This episode also touches on the recent discussions around presidential pardons and the narratives driving these political decisions. Dive into the complexities as John offers insights into the potential motives behind presidential pardoning strategies, especially given the current political climate. Harmony between past wisdom and present conditions offers a compelling narrative that seeks to engage listeners in reflexive thought.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. I got a funny text message in a moment ago talking about how back when I was actually owning my shops and the tech and all of that, did I ever get to the point where something just got to the point where it just wasn’t worth it anymore, installing something, an accessory, whatever the case may be. Not often. But, yeah, I can say that there was a few times in my life where it was like, okay, why are we doing this? This is just not going well. It’s not being put together correctly and so on. And, yes, there were some times where I absolutely did that. And I feel – how should I say this? I feel the pain, I guess you could say, when those things happen. So for those of you – for whoever you were that texted, I think it was Tyler, thank you, by the way, for that. I appreciate that. Very much. All right. Is Richard on, too? Here we go. Richard, welcome. How are you, sir?
SPEAKER 05 :
Good afternoon, John. Thank you so much for having us with you. And we had a little technical. That’s all right. We’re all good. Yes, sir, we are. And just so anxious to talk to you about these sage sayings. And I heard the introduction.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, so what happened to all those sage sayings?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, we don’t hear them much anymore. No, we don’t. And that’s what’s interesting. And I started collecting them. probably 20 years or so ago and keeping a file because I wasn’t hearing them much. And when I’d hear one or when I think of one, I’d make a list. And I put this list as an appendix in Made in America by Americans, not Americans, a couple of years ago. But I like trotting them out and sharing some periodically just to kind of remind people at how nice these are.
SPEAKER 18 :
Before we get started, why do you think that changed?
SPEAKER 05 :
That’s a really good question, and I think part of it’s a lack of respect and interest in learning from our elders versus the current influencers. That’s the change of the culture, but I don’t know why the grandparents’ generation, if you will, are not using them with youngsters and any other reason than that.
SPEAKER 18 :
There’s a lot of these I, you know, personally, Richard, will still use. And yeah, I’ll admit sometimes I get this sort of like crazy, you know, side look like, what did you just say? But, you know, because to your point, again, a lot of folks don’t hear these anymore, but I’m one where, yeah, to your point, we’ll go through some of these. I think some of them have real meaning. I mean, I think they’re not only fun to use, they’ve got meaning.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, absolutely. And they can help us live a smarter life and have less problems as well because usually they’re pretty wise. Well, one, I’m going to put two together and add my corollary to it. So one of them is experience is the best teacher, and another one is hindsight is 20-20. And so my corollary is if experience is the best teacher and if hindsight is 20-20, why won’t the people who have neither listen to the people who have both?
SPEAKER 18 :
That is a great question. That is a great question. I don’t know. I guess because haste makes waste.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes, it does.
SPEAKER 18 :
I mean, again, I wish I had better answers for some of this, Richard. But, you know, again, some of these phrases are very, you know, I mean, they’re spot on. Experience is the best teacher. I was thinking about that. I don’t know. I was watching something or doing something last night, and I got to thinking that, you know, in most jobs, there’s very few that this is, you know, not the case. But in most jobs, Richard, the only way to really know that job. Yeah, you can be instructed on what that job is going to be. You can be told how to do that job over and over and over again. You can read all about that job. But until you actually do it, you get in the middle of whatever it happens to be and you start learning how it works. And then when something happens, a mistake or some difficulty comes along and you start understanding that, hey, do this and it’ll fix that and it’ll make this better and so on. You don’t learn that in any book. You have to learn that by experience.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, there is no doubt that regardless of anything else, that if you add experience, you’ll perform better.
