In this insightful episode, host John Rush beings Rush to Reason by diving into an engaging conversation with Dave from Veteran Windows and Doors about the latest updates and end-of-year tips for home improvements. As the year comes to a close, find out how you can take advantage of current pricing and learn about shifts in product lines that could impact your upgrade plans. Whether you’re dealing with drafts from doors or thinking about a major window overhaul, Dave sheds light on practical solutions that can make your home more energy-efficient and comfortable.
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And it is Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Welcome, December the 1st. We’re winding down the year. Hope we all had a great holiday weekend. It was a typically four-day weekend for those of you that actually get that. I know some have to work, you know, Friday or Saturday or whatever. But for those of you that had a great four-day weekend, hope you enjoyed it. Dave from Veteran Windows and Doors with me today. Dave, how was your Thanksgiving?
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Not too shabby. Good. We actually postponed it because my daughter and my son-in-law and their kids ended up getting the flu.
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Oh, no.
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So, yeah.
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That’s never fun.
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No, that’s all right.
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Well, you know, there’s something about still, and this is my motto, it doesn’t really matter when you do it, just do it.
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It is. Yeah, it seemed to taste better on Saturday.
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Nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong with that at all. And, you know, with a lot of families out there listening, they do, you know, multiple days, multiple families. I mean, I get it. There’s different sides of the family and so on. So, you know, hey, at the end of the day, as long as you do it and have fun, who cares?
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That’s my motto. That’s it.
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Doesn’t matter at the end of the day.
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No, we’re blessed to be able to do it.
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That’s right. All right. So talk to us about vector windows and doors and just some of the things that, you know, we kind of wrap up the end of the year here. We start winding things down. What should folks be looking at? What’s your schedule like over the holiday? People I know at times wonder, OK, can you still get out and take care of us through the holiday season and all that? So, you know, talk about some of that, Dave.
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Absolutely. No, we’re still, you know, we’re as you winding up the end of the year. Provia is, they are stopping a couple of their product lines that are really popular. There’s one of their door lines, a heritage door and the embark door. So the, I think starting January 1st, they are presenting a new series of door. So if there was anyone that was really interested in the Heritage or the Embark, now is the time to get it. And then we are, I just got a notice from Provia that they are doing a price increase in January. So we’re still going to obviously honor the current pricing and still provide the Heritage and Embark until the end of the year.
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So for those of you listening, key takeaway there is if you’ve been thinking about doing anything with windows or doors, I would say do it sooner than later to take advantage of some of what Dave just said and some of the pricing structure along those lines. And for some, they think… about this more this time of the year dave because if you’ve got drafts or things like that with it being colder out like it seems like as always in colorado the switch flipped finally and we’re we’re now into you know kind of snow potentially on wednesday more snow i should say coming in on wednesday it’s much colder than it was even Just a week, week and a half ago. So reality is, yep, that lever has been switched. The weather has changed. And I’m guessing, you know, you know far more about this than I do, but I’m guessing more people think about windows and doors when it’s either really cold or really hot.
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Absolutely. We’ve already seen an uptick in the calls just over the past few days when the temperature has dropped. To your point, people noticing drafts or when they walk by that patio door, they realize how cold it is and that obviously they’re losing temperature.
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Right.
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Losing that heat and losing that efficiency.
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Right, which is costing them more money to heat that space and so on. Okay, timeline. So if somebody’s thinking, well, gosh, it’s already the 1st of December. There’s always the holidays. A lot of the factories will have some holiday slowdowns, which, yes, a lot of them do, rightfully so, because that’s a big time of the year for a lot of folks. And they’ll do some massive vacations where everybody does it at one time so that it keeps production going the rest of the year. And, yeah, get all of that. Now, with all that being said, Dave, if somebody were to get going here in December, how quickly could they actually have things done and completed by?
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Well, we’re still showing a projection of end of the month for some of the door and window deliveries. Okay.
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So not as far out as people think.
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Not as far out as people think. And because we are direct, we are a platinum partner with… So we’re able to get product in a little bit quicker than some of the third-party companies.
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So, again, for those of you that have been thinking about upgrading windows or doors or doing a combination of, and we’ve talked about this a lot in the past, but for those of you who may be tuning in now for just the first time or hearing me talk to Dave for the first time, Dave’s not like your typical window and door company where it’s all or nothing. A lot of them, it’s, you know, we’re doing the bulk of windows or we’re not doing anything or we’re going to do all your doors or we’re not going to do anything. Dave, you can customize pretty much whatever anybody needs.
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Absolutely. No, and I often recommend that just if it’s, you know, cost prohibitive, people don’t want to make such an investment without knowing what the outcome is going to be. So I often tell people start with, you know, just a door or just a single window. You can see that we do what we say we’re going to do and we do it better than we need to and then go from there.
