’s other tapes on others? I have no idea. And I think you’re speculating if you get outside of the box in that way and start thinking there’s all sorts of other individuals that could potentially be incriminated through some sort of a list or through some sort of video. People aren’t that dumb, is my point. They can be dumb, but you don’t get to be rich and powerful by being that dumb. Because anybody that would have been going there and being involved in this would have known that this stuff could ruin me if this ever got out. They are not going to allow those sorts of things to be done. That’s my opinion, my opinion only. But I just think that you’re thinking too wildly if you think otherwise. And by the way, I think that’s where some of the groupthink comes into play, because I think a lot of things get stirred up by certain talk show hosts and others, where, by the way, the more views they get, and I say this all the time, The more clicks, the more views, the more minutes they get watched, the more money they make at the end of the day. And if they can take any particular topic and run with it and make more money with it, they absolutely will. So all I’m saying in all of what’s going on in that light is remember what I just said a moment ago. Be careful who you’re watching, what you’re buying into, the group think that might be happening even to you because it does happen. It happens to all of us if we’re not careful. So be really careful on that. Keep a watchful eye and be reasonable about the things that you’re expecting and what your expectations are. And I’ve said it all along. If you think for one second that what was going to come out of the Epstein files was going to be the smoking gun to help us win some elections down the road, I can tell you right now, think again. That’s not how I’ve ever looked at that. Nor would I. And that’s all I’m saying in regards to all of the Epstein stuff. And it’s basically what I said on the podcast that we recorded yesterday morning that you all heard play earlier today and you’ll hear it again. Well, I played last night, but you’ll hear it again probably through the weekend. So bottom line, do I feel like people should be held accountable? If possible, yes. Absolutely. Absolutely. But I also will say what Jim said earlier as well. We’ve got a lot of other fish to fry and a lot of other things that we need to get taken care of. While this is important, it’s not the only thing that’s important. That’s my only comment along those lines. I’ll leave it at that. And if you guys want to be mad at me, be mad at me. But please, please, please do not insult me. by saying that I’m brushing off the fact that some young girls might have been hurt throughout this because, by the way, you guys all know me well enough to know that’s not me. That’s not me at all. I don’t take kindly to anybody abusing women, number one, kids, number two, male or female. So please don’t insult me by saying that it’s something that I would brush off. I am not brushing anything off. I’m just looking at things realistically when it’s all said and done. So I’ll leave it at that. Mile High Coin is coming up next. 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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Don’t forget, you can text us any questions that you’ve got, comments as well, which a lot of you do, even after the show is over, which I appreciate greatly. 307-200-8222, 307-200-8222. A lot of you will share articles and different things with me as well, which I also appreciate, videos and so on. And no, I cannot keep up with every single thing that comes out. So you guys adding information to me helps out immensely. Gregory Wrightstone joining us now. How’s it going, Mr. Wrightstone?
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Really, really good. Outstanding, in fact. A lot of good things coming out of Washington, D.C., and how long has it been since we’ve been able to say that?
SPEAKER 16 :
It’s been a while. It’s been a while. And, of course, and we know we’ll get into this, but there is, and yet we’ve got the left after the floods in Texas. Instead of really trying to console those folks that lost loved ones, we’ve got the left coming out and talking about how some of those people deserve to die in the first place. This is all just proof that there’s global warming and climate change and blah, blah, blah.
SPEAKER 09 :
and man alive gregory they do not miss a beat when it comes to uh you know don’t let a crisis go to waste oh man i tell you what if you just uh we just sent out our newsletter today see i’m executive director at the co2 coalition and we send out an informational newsletter once a week and my object for that newsletter is when you receive it i want you to say huh That’s interesting. I didn’t know that. And today’s newsletter was concerning that. And I looked at it. Here are some quotes from the left-wing media. National propaganda radio. Floods are getting more dangerous around the country and not just in Texas. ProPublica. The Texas flash flood is a preview of the chaos to come. Inside climate news. Climate change helped fuel heavy rains that led to the devastating Texas flood. Well, as you know, we’re scientists here at the CO2 Coalition. We were nearing the final process, actually, of a Texas and climate change report. So we had a lot of information right at my fingertips, and we were able to go and use, what’s the science? What do the facts tell us about this? Are flash floods increasing? Are climate disasters happening more in Texas or in the United States or around the world? And so we looked at The first thing I did, we have in our report that we’re about to release, we had a chart showing data from National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration of flash floods in Texas, the count. Going back to 1996, we’ve got what the almost 30 years of data to look at, and we’re showing a decline in flash floods. If climate change and increasing CO2, which is the boogeyman where they’re fighting and saying is driving this, we should see an increase. There’s been a decrease and a significant decrease in the number of flash floods in Texas. And once again, they’re lying. Your listeners are being lied to on a daily basis about climate change. There’s no other way to put it. is that these people are lying to you and your listeners and the American citizens. They’re also lying about, again, this Texas report. The reports that were published by the government claimed increasing heat waves, that we’re going to be killing people and are killing people in Texas. that it was just horrible. And so we took a look at that. And we took a look again at the NOAA data going back to 1895. So we have pretty good data going back, looking at thermometer records. We actually see that the number, the percentage of days over 100 degrees Fahrenheit in Texas has been in decline for the last 130 years. And it’s completely opposite of what I doubt that any one of your listeners right now could have guessed that 100-degree Fahrenheit days in Texas or anywhere in the United States were declining. We find that just finished up an Arkansas report.
