HR3 Trump Decreases Drug Prices, AmeriCorps Lose Funding 5-12-25 by John Rush
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All right, welcome back. Hour number three, Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. And several of you texting in, by the way, about my whole golf conversation we had and just can’t imagine me as a golfer. I don’t know why you guys have such a hard time believing that. I actually enjoy it, and I’m not very good at it. I wish I was better. I wish I had more time to play and get better because I actually do enjoy it. My dad, actually, where I learned – golf was at a very young age. Actually, my dad was a pretty avid golfer growing up, so he was an outdoorsman as well. So, you know, learned how to, you know, of course, hunt and fish and do all sorts of outdoor activities, ride motorcycles, all that kind of stuff. But golfing as well and golfed a lot with my dad when I was younger and played pretty frequently up until, you know, I started to have kids and so on and kind of took probably a short hiatus. And my father-in-law at the time played And we played a lot during that time as well. And then as you heard Richard and I talk, you know, we played a little bit when he was younger. And then as he got a little older and started having kids and then, you know, I actually started doing the daily program. because a lot of times we would go play in the late afternoons, evenings, things like that. I had the ability with a schedule to do some things along those lines. Well, now with being here as much as I am, frankly, and some would say, well, change your schedule around and go play in the morning. I could, other than I coach businesses in the morning, so I don’t take as much time to do some of those things as I once did because I’ve got other things going on. And frankly, I enjoy doing those things as well. But yeah, I don’t know why you guys can’t imagine me golfing because i actually i i enjoy it so joe what’s going on john regarding golf you know you should consider taking up long range shooting it’s like golf except for real men i know i know long range shooting would be fun that’s another one of those things though that you know as you know joe takes a lot of time and it’s like golf you don’t get good at it unless you go do it
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Right, but it’s all the same thing. Which way is the wind blowing? There’s all these variables you’ve got to take into account, and the object is to put the next bullet in the same hole as the first bullet. So it’s just like golf, except for real men, John. Yeah. You’re in a part of the country where I know there’s some long-range outdoor ranges.
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Actually, no, I belong to a range where that’s a very doable thing. It’s just, as you can imagine, there’s a lot of those things I would love doing, Joe, if I didn’t spend so much time behind this microphone, I guess.
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Yeah, but the other good thing, too, is a round of golf is four, four and a half hours. You can go do some long-range shooting in 90 minutes, John. True, true. So, you know, it’s a very doable, very, very doable sport. And, John, you know, you’re to the age where, you know, I’m too old to fight and I can’t run very fast anymore. Only shoot. But damn, can I shoot.
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Exactly. Exactly.
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So just my suggestion for when I turn up to golf for yourself and any of the older listeners like me.
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No, I am – and I love shooting and all that anyways, Joe. So, again, these are things that – it’s funny. I grew up doing a ton of those things because my dad was very avid when it come to a lot of those different things we’re talking about, whether it be golf or shooting or hunting and fishing and what have you. And on the same token, Joe, Colorado – this is not a complaint, but as a native, Colorado is not the same today as it was when I was in my – you know, elementary and teenage years and even on up into early adulthood. The state has definitely changed since then.
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It has. John, I moved there in 94. And at the time, I was a fairly avid golfer and where I built my house down in Larkspur, I was within walking distance, maybe a mile of a public golf course, beautiful golf course down there in Larkspur. But, you know, we had horses. And what I found, John, is that, you know, I had an airplane. So I was We had horses on nice days where horseback riding or I was flying my airplane. I was out doing some sporting clays. And all of those activities competed for the same nice sunny weather.
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Yep, sure did.
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So I said to myself, which one of these am I going to drop? And I looked back and I was only playing two or three rounds of golf a year, and I quickly figured out you can’t stay proficient.
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You can’t. No, you can’t. And that’s my problem today, Joe, when it comes to golf. And occasionally I’ll get guys that will even ask me, hey, let’s go out Sunday afternoon and go play a round or something along those lines. And it’s just like, you know, I would, but now it’s not enjoyable because you don’t do it enough to actually make it good enough to where you’re good enough at it to be enjoyable. Does that make sense, Joe?
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Yeah, so that’s exactly why I stopped, John, because they go out and shoot you know, 104 is not pleasant. That’s not pleasant. Or a fulfilling or enriching experience.
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You know, my feeling, Joe, is you’ve got to be at least in the high 80s or so, even low 80s to, you know, hopefully even get into the 70s. But if you can stay in that 80 range, that’s not a bad day of golf for a novice, if you ask me. And a lot of people think, well, that’s really a poor round of golf. You probably know the stats, Joe. How many golfers are actually in that range?
