The latest Ready Radio episode opens with a challenge: are you truly ready for the world we live in? John Rush and co-host Bill Anderson unpack a week of shocking headlines—church lockdowns, a school shooting in Evergreen, and a swirl of conspiracy theories—while urging listeners to focus on what they can control. They question the belief that “times have never been worse,” pointing instead to history, population growth, and today’s 24/7 news cycle that magnifies every crisis. From the temptation to chase wild rumors to the need for practical “red-status” situational awareness, they press one urgent point: evil has
SPEAKER 09 :
This is Ready Radio, preparing you to be ready for anything, now.
SPEAKER 08 :
Here’s your survival guide for Ready Radio, John Rush. And it is that time. Ready Radio, KLZ 560. Appreciate you all listening. And if you’re listening to a replay, thank you for doing that as well. Bill Anderson with me today. Bill, wild week that we’ve been through this week. Let’s just say that.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, it sure was. I was at church all day on Wednesday, kind of out of the bubble, if you will, and people were texting me, are you hearing this? And so, yeah, it was kind of crazy, for sure.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, I was actually on a call when kind of everything started to evolve, and then, of course, had to come down here and do my evening show. So, you know, was pretty engaged, although there were things that I was not able to see firsthand, you know, in real time like a lot of folks were able to do. But at the end of the day, we talked about it, had a good show on Wednesday, had another good show on Thursday, and I figured we’d talk a little bit more about that today. A, not from the standpoint of, you know… all of what happened and the response to it and all of that. But more from the side of, you know, this is Ready Radio. We talk about being prepared for the what-ifs of life. And this is something that you and I have covered here just of late. And then, of course, there was a school shooting up in Evergreen as well. So, you know, I don’t want to continue down that path and just keep belaboring, belaboring on all of the things that we cover there. But the reality is we cover it for a reason because it matters, Bill.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, and it all boils down to situational awareness. You know, that lady sitting on the train there, I mean, there’s no way that in that position I would have sat there. If you have any doubt, any question, take another train. You know, and the culture and the temperature of the world today, you know, I don’t want to create fear of not going to events, but listen, if I’m going to an event, you know, I’m definitely going to have, you know, red status, right? and make sure that I know where to go, where my exits are, position myself in a good spot, and understand, hey, this could go sideways at any moment. That’s the world we live in.
SPEAKER 08 :
It is. It is. And again, these are things that, for those of you listening, you know we’ve just spent two or three weeks here in the last, I don’t know, six to eight weeks, Bill, covering some of these things, and partly because these things make the news on a pretty routine basis. And for those that are out there that would say, well, yeah, that’s because things are a lot worse today than they’ve ever been. Well, You know, maybe on the same token, Bill, we get things instantaneously now news-wise where at one point in time we didn’t. I mean, you may have had something happen that didn’t hit the papers for a day or two. You know, something that might have happened on the East Coast may have not made it into a Colorado paper until a day or two later because that’s just how things were back in the day. Now, because of social media and… literally the onset of everybody having a video camera in their presence on their phone at all times, yes, we get things much more quickly today than we ever did. So I’m not one of those that will go out and say that things are worse today than they’ve ever been. We live in a fallen world. They’ve always been bad. I mean, Bill, I could probably go back and talk to some of the early Christian martyrs and ask them how bad things were, and I think they would tell you that it was a lot worse for them than it is for us. So I’m not one of those to run around saying it’s the worst now it’s ever been, because the reality is that’s not true.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, I agree with you. I think, look at some of the medieval times, and even, you know, in times of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar and Nimrod, and even going up into the times of the Romans there, that, you know, it was much more worse than what we’re faced with. The only thing is, is it’s worse for us because this is our reality, right? We can’t understand what it was like. We can’t, you know, kind of… you know, deal with what it was like in Rome, because we had no idea that was life for them. This is life for us. And the one thing we are facing is it is, you know, in our existence of what our knowledge is, it is going downhill. Right. So like when you and I were born, you know, and I was in the early seventies, I think you’re a little bit older than me, but you know, 72 is when I was born. I mean, it’s, it’s come down since then. And so, um, I understand that it’s probably worse in ancient times and things like that, but the reality is my known existence, it’s getting worse, and I don’t think it’s going to get any better. There’s a part to the news and how rapid-paced we get it and what they choose to do. You know, illuminate what they choose to not bring out. There’s lots of shootings and things that are avoided because of concealed carry people that they never even talk about. And it’s just what we’re being fed is really what also kind of instills the situation and the political temperature and all this stuff where we’re at today. And the fact that we’re having this rapid-paced information, people are also jumping to conclusions much sooner. I mean, you should have seen all the stuff that I was reading. Oh, it ricocheted off his bulletproof vest. No. Oh, it was, you know, 19 hours, the New York Times, you know, preemptively slipped it out there, and then they’re trying to, no, you know, you go back and you look at that. And then with the injection of the AI and all the fake stuff out there, you know, you can do all kinds of things now and paint a totally different picture. So, you know, John, I mean, I don’t know about you, but it’s like I don’t even know what to trust anymore. And it’s like, yeah, I take everything with a grain of salt because it’s like, No matter who the source is, by the way, everything with a grain of salt because you just don’t know. You just don’t know what’s really going on.
