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HR1 Rush To Reason November 1, 2024 by John Rush
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Now, here is your host of Rush to Reason, John Rush.
John Rush (Host) :
All right. Happy Friday, everybody. Welcome Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Heading into the weekend. Meaning after that, there’s one full day, and then Election Day will be upon us.
Andy Peth (Host) :
My goodness.
John Rush (Host) :
Fast approaching.
Andy Peth (Host) :
Our country’s future is going to be charted in about four days.
John Rush (Host) :
Uh-huh. That’s how I look at it. Wow.
Andy Peth (Host) :
Oh, yeah, yeah. Because you’re looking at such an extreme with Kamala.
John Rush (Host) :
She’s a Marxist. Yeah, and by the way… Two Marxists on the ticket. I’ve said that numerous times. Oh, total. So far, nobody has been able to… discount what i’ve said there it’s funny not even the liberals on that side that i know listen to the program not a single soul has discounted that we now for the first time in american history have two known marxists on the ticket oh absolutely we’re talking about an america hating san francisco liberal who wants price controls as the only way to combat inflation i mean come on now forget it and and she’s got a goon with her on the ticket oh yeah I mean, this guy is somebody that during COVID marched his police forces down city streets and paintballed anybody out on their porch. Yes. This guy.
Andy Peth (Host) :
Look, and then look at the crazies and the creepos who are following them, right?
John Rush (Host) :
I know.
Andy Peth (Host) :
I mean, really, the people who want men in women’s sports and stuff like this and in bathrooms, these are the weirdos. Yep, absolutely, Andy. These are the creepos. And I look at this, if Trump wins this Tuesday, if he does win this Tuesday, John, we’re going to have to call it the rise of the normals.
John Rush (Host) :
Uh-huh, good one. This is the normies, baby. Despite what the other side might think, yes, it is.
Andy Peth (Host) :
Yeah.
John Rush (Host) :
These are not the weirdos. These are the normals.
Andy Peth (Host) :
Yeah, Donald Trump has a very, you know, big personality, and he doesn’t mind being an insult machine and so forth. You know what? That’s normal.
John Rush (Host) :
Well, we used to be that way all the time, Andy.
Andy Peth (Host) :
Yeah, most people in your day-to-day life, John, in your day-to-day life, are most people as guarded as they have to be as a politician?
John Rush (Host) :
No.
Andy Peth (Host) :
Right? They’re not guarded in every single little thing they say.
John Rush (Host) :
Well, and really quick, Andy. Because of the left, and I think we can talk about who we think is going to win on Tuesday, but because of the left, all of us are much more guarded in what we have to say at the workplace, in public, even out at a restaurant. We are more guarded now than we’ve ever been because of the left.
Andy Peth (Host) :
Oh, absolutely. It’s lawsuit city everywhere you are because of the left, because of the speech police.
John Rush (Host) :
You’re afraid to say anything out of line ever used to be, Andy. We could all go and make fun of one another constantly. Right. You know, when I was a kid, not I’m sorry, I hope I can say this on air. we would tell one another Polak jokes. Sorry for all of you that are, but I think most of you that are would love that conversation to even happen again because that was a normal time. Am I right in saying that? Yeah, my family used to do that. We’d have those types of fun conversations, Andy. And for those who don’t know, that’s people who are Polish. And you would have blonde jokes. I mean, Andy, you’d pick on…
Andy Peth (Host) :
everyone irish jokes every irishman is a drunk you you’d you’d have you just you pick it out and you’d make fun of right right now here’s the thing though the left has set up this oh my gosh obstacle course that you have to walk through every time you’re any in any workplace public place church anywhere that you go right and yet over the last week it’s them it’s They have been stubbing their toe and stepping on landmines. It’s been hilarious.
John Rush (Host) :
Yep.
Andy Peth (Host) :
Look at Mark Cuban yesterday.
John Rush (Host) :
Absolutely. Oh, my gosh. What an idiot, by the way. I mean, I know the guy’s smart. He’s a billionaire. But frankly, his comments were very idiotic.
Andy Peth (Host) :
Well, they were idiotic, you know, picking on the women around Trump that Trump doesn’t have. And then he tried to backtrack it, and it didn’t fly at all. It was like, no, dude, you said exactly this. Trump has no women around him who are, like, smart, smart.
John Rush (Host) :
Yeah, basically all he has are a bunch of brainless women around him is what he said.
Andy Peth (Host) :
Right. And Trump has famously surrounded himself with highly intelligent, you know, accomplished women.
John Rush (Host) :
I came on air yesterday and picked out three or four that are around him. By the way, one of them is his wife. Yeah. Okay. His wife, his daughter-in-law, his daughter. I mean, I can go down the list. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Tulsi Gabbard, et cetera, et cetera.
Andy Peth (Host) :
Yeah, yeah, Tulsi, real dumb person there.