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John, I’ve got a very good friend who golfs two or three times a week, and if he shoots an 84 and 85, he’s ecstatic.
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That’s what I figured. And he’s probably above average.
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Oh, he’s above average. He goes on golfing vacations, and in fact, he just went to Florida to play golf, but you know, he’s a member of a club. He pays a lot of member to be a member of a club.
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And again, he’s, there’s a lot of golfers, Joe, as you know, that are in the low one hundreds consistently.
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Oh yes.
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Am I wrong?
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No, you’re not. You’re not wrong, John.
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But again, Joe, like I was talking to the golf ball guy about the, the perception for most golfers is everybody shoots a 72. Oh, ball.
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Am I right though? No, I’ve played my next door neighbor in Colorado. He was a, Another avid golfer, he belonged, you know, he had clubs that were worth a thousand bucks. And, you know, he was a member and he golfed all the time. And the same deal, you know, and here’s a guy, again, three, four times a week. And he was, you know, paying a thousand dollars a year more just to be a member of this club. And the best he could do was stay in the 80s.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. The problem is, like a lot of other things, Joe, most people consistently think that everybody around them shoots way better golf than they do.
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Yeah. So, John, next time somebody asks you to go play golf, why don’t you say, hey, let’s go shoot some sporting clays instead?
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Yeah. And actually, I would enjoy that as well. That’d be awesome.
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Have you shot sporting clays at any time or recently? Oh, yeah.
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Oh, yeah. I used to. Again, that was another one of those things back in my probably mid to late 20s. Actually, this is something that I had a good friend of mine that his wife shot competitively, so we would typically go out and shoot. I don’t know. We’d probably go a couple times a week and shoot clay pigeons. Had a blast doing it.
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And by the way, that’s one thing where age doesn’t impede you.
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No. Joe, I’ve still got all the reloading stuff because I was shooting enough that I was reloading all my own 20-gauge shells at that time.
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Here’s a little trivia. Who’s the oldest person to ever compete in the Olympics and to compete in six consecutive Olympics?
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Wasn’t that the sporting clay gal?
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Yeah, well, actually, it’s Trapp, but yeah, Kim Rhodes.
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Right, Trapp, yeah.
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Kim Rosen, yeah, she’s still competing at age 60-something.
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That’s awesome.
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Years of age. So, you know, your ability to compete and excel is not generally impeded by age in that sport, but it is in other sports.
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Truthfully, for me, that’s one of the funnest things you can go do.
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Yeah, break some clay birds.
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Yep, absolutely. Absolutely.
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All right, my two cents.
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Joe, appreciate you very much. Nope, I appreciate that. Bob, let me get you in before we go to a break. Go ahead.
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Short story. There’s a man going out to the golf course. He’s going to meet his three friends from work, and they’re going to play a foursome. On the way, he stops to get gas.
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Okay.
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He gets in the car, didn’t realize he left his glasses on the driver’s seat, sat on them, and broke them. Without his glasses, he’s blind as a bat. But he thinks, I’m closer to the golf course than I am home. I’ll just creep along the curb. I’ll get there. I’ll deal with this later. He gets there. He talks to the pro, and he says, I broke my glasses. I can’t see. Where are my three buddies? Oh, they couldn’t wait for you. They went. He says, well, I’m here. I might as well play a few holes. Do you have a caddy that has good vision? He goes, I only got one caddy left. He’s 80. He’s got eyes like an eagle. Okay, I’ll take them. They go out to the first box. He knocks one out 300-plus yards behind. Turns around to the caddy, says, did you see where that went? Caddy said, yep. Where is it? Caddy said, I forgot.
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That’s a good one, Bob. Good story. Good one.
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These top golf places, they’re gaining in popularity because they’re 50 and under. Oh, 40 and under. And they say to their friends, hey, you want to play a game Saturday? Yeah, I like games. How long will it take? All day. No thanks.
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Yep. Go out to Topgolf. No, Bob, you are correct. Now, I will say this. People think I’ll go there and actually save money. Shoot, no, Bob. It’s the opposite. You spend more money at Topgolf than you would actually going out and playing around.
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Oh, I know. I pick them up and drop them off there. Yeah, you know.
