In this engaging episode of Rush to Reason, host John Rush delves into the significance of Columbus Day and the courage it represents. While discussing how modern financial planning can be personalized, John emphasizes the importance of tailoring investments to individual needs, rather than following a one-size-fits-all approach. He shares insights from Al Smith, who encourages a bespoke strategy for every client. Listeners are prompted to contemplate the bravery of past explorers and relate it to modern challenges, urging them to be courageous in their financial and personal decisions.
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And it’s Monday. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560, Columbus Day Monday. And that’s what I prefer to call it, so others I know want to call it something else, but it’s Columbus Day. was when I was a kid, still is. Talk a little bit about that maybe a little bit later in the program. And a lot of folks probably off today, school out. Of course, there’s federal stuff shut down because of the shutdown, but Also because of the holidays. So traffic should be much lighter today for some of you that are working and then have to go home tonight. You’ll have a lot easier ride home. So congratulations. I wish in some cases we had more of these types of holidays because it makes the traffic a lot better. But wishful thinking on my part. Al Smith was going to join us today, but Al might have gotten tied up. So I’ll tell you what, I’ll just talk about Al for a moment. You hear me talk about Al quite a bit. He’s got his own program on Wednesdays from 2 to 2.30 p.m. where he talks about the whole financial aspect of things, planning for retirement and just what do you do? How do you get there? It’s a different scenario for each person. I know I don’t say that enough. There’s not a one size fits all. And I probably, again, that’s something that even Alan and I should probably mention a little bit more is, you know, what you might hear of another family member or the cubicle next door or the neighbor or whatever, you know, whatever they’re doing, you know, it might work really well for them. But that doesn’t necessarily mean it works well for you. And I think Al would agree with me on this because I know Al isn’t this way. Remember that anybody that’s out there trying to get you to do something with your money, typically there’s something in it for them. And that’s just the way it works. Anybody that’s handling your money, transactions, things like that, that’s how those folks make money. So in a lot of cases, let me give you an example. You may be somebody who holds on to some real estate, does some things along those lines. Well, you may actually run into a particular financial planner that says, you know, you ought to turn that real estate into cash, and then let’s invest this in XYZ. By the way, you won’t hear Al say that unless it’s really unique to you and that would be the right move for you. But typically I was going to say, OK, well, if you’ve got something here, then let’s maybe dovetail into something else. Let’s get things balanced out for you and then off you go. But Al’s not going to force you or really even, you know, force isn’t the right word probably, but isn’t going to encourage you to do things along those lines unless it’s the right thing for you. I will tell you that’s not the way with every financial planner. I’ve run into some, by the way, because I am somebody that, yes, I do some things with Al, but I also do a lot of things on the real estate end of things, partially because it’s what I understand. And it’s just me. And I’m not the ideal candidate for most financial planners because I’ve done things on my own in that way. And I haven’t done a lot of things with the markets and 401ks because I’ve been self-employed, so I don’t have one of those. And you guys that are self-employed know what I’m talking about. But I’ve done some real estate things. And my point is, anytime somebody is encouraging you to do something that you’re not doing right now, you have to ask the question, why? Why are they encouraging this? And this, again, is where you really need to sit down and have a conversation with somebody like an Al who’s really, you know, he is sort of bipartisan, I guess you could say. He’s going to look at all sides of it and tell you what the best thing for you to do for you is, not what’s best for your coworker, your neighbor, your cousin, your brother, your sister, your whatever. Because every situation is different and unique, and it’s not a one-size-fits-all situation. A lot of financial planners, I will tell you straight up, want a one-size-fits-all. They’re trying to promote this thing, this product, this annuity, this whatever it is. And I will also tell you being self-employed, and Alan and I have talked about this many times, being self-employed throws all sorts of other monkey wrenches into things that you don’t have when you work for someone else. So what I’m getting at here is call Al. If you’ve got a great financial plan and it’s been a while since you’ve talked to the person that put that together, talk to Al. Because, by the way, you should be talking to somebody probably quarterly, and as you get closer and closer to retirement, probably more often than that. And if you’re not talking at least once every six months, there’s something wrong. So if you’ve had somebody help put a plan together that you’ve not heard from in years, you have a problem. Go talk to Al. On the same token, if you’ve got an advisor whereby they’re trying to convince you to do some things where you’re just not super comfortable in doing so and you’re thinking, you know, it’s not really the way I had things dialed in. That’s not what my plan was. Well, again, ask a lot of questions and talk to somebody like Al. Get an independent review, if you would, of where you’re at and what you’re doing and find out what’s best for you. And Al’s not going to be pushy. I know because I know Al. So do you guys from listening to the program. Because he’s been with me now for several years. So Al will look at things independently and tell you, yep, you’re on the right track. Just keep doing what you’re doing. Or, hey, here’s a few suggestions. Maybe you should change this around or that around. Or have you thought about doing X? And those are the things to look at that you may not be thinking about. But my main point here is it is not a one-size-fits-all when it comes to financial planning. Everybody