Join John Rush as he and his guests analyze the pressing issue of community banks and their dwindling numbers due to aggressive regulations. The conversation moves towards discussing the need for a reformation of the political scene with special attention to corruption among political figures. Throughout the episode, the dialogue remains engaging and informative, offering listeners insights into how the mentioned policies are shaping America’s socioeconomic environment. With thorough discussions on these vital topics, the episode serves as an eye-opener for those concerned with the country’s future.
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And we are back. Hour number two, Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Myself, Andy Pate, and of course, Charlie Grimes, our engineer, Jim Paff, joining us now. Jim, welcome. How are you?
SPEAKER 10 :
I’m doing well.
SPEAKER 04 :
How are you, my friend? We are very good. We are a few days away from Inauguration Day and a week from today. That’ll all be out of the way and President Trump will be in action. What do you predict?
SPEAKER 10 :
Listen, I predict good times. I will say this. You know, the numbers indicate that we may be going in. to a recessionary period. There’s probably going to be an economic challenge that comes, but I’m confident that Trump policies are going to make the difference. And one of the key things that also made a difference the last time he was president is the reductions in regulations. And because that’s really honestly the key driver to economic performance as it relates to government. Like taxes are helpful and they’re useful and he’s going to work to continue the Trump tax cuts. But regulation is the thing that harms the economy the most. Taxes do harm it, but regulation does the most harm. And that should be a trend that continues in this administration. I’m looking forward to it.
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s going to be a big thing amongst others. Can’t argue that. On the business side, again, whether it’s small business, big business, medium-sized business, Jim, in some cases the regulation and the amount of hoops that certain businesses have to jump through, whether it be Fed, whether it be state, whether it be a combination thereof, In some cases, they end up, as you know, employing, you know, employees, departments even, to handle all of the regulatory nonsense they have to jump through. And all that, you know, just gets added on to the cost of the product that they’re producing, and it doesn’t help our economy at the end of the day. And in a lot of cases, too, delays getting that production out.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, I’ll tell you a quick story. So when I left KLZ to go be chief of staff for Congressman Tim Huell’s camp, We had banks in Kansas. He had the western two-thirds of Kansas. Banks in Kansas would come to us and say, listen, all of these regulations that Elizabeth Warren, by the way, pushed for made it almost impossible for them to make loans below $100,000. And at the time, and probably still, there were a large number of small homes. below $100,000 in cost. So they couldn’t do business because they couldn’t afford it for all the regulation just in banking. That’s just one little example amongst literally thousands. And that’s one of the great things that Donald Trump ever did as president. We need that badly because we need to tell the government to go get away. Stop living our lives. Stop doing anything in our lives. Go back to Article one, Section eight of the Constitution. Do those things and just leave the rest to us. That’s that’s the push that we need to be fighting for over the next four years and beyond.
SPEAKER 04 :
I agree. I’ve got an interview that we’re going to do tomorrow where actually we’re going to talk about some of those very things you’re talking about, how current regulations have really shut down and limited that local community bank, which, as you know, Jim, has been such a huge help to a lot of small businesses, local businesses, and so on. And the reality is when you take some of those guys out of the equation, those businesses have nowhere else to go.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, and consider this little factoid. Prior to the financial crisis in 2007 and 8 and 9, there were 14,000 chartered banks in the United States. Today, there are right around 4,000 or less. Now, what happened right after the financial crisis, as we were sending $787 billion in part money to bail out the big banks, the FDIC was closing banks all over the country and consolidating them into mid-sized banks. because they said that their finances weren’t any good. And there might have been some problems here and there, a handful of them. But it was a record number of closures by the FDIC when they stress test these banks. And these banks weren’t making loans. They were being very responsible. I was talking to people who were talking to people in the FDIC. and a bank are friends, and they were noticing that these banks didn’t need to be closed at all. Just another government program that benefits the wealthy companies against the smaller players. And, yes, we do need community banks.
SPEAKER 04 :
We have had the fewest new bank charters since 2011, Jim.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, yeah. And listen, this is a harmful, harmful thing. I don’t agree with this whole too-big-to-fail thing that was behind that TARP bill, because if they manage themselves poorly, they needed to go into bankruptcy and then be put into the hands of other people if they did poorly. But there is something really fundamental about having community banks that make small businesses stronger and more profitable and productive because then they have someone they can go to. I remember my dad had 103 Burger Chef restaurants, then Hardee’s restaurants at his peak in Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. He went to a local bank. in Indianapolis, where his business was located. And he asked for a $20 million loan. This was in the 1980s, by the way. And they refused to make his loan. He was a major, major business. I mean, that problem was starting to develop back then, but it’s gotten worse on steroids.
