Join John Rush and Andy Pate on this vivid episode filled with film reviews and weather wonders. Discover the latest in cinema with an in-depth review of ‘Solo Mio,’ a film capturing the beautiful chaos of life, love, and unexpected adventures in Italy. As Valentine’s Day approaches, find out why this movie might just be the perfect escape. Experience the charm of Colorado through its unique weather stories, shared by our hosts who find joy in the beauty of unexpected sunny winter days. Engage in a light-hearted discussion that perfectly balances current events and entertainment with laughter and genuine
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It’s finally Friday on Rush to Reason with your host, John Rush. So I tell him I’m a pro jack. And who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama himself. So we finish 18, and he’s going to sniff me. And I say, hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know? And he says, oh, it won’t be any money. And when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness. So I got that going. And movie reviews with Andy Payton.
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I think that you got the wrong impression about me. I think in all fairness, I should explain to you exactly what it is that I do.
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What I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.
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What do you want to do tonight?
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The same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try to take over the world. Stick a fork in me, Jerry.
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I’m done. Now, here is your host of Rush to Reason, John Rush.
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All right. Welcome. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. It is our Friday edition. How’s Andy?
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Andy’s doing well. What a beautiful day.
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Okay. It’s great out. It’s beautiful out, actually.
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Don’t you love days? This is the weird thing about Colorado. When I moved here from Wisconsin, we don’t have days quite like this. the winter i mean we have warmer days but they’re in the 40s right we don’t have stuff like this this blows my mind i i couldn’t get used to it the first time i moved here when i was 17 up in loveland and the first winter i went through we had several you know a couple weeks like this blew my mind awesome it’s incredible oh i know it really is charlie graham’s of course our engineer and again it’s friday hope you all made a or had a good week and you made it all the way to the end it’s it’s uh the weekend is getting close to being upon us Oh, by the way, the Dow hit 50.
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I saw that.
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You know, yeah, things are going pretty well. I thought Trump was supposed to ruin the entire country. Did I miss something? What happened here?
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According to the lefties, he already has, Andy.
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Yeah, but, you know, tariffs, I thought everything was over. I didn’t think we’d be eating for the last six months. What happened?
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Because it never works out the way some predict.
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Oh, okay.
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Other than us.
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All right, just thought I’d throw that in there.
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All right, so question of the day. We’ll do that now because we’ve got movies. I guess I should ask you, what movies are we doing? Let me just start there. Sorry, I should have done that to begin with.
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Not a problem. We’re going to be doing two movies today. One is Sola Mio. Sola Mio? Sola Mio.
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Okay, is it a musical? No. Oh, good.
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There’s a little music in it, but no, it’s not a musical. And Iron Lung.
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Iron Lung.
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Iron Lung is a little sleeper hit that’s going on right now that’s come out of nowhere.
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So there you go. So there’s our movies for today, which, again, movie rental hour. We’re doing, and I promo this. You guys all should have been thinking about some of these yesterday. So we’ll do picks, of course, for the Super Bowl. Andy and Richard will do that. But then we’re going to do favorite commercials.
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Well, I figured for the Super Bowl, right?
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And just to preface this, it doesn’t have to be Super Bowl commercials. If it is, that’s fine, but it doesn’t have to be. It could just be a commercial that you remember from old or whatever, so it doesn’t have to be an actual Super Bowl commercial. It can just be your favorite commercial of whenever. We don’t care.
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Can I go back to the Dow for just one moment? Go ahead. Remember when the Dow was down, what was it, in the 45s? Something like that. And I predicted in 2026 it was going to hit 50.
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And it has.
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That’s a little early. I think it’s going to go a lot higher. I still can’t believe this, John. I can’t believe how high it is. But anyway, go ahead.
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No, again, during this next hour, it doesn’t have to be a commercial from a Super Bowl. It could be a commercial from one of the previous Super Bowls because usually that’s kind of where they highlight commercials and get them fired off even for the rest of the year.
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That’s where they launch a lot of them.
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It’s a kind of launch season, I guess you could say, for a lot of them. And they spend a boatload of money, so rightfully so.
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Right. It’s the most watched single event. So if you’re going to have a launch point, there it is.
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That’s the one to do. So, again, whatever that favorite commercial is, by all means. I think I’ll push question of the day off until the latter part of this hour. But, yeah, if you’ve got a particular favorite commercial, I’ve got a couple that have already been texted in. So if you have one, by all means. send it in, and we’ll try to play some of these. Andy’s got all of them queued up. Some of you are sending in to me. I’ll still do my best to play those as well, so feel free to do so. I can always stick the microphone down by the speaker. It works out fine. We make it work, not a problem. All right, let’s do this. Dr. Scott’s up next, and he wants to help you live your best life possible by having you be healthy. Nothing worse than not feeling well. Dr. Scott wants you to feel well, and he’ll help you with that. 303-663-6990.
