In a world saturated with chemicals and modern health challenges, discover practical insights on how to safeguard your well-being through alternative practices. This episode uncovers intriguing discussions around survival techniques, the hidden toxins in everyday products, and empowering lifestyle modifications that could potentially reverse chronic conditions. Join us as we venture into the realms of survival preparedness and holistic health practices that aim to enrich your everyday life.
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Hello, hello, hello. Happy Monday, everyone. Thank you so much for tuning in to Shooting the Breeze today. I always appreciate each and every one of you for stopping in and listening to me rant for a while, and I hope to hear from somebody today at some point. Happy Mother's Day, by the way, to all the mamas out there. Hopefully you got spoiled a little bit yesterday. Had a lovely birthday and Mother's Day weekend. Yes, Friday was my 60th birthday. Oh, my God. Luke. How did that happen? How did I get 60?
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Time passed, I suppose.
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It's just unbelievable, because in my mind, you know, I'm still like this adolescent kind of, you know, I've got this way of thinking that just puts me in a different mindset. I'm not 60. I can't be 60. Anyway, so I had a great birthday with my daughter. She took me to this great little... the painting and cocktail places that you can go to. And I created a masterpiece. I'm just kidding. I have absolutely no artistic skills whatsoever, but my piece turned out pretty well, maybe slightly better than Hunter Biden's watercolor, you know, straw blowing things that he did that he's selling for a million dollars that, you know, use the straw that he used to do a line five minutes earlier, but whatever. I think it's okay. but it was very fun and had a very lovely dinner with my family that night, and then I got to go. My daughter actually had to work on Mother's Day, so we went to the hospital and had lunch with her, and it was fantastic. But Franktown Firearms, so you guys have to come check out what's new. To say the place has gotten a makeover is the understatement of the century, and the Shoot House is opening up for classes this week. And if you have any questions about the shoot house courses and if you don't even know what the shoot house is, I strongly encourage you to find out what that is. It's an indoor facility, four rooms, hallways, doorways, different locations for different targets and different scenarios. And you just have to check it out. It's one of a kind in the state. You guys are going to want to go and train there and get the practical training. The practical training that you need to keep yourself safe in your house or when you're out and about or whatever, these courses are going to be super fun but intensive, and you're going to learn a lot. So call the shop at 720-770-7777 if you want to ask somebody about the shoot house or perhaps come in and ask somebody to show it to you. They'll be more than happy to do that. This facility is going to blow your mind. And you're not going to find this kind of training anywhere else. It's going to get you through any situation with confidence, and at least you're going to have this in your back pocket as sort of a platform on which to base your real-life situations. And God forbid, hopefully that never happens to you, but this kind of training is invaluable, so you're going to want to check it out. um so this morning i guess some major crash on i-70 i'm sure a lot of you listening right now were probably stuck in that mess my husband was stuck in it for quite a while that was insane i guess the driver um i don't know according to kdvr the aurora pd told fox 31 that A call came in at 1230 in the morning today that semi-driver had reportedly swerved to avoid sudden braking and crashed into the pole of an overhead electronic sign. And the truck, ironically, nowadays, it's kind of funny to hear this part, but the truck was carrying cases and cases of eggs, which are now strewn all over the highway. One lane, I guess, was opened around 6 a.m. this morning. The truck driver was taken to the hospital with minor injuries, which is a miracle, if you ask me, because the pictures of this crash and the cab of that truck look absolutely devastating. So prayers to everyone involved with that. I can't even imagine. So I'm going to start out today by talking about something that I read this morning and You've heard me talk about prepping in the past, prepping and survival and, you know, just all the stuff that you need for that. I'm always encouraging people to have an extra supply of food and water, medical supplies, maybe a generator or two and batteries and flashlights and a bug-out bag and all that good stuff. Anyone who considers themselves preppers have all of this and much, much more. But what about a situation... where it's not really the end of the world, Mad Max kind of scenario. You just run out of gas and deep in the mountains or you get lost on a hike at a time when you're not fully prepared for it. Now, we talk about the dangerous RF, right, radio frequency, and how our phone screens are damaging our eyes and that cell phones are not good for anyone in general and to reduce screen time for our kids and all of that stuff. but we all have a cell phone with us at all times. You do, I do, most people do. And an article from Survivopedia this morning talks about the 15 ways that your cell phone could save your life. And I'm just going to say as an aside that with some of this information, it might be a good idea to even charge up an old, outdated phone that you've replaced and keep the old outdated phone charged and handy. You don't have to be able to use it. You'll understand why here in a minute. But, and I will also preface this by saying that this is very, some of this, like the last half of it are very apocalyptic. Like some of the scenarios here would only be necessary in very, very dire circumstances, which makes me wonder if the author of this article thought about the fact that that if the grid goes down or if the doo-doo really hits the fan, having a cell signal is probably not in the cards. So I'm going to digress from that and just take this for what it is, but here we go. Fifteen ways that your cell phone can save your life. Starting out with the obvious and assuming that you're in an area that has cell coverage or if there's any cell coverage at all, you can call for help. Duh. Provided your smartphone is working, you can use it to call for help, potentially ending a survival ordeal shortly after it begins. Number two, you can relay your coordinates. Use your smartphone to give rescuers GPS coordinates and address or, you know, your location so they can find you. That's what also kind of stands to reason. It's very simplistic. Number three, it has a flashlight. We all know that. Pretty much all cell phones now have built-in flashlights. One guy with a small flashlight could save a large group of people during a 911 by helping them navigate dark stairwells obstructed by smoke or debris. A flashlight can help you find your way in the dark, find what you need to build a fire or to see to build shelter. So don't underestimate the utility of a humble flashlight. The fourth is emergency signal. This one I thought was really interesting. So your phone's screen can be used to reflect sunlight. You've seen all the old movies and stuff where they have the mirror and they direct the mirror towards the sun and they're flashing it, you know, to send out an SOS or whatever. So it can be used in that way, and that can be seen for a really long way away. Will Franzen fell overboard and was able to signal a boat using his wristwatch as a signal mirror after treading water for 24 hours. So your smartphone will definitely get the job done. If you have added an adhesive scratch-resistant screen cover to your phone, you may need to pull it off and rub any adhesive off the glass to get a good reflection. The phone's flashlight feature can be used for emergency signaling at night. Just use an object to cover the light to make it appear to flash. So basically what they're saying here is that you can send an SOS. If you do three long bursts of light followed by three short ones and then three long ones, so you would just cover or like turn it, you know, and just to create the long and short SOS signal. So even if a person who sees the light doesn't understand Morse code, signals in groups of threes is a universal distress code. So anybody with an IQ above room temperature who sees a light flashing in groups of three should either investigate or alert authorities. If you have called for help and relayed your coordinates, let them know that you will be attempting to signal using your cell phone as a signal mirror. And so people will be looking for that, which I think is pretty cool. The next one is land navigation. Smartphones have GPS and compass functions, making them first-rate navigation tools. Just don't get so dependent on using GPS to navigate that you stop noticing landmarks, which I think is very smart as well. And, you know, this brings me to maps. How many people these days know, young people especially, know how to read a map? And that's scary to me. I'm going to say I'm completely guilty of that. Our daughter would have no idea. She GPS, she Google Maps everything. So I wish that more people would, you know, kind of teach their kids, myself included, how to read a map, an actual physical paper map. And then he goes on to say, I'm not just being a crusty old survival writer here. More people are getting seriously lost since the proliferation of GPS than before it. Some of that is because there are more people, but some of it is because those people haven't developed the synapses in their brains that help them intuit direction. They are so dependent on staring at screens that they no longer pay attention to where they are going. Some of them don't even bother to learn to use a map and compass. If that's you, look up from your screen and start paying attention. Also realize the GPS is way more likely to tell you to drive into a lake or off a cliff in the middle of the wilderness than in a metropolis. Pay attention accordingly. And that's true, too. I think I've told the story. I was trying to find a a location where our daughter was having volleyball practice. And I'd never been there before, and it was at night as in the winter. And so we were driving around, and it was Apple Maps that I was using, and it kept telling me turn right here, but it was into like a row of bushes. So we just ended up going home. Like I had no idea where it was. I didn't see enough cars to think that maybe this is it. And we just went home because the Apple Maps thing was incorrect, and I didn't know where I was going. And so, again, I guess I was guilty of not reading a map or bringing a map. So number six is monocular. Some cell phones have optical and or digital zoom cameras enabling them to see distant objects more clearly than with the naked eye. Using the digital zoom on the trail can tell you that if a hiker is part of your party or not and enable you to scan his waist and hands for weapons, which I think is kind of cool. Again, gloom and doom, apocalyptic kind of stuff. Number seven is magnifying glass. Just as some cameras can be used as a monocular to see distant objects, they can also be used to magnify objects close up when the camera is switched to the correct setting, which is probably labeled macro. Using this setting, some smartphones can be used like a magnifying glass to find small slivers, eye particles, or they can help us old folks read instructions that are too small to see. Number eight, take photos and videos. I don't think I need to elaborate on that. Number nine, alert you to danger. Most phones can alert you to danger through wireless emergency alerts without installing an app or subscribing to a device or to a service. And then he goes on to say, I was camping on Lake Powell one year on Lone Rock Beach and cell phones and radios with NOAA all-hazard weather radio, same technology, started vibrating and emitting the weather emergency alert tone, I guess is what that means, and started squawking, warning of high winds. The warning gave just enough time to gather up Everyone or everything that wasn't staked to the ground before a microburst came tearing through the beach. I'm no newbie to high winds or sandstorms on Lake Powell, so our tents were staked down with sand hog stakes. When it was all over, my two Katoma CVCTVI tents were the only tents on the beach that weren't in the lake. It broke from lines and poles and whatever. So he goes on to talk about how it can alert you to danger. digital survival library now this is where you're going to have to have a cell phone signal in order to you know reach this kind of information using your smartphone as a survival library can save you in many more ways it can provide you with survival manuals and reference material including first aid instructions how to tie knots how to build a fire build a shelter treat water procure food and so on Reference material includes shelter-in-place instructions, how to build an improvised fallout shelter, decontamination instructions, repair manuals, and how-to instructions to survive the apocalypse. So obviously, again, very apocalyptic. The next one is, and these are going to involve destroying your cell phone, which is why I said to keep a charged old phone in your car or in your backpack. They don't weigh that much. Just throw one in there. You can start a fire. It says if you remove your cell phone's battery, it can be used with a conductor such as wires from your headphones or charging cable to start a fire. The battery should produce some voltage even if your phone says it's at 0%. That means that it isn't producing enough voltage to power your smartphone's circuits, and it doesn't necessarily mean that the battery is not producing any voltage, so be sure to give it a try even if your cell phone tells you your battery is at zero. Batteries can also be used with steel wool or incandescent flashlight bulb filaments to start a fire, and that sounds to me like you would have to destroy your flashlight as well. If your battery is not producing enough voltage but you have more than one battery available, batteries of the same voltage and capacity can be wired into series to increase the voltage produced by the circuit. And, once again, there's a lot of people in this generation and even older generations that wouldn't even know what in the hell this guy's talking about, wiring something in series. I know some... male humans that barely even know how to turn a screwdriver. So this is kind of concerning all the way around. But anyway, I will continue. Making a cutting tool. You can break your phone's screen and use a sliver of it as a cutting tool. More expensive smartphones typically have glass screens, and cheaper ones have plastic screens. You can make a cutting tool from either material, but glass is obviously going to be much sharper. Glass can also be pressure flaked into cutting tools, scraping tools, and projectile points in much the same way as our ancestors used obsidian and flint to make tools. You can make a compass, it says. Everybody reading this website probably knows that the magnet from a good pair of headphones can be used to magnetize a needle or a similar ferrous object which can be floated on a leaf and the north pointing pole used here. for a compass. There are usually easier ways to determine where magnetic north is, such as celestial navigation. The permanent magnets in headphones are usually flat cylindrical magnets. Smartphones usually have at least two speakers, one for calls and one for the bottom audio, but the permanent magnets are covered, whatever, whatever. So it goes on to talk about how you can make a compass out of the magnet in the cell phone. Again, this is all stuff that you would obviously have to research on how to do. You can make cordage. The wire in a headphone and charging cables can be used as cordage. Some cables even come in fabric sheaths like Kern mantle sheath on paracord. This can also be used as cordage, or you can also make cordage from any article of clothing you are wearing. And then, finally, you can make a fish hook. Parts of your smartphone circuit board and plastic and or metal body can sometimes be used to make fish hooks. At the very least, they can be used to make gorge hooks. So very interesting stuff. Just a little device can possibly, you know, offer you a lot of life-saving things that Smartphone accessories, it says, are every bit as important as the device itself with accessories such as a battery bank with a solar panel and a universal charging cable. You can keep your battery charged as long as you can expose the solar panel to sunlight every couple of days. That's it. So there you go. Your current phone, keep your current phone, keep an old phone charged up and throw it in in case you get into a situation where you have to smash your phone and make a fishhook out of it. I don't know. I just thought that was... Kind of interesting stuff, all the survival stuff. I get those emails. I think it's kind of interesting. So next up and for the remainder, well, maybe not the whole entire remainder of the show, but I'm going to talk about our perpetual journey to better health. And it's a daunting task to navigate everything that we're subjected to, right? We've all heard the stories about our food supply, and we often wonder if we're actually even eating food anymore. I think that all the time. Every time I get a piece of chicken, even if it's a natural Purdue chicken breast from the grocery store, it's like, is this real? Am I eating lab-grown meat here? What is this? And then, you know, we've got the petroleum-based dyes and the additives and pesticides, herbicides and fillers and chemicals of all kinds are in almost everything that we buy at the store, right? RFK Jr. is trying, trying to get, you know, food dyes, for example, eliminated from our food. And I guess the FDA has recently green-lighted the push to replace the chemical dyes with natural alternatives. But as you know, the wheels turn very slowly. So who knows when we'll actually see, you know, beet powder being substituted for red 40 or whatever. It could take a while. It could be years. Who knows? But the obvious ones are things like fast food and soda and chips and crackers and processed meats and seed oils and whatever. all that stuff, like those found in the seed oils especially. Every single salad dressing that we eat has some kind of heinous seed oil in it. So we think we're eating this healthy salad and then it turns out, you know, no, you're killing yourself because it's got, you know, sunflower oil in it or whatever. It's so frustrating. And then we have the toxins in our personal care products, shampoo and body wash. which body wash is probably the worst because the skin is the largest organ on the body, and so we're just slathering ourselves with all these chemicals. The skin creams and lotions and conditioners and our toothpaste and the deodorant that has aluminum in it, and the list goes on and on and on. You know it. The chemicals that we encounter just by cleaning our house, the window cleaner, the floor cleaners, furniture polish, the air fresheners, All of it, absolute poison. And did you ever think, I know that everybody knows that their water is chlorinated. The water that comes out of your tap has chlorine in it, right? We know this. Okay, I'm going to tell you a story here in a second. But the amount of chlorine and fluoride in our water would make your head spin. And we just kind of live with the thought of having a neurotoxin and a carcinogen in our water supply. And that should just tick everybody off to no end. This story, I saw a video a while back, quite a while, probably six, nine months or something. This woman was doing chlorine tests on her water, and it wasn't just a test on her water. She was using test strips to test her water to see, you know, just what the level was. But then she put tap water into a glass, and she put a test strip in it, and she read very high chlorine levels, obviously, because we know that our tap water has chlorine. And we usually put our water through a filter or whatever. If you know, that's what you do. My mom used to drink tap water. It used to drive me crazy. But then in this glass, so she puts the test strip in. It reads very high in chlorine. She takes the test strip out. She puts her hand in there. So she takes her whole hand in a fist, and she puts it down into the water, and she leaves her hand in there for about 10 seconds. She pulls her hand out. She puts another test strip in the water. And lo and behold, the chlorine was almost nothing. So where did the chlorine go? It went into her body through her skin. So we're even poisoning ourselves every time we take a shower or wash our hands. So we're trying to read labels. We're trying to check for, you know, contained bioengineered food ingredients and I mean, heck, now we're even checking for crickets and mealworms in our food. At least I am. We're taking supplements by the dozens in hopes of reversing some of the damage that's being caused by what we eat and what we put on our bodies and, you know, laundry detergent and everything else. And then we may or may not discover things like Soursop or Methylene Blue or ECGC, and those are becoming more popular as people, you know, kind of navigate and try to get a handle on their health and wellness. But when you jump down the rabbit hole of health and wellness, you will discover that our food is just the beginning. If you have a major health challenge that you're dealing with, And that's when you discover most of what I'm talking about. You want to do everything you can to optimize your health and to heal yourself, to enable your body to rejuvenate and to heal itself, as we were designed to do. You want to research everything so you can optimize yourself. And, you know, so you start researching, if nothing else, out of desperation, right? Because you want to find out what can I do for myself outside of the doctor's office. So when you start researching things, you discover that the medical industrial complex and big pharma are literally hiding everything from you. You find supplements and procedures and these different kinds of complex herbs and other alternatives to taking pills. and you quickly discover an entire world of things that you never knew about. Yes, you'll get some exercise, you'll work out, you try to change your habits and not be so sedentary, and you take the standard supplements, maybe a multivitamin, and you read food labels and you try to avoid what you believe to be toxins, even though just for somebody to look at a bottle of salad dressing and say sunflower oil, well, that doesn't sound toxic. It's sunflower oil. It's palm oil. What's wrong with that? So you have to know these things, right? There are things that you can do, although maybe not proven by mainstream science, but you're reading and learning about alternative medicine, why it works, and the more you research, the more sense it makes to you. So as you keep learning, you maybe start to read about grounding, right? Grounding is supposed to put your body in direct contact and in tune with the Earth's frequency and promote healing and overall wellness and sleep better and less joint pain and all kinds of stuff is related to grounding. And maybe you've heard about tuning forks or other frequency devices and how different frequencies can promote healing, even regeneration. There's vibration plates. that are good for lymphatic drainage and mobility, and sometimes it can simulate exercise depending on the level that you put it at. You can go to a holistic practitioner and get things like hocket treatments. As a side note, there is something that I've recently learned that probably not many people know, and that is the frequency of fabric. This is really interesting. And when we get back from our break, I'm going to read some things to you on the subject of fabric and the different frequencies that it can offer and what we might be doing to ourselves. We'll be right back.
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And we are back. So I was just talking about some different, I don't know, alternative means of helping yourself and helping to promote healing and wellness and all that kind of stuff. And the subject of fabrics, I think, is critical. sort of new. I mean, it's new to me anyway, so I'll just say that it's new to me, and I found it very interesting. And I'm going to read something to you on the subject, and I'll get back to this other stuff in just a minute. But first, I'm going to take Johnny. Johnny, what do you got for me?
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Okay. I'm reading this book. I think it's called 80-10-10. And in this book, he talks about And doctors, they either know this or they're pretending that they don't know it. So you get diabetes too. And they always tell you, don't eat any fruit because it'll put too much sugar in your body. But what the real thing is, eating fats. foods with fat in it that diversely affects the body. And if you do, instead of, you know, decreasing food, increasing that. And I see a lot of these herbalist shows where they say, well, they reverse the diabetes. And I come out and say, well, how do they do that? And it's just by doing the opposite of what the doctors tell you. Yeah, yeah. And that's very scary. Yeah, and they know this, but the farmer, they won't make any money if they tell people because who would need insulin? Yep, yep.
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We're going to get deep into that, too, in a few minutes here.
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Okay, and then one last thing. Okay, so I have my brother. He had a stroke in October. So they feed him through his stomach. They have him sort of like in this traumatic kind of thing. So then he comes out of it. Then my sister-in-law, instead of, because the body is, what, 70% water, instead of feeding him foods that have liquid in it, she goes back to the sad diet, sausages, eggs, pancakes, no vegetables at all, and then he declines again. And I said, they gave you a window where you could do something different, but instead you go back to the sad diet that probably got him into this condition in the first place.
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Right. Yep. Yep.
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It's just very frustrating.
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Yeah, it is frustrating. And what's more frustrating is that the medical industrial complex, which I'm going to, like I said, I'm going to talk about here in a minute, is keeping all this stuff from us. And it's maddening and should institute a revolt. Thank you for your call, Johnny. I appreciate it.
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All right.
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God bless. All right. So the concept of fabric frequencies suggests that different materials vibrate at different frequencies. And as we all know, or maybe you don't know, we all, everything has a frequency, everything. This computer in front of me, obviously, these books above my head right now have a frequency to them. And this can impact human energy and well-being. Natural fabrics like linen and wool are believed to have higher frequencies, potentially promoting health. while synthetic fabrics like polyester have lower frequencies, which might not be as beneficial. A study conducted by Dr. Heidi Yellen in 2003 suggested that a healthy human body has a frequency of 100, while fabrics also possess frequencies. Linen and wool, for example, were found to have frequencies of 5,000, whereas polyester had a frequency of 10,000. according to a blog on Salts and West clothing. So the theory proposes that fabrics with higher frequencies can enhance well-being, while those with lower frequencies might be energetically draining. Example of fabric frequencies. So we have linen, which is 5,000 hertz. Wool is 5,000 hertz. Organic cotton is 3,500 hertz. Conventional cotton, 2,500 hertz. Silk is 5,000 hertz, and polyester is 10 hertz. So synthetic fabrics like polyester, often associated with lower frequencies, potentially leading to negative energy impacts. Natural fabrics like linen and cotton are believed to have higher frequencies, which can be beneficial for energy and well-being. And then, of course, it gives a caution. It's important to note that the concept of fabric frequencies is not scientifically mainstream and is often considered part of alternative or complementary medicine practices. I love how they put that in there as if it's a bad thing. You know, they do all this stuff on purpose. It just kind of makes me insane. But I guess the big takeaway here is that everything is poison, pretty much. Our food, our water, our air, our soil, our clothing even. You just can't escape it. And unless you have a bunch of extra money, you have no choice. And I'm going to get to the money part here in a second and kind of the knowledge part. But if you're on a fixed income, which I never really understood the term fixed income, aren't most people on a fixed income, meaning they work and they get a paycheck and then the paycheck doesn't really change unless they get a raise? Most people live paycheck to paycheck. So in actuality, it should be called low fixed income, right? as in people on disability or those who receive Social Security benefits, and those are people maybe on welfare and collecting food stamps or SNAP benefits or whatever. And trust me, they don't buy organic and shop the perimeter like we're always supposed to, right? I can assure you of that. But if you're on a fixed income, then you really have no choice, right? Take a good vibration plate, for example. I don't know if you guys have researched vibration plates, but if you're dealing with anything chronic or cancerous or whatever, look into a vibration plate, and you will see. I mean, you can get them cheaper if you consider $200 cheap, but they can run as much as $3,000. They can run as much as $7,000. And we have a red light system. a red light system that has a frequency built into it. So it produces red light, infrared light. I have, we have one that's got a violet light on it and it produces a frequency and you can set the frequencies for different things. And we bought this book that has these different frequencies for whatever kind of illness. I mean, the book is like an inch and a half thick and it's full of frequencies. And that system that we bought was $4,700. We got a grounding mat that And pillowcases, those were $400. And we got linen sheets, and those were $130. And then all the supplements, including, you know, the cell signaling supplement that we drink called ASEA, which alone is $450 a month. My husband's concierge naturopathic doctor is $2,500 a year. And all of his treatments that he goes to, $175 to $250 each. I'm talking thousands and thousands of dollars. And doing the math, on average, we spent about $1,800 per month last year on just the extra healthy things that we've added to our lives and stuff to help with health and wellness and recovery and healing and all that stuff. And we're blessed that we can do all this, but people of limited means are just stuck. they're stuck with whatever their insurance happens to cover, which, as you know, is just what the medical industrial complex has to offer and what insurance agrees to pay for. So those two things right there are, you know, that's kind of a kink in everything, you know, in terms of, like Johnny was saying, just you have to go with what they tell you to go with, and it could send you backwards in your health. And what the medical industrial complex will pay for is usually heinous drugs that make you sicker, pills and more pills, and then pills to counter the pills that you're already taking, which results in a need for different pills. And then there's that vaccine, that vaccine that 99% of mainstream doctors seem to be pushing, even to this day, that's killing so many people and maiming people and making them unable to work and all kinds of stuff. And you guys have heard me rant a lot about that. But the bottom line is that many people can't afford to eat certified organic everything. They can't afford to buy only pasture-raised chickens and eggs and grass-fed beef and wild-caught Alaskan salmon or halibut or a reverse osmosis system for their drinking water, which is another thousand dollars for a small one. Not everyone has the money to shop at natural grocers or an online retailer to buy their natural organic cleaning products or personal care products. That stuff is expensive. Expensive supplements, specialized equipment, or concierge doctors all cost a lot of money, and it's all out of pocket. Of course, insurance is not going to cover that. They're not going to cover your hocket treatment or your ozone blood transfusion. Are you kidding me? Which the stuff that actually helps is not going to be covered. It's only the stuff that's going to make you sicker that's going to be covered by insurance. People will just do what their mainstream doctor tells them to do while continuing to eat the garbage that we all know is slowly killing everyone. Just as an example of how expensive some supplements are. And so, you know, people start with little bites of information, you know, that you might hear like, oh, this is good for that. Or, you know, you might start your research and then you go out to find this supplement and you're like, holy cow, I can't afford that. So black cumin seed. I'm sure you guys have all heard of black cumin seed. It's touted as being able to cure everything but death. I don't know if you guys have heard that before, but that's what they say. That's what the ancients say, that it can cure everything but death. At natural grocers, a bottle of concentrated black seed oil, which is like 3% concentration or whatever in these capsules, it's nearly $50 for a bottle of this stuff, for one small little, you know, just like a normal supplement bottle. It's insane. And my husband and I were even talking yesterday about cooking oil. And he saw that we should avoid avocado and olive oil when we're cooking. Raw, yes. Drizzle it over your salads, sure. But to cook with it, you know, supposedly these are the best oils in the world, and avocado oil is the greatest thing for cooking, and it's the best for you. But the higher the temperature goes on these oils, which is obviously what you need to cook in them, that oil turns into a cocktail of rancid poison. And we've discovered through extensive seeking and searching that we should only be cooking with beef tallow or grass-fed butter. Those two, period, end of list. Now, rendering tallow is not hard to do. And I don't know if I've told you guys that I kind of – found myself rendering tallow, I wanted to start making skin products with tallow and had a hiccup and couldn't find a bulk supply of cod fat that I needed to use for tallow that requires the least amount of cleaning. And, you know, that's a whole other story in and of itself, but it's not hard. And you can also go to a natural food store and buy jars of tallow. But again, it's not cheap. And if you're planning on cooking with tallow or deep frying in tallow or whatever, which everybody should be doing, you know, you're going to pay for that. But again, not everyone has the time, the money, or the inclination to render their own tallow or to buy expensive grass-fed butter to cook with. Most people still cook with vegetable oil or canola oil. Because that's the thing. That's what you do. Remember the Mazzola, the big giant jugs of corn oil, and that's what we used to deep fry in and that kind of thing? And here's the hard truth. You can have all the money in the world to try to heal yourself and to do everything that you can do. You could be a billionaire. But unless you know about the alternative treatments that are out there and the alternative supplements and the herbs and all the red light and all the pocket and vibration plates and all the stuff that I mentioned, none of this talk about expensive grounding mats even matters. If you don't know that it's there, then you don't know what to get. And this is how it stands right now. Here's a little tiny bit of insight on why things are the way they are with regard to our health and our healthcare industry. And this audio that Luke's going to play for you is going to be kind of an eye-opener and kind of speaks to what I've been talking about. Check this out.
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Don't let anyone tell you it's not possible. Lifestyle choices play a significant role in the development and progression of most chronic diseases. This means that an individual's choices could be pivotal in the prevention and possibly the reversal of chronic disease. Type 2 diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, obesity, and even several autoimmune conditions are all reversible. with just diet and lifestyle modifications. The problem is our modern medical system does not teach doctors how to reverse chronic diseases with diet and lifestyle changes. They are taught to treat the symptoms of chronic diseases with pharmaceuticals. That is the model of our medical system. How do I know this? Because most medical schools don't even require students to take a single course on nutrition. If you are living with one of these diseases, know that there is hope for reversal. Do not give up hope and do not let a doctor tell you that your only option is pharmaceutical medication.
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So, yeah, and this is what is kind of the crux of everything. This is the problem. This is why big pharma is such a corrupt institution. They purposely keep this information hidden so the average Joe can't access it. You can guarantee that anyone in government or big banking or big pharma or whatever, they're using all the best stuff. all the best stuff. They probably don't take their own medications and their own chemo and all their own stuff. They've probably got access to stuff that we've never even heard of before, right? And most people don't know where to even start. And you obviously have to start somewhere. So if you're dealing with some kind of a chronic issue, I strongly suggest that you Start researching. Go to places like, I know this sounds crazy, but go to places like Instagram or search stuff on DuckDuckGo or some other place that's not going to censor things, and you will find these kinds of things. You can find naturopathic doctors that will give you some insight and all that stuff. If you search Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, you're going to find stuff, but you won't find it all because they censor it. If a video starts to blow up on any of those platforms and it's regarding a subject like alternative medicine, they'll take it down. And if people have had great success with, you know, Soursop or, you know, oxygen therapy like hydrogen peroxide, 35% food grade, you know, hydrogen peroxide to oxygenate the blood, that kind of thing, they'll take it down because it's not science. It's not proven science. Fauci didn't approve it, so therefore, you know, you shouldn't take it. And it's all by design. I've said it before. They don't want you healthy. If everyone on the face of the earth was healthy and well and only ever died of old age because their little bodies just simply wore out, nobody would have a need for big pharma or medicine in general, and the entire industry would cease to exist. And they can't have that. President Trump did just announce that drug prices are to be reduced by 59%, as well as decrease in grocery and gas prices. So, okay, that's okay. I guess we'll be able to obtain all the poisoned food and the pharmaceuticals for less of our fake money. Yay. I think this administration is doing all that it can right now to help the American people to I don't know, to help with stuff. RFK Jr. is doing everything in his power, I think, to fix the health care system and the food industry, but it's slow going, and it'll take years, years that the good guys may or may not have, if they're even good guys. So I don't know. It remains to be seen. So I've got Sandra on the line. Sandra, what do you got for me?
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Miss Karen, I was just talking to my girlfriend on Whidbey Island today. She renders beef to the tallow, and she adds cream and lavender oil and makes a face cream.
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Yep, that's what I do, too. It's, yeah, I render it, and then I soften it and whip it, and I add, like, ylang-ylang or... Yep, all the essential oils. Frankincense is really good for your skin. So, yeah, that's all we use now. Yeah, I love it.
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Hey, just wanted to let you know that, gosh, timing is perfect. Thank you for all you do. God bless you, Karen. God bless you, too. Thank you.
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So, yeah, it remains to be seen if we have enough time for RFK Jr. to actually implement all the stuff that he wants to implement. But you never know. None of this may matter because we may become extinct just from lack of oxygen. I just read this headline this morning from the Climate Depot. It says, is an oxygen shortage going to replace the climate scare? Farewell to oxygen on planet Earth. NASA scientists predict Earth's atmosphere will lose its ability to sustain life. Photosynthesis will collapse as CO2 declines. Isn't that something? The article says that in a billion years, the Earth won't be able to sustain complex life. So you can go ahead and proceed with your dinner plans tonight. I don't think it's going to happen anytime soon, but It's just so ironic to me, though, that the climate alarmist lunatics have been screeching for so long and so loud for so many years about CO2 levels being the end of the world that they failed to consider that plants need CO2 to live and to perform photosynthesis. And the article also says that the sun's rays will get more intense as they have, and for hundreds of years, and that's going to go on, and those intense increased sun's rays will alter CO2 molecules to such a degree that plants won't be able to use them. So that's, you know, like I said, it's a little ways off for sure. And then also I read another article today that I'm going to read to you because I think it's pretty interesting, and one thing that I did not mention was plastics. now everybody like you can't drink tap water so you got to drink bottled water okay and bottled water is is just as bad just in a different way it says here this is from the guardian plastics and everyday objects may disrupt sleep in same way as caffeine study fine so this is just about sleep but we know that microplastics are terrible for us anyway But it says, chemicals in everyday plastics may disrupt the body's natural 24-hour sleep-wake cycle and circadian rhythm in a way similar to coffee, which increases the risk of sleep disorders, diabetes, immune problems, and cancer. New in vitro research shows. The study looked at chemicals extracted from a PVC medical feeding tube and a polyurethane hydration pouch, like those used by long-distance runners. PVC and polyurethanes are also used in everything from kids' toys to food packaging to furniture. The findings showed for the first time how plastic chemicals probably wreak havoc on cell signals that regulate the body's internal clock, throwing it off by up to 17 minutes. The internal clock is incredibly important for physiology and overall health. Though more research is needed to know the precise consequences of exposure, said Martin Wagner, a study co-author and plastic chemical researcher with the Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology. The study adds to the increasing body of evidence that plastics contain compounds that cause a wide range of toxic effects. The authors wrote in a peer-reviewed study published in Environmental International. A fundamental shift in the design and production of plastics is essential to ensure their safety. The circadian rhythm is the molecular clock that regulates alertness and tiredness in relation to daylight and the dark. Shifting rhythms are linked to increases in the risk of obesity, dementia, and cardiovascular disease among other issues. Research into plastic chemical toxicity most often focuses on how chemicals like, I don't know how to say this word, P-H-T-H-A-L-A-T-E-S. Phthalates, is that how you say that? The T is silent. I don't know. Phthalates and bisphenol impact the endocrine system and hormone-related effects, which can take years to manifest. The new paper looked for an impact through a different biological pathway cells. It checked for adverse effects on the adenosine receptor, which is a key component in cellular control of the internal clock that takes part in relaying signals that regulate circadian rhythm. The biological process of how the plastic chemicals affect the body is similar to caffeine, and its effect on the circadian rhythm and indices Eidosine receptor. Caffeine deactivates the eidosine receptor, thus increasing the circadian rhythm and keeping us awake. The plastic chemicals activate the eidosine receptor, but also have a similar effect in keeping us awake. The receptor is in the brain and sends signals to the body that say the sun is coming up, let's start the day. But when the adenosine receptor is activated by the chemicals, it may not relay the message. delaying the body's natural physiological processes while the process while the chemicals are not as potent as caffeine their impact on the cellular process happens much more quickly than plastics impacts on hormones what this means for body for the body is unclear but it's probably not good we don't know the significance of it and you could say oh it's just 15 minutes it's not that big of a deal but it's such a tightly controlled clock that it's a significant shift he added The study was done in vitro, meaning on human cells in a lab, and Wagner said the next step was to look at how the chemicals affect zebrafish, which have some similar physiological processes in their brains to humans. Future research will also look into which chemicals in plastic and PVC are affecting the sleep-wake cycle. PVC can contain any of 8,000 chemicals, some of which are not intentionally added but are byproducts of the production process. So the material is incredibly complex and difficult to manage. The findings of each study will be used to pressure lawmakers to enact regulations and to try to convince industry to remove the chemicals from the plastic, which this article itself says that you can't regulate them because you don't even know that they're there. You don't even know what they are. It's just these byproducts and everything else. So Chemicals, chemicals, chemicals. And we just can't escape it. So do your research. Find some great information out there to try to make yourself healthier in this increasingly toxic world that we live in. Thanks so much for joining me today on Shooting the Breeze in the fastest hour in broadcasting. I really appreciate you guys being here. If you want some private training, give me a call or don't give me a call. Send me an email at Karen at Franktownfirearms.com and I'll be happy to set you up with some private training. Otherwise, look forward to the shoot house and the new concealed carry classes coming after July 1st. Mama Glock's out for now, everyone. Take care and God bless.
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HR1 Eric: Safe Boxes, China and US Reduce Tariffs 5-12-25 by John Rush
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All right, welcome. Happy Monday, everybody. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Hope you had a great weekend. Mother's Day yesterday as well. Eric Hackett joining us now from Safebox Deposits. Eric, how are you, sir? I'm doing great. How are you, John? I'm doing good. I hope you had a good Mother's Day. We did. I spoiled the old lady. Good for you. Good for you. All right. Safe box deposits. And I've been saying, well, since we've been having you on, that alternative to what the banks are doing. And I say that purposely, and I want you to explain. The reality is this is something that banks are getting out of. On the same token, I want to make sure we're very clear with people. You have your own vault facility better than what the banks have because there's lots of reasons for that. I'll have you get into that. facility, correct?
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Correct. So we actually took over a pre-existing, you know, what was a Wells Fargo vault. So, you know, they had a good foundation and we took it over and enhanced it in just about every way possible. So our security measures, our surveillance, our access, and just the convenience. It's just better run all the way around.
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Right. And again, for all of you listening, and I think it's really important because I know this, Eric, with some of the things that I do. Yes, in fact, and folks, we're not just saying this to try to scare you into... doing something with Eric. There's reasons to use Eric outside of the bank, even if your bank has one. But yes, bottom line, the banks are getting out of this. They are downsizing. They are eliminating some locations. They're taking even larger locations and turning those into much smaller locations because most everybody, I think, Eric, knows this you know they don't have to keep the same amount of things even on hand that they once did to handle the banking into things because so much of it now is done you know digitally it's done with apps i mean people don't even go to the bank hardly anymore to even even if you get a check you don't go to the bank to deposit it you can do it you know through the app on your phone and so on so the reality is they just don't need the brick and mortar structures they once did meaning they're no longer going to have the space to handle safe deposit boxes That's right, John. Yep.
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You know, they're just switching to online banking all the way around, like you just said. And, yeah, they don't have the manpower and actually no longer the space to accommodate the safe deposit boxes. So that's where we come in. We're fill and avoid. There's a lot of banks out there. We just got wind of another large bank here in town that's closing – several of their safe deposit boxes. Gotcha.
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Yeah. Again, it's happening. For all of you listening, it's definitely happening. Now, some would say, well, gosh, why do I even need one? Well, and I think, Eric, that's where you and I have talked in the past. There's all sorts of reasons why you would need one. If you're somebody that doesn't have really good, solid, safe storage at your place, and I'll just be frank, Eric, a lot of folks, what they think Is safe storage, in other words, you've got this little safe you bought at Costco or Home Depot or Office Max or wherever, and you kind of got that back in the room inside of a closet, and you think, yep, I'm set. I've got everything in that safe. It says it's fireproof. I'm good to go. Eric, the reality is those things aren't that heavy, and even sometimes when they're bolted to the ground, a crowbar pulls them right up out of the plywood flooring, which in some cases isn't even plywood. It's USB, as you know. are there?