SPEAKER 18 :
Correct. And yet we’ve got seems to and I’m not trying to pick on younger generations, but it seems like, Richard, we’ve got this expectation of, well, I’ve read about it. You’ve told me about it. OK, I’m good to go. And it’s like, well, you might be. But what happens when that slight problem crops up that you have no idea how to deal with?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, generally, they want the same pay as the person who has done the job for many years.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, that’s another podcast, or not podcast, but another interview you can do on down the road that these do turn into podcasts as well. All right, give us a few more, Richard.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, another one that I love is, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. And my parents grew up during the Depression, and maybe yours did too, and they never threw anything away. And as I tell people from my grandmother’s, remodeling was a mop and a broom. Yet I see people today that will move into a brand-new house. and they’ll remodel it before they even live in it, even though it was brand new, because they don’t like colors or patterns or other different things. And it’s just totally the opposite of the generation that grew up in the Depression.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, and that’s one where unless something really changes economically, Richard, I don’t see us going back to that, I hate to say.
SPEAKER 05 :
I absolutely agree, and I see this generation… Doesn’t want to own anything. They don’t want to own houses. They don’t want to own cars. They don’t want to own a lot of things. But my bet is the generation after this will want all of those things back. And so the people that hold on to things and have ownership and can pass it along. will be greatly appreciated by that generation. Very true.
SPEAKER 18 :
This one I apply on a pretty routine basis because when you start looking at, quote-unquote, and I’m going to talk about this probably some next week as we get closer and closer to Christmas because of all the different scams and things that are out there, Richard, and they really do target certain individuals and certain demographics of people. But if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes, and we need to make sure everybody thinks that every time they hear something because we’ve all been taken in once or twice or maybe more, but we can all help others not to be taken in.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, you know, the get-rich-quick schemes and so on, which a lot of these clichés or these sayings, these phrases that we have on my list, Richard, will apply to even some of that. It’s not only, you know, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. The reality is, you know, be careful what you get yourself into because not everything is what it appears to be.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes, and one that’s a corollary to that that’s on here is, how can I hear what you say when what you do speaks so loudly? Good point. We saw that out of Washington very recently.
SPEAKER 18 :
Good point. You know, the other one that we can see with Washington, and it’s going to happen, I think, a lot here over the course of probably the next year to two, is if you want to know what’s happening, follow the money.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, I think that’s true all the time, not just the next… year or two. But we see that we see on media, especially people coming on and commenting. And I have no agenda in this, maybe selling some books or things. But the people that go on the TV and radio out of Washington generally have some type of agenda. They’re tied to lobbyists. They want certain bills passed. And so we need to take that into consideration. The old consider the source advice when we’re listening to those people.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, the other one that goes with this is that’s because they throw good money after bad.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, that’s exactly right. And usually it’s our money, not theirs. That’s right, because it’s not theirs. As well. So I love one on here that’s not political. It says, I’m so tired I’m breathing from memory. Yeah, yeah. And I heard you talking about your sleep pattern earlier, so I wanted to make sure to get that one in.
SPEAKER 18 :
This is another one I enjoy because I believe I taught my kids this over the course of their lifetime, of course, growing up. If you lie down with dogs, you’ll wake up with fleas. In other words, be careful who you hang out with.
SPEAKER 05 :
And boy, isn’t that true. And I can remember after high school, my parents talking to me about that. I couldn’t understand really what they were saying. And lo and behold, they became wiser later because what they saw that I didn’t became true.
SPEAKER 18 :
Honesty is the best policy. Of course, we all know that’s a Benjamin Franklin phrase from years ago.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, yes, and we know that. But why don’t the people in Washington know that?
SPEAKER 18 :
Good question. And one thing I always taught my employees and my kids as well, it’s another one of those things that I taught because it goes along with honesty is the best policy. If you always tell the truth, you never have to remember what you said.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, that’s exactly correct. And we’ve seen that in spades coming out of Washington the last six months or so with the campaign and people saying things despite there being video evidence of the exact opposite of what they’re saying that people could refer to. And it’s just amazing to me how they continue to throw out contradictory statements.
SPEAKER 18 :
You mean like Hunter’s pardon?
SPEAKER 05 :
That’s a good example, yes.
SPEAKER 18 :
I mean, we heard for the longest time that that’s just not going to happen, even from our president’s mouth, and yet here we are.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes, we are. And the other interesting thing about some of these things are who said them. So I’ve always heard this thing about every dog has its day, but I didn’t realize until I was researching this further that it was Shakespeare that said that.
