Join the Conversation at 303-477-5600 or text to 307-200-8222 Monday – Friday from 3 pm – 6 pm MT. https://RushToReason.com HOUR 1 It’s Finally Friday! Andy Peth’s Friday 5-Star Movie Reviews take a dark turn this week with psychological horror, cyber-hacking suspense, and a slow-burning heist thriller. Is Obsession really about free will and control? Could Lifehack make you rethink everything you share online? And did Guy Ritchie’s In the Gray Waste one of the coolest casts of the year? Movie Reviews • 10:04 — Obsession • 29:11 — Lifehack • 42:17 — In the Gray Find the complete
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The same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try to take over the world. Stick a fork in me, Jerry. I’m done.
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Now, here is your host of Rush to Reason, John Rush.
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Okay, it’s Friday. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Hope you all have a great week. Some of you may still be working or you’re maybe getting ready to head home. Myself, Andy Payton. How’s Andy today?
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Andy’s doing well, sir. It is hot out.
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It’s a little bit warm.
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Yeah.
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It is, as we speak, 82 degrees here at the station. Charlie Grimes, of course, our engineer. We’ve got movies today, of course. We’ve also got movie rental hour. We’re going to do movies with computers, so get ready for that. And what movies are we doing today, Andy?
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Okay, we’re doing Obsession as our lead-off one. That’ll be the biggest movie of the week. Then Lifehack, which is why we’re doing computer movies. And finally, In the Gray, a little action flick.
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Okay, so we’ve got three movies coming up. And did you make Rhino Watch this week, Andy?
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You know, I took a peek.
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Just to get us started.
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I took a peek at it, and the idiocy was kind of on overload. I didn’t have time to go deeply because I was doing show prep with the movies.
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You didn’t miss anything.
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It was funny.
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I didn’t read all of it, but I skimmed through some of it. Yeah, the lunacy just doesn’t stop. These people are delusional.
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You know why they are, John? It’s because their followers do not check them on anything. Their followers look at them and say, we don’t need to know any of the context. We don’t need to know any of the truth. Just feed us our hate.
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Right. Right. Which, just really quick, again, we have a lot of fun on Fridays and so on, but that always worries me when folk do that, Andy, because nobody, the left follows blindly, and our side should never do that.
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Right. The one thing I will say for our side is we generally don’t burn down cities and kill people.
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We do not, but we still will follow blindly at times.
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Oh, gosh, yes.
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So my point with that, folks, is stop doing that. Don’t follow anybody, myself included, blindly. Double-check every single thing that you see, that you hear, that you read. Verify that that, in fact, is the case. For example, there was a particular thing I saw on Facebook today where it was talking about Washington State, and they were going to supposedly pass a law. that would not allow you to basically joyride in your car. In other words, if you couldn’t provide to an officer that stops you where you’re actually headed and that you have a purpose for doing so, you could get up to a $1,000 fine for just basically being aimlessly in your car, even out for just a joyride. Well, I did a little bit of investigation, and I thought, well, okay, it’s Washington. Nothing would surprise me.
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True, but that sounds awfully extreme.
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Yeah, and I’m like, okay, wait a minute. That’s really police state kind of stuff, and that’s like martial law and other things. And I’m like, I just don’t think that sounds right. So I did a little bit of work, not very much, but just a little bit of research and found there is nothing anywhere of the sorts. And even though this document looked very official and law had been passed and signed and blah, blah, blah, no, it wasn’t true, and it didn’t take very long to figure that out, Andy. Right. Right. But yet people on our side were promoting this particular thing as being fact.
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Oh, they totally do. And, you know, you go back a couple weeks with Rhino Watch, and what were they saying? That Britta Horne’s lawyer, Steve Klenda, was squeezing the party and threatening and getting judges in backroom conversations and lying to them and tricking them into saying that the party owed him money. And it’s like, number one, the party does owe him money, period.
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Number two, there’s no tricks going on here.
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Yeah, and number two, the only reason for all the money is lawsuits that you guys launched. So here’s what I’m saying, folks. No matter who it is, maybe you like Candace Owens if you’re crazy. Maybe you like her.
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Maybe you do.
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Okay, you hate Jews and you like Candace Owens.
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Right.
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Those go together.
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Yeah, they do.
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I’m sorry, they really do.
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It’s synonymous.
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Those are milk and cookies.
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Yes, it is. That’s right.
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But no matter who it is that you like, you must always ask the question, what’s the context?
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Right.
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What is that? Because that’s what you asked with Washington.
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And what’s in it for them? Why are they saying this?
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Yeah. Or was it Oregon?
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Washington. You’re right. Washington.
