In this enriching episode of The Flatline, Rick Hughes shares insightful teachings on the dangers of the cosmic system and the importance of spiritual resilience. As Rick candidly discusses personal anecdotes and biblical stories, he provides a roadmap for young believers to navigate through spiritual adversities. With lessons drawn from the Bible, listeners are encouraged to reject worldly distractions and embrace the wisdom of God's Word. Tune in for an inspiring journey of discovering one's path to spiritual fulfillment and peace.
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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, please stay with me. It's going to be a time of motivation, some inspiration, some education, some Without any manipulation or even any solicitation. That's right. No requesting for money. No asking you to join up, fess it up, give it up. Nothing like that. This show is designed primarily to give you accurate information. Information that is designed to help you verify as well as identify God's plan for your life. And if I'm able to do that, you can orient and adjust to the plan. That's up to you. But my job is to get it accurate, to get it straight, and to give you an encouragement in your life. Thank you for listening. So many people across the country I meet daily on a consistent basis that tell me they're listening to the Flatline and how the Flatline has guided them in their life to eventually get under the ministry of a well-qualified pastor where they can begin to learn God's Word and grow on a consistent basis. Again, I remind you, I'm not a pastor. I'm just an evangelist, but my job is to spark your interest. My job is to give you the gospel good news information, the fact that Christ died for your sin, paid the penalty for your sin, and you, in effect, have been freed from the slave market of sin by faith alone in Christ alone. That's why the Bible tells us in Titus 3, 5, not by works of righteousness, which we've done, But according to his mercy, he saved us by the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit, which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Lord. And listen now to the next part. Being justified by his grace, not by our works, by his grace, we would be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. So we have eternal life through Christ by faith in Christ, finished work on the cross. That alone, not by any good works, not by any giving, not by any membership, not by anything like that, simply by believing in the Lord Jesus Christ. Once you become a member of the family of God, the trick is to grow in the grace and the knowledge of your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, to become wise, to grow up, not to stay a baby believer. And baby believers, I think the writer of Hebrews had something to say about that in Hebrews 5.11 where he said, you've been a Christian a long time now and you ought to be teaching others, but you're not. You've gone back to where you need a bottle like an infant. You can't handle a steak. And so he admonishes them for their lack of spiritual growth. Any believer in Jesus Christ must grow spiritually. The Bible mandates this. Grow in the grace and knowledge of your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is a mandate. Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed. Rightly dividing the word of truth is a mandate. And so this is critical. It's critical in the life of an adult, critical in the life of a young person. This series that I'm doing right now called Life's Toughest Years. We're going to do five lessons on this. And we've taught this in a local school where we visited and spent a week with these students in a private school in Mississippi. And now we're beginning to put this into a book, and we're going to make this book available free of charge called Life's Toughest Years. And so we want to continue this study today dealing with the adversity that teenagers face as they grow up. Remember, God gave you two ends. One to sit with and one to think with. And success in life depends on which end you use. It's heads you win and tails you lose. So you've got to think your way through life. You can't sit your way through life. And always, always, always there's the lure, the lure of the cosmic system. The cosmic system is the devil's world. It's what the devil has out there. It looks like a mirage. It looks like the real thing, smells like the real thing, but it's not the real thing. You know, two men in the desert and they're thirsty and they have no water and they climb over the top of a sandbar and say, oh, look. There's a pool of water at the bottom and they take off running and it's not there. The cosmic system offers you happiness in people, happiness in circumstances, but it's not there. It's a lie. It's the lie of the devil. And so people who get into the frantic search for happiness wind up following the lie. Now, oftentimes teenagers will do this. Young people will do this. I did it in my life, my very own life. I know this for a fact. This frantic search for happiness, somebody to love me, somebody to care about me, that I've got to have a job, I've got to make some money, I've got to have this, I've got to have that, everybody else has got it, why don't I got it? I know that's not good English, but you know what I'm saying. The got it, got to have it, got to have it crowd. The frantic search for happiness in the life of a confused teenager. is the lure of the cosmic system. We see this in the Bible in Luke 15, where our Lord Jesus Christ, the anointed Son of God, taught this parable. I'll read it to you. Then he said, this is Jesus, a certain man had two sons, and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me. So he divided to them his livelihood. And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with riotous living. Now, I don't know what riotous living was, but I've got some great ideas. But here we have in verses 12 and 13 of Luke 15, two sons, an older son and a younger son. I think it's obvious they didn't get along. I think it's obvious as you read the passage that the older son nitpicked the younger son, maybe bullied him. And the younger son had had about all of it he wanted to have. He didn't see any future for him there working for his older brother. He wanted his share of the inheritance now. And so he took his one-third. The older got two-thirds. He took his one-third, and I think there may be, just may be, I'm probably reading into the passage, but there may be an invisible friend, you know, a friend that says, hey, you got some money, and I know a place we can go have a good time, so I'll go with you. You got the money, I got the time. A lot of people are like that. If it's free, it's for me. And so maybe this invisible friend told him where there was a town they could go and they could have some riotous living, whatever that meant. You, like me, have your own ideas about it, but probably what you're thinking is probably true, what he did. So the Bible says when he spent all, in other words, he went down to this town and he blew every nickel. Now this is not unusual. I heard a story years ago about a man who invented a famous rifle and he sold the patent for $80,000 cash. And he didn't have a lot of discipline, and one night in New York City, he blew the $80,000 cash on riotous living, the same thing this kid did. And so the Bible says when this kid had spent all that he had, he didn't have any more money, a severe famine happened in the land, and he began to be in want. That's another way of saying he was extremely hungry. So then he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country. I imagine he begged for food for a while, but nobody gave him anything to eat. So he realized he's going to have to get a job. So he actually went and got a job with a citizen of that country. Now, these are not Jews. These are Gentiles because they're raising pigs. And so we know that this is not a Jewish family. This is a Gentile family. So he takes a job slopping the hogs. And the Bible says the Gentiles sent him into the field to feed the pigs. In verse 16, Luke 15, and he would gladly have filled his stomach with the slop that the pigs ate because nobody gave him anything. Now you got to be in bad shape when slop stops looking pretty good to you. It reminds me of what we see in America every day. People dumpster diving, going around behind restaurants, diving in the dumpsters. People that are homeless and it's not always their fault. Sometimes there are unmitigating circumstances, but a lot of times it's just because they don't want to work and don't want to have a job and don't want responsibility. Maybe they blew all their inheritance and now they're trying to find some food. Who knows? But this kid was eyeing the slop seriously, thinking that looks better than the dirt I've been eating. So he came to himself, the Bible says in Luke 15, 17. This means that he had an attitude adjustment. He came to himself. This means instead of being arrogant with an unrealistic self-image, Now because of a series of bad mistakes and bad judgment, he has some humility. This is not genuine humility, this is enforced humility. By means of divine discipline, God humbled this kid. So he came to himself, and this is what he said, Luke 15, 17 through 19. How many of my father's hired servants have bread enough to spare, and I am dying from hunger. I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, Father, I've sinned against heaven and before you, and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants. This, ironically, is the same thing Christians have to do when we sin. We have to go to our Father and admit our sin. It's problem-solving device number one in the flatline of your soul. Rebound, confessing your sin. That's why the Bible says if we confess our sin, then he, that's God, is faithful and just to forgive us and to purify us from all of our wrongdoing. So this young man was in effect rebounding, going to his father as a result of the divine discipline in his life, He had been brought to a place of humility and he knew that he had one or two choices, die or go home and admit his sin to his father. And so he was willing to just go back and work as a servant because he knew that there was security and comfort and food And his father took care of the servants. He knew that. And that's what he wanted to do. So in Luke 15, 20, he arose and came to his father. This means he just got up, quit the job. See you later. I'm out of here. Sayonara. And he went home. And the Bible says when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him. You know, what I imagine happening here is one of the servants telling the father, there's a beggar coming up the road. Should I run him off? He has no shoes. He's filthy. Should we get rid of this man, sir, and tell him to go on down the road? And the father looked and said, no, no, no, that's my son. That's not a beggar. That's my boy. And the Bible says he had compassion and ran and hugged his neck and kissed him. And the boy said, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight, and I'm no longer worthy to be called your son. Now, the father didn't whack him. The father didn't deck him. The father didn't tell him he was an idiot for blowing all his money. He just loved him. Remember this, I don't care what you've done. I don't care how gross the sin is. If you go to your Father, your heavenly Father, and confess your sin, he will love you. He still loves you. You turned your back on him, he didn't turn his back on you. He's just been loving you from behind. But he still loves you, and if you're alive, God still has a plan for your life. You may think that you're not in the plan, but you are. This kid thought that he was no longer worthy to be called a son, that he just should be a servant. But verse 22 says, the father said, uh-uh, no, no way. Bring out the best robe. and put it on him and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet. So they cleaned him up. They gave him a bath. He didn't even have shoes. He didn't have any clothes, just tattered clothes. Probably hadn't washed them in several weeks. And his father cleaned him up, put on a robe, put sandals on him, put the signet ring on his hand. And then the father said, bring out the fatted calf and kill it. And let's eat and be merry for my son was dead and he's alive again. He was lost and now he's found. And they began to be merry. They began to have a party. This is exactly what God does for you. When you return to your heavenly father, he will do this for you because you're going to be lured many, many, many young people into are going to be lured just like this. This is a critical time in a teenager's life when he has to decide, am I going to follow the cosmic system or will I stay with divine viewpoint? Will I stick with what the word of God says? Let me give you some principles. One, this young man went down the my way highway. You know, you've been on it before. You know, the Lord said, do not do it. And you said, I'm going to do it anyhow. And you went on the my way highway. This young man probably had an invisible friend who encouraged him and probably went with him. And point three, his home life must have been miserable due to his older brother's self-righteousness. And point four, Satan used the cosmic system to lure him out of his father's will, to make him think that he could go on down to my way, highway, and he would find happiness there. Here is a truth you must learn. Unhappy people take their unhappiness with them wherever they go. Did you hear that? Here's some other principles. How to identify the cosmic system, the zeitgeist, the spirit of the times, the lie that Satan perpetuates. One, the cosmic system is Satan's strategy as the ruler of this world to control believers and unbelievers. If he can control the way you think, he can control what you do. So it's always a battle for your mind. That's why the Bible says, let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus. Who thought it not robbery to equal with God, but made himself of no reputation, Philippians 2, 5, 6, and 7. He humbled himself, made himself like a servant. This cosmic system, point two, has two separate points of attack. One, Satan will exploit Christians because of their own arrogance. And this kid, we'll assume he was a Christian. He was in the family. This is an illustration of a believer who's in a family who thinks he's been lost to the family and no longer worthy to be a son. He found out he was wrong. God doesn't take back what he gives you. He said, I give unto them eternal life and they will never perish and neither shall any man ever 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 Satan exploits Christians by means of their own arrogance, the lure of the cosmic system. And the second set of attack here is Satan's propaganda by which he educates and promotes antagonism towards the grace of God. And this is abundant in our world today with humanism, progressivism, all sorts of isms that are going on today. You can find Christians taking more and more and more of a slap in the face. People laugh at you. They think you're weird because you're one of those holy rollers. You believe the Bible, and they will call you every name in the world. This is Satan's propaganda to win the mind of the lost man. to convince him that Christians are over the top and goofy. So point three, the target of the cosmic system, that's the first one, exploiting Christians by means of their own arrogance, that target is you, you. And he will appeal to your arrogance to divorce you from the reality and the plan of God for your life. If he can get you thinking that you could be happier somewhere else, If he can pull you away from the word of God, he will do it. The target in Cosmic 2, the propaganda where he educates and promotes antagonism, is the Bible. Because only by learning and applying the Bible do you have any chance at all of becoming victorious in this angelic conflict. You must learn the Bible. That's why you have the mandates. That's why Jesus said, take my yoke and learn of me. My burden is easy. My yoke is light. So you must remember this. You might come under some demon influence where your mind is invaded with satanic propaganda, but you will never be demon possessed because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world. God, the Holy Spirit lives in you. You're not going to be demon possessed, but You can be lured into the cosmic system. Listen to 1 Timothy 4.1. The Spirit says, in the latter times, some will depart from faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons. That's the lure of the cosmic system. That's the truth the cosmic system offers. The Bible warns you not to be lured like this if you're a teenager. You cannot afford to let that happen. In 1 John 2, 15 and 16, don't love the world. Don't love the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. Verse 16, for all that's in the world, The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life, that's not from the Father, but it's of the world. It's that arrogant lie, that mirage that tells you if you just had the right girl, you'd be happy. If you just had the right guy, you'd be happy. If you just had the right job, you'd be happy. If you just lived in the right place, you'd be happy. That's all a lie because happiness doesn't depend on circumstances. The truth is, Jesus said, happiness belongs to those people who hear my Father's word and keep it. So the issue is, where do you get your direction in life? Who influences you? Is it from the cosmic system by means of your own arrogance? Or is it by means of God's word where you have some humility? You know, teachability requires humility, and you're never going to learn anything without some humility. When's the last time you sat down under a well-qualified pastor with a Bible and a notebook and you actually took notes and went home and read your notes? Try to apply this into your life. If you just go to church and show up and you sit on the back row or the middle row, you don't take a note. You don't even take a Bible. You just sit there with a goofy grin on your face. You're kidding yourself. You're not going to remember even a third of what the pastor said, much less apply it. God is waiting on you to get serious about the Christian life. He's waiting on you to come to a point in your own soul where you now are frustrated with the cosmic system. You are frustrated with what the world offers and you're willing to go that extra mile to learn God's word and you are willing to apply it into your life. Listen to James four. This is verses six through eight. But he, that's God, He gives more grace. Therefore, he, God says, he says, God resists the proud, but he gives grace to the humble. Now that doesn't mean you gotta walk around like a squashed bumblebee. That's not what we're talking about. It's an attitude of authority orientation. respecting the authority of your heavenly father, respecting the authority of his word in your life. That's the grace that God is looking to give to. If you have that sort of humility in your life, if you're willing to lay it all on the line for the word of God, then the Bible says in James 4, 7, submit to God and resist the devil. He'll flee from you. Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded people. Double-minded is in the Greek language. It's a dual soul. You can't live two roles in your life. You've either got to be with it or without it. You're either in it or out. As far as the Christian life goes, you can't walk down the middle here. You can't have one foot on church and one foot on second base over there. Either you're going to grow in grace, you're going to be the man or the woman God designed you to be, or quit playing games and acting religious and trying to fool everybody. That doesn't work. So only when you have enough humility to line up with the plan of God, to stay filled with God's Holy Spirit, problem-solving device number one and two, only when you develop the faithless drill, problem-solving device number three, and come to the place of having a personal sense of destiny that God can begin to pour out in your life more grace than you can handle. And I'm not talking about some prosperity doctrine. If you're waiting on God to help you win the lottery, good luck. Not going to happen. But if you want God to give you peace, if you want God to give you purpose, if you want God to give you a destiny in your life, that's what I'm talking about. So draw near to him. Cleanse your hands. Rebound. Purify your hearts. Take in the word of God. Get rid of the scar tissue in your soul, you double-minded disucos, you two-souled individual. It doesn't work when you're like that. How did our Lord handle the temptations of Satan? Do you know what he did? Well, if you read Matthew 4, 1 through 11, you'll see where he was tempted three times. And you will see where every time he was tempted, he quoted scripture. He said, it is written, it is written, it is written, it is written. And Satan had no answer, no answer. Eventually, Satan left him. And Satan will leave you when you can bathe your life in the scripture of the word of God. Matthew 4, 1 through 3 says, Jesus was led up by the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And when he had fasted 40 days and 40 nights and he was hungry, the tempter came to him and said, if you're the son of God, command these stones to be bread. Jesus wouldn't do it. He said, it's written, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes out of the mouth of God. This was a time of testing for our Lord. The Holy Spirit led him to this place. 40 days without food? Man, there's a TV show called Naked and Afraid. They go 21 days without food and they about die. 40 days without food? In the weakest moment of his life, Satan comes and says, turn that rock into bread. Or jump off this building. Prove to me that you're really God. Every time that he did that, Jesus would quote scripture and scripture and scripture. Finally, in verse 10 of Matthew 4, away with you, Satan, for it is written, you shall worship the Lord your God and only him shall you serve. And so Matthew 4, 11 says, the devil left him. And behold, angels came and ministered to him. There are angels assigned to you, ministering spirits. They have your name, your address on their GPS. They know where you are. And their job is to provide for you in time of need. Sometimes we call them guardian angels, but they're there for you. And if you will learn God's Word and apply God's Word and live it, your guardian angel is going to be high-fiving you all the way down the road of your life. Think about this. Don't get lured into the cosmic system. Don't blow everything in a frantic search for happiness. Don't listen to the lie of the invisible friend who tells you it's actually more fun over here. Stay home. Deal with the pressure. Submit to the authority of the Father. and let God handle the rest. That's the answer. That's what you must do if you want to have a meaningful and full life. I hope you've been listening, and I hope you've been paying attention. It's always a great honor to bring the Word of God to you. So until next week, this is your host, Rick Hughes, host of The Flotline, saying thank you for listening today.
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Join Kim Munson as she dives into a poignant conversation with Marine veteran Bob Chica, a crew member of the infamous USS Pueblo. Bob’s journey from his humble beginnings in Washington D.C. to being captured by the North Koreans during the Vietnam War is not only captivating but deeply inspiring. Experience the untold tales of courage and resilience as Bob recounts the harrowing days aboard a ship that was caught in a geopolitical nightmare.
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World War Two, Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War, Afghanistan and her other wars and conflicts. America's fighting men and women strapped on their boots and picked up their guns to fight tyranny and stand for Liberty. We must never forget them. Welcome to America's veteran stories with Kim Munson. These stories will touch your heart, inspire you and give you courage. We stand on the shoulders of giants. Here's Kim Munson.
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And welcome to America's Veterans Stories with Kim Munson. Be sure and check out our website. That is AmericasVeteranStories.com. And the show comes to you because of a trip that I took in 2016 with a group that accompanied four D-Day veterans back to Normandy, France for the 72nd anniversary of the D-Day landings during World War II. and returned stateside realizing that we need to know these stories and record them and broadcast them and archive them. And so, hence, America's Veterans Stories was born. And really pleased to have on the line with me Bob Chica. He is a Marine veteran, and he was a crew member on the USS Pueblo that during the Vietnam War was destroyed. captured by the North Koreans, and the crew was held captive for 11 months. So, Bob Chica, welcome to the show.
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Thank you. I appreciate you having me. I was in shock a little bit this morning. The National POW Organization, former POW, is disbanding. They just sent out their last thing. Apparently, there's less than 650 former POWs left in the country now. Goodness.
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Well, we must never forget. Wow. Well, let's get into it. But let's start at the beginning, Bob. Where did you grow up? Tell us a little bit about you.
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Well, I was born and raised in Washington, D.C., I'm the oldest of seven kids. The first six were boys, the seventh was a girl. And I want to say I was under a lot of pressure as the oldest to provide a good example for the rest of the crew. And when I turned 18, I kind of ran away and joined the Marine Corps. Time to go fight and kill, I guess. Okay. I want to say I was very repressed at that time. Went to Marine Recruit Depot at Parris Island. And three months later, when I went in, I was about 110, just a skinny little kid. And then three months later, I was 165 pounds of solid muscle and in great shape. I kind of blossomed Parris Island. And then they... picked me for intelligence work. I had no inkling what they were doing at the time, but they sent me off to a school after our infantry training at Camp Lejeune and ended up working in intelligence in the beginning. It takes a while to get into it because they have to run all the security clearances and things like that. And then in my first down at. Corey Field in Pensacola, FL. We had the opportunity to extend their enlistment and learn a language. So it sounded like a good idea to me. So I put in for it. Unfortunately, couldn't pick my language and was given Korean. So then I went off to Defense Language Institute up in Monterey, California, after I finished up at Pensacola.
SPEAKER 09 :
And this was all during the Vietnam War. So when did you, what year did you join the Marines, Bob?
SPEAKER 03 :
61, I believe.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay. So that was before the Vietnam War.
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No, it was going on, but it wasn't as full-fledged as it would get.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay.
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As the years ticked on.
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Okay. So after you had gone and learned this language, what happened after that for you, Bob Chica?
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This is part of where things go awry. And there have been millions of changes literally since the capture of the Pueblo. We were really an experiment that failed. But after I learned the language, they sent me to an artillery battery at Camp Pendleton. They had no idea what to do with me as a Korean linguist and an intelligence. And then as they were getting ready to deploy to Vietnam, They found that there were eight of us that were lost at Camp Pendleton. So they got us all together and the slow march back into the intelligence fields began. But they didn't want to take us to Vietnam with them. We weren't supposed to be captured alive. So they wanted to get rid of us. And then when we finally got back into the security business, I was sent off to Japan and got to work with Russian over there rather than anything to do with Korea. And while it was... Oh, go ahead.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, question, why did they want to get rid of you, and who's the they in that?
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Well, the division itself. We were a... I want to say a liability. Like I said, we weren't supposed to be captured alive, and these people are going into war, and it would be quite a responsibility to look after us. So once they rounded us all up, like I said, and slowly we got back into the security business, the intelligence groups that we had been with before and should have been with. That's one of the things that has changed. I went back and spoke at the Defense Language Institute a couple years ago. And they had changed their approach to linguistics. And once you learn a language, by God, you're going to stay working in that language rather than get shipped off to an artillery battery or some other thing, which would have made sense. But, you know, back when I went through, they weren't doing it that way.
SPEAKER 09 :
So is Korean a difficult language to learn?
SPEAKER 03 :
It's totally different, but if you have a chance to work with it, it's not too difficult to learn, just like Koreans learn English. And you just need to stay with it. Like once I learned it, until I was captured in North Korea, I never had a chance to use it. So that's the difference.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay. So you joined the Marines in 1961, and did you retire from the Marines? What did your career look like with the Marines?
SPEAKER 03 :
Once it was all over with, I got out. It turned out that I kind of thought I'd have a career in intelligence and after the Court of Inquiry here in San Diego, they sent me back to Fort Meade, MD and the reality of our situation began to become apparent to me and they wouldn't let me in the building. We were a highly politicized group by that point and Like I said, there have been millions of changes. We were the experiment that didn't work and got the repercussions from that. Eventually someone took a hammer to my car and so I decided I'm bailing out of here and called a friend in Oceanside, California here and said, find me a house. I'm moving west. Wow. It's so silly now and think back on it. You know, he went out, found three houses, sent me some pictures. I picked one, bought it sight unseen and moved west.
SPEAKER 09 :
Wow. Well, so what was the experiment that they were doing?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, back during the Cold War, the Russians had an extensive trawler fleet. that was actually intelligence collection vessels, small ones disguised as fishing vessels that cruise our coastline and all over the world. And so someone in the government decided that if they find it so neat, maybe we should give it a try and see what will work out. And we were the experiment. There were three ships, the Pueblo, the Palm Beach, and the Banner. They were old ships. They were World War II cargo transport ships, AKL-44s. And if you've ever seen the movie Mr. Roberts, that was the ship that it started with. They're riverboat transport ships. And rather than sink huge funds into it, they pulled out these three mothballed ships and then refit them as intelligence collection vessels. and sent us out. Usually a ship that size might have a crew of maybe 35, 40 men, and we had 83 on board. So to get the room for the extra people, they converted the holds on the ship where they would carry cargo into berthing areas for the extra men on board, and then built what we called a sod hut, the area kind of in the center of the ship where we worked. About half the 83 people that were on board were ship's crew, sort of taken care of and running the ship, and the other half were the intelligence group that worked in what we called the sod hut.
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Okay, and did you all sail together, these three ships, or were you actually more out by yourself?
SPEAKER 03 :
We were out by ourselves. Commander Booker's theme song for the ship was A Lonely Bull. Most people, when they think of American Navy ships, think of the big aircraft carriers and destroyers and battleships. We've seen pictures of them heading out to the Mideast there. There'll be six or eight ships going together, supporting each other. We went out alone. My first thought when I saw the ship was, my God, they really take that out on the ocean. You see some aircraft carriers. We have Midway here in San Diego, and you could put 32 Pueblos on the deck of the Midway. It gives you some rough idea of the ship. We had a flank speed of 12 and a half knots, and our normal cruising speed was six knots. So when you leave your radio station and head out to your car, you're probably walking six knots. So it gives you a rough idea of what the speed of the ship was like. Okay.
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And welcome back to America's Veterans Stories with Kim Munson. Be sure and check out our website. That is AmericasVeteransStories.com. And we're talking with Bob Chica. He was a crew member on the USS Pueblo, which was taken captive during the Vietnam War. And you were a staff sergeant in the Marine Corps. Tell us a little bit more about the crew, Bob, of the USS Pueblo.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well... There were 83 men on board. About half of them were the ship's company that drove and took care of the ship, and the other half were intelligence people. The ship had been converted from an old riverboat transport ship from the Second World War. And it wasn't very fast or very big. I was kind of surprised they actually took it out on the ocean. Whenever you see pictures of the ship, it's always in nice, calm seas. But in actuality, it was never that way. It was always rough. And the ship would just roll around. There were times during storms, walking down the hallway inside the ship where you'd tilt over and know if you're actually walking on the walls. Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh my gosh. So was seasickness a problem on the ship or was everybody pretty acclimated by that time?
SPEAKER 03 :
Nope. Nope. I was seasick several times. And, you know, the small ship like that and huge waves, you'd be come up over the crest of a wave. And when the ship got halfway over, the front end would drop into the trough on the other side. So, you know, a 50, 60 foot drop and then hit the water. And it was really kind of rough. But I can't say you get used to it, but you do get your sea legs eventually.
SPEAKER 09 :
That I can't not even imagine what that was like. So tell me about intelligence gathering. What does that look like exactly?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, you can't really talk about specifics, but what we were doing was listening and recording anything we could hear or capture on the equipment. And then that's sent back for analysis later. back at headquarters, probably Fort Meade, Maryland, eventually. And before I went on the ship, I was in Japan, like I said, for a couple of years. And all the other Marines there had been sent to Vietnam for six-month TAD trips. And they all went except me. And I was trying to figure out why I'd like to go and get it over with. So I asked around, and eventually the word came that this mission with the Pueblo was coming up and that I was going on it. And eventually they did send me to South Korea for a couple of months, and I worked with Army intelligence over there, and in the process learned that there was no way I could do what they expected me to do, that the Army over there actually used South Korean nationals that they were able to grant clearances with up to a certain level to do the stuff that they wanted me to do. And I passed that word on when I got back. They said you're going anyway. So I was assigned to the ship on January 3rd and then it was January 23rd that we were captured. It was supposed to be a 30 day temporary mission for me that got turned in a little longer.
SPEAKER 09 :
So as I was doing some research on this, first of all, I guess the disguise was that this was a ship that was doing environmental research. Is that correct?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes, oceanographic research. And that's what the two civilian oceanographers were doing on board, and they did their work. They had their work to do and did their work. um i can't call it very much of a disguise but that was it also they didn't want marines they didn't want anyone to know that marines were on the ship because that usually indicates that there's something special on the ship so they wanted us to wear navy uniforms which of course doesn't go over very well with marines Eventually, we reached a compromise and we wore Navy dungarees and Marine Corps shirt. And if we went topside or outside, we put a Navy peacoat on to cover our Marine Corps stuff. And if we must, maybe even wear a Navy hat.
SPEAKER 09 :
So you—and tell me what you can, and if you can't, that's fine. So were you really collecting intelligence on the North Koreans, the Russians, both? Or what was that mission like?
SPEAKER 03 :
All of the above, anything that we would pick up. And, you know, the North Koreans would use Russian or Chinese equipment, so you can learn about Russian and Chinese equipment just by— watching what the North Koreans were doing. And I want to say this is pretty normal, and most of the work is now taken over by planes and satellites and small contingents on other larger ships. But like I said, we were experimental at the time. We were supposed to be unarmed and worked on the freedom of the high seas principle. The North Koreans claimed a 12-mile limit. Although the United States only recognized a three-mile limit, we were under orders not to intrude into North Korean waters. And that's always been the biggest point of contention, especially with the North Koreans, because they said we did intrude, but we didn't. If you just look at it from a common-sense point of view, if you're going to intrude into the Nations are into the waters of a hostile country. You want to be on a ship that's fast enough to get the hell out of there if you get caught or have enough firepower on board to shoot your way out if you get caught. And in no way, shape or form did the Pueblo look like that. And there also should have been some contingency plans to come to our aid if things went sideways. Until the North Koreans actually opened fire on us, the stuff that went on was just considered to be harassment. And harassment of American ships goes on even up to today all over the world. People just want to hassle us and see what they can get away with. But once they open fire, then you know they've got something more than harassment in mind.
SPEAKER 09 :
So that's what happened with you. So you've set this up. So you really were not an armed ship at all. So tell me about the day, the 23rd. What happened on that day regarding the attack, the capture? What did all that look like?
SPEAKER 03 :
Everyone nowadays is so tuned in to GPS and cell phones and everything. We're talking back in the Stone Age here, of course. And back in the Stone Age, no one could tell where you were unless you were emitting a signal that they could use to triangulate and find out where you were. So we were traveling in radio silence until the actual day before our capture. And then it's not like you're hiding out on the ocean because like when you were out on the ocean sailing around yourself, you can see anything for 100 miles out there. And for the first 10, 12 days we were out there, no one knew we were there. And we were under orders not to break radio silence until we were officially detected. And back in the Stone Age, that meant that you were visually sighted by the enemy. And that happened the day before the capture. A couple of their fishing vessels happened to find us. And they spent the whole day out there. They would take pictures of us. pull off for a while and then come back and take more pictures and pull off for a while. They spent most of the day out there with us and then went back to port in the evening. So officially we had been detected. So we broke radio silence trying to establish communications with our home base in Kamiseya, Japan. However, the atmospheric conditions in that part of the Sea of Japan were terrible. And it took us, I don't know, most of the day and part of the next day just to get in good, solid communications with our home base. And then on the 23rd, mid-morning or so, the first North Korean warships came out. Eventually, they had six ships and two MiGs out there. They all came out at full general quarters. Everyone manning all the weapons and all the weapons aimed at us so as they're coming out we double and triple checked our position to make sure we were in international waters and we were we were about 16 miles from the nearest piece of korean land which was small island off of wansan and uh then they we were anchored at the time the oceanographers were doing their work and uh eventually the koreans were all out there you know just cruising around the ship and hoisted signal flags for us to halt or they'd open fire and uh it was silly because we were anchored but uh they're kind of building their version of the story that they would pass on and then uh That kind of harassment went on for an hour or two. And on board the ship, we were kind of in a modified general quarters, weren't doing anything specific, just continuing our work. The oceanographers were bringing their equipment back on board. And once the Koreans opened fire on us, The situation became different, and we went to general quarters, and it was time to try to destroy the stuff that we had on board. Now, even back in the olden days here when we were put together, the military had the equipment that could destroy everything we had on board and all the documents we had on board. However, the powers that be wouldn't let us have that equipment on the ship. They felt either that they didn't have the money to put it on or that it was a safety hazard for the crew. In retrospect, it was kind of silly. We should have had the equipment. But to destroy all this stuff, all we had were some fire axes and sledgehammers and trash cans and matches. So many things here. The Assad hut that we worked in, the working area was maybe three feet wide, had banks of equipment on both sides, and maybe 20 feet long. And then behind the equipment, there was space where you could get back and work on the equipment if it needed working. And the ship was so rough out there when moving around, To do your work, you'd put your chair sideways in that little center section, put your feet up on one wall and push your shelf back against the other wall so you're kind of stationary and can do your work while the ship is tossing and turning around you. So when you're in a situation like that, sometimes your grandest desire is to take a sledgehammer to the equipment and destroy it. However, most military equipment like that is made so you can throw it off a building and still expect it to work. So the other Marine, a wiry guy, Bob Hammond, grabbed a sledgehammer to go after the equipment he'd been working on, slings with all his might against the face of this equipment, and it just bounced off the glass. So I figured at that point I wasn't going to try slinging sledgehammers, that I'd work on burning documents. But to burn documents, you can't just throw a book in a fire. All it does is singe the outside, and everything that you wanted to get rid of is still good on the inside. So I took some trash cans out in the hallway outside the sod hut, And with some matches, started some fires in these trash camps. And you would tear pages out of a book, and you can't just throw it in the fire. You have to sort of hold the pages in the fire until they catch on fire, and then you can let them go. And so that's what we were doing, destroying stuff as much as we can. At the time, we had these raging fires going in the hallway, burning the paint off the walls. Oh, my gosh. It didn't occur to us at the moment, but we were burning up the oxygen inside the ship. So we started passing out in the hallway there. So eventually, we moved the fires to the sand tail of the ship, which in civilian parlance would be the back porch. And it was an open area, and the hatch leading out there opened out toward the Korean, so we could move the fires out there and stay inside and be somewhat protected from the North Korean fire, which they were shooting at us all the time during this.
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Okay. Bob, we're going to continue this discussion. This is absolutely fascinating. I'm talking with Bob Chica. He was a crew member on the USS Pueblo that was taken captive in 1968. Absolutely fascinating. The show comes to you because of our sponsors. One of those sponsors is Hooters Restaurants. They have five locations, Loveland, Aurora, Lone Tree, Westminster, and Colorado Springs. Great place to get together for lunch specials Monday through Friday and also happy hour specials. So be sure and check that out. We'll be right back.
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And welcome back to America's Veterans Stories with Kim Munson. Be sure and check out our website. That is AmericasVeteranStories.com. And I wanted to mention the USMC Memorial Foundation. They are raising the money for the remodel of the Marine Memorial right here in Golden, Colorado. and doing great work. Paula Sarles is the president of the USMC Memorial Foundation. She's a Gold Star wife, as well as a Marine veteran. And Bob Chica is on the line. And Bob Chica, you are going to be coming out to Colorado again in May for the Memorial Day event that will be out at the Marine Memorial. That's going to be very cool.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay. Yeah, I know I'm coming. And We'll see how it goes. Okay. Looking forward to it.
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Well, looking forward to that as well. And that website is usmcmemorialfoundation.org. So, Bob Chica, you guys are frantically burning, trying to get rid of evidence. You're being shot at. What happens next regarding this interaction with the North Koreans?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, like I mentioned, we were burning everything and using up all the oxygen. So we started passing out in the hallway and decided we had to move everything. And so we moved the fires outside the fantail of the ship down the hall and where we had some protection from the North Korean fire. And, you know, you do all these silly things at the time. Had all these burning trash cans out there. So I would grab one and move it. And I burned off all the tips of my fingers. I had let my hair grow since we were out on a little ship like this. So I burned off most of my hair and most of my beard. But anyway, we got the trash cans and fires outside and would continue with the work out there. Slowly, the oxygen level came back up, and we were able to continue with what we were doing. We needed help, so the engine man down there sent up two of his men, Dwayne Hodges and Steve Wolk, to come up and give us a hand with the burning. And these kids had no idea what they were doing. They were just up there to help us burn stuff. Later, Steve would joke about it. You know, they've got all this material in their hands with top secret stamped all over it. And they said, gee, do I look at this or do I close my eyes? How do I handle this stuff? But so he, Steve Wolk and Dwayne Hodges were there helping us. And I had just finished burning what I had in my hand and was turning around to pick up some more stuff off the floor behind us when the North Koreans started shooting bigger stuff at us. And the big shells just came through the side of the ship and blew up. Both Dwayne's, Steve, me, and Crandall got hit by the same shell in there. Dwayne ended up dying before we hit shore. Steve and I were the most serious wounded after that. And things kind of stopped. Everyone wonders what happens when you get shot. But it happened so fast. Happened so fast. We were right on top of the exploding shells. And I... The only thing I felt at the time was burning because the powder and everything in the shot was still burning. And I got shot in the leg. So I wanted more steel between me and more shots from the North Koreans. So I moved down the hall and eventually into the chow hall in the center of the ship. and uh people were coming out to see what happened and what they could do to help and eventually i dove over someone and rolled out on the floor in the chow hall and someone asked are you okay and uh of course i say yes and uh as i'm saying it i think in my head who who are you kidding you know something's wrong and then you know it reached down my leg and come back with a handful of blood and Then it's just like in the movies, they tear your clothes and bandage you up. And so I was kind of out of the fight at that point. And treatment of the wounded is something else. They wouldn't let our own corpsman work with us at all. There wasn't anything they could really do with Duane. He was too badly injured to survive, actually. And eventually the Koreans came on board the ship and blindfolded and tied us all up and either down inside the ship or up on the deck. And here we were in the middle of winter and off in North Korea, it was really cold. And we destroyed, the last stuff we destroyed was the communications with our home base in Japan. And the last communication was that help was on the way. The only problem was it wasn't on the way and that no one was coming to give us a hand. It probably took a good six months for me to get through my thick skull that no help was coming. I thought that for sure they would come and give us a hand here. And the incident would never have proved as embarrassing as it has and still is. The oldest ship in the United States is a Constitution back there in Baltimore. It's hard to believe, but the second oldest ship in the United States is the Pueblo. And it's the only American ship being held captive by a hostile nation. It's still there in North Korea. So anyway, just when they started firing, we started to leave the area. And but at, you know, six and twelve and a half knots, you don't get very far, very fast. Their slowest vessels could do about twice our top speed. So they just kind of cruised around us and kept firing at us. And eventually they had wounded about 11 men. Pretty well shot up the ship. And like I said, once they came on board, they kind of turned us around and started heading us back toward Wonsan, the harbor in North Korea there. And we got there, you know, maybe 7.30 that night. And they started to take us off the ship. I was one of the first off the ship. I only know that because they didn't have a plank down for us to walk off yet, and they'd bring me blindfolded and tied up to the edge of the ship, and someone says, jump. So blindfolded and tied up, I jump, and I go down between the pier and the side of the ship, and they had hold of the ropes, so they dragged me back out and walked us down the gauntlet of... pretty angry North Koreans that were not being very friendly. One of the guards actually kicked me in my wound. At the time, I was just worrying about survival. It bothers me now more because where I was shot, it just missed the artery down there. Had it hit the artery, I'd have probably died because they weren't going to give me any medical treatment. For the first... I don't think they knew whether they were going to keep us alive or what they were going to do. I think they were surprised by the lack of a reaction as we were. And they put us in a room we just call a beating room, but they just kind of worked us over for a while. But what they were actually doing is waiting for a bus. Eventually the bus came. They piled us all on the bus and then took us to a train for an all-night journey to Pyongyang, which is the capital of North Korea. And then it was there in Pyongyang in two different detention camps that we spent almost a year as their prisoners. It was not a good time.
SPEAKER 09 :
No, not at all. So when you jumped, did you end up in the water?
SPEAKER 03 :
I didn't hit the water. I was up short rope.
SPEAKER 09 :
Wow. Okay. Well, so what happened then next, Bob Chica? And as you said, it took a while to realize that the cavalry wasn't coming, was it? No.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yep, yep. Like I said, it probably took me six months. I was incurably optimistic. I had absolutely no thought that this would occur without some retaliation. And I was sitting there on the deck tied up and blindfolded. The guy next to me was also wounded. And we're thinking, we're watching the guards under our blindfolds and trying to figure what we were going to do as soon as the help got there. that we knew was coming. And, you know, which guard are you going to jump? What are we going to do? But then nothing happened, and we end up in North Korean in Pyongyang. The first place they took us, we nicknamed the barn. It does discredit to an American barn, but it was just a terrible place. It was really falling apart. The floors were just pine boards loosely kind of laying on the floor, warped, bent. Everything, nothing worked. Concrete walls, single light bulb hanging from the socket and ceiling. And then one man's cells, they put eight or four men. And so there wasn't any room or anything like that. There were four beds in there, which took up to four corners with a table in the center and then four chairs around the table. And this was going to be our home for a while. They put the three wounded in the cell and had one healthy guy in there to give us a hand. Eventually they gave us real heavy padded clothing to wear, almost like a quilt, pants, jacket, things like that. It was really cold.
SPEAKER 09 :
Wow. And it's remarkable that with your wounds not being treated, that you didn't die from infection.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, that's what we figured, too. Actually, it was so cold, we would probably die from the colds first. And eventually they searched around the cells and found some with a... radiator that somewhat worked and moved us into that so we would have a little warmth. But all that did really was kind of cause us to rot.
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, my gosh, Bob Chica. Boy, as I think about those like you that have been captured because you were serving America, serving us, I'm just, this is a riveting story. So we'll finish this up in the next segment. We're talking with Bob Chica. I have so many questions, and I'm sure that all you listeners do as well. So we will be right back.
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And welcome back to America's Veterans Stories with Kim Munson. Be sure and check out our website. That is AmericasVeteranStories.com. We are talking with Bob Chica. He is a Marine veteran, and he was a crew member on the USS Pueblo, which was taken captive by the North Koreans during the Vietnam War. We're talking about his experiences. And during the break, we realized there is so much more to talk about. So this now will be part one of an interview with Bob, and we will then be recording another interview with him very, very soon. So Bob Chica, six months, you were optimistic that you were going to be rescued, right? Was there any communication with anybody? Did they know you were there? What was going on regarding the U.S. military and you guys? Did you have any communication?
