In this enlightening episode of Retirement Unpacked, Al Smith moves beyond financial planning and dives into something just as essential for your golden years—mental sharpness. Al explores the importance of breaking routine, engaging in mentally stimulating hobbies, and learning memory-enhancing techniques like mnemonics. From silly memory tricks to ancient Greek methods, from crossword puzzles to volunteer tutoring, Al shows how staying mentally agile makes retirement not only longer—but better. Learn how to build a “memory palace,” why variety is key, and how exercise and social engagement can make all the difference. This episode is packed with practical, engaging tips to help retirees keep their minds as strong as their finances.
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Welcome to another program of Retirement Unpacked. I want to thank you for tuning in because there's lots of other things you could be doing. This is a summer day. You could be playing golf, tennis. You could be up in the mountains. A lot of things you could be doing, but you're listening to me. I appreciate that, and I believe I'll have some good information for you today. If you've listened to the show for... Let's say a number of years because I've been on the air for about four and a half years. You probably may recall I've done a few shows on mental acuity and memory improvement and things like that, which I'm going to talk about it again because we can... save money for retirement, and we can have a healthy nest egg, and we can create a strategy so that we can be reasonably certain our income will last for our lifetime. But I think it's also important to know that our mental cognition be strong during a as much of that period of time as possible, if not the entire period. I know people who are well into their 80s and early 90s who are sharp as a tack, and I know some other folks who are considerably younger that are starting to get drifty. I don't know their medical backgrounds. I just know that having a sharp mind and being able to do things that having a sharp mind require can make your retirement much more joyous. There's no question about that. And mental acuity or mental sharpness requires a little bit of work, no different than physical strength and physical health. What is the enormous enemy of mental sharpness and mental improvement and so forth is routine. When you do the same things over and over, that doesn't provide any kind of challenge for your brain. On the other hand, variety does create challenge. If you have somewhere where you go every day, select a different route. Unless it's outrageously more traffic, if it's maybe a 10 or a 15-minute drive, and if it's not too much different which way you go in terms of traffic, go different ways each day. How many times have you seen yourself taking a turn to go where you go every day, even though on this particular day, you were going somewhere else. I find that often to be the case myself. And although I prepared somewhat for this show, when I left my office, I forgot my wallet. But I only got a short distance before I retrieved it. But the point is, having a sharp memory is like anything else. It requires work. And the enemy of having a sharp mind as we age is routine. So we want to vary as much as possible from routine as much as we can. How many times have you driven somewhere And you lock your car and you get to the front door of wherever you're going, whether it's a friend's home or a store or something like that. And you think to yourself, did I lock my car? Well, you go back and check and find out, well, yes, you did. But the reason you didn't remember locking the car is because that's part of your routine. And when something is part of your routine, it doesn't necessarily create a strong memory if it's something you do every day. On the other hand, when you lock your car and you hear that click or the beep, Do something out of the ordinary that might even make you look foolish, but you will know for certain that you've locked the car. You can click the fob with your right thumb, and you can... make a fist with your left hand, raise it in the air, and you might look stupid, but you will know for sure you will have an ingrained memory that you locked your car. You won't have to go back 50 or 100 feet and check if you locked it or go within fob distance and click it again. Socialization is a tremendous... thing that assists our awareness and our mental capacity in retirement. When we meet other people, it requires a little bit of brain work. If you meet someone and you have difficulty remembering people's names, there's little tricks you can use. If you meet someone who's named George. and you have a conversation with him, use his name in that conversation. Oh, George, have you lived here long? What kind of work do you do, George? Do you live nearby, or did you come a little longer distance to attend this event? When you use that name once or twice, you will remember it. On the other hand, if someone introduces himself and you get off talking about something, that you have interest in, you've already sort of put George's name in the back recesses of your memory. On the other hand, if you use it two or three times in a conversation when you meet someone, you will remember his or her name. Something I strongly recommend is playing word games. Some of those I don't do. I don't do Sudoku, but I do... I do Wordle on my phone, and there's a couple others, crossword puzzles, and there's a jumble, a jumble of words, and then a puzzle at the end of that. Those I find somewhat interesting, but they also keep your mind sharp. I remember as a very young man visiting the home of my grandparents. And my grandfather on my mother's side, he would sit in the same chair every night. He was kind of a victim of routine, but his routine kept his mind sharp. He would work crossword puzzles with a mechanical pencil. Those of you who are listening who are young may not know what a mechanical pencil is, but it's like a pencil with lead that you refill as you use it up, and he would use that to do crossword puzzles. And my mother, before she passed away not too long ago, she would do crossword puzzles also, and she would get angry with herself if she would forget things, but... That wasn't until she was well into her 90s, and at that time she was still fairly sharp before pancreatic cancer took her to life about the same time as Alex Trebek, the long-time MC of Jeopardy passed from the same illness. He lasted a little bit longer. He probably had a bigger bankroll that kept him alive about six months longer than my mother. But I don't know what quality of life he had during that period. But in any event, there are some important steps we can take, some important things that we can do so that our minds will stay sharp well into having left the workforce. And one is pick up a new hobby, something that is somewhat challenging. You may get a concealed carry and purchase a firearm, go to the range. That's something you can learn about. Learn about firearm safety. Learn about the basic skills that you would need for personal protection and family protection. Pick up some different kind of hobby, paddle boarding. If you have a heart for volunteering and you're in good enough health, Winter Park has a tremendous disabled ski program. Find a way that you can not only keep your mind sharp, but give back to the community in some way. Those of you who are engineers or people of that nature who have a strong background in math can be very useful in tutoring young people who are having difficulty with trigonometry or geometry or complex algebra, quadratic equations, things of that nature. People who are engineers have had many years of science and math and can be extremely helpful for younger people as they're getting further along in math. And math is incredibly important. It's surprising how many people don't have a really good grasp on math. That's something that you could be really helpful with some of the young people. I belong to Kiwanis and they have some tremendous programs that are very, very helpful for young people. Another thing that's quite important in maintaining health not only mental health but physical health is exercise and there's a book called spark and i don't have the author but you can look it up i'm sure on google and find it on amazon it's written by a physician and there is a school or rather a series of schools in a Illinois and they underwent a program where they all exercised in this particular school system and it was mandatory and they tested in science and in math and they compared their scores globally to other high school kids. This was a high school school district. And globally, they came first in the globe, not just in the United States, in science and seventh in math. And the only thing that this school was doing differently than most of the other schools who participated is that they had a requirement for vigorous aerobic exercise in the school system. Also, their obesity level went way, way down. down at that point. And if you are in good enough health, exercising as you go through retirement, it'll increase your energy and it will keep your mind sharp. The more vigorous the exercise, if you're able to do that, the better will the results be. Now, Memory improvement or mental acuity, the skills that are involved in that go way, way back even to Greek times, if you can imagine that. And there is a topic called mnemonics. which I will love to talk about, and it essentially was developed by the Greeks, and the word mnemonic has an unusual spelling, and essentially it's training the brain to remember things. And the whole topic of it, as I said, is mnemonics. And there are people in the United States and actually all over the world that participate in what are called memory championships. And they use the techniques of mnemonics to help them remember things. To give you some idea of how skilled they are, the world record in memorizing an entire deck of cards, that's 52 cards, the world record in memorization of an entire deck of cards is 20 seconds. And I'll be talking more about mnemonics right after the break.
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Welcome back to Retirement Unpacked. I had just mentioned the word mnemonics before we went to break. And basically, mnemonics is a technique that people use to memorize things. And you might be thinking, well, why is that important to memorize things? Well, if you go to the store and you don't have a list... It's good to have some idea of what it is you're going to purchase. And scientists and people who study this sort of thing, memory and so forth, they have said basically that we can only remember about six or seven things before we need to have it written down, have a list. And I'm firmly convinced that the cell phone has brought that down to maybe three or four. Have you ever been in a store where you see someone looking at all the various types of spices or something and they'll be on the phone wanting to know what exactly it is? that he or she should purchase. But in any event, mnemonics is a technique of memorizing things, and it goes all the way back to the ancient Greeks. There was an event in ancient Greek times where this roof tumbled and it crushed many, many people. And they were trying to arrive at the names of the people who were killed. And one of the orators, there was a speaker at this event, by remembering the location of the people and memory and mnemonics and so forth, loci can be extremely important because the way our brain works as far as remembering things, it remembers them by location. How many times have you seen yourself open one cabinet when what you really wanted was something in the cabinet right next door? I find this often to be the case. One really interesting thing about memory, or you can call it memory, or you can even call it forgetfulness, and that is When you pass through a corridor, there is a tendency to forget. How many times have you left one room, gone into another room to get something, and once you're in the other room, you've forgotten what you went in there for? Well, this isn't something that has to do with dementia or aging or anything. This is a phenomenon that was even discovered in some research. Notre Dame University, there's a professor named Gabriel Radbanski. He calls it event boundary. And he did a study in the Quarterly Journal of Medicine. experimental psychology. And to summarize the study, when people pass through a particular corridor, they went through a door into another room, they would be very, very common that they would forget. But if people went that same distance but did not pass through a corridor, enter another room, they would have a much greater tendency to remember whatever it is. So that concept of going into another room and then you get there and you forgot what you went there for, you can overcome that by tying a string around your finger, which is kind of like foolishness. But what I would say is when you're going to go to another room to get something, take that thought and by clenching your fist, you can put that thought in your fist. So by the time you're in that other room, you'll say, what did I come in here for? Oh, the thought remains in my fist. I came in here to get pen and paper. Or I came in here to get my cell phone, which I left in the other room. Or I came in here to get a book off the shelf. And by clenching that fist, you will overcome that natural bias that our brains have of when we go into another room, we forget what we went in there for. That is very common. But we're getting back to mnemonics. And if you'd like to learn more about mnemonics, there is a book I highly recommend. It's incredibly interesting. The title of the book is Moonwalking with Einstein. Now, that is a ridiculous title, I would agree. But the concept of the book has to do with memory athletes, and they use the concept of mnemonics in order to memorize things. Like I mentioned, 20 seconds to memorize an entire deck of cards. Now, I can do it even faster. I just don't know the order that the cards are in. That's sort of a feeble attempt at humor. But in any event, using these mnemonics, these memory athletes, they compete in national and international events. The international one, they... call it a decathlon it's usually held in in england and they have 10 different things where they'll learn poetry they'll memorize long numbers and the way they memorize long numbers they break them into chunks of like three numbers and then they will assign those numbers letters and then with the letters they'll create little images for each group of three letters and so with these links they're able to remember a lot of things. Something I've learned when I read the book is if there's something you really have to remember to do The first thing tomorrow morning, and you don't have a pen and paper handy, or you don't have your cell phone handy, and you don't want to mess with entering it in your to-do list, but you just want to remember it when you get up in the morning, take your lamp that you have at the side of your bed and put it in the middle of your kitchen sink where you brush your teeth. Not kitchen sink, your bathroom sink, where you brush your teeth. And I guarantee you, whatever you wanted to remember in the morning, once you see that bedside lamp in your bathroom sink, you will remember to call your brother. or to call your accountant, or to gas up your car before you go to whatever it is that you needed to remember, you will remember it. The more ridiculous you make an image like that, the more likely you will remember it, which is what these memory athletes do. They even demonstrated to me how people can learn long grocery lists. by creating what they call memory palaces. I'll give you an example. Let's say if you had to go to the store and you needed bread and English muffins. You also needed milk, yogurt, and sour cream. You needed steak and ground chuck. You needed pork chops and bacon. You also needed lettuce, tomatoes, and carrots. You needed curry and pepper. You also needed toilet paper, paper towels, and dog food. That's 18 items. Now, these memory athletes, what they do is they create a memory palace to help one remember all of those things. Those first two items, imagine you just pulled up to a farmhouse and you see a red double-decker bus like they have in London. And in front of that, you see waving grain. Those two images will help you remember to get bread and English muffins. At this farmhouse, you walk over to the first pasture, and you see a dairy cow, a Guernsey cow. That reminds you to get milk, yogurt, and sour cream. Next to that pasture is another pasture where you see King Charles lying on the ground with a stake through his heart like a vampire. That reminds you to get ground chuck and steak. Then you go to the pigsty. You see a sow there reminding you to get pork chops and bacon. Around the back of the farmhouse is a small garden, vegetable garden that reminds you to get lettuce, tomatoes, and carrots. Then as you enter the front door of the farmhouse, you see a gentleman standing there and he's dressed in Indian garb. He looks like he could live somewhere in India. And he also sneezes. That reminds you to get curry and pepper. And as you enter the farmhouse, because you had to use the restroom, you hear a dog bark and you accidentally knocked something over in the kitchen that you have to wipe up. Because you have to relieve yourself, that reminds you to get toilet paper. To clean up the mess reminds you to get paper towels. And having heard the dog bark, that reminds you to get dog food. Now, if you go through this exercise, you can probably remember these 18 items because of this memory palace we created. And rather than a memory palace, we could call this a memory farm because much of the things we get at the grocery store come from the farm. So this concept of mnemonics to help people remember things is the... fundamental basis of how we can learn things. I remember when I was in school, I memorized Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, I memorized the entire poem. And with poetry, it's a little easier because of the rhyming and things like that. But you can also learn spelling and things like that by the rhythm of the word. Think about the word Mississippi. If you use kind of a little jingle, M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I, you can remember how to spell Mississippi. And by little jingles, you can remember how to spell other words like I before E except after C. A lot of words like believe, conceive, and so forth have I's and E's next to each other, and it's difficult to remember how to spell them. And the end of that is or, like A, in neighboring way. So if there's an I-N-E and it sounds like an A, that will help you to spell those words. So essentially, mnemonics... our mnemonics is that study of how we can memorize things. And keeping our memory sharp is going to help us keep it sharper in old age. And again, as I mentioned earlier, the enemy of having a sharp memory is routine. And what will really help us to maintain mental acuity as doing things that are different whether it's different socialization take a ballroom dancing class go to yoga class even though if you've never done yoga before i jog in the morning over near stern park in downtown littleton and i see some people standing a considerable distance away, and they have these mats. And I realized it was an early morning, not that early, in the neighborhood of 8 o'clock, a morning outdoor yoga class, which looks like fun. There's men and women, and they're getting some exercise, exercising their brain, getting some socialization. And so a lot of things that we can do to keep our minds sharper. But again, the enemy of keeping our mind sharp is routine. And what really helps to keep our mind sharp is new experiences. The more new experiences that you can participate in, the more sharper your brain will become. again, I highly recommend this book, Moonwalking with Einstein. It gives a real clear idea of these memory athletes that compete in memorization of things. And the story that Joshua for, his name is Joshua, F-O-E-R, Moonwalking with Einstein. I'm sure you can find it on Amazon. It's a very interesting read. Well, thank you so much, for tuning in. I hope you enjoyed today's show and God bless you and let's continue to pray for the folks in Texas who have suffered that devastating flood and let's pray for our leaders and hopefully you'll be here next week and God bless you and talk to you next week. Bye now.
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In this engaging episode, attorney Michael Bailey combines storytelling with expert advice on estate planning. From navigating permits for a new deck to reflecting on how personal events can influence professional insights, Michael highlights the significance of planning for the future. Discover the importance of family time and the lasting memories created when we prioritize what truly matters, seamlessly linking these values to effective estate management.
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Welcome to Mobile Estate Planning with your host, Michael Bailey. Over a decade ago, attorney Michael Bailey turned his attention to estate law after he recognized the unacceptable number of adults without proper end of life planning. Michael recognizes that many of his clients have difficulty finding the time for making a proper estate plan. That's why he became the Mobile Estate Planner. He will go to wherever you are to assist you with your estate planning, including writing wills, trusts, and giving you the information you need to avoid probate. Now, ATX, Ask the Experts, presents Mobile Estate Planning with your host, Michael Bailey.
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Welcome to Mobile Estate Planning with Michael Bailey here on 560 KLZ AM so that we can do something besides just leave your family alone. You could also be listening on 100.7 FM or the KLZ 560 radio app. And if you are, we're happy to have you there. phone number to talk to me on the air is 303-477-5600 and again that's 303-477-5600 and my direct line is 720-394-6887 and once again that's 720-394-6887 Now, if you're going to try to call me on the 720-394-6887 line, for the next half an hour, I'm probably talking here. So it's going to be a tough time, too. because I'm talking on the air and I'm just not talented enough to have two conversations at once. I'm just not that good. But, you know, although I suppose at home sometimes I'm having a conversation with my wife and one with my daughter and one with my son and one with my other daughter. And sometimes the puppy dogs get involved too. So there's five, six, seven conversations going on. But, you know, there you can kind of tell when you're looking and, you know, turning between people which conversation I'm having. And the puppy dogs, they don't... Sometimes they listen. They do talk back, but since they are woofing and barking instead of speaking English, sometimes it's... They get their point across quite a bit. Usually it's, I would like to go on a walk, or... I am hungry. Please give me a treat. Or there is some sort of danger out in the front yard, whether it's a rabbit or a squirrel or a neighbor dog walking by. Sometimes there's a leaf that's blowing by or sometimes there's an evil wind current. You know how those evil wind currents are. We must be alerted to them. Otherwise, all bets are off. But, you know, so, you know, having conversations with people and, you know, it's just usually, you know, when I'm doing estate planning, I tend to have one conversation with one person. You know, sometimes my phone will ring and people like, oh, do you need to get that? I'm like, no, it's fine. And they're like, oh, we know if you need to answer. I'm like, no, it's perfectly fine. Like if it comes up with a picture of my wife and she calls two or three times in a row. Then I'll think about answering it because if she's calling me two or three times in a row, that means probably something has gone wrong and we need to address whatever's gone wrong. The only time that has happened to me in my career, I did not pick up the phone. She called me like three times in a row. I was about five minutes from finishing up my meeting. So I called her back after I was done, but she was calling to tell me that our puppy dog was very sick and that she was going to take the puppy dog to the vet. And so, you know, she was calling to tell me about that. So that's why she called a couple of times in a row. I'm like, well, that's kind of where I came up with the rule. If you call a couple of times in a row, then I should probably answer. But that was the night that we had to take the puppy dog. She took the puppy dog to the vet. Vet said, well, puppy dog has this wrong with her. She had a pyometra infection, which is apparently a uterine infection of a dog. And just had a bacterial infection that spread to the rest of her body. And we had to say goodbye to her later that night. So I'm like, yeah, maybe that's an important thing to be able to do. But otherwise, I can focus on clients and not get too distracted. Well, my puppy dog happened to become sick during a time when we were having our basement finished. So when we bought our house, we had an unfinished basement. And we always talked about finishing it and what would we do with it. And my brother-in-law is a general contractor. So several years ago, he had many things that fell through. So he ended up with a month where he didn't have any jobs lined up. So he called me and said, hey, you still want to finish your basement? I said, sure. So he came and he finished the basement. And it was every day, so we'd keep the basement closed off, and then every night the puppy dog would go down and inspect what they were doing to her basement. So we'd open the door, and she'd go down, and she'd sniff around, and she'd try to figure out what these new wall things were, because when they first framed the walls, she could still go through it. But then they put up the sheetrock, and suddenly she couldn't. And so she was... She was enjoying exploring what was going to be her new basement. And unfortunately, she did not live to see the end of the final finished basement. So that was kind of sad for her. But, you know, it was just kind of she would go inspect the progress. And I don't think she quite was inspecting progress the way that we would have. Oh, look at this cool new thing. She's like, wait a minute. What are you doing to my house? This is my house. My dogs are such that. They live at the house and we are their guests. Kind of like when people come to visit me, they don't come to visit me. They come to visit the dog and, you know, I guess they can talk to me too, possibly. Because, you know, puppy dogs, ours kind of rule the roost and, you know, they're very opinionated and all those type of things. But, you know, they're still puppy dogs. So this summer we've had, since the basement's finished, this summer we had our deck redone. And the deck was built with the house, so it's probably 20, 25 years old now. So after 25 years, it's probably time to take down the deck and do a new one. And the deck seemed okay, but when we knocked it over and demolished the first deck, I think all of us yelled timber as it all fell over. But then when it was down, you could look and see kind of some of the joints and things that were there. You're like, huh, there's a decent amount of rot there. Hmm. Good thing that we, you know, it's not like it was going to collapse or anything, but it was time to redo the deck. Well, our house, the main floor, it walks out to the deck, but then we have a walkout basement. So if you walk out the main floor, there needs to be a deck there. Otherwise, you need to know how to levitate and not fall to the basement level. So for several weeks, when they didn't have a deck or they were building a new deck, we had to block off the doggy door because we didn't want the doggies going through the doggy door and then falling the 10 to 12 feet down to the newly poured concrete that we poured down there. Like that might not be great on a puppy dog. So we blocked it off. And, you know, this just yesterday, we got our final inspection, our final permit. So we have a fully built, fully permitted deck with a nice burglar. And now we have a deck. Yay. And we have, we can unblock the doggy door so the dogs can go in and out and our dogs will go out and they'll lay down on the new deck and just kind of bask in the sun and enjoy the fact that they have a new deck. And you may be wondering, what in the heck does a deck have to do with estate planning? And the correct answer is absolutely nothing, but I'm going to relate them because this is Mobile Estate Planning with Michael Bailey here on 560 KLZ AM, also heard on 100.7 FM or the KLZ 560 radio app. Phone number to talk to me on the air is 303-477-5600. And once again, that's 303-477-5600. And my direct line is 720-394-6887. And once again, direct line 720-394-6887. So as we go through, as we went through this process of building a deck, We got an interesting education in all sorts of things. So apparently where we live, if you, so a DEC needs, you know, DEC doing things in the backyard, you know, building new structures attached to the house, they need to be permitted. So the city needs to issue a permit for that to happen because part of what we did was there was one piece of siding we had to take off so that we could put the deck in and then they had to build a little thing so the moisture would go away so that we didn't rot and mold the house all to the, so it collapsed. I'm like, that makes sense. We don't want the house collapsing and we also don't want the deck collapsing. We want it to be built properly. They had to dig some holes and go dig down three feet so they could put three feet of concrete in there so that it would have a nice footing so it'll hold up the deck and all those type of things. And so to get a permit, you have to apply to the city for a permit, and applying to the city for a permit is not exactly the easiest of things. The city has the permits that they will issue, but they also have their process, and their process isn't necessarily the simplest and most straightforward and easy-to-understand process. because sometimes they're pro you know they'll be like oh well you need to we need to update that to um this and we need to update you know you need to submit this online okay well if we submit it online great well has it been properly submitted has it been received Has it been all, you know, do we now understand everything that's there? Or is it a, you know, is there some sort of problem with it? And it's not always clear what the problem might be with the, you know, there's, if you submit something online, and you're like, okay, now it's submitted online. And they're like, oh, well, there's a problem with it. So it'll come back and be like, oh, you know, this is rejected. You're like, okay, well, why was it rejected? Well, I would like to think that there's some sort of sheet that's like, oh, hey, here's the 10 things you need. You got these nine. This one was wrong. Okay, we'll fix that. Or a little red circle that says that I need the measurements on this, or I need to know what the load is going to be on this support pillar, or we need to know what material you're using for the deck itself. Is it going to be hardwood, redwood? Is it going to be stainless steel, which might get too hot in the sun and probably not work? Would it be the Trex material? And what are they going to do there? And so we eventually figured that out. And then sometimes you try to call to get clarification and nobody's there to answer their phone or they don't call back. Any of those things that can happen. And so just going through the permitting process, my wife took it on because it was a big thing. And our friends who's a contractor who helped us build the deck, she's like, well, the thing is if you have a contractor that is trying to do the permitting process, they're going to charge us like $7,000 to do the permit. Whereas they'll charge you like $700 if you do it yourself. If it was saving us $7,000 or $8,000 to do it on our own, we're like, well, as long as we're not spending too long, then we're happy to go through the permitting process. But I was talking with my wife, and I thought, it's one of those things where some of the larger construction companies that are out there, I drive around, and you'll see Peterson Construction or Brinkman Construction or Shaw Construction or whatever ones are out there. They have whole departments. who are dedicated to the permitting process and getting the permits and pulling the permits and making sure everything's done and, you know, scheduling the inspections and, you know, all of those types of things. And they have people who do that all the time. Now, my wife does not do that all the time. She is a, she's a, an accountant by education training. She works as a reverse mortgage loan officer. So she helps people who are older and, you know, either want to be able to access the equity in their houses or, are you know in a financial situation where it would be you know beneficial to them to have access to the um equity in the house and can help them stay in the house or things like that that's what she does she's not a work with the cities and the counties to get permits all the time person But she had the time to be able to do this. And so, you know, she was, you know, we were talking about it yesterday after we passed the final inspection. We're like, hey, like, well, you know, that's really if that was a seven thousand dollars you made and you kind of treated that as a part time job. I wasn't it wasn't bad wages if we saved that much money and it worked out well. But, you know, she did the frustrations of, oh, well, what do they need and what format they needed and who do we contact if there's a problem? And if there's a little red flag that says, you know, waiting on this review, how do we know who's reviewing it and how do we figure out who we should be contacting to kind of push the review along and all those type of things? Those are all things that we... didn't know about. And so she had to learn about and, you know, for for the one time deck that we were doing and getting it up and running and working, she could do that. Well, you know, when we're doing estate planning, I kind of feel like I'm a little bit of the person who knows the permitting process. And I know the, you know, how we can go through and get everything set up so that it works properly. And, you know, there's, there is a final inspection of an estate plan, like of a will at the end, where if we have the estate plan and it gets taken to the probate court, the probate court will, you know, help, will, you know, be the ones that, you know, oversee the implementing of the estate plan. So there's going to be kind of that final inspection, but the final inspection of that estate plan isn't going to happen until after you've died and it's too late to change or fix something. So the original framing inspection of our deck. We they they came in and the inspector came and he measured the height of the poles. And he said, oh, well, the height of the poles is not correct. It doesn't match what's on the plan. And so, you know, we caused a delay. So we, you know, we talked to our the person who was helping us build it, the contractor. They're like, well, yeah, they are the same. They go to the correct height. But the pole itself is shorter because we measured the height of the pole from where the deck was going to be to the ground. And that's what we put on the plans. But then before we built the – before we actually put the pole up – We poured some new concrete, and the concrete is not, it actually has thickness. It's not a kind of translucent, super strong layer of concrete that doesn't actually, that doesn't have any thickness or any mass to it. So we had to talk to the inspector and say, oh, well, it is the right height. It's just there's two inches of concrete here. so that the total height is correct, but there's some new concrete here, so that's why it's not exactly the same. And the inspector's like, okay, I understand that. But when they first came by and nobody was there, they're like, nope, this is wrong. Well, I mean, it's a perfectly reasonable explanation to say, hey, this is fine the way it is. But we could do that where we could call the inspector up and say, yep, all right, this is perfectly fine. We you know, just you're measuring the criteria as you're just measuring the wooden pole instead of the total height from, you know, including the concrete. But the total height is correct. You know, once we explain that to the inspector, they're like, OK, that's great. We'll go ahead and, you know, pass this on and you can continue building. We're like, Yay, go us. Well, you are listening to Mobile Estate Planning with Michael Bailey here on 560 KLZ AM, also heard on 100.7 FM, or the KLZ 560 radio app. Phone number to talk to me on the air is 303-477-5600. And again, that's 303-477-5600. And my direct line is 720-394-6887. And once again, 720-394-6887. So the inspection is the checking of the work and making sure it's okay. Well, checking of the work on an estate plan isn't going to happen usually until after you die. And then if something goes wrong, it's hard to tell the person who, you know, it's hard to ask the person what they meant or what they had in mind or to clarify things because once they're dead and gone, what you have as a written record is there. So it's even more important to make sure you do things the right way. I mean, I will have lots of conversations where they're like, oh, you know, we want to do this. I'm like, okay. I want to, you know, and we'll kind of drill down to understand what it is that they're saying. You know, we want this so it's protected for our kids. And I say, protected from what? They're like, well, we'll just protect it. I'm like, okay. Well, there's lots of things to protect from. Are we protecting from going through the probate process? Are we protecting from it being stolen by their siblings? Are we protecting from... the government coming in and taking money in taxes or the government coming in and taking money as a Medicaid reimbursement? Are we protecting from a lawsuit? Are we protecting from an alien invasion? By the way, I don't know how to do a protection from an alien invasion and estate planning is just not something I plan for. But protection can mean lots of different things. Are we protecting from a rainstorm? Well, don't take your paper will out in the rain and it'll be okay. Woohoo! Now we're protected! Yeah, but that's usually not what people mean. But I have to understand what it is they want to protect from so that we can build that in. And, you know, so, I mean, I have, you know, our house, it's probably like everybody else's house. Sometimes there's home improvement projects that's needed. I've taken, you know, we had a landing on our stairs that we had a visiting dog that marked the landing, and then our dogs kept marking the landing. And no matter how many times we cleaned up the, you know, would use the, carpet cleaner to suck up all of the things in the markings um eventually i was like you know what i'm gonna so i pulled i cut up you know ripped up the carpet got all the way down to the floorboards and put down different you know kind of vinyl laminate flooring So that it would, you know, they would stop marking it all the time. Well, on the landing in my house, I could put down the new flooring. And, you know, I attached it so it wasn't slipping around. And I, you know, I tried not to have a big, huge ridge that we would all trip over and things like that. But, you know, it was, I'm like, okay, now we can walk up and down the stairs and not slip and fall and trip over something. Or we don't have loose carpet that we're all, it's going to, you know, fall out from underneath our feet as we're walking. And it was fine. But I didn't necessarily need a permit to remove the carpet and put a new carpet back on. But it was something that I could do myself. Now, from everything they did in building the deck, it's probably things I could have done myself. I probably could have poured the concrete myself. I don't know that I could have, we had this, we had the concrete stamped. I'm like, I don't know that. I mean, I don't have the knowledge of how to do a stamped concrete, but I could have poured the concrete myself and it would have been fine. Cool. And then, you know, building the, the support poles and putting the framing. I'm like, I probably could have done that too. I'm removing a piece of siding and then putting in a drainage system so that things don't mold. Don't know that I would know how to do that. I could probably look it up. I could probably figure it out, but it would probably take me a long time, and I'm not sure that it would be the greatest use of my time that I have. Putting up the railings, I could probably do that. We had them build the pergola. I could probably build the pergola. So probably 90, 95% of what they did, I could do. But also, if I were to do that, since I am still working full-time, it would have taken probably every weekend, every Saturday and every Sunday, every free moment that I had for the next two and a half or three years to get it built and get it done. It just would have been, or every time I come home from work, I'm like, oh, I'm going to go work on this. Well, the problem is that over the next two and a half or three years, I have a 16-year-old who's going to be playing her junior and senior volleyball season, and I would like to go be able to watch her play volleyball. I mean, she has the chance of getting a college scholarship, and she is good enough that that may be her future. if i miss two years worth of her growing up because i'm busy working on a deck to me that's not a great trade it's not something that i would not where i would want to spend my time so i would rather have the people who you know our friend and the workers she had who know what they're doing they came they built the deck yeah it was delayed because of the rain you know when we we were supposed to frame things and it was raining you know downpours in june And I'm like, well, that's not working so well. But it's not like I'm going to be disappointed in my contractors that, man, the contractors couldn't control the weather. Oh, my goodness. Oh, wait, that's not something they can control. They can control how to build it. They know how to build it to code. Even if there were, whether it's the height of the poles or, oh, we need to put an extra support beam here or whatever it is. You know, all of those things they know and they can do. And, you know, the time, money and effort saved may not have been worthwhile for me as a. as an estate planning attorney to go do all those things. It was cheaper for me to hire them to do it, even though it wasn't an inexpensive project. It was plenty expensive. But what I would have lost in two years worth of not being able to see my daughter play volleyball, I mean, one of the Things that I've really enjoyed is we went to Spokane, Washington, and we went to Las Vegas to watch her play volleyball this season. And it was just a – I wouldn't want to miss the chance to go and watch her play and interact with her teammates and just all the things that come along with that. I wouldn't want to be like, I'm sorry, I need to stay home and make sure that I'm putting more things on the deck. That's just not – Not really how I want to do things. So the cost may not have been purely monetary to me, but it would have been in memories and time. And what I have, I mean, my oldest just finished her freshman year of college. She's home for the summer, but she's off as a college student and all those type of things. And the time that I have with her is now much more limited. I mean, we sent her back to college right after Christmas, and then we didn't see her again until the end of April when we went to pick her up. It was just four months where we talked to her on the phone, but we didn't see her. And so because of that, those costs are there, and those costs are things that we want to do. So just like you can do your own estate plan by yourself if you want to spend the time, energy, and effort to figure it all out, but if you want to let me do it faster and cheaper and hopefully better than what you might do, That's why we do estate planning and, you know, lessons I've learned from rebuilding a deck, which, you know, we do get to go out and eat dinner on and, you know, enjoy our, we bought a fire pit to go with it, all the fun stuff. So thank you so much for listening to my story. That's somewhat related to estate planning. I'll be back next week, but John Rush and Rush reason up next. So stay tuned and we'll talk later. Thanks. And bye.