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Okay. And so, again, for those of you listening, and we talk about this a lot, too, the whole direct from the factory to you saves you a boatload of money. And what I mean by that is, yeah, you definitely, Dave, you’re cutting out a lot of what the big window and door companies have, which is lots of salespeople and staffing and office people. and, and, and we go. In other words, you can just kind of go down the list of the things that are stacked in that middle ground. And in some cases, there’s some companies out there, folks, where you may be getting a price from where it’s not even coming directly from the manufacturer. Could very well be a middleman warehouse, you know, air quotes around that, you know, warehouse type scenario, Dave, where there’s even a two-step process or three-step in some cases, depending upon where those windows and doors are coming from. You’re not doing, and by the way, a lot of your big box stores, That’s in a lot of cases exactly what’s happening there. They’ll advertise some low deal. They’ve got a contractor they work with. But trust me, it’s not coming direct from the manufacturer to you, not by a long shot.
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No, not at all. And that is how a lot of these companies operate. After you’ve closed the deal or the sales rep has closed the deal, then they send out another measure technician to do the technical measure. Often the technical measure finds that the job can’t be done as it was sold, and now you’re looking at a price increase. There are so many, to your point, so many people involved in that mix. So we’ve really kind of streamlined that. We don’t have any of that overhead, and we just provide that to our customers.
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Which helps a lot. Again, for those of you thinking about, hey, what do I do, you know, A, to save money, B, upgrade my home, make my home more valuable when it’s all said and done. But ultimately, this is also about comfort. What can you do when it’s all said and done to make your home a lot more comfortable when it’s all said and done? Because really, yes, all those other benefits are there, and those are great, Dave, but at the end of the day, it really does come down to the comfortability factor of things and how much better things work when it’s all said and done after they’re done with you.
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Yeah, that’s it. Just put in the efficient product, protect the home mechanics, make sure that everything is protected, flashed, and then just relax and enjoy the product.
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All right. And with that, Dave, how do folks get a hold of you? What’s the best way for them to do that?
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The easiest way to reach us is through our direct line at 303-529-0720.
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And if you forget that, go to klzradio.com, rushtoreason.com. Either one of those, you can find Dave from Veterans there. And, Dave, as always, I appreciate it, and Merry Christmas. I won’t see you now until probably New Year.
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Absolutely, yes. Merry Christmas to you as well. Merry Christmas to you.
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All right, and we are back. Rush to Reason, Debra’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Thanks to Andy, by the way, for filling in last week, couple of days while I was out, and I appreciate that greatly. And Charlie always asks me, okay, what are the notes from trips? Anytime I take a trip, Charlie always asks me, you know, what are my notes? And I always have some. In fact, I purposely now try to pay extra attention to notes. certain things to you know just kind of get the pulse of you know people and so on now and i’ve said this before but and some of you that travel understand this i do think there are some that that don’t that may not understand this but i was watching a show the other day can you remember what show it was and in the show somebody basically said that travel expands your mind and gets you to see things differently than you might see otherwise. And by the way, I think that’s a very true statement because it does. You learn a lot about other people, cultures, what’s going on, all of that. Now, I also know there was a lot said, and I’ll get into this later in the program, about people and their dress and what they look like on the plane and so on. And Sean, our transportation secretary, thinks just like I do, because those are things I’ve talked about in the past on my program here many, many, many times. It’s one of my biggest pet peeves is how much of a piggish society the United States has become. And yes, I said that purposely. It’s a bunch of pigs, for the most part, running around, traveling or anywhere else for that matter. And I saw lots of comments on what the transportation secretary said in regards to people dressed that way going to the mall, to Walmart, to this place, to that place. We’ve become classless Americans, as I say all the time. And I honestly would like to see some class come back. Now, that’s not – What I noticed, that’s a given. You see that almost on any trip, and this whole traveling in your pajamas nonsense is exactly that nonsense. So I’ll get into that a little bit later as I have time. But the one thing I noticed, and my wife even made the first comment about this on this particular last trip, is young people have no manners. Zero. They will cut in front of you, whether it be on purpose or just by mistake. They have no idea how to say excuse me. They don’t know how to make eye contact. They basically have absolutely zero manners. And I’m not exaggerating when I say that. When I say young people, I’m talking you get into the mid-30s and below, that 30-year age even and below. They literally have no manners. Now, I get it. There’s always an exception to that rule. There’s always somebody that has had good parenting or have done extra things to understand etiquette and how to behave and so on. But that’s the rarity. That’s not the norm. And, you know, there was one particular situation where a particular young man, you know, I don’t know whether it was on purpose or not, but cut my wife off