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You asked, what’s the context? You learn the context, and you’re like, okay, I still don’t like it, but it’s not nearly as bad. With Steve Plenda, yeah, he needs to be paid for all the lawsuits that he won against you that you launched. He was the defendant in all of them. He… caused literally none of these costs. You did. The very people who back RhinoWatch caused all the costs, and now they’re complaining about it. But all their supporters will not look at any of the context. Go ahead.
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Well, I’m going to throw something out to those of you that are in that world where you don’t think that he should be, I guess, paid for the services that he provided. So guess what you’re telling me as conservatives? You believe in cheating people out of money they have coming to them? Yeah. He’s done the work. So what you’re telling me, I guess, is that it’s okay to short, if you would, short pay somebody because you feel like what they did is incorrect. That’s not how this works, folks. If you’re a real true conservative, you should believe in making people whole and what they’re owed, period.
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Right. But we don’t like him.
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So? That doesn’t matter. Doesn’t matter. Pay the man. But he was against us. Doesn’t matter.
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It doesn’t matter. Pay the man. But these court costs, you caused all of them. You launched every one of these lawsuits. He launched zero.
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Right. So at the end of the day, pay up.
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Yeah. This is what gets me about RhinoWatch. So every single week, folks, when they come out with anything, you’ve got to ask, what’s the context?
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And welcome back to Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560 John Rush, together with Andy Pape and John. Are you ready for a movie?
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Absolutely. All right, John. Let’s do it.
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Well, a romantic wish turns into horror in Obsession.
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Have you ever actually, like, flirted with Nikki?
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I’m gonna go get some shots.
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I’ll come with you if she means this much to you. And I know she does. Say, Nikki, I think we should grab a drink sometime. Nikki, wait. I was gonna ask you, um… What? I lost my train of thought. Hi. Good night. What else? One wish, Willow. You only get one wish. I wish Nikki Freeman loved me more than anyone in the entire world.
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I love you so, so, so, so, so much.
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It’s weird how you two are dating all of a sudden. Like, super dating.
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I think Nikki is going through something. Like what? Is she okay? No. Jeez, look how much blood you put on her.
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Nikki?
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I love you.
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I love you.
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I love you! I love you!
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I was calling to see if there’s a way I can cancel Wish. I’m sorry, we don’t really do that. So she’s just stuck like this forever? Well, yeah, I mean, as long as you live. As long as I live?
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That sounds intense. Very intense. Lots of screaming.
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I’ve noticed that’s how your wife loves you.
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Lots of screaming.
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Very intensely, right?
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Wow. Holy cow.
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Okay, well, and by the way, oh, I won’t even go there. Okay, Michael Johnston, he stars as Bear, a guy who has a crush on a co-worker. That co-worker is Nikki. She’s played by Indy Navarrete, or Navarette, all right? And she likes Bear, but he’s in the friend zone with her, all right? Bear is depressed because his cat died. That’ll matter later. And he just wishes he had a chance with Nikki. But hey, wishes can be dangerous, right, John? Mm-hmm. Bear wants to get Nikki a gift, and he finds a One Wish Willow toy. It’s called One Wish Willow. You make a wish, snap it, and the wish comes true. But ominously, you only get one wish with no refunds and no undoing the wish. Gee, maybe try some roses instead. I would think so. Well, anyway, Bear decides to use the willow, and he wishes for Nikki to love him more than anyone in the world. I wonder if Johnny Depp did this with Amber Heard. I’m not sure. I don’t know. Well, anyway, Nikki now loves Bear more than anything. Total obsession, hence the title. She waits at the door until he returns from his shift the entire day, even if she has to go to the bathroom. Yeah. That’s bizarre. Yeah. This isn’t just a clinging girl. This is a woman who no longer has a self, whose entire identity revolves around a boy who works in the same record store. She can’t function. Bear is horrified, terrified, and immensely regretful, but he can’t take it back. And we see peaks into Nikki’s torment as well. In her sleep, she begs to be killed. They’re both in hell. Naturally, Bear worries Nikki could actually kill someone or hurt herself. Bear’s This is a horror film, John. It really is. Nikki is no different from Gollum with the ring. My precious. I mean, she’s just gone. What can be done? Anything? Or is death the only escape from Obsession? That’s the movie Obsession. What do you think?
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Like I said, it sounds intense.
