This episode of Fix It Radio takes on a topic most families avoid — until they can’t.
John and Larry dive into the growing reality that Americans simply own more “stuff” than ever before. From inherited furniture and fine china to decades of tools, photos, and clothing, the question becomes unavoidable: What happens to all of it?
Prompted by a Better Homes & Gardens article and John’s own recent experience sorting through his parents’ belongings, the conversation moves beyond storage and into something deeper — the emotional weight attached to physical items.
Key discussion points include:
Why today’s families accumulate far more than
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Walter? Upstairs! Are you alright?
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In the floor behind the chair.
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This is America.
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Does everybody know what time it is? Fix It Radio.
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And it’s that time, Fix It Radio, KLZ 560. It is February the 28th, last day of the month, back from vacation. So it’s a live program today. Larry Unger with me today as well. If you’re listening to a replay, you know what day it is. And I don’t know if I should say unfortunately or fortunately, but it is a super nice day outside today.
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Gorgeous.
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Just gorgeous. Yeah, guys, it shouldn’t be this way, but it is. Tomorrow, of course, is… First day of March, and not that March means we’re into springtime. People typically think that, although in Colorado, we can have some rough weather in March. Some of the biggest snowstorms of our history have come in March. So you never know. Things could change as we go along. But as we speak, it is a absolutely beautiful day outside. It’s already 52 degrees, and frankly, in the sun, it feels warmer than that. So if you’re out and about, enjoy. I’ve got some things we’ll talk about today. And we’ve done this topic in the past before. And I continually get questions on this, and I think it’s one of those topics that not everybody’s able to listen to every single program and why some of these topics resurface. But Charlie sent me an article earlier this week. Again, I was on vacation but still doing some things as I was out. And this one is from Better Homes and Gardens. What to do with all of the stuff? your parents leave behind. And as you guys all know, my story and some of the things that I and my sister and family of wife have been through in regards to just going through my folks’ stuff and so on, it’s challenging. And depending upon your situation and where your parents are located and what kind of hobbies or things that your parents might have been involved in, all sorts of things start coming into play as to how much quote-unquote stuff They end up having and, you know, what do you do with all the stuff? And we’ll go through some of that today. And it’s never an easy topic to go through because typically this means that, you know, for all of us, when these times come, it’s sort of a reminder that, you know, a life is short and it’s going to happen all of us. unfortunately it is it’s like one of those you know what’s that old guaranteed larry death and taxes you know it’s it’s gonna come along yep and and at some point all of us all of you if you have any kind of of connection with you know even aunts uncles grandparents moms dads and so on and in some cases with the way things have gone over the past several decades you might have You know, mom that even, you know, maybe there was a divorce and so mom’s remarried. So now there’s that whole end of things. And maybe dad, you know, again, divorced but remarried. And so now there’s a whole nother, again, the challenges start to compound even. with the family dynamics that we’ve got going on that, frankly, weren’t there probably, weren’t there as much as it is today some 50, 60 years ago. So, yeah, things are much different. And the other thing, too, I think that’s different today, I was thinking about this as Charlie sent me this, and I’m not wrong in saying this. We all have more stuff now than we had 30, 40, 50 years ago.
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Absolutely.
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So, you know, the accumulation of stuff, which I’m not criticizing. That’s sort of, if you would, the American way. We accumulate things. We have wealth. We’re a first world country. And that wealth, you know, those purchases of those things help provide, you know, it’s an economy of scale. It helps provide things for a lot of others. And, you know, I’ve given examples on my daily show of, you know, people that criticize somebody for buying, you know, drive radios coming up here soon. So you take an exotic sports car and there’ll be people that would criticize saying, well, why are you buying that car? You know, there’s people all around the world that are starving to death and this, that and the other. And then the person comes back and says, well, keep in mind that car employed this. It created this much of the economy. You know, it did all of the rollover of things that that car provided at the same time. And so, yes, as a country, we accumulate as citizens of this country. I should say we accumulate a lot of things, meaning. And this is the reality of it. You’re going to find yourself going through more stuff now than you were several decades ago. So just a reminder that there’s things there. Now, this isn’t in the article. This is just me talking. And this is maybe the first topic this this does kind of get into. And that’s the emotional load of things. And so my advice is try to start on some of this as soon as you can. And what I mean by that is I think even for ourselves, so I’ll use myself as an example. I’ve just gone through the past couple of years of going through a lot of stuff from my parents and still am going through some stuff because it’s just that trickle down. You just end up with things that you never thought you were going to have in the first place. In fact, you realize they have things you never thought they had because you just start digging things out of areas that you just didn’t realize those things were there. And and in turn, For me personally, I’m now, you know, I kind of have this goal of, okay, I want to start minimizing what I have to lighten that load. And I’m not, you know, don’t plan on dying anytime soon. You know, hopefully I’ve got, you know, hopefully a couple of decades left, I hope, maybe longer. I hope it’s at least that long. But I want to start minimizing things now. So that even if something happened to me now or even in the future, I want to start minimizing some of the things that I have to make it easier for, you know, at that point, my kids to come through and handle things, Larry. And so I consciously am going through things. And I think for a lot of us listening or for a lot of you listening, that’d be one of the first things to look at is not only what is it that, you know, family wise you may have to deal with, with, you know, heirs and so on. But then what are you going to leave behind when it comes to some of this as well? And are there things that you could help with now consciously? And this is where you need to have conversation. And I cannot express this enough. You need to have conversation on the front side. And I know I’ve said this before, but it’s so important. And nobody wants to have these conversations because the first thing that happens when you start having these conversations is people start realizing that life is fragile. Well, here’s the reality. It is.