and never even turned around and said, I’m sorry, excuse me, nothing along those lines. It’s just, you know, we’ll just go about our merry way like you weren’t even there. And that’s not the only time that happens. It happens frequently in a lot of places, not just when you travel. Now, I will say this. That’s not true with every culture. In fact, that’s one thing that we’re learning as you travel to different places. Other places actually do better at that with their young people than we do. And I always hate to go this route, but it’s what it always circles back to. This is the result of Marxism. I’m sorry, but it is. When you constantly ingrain into young people that life doesn’t matter, we’re all the same, we’re all on the same level, everybody’s equal, this whole equity, you know, diversity, equity, and inclusion nonsense. I mean, all of that. And I’m not exaggerating when I say this, and hear me out here. All of that feeds into what I’m talking about where people are rude. Because if no one matters, then no one matters. And it really becomes more about you and the selfish you, the entitled you. than it is about everybody else that’s around you. And it’s unnerving at times because we’ve not taught our young people, in my opinion, how to behave properly when it comes to how to be in public and so on. Frankly, it can be everything. My wife’s a big one on we should teach etiquette. In school, i.e., how should the dinnerware be set? What does each fork do and represent? Where does a knife go? How do you handle dessert properly? Where is the drinking glass supposed to go? How do you actually take care of the bread that’s delivered to your table? On and on we go. There’s all sorts of things etiquette-wise, even in eating, that as you look around the restaurant and realize, man alive, most people don’t get this. Few do, but most don’t. Folks, I’m here to tell you, most folks can’t match their clothes when it comes to the colors they’re supposed to be. Now, I’m a dude. I’m a man. Men aren’t supposed to be color-coordinated. I happen to be fortunate and was raised by a mom especially where, yes, my clothes match, and I can do that and make things coordinated and could even give lessons on how to do that. I do not wear Geranimals. Charlie asked if I wear Geranimals. No, I do not wear Geranimals. But, you know, I know what colors go with what colors. And I’m shocked at times no one got that memo. And it’s amazing to me. And I’m not saying, by the way, that you got to go out and buy the fanciest of everything to go wear and look nice. I don’t think that’s what Sean Duffy from our transportation department is trying to say either. But you can look nice on the cheap, right? It’s really not that difficult. You know, guys, for the love of God, when you’re traveling, throw your dang t-shirt out and wear a collared shirt. It’s not that complicated. Really, it isn’t. And I hear this all the time. Well, it’s just more comfortable. No, that’s an excuse. You’re lazy. You’re a slob. Sorry, that’s an excuse. Wear a collared shirt. It’s not that hard. And collared shirts aren’t uncomfortable if you wear the right collared shirt. And in today’s world, compared to what it used to be, they now make collared shirts that have a stretchiness to them, that are extremely comfortable. They’re as comfortable, by the way, as any T-shirt and actually look classy, not like you just got out of the garbage can. As you can tell, I’m not a huge fan of traveling in a T-shirt, nor do I ever travel in a T-shirt. In fact, I don’t leave the house and go in public in a T-shirt. Ask my wife. It’s not me. I will not do that. Now, if you do, more power to you. And I’m saying you can’t go to Home Depot or different places and run around and live your life. I mean, you do you. I’m just saying, if we want to turn… our society back into a classy society instead of this clown show that we now have going on in America, which is by design by the Marxists, we as conservatives especially should be on this bandwagon. And I’ll be straight up honest, we’re not. We are, we conservatives, we’re as bad about this as the left is. We have fallen straight into the same trap as far as clothing and all of that goes as what the left wants out of Marxism. I am not exaggerating in the least when I say that, folks. We have fallen into that same trap and are now doing and participating in the very same things that we, by the way, rally against constantly when it comes to Marxism. So, again, I’m not saying you’ve got to get on the airplane in a three-piece suit or a sport coat or anything like that. I will tell you this. When you wear a suit or a sport coat, they take better care of you. And I’m living proof of that. They do. You’re looked at completely differently when you get on an airplane and have any kind of upper-end dress wear on compared to everybody else on the plane. Yeah, they do look at you nicer than they do the rest of the passengers. And by the way, that’s because it’s psychological. It’s a psychological thing, I guess I should say. I’m not a psych major by any means, but it’s psychological in the way that they observe you and your behavior and your quote-unquote class. So I’ll talk a little bit more about Sean Duffy and some of his comments later because evidently he observes the exact same things that I do as I travel. And is that John from Cheyenne? John from Cheyenne, you’re up, sir.
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Hey, John. Welcome back. Hey, man. Appreciate it. I’m laughing listening to you because my father and my father never went out without being perfectly dressed. It was just the way he was. Right. I mean, even when he was very sick at the end of his life and it took him double the time, he would make sure he didn’t. And he used to have a phrase, and it fits what you’re talking about, and he used to say, when you go, don’t go shabby. Good one. Good phrase. And he used to always say that. And, you know, like when I fly, I wear a nice pair of pants, and usually because I’m cold a lot, I’ll wear a sweater, a nice-looking sweater. Right, right. Just, you know, and I’ll have a T-shirt underneath it if all of a sudden the plane gets crazy hot. But not a t-shirt with something written on it, a nice looking t-shirt usually. There’s a difference between a T-shirt that you would wear in public and what you would wear painted.
