In this episode of Rush to Reason, host John Rush sits down with Douglas Ernst, the author of ‘The Spirit of a True Patriot’ and owner of Corvette Warehouse. Douglas shares his remarkable journey from enlisting in the military at 17 to becoming a successful business owner with a passion for Corvettes. Delve into how his wartime experiences in Iraq shaped him into a patriot, spurring his love for his country and influencing his life’s work. With engaging anecdotes, Douglas discusses his venture into the auto industry, sharing the challenges and triumphs of turning a childhood passion for Corvettes
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All right, Hour 3, Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. As I said earlier, Doug, Douglas Ernst joining us now. He is author of The Spirit of a True Patriot, the inspiring story of retired Captain Douglas J. Ernst. Doug, welcome. How are you?
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, I’m doing great. I appreciate the chance to voice my perspective with you and your listeners this evening.
SPEAKER 04 :
I appreciate you very much. Now, before we get started into your business, I want to talk about that a little bit because I’m a Corvette guy myself, and you’ve got a Corvette dealership, so we’ll have a lot of fun with that. But before we do that, talk about the book.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, the book. The name of my book is The Spirit of a True Patriot, and it’s a story about my life and how I joined the Army at the age of 17 years old. My parents didn’t have money to pay for college, so I joined the Army, something called the infantry and armor, having no idea what that was when I signed up. And six months later, I was in Iraq and Saudi Arabia back in 1990, fighting in the war. And from that point in time, I turned from a little boy, 17 years old, into a man that became a patriot, someone that not only adored his country, but a person that was in love with his country. And it transformed my life and set the trajectory of my life that turned me into the person I am today.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, thank you for doing all that as well. By the way, we appreciate your service to our country. Without guys like you, we don’t have the freedoms that we have, so we’re very thankful for that.
SPEAKER 15 :
Thank you very much. I appreciate that.
SPEAKER 04 :
All right. So now let’s get into the business end of things, because part of your story involves you also starting out, I guess, having an interest in Corvettes, purchasing three Corvettes on a credit card, and then you now own the Corvette warehouse.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yes, that’s correct. And I started out as a Corvette dealer when I was about 23, 24 years old. I did it simultaneously while I was serving in the military. And I decided as a kid that I loved these Corvettes because my, you know, back when I was a kid, there was Vietnam veterans everywhere and old Corvettes, 1979 to 82s were on the street when I was a kid. My uncle was a Vietnam vet and he had a Corvette and he was my role model. So as I got older, I decided I wanted to play with these cars and I was in the Army and I was in the reserves and bouncing back from active duty to reserve time and different contracts. And I started dabbling in this card as a hobby back in 93, 94. And then I launched it as a business in 1996. And I’ve been doing this business now for about 30 years. buying Corvettes, putting them back together, buying new Corvettes, everything from 1953 up to 2025. I’ve been dabbling in these cars for now 30 years, and it was a career that supported my 10 to 12 employees, my over 100 outsourced partners’ employees, and my family, my life, and all my 25,000, 30,000 customers we’ve served over the last 30 years.
SPEAKER 04 :
That is awesome. All right, so got to ask, what’s your favorite Corvette of all time?
SPEAKER 15 :
My favorite Corvette is a 1967, the mid-year. I actually have a 67 blue 353, excuse me, 327, 350 horse with side exhaust, with no AC, so it’s 110 degrees in Texas with no AC. It’s my favorite car. When I was a kid, those were on the road. They were only three grand back then, and my uncle said, if you work real hard, you’ll get one of those by the time you’re 40. That’s awesome. And that was something I wrote about in the book. That’s what inspired me. That’s awesome. Yep, it’s funny how you talk about what happened to you as a kid and how it shapes the trajectory of your entire life.
SPEAKER 04 :
Absolutely. No, it does. And again, I understand the value of the old cars because I have some of those myself. I understand the value of the new cars as well because it’s something about getting in it, not having to worry much about it, push a button and go.
SPEAKER 15 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 04 :
That is the plus side to the modern end of it, I guess, right?
