In this episode of Rush to Reason, we dive into the legacy of Lou Holtz, a giant in college football, renowned for his contributions both on and off the field. Reflecting on his profound impact, we explore his career from coaching to public speaking, remembering his influence that extended beyond sports. We also address Kristi Noem’s reshuffling from her role as the head of Homeland Security. Analyzing the possible reasons and implications of this major political move, we evaluate how ego and decision-making play roles in the fast-paced world of politics. Finally, we discuss the growing concern of heart
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Okay, Thursday edition, Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Thanks for tuning in. Dr. Kelly Victory, Steve House will not be with us today. I got a message from them just a few minutes ago that they would not be able to join us. They got tied up in air travel and meetings, both. So those things do happen, and that is fine. Plenty to talk about today, no matter what, so we got plenty going on here. We’ll get to several things here in a moment. Question of the day yesterday, what classic… Corvette generation debuted Hidden Headlights. That would be the C2, so the second generation. The second generation debuted them, and it ran all the way up until, I believe, the fifth generation. So, today’s impossible question of the day is, which silent film actor first popularized the Tramp character? Which silent film actor first popularized the Tramp character? That is the question of the day today. Now… I don’t know if some of you saw the news, Charlie. I’m not sure you even saw this. Lou Holtz, famous Notre Dame football coach and solid, hardcore Christian Catholic, really a guy that never minced words when it came to his faith and had a lot of respect for Lou. I didn’t necessarily care for him as a football coach with Notre Dame because that wasn’t my team. But as far as what he did for his players and really for football in general, I Was a great guy. He was always fun to listen to and really left a legacy, I guess you could say, in a lot of the things that he did. He did a lot of public speaking engagements, did a lot of Christian events and things along those lines, and was really a solid, solid individual. So our thoughts and prayers go out to his family. And he died. He was 89 years of age. It doesn’t say exactly what he passed from, but he was a— A great man, and I had a lot of respect for Lou Holtz and a lot of the things that he did. He wrote some books, I believe, throughout the years, too. I can’t remember how many books he wrote, but just a guy that had a lot of influence on and off the football field. Even though he had a lot of influence on the football field, he did a lot of things off the football field as well, did some commentating and some announcing and things along those lines as well, and just a great, great guy. So he literally was one of the most well-known figures in college sports. His career spanned over five decades. He helped lead college programs at William & Mary, North Carolina State University, University of Arkansas, University of Minnesota, University of Notre Dame, and the University of South Carolina. So he actually was with Notre Dame from 86 to 96, recording 100 wins, the most in school history. He retired in from coaching in the 1996 season. Then he took over head coaching duties at South Carolina just a few years later. So, again, what a great man, and always a shame when you see somebody like that pass away, and it’s a sad day for his family. But Lou Holtz, on the same token, his family should be extremely proud of him. I mean that sincerely. He’s a great man and did a lot of great things. So just a great individual. So our thoughts and prayers go out again to him and his family alike. So again, sad day. But you know what? As they always say, the show goes on. So off we go here. And again, Dr. Kelly Victory, Steve House will not be with us today. Also in the news. President Trump has fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. And some might be surprised at that. Frankly, I’m not. This is probably where Andy and I might differ ever so slightly. I like Kristi. I think she’s a pretty decent individual, although not my favorite individual. And just just never has been. I don’t know why. I think she did a lot of great things during COVID. Solid governor when it came to how she handled her state during COVID, what she did to keep things open and so on. Although she does some things at times like her book where she talked about, you know, killing dogs on the ranch and things like that. There’s times I just wonder, does she really make the right judgment calls at times? And I will tell you that I think the answer is no, she does not. And I think even in this case, she’s done some things as Department of Homeland Security Director in spending money on ads, for example, and doing a lot of that as it’s kind of been known here of late. She did some of that really outside of… full approval and really outside of what Donald Trump himself may have even wanted or not wanted. In other words, she tends to run a little rogue, which that’s OK, I think, at times. Although in this particular case, I think she went too far and eventually it got her into trouble. And that’s my feeling on why she’s not there. I think she I think she this is my opinion. I think she got ahead of herself and felt, let’s just say it this way, too big for her britches and did some things that weren’t necessarily in line with the current administration, not necessarily when it comes to how she’s dealing with immigration and all of that, but some of the things she did surrounding that, not directly with ICE and so on, but just how she dealt with some of the things that are ancillary to is probably the best way to say that. And she just got too big for her britches. And when that happens and you’re not the boss, You’re no longer going to be