is different. Everybody is unique. And the one thing that, again, I’ve learned over and over again is anytime somebody’s suggesting something to you, what’s the why? Yeah. In other words, what’s in it for them versus what’s in it for you. And you need to be asking that question before you make any big decisions. And that’s where Al comes in. You can talk to him and find out exactly what is in your best interest. And again, Al Smith, you can find him at klzradio.com. But it’s Golden Eagle Financial. And again, he’s got his own program from 2 to 2.30. I would highly recommend you listen in. He’s on with me. on a periodic basis. Again, we’re supposed to be here today, but things happen. Al may very well have gotten into a client call that went long or had an appointment that went long. I give grace to every one of the partners we have here, and I look at them as partners. I give them grace because things happen, and they’re taking care of you. I’m last. And that’s fine. I want it to be that way. I want them caring for you first and everything else can come in second. And frankly, I know enough about most of my sponsors and partners to be able to tell you exactly what they do, how they do it, and speak for them, which is what I just did for Al. So again, if you’ve got any questions at all, give Al a call. He’d love to sit down and chat, have a meeting, and it’s real simple. It doesn’t cost you anything to do that. Just find out where you’re at. And again, just go to klzradio.com to find him. All right, Friday’s question of the day. What is Ronald McDonald called in Japan? The answer is Donald McDonald. And don’t ask me why. The Japanese language does not distinguish clearly between the English R and the L sounds, so Ronald is difficult to pronounce. To make the name easier for Japanese speakers, McDonald’s chose the simpler version, Donald McDonald. So there you go, Charlie. Now you know what to say if you ever go to Japan. It’s not Ronald McDonald, it’s Donald McDonald. Okay, today’s a possible question. What do the three dots on the Domino’s pizza logo represent? What do the three dots on the Domino’s pizza logo represent? I did not know this answer. And I know quite a bit about a lot of the food companies and so on because I study a lot of these guys and how they got founded and sold and all of that. And this answer, I did not know. So, again, answer this on our social media. Facebook page, Rush to Reason.com. All right. I got several things to talk about. Yes, it is Columbus Day. I’ll get into that here in just one moment. I’ve got an opinion piece, actually, that I would like to read to you all that I think sums up Columbus Day fairly well. And I won’t focus all three hours on Columbus Day, but, you know, might intertwine it here and there. But I’ll read this to you as soon as possible. We get back. Roof Savers of Colorado coming up next. Dave Hart, who I talked to Dave today, by the way. And right now, get ready for winter. And what I mean by that is extend the life of your roof and be ready for winter, even if it’s on the edge. If you’ve had any damage that needs taking care of that you haven’t done, please get that taken care of as well. If you need a complete re-roof, get in line. Dave’s got a lot of them he’s doing right now, but he can still get you taken care of before winter hits. And then lastly, if you’ve got a commercial building, you need your annual inspections done, have him out to do that as well. 303-710-6916.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560 on this Columbus Day here in the Denver, Colorado. We cover every state locally here, all the way down to the panhandle of Texas and Oklahoma, Kansas, parts of New Mexico, Wyoming, Nebraska. And I don’t think I missed anything. And all of you that are listening online. So let’s not forget all the other states that are out there as well, which I appreciate greatly. So thank you all for listening. This is an article out of FoxNews.com that I ran across. And no, I don’t know. Like I’ve told you guys, I don’t normally go to Fox News, but I was looking for some pieces today on Columbus and I wanted the the good side of Columbus. There’s a lot of bad stuff about Columbus. In fact, the left would tell you that we just need to wipe him off the history book and wiping away from the history books. Forget it ever happened. He did tons of damage. You know, he encouraged, you know, the growth of the Western world into this particular area and and and I’m not going to go down that path because it’s just it’s utter nonsense. These are people that hate progress, by the way. Well, unless it’s their progress. Let me say it that way. They hate progress unless it’s their progress. These are Marxists, and they want the Marxist progress, but nothing else. Let’s be clear on that. So it’s not that they hate all progress, they just hate the progress that’s not theirs. And then they seize opportunities, i.e., the woke culture and all those different things that they can then latch onto and get people to, you know, rally around, and that’s what they do. But this is a great opinion piece. This is by Pastor Rick McDaniel. I don’t know Rick. I don’t think I’ve ever interviewed anybody by that name, so I don’t know Rick at all. Let Columbus Day inspire you to discover the courage to seize opportunities and fulfill your potential. The Explorer’s 533-year-old journey offers lessons about courage and taking risks in modern life. Earlier this year, I visited Hulva, Spain, which is very close to the border with Portugal. It’s where Christopher Columbus launched the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria. On his journey to America, there was a waterfront expedition with life-size replicas of the three ships built in 1992 for Columbus’s 500th anniversary, and there’s a museum next to the boats commemorating Columbus’s life. I walked in the ships, and they were quite small. The Santa Maria was the largest ship at about 70 feet long. It’s remarkable to see the size of the ships and realize what it would be like to launch in one from the southern coast of Spain and head out across the Atlantic Ocean. Let’s stop there for just one moment. And anybody that’s been out on the ocean, whether it be fishing, whether you’ve been on a cruise, which those of you that have been on a cruise, some people even get seasick on a cruise, shrink down that mammoth cruise ship. I mean, even small cruise ships are huge and would dwarf the Santa Maria, make it look like a rowboat. I’m not exaggerating when I say that. Literally, that’s the size difference. 