SPEAKER 08 :
No, and I appreciate you saying that. One of the things I wanted to cover today just briefly because I don’t want to spend a ton of time on this. Before I do that, though, I do want to say this because while, yes, I agree with you that I do think things are worse today than they were when we were kids. Yes, I’m older than you by about eight years now. On the same token, in 1972, there was 209, roughly 210 million people in the U.S. There’s now 140, roughly, million people. I think we’re about 350 million. I’ll have to check myself on that. But between visitors and so on, we typically are in that mid-300 million range. So keep in mind, there’s 150 million more people in the U.S., meaning that even if the percentages were exactly the same, yes, crime and things are going to be much higher today just because of the sheer volume of of people that are here versus what we had when you and i were kids i just want to make sure that i put that out there to everybody because that’s something to also remember is you know is evil worse today than it’s ever been um i mean it’s never easy bill and you’re a pastor it’s never going away so i don’t want to i don’t want to make light of of that and say that no it’s better now than it was then but if it’s in the same percentages yes it’s going to seem like there’s more but overall percentage wise it’s probably not much difference to be honest with you
SPEAKER 10 :
Right. I mean, it’s there. The existence of it is there. Correct. You can’t put a percentage, or it’s more evil or less evil. It is there.
SPEAKER 08 :
It’s always evil. That’s right.
SPEAKER 10 :
If you’re reading the Bible, if you understand what the Bible says, you know, ever since Genesis chapter 3, the fall… of both man and the world. God has basically turned that over. This is the kingdom of Satan. Jesus, in Matthew, when he’s talking to Satan and being tempted in the wilderness, when Satan said, hey, look all around you, if you bow down and worship me, I’ll give you all of these kingdoms. He didn’t argue that fact. And the temptation was to avoid the cross, but that’s a whole other conversation.
SPEAKER 08 :
And I want to jump back in, because I did want to talk about just a lot of the utter nonsense that is out there about, you know, literally, and I’ve heard this from everybody, and I’m sorry, I’m just going to call it utter nonsense from you. This was… This was the Mossad. This was Russia that did this. This was a way to get back at Donald Trump. I mean, I’ve heard it all, Bill, throughout the last several days here. And the reality is I don’t know. I highly doubt any of those are the reason. I think this was a very troubled young man. His father even had to escort him in, which I can’t imagine what turning your own kid in would be like. And there was out there saying, well, the tennis shoes don’t match him. People, do you realize how many pairs of tennis shoes certain individuals have? Just because the tennis shoes in his dorm room aren’t exactly the same color as what the tennis shoes were coming down the staircase in the image we have there. And by the way, that’s CCTV. Those colors are never that accurate at the end of the day, Bill. I mean, I have heard so much nonsense. I’m just going to call it that. So much nonsense over the last couple of days from conservatives along those lines where the thing that you and I talk about constantly is people want to believe something. So then they interject. things that aren’t real into the equation just because they want it to be that way please for the love of god don’t do that
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, and I think I’ve mentioned it several times on this show in the past. It’s like, you know, we want to be overzealous about things we can’t control. And you know what? Whoever, however, whyever it happened, whoever was in charge, maybe it was a loan thing. Maybe it was a coordinated thing. Maybe he was paid off. Maybe there were more people. That’s beside the point. Here’s the point as far as you and I are concerned. It’s happening, and we need to be ready, and we need to be awake, and we need to understand the times we live in. And you know what? We could easily be in the crowd of the next thing, and we need to deal with it. However, whyever it happens, we can’t control that. But we can control the things we can control, and that is our situational awareness. where we place ourselves, and what we do if a situation goes down, and how ready we are for that. That’s what we can control. That’s what we need to really emphasize on, in my opinion, John.
SPEAKER 08 :
No, I agree with you. One thing I did want to throw in, and I didn’t tell you this yet, but mainly because I talked about it earlier in the week, and I’m not trying to be, I’m always trying to be sensitive, and I understand that some people can get really wrapped up in things, and I had a texter that texted me this and wanted to know why I don’t talk much about these particular topics, and And you’ll know why in a moment when I tell you why I don’t talk about these, because frankly, you as a pastor don’t either. But there’s a rumor out there, rumor maybe, that’s not the right way to say it. There’s a prediction out there running around in Christendom and on the conservative side that the rapture is going to take place September 23rd, Bill. So it’s coming up here in just a couple of weeks. So about 11, actually, what is it, 10 days away roughly. So I hope you’re ready because it’s September 23rd is what I hear.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, yeah. Whenever I tell my church, I say, whenever somebody sets a date, you can almost guarantee it won’t happen on that date.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, I was going to say, we’ll be talking. Let’s see. I’ve got to look here at the calendar. What day is the 23rd? So the 23rd is a Tuesday. We’ll be talking the 26th, so we’ll be here. Trust me.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, because who gets the glory if that happened on that date? Right. That person. That person.
SPEAKER 08 :
That is one of those things, Bill. In fact, Andy and I talked about it earlier in the week. I can guarantee you it’s not that day.
