Join John Rush as he dives into the intricate world of AI-generated content and its effects on elections. With Satya Thalman, they unravel the complexities of distinguishing fact from fiction in the digital age. Learn about the influence of deepfakes on voter perceptions and what responsible innovation could look like in battle against misinformation. This is a must-listen for anyone concerned about the integrity of information in our modern world.
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All right, we are back. Time for our Monday Mortgage Minute, hour number three, Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Kurt Rogers from Affordable Interest Mortgage. Kurt, welcome, sir.
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Nice to hear it from you again, John.
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Always a joy to hear from you, Kurt. Talk to us about rates and the election, and what do you see happening after?
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Well, first of all, I think the whole country is going to take a big, deep breath and go, whew, that one’s over.
SPEAKER 13 :
I agree.
SPEAKER 14 :
And when that happens, things, I think, are going to start to get back to normal. Thursday, you’re going to see the Feds lower the… the Fed’s rate down about a quarter. Now, that’s not significant so much as to mortgage rates as to what they’re doing there. But when the Fed’s lower that rate, that’s the short-term money, which is the money that banks or the government will loan money to banks for. So investors are going to start wanting to put their money somewhere else, and they’re going to find the 10-year bond is being attractive because they’re making 4.5% to 5% now, and they can lock that in. So I think you’re going to see a run on the 10-year bond, which in turn is going to drive mortgage rates down.
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Because that makes the – they have to become more competitive, I guess what you’re saying, or they flood the market maybe is a better way for me to say that, on the 10-year. Am I saying that right, Kurt?
SPEAKER 14 :
That’s correct. And what it does is because that’s a guaranteed money for whether you want to do a six-month or an eight-month or a one-year. So as the Feds keep lowering the rates – investors are making more money on the 10-year bond by doing it now. So I think you’re going to see a run on that in the next couple weeks when you’re going to see rates, mortgage rates move pretty, and about that time you’re going to see them move down.
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You know what, everything you said, I think you’re spot on. I think the other thing for a lot of you that are listening, I see this in, The consulting end of things with businesses, Kurt, to your point, everybody’s going to take a breath. I’ve been telling my clients this as well. Things by the end of the week will go back to whatever normal is, and I guess some of that will depend upon who actually ends up winning, but it’s going to go back to normal. People will take that breath. They’re going to go back to doing what they’ve done in the past. In some cases, that’ll be selling their current home, buying a different home, buying a car. I mean, there’s all sorts of things that I think right now, Kurt, folks have put on hold. You know, I guess… I guess you could say rightfully so. I mean, to me it doesn’t make a hell of a difference at the end of the day, but for some it really does. And so a lot of people have held off on some of those things. That will no longer be the case after tomorrow.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, because, you know, these elections have a tendency to put fear into us. We don’t know which way they’re going to go.
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Correct.
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And you get tired of watching TV and leaving being angry. That’s going to stop, and people are going to start to say, okay, I’m okay. Here’s where I can go forward and do what I want to do.
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And some people, no matter how it goes, some are going to be happy, some are going to be not so happy. It is what it is. That’s right. It is what it is. All right. Tomorrow, Haystack Help Radio, you take over Scott’s show tomorrow from noon to 1. What are you doing tomorrow?
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We’re going to be talking a lot about what I just mentioned today, about different ways to put yourself in the right position, some of the changes with the NAR and the realtors and what’s going on there and how that’s affecting buying a home, stuff like that.
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Okay. Awesome. Kurt, I appreciate you as always. Have a great night, sir.
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Take care.
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that part of the reason why the squirrel was turned in is because the squirrel had more followers on social media than the person that turned said squirrel in, Peanut. By the way, I don’t know that I could argue that. I think that’s probably the case. Jealousy. does a lot of things and it’s typically not good. And in this particular case, like I said earlier, this particular lady, I don’t think she realizes how badly she has messed up even her own career by what she did. She would have been better off to have just left that thing completely alone because at the end of the day, it’s not going to bode well for her at all. All right, we have our next guest. I talked about this earlier. Satya Thalman, welcome. How are you? Hey, pretty good. How are you doing? I’m good. Senior Vice President of Government Affairs at Americans for Responsible Innovation and a senior fellow with the Foundation for American Innovation. Talk to us about AI-generated fake election info. 55% of voters have been exposed to it.
