This week on Rush to Reason, we uncover the real worth of gold and precious family treasures. David Gonzalez provides insider knowledge on navigating the complex world of gold and coin appraisal, while also offering tips on estate planning. Whether you’re holding onto a collection or contemplating family inheritance, this episode is packed with advice to help you make informed decisions about turning heirlooms into cash, all within a secure and trusted environment.
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All right. Welcome, everybody. Happy Monday. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. And another week is upon us, and we aren’t here on May the 4th because that was yesterday. Normally, you would say May the 4th be with you, but that was yesterday. So today is Cinco de Mayo. David Gonzalez joining us now on Mile High Coin. David, welcome. Thanks, John. Good to be here. Gold 3341 an ounce.
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Goodness gracious. It is just – it is a bucking bronco right now. Up $100 one day, down $150 the next, and – But yes, it is very, very high.
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Which is up a couple hundred bucks from when I had John last month.
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It is. It is very, very close to the all-time high. So crazy, crazy times right now.
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Meaning for a lot of you listening, of course, David’s from, as I said, my high coin. And I talk a lot about David even when he’s not here. Those of you that, you know, we went through ours, so we’re getting ready to see you. Because we, between, you know, wife and I, and just stuff that you just start accumulating. So we’re both sort of going through the… You know, the jewelry box and different things. And, you know, you get things passed from, you know, this, you know, air. And, you know, you just accumulate, especially as we get older. You end up with more and more of this sort of stuff. And so both, you know, wife and I are like, okay, you know, what items do we really use versus not? not using because we’re just going to sit this thing in the jewelry box and do you know do nothing with it you know why what’s the value let’s you know let’s start figuring out some of these things and so on so we’re we’re starting to do what i’m recommending to folks out there do and that is if you’ve got this stuff kicking around at 33 41 an ounce why are you leaving that in the jewelry box
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Yeah, absolutely. The other thing I would say, too, is perhaps you have some aging parents that may be passing away at some point in the future, maybe not the near future. But it’s always good to take care of that stuff, especially from the person who, for example, who built the coin collection. That person’s going to know about it. They’re going to have good insight. So maybe it’s not so much that you’re ready to sell that collection just yet, but you want to start building a relationship, figure out what you have, kind of what approximate values are so that when the time comes, you’re ready to sell. you know, make a move. You’ve figured out who you want to work with. The other thing too, is I find is a lot of people are grossly underinsured. So they have a coin collection that they have really no idea. They have no idea it’s worth a hundred thousand dollars. Great point. And it’s very important that you protect that, even, again, if you’re not quite ready to sell.
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And, by the way, when you start looking at that, for some of you that may end up with something along those lines, and then you start doing the math on, okay, wait a minute, I’ve got this collection that’s worth X. Let’s use the $100K, for example. And, yes, I need to ensure that. Although now the insurance costs are going to be X to do so. That needs to go into the equation as well. And maybe it is a point in time where it’s just better to cash out of it. Indeed.
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Yeah. And oftentimes, you know, when somebody brings one of those collections in and they figure out that it’s worth real money. They start evaluating, am I really into this? Maybe that was something that they put a lot of hours, a lot of time, a lot of money into early on, but in the last 10 years they haven’t. And then I had something come up recently where The lady said, you know, instead of giving the grandkids money after I die, I’d like to give it to them now. That way I could see them enjoy it. And so they were kind of motivated, you know, to move that collection just based on, you know, wanting to wanting to see their their kids prosper now versus who knows how long it would be before they would end up with the proceeds from that collection.
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Well, and you know this as well. And for those of you that are out there listening, I won’t give direct numbers because you need to go check this on your own. But there is a certain amount you can give to the kids tax-free where nobody is having to claim anything on that you or them. And in some cases, something else to think about with what David said a moment ago, I was just thinking about as well, some elderly parents and things along those lines. You know, the thing to also think about is, you know, what’s mom, dad’s total estate worth? What are things looking at along those lines? Are either one of them going to need any kind of long-term care? And if that’s the case, you may want to go ahead and start converting some of these things into cash now versus later. Start putting some of those funds together so as those needs arise, you’re not scrambling last minute. It’s sort of like, David, I always recommend people when it comes to cars and things like that, just in general, by the way, never buy something when you need it. Only buy when you don’t. I mean, you may know it’s coming up, but my point is don’t buy in an emergency situation. Well, similar thing here. If you know mom and dad might be needing some things down the road, some care, something along those lines, rather than scrambling around when you now have to write a check to whoever it is that’s going to be doing the care and so on and trying to scramble around and round up money immediately, get all of that done ahead of time because now you’ve got time to process all of that and determine exactly what your best deal is. Indeed.