SPEAKER 03 :
No, we had no communication whatsoever. They really had us pretty well shut off from everything. And the only thing that we found was whatever they might want us to know about. 1968 was a bad year all around. Martin Luther King was assassinated, Robert Kennedy, the different riots in LA and things like that. They would tell us anything bad that went on. But as far as any kind of real information about what was going on in the world, we were completely left out of it. They real quickly moved from trying to get military intelligence to the use of us for propaganda purposes. And I think, like I mentioned, for the first 40 days or so, I'm not sure they were even sure they were going to keep us alive or what they were going to do. It was a pretty bad time. They had been accused of a piracy off the high seas. And so they really wanted to get out the idea that they didn't pirate us, that we were an intelligence collection ship violating their territorial waters. It was just not true. But it was a particular point of view that they were sending out to prove as best they could anyway. Again, back in the olden days here, in order to find your position, you had to emanate some form of a signal. And there was no GPS. The Loran system was just in its infantry and being tested. And we did have a Loran system on board the ship, which was similar to an early GPS. It was just with land-based stations. And so there, to find your position, you'd use three, four, or five different methods and plot them on a map. And then... In theory, all those dots would be pretty close to the same spot, and that's where you were, unless you fired off the radar to get a specific position. And the Loran fixes, since it was experimental, or in its infantry anyway, some of the Loran fixes did put us in their territorial waters. So that's what they used to try to prove that we did intrude. But like I mentioned before, if you're going to intrude, you don't intrude with a ship like the Pueblo. And to get to where the Lorraine had us, to get from one position to another, the speed of the ship had to approach over 100 knots for a couple of the locations. So it was just a fabricated thing that they had put together. And they were after propaganda. And eventually they did give us some treatment of the wounded. Usually it would consist of changing the bandages every three or four days or something like that. I had this big hole in my leg, but it didn't occur to me that there was still something in there. So eventually they brought in their doctors with their pliers and tweezers and probing everything, trying to find what's in there and pull it out. But that didn't work. So eventually they hoisted an antique Russian x-ray machine up to where we were in the barn, laid us out on the floor, and x-rayed us to find where the shrapnel was. And then one night they pulled several tables out of the different cells, had me bring the sheets off my bed. And with six guys holding my legs, they decided to operate and get the shrapnel out. I can't believe they did it. But I don't know if you've seen anything. Holly North did a movie or a program on the Pueblo, and when they operated on me, they did take moving pictures of the whole thing and then spliced in pictures of an immaculate operating room. But it wasn't like that.
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No.
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And I'm thinking to myself, this can't be happening. But I didn't know when my legs were OK, because all these guys were holding me down. But I didn't know what to do with my hands. And in one of the pictures, there's guards showing me to grab onto my pillow. And so that's what I did. And I got this thing out, and then Then sewed me up with two stitches. They used like a rope, like you wrap around a rump roast before you cook it. Then gave me my bloody sheets and sent me back to my cell.
SPEAKER 09 :
Did you ever get your sheets washed? Was that ever anything that happened?
SPEAKER 03 :
Eventually. Goodness. You know, we were not in real good shape after the first 40 days. You think? There was no chance to wash or anything like that. And, of course, in the same clothes, and we really stunk. Oh, my gosh. We didn't want to come in the cell where we were. There was a bathroom down the hall that we could go to, but... There might be urinals on the walls, but there were no pipes. It would just kind of go down the floor and into the floor drain.
SPEAKER 09 :
Goodness. Well, Bob Chica, we have just really about a minute and a half left. This is a riveting story. I know that you shared it down at the Center for American Values, and people can find that at that website, AmericanValuesCenter.org. And then you will be out in May for the Memorial Day event at the Center. USMC Memorial Foundation so look forward to getting to hopefully see you and meet you in person there but I so appreciate you sharing the story with us Bob and we will get that part two scheduled here so that we can broadcast that as well but thank you thank you thank you for all of this I really really do appreciate it Bob Chica and just your final thought you'd like to leave with our listeners on this show about 30 seconds
SPEAKER 03 :
About 30 seconds. Appreciate America. Many Americans think the rest of the world is just like us. All the signs are in a different language, but it ain't that way. We've got something special here. So be patriotic.
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, I love that, Bob Chica. Thank you so much. And again, this is part one. We will be recording part two here very soon. My friends, it is a parent that we stand on the shoulders of giants. So my friends, God bless you and God bless America.
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Indeed. Let's have a conversation. And welcome to the Kim Monson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. You're each treasured, you're valued, you have purpose. Today's drive for excellence. Take care of your heart, your soul, your mind and your body. My friends, we were made for this moment in history. And thank you to the team. That's producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa and Amanda and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. So appreciate you, Amanda. I thank you for stepping in here today. in a pinch, and I greatly appreciate you running the boards.
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SPEAKER 10 :
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And so anyway, I had it on. on the background while I was doing some other things. But again, congratulations to the Philadelphia Eagles. I appreciate all of you who support us. We are an independent voice on this independent station. And it's so important that we have these independent voices. So thank you for supporting us. And the show broadcasts 6 to 8 a.m. Monday through Friday. On all KLZ 560 platforms, the first hour is rebroadcast 1 to 2 in the afternoon, the second hour 10 to 11 at night. And that is on KLZ 560 AM, KLZ 100.7 FM, the KLZ website, and the KLZ app. And on the show, 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 my friends, it's never compassionate to take other people's stuff, whether or not it's their rights, their property, freedom, livelihoods, opportunities, their childhood, or their lives via force. And a force could be weapon policy, unpredictable and excessive taxation, fear, coercion, government-induced inflation, The World Economic Forum's agenda, the globalist elite's agenda, the United Nations. We're seeing this play out at the Colorado State Legislature with this Colorado governor. And they're using land use codes, zoning regulations, forest fees, conservation easements, national monument designations. The list has gotten very long under the O'Biden-Harris administrations. And Trump is working to walk this back. And so we're going to talk with Dr. Brian Junedepth about that here as our featured guest in the first hour at the bottom of the hour. But remember, if something is a good idea, you should not need to use force to implement it. And we focus on the issues, not the personalities. On the show, we will, of course, mention people, but we really want to stay focused on the issues. Our word of the day is intrepid or intrepidity, which we hear that word typically every Friday when we are reading the citations for the Medal of Honor recipients and their citations, and we read the quote from the Medal of Honor quote book from the Center for American Values. And do check out the Center for American Values this Wednesday, the 12th. They will have a fantastic online or on values presentation. And Drew Dix, co-founder of of the center, Medal of Honor recipient, is going to talk about the real Cold War, which was when he was stationed in Greenland. They are getting close to capacity. It doesn't cost anything, but you do need to RSVP, and you can do that by going to AmericanValueCenter.org. That is AmericanValueCenter.org. But intrepid or intrepidity means fearlessness, fortitude, endurance, and courage. And it's spelled I-N-T-R-E-P-I-D-I-T-Y. And so your challenge today is to use the word intrepid or intrepidity in a sentence today to impress your friends and family. Our quote of the day, I went to Tom Landry, a great football coach. He was born in 1924, died in 2000. He was an American professional football coach, player, and World War II veteran. He's regarded as one of the greatest head coaches of all time. He was the first head coach of the Dallas Cowboys in the NFL, and he held that position for 29 seasons. And so because of the Super Bowl, I thought, let's have a football quote or somebody involved in football. And he said this. He said the quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence. Again, Tom Landry, the quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence. And I think we're going to be talking with Representative Kindergraf here. in the second hour about some of the bills that are scheduled for hearing for this week. This is one that we at the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, I did not select it to be one that we would actually take a position on. And the reason is, is because I couldn't see that there was any tax money. I just didn't seem like it fell into our purveyance of our pledge. It is a very interesting bill, and I'd like you to check it out. It's House Bill 25-1134. Its sponsor, the main sponsor is Representative Scott Bottoms. And it's regarding insect production for human consumption. And it basically says that companies that are currently creating this product, insects for human consumption, They can stay at the levels that they are, but no new efforts on that. And while I don't really want to eat bugs, and I know that there is a real assault upon our meat industry, I don't think I'm in favor of this because of the freedom versus force issue. And I'm concerned that if we start to prevent some food sources from being um, produce, even if we don't like them, that we would see things that we like that would not be produced. So I want to hear what you have to say about this. And again, that is, um, let me get that house bill again. I think it's 1134. Uh, yeah, it's house bill 25, 1134. So let me know what you think about that. Uh, and the text line is 720-605-0647. Some of the headlines that I think are important that you hit is we've got this very, very bad Senate Bill 003. And it is a bill that would make it more difficult for everyday law-abiding citizens to carry firearms to protect themselves and their families against bad actors. And this is from Rocky Mountain Voice. Okay. And it says this is a much maligned bill that some have said would make Colorado the most anti-gun state in the country. It can't seem to get the support it needs to clear the Democrat-controlled state Senate. Support for the bill appeared to have collapsed Friday before a second reading and preliminary vote and was laid over until February 13th. the bill was introduced january 8th cleared by a democrat-led committee on january 28th and friday was laid over for the second time if passed senate bill 3 led by democrat senators tom sullivan and julie gonzalez and sponsored by democrat reps andrew bosenecker and meg froelich explicitly prohibits the manufacture distribution transfer sale and purchase of common use gas-operated semi-automatic rifles or shotguns and gas-operated semi-automatic pistols, all with detachable magazines. Says a death knell toward passage through the Senate may have been delivered when Senator Nick Hendrickson, a Pueblo County Democrat and the majority party's whip, declared his opposition to the bill in its current form. The whip generally is responsible for whipping the votes needed in his caucus to pass legislation. And he says, I believe that broadly, semi-automatic firearm ownership by law abiding individuals is protected by the Second Amendment. Duh. So that's a Hendrickson. So stay tuned on that. Doesn't mean that it's going away every year. We will see things that will be introduced to try to limit our our right to be able to carry firearms to protect ourselves against bad actors. And Colorado seems to be the tip of the spear. the place that they are running all of these bad bills. And then if they can get them through in Colorado, they're going to try to get them in other places. And so that's why the work that we're doing with our Colorado 2024 election project, which is which is morphing into Reclaim Colorado 2025 is so important. We've got our two lawsuits out there. And because of all of you, we raise the money for those lawsuits. So stay tuned on all of that. We've been very concerned about the cost of living in Colorado. Everybody's getting their power bills, their electricity bills, and they're all super expensive. And it's all because of public policy and unbelievable. But again, this is from the center square, I think, that says Colorado is going to continue closing coal-fueled electric plants in 2025, trying to close all of them by 2031. And you think electricity is expensive now in Colorado. Just stay tuned. And again, that is because of the radical activist Democrat policies of this governor and his bureaucracies and this Colorado state legislature. It is all making Colorado more and more expensive. And so there is a poll that was taken and the center square reports this. The Colorado voters say GOP more represents the working class and addresses top concerns. Now, we've got to again, we've got to get a handle on our elections. We've got to make sure we support these great candidates. Those two things together, I think we can reclaim Colorado. 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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. And you can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. I so appreciate it. And I thank the Harris family for their gold sponsorship of this show. They've been great sponsors, and I really do appreciate them. for all that they do for us. On the line with me is Yvonne Paez. She is a co-founder of Perspectives 101 Northern Colorado. It's a group in Northern Colorado that meets on a regular basis, just really a civics group to provide information for the community. And they've done a lot of great work over these last years. Yvonne Paez, welcome. Good morning, Kim.
SPEAKER 06 :
Thank you.
SPEAKER 10 :
And when did you found Perspectives 101? It's been several years, correct?
SPEAKER 06 :
It's now five and a half years ago. Can you believe it?
SPEAKER 10 :
That is awesome. And before we get into our subject of the day, if people want more information on Perspectives 101, how can they get that?
SPEAKER 06 :
They just need to email perspectives101.info at gmail.com.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay. And you've got something going on tonight, which is, I think, super important up in Fort Collins. So tell us about that.
SPEAKER 06 :
We do. So a couple months ago, on Perspectives, we had a meeting because there were people who were really interested in speaking about the trash issue in Fort Collins. So we did that. And now the trash group is having a meeting of their own, a public meeting of their own, And thank you for letting me advertise that on your radio station. And it is tonight. The Fort Collins Trash Group has a public meeting at the downtown library in Fort Collins at 530 p.m. And the meeting is to discuss the ongoing issue of trash charges to non-users of the city selected trash hauler, which happens to be Republic. And here's what I will have to say about that. If people do not have a problem with what is happening with the Fort Collins trash overreach, they do not understand the issue. So I do have a little bit of info on the harm to some Fort Collins residents that if you have time for me to very quickly tell people, the people who think there isn't a problem might understand what the problem is.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, and it comes down to what we talk about all the time on the show, Yvonne, and that is freedom versus force, force versus freedom. So this is all about force, and it's the opposite of free market. So, yes, explain the harm to Fort Collins residents.
SPEAKER 06 :
I'm sure in this meeting, residents expressed a variety of harm and some is listed here. So folks, what people need to understand is that folks are made to pay for a service that they do not have, want or need. And did not ask for and are not receiving. So it's really people need to wrap their head around that. So, for instance, people who do not receive service are charged a monthly fee they did not consent to and which Republic, which is the chosen hauler, collects. providing a kickback to the city of Fort Collins so that's one another is okay now now they don't call that a kickback right what do they call it an administrative fee is what they call it but you can call it a submarine or a twiddlywinkle you know if somebody collects something on on your behalf and hands it to you it's a kickback yeah okay So then we go to the next one. The next one is people who use commercial dumpsters or take their trash to the landfill because they have a full load due to the work they do or other reasons like, let's say, composters who are really good at managing their trash so they have almost no trash and they take stuff to the landfill from time to time. Those people are all penalized because they also have to pay even if they dump their trash in a appropriate way by their own means. So that's not fair. Then we go to the next group, people who have vacant properties like vacant houses, which require no trash service, and including people who have vacant lots with no structures on them get a trash bill. So, I mean, this stuff is insane. And another one would be people who use the alternative hauler, which is RAMS. And they have to pay the chosen city holler, Republic, in addition to their holler that they have already always had, which is Rams. So let's say they didn't decide at the last minute after Republic was selected to go with Rams. Let's say they've been with Rams for 20 years. Then they start getting a bill from Republic because even though they have their holler, they have to pay Republic, too. and the city via Republic, too. So this is not okay.
SPEAKER 10 :
Not at all. And ultimately, the city is picking winners and losers, and ultimately it could put Rams out of business, at least in Fort Collins. So continue on.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, yes. Okay, so speaking of Ram, you know, when we contacted them to – see if they wanted to be at the meeting. They couldn't come, but they gave me a statement. And I would like, just so you can see how sad this is and how wrong this is, let me just read this very brief statement, you know, such a classy brief statement made by Ram. And it says, we wish that the city would have left things in the open market system as they were. It has been a little unfortunate for us after 40 years to lose the amount of customers we worked so hard to earn. but we greatly appreciate those who have chosen to stay with us. And obviously, on our end, we have adjusted our prices a little to help compensate for that quote opt-out unquote fee to help residents of Fort Collins feel that they have a choice of trash hauler without having to pay more out of pocket. That's what we've done on our end, and we appreciate those who have chosen to stay with us even those who have chosen to pay that opt-out fee and come over from Republic. I mean, how classy is that?
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, it really is. And so what's going to happen tonight? Is there going to be some of the bureaucrats from Fort Collins there, any of the elected representatives? What's that going to look like tonight at this 530 there in Fort Collins?
SPEAKER 06 :
No, they were invited to the original meeting, and none of them made it. So the only people that came were the people in the, say, division. I call them the trash team. Really, there were a couple of really nice people who came and kind of explained what the city was doing and then very patiently and with open hearts listened to all the variety of ways in which the people of Fort Collins, many of the people of Fort Collins, are being harmed. And they're just caught in the middle because the city set this thing up and then placed these poor people in charge of managing this chaos of people who are really upset. So they have to sit there and listen to it. I feel so bad for them. Listen to all of this. And they sent an email to the city, the people, the city council or whatever, where this was all decided. to try and explain some of this on our behalf. So we thank them on the trash group for trying to put forward some of the information on how people have been harmed to try to effect some change. So this second meeting is really for, is a general meeting for people who didn't make it to the first one, who would like to tell us what is going on with them. We may find out more ways that people are being harmed that we don't yet know. And just to start seeing what it is that we can do. So in this case, we are inviting the trash group people who helped us. They don't have to present. They're not in the hot seat. But they can come and listen if they want to to this second meeting. We're trying to catch the people who might have originally missed the first meeting so that we can move forward in trying to find ways to change things to help the people that are being harmed.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay, so what about the elected representatives, the mayor, the city council members? Anything from them? Are you hearing anything? Is it crickets or what's going on with that?
SPEAKER 06 :
We haven't heard anything from them, but this morning I will be contacting the trash group in order to see what they may have heard from them up to this point so I can take that information to the meeting office. in the event that they can't come themselves and tell us. So we will find out, and in future meetings, hopefully we can invite them, and hopefully they will be able to show up. I know they're busy, but maybe somebody could show up. That would be nice.
SPEAKER 10 :
I think you're giving them a lot of grace. I think that elected representatives should be all over this. And because this is something that people care about. This is a huge overreach by the city. And I think that they should be all over this. And so I think you're giving them a lot of grace on that, Yvonne.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, well, you know, we appreciate the things they do for the city, but we also want them to step up and correct the things when they have done something wrong. You know, when we step in it, we just need to take responsibility and say, you know, this didn't work out the way we thought it would work out. We really weren't thinking clearly when we did this. We have identified the people we are harming, and I know there's contract sign and stuff like that, but we are going to fix that, and we are going to stop harming the people that we're harming. That is what we're looking for. And, I mean, I kind of laugh because, you know, the city code of Fort Collins 17-36 on theft pretty much says that, you know, no person shall knowingly obtain, retain, or exercise control over anything of value. less than $1,000 or another without authorization or by threat, you know. And they didn't have our authorization to just start charging us for a service we're not receiving. So they're violating their own city code. I mean, I'm not a lawyer, but if, you know, any lawyers out there could probably have a field day with this. But, you know, I'm not about being litigious and stuff if it doesn't have to be. Just recognize when you've stepped in it and then step up, do the right thing, and help the people who you have inadvertently harmed and solved this problem.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay, and again, the meeting time and where is that? The meeting time is at 5.30 p.m. tonight.
SPEAKER 06 :
at the Fort Collins Downtown Library in Old Town. And it is a public meeting for anybody in Fort Collins who, one, has been harmed by this and want to let us know so we can add you to the list of ways people are harmed, or for the people of Fort Collins, who maybe it's not affecting them in those kinds of matters, but want to be there because this is an overreach and because they want to support the residents in Fort Collins, their fellow brothers and sisters in Fort Collins who are being harmed.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay, well, Yvonne Paez, thank you for being all over this. And again, that meeting's today at 530 at the library in old downtown Fort Collins. So let us know what happens with all that.
SPEAKER 06 :
And I do have an email. They have their own email. They have started, if anybody wants to contact the trash group people addressing this issue, their email is Do unto others 03 at gmail.com. So that is D-O period, U-N-T-O period, others 03 at gmail.com.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay, and just this thought that just came in on the text line, what about a class action lawsuit to get their attention? So why don't you just ruminate on that, Yvonne Paez?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, that's for lawyers to do. Thank you. I appreciate you.
SPEAKER 10 :
Thank you. And we're going to go to break. And when we come back, we'll talk with Dr. Brian Joondepth.
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SPEAKER 10 :
and welcome back to the kim monson show check out our website that is kim monson m-o-n-s-o-n.com sign up for our weekly email newsletter and you can email me at kim kimmonson.com as well thank you to all of you who support us we're an independent voice on an independent station giving you independent information and so be sure and check out that website Pleased to have on the line with me Dr. Brian Joondepth. He is a political commentator, and he writes a variety of places. This particular piece was published at Rasmussen Reports, and it is, What if Trump finishes his presidency by Easter? Dr. Joondepth, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 11 :
Good morning. How are you?
SPEAKER 10 :
I am well. And what's happened in what, now is it the first three weeks of the Trump presidency? I don't think that the radical activist Democrats knew what hit them. Now, they're trying to organize, I think, now, but it's been remarkable what he's done.
SPEAKER 11 :
It really has. And my article's kind of tongue-in-cheek, but at the pace he's going, they'll have accomplished everything in a few months. It's amazing. He's got the border under control, and he's taking down the deep state. He's doing it through funding. He's shaking up the Middle East. He's got plans for Ukraine. So all the hot issues that he was talking about, he's in process of fixing or at least – going in that direction. So the funny thing is, what if he runs out of things to do? What if we're back to a semi-normal constitutional republic by Easter? What's he going to do?
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, there is a lot. And of course, we're starting to see the digging in their heels. And again, I don't think that they realized the blazing speed, how organized he was, because they're disorganized. They don't strive for excellence. It's mediocrity. And America's in a very difficult situation. But do you think he's going to get... this, I guess if he gets his spending under control, we might start to get this debt under control as well.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, absolutely. It's $100 billion here, $100 billion there. Pretty soon that adds up to the point where the deficit goes away and we can start paring down the national debt. It's amazing how fast he has done all this, which tells me that this has been in the works for a long time. This is not just the transition period. You compare it to 2016. Trump was surprised that he won. He didn't think he would win. He won, and he had no experience in D.C. He didn't know the players or the situation, and he had to cobble together an administration in two and a half months, and the deep state already laid traps, and they already had roadblocks and stuff to his administration from, you know, Trump-Russian collusion and things like that, which hamstrung this entire presidency. I think he's been planning this for the past four years, which begs the question of the 2020 election. And did he happily let it play out the way it did so the country could have a taste of Joe Biden and the left running things? Meanwhile, he's assembled... a dream team of lawyers and advisors who have previous experience doing this. And he hit the ground running. He had his executive orders ready. He had lawyers ready to push back against any pushback from the deep state. It's amazing. It's very well orchestrated and had to have been planned for many years.
SPEAKER 10 :
I'm surprised that there had been no leaks on this, that the Democrats are caught so – well, I'm not going to say just Democrats, Republicans as well. There's deep state Republicans as well, and they have all been caught by surprise.
SPEAKER 11 :
They really have, and Trump ran a lot of this outside of D.C. He had his own team, his own security, and yes, no leaks. He knew the way the game was played the second time around. And he wasn't going to make the same mistakes again. A lot of his transition ran out of Mar-a-Lago. And, yeah, kept the media at arm's length. And there were no leaks. He had loyal people, unlike the first time around. He tried to make nice with the Republican establishment. And, you know, Reince Priebus, his chief of staff, who was – R&C guy and an insider, and who knows where the leaks came from, but he had a lot of people like that with ties to the establishment, and of course there were leaks. But he ran a very tight ship this time. He learned his lesson well.
SPEAKER 10 :
So, Dr. June Depth, what do you say? And I'm concerned about it as well. We don't want a country that is run by executive order. We want to reclaim our constitutional republic. So one of the things that you're starting to see is, oh, he's ruling by executive order. What are you saying to people on that? Because Congress is not going to take the action as quickly as he's taken it. So what do you say to people when they're concerned about it, as I am? But yet I read a piece by Jeffrey Tucker in the Epoch Times where he had talked about 10 days that changed the world. Apparently there was a book regarding the Bolsheviks when they moved Russia towards Russia. Marxism and communism. But he said, here you've got Donald Trump that is moving us to freedom and the American idea. And so this is the next 10 days that have changed the world. I found that riveting.
SPEAKER 11 :
That's, Kim, that's a very legitimate concern because executive orders can be undone by the next president, whoever that is, if we flip parties again. And it's interesting thinking about this. It's almost why a deep state exists. The deep state exists, and I'm not defending it by any means, but it exists to have some continuity in policy because presidents change every four or eight years and things could go 180 degrees sideways. And foreign policy, economic policy, relations with other countries, things like that, can't just be shifting on the dime. Nobody can plan that way, just like businesses can't plan with a fickle tax code that changes every few years, which is, I think, why the deep state exists or came to be to serve as that continuity. Again, I'm not defending it because it's gone off the rails, but Congress needs to codify these executive orders into law. And I think they will. If you notice during the transition, Mike Johnson was hanging around Trump. You know, Trump went to Madison Square Garden for that MMA fight. Mike Johnson was there. And there's the picture of Trump and RFK and Elon eating McDonald's on the plane. And Mike Johnson's there. He was brought into the inner circle. And I think there's a specific reason for that. Trump needs that ally. He's the one that's going to get this legislation going. So that's that's an important part of it. It has to be put into law because then it's a lot harder to undo if it's just executive order. Yeah, it's great for a few years. And then, yeah, J.D. Vance is the next president and he's president for eight years. Great. We got 12 years of good times. But what if a Democrat wins and reverses everything? So. That's the problem. And we can't run a country. Businesses can't function. Foreign policy can't function. It just it doesn't work that way if the borders closed and then it's open and then it's Gulf of America and back to Gulf of Mexico and and just crazy stuff like that. That's that's at the whim of whoever's in charge.
SPEAKER 10 :
So the American people are seeing the deep state, I think. This whole thing with this USAID. And I had a conversation with a dear friend yesterday. And she said, well, some people are saying, well, yeah, but USAID did some good. Well, maybe so. But it would have been trickling down for sure. It looks to me like people were padding their pockets. They were... I wonder if they were just sitting around in a back room coming up with all these crazy things that they said they're going to name, that they're going to send money to, and then maybe it was just a big money laundering operation. We don't know for sure. But the American people, one of the things, Dr. June Depp, is people, I think American people, they trust, they look for the best in things. But when you... stomp all over that trust. They're like, wait a minute. And, uh, I think people are at that point of you have taken our trust and you have, um, really degraded it. I think what, what's your comments?
SPEAKER 11 :
Oh, absolutely. The, yeah. Uh, USAID maybe have done some good, but you know, as the expression goes, Mussolini made the trains run on time. So, um, a little bit of good here doesn't negate all the bad. And this has been out of control. There's no accountability. It's trillions of dollars. And a lot of it is contrary to American interests, or at least what most Americans would consider their interests. They're running color revolutions around the world, including America. Michael Schellenberger talked about the Trump impeachment and the Russian collusion hoax. And a lot of that was funded by, you said, and just nonsense. It's not so much a million dollars for transgender opera in Peru, but when you add it all up, it's big money. And when you put that against the fact that average families having trouble putting food on the table because of inflation and interest rates and all the daily living expenses. And we're just pissing money away like this. It's unfathomable. So I think it's a good thing. Number one is, what are we spending it on? And number two, which is, I think, part two of this, is where's the money actually going? Who's getting it back? Zelensky said $100 billion in funding of the Ukraine war from the U.S. is unaccounted for. $100 billion. Where did that money go? What I want to see is an audit of where it went and whose pockets. And I suspect there will be politicians on both sides of the aisle that personally or through their foundations or their campaigns saw that money. You have Lindsey Graham that's pushing the war. Did any of that money find its way back to him? That's what I'd like to know. And I'm sure we're going to find a lot of that. It's a big grift, and that's where we need the accountability because this money is just being spent. There's no check on the Treasury. The person approving it approved all expenditures. There was never any – the word no never came up. It was yes, yes, yes. It's like having an unlimited ATM card, and they're just spending it on whatever. You create an NGO that sounds good, you get money, and you put 5% of it toward what the NGO is supposed to do, and the rest of it is donated back to the politicians who appropriated that money. Funny how that works. And that's why presidential campaigns are – billion enterprises. Where does that money come from? Is that small donors that are donating a billion dollars? I don't think so.
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Well, this is such an interesting time in our country, Dr. June Depp. And again, I'd highly recommend people check your piece out at Rasmussen Reports. What if Trump finishes his presidency by Easter? And when we come back, we're going to talk with Dr. June Depp about another piece that he's written that is an American thinker says cold winters mean global warming in what world? We'll be right back.
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice. 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 certainly would recommend that you have in your giving this year the USMC Memorial Foundation, because my friends, it's so important that we honor our memorials, that we honor those that have given their lives or been willing to give their lives for our liberty. And of course, during the Biden-Harris administration, you saw tearing down memorials and statues and renaming things. And so that's why we need to make sure that we support the USMC Memorial Foundation and the memorial that's located right here in Golden, Colorado. And on the line with me is Dr. Brian Joondepth. And he's really, I'd say, a prolific writer and a great thinker. And he's written a piece regarding cold winters mean global warming in what world? And this is a good moment to mention A Climate Conversation, which is the documentary that I had the great honor to moderate yesterday. It is the project of Walt Johnson. He's a geophysicist and he just wanted to create a documentary with Socratic questioning of this whole narrative. And you can watch that for free by going to a climate conversation dot com. And also we've got a great podcast series with a number of experts there. So check all that out. It's free at a climate conversation dot com. So, Dr. June Depp, in your piece, you said that we're on average to have the coldest January nationally in the lower 48 states since 1994. So that's why they had to change the narrative from global warming to climate change, right? Right.
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Well, that's part of it. It started back in the 70s. It was global cooling. And there's a famous article, I believe, in Newsweek, all gloom and doom about the cooling planet and what that's going to mean and ice ages and everything else. And that was just part of a small cycle where for a few years it was cooler. Then it warmed up. Then it became global warming. And to avoid the ambiguity and the contradictions of, warming and cooling, they called it climate change. And climate change now covers everything. So what they're doing is all manner of weather is blamed on climate change. Yes, we have extreme weather. We have hurricanes. We have storms, tornadoes, droughts, all these things. But it's a lot more convenient to lump it all under climate change. than just calling it the normal weather variations. We deal with long and short cycles of weather, including the 100,000-year cycles of ice ages and things like that. 10,000 years ago, we're getting out of an ice age where the Great Lakes were covered under a mile of ice. How did the planet warm then? There wasn't cars and SUVs and barbecues and coal-fired vehicles. power plants, but the planet's climate changes. There are forces that we cannot influence, and some we don't understand, solar cycles and the tilt of the earth and things like that that affect the climate. And short-term variations, which is weather, versus the long-term variations of climate are two very different things, and there's no distinction there. And it's all agenda-driven. It's about money and control.
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Well, in doing our podcast series and also the documentary Climate Conversation, what I realized, the green and the Green New Deal is the green that is going into politicians and bureaucrats and interested parties' pockets. And you talk about grift. This really seems to be one of the major grift situations that I think that we've ever seen in society.
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Oh, absolutely. It goes back to I think it's Bill Clinton's days of Solyndra, the green energy company. I don't know if it was Clinton or Obama, but I think it was Obama. Obama, maybe hundreds of millions of dollars went into this company and it went belly up and the taxpayers bailed it out. And And where did that money go? Who got rich off of that? That's the kind of thing that we need an audit and follow the money. Al Gore has become fabulously wealthy on carbon credits and things like that. Rush Limbaugh used to say that the environmental movement is the new home of communism after the fall of the Soviet Union. And Michael Crichton wrote a book about – all of this. And he had a preface or the first chapter of the book talked about, you know, what a big scam it is. And it's about money and control. And it's now the religion of the left. It's instead of the God of Jesus and the Trinity, it's the God of
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climate and there's repentance and and all the tenets of a religion are built into the climate movement and and that's become the religion of the left it really has become the religion of the left and uh this came in on the text line it says we need an executive order from trump that declares climate change as just weather and that may be coming uh dr june depth
SPEAKER 11 :
I wouldn't be surprised. During halftime of the Super Bowl, he got rid of the penny, which is something that's been bothering me for years, that the copper lobby kept it alive. Nobody uses a penny. You can't buy anything for a penny. We're largely a cashless society, and years ago, you'd buy something and you'd get four pennies and change, and who wants to carry pennies in their pocket? It just you know, leave them in the tip jar or just throw them out. It's not worth caring. It's not like when we were kids, you could get a piece of gum for a penny. But now pennies, nickels, dimes are worthless. They should just round up or round down. Other countries have been doing that for years. And it's just a common sense thing. We save a little money by getting rid of pennies. So maybe, yes. Climate change is weather.
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Yeah, and to your point is that a billion here, a billion there, and it all adds up. And I think we've been wringing our hands and thinking, what can be done about this spending? What can be done about this debt? And I also think that Trump plans on getting this economy really rocking and rolling. And as that economic pie gets bigger and bigger, then you can actually have lower tax rates, but you increase tax revenue. And by doing that, we should be able to pay down our debt and get a handle on this. And we're in a dangerous time, certainly. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, first we have to get rid of the deficits. And Musk has uncovered $100 billion in Medicare-Medicaid fraud. The Department of Defense hasn't been audited yet. What about the Department of Education, the Department of Energy? I have a feeling in each of these agencies, you're probably going to find $100 billion of waste. And all of a sudden, you're at $1 trillion, and you've cut the deficit in half. So it's not insignificant money. And where's it going? We don't know. We need a full audit of this, and I think that's what's coming next. But This has been funding so much of the left's nefarious activities, BLM and Antifa and all this stuff. We're paying for it. This is all taxpayer money that's funding the George Floyd riots and all this stuff. We're paying for that. And as people realize that, they're not going to be very happy with it.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, I think that is true. And so shedding light on this is so important. These pieces that you're writing are also so important, Dr. Brian June Depth. Just a teaser on the next one. Do you have that in? Is that on the typewriter, if you will?
SPEAKER 11 :
Yes, I'll have something, I think, tomorrow morning in American Thinker. Interesting on social media, I've been seeing posts from generally liberal friends of Oh, somebody told me they regret voting for Trump and they're so embarrassed and they so regret their votes. And we welcome you back to common sense and sanity. And I think this is all nonsense. I've yet to meet a Trump voter that regrets their vote. They're all ecstatic and they want more. So I'm writing about that, that, no, we don't regret our vote for Trump. His approval numbers are going up and people are solidly behind him. The applause he got at the Super Bowl compared to Taylor Swift getting booed. That's a good example of the support he has. And the left is losing its support. So, yes, we we do not regret voting for Trump. Hell no. So that's the title of it.
SPEAKER 10 :
OK, well, Dr. Jundep, thank you so much. And we'll talk with you next month.
SPEAKER 11 :
My pleasure. Thanks, Kim.
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And thank you to the Harris family for their goal sponsorship of the show. I so appreciate them. And so let's get into it here. Our word of the day is intrepid or intrepidity, which we hear normally every Friday when we do the citations of the Medal of Honor recipients, as we are reading from the Medal of Honor quote book from the Center for American Values. And thought, you know, let's let's make sure we understand that word is characterized by resolute fearlessness, fortitude, endurance, bravery, courage and. And the word is intrepid, I-N-T-R-E-P-I-D, or intrepidity, I-N-T-R-E-P-I-D-I-T-Y. Your challenge is to use those words in a sentence today, and you can impress your friends and family. Our quote of the day is from Tom Landry, great football coach, born in 1924, died in the year 2000. He was an American professional football coach, player, World War II veteran. And he's regarded as one of the greatest head coaches of all time. He coached the Dallas Cowboys for 29 seasons. He said this, the quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence. Our bill of the day, House Bill 25-1134, which this is, let me get over to it. I thought I had it here. Hang with me. I might have. So it's insect production for human consumption. And it's a bill from Representative Scott Bottoms, who he's really typically a freedom guy watching out for everyday people. And I know what he's probably attempting to do, and that is to protect our food source of our meat production, because that is so under attack. There is a however, though, and that is a problem where I see force on this. And I wanted to get to comments here from one of our listeners. And this was, here we go. This is from Mark. He's a great thinker on this. He says, good morning, Kim. I looked up House Bill 1134. I agree in theory, again, limiting human consumption of bugs. However, there is verbiage in the bill that states existing businesses are capped at what they're producing when this bill goes into effect. Between the price cap bill and that verbiage, the state is getting into regulating the free market. And where does that stop? They could then eventually say, hey, you own a small business and you can't grow and are now capped at XXX revenue a year. This is government overreach. Mark, I have to agree with you. And so we have to have these conversations about these bills. You can understand where there might be something that is well-intentioned, but that freedom versus force question should always be one of our litmus tests on that. And so, again, that is House Bill 1134, insect production for human consumption. If you want to look that up and read it, just go to Colorado Legislature, put in House Bill 25. That would be the year, 25-1134. It's a relatively short bill, and so you can read it. And we'll probably talk a little bit more about that, I think, in the last segment with Representative Kindergraf. But again, that that is we want to make sure that we keep government in its proper role and always move towards the free market. That's why with Yvonne Piaz in the first hour talking about. The Fort Collins trash fee. Again, whenever you see this force, freedom sometimes can be messy. It can be difficult, but we always want to come down on the side of freedom. And so that's why we need to continue to think about these things. i wanted to say thank you to my fellow board members for the colorado union of taxpayers and we will be having our board meeting tonight this group is doing amazing work as far as watching legislation down at the state house and taking positions on that we send out an email every monday before they get into committee which is at 1 30 in the afternoon we send that to all of our legislators as well as the governor And if you are a member, you will receive that email as well. It only costs $25 a year to join. That's $2.08 a month. And my gosh, you get amazing analysis. A lot of volunteer time. We're all volunteers. But this group, when you see them, say thank you to them. Steve Dorman, Greg Golianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Rainey Johnson, Mary Jansen, Dave Evans, and Corey Onasorg. They are doing amazing work. And we need to get the word out about the Colorado Union of Taxpayers. So many of you wonder, how can I keep track of what's happening at the statehouse? Colorado Union of Taxpayers and that website is coloradotaxpayer.org is an excellent tool to have in your toolbox to do that. And regarding headlines, I'd mentioned in the first hour that Colorado House bill or excuse me, Senate Bill 003, which is the anti firearm bill. Looks like that's laid over, which is is good. Hopefully that's that's good. Not going to pass, but again, those that want to take away the rights of everyday people to keep and bear firearms, to protect ourselves against bad actors, are not giving up. Colorado is really the petri dish for all of this legislation. That's why elections are so important. Kicking around what our next step is going to be on this Reclaim Colorado 2025 election project. So stay tuned on that. Colorado is expensive, and it is because of POLIS, this legislature, all of these PBIs, which are put in place by POLIS. And they say that they will continue to close coal-fired electric plants in 2025 and want them all closed by 2031. Have you looked at your electric bill? Well, thank you to these PBIs and that interested party in there is Xcel Energy. Next thing, there is a poll, and that's from Center Square, that Colorado voters say that the GOP more represents the working class and addresses top concerns. And next thing, Trump, as we saw the headlines regarding the USAID and closing that down, basically, and the light that is being shed on the amount of money. that has been spent going to things that are really not what they say the stated goal is of USAID has been pretty remarkable to see what's coming out on that. This next headline, and this is from, let's see here, it is... This is from Business Insider. It says the Consumer Financial Protection Board tells its workers to not perform any work tasks this week while it shuts down its D.C. headquarters. And so this is going to be super interesting to see the next thing that occurs regarding Doge, the Department of Government Efficiency, that Elon Musk is going into these different bureaucracies and looking at the money that is being spent. Apparently, these bureaucracies have not really been audited. How is that OK? 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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice. 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. Please dab on the line with me, Rebecca LaFrenz. And you know her. She's known as the praying grandma. And on January 6, 2021, a few days before, she felt compelled. She felt the good Lord put on her heart that she needed to get in her car, drive across the country to Washington, D.C., so that she could pray for our country. Ultimately, then she got a knock on the door, accusing her of, I think, breaching the Capitol. Rebecca Lovrenz, welcome to the show.
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Well, thank you so much for having me on, Kim. I am delighted to be on your show, as always.
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Well, and am I getting this right? You go to Washington, D.C., you are praying over the Capitol, you end up going into the Capitol for a few minutes, and then months later, you get a knock on your door.
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Yes, that's exactly what happened. Didn't think I did anything wrong. I was just standing up for my country and believed that the people in authority there were the ones that had opened the door for us, let down the barriers, and was shocked when I got a knock on the door in April of 2021, and they asked if I could be, and they said they wanted to investigate me for my involvement in January 6th. And here I am.
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And so you ended up getting convicted of a crime, right?
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Yes. And I was charged and arrested in December of 2022. And then because of different things that occurred, I had decided that God did not want me to take a plea because I was doing something for him. And I felt really directed to go into the Capitol House. Like you said, I had been there just to fast and pray. And during the events that occurred that day about 1 o'clock, I felt impressed by God's that he told me, you know, if those doors open, would you carry my presence into the building? So out of obedience to God is why I went in the building, plus standing up for my First Amendment right, which is we have the right to address our government for redress of grievances. And so then because of being led by God to do that, there was no way I could take a plea. It just wasn't possible in my heart. So I actually went to trial on March of 24, 25. Fifth is when the trial started, was convicted on the 4th of April on four charges, four federal misdemeanor charges. Went, felt like after the conviction of guilt, God wanted me to go out and tell my story to as many people on interviews such as yours, and I did. And then when I was sentenced in August of last year on the 12th, the prosecution was very adamant that they thought I was too loud of a voice. for January 6th, contrary to what their narrative they wanted out. So I was sentenced to six months house arrest, a year of probation, banned from the internet, and then fined $103,000. So you had to pay that $103,000? No, my legal team said, well, I was charged, you know, that I had to do that. But the probation and my judge and the attorney said, just, you know, pay whatever you can. So I've been paying that because we are appealing my case. They felt that if I pay, you know, that I was just supposed to pay whatever I could. So I did. I haven't paid it all yet. So we're waiting on what that I think that may be removed. But we have to clarify that.
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goodness so last time we talked you were on house arrest and explaining what that looked like that was before donald trump was elected donald trump has issued uh pardons uh for many of the people that were being held regarding january 6th and so what happened did you get a pardon what's going on with that
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes. So on the 20th, we all know that. I mean, if you watch all the executive orders and things that President Trump has done, he did issue a pardon for all but 14 of the J6 defendants. The other 14 had their sentences commuted. But I was called the next evening. Fortunately, my judge had given me permission through a motion we filed to allow me to go to the inauguration, which I did, still wearing my monitor, and then three days later, And then on the way back on Wednesday, I believe it was, so that would have been two days. No, I guess it was Tuesday, the very next day. I was on a flight, ready to go on a flight going back, and I had a call from my probation officer said that because I've been pardoned, I can take off to monitor. But it's a little bit complicated because initially, my legal team was not clear whether if accepting the pardon would nullify my right to appeal my case. So I was not willing to just cut my monitor off because, as I said before, I mean, I went there to defend my country. I think our country has and still is in a lot of trouble because a lot of people do not understand that we have to – are tried and convicted of things that are really unconstitutional. And then those judgments are on the case law. And so this will affect future generations. And I'm not okay with that because at my trial, the judge did instruct the jury at my trial that I did not have a First Amendment right at the Capitol. And if that's on the books, then for the generations, my grandchildren, your great-grandchildren may have to fight this battle again, and I'm not willing to do that. So that is why I'm still appealing my case and hope to have those rulings overturned by higher court so that when they look at case law, they won't say, oh, we don't have a First Amendment right at the Capitol. And I hope that makes sense. Maybe I need to clarify some of that.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, I think let me see if I've got it. So you will. And do you still have your monitor on or did you have you taken that off?