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Well, yeah, we conducted this poll and we found a majority of voters feel that they have been exposed to AI-generated content, deep fakes, misinformation. And a pretty similar number, 57%, deeply doubt their ability to distinguish between fake imagery or messaging or content and real content.
SPEAKER 13 :
You know, and I was going to head to that because I think some do. Now, I’m not trying to, you know, sound like I’m any smarter than anybody else. I think just because, Satya, I do what I do here daily and I have to read and look through all sorts of things and so on, I can typically look at something and say, yeah, that’s not the way it is or that’s AI generated or that’s not real or there’s no way that could be real. Sometimes it’s simply it’s no way that could be real. Let’s do a little bit of follow-up and research on that to determine. So question for you, how do people know if it’s real or not?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, the easiest way, and unfortunately there’s just no way to kind of realistically go through the world like this, but try to stick to official sources. That could be, if it’s election stuff, from the actual campaign themselves, from government agencies, from secretaries of state. But of course nobody can just rely on official sources. That’s just not how we act in the world. But I think part of it is also just the more awareness we have will build a kind of skepticism uh, into our mind, you know, you’re probably in the 99th percentile of media consumers because you are a member of the media. So you probably are trained. You’ve trained yourself to be a little bit more skeptical. I think we all kind of need to be. And if something is just too weird, um, to be true, don’t just fall for it. Probably. It probably isn’t true.
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You know, I said this to a caller or a guest we had earlier. My dad raised me, and this was a long time ago. So before the Internet or anything like that had ever even been invented, Satya, my dad always used to say, you know, believe about none of what you read and half of what you see, and you’ll probably be okay in life. And, you know, that same philosophy isn’t much different today. I mean, I know that’s to the extreme, and you kind of laugh about that. But, you know, there’s times where that’s not far off.
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It’s not far off. I think it’s words of wisdom that are very much true. The thing I worry about isn’t so much this moment. I mean, this is probably the first, I’ll call it, AI election. Not an election about AI, but where AI is a meaningful part of the conversation and how we understand this election is going to play out. But it’s just going to get worse, if that’s your point of view, because… The ability of AI to generate images that are totally compelling is just getting better and easier and cheaper. And I’m not worried about, you know, I’m not really worried about the sort of funny meme makers, you know, Trump and Harris holding hands, you know, or embracing each other. which is obviously fake. I’m worried about foreign threat actors who are not just trying to have a laugh, but are really trying to purposefully manipulate our election.
SPEAKER 13 :
Absolutely. No, I agree with you on that, Satya, and there’s going to be more of that coming down the pike, I’m afraid, and people are going to be really diligent and… in this and we can get into in a moment you know maybe some of the laws that you know potentially could be around this although i don’t know how you even enforce those things because ai is getting so good that it’s hard for some to even recognize you know what it is but for those of you listening here’s a really quick tip by the way especially when it comes to video and or pictures and sacha you know correct me if i’m wrong if they look super super super super good almost not even lifelike it’s ai
SPEAKER 05 :
yeah that’s that’s generally how they’re but but like i said even the ones that like that the quality is getting better and better always and using very very simple tools you don’t need to be an expert computer coder or a hacker um there are apps on your phone that you can use and actually i know we’re on the evening of election i’m sitting here in washington dc looking at the capitol building um the part about that i really worry about and we’re urging congress to act is deepfake revenge porn. You know, creating non-consensual imagery using very, very little input. You don’t need thousands and thousands of pictures of someone to create fake images in as little as one or two. And these are things that high school students are getting access to, both to produce it, but also as victims. And we just do not have any kind of standardized laws around, well, how do we get someone in trouble for doing this? How do we enforce norms that say this is not okay?
