Reggie Rocco and friends take on another dynamic episode filled with humor, personal anecdotes, and thought-provoking debates. This week, they are joined by a special guest from the interior design world, shedding light on the creative processes behind staging and remodeling. With discussions touching on the intersections of business, politics, and community, the episode offers fresh perspectives on achieving harmony in both personal and professional realms. Tune in for a deep dive into real-life experiences and multifaceted topics.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, yeah. Yeah. What’s up? What’s up? What’s up? You tuned in to 560 KLZ. KLZ. I’m a uniter. I’m a uniter. I’m your host, Reggie Rocco. Yeah. Yeah. KLZ. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So what about now? You want everybody. I mean everybody. Stand up. Stand up. Hold your hands up high. Lock arms. This is about America, baby. Yeah. We bringing people together. I’m a United.
SPEAKER 21 :
One nation under God.
SPEAKER 03 :
Woo! 560-KLZ. I’m a uniter. You know how we do it. I’m your host, Reggie Rocco. And, of course, I got my fabulous co-host, Anthony Simenem. What’s up? Say your name, man. Simenem. And then, you know, our producer, Luke. Luke. You know, that’s the man. So, man, a lot of things. We have a special guest, and we have other people that’s going to be calling in and have some questions for you, for me, and I think hopefully for you, too. But we always start off the show with kind of an idea of what you did during the week. What are the pros and cons? What do you see? What’s going on? Just tell me how your life goes. You kick it off, Anthony.
SPEAKER 09 :
It’s been a stressful week. I’m trying to quit smoking, so I’m a grumpy Gus, just so you all know. Just a fair warning to everybody out there.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, so smoking is very hard to quit. I hear that it’s harder to quit smoking than heroin. Is this true or no?
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, I don’t usually quit heroin.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, we keep heroin, right?
SPEAKER 09 :
This has been very difficult, yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, heroin, that’s not really a black drug. I think ours is crack.
SPEAKER 09 :
That’s what I hear.
SPEAKER 03 :
Luke, how about you?
SPEAKER 09 :
Ironically, heroin is black and crack is white, right?
SPEAKER 20 :
Isn’t that crazy?
SPEAKER 08 :
That’s a good point.
SPEAKER 20 :
What about me? What’s going on? Yeah, man. Scrambling to get a lot of stuff done. We had the day off on Monday, so only a four-day week, and then we have Monday off again because New Year’s Day, so scrambling to get a week’s worth of stuff into two short weeks, so… Been working. A lot of working. Oh, poor baby.
SPEAKER 03 :
I know. Well, you know, for me, this is always the roughest time for me. My mom passed January 9th. She wasn’t supposed to make it for Christmas. A miracle happened and she awakened and was with us for Christmas. And not too long after that, after Christmas, a couple days, and she went back into that regression, and we lost her on the 9th. So this is right really hard. Every year, it seems like, you know, it’s been coming up on four or five years. It’s more like two or three days for me. That’s how it is. But, yeah, so other than that, what I do is I go out and I do what she would have done every Christmas. So while everybody’s partying, and you know I be liking to party. Oh, do-do-do-do. i don’t even go to the clubs i don’t even do i go out and i get out into the neighborhood like we usually do but i interview people and i i start off my morning by going to my mother’s grave that’s what i do so on christmas day where all y’all folks marry with kids and girls and all that stuff i’m at the cemetery early in the morning spending it with my mom And then after that, I had an appointment with this lady that’s really, really, really cool. And she’s like, can you do me a favor? I’m like, what? She goes, I want to talk to you about something. I said, okay, cool, cool, cool. So long story short, I met with her and actually going to be doing some stuff with their corporate offices. And I’m not going to say who it is or what it is yet. But yeah, so I was doing that type of thing. Then I went from there. And I went to a homeless shelter that I usually deliver stuff for and all that and seeing how they were doing and everything. And after that, then I just left back to the group. So that was my week. So, Anthony, we have somebody that you and the fellas met. I had met her earlier, and we sat down, and we had talks and drinks, and we said, oh, yeah, we’re going to hook up. We’re going to be doing a lot of business stuff together and all that. And then you had texted saying something about a cigar bar. You remember? Yes. And I said, how do you feel about going to a cigar bar? How did that happen? How did that happen? And I was like, okay, cool, cool, cool, cool. I said, you got to meet my peeps, right? And you’re so outgoing and very smart. And I want you to introduce yourself and tell the public what you do. Because it’s amazing. You got a lot of amazing stories and you’ve done some things. And I want to hear from you. I want you to express who you are, what you do, so the world will know.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, that’s a loaded question. Or to begin. So I own JL Interior Design and Staging. That’s a design and staging company. I have a warehouse where I store all of the furniture and decorations and all the good stuff that goes into the remodels and, yeah, fix and flips, you name it. I work with a lot of agents. So, I’ll work with their clients and maybe updating because they’re planning to sell in the next year or two to helping them with their dream home from bottom up. So, yeah, just a little bit of everything. Came from the mortgage end of the world. So, numbers was an important thing. And it’s really helped basically bring those two worlds together just to create better budgets and expectations for the clients. Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
I was going to ask that. So being in the mortgage industry, is that, are you talking about from a bank side or how does that work? Do you loan money to people who are buying houses or how does that work?
