In today’s episode, delve into the complexities of governmental programs and their economic repercussions with Dr. Paul Winfrey. Examine the Make America Healthy Again movement’s strategies and how Medicaid expansion has affected public health systems. As welfare programs continue to evolve, debates persist over necessary work requirements and benefit limitations. Discover how these governmental dynamics influence not just the public, but also the media industry as John discusses the intricate process of guest booking and media representation.
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All right. Happy Tuesday. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Just myself today. Normally Andy is with me, but he’s off enjoying some time away, which I appreciate all that Andy does. Andy, if you’re listening, thank you and enjoy your time away. Question of the day yesterday, what is the name of the closest star to Earth after the sun? It is the Proxima Centauri. And it comprises the closest set of stars, even if their light does take over four years to reach us. So, in other words, it’s close, but not that close. In fact, it’s not close at all. Today’s impossible question. And again, you can answer these on our Facebook page. What is the rarest naturally occurring element on Earth? What is the rarest naturally occurring element on Earth? That is today’s question of the day. Today, I’ve got all sorts of things to cover. I, frankly, am not going to spend a lot of time. I know there’s a lot of hubbub going around the particular signal conversation that happened from, you know, Hegseth and Walsh and others. And, you know, the guy from The Atlantic, one of the reporters from The Atlantic, was inadvertently put onto the chat. Or was he? And that’s the question that I have. And, again, I’m not going to spend much time talking about it. There’s a lot of folks out there that want to see folks resign or be punished over it and so on. And I’m sorry. Maybe this is wrong to say. But we were talking about – they were talking about a strategy in how to defeat the hooties. Honestly, folks – I don’t even consider that war talk. This is how do you how do you swat the mosquito that’s on your arm off? And let’s talk about the strategy to do so. The Democrats, of course, are making a lot to do about nothing along these lines. And it’s why I won’t spend much time talking about my talk about it a little bit on the. On the National Crawford Roundtable, we might discuss that ever so slightly. Maybe Bob and Neil have a different take on it. But for me personally, not really enough there worth talking about. I could have talked about it even some yesterday because it came out in enough time. I could have mentioned it on the show yesterday. But frankly, again, I just look at it as a lot to do about nothing. And not trying to minimize any people group, but… The hooties, literally, it’s like a mosquito to the United States of America. In fact, I don’t know why we haven’t taken care of those knuckleheads a long time ago. I mean, they’re really more just a pain in the rear than they are anything else. I mean, are they really any threat to anyone? Maybe to some other countries they might be, but to us, no. And I kind of wonder, just the only thing I’m going to throw out, and I’ll say this on the roundtable, is, you know, was… This particular person from the Atlantic included in the conversation just so he would maybe inadvertently, which they knew it wouldn’t be inadvertently, but where he would actually comment on or make known our actual thoughts on Europe and what’s happening there. In other words, they could say things indirectly to Europe and those countries that are there, Versus coming right out and having an actual direct conversation. So you have to wonder, was it really a mistake that happened? Or had this been done purposely to, again, let some information out that might not otherwise work? come out and there’s even conversation over, you know, is J.D. Vance on the same team and is he looking at this the correct way and so on. Folks, there’s always different conversations and opinions that happen inside of any kind of an organization. Those of you listening that have any kind of a close relationship with either your kids or your spouse or your business partner or whatever it might be, you can have the same mission in life and want to do the same things but have a direct relationship or how should I say this, have a direct disagreement in how to accomplish said goal. Happens all the time, by the way. Even two people that love one another more than life itself, people that are married, kids, et cetera, like I just said, people literally that would give their life for one another can still disagree greatly on how to accomplish X, Y, Z, or whether to even accomplish it or not. And just because there’s a disagreement among two people doesn’t mean that they are not for one another and they’re not all going in the same direction and so on. People can have disagreements over things all the time. And by the way, that’s healthy. If all that Trump was surrounded with was a bunch of yes men, I would be more worried about that than actually reading some of the comments that J.D. said in this particular string of text messages that were going around these particular individuals. So that’s my comment on it. I wasn’t going to spend much more time than that on it. To me, it’s a lot to do about nothing. You’re getting the left, you know, they’re all in an uproar. And remind everybody that I also wonder at times, I said this last week in relation to other things that happen at times from this particular administration, is this also a huge distraction purposely set to get the left all wound up while Trump, Doge, and others go after the things they really want to go after. All the while, this hand over here is saying one thing, and they’re over