On this episode of Rush to Reason, John Rush welcomes Donald Wilkie, author of Freedom Revealed. Wilkie lays out his simple framework for understanding how the world works: competition, waste, and ease. He and John dig into how these principles apply to markets, government, socialism, and even health care. Together, they argue that competition drives excellence while government generates waste. John also rants about Denver’s $3.5 million crystal tree project at DIA, tying it back to the lack of competition and misplaced priorities. From economics to airports to cultural protests, John keeps it sharp, skeptical, and unapologetically honest.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Appreciate you all tuning in. We are in hour number three now. Donald Wilkie joining us now. Donald, welcome. How are you? Real good. Thanks for having me. Author of Freedom revealed a simple, elegant system. And, of course, as you know, Donald, been through a lot of things here over the past couple of weeks with all of the things that went around the assassination of Charlie Kirk and, of course, the celebration of his life yesterday. It’s been quite a two weeks. Let’s just say that.
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It has indeed. And from my position, it’s time to get back to freedom.
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Oh, man, again, and I don’t think there’s a listener out there listening in our audience that would disagree with you along those lines. How do we do that?
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Well, I’m glad you asked. I’m going to paint a big target on my back, if you’ll allow me.
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Okay.
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And I’m going to make a grandiose statement. Of all the people on Earth, I think there’s about 8 billion people like that, like us, I’m the only one who understands how the world works. Now… That, of course, sounds insane. And what I’m trying to show people is it’s not insane. In fact, it’s quite simple. And this is what I discovered in writing my book. And if you’ll allow me, it takes about five minutes. Sure, go right ahead. I’d love to explain.
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Absolutely.
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Okay. The foundations of how the world works are competition, waste, and ease. Now, I believe you’ve never, ever heard that before. And I’m going to tell you how I’ve discovered that. We all come from nature. We all live in nature. Nature is our home. And I remember a tenant of the environmental movement that said there is no waste in nature. Well, if there is no waste in nature, what is the mechanism that drives it out? Well, the simple answer, which took me years to figure out, by the way, is competition. Competition drives waste out.
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Okay.
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So when you look at competition and waste, don’t look at them separately, look at them attached as a link, like a seesaw with competition on one end of the seesaw waste on the other end of the seesaw as competition goes up, waste goes down and vice versa competition and waste two of the fundamentals of nature. Now, the third fundamental, everything moves to ease. We’ve all been to the national park and seen the signs that say, do not feed the animals.
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Good point.
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If we feed the animals, they will stop feeding themselves.
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That’s right.
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And if they stop feeding themselves, they will lose their competitive edge. So everything in nature, I’m not saying nature is easy. I’m saying nature takes the easiest path. All the animals, all the plants, we all take the easiest path. So once you have those three fundamentals, competition, waste, and ease, you can look at anything, apply them to anything, and understand basically anything. It’s really quite amazing. So let’s go to human beings. We have two systems that human beings and only human beings have, the marketplace and government.
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Right.
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That is just about everything. True. Okay.
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True.
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When you look at the marketplace, it’s a competitive system. It drives out waste. And everything in the marketplace is geared to move to ease. Why would you trade unless it made your life easier? You know, you never see somebody hold up his product and say, my product is going to make your life really difficult. No, it’s always going to make your life easy. Okay. So marketplace works like nature. Now let’s look at government. How many federal governments do we have? We have one.
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Right.
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How can it compete?
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It can’t, and it doesn’t have to.
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Exactly. So it must generate waste. If I could get that simple little concept out to everybody, I’d be a happy man.
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You’re right. Everything you just said, by the way, you can take that all the way down to even government on a local level. I mean, we only have one federal government. We have a lot of state and city governments, which, by the way, don’t compete with one another either because when they’re in their own quote-unquote area or jurisdiction, there’s no competition either, and they do exactly the same thing, create waste.
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Absolutely. Now, I’m trying to make it as easy as possible, but there is a big bugaboo that everybody talks about, and they always make it difficult, but when you use competition-based enemies, it becomes really, really, really simple, and that is socialism. You know, we look at socialism, we’re afraid of socialism, there’s people who love socialism, but nobody understands what socialism really is. Okay, we all think, we’ve all been told it is an economic system. It is not an economic system. It is a government system.
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It’s a control system.
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Yeah. Socialism is the government. Yep. distorting the market. That’s right. So it’s a government system. So what does that tell you if it’s a government system? It creates waste. Exactly. Isn’t that simple?
