In this engaging episode, host John Rush sits down with retired U.S. Navy Chief Bill Corman to discuss the revolutionary approach to time ownership. Gone are the days of ineffective time management; Bill introduces us to his ‘168 Game’ strategy. With 168 hours in a week, how you allocate those hours can make or break your success. Learn how identifying your morals, values, and principles can serve as guideposts for your decisions, ensuring that every minute is owned by you, transforming chaos into clarity and productivity.
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And we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. And all of you are asking me, am I keeping updated on the fire that’s happening up in the north part of town? Yes, we are. My boys are keeping me abreast of that. In fact, when Richard joins me here at 430, probably give you guys an update that happened to be up in that area. But yes, we are keeping track of that and we’ll keep you updated as we go through the rest of this hour for sure. Bill Corman joining us now. Bill, welcome. How are you? I should say retired U.S. Navy Chief Bill Corman.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes, sir. Blessed and highly favored. Great to talk with you.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, I appreciate it very much. And, you know, you’re an expert in all sorts of things. And, of course, we had lots of news that happened over the weekend. I spent the first hour of today’s show talking about a lot of that, a lot of that right up in your alley, by the way. But as we talk about heading into a new year and folks are looking at ideas on, hey, how do I better manage myself, manage my time? I coach businesses. One of the first things I work on, Bill, when I get a new business and a client typically is, hey, how are we managing those aspects of things? Because if you’re not managing yourself and your time well, it’s hard to be successful.
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Yes, sir.
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Absolutely. Give us some tips on how we can do that, Bill.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay, excellent. Well, thank you again for the opportunity. But what I’ve found over the years of starting multiple businesses as a serial entrepreneur is that time is really the true currency of life, right? Screw up with money, you can solve it, fix it again. I went through a bankruptcy in 08, 09, rebuilt everything again. So what I found was that the most important commodity was actually time, was the true currency. So over the years, I built a system called the 168 Game. And basically it’s an example, a study, and now a proven concept that time management is actually a fallacy, that you actually – time ownership is really where you want to be.
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Good way to say it. All right. And, by the way, I agree with that. I think everything you’re saying is spot on. I’m going to steal that from you, by the way, because own your time versus manage it. Because you’re right. Time in a lot of ways manages us. Yes, we can do the best we can to handle that end of things. But, yeah, own your time. I like that saying, Bill.
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Yes, sir. Yes, we call it time ownership versus time management, the 168 game. 160 hours in a week, you start by identifying your morals, values, and principles, and you use that as a litmus test of everything in life, from relationships to your faith to business to a job, your family. You judge everything through those morals, values, and principles, and it gives you a guidepost of what you say yes and no to. And that literally changes the game for tens of thousands of people that have gone through, you know, the system with us.
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You know, and, Bill, I’m guilty, you know, as called, I guess, myself. And, you know, I’ve been self-employed since 1986. I was a very young man, had to learn a lot of things that I’m sure you even teach and talk about as well. And what I learned— especially early on as I started to do better in business and I started to have some successes. The other thing that starts to happen, and I want you to address this, is more and more people come to you and start grabbing at you and your time starts to get diminished because you have a hard time saying no. Going back to what you said a moment ago, a lot of us are guilty of saying yes far too often. And that’s a hard thing to get over, Bill.
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Absolutely. I mean, most of us that start businesses, entrepreneurs, we like to solve problems. We’re servants. We like to get in, mix it up, and solve a thing, and you’re exactly right. So we find ourselves with this disease called the yes disease. We say yes to everything, and then we think, oh, my goodness, well, how do I solve all this? And there’s amazing time management tools out there. The problem is they start in the middle. You have to have a guidepost, a system that governs what you say yes and no to every day. And when you get comfortable with that, you learn to say no without the guilt, without the shame. And you learn to delegate those things. sign those things or just flat out say no to things that are not moving the needle. The other thing we teach people is that for those things that are very important to you, but they’re not aligned to your MVPs right now, you literally write out a list called yes for later. So it’s important to you. You want to say yes, but you move it to that, that list and allows you as you get good at the time ownership master that we’ll call hashtag Tom. Then you can go back to that. Yes. The yes for later list and start pull some things off of there.
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Okay, so one of the things – and this is me personally, and everybody’s different. I try to teach my clients to do some things along these lines. These are just things I have learned through the years, Bill, as I’ve gone along. And I used to be a huge to-do list writer, and it was one of the ways, I think, that I sort of morphed into what I do today. And I today am not – a to-do list writer. For me, Bill, if something’s important enough for me to actually set time aside and do, it goes on my calendar. Now, call my calendar to-do list. I guess maybe it’s quasi that. But for me, Bill, if something’s that important that I have to set some time aside to do it, it goes on my calendar, not a to-do list.
