Join host John Rush as he delves into the essence of Western civilization with guest James Hankins. In this episode, they explore the connections and disconnections in history that have shaped the world today. Tune in to discover why the study of Western traditions is crucial now more than ever, and how misconceptions have distorted its role in shaping societies.
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All right, Hour 2, Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Our first guest this hour, James Hankins, joining us. James, welcome. How are you?
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I’m doing very well, thank you, out here in beautiful Boston.
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Well, I appreciate you joining us. The Golden Thread, A History of the Western Tradition. And you actually, you wrote that in combination with somebody else. Alan, I’m sure I’m going to get his last name wrong.
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Guelzo.
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There we go. There we go.
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Alan and I have been friends for 55 years.
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Good for you.
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Since high school. So we decided to write a book together.
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Well, that’s awesome. All right. Tell us about the book. What’s in it? What are readers going to learn?
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All right. Well, it’s in two volumes, and it’s a beautiful book. I’m very pleased with what Counterpress did with it. It’s got 800 color illustrations, maps, you know, 75 maps. It’s just a gorgeous piece of bookmaking. We are covering the entire history of Western civilization, from the Greeks and the Romans through the medieval Christendom and down to the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment, and down to modern times. So my buddy Alan Gelso is doing everything from the Reformation to the present. That guy will be out in November, and my volume came out in August. That covers everything up to the Renaissance, the Italian Renaissance of the 15th century. So what we’re doing is we are trying to revive the study of Western civilization. About 40 years ago, the progressives in America decided to stop teaching Western civilization. So every one of the 50 states abolished the study of Western civilization. The departments of education said, don’t teach that anymore. We’ve got to teach world history or no history. And also many colleges, which used to require Western civ, stopped teaching it. So It hasn’t been taught for 40 years. The books that exist out there are old. They’re basically for the Cold War. They’re not written for our current moment. So Al and I decided we needed to have a new book that would really tell the truth about Western Civ, which has been great. denigrated so much in recent years.
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And I’m going to stop you for just a second there, because you’re right, and I’ve seen that, talked about it on air, and you’re 100% correct, and as you know, the less we talk about something, the more ignorant we get, not only on that subject, but in my opinion, lots of others as well, because you no longer have to think about things. And I guess my question for you is, why? You know, why did the progressives, the left, feel so strongly that we could no longer teach Western civilization?
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Well, it’s coming from two directions, really. One was the Vietnam generation, which went through the academic system in the 80s and 90s. They had been taught to dislike or even hate America because of their experience dodging service in the Vietnam War. And they spread their hatred to the entire civilization because the typical interpretation of the Vietnam generation was that Western Civ was an invention of militarists that were trying to get Americans to fight in foreign wars. So this was not at all true. In fact, we have studied Western civilization under different names in the United States since at least the 18th century. We always taught the history of ancient Greece and Rome and the Middle Ages and Enlightenment. We always taught those for hundreds of years. But they decided that they didn’t want people learning Western civilization because they might start to like it. And then, of course, there are the globalists who wanted to, you know, wanted to globalize their progressive ideas, and they also didn’t want people being attached to their own civilization.
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So it was a double whammy of sorts, if you would.
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Yeah, in fact, in fact. Yeah. You know, it was a popular thing. People threw it away, that whole tradition of studying the West. Hundreds of years long, they just threw it away. Nothing would happen. We can learn something else instead. But lo and behold, you know, 40 years later, people stop acting in civilized ways because they don’t know what a civilization is or what it does. And they also become prey to all of these negative stereotypes about the West. Right. They don’t have anything in their heads to fight against.
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Well, actually, what they have in their heads, as you know, what they have in their head is West, bad, everybody else good. So it’s even worse than that. It’s not that they don’t have anything there. It’s what they’ve got in there is we’re evil.
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Yeah, you’re exactly right. So if you read these global histories that have replaced Western Civ, the global histories basically turn the West into the whipping boy. Yep. All the other places in the globe are wonderful. They’re fantastic. They have distinctive cultures at which we should reverence, but in the West, no. And America, particularly, no. America has sort of racism and sexism and you name it. So people need to learn about their own culture in order to defend it.