70 feet. There are modern yachts running around that are twice the size of that easily. 150-foot yachts easily. So 70 feet, not very long. And to really cover the entire vastness of the ocean, and I’ll continue here, imagine what it would be like 533 years ago to get on a ship with hopefully enough food and water to get you all the way across the Atlantic. It’s hard to believe anyone would be willing to put themselves through the uncertainty and deprivation of sailing in a tiny boat on the vast ocean. And then there’s the actual navigation of such a journey. Columbus had no sextant. In other words, he didn’t have some of the most basic navigational tools seafarers have used for hundreds of years. He literally relied on the sun and the moon to pilot his ship. Columbus’ goal was to get to Asia, but his original calculations were incorrect. So instead, after five weeks at sea on October 12, 1492… He landed on what is now the Bahamas. In an absolutely amazing story of exploration and adventure, he never would have accomplished such a feat if he hadn’t had that courage to try. Today, we celebrate that courage. Columbus is remembered for his epic journey that was a key turning point in world history, connecting Europe with the Americas. He was from Genoa, Italy, so Italian-Americans are particularly proud to celebrate his legacy. The District of Columbia, the seat of our government, is named after him. Columbia University and Ivy League College, as well as many cities and towns in America, are named in his honor, which, by the way, I think a lot of the left forgets and or despises, or maybe both. In more recent times, there’s been controversy surrounding Columbus. Some believe celebrating him glorifies the legacy of colonization, including the mistreatment, displacement, and deaths of indigenous people. This debate has led to the rise of Indigenous Peoples Day, which aims to honor native culture, histories, and contributions. And by the way, I don’t blame them for wanting to celebrate their own history, culture, and so on. But in a lot of ways, though, these are people that claim the victim mentality rather than celebrating where they’re even at today. And I mean that in all sincerity. You really have to look at where are we at today because of Western civilization, and would you like to go back in time and not have this? Because remember, folks, it was the, well, capitalism first and foremost, but out of that came the Industrial Revolution, and a lot of the modern things that we enjoy today has come from capitalism. And the fact that Western civilization moved this direction, of course, we, the United States of America, left England. We all know the story, Revolutionary War and so on. And reality is we fought for our own freedom, and here we are today. And yet, at the end of the day, according to the left, we’re still the bad guys, and we should be running around apologizing for it. No, we shouldn’t. No. And I owe nobody an apology, any way, shape, or form. Progress is going to happen, period. And before we – and I won’t get off on a tangent here, but before we get into this whole idea that it was America that wiped off all the indigenous people, you can actually kind of go back to Great Britain and blame a lot of that on them. They were the ones that really incited them to go against us, armed them in the very beginning because they didn’t want to see us – they didn’t want to see us and our population grow to the west and hit the west coast. So they did everything possible, Britain did, by going up into Canada in that area and arming the Native Americans at that time so they would fight against us. True story. You don’t hear that in the history books, though. You’re not going to hear that in most public schools. Why? Because that paints a different picture than what you’re hearing today on Indigenous Peoples Day versus Columbus Day. So our focus, though, continuing on with this article, this opinion piece, but our focus is on his courage, the courage to discover, to explore, not to settle in life, the courage to take risks and do what is demanding, the courage that is necessary to succeed. What can stand in the way of discouragement? To be discouraged means literally a loss of courage. Have you lost your courage? Do you need to get your courage back? Do you have anxiety, fear, worry? You overcome it by practicing courage. Joshua 1.9 tells us, I’ve commanded you to be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or discouraged. I am the Lord your God. I will be there to help you wherever you go. You can be courageous because God is with you. You can run away, you can hide, or you can run away, or you can run after it. You can run to your destiny, chase after the God-ordained opportunities in your life where you can shrink back, but less demanding means less fulfilling. That old saying, the greater the risk, the greater the reward? Those are my words, not in this article. Have the courage to pursue it. Have the courage not to be stagnant, not to settle for where you are, not to give up on your future. Maybe it’s a big dream you need to pursue. Maybe it’s an addiction, a life-controlling habit that you need to break. Maybe it’s your mindset, the negative self-talk and nagging self-doubt that you must change. Maybe it’s doing the right thing, even though it will be hard. Have the courage and just do it. Stop giving the lies permission to stay. Stop rehearsing the criticism. Stop accepting defeat before you’ve even tried. Make room for courage, for the courageous voice in you to say, I can do it. You might stumble or fall along the way, but doing nothing guarantees you never move forward. Courage isn’t the absence of fear. It’s choosing to act in spite of it. The real risk isn’t in failing. It’s in never trying. So I felt like that was a really good opinion piece to read on Columbus Day because a lot of folks out there, again, are going to tell you, the left will tell you that Columbus shouldn’t be celebrated. A lot of the Columbus Day parades that used to happen today are no longer because of what I just said. And the woke crowd has come along and wiped out, really, like I said, they want to wipe him off the history books, out of the history books. But the reality is he is there. And it was because of Columbus that we are here today. Now, would somebody else have come along after him? Probably. But the reality is he did. He had the courage to set out and do the things that he