Join John Rush as he delves into the myths and realities surrounding EV chargers and their impact on insurance policies. With expert analysis and insights from trusted sources, John sets the record straight, ensuring listeners have access to accurate and reliable information. The episode further explores the decline in transgender identification among youth, presenting intriguing data that suggests a shift in cultural perceptions.
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All right, we are back. Hour number two, Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Appreciate y’all listening. We’re going to have a special guest with us, but as things happen, we may not actually have that guest, which is fine. We’ve got plenty to talk about. Sunny Kutcher will be joining us here at 430. We will definitely get her in and talk to her. Okay, something that… I wanted to really, I guess let me do it now because I was going to do this next hour. Let me do this now. And I did a little bit of research because I always want to be correct when I talk about certain things. And I’ve listened to others in media. Talk about EVs, EV chargers, and things like that. And there’s, I think, a lot of misconceptions on this. And I’ve even heard some folks out there, some, you know, air quote experts, talk about EV chargers in your home and that it, in a lot of cases, if there’s a fire because of that, your policy wouldn’t cover it, so on and so forth. And in some cases, it might raise your premiums and all of that. Now, I will say this. Every single insurance company isn’t created equal, and there might be some policies out there where this might become an issue, although I did a little bit of checking with our insurance folk we have here, the Pauls, if you would, Paul Leuenberger, Paul Inigro, GIA, and Paul Leuenberger. And in their research, that’s not the case. So the companies that they broker for and so on, they did some question and answers with, and no, that’s not the case. You can put an EV charger in, at least in this particular area, all in our listening audience area where they can actually write policies. That’s not the case. So there isn’t anything that you can do when it comes to your EV charger that’s going to, quote, unquote, void your policy or add a rate or anything along those lines. So, again, there’s people out there that will mention some of these things. And, again, I don’t have any skin in the game here one way or the other when it comes to insurance. I just want you guys all to have the right information. And reality is, no, that’s not the case. Maybe it is in some parts of the country, but I kind of doubt it because if it’s not here in Colorado, I don’t know why it would be any different anywhere else. So I have not found any companies between, you know, again, GIA and Paul Leuenberger, which they both have a lot of companies they represent. I haven’t seen from them the research they’ve done. There isn’t anything where if you put an EV charger in, you’re going to somehow, you know, void your policy or they won’t insure you or, or, or. That just isn’t the case. So I just want to make sure I set the record straight because there has been some chatter out there along those lines where people talk about, you know, well, if you do, you know, these chargers and you have any kind of a fire, your policy may not cover said fire, so on and so forth. Again, not with the research that we have done. That, in fact, is not the All right, we’re taking an early break. Going to change things up a little bit for this particular hour. Again, Cindy Kutcher is going to join us here at the bottom of the hour. Al Smith, Golden Eagle Financial. And by the way, Al’s got his own program from 2 to 2.30. You can always listen in. But listen to this interview Al did of late. You can actually go to the website, find Al, and have a face-to-face with him. Just go to klzradio.com and find Al there.
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TJ here with KLZ and Al Smith of Golden Eagle Financial. And Al, I have a question for you. I’ve been putting money away for a while in a savings account or maybe a couple of investment accounts, but what am I doing wrong and what can you do better than that?
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Well, I think a savings account is important because all the financial gurus, including myself, agree you should have three to six months savings that you have ready liquid access to. But retirement planning is a bit more long-term and And it’s a bit more strategic. We want to take a look at the sum of money you’ll need way into the future. And we want to look at how that money can last by providing you income for as long as you live.
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What kind of planning or strategy do you provide for folks with that that have a big savings but haven’t made that next step?
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Well, that’s a good question. If someone has a large amount in savings, one of the things I do is we have a conversation about their risk tolerance. Nobody’s comfortable losing money, but having money in the market over a long period of time is a mechanism to accumulate wealth. And so we talk about the different levels of risk and the different products that are available. And we don’t put everybody into one box, but I have an enormous assortment of financial products. And it’s not that there’s good ones or bad ones. It’s there are some that are more appropriate for some people, but not for others.
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And that sounds excellent. How can folks get in touch with you for that meeting?