SPEAKER 18 :
I didn’t know that either until I saw my notes.
SPEAKER 05 :
I would have thought he’d have been a little too highbrow to say that.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, I would not have guessed that one at all. This one I use a lot. I don’t say blind hog finds an acorn every once in a while. I use the blind squirrel. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and again, and it’s very true.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, I guess it depends on which side of the farm you’re working on.
SPEAKER 18 :
True, true, true. This is another one because there’s real meaning to it because they actually used to use this on purpose, don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, yes, and I had a bath on a back porch in a number three wash tub as a little kid before, and the Saturday night bath was starting with dad and mom and all the way down through the kids, and the baby was last, and So the water being so dirty that they were afraid they’d lose the baby in the bathwater.
SPEAKER 18 :
That’s right. All right, so one more time, Richard. This is in one of your books. If people want to read more of these, how do they do that?
SPEAKER 05 :
This is in the book as an appendix of Made in America by Americans, not Americans. Perfect.
SPEAKER 18 :
and you guys listening, you can get that at richardbattle.com. And Richard, we’ll talk to you before Christmas, of course, but for those of you listening, if you’re looking for some great Christmas presents, Richard, you have a plethora of them there, and for young people especially, what you have would be great gifts for those young people.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, thank you, and yes, and all books at richardbattle.com are signed. If someone wants it inscribed, order it, and then email me, richard at richardbattle.com. We’re happy to do that. You can Find everything at Amazon, including Kindle and audio versions as well.
SPEAKER 18 :
Awesome. Richard, as always, I appreciate you, sir. Thanks for all that you do for us.
SPEAKER 05 :
My pleasure. Thank you. God bless America.
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All right. Repercussions of the pardon. We were just talking about that with Richard Battle a moment ago. Congress hands Biden, this is in Axios, a huge Hunter-driven pardon wish list. And some of the folks on this wish list, by the way, you would just look at and think to yourself, how in the world could anybody even think of having that particular person pardoned? For example, AOC, she wants a pardon for an indigenous activist, Leonard P-E-L-T-I-E-R, who was convicted of killing two FBI agents. This isn’t like a white collar crime. This is a murderer that killed two FBI agents. Of course, there’s all sorts of lawmakers that have turned things in to pardon not only President Trump, but also a lot of the J6 folks. And I can tell you that I highly doubt Biden will pardon any of those. Thomas Massey out of Kentucky, he has urged Biden to pardon Assange. who, you know, that’s the whole, you know, Snowden, that whole end of things and so on. And it’ll be interesting to see what happens there. I highly doubt that will actually happen. Now, that could be one that I could see Donald Trump getting involved in because both of those guys released all sorts of things that actually set the record straight in a lot of things that were going on that people thought was disinformation or misinformation that, in fact, wasn’t. Anyways, there’s a long list. And whenever you do something like what Joe Biden just did, you literally opened up Pandora’s box. Because what he did basically was say there’s no real checks and balances around pardons. It’s sort of willy nilly. We’ll just pardon anyone. Now, we talked about this in the podcast this morning that we recorded, myself, Neal, and Bob, and don’t be shocked. Bob brought this up, and I chimed in on it as well. Don’t be shocked if by the time Joe’s done, he hasn’t pardoned his brother, his wife, so Jim and Jill, the two Js, and by the way, himself. Don’t be shocked, those of you on the left even, don’t be surprised if Joe doesn’t pardon basically the entire Biden regime when it’s all said and done. And I would not be surprised to see that happen either. He can pardon himself, he can pardon his brother, and he can pardon his wife, which, keep in mind, she, of all of them, has very much been in the middle of this more so than probably anybody thinks. Biden became the scapegoat. You know, he’s sort of the straw man, if you would. But believe me, they’ve been involved in it very much. So it’ll be interesting as we go down this path to Inauguration Day to see exactly what Joe does. And by the way, the way these things will typically work is just like him pardoning Hunter on a Sunday night, or a Sunday, I should say, slow news day, be looking for pardons that would come out on a Friday through a Sunday. Because they make less news when that happens. We know in this world, in the media world, that the news cycle is down then. So the way that works is if you’ve got a big story that you’d like to not get a lot of press on, you throw it out on a Friday or a Saturday, even a Sunday. But typically Friday, Friday afternoon, Friday evening is the best time to do it. Because the news cycle