Hour 1 of Rush to Reason packs a punch from start to finish. John Rush kicks things off with Dave from Veteran Windows and Doors (https://www.veteranwindowsdoors.com), pulling back the curtain on the truth about home efficiency. Are your “new” windows really saving you money, or are they quietly draining your wallet? Dave exposes what builders and sales reps don’t tell you — from energy codes to hidden heat loss — and how to truly get the quality you pay for. Then, John pivots from home upgrades to political reality. What really caused Colorado’s GOP setbacks, and who’s to blame?
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You are going to shut your damn yapper and listen for a change because I got you pegged, sweetheart. You want to take the easy way out because you’re scared. And you’re scared because if you try and fail, there’s only you to blame. Let me break this down for you. Life is scary. Get used to it. There are no magical fixes.
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My advice to you is to do what your parents did.
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Get a job, sir. You haven’t made everybody equal. You’ve made them the same, and there’s a big difference.
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Are you crazy? Am I? Or am I so sane that you just blew your mind?
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And we’re back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560, Wayne in Castle Rock. What’s going on, sir?
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Well, John, as you know, you know me. I’m a real estate broker and have been for 36 years now. And when I first got in the real estate business, my sphere of influence was young people. between 21 and 30 years old, and they all, with very few exceptions, started out with a small condo. Then they would wait until it gained enough appreciation that they could then take that equity and put it into the down payment on their first single-family property, usually something around 1,000 square feet. Right. But the young people today want that 2,000 square foot plus house that their parents are living in. That’s right. And in addition, all those young people, they all had car loans, but they’re all driving older cars with a very small car payment. And the young people today all have a new car payment.
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Which averages about $750 a month now.
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Yeah, and that’s what’s making it so difficult for the young people to be able to afford a house.
SPEAKER 11 :
Thank you, Wayne. I’m sure you’ve heard me talk about this in the past. This is my biggest issue where I see even a lot of financial folks and articles written and so on. Oh, it’s so hard for young people to get a house. It’s so hard to do this. It’s so hard to do that. No, it’s not. Lower your expectations. I mean, the first thing I lived in, Wayne, was a single wide trailer with a tilt out that I had to start in. Yeah, me too. I mean, you know, you start little and you start building up from there. My first house I had, I told this the other day on air, Wayne, 900 square foot, had to go in and basically kind of gut the inside and redo things, you know, paint and carpet and the whole nine yards. The outside was a mess. It was all I could afford, and it’s what I did. And the reality, Wayne, is that house, in its condition, when I bought it, most young people today wouldn’t buy.
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Oh, yeah. Yeah, no question. That’s exactly what the reality is, and it’s the expectations. Young people expect to be able to live the same lifestyle that their parents are living without living that additional 30 or 35 years. Yep, you are right.
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And Wayne, you have the same exact complaint that I have, and it’s not to throw Marty under the bus by any means, but I think that’s some of the misconception that’s out there in what people read, and this comment of, well, young people can’t afford what we used to. No, that isn’t true. They can afford whatever they want to, by the way, Wayne. I’ve seen that. Reality is people afford the things they want to, and you’re right. The biggest problem is the expectations that are set.
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Oh, yeah. They’ll have $1,000 new cell phones. I mean, a lot of expenses that the young people have yet. We didn’t have the opportunity on a lot of them. But even if we had, we wouldn’t have taken those opportunities because we wanted to keep money in our pocket.
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Right. Right. By the way, you are spot on, because the other problem that I see that a lot of young— and I’m not trying to beat up young people, Wayne. That’s not my intention at all. But the word sacrifice— Yeah, this has nothing to do with young people, John. This has to do with society. There you go. My biggest complaint, Wayne, is, again, the key word, sacrifice. Most people, not young, old included, most people have no idea what that word means.
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You know, when I bought my house, John, I was a young man. I was working two jobs, a full-time job, a part-time job playing in a band, and taking a full load in college. I was sleeping four hours a day. I did that for five years. And that’s the sacrifice that I had to make in order to get where I am now.
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Mm-hmm. Yep. Wayne, I mean, you and others have heard my story, and I’m not bragging. I’m not boasting, folks. Wayne, I was raised, and I’m still this way today. I might not be the smartest guy in the room and probably aren’t in most cases, but I can tell you this. I’ll outwork everybody in the room because that’s the only way I know to get ahead.
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That will always win.
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And I’m being very serious. I mean, I am not the smartest guy in any room, and I’ll be the first to admit it. There’s a lot of things I learned from a lot of other people, and I try to rub elbows with people.
