John Rush and Richard Battle unpack the idea that our greatest influence isn’t financial—it’s how we serve others. Then Sonny Kutcher from Young Americans Against Socialism calls out the vile reactions to the Texas flood tragedy and explains why socialists hate people (spoiler: it starts with hating God). John wraps by exposing the communist candidate trying to take over NYC—and why even Wall Street’s sweating bullets.
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All right, hour number two, Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Richard Battle joining us now. Richard, welcome. How are you today?
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Good afternoon, John. Thank you for having us back with you, and glad, hope you had a great vacation.
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Always a joy. Yep, I had a great Independence Day. It’s always a joy, great time of the year. Kind of as a reminder that even though summer’s not really half over, it always kind of seems like it when you get to that point, because you start going downhill on the daylight, although now we’re hotter than what we normally would expect. I shouldn’t say normally would be. We’re hot for this time of year. That’s normal for us. But for us here in Colorado, that doesn’t last a long time.
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Well, that’s good. And so we’ll take that heat down here for you.
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All right. Our most significant impact today and influence on the future will not be financial.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, and the reason I picked this out is I think that our culture and the media, everything we do when we work to earn money, to buy the things we want, everything incents us to focus on the financial parts of our lives and to overlook the other things that are much more important than the money in the long term. And so I thought it would be good to kind of go through and remind ourselves of some of those things. because of the way we influence others today, tomorrow, and beyond our lives.
SPEAKER 03 :
All right, so let’s get into it. And by the way, I can’t argue with anything you just said. I think it’s important to remember those things because those are the things that we leave. I mean, yes, we can leave a legacy. We can leave finances and help our families that way and so on, but we need to do more than just that.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, absolutely. And so the first thing we’ve got to do, and last week we demonstrated it some with Independence Day, is I think we have to have an attitude of gratitude versus the entitlement mentality. And remembering what the founders did and those that came after them is very important versus focusing on things that we don’t have and we think we deserve without having to earn them.
SPEAKER 03 :
I think another thing, too, Richard, always comes to my mind when we start talking about these particular things is there’s those people out there that I’m sure are listening that think, oh, you know, John, I don’t have anything to worry about. I don’t have any influence. Nobody’s really paying any attention to what I’m doing. Yeah, think again. Sure they are.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, I’ll give you a great example. When my daughter was about two or three, she was playing with some other kids and I was observing in the five or six year old kids around her. What I noticed was that she started copying what they did. And those five- and six-year-old kids didn’t realize it, but their example was influencing my two-year-old daughter. And that just goes to show that we don’t have to be grown up or teenagers to influence those younger than us. It starts very, very early and happens all the time.
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And it never stops until the day we die. And even then, sometimes depending upon how we’ve lived, might continue on.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, absolutely. And we hope that we have something positive to leave behind that will continue to influence those that we left. Uh, and me, once we figure out that we have that kind of influence. It changes, at least for me, the decision process that I go through in thinking of what I want to do and what image I want to display to others as far as my actions.
SPEAKER 03 :
Absolutely. When we put others, and this is in my notes, but it’s true, when we put others ahead of self, it really changes things.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, yes, and this really hit home to me after I had lost my son. And going through the grieving process, what I figured out was that when I thought about myself and my loss, I hurt. But when I focused on helping others that were grieving in my family, my hurt went away because I focused on helping them. And it’s been true in other situations too. since then, and so we need to focus less on ourselves and more on others, and we can be more helpful in doing that and have less negative thoughts for ourselves.
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You have a quote in here from Arby. Who is Arby? Arby is yours truly. That’s what I figured. When we serve others, all negative thoughts about our life vanish, and a joy fills us that money cannot buy seeing our impact. And that’s a great quote, by the way.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, thank you. And all it means is the gratification we get when someone is helped by something we’re doing is just fulfilling, much more so than writing a check to somebody. And I know you’ve had it happen. I hope your audience has, too. People come up to you and say, you know, 12 years ago or 25 years ago or whatever, you said something here, and that’s always helped me. And when they’ve done that to me, I don’t even remember the time they’re talking about.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, because we’re speaking, and we’re not the ones listening. And so, yeah, you’re right, Richard. I’ve had those experiences, and I appreciate them greatly, and I’m glad that I’ve had some influence along those lines. Do I remember the exact time and what I said? I wish I could.