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It’s expensive. Yeah. No, I’ve only done it a couple of times for some invite parties and things where people invite you and you feel kind of obligated to go, so you go. And at the end of it, I’m like, I could have played a round of golf for this. Honestly. But anyways, to your point, they are gaining in popularity, absolutely.
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You know who owns Tapco?
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No, I do not, Bob.
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Callaway.
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Callaway. Okay, that makes sense. Yep. Yeah, okay, makes sense. Bob, thanks, man. That was a good story. Okay. Appreciate you very much. All right, up next, Golden Eagle Financial. Now, this is one where you don’t want to laugh because Al does a really great job at helping people, financially speaking, get to where they want to go. Listen to Al’s interview next.
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Al Smith from Golden Eagle Financial and the show you love, Retirement Unpacked, is here with me. How are you today, Al? I’m doing great. How are you, TJ? I’m doing great as well. I have a couple questions for you. As a financial advisor, do you also do taxes?
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No, I don’t prepare my clients’ taxes. I do, however, spend a lot of time talking to them about taxes. To use a sports analogy, tax preparation is like doing a recap of the game. What I do is more like creating a game plan and then following up over time to see how it’s working.
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And how much are taxes a part of that game plan that you create?
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Well, with so many different taxes we’re faced with, it becomes an important thing to take into consideration. It’s not how much income you have, but how much you get to keep. In addition to federal and state income taxes, there’s property taxes, state and local sales tax, and fees. And they all play a part in shrinking our income.
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What about people who already have really healthy balances in 401ks, IRAs? Won’t they be facing significant taxes as they draw income from those accounts? Well, it depends.
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Everybody’s situation’s a little bit different. There’s no one size that fits all when it comes to tax planning. But often when I work with people, we’ll create a strategy where we will convert traditional IRAs to Roth over time. And that not only reduces taxes in the future, but it will also lower the tax they’ll be paying on their Social Security.
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Is that kind of strategy really only for the wealthy?
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Not at all. Many of my clients who have modest IRAs have chosen to convert to Roth over time. They enjoy the freedom of having a tax-free nest egg that they can access on their own timeline rather than an RMD schedule.
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Well, that is excellent. And how can people reach you if they want to learn about their own taxation in retirement?
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. And in the 3 o’clock hour, I talked a little bit about an interview that happened on another radio station, not KLZ, but another station here in town, one of the largest, by the way, so if that gives you any hint. And there was an interview done with some of the – two of the past GOP – Colorado GOP – The positions, vice chair and treasurer, they were both on this particular program. And I mentioned that during the 3 o’clock hour. I had a lot of you that had told me, hey, they’re going to be on. You might want to listen in, which thank you for doing so because I wouldn’t have known that otherwise because, as you guys all know, I don’t listen to other people. I don’t listen to any news. I don’t watch TV. I might watch a particular program here or there, but I do very, very little. In fact, I will tell you that last week, and this is not a joke, I would think… From the time I got back from vacation, I had not watched any television. I sat down last night and watched a particular show online, and that’s the first television, literally anything on the television that I had watched in almost two weeks. I just don’t watch a lot of TV. So between that and news and other programs and so on, I don’t watch anything at all. So unless you guys all tell me something is out there that I should be paying attention to, I don’t. So in the case of today, it was about 2 o’clock, and several of you, and I appreciate it, but more than one of you, I think there was about six of you, believe it or not, that actually texted me and said, hey, you might want to listen at 2.30 to such and such going on this other particular radio station. And I said, okay, I will do that. So I tuned in, and I talked about this during the 3 o’clock hour, but a lot of you don’t listen at 3, so I’ll reiterate this now in this particular hour. So I did listen in, and again, I don’t normally do that, but this particular host, who I have a lot of respect for, by the way, I like her dearly. Her and I think a lot alike. There’s only probably a few things, period, that we ever disagree on, and she would probably say the same. Her and I have a lot of respect for one another, and I appreciate all that she does. And she brought these other individuals on in response to having Britta Horn on her program, which we’ve had Britta on as well. And this was all having to do with some of the money shortages that are in the Colorado GOP. What is the exact amount? There’s numbers being thrown around of 140, 150K. I don’t know what the actual number is. The explanation today that was given by the previous… uh treasurer and by hope the vice chair was like 95 000 is the exact number that was what was being now given out by tom the previous treasurer now You guys all have agreed with me on this one as well. As I listened to both Tom and Hope give explanations as to this dollar amount, it solidified everything