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HR2 Inflation Rates, Trump Claims Employment Data Was Rigged, 8-4-25 by John Rush
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All right, hour number two, Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Great first hour, by the way. Thanks for all the text messages that came in. I think I still have a couple that I may have left open. I apologize. I think I can look at these pretty quick. And, yeah, somebody mentioned in the text message, don’t forget the retirement, that people in office also get congressional benefits. uh or senate office you know don’t forget what they get thank you yes i didn’t forget that so thank you for the reminder though anyways i appreciate that greatly all right article that not article an ex-post that my son richard sent me today he and i had a little bit of a conversation on this we may get into that at 4 30 but this comes from 471 to i i have no idea who 471 to is i haven’t got the foggiest idea uh update of a november 23 post My main thesis is that 2020 has been a turning point and that great dynamics are developing consistent with entry to the great global depression, a multi-decade deflationary event that will plague generations. There are five reasons for deflation. Global debt is so much that it cannot be paid. I’ll talk about that in a moment. Debt-based systems must end with deflation since debt cannot be inflated away. When all money is created as debt. And that’s not totally true. I’ll get into that as well. East-West power cycle. He goes on to talk about globalist obsession with climate change-based control. Well, some of that’s already being obliterated with Donald Trump. Longer life expectancy and aging demographics. That’s also not true. 100% true. We’re not necessarily living a lot longer than we were. In fact, there’s some folks out there that because of COVID, and I’m one of these, by the way, that because of COVID, and some of the things that are happening, I was reading an article, by the way, before coming on air talking about how more young people Folks in their 30s and early 40s are being diagnosed with colon cancer and or are getting screened and finding issues and getting those issues dealt with and so on. But keep in mind that back in the day, Charlie, I believe it was you didn’t get colonoscopies until 50 and above. There are people now in their 30s getting colonoscopies. That was never heard of prior to COVID in the vaccine, by the way, is what I blame that on. So number four here, he’s already off base. Well, he’s off base on several things, but number four, he’s definitely off base on. Number five, chemical and plastic pollution killing fertility rates. Okay, I’ll agree with him there. I don’t know that it’s necessarily chemicals and plastic pollution. There’s lots of factors involved. that are that are the cause of in my opinion low fertility rates and maybe that’s something that i can even get on uh get into i should say with dr kelly victory at some point because i think there’s lots of factors including the vaccine that have to do with fertility rates and we talk about that with her on thursdays but uh that particular topic he’s i’m not saying he’s wrong this is another one of these areas where as we read through things that people put out is he partially right yes But is he fully right in this? No, he is not. So anytime somebody’s partially right, I go all the way back up to number one. Global debt is so much that cannot be paid. Says who? Says who? We’re paying ours. I don’t like it. I don’t like having $34 trillion in debt, but we’re paying it. Yes, it’s on the backs of us, our kids, our grandkids. I understand all of that. Now, on the same token, this is something that people like him tend to forget. Yes, we have $34 trillion in debt, but our asset base is still much larger than what we owe by a long shot. I mean, just look at what we own nationally. And granted, in some cases, it’s the states or cities that own some infrastructure. But as a country as a whole, look at the massive amounts of infrastructure we own. Look at the massive amount of property that all state and federal land combined together, by the way, is about 30 percent of the lands in the country, which, in my opinion, is still far too much. And some of that should be sold off and pay down some of the debt. But I could keep going as to the amount of things that we as a country own. All of our oil and gas reserves, we have coal reserves, we have gold, we have silver, we have uranium. We even have some of the precious metals that we now import. We just have to figure out how to get them out of the ground without the tree huggers throwing a major fit. So reality is we have a lot. timber, and on and on we go. I mean, there’s a lot of resources that we as a country have that far, far, far outweigh the $34 trillion that we have in debt. Now, again, I’m not making light of the $34 trillion. You guys have heard me talk about that over and over and over again. It’s too much. It needs to get paid down. We have got to get spending under control. It’s absolutely ridiculous that it’s gotten to that point. There’s no reason for it to do that other than the Democrats like spending money. Republicans like spending money as well, but the Democrats like spending it more than Republicans. So we’ve got to get back to a point in the country where things get balanced out. I know Trump is doing his hardest to even make ways in regards to tariffs and things like that. And, yes, we’re starting to fill back in the coffers with things. But, again, these are things where I read these posts. And you always have to take a post with a grain of salt. I say that a lot, folks. Because are some of these guys right? Yes. But are they always