SPEAKER 10 :
It’s not going to be that day, yeah. And, you know, I mean, and here’s what I tell my church, too. I say, you know, we can sit here and we can try to figure out, because, you know, the Bible says you can know the season. You can know the season. And if you follow the trumpets, the festivals, excuse me, getting a little twisted in my words here, the next one to happen is the Feast of Trumpets. But one thing you also have to understand is you have to understand, yes, the festivals do happen, they were predictions, they were dress rehearsals, if you will, for events. But listen, when those things were placed, they were placed concerning the Jews. So the mystery of the Church is the mystery that does not necessarily follow Jewish timelines or Jewish traditions, because it’s for church, not for the Jews. So yes, these things, these events will happen on festivals and things like that, but why do we want to take the church and say, okay, we are now going to replace Israel’s role in all of these future events on these festivals. That’s a thing called replacement theology, and if you start to do that, you’re in a dangerous place. You need to understand that Paul was the apostle to the Gentiles, and he wrote to the Gentiles, and he said no such thing. In fact, 1 and 2 Thessalonians is all about this. And he says, don’t worry about it. Comfort one another with these things. Don’t cause division. Don’t cause angst. Don’t cause fear. Comfort. And go about your business. It will happen when it happens. And the key thing is, is you better be ready to happen whenever it does, whether it is a a bullet shot, or the Lord takes you in the rapture, or a car accident, or you just go to sleep one night and don’t wake up, you better be ready, John.
SPEAKER 08 :
Good point. Great point. You know what? That’s a perfect segue. Let’s take a break. We’ll come back. We’ll talk more about what happened this past week, how to be ready on things. I want to incorporate a few other things into that as well that maybe we haven’t covered in the past. And those of you that have questions, by the way, feel free to text in or call in. 307-282-22 is our text line. You can also call in directly, 303-477-5600. We’ll be right back. This is Ready Radio, KLZ 560.
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All right, we are back. Ready Radio, KLZ 560. Again, Bill Anderson with me today. And for those maybe tuning in for the first time, Bill, give a little bit of your background and history. We mentioned already that you’re a pastor, but give some of your other background as well.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, we’ve been out here at church in the Elizabeth for going on 15 years. So we’ve been out here for quite a while. It’s a Calvary Chapel Church, if you’re familiar with that affiliation or not. But that’s where we are. I’ve been a master electrician since 1999. Been in the electrical field, obviously, for 30 years, because time before that. Have a master mechanical license. So we have a company that does electrical and HVAC, focused primarily on residential and service work. And then I also teach Krav Maga. I’ve been teaching that for about 13 years now, second degree black belt and integrated defense strategies, which is fighting, grappling with concealed carry. I got the NRA certs. I’m registered with the state of Colorado to give concealed carry classes and We live on a couple acres out here. We do our own little homesteading. So, yeah, I got quite a bit going on, raise chickens and rabbits and gardens and all that fun stuff.
SPEAKER 08 :
That’s all right. Yeah, that makes it fun, and it’s a way to learn and grow and then share some of those things with us on a routine basis, which we appreciate as well. So back to, you know, the events this past week, and I know we – We kind of dovetailed into this a few minutes ago, and that is, you know, being ready at all times. And I mean, I can’t stress enough. I don’t think you can either, Bill, especially when you’re out in public. I mean, it could be walking to and from the car. It could be going to. major event it could be out shopping whatever the case may be and it’s easy because of where we live and typically there’s not a lot going on where we live in a pretty safe environment in most cases bill so yes I can see where we can at times get very lax in that because we just go about our day-to-day lives but the reality is we should be on guard at all times
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, a lot of people want to talk about techniques and gadgets and gizmos and what to have and EDC carry and all this and what kind of gun should I have, what kind of knife should I have, all those things. The number one thing is situational awareness. I think that is your number one self-defense tool. that anybody could have in their tool belt. And if I look at something and somebody sees suspicious or looks suspicious, I should say, or, you know, I’m not kind of feeling very well in this elevator or around these people, listen to your intuition and get out of there. Get out of there, you know, get your head up. Because honestly, a lot of these people, they’re not looking for confrontation. They’re looking for victims. And, you know, just like in the wild, You know, the lion looks for the weak and the tired and the broken. You know, it looks for the ones in the back of the herd, right, the ones that are limping around. And so that’s the same point with the human predators. They look for people who aren’t paying attention. They look for easy victims. And most of the time those are the ones that are walking through the parking lot with their head, you know, down looking at their phone or their headphones on and they’re just in another world. They’re checked out and they literally don’t even see it coming.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yep, and I appreciate what you just said there because I feel like there’s – oh, I mean, there’s a lot of truth to that, so that’s not where I’m going with this. But I feel like at times we tend to forget that, and what I mean by that is you can even – give off sort of this, you know, intimidation feeling, which I hate to admit this, but I tend to be that person because I’m, you know me, I’m very driven. I’ve got stuff to do. I’m on a mission. I mean, I don’t have time to dink around. And I kind of exude that. And my wife will say at times that, you know, you can be really intimidating at times. And There’s times where I don’t want to be that way, Bill, because you know me. I’m very friendly. I’m an easy guy to get along with. There’s no issues that way. But then there’s other times where I think, you know, that’s not really a bad thing because of what you’re just saying right now. If you come off as a little bit intimidating, typically those are the people where these other people aren’t going to mess with you much unless they absolutely have to. Am I right or wrong?