SPEAKER 16 :
By the way, I appreciate you saying that because I said this the other day here in Colorado. On Monday, we had this big, quote-unquote, warning. Denver could see record heat middle of the week. It’s going to be approaching 100 degrees. And as a Colorado native growing up here, the first thing I thought of, Gregory, is – Yeah, it’s July right after the 4th. That’s pretty common. We’ll have a few hundred degree days throughout the year. There’s nothing there really to be in. As far as I’m concerned, there’s no news there. That’s that’s just what happens in the summertime in Colorado. And by the way, we didn’t get up. Indeed. And the other thing to look at.
SPEAKER 09 :
what they will do is take one station, probably some urban station, maybe at the airport, maybe inside Denver, and they’ll use that. See, here’s the temperature. It’s record high temperatures, and it may well be, but that doesn’t even do with climate change. It has everything to do with what’s called the urban heat island effect. In other words, asphalt, concrete, these things just absorb the sun, re-rate. How many tens of thousands of air conditioners are dumping heat into anything? And here in Colorado, I’m glad you said that, too.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, I’m glad you said that, because as a kid, I say this all the time. You know, again, growing up here, I can attest to some of these things. I’m 60, and so when I was growing up as a young kid, first of all, only the rich had air conditioning. No one else that I knew, I knew nobody that had air conditioning, Gregory. Today, almost everybody has. has air conditioning. So that has changed immensely from when I was a kid. On top of that, Colorado, when I was a kid, we were about 2.2, 2.3 million people. We’re now going to be over 6 million people. So the reality is all of this front range area. And by the way, that’s a majority of where the growth has happened. Yeah. We are considerably, you know, double the size of what we were when I was a kid. So could we have some, some minor changes in regards to some of the things that you are changing because of what you’re taught? I mean, I, I look out to the west here and see just all the trees that we now have in our area that, by the way, when I was a kid, it was like a desert. We didn’t have half the trees that we have today when I was a kid.
SPEAKER 09 :
And we see that globally. John, it’s it’s it’s it’s I call it the untold the greatest untold story of the 21st century, that of thriving of the ecosystems today. And it’s leading to great benefits to the human condition. Humanity is thriving and prospering because of modest warming and more CO2. And what you’re saying, when we see this, we see just opposite of what we’re being told. Deserts are shrinking. Forests are expanding. Vegetation is increasing from the near polar regions to the equator. Crops are breaking records year after year after year from the coldest countries like Norway and Sweden. to the some of the hottest countries like india are all being blessed uh by the increase of co2 yep and it’s it’s it’s an equal opportunity well for example last year there was a report that said oh poison ivy is going to get really bad because of climate change more co2 is going to cause an increase in poison ivy and i looked at it and that was probably one of the the few alarmist reports could actually be true because carbon dioxide is an equal opportunity fertilizer for plants.
SPEAKER 16 :
True.
SPEAKER 09 :
And so it doesn’t know that poison ivy is bad. CO2 benefits all plants. And if it benefits poison ivy, well… It’ll benefit the other as well.
SPEAKER 16 :
One and the other is equal, right? Exactly.
SPEAKER 09 :
They unwittingly admitted the benefits of CO2 by saying poison ivy is going to increase.
SPEAKER 16 :
But yet we’re told all of the time, constantly, and it cracks me up, too, because we go from one extreme to the other. First, it’s going to be total deserts. There’s not going to be enough moisture. There’s going to be famines everywhere. It’s terrible. We go from that to, oh, there’s more flash floods now than we’ve ever had before. I mean, which is it, Gregory? There’s no happy medium with these folks at all.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, there’s not. We do see a modest increase in precipitation. We see this nearly everywhere we look. And there are a number of indications why that is. We won’t go into it, but it’s hugely beneficial, particularly to agriculture. A little bit of excess rain. in the agricultural sector really doesn’t, they welcome it, especially in the summer months. Of course, the problem in Texas was that we had the remnants of this tropical storm that came up across this escarpment. There’s the rapid rise from the lowlands of the Gulf Coast up into the Texas Hill Country. And as you probably know, as these systems, as they rise up the hillside, as they increase in elevation, they’re losing water quickly. And this system just stalled. And across this escarpment area where the tragedy occurred, It’s got very… Because of the underlying bedrock, I’m a geologist. I’m a climate geology geek. You’ll have to forgive me. That’s all right. But the underlying bedrock, it doesn’t… lends itself well to very well-developed soil, so very thin soil.
