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And it’s that time, Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560, Monday edition. Thanks for joining us. Hopefully you all had a fabulous weekend. Met a lot of you out at our event we had at the Rocky Mountain Airport Saturday, so I enjoyed that as well. Always enjoy meeting new people, new faces, and all that. So those of you that stopped by and said hi, thank you. I appreciate that greatly. Dave from Veteran Windows and Doors with us today. Dave, how are you?
SPEAKER 12 :
I am well, thank you.
SPEAKER 14 :
You have some good news for us today because in the past we’ve talked about how the Energy Star rating, and we’ve said this, may be changing. And I’ve always been key to say may be changing because we didn’t know exactly how that was going to happen and we’re never going to do any kind of a hard sell basically because of a change that’s coming. But fortunately, Dave, it sounds like we may have avoided a catastrophe.
SPEAKER 12 :
I believe we did, yes. It’s still, I don’t think anything is definite yet.
SPEAKER 14 :
It’s not finalized, but it looks like it’s heading that direction, right?
SPEAKER 12 :
It does, and really, and they’re doing the right thing because it’s, you know, the effort with Energy Star 7.0 is really kind of a blanket efficiency that doesn’t work, you know, in Colorado. Right.
SPEAKER 14 :
And for those of you that maybe don’t know this, and Dave, you do, that Energy Star isn’t just windows. It affects a lot of different things. It just happens to dovetail into windows, correct?
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, windows are just one of many things. Your appliances and all kinds of stuff. Yep, yep. Okay. It’s basically anything that can alter your carbon footprint is kind of what they look at. Okay. So they figure if you’re using appliances that are using too much electricity and – You know, all of that impacts that.
SPEAKER 14 :
Right. And fortunately, you know, kind of thought that we might see some changes with this administration especially, although this particular situation, Dave, is more of the state of Colorado and what they’re willing to work with or not when it comes to that. So the state’s really just kind of coming along and basically saying, you know, because of the lobbying from you guys’ industry, coming along and saying, wait a minute, time out. This is actually going to be detrimental to customers. This isn’t going to help them at the end of the day.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, and that was my concern all along because they wanted a certain solar heat gain coefficient for passive solar heating, which is great, but not in every circumstance. If you’re in a south-facing home here in Colorado, you want to keep that heat out. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. It allows us to be very prescriptive with the glass. You don’t have to have an added UV filter if you’re south-facing. If you’re north with no overhang and buffer zones and don’t spend the extra money for an additional UV filter, that’s not going to benefit you.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay. So anyways, for those of you listening, good news doesn’t still keep me from telling you all to call Dave. If you’re somebody that’s been thinking about doing anything with windows or doors, especially right now, it’s hot. Right now, currently 93 degrees. It was a little warmer than that. It’s cooled off just a tab. It’s going to be warmer in the next four or five days. I always hate the news agencies. Record heat. No, it’s actually not record heat. It’s hot for the time of the year. I’ve grown up here, lived here my whole life. This is normal. This is the kind of weather that we would normally have. Nothing is abnormal as far as all of that is concerned. But my point is, Dave, on these hot days, just like on a cold day, if you’re walking past one of your doors or windows and you notice that, wow, that seems a lot warmer than stepping 10 or 15 feet away does, or in the wintertime, same is true with how cold it is. And if you’re noticing some of that, not that the window, I want to make sure I’m clear on this too, Dave, not that that window is ever going to be like an insulated wall. Right. But you shouldn’t feel those big temperature swings. Am I correct in saying it that way?
SPEAKER 12 :
Yes. Yeah. No. And that’s why they have those codes there to make sure that the product that you’re putting in is actually going to benefit that homeowner. Okay. But we see a lot of customers putting up plantation shutters, things like that, to block that heat out. And that’s a great Band-Aid. But over time, and not a lot of time, you start to see those becoming yellow and brittle.
SPEAKER 14 :
Right. They’ll wear out and go away.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, because you’re not actually solving the problem. You’re trying to…
SPEAKER 14 :
You’re masking the problem.
SPEAKER 12 :
You’re masking with a very expensive, you know, a lot of those plantation shutters cost more than a new window would.
SPEAKER 14 :
In some cases, that’s absolutely right.
SPEAKER 12 :
So that’s our effort is just to make sure that we’re doing the right thing, putting in the right product so that the customer is served to the best of our ability.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay. And for those of you listening, there’s always a great special at Veteran Windows and Doors. And Dave’s a guy, too, and I’ve talked to some of you about this even directly, whereby if you want to have two or three other people give you an estimate on the windows, and not that you’re uncomfortable with Dave, but just to verify things, Dave’s one of those guys where it’ll be like, yeah, go for it. Have fun.
SPEAKER 12 :
Absolutely. Do it. I prefer to be third, to be honest, just because they’ve usually, you know, you’ve met with a couple of companies and realize that you aren’t really being told everything that you should be. So it’s my preference is to be.
