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HR1 Eric: Safe Boxes, China and US Reduce Tariffs 5-12-25 by John Rush
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All right, welcome. Happy Monday, everybody. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Hope you had a great weekend. Mother’s Day yesterday as well. Eric Hackett joining us now from Safebox Deposits. Eric, how are you, sir? I’m doing great. How are you, John? I’m doing good. I hope you had a good Mother’s Day. We did. I spoiled the old lady. Good for you. Good for you. All right. Safe box deposits. And I’ve been saying, well, since we’ve been having you on, that alternative to what the banks are doing. And I say that purposely, and I want you to explain. The reality is this is something that banks are getting out of. On the same token, I want to make sure we’re very clear with people. You have your own vault facility better than what the banks have because there’s lots of reasons for that. I’ll have you get into that. facility, correct?
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Correct. So we actually took over a pre-existing, you know, what was a Wells Fargo vault. So, you know, they had a good foundation and we took it over and enhanced it in just about every way possible. So our security measures, our surveillance, our access, and just the convenience. It’s just better run all the way around.
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Right. And again, for all of you listening, and I think it’s really important because I know this, Eric, with some of the things that I do. Yes, in fact, and folks, we’re not just saying this to try to scare you into… doing something with Eric. There’s reasons to use Eric outside of the bank, even if your bank has one. But yes, bottom line, the banks are getting out of this. They are downsizing. They are eliminating some locations. They’re taking even larger locations and turning those into much smaller locations because most everybody, I think, Eric, knows this you know they don’t have to keep the same amount of things even on hand that they once did to handle the banking into things because so much of it now is done you know digitally it’s done with apps i mean people don’t even go to the bank hardly anymore to even even if you get a check you don’t go to the bank to deposit it you can do it you know through the app on your phone and so on so the reality is they just don’t need the brick and mortar structures they once did meaning they’re no longer going to have the space to handle safe deposit boxes That’s right, John. Yep.
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You know, they’re just switching to online banking all the way around, like you just said. And, yeah, they don’t have the manpower and actually no longer the space to accommodate the safe deposit boxes. So that’s where we come in. We’re fill and avoid. There’s a lot of banks out there. We just got wind of another large bank here in town that’s closing – several of their safe deposit boxes. Gotcha.
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Yeah. Again, it’s happening. For all of you listening, it’s definitely happening. Now, some would say, well, gosh, why do I even need one? Well, and I think, Eric, that’s where you and I have talked in the past. There’s all sorts of reasons why you would need one. If you’re somebody that doesn’t have really good, solid, safe storage at your place, and I’ll just be frank, Eric, a lot of folks, what they think Is safe storage, in other words, you’ve got this little safe you bought at Costco or Home Depot or Office Max or wherever, and you kind of got that back in the room inside of a closet, and you think, yep, I’m set. I’ve got everything in that safe. It says it’s fireproof. I’m good to go. Eric, the reality is those things aren’t that heavy, and even sometimes when they’re bolted to the ground, a crowbar pulls them right up out of the plywood flooring, which in some cases isn’t even plywood. It’s USB, as you know. are there?
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Yeah, it’s definitely a target for thieves. You know, somebody breaks into a property and they find a safe. That’s what they’re going to work on getting out of there. And to your point of being secured to the floor or something that, you know, most of those safes can be broken into within a matter of minutes. And a lot of them, you know, Short of having wheels, they’re pretty easy to get out of a house.
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I’ve always said, Eric, the only thing those are doing is keeping an honest guy honest. They’re doing nothing to keep the thieves out.
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I agree with you. I agree with you.
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But my point is a lot of folks think that you’re really secure with those, and the reality is nothing could be farther from the truth, and I mean that from not only the theft side but the fire side and so on.
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security and the ability to handle things in a much better fashion than what they would be able to do at home on their own right yeah the i mean the construction quality of the vault itself is you know i was meeting with the security team today and i didn’t realize when they ran some of the wires for our some of our security system they actually had to go through the vault and they They said they burned up several drill bits and ended up calling a company that could drill it specifically, you know, and they said it’s upwards of around two feet thick of concrete wall. And it’s concrete from the 60s, which is a lot different from the concrete today.