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Here’s my fear, and I think you might understand what I’m going to say next, and I’m going to say this in the nicest way possible, but I’m going to mean what I say. We have a bunch of people in that building you’re looking at that frankly are about as tech savvy as a kindergartner. I don’t think I’m exaggerating at times when I say that, that are going to now create the laws to do the things you just said. That’s a bigger fear for me than AI.
SPEAKER 05 :
I mean, and you don’t have to soft-pedal it. I think you’re right. Congress does not have a history of being particularly tech-savvy or ahead of the curve. I think there are… Really quick, Scott, just no offense.
SPEAKER 13 :
Some of those guys have been in that office longer than the Internet’s been around.
SPEAKER 05 :
That’s right. That’s right. And so we have a lot of work to do. You should be skeptical or have a fear of Congress either not acting or acting poorly. I think there are a few folks in Congress that actually are pretty tech savvy. They themselves were software developers in their previous life or worked in tech industry, started successful businesses. They’re not the majority of members of Congress. I’m not saying that. But there are a few folks that I think are trying to be serious, trying to be thoughtful. Not trying to be, you know, overstate things, but say, hey, let’s take a serious look. And that’s what I work on day to day is trying to find those folks and find things. By the way, a lot of these things are bipartisan. The kinds of transparency laws around AI in the states. These are not in red states, blue states. Unfortunately, they’re not across the country, and that’s what we need.
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Well, hey, I appreciate you helping in that particular arena. I mean, I watched some of the hearings involving things like big tech and TikTok and so on. And even some of the conversations I’m hearing, Satya, at times, I’m like, wait a minute. You guys don’t have the foggiest idea how this stuff works, do you?
SPEAKER 05 :
It was embarrassing for a good chunk of Congress. I mean, I’m sorry, Satya.
SPEAKER 13 :
I’m sitting there listening to this stuff like you guys don’t have a clue how this stuff works. I don’t know how you turn your cell phone on.
SPEAKER 05 :
Here’s a little secret I’ll tell you about Congress, though. Hearings almost always are not substantive. They’re just there for scoring points. You’re right. There is serious staffers and members of Congress that when the cameras are off and they’re in the conference room and negotiating, they actually are taking time to learn, to build up a knowledge base, ask real questions, not gotcha questions, but real questions. How does this work? How do we understand this? Let’s bring in experts. And they do that behind the scenes. So there should be more of it. I mean, I’m not saying Congress is perfect, but there actually is under the hood a lot of machinery going on of people trying to do serious work. And that’s where we’re trying to engage.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, I appreciate you guys doing that, because, again, as you can tell, I’m not. I may not be an expert in this area, but being self-employed most of my life, you have to learn some of these things on your own because you can’t always call the IT guy to come along and do it for you. So you kind of by default, Satya, have to learn a lot of these different things, which I have, and fairly savvy on the way a lot of these things work. And I think given what I do here daily, even when it comes to AI and so on, and being able to – Even in some videos, like, okay, wait a minute, that’s not a real video. There’s no way that guy’s throwing the ball that way, or there’s no way the guy’s driving the car that way, or there’s no way, you know, X, Y, Z, Saatchi, you just kind of go down the list. And some of that really comes down to common sense. It’s like, okay, if that’s too good to be true, it probably is.
SPEAKER 05 :
We need an increase in our kind of media literacy, and that’s not just AI, but that includes the effect of AI and the kind of content that we’re seeing. We also need just some basic expectations around transparency. I can’t stop someone from creating an image and putting it out there, but the platforms can label these things, media networks, radio, broadcast, TV, terrestrial. They can require political ads that use AI-generated content to say so. they have to put it on the screen you know some people kind of tune that stuff out but we have to start somewhere we have to start being explicit and not pretending that this is all just the same it’s all it’s all the same content and because we we’re getting used to uh accepting the idea that we’re being lied to and oftentimes we are i’m not just saying an ai people are rightly and they say, you know what, I don’t believe anything because I believe that I’m being lied to. And they’re not unjustified in feeling that way. But we shouldn’t just throw up our hands and say, well, them’s the brakes, and then go on. I mean, we have an opportunity to at least take some sensible steps around AI. And hopefully early enough in the AI cycle, Because look what we did with social media. We just sort of waited until the end to say, hey, what are the rules around kids? What do we owe?