SPEAKER 09 :
No, let me skip that part. So that my probation officer said that. When she called me on that Tuesday when I was getting ready to get on flight, she said, you can cut your monitor off and then just bring it back at the end of the week when you're back to Colorado because I want to fly back to Colorado. Well, because I wasn't sure what to do, I kept it on as long as I thought possible because I wanted to be clear on that, whether I could deny or accept. And according to what my legal team has said, I really can't deny the pardon. As far as I know, the denial of the pardon actually – Or the pardon means that I've been forgiven, but doesn't necessarily mean that I'm exonerated or that I'm freed or cleared from my guilt at the conviction. However, so then on Thursday of that week, when I got back, I got a call from my... probation officer says you need to cut your monitor off immediately so and if you don't we'll come out there and cut it off so anyway we had a little cutting off ceremony um my son came over and we did a little video that put on facebook just to um but i am free now so the sentence the actually the pardon does i do not have a monitor i'm free to go where i need to go and my all the restrictions that security when i go through the airport that's been off and i i I'm off house arrest. And so it's very much a freeing thing. And I feel good to be able to go around. But there's part of me that's very I'm very, very grateful for what President Trump did for me, for all the J6 defendants, because we need it was very unjust. But we still have a battle on our hands to make sure the narrative doesn't continue that we were all criminals. And just, you know, that we were treated the way we were and not just treated the way we were. But I mean, this wasn't a fair. There weren't fair trials. We were not given opportunity to share all the discovery and things and video and things like that, which could have just exonerated our cases. But we have to keep appealing that so the truth can come out. We can't shove everything under the rug what happened to January 6th. And that's what we need to fight for.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, and one of our listeners just texted. She said, what? No First Amendment right at the Capitol? This is the people's house. I think that we forget that. And I went down to the Colorado State Capitol to testify last week. And I thought it was very ironic in Sanctuary City, Denver, and many of those representatives in the state capitol are very pro-sanctuary city. I thought it was so ironic that I had to go through a metal detector and there were guards and basically there was a... a fence around that people's house. And there's a fence around the people's house in Washington, D.C. And that was at the time that the moving into the Biden-Harris administration as well. I just I just find it all so interesting.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes, it is very interesting. And because it has gradually happened, people don't realize how serious that is, I think, because we should have a right to that capital. But because we have put those that we've elected and we've put them in such a high position in our head that we don't see that we have to learn. We have to educate ourselves. We have to know our rights as well. as citizens of the United States of America. And we have to exercise that right. If we sit back and do nothing because we are, we are, you know, fearful or whatever, and don't know our rights, then we just abdicate our authority to those who will gladly take it because they're all about wanting more power and more greed. But those people that we have elected, the vice, vice president Pence, vice president, or I mean, the, And the representatives that we have put in office, they are there to represent us. And that's what I feel was such – stirred up such emotion in so many of us during that time of January 6th because you're not listening to us. We put you in that office. And whoever is holding us back, we weren't dangerous. None of us – there was nobody that – you know, Ashley Babbitt didn't have a – have a gun or anything you know it's just like why are you putting making us the criminals you know you need to listen to us and i think that's what basically we thought that if we would be allowed to go forward in which i think we i did anyway i didn't push those barriers down you can even see that on the videos but um we need to uh allow our voices to be heard we need to be heard and that's First of all, I'm so thankful that you're letting me on this call, so you're letting my voice be heard so other people can understand the truth of what really happened, what I was charged with, and what I could and couldn't say. Kim, if you were at my trial, you would have been very angry to see what was not allowed.
SPEAKER 10 :
So, Rebecca LaVrenz, first of all, you obedient to our Lord on what he put on your heart to do. And you want to make sure that you continue to appeal this case because this is for the ages. This is this is. Do we actually have freedom of speech? Do we have the right to address our grievances with our government? These are key foundational principles that you are standing for, and we want to continue the discussion. And we are an independent voice on an independent station. And all that happens because of all of the support that you give us. And also these great sponsors. And Lavaca Meat Company really is a premium product. They're located at the corner of Nevada and Maine in Old Littleton and a great protein source for your diet.
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're 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 be sure and add in to your giving this year, the USMC Memorial Foundation, as they are working to make the remodel of the Marine Memorial a reality. It was dedicated in 1977, and it is... Time for a refresh. And you can help them by getting more information and going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. That is usmcmemorialfoundation.org. And talking with Rebecca LaVrenz. She's known as the praying grandmother. And she felt on her heart, the good Lord put a tug on her heart, that she needed to get in her car, drive by herself across the country to Washington, D.C., so that she could be there on January 6th, 2021, to pray for our country. She ended up, barricades came down, she ended up going into the Capitol for not very long, prayed in the Capitol, and a few months later gets a knock on the door and says that she's accused of a crime. And ultimately, she was convicted of a crime and put on house arrest and said that she had to pay a big fine. And she was offered a plea And she said, I'm not going to do that because this is an important issue for my children, my grandchildren, for the ages, I would say, Rebecca Lorenz. It's a big deal, and you are taking a very important stand on this.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes, it's a very big deal, Kim. Yeah, and it's interesting. You just said it so succinctly because that's exactly what was on my heart. I realized after I did that, first of all, when I first came out, or when all this happened, that people were being arrested, I just thought, there's no way that anybody would come after me. I was there just by myself, not involved with anything. I wasn't even on Facebook. But I realized later that this is, like you said, for the ages, it's God had called me up. You have an assignment to stand for the covenant that we have with America. And I think that's what, as time developed, well, even at the Capitol itself, that's what happened to that day before I even went into the Capitol, I noticed there was a group praying on the side of the Capitol. And I went over there and God just led me through his presence and an intercessory time, about 10 minutes that lasted that time. I prayed the 1620 Mayflower compact at that outside the Capitol. And, which says that this land that those pilgrims set foot on in 1620, they dedicated this land for the glory of God and the advancement of the Christian faith. And I think that, Kim, is the basic reason why I was called up, because God wants a people that will recognize that God is faithful. the one who ordained and originated this country to be in itself. And if we need to get back to a godly nation, and I think that's what my assignment is right now. So I will continue the fight and it's getting bigger all the time.
SPEAKER 10 :
So what's the next steps? You now offered a plea. My understanding would be if you took the plea, you would admit guilt. Is that right?
SPEAKER 09 :
Right. A plea would, you know, like I had charged for was charged with four misdemeanors. And if I would plead guilty to one of them, then they would hopefully be nicer on the other sentencing. Because if they total them out, it could have been, you know, I could have spent time in prison, but. When I have lived all my life since I became a Christian as a teenager, I have lived that I have one goal in life is to know Jesus and make him known and let him be number one in my life. And that's the story of my life. I'm not here on my own accord. God put me here on this earth for a purpose and a reason. And And as I developed my walk with the Lord, I realized that I'm here to fulfill whatever His assignment is. And because God loves each one on this planet, He's going to call certain people up if they're willing to say yes and just stand up and fight for the truth and things that are important for more people to know the truth. And I think that's why developing a relationship with God, standing for covenant, that's why I had to do what I had to do. And I could never... Could never take a plea when God is the one that called me to stand up.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay, so next things that are going to happen. You mentioned that the judge for this trial did not allow some things in discovery. I'm learning that that, I don't know if I want to say it's a game, but in a way it's kind of a legal game. I think that we as citizens think that, oh, all the evidence will be there, and then that way people, the jury, can make informed decisions. But if the judge prevents evidence, key things from, as you mentioned, video, a variety of things, if he prevents that from being used as evidence and then directs the jury that they can only make their decision or they can make their decision only on what is presented in court. And then I think I remember you said that he directed the jury that they could not consider your right to freedom of speech. Well, that skews things a little bit, Rebecca.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes, that is exactly right because my attorneys have – they did – I mean, that's all they did in the last four, three, four years is do January 6th cases. And they had tons of them. Plus, they were aware of all the other cases, how many cases were out there. And at every case, they said these cases, when they go into deliberation after the case is presented, they usually get a guilty verdict within an hour to two hours. Well, my – My jury deliberation lasted over 25 hours, three days. And the reason, because I believe, because I mean, I'm not saying I'm better than anybody, but if you look at any of what I did, there was absolutely no violence on my part. And my jury, I believe, saw that. I was able to take the witness stand and give my part. But because the different boundaries or whatever, I forget what the legal term is, but before the trial, there's a pretrial conference, and all these stipulations are put on what you can and cannot do. And And I was appalled, Kim. I've never been involved too much in attorney things at all, legal cases at all. But when I got there, I felt exactly like most of the public, which you just said, would probably think that everything would be presented. Well, when I got there, there were video footage and words on the audio on these videos that clearly showed there were things that weren't that would prove my innocence. But we couldn't show them.
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That's Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. Rebecca LaVrenz is on the line. She is known as the praying grandmother. She went to Washington, D.C., January 6, 2021. And we just wanted to finish up. Rebecca, we lost you as you were just kind of giving us your last final thought. You are appealing your case. You have received a pardon from President Trump. But this is so important. So next steps, what does this look like? And obviously, you would appreciate our prayers. You're on my prayer list every day.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay. Well, just briefly, the problem we're having right now is just because these cases have been all pardoned, though they have not necessarily been exonerated or freed from guilt, the justice system right now and the judges are trying to stop all the appeals, and that's what we're wanting to do. We don't want our... Because of the way that we were pardoned, then they're saying these cases are moot, which would nullify our right to have an appeal, apparently. And so that's what we are fighting against. So that's what I basically would appreciate prayer for, that the judges would not stop, be able to call our cases moot and not be able to continue with the appeal process. So the first step, one of the briefs for my attorneys is due this month. So we will see how far that goes.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, again, this is so important for our children and our grandchildren. And so, Rebecca, we'll keep you in our prayers. Let's keep us in the loop on what is going on. And thank you for your courage for standing up for our American idea and really appreciate it. So thank you. Just God bless you. Thank you. Thanks so much, Kim. And we're going to jump over here now with Representative Ken DeGraff. He is, I had it written down, representative of, I did not write it down. Representative Ken DeGraff, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 04 :
House District 22, but we're supposed to represent all of Colorado. So I represent all of Colorado from House District 22.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, and you are really standing in the gap there with what you guys are now called the Fab Four. Is that right?
SPEAKER 03 :
I have heard that, yes. Yes. So that's funny.
SPEAKER 10 :
And that's Stephanie Luck, Representative Luck. That's Representative Scott Bottoms, Representative Kindergraf, and Representative Brandy Bradley. And so thank you. So let's talk about a couple of these bills that you wanted to make sure people had on their radar. The first one was, I think it's Stephanie Luck's bill, is requirements for filling certain vacancies in offices. Why is this important, Kindergraf?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well... So right now we have, I don't know the exact number, but we have quite a few representatives that have been appointed by just a very small number of people. And then they, on a vacancy committee, that could be, you know, like you have 10 representatives or something that have been put there by 200 people total, you know, because it's just the vacancy committee. But then once they're in that vacancy committee, Then they go into the next election with incumbency. Chris Hansen would be one of those. He was appointed by a vacancy committee, and then he was obviously one of the most radical people there. say he was an elected lobbyist, and then he went on to be, after jacking up the electrical rates for eight years, then he went on to, after re-election, went over to La Plata Electric as a CEO. So apparently he was applying for the job. And there's a number of other ones that have just been appointed by a handful of radicals. And then they go into the next election as the incumbent. So, you know, there's certain advantages of that to have some, you know, smooth flow and all that, but it's really not indicative. So Bob Marshall has a bill on that. Stephanie has a bill on that. I haven't really been able to dig into the nuts and bolts of Stephanie's bill yet.
SPEAKER 10 :
OK, and so there's a large percentage of I have this now in air quotes, representatives down at the statehouse that have not been voted into office by the people, but in fact have been put into office by these vacancy committees. And we've seen that this is a little bit, I think, of a game because there were two Democrat candidates. Representatives or senators that within a week or two weeks after being elected, that they resigned their seats. And then as this vacancy committee then selected representatives to go into those seats. those positions. And then your example regarding Chris Hansen, then he moves on to a job that's probably pretty cushy into, and that's not really the private sector, but into not in the elected sector, I'll put that. And so this is really important, this bill that Stephanie Luck has brought forward.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, I think so. I think so. We need to get the representation back. And so there's various ways to do it. And, you know, hopefully, you know, we get some sort of mashup of, you know, the best way. So I know Stephanie's, you know, of course, is going to be very well thought out.
SPEAKER 10 :
Most definitely. Let's move over here to your bill, and that is to repeal the National Vote Compact. And last week, Mary Jansen, who's one of my fellow board members on the cut board, she and I talked a bit about this. But it's House Bill 25-1102, repeal the National Popular Vote Compact. So talk to us a little bit about that.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, that came from Prop 113. And as you probably remember, Rose Pugliese and Don Wilson were pretty instrumental in putting up a solid fight against that. But ultimately, the Democrats basically tricked the population in saying vote to protect the Electoral College. So people actually voted yes because they thought it was protecting the Electoral College the way they made the ads. And when what they were doing is voting yes, actually, for the popular vote. So a lot of confusion. They were also promised that it wouldn't cost anything. And we know now that that's not true. They'll they'll be if implemented, there'll be quite a constitutional crisis because other states that are not signed on will will will definitely have a problem. I'm hoping that the Democrats will realize that this isn't a great idea because President Trump would have taken all of Colorado's electoral votes and would have, in fact, taken 521 out of 538 electoral votes by winning the popular vote. So when people asked the Democrats if we were going to give them Colorado's vote, they were quite adamant that no, they would not. So they did not seem to like that. proposition so obviously they just thought with uh controlling the election machines that they were going to be controlling and importing lots of illegal aliens that they were going to be controlling the popular vote forever so um now you know how that's going to play out as uh trump drains their uh electoral coffers uh with doge then we'll see how that plays out but I'm hoping that they will get back. The popular vote is not a new idea. It was kicked around when they were drafting the Constitution, trying to figure that out. It was one of the ways. The Electoral College allows, kind of compartmentalizes all of the states. So if you have a state like Chicago that's just inherently corrupt, then or Colorado, Illinois, then it doesn't ruin everything for everybody else. So it kind of compartmentalizes it with the Electoral College, spreads out the representation, and then, of course, doesn't just turn over the vote to big cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York, who can't even manage their own... who can't even manage their own cities. So why would we give them any sort of control over middle America?
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, but that's why they would like to have control over middle America so that that everybody else can help pay for their terrible decisions and their terrible mistakes. So you hit on something, Representative DeGraff, and that is, is I think that the radical activists that have taken over the Democrat Party thought that they would never lose another popular vote. And after Joe Biden received 81 million votes from his basement and then in the next election, Kamala Harris, six million of those votes didn't show up. You have to go, well, what happened to all of those votes? So I think that all of the work that was done regarding the integrity of our elections is I think really was a contributing factor to Donald Trump. winning the election. And so those pushing the national popular vote, I think, never thought that they would ever have to have this dilemma of, in fact, Colorado's votes would have gone to Donald Trump. And when you couch it that way, I've got to think that most Democrats would say, no, we would like to make sure that Colorado's votes go the way Colorado votes. Yes?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. Yeah, I would think so. And like I talked to a Democrat last Friday and he he said, you know, everybody on the Democrat side is worried about, you know, how far this goes, all these things that Trump and like, well, yeah, that's what we were worried about when, you know, Biden and Harris were in office. Like, how far how far does this go? What what does this look like? You know, it's a little bit different for them now that they're on the side of not, you know, not being inherently trust trusting of government. So it's like, well, this is good. you're back on the side maybe of not trusting government implicitly, which is, you know, really where we should all be.
SPEAKER 10 :
How do you think that's going to play out here at the Colorado State House? The work that you all are doing as Republicans to hold the line in the House of Representatives and in the Senate is pretty monumental right now with the majorities that the Democrats have in both houses.
SPEAKER 04 :
It is. It is. People ask, why are you not passing this? Why are you not repealing that? And it's like, well, I mean, we can't. Now, I think with an honest election, we would have had more representation there. But I think the important thing for Colorado is that we are, as a body, not just being, well, we're here being Republicans, but that we're promoting and forwarding the values of our our republic. I mean, a big difference between the two parties is that, you know, Republicans have a standard by which we can hold ourselves, and those are the values of our republic. So if somebody calls themselves a Republican but doesn't adhere to the values, then, you know, it doesn't really matter. They're not a Republican. We have a set of values, and that's our founding documents, whereas the Democrats Anybody, you know, their value is anything that the majority wants. So, you know, if, you know, the radical, you know, the radical stuff that they have going on with, like, transgender, the unsatiable taxation, you know, that is the Democrat Party. That is who they are right now. So I think people, my sense from everybody that I talk to is that people really are wanting to go back to the values of our republic. And I think as we as Republicans promote that, we will gain strength. We'll grow following. People email us and say, hey, I see you guys are willing to fight. If you're willing to actually fight, I'm willing to get engaged. Because when we had people that were in the have been in office. Look how many times we've had majorities in the House and Senate federally, and we think, oh, we're going to get something done. And then the politicians just start spending on different pet projects with no real difference than Democrats. And then that's when I think you turn people off because people say, well, you're not really different. We as Republicans have a standard that we hold ourselves. We should be holding ourselves, too, and we should be promoting those values, just like CUT is. I mean, you can look at CUT's values and see if you're holding it. Liberty Scorecard as well. And I think that's what people want to see in representation.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, Representative Kindergraf, I know you're on your way to the Statehouse. I thank you so much, and we will stay in touch.
SPEAKER 04 :
Excellent. Thanks, Kim.
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Stress in the soul is not good because it overruns the command post of the soul. You quit thinking and you start operating on your emotions. And when you start operating on your emotions, then you're pretty well going to be washed up. The Bible doesn't say, let these emotions be in you that were also in Christ Jesus. It says, let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus. So we are challenged to think like Christ thought. And the Bible says in Proverbs 23, as a man thinks in his heart, so he is. So if God wants to check you out, he's not looking at what you're wearing. He's not impressed with your lifestyle. He's impressed with what you think. And that's critical that you understand that. Having these 10 problem-solving devices on the flat line of your soul, having the filling of the Holy Spirit in your life, knowing how to rebound and recover from sin when you fail, using the faith rest drill, using grace orientation, using doctrinal orientation, having a personal sense of destiny, understanding the concepts of virtue, love, and personal love for God, impersonal love for others, having the happiness of sharing the happiness of Christ and being occupied with Christ, These are tremendous problem-solving devices. And by the way, we put them all in a short, simple book, not very detailed, but at least it highlights them for you. And that's available anytime you contact us free of charge. We don't ever charge for anything. So if you'd like to have that book, Christian Problem Solving, just go to the Internet on our website, rickhughesministries.org, and request the book. And we'll be glad to get it out to you right away, along with anything else you may need from the website. There's a lot of stuff there, including any of the radio shows you may wish to have. So thank you for listening. If you've been here for the past couple of weeks, you know we started a series. called Life's Toughest Years. My intention is to make this series into a book eventually designed for young people. And so we're dealing with young people and in their toughest years. We've been through the first part of this study with you, which was testing your boundaries. And now we're into the second part of the study, and this study is called Sowing Your Oats. Somewhere along the line between 12, 13, 14, 15, up to 18, some people have a desire to sow a few wild oats, they call it. And so the Bible gives some information about this. In Ephesians 5, 15 through 18, I read last week, and I want to read to it again before I go on to the next part of this passage. Therefore, be careful how you walk, and that means live your life. Peripeteo is the Greek word, walk. It's a lifestyle, so be careful of your lifestyle. Don't live it as unwise men live their lifestyle, but live it as a wise man lives his lifestyle. So where does this wisdom come from? Well, Proverbs 1 and 2, you can see where it comes from. It comes from God's word, having the insight, the foresight, the discernment to understand what life has to offer and the decisions that you need to make. So verse 16 of Ephesians 5, making the most of the time you have available. That's the time you're on this earth. And I'm kind of modifying this translation, but it's accurate, I promise you. because the days that you are in are evil. That means Satan controls the times, and the evil refers to the cosmic system that we live in. If you don't believe that, just think about what I'm about to tell you. Everything that used to be good in the 50s in America is now evil in the year 2018. And everything that used to be evil in the 50s is now good in 2018. So you can see a shift in American culture. But the Bible goes on to say, don't be foolish, but understand what is the will of the Lord. And do not be drunk with wine, for that's dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit. So the challenge is to not be drunk, and that means to be controlled by wine, but be controlled by God's Word. Don't be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. Emotions don't do anything for you. They just get you high. But the content of God's Word in your soul is like a light and it will guide you and it will lead you. It's tremendous problem-solving devices. The real danger of you or any teenager experimenting with things the world offers is this, that they can build up scar tissue in their soul to the point of losing all norms and all standards as well as eventually a complete shutdown of the senses where they feel no conviction and they build up acquired flaws in their life that will eventually destroy them. So in Ephesians 4, 17 through 20, Paul addresses this to the believers in Ephesus, and I want to address it with you and show you what he said. In Ephesians 4, 17, reading from the King James Bible, this I say therefore and testify in the Lord. There's your prepositional phrase. This didn't come from Paul. This came from God. That you do not walk, and there's the word peripateo again. That means live your life, Don't live your life as other Gentiles live their life in the vanity of their minds. The word vanity is the Greek word metiotes, and it means an emptiness or a vacuum. What Paul is saying here is they have nothing upon which to base truth in their minds. Everything you do starts with a decision. Every decision you make, every decision you make starts in your brain. God knows the intent of your heart. He knows what you're thinking. And you always intend something when you make a decision. So these Gentiles that Paul is talking about have an emptiness in their mind. They are void of God's word. They don't understand the plan of God. These are lost people that he's talking about. But the metiotase, the vacuum of the mind, is a terrible thing. You know, I don't know if you ever created a vacuum or not, but in physical science in high school, maybe you did when you took all the oxygen out of a tin can and it looked like some invisible hand crushed it because the outside pressure was greater than the inside pressure. There's always pounds per square inch of pressure in our lives. And if the pressure is great, it can destroy you. It's like a submarine going too deep and the outside pressure is greater than the inside pressure. that US Navy submarine would be crushed to the depth. They have a crushed depth. They know not to go any deeper than that, too much pressure. Well, a young person can have pressure in their life that will destroy them when they put things in their mind that doesn't belong there. They can develop acquired flaws in their life. This comes from experimenting with things they do not need to experiment with. And Paul goes on to talk about these Gentiles, saying they have their understanding darkened. That's the word skotizo, or blacked out. They cannot comprehend. They cannot even see what they're doing to their self. And as a result, Paul says, they are alienated from the life of God, or God's plan for them, through ignorance, that's lack of knowledge, the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their heart. And the word blindness is an inaccurate translation. That's the Greek word parosis, and it's the hardness of their heart. It's a callousness of their heart. When a young person puts things into their life that do not belong there, their heart becomes hard, and the end result is they no longer feel conviction. Listen to verse 19. Who, being past feelings, no more conviction, no more feeling anything's wrong, have betrayed themselves into lasciviousness, that's sin, to work it with greed, but you did not learn this from Jesus Christ. Wow. Powerful verses. And I could spend a lot more time on this, but I want to read you some illustrations of this. Putting things in your life that don't belong there as a young person. In my travels of speaking in schools for the many years that I've done it, I've gotten a lot of letters from a lot of students and I read one of them to you here. This letter from this student said, I'd like to take the time to tell you thank you. Before you came and spoke to my school, I'd almost hit rock bottom. I was so depressed and so confused. That's a typical example of scar tissue. It definitely was a gift from God that you came. The first day you were there, you spoke to me and told me I was a charming young lady. And right then I knew God was speaking to my heart. I wanted so badly to burst out in tears and tell you my problems, and there was something that held me back. So the next day when you spoke, I began to listen and apply some of the things you had been speaking about. You know, this is what Jesus said, happiness comes to those who hear and apply God's word. She was doing that. It was becoming clear to me what was happening in my life. I was beginning to follow the crowd, this young lady said. I mean, I was never raised to do this. I had Christian parents, Christian home, and I had high morals and high values. And I knew that I should never be the person to give in, but I did. I began to go out with my girlfriends on the weekend and drink to the point where I did not even know what was going on. It had gone too far, and I knew it, and I couldn't stop. The week before you came to my school, I had really gone and did it. One of the guys was having a party, so we decided to go, and well, before I even got there, I was already drunk. To make a long story short, that was the night I lost my virginity, and I didn't even know who he was. I wanted to tell you this in person, but I didn't have the guts. I've been stressed out since that weekend if I don't even know if I'm pregnant or not. And I realize now where I went wrong. And in March the 7th, I rededicated my life to my Lord Jesus Christ, and I wanted you to know that you were the person that made me realize I needed to do some changing, not me. That was God, the Holy Spirit, using God's Word. He just used it through me. No credit to me, I promise you. I'm just a jerk. But she said, you spoke to my heart like no one has ever done. And I know that God used you as a witness to me. So thank you so very much. And God bless you. That's an illustration of scar tissue in the soul. Thankfully, this person rebounded. That means this person confessed their sin and got back in fellowship with God. Can God forgive someone that fornicates? Yes, he can. And he did. And this young person got their life straight. Now here is an article from someone who did not get their life straight. This is in a newspaper and I took it out many years ago. It says this, Edgewood, Maryland. Melissa Putney, 14 years old, nine months pregnant. Her room tidied and her locker emptied, opened up her spiral notebook and wrote to my dear mother and she filled three pages. Twelve minutes before noon, a tiny white fleck of light appeared far down the railroad tracks, and then seconds later, the crescendo of engines going over 100 miles an hour. It was the Amtrak, the 141, the bankers, and it was right on time. Melissa ran to the tracks and knelt between the rails and clasped her hands in prayer. Her cousin Pearl tried to stop her, but Melissa was bigger, stronger, pushed her away. And Melissa made the sign of the cross on that warm Tuesday midday last week in rural Maryland. A troubled eighth grader and her unborn baby died. you always ask me if there's anything wrong she wrote to her mother and i said no i'm okay but mom i didn't tell you the truth i never was okay i ran away from my problems she wrote and i'm taking the easy way out i'm admitting to myself and i'm a weak person not able to handle the weak the weight of life i'm very sorry to put you through all these troubles that i have done this newspaper article goes on to quote it I drank wine. I took pills. But before I did all of that, I asked my Father in God to heaven to forgive me, but he won't. And I don't blame him for that. Please pray that I don't be sent to hell because there, then I won't be able to come back and watch over you and help you. And I want to do that. So mom, please don't have a nervous breakdown. Please don't cry all the time. I don't want you to do that. I want you to live forever and ever the way you want to. And I will always love you very much. Please try to forgive me. your daughter, Melissa. The train engineer had a daughter of his own. He saw young Melissa cross herself as he applied the brakes and he cannot even discuss it. That's what happens when scar tissue overrides the command post of the soul. Guilt sets in and guilt will manipulate you. Guilt will destroy you and you cannot allow that to happen. So let's go back to this passage. I warn you, I'm testifying in the Lord. Ephesians chapter four, verse 17. This is coming from God, not from Paul. Do not live like Gentiles live in the emptiness of their mind. What every young person must have are clear values, norms, and standards in their soul. This is the job of every parent. It's our job to teach our children right from wrong. We teach them norms like make your bed, comb your hair, brush your teeth, keep yourself clean, make... do whatever you need to do, and then we teach them standards. Standards are from the Word of God. These are biblical standards that guide them, protect them all of their life. Without biblical standards, there is no protection. And let's talk about flaws for a minute. Some people have inherent flaws that they inherit from their family and like diabetes may be a flaw or alcoholism could be a flaw. But some people have an acquired flaw and this is a sin they get a taste for and it captures them and they can't pull away from it. And Paul says you should not live like this. You shouldn't have these kind of flaws. It's like an emptiness in your mind. They don't provide any protection. The vacuum just sucks in all the filth. And the Gentiles that Paul is talking about here have empty minds. And he goes on to say they have their understanding darkened. They don't even know what they're doing. They don't even realize what's going on. When you're in a place of blackout, when you are scotizo, when you're darkened, when you're blacked out, You don't even know you're destroying yourself. You don't even realize what you're doing to yourself. And that's exactly what Paul is warning the people in Ephesus about. There was so much going on in Ephesus. I don't have time to give you all the background of the pagan worship and the cult of Baal and everything that... went on at the temple of Aphrodite, but there was a lot of debauchery and sickness and sex and whatever else. And this is what the Gentiles were into. And their hearts, listen, let me give you this. You have two words here, vanity of the mind, okay, and the blackout of the heart. You have a mind and And your mind in the Bible is called your nous, N-O-U-S, in the Greek word mind, nous. And that's your receptor. That's where information comes in. And then you have a heart, and the Bible calls that word cardia. We get cardiology or cardiac from that Greek word cardia, heart. Every person has a mind and a heart, and they're two different things. I'm not talking about the heart that beats blood. That's a physical heart. I'm talking about the heart that's in your soul, the blindness of their heart. Inside your soul, you have a thinking platform. And when you shut that thinking platform down and you begin to operate strictly on emotions, you will go into what we call a frantic search for happiness. Looking for happiness in all the wrong places. You will go down the my way highway. And if you're typically like most people, you'll be caught in the cosmic vortex. the cosmic vortex is that invisible system that's always spinning around like a tornado and people stick their nose in just to experiment let me just go experiment they say i know i never did this in high school when as long as i was living at home with my parents i never did this but now i'm at college and I don't have any authority over me, so I'm going to try it. And then, boom, they're sucked into the cosmic vortex. And the cosmic vortex will spin them out of control and take them down the road, down the my way highway until their life is completely messed up. There's only one way out, and that's to come to your senses, to confess your sin to God, to admit that you've been wrong, and to seek God's forgiveness. Because the Bible says if we confess our sin, he's faithful and just to forgive us and purify us from all of our wrongdoing. But the scar tissue will still be there unless you replace it. You know, we have to wash our souls with the water of the word. It cleanses us. And so when a person has a lot of scar tissue, they can go and confess their sin to God and get back in fellowship with God. But it's only through the purging of the soul, only through the intake of the Word of God, that they can begin to replace their thought pattern, begin to replace what they think with, so that their heart begins to be beating again in their soul. See, the heart is where you apply the information. The mind is where you receive the information. So you get that information in your mind from your pastor, from your parents, wherever the information comes from. And then you are supposed to apply it into your heart and live by it. And once it's in your heart, it's called wisdom. If it's in your mind, it's not wisdom. It's just knowledge. You know it. You understand it. You comprehend it. But you didn't apply it. So let's assume that you have been given some norms and standards. And let's assume that you violate those norms and standards. You know you shouldn't do that. Your volition, which you have, says let's go, let's go, let's do it, let's do it. And the Holy Spirit, if you are a believer in Jesus Christ, he would scream at you and your soul, no, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it. If you override that, if you say, I don't care what the Bible says, I don't care what God says, I don't care what my parents said, What's important to you is that your friends like you. And so in order to be accepted, you'll do what they want you to do. You're herd bound. You're manipulated. And you're too dumb to even know it's happening. You don't have the guts to be a leader. You're a follower. And you get sucked into the cosmic vortex. You know, when you're young, you're worried about what people think about you. But when you get old, you're going to find out nobody ever thought about you anyhow. They were too busy thinking about their own self. So listen very carefully. You must understand this. Depression, teenage suicide, as I just read to you this letter, it's a real thing. When these acquired flaws get saturated into the life of an individual... and their soul gets covered with scar tissue and they live in darkness. They can't even see what's going on. They don't realize what's happening. And they think the only way out is to get more and more of what got them there to start with. It's like drug addiction. I did the funeral for a young lady who died of drug addiction. And her partner said she got high one time and thought she saw God. And so she took more drugs, bigger doses of drugs to get back to God. See, that was a lie. That was Satan luring her down into the cosmic vortex. You have the ability to destroy yourself with your own arrogance. And that's why Paul said they are past feelings. They don't feel guilt. They don't feel shame. And they betray their own soul into lasciviousness. Ephesians chapter four, verse 19, to produce sin with greed. Can't get enough of it. They love it. experimenting with the things the world offers builds up scar tissue to the point of losing all your norms and standards. The shutdown of all your senses, the convictions that you've had are gone, and you build acquired flaws that will manipulate you and control every decision that you make. And it won't be long. On that my way highway, you will destroy yourself. Arrogance always does this. Arrogance justifies why it's okay to do what's wrong. Arrogance lies to self. Not only does arrogance lie to other people, arrogance lies to self. So in arrogance you will self-justify, self-deceive, and self-absorb. You'll be totally absorbed with whatever it is that you think will make you happy, and the end result is self-destruction. It happens like that every time. That's why sowing a few wild oats is not necessarily a good thing. Satan is waiting for that Christian that wants to sow a few wild oats, because once they step into the devil's world, they'll never step out. Will they die and go to heaven? Yes, they will. They believed in Jesus Christ. They accepted him as their savior. But will they have the life God intended for them? No, they will not. They will be miserable and they will defeat their own soul. They will defeat their own reason for living. They will depress themselves and everyone that loves them and cares for them because they will not be able to get out of it. That's what happens when you build up scar tissue. You may know someone like this today, maybe a grandchild, maybe a child. You can only pray. Pray that God will convince them that they're in sin. Pray that they will see themselves as they are. It may take a tragedy. It may take a disaster. Who knows what it'll take? But maybe somehow or another, the plan of God can be revealed to them and they can realize what it is and recover from their sin while there's still time. Sowing a few wild oats is the second stage in the life of the young person who's trying to figure what it's all about. You did it. I did it. They're doing it now. And all we can do is pray and encourage and be there and try to reveal to them what the plan of God is. Nobody showed it to me. Nobody told me these things. I don't even know if it would have helped. Maybe it would have. I trust it would have because the word of God never comes back void, but it sure would have saved me a lot of misery and a lot of misery of those people that I loved and abused in my life. So I hope you're listening. I hope you're learning. I hope you're paying attention. Going down the My Way Highway is the wrong way. It's a dead end. And sowing a few wild oats has a lot more percussions than what you think it does. Are you learning? Are you listening? Every Sunday, we're here, same time, same place, same station, believing God will provide for this show so you can hear it. I trust you will listen to the God, the Holy Spirit, and I trust you'll make the adjustment in your life. If you need any copies of any of this information, let us know. We'll get you an MP3 just as soon as possible. So until next week when we come back, this is Rick Hughes, host of The Flock Line, saying thank you so much.
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Join Mike Gallagher in this lively episode as he dives into the whirlwind surrounding the Super Bowl weekend and the unprecedented presence of President Trump at the event. In a series of humorous and insightful segments, Mike discusses the backlash from Democrats and analyzes their frantic attempts to protest and rally against Trump's attendance. He zeroes in on the irony and theatrics unfolding within the political sphere, offering his conservative perspective on the current political climate, and inviting listener reactions and insights.
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He's the happy conservative warrior. From the Relief Factor Studios, here's Mike Geller.
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Ah, Super Bowl weekend has arrived. It's a rite of passage. A little unusual this year. It's pretty glorious for the first time ever. The sitting president of the United States is attending. Not everybody's happy about that. You just can't make up. What clowns the Democrats and the left, they're all making of themselves. It's embarrassing. I'm starting to be embarrassed for them. They're flailing about. They're having a terrible time. I saw David Hogg. He's that young kid from Parkland who became one of the vice chairs of the DNC. They elected that kid. to help run the DNC. And he was very proud of a meme he posted on social media last night. Here's what we did today, what Democrats did today, February 26th. You ready what he's bragging about, what they did? Senate Democrats held the floor for 30 hours straight, speaking out against Trump's OMB nominee, Russ Vought, or Vote. Russ Vote was confirmed. The filibuster didn't do anything. We wrote a letter. Nearly 100 House Democrats sent a letter to the acting education secretary demanding transparency on Trump's efforts to dismantle the Department of Education. Oh, did you write a letter, David? Really? Really? Did you talk to the manager, Karen? Did you tell the manager you were unhappy and you're demanding transparency? I mean, they're having a rough, rough time. And sorry, but I kind of love it. I kind of love what we're witnessing, what we're experiencing. Don't you? Brings me to Mike Freeman. I don't know who Mike Freeman is. I've never heard of him. I don't know if he's a USA Today columnist. Maybe, Tracy, you can get his bio, as if I care. What I know is he wrote a column reporting that President Trump is going to the Super Bowl and will therefore ruin one of America's best days. Here's what Mike Freeman writes at USA Today, whoever he is. Ah, the Super Bowl. Families gather to watch the big game. We put aside politics. We put aside differences. It's actually pretty cool. Well, it was because now President Donald Trump is attending the game. The most divisive president of our lifetime is attending a game that often serves as a genuine moment of unity. Trump soils everything. This is not the Babylon Bee. I promise you I'm reading from the actual column. Trump soils everything. Trump wants to go to get attention. but to show dominance over a league that once rejected him. Trump stands for the opposite of everything we love about the Super Bowl. I'm not kidding you. This guy wrote this in a column that is now posted at USA Today. Now, here's the best part of all, and I'm not going to bore you with the four pages of this lunatic's maniacal ravings on the pages of USA Today. I haven't read USA Today in years. I didn't even know they were still around. But here's what he says that really gets to me. There's evidence that Trump has already had a negative impact on the game. For the first time since February of 2021, the signage end racism won't be included as a message in the back of the Super Bowl end zones. So Mike Freeman's super mad. He's big mad about this. This young black writer for USA Today is furious that they're removing the words end racism because since George Floyd, they had end racism in the end zones of the Super Bowl. Well, you know what they've replaced them with? You know what he's big mad about? The league will instead display the messages choose love and it takes all of us. This guy is furious that they're losing the words end racism and replacing it with choose love and it takes all of us. That's making Mike Freeman angry. He says the fact the league made this move at the same time Trump is attending the game could be the greatest coincidence of all time. It looks weird, he says. Just for the record, in parentheses, racism isn't over. I will check my sources, but pretty sure nothing. That's accurate. No, you don't have to worry, Mike Freeman. Racism is alive and well so that race hustlers like you can crank out garbage columns decrying racism. And you can be angry that the NFL is embracing a real message of positivity and unity and love. Literally, the words choose love. And he doesn't like that. The actual words, it takes all of us. He doesn't like that. He wants racism, racism, racism. The country's racist. Trump's rotten. He soils everything. These poor people. You know what you've got to do with people like this guy? Just pray for them. That's all you can do. Not even worth getting angry about. In fact, I'm not angry. I find it comical. It's actually... It's actual comic relief. But in the meantime, let me get your reaction to it all as we enter the big game between Kansas City and Philadelphia. The Chiefs and the Eagles. Happy Friday in the Relief Factor Studios. 800-655-MIKE. One phone call does it all. One phone number does it all. You can call or text. The MyPillow text line is open and humming along. Our call lines are waiting for you. Give me your reaction to at least one American livid, positively enraged that Trump dares to attend the Super Bowl this weekend. 800-655-6453. Hope you join us.
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He's the happy conservative warrior. From the Relief Factor Studios, here's Mike Gellerick.
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I feel like I'm on a search today. I'm looking, I'm like a hunter looking for big game. You know what my big game is? You know what my prize is? Somebody who can explain why the left and the Democrats are livid about Trump. The Trump administration discovering the billions and billions and billions of dollars of wasteful spending. I've got to figure out what they're pretending to be upset about. I know why they're really upset. The jig is up. The con is over. The scam has been exposed. All kinds of politically motivated funds from... Politico, which always wrote hit pieces against Trump and propped up Biden, and then the mainstream media would quote Politico as their source. Politico, it turned out, was getting millions of taxpayer dollars. The BBC, Sesame Street in Iraq, all this crazy, nonsensical stuff. spending, and I cannot for the life of me understand what they are pretending to be mad about when they direct their rage toward Elon Musk. I just want to know at least what they pretend to say. He's not been elected. You can't make that argument with a straight face. You just saw your Democrat nominee go through the process of without being elected. Kamala Harris didn't get one vote. You've got to sit this one out. You've got to sit down on that argument. Sorry, that doesn't work. You don't like the guy because he's from South Africa? I mean, you've got what you call it, goofy AOC saying that he's basically dumb. He's the dumbest billionaire she's ever met. She's a bartender. So I am at a loss as to what these folks are really angry about. And I'm searching and I'm hunting and I want to know. Here's Joe Rogan. Here's a common sense podcaster. I don't know what Joe Rogan's politics are. I think he's kind of a middle-of-the-road guy. I enjoy him. I don't hear him a lot. I know he's got one of the most popular podcasts in the world. I'm loving the podcast space that all of us are in right now. If you go to Salem Podcast Network, you're going to find Laura Trump and Dinesh D'Souza and Charlie Kirk and Mike Gallagher and Chris DeGaulle, and all of us are there, SalemPodcastNetwork.com. It's a brave new world, this podcast space, and this is one of the best and the brightest in that world. Listen to what a common-sense American says about what Elon Musk and Doge have been uncovering.