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, unless they’re trying to prove a point or egos or whatever get in the way. And I just got texted yesterday. a message from my instructor. He’s a fourth-degree Kravagov. And one time when I was covering the show for you, I actually had him on because he talked about his gym there in Castle Rock. And he is in North Carolina. They went off to their son’s parent weekend at the college. And he texted me a picture of a street fight. And he’s standing there at the corner. And he says, this guy approached me first. and was like, hey, you’ve got a problem, and he said, I’m going to kill you, and used a whole bunch of explosives, and this is a fourth-degree black belt, and you know what he did? He’s like, no, hey, I ain’t got no problem with you. And then the guy went on and found somebody else, and he started recording him, and he got in a fight with some other person on the street. Great example. And it’s like, you know, I mean, here’s the deal, right? Even though I have the skill, even though I have all these tools, I have these things on me, You know, the best fight to be in is the one you don’t get in.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, and there’s a lot of truth to what you’re just saying in a lot of other areas of life. You could have the fastest car out there, which there’s a lot of them, by the way. And all of a sudden, you know, somebody else comes up next to you and, you know, they want to race. They want to pick on you because, you know, they know you have that, quote, unquote, Fast car. Best thing to do, pull away from the stoplight or the stop sign slowly. You know, go about your regular business. Don’t worry about it because the last thing you want to do is engage that because that’s when trouble arises. The same principle there applies, Bill. It’s no different.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, and with road rage and all that stuff. Correct. It’s all about the ego. You and I were texting earlier this morning, too, and it’s like, hey, I can be in control without having to prove to you or tell you I’m in control. The same kind of idea comes along. It’s like in Karate Kid, Daniel was saying, how do I defend against this punch? And Mr. Miyagi says… Don’t be there. You know, hey, how do I protect myself from these things? Yeah, don’t be there. Great point.
SPEAKER 08 :
Great point. Now, in light of that, and for all of you listening, some of you are going to say, well, yeah, but there were a lot of people at this event with Charlie Kirk, and that’s a great event, and a lot of people wanted to be there, you know, not only to support but to hear and so on. You know what? Bill, I get that. I understand that. And I am never and you wouldn’t either. I’m never going to tell somebody to not go somewhere and not to do something, you know, not to live their life. Now, you know, am I going to go to a BLM rally? Well, no, Bill, I’m not stupid. I mean, there’s certain things that, yes, I am definitely going to avoid. But in the case of those types of events, you know, am I going to not go see Donald Trump? And am I not going to see, you know, a Charlie Kirk or somebody like that? Of course not. I’m not going to stop living my life out, you know, just because of fear. If anything, I’m going to go do it more because of that. But while I’m there, and while you’re attending these things, those events especially, Bill, I am going to have my head on a swivel.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, it’s like I said earlier, you know, there’s a fine line here. You know, I often in church say, we’re all sitting on teeter totters. How many teeter totters have you ever seen are perfectly level. No, one side’s up or the other side’s up. And we tend to be extremists, whether we’re being told something or hearing something or even talking about things. And we go to the extreme. So when we say, hey, you know, you should consider… you know, events and things like that, that it’s going to draw this type of conflict, we’re not saying don’t go. Right. You know, that’s a personal choice that you have to make, right? I’m not going to tell you. And we’re not to all just live in our houses like we did in COVID in fear of catching something. Absolutely. I’m not saying that. We would never advocate that. Right. But what I am saying is if you are going to go there, Go there in wisdom and understand, hey, this is a hotbed. That’s right. And so when I’m at this event, I’m going to be watching. I’m going to be checking things. And, you know, it’s interesting. And, again, I saw some videos. I don’t know if they’re real or not, John. I have no idea. But kind of like back in Pennsylvania when people are like, hey, there’s a guy on the roof over there. There’s a guy climbing up the wall there. Maybe he was a good guy. Maybe he was a bad guy. But nobody says anything. Right. And you got to be careful with that, too. Let’s say you saw let’s say you were at the event and you saw the dude Walker because there’s there’s footage out there. I don’t know, again, if it’s real or not. There’s footages of of of a figure walking across the roof line. And it’s like in the audience. How do I know? Is that is that a good guy or bad guy? When I performed at the White House, I can’t remember the year George George Bush was the president, but I performed the magic show. I was a full-time magician for eight years of my life. What an extreme, right? I quit that to take over the church because I couldn’t do both. I couldn’t travel all over the country and have a church at the same time. But I performed at the White House. And I’m telling you, I’m doing my show, and I’m looking around, and there’s… Snipers in trees. There’s snipers in buildings. They were all over the place now for me to go to event I couldn’t I would assume they were good guys. Yeah, good point I mean good way to look at assume so even if I’m seeing somebody cross across the roofline, you know as an audience member I might be like, oh that’s probably a good guy. Yeah, you know, he’s my protection. I don’t know but I’m gonna be watching for that stuff and
SPEAKER 08 :
Great point.