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, we didn’t do anything on the front side at all.
SPEAKER 05 :
And by the time we were sort of even thinking about that, social media was just integrated. It was out of control.
SPEAKER 13 :
You couldn’t go back. That genie was out of the bottle, I guess you could say, Sasha. You couldn’t go back and put it back in.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, it was metabolized into the culture, basically, right? That’s right. But AI, we’re still at the kind of beginning steps before it becomes totally invisible to us. So now is the time to say, you know, let’s take, and I’m all for, I think AI is going to be incredibly wonderful. and there’s going to be some incredible benefits from AI. So I’m not, this isn’t about sort of Doomer.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, no, no, I’m not anti-AI either. I look at AI like I do, I’m a car guy, Satya, so I look at it like anything else, like a car. When it came along, you know, horse and buggy guys hated it. They thought it was the death to everything, and they weren’t going to buy in, and it was totally, you know, against everything they’d ever learned, and look where we are today. I mean, everything can be used as a tool for good or for bad. AI will be no different.
SPEAKER 05 :
It’s a tool, and tools are neither good or evil. They’re tools. But we need to recognize what the potential risks of those tools are and put some basic guardrails. And then everyone can innovate around them and adopt them and come up with clever new uses. But it’s so much easier to do that up front than waiting, say, 10 years from now when it’s just completely circulated.
SPEAKER 13 :
It’ll be too late by then. No, I appreciate what you guys are doing. Thank you. As you can tell, this is a subject that I really enjoy. I think it’s something that we need to get a handle on. It’s only going to grow and get exponentially larger. And by the way, the other didn’t get your opinion on this. The difference between this and even social media, I feel this is going to grow much faster than what social media even did.
SPEAKER 05 :
I think that’s, I think there’s a reasonable likelihood that that’s the case, which is another thing that makes it urgent that we, we act now. We kind of get our hands around this now because another year, I don’t know how, you know, sort of how fully integrated and, and it’s like that thing, like a fish doesn’t know it’s wet, you know, because like at some point it’s just going to be sort of so around us that it becomes invisible to us.
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Right.
SPEAKER 05 :
But I don’t think that’s, that’s the world that we want to be in.
SPEAKER 13 :
I agree. I agree. All right. How do folks find you and keep up on some of this?
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ARI.us, that’s our website, Americans for Responsible Innovation. They can follow us there, give our newsletter, subscribe.
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It’s been a joy. I’ve enjoyed it. Anytime something changes or you want to give us an update, you let me know. I’ll have you back on. I enjoy talking this. This is really good. Real pleasure. Anytime. Thank you, Satya, very much. I appreciate that. And again, for those of you listening, ari.us. Golden Eagle Financial is next. Speaking of AI and the financial futures and so on. And you’ll see, by the way, this is another area. I can spend a second here. I will for Al. There’s a lot of scammers out there that will come along and tell you that you can use AI for your investment and even give you maybe a sampling of what that AI did for them. What I will tell you is it’s all bogus. Don’t watch it. Don’t pay any attention to it. Call Al instead and make sure you’re doing investing through someone like Al and not someone that just randomly sends you a text message or an email showing you, hey, look what I did with AI on my investments. Yeah, those are scammers. Disregard. Don’t even pay any attention to those and call Al instead. Find him at klzradio.com.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Okay, I got to play this because I’ve seen some of these done before. Whoever did this one, I don’t know. This takes a lot of time. So I’ve got to commend the individuals that do this. Now, I will say with AI and our conversation a moment ago, it’s getting easier to do these sorts of things, put these together. Now, in this particular case, I can tell you right now, this is not AI. And it’s not because you’ve seen these in different clips. But what I’m going to play you is three different speeches, three different events that Kamala Harris held. And I want you to hear what was said. Now, listen closely because it’s not always exact information. Although it’s so close, it’s almost eerie how close it is. And I don’t know, in our past, with these sorts of individuals, that this has ever happened before. And what I mean by that is, and I’ll comment on it as soon as we’re done, but I want you to listen to this, and I’ll give you my reasons as to why I feel it’s like this as soon as we’re done. This is a 26-second clip. Here you go.
