In this week’s episode, John Rush doesn’t shy away from addressing pressing socio-cultural phenomena, from entitled behavior observed abroad to the shifting paradigms of parenting. Listen as John paints a vivid picture of his holiday experiences, delivering sharp critiques with humor and honesty. The discussion pivots towards festive season scams, shedding light on counterfeit stamp scams that might catch the unobservant. Every segment is an invitation to reflect on daily life decisions in the context of personal and financial wellbeing.
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All right. Happy Monday, everybody. Welcome Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Yes, I am here live today. I know some of the promos said that I would not be. Change of plans on my part. So, yes, I am here live today and will be, should be throughout the week and, you know, pending any kind of, Small disasters, life changes, all sorts of things. That’s all I can say. And those of you that just know some of my personal things that are going on in my world with my folks and so on, things happen. And for those of you that have elderly parents, you know exactly what I mean by that. So all I can say is I understand fully when things happen that are unexpected. Let’s just say that. So question of the day. There was not one. From Friday, but today’s on November 30th, 1876. The first Thanksgiving college football game was played. Name the two teams. I would not have gotten this one. So that is today’s impossible question of the day. Answer this on our Facebook page. All right. Charlie always asks me, observations from vacations. He highlights things like that. Well, didn’t really, with everything that kind of happened while I was gone and why I’m back early, I didn’t really get the chance to observe things like I normally would have. Frankly, didn’t even get a chance to really kind of unwind like I normally would. But it’s all good. Not complaining. Just life happens at times. But some observations. And maybe this is just my observations. But… I feel like and I’m sure that other countries feel the same way about us because you hear these comments from time to time. But it sure seems to me like foreigners are entitled. And what I mean by that is they just act like there’s certain things owed to them and or they ignore certain things because they’ll act like I can’t read or understand or whatever the case may be. And by the way, when I mean foreigners, I was in a place where there’s people from all over the world, not just, you know, our border area. countries like we have here in the U.S., but I was in a part of the country where there’s foreigners coming from all over the world, and they just feel, to me anyways, entitled. And I was even talking to some of the waitstaff and others around that particular topic, and I don’t think I’m the only one. You always feel you always hear that comment that European folks feel like we’re that way as Americans when we go overseas. And, you know, maybe they are. And I would hope that we wouldn’t act like that. But this particular trip in particular, it just seems to me like and I say foreigners, people that are not from the United States of America. Just act entitled. And then this one I talk about all the time because it’s true. And every time I go someplace, especially over a holiday like I just did, parenting is not what it used to be. Let’s just say that. Parenting is not what it used to be. There’s a name for it now, and I’m not going to say this correctly, but there’s this softer parenting, this kinder, gentle parenting, which, by the way, I was not raised by, nor did I raise my kids that way. And I look at some of these kids today, and frankly, they’re little monsters. To the point where I like kids. I raised a bunch of kids, have a bunch of grandkids and so on. I’m getting to the point where I only like my own kids. I really don’t like anybody else’s kids because most of them are not well-behaved. Now, if a really nice, well-behaved… Child comes along or children come along. You know, I’m OK with that. I can deal with that. And occasionally you’ll see that you can really tell that, you know, mom and dad are on top of things. But this whole kinder parenting thing is a bunch of nonsense. I’ll just tell you that straight up. I don’t know what it’s going to be like 20, 25 years from now when these kids are in their mid to late 20s. Because the kids I’m talking about are anywhere from age 4 to 10. So what’s it going to be like when they’re 25 to 35? I think it’s going to be really difficult for them, even more so than previous generations that have sort of been parented in the same way. But this whole kinder, gentler parenting is a bunch of nonsense. There’s a reason Scripture’s pretty clear on this. Spare the rod, spoil the child? Yeah, because kids need discipline. And I get it. That can be done over, you know, that can go overboard. I understand that. And I’m not talking about discipline that exceeds what’s right and what’s wrong. You know, what exceeds what’s right, I should say. And when it exceeds that, yes, it’s wrong. I’m not talking about child abuse because, yes, that can happen. And I’m not talking about that. But holy cow, when I was a kid growing up, I got paddled, I got spanked, I had corporal punishment, and I’m fine. My kids did the same, and they’re fine. This whole, you know, how are you feeling and, you know, what’s going on right now, talking to a four- and five-year-old about that is utter nonsense. And, yes, I observed some of that on vacation, which my wife and I just look at each other and shake our heads. It’s like, you know, where are we headed in this regard? So I always give you a highlight of times when I’m gone, and I don’t