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Absolutely. And so what we teach people to do is whatever day of the week you sit down and you map out those priorities, again, through that lens, that litmus test of mvps morals values and principles then you add those things to your calendar and if they are aligned to your mvps those things only go on your calendar if they’re aligned and you treat that as if it was a if it was a meeting with your boss your number one client um you know whether it whether it’s family time or religious time or business building time you treat it with that same authority and nothing unless it’s an absolute emergency gets in the way of those items
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The other thing, too, that I try to teach my folks to do, and I apply to myself, is you also need a certain amount of nothing time. I don’t know if I’m saying that right, Bill, but there’s a certain amount of just nothingness, I guess, where you need your time, where it’s either you want to sit and, again, you look at the religious sides of things, you’re wanting to meditate, you’re wanting to reflect, do your devotionals, you want to just think. I mean, whatever the case may be, you need a certain amount of, I guess you could call it downtime, where you’re doing nothing.
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Absolutely. And we teach people to build that in. And for everyone, it’s different. We go through different seasons of our life. But that is a non-negotiable that you have to plug in every day. And again, even that time has a fence around it that says, do not disturb, no trespassing, unless it’s an absolute emergency.
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Yeah, and for all of you listening, one of the things that I’ve learned to do through the years, Bill, is with the advent of electric calendars, which I’ve been using now for probably, I’m not exaggerating, 30 years when they first started coming out, and you could even then start sharing said calendars. I share a lot of calendars, mainly because the key people in my life need to see what I’ve got going on, because if I have something on the calendar that they know they can’t disturb me in, guess what, Bill? They don’t disturb me. So I’m not in the middle of meetings answering phone calls and text messages and things like that because the people that are most important that I should be talking to anyways know not to bother me.
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Absolutely. That’s one of the strategies. You nailed it. That’s how we do it. I’m on a technology company. We build technology and software that helps people with that. People use it in large businesses or small businesses now to use CRMs. They have a calendar built into that. And then you give appropriate levels of sharing and who has the right to see those things And again, that allows you to keep those protected times protected where people don’t try to encroach on it.
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And, Bill, what I will say, just, again, me talking, again, with certain clients and so on, I, and maybe you can give me a tip on this, that’s one of the things at times I have a hard time getting my clients to do, and I’m not sure why. I don’t know whether there’s a fear that others will see what they’re actually doing and then be critical of, but for me, it’s a must. I wouldn’t get done what I get done every day if I weren’t doing that.
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Absolutely. What I teach my clients, and many, many people have followed us and, you know, go to the website. We have a high-ticket course. But what I teach them in that space right there, I can’t coach what you do in the dark. So unless I know what’s going on and you’re transparent with me about where this time goes, and when they pull up their calendar, I’ll dive in. I’ll say, what about that 30 minutes? What about this 15? What about that hour? Where do those five minutes go? I don’t know. What do you mean? So, well, you’ve got to track it. That’s how we become a time ownership master is that we realize how precious that commodity is.
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Yep. I’ve had, you know, folks do exercises in the past, Bill, where, you know, you keep a log 30 minutes all day long and you tell me what you’re doing in each 30 minutes and let’s start narrowing that down and get rid of the junk you don’t need to be doing anymore.
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Yes, sir. Absolutely. What we did, so if you take what we call the 168 game, obviously there’s 160 hours a week, but if you add 1 plus 6 plus 8, it equals 15. So the strategy we created years ago is that most of us have been taught to look at time. Somebody says, hey, let’s grab lunch together. Let’s do a meeting. They’re looking at it usually in an hour time frame or maybe 30 minutes. But it’s amazing, absolutely life-transforming if you start to look at your calendar with every 15-minute block. And every block has an assignment. Every assignment has a connection, a linkage to your morals, values, and principles.
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Yeah, well, again, partly I want to have you on is, as you can tell, we think very much alike. I’m not on the same level that you’re on. Now, I wear quite a few different hats. But to your point, Bill, I couldn’t even do a three-hour program. I’m on air seven days a week. I do three hours every day during the week. I do another four on Saturdays. And the reality, Bill, is I couldn’t do that if I weren’t using your principles.
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Absolutely. I get asked all the time, how do you run five businesses, a nonprofit, and still travel, have time for your faith, support your church and all that stuff? I said, you have to own your time. And then that usually says, well, people say, what do you mean? I’ve got this time management. I had this time management coach. I read this book. I said, those systems are good, but they lack the clarity of like how they like the clarity of owning it versus managers. So the way that I explained it to most people is that if you and I are business owners, if we hire the best manager on the planet, they even think like an intrapreneur. They will never see the business the way you and I do because we’re the owners. Now flip that onto time, which is the most precious commodity we have. Now if you start to think about your time like an owner versus a manager, just saying the word management, you’re insinuating somebody else owns it. So what if we actually took back control and owned all of those minutes, all those hours of every day and every week? And then we got really good at that battle rhythm of it. Imagine what could happen to our lives if we freed up another two hours a week, 50 hours a month. That’s how we teach business owners and people that are current business owners that want to own other businesses and become a serial entrepreneur is that we teach them how to own their time.