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Absolutely. And so the next piece of that is about serving him. If we’re believers, then our service has a purpose beyond our lifetimes. And I kind of see this life as a warm-up, if you will. to try to prepare for eternity. And so that changes it. We’re told in Colossians 3.23, I think, that when we work, we should work as if we’re working for the Lord. And when we do that again, it gives us purpose. And we find so many people that have trouble in this life, they don’t have a purpose, or they’re struggling to find a purpose. And so when we have one that’s beyond ourselves and beyond our lifetime, and we compound that with hope and encouragement, it gives us better futures as well as those we influence.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well said. Well said. Focusing on tomorrow, I think that’s the other thing, too. And this is one where I do my very best, even as I’m coaching clients and so on, where, you know what, we’ve all got mistakes in the past, Richard. You know, there’s two equals in life. We all have the same amount of time. We are bound by time, and time is a respecter of no one, by the way. We’re all going to get a day older no matter how you look at it. There’s no way of reversing that. It is what it is. And the other guarantee, we all have problems.
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Well, yes, and we’ve all failed, and we’ve all suffered, and the question is, how do we respond to that? And some of the things that I did that was the worst decisions I made based on following up, to me, now that experience gives me a better opportunity to speak to that than if I did not have that experience.
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Yep, there is.
SPEAKER 09 :
You need to convert that.
SPEAKER 03 :
There is some real, it’s funny, I was talking about this on vacation to somebody that I had met, and there’s something to be said about failing, and as long as you’re learning from what that failure was, knowing that we’re not going to repeat that and do it again, those are the way that we grow. For somebody that’s never failed, well, number one, an old saying, and it’s very true, if you’ve never failed, you never did anything.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, that’s exactly correct, and we either can learn from our experience or others. Others is better and faster because there’s many more people’s experiences than we have, but sometimes, like the little kid that’s told not to touch the hot stove, sometimes we have to do it ourselves.
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Talk to us about inspiring others.
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Well, I think that once we recognize that we’ve got an opportunity and a responsibility in this life, To me, that gratitude for what we’ve been given leads us to want to return the favor. And as we’ve talked about on here before, I like that better than paying it forward because in my mind, paying it forward is focused only on the future. Sometimes it’s focused only on people that we can see and in return for something we can identify that we’ve been given. Whereas we owe people that we don’t know before our lifetimes who have contributed to us. And to me, returning the favor looks backward and forward to appreciate all of those people known and unknown for what we’ve been given. This life that we have the opportunity to live, millions of people have done things to contribute to that.
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Yep. You never use money to measure wealth, which, by the way, I agree with, because there’s a lot of really, really rich people that are absolutely miserable. And frankly, I don’t think really have accomplished anything positive in their life. Maybe I’m very critical when I say that, and I’m sorry I’m going to throw a name out there. You take a guy like a George Soros who has made a gazillion dollars. He did it on the backs of a lot of others. He’s, in my opinion, a very sly, in some cases sneaky, very evil individual is probably the only way I know how to say it, Richard. And I can tell you right now that his wealth, in my opinion, isn’t much.
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Well, yes. And the example from that quote is from the movie Broken Trail with Robert Duvall. And he’s driving a herd of horses, teaching his nephew how to do that business. And after one calamity, the nephew says, this drive is getting less and less profitable every day. And that’s when Duvall says, son, you never measure wealth. using money. And it is such a great line because again, it gets us to think about the important non-monetary things in life that we have the opportunity to influence outside of the money. And so that’s what’s so important. And hey, I love a dollar as much as the next guy and work hard to get it also, but we have to maintain the proper perspective.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, and it’s in the notes, and it’s very true. Each of us will have an impact 100 years and beyond. How are we going to do that, I guess, is the question, Richard.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, and I’ve told this story, and if you have another minute.
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Go ahead. We’ve got to go ahead. Absolutely.
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I inherited a table from my mother. She told me when I was a young boy that it was my great-great-grandmother’s table, and she served milk and cookies to my great-grandmother and her friends on it. My great-grandmother lived until I was nine years old, so I had a relationship with her. So after my mother passed, I found a picture of my great-grandmother when she was a young teenager. I found her autograph book, because back in the days, kids would come to your house, and you’d have an autograph book, and they’d tell you how good you were. And the autographs in there were for 1884. And what I started thinking, 99% of that information my mother had, Went out one ear, only a little bit stayed. But I started thinking that my great-great-grandmother was an influencer long before that term came about because when she served milk and cookies, she also dispensed life lessons. And then my great-grandmother gave them to my grandmother, et cetera, down through my daughter now, six generations. And I tell people when I speak that everyone – As that same type of story, you may not have a table as a physical manifestation, but our relatives before us influenced us more than 100 years ago. Our influence today will go more than 100 years in the future.