has really ended for the week at that point, and everybody’s gearing up for other things. And then by the time you get into Monday, you’ve started all over again. And so anybody in the news communication world knows that if you’re going to bury a story, you throw it out then. So my point is this. If and when he does these things, look for them to happen on a Friday through a Sunday. And that’s most likely when it will happen. And yeah, I would, I’m not a betting man, but if I were, yeah, I would bet on the fact that he will pardon not only himself, but Jill and Jim, so his wife and his brother as well. He already did his son. He’s already opened that door. And it’d be easy now for him just to go through and say, well, you know, because of the political target that Hunter was, I can just see that my wife and brother and even myself could be down the road with this next administration coming in. So I’m going to go ahead and just do a preemptive pardon for the three of us. frankly, could happen all at one time, by the way. Don’t be shocked, those of you that are on the conservative side of the aisle, if that doesn’t happen. And by the way, those of you on the left, you should probably expect that coming from this particular regime, because the Biden crime family is huge, and they don’t want to be thrown under the bus for anything. And the best way to do that is just pardon yourself now and get it done and over with, because if that happens, what are you going to do moving forward? What’s our side going to do moving forward? The answer is nothing. It’s at that point done and over with. 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All right, we are back, and it’s that time of the week. Sunny Kutcher joining us now, Young Americans Against Socialism. Sunny, welcome. Hope you had a good Thanksgiving.
SPEAKER 14 :
Likewise. I hope all of your listeners had a wonderful and restorative Thanksgiving. It is always kind of a rat race at the end of the year here, so it’s nice to be able to get some downtime.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, let’s just say I think we had a better one than what they’re having in South Korea.
SPEAKER 14 :
That one could say so. Yes, there is a situation that has definitely evolved. And I think at this point now, so Marshall Law was enacted there. I think it was sometime yesterday. It’s a large time difference there, but happened within the last few days because the president. Yoon Suk-yeol declared the emergency law on December 3rd, so yesterday, because he was citing threats from, quote, anti-state forces and was accusing the opposition party to be sympathizers with North Korea. Fascinating stuff. I do really feel like this is a sign that people are becoming more aware of the different influences that politics and global politics, the influences that are there, swaying the world population in one direction or another. But the military actually entered the parliament building. They went in and they actually ordered a vote. And so eventually the military has now stepped down because they want to stay on the side of the people. And the president should be. I think they’re they’re expecting him to either resign or step down because of his actions.
SPEAKER 18 :
Which, again, I’m not one that’s in favor of any kind of president doing martial law. I get where he’s coming from, although I don’t think he handled that correctly. And really, for all of you listening, we mentioned this just briefly in the 3 o’clock hour yesterday, Sonny. But what’s happening over there is, to your point a moment ago, They’re becoming very influenced as a country by North Korea, which I just – I’m baffled by that, by the way. I just don’t understand. You look to the north and you see what’s going on over there. Why would you want to become like them? And this is where – why you, Young Americans Against Socialism, it’s so important to teach our young people what really goes on, because right now in South Korea, which they’ve been one of our great allies, we helped them with a lot of their rebuilding of the country after the Korean War and so on and so forth, and they really have been a great ally of the United States, and yet, Sunny, it’s like they’ve forgotten their roots.
SPEAKER 14 :
Absolutely, and… I mean, we’re seeing that all over the world. And I do feel that, you know, once again, this is an example of the, you know, there being a kind of a conflict or a conflict of interest with the government and the people and, you know, where they’d like to see the direction of the country.
SPEAKER 18 :
Again, I am baffled by this whole events, the things that are happening. Again, I don’t keep up on what’s going on in South Korea. I don’t have friends or family or anybody there, so I don’t know exactly what’s going on on the streets. But literally, when I saw the news yesterday, I was literally… baffled by that. I would have thought, you know, knowing also how Christian South Korea has become, they’ve had one of the greatest revival movements over the last couple of decades of probably any country in the world, and I’m not exaggerating when I say that. Africa’s have a huge revival, but so has South Korea, as far as that goes. And, you know, putting all of that together, Sunny, I was literally just shocked at what I read yesterday.