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Yeah. And I’ll tell you what right now here. I’m going to talk about religion. and politics in this movie, even though this movie has nothing to do with religion and politics. This has huge themes going on here. All right. First of all, what works in Obsession? Indy Navarette should immediately be up for Best Actress. She puts in a lights-out performance. Wonderful job. And I think she will be put up for Best Actress. Number two, the scares are real. The gore is real. But unlike a lot of horror films, we actually care about the two title characters. Yeah, we’re terrified of Nikki, but John, we also feel for her. We can see she’s in a prison. She has no self anymore. She can’t choose anything that she does. Timing the scares and gore is done well. There’s an excellent mix of lead up and shock, total shock. The pacing is generally pretty solid, especially early and late. You have this use of lighting that is great. Oh my gosh, the shadows they put on her face are wonderfully done. They just make her look horrifying. And you have – this is huge – a good message about wanting someone else’s affections. Shouldn’t we only want what’s best for them, John? Think about that. Every young boy or girl has always wanted that other person to really love them, right? And they’ve always really loved that, wanted that. But now when you think about that, would you wish for it? If we want them to want us, doesn’t our selfishness hurt them? You see, now, I’m going to get – I’m going to get – Yeah, I’m going to get deep here. I’m going to do it. There’s also a great answer to the critics of Christianity. See, Christianity, the critics always ask, why did God allow evil? Why put the tree there? Why not just make us love him? Because God loves us and he isn’t needy, folks. And this movie is just an immense look at what happens if you hypothetically take away the will of a person. They will go crazy. They will go insane. They will lose it. Am I making sense here? You are. Yes. I think the greatest thing that God ever gave us was choice. The first thing he does, put two trees in the garden and say, okay, this one immense reward, this one immense consequences, choose. And he did that, and that’s how he set it up with us. This is why, of course, I don’t believe in Islam. There is no Christian jihad. There is no convert or die. You have to believe as I do, and I will take away your choice. Now look at this in political speak. OK, if we want to take away the choices of others, I don’t think we understand. I really don’t. I don’t think either side understands how much rage you produce in those people. You’re a gun owner. OK, what do you think of gun laws that try to encroach on your choice of how to defend yourself?
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I hate them.
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Right.
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It’s incredible. It’s un-American. It’s unconstitutional.
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Right. But it’s also it’s not human.
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Right.
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It’s not human.
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It’s ungodly.
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Yeah. They shouldn’t be controlling you. And what we see in her is this incredible torment of somebody who has lost her ability to choose whether or not to love this guy, which, by the way, she may have come around to doing. She might have come to love him on her own, but that’s taken away. And she’s going insane. And you’ll see many times throughout the movie, she’ll just blurt out, ah, ah, and start screaming out of nowhere because she’s falling apart. And she can’t do it. This movie… Needs to be watched by every liberal who wants to control the lives of others and force them to be your way. Force them into your schools to hear your doctrines. You see what I’m saying? Force them to live like you. Force them to drive what you want. Force them to buy what you want. Force them to not buy what you want. Force them to celebrate your lifestyle, whatever the hell it is. Force them, force, force, force. This movie needs to be seen by everybody who thinks it’s okay to make others be more like you.
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Mm-hmm.
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Because that’s what this movie is about. This movie is not about love or horror. Ultimately, it’s about free will. This is the best look at what it means to remove free will that I’ve ever seen in a movie. Wow.
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That’s saying something.
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It is saying something because it’s horrifying. She is in hell, an inner hell. And on the outside, of course, she becomes a horror monster. All right. What doesn’t work in obsession? Well, an hour 48 is too long for this torture test, and it really is. An hour 30 would have been much better. Speed it up. They could have cut through a few points and done it a lot better. Now, next, how can this product, all right, this product, this one-wish willow, be available without destroying the world? I mean, this would destroy the world. John, you can’t have this. They find this in a little shop. He goes to a little shop, and they got a bunch of them there. And they all work. It’s not just that he got one that works. No, they all work. I mean, think about this for a moment. It would destroy everything. We’ve all seen movies where somebody gets their wishes or three wishes or whatever, and they destroy their lives by getting their wishes. Okay. But what we’ve never really seen or haven’t seen very often is being able to wish somebody else’s free will away.
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Hmm.
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Let me give another one politically really quick here. What about people who believe in redistribution of wealth? What you really want to do is control the charity of others, right? You want to take that wealthy person who has more than you, and you want to control where their money goes and how much. No, I can’t go to this charity. He has to go to this one that advances my causes, and they can’t just give this much. They’ve got to give that much.
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There’s actually a Ten Commandments that speaks against that.
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Yeah, thou shalt not steal.
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Thou shalt not covet as well. And thou shalt not covet. Because you’re coveting what that other person has because you want to control what they have because you’re jealous of what they have.
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Right.
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You wish you had it instead. Let’s face it, Andy. At the end of the day, what the liberal really wants is what they have.
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Right.
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They’re mad and jealous because they have it and you don’t.