SPEAKER 02 :
I’m going to disagree with you on that. You may not be the most educated person, but you are one of the smartest people around.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well. Thank you. Wayne, coming from you, I do. I appreciate that. That means a lot. And on the same token, Wayne, I try to rub elbows with people that are a lot smarter than me because I can pick up things from them that I wouldn’t pick up anywhere else.
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Oh, yeah.
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I agree. But you’re right, and I appreciate you calling in, especially with your background, because you’re proving the things that I’ve been stating now for quite some time, and that is that this whole level of expectations from young people and what they want, you and I didn’t have that expectations when we were young and we ended up owning a home.
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Yeah, yeah. Now, did I have to have two jobs to do that? I did.
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Yep. Yep. Spot on. Exactly, Wayne. Absolutely. Wayne, I appreciate it. Thank you so much, man. Really mean that. And I appreciate Wayne. We go back a long way on not just Drive Radio, but here as well. And I appreciate Wayne and his insight. And he’s a great listener. You guys all are. I mean, I really don’t have any bad listeners. You guys are all great. And I’m not, again, as I said to Wayne, I am definitely not trying to beat up young people or society in general, as Wayne was saying. But I think we do live in an age whereby every generation, the expectations get a little bit bigger and a little bit bigger. And a little bit bigger. And we’re at a point now to where, you know, for most people, their first time home needs to be, you know, 2,500 square foot or above. And that’s two and a half. Yeah, that’s two and a half times bigger than my first house. Double, more than double what I had. And I’m not, again, I’m not trying to put myself on a pedestal and say that I did everything right. I made a lot of stupid mistakes. I wasn’t, you know, I wasn’t the smartest person out there. I had to learn the hard way on how to do certain things and so on. But I also knew that if you took the right house and put the right things in it and did the right things necessary to make money on said house and dovetailed that into the next one and the next one and the next one, and I did that about seven times over, yeah, that’s how it works. And the reason why I like doing it on the housing side, I talk about this from time to time, but I need to keep reiterating this. The reason I like doing it on houses is because in today’s tax code, it’s not a cheat. It’s code. It’s not something that’s being cheated or bypassed. It’s not a loophole. I hate that term loophole because there are no loopholes in tax code. Tax code is tax code. And the one thing that the government gives us, the IRS gives us currently as taxpayers is to encourage people to buy homes is if you live in your primary residence for two years, you get as a married couple, filing jointly, single, you can do that as well, but it’s half of this dollar amount. But if you’re a married couple and you’re living in a house for at least two years, you can make up to $500,000 in profit tax-free. And what most people don’t know, even some financial advisors, is they think that’s like a one-time thing. Oh, that’s only when you’re a certain age. Or, oh, you can only do that here or there. No, you can do it as many times as you want. You could move every second or third year, buy the right house, do what I just said, and earn $500,000 as a married couple, tax-free, by doing that. People think, we’ve got to dovetail that into the next house. That’s the rule. No, you don’t. No, that’s another misconception. No, you don’t. You can cash that out, put it right in the bank, live off of it, do whatever you want to. It’s why a lot of custom home builders will always have a house they’re living in that they’ll live in for two to three years, and then it’s for sale. Actually, it’s for sale the entire time, but they’re looking for a buyer of their own home, their primary residence, and as a custom home builder, they will flip a home every two to three years. Why? Because they can do exactly what I just said, meaning they can make $250,000 a year tax-free. Folks, tell me. Tell me where else you can do that. And the answer is you can’t. It is one of the best tax deals out there, yet very few people take advantage of it, and here’s why. Most people look at their home as the forever home or the forever this or it’s where we want to raise our kids or we like our school district or whatever the case. By the way, all lame excuses as to why you stay in a house. I’m sorry. Those are just excuses. If you really want to get ahead financially and you want to build some wealth, There’s lots of other ways to do it as well, but your primary residence is one of the best ways to do it tax-wise. And yet most people don’t do what I just said. And I know why. People get stuck in their ways. We like to school. We like our neighbors. We like this. We like that. Who cares? Do you care about making money or do you care about the neighbors? Do you care about money or do you care about where your kids go to school? Which, by the way, you make enough money, you send them to private school. So really, who cares at the end of the day? Get where I’m going with this? I mean, I hear so many people, well, you know, we live over there because we love our school district. Who cares? By the way, all public schools suck. So who cares anyways? There’s not a good one. They’re all awful. Make money on your house and go put your kids in private school. But yet most people just stay in their house. I don’t know why. I think because they don’t understand the concept of what I just said. And so they just stay in that house. In some cases, they might be there 30 years. Dumbest thing they could ever do, by the way. Now, I get it. There’s exceptions. There’s people that have farms and farmlands and different things like that. Okay, that’s different. I’m not talking about that. That’s your lifestyle, and that’s a different situation. Most people live in cities and just kind of move from house to house because their family might grow or their family does this or whatever. We want to be in this school district. Again, What are you really looking at at the end? I never looked at my neighbors. I hate neighbors for the most part. I like not having neighbors, to be honest with you. I didn’t look at the school district because I sent my kids to private school because I made money on my houses and did exactly what I’m telling you guys you can do. None of that mattered to me. I was looking more at where’s the house? What’s its price? What’s its location? What’s the upside going to be? How can I make money on it when it’s all said and done? That’s what I look at. I know I’m unique. I’m different than most. But I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard people say, well, you know, we just don’t we love where we live. Really? OK, so fine. Retire poor. Who cares? I mean, going back to Marty’s point earlier, I mean, there’s ways to counter what Marty was saying. And I just gave you an answer to that. Veteran Windows and Doors. One way to save money, by the way, is get windows direct from the manufacturer to you. That’s what Dave at Veteran Windows and Doors does. We talk to him at 3 o’clock. Call Dave today. Find him at klzradio.com.