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And I’ve said this before, James, and I’m sure you would be one of the first to admit this as well. Any civilization, ours included, the Western civilization, isn’t without its faults. We’ve had our growing pains. We’ve done some things that I don’t think anybody is proud of. But at the end of the day, I think the difference between, at least this is my view on it, the difference between Western civilization and others is we grow, we learn and grow from those mistakes, hopefully to never repeat them again, provided… We continue to teach that history. In other words, if we don’t, then we’re liable to repeat those. But if we know what those mistakes are, let’s not do those again. Now, when I say mistakes, I mean also putting that into the right context. In other words, there’s a lot of people, you mentioned slavery, whereby they’d run around and we want to pay reparations, we want to do this, we want to do that, all the while forgetting that the first slave owner in America was black.
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Now, that I didn’t know. But, yeah, I agree with you entirely that there’s a total lack of any kind of balance. You know, they say, well, West had slavery. Well, every civilization has slavery. That’s right.
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And we were the first ones to abolish it, by the way, out of all civilizations.
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Yeah, we and the British. And that was, you know, the Islamic civilization eventually started abolishing slavery about 100 years after. The West did it, right? So they had a much worse slave system than we ever had in the Islamic world. So, you know, it’s totally unbalanced, this view of the Western past, and people need to learn a little more sense of history. And things are different back then. People had different types of you know, relationships, there are different types of labor regimes.
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Yeah, and again, I’m not, James, as you know, I would not give anybody, you know, a pass per se for, you know, being a slave owner at that time, although, to your point, things were way different then, and I’m not saying that all slave owners were good, it’s like anything else, there were some, just like employers, there were some good ones, there were some bad ones, and I’m not giving anybody a pass on that, but to your point, and this is where I think a lot of people forget, it was a way of life for every civilization, including Western civilization at that time. We were the ones that learned and grew from that.
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Yeah, there’s all sorts of unfree labor arrangements. You know, the Chinese did not have chattel slavery, the ownership of persons, but they did have forced labor regimes. So when the emperor wanted to have a canal built, they would have hundreds of thousands of people They take them off their land and say, stop working your land. The emperor wants you to spend three months digging a hole for him. So there’s different kinds of uncreedom.
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That’s right. No, you’re exactly right. What are some of the things that you maybe uncovered, things that even you didn’t know in writing the books and going back through and doing all of this research? What are some things that you learn and are now sharing with readers?
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Well, one of the things I learned just on the slavery business is that The West itself was a slave market for the Islamic world between the 7th and 8th century, that the West was so poor after the fall of Rome, it became so unable, the people were unable to support themselves, so they sold their labor or they were captured and sold to the Islamic world. So it’s not the case that Europeans were always exploiting the rest of the world. That’s just slavery. But one of the things that really has… amazed me is, well, we do a lot of the history of Christianity in the book, because that’s usually neglected in other books. And I’ve learned how much the history of Christianity is really kind of basic for Western civilization. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen this book by Tom Holland called Dominion, but he makes this argument, too. He’s a popular historian in England. who says, you know, so much of our current values come out of Christianity. They don’t come out of Greece and Rome. And I learned a lot about the Roman Empire and its way of exercising power. They really had an excellent legal system. I learned that the legal system of the Romans was really a kind of the thing that held the empire together. And the thing that made the empire so much loved in later times, because they didn’t have that kind of order in later times. So one of the things I learned that’s really kind of scary is how fragile all of these traditions were, how easily broken the golden thread was. So, you know, the basis of modern legal education is the Roman tradition. Digest, the Digest of Juridical Opinions that was collected by the Emperor Justinian in the 6th century. Okay. So this whole book was down to one copy in the 11th century. We almost lost the textbook of Western law for 800 years because there was only one copy left. They just stopped studying it in the West. And it’s just by sheer luck, almost, that they rediscovered this book. And then in the 12th century, it starts becoming the basis of training in civil law. And it continues to be that. So the whole idea, not the idea of the rule of law, but the techniques used by Roman jurists, the practical wisdom of Roman jurists in settling cases and trying to be fair to everybody and to respect opinion, respect tradition, respect all the different rational principles that are behind the rule of law. That was almost lost. And there are plenty of examples. I mean, the works of Aristotle, which were the backbone of Western education for eight centuries, from the 11th to the 17th century. That’s what they read in universities. That was also down to a single box of scrolls in the first century B.C.
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It’s really kind of amazing. Yeah, I had no idea.