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah. And, you know, we’re fortunate enough in this great country with the prosperity that we have, we can afford both. And not all people can, but for those that do and can, you know, and I’ve always told my customers, you know, especially the younger customers, they all can afford it. you know corvette i said you just work hard and smart because i didn’t have two nickels to rub together when i was a kid and now i got almost 200 of these cars and it took me it took me 30 years to get to this point of working 70 80 hour work weeks and serving my customers to the best of my ability to get to that point so if i did it you could do it too so you’re the number one corvette dealer located in dallas how many units a year do you guys sell Well, that’s an interesting question and a loaded question. For decades, we were selling roughly 50 a month, 40 a month, 60 a month. I’d say on average, the median was about 50 a month. But for the last two years, that number has gone down to about 25, and our sales went down by about 50% over the last three years.
SPEAKER 04 :
Gotcha. Attribute it to what do you think?
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, there’s no doubt in my mind that was the Biden-Harris administration’s economic policies and something very similar to the terror policy, unfair trade that shifted the American consumer to the Porsche, to the Lamborghini, to the Mercedes, and didn’t give small business owners that sold American products a fighting chance. And I was one of those victims.
SPEAKER 04 :
So now that some of those things are being changed, as we know, and I’m with you, by the way. I don’t think that – I was talking about that even before you coming on. I spent some time in the last hour talking about terrorists and my view of different things and a lot of the fear porn that’s being propagated by – media in regards to empty shelves coming up in may and just a bunch of nonsense that frankly is just not uh realistic at the end of the day but when it comes to things like what you’re talking about where you know we’ve had you mentioned you know porsche european cars where we’ve had a very little tariff you know five percent roughly on cars coming in and yet overall cost to take one of our cars and go there it’s almost 30 that’s not fair
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Yeah, General Motors can’t ship a car to China. They can’t ship a car to Europe. They don’t have those cars in that part of the world because they don’t allow them to come out without the 100%, 150% tariff, but yet they have a 12%, 15%, 20% tariff on the goods that come into our country, and even some of those tariffs are excused if they bring in a massive amount of goods. It was unfair trade policy, and it was one of the deciding factors that just destroyed our business. You know, that coinciding with the bad economy, rising interest rates, the Biden inflation, it just pummeled our business. And we were, you know, I’ve been on hundreds of these news interviews for the books over the years. And when I tell people when they started talking about Corvette Warehouse and its losses, and I say we lost six figures a month, people are taken aback by that. Their face looks like they saw a ghost. Our company was losing $100,000 per month, month after month after month. We literally blew through all the caps that we have saved for 25 years. I was actually planning an exit strategy for this business. I didn’t think it was going to make it. I read the Rob Rob books, and I know you keep a positive attitude, but when the fighting forces of the institution, and that being the government, are fighting against you, and the pendulum has swung so far… I just thought the Lord wanted me to go in a different direction. So we were actually planning an exit strategy, and then the election came, and the changes started to happen, and they happened dramatically, swiftly, and fast, and we actually had a record month last month from the history of our business.
SPEAKER 04 :
That was going to be my next question, was given the tariffs and things that have happened along those lines, how has it affected business?
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, just to give you a quick backdrop, the slow calculated tariff rollout program that the Trump administration put out with a smart layered balance program. Back when Trump was elected back in November, December, we didn’t see any change in Fed. It was still horrific in November, December, and I thought it was over. But I was glad that President Trump got elected because I thought, hey, at least we got a chance. We can at least break even now. You know, that’s what I was hoping for. When he became president, he put out preliminary statements and talked about these phased announcements about how he was going to implement the TARIC programs, and immediately our business ticked up. We had the best January we had in four years. We had the best February we had in four years. And in March, this is the most ironic thing that the mainstream media doesn’t want you to hear or understand because it goes against the narrative of the legacy media. And that is that week that we had that temporary stock market correction when it went down real low. That was a record week for us. We sold 23 Corvettes that week. Under Joe Biden, we were selling 23 Corvettes a month. Now, the pendulum swung in our favor because the American consumer was telling themselves, hey, I’m going to buy an American product. If I buy a Mercedes, I might have to pay more for parts. If I buy a Porsche, I might have to pay more for parts. And the American Corvette has been in existence for almost 80 years. It’s the true icon of the sport, legendary Corvette. It’s the longest-running American product line. You wouldn’t understand that because there’s so many product lines that come and go, but it’s the longest-running American product line in history. And we are the quintessential leader of the product lines of the American sports car. So right now, it completely shifted our business where we went from trying to downsize, trying to lay it off everybody we could. We stopped spending money. We were trying to have conversations through an attorney on how to exit our 25-year lease. And all of a sudden, we are trying now to talk about how to grow our business. We’re actually recruiting people again to come back into our business.