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How big are you, Bill, on regiment-type things? And I’ll give you some examples in my world. I mean, I typically get up about the same time every single day. I don’t vary much from that. I’m a guy that can get by with about six to seven hours of sleep. I know that’s not for everybody. Some need more than that. And I’m not saying that everybody can do that, Bill, because each person has to do that health-wise according to what they know they need to be doing. I’m pretty regimented on my morning schedule, when I get up, what I do, what I do to show prep, and so on. Are you big on that end of things, and do you teach people that as well?
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Absolutely. It’s incredible. If you read, you know, like probably say 90% of success books that are ever written, those people that books are either written, they wrote them or written about them. They own their morning. They master their morning routine and the highest level own the morning and the evening before they go to bed. So having a regimen around that, that’s again, fence time that no one’s allowed to intrude on, you know, no trespassing signs are up. And so for me, I get up, a very active household with multiple businesses, I get up earlier than everybody else because that time is precious to me. And then it’s the same thing at night when I’m decompressing, meditating, praying, and I’m preparing for the next day. That’s my sacred time. Anybody that establishes those routines, as you said, even with sleep, It’s different for everybody. We have people do some assessments so they can figure out what is their circadian rhythm and balance, and sometimes even send them to do some testing so we know, and then we coach them to do that. But you’re absolutely right. Those routines in the morning, and then if you add a nighttime routine, it literally transforms. Your subconscious mind starts to build its own ecosystem around how it can be so much more successful.
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Again, the website, folks, the168game.com. That’s the place to go. Bill, I’d love to have you back. As you can tell, we think very much alike. I like what you’re doing. I think for those of you listening, by the way, these are – this is me talking, Bill, not you – but these are keys to life. And what I mean by that is we’ve got a lot of folks out there listening, Bill, that are very spiritual and very conservative and very much in that camp. We’ve got folks that are completely on the other side of the spectrum. My point is this. What you’re teaching and the basics of, these are laws of life.
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Yes, sir. Yeah, we call them foundational principles. Some people call them biblical principles. That’s what I refer to them. But anyway, they’re called biblical or foundational. These are absolutely necessary because there’s, you know, one of the old adages is that, you know, a successful person or any person never ends up on their deathbed wishing that they had spent more time in the office or more time, you know, pondering. I wish I spent more time with my family. in my spirit route, all that stuff. And again, if you’ve learned to own your time, you can have that. It’s not guesswork. It’s not happenstance. It’s not luck. And so, sir, I really appreciate the opportunity to be on here. That would be great. Follow your program, and I know you’ve got a great reach to the audience there. I’d love to come back anytime.
SPEAKER 04 :
I’d love to have you back. Again, we speak the same language. Bill, again, thank you very much. It’s Corman with a K, by the way, K-O-R-M-A-N. Retired U.S. Navy Chief Bill Corman. Bill, thank you so much. I appreciate it greatly.
SPEAKER 09 :
You’re right. Thank you, sir.
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You very much. Have a great one. And again, as you guys all can tell, a lot of the principles that he talks about are the same things I work with my clients on on a pretty routine basis. So I appreciate him greatly. Veteran Windows and Doors coming up next. We had Dave on earlier at 3 o’clock. Great deals right now on doors from Provia. Again, as I say all the time, cut to the chase. In other words, get rid of that middleman when it comes to windows and doors. Talk to Dave today. Find him at klzradio.com.
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Putting reason into your afternoon drive, this is John Rush.