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This episode explores profound themes of faith, sacrifice, and unity in the face of adversity. Reflecting on the messages from Our Lady of Fatima, Father Andre and Father James discuss the vital role of prayer and devotion to the Immaculate Heart. From tackling the misconceptions surrounding environmental stewardship to addressing the echoes of Russian influences in today's world, they encourage listeners to reawaken faith and live purposefully according to divine ordinances.
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In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
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Amen. At age 10, Father Andre escaped Christian massacres by living in caves in Mount Lebanon with his family. Today, Father Andre works tirelessly to encourage American leaders to keep God in the public square, defending religious freedom at home and abroad, so that all might live in peace for the glory of God. Founder and President of the Mission of Hope and Mercy, Father Andre has learned the secret to safety, joy, and peace. Love God and one another. Now, let us spend 33 minutes on the Lord's Day, retuning ourselves to the truth of love in the hands of God.
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In the recent years in our lives as well, we have experienced we as people in the United States, some phenomenon in which in the church we saw many priests being exiled, being silenced, bishops included, and somehow this clergy schism that happened in our church was an indicative of a mysterious sort of internal fight. A house that is divided, cannot stand. But are the fights that happen in a church, the persecution that took place in a church, it's not indicative of a church that is divided. But it's probably indicative that in the church there is a new birth of new leaders, a new pain of founding fathers, just like in the apostles' times. Some of them were burned. Some of them were cut up in pieces. Some of them fought and had to split each in their own ways. Yet both of them served the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. It was a growing pain that led all the 12 apostles and probably most of the 500 disciples and the 72 disciples and the first Christian community in the Church of Jerusalem, in the Church of Rome, in the Church of Antioch, in the Church of Alexandria, in the Church of Constantinople, And in the churches which were founded outside the Holy Roman Empire, whether in Assyria and Chaldea, whether in Armenia or in Ethiopia, all these churches, they shared the common love of Christ, the testimony to the power of his victorious cross, and they all suffered and died for the love of Christ and for the redemption of mankind. It is such a pleasure with me today to have in our irrevocable a wonderful man, a brother priest, a lawyer, who is a typical beautiful Midwestern American, if I may call him in my own little way. His smile doesn't leave his face, even though when he wants to be like the most probably upset person or being assertive, his smile never leaves his face. which is an indicative of the dwelling of the Holy Spirit and the beautiful talent that he received, probably the gift from his mom and dad, probably also the good countenance of the face of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who are always with him. Father James Altman, who is with us today, he is originally from the Diocese of Marquette. Father Altman originally was an attorney. who had a family practice in Salt. And also Father Altman, before he was called to the priesthood, he actually worked like a normal human being. He knew the labor and the sweat of the forehead of Adam. He knew that unless he labors in a field of actual labor, of actual hand, a steel worker, for instance, an accountant, for instance, commercial lender, for instance, a lawyer, an associate pastor, a chaplain and a pastor, and today, one of the most powerful prophets of our times, an apostle of truth and of charity for many of us in America and across the world to keep us always in the way of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Father James, good Holy Sunday morning to you.
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Good morning to you. I'm just honored and privileged to see you again, to be with you again.
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This is several times now over the past four years we've We've been able to be together, and thank you for the invitation.
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Thank you so very much for accepting the invitation. Today on this Good Sunday Morning with Fr. Andre and 33 Minutes on Our Lord's Day and this Irrevocable podcast through KNUS, through KLZ radio stations, and also on our own Mission of Hope and Mercy podcast at irrevocable.org. We are looking forward to listen to you, to listen to your words of wisdom, also to listen to your perspective about the daily struggles and the growing pains that we see in the church and we see in the world. But before us, would you please lead us in prayer?
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Sure. Let us pray. In the Gospel today, we have a good guy, a scholar of the law who asked Jesus, well, what must I do to attain to eternal life? And we all know what the answer will be. Well, you should love the Lord your God with all your heart, your mind, your soul. Love your neighbor as yourself. The whole law is based on that. And then he asks a question that we all should ask ourselves. Well, who's my neighbor? And then Jesus gives the story of the Good Samaritan. And The idea is it's not all about us. It's about how we serve God in this kingdom by serving others. And that's not social justice because the greatest service we can ever do for anybody is to serve their eternal soul, to teach them the truth that leads them on the narrow road to heaven. That's actually being charitable. And the example I would use, for instance, they have the Good Samaritan who finds his person all beat up and robbed on the side of the, in the ditch. Well, in a sense, that's everybody living in the world today who has not been properly loved and guided in the grace of Christ. And so in their lives, they're suffering. They wouldn't define it as such because they don't know that they're beaten up by the world and they're lying in the ditch because that's what the world wants to do to us. So the proper care that we can give to such souls is to lead them and heal them by the grace of Christ so that they turn toward the light and away from the darkness of the world. And that's being a good Samaritan. That's what it really means. It doesn't mean the social justice warrior thing, the liberation theology thing that we're hearing so much about today, that's misleading us. The important thing that every shepherd of the church should be doing is proclaiming the words of the prophets, proclaiming the word of John the Baptist, proclaiming the word of Jesus. Repent, make straight the way of the Lord because your eternal soul is what counts. So on this day, on this Sunday, Let us comprehend and apply the gospel to the world today and to our own lives and realize that we can be good Samaritans if we heal the souls of people through the grace of Christ and bring them back to life, back to eternal life. Let us always focus on that, the true important lesson and teaching of the church with regards the soul, not the body. Let us pray in nomine Patris, Filii, Spiritus Sancti. Amen.
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Amen. Thank you, Father James. You're welcome.
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Thank you. That just came off the cuff, by the way. I didn't know what I was going to say.
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The Holy Spirit always speaks through you, healing the soul of people, not only their bodies. This seems... this seems really pretty much in line, and identifying the purpose of Our Lady's apparition in Fatima in 1917. You know on July 13, there are so many incidents that we have seen, some of them before our lives, you and me, and at least one of them one year ago, an attempt of trying to assassinate the President of the United States of America between July 13, 2024 and July 13, 1917. You know, I was asking online the AI as an overview, what was the message of Our Lady of Fatima in July 13? And it's funny enough that Our Lady spoke about the importance of prayer according to AI, the importance of the sacrifice. for the souls, for the sake of the souls and motion to her Immaculate Heart and for the salvation of the souls. And it's so amazing to see you that today and your opening prayers, even though you had so many readings for the Sunday were given into your hands that the Lord put on your mouth, on your lips to speak to us about the healing of the souls of the people. And Our Lady speaks about devotion to her Immaculate Heart for the salvation of souls and the prevention of future wars. I want your comment in general. I know you're a wonderful patriotic American. You're a wonderful Catholic priest. You're a priest. You're a father of many in our Christian faith and beyond Christianity as well. You have a lot of charity behind your lawyer's face. What do you think has happened between 1970 until today, regarding Our Lady's messages, where is the Church today? And responding to the call of Our Lady, whether the importance of prayer, the sacrifice of the Holy Mass, the devotion to her Immaculate Heart for the sake of the salvation of souls, and the prevention of future wars. Do you see good things happening? Where are we in our journey?
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Yeah, so I think we can look at the last 100 years of our human history and see that our Blessed Mother warned us, if we don't straighten up and fly right, make straight the way the Lord, that bad is going to happen, as it always does. In the law, we call it the natural and probable result of bad behavior. results in cataclysm, and certainly we saw that in World War I. She was in the midst of World War I, and she warned about World War II, and we saw that, and we've seen continuous wars ever since. I think it was Our Lady of Akita that said, well, it's too late. You haven't prayed enough like I told you in 1917, and now you can only mitigate the damages. She warned us about the Russian error in 1917. And so, well, people, if I said, what did she warn us about? Oh, the Russian error. I said, well, what is that? Now here's the Russian error that we're seeing living out in spades in America, in Western Europe, in the Western world today. The Russians are godless. They were communist. That means godless. They were anti-god and they did everything they could to stamp out faith. And what is it? I don't know, something like 95% of people don't have much faith in the United States anymore. Well, how do you do that? You attack the relationship between God as creator and man as created. And here's what they did. What did the Russians do? First they said, we have to devalue motherhood, which of course then devalues our blessed mother, doesn't it? So they said, well, how do we do that? We have to make a woman's worth be determined by her productivity in the workforce. Not as a mother, not in the greatest vocation God gave to her. A man can't be a mother. I know there's some crazy people out there today that think they can, but a man can't be a mother. So they devalued motherhood by making a woman's value dependent upon what she's making in the workforce. And then to make sure she stays in the workforce, then they had to introduce artificial contraception because once a woman is with child, then they can't be working. So first they, so then they introduced that Russian error. Well then sometimes the artificial contraception doesn't work and a woman becomes, she conceives of a child. And so they said, well, now we have to terminate that child through abortion, the butchering of the baby in the womb. And they had to reword it so that it didn't sound like, you know, in the old days, we called it with child. You're going to bear a child. Oh, you're having a baby. Now you're pregnant. I think Lucille Ball was the first one to use that on public media in the United States, the word pregnant. See, it's easy to terminate a pregnancy. It's kind of hard to terminate your baby. So anyways, so now the Russian era, now you have the butchering of babies in the womb through abortion. And then finally, every now and then the baby gets born. Like the mother doesn't go through with that. Then what do you do? Well, then you take that child away from the mother at the youngest possible age and put it into a government indoctrination camp, we can call it public schools. so so what they've done is they've destroyed family and those things live together and grow together faith and family take one part of that out and the other falls apart too so when you look at the world today we are living in the russian air that our blessed mother warned us about in 1917 in spades and it all starts because we have devalued mothers in the glory of womanhood contrary to God's plan. So until that changes, we are going down the road to perdition. We're gone on ice down the road to perdition. So that's where I see the world today. I don't see any improvement possible until we, once again, honor women, virgins, maternity, and honor children. Bless children. By the way, which, if I can just add this, that's that whole climate change hoax is to make it look like we have a carbon footprint and there's too many kids, too many people, so let's have less kids and less carbon footprint. It's all part of this godless and damned attack on family.
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Father James, in the spirit of good obedience, and without being ironic or sarcastic, but to understand, you know, already our Holy Father celebrated Mass, and we have instituted, it seems, a new canonical prayer for the Mass. It is a Mass for nature, for the environment. How do you see that?
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God created the world, and when he did, when you look up in the sky at night, you see trillions of light years, according to scientists, that God also created. God will determine when there are too many people on the planet, not man. This is God's planet. And when you fly from one coast together and you look down out the window, you see vast open spaces. When you see such things as the Chinese in the country of India producing about, I think it's like 75, 80% of all carbon emissions. When you realize that the earth itself produces about, I don't know, it's like 97% of carbon emissions, that humanity is responsible for only 3% and that China and India are responsible for the vast majority of that 3%. I once did the math because I look into this stuff. I know how to do research. That's my expertise. And I found out that the United States was responsible for 0.55% of the carbon emissions. And they keep saying we're the worst offender because we consume so much. You could wipe out the 330 million people in the United States overnight and you're still going to have 99.45% of the carbon emissions. So the whole concept that we're not properly taking care of the world, the whole concept of this climate change hoax is not from heaven, it is from hell. The whole concept is from hell. It is a lie, but if you repeat it often enough, people believe it. The lemmings who don't know. Listen, if you have faith in God, you have to believe it's his world. And I don't know anybody in America that thinks it's an okay idea to pollute. That's anathema.
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Well, not only this, we as in our Catholic prayer, we already have seen that, right? We have covered that. We have the Liturgy of the Hours, we have the Sacraments, we have the Blessing of the Holy Water, the Holy Salt and the Exorcised Salt. Actually, we do have elements that when we take home and when we pray the Liturgy of the Hour, it's because we follow the Sun and the Moon, that at every step of the day, for seven times during every 24 hours, We recite the Psalms, for instance. We recite the rosary. So the environment is already covered very widely. And it's completely covered. Yes. It's completely covered, right?
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Yeah. So why are we being indoctrinated with this? You know, I don't think Pope Leo XIV, he didn't start this on the first day he was elevated to the papacy. This is a remnant. from before that is now flowing through. And here's how you know such things are alive. So unless it came out of the Amazonian whatever, conference or synod. Remember when we were growing up, I'm old enough to remember this, because police, a sting of the police, that rock band police, was one of the ones running around talking about the Brazilian rainforest. We gotta, we're using up too much of the Brazilian rainforest. Well then, okay, so that was the big issue of that moment, of that period, until they came up with another issue. What turns out, they started laying satellite images over satellite images one year after another, and they discovered that, Far from being reduced, the Brazilian rainforests were actually growing because of proper management of the Brazilian rainforest trees. It was a big lie, it was a big hoax, and yet you had all these protesters, these know-nothing ignoramuses running around, protesting and it's all part of this whole climate change hopes you remember in the 1970s 80s we on time magazine we were heading into the next ice age then all of a sudden al gore comes along and he's talking about global warming then you find out no the globe isn't warming and then they talk about the polar ice caps and you find out then you find out oh no The polarized cap on the south was actually getting bigger every year. That was a big lie. And now we know that the polarized cap on the north is actually getting bigger. So the whole global warming thing, again, was a hoax. They keep feeding us hoax after hoax after hoax. Why? Because they don't want us to believe that it's God's world, that he created it, and he controls all things. It's his world. So if we just respect it, which we're supposed to do anyway, we don't need a special mask for it. If we just respect it and don't pollute, I remember when I was a kid, there was a Woodsy the Owl, give a hoot, don't pollute. It was a big commercial. This whole concept, and now when they realized that we the people have come to discover that the global warming was a hoax, now they encompass anything under this concept of, oh, it's climate change. The climate isn't changing, that's a big hoax. And people just, you either believe in God or you believe in man-made hoaxes. So you have to choose. And I don't know how much more evidence you need, the lie after the lie after the lie, to come to realize. Can I just say this one last thing? So remember the whole global warming climate change hoax? They said that by about this time, I think, or by 2025, whoa, that's this time, that new york and the east coast and the west coast is all going to be underwater because the polarized caps are going to melt because of global warming at the same time that they're saying that barack hussein obama buys a beachfront home on martha's vineyard and all you need to know that there's no such thing as this global warming or climate change hoax is to find that these rich rich people the elites are buying beachfront homes that's all you need to know use the brain god gave you a brain you're supposed to use it so yeah so you asked me a question about what do i think about the environment and the in the complaints and the now we it's god's world he created it and he alone gets to determine when there's too many people
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It seems that our time, and again, we are still living in the era of our Radio Fatima's prediction of 1917. And eventually also, coming to think about it now, we have a special envoy for President Trump in the Middle East, Tom Barak, who's originally from Lebanese descent from the town of Zahle in the Bekaa Valley, which was part of the High Galilee area. part of the Roman Empire, a beautiful, beautiful area. And I noticed that we are still also in the Middle East in our geopolitical events, including, unfortunately, the bad situation, whether the terrorist attacks against Israel, Hamas attack in Israel, Israel responding, and unfortunately, a lot of innocent people are dying in this response as well, the attack between Iran and Israel. which is also the spirit of this last 100 years, Sykes-Picot. Look now, our Holy Father in Castelbondolfo received probably in the last three months, that's the second or third time he receives the President of Ukraine. for the second or the third time in his residence in Kastel Bondolfo. Now the administration with President Trump are talking about possibly really thinking if whether or not they will send again new weapons to Ukraine. The church, for instance, you spoke about the errors of Russia, unless a consecration of Russia happens. And I want to tell you that under the consecration of Russia, to clarify your point, because you brought it up clearly, Mary requested the consecration of Russia to her Immaculate Heart, warning that if this request was not heeded, Russia would spread its errors throughout the world. And you explain them, causing wars, confusion, the hoaxes that we see today in the world, the abortion, the contraception pills, the education in public schools where the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ has been totally removed, the crosses, the symbol, the Bible, everything is gone. But also she said one of the errors will be the persecutions of the church. As it seems in waves, in waves, not as one persecution. Well, you and me and many other priests, you are the co-founder and the president, I believe, of the cancel the priest in the US. I call him, I like to call him exile the priest. Nobody can cancel the priest, nobody. I think that would be succumbent to their error. That would be an error. So this fight, it seems, is in a church now. The error of Russia are in a church. Can you see a product in a church being an error that the church refused to consecrate Russia since 1962 all the way till today? At least when the third secret was to be revealed, as you know, the chronological order of the events. Is there a church today as a product of the errors of Russia versus the real Catholic Church? Your comments.
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well the ultimate error russia all those other things are the manners in which they achieved the error, the ultimate error is godlessness. And it's not paganism, because you know, pagans, even pagans believed in a higher power beyond themselves. So even something as ridiculous as the volcano god, I like to use that example, the volcano would look like it was erupting, so they would throw in a virgin, because you see, even pagans honored virginity. And so to appease the volcano god, they would throw in the virgin. The beautiful young virgin well Even pagans believed in a god not what is the error today that godlessness this there's no reference to something outside ourselves We have become our own gods, which is the air that goes right back to the Garden of Eden What did what did the Viper the chief Viper say you will become like gods knowing right from wrong? Isn't that what Satan tempted Adam and Eve with? so the when we look about the world today and in the church and We see people who want to define right and wrong. We see that in the priests, in the bishops, in the cardinals, and in the last pope, Francis. We saw how he wanted to say the 10 commandments are not rigid. Well, then I guess you get to define what is wrong for yourself, what is right for yourself. You get to choose for yourself what is right and wrong because the 10 commandments are not rigid. And I would say at that time, just a second here, they were written by the finger of God in stone. They don't get much more rigid than that. And then of course, when you see him doing such things as worshiping the Pachamama and the Vatican guards, well, we could go down the whole list, but we don't need to. The failure to cut, you can judge it by its fruits. Jesus taught us that. So let's look at the fruits. Did the consecration take place? Everybody agrees it didn't when it was supposed to have taken place. And thus, the floodgates were opened. And you can't get the horse back into the barn. You can't get the toothpaste back into the tube. It's already out there. And now what you have is a big problem to deal with. And the problem to deal with is this secularism, this atheism that you get to decide for yourself. And you see it, the relativism. Paul Benedict XVI called it the tyranny of relativism, where you see in its worst case scenarios, you hear somebody say, well, that might be true for you, but not true for me. and you say well wait a minute the principle of non-contradiction says if something is right anything contrary to it is wrong so if i'm right if two plus two is four and i say two plus two is four and you try and tell me it's five well no then it's not that can't be true for you because i happen to be right so the the relativism relativism that has poisoned us throughout the world Is a direct consequence of the of the consecration not being made now I know some people will say that they believe sister Lucia has said well It was sort of done and God I think the phrase is God accepted it well accepting it and doing it the way it's supposed to be done are two very different things and And you see that throughout sacred scripture. God says, and remember, here's, if you don't believe me, read the Bible. Because go read the time when God said to Moses, who gave everything to God to lead his people, the Israelites, out of Egypt. He said, okay, strike that rock once and water will come out and moses who saw the ten plagues who saw the water part who who led them dry shot who saw the waters wash back over and drown all of pharaoh's chariots and charioteers he hit he had a moment of doubt one lousy moment 40 years he's leaving this people he has one moment of doubt he hits a rock twice and what happens there's a consequence isn't there He didn't get to go into the promised land. So when you look at, you need to understand there's a consequence if you don't do what God tells you. Remember, it was a sacred heart. It was the King of France was told to consecrate France to the sacred heart. And it was something like,
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It was 100 years, 100 years before 1789 was Catherine the Queen. That's true.
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Yeah, to the very day, French Revolution and the king gets his head cut off. So you do it when God tells you to do it, how God tells you to do it, or there's a consequence.
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Which is July 14th, you know that, right? What's that? July 14th.
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July 14th, okay, there you go. So I knew it was coming out sometime soon.
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Dive into the essence of the spiritual life in this enlightening episode of The Flatline with Rick Hughes. From the outset, Rick clarifies the misconceptions about spirituality, distinguishing it from the superficial holiness displayed by many. He introduces listeners to the royal family concept, an identity bestowed upon believers through salvation, uncovering the rich tapestry of spiritual truths and doctrinal principles taught by Christ. As the session unfolds, Rick takes us back to Christ's teachings in John and provides insights into the spiritual life Jesus demonstrated, especially during His temptations. This narrative not only highlights Christ’s impeccable obedience but also presents His life as a model of spiritual endurance and fidelity to God’s will. In the concluding segments, Rick discusses the role of Scripture in the believer's life, portraying God’s Word as a powerful tool for discernment, wisdom, and growth. Emphasizing the importance of spiritual vocabulary and problem-solving skills, he encourages believers to deepen their understanding of God's plan. Listeners are invited to embrace their spiritual life, using it as a bastion against life’s adversities while continuing to advance towards spiritual maturity.
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Welcome to the Flatline with your host, Rick Hughes. For the next 30 minutes, you'll be inspired, motivated, educated, but never manipulated. Now, your host, Rick Hughes.
