Hour 3 opens with Jersey Joe and John Rush swapping quick hits that turn into a bigger theme: government expands, but it rarely shuts anything down—even when programs don’t deliver results. From there, they bounce between headlines and policy debates, including gun-law messaging (and what politicians get wrong about firearms and “conversions”), plus the argument over whether voter ID standards should be treated consistently with other constitutional rights.
The conversation pivots to taxes and incentives, including a “Super Bowl tax” example and broader talk about how high-tax policy can change behavior—individuals, businesses, and even major events. They also dig into
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SPEAKER 17 :
All right, we are back. Hour number three, Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Jersey Joe joining us now. Joe, how are you?
SPEAKER 05 :
John, I’m fantastic. How about yourself?
SPEAKER 17 :
We’re doing very well. The sun is still up. It’s a great night.
SPEAKER 05 :
By the way, I heard you talk about your warm weather there. We’ve finally broken after 14 days below zero, never getting above 32. We finally got a day yesterday and today. When we went above freezing. Wow. It has not been that way here at all. I know. I know. Hey, John, tonight I thought we’d start with some light stuff and then get heavier and heavier. Sure. But you ever have any goals? Here’s a couple of things I’d like to see in my lifetime. You ever have any goals like that, like headlines you’d like to read or places you’d like to go or things you’d like to see? Sure. Well, I’ve got two. And here are two things I’ve yet to see in my lifetime. One is a Sasquatch.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, me either. I’ve never seen Bigfoot. I’ve been in the woods a ton, but never seen him.
SPEAKER 05 :
And the second is a headline announcing that a government program has been ended because it had achieved its goals and solved the problem it was created to fix. Now, I’m still holding out hope that I’ll get to see this.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, you might see Bigfoot before that.
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, yeah. Never see a headline that’s saying, you know, a government program is being terminated because it’s achieved its goals.
SPEAKER 17 :
By the way, really quick, government programs are a lot like church committees, Joe. Once they get started, they never end.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, and Milton Friedman, you know, the Nobel-winning economist, said too many government—or he said the problem with government programs is that they are judged by their intentions rather than their results. Right. And do you know, by the way, there are almost 200 poverty programs in this country, some going back 80 years?
SPEAKER 17 :
I did not know that. I mean, I knew we had a lot, but I didn’t know we had that many.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, 80 poverty programs, some are 80 years old. Wow. I’ve got a chart, John, that lists them. Some you’ve never even heard of, but they’re all out there. You know, everything from Section 8 housing to heating assistance, Pell Grants for college, Obama phones. You know, so it’s just amazing the number of programs.
SPEAKER 17 :
I had no idea.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right. Now, Valentine’s Day is this Saturday, right?
SPEAKER 17 :
Right, Saturday.
SPEAKER 05 :
Health and Wellness, did you talk about the new monitor they have? Because this is just great in turn for Valentine’s Day. Did you talk about the new fart monitor? I did not. I didn’t get into that yesterday, no. Well, folks, you’ve got FedEx. Scientists at the University of Maryland have developed a sensor that clips onto the underwear and monitors your gut bacteria activity by measuring the amount of hydrogen gas in in flatulence for up to a week on a single battery. The device can detect dietary changes with a 95% accuracy. And this is real? This is real.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay.
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And the study revealed that participants pass gas 32 times a day on average, far more than the 10 to 20 episodes people report. Individual variation was dramatic, with daily gas counts ranging from 4 to 59 episodes suggesting that there may be no single normal when it comes to gut bacterial. And about one-third of participants reported digestive discomfort from plain sugar gumdrops that produced minimal bacterial fermentation, revealing how expectations can influence. Anyway, so folks, if you’re looking for the perfect Valentine’s Day gift, the fart monitor.
SPEAKER 17 :
All righty then.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right. You want to move on to one of the stupidest things I’ve heard all week?
SPEAKER 17 :
Let’s hear it.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, I sent you a clip. This is New York State Governor Hochul, who apparently knows nothing about guns, promoting a law which is going to – it’s just so ridiculous. She talks about converting pistols to be semi-automatic. John, last time I looked, every pistol you bought was – if it’s not – by the way, nomenclature. You have revolvers and pistols. If it’s a pistol, it’s like a 9-millimeter.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right.
SPEAKER 05 :
Every pistol you buy is a semi-automatic. There’s no such thing. You can’t buy, well, I guess there are some really oddball single-shot pistols where you load one at a time, but your typical pistol is a semi-automatic. So here we have Governor Hochul talking about outlawing semi-automatic pistols.