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Suck it up, buttercup. Back to Rush to Reason.
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And welcome back to Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560, John Rush, together with Andy Pate and John Rush. Are you ready for a movie?
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Absolutely.
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All right, John. Well, ever go on a honeymoon alone?
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No.
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Okay, probably not, right?
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That kind of stinks.
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Well, guess what, John? It can happen, so get ready for Solo Mio.
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Hey, I’m just going to need to move some things around with my reservation. Is there something wrong? Look, I think we both know things didn’t… She was just here, and then she wasn’t. If I was in this position, I would enjoy the package myself. What do you want in my honeymoon? Party more, vacation. Party to what you want. Sometimes gravity comes so fast I don’t know where I’m falling to
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I’m sorry, do I know you? You on that honeymoon package? Yes. Where’s your tube? That’s personal. Oh, it’s a no-show. Hey, scusi, big tuna. He’s gonna need that. Got left at the altar. I… No, no, I never… I never said that.
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I’m Claudia. I like your hair. That’s not gonna help him. He needs to heal.
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Oh, you’re one of those guys. What’s that supposed to mean? You know what it means.
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What’s your name?
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Matt. And you are, uh, Café del Soleil.
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No, no, I know, I know.
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I was just trying to be funny.
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Okay.
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I keep trying.
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Hey, I think that was Matthew.
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Who’s on the back? Coffee lady.
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Now, Matty, go! Matty, it’s time that you accept it. She’s the only woman I ever loved. Look, I can’t start over again.
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You have to try. Don’t be afraid.
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Did you kiss her? Oh, I’m sorry.
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Okay, like this. It’s not hard. Don’t be weird.
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I’m going to a concert. I got an extra ticket. You want to go? Yes.
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Tie him up, buddy. What do you think? It’s beautiful. I have to come back sometime.
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Don’t leave.
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He’s allowed to like what he likes.
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He’s almost 60. You’re an old man with an ear. He made a choice. Like what a pirate would make or somebody’s grandma.
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Okay, John, what do you think? Sounds good. Sounds fun? Yeah. Well, Kevin James, was he the King of Queens? Yes. Yeah? Okay, I thought he was.
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He’s awesome.
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Yeah, I like Kevin James. He stars as Matt Taylor, an art teacher for fourth graders who falls in love with a fellow teacher named Heather. Well, he proposes, she says yes, Matt drops a ton of money so they can be married and go on a honeymoon in Italy. Well, unfortunately, Heather gets cold feet and stands him up. Then the hotel says it’s too late for a refund, so what can Matt do? In an effort to heal, he honeymoons alone. But what do you do, John, in Italy alone? I mean, think about that. You’re a fish out of water, right? You have no idea. You don’t speak the language barely, right? And here you are in Italy when you were supposed to be on your honeymoon. Well, yes, there’s beauty and charm everywhere. But are you in the mood for beauty and charm when your heart was just broken? I mean, would you be?
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Mm-mm.
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No, probably not. Well, thankfully, Matt finds a nice little coffee shop with an owner named Gia. She’s played by Nicole Grimaudo. I like her a lot. They hit it off, and he’s, well, you know, he’s a pathetic big lug in a strange land. She feels for him, right? So you’ve got kind of that lost puppy feel. And there are also other couples honeymooning at Matt’s hotel. Since this is a real thing, they’ve all signed up for the same package. One couple is Julian and Megan. They’ve divorced twice, okay? This is their third marriage, and they love to argue. And the other couple is Neil and Donna. They’re a couple therapists who fell in love. Well, naturally, everyone wants to know what’s up with Matt, the loner. In time, Julian and Neil, they intrude on Matt. They really do. They barge into his life, and they take over his trip. Julian is the ultimate extrovert, while Neil, he’s very sensitive. And these guys want Matt to party and share, so they kind of drag him along with their new wives, and they drag him along. So Matt is healing, and he’s also enjoying his time with Gia. John, she’s very pretty, but strong and a bit pushy. Matt actually likes that. But does he want to start something new right now? I mean, think about that. You just got stood up at the altar by the woman of your life.
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Mm-hmm.