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And several text messages coming in. Yes, I am following the fire that’s happening up in the northeast part of the metro area, up around Lafayette. It’s 287 and Dillon. And for those of you up in that area, be watching. For it looks like I’ve gotten some reports back from my boys. We’ll have Richard joining us here in just a few minutes. Winds have shifted, died down a little bit. That’s helping immensely. So thank you all for asking, by the way. I appreciate that. Somebody else said, hey, we waited for your show today, knowing that you full well would give a civics lesson in the, you know, situation in Venezuela and so on. Thank you, by the way. You guys make me laugh, smile at the same time. We have great listeners. I talk about you guys a lot. And I mean that sincerely, even when I was on vacation and you talk to other people and tell them what you do and so on. And one of the first things I say, and I’m not saying this just because you all are listening. This is the truth in what I say. I have some of the best listeners anywhere in the world. And have them from all over the world in some cases. So I mean that sincerely. When I talk about what I do and the program and you all, I mean that sincerely. I really do have some of the best listeners that are out there anywhere. Okay, so I want to just plug this in. I knew we’d have a little bit of time where I could squeeze something in. And this is something I knew… About this, but I didn’t know where it came from. This is a car story. You guys all know my background and where I come from in the auto industry and so on. And for the longest time in cars, so let me back up. All modern cars, and they’ve been this way now for decades, you always know where the gas filler neck is based upon the little triangle next to the fuel gauge, the fuel pump mark on your gas gauge. Every car now has had that for a long time. And if you ever climb into a car and you always want to, you know, rental car, you’re in a neighbor’s car or whatever, and you got to put gas in something, you always need to, you know, you always are thinking, man, I don’t remember walking up to the car and where the gas door is, which side’s it on? That little triangle in the direction that it’s pointing, if it’s pointing to the left, it’s on the driver’s side. If it’s pointing to the right, it’s on the passenger side. And it tells you that now. Now, I didn’t know this. But on a rainy day in Detroit, a Ford engineer, believe it or not, got confused, then soaked standing in the rain, not knowing what side the gas door was on. His name was Jim Moylan. And this was done all the way back in the 80s. So on a rainy day 40 years ago, Moylan was headed to a meeting across Ford’s campus and hopped in a company car. When he saw the fuel tank was nearly empty, he stopped at a gas pump. What happened next is something that’s happened to all of us. He realized he’d parked on the wrong side. Unlike the rest of us, he wasn’t infuriated. He was inspired. By the time he pulled his car around, he was already thinking about how to solve the everyday inconvenience that drives people absolutely crazy. And because the gas pump wasn’t covered by an overhead awning, he was also soaking wet. But when he got back to the office, he didn’t bother taking off his drenched coat. He started typing out the first draft message. of a memo. Quote, I would like to propose a small addition, he wrote, in all passenger cars and truck lines. The proposal he had in mind was a symbol on the dashboard that would tell drivers which side of the car the gas tank or the gas filler neck Based on personal experience, he wrote, Once he sent it, he had no clue if anything would ever come of the suggestion. I typed it up, turned it on. He said in a 2018 podcast and forgot about it completely, but the executives at Ford Motor Company didn’t. So, for all of you at times, when you’re driving around trying to figure out exactly this car that you happen to hop into, maybe it was a new car, maybe a rental car, who knows what, and you see the little triangle, Marking which side the gas filler neck is on. Thank Mr. Moylan from Ford Motor Company some 40 years ago because he’s the one that came up with the idea to actually have that done. Now, on top of that, I would say thank Ford Motor Company for listening to one of their executives or one of their people and then acting upon that and then through that A lot of other companies, in fact, it’s standard. All companies now do that, and I thought it was maybe something at one time that kind of became mandated, but no, it was basically a suggestion from a person that passed that on to others inside a Ford Motor Company that then decided to implement that across the board, and then other companies picked up on it. By the way, that’s what competition in the free market does. Great example, by the way, as to how that works. No one… Government didn’t have to intervene and say, hey, we want somebody to mark, you’ll use a little triangle, and we want to mark which side the gas filler neck’s on. Government didn’t do that. The private sector did because the need was there. And then once the need was filled, others caught on and did exactly the same thing because that’s what happens when you have good, healthy competition. So here’s the gist of this and what I took out of all of this. Some of you, by the way, work for yourself and can come up with different things that help out on a daily basis. Some of you work for someone else. No matter whether you work for someone else or you work for yourself, you matter. Ultimately, that’s where I’m going with this. You matter. So at the end of the day, the things that you think of and the things that you can put in and suggest, yes, in fact, they do matter. So don’t ever think that what you’re doing doesn’t matter because it does. Bob and Thornton, go ahead.
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So, John, you know, I’m an Uber driver and I get gas every day at Costco. Oh, by the way. I see the backs of a lot of cars, lots and lots and lots of cars, and nobody, not nobody, but I would say 85, 80, 85% of the people that drive either have expired plates or they have current plates, but they can’t put the stickers on the right place, even though they give you a picture of it. It’s your plate. Okay, now, gasoline. Gasoline. So the little triangle that shows left and right? That’s correct. But you’ve got to get people to look at it. I pull up to Costco, and I’m telling you, half the people there are on the wrong side of the pump.
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Yeah, that one ceases to amaze me because there’s hardly a car on the road today, Bob, that doesn’t have the triangle.
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I think they all do.
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You’d have to be driving a car back from probably the early 80s or so, early mid-80s, to not have that, Bob.
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Well, my first car was a 1957. A lot of those old cars had hidden gas fillers. I remember having a 56 Chevy that had it open up the taillight on the driver’s side to put gas in it. For many, many, many, many years, General Motors put their gas filler behind the license plate.
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Yeah, yeah. I still have a car that way.
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Oh, I worked at gas stations when I was a kid, and you spent a lot of time on your knees down there opening the gas behind the license plate. And the other thing, you know why it’s right and left? For the most part. Now, this doesn’t… pertain to dual exhaust cars. They generally put the gas filler on the opposite side of the exhaust pipe.
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Typically, yeah.
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And the reason is they thought that they didn’t want any dripping gasoline onto a hot exhaust pipe.
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Any spillage. Yeah, exactly.