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You can reach me at 303-744-1128. And if I’m not there, it goes to voicemail, but I return my voicemails promptly. And we could have a conversation in the office. If you live a considerable distance away, we can have a long phone conversation or a Zoom call, whichever you would prefer.
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And as always, you can find him at klzradio.com slash money. Al, thanks so much for joining us today.
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Well, thank you, TJ. Thanks for the conversation.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. And appreciate, by the way, all the text messages coming in. Some of these I can read. Some of them, you know, because they’re personal, I won’t. Somebody did text a minute ago and said, hey, by the way, when you do these chargers and stuff, make sure that you’ve got a qualified electrician putting them in because they’ve seen… A lot of, let’s just say, mistakes made when these things get installed, things that aren’t done right, loose wiring, improperly installed chargers themselves, so on and so forth. So, yes, make sure you’ve got somebody highly qualified if you’re going to put an EV charger in on any level, on the commercial side or on your home side, and make sure the things are all dialed in. And somebody else said, this is from earlier, about a year ago, I was in the King Soopers. down on Federal and Bellevue, and while in the produce department, someone there tried to take my purse out of the buggy. Yesterday, a woman told me that someone was trying to take her purse out of the car. Just a heads up for those of you out there, you know, making sure that you’re watching your purses and so on. Thank you, by the way. Yes, that’s just solidifying what I was talking about earlier, that, yeah, keep your head on a swivel at all times. I’m not a woman, but I don’t even identify as one. know what i ever want to but if i had a purse i would somehow you know hook that thing through strap it on where even if they tried to take it it’s hooked to the buggy hooked to the you know shopping cart around the handle whatever if most of you guys have the ability to either you know tie it around there you can take the little hook off and back on whatever yeah i would really make sure that you’ve got that thing dialed in and somebody can’t just you know walk off of that because sometimes you know you’ll go to pick something out of the The whatever, you know, the shelf, whatever, reach down, whatever the case may be. You’ve turned your back to the cart ever so slightly, and all of a sudden, voila, somebody’s right there, you know, taking your stuff. So, yeah, be really careful. Thank you, by the way, for that tip. I appreciate that, and I know our listeners do as well. All right, there’s a report. Somebody sent me this. One of your listeners. Thank you, by the way. And as a side note, a lot of you send me different things, text message wise or email wise. I do read all of them. I may not talk about every single thing you guys send me because sometimes I just don’t have time. Other things come up, callers and so on. You know, sometimes the show gets derailed, which, by the way, is not a bad thing. I’m never complaining about that. But sometimes it goes a different direction than what I had planned. And then, by the way, other things come up and I never get around to talking about that particular topic. This is one, though, that somebody sent me and I thought, you know what? We need to talk about this one today because it’s interesting and it’s a trend. There’s a report out talking about transgender identification is in a free fall among young Americans. In other words, this whole idea that it’s hip and cool to be a transgender, which I think, by the way, has been pushed by a lot of parents because it’s sort of the vogue thing to have your kid be a transitioning kid, which these parents, by the way, are absolute dodo head, knucklehead morons. They really should be brought up on child abuse charges as far as I’m concerned. Anybody that would promote their kid changing their gender, well, you can’t change your gender, but you get my drift. Changing their sexual identity, let me say it that way. Utter knuckleheads. These are parents that shouldn’t have been a parent in the first place. Unfortunately, there’s no test to be a parent. We test for everything else, by the way. You have to have a license for a lot of other things, but not to be a parent. Any knucklehead can be one. And there’s a lot of knucklehead parents out there, case in point. You know, this idea that it’s really the in thing, the vogue thing to have your kid be a transgender, that’s waning. And basically the kids, I think, themselves are saying, yeah, not for me. And you have to wonder when it comes to these kids. Is it because they’ve been around some of these, you know, for example, the athletes whereby a female now has to compete against a male athlete? You know, have enough of these kids read, seen, been around this sort of an environment where they’re thinking, well, wait a minute. You know, I’m not an adult. I’m not a parent, but I can see that this isn’t right. I can see this is just wrong on all levels. And now they’re thinking, well, wait a minute, I don’t know that I want to be this. So there’s several quotes coming out of this report. This report authorized by Eric Kaufman, director of the Center and professor of politics at the University of Buckingham, found that transgender and queer identification has dropped sharply among Americans in the Gen Z category. uh… generation since two thousand twenty three so twenty twenty three copman analyze troves of data from recent surveys about gender and sexuality including