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Yeah, it's definitely a target for thieves. You know, somebody breaks into a property and they find a safe. That's what they're going to work on getting out of there. And to your point of being secured to the floor or something that, you know, most of those safes can be broken into within a matter of minutes. And a lot of them, you know, Short of having wheels, they're pretty easy to get out of a house.
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I've always said, Eric, the only thing those are doing is keeping an honest guy honest. They're doing nothing to keep the thieves out.
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I agree with you. I agree with you.
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But my point is a lot of folks think that you're really secure with those, and the reality is nothing could be farther from the truth, and I mean that from not only the theft side but the fire side and so on.
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security and the ability to handle things in a much better fashion than what they would be able to do at home on their own right yeah the i mean the construction quality of the vault itself is you know i was meeting with the security team today and i didn't realize when they ran some of the wires for our some of our security system they actually had to go through the vault and they They said they burned up several drill bits and ended up calling a company that could drill it specifically, you know, and they said it's upwards of around two feet thick of concrete wall. And it's concrete from the 60s, which is a lot different from the concrete today.
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Yes, it is. You're right. No, absolutely. The point being, everybody listening, please hear me when I say this. It is much better than what a bank is. Some of you may have some solid valuables. And, you know, I have the guys from MahiCoin on, you know, David on quite a bit, Eric. And people in a lot of cases are probably sitting on a lot more value today. in some things and what they really think they are. They're just thinking that, oh, you know, I got a few things here and there. It's not that big of a deal until they start really adding it all up and realizing, wow, wait a minute, I've got a lot more here than I thought I did. And to your point earlier, you know, if rumor gets around that you have those things, you know, kicking around in your house, we've already seen this, you know, well, more than once. I was going to say this past summer. We've seen it over and over again where thieves will target even different areas and figure out people's patterns as to when they come and go. and they become very sophisticated and hit those homes when no one's home. Sure. Yep.
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Yep. I've been a victim of burglary as well here in the Denver Metro. And, yeah, I definitely put all my valuables here as well.
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Well, and that's what we want people to do. I mean, those of you that are listening, again, most people, if you really sat and analyzed, you know, how are you storing your valuables, this is what I want people to think about, Eric, is how they're really doing it and how secure – I mean, it's sort of like the IT people where they tell you to be careful of the cybersecurity end of things and the hackers and the people that try to call and scam you. And we're really big on that. And I think we do a really good job of helping people along those lines on how to not be taken advantage of. But yet, in this particular area, until you came along, people think, oh, you know, I'll just go put my stuff in the safety deposit box or I'll bury it in a bottom drawer or I'll put it in one of those little handy, you know, portable saves and I'm good to go. Reality, Eric, is they're not good to go. They're very vulnerable.
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They are vulnerable. And just like I said earlier, with the banks closing them, people's valuables aren't safe there either. Very well. Number one, they can just flat out close your box. Number two, what often happens is they drill the wrong box. Meaning if somebody doesn't pay their bill, they bring in a company to drill a box. And a lot of times, They have an inexperienced teller or banker telling the driller what to do, and they've drilled the wrong box. And the other biggest issue with banks is there's no insurance on your belongings. And a lot of people are under the misnomer that their belongings are insured because banks are FDIC insured. My box must be as well. Right, but it's not. And here at Safebox, You know, we do have every box comes with $5,000 of insurance and we have additional coverage up to a million or more at. More affordable rates than you can insure anything anywhere.
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Got it. And I think that's really important, too, and this is something to think about, too, for a lot of you listening. Maybe you've got a, you know, somebody in the family could be, you know, Eric, a super expensive heirloom that's been passed down. It could be, you know, everything from, you know, pearl necklaces, diamond earrings, diamond rings, and so on. And maybe it's something that, you know what, it's getting so valuable that you really don't feel like you ought to be wearing that around. And this is something most people don't know. You can actually get a duplicate of your existing ring with a cubic zirconian or something along those lines that is a lot less expensive if it gets stolen or you lose it versus that really expensive ring that's been passed down. Personally, Eric, put the really good ring in the safety deposit box and wear the fake. No one will know the difference.
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Sure. Yeah, that's great advice.
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And by the way, the insurance side of it, as you were saying a moment ago, what made me think about that is to insure things along those lines gets really expensive at times, depending upon how your homeowners and stuff is set up. Go see you guys and get it done that way instead, and you'll be money ahead. Exactly.
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Yeah, we had to jump through a lot of hoops to become accredited to offer the insurance, and because we did... everything we needed to do, the insurance is extremely affordable because there's no safer place to put your money.
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As we all know, you, Eric, and everybody else listening, insurance is risk associated, not really much on the reward side, but it's really on the, well, it is a reward on the insurance side because if there's less risk and they get a premium, they know the reward is they keep collecting premiums, they don't pay out. So the less risk to an insurance company, the cheaper it gets.
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That's right. That's right. And that's part of why our rates are so low and because we enhanced all our security measures and management procedures and so on. Awesome. All right. How do folks find you, Eric? So they can go to safeboxdeposits.com or they can call us at 303-771-8000. And we are Better Business Bureau approved as well.
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Awesome. Eric, as always, I've enjoyed it. I've enjoyed talking to you each month as we do. Look forward to talking to you again here in a couple of weeks. And, folks, again, anything you've got of value that you want stored away in the right manner to where you know it's sort of that peace of mind, Eric, when it's all said and done. If they want that, give you guys a call. Sounds good. Awesome. Eric, thank you, man. Nope, thank you very much. Have a great rest of your day. And, yeah, folks, if you want that peace of mind, give them a call today, and they would love to take care of you. Roof Savers of Colorado. And, again, as we had a lot of rain last week, some of you may have noticed some things that, yeah, just didn't quite look right or you had some leaks. You might even not have even seen that until the weekend when you were doing some of your around-the-home chores. If that's you and you want anything done at all and or you want to look at extending the life of your roof, you're looking up there thinking, wow, Not only do I need a roof inspection, but is there a way I can make this thing last longer? Because the deductibles and the way the insurance companies are handling things continues to change. Talk to Dave today. He is a RoofMax dealer, part of Roof Savers of Colorado, 303-710-6916.
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All right. And as I was talking to Eric a moment ago, Safebox Deposits, Mile High Coin, you may find yourself with a lot of things kicking around that you really didn't even think you had that much value to. But once you get it appraised by Mile High Coin, you realize, yep, I do have a lot of value there. And you may want to turn that into cash if that's the case. David can help you with that. Or you may want to go ahead and do something else along the lines of what we were talking about earlier with Eric when it comes to how you store those things. Either way, find out the value first with Mile High Coin 720-370-3400.
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Now back to John Rush. All right, welcome back again. Happy Monday, everybody. Hope you're having a great day. Friday's a possible question. What element has the atomic number of 92 that would be uranium? Today's impossible question of the day. What programming language is known for its snake mascot? This one I actually would have gotten. I don't get too many questions of the day, but this one I would have gotten right off the bat. What programming language is known for its snake mascot? Do you know this one, Charlie, by the way? Oh, Charlie does. I finally have found an impossible question. I know the answer to that. Charlie does not. That's like once a year. This might actually happen. And it just it just did. So that does not normally happen. All right. And other news today. This was big news actually was coming out over the weekend. But today, the United States and China revealed that they have come up with an agreement. even if it be temporarily, but you'll see a permanent agreement come out of this to reduce, I should say, tariffs on both countries. And I believe the way it's going to work out is we are lowering ours to 30%, down from 145%. China is lowering theirs from 125% to 10%. So that is a huge win. The markets, of course, came in really, really strong today. And for those of you looking into the mortgage end of things and so on, yes, anytime the market does what it did today, you're going to see some changes in the mortgage world, although that will settle down. My belief, this is just me, and I'm not a financial analyst, but just as a side note, we here haven't been too wrong on a lot of the financial predictions that have been going on all the way back to when Trump was president the first time around, all the way through COVID, all the way through where we are today. So my crystal ball is, says that things are still going to be a little bit dicey here until we get some more of these agreements finally settled. And the Fed will then see that, okay, because these things get settled and because oil prices are down and it's actually going to feed into the rest of the economy, you're not going to see inflation be what the Feds feel like it might be because they're still thinking that these tariffs and things are going to push inflation up. It's not going to. It's going to actually have the opposite effect. I do think what you're going to see is as the feds start looking at that, realizing that, yeah, we probably need to help out real estate to a large extent. And by the way, it's not just the residential side. It's the commercial side as well that interest rates have a big effect upon. And even the short-term rate especially has a bigger effect upon commercial than what it does with the 30-year mortgage. But it has an effect on both of those. And I do believe that the Fed will eventually start looking at some of that. And there'll be some pressure, of course, still coming from the White House as there is now. And I do believe the Fed will start lowering rates once they realize that, OK, we can do this, not have an inflationary uptick out of that. Yes, it will give a boost to the economy, even though they feel like the economy is doing well. It's doing OK now. I don't want to say that by any means it's doing well. There's a lot of areas that, especially in the real estate sides of things, that it really needs to have an uptick. Go talk to a lot of folks that are in the housing world, real estate agents, brokers, mortgage brokers, supply houses, and so on, and they will agree with me on that, that no, it's not doing as well as it could be doing. And once it starts booming, man alive, it really helps out the economy. in a lot of other ways. So my prediction is you'll see some things settle down as we get towards maybe mid to end summer. I think you're going to see rates come down in those particular areas. It is going to be a boost to those particular areas of the economy. And those areas of the economy, again, will not be driving up inflation either. And I think when it's all said and done, you're going to see exactly what I'm saying is We'll see. Time will tell. Again, I by no means am a Wall Street trader. I don't ever want to be thought of that. Frankly, don't ever want to do that because I think most guys on Wall Street are clueless when it comes to what happens on Main Street. They look at stocks and those sorts of things. It's essentially all they really care about. And I'll just be straight up honest. Very, very, very, very few of them care about how your food gets put on your table. Those folks on Wall Street that are doing all of the trading, the companies, the big companies that do a lot of the trading, the folks that have huge impact upon what happens with stocks and so on, I'll just say it straight up. As far as the average American goes, they could care less how you put food on your table. I'll go one step further. The Fed cares less about you putting food on your table as well. They don't care. They don't care. To them, this is a big numbers game. What can they do to stay quote-unquote neutral or at least give the impression that they're neutral? How can they either prop up the economy as needed or slow it down as needed? And that's all they see themselves as doing. And frankly, they're clueless as well because they're already late. Just like they were late raising rates the first time around back in 2020 when things started to get out of control, they're now late to the game in lowering them. They should have done a rate cut last week, even just a quarter point they should have done last week. especially given what just happened with China and knowing where that's going to head. But again, not my decision. I'm not in charge of those things. If I were, things would probably be different, and I would run things completely different, but that's a conversation for another day when it comes to the Fed and all of that as well. But the plus side is there have been some agreements made. Now, And he posted this today on his Facebook page. And he said something to the effect of these are the things that he and I have been talking about now since Trump started down this path that we would get these deals done. It would be sooner than later. And the reality is the Jordan Goodmans of the world, you know, which, you know, we love Jordan. At least I do. I love talking to him. But Jordan tends to be a big pessimist when it comes to these sorts of things. And yet at the end of the day, Again, as a reminder, we're turning out to be correct when the Jordans are not. Jordan thought, you know, having these trade wars, quote unquote, with the with the likes of China would just end poorly for us as a country. It's not happening that way, folks. It's actually the opposite. And it will continue to be because I will continue to remind everybody the same thing I reminded Jordan of numerous times. We're the biggest customer. When you're the biggest customer, and folks, we're not just the biggest customer by a little bit. I mean, you all in business, if you're doing anything along those lines where you've got different customers that you're dealing with, which most people in business do, you know that typically there's not much spread between your largest customer and your next. In fact, in some cases, I've even asked this question to folks that I coach, you know, who's your largest customer? You know, they have to go look it up. They don't even know. Because there's not that much difference in spread between one customer and another in most businesses. And by the way, that's a good thing. You want to try to keep things fairly even. You don't want your eggs all in one basket as a business. So you want the answer to be, well, I don't really know who my biggest customer is. Now, for other companies... They know exactly who their biggest customer is. And in some cases, it could be a situation like us as a country buying what we do and being the largest customer by a long shot. I mean, as I've said before, I've given you guys the numbers. We're approaching $28 trillion as a GDP in this country a year. The next closest is China at about $17 trillion. The next in line after that is Germany at roughly $4 trillion, $4.5 trillion, something like that. So think about those numbers, 28 to 17 to then 4, and it goes down from there. Every other country after. So we're approaching $30 trillion a year as a GDP, as a country, Our rounding errors in some cases, depending upon the country, it's more than some countries' whole GDP, and I'm not exaggerating when I say that. Literally, our rounding errors can be what some countries' GDP is. That's how large we are as a country in buying and doing the things that we do. And we have never leveraged that in the history of this country like we are right now. And it's high time we did. I've said that over and over and over again. It's high time we leveraged what we do because we have been getting the short end of the stick for far too long when it comes to that. And I'm happy that somebody like President Trump is coming along and looking at this in that way, saying we need better deals. We need to get these things taken care of. And it annoys the heck out of me with all these individuals that are coming along trying to sue the administration when it comes to things that have happened along the terror front. Just let him do what he needs to do and get these deals done and stay out of it. Because it's evident that you knuckleheads haven't done it right up to this point. Because some of you that are doing the suing and the whining and the carrying on have been in charge all of this time and have done nothing for the American public. Nothing. I had a conversation Saturday on Drive Radio where somebody called in and asked Gary. I remember Gary's name. Gary's a great caller, by the way. Gary was asking, you know, what would it take to get some of the other auto parts and things? It was Drive Radio. We're talking about auto parts that are made in other parts of the world, China specifically. What would it take for us to do the same thing here in America? Do we have that capacity was the question. And I said, yes, we have that capacity. I gave a couple of answers. Well, sure enough, I had another caller, Eric from Cheyenne, that called in and said, hey, guys, I've got a brother-in-law that works at one of the brake manufacturing facilities in the Midwest. And the reality is they're only running one shift right now. They could easily turn up the machines, run two shifts, three shifts to still be able to supply the things that we're now getting from other countries. And overnight, we could be doing what we need to do to supply what we need. And that's one example. So I want to I want to add this to this. Anytime you hear somebody out there around the water cooler on the news talking about how we as a country don't have the ability to backfill some of what we get from some of these other countries, i.e. China. Wrong. Not true. Those are untrue statements in most cases. Yes, there are some things, and I will admit this, there are some things that we get that have to come from places like China because no one else out there has the ability to make what they're making. I get that. But there are a lot of other things that we could easily come back here onshore and be making right here in our own backyards. And I was reminded of this, and we reminded the listeners Saturday, that in some cases, you take this brake manufacturing facility, it is the lifeblood of that town. And if it went from one shift to three, that is a huge boost to the economy of that particular town. That's what Donald Trump is looking at by doing the things that he's doing. So reality is, yes, we can bring some of those things back onshore. We should bring some of those things back here. We've been lackadaisical in allowing those things to get offshore. We've allowed Wall Street, by the way, to control that, and we never should have. Because Wall Street itself is full of globalists who could care less about this country. Let me say that one more time. Wall Street is full of globalists that could care less about this country. So anytime you see that end of things going on and you hear the rattling, if you would, out of the likes of Wall Street because they don't like something along these lines, just always remember, are they somebody that cares about the United States of America or are they a globalist? Because if they're a globalist, yes, they hate the things Donald Trump is doing right now. If there's somebody that loves the United States of America, they'll be applauding what he's doing right now. So I'll leave you with that. I don't think I'm going to say any more about that ending. I might talk a little bit more about that tomorrow. But reality is. That's a big deal. Markets are way up because of it, because they feel like things will get back on track. And again, the thing that I always remind people of is Wall Street hates any kind of change whatsoever. This is still boosting things on Wall Street. When it's all said and done, you can go look at the numbers. And I think last time I checked, we were approaching 45,000. as far as the stock market was concerned. I need to check it here in a moment because it's now closed. I'll look that up during the break and tell you when we come back exactly where it's at. But Dr. Scott's coming up next. And if you're needing anything when it comes to medical care, having a doctor, having somebody that thinks like we do and is on your side, not on the side of big pharma and big insurance, give Dr. Scott a call today, 303-663-6990.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. We have great textures, by the way, so thank all of you and some of the questions that come in. I appreciate greatly. You know, really quick, and I'll talk about this next time I talk about safe box deposits, but also remember that, and I'll just ask this question, when's the last time you went to a bank and actually saw an armed security guard hanging around? By the way, I can't tell you. I can't tell you. Now, the locations I go to for my banking and I always have used, you know, localized banks, not the big, huge folks. But I've been to some of the larger banks, Wells Fargo's and so on of late. And I will tell you that rarely do you see anybody armed that's hanging around there watching when you come and go. With safe box deposits, yes, you're going to have an armed person there escorting you in and out and so on, and it's by an appointment only, so it's not just some random thing where you just show up and there might be somebody tailing you in. It doesn't work that way, so it's going to be a very secure experience where, frankly, that worry of, is somebody going to be following me in and out, that's not going to happen. so that's the one plus they have frankly over a bank as well but i did want to mention and i don't normally do this but i had several of you messaging me uh prior to the show that there was another show on that is on right before mine and i won't tell you who that is you all know typically who that is and it's a great show by the way i have nothing against this particular host I think a lot of her, and we think a lot alike on a lot of things, and I will never say anything bad about this particular host ever. And if you're listening to me right now, I have a lot of respect for you, and I appreciate what you do, and I hope you feel the same as I. But she had on today, prior to me coming on air, some folks from the previous administration leadership with the Colorado GOP, because there's still some chatter going around about a particular dollar amount. It's above $100,000. that there is X amount of that money missing out of the coffers from the Colorado GOP. And where is it missing from and when and so on? And so this particular host had on a couple of the leadership individuals, not Dave himself, but in this case, Hope was on and Tom, the accountant, were on, and they were trying to explain to encounter this claim of the hundred and whatever it is, 140K that's now missing. And the excuse from the previous leadership is, and it's an excuse or an explanation or whatever you want to call it, their explanation of that particular money is, well, it was missing when we got there. OK, and this particular host, by the way, went as far as to say, OK, well, why didn't you fix it? And that's always my question. I have the exact same question. Why didn't you fix it before you went through all of this rigmarole of lawsuits and rounding up money for this and rounding up money for that? You knew because because the excuse was, well, we had to have money. We you know, we couldn't do a forensic audit. We couldn't figure out where this money was and where it went to and so on. We couldn't go back that far. And there wasn't any books. There wasn't any records, which I find that hard to believe, by the way. Literally, I find that very, very, very hard to believe because there has to be FEC reports done and so on. How is it that you ran an organization for all these years, a decade plus with no records? Again, find that one very, very suspect. That, to me, is not an excuse. Sorry, but that's not an excuse. But the excuse is, out of hope especially, well, we had to have all this money to fight the coup. Okay, time out. That end of it didn't happen until long after, years after, you guys had been running things at the Colorado GOP. So don't give me that excuse. That's not an excuse. We had to fight the lawsuits that were coming at us, is what Hope said today. We had to fight those. That is the biggest bunch of BS I've ever heard in my entire life. Utter nonsense. You could have easily by then figured out what was going on with this $100K, where that money that Tom basically got down to, it wasn't $100K, it was $95K or something along those lines. Okay, so if you know what the dollar amount is, where did it come from? And frankly, clean it up. And the excuse was, well, we've got to go all the way back through transaction to transaction to transaction to actually find all of that to get it cleaned up on your books today. No, you don't. No, you don't. See, this is where people like that can try to snow some, because folks that don't understand accounting, they can try to snow people and say that's what they have to do to fix it. That's untrue. That is totally untrue. If you know what the balance is off of, quote-unquote, what the dollar amount is... You can make an entry. You can fix that amount. You can code it as such. You can give the explanation of we don't know exactly where this adjustment, we don't know exactly where this money has been off or for how long, but we as leadership at this particular time are going to make an adjustment for and fix it. And here's the explanation for why we're doing this. And if anybody wants to go back and dig through all of that to determine exactly where it is, be my guest. But during this term of us being in leadership, we're going to fix it, and here's how. And here's our explanation. That didn't happen. Which, my next question is, why? Why? Why? And don't give me the excuse of, well, we didn't have enough money to hire a forensic auditor to actually fix it, so we just left it. That is the poorest excuse I've ever heard from anybody. And by the way, if that was the excuse from the KBB clan, I would say the same thing to them. If it was prior to even KBB, I would say the same thing all the way back to that. Why? Why did you just let that sit like that and not fix it? And again, don't give me the excuse of, well, we just didn't know what to do. Well, then find somebody that can tell you what to do and get it done. This isn't that complicated. This is the kind of stuff that I help small businesses with constantly in getting their books cleaned up. And I'm not a CPA. And I can do it. What it means is you have to have enough understanding of how accounting works to and what you need to do when it comes to certain things adjustment-wise, and how to get things corrected, and how to note that correction, and off we go. This isn't rocket science, folks, trust me. But evidently it is to the previous administrators inside of the Colorado GOP. It must be that difficult for them, or they would have fixed it. So I will probably talk a little bit more with Andy on that tomorrow once I do a little bit more delving into some of the answers that they gave. I may even re-listen to those segments that I heard today prior to coming on air, and I was listening. And if you're the host that did that and you're listening to me, again, thank you for doing that. These are individuals that will come on your program that will never come on mine for obvious reasons because you're nicer than I am. That's where I will give you credit. You are much nicer than I am. I'm a lot more bold and in their face. And remember, I've been calling for Dave's removal. He's no longer there. But I was calling for Dave's removal 30 days after he took over. Because I saw some of this nonsense going on early on. And I could read between the lines. And here we are. And the excuse that Tom and both Hope gave today were nothing more than literally excuses that have no validity to them whatsoever. And I'll just say this. And I was texting some of you going back and forth. There was about half a dozen of you that were texting me that this was happening and I should listen in. And I did. And I appreciate that. And I will say this. I'll be this bold to say this. As I was listening to these two individuals speak, And yes, I'm a little jaded. I will give you that because I don't like the previous administration because I don't like what they did. But as I'm listening to these two people give explanations, I'm just thinking to myself, how did you guys get into leadership in the first place? Both of you sound dumber than a rock. I'm sorry to say. I don't know how else to say it. Literally, you both sound like total, total dodo heads that have no real answer to what was going on. And I'm sorry to say that, but you do. You just don't sound that sharp. And I know some of you say, well, just because somebody doesn't sound sharp doesn't mean they are. Well, really? Since when? Since when, by the way? Because I've been in the business community and have been self-employed since 1986. And I was around business, being in a family business long before that. And I will tell you this. Sharp people talk sharply. Dumb people talk like dummies. I don't know how else to say it. And, guys, I've done so many interviews and have done so many things with this program over the past decade plus that when I interview somebody, even Charlie and I, I will say once we're done with somebody, I will say something to the effect, man, that was a really sharp individual we just got done talking to. And Charlie will be on the other side and usually nod his head at me and say, yep, it sure was. Or there's other times where I'll get off the phone and we'll have maybe interviewed an author, for example, and I will look at Charlie and say, how in the world did that person write a book? Now, maybe they're really good at writing books and not really good at talking, but holy cow, how did they get through that? And yes, we do those things once we're done with some of these interviews. I'm not exaggerating. So I get it. There are sometimes people that are very introverted, that are extremely sharp, that don't do well with interviews. I get that. And I'll give somebody passes on that. And I understand that. But if you're going to be in a leadership position inside of a political organization, in this case, the Colorado GOP, and you can't give an interview and sound sharp, we have problems. We have problems. And I'm going to say that straight up. Some of you may disagree or agree with me on that, but we have problems when you cannot give an interview and sound sharp. I don't care if you're the treasurer. I don't care if you're the vice chair. I don't care if you're the chair. If you cannot give a solid interview and have your facts straight and be very good and articulate in what you're saying, then we have a problem. And I'll just tell you straight up, the last administration here, we had a problem. Because they can't do what I just said. Now, some would say, well, that's just because all the rest of them out there, they're establishment, and these guys are grassroots. Well, folks, let me just tell you what. If you guys as the quote-unquote grassroots, if that's the best you can do, you better stop while you're ahead. Because if that's the best you've got, stop. Because you sound like a bunch of morons. So stop. And I mean that in all sincerity. If that's the best you can do, quit while you're ahead. In the game of politics especially... If you can't come out and be articulate and sharp and have, quote-unquote, a silver tongue and be able to explain things well, then you should quit and stop doing it. And I mean that with all sincerity. And I'm here to tell you, this is part of the problem that we've had in the state of Colorado in getting people elected to office, whether it be local, whether it be national, is because they don't understand what I just said. They look at somebody and say, well, man, that's a great principled person, and they've got a great heart. Okay, you know what? God bless them. They could. If they can't articulate what I just said, though, they should not be running. They should not be running. If they can't go out on the campaign trail and be articulate and explain the things that I'm explaining to you all right now, they should not be doing it. And I mean that. I'm sincere in that. That's part of why we're not winning in Colorado is because the people that are running things and in a lot of cases encouraging candidates to do things, if they can't do what I just said, they should quit. And they can't, and that's the problem we have right now. They can't do what I'm saying. So we end up with, I hate to say this, bottom-of-the-barrel candidates trying to win elections that can't speak their way out of a wet paper bag. Folks, I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I have to say that. But it's true. And I do believe that there are a lot of folks inside of the grassroots movement across the country that can speak very well and do very well. Andy just said, you know, J.D. Vance is an example of that. Yes, the problem is we don't have the J.D. Vance's in Colorado. We have people that, as I said a moment ago, can't talk their way out of a wet paper bag. But yet expect to get elected because, you know, this is what happens in Colorado. Well, that's a principled individual. They stand on principle. Great. OK, I get that. Love them. Lord bless you. Can you articulate that? Well, I'm grassroots. OK, OK. How? How are you going to get the football across the goal line? How are you going to do that? Tell me that. Well, I'm grassroots. I'm principled. You know, I believe in Donald Trump. I believe in getting him elected. OK, that's not telling me why we should vote for you and how you're going to get the football across the goal line. And folks, please, again, and I love these individuals that are quote unquote grassroots and they do have solid principles and they do believe in our country and they'll fight for our country and they'll go arm in arm, you know, to the end. I appreciate them. But are they electable at the end of the day? That's the question. Can they articulate all of these things necessary to, again, get the football across the goal line? In other words, end up with more votes in their column than their Democrat counterpart. If they can't, then we need a different candidate. Sorry, I'm being extremely honest. And what I heard today in defense of the last administration tells me they couldn't get the ball across the goal line. focused on the wrong things, concentrating on the wrong things. So those of you that are on that side, again, I'm on the same team. I want to win. Literally, I want to win. But the reality is we don't have, in a lot of cases, the right team players to make that happen, and that's a problem. So I'll come back. I want to touch on a couple more things there. Got some text messages that have come in that I will read as well. Cub Creek Heating and Air Conditioning coming up next. And Cub Creek wants to help you now. The AC is on. Yes, I finally yesterday turned on my own AC. Finally got hot enough. When it gets above 80, I'm turning it on. If you did and something doesn't seem quite right, make sure you call Cub Creek today. Cub Creek Heating and Air Conditioning. 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All right. Let me make sure I clear things up to the show that I was talking about that the past administrators for the Colorado GOP was not a KLZ program. This was a, you know, another competing station in town that, again, I don't listen to. And it's nothing against these particular individuals, especially this particular host, because I like her a lot and her and I think a lot alike on a lot of different topics. And again, Again, I'm not going to mention names because I don't want to do that. That's a competing show, competing station, and so on. But I will say this. Her and I think a lot alike. But no, it was not a KLZ program or anything associated with us. This is a competing station, not competing with me per se, because this is a host that comes on prior to me. I don't think we even have much overlap, if any. I'm sorry for not knowing that. I just don't pay attention to what other hosts in town do. If there's something else going on in another program, you guys as listeners are telling me. I rely on you to feed me that info because you will text me different things and so on, which I appreciate you guys doing very much, by the way. And a lot of you did listen in and I did as well. And you have the same response that I and she had that the answers given just aren't answers. They're a beat around the bush. There's no answers there. And she felt the same way and I felt the same way. And to her credit, as I said earlier, she's much kinder than me. She's much kinder because when she was ending, she said something to that effect that, well, you know, these answers just aren't satisfying enough to me and we'll have to leave it at that. I'm much harsher. I'm much harsher because I don't like the past administration at all. And I've made that abundantly clear. And several of you, not just one, several of you have texted in and said, why wasn't Dave in this interview? Because Dave doesn't have the kahunas to do it, folks. Sorry, Dave doesn't. Dave's a coward. Total coward. Those of you that defend him continually, I have no idea why. That is the biggest coward we've ever had as a chair here in Colorado ever. Ever. That guy can't defend himself if his life depended on it, and sometimes it does, by the way. His political life, I should say, depends on it. He won't defend that ever. He has his minions do it for him. He has hope do it for him. Hope has literally been his mouthpiece for almost two years. Pretty much in August, we'll be two years straight. Because that's about when Hope came along was August of... I believe what she said was August of 2023. So... And Hope, I mean, again, you and I have even, you know, we have gone back and forth on some things and have emailed some things back and forth and finally just agreed to disagree because your explanation to me on a lot of things is it's no different than what you gave this other host today. It's just meaningless words. You're always beating around the bush as to the real answer and always going. This is what they do, by the way, and Hope did it today. Always going back to the coup. The coup is the excuse for everything they did wrong. Well, we had to do this because of the coup. We had to do that because of the coup. It's the dumbest thing ever. And let's not forget who started the lawsuit in the first place. It was you guys that started the lawsuit. No one else did. And I hate to sound like a school kid, but you started it. The other side, quote-unquote, ended it, and it really got ended here recently because the judge that ruled essentially in favor of the current administration and saying that, yep, all of this stuff needs to end, the lawsuits need to end, there's no standing on any of this going forward, and the committee that's been chasing after this just needs to go away and be disbanded. That's what's been said up to this point, and it finally has been, and yet the old administration just will not let it go. They are that school kid on the school grounds that just will not let it go. They just keep digging their heels in, and they are bound and determined to not be wrong when this is all said and done, even though they are gravely wrong when it's all said and done. I'll leave it at that. Hour 2 is next. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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All right, welcome back. Hour number three, Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. And several of you texting in, by the way, about my whole golf conversation we had and just can't imagine me as a golfer. I don't know why you guys have such a hard time believing that. I actually enjoy it, and I'm not very good at it. I wish I was better. I wish I had more time to play and get better because I actually do enjoy it. My dad, actually, where I learned – golf was at a very young age. Actually, my dad was a pretty avid golfer growing up, so he was an outdoorsman as well. So, you know, learned how to, you know, of course, hunt and fish and do all sorts of outdoor activities, ride motorcycles, all that kind of stuff. But golfing as well and golfed a lot with my dad when I was younger and played pretty frequently up until, you know, I started to have kids and so on and kind of took probably a short hiatus. And my father-in-law at the time played And we played a lot during that time as well. And then as you heard Richard and I talk, you know, we played a little bit when he was younger. And then as he got a little older and started having kids and then, you know, I actually started doing the daily program. because a lot of times we would go play in the late afternoons, evenings, things like that. I had the ability with a schedule to do some things along those lines. Well, now with being here as much as I am, frankly, and some would say, well, change your schedule around and go play in the morning. I could, other than I coach businesses in the morning, so I don't take as much time to do some of those things as I once did because I've got other things going on. And frankly, I enjoy doing those things as well. But yeah, I don't know why you guys can't imagine me golfing because i actually i i enjoy it so joe what's going on john regarding golf you know you should consider taking up long range shooting it's like golf except for real men i know i know long range shooting would be fun that's another one of those things though that you know as you know joe takes a lot of time and it's like golf you don't get good at it unless you go do it
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Right, but it's all the same thing. Which way is the wind blowing? There's all these variables you've got to take into account, and the object is to put the next bullet in the same hole as the first bullet. So it's just like golf, except for real men, John. Yeah. You're in a part of the country where I know there's some long-range outdoor ranges.
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Actually, no, I belong to a range where that's a very doable thing. It's just, as you can imagine, there's a lot of those things I would love doing, Joe, if I didn't spend so much time behind this microphone, I guess.
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Yeah, but the other good thing, too, is a round of golf is four, four and a half hours. You can go do some long-range shooting in 90 minutes, John. True, true. So, you know, it's a very doable, very, very doable sport. And, John, you know, you're to the age where, you know, I'm too old to fight and I can't run very fast anymore. Only shoot. But damn, can I shoot.
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Exactly. Exactly.
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So just my suggestion for when I turn up to golf for yourself and any of the older listeners like me.
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No, I am – and I love shooting and all that anyways, Joe. So, again, these are things that – it's funny. I grew up doing a ton of those things because my dad was very avid when it come to a lot of those different things we're talking about, whether it be golf or shooting or hunting and fishing and what have you. And on the same token, Joe, Colorado – this is not a complaint, but as a native, Colorado is not the same today as it was when I was in my – you know, elementary and teenage years and even on up into early adulthood. The state has definitely changed since then.
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It has. John, I moved there in 94. And at the time, I was a fairly avid golfer and where I built my house down in Larkspur, I was within walking distance, maybe a mile of a public golf course, beautiful golf course down there in Larkspur. But, you know, we had horses. And what I found, John, is that, you know, I had an airplane. So I was We had horses on nice days where horseback riding or I was flying my airplane. I was out doing some sporting clays. And all of those activities competed for the same nice sunny weather.
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Yep, sure did.
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So I said to myself, which one of these am I going to drop? And I looked back and I was only playing two or three rounds of golf a year, and I quickly figured out you can't stay proficient.
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You can't. No, you can't. And that's my problem today, Joe, when it comes to golf. And occasionally I'll get guys that will even ask me, hey, let's go out Sunday afternoon and go play a round or something along those lines. And it's just like, you know, I would, but now it's not enjoyable because you don't do it enough to actually make it good enough to where you're good enough at it to be enjoyable. Does that make sense, Joe?
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Yeah, so that's exactly why I stopped, John, because they go out and shoot you know, 104 is not pleasant. That's not pleasant. Or a fulfilling or enriching experience.
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You know, my feeling, Joe, is you've got to be at least in the high 80s or so, even low 80s to, you know, hopefully even get into the 70s. But if you can stay in that 80 range, that's not a bad day of golf for a novice, if you ask me. And a lot of people think, well, that's really a poor round of golf. You probably know the stats, Joe. How many golfers are actually in that range?
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John, I've got a very good friend who golfs two or three times a week, and if he shoots an 84 and 85, he's ecstatic.
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That's what I figured. And he's probably above average.
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Oh, he's above average. He goes on golfing vacations, and in fact, he just went to Florida to play golf, but you know, he's a member of a club. He pays a lot of member to be a member of a club.
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And again, he's, there's a lot of golfers, Joe, as you know, that are in the low one hundreds consistently.
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Oh yes.
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Am I wrong?
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No, you're not. You're not wrong, John.
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But again, Joe, like I was talking to the golf ball guy about the, the perception for most golfers is everybody shoots a 72. Oh, ball.
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Am I right though? No, I've played my next door neighbor in Colorado. He was a, Another avid golfer, he belonged, you know, he had clubs that were worth a thousand bucks. And, you know, he was a member and he golfed all the time. And the same deal, you know, and here's a guy, again, three, four times a week. And he was, you know, paying a thousand dollars a year more just to be a member of this club. And the best he could do was stay in the 80s.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. The problem is, like a lot of other things, Joe, most people consistently think that everybody around them shoots way better golf than they do.
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Yeah. So, John, next time somebody asks you to go play golf, why don't you say, hey, let's go shoot some sporting clays instead?
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Yeah. And actually, I would enjoy that as well. That'd be awesome.
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Have you shot sporting clays at any time or recently? Oh, yeah.
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Oh, yeah. I used to. Again, that was another one of those things back in my probably mid to late 20s. Actually, this is something that I had a good friend of mine that his wife shot competitively, so we would typically go out and shoot. I don't know. We'd probably go a couple times a week and shoot clay pigeons. Had a blast doing it.
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And by the way, that's one thing where age doesn't impede you.
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No. Joe, I've still got all the reloading stuff because I was shooting enough that I was reloading all my own 20-gauge shells at that time.
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Here's a little trivia. Who's the oldest person to ever compete in the Olympics and to compete in six consecutive Olympics?
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Wasn't that the sporting clay gal?
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Yeah, well, actually, it's Trapp, but yeah, Kim Rhodes.
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Right, Trapp, yeah.
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Kim Rosen, yeah, she's still competing at age 60-something.
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That's awesome.
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Years of age. So, you know, your ability to compete and excel is not generally impeded by age in that sport, but it is in other sports.
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Truthfully, for me, that's one of the funnest things you can go do.
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Yeah, break some clay birds.
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Yep, absolutely. Absolutely.
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All right, my two cents.
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Joe, appreciate you very much. Nope, I appreciate that. Bob, let me get you in before we go to a break. Go ahead.
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Short story. There's a man going out to the golf course. He's going to meet his three friends from work, and they're going to play a foursome. On the way, he stops to get gas.
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Okay.
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He gets in the car, didn't realize he left his glasses on the driver's seat, sat on them, and broke them. Without his glasses, he's blind as a bat. But he thinks, I'm closer to the golf course than I am home. I'll just creep along the curb. I'll get there. I'll deal with this later. He gets there. He talks to the pro, and he says, I broke my glasses. I can't see. Where are my three buddies? Oh, they couldn't wait for you. They went. He says, well, I'm here. I might as well play a few holes. Do you have a caddy that has good vision? He goes, I only got one caddy left. He's 80. He's got eyes like an eagle. Okay, I'll take them. They go out to the first box. He knocks one out 300-plus yards behind. Turns around to the caddy, says, did you see where that went? Caddy said, yep. Where is it? Caddy said, I forgot.
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That's a good one, Bob. Good story. Good one.
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These top golf places, they're gaining in popularity because they're 50 and under. Oh, 40 and under. And they say to their friends, hey, you want to play a game Saturday? Yeah, I like games. How long will it take? All day. No thanks.
