John engages listeners with an in-depth analysis of recent DOJ findings related to the Obama-era collusion hoax, scrutinizing how these revelations reflect on past and present White House administrations. While drawing parallels with historical political scandals, he encourages a thoughtful discourse on the cautious approach needed in addressing presidential accountability. The episode concludes with a thought-provoking segment on the health of President Joe Biden, inviting listeners to consider the impact of leadership during critical transitions.
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And happy Monday, everybody. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Hopefully you had a fantastic weekend. Stayed cool through the hot weather that we have this time of the year. And, again, had an enjoyable weekend. And I did, so got a lot of stuff done and all the different text messages and things that come in over the weekend as well. Thank you for that. We had a great show on Saturday on Drive Radio. Got to talking about some things from the past. We have a remote coming up this coming Saturday. You’ll hear more about that during the week. ahead, but Lepino Foods will be out there this coming Saturday. So for those of you that like going to car shows and doing all those things and like coming by and saying hi, we’ll be out at Lepino Foods in West Denver on Saturday, at Northwest Denver, I guess I should say, on Saturday. And we’ll have more information. You’ll hear some promos and things through the week about that as well. Question of the day. Get things fired off. Friday’s was, what happens to you when the moon is directly overhead? You weigh less. A 220-pound person will weigh .220462 pounds less because that’s the same thing that happens to tides. In other words, the gravitational pull of the moon on the water, and we’re made up of mostly water. That’s why you weigh less when the moon is directly overhead. So today’s question of the day, this one I wouldn’t have guessed the last one, and I wouldn’t guess this one as well. So the… Question of the day today is, what is the lifespan of a $1 bill? What is the lifespan of a $1 bill? And let me give everybody a hint. A lot less than you probably would think. In other words, they don’t have much of a lifespan. That is, I believe, Charlie, you can correct me if I’m wrong, but that is the number one printed currency we have in America because of the rate of how quickly we actually go through them, literally speaking, physically speaking, in other words. Charlie says 20 months, and I’ll just give you a tip. He’s not far off. So Charlie’s answer is 20 months, and he is not that far off. So answer that on our social media page. And, yeah, a $1 bill in America gets like, well, here in America. Keep in mind there’s $1 bills all around the world. Now, a lot of those will still find their way back here through various means and so on. But I’ve been in some foreign countries whereby – You look at some of the currency that they’re using, American currency that they’re using, and you can tell that they have been around a lot longer than 20 months. Let’s just say that. So, in fact, not to get off track, but money in other countries can get really disgusting just as a – Side note, you actually almost want to keep it in a plastic bag and then put it inside of whatever it is you’re traveling with because it gets rather nasty. Yeah, Charlie just said in my ear, and it does. It stinks, and it just gets nasty and disgusting. Anyways, that’s the question of the day today. All right, I’m sure that you all saw… Over the weekend, and I don’t watch a lot of news over the weekend. I will be the first one to admit I get off air on Saturday from Drive Radio at 1 o’clock, and I go and do other things, and I will be straight up honest. One of the last things I do is look at, watch the, you know, I don’t watch any news ever. You guys all know that, but I don’t watch the Sunday morning news. News circuit, I don’t do any of that. I don’t even pay a lot, other than you guys’ text messages that may come through, and you may give me some information along those lines. I don’t do much, even social media-wise or anything. I just, I’m kind of off of things from one o’clock on Saturdays until Monday mornings. I do that purposely to refresh and rejuvenate my brain. Plus, I just have a lot of other stuff going on that I usually have to do around my own house and just different things I need to do from being gone over six and a half days of the week I try to get some things done on the weekend. So you may or may not have seen this, but if you haven’t, the DOJ has basically figured out through the course of looking at previous documents and so on that the Obama administration manufactured all of the Russian weapons. collusion hoax that we now know as a hoax, which the news media at the time wouldn’t admit to being a hoax. They were dead set on it being very, very true and promoted it as such. And reality is it is being determined now through – Fact finding, I guess you could say, and some would say, well, why didn’t they figure this out, you know, way back when during Trump’s first term? Keep in mind, Trump had a lot of things going on as a first term, first ever really kind of not only, you know, first term president, but first really ever in politics in that regard. You know, to give him a little bit of a of a of some grace is maybe the way to say that for his first term. A lot of folks that become president. Joe Biden, he’s a great example. Even Obama, even though Obama was a first-term kind of junior president, I guess you could say, keep in mind he’d been groomed in the political end of things the majority of his life. And I don’t think there’s any secrets here, was groomed for the presidency. from the way he gave speeches to what he did as a community organizer and and and he was groomed for that position so he he was