the foundation of individual rights and expression survey and surveys from other elite institutions like and over phillips academy in boston and brown university whether trans or queer identities will drop to 2010 levels is an open question, but the fact that both have declined sharply in just two years is a startling and unanticipated post-progressive development that the education and media establishments will be reluctant to acknowledge. Kaufman wrote of his research in an article published to UnHerd. This was this past Tuesday. Yesterday, analyzing raw data from the most recent FIRE survey, which polled over 60,000 students in 2025, Kauffman found that just 3.6% of respondents identified as a gender other than male or female. That figure compared to 5.2% in 2024 and 6.8% in 2022 and 2023. In other words, the share of trans-identified students here effectively halved in just two years he wrote. So in other words, it’s half… of what it was just two years ago. Now, keep in mind, that percentage is still very small. It went from, what, 6.8% down to 3%, 3.6%. So it’s in half. That 3.6%, by the way, is still a very small portion. Koppen found that surveys at Andover Phillips Academy and Brown University showed an even more pronounced trend. At Andover, 9.2% identified as neither male or female. And in 2023, it crashed to just 3% in 2025. At Brown University, that percentage has dropped from 5% to 2.3% in 2025. So here’s the bottom line, folks. It’s not as quote-unquote trendy as it once was. Meaning, all of the things I have talked about, especially on the transgender end of things, I’m right. It’s a fad. It really is mental when it’s all said and done. And I think one more thing I wanted to add to what I said a little bit ago about how I think some of these kids have woken up to this. I think the fact that there are now a lot of kids that transitioned that then in their early 20s, for example, are now on some speaking circuits running around telling younger kids, don’t do this. Biggest mistake you could ever make in your entire life. Don’t do this. Don’t make the same mistake I made is what a lot of these young people now are running around saying. I think all of that has had an effect. And again, it’s just not as trendy as it once was. It even talks about how the trans and queer trends have peaked. Freshmen were more likely to be non-conforming in their gender and sexuality than seniors, he noted. Now that the BTQ, bisexual, trans, and queer, or questioning identification is in decline, the reverse is true. Younger students are less BTQ than older students in their colleges. This is a sign that the quote-unquote fashions are changing. The other thing you have to wonder is, have parents, maybe, hopefully, have they woken up to this that, yeah, maybe this isn’t so good after all? Maybe when our kids that are younger come to us and say, you know, Mom, Dad, I think I’m a girl if they’re actually a boy, or I think I’m a boy if they’re actually a girl, maybe parents are starting to say, well, you know, let’s think this through. Are you? Are you? Probably not. Let’s sit down and have a conversation. Well, let’s talk about this. This, by the way, I think is a real black eye to the left. Because keep in mind, the left has pushed this nonsense heavily because it’s a Marxist ideology. Let’s confuse the masses. And transgenderism is nothing but confusion. Mass confusion on the part of these individuals. And you’ll hear Neil Boron on the National Crawford Roundtable talk about this a lot. He’ll tell you it’s demonic. I can’t disagree with Neil. I believe he’s right. So is it improved mental health? This article goes on to say, yes, in part, less anxious and especially depressed students is linked with a smaller share identifying as trans, queer, or bisexual, he assessed. But not entirely. Mental illness fell after the pandemic, but the sexuality and gender shift happened at least a year later. All groups, including LGBT, got less mentally ill after the pandemic, he continued. So, by the way, he’s not saying this, but I am. Transgenderism is a mental illness. Period. In my opinion, case closed. These are very mentally disturbed individuals where they think, hey, I’m in the wrong body. You don’t think that unless you have a mental illness. I’m sorry, folks. It’s just the way it is. Sorry, but not sorry. Those are the facts. And I’ve said this before, and I’ll keep saying it. This is anti-God through and through. You’re basically saying, God, you screwed up. I’m going to fix this. That’s what you’re saying when you’re claiming to be transgender or when you are transgender and you’re claiming that you’re in the wrong body. That’s really what you’re saying. God, you screwed up. I’m fixing this. You’re taking matters into your own hands at that point. You’re saying, you’re not God. You screwed up. Even if you are there, you messed up, and I’m going to now fix this. And I’ve said this many, many times. He didn’t screw up in how he made you. So the decline in anxiety and depression occurred within trans, bisexual, and queer groups as much as among others, so it wasn’t the case that most of those who solved their emotional problems became heterosexual. He remarked that the rapid decline of trans and queer seems most similar to the fading of fashion or trend. It’s happened largely independently of shifts in political beliefs and social media use, though improved mental health did play a role, he said. So, in other words, this whole transgenderism nonsense, in a lot of cases, has been sort of this fashion end of things. Like I keep saying, this really is, in a lot of cases, parents wanting to be trendy, edgy. My kid’s a transgender. My kid’s is transitioning. It’s literally a bunch of nonsense. Stephen Carter Springs, go ahead.