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Yep. Go out to Topgolf. No, Bob, you are correct. Now, I will say this. People think I'll go there and actually save money. Shoot, no, Bob. It's the opposite. You spend more money at Topgolf than you would actually going out and playing around.
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Oh, I know. I pick them up and drop them off there. Yeah, you know.
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It's expensive. Yeah. No, I've only done it a couple of times for some invite parties and things where people invite you and you feel kind of obligated to go, so you go. And at the end of it, I'm like, I could have played a round of golf for this. Honestly. But anyways, to your point, they are gaining in popularity, absolutely.
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You know who owns Tapco?
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No, I do not, Bob.
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Callaway.
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Callaway. Okay, that makes sense. Yep. Yeah, okay, makes sense. Bob, thanks, man. That was a good story. Okay. Appreciate you very much. All right, up next, Golden Eagle Financial. Now, this is one where you don't want to laugh because Al does a really great job at helping people, financially speaking, get to where they want to go. Listen to Al's interview next.
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Al Smith from Golden Eagle Financial and the show you love, Retirement Unpacked, is here with me. How are you today, Al? I'm doing great. How are you, TJ? I'm doing great as well. I have a couple questions for you. As a financial advisor, do you also do taxes?
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No, I don't prepare my clients' taxes. I do, however, spend a lot of time talking to them about taxes. To use a sports analogy, tax preparation is like doing a recap of the game. What I do is more like creating a game plan and then following up over time to see how it's working.
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And how much are taxes a part of that game plan that you create?
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Well, with so many different taxes we're faced with, it becomes an important thing to take into consideration. It's not how much income you have, but how much you get to keep. In addition to federal and state income taxes, there's property taxes, state and local sales tax, and fees. And they all play a part in shrinking our income.
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What about people who already have really healthy balances in 401ks, IRAs? Won't they be facing significant taxes as they draw income from those accounts? Well, it depends.
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Everybody's situation's a little bit different. There's no one size that fits all when it comes to tax planning. But often when I work with people, we'll create a strategy where we will convert traditional IRAs to Roth over time. And that not only reduces taxes in the future, but it will also lower the tax they'll be paying on their Social Security.
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Is that kind of strategy really only for the wealthy?
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. And in the 3 o'clock hour, I talked a little bit about an interview that happened on another radio station, not KLZ, but another station here in town, one of the largest, by the way, so if that gives you any hint. And there was an interview done with some of the – two of the past GOP – Colorado GOP – The positions, vice chair and treasurer, they were both on this particular program. And I mentioned that during the 3 o'clock hour. I had a lot of you that had told me, hey, they're going to be on. You might want to listen in, which thank you for doing so because I wouldn't have known that otherwise because, as you guys all know, I don't listen to other people. I don't listen to any news. I don't watch TV. I might watch a particular program here or there, but I do very, very little. In fact, I will tell you that last week, and this is not a joke, I would think... From the time I got back from vacation, I had not watched any television. I sat down last night and watched a particular show online, and that's the first television, literally anything on the television that I had watched in almost two weeks. I just don't watch a lot of TV. So between that and news and other programs and so on, I don't watch anything at all. So unless you guys all tell me something is out there that I should be paying attention to, I don't. So in the case of today, it was about 2 o'clock, and several of you, and I appreciate it, but more than one of you, I think there was about six of you, believe it or not, that actually texted me and said, hey, you might want to listen at 2.30 to such and such going on this other particular radio station. And I said, okay, I will do that. So I tuned in, and I talked about this during the 3 o'clock hour, but a lot of you don't listen at 3, so I'll reiterate this now in this particular hour. So I did listen in, and again, I don't normally do that, but this particular host, who I have a lot of respect for, by the way, I like her dearly. Her and I think a lot alike. There's only probably a few things, period, that we ever disagree on, and she would probably say the same. Her and I have a lot of respect for one another, and I appreciate all that she does. And she brought these other individuals on in response to having Britta Horn on her program, which we've had Britta on as well. And this was all having to do with some of the money shortages that are in the Colorado GOP. What is the exact amount? There's numbers being thrown around of 140, 150K. I don't know what the actual number is. The explanation today that was given by the previous... uh treasurer and by hope the vice chair was like 95 000 is the exact number that was what was being now given out by tom the previous treasurer now You guys all have agreed with me on this one as well. As I listened to both Tom and Hope give explanations as to this dollar amount, it solidified everything that I have said, literally from almost day one of the Dave Williams regime taking over, being dumb as rocks. It was solidified today in this particular interview on another station. And most of you have texted me and have said exactly that. In fact, these were your words, not mine. You literally have been texting and saying, as I listened to that interview. In the back of my mind, I'm thinking, geez, John's talked about how dumb these people are all along, and we thought he was just exaggerating. I'm paraphrasing some of the text messages, but they're all pretty much the same text message. And literally, you were all saying how you thought I may have been exaggerating how ignorant and dumb these people really were that were running the Colorado GOP. It was solidified today that I was correct. In fact, some of you went as far as to say this other host did me a big favor By having them on because it literally showed how dumb they really are backing up what I've been saying for the past two years. So, A, thank you for the text messages. I guess I should thank this host openly, and I will. Thank you for doing that interview because these people won't come on my program. They've had lots of invites. They won't come on here. And I know why they won't because you're much kinder than I am. this particular host is much kinder than I am. But even today, she left the interview with, I really don't know what you guys have said. It's almost like the old, you know, where it's, I think it's Billy Madison to where Adam Sandler, you know, the teacher gets up there or the guy that's running the contest gets up there and basically says, I have no idea what you just said. The entire audience is now dumber for listening to that. That's literally what I heard on air today. Everybody is dumber now for listening to these two speak because nothing came of that that had any kind of intelligence to it whatsoever. Those of you that are fanboys of them, by the way, I have no idea how you defend what went on today. I have no idea. It was literally almost like Charlie Brown's teacher speaking today. It was that bad, and I'm not exaggerating. Wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah. That's literally all I heard. Not one legitimate answer as to what's going on, what had happened before versus what happened now. All I heard today was, you know, forensic audits are expensive. Yes, they are, although they're not as expensive as what was said today. Why one of them wasn't done when we're spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on attorneys to defend lawsuits that was initiated by the Colorado GOP is beyond me. And all I heard today was we had to do that so we could defend ourselves because we were being sued. No, you started all of this. Let me remind you, you started this. No one else did. You did. And the money spent was to defend what you started, which never should have been done in the first place. Like Andy and I have said numerous times, why did Dave not just hold the meeting that people wanted to get a vote of confidence in his leadership at that time and be done with it rather than spending all this money on attorneys? Which that money is now not being spent, but was all the way up until Dave leaving. That money was being spent on attorneys that frankly shouldn't have been. And this is something that hasn't been said that I keep saying. And I would hope that now, if we do an audit inside of the GOP, some of this stuff will come up. But the one thing I keep saying is this last administration, Dave and his cronies, talked about how much inside stuff went on with previous administrations, and yet Dave was king of it. The amount of money that was spent with his cronies... What I can look at in the FEC reports is far more than I've seen even happen previous inside of the Colorado GOP. And I've said it numerous times, the one party planner, Eric Grossman, who is now running Colorado Doge, I should say, Colorado Doge, which frankly is not even a legitimate thing from Doge. It's just something that's been started here in our state by this knucklehead. And I'm saying knucklehead because these are grifters. These are literally people that are just running around trying to get as much money squeezed out of the things that they can. And that's what Dave was doing with his cronies, literally handing out money to his political grifters. And it was proven today on air. And you can text me. If you don't know what the program I'm talking about, you can text me, and I'll tell you what that is. Most of you know because you were the ones telling me to listen, and I did. And the reality is all they did was prove what I've been saying for a very long time now. So, yes, I want to thank this host for actually doing that because she proved a lot of things that we already knew. But it's amazing to me. that the other side still doesn't understand why they are where they're at and why they're no longer in leadership. It's amazing to me along those lines. Let's take a quick break. We're at the bottom of the hour. Let me get on track because otherwise I'll get way off track. Geno's Auto Service is next. Great air conditioning special with right now all of your ACs in your cars are most likely being used. And if you find yourself in need of any AC work, give Geno's a call today. It's Geno's Auto Service dot com. And Geno starts with a J.
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The best export we have is common sense. You're listening to Rush to Reason.
SPEAKER 18 :
All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Again, appreciate y'all listening, and I do appreciate all of the text messages that I got earlier before the show even started today. John, what's going on, sir?
SPEAKER 07 :
You know, what you just did was very nice, considering she's kind of a competitor.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, she's a very good competitor, and her and I think a lot alike.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I listen to her show a lot at work. I work in a cubicle, and a lot of times I just put it on to have something in the background on my headphones.
SPEAKER 18 :
You know what I mean? Her and I at times, not regularly too, John, but her and I at times will communicate via some direct messaging here or there. So, again, she is one of those that is, let's just say, a very good egg.
SPEAKER 07 :
They're going to play. So going to the Colorado party, they're going to play this game. As long as they can, because they want power back in two years.
SPEAKER 18 :
You are correct.
SPEAKER 07 :
So they're going to do everything they can to make Britta look bad. You are right.
SPEAKER 18 :
They are going to basically do, to your point, they're going to do what they can to make her look bad. They're going to scrutinize and criticize literally everything she does, anything. In other words, any candidate that loses, they are going to definitely highlight and mark my words, they will compare what this particular track record is against their particular track record. And what they're forgetting is the track records really aren't comparable because they ran people in a huge Trump crowd. win election year where there was huge tides that were switched and changed. They're going to compare that to a midterm election, by the way, is what they're going to do. And the reality is they are not one in the same.
SPEAKER 07 :
Which is also a governor election, which would get the state of Colorado a better turnout than a lot of times in a midterm.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, even in a presidential election, you are correct. You're going to see more, especially in Colorado, you'll see more turnout most likely this next time around than you actually did the last time around.
SPEAKER 07 :
So going back to you were talking about Trump, you know what's got me shocked is everybody forgets. He wrote a super best-selling book called The Art of the Deal.
SPEAKER 19 :
Right.
SPEAKER 07 :
And there are a lot of people who are like, he's going to destroy the country. And like you and Andy, I know I looked at it and said, you know what? Let's see what happens in six months. I was giving him six months, but he's already got China in a deal. China's not going to change back again. They're going to find some way to make a deal where they can save face.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, that's the, as you know, that's the kind of Asian way, not just China, but that's kind of an Asian trade, if you would. And that's not to be derogatory. That's just their culture. That's the way it works.
SPEAKER 07 :
So Trump is going to negotiate a deal that's good for all parties that they can say face with. You know what I mean? At some point. He's got to give them something. That's like there were people upset about the deal with the U.K., because he gave them some automotive stuff that they said wasn't fair. But it was still, he made a better deal than we had before, right or wrong, you know. And, you know, I don't know when Jordan's on next, but... Oh, next month.
SPEAKER 18 :
We won't have him until June, and there'll be probably more of these sorts of deals even done by then, which will, frankly, go opposite of some of what Jordan, as you know from the last conversation we had last week, it's going to be opposite of what Jordan thinks.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, yeah, because I got a feeling that the market will be back... to where it was on January 20th or 21st when he took over. By the end of next month.
SPEAKER 18 :
And I don't remember when he took over. It closed out today. I was wrong earlier. I said $45,000 because I just looked quickly. It was $42,410. So almost $42,500 was pretty close to it. $42,410 is the exact number, up 2.8% from where it was. Now, keep in mind, where it went from a week or so ago, it's way up from where it was a week or so ago. Okay.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. And it was 44 and change on the, when he took office, when he got sworn in.
SPEAKER 18 :
So he's not that, he's not that far off.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, another two days like today and it's back, but you know, there's every time we have a nice two, two and a half percent jump in a Dow, the S and P and the NASDAQ, there's always people out there that are going to pull some money out.
SPEAKER 18 :
True.
SPEAKER 07 :
So you might be a 500 point day, or you might see a drop day. That's just the way the market works. I mean, When everybody was panicking, I told them all, unless you're selling, you didn't lose a thing.
SPEAKER 18 :
No, that's very true. No, if people are in this for, quote-unquote, the long haul, you know, people that are maybe even a little bit less risk-tolerant today, maybe they're in their early 60s and aren't going to start pulling out of that for another 10 years or so, you've still got 10 years, John.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. And if you look back on every 10 years, including the Depression, the market's all the way always up.
SPEAKER 18 :
Right. One thing, too, really quick.
SPEAKER 07 :
I'll let somebody else jump in.
SPEAKER 18 :
No, you're fine. One thing that people forget, too, John, along these same lines, is that, and I saw this in the Wall Street Journal today, we have collected in April alone, not counting the other months, but in April alone, we collected $16.3 billion in customs duties.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. And, you know, the tariffs are going to go up. It's just everything takes time. If you want to go with Trump... You know, everybody's mad at him because he says he'll give you a plane ticket and $1,000 to self-deport. Oh, he's going to waste our money. It costs $17,000. How's that a waste?
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, thank you. That's a savings.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, because it costs $17,000 to deport someone, to go through the process and all the extra things where if they just say, I'm leaving, give me a ticket, give me my check when I get on a plane, and they're gone. Well, that's even better, in my opinion, because you're not putting... law enforcement lives in jeopardy at the same time.
SPEAKER 18 :
And now they're all up in arms because Qatar is going to give us a 747 that I believe he's going to convert around to a third Air Force One because Boeing can't get their, sorry, crap together to get things built. That's a whole other conversation I could do an entire show on, John. But at the end of the day, he's getting criticism now from the left because he's going to accept as a gift a $400 million airplane that Qatar is giving us as the United States of America. Yeah, it's not a freebie, by the way. He'll have to upfit that, or we as taxpayers will have to upfit that to make sure it meets what needs to happen with Air Force One. So we're still going to spend money, but the initial cost we're not.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, and here's the other thing. People have said on social media, you know, We shouldn't accept it because they're our enemy and it's possible that they'll, you know, plant a bomb or something inside of it.
SPEAKER 18 :
That thing will be gutted and gone through anyways. That's irrelevant.
SPEAKER 07 :
Exactly. How stupid are these people? You know, the Secret Service will go through it with a fine-tooth comb. And other people are saying, well, they're our enemy. Well, maybe they're trying to find a way not to be our enemy. Could that be it? Maybe this is a peace gesture?
SPEAKER 18 :
Let me just say this. There's a lot of folks out there that I would consider to be enemies of the United States and Qatar, by the way, not being one of them. There are a lot of countries in the Middle East that are much, much, much higher on that ranking than they are.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, yeah. But, you know, even if they were, you know, not an enemy, not an ally, just a neutral party and they want to get on our good side, You know, there's a good way. They give us an airplane. We maybe give them.
SPEAKER 18 :
And I'm confused. I mean, even doing a quick AI, you know, Google search of, and it's Qatar, actually, I'm not saying that right. We always say Qatar, but it's actually Qatar. I mean, even when you do a quick AI search, they are not considered an enemy of the United States. So where's that coming from, John?
SPEAKER 07 :
The lunatics on the right, just like we have lunatics on the left.
SPEAKER 18 :
They are considered, and this is coming right out of Google. This is right from Google, which, by the way, is about as left-leaning as you can get, John, as you know. They are designated as a major non-NATO ally.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 18 :
So they are not our enemy. So any lefty saying that is a total dodo head.
SPEAKER 07 :
And the crazies all the way on the right are just as bad as the lefties.
SPEAKER 18 :
Sorry, I was listening to those guys earlier before I came on air at 3 o'clock, so they fit that description as well.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, yeah. And I didn't get to hear the interview that you were talking about, but if anybody wants to hear it, I know all of that person's interviews are usually... on that station's website within about an hour of her going off the air.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, typically you can listen to those tonight if you wanted to. It was a 2.30 interview today is when it was.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, yeah. I had heard earlier in the show when she was talking about the Rockies. I didn't hear you. Did you talk about that with Richard? The Rockies?
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah. What's there to talk about? I missed something. What's going on?
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, they fired their manager yesterday.
SPEAKER 18 :
Oh, I did not see that. I paid little attention to the Rockies. Sorry.
SPEAKER 07 :
I know. You're not a baseball guy. Yeah, they fired their manager yesterday.
SPEAKER 18 :
If we were better, and I think this is the problem the Rockies have in general, not to get completely switching gears here, but while we're at it, let's talk about it. I think if the Rockies actually had some performance, you'd have more fans because the reality is, like I said a moment ago, what's there to talk about?
SPEAKER 07 :
No. Well, here's the thing. That's why the Monforts don't care about the product they're putting on the field because Because in that game Friday night, did you see that 21-0 they lost?
SPEAKER 18 :
Oh, jeez. I did not see that, no.
SPEAKER 07 :
Wow. Okay. They had more Padre fans in the stands than they had Rockies fans because you've got to admit, you've got a lot of transplants in Colorado from all over the country.
SPEAKER 18 :
You do. You do.
SPEAKER 07 :
And unlike some people, my allegiance has not changed for baseball since I was seven years old and started watching the Mets. And I still do.
SPEAKER 18 :
Mine hasn't either because I've never been a fan.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. But what I'm saying is, if you moved to Arizona, would that stop you from being a Bronco fan?
SPEAKER 18 :
Oh, absolutely not. Of course not.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. That's why I moved here, but I didn't stop being a Giants fan. What I'm saying is fan allegiance goes a lot deeper than where you live. You know what I mean?
SPEAKER 18 :
Oh, you're correct.
SPEAKER 07 :
Good point. And that's the problem with the Rockies. Now, the Yankees are coming to town, I believe, Memorial Day weekend. I bet you there's sellouts. There's so many Yankee fans around the country. I bet you they get sellouts, and the Rockies are the worst team in baseball.
SPEAKER 18 :
You are probably correct on that, yes.
SPEAKER 07 :
And so... What does Monfort care if he puts a crap product on the field when he's getting sellouts because the opposing team's fans are showing up?
SPEAKER 18 :
Good point.
SPEAKER 07 :
And that's where he doesn't care. He doesn't want to win. He just wants to make money. We had that problem with the Mets in the early 2010s. New owner bought the team. and all of a sudden he spent money, he got the team, now they're in first place. You know, you've got to have a system in place. But, yeah, you didn't hear that. So the Rockies fired their manager today, and I felt bad for the guy because he was given a crappy product. They won't spend money on free agents.
SPEAKER 19 :
Right.
SPEAKER 07 :
So I thought Richard might have brought it up. I didn't hear all of Richard when I was out here working.
SPEAKER 18 :
No, and we were talking more golf than we were baseball today.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right, and I heard that interview.
SPEAKER 18 :
That was an interesting interview. It was, absolutely. I learned things I didn't know. Let's just say that. Well, John, you have a good rest of your day.
SPEAKER 07 :
You too, man.
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All right, one thing I wanted to touch on today, I'm not going to have a lot of time to speak to this, but I can get this done, I think, in this amount of time. And that is there was an article in the Colorado Sun today about AmeriCorps workers. Am I saying that right? Is it AmeriCorps or AmeriCorps? AmeriCorps. that Dodge, Doge I should say, is cutting their funding. And really quick, some of you are always probably wondering, why do you always say Dodge? Well, when you're a car guy, it's always seen in big cap letters, D-O-G-E. Yeah, I know the D is missing, but as a car guy, you just automatically, my brain goes to Dodge. I don't know why. It's just, I guess because in my world, that's a name. logo whatever that i've seen so many times you know growing up even that it's hard to get that out of my mind so sorry there are times yes where i make a mistake and say dodge instead of doge just because that's how my my brain works but there's people in the state right now that are upset because doge is cutting funding for the americors now some might say well okay doge Yeah, that sounds like a big deal. Why are we doing that? Well, as you read through this particular article, I'll just read a little bit of this to you. I won't get very far. When Jackie Curry was a sophomore at the University of Denver, she needed cash to keep her afloat as she worked towards her degree in environmental science. Now, okay, I get the fact that you need cash. That's great. Unfortunately, Jackie's in a field where, frankly, there's not a lot of money, so you're probably going to need a handout from this point forward because environmental science is one of those areas that doesn't necessarily pay a lot. Anyways. So she did what a lot of college kids who parents aren't footing their education bill do. She went to the work-study office where a counselor helped her find a job with the DU's Center for Community Engagement to Advance Scholarship and Learning. Her duties took her to K-12 classrooms across Metro Denver, where she asked kids what they would like to see in their community. One class was highly concerned about gun violence, so Curry helped bring in Frank DeAngelis, principal of Columbine High School during the 1999 shooting, to speak to them about the implications of gun violence and the importance of prevention. Oh, I'm glad she got that done. Good for her. We kind of looked at things through a social justice lens, just what I want K-12 kids learning. That's my comment, not hers, by the way. In a way that K-12 students could understand, she said that makes sense because her job at the center came from AmeriCorps, the billion-dollar federal agency for national service and volunteerism, which, by the way, is rooted in social justice. No, I'm not going to continue on. I mean, it talks about how much of a footprint that the AmeriCorps organization has here in Colorado and blah, blah, blah. Now, I will tell you straight up that all I had to read was three paragraphs to realize that, yep, let's cut their funding. We don't need that. Total, utter nonsense. In other words, we as taxpayers – make sure I clean this up for you guys. You're all going to know what I'm going to say, but we as taxpayers – have been funding the indoctrination of young people on this whole social justice nonsense, rather than teaching them what 2 plus 2 is and so on. No, we're going down this path of social justice, and let's make sure the kids understand how guns are bad and blah, blah, blah. That's what we're spending money on as taxpayers that Doge cut off. In other words, it should have been cut off. Should have been doing it in the first place. But, of course, all of the left is up in arms and they're crying because Doge is cutting this and Doge is cutting that. And the reality is it never should have been there to begin with. Never should have done that to begin with. And my feeling is that some of these particular organizations, if they were really that needed and they were really doing that much good, you could go find funding to make that happen outside of the federal government, outside of my tax dollars. There are lots of organizations, by the way. One of them is Preborn that we talk about on the National Crawford Roundtable. Those are helping carrying pregnancy centers. They do ultrasounds of moms so they can see what's inside the womb and on and on. You've heard me talk about that on the Roundtable. So has Bob. And the reality is they don't receive federal funding. They're able to do the work that they do that's near and dear to them and to people like me that donate. They find ways to make things work. If there's something that really is effective and it's doing a great job, it will find funding all on its own. Am I right, Charlie? You will find ways to get the money in and provide for what's going on without my tax dollars funding it. In my opinion, and I don't think I'm far off in this, when agencies are funded with tax dollars, they are a lot less responsible in those dollars that come in. They feel a lot more free to just go spend willy-nilly on whatever they feel they need to because they know they're going to get that much money or more back next year because that's how the system has always worked. It's not now. It's being really cut back. My fear is, unless we get some really significant changes out of Congress, my fear is these things will be back the minute there's an administration change. These things will all just get refunded again. In fact, I could even hear the next president candidate for, you know, the Democrat candidate for president. I can just hear that person coming out saying, yep, I'll make you a promise. All these things that have been cut under Donald Trump, I'm going to bring them back on day one. I'll sign an executive order to, you know, reinstitute all of that funding all over again. Now, they can't really do that, but that's what they'll run on. That's what they'll try to promise. All of you that thought you were going to have a job the minute that Donald Trump was elected and your job was taken away from you because the funding was cut, we're going to bring that back. Trust me, that's what they're going to run on. Because there's a certain amount of individuals, folks on the left especially, that yeah, their funding did get cut, yeah, their job was gone, and they're mad. Their pet project, their pet job went away. And the thing that everybody forgets is it's been tax dollars funding that. My dollars, your dollars. Those of us that are positive taxpayers, that's our money. Going up in smoke in a lot of cases. Or in this case, it's indoctrinating young kids. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that. This money has been going to indoctrinate young kids. It's ridiculous. It shouldn't be that way. So keep in mind that we as a state, because of our AG, Phil Weiser, who is going to run for governor here in Colorado, he is one of the attorney generals that has filed lawsuits against the federal government for these very things that I am talking about. That's something that our side needs to start really messaging correctly on, no matter who ends up being our gubernatorial candidate on the Republican side. And right now there's about six or seven that have thrown their hat into the ring. Whoever ends up coming out on top and running against whomever it is going to be, and I don't know exactly who the left is even going to run as far as that goes, they're still having their debates internally. But when it's all said and done, we need to make sure that we're big on this. Phil Weiser is liable to be your guy on the left, although I could be wrong in that. It could end up being somebody else. I'm not sure the left really knows right now who their top candidate's going to be, but it will be somebody. And they will run somebody strong when it's all said and done. Trust me on that. They're better at that than we are. They're better at getting together collectively and getting behind a candidate than we are. We're too busy worrying about whether you're grassroots enough or not, as I talked about in the 3 o'clock hour. We have no idea how our strategy – I shouldn't say we. I think it's better. Britta and her team should do a better job of that. But I tell you what, they've got an uphill climb because these lunatics that are on the far right are going to make her life absolutely miserable. They will. They will make her life as miserable as possible. That is their goal. John from Cheyenne talked about that a moment ago. And yes, that's exactly what they will do. But we need to use examples of this and even what Phil Weiser as AG is doing when it comes to the wasted money that we as taxpayers have been spending. That needs to be highlighted, needs to be a central part of our message moving forward. And I'm here to tell you that the far righties that I was talking about earlier, that won't be their message. I can tell you that right now. So... Veteran Windows and Doors is up next. 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All right, that's it for this fine Monday, May the 12th. Have a fabulous evening, and most of all, be safe. Enjoy the great weather that we're having. Be a little cooler as we get towards midweek, but enjoy the great weather we're having right now. Stay cool, and we'll be back tomorrow, same time, same place, myself and Charlie. And Andy will join me tomorrow, by the way. This is Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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My advice to you is to do what your parents did. Get a job, sir.
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You haven't made everybody equal. You've made them the same, and there's a big difference.
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Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there. It is this feeling that has brought you to me.
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Are you crazy? Am I? Or am I so sane that you just blew your mind?
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It's Rush to Reason with your host, John Rush, presented by Cub Creek Heating and Air Conditioning.
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All right, we are back. Hour number two, Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Appreciate you all listening, by the way. And I've got a special guest joining us right now, which I'm excited about because there's some things going on in the golfing world that I know nothing about, especially with golf balls. Keith Blakely joining us now. Keith, welcome. How are you?
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I'm good.
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How are you? I'm doing very well. And I will just tell you straight up, Keith, that I love golf. Don't play near as much as I would like to. My boys and I used to play quite a bit when they were younger and didn't have families of their own. And they're raising kids, so you know what that means. It's always a little bit harder to get out on the course. But the nice thing about golf is we can always go back to it. It's not that big of a deal. Golf clubs can sit around, and I'll get back to them at some point in time here. You are going to tell me about the overhyped, overpaid, and underperforming golf balls that are out there that this is something I know very little about, by the way.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, there's a lot of golf balls out there, that's for sure. There are millions of dozens of golf balls sold every year. And Encore Golf just happens to be one of the many names that you can find online or in various pro shops and that sort of thing. But We believe that we have, in essence, changed the paradigm of tour golf balls with technology. And that's something that a lot of folks like to talk about, but very few actually have achieved. And we're excited about what we've accomplished so far and really excited about what's still to come.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay, so I guess first things first. Give us a little history, and this I have done. I've watched a few videos of late, not because of you guys. Actually, before you even came along and I had a press release for you or an opportunity to do an interview, I had actually, believe it or not, been looking at Some of the changes that had happened from golf balls way back when. And, you know, at one time, as you know, they were all, you know, kind of spiral wound, big rubber bands, if you would. And then that technology changed and so on. And so I followed along a little bit of that and watched some of the technology. But I honestly will tell you, Keith, that other than knowing the changes that have been made, I have no idea where we're at in today's world, technologically speaking, when it comes to golf balls.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, what's interesting is that there are rules that have been in place that govern how well a golf ball can actually perform under some standard test conditions. And these are rules that the USGA and the RNA, Royal and Ancient, have imposed on all golf ball manufacturers. So when you look at the evolution in golf ball construction and golf ball technology over the years, you have to put it in the perspective that there is a limit to how far a golf ball is permitted to fly under standard test conditions. There's a limit to how fast it's It's allowed to come off the face of the club. There's a limit in how much it can weigh. There's a limit in its size. And it has to be a symmetrical product so that you can't create really unusual spin characteristics so that you never hook or slice. And so the difference between... Okay, I got to stop.
SPEAKER 09 :
Hang on. I got to stop you for a moment. So you're telling me that you could create a ball that would eliminate my slice?
SPEAKER 07 :
There used to be a ball that could absolutely eliminate your slice. The problem was it was going to go about 40 to 60 yards shorter than you would like it to go or that a normal ball would go. It would go straight, but it wouldn't go very far.
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But at the end of the day, if I'm in the fairway versus off someplace chasing my ball down, isn't that still better?
SPEAKER 07 :
It depends on your game. And most, most people who bought that ball, I think it was called the Polaro.
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Okay.
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And, and the folks, it was written up in the New York times. And of course, everybody read about it and they sold a bazillion a dozen right away. But I don't think there were too many people who bought it a second time. And I think that was because of that, that drop off in distance, even though you want to be in the fairway, you know, that the moment you tee your golf ball up, what are you trying to do? You're trying to drive it, you know, 200, 300 yards, whatever your, your capability is, and you'll take the chance of it going a little bit right or a little bit left, even though, like most of us, it goes a lot right or a lot left.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, yeah. I think if most people are really serious about their game and having a lower score, having that less distance but keeping it in the fairway would be better. But, hey, we're digressing. Tell me about you guys' ball. And I'm learning. I knew that there were some – limitations to what could be done because of rules, I guess just like you could talk about a baseball or a football or a basketball and so on. The difference, though, in those cases, those balls are just being thrown, they're being caught, they're being hit with a baseball bat, or they're being, in the case of basketball, thrown through a net. When it comes to golf, that's a whole different world, is it not?
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, it totally is. And part of the reason is that you've got so many different things that you want to do with that ball. As I said, you know, you want to drive it 300 yards, but then you want to be able to put a lot of backspin on it to, you know, land on the green and grab.
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Right.
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And then you want it to roll perfectly straight. So there's. There's different types of impact, different types of performance expectations that all have to come from the same product, that same golf ball, because you're not permitted to switch golf balls.
SPEAKER 09 :
I wanted you to explain that because that's something that I did know is once you get rolling, quote unquote, that that's the ball that you're playing with. And throughout tournament play, for example, you're not allowed to switch things up, correct?
SPEAKER 07 :
That's correct. Unless you damage the ball and it's unplayable, and even then you have to replace it with essentially the same type of ball, the same model.
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In other words, you're not allowed to drive with one, go out there in a fairway because you know now you're going to either be chipping up onto the green or maybe you're doing your second shot because it's a long 500-yarder. Reality is you're not changing that ball mid-play in that particular scenario, correct?
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Correct, and that's why the balls that we have developed are finding such tremendous interest amongst good golfers because they combine the ability to achieve significant distance improvements over a lot of other golf balls without losing the ability to perform really well in the short game with spin rates, with feel, and with what we call perimeter weighting, which not only leads to, I'll say, more accurate putting because it's kind of like a wide track tire. But actually off the tee, that perimeter weighting leads to a tighter shot dispersion and more stability in the wind, both of which are going to keep you closer to the middle of the fairway.
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Okay, so give me some insight into Encore and what you guys are doing that separates you from what – let me back up for a moment, Keith. What are currently a lot of the other quote-unquote name brand – and if you can talk about it, fine. If not, you want to move on, that's okay as well. But what are the other name brand golf balls doing that's different from you guys?
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Well, most of the name brand golf balls are doing a lot of the same things. There are different architectures for golf balls. Some balls have what they call are two-piece. Some are three-piece. Some are four-piece. TaylorMade has the TP5, which is a five-layer golf ball. And they all talk about the ability to control spin rates or lead to higher launch angles or lower launch angles for other people. To be honest, there's a lot of marketing and not really a lot of technology that's involved in that. We came to the market originally, believe it or not, with a golf ball that was made using a hollow metal core. And the purpose behind that, coming back to your early question about keeping it in the fairway, is that by shifting the weight from the inside of the ball to the outside, what you basically do is you slow down the side spin when you miss hit the ball off the tee. And that does tend to reduce the hooking or slicing. And as long as you can do that without a distance penalty, you now have a superior product. Unfortunately, The fact is that there is a slight distance penalty when you use that hollow metal core. So over the years, with the expertise that our ball designers had and our background with advanced materials and nanotechnology, we were able to come up with an alternative, which is to put some very heavy materials. close to the surface of the golf ball, but still rely on a solid rubber core, which is what all of the big OEM golf balls use today. No longer do they use the liquid core or the wound cores that you described with rubber bands. Everybody's gone to solid polybutadiene rubber cores. We can do the same, but now we can keep that perimeter weighting effect that we used to get with a hollow metal core by loading up what's called the mantle layer. with very heavy metals and that that gives us that performance advantage unique spin characteristics and just tremendous performance across the board so it is a superior product but it's not being priced at a superior product level so we're making it accessible and you know very affordable for folks who are more casual golfers but really want to get the best performance they can out of that one piece of equipment they use on every stroke.
SPEAKER 09 :
Dumb question on my part. Why isn't others doing what you're doing? In other words, why have the quote-unquote legacy golf ball makers that have been around, and I won't name names, but they've been around, as you know, Keith, forever, and to give them some credit, they've made some advancements and did some things, technologically speaking, that probably was really great in their day, but it's almost like they fell off. Why aren't they doing what you're doing?
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Well, to a certain extent, most of them don't feel the need to. In other words, they're not seeing the kind of lost market share that I'd like them to see from Encore Golf. I think at some point they will all try to develop their own version of this. But we do believe, again, that we've got some unique characteristics. We have some patents that have issued. At the end of the day, we're really kind of a niche company. golf ball company that's bringing high performance to a community of golfers that don't feel that they have to play the same ball that, you know, whoever, you know, pick your pro.
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Pick your pro, right.
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And if people give it a try and find that the ball performs better for them than what they've been using, they'll generally stick with it because it's, you know, Again, the golf ball really does impact your score more than almost anything. And, of course, it's a lot less costly than a new driver.
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Absolutely. Okay, so I do know this. This is one thing that I kind of learned. learned years ago because I myself, I'm not a great golfer, Keith. A, I don't play near enough is what you should to really be good. Golf to me is one of those games that if you really want to get good at it, it's like anything else. You got to practice, practice, practice, play more golf. You get better the more you play. Maybe I'm wrong in that, but I think it's a memory-type sport to where you've got to get that mechanism and that memory down. The more you do, the better you get at it. Yes, I understand that there's things that you can practice on and change, and that's where pros come in. The trainers, I guess I should say, the golf pros can come in and kind of help you with that. your swing and correcting certain things and bad habits and so on. But I also know this, Keith, there's not that many scratch golfers out there. In other words, there's not as many good golfers on the course as what most people would think there are. I think we all have in this, you know, in the back of our head that, oh man, so-and-so's, you know, way better than I am, or this guy's way better, or that person's way better. You know, at the end of the day, I don't think there's that many really, really great golfers. I think there's some guys out there that think they're better than what they really are. So my point is, why wouldn't anybody want to try your ball to improve their game?
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We think that anyone that hears about us and understands what the affordability aspect of it is and understands that there is real technology involved would want to. That doesn't mean that everybody will switch. Again, for a variety of reasons, a lot of guys that play country clubs, whether they're scratch golfers or they're in the 90s, don't want to be seen with anything other than a Pro V1. But a lot of guys that have played Pro V1s and tried our balls, they tell me, yeah, the Pro V1's in my swag bag. I'm playing the Vero X1 or the Vero X2, which are Encore models of tour balls because they're getting more distance, they're getting tighter shot dispersion, and they love how it feels.
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Yeah, I'm one of those, Keith, where, frankly, I've never been one to where I care what the name is on the clubs that are in my bag, the bag itself, the ball. I mean, I'm one of those where it's like, listen, at the end of the day, if I can do something that will help me hit the ball straighter and be a better golfer and have more fun at the end of the day, because what I mean by that, and as you know, Keith, the less zigzagging around the course you do, the more fun you have, in my opinion.
SPEAKER 07 :
Absolutely. And you are right about the practice element. Golf is one of those games that it is tough to get better if you aren't somehow routinely getting out on the course. It's just tough. All right.
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Tell everybody listening how they can buy your golf balls.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, the easiest way is to go to the website, which is www.oncore.com. There's actually a ball fitting that they can do that lets them put some information in about their golf game or about their swing speed, about the things that they like, what kind of ball they might be playing with if they know right now. And it'll guide you to one of the four different golf ball models that we offer to try and give the best results with the initial trial and results. First-time users, I think, get an automatic discount applied to the price of the golf balls.
SPEAKER 09 :
Nice, nice. Well, Keith, hey, I've learned a lot. I appreciate you. And, again, I learned a lot just by reviewing some things prior to you coming on. And I, for one, knew that the golf ball itself mattered, although until talking to you I didn't know how much it mattered. So thank you for taking time to really sort of expose this, if you would, and give us an opportunity to – in most cases, by a golf ball that at the end of the day will improve people's game.
SPEAKER 07 :
Absolutely. Happy to do that.
SPEAKER 09 :
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All right, we are back. And some of you asking me about golf, by the way, and, you know, how much do I play? And have I ever been to this particular, you know, place to buy gear and this, that, and the other? Folks, I'll just be straight up honest. I don't play enough golf anymore to invest in hardly anything. And I, you know, if this last... a guest that we had on even asked if he could send me, you know, a sleeve of balls. I mean, I would probably take them and probably loan them or give them out, not loan them. I would give them out to somebody else that I know plays some, because I don't play enough golf anymore to even accept a, you know, sleeve of, of golf balls, to be honest with you, because I just don't play enough. And, and I, I do enjoy playing. I love being in the outdoors and being around the course. It's fun and it's beautiful. To me, it's actually somewhat relaxing as long as you're hitting the golf ball fairly well. Surprisingly enough, I have lots of friends that play a lot of golf that are actually very good golfers. at golf I've got some clients actually that play golf that are extremely good at golf but I just with all of the things going on right now in my world and so on and you know could I even play some golf on vacation and such yeah I could but frankly I just don't to me dragging clubs around and doing all the things it takes to actually play golf I just don't have time and you know Richard and he's joining us now but you know the boys and I we used to play you know, quite a bit, Richard, you know this, and you guys were younger and we had a lot more time. We actually played, you know, a fair amount of golf at one point in time, but life changes and maybe we'll get back to it at some point. But, you know, either you or I right now play a lot of golf.