SPEAKER 04 :
Sure has. Sure. Go ahead, Andy.
SPEAKER 06 :
Jim, can we talk pardons for a moment? Go ahead. Okay. Well, Jim, recent reports have, of course, tied President Biden directly to the business dealings overseas of his son. With that in mind, does Joe Biden need to pardon himself?
SPEAKER 10 :
You know, I’m of the opinion, especially just like three or four weeks ago, the pictures that prove that that trip to China, that Biden was there introducing Hunter to President Xi and having the business people that Hunter was getting millions of dollars from in those same meetings. So it’s my suspicion and belief that, yes, he is just as complicit in this crime as anyone else. he probably should do a pardon for himself uh… but but the thing is i don’t even know if that’s going to be pursued and i’m very frustrated by it because hunter should never been pardoned in the manner that he was in one department on the gun charge fine i mean i guess that would have been a little bit upset about it but okay i get it but to
SPEAKER 06 :
from 2014 all the way till now right at the point when he went into Burisma I mean this well yeah crazy obviously that was to wipe out all the overseas dealings but do you really think James Comer is going to let go of this they have I mean they have flat-out evidence of the payments that went directly to Joe Biden from the monies brought in by Hunter I mean what what I mean, it just seems to me that Joe has to preemptively pardon himself. I don’t see what else he can do.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, I mean, he’d probably be smart to do it if he wants to keep himself out of jail. And I do want James Comer to pursue that, not because of merely just going after Joe Biden. I think we have a corruption problem with American politicians that is far worse than we’ve ever seen. We’ve had times and periods, and there’s always been some corruption, but we’ve had times and periods of bad corruption in American politics. but nothing like we’ve been seeing in the last 50 years or longer, frankly. We’ve got to get to the root of this. If we don’t root it out, we’re going to after Donald Trump’s gone, we’re going to end up having a third world country atmosphere again. We were very close going third world if Kamala Harrison won. And that’s just going to, you know, bring its head up again and cause us some major problems if we’re not willing to lop it off.
SPEAKER 06 :
Jim, isn’t this the result of, for the first time ever, really, having a president who is completely owned by foreign interests?
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, it’s not just that. This is the first time, well, it’s not the first time, but probably is the first time, that we have had a completely corrupt president. Like, there’s always some degree of corruption, and 6,000 years of recorded human history proves that. the moral failure of mankind. But Joe Biden is literally one of the most corrupt politicians we’ve ever had in this country. At first, because he’s a liar and he twists the truth and he sought to destroy people’s lives with his political power. And there was there was we have stories from a couple of decades back, at least of him getting special favors and his family getting special favors from banks in Delaware. But beyond that, then it turned into this thing that Hunter Biden’s doing. I mean, it is by far the most corrupt thing we’ve ever seen. And then look at all these indicative orders he’s doing. He’s trying to set up Donald Trump for failure. And I don’t think he’s going to. It’s absolutely absurd and crazy. We’ve never had anything corrupt. like Joe Biden, when it comes to corruption.
SPEAKER 06 :
But is he really damaging his parties? I mean, it just seems like he’s damaging the Democrat label on the way out the door.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, the Democrat label’s already well messed up for a lot of other reasons than just him. He and Kamala Harris were the culmination of this problem. But all of the DEI woke crap, all of the manipulation of the media, the willful manipulation of the media and in like in California they don’t even have elections anymore where did they they call them elections and there’s a process that they go through but they’re not elections there and and they’ve been trying to do that all over the country to give Democrats 100% control of things in this country that so the reality is the American people are wise to it the reason that they’re wise to it very interestingly is that the guy that most people thought was was an immoral philanderer. who was a playboy baby, turns out to be one of the men who showed the most courage and character in getting elected, and that’s Donald Trump. We have to recognize, it’s one thing to say that we certainly were saved by the fact that Elon Musk bought X, and there was an ability to get a message out that wasn’t controlled by the deep state and by the Democrats in the media. That’s one thing, and that’s very critical and important. But it took a guy like Donald Trump to win this election. I don’t think any American politician, even the ones we deeply respect and love. whom we might want to be president anytime i don’t think any of them could have withstood this barrage that came against donald trump it’s one of the greatest political stories in world history much less american history and and if we take the right steps over the next four years it’s going to save the republic and and i don’t think we it would we i think we would have been have lost it all if it had not happened can argue that conservative caucus how do folks find you jim theconservativecaucus.org. We’re going to spend a lot of time over the next four years supporting Trump’s agenda, supporting Donald Trump. We spent just under $8 million in independent expenditures to help get him elected over this last election cycle. We’re just going to keep pressing and pushing in support of that and hopefully getting back to a constitutional republic, because we were founded by Howard Phillips on the basis of standing for the Constitution, for conservative principles, and pushing back against the government. Including, by the way, we took a prominent role opposing Jimmy Carter’s giving the Panama Canal away. What an amazing turn of events that that whole thing just might turn back on its head. now that Donald Trump’s elected. So we’ve been in that fray. We’re going to continue to be in it and pushing very hard to save the Constitution and this republic.