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I did that with my daughter and the first thing out of her mouth was, Dad, you’re morbid. No, I’m not being more.
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No, you’re just thinking ahead.
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I’m planning, yes.
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Yeah, it’s not being more, but it’s thinking ahead. And I just got a text message in that says, my parents are good about not keeping junk. Personally, I have way too much stuff. I just filled four giant bags of clothes last night to take to the Goodwill. And have you ever all gone through your closet and just tossed stuff? Yes, in fact, thank you, on a pretty routine basis. In fact, I was just thinking, maybe a little bit too personal, but… I’m a guy that very rarely ever wears a T-shirt. I’m a collared shirt kind of a guy. Even if I’m out working in the barn and doing different things, I even have collared work shirts and so on, I guess just because I’ve always kind of worn them. I’ve just never been much of a T-shirt wearing kind of a guy. And yet, and I’m not exaggerating, I probably have 40 T-shirts. And some of you are going to say, 40 t-shirts? Yeah, because keep in mind, in my world, every event, for the most part, that you go to, keep in mind, I didn’t buy 40 t-shirts. You just ended up with 40 t-shirts.
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I had this conversation with my daughter that being in the automotive industry as many years as I’ve been into it, everything you do, you get something.
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That’s right. That’s where a lot of those that I have have come from. And so I was thinking, even on vacation, that, you know, i don’t wear those anymore i need to pare that down to where maybe i have you know four or five t-shirts that you might wear on occasion but other than that i don’t wear them why don’t i just let you know give them to somebody else that could get some use out of them and again the majority of them have some sort of a saying on them they’re an advertisement for somebody and those of you that haven’t listened to me during the day i’ll i’ll tell you how i look at things along those lines i don’t wear advertisements for others So it’s almost like, why am I keeping these T-shirts that have something on them? Because I don’t advertise.
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You’re not going to wear them anyway, right?
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I’m not going to wear them anyway because I don’t advertise for others. And people laugh at me about that because I typically don’t wear clothing that has all sorts of labels and names and different things on it because my feeling is, A, I’m not going to pay to advertise for you. If you want me to advertise for you, I want a check.
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Exactly.
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But that’s not how the apparel world works, and I get it. Nothing against the apparel world and some of you guys that are in it. I understand how that works and branded items and so on, and some people love that stuff. In fact, we’ve got some stuff over the years I’ve given out as a radio show and so on. So I’m not ditzing those things, but me personally, I don’t wear those types of items. And so I keep looking at some of the things that are hanging in my closet, and it’s like, okay, why do I – Why do I have these, especially things that, you know, have, you know, whatever, you know, Chrysler or Subaru or whatever, you know, and I’m just thinking of things that are hanging in the closet that have names on them. It’s like, okay, why Toyota? You know, why am I keeping these things? I’m not going to utilize these things anyways. I might as well figure out somebody to… to donate those to. And anyway, so yes, I’ve gone through my closet, you know, probably not as much as I should, but by the way, that’s a really good place to start because here’s the other thing that happens when, when people pass on, no one wants your clothes.
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Nope.
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I’m sorry, folks.
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You’re not going to wear your parents.
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No, I can tell you right now that you rarely is somebody going to want your clothing. You know, I can tell you right now that that in the majority of cases, there’s some rarities to this where there might be some really, you know, fancy type clothing and so on. There there might be some value to. But in general. The clothing that you’re wearing, when something happens to you, it’s going to Salvation Army, Goodwill, ARC, the dumpster, somewhere. Trust me, no one is wanting to buy your current clothing because that’s just not how things work. When somebody passes on, typically that clothing and those sorts of items are usually one of the first things to get cleaned out and go. So if you’re hanging on to things… for some odd reason you know thinking there’s some sentimental value to that clothing item uh don’t because no one else thinks of it the same way anyways no they don’t and that’s one of the emotional things so this first art this in this article that charlie sent me the first uh first paragraph here is the emotional load we need to realize we’re not just transferring wealth we’re transferring volume These are physical assets that occupy real space, and with them comes significant emotional weight but not necessarily any monetary value. That’s the sticky wicket, and it is. So in a lot of cases, this is where having that conversation on the front side and determining, hey, kids. nieces, nephews, whoever. It depends on how your family dynamic is. But do you guys really want this stuff? Because here’s the thing. If you guys don’t want this stuff, let’s decide now what we’re going to do with some of these things rather than waiting for something to happen. And again, you could be just in your early 60s like me and have these conversations because here’s the reality. I don’t know what tomorrow holds. Then it was due. I mean, I could be dead tomorrow. I don’t foggiest idea. So, by the way, I got a lot of questions because folks knew that I was in Mexico for vacation and I had lots of text messages coming in, checking to see if I was OK with, you know, what was going on there and some of the, you know, the hustle and bustle that was happening in Puerto Vallarta and so on. And, yeah, I didn’t have a. single issue and and when i go back tomorrow yes we we tend to blow a lot you know news media especially blows a lot of things out of proportion it makes things look a lot worse than they are and i was reading some of the same reports that some of you back here were reading and yet i’m looking out the window thinking okay that’s not what’s going on here Now, I wasn’t in Puerto Vallarta, but I even had some folks that I knew there that I was getting some direct communication back from. And even the folks that were there on the ground, it wasn’t nearly as bad as what they made everything out to be. In fact, I even saw last night late an article or, sorry, an interview that an independent journalist did with a member of the cartel, some of the cartel that was left behind after the leader was taken out. taken out, and even the cartel leader at this point said, hey, we’re not here targeting tourists. That’s not what we do. We’re here to let the government know what they did we don’t agree with. We’re not here attacking tourists. This isn’t what we’re here for, and nor will we, you know, be doing that. So not that I’m giving the cartel a pass or anything, but again, our society, you know, we sensationalize everything, you know, but getting back to this whole idea of you have stuff your parents have stuff what are you going to do with said stuff one of the things that always comes up and this is something that’s even come up in our own family china okay one time you know you got china for a wedding gift that was a pretty common thing back in the day was you got some fine china as a wedding gift that’s not as common as it once was and so there’s a lot of china you go to go to a lot of the second-hand stores and you will see china Yep. Because there’s a lot of people that are now starting to donate that because the reality is the next generation just doesn’t – they don’t want it.