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You know, it is a great game. It's a fun game. It's a frustrating game, right? We all, I think we've all experienced all of the above with golf, right? It's the biggest, you know, it's the funnest, most frustrating game there is out there, right? Because The only thing that keeps you coming back in golf is your occasional really good shot that you hit. It's the hardest part for it, but at the same time, it's the best part for it. The biggest thing with golf is the time that it takes. It's just a It's just a hard thing to do.
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Somebody asked me that they can't picture me playing golf because they don't picture me having the patience to play. And, Richard, you've played with me. You can attest that, no, when we get out there and I set the time aside and we've got this block of time that we know we've got the ability to play and so on and all of that, no, I actually don't throw – you know, temper tantrums or I'm not one of those guys that goes out there and throws clubs into the water and all of that. I'm not that guy. I actually do enjoy it. And even when I hit a bad ball, I'm like, OK, well, you know, I'm not a pro. It really isn't affecting the way, you know, my day ends or starts tomorrow. So at the end of the day, as long as we all have fun, I really don't care. So, yeah, no, I'm definitely Richard, as you know, somebody that can go out and have fun and enjoy playing and so on. And I don't take it that seriously, I guess. Maybe that's the way to say it.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, and I know a lot of golf, and even the president, right? President Trump, golf is one of his outlets. I know people give him a hard time, and sometimes it's justified. I feel like he's playing golf quite a bit. But a lot of times, deal-making is done on golf courses for a lot of people. A lot. A lot is. And it's done to do business and to get to know people. And you can, right? I mean, granted, I feel like when I'm doing business with people, I like to do something that I'm good at, sort of a situation. But that's neither here nor there. And so it is. It's just a time-consuming thing. As you know, especially when you have young kids, it's a harder thing for me to do just because it takes me the time to go out. Even if you only play nine holes or a par three, it's a lot to go take two hours to go do something. I'm not saying it's wrong. I'm not saying people who play golf is wrong. It's just one of those sports that takes a little bit more time to get into. Yeah.
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Well, and I think for me, and you are looking at it, and you've learned this from me, when I had kids and a family and had lots of things going on personally, and I know everybody's different, and I'm not attacking anybody that does this, Richard, you know that, but I just always felt like I had a lot of kids and had things and obligations at home, and there were different things we needed to do. Honestly, I felt like you guys were more important than me going out and playing a round of golf, and I felt like it was important for me to be there to help. You know, your mom, we had a large family. There was a lot going on. And I just didn't feel like it was right for me to be out, you know, enjoying myself on the golf course while everybody else was still at home having to do all sorts of other things. And again, I'm not against any guys that would go and do that. And I know everybody needs their own, you know, mental release from time to time. And I understand all of that. I just personally for me, this is for me only. I just felt like I needed to be home and I worked a lot out. You know, again, I was one of those guys. you know, you know, I've been self-employed literally my entire adult life. And I worked so much on top of the things you and I are talking about. I didn't have a 40 hour a week job. And maybe if I did, I wouldn't have felt as bad going out and playing golf, but no, I worked, you know, 60 to 80 hours and I just couldn't see, you know, going out and spending another five or six playing golf and everybody else was at home.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, I'm with you. I agree. It's again, it's, You sort of change and learn. And now, again, this is not to say, because I also know a lot of people that are good people, good family guys. And I know a lot of people also take their younger kids with them on the golf course. Right, Dad? Right. It's one of those things.
SPEAKER 09 :
But in today's day and age... And by the way, as you got older, when you boys got older, we did do some of that. And that's where we did play some golf and we had some fun. But for you guys, that didn't happen until you got old enough to really be able to walk the course and honestly not be... You know, quote unquote, having to be drug around the course when you guys were able to actually walk around the course and do it on your own. We did some of those things and we had a lot of fun. And, you know, now a different season of life is here.
SPEAKER 08 :
Exactly. No, I'm with you 100 percent. And again, it's just it's just one of those things that's just a little bit. A little bit different. Not a bad thing. It just kind of is what it is.
SPEAKER 09 :
Right. And again, I'm not trying to belittle anybody that goes and does those things. Now, really quick, because I'm not sure if you heard the last interview, but reality is the last guy that I interviewed has a golf ball. that I do believe for a lot of golfers out there, it's called Encore Golf, I think for a lot of not pro golfers, but guys that are just out there trying to do the best they can and have fun, he's got a golf ball, frankly, that will work for most individuals, and each golf ball tailored to your style of golf and what you're struggling the most with. revolutionary by the way that hasn't that you you haven't seen that you and i've talked about that on the golf ball end of things before just you know kind of one-on-one never on air but reality is there hasn't been a lot of quote-unquote golf ball changes for quite some time truthfully i mean even though guys will tell you that we got the best golf ball out there it isn't a whole lot different than the one they put out last year you know i i just i struggle sometimes i know you know a lot of people right there's lots of you know talk about you know a
SPEAKER 08 :
pro v you know the pro v ones right and you know bridgestone and all these different you know all these different types of of of golf balls out there i wish and maybe it sounds like your last interview was the case and it was sort of a i feel i wish it was a situation maybe he's getting there where you could tailor right you know they make clubs right they make clubs for beginners they make clubs for for non you know for more experienced guys they do make They do make golf balls better, like you say. At least they say they do for people who can control it better or whatever it is. I want the most forgiving clubs and forgiving golf ball out there. Yeah, it may not go as far. It may not give me the control, right, because you've got to sacrifice – Some of that, you know, one thing in order to get the other, right? You can't have a really forgiving golf ball, but something that gives you a lot of control either. I just want something that, you know, if maybe I slice it, you know, super far, it's not going to go that far, right? For something about the ball.
SPEAKER 09 :
And it's interesting because everything you're saying, they actually have a, you know, quote unquote, you know, dial in your game. So there's actually a questionnaire that as a golfer, you can go through that talk about you, your game, what you maybe struggle with, and they will, tell you, okay, this is the ball, this is our ball that you should be using to help you with your game.
SPEAKER 08 :
Fascinating. And I think that's a, well, and again, there is an untapped market there because I do know the game of golf, it grew, it sort of took a step back, and then during COVID, especially because it was about the only thing you could get out and do, but then they were weird about the flag sticks and everything, so you hold on to the conversation there. I'm with you. I think that there's room for that, right, Dad? Because you can get It's just one of those things. Let me take a step back. It's one of those things golf is where you have to do it a lot in order to enjoy it. I feel like you have to get good at it. Right. You have to practice and you have to get better and you have to do certain things. And I just feel like sometimes sometimes even these these courses and even these these club makers, they sort of make stuff for the pro user. And at times I wish they made stuff for just the average user.
SPEAKER 09 :
I agree. Anyways, it's an interesting question here for those of you guys that are out there listening where you're thinking about, well, maybe I could do something along these lines. Okay, well, you know what? Just there you go. You could actually be, you know, because a lot of people, by the way, Richard, will pick balls based upon what they see their favorite, you know, pro golfer playing with or they like this color or they like the swoosh or on and on we go. And frankly, Richard, I think there's a lot of people out there that, you know, They don't know one ball from another, but what they don't realize is that ball is making a difference in their game, and they don't even realize it.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, and like you say, it sounds like this is the way to maybe be able to do that as far as, you know, kind of helping. helping people that maybe didn't even realize they needed help, you know?
SPEAKER 09 :
Right. There you go. Okay. China, the trade deals. I talked a little bit about that. I know you and I were going to talk a little bit about that as well. We don't have a ton of extra time. Sorry I used enough of that talking about golf balls. I just find it fascinating because the whole golf ball thing to me is just – Absolutely fascinating, knowing that they could actually even make improvements to the ball that would even make the ball do, you know, make the make the scores even come down farther for some of these guys, which is a whole nother conversation when it comes to the courses and how tough they can get in pin placement and and and. But the reality is, believe it or not, they could make a ball. They would actually even make these pro guys better than they are right now, which I just I just find that fascinating.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, and like you said, every little bit. And it's funny you're talking about golf because the PGA Championship is actually coming up this weekend. And you are correct. All these guys, especially these pro guys, are looking for every little advantage they can get. And, you know, they do change golf balls. Yes, there's certain standards that these balls have to meet. But, yeah, all these guys are looking for every different thing. And in theory, I guess, again, I don't know all the rules or the specifications on what the golf balls have to do. But if you could get a golf ball that could – I don't know, in theory, you know, play specifically to your game, even as a pro dad, right? You know, maybe you're Phil Mickelson and you like to, you know, hit you, you play with your irons or you even tiger, right? You know, new tiger who's maybe he can't hit the ball as far, but he needs the ball to do something else. I think that would be fun. Actually. I still, and I know golf's like a game of purist that I would love it. If golf would, you know, adopt or you could change balls in the middle of the fairway, you know, like, Okay, you're hitting a shot out of the rugby net, but obviously there's different rules as to why. You've got to hit the ball as it lies and sorts of things. But it would make for a more interesting thing, right? You give these pros the ability that... to kind of up their game a little bit, and there's no telling how well they can go.
SPEAKER 09 :
Exactly. Anyways, I find the whole thing fascinating because there's a lot of effort and there's a lot of focus, as you know, Richard, put onto drivers and upon even the different putters. Is it a long putter that a guy uses literally two hands on, or is it a regular old-fashioned putter, and on and on we go. You just go down the line, and I think, just as a side note, It would be interesting to see, and I know we talk about this a lot, even with the Michael Jordans of the world, where if he was playing with some of the laxer rules that are out there now regarding everything from fouls to traveling to this, that, and the other, how much better would he be? And so you go back in time and you look at the Ben Hogans of the world, and if you could put the clubs that the guys are using today in a guy like Ben Hogan's hand, or even Jack Nicklaus's hand for that matter, how good would those guys, how much better would they have been in their time?
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, there's, like you say, there's a certain piece of technology that has made the guys, you know, better. The dominance of some of these guys is really kind of incredible. Again, you look at Tiger even compared to Jack. But, yeah, you look at it. I mean, these guys were hitting balls with, you know, wooden clubs. Exactly. Wooden faces.
SPEAKER 09 :
Literally wooden clubs. Wood shafted clubs. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah. And then, like you said, the faces were a lot smaller. You know, drivers, they weren't as forgiving and friendly. So we've made advancements, and like you say, the golf ball technology, I know it's gotten better, and they're doing a lot more stuff as far as tracking and ball speed and analytics. And like you said, it sounds like from your last interview, that's sort of the future, right? To kind of get all of that done the correct way would really probably provide some value.
SPEAKER 09 :
I just looked it up, and I figured AI would probably add to this, but AI's answer about Ben Hogan would be, Yes, Ben Hogan would likely be a very successful golfer today with today's equipment. His ball-striking prowess coupled with his understanding of course management would translate well into the modern game, even if he couldn't match the driving distance of the current pros. In other words, he may not go out there and smack the ball 350, 400 yards like some of these guys do, but his understanding of the game and how to play it would still make him very successful today.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yes, well, yes, it would. It kind of goes back to, I think, actually, I remember you and I had a debate when I was little about, you know, the players back then were longer and taller, and you're like, no, they weren't. And, of course, you were right, you know, because it just looks like it just from some of the stuff. But, yes, as the eras change, I do think in today's day and age, Dad, with the sports, with the analytics, players are maximizing, and this is an all-sports, right, from golf to football to baseball. are maximizing their talent as much as they can just with the equipment available. But to say they're more talented than before, I don't know if that's actually the case. I just think that they're maximizing it.
SPEAKER 09 :
But like you say... Well, the only exception I think there is to that, and I'll get your opinion on this, is you take some of these guys in football, whether it be not necessarily the quarterbacks, because frankly I think quarterbacks are way different. Are they smarter? Maybe. Are they as tough? Maybe. Absolutely not. Some of those old quarterbacks, the John Elways even of the day, where those guys could get smacked, blindsided literally, and get right back up and throw a touchdown pass the next time around. You don't see that today because the rules won't allow that to happen. So are the quarterbacks of old tougher than the quarterbacks of today? Yeah, 1,000% in my opinion. But... You take some of these receivers and corners and the athleticism that some of those guys have now, not saying the guys of old didn't have it, and maybe it's just the equipment that these guys have today, the gloves and so on, that we didn't have 20, 30 years ago, but to me, the athleticism of some of these guys today is better than it used to be.
SPEAKER 08 :
It is second to none, and again, I think sort of what you give up, I mean, you even look at it with the Nuggets in the playoffs, right? You have series now tied 2-2. It's been a very rough in tumble series right it's been super super you know heavy and and just really physical you don't see that as much anymore dad but to your point you know you get that play you know today as much as the players aren't as used to it right they struggle to to adapt to it in certain ways but so to your point you put michael jordan in today's nba where it's a little bit more wide open in a typical game, you know, what would they do? But I also think players adapt, right? They adapt to the rules and such around them. And you, like you said, in the NFL, I do think that there are some levels of some of the freaks out there, right? You know, we talked about the draft. You got some of these guys that are 275 pounds running down the field at 22 miles an hour. That's fast. You know, like that's very fast to be doing that. And, And I think that it's definitely it's definitely an interesting conversation to have and one that we probably should have, you know, at a later date for a longer period, just because I think it is sports and just sports science. And that's probably a discussion you have to have, right? The sports science of everything has changed so drastically over the years that it's really hard to compare eras. We can attempt to, but to do so successfully is pretty difficult.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, it's hard, and I was just even looking at Michael Jordan. There are guys that say that if Michael Jordan was playing today, he would for sure average 40 points a game if he were playing in today's NBA just because of what you said a moment ago, just the overall lack of – how should I say this, Richard? I mean – I'm sorry to say this, and I like watching sports and so on, but the most frustrating thing for me at times watching the NBA is when these stinking guys travel almost every stinking time they get the ball. Their pivot foot moves around on the court. They take two steps before they even take a dribble. They double dribble at times. I mean, they get by with stuff, Richard, that Michael Jordan could have never gotten by with.
SPEAKER 08 :
You are correct. Well, and like you say, Dad, the physicality of it is a much harder thing to – there's just not that anymore. And so these guys do get away with that. And even honestly, they don't even have to. but they still do, right, for a variety of reasons. And I'm with you. It's a different game, and you're that old boomer. It's okay. You like how they did.
SPEAKER 09 :
I guess it's because I used to get, you know, if you took one extra step in high school playing basketball, you would always get called for traveling and things like that. I watch what these guys do even on the court and how physical they are, which, frankly, wasn't any different than when I was playing basketball in high school, but yet I would get called for fouls that these guys today are just getting by with all day long.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, you're 100% correct. It's a new world.
SPEAKER 09 :
For guys like me, that's the only frustrating thing, and I'm sure there's guys listening that would agree with me. We would get called for every little ticky-tack thing there was back in the day, and I'd watch these guys literally brawl on the court. They've both got the ball in their hands, and it's a jump ball, literally, and yet, no, that's not how the ref saw it.
SPEAKER 08 :
No, different games.
SPEAKER 09 :
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SPEAKER 09 :
Putting reason into your afternoon drive, this is John Rush. All right, we are back. And, Richard, we always take time each week to do car reviews. Again, I know we're a little bit behind because of the season and vacations and so on. But what have you driven lately? Let's start with your first one, which I believe is what, a Toyota Corolla Cross Hybrid?
SPEAKER 08 :
A Toyota? Yes, a Toyota Corolla Cross Hybrid. It's kind of a mouthful, Dad, right? Yeah. It's a great car, and, Dad, I think that's a 2025, right? It feels like it is.
SPEAKER 09 :
2025, yep, that's what I show.
SPEAKER 08 :
And a great car, Dad, it's a little bit bigger of a car, right? It's not a typical... Sorry, I'm pulling up my notes here. Yeah, it's a compact crossover SUV. It's kind of that new class of SUV. It's not a full-size SUV, folks, that you're probably used to seeing, but it's also not a sedan either, right? And it's not... It's not super small. It just kind of fits into that mid, I guess I'm going to call it a midsize, I should be saying.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, they're going to call it a small one, but I'm with you. I think, you know, here's what's interesting. Toyota calls it one. You and I would call it something else like the rental cars do, by the way, because when you go to a rental car agency, what I would consider to be a midsize, and I think even the manufacturer would call a midsize, they're calling that a full size. So I think you and I are on the right track.
SPEAKER 08 :
Exactly. I'm going to go with that. And so, yeah, like I said, that 2025, the Toyota hybrid system, as we always talk about, is really second to none, right? It's really, really hard to beat that system as a whole and kind of what it does and what it can do and all of the above as far as... that goes let me see what's new for 2025 no real changes it was introduced in 2022 it's a little bit quick quicker and more efficient the hybrid model is right dad which is yes to be expected um it's a it's not quite as roomy but again i think some folks are going to miss that dad the idea is this is not supposed to be as big as an suv it's just a little bit bigger of a car it's kind of and actually i've got it here it's four inches shorter lengthwise than the rav4 okay it's it's a little bit similar in size to a RAV4. So maybe, Dad, those four inches do help you if you're in an urban environment, right? You're not driving as much, or you like the looks of the Corolla Cross, right? That can be something, too, for folks. They like the look of that a little bit different. Again, changes to 2025 are purely cosmetic. As far as the interior, Dad, goes, it's everything you would come to expect of Toyota. And what I mean by that, it's simple yet elegant. And so it's not the fanciest thing out there, but it's really, freight you don't have a ton of buttons to mess with to where it's going to mess you up and because as you know dad some of these cars can get into they get a little bit uh well wordy's not the right way but they get a little bit difficult to operate especially if you're only in them for a short period of time so it's gets away from doing that. As far as price, Dad, I don't have this one on me, but it ranges from $29,845 to the XSE is $33,000. And Dad, like you, I talked about it. Yeah, really quick. The one you drove, $34,705 was the total. 34%, exactly. And that nightshade, Dad, let me see if I can pull up the notes for it. It's obviously what Toyota's done with a lot of these trim levels, Dad, is they sort of kind of give you different accented pieces to it, but the overall vehicle stays the same. And I apologize, I don't have that note exactly in front of me as far as what's...
SPEAKER 09 :
No, and this one we drove, you know, had, you know, of course, the JBL sound system, had the full moonroof in it. To your point, had the nightshade edition, which just gives you some two-tone paint coloring and some things like that. And again, that whole car, total price, sticker price, $34,705. Not a bad price at all.
SPEAKER 08 :
Exactly. Not a bad price, especially for a hybrid, dad, where you're going to be able to go about almost 400 miles on a tank of gas. And that's not me pulling from any standard number, dad. It's just real world driving that you and I do. That's something that doesn't happen all the time. And that's something that I really, really like. And like you say, kind of that nightshade edition is a little bit different, provides some value. So if you're interested in this, folks, head to your local Toyota dealership. Again, 2025 Corolla Cross Hybrid Nightshade. Test drive it, and when you do that, let them know that John and Richard Rush from Drive Radio and Rush to Reason sent you.
SPEAKER 09 :
All right, I'm going to skip ahead to one that we both drove. I know you were going to do something else, but I'm going to slip this one in just because I think we have plenty of time to do this because we're a little bit tight on time. But we drove this car, 2024 Lexus RZ, and that's a 300E Luxury. Now, really quick, right off the top, this car I enjoyed, although I don't normally knock cars, and it's not a huge knock on this car, I think, as far as a plug-in goes. It works extremely well, had plenty of – Power, which if you drive an EV, you know what I mean by that. But my downs on this car, little noisier inside than what I would find with other cars that it's competing with. And its range, by the way, is less than what I would like to see in this particular model. So 2024 Lexus RZ300E Luxury. $65,000 list price on this car, which if you look in that segment, not bad, although you're going to find other cars for that price, Richard, with a higher range. And I only got about 45 seconds left. What are your thoughts?
SPEAKER 08 :
I would agree with you. I really like the soft-touch materials, lots of things. If you have a charger at home, Dad, a level 2 charger that can get you up in a night, right, it can get you filled back up in a night, I would highly recommend this car. It's got all the Lexus luxury that you like, really responsive, the infotainment, all of that. However, if you're having to fuel, quote-unquote, fill up at work, right, with plugging in, or something like that, you may find it lacking because it's, again, only going to get you minimal range compared to the other EVs on the market. Not a deal breaker, just something to consider.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, this one top range is about 180 miles where, frankly, other cars that it's competing with are going to add 75 to 100 mile of range for essentially the same price. Again, my only dig, nice car, very luxurious. Outside of that, go check it out at your local Lexus dealer.com. Tell them that John and Richard Rush, both from Drive Radio and Rush to Reason, sent you. All right, Richard, with that, I will let you go. Thank you very much. And we'll talk again Friday.
SPEAKER 08 :
Sounds good.
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I'm a rich guy
In this episode, Bill Gunderson and Barry Kite explore the market's response to recent tariff reductions between the U.S. and China. Delve into the intricacies of the rising stock prices within retail companies and understand how earnings season has surpassed expectations. As international relations continue to evolve, tune in to learn how these developments are influencing stock market performance. Discover expert analysis on current valuations, potential interest rate cuts, and how investors can position themselves to benefit from these economic shifts.
SPEAKER 01 :
He's been seen on CNBC, the Fox News Channel, and the Fox Business Channel. His articles can be found on MarketWatch, Seeking Alpha, thestreet.com, and many other places. He's the author of the weekly Best Stocks Now newsletter and the inventor of the Best Stocks Now app. He's president of Gundersen Capital Management. Here is professional money manager Bill Gundersen.
SPEAKER 05 :
And welcome to the Monday, it is the Monday morning China pause edition of the Best Stocks Now show with professional money manager Bill Gunderson, president of Gunderson Capital Management. I'm here with Barry Kite, our chartered financial analyst, and if you haven't heard, There was good news coming out of China, but I'm just going to tell you that this big gain in the market today, much of it is a lot of short covering in the retail stocks, okay, where we don't have a lot of exposure. I mean, we're up today, but not as much as we would expect. The big tech stocks aren't up as much as like, oh, you know, like Abercrombie & Fitch and Gap Stores and things like that, but it is up today. The Dow's up 1,000 points. You've also got a lot of the cyclicals that are up today. That's a 2.5% gain on the Dow, 42,277. The NASDAQ is up 3.6%, but I've got to look into that. It's got to be a lot of the retail stocks, the dollar trees of the world. The NASDAQ's up 3.6%. That puts it at 18,574. The S&P is up 2.6% right now. Small caps are doing best of all, and that's just an indication that there's a lot of underneath-the-surface companies that were really afraid of the tariffs that are bouncing big today. Small caps are up 3.9% this morning on the Russell 2000. So welcome to today's Best Stocks Now show with professional money manager Bill Gunderson, president of Gunderson Capital Management. And I'm here with Barry Kite, our chartered financial analyst. And I said it before and I'll say it again. I like Scott Besson as our treasury secretary. The man is very, very capable. Yes. And I think we're very fortunate that the guy would leave. I mean, he's a billionaire probably. He didn't have to do anything. No, a very successful career. I don't know what the paycheck is for the Treasury Secretary, but I don't think Janet Yellen was any kind of a billionaire or anything like that. I think he's doing it for the good of his country. And obviously there was progress. What if you call that progress? I mean, they each lowered their tariff by 115. So 145 goes down to 30, and 125, I think it was, or 130 goes down to 15. No, 15 on our goods. Maybe 10. It could be 10. I think it was 10, yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
I think I saw something where it was kind of 10 and 30, between U.S. at 30, I think, and then China at 10 across the board during this period.
SPEAKER 05 :
Charleston sends a man to Washington, D.C., as happened before, to shake things up. I did hear that he has sold his home. He doesn't live in that big pink house.
SPEAKER 06 :
He got sold, huh?
SPEAKER 05 :
He did actually sell. You need to investigate and look up what the selling price of that thing was, but it has to be in like the $20 million range. I mean, it's right there in the battery, on the water. It's a massive mansion, probably from the 1800s.
SPEAKER 06 :
I think it was listed at $22.25 million. Who bought it? By the way, it's the old John Ravenel house at 5 East Battery. If you're in Charleston, drive by the Battery. It's the big pink one. I think there's a couple of pink ones here and there, but you'll know which one it is.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, I've been saying something's got to give. I mean, basically, all trade came to a halt there last week. And, you know, I said this was last Monday. Something's got to give, and it's going to give this week, and it did. And he flew to Switzerland, and in Switzerland there was no news out of Switzerland on Saturday. Who knows? I mean, anything could have come out of there. They could have ratcheted it. And then the news started breaking late afternoon yesterday, I'm going to say. And, you know, a pause. And, you know, I did notice on Friday there was a lot of momentum in the market. So obviously the market was pretty optimistic that something would happen there. You know, they don't have a deal ironed out. I think they put everything on hold. I think the escalation got their attention. Yeah, it got their attention all right. I mean, their factories came to a standstill. The boats came to a standstill, bringing in the goods from China. And that definitely got their attention that something's got to change. And, you know, I mean, Trump's tactic, let's begin with 145% tariff. We'll work our way down from there.
SPEAKER 06 :
Start high, work our way down.
SPEAKER 05 :
And so, you know, that got the attention. So they agreed to slash tariffs for 90 days. They're probably back to where they were before it all started. I don't know where our tariff was with China before this all started. And so now they're going to have 90 days to hammer out the details and come up with a final tariff. And I'm sure it will be different on different products. But right now, like I say, each country cut tariffs by 115%. China's imports go from 145% down to 30%. I don't think we were charging them anything before. And they cut tariffs on U.S. imports from 125 to 10. And that's for an initial period of 90 days. And I think between now and then you're going to see more meetings take place. Besant said it was a productive and constructive meeting. He was thankful to Switzerland, which seems to be a place of peace and neutrality, which helped. And they did come to an agreement to ratchet down the tensions and the ratcheting up of tariffs. And so anyways, things are kind of back to normal right now, if you can call it normal. And the earnings season is now over. We'll get to that here in a bit. Well, we'll get to that right now, okay? So that is behind us now, at least the 145, the standstill. I mean, you had a total standoff in trade between the U.S. and China. Okay, the earnings picture. When we started this quarter, we were looking for about 6% or 7% rise in earnings versus the same quarter last year. Right now we're at 12.1%. We're now looking for $63.89 for the first quarter of the S&P 500. If you annualize that, I mean $63.89, that's $64. That works out to $2.56 this year, which would be record earnings. We were at $2.20 last year. I saw gold came in with $2.57 or something like that. And so the earnings picture is still very good. What did the S&P make last year, the first quarter of this year?
SPEAKER 1 :
$56.45.
SPEAKER 05 :
And this year it's $63.89. That's a big, big gain in just one year's time. The net profit margin for the quarter is expected to be 12.1% profit margin. A lot of companies would kill to have a profit margin like that, but that's a blend of all 500 companies, the ones that make big, fat profits and the ones that eke out very slim profits, the Walmarts of the world. The S&P 500 forward PE goes up to 20.5 this week. That means we're paying 20.5 times the next 12 months earnings estimates. And that is about average right now. Over the last five years, the average has actually been 19.9. And we're at 20.5 now. So that cheap market that was there for about a month disappeared. And I did sound the horn. I sounded the trumpets there on March the 8th. I said, these tariffs are going to work. And you'll be very disappointed if you sell your stocks here. And look, we're up 14%, 15% since that day. But a lot of the easy money, obviously, has been made in the market. But don't forget, I mean, we were all down at that point also. So now you're kind of back to where you were, not quite to where you were before this all began. And so we're still at fairly rich multiples right now. We were at very low multiples four weeks ago, but opportunities like that can disappear very, very quickly. This week we're going to hear from some companies. We're going to hear from Cisco, which is trying to get on the quantum game, into the quantum game. We're going to hear from Walmart. And, you know, those are the stocks that are really doing well. I think when we look at the indexes and who the leaders are, I think you'll be surprised that it's a lot of kind of second-tier names that haven't really led the market here in 2025, ones that would have really been impacted by the tariffs.
SPEAKER 06 :
I mean, look at GAAP, right?
SPEAKER 05 :
Taking a great example, GAAP. What is it, 16% or something?
SPEAKER 06 :
GAAP, yeah, up just over 9%, but certainly not a stock that we're going to own.
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No, and you know, your run-of-the-mill, your Fab 7 and Magnificent 7, they're not up anywhere near that. When we come back, we'll give you a quick rundown on the earnings that are coming in. We're going to get 12 S&P 500 companies. And then we'll dig into what they're saying about this trade deal. We'll be right back. And welcome back here to the second quarter of today's Best Docs Now show. Let's just look into the market. Let's just take a dive into the market right now. It's kind of surprising, really, that you would think it would be just like across the board. You know, everything is way up. But here's the winners. How many of you own Nike? Nike is up 8% today. It's the biggest winner in the NASDAQ. I mean, the Dow. And, you know, I mean, look, Nike builds their shoes, makes their shoes overseas, and they were going to be hurt by the tariffs, and now they're the biggest winner in the Dow today. DuPont, okay, how many of you own DuPont? DuPont's up 7.7%. How many own Caterpillar? It's up 5.9%. Apple, okay, Apple's up 5.7%. That's okay. 3M up 5%. American Express up 4.3%. The prizing thing, I guess, big tech. Like Microsoft? Okay, Microsoft's up 1% today. What else here? Yeah, you know, there's some stocks. Coca-Cola's down 1.8%. The insurance stocks are down today because there is a big rise in interest rates on this. The 10-year was up 9 basis points this morning.
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Yeah, and that's from, of course, the main guy from Apollo this morning, just in terms of with the deal, you've got really takes kind of the recession risk off of the table for 2025, and Also, in turn, now I think the market's only priced maybe two rate cuts now. I think it was at least three or four kind of priced in potentially. And so in doing so, rates are going to bump up a little bit because you've got less chance of, say, needed stimulus.
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Yeah, well, you would think that this, I mean, he's saying that I'm not cutting rates, Jerome Powell, because of the tariffs. And now you've got, you know, a deal with the UK. You've got a deal with, I know it's not a permanent deal. I mean, it's a 90-day deal with China. But it's definitely, they're going to work something out. You would think that he would be more inclined to cut rates now. I mean, I still say, I mean, to have that mortgage over up at 7%, that's too high.
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Yeah, I mean, and there they need to figure out, you know, what you might need to do to figure out a, you know, on the long end of the curve is you've got to do some, you know, maybe, you know, whether it's some type of potential, you know, government intervention, right? You do, you know, subsidies aren't the right thing. But, you know, you can basically have the Treasury potentially buy more mortgages, right, in terms of that long end. In reality, I think the Fed's kind of sitting tight, and they really don't have to do anything. They're just kind of sitting there. Are they going to be behind the curve at some point?
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Well, as I look at the rest of the world, I worry about their ECB. Money flows where there's the friendliest. Yes.
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You could argue needs lower interest rates because they're economically right. They're not in as near of a good place as us, and they have other aging populations, other issues that they're certainly not as dynamic as our economy.
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Okay, now let's look at the NASDAQ. All right, so how many own J.B. Hunt, right? That's a trucking company. Texas Instruments up 9%. Decker Outdoors. Is my Decker's doing well today?
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Yeah, they're up over 4% when I looked at them. They put in a nice bottom when you look at that chart, actually.
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The smaller chip stocks are doing well. Meta's up 6.4. We have a big position in Meta.
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Yeah, Micron, you mentioned the smaller chip names.
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Spotify's down.
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Micron's up 8% today.
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Netflix is down. So it's kind of strange, the stocks. It's very stock-specific, let's say, and it's not really the stocks that you would expect that are the ones that are really flying here this morning. Okay, now, back to earnings. This week we're going to get, we mentioned Cisco. Let me just mention a few others. We mentioned Walmart. We're getting 11 applied materials in the S&P 500. Simon Property Group. Virgin Atlantic. Okay, so, I mean, earnings season is basically over, and it was a very good one. All right, now, let's just take a look around the world real quickly. So we know peace is breaking out all over the world right now, I guess you could say, at least a temporary peace. Over in Russia and Ukraine, Zelensky's ready for talks with Russia. I don't think he has any other choice. As Trump backs Putin's offer, which Zelensky said he's ready to meet Vladimir Putin in Turkey on Thursday, after Trump backed the Russian leader's offer for direct negotiations. So Zelensky, he's kind of got to give. I mean, he doesn't have any cards, right? That's what Trump told him. They're getting their you-know-what kicked. India and Pakistan, easing geopolitical tensions, lift sentiment with the fragile ceasefire holding between India and Pakistan. Two nuclear countries, by the way. So you've got peace breaking out, or at least hopes, hopes for peace in Turkey as Zelensky is going to meet with Putin on Thursday. And you have a simmering of tensions there in Pakistan and Ukraine. And now you've got a Gaza ceasefire. They give up a hostage today and talks resume between the U.S. and Hamas. What is left of Hamas? I mean, is there much left there under that rubble? In Hezbollah, but anyways, there's peace, at least ceasefire, breaking out there. Okay, Apple surges after tariff, U.S.-China tariff reduction, so that would be a natural one to surge. They probably were. under heavy pressure more than most tech stocks because they manufacture their phones in China and they sell a lot of phones to China. Here are the stocks set to benefit after the U.S. and China tariffs. Okay, so here's number one, shipping and logistics. Well, okay, it all begins at the ports. You know the logistic train of things very, very well, Barry. Oh, yeah. They unload the containers, and then they're loaded onto trucks. Some are taken to railroads. So the trucking industry, you've got big gains today in the shipping, which would be Zim and Mattson and the different shippers, and then FedEx, UPS, Uber. By the way, I saw that the ex-CEO... Let's see. He wasn't the CEO. He was the president of FedEx. He's now going to be the postmaster general, which, you know what? They've been complaining about the post office for years, how much money it loses. It's good to see a sharp businessman go in there that knows a thing or two about shipping into that postal. The post office has kind of got to remake itself. With all the deliveries happening today, I think they're getting a very small share. Mostly I get junk mail from the post office. Okay, the chips, yes, the semiconductors are having a good day, but not like you would expect, okay? Let's look at NVIDIA, which is the best of the best. NVIDIA is only up 3.4% today. I mean, that's not like crazy good, but it's decent. AMD is up 4.5% today, a little bit better. And Taiwan Semiconductor, which is right in the thick of things, It's probably doing the best. It's up 5.4%. But it's the retailers that are really doing well. And also the parts, the auto, the auto stocks and the auto suppliers, which, again, we don't have any exposure to. More on that when we come back. This is Bill Gunderson. Thank you for tuning in to today's Best Stocks Now, Best Inverse Funds Now show. Now, back to the second half of the show. Thank you.
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and working back here to the second half of today's best stocks now show a few other stocks here okay obviously
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The auto stocks, I think Tesla and Apple, they were the two that were hurt the most, right, by all what's going on in China especially. Tesla is up 5.7% today. It's actually breaking out to the upside. GM is up 3.1%. And then the industrials are having a good day. Caterpillar, for instance. Caterpillar is up 5.3%. Now, these aren't stocks that we're underperforming the market today. There's no question about it. I was kind of disappointed. I mean, we're up. We're doing okay. But not like some of these industrials and consumers and trucking stocks, et cetera. We just don't have any exposure to. Consumer electronics are doing well today. Let's look at Dell. Dell is up 6.2%. Best Buy, for instance, is up 6.4%. So if those are the stocks you own, and the airlines are doing well today, which is another area of the market that we don't have any exposure to, and some of the Chinese stocks. Alibaba is up... Oh, let's see. Alibaba is up... B-A-B-A is up 5.8%. And China itself... FXI up 2.8% today.
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Chip world's getting a boost as well in terms of AMD, Micron. Even NVIDIA's got a little bit of a bump, over 3%. But a lot of those big moves and those kind of more commoditized chip names.
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Now, the really big moves, okay, restoration hardware up 16.7% today. You know, they source, I'm sure, a lot of their stuff out of China and then sell it, market up, sell it at a high price to us. They're up 17% right now. Wayfair.
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They lost $100. So that stock went from $250 to $150, by the way, on Liberation Day on April 2nd. And so, yeah, they gave up 100 points in one day. And it's coming close to making it back.
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And there's a lot of short interest in these stocks. Okay, look at Wayfair, which... Has always struggled. Wayfair is up 18.5% today. Those are the stocks that are sizzling today.
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You named the shippers, too. I looked at Zim, and I think it was up like 16% or 18%. Lee Jeans, the makers of clothing, it's up 9.7%. I'm sure they don't make any of their clothing here in the U.S.,
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So that's just kind of, when you look underneath the surface, it's an entirely different market than you see what's on the surface. Now, Wedbush is saying that the tariff cut between the U.S. and China is seen as the best case scenario for tech. So let's just look at some of the big... Amazon's having a good day, and that obviously was also in the crosshairs. Big time. How much of that stuff being unloaded from those ships are going to end up being bought through... Amazon is basically China's supermarket to the world, and especially America. How many things did you buy from Amazon since the beginning of the year? Amazon's up 7.2% right now. Let's just take a look. Let me look at some of these. Let's look at Microsoft. We did, but it's not even up 1%. Microsoft and Palantir, okay, the market leader, it's down 1.6% today. You know why? Because these stocks weren't really under the cloud of tariffs. You know what else is doing very poorly today is gold. Gold is taking a big hit today because that was your hedge against tariffs. Gold is down 2.5% today. So it's really kind of an unusual day here. Let's look at CrowdStrike, which is another software stock. It's up 2%. So kind of an odd day, really. Oh, now you get into Dollar Tree. Okay, DLTR. Dollar Tree is up almost 4%. Five, which is Five Below, is up 21% today. How much of Five Below's inventory... comes from China. Now bet Home Depot. Home Depot's up 3.4% today. Lowe's is up 4.3%. So at least we've staved off empty shelves empty ports things disappearing from amazon tariffs being added to some of the cheaper stuff and then the other area that's doing well and we don't have a lot of exposure there so if you're in the big tech stocks and the and the Magnificent Seven, etc. You're kind of missing out today, unless you own Marriott, Hilton, the Cruise Lines, Booking.com, Airbnb. They're all doing very well. Okay, Evercore. is saying the bear market is over. Now, they're calling, and it was. I mean, I guess it qualifies because we did go down 20% in some areas of the market. I believe that the NASDAQ approached that area. The FAB7 approached that area of 20%. But you can't really call that a bear market, the trade war bear market. But they're saying it's over. Well, that doesn't take a genius to figure out Evercore. I said it was over at the bottom. That's more helpful and more useful. Evercore maintains an S&P 500 target of 5,600. Well, we're above that right now. We're at 5,800. So they've been one of the more bearish ones. Goldman Sachs agrees with the strong Q1 earnings surprise, which I've been talking about. But tariff risk and slowing growth linger. I think it's hard to make a case for stagflation right now. I think that goes out the window. And then we have some companies that have reported earnings here today. The one that sticks out to me is, and nuclear is coming back into play, but here's for me the big stock of the day, NRG Energy. Which is a utility, but it's a diversified utility of Houston, out of Houston. And it's a utility broker. It's an energy broker. That thing is up 22.8%. And it is in that circle of nuclear stocks that have nuclear exposure, which would include... You know, you've got in that group, you've got Vistra, you've got Constellation Energy, you've got Talon Energy, and this NRG is definitely in that sphere. It's up 22.8% today as they come in. They beat earnings by 95 cents. So I think that the data center... Stuff, sell-off was way overblown also, but that was all coming to a halt and slowing down. No, I think it's still a very viable data center. Okay, the other thing we've got to talk about here are the drug stocks. They're having a bad day. And why is that? Well, pharma stocks drop as Trump eyes lower drug costs. In fact, he's looking for 80% hits. Prices. That's kind of price control in a way. But he's looking at which country has the cheapest, I don't know, pick a drug, whatever drug it is. Prozac. he's going to make sure that we're only paying as much as the lowest price out there in the world today. That's going to hurt the drug stocks big time, which is probably only fair, but he's going to sign an executive order, one of the most consequential executive orders in our country's history. I guess this was the big announcement he said that he was holding off on. He says prescription drug and pharmaceutical prices will be reduced almost immediately by 30% to 80%. And they will rise throughout the world in order to equalize and for the first time in many years bring fairness to America. He's going to institute a most favored nations policy wherein the United States will pay the same price as the nation that pays the lowest price. I know that's always bugged him to say, why can't I cross the border into Canada and pay 25% for this drug that I'm paying four times that amount in the U.S.? Well, that's about to end. So anyways, I think that's going to weigh on big pharma, and they all are down today. We'll be right back.