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Richard Battle dot com is a place you can go to buy all of what Richard has to offer. And Richard, as always, I appreciate it greatly. The time you take with us each week is literally I look forward to it every single week. It is literally how should I say this? It’s I couldn’t pay for the information I get from you on a weekly basis. Let me just say it that way.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, I appreciate that very much. It’s always my pleasure to be with you, and we hope that we’re touching the audience, and money would not be compensation versus the gratitude I get if someone benefits.
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Richard, as always, I appreciate you greatly. Have a great rest of your day. You too. God bless America. God bless you too, Richard. We appreciate you. Golden Eagle Financial Al was with me at 3 o’clock. He did a great interview here of late. Tune in. We’ll be back right after that.
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This is TJ with KLZ Radio, and I’ve got Al Smith from Golden Eagle Financial here in the studio with me. Al and I were just talking about how in retirement he helps his clients to stretch the time in their retirement. Al, what do you mean by that? Tell us a little bit more about how time works in retirement.
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Well, when you think about leaving the working world, you think about, well, it’s still going to take money to live on once I’m retired. And that nest egg, whatever that is, that’s going to permit you to do what you want to do with the time that you have sort of earned for yourself. So the nest egg is not only in dollars, but it’s also in the time that you have to do the things that you believe will be fulfilling in retirement. And when I have a conversation with people, I think it’s equally important to think about how they’re going to be spending their time as it is to accumulate a nest egg.
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You’ve got to have some pretty good examples of things that people do in retirement. So open the door for us. What sort of things can we expect?
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Well, sure. I have one gentleman who is very much into aviation. He owns his own small plane. He actually works on that small plane. He’s within a few years of retirement. He’s retirement age. But right now, while he’s working, he takes his small aircraft, flies to locations where he investigates air disasters. I also have some people who spend a lot of time with their grandkids, some of whom live nearby and some are a little farther away. I have some who are incredibly involved with their churches and go on missionary trips and so forth.
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How do people get in touch with you if they want to stretch that time out in their retirement?
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They can reach me at 303-744-1128. And if they’re driving when they hear this, you can contact KLZ and they’ll put them in touch with me.
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Of course, as always, you can find Golden Eagle Financial on klzradio.com slash advertisers and get right in touch with Al if you’re driving and can’t write that number down. Al, thank you so much for joining us today.
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You’re welcome.
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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. One thing I was going to talk about yesterday with Jordan Goodman even, but I did not get a chance to do it, was the whole debacle that is unfolding in New York City surrounding Mom Donnie. I’m sure I’m saying that right. Is that correct, Charlie? Am I saying that right? Mamdani. Mamdani. He is the primary winner on the Democrat side in the mayoral race, and it really is throwing New York City, the financial side of New York City, I guess I should say, it’s really throwing those folks for a loop. The real estate execs now are trying to figure out how do we throw some money behind somebody, anybody, actually, I think is what they’re looking at, besides this guy, because he will be, if he gets elected, and the way that the New York City is structured, the voter structure, I guess, is what I should say. I think, Charlie, you told me, I can’t remember, it’s like 80% Democrat or something along those lines. I haven’t looked it up, but it’s huge, huge on the Democrat side. And the bottom line here is, does this guy have a chance of winning? Yes. Yes, he actually does. Even though he is a devout communist, he wants to put in city-run grocery stores and things along those lines. I mean, this guy is an all-out Marxist communist, absolutely. Doesn’t even try to disguise that. and and along those lines people would think that well there’s no way somebody’s going to vote for somebody like that yeah don’t be so sure of that yes they will unfortunately in that city yes they will he wants to tax anybody that makes over a million dollars a year heavily i mean the reality is he will drive business out of new york city not bring business in so in turn And this is an article out of The Wall Street Journal. New York City real estate executives are throwing support and money behind incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, who, by the way, isn’t isn’t great either. But it just shows you how good he is in comparison to this new knucklehead that just showed up on the scene. So they’re trying to figure out a way to block Mamdani. And there’s, by the way, going to be other high-powered, highly financially incentivized folk that get behind somebody running against this particular gentleman. And it’ll be interesting, by the way, to see how that works out. Now, all that being said, I know I said this here a couple of weeks ago. This isn’t really new