right? I don’t know. I don’t know this gentleman. I don’t know. It might not even be a gentleman. It might be a lady. I have no idea. And I don’t know how many predictions they’ve made that are right. I do know this. There’s a lot of folks out there on the doomsday end of things, which is what this really is, that make posts constantly that are seldom right. They’re seldom right. And it’s not that you can dispel everything that they say because they’re seldom right, but you’ve got to take everything that they say with a grain of salt and really look at it and say, okay, there might be a little bit of truth here, like I was talking about with fertility rates. There may be a little bit of truth there. But in other cases, he’s way off base. He or she, this person, is not correct. The East-West power cycle he talks about, the deglobalization is also at work with Western order being broken and the rest of the world trying to reorganize in a variety of poles, bricks, Islamic pole and so on. Well, yes, we’re deglobalizing because that’s what Trump wants to do, which thank you. I’m glad he’s doing that. I don’t see the rest of the world, frankly, being able to catch up. In fact, the more we deglobalize things and the more that we get back into control, which is what we’re doing through tariffs and so on, the farther ahead we stay in regard to those countries. In fact, there was another post that went out just today, just actually I think just a few minutes ago, talking about how India is mad at the Trump administration for They feel like they’re being targeted by the United States and European Union for importing oil from Russia. Yeah, you knuckleheads, stop doing it. Because when you import oil from Russia, you’re doing nothing but lining their pockets so they can continue to fight Ukraine, you bozos. I mean, this isn’t rocket science. You guys are smarter than this, I thought. I mean, you send some of your best and brightest over here as programmers and all sorts of other things. I thought you were smarter than that, but evidently you’re not too bright. Again, this isn’t rocket science. This is pretty easy to figure out. Yeah, we’re going to sanction you and we’re going to make a statement because we don’t want you buying Russian oil, you bozos. How hard is this? I guess for the Indian nation, very hard. You know, the nation of India, very hard, I guess. I mean, this has to be one of the dumbest posts I think I’ve ever read. You know, India is not only buying massive amounts of Russian oil, they are then, for much of the oil purchase, selling it in the open market for big profits. So not only are they buying it cheap from Russia, they’re reselling it and making money on it. Stop, you knuckleheads. Again, do some of these foreign countries, do they not have a brain? I guess evidently they don’t. I mean, I would have thought this one they could have seen right in front of their face, but evidently they don’t. So, again, I go back to this other post talking about the East-West power cycle. Folks, the West is still in control. As much as the Marxists and a lot of the communists that live in this country don’t want us to be in control, we are. And no, we don’t have a president right now that’s on an apology tour going worldwide, apologizing for being in control like Obama did. We’re not doing that right now. We’re doing the opposite. We’re actually telling other countries, yes, we are in control, yes, we are the biggest buyer, and you’re going to do it our way or suck it up and do something else. Thankfully, we have a president now willing to actually say that and tell other countries that this is how it’s going to be, and no, we’re not kowtowing and bowing down to you. It’s high time we actually did that. So, again, so many things this guy is saying that for those of you that listen to some of these things and read some of these things that the entire, you know, we’re going to enter into some sort of a great global depression and we’re on the verge of 2008. You know, maybe we are, maybe I’m completely wrong, but I don’t see it. I don’t see any indicators that say that, folks. None. Now, do I think Jerome Powell has been way late to the game in lowering interest rates and could the economy right now be doing way better than it is right now had he done that? Absolutely. He’s behind. But he’s behind for a different reason. Because he and Trump are having a big contest, and Jerome Powell thinks he’s going to win. Frankly, he won’t, but he thinks he’s going to, and he’s not going to kowtow to Trump. So he’s basically playing chicken with Trump on the backs of the American population. That’s what Jerome Powell is doing right now. He’s not even looking at the economy. So I’ll talk more about that in a minute. We’ll come right back. Veteran Windows and Doors is up next. You heard from Dave at 3 o’clock, and he’s got some great deals right now when it comes to windows and doors. And all you need to do is call Dave, get an estimate on your home. But 35% off 1-3 windows, 40% off 4-7 windows, and 45% off if you buy 8 or more windows. Labor to put those in is included. Give Dave a call today. Find him at klzradio.com.