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Yes, it is. You’re right. No, absolutely. The point being, everybody listening, please hear me when I say this. It is much better than what a bank is. Some of you may have some solid valuables. And, you know, I have the guys from MahiCoin on, you know, David on quite a bit, Eric. And people in a lot of cases are probably sitting on a lot more value today. in some things and what they really think they are. They’re just thinking that, oh, you know, I got a few things here and there. It’s not that big of a deal until they start really adding it all up and realizing, wow, wait a minute, I’ve got a lot more here than I thought I did. And to your point earlier, you know, if rumor gets around that you have those things, you know, kicking around in your house, we’ve already seen this, you know, well, more than once. I was going to say this past summer. We’ve seen it over and over again where thieves will target even different areas and figure out people’s patterns as to when they come and go. and they become very sophisticated and hit those homes when no one’s home. Sure. Yep.
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Yep. I’ve been a victim of burglary as well here in the Denver Metro. And, yeah, I definitely put all my valuables here as well.
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Well, and that’s what we want people to do. I mean, those of you that are listening, again, most people, if you really sat and analyzed, you know, how are you storing your valuables, this is what I want people to think about, Eric, is how they’re really doing it and how secure – I mean, it’s sort of like the IT people where they tell you to be careful of the cybersecurity end of things and the hackers and the people that try to call and scam you. And we’re really big on that. And I think we do a really good job of helping people along those lines on how to not be taken advantage of. But yet, in this particular area, until you came along, people think, oh, you know, I’ll just go put my stuff in the safety deposit box or I’ll bury it in a bottom drawer or I’ll put it in one of those little handy, you know, portable saves and I’m good to go. Reality, Eric, is they’re not good to go. They’re very vulnerable.
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They are vulnerable. And just like I said earlier, with the banks closing them, people’s valuables aren’t safe there either. Very well. Number one, they can just flat out close your box. Number two, what often happens is they drill the wrong box. Meaning if somebody doesn’t pay their bill, they bring in a company to drill a box. And a lot of times, They have an inexperienced teller or banker telling the driller what to do, and they’ve drilled the wrong box. And the other biggest issue with banks is there’s no insurance on your belongings. And a lot of people are under the misnomer that their belongings are insured because banks are FDIC insured. My box must be as well. Right, but it’s not. And here at Safebox, You know, we do have every box comes with $5,000 of insurance and we have additional coverage up to a million or more at. More affordable rates than you can insure anything anywhere.
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Got it. And I think that’s really important, too, and this is something to think about, too, for a lot of you listening. Maybe you’ve got a, you know, somebody in the family could be, you know, Eric, a super expensive heirloom that’s been passed down. It could be, you know, everything from, you know, pearl necklaces, diamond earrings, diamond rings, and so on. And maybe it’s something that, you know what, it’s getting so valuable that you really don’t feel like you ought to be wearing that around. And this is something most people don’t know. You can actually get a duplicate of your existing ring with a cubic zirconian or something along those lines that is a lot less expensive if it gets stolen or you lose it versus that really expensive ring that’s been passed down. Personally, Eric, put the really good ring in the safety deposit box and wear the fake. No one will know the difference.
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Sure. Yeah, that’s great advice.
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And by the way, the insurance side of it, as you were saying a moment ago, what made me think about that is to insure things along those lines gets really expensive at times, depending upon how your homeowners and stuff is set up. Go see you guys and get it done that way instead, and you’ll be money ahead. Exactly.
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Yeah, we had to jump through a lot of hoops to become accredited to offer the insurance, and because we did… everything we needed to do, the insurance is extremely affordable because there’s no safer place to put your money.
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As we all know, you, Eric, and everybody else listening, insurance is risk associated, not really much on the reward side, but it’s really on the, well, it is a reward on the insurance side because if there’s less risk and they get a premium, they know the reward is they keep collecting premiums, they don’t pay out. So the less risk to an insurance company, the cheaper it gets.
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That’s right. That’s right. And that’s part of why our rates are so low and because we enhanced all our security measures and management procedures and so on. Awesome. All right. How do folks find you, Eric? So they can go to safeboxdeposits.com or they can call us at 303-771-8000. And we are Better Business Bureau approved as well.