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Yeah, and another thing that comes up, too, is let’s say somebody is liquidating a collection. Sometimes they’re hung up because they can’t establish a cost basis. So there may be some tax consequences to liquidating it. And that’s a service that we offer, and we don’t charge to do that. Now, if you come to us and you’re not liquidating the collection, there may be a small charge to that. But for somebody who’s working with a collection with us, we’ll do that cost basis work at no charge.
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Okay.
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So helping you figure out, okay, did you buy it? What year approximate? Then I can go and do some research, figure out what the price of gold, what the price of silver was, and then put those numbers together for you.
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Is there a limit to things you can’t do, in other words, value-wise? If somebody’s out listening and they’ve been doing this for years and years and years and they’ve got a million bucks or more of things that they’ve acquired, is there a limit to what you can help with?
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No, not really. It’s just time. You know, it’s just kind of figuring out what they have. And, you know, every collection is different. You know, it’s, you know, obviously some are more value, less value, more intricate, more numismatics or high grade rare coins. And, you know, sometimes people just have straight bullion, Krugerrands, Maple Leafs, American Gold Eagles, that kind of thing. So, yeah, just give us a call. You know, we’re happy to kind of walk you through that and figure out, you know, how complicated it would be and what would be a good strategy to go about that.
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And for those of you listening, it’s not just coins and things like this. It can be coins, jewelry, watches, anything along those lines, right?
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Yeah, we really like working with the watches. So if you’ve got really the high-end stuff, the low-end stuff, we’re very, very good with the Rolexes, the Patek Philips, the Omegas, that kind of thing. In fact, we are expanding our watch side of the business right now. So, yeah, bring it in. We’d be happy to look at it, go through it with you, and yeah.
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Okay. And then also, a question I had for you was, because people maybe don’t even realize, you know, how much they have. And I get it. You can get a little scale, even a food scale, and throw all your gold on there and start doing some measurements and so on. But on average, you know, you take the average type, you know, pendant and necklace that goes with it, and let’s say it is, in fact, you know, real gold. It’s not some fool’s gold or anything, but it actually is, you know, real gold. It’s not plated. It’s actual real gold. On average, weight-wise, what does that typically come out to be?
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And I know it varies a lot. Yeah, very much so. But let me say this. First off, we’ll help you identify what is it. Is it 10 karat? Is it 14 karat? Is it 18 karat? How pure is it? And men’s rings are obviously more valuable because we wear bigger rings. But I will say this, that people are floored more often than not when they bring in a little baggie of this, that, or the other. And, you know, I have to pick people up off the ground every once in a while because they’re like, how much? You know, how much really? You know, and that $3,000, you know, $3,400 an ounce. It doesn’t take a lot, does it? It does not.
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I mean, sometimes people… I mean, an ounce, if you think about it, an ounce doesn’t weigh…
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a lot that’s 31.2 grams it’s i mean we you know you throw that number on you think ounce and if you think about an ounce coin and how how that you know what size that is it’s not as big as most people would think in their mind yeah and gold gold is a very dense metal so when you hold gold in the palm of your hand you know it um but again uh you know bring that stuff in let’s go through it even if you’re not quite ready um you know just to figure out what you have but yes a little bit of gold goes a really, really long way in terms of putting a few bucks in your pocket for sure.
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The other thing I was going to throw at some of you listening, too, that might have elderly parents, and this might be something just to think about family-wise, where, hey, mom and dad, maybe they are at that point where you guys are just trying to make decisions as a family and so on. But maybe mom and dad are still in good shape and they can travel and do some things and so on. But maybe the cash sides of things maybe has been hindering them from doing maybe that last big cruise or something along those lines. Well, you know, you may have enough of this kicking around the house that you could turn that to cash and all still go half. And here’s my point with that. you all taking a family cruise type fun event will be far more memorable for all of you on down the road than any of that jewelry will ever be i’m sorry to say but that’s just how that works david indeed yeah no i i think that’s a great idea to enjoy but you know sometimes again people just don’t know the value of what they don’t think it’s there wait a minute i didn’t know that there was eight ten thousand dollars no no offense the kids may not even know what all’s there
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Indeed.
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So this is where you have to sort of – for those of you that are listening where it’s not even mom and dad listening, but you may be one of the kids’ siblings, you may be needing to sort of prod this along a little bit and say, hey, mom and dad, by the way, what all is in the jewelry box and kicking around? I mean, you don’t wear a lot of it anymore. In fact, as a society, David, most people don’t even wear the amount of jewelry that a lot of folks did in the 40s and 50s and 60s, and you get where I’m going with that.