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. By the way, the person I was talking about, the 471TO that is on X, Dr. Deflation, he calls himself, perma-bear economics and geopolitics, ocean turbulence professor, Dartmouth College, blah, blah, blah. He’s only got 13,000 followers. Not that that’s any reason to hold something against somebody because, you know, just because they’re on X with only 13,000 followers doesn’t mean anything. Although typically people that have a lot of clout have, you know, hundreds of thousands, if not millions of followers. But with all that being said, I read through even some of the responses that people had to this particular post. And some people are agreeing with him. And I’m just not I’m not one of those. And again, maybe I live. You know, maybe I live with my head in the sand, but I don’t, folks. You guys know that I follow things on a pretty much daily basis. I’ve got clients that are in the business community, the trades especially, that I talk to from coast to coast. And I get a lot of insight into things from talking to not only those individuals but others. And, you know, is the economy as good right now as it could be, as I said earlier? No, it’s not. The money supply is tight. There’s businesses, I think, that want to expand and do things. But right now, because of the Fed, things are so tight that they can’t really expand to do the things that they want to. They’re waiting for interest rates to make a change to even jump out and do some things. There’s folks in the real estate world that are exactly what I just said a moment ago. It’s not that there’s any kind of a bubble. It’s simply the fact that they’re not going to refi or move or do anything along those lines until they actually see the market move, the interest rate market move. So all that being said, the Fed… has as much to do with what’s happening right now economically as probably anybody does. I talk about that a lot, and folks, I’m not wrong in what I’m saying. Reality is, yes, businesses in a lot of cases are still doing well, they’re still making money, but they could be doing a lot better making more and hiring more. And I want to talk about that for a moment as well, because the job numbers, in fact, Trump even fired his Bureau of Labor and Statistics person, put his own person in over the weekend. He’s taking some heat for that because people are saying, well, it’s really not independent if he fires that guy. And frankly, I’ve always felt like those statistics have been in a lot of ways made up. I think there’s some even proof of that where they swag. If you don’t know what swag is, go look it up. But they swag a lot of numbers that they don’t really have factual evidence to back up. So they just swag certain things and they come up with certain numbers. And frankly, I don’t think some of those are true. And I’ll tell you right now when it comes to the employment sides of things, I have got – Folks literally that probably half of my clients are looking for help and can’t find the right help. So if the labor market is really bad, and this is where I think where Trump is coming from, if it’s really that bad, why is it so hard to hire people? And that’s a question I just throw out to people. If the labor market is really so bad, why is it so hard to hire really good qualified people? I believe I know the answer to that. But reality is, yeah, the labor market, the numbers are going to show it down, and there’s people that are not out working, not in jobs. The hiring thing has slowed down. And by the way, the reason the hiring thing has slowed down is because of what I just said a moment ago. You can’t find the right help, so you’re not adding to payroll. Nobody wants to hire somebody that’s not going to work out. Employers get burned so often and it costs them so much money to hire the wrong person that they’re not. So they’re taking their time to hire, especially in a climate like this right now. So that’s why you’re not seeing some of those numbers look better than they should. And that’s not Trump’s fault. And some of that probably isn’t even Jerome Powell’s fault. Some of that is the Democrats’ fault. Let me explain. When you put people on the dole, on government cheese, and you now start to take some of that cheese away, they get mad. And the reality is most employers, myself included, you don’t want to hire somebody that’s been on government cheese, especially now. Because if you’re really on government cheese and you’re there because you don’t need to be, but you’re just there because you’re lazy, do you really want to hire that worker? The answer is no, you don’t. Why would you? If you’ve been hanging out in mom’s basement or doing this or doing that and you’re able to make ends meet because you really didn’t have to have a job because of the money taxpayers were giving you, why would any employer want to hire that person? And the answer is we don’t. I say we because I am one. We don’t. We don’t want to hire you because you’re lazy. I’m sorry, but you’re lazy because if you weren’t lazy, you would have been working this entire time. And some of you would say, well, John, how can you say that? That sounds really rude. Because I watch people do it constantly. And this comes down to how much gumption do you have? Sorry, that’s an old term that my dad used forever. But do you have gumption or not? I can remember him as a kid. My nickname growing up with my dad was Bud. Bud, you got to have gumption. I can still in my mind picture him saying that. Meaning you have to have the drive to make things happen. Nobody else is going to do it for you. You have to do it yourself. We’ve lost that in America because of the Democrats. We’ve lost that. Everybody now feels like, oh, everybody gets a trophy. Everybody’s a winner. Everybody gets this. Everybody gets that. No, you don’t. In the real world, no, you don’t. You’ve got to work for it. You’ve got to earn it. There are no gimmies in the job world. Just because you show up doesn’t mean you get a raise. What have you done to add value to your job and your position to make that employer now want to give you a raise? That’s the question. You don’t just get a raise because you’ve been there. It doesn’t work that way. But we’ve got this whole society now that’s been driven for now several generations whereby they feel like just because I show up, you