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John, right in the beginning, he puts two trees there. God himself, the Almighty says, guess what? I could control you. I just took my hand off the joystick. You choose. You get your own rewards or consequences based on your choice. But what do we do? We look at each other and say, I want to control him. I want to control her. I want to control them. When you have these people who want to move, you know, tax the rich more, tax the rich more, Mamdami, AOC, any of them. When they want to tax the rich more, they want to take away the will of somebody else and control them in that situation and say, your money will go here. Right.
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Right. Exactly.
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Okay, this is sick.
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Yeah, it is.
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And you get to see how sick it is in Obsession. Okay, what else doesn’t work? All right, this is an impressive watch. It is, especially on a low budget, but it’s not a fun one, John. It’s flat-out depressing to watch.
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It sounds depressing.
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Yeah, it’s not on the level of the Substance or Uncut Gems.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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Those were a little depressing.
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I couldn’t bear to watch them.
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Either one of them. You’re right.
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They were just awful. Two of the worst times I’ve ever had in a movie. But it’s along those lines, all right? Because it’s just going down, down, down. And it’s just so hopeless. There’s a totally implausible scene of a guy wishing for a billion dollars, getting it. Okay? So it immediately just falls out of the sky. And he’s in a room. And a billion dollars just falls down. And only later does he figure out, oh, my gosh, it’s real. What do you mean it’s real? Yeah. Yeah. What do you think? You just wish for a billion, and it just literally fell out of the sky, and there’s no sky above you. And you wonder if it’s real? Of course it’s real. It’s falling from the sky. It makes no sense. It was totally implausible. And he only figures it out later, and that leads to bad things for him. And I’m just like, this makes no sense. So there were a couple of moments that made no sense. Finally, the scares, while well-timed, a couple times they’re pretty predictable.
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Mm-hmm.
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But they are something. It gets brutal at times.
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It sounds like it.
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Yes, because you’ve got to keep in mind, if she absolutely loves this person in that way to that degree, then she doesn’t want anyone else to have any time with that person. And so time becomes everything. She must be with him all the time, all the time, all the time, all the time, all the time. Clingy doesn’t even begin to describe it. Wow. Yes, it’s something else. Okay, Rotten Tomatoes. They gave Obsession 95%. Now, I’m not going to give it four stars, John, because when I give a movie four stars, it almost has to be a movie that I enjoyed, at least somewhat enjoyed watching. Right. I didn’t enjoy this. I was impressed by it.
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Okay.
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I was impressed by her performance. Some of the movie I wasn’t that impressed. They could have made it funnier. They could have had a little more humor in some spots. But I was impressed by it. I’m going to give it three and a half stars.
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Okay.
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Because this thing will take you to hell and back.
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Okay.
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It’s going to do it, okay? Political and moral, religious, for both of them, I’m giving it a four.
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Okay.
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Because this says the truth about controlling others, about trying to remove the will of others, be it with legislation, be it with a wish, be it with just being controlling in a relationship. It can be anything. Trying to control others, this shows people it should scare young people because that’s who’s going to this movie. It’s going to do well. It should scare them out of wanting to control their friends. And I think that’s a good thing. There you go. Do I recommend going to Obsession? After all that, no, not really, because it’s not that fun. It’s not that fun of a watch, but is it impressive? Is it worthwhile? Yes.
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If you’re a liberal, definitely go.
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Yeah, please, if you’re liberal, if you’re a socialist or you hate Christianity.
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Go.
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And this is not a pro-Christian movie. It’s the opposite, okay? This is like The Matrix. They have no idea that they’re preaching Christian theology.
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But they are.
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But they are, okay? Because what this is showing, once again, let me just, one more minute, John. It is showing people this is what it would be like if God didn’t allow evil to come into the world, if he didn’t give you the choice of evil. If he made you just… A robot. Yeah, so here he makes you in his image, but then takes away choice and will. You’d be miserable.
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Good point.
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All right, that’s obsession.
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SPEAKER 16 :
And welcome back to Rush to Reason, Detner’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560 John Rush, together with Andy Pate and John! Are you ready for another movie?
SPEAKER 06 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay, John, will four hackers try to rob a billionaire in Lifehack?
SPEAKER 17 :
I can see the headlines now. Incel blackmail’s billionaire’s daughter. Who’s dumb enough to flex about having Bitcoin? What are you gonna do, steal them? You wanna go to Stanford, right? Yeah. So why leave it to chance? I get the fees and I’m out. Let’s do this!
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Where would we even start? Donald Heard’s daughter.
SPEAKER 17 :
She posts everything. So Little Fishin’ will do the trick.
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, come on! What do you think you’re doing?
SPEAKER 06 :
I love money. You have no idea who you’re stealing from.