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Absolutely.
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Unless you’re some big – Gold chain celebrity, you know, most don’t wear the amount of jewelry that they used to. So some of that stuff does just sit in a box over time. And, you know, mom and dad might have a lot more sitting in there than you ever realized.
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Yeah. And that’s very true with the watches as well. We don’t need the watches.
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No, we don’t.
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We carry cell phones.
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And even smart watches like I’m wearing and you are. I mean, even I’m a watch guy. I wear a smart watch the majority of the time. I have not seen the Rolex that tracks my steps yet. Yeah, not yet. Yeah. Well, probably not, because I don’t think that’s the thing that they will ever get into for obvious reasons. But, no, great point. Again, folks, those of you listening, Mile High Coin. David would love to sit down and chat with you. It’s a very, how should I say this, David, secure. It’s a solid environment. You’re not walking into a pawn shop or those all sorts of other nefarious individuals running around that might be overlooking your shoulder and so on. That’s not the environment at all. This is a one-on-one appointment that you do it.
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You’ll be coming into our conference room. It’s very pleasant. We’ve never, ever had a complaint. We have more positive Google ratings than any coin company in Colorado. Yeah, you’ll come into the conference room. We’ll have a conversation. And people sell when they’re ready to sell.
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Right.
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You know, we deal with a lot of estates. So, you know, sometimes there’s three, four, five siblings. There’s attorneys. There’s accountants. Right. So come in. We’ll figure out what you have. And, you know, we’ll just kind of take it one step at a time. Okay.
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For those of you listening, 720-370-3400. You can also go to RushToReason.com, KLZRadio.com. Either way, find David that way as well. But give him a call. Round up what you’ve got. Set an appointment and figure out what you want to do next. Thanks, John. David, always a pleasure. I’ll get my stuff. I’m doing the same thing. Sounds good. I’ll be seeing you shortly. David Gonzalez, again, Mile High Coin. And Charlie, can we switch that around really quick and just put him next since he’s coming up here in this block anyways, and we’ll just do that. So, again, Mile High Coin, 720-370-3400. And David Gonzalez, just give him a call. He’ll make an appointment. You guys can sit down, chat, and get things dialed in. So he is next, Mile High Coin.
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People often receive a collection after the passing of a loved one and trusting someone with that collection can be difficult. This is David Gonzalez at Mile High Coin and with 37 years of experience in the precious metals and coin industry, I guarantee that you will be pleased with our process regardless of whether or not you choose to sell your collection. We are highly trusted and highly rated. We will take the time to help you understand what type of collection you have as well as its value. Our goal is to educate you so that you can make an informed decision. At Mile High Coin, we understand the various situations which may have brought you to the place of needing or wanting to sell your collection. I appreciate the importance of right timing, so I will never pressure you to sell. People sell when they’re ready to sell. Oftentimes, there are estate planning issues that involve multiple family members and attorneys, and we can provide information needed to assist in that process. A coin or jewelry collection can be a burden, and we are here to simplify something that can be quite complicated. We offer a no-charge… complimentary evaluation and appraisal for all of our KLZ listeners, even if you’re not quite ready to liquidate. Call us today at 720-370-3400 or visit our website milehighcoin.com to get more information. We look forward to meeting you and seeing your collection.
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Country. Reason. Now back to John Rush.