know, I should get a raise. I should get a bonus. I should get an attaboy. I watched a video over the weekend, and this gal was making fun of her daughter, but the first thing I thought of is my kids would never say that because I would have, let’s just say this, we would have had a come-to-Jesus meeting where her teenage daughter teenage daughter, late teenage daughter, by the way, 18 years of age, so this isn’t somebody that’s even 13 or 14, but 18 years old, is complaining to her mom because she has to work 40 hours a week, five days in a row. And she’s literally complaining that how can anybody work five days in a row? How can they do that and not have any kind of a social life? That’s just unheard of. I can’t do this. I quit. That’s the problem that we’ve got in America today. And that’s my opinion. That’s the problem that the job market and the statistics show that I will agree with Donald Trump in. It’s not as bad as it looks. The problem is Democrats. They have fostered what I just said. I was thinking about this on the way down here today, thinking about how, you know, in America… And I hear this occasionally from different people, and yes, I’m a workaholic, no doubt about it. I am a guy that I love working. I’ve loved working since I was a kid. It’s just who I am. And I never complain about working. Ask my wife that. I don’t ever complain. And this is not to brag. I worked a full week last week here. You guys see what I do. Plus, I work in the mornings coaching and all of that. We had a big remote that we did on Saturday, meaning I didn’t get home until a little bit later than I would normally, plus all the work that’s involved in doing the actual remote. Then I had a client meeting later that evening. And then I worked around handling a lot of my dad’s estate stuff and all of that all day yesterday. I literally started at 7.15, didn’t finish until dark at about 8.30. That was my week. I’m not complaining. I’m just saying that if you’re not making ends meet, if you’re somebody out there complaining about your income, maybe you’re not working enough. I’ve said this many, many times, and I’m sorry to say this, but I’ll keep saying it. If you’re working a 40-hour job and you’re not able to make ends meet, go get a second one. There’s enough time to work 80 hours. You’re talking to a guy that does. You can work 80 hours and still have a life, no problem. So if you’re not able to make it on 40 hours, then go get another job. Go get a second job. And some of you are like, well, John, you’ve always been a business owner. It’s different for you. Yeah, I’ve worked 80 hours a week my entire life because I’m a business owner. That’s what we do. Or you don’t make it. Very few business owners work a 40-hour a week job. Very few. And if they are, they’ve either been very lucky, they’ve either inherited a bunch of money, or the company got handed to them, or, or, or, or, or. If they built it from the ground up, they’re not working 40 hours a week. I can tell you that right now because you can’t do it. And my point with all this is somewhere along the line, we as Americans, we have lost this whole idea of we have to have gumption and we have to be able to be better than everyone else that’s out there in the world. We have to work harder than everybody else. And yes, it’s called American work ethic. And back in the day, we won wars by doing that. Could we do it again today? I’m fearful that we couldn’t. I’m fearful that we couldn’t. Somehow, someway, we’ve got to get back to that whole end of things to where our country has gumption, you know, quote, unquote, once again. Golden Eagle Financial coming up next. Speaking of finances and the future and all those different things, Golden Eagle Financial, Al Smith would love to help you with all of that. Find Al today. Just go to klzradio.com.
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Putting reason into your afternoon drive. This is John Rush.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. I’m trying to get as many of these text messages responded to during the break as I possibly can. And for some of you that are listening online, yeah, there’s something wrong with our streaming feed right now. Charlie and I have no control over that. We’ll try to get that to the right people as quickly as we can. But we don’t control the streaming end of things. That’s all done outside of what we do here online. In the studio, Charlie has some control over what goes out over terrestrial radio. But when it comes to the stream and the feed, I apologize. There’s really not much that him and I can do about that. But I thank you all for listening, even online. We appreciate that. Numerous. I probably had a dozen. messages on the stream being either there or not. They’re working, not working, repeating itself and so on. So thank you. I appreciate that very much. And again, we will pass that along to the folks that we can. Several of you also talking about automatic raises coming from The union, that was kind of a union mindset that just because people showed up, they automatically got a raise. I won’t deny that. I think you are spot on. And Andy sent me something that I thought was very interesting, and this is really solid. Would you rather, as an employer, hire a one-time criminal who paid his dues and wants to work or a reluctant worker reentering the workplace because his benefits have run out? I’ll hire the felon all day long, folks. I’ll hire the felon all day long over the guy that lived in the basement off of his mom and dad that now finally has to go get a job because whatever benefits he’s got is running out or she or whatever. Yeah, I would agree with that one all day long. So thank you, by the way, Andy, for that. Richard, you’re up. What’s going on?