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And now there’s this woman who, let’s face it, you’re hitting it off with right away. It’s been a couple of days. How would you handle that? I mean, you know, on the one, right, because you don’t want to be the guy in the rebound, right? You’re thinking, my gosh, any guy in a rebound in these situations, you use the romance to get over your pain and then you have another terrible breakup. It’s a terrible thing. He’s terrified of this, but he’s enjoying it. Well, everyone winds up at a beautiful country villa in the vineyards. Well, you got horses. You got to get ready for this. Andrea Bocelli is there. Okay. Yes. The great singer. He’s an uncle in this family. So this is actually his family. And so he is at this country villa. Well, it’s all magical. But can a few days of magic heal Matt’s deep pain? Can he ever love again? And that is the story of Solomio. What do you think? Again, sounds cute. Yeah. Well, what works in Solomia? Well, first, this film is from Angel Studios. Now, it’s not a Christian film, but you don’t have to worry about a bunch of forced Hollyweird content intruding on your good time. You can just relax, sit back, and just enjoy a movie, right? You don’t have to worry, are they going to try to convert me to whatever? It’s just a movie. I like that. The setting is charm, charm, charm. Old world meets new. Bikes built for two. Beautiful music, quaint villages, and a stunning countryside. I mean, it’s really something to look at. What’s not to like? Kevin James, John. Well, you know him. He does comedy. He does all kinds of comedy. Weird, wacky comedy, laid-back comedy. But this time, he has really recreated himself. He’s reinvented himself, and it works. He helped write this movie. He’s perfect in the role as the awkward guy being swept away by lots of outgoing people. His chemistry with Nicole Grimaudo is perfect, but he seems to mesh even better with the two guys. I mean, it’s kind of a buddy flick, too, as they carry him around. They’re trying to get him through this. And I can kind of understand this. They’re on their honeymoon. They see this poor guy and they’re just like, man, I want to make him feel better. Let’s get him out to the bar. Let’s take care of him. Andrea Bocelli playing piano, singing and riding a horse to buy local produce. Wow. OK, I mean, it’s just it and he just fit right in. You would think, well, OK, this is going to look really weird. Right. With this cameo with. No, actually, he fit right into the movie. Which was just strange. I liked it. This is a true feel-good film with just enough discomfort to keep from getting bored. And that’s good. And finally, it has a nice message about how playing it safe only takes us so far in life, John. You’ve got to risk a little. And I mean, that includes risking some embarrassment. Now and then… You know, if we always play it safe, we’re not showing those we love that we love them. We got to show them, hey, I’m willing to actually be embarrassed for you a little bit. Okay. You mean more than my pride. Does that make sense? And that’s a neat message for Salomeo. Okay. What doesn’t work in Salomeo? Well, it’s weak early on. Okay. Matt’s original romance at school and wedding set up. Those are good. All right. But then the show drags for about 20 minutes while the other characters are getting set up. Claudia. There’s this woman named Claudia who’s hitting on him early on at the bar. Honestly, their scenes are dragged out. They should have cut them shorter. It just slowed the movie down. There’s a scene with Matt finding closure with Heather. That’s the woman who left him. this does play into the plot. They make it work well with the plot. There’s a plot twist that is introduced here, and that’s good. I wish they had done it another way because just his talking with her slows the movie down again. And the reason it’s so important, I know I always talk about pacing, pacing, pacing in movies, but you are already talking about a movie that is set in a slow, relaxing atmosphere in Italy, right, where you’re experiencing the countryside. You don’t want to slow it down more. And that’s the thing. I don’t mind a nice, easy pace in a movie like this. I actually enjoy it. But there were a couple times when it did slow down. So pacing became a problem. It slowed down at times. Now, Rotten Tomatoes. This is for an Angel Studios movie. They gave it 77%. They like this movie. I do too, John. I’m going to give it three stars. But it’s a strong three stars. For me personally, it’s three and a half. The reason I’m only going to give it three is I think, like I said, you got that early 20 minutes after the setup. That is really slow, and there’s a period of time there where you’re like, okay, when’s this going to launch? The movie’s ready for launch. Let’s get going here, right?
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I did get a text message that said they went and saw it, and it was great.
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Yeah, there you go. And what, for me, this movie was three and a half.
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Okay. Yeah, I think the texture would agree with you on that one.
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Yeah. I liked it more, and I was looking at the audience, and I think there were mixed reactions. I think overall the audience enjoyed it. I think they did. But I think for some people, this is going to be a little too much of a slow burn, so I want to take that into account. There are parts of our audience who will look at this and say, no. Too slow moving for me. I’ll be honest. For me, I enjoyed it. My wife, she enjoyed it. Okay, political three, moral religious three. This thing doesn’t preach at all. So three, three, three, but it’s a strong three. And personally, I liked it a lot.
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So just a good February movie to go to.
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Yeah, a surprisingly good one. And by the way, this is a week before Valentine’s Day, and you have a romantic, somewhat comedy. Yeah. Yeah, there’s enough comedy in it. The two guys, they’re funny. And this is the thing. At first, they’re not. At first, the two guys are in the movie, and they’re not really adding a lot of humor. And I was kind of thinking to myself, uh-oh. So you got two of the quote-unquote comedic characters who aren’t adding it. who aren’t bringing it. And I was saying, my gosh, that means the whole movie is going to be boring, right? If these guys are boring, the whole movies, well, then you get to about, I would say 40 minutes in and they really start to click with Kevin James. And now I’m having fun. Now I’m really enjoying them being on the screen and they’re really making a lot of fun because they also play off each other really well too. One is a total extrovert and he’s annoying.