SPEAKER 14 :
Be last.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. Third or fourth so that you’ve already kind of experienced.
SPEAKER 14 :
Come in and be clean up, man.
SPEAKER 12 :
That’s it. Yeah. Like the wolf. Exactly. Exactly.
SPEAKER 14 :
Literally, you come in and you’re the clean up. I mean, you’re literally telling everybody exactly based upon even some of the things they’ve had prior that this isn’t quite right or no, you don’t need this. I would do this instead. And I know you because we’ve had these conversations so many times over the years that it’s very educational. You’re there to really educate the client at the end of the day. If they buy something, great. That’s an added bonus. But you’re there to educate them on the front side.
SPEAKER 12 :
Absolutely. Yeah, that’s it. I mean, it doesn’t matter what company you go with. It’s an investment no matter who you work with. So I just want to make sure that people are making the best investment for them and an educated investment. Know what you’re getting. Just because someone tells you they’re the best window and door company, qualify that. Show me that.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, and like every product out there, and this is where you also have to know the industries and so on. This is true in the car world that I come from where you can look at a particular part, and frankly, there may be multiple manufacturers. Well, there always will be multiple manufacturers typically. There’ll be multiple grades of said part even inside of those manufacturers. In other words, what you may be getting from, you know, manufacturer A on the very low scale could be completely different than manufacturer B even on the low scale or especially the high scale. So reality is, no, they’re not all created equal, Dave. And the window industry is exactly the same way, correct?
SPEAKER 12 :
A hundred percent. Yep. That is why I like people to know. what those codes are, what those codes mean. I’m not going to bore people with a three-hour dissertation on windows or doors. I want them to just understand what this is and why, and that’s it.
SPEAKER 14 :
What do you think the biggest either myth or wives’ tale or misconception is when it comes to the customer themselves when it comes to windows? What do you find most often?
SPEAKER 12 :
I mean, I think a lot of people fall for the big brand names. They must be the best because they’re X. Because they’re X. They’ve been around forever. They’re charging me an arm and a leg, so it must be good. And that’s kind of my point is… If it’s good, it should be labeled as good. It should be, you know, your… You’ll know it is. All of the, you know, how it tested out should be on that label.
SPEAKER 14 :
And by the way, in some cases, it may be really good. It depends on what that salesperson, because every one of those manufacturers, including the big ones, have grades of Windows even inside of their own line, right? Yep.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yep. That’s very true. And that’s the thing. It doesn’t matter whose name is on it. What matters is, was it engineered correctly for where it’s being installed?
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay, so that really comes down to, and I think you’ve taught me this, where is it facing? What wall in the house, where is it facing? How large is the opening? What are you going to be doing with that opening? Of course, there’s a lot of factors going on there that you’re going to ask questions about to determine. Let’s get the right window for the purpose that you’re wanting and give you the most efficiency at the same time as we can.
SPEAKER 12 :
Absolutely. And we run into that quite a bit in Colorado. A lot of the homes, the openings are larger because we have such beautiful views. But in order to accommodate that with a window, they’re going to mull one, two or three windows together in an opening. So by default in that scenario, you’re doubling or tripling the size of that opening because instead of putting one window through. So often I’ll look at it from that angle, too, and say instead of having two windows side by side that open up and down, why don’t you do one window in here, a slider that opens left to right? You’re not sacrificing efficiency, but you’re saving thousands of dollars.
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Okay, lots of choices. And I think just the other misconception that folks have, because I had this on the front side is, oh, that window was this, I need to go back to the exact same window that was there. No, folks, you can you can change that up just to what your point was a moment ago, just because it was that way before. And by the way, the technology as time goes by changes as well. So your ability to do things today that you couldn’t have done in a home built even 2025 years ago is different, correct?
SPEAKER 12 :
Yes. Yeah. The only time we have to really stick with what we call like for like is if you’re in a bedroom and it’s a sliding window that has to meet egress.
SPEAKER 14 :
You’ve got to be able to get out of it.
SPEAKER 12 :
So that’s it. But other than that, you know, it’s fair game. You’re only limited by that, the opening. Okay.
SPEAKER 14 :
All right. Good to know. Any deals this month? I should have asked you that to start with, Dave. I apologize.
SPEAKER 12 :
We’re doing the same, the fair pricing policy where it’s, you know, one to three windows, 35% off and free install. Four to seven windows, we’re doing 40% off, free install, and then eight or more is 45%.