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They don’t care.
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They have no need for it. They don’t want it. It’s not even that they don’t understand the value. It’s just their taste is different than what –
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Exactly.
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Yours is. And they’re not needing that same China. In fact, rarely does the next generations, plural, even do the quote unquote fine dining where you’ve got, you know, two forks and different knives and spoons and so on and all the different place settings. I mean, I’ll go as far as to say that most young people today don’t even know how to set up a place setting.
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No.
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the family meals are gone yeah it’s not the same so my point is that’s one item is is just you know china and dishes but you can start going through a lot of other things that you have that is you know it’s personal so my wife and i were talking on vacation that you know everybody’s had that old family portrait you know when the kids were little you got the family portrait you paid some money to somebody or it was owen mills or whoever it was back in the day and So that family portrait might have hung up on the wall for years and years and years, and now maybe it’s tucked away in some closet collecting dust. Okay, and my theory on that is unless somebody wants that family photo, take a picture of it. You now have that memory. It’s digitized at that point. You’ve got it digitized. You know what it looks like. And I’m sorry to say, throw it away. If you’re going to leave it in a closet to collect dust, you might as well just throw it away. Because here’s the thing. Somebody’s going to throw it away someday anyways. So why are you hanging on to it? If you want to keep the memory, take a picture of it. And by the way, there’s lots of items. And that’s not in this article, by the way. But there’s a lot of items whereby you might have some sentimental value or some sentimental attachment to said item. But there’s absolutely zero value in that item. Great. Take a picture of it. In fact, take several pictures of it if you want to. Okay. Now you have the memory of that item. It’s not like it’s gone forever. You’ve got pictures of it. And I get it. It’s not the same as actually having the tangible item. But if the tangible item stuck away in some closet collecting dust all the time, you’re not looking at it anyways. Who cares?
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Unless that portrait is worth, you know, has some value to it just because the fact of the type of portrait it is. It’s not worth keeping.
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That’s a great way of looking at it, Larry. Yeah, if it doesn’t have some tremendous value, some not sentimental value, but literal physical value. It’s a famous painting or something along those lines. Of course, I’m not going to tell you to throw anything like that away. But when it comes to some of the other things that we keep and save, you really have to think through, is this an item that – that i really want and and is it necessary to keep and if it’s not then let’s figure out a way to dispose of it and again i’m i’m one i’m one where you know what you know kind of go through your hierarchy well maybe so-and-so wants that okay we’ll ask them if they say no okay well who’s next in line yep well if you get to this you know honestly you get to the third second or third person and nobody wants it at that point i can tell you where the item’s going exactly It’s either going to get donated. Hopefully somebody else can pick it up at that point in time. Somebody else can get some use out of it, a second-hand store or whatever. Or if it’s an item you think you can sell, okay, maybe. I’ll get into maybe a little bit of that a little bit later here. This might have to be a two-parter. I might have to come back and talk a little bit about some of this next week. Because the selling of items isn’t as easy as some may think.
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Exactly.
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There’s a lot of ins and outs to selling things whereby, again, it may not be as easy as you think. There’s work involved, is my point. And to get that item sold and so on takes a lot of work. There’s scams out there and so on that you’ve got to be careful of. So I tell you, let’s do this. We’re up against where our first break should be. We’ll come back. I should have mentioned earlier, text line is open, 307. 200-8222. It’s 307-200-8222. And then, of course, you can call into our main line, 303-477-5600. 303-477-5600. We’ll be right back, though. Fix-It Radio, KLZ 560.
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And we are back. Sorry. What are we at? Fix-It Radio. I was just talking about Ready Radio a moment ago with Charlie. We’re going to do some different things this week on Ready Radio. But Fix-It Radio, KLZ 560. Thanks for joining us, Larry Unger, with me this morning. Okay. Steve from Colorado Springs is next. Steve, welcome. What’s going on, sir?