SPEAKER 03 :
Wipe everything now! Do you know what they do to people like me in jail? No, do not let them in!
SPEAKER 04 :
I’m offering you a lifeline.
SPEAKER 17 :
You can spend millions on security, but at the end of the day, people are stupid.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, that’s pretty honest.
SPEAKER 06 :
That’s pretty true, yeah. Okay, there we go. He’s got me laughing. Yeah, that’s pretty true.
SPEAKER 16 :
The movie has now been summed up.
SPEAKER 06 :
People are stupid. That’s pretty much it. People are stupid.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay, well, John, this… And yes, they are. This entire film, Lifehack, is shown on computer screens, just like the movies Searching or Unfriended. Remember those? Yes. Well, the main four characters are a group of friends who like to play online games and occasionally expose virus hackers.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 16 :
So I like them already.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 16 :
Get those virus hackers. Get those people who steal your identity. It’s great.
SPEAKER 07 :
I agree.
SPEAKER 16 :
Georgie Farmer, the actor, he stars as Kyle, a hacker in London who largely hosts the group. Peter, who’s played by James Schultz, Alex, who’s played by Yasmin Finney. She’s been in a few things. And Sid, who’s played by Roman Hayek Green. Just letting you know those three characters, Peter, Alex, Sid. They’re people he’s only ever interacted with online. Early on, we see them roast a scam site. It’s just wonderful, John. They track down this person who is trying to steal their identity, and they go into his systems and find ways and find him, and they bring his face up on the screen. They’re watching him at his desk as he is trying to scam them. And they just start roasting him. It’s fantastic. And they just ruin his life. It’s incredible. Now, Don Hurd, he’s played by Charlie Creed Miles. He’s a tech billionaire with a Bitcoin fortune. And he’s also a jerk. So, of course, the four friends decide to rob him of a small amount, you know, like $100,000. That’s nothing, right? Drop in the bucket. Don shouldn’t notice it, but that’s fun money for four online youths. Well, the first heist goes off well, so they rob some other people, these billionaires, and always at these tiny little amounts because they can do it. But then Don Hurd’s daughter gets wise and tracks them down. Will she have Daddy kill them? Daddy is violent. Will she put them in jail? No, she wants to hire them to do a major heist for her. So that’s pretty cool. So what are they going to do? Naturally, they have to at least attempt the heist, and this puts Kyle and company in dangerous territory. There are multiple close calls, damaged friendships, and it all builds to a high drama climax. Good luck to four smart kids in Lifehack. What do you think?
SPEAKER 06 :
It sounds interesting. I think I saw the previews to it. It doesn’t look bad, actually.
SPEAKER 16 :
No, it doesn’t. Okay, what works in Lifehack? Well, first of all, you’ve got strong performances. Everyone, John, in this movie, they come off very real and interesting. None of them come off like actors acting like these people.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 16 :
They come off like these people.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, that’s good. Next, it’s really fascinating watching them find every possible way to steal identities.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 16 :
This is incredible.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 16 :
I mean, I had no idea that they could pull these things. Oh, there’s a lot. I know, but the way that they’ll go into… Kind of scary, actually. You know, your aunt twice removed and how they can backtrack through her things to find your phone number, to find several things on you, to piece together… the codes that you would use for your passwords and how you would do it. It is incredible what they do. This is identity theft by geniuses, and it shows the potential dangers for us all. There’s a fun romance with Kyle having a crush on the only girl in the group, and that’s Alex. She’s a girl. There’s good pacing early and late as the pressure mounts and the dialogue brings humor and energy. There are some really well-written sections in this growing format. By growing format, I mean these movies that are just the whole movies on a computer. Right. Well, this has some well-written sections, some that really go well.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 16 :
And I’m just going to say this in advance. There are some that are boring too, where you’re just kind of like, okay, let’s get back to it. Let’s see here. There’s the excellent basic storyline. This I like. You got four people who have never met and will play tons of online games. They will expose fraudsters. They’ll rob jerks, but then they get caught and they are forced to rob big. and really put their lives on the line. I think it’s a good storyline. I think that’s a good plot. Next, what doesn’t work in Lifehack? Well, just like another movie I’m reviewing today, the planning of the heist takes way too long. It’s excruciating. Just get on with it. Next, needed more humor. There were moments, but too few. There really were. They could have done much more with these guys. All the online stuff can really move a story, John, but we don’t see that much action for the most part. It bogs down through the middle because, let’s face it, these are ultimately four people sitting at a screen. Right?
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 16 :
I mean, are you fun to watch at a screen?
SPEAKER 06 :
No.
SPEAKER 16 :
No, probably not.
SPEAKER 06 :
Nobody is.
SPEAKER 16 :
You’re a fun guy, John.