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Congress sell handguns that can be converted into semi-automatic machines able to fire 1,200 rounds a minute. Not here, not in New York.
SPEAKER 17 :
1,200 rounds a minute. Okay, Joe. I’d like to see that myself.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, first of all, you don’t need to convert a pistol to semi-automatic because it already is semi-automatic. I think she meant automatic. And I think she’s probably referring to these illegal Glock switches, which some people have added to the back of a Glock. But even then, John, there’s a difference between, yes, you can empty. If you illegally modify a Glock, you can modify it so that it will empty a 20-round magazine in two seconds. But just because you fired at the rate of, and that is a rate of 1,200 rounds per minute, but you can’t fire 12. There’s no physical way for a Glock to fire 12. By the way, around 400 or 500 rounds in 30 seconds, you’re going to start to melt the gun. It’ll malfunction. It’ll seize up. Right. but she apparently believes that you can modify a pistol that’ll fire 1,200 rounds a minute, but it’s already illegal to add a Glock switch to the back of a pistol and convert it. So rather than go after the people who are illegally modifying and selling these devices, she’s going to go after people who just want to buy a Glock and own a Glock because they like Glocks.
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Right.
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And on that note, I had this further down, but I’m going to switch over, John, to… This whole thing about the SAVE Act and voter ID and Chuck Schumer calling a Jim Crow law, well, you know, I’ve been thinking about this, John, and, you know, the ability to own and carry a gun is a constitutional right, just like the right to vote. So here’s my thought. If requiring a picture ID to vote in a federal election is indeed nothing more than another Jim Crow law, as Schumer states— that makes it difficult or impossible for people to exercise their constitutional rights to vote, then why doesn’t that same standard apply to the purchase of a gun? Like voting, the ability to buy and own a gun is a constitutional right, but today it is difficult and in many places impossible to buy a gun without showing a picture ID, Colorado being one of those. Every gun sale in Colorado has to go through a picture ID. Additionally, in order to carry a concealed weapon, which is part of that same constitutional rights, many states impose additional requirements such as getting fingerprinted at a third party identification verification company, and even taking and passing a shooting proficiency test, both at places frequently not serviced by public transportation. Now, the result of those requirements is that many minorities who live in inner cities don’t have and don’t own cars have no affordable means to access third-party locations mandated by the states that impose those requirements, nor can they easily afford the additional fees and costs associated with complying with those additional requirements. By the way, the last time I looked, it was $150 to take the test, and then you’ve got to go pay for the fingerprinting service. That’s another $75. So if that is not the very description of a Jim Crow law designed to make it difficult or impossible for a person to exercise a constitutional right, what would be? I mean, you know, so for me, it’s time to end the double standard. If you want to if you if you’re going to continue to demand an ID to buy a gun, then the ID to buy it to vote should be the same thing. It’s you know, it’s either. Both or neither. You know, pick one.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, you can’t cherry pick.
SPEAKER 05 :
Can’t cherry pick. By the way, do you know that up until 1994, there was no such thing as a background check to buy a gun? You could order through the Sears catalog and they’d ship it to your house?
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah. I mean, I remember Joe as a young man. And, again, I started buying guns before I even got out of high school because you could then. And, yeah, you’d go down and, you know, wherever you wanted to go, the sporting goods store or whatever, and you bought whatever you want.
SPEAKER 05 :
You and me both, John. I remember, you know, I bought a couple of guns when I was 18. In fact, I even ordered a gun through a Sears catalog and had it shipped to my house. And this was—and by the way, prior to 1968, you know, there was no requirement that guns have serial numbers, by the way.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right.
SPEAKER 05 :
So this thing about, you know, background checks and picture ID to buy a gun, that’s fairly, fairly recent. Again, 1994.
SPEAKER 17 :
In our lifetime, yeah. It is. You’re right.
SPEAKER 05 :
In our lifetime.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
So again, if it’s Jim Crow— To require ID to vote, then it’s Jim Crow to require a picture ID to buy a gun. But Democrats love their double standards, John.
SPEAKER 17 :
Oh, they do.
SPEAKER 05 :
They love their double standards.
SPEAKER 17 :
They do, Joe.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right. Heard you talk about the Minnesota roadblock, so I won’t go there. Have you talked about the Super Bowl tax?