John Rush (Host) :
I mean, just roll down the list of the people he has around him that are actually, compared to the people Mark Cuban was talking to, these are brainiacs.
Andy Peth (Host) :
Oh, yes. But here’s what I’d like to say to Mark Cuban. Hey, Mark, I know you’re not listening, but fans of Mark Cuban, I want you to go find Mark and tell him this. Mark, from the heart, next time you come down on Trump for one offhand comment that he makes that is not sensitive. enough that he makes in the middle you know because trump will talk for three hours he’ll talk for four or five hours in a row he doesn’t care right and he’ll talk talk talk talk talk and in there you’ll be able to pull out of context one little comment that you can say trump is a terrible person you can say he’s an arrogant ass because of that right mark you only had to say a few words and you blew it now do you know what it’s like do you know what it’s like mark do you still want to judge trump right For a comment that, by the way, you people generally pulled out of context.
John Rush (Host) :
In this case, it wasn’t. You said it, Mark.
Andy Peth (Host) :
Yeah, in your case, it wasn’t out of context. It was directly in context. By the way, same thing for Joe Biden. Same thing for every one of them. How about Barack Obama, you know, and the things he was saying?
John Rush (Host) :
Good point, Andy.
Andy Peth (Host) :
You know, to black men, telling them they were… Look, in no uncertain terms, he was saying, if you don’t vote for her, it’s because you’re sexist. And how about years before that… When he was talking about voters on the right who are, what, it’s our God, guns, and antipathy toward people who are different from us. In other words, we’re racist.
John Rush (Host) :
Right. I would just like to send a thank you to Mark. Oh, thank you, Mark. Because that helped us yesterday, actually. Well, that— Because all of those sorts of—which, really quick, before we go to break here in a moment, Andy, we’ll get our predictions. We’ll do this in full on Tuesday, of course. But the reality is the left is in desperation mode.
Andy Peth (Host) :
Yes.
John Rush (Host) :
When you’re in desperation mode, you start making all sorts of stupid decisions and stupid comments and things that you shouldn’t do. You throw Hail Marys. You throw Hail Marys. That’s exactly what they’re doing. They are in full mode, desperate mode.
Andy Peth (Host) :
Well, let me ask you this, John, because look at the shirt I’m wearing. What is it?
John Rush (Host) :
Green Bay.
Andy Peth (Host) :
Yeah, Green Bay Packers.
John Rush (Host) :
I hate you, but that’s okay.
Andy Peth (Host) :
That’s fair. That’s totally as well you should. As well you should. Well, you don’t know this, but the Green Bay Packers, our announcer, Every time it’s toward the end of the game, and let’s say we’re about to win the game, the play where it’s over, right, the big pass from Jordan Love that goes in for a touchdown, puts us 10 up with only two minutes left, or the big sack when the other team was trying to drive to get back in the game, he goes like this. He says, there is your dagger, the final dagger in the heart of the opposition. Would you say Mark Cuban’s comments, there is your dagger. If we win on Tuesday, if you combine really Biden and Cuban, their comments at the end, would you say those were the final daggers? The nails in the coffin, so to speak.
John Rush (Host) :
It’s pretty darn close, Andy. You have to wonder what else could happen potentially. Fridays normally aren’t much in the way of newsworthy days, but tomorrow, Sunday, even Monday, what could the other side potentially do to really screw things up more than what he just did? I’m not sure, Andy.
Andy Peth (Host) :
I don’t think they will. I think after those last few idiotic comments, I think the other side right now is going to absolutely guard everything they say down the stretch. I just don’t think it really matters at this point. I think people have decided. And maybe at the end of this hour, can I talk about why I actually think Trump’s going to win now?
John Rush (Host) :
Yep. Yeah, absolutely. I’m with you as well. We’ll talk more about that. We’ve got movies to go through, though, as soon as we come back. What movie are we doing when we come back, Andy? Your Monster. Your Monster. Okay, we’ll do that as soon as we come back. Hi-Fi Plumbing is next. Don’t forget, they’ve got electrical now. They do as well. Hi-Fi Plumbing, 877-WE-HI-5.
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Suck it up, buttercup. Back to Rush to Reason.
Andy Peth (Host) :
And welcome back to Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560, John Rush, together with Andy Pate. And John, are you ready for a movie?
John Rush (Host) :
Anything for a distraction of everything else going on, yes. It’s kind of nice right now, isn’t it? Absolutely, yes, Andy.
Andy Peth (Host) :
Okay, John, well, who is the beauty and who is the beast? That’s the question in Your Monster.
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He broke up with me. And now my life is over. I know it sucks. Eat some pie. I’m disgusting. Sleep. And don’t cry. Don’t cry. Hello?
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What’s up?
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You got two weeks. After that, you’re out of here. You pack your bags and get out!
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What’d you do last night? I read. I went over lines. Play a different song! But something really weird is happening at home.