there on the other side doing something completely different, but everybody’s focus is over on the other side, sort of like a magician. The way they get by with all of their tricks is sleight of hand and where your eye is actually looking at and what you’re really focused on. Meanwhile, over here, where you’re not really paying attention, they’re actually making the trick happen. So you wonder at times, is this partly what Donald Trump and the strategy is, where they will periodically release some of these sorts of things or do some of these things that really get the left riled up, get them all in a fervor, which they are right now, all bent out of shape. While they’re doing something else somewhere else. And I don’t know, folks, I don’t have any end to this particular administration. I have no idea what their thought process is, what this outcome really was supposed to be when it was all said and done. So point being, is it something I personally. Am worried about? No, not at all. I’ve got some other things that we’ll talk about here as soon as I come back that might be more alarming. But what happened in that particular signal string of messages is not one of them. Dr. Scott Falkner. Oh, really quick, too. Before you before the left runs around and talks about how that’s all unsecure texting and things going back and forth. That’s not true. That’s not true. Signal was set up initially to be one of the first encryption messaging systems out there. Talked about this years and years ago before even some of the other ones existed, Signal did. And they encrypted things to whereby they could not be intercepted and decoded and so on. So, no, it’s about as secure as it gets. The question is, why was this other party involved? involved in this particular conversation, and we may never know the actual full answer of that. Dr. Scott coming up next, and he is a great doctor that thinks exactly like we do. We talk about that a lot, but I mean that sincerely. Call Scott today, 303-663-6990.
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Now back to John Rush. All right. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Somebody texted also and say, do I and my wife ever disagree? Yeah, just like any other married couple would. There are, you know, differences of opinions on all sorts of things. From, in my world, business strategies and different things I may be doing along those lines and how all that looks in the end to you name it. So, yes, there’s all sorts of disagreements that can come up. And what I would say, and I’ve said this many times and I’ll keep saying this, if you ever get into a relationship, Where the other party always agrees with you. In other words, there’s never a challenge, never a disagreement, never an argument. Something’s wrong. Something’s wrong. Because no two people on this earth. can agree upon that many things and never, ever, ever have any kind of a disagreement or an argument. It’s just not possible. Now, you can minimize those, and most people do, and most good relationships do. But in the end… Yeah, people are going to disagree, and especially I think those that even are closer to one another may even have more disagreements than otherwise just because you’re close to one another and there can be differences of opinions on all sorts of things that may come up. Okay, U.S. Intelligence Report. I wanted to read some of the highlights from this, and I’m not going to go through all of it, but I’m going to read some highlights. And there are some things in here, and again, this is just an intelligence report. Is anything in here going to come to fruition? No idea. These are just that, reports. And these will come out periodically based upon information that is collected, and then they take that information, they dissect it, they… They look at what should we release to the public and what should we not. Some things the public, I’ll be the first to say, shouldn’t know about because it probably would freak some people out. There’s other things that are very safe to share. So let me read you a few things coming out of the latest intelligence report. It says China. presents the most comprehensive and robust military threat to U.S. national security. And I’m going to stop there because, yes, I would agree with that. Although, I want to throw this in because it doesn’t necessarily say this in this report, they have their own problems. Economically speaking, they have their own problems. The one thing that they do have going for them that works militarily speaking is… They don’t have the same amount of regulations and hoops to jump through when it comes time to build something. So in other words, when they decide to build a new whatever, ship, submarine, whatever it happens to be, can they fast track that and get that built much faster than we can? Yes, they can. to their credit, they can do that much faster. Now, does it have the same capabilities and things that ours would? And is it apples to apples? Typically not. Keep in mind, they steal a lot of our intelligence that is used in those particular areas, which does come back then to bite us. China’s dominance in critical material mining and processing is a particular threat. U.S. Annual Threat Assessment Report. So that’s where that one came from. Now, I think, by the way, this current administration, Donald Trump himself, understands all of that, both parts of that, including the mineral end of things. It’s why he’s pretty set on opening up things here in the U.S. We have certain minerals here that we could definitely be mining. Do we have everything China has? No. But could we make a big dent in it? Yes, we could. On the same token, we have resources they don’t have, things that we have a one-up on them, if you would. Oil, gas, coal, some of those things, for example. So reality is we have things they don’t have, and yes, they have some rare