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Awesome. Eric, as always, I’ve enjoyed it. I’ve enjoyed talking to you each month as we do. Look forward to talking to you again here in a couple of weeks. And, folks, again, anything you’ve got of value that you want stored away in the right manner to where you know it’s sort of that peace of mind, Eric, when it’s all said and done. If they want that, give you guys a call. Sounds good. Awesome. Eric, thank you, man. Nope, thank you very much. Have a great rest of your day. And, yeah, folks, if you want that peace of mind, give them a call today, and they would love to take care of you. Roof Savers of Colorado. And, again, as we had a lot of rain last week, some of you may have noticed some things that, yeah, just didn’t quite look right or you had some leaks. You might even not have even seen that until the weekend when you were doing some of your around-the-home chores. If that’s you and you want anything done at all and or you want to look at extending the life of your roof, you’re looking up there thinking, wow, Not only do I need a roof inspection, but is there a way I can make this thing last longer? Because the deductibles and the way the insurance companies are handling things continues to change. Talk to Dave today. He is a RoofMax dealer, part of Roof Savers of Colorado, 303-710-6916.
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Now back to John Rush. All right, welcome back again. Happy Monday, everybody. Hope you’re having a great day. Friday’s a possible question. What element has the atomic number of 92 that would be uranium? Today’s impossible question of the day. What programming language is known for its snake mascot? This one I actually would have gotten. I don’t get too many questions of the day, but this one I would have gotten right off the bat. What programming language is known for its snake mascot? Do you know this one, Charlie, by the way? Oh, Charlie does. I finally have found an impossible question. I know the answer to that. Charlie does not. That’s like once a year. This might actually happen. And it just it just did. So that does not normally happen. All right. And other news today. This was big news actually was coming out over the weekend. But today, the United States and China revealed that they have come up with an agreement. even if it be temporarily, but you’ll see a permanent agreement come out of this to reduce, I should say, tariffs on both countries. And I believe the way it’s going to work out is we are lowering ours to 30%, down from 145%. China is lowering theirs from 125% to 10%. So that is a huge win. The markets, of course, came in really, really strong today. And for those of you looking into the mortgage end of things and so on, yes, anytime the market does what it did today, you’re going to see some changes in the mortgage world, although that will settle down. My belief, this is just me, and I’m not a financial analyst, but just as a side note, we here haven’t been too wrong on a lot of the financial predictions that have been going on all the way back to when Trump was president the first time around, all the way through COVID, all the way through where we are today. So my crystal ball is, says that things are still going to be a little bit dicey here until we get some more of these agreements finally settled. And the Fed will then see that, okay, because these things get settled and because oil prices are down and it’s actually going to feed into the rest of the economy, you’re not going to see inflation be what the Feds feel like it might be because they’re still thinking that these tariffs and things are going to push inflation up. It’s not going to. It’s going to actually have the opposite effect. I do think what you’re going to see is as the feds start looking at that, realizing that, yeah, we probably need to help out real estate to a large extent. And by the way, it’s not just the residential side. It’s the commercial side as well that interest rates have a big effect upon. And even the short-term rate especially has a bigger effect upon commercial than what it does with the 30-year mortgage. But it has an effect on both of those. And I do believe that the Fed will eventually start looking at some of that. And there’ll be some pressure, of course, still coming from the White House as there is now. And I do believe the Fed will start lowering rates once they realize that, OK, we can do this, not have an inflationary uptick out of that. Yes, it will give a boost to the economy, even though they feel like the economy is doing well. It’s doing OK now. I don’t want to say that by any means it’s doing well. There’s a lot of areas that, especially in the real estate sides of things, that it really needs to have an uptick. Go talk to a lot of folks that are in the housing world, real estate agents, brokers, mortgage brokers, supply houses, and so on, and they will agree with me on that, that no, it’s not doing as well as it could be doing. And once it starts booming, man alive, it really helps out the economy. in a lot of other ways. So my prediction is you’ll see some things settle down as we get towards maybe mid to end summer. I think you’re going to see rates come down in those particular areas. It is going to be a boost to those particular areas of the economy. And those areas of the economy, again, will not be driving up inflation either. And I think when it’s all said and done, you’re going to see exactly what I’m saying is We’ll see. Time will tell. Again, I by no means am a Wall Street trader. I don’t ever want to be thought of that. Frankly, don’t ever want to do that because I think most guys on Wall Street are clueless when it comes to what happens on Main Street. They look at stocks and those sorts of things. It’s essentially all they really care about. And I’ll just be straight up