news, but it kind of is, because I think what’s happened is people have finally awoke to the fact that, oh, wait a minute, this guy won the primary. This guy’s actually got a chance of probably winning the all-out mayoral race in New York City. And think about this. The size and population of New York City, you’re darn near a governor. So you’re not the governor of New York. I get that. But in regards to what you’re in charge of, politically speaking, the citizenry of the amount of revenue that’s collected and so on, Charlie, there’s probably states out there that don’t even come close to what New York City is doing. For example, Wyoming. guaranteed that the GDP and what happens in New York City is greater than all of the state of Wyoming. I’ll double-check that through the break, but I would venture to guess I’m not wrong. In fact, I would venture to guess that New York City has probably got a larger population in GDP than a lot of other states, fully states, have around the country. So point being— People think, oh, it’s just a mayor. Who cares? Well, it’s a mayor of one of our largest cities in the country. And it’s the financial capital of the country. Keep in mind, when the terrorists hit the World Trade Center, they were doing that as a sign sent to us because of the financial impact that they thought that would have or the message that would send financially to the United States of America, frankly to the world, but really to the United States of America. So they didn’t pick New York City just because. They picked it because of what I’m saying. And so is it important that this guy not be elected? Absolutely. Is it important that anybody other than him get elected? Yes, absolutely. Even as bad as some folks that are on the list are, they’re still better than this guy. The folks in New York City, believe me, they are doing – Wall Street is doing every single thing they possibly can to try to figure out what are we going to do to defeat this guy. And this is where I said a couple of weeks ago that as Republicans, we should be doing everything we possibly can to run somebody there because the reality is you might actually for a change get somebody elected. That might actually happen. So stranger things have happened. Given what’s going on right now in New York City, you might actually have a shot. So the question is, what are we doing there? I’m not there. I don’t live there. I don’t know what the party’s like there. I don’t know who’s in charge of the party. I don’t know anything about the GOP of New York itself. So I have no clue what their plan is. But if they were smart, they would be collectively getting together and figuring out, even if they’ve got somebody picked right now, they should be looking at that and saying, okay, do we have the right pick? Yeah. Is this the person that we really need? Now, I don’t know how all of that works systematically in New York City as far as the primaries and all of that stuff go. If the candidate we’ve got on our side is the right candidate or not, I don’t know how all that works. Again, we don’t live there. You guys know me. I’ve visited New York City a few times in the past, and there are a lot of people that live there. Let’s just say that. It is a city that, honestly, I could not live in. There’s lots of cities around the country that I could not live in, but that’s one of them. Just the sheer number of individuals, traffic, and so on, yeah, not for me. Is it fun to visit maybe every now and again? Yeah, it has a cool factor in some cases and some places, I guess you could say, but at the end of the day, is it a place I would live in? No, farthest thing from. So it’ll be interesting to see how this shakes out, who ends up actually running against this particular individual, what the Democrats actually do that don’t want this particular person in there. They are in a conundrum, if you would, and it’ll be interesting to see how all of this pans out. 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Now back to Rush to Reason on KLZ 560.
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All right, Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. John O’Shea, go ahead, sir.
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So I talked to my brother and a few other people back east, including my crazy liberal sister. Sorry. That’s all right. She’s, you know, she’s what, you know, she’s your sister. You can’t judge other than, you know, you know how that goes. Right. Um, It looks like Adams is going to run as an independent, the current mayor, who’s not as far to the left as this lunatic. And I think he’s gotten more towards the middle as his term has gone on, and he’s seen what is really going on in New York City. So he’s kind of got more pro-cop. We’ll go with that. And then Curtis Sliwa is going to run again. He’s gotten beat like three times as a Republican. So why run again?
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Is that the best we can do?
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Nobody else wants it. Everybody’s afraid of the same thing. You’re going to get crucified in the general, and it kind of destroys your political career. You know what I mean? So the Democrats that don’t want this lunatic are kind of getting together, and they’re all kind of – They want to get one of the two to drop out. Because they know if the Republican runs and the Independent runs, he’s going to win just by default because the other two are going to split the vote. Kind of like when Perot took 13 points away from Bush Sr. and gave us Bill Clinton. Things like that. When you’ve got that third party that’s going to take 15% away, it’s usually from the Republican. Right. But I talked to some friends that are still there that one person said, yeah, as soon as my daughter graduates from school, I’m out of here. There’s a lot of people that they don’t want to pull their kids out of school as a senior. You know what I mean?