earth metals that we don’t have. But we have access to and have ability to work around that, and I think to Trump’s credit, he’s doing that. China seeks to displace the United States as the world’s most influential artificial intelligence power by 2030. U.S. intelligence says China in 2025 is likely to apply stronger coercive pressure against Taiwan. And U.S. intelligence says China is advancing military capabilities for a cross-strait campaign. And I don’t think there’s any secrets there. And I’m going to go back to the artificial intelligence ends of things. Do I think… that they will be successful in taking the lead on AI by 2030. No. No, they won’t. Now, some might disagree with me, but here’s why I say that. And maybe some of this is just coming from the automotive background and what I’ve seen China do in regards to a lot of things, including how they build cars and so on. China, because of its structure… Doesn’t invent anything. Never has. I doubt it ever will. Can it reinvent things that it steals from others like us? Yes. And in fact, they do very well at that. They can take something and make it better. Now, some would say, well, that’s exactly what they’ve done with AI. Yes, but keep in mind, AI is going to continue to progress. That’s why we need really good, solid people at the helm to make sure that we keep certain things with us that don’t make it other places. The only reason they’ve got the up that they do right now AI-wise is because what they built their AI off of was open source. They really, again, they didn’t have to invent anything. They built it off the backs of others, which is what China does. You can even look at their warships, submarines, and so on. Where did most of that technology come from? Us. And I’m not trying to be racist here and ditz them individually. It’s just their structure, their country structure, their politics squash innovation. We talk about that all the time. It’s why outside of the United States, hardly anything is ever invented. There’s been some great medical advancements that have come out of places like Israel. Canada’s had a few advancements and some things like that. You know, even countries that aren’t as free as us will still have some advancement. But none, none like what China or North Korea, you know, they have nothing compared to what we have and they never will. There’s no incentive to. So anyways, I want to make sure that I commented on that, because do I feel like they’re going to be any kind of a threat to our AI? No, frankly, folks, I don’t. And I don’t care what any expert says. They’re wrong. They’re wrong. Now, this whole issue with Taiwan and so on, will China flex its muscles in regards to that? They absolutely will. That one, I think, is a given. They also say that China is likely to increase economic pressure on Taiwan. It sees Taiwan taking steps towards formal independence. A U.S. report says war on Ukraine has afforded Russia wealth of lessons about Western weapons and intelligence. So that’s the other thing and reason why this war needs to end sooner than later is keep in mind every single time that there’s a war like this and this stuff goes on, the enemy learns about us. Not only are they fighting Ukraine, but they’re learning about us at the same time, because who do you think is supplying Ukraine with the majority of things they’re fighting against Russia? Us. Everything from the type of ammunition we’re using to the bombs that we’re launching to the drones to you name it. Russia is learning a lot about us and our capabilities. Frankly, it should scare Russia a little bit, but to their credit, they will take some of that and they will go through that and they will learn backwards, make it backwards compatible, and apply those things as needed. So the U.S. also says that China remains most active in persistent cyber threat to the U.S. China’s aggressive efforts to assert sovereignty claims in the South and East China sees heightens tensions that could trigger broader conflict. That one I would not disagree with. The Russia-Ukraine war perpetuates strategic risks to the United States of unintended escalation, potential use of nuclear weapons. Intelligence report says that, and Russia will be unable to achieve total victory but retains momentum in the Ukraine war. That’s a U.S. report. Now, there’s also something else that’s interesting, and that is that China and Russia are eyeing Greenland. for natural resources, and I kind of added my own comment to that, basically saying maybe Donald Trump’s not so dumb after all trying to get a foothold in Greenland. Evidently, he knows something that, frankly, the rest of the world, and especially the left, doesn’t know. The other thing in this report that I thought was interesting is talking about how Russia has now really getting close to having a satellite that can carry nuclear weapons, which would be a game changer if that, in fact, does happen so there are some things in this report that i think are worth noting and paying attention to is there anything in this report i would lose sleep over no i’m not the kind of guy to lose sleep over much of anything especially when it comes to these things because all of what i just talked about is beyond my control anyways all i can do is take care of what i can do in my area of life in the world and the rest of it will fall into place And just be vigilant. 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All right, we are back and again. Happy Tuesday. Appreciate you all joining us today. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Dr. Paul Winfrey joining us now. Dr. Paul, welcome. How are you? I’m doing great. How are you doing? I’m doing very well. President and CEO of the Economic Policy Innovation Center. Talk to us about the Maha movement, Make America Healthy Again, and how that ties into food stamps and things that Americans can buy.