SPEAKER 14 :
It is quite shocking, and I think we’re seeing that all I mean, you know, on the other hand, in Europe, their their governments are also collapsing, you know. So I think people also with technology, people are able to get connected with the rest of the world and see that, you know, populism is is what’s on fire right now. People want to have their voices heard. And, you know, governments are not OK with that. That is, like you said, what makes our work so important. And that’s why we hope in the next year to really focus in on how radicals take root in our society. government and also get very clear on the systems that are in place in America that help prevent these types of situations from happening through our knowledge and different checks and balances.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, and I wanted to dovetail into this, and I want to be as kind as I can because I’m not trying to, you know, beat up any one organization in what I’m talking about. And when I say You know, in this case, the church, I mean, as a whole, I’m not pointing out any one particular, you know, church or location or denomination or anything along those lines. But I find it interesting—maybe that’s the way I should say this, Sonny—that South Korea became very, quote-unquote, Christianized— And yet now is becoming very liberal and sympathetic to the communist Marxist movement. And Christianity, in a way, I guess, lends itself to being more kind and gentle and so on. And I understand that. But that’s not what communism and socialism and Marxism is. So I’m struggling with how does a country become more Christian and yet more liberal at the same time? If anything, it should be the opposite.
SPEAKER 14 :
that’s a tough conundrum, and I think, I mean, that’s happening here. We see it all over, you know. Especially in Los Angeles, there’s been a huge, I guess you could call it a Christian revival. I think that, you know, when you go to some of the churches around here, there are a lot of young families, a lot of young people who are, you know, who are interested in faith and want to be closer in their faith. But yet they are, most of them, very liberal. And so you do see this really interesting duality, because it’s almost like they’re taking on this idea that having, you know, Christian values or certain values, family-oriented values, faith-oriented values, that that means you have to kind of be more docile and take a step back and, you know, live your life the way that, you know, you think that life should be lived in terms of our moral compass and kind of let the world fend for itself. But actually, I believe that Judeo-Christian values call us to be very bold in what we think and to create the world that we think that would be glorifying to God.
SPEAKER 18 :
Agree. And to me, this is just like you said and compared to what’s happened in the U.S. And I’ve talked about this. I’ve been very open about this on my program. In my opinion, this is one of the areas where Christianity, the leaders of, are failing at teaching not only the regular parishioner but our young people as well. Some of the things, by the way, that you guys at Young Americans Against Socialism are trying to teach. And my point is, The church should be teaching civics, just like it did 100-plus years ago and somehow got away from. It’s evident that we’re not doing that well enough, because keep in mind, a lot of the movement that happened over in South Korea came from… you know, missionaries and the movement that, you know, that we had as America going there and so on. So, you know, I’m not pointing blame at any one individual, again, denomination or sect or anything along those lines, Sonny. I just find it ironic that they’re now experiencing some of the very same things that we experience here, and yet South Korea will tell you that 30 percent of them identify as Christians.