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You know, there were three manuscripts of Plato left in the 14th century. And if it weren’t for the Italian Renaissance, we probably would have lost Plato, too. Wow. There have to be people who care about these things. Once we had printing, of course, there were many copies, but you still have to have people who care about it, who love the tradition, who want their children and their grandchildren to know these things. One of the terrible things about this hall of negativity that’s hanging over our Western civilization is that people no longer… want to learn about architecture that surrounds them, about classical music. They don’t know what they’re doing or what they’re seeing when they walk into a museum. So the very rich traditions of the West and art and music and theater are being lost just because people say, oh, that’s Western. We don’t want to do that. We want to watch no place in Japan or we want to observe the patterns of basket weaving in Tibet or something, but they don’t want to look at the really wonderful art that the West has created over the last 2,000 years.
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Time flies. James, again, I appreciate you coming on and talking about this. Lastly, where do folks get the book, both volumes? Where do they get them?
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Well, Volume 2 is not out until November, but you can pre-order it on Amazon. Amazon also has… has plenty of copies now of my volume, Volume 1.
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Awesome. Awesome. Well, James, I appreciate it, learning a lot from you. I’m sure you did as well. Look forward to Volume 2 as well when it comes out. We can have you back on, and I’d appreciate that.
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All right. Well, thank you very much.
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You betcha, James. No, appreciate you very much. And for those of you listening, it’s the Golden Thread, History of Western Tradition. It’s James Hankins and Alan G-U-E-L-Z-O. So you can go pick that up today. Veteran Windows and Doors, we heard from Dave earlier. And if you want to save money on your windows and doors and do it in a way because of just cutting out the overhead that’s typical with a lot of the door and window companies, call Dave today. Find him at klzradio.com.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Debra’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Charlie sent me an article. This was in Forbes today, I believe. Make sure I’ve got the date on this right, but I believe this was… Actually, the fifth, yesterday. New poll, polls plural, show blue state Colorado in play for Republicans. This was written by a person by the name of Chris Dorsey. I don’t know this person. It’s a contributor to Forbes. And basically talking about a recent Denver Post report, talking about the state of affairs in Colorado, that, you know, basically, in a nutshell… People are trying to figure out, A, what to do in Colorado, and B, it’s becoming – the left, by the way, is becoming much like Bud Light. And, in fact, people are very disgruntled with what’s happening in Colorado. And, yes, I get that. I am as well. And I talk to a lot of people that also are. And, frankly, I talk to a lot of people that maybe aren’t on either side of the aisle. Maybe they consider themselves to be down the middle, although I’ve even talked to some folks that are on the left, that when you really get down to the core of what’s going on in Colorado, they’re not happy either. And I think this is something, by the way, that the left is missing out on. Now, all that being said, Andy and I will get into more of this tomorrow. All that being said, though, our party’s not ready for this. We’re not. We’re going to screw up one more time. Trust me in this. Because we’ve got so many people. I’m not saying that right. I’m sorry. Let me rephrase that. We have got a faction of people on the right that are going to do their dead set best to screw it up because they realize that if they don’t and other people end up winning, they no longer have power. That’s it in a nutshell. Andy, if you’re listening, we can talk about some of this tomorrow. But that’s really, in my opinion, what this boils down to. We have got a certain amount of people, small amount of people, on the right here in Colorado that have some power right now that are bound and determined to hang on to that power. And they know that if they allow certain things to happen and we actually get to move the football forward, they will most likely not be in power anymore. So they’re going to do everything they possibly can to screw things up. Meaning, you really want to talk about rhinos? They’re the true definition of. They’re a Republican in name only. Now, they’re going to tell you that they’re the grassroots, they’re this, they’re that, they’re the hardcore of the party, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It’s all lip service and they’re lying to you. And those of you that are listening that are in that camp, you’re a bunch of liars. You’re a bunch of hypocrites. Because what I just said is exactly what you’re going to do. If it doesn’t go your way, you’re going to take your ball and leave. And you don’t care what you destroy in the process. And a lot of you, by the way, that are on that side of the aisle, you haven’t even been in the state for very long. You’ve maybe been here three years, five years, maybe the max