SPEAKER 04 :
Very nice. Really quick, do you feel like part of the enthusiasm also, though, for the Corvette, and I’m not disagreeing with anything you’ve said along the lines of the tariffs, and so I think that has a lot to do with it, but do you feel like that coupled with the new ZR car coming out and a lot of the excitement around that car, even though a lot of the average everyday Corvette owners will never be able to touch that car because of the lack of and the sheer expense of owning that car, which, you know, unless you’re For those of you listening, by the way, you’re not going to get a new ZR1 Corvette unless you know somebody, Doug. You know that as well as I. But do you still think that the excitement around that car has built some enthusiasm into Corvette again?
SPEAKER 15 :
Not at all. That’s not a conversation that’s on the consumer’s mind at my business. Our average car is 40 to 50 grand, and people are buying the inventory that’s been on the road for 10, 15, 20, 30, 40 years. If you think about it, Corvette’s been making 25,000 to 50,000 Corvettes a year for almost 80 years. That’s like 4 million cars have been put on the street. So if you think about all this inventory, you’re reselling the inventory. The reselling of the inventory brings the government so much more money than it does for the new car sales because you’re flipping 40, 50 years of inventory over and over and paying taxes on it to your local government, your registration. The new cars is great, and it does give them their gas bill for tax, and it gives them their their consumption tax, and it gives them their sales tax, but it’s a one-time sale. Our sales are the competitive run, the wheel that keeps spinning that provides that tax dollar to our local authority. Right now, we’ve got some little bit of buzz about the Zorra. But that’s just, you know, it’s like the buzz of the C8. It’s just a little bit here and there. My direct effect, I’m not a scientist, but I’m a smart person, and I can put statistical averages together. It’s not a happenstance that in… November, December, and that entire year, I lost more money that gutted this business. And then January, our business directly took off. We had a record month, record week, and we sold 81 Corvettes last month. That’s the best we’ve ever done. We sold 76 as a previous record when Trump was president, and we did 81 last week. It’s not a coincidence. There’s a direct effect. It’s not correlated. It’s causal. And I’m positive that’s what happened. And we are so thankful that he was put into place to lead our country and to develop the economic policy of our country, because that is going to dictate the future of my life and my children’s life.
SPEAKER 04 :
I agree. No, amen. I agree with you wholeheartedly. All right. For everybody listening where they’re thinking, hey, you know what? Thought about owning a car like this. Never really gotten around to talking about it. Now that you guys are talking about it, I’m piquing some interest, I assume. Douglas, that you can sell cars pretty much anywhere, handle transportation and so on. So somebody out there listening wants one, they can go to you and buy one.
SPEAKER 15 :
We sell cars internationally. We sell them locally, continental U.S. And I’m hoping with the Trump tariff program that we’re allowed to sell internationally instead of selling two or three a month international, that we can increase that number because the tariffs will be fair and equal and balanced. But, yes, you can go to CorvetteWarehouse.com. If you click on Meet the Owner, the link to the book is in there. I hope that everybody would buy the book and take that opportunity to give a little something back to the veterans because all proceeds from the book go to our veterans groups that desperately need your money. And if you go to CorvetteWarehouse.com, all 150 Corvettes are listed on there. I’d like everybody to take a look.
SPEAKER 04 :
enjoy themselves shoot us an email call us whatever you like we’re always happy to talk about cars and enjoy ourselves and the trade that we enjoy well i i appreciate you doug i’ve got another program i do on saturday’s drive radio i’ve done it for about 25 years we take three hours of literally just car talk and people with questions and so on and i might have you on on that program here in the near future as well if you’d be willing to do that
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, that’d be great. I love talking cars. It’s my passion, it’s my life, and I’m up all night looking at cars.
SPEAKER 04 :
All right, I will take you up on that, and we’ll figure out a time to make that work as well.