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Hmm.
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but in a good way. And I really enjoy him. The other guy is just this sensitive male, sensitive male. And both of them want to help him through this. So it’s pretty cool. Do I recommend going to solo meal? Absolutely. I do. I think just understand it’s a slow burn, especially early on, but for this time of year, a nice little romantic comedy, a feel good movie like this is a rare gem. Go to solo meal.
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The best export we have is Common Sense. You’re listening to Rush to Reason.
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And welcome back to Rush to Reason, Dead vs. Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560, John Rush, together with Andy Pate and John! Are you ready for another movie?
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Absolutely.
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All right, John. Well, you know, in 1999, I’m sure you remember this, a little horror film with no budget made $140 million domestic. Okay, at that time, John, wow, that was a ton of money. It was with no budget. That was called The Blair Witch Project.
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Oh, yeah, yeah.
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remember that yeah it was incredible okay well now a youtuber has made another super cheap horror sci-fi movie in iron lung i see that question in your eyes for what purpose do we remain alone in the dark
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Beginning the descent. Cruising depth in roughly two minutes. Stand by.
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I ask myself that very same question.
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I’m seeing some voltage irregularities on the instruments, so keep an eye out for sparks or flames or anything like that.
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Why would there be flames? You did test this thing, right? This is the test.
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Closing porthole shielding.
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Where’s the reason for this quiet rapture? Too few to rebuild.
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You’re the first one down. All we have are surface scans. That’s why you’re there.
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Well, one of the reasons.
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There aren’t enough of us left to be throwing lives away, but there is too much at stake not to take calculated risks. Eden doesn’t understand that. You don’t understand that!
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I just want to live. Is that so wrong?
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Why doesn’t anybody else want that? And that is Iron Lung. What do you think, John? Sounds creepy. Very creepy. Okay. Well, the star director for this film, his name is Mark Fischbach, a.k.a. The Markiplier. That’s what he’s known as on YouTube. All right. I’m serious. That’s what he’s called. The Markiplier.
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Okay.
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So Markiplier. All right. Well, for less than $4 million. Less than 4 million Markiplier has adapted a video game into Iron Lung. What’s it about? Well, far into the future, all the stars and planets have disappeared in an event called the Quiet Rapture. Were they called home to star heaven? No idea, John. But they’re gone. They’re all gone. And the only place man still exists is on space stations and ships, roaming the universe looking for somewhere to call home. The only hope is a few moons where oceans of blood are forming on moons. That’s creepy. Right. And by the way, that makes me wonder, okay, the planets are gone. What are the moons orbiting? I have no idea. So it doesn’t really matter. That’s right. Oceans of blood. And one moon has the most. Well, no one wants to explore blood oceans, but it’s our only hope. So who goes? Well, a convict, of course. Prisoners are both desperate and expendable, so the leaders, they promise freedom to one who will explore down to the depths in one of these oceans. Well, this convict is Simon. That’s Mark Plyer. And he literally is welded inside a submarine, which is called the Iron Lung. So he’s just welded inside. And you would think this is super, super, super high tech. It really isn’t. It’s more of just an iron dome. You know what I mean? Just… Yeah, a shell. It’s really something, and they’re lowering him down. It does have some tech in it, but it’s just an interesting kind of concept all around. Well, due to the depth and pressure he’ll face, there are no windows or weak points. Simon’s only way to study what’s out there is with special X-ray images. So down he goes. At first, Simon faces a mix of boredom and learning as he studies all the facets of this creaky machine around him. But in time, the x-rays, they pick up a presence outside, John. And Simon realizes there’s more danger than just the blood pressure, okay? Because think about when you go down a few miles with all this blood on top of you, think about the pressure on you. It’s incredible. Well, meanwhile, the only voice he really hears is Eva, and that’s played by Elsie Lovelock. And she’s a scientist who is becoming more frantic by the hour. If Simon doesn’t retrieve crucial intel, mankind is doomed. So this is a story of survival, mystery, and terror. What will Simon find? Is there hope for mankind? Is there hope for Simon? What will we learn from the iron lung? And that’s the story of iron lung. What do you think? Yeah.
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Doesn’t sound bad.
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Pretty interesting. Very weird. But interesting. Yeah, weird. All right. What works in Iron Lawn? Well, as a novice actor, and he really is, Markiplier, he brings a pretty good range of emotions. He’s raw. He’s real. And I’ll be honest, John, I thought he was the best part of the movie. This is a guy who I really enjoyed. He’s a very intense guy, an intense actor, and I thought he was like a seasoned pro. in this role he really did well with it eva is good too with elsie lovelock speaking sporadically as we lose the connection so as you go down further she’s cutting in and out cutting in and out and he desperately needs the information she desperately needs his information and also things he he can’t see it but things are getting worse and worse for mankind Things are not good, all right? The concept is interesting, as is the mystery. Simon is nothing but a crucial cog in a wheel he can’t see. Now, he must accomplish one specific goal, and he has no idea what that Intel will do or how it matters. So he’s got to get this Intel, John, and he’s going down. He doesn’t know what they’re going to do with the Intel. He doesn’t even know what the Intel really is, but he’s got to get it. And if he doesn’t do that, they’re all doomed, and he doesn’t even know why it matters. OK, and what this movie is really is this, John. It’s this feeling of let’s say you’re in a corporation and you’re a low, low one on the totem pole. Right. And you are told you do this thing. You turn this cog. This is what you do.