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Putting reason into your afternoon drive, this is John Rush.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Okay, just real quick, because Marty mentioned this, and I always want to make sure that I come back and back up some of the things that I had said so that I’m not just winging it, which I don’t normally do anyways. I mean, you guys know me. I try to be as accurate as I possibly can. So I talked about homeownership being maybe not an all-time high, but it’s darn close. Currently… Homeownership in the U.S. is 65%. That was as of June of 2025. Now, it is down slightly. It was 65.8% in 2022. So it probably would be 65.8, 66.6 in 2020. So it’s down slightly. Although, again, keep in mind, that could be a lot of factors for a 1% difference. And it’s not because of people not being able to afford homes. As Wayne and I were just talking about a moment ago, there’s other things that come along with that. Growth in younger adults. From 2016 to 2022, the homeownership rate grew more for people under 35 than any other age group. Meaning, are they buying homes? Yes, they are. Now, are all of them buying homes? No, not all. Are most? A lot are. Or you wouldn’t have these figures be what they are. Think about that for a minute. Basically, 65% of Americans own a home. I think you’d be hard-pressed to go to too many other countries. And I’d have to ask AI, how does that rate among other countries? You know, maybe I can do that right now. If I can type and talk at the same time, which is always hard to do. Um… In some other European countries, it’s a little bit higher than that. In Hungary, for example, it’s about 90%. Singapore is 87%. Keep in mind, those are very small countries with a totally different outlook on things and not near the size that we are. The U.K. is less than us. France is less than us and so on. So we’re right up there. China actually is higher at 90%. But again, you can’t even rely on China’s data because they manipulate their numbers on a regular basis. So I wouldn’t. even factor that one in at all, to be honest with you. And remember, too, in China, that home might be a little shanty out in the rice field, and I’m not exaggerating when I say that. So their standards and what they’re including in that are probably… Most likely a lot different than what ours are. So I want to make sure that I was clear on that earlier. So our homeownership is still very strong. And I’ll just say this, and I meant this with what I said with Marty. If we could get the Fed going, it would even be stronger. Now, somebody said, could you imagine buying an $85,000 track home in Highlands Ranch or wherever in 1991 and still being there? No, folks, I can’t. I can’t imagine a worse nightmare. No, I wouldn’t want to be there still. You would want to have sold, cashed out, put that into something else if you want to. Again, there’s all sorts of things you can do with that money, as I’ve stated. And off you go. So, no, I would not want to do that. And other people are talking about how, and I love Marty. And I know some of you probably, you know, Marty gets a little animated. And if I could see Marty on a video screen, I could imagine that Marty’s very animated, especially when he talks to me. And I try my best just to be even keeled and talk about the factual things that are out there. And, again, folks, I don’t have a crystal ball. Nobody does. But I will tell you this. As a conservative, conservative that grew up in churches. I’ve heard about the sky falling since I was a kid. I’m 61. And I probably started hearing that. And Charlie, I’m not exaggerating. I was probably four or five years of age listening to the adults talk. And I’m sure you were very much the same way, Charlie. So Charlie’s been hearing it longer than I because he’s older. But I’ve heard about the sky falling in the Christian community for, what, Charlie, now what, five decades or more, I guess? You know, for me, five and a half decades. You’ve done it for probably six decades or more. Has it fallen yet? No. We’ve had some hiccups. You know, the 08 thing was a big deal. It was tough. A lot of things went wrong. A lot of things were wrong on the front side. Blame that on government. They screwed things up on the front side. It’s been adjusted. It’s not the same way. We don’t have that same thing happening as we speak, despite what some would say. All the predictors of the crashes of all kinds, used cars were going to crash, new cars were going to crash, housing was going to crash. Folks, all these predictors, they haven’t happened. It hasn’t come true. And I don’t see it happening. For the most part, there is still a shortage of houses in a lot of areas. And I get it. The times are tougher right now. It’s a little harder to sell a home. And, yes, those things cycle around. And once the interest rates