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While we’re talking about this, I might as well throw this out there because I don’t think I’ve ever talked about this before. And this is me, and I know not everybody’s me. And I know I’m weird. My wife will say it. Charlie will say it. My friends will say it. I know I’m weird. I’m different. But I, and maybe because I’ve been self-employed my entire life, John, I will not wear a single item that is logoed unless it’s such a small logo that it doesn’t become the prominent part of the item of clothing that you’re wearing. In other words, I’m not going to buy your product that’s advertising for you. If you want me to advertise for you, I want a paycheck in it. In other words, I don’t buy stuff to advertise for someone else.
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So, you know, some stuff, being as tall as I am, I have to get big and tall.
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Correct.
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A lot of times they’re hard to find. But I found that, like, Eddie Bauer has a great selection of big and tall, of long shirts.
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Right.
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And they have a very small script logo on it.
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That’s one where I’m okay with, you know, that or even a small Nike swoosh, something along those lines. I’m fine with that. But what I’m talking about is I see people where they wear these outfits where, by the way, they are literally advertising for said company like it’s a badge of honor. And I look at that and think, are they paying you for that? No, they’re not. No, actually, the other way around. You paid to advertise for them. Why?
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You’re paying to advertise their clothing. Correct. That’s, in essence, what you’re doing. Correct.
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Which is sort of like me debadging a car that I buy. I don’t need to advertise what that car is. Number one, if you can’t figure it out for yourself, that’s on you. But number two, I don’t need to re-advertise for the company I paid money to.
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Oh, what about the dealerships that put the thing on your car?
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That comes off immediately.
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Yeah, I told the last time when I bought my 4Runner, I said I don’t want anything on the car. that says your name that I cannot remove immediately. Correct. And all they did was put a license plate frame on.
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Yeah, and in my case, that typically is coming off right away as well. Now, you know, I might let it be on there for a week or so just to give them some form of advertisement out of it. But at the end of the day, again, unless you’re paying me, I’m not advertising for you.
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I left it on until I got my permanent plates. And then when I changed out to the permanent plates, I took it off.
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And again, John, I know I’m different and I’m weird and I look at things in a different way and other people think that there’s certain, I guess maybe because there’s certain logos and fashion trends and so on whereby it’s like a badge of honor to actually have said item. I’ve just never been that person. I don’t care.
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But the other thing, I was laughing because another talk show was talking about this today. I was listening when I was working and What was funny is when I first went to work, married my wife, and we wanted to fly standby or non-rev as they call it, I had to wear a coat and a tie.
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Oh, yeah.
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And she had to wear a business dress or really. Right. And they started relaxing that right about 9-11 to where now they’ve relaxed the dress code to there isn’t one anymore other than they tell you dress professionally because I watched. A gate agent turn a non-rev away, say, you are not dressed appropriately. You need to go change or I’m not putting you on the plane. And this girl had a meltdown.
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Huh? Rightfully so, by the way.
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Yeah, especially if you’re a representative of the airline. You know, as a family member or the employee. My wife, she gave up all the different clothes. All the nonsense. She just flies. Even when we’re traveling on business or on pleasure, she just throws her uniform on and travels in that. This way she has no issues.
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Right. Easy.
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She does it just easier. Right. But, John, I just wanted to comment on that. No, I appreciate it, John.
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I’ll talk a little bit more about that as the show goes on, but I appreciate your comments as well. And, yeah, folks, it doesn’t take a lot. to be classy and you don’t have to buy you know super expensive designer clothing and designer shoes and all this different stuff you know you can you can dress up and literally do it on the cheap in in fact there’s lots of second-hand stores out there that a lot of you know individuals will you know they they change size they get bigger they get smaller you know they go on diets are they bro or people pass away I mean there’s all sorts of things that end up In secondhand stores, which, by the way, in a lot of cases, you know, just as a side note, because I’m weird and I like to make sure my shirts look really good so I have them laundered. I don’t wash them myself, which I believe makes them last longer in the end, offsetting the cost of having them laundered. And I always wear a T-shirt. Anytime you wear a T-shirt, I was taught that at an early age as well. If you wear a T-shirt, your outer clothing lasts longer because your sweat and other things are going into the T-shirt, not into the item of clothing that you’re wearing. And by the way, it’s that sweat and things that are coming off of your body into your clothing that make it break down faster, that and washing it, of course. But bottom line, if I were to take all of my shirts and go put them in a secondhand store, some of you wouldn’t know them from new. Point being, you can buy things at secondhand stores relatively inexpensively. So this whole conversation about dress for success, dress nicely, let’s start playing the part, let’s look better as a country, you don’t have to spend a lot of money to actually do that. It’s called wanting success. to do that and having the mindset to do so. And in turn, all of that will come back to you. All right, one last thing before we actually go to break. And I saw this as I was out. And had I been here, I would have said something on the very same day. And unlike a lot of leftists, that look at people like Charlie Kirk or Donald Trump or others when they die, and they have such angst, and they’re just so angry about those individuals that they celebrate their death. Faith Winter, who, by the way, I’m not a fan of, was not a fan of as far as her political policies and all of that goes. She started out in Westminster on city council, did a lot of things. politically here in Colorado. Frankly, I don’t think she ever had a real job outside of politics, which, you know, that’s fine. There’s a lot of folks on both sides of the aisle that are that way. There’s definitely no friend of hers when it came to policies. But I will tell you this, it’s never a happy day when somebody dies unexpectedly like she did. So my thoughts and prayers and all of that go out to her family and all of that, because no matter what, she’s still a human being. Still respect her when it’s all said and done. No, I didn’t agree with her on all the policies and the way she she believed in things for the state of Colorado. But I’m also not going to degrade her on her deathbed like a lot of lefties would do for folks on the right. They would pass away. I have more class than that. So you, the family of Faith Winter. Yes. On behalf of. You know, Rush to Reason and KLZ, Crawford Broadcasting, our heart and prayer and thoughts go out to you and your entire family because it’s never fun to lose someone unexpectedly like that. With that, we’ll take our next break. Dr. Scott coming up next. I got a message earlier wanting to know how to get a hold of Dr. Scott. Real easy. Here’s his phone number, 303-663-6990.