there. Now, she’s going to still have a position. I think she’s going to be the special. She’s taking over the special envoy for the Shield of the Americas, a new security initiative that will reportedly target drug cartels in the Western Hemisphere, which, you know, on that one, go for it. I think she’ll do very well there. I don’t think there’ll be any issues. But and again, there’s going to be people are going to differ with me on this. Andy being one of them. You know, do I like Christie? Yes. You know, am I her biggest fan? No, no. And for a lot of the reasons, like I just said, I think at times she’s not as much of a team player as she might lead on to be. And probably should be in a little different role when it’s all said and done, which she’ll be in now. Trump has nominated Senator Mark Wayne Mullen to take over the role. In fact, I read today that he will be the first senator. How should I say this? He’s the first, not minority, but he’s the first, I’m trying to use the right word, Indian, I guess you could say. He’s got an Indian descent that he will be one of our first individuals like that to serve in that capacity. Say that, Charlie? Yeah, Native Indian, you know, U.S. Indian. I’m looking for the right word. Up in Canada, they call it First Nations. I can’t remember what the other name is we use here. I’m sorry. I’m dumb today. I don’t remember. But anyways, at any rate, I read today, and I – I should have read further and analyzed that a little bit closer, but this is news that just came out a little bit ago. In fact, right before I was getting ready to leave to come down to come on air, this was news that was breaking at that point in time. He is Senator Mullen. He is a three-year senator. He’s got decades of experience in the House of Representatives as well. I think he’s actually a really good fit for this particular role. He’s sort of got that cowboy look to him, and from everything I’ve read, and he’s out of Oklahoma, by the way, and everything I’ve read about him, he’s just a really good guy, man’s man, just a good old boy, gets along well with everybody, presents himself very well, has a good way of bringing people together, good leadership qualities and so on. So I think that’s a really good pick. Now, here’s a question I always have to ask. Why didn’t Trump go there first? Well, as with any administration, Trump included, there’s always some quote-unquote payback once you get into office. And I really feel like with Kristi Noem. And some of what was involved prior to Trump being elected president the second term, I think there was probably some things owed to Christie. And so I think that was a token appointment that he gave her. And in a lot of cases, that’s what happens. And by the way, Trump is not the only one that’s ever done that as a president. They all do it. In fact, a lot of leaders do it, not just in politics but in other organizations as well. A lot of times you’ll bring that person along with you from the last place you were at or whatever. So at the end of the day, is it uncommon for Trump to do what he did with Christie? No, no, it is not uncommon. It’s actually very, very common. And again, I think had Christie stayed in her lane, had she stayed in her lane, I think she’d still be there. Now, there’s also some rumors, and I didn’t go through all of this and investigate, but there’s supposedly some rumors about how much money she spent on the private jet that’s Department of Homeland Security and where she went with it and who she went to see. And was there some possible affairs going on and different things along those lines? And there’s a lot of rumors surrounding all of that. And honestly, I don’t know. Not going there. Don’t care, really, at the end of the day. Bottom line, the news is she’s no longer… head of DHS, Senator Mullen is. Now, he has to go through the approval process of the Senate, of course. He has to be confirmed. Knowing him, though, and some of the background and how long he’s been around, I don’t think that’s going to be a big issue, frankly. Now, there’s a lot of news coming out of the left, of course, that, you know, Kristi Noem, good riddance, she never should have been there to begin with, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Now, did she do that bad of a job as head of Homeland Security? I don’t think she did that bad of a job. Again, am I her favorite person? Is she my favorite person? Am I her biggest fan? No, I am not. I just said that a little bit ago. But I’m also not her enemy. I’m not against her. And I’m not going to tell you that she did a really, really terrible job. I just think that she could have done things differently. And she probably now is wishing she had because she’d probably still be in that role that she now is not in. So… All right, we’ll leave it at that. I did have something to talk about when it comes to people under the age of 55 dying of heart attacks. I wanted Dr. Kelly to chime in on that. We’re going to talk about that anyways. Might come back to that next week when she’s back with us. But let’s do this. Dr. Scott’s coming up next. He hosted yesterday, which I appreciate greatly, by the way. He does that the first Wednesday of every month. 