did. And no, I’m not going to get into all the details as to why and what the rewards were and so on and so forth. It doesn’t matter. He still had the courage to do it. You know, there’s a lot of things out there where only select people do it. And yes, the reward at the end of the day is big, but only a few people go after that. That’s true whether we talk about, you know, professional athletes or Hollywood superstars or I can go down the list. And again, every one of those, whether you agree with them or not, at the end of the day, they had the courage to do something others weren’t doing. Great entrepreneurs, the Elon Musks of the world. What did he do differently than everybody else? He did get down at times, but he didn’t let that defeat him, and he kept moving forward, and look at where he’s at today. Again, like him or not, you can’t take away from what he’s achieved. Same thing with the Bill Gates of the world or the Jeff Bezos of the world or the Walmarts of the world. I can go down the list. Every one of them decided to do something different than everybody else around them. Like it or not, they did things nobody else would do. And unfortunately, some of those are on the left and yet are criticized by the left. Makes you wonder why they’re still there, but that’s another topic probably for another day. So anyways, that’s the opinion piece out of Fox News. I’ll have that in our show notes that you could potentially look at at a later time if you’d like to. Maybe read that for yourself, but you can find it there online as well. But again, just in my opinion, a great reminder of what today means. The courage that Columbus had, 70-foot boat, really. Yeah, I know it was a ship, but 70-foot boat that traversed the Atlantic Ocean. No, he didn’t get where he was supposed to go. He was setting out for a different place, for Asia. Ended up here instead. And then you’ve got to kind of ask the question of, you know, why? And whose hand was in that? In other words, did God have a hand in that in getting him here? Again, I don’t know the answer to that, folks. I don’t know. Dr. Scott’s coming up next. And again, great doctor. My doctor would love to help you with all of your health care. It’s not medical needs. I should even quit saying medical needs. It really is how to live healthier, happier, do things different, do things out of the box. Stop listening to the general practitioners that are out there that, frankly, are probably not steering you in the right direction when it comes to your overall health. 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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Christina Bob with us, author of Defiant Inside the Mar-a-Lago Raid and the Less Ongoing Lawfare. Christina, welcome back. How are you?
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Great. Thank you so much for having me.
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Always a joy. Talk to us about James Comey, and I’ll be straight up honest. I’ve had so much going on the past week with other things in my life. I’ve not spent a lot of time following this one, so you can even bring me up to speed.
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Sure. Well, I mean, it’s a criminal case, and so stuff isn’t happening every single day. So you’re okay if you’ve missed a few days.
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Good.
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But he was arraigned the other day through summons, obviously was not arrested, which was a little bit of a disappointment, I think, to a lot of people. Motions, I think, are due in November, heard in December, trial in January. So it’s a really fast timeline from the court. I kind of expect that to change, you know. There’s a lot of stuff that comes up in motion. Things get delayed. So I do expect that to get pushed a little bit. There could possibly be a superseding indictment, which adds more charges. So that could cause a delay as well. So, you know, we don’t really know how it’s going to play out. But so far, I mean, he got indicted by a grand jury in northern Virginia.
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And this is on basically false statements and obstruction. Is that what he’s actually being indicted for?
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Yeah, I think it’s… Yeah, obstructing a congressional proceeding and lying to Congress, basically.
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Which, those are not small things, right?
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They’re not small things, but they’re also not… Enormous either. I mean, I think the max for both of those is five years like each, which he wouldn’t do as a first time offender. So maybe he’s looking at a couple of years in prison. So this is not like it’s not like what they did to Trump where they’re like, oh, we’re going to stack on thirty nine counts. He’s going to face one hundred and fifty years in prison. You know, that kind of craziness. They didn’t do that. They just kept it really tight and clean and basically just charged him with what they could prove.
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Well, and I think, and by the way, you’re saying a lot that I think a lot of our listeners can relate to, and people expect a lot more than what’s being delivered. But what I keep trying to remind everybody, and I’m not an attorney, but I do know enough about the legal system to know that, first of all, we tend to forget this sometimes because this is the way things are, but it’s innocent before proven guilty, correct?
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Right. Right.
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Meaning that if you’re the DA, the prosecutor, whatever the case, you’ve got you know, you want an open and shut slam case, meaning that you want to have enough proof there to make sure that what you’re you know, the charges that you’re bringing somehow stick at the end of the day. Nothing worse than going through all of that and having that person walk away.
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A hundred percent. And that’s actually a really important point to make because any reputable prosecutor should have at a minimum a 90 percent conviction rate because the prosecutors are the ones who get to pick the cases. And so if you are constantly prosecuting innocent people and losing, you’re a very bad prosecutor. You’re trying to prosecute innocent people.