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, wow. Okay, so eight or more, 45. I’ve got to put that in my notes. 45, eight or more. Okay. All right. I appreciate you giving us an update on that. And, again, those of you listening, again, not that it was a heavy sell in the first place. It was just, hey, that rating might be – that Energy Star rating might be changing first of the year. Get with Dave. Find out exactly how that’s going to work and so on. Now that that’s not, by the same token, if you think you can be more energy efficient, be more comfortable, in a lot of cases, Dave, it’s not even the energy efficiency that folks are looking for. It’s the comfortability. It’s the, hey, I want a better view out of this window. I want this thing to work differently. I’m using it different than maybe the first homeowner that built the house wanted, so on and so forth. I want different options, and that’s the other reason to call you.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. Now, we have quite a few customers, too, that have an existing window, say it’s a fixed window now, and they want it to open.
SPEAKER 14 :
Good point.
SPEAKER 12 :
They want it to be able to, you know, they’ve never had that ability. So, again, we’re only limited by the size of that opening. Okay. But there’s quite a bit that we can do in there.
SPEAKER 14 :
The other thing, too, and maybe people don’t realize this, and again, I don’t think some of us think this way, but let’s just say, using that example, you have just one window. Everything else works great. You’re fine on your efficiencies. You don’t notice any warm spots, cold spots, things like that, but you just have one window that you would like to do something different with. You can do just one window, right? Sure, yep. I think a lot of people have this misconception that until I’m ready to do all windows, why should I even have that conversation? That’s not how this works.
SPEAKER 12 :
No, there are a few companies out there that have a minimum. You know, they won’t. All of their promotional things are based on a minimum. But that’s actually why we came up with that fair pricing policy. Okay. Just so, I mean, everyone should be paying the same amount in my book. I think that, you know, there’s no reason just because I think I could earn more off a customer, they have a more affluent home or whatever, it doesn’t mean I should be charging them more.
SPEAKER 14 :
Makes total sense. Dave, as always, I learn something every time you’re here with us, and I’ve learned a lot about just the whole window end of things since you’ve been with us, and I know you do the same thing for our listeners, and I appreciate that greatly.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yes, sir. Phone number.
SPEAKER 14 :
How do folks get a hold of you?
SPEAKER 12 :
Best way is 303-529-0720.
SPEAKER 14 :
Dave, as always, appreciate you very much.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yes, sir.
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All right. Before we go to our next guest here at 3.30, question of the day. Answer this on our Facebook page. What element has the lowest melting point of all elements? What element has the lowest melting point of all elements? That is our question of the day. And again, I do want to say another special thanks to Dave for coming in. I had a couple of different people that were curious about the Energy Star rating. One person in the industry where it’s like, hey, there’s a possibility that this thing’s not going to be what we’re thinking it’s going to be. And I appreciate Dave coming in and really setting the record straight. Now, once again, though, if you’re somebody who’s been thinking about doing anything when it comes to the industry, The window, door, end of things, whether it’s one or all, by all means, give Dave a call. Even if you’ve talked to several other different providers, different companies that are out there, give Dave a shot. And as he just said a moment ago, you will not hurt his feelings at all. You will not hurt his feelings in the least. So, all right, in news. Trump. confirmed that there are two nuclear subs, our nuclear subs, in the region to counter Russia. Trump confirms that nuclear submarine deployment ahead of a special envoy of Steve Witkoff’s upcoming Russia visit because the Russians have been, well, let’s just say, not so nice of late and of course they’re not going to be happy with us wanting them to end the war and so on so that’s not too surprising but i think to show that we this is my opinion to show that we’re there we mean business and there’s not going to be any dinking around like you had with some of the past administrations um yeah there are a couple of submarines which for those of you if you want to go look up what our submarines are capable of i would encourage you to do so because they are nothing to be reckoned with. Let’s just say that. They are a very powerful machine, to say the least. So John and Cheyenne’s next. John, go ahead, sir.
SPEAKER 06 :
So, John, I was listening to Drive Radio yesterday on the rebroadcast, and you were talking about hail-damaged cars. I don’t really care about the opinions because of where I live. Just my road is tough on cars. Do you still get the manufacturer’s mechanical warranty on the drivetrain?
SPEAKER 14 :
Nope.
SPEAKER 06 :
If it’s new?
SPEAKER 14 :
Nope. I haven’t bought, I mean, I don’t know that, I can’t say, John, with, I’m trying to think back in time, all of the cars I’ve owned over all of the years, if I ever bought an extended warranty, and the reality is I may have bought one or two, and this would have been all the way back when cars weren’t good, maybe back in the 80s, but I haven’t bought an extended warranty in the last two decades. No.
SPEAKER 06 :
No, I’m not talking about the extended warranty. I’m talking about the basic warranty that comes with my Toyota. I got five years or 100,000 miles on the drivetrain.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 06 :
Will you still get that if you buy a hail damage?
SPEAKER 14 :
You probably will get the mechanical end of it, but they’re going to – I’m guessing they’re going to most likely. And there was a great video. I saw somebody that sent me a video today where there was actually a person at a dealership up in Wyoming talking about some of these various things. I watched about two-thirds of it and got the gist of what he was saying, which coincided right along with what we were talking about on Saturday. Really quick, for everybody that’s listening, Cheyenne and the area up there got a huge hailstorm. What was that, Friday? John, am I saying that right, Friday?