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Okay, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Got a text message in too that said, you know, Christy didn’t get fired. She got moved to the shield of the American. No, no. You can read anything you want into that all you want. She got canned. She got canned. And it was coming. The handwriting was on the wall. And it’s been on the wall probably for the past month or more and had all of this issues with Iran have not had come up here in the past couple of weeks. Trust me, that’s been brewing for a couple of weeks. I bet you this would have happened even a couple of weeks ago. But That got tabled, I think, because of other things happening. And it finally just came to a head. And I’m guessing Trump had to deal with it no matter what, whether Iran is a problem right now or not. Just something that had to happen. So, yeah, I mean, I’m sorry. I don’t mean to argue with you guys that are texting in and so on. But at the end of the day, yeah, you can say it however you want to, but she got canned. Let me say it this way. She would not have done that on her own. This is a demotion. Let me make sure I’m crystal clear on that. Going from the head of the Department of Homeland Security, think of that title, you’re in charge of all of Homeland Security for the United States of America, to now you’re in a special envoy position. to the shield of the americas it is not one of the same folks that is in fact a demotion you can say it any other way that you want but it is a huge demotion you’ve gone from literally one of the top offices in the country to now a special envoy. And truthfully, you’ll never hear from her much publicly again in regard to the shield of the Americas. You might get a press release here or there, and you might see her on TV every now and again if something major happens as far as breaking open a drug cartel or something along those lines, breaking apart a drug cartel or something like that. But trust me, folks. This is a huge demotion. This is not something that she would have chosen. This is definitely Trump, you know, maybe not coming out and saying flat out she’s fired. But, you know, I’ve been an owner since I was 22 years of age. And there are ways of moving people around whereby they may not think they’re getting fired or demoted, but they are. So believe me, she’s been fired and moved, demoted, if you would, at the exact same time. So again, you guys, whatever, you can think whatever you want to. That’s fine. I’m okay with that. But trust me in what I’m saying there. Read between the lines if you have to. So, all right, people under the age of 55 dying of heart attacks. And again, this is something I was going to talk to Dr. Kelly Victory about today, but didn’t get a chance, won’t get a chance to today because she is tied up on an airplane, not able to join us. But there are more Americans. This can be the Wall Street Journal. Where Americans under 55 are dying of severe heart attacks. Proportions of adults ages 18 to 54 who died of severe first heart attack rose 57% between 2011 and 2022. Now, one thing in here that I was not able to shake out, I did not read the entire study. There’s a study that’s in the journal from the American Heart Association. And what I really want to know is, was there a… Like going up a roller coaster. Was there a continual slide where the numbers kept going up as we got to COVID? And I didn’t look at that to see. Now, the study offers the latest evidence of worsening health among younger U.S. adults, including deaths from conditions traditionally tied to aging, such as heart disease and cancer. Poor health among young adults is one reason heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the U.S., despite decades of medical advances that have saved millions of lives from heart attacks and other life-threatening cardiac events. The increase among 18 to 54-year-olds is especially concerning because mortality, from heart attacks has generally been declining. This is coming from a Dr. Mohan Satish, a clinical cardiovascular disease fellow at New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center, who is the lead author of the study. At least three-quarters of the heart attacks among young and middle-aged adults are first-time heart attacks. Risk factors include increased diabetes, chronic kidney disease, and drug use, a study found. Low income could also play a role if a person can’t afford to get treatment. A higher percentage of women than men had diabetes, obesity, and chronic kidney disease and were of low income. The findings add to the growing study of evidence that women are facing serious heart risks. A report published earlier this week in the Circulation of the American Heart Association Journal projected that 59% of adult women will have hypertension by 2050, up from 49% in 2020. So we talked to Dr. Kelly a lot and talk on Wednesdays during health and wellness. Guys, get healthy. There’s many, many, many, many ways to get healthy. And that could be from changing your diet, what you’re putting into your mouth and eating, to what you’re drinking, to whether you’re exercising or not. All sorts of things can come into play. And we hear Kelly talk about it almost every single Thursday. There’s but a few times throughout the year that she’s not with us on a Thursday. But typically she is here, and I’m here to tell you, this is fixable. Now, I wanted to talk to her about this because I do think that some of this increase is coming from COVID itself and possibly the vaccines, probably the vaccines as well, myocarditis and so on. So it’d be interesting to see, did this spike during that time frame? And I’d have to dig into the study to find out. Dr. Kelly may have known because she probably reads this stuff on a daily basis because it’s what she does. Steve in Colorado Springs, go ahead, man. Good afternoon, Sir Rush. How are you? I’m good. How are you?
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Yeah, Christine Noem, just one guy’s thoughts here. I think her ego exceeded her performance ability. Yeah. And I think her ego was writing checks that she couldn’t cash. And it was just pretty ridiculous. We were spending $220 million for a self-aggrandizing project. campaign right that’s just not going to cut it not going to apply right and speaking of flying i see this a lot of time in professionals that are very good at what they do top of their field and they just think that that competence is going to transfer to flying high performance airplanes it often does not and in fact a lot of them particularly docs attorneys high supply and businessmen they basically have anywhere from two to three x times more field crashes than the rest of the pilot population.