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But, you know, a lot of cars now have dual exhaust.
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That’s right. That’s right.
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But Costco drives me nuts. The other thing that drives me nuts, people get out of their car, they stretch a long cord across a nicely finished car, and then they put it in there, and then they have to get back in their car and sit in their car while it builds up.
SPEAKER 04 :
And really quick, somebody asked you, why can’t all filler necks be the same on all cars? You just explained that, Bob. In a lot of cases, it depends on that car, how it’s manufactured, what engine combination it’s got in it, where did they run the exhaust, is it European, is it Asian, is it American? I mean, all those things factor in, Bob, and in some cases, fuel tanks aren’t all in the rear. Sometimes they’re in the front.
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Well, yeah, probably a good percentage of the time they put… The gas filler on the opposite side of the exhaust outlet, and you’re thinking that if you drop some gasoline on a hot exhaust pipe, it was going to burst into flames. Guess what? It won’t.
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s right. You’re exactly right. Bob, appreciate you as always. I’ll let you roll. I’ll get Joe in here before we go to break. Joe, go ahead.
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John, just on Bob’s last comment on exhaust pipe, if you look at any car, and I’ve verified this personally on dozens of cars, if the car only has a single exhaust pipe, the gas filler will be on the opposite side of the car from the exhaust pipe.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right.
SPEAKER 18 :
Correct. Maybe because if it’s an old wives tale or they don’t want to be, you know, don’t want to be blamed. But now on a dual exhaust, obviously it doesn’t matter. But if your car only has one exhaust pipe, when you walk out in your garage, look at where your exhaust pipe is and the gas cap will be on the other side.
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Right.
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Right. One more thing. The protests here in New York City, John, when you look at the people protesting Trump extracting Maduro and arresting Maduro. They’re all white liberals. Meanwhile, there’s not a Venezuelan in the crowd. Meanwhile, four blocks over, you’ve got thousands of Venezuela cheering.
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That’s right. That’s right.
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So there’s not one Venezuelan protesting what Trump has done. They’re all busy celebrating what he did. It’s just it’s just it’s hilarious to see the white liberals. It is protesting when the Venezuelans are cheering.
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Absolutely. We’ll talk more Thursday, of course, on that, Joe, as always. We will. All right. Talk to you later. All right, man. Appreciate you, Joe. Have a great night. Good to talk to you already. We’ll be right back. My son Richard will join us. We have an update on sports. Golden Eagle Financial coming up next. Make sure you’re dialed in with your future finances. Talk to Al today. Find him at 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. Okay, Richard joining us now. What’s up, Richard?
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, not too much, Dad. Well, it was a great weekend in sports, but… Really quick, because people have been asking.
SPEAKER 04 :
I’ve been talking about the fire before we get into sports. Give us an update really quick on the fire up in that area. People have been asking, so give us an update.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, it’s mostly out, just kind of past it. And traffic’s a disaster on some of these side roads, for those of you that know where you’re going, because they were rerouting people around 287, and people still have places to go. So traffic is a disaster on the side roads, but the fire looks to be mostly out. So that’s a positive.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, good. All right, so update us. Broncos won yesterday. That puts us as number one. Talk to us about what all that means.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, so number one, Dad, so what you can expect for Broncos fans is the team, regardless of how it looked yesterday, you know, the offense didn’t look great, but you still beat a team by 16 points. And granted, it was mostly backups, or not mostly, but lots of backups for the Chargers. But you still handled your business, Dad, which gives you the right as a Bronco. and the Broncos to sit back and enjoy yourself this weekend, right? Sorry if you can hear the car talking in the background here. But it gives you the right to watch this weekend, right? And that’s something to be said for itself. And what I mean by that is it gives you the ability. You don’t care what happens. You don’t lose this weekend. You are automatically in the divisional round of the playoffs, which used to come with being the top two seed, Dad, but as a result of they added a seventh playoff team and so only the top seed gets a bye, and it’s a really good thing. The other thing that I mean is you get a – you get guaranteed home field advantage as long as you win your games, right, to where you get to the – and you basically, through the AFC playoffs, you’re a guaranteed home field advantage. The last thing that it does, Dad, is it – well, I should say two more things. You have to win two games. Broncos fans, if you win two games, you’re in the Super Bowl.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 08 :