SPEAKER 07 :
Right, right. So basically I grew up in the financial industry. I started out as a teller and then I was doing collections and just worked my way up. And then was married in 2000 and started a mortgage company. It’s my ex-wife. And from there, yeah, we had wholesale lines and basically, yeah. Wow.
SPEAKER 03 :
I went to your website. Incredible. You have all those skills.
SPEAKER 07 :
Thank you.
SPEAKER 03 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 07 :
There’s a lot happening there.
SPEAKER 03 :
Now, Anthony, you heard her say warehouse, right? Yeah. So with Rapstar, right, there’s a lady… In Arizona, Melanie, she’s in the bottling industry and all that. And she’s been so helpful and influential being a partner with us, walking us through this line. And she’s very, very smart, too, as well. Hopefully, I think she’s going to want to talk to you, too. Because she’s got top-end clients that live in that world and do that. I don’t like to be in the middle. When I find this and I find that, I’m like, okay, I’ll get you guys together.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, that sounds great. I appreciate that. I love what I do. I couldn’t even tell you how many hours I work. It’s just I live and breathe what I do. I enjoy creating.
SPEAKER 03 :
When you say warehouse, you store things?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. So I store furniture from dining tables, chairs, couches. I’ve got aisles of just decor and florals, you name it. So if there’s a last minute stage or someone needs, you know, they need furniture immediately, I can turn it within a few days.
SPEAKER 03 :
So like a model home, a model home, your company would come in and then put all that together.
SPEAKER 07 :
Exactly. Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
She’s a baller, man.
SPEAKER 07 :
I’m not messing around. Well, you know, it started out, I didn’t have the warehouse. I started out with a garage that had three bays. You know, that’s where it all began. So I had very little, and I was renting from other warehouses. And it was so irritating because their furniture was, can I say crap?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, you can say. It was just awful. I won’t hit the buzzer, whatever that is there.
SPEAKER 08 :
You don’t have to.
SPEAKER 07 :
But, yeah, no, it just – I couldn’t – I didn’t feel good about – you know, I have to feel good about what I’m creating. And it wasn’t – it just wasn’t up to my standards, basically. So I got a hold of this at least about three years ago, and it’s been going well. So I have more control, basically, of the design and the timelines and the budget goals for our clients. Just having – yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
So we’ve had – Obviously, you’re not a minority, but it doesn’t matter. We bring people together that are doing interesting things. And so when I run across these type of people, we have to bring them up on the show. You know, when we talked about at the club. So when you put this together and Anthony, you correct me if I’m wrong. It seems like if you had that type of situation, warehouses and clients and mortgage and all of that, that the economy would be for you very well. How’s it been since the administration switched over to that?
SPEAKER 07 :
Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.
SPEAKER 03 :
And don’t get yourself in trouble because I know how that is. I know how being, you know, can I say blackballed? Why not? But I know how that is when you can lose clients and stuff and all that, because that happened to me before back in Trump, but I didn’t care. But seriously, that’s a real issue. So basically, money’s green and you want to promote and market your stuff to a whole different audience as well. But how are you doing in this economy right now with that type of business?
SPEAKER 07 :
You know, I think I did a pretty good job of diversifying. So I don’t just do home staging. I don’t just do remodeling. I don’t just decorate people’s homes. I’m doing a little bit of everything. So example, when the stagings are a little bit on the lower end with November, December, everyone’s celebrating the holidays. I’m in turn planning for bathrooms and kitchens that we’re designing and doing our homework, basically, while we’re waiting for furniture to move out for staging. So I really haven’t had a quiet moment. Really? No. But now if you had me isolate each individual service, that would be a different story. So in staging, yeah. But the rates, they’re coming down. But it’s all based on the economy, like you say, and the rates. Yeah. Last year, as an example, when the rates were really low, a lot of my clients refinanced. They had a minimum of $100,000 and they were like, we want to stay here, but we want to make this our new home.
SPEAKER 03 :
Can you publicly, and then I’m going to put Anthony on the spot.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 03 :
Can you publicly say what party or affiliation that you back or you just leave that because that’s one thing and business is another?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I don’t have a political stance, honestly. I’m just unaffiliated.
SPEAKER 03 :
Really?
SPEAKER 07 :
I’m just so focused on my own world and being a creator. Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, I think Anthony just bought a new house, a farm with a farm shelter and all guns and all kind of… Wow. Okay. What’s going on with that, man? Can you get interior design over there? What’s going on over there? Functionality. I can help.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
Organization? Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
My 14-year-old daughter is my interior designer. My wife is my interior designer. I’m smart enough to know that I rely on those ladies and not to outsource it, otherwise I get in trouble.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, you know, interior designers aren’t for everybody, too. I mean, a lot of us, I don’t want to say women to be specific, but we all have a creative knack for these things. Sometimes they just need a little bit of guidance, you know?