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Well, I think one of the things that the Maha movement has realized is that there are a bunch of behaviors that have been encouraged in society for a long period of time that that have ultimately made Americans less healthy. And those are re-fortified through government programs like food stamps and ultimately Medicaid, which ensures more and more people today than it did 10 years ago, in part because of the large expansions that were made during Obamacare and that were accelerated during COVID. The pandemic now got about 100 million people who were on the Medicaid program. And so ultimately, one of the things that the Trump administration is looking to do and the Congress is looking to do is to improve people’s health by getting control of some of these programs and ultimately getting the right incentives in line.
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Talk to us about, because this is something that, frankly, I am not super familiar with. I have been self-employed the majority of my adult life and have worked super hard, and one of the goals I always had was, I guess my dad instilled to me, was make sure you can feed your family, put a roof over your head, do the things necessary, and I don’t ever want to be on government welfare, and knock on wood, I never have been. So when it comes to some of the benefits that go out, I’ll be straight up honest with you, I can’t… don’t have any idea what is even allowed to be purchased, not purchased. Dr. Paul, that is one of those areas where I’m about as clueless as it gets.
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Yeah, well, so one of the big controversies right now that’s actually dividing some people on the right is limitations that folks are talking about putting in place over sugary beverages that can be purchased with food stamp benefits. So, you know, one of the things that folks who are food stamp participants can can do right now with their welfare benefits is to buy sodas and other sugary beverages that we know contribute to things like diabetes and other long-term health challenges. And what others are pushing for, including this HHS, is a limitation on that. But there’s sort of a larger issue at play here, and that is that every time there’s a crisis, whether or not it’s the 2008-2009 financial crisis, or the pandemic, the left has used those opportunities to expand welfare, to make more and more people eligible to these programs. And one of the huge expansions that we saw during the pandemic was this thing called categorical eligibility, which didn’t just expand food stamps, but also expanded free school lunches to really wealthy areas, making more and more people eligible for welfare benefits, and ultimately dependent on the federal government.
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In other words, people that could be sending their kids with lunch or buying lunch or doing whatever they need to do, they’re now on my tax dollars and yours, essentially a part of the dole, I guess you could say.
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That’s right. So I live in Fairfax County, which is a very wealthy suburb of Washington, D.C. I think it’s one of the highest per capita incomes in the country. And prior to the pandemic, the school lunches and breakfasts were heavily subsidized by the federal government and the state. But today, in many of the schools in Fairfax County, everybody receives free school lunches, even if The parents are incredibly wealthy. And, you know, I mean, you know, maybe I’m old fashioned, but I think that welfare in this country should be. reserved for the people who are truly vulnerable and not widely distributed.
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No, you and I feel exactly the same way. I think there needs to be caps on a lot of these things. Now, I get it. There are some that are really down and out that struggle, but that’s where we have got disability and other things that can come into play. And I’m not talking about those particular individuals, Dr. Paul. I’m talking about some of the folks that you’re talking about. The reality is there’s a lot of able-bodied people that – by the way, I have known and talked to personally – But because of what you and I are talking about, Section 8 housing and other benefits they get, at the end of the day, there’s no incentive to change their behavior because the reality is they can work less and make more with you and I participating than they would be doing it on their own.
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That’s right. And all of the federal involvement also is increasing inflation, right? Because every time you’re dumping money in federal subsidies into programs, it’s just driving up the price for those things.
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You are 100% correct. Okay, so I am one where I believe, A, go back to the Clinton years, if you would. I think we should have a cap on some of these things, how long you can actually be on assistance. I think we should cap even the types of things that can be purchased on assistance. I’m assuming, though, that some of the ideas I just threw out there would probably be fought heavily by a particular political party because I then would be, quote-unquote, discriminating against these individuals by not allowing them to buy whatever they want.
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That’s exactly right. Right. And I mean, like one of the big things that’s being debated right now in Washington, D.C., is work requirements, strengthening the work requirements for the food stamp program and adding work requirements to the Medicaid program, which is health insurance for low income people that received a huge expansion in 2014 with with Obamacare. You know, these are issues that back in the middle of the 90s were were bipartisan. Everybody believed that. That if you were able-bodied, you didn’t have kids, you needed to be working as long as you were between the ages of 19 and retirement age. Now, it’s just not the case. It doesn’t only divide on party lines. But you even hear some people within the right saying, you know, we shouldn’t be imposing overly burdenous requirements on states to implement these work requirements. I don’t see it that way.