SPEAKER 17 :
No. Oh, no, I have not. No, go ahead. That’s a good one.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right. So the Super Bowl was played in California, and California has a 13% income tax rate, top income tax rate. And they will assess if you’re a baseball player, or in this case, a football player, and you don’t live there, but you perform there, they will take your salary plus your bonus, and they will prorate your salary. They’ll take the number of days in your season from the day you report to training camp to the day your season ends, and they’ll and I don’t know what the quarterback for the Seahawks makes, what, $10-12 million a year? Something like that.
SPEAKER 17 :
Oh, yeah, you have to go look it up, but yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
Plus he got a $183,000 bonus for winning the Super Bowl. They have assessed him a $246,000 California income tax. Now, the bonus for winning the Super Bowl is $183,000. They taxed him $246,000. He lost money by winning the Super Bowl.
SPEAKER 17 :
Unbelievable.
SPEAKER 05 :
Now, this goes hand-in-hand with I don’t think, and by the way, the year before, wasn’t it in Las Vegas? Wasn’t it Super Bowl in Las Vegas?
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Yes, it was.
SPEAKER 05 :
And Las Vegas has no state income tax. I don’t think you’ll see another Super Bowl in California.
SPEAKER 17 :
No, next one is.
SPEAKER 05 :
Have they already picked it?
SPEAKER 17 :
Oh, yeah. Oh, they pick them way in advance. Next one’s at SoFi.
SPEAKER 05 :
Really?
SPEAKER 17 :
I’m pretty sure. Let me double-check that. 2027 Super Bowl. I think I saw the other day that it is, and I think all the theme and everything is already still, or is already out. Let me look. It will be, yeah, SoFi Stadium. It’s on Valentine’s Day next year, February 14, 2027.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, I wonder how long they’re going to continue that.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, and again, keep in mind, these things are picked typically their bid on, and I don’t know how far out, Joe. I’d have to ask one of my sons. They probably would know better than I, but these things are picked years in advance.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, I think, John, I think it’s going to become because, of course, the coaches, too. You know, the entire coaching staff is going to be subject to that same. I don’t know what the head coach of the Seahawks makes. He’s probably up in that $10 million range, too.
SPEAKER 17 :
So right now, I believe, I think you can look and see, I think all the way to 2029 right now. So you must go four or five years out, Joe.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay. Well, I suspect, John, that given that 13% tax on your, not only what you won that day, but on your, the number of, they take the number of days you spent in the state, you know, from the day you arrive to the day you leave, they prorate your salary, your annual salary divided by those number of days. and that’s what you pay tax on.
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It’ll be interesting to see because the one thing that the owners might care to some extent, although most of them probably don’t, it’ll be more of the players’ unions and so on that might be the ones complaining because the way that this works, the NFL essentially, when they get a bid from a particular stadium, city, whatever, to have the Super Bowl there, Joe, it is so lucrative for the NFL, I doubt they care at all. Okay. I guarantee you this would be more of a players’ union and that end of things that would be interjecting because the NFL itself makes so much money. They end up with all the concessions, all the gate, everything else that goes along with it. I mean, at the end of the day, it’s a cash cow for them.
SPEAKER 05 :
It sure is. But if the players’ union has its way and they lose, that would go hand-in-hand with this wealth tax, which hasn’t even passed yet. But in the legislation, in the ratification, in the justification, they estimated that the amount of wealth held by billionaires in the state was $2 trillion. Well, in the past 90 days, $1 trillion of that wealth has relocated their primary residence outside the state. Zuckerberg has moved to Nevada. Peter Thiel has moved to Miami, a couple of others. So they’ve already lost, not only have they lost half of that $2 trillion in wealth, has already left. They’ll never, they’ll never be able to tax that. They’ve also lost the income tax, the annual income tax revenue on the money those people make. Right. And the top 1% in California have been paying 50% of the state’s income tax revenue as well.
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Amazing.
SPEAKER 05 :
They’ve already lost. That’s amazing. You know, they’ve already lost a huge chunk of that. So talk about backfiring. It hasn’t even become law yet. And the rats are leaving the sink and ship. John, of course, uh, we’ve already talked about the refinery Chevron closed up. They moved out. Tesla moved out. Elon Musk has moved out. Um, It’s the goose that laid the golden egg.