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Can we talk about it? I can’t. I gotta go to karate. I love you so much!
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You two know each other? No.
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yes oh i’m kidding we’re together for five years and i just messed it all up the prick broke up with you when you were in the hospital i can’t do it i need time for me i could threaten to eat him if that would help i mean i could eat him it would literally take me like two seconds there’s this halloween party maybe you’d like to come with me are you guys coming out on a date no well i’m not gonna leave the house fine fine fine fine
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I saw you with her, but for some reason, I still love you, and I don’t want to anymore.
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He doesn’t love you the way you deserve to be loved.
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What do you know about how I deserve to be loved? Look at me!
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I’m looking at you.
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Look! I’m a mess! No, you’re not! I’m a disaster!
Andy Peth (Host) :
All right. What do you think, John? Sound bad? Yeah. Okay. Well, Melissa Barrera, she stars as Laura. I’m just going to say it right out. I really like her.
John Rush (Host) :
Okay.
Andy Peth (Host) :
She’s a very good young actress. She’s funny. She’s gorgeous. She is talented. She’s the whole package, and I hope we see her in a lot more things. Okay. Well, she stars as Laura, a young actress who’s been through a very, very bad breakup. How bad? Well, her ex, Jacob, is the worst kind of scum, having actually walked out on her in the middle of a cancer treatment, John. I’d say that’s about as bad as it gets, what do you think? Yeah, that’s pretty bad. Yeah, but it gets worse, John. Jacob, he also co-wrote a musical with Laura in which she was supposed to be the central character. Now Jacob is directing it and claiming full credit. What a guy. So Jacob is written as the worst kind of villain, a villain many of us have actually had in our lives. I mean, think about this. You were building, you’re with somebody, right? You’re building a world together, maybe a musical, maybe a business, maybe a home, maybe a ministry, maybe anything. And this person cuts you out at your worst moment and then chooses someone else to share it with them. a new leading man or a new leading lady in their life. It’s very painful. Well, Laura is a kind, kind person. The type who is often taken advantage of. We know this kind, right? But sweet, kind people are often just people suppressing their rage inside their monsters. Well, now, John, things get a little crazy. With nowhere to turn, Laura must move back into her childhood home alone. Now, why is she alone there? Well, her mom owns it, but she’s never there. She’s wealthy and she’s living elsewhere. She’s abroad. She doesn’t care. So the house is empty anyway. So now Laura can come back and live in the house. And this is where she’s going to put her life back together after cancer treatment. Well, when Laura was a little girl, she often feared the monster under her bed. Now imagine how shocked she is, John, to find that the monster still lives in her home. He’s still there. He’s been there the whole time. And like Laura, monster, he’s played by Thomas Dewey, good actor. He’s grown up now, and he enjoys this house. And he wants Laura out. He’s like, yeah, because he gets to live there alone. He’s been liking it. He’s got the bachelor life. He’s been enjoying it. And now he just wants her out. He gives her two weeks, two weeks, and you are gone. But in time, Monster and Laura, you know they’re going to bond. He sees her pain, her value, her potential if she stops letting fear hold her back. He encourages her to try out for Jacob’s Broadway musical, the one Laura co-wrote. Well, Laura, she makes it as a cast member and understudy to the lead, which makes sense because the part was written for her. It’s incredibly awkward, of course, right? Because Jacob, the guy who dumped her, left her while she was in cancer treatment, well, he’s directing. But she has to see Jacob choose another woman for her part. But Laura pushes on. Well, in time, things come to a head. Could Laura return to Jacob? Or could Laura love Monster? And what of Laura’s lifelong friend, Maisie, who’s never been that great of a friend anyway? Ultimately, John, we see how deeply betrayal can damage us and where we’ll turn in our hour of pain. Will we embrace our abusers, and a lot of people do, or our monsters? And that’s the story of Your Monster. What do you think?
John Rush (Host) :
Not what I would have thought the movie would have been. I know, I know. The title doesn’t lead to that.