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Yeah, and I just got a comment from a good friend of mine as well, Steve, and one of my best friends that said one of the other things she did was a couple of the shootings, especially Alex Peretti, really did kind of screw some of that up. There’s ways she probably could have dealt with that much better. And by the way, I would agree with that wholeheartedly. And to your point, I believe it’s because her ego gets ahead of her. Yep, absolutely. Keep up the good work. Thanks. Thank you, man. Steve, I appreciate it greatly. And yes, I can’t disagree with that statement. I think Steve’s right. Her ego gets ahead of her. Basically, her body writes checks that it can’t cash, kind of the old saying from Top Gun. And I think sometimes individuals, politicians, again, she’s been governor of South Dakota and so on, I think that they do get a big ego. They’re sort of at the top of the food chain, if you would, politically speaking. And they sort of get to this point where not necessarily do they even listen to others’ input. And I’ve always looked at Christy. A lot of respect there, but I’ve always looked at Christy a lot like Steve has, whereby I think there’s people around her trying to advise her to do different things in a different way, and she just writes them off. No, I’m not going to do that. I’m going to do it my way. More power to her, that’s fine, but there’s consequences for doing that. And we’re now experiencing, or we are, you’re watching it, experiencing what she does or what she did and the repercussions of. So, again, as I said earlier, is this a firing or a demotion or whatever you want to call it? It’s both. It’s a firing of her from DHS, and yes, she’s going to have another job, another token job, if you would ask me. So she’s really not being fully canned, but she got canned. So you can look at it however you want to, but yeah, she got canned. Let’s do this. Take a quick break. I’m going to come back and talk a little bit more about heart attacks as well. Roof Savers of Colorado, and hey, save yourself a heart attack. Make sure your roof is doing what it should be. You can extend the life of that roof, by the way, to up to 15 years with the Roof Max product, 303-710-6916.
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Okay, you are listening. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. All right, same great friend of mine. One of my best friends just sent me. Heart attack and stroke risk. Regular vaping is associated with a 34% higher likelihood of heart attack and a 25% higher chance of coronary artery disease even after adjusting for traditional smoking factors. So, folks, that’s probably another reason why that younger generation is now experiencing some of this, meaning we need to do better education on the implications of vaping and doing some other things because it’s not ending well for that age group right now. Dan and Blackhawk, go ahead.
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You know, one of the things that school districts or the people in the know have done, they’ve eliminated, or I don’t know if they brought it back, but remember, they’ve eliminated PE in school.
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True. That’s a good point, too. Yeah.
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You know, and so I remember when I was in elementary, I couldn’t do a pull-up. I finally got to where I could do a pull-up, but remember, we used to have to do the you would do the 12-minute mile. I’m pretty sure you had to run it. And based off of how many laps you could do… Twice a year, by the way.
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You had to run it first semester and second semester.
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Yes, yes. So they’ve eliminated that in the name of, quote-unquote, making our younger generation smarter. But at the same time, if they don’t have health… It doesn’t matter how smart they are.
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And I was talking to Dr. Scott about this today. If you don’t have good health… And you don’t feel well, you’re not going to be as smart. So I don’t understand the mentality behind. You’re right. That’s how they’re looking at it. But at the end of the day, it doesn’t work because the less healthy people are, the less smart, wise, willing to work, be productive, mental acuity, all of that goes down if you’re unhealthy.
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Right, and also, you know, school is not really designed for boys. No, it’s not. You’re right. Right, and I’m not trying to be, but boys just can’t sit for long periods of time without getting distracted. I mean, my one son was one way, but my other son, he was not good at school because he didn’t like having to study. We homeschooled. But once we got out and did things, you know… He enjoyed that, but he’s also smart in a different capacity than my other two kids. He’s more active, more hands-on than my other two kids are. So eliminating P.E. is not the thing to do.
SPEAKER 13 :
That’s another factor besides the vaping that was just sent to me. Besides the vaping end of things and combine that with what you’re saying, Dan, it’s a recipe for disaster.
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Yeah, plus all the, and what you guys have been talking about, you know, Dr. Kelly, all the processed food that we have and we eat.
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True, true.
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You know, I see what the younger generation, how they eat, and like they don’t even know what they’re doing. So the education on our nutrition needs to probably be beefed up too in that people need to understand that processed foods are not as good as, I mean, I knew that back in the 80s. Right. When, you know, when everybody, brand was the big thing, right? You had to pour brand on everything. I’m like, get it in its natural state.
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Right.
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And it’s much better for you. You’re bringing up some great points, Dan.
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And I think, you know, again, I would like to have to dig into this study a little bit more to determine exactly why are these, you know, 54 and unders in some cases dying of the point of this whole article was it’s not even like they’re having a heart attack coming back, you know, having to be able to, you know, do a bypass or whatever, you know, do a heart valve, fix some things and so on like you would do in a lot of older adults. They’re dying of that first heart attack, Dan. They’re not living.
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And like you said, I’ll be interested. I’ll try to listen next week to see what Dr. Kelly says about the shot. I don’t even call it a vaccine because it wasn’t a vaccine. It was a shot.
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Right, right, right.
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The jab, we call it. Did I lose you, Dan?
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There you go.
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Now you’re back. I lost you for a minute. Go ahead. I lost you for just a second.
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I want to listen to what Kelly has to say about the shot.
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Oh, gotcha.
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You know, the COVID shot, and see if that has any increase. Because my stepmom got the shot, and lo and behold, it wasn’t a year after they got the shot, she got cancer, and she eventually died of cancer, and there wasn’t any history of cancer in her family.
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Right.
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So I’m like, I’m suspicious of… Well, I am too. That’s right.