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No, it is. I’m going to start using that because you’re 100% correct on that. And it’s why I’ve always said, and of course I’m a private business owner myself, but I’ve said for years now that I could go into almost any government organization, city, state, federal, Number one, Donald, figure out a way to privatize the majority of what’s being done, and by doing so, because you create competition in doing that, you create competition even in the bid process for certain contracts. By the way, if it’s done correctly, I think there’s a lot of waste that happens because… There’s too much cronyism that happens on that. But if you cut all of that out and do it like it’s truly meant to be, you privatize things, you cut out a lot of that waste because private suppliers can’t have the waste because, as you know, it doesn’t work that way in the private sector.
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You’ve got it. You’ve got it 100%. I mean, if you want the cheapest, most efficient, best product, have the marketplace do it.
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Yep.
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If you want, and this is something that drives me crazy, we have sort of mixed and matched the marketplace and government. We sort of think the government can do what the marketplace does, but it can’t. And one of the big, big, big things that is really dumb to have the marketplace do is health care.
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Yeah, good point.
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What the hell is it doing in government?
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Well, because you have this whole kind of going back to the whole socialism aspect. There’s people out there that feel like health care is a right and it’s not something that, you know, it’s a basic human right. I don’t believe that it is. I think it’s a good and service just like what you got done talking about. And by the way, if you would get it out of government hands. and get more back to where it’s on the private side and figure out a way to let that compete. What I mean by that, Donald, is we’ve got a doctor here that sponsors us that’s into the wellness concierge end of things. In other words, he doesn’t listen to what big pharma and what big insurance says, meaning he’s going to give you better care than what you’re going to get at your regular doctor because he competes in the marketplace.
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Absolutely. Competition creates innovation, which is another way of saying eliminating waste, isn’t it?
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Well, yeah, and in his case, he’s creating ways for you to be healthier than what you would be by popping some pill or getting some test done that, you know, you’re… your health care provider says you need or, by the way, may not need because they don’t want to pay for it, but at the end of the day, he gives better health care because there’s other folks like him you can go see and get the same care from, meaning that competition creates, I always say it this way, competition creates excellence.
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Absolutely. And, you know, we say the proof is in the pudding. We’ve had the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare now for several years. What has happened to the price of everything in health care?
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Skyrocketed.
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Exactly. Because all government is capable of doing, it’s part of the system. All they can do is create waste. Yeah, you’re right.
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You’re right.
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You know, it’s like we have to look at systems being capable of doing certain things. Like you wouldn’t ask your automobile to knit a sweater.
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Right.
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A car does not knit a sweater.
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Correct.
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And government that is a wasteful, non-competitive system, it cannot provide goods and services. Right. That’s just the way the system is.
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You’re right. You’re correct.
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So I like to say, you know, we have a marketplace dog and a government.
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cat and we’re asking the government cat to bark like the marketplace dog right and it just doesn’t work no i can’t no and i like the way you put i’m going to steal some of this from you moving forward because you’re correct on on all accounts it’s and by the way it’s an easy explanation for a lot of folks that may not understand you know economies and how things work and so on you’ve got a really easy way of explaining that you’re spot on i mean you’ve said you’re saying in your book what i’ve been saying for years you’re just saying in a much simpler way
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Yes, and I’ve had so many people tell me it’s obvious. Well, my reply usually is, well, it was obvious. How come nobody else wrote it down? How come nobody else got competition, waste, and ease?
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Well, I think, number one, Donald, because unfortunately for the past – bear with me here – but for the past 60-plus years in our school system, we have generated – Students that have come out not understanding what you just said, by the way, they don’t understand even basic economics, they don’t even understand basic supply and demand, and I’m trying to be as nice as I can. Yes, there are some that end up getting it through other sources, but let’s face it, in the school system itself, especially the last 40 years, that has not been taught. In fact, we’ve taught the opposite. Absolutely. It’s ridiculous.
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The purpose of an educational system is to prepare the child for for the transition to adulthood, and you earn your sustenance in the marketplace. Now, do you know anybody working in the marketplace who doesn’t have to compete?
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Only government workers.
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Yeah, well, I wouldn’t even consider that in the marketplace.
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I don’t consider them in the marketplace, but I get what you’re saying. The answer is no, unless you’re in a monopoly, which let’s face it, there aren’t too many of those, or even we would call some probably close to that, although I always argue that, that yeah, I’m not so sure that’s the case, because anytime government gets involved and breaks them up, it screws it all up as well.
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Yeah, they have that tendency to make things worse, don’t they?