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Good morning and welcome to the Flatline. I'm your host, Rick Hughes, and I'd like to invite you to stick around for a few minutes, 30 minutes of motivation, education, inspiration, with absolutely no manipulation. That's right, we're not playing games, not trying to raise money, we're not trying to get you to sign up, join up, fess up, nothing like that. My job is simply to verify and identify the plan of God for your life Hopefully, your job will be to orient and adjust to the plan if you want to do that. But God gave us two ends, one end we sit with, one end we think with, and success in our life will depend on which one of those we use. Heads, we win. Tails, we lose. So think about it. The Flatline is designed to give you accurate information, not useless speculation. And I've just gone through a series on the Flatline called These Things. This is what the Lord Jesus Christ said in John 15, 11. These things I've given to you so that my joy may be in you. your joy may be complete these things refers to the spiritual life they were going to have to have once the Lord Jesus Christ left he taught him a lot of different doctrines from John chapter 13 once they completed the Last Supper he began to show them these things what's between John 13 and And John 15, 11 is these things. He taught them how to rebound or confess their sin by the illustration of foot washing. He identified the traitor that was there among them. He gave them the new commandment in John 13, 34, and that's to use impersonal love, one of our problem-solving devices. He talked about humility and how Peter had to learn humility. He went on to develop occupation with himself in John 14, 1. He taught eternal security. He taught the gospel truth. He taught the hypostatic union. He taught the importance of Christian service. He taught the importance of prayer and praying in his name, not in the name of God, but in the name of Christ. He taught virtue love. He mentioned how the Holy Spirit was going to come. He talked about so many doctrines, having a relaxed mental attitude and that how Satan would attack them. And then he said, lastly, in John 15, 14, he wanted them to be his friend. The spiritual life includes all these things I'm talking to you about. And I want to introduce you to that term this morning. I know I just went through a lot of things quickly, but let me back up just for a minute. Let me introduce you to the term, the spiritual life. And what is the true meaning of the spiritual life for you and I? The term the spiritual life does not mean someone is acting very holy like a saint. We've all been around those imposters who act like they're holy. They call everybody brother and they call everybody sister and they act very holy and they would never say anything of color and never watch a movie that's any greater than a G or anything like that. Wouldn't go shop at some store where they sell beer because they're spiritual. That's not the spiritual life. That sometimes can be a lot of legalism and sometimes it can be genuine, but most of the time it's just religious legalism. So the spiritual life that I'm talking about is totally different. This is the life of the royal family of God. And if you are a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, meaning you have trusted him to save you, you've accepted Christ as your personal savior, this means you are now in the royal family of God. And you are in what's called the church age or the dispensation of grace, the church. And this is a very unique time in the history of the Bible. Actually, none of the Old Testament prophets foresaw it at all. They just saw the second advent of Christ coming back eventually. But when Paul came along and Paul began to develop the mystery doctrines in Ephesians, the Philippians, Colossians, Galatians, and he taught the mystery doctrine of Christ in you, the hope of glory. We'll talk about that today. So the spiritual life is the life the royal family lives while they are in the dispensation of the church. It doesn't mean you go around and act holy all the time. It means you live a life according to the plan that God laid out. Now, the prototype spiritual life was lived by none other than the Lord Jesus Christ himself while he was here in his humanity. Remember, he was hypostatic union, God and man in one body forever. He was the God-man. But you have to understand that his impeccability, he never sinned, but as God, he wasn't able to sin. So as God, he was not able to sin, but as man, he did not sin. And he never used his own deity to sustain his humanity. That's called the doctrine of kenosis. He did not use his deity to sustain his humanity. What I'm saying is he could have called 10,000 angels to destroy the world and set him free on the cross, but he didn't do that. As the song says, he died alone for you and me. So he set out the prototype spiritual life and demonstrated it to his disciples and taught them what it was between John 13 and John 15. So he's the only one qualified to offer a sacrifice for sin. He was qualified because he was born perfect and by the way he lived his human life, living the prototype, prototype, the first spiritual life with temptations beyond anything we'll ever face or anything that we'll ever know and he remained perfect. One of the greatest temptations that you can read about that he faced was in Matthew chapter four when he was led by the serpent into the wilderness to be tempted and led by the Holy Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And you might remember, let me see if I can pull this Bible a little closer so that my glasses can focus on this. Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tested by the devil. That is God putting him on the witness stand. God allowing his human nature to be tested. And so to be tested, he had to fast 40 days and 40 nights. And afterwards he was hungry. He was in a very weakened state, the Bible says. As I turned the page, and when the tempter came, which is Satan, a.k.a. the devil, he said to him, if you be the son of God, I command that you turn these stones to bread. Do a miracle. Now, people always want the miracle, and Satan's asking Jesus to prove his divine nature. That would have been a sin of arrogance and he would have reacted and Jesus didn't do that. Our Lord said, I can't do that. He said, it is written in the word, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. So principle is the divine nature does not rescue the human nature. So then the devil took him up into the holy city and set him on a pinnacle of the temple and said, if you are the son of God, cast yourself down. For it is written that he shall give his angels charge concerning you, and in their hands they shall bear you up, lest at any time you dash your foot against a stone. Same temptation, different form, trying to get Christ to operate apart from God's word. This is a temptation you've never faced, I've never faced. This is face to face with Satan. And it is written again, the Lord said, you shall not put the Lord your God to the test. And again, the devil took him into an exceedingly high mountain and knowing him, showing him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of those kingdoms. And he said, I will give you all of these if you will bow down and worship me. Trying to, again, tempt Jesus to ignore God's plan and follow him. But Jesus said, Be gone, Satan, for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and ministered to him. This is a temptation you and I have never known. I'll set this Bible back down now. We've never known this kind of temptation. This is face to face with the devil. But you will in your advanced, in your spiritual life. As you grow spiritually, you will go through a momentum testing. and eventually you may face evidence testing. In your spiritual life, this is when God would call you to the witness stand and Satan will cross-examine you as happened with the life of Job. He was cross-examined and found to be faithful. But the only one qualified to offer these sacrifice for sin was Christ because he operated under the filling of the Holy Spirit and he used the same problem-solving devices that we use with the exception of problem-solving device number one, rebound. He didn't have to do that. He didn't have to confess his sin, and he did not have to be occupied with Christ, problem-solving device number 10, since he was Christ. But the lifestyle he lived was a demonstration to you and me of how we are to live in the devil's world, as we are assaulted every day by the cosmic system and by the desires of the flesh. So learning spiritual skills gives us the ability to be independent of human solutions in life. Now what are some of those spiritual skills? Well this is how the spiritual life operates. If you don't know this you can't live the spiritual life. First of all, you have the filling of the Holy Spirit. That's problem-solving device number two. The filling of the Holy Spirit overcomes the old sin nature's temptation. We have a flesh. We have a sin nature. And the only way we can defeat that flesh, as the Bible says, walk in the Spirit and you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh. So one of the spiritual skills we must learn is problem-solving device number one, rebound. If we confess our sin, he's faithful and just to forgive us and cleanse us so that we can then be filled with the Holy Spirit. And secondly, we must learn how to operate under the faith rest drill, standing on the promises of God. That's important. You can't live the spiritual life without the faith rest drill. And the Bible clearly says faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. So if you take the filling of the Holy Spirit plus the faith thrust drill, plus learning and applying God's word into your life, you develop those 10 problem-solving devices. And this gives us the ability to be independent of any human solutions in life. So the spiritual life that I'm talking about, this invisible lifestyle, begins at salvation when the dead human spirit is indwelled by God the Holy Spirit, making you and me spiritually alive. We're born again, not physically. That's what tripped Nicodemus up. He didn't quite understand that. And the Lord said, I'm surprised you don't know this, Nic. But that which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the spirit is spirit. Now no lost person, any person that's not a believer, no lost person can have a spiritual life. It's impossible since they only have a dead human spirit. They are spiritually dead while you and I are spiritually alive. That happened the moment God the Holy Spirit indwelled our dead human spirit and we were born again. He came to live in us and we were born again, not physically but spiritually, a spiritual birth. demands a spiritual life. Now, an unbeliever may claim to be spiritual by some sort of transcendental meditation or some sort of yoga exercise, but that's not what we're talking about. We're not talking about that spiritual type stuff they're talking about. We're talking about the spiritual life that God gives you at salvation to carry you through your time in the devil's world. What you and I possess is the greatest reality in a relationship to God that's ever existed in the history of the world. We have Christ living in us. We have the Holy Spirit living in us. We have God the Father living in us. We have all the problem-solving devices available to us. So we live our spiritual life in the compartments of our soul. You have a soul, I have a soul. Our soul has mentality, volition, conscious, self-consciousness, and what we think is reflected in how we live. In other words, what's in our soul is reflected by what's in our life. Proverbs 23, seven, as a man thinketh, so he is. Your spiritual life is lived between your ears, in your brain, in your mentality. It's demonstrated in your body as you apply doctrine into your life, but it actually takes place between those ears in your thoughts, in your mind, in your soul, in your consciousness. So when you live in a time continuum like we do here in time, we live in what's called an arena of consequences. There are consequences to all of our decisions. Bad decisions limit future options. So the spiritual life is a shield in that arena, and that shield protects us as we march through Satan's cosmic system towards the ultimate objective, which is us being face to face with our Lord and savior, the anointed son of God, Jesus Christ. The Bible clearly says in Galatians 5, 16, walk in the spirit and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh. And the Bible tells us that, that there's the power to overcome the flesh. The Bible says in 1 John 4, for he who is in you is greater than he who's in the world. Again, a mentioning of the Holy Spirit to overcome anything Satan throws your way. And then we have the uniqueness of the Word of God, the Bible. Not that thing you throw in your back window when you're going to lunch after church, The thing you live by, you study by, your sword, your weapon, the word of God, Hebrews 4.12, is alive and powerful, sharper than a two-edged sword. It is alive and powerful, the word of God. It will sustain you. It will guide you. It will give you insight, discernment, understanding, and wisdom if you learn it and use it in your life. God left it for us, and those disciples had no idea they were writing a New Testament that we would live by, but that's what it is to us. In Colossians 127, to whom God would make known what is the riches of of his glory, of this mystery among the Gentiles, and it is Christ in you, the hope of glory. That's the spiritual life. Remember this, in the Old Testament, you had the Shekinah glory and the tabernacle. As the Jews moved toward the Promised Land and set up the tabernacle, by night the pillow of fire and by day the cloud during day and inside that temple was the shekinah glory of the presence of christ he lives in you that's he's in you that's the power in the spiritual life god the father god the son god the holy spirit indwelling living in you But that spiritual life requires a spiritual IQ. God expects you to be able to think. It requires a filling of the Holy Spirit. Yes, it does. You can't live the spiritual life out of fellowship with God. You cannot live the spiritual life with unconfessed sin in your life, or the Bible says you'll be carnal. You'll be in reversionism, we call it, being going backwards, not going forward. So you have to stay filled with the Holy Spirit if you're going to live the spiritual life. but you must also have some thinking skills. And this is critical to understand. When we become believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, we have to learn a new vocabulary. I didn't know any words like redemption and sanctification and imputation when I got saved. I didn't know anything about that. I didn't know anything about kenosis or hypostatic union or grace apparatus for perception. I had to learn a new vocabulary. And let me compare it to something that I do all the time, bass fishing. I do a lot of bass fishing. It's my favorite sport. And we have a lot of different techniques. So you have to learn how to fish a drop shot. You have to learn how to fish a spinnerbait. You have to learn how to fish a crankbait. You have to learn how to fish a Carolina rig, a Texas rig. I mean, you just have to learn the nomenclature of fishing so you know what you're talking about. So if a fisherman, if you don't fish and he tells you, I caught him on a drop shot, you have no idea what he's talking about. Well, in the spiritual life, I had to learn a new vocabulary. a new vocabulary that referred to my life in Christ, how I lived my spiritual life. I had to understand what it meant to be redeemed and reconciled. I had to understand what it meant to be in fellowship and out of fellowship. I had to understand what it meant to grow spiritually or not grow spiritually or to be carnal and in the flesh. I had to learn a whole new vocabulary, and this took some comprehension. That's critical in your spiritual life, comprehension. You have to learn. It's your capacity to perceive and apply the Word of God under the filling of the Holy Spirit in your life. If you don't, if you can't comprehend God's plan, you'll never understand it. And you're not going to get it by just sitting in church singing songs for 45 minutes and getting 10 minutes of, you can do better next week, try better. I mean, come on. God gives the gift of pastor-teacher to an individual, a man who who has the ability to study and teach and use God's word to make you rich spiritually to give you a word treasure and you store that word treasure in your memory that's a spiritual skill comprehension vocabulary memory center that's where your ability to retain and recall the Word of God exist so when you have certain circumstances in your life you have to go back and recall what the Bible said What your pastor taught you about that? Where did you retain it? And the bad thing is, and it's pitiful to say with a lot of people, and it may be that way with you, that the rate of learning does not exceed the rate of forgetting. You must not let that happen. You must not let the rate of forgetting exceed the rate of learning. Because I don't care what you learned last year, if you don't review it, you'll forget it. And so there has to be stimulation in the memory center. There has to be comprehension of the Word of God under the filling of the Holy Spirit. There has to be a new vocabulary learned. There has to be problem-solving skills applied. And that's why we have a flatline in our soul, those 10 unique problem-solving devices. And that's a new vocabulary for you. You had to learn what are the 10 problem-solving devices. One, rebound. Two, the filling of the Holy Spirit. Three, the faith rest drill. Four, grace orientation. Five, doctrinal orientation. Six, having a personal sense of destiny. Seven, having personal love for God. Eight, using impersonal love with all mankind. Nine, sharing the happiness of God. And 10, occupation with Christ. That's not anything new. That's been in the Bible ever since it was written. It's like a guy told me one time, you didn't tell me something I didn't know. You just put it in a way I never heard it put before. That's the ability that must be in the life of the pastor or the communicator to let it make sense to you, not take it out of context. So there has to be those problem-solving skills, and there must be decision-making skills. And that's your ability to understand the issues of your life and separate out those things that are essential from those things that are non-essential. So, the spiritual life at work. Listen to what Paul talked about here. Philippians 4, 11 through 13. Not that I speak for want, for I have learned to be content. That's the spiritual life at work. In whatever circumstances I'm in, I'm content. He went on to say, I know how to get along with the humble means, and I also know how to live in prosperity. In any and every circumstance, I've learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and suffering need. And then the real key to the spiritual life, Philippians 4.13, I can do all things through Christ who gives me the strength, who strengthens me. There it is, in operation. Philippians 4.6, again, the spiritual life in operation, be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, along with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. What a wonderful thing we have, the ability to pray and bring our situation before the Lord. So we all start at zero on the day of our salvation. And we all have the ability to advance to 100, which is maximum glorification of God, before our time on earth is up. So the spiritual life begins with you developing spiritual self-esteem. That gives you confidence in your individual life. Then you move to spiritual autonomy. And that's you being in command of yourself, not letting other people manipulate you. You're being spiritually independent and spiritually self-directing. From there, you move to spiritual maturity, which is the maximum effectiveness in God's plan for you. So spiritual self-esteem gives you self-confidence in God's plan. Spiritual autonomy gives you the ability to operate independently and stand alone. And spiritual maturity, which is maximum effectiveness in God's plan. When you fulfill your very own spiritual life on earth, then you become a winner in time and in eternity with the highest form of blessing and prosperity that comes from God. So the glory of the world will pass away, but what you will receive will never pass away. Your destiny is eternal for sure, but you have to remember that it's also temporal. In order for us to advance to spiritual maturity by means of our spiritual life, We have to learn the Word of God and apply the Word of God before we cross over, either by death or the rapture, into the eternal state. So while we're here right now, you need to be focusing on your spiritual life. Paul prays for the Ephesian believers to have a fruitful spiritual life. He said, I pray that the God of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, in Ephesians 1.17, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation, in the knowledge of him, and I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened so that you will know what is the hope or the confidence of his calling and what are the riches or the wealth of his wisdom, the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints. That means that you will have insight and understanding from the wisdom they accumulate by learning about the lifestyle of the Lord Jesus Christ. That was Paul's prayer. A lot of people fail to achieve spiritual maturity, and they fail to become spiritually mature believers. They don't develop their spiritual life, and that's partially due to Satan's counterattack, and it's very effective because many people lack any cognition of the Word of God. They don't go to church. They don't sit under a qualified pastor. They don't study the Bible. They just go through the ritual without any reality to it. And because of their failure, they don't grow up spiritually. They don't establish a beachhead in their spiritual life. They don't continue the habit of faithfully studying, faithfully growing. They get distracted by their prosperity or their marriage or their family, whatever. They just never make it. They don't live the spiritual life. It's a shame to be in the devil's world and have to live it in the energy of the flesh when there's a much greater power available. We have the freedom to live the spiritual life because God the Holy Spirit indwells us. And we have the freedom as believers that no one can take away from us. People try to distract us, try to talk about us, run us down, but we're transformed into the same spiritual life which our Lord had during his incarnation. And that's the wonderful thing. If we live that spiritual life, we have an unfading glory that fades not away in eternity. So it's not some religious activities. As I said, prayer doesn't make you spiritual, but spiritual people do pray for sure. The spiritual life is not acquired by observing local taboos. The spiritual life is lived in the mentality of your soul, as I told you, where you acquire the mind of Christ, as the Bible says in 1 Corinthians 2.16. That's the spiritual life. It occurs when you stay filled with the Spirit, learn the Word of God, and apply it into your life and have fellowship with God, rapport with God. And that's the importance of understanding your spiritual life. You have it. It's yours. When you think about it, it's different than your physical life because your physical life will terminate with death, but your spiritual life will go into heaven in a resurrection body. Those things you learned and used, you'll take to heaven with you. So please, tomorrow, today, think about living in terms of your spiritual life. Am I in fellowship? Am I growing in grace? Am I glorifying the Lord Jesus Christ with every decision that I make? It's critical that you remember these things. I hope I've given you information that you can use, and I hope you'll come back next week. Until then, this is your host, Rick Hughes, saying thank you for being with me here today on the Flatline.
SPEAKER 01 :
Thank you for listening to The Floodline with your host, Rick Hughes. If you'd like to contact Rick, please write to him at P.O. Box 100, Cropwell, Alabama, 35054, or online at www.rickhughesministries.org.
Listeners are treated to an engaging dialogue centered on automotive challenges familiar to many car owners. This episode offers practical solutions, from coping with catalytic converter inefficiencies to understanding the implications of California's stringent automotive compliance laws. With a spotlight on listener Todd's inquiries about economical solutions ahead of his move to Florida, the show serves as an informative guide for those facing similar dilemmas. As always, the Drive Radio team remains committed to educating and empowering their audience with the knowledge to make informed automotive decisions.
SPEAKER 28 :
Being an expert on general automotive knowledge, what would the correct ignition timing be on a 1955 Bel Air Chevrolet with a 327 cubic inch engine and a four-barrel carburetor?
SPEAKER 26 :
It is a trick question. Watch this. The Chevy didn't make a 327 in 55. The 327 didn't come out till 62. And it wasn't offered in the Bel Air with a four-barrel carb till 64. However, in 1964, the correct ignition timing would be four degrees before top dead center.
SPEAKER 04 :
Get ready for another hour of Drive Radio, brought to you by Colorado Select Auto Care Centers. Got a question for the experts? Then give them a call, 303-477-5600. Now it's time to pop the hood and get our hands dirty. Drive Radio on KLZ 560 The Source.
SPEAKER 22 :
All right, Drive Radio, KLZ 560, Hour 2. Thanks for joining us today. We appreciate it very much. Ken Rackley, Toontech Automotive with us today. Mark Guernsey, Accountable up in Broomfield as well. We have got Charlie Grimes, of course, our engineer, and Larry Unger answering phones. Lines are open 303-477-5600. Our question of the day was give us your favorite car song, song about cars, songs you like playing in the car, whatever. We're pretty loose on that. You can text us or call in directly. Again, text line 307-282-22. Todd in Highlands Ranch, you're next.
SPEAKER 18 :
Hey, John, how's it going?
SPEAKER 22 :
We're good, sir.
SPEAKER 18 :
Does it have to be a song? How about a podcast?
SPEAKER 22 :
That's fine, too.
SPEAKER 18 :
John Rush's podcast.
SPEAKER 22 :
Oh, thank you. Thank you, Todd.
SPEAKER 18 :
Hey, I know we talk about this subject a lot, and that's catalyte converters, and I just got the indicator light showing up on my Ford Explorer for the first time, and it turns out it is. catalytic converter related. Efficiency. I stopped and visited your guys over at Napa, and you gave me this product. It's called Cat Clean. You put it in your tank, a quarter full, and then you go through that, and then you fill it up a couple of times with premium, and hopefully it flushes out and resets. Is there a good chance it's going to reset? No. I've only got 130,000 miles on this.
SPEAKER 22 :
At 130, and a lot of that's going to depend upon how it's been driven, highway, city, how much has been built up in it. I mean, here's the thing. You're not out a lot of money in trying what you're going to try, so would I try it? Sure.
SPEAKER 01 :
Can't hurt.
SPEAKER 22 :
Yeah, you're not losing anything. You're not hurting a thing. I mean, it's not bad advice at all. If it works, great. You're ahead of the curve. I will tell you, though, even if you do that, plan on at some point, even if this fixes it, plan on doing one.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, it's coming up. Yep, yep.
SPEAKER 22 :
So either keep the car, plan on that expense, or dump it. Yeah.
SPEAKER 18 :
Okay, so here's a caveat. I'm moving to Florida next year. Unfortunately, my registration tabs are going to be due in October. So, you know, if it doesn't pass, it doesn't pass. But I'm trying to figure out a cheaper alternative, you know, that is if I should go with an aftermarket maybe, if that's going to save me any money. So when I moved to Florida, you know, it won't matter at that time.
SPEAKER 12 :
They're about the same price now. Yeah, the aftermarket and the, yeah.
SPEAKER 22 :
Well, because in Colorado, they all have to be California compliant, and that's a new law in Colorado, Todd. That's why what Mark and Ken are telling you is so true because the pricing is very, very similar because of that fact it has to be California compliant.
SPEAKER 18 :
So you're not saving a whole lot of money.
SPEAKER 12 :
No, and usually you're better off going with the OE because they fit better. And anyway, do you ever go through the remote testing on the highway on ramps and stuff like that?
SPEAKER 18 :
I do. As a matter of fact, the previous two years, that's how I've passed the mission.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, good. So more than likely, you know, it will still likely pass. And so hopefully when you get your renewal card. you know, that will already be registered, you know, already.
SPEAKER 22 :
And you gotta be, is it 90 plus 90 days? So, yeah. So you're, you're like, you need to find testing stations now and run through those purposely right now.
SPEAKER 12 :
10 times a day for the next week.
SPEAKER 22 :
Because you are right in that, you're right at that line.
SPEAKER 12 :
But if you've been doing it up to this point, then you should be okay. Yeah, then you should be okay. You definitely don't want to put it to the floor while you're going through there either. No, light throttle. Yeah, light throttle, as long as you're accelerating some.
SPEAKER 18 :
What do you anticipate an approximate cost for replacement, if I stick this into one of your guys?
SPEAKER 09 :
What kind of car is this? It's a floor.
SPEAKER 18 :
What year? 2013 Ford Explorer. It's a base model.
SPEAKER 12 :
six cylinder yeah there's four is there four on that there's probably four on at least two i would say probably right off the manifold so it was at a four i mean 420 or 430 or both codes uh four shoot i had it written down here okay Because if it's a 430 and then there's at least two cats.
SPEAKER 18 :
I was going to say, I think there's two because I chat GPT'd it earlier and it did say two.
SPEAKER 09 :
My next concern is what caused that cat to fail because just mileage doesn't generally do that. And the biggest thing I'm seeing lately is a head gasket leak, even minor. of exhaust gases getting into the cooling system, but then coolant also getting into the engine, going out the cat, antifreeze will kill a cat faster than most things. So you don't want to buy a new cat and have it fail again.
SPEAKER 18 :
Because that price is not less than a couple thousand. Yeah, that would be awesome. But, yeah, I don't drive it a whole lot. I work remotely, so... I don't put a whole lot of miles on it during the day, so I thought, well, maybe it's the fact that I don't drive it much. I just, you know, go to the gym or the grocery store a few miles away every day. Other than that, I don't drive it a lot. Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, because like Mark was saying, you're not going to be under $2,000 on that single cat.
SPEAKER 22 :
No, I was going to say top of my head, Todd, by the time you do that whole job, you're $3,000 or so pretty easily.
SPEAKER 12 :
Good chance. Okay, cool.
SPEAKER 22 :
Kind of hard to say without our software in front of us.
SPEAKER 12 :
Right, exactly.
SPEAKER 22 :
But if you can get by until you move, do it.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, exactly. Hopefully that remote sensing will pick you up at a pass, and you can fly right through with that.
SPEAKER 22 :
Absolutely. Well, yeah, because, Todd, once you get to Florida, you could put a regular cap back on it legally, have no issues, and it's a lot less money.
SPEAKER 18 :
Sure.
SPEAKER 22 :
Sounds great. Okay. Appreciate you, Todd. Thanks. Great question, by the way. I appreciate that very much. Stephen Aurora, you're next.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yeah, hopefully I don't open up a whole Pandora's box here, but you were talking about CARB. Well, there's a lot of legislation right now getting rid of CARB. and just the EPA handling it all through the federal government.
SPEAKER 09 :
I would be shocked if that happens.
SPEAKER 22 :
Yeah, California's got so much pull that, I mean, let me say this. Never say never. We've seen all sorts of things change under this administration that you've not seen in the past, so I can't say never say never. I wish that would happen, Steve. I think it's absolutely ridiculous that California has its own car board in the first place. So if that happened, hallelujah, I'm in.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yeah. And then the other thing that I just heard is Nevada actually just made it a criminal offense. If you mess with anything on the vehicle, any, you know, catalytic converters or tailpipes. Emissions components. Muffler. You mess with anything and they've made it a criminal offense now. Right.
SPEAKER 22 :
I'm not sure. I'll look that up, and I appreciate the tip because I did not know that. I haven't seen that. I follow a lot of the news that comes out of even SEMA and so on where they watch and lobby against a lot of those things. So I will definitely check that out. I'm not sure how well, for example, changing the muffler and so on would hold up in court. I mean, if it's a state law, it's a state law, I guess. But to me, I think that one could be challenged very easily. The emission side, I absolutely can see them doing that and enforcing it because other states like Colorado do.
SPEAKER 12 :
It's already a federal offense. I mean, punishable, probably not. By fines, yeah. Right.
SPEAKER 22 :
Yeah, they've never done it on a personal basis. It's always been at the shop level and so on, Steve. So, yeah, I'm going to look this one up because that's a great tip I had not heard.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yeah, so just throwing out some questions there.
SPEAKER 22 :
No, I appreciate that. What state was that? Nevada, right?
SPEAKER 18 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 22 :
Okay, I will look that up. All right. Thank you. Steve, appreciate that. Thank you very much. I had not heard that, so I will double-check that. Tim in Colorado Springs, you're next.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, so on your catalytic converter stuff, I had a 2018 Chevy Colorado with 150,000 miles in it. It had the efficiency issue on my left catalytic converter, and if I ordered one in Colorado, it was $1,600 with a $400 core. But if I ordered the same exact part number and had it shipped to New Mexico, it was $1,100 worth of $400 cores. So you can save $500 if you ship it down to New Mexico.
SPEAKER 09 :
But a shop can't install that catalytic converter legally.
SPEAKER 12 :
Was that a Chevy dealer that ordered it?
SPEAKER 19 :
No, I ordered it, and I put it in. Oh, okay. Okay. So anyway, just to let you know.
SPEAKER 12 :
So was it a Chevy part number?
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah. Oh, okay.
SPEAKER 22 :
But you had to drive down and pick it up yourself, right?
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, but I still saved a lot of money.
SPEAKER 22 :
Yeah, because they will not ship. And that's good to know because they will not ship into Colorado at all, as you know.
SPEAKER 19 :
I know. Right. Yep. And it's the same part number.
SPEAKER 12 :
So Colorado dealers are jacking up the cost? Is that what you kind of gathered on that?
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, I would love to know. I think it's because the California EPA crap. And if that's the case, then I would be really interested to know if it's the same part. going to Colorado or New Mexico, then what's the state doing with that extra? Who's getting that extra $500?
SPEAKER 09 :
Something doesn't add up there.
SPEAKER 22 :
In that case, it's probably a comp. Because I'm not going to dog the dealer here. Most likely, that's going to come out of the manufacturer to the dealer. All they're doing is taking whatever their cost is and doing their suggested retail price and selling it to you. So most likely, that's coming from the manufacturer, I would guess. Yeah.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, I don't know, but it works.
SPEAKER 22 :
Yeah, and for a while now, and for those of you listening, there were some folks that were trying to do that in Wyoming, and what's happened up in Wyoming is most of the guys up there will not do that any longer is what we're hearing. So for some of you saying, yeah, you can go do the same thing in Wyoming, yeah, no, you can't because most of them have gotten – to the fact that Colorado guys were driving up there, buying things, and then driving right back down. And I don't know, Tim, if they're requiring ID or how they're doing that, but that is not as easy in Wyoming as it once was.
SPEAKER 12 :
In-state registration. Right.
SPEAKER 19 :
I had it shipped to a buddy of mine's address, and when I ordered the thing, I had to give him my VIN number, so I thought I might get caught there. But anyway, it worked. Came in UPS, and they dropped it off. I did the fake sign signature online thing.
SPEAKER 22 :
So make sure I'm following you. So you actually had a friend in New Mexico that you shipped it to in New Mexico? Yeah. Okay, perfect. And I think anybody that might have some ins on that, even in Wyoming potentially, I think you could get by doing that. But I don't think you can be a Colorado resident and roll right into Wyoming by a catalytic converter that's non-California compliant.
SPEAKER 19 :
I don't know about that.
SPEAKER 22 :
I don't think you can.
SPEAKER 19 :
You're right.
SPEAKER 22 :
So, yeah, that's a good workaround. But now, here's the thing. Somebody has to have a friend there.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yep, yep, yep. I could sell you his name for a couple. There you go, Tim.
SPEAKER 12 :
There you go. Hey, we can make money with this. That's absolutely right. There you go.
SPEAKER 19 :
All right.
SPEAKER 22 :
All right, appreciate you. No, good tip. Yeah, for some of you that have friends, relatives, neighbors, things like that where you may have some sort of a connection out of state on these catalytic converters and you can put it on yourself, yes, you could do exactly what he just said. Now, where it becomes dicey is if you run into any problems at all, Putting that on, and you go to a shop in this Colorado area, they are not going to help you finish the install of a non-California compliant catalytic converter. They're not going to do it.
SPEAKER 12 :
I mean, it sounded like the cat that he ordered was an OE manufactured cat. The same part number here in Colorado, it was $500 less to order it from GM or from whoever. And have it shipped there. And have it shipped there. It was $500 less. That was what I gathered from that conversation.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, that's what's not making sense to me.
SPEAKER 12 :
Right, exactly. That's why I was like, well, are they – Yeah.
SPEAKER 22 :
But for those of you that, you know, again, you buy a cat outside of... You're traveling. You're in Arkansas. I'll just pick up a cat while I'm here. Okay, that's fine. And you can do that.
SPEAKER 11 :
You can put it on.
SPEAKER 22 :
And you could buy that. And as long as you can install it yourself... Right. you would be okay doing so, but you will not get anyone here, professionally speaking, that will install that.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. Because if they get caught. Right. If you don't ask them to install your cat, they won't ask you to pay the $50,000 fine. Right. There you go.
SPEAKER 22 :
All right. We'll come back here in a moment. Don't go anywhere. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 08 :
It's all right. It's all right. I'm going to wake you up early because I'm going to take a ride with you. We're going down to the Honda shop. I'll tell you what we're going to do. All right.
SPEAKER 22 :
Drive Radio, KLZ 560. And great songs, by the way. And the question of the day is, favorite car song or songs that you play while driving? And lots of you have texted in, which I appreciate. I'll read some of those off here through the show, but keep texting. I appreciate that as well. And if you have a regular question, we can answer that. either through the text line or directly here. And for a lot of you that text in, I can answer that on air, and I do. And a lot of times you hear it, and I don't have to text back. So just let me know if you're listening, and I'll answer that on air and avoid me having to use my thumbs to type back in on my phone. So at any rate, 307-282-22, the regular line, of course, 303-477-5600. Myself, Ken Rackley. And, of course, Mark Guernsey here as well. And just to dovetail back into Mark did look up the law in Nevada. And, yeah, it's a law against individuals where if you're tampering with the exhaust system. And, by the way, in a way that would change the emissions on the car. So you've got any kind of a cutout or things that are bypassing emissions devices or so on. Yeah, of course, that stuff's all going to be illegal. And it's... This is something that I would have to go research. Have they enforced that on any individuals in Nevada? Because, by the way, most states have similar laws. Colorado does as well. Although here in Colorado, the only thing they've done is gone after shops that have been doing some of those things. So the diesel tuners where they're deleting and things like that. And yes, even though and this is where it's totally wrong. There's some guys, some influencers out on YouTube and TikTok and Facebook and so on. claiming that with the new EPA head and with what's going on with the Trump administration and so on, that all of those emission things and the delete devices and so on, those are now all legal. Yeah, no, nothing could be farther from the truth. Those guys actually should be banned from having accounts and such, saying such wrongful things, because no, nothing could be farther from the truth. There is nothing that has changed law-wise saying that. you can delete your diesel vehicle and get by with it. There are state laws, even like in Colorado, whereby if you do that, you're liable to be in trouble. Now, individually speaking, can you get by with that? Probably, although you're really on some shaky ground there if you do. Shop-wise, there are some shop owners, as we speak, a shop owner in Colorado that is in jail, as we speak, for doing the very things we're talking about, and that has happened recently. the past year here in Colorado so bottom line if you're a shop doing some of those things I wouldn't my advice to you all would be I would not do that because you're really on shaky ground and you could end up paying a lot of you could lose your business let's just say it that way so some people have actually lost their business over these things and it's very unwise to do so now am I all for the emissions devices that are on these vehicles no I think a lot of more crap I'll be the first to admit they're causing more grief than they're worth. They're not even helping out as far as the overall environment is concerned. A lot of these, especially on the diesels, what they're doing with extra fuel, they're injecting down the downpipe to actually clean things up and so on means you're using more fuel. I mean, all in all, is it better for the environment? No, it is not. But at the end of the day, it is what it is, and it's the law. And if you defeat any of those devices as a shop, you're going to be in trouble.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. And in some cases, it can affect the way they run, things like that, too. Overall fuel economy, yeah.
SPEAKER 22 :
At the end of the day, and this is the other thing, too, and I have seen this, even some of the delete devices whereby you think – Things are running well once you're done. If you really look at some of the programming that's gone into some of these, some of it is so rough and it is so out there that what you think is going on is really not what's going on. And again, personally speaking, I would not go down that path, even though I'm a hot rodder and I come out of the world of probably being more on the edge than what Most would be when it comes to some of those things. It's just one of those areas. And even when I own shops, we never did anything along those lines at all that defeated anything emissions wise because doing so, that's the stuff that you can lose your business over. And I wasn't willing to go down that path.
SPEAKER 12 :
No, it's not worth it. Yeah. And, you know, and I don't. I think back and I, you know, you get a car in the shop that the cat's not working or it's a, you know, not that we work on old cars, but a cat that's not working. And you start and run that thing in the shop. You know it. And it's like, how did we sit at traffic lights with cars without catalytic converters?
SPEAKER 09 :
Because they smell so bad. Stinky.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, right. Exactly. And I don't remember that as a kid or anything like that.
SPEAKER 09 :
I do.
SPEAKER 10 :
Do you?
SPEAKER 09 :
You know, shop space is confined, so all that exhaust stays right there. Sure. But, yeah, there's just certain cars you didn't want to follow or be around at all. Right. Yeah. And you still see some on the highway. Sure. They're smoking and smell terrible. Right. Exactly. But it was much more common 30 years ago. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER 22 :
Absolutely. Absolutely. Bottom line, for some of you where you're trying to figure, hey, how do I save money on this cat? I've got this coat. I've got this going on. It's not going to pass emissions, et cetera. How do I save money? it's extremely hard to because you're not gonna find any shops professionally that are going to help you. And if you do find one that does, here's my advice, run. Because they are doing things that, here's how I look at it, folks, and maybe I'm looking at it the wrong way. If they're willing to cheat the government when it comes to things that are supposed to be done properly, exhaust system-wise and so on, then what else are they willing to cheat on? That's why I say run. So if they're willing to cheat in this area, what else are they going to cheat you on?
SPEAKER 09 :
They're willing to cheat you, yes.
SPEAKER 22 :
It's like the old story of if you teach your employees to steal for you, they will steal from you. How is this any different? Yes. Bottom line, at the end of the day, I would not do business with a shop willing to do those things because if they're willing to cheat in that area, where else are they going to cheat? And at the end of the day, how is that going to cost you money? So that's my feeling on things. So Chris and Centennial, you're next. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 15 :
Hey, John and Ken, it's Chris. Hey, Chris.
SPEAKER 11 :
Hey, Chris.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yes. I'm getting more serious about purchasing a new Chevy truck. Okay. The Minimax with the 30 miles to the gallon. Oh, okay.
SPEAKER 12 :
And a half ton. Yeah.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yes. And a half ton. And just wondering, you know, I'm thinking about building it. You know, having it built.
SPEAKER 22 :
Oh, sure. Ordering it. Yeah.
SPEAKER 15 :
And what is the best gear ratio for highway? Okay.
SPEAKER 12 :
It's probably only going to allow one on that anyway. Yeah, I don't think you have any choice. I think it's 342 if I remember right.
SPEAKER 22 :
Yeah, I'll double-check that one, Chris, but I'm with Ken.
SPEAKER 15 :
I don't think you have a choice. I think it's a 373. Or it could be, yeah.
SPEAKER 22 :
With the little engine, they might do that, which is fine. I mean, there would be nothing wrong with that.
SPEAKER 12 :
Probably still running the 10-speed and that and stuff and probably the bigger tires.
SPEAKER 15 :
And actually, I got a loaner for the weekend, and I just took it up to the Loveland Pass yesterday. And it's a rocket ship. It's amazing.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. Yeah, they run good, definitely.
SPEAKER 15 :
Ken, do you know any?
SPEAKER 22 :
major flaws with them other than the oil belt right the 100k service on that is really so you're talking about the three liter diesel right yeah yes great great engine we we have several in our fleet you just have to remember that if you're going to drive that vehicle all the way to you know to the 100k mark that you're going to be doing that belt at the back of the engine and it's not cheap so as long as you've got that in the back of your mind and you know that you should be good oh yeah that's not a problem i
SPEAKER 15 :
It would take me 10 years probably before I get to that point.
SPEAKER 12 :
And why are you going with the diesel, Chris?
SPEAKER 15 :
Just for the economy because I do a lot of highway driving. Okay.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, and, you know, just my thoughts on that is... Oil changes are more expensive. Your fuel filters are more expensive. You know, I mean, there's additional costs to owning a diesel is what I was, you know, and then your initial purchase too.
SPEAKER 15 :
And that doesn't bother me because I have access to a shop and a lift and I can do it pretty much myself. Oh, sure. Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 15 :
And do they, does Mobile One make the 020 diesel oil?
SPEAKER 11 :
Is that what it takes on that one? I thought it was heavier than that. Yeah, I thought it was heavier than that, too.
SPEAKER 15 :
No, I just checked it. It's 020. Huh. Because the DelVac. It's a dextrose, you know, oil that we're buying.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, sure.
SPEAKER 15 :
But I didn't know it was mobile, because I usually, I'm exclusively, I'm mobile one for years.