Andy Peth (Host) :
It’s very different, isn’t it? Okay, well, what works in your monster? First of all, good, funny writing with fresh dialogue as Laura and the monster bicker back and forth. This is the best part of the movie by far is their interactions in this little apartment. Going back and forth and just zipping and zapping at each other. It’s really good. You got strong performances from Barrera, from Dewey, and from the villain, Ed Donovan. He is very good as Jacob. He is a really good jerk and he does it well. You got a solid pace for the most part. I like that. This is not one of those two and a half hour movies. It’s about an hour 45. It takes you from pain to hope to romance to collapse. It takes you through everything and it whisks you along pretty quickly. You got an excellent portrayal. Here’s where it gets interesting of nice people being used all the time and growing in rage. This is an excellent portrayal of that because this is what happens. Nice people generally get used, don’t they? They do. They get used by their friends. They get used by those who are near them because everybody wants to get more and more and more in their life. And when you have a nice person around you, you can suck it off of them. And so people do. And what we don’t understand is what’s building inside the nice people. The nice people are being nice in hopes that one day they will be treated as equals. And that the appreciation will be shown for the niceness. When that doesn’t happen, it can just pop off. I know. I’ve been there. I’ve been the nice person who does this and gets enraged. I think a lot of us have. And a lot of people are going to really relate to her character. Also, there’s an excellent portrayal of two people building something special together. And then breaking up and finding new partners for what they’ve built. Because they were writing this musical together. Then they break up. You know, and she finds monster and he finds a new leading lady. And this can happen in life, right? Maybe business partners and you build it up to a certain point. Then you have a split and then that person finds a new business partner and you have to watch from afar as they succeed. It can be painful. Well, that’s a pain rarely depicted in movies. I like that because it’s something you almost never see that in the movies. That’s one that’s overlooked. It’s kind of neat. OK, what doesn’t work in your monster? The story drags somewhat when monster is off the screen. For instance, the rehearsal scenes for the play. Kind of meh. You know, it kind of slowed down. Every time when you had Monster and Laura bickering together, the movie really took off. When they weren’t together, it slowed down. Next. The music and dancing scenes, they were okay, but not show-stopping for the most part. Not that great. And finally, here’s the biggie, John. Worst ending of the year. Really? No kidding. No kidding. It teaches a lesson. It does. It teaches a valuable lesson about your rage growing within you and how it can drive you and how that’s unhealthy. I get that. Okay. But yikes. I’m not kidding. Up until three minutes left in the movie, I had this at four stars. Here comes my grade. Rotten Tomatoes gave this 73%. I plunged it down to two and a half stars just because of the last three minutes of the movie. I’m not kidding. It was that bad. And by the way, there was a couple people in the audience. They didn’t like the ending either. People were just shocked. It was like, what a downer. What a downer. You just tore our hearts out. You made this awful. Like, we’re never going to want to see this again. Okay? So two and a half stars. Why do I leave it at two and a half stars, though? Because there was a lot of quality in there. I had a lot of laughs. I really enjoyed the interaction between Laura and Monster. So I’m leaving it that high, but no higher. Political three, it didn’t say anything more religious. It was a two for some just, you know, wasn’t very moral. It didn’t. It showed the bad guy, let’s just say it had some sexual scenes that were a little more than you needed. Okay. I’ll just leave it at that. Okay, your monster. Do I recommend going to your monster? You know, folks, it’s really hard to. I’m torn on this because on the one hand, there are not many movies out there right now which are romantic comedies which are written this well and are this enjoyable. In fact, romantic comedies have been awful the last couple of years, haven’t they?
John Rush (Host) :
No comedy in them.
Andy Peth (Host) :
Yes, I know they’ve been awful. And that’s one reason why I hated the ending. It’s like, why don’t do that? For crying out loud, we finally had one I can recommend. I don’t recommend this. I think you’re probably not going to be that happy at the end. But if you don’t care about that and you just want to enjoy the artistry of it and have some laughs, go to your monster.
John Rush (Host) :
In other words, John won’t enjoy it.
Andy Peth (Host) :
Well, no, John would not enjoy it. And John’s wife would enjoy it until the end.
John Rush (Host) :
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Andy Peth (Host) :
And welcome back to Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560, John Rush, together with Andy Pate and John. Are you ready for another movie? This one looks pretty cute. It does look cute, doesn’t it?
John Rush (Host) :
Yeah, it does.
Andy Peth (Host) :
I’ve actually been looking forward to this one. Okay, John, would you churn on your own kind to make a buck? Well, you never know. Never know. That’s the question in Hit Pig.
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Andy Peth (Host) :
All right, John, hit pig.
John Rush (Host) :
Sounds pretty good.
Andy Peth (Host) :
That’s cartoon, obviously. Okay. In this cartoon, Jason Sudeikis. Do you like him?
John Rush (Host) :
Yeah. I can hear his voice. Yes.