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You're seeing a politician, a president, who's coming in who can't get reelected. So he's just going ham. And he's just cleaning out everything. And people are freaking out. The same people that say we need radical change. We need radical change. We've got corruption. We need radical change. Okay, well, here's your radical change. We don't need this. But you do. The government does. They need oversight. And they haven't had that. And because of that, you're seeing this not just waste. You can call it waste, but it's deeper. It's deeper than waste. It's corruption. And you're seeing that corruption get weeded out. I am hoping that this is successful and that it yields a benefit to the American people, to the working class people, to everybody, where they recognize, like, hey, we can't just be spending all our... tax money on nonsense, and it all should be done with a real clear understanding of getting results.
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I mean, what does a Democrat say if we accuse them of saying you don't care about wasteful government spending? What would they say to that? I'd like one single person to tell me how one penny of American taxpayer dollars should be spent on Sesame Street in Iraq. This isn't hard. They're out with protest signs. They're out marching around screaming. You've heard all the objections. What are they objecting to? Look, I understand there are policies that we can have a debate about. We can debate the buyout that Trump is doing with federal employees. We can debate ending birthright citizenship. That's okay. I mean, I believe in it. I know exactly why Trump is doing it, and I can support it, but I can respect the fact that you may not. That's okay. So tell me what it is when Trump has uncovered billions and billions and billions of dollars ranging from subscriptions to Politico to funding, helping to fund the BBC to operas in Paraguay, whatever it is. What are you objecting to? If you're a Democrat, aren't you glad that that this administration has uncovered wasteful spending? 800-655-MIKE. One open line. Welcome in. It's Friday. We made it. Thanks to all the love and prayers I got for my MRI, the results are already in. So good news, I think. I don't know what this means. No tumors. I've been having this lightheadedness and some dizzy spells. And we did an MRI yesterday, which is no fun. I didn't anticipate the Hannibal Lecter helmet that they made me wear as they slid me into that narrow crevice, that tiny little tube with the music playing and the loud banging. But, you know, I'm a big baby. What can I say? No tumors, but minor circulation issues in my brain. Maybe that's why I am the way I am. See, you can't get mad at me today. If we disagree on anything, I've got minor circulation problems. What in the world does that mean? I wonder what a minor circulation problem means in my brain. I'm going to quickly Google, because I'm Dr. Google. Anything I think I have, I look up on the Internet, and then I'm convinced I'm dying. So I may not make it through the show, because maybe minor circulation issues in my brain are going to lead to something major. I'm going to go see my good doctor next week to get a rundown of what all that means. But no tumors. That's the good part. Nothing really bad. I'm hoping everybody has minor circulation issues. But I think some of these Democrats have major circulation issues in the brain. What else explains this? Maybe you can. Here in the Relief Factor Studios, 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. Join us.
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Can you please stop f***ing trotting Schumer out there? What is the decision-making process here? I don't know. How about Schumer? He's uninteresting, but at least he's monotone. Oh, wait. And Chuck, before you go out there, you look too young. Put on these readers and lower them on your nose.
SPEAKER 15 :
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SPEAKER 16 :
Oh, I've done it now. Opened up a can of worms with all this medical stuff. Florida, Mike, maybe it's the one teaspoon of plastic that a lot of us have in our brains that's causing your problems. Look, I heard Tara this morning in South Carolina. Tara did a whole thing about how people with Alzheimer's, they're finding out that there's more plastic in our brains than ever before. I blame it. Maybe that's my problem. Maybe I got plastic. Maybe I got plastic on the brain, leading to my poor circulation. All the doctors said, because he was going in from one appointment to the other, I said, look, I'm on the air. I'm falling apart. I need to know if I'm going to die of a brain tumor tomorrow. Will I make it through the week? He laughed. Can you imagine being my doctor? This guy needs hazard pay. I mean, not that I don't pay them a lot. They have this fancy concierge medicine. But good old Dr. Chan, he's right there with me every step of the way. And he said to me, Mike, look, you've got some minor circulation issues, but no tumors. California says, you've got to consider quitting all caffeine or coffee. Well, I don't drink any coffee, but please don't deprive me of my Diet Coke. And that's what Tracy's yelling at. I guarantee you, my kids are the same. Dad, you've got to stop the Diet Cokes. Can I just have a little bit of enjoyment in my life? Finally from Philly, sounds like you need a craniosacral massage. Try it once and you'll be hooked. Oh, I've had those. I am hooked. That's what I need. All right, let's go back to it now. Listen, I've got some breaking news. This is hysterical. Moments ago, A cadre of Democrats, a gaggle of demons, led by Maxine Waters, attempted to storm the Department of Education. Now, it's a huge building. Have you ever been to Washington, D.C. and seen the Department of Education building? It's such a bloated bureaucracy. And Trump is saying, look, we don't need a federal Department of Education. Let the states run education. The states handle it. You've got school boards. You've got state control. We do not need the gazillion dollar Department of Education. So now Democrats are freaking out about that. They're like buzzing from one crisis to another trying to put out as many fires as they can. And none of it's working. None of it's working. Steve Bannon had a great, you know, he's got a great theme. Flood the zone. Trump is flooding the zone. David Hogg, the kid from Parkland, the school shooting, he was elected one of the DNC vice chairs. He actually posted on social media last night what Democrats did today. One, Senate Democrats held the floor for 30 hours straight. speaking out against Trump's Office of Management and Budget nominee, Russ Vogt. Well, he got confirmed. So that went nowhere, David. Nice try. Here's a biggie. You want to know what Democrats did yesterday? They wrote a letter. David Hogg is bragging about how nearly 100 House Democrats sent a letter to the acting education secretary demanding transparency on Trump's efforts to dismantle the Department of Education. Really? Did you write a letter, David? Did they write nearly 100 and a letter? So, hey, Karen, you wrote the manager? And you said you're upset? You want transparency from the manager? Sure. No! I mean, that's epic. You're writing letters. Way to go, Democrats. You're getting it done. And now today, they stormed the education building, the Department of Education building, led by Auntie Maxine. I hope the guy with the cane is around, swinging the cane around like a wild man. Is Al Green there with the gold cane? Let's take a look and a listen. If you're watching on Salem News Channel, we're also live streaming on X Today, at Gallagher's show. You can see this video as well as hear it on your favorite radio station. Storm, storm the Department of Education building.
SPEAKER 03 :
And the kids deserve to have us go in and fight for them. This is appalling. The children of this country deserve that battle.
SPEAKER 06 :
This is a public institution.
SPEAKER 05 :
This is not Russia.
SPEAKER 06 :
Let the camera see him.
SPEAKER 05 :
Let the camera see him. Who is he? This man here. We are members of Congress. Come in. They're blocking us. I want you to see this man here, who is a federal employee, he told us. No, he's not. He's not. Are you a federal employee? No. Huh?
SPEAKER 10 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, he said he's a federal employee. We pay him. We raise money to make sure that we have a Department of Education. Everybody that's hired at the Department of Education are here because we pay for them to be here. He's standing here today blocking the door, and he can't give us a good reason why he's blocking this door.
SPEAKER 17 :
you see right here, all access entrance.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, and I think it should be clear to parents in the United States, if you want to advocate on behalf of your children, you are not allowed to come into this building where you pay taxes. Parents who have children who are disabled, Access is being blocked. You voted. You voted for members of Congress to advocate on behalf of your children, children with disabilities, for young women who have been victims of sexual assault in our classrooms, on our school grounds. Members of OCR are fighting for your children. We are not allowed in the building to talk to them. We are not allowed to advocate on behalf of America's children. America, we have a problem.
SPEAKER 16 :
Oh, boy. Yep, America, we have a problem, all right. Democrats are big mad. They are bigly mad. Oh, man, this is too much. I'm having too much fun. Thank goodness I don't have a tumor. Thank goodness it's just minor brain circulation problems, because I wouldn't want to miss any of this. My goodness. And they think they're doing something. It's like David Hogg. What Democrats did today. We wrote a letter. We wrote a letter. We're mad. And we're not going to take it anymore. They've lost. They're losing. They're losing big time. And incidentally, over at Breitbart, some insane stuff to be found on AtDataRepublican's site. It's worth a follow. There's something called the National Democratic Institute. It's got characters like Tom Daschle, Stacey Abrams, Donna Brazile, Michael McFaul, and Randy Weingarten, the head of the Powerful Teachers Union, on its board. The National Democratic Institute received $167 million in government grants. $81.7 million of that went to employee compensation. Fifteen officers received compensation between $178,000 and $344,000 for a total of $2.8 million. $4.1 million on office expenses. $13.7 million on travel, $4.2 million on conferences, conventions, and meetings. Its mission statement, are you ready for this? To work in partnership around the world to strengthen and safeguard democratic institutions... processes, norms, and values to secure a better quality of life for all. Wow. Hugo's in St. Petersburg, Florida. How you doing, Hugo?
SPEAKER 13 :
I'm all right. I'm all right.
SPEAKER 16 :
Good.
SPEAKER 13 :
What's up? Go, go. I would just call it they're running out of bullets. They're being cornered. That's that's the old problem they got. They always look for an excuse to to make drama. But they're they're.
SPEAKER 16 :
They don't have nowhere to go. I mean, they're like cornered, wounded animals. They're just, they've got, their backs are against the wall. I mean, this stunt of showing up at the Department of Education, and that poor guy, you should have seen him standing there with his arms folded. He's got his glasses up on the top of his head. He's like, you're not getting in. They're just, they got nowhere to go. Marianne in Chicagoland. Hey, Marianne, how are you? Welcome back.
SPEAKER 11 :
Hi, Mike. Thank you for taking my call. You know, I was having a conversation with some of my Democrat friends, and I do have friends that are Democrats. Me too. And somebody said, oh, my gosh, can you believe what's going on? They're shutting down AID. People are dying. And I looked at them. Sometimes I can't help myself. And I just said, it's only been two days. Nobody's dying. This is not going to last.
SPEAKER 16 :
People are dying. I mean, and look, I know that USAID does some good. They do. ship a lot of essentials and food. But guess what? If you're on the one hand doing some good and you're also ripping off the taxpayers and stealing from us to the tune of billions of dollars, you've got to shut it down. Find another way for us to be generous and kind and giving to some of these poor nations. But why wouldn't Democrats be glad that we've rooted out in just two short weeks all this corruption? Bob's in Wisconsin. Hey, Bob.
SPEAKER 17 :
Hey, Mike.
SPEAKER 16 :
How are you?
SPEAKER 17 :
Thanks for taking my call. Godspeed on your health, my friend. Thank you. Oh, I'm doing great. Maxine Waters, please keep it up. You're doing wonderful. I love the circus music in the background. That's fantastic. Just keep it up. That's fantastic. But I have a quick question and a comment. The question is, is this money already out the door, this wasteful spending that they found? Are we going to get this money to stop it from going out the door?
SPEAKER 16 :
Oh, that's a great question, Bob. And the other part of it that's so important is this. The other big problem is, why wasn't this caught until now? Which is even more reason to appreciate the Trump administration... like never before. I mean, there weren't any other administrations that could have uncovered this waste. And here's the best part of all. They've got no defense. They've got no excuse. Wait till you hear the way Matt Vespa characterizes this over at townhall.com. Politico's response to the allegations that USAID wasn't shoveling a bunch of money into their coffers, their response was a complete and total disaster. Hey, we having fun yet? Welcome in. The Democrats are big time mad. And it doesn't sound like there's anything they can do about it.
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Everybody sing along. Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Fallujah Street? See, I can get away with that. I can say, we can call Sesame Street Fallujah Street. Now that's, that's, I think we can get away with that. Oh, boy. You know, there's a lot of normal, common-sense Americans who just scratch their heads at the antics of the Democrats. Joe Rogan, a real popular podcaster, and he was talking to, I don't know who his sidekick is. I don't listen enough to be all that familiar, but I know how popular he is. And he's a guy that, he was a Bernie bro. He wasn't a Trump supporter. And he is loving everything he's seen coming out of the Trump administration. And I saw a segment last night on social media that I thought we had to bleep a couple of the bad words, but it's worth a listen. Listen to a common sense podcaster like Joe Rogan. taking in the Democrat meltdown over the way Trump's doge has uncovered the billions and billions of dollars of wasteful spending.
SPEAKER 18 :
Elon's six wizards, they brought in some young wizards to go in there and go over the books, and they are just finding crazy. It's great, and it's so interesting. I was listening to a left-wing podcast today. I like to mix it up. I listen to all kinds of different stuff, and it was like I was listening to a different world. They weren't even talking about all of this corruption and all this obvious buying of influence. Instead, they were talking about aid overseas and how people are going to starve.
SPEAKER 02 :
It's mind-boggling, and there's also... I have to say, I'm just I'm upset at the general pattern of a failure to recognize how right those of us who hypothesized that there was a racket that had overtaken our entire governance structure. We turn out to be absolutely right about this and no one's going to mention it. That's mind-blowing.
SPEAKER 18 :
It's very strange that the media is ignoring it, especially the left-wing media. It's just too big of a win for the right, and so they're just ignoring it. And then they're just highlighting the good things that USA did, which I'm sure it probably did. It probably had to do some good things to at least justify its existence.
SPEAKER 02 :
As a cover story? I'm not even sure. Maybe it doesn't change anything. Obviously, this was a mechanism used to funnel money to all sorts of things that... We didn't vote on that don't make sense in light of our constitutional structure. And I'm, you know, I obviously have concerns like everybody else about where this train takes us. But seeing that structure broken up is it's a huge relief.
SPEAKER 18 :
They gave twenty seven million dollars to the George Soros prosecutor fund. So our own government. is funding this left-wing lunatic who is hiring the most insane prosecutors who are letting people out of jail who commit violent crimes.
SPEAKER 02 :
And that's exactly how this racket worked, is that the ability to tax the American public and then effectively get us to pay for being propagandized, for being surveilled, that's the game. I don't know what era we currently live in. Obviously, there's a lot that's confusing about what the Trump administration is up to. But I don't think any reasonable person could be unhappy that we are exiting that era.
SPEAKER 18 :
I'm going to read off some of the things that this guy, Ken Akoda, the great on Twitter listed. And this is off the Jesse Watershow USAID. $20 million for Iraqi Sesame Street. $2 million for Moroccan pottery classes. $11 million to tell Vietnam to stop burning trash. $27 million to give gift bags to illegals. $27 million. $330 million to help Afghanis grow crops. Crops. I wonder what those crops are. What's their biggest crop, Brett? It's going to be the poppy seeds for bagels, I'm thinking.
SPEAKER 02 :
Opium!
SPEAKER 18 :
$200 million on an unused Afghani dam. $250 million on an unused Afghani road. This is wild. I mean some of this stuff is really, really crazy.
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, yes. And, you know, USAID is, of course, riddled through whatever international madness it is that caused us to open our southern border and facilitate an invasion through the Darien Gap. So, you know, seeing that structure laid bare is it almost feels like it can't be real, like it can't have been this close to the surface. And yet here we are.
SPEAKER 18 :
They were spending, is this number correct? I think the number that I read was $600 million every two months to ship in illegals.
SPEAKER 02 :
Sounds right. I don't know the number offhand, but... What the... Well, you have to realize that basically we had a shadow apparatus functioning, and it involves all kinds of things. It involves payoffs to people who didn't deserve them. It involves contracting to entities that were necessary to get the work done. So I don't think we can properly understand what these numbers mean and what they're actually being used for, but it was a racket.
SPEAKER 18 :
But we were always wondering, like, why is our debt so high? Why is the national debt so high? Like, why is our deficit so insane? Well, this is it.
SPEAKER 16 :
So there's a couple of common sense guys on a podcast. Incidentally, that's Professor Burt Weinstein. He's the guy who called out his school's black only day crap. And he got Joe Rogan's attention. And he's since become, I think, a regular contributor. But look, this has been a very bad week for the Democrats. Very good week for MAGA. Very good week for the Trump administration. A very good week for those of us who fought so hard to get to this outcome. We're getting accountability. There is transparency. There is efficiency. And it's going to be a lot different this time. A lot of text messages coming in on the MyPillow text line. West Virginia, Mike, if you look at Maxine, she looks like a Muppet. Not a cute Muppet, but an evil Muppet. Arkansas, well now, Maxine and the Democrats are upset that they can't get into the building. I remember when the parents were not allowed to speak their minds at school board meetings and they got arrested. And then, of course, some nice comments about the good news from my MRI. Mike is from Florida, wondering if you hang yourself upside down, will that help your brain circulation? I'll be like a giant bat. I'll be like a big bat. oversized vampire, I'll hang upside down by my feet. And finally, the most important text of all, You're always blessed by God. Thank you, Brooklyn, New York. You're right. You're absolutely right. Reminds me of our buddy Mike Lindell, the cross that he wears around his neck, available right now at MyPillow.com. If you go to the Mike Gallagher Special Square, click on that box. Anything you order, be sure to enter the promo code MikeG. And I don't want to leave you on a Friday without reminding you how you could make it a MyPillow Friday. MyPillow is thrilled to announce they're having their first ever mega sale on overstock clearance and brand new products, too, including the best-selling standard MyPillow, which you can get for only $14.98. Yep, the MyCross necklace, the same cross that Mike has worn for years, always available as well. Made in the USA, too. Go to MyPillow.com. Look for that Mike Gallagher specials. Click on that box. With anything you order, enter the promo code MikeG. MyPillow.com, promo code MikeG. MyPillow.com, promo code MikeG. Or call 800-928-6034. 800-928-6034. MyPillow. mike gallagher every day mike visits with mark davis morning host on 6 60 a.m the answer in dallas here's today's eminem experience all right well let's let's dive in to i i want you to your your when you get your little voice box out that i gave you as a gift a few years ago and you play bubba and you and but but this isn't a bubba thing this is a different kind of a play when someone when someone calls you No, this is I want you to be a progressive. OK, I want you to seriously be a leftist. And I want you to tell me why you object to the Trump administration discovering wasteful spending. What is it exactly that you're enraged about? What precisely is it that you're mad about? What is it that they're flipping out about, Mark? Look, you mentioned the policy things about birthright citizenship. I get that. Look, we can have a fight about that. I get the policy issues of even the payout, the buyout for the CIA and the justices. Okay, let's have that. But how can we be arguing about uncovering billions and billions of dollars of fraud, of money that they've taken from us to do transgender operas in Paraguay? Why in the world is the left angry about what we've found with USAID and the federal government's Slush fund. Can you give me an answer?
SPEAKER 04 :
It's pressure on the fly. Go to the phones, Mike, and ask for Biff from Manhattan.
SPEAKER 16 :
Biff from Manhattan, from the Upper West Side, of course. He's got to be on the Upper West Side. Biff, you're on, Upper West Side, Manhattan. You're on with Mike and Mark.
SPEAKER 03 :
I really love what you do every day, but I have to tell you, what Trump is doing I mean all this USAID stuff and trying to stop it's democracy is dying Mike before our very eyes and I don't know why you're so blind to it I mean democracy is dying on the vine the guy is Hitler and why can't you see this and he hates black people and he hates women he absolutely hates women Mike can you give me one thing that Trump has done this week that's like good for women I dare you
SPEAKER 16 :
See, that's – well, as a matter of fact, I can think of one that he did for women. But, Mark, that's true. That's their answer. They don't have any – what could their – It's diversion.
SPEAKER 04 :
It's all diversion. By the way, I borrowed from Jasmine Crockett there, who I just need to stop talking about. There is great wisdom in knowing whom to ignore, and she's just about on that list. And so because of, you know, not letting trans women play and it's so insane. It is the whole thing, of course, with the women.
SPEAKER 16 :
She's garbage. She's garbage. She's trash. She's a trashy, trashy woman.
SPEAKER 04 :
All the noise, all the protests, they're not talking about all the Elon's the devil. Really? Why? Why? It's real accountability. They're terrified of it.
SPEAKER 16 :
All right, but let me try. I'm trying to play devil's advocate here to understand what it is they're objecting to. Okay, they don't like a civilian with his whiz kids having access to government files. Okay, all right, well, all right. But if what they found... is is is completely unacceptable waste of our money why aren't you on board with that you notice all the complaining and they and they are howling at the moon they're screaming they're never saying that they're not talking about the merits of what elon is finding they're not saying well yeah there's the millions that they're they're not denying in other words that he's unelected
SPEAKER 04 :
or he's the real president now or whatever. He's under the direction of the president. No, we didn't elect Elon, but we didn't elect any of the scoundrels that Biden tasked with doing various untoward things.
SPEAKER 16 :
But they have to have some ostensible reason for it, Mark. No, they don't. Do they want government waste? Yes. Is that what they do?
SPEAKER 04 :
You know the answers to this. Why do they whine about the Lake and Riley Act? Why do they whine about anything that gets tough on the borders? Because they want unfettered illegal immigrations So these folks could be normalized, legalized, naturalized, and then energized for loyal Democrat votes for decades. But now do that with wasteful government spending.
SPEAKER 16 :
They want wasteful government spending?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes. Why? Why? A huge expansionist collectivist government means power. Power for the Democratic Party and money equals power. So when you have look at all the things that you so skillfully outlined that USAID was doing, all of that is money and power and influence and jobs for people who share their worldview. A huge government is power and money, two of the biggest aphrodisiacs in the world.
SPEAKER 16 :
And the reason it's such a huge scandal, as reporter Michael Schellenberger has unveiled, the CIA and USAID money was behind one of the Trump impeachments, the 2019 Trump impeachment. I mean, this is a gigantic scandal of epic proportion. They were using funds to stop Trump and the funding to Politico. Oh, their big defense was, well, it wasn't really funding. It was for $75,000 subscriptions. Oh, really? So, of course, if the government is spending millions with Politico, Politico doesn't write any bad pieces about the Biden administration. This is election interference. It's horrific. And meanwhile, speaking of horrific, Super Bowl weekend. Have you ever heard of Mike Freeman at USA Today? I have not. Okay, me either. Saw a picture of him, nice-looking black guy for USA Today. Headline, Donald Trump is going to the Super Bowl and ruining one of America's best days. Oh, no. Oh, yeah. He writes, you were supposed to put aside politics. The fact that Trump will be at the Super Bowl, he soils everything. He's doing this to the biggest game. He already had a negative impact, writes activist, and I found out he is an activist, columnist. He writes that Trump, there's evidence he's already had a negative impact on the game. You know what the negative impact is? The Athletic first reported that for the first time since February of 2021, the signage and racism won't be included as a message in the back of the Super Bowl end zone.
SPEAKER 04 :
We will still have, it takes all of us and something else. And choose love. Choose love, exactly. Oh, that's awful.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yep. Oh, what a negative impact.
SPEAKER 04 :
Let's have choose love. Matt Walsh the other day said, how will we know not to end? Surely everyone will now become racist again because end racism is not in the end zone anymore. I think it's great. Did you believe this? The first president to ever go to a Super Bowl? I think that's right. There's never been a sitting president who's thrilled that he's there. Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelsey. who said, this is an honor to have him there.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, it's a sitting U.S. president, and here's this pipsqueak columnist complaining that we're going to replace the sign and racism with choose love, and it takes all of us. Well, that's a terrible message to be took. Boy, that's a real negative impact. Choose love is negative. But these are what the race hustlers and the jazz groups.
SPEAKER 04 :
I'm all in for the cheats. are America's team until the Cowboys can sniff it within something that resembles quality again. The Chiefs are America's team. I love Andy Reid. I love Patrick Mahomes. I love it. Chiefs, Chiefs, Chiefs. Three-peat.
SPEAKER 16 :
And you know why I'm with the Chiefs? I think they're MAGA. I really do. I think Mahomes is definitely his wife.
SPEAKER 04 :
Let's have Harrison Butker totally MAGA kick a game-winning field goal, which I think is going to be a good game. I think it's going to be close, and it might come down to a Harrison Butker field goal, and that would be awesome.
SPEAKER 16 :
I don't think the Eagles are MAGA. I don't know. I don't know. No, no, no, no, no, no. They are about booing Santa Claus and throwing snowballs at people with batteries inside of them. No, yeah, I'm all Chiefs, too.
SPEAKER 04 :
Let's go, Chiefs.
SPEAKER 16 :
We'll see you Monday. We'll find out. I love you.
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In this episode of Fix It Radio, we delve into the complex world of home repair services. Our host shares a cautionary tale of a listener who faced a nightmare with a so-called 'phantom fixer', emphasizing the importance of vetting contractors and seeking multiple bids before committing to a project. We explore the nuances of Google reviews and how to read between the lines to ensure you're making a safe choice in home service providers.
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And it is Fix It Radio, Saturday morning, KLZ 560. It is a live program, January the 25th. If you're listening to a replay, hopefully the weather will be better then than it is now. And I'm not saying it's super bad weather out right now. It's snowing lightly. It's going to snow most of the day today. But I will tell you just quickly, if you don't have to get out in this, don't and i mean that sincerely i don't typically say that because normally you know roads aren't bad once you get out of your little area you can zip around it's not a big deal but unless they've changed things dramatically in about the last hour and a half i will tell you that the majority of the highways anyways are not in great shape in fact on my way down this morning There were two plow trucks on 225, two CDOT plow trucks on 225 that were over on the side of the road looking like they were having mechanical issues, meaning those two plows weren't running. There was a RTD bus that had to be repaired. It was over on the side of the road as well. And it was like, well, this is not a good day for our state and regional businesses. transportation district and the reality is most of the highways at least as of about 7 30 this morning had not been plowed and again not that you couldn't get around the problem is for those individuals that don't drive very well in the snow and we have a lot of transplants in colorado now It makes it really dicey because, and I'm not trying to be rude here, but those folks, unfortunately, are just in the way and making it really difficult for everybody else because when you get two or three of them side by side that can't drive and that are doing about 15 miles an hour on the highway, it tends to make things really bad for everybody else that are around them because now you've got knuckleheads trying to speed around them, and it was a disaster this morning. I'll just say it. I'll say it straight up. Normally not that way. You guys normally don't hear me complain about things along those lines, but this morning it was literally an utter disaster as far as the traffic end of things go and traveling around. So if you don't have to get out until things are a little bit more caught up by the local agencies, PLOWS, CDOT, you know, so on, state agencies, don't. Sleep in, have a cup of coffee, listen to us. We'll do this plus drive radio following up. And if you want to hang out with us for a while, you are more than welcome to. That's why we're here. So, yeah, if you don't have to get out and about in this. And I know this replays again on Tuesdays from 2 to 3. It'll be a totally different situation then. And we appreciate you listening on Tuesday as well. Thank you very much. I want to start off today because... This was something that I think one of you as listeners had sent me. In fact, I know it was. This came through on the text line. And that was an article on Nine News. I want to spend a little bit of time on this because a lot of people are looking for people to help them with things around the house. Now, we talk about a lot of things around the house on this program. That's why it's called Fix It Radio. I do my best to help walk you guys through different things that you can do on your own. But sometimes there's things that are beyond what we can do. And that's true for all of us. I call it waving that white flag of surrender when it's something you can't do any longer and you've got to have some help. In the case of this particular article, it has to do with a replacement furnace. And this article on 9 News is really talking about be careful of what the Google reviews say that you're reading because in this particular case, this individual went out, looked at you know basically typed in probably google maps or in google itself furnace replacement near me something like that and a company came up had lots of great reviews and he went ahead and went with that particular company And by the way, this is one of those where if it's that large of an item, get two bids. Get two opinions on what's going on. And my daily sponsor during the week, Cub Creek, those guys are well-known for doing second opinions and things along those lines, and it's a great company, very honest, and I highly recommend them. And if this particular person had done that, they wouldn't be in the predicament that they ended up in. So they went ahead and went with this company, which they call this Phantom Fixers. In other words, the person or the company that this particular individual hired was more like an HVAC broker. In other words, they don't do the work themselves. They put out a bid, if you would, on places like, and I'm not joking, Craigslist. where they're looking for people that will come in and do a particular job. So in their case, they may, let's just say, for example, they sell 100 furnace jobs throughout the year. They are never installing one single furnace. They are simply brokering the install of those 100 furnaces. So you're dealing with that company. but they're dealing with, in this case, maybe 25 or 50 other individuals and or companies that are actually doing the work. They never touch the furnace. They never come inside your home. All you're doing is handling your transaction with that particular party. They're doing nothing when it comes to the work itself or the quality control after or the warranty or anything else. So in this particular case, This particular gentleman hired this phantom fixer, I guess we could call it, Company A. And by the time he was done, he had spent $7,000. It took several weeks, not days, weeks to get the furnace installed. And by the time it was done, it was a mess. In other words, whoever did the work was underqualified to do so. Most likely didn't pull a permit, which you need to do because you're working with gas lines and things along those lines. None of that took place, and by the time he was done, he had to have another HVAC company come in and patch up as best could be done the previous work without completely redoing everything because it was such a mess when this particular installer had finished that it was a disaster. And by the way, the 7K, I would tell you, I don't think is any kind of a deal. It's not like you got a huge discount. And you can see why, because company A is literally hiring somebody else that they're then paying, and then they're charging you, and they're taking their cut. So in that case, you're always going to pay more money and get less quality. In my world, where we do property maintenance and things like that, We call these particular, in this case a phantom fixer, we call these third-party providers. So very much the same in my world. A lot of the nationally known companies that are out there, property owners, they will hire one national company to take care of all of their maintenance. thinking they're going to somehow save money in doing so. Again, keyword, thinking they're going to save money. They're doing exactly what this phantom fixer with this particular furnace for this gentleman does. They then go out, and in particular areas all across the country, they find companies, subs if you would, to do the work that they're going to bill that national company for, no matter what it is. Asphalt maintenance, asphalt repair, striping, landscaping, snow removal, you name it. And keep in mind, they're trying to get the best deal possible from that company that they're getting the services from because they're upcharging it, of course, because they have to to stay in business. And then at the end of the day, the national company, call it whatever you want, the big W, because they're one of those that does this. They, at the end of the day, think they're saving money. They think they're saving money because they're paying one company versus hundreds across the country, or in some cases, a thousand. But really, at the end of the day, for the little bit of processing and how all of that can be automated today, especially with AI and other things, they're not saving anything. They're spending more money. Again, because everything is getting marked up to them in the end. They'd be better off going out and finding their own providers, let their own store managers handle that. So anyways, long story short, this is very well known in certain industries like mine. And it sounds like now it's making its way into other things. So my point on Fix It Radio this morning, and if you're listening on Tuesday, is when you go and hire somebody, number one, talk to me first. We have enough connections on most everything that needs done that I can pretty much steer you in the right direction where you don't have to really go out there and Google anything. If you do find yourself, because you're out of our area, maybe you're somebody listening down in Texas, Oklahoma, across the country, Montana, New Jersey, Florida. I mean, we've got listeners now pretty much all across the country. Minnesota, I can go down the list. If you find yourself in one of those areas, be really careful when you Google and read the reviews. Because this is something that Google is trying to crack down on. And that is the fake reviews that are out there. They're trying to legitimize each review. But keep in mind, that's a big project as well. It's really hard to determine who's legitimate and who's not. in these particular companies are masters at figuring out how to avoid all of the things that google sets out as as deterrence from having false reviews keep in mind this is what they do this is what they're good at so in turn They then become the middleman. They've got all these great reviews, but at the end of the day, the majority of those are false, and they can't deliver on the products and the promises that they're promising up front. And I didn't know this. I didn't know these things existed in this world until I read this particular article. But what's happening in my world is now going to happen, it sounds like, in a lot of places. And don't be surprised if it doesn't happen with plumbing and electrical and, and, and we go. Tree trimming, pesticide spraying, etc. Handyman, even. So be careful. If you have any questions on who you should hire for a particular job, please let me know first. We're always here to help with that. I do the same thing for the car end of things on Drive Radio. I'm very happy to do it here for Fix-It Radio. And if there's something that I don't have access to, I can at least typically tell you who to call first. or who to contact that would know how to handle a particular situation, and then off we go. I had an example of that with Drive Radio this past week where I had somebody out of the area wanting to know where to find such and such, and I said, you know, I don't know, but I know who in that area does call this person. And typically I can do that in a lot of different areas. So be really careful on Googling things and doing the Internet search and then looking at those companies. And the other thing I would tell you, because I had this conversation with a listener through the text line a couple of weeks ago, some of our local, what I would call very well-known HVAC electrical plumbers and so on. Let me just say something. When you see them having the ability to run lots of TV commercials and even advertise at ball games and so on, those things don't happen for free. Meaning, I'm not saying that just because they're running a TV ad that they're ripping off the public, but what I'm saying is, typically speaking, If it's them as an individual company, not some kind of a co-op buy where there's lots of franchises and so on participating in that particular buy, what I will tell you is if they're making that kind of money, that kind of profit, then enable them to do that kind of advertising, I would probably not use them. Sorry, I'm just gonna be straight up front about that. I would not use them. Why? Because you have to make enough profit to pay for that in the first place. And yes, we're advertisers here. I mean, we help advertisers, I guess I should say, but there's a big difference between the folks that you hear spending money with us during the week and or with me on the weekends versus somebody having a big ad buy on one of your local news stations during the news itself and or running big billboards and they're across the electronic signs at any of our stadiums in town. Let me just say that because I know what those numbers are like. And let me tell you, they are far, far, far larger than what people here with us are doing. And when I say far larger, I mean, I can tell you, you could add multiple zeros onto the end of what they do with us versus what they're doing in those other areas. And some of you would say, well, John, how do you know all that? Guys, I've been in business for 40 years in this town. And even I, as an owner back in the day, did some of those things thinking, well, maybe this is a good way to advertise and so on. And I've tried just about every single form of advertising in this town you can think of, even collectively where we've got, you know, one time there was, you know, 40, 50 repair shops that that I was affiliated with, where we would go out and do big ad buys on different things, TV spots, TV shows. Bus signs, billboards, you name it. I know what those dollars are like, and I know that in that particular case, when you've got 40 or 50 people paying for it, yeah, now it becomes fairly palatable and you can make those things happen. But in single individual company, and I won't name names because I'm not going to do that to anybody on air, but when you can look around and see what those particular advertisers are doing, And when you know that they're just a local HVAC slash plumbing and electric company, and they can run big billboards at some of our stadiums and run halftime specials and things along those lines, that stuff doesn't happen for free, and you as a customer are paying for it. And again, that's not to dog anybody by any means. What I'm saying, though, is if you think you're going to get your best deal from those folks, you're not. I can tell you that straight up. You're not. They have to have the ability to pay for those things or they wouldn't keep doing that advertisement. So be careful. Again, watch your Google reviews. Ask around. We're a great resource on that end of things to ask about certain individuals and certain companies and certain things that you might need around the house. And we typically have great resources for those things, even if they're not advertisers of mine, even on a Saturday morning. I can still help you with a lot of those things. And this was a great lesson. And thank you, whoever sent me this, because I had no idea that these, you know, quote unquote, phantom fixers or third party providers were entering into the trades like they are. but it sounds like well it's not sounding like they are this is a story about somebody locally that this happened to and it ended up costing them dearly and in the end had a inferior product installed when it was all said and done and to take all of that out and redo it would have been super expensive and little to no recourse in this particular situation because of what happened so be really careful make sure you study who you're going to be using Ask for referrals, especially if you're going to spend big dollars, $5,000, $6,000, $10,000. You're going to replace a furnace or an AC unit or things along those lines. Ask for referrals and make sure that you know what's going on on the front side so you don't get caught behind the eight ball like this particular individual here locally did. All right, I've got more to cover here in a moment. We're going to talk about things not to do to your house, by the way, that at the end of the day won't enable you to make more money on your home if, in fact, you go to sell your house. We'll get into that here in just one moment. Don't forget our website, fixitradio.com. We'll be right back. KLZ 560.
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You know, on all of that that I just talked about a moment ago, Charlie and I were talking through the break, and my wife even chimed in. This is why on big things, and my sponsors, by the way, will tell you this. They have no problem telling you, go get three bids. In fact, I've got some sponsors during the week that would highly recommend you do that. And even if you've got a couple of bids, call them for a second one, a third one, whatever. My door and window guy, Dave from Veterans, he will tell you, go get more bids. Go see where I'm at. I'll stand behind my prices and my service all day long. Go see if you can match this with someone else. So those are the type of individuals I deal with, and they will be the first to tell you, go get multiple bids. All my shops on drive radio. If you feel like you don't like their diagnosis or what they're saying, go get another bid. They have no problem with that whatsoever. So on big purchases, I highly, highly, highly recommend that you go out and get multiple bids for the things that you're doing. Do not go with that first person. it will most likely cost you more money when you do that. So is this Joe? Joe, you're next. Go ahead.
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Yes, John, can you hear me?
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Yeah, I can.
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Go ahead, Joe. John, just a word of caution to your listeners for minor repairs. Obviously, in the automotive industry, they've been doing flat rate by the hour. They break job. They've got a book number so many hours, and they charge you. And even if the book said six hours and they do it in three, you still get charged for the six. Well, a lot of plumbing companies have gone to flat rate, which is X dollars. If you want to, say, replace a bathroom faucet set, they've got a fixed charge, like $175, not including the cost of the faucets, by the way.
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Right.
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But I was out of town one time, and my wife called a company at a Castle Rock, and she thought it was going to be by the hour. Well, the guy was there for about 20 minutes to change out a set of bathroom faucets. And not only was it a $175 flat rate for the labor, which didn't include the material because he had already bought the faucets, they also tacked on a $75 trip charge.
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Right.
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So it was a $250 charge for, okay, the guy spent 10 minutes getting there and 10 minutes back and 20 minutes. So the guy, for 45 minutes, we paid $250 for... what would have been 45 minutes worth of labor, including his round-trip travel. So if you're going to have a small repair, you want to ask ahead of time, do you charge by the hour or is it flat rate? And if it's flat rate, is there a trip charge on top of the flat rate? You can get a really ugly surprise if you don't know it's going to be flat rate.
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Joe, to your point, make sure you're asking all of those things. On the front side, I had a listener just a minute ago text in that says, you know, start with some of the people in your church. They're usually good references. Now, what I will say is maybe for who to call, but just because they're a business and they go to your church doesn't mean I'm going to use them, Joe. Sometimes I'm not going to use them for that reason.
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Yeah, I mean, they may do good work, and, you know, they do good warranty work, but, you know, their pricing, you know, can be totally outrageous. And, you know, I finally found a good plumber down in the Castle Rock area, and I would either, sometimes I would want a fixed price, like how much did you replace my leaking water heater? And, you know, and he would, you know, quote me so much for the water heater and a fixed price for the labor, and I would say, okay. And I would agree to that fixed price for a big job like that. But if you're calling up, I had one guy come to replace a gate valve faucet on a sprinkler drain down line, and that was an ugly surprise, too. Charged me $125 to unsweat and resweat a faucet on a sprinkler drain down line. So, again, figure out, are they doing flat right? Is it by the hour? Is there a trip charge involved? And if it's flat rate, what's the flat rate charge? Because some of them can get pretty outrageous. So that's my two cents for home repairs.
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Yep. And thank you, Joe. I appreciate that. No, you are spot on. And that's where, you know, going back to, you know, a lot of suggestions that have come in, even from some of you, definitely, definitely make sure that you're getting all of your ducks in a row on the front side. Call on the front side. How do they do things? How do they handle things? Are they doing it like... Joe said, and I've had several text messages come in that talk about how that is becoming the norm, which, OK, fine. If that's going to be the norm like it is in the auto industry, that's fine. Just know on the front side what you're up against still comes back down to the whole, you know, get three bids. and know what you're doing on that sides of things before you do anything else so thank you by the way for a lot of these questions that have been coming in as well and as far as the text line goes keep texting i appreciate all the text messages that come in as well and i do my best to answer those as best we can so normally we'd have larry with us by the way we talked about that last week larry if you're listening thanks for all that you do roads were a little bit dicey this morning and uh texted larry back and forth and said you know just hang out at home we'll manage things here charlie's here i'm here we're good to go so no issues there and uh saying it may be very well become one of those days where you know i am solo so if that's the case the more of you that call in The better, by the way, because then I don't have to do as much talking. You don't have to listen to me. You can listen to each other. So those of you that are listening, please, lines are open, 303-477-5600. You may have some input on what we just got done talking about in regards to how to handle certain things in your home. Now, I will also say this. For some of you in certain parts of our listening audience, and this includes even some distant places, You may not have three people in your area to give three bids, and I'm not exaggerating. Some of you folks that live up in the mountains and some of the rural areas, you may have only one choice. I hate to say that, but you may. I can relate. If you've got things in the mountains and in small towns and so on, and by the time you even got somebody from the next big city to come in and help you, you may be paying way more to even do that than to just figure out a... a deal an arrangement with that local company to get things handled because you really are under the gun at that point in time that's the downside to only having you know certain providers in certain areas and or you not being able to do those things you know on your own and i get it you know some things are limited on what your ability is And it gets above your head. And at that point, you don't have any choice but to call someone in and have them help you because you just don't have any other way of doing that. You know, you're a one man band at that point. You don't you don't have any any you don't have any choice. Scott Wally just said so a professional has the right tools, experience and finishes in 20 minutes. Would you rather have that or want him to take two hours? And Scott, I'm with you on that one as well. So in some cases, if that guy can come in, set price, you know what you're going to get. He gets a job done right. It's sort of like your car in a brake job. I've known technicians that can get a brake job done in under the time allotted. And I've known some that take twice the time allotted. And I will tell you that typically speaking, the technician that's doing it under the allotted time versus those taking more time are better technicians and have a better job done at the end of the day than that person that actually took more time. So, yes, Scott, thank you for that, because it's not always the case that if the guy gets it done faster, it's a bad job. In some cases, that means you might be getting a better job because that person may have done that job hundreds of times over. and knows exactly what they need to do to get that job done quickly. John and Cheyenne, you're next.
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You know, you made a prime example. Oh, good morning, John. Good morning. You made a prime example, though, of the guy who's done it 50 times will probably be better than the guy who's done it five. Correct. You know what I mean?