SPEAKER 12 :
Mobile one, yeah, right.
SPEAKER 15 :
Except my Porsche.
SPEAKER 22 :
And yes, they do. I'm looking now. Yes, they do.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay, cool. All right.
SPEAKER 12 :
That was your deciding factor? That was your deciding factor? Oh, okay. No, no, no.
SPEAKER 09 :
That's the ESPX2 oil. Okay. European and diesel.
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, good. Okay. So you haven't seen much regen issues?
SPEAKER 12 :
Not on that one.
SPEAKER 15 :
We really haven't. Here you just have to get them hot. Don't drive to the grocery store and come home.
SPEAKER 12 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, any diesel.
SPEAKER 12 :
That's true with most diesels, yeah. Exactly. Right, right. But, yeah, I mean, so you're not towing anything with it, really, or anything like that.
SPEAKER 15 :
Not yet. Okay. Plans for the future? Yeah, I'd like to hold my Porsche around country sometime.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, there you go. Yeah, that would do it just fine.
SPEAKER 15 :
Speaking of you talking about driving a car, yeah, an old Porsche, you do have to pay attention.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yep. It's manual. Right, exactly.
SPEAKER 22 :
And just really quick as a side note, and I don't know if this matters, I think right now there's a deal on 2025 Silverados financing discounts and so on. If you can find what you need in stock... and has all the right equipment, you might save more money than actually ordering one because ordering one, you probably won't get a 2025. It'll be a 2026, and it'll be a higher price and everything else to go with it. So if you could find one in stock the way you like it equipped, you might be ahead that way, Chris.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yep, you are correct because, yes, right now it is a 2026 that I would build, and they don't have – lower financing on a new build.
SPEAKER 22 :
No, they don't. And right now, I think they've got $0.60, I want to say, on some of the Silverados.
SPEAKER 21 :
Wow, nice.
SPEAKER 22 :
So, I mean, again, you've got to find what you want and don't sacrifice along those lines. But anymore, Chris, the way they package things up, you special order one isn't a whole lot different than what some of these are going to be on the lot, providing you find the right color and interior color, you know, outside color, interior color you want. The rest of them on a diesel are pretty much going to be loaded.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah. Okay.
SPEAKER 22 :
And as you know, you can go, for those of you that maybe don't know this, but in your case, you can go right to Chevy's website, do an inventory search, do a 400 or 500-mile search and see what's around, and nothing says you can't roll out, fly in one way and drive back even. Most of these dealers will pick you up from the airport even if you decide to do that.
SPEAKER 15 :
Right, yep. Yeah, I'm working with a guy at Bozarth, and I think, yeah, I'll pursue all those. Different avenues.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. They can even locate one if you can't, possibly.
SPEAKER 15 :
Does anybody want to buy an 18-year-old avalanche?
SPEAKER 22 :
You know what? That's still sellable. That's one of those where they probably won't trade for that car because it's not. That's one where, Chris, honestly, if it were me, I would call Ridgeline up in Boulder. They'll probably buy that truck outright from you if you don't want to go through the hassle of consignment and all that. They'll either do it one of two ways. They'll either consign it or they'll buy it because that's a truck that they could put on the lot and sell for you pretty easily.
SPEAKER 12 :
I can't remember. Yours is three-quarter ton or half ton?
SPEAKER 15 :
No, it's a half-ton. A half-ton, okay. LTZ. And actually, I did talk to Justin a week or so ago about it. He sounded interested.
SPEAKER 22 :
Yeah, they would take it, I'm pretty sure.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, okay. All right. Well, like I said, I'm just pursuing these things now and getting closer, but haven't pulled the trigger yet.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay. There you go. Well, good deal. Appreciate you, Chris, as always. Thanks, Chris. Good talking to you.
SPEAKER 22 :
All right, let's take our break. We'll come right back in a moment. Don't go anywhere. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 22 :
All right. Song by Deep Purple. Charlie's playing for us. Highway Star, appreciate you guys listening today. By the way, Drive Radio, KLZ 560. One line open, 303-477-5600. And by the way, when it comes to new car purchases, keep in mind that... 26s aren't that far away, meaning that you're probably going to find some deals because car sales haven't been super strong here in 2025 so far. So if you're looking to buy a new car, I will tell you that over the course of probably July, August, because the 26s will start rolling in in September-ish. So if you're looking to do anything, you should be able to put some pretty decent deals together now year-end-wise because we're not year-end. I know it's July, but it is for now.
SPEAKER 10 :
The 25s are, yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER 22 :
It is for them. So as we get into now through September, these next 90 days, really good time to buy a car if you can put the right deal together because of what I just said. So Bob and Thornton, go ahead.
SPEAKER 16 :
Hey, John, I got a question about coolant, and I ran across this just recently.
SPEAKER 11 :
Sure.
SPEAKER 16 :
So my mix in cars family-wide, mine, my ex-wife's, my children's, my nephew's nieces, we have a mix of Kia. I have a Kia and General Motors, and then Toyota, Honda, that kind of thing. Preston claims that they made a coolant that's good for all makes.
SPEAKER 22 :
I wouldn't use it.
SPEAKER 16 :
Think about it?
SPEAKER 22 :
Yeah, I wouldn't use it. They claim I still wouldn't use it. Coolant anymore, Bob, on these late model vehicles has become so specific. At one time, I would have said, yeah, use it. It's not a problem. 20 years ago, sure, go buy universal coolant, use it, not a problem. But in today's world where they're so specific and they've got the coolant to match the metallurgy in the engines, and in your case, unfortunately, there might be a couple of those that you could combine, but I think every single vehicle you just rattled off takes its own coolant.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay, so that claim is just... I wouldn't do it.
SPEAKER 22 :
Now, if you're out somewhere, you're in the middle of nowhere, you don't have any other choice, you're low on coolant and that's available, would I top it off and drive it and then change it out later? Yeah. But in your case, I would not have that on the shelf just to top off with.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, if I'm out on the road and have a coolant issue or something like that, I use bottled water. and then when I get home, then I flush it out and put the right one in there. But I have heard that if you try and put DexCool into an Asian vehicle, it's going to hurt the components, not so much the performance of the coolant, but the engine parts inside. One other quick thing about, is it Nevada that they won't do any alterations on anything?
SPEAKER 22 :
That's what they're saying, yeah.
SPEAKER 16 :
I drove Harleys for years and years, and I'm going back maybe 20 years or so here in Colorado. And if I wanted to buy a new Harley and get the exhaust upgraded to aftermarket exhaust, because it came out of the factory sounding like a little scatterstone like that.
SPEAKER 21 :
Right, right.
SPEAKER 16 :
I would have to take it up to Cheyenne to have it worked on because anything that was for sale down here as far as exhaust pieces had to be California compliant. So I'd just take the 100-mile trip up to Cheyenne.
SPEAKER 22 :
Yeah, that makes sense. Sure.
SPEAKER 16 :
Worth the ride. I sent you an extensive list of Chuck Berry songs, but take a listen to that one, Johnny Cash. That's funny.
SPEAKER 22 :
Okay. All right. And Charlie's got a list of these, so we'll see how these all roll in. But, Bob, thanks. I appreciate it very much. And, J.R., you are next. Go ahead. Hello?
SPEAKER 14 :
Hello, J.R. How are you doing? Good, sir. Okay, I have a kind of unique motorcycle I want to sell, okay? Okay. What do you suggest? Okay, they're going to want to test drive it. How do I keep it from... They just keep on going and not come back. What do you suggest?
SPEAKER 22 :
Typically, what I've done on those situations, not just a motorcycle, but if they want to drive a car or whatever, typically they've pulled up in something. I want the keys to that, and then I also want their license.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 22 :
So I take their license and their keys, which, by the way, is a lot of times what dealerships do as well if you test drive one of their vehicles. So it's not a lot different than what they'd find going to a dealership. And if they're not willing to do that, JR, then they're not driving it.
SPEAKER 14 :
Right. Yeah, because I know they want a test driver, but that's good. Yeah, I'm glad I called you. Keys and driver's license.
SPEAKER 22 :
Take their keys, take their driver's license, because typically... Now, I get it. The car could be stolen, and you just have a stolen car in your possession, and or they can go get a new license down at DMV. So is it foolproof? No, but... Typically, by the way, you can look at a key chain and say, well, the guy's got his house keys. I mean, typically people put more things on it, even though they shouldn't. That's a whole other pet peeve of mine. But even though they shouldn't, they do. But typically, JR, you're pretty safe in doing that. And again, typically speaking, you're going to talk to somebody for a few minutes, get an idea of how serious they are. You get a good feel for somebody as to – and I get it. Everybody can snow somebody, and they can seem really legit and not be. But you can get a pretty good idea on – how serious somebody is just by having a conversation with them.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay, that's a good point. Okay, thank you, John.
SPEAKER 22 :
You're very welcome, JR. In other words, are they a flake or not? You can typically find that by talking to them for a few minutes. Vic, you're next.
SPEAKER 17 :
Hi, John. How are you? Okay, I got a question with regard to tire size.
SPEAKER 22 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 17 :
I have a 2013 Acura MDX, and it's a 255. 55 r18 and then 109t and uh i went to a tire seller and uh what they want to do is sell me a it's a cooper tire but it's 245 60 18. now that Does that make any difference?
SPEAKER 22 :
It's very close to the same size tire overall.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 22 :
That's why they're saying that's okay, yeah. A little wider, but again, dimensionally speaking, it's basically not exactly the same tire, but it's very close.
SPEAKER 17 :
And since they're both 18, the mileage would record properly.
SPEAKER 22 :
Well, and your circumference is not going to be much difference anyways from one to the other. It wouldn't, yeah, wouldn't change. That's why they're telling you that.
SPEAKER 12 :
Right, exactly.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, now, on the invoice, they have what they call a certificate for refund or replacement. Have you ever heard of something like that?
SPEAKER 12 :
It's like a road hazard certificate.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, that might be it. Actually, I don't know what that's for.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, if it was called a certificate, it's more than likely a road hazard warranty. So if you get something and they can't patch it, then they cover that. They put a new tire on and you just pay for a new certificate or whatever, typically.
SPEAKER 17 :
So that's probably a good thing to get.
SPEAKER 12 :
I would, yeah.
SPEAKER 17 :
John, I know you don't have time to do it now, but Could I contact you during the week so you could look at the tread pattern and see which one you think is better?
SPEAKER 22 :
Yeah, if you send me the choices, either email or text them to me, Vic, I can help you with that. I'd be happy to.
SPEAKER 17 :
Great. Could you give me your email address, please?
SPEAKER 22 :
Sure. John, J-O-H-N, at drive-radio.com. You know, drive-radio.com.
SPEAKER 17 :
Cool. All right. I think that's it. Okay. And I'll do it during business hours.
SPEAKER 22 :
Not a problem, Vic. You can send it anytime. I appreciate that, and I can look at those anytime. That's not a problem at all. All right. We have one last break to do this hour. Is that right, Charlie? Okay. We'll be right back then. Don't go anywhere. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 05 :
My pappy said, son, you're going to drive me to drinking if you don't stop driving that hot rod Lincoln.
SPEAKER 22 :
have you heard the story of the hot rod now that's a really good song and it's in my favorites yeah we had i was gonna say so my brother and i we were kids we had you know we had record players back then because that's all there was right eight tracks i guess maybe as i got a little older but when i was that age it was 45s and we always run around looking for the stupid little disc that goes in them because somehow or another we always lost that we were kids Somehow that thing went away. We'd use it as a Frisbee, probably, or throw it at each other, whatever. They're always looking for the little disc, but we'd have to go find that. And you always had one that you had to share between all the albums. I don't know how in the world we only had one, but we only had one. Anyways, we had that song on a 45 that I'll bet my brother and I darn near wore out. Because we listened to that thing so much when we were kids that we'd literally just listen. And I don't know what was on the other side. There was always that reverse side. I don't remember, because we only played the one side.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, right. Exactly.
SPEAKER 22 :
Anyways, I've got to go through my mom passing. Somebody told me yesterday, I talked about this, I said, yeah, in my mom's stuff, and somebody reminded me, no, it's not your mom's now, it's yours. Yeah, okay, yeah, thanks. Yeah, it is. You're right.
SPEAKER 10 :
I get it. I still relate it.
SPEAKER 22 :
It's still my mom's box of records, and I need to go through that. My wife and I have been slowly going through stuff, and there's 45s, and there's... Who knows? There might still be this 45 from We Were Kids in that box that I need to roll through and just see if it's still there.
SPEAKER 01 :
Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER 22 :
Hang it up, make some memorabilia out of it or whatever. Actually, they had a record player, so now I've inherited a record player, but I hadn't owned a turntable in eons. Now that's coming back. Believe it or not.
SPEAKER 12 :
I hear that. It is.
SPEAKER 22 :
It's coming back. There's a lot of people. It's not coming back to my house. Are now getting back.
SPEAKER 12 :
Me either. If I can't play it off my phone. I'm with you. But you know what? And I understand why. Because. It's richer.
SPEAKER 09 :
It's a different sound.
SPEAKER 12 :
There's a more depth to it. Yes, exactly.
SPEAKER 22 :
The vinyl gives it a richer sound.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yes. It's got depth to it.
SPEAKER 22 :
Real audiophiles want to listen to that. And a lot of young kids now, they're realizing, oh, you guys used to listen to this? Yeah. That was all we had. right right i mean everything else yeah i'm dating myself but yeah we didn't i mean i remember as a kid when cassettes first came out and a tracks were the thing if in the car you had an a track which sucked by the way they were terrible they weren't good you couldn't find yourself you couldn't find where the beginning or the ending of a song was if your life depended on it get a choice of four different locations somewhere in the middle of that yeah right yeah you know the head just moved on the tape and so then most of them had fast forward you couldn't even rewind which why was that why couldn't rewind it. Charlie, why couldn't you rewind an 8-track?
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, because it's just moving the spot on the tape.
SPEAKER 22 :
Was it because the way the tape was designed?
SPEAKER 12 :
No, you had to go all the way down and then it would go back up or something.
SPEAKER 22 :
Because the head just moved up and down on the tape because there was four tracks. Yeah, they clunk in between. Thank you, Charlie. But you could only fast forward. I never saw an 8-track and maybe it was just because of the cars we had or whatever. I never saw a rewind on an 8-track.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, you couldn't rewind an 8-track because they were a continual loop. So they spun off one wheel and rewound on the other one.
SPEAKER 22 :
So you couldn't rewind.
SPEAKER 12 :
So that's why you couldn't turn them upside down either or the tape would come apart.
SPEAKER 22 :
I did not know that. I just learned something new on an 8-track.
SPEAKER 12 :
Why do I know that? You probably took one apart, right? I did not know that. Yeah, that's why you couldn't rewind. That's why you only could fast forward. You could just skip down the wheel.
SPEAKER 22 :
Yeah, and as far as what you skipped down with was the head was moving on the four different places on the eight track, right?
SPEAKER 12 :
So it's not skipping to the beginning of the next song. It's skipping to wherever the next song is.
SPEAKER 22 :
Okay, so here's a question for Charlie because he knows everything. Why was it called eight track? Any idea? Yeah. Oh, it was stereo and there were four tracks, so that made it eight. So four times two is eight.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 22 :
Okay, so that's why it was called an eight track.
SPEAKER 12 :
They did have four tracks, too, that weren't stereo.
SPEAKER 22 :
They did?
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 22 :
I didn't know that either. So it was a four track, not an eight track.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 22 :
Stereo came in 64, Charlie said, with the year I was born.
SPEAKER 12 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 22 :
Go figure.
SPEAKER 12 :
I'm surprised you never had to pull apart an 8-track.
SPEAKER 22 :
No, never.
SPEAKER 09 :
I learned when the tape broke apart, you could cut it, splice it at an angle, and tape it on the shiny side. That I did know. And then it would start working again. That I did know.
SPEAKER 22 :
No, you know, back to the radio thing, because in the dealer world back then, which is where I started, of course, Ken, if the radio had a problem, especially under warranty or whatever, we had companies, downtown radio, other places, where you pulled it and just sent it off. So, no, we never pulled anything like that apart to fix it, and you just pulled it and sent it. Oh, okay. We never – and sometimes we'd have demo units where you could actually slip a demo unit back in or, you know, like a loaner unit.
SPEAKER 10 :
Oh, sure.
SPEAKER 22 :
So you'd have a loaner head unit or – loner radio so you pull one out put the loner in and then when the guy's radio came back you'd pull that out and put the other one back in well you know everybody used a pencil on a cassette to rewind the cassette i forgot about the loner radios yeah we as a dealership we had loner radios so if you know somebody had to have one you know sent off you pull it send it And you'd put the loaner in and the loaner might not be exactly what was in it prior, but it still was enough to give the guy sound. And, you know, maybe it had, you know, a full bore cassette with, you know, back then GM had this full bore like digital readout cassette CB cassette. All in one unit. Well, if you had to send that off, you might not have a full CB unit, so you'd have to just go throw a regular cassette unit or something in.
SPEAKER 09 :
But you always want a lower quality loaner going out to make sure they come back to get their original. That's always what we had. You're right.
SPEAKER 22 :
I forgot about the whole CB thing. It was all one conglomerate.
SPEAKER 12 :
I don't remember that.
SPEAKER 22 :
All that thing weighed a ton. The stinking thing was like...
SPEAKER 12 :
In today's world, you'd wait as much as the dash of a new car anymore.
SPEAKER 22 :
I mean, I think that radio alone was that heavy. Anyways, going back down memory lane, that's what we're doing on the car song side as well. Favorite car song or song you play while driving, let us know. We've got another full hour coming your way. Myself, Mark Guernsey, Accountable, up in Broomfield, Tune Tech, Ken Rackley over in Aurora as well. We'll be right back, guys. Don't go anywhere. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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In today's episode, we also delve into the advanced world of ADAS technology, essential for modern vehicle safety and alignment. With insights from industry professionals, discover how new alignment tools are streamlining processes and increasing precision. Coupled with exciting discussions on favorite driving songs and upcoming automotive events, this episode promises to keep you engaged and informed.
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SPEAKER 19 :
And it's that time. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Thanks for joining us. We've got Mark Guernsey, of course, from Accountable with us today up in Broomfield. Ken Rackley from Tunetech Automotive as well. Guys, thank you and good morning.
SPEAKER 10 :
Good morning. Good morning.
SPEAKER 19 :
Thank you for joining me. It's a beautiful day out.
SPEAKER 11 :
It is, yeah.
SPEAKER 19 :
You're making a nice sacrifice for us, so thank you.
SPEAKER 11 :
Got an early bike ride in this morning, so, you know. And Mark was doing a few things as well.
SPEAKER 19 :
I did not.
SPEAKER 08 :
You did not? Well, but you were doing some things. I was working. I wasn't getting exercise. You're right. Good job. Yeah, no, that's good.
SPEAKER 19 :
I appreciate you guys very much. I mean that. Next week, for all of you, just to make sure, I forgot to mention this during Fix It Radio, next week we'll be out at the Red Lion Run, that is at Loprino Foods, next Saturday. We do that on an annual basis. Paul from GIA Insurance is a big sponsor there and one of our great sponsors, so we'll be there with him as well. But come by and say hi next week. That's on the west side of Denver. I'll give you exact locations once we get on air. But if you just look up Loprino Foods or just look up the Red Lion Run, car show you'll find that there's stuff all over the place but we'll get that listed this week on the website as well but we're there every year so if you've seen us in the past we'll be there again this year same place same spot if you know where we're at when you're there up against the building I'm sure we'll be in exactly the same location so swing by and say hi and we'll appreciate that we always get to see folks out new faces and all that as we're out and it's always nice to put a face with a voice that's always been fun over the years to where when you guys call in I know who's who that makes it really nice.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right, exactly.
SPEAKER 19 :
And continuing from last night, Andy and I, we were doing some different song things, One Hit Wonders and so on, so I thought I would continue that on to our question of today. So tell us today, what is your favorite either song with a car, you know, car song, or what do you play when you're driving? Either way works. We don't care. Charlie and Larry both are going to try to insert some different songs throughout the show today along those lines as well, but give us what your favorite car song or, you know, song with a car in it or something along those lines. We're not going to be too specific. Or a song you enjoy playing while driving in the car. Lou, you're first today. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 05 :
Good morning. Just thinking about a new truck and wanted to know what your thoughts were on what brand has the best track record as far as Chevy, Ram, Ford, you know, cost of repair, maintenance, longevity, all of that. What you see, you know, the ones that have problems, what I should stay away from, maybe what more I should lean into.
SPEAKER 19 :
If you're looking brand new, and I should ask to begin with, too, are we looking at a 1500 series, a 2500, 3500 series? What are we looking at?
SPEAKER 05 :
Probably 1,500.
SPEAKER 19 :
Okay, so 1,500 series. I'll be straight up honest. They are all very comparable as far as literally whether you're going to go Toyota, Nissan, Ram, Chevy, Ford. I mean, literally, they are all neck and neck as far as what they do, how they perform, and so on. It really, Lou, does come down, and I think both Mark and... Ken would agree with me here. It really comes down to more of what's the comfortability factor for you. Which one do you like climbing in out of best? Which one do you like as far as how the seats feel, the way the dash is laid out? I'm not trying to just avoid the question, Lou, because they all have – we talk about this weekly. Every car has some kind of problem. There is no perfect car, so I could tell you that this one might have a few more issues with this versus that. You know, GM's had their issues with the 6.2 engines, although for the new series, that's not a problem. All that's been resolved. So if you buy a 2025 or 2026, that's not an issue. Ford, you know, they've had some transmission issues. I mean, I can go down the list. You know, the reality of you, you can go out there on the Internet, Lou, and find problems with any one of the trucks. But at the end of the day, they are all very competitive, very comparable. And it literally does come down to which one do you feel you fit in and drives the best for you?
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, so you've got option package, site, everything. Yep, blind spots.
SPEAKER 19 :
How do you sit? Literally, how does the seat feel? And ergonomically, which one do you feel best in is what I feel.
SPEAKER 11 :
You have to touch the screen, your camera layout, your screen layouts and stuff like that.
SPEAKER 09 :
Does it fit in your garage if you want it to? Yeah, all that.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, because, Lou, some of them will be a little longer, a little shorter, a little wider, a little narrower. I mean, what Mark just said is also very true. Where are you trying to put the truck inside if you've got a garage and things like that? Look at all of those.
SPEAKER 11 :
Are you towing anything with it, too? I mean, if you're towing light stuff or you're just throwing stuff in the bed.
SPEAKER 19 :
I'll give you all a little help on something, which I learned this week. I should have known it prior to now. But when you're shopping and comparing these things, Instead of going out on the Internet and then getting a notepad out and going to everybody's website and writing down height, width, all that, go to ChatGPT. It's free. And ask ChatGPT, I want a comparison on the specifications of the following trucks. And, Lou, it will literally give you everything I just mentioned all in one place.
SPEAKER 11 :
Nice.
SPEAKER 19 :
Okay. So if you're looking for, you know, what's height, width, horsepower, torque, all of these different things, literally AI will give you all of that as comparatives, and you don't have to go to anybody's website to find it.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay. Well, you know, while you were talking, it made me think of something. We live remotely in Custer County, and I just lost my person that plows our road, and so... I always thought about getting a used truck to put a plow on because that causes a lot of problems, right, for a front end?
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, there's no doubt that plowing snow with a truck is probably – I'm not exaggerating, and I own these, so I think I can say this fairly, and I might get some criticisms, but I will tell you that plowing snow – is the hardest thing you could ever do on a vehicle, period. Now, with all of that said, I will tell you that the modern, you know, 2500, 3500 series trucks, whether it be Ram, Chevy or Ford, you can all buy them with a snowplow package. They're all very well equipped. If you're just doing your own homeowners type stuff, that truck would last you a lifetime with a plow on it. You'd have no issue. But you've got to move up and go to a 2500 series and above. you know 250 series and above to get that you're not going to get that out of a 1500 series truck right got it okay so that is something to consider if you're thinking of doing plowing or anything like that you have you literally and i know i'm going to get people in the call and say well i'll plow my driver with my 1500 and you know yeah i know you can yes but if you want less wear and tear and you want longevity buy a three-quarter ton or above truck to plow snow right yeah
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay. And just as an aside, if I wanted to have a older truck to do the plowing with, and I'm just throwing this out there, because we're doing a lot of travel as well, so gas mileage is an issue.
SPEAKER 19 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 05 :
What do you think of the Ridgeline? Maybe I would have fun.
SPEAKER 19 :
You want it for your daily driver, not plowing snow, right?
SPEAKER 05 :
Exactly. Yeah, nothing wrong with the Ridgeline.
SPEAKER 19 :
No, we reviewed those in the past many times. I mean, I don't consider, and I'm sorry, somebody from Honda or that owns Ridgelines are probably going to get after me for saying that. I don't consider that a truck. That's more of an SUV with a bed. Yeah. So I don't really consider that a truck, and I wouldn't really tow anything major with it or anything along those lines. But as far as a versatile vehicle goes with good longevity, great fuel economy, comfortable, and so on, yeah, nothing wrong with that truck. That vehicle, again, I hate to call it a truck, but nothing wrong with that vehicle at all, Lou.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right.
SPEAKER 19 :
It is not a 1500 series truck, so you're going to take a Ridgeline and compete more, and it's really not even able to compete with the Rangers and the Colorados and the Tacomas because it's not a body-on-frame vehicle like those are. But even with all of that said, is it a good vehicle to own? Yes.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay. Sounds great, guys. Much appreciate all the information.
SPEAKER 19 :
You're very welcome, Lou. We appreciate you very much. Thanks for calling in. I'll put one of these on hold for Larry. Let's take a break. We've got calls coming in. One line open, 303-477-5600. The one I just put on hold. Hang tight, Larry. I'll get to you in a moment. This is Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 12 :
She's real fine, my 409. She's real fine, my 409, my 409.
SPEAKER 19 :
And those are some of the songs that we're talking about. What's your favorite car song or song you like to play while you're driving? 303-477-5600. Don and Littleton, you are next.
SPEAKER 07 :
Hi, John. Nice to talk with you.
SPEAKER 19 :
You too, Don.
SPEAKER 07 :
Say, I had a question. I have a jump box. It's a NAPO called a Blue Fuel.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, and I've had it for several years, and it's worked a couple of times and really got me out of a pinch. But yesterday I took it out of the car to charge up the battery. I do that about every three months. And the battery had swollen so much that it popped the back off of the... Battery went bad. Yeah. I had never seen that before. You ever heard of that?
SPEAKER 19 :
Oh, yeah. It'll happen.
SPEAKER 07 :
No kidding. Does that present a fire hazard with it like that?
SPEAKER 11 :
Any of those... You know, lithium batteries could be an issue. Yeah, I would be a little bit more.
SPEAKER 09 :
Some of that keeping it in a car with windows rolled up is going to get awfully hot and they're not really designed to handle that. Right.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, yeah, you're right.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 19 :
Now, you can, and for all of you listening, there's but a few exceptions to this. Some of the completely sealed units, when this happens, you're tossing it and buying a new one and properly dispose of that, of course. But, Don, a lot of them, and I think that one, you can take it apart and put a new battery in it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I'm going to call Schumacher.
SPEAKER 19 :
That's what makes that blue. Yeah, I think you can put a new battery. I've done that on several of my jump boxes over the years where the box itself is great. It just needs a new battery. I go to Amazon or Napa, and I buy the battery that fits it, and for $40 or $50, I'm up and running again.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, yeah. I'd love to keep that thing cooler in the car, but you've got to have it in the car to be any good to you.
SPEAKER 09 :
Right, right.
SPEAKER 07 :
Your car's going to be in the sun in the summertime.
SPEAKER 09 :
Do you have a trunk that's outside of the cabin area, or what kind of vehicle is this?
SPEAKER 07 :
It's a little HRV, so it doesn't really— Yeah, you don't.
SPEAKER 09 :
That's tough. Okay. Yeah. Keep a window down, keep a sunshield in. That's about all you can do.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, I mean, it just is what it is, Don. But, yeah, no, what you're experiencing, I've seen, yes.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, okay. Well, I'll call and see if I can get another battery. Hey, I have a neighbor up the street that works for Napa. He's an outside salesman, a rep. He has Eastern Colorado and I think Nebraska. And he was telling me that there's a new alignment machine that's come out that is really, really, really good. It's called ADOS machine. That's the brand name. And the manufacturer is, I think he said, Odell or something.
SPEAKER 19 :
Autel makes really good ADAS is actually the terminology for all of the driver assistance on new cars. That's what the ADAS stands for, Don. So that's just the type of tool that that is. Autel makes a lot of the ADAS equipment, and a lot of our windshield guys, by the way, have been using Autel ADAS stuff for years.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, okay. He said that. He's getting such good feedback from fellas that he sold these alignment machines to. He said, that's the one to go to if you can find a shop that has that. He says that machine is just so sensitive and so precise. He says the guys are telling him that once they do the alignment, they have no callbacks, no problem at all.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah. And I'm not arguing with him, although there are other brands, Hunter, by the way, and some others that have some very high tech equipment that will do similar things differently, probably. And all of them have sort of a sort of like, you know. How do I want to say this? It's like the difference between a, well, easy terminology would be you've got your Apple iPhone versus an Android or a Motorola or whatever. They all, at the end of the day, do pretty much the same thing, Don. They just have different ways of doing it. It's similar in this world, and they all are – because of competition, which is great. That's where capitalism is fabulous. Because of the competition, Hunter always has to come out with something new. John Bean has to come out with something new. On down the line we go, and they're all competing for that same auto center to buy their equipment, meaning they have to be right up there with everybody else or they're not going to sell equipment.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, well, that makes sense. That makes sense. Do you know of any ADOS equipment in town here? Do you, John? No.
SPEAKER 19 :
As far as the ADOS calibrations go, yeah, there's a lot of companies that have the ADOS equipment. In your area, Steve at Geno's, he's got the Hunter end of things. And Autel is another great brand. Now, keep in mind that there are some machines that are specific to... the ADOS into things. And typically, it's not a combined unit. Hunter has a new unit out that's combined. I think Autel does as well. But a lot of companies, they'll do an alignment on one machine, and the ADOS, all the recalibration, is a separate machine. Those are starting to combine. In fact, Hunter, believe it or not, was the first company, saw this at SEMA two years ago. They were the first company to combine those two together, where we can do all of your calibrations and do your wheel alignment at the same time. Typically, there are two separate machines that are doing that. So somebody may have full ADOS equipment that will do all of the recalibration. So you put a new mirror on, and you've got to recalibrate for the blind spot monitoring. That machine would do that. Or you put a windshield in. Everything has to be recalibrated with the ADOS. So a lot of the windshield companies will even have the ADOS side, but they don't do wheel alignment. So you will find... You'll find it a little harder to find guys that have all of it in one machine. But Hunter now, and I think to your point, Autel, has that. So that's becoming more common where you can do it. Because what's happening is the ADOS is becoming intricate to the wheel alignment, meaning that's going to grow and you're going to see more of those machines be all in one as time goes by.
SPEAKER 07 :
I see what you're saying. That makes sense. That kind of fills out the blanks for me.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, and it's sort of like scan tools. Back in the day, Don, you'd have one scan tool that would do one thing, and then you'd have to go have another scan tool that would do something else, and then those started to be combined to where they would do everything in one. The same thing is happening in the alignment world.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, okay. Hey, John, have you heard of this slate pickup truck?