SPEAKER 15 :
All right. My pleasure talking to you and your listeners today. And I just got one thing to say. I want to tell these people that are listening today, trust in the Trump administration, the people that he selected, the cent to lead our government and our treasury. He is a billionaire. He’s a self-made billionaire. They know what they’re doing. They know how to make money. They know how to put money in the American people’s pockets. They did it for us and they saved our business. Their programs that they roll out are going to not only spark this economy but it’s going to lead us to the next decade or two of American growth and give prosperity and growth to all Americans that want to participate.
SPEAKER 04 :
I now have people texting me pictures of their Corvettes, so you got them going there, Doug. So I appreciate you very much, sir.
SPEAKER 15 :
All right, John. Take care. All right, man.
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Have a great night. Appreciate you very much. Douglas Ernst, and again, yes, he is owner. And, of course, let me mention the book again, The Spirit of a True Patriot. And, yes, you can find that on the About Us page of his website, Corvette.org. We’ll be back here in a moment. Geno’s Auto Service, speaking of cars and all of that, they can take care of your car, keep you running long-term. And right now, the cheapest thing to do is keep what you have running and keep it on the road today. Go to genosautoservice.com. Geno starts with a J.
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All right, we are back. One thing Charlie just mentioned in my ear as well that you’re not seeing a lot of coming out of the news media is the Ukraine mineral deal that was just put together, signed, and all of that. And I did read one little article on that today where it talked about, okay, now that the deal’s done, how’s this going to work for the U.S., actually extracting them, and so on and so forth. And literally, to Charlie’s point, one little blurb that I saw, I think that was on the Wall Street Journal, by the way, which is sort of a middle-of-the-road publication, not far right, not far left, although they can be either or, depending upon the article. But that’s the only place that I saw anybody even mention that that deal had been solidified. So, again, as I said in the last hour, news media, and this news media especially, mainstream media, will do their best to dictate what you hear and don’t hear. And nine times out of ten, they are… in some cases, lying to you. They’re not even checking their sources on a particular story. Jersey Joe sent me a couple of different things while I was on vacation along those same lines to where they will run news stories and not even go see if the story they’re running can be validated. News media doesn’t care. The mainstream media, I should say, they don’t care. They don’t care if they’re lying to you. They are the majority of the time. They don’t care. Although they’re getting a dose of their own kind, if you would. on the White House lawn right now, or at the White House, I should say, because the reality is they’re not getting the same front and center attention they used to get. I was watching a video on that earlier today whereby a lot of the mainstream media is really being put off kind of on the sidelines at the White House, and other alternative sources of media are getting much more attention, and they are fuming. They are upset because they have been used to being front and center at all times when it comes to the president and the White House. And they’re not getting that attention now. And frankly, they shouldn’t. That should have ended a long time ago. The reality is they don’t have the same leverage. They don’t carry the same clout that they used to. I, for one, and there’s a lot of others, a lot of you listening, by the way, that don’t pay any attention to them either. watch anything they say and yet and their viewership and charlie we talk about this all the time their viewership just continues to plummet you know report after report after report they keep losing market share and yet they want to be noted as being you know top tier when it comes to people that actually are viewing them or watching them the reality is they’re not The alternative sources are getting a lot more views. There are influencers, quote unquote, folks that are on social media, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and others that, I’m not exaggerating, not probably have more viewers and followers than what mainstream media has. And I will go as far as to say, because Charlie and I look at the book at times on what mainstream media is actually getting as far as viewership and such goes. There are some influencers that I would reckon to believe that there are combined influencers. together, influencers that have more than they do. You take somebody like Joe Rogan, by the way, Joe will have more listeners to his podcast than Charlie. I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say that. You could take all of the big four, combine them together, and they don’t have what a Joe Rogan would have, as far as market share is concerned. Yeah, he does a three-hour podcast that has, what, 25, 30 million or more followers, Charlie? The other, CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, you could combine all of those together, and I’m guessing Charlie at any given time don’t have the 25 million. So, yes, folks, there are influencers out there. Joe’s one of them, but there is others. that have far more influence on people and what they do think and receive as far as news than the news organizations themselves, but you’ll never hear them admit that. I’m so removed from mainstream media anymore, I can’t even tell you the personalities that are there talking. Charlie always has to remind me, well, you heard about so-and-so, so-and-so, and such-and-such, and I’ll be like, no, tell me. I don’t watch it. I can’t tell you anymore, folks. I can’t tell you the big names that are even on mainstream media anymore. I don’t watch it. Don’t pay any attention to it whatsoever. And that’s their problem. I’m not the only one doing that. I’m one of millions that are now doing that. 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All right, we are back, Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush. Joe, what’s going on, sir?