seven to ten. I get it. There’s some that have been around a little longer than that. But in most cases, they haven’t even been around a decade. Folks, I’m not exaggerating what I just said. A lot of these folks that I’m talking about are transplants to Colorado. They’re freeloaders. They’re grifters. They’re political grifters. They figured out a state where they could get in, get some power, make some money, have a little cash cow. They don’t care what they screw up in the process. They’re going to tell you that they’re fundamentally the right ones and, man, they are right and everybody else is wrong and it’s their candidate or no candidate and they’re all for, you know, they’re principled and on and on we go. And, by the way, nothing could be farther from the truth. These are people that, by the way, have no idea how to win. And my point with this article, I’m glad Charlie sent this, was we’ve got a really great opportunity right now to do some great things in Colorado. Conservatively speaking, we have a certain percentage of this party that won’t allow it. They are going to do every single thing they possibly can to upset that, meaning what we all have to do that are on this side of the aisle, we’ve got to eliminate those people. We’ve got to push them aside the best we can. And I get it. Our political system in Colorado is such that they have gained power, and it’s going to be really hard to eliminate them, but we have to do everything we possibly can to do so. And I mean that. Andy and I will talk a little bit more about how we could potentially do that from our side, but, man, I am dead set on doing this. I want to see these people gone. I want to see them leave the state. They want to take this nonsense and go someplace else, be my guest, but I’m tired of it in Colorado. I’m almost to the point of calling some of them out by name. I won’t yet. If it gets to that point, I might. And believe me, I’ll have all my facts in line so that nobody could come back and say that I’m defaming anybody or that I’m talking in a way that I shouldn’t about any particular person. Trust me, I’ll make sure they have my ducks in a row. But these are people that really want to be in power. And they’re bound and determined to stay in power, and they’re going to do everything they possibly can to upset the apple cart. And here’s how I know that. I mentioned last week how there’s a new player in town on the gubernatorial front. Marks is his name. Don’t like the last name, but don’t let that fool you. I think he’s a pretty decent guy from what I’ve read. And at the end of the day, I will tell you this, those folks that I’m just talking about, they’re not giving this guy a chance. I’m reading a lot of the posts that are out there on social media. They’re not giving this guy a chance. In fact, they are speaking along the lines of who’s funding him, you know, what big powerful rhino is actually behind him, and on and on and on we go. I mean, it’s absolutely ridiculous when, in fact, these are the rhinos. The ones that are calling out the rhinos are really the rhinos. And they’re upset because there might be somebody that actually entered into this particular race that actually might have a chance of upsetting things. And again, as I said a moment ago, they’re mad because that means they have to take their ball and go do something else. And they’re not going to be happy about that. So mark my word. They’re going to do everything they possibly can to not allow any kind of a newcomer that might have a chance of actually winning the race. They’re not going to allow that. They’ll do everything they possibly can to screw that up. And they don’t care. They don’t care what gets screwed up in the process. I truly believe that these are people that will tell you that they’re principled and that they’re behind Trump and they’re behind the movement that we have and on and on and on. But honestly, they’re not. They’re not. They’re in it for themselves. They’re in it for themselves only. They don’t care what they screw up in the process. Because at the end of the day, they moved into the state and they can move out. And they don’t care. They don’t care what they destroy in the process. I’m convinced of that. And some of you that are listening to me, you know exactly what I’m talking about. You’re a part of it, by the way. It’s so funny, when I talk this way, not one person ever sends me a message denying any of this. Not one person. You would think that after all I and Andy have said about this particular subject, that somebody would text or email or have something where they could actually counter everything I’m saying. Not one person, folks. It’s crickets. That alone should tell all of you something. If not one single person from that particular end of things, the 25 or so people that I’m speaking of, if not one of them can even send something in that denies any of this, that should tell you all something. They’re guilty. Guilty as charged. That’s how I see it. All right. Golden Eagle Financial coming up next. Make sure that you’re dialed in when it comes to your personal finances. Al Smith can help you with that. If you don’t have a plan in place right now when it comes to retirement and getting there, talk to Al today. Find him at klzradio.com.
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Putting reason into your afternoon drive, this is John Rush.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Okay, let’s have a little bit of fun here, Richard. Yesterday was a good day if you’re a Bronco fan.