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Well, and I always use GM as an example. I’m an old car guy. I grew up in a GM dealership as a kid. And at one time, General Motors was into, as you know, appliances. They owned a locomotive company. They did big earth-moving equipment. And they were getting large enough, the government came along and said, hey, you guys are too big. You’re a monopoly. Stop doing what you’re doing. And unfortunately, Donald, they just made it worse when it was all said and done. They didn’t help anything at the end of the day. They screwed it all up.
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Yeah, they have that tendency to doing things. There’s a million examples. I can’t think of one off the top of my head right now. But, yes, usually when government gets involved to fix things, they just make it worse.
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That’s right.
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And it’s usually we need more reporting. We need more levels of bureaucracy. We need more people to look at this report and that report, more reports generated, and it’s just a waste of time.
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You’re right, 100%. Last but not least, Donald, where do folks buy the book? It’s a great book, by the way. Where do folks buy it?
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Well, the easiest place is Amazon, and then my website is freedomrevealed.net.
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Okay, freedomrevealed.net. I will put that down in my notes. I appreciate it. As you can tell, we think a lot alike, so I appreciate you joining us and reaffirming some of the things I talk about on a regular basis.
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Yeah, if you get competition, waste, and ease, everything else becomes self-evident. This is how I figured the whole book out. I didn’t go to the library. I didn’t research. It’s all just self-evident.
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It is. No, you’re right. It is spot on. Donald, thank you very much. I appreciate it. Thank you. You’re so welcome. He is, by the way, and I said it, he is dead on. He is spot on. He’s got this figured out, and all he’s done is taking what we talk about here on a routine basis and really just put it in a more simpler approach, a simpler way of explaining it. Good job, by the way. I appreciate that. And last but not least, he was a I should have mentioned this to him. I appreciate him filling in last minute. I was supposed to have we were supposed to have a guest from Turning Point USA that was going to join us today. And it was planned ahead of time. And because of all of the things that happened yesterday with the celebration of life for Charlie and so on, he he was not able to be with us. So, you know, Donald was a last minute filling, which I appreciate him greatly in doing. Golden Eagle Financial coming up next. Al Smith. And Al wants to help you with all of your future finances. Find him today. Just go to klzradio.com.
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TJ here with KLZ and Al Smith of Golden Eagle Financial. And Al, I have a question for you. I’ve been putting money away for a while in a savings account or maybe a couple of investment accounts. But what am I doing wrong and what can you do better than that?
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Well, I think a savings account is important because all the financial gurus, including myself, agree you should have three to six months savings that you have ready liquid access to. But retirement planning is a bit more long term. And it’s a bit more strategic. We want to take a look at the sum of money you’ll need way into the future. And we want to look at how that money can last by providing you income for as long as you live.
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What kind of planning or strategy do you provide for folks with that that have a big savings but haven’t made that next step?
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Well, that’s a good question. If someone has a large amount in savings, one of the things I do is we have a conversation about their risk tolerance. Nobody’s comfortable losing money, but having money in the market over a long period of time is a mechanism to accumulate wealth. And so we talk about this different levels of risk and the different products that are available. And we don’t put everybody into one box, but I have an enormous assortment of financial products. And it’s not that there’s good ones or bad ones. It’s there are some that are more appropriate for some people, but not for others.
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And that sounds excellent. How can folks get in touch with you for that meeting?
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You can reach me at 303-744-1128. And if I’m not there, it goes to voicemail, but I return my voicemails promptly. And we could have a conversation in the office. If you live a considerable distance away, we can have a long phone conversation or a Zoom call, whichever you would prefer.
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And as always, you can find him at klzradio.com slash money. Al, thanks so much for joining us today.
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Well, thank you, TJ. Thanks for the conversation.
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You bet.