SPEAKER 09 :
John, regarding that story that all the news outlets published two days ago without fact-checking, well, the rest of the story came out today. First of all, the woman was lying. There were no FBI agents there. There were no U.S. Marshals there. It was simply ICE. And no, they didn’t have the wrong house. It turns out that she had just rented that house from a woman who, who was a wanted human smuggler.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, geez.
SPEAKER 09 :
The house was in the name. So no wonder they were there. No wonder. And by the way, the woman who owned the house and the tenant are both Hispanic. So ICE shows up at your house.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right. How do they know?
SPEAKER 09 :
We all know how easy it is to get a fake ID.
SPEAKER 04 :
Correct.
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So they show up at this house. The house is owned by the woman they’re looking for. They don’t know that she’s rented it out to somebody else two weeks ago. So it was the right house. They weren’t looking for a prior tenant. No, they were looking for the owner of the house. And when they broke in, okay, well, you say you’re so-and-so, but, you know, we’re looking. The woman who owns this house is, you know, not at my fingertips, but she’s also of Hispanic name. So how do we know you’re not the woman we’re looking for? And until we determine that you’re not.
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Right.
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we’re going to take your stuff, and if we determine that you’re not the woman we’re looking for, we’ll give it all back to you. That’s all that happened.
SPEAKER 04 :
In other words, you fit the description, prove who you are.
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You’re not the description, prove who you are, and you handing us what could be a fake driver’s license… Doesn’t mean anything. Doesn’t mean anything. So I’m sorry, we’re going to have to go through your phone and your laptop to make sure that you’re not this person. And that’s all that happened, John.
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Especially in that particular case.
SPEAKER 09 :
In that particular case. But the fact that the entire nation, including Rachel Maddow and MS, you know, they made it the lead story. And, John, it was no big deal. It was perfectly logical. I mean, if you were eyes and say, okay, we’ve been looking for this woman for six months. We finally found out that she owns this house in this town on this street. You know, how are they supposed to know she hadn’t rented it out to somebody? Right. possibly looked a whole lot like her. And that was the whole story. No big deal. And no, the FBI wasn’t there and the U.S. Marshals weren’t there.
SPEAKER 04 :
So it was just a… So just a fabricated story basically at the end of the day.
SPEAKER 09 :
Fabricated story. Well, a raid did take place.
SPEAKER 04 :
But not to the extent of the way they described it.
SPEAKER 09 :
Not to the way they described it. And it wasn’t the wrong house. It was absolutely the right house.
SPEAKER 04 :
And, you know, how would you know if this… In other words, this is like Paul Harvey used to say, the rest of the story.
SPEAKER 09 :
The rest of the story, exactly.
SPEAKER 04 :
Which the news media, as I said earlier, Joe, they never want to investigate the rest of the story.
SPEAKER 09 :
Right. And, John, you’re going to have to look very, very hard. Now, you can find, if you check for the original story, you’ll find, I don’t know, 50, 60 news outlets ran with the original story. John, you’re lucky to find four or five that ran with the rest of the story. Now, by the way, I also sent you a clip. I don’t know if you have time to play it today or even a portion of it. There’s a compilation of TikTok videos out there with people who are pleading with somebody to please assassinate Trump.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, my word. Are you kidding me?
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, no. I just sent it to you, John, if you want to play it on the break. Even if you only want to play it three or four minutes. And the others who are not pleading, they’re saying, I’m so looking forward to the day where I wake up and I turn on my phone and see breaking news where Trump’s been assassinated. I pray for the day that I wake up. And that’s the lead story on the news. John, it’s sickening.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, it is. But if you just want to… And by the way, those folks should be really careful because those are the kind of things the Secret Service does take seriously.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, I mean, to say, you know, freedom of speech, John, if I say I wish somebody would assassinate Trump, you know, I can’t wait for the day when I read about it, when that’s the lead story in the evening news, that’s freedom of speech, John.
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s, you know… Yeah, depending upon how it’s worded.