SPEAKER 14 :
Right. Absolutely. And, you know, just to kind of show that when you lose faith in a nation like they have in Europe, in France, for example. I mean, I just saw a video where it said, you know, we’re Islamizing France. Like, it’s basically, you know, they’ve imported Africa and the Middle East into France, and you’ve seen what’s gone on there, the burning of the churches. And, I mean, that’s happening all over the country, and that’s been happening for, I mean, at least a decade. And I’ve spent a lot of time in France, particularly, just because that’s where my mom was born and raised. And so I would spend summers there, some winters, etc. And when you go there now, I mean, it’s nearly unrecognizable. And I think that that’s why people are, you know, especially in some of the European countries, Ireland as well, they are rising up because they see what’s going on. They see what’s happening with the churches being burned down, etc. And so they’ve gone the way of not being… at all connected to their faith as a nation. And I think they’re seeing now what’s been missing. A lot of people are moving towards that trend because they’re seeing that the lack of faith has created this demonic energy that is spreading throughout our world. And just to kind of show that there is global chaos, just not only in South Korea, but France’s government collapsed as well today. And so back when Marine Le Pen was running, She did not win. And so she was, you know, what they were calling her the far right candidate and whatnot. I think that people are pretty upset about that. And the current prime minister in France was basically pushed through parts of the budget that had failed a vote. So he pushed through, he used special powers to adopt that part of the budget. And the parliament basically did a no vote competency. no, confident vote, excuse me, on Michel Barnier, who’s the prime minister. And so now he has to resign. So you see this global chaos happening all over the place. And I think it is definitely at the push of the people because they are being much more focused on what is happening in their government, what’s happening in the politics, because they have a vested interest because of the way that they see their nation going.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, what I want to get out with you guys of Young Americans Against Socialism, for those of you listening, number one, go to the website, donate, help these ladies do a really good job. They’re doing a really great job. Let’s help them do a better job of getting this information out. And what I want to also add to that, Sonny, is for those of you that maybe are in the church and have some leadership roles in the church, and maybe I’m overstepping here a little bit, Sonny, but the reality is the material that you guys have, is such that you could take that material and intertwine it into some civics courses inside of the church, inside of youth groups, inside of, frankly, even young adult classes and so on. The reality is your material is made well enough to where anyone out there listening that has that kind of influence and wants to see some changes civically inside of their own churches, they could use your material, is my point.
SPEAKER 14 :
Absolutely. That is one of our main goals in the next year. Currently, our intro to socialism curriculum is implemented in charter schools in Arizona, 11 charter schools. And so we’d like to replicate that all over the country. Of course, it can be used in a homeschool setting. It can be used in a personal home setting, whatnot. but churches as well. We also partner with an organization called Her Voice Movement. You can download our curriculum right from their app. And we’ve been talking with them because they get into churches too, and they’re trying to bring faith and prayer and fasting back into our nation as well in order to bring about radical change. And so we, you know, just like you said, if you are hooked up with a church and you want to get involved in your community and bring this to your community, that would be a fantastic way for us to partner. You can definitely email me, You can go to our website. So my email is sunny at yaas.org. Or you can go to our website as well, yaas.org. You can download these curricula right from our website. That’s Intro to Socialism, From the Revolution to the Constitution, which we’ll be, you know, posting more about. That’s about American Revolution and the Constitution, of course. And we also had released one for Thanksgiving. So you can share that with your kids, you know, maybe as a post-Thanksgiving activity to help them, you think about what they’re grateful for and apply it to their lives and learn some history about Thanksgiving. That’s called giving thanks and celebrating freedom. So we’re really excited about this new journey of our organization, really giving tools to families and kids to help them understand and appreciate what America is all about so that we can batten down the hatches and secure a future of freedom for our children and our children’s children.
SPEAKER 18 :
And with the last election, I think there’s a huge door that’s been swung open, Sonny, that really enables this to happen even more than what it would have been prior to that. In other words, when you got the popular vote doing what they did in regards to Donald Trump, the reality is, to your point, people have woke up. They’re tired of the wokeness. They’re tired of Marxism and communism and socialism being shoved down our throats. You now have a grand opportunity to take your material and do something with it.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, absolutely. And we’re really grateful to be at the tip of the spear. And we’d love to hear ideas. We’d love to hear your feedback if you do. And of course, if you are inclined to take the next step with us directly in the fight against socialism, you can make a contribution or become a monthly supporter at yaas.org. And we are really grateful. We’re a 501c3, so we are only able to do this work because of our super generous and loyal supporters. And, you know, our audience is 350,000 plus. And so we just want to grow and get this message out there. So we’re really grateful for your audience.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, we’re grateful for you. Keep up the great work, Sonny, and we’ll keep supporting you. And we’ll talk next week. But thank you for all you’re doing. We appreciate it very much.
SPEAKER 14 :
Thanks so much. Likewise.
SPEAKER 18 :
All right, Sonny, have a great evening. Appreciate her very much. Young Americans Against Socialism. Go donate. Help get this material into hands of more and more young people. And frankly, not just young people, but families in general is what I should say. Hi-Fi Plumbing and Electrical is next. Again, if you’ve had any issues electrically speaking or plumbing-wise, give them a call today. They’re right at your fingertips through that phone, 877-WE-HIGH-5.