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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. Yeah, lots of things. Believe me, we’ll have a lot of things to talk about next Tuesday with Trump’s first full day in office. And, you know, Trump is not Joe Biden. No matter how much of you on the left don’t like Trump, here’s the reality. Joe’s work day, and I’m not exaggerating, this is well known. Joe’s work day, once he gets up and gets rolling and so on, am I pretty accurate in saying it’s around 10 o’clock or so in the morning, Charlie, by the time he gets up and rolling and… He gets his CPAP off and he gets his day going. He gets his joints moving and whatever he needs to do. It’s 10ish or so before he’s actually doing anything. And he doesn’t work for long. And he doesn’t do much after that. The opposite is true of Donald Trump. Right. By 10 a.m., he’s got five or six hours already in. And I’m not exaggerating when I say that.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. Basically, America is about to move at the speed of Trump.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, because the guy doesn’t sleep a whole lot. No. He’ll be up doing things in the middle of the night even at times. And he is a guy where I’m not joking, you know, 4 or 5 o’clock in the morning Eastern time, meaning, you know, 2, 3 o’clock car time here in Colorado. He’s up getting things handled and directing what he wants to have done.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right. And we have to also keep in mind his vice president.
SPEAKER 04 :
Very true.
SPEAKER 06 :
He has a brilliant, highly motivated vice president who is going to be the most involved vice president perhaps we’ve ever seen. I mean, certainly one of them. Vance is going to be everywhere. And he’s going to be moving very quickly, too. Now, right away, it’s going to be Trump. Sign, sign, sign, sign, sign.
SPEAKER 04 :
For day one, absolutely.
SPEAKER 06 :
Obviously. But J.D. Vance is going to be out there selling all this stuff and doing it very effectively. It is going to be nothing like the word salad Kamala Harris show that we’ve been watching for the last four years. It’s going to be amazing. Donald Trump and J.D. Vance are going to be a powerhouse.
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Question. Some of you out there listening can call in on this if you’d like. We’ll take a break here in a moment, come back and do this. 303-477-5600. First executive order signed, what’s it going to be?
SPEAKER 06 :
I would say the border.
SPEAKER 04 :
Hmm. It’s going to be one of the two, either border or something to do with oil and gas. I don’t know which.
SPEAKER 06 :
I would say the border. Shut down the border. That’ll be number one.
SPEAKER 04 :
I don’t think I can argue that. I don’t think I can argue that. And he’s got the power to do so. Now, as you know, the lefties will, of course, they’ll come after him and challenge him on that. You can’t do that. You don’t have that power. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, but John, you know, all the lawsuits and everything that they did four years ago, sorry, eight years ago. they had much more of the public behind them at that time than they have now.
SPEAKER 04 :
And the Supreme Court.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, the Supreme Court, of course.
SPEAKER 04 :
At that time.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right.
SPEAKER 04 :
Which they don’t now, well, per se.
SPEAKER 06 :
But as much as they fear the Supreme Court, what they really fear is all the torches and pitchforks that are out there in America right now.
SPEAKER 04 :
Public outlash, yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, because America will storm. the voting booths in 2026 in the midterms if the democrats try to be too obstructionist everybody is thinking the democrats are going to be fully obstructionist they’re not going to be as much as they were before they can’t they’re going to pay too big of a price on the downside And I know this is going to depress some people, but there are a lot of people who think Trump is going to go in there. He’s going to unleash his people. And we are going to, you know, turn over and find all the scandals, expose all the scandals that the Democrats were doing. I got news for you people. The Democrats have been spending the past month and a half doing nothing but burning paper, deleting files. I don’t see that. You’re right. They went to Hillary and said, so who’d you use for bleach bit? They have been bleaching hard drives. They have been destroying evidence. And I’m talking at the EPA, IRS, obviously the FBI, CIA, all of them have been doing nothing. They haven’t been enforcing the law. They’ve been doing nothing but destroying evidence for the last, oh, I would say six weeks.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, I can’t. Can’t argue that at all, Andy. We’re not going to find.