Other teams have to win three games, right? I’m not even talking about traveling, but you have to win two games on your home field to get to the Super Bowl. And then the last thing that it does, at least this next round, is it lets you play the lowest remaining seed, which, in the case of the AFC… lets you not play the two other highest-ranked teams, right, which is the 2C Patriots and the 3C Jaguars, who just a few weeks ago came into your house and smacked you around a little bit, right? They beat you pretty good, the Jaguars did. And so what this means is you don’t have to play either of those two teams that, no matter what happens in the games, no matter who wins, who loses, until you get to the AFC Championship game, if you get there, right? Right. And so to me, that’s a positive. The other positive, looking at the matchups directly, the Chargers play the Patriots. They’re the seventh seed. So just for folks watching at home, if the Chargers win, that’s your first game no matter what because they are the seventh seed. They are the lowest seed in the playoffs. If the Chargers win against the Patriots, you automatically play them no matter what happens with the Bills and Jaguars, no matter what happens with the Texans and the Steelers. The other positive I’m looking at is the Bills, who I think have the best quarterback remaining in the playoffs. I know a lot of people would say it’s Drake May or Matt Stafford, but I just think Josh Allen is really good. And that guy, he’s playing the Jaguars, and they’re arguably playing the best. of all of the teams in the playoffs right now. So those teams play each other, Dad. Well, the benefit of the playoffs and you being the one seed is they can’t both win, right? One of them has to lose. And so I’m looking at it from my standpoint of saying, okay, you’re going to play. If stuff happens, you only have to play one of those two teams. You don’t have to play both of them, which is fantastic. And you don’t have to play the Jaguars or the Patriots until the AFC Championship game. And so essentially your matchup is one of the Steelers, the Texans, the Bills, and the Chargers, just depending on how the rest of the games play out. So honestly, we can sit here and go through every scenario. If this team wins and if this team loses, all I can say is just know the lowest team that wins, that’s the team that you’ll play. And you’ll pretty much know, Dad, by Sunday night who that team will be because the game on Monday night is against the – texans and the steelers and so the other matchups will have one right so if the higher higher seeds win you know that you play the winner of that matchup and then if you know if the if one of the lower seeds wins in the earlier matchups you know you’ll play that lower seed regardless of what happens there and I mean selfishly I would love to play the Steelers to be honest with you just because I think that they’re a very beatable team but you know you can only play the teams in front of you so with that being said that yes did the offense struggle yesterday yes has it struggled for the past few weeks yes all of these are yeses ultimately that at the end of the day you are two home wins and mind you you’ve been able to beat basically any team that you want to this year any two home wins gives you gets you to the Super Bowl And I think this is one of the most wide-open playoff fields that I can remember in the NFL. Not only in the AFC, the NFC as well. There’s just not a true thoroughbred, right? There’s not a truly dominant team that has made the field. And so I think that can be good for the Broncos. So I’m excited. Honestly, this weekend is like a win. You can sit back and re-watch. That’s why they’re on the bye. And you can kind of get ready for whoever is going to come into play next week.
SPEAKER 04 :
All right, so question for you, and Chris DeBall and I know, and you and Andy talk about this stuff a lot, and I really haven’t spent much time thinking about it because I’ve had other things to do like I always do. Your predictor on who goes to the Super Bowl, what are your thoughts?
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, man, I mean, honestly, it really is, it can be anyone, Dad. I mean, I think out of the NFC, I think it’s the Rams or the, I’m going to hedge my bet because there’s three teams that are in the playoff field there. I think it’s one of the NFC West trio, which is the Seahawks, the Rams, and the 49ers. It will be one of those three teams that goes to the playoffs there. In the AFC, I don’t think it’s the Chargers because whether they win or not, it seems like they’re going to charge her. I don’t think it’s the Steelers. I think it’s going to be one of the Texans, the Broncos, or the Patriots. I don’t know if I trust the Jaguars. The Bills, I think, have a long road to go there. And granted, like I said, I think that he’s one of the better options, but I think they have a tough road.
SPEAKER 04 :
So could you see a Broncos slash Bills?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, honestly, Dad, I really think that it’s almost like you could eat outside of the Steelers because, again, I just think that they are the lowest of the playoff field. They’re just not as good. I think you could really put – you could almost take the pie – slice it six ways for the AFC and then probably NFC as well because people would say the Panthers are the same way. You can literally cut the pie into six ways and say this is equal percent chances for every team. You can almost give the Broncos slight favorite odds because they, again, are home. And as long as they take care of business at home, which outside of the Jaguars game they did this year, you could give them the edge. And in this year and in the year where a lot of teams are equal, I do think that home field advantage plays, plays a part. I mean, they were talking about it on the broadcast yesterday that in the media has been talking about it this year, how is how loud the crowd actually has been the past few games and really how well they’ve done. And to me, that’s really indicative of just of the fans and kind of, I think what they see. So I, I think it could be. I mean, at the start of the year, if you said you and I were going to be sitting here at the start of the season and going through and saying that the Broncos were two games away from going to the Super Bowl, I’d have said you were crazy.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right, right.
SPEAKER 08 :
And I just didn’t think that that would be a possibility.
SPEAKER 04 :
You know, the only buddy that said that, by the way, was Andy.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, Andy did. He said they were really good. And you know what? People have to tune in Friday to see what Andy says because I still think the Broncos will probably get tripped up. You know me. I’m sort of a pessimistic-owned fan. I guess I take that after you a little bit. I can’t fully embrace that they could potentially be Super Bowl-bound, could potentially win the Super Bowl until I see it. And I just haven’t, you know, again, I’m too pessimistic.