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Sure.
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So they’re going to ride it out for another year, year and a half, and then they’re out of there. I ask them where they’re going, and it’s Florida, the Carolinas, Tennessee, San Francisco. Nobody wants to go to Texas. It’s just too hot, they say, in the summertime, which you and I can kind of agree with. But they’re just looking for different states. And when I said, well, you know, Wyoming’s beautiful. We don’t have state income tax. They said, yeah, but you have eight months of winter.
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Yeah. Can’t argue that one either.
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So but, you know, it’s just one of those things that if this happens in New York. and he gets elected and tries to put these things in, you could see some of the major… I could see one of the major stock markets pulling either the Amex or the New York Stock Exchange and saying, we’re done, and pull out of there. And then that would destroy the city economy for good. But the big grocery store chain is D’Agostino. Trump was talking about the owner. This guy wants to take over his D’Agostino grocery chain in Manhattan and turn it into City Run. When has that ever worked in the history of anywhere government-run grocery stores that had anything on the shelves.
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It doesn’t, as you know. No. And really quick, I did look up because I wanted to make sure that I was correct in what I said earlier. New York City, New York City, not state, New York City, 8.3 million people, GDP of $1.3 trillion. Yep. Bigger than probably most, not most, but yeah. In the United States, probably most states, probably bigger than most states.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I would say, you know, maybe Texas, maybe now that Florida’s grown so much with a lot of business, and California might be bigger than New York City. But if you roll the state in, New York State’s probably got the highest.
SPEAKER 03 :
It’s unbelievable. When you think about it. When you think about that, that really is unbelievable.
SPEAKER 07 :
You know, if you think about it, though, we had two really bad mayors, liberal Democrats, Cochran and Dickens, Koch served 12 years, and then Dinkins had one term because he was the worst. And that gave us Giuliani, but there’s no Giuliani out there. That is the killer. And that is what’s going to hurt.
SPEAKER 21 :
You’re right.
SPEAKER 07 :
I mean, nobody to run. So, John, I don’t know. It’s going to be scary the next six months, but we’ll figure it out.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 07 :
We always do.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yep. You have a good rest of the day. You too. Appreciate you, John. Thank you very much. Sonny Kutcher joining us now. Young Americans Against Socialism. Sonny, welcome.
SPEAKER 14 :
Great to be back. It’s been a while.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, yeah, that’s okay. Summertime, stuff going on. Fully understand you had some travel things as well, which is great. No issues there. And I know we kind of chatted a little bit before coming on today, and I’m just appalled. I shouldn’t be, because I know the left. I know how they operate. I shouldn’t be appalled. But some of the… or most of, I should say, not some of, most of the remarks coming out of the left about the tragedy that’s happened with the floods in Texas, Sunny, really does show you good versus evil.
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Absolutely. And I think we’re seeing this over and over again, you know, with Hurricane Helene and the folks in North Carolina and just all these disasters that seem to just be, you know, much more frequent than they ever have been before. You see the, you know, people’s true colors come out and especially now that, you know, President Trump is in office, I think they’ll be they’ll jump to blame, blame President Trump or, you know, the people in charge that, oh, this is them. And, you know, that’s what they get for, you know, for voting a certain way or whatnot. And it’s despicable.
SPEAKER 03 :
And then there’s been comments about the kids that have died at the camp. Okay, that’s great. They’re dead. That means they won’t turn out to be some white supremacist on down the road. It’s a good thing. I mean, Sonny, I’m going to say it straight up. There have been some things stated I can’t repeat on air. It’s that vile and vulgar.
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, absolutely. I think there was a viral video of one woman saying, saying that and turns out she’s, you know, the black woman, she’s married to a white minister. And she’s saying these things, you know, that they deserved it. And I mean, it’s just awful. It’s really like, you know, like we said, we are truly fighting pure evil. And there are still hundreds, maybe even more, who knows how many people who are still stranded right now with these floods. I didn’t even actually realize that. But as I was kind of, you know, looking into it, prior to coming on here, I realized that, wow, this flooding is still taking place, and these people are stranded, and they have no help. People are in the search rescues ongoing, and it’s tragic.