SPEAKER 09 :
Depending on how it’s wording. But if you want to… Play that on the break, and it’s too long to play the whole thing, but if you want to play two or three minutes, and particularly the first three or four, the first 90 seconds are hilarious.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 09 :
In terms of how sick these people are. Wow.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay. Joe, appreciate you very much.
SPEAKER 09 :
You’re welcome, John.
SPEAKER 04 :
Have a great night. John and Cheyenne, you’re next. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 14 :
Hey, John. I didn’t want to say anything about news to get you down, but the funniest thing, we were listening at about 425. And as soon as you said pajamas on the airplane, my wife started chuckling. And said, that is so tacky.
SPEAKER 04 :
It drives me crazy.
SPEAKER 14 :
If you’re going, say you’re doing like my wife does for work, Dallas, Madrid, and you don’t want to wear dress clothes, that’s okay. But there are nice casual slacks. And a nice, comfortable shirt that you could wear where you don’t look like you just rolled out of bed.
SPEAKER 04 :
Thank you. Thank you.
SPEAKER 14 :
I mean, it’s class. And, you know, that’s what people don’t have anymore is class.
SPEAKER 04 :
I’m sure your wife has story after story after story after. I can only imagine.
SPEAKER 14 :
You know, the difference is she usually flies international for probably the last 20 years. So, as you see. It’s a different kind of people. So you were talking about how the kids were well-behaved. I mentioned this to the wife, and I wanted to mention it to you to see what you think. When you went on vacation with the tail end of spring break, not many kids were out.
SPEAKER 04 :
True.
SPEAKER 14 :
I would say most of those kids… were either homeschooled or private schooled.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, and you bring up a great point. And you could very well, I kind of thought of that same thing, John, and you could very well be correct on that. And if that is, in fact, the case, and you probably are right, that would be the answer.
SPEAKER 14 :
If you do your research, they say if you want to go, like for us, we’re a little older, you know. We’re both, all right, it starts both of us with a six. So we can go on vacation at different times. We don’t have to worry about kids and everything. They say from that Easter Sunday to Memorial Day is some of the best times to travel because the flights are usually not packed.
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s right.
SPEAKER 14 :
Even though you had to make reservations, the island wasn’t packed, was it?
SPEAKER 04 :
No, I mean, I wouldn’t say that it was extremely busy by then. Any means, John. And you know me. I mean, if anybody’s listening to me for any length of time knows that that particular time of the year, I mean, I have taken that week off after Easter and maybe 10 days or so after Easter. I have taken that time off for probably, well, even long before I started doing this daily show, John, I’ve been doing that time of the year for that reason.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, I had that same week vacation, and we just did some local stuff because we had stuff to go on. We went to southwest Colorado. Oh, by the way, why do people have to flock to the Front Range when there are so many beautiful places in the rest of Colorado?
SPEAKER 04 :
That is a – I don’t know. That is a great – I think because a lot of people think there’s some allure with, you know, some of the restaurants and different things we have in the Denver Front Range area, John, which, honestly, you can get the same food all across the state. So, frankly, I don’t know why.
SPEAKER 14 :
So we went down just to see if we could do some early season hikings because they’ve had it dry in the San Juans to Durango. And I took the scenic route back. The only stretch of interstate I went on – was the little piece between Frisco and Silverthorne, because that’s really the only way you can get over to Highway 9 to get up to Laramie. But the rest of it, we took all the back roads, all the back highways, the state roads, and gosh, it is such a… If you’re doing a road trip, that is a beautiful road trip across from Durango up to Breckenridge through the mountain roads. Oh my gosh, John, so beautiful. And then… And you’re not dealing with the interstate people. So if you hit a tractor trailer or something, they’re few and far between, and you can get around them in the passing zones. But other than that, you’re not worried about getting cut off by 20 tractor trailers. So just got back. I just wanted to say hi. Did you go to Kauai this time?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yep. Yep. Actually, I went to Maui and Kauai both. We on and hopped a little bit this time, so it was nice.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah. Kauai is still my favorite.
SPEAKER 04 :
Kauai is great. I love it. I mean, again, for anybody that’s never been there, it is definitely worth going to. They’ve got so many different activities and things that you can do there that, you know, honestly, John, you couldn’t get them all done. I mean, you’d have to spend a month plus to get all the activities done if you went and did everything.