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Oh, not much. It is the hot days of summer. It’s the dog days of winter, dog days of summer.
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Yep. And I told somebody earlier that this is normal for this time of the year. I mean, I’ve read in the news that five straight days of record heat. They hype this stuff up, Richard, to the point where it’s just absolutely ridiculous. This is normal for this time of the year. We go through this every year.
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Well, it’s funny you say that because if you look at the record temperatures, I can’t remember if it’s Wednesday, Thursday, or Thursday, Friday. And actually, I’ll pull it up and tell you. But basically, the record for those days, I think, is like 101 and 105. And you probably say, well, Richard. That’s not that big of a deal. Well, the reason it is a big of a deal is because when those records happened, right? I believe those records happened in, I think, 1980 or something like that, and it was back-to-back days that those happened. And so it’s like, well, if it happened in back-to-back days in 1980 or whenever it was, it very well could happen again, right? It’s not that crazy for… For that to happen, like you say, and yes, is this above average? Yes. Is it hot? Yes. But our record for all of these days is – actually, let me go to it here really quick. So our record for tomorrow is 101. Record for Wednesday is 100. Thursday is 99. And Friday is 105. Okay.
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Okay, so really quick, this is the other thing that I keep looking at because I know just from looking around, I look out here at a golf course, I’ve got my own lawn and so on, and I will tell you, Richard, and this is something that we know straight up, my grass right now is as green as it’s ever been for this time of the year because typically by now you can’t get enough water on everything to keep everything green and things suffer a little bit. Some areas will even go dormant if you can’t get enough water on them. I am not suffering with that this year, so that should tell you something.
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Nope, I totally agree with you, and it’s a fascinating thing to see, like you said, because we’ve had spotty rain, like it hasn’t been consistent, Boulder especially, which is kind of odd because it’s right next to the foothills. It usually gets hit. It hasn’t really gotten hit this year as much as it normally does, but you know, Dad, it’s Again, Colorado is funky. We are a high plains desert. I think people sometimes forget that, even natives here. They sometimes forget that we are a high plains and that we’re a desert, which means that it’s windy. That’s where the plains come in. And desert, we are pretty dry and arid here. And now, don’t get me wrong, we can get snow and we can get monsoon and we are in the monsoon season. But again, we go through a stretch or two of this Every year, it’s hot and no rain, right? I feel like every week this year, it’s actually been like, it’s been hot, but we have the afternoon thunderstorms. This week, there’s not really any chance of rain. But is it that abnormal? Nope. No. Is it that crazy? No. And you and I have agreed on this, right? And people get freaked out about this, even on the right. Is climate change real? Yes. The climate is changing.
SPEAKER 03 :
Always.
SPEAKER 16 :
Always changing, right? Like, it always is doing something. Yeah. And the whole difference between us and everyone else or the right and the left is we just feel like there’s not that much, you know, say that, you know, pumping the greenhouse gases that everyone is doing into the environment is really not changing the earth that much. But again, the dog days of summer, everyone stay cool. Try to get water on that grass. Leave it long, people. I know it stresses you out if you do. But the longer you leave it across, the better chance it has of staying green.