ready for that from day one donald trump is not that person we we all know that in by the way thankfully so so during his first term he didn’t have some of the insight that he has now it’s why you’re seeing a whole different cabinet and staff and people that he surrounded himself with and so on everything is different this time around than it was the first time in fact Not that I like Joe Biden being president for four years because it did a lot to screw things up. I will say that I do think that four year stint of Donald Trump being able to sit back and look at some of the things maybe he did wrong the first time around. And if I can get back in the second time around, here are the things that I will do differently. And to his credit, he has done that. And again, like Donald Trump or not, he’s not the same president this time that he was the first time. He’s doing a lot more things that are effective this time than he was last time. So to answer the question that some might have, why didn’t we figure this out the first time around? Well, because of what… I just said. But the Justice Department confirmed today that it’s received Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s criminal referral related to her bombshell claims that the Obama-era officials manufactured and politicized intelligence to create the narrative that Russia was attempting to influence the 2016 presidential election. That was confirmed by Fox News, by the way. The DOJ declined further comment, but confirmed to Fox News that the department received the referral. Now, where is this going to go from here? There’s been all sorts of things that I’ve watched on social media today talking about how even some of the Supreme Court rulings of late does not give Obama immunity whatsoever. over potentially treason in this particular case, when you do these sorts of things and you’re trying to undermine the country, which is essentially what he was doing, could he be brought up on treason charges? Well, could he be? Possibly. Will he be? I’m just giving you my two cents. Highly doubtful. Highly doubtful. Now, will this expose a lot of things that happened under his watch, under his regime, and so on? I believe it will, yes. Will Obama go to prison? Folks, I’m sorry. No. And as much as I would like to see him go, because I think he’s a very corrupt and manipulating individual, no, I don’t think he will. Sorry. Just being straight up honest, I don’t think he will. Will a lot of things get exposed, like I said a moment ago, and will some things be brought to light, and will it change some folks’ opinion of things? Possibly. I’ll say this. It’ll only change those folks that are maybe in the middle and even in the middle that lean more to the right that are in the middle. Will the hardcore lefties change their mind about anything? No. They’ll just claim this is a big witch hunt from the Trump administration to the previous administrations. That’s all you’ll see a hardcore lefty say with this. You’re not going to change their mind on any of this. In fact, what I would say is we should probably be a little bit careful as to how we proceed. We, as in the conservatives on the right, how do we proceed? Because if you’re not careful, you could wind up doing the same thing that the left did to Trump, which in a lot of ways helped him get reelected. So my point is that old saying, be careful what you wish for. As conservatives, be careful what you wish for. Now, do I think we should expose the Obamas, the administration, the things that they did in their corrupt ways? Yes. Do I think we should go to their home and do to Obama what the left did to Donald Trump? No, I do not think that. No. Should we bring him on trial and go through all of that rigmarole? No, I don’t think so. And again, because of what I said a moment ago, be careful what you wish for. Because again, the left could very well use that as a springboard to help their side, not only in 2026, but in 2028 as well. So that’s where I’m saying that, yes, I think it’s important to bring these things to light. I think Tulsi’s doing a great job. I think that’s fabulous that she’s digging into some of this and finding out more of this information. And I’ll throw this in really quick. To me, this is far more important than Epstein. Way more. A, it’s way more current. And B, we’ll have a lot more, I think, effect upon what, you know, showing what the left does and how corrupt they really are than anything we could drag out of Epstein. That’s my opinion. Some of you are going to differ with me on that. But to me, this is far more important. Now, how we handle this, like I said a moment ago, I also feel is very important because, again, we need to be really careful what we do here. I think it’s great to bring all these things to light, but do we do anything in regards to going after Obama for treason? No. Even though it is, and I know a lot of you are going to say, well, geez, John, how do we keep people accountable if we’re not going to do that? Keep in mind, actions have consequences. just like what the left did to Donald Trump. So be careful, again, what you wish for. Roof Savers of Colorado coming up next. We’ll take a quick break and come right back. Don’t forget, Dave Hart is there to take care of not only your roof, residential, commercial. 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And we are back, Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. John and Cheyenne, go ahead, sir.
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John, I don’t want to ever see any of my presidency have be put on trial for anything i think it’s a disgrace either way you know let history and public influence judge obama kind of like it did nixon i mean nixon you know after he resigned he was never the same he disappeared and that’s what i’d like to see what happened to obama if this comes out that he did order it all Let him just disappear.