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Correct.
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Or never. I'm sorry?
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Or never in some cases. Maybe he's a newbie and he's never done it.
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Right. And then, you know, you just hope if he is a newbie, whoever's supervising him is checking his work.
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Right.
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And that's where you can run into problems. But I'm going to throw a shout-out to John. I've used two of your sponsors personally, and I've not had an issue with either one so far. And that's Paul at American National. Yep. um kirk at okay for a bunch of mortgage absolutely yeah two great guys and they did exactly and i used you know i went from you third thing is i'm going to say john is absolutely right when he says it it's not in our area he's not a sponsor i might be able to get your reference and we'll just say the mechanic that you recommended in the dallas area from my wife's uh dallas car Never had a problem. The guy does great work.
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And really quick, John, too. I had somebody text in a moment ago about some of the trip charges. Yeah, some of you listening, depending upon where you live, how far they're traveling, their cost of doing business. I mean, keep in mind, they've got typically an hourly worker. that's in the van, that's driving to and from. They've got the cost of the van, the insurance, all the things that go along with that, the fuel, et cetera. And yeah, you're likely going to pay a trip charge in some of these cases. Or in some cases, John, they're going to wrap that trip charge because they're frankly not as honest as the person charging the trip charge. They'll just wrap all of that into the actual cost of doing whatever the repair is. Either way, you're still paying a trip charge.
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Yeah, that's like when you hear, yeah, we'll come out and do a, $39.95 furnace cleaning. You know, you hear that on TV and stuff. Well, they're going to find something wrong with your furnace because they're not covering their costs.
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Yeah, they can't cover their costs to come out and go back to the office or to the next customer, John, for $39, period. Can't happen.
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And if you've got a guy that's charging you a flat rate, say it's me. I'm 25 miles from Cheyenne, 25 miles from Laramie. So, Either way, I'm paying somebody to drive 50 miles. He's going to either quote me a higher flat rate or he's going to say, all right, well, I've got to charge you a trip charge. It's going to cost me an hour of travel time with everything else. So I have to understand that going in. But you're right when you say three bids because when I was getting bids on my pole barn, you remember last summer, they were all over the place. And then the the contractor I went with came on a reference from our pastor.
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Got it.
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Pastor goes, he did a kitchen and he did a bathroom. He's licensed and everything. And I talked to him and he goes, well, if you want to buy the kid at Menards and I showed him what we were looking at, he goes, buy it, pay it out of your own pocket and then just pay me. But here's the big thing. He didn't ask for a dime up front. Wow. Because he said, I don't want anything up front. Pay me weekly as the job progresses. And that's better because I was here every day. I was at my house, and I was able to see what was going on and pay him weekly. Like one week he said, listen, I need the cash to pay the concrete contractor. He goes, I could write him a check, but if you could pay me for the concrete once it's done. I was like, sure. You know, stuff like that because he hired a contractor to do the concrete floor. Things like that, but not weekly. The other three companies that I got bids from, they had billboards and all other stuff and references. They wanted half up front. Why? Do you want half up front? I got a problem with half up front.
SPEAKER 09 :
Half's too much. I mean, I can see if you're ordering a lot of product for a customer and you need to get some of that. Even as a business coach, John, I would tell a business, you need something up front to make sure that everybody's serious. You don't want to be stuck with a bunch of material that you then have to figure out how to. either return and pay a restock fee or whatever the case may be. So, yeah, you've got to get that cost of things covered on the front side. But, yeah, no, after that, it would be, you know, if I was building a pole barn or something along those lines, knowing how quickly they go up, get some percentage up front to get things ordered. Once things are delivered, pop the thing up. And before you put that last nut and bolt or screw in, you get paid.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right, and the nice thing was the guy who did it goes to our church. That makes it easy. That makes it easier. That makes it easier, John. Yeah, and he said, I don't want anything up front. Because his was just the construction and the labor and everything. His wasn't. I paid for the barn at Menards out of pocket.
SPEAKER 09 :
In his case, and by the way, that's a good way of doing it, because in his case, he really had no risk. If it shows up, he shows up, he puts it up, off you go. Done deal.
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Yeah, and before he came out and set the site and everything, but didn't do anything other than Call me when the kid comes in. He went through everything to make sure he had everything he needed. And then goes, all right, we're going to break ground next week. Or I think it was two weeks.
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Nice.
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You know, he had two jobs. But that's the kind of people that you want to work with. People who ask for a ton of money up front, I am leery. Because there's a guy on that does consumer stuff during the week. And all I ever hear is, I gave him $40,000 and he disappeared. Yeah. And that happens a lot everywhere in the world. If you're going to put it in an escrow account where you both need signatures if they want half up front. That's not a bad way of doing it. Sure. Because if a company says no.
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Well, the other thing, too, the other recommendation for all of you listening on anything, by the way, any of these home services might be a little tougher, John, in your particular case than what you did. But in most cases where you're dealing with a regular type business, company, whatever, always pay, not a debit card. credit card folks pay with a credit card because your ability to go back to to chase or city bank or whoever it happens to be and dispute the charges because of something that came up much much easier to do it that way than any other way yeah and that's well when we went with menards i put it on a credit card and then paid the bill at the end of the month but by doing that i got enough miles to go to europe that too that's a whole other conversation john absolutely and then
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Yeah, but the other thing was is Menards does this 11% rebate where you get a check back.
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Oh, nice. You can use it at Menards again.
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On the pole barn, I got a $1,700 rebate check, and I was able to use it for a lot of the inside stuff that I was doing myself. And then what's great about them is every time you make a purchase, whether you use a rebate check or not, you can apply for the next rebate.
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Nice. Yeah.
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So I probably got, you know, it's 10%, but 10% is 10%. Yeah, sure. Why not?
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Absolutely.
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If you're spending $1,000, here's $100 to go spend the next time when you need, oh, I don't know, I needed 130 foot, a number two aluminum force. Four wire, that ain't cheap, you know, to have those.
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Hey, John, every little bit helps, including, you know, I recommend this to most of the folks that I coach, and that is, you know, figure out what rewards program you like via credit card. And I always tell business owners they should have two credit cards, one that all the business transactions go on and one that all your personal transactions go on. It helps with all the accounting. But digressing, bottom line, figure out which one you like having the most rewards on. And yes, I know this goes against everything Dave Ramsey teaches, but I don't care because I still think it's a great way to be rewarded for the things you're going to purchase anyways. Dave's big thing, John, is that when you're using plastic versus cash, you spend more money. And that may be true for some, although I think most diligent folks and most of the people that listen to this program are pretty fiscally sound and responsible. And I don't think that's I don't like that blanket statement. I still look at the dollar signs itself, not how I'm paying.
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Oh, I'm with you 100 percent. And I was watching the guy from Catch Me If You Can. He pays all of his bills with a credit card and then pays that bill off once a month because he says that somebody hacked my credit card. I'm not responsible up to a million dollars.
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Correct.
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And if you use it, I've heard it on other shows like this, people who have used their debit card and the bank just said, hey, you gave them your debit card, even if it's in a store, and put in that PIN number, that's just like paying with cash.
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Well, and we all know, and this is where, and I know some of you out there listening will debate me on this, but your protection on the credit card side as far as having better blanket protection versus the debit card and dealing with your bank or the underwriter for your bank. John, I've just found it in the past to be much, much easier to deal with, you know, a Wells Fargo, a Chase, a whoever than it is trying to deal with, you know, your local bank on a debit card.
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Oh, for sure. And the other thing I like with the, The only thing I use my debit card for is to go to the bank's ATM to get cash.
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Gotcha.
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That's about it. Gotcha. This way I don't have to write a check or go into the bank and fill out a withdrawal slip. And I'm never going to withdraw so much. If I need that much cash, then yes, I'll go to the bank. But usually the debit card can get you a couple hundred at a time from an ATM or something. And that's the only time I ever use it because the other thing is if your debit card gets skimmed, you're going to have a heck of a time getting your money back. Where if it's a credit card on a skimmer, you just say, hey, I don't have a problem. I got scammed.
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I need a new card. Shut that one down. Send me another one. And I'm disputing that.
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And I'm disputing these six charges, whatever, eight charges. Yep. And that's the other thing is, too, and I don't know, what's your thought on a contractor that is doing labor and says, I'd prefer you pay me in cash?
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I would find a different contractor.
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Really?
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Yeah.
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Even if it's a reputable licensed contractor, they just like cash and they give you a receipt?
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Yeah, because again, I want that other reward system and the things that we just mentioned. And my feeling is if you don't have your business set up to where you can absorb that 2% fee that the credit card is charging you, then you're not a very good businessman and I'll go elsewhere and do business then.
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Okay. Okay. Well, that's fair.
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And coaching businesses, John, I would never tell someone take cash only. In fact, I'm one of those where you make every means possible where they can pay you any way, shape, or form they would like. If they'd like to pay cash, fine. That's up to them. But you need to make sure you're running your business in a way that you can take that tent fee and absorb it and be just fine.
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Makes sense. That makes sense. I didn't think of it from that point of view. I just think some of the smaller businesses, you know.
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Well, and really what a lot of those guys are doing, and there's no secret here, the IRS knows this as well, those particular companies are typically going to run that off the books. That cash goes in their pocket, never makes it to the bank. They'll use it to buy personal things with, and the reality is that's off the books, and they're not paying any taxes on that. Probably. That's why they're doing it.
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The other thing I just wanted to say, it's a drive radio thing, but I've got to run out and move a little snow, so I might not be able to follow you. I've got that left front CV shaft on the 11 truck fixed. I got it replaced. Remember I told you the boots were bad?
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Right.
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I thought $525 done was a good price. That's a really good price. Yeah. Yeah. Very good price, John. He told me I could save you on the labor if I just replaced that little axle shaft at the same time. And this way I'm not trying to beat it out of the old one. I was like, this is the mechanic I've used for almost 20 years here in Cheyenne. No, he did well.
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He did well by you. Nothing wrong with that at all.
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And he's trustworthy.
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Yep.
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And what he said is, he goes, it's a quick job because I had a guy that, again, he had a guy that knew how to do it, so... I dropped it off at 8, and he called me at 11 that it was done.
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Nice. Good job.
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And I don't know what time he pulled it in, but he started. I dropped it off at his shop at 8 o'clock, and he was done at 11. That's how you do it. I'm figuring two hours labor, if that. But like you were saying earlier, the guy that's done it 50 times will get it done quicker than the guy that's done it five.
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Yep. Absolutely.
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John, I appreciate it very much. Thank you.
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Thank you for all the input as well. Several of you texting as well along these lines. I'll answer those here during this next break. I'll be right back. This is Fix It Radio, KLZ 560.
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All right, we are back. Fix It Radio, KLZ 560. Several of you texting in, by the way, talking about our sponsors here. And A, how comfortable you are using them. B, how really spot on they are with what they do. And everything is above board and done exactly the way they said. Thank you, by the way. I appreciate that. I will pass that along to the folks that we have as our partners here during the weekend and during the week. And I appreciate that. I like always enjoy and like hearing that from you all. And I also know and I tell every one of my sponsors this. If something doesn't go well, I will most likely hear about it before they will. So, yes, we are very picky in particular about the individuals that we partner up with. especially when it comes to home repair, car repair, things along those lines, because I just know how overly difficult that can be if you don't have the right person helping you out. So I've got, and I won't be able to get to all these, I don't think, today, but nine renovations that can devalue your home. I'll get to a few of these, because, you know, people are always looking at doing different things. I got a text message from somebody a moment ago asking about doing some different things in the basement and remodeling and things like that, and I get questions along these lines all the time, and I am one that believes keep your home updated, don't over-update. And some of what we're going to talk about here, this is the first one on this list, by the way, don't overly personalize your design. Now, if you're going to be in your forever home and you don't think you're ever going to sell it, keyword there, think, you know, I guess knock your socks off, do whatever you want to. Just know that when it comes time to sell, if you have overly personalized it for you, the next buyer may not like it. So in my mind, I've always thought with the idea that when, because you guys know me, I'm a seller, when I go to sell this, what does the next person coming in think? What do they look at? How does it appeal or not to them? And I know that one of the things that I think is really difficult in today's world, and my wife reminds me of this all the time, is, you know, you'll follow some of these quote unquote designers on social media and they'll tell you what all the current things are. And, you know, this color is in and that colors out and don't do this with furniture and do that instead. And on and on you go. And I will tell you straight up, if you follow any of those, you'll be changing your house around about every two years because those guys and what they feel is in changes that rapidly. And I am not exaggerating. I'm one to say stick with what you know as being tried and true neutral type colors that coincide and fit with the overall theme and design of your home. And what I mean by that is, you know, some homes have more of a ranch type look to it, you know, rustic look. Some, of course, in the mountains near us are more of the cabin look. Some homes in our area are very modern. Some homes are kind of a combo. Some are very traditional. You know, some I go down the list, all the different designs that are out there. And my point with that is I'm one that feels make your inside as much as you possibly can match the outside. So, I mean, that doesn't mean that, you know, you can't do some personal things on the inside of your home that you really enjoy. But my point is, if you've got a more modern looking home and you want to do some rustic things inside, yeah, that doesn't really go together. you know putting up a bunch of you know log furniture and things along those lines inside of a modern home doesn't really go well and it's not going to show well down the road so again i'm one where and sometimes you might need a little help with this this is where there's plenty of people out there for very little money can come in and help you with what some of your designs need to be but i'm one that says do with your home what what what's meant to be in it and keep that theme going and don't deter much from it. I've looked at tons of homes over the years, have bought and owned a lot of homes over the years. And I have toured some homes at times where you just go and look at a room, could be a bedroom, could be a bathroom, could be the family or living room. And you just look at it and think, man alive, this is out of place. And by the way, it could be done very nice. It could have done a really great job. And you're like, this doesn't go with the overall theme of the house. Now, I've been in other homes where you look at the outside, you walk in, and you're like, wow, somebody did a really good job of matching all of these things and making everything flow really well. And by the way, those are the homes that typically do better and bring a higher price when it comes to sell. So be careful. Don't overdo things. Don't over-personalize things. The next one is bedroom conversions. Be careful converting a bedroom into something else that can't be converted back. So you take a bedroom and convert it to a home office. You change the doors out. You put a glass door on instead of a regular door. Maybe even put a double door, French doors on it, things like that. All of a sudden now the bedroom is no longer a bedroom. Even though it may be listed as one, it's really not usable as one. A lot of people will take bedrooms and turn them into home gyms and things like that. Again, as long as things can be converted back to the original bedroom, you're fine. But be careful in what you're converting that to and how permanent that may or may not be. Garage conversions. This is another big one. A lot of folks will turn their garage into, again, home office, gym, things along those lines. And keep in mind, the next person coming in may actually want the garage, especially on a day like today. They want to park inside. I'm one of those, by the way. I want the garage. I like parking inside. i'm very spoiled i'll be the first to admit it i've been parking inside of a garage now for several decades and i enjoy that walking out climbing in turning the key, hitting the button, whatever, driving out, not having to scrape windows, not having to wipe off snow. As you guys all know, I use the garage mats, which really this time of the year, I can't stress enough how well those things work this time of year. You go out on a day like today and get everything all slushed up and snowed up and so on, and you pull back into the garage and everything drips onto the mat. You clean the mat off periodically, and all that stuff's not all over your garage. Fabulous. Cannot stress enough this time of the year how well they work. Anyways, I'm digressing. Be careful what you do in converting your garage around. I've seen people take the entire door out, wall it in, put a door in it, entrance, exit door, and all of a sudden now to put that back to a garage becomes a lot of extra work. If you want to use your garage as a different space, fine, but still leave it as a garage. If you want to make it a home gym, things like that, you want to park outside and do that instead, great, knock your socks off. But make sure you still have a usable garage at the end of the day. I talked about this a moment ago, but over-improving or over-building a home. Yes, you need to know where, and this is where realtors can help in a lot of cases. What are the homes around you selling for? What's their value? And you have to be careful not to tick up too much above that value. Because things I've learned over the years, you never want to be the most expensive house in the neighborhood. Now, if you're somebody that lives out in a rural area and you're all on 5, 10 acres and you're the most expensive house in that area, that's not what I'm talking about. That's a whole different world at that point. I'm talking about in a regular traditional neighborhood. You do not want to be the most expensive home in the neighborhood by overbuilding. One of the other things that's in this list is this also comes into how much landscaping have you put in. Don't overdo that. Some people really like the landscaping. They can get so much intricacy even into the landscaping where it's like, yeah, this is great, but now who's coming in and maintaining it after you? Maybe you love being out in the yard and doing all that stuff. Maybe the buyer doesn't. So again, landscaping is also one of those areas, just like the inside of the home, where it needs to go and flow with the home and not be overdone to the point where it's now a deterrent from the sale of the house, not an add-on. They actually even put something in here about pools. Now, what I will say is in certain parts of the country, pools are fine. In fact, it's almost a want, a need. Arizona, for example. Some of you that are listening to me down in the Texas area. It is changing in Colorado. There's a lot more pools now in Colorado than there used to be when I was growing up. So it's not as bad as it used to be, but just know that in a lot of cases, the pool may not add any value to your home. You may love it. It might even make it sell easier, but you're not going to get your money dollar for dollar back out of that pool. That's just not in Colorado. That just doesn't happen. So something to think about in this front range area and even some of you that are up in Wyoming, Nebraska, northern areas, they're typically not going to do as well, pools I mean, as it will in some of the other areas where we've got listeners. Again, Florida, down south, Texas, Arizona, and so on. Also, be really careful of... Unpermitted additions. Now, what I will say when it comes to unpermitted additions is I'm one that feels like it depends on how it's done. And there's some, I think, gray areas. And I know people argue with me that there's never a gray area. If a permit's required, then you need to go pull a permit. Well, that's up to you. I'm not going to tell you what to do. That's your call. What I will tell you is, and what I've learned from experience is, if everything is done above board... two building specs and would pass inspection and so on, the chances of you having anybody ever ask and go look if a building permit was pulled is slim to none. That includes basement refinishes and so on. And especially if it's been decades back. Now, if it was just done a year ago, yeah, that's getting a little dicier, and you probably ought to go ahead and pull a permit if you're going to sell within the next two to three years. If you're not going to sell for a decade or more, do whatever you feel like you need to do. And this is me talking in regards to what I feel is overreach of a lot of city, county governments. In some cases, in my opinion, they want permits for things that, frankly, shouldn't need a permit. None of their business, in my opinion. There are some cities and counties that will even make you pull a permit for putting something that's freestanding up like a gazebo or something along those lines. Total nonsense. And would I pull a permit to do those sorts of things? No, I would not. Utter nonsense. None of their business, in my opinion. So, again, this is up to you. Some will even, by the way, make you pull a permit to put a hot tub in. That's another one where as long as it's wired up correctly, everything passes code. The electrician does things the way they're supposed to. Do I feel like you need to pull a permit for a hot tub? And I know this is me talking. No, I don't think you need to. And I may take some flack for some of this and for what I'm saying along these lines, especially from some of the folks that are in government. But way too much government overreach on a lot of these things, in my opinion. Way too much them sticking their nose into what you're doing and things that, frankly, they don't need to know. So that's one of those where, yes, large additions and things like that, yes, those should be permitted. Some of these smaller things, like I just mentioned a moment ago, do they really need to be permitted? That's something you're going to have to decide for yourself and might even want to have a conversation with whoever your realtor is when it comes to getting some of that advice. All right, folks, that's it for today. I appreciate you all listening. Remember, you can always go to our website, fixitradio.com, and when it comes to recommendations on things to do around the house, please always text me and ask what I think about a particular service provider, and I'd be happy to help you out. We'll be back with our next program. Don't go anywhere. This is Fix It Radio, KLZ 560.
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In this episode of Drive Radio, we dive into fascinating tales from the automotive world. Join us as we chat with Pat Schneid from Alltech Automotive, exploring the intriguing discussions from an enthusiastic caller who shares experiences of a rare 1964 Chevrolet Cheetah. We explore the allure of classic cars, their increasing value, and the challenges of maintaining these treasures from the past.
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All right, and Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Yeah, and Pat's with us today, Pat Schneid from Alltech Automotive. And, yeah, you can plug any one. Fantastic. Good morning. As long as you can hear, we're all good. I can hear you well. All right, and good morning, everybody out there. We did a nice hour on Fix-It Radio this last hour. Some of you are probably continuing on with us, which we appreciate very much. And I've got a couple of text messages in from that. So really quick, we had talked in this last fix it radio hour about just, you know, what to buy, when to buy service contracts on appliances, which we can change that over even to the car side during this hour. And I got a nice message in from somebody talking about how, yeah, to your point, uh, In this particular case, his dad only buys things when they're absolutely broken. He doesn't do anything on the front side. And I will tell you that maybe it's why I am the way I am because I grew up that way also. My dad was the same. He fixed and tried to keep things running as long as he possibly could and rarely bought anything unless it was absolutely necessary and broken. And at that point in time, typically it became a crisis. And I think for me, I'm the opposite of that because of Growing up that way. Ken Rackley joining us as well from Toon Tech and just walking in. Ken, how are you?
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Always good to be here.
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Always good to see you as well. Appreciate you. And I don't know if you guys have met in person. Pat, Ken, Ken, Pat. It's been a while. Once before.
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Good to see you, Ken. Good to see you too, Pat.
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Lines open 303-477-5600. Art in Lakewood, you're first today. Go ahead, Art.
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Well, good morning, John. It's always a pleasure listening to your show. And, you know, I had a quick, I've got a couple of questions before I ask you the automotive question. I'd like to know when Eric was down there in Antarctica. I was there in 79 and 80.
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After you because he's probably not as – well, I know he's not as old. And, Eric, if you want to text me in when you were there, if you're comfortable with that, I'll let people know when you were there. But, no, I already know it was later than that, Art.
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Yeah. Okay, good.
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Anyway, I have to – Okay, so really quick before we move on, Art, because I always ask this for folks that have been there. The earth is round, right, Art? Oh, shut up.
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I thought it was flat.
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Cause all of those flat earthers, they think that Antarctica is just a big ice wall and really doesn't exist. But I know people like you and Eric have been there. So that's not true.
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Well, and I'll say it was an amazing adventure. We were there for the 79, 80 Austral summer. But anyway, uh, Yeah, you heard the sarcasm in my voice.
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Yes, I did. Well, and just on a side note, because you've been there and we that have not been, like myself, you see the videos of the endless day, I guess you could say, in Antarctica just, by the way, about a month and a half or so ago, Art, literally the sun just circles around the horizon. I'm assuming you've seen that.
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Oh, absolutely. Yeah, it was really cool.
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It was...
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Finally, one day, the sun stayed about three or four inches off the horizon and just went around and around in a circle.
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Crazy.
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So cool.
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That would be an experience, and I know there are folks that figure that out and they plan it. For those of you listening, that's a very expensive trip to go do unless you're stationed there and you have that ability. But otherwise, Art, I think roughly that's about a $40,000 trip if you want to go do that.
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Yeah, I've heard stuff along those lines. Yeah, we flew out of Point Magoo Naval Base, which was once on California, and we flew into Christchurch, New Zealand. And then they outfitted us, and we went down in C-130s.
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Okay, okay. Awesome. By the way, thank you for that, Art. I appreciate that.
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Well, John, I'm a regular guy from Colorado, born and raised – We used to get our auto parts from Larry Mason's Auto Parts in downtown Littleton, which was years and years ago. But anyway, I have to say something before I ask you this OEM question for General Motors. You had a prerecorded show last week on Barrett-Jackson, and you said if you could beat a Barrett-Jackson and money wasn't the object, what would you like to have and what I would like to have is a 1964 Chevrolet Cheetah.
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Oh, yeah. And I was actually live last week, Art. That wasn't prerecorded, so I was live last week. But, yes, I was here and threw that question out. And I wish I had been at Barrett-Jackson last weekend, but because of other things that were going on and just timing didn't work this year for me to do it, I'll most likely be there next year. But a 1964 Cheetah. Yeah. Are you familiar? Uh, I'm looking it up right now. Vaguely, vaguely. Oh yeah. That was like a, that was like a, um, a Corvette combo, right?
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Oh, it was a screamer. I'll tell you what they, uh, they started walking away from the Cobras and had they, had they stayed in business, they would have just smoked the Cobras. Uh, they were, had a three 27 in it. They had the, uh, pipes that ran right down, you know, the weed burners that run right underneath. And it didn't have a drive shaft. The transmission hooked directly up to the rear end. Okay. And 327. And I think they were the 375-horse Vette motors. And, man, I tell you.
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And I just looked them up. Twenty-five of them produced. They were backed by Chevrolet. And if you have one today at all, you're worth about a half a million bucks.
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okay so there you go that's a good choice art trying to find parts for those yeah oh man can you imagine just driving one of those what how sweet you know i've watched a lot of videos and watched the guys And they were live videos, and it's just amazing.
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But anyway— Yeah, right here, I'm reading that 327, they claim, made more than 500 horsepower at that time. So that was pretty healthy. In a pretty light car. Yeah, pretty healthy. But they rated it at 350. Well, because they were racing, it probably didn't matter. It wasn't a street car. It was a race car, yeah. All right, yeah.
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Yeah, it was strictly on the track, you know, but—
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Well, I'll tell you what, it's sweet. And by the way, I'm looking up this too, Art, because I didn't know this. You just piqued my interest. So there's only 13 known left. Right.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah. And it's a long story. And that was during that time when General Motors was starting to back away from NASCAR. And these private, and I can't remember the name of those guys, there were a couple of brothers and they got together and And I might be incorrect about the brothers. But anyway, these guys got together and started producing these. And that's when General Motors backed out, so there was private funds coming from General Motors, and they were starting to put these things together. But anyway, they were really cool.
SPEAKER 06 :
Interesting. Thank you. I didn't know much about that at all, so thank you for the history lesson, Art. I didn't know that.
SPEAKER 10 :
They almost kind of look like Opel GT on steroids.
SPEAKER 06 :
Correct. They do. Yes, yes, yes.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah. Wow. I'm amazed. John Rush didn't know something about it.
SPEAKER 06 :
I did not know anything about a cheetah till just now. And Art, as you know, I try to research and study it. And granted, this was a little before my time. I was born in 64, about when these were out. So, yeah, I don't have a ton of recollection on those.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah. Well, and you know that it's. you might get a kick out of getting on to YouTube and do some of the videos on it.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, I will. Absolutely, I will. Now I will. Thank you, Art. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 10 :
That whole film is fun to watch.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, no, it is. Absolutely. Absolutely. Oh, man, they're screamers. They were really cool. Thank you. Again, I appreciate that very much.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay, well, listen. I've got a 1997... Chevy four-wheel drive Z71. And I'm looking for an ignition switch for it. And my question is to you, John, you know, Delco Remy and also, let's see, there was Delco Remy and AC Delco. Those have been the mainstay of the General Motors OEMs for years. years and years, but now, you know, everything's done overseas, and a lot of that electrical stuff comes from China. Are you aware of any manufacturer here in the United States that still produce electrical components for the older Chevys?
SPEAKER 06 :
Unless you're finding some new old stock, eBay, something along those lines are, no, I do not. And both of these guys are still doing these things on a daily basis.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, I mean, some of the stuff you see, I mean, as it comes in boxed, you know, we try to get, you know, a lot of that stuff too. But, you know, we see it made in Singapore, Taiwan, you know, China, whatever. Exactly. And even when it was new, some of it was made there, too. So, yeah, it's really hard to say. But, yeah, hard to find something unless it actually says it. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, I had to replace the ignition switch in it here about a couple years ago. And then that went bad, and I had to put another one in. And so that's what my question is. I'm trying to. see if there's somebody still here in the United States. And that's a good tip. Like, like you said, uh, like maybe eBay, something like that. Uh, see if I can find an original.
SPEAKER 06 :
Cause there are, you know, believe it still happens. You know, you'll, you'll see these stories, even art on, you know, internet, different, uh, uh, publications that are out there. You'll Hagerty, you'll see guys all of a sudden finding an old dealership that had been shuttered years and years ago. And, And for whatever reason, all inventory still being in it, cars, parts and so on. So, yeah, there will be guys that at auction will get a hold of some of those things and then they'll have some new old stock that they're trying to get rid of. And I'm not saying you won't find any or that you will, but, you know, you may. There's still those stories running around and guys still trying to get rid of some of that stuff when they acquire it. Right.
SPEAKER 04 :
In fact, I just did a quick Internet search here, and I did find one available on eBay that does say made in USA.
SPEAKER 06 :
So there you go, Art. Now, you're going to pay more, but yes, you can still find some of those.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, you know, and just talk about manufacturers. I'm sure you were aware of Spiegel's Auto Parts. Which one again? You broke up. Sorry, Art. Spiegel's. Spiegel's Auto Parts. Sure, yes. On South Santa Fe. Yes. You know, one of the guys that was the son, he and I went to school together. But I'll tell you what, when they were closing that place out, you know, I went down and I bought some stuff. And we used to buy stuff from there quite a bit. And you wouldn't believe, when they sold all that stuff, John, I mean, we're talking tractor-trailer loads that they shipped off to Washington State and to Oregon. I mean, and the old man, Mr. Fiegel himself, which was the grandfather, you know, he got hit down there on Santa Fe way back in the, I think it was in the late 50s, early 60s. And he was walking across the street to pick up a piece of plywood, and the wind caught him and it threw him into a car. Too bad. Yeah. So anyway, they closed that place, oh, I think about four or five years ago. And there was no place. I walked through that place. When they were closing down, thousands of pieces, parts.
SPEAKER 06 :
What you're going to find is some of the stuff on eBay art is either somebody that was kind of in that world at the time and maybe has hung on to some of these things, or they have run across other new old stock from dealerships closing down or even independent – by the way – And we in our side of it, even the independents at times, you find some of those that may close up. And, you know, when I had my stores back in the day, for example, Art, I stocked, you know, a couple hundred thousand dollars of parts at each location. And you find some of those even where guys have had old stock kicking around that, you know. have now closed up and somebody's auctioning off or selling off or they acquire or whatever. So how long will some of that new old stock be around for some vehicles? It just depends on how many old barns of stuff are out there kicking around that no one knows about.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, right. And then when somebody finds that, do they just pitch it or do they take the time to try to market it and sell it?
SPEAKER 06 :
If they know what it is, they'll probably sell it.
SPEAKER 10 :
Right, exactly.
SPEAKER 06 :
But to your point, Mark, I think that's the only way you're going to find what you're looking for. Right. And as you know, really quick to close out, the truck you're driving, as you know, is appreciating right now on a daily slash monthly, yearly basis. So that's one of those that, yeah, hang on to it, and you're not losing money on it at this point.
SPEAKER 08 :
Right, exactly. And the truth of the matter is I've got a mechanic that I've used for probably 10 years, and I really like him. And he tells me the same thing. He says, why don't you buy a new truck, you know? And I said, why? The thing runs so good.
SPEAKER 06 :
The only reason to buy a new truck, Art, would be to keep that one in a more pristine condition, knowing it's going up in value. That's the only reason to buy a new one. Keep the miles off of it. Yeah, that's the only reason. Keep it out of harm's way. That's right.
SPEAKER 08 :
It's only got 110,000 miles on it.
SPEAKER 06 :
As anybody would know, and I'm not joking, that is one of those vehicles that, because all of the older models have been somewhat depleted, and so that series of truck now has gained value and is going to continue to go up in value because it's just the next natural one for that to happen with.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, and the thing is, if you... If you go down to Colorado Auto Parts down there on Santa Fe, where they used to have massive amounts of vehicles, They only keep them, I think, about 30 days, and they start crushing them up. I mean, all the different kinds of cars.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, most of the salvage yards will only keep, you know, cars that are newer than 10 years. Yes. You know, because it's just not, you know, it's just low.
SPEAKER 06 :
And this is one of those vehicles, too, for Art and everybody else listening. This isn't one of those that you go to, you know, Kelly Blue Book or wherever to determine value because they'll be way off.
SPEAKER 01 :
But somebody will pay for it.
SPEAKER 06 :
That's right.
SPEAKER 05 :
They're worth more.
SPEAKER 06 :
than that especially you know if you've got a unique vehicle if it's a four-wheel drive if it's a short box or an extra cab or something along those lines art value is even you know is even going up faster on those yeah yeah yeah well i sure like it and i've tried to maintain it you know because when i bought it i bought it in 08 and it only had uh 20 000 miles on it and you know
SPEAKER 08 :
There's been things like Chevrolet has problems with, like, the intake manifold gaskets have to be replaced. And I've done all that, and I keep the maintenance up on it. I know how to do that. But it's a great truck. I wouldn't hesitate to hop in and do a West Coast tour around. You know, you put those old Chevy.
SPEAKER 06 :
I owned several of those back in the day. No, they're solid, which I still did. I should have probably kept them. Yeah, my brother had one. It is what it is. Yep. All right, I got to run. Appreciate you, sir. Okay. All right, man. Thank you very much. Jerry and Brian, both guys, hang tight. We'll come right back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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All right, we're back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Somebody also asked, what is the question of the day? And that is, what is the best car you've ever owned? Could be truck as well. Best car, truck you've ever owned and why? Give us that answer. Jerry and Greeley, you are next. Go ahead, Jerry.
SPEAKER 17 :
A friend of mine has a couple of Hondas, a 2016 CR-V and a 2019 Ridgeline. And I mentioned to him what you've recommended in the past about using EPR for the oil changes on direct injection engines. Correct. And he wasn't really even sure if they had direct injection. So we did a little looking online, and I stumbled across this enthusiast forum and said, Somebody in there was claiming that their Honda engines are less susceptible to the coking on the backside of the intake valves because of the way they position the injector, like way down low near the bottom edge of the cylinder head, so that it basically sprays on the backside of the valve. and then somebody else contradicted that, and they're having a little dispute because another fellow said, well, that the injector fired during the compression stroke, which I'd never heard of before, which sounded wacky to me, but I was wondering if you knew anything about that.
SPEAKER 04 :
Not directly on the firing on the injection stroke. No, I am aware that that Honda engine in the 2016 CR-V is a gasoline direct injection. So I'm not quite sure. You're saying depending on where they put that injector, if it still washes the backside of that intake valve. I am not familiar with that. Can't? It can't. Yeah, it doesn't seem like it. Normally, they've got to be on the other side of that intake valve to be called direct injection. But what I would say, in either case, it would not be harmful to do that gasoline direct injection service.
SPEAKER 10 :
Some are more susceptible than others. Yeah, and maybe they are a little bit less susceptible.
SPEAKER 06 :
And the EPR treatment, Jerry, at an oil change is such minimal cost. I mean, you're not adding more than $25 to $50, depending upon who's doing it and how they're charging you and so on. At the end of the day, looking at what it does to maintain the quality of the inside of that engine, you're not hurting yourself by doing so. Right. Is it a must on that particular engine? And I'm not familiar with, by the way, Honda having less problems because of that. Any direct injection engine is going to be more susceptible to carbon buildup, period. And what they're trying to do now, Jerry, to help with some of that is some of the manufacturers, for example. you know 2024 2025 some models they're adding an injector on the intake side to help with some of what we're talking about so some of the manufacturers are trying to cure that problem by doing that but any in the head injector where it's directing it right into the combustion chamber is going to have more carbon buildup period yeah
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, yeah, that all makes sense. That's kind of what I was thinking. There's certainly no harm, right, to doing EPR?
SPEAKER 06 :
Correct. Correct. So, again, and these are things, by the way, and I had a long conversation with a couple of my coaching clients this past week on this very subject, and this is one of those things where the majority, if not all, but – a one-off here and there on the dealer side most dealers are not going to tell you anything about what we're talking about because they literally have been instructed by their manufacturer to not go down this path because they're trying to get people to understand that we don't need to do anything it's a total cost of ownership thing it's why most toyota dealers will tell you you don't have to even do anything on the transmission until 100k plus And on and on and on we go, Jerry. The reality is you're not going to hear this from the dealers themselves. And there's many a video out there from the independent side, especially when it comes to transmission service, verifying what I'm telling you because the dealers don't want you knowing because it affects their total cost of ownership on the car.
SPEAKER 04 :
Now, I do think that may be changing. So, as you know, we are all big supporters of a product line called BG. They actually produced the EPR, Engine Performance Restoration. Correct. Our rep with BG has told me that just last year, so in the spring of 2024, General Motors started advocating this 15,000-mile gasoline direct injection service. And in the fall of 2024, Ford also is putting some support behind it. So I think that market is changing. Yes, it's pretty new, though. BG, of course, themselves have been advocating this for 15 years or more, right? Right. Yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
And even on my non-GDI vehicles, I do that on every vehicle that I own.
SPEAKER 04 :
Not hurting anything.
SPEAKER 10 :
I mean, yeah. Not hurting anything at all. You know, it helps clean passages. I mean, it doesn't hurt anything at all. All it can do is help.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, regarding my friend's 2016 CR-V and his 2019 Ridgeline, would there be any other particular maintenance items you might recommend?
SPEAKER 10 :
I mean, other than the normal scheduled transmission, differentials, things along those lines.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay. I mean, as you hear us talk all the time, Jerry, Honda, solid product line, nothing wrong with their vehicles at all. And what they're going to be doing now with Nissan will do nothing but make both of them better when it's all said and done. So, yeah, I have nothing bad to say about Honda. But on that same token, like Toyota and all of the other vehicles that are out there, proper maintenance is still a must no matter what you're driving.
SPEAKER 17 :
All right. Well, I appreciate the advice. You're very welcome.
SPEAKER 06 :
No, thank you. Thank you, Jerry, for that. I appreciate it very much. Great questions, by the way. Brian in Longmont, hang tight. Tom in Commerce City. We have a line open, 303-477-5600. Myself, Pat, and Ken, we will be right back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 14 :
Hey, John, and your associates there, Ken and Pat. Good to talk to you.
SPEAKER 06 :
You too, Brian.
SPEAKER 14 :
Thank you, sir. Back in your first caller... Back in 1964, I was all of 21 years old, and I think, memory's not what it used to be, but I'm virtually certain that the man who made this cheetah happen was a gentleman named Bill Thomas.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yep, you're right. I looked that up. You were right.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay, and he was kind of a bulldog kind of a guy. But, yeah, that cheetah... did a lot of good stuff. And it also reminded me that when you're talking about the early Corvettes, and when you're talking about the early Corvettes, you talk about Zora Arkus Duntov.
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh yeah, Duntov, sure. The king.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah. And you probably know that aftermarket overhead valve heads for the Ford Flathead V8, they were called Arden Headers.
SPEAKER 06 :
That's right, that's right.
SPEAKER 14 :
And Arden is Arcus Duntoff, A-R-D-U-N. So that's just a little bit of history of our favorite, one of our favorite subjects.
SPEAKER 04 :
Hey Brian, have you known these guys? Pardon? Have you known and hung out with some of these guys?
SPEAKER 14 :
Not really. I knew some of the I knew some early Cobra drivers but and I followed I was a big time road and track subscriber and wasn't able to travel all the races and stuff but Carroll Shelby and All those people. So, yeah, it was a good time for sure. And, of course, we can still get, like, your ad by Paul Linagro. That's a really good ad that people should pay attention to if they have a classic.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right. Right. And Brian, as far as your story a moment ago, I would have to ask the question, what was his IQ, all of what he did in regards to Chevrolet, the Corvette, streamlining things, making more power when literally other folks were laughing at the small block Chevy at that time and some of the things that he did. I mean, what do you think his IQ level was to do some of the things he did? far more than mine let's just say that i would say three times beyond genius um yeah i mean that i mean literally brian that's a guy that literally um i mean let's let's say it for what it is changed the automotive world at that time with some of the things he did right and i think as knowledgeable as he was i think he was uh
SPEAKER 14 :
He's very firm in what he did and what he said, but I believe that he was also a fairly decent man to work with. So that's a good feature a lot of times.
SPEAKER 06 :
It's a great quality, yep. Yeah, he was, as we know, his nickname is, of course, I'm looking it up, but father of the Corvette, which I already knew. And literally, he and the Henry Earls that was with Buick at the time, I mean, those guys, Brian, did things. And not that there weren't some great... you know, folks and designers and things at Ford, there were, but the reality is, man, some of those guys of that day, holy cow, did they have a mind like, no tomorrow.
SPEAKER 14 :
They did, and just on a styling level, the Buick Y-Job was, I think, from the late 40s, I think it was that early,
SPEAKER 06 :
But really quick, Brian, I didn't know this. Where is Mr. Duntoff buried?
SPEAKER 14 :
I cannot say. I do not know that.
SPEAKER 06 :
National Corvette Museum, which I did not know either until just looking it up. That's a good legacy.
SPEAKER 14 :
That's the way it ought to be because he's an icon.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, so there you go. I did not know that. I've learned several things today from you all as listeners, so thank you. I did not know that.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, that's pretty cool.
SPEAKER 14 :
And I wanted to throw in also the early GMCs, the pickups, they had an extra main bearing. which Chevrolet did not have. Correct. Yeah, so, you know, things are different. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 04 :
Back in the day, you're saying there was a difference between GMC and Chevrolet. There's not so much anymore. It's more badging.
SPEAKER 14 :
Right. Along with that comment there of badging, there was a gentleman who bought a Oldsmobile. Now, I'm brand new and I'm not sure when this was, I think it might have been in the 70s. But anyway, it didn't have an Oldsmobile engine in it. It had something that said General Motors or something. And, and he said, I want an Oldsmobile engine, and he sued them, and they had to pay him.
SPEAKER 10 :
I think, you know what, I remember. I remember my dad saying something about that.
SPEAKER 06 :
I think you're right on that too, Brian. I remember something along those lines.
SPEAKER 10 :
I think it was a Cadillac with a small block Chevy in it or something like that.