SPEAKER 06 :
You know, this is one reason I didn’t want us to go into Iraq because I said, you’re not going to find anything. If they were developing WMD, they’re going to move it. Okay? This is stupid. You’re not going to find anything. I guarantee you we’ll find some, but we’re not going to find that much.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, don’t be looking for a lot of people to go into the prison system. Let’s just say that.
SPEAKER 06 :
No.
SPEAKER 04 :
Because it’s not going to happen, Andy.
SPEAKER 06 :
No, the evidence has been torched.
SPEAKER 04 :
Now, the changes moving forward and how things operate and the way the three-letter agencies are handled and so on, yes, look for big changes there. But I’m with you on that end of things.
SPEAKER 06 :
And that’s one big reason, you know, Trump voters always think in terms of revenge. They do. Trump voters, that is what they think in terms of. And I want to look at them and just say, guys, think about the future, not the past, because the past will be covered up. They have burned virtually all the evidence. And I’m using metaphorically burned.
SPEAKER 04 :
I think you’re right.
SPEAKER 06 :
Virtually all the evidence. It’s gone. Most of it is gone. Yeah, you can find pieces and so forth, but you’re not going to find you’re not going to go in and have Kash Patel suddenly find all this evidence because they burned it.
SPEAKER 04 :
Agree.
SPEAKER 06 :
And Kash Patel, by the way, is going to be confirmed, I believe. He’s going to be confirmed and he’s going to clean house and it’s going to be beautiful.
SPEAKER 04 :
What about Pete today? Oh, I think he’s going to make it.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, I think he’s going to make it.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, I do. Now, a lot of people are coming down to the Democrats for just coming after him for his comments on women in the military, women in combat issues. And by the way, when I was in the military, when I was in the air force, I tried to advance a thing called only women in combat. It didn’t go far, but that was my idea. What do you think?
SPEAKER 04 :
I’m fine with that idea.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, it would have been great. Um, but,
SPEAKER 04 :
And Pete explains very well why they shouldn’t be.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right.
SPEAKER 04 :
And he’s right, by the way.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, sure. I understand. Look, it’s very simple. What you do is set a very high standard because that’s what we want in combat. And then if they can reach that, great. They can go in. If not, they can’t. But his past comments did go further than that. And I actually, just strategically speaking… Tip my hat to a few of the Democrats who went after his past comments. He did go too far in some of his past comments in the way he worded it. He should have stuck with standards, high standards. They can’t reach it. That’s why, for the most part, women should not be in Congress.
SPEAKER 04 :
But I would add to that, and this is where he also went, emotionally speaking for the troops, no, they shouldn’t be there either. Because things happen to men on the battlefield when there’s a woman there that shouldn’t be happening, wouldn’t be happening if she weren’t.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right.
SPEAKER 04 :
So it’s not even a standards issue.
SPEAKER 06 :
I know, I know, but the problem is that’s such a gray area.
SPEAKER 04 :
It’s not a gray area. It’s how men and women work. It’s not a gray area.
SPEAKER 06 :
John, I’m not disagreeing. I would agree with you. I’m talking gray area in terms of PR. Because the other side can come. You know me. I do messaging.
SPEAKER 04 :
Put your big pants on. Yeah, but the other side. Come on, people. Suck it up.
SPEAKER 06 :
But that’s what the other side is going to say to you. Really? You’re not mature enough to handle a woman working next to you out on the front lines?
SPEAKER 04 :
It has nothing to do with her working next to me. Suck it up. Man up. No, it’s the reality. that because I’m a man and I want to protect her, I’m going to do everything possible that I can, whereby if my buddy was over there, it might be a little bit different, and the end of the battle will change accordingly.
SPEAKER 06 :
And that Democrat senator is going to say, you treat them both the same man up.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, you don’t. Because intrinsically, we don’t.
SPEAKER 06 :
No, but they’re saying you better.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, it doesn’t work. Humanly speaking, it doesn’t work that way, folks.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, and that’s what I’m just saying.
SPEAKER 04 :
And my comeback would be, sir, do you treat your wife the same way as you treat everyone else? Of course you don’t.
SPEAKER 06 :
And you know what they would say? I would treat my if my wife is next to me in the workplace, I would treat them equally with everybody.