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Thank you for saying that, John. I agree with you wholeheartedly because this will come out. It’s a matter of what all gets opened up and relayed and so on, and depending upon how deep and how bad this is, which frankly I think is pretty deep and bad, I think you could be exactly right on what happens. You may see the very end of him being even out in public much, and you might just see him kind of just slip away.
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Yeah. But, no, first I want to see them do it right. Empower a grand jury, bring in Brennan, bring in Clapper, bring in Comey, bring in Susan Rice, Lee Simonico, all of the insiders, and get a grand jury and see what the grand jury says. Because one of those, if the grand jury hands down indictments – one of those will flip and rat on everybody else. It’s which one would do it first. It’s just based on what they’ve done in the past, one of them is not going to risk jail time to keep quiet.
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I can’t argue with you on that one. And again, it’s just going to be a matter of, as you know, John, just a matter of, you know, what actually gets opened up. How deep did this go? You know, was Obama smart enough to insulate himself in any ways? In other words, can he come back and say, well, you know, I approved X, Y, and Z. I can’t do his accent, but, you know, I approved X, Y, and Z, but I didn’t approve ABC.
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Right. And that would be his, unless somebody who’s in the room with him, if he did it, comes out and says, no, I was sitting there in the same room. He said it. He said do it, which is all conjecture right now because we don’t have the full thing. Right. But what I’m saying is we have to have some follow through. Do you remember? Are you old enough to remember the Watergate hearings?
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Oh, yeah. I remember being a kid watching them. Absolutely.
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Yeah. And they were on. And they got to the truth. Why? Because. What did Charles Coulson say in prison? What did Chuck Coulson? About secrets?
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I don’t remember now.
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What is his quote? He said what made him a Christian was we couldn’t hold a secret for three weeks, and the apostles took their belief that Jesus was the Lord. Yeah, good point.
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Well, and by the way, for a lot of you listening, that’s really sort of our mantra here, you know, on our program. One of the things that Charlie has taught me over the years is, you know, basically, you know, Charlie, you know, his two words are people talk. In other words, to your point, John, people can’t keep secrets, especially when the pressure is on. And it’s why I say even things along the lines of Epstein and so on. You know, people talk if they were really, you know, some of the things that I think some conservatives want to be there, if they really existed, they’d already be out in the open.
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Oh, yeah. Well, and here’s the other thing I said about Epstein. Ninety one indictments, thirty four convictions, two impeachments. And how many federal investigations? If Trump’s name was anywhere where he could have been prosecuted for Epstein, he would have been.
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That’s right.
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During the last four years. There’s nothing there. Yes, was Epstein a New York billionaire?
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doing these things before and i think and he hasn’t you know he you know he was never charged this way epstein wasn’t but and i’ve said it before because i i believe this i mean not only was he a dirty rotten scoundrel in regards to the island and all the things that were going on there that shouldn’t have been and so on but he was basically john in a lot of ways running a pyramid scheme if you would in other words he was getting this one to pay for that one to pay for the last one and If you really want to get down to it, that’s essentially, you know, frankly, I’m not so sure he shouldn’t have been on trial for that more so than the other. I think it was easier to get him on the ladder because in the in the vote of public approval, if you would, the latter is much worse than the prior.
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Oh, absolutely. But going back to this whole thing, I want to see it play out over the next six months. Convene. I’m hoping that. The attorney general has whoever, probably be the D.C. court or whoever’s running D.C. for the attorney general’s office, convene a grand jury, a federal grand jury, and present all the evidence and let it go where it may. That’s the only way we would get honesty out of it.
SPEAKER 03 :
And this is one of those where, John, I’m going to agree with you on this one because this is different than the Epstein situation because, A, it’s a lot more pertinent to what’s going on today inside the Democrat Party. It’s not just an individual scumbag that, frankly, probably had – had clients on both sides of the aisle. This is directly related to what the party on the left does. And I think between that and then going even farther, which there’s some things out today in regards to, you know, Joe Biden being on Ambien during the last debate, which was pretty apparent he was on something. I mean, those are the things, frankly, that I want to see us dig into. Not the Epstein. I’m sorry. Not the Epstein files. Those to me. are not as important as the two things we’re talking about right now.
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Absolutely. I want to know who covered for Joe Biden the last year he was in office because he was not there.