SPEAKER 07 :
No matter what you go do this.
SPEAKER 06 :
You do this. And there are others who have the big picture and you never get the big picture. But you understand that if you don’t do what you do, the whole thing is going to come undone. Right. That is how Simon feels. That’s the situation he’s in. He doesn’t know why he’s doing what he’s having to do, but it’s an incredibly difficult thing to do. And yes, there are times when the blood starts seeping in and gushing. It is a terrifying thing. And so he goes through all kinds of horrors. He has to deal with this horrifying presence that is down there. Right. That is down there in this ocean of blood. And he doesn’t even know why he’s having to do what he’s doing. So there you go. But if he doesn’t do it, all is lost. Lots of blood flooding in as well. So they set records, I guess, for the most blood in a movie. Now, yeah, but it’s that blood like, you know, in Scream where you see it coming out of people. I mean, it’s an ocean.
SPEAKER 07 :
It’s blood.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right. But when it gushes in, well, guess what? You can’t breathe in that. So you’re going to drown if too much of it comes in. Get the idea?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay. All right. What doesn’t work in Iron Long? Well, first of all, two hours and nine minutes of this?
SPEAKER 08 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 06 :
Nope. Nope. Way too long is the usual director star kind of routine takes over, right? When you got somebody who’s both director and star, who’s going to edit them?
SPEAKER 07 :
No one.
SPEAKER 06 :
No one. So everything he wants in this film is kept in this film. John, this should have been 90 minutes tops. It really should have been. They should have had a much curtailed, shall we say, display of what they were doing. Move it along, move it along, move it along. It’s going to be better that way. I checked my watch way too often, and I could tell there were a number of other people doing the same, even though I was in an audience full of people who were obviously fans of this guy on YouTube.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 06 :
Now, when you get an audience who are fans of someone and they go to their movie, how are they going to take it?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, they’re your best fans.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, they’re going to love it almost no matter what. You can have nothing but a white screen and they’re going to love it, right? I mean, remember the YouTuber who put the new show. You got a new show right now out called Starfleet Academy. It’s utterly horrible. It’s ruining Star Trek. And it’s so bad that a conservative YouTuber said, He did a video of just a picture of a Spock action figure sitting on a chair. And it outsold Starfleet Academy three to one. That’s what it shows you when you have a following, how people are going to like anything you do. Anyway, here’s the biggest problem. You’re in cramped quarters. Sure, it’s fascinating, but just too limiting. Before long, we realized we’re just watching an artsy show with no budget. OK, there’s no budget here. And this guy’s bouncing around in these short quarters and he’s being very emotional. And you’re trying to really get the most emotion you can out of each scene because you can hear her. You cannot hear her. You know what you’re doing. You don’t know what you’re doing. And that’s kind of what’s going on here. OK, well, here actually there’s one bigger problem. No explanations. We never know what Simon is really supposed to find, why it would help, what is finishing off mankind, why there are oceans of blood on moons, and what are the creatures in the blood? What role do they play in whole stars and planets being destroyed? All we have is Simon’s mission and rising terror. I have never before spent two hours knowing less of what was happening in a movie in my life. John, I watch about 110 movies a year. Right. And I’ve never spent two hours knowing less of what is happening in the movie in my entire life. This was a very interesting thing. Now, Rotten Tomatoes gave this 45%. And… Even those who gave it a thumbs up did not give it a strong thumbs up. Okay. Audience, of course, gave it 90%. Why? It’s all fans. Fanboys. Right. It’s all Markiplier fans. I’m going to be honest. This is a tough one for me to do because it’s a super wide margin. The young people who work at the theater, they love this movie. I don’t know how. I guarantee you, John, you would have been out of that theater by 30 minutes in. There’s no way John Rush is still in that theater. You would have walked out. You would have. In fact, I guarantee that a lot of our audience would have walked out of the movie. Right. So you’re talking about two totally different audiences, two totally different groups who want totally different things. And that’s what makes it so hard to grade this movie. But you know what? I’m going to do it for general audiences and give it one star.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 06 :
And that’s vicious. I know for me, it’s two and a half. I was, you know, I’m, able to handle the arty thing. I want to watch all the various aspects and study the movie itself. But honestly, was this entertaining enough to where the average audience member is going to want to go see this movie? Absolutely not. Most people would hate this movie.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 06 :
Guaranteed. You would drive me crazy? Oh, I’m going to say flat out 80% of Americans would hate this movie.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 06 :
I would say well over half would walk out. And it is very rare that I say that about a movie, John. Very rare. Political three, moral religious three doesn’t say anything, which is nice. It doesn’t preach at you at all. But my goodness, this is a rough watch. And so do I recommend going to Iron Lung? Here it is, guys. If you like the Markiplier, yeah, because you are in that core audience. If you are somebody who is in their teens or early 20s, and you’re just into that movie,
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SPEAKER 05 :
Now back to Rush to Reason on KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 07 :
All right. We are back again. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Charlie, I’ll just combine those two in the next one, just so you know. And we’ll get a little housekeeping done that way. So, Andy, you asked me during the break, why did the stock market go to $50,000? From a little bit of reading that I did mainly AI tech stocks.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, that blows my mind because I don’t see how AI has changed its upward trajectory in any surprising way. Usually when you see a leap like this, and it was quite a leap that we saw today, that’s because of a surprise or maybe some great earnings reports or whatever, a labor report.