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SPEAKER 08 :
And we are back, Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Leslie Corbley joining me next. Leslie, welcome back. How are you?
SPEAKER 11 :
Doing great. Thanks so much for having me.
SPEAKER 08 :
Always a joy. Attorney and author of Progressive Prejudice, Exposing the Devouring Mother. Let’s talk a little bit about what’s going on with, I don’t know, the Epstein files, James Comer, the Clintons and so on, if you would. There’s a lot.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, there’s a lot. There is. That was a long topic.
SPEAKER 08 :
All right. So where do you want to start?
SPEAKER 11 :
Oh, man, you’re going to have to pick. They’re each pretty interesting to me in their own right.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, let’s talk about the Clintons, first of all, because I, even though there’s a lot of scuttlebutt about, you know, they should go to jail, no one’s above the law, blah, blah, blah. Not that I disagree with any of that, Leslie, at all. Will any of that actually happen, though, is the question.
SPEAKER 11 :
I… I don’t think it’s likely. It’s definitely an uphill battle. That’s what I would say. It’s an uphill battle. It always has been. I mean, the Clintons are corrupt. I don’t think it’s new news to anyone who wasn’t a diehard fan of Democrats and the Clintons themselves for decades. So the reality is that the bottom line is just because it’s politician or a couple politicians are corrupt doesn’t necessarily mean they’re going to land up in jail.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, I mean, I think this is… I remind my listeners of this all the time, Leslie, that I think this is where even sometimes our side gets really frustrated that the wheels of justice, the motion of those, don’t go quickly enough. And I keep reminding everybody that, well, number one, you’ve got to make sure that every I is dotted, T is crossed, beyond a shadow of a doubt, because if you go through this process and something’s not that way… You’re liable to lose. And then, by the way, then you look really dumb, just like the left did with Donald Trump. So we don’t want to look the same way the left did when it came to all of that. In other words, we want to make sure that we’ve really got everything stacked in our favor. Otherwise, why go through with it?
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, that’s true. You’re correct about all of that, but more – not more importantly, but in addition to that, there are some political actors that are corrupt that are easier to prosecute than others. The Clintons are undoubtedly more entrenched in a way and have their fingers on a lot more – Whatever the power, some of the individuals, the Republicans. Yeah, because people will point to, oh, well, if you have a D next to your name, you have sort of Democrat immunity. And that’s somewhat true because Washington, D.C. undoubtedly skews very far to the left. Like if you were to take just a percentage of the bureaucracy, how much is left versus right? Compare that to maybe the way it would be if you were in a different state. Absolutely, that’s true. But again, I think it has more to do with how entrenched you are and how much you are connected to levers of power than it is necessarily a Republican or Democrat position.
SPEAKER 08 :
Right. No.
SPEAKER 11 :
And by the way, that’s more access to power.
SPEAKER 08 :
That’s right. Yeah. And I think that’s one thing that our site has to constantly remember is, you know, they have this ability to be involved, but not. In other words, you know, there’s always, you know, these these henchmen, if you would, or the doers of these particular individuals whereby they’re always a, you know, arm’s length away from any particular transaction, giving them, you know, quote unquote, some immunity. I mean, we all know at the end of the day what’s really going on, but you’ve got to prove that.
SPEAKER 11 :
Exactly. Exactly. And some of these individuals that were charged that were on the Republican side of the aisle, again, I don’t, I’m not aware of them having the kind of influence and power that the Clintons would have had. You know, even Michael Flynn or or some of the others you can think of. I’m blanking on the name of the other individual, but he’s top of my mind.
SPEAKER 08 :
James Comer.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yes, but some of these individuals just were much more, had a lot more entrenched power than some of the Republicans that were charged, and that absolutely has something to do, I think, with the probability of prosecution. As much as it shouldn’t, that’s… That’s just the reality. You go after a bigger fish, you have to have more evidence to go with you.