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No, in fact, probably, John, let’s, you know, knowing, again, having personal knowledge, and this is by no means trying to be disrespectful to anybody, You know, my own father, who I love dearly, saw him today. But I will tell you, John, after being with him and watching his progression and watching what happens to those individuals, I would go back and say that it’s probably we probably need to go back two years with Joe Biden to find out who was really starting to step in two years ago, because looking at the progression, Joe will be in some sort of memory care within the next 12 to 18 months. Mark my words.
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Either that or they’ll hire enough people.
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Well, yeah, when I mean memory care, it may not be in a facility, but somebody will be with him 24-7.
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Well, we have a morning radio show out of Cheyenne, Casper, and he talks about how he took four years off of his radio career to go take care of his father who was dying of dementia. And he said, He was saying in 2020, 2021, that’s the early stages I saw of my father.
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Yes, I can relate very much to what he’s saying, and he is exactly right. And again, our family, we have seen the exact same things. And I think, by the way, John, I think anybody that’s had family members in a similar situation can speak to that. You know, I’m not he’s not I’m not the only ones that can speak to that. In fact, I think therein lies the problem. I think there’s a lot of people out there that know firsthand what we’ve gone through and can relate that right back to Joe Biden.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah. And, you know, you got it. You got to feel bad for the guy going through this.
SPEAKER 03 :
Absolutely.
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Because, as you know, and I had I didn’t have a immediate family, but I had, you know, close family that went through it. It’s hard on the person because all of a sudden. They don’t know what’s going on. Then they become cognizant and they realize and they’re you know, it’s really hard on them emotionally. And you said I’m sure you see it with your dad.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, and it’s funny that you say that, because even while Joe Biden was president and going through some of these things, I said some of those very same things you just said on air that, you know, my heart goes out to him individually while. I don’t respect and or agree with all of the things he even stood for before he got to that stage. Being in that stage, yeah, that is not a fun place to be for anyone, and especially those that are around him. And, yes, my heart in that particular situation goes out to him and his family.
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Well, I just want to know on this Barack Obama, if he was involved, and I want to know who was in charge of Joe Biden. I don’t care about Epstein anymore. What are they going to do? Twenty years ago, a guy went to an island, and he’s going to deny and say anyway, oh, well, they said she was 18, so I didn’t know she was 15.
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Right. And, John, thank you for saying that because that’s my other fear is you’re going to have a lot of finger pointing, even if, and I don’t think it’ll get to that point, but even if it got to the point of what you’re saying, you’re exactly right. You’d have all sorts of finger pointing that, well, I didn’t know that she was that old. She didn’t look that old and blah, blah, blah, or that young, I should say, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You’re going to have a lot of the he said, she said stuff.
SPEAKER 13 :
And how many of these young girls who have been traumatized and they’re now recovering from their lives, are going to want to relive it by going and testifying in an open court.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, here’s the other thing. First of all, are they from this country? Who knows where these girls even are? Highly doubtful they’re from the United States of America, and that brings in a whole other dilemma of how do you even find these individuals.
SPEAKER 13 :
It’s, you know, it was a mistake. for Bondi to say what she said six months ago to realize that there isn’t really a list or anything?
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Well, and backing up, and you’re correct, John. You are 1,000% correct. But let me remind everybody, and this is the problem that happens with a lot of politicians in general. It even happens to Donald Trump, and he’s the president of the United States. You saw the same thing happen. I hate to say this, but you just saw a big trial here in Denver with Mike Lindell. A lot of these people… they listen so hard, so hardcore to their followers, to their supporters, to their quote-unquote believers, that they start to even get somewhat mesmerized, John, by the movement, by the people that are involved. Instead of being straight away, looking forward, not letting all these people around them distract them one way or the other, the problem is that’s really, really, really hard to do, and you’ve seen it even with the Bonginos, the Yeah, you can’t do anything about it.
SPEAKER 13 :
I mean, they got hooked in. Maybe they thought there was more than there was. They found out it was, you know, there is no smoking gun. And now they have to, you know, just regret it, I guess would be the term.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, and I’m afraid that, yeah, that is the case. And again, this is my analysis. You know, John, it’s me talking. I don’t know those people individually. I don’t know Bongino. I don’t know Patel. I’ve interviewed both of them in the past, but I don’t know them individually. I don’t know Bondi. I’ve never spoken to her. Don’t know Donald Trump personally. I’ve never spoken to him. But I do know that the way… movements and things work. And I think, again, a great example of that of late here in Denver, especially is the whole Mike Lindell end of things. I really feel like and I think Mike’s a really great, genuine guy. But I think he got wrapped up with a lot of individuals that not only sucked him dry of money, but steered him in the wrong direction. Yeah, well, I still have my pillow. And it’s great pillow, by the way.