SPEAKER 06 :
I think something along those lines, yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
And that would have been in the 70s or something, yeah.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, I'm thinking 70s, but I'm not sure.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was in the 70s because I remember my dad talking about it.
SPEAKER 07 :
right yeah hey well you guys have a good thank you brian no you appreciate thanks for taking us down memory lane those are things that i just learned i did not know prior tom and commerce city you're next uh good morning john and is it ken and pat there with you yes hi tom so hey i just uh bought a uh a car from an online vendor and had 8 000 miles it's a tig one okay and uh Oh, 1,000 miles into it, it threw a check engine light. It's got the P2-2180 set. It's pretty common. It's a, you know, system two lean, idle bank one. And I looked it up online, and there's just a whole slew of things that can cause that to be an alarm. It's under warranty, and so I was wanting to actually take it to the dealer and have them fully check it out, but their warranty is going to send me to the, well, there's a Firestone dealer. You know, auto care.
SPEAKER 10 :
And I was wondering because Volkswagen is kind of a... An extended warranty or a factory warranty?
SPEAKER 07 :
It's actually the vendor warranty. It's just for a few days.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, okay. Well, hang on. Let's back up for a moment. What year is it, Tom?
SPEAKER 07 :
It is a 24-tig one. It's a new one. It's got 8,000 miles on it. Take that to the dealer.
SPEAKER 06 :
Don't go to it. Yeah, that's going to be under the emissions warranty. You're not going to pay any money, period. It's not even under the emissions warranty. It's a bumper-to-bumper warranty still. I would not go anywhere other than a Volkswagen dealer for that, period.
SPEAKER 10 :
Oh, well.
SPEAKER 06 :
Do not go any, I mean.
SPEAKER 10 :
Right, and it's not a salvage, right?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, yeah, it's not. Oh, no, no, it's not a salvage. Yeah, just go to the dealer. So it's a clean title, 8K, probably second owner, I'm guessing, Tom. Right. That's still going to have full factory warranty. Don't go anywhere other than there, period. Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, well, that's great advice because I was scheduled to go someplace, a firestone there.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, no offense. A, they shouldn't be working on it under that kind of circumstance anyways.
SPEAKER 10 :
That's probably what they would send you there anyway.
SPEAKER 06 :
I doubt they're going to have the equipment needed to even figure it out. You just need to go to the dealer. But then, like you said, it should be 100% covered. It will be. Yeah, exactly. It will be. Will that be 100% covered under the Volkswagen?
SPEAKER 07 :
Factory warranty.
SPEAKER 06 :
You're 12 and 12, bumper to bumper, full warranty on that. No matter who owns it, we'll cover that car. Again, the only exceptions for everybody listening, and Ken brought it up, the only exceptions to that is if that car has been somehow flagged as no warranty for whatever reason or it's a salvaged title vehicle, they will then not have full factory warranty either. And when I mean flagged under warranty, there are certain circumstances where something may happen And it doesn't have to be an accident that can flag a vehicle to where it no longer has a particular warranty on that car for a particular system. For example, somebody made some major modification and it went into the dealer. The dealer now can flag that for having done that modification and things like that. And these are things even back when I had my stores, Tom, doing all the work we did on off-road vehicles. We'd run into that occasionally and have to fight with the OEM over something and everything. Long story short, there are some things that can get flagged, but unless that's the case on yours, I highly doubt that is. You should have full bumper-to-bumper warranty.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, because, I mean, I had a printout of its history, and everything was clean.
SPEAKER 06 :
You should be fine.
SPEAKER 07 :
In the future, because I kind of maintain my own vehicles, I like to do it, a couple questions here. You know, the injector cleaner, would you recommend putting that in –
SPEAKER 06 :
In the fuel tank, like every... On that car there, that is definitely a vehicle you need to be doing the BGEPR at the oil change, MOA as the additive added in as you're putting the new oil in, and the 44K in the gas tank at every oil change at 4,000 miles. Yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
And check, too, since that's a lien code, check and make sure when they – before they sold it to you, when they did their – probably their service on it, make sure the air cleaner – Everything's tight. Everything's tight. Make sure there's no loose hose clamps, stuff like that, any hoses off. Just, you know, since you do that yourself anyway.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, and thank you, Ken.
SPEAKER 10 :
Just make sure because if there's something that's – They'll charge you. Right. They'll charge you.
SPEAKER 06 :
If that – If the air box isn't tight, for example, Tom, and they've got to fix something along those lines, yeah, they will charge you for that because that's not a warranty situation.
SPEAKER 10 :
Vent hose off or anything like that. Yeah, just make sure.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I did pop the hood and look at it. Okay.
SPEAKER 10 :
As long as everything's good, tight together, you should have no issues.
SPEAKER 07 :
And then also on that engine here, at least in Colorado, the minimum fuel, you know, 87 is what they recommend.
SPEAKER 10 :
You can run the 85.
SPEAKER 07 :
You could run 85 in that engine?
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah. Because there's not a manufacturer out there that will put 85 on their minimum.
SPEAKER 06 :
They can't because they're selling everything mostly at sea level.
SPEAKER 10 :
Right, because, yeah, so they just put 87 as a base, and that's why we sell 85 here for our altitude.
SPEAKER 06 :
And Ken's right. With all that said, though, Tom, you may find – this is where you've got to do some of your own testing – you may find running premium, because it's a turbo car – that, A, your fuel economy and power is actually better than it is running the normal 85. You're going to have to do some testing on your own and see. You can run whatever you want to in it with no problem, but you may find that the higher octane fuel actually not only performs better but does better on fuel economy. You'll have to just mess with that and see.
SPEAKER 07 :
So I had heard that running the minimum fuel on it could actually make the injectors dirty.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, if you're running top-tier, and there's even some folks out there that will argue with me on the top-tier end of things, but if you run top-tier fuel even at the lowest grade, no. Yeah, it's got the additives. Yeah, and again, this is a long conversation, and I'll get lots of feedback on this, but just don't buy cut-rate fuel. And if you go to a station, and I'm not going to name names, if you go to a station and they want you to buy an additive pack, go somewhere else. Oh, okay. Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
And then... Okay, and then also, you know, it requires, you know, the full synthetic 020.
SPEAKER 05 :
Absolutely. Yes, that is a have to. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 07 :
And then I've always had good luck with Quaker State.
SPEAKER 06 :
Doesn't matter what brand. We are not brand specific on this show, and I can give you many a video and guys that have even done independent testing that would back up what I'm saying. Brand name has nothing to do with it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Is that right? Okay.
SPEAKER 06 :
Zero. None.
SPEAKER 07 :
And then I've heard you in the past, you know, every 10,000 miles with full synthetic.
SPEAKER 06 :
No, full synthetic on yours all the time, period. Every car on the road today, as far as I'm concerned. But he's asking about 10,000-mile intervals. No, 4,000, like I said earlier. 4,000, Tom.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, 4,000 is what the interval should be?
SPEAKER 06 :
On that direct injection turbo car, 4,000. Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, all right. Okay.
SPEAKER 04 :
Which will be more often than the dealer tells you. Exactly. I think that's what we're getting to here is you can pay me now or pay me later. And so what we're suggesting is great maintenance to keep your car on the road for the longest period of time. It's not that it won't run for a while at those other levels. You will run into problems later if you don't do the great maintenance now. That's right.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay. Well, great. Okay.
SPEAKER 06 :
Tom, I'm late on a break. Thank you, by the way, though. I appreciate it. Mark, Conrad, you guys hang tight. One line open. We'll be right back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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All right. We are back. And I was notified because we didn't I don't know, didn't know this. We have done some phone system changes here at the station. And so right now, if you call him when all the lines are full, like now, you might get it. Well, you will get a recording. It's a British accent lady. It's just kind of standard with our phone system. And now that we're aware that we need to. change and update that we will do our best to do that during the week so don't leave a message because no i'm not going to call you back sorry uh just keep trying if you get that message that means the lines are full and just keep trying and eventually you'll get through so we'll get that updated so thank you by the way for notifying me of that because i was not aware of that prior mark and wiggins go ahead hey good morning again good morning mark
SPEAKER 09 :
Hey, I had to answer the question of the day, another question, but I definitely wanted to say, you know, you were talking about fuel and top tier. Years ago, I would buy, you know, King Supers or Safeway as cheap as I could, the lowest octane, with points, just to, you know, get on by. And unfortunately, it cost me a rebuilt engine. You know, I had to get an engine redone because of that. And when I took it to the rebuild shop, which was Greeley Automotive Machine, they said, well, you know, what kind of fuel are you using? And so I told him, and he said, well, that's exactly what caused this. And if you just, you know, use top-tier fuel, you'll never have this problem. And so that's all I use now. I actually use this top-tier station finder app, which makes it really easy to figure out, you know, if you're traveling or even local to find a station with top-tier fuel or And I haven't had any fuel problems since. But, you know, your question of the day.
SPEAKER 06 :
I think that's a pretty good testimonial on its own. Right. Exactly.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, it is.
SPEAKER 09 :
Your question of the day, favorite vehicle and why. So my previous vehicle. uh, my, uh, 2020 WRX, uh, with steering controlled headlights. Uh, yeah. Having the headlights like turn when you turn is awesome.
SPEAKER 06 :
I agree. There's some new cars. I get the test drive mark that have that feature and it is a very nice feature. Yes. I agree.
SPEAKER 09 :
Like a motorcycle. Oh yeah. Yeah. It definitely has a different feel to it, especially like, In slower speeds, you notice it pretty more exaggerated, I think, probably for the reasons of going through residential areas for safety reasons.
SPEAKER 06 :
The other thing about those, Mark, really quick that I enjoy and you can comment on is they self-level also, which is very nice. That is cool.
SPEAKER 09 :
That I didn't know.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes, they self-level. So if you've got a vehicle where you've got a lot of stuff in the back or extra passengers or whatever, yeah, they will self-level. Nice.
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, that's awesome. I did not know that. I mean, I know, you know, when you start the vehicle, it would go through this, like, almost like a calibration.
SPEAKER 06 :
That's right.
SPEAKER 09 :
Where it was, like, left, right, up, down.
SPEAKER 06 :
That's right.
SPEAKER 09 :
Kind of like, whoa. And then it's straight, and you're like, what was that?
SPEAKER 06 :
That's right. It's doing all of what I just said. It's doing all of its, to your point, calibrating, knowing where things are at, self-leveling, and off it goes.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
Very cool. I wish they all had that.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, I do. I wish the others had it, too. I really like it. I like to keep up with tech, and I know you're a tech guy. I've tried to search out this question, but haven't been able to find sufficient answers. I thought I'd ask you. Is there a HUD, like a heads-up display system, with a synthetic vision for being able to see through fog or snow?
SPEAKER 06 :
Not that I'm aware of, unless you know of something, Ken or Pat.
SPEAKER 10 :
You know, I just remember seeing one of the Cadillac commercials, I don't know, five, ten years ago, that in the night you're driving and it would pick up on a deer coming out.
SPEAKER 06 :
I've seen some of those, yes.
SPEAKER 10 :
And I don't know if that's what you're talking about, but I don't think that system stuck around very long. Oh, okay.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, I don't think it worked super well.
SPEAKER 10 :
Right, exactly. It's a Cadillac, so they do a lot of experimental stuff and sell it to the public.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, I was just curious if they ever tried to advance that or if it was just not even. I have not.
SPEAKER 06 :
Now, I will say, and we've got about a minute left, Mark, but I will say that with more of the automated, the higher-level driving systems that we're going to continue to see now that COVID's over and things are starting to get back on track and the R&D and so on, I do think you're going to see more things like that coming in the future.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, yeah. Well, and with radar already on the vehicles and then, you know.
SPEAKER 06 :
Pedestrian awareness, all those sorts of things.
SPEAKER 10 :
Enhanced radar that, you know, imaging.
SPEAKER 06 :
That's right. Radar imaging. Yeah, I do think, Mark, down the road you're going to see some of what you're asking. It's not there yet, but it's coming.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, my hope is that some of that helps with, you know, the stop-and-go slinky effect when you're in traffic.
SPEAKER 06 :
I would hope so. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 09 :
slow or reduce that effect because i've seen some you know physics uh examples on youtube and it's like okay well that's really difficult to manage yeah but if you automated it a little bit and take some of the human issue out of it the phantom wreck on the freeway that backs everybody up when all it was was some guy slamming on his brakes for whatever reason and now the chain effect is there and yeah if we could eliminate that mark as somebody that drives in that stuff daily absolutely i'm in
SPEAKER 06 :
Yep, yep. Sounds good. Absolutely. Mark, great questions, by the way. Thank you, man. Appreciate you very much. Cheyenne, John, hang tight. Conrad as well. We do have a line open, 303-477-5600. Text line 307-200-8222. And, guys, we'll be right back. Myself, Ken Rackley, Tunetech Automotive. Pat Schneidt from Alltech Automotive up in Fort Collins. Charlie Grimes, our engineer. And, of course, Larry Unger answering phones. We'll be right back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 04 :
All right, we are. Drive Radio, one hour left. Appreciate you all joining us. KLZ 560. Myself, Ken Rackley, Tunetech Automotive over here in Aurora. Pat Schneidt out of Alltech Automotive up in Fort Collins. Two locations up there to serve you. And if you need any help along any lines, including non-automotive help, which we've got a lot of sponsors that do all sorts of things. NAPA, BG, on down the line we go. We've got attorneys that... help us out and so on. So whatever you need, just go to drive hyphen radio.com. You can find everybody there, including these guys here that have shops. And I highly recommend that you do that. And the last thing that I recommend you do is tell them you listen to them here as well. That helps all of us out, including yourself, by the way, at the end of the day. So Michael and Cheyenne, go ahead.
SPEAKER 11 :
Good afternoon. I made a mistake. I just got back from a trip. pulling my trailer with my 2019 Chevrolet three-quarter ton four-wheel drive pickup diesel. And I got a little stuck on a dirt road, and I put it in four-wheel drive to get out, and it was no big problem. I just pulled myself right out. But I blew it and did not put it back into two-wheel drive, and I went down the road about 25 miles and started feeling the vibration. Then I realized... what I had done, so I'd shut the four-wheel drive off, and it did fine after that. Is there anything that I might have messed up or I need to check out?
SPEAKER 16 :
Probably not. I wouldn't think so. I don't think so either. The vibration, that's weird. I don't know why you would have felt that.
SPEAKER 04 :
Hard surface, maybe just the differential between all the tires that are down and not being able to slip and so on. Potentially, if it's locked in, you could get some that way. Michael is probably where that's coming from.
SPEAKER 11 :
But you don't think I messed anything up? I don't think so.
SPEAKER 16 :
How many miles are on it?
SPEAKER 11 :
There's about 31,000. Okay, yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
I wouldn't think so. And you were in four-wheel high?
SPEAKER 11 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 06 :
Four-wheel high, I think you should be able to run. If you've got slippy roads at all, you can run 65 miles an hour, right? Yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, it wasn't – there was no slippery roads. It was all – Yeah, just dry pavement.
SPEAKER 04 :
And, again, that's probably where the – well, not probably. That's where the vibration is going. You're going to feel the tires skipping. Yeah.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, you shouldn't have messed anything up there. Yeah, I wouldn't see any issues with that.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay, you make me feel a lot better.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, I did the same.
SPEAKER 11 :
Thank you, gentlemen.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, you're very welcome. And, by the way, great question. So, Michael, thank you for that. And, yeah, we want to not be in four-wheel lock on dry pavement. That's for sure kind of a known that's been there forever. Right. And I'm surprised because a lot of those, I don't know, 2019, that one probably still had auto. Must have taken it out of auto in 2019. locked it in because you could have done auto and done the same thing and then in auto there's some some differential between the front and the rear when you're in a four-wheel drive that helps you a little bit on that so anyways uh mike and highlands ranch go ahead great question by mike and cheyenne good answer thank you sir i have one on my 2020 four runner limited
SPEAKER 08 :
Time to put struts and shocks on it, in my opinion. I'd like to just go with the factory originals. I don't want anything. I really like the way it rode and has ridden. And I went to my local guy's, used to be a Napa store. He was on your show for years with you. And most of them, they said, we don't want to do it. Take it to the dealer. Interesting. And so is there – you guys do it?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, I don't know why they'd want that to go back to the dealer. I mean, Geno's would do that for you and even get you the factory parts if you want to go that direction. Mike, just tell John or Steve what you want to do, and they'll handle it that way.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, you know, it's a gas hydraulic.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, they wouldn't have no problem doing that at all.
SPEAKER 08 :
I didn't, that's why I was curious. They said, eh, we'd rather not mess with it. I said, okay.
SPEAKER 04 :
And Steve, Geno's has as good of alignment equipment, if not better, than probably the dealer has, truthfully.
SPEAKER 08 :
I agree. I agree. Okay, well, that's good. Geno, I'll give you a call.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, quick question, Mike. Is there any computer control or adjustment on that, or it's just, it's mechanical? You said gas hydraulic mechanical.
SPEAKER 08 :
Is there any computer control? No.
SPEAKER 06 :
You can't change the ride, in other words. It's not an adjustable on-the-fly suspension because those do get a little complex at times. Basically, we're looking at bolt-on parts here and then alignment after that.
SPEAKER 08 :
That's right. The difference is on the Limited, they went with a gas hydraulic. The rest of the Toyotas had a coilover.
SPEAKER 04 :
Big deal. All right.
SPEAKER 08 :
And this one, you know, I don't know, you know, who knows why they did that, but I really like the way it rides.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, and I wouldn't tell you to do anything different. If you like the way it is now and you're five years old now and you want to make a change, go for it.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah. Yeah, well, I'm getting old. If I want to ride in stiff, I'll take one of my cars out.
SPEAKER 04 :
Exactly. I don't blame you, Mike. Exactly.
SPEAKER 1 :
Right.
SPEAKER 08 :
All right, fellas.
SPEAKER 04 :
All right, man. Appreciate you. And you know how to get a hold of Geno's. And, again, if you don't, go to our website, drive-radio.com. You can find him there, but it's easy. And Geno's is genosautoservice.com. And as I always say, remember, Geno's is with a J, not a G. So Geno's with a J. Gary, you're next.
SPEAKER 12 :
Good morning, fellas.
SPEAKER 04 :
Hey, Gary.
SPEAKER 12 :
Good afternoon, I should say.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 12 :
Get up. 2015, trying to help a buddy out. He's got a 2015 Ford Transit Connect with the EcoBoost Turbo. And he had the transmission rebuilt in it. It seems to shift fine and everything seems working well there, but it has no codes. I've got a nice snap-on scanner and I check it. It has no codes in the system at all, but if you're on any kind of incline, for example, the driveway... and you put it in reverse, there's no throttle response. You push the throttle, the car will not move. And it'll do the same in drive. It just has no throttle response if it has any kind of steep incline.
SPEAKER 16 :
With your foot on the brake?
SPEAKER 12 :
If you try to, you know, I even tried to, like, power brake it to see if it won't do anything. There's absolutely no throttle response.
SPEAKER 16 :
Huh. Okay. Well, actually, that's a normal response with your foot on the brake because it puts it in neutral. Yeah. Yeah. With your foot on the brake, that would be a normal response. But, yeah, but when you put it in gear, it just doesn't move, huh?
SPEAKER 12 :
If it's on an incline, it's fine. If it's on a flat surface, it just has no power. Absolutely no power either reverse or forward if you're on a steeper driveway.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, so make sure I'm following. So you're pulled up into the driveway, so nose is pointing uphill. Put it in reverse. It doesn't want to do anything. No throttle response. Of course, you can get it to back down because you're on the incline, right?
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, no. If the nose is up the incline and you put it in reverse and hit the throttle, once it starts rolling, it'll go right in. Okay.
SPEAKER 04 :
So if you're backed in, though, and you're headed, you know, backwards uphill, and you put it in reverse, there's no throttle response.
SPEAKER 12 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 04 :
Now, let me ask you this. If you're going uphill, you know, you're pulled uphill, and you go to drive, and you're trying to go uphill again, does it have throttle response?
SPEAKER 12 :
Not really, no. I mean, it's a tiny bit better, but really no. Interesting. Yeah, that is weird. That's weird. It's almost like when you drive the vehicle, you know, what... He got the transmission installed in it, and like I said, it shifts fine, everything's fine. It does have a weird vibration in drive, so I looked it over, and the mounts were, all the mounts were trash, so I put all new mounts in it for him. And just to try to get rid of that vibration, but it's still in drive. It has kind of a weird vibration to it. Hmm. But it's not a misfire. Right. Hmm. But I'm like, it's almost like a turbo lag or something.
SPEAKER 16 :
Huh. So if you stopped on a hill and went to accelerate... That was my next question. Yeah, if you stopped on a hill, like at a light or something, and went to accelerate, you couldn't really accelerate properly?
SPEAKER 12 :
No. No. No. It'd have to be a fairly good incline. I mean, if it was... You know, that'd be a fairly good hill, like the one off of Ward Road or something, you know, that big hill like that. It would not move. But if it's just normal driving, it'll go.
SPEAKER 04 :
That's weird.
SPEAKER 12 :
Once it gets going about two miles an hour, if that turbo kicks in and that thing, it is great power.
SPEAKER 04 :
Does it have, just asking, does it have any, you know, ABS, hill start, assist, anything along those lines, Gary?
SPEAKER 12 :
I don't think so. That's a great, great thought.
SPEAKER 04 :
I would double-check, because a lot of them do, and let's make sure that that's functioning correctly.
SPEAKER 16 :
Right, exactly. And is this the – what size van is it? Is it the small one?
SPEAKER 12 :
It's a little – Yeah, the small one. Yeah, okay.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah. Okay. And does it rev up? Like when you go to accelerate or it just doesn't... There's no throttle response. No throttle.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 16 :
No throttle response at all. Peculiar. So no RPMs, no engine. Right. It's not... Yeah. Huh. Interesting. I would almost... I think since that's got that weird deal with the foot on the brake thing, check the brake switch maybe. I mean, without getting a scanner on it, I mean, that's really the only thing you could do to make sure the brake is releasing. So when you put the brake down, it's sensing that the brake lights are on and all that stuff. When you let your foot off the brake, make sure the brake lights go out and all that stuff.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, I can check that for sure. I have a really nice scanner. I bought one of the best Snap-on scanners there are, but I'm not fully trained in it yet. I'm still trying to figure out how to operate the thing.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, look at your throttle angle, basically, or calculated load.
SPEAKER 04 :
And you may have to read, given everything that's happened on the vehicle, that may need to be a relearn. Right, exactly.
SPEAKER 16 :
Almost a programming. Yeah, exactly. Oh, okay. There's some different... Like parameters? Yeah, special procedures or things like that that you can go in and relearn certain aspects. Right.
SPEAKER 12 :
I know where that's at on the scanner. That's a great idea.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, I think I would make sure all of your bases are handled, you've relearned, make sure you don't have any hill descent issues going on. All of that, Gary, is all dialed in before you go any further. Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
Awesome. Well, I appreciate it, fellas.
SPEAKER 04 :
You're welcome.
SPEAKER 12 :
It's kind of driving me a little nuts, but I don't want to start throwing parts at it.
SPEAKER 15 :
I agree.
SPEAKER 16 :
It's definitely not the place to start. That's for sure, yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
All right, gentlemen.
SPEAKER 04 :
All right, Gary, appreciate you. You're very welcome. Brian, hang tight. Couple lines open, 303-477-5600. We'll be right back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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And we are back, Drive Radio, KLZ 560, Brian and Longmont. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 10 :
John, Ken, and Pat, the story about the lady who didn't understand the goal and prompted me to call back.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, go ahead.
SPEAKER 10 :
I grew up in a little town on a farm until I was 11, and then we moved into a big town of 4,000 people.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, there we go.
SPEAKER 10 :
A big town, yeah. In Iowa. But anyway, Omaha was the big city, and it was, back then it was about 300,000, 350, something like that. They'd have an auto show, and 57, there was a gullwing there. And it was all kind of relaxed, and the owner was up towards the front of the car talking with some other spectators. And the driver's gullwing was open. And I hopped in. And he turned around and saw me and he said, get out of that car. It was fun. Then there was, in 68, I drove out to California. And Bill Harrah, I was never... much more than a slot machine player for a while, and I don't do that now, but there was Harrah's Casino in Reno and also one in Lake Tahoe, and he was known to be a great car collector. It was alleged that he didn't even know how many cars he had. It was somewhere between 1,200 and 1,400 cars. Wow. And he had like Mercer Racerbouts and several Duesenbergs and Baker Electrics, a bunch of foreign cars. And he just had an amazing collection of them. It was just a big warehouse. And I don't know if I read it or I think I may have been talking to one of his buyers. And however I found out, Back in that time, 66, 67, 68, he apparently wanted to catalog the American car. And so at the end of every model year, he would have one of his buyers go out and buy either a new or a demo car. of a Ford, forget what we call them now, the full-size Ford that was... The LTD or the Crown Vic? Got it, thank you. My 81-year-old memory doesn't always work.
SPEAKER 15 :
That's all right.
SPEAKER 10 :
So anyway, yeah, he just had this lineup of Crown Vics.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 10 :
One a year.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 10 :
And he had a collection of Bugattis that was not matched anywhere in the world. He had Ferraris, of course, but he had American cars down for sure.
SPEAKER 04 :
Amazing.
SPEAKER 10 :
He had some beautiful Duesenbergs and Cadillacs and Imperials, Chrysler New Yorkers from the 30s.
SPEAKER 08 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 10 :
And then when I was... high school kid which same time period my after school job was in meat market of a little grocery store and the second there was only two butchers and me and the second butcher was he was just a few years out of high school he was in his early 20s at the most and he had a 33-5 window with a, it may have been only a 265. It may have been a 283. And he had, he wanted to race it. So that's what he pulled the radiator off, just hooked up a rubber hose. Yeah. And we, I went with him once, maybe more, where there was an outlaw drag strip over east of us near Des Moines. And you just go there and run whatever was there. Run what you brung.
SPEAKER 04 :
Run what you brung, yeah. Love that. Yeah. Very cool.
SPEAKER 10 :
It was a great old time.
SPEAKER 04 :
Good stories.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, so there you go.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, thank you. Thank you, Brian.
SPEAKER 10 :
You betcha.
SPEAKER 04 :
As always, great stories. Good to hear from you, Brian. Thank you very much. And going down memory lane, I appreciate that very much. Jerry and Aurora, go ahead.
SPEAKER 09 :
What year did Chevy Silverado and their pickups in a 5.3 engine go to direct injection?
SPEAKER 16 :
15, I think. Was it? 15 or 16, yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
You know better than I. I'd have to look that one up.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah. Could have been 17, but I'm pretty sure it was 15 or 16. The new body style was 15, yeah. I thought that's when it did, but we'll pull it up here.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay. Well, I've been looking for a little new, you know, used Silverado, and then I see some of them say they have around 16 have direct injection on them. Now, are those a problem to where you have to do the fuel treatment stuff on them?
SPEAKER 16 :
You should be, yes. Anything the GDI for sure. Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. Gasoline direct injection. Not necessarily a problem, but just a necessary maintenance step. Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
And I believe Ken is correct on his year. And then...
SPEAKER 09 :
I mean, it's rated for E85, but then I think you guys have talked about if you're direct injection, you've got to use a premium gas. Is that true, too?
SPEAKER 04 :
It doesn't hurt to have higher quality fuel as far as octane goes. That comes down to you and your pocket and what you feel the performance is like and so on. Now, the one plus side to the E85 is you don't have carbon buildup with the E85. It's alcohol. You just don't have the same buildup, period.
SPEAKER 09 :
And is the gas mileage as good, though?
SPEAKER 04 :
No, you lose about 30% less. Yeah. Which means the difference in price has to be 30% less. Otherwise, it's not worth doing. Other than you do get better performance with the E85. And, again, you don't have the carbon buildup.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah. Okay. And you want to, if you're going to go, if you're going to transfer from fuel or from gasoline to E85, you want to do it over a time period. You want to get down to say three quarters of a tank, put some E85 in it, get down to half a tank, put some E85 in it. And then it's learned over that time. And I'm not sure on the newer ones they might learn quicker, but I would use that practice if you're going to transfer over, if you're going to switch over to E85.
SPEAKER 06 :
Kind of phase in. In other words, don't go to empty and put it all in once. Right.
SPEAKER 16 :
If you do that, it's going to not run very well. It'll shock the system. Right, exactly.
SPEAKER 09 :
I made that mistake. I had a rental vehicle some years back, and I – It was dual fuel.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 09 :
And I had regular gas in it, and then I put E85, and, man, the mileage dropped way off on the thing.
SPEAKER 16 :
Oh, sure. Yeah. Yep, exactly. That'll sure happen.
SPEAKER 09 :
Absolutely. And is there a way to tell if it has direct injection if it's around a 2015?
SPEAKER 04 :
With all of the shielding and everything they've got on the engines today, it's extremely difficult to see. On some of them, yeah, you can look at the intake end of things and see if the injectors are in the intake or if they're down in the head itself. But, again, with all the cowling and stuff now, Jerry, that most engines have, without taking something apart, good luck.
SPEAKER 16 :
Unless, yeah, unless you really, if you get a picture of one, you know, of one that doesn't and one that does and compare them, you can kind of tell. But there's a lot of plastic on these things.
SPEAKER 06 :
It's hard to see.
SPEAKER 16 :
It's really tough to see.
SPEAKER 06 :
Not that the Internet is always correct, of course, but I did an Internet search while we're sitting here, and it did say that in 2015, the Silverado had three engine options. All three of them had direct injection. Yeah. I think that's when they converted over there.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
If I was looking at it.
SPEAKER 04 :
2015 and 16 but i don't want direct injection very bad so all right and honestly jerry as far as that goes i'll say what i say on all used vehicles that comes down to who owned it how well has it been cared for what kind of condition is the vehicle in would i avoid that no if everything else is good like i just said would i still buy the vehicle absolutely
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, your benefits are actually a lot more with the GDI than not. Your horsepower is 100-plus horsepower in gains.
SPEAKER 04 :
Fuel control, mileage. Torque, everything. Yeah, I wouldn't hesitate, Jerry, to buy it. Again, if you're looking at a 2015 versus a 2013, and the 2013 has been well-maintained and it's way better than the 2015, vice versa, I'm looking more at who owned the vehicle, how well has it been cared for, and so on. Exactly.
SPEAKER 16 :
what are you going to use it for how long are you going to hold on to it stuff like that yeah how many miles things along those lines okay and if you're you know if you're looking at the 14 because it's not and you're looking at the 15 because it yes it is because yeah because it is um you know and if you're gonna end up getting a gdi get the newer the more more newer right yeah exactly
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 04 :
All right. Thank you for your help. I wouldn't hesitate at all. Thank you, Jerry. Appreciate that. Again, that's from experience. So, Chris, hang tight. We'll come right back to you. We've got a line open is all. Somebody's calling in as we speak. 303-477-5600. Drive Radio, KLC 560.
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All right, we are back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Myself, Pat Schneidt, Alltech Automotive up in Fort Collins. Ken Rackley, Toontech Automotive over here in Aurora. And Chris and Centennial joining us now. What's going on, Chris?
SPEAKER 10 :
Hey, John and Ken. I want to do a follow-up and a shout-out.
SPEAKER 16 :
Hey, Chris. Hey. Yeah. Yes.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, Ken let me come over to the shop and put it up in the air. And we certainly found out, you know, it was vibrating from the driveshaft and U-joints. and got it back to steve who originally worked on it and they fixed it nice running great now nice well good yep perfect here that's what i want to hear took it up to the mountains yesterday and no my partner even said god this is running much better now what'd you do yep very nice so yeah no truck is running great ready to take that big trip to uh uh, ski trip up into Montana this February.
SPEAKER 04 :
Very good.
SPEAKER 16 :
That's good. Yep. Well, that's, that's awesome.
SPEAKER 04 :
So you're going to keep it, I'm assuming.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay. For now I am. All right.
SPEAKER 16 :
But I'm still looking. You're still looking. Right. Exactly. Yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
Always. Um, and being that I do have an 07, um, I don't have direct injection engine, but... We can convert that. Because of the cylinder deactivation, I should still... I've been doing the EPR every other oil change.
SPEAKER 04 :
You're not hurting it by doing that at all. Not at all. And on those, again, the... The cylinder deactivation gets a lot of abuse, by the way, online and such, and I still feel like the majority of that comes from folks that don't change oil as often as they should. The reality with the cylinder deactivation is they're very, very small ports that are actually oil-controlled as far as the activation, deactivation of the lifters themselves. And the reality, Chris, is that my feeling is the majority of people, not all, but the majority of people that have issues with those We're folks that were going far too long on oil changes. If you do the proper maintenance, you just don't have issues.
SPEAKER 10 :
Right. Okay, because I usually go 5,000. You're fine. I do do it religiously at 5.
SPEAKER 04 :
You're fine. You should have no issues there whatsoever.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay, great. Well, thanks, Ken, and thanks, Steve.
SPEAKER 04 :
You're welcome. You bet, man. Appreciate you very much. We were talking during the break, too. We've got open lines right now, by the way, so call in. We'll get you in before the end of the show, 303-477-5600. Talking about diesels and just different things and different years and the emissions side of it and so on and so forth. And there's a lot of scuttlebutt right now, and I wanted to talk about this so it's good timing. A lot of scuttlebutt on the Internet right now that President Trump, In regards to the EPA and emissions control devices on vehicles, diesels especially, there's a lot of rumors floating around, which, by the way, I've not been able to verify. So be really careful with this is where I'm going with this. There's a lot of folks on the Internet right now saying that, yep, Donald Trump's now president. You can delete your truck.
SPEAKER 1 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
No problem. Go delete it. The EPA is not going to come after you. I'm going to say no. I wouldn't do that. Yeah, I am not in that camp. I have not read anything at all. And I read, as you guys know, during the week, I read a ton of stuff regarding the political state of things and executive orders and things that are going on in that regard and so on. And so all of these guys that are on the Internet talking about that, I have yet to verify anything that they have said to be true. Last I checked, EPA is still in existence, and they are, believe it or not, still going after a lot of the especially manufacturers and shops of delete kits and those that have done that, not individuals per se, but they've definitely gone after some of the sellers of, installers of those particular devices where they're taking things off, they're putting the delete software in so that you don't get a check engine light, the vehicle still runs correctly, and so on. And they have gone after some of those. Some folks right here in Colorado, by the way. Some have even faced jail time for some of these things. And so last I checked, you know, that may be lightening up some. But here's what you have to worry about. Let's say, for example, that I'm wrong and these guys on the Internet are correct. And Trump has put some sort of a mandate out to the EPA that we're not going to go after these individuals. You know, that's all fine and dandy right now. What happens if something in the next election occurs to where that side of the aisle is no longer in control? Right. OK, now what? So you're still opening yourself up. for potential criminal prosecution, I should say, because it's a felony. It's a big deal to take emissions devices off of vehicles. And, again, I have not read and I have not seen anywhere that what these guys on the Internet are even saying is true. So one of those things where just because somebody on the Internet says it's true, does that make it true? I wouldn't delete anything right now at this point.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, and you're still under local laws for emission testing. And if there's anything tampered with, it will not pass. You cannot get it registered.
SPEAKER 06 :
All along the front range, I don't see that changing. That's right. Exactly.
SPEAKER 16 :
I mean, it's too big of a deal here in Colorado, especially that that's not going away in Colorado.
SPEAKER 04 :
And I'm with you, Ken. Point being, as a program and as an individual myself, leader that I feel like I'm a leader in the automotive world, I would not advocate that. I would not tell you to do that. I would very much question these particular individuals that are on different social media sites, you know, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, and so on, YouTube even. I would really question where they're, you know, the validity of what they're saying and where they're getting their information from, because I'm about as tuned in politically speaking as any of the not bragging, but more tuned in than the majority of these guys that are on the Internet, you know, talking about these sorts of things. That's just your world. Again, I understand. of you people i read things you know i've gone through all the executive orders i talked about this the past couple of weeks even on the daily show i have not seen anything at all that would back up and give these guys validity to what they're saying so my point is if you've been somebody that's read some of these things or sorry you've seen some of these things and you've witnessed it yourself and you now think you're going to go delete your truck and you're going to be just fine i wouldn't yeah right That is my advice. I wouldn't, and I think that these guys are giving out very bad advice at this point in time, and they're very premature in what they're saying, and they have no way to back that up at this point in time. So that's my two cents on that. Robert in Englewood, you're next. How's it going, guys? Good, sir. Good morning.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, I appreciate you taking my call. Got a 64 Ford Galaxy 500 that I inherited when my dad passed away. Sweet. Bought it from Dungis Glass there on South Havana when I was a kid. You guys remember that car dealership? Yeah. Anyway, done some cool things on the vehicle, but I've done one thing, and then that's why it led me to call you. Guys talked me into doing a fuel injection. It's a Holler Sniper II. But that fuel pump is on the outside and not in the gas tank.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, it'll never run properly until it's in the tank. That's number one. So two things. Number one, that's the first thing. Number two, that's probably one of the most difficult injection systems aftermarket-wise out there to make run properly. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, trust that.
SPEAKER 04 :
Sorry. Darn it. And on top of that, let me go one step further. Most of them are overdone. In other words, most people buy way more injection than what they need, especially at our altitude. So what's CFM? What's the cubic inches in the vehicle right now, and what did you buy? Yeah.
SPEAKER 14 :
It's a .408 stroker from a .351 Windsor.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, so it's a .408 stroker, and what CFM sniper did you buy?
SPEAKER 14 :
You know what? I don't know. I'm sorry about that.
SPEAKER 04 :
That would be the next thing to check because typically they're over-fueled, especially at our altitude. And then what you're doing with the controls of that injection is always trying to detune it enough to make it run properly because typically they're over-fueling because most guys put far too much CFM on them. especially for our altitude.
SPEAKER 06 :
So with that car and that motor, are you thinking 650 CFM is maybe it instead of 750?
SPEAKER 04 :
And I bet it's 850 or more is what probably got ordered. Right, right. Because everybody thinks bigger, faster.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, what would you suggest? You know, it was... It was told to me that, you know, the reliability would be much better, you know, getting away from the four-barrel that I had. You know, went through all this.
SPEAKER 04 :
And by the way, I would argue on that one as well, having some of these cars in my own fleet and still driving my old 68 Buick Grand Sport with a Rochester... you know, quadrajet carburetor on it that, no offense, I can get in and put fuel in it and pump it a few times and it'll fire right up every single time. No offense, Robert. That whole story of what's more reliable typically is coming from guys that have no idea how to set up a carburetor.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
Sorry, just being honest. That is the issue, right?
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, that's the issue. So you don't really think that, especially with it being on the outside, you know, he got it lower than the fuel tank. It's on the rail, but it's a good 15, 20 feet.
SPEAKER 04 :
So it's a suck, which they don't do a very good. They're pusher pumps that are not sucking.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
That's part of the problem.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, so I kind of probably wasted some money and some time on that.
SPEAKER 06 :
No, no, no, we're not done yet. This is just an experiment. We're getting there.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, I mean, not saying to take it all off and throw it away. Again, let's back up first things first, and you can do some of this via text message with me, Robert, or email. But first things first, what kit is on it? And I think that'll help us determine what direction to go next. I will say this, if it in fact did get a 850 CFM, you know, sniper kit on it, I think we're going to have a hard time detuning that to the point where it works properly.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay, so it should have been lower, the 650?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 14 :
Where does it go, like 850, 750, 650?
SPEAKER 04 :
And I'm on their website now. I'm not as familiar with the sniper kits as I am some of the others, so I'll have to dig into that and see. Well, let's see. I'm looking right now.
SPEAKER 1 :
650, 650.
SPEAKER 04 :
8.50, and then I believe it jumps way up from there. I think it's probably at 6.50. I'm going to guess that. If it's at 6.50, we should be able to tune that to where it would run and work. We should. And let me do this. I've got more questions for you, Robert. We're up against a break. Let me put you on hold. We'll come back. I'll get a few more questions answered. Hang tight. We'll come right back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 04 :
All right, we are back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Again, Robert, we're back. And I apologize. What I should have asked to begin with is why doesn't it run or what's it doing at this point?
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, I haven't gotten it back yet, and I don't know. It's in Colorado Springs. It's Ken's Automotive in Colorado Springs, but it's about ready to come back. And he did mention to me about a gas tank, but he didn't mention anything about it being compatible with a fuel pump. And so I thought he was just trying to upsell me on a gas tank, and the gas tank, you know, I've taken it out and cleaned it and put it back in. It's been fine, but he didn't communicate with me.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 14 :
That it was a part A and B, and so... Therefore, the fuel pump is on the outside about 15 feet away from the tank.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay. Well, I mean, again, I guess, you know, first things first, A, what's it doing? Why is it not running? Let's get to the bottom of that end of things. Let's find out exactly what CFM kit got put on the car. The other thing I would want to ask is what distributor are they running? How are they advancing that distributor, et cetera? I mean, there's other things here that I need some info on to help you get where you need to go on making it run properly.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, well, I'll do a little more research on that. Is there a way that you can adjust the amount? Is it a fuel pressure regulator that you could adjust it to where it's not overfueling?
SPEAKER 04 :
Those particular kits, the, you know... Well, whether it's Edelbrock or Holley or whatever, they're all computer programmed just like – they've got a mapping system in them just like a regular factory car does. Probably not as intricate as a factory car because you've got engineers getting paid buku bucks to go in and design all of that to make that particular production car run for everybody that drives it. This is going to be more tailored to you, that car, that engine. And this is where – Having a little bit of knowledge to how you actually program that particular product, that sniper kit, does kind of come into play. In a lot of cases, I hate to say this, Robert, it's trial and error on how you program it. It's not something probably that the shop's going to get completely dialed in. You're going to have to learn some of that on your own.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, that's what I figured, and I wondered maybe if a dyno would be helpful on something like that.
