Explore the nuanced conversations on ‘Rush to Reason’ including a tense political moment involving a high school basketball coach’s controversial actions and its implications on community and racial tensions. The episode transitions into a heated discussion about Denver’s sanctuary city status as host John Rush scrutinizes local and national politics with verve and diligence.
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All right, Hour 3, Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Charlie’s doing his best to get a hold of Stacey Washington, but again, with everything that’s happened in the last, you know, 18 hours or so, almost 24 now, she may be tied up. So if we get her, we do. If not, we will move right along. The Fed, Federal Reserve, decided yesterday to leave interest rates alone. Yeah, I think it’s a knucklehead move. I’ve said that all along. Everybody knows my feelings on the Fed. Not my favorite, by the way. I think I pretty much am in the same camp as Donald Trump, by the way. Because what he said, Donald Trump, was because Jay Powell and the Fed failed to stop the problem they created with inflation, I will do it, Trump said in a post on his social media platform on Wednesday. Now, Trump has limited powers to do so, although if he keeps doing some of the things that he’s done already in regards to the spending end of things, federal government-wise, yeah, you will see some things come out of that. Not right away. It will take a little time for that to work its way through, but you will see some things change. come of that. And frankly, the Fed yesterday should have went ahead and lowered them at least a quarter of a point, if nothing else, just to signal that. But they won’t. It’s not what the Fed does. And you guys know my feelings on the Fed. And they were way late in raising rates. And now, in my opinion, we talk about this a lot with some of the experts that come on our program, the financial experts, Scott Garlis and so on. I think they’ve been way too slow in getting them lowered. They’ve got this target of inflation they want to see happen. And again, what the Fed doesn’t understand, and I’ve talked about it a ton, is they’re on Wall Street, we’re on Main Street. And what they don’t understand is by keeping rates where they’re at, they’re even on their own creating inflation. And I’ve explained why that is. And for some odd reason, they don’t seem to get that. Although, like I’ve said, I’ve even surprised some folks with this. When you look at the Fed board, with the exception of, I believe, two of them, who have worked in institutional banks and some of the trading and stuff on Wall Street, and they’ve kind of been in that world. Outside of that, the rest of them have been in academia. I’m not exaggerating. The rest of them are in academia. They’ve worked as professors and they’ve done things along those lines and so on. None of them, and I’m very clear on this, none of them have ever written a paycheck. I told that somebody the other day, and they laughed. It’s true. They haven’t. They’ve never written a paycheck. They have no idea what that’s like. In other words, they’ve never owned a business. They have no idea how some of the basic things work when it comes to the economy. They see the big picture. But they know really nothing about how the everyday mechanics of it works because they’ve never lived it. Keep in mind, a lot of these folks that are on the Fed board come from very wealthy backgrounds. It’s why they get where they’re at. They go to Ivy League schools. They learn all of the economy principles in those schools. And then they go into either, in this case, academia, or they may go to work for one of the Wall Street banks. And that’s their qualifications for running the Fed. I really hope Donald Trump thinks about that this time around when it comes time to replace Jerome Powell in, I believe, about 18 months or so. I really hope he thinks through that and appoints somebody that has some street smarts rather than just academia smarts. Now, given who he’s appointed to a lot of these other things, and we talked with Dr. Kelly Victory and Steve House in the first hour about those like Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr., and will they get confirmed or not? Honestly, I don’t know. In the case of RFK Jr., we can only lose three Senate votes, but we may very well pick up one with Fetterman, and that would not shock me. I could see Fetterman voting for RFK Jr. And possibly… Another one or two Democrats doing the same. We’ll see. The problem, and we’ve talked about this with Dr. Kelly and Steve House many, many times. The problem is the amount of politicians, senators that are on the dole from Big Pharma. And that doesn’t even include the health insurance aspect of things. We’re just talking big pharma. Some of them have taken millions of dollars, and I’m not exaggerating, millions of dollars in donations, and very little of that gets talked about. Charlie was asking me at one of our breaks, is it proper, is it legal for somebody like RFK Jr. to, after a question has been asked… Can he ask them one? So in other words, could you ask Bernie Sanders, well, you know, Bernie, I have a question for you. Is it true that you’ve taken $1.9 million from Big Pharma? I don’t think he can do that because