SPEAKER 04 :
Absolutely. Absolutely. OK, let’s talk a little bit about inflation. I was talking earlier about some of the stuff that you had sent me earlier in the day in regards to, you know, the X post and different things. I talked about that a moment ago, which you may not have heard. And so I did a little bit of analysis on inflation for a lot of you that are listening, because you’ll hear from the left right now, especially that, oh, man, prices are still high. Grocery prices are high. There’s an article in Nine News talking about this. So I thought, well, let me really see inflation. Where are we at right now on inflation versus where were we at, for example, for a year ago? So I picked a few items out. I didn’t even go into gas because we all know where gas is. But bread, bread, bread is only up four cents. And again, that probably depends on the brand you’re buying and so on. But on average, it’s up four cents where it was a year ago. But wheat, by the way, is down considerably more. from where it was a year ago but you kind of wonder okay wait a minute weed is down but bread is up so that may even you know bread might even start to come down in a little bit because that’s all done on futures and so on corn’s down five percent potatoes are down 1.6 uh eggs i didn’t look at because they’re down significantly from where they were because of the quote-unquote egg shortage richard i could keep running through it there are a few things like lettuce where it’s up and beef is up and beef by the way could be skewing a lot of the inflation numbers on groceries but keep in mind beef has zero to do with who’s in office right now because herds are talking to my farmer friend kent up in sterling about this on last friday and saturday and the reality is beef herds are adjusted according to where they think prices might go and if they think they’re starting to flood the market with too many cows they’ll pull those back the prices raise They’ll start adding more in. The problem is that doesn’t happen overnight. That’s a three to four year cycle. So what we’re seeing right now is from things that happened three and four years ago, not because Donald Trump’s in office.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, and then you and I and folks, you know, you may think that you’re crazy because you have disagreements with my dad all the time. But he can tell you, him and I have many discussions, obviously, off air about this. And you sort of, we talk through it and we sort of process what’s going on. And like you say, there’s a lot of different things. factors at play. It’s never as bad as it seems on the surface, right? And I think that’s kind of the key for a lot of this, is you really have to kind of dive into the numbers, because the headlines, and you and I have talked about this, it’s not just headlines, it’s people on social media, groups on social media, what sells, right? And you and I have talked about this many times, and it’s fear sells. And so when they hype up, you know, beef has risen by 75%. It’s like, okay, well, What are you relating that to, right? What are you comparing that timeline to? And, yeah, there’s no doubt that beef’s up. I also saw a headline, I think it was last week, that said, while beef prices are up, Americans still can’t get enough. And it’s like, okay, well, so maybe beef’s up because demand is up.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, that’s the other thing that happens. No, that’s a lot of it. And that’s where, as I was talking to Kent on Friday and Saturday, these are things that they try to predict. That’s what the future markets are trying to do. And the reality is, you know, everybody wants to make money, ranchers included, feedlots and so on. So at the end of the day, you know, all these things, they try to do the best job that they can of predicting what might happen in the future. But the reality is, depending upon what the economy is doing, people may actually eat more beef than other things, more steaks and so on, rather than beef. you know, hamburgers and hot dogs and things like that. So the reality is they don’t really know for sure. They don’t have a crystal ball. They don’t know exactly what’s going to happen. And right now, herds are down, prices are up. It’s as simple as that, right? It has nothing to do with Donald Trump. Zero. Tariffs, nothing else. None of that has anything to do with it.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, and like you say, I think that’s a key part of it because I do think that people don’t understand even, you know, anyone, right? You know, from our side to the other side to whatever it might be, like you say, beef, you know, and it’s a long game, right? So what’s happening now to the beef herds really is going to affect prices in, what, two years from now, right? Maybe start a year from now, right? Because when can you start slaughtering a cow? Is it a year old?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, it depends on the beef, the cut, what they’re looking for, and so on. Yes, there are some yearlings that can be, but typically that’s not the case. Most of what you see throughout the country when it comes to the whole beef production end of things are cows that are going to be three to four years of age.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, exactly. So if that is the case, then to me, it’s a situation, like you said, you have to kind of look at it from right now, right? Like, so what’s happening right now is really a result of what happened, you know, kind of 18 months ago, right? At kind of the earliest, obviously outside of Veal and some of the other stuff. And to your point, Dad, in those cases, we probably, and this kind of goes back to the information, what happened 18 months ago, and you and I have talked about this, right? You know, there’s been some droughts. There’s also been some, like you say, there’s concerns because farmers, well, and as you said this, and don’t get me wrong, farmers are the backbone of America.
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s right, absolutely. Farmers, ranchers, absolutely.
SPEAKER 16 :
But farmers and ranchers are some of the most scaredy cat people known to man. Right. And they react to certain things very heavily. And granted, at certain points, I think they have to, right? Because it’s the nature of the business.
SPEAKER 04 :
Can’t argue that. And I did really quick. I did look that there are a lot of cows that actually go between 18 and 24 months. Some will wait as long as 36 months, depending upon production goals and things like that. So I was off about a year. So typically between two to three years. So given that, Rich, given that where there’s a shortage right now, that’s going to take at least a year to two to adjust.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, I was going to say, and so really what you’re seeing now, Dad, is a result of what happened probably in the summer, spring, I should say, of 2023, right? Correct. Because spring is calving season. Correct. And so a lot of what happens is it happens there. And to your point, well, and here’s the deal. We do need more cattle farmers. I do think some of the tariffs, like you and I have talked about, that Trump has done with Australia by allowing them to… It’ll help our farmers.