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It was a great day if you’re a Broncos fan yesterday, right? Loving it. Well, I say that. It was starting to be not a great day, kind of more of the same, more of what we’ve come to expect, which is, You know, Broncos play a close game, but they just can’t get over the hump against these tough teams here. Couldn’t close it. Yeah, you couldn’t close it. You weren’t necessarily getting blown out, Dad, right? But you were getting enough to where, you know, it was 17 to, well, it was 10 to 3 at halftime. Then they come out and they score with basically within almost within two minutes out of halftime. And you’re like, oh, my word, this isn’t going to go good. You know, defending Super Bowl champs, the Eagles just know how to play. They know how to close. They know how to finish all the things. and then the Broncos credit, they, they hung in there and they really, you know, they, they marched down. Nothing really happened after that for the Eagles. Um, granted, I think the Eagles, you know, I’ll say this, that every team has their own drama, the Eagles wide receivers, one of them more so than the other are pretty highly paid, but the guy that’s most highly paid, he was traded for, for a few years ago from the Titans. And I think it’s AJ Brown. He was number 11. He had the red cleats on yesterday and, He came over and actually, you can argue, helped him win the Super Bowl last year. But he was unhappy with getting the target. He didn’t feel like he was getting enough chances at the ball over the past few weeks. And so there was some grumbling. Dad, you could argue the Eagles have one of the best rushing and offensive lines in general, best rushing offensive lines. You could argue they have the best running back in the league in Saquon Barkley, as my kids will tell me. He got the ball six times, Dad. The Eagles ran the ball 11 times.
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That is a recipe for failure. Well, honestly, Dad, I think it was a situation of you have these receivers speak up, say that they want the ball more, and so it was sort of a prove-it situation from the Eagles. They came out and said, okay, here you go. We’ll give you the chance to do this or whatever it is. I was really – I was surprised. In other words, it was a I-told-you-so moment. Yeah. It wasn’t I told you so moment. And honestly, Dad, they cost themselves a game. And maybe it was, right? Because the Eagles maybe viewed it as it’s a non-conference opponent. Does it matter as much? Yes. Do you want to win every game as possible? Yes. And this is my mini conspiracy theory. I have nothing to say. Maybe they basically said, okay, sure, we’ll throw you the ball a bunch. And, hey, if we win, I’m going to win. If we don’t win, then we go back to the plan we had originally. Exactly. We go back to what got us to this point in time. And again, I have nothing to prove that, just a theory. But yeah, like you said, they hung in there. They stayed true. If you get to the fourth quarter, they’re still down 17-3, but they get the score. They have a really good drive. They get a score, then they go down, have another really good drive, get another score. And then, honestly, that underrated drive was their last drive to kick the field goal, which four points because, yes, you did do the two-point conversion, which puts you up a point. Smart move, by the way. But it was really smart. The analytics say you should do that, but ultimately, Dad, it was the last drive where they marched down, forced Philadelphia to use their timeout. There were several big plays there. And I know that the media, Dad, and I shouldn’t say the Philadelphia media more than anything is going to go back to some of the interference or lack of penalties or the penalties that were called And what I would say, and you and I were talking about this earlier, Dad, there’s a lot of luck that goes around in football. And in this case, I think the Broncos were on the case of some bad luck at times, and I think they were on the case of some good luck. And at times you need luck in football. You need luck in any sporting event. And that’s, I think, in my opinion, how I felt this game was handled was the – honestly, I thought it went both ways, right? I thought there was some pass interference calls earlier in the game. You talked about it. There was the one that Tony Romo even came in and said that was a pick play by the Broncos, which really wasn’t the case that they kind of got called for. And then there was also an interference on the last drive that happened on the fourth down that I thought was a little bit – I thought it was kind of 50-50. They were kind of both going against each other, in my opinion. And they called that one, gave them a first down. They didn’t call the – the second-to-last play interference, and to me, it went out. But, you know, Dad, I was pleasantly surprised, and now the Broncos are… Oh, we lost you for a minute.
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The Broncos are now what? We’ll see how that goes. Say that again. The Broncos are now what? We lost you for a minute.
SPEAKER 05 :
Apologies on the road. I was going to say the Broncos are on their way to London to play the Jets this next week in London and then back to play the Giants. So they’ve actually got a chance, Dad, to really make some steady moves. You’ve got to kind of take it game by game because you have a winnable part of your schedule. And I’ll be honest, Dad, a lot of the media was saying, well, the Broncos can beat the beatable teams, but can they beat the big boys, right? Can they beat the Chiefs when it matters?
SPEAKER 08 :
the chargers well in this case can you beat the undefeated super defending super bowl champions on the road in their house when it matters and the answer was it did yeah and i don’t know what it means for the rest of the season but it shows that they can do it yeah and well and i was reminding uh some folks yesterday even that you know it’s why they say on any given sunday because it’s the nfl richard and teams should never look past one team because in the nfl anybody can win
SPEAKER 05 :
Anybody can win, Dad. I mean, you saw it several times yesterday. I’ll be honest. You saw several examples.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, the Bills blew it last night.