SPEAKER 13 :
Oh, absolutely. I love it.
SPEAKER 03 :
But really quick, John, I think it’s one of those things that even us as supporters, we have to be very careful to make sure that we are always looking at a constant in our own lives, not letting any type of news article, politician, anything else out there. sway us one way or the other we need to be our own people is my point and not get caught up in a in a you know quote unquote movement and that’s one of the fears that i have in general especially on our side happens on the left as well so it’s you know we’re not the only ones that can go through this the other side can’t as well it’s a human behavioral trait that happens but we have to be really careful to not have that affect us
SPEAKER 13 :
You know, that’s one of the things that comes with age is the wisdom to know you can’t believe most of anything and you have to do your own research.
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You know, again, not to sound morbid, but I was just telling Charlie through the break, there was a story I was reading right before coming on air where a gentleman went in for cataract surgery, and the doctors, nurses, and so on, you know, anesthesiologists, the doctor doing the surgery, there’s always assistants. It sounds to me like there was probably five, six people in the room. They’re all playing music bingo. In other words, if a song comes on and it starts with a B, then it’s, you know, you get it. B-I-N-G-O. You understand how bingo works. Well, they played music bingo, and I guess they do this from time to time as they’re all in there doing surgeries and so on. It had never had any issues. Well, guess what? Somehow they kept turning, somebody was turning the alarms off that were basically alarming the staff that this guy was in cardiac arrest and they didn’t really notice anything until he turned blue. I’m guessing because they were all distracted playing music bingo. Now, cataract surgery is supposed to be like a 10, 15-minute procedure. You’re in, you’re out, not a big deal. Point with Michael Bailey a moment ago, you never know. And I’m not trying to make light of this situation or make fun of it. It’s very serious what happened. And I was just telling Charlie during the break that these are medical professionals and these things shouldn’t happen. But guess what, folks? They do. Stuff happens. Mistakes happen. They shouldn’t, but they do. So point being, when it comes to Michael Bailey, not to belabor that, but you just never know. Make sure your stuff’s in order. So if something were to ever happen, you’ve at least got everything dialed. And even in his case, you know. even if he would have had some sort of a recovery of that but maybe he’s not totally you know not totally capable after that do you have your living wills and power of attorneys and all those sorts of things are all of those things done and ready to go because if not it makes for a real real messy situation in times like that so again just add back in michael bailey to that because you just never know and make sure things are dialed in but back to what we were talking about with John from Cheyenne and, you know, the election interference, the potential election. It sounds like literal election interference because they manufactured the entire Russian hoax. So it really was election interference. And even things were happening after Trump was elected. And then who was in charge when Joe Biden was not himself, which I believe was the second half of his presidency. How cognizant was he during the first half? I don’t know. I have to go back and look at some tapes and different things. And so I personally think fairly cognizant because the way that disease works is this is the other thing that most people don’t know. But the way that disease works is you can have very, very cognizant times where anybody around you wouldn’t know you had a thing wrong. But an hour later, that person could be in a totally different world. They literally can be like in La La Land. I have no other way to describe it. They’re not there. Their mind just, and sometimes you could literally be speaking to them, and they can be cognizant one sentence, and this is not an exaggeration, the next sentence. So you add something back in, and they can come back with some response where you’re just wondering, where did that come from? And again, folks, I’ve experienced these things firsthand, so I’m not trying to talk bad about anybody, Joe Biden especially. It’s a disease, and it’s the way that disease works. You’ve heard me interview folks on Wednesdays on health and wellness talking about Alzheimer’s and dementia and the things that happen. And why no one on the Biden side of things has admitted to any of this yet, I think it’s because they realize that if they did, A lot of what he may have done in the last year or so of his presidency, you might have to go back and redo. It’s probably why they’re not saying anything. That’s my prediction, my guess as to what’s going on. Because when they’re signing and doing things, when they’re not really mentally there all of the time, now it’s a matter of were they mentally there when they signed X or were they not there? Because those types of individuals, the other thing is, depending upon the individual, you can coax them into doing all sorts of things that they may not do otherwise because they’re not cognizant of what’s going on around them. So I don’t want to get into a lot of details and depth. And any of you that have had family members or you’ve cared for anybody along those lines, you know exactly what I’m talking about. But reality is I have no idea where Joe’s at on that timeline. The family has been extremely, extremely vague on where he