have a whole lot of other ones because I had other things going on while I was on vacation and really didn’t get a chance to observe some of the things that I would normally observe, you know, outside of my regular normal complaints. And you guys, you know, even text me these from time to time on the whole flying end of things. um it’s super expensive and it’s for the type of people that have a boatload of money but i can see why people fly private i can fully understand that if you’ve got a really busy lifestyle and you’ve got the sort of income that enables you to fly private i can see why people do because it’s getting to the point where i mean it’s been this way for years now but it’s getting worse and worse it’s a bus with wings It’s literally a bus with wings. And the way people treat the airplane is literally a bus with wings. And what I mean by that is the way they act, the way they dress, the way they behave. You know, I’ve said this for years, but when somebody enters the airport world, in this case, even in Denver, you start driving down Pena Boulevard, all common sense they may have had—I say may— escapes them because once they hit that inner circle of the airport, there’s no common sense left. People have, they just lose it. I get behind people at times in the security line. I think to myself, have you never been through security in your whole life? And by the way, these are people where if you know they have a TSA pre-check, because I do, and they’re in front of me, it’s like, okay, well, you fly enough to have that, so this isn’t your first experience, but yet you act like it is. Anyways, I could go on and on about the whole travel experience and how it’s getting worse and worse all of the time because there’s just more knuckleheads involved in it, I guess. I don’t know how to say it. And I get it. I see a lot more than probably most, especially when you travel over a Thanksgiving holiday and so on, which… For me, it just works out well because of the time of the year and what happens here in the radio world and so on with our guests and so on. It’s just an easy time for me to take off versus other times because most of the rest of our world does the same thing. But anyways… I won’t talk any more about that. You guys all text me different things at different times and even send me pictures of things that go on. So and I appreciate that very much, by the way. Thank you. All right. We’re going to talk about just for a moment because I’ve got a guest joining us at 330. It’ll talk more about it. But we’ll start off this next segment with Hunter Biden’s pardon. which Joe Biden himself said numerous times, the White House press secretary said numerous times, would not happen. We’ll talk about that here in just one moment. Golden Eagle Financial coming up next. Al Smith. I talked to Al today, especially as we’re entering in the latter part of the year now. And some of you will be looking at kind of that financial end of things, the planning of what’s 2025 going to start looking like. Do you know what it’s going to look like? Do you have a plan in place? 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Now back to John Rush. All right. Scams. I want to talk about this today. We’ve got another guest joining us here at the bottom of the hour. Before I do this, Joe sent me this, and there’s actually a link on the USPS.gov website. And that is actually U-S-P-I-S. That’s the inspection service. And reality is, don’t be scammed this Christmas season by scammers selling stamps. And you’ll get a lot of things, whether it be through social media or even coming into your inbox, might even get a text message on this. In other words, if you see that there’s some great deal on stamps, normally $100 and they’re half off. Well, you guys all know that’s not how it works. Postage is postage is postage. And unless you’re paying full price, they’re likely stolen, counterfeit, or you’re never going to receive them in the first place. So what’s that old saying? If it’s too good to be true, it probably is. That will be the case in regards to stamps. If you’re not paying face value for the stamp, they’re not correct. They’re not a real stamp. And I’m guessing—I didn’t read through all of this to find out what are the penalties— for using counterfeit stamps, but I don’t want to go down that path. I don’t think any of you do either. And these counterfeit stamps, there’s pictures of them here on the website. They’re pretty darn good. They’re hard to tell the difference is my point. So reality is just be wary if there’s significant discounts. Know that they could be either a scam. I mean, it’s a scam altogether. But it could be a scam to gain your info. Could be a scam in that they’re counterfeit. Or last but not least, they could, of course, be stolen. So bottom line, buy your stamps now. at USPS.com or go to your local post office, however you want to do that. And by the way, there’s all sorts of places that sell stamps as well. I believe King Soopers, Costco, Sam’s, you can buy stamps there as well. But again, if it looks like it’s some great deal, half off, It’s most likely some sort of a scam to gain something, or they’re going to send you product, but it’s counterfeit, meaning it’s no good anyways, and you just spent money that’s, you know, it’s good money after bad. You’re not going to be able to do anything with them anyways if they’re counterfeit. So bottom line, just realize that that scam is out there, and I talk about these on a pretty routine basis as we learn more and more of what’s going on out there. So, yeah, do not buy counterfeit stamps. Hi-Fi Plumbing is next. If you’ve got any kind of plumbing or electrical problem, don’t forget they do both now. It’s Hi-Fi Plumbing, 877-WE-HI-5.