honest. Very, very, very, very few of them care about how your food gets put on your table. Those folks on Wall Street that are doing all of the trading, the companies, the big companies that do a lot of the trading, the folks that have huge impact upon what happens with stocks and so on, I’ll just say it straight up. As far as the average American goes, they could care less how you put food on your table. I’ll go one step further. The Fed cares less about you putting food on your table as well. They don’t care. They don’t care. To them, this is a big numbers game. What can they do to stay quote-unquote neutral or at least give the impression that they’re neutral? How can they either prop up the economy as needed or slow it down as needed? And that’s all they see themselves as doing. And frankly, they’re clueless as well because they’re already late. Just like they were late raising rates the first time around back in 2020 when things started to get out of control, they’re now late to the game in lowering them. They should have done a rate cut last week, even just a quarter point they should have done last week. especially given what just happened with China and knowing where that’s going to head. But again, not my decision. I’m not in charge of those things. If I were, things would probably be different, and I would run things completely different, but that’s a conversation for another day when it comes to the Fed and all of that as well. But the plus side is there have been some agreements made. Now, And he posted this today on his Facebook page. And he said something to the effect of these are the things that he and I have been talking about now since Trump started down this path that we would get these deals done. It would be sooner than later. And the reality is the Jordan Goodmans of the world, you know, which, you know, we love Jordan. At least I do. I love talking to him. But Jordan tends to be a big pessimist when it comes to these sorts of things. And yet at the end of the day, Again, as a reminder, we’re turning out to be correct when the Jordans are not. Jordan thought, you know, having these trade wars, quote unquote, with the with the likes of China would just end poorly for us as a country. It’s not happening that way, folks. It’s actually the opposite. And it will continue to be because I will continue to remind everybody the same thing I reminded Jordan of numerous times. We’re the biggest customer. When you’re the biggest customer, and folks, we’re not just the biggest customer by a little bit. I mean, you all in business, if you’re doing anything along those lines where you’ve got different customers that you’re dealing with, which most people in business do, you know that typically there’s not much spread between your largest customer and your next. In fact, in some cases, I’ve even asked this question to folks that I coach, you know, who’s your largest customer? You know, they have to go look it up. They don’t even know. Because there’s not that much difference in spread between one customer and another in most businesses. And by the way, that’s a good thing. You want to try to keep things fairly even. You don’t want your eggs all in one basket as a business. So you want the answer to be, well, I don’t really know who my biggest customer is. Now, for other companies… They know exactly who their biggest customer is. And in some cases, it could be a situation like us as a country buying what we do and being the largest customer by a long shot. I mean, as I’ve said before, I’ve given you guys the numbers. We’re approaching $28 trillion as a GDP in this country a year. The next closest is China at about $17 trillion. The next in line after that is Germany at roughly $4 trillion, $4.5 trillion, something like that. So think about those numbers, 28 to 17 to then 4, and it goes down from there. Every other country after. So we’re approaching $30 trillion a year as a GDP, as a country, Our rounding errors in some cases, depending upon the country, it’s more than some countries’ whole GDP, and I’m not exaggerating when I say that. Literally, our rounding errors can be what some countries’ GDP is. That’s how large we are as a country in buying and doing the things that we do. And we have never leveraged that in the history of this country like we are right now. And it’s high time we did. I’ve said that over and over and over again. It’s high time we leveraged what we do because we have been getting the short end of the stick for far too long when it comes to that. And I’m happy that somebody like President Trump is coming along and looking at this in that way, saying we need better deals. We need to get these things taken care of. And it annoys the heck out of me with all these individuals that are coming along trying to sue the administration when it comes to things that have happened along the terror front. Just let him do what he needs to do and get these deals done and stay out of it. Because it’s evident that you knuckleheads haven’t done it right up to this point. Because some of you that are doing the suing and the whining and the carrying on have been in charge all of this time and have done nothing for the American public. Nothing. I had a conversation Saturday on Drive Radio where somebody called in and asked Gary. I remember Gary’s name. Gary’s a great caller, by the way. Gary was asking, you know, what would it take to get some of the other auto parts and things? It was Drive Radio. We’re talking about auto parts that are made in other parts of the world, China specifically. What would it take for us to do the same thing here in America? Do we have that capacity was the question. And I said, yes, we have that capacity. I gave a couple of answers. Well, sure enough, I had another caller, Eric from Cheyenne, that called in and said, hey, guys, I’ve got a brother-in-law that works at