SPEAKER 04 :
It’ll help our ranchers, I should say.
SPEAKER 16 :
And I think, real quick, Dad, I know we don’t have much time in the segment. Maybe explain why, because I believe Australia, they’re lessening their restrictions on the beef that can be imported, so therefore there’s more demand, which in turn should signal to farmers, hey, you can actually beef up… Well, and for the longest time, and I…
SPEAKER 04 :
For the longest time, and I need to double check this, but we didn’t tariff any of the beef coming in, which, by the way, I don’t think is fair to our own farmers because what we export has been tariffed. It’s not one of those things that Trump is working on getting adjustments on. I’ve talked about that before in the past. So, yeah, part of what’s hurt us in the past and hurt some of our local farmers here, farmers, ranchers here in the U.S. is the fact that other beef could come in non-tariffed. And those other countries have an advantage on price, by the way.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, and like you say, too, I also think in this case with Australia, if I’m correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe what they’ve worked out is to where our beef can now also be exported to Australia, which will help demand, too. So if we have low demand here for some reason, it’s just one more place that we can sell our beef elsewhere.
SPEAKER 04 :
I believe that you’re right on that. I’ll double-check that, but I think that is correct. They have tariffed us, by the way, at 10% is what I’m reading in the past, and I don’t know what the new negotiations are like. I’ll have to double-check that. All right, we’ll come back. I’ll look at some of that, by the way, while we’re doing that. Ridgeline Auto Brokers coming up next. We’re going to do a car review here in a moment. Those of you looking for a car, used car especially, we’ve got you covered. They can help you, though, with advice and are helping you buy a new car as well. Just go to RidgelineAutoBrokers.com.
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SPEAKER 04 :
All right, we are back that time of the week where we slip in our car reviews. I shouldn’t say slip in because we take time to talk about each car that we drive and get into, Richard. So what have you driven lately?
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, Dad, so it drove a really fun compact SUV, or I should say subcompact SUV. This is sort of a new market that’s really, I would say, exploded over the past few years, and that’s, in my opinion, headlined by the 2025 Mazda CX-30. It is the turbo premium plus level, which, in essence, Dad, that gives you an upgraded engine and kind of the top of the line as far as a lot of the creature comforts and such goes, Dad. As far as price-wise, Point on this vehicle, Dad, kind of the base model starts about 27, and you can go all the way to the Turbo Premium Plus where we were at, which is the high 30s, just a hair under 40. and that this vehicle is really meant for, I’ll just say it’s the subcompact, and that’s exactly what it is. It’s still an SUV. It still sits a little bit higher than a typical sedan, but it also doesn’t have a ton of room, right? It’s not meant to. It’s got enough room to put your kids in a booster seat in the back as far as the bigger booster seats, and those with kids know what I’m talking about. You’re going to be hard-pressed to do that. Outside of that, though, this car is really fun to drive, and especially in a more urban environment where you’re tight on space, maybe even in a newer housing development where those garages are not overly large. This is a vehicle that I would strongly consider for people. It came out in 2020. There hasn’t been a whole lot of changes for 2025. But I would say the turbocharged engine, especially out here at our altitudes, may be the only way to go just because it’s a really fun, sporty drive. As far as apportionments on the inside, it’s got a lot of nice soft-touch materials. The Turbo Premium Plus trim level has a little bit bigger infotainment display. It’s got Mazda’s display, and I’ll say it, folks, you’re either really going to love it or you’re going to struggle to get used to it just because it’s a little bit different of a display and an infotainment system than some vehicles out there. However, once you do get used to it and you get it all set up, It’s really easy and really fun to use. And actually, Dad, the Mazda 3 is one of Mazda’s kind of sedans. This vehicle is actually a little bit smaller than that. So you’re actually getting a vehicle that sits a little bit higher up, Dad, right, part of the subcompact. SUV market. And so you’re saving on the size, again, in some cases, smaller than sedans, but you still get that being able to sit up a little bit, see around people, feel a little bit more, feel a little bit larger, right? Sometimes in sedans, you can feel like you’re going to be run over by all the bigger cars, SUVs, trucks on the road. You don’t necessarily have that with this vehicle. But outside of that, it was a real fun car to drive. The different modes you can notice a difference in the shifting and how this car operates. And just overall, you know, cargo capacity, yeah, you might want a little bit more. And there’s other cars in this segment or other SUVs, I should say, in this segment where you might get a little bit more, but it definitely wouldn’t determine that. And so what I would say, I would highly encourage folks, get out, test drive this. It is related to the CX-5, which we actually reviewed yesterday. a few weeks ago, and so I would encourage folks to check that out. But it is seven inches shorter than the CX-5. So if you are worried about length and overall size, but you still want fit, again, kind of the size, as we’ve mentioned over and over again in this review, of the SUV, the subcompact SUV, Yep, check this out. And when you do, again, 2025 Mazda CX-30 at your local Mazda dealer, test drive it, get yourself in it, get your family in it, and when you do, let them know that John and Richard Rush from Drive Radio and Rush to Reason sent you.