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Really quick, I do have a list of the things that the NFL requires from a city or the stadium, which I didn’t know some of these, so these are really quick. A, it must be in a market that hosts an NFL team, of course. Stadium must have a minimum of 70,000 seats. Must have specific media and electrical amenities. The host stadium must have an average game day temperature of at least 50 degrees. If it’s below that, it has to be domed. Host stadium must have at least 35,000 parking spaces within one mile of the stadium. must have practice space of equal and comparable quality to both teams within a 20-minute drive of the team’s hotels. The host stadium must have hotel spaces equaling 35% of the stadium’s capacity within an hour’s drive of the stadium, and they must have space for the entire NFL game day experience, including a large pregame entertainment area and space for all other events that take place during the Super Bowl week. at areas such as golf courses and bowling alleys, meaning that when Denver does their new stadium, I guarantee you all of that will be taken into consideration.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yep, is it going to have a dome on it?
SPEAKER 17 :
It’s going to have a dome on it.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yep, Denver is going to be right there then.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, and it’ll be, believe me, when they’re done, not to get off track here, Joe, but when they’re done, it will be, my prediction is it will be the nicest stadium in the country. That’s my prediction.
SPEAKER 05 :
John, I won’t argue.
SPEAKER 17 :
When you have the richest owner who’s worth, what, $80 billion or something? Joe, I mean, he is by far the richest owner. I mean, like quadruple, I think even the next closest one. Yeah, you’re going to have the best stadium in the league.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, I certainly hope so. Hey, John, moving on. Did we talk last week about New York State releasing 7,000 illegal aliens back into the state?
SPEAKER 17 :
We did not, no. We did not do that last week.
SPEAKER 05 :
For those who haven’t heard of it, Department of Homeland Security – has condemned New York City Mayor Mondami for signing an executive order that the agency said will turn the city into a shield for violent criminal illegal aliens to reoffend and create more innocent victims. New York State’s failure to honor ICE detainers has resulted in the release of nearly 7,000 criminal illegal aliens this year. According to DHS, there are currently, ready for this, 7,113 illegal immigrants in who were in custody across New York State that had active ICE detainers that were ignored. The department said their alleged crimes included 148 homicides, 717 assaults, 134 burglaries, 106 robberies, 235 dangerous drug offenses, 152 weapons offenses, and 260 sexual offenses. Now, you may ask, Well, if they’ve committed murder, why are they there? They were charged with murder, but they’re out on bond. They’ve released them on bond. That’s why you’ve got, how many did I say, 148 people accused of homicide, illegal aliens. There were detainers on each and every one of them, and each and every one of them had been released back onto the streets. Not just in New York City. This is across the state. How would you feel if you were a New York State resident and they were releasing these people back into your community?
SPEAKER 17 :
I’d be mad.
SPEAKER 05 :
I’d be more than mad, John.
SPEAKER 17 :
In fact, I’d be wondering, why do I live here?
SPEAKER 05 :
Why do I live here? So, and that’s, you know, I talk, my podcast is a news and perspective you won’t hear on TV. John, the day that news came out, other than Fox, not a single network news station covered that story. And I fact-checked it. It’s absolutely 100%. New York State has released 7,113 illegal immigrants in cities and counties across New York State. And that’s part of a… A New York, an executive order by Governor Hochul that the municipalities and the state of New York will not cooperate with ICE. Well, that’s what you get when you do that.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah. By the way, not surprised on that. The… The reality, and this is where, sorry, my brain’s going faster or, you know, my mouth’s slower than my brain. Joe, why do people live and put up with that? That’s the question. I just cannot continue to wrap my head around why do you stay and do that?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, you know, if you’ve got, you know, there’s some big, particularly upstate New York, you’ve got farming. I get that. You know, if you’ve got relatives and, you know, you’ve lived there, you know, you’re the third generation, you’re a farmer, you’ve got, you know, aunts and uncles and brothers and sisters all over the state. It’s tough leaving that behind. There’s so much you’re willing to put up with. I moved from Colorado back to New Jersey for family. Do I like New Jersey? No, I’d rather not be here. But, John, family, you’ve got to put family first and you make sacrifices. I am.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah. No. And again, I mean, there’s I get that question even as to, you know, why do why do I stay in Colorado as bad as it’s getting? Why don’t I go someplace else? Well, Joe, for the reasons that you’re mentioning.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 17 :
You know, family, business. I mean, all the things that I do. I’m a native. I’ve lived here my whole life. It’d be really difficult to just pack up and go someplace else. I mean, if it ever gets that bad, you know, do you have to take a peek at it? Well, I mean, I guess you do. But at the end of the day, it’s still a hard and that’s why people stay because it’s hard to leave.
SPEAKER 05 :
It’s hard to find if you have a job. You know, what if I quit my job? Will I be able to find another job? If I own a small business, if I own a restaurant, if I own a painting business.