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This is Rush to Reason on KLZ 560.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Okay, somebody texted me, and I’ve got a couple messages I’ll read when I get a minute here. But somebody texted me and wanted me to comment on a news story they just saw. This was not in my notes, so I had to read this pretty quickly. And this is a giant… $3.5 million crystal tree that’s coming to DIA. So this is a, Charlie knows about it, this is an art project that’s got a 3.59, so $3,590,500 contract with an artist. It’s a giant piece of artwork. It’ll go in the giant hall. It’s 60 feet tall. has more than 30,000 crystals that create a canopy. At the base will be seating inspired by Red Rocks Amphitheater. Now, I’m all for making things look good, although I’m not much of an art guy because, frankly, I could really care less. I kind of like hospital walls, truthfully. Just nice, clean, white, don’t need anything else. I know I’m a weirdo. But I don’t really care about this kind of stuff at all. It does nothing for me. Here’s what I want at the airport, by the way. I want in, I want out, I want to get on my plane safely, and I want all the pre-borders gone. Yeah, Charlie said there’s an ordinance in Denver. It’s the 1% for ordinance or 1% for art ordinance is what it’s called. So whatever they spend money on, 1% of that budget has to go towards art, which, by the way, that needs eliminated, especially when they’re having to cut budgets all over the place just to be able to pay for the homeless. And I’m not exaggerating, by the way, when I just said that. When they’re having trouble making ends meet, making payroll, quote-unquote, we’re laying people off, and yet we’re going to spend this kind of money, 3.5, almost 3.6? And I’m guessing, too, by the way, that that’s probably the art piece. I would bet there’s more dollars that gets spent for the installation of and, and, and, and, and we go. And keep in mind, it’ll have to now be cleaned and maintained. And it won’t just be $3.5 million is my point. This will be an ongoing cost because it always is. And again, I’m not against things looking good. But what I wanted an airport and I know it’s an ordinance, but the ordinance needs changed. Because, again, what I want at an airport is I want to get in and out quickly. I want to get in and out safely. I want all of the stupid pre-boarders gone. I know that’s my wish list, but probably not going to happen. I shouldn’t say stupid, but some of them are. Let me rephrase that. They’re not stupid. They’re actually really, really smart because they scam the system. They’re scammers is what I should say. There are some legitimate pre-boarders out there. I get that. OK, I understand that some folks need more time getting on the plane, although I will tell you that that’s probably one percent of the actual pre-boarders that that end up having that. The rest of them scan the system. And I know I’m not even talking to them because they don’t listen to my program because they’re scammers. So they’re not listening. But you guys that are and travel some like me, you know what I’m talking about. But bottom line. I want the airport to just be neat and clean and have good signage so you know where to go and all of that. That’s what I want in an airport. I honestly, I don’t care what airport I go to. I don’t care about all this artsy-fartsy stuff. I don’t care. You do away with that and concentrate on the task at hand. This goes back to the conversation, by the way, we were just having with our last guest. There’s no competition. This is a great example. When it comes to DIA, there’s no competition. Oh, some would say, well, you can go to Colorado Springs. Not really. I’m going to drive an hour and a half, almost two hours to Colorado Springs to go fly out of there. Why? That’s not competition, folks. That’s a nuisance. That’s a burden. That’s not competition. And in airports, they’re not run federally. Most of them are there. They’re managed and they’re guided federally by the FAA, TSA and so on. But they’re all owned for the most part. Majority of them are owned by the cities that they’re in. I’d have to go through the entire list of every city that we have large airports at. Kansas City, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Denver, San Francisco. I mean, I can rattle off all the cities. I’d have to go through and look at each one of those. But I would venture to guess that all of them are owned by each city. I’d be hard-pressed to believe that’s not the case. Because that’s typically how it works. The city gets involved. They own the land. It’s how they make revenue, by the way. A lot of big cities, there’s a lot of revenue that comes off of the airport because they’re making money off the gate fees and they’re making money a certain percentage off of concessions, which I learned something on that, by the way, over the weekend. I don’t normally do much over the weekend when it comes to news and stuff, but I happened to get a news story on this that caught my eye. And I kind of had a feeling it was this way. The reason why everything at the airport, this goes, again, this goes back to the conversation we were just having with Doug, or sorry, with Donald, I mean, our last guest, Donald Wilkie. Do you know that there’s only three, maybe five companies total that own every single concessionaire at the airports? Yes. minus the franchises like McDonald’s and Chick-fil-A. All of the others that you see, they’re kind of, quote-unquote, independently owned and operated. And even some of the franchises, by the way, are operated underneath one of these other five companies that own everything. In fact, one company is the largest owner of concessions at airports, and they own a ton of the concessions at airports. That’s why prices are high. Going back to Mr. Wilkie’s comment about competition, there isn’t any when you’re at the airport. You’ve gone through security, or you got dropped off at the door, because there’s even sometimes concessions and stuff before you get through security. But especially once you get through security, what’s the price of a bottle of water do? Triples? Quadruples? Why? Because you’re a captive audience. Where