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You know, I’d like to know, again, this particular study, again, it does go all the way back to, what was I saying? This goes back from 20, I go back to the beginning of the article. Sorry, give me one second here. It’s 18 to 54-year-olds, 2011 to 2022. So basically an 11-year, you know, timeframe.
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And another thing that we didn’t have when we were kids and growing up is we didn’t have social media.
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No, that’s true. We didn’t sit as much.
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Right. Remember, we could go out and play.
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Right.
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We just had to be back when the streetlights came on.
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Right.
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And our parents let us play all day. And now kids are just sitting there on their phones or playing video games and or whatever they’re doing, and they’re sedentary. So that’s got to have some bearing on it, too.
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The other thing about this, Dan, is that they’re talking about how this is becoming more and more common as early as age 35. I mean, I get it. There were folks that I knew back in the day and had friends of my parents and so on that some died that young, but that’s a rarity, Dan. Most people aren’t dying of heart attacks at age 35.
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No, no, and that’s interesting to hear. So one last thing, uh, with no, um, she had, she had a agenda or a job description that was probably handed to her by Trump to, to fulfill. And, um, unfortunately, and this is where Steve talks about the pride theme, you know, look at the prestige of getting the director of Homeland security, but she probably through her pride didn’t realize, do I have the qualifications? to fulfill what Trump wants me to get done through this. And, I mean, it’s like, you know, when you interview somebody for a job, they’ve got to know that they’re going to fit the company, and you’ve got to know if the company is going to fit. And, unfortunately, I think that probably was not done. And then with the whole blow-up in Minneapolis and everything, it revealed that she did not have the PR skills or the – but know with all on how to handle a situation like that. And no offense, she’s from South Dakota. South Dakota was a red state, or is a red state, and they don’t have to deal with the protests like they do in blue states. So be it. But that’s my two cents.
SPEAKER 13 :
I appreciate it, Dan. As always, thank you very much. And more data coming in. Again, thank you. I appreciate this very, very much. A good friend of mine sending some things along these lines, which I did not know this. I guess I should have. I’m not around the vaping end of things that much to really – I’ll be quite honest with you. I forget it exists. I was never a smoker growing up. I’ve given you my story as to why many, many times. I never was a smoker. Still am not. I know sometimes it might sound like it is with my voice, but no, I’ve never smoked anything in my entire life. It’s just not what I ever did. Again, I’ve got reasons for that. And not just, you know, because it’s unhealthy. I just, I just, I never did. Never got started. And vaping, I know very, very, very little about. But 23 to 24… In that year, the highest prevalence, young adults age 18 to 25, 14% or almost 5 million people vape the most, followed by adolescents age 12 to 17. That’s another 1.5 million people. And then it’s by adults aged 26 or older, another 7 million people. Half of teens try to quit vaping. And what I do know, because I’ve had some folks that we’ve actually brought on air before, some experts in this particular area, in this particular arena, what they tell me is vaping is harder to quit than smoking. Have you heard that as well, Charlie? I believe that I am being correct in that. I think vaping is harder to quit than smoking. And again, I don’t know why. Again, I’m not an expert when it comes to tobacco use and vaping and so on. But I do know that it’s extremely, extremely addictive. And everything that I’ve read, heard, interviewed about getting kids to quit vaping is harder than it used to be getting them to quit smoking. And again, a lot of us have been around folks that smoke. Some of you probably out there have smoked or do smoke. And by the way, I’m never one to criticize somebody that smokes. If you want to smoke, fine. Be my guest. I’m of that. I’m a conservative. You do you. Whatever. I don’t care. Now, I don’t want it affecting me, and I am one where back in the day, because I grew up in the automotive world where everyone smoked. Keep in mind, I first started working at a car dealership when I was 12. That would have been 1976. Okay, so 1976. And I mean everybody smoked then. I can remember going into the showroom of the dealership and it faced west. I can remember going in there in the evenings when the sun was starting to set a little bit. And it would literally look like just a cloud. That’s how much smoke, because everybody smoked. It was just the way it was. And especially in my industry, everybody smoked. It was very, very common. Now, I know a lot of other industries, people smoked as well. I mean, I remember back in the day when you got on an airplane and there was a smoking section and a non-smoking section. Now, how stupid is that, by the way? You’re in a metal tube. It’s all smoking. I don’t care what part of the airplane you’re in. If somebody’s smoking, you’re smelling it. But I remember back in the day, some of you were probably too young for this, but yes, there was a time, Charlie, you remember this, when you get on the airplane and there was a smoking section and a non-smoking section. And it’s the dumbest thing ever. And finally, they outlawed smoking on airplanes, which I never could understand in the first place. Why are you smoking on an airplane? It’s a metal tube that if the thing catches fire, you’re pumping oxygen into the thing. I mean, if that thing catches fire, you’re done. I never could understand, but they did. They allowed it. Anyways, at the end of the day, that’s just the way it was, and a lot of people smoked back then. It was very, very addictive. More info. One or two puffs of a high-strength vape can contain as much nicotine as an entire cigarette. Okay, whoa, time out. I’ve got to read that again. Did you hear that, Charlie? One or two puffs. Of a high-strength 8% vape can contain as much nicotine as an entire cigarette, which typically provides 1 to 2 milligrams. So generally, 10 to 15 puffs of a vape are estimated to equal one cigarette, though this varies heavily upon the device, the nicotine concentration, the puff intensity, and so on. So the average daily use. While many casual users might take fewer puffs, studies on daily vaping have indicated a median of around 200 puffs per day. So you’d have to go through to do the math and determine how many milligrams are they actually getting. But man alive, that’s a lot. That’s a lot, 200 puffs per day. I mean, I guess that’s why the vaping becomes so much more addictive is because you’re doing it, I guess, more often, and it’s a heavier use than what you would get out of cigarettes. This is fascinating. I had no idea. Wow. On average daily usage, while many casual users might take fewer puffs, studies, again, indicate that it’s around the 200 puffs a day. John and Cheyenne, go ahead. So I am a former smoker.