SPEAKER 14 :
Or if you just want to go and unwind and relax, Kauai is, in my opinion, the quietest of all the islands.
SPEAKER 04 :
It really is. We always have a great time there, and that’s, as you know, one of my favorite places.
SPEAKER 14 :
Last question, what was the price of gas in Hawaii?
SPEAKER 04 :
$5.15 a gallon.
SPEAKER 14 :
All right, so pretty much, yeah, that’s what I thought it would be. Not as much as California, but close.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yep, it’s always the highest.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, John, you have a great day.
SPEAKER 04 :
You too, man. Appreciate you, John, very much. And I tell you what we’ll do. I’ll see if – I have not listened to – I didn’t ask Joe if there were bad words in the particular video that he was giving us. I sent that to Charlie a moment ago where maybe during this break he can listen to at least the first minute or so of that and make sure we don’t have any – anything that we could not play. Let’s just say that. And I didn’t ask Joe if that were the case. So we’ll double check that. And if that’s all good, we’ll play a little bit of that as soon as we come back. Golden Eagle Financial is next. Al Smith wants to help with your financial future. The planning of getting a plan set, by the way, making sure you stick to that plan, make changes as needed. Golden Eagle Financial. Find him at klzradio.com.
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SPEAKER 04 :
All right, we are back, and Charlie listened to a little bit of this. So, Joe, we’re in good shape. I’ll play, you know, as much as we want. We’ve got a little bit of time here, so not a ton, but I’ve got enough time to play some of this to Joe’s point. Really quick, too, somebody else had texted in on the text line, which I forgot to mention before I took Joe that last segment, talking about the ratings, networks, and all of that. CNN, he sent me the article, Food Network Does Better Than CNN. So just to give you an idea of what I was talking about earlier, proving the point that you take some of these big influencers that have far more followers and influence than what major network does. There’s a great example of that. So. OK, yeah. So this video Joe sent me is it’s called it’s on YouTube. The Trump assassination videos on TikTok are out of control. So I’m going to play you just a little bit of this. This thing’s a total of about 20 minutes. We won’t do all 20, of course, but we’ll play just a little bit of it for you to understand. Now, Charlie viewed some of this and told me, you know, in the first minute or so, it’s all women. So I’ll go I’ll play it. I’ve got some commentary on this that I want to make afterwards. But, Charlie, I’ve got my sound up here. Yeah. Younger women. Here we go.
SPEAKER 17 :
Who’s gonna take one for the team and do it? And I’m not gonna say what it is. Because I know that you know that I know what we’re all thinking. Who’s gonna do it? It can’t be me. I’m a dance teacher. I got things to do. But somebody’s gotta do it. Someone’s gotta take one for the team. Because we’re six weeks in. I can’t do four more years of this, guys. I don’t give a f***. Just kill them. You have to. I’m not asking.
SPEAKER 24 :
Somebody do it already, please. Please, I’m begging you. Somebody take one for the team. I can’t do it anymore. Can’t all wait for the day that I wake up and I see the headlines. I’m throwing a party. You’re all invited. Everyone’s invited. I need someone to do it soon, now, please.
SPEAKER 21 :
It’s coming. We’re all gonna wake up one morning and roll over and grab our phones and that headline’s gonna be right there. It’s gonna happen and I can’t wait.