SPEAKER 06 :
Friday night. If you want to see how nasty it was, look at the first five minutes of Donde’s podcast this morning. One of the guys in Cheyenne. took a time-lapse video, and he has about 30 seconds of it on it right at the beginning. And, John, it’s scary how close he came to a tornado.
SPEAKER 14 :
That and just… But where we’re going with this, for those of you that are listening, because of the size of hail, and in some cases it put… You would think that somebody was literally taking a sledgehammer to some of these cars, and I’m not exaggerating when I say that’s how big the hail got. In light of that, you’re going to see a lot of discounted vehicles for sale in in that particular area. So I did almost an entire probably hour on Saturday talking about the ins, the outs, the good, the bad, how you could benefit from that and so on. And if you’re somebody that doesn’t care about the cosmetic end of things and you just want a really good deal on a new car, and to your point, John, I believe what they’ll do. Don’t quote me on this, everybody listening, because I’m not in that dealer world anymore. But my gut feeling, John, is they’ll void your warranty when it comes to paint, finish, those sorts of things, as long as there’s no… As long as there’s no cracks in the paint, they may go ahead and still keep the corrosion warranty in play. That I don’t know for positive. But yeah, your mechanical warranty, you will be just fine on.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, that was my biggest thing is because you were talking on, well, it was Saturday. I was listening yesterday. You were talking about how the warranty is going to be voided. And then Justin was saying, yeah, you got to be really careful. And I was like, I wanted to ask to make sure that the drive train, the mechanical warranty would still be fully in effect.
SPEAKER 14 :
Should be. I mean, there really isn’t anything that hail is affecting that’s going to have any effect on the drive train end of things. And, again, like I said on Saturday, I bought a hail-damaged car. It’s been now, you know, 35-plus years, probably almost 40 years ago. John, and it didn’t have anything. There was no warranty on the paint and all of that, of course. So this is from experience 40 years ago, but I don’t think it’s changed. But as far as drivetrain goes, I didn’t have any issues whatsoever.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right. Okay. So that’s good to know. I go take a drive by, uh, after closing time this evening and see what’s on the line.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, as you know, and a guy from the dealership explained it exactly the way we talked about it on Saturday. The way that will work for all of you listening is there will be a claim on each vehicle. The dealer knows, will know exactly what that claim is. And as I said on Saturday, If you guys are doing this, get a report. Each vehicle will have its own independent adjuster appraisal done on the damage of the vehicle. You should ask to see that so you know exactly how significant the damage is or isn’t, and then from there move forward. But the reality, John, is in some cases, I don’t think I’m going to be exaggerating here, some of these cars in some cases could be $10,000, $15,000 off.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, and then that doesn’t stop you from also haggling a little, too, once you find out what they got back.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, I mean, that’s always, as you know, John, that’s always the case on that end of things. So here’s the plus side for all of you listening when it comes to the new car end of things. And all of what just happened is really a benefit to you as a buyer because this time of the year is probably the best time of the year to buy a car. And some of you would say, well, I thought the best time of the year was at the end of the year. Well, that’s a good time as well because they’re typically trying to make their year in numbers and all of that. But there’s two good times of the year. Well, there’s 12 times, actually, because the end of each month is one. But the second one, John, is when the makeover, you know, when the model changeover is what I should say, the year changeover is happening because they want to get rid of as many of the, you know, 2025s that they’ll have on the lot because 2026s are already starting to show up. I’ve been watching certain different, you know, manufacturers and manufacturers. And the different cars and the line they have and so on. In 2026, as you’ll start noticing, are either on some lots or they’ll say in transit, meaning those are coming. That means they want to get rid of 2025. The majority of what was damaged is probably 2025. So that bodes well for everybody shopping.
SPEAKER 06 :
And then the other thing is I can write a check and not have to worry about because Justin was talking about financing, too.
SPEAKER 14 :
But you’re better off, and I say this on Drive Radio, so for all of you listening, you’re better off to go ahead and tell them you’re going to do the loan, do the loan, pay it off in 90 days.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, wait, what is it, like 90 days and then they get their cut?
SPEAKER 14 :
Yep, if you do 90 days, they get what they need and you get what you need and you’re getting a better deal.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, yeah, because you always get a better deal.
SPEAKER 14 :
I want to throw that in, John, because there’s a lot of folks that think that if I walk in with a pile of money and a pile of cash, I’m going to get a better deal. Actually, John, it’s the opposite of that.
SPEAKER 06 :
Because they’re not getting their cut.
SPEAKER 14 :
That’s right.
SPEAKER 06 :
On the finance side.