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SPEAKER 18 :
All right, we are back. Joe, what’s going on today, sir?
SPEAKER 04 :
John, have you talked yet about the murder of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare today?
SPEAKER 18 :
No, I have not yet. I was going to do that in hour three and three o’clock hour, and I just didn’t get to it.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, just, you know, you always… Have they found the person yet? No, they haven’t. And by the way, I’ve just watched a video. The guy apparently was using some kind of silencer because the police said they found three empty shell casings and three live rounds. And when I watched the video… The video’s from the back, but you see there’s what appears to be a silencer in the front of the gun. But he fires, and then he has to rack the slide. Fires has to rack the slide again, and fires has to rack the slide a third time. So apparently he ejected three live rounds onto the ground because the silencer interfered with the functioning of the gun. Interesting.
SPEAKER 18 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 04 :
Makes sense. But anyway, but if you want to know how sick liberals are, if you go on Axios or Being Liberal, and Axios is supposed to be kind of a neutral, nonpartisan. It’s supposed to be. The vast majority, and there are hundreds of comments, they’re celebrating this guy’s death. Like one guy saying, one down, three more to go, meaning Cigna, Humana, and Aetna, right? I mean, they’re literally, you know, may his soul rot in hell. I mean, they’re literally applauding the murder of this guy. Yeah, that’s how sick… Now, I’m not saying that, obviously, you can’t… There are millions of liberals, but the ones that are outspoken… They are truly sick puppies out there.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah. Anybody that would celebrate the death of someone else, unless it’s some evil dictator like Hitler, Joe, is just a lunatic.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right. And wishing that the rest of them would be murdered soon. I mean, that’s literally what they’re saying there. One down, three more to go. I wonder if he has any friends type of thing. They’re sick puppies, absolutely sick puppies.
SPEAKER 18 :
And this is, of course, an individual that, yeah, has a lot of control when it comes to that particular organization and so on. But, again, at the end of the day, Joe, he’s not making all of the ultimate decisions as to who gets care, who doesn’t get care. And so on. And that’s the final question is, you know, we have our final say. I should say we have no idea who actually did this. We at this point, they haven’t caught the individual. Wouldn’t be shocked if it’s not somebody, Joe, that’s just disgruntled with the insurance end of things themselves. That’s my thought. But I could be completely wrong.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, you know, he obviously targeted this guy. He waited. You know, they had pictures of him waiting for this guy to come by.
SPEAKER 18 :
Right. It was premeditated.
SPEAKER 04 :
It was premeditated. So he singled this guy out for some reason. You know, the speculation that he had a grudge against the company is sure. But, you know, this guy, you know, it wasn’t this guy personally. If there was a claim that was denied or something or some experimental treatment that wasn’t approved, I mean, you know, read your policy. You know, you get what you pay for, and you don’t get – You know, there’s a lot of things you don’t get. Well, you do get preexisting conditions under Obamacare, but there’s a lot of things you don’t get. You don’t get experimental treatments.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, when it comes to trial, as you know, Joe, when it comes to trials and things like that, there are all sorts of things that come into play, and not everybody gets to be a part of those, unfortunately.
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s correct.
SPEAKER 18 :
It just is what it is. I hate to say it that way, but it is what it is.
SPEAKER 04 :
Anyway, so they’re looking for the guy. You know, they’ve got him on camera. He got on the e-bike, went into Central Park. They’ve got, he was wearing a half a mask. So you can see him from his nose up backpack. So anyway, the search is on, but.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, and Charlie just said in my ear, very clear photos of all of this as well.
SPEAKER 04 :
Very, very clear photos.
SPEAKER 18 :
Most likely this guy will end up being caught, but it’s just, number one, it’s a tragedy. It shouldn’t happen, Joe, as you know. And again, no matter what this particular individual may have done in regards to UnitedHealthcare, Mr. Thompson, he’s 50 years of age, by the way. I don’t know the man, don’t know his history, don’t know his family history, anything along those lines. But any time somebody loses a life, that’s tragic. It shouldn’t happen.