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By the way, I call BS on that because the reality is if you continue to incentivize bad behavior, that’s what you get. Am I correct?
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I think that is exactly what you get, and we should expect this.
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Yeah, and I raised plenty of kids, and I’ve been self-employed, and I’ve trained workers, I coach other businesses, and so on. And what I teach everybody that I know, especially my clients, is if you continue to reward bad behavior from anyone, kids or employees, the reality, Dr. Paul, is that’s what you’re going to receive. And the reality is we have got an entire now section of society now that because of the things that you’re mentioning, we have now created this bad behavior that is, I’ll just be straight up honest, it is going to be hard to wean them off of.
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That’s exactly right. And, you know, like take the Medicaid program in particular. The federal government reimburses states 50 cents on every dollar that they spend on Medicaid for the disabled, for pregnant women, and for single moms with kids. For adults who are able-bodied, non-elderly, without dependents, they don’t have kids, The federal government subsidizes $0.90 for every dollar that they spend, which means that states have an incentive because they get more money for that able-bodied without children population. They have an incentive to expand into those areas. So all the incentives in the welfare system are completely backward. We really need a more work-focused welfare system that, you know, like I said, quite frankly, was bipartisan that Clinton supported back in the 90s. We need to get back to that.
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All right. So I’m like results. I’m kind of a results-oriented individual, as you could imagine. What’s the fix? You know, how do we—and I get it. There’s two sides to the equation here. You’ve got to get everybody to, quote-unquote, come together to try to get things, you know, handled. But— I know that’s really, really difficult. So what’s the answer? How do we move the football forward?
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Well, I think in terms of food stamps or nutrition assistance, we shouldn’t be making the problem worse, right? So we shouldn’t be encouraging people to use federal assistance to consume things that ultimately make them less healthy. We’ve got to cut that off. But for the able-bodied population without dependents who are working age, It needs to be time limited. They need to be working or they need to be off of assistance. And I mean working. There are all these things that are baked into the current system where if you just are perpetually in job training programs but don’t actually have a job, then you can continue to receive benefits. Right now, if you talk to people who are in the business community, especially small businesses, We still, even several years after the pandemic, have a job market where there are a lot of openings, and we need to make sure that that population is working.
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You are talking to somebody that talks to those individuals, and I’m self-employed, so I experienced some of that as well. So, no, I can reiterate what you just said full well, and you would think by now that would not be the case, but it still is.
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That’s that’s exactly right. That’s exactly right. You know, and during the Biden years, you know, we saw illegal immigration, you know, fill some of these holes. But with Trump, the Trump administration closing off the border, you know, and illegal immigration being cut down, I think, you know, we’re going to see some job openings ultimately go up. It’s going to increase wages, going to make that make those jobs look even more attractive to to to U.S. citizens. and so we need a welfare program, again, to support that transition into the job market.
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I agree. Dr. Paul, how do folks find you and what’s going on with your organization, the Economic Policy Innovation Center?
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They can find me on X, at Paul Winfrey, W-I-N-F-R-E-E, and they can also find us on the Internet at www.epicforamerica.org.
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Awesome. Dr. Paul, I appreciate it. Thank you very much. Thanks for having me. You bet. Have a great night. And, yeah, we need a lot of changes in that particular realm. And, yes, I know you’re going to have to step into this. In other words, stair-step into it. You can’t make changes all at once. And time will tell what we can actually get done. But to Dr. Paul’s point a moment ago, with the amount of job openings, things that are out there, the opportunity right now, I believe, is there to make some significant changes along these lines of the government cheese. You guys all know what I mean by that. There’s a way to change that, and we should be looking at that, and hopefully Doge and others in this administration are doing so because far too many people, far too many people are on government dole that shouldn’t be, that are able-bodied, able to work, able to fend for themselves, and they frankly should be. Golden Eagle Financial, speaking of finances and where we’re headed, what you’re doing, how are you getting to retirement, and so on. Talk to Al Smith today, Golden Eagle Financial. Find him at klzradio.com.
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Now back to Rush to Reason on KLZ 560. All right, we are back.