SPEAKER 06 :
Nobody’s fun that way.
SPEAKER 16 :
Buddy, you’re just not that fun. Okay, one central problem was the characters themselves. And this, for me, was the biggie. While the acting is spot on, the characters aren’t really that likable or captivating. They’re not. You just look at them and you’re like, yeah, you know, you’re interesting. You’re all interesting and different, but I don’t like any of you enough to care what happens to you. Does that make sense?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes, it does.
SPEAKER 16 :
And that kills some of the fun of the story. Finally, this is more for the modern young audience. It’s not for people over 40. So it’s got a really limited demographic. And what I mean is this. Obviously, I’m way over 40. Right. But I watch a lot of movies for young people, so I’m more in that. I’m more in that kind of genre. I think that for most people over 40, these characters are not going to connect. They’re going to be boring. What if you’re a techie? You’re going to look at them as a bunch of whiny kids. Yeah, I thought about that. For the older techies, yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
You guys are like technology and all this kind of stuff.
SPEAKER 16 :
Right, they’ll like the tech. But I’m still thinking the older techies are going to look at these young kids and just think, whiny brats. I hear enough of this from my kids. You know, this is kind of boring for me. I don’t really, I’m not that interested in them. I don’t care that much. And so I think that’s a bit of a drawback. And I was kind of noticing that while it was interesting and well done, I didn’t see the crowd going nuts for it. All right. Rotten Tomatoes loved this movie. They gave it 97%. Okay. Wow. That’s high. Yeah, it was scintillating. I’m going to go three stars. I’m giving it a thumbs up, but I’m only going to go that far up. And the reason is, John, I just don’t think the characters are that interesting. I don’t like them. I don’t like these people. John, if I don’t like you that much, I didn’t hate them. Nothing like that. I’m just not interested in them. I don’t like them that much. And if I don’t like you, I don’t care what happens to you in a movie. Right. Right. Political three, moral, religious two, because, of course, they they put a little porn on there because they’re mocking the seeking of porn sites.
SPEAKER 06 :
I see.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, they’re actually using that with the online hacker guy, which is pretty funny, actually, what they do to him. So I actually enjoyed that. I hate these people who pray. on older people or whoever they can get their identities from. And watching them go after that was great. So I’ll say this. Early on when they were doing that, I was really enjoying it. And the funny thing is, the more it got into the big plot line of the movie, yeah, it got interesting and it kept me, it held me, it held my attention. I just didn’t, I wasn’t laughing. I wasn’t enjoying anymore. I was just watching, and I was interested, and it was kind of going along. And at times, by the way, it was just taking too long to get to the point. Got it. There you go. Do I recommend going to Lifehack? Yeah, I do. I do. I think most people will be able to get a fair amount out of this.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 16 :
If you’re an older folk and you’re just not interested in this stuff, you probably won’t like the characters or the topic. If you’re a techie, you’ll like the topic and somewhat the characters. If you’re a young person who’s into this stuff, it’s for you. Go to Lifehack.
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Now back to Rush to Reason on KLZ 560.
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And welcome back to Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560, John Rush, together with Andy Pate and John. Are you ready for a third movie?
SPEAKER 06 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 16 :
All right, John, well, how do you rob the fortress of a really bad guy? It’s tough to do, isn’t it?
SPEAKER 06 :
Wasn’t there an Italian job movie kind of like that?
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, only this guy has an island.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay. All right.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, that’s the story for In the Gray.
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Manny Salazar. He’s not really the guy you loan a billion dollars and expect to see it back.
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You think you can recover it? You know I can.
SPEAKER 13 :
In this job, when mistakes are made, you need insurance.
SPEAKER 04 :
Jun Kun! Kids, don’t say a word. Follow me.
SPEAKER 13 :
Bronco and Sid… Hey, mama! …will now solve it their way.
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Not the shirt.
SPEAKER 10 :
It’s silk.
SPEAKER 09 :
Of course it is.
SPEAKER 10 :
I just told you, it’s silk.
SPEAKER 09 :
This is Salazar’s island. The police are on payroll. And he has a reasonably experienced private army. Tick every box. Tick every tuck. Lube every wheel. Lick every stamp. Three, two, one. Range.
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300. Weight, 275. Make your mind up. 250.
SPEAKER 10 :
Ram it, Janet.
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They work between the moral and the immoral. The black and the white. They operate in the gray.