SPEAKER 04 :
It’s tragedy. And one more comment. This is New York City where it’s virtually impossible to own a pistol and get a concealed character.
SPEAKER 18 :
That was going to be my next question. Did gun control work, Joe?
SPEAKER 04 :
No. And by the way, silencers, by the way, they’re actually called suppressors. Right. The proper name is suppressors. By the way, in Europe, suppressors are mandatory.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yep. Not here.
SPEAKER 04 :
Not here.
SPEAKER 18 :
We make you jump through all sorts of hoops to own one.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, that’s the federal government, but in New York and New Jersey, you can’t own one.
SPEAKER 18 :
You just can’t have a period.
SPEAKER 04 :
You just can’t have it. So here’s this guy in New York City with a pistol that he can’t carry. with a suppressor that he can’t own, murdering somebody in the middle of the street.
SPEAKER 18 :
And Wall Street Journal did say that he has survived by his mother, wife, two sons, and a brother. So whoever did this, you just widowed somebody and orphaned, or you basically left two kids without a dad.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yep. Yep. Unbelievable.
SPEAKER 18 :
Unbelievable.
SPEAKER 04 :
It’s tragic. Life in the big city, John.
SPEAKER 18 :
Shouldn’t happen. Joe, appreciate that. Thank you. I wasn’t going to talk about that anyway, so I appreciate you doing that. I was going to go over at some point today. I don’t know that I’m going to have time, so I may have to push this off until next week. that go into effect here in Colorado in 2025. And I would suggest that you all go out there and brush up on some of these. One of them involves, and I’ve talked about this a little bit here and Drive Radio both, but drivers in the state, this is January 1st, could be fined for holding and using a cell phone while driving. It’s already illegal to text and drive, but just holding the phone, looking up a number or plugging in an address so that it comes up in your map or something along those lines, if you are caught doing that, you may very well be issued a ticket after January 1st. And you could face a $75 fine and two points on your license. The punishment increases based upon the number of times a driver is caught breaking the law, this law. In a two-year period. Now, as somebody that drives a lot on the roads, six days, seven days a week, and put a lot of miles on, I’m not a big law guy. As you guys all know, there’s certain laws that I think we should be minimizing and not adding to. Unfortunately, this is one of those areas that’s far too abused, in my opinion. It never fails when I get behind or around somebody that’s either driving slowly, erratically, something’s just not right, the first thing you do when you get next to them is look over and they’re on the phone. And by the way, they could either be texting, talking, or dinking around with. I don’t know what they’re doing. But the phone has become a huge distraction in the cabin of most cars, and especially in the driver’s seat. So as I’ve always said, if people don’t police themselves, government does instead. So if people would have done this on their own and driven correctly and not had this distraction all along, we wouldn’t have a law making it illegal to actually hang on to your phone while driving. You’re still going to be able to use the phone, but Bluetooth only. You’re going to have to use it through your speakers or through the head device on your radio, etc. You’re not going to be able to be on the phone putting things in, even mapping things. in the future. So that’s something that’s coming on January 1, along with a host of other laws as well. American National Insurance is next. Paul Leuenberger, who’s a great friend of mine, would love to help you with your insurance needs. He’s a broker. He’ll help you with whatever you need. 303-662-0789.
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SPEAKER 18 :
All right, we are back. Neil, I’ve got 30 seconds. Go for it, sir.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, that law about cell phones, it’s what is known as a secondary violation. The other law, which is a secondary violation, is the seatbelt law, which means you cannot be pulled over for violating either one of those items individually. In other words, if a policeman came over to you and you didn’t have a seatbelt buckled and you had your hands on the cell phone, he can’t pull you over. These are feel-good laws that were enacted that virtually cannot be enforced by themselves.
SPEAKER 18 :
Gotcha. Gotcha. Well, I appreciate that. Thank you for updating us on that. I did not go through all the details of that particular law. I will read that more thoroughly. Thank you, Neil, for that update. I appreciate that very much. Hour 3 is next. Don’t go anywhere. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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