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Knock it off. Right. Right. Right.
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That’s the presumption. Absolutely. And so and when you look at the track record for the prosecutions against prosecutors, you know the transfer myself included i’m still a criminal defendant as we speak my case is falling apart along with all my co-defendants but they’re still trying to prosecute us and with the alternate electors in arizona you still have nevada wisconsin michigan was just thrown out georgia is about to fall apart but if you look at the track record for those prosecutions they haven’t gotten a single conviction correct i mean they prosecuted about 60 of us and they have not got a single conviction for the charges that they brought They had a couple of people who were scared and pled guilty to misdemeanors in exchange for unsupervised probation, which is nothing. Right, right, right, right. But but to your point, I mean, they’re coming after us for things that are not a crime and they’re all losing. And so I think Lindsay Halligan, the the interim U.S. attorney for Virginia that’s prosecuting this case, I think she kept it really clean to make sure that she could prove her case.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, and again, I try to remind everybody of this because, A, we don’t want to be that side. At least I don’t want to, Christine, I don’t want to be that. I don’t want to bring a bunch of charges against a bunch of people that, you know, because of what’s been spread around the media and so on, which I always caution everybody that, okay, just because you read something on a website or you heard something in the media or something popped up on your Facebook page doesn’t necessarily mean that person did all of the things that are being presented there. That’s not court. That’s the court of social media, which, as you know, Christina, can go all sorts of places. And in a lot of cases, I hate to say this, very untrue. And if we judged everybody by what social media did, we’d have a really screwed up system.
SPEAKER 11 :
It’s disgusting. I think one of the worst things, short of murdering people, I think the worst thing a government can do is falsely prosecute people for some other purpose. Mm-hmm. which is what I’m experiencing with Rudy Giuliani and Mark Meadows and John Eastman and, you know, those of us that supported Donald Trump. I mean, it alters your life forever. I now have a criminal record. You know, people call me a felon. And of course, none of it’s true and none of it’s proven. But I think it is the most abhorrent thing a government can do to its people. And so, no, we cannot be doing that like in retaliation.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay, so then why? Because I get some of these people that call in. I get text messages. I get emails, Christina, and I know the sentiment of most people that are out there that are on our side, and they want blood. And by the way, I understand that. All the stuff that’s happened, even to people like yourself, I get where that sentiment can come from. Believe me, I’m there with them. I understand that. But you can’t just go after things to go after things without having proof that these things were done, or then you look at the other side at the end of the day.
SPEAKER 11 :
A hundred percent. And I think that’s why we haven’t seen as many prosecutions as everybody wants right now, because I think they are trying to make sure that they can actually and effectively prove their case, not just prove their case, but prove their case in a very, very liberal area. Most of these cases are going to have to be brought in Washington, D.C., maybe New York, you know, Virginia, which are more liberal.
SPEAKER 08 :
Good point. Great. You know what? By the way, that’s something that I kind of had in the back of my mind, but really even in. And I don’t need to defend anybody, Christina, but even explaining, OK, this is where we’re at and why we’re here and so on. And, you know, be really slow to judge a lot of the, quote unquote, officials that are there right now. And there’s a lot of frustration, but you’re adding another layer that I haven’t even explained. You’re not only going to have to make sure you’ve got a really solid case that is, you know, rock solid when it’s all said and done. But you’ve got to do that in a very liberal area on top of that.
SPEAKER 11 :
in a liberal area, and don’t forget, all it takes for the defense to win is one juror.
SPEAKER 08 :
That’s true.
SPEAKER 11 :
The prosecutors have to get a unanimous jury, so they have to make sure that they have a case that can convince 12 liberal jurors to convict.
SPEAKER 08 :
You know what, again, you’re adding a whole other layer on top of what I’ve tried to explain to my listeners. And this is where it’s different. It shouldn’t be. I know, Christine, it shouldn’t be. But this is where it’s different for us than their side, because these cases are held in areas where the jury is stacked against us bringing prosecution, but it’s stacked in their favor against people like yourself.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, I mean, it’s just disgusting what they did. I’ve got all the details in the book. President Trump’s A consortium of record during the Mar-a-Lago case, during the Mar-a-Lago raid, I was on site for all of it. If you want the gory details, it’s all in the book, Defiant. But we absolutely have to have prosecutions because they’ve proven to us throughout this whole process that they’re not going to stop coming after us until they are stopped. And the only method we have to stop them right now is to actually hold them accountable for their actions through prosecution. Right.
SPEAKER 08 :
So going back to James Comey, at the end of the day, what do you think? And again, you’re not a mind reader. You don’t have the ability to predict the future. But given what you’ve seen and what you know about the judicial system and so on, what do you think at the end of the day happens to him?
SPEAKER 11 :
I think he goes to trial. I don’t think he’s going to plead out. I think he’s hoping that he can convince one juror to just feel bad for him and acquit him or not convict him. It would be a hung jury at that point. So I think he goes to trial. I think, you know, I think Lindsay’s case is pretty clear cut. We all have seen most of the evidence at this point, and it looks very much like he lied. So I think she’s got a really good case.