else are you going to go? There’s, once again, no competition. Not like you can just run down the street and go grab another bottle of water. You can’t even bring it with you because you can’t get it through security. So, of course, the savvy flyers, they fly with an empty bottle, you know, empty water bottle. They fill it up out of the places you can fill it up. Or guys like me even go to the bars and ask for ice and water because, yes, I’m that guy. But I figured out you can do that because I like ice. I’m an American. I like ice. Europeans don’t like ice. I do. I like ice. I want it cold. I don’t care whether it’s good for your health or not. I like cold water. That’s me. So I will go get my canteen and I’ll fill it up at some of those places or I buy a cold bottle of water. But a lot of times I’ll just get mine filled. So point being, at airports, the reason why everything’s so expensive is they’re run by just a handful of companies, max. Back to this whole project from the city of Denver. This ordinance needed changed. No reason why we as a city are spending $3.5 million on a tree, on an art tree. And I don’t care what it looks like. Because, by the way, depending upon where it’s at, if it’s going to be in the Grand Hall prior to security, which I don’t think a 60-footer will fit anywhere else. I’m not sure any of the rest of the terminals have 60-foot ceilings. I don’t believe they do. Even some of the new sections they built I don’t think have 60-foot tall ceilings. So it’s only going to go in the Grand Hall. And I don’t know about the rest of you. I don’t spend any time in the Grand Hall. I get there. I walk in. I get my stuff checked in, make sure I’ve got my boarding pass. If it’s a short trip, I don’t even do that. I just do my carry-on, and I’m out of there. I am not dinking around. I don’t want to be in the Grand Hall. I want to be in the terminal. I want to be near the gate, and I want to leave. I don’t want to dink around. As you guys can all tell, when I fly, there’s no messing around. It’s get there, get done, get on the plane, get off the plane, get to your destination, done deal. I’m not there to tour the airport. The airport’s not fun to me. It’s a means to the end. That’s all it is. Get me where I want to go as quickly as I can get there, period. I’m not spending time in the Grand Hall. So I don’t care what this tree looks like. Frankly, I don’t think anybody else does either. And I go back to just the whole principle of Denver can’t pay its bills right now because And I get it. This is probably in the budget already, and this is part of a different budget. It’s coming out of the pocket of DIA and all that. I understand all of that. But the money’s fungible. I’ve talked about that many times on this program. Money’s fungible, in government especially. It is in the business as well. It is in your personal life. Money is fungible. So $3.5 million on a tree. And by the way, the whole airport upgrade is $1.3 billion, meaning this isn’t the last art project. $13 million has to be spent on art.
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10%.
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Or sorry, 1%. Yeah, Charlie’s going to become an artist, he said. So 1% is $13 million of $1.3 billion. So Denver’s got to spend another $10 billion roughly, 9.5%. to meet their 1% for art ordinance, which whoever thought of that’s a dodo head. Some art lover, I guess. Which I am not. That’s a whole other topic I won’t get on. Maybe Andy and I one of these days can cover it. A lot of the art, especially modern art, is very Marxist. And it’s by design. Because Marxism is taking away of anything that’s beautiful and making it look mundane. It’s why a lot of buildings that are designed in communist countries and places like that have no appeal to them whatsoever. It’s part of the Marxist belief system. So anyways, that’s another topic. That’s why some art is just as ugly as all get out. And it’s not your imagination that it is. It is. And by the way, it’s ugly by design. Again, that’s a topic I can get into at a later date. But up next, we’ve got Geno’s Auto Service. So take care of your vehicle. Bumper-to-bumper service. Geno’s does it all. There’s always a great special at Geno’s. And no matter what you’re needing, they can do it for you. Geno’sautoservice.com. Geno’s starts with a J.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Okay, I’ve got several text messages. Somebody asked me a minute ago if I ever had lots of art in my auto shops, or do we have a lot of art here at KLZ with old radios and things like that, and the answer is no, we don’t really. We’ve got maybe a little old memorabilia stuck away in some places is all. Charlie’s nodding at me, and Charlie has a little bit on his own, but no, we don’t have… We don’t have a lot. Somebody also asked that when I get done with my show, am I plum tuckered out? Do I get home, get ready for a hot meal, and go to bed? I like a hot meal, but no, I usually have stuff to do that either I work on the tomorrow show or in the case tonight, I got a couple of chores at home I want to get finished up. So no, I’ll go home and still work a little bit more when it’s all said and done. Okay, this is something that… I believe I’m on the right track. And I told Charlie, I’m trying to find pictures of this. Hang tight. I’m trying to see if I can find this in my… I get so many text messages. Hold on one second. I’m trying to find the text messages of the exact… signs and things that have been held up I don’t know that I can find this here it is okay so there is a movement going on and there’s been a few protests over the weekend I haven’t seen any of these but I had several of you not one several of you send me pictures some of you saw these driving around some of them saw it on social media but several of you have sent me these and there are people that are protesting here’s the signs that are being held up stop cutting baby’s penis I want my foreskin back Nobody wants less penis. Circumcision is penis mutilation. Now, here’s my thoughts on this. And by the way, I don’t think I’m wrong. I’ve never talked about this on air before and really never really thought about it, to be honest with you, until