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You gotta go where you wanna go, do what you wanna do with it, whoever you wanna be. You gotta go where you wanna go, do what you wanna do with it, whoever you wanna do with it.
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And welcome back here to the final segment of today's Best Stocks Now show. I see Goldman Sachs, 12-month target price, 6,200 on the S&P 500. And then we just talked about Evercore, which is at 5,600. Okay, so that's a pretty big difference between the two firms. And, of course, the S&P 500 right now is at 5,800. So it's 200 points over Evercore's target price with 5,600. You know, eight months left in the year. So they're a little off. And it's about 400 points underneath Goldman Sachs. Target price of 6,200. I would definitely be more towards the Goldman Sachs camp on that target price. Now, next Monday we'll be headed out for the Cleveland area, our maiden trip into Cleveland. I'm really looking forward to that. And I haven't taught a workshop in a while. I think the last one was in Lakewood Ranch down in Florida where we're headed again.
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You've done a handful of them online.
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Yeah, I've had some people ask.
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You just haven't done them in person.
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No, I've had some people ask if we can put this one online from Cleveland. Maybe we'll look into that or record it and then upload it. We'll see, okay? But so we're booking everything here today. Always got to wait, see how many people are going to be there, et cetera. You never know when you enter into a market for the first time into a city. 855-611-BEST. It's pretty full, that calendar, Tuesday, Wednesday, the appointments. But you can call Edie and see what she's got left. Tuesday, Wednesday from 7 a.m. till 7 p.m., 6 p.m., something like that. You can meet with the folks you hear on the radio here in person. Looking forward to it. Yes, in Warrensville, Ohio at the Marriott there, a really nice Marriott. You can reserve a seat at 855-611-BEST. And then the workshop Tuesday night, you know, I always have to just kind of wait and see where things are at because they can change from week to week, from day to day. Pretty fluid. From hour to hour they can change. So whatever I think is the most important message and teaching that I can put out on that Tuesday night is what I'll go with at that point in time. I'm a pretty flexible guy. i've probably got 10 lessons in my head that i can drum up depending on which one i think is the most important at the time so that's also a rare opportunity to see a live workshop with us teaching uh to reserve a spot for that uh eight five five six eleven best eight five five six eleven best but You know, I mean, valuation, my own particular way of looking at the market is more of a mathematical way and taking away a lot of the emotion. I see a lot of people put out very negative articles, and I can say to myself, you know, I think they're coming from their emotional side of their brain and their heart. than a numbers side and that's why i tend to follow the analysts out there that are more numbers oriented i've always liked yardini ed yardini who pretty much is usually pretty much in line with my way of thinking we're definitely more logic and mathematics and we watch those mathematics every single week We watch for those trends every single week. We all know that there will be another bear market and another recession at some point in time. And how many recessions has the economist predicted since 2009, the last recession? Maybe a thousand times they've projected a recession and there hasn't been one.
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Yeah, the old economic joke. Economists have called 56 out of the last three recessions, right? Because they always think recession is coming.
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And that's why every Saturday in the newsletter, I put up the earnings. It's just a bar chart. Bar chart is mathematics. It's a graphic representation of... A trend, either a rising trend or a flat trend. There can only be four trends. Well, three trends, really. Sideways, up or down. One of those three. And as long as you're in an uptrend in earnings, the stocks are going to follow. And that also can be applied to an individual stock. And when those earnings flatten out, i.e. Coca-Cola, Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, Apple, down to that 2% or 3%, barely, that doesn't look good on a bar chart. That's pretty much a level bar chart with just a slight tick up every year. How are you going to get much capital appreciation out of something like that? You're not. you're going to get whatever the dividend yield is and maybe a little bit of capital appreciation and so that takes a lot of the emotion and I think it also makes the market simpler to understand I think a lot of people just make it too difficult or they want it to be difficult so like you can't figure this out you need me you'll never be able to figure this out yourself But there's actually quite a bit of logic in the market, and it does come down to those earnings, earnings projections and actual earnings. And that's why the market has held up. That's why the market did not keep sinking four weeks ago. It could have kept going down another 3,000 or 4,000 points, but the earnings were just too strong. The numbers were there, even though the emotion was pretty sour at that time. So anyways, that will all be part of that workshop, trying to keep the market simple so that even I can understand it, right? To make a reservation again to the workshop or an appointment with the crew, with the team, 855-611-BEST. That's 855-611-BEST. And I continue to do the four-week trial, which has been a big hit. People love it. It's a learning experience. You get that full newsletter every Saturday. You get all my alerts throughout the day. I've only sent one so far today with the market open and my initial blush observations. i get more granular throughout the day as i look at charts i got about a thousand to look at today and if anything pops out off the page at me and i take action you'll hear about it and you get access to the app which i could not manage money if i can't narrow that market down every day and eliminate about 90 of it i don't even need to look at makes my job a whole lot easier the app Points me to the right sectors, asset classes, stocks, etc. To get a four-week trial, GundersenCapital.com. GundersenCapital.com. And to book an appointment with us online, over the phone, or in person in Cleveland, 855-611-BEST. 855-611-BEST. Have a great day, everybody.
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And thank you to all of you who support us. We are an independent voice on an independent station searching for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And it's not compassionate nor altruistic to take other people's stuff, whether or not it's their rights, their property, their freedom, livelihood, their opportunities, their childhoods, their lives via force. Force can be obviously a weapon, but policy, an unpredictable and excessive taxation, fear, coercion, government-induced inflation, the agenda by the World Economic Forum and the globalist elites using the United Nations – playing it out at this Colorado State Legislature with this governor. Land use codes, zoning regulations, force fees, conservation easements, national monument designations, transmission line easements, CO2 pipeline easements, all kinds of things out there. And we've got to get this back in the proper role where... individuals have property rights instead of government controlling everything. And remember, if something's a good idea, you should not have to use force to implement it. On the show, we focus on the issues, not the personalities. We'll mention people, obviously, that are in these issues, but we are really working to stay out of all of that. You can listen to the show on all KLZ platforms. That's KLZ 560 AM, KLZ 100.7 FM, the KLZ website, the KLZ app, Alexa, Play, KLZ, and then after we get everything up on the website, you can find it at Spotify and iTunes as well. So let's get into our word of the day. And I found this word when I was looking for quotes last week. This was from an Alexander Hamilton quote. And the word is obsequious. It's O-B-S-E-Q-U-I-O-U-S. And it could be marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness. And let's see. I would say when I've been down at the State House and I've testified that there are those legislators that are obsequious sometimes in acting like that they are listening to constituents, but they are not. So again, your challenge is to use the word obsequious in a sentence today. Our quote of the day, and this is from producer Steve, who is in retirement now. He sent this over from Dwight D. Eisenhower. And Dwight David Eisenhower, also known as Ike, was born in 1890. He died in 1969. He was the 34th president of the United States. And during World War II, he was the supreme commander of the Allied Army. expeditionary force in europe and achieved the five-star rank as general of the army he planned and supervised two of the most consequential military campaigns of world war ii operation torch in the north africa campaign in 42 and 43 and the invasion of normandy in 1944 and he said this if a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it's not a political party. It is merely a conspiracy to seize power. And I think that that's so important in this political climate that we are in at this particular point in time. Because I see it on both sides of the aisle. It's more about power than advancing this cause that is right and that is moral. That is moral. And what we've seen with some of the Republican consultants here in Colorado is they've said, stay away. They're recommending to candidates, stay away from the social issues. Just focus on economics. And maybe even Second Amendment, they can pull that in. But we can see then what has happened is we've gotten to a place here in Colorado where with House Bill 1312 that is headed to the governor's desk that basically puts in place that if a – and it's watered down a bit. I have not read the final bill at this time, and I will do that. But basically, the premise of the bill was that if after your child has gone to public schools and unbeknownst to you, they've been indoctrinated or introduced to all kinds of carnal kind of things instead of learning big ideas and how to read and write and do arithmetic. And then they come home and they say, I think instead of Jenny, I'm Jimmy. And you don't affirm that. The Child Protection Services could come in and take your child. When I've talked with people about this, it's so crazy they can't believe that that could happen. Also in that bill is if Jimmy comes in and says he's Ginny, and if you don't call Jimmy Ginny, that could be considered discrimination in places of public accommodation. And so that could open up all kinds of lawsuits. which all those lawsuits require resources which takes people's property and so we can see that it's very important that we are in this sphere of of social issues as well. And again, from Dwight D. Eisenhower, if a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it's not a political party. It is merely a conspiracy to take power. And I guess we're going to give credence to producer Steve because he had sent this to me, oh gosh, a while ago. And this is from Martha Gellhorn. She was an American novelist, writer, and journalist. And we've read this before on the show. And she was born in 1908, died in 1998. And I had been talking with a young person recently. regarding education, charter schools, and the rub that there's been between those that are such supporters of public schools, which I think it's important. What's happened is that our public education system has been hijacked. Our kids are being taught things that we had no idea that they were being taught. And and so we we have, though, this big rub right now between many public educators who I think are really trying to do a good job. But also, I think that they have gotten hijacked a little bit on this whole trans mania. We'll talk with Kevin Lumberg tomorrow. He thought he coined that word had been out there before. But the trans mania that's going on. And so anyway, this discussion ended between a proponent of a charter school and a friend who is a public educator. And it devolves down to the instead of listening that, oh, well, you know, I'm not really that much into politics. Well, this is what Martha Gellhorn said. She said, And then going back to Eisenhower's quote, And we must be advancing a cause that is right and that is moral. And, of course, America was founded on that cause of liberty, which is the responsible exercise of freedom. I wanted to say thank you to the Harris family for their gold sponsorship of this show. As I mentioned, we are an independent voice on an independent station searching for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. And again, if something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. Trump, a few days ago, had come up with this idea of a tax on millionaires. And he's receiving some resistance. And this is from the Hill. And I have to agree with the resistance. We've got to get to the foundation of the American idea that we are all treated equal. We all need to have skin in the game. And I love the idea of no income tax, but once you get to a point where you penalize people taking risk and creating wealth, it actually trickles down into the economy where those people don't take risk, they don't hire people. And so we need to get to... impartial taxation and we need to get lower taxes and more money, people keeping more money in their pocket. But this is from The Hill. It said, President Trump's last minute pitch to raise taxes on the highest income Americans could be rewriting the conventional Republican political wisdom on the issue. It says the president has sent mixed messages publicly about where he stands on the policy and whether he thinks it's good politics, both recognizing the political perils of reneging on a promise to keep tax rates lower. He can't do that. That is what happened with George H.W. Bush. He looked in the camera and he said, no new taxes. And then he raised taxes. And he basically that's that's not telling the truth. 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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at Kim Munson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues. through the lens of freedom versus force force versus freedom something's a good idea you should not have to force people to do it so pleased to have on the line with me citizen watchdog and that is mike rollick he's watched what's been happening down at the state house also on the local level on a variety of things and i was thinking about him as i was preparing copy for the newsletter and for all the spots that we record and i thought i have a new name And it is Big Brother, Colorado. What do you think of that, Mike Rolick? Welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 04 :
Hey, Kim. Good morning. Yeah, well, unfortunately, it definitely starts to seem like that. But the good news is, I don't know if you saw, but Senate Bill 25011 apparently is still stuck under consideration. It was referred to Appropriations. And sorry, just a quick backup. I know we've been talking a lot, but that was the AI wildfire detection bill. And it wasn't signed.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay, so it's not on its way to – so did it basically just die because it ran out of time?
SPEAKER 04 :
Gosh, it seems like that. It was referred to Appropriations. on April 29th, and I haven't seen anything since then. So, yeah, it has not hit Chair Polis' desk yet. I know there's a potential for a special session, but I think that was more based on Colorado legislative reaction to what might happen at the federal level. So I don't know if that means that they might try to reinvigorate this bill as well. But as of right now, it's actually not signed. So it looks like it might be kind of stuck in limbo.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay, well, that would be good news. Let's set this up a little bit more for everyone. This is a strategy. So the Senate Bill 011 was – and we've talked about it before, but if people are not familiar with it – It was ostensibly to watch for wildfires out in Colorado. And of course, we've had intense wildfires. People are concerned about that. But this is a strategy by these PBIs, politicians, bureaucrats and interested parties, that they may have. And there may be those in that realm that think it's a good idea, but there are those, when you and I both see the bigger picture, is there are those that it would be basically surveillance of all of Colorado, rural Colorado, under the guise of looking for wildfires. And that's a real problem. And so I'm glad that you have been on this, Mike Rolick, because it's in our Constitution that we have a right to privacy.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, correct there is. And this is a new kind of realm of privacy in the digital age and then privacy in the AI age. And I spoke with someone at Institute for Justice, and they're interested in looking into this. They do have that lawsuit against Norfolk, Virginia, for the use of block safety and the fact that at what point the storing data and then looking backwards for a crime constitute an illegal search under the Fourth Amendment. Carpenter v. U.S. is another good resource case for that situation, and that was asking for, I guess, I think it was 30 days of cell phone records to try to find a potential crime in those records. So I'm glad the Institute for Justice is now aware of the wildfire component of this new paradigm of AI-connected cameras, looking at and storing data.
SPEAKER 10 :
And with this, the problem with all of this is under the guise of some kind of safety thing. This is where they are really getting us regarding our privacy. And it was like somebody's watching all the time. And you and i mentioned talked a little bit about this i remember with the patriot act when that was proposed of course we were had had a terror attack upon our country and we're all you know off kilter a little bit and i remember when i heard about that i thought this seems like this is an overreach of government but they say oh it's to keep us safe well let's go back to the senate bill 0-1-1 Wildfires are a problem here in Colorado. But part of it is because we're not managing our forests and our grasslands properly. And so that would be the first step. Instead of putting in a private company that would be watching all of us, we need to start to actually get serious about real wildfire mitigation by managing our forests and our grasslands better, Mike Rollick.
SPEAKER 04 :
I would definitely agree, and it was interesting. We just held the candidate forum for the Arvada Fire Protection District, and one thing that we didn't realize is that Arvada Fire Protection District actually offers services. We'll come out to a community, have a meeting with the HOA and the community to discuss home hardening, to discuss defensible space, different strategies for fences, materials, just different plants that are resistant. I saw this to great effect in California when I lived there. There were certain places that made great use of landscaping plants to avoid fires wholesale. And that's been going back 20 years now. So it is interesting when you look at that kind of thing versus, well, we have to watch every minute, literally every minute with some of these technologies of a 20-mile radius of every spot of land. So it is a dichotomy of philosophy, and I'm more for the depends of all states. And everybody out there, contact your fire protection district and see what kind of services they provide. They'll even come out and do fire detection equipment in your house for free. They'll check the smoke alarms, what have you, and just replace whatever needs to happen. So they're looking forward to try to help stop these kind of things as well. And I think people don't realize that, and so that service is being underutilized.
SPEAKER 10 :
OK, that's good to know. Let's move over here to these flock cameras. And I just did a quick search on it for flock here in Colorado. It looks like Denver has it, city of Longmont. Explain these flock cameras. Again, it's under the guise of fighting crime, keeping people safe. But yet we've seen this legislature has passed all kinds of different bills that's soft on crime. So how can you be soft on crime over here and say you want to use these cameras to solve crime? Again, there's a disconnect to this with me, Mike Rollick.
SPEAKER 04 :
I would agree. I would agree as well. You know, one of the conversations I had with one of the reps when 003 was getting looked at was it was a basic, simple fact of hate.
SPEAKER 10 :
And that's that's the firearm bill.
SPEAKER 1 :
003.
SPEAKER 04 :
That's that major firearm bill. Exactly. And it was, hey, instead of looking at legal, lawfully abiding gun owners, why aren't we looking at if someone commits a crime to throw more of a penalty at them? And the answer was, well, the state doesn't have money. So I was like, hold on. So if the state doesn't have money to take a criminal into jail and keep them there for longer for using a gun in a crime, instead you want to just try to remove people's rights to have guns. So it's interesting in that sense with the cameras, what happens there? So you might capture a crime, but then what happens to the actual criminal? We it's a great dichotomy question, but the good news is that that that prison bed. Bill actually failed as well. That was one that was trying to fast track. People out of prison after they were already. Have committed a crime and were convicted so. We were watching that one as well, and that one actually did not get passed.
SPEAKER 10 :
And the titles of these bills are so funny in a way. Wasn't that the appropriate use of prison beds or something? Wasn't that how that was titled?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, it was, and that was really misleading. When I saw that title at first, I was thinking, was it ergonomics? Was it, you know— How does this work out? But it was but they're talking about prison beds being the number of people in prison in that sense and how to use those spaces, I guess. And that was an interesting one. Definitely another soft on crime type situation. And it definitely lost.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay. It's amazing. And I'm not quite sure how we got connected. But I've really appreciated your updates that you've given throughout this legislative session, Mike Rolick, because these are such important issues. And of course, with this onslaught of bills, they really have flooded the zone. Over 700 and some bills and resolutions that were proposed have And the Colorado Union of Taxpayers took positions on a whole bunch of them, and we'd highly recommend that people join us and be members. It's only $25 a year or $2.08 a month. And so great work. But I'm not quite sure how we got connected. Somebody said – who was that?
SPEAKER 04 :
I believe it was Natalie Menton. Oh, great. I believe it was Natalie Menton, yeah. And to that point, you know, the work doesn't stop. Now we're looking at certain – um city and county amendments and i'm sure every listener has this going on in their city or county and this kind of goes on all year and one of the things they're looking at is the psilocybin mushroom laws that were passed in 2022 and 2024 i believe now have to get implemented so they call it natural medicine i wonder if ivermectin will ever be called natural medicine but uh But you digress. Yeah, but the situation there is now they have to do the zoning laws to accommodate for the state law. So I would encourage everybody to get involved in that situation because the cities can regulate the time and the place, i.e. the zoning. They can't, under state law, completely outlaw it wholesale. But we did see up in Boulder, Boulder decided to put a 500 foot setback between any kind of natural medicine facility, which includes distribution and or growing. So people want to get involved from the agricultural side as well, because there could be a lot of issues with mold spores and what have you. We've been trying to look into this different smells. So if you have a very small setback between the residential area and a growing facility, you might want to take a look at that. But Boulder actually said 500 foot setback. They were looking initially at a thousand foot setback. So again, if Boulder can do it, every city can. They can start saying, well, what time can they operate and how far away from residents and schools, hospitals, what have you. So I would really recommend everybody get involved locally.
SPEAKER 10 :
So Mike Rawlick, we're just about out of time, and I need to make a note on this. And I want to unpack this a bit, because this zoning, this is a product that people have real concerns about. And using zoning to control it makes sense. The however, though, is then zoning can get out of control. So let's try to get something scheduled next week and just talk about zoning. I don't have the real answer on it, but it seems it's a spot where freedom and responsibility kind of butt heads, I think. If you're up for it, I'd love to have the conversation.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, I would like to as well because, you know, when I kind of started this local journey, zoning was – Definitely a mysterious kind of section, but it's interesting when you even look at someone like Milton Friedman and his discussion of the idea that zoning and even environmental laws were okay under his form of libertarianism, and I'm sure everybody can butt heads on that as well, and I welcome that. But remember, any business that gets put into an area – already will affect the already established residences businesses schools what have you and you're talking about taxes going up for services you're talking about roads that get clogged you're talking about water sewage water things like that so you know when you look at zoning even from say a mushroom psilocybin mushroom farm if there's effluent that comes off that could go and hurt other people so where is that line of their freedom versus yours because you might already be there
SPEAKER 10 :
Right. Okay. I'm up for that discussion, Mike Rolick. We'll get that scheduled. Thank you for what you're doing. I think that this watching local government, let's move into that as well and keep our ear to the ground. Mike Rolick, thank you so much. We'll talk again very, very soon.
SPEAKER 04 :
Thanks, Kim. Have a great day.
SPEAKER 10 :
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Check out our website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at Kim Munson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And Teresa Irby, who is our partnership liaison, and I will be out at the second annual Marine Memorial Golf Tournament this Thursday, May 15th, at the Ridge at Castle Pines North. We'll be out there for lunch. And I'm not a golfer. If you're a golfer, you should certainly sign up. You'll have a great day of golf, meet some great people. and support the foundation. You can get more information by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. They've got some great hole-in-one prizes. One of them is an actual, I think it's a pickup truck from Lynn Lyle. So be sure and check all that out. It's going to be a great day. And pleased to have on the line with me Dr. Brian Joondepth. And he really looks at so many of these important issues. And I wanted to begin regarding a piece he has at American Thinker. Dr. Joondept, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 06 :
Good morning, Kim. How are you?
SPEAKER 10 :
I am well. And you recently had this published at American Thinker, Autism and Ignored Medical Crisis. And you said something, you said, what exactly is autism? I ask this because when I was a child, it was so rare that none of us had ever heard of it. And now there's high percentages of children that are diagnosed with autism. So what gives?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, what gives is a hundredfold increase in two generations. We've gone from about 1 in 3,000 to 1 in 300 to 1 in 30 kids in the course of about 40 years. And if we saw that with any other disease, people would be up in arms. What's going on? Imagine if cancer increased a hundredfold over that period of time or Alzheimer's or AIDS or anything else that's popular. But for whatever reason, autism gets a big yawn. When I was a kid, I didn't know of anybody that had autism. I suppose if it was really severe, they were institutionalized and we never knew about it. But in school, there was nobody on the autism spectrum or labeled as autistic. We just... We kind of knew what it was and we had... you know, pejorative terms that we used as kids, like retard and things like that. But that's all it was. We didn't hear about it. It wasn't newsworthy. Nobody was talking about it. And now it seems most people know a family that has a kid that's on the spectrum and that needs special education or accommodations or what have you, based on where they fall on the spectrum. So it's increased so tremendously, and we're not talking about it. You know, blaming genetics and things that are really red herrings. Genes don't change. It takes a reproductive cycle for genetics to work. And unless something is altering the genes. And then you look at environmental factors or things that are triggering genes that maybe many of us have genes for autism, but the disease doesn't become manifest unless triggered. And there seems to be a great reluctance to look at this. So that's the big problem.
SPEAKER 10 :
Now, I'm going to cut to the chase with the question, and that is, what do you think about the narrative that vaccines contribute significantly to autism?
SPEAKER 06 :
I'm sure they do. That's certainly, it warrants further study. There's reports from the Amish that don't vaccinate routinely. uh there's anecdotal reports from large pediatric practices that don't vaccinate uh routinely and and have few if any kids with autism yeah anecdotes don't make uh great science but they're out there and why shouldn't that be researched the data is there we have public health data uh the vaccine uptake is known by the cdc autism's known that should be looked at. It's not that difficult. And not only vaccines, it's food additives, environmental toxins, pesticides, food additives, colors, dyes, things like that. There are a lot of things that are different than they were 40 years ago. But vaccines are certainly something to be looked at. And it doesn't mean that's the be all and end all cause, but it can certainly be contributing, especially when you look at the vaccine schedule of, you know, a couple generations ago, kids had maybe six vaccines, and now it's 18 vaccines by the age of nine months or something, or 18 months, and then close to 70 vaccines by the time you hit 18. It's a tremendous number of vaccines, including three COVID vaccines for infants. Who needs three COVID vaccines in the first year? Most adults don't need that. Especially now, COVID's over. And children are at zero risk, yet that's still on the schedule and there's still people subjecting their kids to this. So all that has to be looked at. And the reluctance of the health authorities, the academics, Big Pharma, They don't want to look at it. They know it's not these things, but they don't know what it is. And that's disingenuous. How can you know what it's not, but you have no idea what's causing it? There just seems to be a big incuriosity.
SPEAKER 10 :
So you mentioned the big pharma, the medical community. The younger people that are entering the medical field, I've been concerned that the that they've not, and actually, I guess, doctors that have been in the field for a while as well, that they're not as questioning. And we saw this during COVID, that they were just taking what was coming down from the CDC as gospel truth, and were not really questioning. And what's your thoughts on that?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, it's survival mode. If you question and if you're If you're a physician and you're employed by an insurance company, hospital system, health system, academic center, et cetera, these institutions are funded by big pharma, research grants, things like that. And if you speak out against the party line, you could have your job threatened. There are people that lost their jobs by speaking out against COVID. I had my medical license threatened for my writings in the early days of COVID. questioning, you know, masks and distancing and lockdowns and some of the other public health measures that were, my questions were all misinformation and conspiracy theory at that time five years ago, and now it's established that these things were arbitrary and didn't really work. But those threats existed. And, you know, if you're working and you have a job, And they tell you you better keep quiet. Well, you've got a family to support and the mortgage to pay and student loans to pay off. Guess what? You just bite your tongue and you don't talk about these things. The few brave souls that did. There's some very prominent physicians out there that spoke up. They lost their academic appointments and lost their jobs and some lost their medical licenses. Not only here, but in other countries. So there's a real threat of censorship with consequences. And that stifles scientific thought. And scientific thought's all about questioning what's going on. It's about making observations and forming hypotheses and testing those and thinking about it. Otherwise, we'd still be using leeches, and all women would get a hysterectomy, and all kids would get their tonsils out, and things that were done generations ago routinely never questioned. Now they're being questioned, and they're not part of practice. So that's That's what good science and medicine is all about, and that's what was being stifled. The news organizations couldn't even talk about it because most of the cable news funding is from big pharma.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, do you think things are changing as we are now having this look back at COVID? And I think people are waking up and people have to start with the questioning instead of just taking all of these different things that are just fed to us as truth. We as individuals, I think it has to start there. And I think more people are starting to question things.
SPEAKER 06 :
I think so. We have new heads of the public health agencies, and I think it's going to take them some time to get their feet under them. But I'm hopeful over the course of the year we're going to have information. Bobby Kennedy promised the release on autism in September. That's only a few months away. I hope we get some answers. And there are some people that deliberately knew and suppressed, and there should be a reckoning for them, because that Those are truly crimes against humanity when you know about this stuff and deliberately ignore it or suppress it. Others didn't know, didn't question or believe what they were told. And that's different. And that's, hey, we made a mistake. We fess up to it. We're sorry. And we're going to learn from this because there's going to be other pandemics. The viruses are ubiquitous and there's going to be another nasty flu virus in the future. And we don't want to go through all this again. We ruined economies, ruined people's lives. People died needlessly and pushing a vaccine that was improperly tested. And we're seeing the consequences of the papers coming out now when it's safe to do that, of much more myocarditis in the vaccinated than the unvaccinated that had COVID. We're seeing the autism. We're seeing the cancers. We're seeing lots of side effects, excess mortality after vaccination. So these things all have to be analyzed thoughtfully. You can't just ignore them because trust in doctors, the medical profession, health authorities is really at an all-time low. And that's not a good thing. The old saying, trust me, I'm a doctor, it's like, don't trust me because I'm a doctor. You have to do your own research. But it's not a good place for society to be because medicine is a complicated field. It's rapidly changing lots of knowledge and nuance. And if we don't trust the physicians, then who do you trust? You can't go to Google to be your doctor, but that's what people are often turning to.
SPEAKER 10 :
And, yeah, Dr. Google, I'm not sure that's the place we want to be either. Dr. Brian June-Depp. So we're going to continue the discussion with him regarding another piece that he's written that is at Rasmussen Reports. And all these discussions happen because of our sponsors. And for everything mortgages, reach out to Lorne Levy.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMunson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. Something's a good idea. You should not have to force people to do it. And do check out the Center for American Values. They are going to have their next On Values presentation, which will be on May 28th. And then also Drew Dix, who is a co-founder and Medal of Honor recipient for actions he took during World War, or excuse me, sorry, Drew, during the Vietnam War, started a new podcast, and it's Words from the Silo. So you can check that out at AmericanValuesCenter.org. That's AmericanValueCenter.org. On the line with me is Dr. Brian Joondepth. And just a question, Dr. Joondepth, you're a medical doctor. I think you are a specialist regarding eyes, right? But how did you get into all of this political commentary writing?
SPEAKER 06 :
I got a master's degree in health care leadership from DU about 12 years ago. That was kind of my midlife crisis. Kids were getting educated, leaving the house, and I needed something a little more stimulating than daily work. So I got a master's degree, and that entailed a lot of writing. And one of my professors told me to condense something I wrote and sent it to the Denver Business Journal. And I did, and they published it. And I'm like, wow, that's cool. I didn't think I'd ever get published like that. So I wrote something else and sent it to, I don't know, World Net Daily or somewhere. They published it, and the hook was set. And then I started writing, and it was just a matter of finding a good fit and good home for my publications. American Thinker and Rasmussen Reports are my two home bases.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, I love that. And so let's talk about this piece that was published on the 6th of May, the new surprising Trump constituency at Rasmussen Reports.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, it's about Hispanic support for Trump. Surprisingly, it's at 58%, according to recent Rasmussen survey results. Much higher than expected. That's the highest support group Trump has. 58% for Hispanics, 47% for white voters, and 41% for blacks. So it's not expected. Democrats have always counted on Hispanic votes, even black votes. But Trump's support amongst these groups is high, and it's not surprising. If you look at the economic conditions that affects everybody, illegal immigration, which affects particularly small business owners, lower wage earners, et cetera, they're feeling that. Hispanic Americans that are here legally, that are working, that have jobs, they don't like paying taxes for illegal immigration either. They followed the process the legal way and jumped through hoops and waited and spent money, and they're in America legally like any other immigrant. You have people skipping the line. You're on a long line at the airport and somebody cuts in front. Nobody likes that. That's not fair. It's a surprising group, but it shows Trump has a broad base of support and is really now becoming the candidate, and the Republicans in large part are becoming the party of the working class, which is a diametric shift from a few generations ago where Democrats considered themselves the party of the working class. And the Republicans were, you know, the elite, the country club crowd, the guy in the top hat in Monopoly. You know, that was the Republicans. And no, now it's the working class, the Democrat base or liberal college-educated women and the coastal elites and Hollywood and academia and Wall Street, the wealthy, the laptop class that I like to call them. It's... That's the modern Democrat Party, not the working class. So it's an interesting reversal.
SPEAKER 10 :
So what do you think? We know, I think, where the Democrat Party is, and it's really been hijacked by these elites and the like the World Economic Forum, that particular agenda. It's been hijacked by the extremists. And it's no longer the party of JFK or Tip O'Neill or your grandpa and your grandma. So this is a real opportunity for us to, I think, reclaim our country with the proper principles, the proper values. But we see a big fight going on in the Republican Party. We can see it at the local level. and the county and the state and the federal level between the maybe I call it the consultant class Republicans who they like to be controlling everything. And the grassroots has said, wait a minute, we want our country back. And so what do you think about this tension that's going on in the Republican Party right now? And in a way, it's almost the MAGA versus the non MAGA.
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Very true. And they all have their purity tests. And the Colorado GOP is a good example. You have those that are considered rhinos and those that are accusing those of being rhinos. And we're the real Trump base and the others are no, we are. And it's really silly. It's a circular firing squad. And if they can't get together, they're going to nominate losing candidates. And Colorado at a state level has a long history. Look at the recent gubernatorial nominees. It's loss after loss after loss. And you look at the legislature and fortunately in this last congressional cycle, we picked up a seat. I moved here 20 years ago, and we had a Republican governor, legislature, two Republican senators, mostly Republican members of Congress, and now it's all reversed. Democrats have a veto-proof majority in the legislature. The Republicans need to get together and unify and look at where they agree and where they disagree, agree to disagree. But the goal is winning. If you can't win seats. You're not going to implement your agenda. So talking about high-minded principles and this and that, that only wins in the faculty lounge. It doesn't win in real life. And if you can't get good candidates elected and have them do what they're elected to do, none of it matters. It's all talk and a bunch of bloviating. Interestingly, the Democrats are going to go through the same thing. They have the more moderate Democrats, the few that remain, and then the far left, the Bernie Sanders AOC wing of the party. And they're fighting their own civil war of who's going to control the direction of the Democrat Party. But Republicans need to come together. Trump has been a good unifier, despite the fact that he's called divisive and mean and name-calling and all of this. He's unified some pretty disparate groups. that have come together, a lot of blacks and Hispanics and working class. It's unusual, and the Republicans have not succeeded in that before. They've not been able to do that, and I hope they continue to take advantage.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, and the important thing is to get the word out. And you said in your piece here that Media Research Center found that 92% of Trump's coverage during his first 100 days was negative. And so what that's doing is it's fomenting, I think, confusion for everyday people out there. And and that's I think this is going to be the real challenge from now until the election in 2026, because they're trying to foment this confusion in people's minds and hoping that they that in 26 that they the extremists can take the either the Senate or the House. And if they do, then everything stops. All of these things of trying to reclaim our country stops. And I think it'll go back to. the swamp and headed toward the disaster that we were headed. So this is really an important, crucial time in our country, Dr. Brian June-Depth.
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It's very important, and Congress needs to do its job. They've passed no major legislation since Trump's been in the White House. They need to be codifying his executive orders. Executive orders are transient. In four years, if a Democrat's in charge, everything Trump did is reversed. And that's That type of chaos is no way to run the country. Businesses make long-term decisions based on these things, and they can't be changing every four years. That's impossible. But, yeah, Republicans need to step up, and they're not. And that's the unfortunate part. Maybe things are going on behind the scenes, but thus far I've seen little out of the Republican-controlled Congress.
SPEAKER 10 :
Right, and so we really need, as we the people, to demand that Congress does their job. Dr. Brian June Depp, thank you. I'm so glad that you added in all of this writing to your career here because these are really important pieces and you're a very important voice. So thank you, and we'll talk again next month.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, sounds good. Thanks, Kim.
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Indeed. Let's have a conversation. And welcome to our number two of the Kim Munson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. You're each treasured. You're valued. You have purpose. Today, strive for excellence. Take care of your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body. My friends, we were made for this moment in history. Thank you to the team. That's Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Monday, Producer Joe. Happy Monday, Kim. And a great first hour that we'll rebroadcast today, 1 to 2 in the afternoon. The second hour we'll rebroadcast tonight, 10 to 11, and that is on all KLZ 560 platforms. That's KLZ 560 AM, KLZ 100.7 FM, the KLZ website, the KLZ app, and Alexa, play KLZ. And you can email me. at kim at kimmunson.com and also love to hear from you on the text line which is 720-605-0647 and thank you to all of you who support us we are an independent voice on an independent station searching for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force force versus freedom if something's a good idea you should not have to force people to do it And our word of the day is obsequious. And I found this as I was looking for quotes for the show, an Alexander Hamilton quote, and I thought, oh, I need to use that word. So obsequious is O-B-S-E-Q-U-I-O-U-S. could be marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness. And we all know people when we may be talking with them and they are obsequious as they seem like they are paying attention to us. And so your challenge is to use the word obsequious in a sentence today. Our quote of the day comes from Dwight D. Eisenhower. Producer Steve had sent this over, and he's in retirement, as we all know. But Eisenhower was born in 1890. He died in 1969. He was the 34th President of the United States, and then he also was the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe during World War II. And he said this, he said, if a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it's not a political party. It is merely a conspiracy to seize power. So this talk of reaching across the aisle, we can reach across the aisle and If we have this commonality underneath for a cause that is right and that is moral. So I'll give you an example. This extremist transgender movement, that is not based on what is right. Because either surgically or pharmaceutically, sterilizing our children, cutting off their body parts is not right, it is not moral. And so there's not gonna be any point where we can come to a resolution on that because the underlying premise is not right and it is not moral. An example would be Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. They didn't like each other very much, at least for part of their careers. But yet I think that they had this underlying goal of individual liberty, and liberty is the responsible exercise of freedom. So when that's the case, what can happen? And you see this with our founding fathers. They didn't agree on everything, but what can happen is we come up with this Declaration of Independence that we're all created equal. And I will extrapolate that out right now to what we talked about in the first hour regarding the millionaire tax. If we're all created equal, then we should be treated impartially by the law and through taxation. So that's the initial premise right there in the Declaration of Independence with these rights of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. So that means we should not be overregulated, overtaxed, all of these things that government is doing on the local, county, state, and federal level. And so we can go to those foundational principles and then how they came up with the Constitution to protect those particular principles is how we got to America. But there are those that are using different issues to undercut this complete American idea. And that's why we do the show is to help you, me, get our brains around these issues, know what's going on. 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But I get to work with a lot of amazing people. I love the fact that they all strive for excellence. And I'm talking with Roger Mangan with the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance Team, great sponsors of the show. And Roger, as we as consumers, life is busy. But here in Colorado, I think we take insurance coverage for granted sometimes until we need it. But hail. whether or not it's on our cars or on our homes, is something that I think is kind of in the back of consumers' minds. What should people know about hail here in Colorado? Because we can get some pretty significant storms.