SPEAKER 04 :
Now, not to jinx him, because whatever happens, happens anyways. I’m not a person that believes in jinxes and things like that anyways. But wouldn’t it be something if, in fact, they did under new ownership that’s been there, what, is it three or four seasons now? How many seasons has it been?
SPEAKER 08 :
I think this is three. I guess this would be year four because this is year three with Sean Tate. So, yes, year four.
SPEAKER 04 :
So four seasons. I mean, would that, you know this better than I, would that be its own record of new ownership winning a Super Bowl that fast?
SPEAKER 08 :
Man, that is a good question because ownership in the NFL does not change hands very often. You know, most recently, obviously, well, the Broncos, the Commanders, You had the Panthers from a few years ago. Man, that’s a good question, Dad. It would probably set some sort of a record as far as soonest championship after an ownership change. It just would, just based on everything that’s happening. And you know what, Dad? They’re on the right track, although I will say this. If the Broncos and Sean Payton do lose our first game, and again, not to be pessimistic, I’m just being real, there is a chance that Sean Payton is coaching for his job next season. Because I think that the ownership will see what the Broncos can be and the talent that is there. Because we’ve seen the talent all year, right? Granted, yes, have we had some fortunate breaks and such? Yes, we have. But I think the talent’s there for us to go far. And if we don’t, granted, again, the playoffs are one game, and we’ve talked about why it makes it one of the greatest playoffs in sports.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, so I just looked this up really quick. I had Chad GPT answer this for me really quick while you were talking. So the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, under the new owner, Malcolm, is it Glazer? Glazer? How do you say that?
SPEAKER 08 :
Glazer.
SPEAKER 04 :
Glazer. Yep, Glazer. Seven seasons.
SPEAKER 08 :
So that would have been their Super Bowl in whatever that was.
SPEAKER 1 :
2002.
SPEAKER 08 :
2003 or 2002, yep.
SPEAKER 04 :
So it took them seven seasons. The next closest was Paul Allen. It took eight seasons for him to win one. And then after that, it’s Stan Kroenke with the Rams 12 seasons. So if, in fact, that can happen either this year. Keep in mind, the Broncos have either this year or next, and even the year after, and they can still beat that record.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, yeah, they can beat it or tie it. And it’s a credit, Dad, to the ownership group, and we’ve talked about it. They are the best in sports. and they sort of stay out of it when they need to, and I think they make changes when they need to, and I’m all on board. And that’s what I would say to Broncos fans. Let’s enjoy the ride. No one expected us to be here, so you know what? We might as well enjoy it while we are.
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And we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Okay, Richard, let’s talk about a new car that you’ve driven here of late. We take this time each week to do new car reviews. We replay that on Saturdays on Drive Radio as well. So what have you driven lately?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, Dan, so I drove a, actually, I think one of our favorite cars. And that doesn’t go without saying lightly. And what I’ll say is it’s the 2026. Toyota Camry, this is the nightshade edition. But, Dad, this has always and long been one of our favorite midsize sedans because it sort of checks literally every box that anyone could ever imagine. And it does so at a really affordable price. So let’s get into it, Dad. The Camry only comes in hybrid anymore, which some people are going to love, some people aren’t. I’ll say this, Dad, it gives you almost 45 miles to the gallon. I don’t have the exact numbers, but it’s just a fantastic car. vehicle in that right I had it for a week barely got it down to a half a tank and that’s what driving at you and just as I normally would and and that’s really where this car shines and anything Toyota smartly did I think they saw the numbers from you know obviously because they introduced it a number of years ago is you can kind of buy both different options and then they said you know what we’re selling a gazillion of these we might as well just make it the one option and they did a phenomenal job at that What’s new for 2026? Well, the trim level that we drove, which is the nightshade edition, is new for this year. Well, some of you are going to say, well, what is the nightshade edition, Dad? Well, it’s everything that comes in the SE, which gives you 19-inch black finished wheels, a gloss black exterior trim, black door handles, and a heated exterior rearview mirrors. And then there’s an XLE and an XSE that are a step above. But, Dad, this vehicle, as it sits Or I should say not as it sits, but you can get this vehicle ranging on the low end of an LE for just over $30,000, and an XSE starts at about $37,000. The other thing about a Camry, Dad, you can get it in front-wheel drive or all-wheel drive, which, again, for a mid-size sedan. Mid-sized sedan is not a guarantee. And in our climate, and yes, in Colorado, even though we’ve had a drier winter, it still does snow here, Dad. And so it is nice to be able to have that all-wheel drive capability, which this vehicle does. The engine noise is a little funky, and you’ll read about that in some other reviews, too, where people are like, I just can’t. At the end of the day, Dad, this is a really functional sedan. I wish the front row was a little bit, I guess, roomier, a little more comfortable sort of a thing. But outside of that, that’s probably just me being picky. I was able to get two booster seats in the back for the kids. It’s got a really good-sized trunk on it, as Camrys have in the past. The infotainment, the safety features that are on it are becoming more standard on Toyotas throughout. It’s just a really great car. Whether you’re thinking of a first car, Dad, whether you’re thinking of a car for you a kid or a family member this just really checks all the boxes and again dad you’ve driven these yes and have they changed these vehicles over the years yeah but they’ve kind of kept the same basic pieces to it and you’ve gotten used to it and you enjoy it as well