SPEAKER 19 :
Yes, I have.
SPEAKER 07 :
What do you think about that?
SPEAKER 19 :
I don't know. That's the Amazon truck where you can kind of assemble as needed, I guess you could say, or order as needed and then change things around even once you own it. I don't know. I've just read about it. I've seen pictures. I have not seen one in person.
SPEAKER 07 :
I don't think they're building them yet, are they?
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, that's a great – I think what they're saying is they're going to start shipping. I'm looking this up right now.
SPEAKER 09 :
It says 2027, upcoming electric.
SPEAKER 19 :
It's going to be a couple of years, yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay, okay.
SPEAKER 19 :
I mean, again, a lot of times I say I haven't seen one. A lot of times you'll see these things at a lot of the trade shows and things that we go to way in advance, four or five years in advance, but I have not seen this one in person. Okay, okay. Personally speaking, it's as ugly as sin.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, yeah. It won't win any beauty contests. No.
SPEAKER 09 :
But I think you need one, and you should preorder it.
SPEAKER 19 :
Can you order it on Amazon? I'm guessing. I think that's the idea. I think you're going to order them through Amazon, I believe.
SPEAKER 07 :
Is that right? I think so.
SPEAKER 19 :
I think that's the whole idea, yeah. Do you have any idea what they're going to cost? I think they're slated to be under $20,000 or somewhere in that neighborhood. Don't quote me on that because, again, all the things you're going to see are preliminary, so I don't know.
SPEAKER 09 :
It says $2,800 on USA Today. $2,800 or $1,000? $28,000, sorry.
SPEAKER 1 :
$28,000.
SPEAKER 09 :
That's still pretty cheap for a little truck-shaped thing. Under $30,000.
SPEAKER 19 :
Okay, so under $30,000.
SPEAKER 09 :
And that's, I'm sure, a base model.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, yeah. And the body panels are all plastic.
SPEAKER 19 :
Now, what's going to be interesting to see is with the changes that were in the new bill, the big, beautiful bill, and the discontinuing September 30th in the federal rebates, you're going to see some states do some different things. But as far as the $7,500 credit, tax credit that's there at the dealership level, that's ending September 30th. So it'll be interesting, Don, to see if some of these things continue on with that ending. Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, it's not a real good start for them to have to go into the environment.
SPEAKER 19 :
No, they're coming in now where they'll have to sell that at their full price and sell it for what it is with no quote-unquote rebates.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, yeah, it'll be a little tougher for them.
SPEAKER 19 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 07 :
It'll be interesting to follow along. I find that stuff fascinating.
SPEAKER 19 :
No, I do as well. As you know, new technology, all that. Yeah, absolutely.
SPEAKER 07 :
Now, you have an electric car. You have a little bit bigger model now, don't you?
SPEAKER 19 :
Equinox.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, Equinox. Have you been happy with it?
SPEAKER 19 :
I can't pry it out of my wife, so she drives it far more than I do. She loves it. I mean, literally for what she does and how we use it, yeah, for us, and I know everybody can be really critical or not of EVs, but the way we use an EV, would I own another one? Absolutely. Yes, absolutely. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I think for city driving, for errands and that kind of thing, I think it makes a lot of sense.
SPEAKER 19 :
I think she's forgot how to use a gas pump.
SPEAKER 10 :
Nice. How do I do that again?
SPEAKER 19 :
I mean, literally, because it's one of those things where when she starts to get low, she just plugs in, and she probably only charges up every third or fourth day, Don, or so. And for her, yeah, it works fabulous. Just because it's easy, probably.
SPEAKER 04 :
It's a piece of cake. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER 19 :
And the other thing, and this is something I always remind people of, especially during the weekly show, because a lot of the conservative side just hates EVs because of the way government, and I don't agree, government did that completely wrong, should have let that car, those cars stand on their own, compete on their own. They shouldn't have had any of the tax credits and so on. Anytime you try to force someone to buy something, it doesn't end well, nor has it here. Now, all that being said, do they serve a purpose? Absolutely. Are they one of the most fun vehicles you'll ever drive? Absolutely. Absolutely, because the acceleration is immediate.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, yeah. I guess they flat go. They do.
SPEAKER 19 :
If you like performance, you'll like driving one. Let's just say that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I've read about them Tesla Plaid models, and holy moly.
SPEAKER 19 :
Just a standard Tesla run isn't the right way to say it. A Tesla is very fast, period. Let's say it that way.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Well, always a pleasure talking with you, Don.
SPEAKER 19 :
You too, Don. Appreciate you very much. George, hang tight. We'll come back to you in a moment. Again, Drive Radio, lines open 303-477-5600. Don't go anywhere. We'll be right back. This is Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 04 :
Maybe you can drive my car. And maybe I love you.
SPEAKER 19 :
All right, we are back. Drive Radio KLZ 560. Myself, Ken Rackley, Tunetech Automotive. Mark from Accountable up in Broomfield. Charlie Grimes, our engineer. And Larry Unger answering phones. Lines are open 303-477-5600. Text line as well, which I should probably check, 307-282-22. 307-282-22. Question of the day, as the song we just heard a moment ago. What is your... favorite uh either car song or song you like listening to while you're in the car maybe on a road trip whatever and charlie's you know weaving some of these in on a side note if you would like to listen to more of that type of music charlie is in charge of what we do on legends which is i gotta make sure i do this right 8 10 a.m and 95 3 fm so if you like some of that music and you'd like to hear that on a more routine basis listen to our Sister Station Legends, and Charlie puts all that music together for them, for us, on a daily basis as well. George and Aurora, you're next. Hey, guys, really great show.
SPEAKER 06 :
Great topics, great call-ins from the other people. No, thanks. Especially when you start talking about the acceleration of these EVs. It's under the speed of light.
SPEAKER 19 :
And thank you for saying that, George, because I think there's a lot of folks that because of the way government did things and the way some of the states even did things, especially, you know, Colorado and such, EVs got a really bad rap because they were being force fed, which never works well in a capitalistic environment. So at the end of the day, though, is the vehicle itself bad? No, is the answer. They're great drivers.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah. Yeah. It just depends on what you're using. Exactly. Yeah.
SPEAKER 19 :
It's the freaking driver.
SPEAKER 11 :
Thank you.
SPEAKER 19 :
That's unfortunate. And then that applies to even non-EVs at times. So, yes, but I understand what you're saying.
SPEAKER 06 :
Absolutely. It applies to anybody that's behind a steering wheel. You got it. It's unfortunate. But the topic of the day, which was the songs when you're driving in the car, hands down, there is no doubt. The Beach Boys, 409, Shut Down, Little Deuce Coupe, you name it. I mean, and this stuff lives on forever. And you're probably in the older generation. I'm sure a couple of years older than you. But there was something else. It's, you know, back on the EV acceleration thing, I just happened to remind myself of something about the book. 50 Yards to the Outhouse by Willie Makeit, illustrated by Betty Walsh. Good one. Good one. Willie Makeit.
SPEAKER 04 :
Love it.
SPEAKER 06 :
Love it. Illustrated by Betty Walsh. I love it. I love it, George. Now, one other last thing. I'm sure you've been more than you're sure of, you know, the old classic cars. car shows, and my dad had what I called the 58 Olds Chromobile.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
A gorgeous four-door with the champagne mist was the name of the color on the car.
SPEAKER 04 :
Gold.
SPEAKER 06 :
Now, if I pronounce his name right, Harley Earl was the one that designed all this stuff way back when.
SPEAKER 19 :
He was a GM guy.
SPEAKER 06 :
That's right. He was only one person, and you mentioned the name, that had more chrome put on the cars than the Oldsmobile. You mentioned it. The Buick Roadmaster. So when you open up the trunk, you know what you find? The standard. There's a welding helmet in there. So you take that out and you put that on because when there's so much sun reflecting off the side of that vehicle, you wouldn't be blinded. No, you're right. You're right. If they took all the chrome off that Buick, and I looked at a picture yesterday on the Internet, I mean, You can't believe, I mean, and once again, another one of those vehicles where you could put how many people in the trunk to go to the drive-in? Oh, a lot. A lot.
SPEAKER 19 :
Half a dozen at least.
SPEAKER 06 :
What a great show.
SPEAKER 19 :
And, George, really quick, you just reminded me of something I was thinking of the other day. I was looking at, I don't know, I was looking somewhere online looking for something. I'm always doing something, you know, car-related and such. I was thinking that when we were kids building cars, you know, chrome shops were a big deal. There'd be half a dozen in any town, even here in Denver. And, you know, you took all sorts of different pieces and, you know, brackets and different things that were even on the engine.
SPEAKER 09 :
Even the inner fenders.
SPEAKER 19 :
In a lot of cases, guys would chrome the whole inner fender of a car because they were steel back then. And I'm thinking, man, you know, we've lost all of that. Nobody does near the chrome stuff. In fact, the trend now is to not have chrome. chrome, have everything painted the same on a car. There's very little chrome now, and that's not the way it was when we were kids.
SPEAKER 11 :
You know, I was that way as a kid, and, you know, the last 20 years, I don't want to see a piece of chrome on a car. I'm that same way. I'm like you. I don't want to see any of it.
SPEAKER 19 :
I've gone the other way, too. Yeah, yeah. But as a kid, I would send stuff to the chrome shop, George.
SPEAKER 06 :
It's powder coating now, and I had to take stuff from my Pantera down. To the guys, and so they do the exhaust systems too, like the ceramic coating on the inside and outside of the headers. Right. But there are so many people that do powder coating now, and they're not using the chrome. Nope.
SPEAKER 19 :
And a lot of that, and not to get sidetracked here, but a lot of the chrome end of things, I believe, you know, what really, you know, you blame that one on government because they got so tight EPA did on the chrome shops and all of the hazardous materials that were there and so on that literally it's more EPA related, I believe, as to why we don't see the chrome we once did because all the chrome shops for the most part are gone. Yeah. I could not disagree with you more.
SPEAKER 11 :
You are so correct. Plastic chrome doesn't keep. No, it doesn't last. Flakes off. That's why I don't want it.
SPEAKER 19 :
I'm like George. I'd rather have a powder-coated or painted. I don't want the chrome anymore.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, right. Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
So those guys down there, Christine, it's down there off of Santa Fe and Union, I think it is, you talk about busy people. OMG. And right next to them is the old Acme Auto radiator and gas tank. I mean, do you think I used them? You better believe I did. Because when you've got a car that's 1907-ish and you want to make sure that you've got a cooling system and a gas tank that is pristine, so to speak. You talk about old school. It looks like the clock stopped 1930s, 1940s. You couldn't see anything that was more nostalgic. Do you have a favorite old-time car, John? Me? Let me ask.
SPEAKER 19 :
yeah oh man um that's not a fair question no there's two there's so many that you know when you say favorite it's like wow i think it depends on what for me yeah the build the car the era all of that um you know it's it that's a tough call george what side of the bed you got up on yeah there's too many there's too many good ones i guess that's that's the issue there's you know there's just too many good ones
SPEAKER 06 :
I saw a picture on the internet of a 59 old star fire convertible. You talk about a knockoff, a knockout. I mean, What a gorgeous piece. And the color, too, depends. If you get the right color, I mean, it makes all the difference of whether it looks good. Definitely. Definitely. So that's all I have to say. Oh, you're great. No, great. Great trip down memory lane, George.
SPEAKER 19 :
Thank you. Appreciate you, man, very much. Thank you very much. And, yeah, I was thinking of that the other day. I don't know what made me. George Collin didn't really refresh my memory, but this past week I was thinking, you know, back in the day, a lot of the cars, Chevy, Ford, whatever, you know, we had all the cross supports where you'd go from the side of the fender to the nose of the car, you know, to the radiator support of the car. And everybody back in the day, whether they were, you know, tubed, whether they were a flat piece of steel, all those got chrome back in the day.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, chrome hinges, chrome hood hinges. All that. Exactly. Door handles.
SPEAKER 19 :
The latch assembly for the car, you know, for the hood. Right.
SPEAKER 11 :
Right, exactly.
SPEAKER 19 :
You'd chrome all that stuff back in the day. It was very common. You'd open the hood, and there'd be all this chrome everywhere. Yeah, right. Not anymore.
SPEAKER 11 :
And I got away from that early, well, probably late 80s. Well, probably early 90s. Yeah, me too. Because it was so hard to keep clean. Yep. And, you know, you get a flat.
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, and the chrome, this is me, the chrome itself, you know, back in the day you used to do the triple plating and all of that. Man, it just had depth to it. Sure, yeah. And the chrome was solid and it didn't hardly rust. And it was just a really solid product. And I think, Ken, what started happening is that, again, EPA-wise, you couldn't do as much of that.
SPEAKER 04 :
Could be.
SPEAKER 19 :
And the chrome itself I don't think was as good. Yeah, the quality wasn't as good. And so the care of it became harder and harder. And so I got to the point where I was like, I just want this stuff painted.
SPEAKER 11 :
Or alloy. Right. It's easier. I mean, hey, order aluminum timing cover. Right. You know, I mean, just get everything aluminum.
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, and the other thing I learned back then, which, again, you learn from your mistakes, is a lot of the chrome on engines. What? From valve covers to timing covers and so on, frankly, doesn't work so well because the heat and the chrome, they warp and they do things that you don't get out of the painted alternative. Right. And I learned through the years that while that chrome stuff looks great, it doesn't work real well in real life when it comes to the engine itself.
SPEAKER 11 :
Exactly. Or sealing those components to the engine is just... Yeah, or rear diff covers. They're junk. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 19 :
They're junk. Yeah, don't do anything chrome on that end of things. If you want to do an alloy or heavy aluminum or whatever, that's fine. But the chrome oil pans, the chrome transmission pans, the chrome differentials, that stuff was crap.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, exactly. I just put it on three weeks ago. It was garbage. Look at how much oil is underneath it. Oh, it leaked. Chrome oil filters back in the day.
SPEAKER 19 :
They were all junk. Don't use any of that stuff. They were all garbage. Even then, they were garbage. Now, the trim pieces and so on, that was a different deal.
SPEAKER 04 :
Sure, sure.
SPEAKER 19 :
But no, I was thinking that the other day. It's like, man, we did a lot of chrome back in the day when I was a kid that you just don't see. You don't even buy it that way anymore. No, exactly. Anyways, all right. We'll come back in a minute. Don't go anywhere, guys. Myself, Ken Rackley, Mark Guernsey. We'll be right back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 19 :
All right. On the text line, somebody said, beep, beep, the little Nash Rambler. Charlie, if we can find that one, we'll play that if we can. That's a pretty popular one. So, again, question of the day. What's your favorite either car song or song you enjoy playing while you're driving? And we even had somebody, you know, our last caller commenting on Beach Boys and all of that. Okay, somebody's asking me, can I answer this one on air or not? Need some advice on a Porsche. Okay, here are the two to own, maintain, cost of ownership, and so on. You know what? I can talk about some of this. I'll answer this one specifically off air as well. But somebody's asking me when it comes like a Porsche Macan, for example, how does it compare to some of the other SUVs and so on, cost of ownership and so on. Well, I'll just tell you straight up. First of all, if it's got Porsche on it, it's going to cost more to own.
SPEAKER 04 :
Sure.
SPEAKER 19 :
Period. So I'll just tell you that straight up. So if you're looking at like an SUV or you're looking like a Macan or a Cayenne and you're comparing that to some of the other SUVs that are out there, nothing against Porsche. I'm not dogging them. This is not that conversation.
SPEAKER 10 :
Cost what it costs.
SPEAKER 19 :
But yeah, but your cost of ownership. is going to be higher. So you can buy that as an SUV. You can buy the BMW or the Mercedes. And guess what? Cost of ownership on any of those three is going to be higher than, say, owning a Toyota Highlander. Sure.
SPEAKER 09 :
And by higher, that could be four to ten times higher. Right. Right, exactly. The initial cost. Not just a little bit more expensive.
SPEAKER 11 :
Right, exactly, yeah. Oh, great point, Mark. They're great cars. Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
They're nice.
SPEAKER 19 :
Even simple things, folks, like oil changes. Sure. Battery replacement.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 19 :
Alignments.
SPEAKER 09 :
Even brakes. Yeah.
SPEAKER 19 :
Any of the common things. Tires.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 19 :
Some of the common things that you would think, oh, that shouldn't be too expensive, it's To Mark's point, it could be, and he's not exaggerating, it could be 10 times what you would normally pay for another car to have some of those things done. So here's the thing. If you can afford that, knock your socks off. If that's what you want to drive and you can afford it, I will never tell anybody don't own that. If you can afford it, but here's what I also would say. If you buy it... Don't complain about the cost of ownership after buying it because it's going to be more money than something else of like kind in another brand of car. And, folks, that includes even going to the Hyundai, Kia, Toyota, Nissan, Chevrolet, Ford. I mean, I can go down the list of all the other models of cars. Because in that particular end of things, every manufacturer has a car that fits that. Right. That midsize, that's why Porsche even has a small and a midsize or even a full-size SUV because it's one of the hottest things in the market to own. So they all have them. In fact, Porsche has the least amount of options even compared to BMW and Mercedes. Both of them will have five or six different models plus options on those models. But I mean actual models, they'll have four to six different models in that range. Porsche has two. So every other manufacturer has a multitude of cars in that particular range to compete in that market. But again, nothing against Porsche. Great car, great manufacturer and all that. But get your credit card out.
SPEAKER 11 :
If you already don't want to pay more to own it, it's probably not the vehicle for you if you're looking at a cost.
SPEAKER 19 :
And something to think about, and in this particular case, this is a – make sure that I'm looking at this correctly. I believe it's a 2017. Now, this is something to think about, too. The older they get – and this is something that Mark and Ken can both talk about – but the older that they get – it gets a little bit even more expensive to own and maintain. So in this particular case, the car itself is $20,000, but it's got 94,000 miles on it, so it's getting close to $100,000. Meaning, if it hasn't had all of the major maintenance done on it, on that particular car, and I'm not exaggerating, you could spend $5,000 on a maintenance package on that alone.
SPEAKER 09 :
Per visit. Am I right? You expect to pay $5,000 a year minimum. Yeah.
SPEAKER 19 :
So now the car is $25,000, not $20,000.
SPEAKER 09 :
I've had a customer come in and say, I got this great deal on a high mileage. I'm like, no, you didn't.
SPEAKER 10 :
You can't afford to keep it running.
SPEAKER 19 :
You bought somebody else's problem that they knew was going to be that way, so they sold it.
SPEAKER 11 :
At $100,000, they're going to need a lot. They got tired of paying for it. Yeah.
SPEAKER 19 :
My own – I'm sorry to say, but if this were me and I was looking at this particular vehicle, I would either try to buy much newer with a lot less miles or go buy something else that's this mileage but in somebody else's brand. Sure. Outside of the European – in other words, I wouldn't go buy a BMW or a Mercedes because you're in the same boat.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, it's the same.
SPEAKER 19 :
I would go buy something that is either American, Japanese, whatever. And I know people are going to say, you'd really go buy an American car over those? Yeah, all day long. All day, every day for me too.
SPEAKER 09 :
All day long. They have a nicer ride, but you're going to pay for it. Yeah, and you're going to pay a lot more to keep that ride going.
SPEAKER 19 :
And if you have any kind of a repair that comes up, so all of a sudden the check engine light comes on. that particular car will be, to Mark's point, maybe not 10 times, but you're going to be at least three to four times more fixing that particular problem with even the light being on. Even the initial diagnosis of that light being on is going to cost you a lot more money than it would on any of the other counterparts.
SPEAKER 11 :
And finding somebody that will service that vehicle, too. That becomes harder, yeah. Yeah, that's another game.
SPEAKER 19 :
Because of the specialized tools required, every shop doesn't have. It's like, you know, good friend Jeff over at JC's. He does all the Range Rover work in town outside of the dealer. And he'll be the first to tell you that, yeah, we have tools and things much like the dealer, but his labor rate and his cost of doing things... on that particular vehicle is much higher than Ken and Mark working on the Chevy counterpart. Sure.
SPEAKER 04 :
Certainly. There's no comparison.
SPEAKER 19 :
It's double to go get that Range Rover worked on versus the, you know, you take, for example, a Range Rover Sport versus a Tahoe. Your cost of ownership on the Range Rover is going to be four to five times higher than a Tahoe.
SPEAKER 11 :
And probably about one and a half times more in the shop.
SPEAKER 19 :
physically being there time-wise.
SPEAKER 11 :
Physically being there, correct, yeah.
SPEAKER 19 :
No, yeah, thank you for that as well. So, again, for all of you that are listening, I'm not against – I'm a car advocate. You guys all know it's why I talk about EVs the way I do. I'm the advocate for the car itself, and every car is unique and does – no, there are some really bad cars. I will say that, and I'm not talking about those. But generally speaking, it's not the car. It's usually the driver, the owner, the lack of maintenance, whatever. And a lot of times people buy the wrong car, thinking that I'm buying the right car, but they forget about some of these things that we're talking about now when it comes to total cost of ownership. And while it's great to say, I own a Porsche, well, yeah, that's fine. Do you have the wallet able to support owning said vehicle?
SPEAKER 11 :
Exactly. And that comes with any vehicle, really, but it's just a whole heck of a lot more with the Euros.
SPEAKER 19 :
It's even true, you know, we were just talking to our last caller, George, even about some of the older vehicles, which, as you guys all know, you know, I own some older vehicles. I've worked through some of what my dad had in his collection and so on. And I will just tell you that while it sounds great to own an older vehicle. and your initial investment may not be that great, but I can work on it, and you're going to. Oh, we're sure. So, yeah, that's fine. Yeah, you can, and you will.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, right. Every weekend. Yeah, right. In some cases. That will become your job. That will be your job, yes. Exactly.
SPEAKER 11 :
Outside of your work.
SPEAKER 19 :
We're laughing, but it's just true because those older vehicles just require a lot more to keep them on the road than what the new vehicles do. And it's nothing against those old cars. They're great. But you're going, I mean, even firing them up and just driving around the block takes a lot of effort versus you just hopping in your normal regular driver and hitting the button and going.
SPEAKER 11 :
And like you were saying earlier, you have to drive those cars. You do. Yeah. Now you just get in and steer, hit the brake.
SPEAKER 19 :
I took one of our old cars out last week, and my wife and I, we drove around the block, and I'm just thinking, oh, man. You pay attention to everything. You are on guard the entire time you're driving this versus driving a newer vehicle. I say it this way. You steer a new car, you drive an old car. And I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say that.
SPEAKER 11 :
All senses are active on the older ones.
SPEAKER 19 :
You can be, not that we ever are, but you can almost be half asleep in a new car and get from A to B without a lot of problems because it's telling you pretty much everything else you need to be doing. Hey, there's somebody over in your blind spot. Oh, hey there. Make sure you're braking. I'm going to brake for you. If not, because this guy, you're getting too close to the guy in front of you.
SPEAKER 10 :
You're getting close to that line over there.
SPEAKER 19 :
In my Chevy, even your butt vibrates if you get too close. I mean, so many things that tell you what to do when you're driving that those old cars do not do. And you are literally driving the old car.
SPEAKER 09 :
I drove that 28 Chevy this morning.
SPEAKER 1 :
1928.
SPEAKER 09 :
There's not even rearview mirrors. There's no seatbelts, so you're more cautious. Yeah, right. You've got to look out the back windows. You've got to adjust the timing on the fly. Your head is on a swivel. Adjust the choke until it warms up a little bit. Right. You're constantly moving, looking. Yeah.
SPEAKER 19 :
It's like flying an airplane in a way. You're doing something all the time to get from A to B in one of those little parts.
SPEAKER 09 :
You are, but you're focusing. You're certainly not thinking about texting at the same time. Shoot, no.
SPEAKER 19 :
That phone is like the last thing on your mind at that point in time.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, no way. You don't even care where it is.
SPEAKER 10 :
It doesn't matter. I know the feeling, Mark. I'm just having a hard enough time keeping it on the road.
SPEAKER 19 :
No, literally. You are paying so much attention to so many other things that the last thing you're even thinking about is that phone.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes, absolutely. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 19 :
Where in a new car, you're like, you know, no offense, you can be like half asleep. Like I said, you can be half asleep.
SPEAKER 09 :
If you get bored, it'll drive for you, and you'll not pay attention.
SPEAKER 19 :
In a lot of cases. All right. We're having a lot of fun. We've got two more hours coming your way. Myself, Mark Guernsey, Ken Rackley. We'll all be back. Don't go anywhere. Drive Radio KLZ 560.
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In the floor behind the chair.
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It is very beautiful. You know, another Colorado weather.
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Yeah, it's 71 degrees as we speak. Going to be a beautiful day. So good day to get out, do a few things around the house. We'll talk about some of those things today as well. As always, any questions, text line is open, 307. 200-8222, so 307-200-8222. And, of course, the studio line here live, 303-477-5600. If you're listening to a replay of this program, of course, you can't call in live, but you can sure send a text message, and I'll get that answered as quickly as I can. And, again, that number, 307-200-8222. So I've got several things to talk about today in regards to some things to do around the house for the time of the year that it is. One thing, though, Charlie had sent me an article, I want to say, last week. Week before last, I should say. And it's titled, 10 Common. Home renovations that lower your property value. Now, we'll talk about some of these because I read a lot of these articles, and are they all right on the money, and are they exactly true? Well, keep in mind that in a lot of cases, these are very personalized according to the person that's writing them. But in a lot of cases, I don't always disagree with some of the things that we read. In fact, some of these things coincide with some of the things that we talk about here today. on a routine basis and for all of us and i think this is you know this is true for pretty much across the board you know you want to maximize the assets that you own your house being one of your if not the largest asset in some cases it could be you know your business or other investments you have but in a lot of cases for most people your home is is the largest or one of the largest you know quote unquote investments that you have there's some scuttlebutt out there today where people are talking about, and this comes around every now and again, as to, you know, is your home really an asset or is it a liability? Well, I still look at them as an asset. I think for most people it is. And you're either going to spend money on your home, living in it, or you're going to rent. And the argument is, well, if you rent, then somebody else is taking care of all of your maintenance and things along those lines and so on. And yes, that's true. There is that. But you also are paying somebody else's, you know, mortgage and and appreciation and so on when you do that so again two schools of thought but for most people owning a home is a part of the american dream it's a part of what what people do even to get towards retirement that's factored into retirement as you downsize you can take some of that money and again i've talked about that many times even during the weekly show but let's talk about some of these things that could affect and or lower your property's value now number one on here And I agree with this one 100%. Overly personalized design choices. Yes. That could be everything from how you remodel a room to the paint to the flooring that you choose to the carpet you pick to you name it. And I will agree with that one. a thousand percent you have to be careful and and while you may like something greatly and there's either these are decisions you have to make if you think listen i'm going to own this home for the rest of my life okay well you know what if that's your if that's what you think you're going to do then personalize it to your heart's content just know that if something were to come up and you go to sell it including some of you that have heirs where you may die in the home but somebody else may have to pick up the pieces and then go about selling it just remember that the more personalized it is the smaller the pool of buyers it's not that it's not sellable but your pool of buyers begins to shrink it's like you know larry and i both come out of the automotive world and this isn't and i did this for years and years and that was the customizing of vehicles i did a lot of that for the off-road end of things but also did it for some street rods and hot rods and things like that but anytime you customize something you take it from what is is generally accepted to multiple buyers and you customize it for you you've now shrunk the pool of buyers down considerably because everybody has different tastes exactly yep And that's not a bad thing. We want people to have different tastes. That's the joy of having the world we live in and having people with different tastes. That's great. Just remember that when you do those things, you've now shrunk the pool of buyers down. And it's true even with certain automobiles and even certain homes. And what I mean by that is the more unique the home or the more unique the car. So exotics, for example, in the car world. Exotics are great, and they typically will do a pretty good job of holding their value, but there's a very small pool of buyer for an exotic versus a, you know, a Chevy Malibu.
SPEAKER 08 :
Right.
SPEAKER 06 :
Or a Chevy Malibu or most of your SUVs, you know, take a, you know, a Chevy Blazer or something along those lines, you know, the smaller SUVs. Reality is there's a large pool of buyers for that where the exotics there is not just because there's not as many people that can even afford that. to buy that particular vehicle. Well, the same thing can happen in homes. And this is one of those things where, you know, the three keys to business is location, location, location. Well, there's three keys to homes, in my opinion. Location, location, location. And what I mean by that is, for some of you that have homes here in Colorado, and I get it, some of the transplants don't realize this, but north-facing houses... Um, that's a no, no in Colorado because all winter long, you will have a icy cold front step driveway, all of that. And yes, I know you can get out there and get it shoveled and so on, but it will be very cold and icy all year long. And frankly, in the summertime, because of the way our sun is, it will actually be warmer on that side than it is on the south side because the sun moves to the north in the summer. So not only is it cold in the winter months, but it's hotter in the summer months. That's why typically buying north-facing is not suggested. Now, with some of the transplants we have coming in, some of them may not know the difference. And it's interesting when you talk to certain individuals along those lines that, you know, You'll hear some people say, well, I prefer that. No, you don't. You're just saying that because you own one.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, they prefer it in their state they came from.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, there you go. Yeah, exactly. Not in this one. But again, these are things where when you buy a home and you have a home, you need to think about some of those things. But bottom line, number one on this list is overly personalized design choices. So be careful when you're remodeling even the color of certain things that you're picking out. And here's the rule of thumb, and most of you already know this, and probably all of you know this. Neutral things are... always will stay in style. So, you know, for example, a beige-ish colored carpet, you know, a Berber carpet, things along those lines, will that always be in style? Yes. Will dark green always be in style? No.
SPEAKER 08 :
You mean my shag yellow carpet?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, the shag yellow, Larry, no. No, not really in style. And while there's very beautiful choices of colors and things like that, and this is true even when it comes to tiles and things like that. Now, there's also a lot of folks out there, and I follow some of these design guys because of the show here. And some of them are really against some of the grays. They're saying that some of the gray flooring and things that people have picked over the last decade or so are starting to phase out. I disagree with that. I think that comes down to a taste issue more than anything. If it's done correctly and it looks good, I don't think there's any issues with some of those things. But, again, just be careful because in some cases certain things can be long-lasting and in other cases not be. So when you pick out colors for walls and things like that, those are things that you also have to be careful of. So that's number one. Number two. Removing bedrooms to create larger spaces. Yeah, that's a big one. While a nice large space might be really cool and it might be great for you, and losing a bedroom might even lower your property taxes, reality is normally people look at homes because they've got families and they need a bedroom for somebody to occupy and sleep in.
SPEAKER 08 :
On the other side of that is the bigger the area, the less... The less comfortable it feels. The less warm it feels.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 08 :
In a conversation. You can't even have a conversation with people.