SPEAKER 17 :
Can I duplicate that someplace else? I mean, you’ve got a lot of factors there. And really quick, for a lot of you listening, when you get older like I am, I mean, Joe, I mean, I’m at a point where I’m unemployable. I mean, if I don’t work for myself, I don’t work.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 17 :
I mean, that’s where I’m at. I’m an unemployable individual.
SPEAKER 05 :
John, that makes two of us. Absolutely two of us.
SPEAKER 17 :
So if I don’t make my own way, I’m not working.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yep. So… And those are the reasons people put up with that nonsense. And so your only other alternative is to vote out the people that are doing this to you. And you just wonder how – unfortunately, you’ve got so many liberals living in and around New York City, John, that it’s like Boulder carries the state, New York City carries New York State. John, we probably have one or two more quick ones here. Okay. Canadian shooter, it’s been established that transgender woman, he was a biological male. He’s 18. He began transitioning when he was 12. Turns out the guns he used were a pistol and a bolt-action rifle, no AR-15s. This is why this story is going to die very quickly. Transgender, and he didn’t use a so-called assault rifle, yet he was still able to kill nine people and wound 25. Didn’t have an assault rifle. How is that possible, John? I thought you needed an assault rifle. To kill that many people and… Just goes to show, Joe, you don’t. You don’t.
SPEAKER 17 :
And I talked about this, you know, yesterday, Canada being one of the hardest gun control countries out there, much harder than we are here.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes, much, much harder. But, John, I call it squeezing the balloon, that if you think you can keep an evil or crazy person from killing a dozen or more people in under two minutes just by denying them access to a certain type of weapon… you probably think you can make a balloon smaller just by squeezing it in one place. John, if you can’t think of two or three different ways to kill a dozen people under two minutes without using an AR-15, you’re not very bright. Good point. I mean, just stop and think about it. How could I kill a dozen people? Well, one guy set fire to a nightclub in the Bronx, New York, killed 85 people with two bucks worth of gas. A guy in France drove his truck into a crowd on the street and killed over 80 people. with his box truck. John, it’s not that tough. You don’t need it. So I call it squeezing the balloon. Yeah, let’s ban assault weapons. That’ll solve the problems. And when it doesn’t, well, then we need to ban the next gun. Then we need to ban the next gun. Then we need to ban the next gun. Ten rounds, that’s too many. We’ve got to make it five rounds and so on and so forth.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, eventually, Joe, they just want to take them all away. That’s the whole point.
SPEAKER 05 :
They want to take them all away.
SPEAKER 17 :
That’s the ultimate goal.
SPEAKER 05 :
Maybe let’s have a double-barreled shotgun. That’ll be about it, John.
SPEAKER 17 :
You just need to fire those two blasts is what Joe Biden said.
SPEAKER 05 :
Take it out. All right. All right, Joe. That’s all I got. I appreciate it. One more. One more. Robert Byrd, Senate Majority Leader. Hillary Clinton gave his eulogy when he died. He was a grand dragon in the Ku Klux Klan, Robert Byrd in the Senate.
SPEAKER 17 :
Robert Byrd. Okay, thank you.
SPEAKER 05 :
Appreciate that. B-Y-R-D. That’s awesome.
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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. Larry Behrens joining us now, Power of the Future. Larry, how are you? I’m doing great today. How are you doing, John? I’m doing great. Welcome back, and always enjoy having you. And man alive, we timed you on being on today perfectly because there’s been some big decisions that have happened in the current administration and lots to talk about.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, it’s a great day for people who like affordability and energy.
SPEAKER 17 :
All right, so tell us, for those that maybe didn’t see some of the announcements today, some folks, you know, they work and they’ve got other things going on, and maybe they didn’t see what happened today, but give us some of the things that happened today.
SPEAKER 08 :
Sure. The biggest thing was the EPA and President Trump made an announcement. And I’ll give you a warning. The way I’m going to describe it sounds boring, but it’s really important. They are repealing what Obama called the endangerment rule. And what it was was it said – obama took a rule and just didn’t go through congress to do anything it says i’m going to hand down this edict that says all greenhouse gases are great greenhouse gases are bad and everything that we do has to go towards reducing that everything in the history of ever and that is what joe biden used to throw down electric vehicle mandates that is why a lot of our cars have that start and stop option even though we really don’t like it and so all these manufacturing and technical aspects that are going into the products we use We’re because of this rule. And President Trump today said, no, we are repealing it. And I’m sure the left is going to have their lawyers that they keep chained under their bed ready to go, but it is going to be beneficial for all of us.