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Do we believe in freedom? Do we believe in opportunity? Do we believe in the promise of America? And are we ready to fight for it? And when we fight, we win.
SPEAKER 13 :
Okay, so three different rallies. I mean, timing even. Holy cow. I’ve done a lot of public speaking and things like that throughout my, I don’t know, call it career, I guess. I’ve never looked at myself as having a career. I’ve just been a business owner and done whatever I needed to do to make ends meet. But I’ve done a lot of different speaking things in political arenas, church, etc. And I will tell you that to say something that succinct that many times apart from one another doesn’t happen by accident, does it, Charlie? And Charlie knows what I mean by that, because you have to rehearse the things that she did there over and over and over again to be able to get it that synced up. Those of you that go to churches whereby there’s more than one service— And a lot of churches do that, especially in today’s world. There’ll be a Sunday morning at 8, Sunday morning at 9.30 or 10, and another at 11 or 11.30. I mean, they try to spread it out, A, to accommodate different people in their schedules and so on, and in some cases they just don’t have enough space to get all the people that they have coming to that church. They have multiple services. Very common anymore. And for those of you maybe that don’t go to church, you might not know this, but the pastor will give three sermons. Same. They’ll do the same type of music and so on. But, Charlie, you’ve sat through some of these services like I have in the past, and I’ve sat through multiple services, and some of you would say, well, why? Well, different things come up at different times, and there’s been times where I’ve had to sit through all three services. For example, you do Easter, and that’s another one where there’s almost always more than one service for Easter. You’re trying to pack in everybody that you can that comes only for Christmas and Easter. We call it the C&E crowd. And you do your best to accommodate them. And, Charlie, I’ve sat through many of those services whereby rarely, and I mean rarely, would you ever have what I just played happen even in church where the pastor is, yes, probably rehearsing to a certain extent what he’s going to say, how he’s going to handle his message, and so on. And yet, literally, Charlie, I don’t know how many of those I’ve sat through. They’re all three different messages. There’ll be different parts that are similar, but they will not get up there and say the exact same thing over and over again like she did. My point with this is, even those of you that are on the left listening, my point is… That has to be rehearsed over and over and over again to be able to do that. That doesn’t just come by standing up in front of the podium with the teleprompter and making it happen. The inflection, what you say, waiting for the crowd, all of that. Trust me, there are actors behind the scenes training her on what she should do and say and handle. And it’s a performance. It’s a production. It’s not a campaign. Am I saying that right, Charlie? Folks, that’s what it is. Those of you on the left, if you don’t believe me, prove me wrong. This is exactly what it is. This is a person that we have seen can’t do a straight up interview on her own one to one. She’s not smart enough to do that. Her intellect isn’t there. I’m sorry. It just isn’t. She cannot do that. She has to be groomed and coached. and gone through numerous times on the front side. That’s why any of the interviews that she’s actually done that have been successful, like the debate with Donald Trump, everything was pre-planned. She had the questions ahead of time. She had the ability to know what was coming to her so she could prep before that to be able to answer those things in that manner. Otherwise, she wouldn’t be able to do it. And then not have anybody fact-check some of the stupid things she said so that she’s not called on the carpet for the things she said that was wrong. Trust me, folks, this has been probably one of the, if not the largest productions from the Democrats ever. And bear with me. I believe what happened throughout this entire process is they felt like way back in 2020, they’d run Joe. Joe and the Biden family, it’s a big machine. It’s a powerful machine. It’s a wealthy, influential machine. And Joe, I’ll go back in 2020, because, by the way, nobody’s talking about this. And this just popped into my head, so I want to make sure that I get this out. Keep in mind, in 2020, there was debates, and there was a nominee, and they were going through different things in the primary. Then