SPEAKER 06 :
Very true. In fact, the style now, and even a lot of the newer homes, believe it or not, as things go down the road, things tend to repeat themselves. We're now getting back into a design trend. in some newer homes where the big open floor plans are starting to trend away. We are now starting to cycle back to having separate spaces, to Larry's point, to do different things in. And now I wouldn't tell you that that has caught on fully. I think some people still like the nice open area, open floor plans, you know, kitchen, family room, things like that. But the trend right now currently is the styles going back to having more individual spaces. But this one here on the list is don't remove a bedroom to create a larger space. Now, here's a caveat to that. If you've got a home that maybe somebody created some bedrooms and such in and it's got five or six bedrooms and you can take one of those out and make a nice larger space and make it more usable and you've still got four or five bedrooms You're probably okay in that. That's an exception to this rule. But if you're a four-bedroom house or a three-bedroom house and you're taking a bedroom away, therefore going from a four to a three or a three to a two, yeah, that's a problem because there's a lot of people out there that look at those bedrooms. And people look at bedrooms for different reasons, by the way. Some look at that bedroom for somebody to actually live in and sleep in, kids, things like that. guest rooms, people coming to visit. Others also look at those rooms as offices or game rooms or sewing rooms or whatever you might do along those lines, craft rooms, things like that. So, you know, in some cases, they still want that room separate from everything else so they can do something else with it. And they also know that leaving it a bedroom, meaning that, you know, Size-wise. Yeah, size-wise. And then for those of you listening and you know these rules, but might as well go over it, to have a legitimate bedroom. It's supposed to have, of course, an egress window. Otherwise, it's not coded as a bedroom. So you have to have an in-out window in case there's a fire. You can get in and out of that room. That's sleeping arrangements. That's code. And then typically also a closet. Now, I don't know if closet is necessarily code because you can put some self-contained closets and things like that. And so I don't know if it actually has to have an actual sliding door, walk-in door type closet. But that's the rule of thumb. Closets and an egress window. egress window being code because if you can't get out of the bedroom with with the fire it's not considered a sleeping room by code right so that's something to think about so don't take out a bedroom to make a larger space and devalue your property in the process. Now, here's another one that's interesting, and I think there's some exceptions to this one as well, but converting the garage into living space. That was a big deal when I was a kid, by the way. People that had smaller homes, but they might have had a single or a two-car garage, they would convert the garage into some living space, and they'd add to the house, but then they didn't have a garage anymore. So here's the exception to that, if you ask me. As long as you've got the ability to add another garage, an external garage, a shop, whatever, another two- or three-car garage outside of your current space, if you can do that, then turning garage space into living space, knock your socks off.
SPEAKER 08 :
You're talking about unattached.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, if you've got the ability to put, well, or even if you've got a layout of a house where you can even put another attached garage on and convert your existing garage into space, okay, fine, knock your socks off. But if you've got the ability even to have a detached garage and you want to turn some of your existing space over to living space, garage space into living space, okay, again, knock your socks off. That's fine. Providing that, this is where it gets a little bit dicey, I think. providing that when you're done, it looks natural. In other words, if it looks like you converted a garage around and you've even left the garage door in and you've just sort of dry walled, you know, on the backside of the garage door, but the garage door is still there. Yeah, and those are cheesy things that a lot of guys will do. And no, that is not benefiting you at the end of the day. If you can make that, you know, naturally blend in with the house, even matching, you know, stucco siding, whatever, and take the garage door out and really make things look natural, then okay, I'm all for that. Then off you go. That's an exception to the rule. And they have other space, by the way, have the ability to put another garage, and I think that's the exception to the rule. But I would not convert garage space to living space and lose a garage because to a lot of people, having a garage is very important.
SPEAKER 08 :
To most people because not only do they park their cars in there, but they also work.
SPEAKER 06 :
They work, and they've got other things they can store there. And, you know, you take the garage away, you're losing other type of space that you can utilize, you know, utility type space. And, yeah, somebody like me personally, yeah, I want a garage. I have, and some of you listening know what I mean by this, I've gotten so spoiled over the years, I don't think I have parked outside now in probably three decades, nor do I want to.
SPEAKER 08 :
I've got two cars. One's never seen a garage and the other one has. Because the other half of my garage is my workshop.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, and that's fine. But you still have at least one spot to go ahead and pull into and use and not have to scrape your car off in the winter and all. That's what I'm talking about. People want to use a garage for those purposes and at least have one stall where... You know, one of you, you know, one of the family members can at least park inside and not have to go through all of that, you know, scraping the snow off and the frost and all of that. And those of you that have garages and you know what I mean by that, you'll never go back to not having, like me, you'll never go back to not having one just because you get used to it. And, yeah, I'm not going back the other way, Larry. I, you know, for the first few houses, because you're starting out and you can only afford certain things. And the first house I had had a single car garage. Yes, I could still park in it, but it was really dicey because they weren't very big back then. Second house had a two car garage, still could get one car in it. Like you still had some workshop stuff, but you get one car in it. And as time goes by, you're able to get a little bit bigger. And then what I started doing is when I looked at buying houses, the garage had to be a certain size or I didn't buy the house. That was me because I'm a car guy. So I wasn't going to buy a house that didn't have the right garage set up, depth, height, all of that. And literally, we would look at a house and I would go look at the garage. I'd get a tape measure. I'd carry it with me. And if the garage wasn't even a certain depth. I was out. Count me out. I'm not buying that house. I don't care how nice the rest of the house is. If it's not, you know, X deep. And my rule of thumb is if it's not 21 feet deep, I'm not buying it. A lot of garages today, believe it or not, are built about 19.6 deep. That's all the deeper they are, which is great for cars and smaller SUVs, but put a full-size pickup truck in there that's about 20-foot long. Do the math. It ain't fitting.
SPEAKER 08 :
Nope.
SPEAKER 06 :
So that's the reason why when I started looking at houses and so on, as I would get into my third and – I think I'm on my seventh house now, but as I got into the third and fourth house, yeah, that became – actually, I think by the fourth house, that became very important for me was I wanted to make sure it had enough depth. Now, for all of you listening, that can be different and – That's not a standard for everybody. But a lot of you that are car guys will understand everything that I just said. And that, again, goes to number three, converting that garage space into living space. Again, you've shrunk your market of people now that want to look at that house because anybody that has a car that they want to put inside, you've just eliminated them from even looking at your home, period.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 06 :
especially if there's no other ability on that site to put another garage in. And in certain situations, certain layouts of the neighborhood, depending upon what your setbacks are and how close you are to the property line and so on, you're probably not putting another garage in and you're really limiting who you could sell that house to. So again, we're going over things that will devalue your home i've got several more of these that we will talk about as well so don't go anywhere questions anything you want to add feel free 303-477-5600 don't forget the text line 307-282-22 our website fixitradio.com we'll be right back fix it radio klz 560.
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SPEAKER 06 :
All right, something else, too. Larry and I were just talking about when talking about garages and layouts and when you're looking at different homes and so on. Don't forget, and most of you, of course, would be sharp enough to know this, but might as well make sure we talk about it. If you work in your garage and you've got a workbench or anything along those lines. make sure you're measuring things out to where that's being included in your measurements. So if you've got a, you know, two foot deep, you know, bench that you want to bring with you or put one in the new place and still want to park in the garage and it's a 21 foot garage. No, it's not. It's a 19 foot garage. In fact, probably need a little more room than actually don't want to run into the bench. So it's probably, yeah, 17 and a half to 18 foot garage at best. So That's something else to think about when you look at these things and measure things out. And those of you that are building homes, and some of you still, you know, still people out there doing that if you're building a home, I will tell you that I think some of the biggest mistakes that happen when custom builders and architects and stuff build homes is they don't build enough garage depth. Not width or anything along those lines, but the depth side of it. They don't build them deep enough because there's, you know, cars have not gotten smaller. In fact... this is more of a drive radio, you know, topic, but it fits into this because we're talking about storage and garages and so on. Most cars, trucks especially, there's a great little video. I think it's a video or it might even be printed material, but I think there's a video showing because it's a progression where you go and look at, you know, early Ford or early Chevy trucks, look at where they were back in the day. You know, take a, you know, 73 Chevy. They were all, you know, Well, there's some crew cabs. Most of them were standard cab long box trucks. And they have that standard cab long box. And they do the progression from each generation to where we are now. And the trucks have grown, especially in cab size. And yet beds have shrunk down some. But overall, the trucks are wider. They're longer. They're just larger than they ever have been because that's what the market has shown. So something to think about where a lot of the older homes weren't built to accommodate some of those types of vehicles. So, again, if you're building a home or you're looking at a home or you have the option to have that garage be a little bit deeper, if you're building a home, make sure you're looking at that for the few thousand dollars or so that it may take to build a deeper garage. Build it.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, and look at the height also because you've still got to get that truck into the garage one way or another. And like you said, these trucks not only are taller and longer or wider and longer, but they're also taller.
SPEAKER 06 :
They're taller too. Yeah. And again, that's where if you have the ability to do an eight-foot door, then go ahead and do so. Okay, this next one is – and by the way, here's – Here's a message. I have made realtors mad both in Wyoming and Colorado because the garage isn't deep enough for my eight-foot bed. One time, yeah, going back to the conversation that we just had, had one realtor who said, just park it outside. And that was probably the rudest response I've ever given to a person, especially a lady, when I responded to her and fired her. By the way, I'm with you on that one. If there's a realtor that isn't respecting what I have and what I own and what I want to do and they're trying to force me or squeeze me into something that's not going to work, yeah, I'm going to fire that realtor as well because they should know what my standards are and what I'm looking for. And if they're not willing to uphold my wishes, my standards, my wants, then why would I employ them?
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, they're working for you. So if they're not going to abide by your specifications, why use them? There's plenty of them out there.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, and this person also adds that not only do I want to pull into the garage with a full-size truck, I want to be able to walk around that full-size truck at the same time, which makes total sense. So I would agree with that wholeheartedly. Thank you, by the way, for that text message because I would agree with you wholeheartedly. So number four. our list things to things not to do that will potentially devalue your home high-end kitchen upgrades that don't match the neighborhood yeah you need you know you typically you know your neighborhood or you should know your neighborhood if not i would encourage you to get to know your neighborhood and the reason for this is you don't want to do upgrades by the way this is true i would add that This isn't just for the kitchen. This could be kitchen. This could be bathroom. This could be flooring. This could be all sorts of things. You don't want to upgrade things that will make your house much more expensive than everything else around you because you'll never get that money back out of it. Now, again, if you want it just for you and you're going to use it and you don't care about losing money on it, then knock your socks off. But just realize that if you're doing a high-end kitchen, that is double what everybody else's in the neighborhood would be, that's fine. Just remember, you're not going to get double that price of that kitchen back out of it down the road because you've actually raised your price higher than what all of your competition would be. exactly and not only that in some cases the kitchen may not be to the liking of the average person so it's going to make that market even smaller as you were talking earlier yeah thank you for saying that larry because you again you need to be you need to know your market you know this is like going back to the car example you need to know the market who's actually going to be looking at this particular asset in this case it's a house and the thing about a car that's different than a house is a car is movable. The house is not. The house is in a neighborhood, and whatever is around you is what you're going to be marketed off of. Now, if you're somebody that, you know, you live out in the country, you're on an acre plus of ground, and your next closest neighbor is a ways away, well, okay, that doesn't make any difference then. At that point, your house literally becomes a standalone house, and what you have is yours, and it doesn't make any difference. But if you're in a neighborhood where there are, you know, where the builder might have given you six options for homes or four options for homes or at best maybe eight options for homes, and the entire neighborhood is one of those four, six, eight, whatever models they built, The reality is that's what you're up against. You're going to compete with, in fact, the way it's going to work is you don't even get to compete with, let's say, for example, you buy the lowest model of the home and there's six models. So there's one that's on the low end and there's one that's on the high end. If you have the low end model home, you're not even competing with the high end model. You're going to compete with other models like yours. That's how this works. Trust me when I say this. i know exactly how this works when they go to do the comps and the realtors are looking and the buyers are shopping they're looking at you know if you've got model a you're not going to be compared to model c you're compared to model a yep that this is how it works you don't you don't have that option of being compared to model cd or e you're compared to the other model a's that are in the neighborhood and what they're selling for and that's what your price is gonna be based on. It comes down to that model, the square footage, some of the upgrades and so on. Now, if you've got in a neighborhood where let's say there's, I don't know, maybe there's 20 of your homes in a neighborhood and there's three or four of them that are on the market and three or four of them have done some nice upgrades, okay, if you're competing with them and they've done some nice upgrades, okay, guess what? You can do the same thing because you're gonna be competing against those same homes that are selling on the market. But that's not always easy to know on the front side as to who's going to do what when it comes to remodeling and the like. So that's where you've got to be a little bit careful when it comes to some of the remodeling stuff. Jeff, go ahead.
SPEAKER 09 :
Hey, good morning.
SPEAKER 06 :
Good morning.
SPEAKER 09 :
From your twin in western Montana, your twin living conditions in western Montana, we're at 72 degrees, a beautiful day, cloud cover. I often say the only difference between this part of Montana and your part of Colorado is that we have fewer people and more oxygen.
SPEAKER 06 :
Gotcha. The fewer people part isn't so bad, actually.
SPEAKER 09 :
More oxygen isn't bad either. Actually, it was the oxygen part that more convinced us to come here because I knew a guy from Divide who had to move out of his custom home. and moved down to Colorado Springs, believe it or not, because of COPD. It's kind of heartbreaking for him. So we just decided that when we retired, it would be to replace with more oxygen.
SPEAKER 06 :
Makes sense.
SPEAKER 09 :
2,000 feet seems to be good right now.
SPEAKER 06 :
That makes sense. No, I don't... Jeff, you or anybody else, I don't fault that at all. I totally understand that. Those of us that have lived at this elevation our whole lives, myself included, we sort of get used to it. But I can tell you this much, and myself included, and maybe it's because I'm getting a little older, but when we go to sea level, oh, man, Jeff, my energy level automatically goes up. and literally i can get by with one or two hours less sleep at lower elevation i don't sleep a lot already i'm a seven hour a night kind of guy already but literally i can go to lower elevation and live on five or six hours no problem yeah it's amazing what oxygen can do it really is so i am not faulting you on that at all i totally get it makes total sense yeah um you know
SPEAKER 09 :
I believe everybody should own a house eventually. I mean, most people can't afford it. You should buy it.
SPEAKER 06 :
I am, by the way, I am, I am with you. And I think I was ingrained that way by my grandfather. He was one of those, you know, my grandfather and my, my grandmother on my dad's side, uh, went through the depression and all of that, believe it or not between the two of them, they had three jobs through the depression. My grandfather worked two jobs. My grandmother did bookkeeping. So had a job. Very few people had a job. They had three between the two of them, meaning they were very hard workers and knew what all that meant. But also to my grandfather and all of his employees and family members and so on, it was a really big deal to him to have everybody he knew own a house.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. Because it doesn't go once you buy a house and pay it off. You're set. You don't have to worry about your housing costs anymore. Now, you do have property tax. I don't know how it's evolved in Colorado, but here in Montana, property tax has been a bugaboo. My house has gone up in value 150% since we bought it in 2017. it's just ridiculous. And property taxes have gone up commensurate.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yep. Same here. It's not much different here, Jeff. Now, what I do know, for those of you listening, kind of a different topic, but it's a good topic. We complain about our property taxes in Colorado, and they are high. They're higher than what they used to be. Although, Jeff, as I talk to other people and I meet and You ask them, you know, just different things and subjects come up and cost of living and houses and property taxes and so on. And depending upon the state and where you're going and what their tax structure is like income tax wise and so on. Here's the thing, Jeff. The states are getting it one way or the other. Whether you have a higher income tax and less property tax or you have more property tax and less income tax. Reality is they're getting it one way or the other. And it's pretty equal across the board when it's all said and done.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, and I could go down that rabbit hole and vent my spleen, but I think I was going to talk more about the, when I was growing up, we had ultimately nine of us living in a 1,200-square-foot house in the basement.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, I raised seven kids in 1,300 square feet, so I know fully what you're talking about.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yep, and so the idea of a house has, what you need in a house has evolved. And back in the 60s and 70s and 80s, you know, if you were buying a house and you needed more room, converting that garage made sense. Because people weren't buying a house. Those were tract homes.
SPEAKER 06 :
That's right.
SPEAKER 09 :
They weren't buying a house to try to impress people or worrying about resale value. They were just trying to house their families. Survive. Yep. And so now, I mean, can you, you know, To tell a newlywed couple that they need to live in a house that's 1,200 square feet, I think they would look at you like you're from another planet.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, it's just funny you say that, Jeff. I talked about that this past week on The Daily Show some because it always bugs me when I see all of these financial gurus and all of these reporters and they'll talk about how the cost of living is so high and it's so hard to buy a house today and How are these young people going to do it and this, that, and the other? And while that's true, face value, yes, that's true. Things have definitely gotten to where they cost more. The cost of living is higher. Your percentage of what you're actually paying in that mortgage versus what you make is definitely higher than it's ever been. But to your point, Jeff – So are the expectations and what people want to live in. I talked about this past week how, you know, my first home that I bought, first home, not where I lived first, but my very first home, 900 square feet was all. The reality, Jeff, to your point, could you get a newly married couple to date even buy a 900 square foot home? I highly doubt it.
SPEAKER 08 :
No, we call those starter homes back in those days.
SPEAKER 06 :
That's what they were. Jeff, my point is the expectations that I'm going to own what my folks own are so high today that most of these young people wanting to move into a house the first time won't take anything less. That's why the builders build what they build, why there's not a lot of the 900-square-foot homes on the market. And the reason why the prices are higher is because the per-square-foot price is still there.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, because a lot of the labor for $1,200 or $2,400 is the same as the $1,200. That's right. It's not twice as much labor, so you're going to be able to sell it for more, yeah. But can you imagine growing up if you went into a house with granite countertops or stone countertops or... Self-closing closet, cupboard doors, or, you know.
SPEAKER 06 :
Jeff, we were doing good to have really decent linoleum that wasn't peeling up.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, exactly. I'm being honest. And if you had wall-to-wall carpet, oh, my God, you were. Yeah, top dog, man.
SPEAKER 06 :
Or wood paneling or anything along those lines. I mean, man, you were living.
SPEAKER 09 :
That's right, living large. So it's a lot of that. And in current houses, you're not going to want, you know, given that houses are growing so much, if you enclose your garage for another bedroom, people are going to kind of look at you, I think, funny. Yeah. Why did you need to do that? Why didn't you just buy a house with another bedroom?
SPEAKER 06 :
Move. I mean, yeah, really, at that point, why didn't you just move? I mean, you should have just sold what you had and moved somewhere else and had a larger home if that's what you were looking for. I agree, Jeff.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. Right, so I just think expectations have kind of changed.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, they are. No, Jeff, you are, again, I talked about that specifically this past week, Jeff, because, again, the expectations, and, you know, I grew up and finally, you know, we moved out and got married and all that, and the home that my folks had, and I thought the home was large at the time. I mean, I thought we were living large as a family. We had 1,700 square feet.
SPEAKER 08 :
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 06 :
And I thought that was a big house in the day.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, it was.
SPEAKER 06 :
And it was probably at that time. Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, you were probably in the upper 5%, 1700.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, and we thought, man, and today, Jeff, there are starter homes that are larger than that, and I'm not exaggerating.
SPEAKER 09 :
I know. And I think I'll just leave with the expectation, I think, of this generation, and this isn't to bug Gen Z or to criticize Gen Z or anything. It's just because I think we can all fall prey to it to some degree, but I think kids see how they grew up and see what their parents had in their 40s, and that's what they want in their 20s. That's right. And I'm sorry, but they need to go back and see what their parents had in their 20s. When my parents got married, one-bedroom apartment, they brought me home. They didn't even have a crib. They put me in a chest of drawers, a drawer in a chest of drawers, because that's what they had. available they went out and got a crew very quickly but i mean you know it's that kind of mentality that you make do with what you got you know yep and uh i don't know maybe that couple of days in a chest of drawers drawer uh worked me for life i don't know i can't say for sure but um i don't think so somehow well as long as it wasn't a sock drawer you're okay Yeah, just make sure they're all washed.
SPEAKER 06 :
There you go. There you go. Jeff, as always, man, I appreciate you very much. Thank you. And he is spot on. And, again, I talked about this this past week on how the expectation level is so much higher than what it ever has been. Rarely do you find somebody willing to lower those expectations and get started and get a cheaper house because that's just not the way of today. Mark, go ahead. You're next.
SPEAKER 10 :
Hey, good morning, John. So I bought my first home in 2007 after I got out of the military for the purposes of not paying rent while going to college. And after that, I got married and we sold our house and moved to our current home. And we've been here for probably the last eight years now. And I think I've listened to this show for the last 10 years.
SPEAKER 06 :
I think you have.
SPEAKER 10 :
But yesterday I heard something you talk about that I've never heard of, or at least never really had crossed my mind. And it really shocked me that I didn't know it. And it's really, I don't want to say it panicked me, but it definitely concerned me to a high degree. And that was when you were talking about total loss from a fire and how the insurance company does not pay out until... later on when you've paid things off and or you know gotten a loan to rebuild and i thought there's no way i could do that i don't have the ability to go out and get another loan to rebuild what i have
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, and that's a great topic. And now keep in mind that in some insurance companies or in some instances, you may be able to get some front money from the insurance company, but typically not. Because what the insurance company wants to do is make sure that you're going to rebuild properly and that you're actually using the money properly. for that and now one thing that they will do typically and this is something that again i've got personal experience with this so the first thing that they will do typically is if you've got a total loss and you've got you know let's just use round number say you've got a i don't know six hundred thousand dollar house with a three hundred thousand dollar mortgage we'll just use easy math here What I do know the insurance companies will do, if your mortgage is $300 and you've got a total loss, they will get you a check fairly quickly to get your mortgage paid off. So now you're starting from zero. The mortgage is paid off. You no longer have a house payment, meaning, Mark, that now that there's no house payment, the ability to now go do what you need to do financially speaking to start the rebuild process and have a construction loan or whatever you need to do along those lines, knowing there's still another – Depending upon what you're insured for, you're still going to have X amount of money coming in on that end of it. You can typically do it that way. But no, what was said yesterday in that regard is 100% true. If you have a total loss, you're going to get some claim money from the insurance company once they determine personal property, the whole nine yards, and you'll get settlement checks from the insurance company. But they are not paying the contractor for you when you decide to rebuild. That's on you. You are doing that on your own.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, that's something I really had not considered. You know, I, in the past, you know, you had mentioned taking a video of everything, you know, every drawer of tools, every, you know, piece of equipment, every TV, every computer, everything. And I used to do that probably every other year. And I don't know if I ever actually uploaded it to the cloud. I think I uploaded it to a hard drive, which is in the house. So if the house burned down and I'm not here, all that's gone.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you need to load it either to a cloud or you need to put it on a jump drive or something along those lines where that's stored somewhere outside of your home, another family member maybe, or maybe even make a couple of those and a couple of family members have that jump drive or get a safety deposit box or whatever the case may be. Because, yeah, to your point, Mark, if you don't have that outside of the home, And you've got one of these fire situations like we've seen happen here in Colorado. We've had two in Colorado that wiped out tons of homes. California lost a bunch. Hawaii lost. I mean, reality, Mark, is it can happen to anybody, any place. And if you don't have your ducks in a row, you're going to be on the short end of the stick.
SPEAKER 10 :
Right, right. And I remember years ago you had mentioned – call your insurance agent and ask, am I fully covered for today's law?
SPEAKER 06 :
Annually, you should do that. Annually.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yes. Yes. I started calling. I call Paul. That's my insurance agent. And yearly, around February, March, I would ask that question. And we have adjusted it some years and some years not. But what came to my mind was, you know, I wanted to call because I figured, you know, this is fix it radio but you were talking about ready radio and i thought you know what there may be people listening today that were not listening yesterday they don't know about this topic and and the other thing that came to my mind was they're not going to rebuild for the code when this was built they're going to build to the code that's current which may make the price go up significantly
SPEAKER 06 :
Yep. And keep in mind, I just got a note from somebody talking about, or a text from somebody talking about how even a full tornado loss, how that worked, how the insurance company paid, and so on. And these are questions, by the way, that you should be asking your agent on that particular company. If I have a total loss, how does this work as far as me getting repaid? How do I get my mortgage paid off if you have one? If I decide to rebuild... How does that work? These are specific questions to ask because it's not totally blanket from insurance to insurance company. Although, Mark, I will tell you that my experience with the majority of is until you actually decide what you're going to do. Now, let's say, for example, you decide that you've got in this case, you have a $600,000 house, you've got $300,000 mortgage, and maybe you've got... insurance that covers the full 600 let's just say you're really lucky in fact maybe you've got contents and so on that make the insurance policy 700 because you've got 100k of other contents if you decide to not rebuild and you're just going to go ahead and sell your lot off or do something different you can negotiate and this is where a public adjuster really comes in and becomes handy you can negotiate and typically get from them that entire check and then you can decide moving forward am i going to rebuild am i going to just go buy something else Am I going to sell my lot off? And so there is that option as well. But I'll tell you this right now, you will rarely get to that point without a public adjuster.
SPEAKER 10 :
That's really interesting. And the other thing that I wanted to bring up too, John, was yesterday you had talked about, you know, like if that's the case and it's a total loss, where's all your documents? Was your wallet in the house? Was your, you know, your deed, your birth certificate? And so something else that I hadn't really thought of was you were talking about online storage, like taking a picture of your driver's license and taking a picture of this, that, and the other and putting it online storage so that if you do have a total loss, you have something to be able to prove that, A, who you are and, B, where you live. That's right.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, I finally decided for other reasons, travel and so on, that, you know what, instead of having to fumble around even inside of my picture albums and so on, you know, where's my passport photo, where's my driver's license photo, I finally just took a note and put those things in there. I've got mine, my wife's, everything's all dialed in, passport, driver's license. I know you can put that in your Apple wallet, those of you that are Apple users as well. But for me, having the wife's and everything and everything in one place, Mark, where literally I can make one or two clicks, it's all in the cloud as well. So even if my phone was destroyed and run over, I can go to anybody's computer, log into my account, and get that information printed out if I had to.
SPEAKER 10 :
So I jokingly said, you know what, maybe our next house is going to be a pyramid.
SPEAKER 06 :
i'm just kidding i mean well you know and this is funny because you know it was you mentioned even yesterday that you know in some cases building codes after fires and so on they want you to do all brick or stucco or whatever but honestly here's what i don't think most people even the even the people that are setting the codes realize and it's something i've come to realize after losing a house in a fire and then watching some of these other fires and what they do Honestly, Mark, as much as that's great and it sounds good and having all of this non-flammable material on the outside of your home, it sounds great. The reality is fire seeks oxygen. Your home is full of it. It's a complete box full of oxygen, meaning all that fire has to do, and it has the ability to do it. is pick up a stick or something large and throw it through a window, and believe it or not, it kind of becomes and takes on its own personality, and it will. As soon as those windows blow out, guess where the fire goes? Right inside the house, and it'll burn it from the inside out. So even though it's got all this non-flammable material on the outside, it still has windows, meaning... game on it doesn't make any difference at that point i'm sorry i will argue anybody on the code side of that all day long because i've watched it with my own two eyes i've seen what these fires do and the reality is they are seeking oxygen and if they can get through a window and figure out how to get that oxygen and get that everything inside of your home by the way is more flammable than the outside in most cases and there are still some sort of wood structures i mean i guess if you built one completely out of you know out of concrete or something you might have the structure standing but keep in mind everything inside still going to burn up
SPEAKER 10 :
Yep, there's a house, well, what's left of a house up in Estes Park, probably a stone's throw away from downtown that is on a walking trail that I think was in the early 1900s built by one of the Denver newspaper guys that he had up on, you know, it's between like downtown and Stanley, kind of in a little valley there. And you can walk up a trail to it because it sits on one of the hilltops up there. And the stone foundation and the chimney is still there. You can walk in there. They built the frame. But the story goes that I think the builder or somebody went to light a fire and it burned the whole building to the ground, unfortunately, because of the way the fireplace was built. But the rest of the stone foundation is still there.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yep. Proving that point, Mark, that that is exactly what fire does and anything that it can consume, it will.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yes, sir. Thank you for your time.
SPEAKER 06 :
Great point. Mark, thank you very much. Let's take our last break. We'll come right back. Fix It Radio is our website, fixitradio.com. We'll be right back. KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 06 :
All right, we are back. Fix-It Radio, KLZ 560. Myself, Larry Unger, Mark Guernsey joining me now as well. Accountable Automotive up in Broomfield will be with us during drive radio hours coming up here in a moment as well. Of course, Charlie Grimes, our engineer, we were talking through really this last half hour, got into the insurance side of things because yesterday on Ready Radio, I started talking a little bit about fire, fire preparation, one of those things being, you know, are you properly insured, which, you know, definitely can carry into this particular program which I appreciate all of Mark's you know questions and comments and I was just telling you know Mark and Larry during the break that I'll be straight up honest had I not gone through a complete total loss situation on a home that I owned I I wouldn't know a lot of these things either because, frankly, unless you do it, there's no reason for you to know. You're just assuming on the front side that the insurance company is going to do X, Y, Z. Well, again, these are questions that you really need to ask your agent, especially those of you where you may have a broker, which Paul Leuenberger now, he is a broker. And depending upon what your insurance company is on any given year, because, by the way, that could change if rates change dramatically and he feels like, hey, we can get you into a better policy with a better company by by switching over, then by all means, you know, do so. And my point there is some of the questions that you need to ask, though, is how does this company handle X, Y, Z? And is it different from the last company I was with? Because not again, not all of them are equal there. As far as how, if there's a total loss, how the payout works and so on. And yes, in some cases, depending upon your payout and your loss and so on, you may have some out-of-pocket expenses that you will get reimbursed for. But you may still have to front some of that on the front side until you actually get reimbursed. Again, this will vary from insurance company to insurance company. So that's something that you really need to check on the front side to know if I have any kind of a total loss, how's that going to work? John, you're next.
SPEAKER 11 :
Hey, John. So going back to what you were talking about, about the garages.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 11 :
We had to build a freestanding one, pole barn style. But a couple of tips. When we built, we were gonna do a 30 by 30, and then for the cost difference, it was so much better, and the extra room to do the 30 by 40 was night and day. And it wasn't that much of a price difference, really. We went to Menards and had the whole thing delivered as a kit, and then we had a separate contractor. The other thing that a lot of people will do early, and I don't recommend it, find the extra money is put the concrete floor in, especially if you're rural and you're going to use it as a garage.
SPEAKER 06 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 11 :
My old neighbor did gravel, and it was okay, but there were always issues with that, that he'd have to get settling, fill in holes, stuff like that. The other thing, the only thing I regret, and you're right, my contractor, he's a guy from our church that did it for us, but he's a contractor. He looked at the plans, and he said change that to an 8-foot door for the garage door opening. But the other thing I regret, and I wish I would have done it, was went with a 12-foot wide instead of a 10-foot wide if you have the opportunity.
SPEAKER 06 :
In fact, if you have the option, just do 12-12.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, our walls are 10-foot. That's where the cost difference came in, John, was the – The additional height on the walls were way more expensive.
SPEAKER 06 :
That's right.
SPEAKER 11 :
But the other thing is, talking about fire and stuff, if you have to replace your roof, look at a metal roof just because you get a discount on your insurance for both hail and fire. Because a hailstorm's not going to destroy a metal roof. It might make it look like a golf ball up close. But there's so many new styles of metal roofs out there.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, there's now metal roofs that look like shingles, as you know.