SPEAKER 05 :
quit in 1994. Okay. So it’s, you know, I quit smoking, you know, over half my life ago, but it’s, that was the toughest thing I ever had to do. The toughest habit I ever had to break was brutal. But when I went in the military, they gave us cigarettes in C rations.
SPEAKER 12 :
Really?
SPEAKER 05 :
They weren’t good. And they were stale because they were, Vietnam-era C-rations that they were still giving out in the 80s. But, yeah. And everybody smoked in the military. Everybody. Until they started going anti-smoking in, like, 87, 88. Okay. Around there.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 05 :
They started going and saying, hey, you don’t want to smoke. They didn’t let trainees smoke, stuff like that.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 05 :
But it’s gone on. You know, prior to that, I mean, watch any World War II movie and see how many guys have smoked.
SPEAKER 13 :
Sure, sure. Well, you know, like I say, John, I mean, I grew up in an era where literally, I mean, my industry especially, the automotive industry, I mean, everybody smoked. It didn’t matter whether you were working on cars, selling cars, in the office, whatever. I mean, everybody smoked something. They either smoked cigarettes, pipes, cigars, whatever. I mean, it was just common to… to be smoking and vaping and all of that, of course, at that time didn’t exist. And I don’t even know when I’d have to go back and even research that as to who invented that, when did that come up. I had no idea, John. Listening to this friend of mine, my best friend sending me this, I did not know vaping was that much stronger than cigarettes. I had no idea.
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, I’ve heard the same thing. I don’t know either, and I’m glad I don’t, and I’m glad I got rid of that habit when I did. but that was kind of the government ran me out of that habit because I was, we were living in New York at the time. We had, you know, we were newlyweds and stuff. And my wife was like, you’re not smoking in our apartment. Okay. Started there. And then New York city was one of the first places to outlaw smoking in bars and restaurants. Okay. Couldn’t smoke on the subway. The office I worked in, you couldn’t smoke. I was, I think I was down to about four cigarettes a day when I was like, this is useless. I’m going to quit.
SPEAKER 13 :
So you finally got to the point where why do it?
SPEAKER 05 :
Why? It’s, you know, for three or four cigarettes, I was able to quit. But still, I remember maybe 10 years after I quit, I was out with a couple of guys. And this was in Cheyenne where smoking was still allowed in the bars and we were having a beer there. And I reached over and grabbed a cigarette from one of the other guys instinctively without even thinking about it. Really? Went to light it. Yeah. Went to light it. You don’t smoke anymore. And I gave it back to him. But it was, you know, but that’s how it was from the previous time.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
So other thing about smoking, you’ll find this enjoyable. My wife started with American in 89. Okay. Next month will be a 37th anniversary.
SPEAKER 12 :
Good for her.
SPEAKER 05 :
They allowed smoking when she first started. I think they outlawed it first domestically in like 92.
SPEAKER 13 :
Internationally, you could still do it.
SPEAKER 05 :
Up until, I want to say, she said maybe the American flag carriers stopped it around 2000. And then the European carriers stopped it shortly thereafter. But yeah. All it was was the back 10 rows of the plane was the smoking section.
SPEAKER 13 :
Correct, which everybody smoked. At that point, the entire plane knew you were smoking.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, and although, you know, when we talked about this in lieu of COVID, how clean the air is on an airplane because of the filtering, you still smelled it as soon as you got on.
SPEAKER 13 :
Oh, absolutely.
SPEAKER 05 :
I mean, it’s, and if you got stuck sitting back there.
SPEAKER 13 :
If you were one row ahead, you were in the smoking section.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right, but if you remember, even if you weren’t smoking, if you got stuck sitting back there, the seats were clothed. A lot of them were clothed back then, and they reeked of cigarettes.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yes, they did. You’re right. Yep, you’re exactly right.