SPEAKER 10 :
For sure.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, no, that’s a great way to look at it. And again, for all of you that are out there that are reading a lot of the conspiracy theories, and they are abundant. I don’t know how else to say it, Bill. They’re abundant. In fact, at some point, maybe you and I can take some time and actually do a show on why at times, not always, but why at times, and I get it, the other side can be gullible as well, but it seems like our side can be a lot more gullible to some of these conspiracies and things that are out there, and And I think I know why, and I think you and I have even touched on that in the past. I’m not going to get into that today, but my advice always is be really cautious. A lot of people are, you know, my wife and I talk about this a bunch. People watch us. They look at us. They want to know what we have to say at times. And those of you that have even more influence than others, all I can caution folks on, Bill, is be extremely careful as to what train you jump on. Because that train might derail and you’re going to be the one on it. And now you’ve lost part of your reputation in the process. And for me, Bill, it’s why, you know, being on air as I am on a literally almost daily basis, six days a week, I don’t jump on any of those trains because I know at some point that Mike might come back. To bite me, Charlie’s always got great advice when one of these events like this happens, and that is to really not say a lot initially until you really know factually what’s going on, even in regards to the shooter right now. I don’t know all the details. I don’t know exactly what went on. I don’t know what his motive was. I know that he’s most likely a very… misled, misguided, and has a screw loose of an individual because you can’t take somebody else’s life this way without having that. That part, Bill, I know for sure. But am I going to go out there and say that he was paid or this was just a PSYOP organization? And if I were to see something different in regards to the shooter himself, then maybe I might believe that that was actually him. I mean, these sorts of things, Bill. I’m not going down any of those rabbit trails because, frankly… I just don’t know. There’ll be more information that comes out on a daily basis. I do know that so far, some of the things that they have said, some of their findings, the weapon itself and so on, even where Charlie was shot in the neck compared to where I think the shooter was probably aiming. I could get into that for a while. I won’t today. But the reality is, you know. When you’re shooting from a rooftop down, there’s bullet drop and other things that come into play. I am one to say that I don’t think he was as good a shot as most people are giving him credit for. He came within an inch of missing. He’s not that good of a shot. He happened to hit there, frankly, just by sheer luck at the end of the day, if you ask me. Yeah, and that’s very possible, right? Meaning, Bill, if this was really some high-end organization where they were wanting this to happen and they’re going to pay this kid to go do it, you know, you could find a lot better shooters than the one that actually did it to go do what was done, is my point. No, I do believe, in fact, this kid acted on his own. We’ll get more information as time goes by. But no, I don’t think this was any big, wide organization run by the left to do what was done and somehow damage Donald Trump’s And the right, because, Bill, at the end of the day, I really think this is going to ignite. This is something I want to talk to you about. This isn’t going to ignite a lot of young people to look at things differently than they were before. This isn’t really what the left needs right now. This is actually opposite of what the left needs.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, if you look at even the CNNs and the MSNBCs, msbc or whatever it is msnbc um i mean it’s dominating the airways and so you know he is getting all the air time right now that’s right and and and if you go onto youtube or facebook or or any of these things that’s all you see is him and usually it’s the clips of him doing what he did right so he’s getting the air there’s more of that going on now than there was prior is your point yeah yeah yeah he’s actually being more uh that’s right celebritized now than he was when he was alive. So if they were going to do that, they kind of, you know, no pun intended, but shot themselves in the foot.
SPEAKER 08 :
Exactly. No, I think that’s a good way to look at it. And, you know, on top of that, and I was watching a, I don’t know, somebody that was on a video last night, I just happened to run across my feed, and psychiatrist type of an individual that says, and I couldn’t tell which side of the aisle she was on, by the way, which Actually, I thought it was really good. She was getting a very good independent view of what’s going on right now. And her point was she’s one of those that because she’s been to so many events and so many things that have happened over the years, she never looks at the actual event. She looks at the crowd and what happens after an event. So her point with this was she watched what happened. She watched the shooting itself, and then she watched the response, which immediately there was all sorts of people celebrating the fact that Charlie Kirk had been shot. And her immediate reaction was, yeah, like I always say, be careful what you wish for, because 24 hours later came the aftermath of the condemnation of all of those people, and that is much louder a voice today than those people that were actually cheering the shooting on. Right.
SPEAKER 10 :
It’s like that Phillies lady that took the baseball from the kid. Yep, exactly. And then all of a sudden, the kid’s getting all these perks, and she’s like, oh, all I got is a dumb ball, you know? So, I mean, whatever. But yeah, it’s crazy. And, you know, politically speaking, I think that… They want division. I’m not going to deny that.
SPEAKER 08 :
They absolutely do. Although, I think, Bill, there’s those at the top that are much smarter than what most people would give them credit for, and they know that this is probably… While it might have some division initially, the first 24 to 48 hours, I saw some people, Bill, posting on social media that I really didn’t think had any interest in politics or anything along those lines whatsoever. And I know where they stand, and I know they’re not solid Christians, and I know they’re not solid conservatives. They were coming out saying, how could anybody condone the shooting of someone else? And those of you that are… If you’re one of those that is and you’ve been my friend in the past, you can unfriend me because I don’t want to be your friend. I mean, that’s the kind of stances that some people that I would have said are probably on the left have come out and said. That’s what I mean by it backfiring on the left. There is nobody at the top of the left organization, by the way, that wanted this to happen. I can guarantee you that.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, yeah. But here’s the problem, I think. The problem is once you push that or get that going and that momentum, it gets out of your control. And even if you look at the extreme left, you’ve got the moderate, then you’ve got the extreme. You’re always going to have that. You have that on the Republican side, too. But once that momentum shift goes, and by the way, I personally believe you’re talking about a small percentage of the general population. I don’t know why the small percentage makes the biggest noise and gets the biggest attention.
SPEAKER 08 :
As you know, that’s just normally the way things work sometimes.
SPEAKER 10 :
Right, right. But I think the majority of people, no matter what side they’re on, the majority of people are like, you know, that was wrong. I mean, he was just having conversations with people. He wasn’t, you know, they’re trying to blame him for, well, he deserved it because he brought it out himself and all these things.