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You’re listening to an encore segment of Rush to Reason with John Rush on KLZ 560.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Thanks for tuning in today, by the way, and I appreciate you all listening and the books we gave away during the first segment today and appreciate Mike coming in and joining us. And, yeah, again, I cannot talk highly enough about the book that he has authored. There’s more in the series coming out, so it’s one of those things where you’re going to want to get involved in that and then have those, you know, each series so that as you, you know, start reading to your – kids or grandkids or however you decide to do that it’s a great tool to teach kids to learn and it’ll just be a lot of fun for you and your family as well so again the adventures of jimmy and andrew and mike if you’re listening thanks again for being a part of what we do and and as you guys all know this is something near and dear to me just because of where we’re at on the educational end of things that i talk about on a routine basis here on Rush to Reason, the fact that we have got to get in gear when it comes to that end of things, because the reality is we are very behind as a country in regards to all of that, and we have got to figure out a way somehow, some way to get caught up, because we are definitely behind in that area. So Charlie’s doing his best to get our next guest, which we may not be able to get a hold of. And as we head down the stretch into the holidays, things like that can happen. Not a problem. All right. This came up actually Saturday on Drive Radio. And I want to go ahead and talk about it here. And I was going to do this anyways, but I was reminded of it on Saturday. saturday and you guys hear me talk a lot about what government should do what’s the proper role of government and different things regarding you know towns and cities and so on and i’ve got very distinct thoughts in a lot of areas when it comes to those things now this one i’ve talked about in the past and some of you all know exactly what i’m going to say when i get to this particular topic but that’s the town of morrison and they are disbanding their police department oh Oh, we have Mark. Okay, never mind. You know what? I’ll come back to that topic here in just one minute. Let’s talk to Mark next. Mark Gober. Mark, welcome. How are you, sir? I’m well. Thank you for having me. No, I appreciate it very much. And you are an author and end to the upside-down reset, the leftist vision for society under the Great Reset. And as we have a new president, actually the old president coming back, let’s say it that way, Mark, what do you envision along those lines?
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Well, I think many of the initiatives that we’ve heard about with regard to the Great Reset, which is the World Economic Forum’s vision for society laid out in 2020, I do think the new administration’s policies will likely stifle many of those Great Reset initiatives. However, I think it is important to keep in mind that these ideas have been put forward because they seem to be part of a long-term plan. Yep. And maybe for the next four years, we’ll have a bit of a shield. But I think we need to remain vigilant.
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Yeah, I’m with you. And I’ve had people even ask me that, Mark, you know, what do I think? How do I think things are going to look? Granted, I don’t have a crystal ball. I know you don’t either. But I really look at this as… I guess the great pause. Like you, I feel like these things have been set in motion for a long time. The Marxist movement and the globalist end of things, Mark, have been trying to infiltrate our country for some 60-plus years now. Yeah, there may be a pause here by this administration, and depending upon what happens in 2028, it might even continue. But the reality is we have got to be vigilant in that because, believe me, the other side isn’t going to stop.
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Yeah, that’s well put, and I think the Great Reset was an initiative – starting in 2020. And that was basically the new branding of something that’s been going on for a long time. And maybe the branding in the future will change, but the ideology is very similar.
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Yeah, intrinsically, and Mark, you know this as well as I, intrinsically, they don’t like us. I mean, the reality is, and the way I explain it all the time, is it’s good versus evil. And I know that a lot of folks might, you know, counter me on that because I’m not saying that, you know, one side of the part of the country, you know, one party is good versus the other side being evil. But the ideology and what those individuals think matters. I do believe markets good versus evil, and the reality is the other side is going to do everything they possibly can, whether they’re relabeling it or not. The core of it is they hate what we stand for, they hate America, they hate what we were founded on, and they want to see a significant change in all of that.