SPEAKER 07 :
My gut feeling is some of these folks are finally starting to figure out what we’ve even been talking about on air, even to a large extent with Jordan Goodman. He’ll join us Tuesday. But, you know, you look at, for example, Caterpillar’s stock has gone up and a lot of theirs is fueled by, of course, you need equipment to build data centers and so on and so forth. So, you know, there’s a lot of when you build these things, there’s ancillary things that benefit from these things going up, which drives the economy.
SPEAKER 06 :
What about something like the India deal that Trump just signed? I mean, that’s a beauty.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, you know way more about that than I do, so yes.
SPEAKER 06 :
Bottom line, we took their tariff that we were going to put on them from 25 down to 18%. It’s real nice. And here’s the biggie. Instead of buying their oil from Russia, they’re going to buy it from us or, more importantly, Venezuela. So we just created an instant market for Venezuelan oil, which, of course, we are going to oversee. That’s beautiful.
SPEAKER 07 :
And that hurts Russia, of course.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes, it does.
SPEAKER 07 :
Big time.
SPEAKER 06 :
A lot.
SPEAKER 07 :
Again, these are things, again, we’ll get into.
SPEAKER 06 :
That may bring about peace. Pretty quick.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, and we can talk about some of this on Tuesday as well. But, yes, in some cases, some of what Andy’s talking about, these are things that will definitely have an ill effect upon Russia. And you’ve got to wonder. I mean, this is a question in my mind I’ve had now for a while with what Donald Trump’s doing, what oil’s doing, and so on. How deep are Putin’s pockets? In other words, how long can he run this thing and not go broke? Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, I know that they just became a lot less steep. Let’s put it that way. And by the way, John, and I still expect the Supreme Court to rule against Trump on the tariffs. And all I can say is this. Supreme Court, SCOTUS, please don’t do that. How can you not look at what Trump is doing and not see the foreign policy advantages of what he’s doing with tariffs? He’s about to end a war between Russia and Ukraine, and I believe it will end ultimately because of this. When it ends, it’s going to be because they ran out of money. Why are they running out of money? They just lost their second biggest buyer of their oil. OK, that’s huge. So and that is done totally with tariffs, done totally with tariffs. So he’s ending wars with tariffs. How can you not say that tariffs are involved with the president’s mission as our commander in chief? I mean, how can you say that, John?
SPEAKER 07 :
Great question. You can’t. Great question. I just read really quick, too. And again, a good friend of mine just reminded me that don’t forget that a lot of AI and that is definitely leaning towards the left, no doubt about it. In fact, probably Gronk would be more middle of the road because that’s Musk. All the rest of them are definitely coming out of leftist tech companies, even ChatGPT, OpenAI. Yeah, you’re going to see mostly answers coming from the left and so on. But I did get an AI overview of the whole Russia conversation we were just having. And they’re depleting its financial buffers due to the high war spending with liquid reserves and the National Wealth Fund shrinking from $100 billion to about $30 to $50 billion and facing growing budget deficits, facing increased taxes and reliance on central bank support. Though analysts say it won’t run out of cash immediately, but they do face tough choices balancing military needs with economic stability. And to Andy’s point a moment ago, that just got worse.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right. Who are their top two customers for their oil? Who’s number one?
SPEAKER 07 :
China.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right. And how’s their economy doing?
SPEAKER 07 :
No, theirs is not doing well either.