that I have said, literally from almost day one of the Dave Williams regime taking over, being dumb as rocks. It was solidified today in this particular interview on another station. And most of you have texted me and have said exactly that. In fact, these were your words, not mine. You literally have been texting and saying, as I listened to that interview. In the back of my mind, I’m thinking, geez, John’s talked about how dumb these people are all along, and we thought he was just exaggerating. I’m paraphrasing some of the text messages, but they’re all pretty much the same text message. And literally, you were all saying how you thought I may have been exaggerating how ignorant and dumb these people really were that were running the Colorado GOP. It was solidified today that I was correct. In fact, some of you went as far as to say this other host did me a big favor By having them on because it literally showed how dumb they really are backing up what I’ve been saying for the past two years. So, A, thank you for the text messages. I guess I should thank this host openly, and I will. Thank you for doing that interview because these people won’t come on my program. They’ve had lots of invites. They won’t come on here. And I know why they won’t because you’re much kinder than I am. this particular host is much kinder than I am. But even today, she left the interview with, I really don’t know what you guys have said. It’s almost like the old, you know, where it’s, I think it’s Billy Madison to where Adam Sandler, you know, the teacher gets up there or the guy that’s running the contest gets up there and basically says, I have no idea what you just said. The entire audience is now dumber for listening to that. That’s literally what I heard on air today. Everybody is dumber now for listening to these two speak because nothing came of that that had any kind of intelligence to it whatsoever. Those of you that are fanboys of them, by the way, I have no idea how you defend what went on today. I have no idea. It was literally almost like Charlie Brown’s teacher speaking today. It was that bad, and I’m not exaggerating. Wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah. That’s literally all I heard. Not one legitimate answer as to what’s going on, what had happened before versus what happened now. All I heard today was, you know, forensic audits are expensive. Yes, they are, although they’re not as expensive as what was said today. Why one of them wasn’t done when we’re spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on attorneys to defend lawsuits that was initiated by the Colorado GOP is beyond me. And all I heard today was we had to do that so we could defend ourselves because we were being sued. No, you started all of this. Let me remind you, you started this. No one else did. You did. And the money spent was to defend what you started, which never should have been done in the first place. Like Andy and I have said numerous times, why did Dave not just hold the meeting that people wanted to get a vote of confidence in his leadership at that time and be done with it rather than spending all this money on attorneys? Which that money is now not being spent, but was all the way up until Dave leaving. That money was being spent on attorneys that frankly shouldn’t have been. And this is something that hasn’t been said that I keep saying. And I would hope that now, if we do an audit inside of the GOP, some of this stuff will come up. But the one thing I keep saying is this last administration, Dave and his cronies, talked about how much inside stuff went on with previous administrations, and yet Dave was king of it. The amount of money that was spent with his cronies… What I can look at in the FEC reports is far more than I’ve seen even happen previous inside of the Colorado GOP. And I’ve said it numerous times, the one party planner, Eric Grossman, who is now running Colorado Doge, I should say, Colorado Doge, which frankly is not even a legitimate thing from Doge. It’s just something that’s been started here in our state by this knucklehead. And I’m saying knucklehead because these are grifters. These are literally people that are just running around trying to get as much money squeezed out of the things that they can. And that’s what Dave was doing with his cronies, literally handing out money to his political grifters. And it was proven today on air. And you can text me. If you don’t know what the program I’m talking about, you can text me, and I’ll tell you what that is. Most of you know because you were the ones telling me to listen, and I did. And the reality is all they did was prove what I’ve been saying for a very long time now. So, yes, I want to thank this host for actually doing that because she proved a lot of things that we already knew. But it’s amazing to me. that the other side still doesn’t understand why they are where they’re at and why they’re no longer in leadership. It’s amazing to me along those lines. Let’s take a quick break. We’re at the bottom of the hour. Let me get on track because otherwise I’ll get way off track. Geno’s Auto Service is next. Great air conditioning special with right now all of your ACs in your cars are most likely being used. 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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Again, appreciate y’all listening, and I do appreciate all of the text messages that I got earlier before the show even started today. John, what’s going on, sir?
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You know, what you just did was very nice, considering she’s kind of a competitor.
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Well, she’s a very good competitor, and her and I think a lot alike.
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Yeah, I listen to her show a lot at work. I work in a cubicle, and a lot of times I just put it on to have something in the background on my headphones.
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You know what I mean? Her and I at times, not regularly too, John, but her and I at times will communicate via some direct messaging here or there. So, again, she is one of those that is, let’s just say, a very good egg.