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Good afternoon, Mr. John. Hey, man. Quick thought along what you’re saying. The corollary to what you’ve been talking about has become a flurry of lawsuits from kids, like you’re talking about, that said, don’t do this. And they’re suing parents, therapists, doctors, and everybody else involved, including some school administrator types, that thought this was just so cool. to be transgender and start cutting off body parts. And as you know, a lot of these kids, in fact, most kids, particularly when you’re talking about like 12 to 18, they don’t know whether they want to have cornflakes or ice cream for breakfast. And here we are, and I think parents have abdicated responsibility here as well as therapists. But this is what I’m calling the Attorney’s Full Employment Act. because the lawsuits are just now spooling up. Good point. It’s going to be interesting to see.
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Good point. You know, I hadn’t really thought about that. Thank you, Steve, for adding that in. That’s probably another layer here that you could factor in. I mean, several of the things I talked about, plus adding that on top, that’s all why, in a way, this trend is heading down. And frankly, I think it’s going to get cut in half again. Yeah, well, thank you for addressing it. It’s important. Well, thank you, Steve. I appreciate you bringing that up as well. And I can’t – he’s right. That’s another layer added on to what we’re talking about, why this trend is declining. And frankly, it’s going to keep declining. Now, I also – Sunny Kutcher is going to talk about this here in just one moment. She just sent me a couple of articles where – keep in mind that a lot of what just happened with Charlie Kirk and the fact that a lot of young people – are not following in the footsteps of the previous generations. And frankly, folks, we’re seeing this even in the trades. They’re actually becoming a lot more sensible than what you would have thought. There really is a big trend of these young people, A, wanting to work. wanting to be employed, wanting to do things on their own, not having the entitlement mentality that Andy and I talked about yesterday, realizing, wait a minute, I don’t need to go to school for four years and have a six-digit figure debt and then hopefully find employment when I’m done. Wait a minute, I can actually make six figures shortly thereafter going into the trades, and I can apply myself and work hard, and the reality is they’re doing that. Which also makes you want to wonder, it doesn’t make me wonder, but it probably makes some wonder, does that play into this whole transgenderism nonsense end of things? In other words, kids are working. They’re finding purpose, which there is purpose in work, by the way. They’re realizing, wait a minute, I do have value at the end of the day, and I am in the right body, and I can celebrate who I am. And, oh, by the way, I can do all that and make some money at the same time? Huh. Funny how that works. And again, you layer on some of the other things that we’re just talking about with Steve and what I mentioned even earlier. You layer all of that on top and it’s like, OK, wait a minute. You know what? There is hope. There is hope for the next generation. And by the way, there always is. And trends reverse themselves, which is exactly what you’re starting to see. And I firmly believe that you’re going to… This is where if you’re in the college end of things and you own one or you’re a part of one or you’re on the board of one or whatever, you probably ought to be thinking about what your future enrollment looks like because it’s not going to be what it is now. That’s my prediction. You’re going to see a lot of these kids… wake up and realize, wait a minute, I can go make really solid money and make a really good income and do that without carrying, again, 50, 60, 70,000 plus in debt, in some cases 100,000 plus in debt, and I can make more money than some of those that are actually coming out with full-fledged degrees. In fact, I can go into the trades and make what a doctor does, which, by the way, they can. Wait a minute. Why would I want to go through eight years, ten years of medical school when I can make what they’re making doing something else and not carry all that debt? In fact, if you look over a 25, 30-year time frame, the person in the trades will make far more money. So it’s interesting how that works and how that is. All right. Sonny should be joining us here momentarily. Let’s do this. Cub Creek Heat and Air Conditioning. Speaking of the trades, by the way, they’ll help you with your furnace. They’ve got a great furnace tune-up special right now. Just go to klzradio.com and find them.