SPEAKER 04 :
I have said on the radio for years now, and when the Camry hybrids first came out, even then there was a small price difference from the standard Camry to the hybrid Camry. Even at that time, I said, spend the extra money, get the hybrid. I am not disappointed at all that they’ve gone complete hybrid. on that vehicle. Again, I think their numbers probably started showing that that’s what most people were asking for. And I think, you know, due in part, by the way, I think to those of us on radio that have some influence and so on, telling people what to buy, at the end of the day, great value vehicle. And I had somebody call in the other day naming off several different options for sedans. And you know what? Right off the bat, I didn’t hesitate, didn’t take me a nanosecond to give Toyota Camry as the answer in all the different options that this particular listener was asking for, because it’s just… It’s just head and shoulders above the rest. And I know I sound sort of like a Toyota fanboy. And in this case, I am because there’s very few vehicles for the money that compete with the Camry hybrid.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, absolutely, Dad. And you said it best. And there are some competitors out there. And the competitors that have done a really great job due to the Camry.
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s right. Competition.
SPEAKER 08 :
That’s right. Exactly. Competition, breeding, excellent. I will say this, Dad. It’s just one of our favorite vehicles ever. And you wouldn’t think it drives, because honestly, you look at it and you say, oh, that’s just a Camry. Folks, I encourage you to get out and test drive it, especially if you haven’t done it in a while, Dad. I think people would really be surprised at the improvements that Toyota’s made. Because, Dad, you can get a Camry hybrid, very similar fuel economy, that’s larger. Similarly priced to a Prius. And so you no longer have to go to a Prius for that 45, 50 miles per gallon.
SPEAKER 04 :
Good point.
SPEAKER 08 :
You have the ability to do that right with this. And real quick, in terms of the front-wheel drive, 225 horsepower, all-wheel drive, 232. So you do get a little bit of extra boost with that. Outside of that, we really could go on and on. And I just can’t say it enough, folks. If you’re interested, you’re in the market. Again, a midsize sedan, 2026 Toyota Camry. This was the nightshade edition. Head to your local Toyota dealer, test drive it. When you do that, let them know that John and Richard Rush from Drive Radio and Rush Trees have sent you.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well said, Richard. And again, those of you listening, we always say this and I mean this. This is a car, by the way, that’s easy to rent. There’s a lot of these in the rental car fleet. So if that’s a car that you’re really interested in trying out, you want to check out the trunk. I got a text message a moment ago saying, well, you know, Americans don’t want, you know, cars anymore. They want SUVs. Well… You know, honestly, I think that’s because in a lot of cases, Richard, they haven’t really felt the comfortability of a sedan. And until you actually get out and drive one, you really forget how well they actually work and how comfortable they actually are. Nothing against the SUVs and all of that, but there’s nothing wrong with that Camry hybrid. Great car. If that’s a car you’re looking forward to commute back and forth to work in, as you know, Richard, you really can’t go wrong. It’s a fabulous car. And as I say all the time, please, and Richard says it a lot too, go out, test drive these, spend more than just 10 minutes in the car, put your family in it, make sure everything works correctly for what you need when it’s all said and done. And if you have the ability to rent a car for a few days on the front side, do so before you actually make that call and pull the trigger. And all these reviews that we have done now for a number of years, even if you’re looking to buy a used car, we’ve probably got a review on that particular car as well. But Richard, I’ll let you go. I appreciate it. Thank you.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, absolutely. The only thing I’ll say real quick is, for the price tag, the Camry, yeah, Americans like SUVs, and SUVs are more expensive.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 08 :
And for the Camry, for the money, it’s really hard to beat a midsize sedan with everything we just talked about in there. So, yeah, absolutely. Second to everything you say.
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OK, finishing out this second hour here, another full hour coming your way. Ammon Blair will be joining us again. He is the senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Talk to him a lot, by the way. He’s pretty, pretty solid expert when it comes to foreign affairs and things like that. We’ll get his opinion, not what I had actually planned on. him joining us for. But we’ll talk to him about Venezuela, what’s going on there, and some things along those lines. And I guess there was a post put out today, I didn’t see this, of somebody on the interior of Venezuela in the cabinet talking about certain folks here, politicians here, that are on the take from Maduro. We’ll talk about some of that when we come back. Hour number three is next. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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