SPEAKER 04 :
And I would come back and say, so if you two are on the battlefield together shooting it out, you’re going to treat her exactly the same way. And if you say yes, I’ll call you a liar. John, you are here.
SPEAKER 06 :
You know, you want to know what is my biggest reason I don’t want women in combat. Because different things happen to women if they’re captured than men.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, that’s true, too. And he’s talked about that. That’s a whole other conversation.
SPEAKER 06 :
To me, the fact that they’re going to be taken hostage by cultures that are heavily into rape is a big reason.
SPEAKER 04 :
And he’s talked about some of that in the past.
SPEAKER 06 :
But when you get right down to, if you’re just talking about the strength that is needed to carry a man out of a foxhole where he’s, you know, endangered, look, your buddy needs to be able to do that while you’re in full gear.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, no, they don’t, Andy, because the lesbian firefighter in California said you shouldn’t be there anyways.
SPEAKER 06 :
You shouldn’t have got yourself in that position. My bad. Come on, Andy. The bottom line is this. All Hegseth has to do, and he’s going to get confirmed because I think he did a fine job on the Hill today.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 06 :
And all he has to do is stick with standards. We need to set much, we’ve been, and he’s right on this.
SPEAKER 04 :
We have lowered them.
SPEAKER 06 :
We have lowered the standards to accommodate bringing women into combat. That was the problem.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, we’ve lowered them for DEI.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right. Let’s face it. Yes. All racism goes. Yep. Period. End of story. And by the way, why wouldn’t it? Thank you. I had fellow soldiers who were black. They did great. This is ridiculous. This idea that you need to make some kind of excuses for one group or another. They all do a great job.
SPEAKER 04 :
When you’re getting shot at on the battlefield, the other side doesn’t care, Andy.
SPEAKER 06 :
You know what really angered me the most is you had the guy who was making the opening statements against him say, we are worried that you are going to introduce politics into America. the military, and that you will inject politics.
SPEAKER 04 :
I mean, your side hasn’t?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, and it’s just like, you’ve got to be kidding. Who’s our current…
SPEAKER 04 :
I couldn’t tell you.
SPEAKER 06 :
Current guy in the position. I forget his name. I’m spacing it right now. Couldn’t tell you.
SPEAKER 04 :
It’s how famous he is. I couldn’t tell you.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, he’s awful. He’s a Democrat who has injected heavily woke political policies throughout the military, have totally hamstrung the military. And I’m listening to them say that we’re worried that you are going… Look, I get news for all of America here. Pete Hegseth is going to take politics out of the military.
SPEAKER 04 :
He’s going to do the opposite.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. And yes, it was sort of tongue-in-cheek with Andy a moment ago on what the fire assistant chief, Christine Larson, said. And I haven’t played it yet. I think most people have seen this, but if you haven’t seen it… We’ve got to play it regardless, Andy. Oh, we must. Because it’s worth listening to. And what’s her position again? She is the L.A. Fire Department’s assistant chief. Am I queued up here, Charlie, laptop-wise? And I will hit the play button here. We’ll get this rolling along. Oh, hang on. Got to turn the noise up here. Oh, hang on. I thought we were ready. Hang on. Let me make sure I’ve got the settings right. I don’t know.
SPEAKER 06 :
And this was either a teaching or promotional video. She’s very proud of this. Okay. This isn’t something that was uncovered. They put this out to all their people.
SPEAKER 04 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 06 :
It’s incredible.
SPEAKER 04 :
Let me make sure I can get this to come up. If not, I will have you do this instead. Okay. Sometimes mine wants to cooperate. Sometimes it doesn’t. Nope. Here, I’ll let you do it. Here, you grab it.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, okay.
SPEAKER 04 :
Andy’s going to play it instead. Talk for a moment while I go. Mine is not finding our input for some reason. I will go bring it up in a second. You can bring it up instead. And again, I talked a little bit about this last week. We didn’t get into the details of. And again, some of you may have actually seen this and it’s been out there. And I think even a couple of you that are listening on the text line or through an email sent me some things along these lines as soon as some of this stuff first came out. And reality is DEI. has not only, Andy, infiltrated the Los Angeles Fire Department and probably the police department and a lot of other departments, but influenced isn’t the right word. It’s a complete takeover. Right. It’s not influence. It’s a takeover.
SPEAKER 06 :
What we are about to hear is incredible bigotry. You ready?
SPEAKER 04 :
Go for it.
SPEAKER 06 :
Here we go. I just hit play.
SPEAKER 04 :
We’re having technical difficulties.
SPEAKER 06 :
Here we go.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yours isn’t finding it either.