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Buenos dias, Commander Juan. Como esta? How are you, sir? Pretty good. Sounds like you had a great trip. Just a couple of thoughts on that. And then what I wanted to talk about, but you’ve got to admit, basically, Mexico is and has been a failed state for 20, 25 years. Yes. And they’re controlled by the narco-terrorists. And I always wondered how in the heck the high-dollar resorts avoided this. Well, kind of like old Chicago, they pay extortion money to the terrorists to stay off the turf. And it usually works, but there have been situations where U.S. terrorists get caught in a crossfire. And one of my favorite beaches in Kabul, which is Palmia, just outside of San Jose del Cabo on the way to Dekalb. You know where it is, yeah. And one of my favorite beaches. There was a shootout there not too long ago, and unfortunately some tourists got caught in the crossfire and died. But this latest round, everything seems to break loose when a major drug kingpin gets killed and or captured. Right. But if you recall, when El Chapo, that guy, he’s pretty slippery. They took the army to get him. They get him in jail. He breaks out of jail, digging a tunnel. They capture him again, da-da-da, cuts his chase. He gets here, and, of course, he was convicted of all kinds of stuff, so now he’s down there at Supermax. Well, his son, about the same deal. His son took over the empire, but the army got him in one fell swoop, and they did the right thing, the Mexican army, that is. And they got him up here, so he’ll be prosecuted shortly so he can have some father-son moments down there at Supermax. But I’ll tell you, it’s kind of a mess down there. People don’t realize it, but on the subject, you have some of your listeners like me that like to do the roadless travel. And there’s a place over in Guerrero Negro, which is right where northern Baja splits into southern. And every year, about this time of year coming up, all the whales traveling up from South America, they pile on this little place called Scam of the Goon. to bear their calves. It’s amazing. They take out a rowboat, and we’re not talking looking at whales for hundreds of feet of yards. We’re talking about 12 inches of whatever. There’s thousands of them. But you’ve got to go through this high security protocol to get in there because there’s a salt mine that is a joint venture with Mexico and Japanese. And so they’ve got kids, really, 17-year-olds, with automatic weapons with a safety off before you even get to the rowboat. I asked the guy, I asked the guy about the little rowboat. These are just fiberglass jobs and outboard motor. I said, you know, these whales are so big in the Chinese department. Don’t they ever just, you know, kind of accidentally destroy one of these boats? He says, well, you know what? It’s only happened once or twice. That’s funny. It’s impressive, though. That is cool. That’s cool. It’s a difficult place to get to. Interesting. But it’s not really in sort of first class accommodations. Yeah. What they call a four star, which is the only one. Right. The gals would call it one star. Right, right. And it’s right up to the runway. Very cool. So much to my amazement, I hear an F4 ticking off above us. And I go, huh, that’s interesting. We haven’t heard that in a long time. Well, we gave them an F4 and a blackout for drug interdictions. Because the bad guys like to put their bales of marijuana and stuff in dykes. Anyway, back to the subject at hand on home maintenance and stuff. You have convinced me to rethink the whole business. And I’ve decided, okay, you haven’t used these things in a long time. That would be corded power tools. So I’m just going to get rid of them and donate them either to the ReStore or to a high school.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, and you bring up a great subject there, Steve, because I’ve got still going through a bunch of stuff on my end, and here’s the issue with the corded tools. Some of the secondhand stores will take them. Some will not. So you’ll have to call around and kind of determine who will take them and who won’t, because believe it or not, it’s even getting to be something that they don’t want because they know it’ll just sit on the shelf and they’ll never get rid of it.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, I was thinking first round, restore, second round, high school boat tap. We’ll see.
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Yeah, and again, all you can do is try. And, you know, last but not least, there are still some folk out there that like the corded stuff. You can almost, you know, hey, you know, put an ad out, come get them free, whatever. But I’ll be honest, Steve, most of them are boat anchors now.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, absolutely correct. Anyway, in terms of doing projects right now where the weather’s good, I had a really sharp drive over doing a whole bunch of stuff. And one thing that needs to be done, and by the way, a lot of people don’t seem to understand when it’s this dry, this long, you’ve got to do winter watering or the winter kill is going to cost you a big, big money. That’s right. Anyway, while we’re getting around to the next set of projects, which I need to fill and test the sub up. And it’s a pain because it’s covered up by mama’s huge bookcases and all this jazz. But test the sump pump and put it in battery backup. Yes. And if necessary, replace the pump because I think it’s been in there like 31 years. Yeah, it probably does. Good point. And to make testing easier. Good point. It’s probably been three years since I did all this. Great tip. I’m thinking of running a pipe. obscured over towards the sliding door where I can attach it to a hose and test it without moving.
SPEAKER 11 :
Good idea. That’s a great idea. Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
Anyway, welcome back.
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Enjoy your show.
SPEAKER 11 :
Appreciate you, man. Thank you, Steve, very much. I appreciate it. Jim, you’re next. Go ahead, Jim.
SPEAKER 05 :
Hey, John, I was just going to tag on to your comment about the media overblowing the whole Mexico thing and stuff like that. I go there all the time. I go scuba diving in Cozumel all the time. People give me flack, like, oh, it’s so dangerous, so dangerous. That is just the furthest thing from the truth. Thank you. I sometimes feel more safe down there than I do walking in downtown Denver.
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Well, you know, it’s funny you say that because I gave somebody that example, I believe, just yesterday. It’s like, okay, there are parts of this area, Denver and other places, where if it’s 1 a.m., Jim, I’m not walking around alone or unarmed or anything along those lines. It’s no different. It’s called common sense. It’s no different than anywhere else. That’s all it is.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, for them to do travel bans, it’s like, well, shouldn’t you do a travel ban in New York City with all the crime that you put on the media there?