SPEAKER 06 :
It’s in full collapse right now. It’s really being hurt. And who’s number two? India. Right. Now they’re going to buy from Venezuela. Not good, Russia. Not good.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, and right now Russia is running on- Better cut a deal, buddy. Yeah, they’re running on cash reserves. I mean, at some point Putin has to start looking at this saying, okay, how long can I do this? Yes, I want to conquer Ukraine, but at what cost? Because if you’re not careful, you’ll have nothing left as a country to even mess with when it’s all said and done.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right. And also, what did Trump also accomplish largely through threat of tariffs? He got all of Europe except for like Spain to up their military spending to 5% of GDP. What does that mean for Russia? That means, okay, Russia, even if you get Ukraine, let’s say you get Ukraine. Forget about Poland. Forget about going any further. These people are more armed now. The EU can repel you much more than they could before. And by the way, we’re working with them. I just think, I just hope that the Supreme Court doesn’t make the terrible decision I think it’s going to.
SPEAKER 07 :
We keep talking about that. When are they going to actually do that?
SPEAKER 06 :
It was supposed to happen a week and a half ago. It was, and it didn’t.
SPEAKER 07 :
Do you think they’re kicking that can down the road because they know the repercussions of, or what are your thoughts there?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes. I think that they are planning and ruling against him, and I think they’re kicking that can down the road as far as they can so he can lock in deals first. Doesn’t ruling against him undo the deal?
SPEAKER 07 :
I have no idea. That I don’t know, Andy.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, I mean, what is he supposed to do? Give back their tariff money? I mean, I don’t know how they’re going to do this, but the bottom line is it’s idiotic. It’s idiotic to think.
SPEAKER 07 :
Are they waiting long enough? Go ahead. Finish your thought.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, it’s idiotic to think that the tariffs don’t come under his emergency powers.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, that was just going to throw that to you. Do you think they’re waiting long enough to have a case to prove that look at what’s happened because of them, you can see the results of, and yes, that fits.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right, and this is what I say to Jordan, too. Jordan, we can’t look at tariffs how they’ve been used in the past. If we look at them how they’ve been used in the past, yes, of course they wouldn’t be applicable. Donald Trump uses them totally differently. He uses them as a sword. Okay. He uses them as a sword. They’re a weapon and he does it for good. Okay. It would be ludicrous to look at Donald Trump as the Supreme court and say, and apply the usage of tariffs in the past to how he’s using them. I mean, honestly, John, wouldn’t you say it’s night and day between how he uses tariffs on anybody else?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
I just got it. I’m texting this back as well. But I will. Let me see if I can make sure that I send this first. Somebody said terrorists are killing agriculture. You know, they are to some extent. But here’s my answer to that. And I know farmers and I’m sorry and I love farmers. But the problem with farming and you can talk to any farmer and they’ll agree. Too much government involvement from the get go. Yep. Too much selling to other countries, i.e. soybeans to China. We never should have gotten in bed with them in the first place along those lines. And yes, it’s going to be a difficult divorce. It’s that simple. It’s going to be painful. And I talked about that a little bit yesterday, even with Scott Garlis, that right now, currently, there is a lot of talk about, hey, How do we divorce ourselves from China? It’s going to hurt their economy. It may hurt ours ever so slightly. We may have to figure out ways to shore some things up, i.e. what I’m talking about right now. But at the end of the day, the best thing for us to do is divorce ourselves from China.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, but keep in mind, China is buying a boatload of soybeans now. Because of the recent deal he did cut with them. So first of all, they’re doing it, and second, well, one last thing.
SPEAKER 07 :
My feeling is stop doing that.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, but one last thing. Canada is teetering. Okay, now that we got Venezuelan oil, which is similar to Canadian oil, so we can use that, that puts them in a terrible negotiating position. The point being… Canada could before long collapse into a deal. Now, if we get a deal with them, who do we sell to? Well, that’s the farmers that benefits our farmers. Okay. So what I’m saying is this, we are getting more and more and more of our patrons back for our farmers.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right, and again, as I said a moment ago, and most farmers would agree with me on this, way too much government involvement in farming in the first place, too much dictation as to what we’re going to grow and not grow and so on. They should just let the free market handle that on its own, and government has a way of getting involved in things that it shouldn’t, and it’s been too involved in agriculture for far too long. I get the argument is we need a stable food supply. We need to make sure we can feed our people and so on and so forth. The problem is that ship sailed a long time ago, governmentally speaking, and government has no business being in agriculture.
SPEAKER 06 :
True. Now, if you want a place where the tariffs have hurt the worst, it would be agriculture in California. They have been devastating there. And it has to do with their Mexican trade deal. Okay, and I won’t get into that. I’ll bore you with it. But they’ve really hurt the California farmers. Let me ask you this, and you can answer it after the break or some other time. What about ethanol? And Iowa and these Midwest farmers, their addiction to these ethanol subsidies when it is the most idiotic thing. I’m not saying ethanol doesn’t have a good purpose that we can’t use it. I’m saying it’s way too expensive to make the stuff.