SPEAKER 16 :
Show me what you got! All right, John, that’s In the Gray. What do you think? That’s another one where the previews look good. Yeah. This is directed by Guy Ritchie. Do you like his stuff? I like some of his stuff. Yeah. Okay. Well, the story here is simple. A ruthless villain has stolen a billion dollars from the wrong people. Well, first, let’s set the main three characters in this movie. And, John, they are all ultra cool. First of all, you’ve got Isa Gonzalez. Now, Isa. She is perhaps the prettiest woman in Hollywood these days. I know that’s always a hard thing to say with all these actresses who get all this work done, but Isaac Gonzalez is absolutely striking. She is. And she plays Rachel Wild, a vicious and meticulous negotiator who’s brought in when the diplomacy is over. Maybe she should handle Iran. I’m not sure. Maybe watching her devour opponents is actually very fun because she’s just vicious. Now, big guy Henry Cavill, he plays Sid. But he’s really playing Henry Cavill, John. You know, smooth talking, early middle-aged hunk, deadly killer when necessary. That’s Henry Cavill, and he basically plays himself, which is fine because I like him. Jake Gyllenhaal, another guy I like. He’s Bronco, a fast-talking and ultra-cool operative who works with Sid. Now, these three work in an international organization. She’s the boss. They even call her mom. That solves unsolvable problems, much like the IMF team in Mission Impossible. But, hey, this is lower budget. Okay. Anyway, the bad guy has an island fortress. Of course he does. It’s impenetrable, but that’s why we got this team, right? And the interesting thing is, John, while it’s impenetrable, it has a town on it. So it’s not just an island with just his volcano lair and nothing else, right? It has a town. There are people actually living there. But the problem is he owns all the authorities. So good luck with what you’re going to do there. He’s a bad guy. He’s a very bad guy. So the goal is to rob the robber on his own turf. Now, the result is lots of planning, gaining intel, and ultimately attempting the heist. But a lot of this movie, John, is actually about leverage. How can they work more and more and more and more leverage on the villain to get him to turn over the billion dollars? That’s the story of In the Gray. What do you think?
SPEAKER 06 :
Doesn’t sound bad. Good storyline.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, I agree. What works in In the Great? Well, the three central characters are always a delight. They really are. Gonzalez has proven to be more than a bombshell. She can act, bringing a cold, calculated feel to Rachel Wilde. Cavill and Gyllenhaal, they dominate. They do. They seem born for these roles, and they both know how to blend macho and slick talk. Now, there’s some humor in the back-and-forth banter. It’s gay banter between guys who don’t appear to be that gay, but, you know, they… I don’t know. That’s what they do, and it can be funny at times. Now, finally, when the action comes, it’s entertaining. The last quarter of this film pretty much rocks. It’s pretty fun. Now, what doesn’t work in In the Gray? Oh, boy. John, do you remember those great mission planning scenes in Mission Impossible? Yeah. Right. Now make them five to ten times as long with no action until the end.
SPEAKER 04 :
Hmm.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yikes! Oh my gosh! This was like lighting a 50-foot fuse for a firecracker. It was really something to watch. While the last quarter of the film was fun, I looked around the theater, and over half the audience, I think, had died waiting. They had Rudy. Didn’t wait this long to play for Notre Dame.
SPEAKER 07 :
Rudy.
SPEAKER 16 :
Rudy. Rudy. I’m like, gosh, get to it. Planning, planning, planning, planning, training, practicing, practicing, planning. I’m just like, oh, my gosh. You guys have like about 40 minutes of story here. Come on, man. It was hard. I honestly got tired of watching Isaac Gonzalez prance around looking important. And as an American man, I’m ashamed to admit that. That’s like my wife getting sick of Thor. But I got sick of Isaac Gonzalez. Please. Yes, we get it. She’s pretty. You got her in another outfit. Can you please have her do something? Have somebody do something. It was really getting old. Here’s a biggie, John. There were too many actors, too many characters, tons of guys with specialties. Imagine The Italian Job, a movie you and I love.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, great movie.
SPEAKER 16 :
But instead of a half dozen key characters, we have a full dozen. Think about it for a moment. It’s overload, and yet you’re supposed to care about each one of them. No, I don’t. I really don’t. And finally, the silly gay banter, it got old. It really did. It was just like, you know, you two could be… You too could be funny without this, first of all. And secondly, you’re not doing much funny besides this. You’ve got a couple actors here who are very, very funny. These are funny guys. They can deliver a line. And setting that aside, whether you use it or not, let’s say you keep the gay banter. Okay, do a lot more of them. have a lot more funny stuff and they really couldn’t do it. They just were not writing it that well. Okay. Rotten Tomatoes did not like this movie very much. They gave it 55%. I actually think that’s a little rich. I’m going to go quality two stars.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 16 :
Don’t make me wait until the last quarter of a film while you plan everything that’s supposed to happen in the last quarter of the film. I’m sorry. No.
SPEAKER 06 :
You’re bored.