SPEAKER 11 :
This is probably more of my daily program, but here’s my take on the travel ban. And again, I love Trump and what he’s doing and what’s happening right now in Iran as much need as I’m not complaining. But here’s what’s going on, in my opinion, with Mexico and Trump. He hates their president. She is bought and sold by the cartel. I mean, she is in bed with them as much as probably any leader they’ve ever had is in bed with the cartel. He knows it. The whole world knows it, by the way. She proves it over and over again. So my feeling, Jim, is that this is Trump’s way of poking her in the eye, economically speaking, by telling our people not to go there.
SPEAKER 05 :
It is. But, you know, it’s been going on for many, many, many years. you know, about the drug cartels and how dangerous it is down there. I’ve never felt once in danger down there.
SPEAKER 11 :
You and I both know how much I go. I don’t go as much as you do, but you know how much I go, and I feel the same way.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right. That’s all I had to say.
SPEAKER 11 :
No, you’re right on the money, Jim. I appreciate it. And it’s like anything else, folks. Everything can get overblown, and reality is just key perspective. Now, I’m getting lots of text messages in on people keeping stuff. um and this is interesting i’ve got one thread that i’m going through where somebody owns some some cars and different things and so on and still isn’t ready to part and the last message that came through was that this particular person that owns these that inherited them from her husband thinks that one of the oldest grandkids may actually want some of the things, and there are only nine. Well, keep in mind, by the time they even decide what they want will be another at least probably six to eight years minimum. And even then, things could change a lot in the car world, and I think it’s wishful thinking on her part that somebody in the family will come along. I mean, what would be best… And I know a little bit more of the situation, what the cars are. But it would be best in this particular situation to go ahead and get an appraisal through BP, find a good source to sell those cars, put the money into the bank, let that start accruing some interest or whatever else you would, and then leave that to… Your kids or grandkids, if you would like, they’ll be much better off when it’s all said and done because they may or may not even want that particular, you know, those particular cars, that particular. But this goes back to the whole emotional load. Again, this is the first segment of this particular of this particular conversation. article is the emotional load and and there’s a lot and by by the way this is by no means trying to you know even the article talks about there’s no disrespect here on any level everybody has different things they get attached to and and i mean that you know some people um you know you just sort of have an attachment to something for whatever reason And, you know, as I was going through a bunch of my dad’s stuff, I’ve got his toolbox and just going through a bunch of tools and so on. And as I was sorting through things a couple of weekends ago, I found some things in there that were mine when I was a kid. And I saw them and I’m like, oh, this is interesting. You know, dad kept this, you know, basically all these years. And nothing, you know, no value. It’s just the sentimental end of things. Although they’re items that I’m probably… Never going to do anything with. So I think for me personally, what I’m going to start doing is these items that are that way. I’m going to use my own advice and take pictures of. And then I can dispose of or give away, sell whatever that particular item is. But I don’t need to hang on to said item once I, you know, and I’ll start a folder of, you know. call it sentimental items, whatever you want to. And I think for all of us, we tend to, especially now in the digital age, I was telling my wife the other day, when we were kids, and you went and got your film developed, you always had everything done in duplicates. Because if you wanted to share a photo with a friend or something, you always had, you did duplicate prints. And it was much cheaper to do duplicate prints then than to go back and get another set of prints.
SPEAKER 14 :
Exactly.
SPEAKER 11 :
So you would just order duplicates. Well, with digital photography today, guys, We don’t even worry about that stuff anymore. I mean, you can take as many pictures as you want of whatever item and store those in a folder and have them now permanently forever. You can put them on a thumb drive even, and there’s all sorts of ways to share them. I mean, the reality is you’ve got the ability to share the memories of said item forever. more so today than we’ve ever had, and yet most of us leave those things in a drawer or on a shelf or buried in a closet. We won’t get rid of it because of the quote-unquote sentimental value, and yet we could do exactly what I just said and then get rid of the item. Yep. And minimize somebody else having to go through it down there. And again, it’s not out of any disrespect for that item and your particular emotional attachment to the item, but what I’m saying is you can still keep that attachment attached By the way, it doesn’t have to be a picture. You can do a video. You could do a walk around. Depending on what the item is, there’s all sorts of things you could do to still have fun with that. And then that’s the memory that you can keep and save. But the item itself, once you’re done with that, you don’t need it anymore. Nope. You basically used it as a quote unquote prop for your video, your picture or whatever it was. And now that item, by the way, you can you can release that item and let it go to somebody else that might see more value in it. Or I’m sorry to say, in some cases, it’s just going to go in the trash. Unfortunately. I’m sorry to say that, and again, I’m not trying to be disrespectful to some items, but it’s like the power tools I was just talking to Steve about a moment ago. It’s getting to the point with corded power tools, you can’t hardly give them away to anyone because no one wants them because even, you know, Steve’s comment on the trades, even the