SPEAKER 17 :
No, it is. And again, as a car person myself, and I know how many complaints I’ve gotten on my weekend car show when it comes to start, stop, and just all of the extra costs involved and the annoyance that a lot of folks go through with that. Yes, I know you can disable it, and there’s even people that have come out with kits and so on to disable it on certain cars, but it was mandated. It became mandatory. Really, Larry, let’s just say it for what it is, a pain in the rear. I don’t know how else to say it. I mean, people just, they hate it. And the reality is it really, at the end of the day, I don’t think it’s really been proven that it does a whole lot in defense of manufacturers. They’re trying, you know, under the old mandate, they’re trying to squeeze as much fuel out of that vehicle, you know, the fuel economy as they could out of that particular vehicle. So in a lot of cases, they were doing that to try to help with that, help with the CAFE ratings and so on, and all of that at the expense of us consumers.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, exactly right. And, you know, the start-stop option, I think, is the most visible. It’s the one the administration is using. It’s one most people are familiar with. But don’t forget, if you bought a diesel truck within the last 10 years, you realize that that truck probably has a shelf life of 250,000 miles. That’s not how trucks used to be built, but that’s because they have to have these internal systems that takes your diesel exhaust, throws it back in the truck, superheats it up, and then lets it out because they have these crazy systems. And it doesn’t matter what brand you’re driving.
SPEAKER 17 :
No, I own them all, and I’ve got a fleet. I can attest to that, Larry. No, they are all equally—let’s see, how should I say this? They are all equally damned by those systems.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yes. Equally hampered is a great way to describe it. And so there are a whole bunch of things like that that just work their way into our lives that we were supposed to just accept as normal. President Trump has pulled those back and they need to stay back. And to every leftist listening, it’s just a really simple equation. Listen, Obama put this rule in in 2009. One of the first things that he did. If you guys loved it so much, you should have passed it through Congress. But they know that it’s probably raised the prices on American families $1.3 trillion since it started, and no one wants that on their record. So they never put it through Congress. And so it can be repealed, and it should be repealed.
SPEAKER 17 :
No, and by the way, I think it’s a great day. The question is, because this affects not only the auto industry, Larry, but this is going to affect coal, power plants, and so on. Yeah, auto industry is huge. They’re going to benefit greatly from this, but it’s not the only industry that will benefit.
SPEAKER 08 :
No, absolutely not. Here’s something that needs to be talked about. It’s going to make it easier to build power plants, and that is exactly what we need. I don’t care what part of the country you’re in. We are going to need more electricity. We need more electricity to bring back manufacturing. We need more electricity to win the AI race. And yes, it is a critical race against China, because if we don’t do it, they will. And that is going to be the technology that dominates the next 30 years of our lives. And so we absolutely need the energy to do it. We needed it yesterday, but the second best time is to get it started now.
SPEAKER 17 :
No, you’re right. And again, folks, I want to make sure that we really get this point across, Larry, as to how big of a deal this really is. I mean, keep in mind, all of this happening today, plus here not that long ago, CAFE ratings, you and I talked about that being changed. I mean, the reality is this administration is really taking a – and I know the left, they’re going to be crazy at what I’m going to say here – to making everybody’s lives in America especially easier, more affordable. And yeah, the left is going to say, well, yeah, but it’s at the expense of the environment. No, Larry, that’s never been proven one way or the other. In fact, I’ve proven many, many times on all of my programs that a lot of these things that they make you do at the end of the day, it’s a net negative when it comes to what’s happening to the environment. You’re not gaining anything. In fact, you’re harming it more.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, it’s such a great point. The energy it takes to build in those systems to all these vehicles and negate any small impacts that they would absolutely have. And yeah, to our leftist friends, nothing is prohibiting the auto manufacturers to continue to build these cars with these systems or these vehicles with these systems. Nothing stops them from continuing to do that, and nothing stops the left from continuing to buy them. But I think the left knows. that without these forced mandates down our throats, the American public isn’t going to choose to buy them.
SPEAKER 17 :
And really quickly, let me jump back into the diesel end of things. The reality is all of the systems you just mentioned, and this is a big deal for me because I’m in that world very deeply, the reality is the lesser fuel economy, all the things that we give up in performance and so on, reliability as well, because of those emission systems that are on those diesel trucks, at the end of the day, Larry, again, going back to my comment a moment ago, It’s a huge net negative. You’re not gaining anything with those systems. In fact, I would go as far as to say you’re making it worse.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, I absolutely agree. And it saves us all money, right? If the person delivering, manufacturing, and using the products that we all need has to pay less for gasoline, then we have to pay less for their product. That’s right.