SPEAKER 05 :
The Patriots. Yeah, yeah, the Patriots go on the road and beat the Bills at home. You had the Cardinals lose. By the way, Dad, it’s funny. To the Cardinals, for folks that didn’t see it, It happened to the Broncos last year where they had a long run that was broken off. The Colts, Jonathan Taylor, and he drops the ball before the end zone goes out of the end zone. It’s a touchback. Cardinals had the same thing happen. It was a 76-yard run, I believe. A great play. The guy lets up and he drops the ball. I actually had a situation in my flag football team earlier this year where one of the kids bust off a really long run. He drops the ball. Fortunately for us, In flag football, in the division that we’re in, if you drop the ball because they don’t want kids diving for it, the ball is automatically dead. Well, in the NFL and tackle football… No, it’s not that way. If you drop the ball beforehand, you know, it’s a lot… Okay, dumb question.
SPEAKER 08 :
Why do they do that, Richard? These are guys that… We now have a new rule on our flag football team. Well, you know, I’m talking about, you know, the NFL guys. I mean, these guys are paid millions upon millions of dollars to carry that ball across the goal line. Why can’t they do that?
SPEAKER 05 :
Dad, you’re not doing it. Hand the ball to a fan. I don’t care. Whatever you’re going to do with it, just don’t drop the ball. Right.
SPEAKER 08 :
Get it across the goal line first.
SPEAKER 05 :
Again, we have a new rule in our fantasy football, or our flag football, I should say, where they’ve got to go and they’ve got to hand the ball to the official.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 05 :
And if they don’t do it, then they can celebrate.
SPEAKER 08 :
And by the way, you know what? If every pro team had the same rule, that wouldn’t happen anymore.
SPEAKER 05 :
Dad, it’s just amazing to me that it happens multiple – it feels like it happens at least once a season, and it should never happen.
SPEAKER 08 :
No, it should never.
SPEAKER 05 :
It should never even be a thing. And so you had that happen yesterday. The Ravens look – and we can talk more about this with Andy on Friday. The Ravens look terrible without their quarterback. The Bengals look awful. Lots of stuff. And so back to what you said kind of opening up the segment, if I’m the – and obviously I’m a Broncos fan – If I’m the Broncos, you’ve got to take it one week at a time. But, Dad, if there’s ever been a year, and it seems like that’s the case, Bo showed me something yesterday because up until yesterday he was kind of – he won the games he should win. He didn’t necessarily play bad in other games, but you’re just kind of always wanting more and maybe not sure he’s the guy. If he can do more of what he did yesterday – I think this team really has a chance to make waves because they have a great defense. When they commit to running the ball, they actually have a really good running game. And if you have a quarterback that can make you key plays in key moments, that’s all you need. You don’t need Patrick Mahomes to be out there. Look at the Eagles. Jalen Hurts yesterday is really good, and he was really good last year at just kind of making plays when his team made plays. And actually, he did that a little bit yesterday. He made plays when they needed to. Granted, he kind of got dug into a hole, and I’m not sure how much of that was even his fault with the play calling and kind of what the positions that the Eagles put him in. But that’s another example of a team where you have an otherworldly running back in Saquon Barkley. That guy does crazy, crazy things with the football. Just give him a chance to do it. And as long as you can do that, I think that you’ll be better off for it. So we’ll see. Again, to me, it’ll be a really fascinating rest of the season because, to me, the NFL is as wide open as it’s ever been.
SPEAKER 08 :
All right, before we let you go, and I know we don’t have a lot of time, but, man, CU cannot win one if their life depended on it.
SPEAKER 05 :
Dad, CU can’t win one. I think I will say this. It is the best team that Deion’s had there. If Shador was the quarterback of this team, I think CU would be undefeated and in the top 25 conversation because this is the best team they’ve had. They have a quarterback problem. and they probably should play the young kid. And honestly, unfortunately with Deion at this point, I think he’s got some health issues. I mean, to the point yesterday or in the game on Saturday, he had to take off his shoe. He’s saying he’s got blood, likely he’s got blood clots because blood’s just not getting to his foot, which means, again, that’s obviously nothing to mess around. And here’s the deal. Deion’s not making excuses, Dad. I know he’s not that type of a person, but it may be a situation he may have to take a step away until they can get this you know, handled. And I don’t think he wants to see that. I don’t think anyone wants to see it. But, again, you may chalk it up as let’s give it another go next year because they are really lacking. And really, Dad, again, they’re really lacking in one position, and it is the single most important position. on the field, which is quarterback, and they’re really struggling there right now.