SPEAKER 08 :
He was much more respectful to people at times in conversation than I think I could be.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, I mean, I watched a video today. It was an old video. Someone came up and stole his hat off his head because it had ice on it or whatever. And he’s like, no, no, let her go. It’s okay. Let her go. She wants to do that. It’s okay. You know, where there was a guy in there. He’s like, I don’t agree with you, but you know what? I would have knocked her out. I can’t believe you just did that. Why didn’t you do that? Why did you sit there? And then he opened the door to say, well, because why can’t we have a conversation? Why can’t we talk, you know, now? You know, you can’t tell somebody you’re a Republican or a Democrat and go, oh, okay, well, you know, I appreciate it. I don’t have to say it to you. Now when you say that, it’s fighting words. It’s almost fighting words. And now they’re elevating it, John, to I’m not going to just yell at you, scream at you, maybe hurt you. Now I’m going to take it to the next level. And, you know, it’s also interesting that that side – and I’d like to see some statistics on this because, you know, I don’t know if I’m going to speak – factual or not, but it seems to me, my observation is they cry for the most gun violence, but they’re the ones that use the most gun violence against us. That’s just been my interpretation. I don’t know if that’s factual.
SPEAKER 08 :
No, I think if you and I were to pour through a lot of the FBI stats and so on, I think you could come up with that pretty easily. I don’t think that’s a outlandish statement. At all. And part of that, Bill, is because, you know, and I talked about this earlier in the week, but the majority of our side, I’m not going to say it’s 100 percent, but I think the majority of our side, we value life differently than the other side does. I mean, I value everyone’s life from the moment of conception on. Don’t want to go down that path right now, but you know what I’m saying. Reality is you and I value life. We’re going to save lives, not take lives. And I think that’s the majority of the folks that are on the conservative right. We look at life differently than Then the other side, on top of that, Bill, you and I don’t believe in controlling anybody. We believe in free will. You’ve got free will to do what you want. At the end of the day, those are your choices. I’m not going to tell you how to think. I’m not going to tell you what to do. But that’s not the way the other side looks at it at all.
SPEAKER 10 :
Right. And I just wonder, John, when’s the tipping point going to happen?
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, and that’s a bigger question. That goes into what we talk about here on, you know, and by the way, that’s a great segue. Hang tight. That’s a great segue. Let’s come back and talk about that because I heard some other rumors running around that I wanted to dovetail into. That’s a perfect timing. So hang tight. We’ll come right back. Those of you that have comments, text us 307-200-8222. We’ll be right back. Ready Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 08 :
All right, we are back. Ready Radio, KLZ 560. Appreciate y’all listening. Don’t forget our website is ready-radio.com. That’s ready-radio.com. Bill’s website, if you want to go directly there, you can do that as well. It’s prep, the number two, so prep2protectco.com. Prep2ProtectCO.com. So, you know, Bill, we left that break. You know, we’re left going to the break, I should say. You asked me a question, you know, when is that tipping point? You know, when’s that going to take place? We’ve got a call coming in. I’ll answer that because, frankly, I’m not sure I have a direct answer, but I’ve got some ideas on that. In the meantime, Jeff and Golden, go ahead.
SPEAKER 03 :
Hello, John.
SPEAKER 08 :
How are you?
SPEAKER 03 :
You know. Hanging in there, buddy. I haven’t even had your radio show on. I have no idea what you’re talking about right now, so I have to excuse me, but I just had to call you. And I know you’re a Jefferson County guy, too. So I go to take a picture of a flag, my flag out from my house. I can’t lower it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 03 :
Half mass. Okay. And I was raised, my brother and I both were raised in Golden. We really, you know, that was something we, You do. You know what I mean? You respect that.
SPEAKER 08 :
Right.
SPEAKER 03 :
I don’t know if you know where I’m going right now with this, but I go up to the county. I live right down. I almost could walk up to the courthouse, you know, the new courthouse. He’s got his tall and proud baby, you know, and I’m like, really? Okay. So I go down to Golden, and the city of Golden, I noticed I did get my picture of the little city around the corner. They had theirs down, but the big one, that everybody sees at the Chamber of Commerce there right on the corner of where the creek is and everything. It’s a really nice flag, tall and proud, you know. And I was like, man, so I walked in there, and I go in and I tell the ladies, there’s two older ladies, you know, they’re obviously, you know, I don’t know if they’re really, you know, just working there for, you know, as volunteers or whatever. And so I ask, I says, hey, you know, you don’t have your flag lowered, right? And I hadn’t looked it up yet at this point, but I was like, I think, you know, I mean, I know I heard the president ask for them to be lowered until Sunday. And, you know, and I just kind of look at these old ladies, and boy, you could tell we were, you know, they were going to give me, and they, she, and I was like, you know, there was a pretty big political, you know, assassination. Like, I don’t know why you don’t, and then there’s, not to mention 9-11 and evergreen, you know?