SPEAKER 08 :
And this is where I think even a lot of folks, Leslie, just don’t understand the justice system. While it’s supposed to be equal, equal rights, everybody equal under the law and so on, the reality is, and I’m sorry to say this, but this is just the reality of it. It’s not that way. It does come down to who has the highest price attorneys who can pay for that particular individual or team of individuals to seek out some of the things that might be an escape in that particular defense. And on and on we go. I mean, at the end of the day, Leslie, as much as we want to say it’s equal, there’s a big difference. But nothing is public defenders. But there’s a big difference between a high powered law firm and a public defender.
SPEAKER 11 :
Oh, yes, there is. And there’s also a difference politically between charging certain individuals versus others. And what I mean by that is there’s a different cultural and political implications. to an indictment of Bill Clinton than there is to Michael Flynn. That’s just the bottom line. And I think that those who are in the justice system are aware. But again, I’m not saying that’s why these things happen. I’m not making causal connections.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, I agree.
SPEAKER 08 :
I can’t disagree.
SPEAKER 11 :
These are not the same thing, you know? And that matters. That’s not divorced from the process itself.
SPEAKER 08 :
It is not.
SPEAKER 11 :
You’re right not only about the, you know, A private law firm is obviously superior to a public defender, but you’re looking at both resources and also the implications for what happens when certain individuals are charged versus the implications when others are.
SPEAKER 05 :
That’s right.
SPEAKER 11 :
And it’s just not the same thing. It’s one of the reasons that for so long we had – I mean, the Democrats did kind of step over a line that was sort of implicit in American politics, which is that you didn’t – charge your political opponents. So when they did that with Donald Trump, that was why it was such a major change from the status quo. Them essentially saying, yes, we understand the implications, but we’re claiming here it’s necessary to preserve our republic. But the bottom line is, let’s say hypothetically all the charges against him are true, there was always that sort of like I said, understanding of is this worth what it will do to the country when you begin to go after your political opponents in that way because it opens the door for types of prosecutions that do have really damaging effects socially, culturally, and politically. And I think we’re passing that point in time where we have that implicit agreement.
SPEAKER 08 :
And I agree with you on that. And I think that’s one thing even our side at times needs to be reminded of. And again, I’m not one to say that we need to just sweep things under the rug and not keep people accountable and so on. But the whole Epstein thing, and I’ve talked about this on air many times. And I’m not giving anybody a pass any way, shape or form. But at the end of the day, you’ve had so many fingers in the files in the pot, if you would, Leslie, that as time goes by in the decades roll, the reality is, are you really ever going to get down to the brass tacks of what actually happened in these supposed names that are now going to be floating out there? I’m one to say in my prediction is this is still a nothing burger at the end of the day. And I’m sorry to say that, but it is.
SPEAKER 11 :
I think you’re right. I think that there’s an unfortunate reality that the public needs to face with things like the Epstein files, which is that with how big that is, you know, and how its tentacles are kind of everywhere in a way. It’s going to be, in my opinion, it’ll be an exercise in historical excavation to understand what happened. I don’t think whether there’s going to be an ability to do that, like I said, because of how big it is. until certain incredible until until the power structures have shifted on my structures until those who have influence have cycled out right into where they then have there’s enough of an appetite to do that and you go okay now we can actually make that happen until that occurs i don’t think that there’s going to be an ability right to do the type of unbiased actual fact-driven analysis to understand what went down. To separate facts from fiction, let’s put it that way. There’s going to be a lot of facts mixed in with fiction and vice versa until the power system has changed, until those who are in power are no longer in power and you have enough turnover. Once you have that turnover and individuals aren’t involved and aren’t emotionally attached to the issue, I think you’re much more likely to get somewhere, but that’s going to take quite some time.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, that’s a couple decades. I hate to say that, Leslie, but literally that’s a couple of decades, and guys like me will be a very old man at that time, and even then, do I care? No.
SPEAKER 11 :
I think you’re right. That’s what’s going to end up happening. It’ll be one of those, you know, things you learn down the line was much worse than you realized at the time. And I think people know that intuitively. Everyone knows the story is much worse than what is currently known. It’s just, again, that separation of fact and fiction hasn’t occurred. And I think that we’re quite a ways away from that being a feasible possibility.
SPEAKER 08 :
Talk to us about the progressive prejudice, your book, Exposing the Devouring Mother, if you would.
SPEAKER 11 :
Sure. So I wrote that book. It is a combination of autobiography and cultural commentary that really heavily critiques the progressive left. I use the analogy of the devouring mother, which is the archetype of female predation, as sort of a metaphor for what the Democratic Party embodies in a way. I think if you were to look at the Republican and Democratic parties as masculine and feminine, I would say the Republican Party tends to have more of a problem with overt femininity. you know, the kind of pathology that you would imagine a man embodies. And it’s the reverse on the Democratic side. It’s the pathology that you would expect from a female. And I think that we are really good at critiquing toxic masculinity and very bad at understanding what covert feminine type of pathologies look like. And so the book was designed to sort of, like I said, critique that in a both philosophical but also autobiographical way.