SPEAKER 04 :
All right. Thanks for that, Richard, as well. And again, all of you listening and as I was talking about earlier with all the hail and everything up in Cheyenne, some of you may be looking to buy a vehicle sooner than later. And as I said earlier in the last hour as well, that’s a good time of the year to look at vehicles. There’s some 2026s already rolling in, meaning 2025s will be discounted. In some cases, you may want to go ahead and buy a 2026, though, because of features, benefits, things that might be on the vehicle that you may like. Again, it really comes down to, you know, you, what do you like, what kind of a vehicle do you want, and so on. But probably one of the better times of the year to actually do some shopping. And you can go back and look at all of our reviews along those lines of each vehicle. And as always, I say this constantly, I’ll keep saying it. If you ever have an individual question on a particular vehicle, what to buy, I was just texting somebody just now as Richard was giving a review back and forth on certain trucks to buy and so on. If you ever have Anything along those lines that you would like to have me, you know, my opinion on or whatever, by all means, let us know. We’ll answer those questions and happy to do so. And, you know, as a reminder, Richard, we are not brand loyal by any means. We look at all sorts of different vehicles. We own all sorts of different vehicles and so on. So I think we give a pretty well-rounded opinion on all the different vehicles that are out there, what people can buy and own and drive.
SPEAKER 16 :
Absolutely, we do it. And what I would say is, while we sort of get different perspectives, right, you used to give the perspective of, you know, okay, hauling kids around, going from event to event, whatever it is, that’s now my perspective. home you don’t have to worry about that so you can kind of describe it from okay what makes sense you know functionality wise and you’re sort of fun to drive and those sorts of things and i think one thing that people get mistaken at times dad is they like well you know that car doesn’t doesn’t do this well it’s like well was that car made to do that right like Everything has different purposes. You may want a sedan because it’s easy to get in and out of, and it can fit into tight spaces and it’s fun to drive, but you also may want an SUV that’s going to sit up higher and do it, but you’re going to also lose some of the performance of it. They’re not necessarily a one-to-one comparison. We encourage folks to add, whether it’s to us or whatever else it is, do your own research, but also ask away. We’re happy to answer questions and know we don’t get paid by these brands. Yes, we get cars lent to us on a frequent basis? Absolutely we do, and we’ll tell you that. However, we’re not incentivized. We’re not incentivized. We’re not paid by the brands to speak highly of them, folks. So when we do talk highly of a car, no, it really comes from a place of honesty, and that’s all we can do, and we can kind of speak to it. But the last thing I’ll say, Dad, is What we like in a car or we don’t like in a car, you may not care about. You may differ completely from that. It may not matter. And so that’s why we always say, and I know some people are like, oh, you guys are just saying that. No, you really have to get out and test drive these cars yourselves because, again, what we don’t like or what we do like in a vehicle matters. may ring with you 100%, or you may say, Richard and John, you guys are the biggest bunch of silly guys I’ve ever met. That doesn’t matter to me. Okay, cool. Then that may be a great car for you.
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s exactly right. Great way to say it. All right, I’ll let you go. I appreciate that. Have a great rest of your evening.
SPEAKER 16 :
Sounds good to hear that.
SPEAKER 04 :
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All right, that’s wrapping up this second hour. Had great questions, by the way, that came in when I was talking about people and working and all of that. And our next guest is going to coincide with this, and I’m going to dovetail a couple of things into it right when he’s done. We’re going to talk about how MBA graduates from top schools are having trouble graduating. finding jobs. That’s according to a new report. And then somebody also called in and said, when you can’t work that second job or even a single job full time because of physical things, what else can you do? I’ll answer some. Those are great questions, by the way. So we’ll talk to Tom Holland next. I’ll get into that right after that as well. Don’t go anywhere. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 1 :
I’m a rich guy