SPEAKER 16 :
I’m bored. This is the difference between the Italian job and the score. The score was too much planning.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. It was still a decent movie.
SPEAKER 16 :
It was. The score was a better movie than this. Because why? A lot more happened in the score along the way. Right. Not nearly as much happened in this movie as happened in the score. Two stars and I don’t know. For me, it wasn’t even that good, but I’m going to give it two for general audiences. Political three, moral religious three, doesn’t say or do anything, which is nice. Do I recommend going to In the Gray? I’m going to say no, folks. Even though I think at this time of year, right now, we’re in a downtime for these kind of slick, cool, heist projects. action-y kind of movies. Right now, we really want that. Well, I got news for you. Wait for the next one.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 16 :
Don’t go in the gray.
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Live and local, back to Rush to Reason.
SPEAKER 06 :
And we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Myself, Andy Pate. All right, talk about Disney, Andy.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, John, next week we’ve got The Mandalorian and Grogu coming out, and it’s a Star Wars movie, the first one in seven years. And it really struck me, Disney needs help. Now, Disney has achieved an incredible feat. They’ve taken three of the greatest, biggest money-making franchises in history, Star Wars, Marvel, and Pixar, and wrecked them.
SPEAKER 05 :
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 16 :
They’ve taken three of the biggest, all of them bulletproof, all of them guaranteed, you know, sure things that we’re going to make tons of money no matter what. You can even put out a below average one. People, everybody would go to it. And, you know, every Star Wars movie you’ve got to make. Well over a billion dollars just because of the production costs. And they right now need a lot of help. Disney is hurting. Do you know in just three years ago, I’m sorry, sorry, five years ago, their stock was at 197. Now it’s at 106. Wow. Okay. Wow. They are hurting. They’ve got two Pixar movies this year. They are Hoppers, which already came out, which I don’t know if it broke even. It might have. It might have lost a little money. And then they got Toy Story 5 coming out, which I’m dreading. But I think it’s going to have a lot of agenda in it personally. But we’ll see. Marvel, they got two movies coming out, which is a Spider-Man movie, a brand-new world, whatever. I don’t know. And Avengers Doomsday. And those have got to hit. Because Marvel right now is teetering on the edge. They’re falling apart. And Star Wars Mandalorian, I honestly think it looks like a pretty good movie. It looks pretty good. Nobody likes the star anymore. But this movie looks pretty good. And they need these movies to make big money. The Mandalorian, to be any kind of a success financially, needs to make, oh, I would say, easily north of $120 million in the first weekend. Right now it’s on track to make 90. Wow. So I don’t know, Dan. I think Disney is in trouble. What do you think?
SPEAKER 06 :
You’re the expert. I mean, they haven’t done very well so far, so they’ve got to do something.
SPEAKER 16 :
The House of Mouse is having some really hard times. I’m saying right now that 2026 is the pivotal year for the House of Mouse. There you go.
SPEAKER 06 :
And the only reason why they’re doing as well as they are is because of the other things they own.
SPEAKER 16 :
Right.
SPEAKER 06 :
ESPN and so on.
SPEAKER 16 :
But even their theme parks, the attendance is way down. Right. They are hurting.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, they’ve gone woke. Go woke, go broke.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, that’s just it, John. That’s what it comes back to. They went woke. They went broke. We saw an entire empire. Not only did their empire go broke, but they ruined Marvel and Pixar and Star Wars in the process, which is incredible because those three were untouchable.
SPEAKER 06 :
I agree.
SPEAKER 16 :
They need some wins.
SPEAKER 06 :
I agree. All right, question of the day yesterday. What steamboat exploded on the Mississippi River on April 27, 1865, becoming the deadliest maritime disaster in U.S. history, the Sultana? Today’s impossible question, what rare weather event creates a rainbow entirely at night? What rare weather event creates a rainbow entirely at night? I would not know this answer.
SPEAKER 16 :
I wouldn’t know.
SPEAKER 06 :
I didn’t even know there was such a thing.
SPEAKER 16 :
Are there any nocturnal leprechauns on the other side?
SPEAKER 06 :
The pot of gold.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 06 :
I guess. I don’t know.
SPEAKER 16 :
All right.
SPEAKER 06 :
Have you ever seen the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?
SPEAKER 16 :
I have not.
SPEAKER 06 :
I have not either.
SPEAKER 16 :
And, yeah, I’ve gone there.
SPEAKER 06 :
I’ve tried. I’ve looked. All right. We’re going to come back on, of course, our second hour. We’re going to do movies with computers, which, by the way, there’s a lot of. So get your thinking cap on. Send us a text message, 307-282-22, and we’ll be right back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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