one of the brake manufacturing facilities in the Midwest. And the reality is they’re only running one shift right now. They could easily turn up the machines, run two shifts, three shifts to still be able to supply the things that we’re now getting from other countries. And overnight, we could be doing what we need to do to supply what we need. And that’s one example. So I want to I want to add this to this. Anytime you hear somebody out there around the water cooler on the news talking about how we as a country don’t have the ability to backfill some of what we get from some of these other countries, i.e. China. Wrong. Not true. Those are untrue statements in most cases. Yes, there are some things, and I will admit this, there are some things that we get that have to come from places like China because no one else out there has the ability to make what they’re making. I get that. But there are a lot of other things that we could easily come back here onshore and be making right here in our own backyards. And I was reminded of this, and we reminded the listeners Saturday, that in some cases, you take this brake manufacturing facility, it is the lifeblood of that town. And if it went from one shift to three, that is a huge boost to the economy of that particular town. That’s what Donald Trump is looking at by doing the things that he’s doing. So reality is, yes, we can bring some of those things back onshore. We should bring some of those things back here. We’ve been lackadaisical in allowing those things to get offshore. We’ve allowed Wall Street, by the way, to control that, and we never should have. Because Wall Street itself is full of globalists who could care less about this country. Let me say that one more time. Wall Street is full of globalists that could care less about this country. So anytime you see that end of things going on and you hear the rattling, if you would, out of the likes of Wall Street because they don’t like something along these lines, just always remember, are they somebody that cares about the United States of America or are they a globalist? Because if they’re a globalist, yes, they hate the things Donald Trump is doing right now. If there’s somebody that loves the United States of America, they’ll be applauding what he’s doing right now. So I’ll leave you with that. I don’t think I’m going to say any more about that ending. I might talk a little bit more about that tomorrow. But reality is. That’s a big deal. Markets are way up because of it, because they feel like things will get back on track. And again, the thing that I always remind people of is Wall Street hates any kind of change whatsoever. This is still boosting things on Wall Street. When it’s all said and done, you can go look at the numbers. And I think last time I checked, we were approaching 45,000. as far as the stock market was concerned. I need to check it here in a moment because it’s now closed. I’ll look that up during the break and tell you when we come back exactly where it’s at. But Dr. Scott’s coming up next. And if you’re needing anything when it comes to medical care, having a doctor, having somebody that thinks like we do and is on your side, not on the side of big pharma and big insurance, give Dr. Scott a call today, 303-663-6990.
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All right, safe box deposits. And somebody just asked, too, given the fact that safe box is all on its own and it’s really its own vault outside of a bank, would someone know that you’re going to be carrying a lot of valuables into that particular location? Well, frankly, that’s a risk that folks have taking risks. anything into a bank and so on and that’s why it’s safe box deposits it’s an appointment only and by the way you can pick times where you know there’s not going to be as many people around as opposed to other times like hey i’m going to go to the bank over lunch which is what a lot of people do by the way so you could easily pick out the times that you want to go there and it is extremely secure far more secure frankly than that of a bank that’s why we say Better than a bank. SafeBox deposits at safeboxdeposits.com, 303-771-8000.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. We have great textures, by the way, so thank all of you and some of the questions that come in. I appreciate greatly. You know, really quick, and I’ll talk about this next time I talk about safe box deposits, but also remember that, and I’ll just ask this question, when’s the last time you went to a bank and actually saw an armed security guard hanging around? By the way, I can’t tell you. I can’t tell you. Now, the locations I go to for my banking and I always have used, you know, localized banks, not the big, huge folks. But I’ve been to some of the larger banks, Wells Fargo’s and so on of late. And I will tell you that rarely do you see anybody armed that’s hanging around there watching when you come and go. With safe box deposits, yes, you’re going to have an armed person there escorting you in and out and so on, and it’s by an appointment only, so it’s not just some random thing where you just show up and there might be somebody tailing you in. It doesn’t work that way, so it’s going to be a very secure experience where, frankly, that worry of, is somebody going to be following me in and out, that’s not going to happen. so that’s the one plus they have frankly over a bank as well but i did want to mention and i don’t normally do this but i had several of you messaging me uh prior to the show that there was another show on that is on right before mine and i won’t tell you who that is you all know typically who that is and it’s a great show by the way i have nothing against this particular host I think a lot of her, and we think a lot alike on a lot of things, and I will never say anything bad about this particular host ever. And