SPEAKER 17 :
Let me throw one more thing into that, Larry. When it comes to the diesel sides of things, for a lot of these folks that are delivering goods and so on, keep this in mind, folks. It’s not just the price of fuel. Some of the systems Larry’s talking about, if you have any problems at all and it’s out of warranty, you’re talking about anywhere from a $5,000 to $10,000 repair bill. And who do you think Larry is paying that? You and I are as consumers.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, absolutely. And we’ve all seen those trucks that, you know, it used to be you went past the time to change the oil. It was like, oh my goodness, I’m just doing a little damage to the engine. Now the vehicle just stops working. This is one of those edicts that came down from this rule. And so things hopefully are going to change very quickly in favor of the American public.
SPEAKER 17 :
Oh, yeah, absolutely, Larry. Again, for all of you listening, this is a big day. It’s a glorious day. Folks should be celebrating. I mean, the reality, Larry, is, again, I don’t think people really understand what a game changer this is. And I guess here’s a question for you. I mean, that’s under this administration. Nothing keeps the next administration from coming back in and doing what Obama did. Or will it be more now, hey, if we’re going to get this thing to stick, we’ve got to run this thing through the proper channels because we don’t want to see this thing continue to flip-flop. What’s your thoughts there?
SPEAKER 08 :
Absolutely. I know there’s a lot going on with Congress right now with the Save America Act, and that certainly is a priority. But yes, this stuff and government language needs to be codified, need to put it through Congress, so it’s much more difficult for the next president to just overturn it all.
SPEAKER 17 :
Makes total sense. Larry, as always, I appreciate it. How do we find you at Power of the Future?
SPEAKER 08 :
They can just head over to PoweroftheFuture.com, John, and it’s Larry at PoweroftheFuture.com. If you want to send an email, always appreciate you.
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SPEAKER 17 :
All right, shifting gears for, I don’t know, maybe that’s not the right way to say it, but yeah, I mean, shifting gears from what we were talking about with Larry in regards to EPA and regulations and so on. This kind of goes along with that, though, because we’re going to need more energy to handle the AI boom, and it is a boom. there was a great article out and i was going to talk about this yesterday but frankly we had so much other stuff to cover that i didn’t get a chance to do it this is on x it’s called something big is happening again i read this early yesterday morning and i encourage you guys to read this this is something where literally you can just google that something big is happening it’ll bring you to the article and it’s really i think it’s really key for people to read it especially Well, I think it’s key for everybody, but especially those of you that have jobs whereby AI may affect that job. And let me explain. This particular article talks about how up until a week ago, yes, just a week ago, the majority of AI, when these people that work in that world write for AI program and so on, talked about how long a particular project would take to have happen. And just about five to seven days ago, depending upon which platform you’re looking at, this happens to be Claude and ChatGPT, which is OpenAI. Both of them came out with some updates just within five to seven days ago. that now enable a programmer, quote unquote, to essentially tell AI what they want. So let’s say they want a particular application. They can tell AI, I want that application to do X, Y, Z. I want it to look like this. I want it to have this feel. I want the user to be able to interface this way, blah, blah, blah. Go through the whole litany of things that they want in the application. And then say, go build it. Before, they used to do a lot of back and forth to help AI actually build said application. I’m simplifying this article, but that’s essentially what they used to have to do. Be some back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. Now, this particular program, and it’s in this article, literally can go to lunch, dinner, whatever, take a nap. About four hours later, that particular programmer can come back. and have a completely functioning application that has even been tested by AI like a human would test it where the programmer absolutely does nothing. It’s that simple. That’s what’s happened in the last updates of those two AIs I just mentioned a moment ago, Claude and OpenAI. So how is this a game changer? Well, essentially now we’ve gotten to the point where AI can program AI. No longer are programmers going to have to sit and write code and do things inside of AI to create AI. It’s going to create itself. In this case, yes, it’s been told what to create. But in the last year, in fact, in the last five days, seven days, In fact, this guy even says, I am no longer needed for the actual technical work of my job. I describe what I want built in plain English, and it just appears. Not a rough draft that I need to fix. The finished thing. I tell AI what I want, walk away from my computer for four hours, and come back to find the work done. Done well, done better than I would have done it myself, with no corrections needed. A couple of months ago, I was going back and forth with AI, guiding it, making edits. Now I just describe the outcome and leave. So here’s my point with this, and I was talking to some of