SPEAKER 08 :
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SPEAKER 08 :
All right, that time of the week where we do car reviews. And I appreciate you all listening and all the questions that you have when it comes to new cars, used cars as well, which a lot of these will become used cars on down the road. But, Richard, what did you drive lately?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, Dad, so you and I both got a chance to drive this vehicle, which was one of the more fun ones of recent. And that’s a 2025 Volvo EX30, which is their entry-level all-electric engine. I’m going to call it an SUV, Dad, because it’s an SUV, but this thing is a compact SUV, right? It is not overly large, and I want to get that out of the way because some of you are going to get in and be like, man, this thing is – yes, it is tight. There’s not a lot of cargo room, not a lot of space. However, Dad, you are getting a – I’m going to call it a performance EV, which a lot of them are, for less than $50,000 right at $50,000. So we drove the – twin motor performance ultra model. There’s also a twin motor performance plus model. They also have a single motor variety, dad. But what I will say is this twin motor variety, where it takes you from zero to 16, about three and a half seconds. It was an absolute blast to drive. I had a lot of fun and you’ve driven comparable cars. You actually own comparable cars, SUVs to this. What did you think?
SPEAKER 08 :
I really enjoyed the car. A few of the things on it, Volvo, if you’re listening, just maybe it’s me, Richard. I’ll get your opinion on this as well. A little funky on the nav, all of that end of things. The center stack, I guess you could say. They’re trying to make it kind of like Tesla, and I’ll just be straight up honest. It doesn’t work for me. Go ahead and put the dash back in it like it should be. Give me a regular screen and call it good because it’s really kind of wonky how they did that. And out of all of the car… So zero complaints, drivability, how it functions, its speed, everything else. I’m not a fan, and I know that other car companies do this. I don’t like the big square credit card type key. You know, give me a fob, whatever. And I get it. They’re trying to move to… you know apps and phones and so on but i think they’re still and they’re proving this there’s a large segment of the market that still like physical things buttons fobs and so in fact a lot of manufacturers richard are moving back to having actual knobs it shows what people want volvo if you’re listening change it back and i would love this car even more would i not buy this car because of it no but would i prefer it to be different yes i would
SPEAKER 05 :
Absolutely, and for folks who are listening, essentially it’s like a key card, credit card type of a deal that you put next to the driver’s side. I guess that would be the B-pillar, Dad, right, as you’re getting in. It opens the vehicle. It did have a key fob. I’m with you, even as tech-savvy as you and I are, and I love that kind of stuff. It was just funky getting used to it. Maybe the more you do it, the easier it gets, but definitely something to get used to. Outside of that, I’m with you. The center stack itself, I would love to see it a little bit simplified, but again, it may be something that just takes a little bit more getting used to. Outside of that, the performance of this was fantastic. About 250 to 260 miles of range, which for most people, I know 300 is a big number. or I should say the most common number. But, Dad, with it being a smaller SUV, I can understand why. I just will say this. Under $50,000, if you’re looking to get into kind of the intro electric market, Dad, there’s other competitors out there that are a lot more expensive than this car was, and that was something that I really liked. It was something that I was a fan of and something that would entice me to really look at this vehicle strongly because it was something that I felt like, Yeah, again, you could get in this car and have a lot of fun with it, and I think it would make sense for a lot of people.
SPEAKER 08 :
And again, that car starts at, depending on how you equip it, in the low 40s, which that might even be changing as well. Keep your eye on that, as everybody knows with some of the credits and things going away. I would say keep your eye on that because that could very well, Richard, be changing. But yeah, all in all, great car. Love the performance. Love the way it rode. Love the interior quietness. of this car. People are asking me now to get a decibel reading. I’m going to start doing that on the more of these I drive. I didn’t do it on this car, but I will. But I will say, Richard, all in all, very quiet cabin. And I know I got to get things wrapped up, but I really enjoyed the car.
SPEAKER 05 :
Nope, absolutely. I would agree with you. And that was actually that’s the last thing I’ll say, too, is it was nice and quiet. And for a smaller, obviously electric, you would expect it to be dead. But for a smaller SUV, definitely they’ve done a great job on that side. So if you want to learn more about it, folks, Head to your local Volvo dealers. This is new for this year, new for 2025. Again, 2025 Volvo EX30. Check it out, and when you do that, let them know that John and Richard Rush from Drive Radio and Rush to Reason sent you.