SPEAKER 03 :
Right, right.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
Because I’ve been over people’s houses, and I don’t care how much money they have or whatever, and it’s just puke. I’m just like, are you serious? Like, you really did this? Like, no. Yeah. I can’t even walk into this. Tell us, okay, when we were at our little cheers bar, right? And I introduced you to one of the investor groups. Matter of fact, the head guy. When he’s doing a lot of commercial properties and doing, I mean, a lot of big stuff. So does your business, can you do something like that from a commercial aspect?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. So I started a designer networking group several years ago. So I speak with and talk to other designers in the community all the time. So we partner up depending on, you know, what the niche is. You know, it’s hard to be, you know, I’m a designer that does kitchens, bathrooms, commercial, residential. I do a little bit of everything. So I definitely need to have, you know, those other partners or, you know, partners. wonderful entities in my cap so that I can get that assistance and get the resources I need. So I had no several commercial designers. That’s all they do. I know designers that just do kitchens. I happen to all of it. But if there is a mass production, there’s a need for more time. You know, I have all the right people to help me with that.
SPEAKER 03 :
And so in your job, Anthony, do they know what political party you’re with? And do they ask you? Or if you rebuild that, is that a problem?
SPEAKER 09 :
Probably. They’re clearly a very left-leaning organization. Our pronouns are on a lot of email addresses.
SPEAKER 03 :
Wait, wait, wait. Give me an example.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, like your signature when you send an email, it says your name and then it says he, him at the bottom.
SPEAKER 07 :
Don’t get me started on that.
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, my God. Are you serious, man? I’m dead serious. I don’t participate. My signature does not have my pronouns. I don’t play. But clearly, you know, it’s a left-leaning organization.
SPEAKER 03 :
Luke, okay, I don’t know how many jobs you have, but… We only had three.
SPEAKER 20 :
Two of them were W-2, so I’m like, you know.
SPEAKER 03 :
What about you? Do you catch any flack professionally or personally for coming out and saying what political affiliation you’re with?
SPEAKER 20 :
I catch a lot of flack from both sides. Because I’m not fully right-leaning, so… You know, sometimes I’ll guest on Kim’s show or I’ll be a guest on Rush to Reason and, you know, give an hour of my time. And I’ve had some people call in and call me some pretty nasty names for some of the opinions I’ve shared. And in my friend group, I’m not told, you know, they’re all pretty left leaning and I’m not fully left leaning. So I’ve caught some pretty heavy flack for sharing my opinions with them, too. I’m a centrist, not because I take the middle ground, because I’m extreme on both sides. And that gets you some pretty angry people on both sides.
SPEAKER 08 :
Hmm.
SPEAKER 20 :
I get that.
SPEAKER 03 :
So I never heard of that email thing. So now basically, so it’s taken over. It’s taken over everywhere. Oh, yeah. So you can’t. I told you how when I went into not Walmart, but Whole Foods, and they had a big sign there saying, do not call us this, that, the other address like this. I mean, it was really horrible. Just a list of he, she’s and pronouns and all kind of stuff that you had to say.
SPEAKER 08 :
What the hell?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. I mean, seriously. So I don’t know. The reason why I brought that up is because there’s a major, major opportunity that’s happening with our company, Rapstar, right?
SPEAKER 09 :
Is Rapstar a they, them?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah. Uh-oh.
SPEAKER 03 :
Dude. Now, think about this. You know what we went through with I’m a Trumpster and all that, right? Yeah. Now, think about this. We got some company, and we’ll call it XYZ or whatever, and they want to come in to our fold, right? And they see the music, they see the marketing, there’s excitement and all this, right? Yeah. But I guess what they don’t see is, like, the Bud Light thing. Because they’re never going to see that. But they haven’t, like, came right out and said anything. But you could kind of tell, you know, they want to know our stance on that type of thing and everything. And so I’m thinking we’re going to have some decisions to make if they actually bring that to the table as part of the bargaining chip.
SPEAKER 08 :
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 03 :
I don’t get it, man.
SPEAKER 09 :
You’re going to tell us those decisions right here after the break. See how he did? He’s always said me. Go ahead, man. Listen to 560 KLZ. I’m a Uniter. I’m a Uniter.
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SPEAKER 03 :
Woo! 560 KLZ. You know how we get into the deep subjects and about everyday life and bringing people together. See, true freedom is economic freedom. And I repeat this all the time. And you know how I hate the digital money, the fees. They have so many taxes. When’s the last time we voted on anything in reference to money going to Ukraine and everywhere else? Aren’t we supposed to vote for that and approve that or not? But why is it happening without that consent?
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, that happens at a federal level, so you vote for your senator and your congresspeople, and then in theory they’re taking your voice to Washington, D.C.
SPEAKER 03 :
Even if it’s really not your voice.
SPEAKER 09 :
Even if it’s not your voice, yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, so then the new thing, fees, that’s one thing you don’t have to vote on, and that’s all fees are is a hidden tax. They figured out how to take all our money by calling it a fee. So I’m like, oh, my God. So I fight against all of that stuff. Now, you have corporations out here, and I guess everybody came together with the Bud Light thing. I think it cost them a couple billion, two or three billion dollars for what they did. But it’s not stopping. So here we are in Colorado. I’ve been doing this now for five, six years, I think. And back then, Colorado was blue. But we had hope to change this to red. And I don’t care. I’m with you. I know you guys are unaffiliates. You’re not a party or not. I’m a Republican. But I also understand what I went through as a black man, what I went through as a Republican black man. And I see what’s going on. Now you have Colorado that is so blue, so blue. It didn’t get better. It just got worse. Now they say they take Trump off the ballot, which I don’t believe that that can happen. I don’t think it’s going to stand. What have you heard about that in reference to that alone? I just want your opinion. And then I want to go to Luke and find out.