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The term that I’ve used in my books is spiritual war. So I see it in a very similar light. And I also use the term in this book and into the upside down reset, anti-human. That is the mentality of this ideology, that human beings are parasitic and we should try to control them rather than to allow them to be prosperous.
SPEAKER 03 :
That’s right. No, Mark, I say that constantly. The whole climate movement is very much what you just said. The reality is we are the scourge of the Earth. We should be purged. And if we are, then Earth comes back to normal, according to them, I should say.
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Yeah, I actually have a whole chapter on climate in the book, An End to the Upside-Down Reset. And you’re reminding me of a quote from a CNN technical director. He was filmed undercover by Project Veritas in 2021 saying, And he was talking about how at the time COVID was all the talk, that COVID would die down, and fear sells, and the next thing that had longevity, that was going to be climate. And it turned out he was right, and I do think it’s part of this anti-human mentality.
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Yeah, and Mark, you and I are, as you can tell, very much… on the same wavelength with all of this. I also, as you heard me say a moment ago, good versus evil. I believe very much that it is, in fact, a spiritual battle that’s going on. And I know a lot of folks would laugh at me for saying this, but literally it is a spiritual battle, not only for the soul of America, but for the souls of the individuals inside of America, Mark.
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Absolutely. I talk about this in the book. You’ve all know Harari, who’s been an advisor to the World Economic Forum. He has said things like the idea that there is a soul or spirit that’s over, paraphrasing. And this is the mindset, metaphysically, of the Great Reset. It’s not about a spiritual revolution to understanding the greater purpose of our existence, but rather it’s about getting rid of that and trying to control humanity.
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Yep. And again, I go back to Mark. This is the core of the Marxist movement. The reality is they replace God with government. Government becomes, you know, the ultimate end-all to be-all, end-all, and whatever they say goes, and you don’t need God any longer because government will take the place of. I mean, this is the core of that movement. That’s why I say it’s good versus evil, because any time you take God out of the equation, you’re evil.
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Yeah, and it’s offloading personal responsibility to others and just trusting an expert because that person has a degree, and that does inherently take a greater intelligence out of the picture spiritually. Yeah.
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So your whole thought on the book initially, I usually start with this with authors and why the book, but I kind of already know why because of everything we’re talking about. But on the same token, what made you finally sit down and write this so that we can get this awareness out to people?
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Well, I was very much politically agnostic until 2020. I didn’t know much about politics at all. And then given everything that happened, both with COVID and the election, there was no choice because having no opinion was basically an opinion. So I started looking very closely at what was happening. And I was pretty appalled by what I was seeing in terms of the authoritarian mindset from the left. And I have a very mainstream background. I went to Princeton undergrad. I worked in investment banking in New York. I spent a decade working in Silicon Valley. So many people that I respected and still respect intellectually were not seeing through the deception. And I just wanted to understand what was going on. So in this book, An End to the Upside-Down Reset, there are two segments that try to help other people see through what I was naive to until recently. Number one, I psychoanalyzed leftism as an ideology. And then the second part of the book is actually deconstructing this Great Reset agenda, because the language that’s used in Klaus Schwab’s book called COVID-19, The Great Reset, very flowery language. It sounds like the world’s going to be a better place. But I broke it down into six segments in terms of societal change that they want to see. Cultural, political, economic, environmental, technological and metaphysical. And I wanted to make this easy for other people to understand.
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When you decided that, hey, things aren’t quite right, this doesn’t make any sense, I need to do something about this. I mean, I guess main question mark is, was there one single thing that happened that really woke you up to what was going on, or was it a combination of?
SPEAKER 14 :
It was a combination and it was a continuation of patterns of the mainstream press putting out an idea and then looking at primary sources myself and seeing they weren’t telling the full story or in some cases completely deceiving people. And it was happening over and over again.
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And just so you know, throughout that, because I’ve been on air for a decade plus and literally we’re talking about all of covid from. Literally the, you know, two weeks to slow the spread on. I mean, you know, I can remember distinctly those times. And I even had some very great doctors and folks that were on with me that, you know, we started with very early that really started to set the record straight. They were some of those, you know, antis in the very beginning. And, of course, we were all called loons. And, you know, we didn’t, you know, our own governor called us selfish bastards. You know, we don’t know what we’re doing and we don’t want, you know, we don’t want the good of the whole and on and on we go. And the reality, Mark, is all of us, myself included, we were right there. They were wrong.