SPEAKER 03 :
It really is, and again, for those of you that maybe haven’t looked today, I believe the death toll is somewhere around 75. It may have grown since then. Still a lot of folks missing, Sonny. No, sorry, 109. It was 109, and there was 275 people missing, so that number likely will grow, and it is a total tragedy in the left. What’s that old saying, Sonny? Never let a crisis go to waste. They aren’t wasting anything on this one, that’s for sure.
SPEAKER 14 :
Absolutely. That’s the adage that we always, that represents the left. I mean, they are just, I don’t know, there’s something really sinister going on. I mean, we’ve known this, but it just seems that it’s rearing its ugly head so much these days.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yep. No, you are – and again, I just – I wish I could even read to all of you some of the things that the left has said in regards to the floods in Texas, and the reality, Sonny, is I can’t. And it’s despicable. I mean, this just shows you the level of – They talk about how they’re the party for the little guy. They’re the party that cares, and they’re the party that wants to make sure that everybody’s got representation, and they’re all whining about those that might be affected by the cuts in Medicare, or Medicaid, I should say, and on and on we go. The reality, Sunny, is nothing could be farther from the truth. They care nothing about people at all. Zero.
SPEAKER 14 :
Right. All they care about is, I mean… an illusion, a theory, an agenda. And we’re all pawns in this game. I struggle to think about, you know, if their plans were to really come to fruition, you know, what would life really be like? I think that a lot of the people who support the left would be smacked in the face with a dose of reality that, you know, we would all be slaves. We would all be slaves to their system. And some would argue that in a lot of ways, you know, paying taxes and this corporate system and the way that our society has progressed with this need to work, work, work and hustle. And, you know, women have like gone completely away from the traditional and gone girl bossing and all of these things that we are slaves to the system. And that’s something I’ve been thinking about a lot recently. But at least we have, you know, a freedom to choose. So at least there is you know, a level of freedom in this country that in other countries, I was just traveling, I was in Italy and you just, you feel, you see the, the lack of motivation to work and not even, and I don’t even mean to work, you know, like I just said, to hustle and grind and all of these things, but to, to value, um, service to value work to value being a you know participating member of society that actually values a customer you know that actually values oh we have a restaurant we’re actually going to take care of the people that we’re serving and and so on and so forth and i just wish that you know more young people in this country would understand that instead of going to the left because of course they are the ones pushing you know more welfare more dependence on the government and and and There you go. I think it really does boil down to those two, you know, to that dichotomy there.
SPEAKER 03 :
And a question came in, Andy, who’s with me on Tuesdays and Fridays, just asked the question. We’re kind of leading in that way anyways, you know, point blank asking, why do socialists hate people so much?
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, I believe that the core of this ideology, which, of course, you know, we’re talking about socialism, hand-in-hand communism, Marxism, these, you know, these leaders, these thought leaders that came up with these ideas, these theories of economics, of the way the economy should be run, that they actually, well, first off, they hate God. They hate the idea of religion. They have something bigger than them that they’re not in control of.
SPEAKER 03 :
Good point.
SPEAKER 14 :
And of course, I mean, power, greed, corruption runs our world. And if we think about, you know, not to like go totally rogue here, but with the Epstein files, like those people run our world. And for that power to be deduced, you know, to just a few people, a lot of the marks and a lot of those leaders, really didn’t like the idea that they were not in control, and they were just, you know, these… I mean, Karl Marx couldn’t even feed his family. He couldn’t even keep the lights on in his home. That’s right. And so the idea that, you know, they were trying to come up for themselves, for their families, most likely, and they’re like, wait a second, okay, I know a way to kind of just, okay, first of all, I want to be in control, get God out of this completely, and and everyone should be on the same playing field why is it that you know some people rule the world some people are the one percent and some people are poor on the street and homeless uh this society’s ills they believed were because of the structure of our society and the reality is that you cannot change the structure of this society it will always be there will always be a way you know a gap between the rich and the poor there will always be fluctuations in our societal classes.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, and really quick, Sunny, given that you just came from another part of the world, and I haven’t been there for a while, so I can’t say this straight up and probably didn’t pay as much of it when I was there, wasn’t paying as much attention to these sorts of things as probably I would be now or you are. And you’re right. I don’t care what society it is. You’re always going to have these gaps between the haves and the have-nots, although I will tell you in the United States of America, I think that gap is a lot less than it is in other countries. So my question was, given the fact that you’ve just gone overseas, what are the gaps in other countries like between the haves and the have-nots?