Andy Peth (Host) :
Yeah. He’s hilarious. His voice is very, well, you can just tell it’s him. Okay. Well, he stars as Hit Pig, a bony hunter pig who tracks down escaped animals and returns them to their owners. Okay. Well, for some reason, Hit Pig can talk to humans, while other animals generally can’t. Anyway, Hit Pig has just tracked down a polecat from a nuclear plant when he gets a new assignment. Find an elephant that escaped from a circus. Well, the circus owner is a shady guy named Leapin’ Lord. He’s played by Rainn Wilson. And he wants the return of Pickles. Pickles is the elephant, and that’s played by Lilly Singh. And the elephant was freed by an animal rights activist. Well, Hit Pig tracks down Pickles, who is a very silly elephant that causes trouble. She drives them nuts, but over time, they inevitably begin to form a friendship. Why so much time? Well, because Pickles thinks Hit Pig is actually helping her get home to India to find her family. So Hit Pig has some, well, real guilty feelings, wouldn’t you? Yeah, they think you’re helping them. You want a million bucks to turn them back in. Well, along the way, Hit Pig and Pickles, they have some fast-moving adventures, including Hit Pig having a chance at his greatest dream, which is competing on a popular cooking show. There’s a lot of money at stake. But will Hit Pig turn pickles over to the evil leaping lord? That’s the story of Hit Pig. Doesn’t sound bad. Yeah. Well, what works in Hit Pig? Well, first of all, Sudeikis, of course. He has an excellent cartoon voice. His delivery maximizes the humor of each line. He really does, John. Every single line he has given, it’s just better because he’s saying it. And you can tell. It’s not often that somebody has that good of a cartoon voice, but he does. Next, this is a very short kid movie. Okay. This is under 80 minutes. Wow. Or, you know, right at about, I think it’s 77, but it might be 80 minutes. It’s quick, folks. It’s a quickie. It’s easy. And it has a pretty quick pace. So you’re not going to be dying along with your kid there to watch the movie. Okay. What else works in Hit Pig? Oh, no. Oh, no. Nothing. Wow. Not a good movie. That’s too bad. I know. I was looking forward to this. Well, what doesn’t work in Hit Big? By the way, I was looking forward to this because the people who put together the preview did a heck of a job.
John Rush (Host) :
Yeah, that sounds great. Yes. I looked at the same thing.
Andy Peth (Host) :
Yeah, they did a really good job. Have you ever noticed how sometimes you’ll see a preview and all the jokes are just clicking, bam, bam, bam, and everything’s moving along, bam, bam, bam. Then you see the actual movie and the timing is not as good.
John Rush (Host) :
So the only guys that did their job well were the preview guys.
Andy Peth (Host) :
Yeah, and Jason Sudeikis. Exactly. Okay, what doesn’t work in Hit Pig? Well, the frenetic pace leaves little room for character development. It’s hard to care about what happens to characters when they’re whizzing by.
John Rush (Host) :
When you don’t know them, right?
Andy Peth (Host) :
Right. I mean, in fact, none of the characters stir any interest except Hit Pig and Pickles, which is fine. I mean, I do like focusing in on just two characters, right? And only Hit Pig is a really good character. Pickles isn’t that good of a character. She’s, you know, she’s okay. Hit Pig’s a really good character, but that’s about it. The villain. Oh, my gosh. He’s ridiculous. He’s boring. Leaping Lord is one of the worst villains I have ever seen. Just not good. Hmm. Yeah, I mean, he’s broke from ruining his billion dollar empire, but he can afford super expensive evil plans. It’s just stupid. He’s also not funny. He’s not scary. He’s not charismatic. He’s not interesting. Just an epic fail for a villain. Guys, if you got a great hero like Hit Pig, get a great villain. right right he wants somebody to go along with it oh the villain you can’t stand him every time he goes on the screen you’re just bored the humor is weak the side characters oh they’re terrible they’re not that amusing the script is poorly written the punch lines are more weird than funny i barely broke a smile in this thing john i laughed more with the preview than I did watching the entire movie. Isn’t that sad?
John Rush (Host) :
That bad, huh?
Andy Peth (Host) :
Yes. You got gross humor regarding flatulence, right? Which kids will like that, right?
John Rush (Host) :
Yeah.
Andy Peth (Host) :
But it’s going to make adults groan after a while pretty quickly. The action, it’s not that exciting. Certainly not like modern cartoons. Modern cartoons are all replete with great action scenes. This, eh, you know, it’s just not doing much. You just don’t care. Mm-hmm. The messaging, it’s left-wing.
John Rush (Host) :
Various Democrat icon… I can hear some of that in it, yeah.
Andy Peth (Host) :
Yeah, Democrat icon names are dropped, like Ben and Jerry’s or liberal actors. Animal rights are touted while eating meat is bashed. This stuff isn’t mentioned often, but there’s no balance, John. There’s nothing balancing the messaging, which is a real letdown because Jason Sudeikis, the voice for Hit Pig… Just sounds like a conservative. He has a conservative-sounding voice. You should have more fun with that, but they don’t. And furthermore, kids don’t care about that stuff.
John Rush (Host) :
No! So why does it matter, Andy?
Andy Peth (Host) :
I don’t want to be an animal rights activist. I’m six! Okay? I just want to watch this.
John Rush (Host) :
They don’t know the difference.
Andy Peth (Host) :
Yeah! I’m six, and yes, I eat bacon and eggs. Okay?
John Rush (Host) :
Most do, yeah.
Andy Peth (Host) :
Yeah! It’s just weird. RuPaul is one of the characters. Adds effeminacy to a character. And also jokes about underwear. Whatever.
John Rush (Host) :
Gum.
Andy Peth (Host) :
Yeah, it was going nowhere. Okay, Rotten Tomatoes. Obviously, John. Do you think they gave it a pretty good review?