come back down, which they will, that will change. It cycles. It is what it is. But as I was telling Marty, and I do read about this stuff on a regular basis, the wealth transfer. So, you know, when folks pass away, that amount of money that’s from the previous generation that’s going to get passed down is enormous. It’s happening already with the baby boomers to the what’s millennials are next, right? Charlie, am I saying that right? No, Gen Xers are next. Sorry. Millennials to or baby boomers to X and then X to millennials. And by the way, Gen X is doing very well. They’re actually – I was reading something last week. I need to identify this. But I believe, Charlie, that Gen Xers are outpacing baby boomers on their wealth. I’m pretty sure – let me look this up really quick here, folks. Again, I wasn’t planning on this topic. This came up because of the call. Right now, baby boomers currently hold significantly more wealth than Gen Xers with collective net worth of around $80 trillion compared to Gen X’s $42 trillion. Now, remember, though – that $80 trillion is going to transfer down to, a good portion of it will transfer to Gen X. And keep in mind, Gen X hasn’t been around as long as the boomers have, of course, but they’re not doing bad at all. They’re doing very well. So keep those two numbers in mind. $80 plus $40 is $120 trillion in wealth. So I go back to answer Marty’s question. Is a crash coming? We have two generations with $120 trillion of wealth. No. Sorry, folks, no. I mean, look at it that way. Do the math like I just did. That’s only with those two generations. It’s $122 trillion, to be exact, of wealth, of net worth. Sorry, net worth, not wealth, net worth. Meaning, after they take all of their assets, sell them off, pay the debts if they have any, it’s $122 trillion. That’s why I’m not worried about a crash, folks. And should Trump be focused more on the economy? Folks, he already is. I mean, I think it’d be hard-pressed to say Trump’s not focused on it. I think it’s one of the things that, of all the things that President Trump does, some things he does I don’t really care for, other things I think he does great at. And by the way, I think for the economy, he does very well. The one thing that he doesn’t do well enough of is communicate. And that’s my complaint with this administration and us as Republicans and conservatives in general. We don’t communicate well. We stink at it, actually. We do it awful. I do believe, and I don’t think I’m wrong in saying this, President Trump eats, sleeps, drinks the economy. I think he wakes up every day thinking about it. I think he goes to bed at night thinking about it. It’s one of the things that’s in his wheelhouse. He is an economist by nature. It’s what he does. It’s what he lives, eats, breathes, etc. He thinks about the economy nonstop. That I can assure you. All of the other things that he has to deal with, Putin, Ukraine, Israel, all of that stuff, those are secondary things. I’m not exaggerating when I say that. I don’t know him personally, but you can see by his actions and what he does and talks about, the economy is on his brain constantly. So to say that it’s not something he’s focused on is a misstatement. It’s frankly wrong, because he is focused on it. He is probably… He’s probably… I’d have to go back to a lot of presidents. I would venture to guess he is the most economic astute president we’ve probably ever had as a country. Maybe some of the early presidents were just as good as him, you know, the George Washingtons and so on. But in modern times, you know, for the last, you know, 100 years since the Industrial Revolution, 120 years, he’s it. More so than anybody else. No other presidents did what he’s done in the private world money-wise. None. Zero. He’s it. So anybody to come along, left, right, middle, and say that he doesn’t know about the economy and he doesn’t know what he’s doing, those are foolish people. They have no idea what they’re talking about. Because he really does understand the economy. And I think he, again, he’s thinking about it daily. And his biggest obstacle has been right now the Fed and how to overcome it. And it will be overcome this spring for sure, but that’s been his biggest obstacle. And again, as Andy and I have said over and over again, the Fed doesn’t want to see him be successful. They have done every single thing possible to not have him be successful. They are standing in the way of his great economic success. So get them out of the way, which they will go away, and the economy will boom. And it will happen. It’s just a matter of a few more months, and it’s going to happen. So trust me when I say that. Golden Eagle Financial, speaking of finances and all of that, talk to Al Smith today. 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Putting reason into your afternoon drive, this is John Rush.