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That’s the irony of it, and we haven’t seen too many apologies. I haven’t gotten one.
SPEAKER 03 :
Really quick, Mark, I had people back then, even listeners, I mean, I would get into debates not only on air but off air, social media and so on. I literally had people saying things like, you know, you’re the reason why we are where we are, and we’d be better off without you. In other words, Mark, I should just die, and that should be the end of it. In other words, some folks even said, you should get COVID and die. Those are the kind of things I had to listen to back then.
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I’m somehow not surprised by that. It speaks to, I don’t know what to call it other than mind control or brainwashing that seems to remove all rationality.
SPEAKER 03 :
I call it a mental illness. Maybe that’s me being a little bit too generous, but to your point, these are individuals that really have allowed others to control them. They’re thinking about things in a non-real way, and they’ve been duped.
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Yes. But I do think there is an awakening happening. I mean, where we are today versus four years ago, the number of people who are able to ask questions about things. So I’m optimistic in that sense.
SPEAKER 03 :
I mean, you saw that in this last election. I mean, not only did Donald Trump win on the electoral side, he won the popular vote. A lot of people have literally woken up to hang on. You know, this whole wokeness end of things. And again, Mark, maybe they’re not.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, but I do think it’s just this pattern that people are having to wake up to, that they were told things that just aren’t true, and their mind has to just go with rationality at a certain point. I think there’s a long way to go, but I’m definitely encouraged.
SPEAKER 03 :
You know what? Everything you just said, I cannot argue. Now, this is where not only does your book come into play, what we do here on a regular basis as well, but to your point, really, as we started opening up the conversation, we can’t stop. I mean, this might be a pause, but unless we keep our foot on the gas pedal, it will die.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yes. It’s about the awareness of the individuals to me. It has to be grassroots because people have to, the authorities are going to put out whatever they put out, and it’s up to us to discern that. And through free information and allowing people to absorb things on their own, I think that’s the ultimate solution.
SPEAKER 03 :
Where do folks buy the book, Mark?
SPEAKER 14 :
It’s available on Amazon, and it’s in paperback, Kindle, and Audible format, and then to the Upside Down Reset.
SPEAKER 03 :
Awesome. Mark, as you can tell, you’re in great company. Anytime you want to come back, you let me know.
SPEAKER 14 :
Thank you so much. Thank you for all your work as well.
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This is an encore of Rush to Reason with John Rush on KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 05 :
Now back to Rush to Reason on KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 03 :
And we are back, Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Joe, what’s going on, sir?
SPEAKER 13 :
John, just a little more background on counterfeit stamps. Have you ever watched these shows, a contraband seized at the border to catch a smuggler?
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, yeah, yeah. I love that show, by the way.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, and one of the things I show is that there’s a booming business in, it’s coming from China, counterfeit stamps, you know, in the roll of 100. Now, here’s a quick, I know you’re not going to know, but your best guess. So let’s take an 18-inch by 18-inch by 12-inch deep box, which is about the size of two shoe boxes side by side, a package you could put under one arm. Okay. If you put that full of rolls of 100 first-class stamps, what do you think the value of that box that you have under your arm is?
SPEAKER 1 :
$20,000, $25,000?
SPEAKER 13 :
$85,000. Wow, $85,000.
SPEAKER 03 :
Huge.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, because, again, a roll of stamps, they’re one inch wide, and the roll is an inch and a half in diameter. So if you have an 18-by-18-inch box, you can have 144 per row. And since they’re only an inch deep, you could have eight.
SPEAKER 03 :
And they’re lightweight. That’s way different than even cash.
SPEAKER 13 :
Right, and the drug dogs can’t smell. Yeah, because it’s just paper. It’s just paper. Interesting. And they’ve been doing this. So, again, an 18 by 18 by 12-inch deep box has $85,000 worth of counterfeit stores. Amazing.
SPEAKER 03 :
And really quick, Joe, how accurate are they? I’m guessing pretty accurate.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, very, very accurate. I mean, you know, it doesn’t take much to make.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, it’s not like there’s a hologram or anything special when it comes to a stamp.