trades, they’re going to teach the kids how to use cordless tools, not power tools, not electric tools. Now… Where there might be an exception to this is there might be some people that are out there that look to take some of these items overseas into other parts of the world, whereby some of their tools may not be as good as what we have. And if you could find that kind of a person, there might be some value there. But all in all, corded power tools are – and I know some of you would argue with me on this, but they’re really becoming a thing of the past. The cordless technology has gotten so good now that corded tools are literally – I mean, in my case – I’ve saved a few saws. I’ve saved some sawzalls because, you know, sometimes just plugging in and using it on the vice or whatever, you’ve got usually a power outlet nearby, whatever, that makes it pretty easy. Grinders even. And I’ve switched over to a cordless grinder. Oh, gosh. A year ago. Well, early summer. I went to a cordless grinder. I don’t think I’ve gotten a regular grinder out hardly since because it’s just that handy. There’s no cord. There’s no nothing. You just go to wherever it is you’re going to work, put whatever wheel on it that you want, and off you go. It’s simple. It just makes everything go that much faster. You’re not dinking around with this cord and the windup of and putting away and so on. But I get it. Some of you may still have some of those things you want to keep. Just remember, That you may want to keep those items, but as I continue to talk, the next generation may not. And frankly, let me just be really honest, probably won’t. Because the cordless technology is going to do nothing but continue to get better and better and better. And the need to have any kind of corded tools kicking around are going to be a thing of the past.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, the batteries that are coming out on these newer tools are lasting so much longer. It’s just ridiculous to have a corded tool.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, Larry, it literally is. It’s to your point. It’s becoming night and day when it comes to how long the cordless tools will work and the power. One time they were not as powerful as what you could get in a corded tool, but anymore, no. Somebody asked me just a moment ago, are we in World War III this morning? No. We’re just cleaning up a bad actor over in the Middle East that decided to even go drop bombs on its neighbors, which they’re loony tunes. So, you know, when you’re a terrorist organization, you can terrorize everybody. So, no, we’re just cleaning house. We’re good. There’s no World War III, and this will not last very long, trust me. This will be a very, you know, quick, you know. Over and out sort of a situation. It’s not going to last. I’ll talk more about that on Monday on my regular show. But, yeah, no, we’re not in World War III at all.
SPEAKER 14 :
No, it’s not the zombie couple yet.
SPEAKER 11 :
Somebody also just said that, don’t get me wrong, I love my cordless power tools. I hang on to my corded drill and skill saw. The power they have can’t be beat. Yeah, and that’s where, you know, for example, I said a moment ago, yeah, there may be certain items that you want to go ahead and keep. In this case, he was talking about how, you know, mixing concrete and things like that with a cordless drill just don’t work as well as a corded drill. There might be certain applications that you guys have whereby you want to keep that corded item around and power and not having to mess with the battery and so on. And you know your situation, but trust me, there are probably some other items. Well, I’ll give you one example. And maybe a little bit of sentimental value here, but as I was going through a lot of my dad’s stuff, he had a drill, an old orange, black and Decker drill that I’m not joking. I probably used when I was a kid at age, you know, eight, nine, 10 years of age. So it’s that old, you know, things 50 plus years old or more. And here’s the thing. It was the biggest piece of junk then. The chuck is awful. You couldn’t keep a drill bit tight if its life depended on it. Why my dad kept it through all of these years, the first thing I did with it is threw it out. Because I knew what a big piece of junk it was way back in the day, even though there may have been a little bit of memory with that, you know, just from, you know, using it when I was a kid. But no offense. The memories I had using it weren’t good because it never worked like it was supposed to anyway. So I laughed at it in a way, but then I tossed it and off it went. So there’s an example of where that corded tool, it wasn’t any good when it was new back in the day.
SPEAKER 14 :
Now, I’m going to go to the other side with a power tool. I was digging some fence posts. I had a four-inch auger. I hooked it onto my electric drill, and it drilled the holes just fine.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yep, so there you go. All right, we’ll take another break. We’ll come back. Lines are open, 303-477-5600. Don’t forget the text line, 307-200-8222. Fix-It Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 11 :
And we are back. This is Radio KLZ 560. Myself, Larry Unger. Jeff in Montana. You’re next. Go ahead, Jeff. Hey, Jeff. Are you there? Oh, Jeff. There we go. Now you’re there. That’s all right. Yeah.
SPEAKER 14 :
You’re enjoying the weather? I got on mute.
SPEAKER 06 :
That’s all right. Yep. Um, yeah, first of all, happy, uh, last day of winter. Uh, meteorologically speaking, um, first March is the first day of spring. Now, astronomically, most people say, uh, the, uh, equinox right at 23rd or 22nd.
SPEAKER 11 :
Right.
SPEAKER 06 :
But, uh, I’m an optimist. I like to go for it early. So tomorrow is the first day of spring. I will take down the lights that I’ve had on, uh, ever since the holidays, just because it brightens up the winter season. And, uh, and all that. Second of all, second point is the question is pneumatic tools. I mentioned before that I had to drill 40-some holes in joists to run a conduit. And I tried doing it with a battery tool, and I ended up going to dragging my compressor out and using a pneumatic tool because it was just, the torque at zero RPM just can’t be beat.