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And we’re back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Richard, what’s going on today?
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Oh, not much. It’s a great, beautiful fall Monday here in Colorado, isn’t it?
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, it’s getting dark already.
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It’s here, folks. I know he sometimes talks about it, but just so everyone’s clear… His least favorite time of the year is the minute in July when we’ve reached our, you know, longest day of the year. Then we start going backwards, even though, you know, it’s still light for forever for a while there. Then, you know, he doesn’t really enjoy anything after that, basically. That’s correct.
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That is correct.
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And then we get to this point. And see, I actually don’t mind this for about, like, 90 days. Cause in 90, cause that’s obviously would be about the same time. I don’t mind it. Cause I’ve got my Christmas lights on now, you know, with young kids and I know you’re kind of getting yours on too. And, and so I don’t mind it as much. Cause I think like when the days get dark early, you can kind of enjoy Christmas lights a little bit later. And, It’s getting light earlier and things like that, but I’m with you. It feels like 2 o’clock in the afternoon. It feels like 5 o’clock in the afternoon.
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I know. It’s funny. The reason I mention that is I just got a text message from somebody that said, yeah, the dang lights are on right now. It’s like, yeah, I hate it. It stinks. Oh, jeez. You people. Oh, I hate it. All right. Talk to us about sports. With everything I had going on this past week and being gone for SEMA and all that, didn’t get a chance to really do much sports-wise over the weekend other than I went to the Nuggets game Saturday night. But talk to us about what’s going on sports-wise.
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Yeah, so this is about as good a time to be a Colorado sports fan as there has been in some time, Dad, right? In the sense that, you know, for the Nuggets, they’re starting off really hot. I think they’re 7-2 right now, and they’re basically the second-best team in the league behind Oklahoma City, depending on how you quantify it. And then the Avs are just smoking teams. They beat Edmonton 9-1 on Saturday. Last night they beat Vancouver. So as long as that team can stay out of… um out of overtime in most cases although they won in overtime last night they seem to be doing well in the broncos granted the broncos last thursday kind of done what we andy and i have talked about a lot which is the broncos tend to play to their competition correct and they and so now there’s some concerning pieces offensively that are concerning and i i feel like I need to… Basically, Beau’s got to get on the same page. Beau really does well kind of off-script, kind of playing off the cuff, kind of, dare I say, how… um how uh Russell Wilson likes to play dad to be honest with you okay however I think Bo reads the field a little bit better I think he can because you’ve seen it at times throughout his career but I think that Sean sometimes gets away from kind of doing what the honestly what’s really good for a for a rookie quarterback and I know he’s not a rookie still a second year player But you need a really good running game, and you need a good defense. Well, the Broncos have both of those. They’re just relying on one way more than the other, and that’s the defense, right? They’re really relying heavily on the defense to succeed. And eventually, I know the great defenses, you know, the Broncos were really great in 2015. I know eventually, overall, I think you can win a Super Bowl that way. But at the end of the day, dad, to me, the offense has got to pull its weight. And the nice thing about this team is the offense doesn’t have to be, you know, Kansas city of the past few years or whatever it might be. They just kind of have to be serviceable. And right now they’re not serviceable, you know, in that game on Thursday night and granted it was a Thursday night, you know, short week, right. Lots of things going on there.
SPEAKER 11 :
Good point.