SPEAKER 04 :
All right, I’ll leave it at that because there’s a commercial that pops up after that that I’m not going to watch or play. I find that interesting that other than one of those individuals, the last lady was an older, probably in her mid-50s maybe, maybe even 60s. It’s hard to tell because some ladies do a very good job of taking care of themselves, so it’s always hard to tell exactly how old somebody is as they age. But outside of her… Let’s just say that she was the only person in there that was over the age of 50. All of the rest of those. In fact, the way I looked at it, Charlie, was they kind of went from the youngest. The next one is a little older. The next one was a little older than that. The next one’s a little older than that. And what is with the anger of young women and women in general today? Is it what we have fostered, I guess? I mean, you’re cuckoo. First of all. Even with all of the craziness that has gone on on the other side of the aisle, I have never once, nor would I ever, in private and or publicly say I wish so-and-so was dead. I would never say that. I can’t say that. That can’t come out of my mouth. I guess it’s the way I was raised. It’s the respect for life that I have. As much as I may disagree with someone, and there’s a lot of people I do, The whole administration we had in there, I really disagreed with. You guys know I talked about it for the four years that Biden was in office. As much as I can’t stand the George Soroses of the world and feel like he is nothing but a scourge on the planet, and I’ve said this before and this one I will say, he is like Satan incarnate. That’s how that guy looks at things. That’s the destruction that he has done on this earth. Even somebody like George Soros, I would never say what these ladies are saying. I would never say that. And I don’t think most sane individuals, and especially sane Christian individuals, would say anything along those lines. You have got to be an absolute, absolute nutjob literally, to talk that way. I mean, these are people that are literally, literally unhinged. I know no other way to say it. Joe, thank you for sending that because I had not watched that. I mean, and by the way, a minute of that is about all I can take. There’s 20 minutes of that. I couldn’t watch 20 minutes of that. One, I didn’t even do 90 seconds. I did 59 seconds, I think is what I just played. It’s about right because the commercial pops up in a minute. So it was 59 seconds. I can’t do any more than that. That sort of stuff just it just it grinds on me. I don’t know how else to say it. It just it it bothers me to no end to know that there are people out there that would celebrate the death of someone else, especially one of our leaders. And I get it. They don’t like Trump. They don’t want to acknowledge he’s even the president. They think it was a scam in the way that he was elected. And they forget about the other people that actually did vote for him and elected him. And some of them are probably family members of themselves. They don’t want to acknowledge any of that, of course. But the one thing that, and this is something I should probably do a whole topic on, maybe even get a guest to join me. And that is just this whole anger that’s especially coming out of young women. And by the way, it’s mostly white women. And it’s old women, too. Yes, Charlie, it is. A lot of the folks that have been at these Bernie and AOC rallies have been older white women. Yes, that is correct. Retirees and so on. And yes, I get it. But I do see a large amount of young, especially young white women that are so angry, they’re going to be old widows when they die. They’re never going to have, not widows, they’re going to be old, unmarried widows. Women that frankly have never had any kind of a life with a man, family, whatever. Maybe that’s what they want. Maybe that’s what they’re desiring. But they’re going to die very old and lonely when it’s all said and done. And that’s sad. That’s sad. That’s not the way things are supposed to work, especially when you’re young. That should be the most vibrant, enjoyable, you know, fun times of your life. You know, for a lot of us, those of you even listening, those were the times where you got married, you struggled, you had kids. There was all sorts of things going on, but you pushed through it. You made it work. You’re a better person for it. You know, you’ve got kids and grandkids now for a lot of you that are listening. Some of you, by the way, are at that age where you’re doing the same things. And I think about these women that are single and angry now. And just the pure agony they’re living in. And honestly, I feel sorry for them. I’m not mad at them. I feel sorry for them. What a miserable life to live. Because frankly, these are the kind of people that aren’t even happy when Joe’s in power. You know, when Joe Biden was president, there’s still something they’re not happy about. Somebody’s doing something that they’re not happy about and they’re going to be on the bandwagon over and they’re not happy about it. And again, my heart goes out to him because what a miserable existence to go around being that lonely and that hard up for, I’ll just say it, that hard up for love that you’re now angry at the entire world over it. And they might tell you otherwise, but I will tell you, you can look at them. You can look at their eyes. You can look at their expressions and know they’re miserable. Right. I’m not wrong in what I’m saying. And you could ask other women, my wife included, she will look at these same women and say, yep, there’s somebody that’s in misery. People see it. And by the way, it’s one of the things I can probably attest to with traveling. 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SPEAKER 04 :
One last thing in closing that did happen while I was gone, of course, was the Pope died. And yeah, that was big news to a lot of people, especially those of you that are Catholics and so on. The Pope dying was a big deal. What was a bigger deal, though, was Trump wearing a blue suit to the funeral, which, by the way, as I looked and you panned out on the picture of everybody at the funeral, he wasn’t the only one. In fact, I would tell you that probably a third of the people that attended the pope’s funeral had some sort of a blue outfit on and they weren’t wearing black, which is for most funerals traditional. But, you know, at the end of the day, good gravy. That’s all they can whine about is the fact that Trump wore a blue suit. Anyways, we’ll leave it at that. Have a great night. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