SPEAKER 16 :
It’s not permeable is the point, right? It doesn’t absorb. Is that what you’re trying to say?
SPEAKER 09 :
Right. When you get heavy rains, very little is absorbed into the soil, and it just runs off quickly. There you go. And that’s what feeds these deluges down into the canyons.
SPEAKER 16 :
You know, Gregory, it’s sort of like our rocky mountains. We kind of have the same issue going on here.
SPEAKER 09 :
Exactly. Exactly. And what you see is as systems rise up, if there’s anything moving, most of your systems move west to east. Right. So you’re really in the rain shadow. It’s on the eastern side of the mountains where you get a lot of precipitation.
SPEAKER 16 :
Our upslopes, anytime we get in an upslope situation, whether it be on the rain side or the snow side, anybody that’s lived in this area for any length of time knows that’s our biggest storms.
SPEAKER 09 :
Exactly. And if there were any systems moving west,
SPEAKER 16 :
east to west they’re probably rare but that’s when you get the big storms so they’re pumping lots that’s right precipitation yeah yeah well ours do occasionally what happens with us and you know this from what you do what happens with us especially in the wintertime uh spring and or you know can happen it can happen fall can happen spring doesn’t typically happen middle of winter although it can is typically what happens is all of that moisture from the gulf it gets pushed up it starts a counterclockwise you know, motion, circular motion, sort of like a little mini cyclone, if you would, and it wraps up against the mountains, and it just dumps on us, and that’s where we get our biggest storms from.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, and it is, and that’s also triggering tornadoes. That’s right. Your listeners may not be aware that the United States has over 90% of all the tornadoes in the world occur in the United States.
SPEAKER 16 :
I did not.
SPEAKER 09 :
You know what?
SPEAKER 16 :
You just taught me something. I was not aware of that. I did not know that.
SPEAKER 09 :
And that’s because of the unique geography. and systems, and what we have are the cold weather systems coming down from Canada, sweeping up across the Rockies, coming east across Kansas, Oklahoma, Tornado Alley, and we’ve got the warm, moist Gulf Air underneath, in which you have, when you have warm, hot, moist air underneath cold air from Canada above, that triggers the cyclonic triggering of the tornadoes, and that’s It’s unique in the world that we have this. And again, it’s more than 90 percent of all the tornadoes.
SPEAKER 16 :
Now that you say that, you know, I’d never really I should have known that just by, you know, you think about news stories that happen around the world. And you’re right. You don’t hear of that happening anywhere else but here.
SPEAKER 09 :
Correct. When was the last time you heard of a tornado killing someone in France?
SPEAKER 16 :
You don’t. You don’t. I’m guessing, and correct me if I’m wrong, I’m guessing that maybe other arid-type areas like Australia, can they have maybe some tornadoes, or am I thinking correctly?
SPEAKER 09 :
No, you’re thinking correctly, but they don’t have the geography with the high mountain ranges. Okay, okay. And so what they do, the tornadoes that do hit in Australia are associated with the cyclones. Okay. Okay, because there’s cyclones in the Pacific hurricanes here. Gotcha. And so we do have tornadoes associated with those. But again, we see most definitely the data tell us that EF3, EF4, EF5, the biggest tornadoes, are in decline. They’ve been in decline for many decades. And there’s a lot of, does it really matter why? I don’t think so. We know that that’s the case. And we have so many more extreme weather-related deaths, some 98% decline since 1900. And a lot of that has to do with better warning systems. There’s a tornado coming, get to your basement. There’s a Category 4 about ready to hit Galveston Island in two days, evacuate now. They didn’t have that in 1915. So a lot of this has to do… with better infrastructure, better warning, better forecasting. But it completely flies in the face of what your listeners are being told about increasing deaths. And it’s just horrible. This is scientific malfeasance. It’s misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation to frighten the population into accepting otherwise onerous and economically destructive programs. And thank God… We have a new sheriff and his new deputies in town in Washington, D.C. There you go. They’re rolling back these regulations that have been just – if you’re listening to this show right now, look around. You’re probably in your home. Look around. Look around all your electrical things that are using electric, your ceiling fan above you. regulated by the EPA and DOA. They’re telling you what kind of ceiling, you’re limited now, and what kind of ceiling fan to buy, and it’s more expensive. So bear with me when I tell you, I am pro-choice. I’m strongly pro-choice, and by that I mean, I want the choice of, and for me and your listeners, to determine what kind of car to drive, what kind of dishwasher, washing machine, dryer, you name it, shower head. If I want to buy a dishwasher that uses a little bit more electricity but is very efficient at washing my dishes, I should have the option to buy that dishwasher. And they have said no. You can buy these that the government have approved. And thank God… Lee Zeldman at EPN, Chris Wright at DOE, also Sean Duffy at the Department of Transportation. They’re all rolling back these regulations that are just infringing on your listeners’ freedoms.