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All right, we are back. Question of the day from Friday. Name the animal whose tongue can weigh as much as an elephant. That would be the blue whale. And today’s impossible question is who wrote Critique of Pure Reason? Who wrote Critique of Pure Reason? of pure reason. Again, I want to thank David for coming in again, David Gonzalez. I had a text message from somebody a moment ago talking about the very thing we were talking about in regards to folks and collections and so on. In this particular case, this texter was saying that they had went through things even after things had kind of been dispersed from their dad and found another $40,000 worth worth of coins and things like that after things had already been kind of dispersed out to the kids so yes very important to get these things done and appraised and handled on the front side that’s a great example thank you by the way for texting that in because that’s exactly the things we’re talking about with david just a few minutes ago so get that stuff dialed in sooner than later all right and other changes May 7th, so Wednesday, if you are traveling, this is a PSA. It’s been all over the news, so you’ve probably already heard it. But as a reminder, if you are going to travel, all… Not just certain ones, but all TSA checkpoints will now be requiring you to have real ID. I’ve talked about this a little bit on the National Crawford Roundtable. Bob Duco and I did. And I frankly don’t have a problem with real ID. Now, a lot of folks I think do. And there’s even some conservatives out there that are, you know, this is too big brotherish and, and, and, and, and. I don’t see it that way. I look at this more of this is a way to protect not only your identity, but as we get down the road and might have, as in the case of I believe Wyoming now has passed a law whereby ID will be required to vote. I want things to be less duplicatable. So that’s why I don’t have a problem with Real ID. Real ID is making licenses less duplicable, less fakes running around, in other words. Much like they’ve done different things with our dollars, with our currency, dollar bills, $100 bills especially, but even 20s. The reason why they do that is to make them harder to counterfeit. Real ID is also a way to help the counterfeiting, if you would, of identification. And as we go to where those of us, myself… who want people to identify themselves before they vote. In other words, I want voter ID. I am a proponent of, you guys have heard me talk about that numerous times, and no, it’s not discriminatory in any way, shape, or form. We use ID for all sorts of other things, including flying. So why is it so hard to use that to vote? It isn’t. But there’s a particular party out there that says it’s discriminatory when, in fact, it’s not. So my point is, if we’re going to require and hopefully get more and more states on board with voter ID, I want those IDs to be less duplicatable, less fakes. That make sense to everybody, I hope? So that’s why I don’t – this is not a problem for me. Even though there’s a lot of conservatives that don’t want it, and this Real ID thing has been kicked down the road. That can’s been kicked down the road for a very, very long time. I believed it was first pass. Charlie, don’t quote me on this, but I think like 05 or 06 or – it’s a long time. I think 20 years almost they’ve kicked this can down the road. So it’s now come to fruition starting May 7th, which is Wednesday. For you to travel anywhere, you need to make sure that you’ve got a real ID. Now, Colorado’s been doing real ID now for quite some time. And even though some will say, well, it’s hard to get a real ID, a real ID ID. No, it’s not. No, it’s not. In fact, here in Colorado, the last time I renewed my ID, I don’t believe I had to give them any other proof of anything, citizenship or otherwise. The ID that I got was the new ID. It just came that way. My wife, same situation. We both have real IDs because as they renewed, that’s just what automatically came. Now, I do think that as you get an ID on the front side, there’s going to be more verification of who you are versus how it’s been in the past. Again, all the more reason why I’m in favor of this. And I get it. There’s going to be some conservatives out there that look at this as too Big Brother-ish. I’m not one of those, mainly because I want some of the other things that we just mentioned earlier when it comes to voting and things along those lines. So I just want to throw that in. That’s sort of a PSA. If you’ve been putting that off or you haven’t checked your ID and you really haven’t looked, but you’ve got a trip coming up. Now, here’s the other thing. If you have a passport, this is something that they’re not telling you, and it’s something I wish they would add in. For those that may not have a real ID and have not had time to go and get one of those from your DMV, if you have a passport, that works as well. You can travel anywhere you want, even inside of the United States, with a passport only and no driver’s license, and you’re just fine. That passes as a government-issued ID. Not everybody has a passport is the issue. Some go there, my folks, I mean, they went their entire life never having one. Some people never get one. So if you have a passport, you don’t really need real ID. You just need to make sure you take your passport with you when you travel. On the same token, if you’ve gotten real ID, you’ve received that already, you’ve gone through that process, there’s no big deal. On the same token, though, if you don’t have real ID nor have a passport… You will need to do something to make sure that you can fly because otherwise you will not be able to fly. They will not let you. Also, I read in my notes on this that if you have TSA pre-check, you will have to use a designated checkpoint. Otherwise, you have to go through this whole screening process. So those of you that have TSA pre-check, you kind of know what I mean by that. That’s pretty easy. Okay. Something else I wanted to mention here as we roll in today, we’ve got another guest joining us here at 3.30, and it may come back to this particular topic. There’s a lot of folk on the Internet. quote-unquote influencers. Some of you might even follow a gentleman by the name of, he goes by the name of Mr. Global. That’s his handle on TikTok, YouTube, and other places. And Mr. Global predicted over the weekend that because OPEC is upping their production 400,000 barrels a day that we would see an oil collapse today and even a lot of folks in the oil industry without a job today. I predicted over the weekend Mr. Global would be dead wrong, even though he’s a pretty sharp guy. He’s dead wrong. That hasn’t happened. Prices have come down to below $60 a barrel, but they’ve been hovering around there anyways. And Mr. Global has been completely wrong on this one. He’s he’s right on a lot of things, by the way, but he has been dead wrong when it comes to oil crashing. And I get again, I can get into more of that at a later time. Maybe as we get through the show, I’ll get into a little bit more of that. But my point is, just because somebody is an influencer and claims to be a quote unquote expert doesn’t mean they’re they’re all knowing. And the problem with Mr. Global is he’s a total lefty. And he brings his leftist views into things at times where he should leave those on the sideline and think about things in a more rational way versus thinking about them from his political standpoint. Joe, what’s going on?