SPEAKER 06 :
I’m plugged in.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. We’ll have to see if we can fix that at the commercial break. For some reason, our input is not finding our laptops. We will have to work on that and find out what the scoop is. Regardless.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay. Sorry about that.
SPEAKER 04 :
You guys can go out and look at these. It’s really easy to find. At the end of the day, Andy, bottom line is they are not bashful about what’s going on. Let’s just put it that way.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, shall I say basically what she said? Yeah, say exactly. Yeah, she said, you want to see someone that responds to your house, she said, who looks like you. So if your house is burning down, you want to see a firefighter who looks like you. And this is their pushing for diversity, right? So the people in L.A., because they’re not all white men, they want to see someone who comes to help them who looks like them to help them.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, here’s a dumb question.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
When everything’s on fire and there’s smoke everywhere and you’re completely exhausted and you’re doing good to try to even get out of the house in the first place, do you even know who’s coming, Andy?
SPEAKER 06 :
John, I want you to know, I will only allow white men, white, straight men to rescue me when I’m burning to death. Anybody else? I would just say, you know what? Do you have anyone else?
SPEAKER 04 :
I mean, last time I checked, Andy, don’t they wear all sorts of gear and hoods and all sorts of apparatuses to where would you even know who’s under the mask?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, don’t say hoods.
SPEAKER 04 :
don’t want to scare her. Helmets. Okay. Yeah, I mean, yeah, they do. I mean, seriously, would you really know who’s even under that? No, you wouldn’t.
SPEAKER 06 :
She’s a lunatic. But, you know, she feels that… You’ve got to be able to see somebody who looks like you, so it’s got to be a woman of color. You need to have more women of color.
SPEAKER 04 :
So if I’m a larger woman of color, I need a larger woman of color to rescue me?
SPEAKER 06 :
And she is a large woman of color who appears… I think she’s gay. She’s a lesbian, yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, she’s a lesbian. Very well known.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, so you’ve got the lady on top. By the way, talk about biased hiring. You’ve got the lady on top who is a lesbian, okay, and… Then what does she hire? A couple people under her. Her assistants. Who are lesbians also. Folks, these are very highly paying jobs. Okay, they’re making a ton of money. Big money. Huge money.
SPEAKER 04 :
I think this particular job that we’re talking about, this assistant chief, is around a $400,000. Yeah, $399,000 salary.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, so she’s making $400,000 a grand a year. And here’s what she says. You want someone who looks like you coming in to save you from that fire. And then… She goes on to say, to laugh off the idea that we should worry about the standard, that you should be able to carry, what is it, around 240 pounds or so forth, lug that out, because you’ve got to be able to haul out a pretty good-sized man out of a fire. And she says… he shouldn’t have gotten himself into that position in the first place. Right. Are you kidding me?
SPEAKER 04 :
What a slap in the face.
SPEAKER 06 :
This is ridiculous. Look, I want a big guy to be able, or if it’s a woman who is a huge bodybuilder and she can take me out, hey, guess what? Fine. Okay? But very few women can be that way. Very, very few.
SPEAKER 04 :
It’s going to be almost all men. She makes it sound like accidents never happen. What if something falls on someone? What if somebody broke their ankle or their leg? No, no, no.
SPEAKER 06 :
No, you have to pre-plan your emergencies.
SPEAKER 04 :
Gotcha.
SPEAKER 06 :
So you schedule in advance to be in a fire.
SPEAKER 04 :
True. I forgot.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, exactly. And, you know, I personally would schedule for them to send all white men because I got to see people who look like me. Okay.
SPEAKER 04 :
To rescue me. It’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. I mean, Andy, honestly, I don’t care if a robot or a Martian comes to get me. Do you?
SPEAKER 06 :
No, but you know what’s disgusting? She’s speaking to L.A. John, all these people there in L.A., they came through the public education system there in L.A. that has trained them to only trust people who look like them. And by the way, remember who coined that phrase, who look like you? That was Barack Obama. You want someone who looks like you. You know, America is moving past looks like you. We don’t care.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, we don’t. I think that was very well said in the last election.
SPEAKER 06 :
I believe it was, too. America said, you know what? We are tired. We are sick and tired of being carved up into demographics.
SPEAKER 04 :
We’re tired of being singled out.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. We want to just like each other again.
SPEAKER 04 :
Because we do. Yeah. Because that really, Andy, that’s the reality. These voters came out and said, you know, when I go to work or I go, you know, out to the bar afterwards or I go to the sporting event or I go here, I go there. The reality is, you know, I’m hanging around a bunch of different people that don’t look like me anyway. So what’s the big deal?