now. Charlie said, can I say this on the radio? Well, I just did. In this circumstance, yes, I can. FCC-wise, yes, I can say this. Here’s my point with this. And I didn’t put two and two together because these protests have existed before. And I really never thought about it until now in this way. And I think it’s because it’s becoming more and more apparent where we are today as a society. Those are racist Jew haters. Plain and simple. Those are racist Jew haters. And some of you are going to say, how do you come up with that, John? Well… For those of you that may not know this, circumcision was something that was placed upon mankind by God himself. Back in biblical time, in the establishment of the Jewish nation, God commanded every man and every boy, once they became a certain age, to be circumcised. It was the way that God set his people apart, clean versus unclean. That’s what Scripture says. Am I right, Charlie? That is correct. And you would think, okay, well, and I’m not going to get into all the depths of why that is. Some of you already know how this works in the anatomy of and so on, but it is literally clean versus unclean. Now, there are those today that would say, well, with our modern bathing practices and so on and so forth, that’s not the same as it used to be, and it doesn’t mean the same, and it’s not as big of a deal. Well, that may be, but the theme and the meaning behind it still exists. That hasn’t changed. And so I will tell you, and I firmly believe, that these people that are protesting, that are holding up these signs, whether they know it or not, they’re racist anti-Jews.
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Because of what I said a moment ago. The whole meaning behind being circumcised in the first place was to set yourself apart to God. That was the Old Testament meaning of being circumcised. That carried on, by the way, even through the New Testament, and there’s a lot of folk even today that still believe that same way, and that was a quote-unquote Jew practice back in the day. It’s how God separated his people from the others. In fact, sayings like the uncircumcised Philistines, and they were looked upon very derogatory back in the day, and there’s all sorts of scripture that I could point to along those same lines. In fact, at one point, not to get too graphic here, But Saul, thinking David couldn’t accomplish this, ordered him to go out and collect 300 Philistine foreskins and bring them back, meaning he had to kill them and then circumcise them and then bring them back. And to David’s credit, he did just that. And think about this for a second. I’ve explained this before. Most people probably don’t think this way, but of course my brain does. That’s a heavy sack to carry around that entire time with 300 foreskins in it. Meaning he had to hike those things all around after collecting them and then bring them back to Saul, lay them at the king’s feet and say, yep, mission accomplished. Here you go. Here’s your 300 foreskins. I mean, that’s in the Bible. I’m not making this stuff up, guys. That’s a real story. So point being, that was God’s designation. on the Israelites, separating them from all the other people groups at the time because they weren’t circumcised. God’s people were. So these people that are running around today talking about that being mutilation and so on, these are Jew-hating, anti-Israel individuals. I would venture to guess, and I wouldn’t say to do this in a mean-spirited way, but I would venture to guess that if you were to stop any of these people and have a sane, which might not be possible, but if you could have a sane conversation with them as to what they’re doing and why, it would be right along the lines of what I’m talking about. Unless they’re a paid protester and they have no idea why they’re hanging the sign up. Now, that could also be, because that happens as well. But I guarantee you, at its core, this is an anti-Jew racist message. So I told somebody that sent me that that I would try to explain where I’m coming from on that. There is my explanation. And those of you that have seen some of these knuckleheads carrying these things around, I’m guessing they fit my description very well. They don’t think, by the way, that they’re being racist, but they are. Because again, they are going after one of the quote-unquote Jewish traditions that are there. No different than if they were to go after an Orthodox Jew because they have their tassels and their long hair that’s braided that comes down by their ears and so on and so forth. If they were making fun of all of that, it would be no different, by the way. It’s exactly the same thing. Or a Jew wearing a yarmulke. Or a Jew celebrating and observing the Sabbath. Or I can go down the list, by the way. There’s a lot of Orthodox Jews that do all sorts of things, including eating things that are kosher and, and, and. I’ve actually learned a lot about that of late. I follow a guy on TikTok, a rabbi on TikTok. By the way, that’s the funniest guy there is. And I just enjoy listening to him greatly. And he gives you all sorts of insights as to why they do certain things the way they do and how those traditions have carried on for the last 4,000 years, roughly. And it’s really fun to watch. Anyways, saying all that to say it would be no different than making fun of another Jewish customer, Jewish thing that they do. This whole circumcision thing is exactly that. And for those of you that are out there listening, and you all know this as well as I, there’s no effect on men. Trust me. There’s not an ounce of effect upon a man, even on a baby. I watched both my boys get circumcised. There’s no ill effect at all when it’s all said and done. Any of you that have been around that know exactly what I’m talking about. These are, again, these are racist loons that are out there protesting and holding up these signs. Cub Creek Heating and Air Conditioning coming up next. And don’t forget about their furnace tune-up special, which right now, it’s a little cooler out. 68 degrees, going to be a little bit cooler night tonight. Some of you may actually crank that furnace on. If you have any problems at all, give Cub Creek a call. Find them at klzradio.com.