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John, I understand you’ve got a guest coming on in two minutes. I’ll make it quick. Misconceptions about real ID. Number one, you don’t need to be a citizen to get a real ID. If you’re here in a student visa, H-1B, married to a U.S., you know, you get a green card, you can get a real ID license. So it is not… Now, unfortunately… In some states like New Jersey, when I moved here, I gave them a Colorado license, which, by the way, I don’t recall having to prove I was a citizen to get my Colorado license. And when I went to get my New Jersey license, on the application form, there was a little box in the bottom. Would you like to be automatically registered to vote in New Jersey? And then it says, if yes, would you like to affiliate with a particular political party? You had yes, no, other, whatever. So I became registered to vote in the state of New Jersey with zero proof of citizenship in this country.
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Yep. All because you were there to get a license.
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Just because. And that’s a common thing. Would you like to be registered to vote?
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Right.
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Now, I don’t know how many states now ask for proof of citizenships, but I know at least in New Jersey.
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Depends on the color of the state, Joe.
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Yeah, color of the state. I’m serious.
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Are you blue or red? That’s really what it boils down to.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right. But anyway, but you don’t need to be a citizen to get it. People say, well, if you have a real ID, that means you’re a citizen. No, it doesn’t.
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It’s an identification thing is all it is.
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It’s all it is and doesn’t mean you’re a citizen. That’s right.
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So it shouldn’t be used for voter registration. There you go. Joe, appreciate you very much. Yep. Take care, man. Have a great rest of your day. Dr. Scott coming up next, by the way, Dr. Scott Faulkner. Scott, by the way, is there to help you. He hosted for me while I was gone. A great doctor. He is not beholden to big pharma or big insurance, as I talk about a lot. And you hear him talk about the things that he does in his practice. And he’s got things that no one else is doing in the medical world, from his hyperbaric chamber to umbilical-derived stem cells to on down the line we go. Scott is there to help you, and he would love to be your doctor. 303-663-6990.
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The best export we have is common sense. You’re listening to Rush to Reason.
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All right. One thing, too. You guys are texting in. A lot to do with David from MahiCoin on different things that have happened inside of your own family and so on, which I appreciate, by the way. And… One thing that somebody made mention of, which I mean, I really hadn’t thought much about it. And maybe some of you haven’t either. This was a particular situation where a family member had a lot of older belt buckles that had been won for various things. Must have been a rodeo person or something along those lines, of course. And some of the belt buckles actually were very valuable. They had a lot of gold and silver in them, making them, in this case, worth a solid five-digit figure. In other words, these things were definitely worth looking at, getting appraised, finding out exactly what the value was, and so on. So, again, those are the sorts of things where… If you’ve got those kicking around the house and you’re thinking, hey, maybe there’s some value here and we should check this out and determine what it is and then determine what you want to do from that point forward, a great way for a lot of you that are out there looking at this end of things, estate-wise, family-wise, and so on, yes, definitely get together with David and get that figured out. Okay, back really quick because I’ve got some time now. We’re waiting for our guest. He may or may not show. We’ll see how that goes. Either way, I’ve always got plenty to talk about. On the oil price end of things. Mr. Global. who, by the way, I watch periodically. I don’t follow him because his politics and I do not agree, and he gets off on these tangents at times that, I hate to say this, ruin his credibility because he brings too many politics into what he talks about factually speaking when it comes to gas and oil, and he’s a big global warming guy, which, again, when you start going down that path, the other day he had a video out talking about we’ve got to get to net zero, which there’s No such thing. And he’s a smart guy. When it comes to gas and oil, some of those things, he’s a pretty smart individual. When people start talking about net zero, it’s non-achievable. There is no such thing. And I’ve talked about that before on this program, and