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Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Somebody asked a moment ago on the text line as well that all these guests that I get is more of a question. And I’ve talked about this before, but you may have missed that, which is fine. I can talk about it again. And somebody was just asking for maybe some of the inside baseball of how do I and other shows get a lot of the guests that we get. And the way that works is there are, you know, publicists, booking agents, if you would. It depends on what you’re looking for. And there’s different types of agencies that represent different type of individuals. Some represent those that are trying to enlarge their speaking, public speaking skills. End of things. Others are agents for authors and people that are trying to promote books. Some are agents that are just trying to promote different types of organizations, nonprofits, things like that. And all of these agents work on a per diem basis. In other words, they get a certain amount of money to do these different things and represent these individuals and so on. And in turn, they reach out to shows like ours here. And we’ll send in requests for, I’ve got this particular guest. They can talk about this particular topic. Is that something that you would like to have them on for? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And some of them I’ve got really, really great relationships with. Some of these publishing companies or publicists, I should say, I’ve got really, really great relationships with. And sometimes, not often, sometimes I will reach out to them and say, hey, on this particular topic, do you have anybody that can speak to this? For example… Charlie and I, for over a year plus now, have been trying to find somebody that, and I know this sounds really out there, but we want somebody that can come on air on Health and Wellness Wednesday and talk about dreams. What do they mean? Where do they come from? What part of the brain? All these different things. It’s something I’m intrigued with, something Charlie’s intrigued with. So I’ve actually discussed this among some of my publicists and some of those folks that handle this and have said, hey, if you ever run across somebody along those lines, send them our way. I’ve got folks, by the way, that specialize in the health and wellness end of things. That’s where a lot of those guests come from and so on. But it’s this weird array of people. of companies it’s a whole nother subset of businesses if you would where they go around and they help different people become more exposed more popular if you would and it’s a part of how that particular end of things works now some people i just know one-on-one they may have been on in the past and i don’t even use a publicist we just have them on richard battle is one of those types of individuals we just have had them for so long that he just shows up on wednesdays we have him as a routine and i like richard because he and I talk about leadership stuff, which I think is really, really, really important. But yeah, a lot of these folks that you hear that are on different radio, TV, and so on, they have got people that they have connected with, in some cases hired, to actually put them in those particular venues. And In our case, and this is by no means to boast because I don’t know what other shows end up receiving, but I’ll get anywhere from 25 to 50 plus of those daily people wanting to come on the program, come on air and talk about the various things that they may have ability to talk about. Now, as you guys all know, I don’t take that many. There are a lot of, you know, either no’s or I just file those away. Or in some cases, I just, I hate to say this, I just delete the email and it goes off and I have no interest in that particular person. Some of them can get pretty persistent. And some of them will even reach out and say, hey, you know, I’m trying to get so-and-so, so-and-so on your program. I know it would be a great fit. You know, what do you think? And sometimes I have to just literally, you know, email back and just say, you know, not a great fit, not a great fit this week. Get back to me X amount of time, things along those lines. Again, I’m very much in charge of what we do here and want to be. And if it doesn’t fit, it doesn’t fit. Now, this is an interesting story because I don’t do this very often. I can tell you in 10 years, I can count on one hand where I’ve actually done this. We had a guest on yesterday. And I’d have to go back and even look at my notes, and Charlie might remember this guest better than I can probably go back and look at it. But this particular person, it was Rob Roselli yesterday. He was supposed to talk about the JFK truth issue. And the report that came out and so on. And I don’t normally do this because I’m usually pretty nice. That was one of the worst interviews I think I’ve had in a very, very, very, very long time. He was absolutely worthless as an interview. And I’m saying that kindly. And I don’t often report back on to how good or bad an interview went. That one I did. And I basically said, don’t send me him ever again. He’s not worth having on air. I’m not doing this again. Sorry. You should even rethink who you’re representing, because if he does the same thing to me, if he does the same thing to everybody else that he did to me, that was a worthless interview. And I don’t do that very often. I’m usually pretty kind, and even people will reach out and ask how the interview went and so on. And I’m usually very upfront and very kind, and typically they go very well. We rarely have a dud. You’re going to get one occasionally. We do pretty well, because I research typically who these people are. Oh, we had one guy one time. Charlie and I were interviewing a guy. I think it was a Health and Wellness Wednesday guest. And we’re rolling along, and everything’s going pretty well, and I’m like, yeah, okay, I