SPEAKER 06 :
John, who do you want saving you from a fire? A big burly guy who can carry you out if need be? Or this activist lesbian who is heavy set and obviously can’t carry you?
SPEAKER 04 :
I want who’s most capable, and I think that would be number one in this case.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, and guess what? Would I rather have a big, strong lady who can carry me over a little skinny guy who can’t? Yes, I would. I want somebody who can do the job. But I got news for you. That’s about 98%, 99% men. Okay? It is. And that gets back to men in combat.
SPEAKER 04 :
Very well said.
SPEAKER 06 :
Because when you are fighting a fire, guess what? You’re in combat.
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SPEAKER 04 :
And we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Do you want me to play that, Charlie, or do you want… Okay, let me just grab a mic. So I’m going to grab a mic, and we’re going to go the old-fashioned way here since we can’t get our inputs to work correctly. And go ahead and preview this.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, this is Robbie Starbuck, and he’s been leading the effort to get DEI out of corporate America, and they just bagged another big one, and that is McDonald’s.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, let me make sure our sound is up on this one, and here we go.
SPEAKER 14 :
You know what time it is. We’ve got a new company flipping their position on DEI and that company is McDonald’s. Now let me tell you how this happened and what the details are. I’ve just got to give X a shout out here because I actually reached out to McDonald’s on X to their senior marketing director on Friday. You can see here. So Friday I sent them a detailed message. I’m not going to show the whole thing here. But a detailed message about DEI, I mean, you can read this part, no problem. And that was Friday, so three days ago. And today, this statement came out. There’s more to this message, but for the sake of your time, we’re going to jump ahead past a lot of the corporate word salad and go straight into what they’re changing. So let me go and translate this corporate speak for you. First bullet point. We are retiring setting aspirational representation goals. And then it’s a bunch of blah, blah, blah, corporate speak. Let me translate what that means. McDonald’s, like many Fortune 500 companies, they have what they would call targets or goals. In reality, they work like racial quotas. But they say these are certainly not quotas. Don’t call them that. This is just a goal for them to hire, say, 50% people of color, whatever it might be, into a certain position. and then wouldn’t you know it, they hire just the amount that they put, but it’s not a quota. Don’t call it a quota. Second bullet point, and always one of my favorites, we are pausing external surveys to focus on the work we are doing internally, aka we are leaving the HRC’s Corporate Equality Index social credit scoring system. Keep in mind, this was a company that had a perfect HRC CEI score, and that HRC CEI scoring system is how woke policies get forced into workplaces. So they are, again, the latest company to leave that scoring system, and that is good news. And now bullet point number three, one of my favorites, they’re going to be retiring their supply chain’s DEI pledge in favor of a system that relates to business performance. Imagine that, a merit-based system. This is what every company needs to be doing. The days of favoring one group of people over another based on diversity need to be gone. Bullet point number four here is one I’m not particularly a fan of, and I’m not happy with when companies do this. They are evolving how they refer to their diversity team, which will now be the global inclusion team. I think it’s ridiculous. We don’t need these teams, okay? It is a job. It is a workplace. You go there to work. People don’t need a team assigned at corporate to making sure everybody feels included, okay? We’re not kindergartners. We’re adults. It’s a workplace. It’s a place people go to shop. Just provide great service. Be kind. Do the right thing. Be fair. And if you’re a company executive, you know, lay down the hammer when somebody breaks the law.
SPEAKER 04 :
I’ll leave it at that because he just kind of goes on then to explain more of that. And he’s right, by the way.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, let me, two quick things. First of all, I just love it how these people don’t want to call quotas, quotas.
SPEAKER 04 :
And they are.
SPEAKER 06 :
They’re totally quotas. They’re absolutely quotas. They’re pure racism. It is racism infecting the workplace. That’s all it is. But secondly, um, Most of corporate America, John, would really like to be out of DEI. What people don’t seem to understand this, while Robbie Starbuck is doing a wonderful thing, he’s doing God’s work, the main reason he can do it is because America has changed. It’s because of the last election. It’s because of what was coming before the last election. People could see the tide changing. Americans are sick and tired of racism. Mm-hmm. They are sick and tired of rewarding one race and punishing another. They don’t like it. And because of that, the people who are going after these companies are losing a lot of their leverage. The reason these companies had DEI is because groups would come to them and say, if you don’t do this, we are going to tell everybody out there, the public, how racist you are. Okay, we’re going to say you’re not protecting this group, you’re not protecting that group, and therefore, if you do not do that, we are going to hurt your bottom line. Now, it will hurt their bottom line more if they do DEI policies, and Robbie Starbuck made that very clear to them. And so now, they’re really doing what they want to do. They don’t want to do these DEI programs. It makes it harder to hire. It makes everything harder.