John Rush (Host) :
Probably. Yeah, 73. It fits their criteria.
Andy Peth (Host) :
Yeah, 73%. But here’s the thing. You could really tell, once again, as I always say, the contributing critics for Rotten Tomatoes are at least 95%. Not just liberal. Hardline, extreme critics. beyond Kamala liberal. Okay. Virtually all of them are.
John Rush (Host) :
Yeah.
Andy Peth (Host) :
And again, why you wouldn’t believe a lot of the reviews that I get to read. I mean, they just, they just read like absolute political commentary, angry political commentary. Um, And yeah, I don’t know why. Just review the movie, okay? I talk about the politics in it, if only to say how that might be detracting from the film. But that’s it. They give it 73%. No way. But you had a few who were very honest. And they were just killing this thing, saying this is awful, this is boring, terribly written. This isn’t even a good Saturday afternoon cartoon on TV. And they were just ripping it. IM2, quality one star. I’m not going to go below that because Hit Pig was a heck of a character in his own right. I liked him. And that was about it. The elephant was decent. So I’ll give it one star. More religious. Oh, political, one star, obviously. I’m not going to go zero. They didn’t talk politics constantly. It wasn’t that bad. It was just one-sided. More religious, two. You know, just for adding a little stuff that they didn’t need. But not terrible.
John Rush (Host) :
It was worse than the last movie.
Andy Peth (Host) :
Oh, this was much worse than the last movie. Jeez, that’s a bomb. Your Monster was a much better movie than this. Your Monster, most of the movie, I was enjoying it. Like I said, that was four stars up until the end. So, you know, there you go. Do I recommend going to Hit Pig? Oh, please, no. And I don’t recommend renting Hit Pig. So it’s that bad. Yes. This thing is going to make a beeline out of the theaters and onto your TV set.
John Rush (Host) :
Which means even then, just skip it.
Andy Peth (Host) :
Skip it. This is like, you know, it almost reminded me, if you go to Disney Plus and you got these new cartoons for Star Wars cartoons, they’re awful. They’re woke. They’re awful. They’re boring. They’re just awful. That’s what this reminded me of. It’s like, guys, you have a great premise here. And then you’ve got him just being feeling guilty the other time, the whole time. And you’re putting all this agenda in there. Just let it go. And the biggest thing that was missing, though, the biggest problem with Hit Pig beyond all of that is just the lack of humor. It wasn’t funny enough.
John Rush (Host) :
And it’s supposed to be. You’re entertaining kids. Yeah. So entertain them.
Andy Peth (Host) :
Now, I will say this. For kids, is this better than a one-star movie? Yes, it is. For kids, I’d say it’s about a two, maybe even a two and a half, just because, you know, flatulence and things like that and racing around. And kids don’t care about what’s being preached at them. They don’t know how they’re being programmed. For parents, for me, this was, you know, Maybe zero or a half star. So I kind of, you know, in the middle there, one star.
John Rush (Host) :
That’s, yeah. Yeah, hit pig. Avoid it. Well, you took one for the team, Andy. I did. Thank you for doing that. I still hurt. We appreciate it very much. I have bruises. Geno’s Auto Service coming up next. Now, when it comes to your vehicle, make sure you’re fully maintained. We’ve got weather again coming next week. Make sure you’re dialed in on everything you need for the upcoming winter, and it is fast approaching. Geno’sautoservice.com, and Geno’s is with a J.
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John Rush (Host) :
All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. And no, Charlie, that’s way north of there. We were talking through the break. Portland’s just Portland. There’s nothing else around it. That’s because nothing wants to be near Portland. Portlandia. Charlie, you’re thinking Seattle area. Vancouver is north of Seattle, so side note. That’s where they were lighting the boxes on fire, the ballot boxes on fire.
Andy Peth (Host) :
John, you and I are both, well, I’m 61. Portland, when we were growing up, and Seattle were two beautiful cities.
John Rush (Host) :
Now, Vancouver, Washington is on the other side. Is that what you were thinking, Charlie? Vancouver, Washington. Yeah, there we go. Vancouver, Washington. That makes more sense.
Andy Peth (Host) :
But anyway, they were beautiful cities.
John Rush (Host) :
Were they lighting them in both cities, Charlie? So Vancouver, Washington, and Portland both. Voting boxes? They’re lighting them on fire. Jeez. Yeah, well, you know, it’s the land of fruits and nuts out there. It’s worse than here.
Andy Peth (Host) :
They’re nuts. Okay.
John Rush (Host) :
Question of the day, really quick. Yeah, go ahead. Let me get this one in from yesterday. What company is the largest tire manufacturer in the world? Several of you asked me this, by the way, and I’ve had this one before, and you wouldn’t think of it because you’re thinking big car tires. Think little tires. They produce more tires annually than Goodyear, Firestone, or a Michelin. It would be Lego.