is on that timeline for obvious reasons. I am thoroughly convinced that part of why they pulled him out and allowed Kamala to run was because of that and no other reason. After his one debate, they just realized how bad it was and that he was not going to be able to continue on. And there was no way he was going to finish things out all the way down the back stretch. It just wasn’t going to happen. And somebody finally decided to pull the plug. And I truly believe it’s because of the disease he has and no other reason. And they’ve not admitted that yet. Now, here’s my prediction. And I think I’m going to be pretty spot on on this condition or on this particular prediction. At some point, his whole condition will come out. Somebody internally, because like Charlie says, people talk. At some point, somebody will make a book. It’ll maybe even turn into a movie as to what he was actually doing at that time. And by the way, that might be a decade down the road or more. But that will come out at some point where people will talk about what actually happened in his presidency. And I do predict that will come out. Now, I do believe that they will keep a lid on that as long as they possibly can. And those that have really bought into that particular regime, you know, bought into that end of things, they will not say anything. They’re sworn to secrecy and won’t say anything until X time has passed. But once that time has passed, mark my words, somebody will say something. Yeah, well, that’s the other thing Charlie just said. Once he passes away, yeah, it’ll all come out then. Because at that point, what’s done is done. The only thing about that, Charlie, that I would ask is if he expires, let’s say he passes away in the next couple of years and some of that is still soon enough that you would have to go back in and redo some things that he did at the end of his presidency. Maybe not. That would be the only caveat to that would be, you know, when when when would he pass? And the problem is no one knows. There are folks that have Alzheimer’s and dementia that can live a very long time with that disease and live a very healthy and long life. They just don’t have their wits about them, I guess you could say. And some don’t do very well because, well, at late stages of Alzheimer’s and dementia, they tend to not want to eat correctly. They lose weight in turn because of that. Their taste buds actually change as time goes by. They no longer want the normal things that they used to like. In fact, in late stages, Alzheimer’s, they become to where they really like. This is what’s so ironic. They get to the point where they like very sugary things. which is the opposite of what they need because the disease they have, sugar, is actually making it worse. But that’s what they crave. And how do I know this? Because I’m going through this right now. So these are things that happen that, by the way, most people don’t know because they’ve never been through it. And I get it. Every case of Alzheimer’s is a little bit different. But a lot of these things are pretty routine. And so it’s a matter of where is Joe, Joe Biden, in this timeline? Because I can tell you right now, I’m not a doctor, but he has got every single indicator that he has some sort of Alzheimer’s and dementia, if not both combined, and I would say that he’s in the later stages of. And I’m not a doctor, but I’ve seen enough of it where I can tell you that that’s where he’s at. So at some point, this will all come out. And I’m like John from Cheyenne a moment ago. I’m more concerned about that, what happened in the later stages of his presidency, decisions that were made, pardons that were made, things along those lines. I’m more concerned about that and then what was going on here with Obama and the Russian hoax. I would rather know about that than Epstein. That’s just me. Some of you I know would argue with me on that, but that’s me. I think that’s a lot more pertinent what’s going on with the country today than some of the other stuff. So I’ll take a break. Come back. I got more to talk about here during this first hour. We do have guests joining us here throughout the rest of the show. I apologize. I should have mentioned that we’ve got a guest joining us at four o’clock and another one at five o’clock as well. Cub Creek Heating and Air Conditioning is going to be up next, and it’s hot right now. It’s still 94 degrees. It doesn’t look as hot outside because of the way the atmosphere, the way the clouds look, but it is hot. 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Got an interesting text from somebody a moment ago, which this one I can’t argue with whether this would pan out or not. I don’t know. But in the Russian hoax situation with Obama, if it came down to where it looked like he was going to end up being, you know, tried and all of that, of course, he’d have to be tried. You’d have to have a full bore. you know, jury trial and so on for him to be convicted. And then Trump would come in afterwards and pardon him. Yeah, that’s a fantastic idea. I don’t know that it would ever get to that point, nor do I. I’ll just be honest. I don’t want it to get to that point. I want it all. I want all the dirty laundry out there. I want the world to know what the Obama administration did at that time, him and all of his cronies. So I want that to be made known. I’m like John, though. I don’t know that I want a previous president on trial saying, no more than I wanted Trump going through some of the things that he went through. I don’t want that. I think those are black marks on the country that we don’t need. On the same token, I think Obama is a very sleazy, and I’ve always said this, I think he’s a very sleazy individual. And do I