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Now back to Rush to Reason on KLZ 560.
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All right, we are back. Dan and Blackhawk, go ahead. We’ll squeeze you in here before Sonny. Welcome, sir.
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Yeah, I’ll be quick. So what age group is Gen Z again?
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Ooh. I’d have to look. Go ahead, keep talking, and I’ll find it really quick.
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Okay, so, well, the reason why I’m saying that is we homeschool… 13 to 28 years of age.
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13 to 28. Okay.
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So I have two Gen Zers and one that’s two years older than a Gen Z. And all the kids, all my kids are working. My youngest, I told you last week, he’s with a NASA contractor, an electrical engineer. Right. you know, and my, my middle one, he’s in the Navy. I think he, I got to talk to him. He’s going to, he’s probably going to be a career, um, military guy. If he can, he’s going to try to go into the air force, but they got out of school with no debt because they worked when they were younger, uh, being, um, in high, uh, high school, we allowed them to work during the day because we did enough education. My son, My youngest son scored a 34 out of 35 on, I think, the ACG. And he only studied two hours for it. So the kids, and they’re all three married. My two youngest already have kids. So they’re bucking the trend of not wanting to work and not feeling good. So that’s what I got to say. So we didn’t go into that whole transgender thing. We taught them actual history and and who they are, you know?
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So that’s what I got to say. No, great example, Dan. I appreciate that. Somebody also texted in along these lines and said, watch Art Club Movie for free. Aaron Lee speaks at events and has a case going to the Supreme Court. By the way, thank you, all of you listeners. You are fabulous. One more thing, too, that I think somebody said, too, is – To your point, my ex-wife and my oldest two kids’ mom is a very highly paid specialist doctor in Nashville, and I still make more than double of what she does, but I also live simple. Granted, my business is on the large side of a small business, but still. Yeah, my comment back was, yeah, and you still built that from the ground up yourself, and that still counts as an example. Sonny, how are you? Welcome.
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How are you doing this week?
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I’m doing great. Good to have you. We’re talking about the whole – I read an article a moment ago about transgenderism and the fact that it’s actually declining in young people, Gen Z. There’s actually half as many of them claiming to be that as there was, and I attribute it to all sorts of things, Sonny, and one of them is I really feel like a lot of the younger people are – A, they’re learning that, wait a minute, I don’t need to do what everybody else before me did. I can not go to college. I can go to the trades. I can make solid income. I can value myself that way. And I think, Sonny, these trends are being balked because, frankly, a lot of these young people, by the way, because of people like you and the message that you guys have, a lot of these young people are looking at this saying, wait a minute, time out. I don’t have to do this the way it’s been done. I can do this completely different. At the end of the day, I have high value.
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Absolutely. I think, you know, young people hopefully are seeing that this, you know, ideology does not fulfill. It does not bring purpose. And it is truly just a, you know, a tool of the left to steer them in a certain direction. So it is really great to see, you know, some of those those trends coming out, and I think it, I just saw something on Twitter where it’s new data showing that Christianity is actually surging in the U.S. Bible sales are up 41.6%, app downloads, I guess they’re talking about, oh, religion and spirituality type apps, downloads are up almost 80%, and Christian music streaming is up 50% on Spotify. So since 2019… 50% of Christian music, contemporary Christian music. So I think that that is, you know, reflective of, you know, putting all these trends together. I think it’s so reflective of the way that people are interpreting the last few years and the direction that the country had gone in as far as mainstream narratives, and I think people are just not buying these narratives anymore, which is fantastic.