SPEAKER 09 :
On the ballot issue? Yeah. As soon as he files the paperwork with the Supreme Court to challenge the decision, then he’s back on the ballot. So effectively, they’ve done nothing except for… Promote a narrative? Promote a narrative, yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
What do you feel about that, Luke?
SPEAKER 20 :
Man, I don’t know enough about the Supreme Court or the local court’s judicial process to have any real strong… You know, I don’t want to sit here and spout something I know nothing about. I feel you. That’s why I like you. I think if Trump is convicted of insurrection, like the courts say… it was an insurrection, then the rule of law needs to stand and he shouldn’t be on the ballot. I think until that time to try and remove him from the ballot is just going to make people angry and rally them behind him more. And I think it shouldn’t be a local Supreme Court’s right to remove any candidate from any ballot. The Supreme Court should be the one to decide that.
SPEAKER 03 :
So if I have to be put on a moral clause with this situation, because it’s that big, it’s that important. We’re talking about life-changing stuff, and that’s what we’ve been working on. I’ll never sell my soul to the devil. That just won’t happen. But when I look around and every person that I deal with, every business person, I’m telling you behind the scenes, they’re all telling me the same thing is what they do. They don’t talk about it. They just stick to the business. They do what’s best for their business. What you feel about that, Jen?
SPEAKER 07 :
Just doing what’s best for you.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, doing what’s best for you, your business, whatever the situation is. How far are you willing to go before you draw that red line in reference to your company and clients and stuff like that?
SPEAKER 07 :
Gosh, honestly, all I care about is my clients at the end of the day. That’s real. You have to give to get is how I look at it. So I don’t even really look at even the bottom line until I know they’re happy. And because referrals and all that just come naturally. Like in the repeat business, when you treat somebody from beginning to end, like…
SPEAKER 03 :
Is there any way we can remove politics from business? Because to me, it’s now it’s in my mind. It’s the great divider now. Like it or not, politics is the great divider of business, which is the economy. It’s really, you’re taking different sides when you should just be able to work together, do business together. And I love what you do, so I wouldn’t care what your political affiliation is. It’s all about, hey, can we do business and blah, blah, blah, move on. And your right to vote and do what you want, that’s on you. But it seems like they’re forcing that other narrative to where we’re going to have to make a choice. So what would your choice be, Anthony?
SPEAKER 09 :
Stay in my lane. You’re an energy drink company. You’re not a political company. You’re not a they-them company. I don’t see any reason to bow down to them and let them control you. You know, I thought, you know. You’re not their slave. You don’t need to be doing what they tell you to do. And the more businesses that stand up against that, the more we can root that out. Like, just do energy drinks. Don’t do energy drinks plus this, plus that, plus this.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, so take it to you personally. Take it to your job and what you do. So if they came to you and said, hey, Anthony, you’re going to have to put these pronouns on. You’re going to have to do this. You’re going to have to do that. Would you still be working for the company?
SPEAKER 09 :
I don’t have pronouns on my e-mail.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, I’m saying they came to it and enforced that.
SPEAKER 09 :
They have asked us to do that.
SPEAKER 03 :
And my pronouns are not on that email. So are you telling me that you would just lose your job? You would say and not worry about having to take care of your family and do that? You would just lose your job based on that? Or would you say, well, I’m just going to put it on?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, if somebody can’t tell if I’m a he or him by my name, Anthony, then we got a problem.
SPEAKER 03 :
Like, I’m not playing the game. Yeah. Don’t put that on there, man. Because the last thing we want you to do is lose your job. The thing of it is, I understand, but if you have a family, you have kids, you’re married, you’ve got to take care of your business, and you work for somebody else that’s imposing their will, imposing their… I mean, what choice would you have other than say thank you or no thank you?
SPEAKER 09 :
It’s called voting with my feet. I leave. I leave.
SPEAKER 03 :
Get him a cigarette, man. I’m not going to play the game. I’m sorry. No, man, I won’t let you do it. I wouldn’t let you do it, dude. Because I don’t think you’re thinking logical now. It also depends on the timing. I understand that. But I can let you walk away from that because you have to choose your battles, I would think.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. I agree. Yeah. So like I have an internship program as an example. And when I have these mainly they’re young ladies, they’re working for me and they’re all going through discovering who they are. So a lot of them are probably going to change their current status and, you know, whatever you want to call that. But I have worked with a few where. They asked that they could put that on their signature card for their email. So I did allow that. That was their choice. When they asked me, and I did inquire, I’d love to learn a little bit more about why you feel that way. So they sent me a couple links that I reviewed. And honestly, I tried for a week, but I could not change my language. Like I couldn’t even speak it. It’s almost impossible, right? It is. And I’m not being me.
SPEAKER 09 :
No, exactly.
SPEAKER 07 :
I can’t just…
SPEAKER 09 :
No, there’s one organization that I know somebody that works for where they get in trouble if they don’t use the right pronoun. And so you can’t look at somebody and decide what their pronoun is. You have to refer to some little cheat sheet, you know, where it’s like, oh, this is a they them. Oh, OK. Wait. So now it’s gotten to the point where everybody’s so scared to get in trouble that they just refer to everybody as they.
SPEAKER 03 :
That part, well, I don’t make it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Should we practice? Should we try this?
SPEAKER 03 :
No. Yeah, that’s right. That’s right. Absolutely. We’re going to mess this up. Give me an example.