SPEAKER 11 :
I agree. No, and you bring up a great point. There are some, in fact, that’s one of the next things for me to go through, might even do some of it this weekend, is the pneumatic end of things because I’ve got tons and tons of duplicates now on things where I don’t need three or four of one item. One or even two of an item would be, More than enough. But those are items, Jeff, that we were just talking even through the break where, and for those of you listening, if you’ve never used an air tool, it’s way different than even a cordless tool or even an electric tool, the control you get and the size. I mean, you can downsize so much, Jeff, and get into tighter places with things that you can’t get with a cordless or a corded tool. Yeah, I do think there’s still a place for some pneumatic tools, although even in the auto shops and such, they’re not getting used as much as they once were, but there’s still situations where you’re going to use an air tool.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, I think anytime you have a high-torque, long-duration event, that battery’s going to wear down quickly.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, and like the other day, I was working with something, and I needed to cut some things off, and I got my little 90-degree die grinder out that I could put a cut-off wheel on, and it’s an air tool, and it’s about the size of the palm of your hand, Jeff. It’s just not very big. You can get into tighter places with it. I don’t have anything corded or cordless that would do the same thing.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. Now, the question comes out of that, though. Excuse me. I have a cough. This is a cough.
SPEAKER 11 :
What does that mean in terms of maybe changing your compressors, downsizing the compressor, or going for something that’s more… Well, if you’re going to continue to run air tools, this is for everybody listening, and there’s a formula for this as to how much air capacity do you need, how much horsepower do you need to fill it back up, and so on. There’s figures for that. But running air tools takes a lot of air.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 11 :
That’s the biggest thing. And you’ve got a certain amount of line storage and so on as well, depending upon how your shop or your garage would be plumbed. But it takes more air than most people think to run air tools, if you’re going to do it for an extended length of time. If you’re going to do something for just a quick second or two, yeah, some of the small compressors will do that. But it takes a substantial amount of air to really run air tools correctly.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay. I’ve got a quick question that just popped up last night. We have N4 radiant heat.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 06 :
And I don’t know how familiar you are with them. We have four zones.
SPEAKER 11 :
Very.
SPEAKER 06 :
And I went down to the basement, and that floor was still cold. And I usually keep it just around 60, 61. Okay. Because that keeps the basement really nice and warm. But the thermostat, the thermometer on the thermostat went down to like 55. I’m like, what’s going on? So I went out, and the boiler was on, but the line going to the – to that circulation pump was cold. So I thumped on the relay box for the pump, and I heard a click, and all of a sudden the pipe starts getting warm. So can those be – is there any maintenance on those for, I mean, like going back to old cars and distributor points?
SPEAKER 11 :
No, what’s happening, that pump’s probably going bad. I would just order a pump and put a new pump in, and they’re not cheap, as you know.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, the taco or taco, I’m not sure how you pronounce it.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, and I, so rule of thumb, yes, I was a cheapskate at one point in time and didn’t buy the regular name brand one. I bought some off-brand Chinese thing, and Jeff, you get what you pay for, so buy the good name brand stuff because the other ones are junk.
SPEAKER 06 :
You don’t want a piece of China. You don’t want to have to depend on it.
SPEAKER 11 :
I did that once, and it didn’t pan out well, so I will never do that again. I understand. Well, and in my defense, for all of you listening, some of you are thinking, well, geez, John, what’s the price difference? It was like $200 versus $500, so substantial. We’re not talking $50 or so. It was a substantial difference. I mean, I could have bought two and a half of the one pump for the one good one, Jeff, but they’re junk, so you just go buy the good one.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. Yeah, but that…
SPEAKER 11 :
But yes, what you’re describing, and I’m very familiar with radiant heat and so on, and yes, if that water’s not pumping and circulating to your point, you’re not going to have heat, and those pumps do go bad.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, but there’s nothing you can do to the actual relay box itself.
SPEAKER 11 :
No, and most likely it’s the pump that’s bad itself. It’s the motor in the pump. And when you get that apart, you’ll know what I mean. You’ll look at the shaft and the impeller, and it’ll be all nasty and dark and corroded, and you’ll know then why you’re changing it.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, well, if I’m going to have to go to do that, is this a preventive maintenance thing? And just go ahead.
SPEAKER 11 :
Oh, I don’t know. I mean, what I found is most of those have, you know, probably a decade’s lifespan, maybe longer, depending upon how much it runs and so on. I mean, I think all you can do is periodically go feel them, listen, you know, put a little stethoscope on them maybe to see, you know, is there any bearing wear, things like that. But if they’re running and everything’s smooth, just leave it.
SPEAKER 06 :
I was just getting, I’m probably not going to do it myself, probably have to get somebody out here to do it. And I was just wondering if with the expense of labor, if it would just be cheaper in the long run to get four, put them in.
SPEAKER 11 :
No.
SPEAKER 06 :
They’re 30 years old.
SPEAKER 11 :
I mean, you could, if they’re that old, you could, although, yeah, and the way the systems work, some of them run more than others. So probably what’s happened is the one that runs the most is the one that’s gone bad, typically.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, it’s one of the two that run the most. The basement has nothing else. The rest of the house is pretty interconnected, so heat migrates around.
SPEAKER 11 :
So maybe do the two that are the highest volume ones, the highest use ones, and don’t worry about those other two.
SPEAKER 06 :
That’s a good thought, too, yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
And I have not found anybody that can rebuild those either, Jeff. Once they’re done, they’re done. I have not found a good rebuilder for them.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
Good stuff, Jeff.
SPEAKER 06 :
Appreciate it very much. Great question. For all the Colorado transplants, go take your snow tires off. Winter may be getting over, but the snowiest season for Colorado has started.