SPEAKER 14 :
That’s right. That’s right. John, thanks. You betcha, man. Those were great questions, John. I wasn’t planning on talking about that, but those are great questions and perfect timing because that storm went through over the weekend. There were some folks that might have been out even shopping on Saturday, although it’s going to take them a little bit of time to get their ducks in a row in regards to the adjusters out and getting claims made and all of that. So, yeah, if you are out looking around and you’re up in that area and I saw some of the videos of some of the cars. I mean, some of the windshields. Windshields. Windshields are laminated glass, meaning they’re extremely, extremely tough. I mean, literally have to take a hammer to pound through a windshield. You don’t just break one and get in by simply tapping on it. It literally is something that you have to take a hammer and… thoroughly beat through the windshield, and I’m not exaggerating when I say that, and yet some of these hailstones were so large, you would have thought that you dropped a bowling ball on the windshield, and I’m not exaggerating. Go look at some of the videos like John talked about, and you can see that, and it’s just, it’s astonishing, so… Dr. Scott coming up next and had a great conversation with Scott over the weekend, by the way, building up his practice. He’s doing really well. He appreciates all of you guys that that listen in. He was talking about how there’s folks even from the Wyoming area that drive all the way down to Scott to have him be their doctor. And remember, you can do that because initially he wants to see you might need to drive down once a year. But once he has seen you and he’s got a baseline blood work, all those different things. Everything else can be done telehealth-wise. So it’s not a big deal for him to be your doctor, even if you’re in Wyoming, let’s say. A lot of people have already done that. So Scott’s number, 303-663-6990.
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SPEAKER 14 :
And we are back, Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Somebody called in, caught the tail end of what we were talking about with John from Cheyenne, and that hailstorm went through the Cheyenne area. Now, from what I understand, there was even some lines where there was hail, and literally 100 yards down the road or 100 yards, different vicinity, it didn’t hail. That’s just the way hailstorms work. It’s really weird along those lines. But, yeah, that hail was up in the Cheyenne area. area other areas as well we even had some down in colorado but on specifically damage to cars and all of that and some of these cars are absolutely hammered uh that’ll all be up in those cheyenne dealerships i don’t think it got down in the fort collins area not that i’ve heard anyways i didn’t see anything along those lines so yeah Those of you that might have caught the tail end of that, what I was talking about is how good of a deal you might be able to get on some new cars because the new car dealer will get some insurance money out of that. It’ll offset the price of the damage that’s there. You can buy the car, determine if you’re going to fix it over time, not fix it, leave it alone. that’ll be completely up to you on that end of things. So, yeah, that was Up and Shine. I just want to make sure I’m very clear on that so any of you listening know exactly. I might talk a little bit more about that later in the program because there’s a few more things I might give you as tips on that. But John Gordon joining us now. John, welcome. How are you?
SPEAKER 04 :
Good, John. How are you doing today?
SPEAKER 14 :
I’m doing really great. You’ve got your own radio show, The Truth with John Gordon. Thanks for joining us today, sir.
SPEAKER 04 :
It is my pleasure.
SPEAKER 14 :
All right. Let’s talk a little bit about the Pelosi Act.
SPEAKER 04 :
Hmm. Well, what would you like to talk about? My thoughts are different than probably most people in America, frankly. Well, let me hear what yours are. Well, just in a nutshell, and hopefully I haven’t grown old and cynical. I know I’ve grown old.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, that’s a fact. We all do that.
SPEAKER 04 :
It frankly appears to me to be political theater. It would please me much more if the FBI would investigate The former speaker, there’s plenty of reason to believe that she is engaged in insider trading. There are very specific laws that preclude insider trading. And the knowledge that one has regarding a particular knowledge about a company that would give them an advantage in trading stock is imputed here. two members of their household, including their spouse, mother, father, son, daughter, even Johnny Carson’s mother’s hairdresser. had to give money back and was prosecuted for trading on insider information that she received. So saying, oh, it wasn’t me, maybe my husband, doesn’t get her off the hook. That’s a non-starter with me. Just enforce the laws we have.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, I tend to agree with you on that. I don’t like new laws. And I like Senator Hawley, don’t get me wrong. I think he’s a really great guy. He’s done a lot of great work, John, so I’m by no means against him. But I, like you, I would rather see, let’s get the things that we already have on the books handled. She is well, in fact, For those of you that maybe don’t know this, there is actually an app and a website whereby you can track Pelosi’s trades, mimic the exact trades she makes, and most people, John, that have done that and used that have made a fortune.
SPEAKER 04 :
I’m vaguely familiar with that. I’ve not been to that website, but I might start going there. I mean, really quick, John. It’s probably now over.