SPEAKER 04 :
It makes your job harder. Yes, it makes your job harder. You just want to hire people who do a good job. And really quick, in a lot of cases, for those… managerial positions yes store manager regional manager district manager whatever it makes their jobs so much harder because at the end of the day andy if they don’t have the best people doing what they need to be doing in those jobs their service level drops meaning they get a lot more complaints and things that they have to deal with and so on so yeah they hate it
SPEAKER 06 :
Right, and you’ve got this guy running one of your shops down in Englewood. He doesn’t have to worry about having this number or that number of whatever. He doesn’t care, okay? I just want to hire people who do a good job, and here’s the biggest thing.
SPEAKER 04 :
I just want the best person doing the best job possible.
SPEAKER 06 :
And here’s the biggest thing, John. Here’s where the rubber really hits the road. Firing people who don’t do a good job. Because right now, over the last 10, 20 years, if you wanted to fire a person of color or a woman or a gay person, anyone but a straight white male, you had to jump through 50, 100 hoops to do it. Now, you still do, but I can see that getting phased out. I can see the day coming where you can fire one person as easily as another. Right now, there are a lot of companies, and I can just tell you this. I know it’s true. They’re actually more comfortable just having straight white men. Why? Because if he sucks, I can fire him. And I don’t have to document it 15 times to Sunday.
SPEAKER 04 :
We’re the easiest to fire, Andy.
SPEAKER 06 :
We are easy to fire. We’re so easy to fire. It’s really easy. Andy looked at me wrong, gone.
SPEAKER 04 :
Very few repercussions for us, Andy.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right. And so I can see where both hiring and firing can become a lot easier for all these businesses. They don’t want DEI. They were forced into it, and the market changed. What do you think?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, in my opinion, and I don’t think many of these people would argue with me if you got them off in a corner and completely off the record and so on. Totally off the record. Had the ability to really sit and chat where the majority of this has come from. And I don’t think I’m wrong in saying this, Andy, is, yeah, there’s a few CEOs out there that bought into all of this and have shoved some of this down through the corporate ranks. But the majority of this nonsense has come from HR.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes. Oh, yeah. HR departments are incredibly left-wing.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yep. That’s where this has all come from.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right. By gosh, if you learn HR policies in schools, colleges, whatever, my goodness, you’re to the left of Kamala.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yep. That’s where I guarantee you the majority of the higher-level managers… In McDonald’s, for example, we’ll use that particular company since we just played that a moment ago. Those guys are thinking, oh, man, hallelujah. Thank you.
SPEAKER 06 :
John, do you think that this move of society that brought this about, do you think it was inevitable? And here’s why. Merit is natural. Racism is not. I mean, racism at its core is totally unnatural. It makes no sense to look at somebody differently because of their skin color, of all things, the amount of melanin in their skin.
SPEAKER 04 :
Let me see if I’m saying this right. Racism is bred, not born.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right. Racism is bred, not born. Merit, the fact that you got to earn what you get. That’s born in. Ask any parent. I agree. This kid does their chores. That one doesn’t. I agree.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. And… Kamala Harris, we were just talking through the break. Some of you may have seen the news. Some of you may have not. But typically, customarily speaking, when one administration leaves, the new administration gets kind of a tour of, you know, the premises and what’s going on and so on. In the case of J.D. Vance, you know, being the VP, he would get the tour of the residency and what’s there and how does this work and that work and so on. Kamala is so petty, she won’t do that.
SPEAKER 06 :
You know, the Vance’s should ask her, is this because my wife is a woman of color?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, and speaking of being petty, Michelle Obama, you know, she won’t attend anything having to do anything with Donald Trump, period. You talk about petty. Give me a break, Michelle.
SPEAKER 06 :
I mean, even the funeral for Jimmy Carter.
SPEAKER 04 :
That is just petty, Andy.
SPEAKER 06 :
And now not the inauguration? You’ve got to be kidding me.
SPEAKER 04 :
She is a real piece of work, let’s just say it that way.
SPEAKER 06 :
She’s an angry person.
SPEAKER 04 :
I’ll just say it that way. I’ll leave it at that. All right, we’ll be back. Another flower coming your way. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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Thank you. I’m a rich guy.