SPEAKER 13 :
Nope. And they’re showing to catch a smuggler. I mean, they’re coming in. And what’s happening— By the way, one of the things you missed, when they’re really cheap, they’re not going to send you any product.
SPEAKER 03 :
They get nothing. That’s right. All they’re doing is stealing your info. That’s all they’re doing.
SPEAKER 13 :
They just want your credit card. But when they’re selling you something for $39 or whatever, you know.
SPEAKER 03 :
Hat price, whatever.
SPEAKER 13 :
But these guys are buying these $85,000 worth of stamps for, you know, $500.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right, right. They are making a mother load on that.
SPEAKER 13 :
Right. Now, they’re not selling them for $85,000. Oh, no, no, no.
SPEAKER 03 :
They’re probably selling them for half that. But still, that’s a pretty good take, Joe.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, you pay $500 for a box of, you know, for $85,000 worth of fake stamps, and you sell them for $40,000, and you hit a home run.
SPEAKER 03 :
Shoot, Joe, if you were getting $10,000, you’d be a home run.
SPEAKER 13 :
I mean, you got nothing in it, basically. My Facebook page, every day these things are popping up, every single day.
SPEAKER 03 :
Which, you know, side note, you would think that that’s something, you know, they could monitor everything else through COVID that you and I might post, but they can’t monitor that.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah. And by the way, still are in a lot of ways. Well, you know, I report them as scams and the Facebook does take them down, but they have to wait for somebody to report them. And by the way, the Amazon pallet scam is back.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, geez. Yeah, buy your pallet of product that doesn’t exist.
SPEAKER 13 :
Of return product, right. Buy your pallet of return product. And they show this Photoshop picture. They show like 20 pallets. You know, each one five feet high, stacked with product for $79 a pallet.
SPEAKER 03 :
The AI stuff, just as a side note, too, for all of you listening, I was talking about this over the weekend. Reality, Joe, as you know, the AI stuff just continues to get better and better and better to the point where I’m not sure how you’re going to know the difference down the road.
SPEAKER 13 :
Right. And one of these pictures, by the way, they show these pallets in front of an Amazon warehouse, and all they’ve done is they’ve taken a picture of an Amazon warehouse with the big Amazon logo, sign up above the building, and then they Photoshop these pallets. And by the way, it’s the same three pallets with the same Photoshopped $79 yellow sticker sign. So it makes you believe that these pallets are parked out in front of an Amazon warehouse, and they’re all returned merchandise. Oh, and then they have, each one, they have 20 to 30 Rave reviews. Got mine yesterday. It had all this. And they’re fake. They’re fake profiles. And, in fact, if you go from one to the next, it’s the same fake reviews, even though the pop-up ad is different. It’s the same fake reviews, and you go to click on these profiles of these people. They’re all fake profiles.
SPEAKER 03 :
What’s that old saying, Joe, if it sounds too good to be true?
SPEAKER 13 :
Yep, you’re not going to get a pallet. Yeah, it is.
SPEAKER 03 :
I mean, you know, there’s no free lunch, Joe. I mean, anybody out there that thinks that, you know, either one of two things. Even if you get product delivered, it isn’t going to be anywhere as close to what they described you’re getting. So at the end of the day, no matter what, you’re going to get taken advantage of. Best bet, just steer away from them.
SPEAKER 13 :
Right. I got one more thing from your Saturday show. I couldn’t call in, but you’re talking about appraisals and stuff. You want a little more background on insuring your guns? Yeah, go ahead. So I did some research, and actually I did it myself. I forgot how much I paid. But the cost to insure guns is about $0.30 per $100. So if you have $10,000 worth of guns and you want to insure them, it’s going to be roughly $300 a year to insure $10,000 worth of firearms. But here’s the big thing you want to be careful. People forget about the optics. You can have a $600 rifle with a $350 scope on top or on pistols now. the big thing are these red dot optics on top. And red dots are $300 a piece. So if you are going to insure your guns, make sure you include the value of the optic. Because if you just say, well, here’s my list of guns I want to insure, and you forget that you have a Leopold 4×10 scope on your rifle, they’re going to pay you for the rifle, but they’re not going to pay you for the telescopic sight. So you need to specify… You know, boom, boom, .30-06 rifle with a 4×10 Leopold scope and then put that stated value in there. Otherwise, you’re not going to get it. Great point. It’s really inexpensive. I mean, $300 for $10,000 worth of coverage.