SPEAKER 06 :
We need the cheat sheet. Let’s pull it up.
SPEAKER 03 :
So if I’m addressing Anthony, how do I address him as they or a situation? I can’t even put that into a scenario. How? Did they… Call Joe for the meeting? Or how do I… You. If it’s you. If I say it, they’re ready to fight. Yep. They’re ready to fight.
SPEAKER 09 :
That’s a bad one. Okay, so… You can only call them by what they’ve chosen to be called.
SPEAKER 03 :
But they choose different things every day. I get it.
SPEAKER 09 :
And some of them… Maybe they’re a cat. It’s very confusing because some of them… Look like a man, but go by she, her. And some look like a she, her, but go by he, him, they. Or he, they. There’s no rhyme or reason to it. It’s very confusing. And like I said, I can’t play the game.
SPEAKER 03 :
He’s groggy.
SPEAKER 07 :
And you have kiddos?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. How old are they? 14 and 20. Okay.
SPEAKER 07 :
So you see a lot. Even in the school system, that’s all a part of the application. Everything you’re signing as a parent.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. So I think everybody should just look at it as being green. It’s business to a very intense degree. But then… You have to have a line. You have to have a cut-off line. But, man, there’s that music. That’s right. You’re listening to 560 KLZ. I’m a grumpy uniter. Dave, we are uniters. This is KLZ 560 AM, your home station.
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Hi, this is Annette Bybee. I am a single mom, a conservative slash libertarian, a lawyer, don’t hold that against me, and a college professor. And every Sunday night at 9 o’clock, I talk of the Constitution, politics, current events, and American culture. I invite you to join me every Sunday night at 9 o’clock right here on KLZ 560 AM.
SPEAKER 19 :
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SPEAKER 03 :
Oh boy, like we usually do. We’ve ignited my phone. I’m looking at these texts. I’m like, y’all go ahead and call in. But people seem to hide behind this issue.
SPEAKER 09 :
Are they telling you to grow a pair and don’t join in?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, they’re telling me to grow a pair. I can’t get any more growth. I’m already blessed. Careful of Chris. Oh goodness.
SPEAKER 07 :
Blessing and a curse.
SPEAKER 03 :
There we go. But seriously though, so if the world is… And I call it digression because it’s definitely not moving forward to me. It’s backwards. But if it’s taken over that type of situation, because I looked at, like I said, your work is incredible. What you do, I would have never imagined that you had all this juice. I mean, you got a lot of stuff that’s just brilliant, right? And I’m creative, so I love that type. So I know the business. I know you can get a client that maybe deal with you once a year. Oh, I’m decorating the house. Well, the house is, you know, 100,000 square feet. So, you know, that’s a nice situation for you. Now, I know you wouldn’t turn down any job in reference to who it is because who cares about what their personal thing is? It only matters to me when they try to inflict it or force you to. support it, right? So when you have a client come in and do what they do, you don’t even care about anything but just doing the job and what they need to have done, right?
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, no. Yeah, 100. I think the only – what I love to do with my consultations is an interview between both of us because we want to make sure we’re going to gel. We’re going to be working with each other for possibly up to a year or so, depending on the project.
SPEAKER 03 :
Wow. So they take a minute, huh?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. No, it takes – it sure does. And the planning, it’s all about the planning. And so there are just those cases where if I’m sensing somebody wants to run the show, literally – Are they hiring me for my professional opinion and my services, or are they just hiring me so they can utilize my vendors and discounts and things like that? We figure that pretty quick because it’s more about us getting along in the same sandbox, working together, creating good expectations amongst each other so my contracts and agreements with them are exactly that. They’re catered to exactly what they need.
SPEAKER 03 :
And you got follow up on that. So in what you do, how do you handle handle that?
SPEAKER 09 :
I mean, I don’t care. It’s pretty much the same thing. Like, I don’t care what you believe, what you do in your personal time. But I’m not going to. There’s certain lines that I have. I’m not going to play certain games. I’m not going to participate in things and promote different things on your behalf. You know, again, like the pronoun game. I’m not going to do that. I’m not putting it on my signature. If you have a problem with it, we can deal with that separately. Maybe I’m not the right fit for you. But… But that’s basically it.
SPEAKER 08 :
That’s fair.
SPEAKER 09 :
And if I were an interior designer, so I’m a Christian, so if someone were to come to me and say, hey, I want you to make this demonic Satan-themed house, I’m out. Like, I’m so sorry. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
There was a show not to like, yeah, there was this show and it’s going to come to me, but it was an HGTV casting and it was for like basically sex rooms. And I was inquired, you know, of course, I’m sure as many designers in Denver, but I was like, yeah, exactly. No. Yeah. I work with my clients. I mean, there’s some psychology going on. I’m having to work with husband-wives and making sure everyone’s happy.
SPEAKER 03 :
I didn’t know it was that in-depth. That’s a lot.
SPEAKER 07 :
You really get in there and get to know their lives, how they operate, what’s going on with them, full respect. But there are some things I just don’t need to know. I do not need to know it’s in their nightstand drawers. It’s okay. Yeah.