SPEAKER 09 :
It was just bad. You know, it was just bad playing. I mean, the, The offensive line did okay, but you had receivers dropping passes. You had Bowe throwing really bad passes, you know, maybe to a different guy, and it got tipped and then gets intercepted. And then he throws a really long pass and it gets intercepted. And just there’s… They’re just kind of off right now. And I have the confidence that they will get it right. But to me, it’s sort of what Sean doesn’t do very well, which is you’ve got to kind of grind some of these games out, and especially against the Chiefs coming up on Sunday, right? And this is arguably the biggest home game for the Broncos in, man, 10 years maybe? I mean, I can go back to the 2015 season when you played the Patriots at home in the snow. Similar situation. It was, I don’t know if a lot of people remember that, but it was, I think, early December or late November. There was a snowstorm. C.J. Anderson walked it off in overtime. But this is a really big game, right? Because if you win this game, you kind of take a stranglehold. Because the next time you play Kansas City is another short week. It’s a Thursday night, and it’s Christmas night. And I think most people are kind of chalking that up as a loss, right? Because you’ve got to travel. This Thursday night game, you’ve got to stay at home. That Thursday night game, you’ve got to travel. No one likes playing on Thanksgiving, Cowboys, whatever it is. But Christmas, the past few times the Broncos have played on Christmas, it hasn’t gone well for them. And so you’ve really got to win this game. Now, is this make or break? No. Because they’ve won the games that they should win, they’ve given themselves a really good cushion. So where they only need to go the rest of the year, I think they’ve got, well, they’re 8-2, so they’ve got seven games left. They can almost go 500, Dad, right? They can even go 3-4 to finish off the next seven games and still probably make the playoffs. However, you’ve put yourself in a position to potentially get home field advantage, not only in the first round, Dad, but maybe throughout the AFC playoffs. depending on what happens with the Colts, with the Patriots. I mean, the Bills lost yesterday, and no one saw them losing to the Dolphins. So, yeah, kind of to answer your question, a lot going on, and use a long-winded answer to say, I think the Broncos have got all of the… talent in the world to do it. I think that, you know, in years past, you couldn’t say that. But now I think the defensive talent’s there. I do think the offensive talent’s there. I just think that something right now between Bo and Sean is missing. And it’s kind of a gut check time for both of them, to be honest with you, to kind of figure out what’s going on and get this right. Because you have a really good defense that all they’re asking for you is you can’t go three and out every time. Right? You know, go on a… four or five play drive, even if you don’t necessarily get points every time, at least give them a little bit of a breather to where they can go back out and do it. And again, against a team like the Chiefs, if the Broncos play as poorly as they did against the Raiders offensively, well, Sunday could be really, really bad.
SPEAKER 11 :
All right, talk to us about the college end of things. Again, I didn’t look at anything over the weekend at all college-wise. I have no idea who played, what happened, who won, and so on. So give us an update there.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, so kind of middle of the end of the season for college here, kind of some funky matchups that are going on. Buffs played West Virginia. They did lose, although they started their freshman quarterback, and he actually played pretty well, Dad. Threw for almost 300 yards, a couple touchdowns. um, ran well, kind of as the game went on, kind of got into the swing of things. Um, we talked about it a few weeks ago. Dion actually made a shift. He’s, he’s changed offensive coordinators essentially. And his coordinator is now calling plays. That is, I guess it’s tight end coach. So Pat Shermer is no longer calling plays. He’s just, you know, I guess tutoring the quarterbacks. Um, and honestly that I think that, What a lot of CU fans sort of wanted to see from Dion and CU all year, which is no one really anticipated this being a really big, successful year. I know for Dion that’s hard to hear, but you’re coming off of Travis and Shador plus a lot of other really good players. And so you’re kind of in this spot of like, why not take a chance on the kid, right? Why not let him see what he’s got? And see what he did. And they sort of did that in one of the games earlier this year. I think it was a Houston game. He only got like two series. He kind of looked okay. It was just weird. And honestly, what I saw on Saturday, and I didn’t get to watch every single play, but just from everything I did see and kind of read. I think he can be the guy, and I think that he can be successful, and you put some playmakers around him. Honestly, you redo the offensive staff, and you bring in some guys, and even Deion admitted, which I don’t know how to feel about this, Dad. He admitted that he missed on some transfer guys, which kudos to Deion. However, when your sole philosophy pretty much for Deion, because he really only is bringing in about three, well, not three, maybe about eight or nine high school players a year. And Brent, to his credit, some of the high school players he brought in last year have done really well this year. And by last year, I mean kind of over the offseason. They’ve actually come in, they’ve played, and you don’t necessarily have a lot of freshmen that play right off the bat, right? And so you can say that’s a negative from the roster as a whole. I can just say that some of the freshmen that have played, they’ve played really, really well. And so to me, I feel like Dion and honestly, there’s some kids locally that aren’t getting any play from CU. And it’s been one of the biggest things, one of the biggest detriments dad to all CU coaches over the past few years is they just seem to forget about Colorado. And don’t get me wrong. We are not this thoroughbred state of, you know, call of college football players. Right. Right. But, but we have some good enough players to where they, If you’re CU, you should be keeping the top three to five kids every single recruiting class. Right. They should not be getting out of state. Granted, you’re always going to lose one or two of them, okay? But you should be getting most of the top recruits as a whole. And it’s just one thing that they haven’t been doing. And they’ve kind of been reading some things, know some things. And they’re just not recruiting the state like I think they should. So all of that to say, again, long-winded answer to say, I’m curious where he goes in the offseason. Rick George said, you know, that there’s obviously he’s going to give him time. And I think that’s one thing, Dad, in today’s college football or just today’s world, we don’t have a lot of patience for things.