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This isn’t Rage Radio. This is Real Relatable Radio. Back to Rush to Reason.
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All right, Charlie just told me that that last conversation probably won’t hear that in many other places but here. Just saying. There’s probably other hosts in town that are laughing at me right now if they’re listening because it’s like, yeah, I’m not going down that path. I will. I don’t care. You guys know me. And part of that is, you know, what made me think about that is, again, the way I was raised and the background that I have and all the different things that I, you know, was taught and learned over the years and so on. And to me, this is pretty cut and dried. Somebody just sent me a picture of, you know, cut and dried. Sorry. Charlie, is it cut and dried? Laugh out loud. Sorry. I didn’t mean to say it that way. I did go to the website or looked at the website that one of you copied and sent to me on this whole – front this whole activism front and and the reasons that they’re giving it are just lunacy by the way utter lunacy and you know they’re basically saying you know well when you circumcise a baby they don’t have consent and this that and the other it’s like get a life honestly you know go concentrate on something really matters and at the end of the day you’re just an anti-jew you may not think you are but trust me you are And I would venture to guess if he really sat and had a conversation with these people one-on-one and had any kind of dialogue back and forth on a sane level, you’d get to the crux of that at some point. That would be my guess. I don’t think I’m wrong there, by the way. Okay, something I wanted to talk about. And I think I can squeeze this in now. And then this one, be careful how I say this, because lives matter. They do. And I’m not trying to minimize anybody’s life any way, shape, or form. Okay, so let me just start off by saying that. You guys know me. I am all for life. I’m all for holding businesses accountable when there’s a loss of life. Absolutely. I am all for holding people accountable when things aren’t done correctly and accidents happen. A jury, in this case, this is coming out of here in Colorado, A jury awarded more than $200 million to the family of a girl who died on the Glenwood Springs theme park ride. Wongle Estefanis, I think I’m saying that right, died from injuries sustained from a fall from the haunted mine drop ride in Glenwood Caverns back in 2021. And you guys probably remember that story. She wasn’t buckled in. Somebody wasn’t trained well enough to make sure she was buckled in correctly, so on and so forth. And a caller to jury awarded the family $200 million. She was six years old, by the way. Now, again, every life matters, including this six-year-old girl. But come on, folks. $200 million? I get it. The jury’s trying to send a signal loud and clear. You know, a $10 million verdict would have still sent the same message. This will most likely bankrupt that particular case. I don’t know how they’ll – there’s no way you can pay a $200 million settlement. It’s – very, very, very few companies that are family-owned and operated have $200 million kicking around. This was a Dan Kaplan – this is in the – this is in the – Story, so Dan Kaplis is the one that won this, and Dan is standing by the fact that he feels like this is a good settlement and it teaches this particular company and other companies like it a lesson. This is where Dan and I will have to disagree. We’ll have to agree to disagree. And I say that because Dan’s never run a company like this. He’s an attorney. That’s all he’s ever done. To my knowledge, I don’t think he’s ever actually ran a company. Yes, he runs a law firm. It’s not the same. I’m sorry. It’s not the same, folks. Not even close. Sorry, Dan. Not the same. And you’re bankrupting a company by doing this. In this case, by the way, they had worked with the insurance company. I think there was a couple of them that they worked with, and they went to the maximum amount of whatever their liability insurance and stuff was, and they chose to turn all that down and go ahead and go to court. And they got an actually $205 million verdict. And Dan says it’s significant because the whole purpose of the law and punitive damage is to learn lessons. You know what, Dan? They already learned that. When somebody died, trust me, that company already learned that. No one wants people to die. No business wants to operate and have people die, especially this particular type of a business. I believe that with my heart. They didn’t want this. So this makes the world safer. Does it really, Dan? Does it really? I don’t know about that. I don’t know that it really does. Just because you got a $205 million settlement doesn’t make the world any safer. And to make sure that this never happens again and that’s been the parents’ quest from day one. You know what? I’ll say this as well. I highly doubt that. This was probably your quest from day one. I highly doubt this was the parents’ quest. Kaplan said his clients broke down in tears and started to pray when the verdict was read. He said he’s confident the verdict will have other amusement parks reconsidering safety protocols. Well, of course it will. It’s $200 million. Now, on the same token, how often do you hear