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And with great frequency. Colorado is on the bullseye, on the target for most insurance companies. That's their biggest concern. So what is happening in the industry generally speaking is all insurance companies are modifying their coverage by, at renewal time, taking people to 2%. deductible on a hail loss, winter hail. So 2% of your coverage, if you have a million dollar home, that's a $20,000 deductible. And you can do the math on your own. So, you know, a $500,000, when I say home, I'm talking about how much insurance there is on coverage A, which is the dwelling area. So you want to certainly talk to your insurance agent, find out what those renewal options are going to be, because I'm seeing all insurance companies treating deductible, it's the only way they can protect their reserves by passing some of the risk for major losses, catastrophic losses, onto the consumer. So there's not much you can do about it except look around to see if other insurance companies are offering different deductibles. But I guarantee you that what I see is the strong insurance companies with reserves are that allow them to pay claims have to protect those reserves. So that's pretty much what's going on in the industry. There is something you should also, and we've talked about it before on this show, there's a partial roof endorsement that you can put on your homeowner's policy. You have to do it before renewal. You cannot do it after your renewal. So essentially, if you have a hailstorm and it's a $30,000 roof per the roofer's estimate, but only $15,000 of that is direct damage, the other $15,000 is cosmetic damage on maybe the other side of the roof, the north or south side, depending on where the storm came from, the insurance company will only pay for that which is damaged. So to get that totally new roof, there's a partial roof endorsement that you can purchase before renewal date. And on an average homeowner's premium, which is somewhere between $2,000 and $3,000 a year now, It's only $160 to $180 extra per year to have that partial roof endorsement put on. I would really look into that because no one wants half a roof.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at Kim Munson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. Something's a good idea. You should not have to force people to do it. I'm very pleased to have on the line with me Steve Gorham as our featured guest in this particular hour. He is the executive director of the Climate Science Coalition of America and author of four books on energy, climate change, and sustainable development with over 100,000 copies in print. His latest book is Green Breakdown, the Coming Renewable Energy Failure. He also was one of our featured guests on the podcast series, Climate Conversation, which complements our documentary, A Climate Conversation, which you can watch that, catch the documentary at aclimateconversation.com. It doesn't cost you anything, so be sure and check that out. Steve Gorham, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 07 :
Hey, Kim, great to join you again.
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Great to have you as well. And we really appreciated the in-depth conversation with you for the podcast with Climate Conversation. But your latest book is Green Breakdown, the Coming Renewable Energy Failure. And you had been discussing these blackouts in Spain and Portugal. Is that related?
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Well, it is. It's actually an additional factor. In the book Green Breakdown, I talk about Three big issues with wind and solar. First is they require about 100 times the land area to produce the same power as our traditional power plants. Second, they tend to be more expensive. And third, they're intermittent. But we have a new thing that's rising up now, and it just happened in Spain and Portugal. This was about two weeks ago. We had 60 million people that lost power for more than a day. And it was just terrible sorts of things. We had all these electric trains. 35,000 people were on electric trains, and those stopped, and some were in tunnels and some were in the mountains. They had people who couldn't get on the Internet, and they didn't have any money, so they had long lines at cash stations, which had reserve power, a lot of things. And some people were saying, this is what the end of the world is going to look like. Kind of a sad thing. But the big problem that is happening is, is that wind and solar are not synchronous systems. If you have coal gas or hydropower, you're spinning a big turbine. And if you have a system that's interrupted for some reason, the turbines continue to spin and continue to put out power. But that's not the case with wind and solar. If they go down, things can crash instantaneously. And power systems have to be balanced. You have to balance the demand that businesses and homes need for electrical power with the power that's generated in a very short period of time, fractions of seconds. And you have to keep the alternating current cycles the same, 50 hertz in the case of Europe, 60 hertz in the same of U.S. If those change a little bit, then everything starts shutting down. And this thing in Spain crashed within a few seconds. It was just a remarkable thing. So As you put more and more wind and solar on your systems, you end up with stability problems. And so we're going to see more and more of these blackouts, I'm afraid, as some of these countries push towards trying to go 100% wind and solar.
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So Steve Gorham, why on earth are the, I'm going to put this in air quotes, leaders continuing to push for this intermittent power source when it's making people's lives very difficult?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, they're all afraid of, they all have a fear of a human caused climate change, which has captured just about all the leaders of the world. Over the last 30 years, it's been growing. I call it climatism. It's an ideology. The idea that humans are causing dangerous global warming and that we have to switch to wind, solar, and biofuels and get rid of coal oil and natural gas. And fear is a powerful motivator. And so we have many, many countries that are pushing this and many states. And, you know, the bottom line is Spain and Portugal really can't have any effect on global temperatures. They're much too small. And even if you look at the whole thing, you find that climate is dominated by nature, not man-made emissions. So it's the biggest superstition in modern history. And unfortunately, we have the people in Europe that are paying for it now. By the way, in the U.S., we have power outages increasing as well. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, they track power outages per user. And the average user about 10 years ago was seeing a cumulative outage in a year of about three and a half hours. The power would be off. But in the last three years, that's been running five, six, and seven hours. It's more than doubled. And so as some of our states are putting in a lot of these intermittent systems, we're going to see more and more problems with outages.
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And I think that people – well, let's go back to Spain and Portugal. So I am somebody that maybe I'm visiting. Maybe I'm a tourist in Spain or Portugal. What did that day look like? How long was I – and what if I was stuck in a train in a tunnel? How long was I there? How long was the outage? How did they mitigate this? What happened?
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Well, I think it was about 12 hours and some places up to 18 hours. And they went – they have to try and restart all these systems and balance them as well. So they restart a few things and they bring on they bring on everybody shut down. They bring on certain areas at a time and try and keep balancing it as it as it as it came up. But I think they had to send people they had to send trucks and other things that might have been running on gasoline out to try and pick up people in these remote areas from the trains. They also had people sleeping in subways and all kinds of just just a crazy disruption of society. because of this power outage.
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I ended up 24 hours in LaGuardia Airport because of storms. And it was uncomfortable. It was interesting, though, how many people came together, but you saw all these different personalities. And most everybody tried to get along and help each other. But it was a different experience for me to be stranded for 24 hours. Just the real loss of freedom.
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Well, it is that. And we've actually had the worst blackout in this country. I think we've talked about it in the past. February of 2021 in Texas, they had a power outage for three days, 72 hours, four and a half million people were without electrical power because they really underestimated the demand of the system in the winter. And they had more than 200 people die because of that outage. And that's bigger than any hurricane in history except one. So These things can be really terrible, not just inconveniences. And I think our grid operators are starting to realize maybe this isn't the best way to go and they need to get back to more sensible power systems.
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Well, Colorado, though, seems to be out of our minds still regarding this whole climatism. In fact, with the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, which is an all-volunteer group, I'm the president of the group, we've been watching all of this legislation. And there was a bill, and I think it passed, I'll have to check it, but that was basically, I think, it was for students that they could get credits, I think, or something along the line for climate literacy education. And I thought, here we are going to be using public policy and public dollars to indoctrinate our kids on this climatism, and again, using our resources to do so.
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Yeah, I think so. The state of Illinois is now passing rules about teaching climate in schools. And I think it was the University of San Diego or California at San Diego that now requires a climate course for all students to graduate. So You know, these things are just crazy. Matter of fact, I'm happy to debate any of these professors on this issue because the evidence really doesn't support that climate is abnormal in any way. It's been warmer in the past. We've had many times in the last 10,000 years when we had multi-century long periods of temperatures that were warmer than today, despite what you hear in the press and what the United Nations says. So we have just a lot of misconception But it is driving large parts of society. And the great news is Mr. Trump is rolling all this back at federal levels right now. It's really a big, big change in many ways. So this may be the year when we start turning around and getting back to a sensible energy policy.
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So that segues into a couple of headlines. The first one, and this is from, I think, MSN, and apparently Bernie Sanders was on an anti-Trump tour, and he used a private jet to do so. And I guess the CNN anchor, Abby Phillip, kind of roasted him on that, which she should. So what's your comments on that, Steve Gorham?
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Yeah, well, that's the thing. You know, we've had many, many examples in the past of of our political leaders that favor measures to try and, quote, fight climate change, but they all do all sorts of things, like take private jets. We had Arnold Schwarzenegger that was living in South California, and every day he'd take a jet up to Sacramento to go to the government up there, and then he'd fly down. We've had John Kerry has been using private jets and says he can use them, Al Gore. People have tremendous... tremendous size houses. Bill Gates has a 27-room house. And a lot of these people also have bought properties next to the oceans. Mr. Obama and others have properties on the seashore. And so there's an awful lot of hypocrisy with all of this. And again, with oceans, there's really no reason to fear. Oceans are rising, but they're rising about seven or eight inches per century. It's not very much. So, yeah, we see this all the time in the press. And it's sort of like, well, climate for you, but not for me.
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Right. If they were really concerned.
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As Bernie Sanders has said. Yeah.
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If they were really concerned, Steve Dorham, they would be doing everything they could to limit climate. Their contribution to, and I have this in air quotes, climate change. But what I've learned is that the green and the Green New Deal is really the green that is going into, I call them PBIs, politicians, bureaucrats, and interested parties' pockets. So they have created this whole industry. And then they've used public policy to extract green from everyday people. And it's done in a variety of different ways, certainly by taxes and then subsidizing wind, solar, all these government grants to all these different organizations, which this just hit the news out here in Colorado. And this is from Fox 31, that 114 people were fired from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory as federal cuts impact Colorado. And this was just posted just the other day. I know this is more Colorado-centric. Any comments on that, Steve, before we go to break?
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Well, actually, it's nationwide. And this is coming from Mr. Trump. He is slashing budgets. At NOAA, at the EPA, at the Federal Energy Management Agency, FEMA, and NASA, anything to do with climate is being cut. And you aren't getting a lot of headlines, but that affects places in Colorado and Illinois and all over the country. But he is in, you know, this is black and white, night and day, up and down. This is a A vast change from previous Biden administration policy and even the Trump policies in his first term. Just a tremendous effort to get rid of anything having to do with man-made climate change and get, for example, get NASA back to space exploration and out of the climate business. That's very, very refreshing. But yeah, these cuts in Colorado are coming because of what Trump and his ministers are doing in the U.S. government.
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So when we come back from break, I want to talk a little bit more about that. And then also regarding what Trump is doing, and I think it's all connected, defunding the climate models. We're talking with Steve Gorham. He is the executive director of the Climate Science Coalition and has written four books on this important subject. And we have these discussions because of our sponsors. And so pleased to have the Second Syndicate as a sponsor of The Kim Munson Show.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Check out our website. That is kimmunson.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at kim at kimmunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And I want to say thank you to the Harris family for their gold sponsorship of the show. We are an independent voice on an independent station, and it's because of all of your support and our great sponsors. And also, as you know, I really support the Center for American Values in Pueblo. It's located on the beautiful Riverwalk, co-founded by Drew Dix, Medal of Honor recipient for actions he took during the Vietnam War, and Brad Padula, who is an Emmy Award-winning actor. documentary maker. And their website is AmericanValueCenter.org. Their next On Values presentation will be on May 28th. So check that out. And then Drew has a new podcast as well that you would want to check out. And that is Words from the Silo. And that is at AmericanValueCenter.org as well. I'm talking with Steve Gorham. Executive Director of the Climate Science Coalition of Colorado and author of four books on energy, climate change and sustainable development. And his latest book is Green Breakdown, the Coming Renewable Energy Failure. We're talking about the blackouts in Spain and Portugal and then had brought that over to a headline. that right here in Colorado, 114 people lost their jobs at the National Renewable Energy Lab. And on the macro level, you said this is occurring throughout America. Trump is defunding much of this throughout America. And I love that on the macro level. On the micro level... I'm sad if people lose their jobs and they have house payments and families. What do you say to that?
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Yeah, that is a tough problem. There's no doubt about that. And we have many researchers. For example, right now, the plans for fiscal year 2026 would cut NASA, the National Aviation and National Aeronautic and Science Administration in half, cut that budget in half. And I think Mr. Trump and the people there are going to say NASA should be working on space and not climate. NOAA is getting a cut of 27% in their budget. At least these are projected. They still have to be passed by Congress. But NOAA and NASA fund many of these things in the various states. And it's very, very tough when someone loses their job. You know, it's really a tough impact. But, you know, for years we have been pursuing this climate thing, for example. And NOAA and NASA are running the climate models, which are the heart of global warming alarmism. They've been doing that for many, many years. And now it's not clear that they're going to be able to have money to keep running those climate models. So it's It's really a big impact, and for certain scientists, but as I've said in Green Breakdown, though, I really think that we have hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people that are doing climate stuff that really has no ultimate value for society. We should be doing other productive sorts of things, and so it's, you know, this is cold turkey kind of stuff that Mr. Trump is doing. It's a tough situation, and by the way, it's not only himself, it's his his new head of these agencies that are doing these things. So it's very, very tough for people. But, you know, if they're sharp people, hopefully they can land on their feet with something better and make a real contribution to society.
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Excellent point. So two things. This came in from Jenny on the text line. She said in 2015 in REL, the National Renewable Energy Lab, had around 600 employees. They now have 3,700. So a 114 cut is not enough. I had no idea that that's pretty explosive. Well, you're right. And they need to be doing things that are productive for society. And this climate model, let's talk about that on him changing and defunding those.
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Yeah, well, that's – and by the way, this is not only in climate, but back about 2000, the turn of the century – Federal spending and government spending combined was about 18% of the U.S. economy. Now it's running over 30% of the U.S. economy. It's just gotten blown all out of proportion, and that's what the Doge effort is doing. That's what Mr. Trump is doing with a lot of these climate things. So we need to reduce the size of federal government in some of the states, and we need to get back to private industry and personal choice and all those other sorts of things. But yeah, the climate models have been the core of climate alarmism. Dr. James Hansen of NASA testified back in 1988 that he thought that, and this was a congressional hearing, he thought that the climate was warming and humans, he was 99% certain, he said, climate was warming, humans were the cause of it. And then about three years later, we had the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit, and we had more than 40 nations sign up to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. They've been arguing for the last 30 years or 35 years on when and how much to reduce these. But the climate models and computers themselves have projected much higher temperatures than they actually have had. And the real evidence shows that nature, not human emissions, dominates climate. So I think these models ought to go away, and we ought to get back to NASA doing space exploration and NOAA doing weather forecasting. and get out of the climate business.
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Well, and it really has affected, I think, the prosperity of everyday people. You just think about with this whole alarmism that we've had and then trying to shut down the oil and natural gas and coal industries, that it's increased the cost of energy. to move products, to create our businesses, to be able to travel around. What do you think the ultimate goal is with this climatism and this alarmism? Is it money? Is it power? Is it both? Ideology? It's probably a combination, yes?
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Yeah, I think so. I think the people that fear man-made warming are sincere. Al Gore has been an environmentalist since the 1970s. But the evidence doesn't support their position that the climate is in crisis, that sort of thing. But we have many, many groups that use the fear of man-made warming to pursue all sorts of different objectives. The United Nations has wanted to be an environmental leader, and they've been doing that on the back of climatism for a while. They've wanted a one-world government. Jacques Chirac, president of France, said that the first climate meetings were – an example of one world government and they've wanted to redistribute wealth from the united states and europe and and other wealthy nations to the developing nations and there are huge amounts of wealth transfers that they're pushing uh in the name of man-made climate change and then we have wind solar and biofuel industries we have all sorts of things the other thing is as our freedoms are being taken away uh we have uh 22 states now that are trying to ban gasoline cars by the year 2035 or another year and saying everybody has to drive electric. We have a number of states that are trying to stop you from using natural gas and propane in your home for your cooking or heating or water heating. They want everybody to go to a heat pump and they want to force people to do that. So there's an awful lot of loss of freedom tied into all of this as well. But I think people are pushing back now. And with the Trump government in place, things are rolling back very, very quickly.
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Well, and it's very important that he acts quickly on this because the 2026 elections are just right around the corner. And if, in fact, the extremists that have taken over the Democrat Party either win the House or the Senate, then all this comes to a screeching halt. And I think what's happening, and I'm using a line from one of the guests from last week, is with all of the press out there and people protesting Trump, they're trying to put sand in the gears to create confusion in everyday people's minds about what's going on and try to get to the 2026 elections where they hope to take either the House or Senate or both.
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Yeah, I think so. A lot of the politics is here, and he certainly needs Congress. He's done a lot of things with executive action, like cutting funding from the Inflation Reduction Act that Mr. Biden put into place, more than $100 billion a year being transferred to renewables. But if he doesn't get Congress to back that up, then a lot of that is going to be restored. So there's a lot of big political issues. But we have so many trends going on right now that are going against renewables, and we could talk about a lot of those. But The artificial intelligence thing driving the demand for electricity. I think we've mentioned before we have all these big companies now that are building data centers. And you can't supply those with wind and solar. There's just not enough power. So there's a lot of people going back to gas. We even have a thing called BYOP, bring your own power. We now have people like Microsoft that are setting up their own gas-fired power plants to run data centers. really something we've never seen. So there are a lot of trends that are pushing back against climatism and this push for a renewable transition.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, and that's why the work that you're doing is so important. And these books that you've written are also really important. I'm looking at them right now. The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism, Mankind and Climate Change Mania. Then Outside the Green Box, Rethinking Sustainable Development. Green Breakdown, The Coming Renewable Energy Failure. And so you're optimistic about what we're looking at here in the future, Steve Gorham?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, I think there are many, many reasons for optimism. Even if you look at some things like deforestation, that is declining decade after decade. We're going to have forest growth probably within a couple decades globally. Farmers are using less land. We're seeing, as I talk about in my books as well, global pasture and farmland actually started declining for the first time in the year 2000. Farmers are so productive that we're growing all of this. They're growing so much, they don't need to put so much land into place. And then the energy transition is going to fail as well. People are going to get back to sensible energy policy. It's going to take a long, long time, though, because of the power of the fear of man-made warming. But I am optimistic over the long run here. People should vote for good energy policy and not climate policy. That's not a good idea.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, and one last thought. We were talking about the 114 people that lost their jobs out at the National Renewable Energy Lab, realizing that with the explosive growth and that the employees there, that's and again, that's all part of this whole climatism. But when Joe Biden took office and on day one. canceled the Keystone Pipeline, all of those energy workers lost their jobs. And we didn't have any of these extremists out there that were protesting that particular decision. And I think that's an important point to make.
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Well, it is. And we're the biggest producer of natural gas in the world, the biggest producer of oil, the biggest exporter of both of those Mr. Trump is playing into our strengths and away from this idea that we ought to be importing all these solar cells from China and batteries from China. And let's play to our strengths. Let's supply the world with low-cost energy. And that's what they're set out to do. But anyway, people should get my book, Green Breakdown. It has, in addition to the science and economics, has a lot of great color sidebars. These are real titles. Here's one from... From Britain. Britain's advice to stop showering to conserve energy. There was even a minister in Switzerland that suggested we should all shower with a friend to conserve energy, which is entertaining. Not something I want to do. All kinds of crazy things going on here with climatism. And by the way, that book, The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism, has a couple polar bears and a mouse down the front.
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I love it.
SPEAKER 07 :
If you have kids in high school and they're getting a very one-sided point of view on the climate, they ought to read that and find out what some of the real evidence shows.
SPEAKER 10 :
Excellent books. Steve Gorham, thank you so much, and we'll talk again very soon.
SPEAKER 07 :
Thank you, Kim.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMunson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter while you're there. And you'll get first look of our upcoming guests and our most recent essays. Thank you to the Harris family for their goal sponsorship of the show. We are an independent voice. on an independent station searching for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. On the line with me is my dear friend, Paula Sarles. She is the president of the USMC Memorial Foundation. She is a Marine veteran and a Gold Star wife, and she's been working diligently on this golf tournament that's going to be this Thursday. Paula Sarles, welcome to the show. Good morning, Kim. It's good to be with you. It's good to have you as well, and I'm very excited. I'm not a golfer, so Teresa and I are going to come out for lunch, which if people would like to do that, they can also support the Memorial Foundation that way. But you're getting close. I think the weather's supposed to be good, yes? Yes.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yes, it's supposed to be really nice until late in the day on Thursday, so we're good.
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Okay.
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And everything is all in place, so we have maybe three or four more spots to fill. And we're just real happy with how things are going. It just looks like a great day.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, this is one of the first tournaments out of the box, which I think is great. It's at the ridge at Castle Pines North. So my understanding is it's a beautiful course to be able to play. So this is a great opportunity to do so.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yes, it is. Just spectacular views all the way through. If you just want to take a walk through the golf course, you'll just really enjoy it. It's gorgeous. And we've had a good time. Last year was just a blast.
SPEAKER 10 :
And that was the first year, so this is the second. And lunchtime, what would you anticipate around? What time will lunch be served?
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Well, we're thinking between 1230 and 1. It depends on the golfers, of course. Yeah. I'm telling the lunchers to get there at 1230. And we have our two 100-year-old Iwo Jima friends have told me that they plan to be there, Al Jennings and Jim Blaine. So that's a real treat. And if you get there a little early, you can talk to them. They're going to be there at 1230. And they're just a delight to be with. I had dinner with Jim Saturday night, and he was just He's so sharp for being 100 years old. He's 100 and a half.
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Well, and Jim Blaine is a very sharp dresser. Did you ever notice that about him, Paula Sarles?
SPEAKER 18 :
Yes, he's always dressed very nicely.
SPEAKER 10 :
And I don't know that people really understand how special it is to rub shoulders with these World War II veterans. And when I went to Normandy in 2016 with four of the D-Day World War II veterans, it changed my life. And so this is a very rare opportunity, and people can do that. Again, if you're not a golfer, just buy the lunch ticket and come out, and you'll have the opportunity to meet both Jim Blaine and Al Jennings.
SPEAKER 18 :
Oh, yes. Okay, great.
SPEAKER 10 :
And, Paula, I so appreciate all of your work that you do because we're getting close to Memorial Day, and it is important that we stop, that we remember and honor those that have given their lives or been willing to give their lives for our freedom. And when we do so, it creates gratitude in our lives, and then that, I think, gives us courage to step forward and engage in this battle of ideas that's raging in our country at this time, Paula.
SPEAKER 18 :
Exactly, and... We have a great ceremony at the memorial, and this year we're really pleased to have one of the survivors of the USS Pueblo capture coming to speak, Bob Chica. So that'll be a great event for people to come out to.
SPEAKER 10 :
And Father's Day is right around the corner, and I would highly recommend that people buy a brick to honor their loved one's military service. It is a lovely gift, and how can people do that?
SPEAKER 18 :
They just go to usmcmemorialfoundation.org, and there's a box that says buy a brick. and that's our one of our donation campaigns and you choose which walkway you want to have it on the walk of service is dedicated to all branches of the military so any branch can buy a brick there and we'll get your certificates to you you get a nice certificate when you donate a brick And that's a great gift to give to dad on Father's Day or to an uncle or whoever you are.
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Grandfather, it's a beautiful gift. And again, that is at usmcmemorialfoundation.org. Paula Sarles, I so thank you for all the work that you and your team do. And I look forward to seeing you on Thursday out at the USMC Memorial Foundation Golf Tournament. Okay, me too. Take care. And I'm blessed to work with amazing people and to support these two great nonprofits as well, and that is the USMC Memorial Foundation and the Center for American Values. And I mentioned this, but Eric really nailed it on the text line. He said, when you say the people that lost their jobs, remember Joe Biden, without any remorse, shut down the 11,000 jobs on the XL Keystone Pipeline. And the Democrats had no sympathy at all for those families. And here, these were people that were trying to... To build to support a reliable efficient affordable and abundant energy source where as we've been talking with Steve Gorham and as our featured guest this hour that wind and solar takes 100 times the land To create the same amount of energy the energy from wind and solar is more expensive and it is intermittent and And we certainly support all energy sources, but they need to stand the test of economics. And so this is – and then as Jenny had texted the explosion, I had no idea of the number of employees out at the National Renewable Energy Lab. And so stay tuned on all of that. This came in from Mark. He said, Americans have been providing – free research to the world and that we should talk more about that. And he says, taxpayers funded all of the renewable energy research and then gave it away free to China to build the solar and windmills, which then they sold back to us. This doesn't seem like this is a very smart way to handle things. And of course, if they really were serious, if this really was a real problem we would not be seeing bernie sanders jetting around on private jets we would not see the obamas buying a house right next to an ocean if the oceans were going to rise so much that our coastlines were going to disappear we would not have al gore Having multiple houses with multiple light bulbs and, again, jetting around the world to talk about this because he thinks he's special. I think he needs to be flying around on an electric jet. Let's see how that goes. The size of battery that you would need for a jet. would be so heavy that you couldn't get off the ground. And so we need to be speaking truth into these issues. That's why I recommend let's have conversations. And a great place to start is by going to climateconversation.com and watching our documentary. And we've got a great array of podcasts there as well. That is the project. I have Walt Johnson and he's done a great job on that. And that does broadcast on a pretty regular basis as well on Newsmax. So check out a climate conversation dot com. That is a climate conversation dot com. And again, the show comes to you six to eight a.m. Monday through Friday. First hour rebroadcast one to two in the afternoon. Second hour, 10 to 11 at night. And that is on all KLZ platforms. You can check all that out. at KLZ and also my website. Our quote for the end of the show is from Dwight D. Eisenhower, and he said this, for every obstacle, there is a solution. Persistence is the key. The greatest mistake is giving up. So today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you, and God bless America.
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Young like a new moon rising Fierce through the rain and lightning Wandering out into this great unknown And I don't want no one to cry But tell them if I don't
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Rick Hughes addresses the pivotal moments in life where choices and faith converge, urging listeners to rely on the Holy Spirit for guidance and strength. Through insightful scriptural analysis, he explains how adversity can be handled without letting stress take over. Join Rick as he unpacks the essence of spiritual growth and the power of a heart committed to trusting the Lord’s path.
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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. For the next few minutes, I'd like to give you an invitation to stick around. It'll be a few minutes of motivation, inspiration, education done without any manipulation. because we don't try to hustle people. We're not seeking money. We're not trying to sell you anything. We're not trying to ask you to join anything. We simply want to give you some information that will help you hopefully verify and identify the plan of God for your life. And if you're able to do that, then you can orient and adjust to the plan. But we want you to remember that God gave you two ends, one end to sit with and one end to think with. And success in your life is going to depend on which one of those you use. Heads, you'll win. tails you'll probably lose and so as we go through the flatline we try to give you information based on the bible what does god have to say about winning in life we talk about the flatline flot forward line of troops flot forward line of troops that means there are 10 unique problem solving devices given in the scripture that can act as a main line of resistance in your soul if in fact you will learn them and use them. And that main line of resistance can stop the outside sources of adversity before they ever become the inside source of stress. It's correct that adversity is inevitable, but it is not correct that stress is inevitable. Stress is optional. Stress is what you do to yourself. Adversity is what circumstances do to you. Learning and Using a Flotline in Your Soul, 10 Unique Problem-Solving Devices, is a way that a Christian can advance in God's plan. And it's awesome. And so we like to talk about that on this radio show. And let me remind you of something else. We have printed material that's available free of charge. And if you go to our website, rickhughesministries.org, rickhughesministries.org, you'll find our website. Unfortunately, there's another Richard Hughes Ministries, and we're not the same person. It's rickhughesministries.org. And you will find there a list of our books that we make available. And a new one that we've come out with within the last year is called Life's Toughest Years. And this deals with young people. And if you have a grandchild or a child that's dealing with tough times, This book, we've given away thousands of them as I speak in schools across the South, and you may want to order that book. Drop us a note, email, go to the website, order from the website, and we'll be glad to send it to you. One, two, three, four, however many you need, free of charge. So keep that in mind. But on the Flatline, we like to talk about the dynamics of the Christian life. And today, we'd like to talk about the stages of life, the stages of life. You know, the conception stage, when you come into conception, when your mom and dad cohabitate and you're conceived. And then there's the birth stage. I just had a grandson born, so the birth stage, they come into this world screaming and kicking and crying. And the infant stage, when we begin to watch them advance as an infant, going from breast milk to solid food to growing to the youth stage. This is the troubled stage where we have to teach admonish discipline, instruct in authority. Because if you don't instruct a child in authority, if they don't adhere to authority orientation, then you have a very troubled adult. So you go from the youth stage to the adult stage. And this is the productive stage, hopefully. And then eventually to the dying stage where we move off the stage and someone takes our place. Thus, the living stage and the dying stage are critical for us to understand. It's in the living stage that we first develop our mentality, and that gives us a formatted soul. You know, your soul has mentality and your soul has volition. So you have to format your soul to understand what you're going to do and how you're going to do it. And that means you have to be able to think. You have to be able to logic. You have to be able to reason. You have to be able to comprehend. You have to have a formatted soul, and this requires words, because you think in terms of words, so you have to learn words in the infant stage. and develop that vocabulary in the youth stage, and then as an adult be able to put those words together and use them. So this is where we develop our mentality that gives us the formatted soul. And we begin to process information in the living stage and store information in our stream of consciousness where we can recall, recall, recall. That's how we live life as a Christian. We must be able to recall Scripture. recall things that we've learned in the past, and that's why repetition is important sometimes. Sometimes you'll hear me repeat, repeat, repeat. It's important so that you can recall. No soldier in the military ever learned how to march without having repetition. If they took him out on the parade grounds and simply showed him one time, he wouldn't get it. So over and over every day, they march, march, bout face, forward march, right turn, left turn, forward march, until they can do it in their sleep. This is the way the Christian life is. We have to have some repetition until we understand exactly what it is we need to do. So the soul, that part of you that will reside forever, is where your mentality and your volition exist. so the Bible says this about the soul in Matthew 16 26 what good would it do for someone to gain the whole world and yet forfeit his soul or what could anyone give in exchange for their soul your soul is your most valuable asset because it is your soul that lives forever this is what the Lord says listen to it carefully stand at the crossroads and look Ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But you said, we will not walk in that way, Jeremiah 6.16. The my way highway is the way most people prefer to walk, using their volition to do what they want to do instead of submitting their volition to the plan of God. There is another highway called the Thy Way Highway, as a friend of mine put it, Thy, T-H-Y, or the My Way Highway. So it's a fork in the road. You'll come to that fork sometime in your life, and you must decide, am I going to go to the left or am I going to go to the right? And the Bible talks about what it means to go to the left and the disaster that comes from that. And the Bible talks about going to the right, such as the Lord Jesus Christ sits at the right hand of the Father. But you have to make a choice. You can go down the my way highway using your volition, or you can go the thy way highway using your volition also. So it's up to you, but your life will be a series of choices and decisions, and you will be known all your life, maybe by just a few decisions that you make. But in regards to the soul, it is preserved by believing in Christ. And this is stage one of life for every living creature, the entrance into God's providing and protecting plan for you by receiving Christ as your Savior. I said the entrance into God's providing and protecting plan for you by receiving Christ as your Savior. Jesus our Lord said the thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy, but I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. This is what the Lord Jesus Christ offers you. He offers you eternal life, and he offers you an abundant life in time, eternal life in eternity and an abundant life in time. The simple act of faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ is the door into eternal life. That's why the Bible says, trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In other words, you won't understand it. You try to figure it out, and you won't get it. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths, Proverbs 3, 5, and 6. So trust in the Lord. A lifestyle of trust is demanded if you're going to live for the Lord Jesus Christ. Don't lean to your own understanding. That's the my way, highway. What it seems to be the right way for you is not the right way. Remember that, okay? Remember again what Jeremiah said. This is what the Lord says. Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths and ask where the good way is and walk in it and you will find rest for your souls. So trust in your heart with all your heart and don't lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him and he will make straight your path. And the Bible goes on to say in Romans 10, 9, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart God raised him from the dead, you'll be saved. And again in Matthew 10, 28, do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Fear him rather who can destroy both soul and body in hell. So the simple act of faith in the finished work of Christ is your door into eternal life. Thus, if we break your life down into stages, it starts with stage one. Stage one of your life is salvation by faith alone in Christ alone. That's where it starts. And here is a good question. Will you feel it when it happens? The answer is no. It's not something that you feel. When I accepted Christ as my savior, I didn't feel anything. I did pray and I did ask God to save me. Um, I didn't see any angels. I didn't see flashes of light. I didn't hear a harp or anything. I just prayed and asked God to save me. It even took a few days to realize what exactly had happened. So you don't feel it. It's not necessarily a feeling. You may have some emotions and some emotions of relief knowing that you're not going to hell, knowing that God has forgiven you for your sin. There's nothing wrong with having emotional relief over that. But it's not really a feeling that you feel. It's an act of God's Holy Spirit justifying you by imputing to you the righteousness of Jesus Christ. When you receive Christ as your Savior, God the Holy Spirit will impute to you the righteousness of Jesus Christ. And this is what allows you to have a relationship with God. In 2 Corinthians 5.21, God made him, that's Jesus Christ, his anointed son, who had no sin, that's right, he never sinned at all, never his whole life, to be sin for us. so that in him, through him, because of him, we might become the righteousness of God. If God has absolute righteousness, the only way to have fellowship with God is to have equal righteousness. And our Lord Jesus Christ had that equal righteousness. He never sinned. Thus, his righteousness is given to us at faith in Christ. And he took our sin. He gives us his righteousness. Again, 2 Corinthians 5, 21. God made him who had no sin. to be sin for us so that in him or through him, we might become the righteousness of God. Now that righteousness that he distributes to you, he gives to you at faith, is not taken back, not if you sin, not if you fall. So it's not like I'll give it to you for a little while and soon as you mess up, I'm gonna take it back. That's not what the Bible says. The Bible clearly, Christ said, I'll never leave you, I'll never forsake you. I give unto them eternal life and they shall never perish. Neither shall any man pluck them out of my Father's hand. My Father which gave them to me is greater than all and no one. can pluck them out of my father's hand. So it's not like God says, okay, you messed up. I saw you do that sin. I'm taking back the righteousness my son gave you. That's not the way it goes. You didn't get saved by being good, and you don't keep being saved by being good. The Bible says, for by grace are you saved through faith, and it's the gift of God, not of works, as anyone should brag about it. If you think a person gets saved because he quit sinning and does good, then you're going to think that a person can keep his salvation by not sinning. People that are Christians sin all the time. That's why we have the rebound technique in the problem-solving devices. If we confess our sin, he's faithful and just to forgive us and cleanse us from all of our unrighteousness. So yeah, we sin, you sin, you know you sin. mental attitude, sins, probably being the biggest that there are sins of the mind, worry, fear, bitterness, jealousy, antagonism. These are all mental attitudes, sins, and you can do that, but that doesn't mean you've lost the righteousness of Christ because you sinned. No, it doesn't mean that at all. I mean, what didn't Peter, the Lord said before the rooster crows in the morning, you're going to deny me three times. And he did. He claimed he didn't even know him. Yes, they sin. Christians sin. God does not take back the righteousness of Christ, which was distributed to you by means of the Holy Spirit. So after you get saved, and this is what happened to me, I accepted Christ as my Savior. I wandered around in the darkness for about a year and a half, and I had a Bible. I'd read the Bible. I'd get information from people, and I bounced from one place to another place trying to figure it all out. I didn't know exactly what I was supposed to do. I was just going with the flow. So here's what happened to me. After salvation, stage one, comes stage two in the Christian life. Stage two. What do I do next? Well, in 2 Peter 3.18, the Bible says we are to grow in the grace and the knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. And the Bible says that that growth can only come by one method. 2 Timothy 2.15, study to show thyself approved unto God, rightly dividing the word of truth. So what am I supposed to study? Well, Hebrews 4.15, the word of God is alive and powerful, sharper than a two-edged sword. Piercing even to the dividing asunder the soul and the spirit and the joint and the marrow is a critic of thoughts and intents of the heart. I am to study the Bible if I want to grow in the grace and the knowledge of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Why the Bible? Because that's where all of the relevant information is about Jesus Christ. That's where the apostles wrote about who he was and what he did. And that's where it says, let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus. If I'm going to represent Christ, I have to learn to think like Christ. And how can I learn to think like Christ if I don't study in the Bible what he did and what he said? So the information that I need is in the Bible. And I'm to study the Bible so that I can be approved unto God. If I have to be approved, can I be disapproved? Yes. by misrepresenting God. And allow me to tell you something right here and warn you of something. If you misrepresent God, you are creating a terrible problem. Misrepresenting God means you don't know what you're talking about or you're giving somebody the wrong information. Maybe you mean well, maybe you are concerned, and maybe you tell them, look, you know, I want you to go to heaven. See, this is a scenario that's goofy, but I'll make it anyhow. I want you to go to heaven. Yes. I want you to have eternal life. Yes. How do I do it? Well, brother, you should quit drinking cold drinks and quit smoking and quit drinking and say, don't ever use a cuss word again, and you'll go to heaven. Well, people mean well, but that's not it. That's not how you get the righteousness of Christ. That's not it at all. The Bible simply says, whosoever should call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. The Bible says, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. The Bible says, he that believes that Jesus is the Son of God shall be saved, 1 John 5, 3. So, I mean, it's not giving up bad things that gets you saved. It's faith alone in Christ alone. So you have to study and understand this. So that why? So that you can talk about it to other people. so growth only comes by one means studying god's word and this growth can only be accomplished by means of the holy spirit's ministry to you it's the only way it's ever going to happen listen to what the lord jesus christ said in the scripture in john 14 26 the helper the holy spirit whom the father will send in my name He will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you. He will teach you and bring to remembrance all I said to you. Thus, it's by means of the Holy Spirit that we learn and recall what we learn. That's why we have three mandates in the Bible that refer to the Holy Spirit. The first one is in Ephesians 5, 18. Do not be drunk with wine because that is excess, but be filled with the Holy Spirit. So the first mandate for you in the imperative mood verb, be filled, is a command from God. He expects you to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Now we know you're sealed with the Holy Spirit at the day of redemption, Ephesians 1, 12, and 13. That's when it happens. But the filling of the Holy Spirit is not the sealing of the Holy Spirit. The filling of the Holy Spirit is how we live the dynamics of the Christian life. The sealing of the Holy Spirit is the salvation guarantee that God is not gonna take it back. He marks you, he seals you with the Holy Spirit. So it is by means of the Holy Spirit that we learn and we recall what we learn. Again, Jesus said he will teach you and bring to remembrance all the stuff I said to you. So the three things about the Holy Spirit, first of all, be filled with the Holy Spirit. Secondly, do not quench the Holy Spirit. This is found in 1 Thessalonians 5, 19. And the word to quench is the Greek word pronounced sebe numi, sebe numi. That's the Greek word, and it means to suppress or stifle the Holy Spirit. The English word is quench. But the Greek word sebe numi means to suppress him or stifle him. And that verb is what we call in the morphology of the passage a present active imperative. That's important because it means in the present tense we are to continually avoid suppressing the ministry of the Holy Spirit. That present tense verb is a durative. It means not today, not tomorrow, the next day or the next day. You are not suppressing to suppress the Holy Spirit. You're not to quench the Holy Spirit. And the active voice says you produce the action of the Word by an act of your own volitional decision. When you decide not to sin, then you do not quench the Holy Spirit. And the imperative mood is the mood of command. Thus, it means that we are to continually avoid suppressing the ministry of the Holy Spirit. And it's your volitional decision that fulfills this mandate, the mood of command. Look, we still have a sin nature. We will have a sin nature until we get a resurrection body. So God knows you're going to sin. Everyone knows we're going to sin. No one's perfect. That's why we have the rebound as problem-solving device number one. The way to recover the filling of the Holy Spirit after you sin is to rebound or use 1 John 1, 9, where it says if we confess our sin, he's faithful and just to forgive us and purify us from all of our wrongdoing. So the third mandate in regards to the Holy Spirit, be filled, don't quit, now do not grieve the Holy Spirit. by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption, Ephesians 4.30. If we're talking about grieving the Holy Spirit, the verb, Greek verb, lupeo, Lupeo means to make sorrowful or to offend by causing sorrow. And this word, as well as the last word, is a present active imperative verb. Present tense, the durative, there never is a time when this is to happen. The active voice, you produce the action. The imperative mood is a command from God. Why do I use those Greek words and the Greek morphology structure like this? It's in the Bible, it's the word of God. This is how you get down to the meat of the text. There never is a time you are to grieve or quench the Holy Spirit. It's impossible not to because of your sin nature and thus you must learn how to rebound. Thus, what we're saying here is you cannot, will not ever fulfill God's plan if you suppress and stifle the Holy Spirit. Now, what does the Holy Spirit use? He uses the canon of Scripture, and he uses the gift of pastor-teacher to direct your life to its full potential. Listen to Ephesians 4.11. So Christ himself gave apostles, prophets, evangelists, and pastor-teachers to equip his people for the work of service so that his body may be built up until we all reach unity of the faith and the knowledge, of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ, so that we no longer be infants tossed to and fro by the waves and blown here and there by every wind of teaching, by the cunning craftiness of people and their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth motivated by love, we grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who's the head, and that's Christ Jesus. So there's a lot in that passage right there. First of all, he gave spiritual gifts. And the two gifts that function today, evangelist and pastor teacher, there are no more apostles because to be an apostle, you had to have seen the resurrected Christ. And there are no more prophets because we have a completed canon of scripture. Everything you need to know or will know is there for you already. There's no need to prophesy. It's already there. And so we do have evangelists. I am an evangelist myself. And we do have pastor teachers, poimen kai didaskalos in the Greek New Testament. One word, the pastors and teachers. Why do we have those? Well, it's my job to win people to Christ and it's the pastor's job to take those people who've accepted Christ and lead them to maturity. The verse says in verse 12, Ephesians 4, to equip the people for work of service. That's the ministry of the pastor teacher, to explain God's word and equip God's people so that we all come to the unity of the faith and the knowledge of the Son of God and we're no longer infants tossed to and fro back and forth by the waves and all sorts of weird stuff that come down the pipe. Without spiritual growth, you stay an infant and you're not able to produce spiritual fruit. And that's why Hebrews 5.11 said, we have a lot to say about this, but it's hard to make it clear since you're no longer able to understand. In fact, it's the time you ought to be a teacher. You need someone to teach you again The elementary truths of God's word all over because you need milk, not solid food. Anyone who lives on milk being still an infant is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness, the Bible says. Solid food belongs to those who... to constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil. That's where you have to go. That's where you must be. Advancing from a spiritual infant to a spiritually mature believer. I mean, gee whiz, there's so much to say about this because our mission is to represent Christ and to give the gospel to a dying world only by means of the empowering of the Holy Spirit and by means of the living word of God. because the living word of God is the power of God unto salvation, Romans 1.16. I hope you've been listening, and I hope you've enjoyed the message, and I hope you'll contact, stay in touch, let us hear from you. Until next week, this is your host, Rick Hughes, saying thank you for listening to The Flatlines.