all of a sudden, Joe just shows up, and he’s it. Right, Charlie? I mean, kind of everybody at that time, Pete Buttigieg was doing pretty well. He was kind of ranking up there. And Kamala Harris, remember, had dropped out right off the bat in the primary debates and so on. She didn’t do very well. In fact, Tulsi Gabbard ate her lunch. And she was gone. She didn’t make it. So all of a sudden, and remember back to 2020 during that time, all of a sudden, Joe Biden, he just like, OK, it’s Joe. He’s it. Everybody else is bowed out. He’s the guy. Almost like, I’m not exaggerating, am I, Charlie? Overnight, just boom, all of a sudden, Joe’s the guy. Because Joe’s got a lot of power, and I said that even at that time. More than anybody thinks. I’ll tell you that I think he’s got more power in the family he does than the Obamas do. More power even than the Clintons have. And a lot of you wouldn’t agree with me on that, but trust me, they do. So what happened in this particular realm is Joe won the last time around. Debatable whether he won fair and square. Either way, he’s president. And some of you, by the way, owe me dinner because I told you back then that he was president when he got inaugurated. But all I heard was, no, it’s all deep state fake stuff. And the guys from Q are telling us that there’s going to be a big coup and Donald Trump’s still the president. And it was just a bunch of BS. None of that was true. And by the way, if any of you fell for that, I’m sorry. None of that was true. That was all made up garbage. And some of you listening owe me dinner because I had a bet with you. And you never came through on your bet, by the way. Anyways, Joe was president. You typically run the incumbent when it comes time to be reelected. And Joe threw his hat in the ring at that time. Yep, I’m going to run. And he did. And there really wasn’t much of a primary, I mean, to speak of. It was Joe. He was the incumbent. He was the guy. Until he did his first debate against Donald Trump, and it was a dismal failure, which I kind of think, in my own opinion, that there were certain Democrats that knew he would fail, and they just threw him to the wolves. I think there’s also some Democrats, his wife, that thought, nope, he’s going to be fine. He’s got this. He can handle, you know, dumb Donald Trump. Not a problem. Donald Trump is such a bad debater. We’ve got this. And I think there are some inside the Biden family that felt that way. Jill herself. Well, we all know what happened that night. It went bad, really bad. So bad that within just, what, three weeks after, they decided, the party decided that, yeah, we can’t go down this path anymore. We got to do something with Uncle Joe. Sleepy Joe. And so a deal was made. And by the way, I don’t think what I’m saying is wrong. I think you could probably, once this is all said and done, down the road, somebody will write a book. And what I’m telling you right now will probably be in the book. They had some backdoor deals. And they sat down and said, OK, Joe, we know that Joe is not going to be able to make this happen. He’s not going to get us across the finish line. So let’s make a deal. We’re going to offer you X amount of cash. And in turn, we will allow you to stay in office. You can stay in the White House until Inauguration Day when either The Democrat candidate who may win or Donald Trump who may win becomes president. And we’ll let you stay till then. And I guarantee you, Jill, in all of her wisdom, said, yep, we’re going to take the deal. By the way, this was after several days because they had to think about it. But eventually, Jill said, yep, we’ll take your $100 million offer, which it probably wasn’t far off of that. We’ll take your $100 million offer. We want to stay in the White House until Inauguration Day and the new president comes in, because it’ll be a cold day and you know what, before I let her hang out in this White House. Guaranteed, that was said. There is no love lost between Jill Biden and Kamala Harris. None. That’s been well known for, what, Charlie, three and a half years or more? Maybe longer. I’m not sure why they ever picked her in the first place. I don’t think Joe did. That’s the one thing I don’t think Joe had anything to do with. I think Joe took the nomination and somebody else said, we’re going to put her as your running mate. This will help you win. But this time around, there’s a big rift between Kamala, the Harris camp and the Biden camp. And in turn, this has become the largest production for the Democrats, because where I’m going with this is they made a big mistake in letting Joe be the nominee in the first place. They should have made that deal from day one, and they shouldn’t have