I think it can only go one way. But I would, if I were RFK Jr., I would figure out a way to throw that back. at not only Bernie Sanders but Warren Ock, who’s taken $1.7 million, and Elizabeth Warren, who’s taken $1.2 million, and I can go down the list. Michael Bennett, by the way, who’s been strong from Colorado on some of these, he’s taken three-quarters of a million dollars. So isn’t it interesting that those that are the most opposed to RFK Jr., I mean, it’s no shock. Those that are the most opposed are those that have taken the most money from Big Pharma. It just goes right along with what Dr. Kelly Victory and myself and Steve House have been talking about now for several months. When we had a good feeling that Donald Trump would nominate RFK Jr. to be head of HHS, we knew this was coming because we know where the dole is, how much money is going out, and it’s huge. So, yeah, it’s not ironic that those are the most opposed and slinging the most mud at RFK Jr. are also on the most dole. In fact, we should have a law, in my opinion, we should have a law that in this particular case, where you’re going to confirm somebody that will take, most likely take those donations away, you shouldn’t be able to even vote. You should be removed from it. You shouldn’t even get a say. That’s not how our system works. I get that. But those are some of the changes, by the way, that need made in our system. You’d clean up a lot of things if you do something like that. And again, even those of you that are on the left. 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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. And, by the way, appreciate you all listening. Thanks for the text messages. I’ll try to answer those as quickly as I can. And a couple of you are asking questions. questions i’ll answer those as soon as i can next break as much as i possibly can some of you’re asking for some specific things that don’t necessarily apply on air so i will answer those as much as i can and uh one of you sent me a nice tweet by the way let me read this one really quick uh that was that was from rfk jr uh calling out bernie sanders to his face Almost all the members of this panel, including yourself, are accepting millions of dollars from the pharmaceutical industry and protecting their interests, which thank you, by the way, for sending me that. I had not seen that yet. I don’t have time to watch all of the confirmation hearings and so on. So, yeah, when you guys have things like that you want to send me, absolutely. Thank you for doing that. I appreciate that. That makes me feel a lot better because they need called out on that because they’re a bunch of stinking hypocrites. Well, they’re worse than that, but don’t get me started. You’ve heard me talk most of the week on how incompetent and ignorant most politicians are. Sorry, I have no other way to say it. And when you look at the confirmation hearings and some of the questions that are thrown out and – Most of those, by the way, very, very scripted prior to them even saying it. So they may they may even sound like they’re smart. Trust me, their aides and the people around them in big pharma have put together all of these questions that they’re now supposed to be asking where it makes them sound smart. Trust me, they’re not. If the roles were reversed. much to Charlie’s question earlier, if the roles were reversed and they had to sit there and answer the questions that RFK Jr. or any of us would put at them, they would be lost. They would not be able to answer the majority of questions. That I am confident of. Like I’ve said all week, they’re just not that smart. Speaking of somebody that’s not very smart, this one probably slipped through the cracks. I was going to talk about this earlier in the week, and I didn’t get a chance to, but I can now. Colorado high school coach, and let me finish the story here, and then I’ll give you my input on this. But Colorado high school coach suspended after displaying Palestinian flag during a game against a Jewish school. The coach is being accused of anti-Semitic actions during the game. And so you read the whole article. And what’s interesting, this is from Nine News, but I’ve read some of the others that are out there. This was a game, by the way, that took place not that long ago against Denver Academy of Torah, and they are primarily a Jewish school. Supposed to be a routine matchup, but it took an unexpected turn when, according to school leadership, the Lotus School for Excellence and the head coach there brought out a Palestinian flag, which we all know what that means when it’s all said and done. And he hung that up, by the way, at the start of the game, something that he had never done in any other game. Brandon, who is with the Jewish Colorado, questioned the timing and setting of the display. Here is someone that’s in a position of influence, a role model for students, using this moment simply being near Jewish students to make a geopolitical statement. Actually, it’s a hateful statement, in my opinion. That’s not what a basketball game is about. And his last name was Radanier, Brandon Radanier. That’s who said that. And what’s interesting about this, this whole article, by the way, as I read through it, I’m thinking, okay, so who is this guy? Why is this