SPEAKER 04 :
Typically on that, just driving the car, getting it out, the type of driving you're going to do, the kind of year, the temperatures, and all of that have more to do with it than even getting it on a dyno. And again, if we get some of the basics, if you can tell me what some of the basics are on it, I can at least tell you do we have the right foundation to build from.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay. Well, that's what I'll do. I'll do some research. Certainly the distributor is something that you're concerned about.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, exactly. How are we advancing timing? How is that being controlled? On and on we go. Again, this is no different than I was having a conversation during the break here with Pat on, you know, I happened to buy a car at one point in time that was a 32 Ford Roadster. And the guy couldn't make it run properly. Part of the reason why he sold it, and I bought the car right because of that, and come to find out, I get it home, I look at it, I get the timing set correctly, fix the plug wire, by the way, that had a burn mark in it that wasn't functioning properly. And, and, and. I mean, bottom line, I got all the foundational things fixed. And sure enough, Robert, I've got the thing dialed in. The carburetor works fine. It idles well. It works fantastic. And I have to boot a 850 CFM sniper kit that somebody bought for it, thinking they were going to fix the car with it, which, by the way, would have done nothing but make everything worse. Right.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, it's one step forward and one step backwards, and that happens a lot.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, it does.
SPEAKER 14 :
It's kind of a weak mechanic. Yeah. You know, I've made some mistakes on it. And, you know, we're only talking about a few thousand. So I'll just work a little bit harder.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, that's the plus side to what you've done is, you know, and this is all salvageable. I mean, even if this doesn't work and you've got to do something different, well, then we just make the proper adjustments and move forward.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, it's the journey. What do you guys recommend? I know you said it's one of the hardest to find. Edelbrock.
SPEAKER 04 :
The Edelbrock systems work better.
SPEAKER 14 :
Edel. Okay. Okay. That's interesting. Okay. Well, I appreciate that.
SPEAKER 04 :
You're very welcome, Robert. No, appreciate it. And just give me that info. I'll help you out. Okay, thanks a lot. Appreciate that very much, sir. All right, Mickey, you're next. Probably be our last call. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, on that current subject there with the fuel injection, Uncle Tony's Garage on YouTube does a real good explanation of why they run different. A big part of it is EGR. If you block off the exhaust gas recirculation through the intake manifold, or if you've got an intake manifold that doesn't use it, you're a lot better off. Right.
SPEAKER 04 :
I'm guessing that's another one of those things I'd have to ask. I'm guessing that that motor that they built probably doesn't have one, but I don't know. Who knows?
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, you don't. Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, well, if it does, that overheats the... Injection is all vapor and no droplets like a carburetor would do. It's meant to heat the gas up and break the droplets up more. But with the EGR, you're just cooking all your fuel vapor.
SPEAKER 15 :
Makes sense.
SPEAKER 07 :
But Uncle Tony's Garage has a really, really good explanation on YouTube.
SPEAKER 04 :
That makes all sense. Appreciate that, Mickey. Thank you. And I know that's kind of a Kind of a, how should I say, a very select amount of you listening will ever have any issues and run into anything along those lines. Although, you know, it is an enthusiast thing, and there's a lot of folks out there that have, you know, older vehicles. And I am not by any means bad-mouthing fuel injection. A ton of fuel injection conversions. Back in the day when I had my shops, guys that were having not only hot rods but Jeeps and things along those lines. So I am not opposed to fuel injection at all. In fact, I will go as far as to say that some of the very early fuel injection conversions that – Weren't even mainstream. So these were people that were doing kind of some one off things I was messing with all the way back in the early 90s. So reality is I'm not against them. There's just certain basic things that you need to make sure that you're doing. To Mickey's point, even a moment ago, let's make sure we've got all of our foundational things done. And unfortunately, a lot of shops and owners, but shops even they'll they'll go throw something on it. hoping they're going to fix their problem. In some cases, it's because they don't know how to make the carburetor work. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that. And for everybody listening, carburetors get a bad rap. And I'm not sure why, because we used them for eons. And I know that in some cases, yes, they can have their faults and choke and this, that, and the other. And I get all of that. But at the end of the day, if they're set up correctly and done right...
SPEAKER 16 :
they'll fire up and run every single time you get in them. Sure, sure, exactly. I mean, yeah, and personally, if I were to have anything old, I would go injection. And I know how to work on a carburetor. I mean, I can do it. I just prefer not to. Yeah, I'm not arguing.
SPEAKER 04 :
All right. Ken Radley, Toontech Automotive. Appreciate you. Give folks your number. Oh, thank you. 303-364-3391. Pat Schneid, Alltech Automotive up in Fort Collins. Hey, thanks for having us today, John. Always appreciate you very much. You bet. And those of you listening, if you're looking for a shop, again, we've got them all over town, literally all up and down the front range. Just go to drive-radio.com. You can find them there. Let them know you listen to them here. Charlie Grimes, our engineer. Larry Unger, of course. Thank you very much, Larry, for being with us today and answering calls. And you can always text us a question. After the show is over, 307-200-8222. This is Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 17 :
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Join the experts at Drive Radio for another exciting session where we dive into the intricacies of classic car maintenance. This episode kicks off with a fascinating discussion about ignition timing for a 1955 Bel Air Chevrolet. As always, we’re taking calls from automotive enthusiasts seeking advice on everything from radiator maintenance to understanding modifications in modern vehicle fuse boxes.
SPEAKER 24 :
Being an expert on general automotive knowledge, what would the correct ignition timing be on a 1955 Bel Air Chevrolet with a 327 cubic inch engine and a four barrel carburetor?
SPEAKER 23 :
It is a trick question. Watch this. Because Chevy didn't make a 327 in 55. The 327 didn't come out until 62. And it wasn't offered in the Bel Air with a four-barrel carb until 64. However, in 1964, the correct ignition timing would be four degrees before top dead center.
SPEAKER 25 :
Get ready for another hour of Drive Radio, brought to you by Colorado's select auto care centers. Got a question for the experts? Then give them a call, 303-477-5600. Now it's time to pop the hood and get our hands dirty. Drive Radio on KLZ 560 The Source.
SPEAKER 19 :
All right, Hour 2, Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Myself, Pat Schneidt from Alltech Automotive up in Fort Collins. We also have Ken Rackley, Toontech Automotive, who's down here not far from the studio, Colfax and 225. Of course, Charlie Grimes, our engineer, Larry Unger, answering phones, speaking of the phones. Some of you have texted as well. Yes, if you call and the lines are full, like they are now, you will get a voicemail message. You are still calling the right number. There is none other to call. Don't leave a message. Just keep trying, and as soon as somebody drops off, you'll get through. We will fix that voicemail message during the week so next weekend we don't have These situations, we did some updates here of late, and that's why the change. On top of that, if there is something that you really are wanting to get an answer for quickly, text us, 307-200-8222. I'll do my best to text back or I can answer that on air as well, and I can squeeze those in even in between phone calls. Somebody else asked, why do all the stations in town only have three lines? That I can't answer. We do have a fourth line. It's a backdoor number that I don't give out publicly. We use that for special guests and things along those lines. And my gut feeling is because I typically can only talk to one person at a time. Occasionally during the week, I'll interview two guests at once, and I have two different channels we use for that, and that would leave a line open for somebody still to call in on. And that's my explanation as to why you only need three lines, because beyond that, I don't – Yeah, like Charlie just said, you're just going to wait longer on hold if we had more lines. So I'm guessing that's why we and a lot of other stations only do the three lines is because of that. So, Conrad, you are next. Go ahead, sir.
SPEAKER 16 :
Thanks for the show as always, brother. Thank you, man. Did you make it to Barrett Jackson this year?
SPEAKER 19 :
I did not. With everything else regarding the other show and the things that have happened of late, I did not go because I felt like I should be here.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, I figured you probably were here because you haven't had any non-live shows anymore. Well, you know, my question for the day, or my favorite car, of course, is my own, you know, the Torino. So I'll answer that question.
SPEAKER 19 :
We wish for everybody listening, you have a Starsky and Hutch Torino with a little different engine than what they had. Yes. There you go. Nice.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, well, it's going to have it definitely for sure. That's what I'm calling about, John. You know, we're building that 521 engine. for her and the rain, I'm gonna go ahead and pull it and get it boiled. I think it's pretty clean, but you might as well do it right now. Spend a lot of money on that engine. Don't wanna take any chances, but it's a stock police interceptor for 460 police interceptor radiator. And my nephew was kind of concerned that maybe that wasn't enough radiator for that engine, but the increase in the horsepower, but I feared that it was designed for heavy duty use. And I really don't want to go with an aluminum one because I wouldn't be able to have an air conditioner, condenser, and all that. So I'm learning if we do that. I was going to take it with Spikes Radiator. I hear they're really good. Have you ever heard of them?
SPEAKER 19 :
Don't know them. Okay. And really quick, before you boil it and do all that, Conrad, it's really easy. As you're draining it, take a flashlight, and even now today they make nice little camera. Bluetooth, go to your phone. Yeah, the Bluetooth, go to your phone. You can run a camera down and even look at each individual. Nice and clear. fin and if it were me conrad i wouldn't send it anywhere before draining it and then doing that you know scope it basically inspect it and if everything looks clean and you don't have any corrosion around any of the the uh you know the ports the tubes on the on the fins and that i don't think i would do anything with it and then last question is it a three or four core I think it's a four. If it's a four-core and you drain it and it looks clean, I wouldn't mess with it. Yeah, right. I wouldn't do a thing with it. And here's why, for everybody listening. Some of you are saying, well, why, John? Well, because when you send it out and somebody goes to clean it and boil it, they're not just cleaning and boiling it. They're going to remove the ends. So they're going to desolder those, take them off. They're then going to do all these different things, and they'll run like a pipe cleaner, if you would, through all of the tubes and so on to get everything cleaned out. And then they resolder everything back together. Well, my theory on that is it's kind of that old, if it ain't broke, let's not worry about it. The resolder process. Yeah, you now have another risk of a leak and things like that. And reality, Conrad, is if it's not needed, don't do it.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay. That's what I wanted to call you about.
SPEAKER 19 :
And I'm guessing on yours, it's not needed, because I know how much you drive, and my gut feeling is it's not going to be needed.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, you know, it's got an aluminum intake manifold on there. That's the problem between Ferris and non-Ferris metal.
SPEAKER 19 :
You don't drive it enough to worry about it.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay. Okay. And you've got enough radiator for that big engine.
SPEAKER 07 :
I don't think you'd get much bigger than that.
SPEAKER 19 :
Even if you went to an aluminum, you're not going to change much, Conrad.
SPEAKER 09 :
I mean, what's behind the radiator in terms of a shroud and a fan, I guess, would be a question. Yeah, make sure you can pull a lot of air.
SPEAKER 16 :
As long as you're pulling air through it, Conrad. It's a clutch fan.
SPEAKER 19 :
You have a clutch fan with a shroud and all that? Yeah, I wouldn't worry about it. Should be fine. All right. Okay. Conrad, appreciate you, as always.
SPEAKER 16 :
Have a great day. You betcha, man.
SPEAKER 19 :
Thank you, as always. I appreciate you very much. John, Cheyenne, what's going on?
SPEAKER 15 :
I was wondering if you guys can help me. It kind of bugs me and troubles me. I have a 2010 Lexus RX350, and the main fuse box under the hood, when you take the cap off on the left top side, There's a two-inch plug with about two dozen wires that go into it and makes a U-turn and plugs back into the fuse box. And I watched three different videos on YouTube, and everybody plugs in the plug box. But on mine, my plug comes up, and it looks like the dealer did it. It plugs into another female plug. It has a two-wire pigtail splice out and a white deal with a two-pin clip plug. It looks like a jumper clip.
SPEAKER 19 :
Probably a security device the dealer put on at one point in time. And personally, if it were me, I would remove that and put it back the way it would have been originally. Correct.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, because I'm scratching my head. I don't understand.
SPEAKER 19 :
It's a pigtail they put in most likely for an immobilizer, they call it back then. They still use them today, trackers and immobilizers, things like that, John, where in a lot of cases dealers had a little chip key thing that they would even have to plug in to be able to move the vehicle. It keeps them from getting stolen and so on. And most likely that's what it is. And if you don't need any of that and you're not using it, which you're not, I'd pull all that out.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah. Why does it run now and I don't have to do anything?
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, they probably, before it got delivered, they probably changed the one end that would have to have that key device or whatever that was needed at the time in it. Because believe me, when they're going to deliver the car, they're not taking a lot of time. That probably got done in five minutes or less.
SPEAKER 07 :
Probably less, yeah. They probably had that especially. especially made for that vehicle.
SPEAKER 19 :
I know exactly what to do. You trace it out, you'll find what we're talking about.
SPEAKER 07 :
And so one of the dealers, what they would do, this is back even in the early 2000s, what they would do would go in and cut the start wire and put a jumper in there. And so when you bought the car, if you wanted that security device, you pay them $200 and you have a removable plug. If you didn't want that device, they would just put a plug in there that you couldn't remove, but it's spliced in there with Scotchloks. I hate that stuff. We've run into that causing no-start problems down the road, but it was an easy thing for them to do, and it would keep them from getting stolen off the lot or whatever. And an upsell. They had an upsell deal for however much, and all they had to do was give them another key.
SPEAKER 19 :
So if it were me, again, John, if it were me and you've got the ability, you want to trace that out, but what you're saying, I would almost guarantee you is the situation. Because it just sandwiches in that plug, right? It's a pigtail.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah. Yeah. Well, see, that's the deal. It goes from a two-inch plug into a female two-inch plug, so that has to be a deal or two. That's all it is. It's just a pigtail. We call them T-taps.
SPEAKER 19 :
It's just a T-tap. Yeah.
SPEAKER 15 :
they put electrical tape over it after they, of course.
SPEAKER 07 :
Sure.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, of course.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. It's a T10. Yeah. Cause I mean, you go in to buy that vehicle. If they sell you that accessory, they can just slap it on and you're down the road, you know, that you can pick it up that night still. So, yeah.
SPEAKER 15 :
So do you guys think if I put it back to where I've seen other people's fuse boxes without it? You should just be able to remove the T-tap.
SPEAKER 19 :
That's what we call it, John. You should be able to just remove that. If it's male, female, male, female, just pull it. Plug it back in.
SPEAKER 15 :
I won't have any reset computer problems is my question. Shouldn't.
SPEAKER 07 :
Shouldn't. Do it with everything off. Key off all that. Key off. Maybe disconnect the battery. Thank you. I was going to say that. Disconnect negative terminal and do that and then plug it back in. Okay.
SPEAKER 15 :
Thanks. That really bugged me. I had no idea what that was.
SPEAKER 07 :
Probably 99% of the people never even notice that.
SPEAKER 15 :
Right. Okay. Yeah, it's pretty obvious when you pull the cap. It's a big mess. Right. Well, thank you, guys. Thank you very much.
SPEAKER 19 :
You're welcome. You're very welcome, John. Thank you. Let's take a break. We'll come right back. Line open, 303-477-5600. Jeff Craig, you guys hang tight. We'll be right back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 19 :
All right, we are back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Thank you guys for listening. We appreciate it very much. Jeff in Montana, you're next. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 14 :
Hey, good morning again, guys. Your show kicked off with a bang.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 14 :
That Jerry calling in about the Cheetah. My last name is a German name. It's pronounced Cheetah.
SPEAKER 19 :
Okay, nice.
SPEAKER 14 :
So, you know, we've always looked for all things Cheetah, but I had never heard of that vehicle.
SPEAKER 09 :
Now you kind of want one. There you go. I do. That's right.
SPEAKER 07 :
Be one of the 13 people that still has one.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, that was going to be my point is I went out and did a quick search, and in 2015, Hemings had one listed for $580,000. Yep. Okay, maybe a picture. Probably a bit more than that. Right. Right.
SPEAKER 19 :
And really quick, Jeff, going back to our call and Fix-It Radio talking about just different things and warranties and investments and so on. That is a car, by the way, that if somebody had enough money and you were able to buy, you're going to make money on that car, not lose any. Right.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yep. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 19 :
That'll be a million bucks before long if it isn't already.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah. Yeah, I was going to say it's probably up there.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 14 :
It's probably up there. Yeah. But I did some... And a little bit more research, and there's several companies that make kit karts for cheetahs, and one's called Evolution. And so you can buy, like, the basic frame, and then you put, you know, all the motor and transmission, all the other stuff you want in there, and the frame starts at 65K, so that's a little more doable. That's frame and body. I mean, it's all complete without the drivetrain.
SPEAKER 07 :
Sounds like an easy project. Yep, if you've got some skills. Oh, yeah. Still 100 grand by the time you're done. At least, yeah.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, a weekend. A weekend, you know. Yeah, get it done.
SPEAKER 07 :
Have it done by Monday.
SPEAKER 14 :
But you've given me food for thought. And then on the heads-up display question earlier, too, I think, if I remember correctly, they were looking at integrating forward-looking infrared. Okay. Into that. And so when you could see animals and different things, that's because they had infrared heat signatures.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. And I think that must be what they had on that one that I saw. But, yeah, I don't know.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, that's used in the military a lot. So I just see that as one of the things coming down the pipe. As we have more and more cameras on there, how hard is it to integrate another – FLIR camera in and integrate that into a picture. I don't know when, but I predict that's probably going to be something that comes down the road. And then, before I get to my question, why three lines? You know, the late, great Rush Limbaugh even only had three lines. And I think that was just the way they made them back in the day. Our station here in Missoula, Montana, has seven lines, but they just upgraded. Town Square Station, and they just upgraded. So... I think it's just the systems that they built just had three lines. And as you said, why do you need any more than that?
SPEAKER 07 :
I mean, do you hold for, you know, 15 minutes?
SPEAKER 19 :
Even today, some have been holding that long already. So it just increases that.
SPEAKER 14 :
Right. But my question is, I have had on and off sporadically on my 2007 sport track. And it seems particularly in the winter that I will get a remove object under passenger seat light. And I press the button and it goes away. But at the same time, the airbag light is on. And I had a big clue as to what's going on just this week when my 90-pound granddaughter got in and out. I noticed that when she got in, it went out. And then as she got out, it came back on. So I don't know if you have any familiarity with that warning light or not, that warning message. But to me, it seems like it might be the airbag sensor switch in the seat.
SPEAKER 19 :
That's what it seems like. It's weight controlled.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, maybe there's something under, maybe it's detecting upward, maybe something, yeah. Pushing on the bottom. Exactly, or, yeah, something weird. I can't imagine, yeah, hard to say what that would be sensing with that message, yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
Is there anything under the seat?
SPEAKER 14 :
There isn't. No, I have cleared it out multiple times, so. Okay.
SPEAKER 07 :
Nothing hitting any of the wires for the buckle or anything?
SPEAKER 14 :
Not that I know of, not that I can tell. My wonder was, you know, all things airbag, I proceed with extreme caution, even more so than touching brakes. I had a friend who said, I'll do anything that helps the car go. I won't touch anything that makes the car stop. And with this one, I won't do anything that makes the car explode.
SPEAKER 09 :
That's very good advice. Kind of, I think, what Ken is saying, too. It would be good to check the integrity of that wiring connection. So if you thought about removing that seat, unbolting it from the truck, to do that, you would have to disconnect the wiring harness connection and just want to make sure that that's clean and tight. If that is clean and tight, then it may be that airbag sensor in the seat, like you're saying.
SPEAKER 14 :
Is that something I can replace, or is that going to require a full street work?
SPEAKER 07 :
That is in the upholstery, I believe. Yeah, you have to take the cushion out, or it's on top of the cushion. Yeah, pretty sure. It might even be part of the cushion, actually.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, okay. So basically, check the connectors.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, yeah, check the connectors under there. On the buckle itself, too, I don't think it would set that code, but at least, yeah, the main harness underneath that seat should be only one connector, I would imagine. Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER 14 :
I hadn't thought about the buckle part. Yeah, every time she goes in, her seatbelt goes on. So is that interconnected with the airbag as well?
SPEAKER 07 :
It is, yeah. It has to be buckled in order for the airbag to even activate.
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, okay. Interesting. Yeah, because it won't go off if the seatbelt's not on.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right, yeah. If the seatbelt's not on, it won't... It won't activate. Yeah, it won't activate.
SPEAKER 14 :
And it detects whether... The passengers there.
SPEAKER 07 :
The weight. By the seat belt, and then the weight. Yeah, yeah. Sensor in the seat sees that there's weight on it, how much weight, and then the buckle says that it's buckled, so it's ready to go at that point according to that weight. Typically, the buckle's going to set a different code than your message that you're getting, but, you know, just an airbag light typically on that, but...
SPEAKER 09 :
You might try, without a passenger in the seat, just close that buckle, fasten that seatbelt, and see what behavior changes.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yep, that's just what I was thinking of doing. Okay. All right, I've got a couple of paths.
SPEAKER 19 :
All right. Appreciate you, Jeff.
SPEAKER 14 :
Thank you very much. You said, if not, what?
SPEAKER 07 :
Get a bag of flour, said him. Yes, strap it in.
SPEAKER 14 :
There you go. Yeah. There you go. All righty. Thanks, Jeff. Thanks, Jeff.
SPEAKER 19 :
Appreciate you. Jeff and Golden, Craig, guys, hang tight. We've got a review coming up and a break as well. We did a review earlier this week on a Lexus GX550 that for some of you might be an interesting vehicle, so stay tuned. We'll be back right after that. All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. We've got a couple of car reviews to do. Richard, you lately, and this is a car that's pretty popular among a lot of individuals, 2024 Lexus GX550 Overtrain. Talk about that.
SPEAKER 06 :
No, sorry. And I missed it. 550 Overtrail.
SPEAKER 19 :
Overtrail.
SPEAKER 06 :
Overtrail.
SPEAKER 19 :
Sorry, that's my bad. I knew that, too. Overtrail.
SPEAKER 06 :
Nope, you're good. Yeah, so 2024 Lexus GX550. This is the all-new, maybe one of the hottest cars on the market right now, Dad, right? It is a, well, I'll just say it's a hot item in that it is, Lexus has redesigned the GX. It was getting stale, I'll just say it. They've sort of redesigned it a few times. I think they've hit the mark on this vehicle. I've got several compliments on this car, Dad. Several people commented on it, and it's one that we've been wanting to get in for a while now. So we'll jump right into it. Different trim levels, right? There's all sorts of things you can do. The Overtrail is the one that we had more gear towards the off-road. It's got a few different off-road pieces on it as far as... You can read a little bit more about that yourself, depending on how you want to equip it. There's a luxury version that's actually got a third row, which kind of fits into that larger SUV sort of market. But we didn't get a chance to do that. We just had your typical kind of, I guess, it's technically a five-passenger vehicle. I will say this, Dad. It's a new 3.4-liter twin-turbo V6. It's fantastic, and they have solved some of their power problems that they had over the years that you'll talk about here in a second that were well-known, right? They did a phenomenal job on it. I think it works well. It drives really well. It drives smooth. It feels smaller than it is, Dad, right, in that you get in this car and you don't feel like you're driving a large boat because sometimes some of the large cars – out there, they have that effect where it feels like you're driving a larger vehicle than you actually are.
SPEAKER 18 :
Right.
SPEAKER 06 :
And that's something that it just can take away from the total value of the car as far as that goes. Its body on frame, as you know, obviously has a lot of the off-road, you know, that gives it some of the off-road capabilities. But you've seen these, you haven't driven it yet, but from what I was describing to you, they made a lot of improvements from the previous generation to this iteration.
SPEAKER 19 :
I like – I've not driven this car, but I like the look of this vehicle. I think they've done a really good job on it, and I've been up and close. I've sat in it, all of that. I mean, that part of it, Richard, I really enjoy, and I think Lexus did a really great job – or, you know, Toyota. That's the owner of Lexus. They did a really good job on this vehicle. though about this particular vehicle that you and I were commenting on because I was driving a vehicle you were driving that vehicle and we were commenting on you know just everything from you know road noise and power and different things but this particular vehicle because of the roof rack you didn't care so care for so much did you
SPEAKER 06 :
Dad, I had several people get in it. They are Lexus fanatics. That's all they basically own. And they love everything about this car except for the roof rack. And I'll just say it, Lexus, we had a similar vehicle. I think we had a Toyota, no, a Sequoia that had the similar roof rack. There's just something about the design of it that causes excess road noise or wind noise everywhere. above about 50, 55 miles per hour.
SPEAKER 19 :
That would drive me crazy, by the way.
SPEAKER 06 :
And here's the deal, Dad. On an otherwise quiet vehicle on the inside, and like I said, smooth, got a nice cooler box, pun intended, on the inside. You've got really easy-to-use controls, which I got several compliments on. It takes away from the vehicle. Now, I think you can remove it, and so I'm not going to knock the vehicle for it, right? I think if you got the luxury trim that offers that third-row seating and some other, I think you could get away from it. I just would love, because I know the reason they put it on there on the over-trail is so that you can put some accessories and you can do some things like that. that with it that you couldn't do maybe standard right or you don't have to buy an aftermarket accessory i just would love it if they would engineer it better to not have that outside of that that one of my most favorite cars that i've driven over the past number of years So this vehicle, and don't fall out of your chairs, folks, $84,575, which some of you are going to say, oh, my goodness, folks, for a large SUV that's in the luxury market, which is what this vehicle is, that's right in line, Dad, and some could argue it's even a little bit less. Yeah, true. Good point. It's cheaper than some of its competitors out there. So I love it. The fuel economy, just for folks, if you care, with the V6, it's got the twin turbo. It doesn't have a hybrid option yet, but I guess we'll see what's coming. I'll be honest. I didn't look too much into that. It's a 15 to 21 for an average of 17. I already gave the price point. I would really highly encourage folks, and here's the deal, Dad, if you want one of these things, you've almost got to get on a waiting list. That's how much they are in demand right now. So we encourage you, if they have one, maybe they'll let you test drive it at a Lexus dealer. If they don't, still go in, check it out. And when you do that, let them know that John and Richard Rush from Drive Radio and Rush to Reason sent you.
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SPEAKER 19 :
We are back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Thanks for joining us today, by the way. We appreciate it very much. And I've had several different questions today really quick on when to change oil, things along those lines. One in particular, which I want to cover really quick, is this particular person has a vehicle that's using about a quart of oil every 1,500 miles or so. And the question was, you know, it's got 135,000 miles on it. At what point should I think about doing something else with this engine or with this vehicle? And I'm like, It's a quart every 1,500. Under the new car warranty, if it's not using a quart in about 600 to 700 miles, the factory won't even do anything on that engine. So no offense. Keep driving. Have fun. Enjoy it because it's not using enough oil to worry about it at this point.
SPEAKER 07 :
Every five tanks. Exactly.
SPEAKER 19 :
Put a little fuel in it or put a little oil in it along with the fuel and call it good and keep driving. So that for a lot of you listening, if you're in that same boat, engines use oil and most just don't check to know. Right. Right.
SPEAKER 07 :
Exactly. So, yeah. And we try to inform people of that. You know, when you brought it in, it wasn't registering on the dipstick. You probably had no lights or no.
SPEAKER 19 :
But it's still using oil.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes, they do. That's right.
SPEAKER 19 :
Consume. Craig, what's going on today?
SPEAKER 12 :
Hey, John, this is Craig in Loveland.
SPEAKER 19 :
Good to hear from you, man.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, you bet. I just wanted to compliment you on your show, yet you've had several compliments today. And ongoing, just so worth the time. Thank you. It's amazing. Your guests are awesome, always knowledgeable, very generous with their tech tips and stuff like that. I do have a question on my own vehicle, and then I've got a quick comment after that. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 19 :
Go for it, Craig. Perfect.
SPEAKER 12 :
I've got an 11 Expedition. Runs great, 140K. But I'm starting to suspect some transmission issues when the vehicle is under stress, going up a hill, trying to pass foot all the way in and maybe against a wind or something. The transmission seems to want to slip or hesitate or surge, and it's pretty consistent when it's under stress. And it's a sealed unit, so I don't know what the diagnosis steps are at this point.
SPEAKER 07 :
Are there any lights coming on, any check engine light or anything? No.
SPEAKER 01 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 07 :
Typically, if there were to be a slip, I would say it would turn a light on. So probably not a slip, so to speak. And Ford doesn't know how to detect misfires, so that could be a misfire. And not saying that is it, but when were the last time, like, the spark plugs or the coils were replaced?
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, they haven't been, but in reference to that point, it sometimes will even rev up while it's feeling like it needs to shift. It's going to hesitate, shift, rev up a little bit, and not find the right gear.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, okay.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
So it does feel like an exact slip. I mean, you can see it on the tack and everything. It's hunting. Yes.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. It's hunting. Exactly. And then it'll find it. And then, of course, by that time I have to take my foot out of it because I can't pass any longer. I've missed the opportunity. And then I'm wondering, uh-oh, is this thing going to blow up or what?
SPEAKER 09 :
I'm sorry if I missed it, but did you mention already, have you serviced the transmission fluid or anything regularly or regularly?
SPEAKER 12 :
Not at all.
SPEAKER 09 :
Not at all. Okay.
SPEAKER 12 :
No, no. And we've had it since it was new. So that was my, you know, I can't check the fluid, but. Can I service?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes. I would do that first. And that fluid can be inspected. Absolutely. It just has to be done from underneath, yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, so there's a service procedure. But at that mileage, do it. Yeah, I think what we're saying is if there is a transmission problem, you won't fix that with the fluid service, but you will definitely help prolong the life of the transmission and the shifting precision of that transmission if you can.
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, and in some cases, I've been doing a bunch of studying on this of late, Craig, and depending upon the condition of the fluid, what it's doing at that time, and so on, in some cases, servicing it may actually help with that problem, but you won't know until you do it.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, okay. And it's needed, as Pat said, regardless.
SPEAKER 07 :
Way past, yeah, exactly. It should have been done at 50.
SPEAKER 12 :
That is true. Hey, listen, I've got a comment that I'd like to make, and... I don't want to put John on the spot, but I want to let the world know that I hired John as a business coach about a year and a half ago. And I have, well, we've started an auto parts business, used auto parts online through eBay and other sources. And John helped me navigate the startup of all that, the correct way, the best way to do that, paid off, steady growth, with John's gentle hand of guidance. And I just want to announce to you, John, I don't think I told you this, but we were told by eBay just a couple of days ago that we are now in the top 5% of all eBay sales internationally as well as nationally.
SPEAKER 19 :
Awesome. Good job, Craig.
SPEAKER 12 :
Congrats. And we're selling a lot of product. We're shipping a lot of product. Your gentleman with the ignition issue on the GM... truck, kind of spurred me to this. Nice. Yeah, because he talked about eBay. But, yeah, I mean, we're just smoking, and I want to thank you for it. I want to thank you publicly. I can call you. I know I can call you, but I want to do it publicly. That's huge. It means a lot.
SPEAKER 08 :
Thank you. I appreciate that very much. Thank you, sir. Well, congrats on your business, and I will second what you just said. John is a great business coach. He's a great business person, so we're all fortunate to have him in our circle.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, absolutely. Good to call you a friend.
SPEAKER 19 :
Craig, thank you, sir. I appreciate it. Tell your wife hi for me as well, if you would, please. I will do that.
SPEAKER 12 :
I'll do the same to yours. Appreciate you, man. Love you, Craig.
SPEAKER 19 :
Thank you very much. I appreciate those kind words. I mean that sincerely. So, Jeff and Golden, you are next.
SPEAKER 11 :
Hey, how are you doing, sir? Good, sir. How much did you pay that guy to call in? Not near enough.
SPEAKER 19 :
No, I'm just kidding. Craig and his wife are great people, very much. That's awesome, man.
SPEAKER 11 :
Love them dearly. That's a great testimony right there. That's cool. I need to, you know, I'll be, hopefully I can be a pupil at some point here, too. Well, thank you.
SPEAKER 19 :
I'm here to help.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah. Question. Working on a, what's a 15 Kia Optima. Working out for a friend. and it's got no fan, right? And I think she says it overheats, obviously, on her. I have yet to get it to overheat. Actually, she was adding just pure water right before the cold snap, so I made sure to get some coolant in that mixture, and I probably saved a cylinder head and whatnot block on it. So I've driven around. I can't get it to necessarily heat up on me, but the fan, I did notice the fan doesn't come on now. I've checked. I've, like, arced over the... The sensors, there's a couple sensors on that thing, coolant temp sensors. And I think I've taken those out of the equation, and it still wasn't one to turn that fan on. And I did read somewhere that it can be an air conditioning connected to the air conditioning. And a guy said he fixed his air conditioning, and then all of a sudden that fan started coming on. And so I'm just a little bit of a – I replaced the – Was it the relay for that fan? But I talked to a guy yesterday. There may be another relay in it.
SPEAKER 19 :
Possible.
SPEAKER 07 :
Does the fan come on when you turn the AC on?
SPEAKER 11 :
No.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, it doesn't.
SPEAKER 11 :
And the AC doesn't blow cold either.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay. And then on the scanner, what do you see temperature-wise? Like coming from the coolant temp sensors? Good question. Yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
That's a good question. I haven't done that. My dang scanner got stolen about a month ago and I have about another one. But I did go get it. I haven't had any live data like that to compare, but the needle's working on the gauge, so I was thinking that that was fine.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, sometimes they run two different sensors for that, though. They might. Yeah. One for the computer in the car and one for the gauge. Right. Sometimes, and not necessarily that's the case, but yeah.
SPEAKER 19 :
And I'm assuming, Jeff, you've checked all fuses and all of the easy stuff so far?
SPEAKER 11 :
yeah okay okay have you yeah yeah have you tried putting power right to the fan to see if it even works yeah see if it spins yeah yep yep i even bought an extra another fan down it yeah okay and it does um yeah the fan works but it's a dual fan it's a dual i think it's a dual speed motor though on that probably variable yeah yeah yeah so there's it seems like there's a logic issue somewhere
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, so, I mean, getting live data is going to be your first step because you need to see what it's – Is it telling it to even come on? Exactly. Is it commanding it on? Is it not getting the right sensor or something? Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, what temps it's reading and so on, Jeff?
SPEAKER 1 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
Right, right, and I haven't – like I said, I'm down a tool. I need to pick up another scanner, but if I can get a guy to scan it enough for me, I'm probably going to bring it over to the shop that's just real close to me, and he was going to –
SPEAKER 07 :
That's next step.
SPEAKER 09 :
That seems like next step. I think you've covered a lot of the basics already.
SPEAKER 07 :
See what your inputs are and know what's capable of working.
SPEAKER 11 :
The only thing I haven't done is that extra relay. If there is definitely two relays going to that fan, I know I've looked at the one, but I haven't located and figured out which the other one is. So I guess I ought to do that before I get too... Right. Exactly. So, and another question, what is any, you know, I just bought, I'm like, I'm just like Mr. Rush there. I bought me an electric, but I did, I got the, I got a leaf. Okay. I mean, this is, I went from a 69 F two 50 to this leaf kind of quite a jump, but it's been interesting. You know what I mean? It's an interesting learning process. Oh yeah. Going to find these plugins and showing, you know, bear what you get to the location. And then there's just a, you know, a cut bear wire and all this stuff. Well, crazy. Yeah, not for everybody. They're very nice to drive. They're comfort-loving. I mean, how quiet they are and all that stuff is amazing. Do they tune them? Can you get a guy to make them go faster?
SPEAKER 19 :
Not that I've seen. I've looked. I haven't seen anybody other than Tesla that'll give you the download if you pay him to do so. I've not seen anybody else that'll override and do any kind of programming.
SPEAKER 09 :
I've actually not owned one, so I might be speaking out of turn here, but I've heard that they're actually pretty responsive and peppy to drive overall as a vehicle class, right?
SPEAKER 11 :
Oh, they are. No, it is. It's amazing. You can go from 60 to 80 just with a, you know, it's amazing. Yeah, where you better hold on to the steering wheel because she's going to move on. You know what I mean? It's crazy. Yeah, no, they're amazing. But it does have that limit, and I just always like to – I mean, I'm a race car guy anyway, so it's – There you go. I was just curious, you know what I mean? And the guys at Nissan, they gave me a couple numbers. I didn't take it down there, but they had a couple guys where they think you might be able to. Okay.
SPEAKER 19 :
So I didn't know, like – They've had to jailbreak it and do something along those lines, and yeah, that I don't know, Jeff.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right, yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
Probably not worth it. It's really not worth it. I mean, it was just kind of more of a fun question.
SPEAKER 07 :
Just make your foot respond quicker. Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER 11 :
I'll tell you what, they do incredible in the snow. I'm running this front snow tire. They're heavy, yeah, absolutely. 4,600-pound Volkswagen Rabbit, you know what I mean? And the thing just plows through the snow.
SPEAKER 19 :
That's right. That's crazy. Thank you, sir. Jeff, appreciate you very much. Got a couple lines open, 303-477-5600. Eric, hang tight. We'll take you as soon as we come back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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All right, we are back, finishing out the first hour of, or sorry, second hour, I mean, of Drive Radio. One more hour coming your way is what I meant to say. Eric is next. Go ahead, Eric.
SPEAKER 10 :
Hey, guys. Hey, last week, John, you were talking about the whole cold weather thing. Right. Starting that one. And lo and behold, on Tuesday, I think it was either Tuesday or Wednesday, I'm wandering online. There's a USA Today article. Regarding the whole cold start thing that completely went against what you were saying. And I'm reading this laughing at what they were at their comment. And it did not mention that other that shop that or that other guy you were talking about. Dave. But yeah, Dave. Yeah. And I'm laughing at some of the comments or some of the article. And then I'm looking at the comments. and there's probably about 50 people commenting, and 45 of them are saying the same things that we were saying last week. No, this is not the way you need to do it. And then there's people asking, like, other questions, and then all of a sudden there's somebody going, oh, no, all of you people are wrong. If this was the case where you had to do this and this and this, the manufacturers would tell you to do this, and none of this is, they're correct. You don't need to go through all this process. And it's just like, really? Have you ever bothered to look at vehicle cold start on YouTube? And especially they're talking about, and a guy last week brought that up too, is there's videos showing what they deal with in Siberia when it's 75 below. And the fact that you have to put a cover over the car if you let your car shut off. You have to put a cover over the car and then a portable heater in the right spot in order to warm the oil up. And after an hour, it shows the oil is finally thin enough to where you can attempt to start it. But they're showing at 70 below, they pull the dipstick out, and it's just like tap, tap, and you break the dipstick, and the oil breaks off in chips. It was frozen solid.
SPEAKER 1 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, well, and to your point, Eric, and I think, unfortunately, there are a lot of very naive individuals. And it's interesting, as I talked last week about that whole conversation, what started at Dave, Dave's Auto Center up in Utah. There's no secrets there. He's the one that really got that going. It's interesting. I watched a video of him this last week where he said, I didn't say any of that, kind of backtracking on... Some of what actually came out. And I'm like, well, yeah, you did. In fact, there was a lot of people that even took that video and added their own comments and said, well, yeah, Dave, you actually did.
SPEAKER 07 :
But you said here you really didn't. Yeah.
SPEAKER 19 :
I mean, it's like, well, that is exactly what you said. And you you really because of his following misled a lot of individuals that, frankly, I think. are frankly misled because he was completely wrong. And I talked about that last week. But yeah, Eric, I mean, all you have to do is study, you know, super cold weather, not only driving, but just what happens with certain types of, you know, machinery and engines and things that have fluid in them and so on. It's like you knucklehead. Yes, you have to warm things up.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And like I say, if you decide to get bored and waste time on YouTube and start looking at these videos out of Siberia and whatnot, and when they're dealing with the cars, I mean, you just sit there in amazement and kind of chuckle at it. And the one I'm watching, this woman, they're talking about there's an eight-story parking garage where, and I guess a lot of vehicles over there have double windshields.
SPEAKER 07 :
Wow. Insulating factor. Yeah. Wow.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, that would make sense. Yeah, they basically glue a second windshield on top of the main windshield, your regular windshield, because of the icing issues. And she's showing, she pulls into this eight-story parking garage and gets about one and a half levels in, and every window completely just... ice is over from the temperature change.
SPEAKER 19 :
Wow. Interesting.
SPEAKER 10 :
You know, and it's like your watch is going, okay. And then they show, well, this is why we have, you know, starting sensors on our cars. And, you know, they replace batteries like every other year in most cases because they die. And, you know, and it's showing this car was idling. The battery, it shut off. The remote start or whatever, it shut off. And two hours later, the person came out, and then they were shown the process to get the car restarted. And it's like, yeah, okay. But, hey, and then I missed it last week. The question last week was, what car would you buy when you're talking about Barrett-Jackson? Go ahead. So here's a question for all three of you guys based on that. Watching Barrett-Jackson, watching Super Saturday last week, and they had the gullwing, the Mercedes gullwing, and they said it was, yeah. And I'm watching this. I'm drooling over it. My wife makes the comment. She goes, I mean, it's a nice-looking car, but, I mean, is that grounds for divorce right there?
SPEAKER 19 :
It's on the table. And that's another one of those cars that if you ever have a chance to own one, you will never lose money.
SPEAKER 18 :
Right, right.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, exactly. I mean, they've kind of peaked a little bit, but not really. They'll come back. Yeah, it's like they kind of peaked a little bit, or it's more like they've plateaued, and then I think they're going to start going up again, because they were saying that the 56... There was only 300 of them, and they're all accounted for.
SPEAKER 19 :
When you're that low in numbers, it's like art, Eric. They will come back, period. I'd be afraid to drive it, honestly.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, right. Well, you don't.
SPEAKER 19 :
You go park that car and just take pictures.