some of you even texted in and tried to argue with me on that. Folks, there’s no argument there. There is no such thing as net zero. And some of you that have argued with me, some of you on the left that have argued with me, talk about credits and offsets and things like that. Folks, you can’t use that. There is no such thing as net zero. When it comes to what’s put into the environment, there is no net zero. So anybody that talks that way, right off the bat, I have to discredit them because they have no idea what they’re talking about. They haven’t thought through the whole process. Even Mr. Global, who is a petroleum expert, hasn’t thought through it because there is no such thing. Every single thing that gets made requires energy, typically in the form of petroleum, to get built. And I don’t think we’ll ever get to a day and age – in my lifetime anyways, maybe beyond my lifetime, maybe some big discovery will come along in the next 25, 30 years that will change that, but I highly doubt it. And here’s the reason why I highly doubt it. Oil is still one of the most reliable and cheapest things we have to use to make our lives better and to keep the world running. And I know people on the left hate hearing that. But that’s the reality. It is one of the easiest, literally cleanest, cheapest things we have to keep the world propelled and moving forward. As much as even folks in the petroleum world like Mr. Global don’t want to admit, that’s the reality. And so somebody that would come along and say, we have to achieve net zero when it comes to what we’re putting out into the climate, into the atmosphere. Okay, so you’re doing that by, what, wind and solar and other sorts of things that, you know, other types of alternative energies that might enable to power things. But, again, the thing that they all forget, even Mr. Global, is you need oil to make those. Without petroleum, those things don’t get made initially. Even as clean as nuclear is, which, yes, I love nuclear as well. You guys all that have listened to me any length of time, we’ve missed the boat on that. We should have been powering this entire country right now off of nuclear. Maybe not the only form of electricity, but you could have made it a major, major carrier of the grid in America had we done that and should have done that. Even it takes petroleum to make happen. And what I mean by that is you have to have trucks and all sorts of things to get the plant built in the first place. And even after it’s built, there’s a lot of maintenance that’s required that involves people to be there, that people involve oil to get them there, and even things inside of the plant, the plastics and things like that, the electronics, and on and on and on we go. All of it, the concrete that it takes to even build those places, all of it requires petroleum. You’re not getting away from it. Even the cleanest form of energy, nuclear, requires petroleum to get it online and complete it and maintain. That’s the other thing, too, that the left will never talk about is these things don’t just get built and left. Even solar panels, even a wind farm, they don’t get built and left. They all require maintenance. And in the case of a wind generator, a windmill, they have got tons of petroleum products inside of said windmill that keep things lubricated and cooled and so on. You’ll never hear any of that from the left, by the way. All they’ll tell you and tout to you is how much it’s saving. At the end of the day, it’s not. It’s not. The average windmill, by the time it even comes close to breaking even, is seven years. So if that windmill lasts 10, 12 years, which, by the way, the life expectancy isn’t much more than that, you might actually have some positive gain in year seven. If I’m wrong on that, please give me the data. Please back it up. Just don’t spout it off. Just don’t text me and tell me that I’m wrong. I want proof. And by the way, I’ve looked for that proof. And here’s the other problem that the wind, you know, the solar and wind generation end of things have. Their data sucks. Their data sucks because they don’t include a lot of the things that I just talked about. How much concrete does it take to put the actual windmill up? Same thing with the solar farm. What does it take to actually build them from the ground up? How much petroleum is being used from day one? From the very minute you start the design of said project, how much petroleum is being used? None of them factor that in. And if somebody listening can find one that includes that, I would love to see it. Because every single study I’ve ever run, they exclude that conveniently, by the way. Conveniently. Every Harvard-type study that goes into talking about what you save with wind and solar, they never include what I just talked about. And again, I say conveniently, because if they did, it would blow their formulas out of the water. So they don’t include it. If you want data to prove something, exclude certain things that disprove your theory, your synopsis, and off you go. And that’s what they do. I put a challenge out 20 years ago on Drive Radio. Maybe even longer than 20 years ago. all the way when I was over on another station that I won’t mention, not here on KLZ. And I challenged