SPEAKER 08 :
All right, moving on to our next car, which, again, this is a car that we both drove as well. I got a little bit of time in it as well. And this, again, is the 2025 Toyota Crown. And this is the Signia edition, which, Richard, all in all, and I talked about this on air even previously to even doing this formal review, honestly, enjoyed this car. I like it.
SPEAKER 05 :
It is that, and so we’ve driven the Crown in the past. It’s more of, I guess, a sedan style that we’ve driven. This is more of kind of a compact, again, a crossover SUV. I shouldn’t even say hatchback.
SPEAKER 08 :
It’s got a rear door like an SUV would have.
SPEAKER 05 :
It does, right? And so this, folks, for those of you looking, this is kind of in line with some of Toyota’s other models as far as like a Highlander.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, and what I would say along those lines, Richard, is think RAV4 only larger and shorter to the ground. yeah that’s a fair way of saying it so those of you that are liking that rav4 platform but maybe don’t like you got to step into it rather than you know step up into it i should say rather than just stepping into it the crown is going to be interior room i think a little larger maybe i didn’t look at the actual i’m just going off of memory i’m not looking at actual dimensions richard but i would say a little larger than rav4 only you’re not stepping up, you’re stepping in. And maybe that’s a better way for me to say it. In other words, it’s more car-ish than it is SUV-ish.
SPEAKER 05 :
You know, Dad, it’s funny you say that because you’re 1,000% correct. It is longer than the RAV4, but it also sits lower. So you’re stepping into rather than up or even lower. And so that’s definitely something to consider. It’s all new for 2025. It is hybrid only, Dad. I do want to And this is kind of replacing the Toyota Venza.
SPEAKER 01 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 05 :
If folks know what that is, that’s kind of what this car is replacing. And again, Dad, it actually has a lot more in common with its Lexus. counterparts in that sense than it does with its Toyota counterparts. And what we mean by that, folks, really nice apportionments on the inside, Dad. Really beautiful features. A lot of great standard features, such as heated and ventilated front seats. I think heated steering wheel. So lots of stuff that you would find standard in Lexus. not necessarily in Toyota.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, and really quick, comparing the two, it to a RAV4, for example, full leather on the crown, you’re not going to get full leather on the RAV4. Your point of the luxuriousness of the crown over the RAV4. So if you’re looking at a car that’s pretty luxurious, I’ve got a lady actually I’ve been talking to on Drive Radio, Richard, that’s in this market looking at cars, and these are some of the things we talk about constantly on radio. But This is more in line of what she would want versus a RAV4 because she wants that more luxuriousness but wants that roughly same size.
SPEAKER 05 :
Exactly, Dad. And you’re also, again, as we talked about, you’re getting a lot of the other standard, a lot of feature standard that you’re not going to get on the RAV4 as well. So definitely something to consider, Dad. And again, we mentioned the hybrid powertrain. We’ve talked about that many times on Toyota. It’s one of our favorite hybrid powertrains out there, maybe our most favorite, in all honesty, and definitely something that we recommend for folks, especially if you’re not ready to dive into that all-electric. So if you want to learn more about this, again, Dad, this is new for 2025, the Toyota Crown. head to your local Toyota dealer, test drive it, and when you do that, let them know that John and Richard Rush from Drive Radio and Rush to Reason sent you.
SPEAKER 08 :
All right, Richard. And, again, that’s a car that I’m going to pass along to more people because I think it really fits a certain segment very, very well. So, again, thank you for that. Have a great rest of your night. See you. All right. And let’s do this. We have got Cub Creek heating and air conditioning coming up next. Yes, weather has moved in. Going to be warm towards the middle of the week again, though. But, hey, you might be running the furnace right now and noticing that, man, it just doesn’t seem like it did last winter. Give Cub Creek a call if that’s the case. Find them at klzradio.com.
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SPEAKER 04 :
Now back to Rush to Reason on KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 08 :
All right, and again, don’t forget all of our car reviews. We’ve got them on both our websites, rushtoreason.com or drive-radio.com. Either place takes you to the same way and puts together all of our reviews. And again, we go back a long way. So even if you’re looking at a used car and you’re thinking, man, did those guys do a review on this car? Absolutely go look there. And you can always send me a text message, and I can answer it that way as well. All right, hour number three is next. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 1 :
I’m a rich guy.
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