SPEAKER 14 :
I mean, here’s where I’m going with that. When there’s somebody that’s built an entire website and app off of what Nancy Pelosi is doing with her trades, what does that tell you?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, it tells you that it is a mockery, and… Frankly, I don’t know that trading on that website wouldn’t violate the insider trading laws as well. If you have reason to believe that someone is trading, well, I don’t know. I guess that gets pretty elusive at that point. But if there’s a particular stock that you buy and you think Pelosi bought it with inside information, I don’t know if that information would be imputed to you as the purchaser of that stock or not.
SPEAKER 14 :
That’s a great question.
SPEAKER 04 :
It would be a pretty slippery slope, I think. But look, I think it starts with the FBI investigating Pelosi and her husband and pull the layers back. And if they’ve engaged in insider trading, then hold them accountable for it. That’s all that really needs to happen.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, I agree. And like I said earlier, I am one of those where I like smaller government, not bigger government. I think we’ve got plenty of laws on the books right now. In some cases, we reinvent a new law to fix something that we just didn’t enforce before, which I don’t understand why we just don’t enforce what we already have on the books in the first place. Seems to me like that’d be the easiest thing to do. And I get some of this is political, you know, posturing, John, you know, certain, you know, individuals, you know, politicians are trying to make a name for themselves. Not that I think, you know, Senator Hawley is doing that because he’s already made a name for himself in other ways. And maybe this is his way of getting some of that more of a fine look, if you would, from the DOJ and the FBI. Maybe that’s his way of doing so. I don’t know.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, I do think that I have watched the Senate hearings that he participated in with regard to this bill. He appeared to me to be very genuine and very passionate about it. Here’s the problem that I’ve got with his solution. And I’m just being really honest. And people can disagree. But I do not believe that, let’s just say I, for instance, wanted to go and be a member of Congress. And actually I might. I’ve been approached by people that have encouraged me to run for a seat that is winnable, we think. And maybe I will, maybe I won’t. But the point is this. If you’re telling me that my 60 years of work saving and investment have to be – that all my stocks have to be liquidated and that I’m going to have to pay capital gains on those stocks, which will be a very large sum of money, it will preclude me from running for Congress. Now, is that really a result that we want? And I think that – You know, it’s not good policy. I’m not going to give up my life savings to serve my country. It’s just, you know, if I felt like the country was in danger and they needed me, I would absolutely do it.
SPEAKER 14 :
No, I can’t disagree with that, John. I wouldn’t blame you for that. That’s probably a little different take than what our founding fathers had, but we’re in a different time now than— we were back then, and if we were in the same situation we were in back then, I would be just like them and do what they did. As you know, John, some gave all. I get that. But I agree with you. We’re not there today. That’s not where we’re at today.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, and I’m just being brutally honest and pragmatic, and I don’t think it’s fair for the – and let me take it one step further. We pay a congressman, I think, $177,000 a year. Sounds about right. Yeah. It is absolutely folly to believe that a person leaving their home state and having to travel back and forth to D.C., get housing in Washington and travel around Washington can do it on $177,000 a year after they pay income tax on $177,000. And so I just don’t – I’m saying unqualifiedly I don’t think that we pay members of Congress enough. And it’s really good fodder to bash them, but you’re really creating a millionaire’s club where only people that have the money and can afford to do that on their own dime are going to go to Congress. I think that’s bad policy.
SPEAKER 14 :
The only counter I’ll have to that, though, John, is why is it that some of them will go as maybe a low-case millionaire, in some cases not even a millionaire, but boy, oh boy, after a few years, they are?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, that’s a very different question. And I have been saying on my radio show every Saturday from noon to 2 on John Frederick’s radio network in eight cities on 22 a.m. and FM radio stations that that this federal government is rotten to its core. That’s what I want to focus on. We don’t need new laws. We need to go focus on the rot, expose it, put a lot of sunshine on it, and eliminate it once and for all. I did a monologue on Saturday about all the things that our federal government has done that are breaches of our national laws, state laws, and the laws of man, of God, like killing the 35th President of the United States in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963, coming all the way forward to the J6 Commission, which was a farce, and I think the whole thing was rigged, including the murder of Ashley Babbitt and the stomping and brutal, brutal killing of the other lady that was in the tunnel. The destruction of Building 7 at the World Trade Center, the fifth plane, the United 23, Flight 23 that the government now has finally confessed that they are investigating but have kept under wraps for 20 years. All this stuff needs to come out, and I just want a government that’s grounded in ethics, morality – and God’s law, and it doesn’t have to be my God, it could be any God accepted in societies around the world. I don’t know of a religion that sanctions killing people, yet that’s what our government has done. I don’t know of any religion that would sanction creating honeypots to suck powerful people in so that you can catch them in compromising positions and then own them and control them in places of authority. Yet that’s what we believe that our own CIA has done.