Andy Peth (Host) :
That’s cheating.
John Rush (Host) :
Come on. Still a tire. That’s like Hot Wheels when I was a kid.
Andy Peth (Host) :
Boo!
John Rush (Host) :
Cheating! In April of 1995, Friends episode, the one with the evil orthodontist gave birth to a new trend. Name the trend.
Andy Peth (Host) :
No clue.
John Rush (Host) :
Would you get this one, Charlie?
Andy Peth (Host) :
Okay.
John Rush (Host) :
Charlie didn’t get this one. I would have thought Charlie would have got this one. But anyways, answer that on the Facebook page Rush to Reason. All right. More. We got about not quite. Oh, Charlie said Friendsgiving. No, but close. OK. OK. So election Tuesday.
Andy Peth (Host) :
Yeah. Really quick here. I want to say another reason why I kind of think Trump’s going to win. And a lot of people, because of the early voting that’s coming in, which is really favoring Republicans, are doing much better than in past years. And. To a degree, that’s going to cannibalize the votes on Election Day because Republicans are being told nationwide by leading voices, vote early, vote early, vote early, vote early. And that’s why Republicans are voting much earlier this year, right? And so the prevailing thought is the Democrats are laying in wait and they’re going to storm the polls on Election Day and overwhelm this and still make this… possibly a Kamala win. And by the way, that could happen. It could happen.
John Rush (Host) :
Yeah. I mean, at this point, anything could happen.
Andy Peth (Host) :
Anything could happen. As I’ve told you, abortion is the one thing that just scares the living dickens out of me. But I’ve got one real disagreement with this, and that is this. Three words. hate moves fast.
John Rush (Host) :
True.
Andy Peth (Host) :
Okay. When people hate someone or something, they act instantly on it.
John Rush (Host) :
You hate the food you just got at the restaurant, you’re going to write a bad review. You’re going to write a bad review. Not three days from now, but now, Andy.
Andy Peth (Host) :
You want to write a bad review now. If you hate somebody, you’re going to shout at them now, or you’re going to cut them off now, right? Just go cold on them now. Yeah, I’m going You’re going to unfriend them. You’re going to block them. You’re going to do this. You’re going to do that. When people act on hate and rage, they do it very quickly, don’t they? No, that’s right.
John Rush (Host) :
Rage doesn’t wait. That goes for both sides of the aisle, by the way. Oh, absolutely. That’s just a human nature thing.
Andy Peth (Host) :
It is human nature. John… There’s only two campaigns in this election. There’s pro-Trump and hate-Trump. There is no Kamala campaign. Nobody is out there saying, I’m proud to be a Kamala voter. They aren’t.
John Rush (Host) :
They have the signs. When the man on the street is out there asking, what do you really feel Kamala’s accomplished the last three and a half years? There’s this deer in the headlight look.
Andy Peth (Host) :
Right, and then I can have Charlie play the crickets again.
John Rush (Host) :
Yeah, because there ain’t nothing there.
Andy Peth (Host) :
There’s nothing there, right? They only hate Trump. So this election is about people who love Trump or hate Trump. Yep. Pro-Trump or hate Trump. Now, that was true in 2016 and 2020, and so you saw what? The people who hated Trump, the Democrats, voted early and dramatically outnumbered the Republicans.
John Rush (Host) :
Keep in mind, we were coming off of four years of Trump and COVID. Yeah. Right. Remember that for 2020, folks, all of you that are listening, coming off of four years of Trump, just stirring them up and then coming off of COVID. I was reading some of our show notes. Got time. So explain. I was reading some of our show notes earlier today thinking, what were we talking about exactly four years ago heading into the election? Right. Well, it was in a mixed bag, because remember, we weren’t just talking about the election. We were talking about California shutting things down, family gatherings, and there were still restaurants that were going to be closed, and on and on and on we go.
Andy Peth (Host) :
People were miserable everywhere.
John Rush (Host) :
There was all sorts of things happening because of COVID at that time, not just an election.
Andy Peth (Host) :
Well, COVID blew Trump out of office. It did. There’s no question. Well, nowadays, here’s the thing. If you were on the left, the entire voting turnout against Trump is completely rage-driven. It is driven by rage. When you ask people, why vote against Trump? They talk about how much they hate him. He’s Hitler. He’s this. He’s that. It’s not about his policies.
John Rush (Host) :
He’s going to take all my freedoms away. Yeah. so you know he’s going to give you more.
Andy Peth (Host) :
Just about the only issue they talk about is abortion because they’re pro-abortion, pro-choice. And so there’s almost nothing issue-related. It’s all emotional. It’s all how he makes them feel. He angers them. They hate him. They don’t want to use the word hate, but they do mean hate. Some will say that.
John Rush (Host) :
Yeah, some will. Some lefties will even come out and say that.