if you’re listening to me right now, I have a lot of respect for you, and I appreciate what you do, and I hope you feel the same as I. But she had on today, prior to me coming on air, some folks from the previous administration leadership with the Colorado GOP, because there’s still some chatter going around about a particular dollar amount. It’s above $100,000. that there is X amount of that money missing out of the coffers from the Colorado GOP. And where is it missing from and when and so on? And so this particular host had on a couple of the leadership individuals, not Dave himself, but in this case, Hope was on and Tom, the accountant, were on, and they were trying to explain to encounter this claim of the hundred and whatever it is, 140K that’s now missing. And the excuse from the previous leadership is, and it’s an excuse or an explanation or whatever you want to call it, their explanation of that particular money is, well, it was missing when we got there. OK, and this particular host, by the way, went as far as to say, OK, well, why didn’t you fix it? And that’s always my question. I have the exact same question. Why didn’t you fix it before you went through all of this rigmarole of lawsuits and rounding up money for this and rounding up money for that? You knew because because the excuse was, well, we had to have money. We you know, we couldn’t do a forensic audit. We couldn’t figure out where this money was and where it went to and so on. We couldn’t go back that far. And there wasn’t any books. There wasn’t any records, which I find that hard to believe, by the way. Literally, I find that very, very, very hard to believe because there has to be FEC reports done and so on. How is it that you ran an organization for all these years, a decade plus with no records? Again, find that one very, very suspect. That, to me, is not an excuse. Sorry, but that’s not an excuse. But the excuse is, out of hope especially, well, we had to have all this money to fight the coup. Okay, time out. That end of it didn’t happen until long after, years after, you guys had been running things at the Colorado GOP. So don’t give me that excuse. That’s not an excuse. We had to fight the lawsuits that were coming at us, is what Hope said today. We had to fight those. That is the biggest bunch of BS I’ve ever heard in my entire life. Utter nonsense. You could have easily by then figured out what was going on with this $100K, where that money that Tom basically got down to, it wasn’t $100K, it was $95K or something along those lines. Okay, so if you know what the dollar amount is, where did it come from? And frankly, clean it up. And the excuse was, well, we’ve got to go all the way back through transaction to transaction to transaction to actually find all of that to get it cleaned up on your books today. No, you don’t. No, you don’t. See, this is where people like that can try to snow some, because folks that don’t understand accounting, they can try to snow people and say that’s what they have to do to fix it. That’s untrue. That is totally untrue. If you know what the balance is off of, quote-unquote, what the dollar amount is… You can make an entry. You can fix that amount. You can code it as such. You can give the explanation of we don’t know exactly where this adjustment, we don’t know exactly where this money has been off or for how long, but we as leadership at this particular time are going to make an adjustment for and fix it. And here’s the explanation for why we’re doing this. And if anybody wants to go back and dig through all of that to determine exactly where it is, be my guest. But during this term of us being in leadership, we’re going to fix it, and here’s how. And here’s our explanation. That didn’t happen. Which, my next question is, why? Why? Why? And don’t give me the excuse of, well, we didn’t have enough money to hire a forensic auditor to actually fix it, so we just left it. That is the poorest excuse I’ve ever heard from anybody. And by the way, if that was the excuse from the KBB clan, I would say the same thing to them. If it was prior to even KBB, I would say the same thing all the way back to that. Why? Why did you just let that sit like that and not fix it? And again, don’t give me the excuse of, well, we just didn’t know what to do. Well, then find somebody that can tell you what to do and get it done. This isn’t that complicated. This is the kind of stuff that I help small businesses with constantly in getting their books cleaned up. And I’m not a CPA. And I can do it. What it means is you have to have enough understanding of how accounting works to and what you need to do when it comes to certain things adjustment-wise, and how to get things corrected, and how to note that correction, and off we go. This isn’t rocket science, folks, trust me. But evidently it is to the previous administrators inside of the Colorado GOP. It must be that difficult for them, or they would have fixed it. So I will probably talk a little bit more with Andy on that tomorrow once I do a little bit more delving into some of the answers that they gave. I may even re-listen to those segments that I heard today prior to coming on air, and I was listening. And if you’re the host that did that and you’re listening to me, again, thank you for doing that. These are individuals that will come on your program that will never come on mine for obvious reasons because you’re nicer than I am. That’s where I will give you credit. You are much nicer than I am. I’m a lot more bold and in their face. And remember, I’ve been calling for Dave’s removal. He’s no longer there. But I was calling for Dave’s removal 30 days after he took over. Because I saw some of this nonsense going on early on. And I could read between the lines. And here we are. And the excuse that Tom and both Hope gave today were nothing more than literally