SPEAKER 08 :
And really quick for those to list for those listening. How do they prove that he lied? I think that’s a question that I know I have. I mean, you can go back and get, you know, transcripts and testimony and so on. But then how do you prove that what he said is exactly what he said? And, you know, he didn’t because what the defense will do. Well, he didn’t really mean to say that what he really said was this. And you’re misconstruing his words. I mean, I can already hear what they’re going to say. And I’m probably not wrong in that.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, you just argue it. Yeah. I mean, he basically said I did not authorize a leak. And Andrew McCabe said that Jim Comey was the one who authorized the leak. So Andrew McCabe is going to be essentialist. Is he a cooperating witness or are they just going to rely on his testimony? I don’t know. You know, that all needs to come out. But you have two conflicting tests. Somebody lied to Congress. And, you know, that’s up to the jury to figure out who they think won.
SPEAKER 08 :
But to your point, all it takes is one of those people that really, in a lot of ways, just feel sorry for him. Well, you know, he was pressured and he didn’t have a choice and he was doing what he thought was best for the country at the end of the day. And these are liberal jurists. In most cases, they’re going to be there. He just felt like he was doing what was best for the country. So, you know, in light of that, you know, I’m going to give him a pass.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, exactly right.
SPEAKER 08 :
And these are things and what my audience to understand everything you and I are talking about right now, because it doesn’t apply just to Comey, Christina. It applies to every one of these cases we would bring. Correct.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yes, I think I’m hoping some of them can be brought in Florida and you can read, like I said, back into defiant in my book, President Trump did the Ford for it. You can read all of the stuff that transpired. I’ve got text messages, emails in there of what went down in Florida. So I hope there’s some prosecutions in Florida, which is a better venue for us.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, because you have to get out of that D.C. area, that New York, D.C. area, if you want to have anything that probably stands at the end of the day. Unless it’s just so ironclad, nobody can look at it and say otherwise.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, I think that’s right.
SPEAKER 08 :
But that’s hard, and it’s hard to do. Again, I’ve got lots of listeners that are wondering, why isn’t more being done with Epstein and the files and this, that, and the other? And even that one’s worse because that stuff happened decades ago. It didn’t happen three or four years ago. It was decades ago. And I keep telling people on that one, I wouldn’t get my hopes up.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, I definitely don’t have my hopes up for that. I will admit that. It’s kind of weird. I don’t know what the heck is going on with it. I’m sure there are lots of prosecution challenges.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, the timeline alone has to, I would think, Christina, just, you know, the timeline of when it happened, who had, you know, the chain of custody on all the documents, which you would be fully aware of. I mean, you look at all of what’s happened over the course, again, of now a couple of decades, and I got to believe those are huge challenges to overcome.
SPEAKER 11 :
I’m sure they are, and I’m sure that weighs into their decision to not expose some aspects of it.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, and then for me, I’m a business guy, Christina. I’m looking at it saying, okay, risk versus reward. What do we get at the end of the day when it’s all said and done, and what else can I go do instead of this that actually at the end of the day is more fruitful? That’s me. I’m sorry. That’s just how I would look at it.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, and that may be what the president’s thinking.
SPEAKER 08 :
I would be, and I’m not him, so that’s how I would be looking at it. At the end of the day, how do we get the most bang for the buck when it’s all said and done?
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah. I mean, I would like to see some more prosecutions, whether it’s from Epstein or whether it’s from Russiagate or the Ukraine hope. I mean, there’s a plethora. There’s tons.
SPEAKER 08 :
I was just going to say we got way more than that. But yes, I’m with and I’m with you. I’d like to see something as well. But I am of the type where I’d rather us be be methodical and have some wins back to our original conversation. I want some wins. I don’t want guys just walking away when it’s all said and done because now we look really stupid. Now we do look like we just did it for revenge.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, no, I completely agree. I think there needs to be. And it’s not just the prosecutions. I think the prosecutions are important. But I think what’s more important is that the Americans get to see behind the curtain of what’s actually happening in our government. Because we know that the media is lying to us. We know that the story that’s being told is not true. So let’s just get the truth out there.
SPEAKER 08 :
Agreed. All right. How do folks get the book?
SPEAKER 11 :
You can go to Amazon, Barnes & Noble, wherever books are sold. You can go to my website, ChristinaBob.com. Again, it’s Defiant, Inside the Mar-a-Lago Raid, and The Left’s Ongoing Lawfare.
SPEAKER 08 :
Always a joy having you. I appreciate it. I’d like to have you on more often because I learn something every time you’re on. I appreciate it greatly.
SPEAKER 11 :
Absolutely. Thank you so much.
SPEAKER 08 :
Thank you, Christina. Again, Christina Bobbs, she’s very close to Trump and was involved in the raid and all sorts of things. You can get that information out of the book itself, Defiant Inside the Mar-a-Lago Raid and the Left’s Ongoing Lawfare. Cub Creek heating and air conditioning cold this morning in the high 30s. So some of you may be turning on. your furnace. And if that’s the case and you’ve noticed some things aren’t quite right or you haven’t done your annual tune-up, get that done now. Go to Cub Creek’s website. By the way, you can make an appointment online. You can actually schedule all of that. Just go right to klzradio.com, find them, find the website, make the appointment online, and they’ll get you dialed in as quickly as possible. Again, klzradio.com is where you find them.