coach’s name not being mentioned in this article? Because to me, this is big enough news. Everybody else’s name is in here. The athletic director of this particular school is in here. Why isn’t the coach in here? Which, by the way, doesn’t take much to find. So it wasn’t that… 9 News didn’t ask or didn’t seek it. They just chose not to put it in. And I’m not shocked. This is 9 News, of course. This is Marxist 9 News, who, by the way, would probably fly the flag themselves if they didn’t have so much community backlash and it wouldn’t hurt their ratings so much. Trust me, they would fly it on their own. That I’m confident of. Because they’re Marxist. But what I found interesting was it took me no longer than probably five minutes to find out this coach’s name, which I’m going to share with you. Sammy Jabai. Shocker, right? J-A-B-A-I. Which, if you don’t know your names, is most likely an Arab name. And I found his picture. He definitely looks like an Arab. Now, am I saying all Arabs are bad and anti-Jewish? No, I’m not saying that. But it was in this case. And my point of this story is, why didn’t Nine News share his name? Why didn’t other news outlets across the front range share his name? I can tell you why. Because they’re protecting him. Because they believe in it like he does. Otherwise, they would have shared his name. So I’m sharing it. I have no qualms about it. I looked it up. I found his name. And by the way, I did a little bit of further looking. And not surprisingly, all of his social media has been taken down. Hmm. Go figure. Now, he’s been suspended by this particular school that he was the head basketball coach of. And rightfully so. In fact, the guy should be canned. It’ll be interesting to see if he is. And trust me, I’ll look. I’ll keep watching the website to see if he ends up getting canned or if he keeps his position. And I can understand why he would take all of his social media down, because I can only imagine the backlash that he would hear, which he deserves, by the way. He shouldn’t get a pass. That’s why I’m not giving him one. I’m giving you his name. Now, not that I’m going to ever say, you know, go after this guy. I’m not going to incite violence or do anything along those lines. But I think it’s important for you to know his name. Unlike 9 News, who wants to protect him, I guess. I’m not out to protect the guy. He deserves whatever judgment comes his way. He’s a Jew-hater. Which I am not. I am the opposite of. And my feeling is if you’re a Jew hater, you need to be exposed. So, Sammy, Jabai, I’m exposing you. He, by the way, went to the University of Colorado Denver not that long ago and then became the head basketball coach. I think he actually went to this particular school from the research I could find. And then ended up being the head basketball coach, meaning he’s not that old, by the way. He’s definitely not my age. He’s probably from looking at it late 20s, early 30s. And I couldn’t see exactly how old. I tried to look up information on him. And for some of you that, you know, when you try to do a reverse lookup and so on, you might find some things, you might not find others. And all of his social media has, of course, been taken down. You can’t find any of it anymore. I’m sure that happened right away. Anybody that was around him probably told him, get that down ASAP. And you might be wondering, well, how did I find his name? It wasn’t hard. All I had to do was go look for the head basketball coach at that particular school and do a little bit of digging, and it came up. Wasn’t that hard to find. Again, within five minutes, I found it. Nine News could have found it, even if the school didn’t want to give him this particular coach’s name, which I don’t know why they wouldn’t have, other than they’re trying to protect him as well. But it didn’t take me long to find it. So, first of all, Shame on you, Sammy Jabai. Shame on Nine News for not reporting his name. Not that I’m shocked at that. Shame on the Lotus School for Excellence for having a Jew hater on staff. Now, maybe they didn’t know he was a Jew hater, but yeah, you know what? My gut feeling is they probably did. Because when you hate another person or nation or people group, Trust me, folks around there knew his stance on things. They’re not that stupid. I’m not giving them a pass. Let me just say that. So you might want to actually send an email. This is something that we all could do. You could send an email to the Lotus School for Excellence. I’d be okay with that. And you also might want to send a nice email and apologize for the knucklehead, and you could send that to the Denver Academy of Torah. and actually tell them that, you know what, you are in good company, and we’re in Denver, all of us here are not like this knucklehead, and there are a lot of us here that support you, and we are ashamed of individuals like Sammy Jabai. And by the way, Sammy, if you’re listening, which I’m sure you’re not, but… Anybody that might know him, you can pass this along for me. I don’t care if you ever get another job around here. As far as I’m concerned, you can move far, far, far away. Leave. You’re not welcome here, in my opinion. You are not welcome here. Side note, and I would never do this, but I would love to. Every time I see one of these stupid, you know, I’m