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, you know, it’s interesting. You don’t really see, you know, you don’t see homeless people. I was in Milan, you know, one of the biggest cities in Italy, and you don’t see homeless people. You don’t see, I mean, maybe rarely, but you’re not seeing panhandlers. You don’t see any of that. And I think it’s partially because there is a lot of, they are sustained a lot by the government. And also, the cost of living is much lower. I mean, they’re, of course, in the touristy areas of Milan, it’s very expensive. But then when you kind of go outskirts, It’s a lot cheaper in Italy. It really, truly is. In Europe, it’s a lot cheaper. The cost of living is lower. They use less ingredients. You know, there’s just so many factors that go into that. And I think so, you know, the people who are who are rich just stay wealthy and the people who are kind of in the middle or lower, they just stay at that same level. And it just goes on like that. Whereas in America, we are the country that is entrepreneurial. We are the land of entrepreneurs, people who are self-made billionaires, self-made millionaires. And that is just much more rare in countries like Italy, for example.
SPEAKER 03 :
Interesting. And I know Italy, part of the reason why some of those costs are lower, to your point, is they have done everything they can in recent years, especially since COVID, to encourage people to come there because their birth rate is so low, they won’t be able to retain what they’ve got in regards to economic viability if they don’t do something about it. So they’re encouraging people like you and I to move there.
SPEAKER 14 :
Absolutely. Would you ever move to Italy?
SPEAKER 03 :
I visited there, and I will tell you that it’s not bad. I mean, I don’t know if it’s my full cup of tea. It’s beautiful. It’s actually not as populated as a lot of people may think. Some of the bigger cities, of course, are, which we have here in the U.S. as well. I mean, I guess I’m one of those, Sonny, where I could pretty much live anywhere if the conditions are right. I will say climate-wise, which I guess as I get older is something I look at more and more, Yeah, as far as the climate is concerned, yeah, I could do that. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, I’ll tell you, it was about 95 degrees. I was there the entire time, and it was excruciating. It was so miserably hot and humid. It normally does get pretty hot there in the summertime, but I think I just happened to be there during a heat wave, of course. Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
You know, but in their winters, as you know, are much milder than, of course, what we have here in Colorado. I know you guys in California, you’re in a whole different world, and you’re used to a pretty constant thing out there where you guys are at. But, you know, I think most Coloradans would go to Italy in the winter and think, wow, this is balmy. This is really nice. And it is.
SPEAKER 14 :
It is. It is. Actually, yeah, it does have that, you know, really emotional. paradise feeling to it where it is balmy and uh and la i mean even at night here it’s getting 65 degrees 70 degrees so it does it’s getting it gets cool um but you know i don’t know the lifestyle is just different there they don’t have air air conditioning is rare you know you’re hard to find good air conditioning uh and like i said there’s just this this general atmosphere of like they’re angry at tourists, but yet they need tourists.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yep, yep, it’s a love-hate relationship. Yep, you know, places like Hawaii, it’s a similar situation, Sunny. They hate tourists, but they know they have to have them because it’s the lifeblood, but if they had their way about it ultimately and you could do without them, they would, but the reality is they can’t, so they put up with it. I think there’s a lot of places around the world, especially some of the touristy areas that are very much that way. But to your point earlier, I think the biggest reason why, you know, you see… And that – what I want to say, that hatred or that uncaring for others, especially those that are in need when it comes from the socialist, communist side of things to what we have here in America is, number one, just the love of people in general because I just believe that the left doesn’t care anything about people whatsoever. And then Andy, you know, is texting me reminding me to, you know, the opportunity. And you said it yourself. The opportunity that we have here, you know, capitalism creates opportunity that you don’t get without it. I was thinking I was on I was on vacation last week as well. And I’m thinking, OK, all of all of these. things that are built in every tourist area around the world frankly sunny yes i get it europeans travel but not like americans do and the reality is sunny the majority of destinations that people go to are built off america’s money not someone else’s absolutely in other words capitalism built those areas too is my point oh absolutely of course
SPEAKER 14 :
Of course, because we value, you know, we want to see the world. We want to see all these great places. You know, I just wish that people would have that same level of fortitude, of interest in helping our cities right now at this time. It’s just really, you know, I mean, I don’t know. I’m really struggling to see where we are going to be in the next 10 years. You know, having President Trump in office, he’s doing so many great things. But our cities are just really in major decline. And it is really quite sad to see. And yet you still have, you know, Americans, of course, they want to go see the world. They want to go see Milan and Florence and all these beautiful places. uh, but, uh, it’s just, it is frustrating. I want our entrepreneurs to invest in this country because it’s where we really, we really need it. And, you know, when you do travel, like there was one couple that I was interacting with and they were like, well, you know, America is a superpower. Like you guys run everything, like whatever Trump says goes, you know, like, especially the last 10 years, he’s been, you know, in the new, he’s, he’s been a leader, but, um, not like we always have been, we’ve always been a leader in the world and the global landscape. And, So we still have that power and influence. But it’s, you know, when you come here, you kind of see, okay, well, things are not doing too well. So what do we do about that? You know, we need to really get ourselves back on track.