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They’re going to play. So going to the Colorado party, they’re going to play this game. As long as they can, because they want power back in two years.
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You are correct.
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So they’re going to do everything they can to make Britta look bad. You are right.
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They are going to basically do, to your point, they’re going to do what they can to make her look bad. They’re going to scrutinize and criticize literally everything she does, anything. In other words, any candidate that loses, they are going to definitely highlight and mark my words, they will compare what this particular track record is against their particular track record. And what they’re forgetting is the track records really aren’t comparable because they ran people in a huge Trump crowd. win election year where there was huge tides that were switched and changed. They’re going to compare that to a midterm election, by the way, is what they’re going to do. And the reality is they are not one in the same.
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Which is also a governor election, which would get the state of Colorado a better turnout than a lot of times in a midterm.
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Yeah, even in a presidential election, you are correct. You’re going to see more, especially in Colorado, you’ll see more turnout most likely this next time around than you actually did the last time around.
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So going back to you were talking about Trump, you know what’s got me shocked is everybody forgets. He wrote a super best-selling book called The Art of the Deal.
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Right.
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And there are a lot of people who are like, he’s going to destroy the country. And like you and Andy, I know I looked at it and said, you know what? Let’s see what happens in six months. I was giving him six months, but he’s already got China in a deal. China’s not going to change back again. They’re going to find some way to make a deal where they can save face.
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Well, that’s the, as you know, that’s the kind of Asian way, not just China, but that’s kind of an Asian trade, if you would. And that’s not to be derogatory. That’s just their culture. That’s the way it works.
SPEAKER 07 :
So Trump is going to negotiate a deal that’s good for all parties that they can say face with. You know what I mean? At some point. He’s got to give them something. That’s like there were people upset about the deal with the U.K., because he gave them some automotive stuff that they said wasn’t fair. But it was still, he made a better deal than we had before, right or wrong, you know. And, you know, I don’t know when Jordan’s on next, but… Oh, next month.
SPEAKER 18 :
We won’t have him until June, and there’ll be probably more of these sorts of deals even done by then, which will, frankly, go opposite of some of what Jordan, as you know from the last conversation we had last week, it’s going to be opposite of what Jordan thinks.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, yeah, because I got a feeling that the market will be back… to where it was on January 20th or 21st when he took over. By the end of next month.
SPEAKER 18 :
And I don’t remember when he took over. It closed out today. I was wrong earlier. I said $45,000 because I just looked quickly. It was $42,410. So almost $42,500 was pretty close to it. $42,410 is the exact number, up 2.8% from where it was. Now, keep in mind, where it went from a week or so ago, it’s way up from where it was a week or so ago. Okay.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. And it was 44 and change on the, when he took office, when he got sworn in.
SPEAKER 18 :
So he’s not that, he’s not that far off.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, another two days like today and it’s back, but you know, there’s every time we have a nice two, two and a half percent jump in a Dow, the S and P and the NASDAQ, there’s always people out there that are going to pull some money out.
SPEAKER 18 :
True.
SPEAKER 07 :
So you might be a 500 point day, or you might see a drop day. That’s just the way the market works. I mean, When everybody was panicking, I told them all, unless you’re selling, you didn’t lose a thing.
SPEAKER 18 :
No, that’s very true. No, if people are in this for, quote-unquote, the long haul, you know, people that are maybe even a little bit less risk-tolerant today, maybe they’re in their early 60s and aren’t going to start pulling out of that for another 10 years or so, you’ve still got 10 years, John.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. And if you look back on every 10 years, including the Depression, the market’s all the way always up.
SPEAKER 18 :
Right. One thing, too, really quick.
SPEAKER 07 :
I’ll let somebody else jump in.
SPEAKER 18 :
No, you’re fine. One thing that people forget, too, John, along these same lines, is that, and I saw this in the Wall Street Journal today, we have collected in April alone, not counting the other months, but in April alone, we collected $16.3 billion in customs duties.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. And, you know, the tariffs are going to go up. It’s just everything takes time. If you want to go with Trump… You know, everybody’s mad at him because he says he’ll give you a plane ticket and $1,000 to self-deport. Oh, he’s going to waste our money. It costs $17,000. How’s that a waste?
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, thank you. That’s a savings.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, because it costs $17,000 to deport someone, to go through the process and all the extra things where if they just say, I’m leaving, give me a ticket, give me my check when I get on a plane, and they’re gone. Well, that’s even better, in my opinion, because you’re not putting… law enforcement lives in jeopardy at the same time.