get where this guy’s going. And all of a sudden, the whole nanobot thing comes up, and I’m just like, oh, jeez, this guy just went off the rails. Literally just went off the rails. And sometimes when that happens… All I can do is sort of be nice, kind of agree, yet maybe disagree. And you handle that as best you can. And you just sort of, you know, slowly say bye bye and off they go. And no, they’re not invited back because they can get way out there. And again, doesn’t happen very often. We are actually, in my opinion, very, very fortunate and lucky. And maybe that’s just because of some of the research I do on some of these individuals before I have them on and some of the relationships that we have with some of these booking agents. But at the end of the day, we’re really fortunate. Most of the people we get are really, really strong. I also will say this, and I’ve said this before. I really do look for those young people. Because I really feel like young people, of course, are our future. I’d like to hear from them. I want to hear those different perspectives. I don’t want to just hear from old guys all the time. I do want to hear from the young people as to what they think. It’s why I have Sonny Kutcher and others like her on on a routine basis, because I want to hear from those young people. And of late, we’ve had some really great young people that have joined us. And I’m always encouraged by them because it’s really great to hear young people that think the way we do, knowing that, OK. Our world isn’t in such bad shape after all, and if we can get some of these people online and on board and get them really involved, which they are, okay, we’re going to be okay at the end of the day. So it’s always a joy to me when we’ve got young people that are willing to come on. And by the way, some of them of late. Adrian Gray, I was just thinking, Charlie, a moment ago, she’s been joining us now kind of on a semi-weekly basis. And I tell you what, holy cow, is she well-spoken for being in her mid-20s or so is all. She is extremely, extremely well-spoken, does a fabulous job. And those are the kind of individuals, young people, that I will do my very best to help them continue to get ahead by having us be one of their outlets that they can then talk to others about being on air and hopefully gain more, you know, more interviews if you would on down the road and yes i will do whatever i can to help them but yeah whoever it whoever emailed or texted me that on the text line that’s how that works a little inside baseball but you know i’m there’s no secrets there that’s just how that end of it works and if you’re somebody out there and you’ve written a book or there’s some way that you know something you’ve done where you want to be more you know more known in what that particular thing is Go interview some of these different publicists and folks that can help you get some of these things done. And it’s a whole other world of how things work. And that’s how those people end up on a lot of the different venues that they end up on. It’s through those particular organizations. And it’s a business all in and of itself. So, yeah. There you go. Paul Lueger coming up next, my insurance agent. He would love to help you with all of your insurance needs, whatever they are. He’s a broker now. He works for all the different companies that are out there. Call Paul today, 303-662-0789.
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SPEAKER 06 :
All right. Welcome back. And again, thanks for letting me sort of, you know, meander around there and talk about how things, you know, work structurally speaking with the show. Also, somebody sent me a article and I have not had a chance to look this up. There was a stabbing. That just happened, I believe, in front of the Capitol, Colfax and Broadway, that literally at that last segment as we were talking, somebody texted me that and gave me that info. I’ll do my best here at the top of the hour to look that up and potentially come back and talk about that. But, yeah, that’s something that I did not… I did not see. And this particular texter was saying, this is just happening. Denver is a mess. Yes, it is. That’s what happens when you have really poor leadership, which we have no leadership in the city of Denver right now. Mike Johnston is a complete joke. If that guy goes on to do anything else, politically speaking, that just shows you how stupid voters are. This guy, I mean, I thought… I thought we had seen it all with some of the previous Denver mayors. And I really, really thought, you know, Hancock, I didn’t like at all. But I will tell you what, can we have him back? Can we have him back? I mean that sincerely. I didn’t think I’d ever, ever say that. But he’s way better, way better than Johnston. And I never thought I’d say that, literally. I mean, I right now, honestly, would take Mayor Hancock back in a heartbeat. And not that I’m a Denver resident or anything along those lines, but oh, my word, what a laughingstock we have become as a city nationwide because of some of the things Mike Johnston has done. And I thought Mike might be a little bit better than Mayor Hancock. And, oh, boy, was I wrong. He has been an absolute still is an absolute utter disaster when it comes to the things that he does in running the city of Denver and literally making. Because keep in mind, everybody that’s outside of Denver, you may say, oh, that’s just Denver. Who cares? Well, you know, the rest of the nation, like any other area around the country, they look at the capital as what goes on in the rest of the state. I know that’s not true. But that’s the perception around the country is what goes on in Denver is happening all around Colorado. That’s why it does matter what Mayor Johnston actually does at the end of the day. That’s our one. We’ll be back for our two. Don’t go anywhere. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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