excuses that have no validity to them whatsoever. And I’ll just say this. And I was texting some of you going back and forth. There was about half a dozen of you that were texting me that this was happening and I should listen in. And I did. And I appreciate that. And I will say this. I’ll be this bold to say this. As I was listening to these two individuals speak, And yes, I’m a little jaded. I will give you that because I don’t like the previous administration because I don’t like what they did. But as I’m listening to these two people give explanations, I’m just thinking to myself, how did you guys get into leadership in the first place? Both of you sound dumber than a rock. I’m sorry to say. I don’t know how else to say it. Literally, you both sound like total, total dodo heads that have no real answer to what was going on. And I’m sorry to say that, but you do. You just don’t sound that sharp. And I know some of you say, well, just because somebody doesn’t sound sharp doesn’t mean they are. Well, really? Since when? Since when, by the way? Because I’ve been in the business community and have been self-employed since 1986. And I was around business, being in a family business long before that. And I will tell you this. Sharp people talk sharply. Dumb people talk like dummies. I don’t know how else to say it. And, guys, I’ve done so many interviews and have done so many things with this program over the past decade plus that when I interview somebody, even Charlie and I, I will say once we’re done with somebody, I will say something to the effect, man, that was a really sharp individual we just got done talking to. And Charlie will be on the other side and usually nod his head at me and say, yep, it sure was. Or there’s other times where I’ll get off the phone and we’ll have maybe interviewed an author, for example, and I will look at Charlie and say, how in the world did that person write a book? Now, maybe they’re really good at writing books and not really good at talking, but holy cow, how did they get through that? And yes, we do those things once we’re done with some of these interviews. I’m not exaggerating. So I get it. There are sometimes people that are very introverted, that are extremely sharp, that don’t do well with interviews. I get that. And I’ll give somebody passes on that. And I understand that. But if you’re going to be in a leadership position inside of a political organization, in this case, the Colorado GOP, and you can’t give an interview and sound sharp, we have problems. We have problems. And I’m going to say that straight up. Some of you may disagree or agree with me on that, but we have problems when you cannot give an interview and sound sharp. I don’t care if you’re the treasurer. I don’t care if you’re the vice chair. I don’t care if you’re the chair. If you cannot give a solid interview and have your facts straight and be very good and articulate in what you’re saying, then we have a problem. And I’ll just tell you straight up, the last administration here, we had a problem. Because they can’t do what I just said. Now, some would say, well, that’s just because all the rest of them out there, they’re establishment, and these guys are grassroots. Well, folks, let me just tell you what. If you guys as the quote-unquote grassroots, if that’s the best you can do, you better stop while you’re ahead. Because if that’s the best you’ve got, stop. Because you sound like a bunch of morons. So stop. And I mean that in all sincerity. If that’s the best you can do, quit while you’re ahead. In the game of politics especially… If you can’t come out and be articulate and sharp and have, quote-unquote, a silver tongue and be able to explain things well, then you should quit and stop doing it. And I mean that with all sincerity. And I’m here to tell you, this is part of the problem that we’ve had in the state of Colorado in getting people elected to office, whether it be local, whether it be national, is because they don’t understand what I just said. They look at somebody and say, well, man, that’s a great principled person, and they’ve got a great heart. Okay, you know what? God bless them. They could. If they can’t articulate what I just said, though, they should not be running. They should not be running. If they can’t go out on the campaign trail and be articulate and explain the things that I’m explaining to you all right now, they should not be doing it. And I mean that. I’m sincere in that. That’s part of why we’re not winning in Colorado is because the people that are running things and in a lot of cases encouraging candidates to do things, if they can’t do what I just said, they should quit. And they can’t, and that’s the problem we have right now. They can’t do what I’m saying. So we end up with, I hate to say this, bottom-of-the-barrel candidates trying to win elections that can’t speak their way out of a wet paper bag. Folks, I’m sorry. I’m sorry that I have to say that. But it’s true. And I do believe that there are a lot of folks inside of the grassroots movement across the country that can speak very well and do very well. Andy just said, you know, J.D. Vance is an example of that. Yes, the problem is we don’t have the J.D. Vance’s in Colorado. We have people that, as I said a moment ago, can’t talk their way out of a wet paper bag. But yet expect to get elected because, you know, this is what happens in Colorado. Well, that’s a principled individual. They stand on principle. Great. OK, I get that. Love them. Lord bless you. Can you articulate that? Well, I’m grassroots. OK, OK. How? How are you going to get the football across the goal line? How are you going to do that? Tell me that. Well, I’m grassroots. I’m principled. You know, I believe in Donald Trump. I believe in getting him elected. OK, that’s not telling me why we should vote for you and how you’re going to get the