SPEAKER 12 :
Right.
SPEAKER 09 :
You know?
SPEAKER 12 :
Right.
SPEAKER 09 :
And that’s not everyone, right? My kids don’t have patience. And so it’s like no one has a ton of patience these days. And if we operated under the same mentality with Coach McCartney, for example, we probably would have run him out of town, I don’t know, way before he even got started, before he was able to get some traction. So I think people do have to breathe. There are some concerning signs to me that I think need to be addressed. However, I think that, I’ll just say that, I don’t know if you see how you can do better. And until Dion consistently proves that he’s not going to fix things, I think we’ve got to kind of continually give him a chance. But just my personal opinion.
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SPEAKER 11 :
We are back that time of the week where we throw a car review in, sort of do a drive radio slash Rush to Reason segment. We’ll play this again on Saturday as well. Richard, what have you driven lately?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, Dad, so one of my more favorite cars of the year, and I’m currently kind of finishing it off right now, and that is a 2025 Toyota Corolla. But this is the GR Corolla, which basically, outside of the name Corolla, this is nothing that you would expect of a Corolla. And I mean that in a good way. This is a hot hatch, Dad, right? And for folks that don’t know, there’s a segment of sedans out there that are, you know, Hatch, right? You know, kind of hatchback cars. And they’re hot hatches because they put some extra horsepower and stuff underneath the hood, and they make it a really fun drive. And, Dad, with this vehicle, they have done just that. And to amplify it, it’s got a six-speed manual transmission, which makes it that much more fun, and you can’t hardly find it. anymore in today’s world and you and i have talked about that many times i know i know some of your some of the cars you’ve even looked at you haven’t bought because you can’t find right that manual piece of it but again this is a premium plus model it’s got a 1.6 liter three cylinder turbo underneath the hood dad 300 horsepower 295 pounds feet of torque i mentioned the manual transmission also dad This is, which makes sense, four-wheel drive here in Colorado. And obviously, that’s for performance, right? You know, for gravel roads, dirt, whatever it might be. But here in Colorado, for a snow dad, it’s something, again, not the tires that are on this thing right now. But you get some good snow tires on it, you could absolutely drive this vehicle around. The nice thing about this that I will say is it’s not so overpowering that you feel like you can’t ever, you know, get on the gas without doing it. You really, this car loves to live in second and third gear in those higher RPMs, right? That’s where this thing thrives and it does a great job at it. Is it the biggest car? No. You’ve got to put the first two rows up or the front row up a little bit more for the for the kids in the second row it’s got some strut supports in the back um you know in the hatch portion of it decent storage nothing crazy it’s got a fun functional hood that’s got some air vents on the front of it which works great um and so for folks if you’re curious you’re like richard what car are you talking about look it up and see because the pictures on this car are phenomenal Yeah, fuel economy, Dan, 21 and 28 for an average of 24. Price on this is $48,323 as listed, but you can get the core version of this car for just over $40,000. I would say maybe the only couple negatives I have, Dad, are small fuel tank, which is to be expected, right, on a vehicle like this. You’re not expecting a big fuel tank. I just know that I’m able to basically get about 200 to 250 miles on a full tank of fuel. So just take that for what it’s worth. The other thing, and some complaints, but again, for the price points, and some of you are going to maybe disagree with me here, It’s a little noisy on the interior, Dad, especially at highway speeds. Is that something that would prevent me from buying this car? No, I just want you to know what you’re getting into because to me, that’s something that is, again, just I want to know, right? Especially if I’m going to spend almost $50,000 on a car. Outside of that, Dad, it is one of my more favorite cars that we’ve driven this year, and I did not expect that. Honestly, I had no idea what to expect when I got this vehicle, and I got into it, and I have just had an absolute blast. And obviously, you’re seeing pictures of it. Kind of first impressions, kind of a pretty attractive car.
SPEAKER 11 :
Correct me if I’m wrong, but it’s sort of the answer to a Subaru STI. Am I thinking correctly, WRX STI?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, this is definitely in that same realm. I know Volkswagen had their Golf, right? Their Golf R in a lot of ways. And yes, again, this segment’s getting a little bit more busy in a lot of ways. And overall… I think this is a really good entrance into the market for Toyota because it just it works well. The 300 horsepower is not so crazy. It’s got a three tip exhaust on it, which is a fun little thing, kind of attractive. Honestly, the car itself is really attractive car and really something that I would encourage folks to get out. And if you’re just looking kind of for a fun car to tool around in that, just have a hard time kind of finding something else that you can compete with.