SPEAKER 14 :
No, you’re right. Probably the only thing I would disagree with any of that would be, but I don’t call it a religion, is Islam. I don’t look at it as a religion, by the way. It’s a political ideology, and yes, they do believe in the destruction and killing of others.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, I guess I’m not including radical religion. Perfect. And I am not a religious scholar, so I’m on…
SPEAKER 14 :
No, that’s all right. And I would, outside of that, I would agree with you. I mean, I think in general you look at, and again, I think you’re safe in saying that because I don’t see Islam as being a religion. It is a political ideology belief system. And so you might, you know, some would, by the way, John, I think some would like to call it a religion and they want to lump it in because we have freedom of religion in this country, thereby Islam gets a pass, where I don’t think it should, by the way, because I don’t look at it that way. That’s just me.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, when the religious leaders say death to America and they commit acts of terrorism in the name of their religion, I totally agree with you. I mean, there’s no defense for anything like that. But then I have to – I think I heard you say you don’t think that’s a religion. I wouldn’t say that’s a religion that I could recognize. But, you know, if all the religions in the world, the real – true religions of the world could just agree on the Ten Commandments. I mean, what living person on earth would say that you should kill people, or that you should steal your neighbor’s wife, or that you should lie, or that you should not honor your mother and father? I mean, just tell me. These are not Christian values to me. They’re values that we have to agree on. but as mortals on this earth to be able to live in peace and harmony with one another.
SPEAKER 14 :
Can’t argue that. No, I would agree with you on that, and that’s why I don’t think too many people can argue with what’s in there, and more would benefit by knowing what they actually say, I think, at the end of the day, John. But no, this is great, and I agree with you. I don’t think when it comes back to, you know, full circle coming back to Pelosi, yeah. I’m with you. I mean, I don’t think we need any new laws along those lines. Enforce the ones that we’ve got. We’ve got a particular, in this case, representative whereby we’ve got other platforms that have been built to mimic her trade so you can go make money. That in and of itself is a problem, John.
SPEAKER 1 :
100%.
SPEAKER 04 :
And I am not in favor of anyone profiting through insider trading.
SPEAKER 14 :
Agree.
SPEAKER 04 :
And I had a chance… to trade a stock with the company that my father worked for. He had retired from the company and I went into a public restaurant and I saw his successor and another individual who was with another company The look on their face told me everything. They were doing a transaction. They looked like they had seen a ghost when I walked in because my dad was still a stockholder and involved as a director in the business. And I thought to myself, I should go buy the stock. I should load up on the stock. But then I said, there’s not a human person on earth that would believe that that that’s the basis on which I bought the stock. And it would probably end up making my dad look bad, making me look bad. I’m not going to do it. It’s just called self-discipline.
SPEAKER 14 :
Good point. John, I appreciate it. Thanks again for joining us. And again, you’re the host of a syndicated radio show called The Truth with John Gordon. I appreciate it very much, John. Thanks for your time today and for joining us.
SPEAKER 04 :
I love being with you. I look forward to getting to know you better. It’s nice to meet someone who you… share the same thoughts and values.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, we’ll have you back. I appreciate that very much, John. Thank you for the kind words, and we’ll have you back. How do folks listen to you, by the way? Can they find a podcast, do anything along those lines? Do you record your programs?
SPEAKER 04 :
We do. You can go to JohnGordon.tv. All of our past episodes are right there waiting on you. You can also listen to us on YouTube Live, Getter, Rumble, Facebook, X, and I’m sure somewhere else I’ve left out the traditional podcast as well, Spotify and Apple. Thank you so much.
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SPEAKER 14 :
All right, back to the hail in Cheyenne, just because numerous of you have been texting along those lines, a couple with questions, and most of you just with comments. So somebody sent me this post, which this is great. And I just have to talk about this. Sorry, I can’t pass this up. I sure hope all these vehicles that got hail damage at the dealerships in Cheyenne don’t go to the crusher or to the salvage auction. I hope they stay in town and are given to those who need a more reliable vehicle. Two, two, two, two people who don’t mind some minor hail damage. Well, and lots of people followed up, but let me just address that for a moment. First of all, those cars will not have enough hail damage to be, There might be on the edge of cheaper vehicle might be on the edge of, but even if they do, they will get a check and it’ll be determined what they do with said vehicle after that point. In no case is any vehicle going to be given away. Period. That’s not how this works. Those dealerships are there so they can turn a profit. They have a deductible, by the way, on every one of those vehicles that they have to factor in and pay. So, yeah, at the end of the day, there’s not going to be any free lunch for anybody getting a free car. That’s just not going to exist. So whoever posted that, number one, doesn’t understand how business works and is hoping that there’ll be some freebies out there some way, somehow, and whatever. And that’s just – folks, it’s just – I’m sorry. It’s just not going to happen. Ben, you’re up next. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. You know, I just heard this gentleman, John Gordon. Yes. And a couple things he said that I didn’t really take acceptance to, but I didn’t wholeheartedly agree with. One was these guys going to Congress – and they’re making a mere $176,000.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, and you heard my comment afterwards, which was, you know, I guess I get what he’s saying, but why is it that they all soon become millionaires afterwards? Something’s not right there. So in my opinion, they’re making plenty of money, if you ask me.