SPEAKER 08 :
I mean, hell, you could pick either one of those three, exactly, yes.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, yeah, and these ladies, they informed a really, they wanted to let me know that Kirk was not a, you know, he didn’t work for the government, and he wasn’t, you know, blah, blah, blah, was kind of, had the argument with me a little bit there in their little office, and I was like, huh, okay, you know, and I, I laughed. you know, and I left, and I kind of got on, you know, my Gemini AI and helper and said, hey, what’s going on here? And they said, yes, you know, the president did, and Polis sent the order, too. You know, he sent it because, you know, and so anyway, I’ll wrap this up, but I finally, they did call me back from Golden today, the Chamber of Commerce, and they were apologetic, and the ladies didn’t know what they were talking about, and they got misinformation, and so she went out and lowered it.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
Jefferson County hadn’t yet. So I finally called him. I’m like, you know what? That’s my day off. I’ve got time here. You know what I mean? Right. So I go on, how do you do this? And my one friend, I posted on Facebook, and my one buddy’s like, go lower them. Jeff, back 30 years ago, I probably would have shimmied up the pole and tried to pull the damn thing down myself. But I’m not going to do that. No, you handled it the right way. Well, so what I did is I called Jeff Coe. And I actually, you know, I was trying to get, I called, well, first my neighbor, he works as a mechanic. He’s like the head mechanic for him, and I couldn’t get a hold of him. Their offices are closed on Friday. So I made a report, like a non-9-1-1, you know, texted in an actual police report like this, you know, and where would it happen, right at the courthouse. And sure as, you know, you know what, they call back, and finally I get a call back saying, from a sheriff, and they’re working on it, and they’re going to lower them.
SPEAKER 07 :
Nice. Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
Good job. Good job, Jeff. Good job.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, that’s awesome.
SPEAKER 08 :
Good job. Perfect. I’m glad you got that handled. And I dropped Bill. That was my fault. I’ll text him and get him back here. So I apologize. Bill, if you’re there, call me back. That was my fault. I messed up on that. And I apologize. Yeah, that was my fault. Bill, my bad. Sorry, I dropped both of you at the same time. I didn’t mean to do that. So you asked me, though, going into break, what’s the tipping point? And I get that question quite a bit, by the way. I’ll get listeners that will ask me the same question. And when’s the tipping point? When do we get to a point where there’s the point of no return, I guess you could say? Are we there yet? No, I don’t think we’re there yet, Bill. In fact, I think what you’re going to see coming out of this last week is, especially in the younger generation, I actually think you’re going to see quite the opposite. I think some of those younger kids are going to say, wait a minute, this is not the way things are supposed to be. And I think you’re going to see, you know, quote unquote, somewhat of a revival among some young people. It won’t be all. You’re never going to say that, of course. But I do think you’re going to see a shift there, meaning that if that does happen and I’m correct, I think that tipping point is pushed off.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, that in itself is a tipping point, right, John?
SPEAKER 08 :
True.
SPEAKER 10 :
The tipping point doesn’t have to go to the bad.
SPEAKER 08 :
That’s true. Good point. No, no, no, you’re right. Good point. Yes, yes, I stand corrected. You’re exactly right. Yes.
SPEAKER 10 :
It could be that people are like, you know what, we’re tired of this nonsense, and we’re going to stop doing this, and maybe we’re going to start voting a different way. I mean, whatever that tipping point looks like, but it can happen either way. Right, right. It seems like it’s coming more at a rapid pace. In our lifetimes, in our current existence, it’s happening more and more, and it’s getting bolder and bolder. And at some point, I think something is going to have to happen. And I think what we need to really focus on here with what we can control. I can’t stress that enough, and people don’t like to hear it. But you know what? Conspiracy theories, what ifs, tennis shoes, whatever, whatever, whatever. Guys, you can’t control that. You can’t control it. And don’t get wrapped around the axle. A lot of those things will cause you to be distracted from your purpose, and your purpose is to be the king and the priest of your household, to take care of yourself. It’s the airplane going down. Put your oxygen mask on first because you’re no good to nobody else if you’re not squared away. And so my point is, if you yourself is jumping to conclusions, going down tangents, going this way, going that way, being what James calls tossed to and fro from every window doctrine, you’re no good to nobody, right? And so work on what you can control. Get your house in order. Get your life in order. First, then once you’re doing that, then you come alongside your family, your neighbors or whatever, and you help them get in order. And then as a community, as everybody gets their houses in order, we collectively become stronger and more supportive. And that’s what you need to focus on. That’s what you need to worry about. In my opinion, John.
SPEAKER 08 :
No, I agree. I agree with you 100%. That’s exactly the way I would look at it. And we do look at it, I should say. That’s the way we look at it on this program. I agree with you wholeheartedly. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, right. And, you know, because the world is the way the world is. And your vote, your voice, your pushing of the button can change little things. You know, like Jeff, good job, right? But at the end of the day, you know, you’re one person trying to fight a massive freight train. And I know people have said, hey, the Revolutionary War was started with 13 people. I get all that. It has to start somewhere. Revival always starts with one person. But listen, if you can take care of yourself first, maybe that’s the revival that needs to happen, and that’s the direction we go, right? Get your stuff squared away. If you don’t have your CCW, go to my website. I have another Level 1 class coming up on the 20th. You need to get that stuff squared away, right? You need to learn how to… have a little bit of stuff put away, be able to change a flat tire, to do all the things we talk about on this radio. Don’t be a hearer. Start being a doer. And we are here to help equip people to do that. But you’ve got to take action and listen. The best time to plant a tree, 20 years ago. Well, if you didn’t plant it 20 years ago, then it’s the best time to plant one.
SPEAKER 08 :
That’s right.
SPEAKER 10 :
So let’s get rolling on this stuff now, John.