of these things happening in all of the amusement parks and all of the rides and all the things that people get on on an annual basis? How often do you actually hear about somebody dying? It’s minimal. There’s far more traffic deaths and other types of deaths, kids being poisoned from drinking stuff under the sink and so on, than happen in amusement parks. I don’t see amusement park deaths being at the top of the list, by the way. That’s just me saying it. When it gets too expensive to do wrong, they’ll do it right. When it gets too expensive to do it dangerously, they’ll do it safely. Dan, you sound like you’re from the NFL, the No Fun League. So Glenwood Caverns provided a statement. Our hearts go out to the family. Everyone affected by the tragic accident happened on September 5th of 2021, while the jury allocated significant fault on the other defendants. Soaring Eagle Inc., the size of the total jury verdict award, puts the existence of Glenwood Caverns at serious risk. If the jury verdict remains as is, hundreds of local jobs are in peril. Yeah, they probably are. Dave, we have got about three minutes. Go ahead, sir.
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Well, Dr. King used to have this saying that was attributed to him that it’s not the ends that are important, but the means, right? And so whenever you have a lawsuit, there is a means involved in that, right? And it’s not the worst thing you could do with the government, but every single lawsuit involves deputizing the taxpayers, possibly even a jury, and forcing them to either spend their time or their money on fixing your problems. Does that make sense? Yeah, it does make sense. You’re absolutely right. So that’s the puritanical, libertarian way of looking at something like that. But that’s not something that’s easy to impose on society because there’s so few of us purist libertarians. So I’d say if you agree with me, consider doing what I did and fleeing Colorado as it descends into this authoritarian state situation and fleeing to New Hampshire. I moved to New Hampshire in 2004. I grew up in Colorado Springs, but I escaped this place. partly to get away from litigiousness, which can get much, much worse than this case.
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Yes, you’re right. Well, Dave, and again, thank you for still listening and calling in. I appreciate that. I appreciate the perspective. I’m going to get one more call in before we end this hour. Mario, I’ve got two minutes. Go ahead.
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Thank you, John. Enjoy your shows.
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Thank you.
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It’s not that I have a problem with people winning awards. The problem that I have, obviously, is… in relation to the Dan Kaplis lawsuit, is that, for instance, I’ll use myself as an example. I know we only have two minutes. Well, there have been at least three murders in close proximity to where I live in the last, I don’t know, seven, eight years. And of course, none of them involved wrongful death from an amusement park or a trucking company or anything along those lines. So One of them involved someone who lived in a fairly nice house. So possibly that murder victim’s family sued the estate of that person who lived in that house. But most people who die and or get murdered don’t get anything.
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True. Very true.
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And so when you hear people say it’s not about the money, well, that may or may not be true.
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It’s always about the money, Mario. I don’t care what anybody says. It’s always about the money.
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My deceased aunt was married to a man. He was displaced in Poland during World War II. How many people of those, how many people who were displaced got any money? How many people… And the Holocaust got any money.
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Good point. Great point. Great point. Mario, I’ve got to run with that. Thank you, as always. Great comments on both of those. I may come back to that a little bit more tomorrow because that’s a bigger topic probably than I thought it would be. I didn’t really think it would be that big of a deal, but we might be able to resurface that and go over that again tomorrow. Up next, Veteran Windows and Doors. Save money right now. Go direct to the source. That’s Veteran Windows and Doors. Call them today. Find them at klzradio.com.
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Suck it up, buttercup. Back to Rush to Reason.
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All right, in closing, and this is not to be critical of anything, but remember, every time a lawyer wins a case, they get a substantial, and I mean a substantial amount of that particular settlement, in some cases half. I don’t know this case. I don’t know exactly the circumstances, but it’s an easy 30% to 50% of whatever the settlement is because typically they front all the costs to get through that, meaning if they lose, they lose. I get that. But in this case, if they win, they win big. I’ll leave it at that. We’ll be back tomorrow. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