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I agree. I think, Sunny, some of this even was happening, I had a text message come in a moment ago from a good friend talking about how some of these pastors are talking about how Some of their greatest now attenders, church-wise and so on, are coming from this younger generation. And frankly, it wasn’t just Charlie Kirk that caused that. Some of that was already starting to happen before Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Sonny.
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It wasn’t. I think that’s what made him get so on the rise, because he, especially at these college campuses, which we obviously, people like you and I, don’t have necessarily a total… you know, bird’s eye view of college campuses these days. I actually want to make a point to kind of go to UCLA a little bit more just to kind of like explore and see what the vibe is like there as far as where, you know, pulse on culture as far as college campuses go. But I think that’s the point is that people are really, I mean, this is really the topic of conversation, at least one of the major topics of conversation on college campuses within that age range. You were just talking about Gen Z a moment ago, and I think that Charlie had such a window into what these kids are thinking about and really getting those ideas flowing as far as like, okay, wait, what actually makes sense? I think another person who does a really good job of that is Billboard Dad. He goes to all of those schools and talks about specifically transgenderism and says like, you know, I don’t want my daughter to, you know, whatever. And I think that these are such important things. I think people like that, like it’s just such a prevalent conversation that it has to be moving the needle in that age range and that demographic because of people like Charlie who are on these college campuses and really, you know, encouraging people to think critically.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yeah. And no, no. And by the way, everything you just said, I can’t I can’t disagree with anything you said. And you have probably a better feel for campuses than even I do. I mean, I go to some occasionally ballgames, things like that, events, but I’m definitely not in or around. college campus and frankly never have been because i never went to college so i don’t really have that experience that even a lot of our listeners have or you have sunny so i i tend to not be able to speak to that in the same way you can because i i just don’t have those same life experiences understandable understandably so i um yeah i mean especially you know with the work that we do i’m always seeing clips of just different things on college campuses and it
SPEAKER 07 :
It’s just wild to see the direction, the Marxist direction. And that’s why, you know, people like Kamala and Tim Walz, like they really do target this demographic because they know they know that they’re so vulnerable. And I mean, it’s just like this is how they get away with these things. Like this is why local politics is also so important. And I think that’s, you know, something that’s just kind of been lost on the younger generations as well. In Minnesota, they’re doing driver’s licenses for all, allowing illegal aliens to obtain free government issued photo IDs. So, you know, I thought that that wasn’t happening at all. But apparently that is now being signed into law in Minnesota. So I think that these are just like. things that young people can really start paying attention to if there’s going to be a way for them to kind of break into, because I do think that despite all these trends that we’re talking about, there is still this kind of apathy towards like politics and change and what, you know, is going on with our crime and our public safety, especially here in LA. I think that, you know, this, like these are types of things where it’s like young people could probably be like, well, that doesn’t make sense. Like they would, they need a barrier of entry in order to get involved in things like this. And I would say that that’s the most, important thing on a college campus.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yep. No, I think that you’re spot on. And as I was talking about in the last segment, how I think, Sonny, even some parents, and not all, because there’s still some screwy parents out there, and a lot of parents of transgender kids think it’s really a great thing that they’re transitioning as sort of this vogue thing. But I think some of that trend is even changing. I think some of these parents are waking up to the fact, wait a minute, our kids can basically do something other than college, make a solid… you know, income when it’s all said and done, not have combined debt. Cause a lot of times parents have school debt, not just the kids. So a lot of these parents are looking at saying, wait a minute, we can go a different trajectory here. And at the end of the day, as a family be a lot better off. Oh, well, wait a minute. Maybe we should reconsider this whole trade thing. And by the way, that’s happening.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, that’s absolutely happening. I think people are seeing that so much more now is that there’s just, I mean, that’s what Charlie was saying. What college is a scam, you know, um, And I really do feel that they have become such indoctrination camps at this point, especially, you know, with the work that we do. Like we’re just we’re seeing the results of like what these brainwash college campuses are like. And so I think it’s so great that if people can see that, hey, maybe this is not the end all be all. Maybe this is not necessarily, you know, where I’m going to find my most fulfilled life. You know, pass. I think it’s so eye opening that so many young people are choosing different options or at least exploring them.