SPEAKER 05 :
And the carpet on the airplane. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 13 :
Oh, John, I remember those. Now that you’re saying all that, I remember those days vividly, absolutely.
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, I do, too. When I was in the military, you know, We didn’t get the best seats on the plane. The military, even back then, they bought the cheapest tickets for us if we weren’t flying charter and we were flying commercial. And I got stuck in the back on a flight from New York to Honolulu, which was like a 10-hour flight. Oh, my gosh. And I was in the smoking area until I asked the flight attendant, or actually… Back then, they were still called stewardesses. Right, right, right. I said, do you have something I can move up to? It’s tough. And she goes, oh, yeah, come on. And she gave me a better seat. That was fine. But you could still smell the smoke all the way through the airplane.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, sure.
SPEAKER 05 :
And I was still a smoker at that time and didn’t want to smell it. Got it. And I didn’t smoke on airplanes. I was like, no, that’s too gross. A lot of people did, and they were ashtrays on them. Oh, every seat had an ashtray in the arm. That’s right. If you get on some older planes that haven’t been retrofitted, they still have the non-smoking lights.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, you’re right. They do. You’re correct. Yes, they do.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yep. And remember, the pilot used to, when he would hit 10,000 feet, he’d turn it off.
SPEAKER 13 :
That’s right.
SPEAKER 05 :
That’s right.
SPEAKER 13 :
You could smoke then. Dumb question on my part, John. Was smoking prior to 10,000 feet going to affect the plane?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, it’s kind of like seat back up and seat belt on. If an emergency happens, they want as little as possible smoke. to interfere with the emergency cabin preparation. Does that make sense?
SPEAKER 13 :
I suppose. The way I’ve always looked at this, maybe I’m just being cynical. If that thing’s going down, does any of that matter?
SPEAKER 05 :
Um, I don’t know. Those people thought that when they were on Sully’s flight. Well, that’s true. No. Okay.
SPEAKER 13 :
You got a good point there. All right. I’ll give you that. Good point.
SPEAKER 05 :
And my wife will tell you at one time they had, she was taken off out of Miami going to somewhere in the Caribbean. And, uh, they had a declared emergency and they had to go through the whole procedures and stuff. And she said, that’s the only time it was ever that where the pilot said, we’re declaring an emergency. We’re turning around, you know, it was a seven, six. So they went out over the Atlantic, dumped the fuel, turned around, which is, you know, normal process, dump the fuel, turn around and land at, uh, they went back right into Miami in like 40 minutes. And, uh, She said it really wasn’t anything because they were able to go to the gate and unload everybody. So come back to find out they couldn’t. Something happened with the plane drop pressurization, right, as it hit like 11,000 feet. And she said the oxygen mask dropped, and that’s when he declared it. And, you know, who knows what it was. But she was mad that day because they sent her home and told her that she was removed with pay for the next trip. And she’s like, I want to work. There’s nothing wrong. But at that point, I think she had been flying 20-plus years at the time. But laughing about the way everybody smoked back. And, John, when you first bought John’s 4×4, your first one.
SPEAKER 12 :
Uh-huh.
SPEAKER 05 :
How bad was it when you had to get into a smoker’s vehicle?
SPEAKER 13 :
Oh, I mean, I grew up, John, even in the, you know, eras, you know, the decade prior to that. That’s partially why I don’t, that’s why I never, for those of you that don’t know this, I never smoked because as a young kid working in the dealership, John, I cleaned so many windows, so many ashtrays, so many urinals, the parking lot. I mean, I picked up after enough smokers back in the day as a young boy. I never, ever, ever wanted to touch one.
SPEAKER 05 :
And what’s funny is you still see people smoking in their cars, not realizing that you just knocked the resale value down by probably $3,000 to $5,000.
SPEAKER 13 :
And again, John, I’m one of those two where it’s like, you know, you included. I mean, hey, if you want to smoke, be my, you know, more power to you. You know, it’s not for me to decide what you do or don’t do. But I cleaned up after enough smokers as a young boy. I just never had the desire to smoke afterwards.