run her. But once they got to the point where they knew Joe could no longer do it, we’ve talked about this on this program and even on NCR, and some of my cohorts on NCR don’t believe me in this, but they didn’t have any choice but to run her. They were so far in at that point and had said, listen, you know, she’s a great vice president. You have no choice at that point. You’re going to tick off so many people that are in her camp by not running her. You didn’t have any choice but to run her. But on the same token, she’s the dumbest person in the room. And I’m being very nice when I say that. She’s literally the dumbest person in the room. And believe me, the folks on the inside know this. They’re not that dumb. And on top of that, because she’s not very bright, she can’t keep anybody working for her. That’s my other proof, by the way, that she’s not very bright. And before some of you come back and say, well, yeah, but Donald Trump struggles with people. No, not like she does. Donald Trump just doesn’t like incompetency. She’s just tough to work for because she’s an absolute A number one you-know-what. Literally, you cannot work for the woman. She’s impossible. She’s run through more staff than anybody in that position in the past ever has. Thank you, Charlie. Why does no one talk about that? Great point. That’s a great question, Charlie. Because that’s a sign of a leader, by the way. And she runs through staff like no tomorrow. So where I’m going with this, and I’ll come back and finish up, is because of all of what I just said, the fact that they had Joe, then they didn’t have Joe. They didn’t have any choice but to run Kamala. And now what they’ve decided is, okay, if we’re going to run her, we’ve got to at least do our best to prop her up. Get the best acting coaches that you can find out there. Let’s get them in. Let’s get things handled. We’ve got to make sure that when she goes out on the road and is in front of a teleprompter, at least she does well. We’ll limit the amount of face-to-face actual live interviews that she has, but when we put her out on the campaign trail, she’s got to be ready to go. So you guys figure out through all of the voice actors and the coaching and so on, let’s make sure that she’s dialed in and ready to go. Voice coaches, I should say. Not voice actors, but voice coaches. Because if you notice, her accent changes according to the crowd she’s speaking to. She can be a black pastor. She can be somebody from the Deep South. She can be somebody from California. She can be somebody from New York. She can be whoever she needs to be according to who she’s speaking to. If it’s a bunch of union workers, folks, you’ve heard the different accents. Those are easy to go find. Those of you on the left can’t deny what I’m saying because they’re out there in their full glory. So when it’s all said and done, the only way they could keep her going on the campaign trail is to groom her, teach her, and do the things that I’ve said throughout this last segment. And what I started this segment off in playing was the three different simultaneous, played at the same time clips from three different rallies where she’s saying the exact same things, same voice inflections, same everything. My point in proving what I’m saying is you don’t do that without a ton of rehearsing. Period. Ask anybody that does any kind of acting. They would do the same play night after night after night. You don’t get to that point of being that good and doing those same things without rehearsing over and over and over again. I’ll leave it at that. We’ll come right back. Cub Creek Heating and Air Conditioning is next. And again, if you’ve got any trouble with your furnace, give them a call. $500 or more. They can help you with the financing of that repair as well or a new furnace if needed. 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So you guys should know me that I’m a pretty straight shooter when it comes to that. But if you on the left cannot see that your candidate has been groomed for this more than any other candidate in history, I’m sorry, I don’t know what to do for you. You’re just a lost soul. I don’t know what to say. I really hope Donald Trump wins tomorrow night. Andy and I are going to talk more about that tomorrow. I will say this, that even if he doesn’t, the sun will still rise the next morning. And we may not even know the answer tomorrow night. It may not be known until sometime Wednesday or Thursday. Again, the sun will still come up each morning. Life goes on. And I guess for me personally, because I get this question a lot, you know, John, what are you going to do? You know, no matter what wins, what do you do? Well, I’ve consulted my own clients