SPEAKER 20 :
I, by the way, I’m excited. And I said this a moment ago and I mean this. We can run along for a little while, and these trends kind of keep going this direction. And all of a sudden, there’s a big hiccup. Something happens. A generation decides, wait a minute, to your point, let’s wake up to what’s really going on around us. And the reality is, I don’t want to do what previous generations did. I don’t want $100,000 in school debt. I don’t want to come out and wonder, am I only going to work at Starbucks after I’m done with that particular degree with all of that debt? And the trends start to shift, and you’re seeing this right now. And it’s, Sunny, not only happening, as you said a moment ago, it’s not happening just on that work-college end of things, it’s happening spiritually as well.
SPEAKER 07 :
Absolutely. And that’s why, you know, even as your child is growing up, talking to them about thinking critically, talking to them about what other options there may be, how to kind of, you know, identify leftist propaganda and just like the way of like the matrix, like how can you, you know, be connected to your faith, your family, your country, God, and all of these things, while still becoming a, you know, thriving, prosperous member of society. And I think that that’s one of our main goals with, you know, the educational resources that we create as an organization. And that’s, I think, what, you know, what our niche really is in terms of this field, in terms of this this political world that we’re in, if you can really find resources for you, your family, and specifically to talk with your child, even as they’re in their teenage years, those could be really formative, defining, and actually moments that bring you together as parent and child or as family, allowing your child to kind of talk about more challenging topics as they’re developing their ideas and their perspectives and learning from other people. So I think that, you know, if anything, these resources could definitely just be a great conversation starter, if nothing at all. So I really feel always so grateful to be able to, you know, share this with others and have these conversations because it is so important as You know, we just need to do everything we can to protect our country.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yeah, absolutely. One last thing before I let you go, because you sent me this, and this is interesting. Fans have launched a petition to replace Bad Bunny with George Strait for the Super Bowl. And by the way, I think that’s great. I love these sorts of things. Question is, do you think that even if they get enough signatures, it will change the mind of the organization? Is it Jay-Z, Charlie, that does the NFL stuff, Jay-Z? It’ll be interesting. Sonny, will that change Jay-Z’s mind and make a shift there when it’s all said and done?
SPEAKER 07 :
Wow, I have no idea, and I did not know that it was Jay-Z, so that’s pretty wild.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yeah, he’s actually in charge of the, you know, it’s an outside group. The NFL doesn’t run that. It’s been that way for a number of years now. The NFL does not run the halftime show. In this case, it’s contracted out to Jay-Z, so he’s the one that actually makes the decision on who’s going to be playing the halftime show, not the NFL. I mean, the NFL probably says yes or no, but they’re not the one putting it all together.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. Right. Wow. I mean, I had no idea. No, that’s fascinating. And I don’t think that he would care at all. I don’t think that this petition would change. I don’t think they’re going to renege on their contract with Bad Bunny. I think you’re right. I do think it’s very interesting to see the narrative and that people are on the same page about certain things where they’re like, wait, this is not what we’re interested in. This is not what we want. And it’s just another example of you know, industry, or I’m sorry, just a big giant in, you know, in mainstream, let’s say, mainstream media that is just completely misreading the energy of the American people.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yep. Nope. I fully agree. All right. One last time. How do folks find Young Americans Against Socialism?
SPEAKER 07 :
Our website is the best place to check out our resources and get to know our organization, yas.org, Y-A-A-S.org. So you can find us there. You can also… you know, catch all of our links to our social media, but it’s usually Yas underscore America. So we’d love to hear from you and, you know, give us a follow, stay in touch with our social media and definitely check out some of the interviews on our website of survivors of communism. So that’s what we’re trying to prevent from coming here.
SPEAKER 20 :
Absolutely. Sonny, as always, I appreciate it greatly. Thanks for all you guys do.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, thank you so much. Talk to you soon.
SPEAKER 20 :
You bet. Have a great night. Sonny Kutcher again. Young Americans Against Socialism. Mile High Coin coming up next. We heard from David earlier, by the way, in the 3 o’clock hour. Find all of those items. Get them all rounded up. Put them in one place. Call David. Get an appointment made. It’s free, by the way, to have all those items appraised. And then you might want to turn those into cash when you’re all said and done. 720-370-3400.
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