SPEAKER 11 :
Right, yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
You wouldn't know the difference.
SPEAKER 11 :
No, and they're 50-year guarantee on most of them.
SPEAKER 06 :
That's right.
SPEAKER 11 :
At least 25 because they're metal. They're made out of steel.
SPEAKER 06 :
That's right.
SPEAKER 11 :
And the other thing on that is fire. A lot of house fires will start with embers hitting the roof. and go and try to start the shingles on fire. But if you have a metal roof, you need a lot hotter to melt the metal roof. You know what I mean? Right. So, I mean, I'm not saying that that's for everybody, but if you're looking at a new roof, and I'm sure your guy Dave from RoofMax would agree.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, yeah, Dave would. Yeah, no, he would agree with that.
SPEAKER 11 :
Because the other thing is, you know, how there's insurance companies are saying, well, we want you to do a new roof after 10 years. We're going to cut your cost. You got a 25 or 50 year warranty on a metal roof. They really can't do that to you. I mean, they can. You can find another agent. But they can't say, well, the roof's 12 years old. We're going to, you know, we're going to... We're going to nick you. Cut the price.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, we're going to nick you by 50% if we have to replace it. You're going to look and say, it's a steel roof. It's not... So just a couple of things, but really if you're going to build a pole barn, I say shop around, but the concrete floor and the wider door are my two biggest things that I would do definitely.
SPEAKER 06 :
Nope, you're right. Have a good day, John. You too, John. Appreciate it very much. He's right, too, on the height. That's where a lot of the extra expense comes in. Now, I will say this. For those of you that are do-it-yourselfers, and we had conversations on Drive Radio a couple of weeks ago about shoplifts and things along those lines. If you're thinking about doing anything along those lines where you want to raise a car up, be able to get underneath it, put your own rack at home, and so on, you need to make sure you've got at least a 14-foot clearance to the bottom of your trusses. Otherwise, you're not going to raise anything. You're going to be raising things up, but you'll be on some sort of a roll-around stool working on it because you can't stand up underneath it if you don't get that 14-foot height. And ideally, you'd like to have 16, but 14 is kind of that minimum. I've seen some guys do it with 12. 12 can get a little bit dicey depending upon the car. Cars are typically okay with that, but if you get any kind of a truck or SUV... That gets really short if you've got that lower of a ceiling height. So that's something else to think about. And John's right on the door width as well. If you've got the ability to do that larger door, and this is true whether you're building a custom home with just a two- or three-car garage or you're doing any kind of a barn, the bigger the door you can put in, I'll just say it this way, the bigger, the better. And I don't know that you ever have a big enough door. door all of us that have owned shops were all these two guys are laughing at me because they know exactly what i mean i don't know if you ever have a big enough door because there's always that occasion where you're trying to get something extra large into the shop and you just wish things were just a little bit larger because you wouldn't have to have near as many people involved in getting something in and out of it yeah you can usually squeeze something through but it's sure nice having that bigger opening when it comes to putting certain things in and out of the shop so Something to think about is you guys maybe do external pole barns or garages or you put a metal building up or whatever the case may be. And I would say this. This is just my own opinion. if you've got the option of deleting windows and putting in bigger doors delete the windows and put in the bigger door because here's the reality you're going to put enough stuff along all the walls and everything of your pole barn and so on the windows don't make a hella bean bit of difference at that point in time it isn't going to matter if you want to look out you open the door and look out anyway so the reality is it doesn't matter if you can if you can eliminate windows and put a bigger door in or even raise it up some by doing some of those things absolutely go that direction so That's it today for Fix It Radio. You can find our website, fixitradio.com. This is KLZ 560.
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Logan Sekulow breaks down newly released documents from Tulsi Gabbard, now Director of National Intelligence, alleging a treasonous conspiracy to block Donald Trump’s presidency. The memo and supporting evidence implicate former President Obama and high-level intelligence officials in a years-long effort to undermine the 2016 election results. Will joins Logan to walk through what was released on ODNI.gov, what the Constitution says about treason, and what whistleblowers are now confirming. Plus, Mike Pompeo joins the show to share his perspective. Don’t miss this critical discussion.
SPEAKER 02 :
Keeping you informed and engaged now more than ever. This is Sekulow. And now your host, Logan Sekulow.
SPEAKER 01 :
Sekulow coming up right now, and we are talking about our friend Tulsi Gabbard, also known as the Director of National Intelligence, who dropped really a bombshell of documents over the weekend, came out on Friday, really implicating people, including former President Barack Obama, in trying to, in what she calls, again, her words, not mine, treasonous behavior to stop a Trump presidency. Now, Will, for those who are just joining us, some of you just listened to the back half, let's give a bit of a brief breakdown of this. We do have one line open, and Mike Pompeo is going to be joining us at the end of the show. So if you're on hold right now, stay on hold. I will get to your calls in this segment and next segment.
SPEAKER 02 :
That's right. On the Director of National Intelligence website, which normally people aren't going to odni.gov to check out what they're posting there, but she has posted both an unclassified memo, unclassified supporting documents, as well as a press release where she says... that the information we're releasing today clearly shows there was a treasonous conspiracy in 2016 committed by officials at the highest level of our government. Their goal was to subvert the will of the American people and enact what was essentially a years-long coup with the objective of trying to usurp the president from fulfilling the mandate bestowed upon him by the American people. She has referred this information to the Department of Justice. She says that we need prosecution and investigations to the fullest extent of the law. And bringing up the term treason, that is something within the Constitution itself, which has no statute of limitations. It's going to get very interesting as she says there is more information to come, as well as whistleblowers that are now coming forward now that they've released this, including, Logan, something you referenced earlier that just the news pointed out. where there was a member of the National Intelligence Council.
SPEAKER 01 :
I would even encourage you when you're done here, go read their article because it is alarming but also fascinating.
SPEAKER 02 :
So the National Intelligence Council is an organization under the director of national intelligence that bridges the gap between all the intelligence agencies and kind of can compile evidence and put together reports of intelligence outlooks. They were looking into the election claims. They were part of that team that was producing the reports leading up and that changed after the election, after that principals meeting with President Obama where they had a new directive. And this is an email that was released by Tulsi Gabbard and that Justin News picked up on from someone who was on that National Intelligence Council that went ahead and was looking at this and got an email from another colleague that referenced the Steele dossier. And this was his response regarding the email below. I'm choosing my words carefully for your awareness because the premise of the message is concerning. As you know, I was a deputy on the NIO cyber team, also the de facto elections team from 2015 through this year. I have intermittently participated in the IC foreign influence and election security efforts from 2014 through this evening. I was asked by NIO Cyber Redacted to participate in the analytical scrub of non-compartmented version of what the 2017 ICA reference below. It included no dossier reference that I can recall. He goes on to say that I will cut to the chase, saving detail for in-person if you think needed. you do have at least one National Intelligence Council person who has been here through the whole period and worked on the paper. Me. If dossier material was used by the National Intelligence Council, unless it also was compartmented, my NIO intentionally... deceived and excluded me from things I was cleared for and had need to know throughout his entire tenure here. I prefer to think that isn't true, but if it was, we have a problem.
Dive into a powerful discussion on humility, forgiveness, and occupation with Christ. Rick Hughes unpacks the essential lessons from Jesus’ foot washing of the disciples, stressing the importance of forgiving one another and living a life of service. This transformative episode provides both perspective and practical steps for cultivating a life of peace and tranquility through God's grace and provision.
SPEAKER 01 :
Welcome to The Flatline with your host, Rick Hughes. For the next 30 minutes, you'll be inspired, motivated, educated, but never manipulated. Now, your host, Rick Hughes.
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Good morning and welcome to The Flatline. I'm your host, Rick Hughes, heard every Sunday morning here on this same radio station. All across America, 56 radio stations this morning are playing this show. You're in one of those areas, and thank you for listening. Our whole objective is not to solicit anything from you, not to manipulate you in any way, but just to give you some accurate information. Hopefully that will help you verify and identify the plan of God for your life. And if you can do that, hopefully you'll orient and adjust to the plan. Because it all starts with the greatest news that Jesus Christ is the anointed son of God and he's redeemed us out of the slave market of sin. Thus our debt to God has been paid. We are reconciled to God. We are now free from the penalty of death. and free from the power of sin. That's why the Bible says, not by works of righteousness, which we've done in Titus 3, 5, but according to his mercy, he saved us by the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit, which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ, our Lord, so that being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the confidence or hope of eternal life. So we know we have eternal life in Christ. We know he said, I am the way, the truth, and the life, and no man can come to the Father but by me. By the way, before we get into our subject today, which is called These Things, which we will finish that, we've done three shows on these things found in John 15, 11, and it's an amazing study. But before we finish this up and wrap it up today, I want to let you know that all of these shows are podcasted. We do have a tremendous amount of podcast listeners. Well over 50,000 shows have been listened to on the podcast venues. And you can find The Flotline on Spotify. You can find The Flotline on Apple iPod. You can find us on Breaker or Anchor. These are all podcast venues. And so if you'd like to hear any of these shows or any of the other shows, just go to the podcast, The Flotline. Search for us on your podcast venue. You'll find it. And by the way, all of our shows are transcribed for you. If you need any additional information from this year or last year, we have it all transcribed thanks to the grace of God who's made it possible. And so it's all free. The transcriptions are free. The shows are free. And we believe that God's in it. God will pay for it. And he certainly has done that so far. So thank you for giving me a few minutes of your time. Thank you for listening. And now let's dive into our passage that we're studying, John 15, 11. And here's where we were. This is where it started. The Lord Jesus Christ told those disciples after the Last Supper, these things have I spoken unto you so that my joy might remain in you and that your joy might be full. What a wonderful promise. The joy of the Lord Jesus Christ, we call it problem-solving device number nine, sharing the happiness of God. The joy of the Lord Jesus Christ might remain in you. Might is a subjunctive verb. Might remain is a subjunctive, active, active, subjunctive. Now, why do I tell you that? Because it's potential. Subjunctive is potential. Maybe it will. Maybe it won't. It depends on if you do what I tell you to do. These things I've spoken to you so that my joy might remain in you. And that has to do with their attitude in time of testing and adversity and trouble. That's why we talk about that on the flat line. Adversity is inevitable. Stress is optional. They were going to face tremendous adversity once the Lord Jesus Christ left them through his death, burial, and resurrection. And they're going to have to go it alone other than the fact that he promised he would send them a mentor, a tutor, a comforter called the Holy Spirit. And so he said, if you do the things I'm telling you, then your joy will be full. The word for full is pleroo. It means to be filled up, and it's an aorist passive subjunctive verb. The passive voice says the subject receives the action from the verb, which is the Holy Spirit. He'll give you the joy. And the subjunctive mood is potential, so it depends on their volition. If they will be obedient, and if they will do what the Lord tells them to do in these next few verses, then then their joy, their human happiness can be complete. So the Lord Jesus Christ is basically teaching them how to be happy after that last supper. And that last supper started with John chapter 13. In John chapter 13, we find where, and in reviewing this for you a little bit, please, we find where in John 13, one through 17, he did foot washing with them. And he taught them all about rebound and how it's necessary for us to confess our sins when we get our feet dirty. He was not teaching them to wash one another's feet. That was not what was going on. It was an illustration. And he said, if I, your Lord and Master, washed your feet, then you should wash one another's feet. In other words, if I can forgive you for your sin, then you need to forgive one another for the sins that may be committed against you. And Judas was there. He was going to commit the terrible sin of betrayal and become a traitor and sell the Lord Jesus Christ out. And the Lord Jesus Christ knew that. So in John 13, he's trying to teach them to learn to be forgiving of their sins. brothers in christ when they mess up that's a hard lesson to learn very hard lesson to learn because we don't want to forgive people who do us over you know he told them they're not going to understand what he's doing now john 13 7 what i'm doing you won't know it right now but you'll know it hereafter and that's when apostle peter balked a little bit and said you're not going to wash my feet and the Lord had to explain to him the difference between luo and nipto, the two Greek words. Jesus said in John 13 10, he that is washed, luo, needeth not except to wash his feet. Luo means absolution and salvation. And wash the feet is niptoe, and that's cleansed from sin. So Peter didn't need to be saved again, he needed to have his feet washed or cleansed. So that's our need to be cleansed from sin on a daily basis, moment by moment, and we do that by 1 John 1, 9. If we confess our sin, he's faithful and just to forgive us, and that's called the rebound technique. When we get out of fellowship with God, we rebound, we confess our sin, and we get back in fellowship with God. That's the basis for the filling of the Holy Spirit. And so we saw some principles to be learned. Sometimes people you trust the most are gonna let you down. You have to learn to forgive them just like the Lord forgives us, Ephesians 4.32. Be kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another as God for Christ's sake forgave you. And then we saw there's a difference between being cleansed and being saved. That's the difference between the positional truth and experiential truth. In position, you may be in the family of God. That's your position. But in experience, you may not be in fellowship with God because you have unconfessed sin in your life and you've quenched and grieved the Holy Spirit. So you have to learn how to recover from that, and that's to get your feet washed by the Lord when you go and confess your sin. So we have to learn not to be bitter when we're betrayed by those that we trust. And that's where Hebrews said, don't let any root of bitterness spring up and trouble you. And then he said in John 13, 14, if I, your Lord and master, have washed your feet, you ought also to wash one another's feet. And this is not, never was practiced after this. There are a few churches that still practice this ritual, but it's not what he was teaching. He was teaching how to forgive one another for sin. And then he said, you will be happy if you know these things. And he didn't use the word kara here, which is the word for joy. He used the word makairios, which is the word for happiness. The happiness that he's speaking of here is the central essence of the Christian life. You and I know it as problem-solving device number nine, sharing the happiness of God. It's a life that has, listen carefully, objective optimism. Objective optimism. That's a relaxed mental attitude produced by inner joy and confidence that comes from the Word of God. So, if you store the Word of God in your soul, you'll never have more joy than when you're in the plan of God for your life. If you understand your mission as an influencer for the Lord Jesus Christ in this devil's world, it'll be a lot of happiness for you, and this was a mandate to establish this concept not to teach foot washing to the thick-headed disciples, but he did it because they're kind of thick-headed and they had to learn the hard way. So their future happiness was linked to obedience of the principles that he taught them. These things are part of John 15, 11. John 13 is part of that. So he also identified a traitor that was in the midst of them in John 13, 21 as part of these things after the Last Supper. He identified, didn't tell them by name, but he said, I'm going to dip some bread in the wine and the one I give it to is the traitor. Of course, they didn't pay any attention to that. They were too busy being full and talking and they didn't really pay attention and they missed it. And then the new covenant he gave them in John 13, 34 about having impersonal love one for another. And then poor Peter had to be humbled in John 13, 36. He taught him, before the rooster crows in the morning, you're going to deny me three times. And this is a key to living the Christian life is humility. We can't live the Christian life unless we have some humility in our life. And that's why the Bible says in Philippians 2, 5, Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus. He humbled himself and made himself of no reputation, took upon himself the form of a servant. So this is exactly what we have to do. We have to have some humility. Humility is orientation to authority. It's the absolute absence of arrogance in your life. Humility doesn't mean you're a weak wimp. That's not what it is. You can be an NFL football player, smash-mouth football player, and still have humility because it's what you think, not what you do. It's not walking around all sad-shouldered. It's stand up, be proud, but have orientation to authority and be obedient to the Father. So he had to teach Peter, had to learn this because Peter was pretty thick-headed and pretty arrogant. And then came occupation with Christ, John 14, 1. Let not your hearts be troubled if you believe in God. Believe also in me. They had to learn this. They had to learn that there's a difference between believing in God and believing in Christ. In James 2.19, the demons believe and tremble, but they're not saved. And a lot of people say, well, I believe in God, and I hope I'm going to heaven, but that's not how you get to heaven. Belief in God is not eternal life. Belief in the Lord Jesus Christ is eternal life. That's why Paul said, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved, Acts 16, 31. That's why Jesus said, I only, I put that in for emphasis, I am the way, the truth, and the life, and no man can come to the Father but by me. You can't go to the Father on your own. Why? Because you don't have enough righteousness to compare with the righteousness of Christ. That's why the Bible says there are none that are righteous, not even one. All of our righteousnesses are like a filthy rag in God's eyes. So you can't impress God with your do-good stuff. The only thing that impresses God is what happened on that cross where the Bible says, he that knew no sin was made sin for us so that we could be made the righteousness of God by means of him. That's how we have eternal life. That's how we get there. So occupation with Christ is critical. Then the Lord taught him under these things, eternal security, In John 14, 11, he explained to them, John 14, 7, excuse me, he explained to them eternal security, that they're not going to be lost and that they can have eternal life forever. So this was a wonderful thing that they had to begin to trust the Lord Jesus Christ with that. He said, and then another one of these things that he went through with them, and all of this is after dinner, by the way. The gospel truth, John 14, 6, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father but by me. The fact that he was hypostatic union, he was God and man in one body forever. They had to learn that, that he was God and he was man in one body. He's the only body in heaven right now, by the way. The only physical body in heaven is our Lord Jesus Christ in a resurrection body. But we will join him in our resurrection body. eventually when the exit resurrection takes place. He also taught them about Christian service. He said in John 14, 12, I'm telling you, if you believe on me, the works that I do, you will do greater works than this. And he explained how they will go on to change the world. And I told you there's no greater joy than leading one person to Christ. And I challenged you to do that. To ask your friends if they died today, would they go to heaven? And if they don't, no, then you can give them the good news that Christ paid for their sin. He redeemed them out of the slave market of sin. He reconciled you to God. And through faith alone and Christ alone, you can have eternal life. We also saw that prayer, when we pray in John 14, 13, he said this, whatever you ask in my name, that I'll do. so the Father can be glorified by name of the Son. And so he was teaching them that when they prayed, they had to pray in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, not in the name of God. You pray in the name of Christ, you pray in the power of the Holy Spirit, and you pray to the Father. That's how prayer works. And a lot of times people's prayers are not answered Because the Bible says, if I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me. So if you're praying with unconfessed sin in your life, it's not gonna go any higher than the ceiling. I don't care how holy you look. I don't care how holy you sound. You may be doing it Sunday morning in the pulpit. But if you have unconfessed sin in your life, it's not going to the throne of God. And if you don't pray in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, it's not going to the throne of God. Now, he went on to talk about other things as well. Virtue love. In John 14, 15, tremendous virtue love concept. If you love me, be obedient to my commands. This is where the Bible says in 1 John 5, 3, if you love me, you'll obey me, and my mandates are not hard. It's called reciprocal love motivation. It comes from your personal love for God the Father. And it's responding to he loved us, we love him because he first loved us, the Bible says. This is the greatest virtue you could have, to be obedient to the Father through humility because you love and respect him. another new concept for them that he taught them was the holy spirit is coming in john 14 16. he said i will pray to the father and he will give you a comforter that he can abide with you forever he's the spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive because it does not see him and does not know him but you will know him because he will dwell in you and be with you. What a tremendous promise. And that's for you and I. We are sealed with the Holy Spirit in Ephesians 1.13, the day we believe in Christ. We are locked in, and then we're filled with the Holy Spirit the day we believe in Christ until our first sin we commit. And when we commit our first sin, we're no longer filled with the Spirit. We've quenched the Spirit. We've grieved the Spirit, but we are still sealed with the Spirit. And our job is to get back in fellowship as quickly as possible by going to Rebound and confessing our known sin to God. So he told them, I know I'm going away. I'm not going to leave you comfortless. I'll come back to you, and I'm going to send the Holy Spirit to you. And he wanted them to have a relaxed mental attitude too as well. Very unbelievable. John 14, 16, the Holy Spirit's coming. And then later in John 14, he wanted them to have this relaxed mental attitude. You know, he said, I'm not going to leave you comfortless. I will come back to you. after his crucifixion, after his resurrection, he did appear to them and others, and he did promise you. that he would never leave you and he would never forsake you. I mentioned an illustration to you. I want you to remember what I mentioned. Listen to Hebrews 13, 5. Let your conversation be without covetousness and be content with such things as you have, for he, that's Christ, has said, I will never leave you, I will never forsake you. The illustration I gave you was a dog that was discarded on the side of the road by the owner. The owner throws them out, doesn't want them anymore. The poor dog doesn't understand what's happened. They've been abandoned inside of the road. And they will sit there for hours waiting on the owner to return. It's so sad to see something like that. We have two rescue dogs in our home exactly because of that. Somebody threw them out, didn't want them, left them alone while they just sat there waiting for the owner to come back who never did. Our Lord will never throw you out. He will never discard you as worthless. This is a constant state of joy in our life, which is a confident expectation that he is going to come back for us. Don't ever forget that. so again he is coming back and then he told us about how to have an RMA and that's a wonderful thing as well he said listen to this in John 14 27 the bequest of peace listen carefully John 14 27 Peace I leave with you. My peace I give unto you. Not the peace the world gives, give I unto you. And don't let your hearts be troubled and don't be afraid. You know, the world finds peace and sanctuary in possessions. Some people think if they can have money, they can have peace and they can rest. Solomon said that's not true. He'd done everything in the world that you could do. He tried every detail of life you could try and he still wasn't happy. And so the peace the Lord Jesus Christ gives is different. It's not the kind of peace that money can buy. It's not the kind of peace that having children could provide. It's not the kind of peace of finding your perfect job or having your perfect home or your perfect car. That's not what it is. It's a relaxed mental attitude, an RMA. And this is what happens when you have a flat line in your soul. When you build a flat line in your soul, when you take these 10 problem-solving devices that we talk about, Rebound, one, filling of the Holy Spirit, two, the faith rest drill, three, grace orientation, four, biblical orientation, five, personal sense of destiny, six, personal love for God, seven, impersonal love for all mankind, eight, sharing the happiness of God, nine, occupation with Christ, 10. When you take those 10 problem-solving devices, and establish them as an invisible main line of resistance in your soul, then you can have a totally relaxed mental attitude in spite of any adversity. That's what's wonderful about the Christian life. It's a life free of stress, not free of adversity. The Lord didn't promise them to have freedom from adversity. but he promised them they could have a relaxed mental attitude in the adversity, that they could have confident expectations of what God was going to do with them and through them and for them. And that's a wonderful thing for you. The elimination of worry for protection and provision. Listen to me carefully. God will never throw you under the bus. You never have to worry, you never have to be afraid. He will eliminate all of that adversity and give you the great opportunity to have great happiness in your life. I don't mean eliminate the adversity, but eliminate the stress in your life by using those problem-solving devices. By the way, We have a book on this called Christian Problem Solving. We list all of these 10 problem-solving devices, briefly show you how they work. It's free if you'd like to order it. Just go to our website, rickhughesministries.org, drop by the website, and order the book, Christian Problem Solving. And you'll see all of these problem-solving devices made available, and you can read through them for yourself. Hopefully, you'll learn them and use them. Now, what we want to continue on with this is this is elimination of worry in your life. Elimination of worry in your life, okay? So, in Mark 6, 25 through 34, here's what you find. Therefore, I say unto you, take no thought for your life or what you're going to eat or what you're going to drink. This is Matthew 6, 25 through 34. I might have said Mark. Matthew 6, 25 through 34. So I'm telling you this. Take no thought for your life, what you're going to eat or what you're going to drink, nor yet even for your body and what you should put on it. That's clothes. Is not the life more than meat and the body more than what you wear? Look at the birds in the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into their barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much better than a bird? Which one of you, by taking thought, can add one cubit unto a statue? And why take you thought about clothes? Consider the lilies of the field and how they grow. They don't toil, neither do they spin. And yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all of his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothes the grass of the fields, which to this day is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? That means trust. That means faithfulness. That means fidelity. That's what God's looking for in your life, a complete attitude of trust and fidelity. Do you trust him? Or do you get into panic palace every time something critical hits your life? So he says, therefore, in 31, Matthew 6, take no thought, saying, what shall we eat or what shall we drink or where shall we be clothed? For after all these things, the unbelievers seek. For your heavenly Father knows what you have need of. He knows you need these things. But if you will seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness first, then all of these things shall be added unto you. Do you get that? If you'll seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, then all of these things will be added unto you. That's a divine promise of provision. That's a promise that he won't throw you under the bus. That's a promise that he'll give you the clothes to wear, the food to eat, the air to breathe. That's a promise from God. If you will seek first the kingdom of God, if you'll put that priority number one in your life, not building your own kingdom, not establishing your own security, but complete trust and confidence in the work of Christ on the cross and in the eternal provisions of God while you live here. So take therefore no thought for tomorrow, for the morrow shall take thought of the things in itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. So the world is full of evil. It's the devil's world. Evil is the opposite of grace. Grace is God's wonderful provision. Evil is the counterfeit of grace. It's called works. It's best manifested in organized religion. So peace here is the Greek word Irenae, which means tranquility under adversity. Let not your hearts be troubled, taraso. That's an imperative mood verb and it's a command from God the Father. It means don't be restless, don't be agitated, don't have fear, don't have mental attitude sins that steal your joy. Neither be afraid. Delio. Delio means to be timid or fearful, another imperative mood. So we've got this a couple of times. Don't be troubled and don't be afraid. Did you hear that? Don't be troubled and don't be afraid. So in John 14, 30, he said this. It's winding down now. Dinner's over. They've been talking for quite a while. He said, now I will not talk much more with you for the prince of this world is coming and he has nothing in me. In other words, after his arrest, the talking with the Lord Jesus Christ is over. That's it. That's the last conversation they're going to have with him because Satan's plot is going to come to a head and he's warned them to get prepared, but he also made an amazing statement. He said Satan has no accusation against him. This means that he's not done any sin whatsoever against there's no way he could be disqualified from going to the cross. So dinner's over. He's saying, dinner's over, boys. Let's roll. And that's exactly what happened. Are you ready to roll in Jesus Christ? Are you ready to get with the program? I hope you've learned. I hope you've listened about these things that he taught them. And I hope you'll come back next week, same time, same place. Until then, this is your host, Rick Hughes, saying thank you for listening to The Flotline.
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Thank you for listening to The Floodline with your host, Rick Hughes. If you'd like to contact Rick, please write to him at P.O. Box 100, Cropwell, Alabama, 35054, or online at www.rickhughesministries.org.
Rush to Reason is back with an intense review of 'I Know What You Did Last Summer,' co-hosted by John Rush and movie aficionado Andy Payne. The vibrant discussion addresses what works and what doesn't for this blockbuster sequel, including the effective return of beloved characters and fresh plot twists. As the episode unfolds, the pair extends the nostalgia with reminiscences of unforgettable one-hit wonder songs, all while sharing hearty laughs and keen movie critiques that are sure to resonate with long-time fans and newcomers alike.
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It's finally Friday on Rush to Reason with your host, John Rush.
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So I tell him I'm a pro jack. And who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama himself. So we finish 18, and he's going to sniff me. And I say, hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know? And he says, oh, it won't be any money. But when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness. So I got that going.
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And movie reviews with Andy Payne.
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I think that you got the wrong impression about me. I think in all fairness, I should explain to you exactly what it is that I do.
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What I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.
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Gee, Ray, what do you want to do tonight?
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The same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try to take over the world. Stick a fork in me, Jerry. I'm done.
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Now, here is your host of Rush to Reason, John Rush.
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All right, happy Friday, everybody. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Charlie Grimes, of course, our engineer, Andy with me. Today, Andy Pate. And how's Andy?
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Andy is doing well.
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It's movie day. It's movie day, end of the week, fun day.
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Uh-huh.
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And off we go.
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It's been a wild week.
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Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely.
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I know you've been very frustrated. Everybody wants to talk about one topic.
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Which we're not going to talk about today.
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That we're not going to talk about today. But I'm just saying it's been a weird week because people keep coming back to one topic you don't care about.
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Personally, no. And I think I've made that pretty clear on this program. And unfortunately, we are in agreement on this one.
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Now one thing I did love this week is the weather. There's been a lot of rain. My lawn has been very happy.
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I will take that as well.
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And I like that, and it's a beautiful day, so there you go.
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And it looks like we have a really nice weekend, so it can rain during the week, and we'll be fine as we get into the weekend. Yes. Absolutely, absolutely. All right, what movies do we have today, Andy?
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Okay, we're going to do I Know What You Did Last Summer and Smurfs.
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Okay, so I Know What You Did Last Summer.
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They should have combined them.
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Smurfs.
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I Know What Smurfs Did Last Summer. I think that would have been good. What do you think? Yeah, that wouldn't be so bad. A killer Smurf movie?
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Killer Smurfs.
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That would have worked for me. I just, I don't know. Maybe next time.
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Next summer. I've seen, it's been a long time ago since I saw the original. I know you did last summer, but Smurfs, I've never watched any Smurfs stuff ever.
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Yeah, well, they are obviously a big phenomenon, and this has been pumped up big, this movie has.
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Okay. There you go. And then second hour today, which we might start a little bit early because we've got a lot to do. We're going to do one-hit wonders when it comes, not movies, one-hit wonder songs, right? Yep. That should be fun. I've got to be honest.
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I've got a ton of them. There is a ton. And it was fun. It was a lot of fun coming up with all these clips. There are so many. And I honestly hadn't thought there were this many one-hit wonders.
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There's quite a few.
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And there are a lot I had to leave out.
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It's pretty incredible. And it's amazing when you listen to the... history of some of these and what made them you know a one-hit wonder right and in some cases it could have been uh you know it was in a movie or something along those lines and then and it just the band itself just never or the other thing i was i was watching a one-hit wonder thing the other night because of this so i was watching some clips on this the other night in some cases something happens to where the band does really well there's a one-hit wonder and because of that the band itself can't handle the success and they just all, you know, collapse. And they tear apart. Yeah. Yeah. The whole thing is gone.
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Oh yeah. Yeah. Most of these, the vast majority, I would say are in movies because that one hit is in a movie and that's what makes them very popular. And they just didn't have it. They weren't able. Now, Don't get me wrong. If people want to call in or text in with one-hit wonders, it doesn't have to be the only good song a band or artist put out. They may have done some others that did something, but they had one that easily blew away.
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Yeah, we're not talking the Elvises of the world here, folks. Oh, no. Where he had hit after hit after hit after hit. This isn't Billy Joel. Yeah, exactly.
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Yeah, yeah. It's not the Beatles. That's right. That's right. These are people or bands that you have been
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barely heard of you probably know the song but maybe not even the name of the artist those are the things we're kind of talking about right there's a lot of that yeah where you you know the song because it was the one hit wonder but you're thinking and in some cases too this is the other thing that happens well i thought so-and-so sang that yeah no No, this was a one-off by so-and-so, and no, it had nothing to do with the band you're thinking of.
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Right. But if you're thinking, hey, I'd really like to do this one, but they did have one or two other songs. That counts. No, no, no, that's okay. As long as they had one big hit, there you go.
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No, that makes total sense. So that's the caveat for the rules, I should say, for our two weeks. We might start here a little bit later. We'll see how things go, but let's get our first break. We'll come back and get into the first movie review as well, which today I think we're going to do it in this order. I know what you did last summer is first. Is that correct? Yes. Yes, it is. So we'll come back and do that in a moment. Dr. Scott Faulkner, where if you need anything, medically speaking, he is your doctor. He thinks like we do. He is not beholden to big pharma or big insurance. I know I say that a lot, but that is true. He is not. He does things on his own for your best health. 303-663-6990.