SPEAKER 08 :
Last question. This came in, and we’ve talked about this briefly in the past. It’s probably something, given your background on the ham side of things, that we could get into a little bit more. But somebody was asking me, you know, what’s our experience or what do we know about POC radios? And those are like the push-to-talk long-range radios like what Ready Radios has and so on. I know we’ve talked a little bit about that in the past, and I personally haven’t tried any of these out yet. I don’t have any personal experience. experience with them. It’s similar to what Nextel used to have back in the day to where it still uses cell towers to communicate. Although for those of you listening, they’re a lot more reliable than a cell phone because the packets that you’re sending is a much smaller format than what you would typically be using with a cell phone, but they still are going to rely on cell towers being up and running. So in the case of a large, you know, power outage or an EMP or something like that, Bill,
SPEAKER 10 :
Correct. There’s two fallible components to those type of radios. And listen, pros and cons to everything you do. Correct. Right? I don’t care if it’s GRMS, ham radio, these type of radios, Meshtastic, whatever it is, there’s pros and cons to all of them. But let me tell you two of the cons with this. One is relying upon pros. Right. Okay, that could go down. The second thing is it’s reliable on the other person turning and having their radio on. So, like, I got Meshtastic all set up with my wife, and she goes out of the house, and I’m trying to do the little thing, trying to text her, trying to text. Finally, I call her. Where’s your thing? Oh, I left it at home.
SPEAKER 08 :
Don’t have it.
SPEAKER 10 :
What’s the stinking point of it then? So when you’re talking about these type of radios, listen, it’s another piece of equipment that you have to remember to carry with you. It’s another piece of equipment you have to remember to turn on. It’s another piece of equipment you have to remember to charge or batteries or whatever you’ve got to do to power the thing. So I believe in layering system. I believe in function stacking systems. Right? Yeah. So I don’t want to have 10 different pieces that do 10 different things. I’d like to have five pieces that do those same 10 things. Right. If you’re tracking with me.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, and I think, you know, to your point, there is a place for a lot of things. And I think for a lot of you, by the way, where you’ve maybe got a… Like you, Bill, you’ve got a business. You want to have some better communication than what you maybe might have just through regular cell phones because sometimes those don’t work super well. Again, these are a little bit more robust in that regard because – I don’t want to get into all the details, but they can be powered up. They can have more power than what a handheld – cell phone can have. And those of you that understand the radio world will know what I’m talking about. But that’s where these type of push to talk devices can be more reliable than a cell phone, because the fact that you’re holding your cell phone to your ear, they don’t allow those to power at the same level that old handheld radios, by the way, used to be able to power up to. So that’s one advantage that you end up having with a radio versus a cell phone, which is, in fact, a radio. But they function similarly, Bill, but not in exactly the same way. I don’t want to get into all the details of that. But that’s why, at times, you might have better functionality with a push-to-talk or a POC-type device versus your cell phone. So those of you guys that have fleets and things like that, you might find that this works way better than actually having a cell phone, besides the fact it’s only going to talk and give this to one of your guys, for example. They’re not texting. They’re not dinking around. They’re not surfing the Internet. They’re strictly on this device to communicate back to you, and off you go. Now, most people are still going to carry a cell phone bill, so I don’t know how much that actually eliminates, but there are uses for this. I don’t want to take anything away from them, but I’m like you. This is one of those layered type devices, and I look at this as really more of a functionality in maybe large families, businesses, things like that, more so than an end-of-the-world setting.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah. And if I were to go with something like that, I’d probably have them all stationed at my house. Maybe they’re in my, my, my room in my kids, something goes down. I am now distributed. Here’s yours. There you go. Here’s yours. There you go. Like I’m getting ready to go bear hunting tomorrow. And I have three radios, one for each of us. Here’s yours. Here’s yours. Here’s yours. Right. They’re just simple GRMS radios, but, but I’m going to control that. If I’m shipping one, you know, to all my family members across the country, Well, again, the weak point is, oh, does my mother-in-law know how to turn the thing on, and does she know how to operate it? At that point, it’s just a paperweight if she doesn’t know how to do it.
SPEAKER 08 :
And back to what I was saying, too, just to give you all some comparisons. Cell phones run at six-tenths of a watt, so 0.6 watts. where these other push-to-talk radios will typically run between one and five watts. So if you think about that difference in power, Bill, it’s considerably higher in those handheld push-to-talk devices than it is in your cell phone. That’s why they have the ability to talk in some of the fringe areas better than what your regular cell phone would.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, because that’s what their one purpose is. So whenever you have a device that has one purpose, it’s going to be better at that one purpose.
SPEAKER 11 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 10 :
Instead of a purpose that has a device that has 10 different purposes. Well, the performance on those 10 different purposes are going to be subpar because they can’t focus. That’s right. Think of your your Fitbit or your smartwatch, you know, it’s not going to, oh, it reads my heart rate. Well, it’s not going to read your heart rate like an actual heart rate monitor because it’s going to be doing all these other things. That’s right.
SPEAKER 08 :
Good way to say it. Bill, with that, I’ll let you go. Always a lot of fun. We’ll have more to come next week. For all of you listening, again, Bill’s website, prep2protectco.com. Ours is ready-radio.com. Bill, until next week, have a good one, sir.
SPEAKER 10 :
You as well.
SPEAKER 08 :
All right, we’ll let you go. That is Ready Radio, KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 02 :
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