SPEAKER 20 :
disclaimer disclaimer uh luke so i’m go ahead can you give me a disclaimer which disclaimer there’s anyone that protects you guys the views and opinions expressed here on this show are not that of crawford broadcasting it’s station management advertisers or you know affiliates or anything like that yeah okay uh that one
SPEAKER 09 :
You got rusty at that. I know.
SPEAKER 20 :
I haven’t had to say it in a while. You guys have been doing so well.
SPEAKER 03 :
I’m out of practice. We got to go outside alive. First three weeks of this show, I was rattling it off line by line. Three times a show, right? I heard her say something about a particular type of room. Do you have any information, any numbers I can get from that?
SPEAKER 09 :
what the no reggie no ejection seat pull out you’re done switch topics anthony quickly go ahead man be the bird is man you know remember so back to the satanic room i have a line there yeah i mean so it’s just it’s just about that knowing your own personal boundaries like i’m just i’m not going to participate in that like and if if that’s If that’s the position you’re gonna put me in, I’m gonna move on. There’s other pieces of business that I can get, there’s other jobs that I can get, but I have this sense of obligation to myself and to what I believe that I’m not gonna participate. Reggie, I think that you share that same thing. And if Rapstars is making that decision, I don’t know, man. You need to stand up and say, hey, we do energy drinks. We’re not going to support the left. We’re not going to support the right. We’re going to support energy drinks.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay. And I will side with them on that, right? But you’re the CEO of your company, right? So you make the decisions, right? So even if you have investors or shareholders or whatever, you are the head honcho, right? So I don’t make that decision. Personally, I’m like number two because it’s like my brother. But business-wise, how it’s structured, I’m like four or five. You know what I’m saying?
SPEAKER 09 :
But who’s his audience? Do you think his audience would appreciate if he’s making rainbow cans? Yeah. Yeah, dude.
SPEAKER 03 :
Hey, listen, listen. Hey, Luke, how many times have I said this? The entertainment industry is gay. Hollywood and entertainment is. You’re finding out all these people are John Travolta and everybody. You know what I’m talking about? This is a fact. So I don’t care what you see up front. The truth is people like Jimmy Iovine and all them, they run this stuff and they are all gay.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, but you ain’t marketing to them. You’re marketing to the people that listen to their music.
SPEAKER 03 :
But they control the shots is what I’m saying. So if you get like, say, why do you think you got these tough gangsters that are talking about the street and all this stuff? And they’re coming out with guns and popping. And next year, they’re in a dress. Well, I’ve seen some videos. You’ve seen some videos, right? Or they’re worshiping Satan. Like, why do you think that this happened? It’s not by choice. It’s by force on most of that.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, but those are the weirdos in the elite class. Like, that’s not who you’re marketing to. You’re marketing to the average citizen, the average consumer of music. And if you look at all the polling and the numbers, the average person that consumes rap doesn’t appreciate… Rainbow cans.
SPEAKER 03 :
Hey, I think that’s more a conservative thing.
SPEAKER 07 :
Can we just focus on the ingredients?
SPEAKER 03 :
I mean, why does it have to be about… I’m with you. Look at her talking about ingredients. No, no. You have to understand that Hollywood… The entertainment business, the sports business is a major, major contributor of the United States economy. That is what we do. If you take out music, if you take out movies, if you take out Hollywood, if you take out acting, you take out plays, you take out sports, what do you have in America?
SPEAKER 08 :
Hmm.
SPEAKER 20 :
another big thing you know you’re saying the the industry controls it you’re you’re beholden to like you know the diversity and inclusion board who’s giving you a score based on how progressive you are it’s not so much that you know hey we want to advertise just to to rappers we shouldn’t play left or right the problem is for a lot of these people if you don’t play the left side of the field guess what you’re not getting deals with your distribution centers you’re not deals with your warehouses. You’re not getting put on shelves because they look at that score and they go, ooh, we don’t want these people working with us. It’ll make us look bad.
SPEAKER 09 :
And then that is the death of diversity.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, hey, dude, that’s just what it is. And unfortunately, it’s what controls. That’s the number one thing. That’s just why we’re in this situation we are because way back in the day, people didn’t stand up to like what you’re doing now. They didn’t stand up for it. Where have everybody been?
SPEAKER 09 :
Because it’s like, it’s so… And you’ve called for everybody to stand up a bunch of times.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, yeah. And I’ve suffered for her, too. I already did myself. Hey, Luke, can we go on record to let him be the next one for the suffering?
SPEAKER 09 :
We’re putting Anthony up there. He’ll take it.
SPEAKER 03 :
Because that is not going down. But with you. So… All these interviews, all the people, I literally, and I don’t mean to sound ignorant or anything like that, but I had no idea that it was that detailed in reference to designing an interior or a property or a house or anything like that. So you’re telling me you usually sit down and have consultations and find out their personalities and their likes and dislikes?
SPEAKER 07 :
Mm-hmm. Yeah, it all starts with a free discovery call. So I’ll spend 15 minutes with the client on the phone just to get a feel for what direction that they think they want to go. Kind of going back to earlier when I mentioned to start with $100,000, a home that was refinanced, they want to update, and they really don’t know how to spread those dollars in a way that is marketable down the road if they want to sell in, let’s say, five years. But they want to enjoy it in the meantime, right? Yeah. All that said, there’s the free discovery call, get to know them a little bit more. Then we do the consultation and then we take that consultation and roll right into a package. I prefer those flat rates versus like the hourly because you don’t know how. I mean, I could have epiphany mail the night about, oh, my gosh, I know the perfect couch that would fit that space. Like I can’t, you know, charge for that. But long, fast, short, there is so much detail. It’s true. And I love it. I love the details. But it also eases and makes the experience better for the client so they can enjoy that fun shopping with me. And I have this immersive client dashboard that they can jump on middle of the night with a glass of wine if they want and communicate with me and chat and accept and approve different things. So that we’re just keeping up with those timelines, which time is money, right?