on this. You get up the next morning, you start doing your business, you do what you need to do, and life goes on. Period. That’s what you do. No different than when, you know, Joe Biden won the last time around. And I know before I get all sorts of corrections on that reality, Joe’s president. You can go back in time and between the Hunter Biden laptop thing and some of the other issues during the election and so on. At the end of the day, though, he’s still president. Illegitimate or not, he’s still the guy. And no matter what happens tomorrow night and or the following days after, you know, you just suck it up. You move on and off we go. Now, I will say this. I think the plus side this time around, let’s just do a scenario if Donald Trump doesn’t win. Who knows? I don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow night. I will say that the difference between this time around and the last is highly, highly likely we control the Senate and might even still control the House. If that happens, even a Kamala Harris win, the Dems aren’t going to do much. Yeah, she can run some executive orders and do some things along those lines, but keep in mind, we hold the purse strings. And executive orders have to be legal. She can’t just run one and hope it sticks, because those will be challenged. In some cases, it may go to the Supreme Court, which we also control. She won’t, at least for the first two years, get anything done as far as the Supreme Court end of things goes, because, again, those have to be confirmed by Senate. And if we control it, good luck. So, again, there’s a lot of pluses that no matter what happens tomorrow night on the presidential side, it won’t be all rosy red for the Democrats like they think. Now, on the same token, if Donald Trump wins, and there’s a good chance he will as well. Again, right now it’s pretty much the polling is 50-50. Andy and I will get into more of that tomorrow. But let’s say Donald Trump wins and we take the House and we take the Senate. The other thing I would also be careful of is, you know, be careful of how much he’ll do in those first year to two. He will try to get some things done. But again, there’s only so much you can do on a particular day, week, month, year and so on. So don’t be too hard on him and his administration when what you want to happen may not. I will say this time around, I think Donald Trump’s doing some things much differently and wiser than the last time. He’s already got his own transition team in play. with the likes of RFK Jr. and others. He’s doing that much better. And he has said that the last time around, he kind of got thrown into it. He didn’t know how a lot of those things worked. He appointed some people that he probably shouldn’t have because he was told to, and he’s not going to do that again this time. He’s doing that completely different, which, again, to his credit, I’m glad he’s doing that. How will tomorrow and tomorrow night turn out? We’ll have to wait and see, but here’s my final answer before we go to our last break. The sun comes up. The Lord’s still in charge. I’m still a believer, and a lot of you are as well. And at the end of the day, I know my future and what it holds, and I’m not going to base my entire substance on who wins an election. That’s my answer to a lot of you when you ask me how do I think the election will go. At the end of the day, I still get up and go to work the next day, and I’ll still be on air talking to you guys. That’s ultimately what happens for me. Veteran Windows and Doors, as I said earlier, he’s up next, Dave. And there’s 35% off right now when it comes to Windows and Doors. And if you’ve noticed any big drafts or anything going on with this cold weather that’s come in, get that handled now. Call Dave today. Find him at klzradio.com.
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All right, we are back. That’s it for today. I’ll get things tidied up. Don’t forget tomorrow, myself and Andy, we will be talking about some election stuff. Not so much even the presidential thing, although we’ll get into some of that, but really some state stuff. There’s a lot of things on the ballot that affect our state. And one thing I didn’t get a chance to talk to today that maybe Andy and I can get to tomorrow is Governor Polis’ 2025-2026 budget, which is a big deal because… Well, I’ll just explain tomorrow as he and I have time to talk. It’s a big deal. Trust me. We have a big budget in Colorado, and it’s short, and it’ll be interesting to see what they do to shore some things up. We’ll get into some of that tomorrow. Have a great night. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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