in support of the Palestinians or you see the Palestinian flag or, you know, free Gaza, blah, blah, blah. I wish I had a huge flat steel bumper on the front of my car and you could just ram those guys from the rear end. That’s how I feel. Now, I don’t do that and I wouldn’t do that. I would never advise doing that. But that’s how you feel when you see these bozos. And yes, they’re bozos. And at times I even have to wonder, do you really know what you’re really even sticking on your car? Do you know what you’re even doing? Or are you just following some movement that you’ve felt caught up in? Because if you really knew what you were actually supporting, you probably wouldn’t. You’re just that ignorant, and you’re caught up in a moment, and you haven’t taken a step back to really look at what’s going on. In that case, I’ll give some of these people a pass, because if you had an opportunity to really sit down and have a one-on-one conversation, you might change their mind. Now, I will also say, there are enough Jew haters out there where they know exactly what they’re doing, they know exactly what they’re saying, they’ve done it intentionally, and they’re the other group that can move. Bye. See ya. Here’s your one-way ticket out of Colorado. Go somewhere else. Go infect some other state, not this one. I can’t stand those people, by the way. They just absolutely just make my blood boil. And I’m sure some of you listening feel the same way that I do. I know you can’t do anything about it. It is what it is. You just sort of, you know, when I drive by and look at them, I just think, well, there’s a knucklehead. There’s a bozo. And you know what? That old saying, what goes around comes around. Yeah, they’ll get there someday. Not from me, but some way, somehow, it’ll come to them, just like it has to Sammy Jabai. And I hope that Sammy Jabai gets fired. And frankly, as I said a moment ago, I hope he never works here in this Denver, Colorado area again. He can leave for all I care. And I know Sammy’s not listening, but maybe one of his friends is, and you can pass that along for me. Because here’s the thing. Was this just a mistake? Was this something that he didn’t think all the way through when he hung the flag up? No, folks. This was premeditated. This was an away game. He had to take his flag with him and then hang it up. This was all thought out on the front side. This wasn’t something that he just did on a whim. Trust me when I say that. So, yeah, Sammy, which Nine News won’t mention his name, I am. Sammy, you can leave. You can go to another state. In fact, as far as I’m concerned, you can go live in Gaza. How’s that sound? In fact, I’ll go as far as to say this, because I can back this up. Sammy, if you’d like a one-way ticket there, I’ll buy it for you. I’ll send you there. More than happy to. So any of Sammy’s friends, if you’re listening, if you want to tell Sammy that, and if he’d like to go live over there, I’ll send him. One-way ticket. Pack your bags, Sammy. You can head that way, and I’ll help you out. Be more than happy to. I have no use for people like Sammy, by the way, as you can all tell. So this is a story, again, I wanted to share with you guys earlier in the week. With everything else going on this week, I didn’t get a chance to. Some of you may have seen this. It really didn’t make, quote-unquote, main news, of course. Because Nine News is who they are. And other news stations, by the way, they weren’t the only ones that did this. Others did as well. In fact, I didn’t see a single printed article on this story that had Sammy’s name in it. Ironically. Imagine that. And again, was I shocked? No, I wasn’t shocked. So at any rate, there you are. You now know his name. And those of you listening, if you have any affiliation or the ability to pass that information that I said along to Sammy, be my guest. High five plumbing and electricals coming up next. And they want to help you with not only your plumbing needs, but your electrical needs as well. And water quality, that’s a big deal as well, and I haven’t talked about that enough. They can help you with your water quality as well. They’ll give you a free test and then tell you, hey, what do we need to do to get your water quality up to where it needs to be? Ask them about that when you call 877-WE-HIGH-5.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Should have said this earlier. We have no guests. If you want to call in and there’s anything on your mind, you want to add to our last story about Sammy, feel free to do so. Sorry, text line 307-200-8222. Our line here in studio, 303-477-5600. I did get a nice text message from somebody a moment ago that said, yep, you are one of the few people, if not the only people, only person, that I have heard actually give out the name of the individual that did that. And they thanked me for doing so. Thank you, by the way. A, thank you for listening. B, thank you for the support, and I appreciate that. And unfortunately, there’s far too many cowards out there that won’t mention his name. I’m not sure why. It doesn’t bother me any. I am not one bit afraid of anybody on that side of the aisle, including all of these Palestinian nutjobs, because that’s what they are. Jew-hating nutjobs. Not afraid of them at all. Bring it on. Bring it on. You’re