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Now back to Rush to Reason on KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 08 :
All right, some news that came out. I didn’t get a chance to talk about this last week. I think I read this on either Thursday or Friday. And the amount of comments, I saw this on social media, and the amount of comments that I saw afterwards, I was just like, oh, my word, people. You’re all crazy. Most. Not all, but most. Pentagon chief, of course, Hegseth, announced a Qatari Air Force base or not. I even said it wrong. A Qatari Air Force facility, not a base facility at an Idaho base. And they made a deal basically where they could get some training and do some things in learning how to fly. By the way, the aircraft that we sell them. And again, the amount of. Comments that came basically saying, oh, yeah, this is just a payback for Trump to them and this, that and the other. No, it isn’t. No, it isn’t. In my opinion, this is just another way that Trump is keeping peace in the Middle East, trying to get everybody to the table. We supply arms and weaponry to not only that country but others as well. We have other – I use the term loosely – allies that are there. And at the end of the day, I think what Trump is doing is making sure that we can have peace as many places as we can – And I think the other thing Trump looks at, and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with this, is the old saying of keep your enemies – your friends close and your enemies closer. Not saying that Cutter is our enemy, but you get what I’m saying here. Let’s have more eyes on them than we probably would have otherwise. And the reality is you can do that in this agreement that they made. And this will be basically a training facility for F-15 fighters. And key word there, F-15. Not our newest, not our latest and greatest. Those of you that are more familiar with this than I probably know the age of those aircraft. Let me look at this up really quick. I should have done that coming into it. I apologize. But if I’m not mistaken, these are decades, 50 years old. So F-15s are over 50 years old. Now, granted, still quite the fighting machine at the end of the day. So the first one came out in 1972. And the original 15s were retired. There’s some newer variants of those that are still in active service. Those aircraft, by the way, yes, they have been modernized. And yes, they still make quite, as I said a moment ago, quite the fighting machine. But I think I want to be… you know, very clear in saying, in fact, these are going to be phased out. Their retirement is planned by 2026. So you’re selling them and training them on aircraft that were phasing out. So anybody that would be out there left, right, middle, anybody along those lines, basically talking about how this is some sort of a deal that Trump put together with them. And it’s a payback for even the jet that we received and this, that and the other. All that’s utter hogwash, period, utter hogwash. Does this aid in our relationship with them? Of course it does. But is this giving them any secrets or anything that we have going on here in the U.S. by allowing them to train here? Absolutely not. Joe, go ahead.
SPEAKER 10 :
John, some people are so crazy. They’re saying that Qatar paid Trump for permission to build a Qatar Air Force military base on U.S. soil. And all they’re doing, it’s a U.S. Air Force base. It’s called Mountaineer. And they simply are going to build a barracks. And some hangers, a maintenance hanger and a storage hangers. We’ve been training their pilots on our aircraft. For a long time.
SPEAKER 08 :
For a long time. That’s right. Well, yeah, because part of the deal, for all of you listening, and I’m not a military expert, Joe, but I do know this. When you sell somebody something, you provide training with that same device you sold.
SPEAKER 10 :
Right. And all they’re doing, and again, they’re primarily Islamic, you know, Muslim faith. And they got halal, you know, dietary things. So they said, look, we’d like to have our own barracks. and we’d like to have our own hangars. I mean, these are our aircraft. So on your military base, which will continue to be your military base, owned and operated by the U.S. Air Force, we just want to have our own barracks and a couple of hangars where our mechanics can work on these aircraft that we bought from you, and our people will learn how to fly them.
SPEAKER 08 :
And frankly, Joe, personally speaking, that’s probably the best way that it should work anyways. I don’t really feel like there needs to be an intertwining of our troops and theirs anyways.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, so again, they’re going to put one building with the barracks and a dining hall and a couple of hangars for the aircraft that they will own. They are their aircraft, and they will fly them off of our runway on our military base. It’s not their military base, but the people who are saying Trump gave Qatar permission – to build a military base on U.S. soil is complete nonsense.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, and I’ve seen some of those same posts, and why I wanted to talk about it today, Joe, is just it’s, again, and I’ve seen some of the folks even on our side saying this, it’s utter nonsense.
SPEAKER 10 :
It is. Again, it’s the Mountaineer U.S. Air Force Base. It will continue to be the Mountaineer Air Force Base. And the fact that they’ve got barracks and a dining hall and a couple of hangars to store the aircraft they purchased from us doesn’t change that.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, in other words, big deal.
SPEAKER 10 :
Big deal. But, you know, the crazies always want to make something of it. Of course they do. They want to get all their information from social media.
SPEAKER 08 :
And really quick, Charlie just told me that this whole process started back in 2022. It wasn’t even Trump.