SPEAKER 03 :
Agreed. So along those lines, talk to us about Young Americans Against Socialism, what people can do as they go to you guys’ website and pick up material. It’s not only for kids. Adults can use it as well. Talk about that.
SPEAKER 14 :
Absolutely. Well, we are an organization to educate Americans about socialism, about these topics, these theories that are absolutely threatening our young people by selling them this lie that socialism is the way forward, that that is the answer to our world’s problems, that it’s the greatest solution that has been tried so many times but has just never been solved. And, you know, YAS is here to tell you that freedom is the way forward, that socialism will never bring about the solutions that we are looking for, that will make our cities and our countries better. And so we have resources on our website where you can download our curriculum, Intro to Socialism, or our guide to learn about various topics pertaining to socialism and freedom, of course. And especially one, you know, in light of July 4th being just recently. We have From the Revolution to the Constitution, which will help you and your family and your children especially learn about the sacrifices that were made during the American Revolution that led to the creation of the Constitution, why our freedom and the principles that our country was founded on are so special and unique and precious that we need to protect and preserve and defend. So the website is yas.org, Y-A-A-S.org. and we’re happy to have your support, really grateful for it. And sometimes I’m on Newsmax and different things like that, so keep an eye out. I definitely will let you know next time.
SPEAKER 08 :
All right.
SPEAKER 14 :
But, yeah, thank you so much, and we’re happy to be here.
SPEAKER 03 :
Always, always, always. Appreciate you, Sonny. Keep up the great work. Tell everybody there hi. We appreciate you greatly.
SPEAKER 14 :
Thank you.
SPEAKER 03 :
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. And yeah, a theme that we kind of had going on today, Richard Battle started us off with, you know, what legacy are you going to leave? And it’s not always about wealth and money. And then, of course, talking to Sonny about the left’s response to what’s happening in Texas. And there’s still lots that will be unfolded there. And And I hate to speculate on what went wrong in some areas. I talked a little bit about that on the National Crawford Roundtable today. You’ll be able to hear that tonight, myself and Neil Boron. But in reality, I don’t know everything that happened leading up to that particular event, although after reading some of the stories that have come out so far— You just have to wonder, were people just completely ignoring some of the warnings that were out there? And again, I don’t have those answers. But what I do know, and I talked about this yesterday, is the left’s response to this and anybody that would come out and say that it’s good that children died is an absolute sicko. Period. No other way to look at it. That is a possessed, evil individual that is so filled with vile and hate and, you know, just utter, utter hate for human beings that, quite frankly, they don’t deserve to live in this country. I’ll say it that way. They don’t deserve to live here. That’s somebody that ought to get a one-way ticket out of here and just be done with it. I get it. We should allow people to speak their minds and say what they want, and I’ll always protect people’s rights as far as the First Amendment is concerned. But you’ve got to look at the core of what somebody’s saying and why, and if they’re that miserable— that they would go as far as to say something along those lines, why are they living here? I mean, if they hate this country so much, why don’t they move? Why don’t they leave? Some of you from the left that are listening to me right now, why are you here? If you hate what goes on in this country so much and you have such a hatred and you’re just out to get everybody that’s on our side of the aisle and you would say something as vile as that, why are you still here? I’ll buy you a one-way ticket wherever you want to go. Just don’t come back. And I mean that sincerely. Don’t come back. Pack your belongings. Get out of here. Go to another country. And by the way, though, I’ve said this before. My only catch to that is you can’t go to a first- or second-world country. You’re going to a third-world country. So if you don’t like it here, pack your bags up, and I’ll send you to a one-way ticket to a third-world country and see how you like it once you get there. We’ll be back. Hour number three is next. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 1 :
Thank you. I’m a rich guy