SPEAKER 18 :
And now they’re all up in arms because Qatar is going to give us a 747 that I believe he’s going to convert around to a third Air Force One because Boeing can’t get their, sorry, crap together to get things built. That’s a whole other conversation I could do an entire show on, John. But at the end of the day, he’s getting criticism now from the left because he’s going to accept as a gift a $400 million airplane that Qatar is giving us as the United States of America. Yeah, it’s not a freebie, by the way. He’ll have to upfit that, or we as taxpayers will have to upfit that to make sure it meets what needs to happen with Air Force One. So we’re still going to spend money, but the initial cost we’re not.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, and here’s the other thing. People have said on social media, you know, We shouldn’t accept it because they’re our enemy and it’s possible that they’ll, you know, plant a bomb or something inside of it.
SPEAKER 18 :
That thing will be gutted and gone through anyways. That’s irrelevant.
SPEAKER 07 :
Exactly. How stupid are these people? You know, the Secret Service will go through it with a fine-tooth comb. And other people are saying, well, they’re our enemy. Well, maybe they’re trying to find a way not to be our enemy. Could that be it? Maybe this is a peace gesture?
SPEAKER 18 :
Let me just say this. There’s a lot of folks out there that I would consider to be enemies of the United States and Qatar, by the way, not being one of them. There are a lot of countries in the Middle East that are much, much, much higher on that ranking than they are.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, yeah. But, you know, even if they were, you know, not an enemy, not an ally, just a neutral party and they want to get on our good side, You know, there’s a good way. They give us an airplane. We maybe give them.
SPEAKER 18 :
And I’m confused. I mean, even doing a quick AI, you know, Google search of, and it’s Qatar, actually, I’m not saying that right. We always say Qatar, but it’s actually Qatar. I mean, even when you do a quick AI search, they are not considered an enemy of the United States. So where’s that coming from, John?
SPEAKER 07 :
The lunatics on the right, just like we have lunatics on the left.
SPEAKER 18 :
They are considered, and this is coming right out of Google. This is right from Google, which, by the way, is about as left-leaning as you can get, John, as you know. They are designated as a major non-NATO ally.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 18 :
So they are not our enemy. So any lefty saying that is a total dodo head.
SPEAKER 07 :
And the crazies all the way on the right are just as bad as the lefties.
SPEAKER 18 :
Sorry, I was listening to those guys earlier before I came on air at 3 o’clock, so they fit that description as well.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, yeah. And I didn’t get to hear the interview that you were talking about, but if anybody wants to hear it, I know all of that person’s interviews are usually… on that station’s website within about an hour of her going off the air.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, typically you can listen to those tonight if you wanted to. It was a 2.30 interview today is when it was.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, yeah. I had heard earlier in the show when she was talking about the Rockies. I didn’t hear you. Did you talk about that with Richard? The Rockies?
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah. What’s there to talk about? I missed something. What’s going on?
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, they fired their manager yesterday.
SPEAKER 18 :
Oh, I did not see that. I paid little attention to the Rockies. Sorry.
SPEAKER 07 :
I know. You’re not a baseball guy. Yeah, they fired their manager yesterday.
SPEAKER 18 :
If we were better, and I think this is the problem the Rockies have in general, not to get completely switching gears here, but while we’re at it, let’s talk about it. I think if the Rockies actually had some performance, you’d have more fans because the reality is, like I said a moment ago, what’s there to talk about?
SPEAKER 07 :
No. Well, here’s the thing. That’s why the Monforts don’t care about the product they’re putting on the field because Because in that game Friday night, did you see that 21-0 they lost?
SPEAKER 18 :
Oh, jeez. I did not see that, no.
SPEAKER 07 :
Wow. Okay. They had more Padre fans in the stands than they had Rockies fans because you’ve got to admit, you’ve got a lot of transplants in Colorado from all over the country.
SPEAKER 18 :
You do. You do.
SPEAKER 07 :
And unlike some people, my allegiance has not changed for baseball since I was seven years old and started watching the Mets. And I still do.
SPEAKER 18 :
Mine hasn’t either because I’ve never been a fan.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. But what I’m saying is, if you moved to Arizona, would that stop you from being a Bronco fan?
SPEAKER 18 :
Oh, absolutely not. Of course not.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. That’s why I moved here, but I didn’t stop being a Giants fan. What I’m saying is fan allegiance goes a lot deeper than where you live. You know what I mean?
SPEAKER 18 :
Oh, you’re correct.