SPEAKER 07 :
It is. It’s very expensive. You’re never going to see it go away at this point. I think the farming community and even Donald Trump himself, they’ve gotten in bed and they realize that there’s a voting base there and so on. And they’re going to think you need to grow corn and make ethanol and so on. And I don’t see it going away anytime soon. I don’t think that it’s not cost-effective, but we’re still going to continue to use it for various things.
SPEAKER 06 :
So there’s no way to transition to them simply making food for us?
SPEAKER 07 :
Fact of the matter is we, as a country, grow so much food already that the reality is, yeah, that’s not an issue we have in this country.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, fair enough.
SPEAKER 07 :
We actually have enough— Some of the areas that we have been weak in and are starting to maybe turn around is lamb, beef, that kind of stuff. We have literally ruined some of those markets, and we need to get some of that back and some of that slowly coming back as we speak. But those are some areas that really we’ve been hurt on and shouldn’t be in the shape that we’re in. We’ve, again, too much government involvement, allowing meatpackers even to consolidate, and that has killed markets. a lot in that industry as well. And again, that’s another one you’ve talked about California, I could talk about that for, you know, right and bore people along those lines as to how we’ve screwed that up completely, again, because government got involved. And, and honestly, in that case should have been involved to the point of saying, Yeah, no, you guys, you know, you’re becoming a monopoly. No, we don’t need just five major packing companies or three major packing companies in the country, we still need the mom and pop shops to do meatpacking. Yeah. And meat processing. We can’t just have, you know, all of these big guys doing it. We still need some competition with the little guys to keep prices where they need to be and to make sure everybody’s getting a fair deal when it’s all said and done.
SPEAKER 06 :
I’m surprised nobody has been able to rise up and cut into those margins.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, well, what’s happened is we’ve got to call Mr. So it’s happened on the meatpacking side. And when I. mean by that is the big meat packers, they consolidate and pretty soon they own everything telling you what you’re going to actually sell them cattle for. So at the end of the day, it’s no longer a free market. They’re telling you, this is what we’re paying, period. And if you don’t like it, don’t sell us a cow. At that point in time, then get out of it, I guess, at that point in time is what they’re really saying.
SPEAKER 06 :
But historically, America breaks up those kinds of monopolies.
SPEAKER 07 :
In the case of these, the government has gone along with them. And a lot of that, I believe, is because of politicians getting, like Big Pharma, getting money in their back pockets, if you would, getting fed by those particular packers. And at the end of the day, and I’m not wrong on what I’m saying, by the way, because there’s actually stories out there. You can go watch YouTube or anything else and verify everything I just said. It’s because of those crooked politicians that it’s the way it is. happened, Andy.
SPEAKER 21 :
Okay.
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Live and local, back to Rush to Reason. And we are back. Thanks for listening. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Myself, Andy Pate, Charlie Grimes. Okay, Andy, next hour. I know we talked about this earlier, but some people joined us a little bit later in the hour. So next hour, of course, Andy and Richard will talk about the Super Bowl and the pick and so on.
SPEAKER 01 :
Sure, make our picks.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, we’ll talk about that. That won’t take very long. And then we’re going to get into favorite… and favorite commercials can be, it doesn’t have to be Super Bowl. I mean, some will be. Some of what you guys will send us and some of what I’ve already received will be, but they don’t have to be is my point.
SPEAKER 06 :
No.
SPEAKER 07 :
It could be a favorite commercial from your childhood. I don’t care.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. You know, one thing that kind of bothers me these days, John, is that the Super Bowl has become such a launch point for commercials that they launch a bunch then, and then we see them for the next several months.
SPEAKER 07 :
We do.
SPEAKER 06 :
Boy, do they get old quick.
SPEAKER 07 :
And some of that for you listening, and the reason that happens is because the cost to go into the Super Bowl, it’s $230,000 a second. So you’ve got to keep milking that ad for the next couple months. Yeah, you’ve got to get as much out of that as you possibly can and let that thing run. And then hopefully, you know, again, hopefully, and some are bombs. Some are awful, by the way.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, John, in my opinion, honestly, of the ones that are trying to be funny these days.
SPEAKER 07 :
They’re awful.
SPEAKER 06 :
90% are bad.
SPEAKER 07 :
I know.
SPEAKER 06 :
90% are bad. Get rid of the wokeness. It used to be. I mean, you always had some duds, but it used to be well over half were funny. Not now.
SPEAKER 07 :
Nope, I agree. All right. And again, so send us those. And he’s right. The wokeness killed off really good Super Bowl commercials because you can’t offend anyone.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
Because if you do, then you’re in trouble. And the best thing to do, honestly, is just run a commercial, make it funny. People will love it. And who cares at the end of the day?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. In the old days, you could be obnoxious. And that’s what football fans want.
SPEAKER 07 :
That’s what people want. That’s exactly right. So Hour 2 is next. Don’t go anywhere. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 1 :
Thank you. The Rich Guy.