SPEAKER 11 :
No, and again, folks, looking at the car, if you’re into that sort of – well, let me just say it this way, Richard. If somebody’s looking for an entry-level sports car that you can still drive on an everyday basis, it’s probably not going to be the family truckster. It’s most likely going to be a single or a two-person type vehicle, plenty of room in the back for storage and all of that. But the reality is if you want a really fun performance car – Can’t really maybe afford to step up into, you know, the real, you know, solid, you know, sports cars like, you know, we’ve talked about in the past and even driven some of those. But to have that ability to buy that car for under 40 grand when most everything else is going to be a minimum 20K higher, that’s why they’ll sell them.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, and again, this segment, this hot hatch segment continues to do well and continues to succeed. And I would absolutely, and again, I keep going back to this. For our Altitude dad, and you mentioned kind of Subaru, that’s why they’ve done so well, right? Because they do have the all-wheel drive system. That’s something out here that does matter, right? It’s not a front-wheel drive vehicle. and this is something that you could drive up to the mountains. You could drive over the passes, right? Now, are you going to go through eight inches of snow in this thing? Probably not. You’re going to be a snowplow at that point in time. But is it something, like you said, where you could do a car like this and have some fun with it? In between $40,000 to $50,000, depending on how you… And like I said, the one that we drove is the Premium Plus, Dad. It is kind of the creme de la creme of this model. Okay. You’ve got a forged carbon fiber roof. There’s all sorts of stuff on here. Do you necessarily need all that? Maybe or maybe not so, folks. Just know when we’re talking about this, we’re not necessarily saying you have to do the very top of the line. But absolutely, Dad, like you said, for the value, this is a really competitive car in my opinion. I love the way it looks. I love the way it drives. It was really, really a fun car to drive. to handle for a week and honestly got a lot of good compliments about it. So for folks that want to learn more about it, head to a local Toyota dealer, test drive it, get themselves in it, and when they do that, let them know that John and Richard Rush from Drive Radio and Rush to Reason sent them.
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Now back to Rush to Reason on KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 11 :
All right, we are back. And following up before Richard came on, we were talking about just the housing end of things and where we’re at and is the economy going to tank and price of cars and so on and so forth. And I got a text message from a great friend of mine talking about how, in their case, they got caught up in some of what was going on back in the 2008 meltdown, if you would. And, yeah, that affected a lot of people. in this particular case no fault of their own there was a lot of unscrupulous things going on in their case really makes them distrust the system which i fully get and fully understand and some of you listening can probably relate to that my point though is still one of the best ways to build uh wealth you know build some some net worth is through your home through the way that i discussed earlier and again it’s not easy although i will tell you that it’s not that hard the part that’s hard And I think this is what a lot of people struggle with at times. And and I, I have, I think, figured out ways to just say master this, but figured out ways to where you can sort of predict where certain things are going to head real estate wise. But, you know, some people really get that and understand that. Others, you know, they need some guidance and training and so on. But, you know, there’s definitely some scrupulous or there was some things going on back then that were not above board. It makes people distrust the system. I fully understand that. And my point on that is, you know, just because something didn’t work out once, don’t, you know, don’t focus on that. Focus on what you can do moving forward. That’s probably the best way for me to say that. And I know it’s always hard when you get burned by something, myself included, you typically don’t want to go back again. You know, it’s like, yeah, I don’t want to do that again. Well, when it comes to housing end of things, there are ways with housing, as you guys all know, to build wealth. And those of you that are business owners know exactly what I mean by that as well. And no, it’s not necessarily easy, but yes, it can happen. be done. And yes, you have to be a savvy shopper and kind of understand where the markets are headed and what’s going on and so on. And the Fed’s, you know, the Fed, the interest rates, that’s going to help a lot of the housing end of things here, I believe in the not too distant future. So for those of you wondering, you know, what’s going to happen next, it’ll be interesting to see. But It is going to change moving forward. Trust me when I say that. If it doesn’t change before April, it’s definitely going to change in May because Jerome Powell will no longer be the Fed chair. And I can guarantee you the next person picked will be looking at things completely different than what he is because he will not be a political foe like Jerome Powell is. And before somebody texts me and says, the Fed’s always neutral. Yeah, no, they’re not. Sorry. No, they’re not. They’re not always neutral. Quite the opposite, actually, when it’s all said and done. All right. Another full hour coming your way. Jim Papp’s going to join us from the conservative caucus here at the top of the hour. Stay tuned. We’ll be right back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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The Rich Guy.