a bunch of knuckleheads. And I’ll say it straight up. Nine News won’t. Fox won’t. CBS won’t. NBC won’t. I said Fox locally. Fox nationally might. I will. Don’t bother me a bit. Total knuckleheads. Speaking of knuckleheads, I haven’t talked about this one much this week either. This one has been in the news some. Charlie’s probably followed this one a little bit. Mike Johnston, our mayor of Denver. He’s being investigated by Congress for our Denver sanctuary city status. It’s by the U.S. House Oversight Committee. Now, they have subpoenaed him, and I think he’s supposed to be, Charlie, going out next week, I believe. I think it’s the first week of February they’re asking him to come out. And he’s basically telling the news and folks around him that, yeah, I’m not sure I’m going to do that or not. Okay, Mike, more power to you. Yeah, literally. He’s sort of, in a way, scoffing at this, kind of laughing at it, and still basically sticking to his guns of, you know, we’re here to protect people. Paraphrasing, but, you know, we’re here to protect people, and, you know, I may not have time to go out there. Now, what I will say is, Mike, I would pay a little more attention to this if I were you. This current administration, they are not big on sanctuary cities and sanctuary states, Governor Polis. They don’t look too highly on that. In fact, here locally, there’s been some agencies that the feds have basically said, you’re done. If you’re a legal for gratis agency that’s helping immigrants, whoever they might be, you’re done. We’re not doing that anymore. We are not helping you. We are not funding you and helping you help them. We’re not doing that anymore. We’re done. You’re done. And in turn, there’s no funding for that. There’s no money. So they are done. And it is a fact, well-known fact, Denver is, in fact, a sanctuary city. Governor Polis has made Colorado literally a sanctuary state. I talked about that on Monday because Governor Polis came out and basically said, oh, no, no, we’re not. We’re not that. Yeah, Governor, we are. You’re another knucklehead. Yes, we are. And I proved that on Monday. I went through the timeline Monday to prove that. Governor Hickenlooper started it. Governor Polish, Polish, Polish, Polish finished it, literally. So there’s a 2019 law, by the way, that makes Denver, in fact, a sanctuary city. The law is called Protect Colorado Residents from Federal Government Overreach. And by the way, Mike needs to answer to these things because he’s now the mayor, even though that happened prior to him. He is the mayor. He could change those things if he wanted to. And remember, folks, I’m not even mentioning, which I have in the past, but I’m not even mentioning right now the amount of money, the millions upon millions upon millions of dollars that the city of Denver has used to help and fund and house these illegal immigrants. I haven’t talked about that one for a while, but it’s a huge amount of money, enough that Denver has had to pull back on other services and do other things to be able to get their budget balanced, to be able to handle that money that has gone out to help these particular individuals. And, yeah, Mike Johnston needs to be accountable for that. Mike Johnston actually just next time around needs to have a nice run from someone else and be gone. Keep in mind, and I don’t think I’m wrong in this, although it’s probably not going to work out this way because of this, but his initial aspirations, I think, Charlie, was to replace Governor Polis. Am I pretty correct in saying that? Yeah, Charlie says he wouldn’t be surprised. I think, and I’ve heard that from some inside folk, that it’s kind of a natural progression in Colorado and a lot of states where you become mayor of the biggest city of the capital, and before long, you’ve got bigger aspirations politically, and you can do representative or a Senate seat or governor. And I would guess that Mike has bigger aspirations than just being city of Denver’s mayor. Now, what I will say, and I think this is even hurting Governor Polis as well for his future aspirations. Mike, if you don’t get this immigration thing cleaned up and handled and quit denying the fact that it is a problem because it is, you don’t have much of a political future. You’re going to be shot down from this point forward. Governor Polis, my advice to you is, A, call off your dogs when it comes to some of the gun laws they’re trying to enact, which, by the way, are totally unconstitutional and won’t pass muster. They’ll be shot down as well. We’ll spend a bunch of money as a state trying to defend those things. You’re already worried about the budget and trying to figure out how to change things around and either raise taxes or cut programs or do whatever to balance the budget. My advice to you, Governor Polis, is call off your dogs. Stop running bills that are totally unconstitutional. Save the state some money and get your party back in line. Get your radical activist politicians that are at Capitol Hill here in Denver at the Golden Dome. Call your dogs off. and get things handled, and you might actually have a chance of a future political career. But if you keep going down the path that you’re on, especially when it comes to immigration and the fact that Colorado is a sanctuary state, you’re not going