SPEAKER 11 :
You’re right. Good point. Jeff, appreciate it. You’re spot on. Joe, go ahead, sir.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, John, first, I’m a big fan of battery-operated cordless tools. I’ve got the Ryobi, I’ve got the Sanders, the The drills, the jigsaw, I mean, I’ve got the whole gamut of cordless, but there’s a couple of exceptions. One being I needed a rotary hammer drill to put some holes into concrete wall. And, you know, the battery stuff was outrageously expensive. And this is something I’m going to use once every two or three years. So I bought a corded one for 50 bucks.
SPEAKER 13 :
There you go.
SPEAKER 04 :
And, you know, works like a champ. I don’t think I’ve used it since I bought it. I think I used it twice in the first six months I had it. The other is snow blowers. We had 18 inches of snow here last week. And when the plows came by, they put three feet of snow in front of everybody’s driveway. And some of my neighbors had these battery-operated snow blowers. They were maybe three horse, five horse. And it was a heavy ton, completely worthless. Now I’ve got a 44-inch snow blower in the front of my 25-horse garden tractor. And I was able to just drive right into that three-foot snowbank in front of their driveway and just blow that snow. And my snowblower gun, that’ll blow that snow 25, 30 feet. They would have been out there all day with their three-horsepower battery-operated snowblower. So there are limits to the effectiveness of some of that stuff. So I don’t know if you have an opinion on that or not.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, I think there’s certain applications where the cordless stuff just still, Joe, isn’t quite, well, you know, use our business as an example, the commercial, you know, lawn care end of things. I mean, there’s guys out there claiming now that they can get you up, you know, a ride on, you know, battery operated commercial mower, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. They’re super expensive. They’re frankly worthless, Joe. Yes, there’s some folks using them. But I think you’ll find in most cases, it’s one of the most inefficient ways to do something there is it’s It’s not even on the same level that an EV car is. They just don’t have the platforms yet that really make that effective.
SPEAKER 04 :
You mean just like an EV school bus, right?
SPEAKER 11 :
Exactly.
SPEAKER 04 :
Hey, John, you don’t have to answer it on air, but did you get my question about the roof shingles?
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, there’s none.
SPEAKER 04 :
There’s none.
SPEAKER 11 :
It’s all good.
SPEAKER 04 :
All right. I’ll pass it on to my friend.
SPEAKER 11 :
That’s a good one, Joe. Nope, I appreciate it very much. No, yeah, really quick. That’s a great one. When it comes to certain things – now, I just got a message in talking about digitizing your photos and that years ago some of the media that was available isn’t anymore. CDs and other media has gone away and so on. That’s true. And if you’re smart, which I have been, you take some of those items that were on that media – And it’s a simple, you know, drop and drag into another form of media and off you go. So this is one where, no, I’m not worried about digitizing anything. And no, I’m not going to keep a bunch of old crap laying around because I’m worried about what’s going to happen to my digital format of whatever, you know, JPEG format. has now been around for decades. I don’t see it changing. It’s still an easy format when it comes to pictures and so on, just like MP3s are for music and so on. There are certain platforms, I guess you could say, that have been around forever that, frankly, I don’t see changing. And by the way, when they do, there’s always companies that come out for little of nothing that will provide you a converting tool That’ll take one format into something else, even do it in bulk to where it’s not that big of a deal. So am I worried about storing things digitally speaking? No, I’m not going to lose any sleep over that any way, shape, form or other. All of mine are stored in several places. I’ve got some things that are on jump drives. I’ve got a lot of it that are in the cloud, very easy to access. So at the end of the day, no, I am not worried about taking certain pictures and what’s going to happen when it comes to the format and so on. So that is not a concern of mine, and frankly, I don’t think it should be of anybody else’s either because at the end of the day, I’m not worried about it. Now, going back to some of the things Joe just talked about a moment ago when it comes to certain things that you’re looking to have a tool for, yes, there are going to be certain things where you’re going to want something that’s got more power, durability, longevity. And as I said a moment ago with Joe, Larry, there are just certain things that, you know, the cordless end of things just hasn’t quite got there yet. You know, some of you may not even know this, but there’s even some now electric, you know, skid steers and things like that, and they’ve been complete flops. They just haven’t worked and done what – their intention was and the technology there just isn’t quite there yet. Yeah, so it’s to Joe’s point and even some of you that have texted in. Yeah, there’s going to be some applications where you want to keep your old corded tool and in some cases pick them up fairly inexpensively because there’s other people getting rid of some of this stuff whereby you could utilize that for a very long time and be just fine, Larry.
SPEAKER 14 :
I agree.
SPEAKER 11 :
Point being, know what your application’s going to be. just make sure you’ve got that application because yes there are going to be certain things even what jeff and i were talking about with newman with pneumatic tools air tools where for me personally yeah there’s some air tools i’m i’m not gonna get rid of i mean i may not break them out very often but that one time that you do and the plus side to air tools is they’re so small you know you you can store half a dozen air tools in the same space you could store one or two cordless or even electric tools because of how small pneumatic tools are when it’s all said and done so That’s something else to think about, too. If you guys have certain applications whereby you want to stay with something corded and maybe you’ve got the ability to have a compressor or you already have a compressor and you just want to switch over to the air tool sides of things, you can do a lot when it comes to the air tool sides. All right. This is probably session one. I will continue probably with this next week because I didn’t get to everything we need to talk about when it comes to what to do with some of these items you inherit over time. We’ll do that next week. Keep texting us, by the way, 307-200-8222. Thank you for listening. Fix It Radio, KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 02 :
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