anybody at that time to prove to me, because Priuses were coming out, and that was a big deal at that time, and people were talking about the savings that they would have and how good it was for the environment and blah, blah, blah. And they were touting that. Toyota even touting that as one of their marketing things with that particular car. And I said at the time that you could take your 15-mile-to-the-gallon F-250 – And drive it for the rest of your life and not use the amount of oil that it takes to even build the Prius in the first place. Not counting the battery, the mining of what it takes to get the ingredients into the battery and so on. I’m just talking the sheer car itself and what it takes to build said car. You could literally drive that F-250 the remainder of your and its life and not use what it takes to build that one Prius. And I challenged anybody to prove me wrong. 20 plus years ago, no one has yet. Again, because nobody equates what I’m talking about in regards to how the item gets built in the first place and the amount of oil that that takes. They never factor that in. All they talk about is, well, the Prius will save this much per gallon on fuel or this much fuel over its lifetime and blah, blah, blah. And there’s where the savings is. That’s not how it works, folks. I mean, it is to them, but that’s not how it works in real life. Because the item has to still get built. And the item can’t get built without petroleum, without the gas and oil industry. It’s that simple. So I could be completely wrong. Maybe there’ll be some huge advancement that will come along before I die. I’m 60. If I live to be 90, what’s that, 30 more years? I highly doubt in 30 years much changes in this world in that regard. And the reason I say that is because we’re getting more efficient at how we use petroleum products… It does still power the world. That will not change. There’s a certain amount of things we just have to have when it comes to lightweight materials, plastics, composites, and so on. And all of that comes from petroleum. And on top of that, we power our vehicles with it. And it’s been proven over and over and over again. Even as much as EVs are fun to drive and they’re great and there’s a thrill there and so on, they do not replace a gas or diesel engine vehicle. Not for the practicality of things they do not. Period. Period. Yes, I get short trips, people around town and so on. EVs might be great. They’re fun. It’s an exhilaration to drive all of that. I’m driving a test car this week, a Lexus. It’s not an RX. It’s a version of an RX, only it’s all electric. Don’t quote me on this because I don’t have the paperwork in front of me, and I just started driving it. But it’s their little RX series, only it’s all electric. And I will tell you, is it fun? Is it nice? Is it a good car and all of that? Yeah. Its range sucks. I’ll talk about that in my review next week, but the range on it is not good. At any rate, will EVs completely replace the gas and diesel-powered vehicle? No, I said that from day one, and I own one. I can attest to this. I know how they work. I know the limitations of them. And the problem is we had too many politicians, too many lefties pushing them, and you can’t push products on people. That doesn’t work. Not in a quote-unquote free market here in America, that doesn’t work. Government should stay out of it, and when they try to get into it, all they do is screw it up, and that’s what they did with EVs. And this is the sad part of EVs, because I’m not against EVs, as you guys all know. I think they serve a purpose for certain people. Unfortunately, because of government interference… and so many people getting soured on them, government actually is going to drive sales down, not up. And I said that from day one. They will hurt EV sales, not help them. And again, some folks might argue with me on that, but prove I’m wrong. You can’t. If government had gotten out of the way and just let the free market decide whether they want EVs or not and which ones they want and how many of them they want and how fast do they want them and so on, they would have sold. And they’d still sell. But when government interferes and tries to shove them down your throat and make it a mandate, it doesn’t work. And it’s something in Colorado that’s going to have to be considered, by the way, with the next governorship and how that’s being run, because Polos will be going out. And the next governor on our side needs to run on changing some of that around, not mandating certain things as a state, but letting the free market take its course. Again, something that you’re not really hearing on our side that we should be. That’s a whole other conversation for another day that, you know, maybe even Andy and I can get into. But those are talking points that our next governor on our side needs to be talking about. Letting things flow the way they should be naturally and not trying to force feed them. Cub Creek Heating and Air Conditioning coming up next. One thing is for sure, if you’ve got any problems at all with your HVAC or AC system, please give, which that includes your HVAC system. If you’ve got any problems at all, please give Cub Creek a call today. Find them at klzradio.com.