to have one. So that’s my advice to Governor Polis. Again, I know he doesn’t listen, but these, believe me, the things that I say, because I was watching something earlier where there was a video of a particular conversation that some folks were having, and I can give details, but I could tell from that conversation that they listened to my program. Because the things that they were discussing in rebuttal to some things that I have said. Now, I get it. Some other talk show hosts could be saying similar things. But, yeah, there’s just certain things that I say and I say it in a certain way that, you know, when these rebuttals come, they’re listening to me. And fine. I’m glad you are. Thank you, by the way. Appreciate it. We’re going to disagree, but you can still listen. That’s fine. So my point with Governor Polis and even Mike Johnston is, you know, they may not have or they don’t listen directly. That I can guarantee you. But others around them do. And they’re monitoring things that are being said. So, yeah, this will still get back to them some way, somehow. So. I would advise both of you to change your stance on some of these things or your political career is numbered. And that means you as well, Governor Polis, because if you don’t change some things and by the way, you can’t just backtrack and say Colorado is not a sanctuary state. Knowing your track record and the things that you have done, you can’t be a hypocrite and not have that come back on you. It will come back on you, and it already is. All right, we’ll come back. Flesh Laws coming up next. Speaking of legal end of things, if you’ve got any kind of an issue, civilly speaking, criminally speaking, you’ve had a traffic accident, you need some representation on either end of that. Either the other party’s not paying, or maybe you need some representation on your side. Give Kevin a call today, 303-806-8886.
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This is Rush to Reason on KLZ 560. All right, we are back, and I appreciate you all listening. Thanks again for all the text messages. One message came in a moment ago that said, wish we had a way to get what we do here daily on Rush to Reason out in front of more young people. And I’m all in. I’m not sure exactly how we do that. And to a lot of young people’s credit, there are a lot that actually do listen, more than probably some of you think, which thank you for listening as well. A lot of you that are young that are listening, I do appreciate that greatly. Thank you. And nothing against you older folks, but it means a lot to me when young people listen. Because that’s our future. Not that you guys that are older can’t do some things and shouldn’t be informed and shouldn’t know how to stand up and do things and so on. Not saying that we need everybody, but especially young people when we get them to listen. And we have a little bit of an end, by the way, for what I do on the weekends, because once they start driving, drive radio becomes and can be a very integral part of what they have going on, because I can teach them a lot on that program about how to save money, how to drive, you know, all those different things. And we have a little bit of an in with young people because of that, because the motoring community is just that, a community. Doesn’t matter what age. I’ve said this before, but just quickly. It’s one of the best things about the car world, and I’ve said this many times, and I appreciate it. It doesn’t matter who you are. In the car world, you can be black, white, Latino, Asian, young, old. Doesn’t matter. Doesn’t matter. You’re part of a community. And we all get along as a community, and nobody cares who you are, skin color-wise and all of that, I mean. You can be highly educated. You cannot. You can still be in high school. I mean, literally, the car community runs the gamut. And I mean that sincerely. It really does. It’s why, to me, it’s such a great tool and a great thing that really can be used to bring young people along. And cars are great. I’m glad we now have a president that feels that way, by the way, because our last one didn’t. Our last president, he just soon shut the car community down and was trying to in a lot of ways. This president will do just the opposite. He will add value to the car community and recognize that it is, in fact, a community and transportation is freedom and we need it. And it doesn’t matter which one you like, whether it’s gas, diesel, EV, hydrogen, whatever. I mean, at the end of the day, you know, pick your poison. He doesn’t care. He just wants us all to have that freedom to travel. So, you know, talking about the young people aspect, we do have that in with our Saturday program, Drive Radio, because it does give us the ability to talk to everyone. Because I don’t do much in the way of politics on Saturday. Hardly any. Might add a little blurb here or there just because politics does affect what we drive and how that works and the price of fuel and so on. But I don’t normally get into that. We just help people with their problems. Try to teach them how to save money on car repair and how often should you change oil and how can you keep your car running longer and so on and so forth. So, yeah, put a little plug in here for Drive Radio on Saturdays. But it is an end to the