want him to be held accountable for some of the things that he did when he was in office? Absolutely. It’s a matter of how is all of that done. All right. I hate doing this because, you know, I hear different people from time to time that are out there. And I don’t want to spend much more time on this because I spent a lot on it already, not only here on this program, but on Drive Radio as well. But there’s a lot of talk right now about EVs. And everybody’s wondering, you know, what’s going to happen with them. A federal judge ruled that Donald Trump doesn’t have the power to withhold money from the EV charge stations that a lot of the states, Colorado included, are going to be putting money into. And that money has been withheld. There’s lawsuits going that direction and so on. I frankly don’t think we should spend any money on that taxpayer money. on that. If those things are going to survive, they should survive on their own without us putting them in. Gas stations don’t get money, don’t get my tax money to be put up and installed. The come and goes and Mavericks and so on that you see getting put up all around town, that’s not being put up with your tax dollars. Those are being put up because of capitalism. And I think that charge stations should be the exact same way. I don’t think we should be funding those. But there’s all sorts of questions on, you know, what’s the future of EV and so on. I’m going to talk a little bit more about this later in the program as well because I was talking to some folks over the weekend about this. But as I was listening even to some of the programs that are on air, not only here but on other stations and so on, I’ll just tell you straight up. There are a lot of quote-unquote car experts, and I think they are experts when it comes to the automotive industry. Although I will say this, they’re not EV experts. They act like they are, and they give a lot of information out that would make you think that they are, but I’ll just tell you straight up from listening to them, not only as a car guy myself, and I’ve been in the auto industry my entire life, and to a large extent still am, but not only that, I’ve owned EVs since 2020. Again, something most journalists, even car journalists, don’t do. Some do, and there are some good ones out there that own EVs, and I think they can speak to what I’m going to talk about here in the same way that I am. But unfortunately, there’s a lot of folks inside of the car world, the car journalism world, and so on, that are quote-unquote experts. but not on EVs. And the reason I say that is because they’ll get asked questions at different times, and the answers they give, I’ll just tell you straight up, are flat wrong. They’re not correct. For example, how long does it take to charge an EV? And here’s the answer. It depends. And some of you are going to say, what do you mean, John? It depends. And what I mean by that is it depends on… Literally, not only the type of charging station that you’re using, but its amperage, because even in a level two charger, which is a 240 volt charger, even those can be 30, 40 or 50 amp chargers. And by the way, some of them can be the charger itself can accommodate 30 volts. 40 or 50 amp but it depends upon the wiring in the home what’s the home able to provide and so on so even though it can be up to a 50 amp charger that doesn’t mean it’s going to charge at 50 amps in fact in some cases it may not even be able to charge much above 20 or 25 amps And the chargers, by the way, will tell you what they charge at, what their rate is. They’re all very sophisticated as far as that goes. But when somebody asks, you know, how long does it take to charge an EV? And they give some answer back of, well, you know, it takes, you know, all night long to charge your EV. That’s not really the right answer. And by the way, that tells me that’s a non-EV owning expert that’s trying to give you an expert opinion on EVs. So it really does come down to what is your – if you have a level 2 charging station, which is, again, runoff of 240 volt, Depending upon how that’s wired, how far from the breaker panel it is, what gauge wire they used, what kind of breakers in it, and so on, it’ll have a lot to do with what capacity the charger will even charge at. Now, some chargers you buy a 30-amp, 40-amp, or 50-amp, depending upon its setup. Some of them have the ability. I have one that has the ability to regulate between each one of those. But I’ll just tell you, in my case, I’ve got it set because of a lot of the things I just mentioned. Mine’s 30-amp. I don’t have a 50 amp charger. Mine’s 30. So depending upon your EV, and this is the other factor that comes into play. It depends on the EV, by the way. What size of battery does it have? In other words, the heavier the vehicle and the heavier, I’m being as simplified here as I can. But the heavier the vehicle and the heavier the battery system, the longer it’s going to take to charge it up to full capacity. Because, again, it’s like a gas tank. That battery is like a gas tank. The larger the tank, the longer you sit at the pump. Think of it that way. EVs are no different. The larger the battery… And the more capacity it has to drive that vehicle further, then the longer it’s going to take, depending upon if you’re on a level two charging 120 volt, you’d be there forever. So don’t even think about level one charging. But level two charging, even out of your garage or at some place that has level two capacity, you could spend quite a little bit of time and money filling up, quote unquote, recharging one of the larger SUVs, etc., that now are on the marketplace, and you take like a Hummer, for example, you take one of the Hummer EVs, yeah, that one could very easily