SPEAKER 03 :
I agree with that. But about their salary alone, you know, there’s probably a half a dozen big office buildings in D.C., that could house all these guys and about the money they make if they’re doing it for public service, as they say. Right. Hey, let’s give them public housing. You know, if it’s better than the military gets. I can’t.
SPEAKER 14 :
And by the way, and again, like John, I wasn’t going to, you know, it sounds like he’s a very reasonable guy. We could probably have a very reasonable conversation on this and come to an agreement when it’s all said and done. You know, the other thing that he’s not that he’s forgetting or he’s not factoring or maybe Ben, he just doesn’t know. There are so many perks that those guys get right, wrong or otherwise at the end of the day. By the way, a lot of them, I think, are wrong. But the perks that they get at the end of the day, trust me. You wouldn’t do all the things you do. You wouldn’t spend all the money they spend, you know, on campaigns and all of their own personal time and sacrifice and so on. And there’s a lot of folks that go there that, you know, like our own. I’m not picking on Lauren by any means, but Lauren Bober, I’m not picking on her. But, you know, there’s a lot of folks that definitely are not millionaires before they go. But through time, they are, Ben, because the perks and what you get out of it when it’s all said and done far outweigh that $177,000.
SPEAKER 03 :
And really, of course, taking another tack is that’s really when it comes to the budget. If they’re real responsible, it’s a drop in the bucket. It’s the deficits that they’re voting or the laws. That’s right. The regulations. That’s right. If somebody said to me, what should we do that’s fair? It’s like, hey, you keep these costs down for the government. And we’ll double your salary, but you have to save us, like for every $5,000 you get, you have to save us $100 million, which these days wouldn’t be unreasonable.
SPEAKER 14 :
I was just going to say, Ben, that’s a drop in the bucket in Washington.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, I’m with you.
SPEAKER 14 :
And I, by the way, and I wasn’t going to, you know, like John, there’s no me. I mean, first time we have a conversation together, I’m definitely not going to, you know, banter back and forth and all of that. But I agree with you. I think the money they make, it’s fine. I think where he was going with this, and I think his heart is in the right place, what he’s saying is, listen, pay enough money on the front side, you’ll have more people applying to actually do the job, and you might have more high-quality candidates wanting to go to Washington, D.C. and actually take care of things. I’m not going to disagree with that end of things at all, Ben, but I think saying that $177 isn’t enough is the wrong way to say it.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, and then another point he said was, It’s rotten to the core. I don’t know if I’d use that term, but what I would say is this regulatory state apparatus, whatever you want to call it, the regulatory industrial complex, for us to thrive, and I think Trump is doing what he can to minimize that, but if you don’t reduce that, We’re overly regulated. Too much public money goes in that direction. That’s less money for the public, more inflation, more debt, more deficit. And so these are not… I mean, any kid that’s doing well in high school can figure these issues out.
SPEAKER 14 :
That’s right.
SPEAKER 03 :
So really, it’s a matter of what are the egos doing that are there, and how much… misdirection and smoke and mirrors are they doing on the public?
SPEAKER 14 :
Can’t argue that.
SPEAKER 03 :
And I think a lot of the MAGA movement is on a certain level of awareness. It’s like that. It’s like we may not be able to articulate it, but we know you’re not being straight with us. So it’s time to make America great again, meaning I think I, you know, less regulation, less inflation, better enforcement of laws, a sealed border. You know, fewer drugs coming in. You know, common sense, like Trump says. It ain’t rocket science. It’s… It’s political science.
SPEAKER 14 :
You’re right. Ben, I’ll let you go. We’re getting close to the end of the hour. I can’t argue that any way, shape, or form. Ben’s correct. And again, I enjoyed having John meeting for the first time. I think we’ll have him back on. I think him and I are going to agree on a lot more things than… than we would disagree on in his approach, again, to the whole salary with representatives and senators and so on. I don’t think he’s going the wrong direction. I just think you’ve got to put some caveats with it, and if you’re going to do that, you’re going to get a higher salary on the front side, then you need to figure out a way to limit the quote-unquote kickbacks that they all end up getting, which maybe that’s a show that I can get into. I’ll do some deep dive into all the different things that they have coming back to them, but believe me, folks, there’s a lot more there that they end up with than just the $177,000. And remember, if they serve six years, they get a lifetime pension on top of all of that. So that’s one thing, too, that maybe John’s not, I’m sure he’s aware of that, but he’s not aware that it takes six years to make that happen. So a lot more to talk about. Two more hours coming your way. Don’t worry, we’ll be back here in a moment. Hour two is next. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 1 :
Thank you.
SPEAKER 16 :
We’ll be right back.