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Join us as we discuss with Carolina and Madame Germaine the complex socio-religious landscape in Africa, particularly in Congo, amidst humanitarian crises. Through heartfelt discussions, the episode offers insight into the hopes placed upon Pope Leo XIV and explores the intersection of religion and politics in the context of a newly elected pope.
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Andrei lusto mini nuncia vit Mariae
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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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Praise be the most holy name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, now and forever. Abemus Papam, Cardinal Prevost, is the new Pope, born on September 14, 1955, age 69, from Chicago, Illinois, the very first United States American Cardinal to be Pope in the history of Christianity. And he has the Peruvian nationality as well. And his education from Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in philosophy, in theology, and then in canon law. He was the prefect of the dicastery of the bishops. So this is the cardinal who basically was in charge. of nominating or identifying or finding bishops for the church for the catholic church for one and a half billion people in the world to help pope francis the late pope francis during his time so my friends congratulations from all of our hearts for us in the united states and for the church in the world and for everyone Fadi Bardawil, Ph.D.: : Today is a very special radio show we did tell you last Sunday that by time on the Sunday we come to join on the show Carolina and German. Fadi Bardawil, Ph.D.: : From Italy and from Congo that we were the three of us agreed that we already could have a Pope. Today is also Mother's Day in the United States. I want to wish all mothers, all grandmothers, all godmothers, everybody who carries the title of a mother, spiritual mothers, a wonderful and happy and blessed, beautiful feast day of Mother's Day. Again, I want to say good holy morning to you all, and I want to salute Carolina Triolo, our Mission of Hope and Mercy Director in Rome, Italy, and also Mr. Germain Touamba, a Mission of Hope and Mercy collaborator from Congo in Africa. Before we start our discussion on today's show, I want to remind you a little bit of That we have a new pope today is the very first Sunday for this pope, basically. And on May 25th, he will take possession of his cathedra, of his seat in the Basilica of St. Peter. I have to ask Carolina in case the new pope is going to go back to wear the tiara. if the Pope is gonna wear the old tiara or the mitre with the three layers that is historically known to have been worn by the Popes all the way to Pope Paul VI, I believe. I'm not sure if after that anyone of the Popes wore the tiara. We can double check that online and check back with history. We have a new Pope and he was elected on May 8th, 2025 at 6 or 9 p.m. in Rome time. The white smoke came out from the chimney of the Cappella Sistina. It was actually many feast days on that day. In the old calendar, it was a feast day of Our Lady Mediatrix of All Grace or Dispenser of All Grace. In the old calendar as well, it was a traditional feast of the apparition of St. Michael the Angel, which was instituted by Pope Pius V in Apulia in Italy. a great apparition that basically was known in the fourth century. And also at the same time, this apparition continued through centuries. And a lot of Italian people famously, they go and they are devoted to St. Michael. St. Francis of Assisi went to the grotto of St. Michael, as well as Padre Pio used to be known that he would go to that particular grotto of St. Michael. Also, there is a connection with the name that the new Holy Father, the Pope Robert Prevost, who chose the name Leo XIV, Leo XIV. In 1884, when Pope Leo XIII was saying his private mass, he saw the vision of Satan and he fainted towards the end of the mass. He was in full ecstasy and a terrible accident happened to him. He was taken in his mind into a vision in heaven where he saw that the church and the world were given to Satan. to basically evil, was led to govern in the world and to govern in the church as well, unfortunately. With that, Pope Louis XIII dictated that everyday Christians, Catholics, when they celebrate the Mass, they have to conclude with the prayer of St. Michael the Archangel. And the prayer of St. Michael the Archangel states, Saint Michael, the archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and the snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray. And do thou, O Prince of the heavenly host, by the divine power of God, cast into hell Satan and all the other evil spirits who crawl about the world, seeking the ruins of souls. And of course, you know, this traditional feast of the apparition of St. Michael, which was instituted by St. Pius V, who was in 1570, 1569, in Rug Hills in Apulia, Italy, left till today a wonderful sanctuary of St. Michele Arcangelo, uh an area known as uh monte cargano and uh stands as a statement to one of christianity's most enduring tradition as a matter of fact these apparitions of saint michael the archangel which happened between 490 and 493 of our lord and then a later event in 1656 where there were divine encounters in a remote cave. They transformed that cave into a pilgrimage site, shaping the devotion to Saint Michael the Archangel, the protector of God's people. And it is celebrated on May 8, the Monte Cargano apparitions reveal the Archangel's roles as a guardian, as a warrior, as an intercessor, leaving a lasting spiritual and cultural legacy. And of course, Padre Pio was famously known to his devotion to St. Michael the Archangel. So did Pope Leo XIII. So on May 8, on the feast day of St. Michael the Archangel, on the old calendar, it happened that Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected by the College of Cardinals to be the 267th Pope or the Bishop of Rome, the Vicar of Christ and successor of Saint Peter. And in such a way, he is a shepherd of the universal church. So truthfully, Habemus Papam also on a feast day of Our Lady of Pompeii. In a new calendar, May 8th, Catholics celebrated the feast day of Our Lady of Pompeii. So imagine... between the divine grace and between the incarnation of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and the feast of Our Lady of Pompeii, where the prayer of the rosary actually started. This is where the sanctuary right at the foothill of Mount Vesuvio in the area of Napoli, where there was this kingdom of Pompeii, which was known to be a bad kingdom, a kingdom that is known to filth. Basically, it is Sodom and Gomorrah of the West. Our Lady there required that the devotion of the Holy Rosary will begin in order to trample and to crush the kingdom of Satan and of the devil. And we know how famous now the prayer of the Rosary is. And in fact, the prayer of the Rosary was also instituted by Pope Pius V. He instituted the Tridentine Mass, he instituted the prayer of the Rosary, and of course the adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. He is a famous Pope who prayed with the people of Rome in 1569 when the Turks and the Arabs were trying to siege and to occupy Rome, and they fell at the gates of Rome. They couldn't actually win the war, and therefore the Christendom remained free. and the foreign religion who came to kill the Christianity, to occupy the sanctuaries, specifically the Basilica of St. Peter in Rome, they failed because of these many devotions and these many prayers. So, Carolina and Germaine, I want to say good evening to you and congratulations on a new father. I would like to start with... Good evening. Carolina.
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Yes, it's a very happy day for all the Christians in the world. And the new Pope was very... exciting um i i i don't uh i i saw by by tv uh i'm not going uh directly to san peter square but uh i saw uh he was quietly crying in uh in the time when they they he was Okay, okay. And there are many differences. We don't think that it will be possible that this cardinal can be the new pope, just because it's always the same. It's always many, many other people. name but at the end the holy decide
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right so um with the help of the holy spirit they end up the side on the candidate usually i know they say many many strong faces enter as papabile but they actually they exit as basically except that the name is always concealed in somehow to the very last moment even though there were some some annotations speaking about in the united states and on social media talking about the possibility of Cardinal Robert Prevost to be the Pope, but he was not amongst the first runners of the Papabile.
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It was not one of the Papabile, but at the end it began, the new Pope. So I saw a little difference from him and Papa Francesco. First of all, on his image. So Papa Francesco was very Francescano, very simple. And Papa Leone XIV decided to, as they say,
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I don't know in English. Yes, he actually, the cross of the Vatican that he carried.
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And that, I think, means a great significance.
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Because he wore all the papal outfit, the white and the red, and the stole of St. Peter and Paul and the pallium. And he spoke. He's the first pope who actually did not speak abraccio, no? He did not speak.
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No, in fact, in fact. Until now, no. But I think I'm sure it will be, it will speak abraccio. In time.
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Madame Germaine, I want to salute you. And I hope, how is, first of all, the situation in Congo? To our listeners, on a good Sunday morning with Father Andre and 33 minutes on a lowest day. We have Madame Germaine, she runs a beautiful charity organization in Congo. She is in Kinshasa. And she is a friend of the Mission of Hope and Mercy as well. And she is connected in Italy and with us here in the US, in Denver, Colorado, and in Rome, and in Africa as well. She speaks perfect French and beside the African slangs and languages. and Italian. So she will be talking in French and I will be translating in English in this conversation with Madame Germaine.
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Good evening, Padre. Good evening, Carolina.
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Good evening, Padre. Good evening, Carolina. Madame Germaine, how is the situation in Congo? Because that's the first thing. We must pray for the situation in Congo. Before talking about our Pope, the election of the new Pope, Leo XIV, how is the situation for Christians, for Congolese, and for the human state, for families? I'm asking Germaine, how is, first of all, the situation in Congo? Because, you know, we've been hearing about a lot of massacres. We've been hearing about a lot of lack of food, a lot of lack of medicine. Many people have been internally displaced. There are about 12 million children in danger. because of the internal displacement and because of the potential massacres. And thousands of people, unfortunately, have been killed. So, Madame Germain, give us a little idea about the situation, please.
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Yes, the security and humanitarian situation in the RDC is really at its peak.
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The security situation and humanitarian situation in Congo is in a very drastic place.
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Surtout dans la partie est.
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Obviously in the east part of the Congo.
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M23.
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Because of the mob known as M23.
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Avec plusieurs conséquences sur le plan humanitaire.
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and there are many consequences on the humanitarian level. there are multi-sectorial consequences on the humanitarian, the human, the social, the economic, the educational, and the safety and the religious level as consequences, basically, for these attacks. Madame Germaine, what do you think the new Pope will bring for Congo and Africa? I'm asking Germaine, what does she think the new Pope, the Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV, will bring for Congo, or will be able to accomplish for Congo and for Africa?
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Pope Leo XIV, in fact, is a missionary pope. He has visited Africa and the areas of Congo many times. So being in the spirit of a missionary, that's an advantage. And as he is always on the path of Pope Francis, that is to say, he always had the orientations, that is to say, the pastoral orientations of Pope Francis, that is to say, and we expect from him several expectations.
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And we are comfortable. We have multiple anticipations and expectations from him because he, in fact, is walking in his shoes and following the footsteps of Pope Francis as a good shepherd and obviously who is close to his people and care for the pains and the humanitarian and social issues and security issues. And I'm explaining what Madame Germain briefly was trying to say in French, they feel comfortable and they have a lot of expectations from him since he follows the footsteps of Pope Francis in this regard. Madame Germaine, another question please. Are you a little disappointed that this election did not bring a Pope from Africa? ou bien il y a une consolation dans la figure, dans la face du pape Léo XIV. Qu'est-ce que vous en pensez? I'm asking Germaine if they are a little bit disappointed that because the world was talking about the first black pope, most likely an African pope, if they are disappointed or they have been consoled in this election knowing that the name was Cardinal Prévost or Pope Leo XIV. Madame Germaine.
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His election reflects first the universality of the Catholic Church and then certain conservatives, so he will value the role of the Church in Africa.
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So, two things make us very consoled in Africa. Madame Germaine has always the right and precise answers. She's a great, great, great person to have conversation with. Je disais que vous êtes une très bonne personne et intelligente à faire une conversation avec vous parce que toujours vous donnez des réponses justes, des réponses précises. So she was saying they're not afraid. They are consoled by the election of Pope Leo XIV because Cardinal Prevost, Cardinal Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born and the first American pope, is already a shepherd with universal outlook on the church. And this was one of the interests and priorities that the church in Africa would want a Pope to be. They wanted them to have a universal outreach, a universal dimension, universal and international understanding, and they are very comfortable that Pope Leo XIV has this dimension. Two, the second element that makes him consoled and happy with the election of pope leo xiv cardinal prevost according to madame germain is the fact that he comes out so far as a straight forward on the tradition he is not compromising conservative values of the church he is very straightforward and direct and protecting the tradition and also he's coming across as a traditional not traditionalist as a traditional so as conservative as conservative as a matter of fact and those two factors are also very appealing to the church in africa um So, in the rites after the voting for the new pope, after the smoke comes out of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, there are rites, rites of acceptance, orderitum conclavis, and then the conclave is concluded. Today, hope basically concludes the conclave by celebrating Mass with the brothers Cardinals. um how how is it in italy so far um the news about the election of the very first united states born pope especially that in italy we have to a vc basically a proposito di trump you know uh united and president trump We have a lot of lovers for President Trump. And now you have a Pope and President Trump from the United States of America. How is Italy doing since May 8th?
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So it's possible I speak in Italian and then you can translate because it's very hard to... Absolutely, me le frase corti. Si, si. In Italy there was a lot of talk about this American Pope. and they are trying to understand how politically relevant this role of the American Pope is to the American president.
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Wow, and they're trying to assess actually in the Italian media how important it is his political role, his political value vis-à-vis the political role of the President Trump of the United States.
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But in Italy we are usually controversial. So, the media want to find contradictions or connections.
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Now, basically, knowing that the Italian media usually likes controversy, likes polemic, we call them, they like... They're already searching for either basically contradictions or things that they are mutual. What is a mutual between Pope Leo XIV and President Trump versus what is contradictory? They're trying to put them either in contradiction with one another or in similarity in the same camp with one another. That's fantastic. And did they succeed doing anything?
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But I think it's only Italian media that do that. Yes. Yeah, I know. Anyway, anyway, the Pope is a Pope and the President Trump, obviously, is the President of all the America. A nice message I read on an Italian media was that Trump had said that he would make America big again, so...
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So there was a very sympathetic, very nice message in one of the local medias in Italy stated, basically introduced the new pope. Trump have promised us that he will make America great again. And here you go. He's making America great or greater with the introduction of the new pope. And now, my friends, we shall continue with our few minutes with KLZ, 33 minutes on the Lord's Day. I'm asking Carolina if she can repeat the message in English. I wish she can send me a copy of the article. I'd like to put it actually.
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Of course I can. So President Trump promised America great again. So also with the Pope, we will be great again. So we have all the possibilities now.
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We have all the possibilities. Madame Germaine, the associations of Catholic bishops in Congo, the Cardinal in fact, did he speak? Did he say something? Did he give his opinion after the papal elections? Did he make a call in Congo? Did he say something? I'm asking Madame Germaine if the Cardinal in Congo have commented on the election of the new Pope or any of the assembly of Catholic bishops in the Congo or in Africa. Madame Germaine.
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Yes, Padre. There was the reaction of the Secretary of the Cinco, Jolie, who were really happy about this election, as I said before, it reflects the university of the Church. And then for Africa, there are several expectations. There are several expectations from Pope Leon XIV on several dimensions, on several religious, geopolitical, socioculturel, et puis plusieurs questions transversales.
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Germaine is saying immediately the Secretary of the Assembly or the Conference of Catholic Bishops in Congo did actually make a statement, and they are very happy, as she said before, about the election of the new pope. And they said actually that Pope Leo XIV has plans already religious plans, spiritual plans, geopolitical plans, humanitarian plans, most likely that they anticipate he will take on very soon once he is seated on the cathedra on May 25th. And after that, I think Africa will be one of his priorities, according to Germain. I want to share with you both. I do not know if you heard his call on the lodge. So the first speech he gave on the balcony of Saint-Pierre. I don't know if you heard, if you listened to his message. When he said peace be with all of you, all of you. What did he mean? What did this all of you mean? Who are these all of you? Who are they? When he said that peace be with you all, not only with you, but with everything. What did he indicate? Carolina, if you can start, and then we'll take Germaine.
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In my opinion, he wanted to emphasize in this moment of war that peace must return to the point of reference of all humanity. And so peace be with all of you, he meant the peace of the world.
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So he meant the peace in the whole world, looking at countries who are at war and in conflicts. Carolina is saying he really wanted this peace to be indicating reaching all, meaning all the nations and the people, all of the humanity. Madame Germaine, your response?
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If there is no peace, for example in China, like in the East, there is no peace, there is no security, it is a bit difficult for the people... That is to say, the country should be developed. And I would say that Pope Leo XIV wants to put himself in the shoes of a peace promoter, that is to say, a neutral mediator.
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That's important. The observation of Madame Germain, she's saying the Pope is putting himself actually in the shoes of the people who do not have the experience of peace, people in the East who do not have the stability, the security. So he is actually through this peace be with all of you. He's making himself a promoter. for this peace, who have no interest except to give peace. Let us wait and see what will happen in the next, between now and next Sunday, my friends. We will continue with Madame Germaine and Carolina to cover the basically first days and first weeks of the Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Prevost in the Vatican. Remember in his first homily, the Pope spoke first in English spontaneously and he said, the church needs to be the lighthouse that illuminates the nights of the world. And the central messages of the Pope's homily is inviting the Cardinals along with himself as a Pope and the faithful to witness to the faith in environments where faith is considered to be something absurd because they prefer technology, money, success, power, and to be liked by others. The Pope continued saying that in some context, I add that Jesus has been reduced only to be a leader who is charismatic or a superhuman. The Pope said that this is a situation as well amongst many baptized Christians, unfortunately, who end up in such a way living in a practical atheism or atheism of fact. And the solution, Pope Leo XIV said, to all of these problems is what Pope Francis taught us to do, Bring the joy of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world, because he is the only Savior of the world. And with that, we conclude our radio show. I want to say, Almighty God, bless us all. Protect us from all evil and bring us to everlasting life. Please do not forget to go online and show your support, missionofhopeandmercy.org. And until next Sunday, congratulations to our Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV, to the United States of America, to President Trump, and to our U.S. people and government, and to the Church of Rome, and to all of you.
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Thank you for listening to 33 Minutes on the Lord's Day. To hear previous programs, visit the show page at missionofhopeandmercy.org. Listen to Father Andre every Sunday morning at 7.30 on KLZ as he speaks on the unity of Christians, religious freedom, and the biblical foundation of Judeo-Christian values and traditions. Join him in bringing hope and freedom to people across the globe while also strengthening your own faith, family, and community right here in Colorado. Reawaken the spiritual strength of America. Go to missionofhopeandmercy.org.
In this enlightening segment, Rick Hughes explores the timeless insights of Ecclesiastes, illustrating how God’s perfect timing influences every life event. Dive into a profound examination of spiritual rebirth and the stark realities of eternal life and death. Learn how to distinguish truth from heresy in a world filled with false teachings, as the episode exposes the destructive nature of salvation by works and spirituality divorced from genuine faith. Discover the power of divine viewpoint and how it sustains us amidst life’s trials.
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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 for the next few minutes, please stick around. You have an invitation to stay with me for about 30 minutes of motivation, some inspiration, some education, and no, absolutely none, not a manipulation. That's right. It's not asking you for money. We're not going to try to sell you anything. We're not going to solicit anything. We simply are giving you information. information that's designed to help you verify and identify the plan of God for your life. And if you're able to do that and you would like to orient and adjust to that plan, you have the freedom to do so. So thank you for listening. Thank you for tuning in. We're going on 14 years of being on the air across the country on the flood line. If this is your first time to ever hear us, FLOT, F-L-O-T, is a military term for the Forward Line of Troops, F-L-O-T. What we're trying to do is teach there are 10 unique problem-solving devices. And when you learn them from the Bible, the Word of God, that is, 10 problem-solving devices out of the Bible, When you learn these problem-solving devices, this is nothing new. This is not some great new breakthrough. These are age-old biblical doctrines. But when you learn them and understand them, then it's possible for you to stop the outside sources of adversity before they ever become the inside source of stress. That's why we say adversity is inevitable, but stress is optional. So, you know, adversity is what you do to yourself or what circumstances do to you. But stress, you don't have to live that way. You don't have to live in fear. You don't have to live with worry. You don't have to live with anger. You don't have to live with jealousy. You don't have to live with bitterness. These are all mental attitude sins that destroy your life. And so by learning God's wonderful problem-solving devices, such as how to rebound your sin, problem-solving device number one, how to stay filled with the Holy Spirit, problem-solving device number two, how to use the faith rest drill, problem-solving device number three. And living by grace orientation, number four. Understanding doctrinal orientation, number five. Having a personal sense of destiny, number six. Having personal love for God as your motivational virtue and then impersonal love for all, that's seven and eight. Sharing the Happiness of God, that's problem-solving device number nine, and Occupation with the Person of Christ, number 10. We have all of these in a book. It's free. I'll be glad to send it to you. It's not a big book. It's a small book that deals with Christian problem-solving. It's just a summary of what each one of these are. So if you'd like the book, don't hesitate to contact us on our website, rickhughesministries.org. rickhughesministries.org this morning we're going to continue our study on change is coming and this will be the third class we've done on that third series and we're dealing with ecclesiastes three one through eight and this is the passage it deals with god's timing for all events on the earth as solomon saw it and solomon wrote it out to begin with he said there is a time there is a to everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under the heavens. He goes on to say a time to be born and a time to die, and a time to plant and a time to pluck up that which was planted. And we went through all of these, all the way through verse 8, where it says there's a time to love and a time to hate, a time of war and a time of peace. So the bottom line was that nothing stays the same forever. Change is inevitable. And you and I being here, we'll be gone someday. Change is inevitable. It doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad thing, but it's inevitable, and it'll happen. It goes on to say, to everything there's a season, and everything there's a purpose under the heavens. And the principle was that uncontrollable circumstances in your life are often a way God directs you. And we also saw that sometimes we get out of step with God in our life, but he does not forget us. So we studied a little bit about why Solomon wrote these sayings and what he put down. We saw time to be born, big day 101, and that's not only your physical birthday, but but your spiritual birthday as well because you know you must be born twice or you will die twice. The first birthday is physical, you had nothing to do with it, your parents copulated and you were conceived. But the second birthday is your spiritual birth and that's when you must be born again. And then there are two deaths. Death one, it's appointed unto man once to die and after that the judgment. And death two, whoever was found, whoever's name was not found written in the Lamb's book of life. was cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, Revelation 20 says. So there are two deaths and two births. And that's why I say if you're born twice, you're only going to die once. And if you're born once, you're going to die twice. I hope that makes sense to you. So as we went on, we saw that physical death was... unavoidable. There's no way around it. It's going to happen. And we saw that there was no way that you could be removed from this life apart from the sovereignty of God. And the principle was that God keeps you here until he makes a decision and nothing's going to remove you from this life until he's ready to take you. So none of us have control over the time that we come or the time that we leave. Our future destiny, we do have control over that, whether or not we're going to heaven. And we do have control over how we live during our time on this sin invested planet. And we saw where Joshua said, as for me and my house, we're gonna serve the Lord. So you have to make a decision. How will you live? How will you choose to live? Where will you make your decisions from? And that's why the Bible says all people are like grass and all their glory is like the flowers of the field. The grass withers and the flower fails. But the word of the Lord will endure forever. And this is the word that was preached to you, Peter said in 1 Peter 1, 24. So God's timing is critical in all of our lives. Understanding his plan, how his plan works, it starts with us having a spiritual life. That means a spiritual birth, being born again, accepting Christ as your savior, demands you have a spiritual life. And we saw that the spiritual life is operational in your soul. That's where it's lived. That's where it starts. And you have to recognize that and you have to sustain your spiritual life and it's lived in the mentality of your soul. So your soul not only functions in time while you're here, but it will also be with you in eternity when you leave here. because you carry your thinking with you into eternity. We studied that, we saw that, and we saw that the soul is made up of mentality, volition, consciousness, self-consciousness, and it's invisible, it's immortal. I saw, we tried to show you how husband and wife can copulate and conceive a child in human life, but only God can give the soul. Only God can give the soul. And we saw that the soul is not in the blood. I mean, if you have a blood transfusion and lose all your blood in a serious accident, you can have more blood put in, but your soul is not in your blood. So the soul is in the mentality of the body. And we did see in Psalm 34 where the Lord redeems the soul of his servants. and none of them who trust in him will ever be desolate. And we saw in Mark 8, what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul? So there we have it. And we want to press on today in our study, seeing how the cosmic recruiter tries to recruit you into evil, the devil system. Peter wrote about these false teachers in his time who were going in and trying to distort the gospel information. He said these words, and I'm going to spend some time here with you, hopefully help you to see what this means. In 2 Peter 2, 1 through 19, 19 total verses. He starts off by saying, false prophets arise among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. And these false teachers will infiltrate your midst with destructive heresies. Destructive heresies. What in the world is a destructive heresy? Well, it's the word apoleia, destructive, and the destructive heresy is nothing more than salvation by works or spirituality by praise and worship. A destructive heresy is someone works their way into your church or into your periphery and tells you that if you want to go to heaven, you've got to be a good boy and you can't smoke and can't drink and can't dance, you know, the word dance. You can't dance, can't wear this, can't do that. And it's a salvation by works. That's not what the Bible says. The Bible says, for by grace are you saved through faith, and it's a gift from God, not of works. And a destructive heresy is someone lying to you about how you get saved because in the end you will never have any salvation. You will do what the Bible says. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, did I not prophesy in your name and in your name cast out devils? And he said, I'll tell them I never knew you, never heard of you, don't know who you are. So salvation by works is a destructive heresy. And spirituality by praise and worship is another destructive heresy. The word heresy is the word that I'm talking about. So we have two words put together here. Apollia heresy. And that's a destructive heresy. A heresy is a self-willed opinion that's substituted for truth. And that's what happens when someone gets away from the word of God and they think they're smarter than God. Or they're just plain outright liars deceiving you, drawing you into something that's not true. So Peter went on to say these sort of people that preach these destructive heresies will even go to the point of denying the master who bought them. That means that Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, bought and paid for you on the cross. He who knew no sin was made sin for us so that we could be made the righteousness of God through him. You're a bought possession. You have been redeemed out of the slave market of sin as a believer in Jesus Christ. And since they deny the master that bought them, they deny Christ. As a result, Peter wrote, they will bring swift destruction on themselves. And many will follow their debauched lifestyle because these false teachers will slander the way of truth. And in their greed, they will exploit you with deceptive words. He goes on to say their condemnation was pronounced a long time ago, and it's not sitting idly by. Their destruction is not asleep. And so there are deceptive cosmic recruiters trying to recruit you into a different way of thinking, not having the mind of Christ, not seeing divine viewpoint, and this is the key. Divine viewpoint is how you want to think. It is what is the mind of Christ. not human viewpoint, or what we call evil, because this is exactly what Satan wants you to do. He wants you to abandon the Bible as a guidepost. He wants you to move away from the Word of God and substitute a destructive heresy rather than what is truth. And so he says they are dead already. Their condemnation was pronounced a long time ago, and it's not sitting idly by. Verse 4, 2 Peter 2 says, For if God did not spare even the angels that sinned, and you know this is what happened to Satan and his arrogance, but threw them into hell and locked them up in chains and utter darkness to be kept until the judgment, that's from Genesis 6 about the Nephilim, and if he did not spare the ancient world but did protect Noah, a herald of righteousness, along with seven others, when God brought a flood on the ungodly world, and then it goes on in verse 6, if he turned to ashes the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. A lot of people don't like to hear that. They don't agree with that. But this was a condemnation to the homosexuality that was rampant in Sodom and Gomorrah when the homosexuals there tried to rape some angels that came to visit Lot. And it says, when he condemned them to destruction, that's the whole city, having appointed them to serve as an example. to future generations and that's up what we don't like to hear we don't like to hear that but that whole thing about sodom and gomorrah is an example to the united states of america and the word is ungodly ungodly an example to future generations of ungodly whenever you turn your back on the divine institutions such as marriage family freedom and nationalism And you began to set up an alternative lifestyle, regardless of what you call it, inclusion or whatever way you want to say you are living an ungodly life, but that's okay. That's what you chose to do. You have the freedom to do that. You're free, American free individual, and you can decide your own destiny. And if he rescued lot, which he did out of solid Gamora, a righteous man who was in anguish, over the debauched lifestyle of the lawless men of Sodom and Gomorrah. Verse eight, because he lived among them day after day, and he was tormented in his righteous soul by the deeds that he saw and he heard. If so, if all of this happened, Then here's what's wonderful truth to you. The Lord knows how to rescue the godly from their trials. And are you godly? That's a good question to ask. 1 Corinthians 10, 13 says, No temptation has tried you that's not common to man. And so God always provides a way out. But are you godly? There's two ways to answer that. Have you received the righteousness of Christ in your life? Yes. Have you received the righteousness of Christ in your life? Have you, in fact, been born again? And as the Bible says, he who knew no sin was made sin for us so that we could be made the righteousness of God through him. When you have that plus R, God's righteousness, you're godly in your position. But then we have our experience. Are we living godly lives? And if you are filled with the Holy Spirit and you're letting the Holy Spirit control your life, you're going to sin from time to time because you have a sin nature. There's no way around that. But if you rebound that sin and continue to advance in your spiritual life, then in time you're living a godly life, and that's the key to it, living that life in time. So back to the verse. If so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from their trials. And to reserve the unrighteous, that's those who reject the word of God, who reject Jesus Christ, who reject God's plan for punishment at the day of judgment. That's a great white throne. Especially, especially, listen to this now, especially those who indulge in their fleshly desires. This is the sin nature run amok. Those who despise authority, that's negative volition towards legitimate authority. The first legitimate authority you ever face is God and his word. The first mandate, you love the Lord God with all your heart, soul, and mind. So, they're said to be brazen people, brazen, and this is true of America today. Those who get sucked into the cosmic system, who buy into the devil's lie, the alternative lifestyle, they are very brazen, and the Greek word brazen means is tomates, tomates. It means daring and irreverent. And then it goes on, another descriptive adjective is they're insolent, aphades, aphades, which means they are self-willed and inconsiderate of other people. So this sort of person is daring and irreverent, self-willed, inconsiderate of others, and listen to this, They are not afraid to insult the glorious ones. That's you. Not afraid to run you down. Not afraid to criticize you because you believe the Bible. Not afraid to call you nasty names because you don't agree with their lifestyle. And he goes on to say, yet even the angels in verse 11, 2 Peter 2, who are much more powerful, don't bring slanderous judgment against them before the Lord. But these men... like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and to be destroyed. They don't understand who they are insulting and consequently in their destruction they will be destroyed. And this is exactly true today. What's going on in this country, so many people that are propagating this lifestyle do not understand that they are planting the seeds for their own destruction. We are teetering on the edge right now in this client nation because of the way people think. They don't think like you think. The majority of them don't think like you think. I know I read the same polls you do from time to time, who's going to be elected, who's not going to be elected. But if you understand how the lost world thinks and what they believe in and what they think is okay and legitimate and good and true, it is so far from what the Word of God says. they are planting the seeds for their own destruction even this day in this country the verse goes on to say suffering harm is the wages for their harmful ways and by what what does that mean they consider it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight they are stains and blemishes In other words, you get around them, it's going to rub off on you. Indulging in their deceitful pleasures when they feast together with you. Their eyes are full of adultery, never stop sinning. They entice unstable people. They've trained their hearts for greed, these cursed children. By forsaking the right path, they've gone astray. They followed the way of Balaam, the son of Buyor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness, yet was rebuked for his own transgression by a dumb donkey speaking to him with a human voice, restraining the prophet's madness. These sort of people are waterless springs in a midst driven by a storm, for whom the utter depths of darkness have been reserved, because by speaking high-sounding but empty words, High sounding, but empty. They're able to entice, lure, pull people away with fleshly desires and debauchery. People who have just escaped from those who reside in error. And although these false teachers promise many people freedom, they themselves are enslaved to their own immorality because whatever a person gives into, that's he's enslaved to. That's a lot of verses. I'm sorry it takes so long to read it. And it was written to the false teachers in Peter's day, but you can see the pattern and the trend in the United States of America today with certain key words that we highlighted there. So what's an unrighteous person? That's someone who doesn't possess the righteousness of Christ. And in this case, It's the unbeliever who rejects the divine establishment principles and who lives only to please the trends of his sin nature. He does that by despising authority because the ultimate authority of man is the will of God expressed in the scriptures. Without humility, there is no teachability. Isaiah 46.10 talks about the ultimate authority of God. It says, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient time things which have not been done, saying, my purpose, my will will be established, and I will accomplish all my good pleasure. And then the psalmist repeats it in Psalm 135, verse 6, whatever the Lord pleases me, He does in heaven and in earth and the seas and all the depths of the seas. So the arrogant man or the arrogant woman who justifies their sin, who justifies their debauchery, who justifies leading you into that same sin does not see the reality of what they really are because they have an unrealistic self-image from their own arrogance and from rejecting the authority of the word of God. When you reject the authority of the Word of God, you're going down a dead-end street because you think you're smarter than God, and you find ways to say, well, the Bible doesn't really mean that, and the Bible doesn't really say that. Yes, it does. these arrogant people have this unrealistic self-image and that always leads to an unrealistic expectation of how they are to be treated as normal wonderful great individuals wrong wrong it says they're daring and self-willed they don't tremble it's the height of arrogance not for anyone not to respect god in his word or his son our savior the lord jesus christ They are reveling, partying, carousing where they have no knowledge, which means they're completely unaware or unconcerned about God's divine design for all members of the human race. And Paul wrote about it and warned in the New Testament, I'm telling you, don't live like the Gentiles live in the emptiness of their mind because darkness in their soul keeps them from understanding what they're doing. They're excluded from the life of God because of their own ignorance and because of the hearts that have grown hard. They become calloused and they have betrayed their own soul or given their own soul over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. That's descriptive analogy right there of this sort of person we're talking about. In Ephesians 4, 17 through 19, read it for yourself. The scar tissue that builds up on the soul of the unbeliever or the believer who rejects God's word and he goes for the alternative lifestyle is very destructive. It's a debauched lifestyle. It's slandering the truth, the Bible says, 2 Peter 2, 1 through 19. This total preoccupation with diversity and inclusion is running rampant in our nation today. And if we don't have the opportunity to teach our children the truth, then they will have no hope of avoiding the lies of the cosmic system. Those lies will promise all sorts of happiness in unrestrained sin nature activity. And they won't even recognize the lie when they hear it. Because the whole deal that Satan's concerned about is shutting down this client nation and its evangelistic outreach at home and abroad. We are a threat to his plan. We're a threat to his goal. He's headed for the lake of fire, and he doesn't want us interfering with that. He wants to get out of the lake of fire. He wants to stop you from being a testimony, a witness for Jesus Christ. So these people are exploited by deceptive words. That's lies. They entice unstable people through organized religion. High-sounding but empty words. They're great orators, deliver great messages. But listen, here's the key here. Great delivery does not guarantee accuracy. That's something you need to remember. These sort of people promise freedom, but they are themselves enslaved to immorality, the Bible says. Though America's time in history is teetering on the edge, you can deliver us yourself. with an invisible impact as a winter believer who influences your family and your friends by your lifestyle and by your words. You and I are the purveyors of truth and the purveyors of hope. That's why our Lord Jesus Christ, the anointed son of God said, I am the way, the truth and the life. The life that we're talking about in Christ is beyond your wildest dreams. It's a life of blessing. It's a life of confidence. It's a life of prosperity, all because of God's unfailing love for us. It's never faltered. It's never changed. All he asks is that you love him and that you obey him. No one's asking you to destroy your life. No one's asking you to do anything harmful. Just listen to what the word of God says and obey it. Because Jesus Christ, our Lord said, happiness belongs to those people who hear my father's word and keep it. There is no chance of happiness if people don't hear the word of God because they don't know their options. And there is no chance of happiness if you hear it, but you don't keep it. So I have given you some information today, rather lengthy information. I hope you heard it. I hope you listened. And I hope you will learn and apply it into your life. I'm your host, Rick Hughes, heard every Sunday here on the Flatline. Don't hesitate to contact us if you'd like to. Until next Sunday, thank you for listening to our show today.