young crowd because a lot of young people are into cars. So for those of you that would like to figure out how do we get more young people to listen, you know what? Get them started just on Saturdays, 10 to 1. Honestly, 10 to 1. And most likely they’ll enjoy what they hear there. And like a lot of you, we’ll follow over here to during the week. As well, which is exactly what happened with Rush to Reason. A lot of folks were listening on the weekends because that’s where I was initially. And because of that, started listening during the week. And there’s been some back and forth. There’s been some daily listeners that also have gone over to Saturdays. But, you know, again, for those young people, remind them that we’re here on Saturdays and we don’t talk politics. It’s all car stuff. And they’re welcome to call in and chime in. And we have young people that do. Soren up north does all the time. And I appreciate that greatly. And I love young people. And I guess because I still myself don’t feel like I’m old, and I guess I still feel young, at least at heart. And I like communicating with young people on a regular basis. I have a lot of fun with young people. And I want to teach them not only how to do well when it comes to their car and that end of things, but just in life in general. Because the more we pour into them, the better our world gets. So, yeah, I’m all about helping young people any way, shape, or form that I can. So if you guys have other ideas on how we do that and how we reach more young people, I am all ears. Because I have a passion to help young people achieve the goals that they want and help them get there. Because, honestly, there’s not a lot of adults that do that. In fact, the whole school system and the majority of that is designed to hold them back and not let them achieve what they want to do. It’s actually quite the opposite. So I want to help them get to where they want to go and achieve their dreams, unlike their school system they’re most likely in right now. All right. I know I’m running out of time here, but there’s an article on The Hill, which, again, The Hill is not conservative. Some of you might think it is, but it is not. Article says, Trump’s initial second-term approval rating among the lowest in decades. And so I read through this article, and it’s a Gallup poll. And I’m not normally one to poo-poo polls because most of them are fairly accurate. There’s no way this one is. No way. The amount of people that I see and talk to and hear from and so on, even some of those that aren’t necessarily Trump fans— but they’re definitely fans of what he’s doing right now policy-wise and what he’s doing with immigration and budget and so on. People are sick and tired of federal workers not working, government workers not working. They’re tired of having to support people that come here as freeloaders. They’re tired of that. And so they like the things that are going on right now in the country. So I don’t call BS on too many polls, but I do on this one. I do on this one. I don’t think Trump’s rating is at 47%. It’s higher than that. Sorry. This poll has to be wrong. Again, I talk to far too many people just out in public and other places and so on that enjoy what’s going on right now. May not be his biggest fan. but they are of what he’s doing. And you’re going to see more of that as you start seeing more and more traction on the things that he’s doing and implementing right now, what he’s done not just in the past week plus, but what he’ll keep doing. You’re going to see more people jump on that bandwagon. So I’m sorry, Gallup and the Hill. This is a bogus poll. I don’t believe it. I don’t say that very often when it comes to polling, but in this particular case, I will, because I just don’t see that being the case, given all the different people that, again, I run into, talk to, and so on. All right, Golden Eagle Financial, Al Smith. Speaking of future, getting to where you want to go, staying there, achieving your dreams. In a lot of cases, that involves finances, and in a lot of cases, people haven’t gotten that dialed in. You may have some of it dialed in, but you haven’t talked to your advisor in quite some time because, frankly, I’m not even sure who that is anymore because maybe that person isn’t even doing it because they may be retired or went someplace else. So you know what? If that’s you, give Al Smith a call. Get things dialed in. Make sure that you’ve got your plan in place and that you’re sticking to it, and he can help you with all of that. Find him at klzradio.com.
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All right, we are back. Got 30 seconds left. So tomorrow on our program, Andy’s got two movies to review. In fact, he’s watching them probably as we speak. Companion and Dogman. And then because of Dogman, we haven’t done this for a while. Tomorrow we’re going to do Movie Rental. So Movie Rental hour tomorrow will be movies with dogs. Figure out what your favorite one of those is. You can start sending those in on the text line, 307-200-8222. I’ll add those into our list tomorrow. And Fridays are, by the way, always a lot of fun, very little politics. We have fun with movies and things like that. So, guys, have a great night. Be safe. This is Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