SPEAKER 07 :
Good point. And that’s the problem with the Rockies. Now, the Yankees are coming to town, I believe, Memorial Day weekend. I bet you there’s sellouts. There’s so many Yankee fans around the country. I bet you they get sellouts, and the Rockies are the worst team in baseball.
SPEAKER 18 :
You are probably correct on that, yes.
SPEAKER 07 :
And so… What does Monfort care if he puts a crap product on the field when he’s getting sellouts because the opposing team’s fans are showing up?
SPEAKER 18 :
Good point.
SPEAKER 07 :
And that’s where he doesn’t care. He doesn’t want to win. He just wants to make money. We had that problem with the Mets in the early 2010s. New owner bought the team. and all of a sudden he spent money, he got the team, now they’re in first place. You know, you’ve got to have a system in place. But, yeah, you didn’t hear that. So the Rockies fired their manager today, and I felt bad for the guy because he was given a crappy product. They won’t spend money on free agents.
SPEAKER 19 :
Right.
SPEAKER 07 :
So I thought Richard might have brought it up. I didn’t hear all of Richard when I was out here working.
SPEAKER 18 :
No, and we were talking more golf than we were baseball today.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right, and I heard that interview.
SPEAKER 18 :
That was an interesting interview. It was, absolutely. I learned things I didn’t know. Let’s just say that. Well, John, you have a good rest of your day.
SPEAKER 07 :
You too, man.
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SPEAKER 18 :
All right, one thing I wanted to touch on today, I’m not going to have a lot of time to speak to this, but I can get this done, I think, in this amount of time. And that is there was an article in the Colorado Sun today about AmeriCorps workers. Am I saying that right? Is it AmeriCorps or AmeriCorps? AmeriCorps. that Dodge, Doge I should say, is cutting their funding. And really quick, some of you are always probably wondering, why do you always say Dodge? Well, when you’re a car guy, it’s always seen in big cap letters, D-O-G-E. Yeah, I know the D is missing, but as a car guy, you just automatically, my brain goes to Dodge. I don’t know why. It’s just, I guess because in my world, that’s a name. logo whatever that i’ve seen so many times you know growing up even that it’s hard to get that out of my mind so sorry there are times yes where i make a mistake and say dodge instead of doge just because that’s how my my brain works but there’s people in the state right now that are upset because doge is cutting funding for the americors now some might say well okay doge Yeah, that sounds like a big deal. Why are we doing that? Well, as you read through this particular article, I’ll just read a little bit of this to you. I won’t get very far. When Jackie Curry was a sophomore at the University of Denver, she needed cash to keep her afloat as she worked towards her degree in environmental science. Now, okay, I get the fact that you need cash. That’s great. Unfortunately, Jackie’s in a field where, frankly, there’s not a lot of money, so you’re probably going to need a handout from this point forward because environmental science is one of those areas that doesn’t necessarily pay a lot. Anyways. So she did what a lot of college kids who parents aren’t footing their education bill do. She went to the work-study office where a counselor helped her find a job with the DU’s Center for Community Engagement to Advance Scholarship and Learning. Her duties took her to K-12 classrooms across Metro Denver, where she asked kids what they would like to see in their community. One class was highly concerned about gun violence, so Curry helped bring in Frank DeAngelis, principal of Columbine High School during the 1999 shooting, to speak to them about the implications of gun violence and the importance of prevention. Oh, I’m glad she got that done. Good for her. We kind of looked at things through a social justice lens, just what I want K-12 kids learning. That’s my comment, not hers, by the way. In a way that K-12 students could understand, she said that makes sense because her job at the center came from AmeriCorps, the billion-dollar federal agency for national service and volunteerism, which, by the way, is rooted in social justice. No, I’m not going to continue on. I mean, it talks about how much of a footprint that the AmeriCorps organization has here in Colorado and blah, blah, blah. Now, I will tell you straight up that all I had to read was three paragraphs to realize that, yep, let’s cut their funding. We don’t need that. Total, utter nonsense. In other words, we as taxpayers – make sure I clean this up for you guys. You’re all going to know what I’m going to say, but we as taxpayers – have been funding the indoctrination of young people on this whole social justice nonsense, rather than teaching them what 2 plus 2 is and so on. No, we’re going down this path of social justice, and let’s make sure the kids understand how guns are bad and blah, blah, blah. That’s what we’re spending money on as taxpayers that Doge cut off. In other words, it should have been cut off. Should have been doing it in the first place. But, of course, all of the left is up in arms and they’re crying because Doge is cutting this and Doge is cutting that. And the reality is it never should have been there to begin with. Never should have done that to begin with. And my feeling is that some of these particular organizations, if they