my business clients that I coach about some of this today. A, those of you that are business owners, you should be figuring out how to use AI in your business more and more. Some of you that have ancillary-type workers whereby they may be doing things that, quite frankly, you could have AI doing for you and save money as an owner, you should be looking at that. And I know it’s going to eliminate jobs. It is what it is, folks. And this is the conversation I had with some of my clients today. If you can get AI to do the job of a person, you should be doing so. That’s good business. And some of you are out there screaming and yelling at me right now saying, but we’re going to lose jobs. Yep, you are. You are. That is the fact of it. You’re exactly right. You are. So those of you that are at risk of losing your job because of AI, here’s my advice. You better figure out what you can do or what you can learn to do that either coincides with AI so you still have a job or you should figure out a different career. And, folks, I’m not talking about doing this in a month or two or three. I’m talking about now. If you are in a job whereby you’re pretty sure AI can come in and do your job, I would be tomorrow figuring out, or even tonight, it’s only 6 o’clock, not quite even 6 o’clock yet, I would be figuring out tonight what can I do to further myself and make sure that I’m gainfully employed because AI may take my job. And folks, I’m trying to be as serious as I can be right now. This is not a laughing matter. There are people listening to me right now that will lose their jobs to AI, no doubt about it. Now, is it going to be as detrimental as some of the experts say? No. Is it as glorious as some say? No. Somewhere in between is the answer. But at the end of the day, is it going to eliminate jobs? Absolutely. Any of you out there listening that are doing data input, that are doing research, that paralegals, for example, anything along those lines, your days are numbered. I’m sorry to say, your days are numbered. Some of you that are just receptionists or you work in an office and maybe you help handle insurance claims and things like that. Maybe you work at the dentist office at the front counter. Folks, those jobs are going to be eliminated. Trust me when I say that. They will be eliminated. Unless you can somehow make yourself more valuable to the company, you will be eliminated. You know, you take some of these, you know, I go to dentists and doctors and so on. And, you know, you look inside and you’ll see three, four people working on all sorts of things to run the dentist office. You’re going to get that down. That dentist will get that down to one with AI. And I’m not exaggerating. Somebody that maybe has to actually meet and greet people because you need a friendly face at the front counter. And frankly, you’re not even going to need to answer the phone because AI will do that better than what your people do because it’ll be more consistent and it’ll be actual words that people can understand and they won’t have tonality issues and they won’t be angry and they won’t have a fight with their husband or wife the night before. They won’t be depressed. I mean, folks, I’m sorry. I’m telling you all the things that happen when people answer the phone. And how do I know that? Because I watch people and I hear. I was at some place not that long ago where I watched somebody pick up the phone and answer it, and I’m thinking, man alive, you need coaching on how to answer the phone because that was awful. That’s what AI is going to fix. You won’t have people answering phones like that. You’ll have AI doing it. Now, can AI go out and make sales and do some of those things? Probably not. It probably won’t make calls on people and so on. They can’t fix cars. It can’t mow lawns. 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All right, I got a comment really quick on AI and the fact that, you know, it won’t farm the land and do some of those things. No, folks, it won’t. It won’t do some of the physical things, no doubt about that. But keep this in mind with farming. What it can do is, are you watering properly? Can we save money and or time in all of that space? When are you planting? Are we doing that at the exact time we should be? Are we harvesting at exactly the same time we should be? I mean, AI will help even in the farming end of things to a great degree, like I just said. So trust me, it’s coming. And this last reiteration… that just came out again reading this particular article it is leaps and bounds ahead of where it’s been prior to the point where again some of you business owners if you’re not looking into it shame on you because that is the next step of where we’re headed and yes it is going to be a job eliminator depending upon what you do now so again for those of you that are in that world i would highly recommend that you do whatever you can to try to figure out how to shore things up on your end dr scott’s up next and again one thing that again ai is not going to do is be your doctor so that’s we need dr scott 303-663-6990
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All right, that’s it for today. Tomorrow, Andy has three movies we’re reviewing. Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, Cold Storage, and Scarlet. And then, of course, Hour 2 in honor of Valentine’s Day being the day after, being Saturday, is going to be Favorite Love Songs. You can go ahead and text those in now if you’d like, and I’ll add those to the list. Have a great evening, folks. Be safe out there. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