SPEAKER 03 :
Exactly. Exactly. Time is definitely money. So in reference to where we met. Mm-hmm. You know that’s a liberal bar, right?
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, I love that area.
SPEAKER 03 :
I love it. But let me tell you, you were with me when a guy came in there on Halloween dressed up as Kanye West, and it was all hell broke loose.
SPEAKER 08 :
That’s a choice. Okay, yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
So it’s… I don’t know, man. It’s bias, but then I met some very great, incredible people there, and I just try to keep politics out of it completely. Completely out of it. And just go and just bring… I like people that are doing creative thing and businesses and all that stuff. And you’re going to meet great people, and you’re going to meet some people you work with, some people you don’t. You’re going to meet pretenders and all other kinds. That’s just life, period. But for the overall… It’s been incredible. That whole situation for me has been incredible. But I want to go back to Anthony and ask you this. So being married, right?
SPEAKER 08 :
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 03 :
Your kids in school, and you said you drove down the street and people pulled you over and said, hey, you’re a racist, or yelling out the window, whatever. No reason at all, right? Correct. What they’re teaching the kids about this woke culture and everything and all that, and even you said your own daughter had questioned if you were a racist or not, right? I can’t even understand that. But it’s what they’re being manipulated. So now I’d like to shift it back over to her and explain to the public something about this thing. You don’t have to be precise, just in general, about this cat thing. Now, this is something that I’ll go to war with you with, what she’s going to say right now. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 20 :
Look at her. You want some time?
SPEAKER 07 :
No, I mean, yeah. No, it’s just, you know, I work with a lot of homeowners, you know, that have kiddos and stuff like that. And, you know, we get to know each other. And a part of that conversation has been about when they’re starting their kindergartners off in school, they’re having to identify, you know. We’ve talked about you, then theirs and all the other pronouns, but also, you know, are they human or are they a dog or are they a cat or perhaps they’re a lizard? We don’t know.
SPEAKER 09 :
Maybe they’re Superman and they should jump out this large building. Oh, my God. Oh, don’t say that. Disclaimer, disclaimer. It’s for real. Like, how many boys grew up thinking, oh, I’m Superman? None of them said, none of their moms said, yeah, throw on this cape and hop out this window. Maybe you can fly. I think you can fly. You know, this is child abuse. Sorry.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, and that’s where parents can stand up. I mean… And, you know, we don’t know yet. Like, we were kind of talking about this earlier. Like, they’re still developing and deciding who they are. So if they want to kind of play cats pretend over, you know, in a game, a fun game or something like that. Or for Halloween, they’re a dog. But we’re not going to wear a costume to school every day. Right.
SPEAKER 03 :
So are you telling me there’s a school, and I’m paraphrasing, there’s a school? Mm-hmm. or a board or a law that accepted kids being, identifying as cats.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right, right. Now, I don’t know to what extent as far as like where that sits today, but that definitely is the last couple of years.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, we’re going to get the details on that in just a minute here. Let’s go to break, put ourselves together. I’m going to calm down, pace the room a little bit. You’re listening to 560 KLZ. I’m a United fan.
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SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, man, we have. This is crazy. This conversation is serious. It’s fly. We got Superman and Iron Man and Wonder Woman. We ain’t heard from her, but we have this guest.
SPEAKER 07 :
Hello Kitty.
SPEAKER 03 :
I think we’re about to hear. Hey, hey, we got we got this lady, Melanie. This is the one I was telling you about. I think she’s in Arizona. Melanie, are you there?
SPEAKER 05 :
I’m Wonder Woman.
SPEAKER 03 :
You know that. Oh, man. Yes, yes, yes. You are your Wonder Woman.
SPEAKER 05 :
You forgot for a minute.
SPEAKER 03 :
Hey, I have this lady here. It’s a very, very nice, smart business lady. And you’re another very nice, smart business lady in Arizona in reference to what you do. And I know you have a lot of big clients, and I know you’re connected with a lot of people. And I kind of wanted to put you guys together, introduce you guys, and see how you guys can network because it’s all about growth. And you know here on Army Uniter, that’s what we do. You know, we try to boost a lot of minorities because a lot of minorities don’t know that the conservative side, Republican side, whatever, it’s money. It’s people there. It’s people that services and they don’t know. So you got to understand it to grow your business everywhere. We don’t care about political affiliation. So we just try to cross the boards. So Melanie, meet Jen. Jen, meet Melanie.
SPEAKER 06 :
Hello. Good morning. Good morning to you. So tell me more about your company.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, I was calling because I heard that Liz told me to dial it down a notch, but I heard Reggie was taking interviews for extra special rooms to be designed in the new place. Oh.
SPEAKER 07 :
Now, I only do certain types of special rooms, but there are certain.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, man. I should have known she was listening to that.
SPEAKER 07 :
It’s spooky, but no. I can’t help you. It’s certain. Golly.