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Now back to Rush to Reason on KLZ 560.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Joe sent me this, but I’d seen a little bit on this as well. coinciding with what I was talking about in regards to oil and different things along those lines. Another global warming prediction bites the dust. A new report based upon satellite data. showed that from 2001 to 2023, the Antarctic ice sheet actually gained an average of 108 gigatons of new ice every year for the three-year period. But we’ve been told, by the way, that it’s shrinking. We keep being told it’s shrinking. Every year it shrinks, shrinks, shrinks, shrinks, shrinks. Going back to what I talked about when it comes to oil and all of that, The left, by the way, will never give up on this whole climate end of things because it’s a money grab. They have gotten people so fearful of it and have figured out a way to extract dollars from individuals that it’s not going away anytime soon. Remember, it went from global warming to climate change because it was proving that global warming wasn’t as outlandish as what they all said. In fact, in certain situations, it may not have even warmed at all. Certain areas, it may be up half a degree or a degree when it’s all said and done, which, by the way, in the grand scheme of things, is nothing. It’s zilch. But they will not let that go because, again, it’s a huge way of extrapolating dollars. And those that are in favor of it, you really need to go look at the money end of things and follow it and really determine, you know, why am I behind this? Do I really believe this is happening? Because when you start looking at. The money end of it and the data and things like what I just read to you about some of these reports that are out there that really disprove what a lot of climate change activists think. They’re just flat dead wrong. Am I a climate denier? I’m a denier in the fact that I don’t want to extract money from one person to another just because somebody thinks the temperature has gotten a little bit warmer. So in that regard, I guess you could say I’m a denier because it is not that big of a deal that we need to be extracting trillions upon trillions of dollars from folks and putting it towards things that are supposedly countering this when, in fact, it’s doing nothing. And another thing I’ll say is until you get the entire world, the entire world, China included, on board with cleaning up what they’re doing, it doesn’t make a hill of beans bit of difference what we as a country do. We have done more as a country, frankly, to clean up the environment than any other country has. And yet the predictions still are that nothing has changed. So, you know, rest my case on that end of things until the whole world gets behind this. And no, I’m not talking about the Paris Climate Accord and stupid things like that, because that’s one of those things where, again, all we’re doing is being, you know, extracted money as a country and funneling that into the Paris Climate Accord when other countries are not fulfilling what they should be doing. And again, as usual, we get left holding the bag. Something Trump right now is trying to change. One last thing, I may talk about this next hour, but there’s a particular talk show host here in town, I will not name names, that for some odd reason thinks he’s an expert on tariffs because he used to be on Wall Street. But unfortunately for this particular talk show host, he’s never written a payroll check in his life. And I always struggle listening to people be experts when it comes to economic things, especially tariffs, that have never written a payroll check. have no idea how things on the street actually work i struggle listening to people that again claim to be experts but have never done that end of things so you know what some of you listen to this particular individual more power to you i i for one will not refuse to well i don’t listen to anybody by the way not not only that person but really i don’t listen to anybody because a i don’t want to pick up anybody else’s bad habits i have enough bad habits of my own i don’t need any more Number two, my own fresh ideas. I’m not going to grab something from somebody else that’s out there. I was talking to somebody Saturday night about this. I don’t listen to podcasts. I don’t do anything else in my spare time. As far as that end of it goes, I’ll listen to some music here or there. I’ll listen to a lot of audio books, as you all know, for the Ready Radio end of things that I do. But I don’t listen to anybody else. I don’t watch news. I don’t watch TV. I don’t want to be corrupted by anything else out there. I don’t even watch the Sunday morning roundtables that are out there for all of the media shows. I don’t even know what they’re called because I don’t watch them. I just don’t do any of that because I don’t want to be corrupted by what somebody else thinks. I do watch a few quote-unquote experts, influencers, whatever, like the Mr. Global guy that I was talking about that does understand the petroleum industry, and I do listen to him because of the ins and outs, mechanically speaking, of how that industry works. But again, Mr. Global gets it way off at times because he lets his political views cloud his judgment. And I failed to mention this, but OPEC agreed to raise – production 400,000 barrels a day, and all of a sudden Mr. Global thinks that’s going to crash the oil market. I want to remind everybody, I looked this up last night, we use roughly, we’re above this now, but we use 20 million barrels of oil a day as a country. Just us, just the United States of America. So do you think that 400,000 barrels of extra production per day are going to crash the oil markets? It may have an effect. It may lower the price of oil a little bit. But at the end of the day, 400,000 barrels is not making a dent in anything, by the way. So, again, Mr. Global, and again, it’s proven because today the day is gone for the East Coast. And no, nobody’s out peddling the streets looking for a new job because they got fired because of what oil prices did today. And that’s what Mr. Global predicted yesterday, by the way. So Mr. Global has been completely debunked as far as that goes. He’s wrong. He’s going to have to come out and probably make some other video on what happened and give you his reasoning as to why. But that’s typically what these guys do. Well, if this would have happened, then that would have happened. And these guys always try to backtrack and prove that they’re right when, in fact— They’re dead wrong. Paul Leuenberger is coming up next. One person that’s not wrong when it comes to insurance and saving you money is my good friend, Paul Leuenberger, who would love to help you with all of your insurance needs. He’ll shop what’s best for you, 303-662-0789.
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All right, that’s it for this first hour heading into the first week of May, first full week of May. And, man, where do the months go? And they just roll by super fast. That’s all I can say. So, all right, we have got somebody coming on hopefully here at 4 o’clock that’s going to talk about the Department of Education and different things along those lines when it comes to classroom education and so on and how that would, you know, the shutting down of the department, how that will affect things. We’ll talk to him in a moment. Don’t go anywhere. Hour 2 is next. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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