SPEAKER 16 :
Thank God. Amen. All right, CO2 Coalition. First of all, Gregor, how do folks find you there? What’s the website?
SPEAKER 09 :
CO2Coalition.org. And my latest book, which is really catching on right now, is A Very Convenient Warming. You can find it. Just two words you use if you’re going to search for it, convenient warming. And it’ll take you to Amazon or my website. Strongly recommend. You’ll hear a lot of it. You get the same information you heard today. Awesome.
SPEAKER 16 :
always great joy it’s always a joy having you don’t you know don’t have you enough we typically do kind of on a monthly basis and we’ll keep doing that ahead and into the future always learn something when you’re on and i appreciate it very much by the way sleep well there is no climate crisis awesome appreciate you very much have a great night and that is gregory wright stone w-r-i-g-h-s-t-o-n-e if you’re looking for the book again he just said look up convenient warming not warning We’ll be right back. Cub Creek Heating and Air Conditioning. Speaking of climate and what goes on inside of your home, and you want to have a choice on what you actually do when it comes to your air conditioner. So if that’s the case, you’ve got issues going on right now and you want to do some upgrades or you just have something not working, give Cub Creek a call today. Find them at klzradio.com.
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Now back to Rush to Reason on KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 16 :
All right, we are back, closing out our number two. And, yeah, go back to our last guest. And, by the way, Greg’s always great. Love having him on. We had his cohort on a couple of weeks ago. And I will tell you that there’s very few things that he and I differ on. Maybe some things regarding age of Earth and some things along those lines. But, in general, the things he talks about in regards to – You know, the whole climate change aspect and what the left has to say about it and their agenda that they’re pushing and so on. And even out of what we’ve seen come from Texas here recently and, you know, the huge tragedy there. People have lost lives are still looking for people today. I saw today a video of a this. I’m not joking. An F-250. that was literally on its side, buried under so much dirt and sand and junk, all you could see sticking out was a little bit of the right front tire and a little bit of the cab. That’s it. So literally had buried sideways an F-250. The storm surge and, you know, what happened during that flood was just enormous. And we’ve got the left coming out using that as a jumping off point for climate change and talking about how, you know, those kids at the camp should have died anyways. They would have just turned into white supremacists and on and on we go. I mean, just sick and vile things that the left uses. And those of you that are on that side, I don’t know how you can be. I’ll just be straight up on it. I don’t know how you can be. If what happened out of that doesn’t show you enough that they don’t care about people, including you. You’re part of the party. They don’t care about you either. If all of the things that you have seen happen over the last couple of years in the Democrat Party, how they took Joe Biden out of the candidacy for running for reelection and put Kamala Harris in instead, never even had a primary vote or anything along those lines, just essentially appointed her to that. I mean, you guys that are on the left. How you can continue going on with the party that you’re a part of is literally beyond me. That one, I just don’t understand. I shake my head and scratch my head at times and wonder how in the world. I mean, you guys must have so much loyalty to either just being anti-conservative or anti-Trump that you’re willing to put up with all the nonsense your side dishes out. It just makes no sense to me. None. You have to be as loony as the party that you’re involved in to stay in it. I don’t know how else to say it. You’re cray-cray. Literally, you’re crazy. You’re sticking with a party that, frankly, doesn’t care about you, doesn’t care about anybody else, you included, but yet you’re going to stick with them. Come over to a party that cares about people. Do we have our share of faults? Absolutely. Talk about them all the time. But at least we care about people. We don’t come out after a tragedy doing the things that your side just did. I can tell you that much right now. We don’t take tragedies as a jumping off point to go further our agenda like you guys do. It’s not what we do. We do things completely different on our side of the aisle compared to what you guys do. So I would highly encourage that if you’re on that side, you really need to check what’s going on in your own party. And I would highly recommend you, if nothing else, go the route of at least being in the middle and get out of your party because it’s just full of a bunch of loons. So we’ll be back in a moment. Don’t go anywhere. Hour number three is next. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 1 :
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