SPEAKER 20 :
Good. Set your boundaries.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. It’s a boundary.
SPEAKER 20 :
It’s also an FCC boundary, so tread carefully.
SPEAKER 1 :
Oh, okay.
SPEAKER 03 :
See, there’s a loop. There’s a loop. There’s Iron Man. So, Melanie, explain what you do.
SPEAKER 05 :
I sell packaging. So glass, metal, plastic, mostly in prestige beauty or high-end skin care, just something you don’t really think of anyone doing. And I also sell men’s custom clothes. Oh, wow. For a company. Yeah, a lot of fun. So similar to trying to find out what your client loves and what they like and don’t like. Yeah, I can relate.
SPEAKER 03 :
So with that, like your company that you work for, aren’t they like second largest or something in the world or country or something?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, the biggest for sure. Been around over 100 years. Based out of Chicago. Berlin Packaging, I’ve been with them for 26 years.
SPEAKER 03 :
Wow. So you have a lot of influential clients then, right?
SPEAKER 05 :
Sometimes, yes.
SPEAKER 03 :
So how?
SPEAKER 06 :
Colgate and L’Oreal. Oh.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, just them.
SPEAKER 03 :
Are you serious? Okay, you’re being sarcastic. You’re playing? Are you serious?
SPEAKER 06 :
No, I’m for real.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, y’all need to hook up. Nice, very nice. Those kind of people. I’m from Chicago.
SPEAKER 07 :
Did you know that?
SPEAKER 03 :
No, I had no idea. What you doing in Denver?
SPEAKER 07 :
What am I doing in Denver? Well, ask my parents that.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, so they just brought you down?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
So Melanie, real quick. With those clients and everything that you do out there, how’s the economy out there? And are people trying to work together even more to try to keep money rising in the circle? How’s it out there?
SPEAKER 05 :
This has probably been my hardest year in over 20.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh.
SPEAKER 05 :
So market has definitely slowed, especially when you’re talking about medical-grade skin care.
SPEAKER 03 :
Now, is that because of the administration that’s in now?
SPEAKER 05 :
I mean, why the economy flowed and why everybody’s hanging under their dough, probably.
SPEAKER 04 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 05 :
So, yeah, it’s been a very interesting year.
SPEAKER 03 :
So what do you see 2024 being like?
SPEAKER 05 :
I pray it’s better than 23. It’s hard to say. But based off of what customers are saying and what they’re hearing, it’s definitely going to be better. I just, I don’t know. I mean, it could always be worse.
SPEAKER 09 :
Have you considered marketing to cats? I hear there are a lot more cats coming into the market looking for high-end materials.
SPEAKER 05 :
I have a very large pet customer, yes.
SPEAKER 03 :
I thought you was a dog person.
SPEAKER 05 :
Equine, cats, dogs, you name it.
SPEAKER 03 :
So look, hey Melanie, I’m going to give her your information if that’s fine. We got about two or three minutes left. And if that’s okay, I’m going to have you guys hook up because I know you guys are like two peas in a pod.
SPEAKER 06 :
Sounds good. Yeah, that sounds awesome.
SPEAKER 09 :
Awesome.
SPEAKER 06 :
Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you.
SPEAKER 09 :
And then I want to get back to this cat story.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay. Okay, so look. In a nutshell, what are they doing with the bill? Did it pass? I heard that the school is hiring more janitors or they’re hiring people to put kitty litter in the bathrooms. What’s going on with that?
SPEAKER 07 :
I don’t know, but it is going to cost more. Yeah, you’ve got to have somebody. That’s going to take them more time to clean the bathrooms.
SPEAKER 03 :
So they’re actually going to put kitty litter… Boxes and the males and the females.
SPEAKER 07 :
I don’t know which schools. I’m going to plead the fifth.
SPEAKER 09 :
So you heard about, through a friend, a school board that was discussing how they’re going to budget for putting litter boxes in certain schools and in certain bathrooms.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, how they’re going to budget for all of that.
SPEAKER 09 :
Not just product and material. They need the box and the litter. But then they also need to figure out a way to compensate the janitors who have to scoop
SPEAKER 07 :
Human species. I mean, like feces, yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
Out of the litter box.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right.
SPEAKER 03 :
And this is actually happening in today’s world.
SPEAKER 07 :
Do they have any rights? You know, maybe they don’t want to. I mean.
SPEAKER 03 :
Hey, y’all, we got it. Melanie, hey, I’ll call you later. Thanks for calling me. We got to get up out of here.
SPEAKER 09 :
Come on, Anthony. But the left, I’ve seen article after article that says that they’re not doing that. But yet we hear story after story, you know, teachers that are saying, yes, this is happening. School officials are saying, yes, that it’s happening. School boards that are meaning to decide budgets to, you know, figure out how to do this.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. Okay. So look, look, as usual, we had fun. It’s time for us to get up out of here. We always kind of down like this. Three, two, one. And we out. Yeah. It’s that time. We out of here. But you’ve been listening to KLC 560 AM. I’m a United Reggie Bravo.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, it’s fun. We will tackle the issues. We will unite the country every week, every Friday morning from 9 a.m.
SPEAKER 03 :
to 10 a.m. It’s about love, y’all. Have a wonderful morning and a great day.
SPEAKER 11 :
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