SPEAKER 08 :
Nice. Leslie, as always, I appreciate you joining us. I hope you had a great Thanksgiving and you have a great Christmas ahead. We appreciate what you do.
SPEAKER 11 :
Thanks so much for having me.
SPEAKER 08 :
You’re very welcome. Have a great evening. Again, Leslie Corbly. It’s C-O-R-B-L-Y. And she’s the author of Progressive Prejudice, Exposing the Devouring Mother. Cup Creek, Keating, and Eric Nation coming up next. Now, when it comes to your heat, which right now everybody is using. One way or another, you’ve got to get the home heated. If you’ve got any issues at all with your furnace, with your heating system, give Cub Creek a call today. And for some of you thinking, well, man, I need something done, but, man, I don’t know if I can afford that, they have great financing options available to you as well. Just go to Cub Creek, find them at klzradio.com.
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Now back to Rush to Reason on KLZ 560.
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And we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Thanks for joining us today. I appreciate it greatly. And let’s see. Let’s do this. Multiple pileups. Yeah, weather change. I talked about that earlier with Dave from Veteran Windows and Doors. And, yep, things changed. Weather changed. And 50 car crash. in multiple pileups on I-70. And I know you guys hear me talk about this a lot on Drive Radio. In fact, I’m going to talk about on the Extra Mile this week, tires and choice of tires and the differences in and what you need to be thinking about when it comes to tires and so on and some of what we have as far as laws go. And I also understand that I feel, and I don’t know in this case because I wasn’t there, I wasn’t witness to what happened. I have no idea what caused… you know, said crash, although I read some articles while I was gone. I don’t do a lot of things while I’m on vacation, but I did happen to read a few things along these lines, and that is that a lot of the pileups that happen on I-70 specifically come from rental cars. whereby the rental car doesn’t even advise the renter of what they really need to be in to make it to and from their destination, what kind of vehicle should they be traveling in, should they be in an all-wheel drive or a four-wheel drive, does it have the proper tire configuration, and so on. They just put them in a car and off they go. And most people have no idea how treacherous I-70 can get. So they get in a, you know, front wheel drive type vehicle, for example. Maybe it’s got a summer type tire on it. Or in a lot of cases, I still see people that will rent, you know, Mustangs and Camaros and things like that. And they’re going to head up the mountain. I’m not sure what they’re thinking. Well, they’re not, and they’re not used to Colorado. So they head up the mountain. And by the way, here in Colorado, as you guys all know, it could be nice and sunny and look just like it does outside right now. But half an hour or an hour up into the mountains, it is a completely different story. It’s night and day, black and white, totally different. And I think in a lot of cases, these rental cars will head up the pass, if you would, and they get in over their head, and pretty soon they’re the cause of this blockage. Now, Car State Patrol is doing their best to try to even inform rental car companies of this and see if they can’t get them involved to try to help with some of this. But, again, at the end of the day, it still comes down to the driver. And education or lack thereof. Now, the other thing that’s happened in Colorado is we have a lot of transplants, people that have never lived here. They’ve never been through a winter in Colorado. Who knows where they came from, but they’ve never been through one of our winters. They’ve never driven in snow. and really probably have no clue how to drive in snow, and in some cases shouldn’t be driving in snow, because driving in snow is different than driving on even regular wet pavement after a rainstorm, for example, as you guys all that are listening to me understand and know. So bottom line, there is no excuse, in my opinion, for a 50-car pileup of any kind, and all I can say, and I talk about this, again, a lot on the weekend programming on Drive Radio is, Be aware of everything going on around you. And even when you’re traveling. Now, in this particular case, it was west of Gibson, so up in Eagle County, at 1130 a.m. and 50 cars. Wow. Which, if you think about that, you get stuck in a 50-car pileup, you’re there for all you miles, you better pack a lunch. Some of the things you talk about on Ready Radio with having warm clothing and food and water and making sure that you’ve got the ability, fuel-wise and so on, to make it through, in some cases, a six, seven, eight-hour delay, depending upon how bad the pileup is. Might talk about that a little bit more on Ready Radio this coming week, but… Bottom line, you are traveling at any given time, especially in snowstorm. Well, this is true all the time, but especially in a snowstorm, you’re typically going to be traveling with someone that’s never driven in it. And you can see that. And my advice is stay as far away from those people as you possibly can. Personally speaking, the last thing I want to ever be involved in is a 50-car pilot. I, knock on wood, never have been. All of the years of driving, I have somehow been able to avoid anything along those lines, and I think a lot of that just comes from when are you traveling, watching when other knuckleheads might be on the road, on and on we go. And I get it. There are times where you don’t have a choice. You’ve got to get from A to B at a particular time, and you’re going to be on the road, and voila, this happens unbeknownst to you. Now, I saw another video. Not of this particular crash, but it was here in Colorado. There was a bunch of black ice, although