Andy Peth (Host) :
Oh, and it’s not just lefties. It’s independents. I’ve never seen a Republican have so many independents literally hate him. and be willing to walk through fire to vote them out. John, the hate vote doesn’t wait until Election Day.
John Rush (Host) :
No, they’ve already turned theirs in.
Andy Peth (Host) :
For the most part, yes.
John Rush (Host) :
I think you’re correct on that. They’re done.
Andy Peth (Host) :
So this idea that the hate vote, that it’s going to hold, hold, hold their fire like in an old Civil War… movie right hold hold hold no no the hate vote doesn’t hold they’ve already fired yeah the second they can vote early what do they do they vote baby and so i would agree with that i would say that trump has simply become less hateable first of all there were two attempts in his life secondly he softened his approach, and Joe Rogan, that appearance did not hurt at all.
John Rush (Host) :
And thirdly, the other side has become so mean. Yeah, they’ve had a lot of missteps. On top of that, Andy, you also have to look at the other thing that’s happening this time that wasn’t happening the last time. Last time people were coming off of four years of Trump but had money in their wallet. Right. Meaning that it really wasn’t, I mean, it should have been about the economy, stupid, but you had Joe Biden saying, oh, I’m going to make things even better than they are now, which, by the way, we all know didn’t happen. Right. And that’s working in Trump’s favor right now because it didn’t happen. Joe blew things up to where we had record inflation, inflation we hadn’t seen in most people’s lifetime.
Andy Peth (Host) :
And, John, what was Trump’s biggest issue in 2016 and 2020? The border. Immigration? Right. Okay, people have now spent four years seeing Trump out of office and seeing Trump was right. It’s harder to hate someone when you watch him be right for four years on his biggest issue.
John Rush (Host) :
I don’t know that Trump’s— Even though the left has tried to spin that elsewise, and Kamala’s made that all about, well, you know, Donald Trump’s just pushed his rhetoric through for the last three and a half years, and that’s why we don’t have immigration reform. I mean, everybody out there— Well, nobody buys that. Yeah, nobody buys that at all. Nobody, yeah. They all know that’s a lie.
Andy Peth (Host) :
Bill Maher laughs at that.
John Rush (Host) :
That’s just so stupid.
Andy Peth (Host) :
Yeah, hate doesn’t wait. Hate votes early. I agree with that.
John Rush (Host) :
No, I agree with you on that.
Andy Peth (Host) :
And also, when you watch somebody be right for four years, it gets harder and harder to hate him. We’ve been invaded for four years. Everybody’s seeing it.
John Rush (Host) :
We’ve been invaded. Inflation was rampant for the longest of time. It’s still there. And the repercussions of it are still there. I mean, I talked about this earlier in the week, Andy. 31% of people that have car loans, there’s 100 million car loans out there right now. Out of that, 31 million, they’re upside down, meaning they owe more on the car than it’s worth. They’re financially strapped in a lot of cases. So when you look at those figures, that’s a huge difference this time around than it was in 2020. And that’s something the left, by the way, you would have thought they would have thought about this stuff. But they are so dead set on the fact that they think they’re right about everything, and yet they’re wrong. Well put. Well put. Okay, we’ll leave it at that. We’ll come right back, guys. Don’t go anywhere. Golden Eagle Financial, speaking of finances, is next. Al Smith wants to help you with your future finances, getting to retirement, and staying there. Find him at klzradio.com.
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John Rush (Host) :
All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Before we go to our last top-of-the-hour break, we come back to NFL picks, Andy. The other thing they’ve made a huge mistake on, and you talk about this all the time. It’s a problem we’ve got even here in Colorado that we’ll talk more about once the election’s over. You cannot tell people how to think and how to vote and who to support. And that’s exactly what the left is doing right now with men in general, but specifically young black men.
Andy Peth (Host) :
Yep, Barack Obama drove away voters with a whip.
John Rush (Host) :
You cannot do that, folks. Awful. It’s what Dave Williams is trying to do in Colorado, and you cannot do that. Yeah, you can’t do that. Nope, you’re chasing away when you do that, Andy.
Andy Peth (Host) :
Well, yeah, Dave Williams in Colorado looks at all the unaffiliated voters, that’s almost half the Coloradoans, and says, you’re the reason we have bad candidates. Oh.
John Rush (Host) :
You can’t do that, Andy. That ticks people off. Again, I go back to what I closed with a moment ago. Why the left is being so ignorant is because they’re so arrogant that they’re now becoming ignorant out of their arrogance.
Andy Peth (Host) :
Well, you had Obama, you had Biden, you have Mark Cuban. They’re doing it over and over again. They’re killing us.
John Rush (Host) :
Folks, they’re their own worst enemy right now. It’s not Trump that you need to worry about if you’re on the left. I’m sorry, those of you that listen to me that are on the left, it’s not Trump you should worry about. It’s your own party. We’ll leave it at that. We’ll come back another hour coming your way. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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