SPEAKER 03 :
Pretty good deal.
SPEAKER 13 :
Pretty good deal.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, not a bad idea at all. Well, really quick, Joe, before I let you go, one last thing. I haven’t had a lot of time to talk about it, but I’ll get to it maybe a little bit later, and that’s, of course, the whole shooting of the UnitedHealthcare CEO and even some now of what the news is saying. And I don’t know if you’ve been following along with any of that, but there are now some articles coming out, and I think some of these are, frankly, either wrong or they’re trying to mislead people into thinking this guy – printed his own gun. In other words, he’s got some sort of a ghost gun, and that’s not what I’ve seen at all as far as descriptions of the weapon and even what I’ve seen in some of the pictures.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, no, it’s certainly not a plastic gun, but there’s another type of ghost gun where you can buy the parts and then assemble the parts.
SPEAKER 03 :
But to my knowledge, Joe, unless I’m mistaken, have they found the gun at this point?
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, they found the gun. They found the gun.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, was that just today that they finally found that, or what? Because I hadn’t read that earlier.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, they found the gun. I was just watching the local New York City news here.
SPEAKER 03 :
And is it, in fact, a ghost gun, or…?
SPEAKER 13 :
That’s yet to be confirmed.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 13 :
But it is a regular semi-automatic pistol. They found him with his fake New Jersey driver’s license. He’s a young guy. He’s a University of Pennsylvania graduate. Saw that. Quite well off, by the way. Saw that, too. Lived in Hawaii. And he’s just angry at corporations. And if you want to see a bunch of sick people, there’s a Facebook site called Being Liberal. If you go on there, there’s 200 comments celebrating this guy. They’re setting up a defense fund forum. They’re saying, oh, it was self-defense. He was defending the lives of other people. This guy’s a hero. We need more just like him. John, it’s sick. Absolutely sick.
SPEAKER 03 :
Wow. Unbelievable, Joe. Yeah, and I’ve even heard, and for those of you that are conservatives, please be very, very careful in what you say and how you say things along these lines, Joe. I’ve even seen some conservatives say some things along the lines of, well, you know, these evil corporations, they make all this money and they deny these claims and they do this and they do that. And while that may be true, Joe, now is not the time or the place to talk about that after somebody’s been murdered.
SPEAKER 13 :
No, it isn’t. And then to celebrate this guy.
SPEAKER 03 :
That’s morbid.
SPEAKER 13 :
It’s absolutely morbid. I mean, it’s sad to say, not only sad, but it’s scary to think there are so many people out there like this guy, because apparently he didn’t have any relatives. He didn’t lose his mother to a… Right. No, this guy’s just mad.
SPEAKER 03 :
This guy’s a hardcore lefty that’s mad at the world.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, he had a three-page manifesto that ranting and raving about evil corporations in general.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 13 :
Just a hardcore, far nutjob left-wing liberal.
SPEAKER 03 :
Meaning you won’t hear much more about this after this show.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, you won’t. And by the way, some of the sickest. No, no, he couldn’t have done it. He was with me. He was he was with me on the day of the shooting. You know, people. Yeah, no, I was there, too. He was with us. You know, they’re all saying I’m his alibi. I mean, that’s how sick these people are. Unbelievable, Joe.
SPEAKER 03 :
Unbelievable. Joe, thanks, man, for the update. I always appreciate it very much. Have a great rest of your day. American National Insurance is next. Paul Lundberger, my good friend, broker as well. He’ll help you with whatever insurance needs that you have. 303-662-0789.
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SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, again, really quick as a reminder to folks out there listening where you may not enjoy the insurance sides of things, which none of us do, that never gives anybody, anybody, an excuse to kill a CEO over disagreeing with how insurance companies work. If you don’t like how they work, we lobby, we change politicians, we vote, we do all sorts of different things to counter that. But taking someone’s life… is never the answer. And as conservatives, we should be very, very, very careful in what we’re actually commenting on, agreeing with, liking, or whatever when it comes to those types of comments. I’ll be back. Hour number two is next. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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The Rich Guy.