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He's not sure. I guess I need to be. I don't know on these two.
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I'm not sure.
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I know a horror movie and a little kid movie.
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We're mixing it up. That's all right.
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Yeah, we're mixing it up. Okay, John, a horror hit.
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Okay.
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And it was a big hit.
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No, you're right.
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Now, you saw the original one. I did. Okay. A horror hit gets a legacy sequel in I Know What You Did Last Summer.
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I think this is some kind of karma for what we did. What if someone saw what happened?
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You need to handle this. This isn't the first time there's been violence like this in Southport. It's not going to stop.
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I need to start drinking.
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Someone is coming after us. I need your help.
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I just have one question. What did you do last summer?
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All right, John, what did you do last summer? Did you drive anybody off a cliff?
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I was right here.
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Oh, you were right here. Okay, I guess you don't have to worry. All right, for those who don't know the original plot, a group of young people kill a guy with a car and cover it up. That's the original movie. A year later, they're being hunted by a guy in a dark green coat with a hook. Arr! Mix in some funny writing and scary kills, and you've got a hit. Now it's 28 years later. Isn't that another film? Pretty sure it is. And we're back in Southport, North Carolina. A new young group has a similar incident. And while they call the cops, they hide their role in the death. Then a year passes. Well, now Danica and Wyatt are engaged, and their party is attended by Ava, Milo, Stevie, and Tyler. I know you won't remember these names. It's okay. You don't have to. But then at a public gift opening, Danica, she gets a note. She's the bride. And what does it say, John?
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What do you think that note says? I know what you did last summer.
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Exactly. That's what it says. That's what the first movie was anyways. Right. And so she's looking at this note in front of everybody while she's opening gifts. Well, now the group is being hunted by another killer in a dark raincoat with a hook and a spear gun. So it was kind of branching out here. I wonder, does the killer also use a net, bait, a bobber? I'm not quite sure. But it was pretty cool. As horrifying death ensues, the youngsters seek help from two people who survived the original killer, Julie and Ray. They're played by Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr., By the way, he's a Republican in real life.
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Oh, okay.
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Just so you know. Well, let's see here. But who is the killer, John? Is it one of them? Did someone see the accident a year earlier? As usual, we watch a bunch of young models battle to survive. Can they? And that's the story of I Know What You Did Last Summer. What do you think? You know, the first movie was really good. Yeah, it was, wasn't it? Yeah, it was. And before we get into this, why was the first movie good? It was clever writing.
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Yeah, and I think just one of those, how should I say this, a movie about something that, not that everybody goes and kills somebody, but people do things that they hide. Right. Especially when you're young. And in this case, it got found out.
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I mean, think of it this way. All of us have had a moment you're looking down while you're driving or, you know, you're distracted for whatever reason, and you look up and you think to yourself, man, I could have hit that guy over here. I could have hit that dog. I could have whatever.
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You can see that guy in black clothing, you know, pitch dark at 10 o'clock at night.
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Exactly. And so what if you luck out and, you know, what if you try to cover it up because you have certain things happening in your life where maybe you're a politician, right? I don't know.
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Maybe you're whatever.
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And by the way, the original scene in the original movie where they kill the person was panned beautifully on Scary Movie. Remember that? Oh, my gosh, they made fun of that. It was one of the funniest scenes of Scary Movie, making fun of that. Okay, let's jump into this. What works in I Know What You Did Last Summer? Well, first, the young cast does what they can with their roles. They do. Madeline Klein as Danica and Chase Swee Wonders as Ava, they're pretty good spring queens, frightened yet determined, so they do a pretty good job. Jennifer loved Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. They add more than nostalgia. They've been through hell, and now they have much to add to the story, and they do. The pacing is generally solid, with good build-up to kills and flashbacks for reference. Nicely done. The action is intense and scary and bloody. You do not want to be these people. And finally, there's one plot twist that is very inventive. About two-thirds, no, about three-quarters of the way through the movie. All right. What doesn't work in I Know What You Did Last Summer? Well, first of all, John, another car killing to start it? I mean, can't they think of something new and inventive? There are other things that you can do that are stupid that might cost a life or whatever. You know, step it up a little. Don't do the same thing next. Too predictable throughout most of the film. It was a true rehash. Just in the feel of the first film. I'm not saying there weren't plot twists, but it was really predictable in a lot of what was going to happen next. The script wasn't nearly as clever as it could have been. Not funny enough. It wasn't on the level of the first movie. It just wasn't. Next, adding plot twists down the stretch. Okay, this got bad. It seemed really over the top. You can only add so many plot twists, and after a while, it gets stupid. And it really did. It reeked of reaching for shock value, not realism. It's like, look, we didn't write a funny enough script. We didn't write a good enough movie. We didn't do well enough. And so what we're going to do is have, oh, you thought it was this one? No, it's that one. You thought it was that one? No, it's this one. Oh, now it's going to be someone you never would have imagined. I don't know. Now Moses comes out of Israel and he's the guy with the hook. It was dumb.
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Hmm.
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It got dumb down the stretch. Just exaggerated, silly. I literally chuckled while I was watching this horror movie in a theater. There's a lesbian, a pretty intense lesbian segment that is added for literally no reason at all. No connection to the story. It's just agenda. And they just put it in there. And finally, some of the writing at the end is terribly weak. Just end the movie. I'm always... You didn't see The Lord of the Rings, Return of the King. Return of the King ended like 27 times, I think. In fact, I'm not sure it has ended.
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It's still going on.
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Yeah, and they kept adding things and adding things. Well, they do that in this movie, and you're just kind of like... Wrap it up. Wrap it up. Okay, I will now wrap it up. Rotten Tomatoes gave this movie 42%, so it came in at about two stars. Guess what? I agree. Quality, two stars, four. I know what you did last summer. Political, three. Didn't say a thing. More religious, two.
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Okay.
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You know, just for adding a little content that you didn't need. I think, honestly, and by the way, the lesbian relationship and character they add in just does nothing. It's just gratuitous.
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It's the token.
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Yeah. Now, getting back to the political... I suspect, because you had Sarah Michelle Gellar was in it also, and she is in real life Freddie Prinze Jr.' 's wife. I don't know if you knew this. I did not know that. She was the star for many years of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on TV. They are both solid Republicans, just so you know.
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Okay.
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I wonder if they played it down the middle and didn't do the politics because they had two staunch Republicans on the cast.
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Hmm.
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I have a feeling that really weighed in because you've got these two Republicans who are going to sit there and raise an eyebrow if you're doing this stuff. They're probably looking at you and saying, look, look, look, we're not asking you to make Rush Limbaugh's memoirs for a movie here, but would you mind playing it down the middle? I suspect that happens. So at least when you go to this movie, you're not going to get anything in your face. Nothing really annoying. It's not bad. And so do I recommend going to I Know What You Did Last Summer? Well, let me tell you something. I know it sounds like I'm saying no, because it's only two stars. But understand two and a half is average. This is not that bad of a movie. It's not that bad. It's just meh, okay? And it gets silly down the stretch, but I would say for the first two-thirds of this movie, I was looking at about a three, three-and-a-half-star movie. This was actually a pretty good movie. Then it tails off, and that's what happens. So I don't really recommend it.
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Other than the ending, it's not bad.
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Yeah, down the stretch, it really got weak. And then they do these almost outtakes that you're just like, okay, you're losing it. You're... You lost it. You derailed, you know, 50 feet back through the train. Yeah, it derailed. Do I recommend going to it? No, I really don't. But I also say this. It's not a terrible movie. If you really like the nostalgia and you want to see this again, you're not going to be too disappointed. There you go.
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And welcome back to Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560, John Rush, together with Andy Pate and John! Are you ready for another movie?
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Are there seven Smurfs? Or is that the dwarfs?
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I know. There are a lot of Smurfs.
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Okay, lots of Smurfs.
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Yes, there are a lot of Smurfs. Okay.
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In Smurfdom. In Smurfdom.
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Smurftopia? I have no clue. Smurf wherever. Smurfopolis? There you go. Okay. Well, it's time for Little Blue People bringing the laughs in the latest reboot, Smurfs. This July.
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Come on. We got to rescue Papa. To save their world. Run away. Let's go. They must come. Two hours. Whoa.
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Where are we? It's Paris.
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Get out of the way.
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I'm Papa Smurf's brother. You Smurfs don't know Smurf about Smurf. I can Smurf that Smurf up and have it delivered to your house. That sounds like a load of Smurf. Hey, stick a Smurf in it. They will face new villains. This is the handiwork of the evil wizards Gargamel and his brother Rosamel. We're going to play a game called let's squish a Smurf till all you Smurfs are squashed. That doesn't sound like a fun game. Game up with new allies.
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We're the International Neighborhood Watch Smurfs. Paris Division.
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And take adventure. It's time for you to find out what a Smurf really is. To a whole new dimension.
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What's happening? Hang on!
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That was absolutely terrifying. I think I swallowed my gum.
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Food delivery for Rosamel the Wizard.
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So you can just order any kind of food from anywhere. Absolutely. Just make sure you tip the driver ahead of time or they'll lick everything.
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All right, John, what do you think? Smurfs. Where did the Smurfs come from originally? Were they a cartoon or were they little stuffed animals? Cartoon. Cartoon, okay.
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All right. Well, let's get some of the cast out of the way up front. Rihanna, she's wonderfully talented. She stars as Smurfette. James Corden is no-name Smurf, a big character. John Goodman is Papa Smurf. Kurt Russell is Ron. Nick Offerman is Ken. J.P. Karliak plays both villains, Rosamel and Gargamel. All right, we begin with Smurfette, leading an intro song where various Smurfs give their names and how it defines each of them. It's basically the seven dwarves, but let's not bring that up. Okay. Well, it's kind of interesting. They have so many, and it gets a little funny at times. Out-of-focus Smurf, that's kind of good. Then they have one that is sound effects Smurf. So, you know, they have a little bit of fun with it. Well, unfortunately, no-name Smurf has no discernible skill, so he feels left out. Hey, maybe he can get on the Burisma board in Ukraine.
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I'm just saying.
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It might work. It's been done before.
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Joe Biden's staff.
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Yeah. But then he does get a skill, and it is magic. Well, this is important to Rosamel and Gargamel, who want the magical power to control the world and the universe. There are actually four different magical books that are out there, incantuses they're called. And three, the evil group that they work with. That group already has three of them, but there's one more. And the Smurfs were supposed to protect it, and now they think they can get it from them. Alright, in their great plan, they capture Papa Smurf and hold him for ransom. So now Smurfette and No-Name must lead their fellow Smurfs to rescue Papa Smurf. This entails more than just going cross-country, but actually going cross-dimension. Going from two-dimensional to three-dimensional and back again. Not a new concept, but hey, you got music. So why not? Can they rescue Papa Smurf? Can no name get a name? And can we all learn about our true value in a world of labels, evildoers, and musical numbers? And that is the story of Smurfs. What do you think, John?
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Okay. Probably not my movie, but okay.
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You'll go three times. All right, here we go.
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Sure I will.
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Sorry.
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To the bathroom while it's on. Yes. There we go.
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Probably. What works in Smurfs? Well, the action is pretty fast-paced.
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Okay.
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And got a little bit of good music. I'll get to that in a moment. The first quarter of this movie was very solid. I thought it was two and a half, three stars for the first quarter of this movie. There's a very good song for No Name. And I actually wish the song would have gone a little longer. It was a ballad, and he's talking about how, who am I? What do I do? You know, what is my place? Almost like My Place in This World, right? By Michael W. So it's pretty cool. There's a nice message about everyone having a thing, a thing that they do. And that message is very similar to 1 Corinthians 12 talking about the body. You know, no one should say because I'm not this part of the body that I'm not part of the body. And this movie had that message, which I thought was good. Okay, what else works in Smurfs? Nothing. Zero. Zip. Zilch. Nada. Oh, my goodness. This is bad. Now, I will say this. Not since Wicked have I dreaded a movie this much. Even the previews look bad, John. Even the previews for this movie. And you know all the previews.
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I can't argue that one.
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Right. Once again, for those who don't know, the previews are generally not put out by the company. Maybe somebody who works there, right? But not so much by the people who made the movie. It's by somebody who's trying to sell the movie. So they're piecing together what they can to make this movie attractive to viewers and get them in the seats. Mm-hmm. Even the previews didn't look good. Now, what doesn't work in Smurfs? Well, everything is just so tedious, John. Even for kids. I mean, this was just tedium. Adults will quickly tire of all the substituting of Smurf for various profanity. Gets old quick, and it stays old. And they keep doing it. The storyline is 100% formula and very painfully predictable. I mean, it hurts. It's so predictable. The humor... It's sporadic and at times just flat out cringy. I mean, really, it gets a little cringy at times. The 2D, 3D, you know, two-dimensional, three-dimensional stuff is okay for a bit, but not long. It gets old quick because they keep going back and forth. Now, let's get into some really surprising things for me. Rihanna. Now, as you know, Rihanna is a tremendous young talent. Not very young anymore, but she's a tremendous talent. Her voice doesn't match Smurfette. It doesn't work at all. You know, John, you can't just plug in a star and say, make it work. All right? So we're going to have this role. Let's plug in a star and make it work. I was saying before the show today, you can't have some, well, this is a really nice, good guy, wonderful, fluffy, cute character. Let's plug in a star. Let's get Jack Nicholson. I love Jack Nicholson doesn't work right she doesn't work at all she sounds far too urban adult she does folks I'm not talking about you know a race thing because she's black doesn't don't care that's not the point she sounds too urban and adult she really does she doesn't fit the movie at all it's a total misfire and She really could have just played it straight. That really would have helped the movie. I think about Mandy Moore, who was entangled. Mandy Moore can sing a variety of styles. She has a great voice. She played it straight. She talked like a girl. Because she was a girl. She played it very straight in the way she sung. Why? Because that's the nature of the movie. She worked with what she had. She didn't overwhelm it with herself.
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Mm-hmm.
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And that is what Rihanna does. It does not work at all. I mean, it is one of the biggest misfires.
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Really?
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Yeah. The story goes in many directions, John. I mean, way too many. Too many characters. Too many twists. Too many, go over here. Okay, now we've got to add some action. So these fluffy little characters have this old car that they really run really fast in cross-dimensional travel and whatever. It's just crazy. What is this, Buckaroo Bonsai? I mean, I don't know if you've heard of that old movie, but it's... Yeah, never mind. I won't bore people. But, you know, you're just... At one point, they're envisioning Smurfs in every universe.
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Mm-hmm.
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All right. Even like Japan art. Oh, and I mean, every single kind. And you wonder, OK, are they doing it funny, though? Are they adding good lines? Are the kids into it? No, no, no, no. What do I always say is the worst thing you do with a kid movie, John? Is not make it funny enough. Yeah. Don't bore the kids. Because the whole reason you go to these movies is to keep them happy. Yes. You're giving them their fix. Right. Right. They're going to be. That's right. Because if it's a really good movie. Kung Fu Panda or whatever, something like that. What are the kids going to be doing? Oh, they're going to be buzzing about it the whole day and maybe a couple days. And it's wonderful. And it's like mom and dad scored, right? Not here. Not here. Now, I did something that I have only done twice now in less than a year, which is really incredible. I left early.
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Wow.
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I gave up. And I didn't have too much time left. It's just that, John, I'm dedicated to this show, but I'm not that dedicated.
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I hear you.
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Yeah, you were saying yesterday you could retire if you need be at any time. Well, I thought about that.
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And you were like, that's about time. It's not fun anymore.
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Oh, my gosh. I was in pain. I was in agony. And my face was all red from slapping it to keep me awake. I just was like, this is boring. And like I said, the first quarter of this movie, you're humming along, and it's not a bad little movie, and I like No Name, and they're having some fun with some of these different Smurfs and having a few sight gags with them that are working decently. Not great. Decently. But then, pretty soon you realize, this script sucks. It's not well written. It's not funny.
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And all that talent wasted.
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All that talent wasted. Yeah, I read the cast. Very talented cast. And by the way, the cast does a great job reading the parts. Rihanna does a great job. She's just not a fit. I mean, she doesn't fit at all. And once again, she could have. She played Rihanna. And it's like, Rihanna, I'm sorry, but Smurfette is like a little girl-ish, or at least a very young woman character. I'm sorry, but Rihanna, you're not young anymore.
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No, true. Good point.
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Okay, and Smurfette doesn't sing songs in this urban feel. And it's just like, I'm sorry, but this isn't working at all. And it wasn't. It bombed. This movie is going to, I think it's going to do well for a week because, well, you know, come on.
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Yeah.
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Kids want to see their Smurfs.
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They can take it no matter what.
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And also, look at the market. There's no other kid films out at the moment. How to Train Your Dragon has run its course. There was another one that wasn't very good. This isn't going to do much. Okay. Rotten Tomatoes, they agreed with me. They said 21%. Wow, that's low. Yeah. Now, for me, personally, this was zero stars. I'm not going to do that, though. I'm going to give it one star. Okay. And a couple reasons. First of all, once again, the first quarter, actually, the kids had a couple laughing moments that they enjoyed. Then they didn't laugh the rest of the movie that I heard. I'm listening to the kids when I watch these movies, okay? And secondly, honestly, this movie just lost steam really bad and stayed that way.
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Hmm.
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But there was no name was a good enough character. I'm going to give it one star. The biggest reason is kids have such low expectations. Put funny, shiny things in front of them, and they're generally happy. They don't grasp a lot of these things. But there's one last problem. John, because of that, you want to make a kid movie. You want to make the plot line as simple as possible. Did you ever see Up?
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, yeah, great movie.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right. Up is a very long movie. It's generally too long for kids.
SPEAKER 03 :
It was a great movie, though.
SPEAKER 04 :
But it was a great movie. Why? Was there any, you know, jumping all over the place with the plot? No. No. The plot is going in a straight line.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay? Incredibles, straight line. Right? Cars, straight line. And you can have all these kind of different characters and have fun with them, but you're not leaping over here, over here, over here. Right. That is not good for kids. Kids have a hard time following that. I don't think they were following that. I don't think it was good for them. Okay, quality one star. Political three, didn't say anything. More religious, I'm going to say two, just with all the, you know, substituting Smurf for every kind of profanity you can think of. You know, no. Why don't you leave that out? Why don't you do just a touch of that and let it be funny for a moment and then move on? They didn't. Do I recommend going to Smurfs? Oh, no, no, no. I do not. Now, your kids may demand it. And I'm serious, folks. I'm being totally serious. If your kids demand this, all right. Bring your phone.
SPEAKER 03 :
Because you're going to be bored.
SPEAKER 04 :
Bring your phone. You're going to be bored. Go with at least one parent so you can take churns. After the first quarter, you can take churns going out to the restroom. Concession stand, whatever. Yeah. Actually, you're just going out to the lobby and looking at the news. There you go. Not a good movie. Don't go to Smurfs. Wow, that's sad. Yes.
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SPEAKER 03 :
All right. I didn't talk about this much during the week, but we just were during the break, and that is the Internet blew up this week. Actually, more so from this than the other topic we were talking about earlier. This was funny. The Coldplay concert where the head of HR, the lady, and the president or the CEO were caught on the kiss cam, and it wasn't his wife. Let's just say that.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, it was not his wife.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, and the internet is just blowing up, and one of you guys as listeners, which this is pretty funny, said, well, I guess if there's anything that comes out of that, it shows people still go to Coldplay concerts. It's just actually pretty funny.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, there have been so many memes. I guess one says that Coldplay hasn't had a new single in years, and they just made two.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's hilarious. That's good, actually. Oh, I thought. The Internet has just taken this thing and blown it up. Yeah. Poor guy. I mean, I don't feel sorry for him because, you know, you're going to go out in public. I mean, reality is, hey, you know, it's all fair game at that point.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
So did you see his response to all of this? No, I didn't. Basically said something to the effect of, you know, yeah, you know, I've been caught and that was really bad judgment on my part and, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I'm going to have to take some time to reflect upon, you know, where I'm at in life and what I need to do next. And please respect my privacy. And basically took a little jab at Coldplay saying I didn't realize that, you know, my private life was going to be made public in this manner or something to that effect. He's blaming Coldplay? Basically. Yeah, basically that's what he did at the very end. They did it to him. It's like, you dodo head.
SPEAKER 04 :
I wonder if she'll get another HR job. I mean, she could have just said it's intense counseling.
SPEAKER 03 :
She could have, I guess.
SPEAKER 04 :
I'm comforting an employee.
SPEAKER 03 :
I don't know what their policies are, but I'm guessing that they're probably different today than they were a few days ago.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 03 :
I mean, and then, of course, and then the entire Internet, because if you look at the picture of this lady, and I'm not trying to be derogatory here, but if you look at the picture of the lady versus the picture of his wife, the lady that he's having the affair with definitely doesn't look like his wife, and the Internet has basically said he's trading down. Right, he traded down. Not up. Jeez. Sort of like old Prince Charles. Yeah. With Prince Diana. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. And the new one, it's like, yeah, he traded down.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, he traded down.
SPEAKER 03 :
Big time.
SPEAKER 04 :
Dude.
SPEAKER 03 :
Come on now. Camilla. Oh, Camilla, yeah. Come on, Prince Charles, you're not real bright, are you?
SPEAKER 04 :
But Prince Diana, I mean, come on.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, man, he went from like a 10 to a 2. Now, don't be that mean. Oh, I am. He went from a 10 to a 2. Absolutely. She is not an attractive woman.
SPEAKER 04 :
I'm going to have to ask my wife on this because she is totally into British royalty.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, so Charlie Camilla, a 10 or a 2? Or a 5? Oh, come on, Charlie. Charlie said she's a 0. Charlie won't answer. It's Camilla. It's a 2 at best. Okay, come on. Those of you listening, tell me. What do you think of Prince Charles' wife? Oh, great. Now we're going to have the text line. Is it a two? Is it a five? Come on now.
SPEAKER 04 :
Now in the Rush to Reason text line.
SPEAKER 03 :
How ugly is Prince Charles' wife? 307-200-8222. Just give me a number. That's all you have to say. Now, is it Prince now or King or whatever? Well, he's King, I think, now, right? King Charles.
SPEAKER 04 :
So how ugly is the queen? Okay, so this is what we're asking. We have quality. This is a quality show.
SPEAKER 03 :
Let me just say this.
SPEAKER 04 :
We here at Rush to Reason are pure class.
SPEAKER 03 :
Now we want to know how ugly is the queen. Andy, you'll understand this because you came out of the casino world. Yes, I did. The queen on the card looks better than her. Is that too rough? Okay, hang on. Maybe I should bring a picture up.
SPEAKER 04 :
You know, I got to say one thing. Now, look, look, this is pretty obvious. I would say America has a more attractive queen.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, geez, ours is a 10-plus.
SPEAKER 04 :
That's not being fair. Ours is literally, you know, was a supermodel for years.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, Queen Camilla. Is that how I'm saying it right? Queen Camilla.
SPEAKER 04 :
I wonder if she's still hated because of how she got in this relationship.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, that's like another conspiracy. How did Princess Diana die?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, word is, I mean, some say Diana was rather wild herself.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, wait a minute. I don't know. Hang on, hang on. I do not know. Hang on, I have pictures in front of me right now.
SPEAKER 04 :
Of Camilla? Are they flattering or mean? A two is a stretch. Do they write a beard on her?
SPEAKER 03 :
A number two is a stretch, folks.
SPEAKER 04 :
You are so mean.
SPEAKER 03 :
I am not being mean.
SPEAKER 04 :
I'm looking at her picture. Okay, here's my question. My wife just said she's a zero. So you see her there together with Charles. My question is, can you tell which is which? It's a little hard. You're so mean.
SPEAKER 03 :
I don't know Camilla. My wife said she's a zero.
SPEAKER 04 :
I think I saw Camilla once, and she looked okay. Okay.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, she doesn't. Oh, for a woman her age. Compared to Prince, compared to. John, she's not 22, okay? I mean, come on. Well, she wasn't that good looking when she was 22. I don't know. John and Cheyenne, go ahead. You're next.
SPEAKER 09 :
I'm laughing. Well, we used to have a saying in the military. Now, at the center of most military bases is the post headquarters, base headquarters, and the flagpole.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right.
SPEAKER 09 :
And we used to have a saying. Keep your indiscretions 100 miles from the flagpole. This guy didn't learn that lesson.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, he did not. No. And, you know, probably off camera. I mean, everybody knows they got, John, everybody knows they got the kiss cam. Come on. Yeah. It's panning the crowd.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, they're all over. Yeah. Well, I will say this, though. I blame the band. I will say this. I mean, how ironic, though, because out of the thousands of people that are there, and you're in a box, and he and the girlfriend are now on the camera. It is terrible luck. That's like the worst luck ever. That dude run from that guy.
SPEAKER 04 :
Especially since, let's face it, aren't they going to be looking generally for younger couples?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. Usually. But they were like, he had his arm around her and stuff, so I'm guessing they figured that they were already on their way to the kiss cam, so let's show those two. Am I right, John? That's probably what they were thinking.
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, this is just, this guy's screwed. Okay, really quick.
SPEAKER 04 :
My wife, by the way, my wife just texted in. John is right. Damn! That's not fair. My wife hates Camille. Thank you. My wife is so into the Royals.
SPEAKER 03 :
In all fairness, I even went back and looked at younger year pictures. I think she's prettier now than she was then. She's lucky to be a two.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, John, back then she was a man.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, jeez. John.
SPEAKER 09 :
You sound like Candace Owens with the French. Going back to the couple and him going down. I've seen that a lot, though, where guys just have – they just can't – they don't have any honor, I say. They just cheat on their wives all the time, and it doesn't matter. They could be married to a seven, and they're dating someone who weighs 700 pounds. Right? Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
This show is going downhill on a Friday. We jumped the shark. We're going downhill.
SPEAKER 09 :
So how soon before they close us down? Camilla fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, man, she did. You were right about that, John. Absolutely. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 09 :
You guys are so mean. There's a prime point, though. It happens a lot that there's guys that just cannot... not cheat, and it doesn't matter because Diana was a 9. A 10? She's a solid 10.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 09 :
I don't know if she was a 10.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, yeah, a solid 10.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, she was, yeah. But, you know, guys, I have learned two things from this. First of all, well, three things. First of all, of course, I'm not going to sleep around. Secondly, I definitely won't do it where there can be a kiss cam.
SPEAKER 03 :
My wife just said she's the homeliest royal there is.
SPEAKER 04 :
But thirdly, I'm going to go home because I'm so hurt. I'm going to go home and take down my calendar of her because you've hurt my feelings. Oh, jeez. My Camilla calendar, which I ordered long in advance, it finally arrived, Corey.
SPEAKER 03 :
Now I don't even want it. I'm sorry.
SPEAKER 04 :
Now I don't even want it. I'm sorry, Corey.
SPEAKER 09 :
Andy, I've seen pictures of your wife. You married way above your pay grade.
SPEAKER 04 :
I know.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes, I did. Well, you guys have a good day.
SPEAKER 03 :
You too, man. Appreciate you, John. No, have a good one. Yeah, so my wife said she's the most homely British royal. Your wife probably would agree with that, given that she follows the royal family and all that. She'll comment. She'll tell you in a minute whether I'm right.
SPEAKER 04 :
But I thought all British women had bad teeth.
SPEAKER 03 :
Really?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, except Diane. I don't know. Was Diane British? She was, right?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. Yeah, yeah. They married a Brit? She was actually a royalty before that, right, Charlie? Made her the princess. I thought she had some royal blood prior to that. Yeah, that's what I thought. She was related or something. I'd have to go. Guys, this is way above my pay grade. I am not a loyal family expert by any means.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, me either. I know nothing. My wife starts talking about them, and she is so far over my head. I have no clue. These people. I do know that South Park did a phenomenal. South Park? Oh, yeah. They tore into, golly, was it Prince Harry, I think, and his annoying wife?
SPEAKER 06 :
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 04 :
And the two of them always always claimed that they wanted their privacy. And yet they had to be in the in the news constantly.
SPEAKER 03 :
Then South Park had fun. Go ahead. So before we take a break, she was she was born into British nobility and grew up close to the royal family. This is Princess Diana living at Park House on their Sandra. How am I saying this right? Sandra Gamm estate in 1981 while working as a nursery teacher's assistant. She became engaged to Charles, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So she did have some British nobility prior to entering into the family.
SPEAKER 04 :
John, I wonder what that's like. I mean, look, marriages, some marriages, they go under. And that's part of life. But to be that much in the public eye, to be royalty for a nation, what must that be like?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, she actually, I thought, did very well, but the rest of the royal family I don't think ever liked her.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, really?
SPEAKER 03 :
They didn't like Diane? Ask your wife. I think that's part of the problem. Yeah, I think that was part of the issue. They never liked her.
SPEAKER 04 :
I will have to ask my wife. I guarantee she knows. So there you go.
SPEAKER 03 :
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Live and local, back to Rush to Reason. Okay, so I broke my cardinal rule that Charlie reminded me of because I normally don't talk bad about women's looks and so on, no matter who it is. But I couldn't resist in this case because she is one of those women, publicly speaking, public women, that I personally just never have liked. I think she was a lot of the reason why things happened with Princess Diana in the first place, and I just can't stand the woman. I think she's a homewrecker. I think she's ugly. I think she's a disaster.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, apparently she's a homewrecker.
SPEAKER 03 :
And your wife agrees with me, by the way.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, my wife agrees. Honestly, I'm not defending her. I don't know anything about these people. So I will just agree with my wife, which is really a wise thing to do.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, let's just say that, and your wife will probably inform you of this.
SPEAKER 04 :
She's an ugly homewrecker.
SPEAKER 03 :
She slid into the royal family and ended up with, let's just say, a lot more net worth when it was all said and done than she had prior. He's not stupid. Let's just say that.
SPEAKER 04 :
So kind of like the Bidens and politics.
SPEAKER 03 :
Exactly.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, okay.
SPEAKER 03 :
Very much so. Yeah, very much so. Anyways. All right. Next hour. Give us our... Next hour.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay. We're going to be doing one hit wonders. This is a music hour. All right. So if you want to call in with any one hit wonders or text in your favorite one hit wonders. And once again, it doesn't mean it's the only... good song a performer or band ever made. It just means it was easily their biggest.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay. So they could have some other decent hit songs.
SPEAKER 04 :
Kind of, yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
But they're known for one big hit, right?
SPEAKER 04 :
They're known for that one big. They're a one-hit wonder because they only had one song that really hit it, really hit it big. Sound good?
SPEAKER 03 :
Works for me.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay. Nothing by Camila.
SPEAKER 03 :
And by the way, a lot of you have already been texting in. And yes, I have added what you've texted already to the list. Some of them I don't know that I'm going to fully agree with, but we'll talk about those as we get into the next hour. But keep texting 307. 200, 82, 22, 307, 200, 82, 22. And yeah, so one hit wonders. And here's what helps me as well, because some of these, some of what you've already even texted, I don't know those songs. So there must have not even been great one hit wonders, but name of song. And if you can give us the artist as well, that helps me a little bit so that when I'm typing them in and we are reading them off later, people can kind of correlate according to that. Sounds good. So do it that way, and we'll be in good shape. All right. Hour 2 is next. Don't go anywhere. Rush to Reason. Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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Average Guys. Average Guys.