SPEAKER 10 :
That's right. And then once a month, you push it out of the garage, hand wash it, push it back in, and put the cover back on it. you know type type thing you know or you put it that's the put in a museum is really where it should go yeah its own climate control exactly yeah yeah but when she but when she said that she goes yeah it's a beautiful car but i just kind of don't get it i'm just like
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, well.
SPEAKER 10 :
Your father was a mechanic his entire life. You grew up working in his shop. He would know.
SPEAKER 19 :
He would know. That's right. Good one, Eric. Good one.
SPEAKER 04 :
Hey, man, I'll let you go.
SPEAKER 19 :
Appreciate you very much. Thanks for the call, Eric, and the reiteration of what we talked about last week as well. Michael in Cheyenne, hang tight. Mike in Highlands Ranch. So two Mikes. One line open, by the way. 303-477-5600. 303-477-5600. And then, again, just back to some of the questions I've gotten in regards to oil changes. So one other one I wanted to add in before the top of the hour. Somebody texted in in a vehicle where they don't drive a lot per year for pretty low miles. They did an oil change back in September. They've put about 1,200 miles on it since, maybe 1,600. And they're going to get ready to go on a 3000 mile trip here in the not too distant future. Wanted to know if they should change oil prior to the trip. And I know the vehicle and all of that. And basically what I said was, go have a fun trip. Change it when you get back. You really at that point, you don't have enough miles on it to justify changing it now. You will when you get back. It's highway miles that you're driving. So, yeah, you'll be a little bit over probably the mark I would want to be at actually an oil change, maybe about 500 miles. But given the fact you're doing a road trip, I don't care about that. Go have fun. Enjoy your trip. All right. We'll be right back, guys. One line open again, 303-477-5600. Drive Radio, myself, Pat, and Ken. We'll be right back here on KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 13 :
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In today's episode of Fix It Radio, we discuss the smart approaches to dealing with home insurance and service contracts. The episode kicks off with an engaging discussion about the unsolicited offers from utility companies and how they stack up against taking a more proactive personal finance approach. Drawing from years of industry experience, our hosts provide viable alternatives to these service contracts, emphasizing self-management and savings. Through anecdotal evidence and expert advice, we explore why being diligent with maintenance can often eliminate the need for costly additional contracts. We take calls from audience members sharing their experiences, giving a broader perspective on how these financial decisions play out in real life. Concluding with actionable tips on managing your household appliances and HVAC systems, this episode is a treasure trove of insights for anyone looking to take control of their home maintenance without breaking the bank. From insurance agent wisdom to the power of disciplined saving, each segment is designed to help you achieve both financial efficiency and peace of mind.
SPEAKER 05 :
Walter? Yes! Are you all right?
SPEAKER 04 :
In the floor behind the chair.
SPEAKER 06 :
This is America.
SPEAKER 02 :
Does everybody know what time it is? Fix It Radio!
SPEAKER 11 :
It is Fix It Radio, KLZ 560. Thanks for joining us today. Whether you're listening to a replay, be that on potentially Tuesday or some other time, or live on Saturday morning, it is February. I said that correctly, Charlie. February the 1st. Larry Unger with me today as well, because we don't have a lot of snow like we did last week.
SPEAKER 13 :
Not only snow, but a lot of... Last week.
SPEAKER 11 :
No apologies needed on that, Larry.
SPEAKER 13 :
I almost wasn't sure I was going to make it today after I looked at the news and saw there was a crash here at 225 and 70.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay, that's why it sent me a different way today. Got it.
SPEAKER 13 :
But it was funny because as soon as I got up to 225, they turned the lights off that said 225 was closed. So I could just zip right on through.
SPEAKER 11 :
So you were good. Yeah. Okay, well, good. Several things I want to talk about today. Don't forget, lines are always open. You can always call in with a question, something around the house. Weather-wise, and it's this time of the year where, yeah, we cover some of those things. Today's going to be absolutely a gorgeous day. It doesn't look like it outside. It's about 40 degrees right now, but we're going to get into the mid-50s. Tomorrow's going to be super nice, almost 60. And then I think mid-60s for Monday and Tuesday. And then I think after that, it kind of starts to go back the other way and potential for rain. Snow comes in next weekend, and we have a pretty cold weekend next weekend. So if you want to get out and do some things outside, today would be the day to do that. I've got several things to talk about along those lines. We've got some tips on things that most people never do, and right now, this time of the year, would be a good time to do it. There's not anything really going on this weekend as far as NFL and all of that. That Super Bowl doesn't come around until next Sunday. So you've got a nice weekend of decent weather and all that to – get out and do some things something that i don't know that i've ever talked about on fix it radio and i had one of my coaching clients i coach other businesses uh throughout the week and so i had one of my coaching clients who was looking at doing some different things on their homeowners insurance and so on and normally we talk you know business things but i help in you know as many areas as i can and the question came up they were you know renewing a policy or no i know what it was they had gotten a flyer in the mail And these come to a lot of you on a regular basis, especially in the Denver metro area. But you'll get these pretty much anywhere. And that's the companies that are working with some of the utilities. So you may see this come in your water bill. You may see it come in your XL bill. You may see it just come on its own. And those are folks that are trying to sell you other maintenance things. Outside of the services that that particular company is providing. So, for example, you may get somebody wanting to provide you with a sewer line insurance or an appliance insurance or this, that or the other. And what I will tell you is throw those in the trash. Don't even look at them. And when it comes to the sewer line especially, go review your own homeowner's policy and see what it says about said sewer line. You may very well already have some coverage for that. And if not, call your agent and say, hey, I got this thing in the mail. It is something that might be concerning to me or might be interested in. And I'd like to know if I put an additional rider on my policy for my sewer line, what would that look like? chances are you're going to do that and save a boatload of money over what the other policy would and by the way the other policy typically means they're working even with specific companies that will come out and even perform said services and it's almost like an extended warranty you know extended service contracts are not warranties but an extended service contract on your car which i'm very familiar with and have been for decades probably over the last i'm not exaggerating i have Been around extended service contracts on cars for 50 years, and I'm not exaggerating when I say that. I started working in my family's dealership when I was 9, 10 years of age, and that was about when those started to come out. They weren't super popular at that point, but it wasn't but, Larry, probably five years or so later where I was probably 15. And they really started to get popular, and they have been popular ever since. And they figured out, hey, if we can do this on cars, why can't we do this on all sorts of other things? And so that service contract business started to literally flourish, and you can pretty much buy a service contract for anything you want to today. Even things that, by the way, are not brand new, they will prorate and do different things and so on, and that's where you've got to really be careful. My point on your sewer line and other services that you may have coming into your home where they're wanting to sell you additional coverage, be careful, read the fine print, and typically you can call your own insurance agent and buy insurance that way and not even have to mess around with the folks that you've gotten the flyer from.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, and the sad part with these flyers that you get is you don't know what they'll cover or what they won't cover and what causes a failure. is depending on whether they covered or not.
SPEAKER 11 :
Correct. You're right, Larry. So again, to Larry's point, my advice is if that's something you're concerned about, then call your agent, find out exactly what you can add to your own policy. It might already be included in your policy. And there's typically caps on that where they'll cover the line up to X amount of dollars and To Larry's point, there may be some stipulations as to why they will cover it. In other words, if somebody is just out digging and they hit the line, yeah, they're probably not covering that. Now, if all of a sudden a tree root grows in and there's a problem along those lines, those are some of the things you have to ask. And typically those sorts of things may be covered. But point is, find out. determine if that's something you're concerned about, find out how all of that works, make your determinations off of that. And bottom line, in my advice to this particular client of mine was, yeah, toss that thing in the trashola because it's not something that you really need to be worried about.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, I know you talked about this a couple weeks ago on insurance, so I don't want to belay the point. No, go ahead. But this is why you have an insurance agent instead of buying your insurance online. Good point. Because now you have somebody you can talk with, and they can talk with you.
SPEAKER 11 :
And they're doing this on a literally daily basis. Right. In some cases, some of these guys I know, Paul Leuenberger, who is our guy here, he's the guy literally that you can pretty much call seven days a week, and he will be there to answer questions for you because that's just the kind of guy that he is and how he works. handles things and so yeah to your point Larry you know he is he especially is one of those kinds of guys where you could call and say hey Paul I've been thinking about this and not sure what I need to be doing and you know what's your advice and he knows you he knows your policy he knows what's in it he you know he knows exactly what to do or not do and can advise you on that well and he knows not only his insurance group that he uses
SPEAKER 13 :
But they have different programs for different things. That's right. And he can steer you in the right direction.
SPEAKER 11 :
That's right. So, once again, if any of you listening have any feedback on that or you've had experience with some of these situations, maybe you've even potentially bought some of these service contracts. Okay, if you did... How did that go? What are your thoughts? And so on. So, again, let me know in our text line, 307-282-22307, 282-22. You can also call in direct and talk to us live during the program. This is on Saturday morning, of course, 303-477-5600, 303-477-5600. And, again, lines are open. Feel free to call in if you'd like to add to this and subscribe. again we we appreciate that some of you have a lot more experience this is one of those items by the way that i've never done i've never owned or bought this kind of coverage i think for me uh larry it's more of If you keep things maintained and you watch what's going on and you pay attention, and in my case, I have septic instead of sewer anyway, so it's not quite applicable anyways. But if you're keeping things up and keeping things maintained, typically speaking, having line insurance isn't something that really is a must, if you ask me.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, the only thing I would be concerned with is because in some cities, they do not cover the sewer line from your house to the street.
SPEAKER 11 :
That is correct.
SPEAKER 13 :
So there you might want to look at some other coverages. But everything in the house is covered through the House Owners and Policy.
SPEAKER 11 :
That's right. And again, in some cases, what Larry just said, you can buy additional coverage for those things. Sometimes those are... you know, going to be included in your policy or can be a rider on your policy. These are things you just have to call and check. But my point is, much like an extended contract on your car that you potentially can buy at that new car dealer, which in a lot of cases you don't need, and we can talk about during Drive Radio a little bit more in depth, but at the end of the day, typically you don't need those things and you could budget in whatever the cost of that is. Here's a thought. let's say that the cost of coverage is and i don't know what these things run let's say it's 100 bucks a month 50 bucks a month whatever whatever the magic number is take that money instead of adding that insurance or even buying you know that particular you know standalone policy go put that money in a savings account that you don't touch yeah earmark your uh home repairs just keep piling that up yep chances are that if and when something comes up, A, you'll have that money, B, you'll typically have more money in that account than what you would actually need anyway, so at the end of the day, you're typically gonna be ahead. We talk about that on the car sides of things when it comes to service contracts. If you took the same money, put that into its own account and even kept, you know, whatever that monthly amount is, just keep doing that. And then use that for some of the car maintenance things that you need to do to keep you from having to use the service contract in the first place. You'll typically be way money ahead when it's all said and done. Jeff, what's going on today, sir?
SPEAKER 03 :
Hey, morning. We got a little bit of sunshine here before coming in. Yeah. So still cold, still Montana. I'm going to change, but, uh, They're all good. Yeah, you're talking about service contracts and sewer lines in particular. I had to have a sewer line. I had a sewer line issue, and it was right where the city connected to the city junction there in Colorado Springs. And so it was my problem. But the original coupling some 20 or 25 years before hadn't been tightened down, and so over the years... hydraulic pressure from the ground had kind of caused it to slip an inch or two down. So there was some blockages happening there, and we had to pay for that ourselves. But in the general realm of service contracts, nationally, when you look at them, they are somewhere between 80% to 90% profit. The dealers were selling them because they make money on it. That's right, Jeff. And so if you want to protect yourself, the best thing to do is take that money that you would have otherwise paid for the service contract, particularly on something that's new because you're going to have several years before anything's going to happen, and then just put it in an S&P 500 phone and watch it grow.
SPEAKER 11 :
Great idea.
SPEAKER 03 :
And if you need it, it's there. And if you don't, You're richer. That's right. You haven't given your money away.
SPEAKER 11 :
Somebody just asked, too, and this is while you're on the line, Jeff, get your opinion, Larry, as well. How about appliance and HVAC coverage from the utility company? Yeah, that's another one, Jeff, where I would do exactly the same thing you just talked about when it comes to the service line, you know, coming in from the street like Larry was talking about. Most of the time the cities aren't going to cover that. When it comes to your appliances, HVAC, things like that, Jeff, I'm the same as you. I would not buy anybody's coverage. Do your maintenance like you should. Your filter changes, taking care of your outside AC unit, making sure that it's handled. If you can't do it yourself, we've got several HVAC companies, one in particular, that's more than willing to come out and help you with those things, keep those things maintained. And again, Jeff, as you know, chances of you having a major malfunction if you're keeping things up to speed is pretty nil.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, I mean, a funny thing just happened this week. I went to get some water out of the ice maker on the refrigerator, and all of a sudden, nothing worked. And I opened the door, and the lights were off. And I went, oh, my God, what's going on? And so that, you know, if you had a service contract, maybe you would have called somebody out to take care of that. But what it turned out to be was, and I didn't know this, refrigerators have a Sabbath mode. Have you ever heard of that?
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, I have.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, I had not.
SPEAKER 11 :
And it was in that mode.
SPEAKER 03 :
It was in Sabbath mode, so it was not doing anything because on the Sabbath you're not supposed to do anything.
SPEAKER 11 :
So I found out how to... Well, and that's one of those too, Jeff, to where if you had a contract on that particular, in this case, refrigerator, freezer, that's one of those to where because it was a setting and not an actual problem, would they have actually covered that or would you have paid a trip charge?
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, I would have paid a trip charge.
SPEAKER 11 :
There you go.
SPEAKER 03 :
And so, yeah. And so... just know your stuff, take care of stuff. That fridge has had to have a board replaced because it wasn't frosting properly. And dishwasher had to have a couple. So I paid for those, paid for those on pocket, but all in all, I've paid no more than I would have with a service contract and money that I, that would have gone into it. I have, you know, if I need it, it's in a, it's in a God only knows fund. And, uh, It'll take care of it.
SPEAKER 11 :
And I understand, Jeff, that you are and I, Larry, I mean, a lot of you listening are very disciplined. These things make a lot of sense for those people that are very disciplined with their money. I understand that in some cases people aren't. as discipline in the service contracts make it easy for them to quote-unquote budget but my feeling on that is is the it money is money you're still paying it so whether it's included in something or it's a separate deduction that you're doing automatically on your credit card or out of your checking account to your point Jeff get on the investment side Because we do the same thing. You can take a certain amount of money every week, every day, every month, on the 15th, the 25th, however you want to set it up, Jeff. As you know, you can take that money and put it into one of the funds that you just mentioned on a regular basis, just like you were paying a service contract. No different.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right, exactly. And, you know, a fund like that is for long-term. It's going to go up and down, and if you're watching it even on a year-to-year basis, I think... Don't.
SPEAKER 11 :
Just put them into decent long-term funds that have performed well, Jeff, that have, you know, 5% to 8% or even maybe a higher return on average, and put the money in there and forget about it.
SPEAKER 03 :
I mean, I have... Since I retired up here, I have watched my annual growth. And like I said, it's fluctuated up and down. And 30% is kind of the bounds between which it has fluctuated over the years, both positive and negative. But on average... Just putting in decent funds, like you said, I've earned over 12% right now.
SPEAKER 11 :
Nothing wrong with that. And my point with that, Jeff, and I understand this also. I know some people are day traders and understand about a lot of things along those lines. It's what they do. And Jeff, if that's your forte and that's what you're good at and that's your expertise, I'm not talking to you. The majority of people, though, Jeff, are not day traders. And honestly, to your point, shouldn't be looking at where things are day to day and worried about things and moving, you know, money from here to there and so on. Now, I guess if you get some good information on something that potentially might be coming up, for example, had you known, you know, last Sunday that everything was going to take a hit in the tech stock, energy stock world because of, you know, deep seek, you might have moved some things around, you know. before Monday morning. But once again, Jeff, those things came back as the week went on. So was it really worth messing with all of that? In fact, what you should have done is just bought a little bit more when everything was down because it's going to come back up anyways.
SPEAKER 03 :
I couldn't agree more. I don't even, you know, as you were talking, I was thinking, okay, people don't want to worry about their appliances. So they buy this contract and they pay excessive money so they don't have to worry about their appliances. But then they try to do day trading and they start worrying about day trading instead of just putting things in to like an S&P 500 account and letting history... make them wealthier.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, and in those cases, Jeff, as you know, those money managers, which like them or not, it's what they do daily. It's like me, you know, being on air or for those of you listening that have expertise in your world, in your career, your job, they are doing what you do. They're experts at what they do. We're experts at what we do. And Jeff, I am not an expert and I'll be the first to admit it. I am not an expert at what they do.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. Interesting fact, something like 80% of actively managed funds underperform the S&P 500 average. So all those guys out there who tout themselves as experts and knowledgeable, most of them aren't. Most of them end up doing worse than if you just put your money in. So if that's something you want as a skill set to learn, by all means, as you said, go ahead and learn it. But I'm sorry, it's not something I was interested in. I've I want my life to be calmer and more peaceful rather than worrying of having, you know, phones ding and say, oh, you got, you know, one second to trade, press a button or not. You know, that to me is just...
SPEAKER 11 :
recipe for anxiety no but you know your point and it's well taken and those of you listening uh please if you're somebody that's interested in i had a text message come in you know as we were even talking jeff about the appliance end of it or hvac some of the things that xcel energy sells and again they're going to add that to your bill so point being let's say they're going to add 29.99 a month to your bill to cover that take the same 29.99 a month and do exactly what you just said jeff And make it automatic. You're still going to pay it. It's still going there. You're still going to have that money. You can retrieve it anytime you want. Just set that up and make it automatic.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, because if you just look at it, raw numbers, $29.99, $30. At the end of the year, you're going to have $360.
SPEAKER 11 :
There you go.
SPEAKER 03 :
What appliance repair costs more than $360? $360. I don't think I've paid more than that. I think mine have been around $2,250. And I have trip charges out here in Western Montana that are pretty substantial.
SPEAKER 11 :
And that's just year one, Jeff. If you went three years and didn't have anything, which, by the way, is what the warranty companies that are working with Excel expect you to do. In fact, they expect you to probably never call them because if you're doing...
SPEAKER 03 :
certain things correctly the chances of them have you calling them are pretty slim anyways in their banking on that to your point earlier that's how they all make money they know the ratios and what the actuaries show or they wouldn't be in that business Jeff that is an excellent point John I mean you just the appliance has a two to three year warranty let's say three year warranty so you buy a service contract at the beginning your warranty covers that first three years so you paid out 30 bucks a month a thousand dollars
SPEAKER 11 :
to cover something that was already covered right why would you do that right exactly and and for for example this is something that you know a cub creek who's my sponsor during the week cub creek heating and air conditioning if you go by for example a which they're a ream authorized installer jeff you go install a ream furnace for example they come with a 10-year warranty already and yeah if you have to have something done they're going to charge you a trip charge and labor but all the parts and everything in that are included and a lot of folks even like cub creek will sell you a contract by the way they'll even handle the labor side of it if you feel like that's something that you want to take care of and you want to pay that on the front side and have everything covered for the entire 10 years well if you want that peace of mind then buy it and be done with it point being though jeff that particular company does a 10-year warranty wow yeah so that's 360 bucks on the 30 bucks a month model
SPEAKER 03 :
$3,600 that you're paying for some sort of peace of mind that you already had.
SPEAKER 11 :
Right. Correct.
SPEAKER 03 :
When you start to think about it, how ridiculous is it? And I'm not mocking anybody out there.
SPEAKER 11 :
No, but case in point, Jeff, how many people that in this particular case, using this example where somebody texted in, and this is where you need to go and look and see what you actually have as a brand for a furnace. And all of them have stickers to tell you how old the furnace actually is. If you go look at that and realize, wait a minute, my furnace is only four years old and it's a ream, meaning at least on the part sides of things for this furnace, I'm covered for another seven years. Well, now, Jeff, what you just said comes into play. And in a lot of cases. What they're banking on is you don't do what I just did. You're just going to go buy, quote, unquote, that peace of mind from Xcel Energy, have it added into your utility bill. Xcel, by the way, for all of you listening, is making a cut of that. The service provider is making a cut of that. And at the end of the day, the one that's really getting shortchanged is you, the customer.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right, because they're basically activating your fear response. You feel under threat that your furnace might go out, so you don't respond to what's going on, to what they say. You react to the fear, and you go, oh, my God, I've got to get covered. Well, stop and think, you know, that the thing that's crossing your path is you're hiking there in Colorado and you go, oh, I got a snake. And then you look at him, but no, it's just a stick.
SPEAKER 11 :
Right.
SPEAKER 03 :
You know, right. Don't treat everything as though it's a snake. Great point. All your appliances, you know. Great point. Don't have that fear response. Just, you know. Think about it. Great point. And do it in your best interest.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yep. Great point. So, Jeff, thank you. That was great and fitted right in with the text message we got at the same time. Perfect timing. Super. Thanks. Thanks, man. Appreciate you very much. We'll take a quick timeout. And, yes, the folks that you're going to hear here in a moment that advertise with us, yes, they make this show happen on a regular basis. I encourage you to please use them. Find them at fixitradio.com. And when you use them, let them know you heard them here. But we'll be right back. This is KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 11 :
All right, we are back. Fix-It Radio, KLZ 560. And the person we're texting back and forth is giving me some great information, by the way. And, yeah, for some of you, too, I do think, and this is a question that came up in our text stream back and forth, the brand of the appliance, I think, does come into play on some of this. And there has been some class action lawsuits even on some brands, Samsung, on their freezers or their ice makers and things like that. So... Yes, I do think that there is something to be said about the type and the brand of appliance that you own. And in some cases, you may have just walked into those brands. In other words, they came with the house that you own. You didn't have a choice in that particular brand. And that's one of those to where you may want to look at things a little bit closer, although I still like Jeff's approach. If you look at, you know, what are they going to charge you for said service contract from Excel or whoever? And by the way, it'll vary depending upon probably the type of appliance you have, the age and so on. But when it's all said and done, if you get a quote from them on what that dollar amount is, I still like Jeff's approach. Take whatever that dollar amount is going to be. And if it's $30, $60, $100, I don't know what the dollar amount is. I've never bought one of those contracts on appliances, so I don't know what that magic number is. And if somebody knows you're either paying for one or you've gotten a quote on them, please text me or call in and let me know so we can do that comparison as to what We did with Jeff from Montana a few minutes ago. We used the $30 a month scenario, which I think, by the way, I probably am under. I'm probably under what some of these contracts actually cost. And to Jeff's comparison or his analysis a moment ago, if that dollar amount is higher than everything Jeff just said goes up, So instead of it being the dollar amount we were talking about with Jeff, the $360 a year, well, do the math. If it's $50, now it's $600. You get where I'm going with this. Well, I'm like you, John. Figure that out.
SPEAKER 13 :
I've never done the contracts either, but when I'm looking at the automotive side of things, you can get contracts for less money, but it covers less money. uh, repairs. Same thing with your appliances in your house. You can get lesser contracts, but it won't cover all the appliances in your house. So obviously the more appliances you put on your policy, the more expensive.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah. Right. So the, and again, this is one of those things where, and I realized in some cases there are certain brands where there's not much you can do maintenance wise or anything to keep that, uh, that particular piece of equipment lasting longer and I'm fully aware of that and that's one of those where you again you just have to do the math and decide okay if a replacement unit costs X And the contract for this one is X. And I get X amount down the road and have to do some sort of a repair. Well, at that point, you've got to determine, am I better off just tossing that unit at that point and replacing it, by the way, with something that might have a little bit more quality and less repair? And again, there are multiple sites out there, Consumer Reports being one, but there's many others that do reviews. on appliances washers dryers refrigerators dishwashers and so on and they will tell you on the front side you know here are the better quality brands just just like the automotive world does they will tell you total cost of ownership you know on average these are the type of repairs that you're going to find or you're not going to find and and and and what you'll learn is It's like anything else, and it's not always the case because price doesn't always guarantee you good quality. In a lot of cases, some of these appliances have so many bells and whistles that they jack the price up because of that. And you might have been better off to have gone and bought a – we'll use washers and dryers for an example. You could go get one of the fanciest front load. It does everything, steam, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And it's got all the bells and whistles, all the computerization and so on. And it's the same money as a standard Speed Queen, which, by the way, is a really, really nice brand and doesn't come with a lot of bells and whistles. But Speed Queen is what you'll see, by the way, in a lot of commercial and or semi-commercial applications. You'll see those in hotels and places like that where there's multiple people using them. And it's like, OK, wait a minute, if they're using these, Why? Well, because they don't break. That's why. So my point is, on the front side, you may be going to an appliance place and looking at all of the different things that they have. And by the way, most of them don't have Speed Queen because those are done differently as far as their distribution and that goes. And I would venture to guess that you go buy a fully loaded washer dryer from any of the big box stores that's got all of the fancy, you know, electronics with it and then go compare that to a Speed Queen. You may find yourself not spending much more money to go buy the Speed Queen, which I can tell you right now, their reliability factor on the products they sell, period, is much better than what you're going to find with some of the other brands that have all the fancy products. gear and all the fancy you know electronic equipment and when it comes to washing and drying my opinion by the way um at the end of the day do you really need all that stuff no
SPEAKER 13 :
Not as an average homeowner? No.
SPEAKER 11 :
No, I really don't. Most of those features you're never going to use. They're there. The fact of the matter is they do all of that as a selling point to try to sell you their machine versus the one next to it. And at the end of the day, you're really not going to use the majority of things that are on it. It's sort of like the infotainment system on your car. And I don't know what the studies show on this, but I can just tell you driving different new cars that we do with the reviews that we do and so on, the reality is the majority of bells and whistles on a lot of these cars most people never use. A fraction of the people use some of those things that are there.
SPEAKER 13 :
Or can even figure out how to use them.
SPEAKER 11 :
exactly so point being they do all this stuff to try to compete with the next person at the end of the day do you really need all of that probably not and that's where you just need to do some of your research on the front side and determine what do you need and then go out there and shop and and this is one of those things too that i always say i say this on drive radio constantly i'll say it here on fix it radio buy when you don't need exactly when you know that okay my machine is is uh i don't know 14 years old we'll throw a number out And you're thinking, OK, I'm probably getting close to the end of the lifespan. Maybe I am. Maybe I'm not. But I'm going to at least look around. Let's see what's out there. Let's see where I'm at with what I currently have. And you start doing the math on these things and you start looking and budgeting and figuring things out and so on. My point is it's a lot easier to do that when your current machine is working.
SPEAKER 13 :
Exactly.
SPEAKER 11 :
Than when it hasn't and a repair person's come out and has said, yeah, we're going to kind of give this one the old death wish. Probably not worth putting any money into this. And now you're out shopping for something new at that point. That is the worst time to be out shopping. You're always better off shopping on the front side when you don't need something than when you do and it's an emergency.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, and the good thing of shopping when you don't need it is you can wait for sales to come up and different things of those natures.
SPEAKER 11 :
Absolutely, Larry. You can look for, and frankly, a lot of people, especially when it comes to appliances, there's a lot of used appliances that come up on places like Facebook Marketplace and other things along those lines where people can do all sorts of things with different machines. They've downsized. They're upsizing. They're getting rid of one. They're getting rid of another. They're moving. They're doing this. They're doing that. The person coming in has different machines than they have, so they're going to go ahead and take theirs and sell them. Point being, there's a lot of places to buy things besides going new to the big box stores and buying them that way as well. Mark and Wiggins, go ahead. Hey, good morning, guys. Good morning. Good morning.
SPEAKER 04 :
Hey, I heard you guys talking about appliances, and I've been trying to think. Every weekend I listen. I've been listening for eight years or maybe longer than that. Anyway, I just love all the knowledge you guys have. I feel like I've got this stupid question in my head. Never a dumb question. Never a dumb question, right. Well, I remember last year I've had to really deal with laundry issues as far as the appliance quality. We had LG washer and dryer, and so you recommended the Speed Queen, which we got the dryer, and I love it. So we still have the old LG washer, but I noticed something, you know, that every now and then when I'm trying to do wash on normal, it will automatically choose, like, warm or semi-warm wash. And then we get like this nasty, chunky, junky water flowing in there. And I thought, okay, you know, let's clean out the tub or the tank and then flush it and run it again or run, you know, several with bleach and it'll still come back. And so I'm like, okay, what's going on here? You know, so I'll change it from the temperature to cold, like tap cold. and then run the tub clean again, and all that stuff doesn't come back. So I thought, okay, well, maybe we have something nasty coming from the hot water tank. And I thought that inside the hot water tank itself, it's a gas, that where the water comes from is the nozzle or the tube on the top of the tank. Is that correct?
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, you've got cold going in and warm coming out, both at the top of the tank, yes.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yep. Oh, so neither of the tubes go to the bottom of the tank? No. Not that I know of.
SPEAKER 11 :
No, you've got water. So the way a gas heater works, of course, is you've got a series of tubes inside of the heater itself or inside the tank. Let me say this correctly. Inside the tank that is heating the water. And as we know, heat rises, Mark, so that when that water is being heated in the tank, it literally is being heated from the top down. Think of it that way because the water is going to naturally, the hot water is going to naturally rise to the top. That's why the outlet. by the way is at the top and of course there's pressure in that tank so you've got cold water coming in and when you turn a faucet on that's when the tank is going to circulate or remove that hot water from the top first and then of course the cold water is coming in and this is where if you don't have enough capacity so let's say you've got a 30 gallon tank and you got five kids well no offense, after about a shower and a half is done, that tank has been depleted of the hot water in it. And that's where if you've got multiple family members, and this is where even in my past, you know, I had enough kids that we raised. I had seven kids, Mark. I always, every house I had, I added a secondary hot water heater to our system to where I would either run two 50s having 100 or at least a 50 and a 40 having 90 and And at that point, you'd never run out of hot water because you could put them in series. So it just depends on your circumstances. But that's essentially how they work.
SPEAKER 04 :
I was actually thinking about that. I looked into, you know, could I add a second one? And I don't know if that would work with, you know, the venting and everything with the space in that particular mechanical room. But something I've looked up because I've been trying to.
SPEAKER 11 :
um keep up with the maintenance on this thing because we've already had to replace it once because we have hard water right now and as you know that's always with the with the rod that's in them that needs to be changed out and so on it's doing the best it can to try to clean that up but yeah the better quality water you have coming in of course the better quality you have coming out and the less buildup inside of the tank you have
SPEAKER 04 :
Right. So, so my main question would be is, so I've, I've done flushes myself over the years of homeownership for, you know, 10, 15 years. But recently I saw this YouTube guide that had a little tool that would like a, like a snake that connected to a drill and had a water blaster or something, uh, that would reach inside the tank and beat around. And I thought that's going to destroy the, your rod and your tank and not really do you any long-term good. So my question is, is there a better way other than just turning on the valve or opening the drain valve
SPEAKER 11 :
and and flushing it out or is that the best way as far as uh flushing the hot water tank out once a year a couple of answers there one if you have to do what the other guy is saying and you've got that much build up in your tank you probably need to look at doing something at least prior to that tank in regards to your water quality and trying to get that filtered out and doing some things so that you just don't have that much buildup in the tank in the first place. After that, Mark, yeah, I would say that, number one, I would not go through and do what this particular person is doing in regards to cleaning the inside of the tank. And again, if you've got that much buildup, we have other issues. To your point, just draining the tank and flushing it the way that you're talking, yes, that would be the way to perform that.
SPEAKER 04 :
Got it. Perfect.
SPEAKER 11 :
And in your case, so I guess, you know, backing up a little bit, Mark, in your case, given that you've got, you know, a water quality issue, what are you doing on that end of things to make it better? What kind of system do you have to take care of that?
SPEAKER 04 :
When we first moved here, I knew that the town had some water issues. I didn't realize until I got to be an elected official on the board, which I never wanted to get into politics. But you're there. Yeah. Well, I resigned after my mom passed, so I quit doing it because I felt like the town manager was lying to us, and I had no way to prove it. And then once he resigned last year, all these lies that I had... thought were now coming to fruition and truth. And it's like, oh my gosh, like you gotta be kidding me. And so the water system was really one of my main goals, you know, like why is this so bad? And so we have, you know, in our particular house, well, the town has an RO system. And what I was told was, is because of the RO system, as the water comes towards our house, It actually recollects all the material out of the pipes and then pumps it to our house. And I'm like, oh, that's fantastic. So we put in these two, you know, massive 10-inch filters that, you know, we have one that's a scrubber, like a white pre-filter, and then the carbon filter. And that does a pretty good job, but we also triple filter our drinking water with a Berkey, a gravity-fed Berkey. But as far as the tank goes, it goes from the two filters to the water softener and then to the water tank. And when we first moved here, I found out that we were using old wells. The town was doing blending, and it was filling up the filters with this black sooty junk. I mean, it was turning closed black. It was nasty. And so I brought the filter to a meeting with the water. I said, really? Really? This is our drinking water? You've got to be kidding me. And shortly after that, the town manager at the time decided to cut those wells off And we haven't had that problem as much, but there's still, you know, that sediment that's, you know, yearly an issue in the tank, in the water tank. And I just don't know how to do something better.
SPEAKER 11 :
And this is another thing, too, that I've learned through the years. all how should i say this all water heaters are not created the same in other words there is a difference between the quality of them some of them have more of a self-cleaning mark ability to them than others i did get a texture in that said that hot water outlet is got a dip tube that goes down to the bottom so that it can get as as hot of water as possible coming off of where the you know where that first heat is if you would but i will also tell you that and this is again from experience because i made the mistake one time mark in trying to save some money on that secondary heater i was telling you that i used to always put in and i was trying to save some money on the heater itself and i bought a non-cleaning i didn't know there was a difference at that time and i will tell you that even with good water quality coming in you know from the city at that point i think at that point in time we lived over in broomfield and the water there was pretty decent because that's coming out of left hand like like we all know and reality is water quality is pretty decent and i will tell you mark that i didn't buy a quote unquote self-cleaning or or more of the you know the higher end heater that has the ability to quote unquote clean itself in the sediment that i had to deal with from that point forward i made a huge mistake and should about the other heater in the first place Now, that was 20, you know, that was 30 years ago. And maybe in today's world, all they're selling are, you know, self-cleaning heaters. I haven't bought a hot water heater, you know, a water heater in quite some time marks. I can't tell you what's on the market. Well, you know what? I take that back. I had to buy a little electric one from my shop here not long ago because it had rusted and gone bad for the reasons that we're talking. And over time, they tend to do that. But, Mark, I haven't bought an actual gas heater in quite some time.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, I got a praise report if we could switch topics. Sure, go right ahead.
SPEAKER 11 :
But, you know, his point being, I think you're on the right track with everything you're doing. I would not flush the inside of that tank. I think you might end up, you know, loosening more up and having more issues doing that than if you just do the self-cleaning like what you're talking about.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, and the other side of what Mark was initially talking about was if you had a problem with the hot water tank, you'd have it with all your faucets. Correct. Not just the washer. Correct.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, yeah, yeah. Okay. I haven't even checked the screens on everything else. Which you should. So because it's Fix It Radio, recently I have reconnected with somebody I hadn't talked to in like 25 years who just happened to reach out to me on Facebook. And as a person who has you know, then led to accepting Christ when I was about five years old. You know, I remember kids, when I was going to a Christian school, they were always happy. And I'm like, why are you all happy? And they're like, you know, it's because we're not afraid of where we're going to go when we die. And this kid led me to Christ right then and there. And I thought that my whole life's mission was to lead everybody to Christ. And that's just not the case. you know, it's, it's, it's maybe my job to, uh, to plant the seed, but anyway, so this, this person who, uh, who is actually listening right now, actually accepted Christ within the last two weeks. And I'm just so grateful to have been a part of that.
SPEAKER 11 :
Amen. Mark, no offense, that's really more of what this, well, not more. That's what this is all about. All the other things we talk about on air and the things that I do here and even during the week and the politics and the different tips and tricks and drive radio and all of that. And yes, we live life. We have to do things daily. So the things you and I just talked about with Larry, Yeah, all those things are important because it's what we need to do for our day to day lives. But ultimately, what you just said is really what it's all about.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, I'm just, I'm really grateful to be a part of it. And, uh, I thought, you know, like I said, most of my thought was that, oh, it's, it's my job, but it really says in scripture, it's, it's not, you know, that, uh, it's your job to plant the seed and it's the Lord's job to, to make it grow, you know, which is why it talks about scattering the seed and some land on the rock and some lands in the soil and some lands in the weeds. And, you know, it's up to the seed. and the soil and the conditions, basically, the environment to make it work. And so if we're always listening to this radio show and trying to improve our environment by fix-it radio or drive radio or ready radio, You know, I learned so much from you, John, and I really appreciate your motivation in continuing with this. And I really hope that you get a sponsor to do a second hour of Ready Radio because there's a lot of information in that.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, thank you, Mark. I appreciate that and all those kind words on top of all of that. Thank you. I also did look up and so I want to make sure that I was being – accurate in what i was saying earlier with the hot water tanks you know the the water heaters themselves and i did actually find a youtube where this guy cuts apart four different heaters and i am correct some have more self-cleaning capabilities than others and if you look at his his actual cutaways you'll see the different designs that are there and how different heaters are made and i guess mark what you really can say is when it comes to that you do get what you pay for
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, they did mention that there's like a, what is it called, like a contractor's grade and then a pro grade.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
And I hadn't, you know, when you're under the pressure cooker because the family's like, I need hot water.
SPEAKER 11 :
That's right.
SPEAKER 04 :
You've got to get it done quick.
SPEAKER 11 :
That's right. You're right. Again, Mark, it kind of goes back to even what we were talking earlier with appliances and other things. Buy when you don't need versus when you're under the gun because it's a whole lot easier to do your research and figure out exactly what you need for your particular circumstance versus trying to go out and buy it right now on the spot. The other thing that I've found is when you're trying to buy it on the spot, the one you really want might not even be available.
SPEAKER 04 :
Exactly, yep. Right, right. My stepdad for years, and I don't know why I would laugh, but he had a spare hot water tank just sitting in his, you know, one of his spares. Wow, now that's a guy planning ahead. Yeah, so his failed while he was out of town, and I happened to be there when it failed, and I'm like, oh my gosh. And none of the contractors, nobody would help me because I'm technically not the homeowner. So I had to replace this thing. And I've never done that. So I thought, you know what, I better do this to like the nth degree. So I bought, you know, gas leak sensors, you know, the soap. And the thing that really bugged me was is that his venting was vented using a dryer flex vent. I'm not even kidding. Yeah, that's not kosher, as you know. So uncode, I ripped all that out, and I hooked it up with proper... Good. And I thought, you know what, I think I did a pretty good job.
SPEAKER 11 :
Good job, Mark. Good job. I'm going to run. Mark, appreciate you, man, as always. Love you. Thanks for all that you do for us and all your support as well. You're a great listener. I'll let you go. Keep listening. I'll try to get one more call in here as we can as we get back from this break, but I'll get this in really quick. Guys, don't go anywhere. We'll be right back. Fix It Radio, the website again, fixitradio.com.
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SPEAKER 11 :
All right, we are back. We've got three minutes or so left of Fix It Radio. Eric, go ahead.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, yes, John. Just what you were saying earlier, if you're really getting that much sediment through, you're going to find all of your faucets clogging, the aeration screens.
SPEAKER 10 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 12 :
I've had to replace all the shower heads. All of that type of stuff at my property just in the last two years.
SPEAKER 11 :
And while we were on break there, I did a little research because I had experienced this. I knew I wasn't crazy. And yes, there are self-cleaning water heaters that change the way the dip tube works, that swirls the water around, that keeps things agitated, meaning... that even when you do get a little bit of sediment, most likely it's going to be smaller flakes and it's probably passing through and you're never seeing it versus the other type where the flakes are going to be larger because it's just sitting.
SPEAKER 12 :
And that's part of the challenge, though, is because that's what's getting to those curations.
SPEAKER 11 :
That's right.
SPEAKER 12 :
So for me, I'm going to have to somewhere either in the well housing, put in a pre-filter for sediment, and then as I'm doing the renovation on the place, put it, you know, try and negotiate a water software.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yep. Yep. I think you're, you're spot on. You're spot on. And, and, and we also, um, uh, going to be a sponsor here in the not too distant future. So I'll go ahead and mention his name, uh, water pros, uh, Paul, he's our water guy. Uh, we're going to have him on probably even on a segment where you don't want to on a morning where we can actually talk a lot about this. And he's the guy, Eric, that could really dial you in on what you need to be doing on those things.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, I've heard him on... Paul's a good guy.
SPEAKER 11 :
Paul's a great guy. If you have any questions, give him a call. He's more than happy to help you through some of that. If nothing else, even telling you, hey, you should do this.
SPEAKER 12 :
Right. Right. Yeah, no, just what you had said about you'll see other filters clogging, and that is exactly what I've run into on the range.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay. Eric, thank you, by the way. I appreciate you very much. And Eric's a great listener as well. I hear from him quite often, and he's a guy that I've actually had as a guest on Ready Radio, spent some time down in Antarctica. uh south pole so eric thank you by the way for being a part of what we do here on a pretty routine basis and i didn't realize we were going to get off on the whole you know water heater end of things and and now that we have i tell you what i will do because this is becoming a bigger topic i think for a lot of you that are listening i'll do some additional research this week Some of you might even have instant heaters, which those are out there as well. And some of you might even have hot water heat systems that is in a whole nother area on its own as well. I will do my best, get some information for you guys this week. I'll come back next week and kind of recap some of this as well and let you know what I learn and if there's anybody out there listening. that would like to add to that, by all means, send me a text message or an email. Again, our text line, all of that is listed right on the website. You can even do an email inquiry there as well. Fixitradio.com. This is KLZ 560.
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