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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.
Drive Radio invites you to shift gears as we explore the dynamics of safe towing in our latest episode. John and the team share their personal experiences and lessons learned from years on the road, emphasizing the critical role of safety in preventing accidents. This episode sheds light on improper towing combinations, safety chain techniques, and the often ignored checks that can make a big difference. With summer just around the corner, don't miss out on this opportunity to educate yourself and optimize your towing setup. Our experts offer step-by-step instructions and highlight the importance of regular maintenance to ensure not just compliance but confidence whenever you hit the road. From expert recommendations on equipment to legal insights on towing laws, this episode is your ultimate guide to towing brilliance.
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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?
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It is a trick question. Watch this. A 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.
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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.
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All right, we are back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. I got a great text message, and we were talking about trailers and horses and hobbyists and so on. This is from a texter. Wyoming, I can tell. Real Cowboy is driving an old POS Ram. The hobbyist is driving a brand new loaded up truck with a boomer trailer with living quarters in it. Yes, I would agree with you on that one. 100%. The real guys—and by the way, on the real side, everything's paid for. On that side, it's all financed.
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Well, I'm going to say depending on what they're showing or what they're hauling. Well, that could be, too. Because some of these big horse shows— I mean, there's big money in that, and there's, you know, I see that.
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Well, you know, I know some guys that do some cutting and some things like that. And, oh, yeah, they're styling too. They're driving some pretty fancy new stuff. But they're the exception, by the way.
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Right. Yeah, exactly. If you're hardcore rodeo, stuff like that, yeah, you're going to be racking up a lot of miles. You're putting miles on. You're going to be beating up on things and stuff like that.
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Either that or you're doing well enough where you're buying a new truck, you know, periodically, and that means you're doing really well if that's the case.
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Right. Exactly. Exactly.
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So, yeah, no, thank you, though, for the text message because you're not far off, by the way. And that was my whole point earlier is there are a lot of folks that get into doing hobby-type things that they now are going to tow. Sure. And this can be true even with, you know, the whole camping thing. And, folks, believe me, where I live and where I drive, you know, I-70 West literally six days a week. And as we get closer and closer to summer, especially now, I'll start seeing this even this weekend and next. You'll see guys getting the trailers out. They're going to drag them out of storage because they don't keep them at their house because of the HOA. So they're over in the storage, and they probably can't even drag them out until next week because they can't be parked in front of their house more than a week because of the HOA rules. So reality is I'll start seeing these things get drug out here in the next week or two. And I'm here to tell you, folks, I see it all. Yeah. Every type of tow rig in front of every type of trailer you can imagine. And I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say this. Over half of them are the wrong combo.
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Yeah.
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Literally, as I watch what's going down I-70, going head up the hill, half of what I'm looking at is not the right setup. Somebody told them that, oh, yeah, you've got that Volvo wagon. Yeah, we can put this 20-foot camper trailer behind that. No problem. Exactly. We'll put some extended mirrors on the fender and send you on your way.
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Yep.
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be all set and i'm i watched that plus a lot of other things and and i'm by the way that combo that i just gave you yes i've seen that yeah sure these are things that i literally and and yeah the volvo i'll just tell you straight up it's got more enough power to haul that 20 foot trailer yeah no issues whatsoever stop it oh no no it's not going to stop in fact it'll haul it up the hill at probably 75 mile an hour if you want to right That's the other thing I see is these guys will then go up the mountain and they'll be in the left lane doing 75 thinking that, oh, I can go this fast. And yes, you can, but you shouldn't be with what you're hauling.
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Exactly. Yeah.
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All right. So really quick, a few things on trailer hauling that some of you that are veterans, you're going to say, OK, yeah, I can turn the radio off for a minute. Well, yes, you probably can. But let's go through some basics for folks that have never towed before. And there's just a few things that you need to be doing to make sure that you're safe when you do things. First things first. Most people put safety chains on the wrong way. And what I mean by that is they get everything hooked up. They get the trailer attached to the ball. They've got all that hooked up correctly. And the first thing they do is they take the right chain and they go into the right loop on the truck. They take the left chain. They go to the left side of the ball hitch on the truck. And they say, yep, I'm good to go. My chains are on.
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Cross them.
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You've got to cross them. Why do you cross them, Ken?
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So if that ball comes or if that hitch comes off the ball, it lands in the chain.
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It's a cradle.
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It's a cradle. It doesn't dig into the ground and launch you.
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And you have more control over it if that were to happen when they're X'd.
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And it's going to be more apt to stay with the vehicle in control.
SPEAKER 07 :
And I will tell you that of everything I've hauled over all of the years, Uh, more than once I've had something happen to where something happened with the ball and it jumped off and it lays right down in that cradle. And those safety chains give you the ability without even damaging anything to get over to the side of the road, get back there, figure out what's going on. And some of you are saying, well, geez, John, how did that happen? Guys, listen, with all of the things I have hauled throughout all of the years, and sometimes not even being my own trailer, things can happen where the couplers get wore out. Yeah. something happens to where somebody mismarks the – you can't read what the coupler is, and it's 2-5-16ths, and you've got a 2-inch ball because you're reading it and you're thinking, oh, it's only 2 inches because there's really no way to measure that unless you read the stampings. I, folks, through all of the years of doing all these different things, I've run into pretty much almost probably any scenario you can think of as to why certain things happen. And I will just tell you straight up, if you've got those chains crossed – your chances of having anything major happen are very minimized. Let's just say it that way.
SPEAKER 05 :
And with that, too, a lot of the chains come fairly long.
SPEAKER 07 :
You want them as short as possible without binding.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right. You don't want them to drag, and you don't want them to bind. I'm glad you said that. That's a great point.
SPEAKER 07 :
And some of you would say, so how do you do that? twist them more there you go you know just keep twisting them until they go you know it's it's three four inches down from the bottom of the ball some of you're gonna say well i can't make that chain any shorter if you twist it it gets it gets shorter right exactly yes you can now the other thing too that i'm a big one on and some of the lighter trailers will just have an s hook at the end of that chain i hate that the I do not like those. I like the actual clevises, like what you would actually turn and screw them on to tighten them up. And I like them to be thumb tight. You don't need to get a wrench and tighten them that way.
SPEAKER 01 :
But I want them closed.
SPEAKER 07 :
I want them tight. And I like using those because there's no chance of those jumping off. The S-hooks, yeah, there's probably not much of a chance of those coming off. But I just don't like the fact that they're open and they could bend and things could happen.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, because you get a lot of force if that does come off.
SPEAKER 07 :
I want that clevis, which basically makes a chain link. Yes. Those of you that are trying to imagine what I'm talking about over the air, but a clevis that screws, and you can pick them up in any hardware store, and I'm one of those guys that, you know.
SPEAKER 05 :
It looks just like a chain link. It just has a screw.
SPEAKER 07 :
And by the way, they're really handy with even doing some of the other things that I do with plowing snow and other things. I will keep one or two of those in the back seat. I've got two in my toolbox.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, I just have them because they come in handy for all sorts of things. Right, exactly, yeah. You never know when you're going to have to link something together.
SPEAKER 07 :
And that's what they're there for. And the ones that thread together are extremely strong. In fact, I don't know that I've— They have weight ratings on them. Yeah, I've never seen one come apart.
SPEAKER 05 :
You buy a good quality one, they're just not going to come apart. They have stainless, they have galvanized, they have all kinds of different ones.
SPEAKER 07 :
And I don't buy the fancy stainless ones. I buy the galvanized ones.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's what I buy.
SPEAKER 07 :
And they're a couple, two, three bucks a piece is all. I keep, like Kent, I keep one or two of them in my tool bag or whatever and keep it in the truck at all times. It's just there if something were to happen. I also keep some bungee cords and things like that in there. That's another thing that if you get to a point where you just can't quite make everything work, bungee cords help out immensely.
SPEAKER 05 :
So what I've found, and this is recent, since last year anyway, show up and some of my friends is like, oh, grab that Titan strap. I'm like, what is that? I looked at it, and I'm like, that is awesome. It's a rubber strap. They come in all different lengths and stuff. So what it does is it loops through the buckle, it hooks, and then you just slide a little deal. And they're rubber or nylon, some type of neoprene, something super strong. And it doesn't... It doesn't come off like a bungee cord or something like that. But, yeah, look them up. I'll do that. They are really awesome. I mean, you can invest a little bit depending on what you're doing with them, but they don't break. They don't do anything.
SPEAKER 07 :
The other thing for a lot of you listening where maybe you're just going out for the first time and you've bought a camper or – You bought a used camper even. Other things I'm big on is how is everything mounted? In other words, you've got propane tanks potentially that are mounted on there. Are all your mounts good? Do you have any bolts that have rusted off? How are your tanks? Are they on there good and solid? Are your tanks off as you're traveling? You don't want them on.
SPEAKER 05 :
Make sure the valves are off. Make sure all your appliances are off. Your main power is disconnected.
SPEAKER 07 :
Correct. Now, one other thing, Jeff, I'll take you. I'm going to give you plenty of time. I'll come right back after the break and take you so we've got plenty of time that way. One other thing, too, the majority of your larger trailers where they've got electric brakes on them, they will have an emergency breakaway switch with a battery that takes over and operates the trailer brakes because they're all working electronically. The way a trailer brake works is there's a brake drum. They're all drum brakes. It's the only way these will work. and they've got a magnetic puck that rides on the backside of the drum. And what happens is when it's energized with electricity, the more voltage, the more magnetic it becomes because it's an electric magnet, and a little bit of voltage, it drags just a little bit and applies the brakes slightly because the way it works is it twists around and it applies the drum brakes. So it's... It's a really easy concept. Very, very straightforward. They've been working that way for eons, now decades. The more voltage that gets applied, the harder that magnet becomes, or the more lively, I guess you could say, it becomes, and it sticks more, and it drags the brakes in more, engages them more, and so on. So what happens is... The way the breakaway switches work with its own battery on there, because if something were to happen and that trailer comes unhooked from the truck and you no longer have power from the truck to the brakes, that little battery powers things up. There's a breakaway switch. It applies full power to the trailer. It's going to stop and off you go. You want to test that battery to make sure, in fact, and the way you do that is pull the breakaway switch out. that should be then in and have to have the truck unplug you have to have the trailer unplugged from the truck pull that switch and then try to pull forward with the trailer if you can pull forward with no resistance that battery is no good right or something's something's not right yeah If you pull that and you try to pull forward and the trailer doesn't move or you're skidding the tires, you know things are good. That's one quick way for those of you that are going to go out this year with even a trailer from last year to check to make sure. You can always check it with a meter, but this is the easiest way to do it.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER 07 :
Not everybody's got a DVOM to check things with, so this is a really easy way. Just don't plug the trailer into the truck. Have everything all hooked up. Have your safety chains and everything on. Pull the breakaway switch, and that trailer should not move more than a foot.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
If it moves more than that, you've got a problem.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. It's got to rotate the brakes into the bind. And it applies.
SPEAKER 07 :
That's why I say it might move a foot, but it's not going to go much further than that. So that's a really easy way to check to make sure that breakaway switch mechanism is working properly. All right. Jeff and Golden, hang tight. We'll come right back. We've got a couple lines open. 303-477-5600. Drive Radio KLZ.
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All right, we are back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Jeff and Golden, go ahead, sir. Hello, how are you doing? I'm great. How are you?
SPEAKER 08 :
Good, good, good.
SPEAKER 09 :
So, yeah, the one I have is kind of a pet peeve, and it's kind of an interesting one, I guess, just from my perspective. Being a motorcyclist, and I did do a tremendous amount in Southern California, the motorcycling in between cars, and when a guy... is sitting in traffic or whatever, and here in Denver it's a really tough one because now it's the way we do it now, so they're still, you know, guys are trying to learn. But when they won't give the right of way to a motorcycle, you know what I mean? If you're that motorcyclist and you're trying to get up, and I know a lot of people are going to crucify me on that one, but it is annoying as all get up when you're – when you're trying to get between cars or whatever with your motorcycle.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, yeah, and just really quick for everybody listening, the way the laws in Colorado are supposed to work, and this is where I think, Jeff, even the motorcyclists need some training or some instruction on this, because if traffic is moving in Colorado, we don't have lane splitting. So the only time you're allowed to go between cars in Colorado is, I believe, if the cars are going less than 10 miles an hour. Then you can split in between them on a motorcycle. Yes, the cars need to give room. And it's my complaint, Jeff, on the motorcyclists are a lot of guys cheat. They don't do that. Traffic will be moving at 50 instead of 60 or 65, and they're still splitting the lane. And no, that's not what it's supposed to be.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, the term is lane filter.
SPEAKER 07 :
Thank you.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes, that's correct. You know what I mean? And that kind of does imply slower. You know what I mean? It's a filter through, not a.
SPEAKER 07 :
a split like i'm doing 150 and you're only doing 80 you know what i mean right now that's yeah that and i've had some of those guys i've actually had a guy on my way home last night that did exactly what you just said i was doing yeah i probably shouldn't say i'm in the left hov lane clipping along let's just say that i'm not going to give you the speed limit at least i'm doing the speed limit jeff wink wink and this guy comes flying by me on the right and i hardly even saw him yeah
SPEAKER 09 :
From where I'm standing right here in Golden, I have a very good earshot of, like, I-70 going up. You know what I mean?
SPEAKER 06 :
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 09 :
And you can, I mean, they ought to come up with an app where you could hear the sound and you can predict the speed of the vehicle.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. Right. Exactly. That's a three-mile section. It should have taken, yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. Sounds like, yeah, it's like Indianapolis is going on up there. I hear you. So, hey, a great tip on the safety brake on the trailer. That's a good one.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, and by the way, some of that I've learned because if you're running a commercial operation and you have commercial trailers, that's exactly what they do when you run into the side checks, you know, the mobile checks that the State Patrol and even cities will run at times, Jeff. That's exactly how they check your trailers if you're a commercial operator. They unplug it, they pull the switch, and they tell the driver to pull forward. And if it don't stop, you're going to get a ticket.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, right, exactly. That's a good one. I'll tell you right now, I have a story here. This is, you know, I mean, and I'm sure there's a lot of, there's, you know, repo guys listening or tow truck guys listening. This is, I think, towing, now when you're towing another car, that's a whole other level of towing that people, that you can get yourself in a pickle with. And I just did. I do the race cars, right? I tow around front-wheel drive race cars all over the country.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
And I've towed a car, you know, thousands of times, and you get complacent. And I just had a horrendous accident, near accident. Nothing happened bad, but, I mean, I was on... I'm on the risk of incriminating myself right now, right?
SPEAKER 07 :
That's all right. No one knows who you are. Only me.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, right. Exactly. Totally. But, no, on I-70, okay, we're going. I was taking the race car to go get... some muffler work done, and I'm at I-70 just before Sheridan, okay, going east. And I look in, and I'm towing my yellow race car, and I have a little single-axle aluminum tilt trailer, okay. I look back in my rearview mirror, and the car was, you know, we're doing 65 mile an hour, but I was like, oh, who's the guy in the yellow Chevrolet Cavalier race car behind me, you know? You know, with nobody driving it. And I'm like, oh, you know, I had that moment of like, oh, my God. You know, here we go. This is going to get bad. And there was a semi truck that's seen it happen. He slowed down traffic. People kind of saw what happened. And the thing keeps going. And I start tracking it, you know, like ahead of me. Maybe I could scoop it up type deal. And it kind of lightly brushes the inside median. And then it does come back all the way. And then very slowly. softly and then it comes to the the right side median just before the exit of of uh harlem there sheridan harlem right there and it came just and i kind of tracked it and it did it came to a stop wow you know what i mean yeah right so what so what i mean what what how did it come off what happened jeff what broke exactly right so i jump in the thing and i and i started and i didn't want to start right you know sitting there hug on it wouldn't start i'm in trail it fired up i boom and the trailer it might pitched up and everything Boom, drive it back on there. I remember how I strapped it. I got it strapped down, boom, off, and off I went, and I was okay. You know what I mean? I got off the road and was okay. But, yes, so what had happened, what I had done is we have, like, safety chains and certain things that we have built onto the race car.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right.
SPEAKER 09 :
right that we use just to tow their mandatory imca to you know to make it it has to so they can tow you off the track and i've got into the habit over the years of using those strap to those and go you know what i mean okay and one of those failed on me one of my little rigged up deals exactly so i have changed exactly so i and one thing that this did for me and i did i so after the you know anytime something like that happens right you No, you do. You better up your game on whatever you just did. And so I went and full-on invested, and I did. These are those diamond, that purple diamond weave tire strap down. You know, it's where they're just individually strapped the tires down. So there's four. I only got two right now, but I'm going to have four. So all four tires... will be ratchet-strapped down from now on. So I could jump my trailer with the car on there. I don't care what it is. It'll never, ever come off again.
SPEAKER 05 :
It's staying on the trailer.
SPEAKER 09 :
And obviously, I left my pin. I didn't do my catch pit to allow that thing to tip. That was just a dumb move on me. Like, I just... There's a little pin there that you've got to flip so that thing doesn't tip. So when I left the tip... pin, unactivated or whatever, and then she rolled backwards, it was off, and off she went.
SPEAKER 07 :
Wow, you're so lucky.
SPEAKER 05 :
You are living right, Jeff. You're lucky you said, oh, my God, who is that?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, you are living right. I mean, I would just like to see how big your eyes got. Yeah, right.
SPEAKER 09 :
I feel like Chevy Chase, you know what I mean? Yeah, what is that?
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, that is a story and a half, Jeff. Holy cow. Yeah, that could have ended so much worse. Oh, man.
SPEAKER 09 :
It could have been terrible. The car didn't even take that much damage, barely anything. I mean, the thing's built to hit walls anyway, so it was kind of, you know.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. Oh, my word. Wow. Yeah, that's like one of those nightmares you don't ever want to see happen. Right. Never. And luckily for you, one of the few times probably everybody there was paying attention.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, right. Exactly.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, I got real lucky with the crowd, I think, that was on the track.
SPEAKER 07 :
You had a situation where you had all the right drivers in all the right places at all the right time and moment in time that they were all paying attention.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. Wow. They saw exactly what was happening and Yep.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, so a dumb question. Steering wheel locks on it? Did it just keep going straight? Did it turn? How did that work?
SPEAKER 09 :
I don't know. I don't think there's any steering wheel locks on it. I'm not sure those are off. I'm pretty sure. So, yeah, I don't think on that one.
SPEAKER 07 :
So it was just freewheeling.
SPEAKER 05 :
Luckily, the alignment was good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 07 :
And the crown of the road just drifted it over to the right a little bit, and there you go.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. Yep, and it did. It literally came to just a stop, and I... I remember not wanting to start right away, and I was like, you know, don't break down now. Let me get off of this.
SPEAKER 07 :
Wow. Yeah. Well, and as a side note, and you can take this advice or not, I am one where I feel like if you're hauling anything that is that, even though it's not a heavy, heavy car, I hate single axle trailers for that kind of stuff. I would have a dual axle trailer.
SPEAKER 06 :
That's just me. Yeah. For the sway.
SPEAKER 07 :
I mean, not because of what you went through, but just the overall stability of things. I like double axles.
SPEAKER 1 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
Now, most people do. I just haven't, yeah, I just had an enclosed, you know, double axle or whatever that I just sold it to. I'm just going to go on my, just because I'm using a lighter vehicle.
SPEAKER 07 :
Sure. I hear you. Well, that's a good story, Jeff. I mean, it really is. And that's a great example of even all of us that are veterans, stuff can still happen. Check and double check.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 09 :
On vehicles, you just always have to... Right? It's on the braking. That's what a lot of people got to realize, too. Like, you can strap something down, but you got to realize when you hit the brakes on something really fast, that's where you're getting all that force. So you have to hold... the car a lot going both directions. Right. You know what I mean? So a car has got to be strapped, you know, for the pull, for the, you know, going uphill, too, and the sharp downhill. People forget that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yep, you're correct. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 09 :
I hope there's a tow truck. I'm sure tow truck guys could call in with some awesome stories.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, I am sure.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
I am sure. Absolutely. Although I will say of late, I watched some of those guys and just – Speaking of pet peeves, since you brought that up, Jeff, you tow truck drivers that are listening to me, please turn off your dang emergency lights once the emergency is over. The law does not allow you to run down the road with your lights on just because you're too lazy to actually run the wires and the taillights to the back of the car you're towing. It quit being stinking lazy and turn your emergencies on and then drive down the road because you've got that car hooked in the back because you didn't feel like stretching those wires out and actually putting the taillights on the car. And that is you talk about a pet peeve of mine, Jeff. It is stinking lazy tow truck drivers because because here's what happens. The reason why I say that's such a big deal. The minute that guy's lights are on, everybody watches that guy, slows down, he becomes the center of attention, and it's a traffic clogger. That's why I hate it. Yeah, yeah. Some of the guys do, for sure. You can tell. Yep, they're lazy.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yep. They like being the center. Yeah, a lot of that today is almost like, oh, you know, look out.
SPEAKER 07 :
To me, some of it is either they're totally forgetful because they forgot to turn them off once the emergency was over and they got everything loaded and they're heading out, or it's an ego thing, one of the two. Look at me. I'm on a tow truck. Well, good for you. Turn the lights off.
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100%.
SPEAKER 07 :
Anyways, thanks, Jeff. Appreciate you, man.
SPEAKER 09 :
Good afternoon, folks.
SPEAKER 07 :
All right, take care. We'll be right back, guys. Don't go anywhere. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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All right, we are back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Myself, Ken Rackley, Tune Tech Automotive. Larry Unger, of course, answering phones for us today. Charlie Grimes is our engineer, and we have lines open. 303-477-5600. 303-477-5600. And our text line, 307. Now, somebody also said, just tuned in, did we cover trailer bearings and brake service? If it comes off at highway speeds and brakes are not all equal, it can careen into the dish. Yes, thank you, by the way. No, we have not covered that, so let's do that. We can do that right now. So, yes, yes. This time of the year, you're going to be rolling that trailer out. You may have only had it out a few times last year. Now, what I would say is you kind of know the miles that you put on the trailer and all that last year. I am one where I'm still one to say you should be servicing those at least annually. So you're dragging that thing out, and maybe you did a lot with it last year, maybe you did a little bit with it last year, but it still sat all winter long. And most likely it was in storage all winter long. You probably didn't have control over it. And what I mean by that is, yes, I am still one like this particular texture is saying where I would pull a wheel. I would be pulling it. Look, at least checking wheel bearings. Do you need to repack them or not? I would at least be pulling the cap off, pulling the nut. I'd pull it off, look at it, determine.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's right.
SPEAKER 07 :
You got any issues at all? At least do some adjustments, repack them, do whatever you need to do. Make sure they're all adjusted. Now, to his point as well, and I don't know if this is his or her, but I'm assuming it's a hymn. I would also be making sure that your brakes are adjusted properly so that they are both working equally from right to left to this texture's point. If something were to happen and that emergency gets hit, is it going to go straight down the road or is it going to pull left, right? Yes, I would be really double checking that besides the fact it makes a tow easier when they're adjusted like they're supposed to. And these are things, by the way, that if you're not able to do a trailer service yourself, there are folk around town. Our shops don't do this. I'll just tell you straight up. I don't think I've got a single shop right now where I've got one that's maybe working on doing some trailer service, but currently we don't have anybody in our network that does trailer service. So you have to find somebody that you know locally that can do some of the work on this because if it's not something you can do yourself, you'll need somebody to do this. Adjusting the brakes, it's not a big deal. No different than what they used to be back in the day with drum brakes, but they still need to be adjusted. They need to be checked. You need to make sure that both magnets are... are operating and working and there's ways to do that. And I'm not gonna get into all the details of that if you're a do-it-yourselfer, you typically know how to do that. But if not, you can even send me a text message or an email and I can kinda walk you through that. But yes, you need to make sure that A, not only are the brakes working properly, Your wheel bearings and everything are all dialed in, and that's on if you've got a tandem axle trailer. You're only going to have brakes on one axle. Typically, they're not on. There are some that have four. Typically, though, most trailers are going to have two brakes, one on each side, one axle. rarely do you get a four-brake system. Now, heavier trailers, horse trailers, things like that, you'll find those with four brakes, and same thing applies. Still got to make sure that those are all working like they're supposed to. Your heavier trailers, that's what I should have said. Your heavier GVWR trailers will have four brakes. typically your lighter, even, truthfully, even some of your enclosed trailers that are hauling cars and so on, typically you're only going to find one axle that has brakes on it. You're typically not going to find those with four brakes. It varies from trailer to trailer. And to my knowledge, somebody can correct me on this, I don't think there's a standard for that. But maybe there's a weight rating on the trailer where they make you do four, you know, two axles with brakes versus one. But that one, I don't know. That's kind of beyond – I've never really paid any attention to that. I've just always looked underneath, and is there wires running to both axles or just one?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, and it's funny because – I've only been under my two tandem axle trailers, and they're all four. They're all four-braked.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yep. Yeah. Okay. So, again, it'll vary. And, again, the way to tell is do you have wires running into the backing plate of that particular axle on your trailer? If there's wires running in it, it's got brakes. Yeah. If there's no wires running into it, it doesn't have brakes. The other thing that this texter said, and you're right on the money, tires. That's been sitting all year. Some of you let those sit open. I highly recommend, by the way, that if you've got a trailer that you let sit for a good portion of the year, they're cheap. You can buy them on typically Amazon. Napa probably even sells them. Buy a tire cover. They make them special for trailers that keep the UV rays off, and it'll make those tires last way longer than they would otherwise. Typically, trailer tires get weather checked before they're ever worn out.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. I had one tire blow apart just sitting there. The trailer hadn't been used for four months. They will dry rot and wear out. Exactly, and it just blew apart.
SPEAKER 07 :
And you can look at those and think, well, this thing's fairly new. Well, first of all, how old are they? Have they been sitting in the sun? And here's kind of my rule of thumb. If they've been sitting in the sun constant and they're five years of age or older, put new ones on. Put them on. Don't dink around. Just put tires on and be done with it. I will say this. If you keep that thing nice and shaded and you keep those tires in good shape, in fact, even treat them occasionally, you put the covers on them, yeah, you can get more than five years out of those tires because you won't wear them out on the tread, especially if it's a trailer that you don't use a ton. But really check those tires and make sure that they're good because, yes, indeed, that can be one of the fail points on a trailer. And I would also suggest, and a lot of trailers will not come with this, do you have a spare tire? If you're going anywhere out of town, you're going to go cross country. You're going to go all the way up in the mountains. You're going to head east out to the plains. Do you have a spare? Believe it or not, a lot of campers and even a lot of car trailers, et cetera, they will not come with a spare. It's something that you typically have to go find on your own and make sure that you've got a spare for it.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right, and they sell brackets and stuff like that to attach them to however different ways. However you want to do it. Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER 07 :
Sometimes you're going to throw it in the back of the truck. You're going to throw it inside the camper itself. Point being, have a spare.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right, exactly.
SPEAKER 07 :
And truthfully, they've gotten cheap enough and light enough. Just throw a floor jack in as well.
SPEAKER 05 :
right they're cheap enough now just throw a floor jack you know with a tandem axle i mean if you know what you're doing you know a block of wood you know i mean i you can do that usually the way we do it right you can do that as well but but again honestly they've gotten cheap enough right exactly
SPEAKER 07 :
It used to be that they were really expensive. You can buy some of the smaller, and they're steel, but they're not super heavy. You can buy some of the smaller, you know, one-and-a-half to two-and-a-half ton jacks, which is more than enough to do a trailer.
SPEAKER 05 :
Sure.
SPEAKER 07 :
And even then, instead of even trying to mess with a block of wood and all that, just get the jack out and jack it up and be done with it. They're not that big a deal.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right, exactly. And they're cheap. Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
Literally, this is a Harbor Freight kind of a thing, where you can literally just go Harbor Freight, buy one of their cheap jacks, and call it good.
SPEAKER 05 :
Because you don't have any suspension on a trailer. So you get under there, you put three pumps on it, it's off the ground. Correct. And you put the same size tire on there. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 07 :
So you're ready to roll. All right, Gary in Denver, go ahead.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, hi, John. Hey, Gary, how are you? Good. I know this is an auto show, and it is kind of an auto question, but it's also an investment question. Sure. you know, with the tariffs, the objective is to bring manufacturing back to America, and I was thinking one of the opportunities would be American automotive parts.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 08 :
That, you know, auto manufacturers need in order to build an American automobile.
SPEAKER 07 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 08 :
And I'm wondering, you know, setting up an automobile manufacturing is going to take a while, but I'm thinking, are you aware of any companies that build American auto parts that are at low capacity right now but could ramp up very quickly to meet the demand?
SPEAKER 07 :
That's a great question. And, you know, and for example, Gary, there are quite a few auto parts that are actually built here in North America now. In some cases, it could be Canada. Some cases, it could be Mexico. Some cases, it's here inside the U.S. We, believe it or not, do build quite a few auto parts here. And I mean, everything from Suspension components to brake pads and rotors and things along those lines to tires. In fact, the majority of tires actually that we use in North America actually come from the United States of America. We have a lot of tire plants in America. There's huge misconceptions on that. Most people think that tires come naturally. out of country they do not they come from here uh shock absorbers things along those lines we've got plants here in america that build a lot of those things already i will tell you gary in most cases this is my opinion i'll get ken's thought on this we already build a ton of parts here in america it's a matter of them continually sourcing from here selling those parts and not allowing the cheap you know counterfeits even that are out there to come into america and supplant some of those brands right exactly
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, so what I'm getting at is maybe they're being supplanted now because these cheap parts are coming in, but when that supply gets cut off, what company will be able to quickly ramp up their manufacturing to meet the increased demand?
SPEAKER 07 :
I would go as far as to say, and I don't know this for a fact, I would have to double-check with probably Napa and even some of their vendors and so on, but I would venture to guess, Gary, all of them could. I highly doubt that any of them don't have the ability to up their production, providing they've got more ability to sell that product. I guarantee you they could all up production overnight.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay, and with the power of AI, I'll be able to quickly identify those companies.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, and again, we have a lot more of that in this country than most people will want to admit. Now, I will say that there are sensors and rotating electrical and things like that that come from all over the world. I mean, literally the UK, Germany, Taiwan, Japan, China. I mean, that's a whole different world, although... There are rotating electrical parts made here in America as well. Again, what's happened in the auto parts world, unfortunately, because we allowed it. And I say we. We as an industry allowed it. We had Chinese companies coming into a lot of our trade shows, copying a lot of the parts that were already being made.
SPEAKER 05 :
Stolen technology.
SPEAKER 07 :
They steal the technology. They build quote-unquote counterfeit parts, flood the market with it, and then we wonder where we're at today. Reverse engineering. It's our own fault. Yeah. All right. Thank you, John. You're very welcome, Gary. And it was a great question, by the way, so thank you for that. Mike, hang tight. We'll come right back to you. Don't go anywhere. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 10 :
Not too bad. You were talking about towing, and people need to realize that when you're towing something, it starts to whip if something happens. That's right.
SPEAKER 07 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 10 :
And if you've got critters in the back, it's even worse.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yep. You're right. It just compounds itself, as you know.
SPEAKER 05 :
Or anything liquid. Yeah, that's too worse.
SPEAKER 10 :
Somebody mentioned ties. Have you seen the, I call them bread ties, the plastic bread ties?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes, I have. They work really well.
SPEAKER 10 :
I have. I usually end up taking some with me on my bike trips just to have them because I dropped the bike one time and I needed something to hold the saddlebag on, and I had to run to Home Depot to get some. Pet peeves is the 18-wheelers that won't stay in the right lane.
SPEAKER 07 :
I know. Me too.
SPEAKER 10 :
I mean, I just came back from South Carolina, and when there's four or five trucks, one truck's trying to pass. It takes 10, 15 miles for them to pass every one of them. It's like, just get over and let it.
SPEAKER 07 :
I know. That is still one of my largest. Even in town, Mike, it is the largest clogger of traffic, if you ask me, period. And I've heard all the arguments from the truckers that, you know, we need to be able to do that and blah, blah, blah. And I'm sorry, I just don't buy it. Get out of the way. Get over those other lanes.
SPEAKER 10 :
If you get into Tennessee, they tell you, stay out of the left lane, especially on the grades.
SPEAKER 07 :
Interesting.
SPEAKER 10 :
You were talking about tow drivers leaving their lights on.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 10 :
County and city workers, too.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, same thing.
SPEAKER 10 :
Thank you. They're not doing anything, and they've got their lights going. It's like, You want to get out and beat the snot out of them.
SPEAKER 07 :
It's like they're not supposed to be able to do that. That's the other thing. I don't know why they don't get pulled over. That's my biggest complaint is why are you guys not getting pulled over for this?
SPEAKER 10 :
Oh, yeah. And there again, but the police department at night have their humongous off-road lights on. When you're on a two lane, you're blinded because they've got somebody pulled over.
SPEAKER 07 :
Which I hate also. It's like, come on, guys. Really, you're blinding everybody coming at you, making yourself more vulnerable for another accident. There's got to be a better way to do that. I mean, you talk about an invention, Mike. There's got to be somebody out there that could be more directive in how that light actually works. I realize we're trying to keep officers safe and make sure that it's well lit for them and so on. But you're blinding everybody else coming at you.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, and a lot of them are addressing the vehicle on the passenger side. So if you just had a spotlight on the passenger side as you went.
SPEAKER 07 :
And the way those are now made where there's remote control and the ability for those lights to be mounted in all sorts of places where you don't even have to go through the pillar like they used to, the ability of remote lights that officers could use in that manner, I've got to believe we've got better ways to do that so you're not blinding all the oncoming traffic, Mike.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah. My question is, I have an 06 RAV4. I came home Tuesday from South Carolina. Okay. And I had water in the passenger side of my front seat.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 10 :
And I think I got it all dried out. I'm going to open up the car again now today, but who might be able to track that down?
SPEAKER 07 :
Has it got a sunroof in it?
SPEAKER 10 :
No.
SPEAKER 07 :
There's no sunroof. Nope. You, honestly, you're the best one to try to track it of anybody, and the way to do that is you take a garden hose, and you really just start soaking, get somebody to sit inside, and you start soaking as many places that you think water could possibly be coming in up high, because there's no way the seat gets wet unless it's coming in from up high. Has it ever had a windshield put in it? Yes. Okay. I would check the top of the windshield very closely.
SPEAKER 10 :
This isn't hitting the seat. This is the floorboard.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, it's hitting the floorboard. Okay. Next thing to do, double check to make sure that your AC vent coming out of the air box is open as well because you can build up a ton of water, especially on a long trip like you took. If that vent is not venting, if that drain is not clear is what I mean to say, you'll do exactly what you just said.
SPEAKER 10 :
No, no, no. I came across on a motorcycle.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, not the car. Okay, gotcha. Sorry, my bad. My bad.
SPEAKER 10 :
The car was sitting here in my driveway.
SPEAKER 07 :
And then it was wet when you got here? Yes. Okay, then yes. And I would use the garden hose method then on that, because you've got a leak somewhere.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, well, Tuesday, Wednesday it was still raining a little bit, and I'm in there trying to dry everything up, and I could see it coming down, and it's just...
SPEAKER 07 :
And that's one where you literally, in fact, open the hood, have somebody take that water and just really pour it all across the front of the windshield, down by the doors, across the lower sill of the windshield itself, and just see if you can hear. And typically, if you've got a leak, you'll hear even the leak. Have it be really quiet inside. You can typically hear it, but you'll also feel and see where the water's coming from. You can do this as easily as a shop can, Mike, because they're going to do the same thing, only they're going to charge you for two people doing this.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right. Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, of course. Literally.
SPEAKER 05 :
All righty.
SPEAKER 07 :
So that's the easiest way to do it.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay. Well, you have a good day.
SPEAKER 07 :
We'll do it. You got something else you want to add to that?
SPEAKER 05 :
I was going to say, sometimes, I mean, but usually it's an air leak. Like if you hear an air leak as you're driving down the road, trying to track that down, we found, like, take Windex, spray it around, then take your blowgun on the inside and spray around. And a lot of times you can find, like, if it's a windshield or something like that. Right.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. Bottom line, these are the type of things where, yes, you guys on your own can do some of this detective work on your own. Because if you take it to a shop, in their defense, they're taking two people out of the mix of what they're doing production-wise and having them go find a leak. Yes, you're going to get charged twice as much because you've got two people now involved in that process than what you would have. And it's easier for you to do some of this stuff on your own. Literally, they're going to do the same method I just mentioned. They're going to use a garden hose or a pressure washer or something along those lines and coat that thing with water and try to determine where those leaks are coming from with a flashlight and so on. You can do the exact same thing at home on your own. All right. Aaron, Russ, you guys hang tight. We've got one line open, 303-477-5600. This is Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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