SPEAKER 05 :
I’m the same way. If you smoke, fine. You come to visit me and you want to have a smoke, go out on the deck, go outside. You’re not going to smoke in my house. But other than that, if you want to smoke, that’s your business. I know how bad it is because those first couple of years after I stopped smoking, the body expelling all that stuff that it had in it for all those decades, I was coughing up brown stuff for like a year and a half in the morning. You just would cough up and brown stuff would come out, and finally it went away after a couple of years. But people don’t realize how bad it is for your body. Makes sense. But other than that, I think Kristi Noem, part of the thing was she was maybe scapegoated a little the last six months where – When all this crap went down in Minneapolis and she was told to try to fix it.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, I’m not going to argue that, although, John. Yeah. On air one day. I’m like, OK, to avoid a lot of the issues that we have going on. Why don’t they all have body cams? Well, sure enough. And it wasn’t because I said anything, but because other people, I’m sure, were as well. But the week later, you know, she goes in and they all have body cams. It’s like, OK, time out. If I had been her and I don’t know anything about this. I’ve never been in the military. I mean, I just know how to run things. OK, but I can tell you one thing. If I had to come in as DHS and say, wait a minute, we’ve got police officers all over the country that wear body cams. And yet our ICE agents aren’t. Why aren’t we? That’d been the first thing I’d have done.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, exactly, because how many cops that were against it when they first went with body cams for everybody now turn around and say, best thing that ever happened.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, because it saves them more than it hurts them.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right, and I used to tell, when I was a union delegate working in the call center back in New York, And we were always recorded. And people say, oh, I don’t like being recorded. I said, that tape is your best friend. When that customer calls back and says you were rude, you were nasty, you were person.
SPEAKER 12 :
That’s right.
SPEAKER 05 :
Because if we listened to the tape and you didn’t do that, they got nothing to stand on. That’s right. Now, the guys who did do that and gals occasionally would lose it. the tape was tough to argue on the opposite side of it.
SPEAKER 12 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 05 :
You’d be like, just don’t say anything. Let’s listen to the tape. And then you’d talk to him on the side and be like, you need to go in and throw yourself on the mercy of the boss because you’re in trouble for this. You messed up.
SPEAKER 13 :
I mean, yeah, you messed up.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. I get it. If most of them would just, if it was the first defense or something, they get, you know, a couple hours suspended or maybe you reprimand and, get sent to reinforcement training on how to be nice, which is pretty much… Right, right, right, right. It’s hard to be… If you’ve ever worked in a call center environment and you’re getting beat up one call after another at a certain point, it’s really hard to be nice.
SPEAKER 13 :
It can happen in retail, John. I get that. I absolutely get that.
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, yeah. Yeah, you know, and it’s never the customer that… set you off, it’s usually the third customer after that.
SPEAKER 13 :
That’s true. Good point.
SPEAKER 05 :
But with Nome, I think it might have been the same thing. It was just more and more and more. And then calling that second guy a domestic terrorist, that was probably the… Yeah.
SPEAKER 13 :
Again, there’s just several mistakes I feel she made leadership-wise that is why she’s not there.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. And, you know, where’s she going to go? Is she going to do this job until Trump’s out of office? Is she going to go back? Because remember, she was in Congress before she got elected to governor. Correct. So does she go back to Congress? Does she go back and try to be a senator? Does she go back to South Dakota and run for, like, state senator office? Or does she just go back home and take the money she earned in government, plus maybe… Because she’ll get some conservative speaking fees and stuff. Sure. Or does she just do that and move on? Good question. She probably made enough money. Good question. I don’t remember how long she was in Congress, but I think she was there long enough to get that pension.
SPEAKER 13 :
Then she’s going to be fine.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, so better than us.
SPEAKER 13 :
That’s right. John, I appreciate it, man.
SPEAKER 05 :
Have a good rest of your night.
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SPEAKER 13 :
All right, great discussion, by the way, on vaping, smoking, and the heart attacks of people now under the age of 54, so 18 to 54. 18, by the way, being one of the key ones as well. It’s like, holy cow, that’s young. Colorado State Patrol is warning about driving while tired ahead of daylight saving time, which for those of you that maybe don’t know this, It is Saturday night into Sunday. So it’s Sunday morning at 2 a.m. is when it officially happens, but this weekend. And you used to say, well, make sure you change your clocks. Well, anymore, everybody’s got an iPhone or an Android or a digital clock or whatever, and very few people have to change anything. You might have to change the microwave or the oven, but even your cars, for the most part, most of the modern cars today will even switch over automatically. Some of the older cars, you’ll have to go in and actually manually change the clocks. But outside of that, typically, they’ve even got a daylight saving time setting where, a DST setting where you can turn that on and off, and the clock’s now handled. And some of them even know the date where it’ll do it automatically. Okay. Just depends on the make and the model of the car, how new it is, and so on. But Car State Patrol, warning about driving while tired. A lot of people this does affect. I’m not one of them, but I’m a freak of nature, which anybody that knows me knows that. This doesn’t affect me. I’ll get up Sunday morning just like I always do, and it won’t be much of an issue, and I’ll roll into Monday. And the thing I guess I look at is tonight is my last night – of driving home in somewhat dark. It’s dusk when I drive home with all the cloud cover tonight. It’ll be darker than normal. But this is my last night until we get all the way back into November of me having to drive home in the dark. So for me, I get excited over it because I hate driving home in the dark. People are idiots. They drive much better when it’s light out than when it’s dark out. So I’m excited. So daylight saving time is this Saturday into Sunday. So don’t forget that. And, yeah, don’t drive tired. That’s about the same as driving drunk. So just don’t do it. So we’ll be back. Hour number two is next. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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