it wasn’t really black ice. The road was actually covered over with, you know, the soft white snow, and you could tell it was really slick out. And there was the right lane is stopped for whatever reason, crash, something. The left lane is somewhat open, although it’s super icy, and the cars are whipping along in the left lane far too fast. And literally can’t stop. And they start running into the pile of cars that are up front to the point where it’s now starting to affect the cars that are in the right lane that have all stopped. Because as they’re smashing into the car in front, it’s hitting the car to the side. You get the drift. It’s this domino effect. And all I’m thinking of in that entire point is the entire shoulder is open, by the way. As I view the video, the entire shoulder is open. If that would have been me, and I’m looking in the rearview mirror, and I’m seeing cars crash in front of me, guess where I’m going? As far to that shoulder as I can possibly get. I want nothing to do with all those knuckleheads that are crashing into one another. I’m going to get as far away from all of that nonsense as possible. Now, I get it. You may not be far enough away when it’s all said and done, but pick your spot that you think is going to be the safest. And last but not least, because this is one thing people make the mistake of, do not get out of the car. The car is still your best protection. Now, if you can get out of the car and run off into the woods, okay, that’s even better. If you can do that quickly, safely, and do it in a way where you’re not going to be in the middle of the crash itself and have bodily injury, great. Get off the entire road, go up into the woods, go wherever you need to go, and get completely away from everything. Goes back to the conversations we have on Ready Radio all the time. What are you wearing? What do you have on at that point in time? Can you grab a jacket? Do you already have boots on? Can you get out of the car quickly enough to avoid anything along those lines to where you’re not going to be caught out in the open in the middle of a crash? I’ve seen people where they have been, and it’s not a fun scene to watch. And these things happen. You see these happen in Wyoming on I-80. You see them happen down in the Texas area where they’ll get the ice storms that come in. I just saw one in Colorado this past week. There’s no excuse for that. Number one, slow down. Just because that lane’s open doesn’t mean you should be speeding along. Number two, you should know the conditions you’re driving on top of and know how slippery it is. It’s not that complicated. No matter what kind of vehicle you’re driving, you should know the conditions that you’re in and how slippery the surface under you is. And then lastly, those that are parked in that right lane, don’t park there. I wouldn’t be parked there. I don’t care if I get a ticket for being on the shoulder. I’m not parking there. I’m getting completely away from any opportunity to be involved in an accident in any way, shape, or form. I’m not going to be there. And I didn’t see one single, well, number one, every car was so close bumper to bumper, I don’t think they could have pulled to the shoulder, which is another thing I don’t quite understand. You guys already know the rule of thumb on that. You should never pull up any further where you can’t see the wheels of the car in front of you, the tires of the car in front of you. If you can no longer see the tires, you’re too close and you can’t pull out from around them. without backing up or doing something else that might end up in a catastrophe. So at the end of the day, don’t pull up too closely. If you’ve got the ability to exit over to the shoulder because something like this is happening, do so. Because the last thing you want to do is, A, have your car damaged, B, you’re self-damaged from being in the car that got damaged. And as I’m watching some of these, you know, semi trucks that are rolling around and then hitting the cars in front of them, it’s literally it’s just this huge domino effect where it just it takes forever for it to end because the next car comes, the next car comes, the next car comes. So bottom line, as we get into this weather, I’ll talk more about this as we head into the weekend on Drive Radio. And we all know this day is coming in Colorado because it comes every winter. You know, I know that we’ve had a super nice fall. It’s been absolutely gorgeous, beautiful, breathtaking even. It never stays that way. And I’ve told everybody that, you know, all along, even some of you that are transplants may be listening to me coming from another state. Colorado can be so deceiving because it can be nice. Literally, I have seen it. I’m not exaggerating. I’ve seen it be 75 degrees. at noon and have a foot of snow by 6 p.m. And I’m not exaggerating when I say that. I’ve seen it with my own two eyes. It happens. So those of you that are new to Colorado, yes, that is the weather that we have. And yes, it can happen. And you have to be on guard at all time. And yes, you can get some bearing as to what’s going to happen from the weather forecasts that are out there. But honestly, folks, most of the time they’re guessing. They use computer models, and yes, I get that they’re putting information in and trying to do the best they can with what’s coming and the forecast and so on. But at the end of the day, they don’t know fully. So point being, here in Colorado, be ready for whatever kind of weather might come your way no matter what you’re doing. And for Pete’s sake, try to avoid a 50-car pileup and definitely don’t be the one causing the 50-car pileup. Now, speaking of all of this, you need insurance. Paul Leuenberger is my insurance broker. And one thing you have to have is uninsured motorists. For lots of reasons, he can explain to you exactly why. 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