SPEAKER 10 :
And they can’t. So, you know, and they’re going to create U.S. jobs. The people are going to build these hangars and barracks and dining halls.
SPEAKER 08 :
Which I’m guessing they’re probably making, you know, Cutter pay for would be my guess as well.
SPEAKER 10 :
Oh, absolutely. You know, Cutter’s going to pay every nickel of the construction costs, you know, for those places. And, you know, we’ve been training their pilots. Not just their pilots. We’ve been training Jordan’s pilots.
SPEAKER 08 :
I was just going to say, Joe, we train a lot of others as well, not just those.
SPEAKER 10 :
Right. And Qatar just said, hey. You know, we’ve got, you know, our own pilots, and we’d like to make sure we house them and feed them. And again, I don’t know if you’re familiar with some of the Muslim dietary laws.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, yeah, absolutely. Sure.
SPEAKER 10 :
Halal, you know, they’ve got halal, just like you’ve got Jews have kosher dining requirements. They have halal, and they’ve got their own religious and, you know, and daily prayers. And they just thought it would be better if they could segregate their pilots so they could live their lifestyle in accordance with, you know, Islamic tradition. And that’s all it is.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, this again, this is not a payback for the gift that they gave us in a 747 that will help out when it comes to our Air Force One fleet and things like that, Joe. And again, so many things even around that that we’ve talked about in the past. But Joe, I don’t understand where all of these loons come from. And if there’s anything about social media that I hate is the fact that not that these things haven’t been there before. It’s just more public now.
SPEAKER 10 :
It is, but, you know, John, a 30-second Google search, you know, all the AP writers, they’ve all done stories easy to find exactly what’s happening. No, it’s not going to be their base. It is going to continue to be a U.S. Air Force base, and they will be a tenant, if you will.
SPEAKER 08 :
Right.
SPEAKER 10 :
Good way of saying it. They’ll be a tenant on our base.
SPEAKER 08 :
They’re a renter. That’s a good way of saying it.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, they’re going to be a renter. They’re going to be renting space on our base.
SPEAKER 08 :
And keep in mind, everybody, you know, the other thing, Joe, we’re making money off this. We’re making money off this. This isn’t a freebie. It’s not like we’re donating this to them. I’m sure they’re writing a big fat check, Joe.
SPEAKER 10 :
Not only for the aircraft, but for the training and everything else that goes with it. They pay for the training, and they’re going to buy the course training. Those aircraft suck up thousands of gallons of fuel, and they’re going to be buying all that fuel.
SPEAKER 08 :
And as you said, there’s labor and jobs and offsets and so on, and all sorts of things. There’ll be civilian contractors and so on. At the end of the day, Joe, this is a win for us. This is not a loss. And as I said a moment ago, and again, not that these aircraft aren’t superior in a lot of ways to a lot of other things that other countries have because they do get updated and so on. But, Joe, these aren’t our newest fighters we’ve sold them. This isn’t our latest and greatest technology is my point. This is like selling them an old Windows XP machine.
SPEAKER 10 :
The F-15 is a 25-year-old aircraft. Exactly. 25-year-old. Yep.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, and as I said earlier, they’re phasing them out next year, 2026. They’re actually phasing them out of what we even do as far as our use goes.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, I mean, we still fly some of them, John, but it is a 25-year-old platform.
SPEAKER 08 :
Actually started out 50 years ago, but with the updates, yeah, it’s in that 25-year, which is old. Well, in an aircraft, Joe, you’re a pilot and all that. I mean, it’s not super old because aircraft last a lot longer than vehicles do, but they change a ton.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, plus you don’t put the hours on them like you do a car. Correct, correct. you don’t put 2,000, 3,000 hours a year on an air, well, you could, but you typically don’t, and you can, by the way, after it comes to time, you literally swap the engines out, you know, you talk about engine, you know, fine, the engines reach there, there’s a rated life on the engine, boom, you pop the old ones out, put new ones in, brand new engine, and the airframe is, you know, the airframe has some ridiculous life, like 35,000 flight hours on the airframe, but Most aircraft never get there. So you swap out the engine, you swap out the avionics, you upgrade the hydraulics, or you completely replace the hydraulics. It’s like brand new.
SPEAKER 08 :
But at the end of the day, it’s not an F-35.
SPEAKER 10 :
It’s not an F-35. It’s not even close. It’s not a B-1. It’s not a B-2. It’s not an F-35. It’s not an F-22 Raptor.
SPEAKER 08 :
Exactly. Exactly. Joe, appreciate you as always, man. Thank you. You’re welcome. Nope. Thanks for solidifying that. And even those of you that are on our side, don’t post negative things about it that you don’t know what you’re talking about because I’ve seen that even come out of our side. Paul Lumber coming up next. When it comes to insurance, he’s your guy. In fact, I’ve got something I might share a little bit later. I did a little bit of a… Paul, I should say, helped me with a few things regarding EVs, chargers, things like that. I may share that a little bit later in the program, but if not sometime this week. Call Paul directly if you need any insurance, 303-662-0789.
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