football across the goal line. And folks, please, again, and I love these individuals that are quote unquote grassroots and they do have solid principles and they do believe in our country and they’ll fight for our country and they’ll go arm in arm, you know, to the end. I appreciate them. But are they electable at the end of the day? That’s the question. Can they articulate all of these things necessary to, again, get the football across the goal line? In other words, end up with more votes in their column than their Democrat counterpart. If they can’t, then we need a different candidate. Sorry, I’m being extremely honest. And what I heard today in defense of the last administration tells me they couldn’t get the ball across the goal line. focused on the wrong things, concentrating on the wrong things. So those of you that are on that side, again, I’m on the same team. I want to win. Literally, I want to win. But the reality is we don’t have, in a lot of cases, the right team players to make that happen, and that’s a problem. So I’ll come back. I want to touch on a couple more things there. Got some text messages that have come in that I will read as well. Cub Creek Heating and Air Conditioning coming up next. And Cub Creek wants to help you now. The AC is on. Yes, I finally yesterday turned on my own AC. Finally got hot enough. When it gets above 80, I’m turning it on. If you did and something doesn’t seem quite right, make sure you call Cub Creek today. Cub Creek Heating and Air Conditioning. 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All right. Let me make sure I clear things up to the show that I was talking about that the past administrators for the Colorado GOP was not a KLZ program. This was a, you know, another competing station in town that, again, I don’t listen to. And it’s nothing against these particular individuals, especially this particular host, because I like her a lot and her and I think a lot alike on a lot of different topics. And again, Again, I’m not going to mention names because I don’t want to do that. That’s a competing show, competing station, and so on. But I will say this. Her and I think a lot alike. But no, it was not a KLZ program or anything associated with us. This is a competing station, not competing with me per se, because this is a host that comes on prior to me. I don’t think we even have much overlap, if any. I’m sorry for not knowing that. I just don’t pay attention to what other hosts in town do. If there’s something else going on in another program, you guys as listeners are telling me. I rely on you to feed me that info because you will text me different things and so on, which I appreciate you guys doing very much, by the way. And a lot of you did listen in and I did as well. And you have the same response that I and she had that the answers given just aren’t answers. They’re a beat around the bush. There’s no answers there. And she felt the same way and I felt the same way. And to her credit, as I said earlier, she’s much kinder than me. She’s much kinder because when she was ending, she said something to that effect that, well, you know, these answers just aren’t satisfying enough to me and we’ll have to leave it at that. I’m much harsher. I’m much harsher because I don’t like the past administration at all. And I’ve made that abundantly clear. And several of you, not just one, several of you have texted in and said, why wasn’t Dave in this interview? Because Dave doesn’t have the kahunas to do it, folks. Sorry, Dave doesn’t. Dave’s a coward. Total coward. Those of you that defend him continually, I have no idea why. That is the biggest coward we’ve ever had as a chair here in Colorado ever. Ever. That guy can’t defend himself if his life depended on it, and sometimes it does, by the way. His political life, I should say, depends on it. He won’t defend that ever. He has his minions do it for him. He has hope do it for him. Hope has literally been his mouthpiece for almost two years. Pretty much in August, we’ll be two years straight. Because that’s about when Hope came along was August of… I believe what she said was August of 2023. So… And Hope, I mean, again, you and I have even, you know, we have gone back and forth on some things and have emailed some things back and forth and finally just agreed to disagree because your explanation to me on a lot of things is it’s no different than what you gave this other host today. It’s just meaningless words. You’re always beating around the bush as to the real answer and always going. This is what they do, by the way, and Hope did it today. Always going back to the coup. The coup is the excuse for everything they did wrong. Well, we had to do this because of the coup. We had to do that because of the coup. It’s the dumbest thing ever. And let’s not forget who started the lawsuit in the first place. It was you guys that started the lawsuit. No one else did. And I hate to sound like a school kid, but you started it. The other side, quote-unquote, ended it, and it really got ended here recently because the judge that ruled essentially in favor of the current administration and saying that, yep, all of this stuff needs to end, the lawsuits need to end, there’s no standing on any of this going forward, and the committee that’s been chasing after this just needs to go away and be disbanded. That’s what’s been said up to this point, and it finally has been, and yet the old administration just will not let it go. They are that school kid on the school grounds that just will not let it go. They just keep digging their heels in, and they are bound and determined to not be wrong when this is all said and done, even though they are gravely wrong when it’s all said and done. I’ll leave it at that. Hour 2 is next. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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