were really that needed and they were really doing that much good, you could go find funding to make that happen outside of the federal government, outside of my tax dollars. There are lots of organizations, by the way. One of them is Preborn that we talk about on the National Crawford Roundtable. Those are helping carrying pregnancy centers. They do ultrasounds of moms so they can see what’s inside the womb and on and on. You’ve heard me talk about that on the Roundtable. So has Bob. And the reality is they don’t receive federal funding. They’re able to do the work that they do that’s near and dear to them and to people like me that donate. They find ways to make things work. If there’s something that really is effective and it’s doing a great job, it will find funding all on its own. Am I right, Charlie? You will find ways to get the money in and provide for what’s going on without my tax dollars funding it. In my opinion, and I don’t think I’m far off in this, when agencies are funded with tax dollars, they are a lot less responsible in those dollars that come in. They feel a lot more free to just go spend willy-nilly on whatever they feel they need to because they know they’re going to get that much money or more back next year because that’s how the system has always worked. It’s not now. It’s being really cut back. My fear is, unless we get some really significant changes out of Congress, my fear is these things will be back the minute there’s an administration change. These things will all just get refunded again. In fact, I could even hear the next president candidate for, you know, the Democrat candidate for president. I can just hear that person coming out saying, yep, I’ll make you a promise. All these things that have been cut under Donald Trump, I’m going to bring them back on day one. I’ll sign an executive order to, you know, reinstitute all of that funding all over again. Now, they can’t really do that, but that’s what they’ll run on. That’s what they’ll try to promise. All of you that thought you were going to have a job the minute that Donald Trump was elected and your job was taken away from you because the funding was cut, we’re going to bring that back. Trust me, that’s what they’re going to run on. Because there’s a certain amount of individuals, folks on the left especially, that yeah, their funding did get cut, yeah, their job was gone, and they’re mad. Their pet project, their pet job went away. And the thing that everybody forgets is it’s been tax dollars funding that. My dollars, your dollars. Those of us that are positive taxpayers, that’s our money. Going up in smoke in a lot of cases. Or in this case, it’s indoctrinating young kids. And I’m not exaggerating when I say that. This money has been going to indoctrinate young kids. It’s ridiculous. It shouldn’t be that way. So keep in mind that we as a state, because of our AG, Phil Weiser, who is going to run for governor here in Colorado, he is one of the attorney generals that has filed lawsuits against the federal government for these very things that I am talking about. That’s something that our side needs to start really messaging correctly on, no matter who ends up being our gubernatorial candidate on the Republican side. And right now there’s about six or seven that have thrown their hat into the ring. Whoever ends up coming out on top and running against whomever it is going to be, and I don’t know exactly who the left is even going to run as far as that goes, they’re still having their debates internally. But when it’s all said and done, we need to make sure that we’re big on this. Phil Weiser is liable to be your guy on the left, although I could be wrong in that. It could end up being somebody else. I’m not sure the left really knows right now who their top candidate’s going to be, but it will be somebody. And they will run somebody strong when it’s all said and done. Trust me on that. They’re better at that than we are. They’re better at getting together collectively and getting behind a candidate than we are. We’re too busy worrying about whether you’re grassroots enough or not, as I talked about in the 3 o’clock hour. We have no idea how our strategy – I shouldn’t say we. I think it’s better. Britta and her team should do a better job of that. But I tell you what, they’ve got an uphill climb because these lunatics that are on the far right are going to make her life absolutely miserable. They will. They will make her life as miserable as possible. That is their goal. John from Cheyenne talked about that a moment ago. And yes, that’s exactly what they will do. But we need to use examples of this and even what Phil Weiser as AG is doing when it comes to the wasted money that we as taxpayers have been spending. That needs to be highlighted, needs to be a central part of our message moving forward. And I’m here to tell you that the far righties that I was talking about earlier, that won’t be their message. I can tell you that right now. So… Veteran Windows and Doors is up next. 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All right, that’s it for this fine Monday, May the 12th. Have a fabulous evening, and most of all, be safe. Enjoy the great weather that we’re having. Be a little cooler as we get towards midweek, but enjoy the great weather we’re having right now. Stay cool, and we’ll be back tomorrow, same time, same place, myself and Charlie. And Andy will join me tomorrow, by the way. This is Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