take you all night to charge up. Now, in my case, where I’ve got a Chevy Equinox that’s Not on the low end scale. It’s not like a Nissan Leaf, but it’s not a Hummer. That particular vehicle, I can typically get about 50 miles or so, 40 to 50 miles an hour out of a charge. So if it’s got a 200 mile range, do the math. There you go. That’s how long it takes to charge. And these are things, by the way, that I think when people ask specific questions, they want specific answers. But a lot of these journalists, I’ll just tell you straight up, they don’t know because they don’t own one. And even when they’ve test drove one, depending upon how they’re recharging their vehicle, their test vehicle, they have no idea some of the things I just mentioned. And then on top of that, some vehicles, not all, because some EVs, this is an option. Some EVs have what we call fast charging, which is DC charging. As I said many times, the batteries on any EV are all direct current DC. They’re DC batteries. That’s the only way you can do it. There is no other option. They’re not AC. They’re DC. So if you have AC power that you’re trying to charge your DC batteries with, the car itself has the ability to convert from AC to DC to charge the DC batteries. Now, if you find the right charging station, and there’s very few of these at a home because they’re super expensive. Yes, some very wealthy people have DC chargers, and I mean very wealthy people because when I’m talking expense-wise, a DC charger is somewhere. I’d have to look to get new figures on this. I don’t think that’s changed much, but you’re probably $25,000 to put in a DC charger. It’s half as much as the vehicle you bought. Very few people are going to spend that kind of money to do that. And some fleets will do that because they’ve got the ability then to charge their fleet vehicles up much faster. But very, very, very few people that own EVs have a DC charger, fast charger. But like here at the station, they just Charlie and I watched him build a fast charge station. Tesla owns it. It’s literally out our back window here at the station in the parking lot of the H Mart, which is directly west of us here at the station. They just put in, I think, a dozen stations. I want to say Charlie roughly 16. OK, so 16. I didn’t count them, but 16 stations. So they just put in 16 stations. Those are D.C. stations. Those, you know, some of these guys that are rolling into those stations, they can roll in there. And I don’t know exactly how the Tesla system works as far as the charging and what it costs and so on. But they can roll in there and do a complete recharge in probably at most half an hour to an hour, depending upon where. who else is there and how much other draw is happening and so on. But I can tell you right now, Charlie, we’re looking at that. That was probably, and I don’t think I’m exaggerating, that was probably a quarter million dollar investment they put in down here just below the station. And I’m not exaggerating when I say that. By the time they put in all the infrastructure, the transformer, all the things that they needed to make that happen, I guarantee you, the parking lot, the installation itself, I mean, we watched them do all of that. I guarantee you it’s at least 200 grand if it’s a nickel to put that in. Same reason why you don’t see those in a home situation. So when people say, well, how long is it going to take to charge? Keep in mind that almost every homeowner is going to be using a level two charger and you need to use level two rates when you tell someone how long it’s going to take to charge that vehicle. Now, for most people, they sleep at night. They’re home an easy 10, 12 hours. And if that’s how long it takes to get your vehicle recharged, for most people, not a big deal. Not a huge issue. So again, depending upon how you use your EV, how many miles you travel and so on, you may not even have to charge every night. There’s a lot of folks, my wife included, that only charges up every, I don’t know, third or fourth day, depending upon how much driving she does. So I just want to make sure there’s, I want to make some corrections, I guess I should say, on some folks that are out there that when these questions get asked and they really don’t give the right answers, um please ask me if you have any questions along those lines and you want to know some of these things specifically i can help you with that and then of course the last thing and i’ll get into this probably an hour either hour two or hour three will be you know how how long do these all last and how well do they sell once the september 30th date comes and there’s no more federal 7500 tax credit for them so that and solar i may get into a little bit later in the show depending on how things go All right, that’s it for this segment. We’ll be back in a moment. Paul Leuenberger is up next. 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All right, we are back, and I just got a long email from somebody asking me my feelings on as we get into winter, which doesn’t seem, it seems like a long ways off, but actually it’s not as far off as you think, asking me about tire, tire choices and so on. For all of you that are in the car end of things, it doesn’t matter that you’re a daily listener here, you listen on Saturday, whatever, I don’t care. If you have a car question, by all means, 307-200-2700. 8222, or just go to any of my websites, click the Contact Us, send me an email, and I’ll get you answered that way as well. Any car question at all, always here to help. Love helping out as far as that goes as well. We’ll be back. Hour number two is next. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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